Trump Gets Terrible News as It Won’t Go Away

0:00Donald Trump is getting absolutely pummeled by terrible news today as the Epstein story just won't go away. And now the Trump regime is trying to blame its own FBI yet again. The biggest story from Trump's past that he's been trying to hide for decades is now the top story in the world and there is no escaping it. Trump's worst nightmare is now his reality. I'm Brett Meiselas with the Midas Touch Network. Remember to hit subscribe and help us get to 6 million subscribers. From the Epstein issue to the economy and more, new polling shows the American people have completely turned against Trump as he implodes under the weight of his latest scandals.

0:37By now, you may have seen the CBS YouGov polling trend showing Trump's gradual decline over the past few months from 53 % approval in February to 42 % now, but it gets worse for him. The new American Research Group poll has Trump's approval at just 38 % while 59 % disapproved, and Trump may think he's taken care of the Epstein story and put it behind him, but the American people feel differently. Just 17 % of Americans approve of the way Trump is handling the Epstein case. That includes just 4 % of Democrats and 35 % of Republicans. In that CBS poll, by the way, 89 % of Americans said the DOJ should release all the information on Epstein.

1:16When have we ever seen that sort of agreement in our politics recently? Here's CNN discussing it. And it's interesting looking at the polls. There have been multiple polls now showing that how the American public views this issue. This is from CBS just yesterday. Should DOJ release all the information on Epstein? Eighty nine percent say yes. I mean, you rarely see that in polls in this era of polarized politics. And you ask about how Republicans feel about this, of whether they're satisfied with how Trump has held, done this well, if they've handled it well. Just 50 % of Republicans, 49 % say they're dissatisfied.

1:52I mean, typically Trump is at 90 % or so among Republicans, no matter what the issue is here, 50%. And Trump is now lashing out at the Wall Street Journal even more in the wake of their story, revealing Trump's alleged letter about his secrets with Jeffrey Epstein. The Trump regime has removed the Wall Street Journal from the pool of reporters covering Trump's weekend trip to Scotland in retaliation. Press secretary Caroline Levitt was asked why Trump doesn't just order the FBI to release the full Epstein files. And she passed the buck to the FBI and blamed them. Watch this.

2:33The president has said if the department of justice and the FBI want to move forward with releasing any further credible evidence, they should do so as to why they have or have not, or will, you should ask the FBI about that. Meanwhile, Speaker Mike Johnson is desperately trying to protect Trump and cover up the Epstein files. He was just asked by CNN's Manu Raju if he'd allow a vote to release the files before the August recess. And Johnson shut that idea down, saying he wants to give the Trump regime space to deal with the issue. Watch this. So here's what I would say about the Epstein files.

3:07There is no daylight between the House Republicans, the House and the President on maximum transparency. He has said that he wants all the credible files related to Epstein to be released. He's asked the Attorney General to request the grand jury files of the court. All of that is in process right now. My belief is we need the administration to have the space to do what it is doing. And if further congressional action is necessary or appropriate, then we'll look at that. But I don't think we're at that point right now because we agree with the President. So no vote on this resolution? No, no. By the way, there's even agreement among a bunch of Republicans to release the files, yet their leadership is protecting Trump and Epstein at all costs.

3:47Listen to these Republican lawmakers. The president says that this Jeffrey Epstein matter is a hoax, a Democratic hoax. Do you agree with him? Um, I think we want to have as much transparency as possible. Why don't we just release it and deal with it? Ultimately, I don't answer to the president or the voters. I'm going to answer to my mic. I'm a big believer in transparency. And I think also just for us as a country, it's an important way to get closure. This is a bad guy. And what he did was bad. And it was also pretty extensive. It involved a lot of people. What are you hearing from the public?

4:19The same thing. I mean, this. And Trump is, of course, desperate to change the subject. Last night, as you know, he was posting images of Barack Obama and other Democrats in jumpsuits threatening their arrests. This morning, Democrat Hakeem Jeffries called out Trump's attempt to distract and demanded the release of the files. Watch this. Let's be clear about the situation here. Jeffrey Epstein was a friend of Donald Trump. Jeffrey Epstein was arrested during the Trump administration. Jeffrey Epstein was detained during the Trump administration. Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide during the Trump administration.

5:06Trump administration officials have said prior to arriving in Washington in positions of prominence, including at the FBI and the Department of Justice, that they were going to release the Epstein files. Trump administration officials are now in a position to release the Epstein files. Does any of that, in your view, have anything to do with President Joe Biden? Why do we think President Joe Biden or President Barack Obama's names are being invoked? Because Donald Trump is running scared. And the Trump administration is running scared. What are they hiding from the American people? Release the files so that the American people can make a decision on their own.

5:54This has nothing to do with a Democratic-led conspiracy theory. And the facts and the chronology make that clear. As we wrote on the Midas Touch social media accounts, the crazy thing about Donald Trump posting an AI video of Obama getting arrested is that Trump once had someone organize a party for him and invite a bunch of quote-unquote young women, and it turned out that Jeffrey Epstein was his only other guest. Yes, that was yet another story that broke this weekend in the New York Times. Yet, Republican leaders are still trying to cover it all up, and you'll notice that Republicans have long been engaged in covering up scandals related to sexual abuse.

