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The MeidasTouch Podcast: Episode Summary
Episode Title Trump Spirals on Sunday AM as Cover Up Backfires
Host Ben Meiselas
Episode Overview In this episode, Ben Meiselas discusses a particularly tumultuous Sunday for Donald Trump, highlighting how a cover-up related to Jeffrey Epstein has backfired spectacularly. Various notable figures, including Hillary Clinton and Marjorie Taylor Greene, have publicly criticized Trump, indicating a rare moment of bipartisan agreement against his actions.
Key Topics Covered
- Trump’s Deteriorating Situation
- Public Criticism: Trump is facing backlash not only from political opponents but also from some within his party.
- Bipartisan Unity: Figures across the political spectrum, including conservatives like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie, express concern over Trump's handling of the Epstein files.
- Epstein Files Revelations
- Hillary Clinton’s Call for Transparency: Clinton advocates for the release of the Epstein files, suggesting they contain troubling information about Trump associates, including Steve Bannon.
- Marjorie Taylor Greene's Reaction: Greene is outraged after being included in a list related to Epstein, demanding the redaction of her name from the files.
- Political Implications
- Congressional Responses: Congress members, including Thomas Massey and Garcia, discuss the implications of the Epstein files and the need for accountability.
- Trump’s Connections: The episode discusses the revelations regarding Mar-a-Lago serving as a location for sex trafficking, with calls for transparency regarding Trump's relationships with Epstein-related figures.
- Media Coverage and Misinformation
- Media Bias: Ben highlights the disparity in coverage between left-leaning and right-leaning media regarding the Epstein case, noting only 11% of coverage on the matter comes from right-wing outlets.
- Ground News Resource: The host promotes Ground News as a tool for critical media consumption, emphasizing the importance of recognizing media bias.
- Current Events and Broader Context
- Ongoing Conflicts: The podcast touches on the current situation in Gaza, critiquing narratives that downplay violence and suffering amid claims of a ceasefire.
- Historical Parallels: Ben references George Orwell's *1984*, drawing parallels between the manipulation of truth in politics and the current news landscape.
Key Takeaways
- Trump is under increased scrutiny as bipartisan voices unite against his Epstein-related controversies.
- The call for transparency regarding the Epstein files is echoed across party lines, raising serious questions about accountability.
- The episode emphasizes the need for critical engagement with news sources to navigate the misinformation prevalent in today's media environment.
Conclusion This episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast provides a deep dive into the repercussions of the Epstein scandal on Trump's political life, highlighting a significant moment of critique from across the political landscape while encouraging listeners to be vigilant and informed about the news they consume.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOTrump's Troubles on Sunday Morning
1:03 to 1:54
Exploring Trump's reactions to criticism from various political figures.
“Donald Trump is having a terrible Sunday morning.”
Hillary Clinton's Call for Transparency
1:56 to 3:38
Clinton advocates for the release of Epstein files and accountability.
“And that's one of the things that Epstein was involved in.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene's Reaction
3:39 to 4:50
Greene expresses anger over her name on a list related to Epstein.
“And it was like Elvis Janis Joplin, who else's name did they have in there?”
Thomas Massey's Perspective
5:00 to 6:05
Massey discusses the political implications of the Epstein files.
“Here's what Thomas Massey had to say this morning.”
Congress Members Speak Out
6:14 to 7:29
Various Congress members address Trump and the Epstein connections.
“What, you know, what Congress member Garcia says this morning is, look, we asked James Comer.”
Investigating Epstein's Network
7:31 to 10:21
A discussion on the need for accountability and investigation into Epstein's associates.
“You have people like Ghislaine Maxwell getting moved to club fed VIP facilities, convicted child sex trafficking.”
Media Coverage of Epstein Revelations
10:22 to 14:00
Analysis of how different media outlets are covering the Epstein case.
“And the broader, I think the broader issue here is why wasn't this investigated when these accusations and these stories actually were heard by the FBI years ago?”
The Unacceptable Reality of War and Truth
14:00 to 14:27
Explore the contrast between peace and war as discussed in George Orwell's 1984.
“And then saying that there's the ceasefire and there's peace there.”
Critique of Trump's Child Trafficking Claims
16:03 to 16:45
A critical analysis of claims made by Trump regarding child trafficking efforts.
“And you see what's going on, you know, in the right wing.”
Discussion on Racial Profiling and ICE Policies
16:45 to 18:34
Examining the rhetoric around racial profiling and ICE's operational tactics.
“We're finding children because they're the Epstein class.”
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Revising the Food Pyramid: A New Approach
18:34 to 19:12
Insights on the changes to the food pyramid and implications for nutrition.
“Marty Macari is here with some news for everybody about the Trump regime's big priority.”
