Trump Has Meltdown at Press Brief With Ugly Confession

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2:30Ben Meiselas:Well, this press conference that just wrapped up was supposed to be about the 2028 Olympics, but it ended up being Donald Trump being asked questions about Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. and Donald Trump saying that the reason he sent his former criminal defense attorney, who's become the number two at the Department of Justice, Todd Blanche, to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell a few weeks back for about nine hours and give her immunity was to ensure that people who were mentioned in the files would not be hurt by what she could say. Are you talking about yourself, Donald? Sounds like a confession and an admission to me.

3:09Ben Meiselas:Play this clip. I just have very highly thought of person respected by everybody. And I didn't talk to him about it. But I will tell you that whatever he asked would be totally appropriate. And it's not an uncommon thing to do that. And I think he probably wants to make sure that, you know, people that should not be involved or aren't involved or not hurt by something that would be very, very unfortunate, very unfair to a lot of people. But I will say this. Todd Blanche is one of the most highly respected people you'll ever meet. So I know this. I didn't discuss it with him, but anything he talked about with her or the fact that he did that, not unusual, number one.

3:49And most importantly, is something that would be totally above board.

3:53Ben Meiselas:Next, Donald Trump is asked if he is aware who approved Ghislaine Maxwell moving from the prison where she was serving 20 plus years for being convicted of sex trafficking in Tallahassee to a minimum security prison in Southeast Texas, Camp Bryan, where she had to get a special waiver because at the minimum security prison in Camp Bryant in Southeast Texas, they don't allow people who were convicted of sex trafficking. So she got a special exemption. Were you aware about this, Donald? And Donald goes, no, this happens all the time. This is just what takes place with the Bureau of Prisons. No, it's not.

4:33Ben Meiselas:This is unprecedented. People who are convicted of sex trafficking and Ghislaine Maxwell, one of the worst sex traffickers in American history, getting sent to a minimum security prison with a special exemption from the DOJ after meeting with the number two at the DOJ. That's never happened before in American history because this is all part of Donald Trump's cover up of his relationship with Epstein and all part of Donald Trump's plan to deep six the Epstein files. Here play this clip. President Trump, two questions for you. One, did you were you aware of and did you personally approve the prison transfer for Ghislaine Maxwell that your Justice Department?

5:12I didn't know about it at all. No, I read about it just like you did. And do you believe that she is not a very uncommon thing?

5:18Ben Meiselas:Do you believe that she's credible to be listening to? Your deputy attorney general sat down with her recently. Well, he's let me tell you, he's a very talented man. His name is Todd Blanche. He's a very legitimate person, very high. I just have very highly thought of person respected by everybody. And I didn't talk to him about it, but I will tell you that whatever he asked would be totally appropriate. And it's not an uncommon thing to do that. And I think he probably wants to make sure that, you know, people that should not be involved or aren't involved are not hurt by something that would be very, very unfortunate, very unfair to a lot of people.

5:57But I will say this. Todd Blanche is one of the most highly respected people you'll ever meet. So I know this. I didn't discuss it with him, but anything he talked about with her or the fact that he did that, not unusual, number one. And most importantly, is something that would be totally above board.

6:15Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump forgets the name of his Homeland Security Secretary, Christy Noem. He calls her Christy Kerr and then says Christy Kerr was a great golfer, but I've got Christy Noem. Here, watch his cognitive glitch play this clip. Very much, ma 'am. Secretary of Homeland Security, Christy Kerr. Do you know who Christy Kerr is? She's a friend of my great golfer, Christy Noem. She's a better golfer than you. That's the only thing, but you're better at a lot of other things. But I want to thank you for being here, for doing an unbelievable job, really an unbelievable job. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.

6:56Brendan, thank you. Thank you, Brendan.

6:58Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump makes the Olympic executive director or the head of it give him gold medals. And so Trump presents himself with a full set of Olympic medals. Remember how Donald Trump stole the trophy from FIFA for the club championship that he now has at the White House and the winners had to actually get like a replica? Well, he's doing it again. Play this clip. We don't have trophies in the Olympic movement, but as you know, 1984 hosted the Olympics in Los Angeles and someone we admired, President Reagan, both of us, presided over those. And you will preside over our games. So we have for you a full set of the 84 original medals.

7:41Wow.

