Trump Has Friday From Hell and Loses It in Public

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1:00Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump is having a disastrous Friday morning. He is panicking in public. He is posting things like this. It would be 1929 all over again. A Great Depression. He puts it all in caps. If they were going to rule against wealth, strength, and the power of America, they should have done it a long time ago. Donald Trump right now is threatening the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, which is going to be ruling shortly on whether or not Donald Trump's tariffs against the world are unlawful. And Donald Trump is saying, if the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals rules against me, the United States is going to face a massive Great Depression worse than 1929.

1:44Ben Meiselas:It's going to be horrible. I was going to make everybody so rich, but it's that Federal Circuit Court of Appeals that's going to screw over America, everybody. I mean, this is what he's posting in all caps this morning. Donald Trump realizes that it's more likely than not the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals will rule against him because his tariffs against the world without congressional approval is patently unlawful. And Donald Trump is looking to scapegoat anyone, any source other than himself for the horrific economic conditions that are now taking place. So you have that occurring. And then you also have Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary and Commerce Secretary and others saying, hey, everybody, now that we're tanking the economy, maybe interest rates can drop.

2:31Ben Meiselas:Won't that be great for billionaires? I can't make this stuff up. And as Donald Trump continues to panic in the morning, he's announced an open investigation, criminal investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James before they were exploring whether or not an investigation would take place or threaten one. But now an investigation is open. And the reason for the investigation, I mean, is that Donald Trump is a complete and utter maniac who is only seeking retribution for his own crimes, for his own fraud, for his own past behavior. But what the DOJ is saying is that she opened up these cases against Donald Trump and they were so unfair.

3:13Ben Meiselas:So we're going to criminally investigate her. Donald Trump lost the civil fraud case and owes, what,$500 million or so, over$300 million for, you know what, for making up numbers on his properties over the years, for fraudulent financial valuations. You know how now he goes, oh, Japan's going to give us$550 billion. The Middle East, the Middle East gave us$17 trillion. The EU, they've paid me a signing bonus already of$750 billion. Yeah, that's what Donald Trump did with his businesses. Mar-a-Lago is worth$2 billion, but I've reported that it was only worth$26 million, so I didn't have to pay taxes.

3:55Ben Meiselas:And my other Trump property, it's actually worth a billion dollars, but I've only said it was worth$50 million, so I didn't have to pay taxes. It's stuff like that. Also, as Donald Trump continues to panic this morning, one of the things he goes back to, as he knows he's losing a lot of his supporters, tariff rebate checks. I'm going to make you so rich because we're making so much money off of tariffs, taxing ourselves, passing it on to the consumer. I'm going to give you tariff rebates, everybody. Hey, Donald, where are those Doge dividend checks that you promised? Oh, we've moved on to the next part of the Ponzi scheme from Doge dividend checks.

4:34Ben Meiselas:Look the other way. I've got tariff rebate checks. You just go back and you watch Donald Trump over the years. he would come up with schemes like I give you money dot com and just most of Donald Trump's businesses went bankrupt. I just want you to think about that bankruptcy after bankruptcy regarding casinos on his SEC disclosure. He has to list all of his bankruptcies and failed businesses. If the Guinness Book of World Records kept an award for who's the worst business person, I think Donald Trump would be at the top. But he is a pernicious con man who has defrauded people his entire life. So here's the message as he's panicking and talking about great depressions.

5:14Ben Meiselas:I mean, by the way, can you just imagine if former president Biden or Obama were posting in all caps, if the court rules against me, great depression for the country. Here's what Donald Trump is emailing to his supporters subject line. They really hope you don't open this. Ben, they really hope you don't want to read this email. The DC elites are fighting tooth and nail to stop any potential tariff bonus revenue rebates. They want to spend it on their liberal pet projects. No wonder they don't want you having it, but they'll never see this coming. If we can get 1 million responses and donations to this email, there's absolutely no way the swampy establishment can drown us out.

6:00Ben Meiselas:First off, Donald, you control the executive branch and you control Congress. OK, and the right wing Supreme Court has given you mostly all that you wanted by staying district court orders. So now you're saying that it's these D.C. elites. They're the ones who are stopping the tariff rebate bonuses that you want to get out. But if you can get a million donations from your supporters, then maybe the swamp will never see it coming. Everybody like do we all realize what a pathetic human being this is? it pains me and I will never understand how anybody could read what I've just been reading to you and go, hmm, this guy's got a good point here.

6:44Ben Meiselas:The swampy swampies, they're the ones keeping away the tariff rebate checks for me. I'm just going to forget about the Doge dividend checks. I'm going to forget about all those other lies. It's the swampy swampies, everybody. Oh, and they're the ones who are preventing the Epstein files from getting out. Our dear leader, Donald, wants transparency. I mean, come on. How could anybody possibly believe this crap? And then Donald Trump's other email was, please confirm receipt of this email. This is a test from Trump. I want to make sure my emails are getting through. If so, please respond. And then you click it and like it makes you donate money to him.