Transcript
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1:03Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump is having a terrible Sunday morning. You know when you are being hit by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massey, Ro Khanna, everybody essentially at the Munich conference all at once. Yeah, you are probably the most despised thing in this world. I want to go through with you what's going down this morning. Just a reminder, hit subscribe. As you can see, we're less than 50 ,000 subscribers away from 6 million. Let's hit 6 million this week. Hit subscribe right now. And by the way, shout out to all of the Midas Mighty fans I saw in Disneyland yesterday when I brought my family there.
1:51Ben Meiselas:A lot of people came up. So shout out to all of you. I said I would give everybody a shout out. All right. I want to go to the Munich conference right now where you have Hillary Clinton saying, look, when it comes to the Epstein files, we've been saying release them. I'm willing to testify publicly. I've got nothing to hide at all. What we're seeing in some of these files as like one of Donald Trump's right hand people like Steve Bannon trying to topple the former pope and how this Epstein class that surrounded Donald Trump was trying to overthrow all these governments and hoist up MAGA. And that's one of the things that Epstein was involved in.
2:30Ben Meiselas:There's deeper things, very serious things that need to be addressed immediately. What in the world is going on here? play this clip right now of Secretary of State Clinton. Let's play it.
2:43Donald Trump:I heard three in particular. To the last question, it's horrifying. And we're hoping that, you know, there will be continued release every day that passes. You know, that doesn't mean, as our news commentators say every day in the United States, it's because someone's name is there, they committed a crime. But I think there's a lot of very troubling and really horrific information coming out today. It came out that Steve Bannon was trying to get Jeffrey Epstein to help him overthrow Pope Francis. I guess that was part of the civilizational effort. True conservatism. True conservatism. So it is something that needs to be totally transparent.
3:25Donald Trump:I've called for many, many years for everything to be put out there so people can not only see what is in them, but also if appropriate, hold people accountable. We'll see what happens.
3:39Ben Meiselas:Then you have Marjorie Taylor green. She's livid because her name was listed on the, uh, politically whatever the list was that, that, that the Trump regime put out the Trump regime put out their own Epstein list, um, like politically active people, whatever. And it was like Elvis Janis Joplin, who else's name did they have in there? Marilyn Monroe, And they listed all of these people. They didn't put any of the Trump kids, despite Don Jr. being, you know, on the files and other kids being referenced there. They did put Hunter Biden on it. And it just seemed like a way to mask Trump's name on it by just putting all of these other names.
4:20Ben Meiselas:And a lot of the men who are actually co-conspirators and perpetrators are not on this list that the DOJ put forward last night. And they said, this is how we did our redactions. And here are the politically controversial people who are in the Epstein files. Anyway, Marjorie Taylor Greene goes, if you're going to put my name on your fake Epstein list, DOJ letter, then redact all 31 pages of this file with my name on it. And again, you know, you have, you know, just think about the trauma being caused to the survivors right now as the Trump regime releases like a fake, like a fake list. Here's what Thomas Massey had to say this morning.
5:03Ben Meiselas:Let me show you Republican Thomas Massey from Kentucky. Let's play it. Responsibility.
5:08Donald Trump:And just very quickly, if you will, you've supported most of what Donald Trump has done during his presidency. Because of your actions with these files, he is supporting your primary opponent and has waged very personal attacks on you. I know we just have a few seconds here, but just your reaction to that.
5:27Hillary Clinton:Look, this is about the Epstein class, the people who are funding the attacks against me. They may or may not be implicated in these files, but they were certainly rubbing shoulders with the people who are in these files. They're billionaires who are friends with these people. And that's what I'm up against in Washington, D.C. Donald Trump told us that even though he had dinner with these kinds of people in New York City and West Palm Beach, that he would be transparent. But he's not. He's still in with the Epstein class. This is the Epstein administration. And they're attacking me for trying to get these files released.
6:04Donald Trump:And again, I'm going to say President Trump has not been accused of anything criminal here. Thank you very much for joining us this morning, Congressman. We appreciate it.
6:13Ben Meiselas:Thank you, Martha. And then just to show you, I mean, how, you know, whether it's Thomas Massey, Republican from Kentucky, whether it's Democratic Congress member Garcia, whether it's Hillary Clinton, whether it's Marjorie Taylor Greene, these people are just saying what's really going down right now. What, you know, what Congress member Garcia says this morning is, look, we asked James Comer. James Comer is one of Donald Trump's stooges who leads the Oversight Committee. That's the lead committee doing this investigation. And he's a Trump stooge. And Congress member Garcia is like, we asked him, bring Lutnick before our hearing.
6:50Ben Meiselas:We have a lot of questions for this guy. He brought his children to the island where child sex trafficking take place after he said he knew that Epstein was a bad guy and then he lied to everybody about it. That's a big deal. Bring Bannon before the committee. He was like talking to Epstein every single day. And now Donald Trump is praising Bannon. And Trump's DOJ just filed a motion to dismiss the case where Bannon was criminally convicted of obstruction of Congress for not showing up before the January 6th committee. Bannon was still pursuing appeals before the Supreme Court. So it's technically not a final case.