7:48Can I say that I won them athletically? Yes, sir. That would be a great idea.

7:56Ben Meiselas:So at this point, Fox, state regime media, they cut away because they're like, all right, This is just getting completely off the rails. We can't show our audience this. Play this clip. ...has been truly extraordinary. All right, that was President Trump announcing the 2028 Olympic Task Force when the United States hosted games in Los Angeles. The president will be signing an executive order that will ensure his commitment to showing national pride, hospitality, and economic opportunity through sports tourism. Snoring, hogging the covers, tossing and turning, these are problems in the bedroom that HIMSS can help you with.

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9:49Ben Meiselas:Prescription required. See website for details, restrictions, and important safety information. So then what happens? Then you have Donald Trump asked about, do you support Israel annexing Gaza, reoccupying all of it? Trump goes, I don't know. I'm going to let Netanyahu do whatever Netanyahu wants to do. That's Trump's plan. Just give Netanyahu carte blanche. Play this clip. But would you support Israel reoccupying all of Gaza as has been suggested by some Israeli officials? Well, I don't know what the suggestion is. I know that we are there now trying to get people fed. As you know,$60 million was given by the United States fairly recently to supply food and a lot of food, frankly, for the people of Gaza that are obviously not doing too well with the food.

10:39And I know Israel is going to help us with that in terms of distribution and also money. We also have the Arab states are going to help us with that in terms of the money and possibly distribution. So that's what I'm focused on. As far as the rest of it, I really I really can say that's going to be pretty much up to Israel. Yeah, please.

10:59Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump says that he may order the FBI to arrest Texas Democrats who are breaking the quorum, who are now in Illinois. Play this clip. Yeah. Two questions for you, Mr. President. Thank you. Texas Senator John Cornyn. Texas Senator John Cornyn is asking for your help to force Democrats back to the state and hold them accountable. Do you want the federal government and the FBI to help locate and arrest these Texas Democrats who have left the state? Well, I think they've abandoned the state. Nobody's seen anything like it, even though they've done it twice before. And in a certain way, it almost looks like they've abandoned the state.

11:38It looks very bad. Yeah, go ahead, please.

11:40Ben Meiselas:Should the FBI get involved? Well, they may have to. They may have to. No, I know they want him back. Not only the attorney general, the governor wants him back. If you look, I mean, the governor of Texas is demanding they come back. So a lot of people are demanding they come back. You can't just sit it out. You have to go back. You have to fight it out. That's what elections are all about. Yeah. Then Donald Trump goes on this ranting and raving like a lunatic lie, this diatribe about how he released water into Southern California and put out the fires when that's just not true. Trump claims that he turned on a faucet in Northern California and all the water flew into Southern California and put out the fires.

12:22Ben Meiselas:Just so you know the real story, the Southern California fires were 100 % contained when Donald Trump went to kind of central Northern California and he released billions of gallons of water from reservoirs that was not connected anywhere near Southern California. So the water was released into farmland at a time when it was not needed, causing issues with the farmers right there. And that water never reached Southern California at all. But here's what he says. Play this clip. OK, Brian, Brian. Thank you, Mr. President. This has to do with the safety aspect of the Olympics. What can you do as a president to ensure that Southern California, the greater Los Angeles area is safe from any fire danger that the state clears away brush and state parks?

13:12Ben Meiselas:Very the reason why this last fire happened in Pacific Palisades. What can you ensure for that? Well, as you know, Brian, we have I've been fighting with them for a long time about allowing the water to come down from the Pacific Northwest, essentially. And we actually opened up that water pretty strongly. We got a lot of opposition from the governor. We opened it up anyway. And the water is coming down that we want it opened further. They have a lot of water. They send it out into the Pacific Ocean in order to protect the smelt. It's a little tiny fish that's not doing very well, especially when they don't have water.

13:46Ben Meiselas:They really do badly. OK, then Donald Trump claims that we're making trillions of dollars, not billions. And because we're making so much money, everybody, we may get tariff rebate checks. Remember when he was talking about Doge dividend checks? The guy is a con artist and a scammer and a fraud and a criminal. Watch him in action. Play this clip. Government. Our country is doing great. I think we are doing probably maybe in many ways better than we've ever done before. You know, we're taking in trillions, not billions, trillions and trillions of dollars from other countries who for years took advantage of us.

