Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump gets SLAPPED IN THE FACE by former Allies

Episode Date: February 5, 2025

In just 2 weeks, Trump has turned the US into a Pariah State, with our allies condemning Trump’s plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza and for the US to take it over like some beach-side real estate development deals. Michael Popok reports on the UK, Scotland, the UN and Germany’s rebuke to Trump, and how it undermines our national and economic security. Go to https://graza.com and use code: LEGALAF to get 10% off your Graza Starter Kit and get to cookin' your next chef quality meal! 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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people, perpetuate an ethnic cleansing and a forced diaspora, and develop it like it was the quote unquote Riviera. Now the world is responding. And I don't just mean the world of Hamas and of Saudi Arabia. I mean our allies like the United Kingdom, like Scotland and Germany and Turkey as well. I'm Michael Popak. Let's look at the world's response to what has to be the most chaotic, unprincipled, illegal criminal presidency we've ever seen. And we're only two days, two weeks and one day in. You're here on Legal AF of the Midas Dutch Network. Let's dive in.

You probably have already heard bombshell news or you woke up to it this morning that Donald Trump during a press conference with Benjamin Netanyahu standing next to him decided to declare that he had a solution for the Gaza problem or in his mind the Gaza problem, the solution. Now mind you, this solution is while the exchange of hostages has not yet been complete or the release of hostages for Israel have not yet been complete. There's no real peace deal on the table.

The Middle East is still on a knife's edge, and Donald Trump decides, with Netanyahu obviously supporting him, to announce that he's got the plan, he's got to take over the Gaza Strip and develop it like it's a real estate project, make it like Dubai, with hotels and casinos and a place for international people, make it an international city, completely ignoring and never really mentioning the 1.8 million people that call Gaza home and would have to be relocated into other places, not in Gaza, and accepted by other Arab countries, so that the US and Israel, in some sort of partnership, could develop Gaza? So, let's just say our allies are not happy,

the United Nations is not happy. The United Nations has said it is illegal, it is an international law violation to ethnically cleanse and forcibly expel people from land that they call home. Others have gone further. Let me read to you from, let me read you what the UN's human rights office has said about this.

It is crucial that we move towards the next phase of the ceasefire, recognizing that there is currently a ceasefire and the Israelis getting back whatever remaining surviving hostages there are, to release all hostages and arbitrarily detain prisoners, end the war and reconstruct Gaza with full respect for international humanitarian law and international human rights law. Any forcible transfer in our deportation of people in or deportation of people from occupied territory is strictly prohibited. That's the UN human rights office. The Starber, the prime minister of the United Kingdom

went further, here's what he said, in response to a question from the liberal Democrat, the third largest party in the House of Commons. He told lawmakers, quote, "'The most important issue on the ceasefire is obviously that it is sustained and we see it through the phases. And that means that the remaining hostages come out

and that the aid that's desperately needed get into Gaza at speed and at the volumes that are needed. I have from the last few weeks, two images fixed in my mind. The first is the image of Emily Demare reunited with her mother, which I found extremely moving. The first is the image of Emily Demare reunited with her mother, which I found extremely moving. The second was the image of thousands of Palestinians walking, literally walking through the rubble to find their homes and communities in Gaza. They must be allowed home.

They must be allowed to rebuild. And we should be with them in that rebuild on the way to a two-state solution. And so the dangerous statements from the president is something that Starmor was responding to. Scotland went further. John Swinney, Scotland's first prime minister, said that Trump's plans on Gaza were, quote, unacceptable and dangerous, that there must be no ethnic cleansing, calling it what it is.

In a post on Blue Sky, he said, after months of collective punishment and the death of over 40,000 in Gaza, any suggestion Palestinians should be removed from their home is unacceptable and dangerous. There must be no ethnic cleansing. Only a proper two-state solution will bring lasting peace. He was joined by Hamsa Yousaf,

Scotland's former First Minister, whose parents were trapped in Gaza, describing again Donald Trump's plan as ethnic cleansing and a living hell. So listen, I'm not here to take sides. I hear you people know my position and my support of Israel and that they were inhumanely attacked and civilians were inhumanely attacked and thousands and thousands died and were captured in that horrible October 7th day. However, we now have a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. We have a group of people that were put into Gaza and separated for the rest of the Palestinian people as part of a process. And there has to be some sort of rebuilding.

