Trump in Terror as He Traps Himself and Quake Hits

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0:38Ben Meiselas:a massive 8.7 earthquake in the Kamachka region of Russia you saw right there an apartment that was right near where the earthquake was this caused massive damage triggered tsunami warnings across Hawaii and of course all of the west coast I'll show you another angle right here of the 8.7 earthquake as it hit. You can see right here. Just watch this. Here, play this clip.

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1:44Ben Meiselas:This is the jet city city of minimization. We can't prevent these things from happening. And it's important that we approach things with science, with logic, with intelligence. We don't have that here with the Trump regime. You know, instead, we have Donald Trump's disastrous trip to Scotland, where he talked about more cover up about Jeffrey Epstein, where he bragged about fake trade deals and said, Europe's going to give us six hundred billion dollars. Then Europe said, no, we're not. And Trump says, Japan's going to give us five hundred and fifty billion dollars as a signing bonus. Then Japan says, no, we're not.

2:25Ben Meiselas:And there's no actual trade deals being signed like there's no paperwork. I mean, just take a look at what Donald Trump looks like. I mean, this guy is rotting before our very eyes. I mean, this was an interview that he did yesterday where he was just continuing to just sniffle throughout the whole process. Here, play this clip. For a couple of months. And, you know, we're dealing with China. We just concluded a deal for everybody. I think what they did is very smart. You know, and here's how BBC News is reporting what Donald Trump said on Air Force One. Trump says that Jeffrey Epstein stole young women from his Mar-a-Lago spa.

3:04Ben Meiselas:The only thing I would change, BBC, is girls. Underage girls is what Donald Trump said. That Epstein stole the girls like his property. That's how Donald Trump talked about it. That Epstein stole Donald Trump's help, his property. He stole them from Donald Trump. And Donald Trump said he didn't like that. And then Epstein did it again. And Donald Trump didn't like that his property was being stolen. As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski writes, I think maybe Donald Trump and his team should have focus grouped this one before rolling it out. Doesn't seem too helpful. Tim O 'Brien writes, he stole her?

3:41Ben Meiselas:Referring to these underage girls like Virginia Giuffre who were working in the Mar-a-Lago spa as towel girls. That was part of the funnel that Epstein used. Underage girls, homeless girls would get jobs at Mar-a-Lago. They'd work in the spa as towel girls like Virginia Giuffre did. Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell would come over and say, oh, you're homeless. And it looks like Donald Trump gave you this job. How much money are you making? You want to work with Epstein? Epstein has, he likes massages. And then Epstein would sex traffic the underage girls. And Donald Trump is saying that he was aware of that taking place.

4:19Ben Meiselas:But the way Donald Trump described it was more of he stole my help. He stole my property. He stole her. And as Tim O 'Brien says, yeah, Trump saw it as a property transfer, like a real estate deal. Virginia Giuffre, who has since died by suicide, was a teenager at the time. She was a girl, 17 years old. Epstein began sexually abusing and trafficking her from Mar-a-Lago. Just so you see the video of it, we played the audio, but just so you hear the video of it, Trump goes, people were taken out of the spa hired by Epstein. I told him, stop taking our people. Stop stealing our people. You're stealing our girls at Mar-a-Lago.

4:58Ben Meiselas:And then a reporter says, was one of those stolen people, Virginia Giuffre, the underage girl who was sex trafficked by Epstein? And Trump's like, I think so. He stole her. Here, play this clip. Mr. President, Epstein has a certain reputation, obviously. Just curious, were some of the workers that were taken from you, were some of them young women? Were some of them? Were some of them young women? Well, I don't want to say, but everyone knows the people that were taken and uh it was the concept of taking people that work for me is bad but uh that story's been pretty well out there and the answer is yes they work yes yeah what do they do in the spa yeah people that work in the spa i have a great spa one of the best spas in the world at mar-a-lac-o and people were taken out of the spa hired by him.

5:50In other words, gone. And other people would come and complain, this guy is taking people from the spa. I didn't know that. And then when I heard about it, I told him, I said, listen, we don't want you taking our people, whether it was spa or not spa. I don't want him taking people. And he was fine. And then not too long after that, he did it again. And I said, out of here. Mr. President, did one of those stolen, you know, persons that include from Virginia, I don't know. I think she worked at the spot. I think so. I think that was one of the people. He stole her. And by the way, she had no complaints about us, as you know, none whatsoever.

6:37And again, just look at this guy. Look at him.

6:40Ben Meiselas:His approval rating is plummeting. We showed you recently the Gallup poll where his approval was 37%, the lowest it's been. The new Reuters-Ipsos poll has his approval at 40%. On the issue of immigration, it's 43%. On the economy, only 38 % of people approve. I mean, he is utterly despised right now by the American people. Donald Trump is bragging about the tariffs on the American people. There's like an effective tariff rate if you blend all of his tariffs against the world somewhere around 18 % or 20%. That's a tax. That's a tax on Americans, on companies, on importers that are getting passed on to the consumers.

7:26Ben Meiselas:As Scott Horton says, Trump, this is from the Financial Times, Trump is levying more taxes on U.S. consumers than any president in history. We essentially have a national sales tax of 18 to 20 percent that we're paying in addition to all of our other taxes. He's built a massive propaganda machine to explain to people that he's not doing exactly what he's doing. Donald Trump's tariff blitz brings U.S. levies to the highest level since the 1930s. Washington has locked in tariffs at almost 45 percent of American imports. We're taxing ourselves so Trump can give tax cuts to the billionaires. One of the things he's trying to, this is the propaganda, they're trying to find the tax revenue amongst poor Americans or low-income Americans or middle class while giving the tax cuts to the billionaires.