14:25They took advantage of the United States like we were children. And that's not happening anymore. Now they're paying a lot of money and they're paying hundreds of billions of dollars. Individual countries paying hundreds of billions of dollars. You're seeing what everybody else is seeing. And we have a lot of things we can do. You know, one of the questions asked of me this morning is, are you going to make a dividend to the people? And the purpose of what I'm doing is primarily to pay down debt, which will happen in very large quantity. But I think there's also a possibility that we're taking in so much money that we may very well make a dividend to the people of America.

15:01Thank you all very much. Thank you. Thank you very much.

15:05Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump says that he could consider the DOJ pressing charges against any man that tries to masquerade as a woman. I don't even know what the hell they're talking about here. What the hell are they talking about? Can you just make groceries more affordable? Can you make housing more affordable like you promised? Can you end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours like you promised? End the war in Gaza in 24 hours like you promised? You've made everything 100 % and worse, but play this clip. Go ahead, please. Thank you. On transgender athletes in the Olympics, back to the safety, especially of female combat boxers.

15:41Ben Meiselas:Will the Department of Justice considering pressing charges against any man that tries to masquerade as a woman coming into this country to beat up American athletes? And secondly, would your administration consider genetic testing so that these people can prove that they're actually women competing? Well, I think there is going to be a very strong form of testing as far as charges. I'd have to ask the attorney general about that. I don't know, but there will be a very, very strong form of testing. And if the test doesn't come out appropriately, they won't be in the Olympics. Yes, ma 'am. Please go ahead, please.

16:14Ben Meiselas:Then he attacks Senator Elizabeth Warren. He calls her lunatic Pocahontas jumping around everywhere. Here play this clip. Watch this lunatic Pocahontas. She's a total lunatic. I don't know what she's on. She's all jumping up and down like I've never seen anything like it, talking about supporting the communist mayor. And he's not a socialist. He's a communist. OK, this is not a socialist. This is a communist. If you look at any of his policies and go back six months, you don't have to go back further than that. So they want to put a communist in New York. Now, the good news is we have a lot of power over that because we're the ones with the money.

16:52We send the money. We don't send the money.

16:54Ben Meiselas:Dude, you were on the roof of the White House earlier today, pointing up and talking about building nuclear weapons on the roof. Like, we're building nuclear weapons. We're building nuclear weapons. What the hell is even going on? Then Donald Trump hedges about whether J.D. Vance could be his heir apparent. Play this clip. Thank you very much, President Trump. Nice to see you got off the roof all right. Yeah, yeah. You said this morning that you probably won't be running for a third term. This weekend, Secretary of State Rubio said that he thought J.D. Vance would be a great nominee. You could clear the entire Republican field right now.

17:34Ben Meiselas:Do you agree that the heir apparent to MAGA is J.D. Vance? Well, I think most likely, in all fairness, he's the vice president. I think Marco is also somebody that maybe would get together with J.D. in some form. I also think we have incredible people, some of the people on the stage right here. So it's too early, obviously, to talk about it, but certainly he's doing a great job and he would be probably favored at this point. Then Donald Trump says that the reason that they're redrawing their maps or that they need to unlawfully gerrymand, let's just call it what it is in Texas, is he goes, well, the Democrats were going to do it anyway in California and New York.

18:14Ben Meiselas:So we did it because they were going to do it anyway. So that's why we're doing it. Here, play this clip. If Texas redrawing their congressional map would get you five safe red seats, means that California, New York, Illinois, and Maryland are all going to redraw their maps to add safe. Well, they'll do it anyway. Is it worth it? Yeah, they'll do it anyway. Why, if we stop over there, they would have done it anyway. Now, just to show you what was going on this morning, to remind you, this was Donald Trump walking on the roof. Here, play this clip.

18:58Ben Meiselas:What do you want to build? What are you trying to build? Sir, do you approve? You say more missiles? Are you building missiles? What? Come on, dad. Did you say missiles? Taking over all of Gaza, sir.

19:22Ben Meiselas:I'm not sure if you heard what he said there, but he said that he was building nuclear weapons on the roof. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers. Thanks for watching. Can't get enough Midas? Check out the Midas Plus sub stack for ad-free articles, reports, podcasts, daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski, and more. Sign up for free now at MidasPlus.com.

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