The question is not whether there needs to be rebuilding. The question, apparently, according to Donald Trump, is whether the Palestinians are going to be involved or allowed to participate in the rebuilding. Donald Trump sees it as a bombed out parking lot that needs to be developed along the waterfront, sees valuable beachfront property that he would like to develop as a developer, as a US president developer.

And that is what the world is responding to. The problem is he's continuing to pull in the oars of America and make it go it alone in this world. A world that we are less secure in now than we were two weeks ago, that we are less economically secure, certainly from a national security policy standpoint,

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that is going to work around the world. People sitting there going, I wonder what Donald Trump's going to say or do next? You know, what crap's going to come out of his mouth? That is not a doctrine that supports a lasting peace in the world or America's position as the last remaining or one of the last remaining, along with China, superpowers. All it does is undermine our allies, makes them see us as a pariah. I mean, the more we're pushed into a pariah status by Donald Trump, the more our allies, I'm not even talking about our enemies, will pull in their oars, not cooperate with us on national security issues, intelligence gathering, keeping us safe around the world,

entering into global economic pacts with us in order to allow one free trade, which I'm relatively in favor of as part of our economy, and more importantly, continuing markets for the US goods and services that we want to sell around the world. We as Americans can't consume enough goods and services from US companies to sustain the economy. Let me repeat that.

We, the 330 million or so Americans, cannot physically consume enough goods and services generated by U.S. companies to sustain our economy or keep those companies in the black. They need global markets. All we're doing is making us a pariah state among the world and nobody's going to want to do business with us. It's gotten so bad that Wall Street leading analysts have declared that the Trump administration is bad for business, is not business friendly. When your own US Wall Street analysts are saying you're not good for business, that's a bad sign. And as Donald Trump continues to make the United States a pariah state globally and internationally, we lose our influence over the outcomes that we want to see,

the positive outcomes around the world, whether they be diplomacy by diplomatic means or by war or in the economy. If we want our favorite outcomes, we've got to be a player. We've got to be a diplomatic player, an economic player, somebody who can be trusted in negotiations. Even if you just reduce this down to two people having a negotiation, you've got to trust your counterparty. You've got to trust the integrity of your counterparty. If you can't trust your counterparty, you're not going to do business with that person. You're not going to buy or sell or trade or lend or lend money to or give credit

to. And what is the end result of that? It benefits our enemies. I talked a lot at this hot take about our allies' outrage, understandably, at the announcement the United States wants to take over, develop, and ethically cleanse Gaza. Yeah. So now let's talk about what our enemy's response to that is. Delight. Delight.

Sheer delight. They're probably so giddy. I can hear champagne corks popping in the Kremlin and in Beijing as I'm doing this, Atik. Why? Because the more we become a pariah state, the more we push into the arms, the waiting, willing economic arms of our enemies like Russia and China, we push what was once our allies. And even in regions that you may not even think about every day, like in the Caribbean, Latin America, South America, Chinese are taking over from America withdrawal. In our international diplomatic community, the Chinese and the Russians are taking over from our diplomatic and economic withdrawal.

They're stepping in and doing the funding and turning heads towards East away from the West and away from Donald Trump. Yeah? And this is just after two weeks and a day folks. So it gets worse not better. We've already done hot takes about this completely unhinged irrational set of press conferences and statements made. Donald Trump threatening that if anybody takes him out, he's left some sort of secret envelope for, you know, JD Vance and the treasury secretary to go after Iran. You know, all sorts of crazy statements that nobody, you know, that, you know,

he's not using his inside voice. I don't know what, what this is. He's just saying the, the,'s just saying the crazy shit out loud now. It doesn't make him more dangerous and us more safe. It makes him seem irrational, rogue, and insane, and therefore undermines our, yours and my, and the people of America's national and economic security. I'm going to continue to follow it all right here on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF. Follow me, Michael Popak, over on Legal AF, the YouTube channel.

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