8:15Ben Meiselas:And they're trying to make up tax revenue by taxing low-income and hardworking Americans. And then Donald Trump and White House post, welcome to the golden age. Thanks to the leadership of POTUS, the U.S. has generated$150 billion in tariff revenues within the past six months. as Chris Hayes says. So they're bragging about how much they're taxing Americans, which is, I got to say, something I've literally never seen from politicians before. Also, the White House is lobbying Republican senators to vote down a bill that would restrict stock trading for members of Congress. Why do they care, as Yashar Ali puts it?

8:55Ben Meiselas:Because the ban would be extended to include the president and the vice president, Andrew DeSidario Scoops. You can read the full story, but Donald Trump wants, this could be, we should ban stock trading and it should apply to Donald Trump and the VP. Why is all this self-dealing and grifting? Why is Donald Trump making all this money on meme coins and bitcoins and selling all of this stuff? It's a massive conflict of interest. It's unlawful. It should be banned. I don't care if you're a Democrat or you're a Republican or an independent or a rhinoceros. I don't care. Okay? You should be banned from stock trading if you're a politician.

9:35Ben Meiselas:If you want to be a stock trader, go work at Goldman Sachs or go work in a bank. Do it. But don't do it when you're a politician. When you're a public servant, you're a public servant. That should mean something. Ghislaine Maxwell issued a list of demands also to Congress for her testimony. She was emboldened by her meeting with Trump's Department of Justice on Thursday and Friday. So she told Congress, I ain't going to sit with you on August 11th. I ain't care if you've subpoenaed me for August 11th. I don't care. She goes, I want immunity from you, Congress. I want to dictate the location. It ain't happening in the Tallahassee Correctional Facility where I'm incarcerated, number two.

10:21Ben Meiselas:Number three, I want all of the questions written in advance. And number four, I'm going to dictate the time, Congress, when this takes place. And it ain't taking place on the 11th. I'm going to take the deposition after my habeas petition gets ruled on by a district court where she's going to make all the arguments that the case was a hoax and it should be dismissed. That's, of course, what she's going to argue there. And when the Supreme Court finishes ruling on my appeal, my petition for certiorari. So I dictate the time, the questions. I want immunity and I'll tell you the location. And Congress is like, no.

10:57Ben Meiselas:But Donald Trump gave her all that crap. Donald Trump gave her immunity, rushed to give a freaking convicted sex trafficker immunity, gave her a golden ticket for a retrial. It's horrific. You want to see where your tax dollars are going, though, right now? This is what Kristi Noem is doing. She's cosplaying in Argentina. She's there with Corey Lewandowski, who she's very close with. We'll just say that. You can Google Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, see their background together. Here she is on a horse, as our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski says. I think the climate in Argentina made Kristi Noem's lips a little bit bigger.

11:34Ben Meiselas:This is a real video that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security put out yesterday, showing the work that she's doing. This is where our taxpayer dollars are going. I kid you not. This is real. Play this clip.

12:12Ben Meiselas:I also want to highlight the fact that the Trump EPA, led by Lee Zeldin, is saying that they are issuing draft plans to overturn the EPA's longstanding finding from 2009, scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human health and welfare, a move that would seek to remove the basis for all climate regulation. So the hook with which the EPA is able to regulate the climate and to regulate businesses is a finding that greenhouse gases threaten human health and welfare. So based on public safety, the federal government can issue regulations and can protect our environment. But if you say that there are no threats to human health and welfare caused by greenhouse gases, well, then there's no basis for the EPA to exist.

13:08Ben Meiselas:So Lee Zeldin is basically saying, you know, we're basically, the EPA is a fraud, you know, the same way the Department of Education is destroying itself. What Lee Zeldin is saying is we're basically a fraudulent entity. We think that greenhouse gases are great and that pollution is fine. And therefore we don't have any authority to do anything. So the Trump regime is doing that. Let me finally tell you what we're doing at the Midas Touch Network. We're traveling the country. We're going to be in, we're traveling the country with the AFL-CIO on their union bus tour. We're taking stops across the country.

13:45Ben Meiselas:We're highlighting that there. But then also we're working with Move On and we will be the exclusive media partner of the Won't Back Down, F Around, and Flip the House event featuring Senator Chris Murphy, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, and Congresswoman Ansari. Our very own Adam Mockler will be the emcee. The event will be taking place in Phoenix, Arizona on August 3rd. Go to won'tbackdowntour.com to reserve a space if you want to be there. Won'tbackdowntour.com. Show up at the August 3rd event. Then we're going to be in Omaha on August 23rd. And again, Adam Mockler, very own Midas Mighty, will be the host.

14:28Ben Meiselas:We're working on this event with Move On. We're happy to be the media sponsor there and excited for that. I'll have my interview with Senator Chris Murphy out later today. Thanks for watching, everybody. Hit subscribe and let's get to 6 million subscribers. New Midas merch drop. Check out the latest Pro Democracy sticker packs, t-shirts, hats, sweatshirts, and more all at store.midastouch.com. .