6:37I want to show you a clip from this interview my brother Ben did with OSU whistleblower Mike DiSabato, a former wrestler at The Ohio State University, who said that Jim Jordan absolutely knew what Dr. Richard Strauss was doing at the time. Take a look at this. Let me just be clear. Jim Jordan knew that Dr. Strauss was performing unnecessary genital exams. He knew that Dr. Strauss was performing unnecessary rectal exams. And he absolutely knew that Dr. Strauss was taking showers with us on a daily basis and also going into the sauna with us on a daily basis. He knows that because he was there with us.

7:22He trained, Jim trained with us. He took a shower with us. He did saunas with us. There's no disputing that Strauss was taking showers with us on a daily basis, taking saunas on a daily basis, which is a form of sex abuse. Your doctor should not be showering with his patients. And yet it went on for over 20 years, not just in wrestling, but in several sports. Strauss would take showers with not only the wrestlers, but the gymnasts, swimmers, a number of teams. He would take six to seven showers a day across multiple sports. I know Jim Jordan also knew about genital exams because we had open conversations about Strauss performing genital exams.

8:17And we did so in a locker room, what's called a locker room situation where guys are, we handled it with humor to some extent where, you know, Strauss gave me a genital exam today. By the way, to hear that full interview, listen to the Midas Touch podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. This message is brought to you by our sponsor, Americans United for Separation of Church and state. You don't destroy 250 years of secular democracy without gutting the rule of law, shattering norms, and dropping a few billion dollars. The same people in groups that backed Project 2025 are part of a larger shadow network that's relentlessly pushing to impose a Christian nationalist agenda on our laws and lives.

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10:20That's au.org slash Midas. One more time, that's the letter A, the letter U,.org slash Midas, and you spell Midas, M-E-I-D-A-S. Let's shift gears to another Trump disaster, the U.S. economy. New polling from American research group shows that just 35 % approve of Trump's handling of the economy, while 62 % disapprove. 64 % of Americans say the economy is getting worse. 52 % of Americans say the U.S. is currently in a recession. That's up 10 points since January. The job market is being flooded with job applications, a huge recession indicator. LinkedIn is now processing 11 ,000 job applications per minute, a 45 % surge since last year, per the New York Times.

11:04And Trump's trade deal promises continue to fall apart and his regime is now backtracking fast. Well, again, remember that August 1st trade deal deadline that Trump's been talking about now? He always pushes it back. Well, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent now says that the August 1st date, just it's not that important. Watch this. Any progress that you can report on some of our big trading partners? Look, Joe, talks are moving along, but the important thing here is the quality of the deal, not the timing of the deals. And President Trump has created maximum leverage as only he can do. And what we are seeing is these imbalances built up over 20, 30, 40 years.

11:49And we are more concerned with high quality deals than getting these deals done by August 1st. Our trading partners were told that the rates could boomerang back toward the April 2nd levels. We can continue talking then. But again, we're proceeding apace with the negotiations, but we're not going to rush for the sake of doing deals. And the European Union understands that Trump is not an honest broker and they are now ramping up their retaliation plans against the United States. Reuters reports the following. EU to ramp up retaliation plans as U.S. tariff deal prospects dim. The European Union is exploring a broader set of possible countermeasures against the United States as prospects for an acceptable trade agreement with Washington fade, according to EU diplomats.

12:42An increasing number of EU members, including Germany, are now considering using wide-ranging anti-coercion measures which would let the bloc target U.S. services or curb access to public tenders in the absence of a deal, diplomats say. The EU has one package of tariffs on 21 billion euros of U.S. goods that is currently suspended until August 6th. The bloc must still decide on a further set of countermeasures on 72 billion euros of U.S. exports. Possible measures also include restricting U.S. investment, limiting protection of intellectual property rights, and restricting the ability to sell U.S.

13:16chemicals or food products in Europe. Public procurement in the EU is worth around $2 trillion per year. And so as the economy reaches its breaking point, Trump and his regime are now looking for a fall person. They're trying to pin the blame on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, who is probably the only person in government right now taking action to keep things from falling off a cliff. And so instead of outright firing Powell, which Trump has discussed, they are threatening him with criminal prosecution. It's just straight up banana Republic stuff. Treasury Secretary Besant has called for a review of the entire Federal Reserve.

13:51Meanwhile, Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, who previously demanded transparency on the Epstein files before she realized that they would implicate Trump, I guess, is now referring Federal Reserve Chair Powell to the Department of Justice for criminal investigation. Folks, they want this all to go away, but it is all here to stay. We're going to keep on reporting on the Epstein story no matter how much Trump wants to threaten us. We're going to keep telling the truth about his disastrous regime. We'll be back with more updates soon, so make sure to subscribe. add the Midas Touch podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, and I'll see you soon.