7:21Ben Meiselas:Please respond, everybody. I don't think he's tricking a lot of people. I could be naive. Fox interviewed people who are really worried about the economy. Here's what's going on at the Iowa State Fair. People are worried about their finances. Play this clip. Grocery prices. I'm retired now, so I don't have to. I'm not working anymore. So I have to watch my bucks a little closer. On the employment side, I have a hard time finding employees for my department. But then there's other sectors that are, you know, letting go hundreds of people. Yeah. And as this account main explains, how is this real life?

7:59Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump yesterday waddling around the White House, looking sickly, cognitively dysfunctional, holding up charts. He doesn't even know what the charts actually say, but he's trying to make the point that all the job numbers are rigged and all the bad economic data is rigged. So he just walks around with charts and he's like, you like this chart? Do you like this chart? Do you like this chart? What about this chart? Here, play this clip. This one chart really says it better than anything. If you look at this, this is great. But this chart is pretty amazing. Right here.

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10:16Ben Meiselas:Let's talk about the real facts, folks. Stagflation is coming to the United States. I think it's here already. Surging inflation, rising unemployment, GDP getting lower. That's stagflation for you, folks. That is what is happening right now. If you speak to anyone who runs a business, the tariffs end the uncertainty around it. Donald Trump's attacks on business, Donald Trump's arbitrary, capricious, reckless behavior is anathema to business. It's crushing and killing businesses. If you just look as well at the share of the consumer price index items that are rising faster than 4%, it's ticked up recently as Carl Keaton, he explains it's near 40 % hat tip to Kevin Gordon for that as well.

11:05Ben Meiselas:It's near 40 % of all things, inflation's up above 4%. That's the direction where this is heading. everyone's like oh well we haven't seen inflation yet uh with all of the tariffs we have first off we have prices are up i don't know what world you're living in but the world i live in when i go to grocery stores and when i go shopping things are significantly more expensive so i don't know what world you're living in but also now is when all of the stuff that donald trump did is taking effect so we are seeing it month by month and we're going to see it now for the next several years. That's what's going to happen.

11:41Ben Meiselas:And as Donald Trump severs relationships across the world that we're trying to be cultivated, I mean, we're seeing, I've done lots of videos on this, but we're seeing other world alliances form. Prime Minister Modi of India will announcing, yes, we'll be visiting China for the first time in over seven years. That meeting is confirmed. Trump's ire against India is mystifying and short-sighted. India will now distance itself from the U.S. and draw closer to Russia and even China. I agree with that. That's from a Bloomberg piece. India had been planning to send its defense minister Rajnav Singh to Washington in the coming weeks for an announcement on some of the purchases, on military purchases and war weapon purchases.

12:26Ben Meiselas:That has been canceled as well. And there's very little evidence that foreign exporters to the U.S. are reducing their prices. And that's an indication that foreign exporters realize that U.S. businesses and eventually consumers that are bearing the brunt of that are in consumers that are the ones who will be bearing the brunt of this tariff induced inflation. That's from CBS News right here as well. And then I just wanted to show you this because this is who this vile Trump family is. And as I've always said, all of the stuff that I believe I reported on should never be, this is a red issue or a blue issue or a purple issue or a Democrat issue or Republican issue.

13:08Ben Meiselas:I'm just letting you know the objective facts, right versus wrong, good versus evil, right? It is wrong and evil for Donald Trump to cover up the Epstein files and then release Ghislaine Maxwell to a minimum security facility, waive the requirement that sex traffickers cannot be at this facility that's right by the Texas A &M campus and then offer her use immunity and potentially pardon her. That's evil. That's bad behavior. And then you have Donald Trump's son, Don Jr., who runs all of these like he's now grifting and making all of this money and things adjacent to what his dad's job. But then you have Don Jr.

13:55Ben Meiselas:yesterday posting on Instagram a photo of his dad on the roof of the White House throwing a green penis at female basketball players who are playing below the White House. And you go, oh, well, he's just being funny. That's not funny. There's no, you know, Donald Trump says he was being funny and sarcastic when he said he would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours or when he would end the war in Gaza. That was sarcastic. That was a joke. Y 'all are in very serious positions. And that comes with great responsibility. There's times and places we could have humor go to a comedy show. That's funny. You're around the dinner table and people are telling jokes.

14:37Ben Meiselas:It's not funny when you have the president of the United States in real life on a roof like earlier this week, pointing around saying, I paid for all of this. This is my money. I paid for all this. This is my money. What are you doing up there, sir? What are you doing up there, sir? He goes, I'm building weapons. What? Nuclear weapons on the roof. You're building what? Nuclear weapons. And the reporters were all like, he's building nuclear weapons. Okay. First off, as I've said, it's like you're viewing him like he's the gorilla at the Los Angeles Zoo. He smiled at me. Look at the gorilla. He went out with his little kids.

15:15Ben Meiselas:He smiled at me. Okay. First off, that's ridiculous. Trump was really on the roof. Why are you posting as the family in the presidency photographs of Donald Trump throwing green penises at female basketball players playing below him? It's not funny. It's not humorous to me. I don't get the joke. I think it's low class. I think it's I just think it's gross. I think it's gross. And to me, that's not even a political point. They're just they're gross, grifting freaking people. And that's what it kind of comes down to me more than the. I wouldn't want these people to be around my family. Why would I want them to be leaders in this country?

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