7:26Ben Meiselas:And the DOJ just dismissed the cases against Bannon. They dismissed the case. I mean, just think about it, right? You have people like Ghislaine Maxwell getting moved to club fed VIP facilities, convicted child sex trafficking. You got people like Steve Bannon, who's like everybody in the files. I mean, Bannon's like one of the worst. Bannon was like talking with Epstein about rehabilitating Epstein's image and overthrowing governments. Here's what Congress member Garcia had to say.
7:58Hillary Clinton:Secretary Howard Lutnick, he had said in an interview last year he hadn't seen Howard Lutnick in years. Turns out he went to see his island off the U.S. Virgin Islands with his family back in 2012, and he had business interests with him in 2014. Are you working with Republican Chairman Jim Comer to bring Howard Lutnick in for questioning? We have asked Jim Comer to bring in Howard Lutnick, and we have yet had no response. Not only did he visit the island, he had tons of communication with Jeffrey Epstein after it was already known that Jeffrey Epstein was essentially convicted for preying on children.
8:29Hillary Clinton:So it is shameful that he's actually in our government. He should not be the Commerce Secretary. He should come talk to the Oversight Committee.
8:35Ben Meiselas:The Oversight Committee also voted last month the whole bill. And then what I liked about this next comment by Congress Member Garcia this morning is he said, look, he goes, we need to know why was Mar-a-Lago one of the locations where a lot of the sex trafficking took place? that's an undisputed fact folks that mar-a-lago was a was a site of of the sex trafficking in the epstein ring like undisputed that it was where trump lives trump's i mean let's just repeat this trump's home is where the sex trafficking was taking place one of the locations and that's not a disputed fact it's just 100 true i mean virginia jufra the spa that's like one of the areas where it went down.
9:17Ben Meiselas:Let's play this clip.
9:18Hillary Clinton:Look, there's a variety of things. I think number one is we want to ensure that all the names of the men that either are co-conspirators, those that themselves terrorized and brutalized women and children, those people need to be exposed. That work has begun. An additional piece of this is who was financing Jeffrey Epstein. So for example, this upcoming week we'll be interviewing Les Wexner, who is likely have been the single largest benefactor and providing financial support to Jeffrey Epstein? Where did he get all of his money and for what? And where was that money going? That is another critical part of this investigation.
9:55Hillary Clinton:We've subpoenaed also the bank records. So we're going through all those and that information is critical to our investigation. And then of course is who was involved in the trafficking of girls and women? It wasn't just Ghislaine Maxwell. Why were there so many women being attacked in places across the country, whether it was New York, but also Palm Beach? You look at Mar-a-Lago. Why was Mar-a-Lago a location where women continue to be trafficked from? So these are questions that we need to ask. We have questions for President Trump. And the broader, I think the broader issue here is why wasn't this investigated when these accusations and these stories actually were heard by the FBI years ago?
10:35Hillary Clinton:Where was the investigation? Where was the DOJ? And this, by the way, is an issue not just in Republican administrations, but also ones led by Democrats. We have to get answers.
10:45Ben Meiselas:You mentioned. You know, it's just so interesting right now as right wing media tries to just completely, you know, distort, lie, focus people's attention on other things. Notice they're ramping up, you know, right now, potential war in Iran. Anything to distract right now from the Epstein files. I mean, just look right here. I love ground news because they break it down this way for us. And so I analyze it in the morning. High profile resignations and replacements as Epstein case fallout spreads. So in all of these articles across the world right now about these high profile resignations and criminal prosecutions of people in the Epstein files, if you look at who's covering this story more than others, you have left wing and center wing media covering this.
11:34Ben Meiselas:And only 11 % of the coverage comes from right-wing media about the Epstein files. When they were the ones out there trying to blame everybody else for, you know, saying everybody else was a pedo and this and that. And now they don't want to even cover it. Only 11 % of the coverage about the resignations and criminal investigations into Epstein comes from right-wing media. Just think about that. And then contrast that with this one right here. Donald Trump to unveil$5 billion Gaza aid fund at Washington board peace event. Donald Trump unveiling a$5 billion Gaza aid fund. And now this is what right wing is covering.
12:14Ben Meiselas:Look, Donald Trump is saving Gaza. Donald Trump is doing all of that when that's not what's actually taking place. And that's why you don't see a lot of left wing media covering it. And we don't see a lot of coverage of what's actually going on in Gaza right now. Since the so-called ceasefire, which is not a ceasefire at all, you've had hundreds and hundreds of Palestinian people were killed in Gaza. The number could be, I've seen different numbers, but whether it's 450, 650, approaching 1 ,000, since the ceasefire, I mean, just look at this. I mean, in the past week, two weeks, how about in the past 48 hours?
