Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Big Tech BENDS THE KNEE to Trump in PATHETIC Display

Episode Date: December 14, 2024

That great “sucking” sound you hear is Big Tech owners like Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Jeff Bezos of Amazon (and WashPo), sucking up to Trump with flattery and millions of dollars of donations to his inauguration in order to avoid being put out of business by his incoming administration. Michael Popok ties it all together in his report. Head to https://ollie.com and use promo code: LEGALAF to receive 60% OFF your FIRST BOX of meals when you subscribe today! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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That's the sound of tech giants and social media billionaires like Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook sucking up to Donald Trump before his administration comes in. Gonna break it all down for you right here on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF. Latest to go and suck up is Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, using your dollars, by the way, to do it. He just gave a million dollars of Facebook money for Donald Trump's inauguration fund. He didn't give a billion dollars, sorry,

he didn't give a million dollars to Joe Biden, he didn't give a million dollars to Donald Trump the first time. But now, because Facebook is facing a new administration of Donald Trump and wants to curry favor with him, they put him back on the platform despite his using the platform for disinformation campaigns and to spread lies. They put him back on. You've got Zuckerberg saying after that Butler, Pennsylvania incident when Donald Trump got hit in the ear, it was the most bad ass thing he'd ever seen.

And now he's met with Donald Trump and now suddenly stroked a check for a million dollars. It's disgusting to watch the genuflecting and the ass kissing of billionaire tech moguls who are worried about their own hides under Donald Trump. Donald Trump just is about to appoint the head of the Federal Trade Commission, somebody who says he's going to go after big tech. And I think these two things are related.

When you've got the new head of the Federal Trade Commission saying that they're going to go after big tech for their censorship of right-wing MAGA positions during the Biden administration, you don't think Zuckerberg heard that? Well, where's my checkbook? Maybe I'll put a million dollars to try to protect myself. And then you've got, at almost the same week, you've got Jeff Bezos, who bought the Washington Post, who we, MidasTouch Legal AF, fired as a sponsor after this.

You know, he took over a newspaper that, a proud newspaper, that had been famous for investigative reporting of speaking truth to power, to printing truth against power, to taking down presidents like Nixon and the Watergate scandal. He took it and said democracy dies in the darkness and then he killed the paper. Stepping over the line from publisher to editor and telling the editorial board of the Washington Post not to endorse Kamala Harris. And now he's saying in a recent interview with Dealbook,

this is Jeff Bezos, that he's very optimistic about the future Trump administration. Well, let's unpack that. First of all, Jeff Bezos is a neighbor and social friends with his girlfriend of the Kushners, of Ivanka and Jared. They live on the same block in the billionaire bunker of Indian Creek in Florida. And so he doesn't want to piss off his yachty buddies, his yachting buddies. and so he socializes with them. And now you know that Ivanka is still

in the inner circle of Donald Trump, as is Jared, his father, has just been nominated to be an ambassador. Charles Kushner, who was a felon, who had his conviction pardoned by Donald Trump, is now gonna be ambassador to France. While Donald Trump's busy sending off Don Jr.'s ex-girlfriend to Greece to

let him have a little breathing room to date other people in Palm Beach County, we now have the reporting that Bezos is very good friends with the Kushners and socialized with them. He doesn't want to piss them off. More importantly to his pocketbook at Amazon, Amazon is a major military defense contractor. They supply computing power, cloud computing resources, and they have lots of military contracts, and they don't want that to end. I mean, does any of this surprise you? This administration, the incoming one, is going to have, I've seen the tally, it's going to have billionaires occupying many, many major positions in the administration.

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Elon Musk with 250 billion of that, but Vivek Ramaswamy's a billionaire, Howard Lutnick for commerce a billionaire. Linda McMahon for education a billionaire. The person he picked to be the head of the treasury a billionaire. You know, Donald Trump may be a billionaire. And the list goes on. And billionaires are really, really excited, which would scare the average American person about what it's going to mean to their purse and their pocketbook. And that's why the Democrats need to work hard to pivot and regain power during the midterm

elections. When I hear that social media has bent the knee and tech giants have bent the knee to Donald Trump, that's a bad thing for America and our First Amendment rights. You know, when you've got the new incoming head of the Federal Trade Commission saying he's going to go after social media platforms and others that try to squelch the voice of right-wing MAGA Republicans and misinformation and disinformation campaigns, wake up everybody, wake up. And if you're on Facebook, maybe you shouldn't be. You know, I think that, you know, I'm going to reconsider it.

I don't like my tech heads and billionaires just worrying about their own hides and not worrying about what's right for America. What about all the disinformation about COVID, about voting, about frankly the use of Facebook and other platforms by Russian trolls, by Chinese trolls, by Iranian trolls, to sow discontent in America, to try to influence the outcome of our elections. What about that? He should worry more, Mark Zuckerberg and Bezos,

about the infiltration of foreign agents who are running brainwashing campaigns in America than about paying for a million dollars worth of hors d'oeuvres at the inaugural ball for Donald Trump. It's disgusting. It's got to be called out. That's why we do it here on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF on a regular basis. What did people think was going to happen when they voted for Donald Trump in large

numbers to get him elected? I mean is any they're worried about and understandably the american people were worried about their personal economy Their rent right their insurance their food prices. I understand that What happens to them if they have a catastrophic illness who's going to take care of them? But do they think that $400 billion worth of billionaires were going to help their cause and were going to put money into their pocket and help the economy as he's launching, Donald Trump's launching before our very eyes, a trade war, which will likely be expensive and cost the American people at the gas pump and at the supermarket gas register?

While he also says in an interview with, this is Donald Trump, in an interview with Time magazine over being Person of the Year again, that of course he's going to do an immigration policy that's going to be very, very expensive for deportation but worth it. Where's the money going to come from? American people. American people. The social media giants. I think Jeff Bezos is going to stroke a giant check. He's going to have a yacht that's one foot shorter in order to pay for all of these policies. No, it's going to come out of your pocket and my pocket. We're going to continue to follow it all on the Midas Touch Network and on legal AF. Follow me, Michael Popak. I got a new

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