12:51Ben Meiselas:In the past 48 hours, Israeli forces killed nine Palestinians in Gaza, and that's in addition to their attacks on southern Lebanon. This is supposed to be some ceasefire and peace? I mean, that's not ceasefire and peace. How about this? February 4th, 2026, Israeli strikes Gaza, killing 19, mostly women and children, after saying Hamas violated deal. and they're saying that you know we're supposed to believe the fiction that there's a ceasefire because you use the word ceasefire it's why we just need to like know the truth about what's happening there's not a ceasefire people are getting killed palestinians be very careful palestinians are getting killed every day by the israeli forces let me just look at this in the gaza strip israeli strikes in gaza killed at least 19 palestinians most of them women and children by midday.
13:46Ben Meiselas:This was from February 4th, Wednesday, according to hospital officials. Israel pledged to continue strikes, saying that it was responding to militant attacks on Israeli soldiers that seriously wounded one. But then why 19 Palestinians, children and women being killed? That's completely unacceptable. And then saying that there's the ceasefire and there's peace there. There's literally war. But isn't that what 1984 said? War is peace and peace is war. That's what happens. And truth, the simple truth becomes a revolutionary act. In 1984, George Orwell knew what he was talking about. Truth becomes a revolutionary act with all of the lies.
14:27Ben Meiselas:That's what we try to do here on the Midas Touch Network. That's why hit subscribe. Help us get to 6 million subscribers. You see how close? Double check and maybe send this YouTube video to a lot of people to help us get 6 million subscribers. By the way, that ground news is a great feature that I just showed you. I have to stay up to date on the news all the time in order to do this podcast. And our biggest go-to news source is Ground News. You guys, this is a subscriber-funded app and news site. And every day they pull in thousands of articles from around the world and organize them by story and then show you what the right is reporting, what the center is reporting, what's the left reporting.
15:03Ben Meiselas:It's a game changer because as active, responsible citizens, we must get our news from reliable sources. And Trump's America being informed about facts and media bias, it's the most important thing you could do. That's why we love ground news for every article. They also tell you, did a media conglomerate put this news out or was it independent media? And they also list the degree of factuality, which is interesting as there were a lot of news sources from media conglomerates that are mixed or low factuality. Independent media seems to have a higher factuality, but you get all of that with your ground news vantage subscription.
15:34Ben Meiselas:I especially like their blind spot feed, which highlights stories that are disproportionately covered by one side of the political spectrum, which I just showed you before. So join us by going to ground.news.com to get 40 % off the Ground News Vantage plan that I use every morning. They are subscriber funded. And by subscribing, you're not only getting a tool we all need today, you're also supporting our work here on this YouTube channel. That's G-R-O-U-N-D.news.com MTN, and we pin the link to purchase your subscription below. And you see what's going on, you know, in the right wing. I mean, you've got, I mean, people like Tom Homan, right?
16:13Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump's borders are out there. You know, he just makes up stuff like he goes on state regime media this morning and he said, already this year, Donald Trump has found 145 ,000 children. He found 3 ,000 children in Minnesota, and he's found 145 ,000 children who were disappeared under the Biden administration. He's making up stuff. What are you talking about? You found 145 ,000. What the hell are these people talking about? And they're using this, oh, we're going after the child sex traffickers. We're finding children because they're the Epstein class. They are at the heart of the cabal.
16:54Ben Meiselas:This is the Epstein administration. Here, play this clip.
17:26Thomas Massie:and four oh and then home in this morning is like we're not doing racial profiling let's play it they want to say stop racial profiling that's just not occurring i mean and you know ice will detain briefly detain and question somebody question somebody based on reasonable suspicion has nothing to do with racial profiling as far as the mask look you know i don't like the masks either but because threats against ice officers you know are up over 1500 percent actual assaults and threats are up over 8 000 these men wouldn't have to protect themselves as far as identifying themselves they all have placards identifying themselves as ice ero hsi dea fbi so they all have placards on them so i'll let the the white house and and members of congress you know fight that out but i think some of the asks are are just i i think they're and then finally they bring on
18:20Ben Meiselas:one of their Macari, Dr. Marty Macari. He's the FDA commissioner, Dr. Marty Macari. He seems like the doctor they'd have on like Arrested Development or whatever. Dr. Marty Macari is here with some news for everybody about the Trump regime's big priority. They've gotten rid of the corrupt food pyramid. Yay.
18:47Hillary Clinton:Here, play this clip. food with the new food pyramid that we put out we ended what was a corrupt uh food pyramid with an open secret that it never talked about ultra processed foods refined carbohydrates or the importance of fiber on those carbohydrates it was just calories in calories out it didn't matter what the junk food was you put in it was just a calorie scale it's not a zero-sum game that you
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