Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump Gets Thrown Under Bus by Own Cabinet for Lies

Episode Date: April 29, 2025

Trump’s own administration just confirmed that he lied to Time Magazine when he falsely claimed that they did “200 deals” since announcing the failed Tariffs and hit the pause button, as it turns out he also lied about having a phone call with China about the trade embargo, as the world wide supply chain collapses, with 40% less cargo coming into US Ports in the first ships in since the Chinese embargo was announced. Michael Popok takes a hard look at Trump’s lies and what it means for the US economy and his poll numbers. Dose: Save 30% on your first month of subscription by going to https://dosedaily.co/LEGALAF or entering LEGALAF at checkout. 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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about his first 100 days, talking about, I did 200 deals! I did 200 deals since the tariffs were announced and he can't name one of them. Then he can't remember whether they're done or they're going to be done. Then when we get the treasury secretary and the agriculture secretary in an interview,

they say they can't name one. Well, if your secretary of treasury and agriculture don't know about your trade deals, who's going to? And then he uses this weird analogy of department stores. It's like I own a department store. The economy is like a department store. It's like if I'm in a department, the economy is not like a department store.

And why are you using department store as your metaphor, your analogy, when if you put into the Google, you can do it now, in Google, put in Donald Trump and department store, you come up with the E. Jean Carroll sex abuse adjudged case. Weird, wrong. I'm gonna talk about what Donald Trump's impact

on the economy has been, and now we're seeing the impact of the 145% Chinese tariffs. Don't call it a Chinese tariff. Call it what the Treasury Secretary for Donald Trump is now calling it, a Chinese embargo. We've embargoed any trade with China and the world logistic and supply chain is responding while Donald Trump fantasizes and lies to the American people about signing 200 deals. Wait till you hear how he defines a deal and then you'll understand why his

administration can't find any on Michael Popak. I can find it all right here on the Midas Touch Network and for Legal AF. All right, Donald Trump announces, I'm gonna do tariffs. They're gonna be reciprocal when they're not. They're based on a trade deficit. They're not based on the amount of tariffs the other country is charging.

That's why he's charging tariffs against Vietnam and an island that only has penguins. Okay, so he does that. And then we have the freak out moment. The freak out moment is all, all of the big business in America from the target CEO, the Walmart CEO, the Home Depot CEO, the leaders of JP Morgan Chase and hedge funds and private equity funds.

They all descend on the White House, phone calls, knocks on doors, oval office meetings, and they tell them to stop. Your trade embargo with China is crushing the economy. You want empty shelves? You want empty shelves for the Walmart voter to see? That's where we're heading, and it's already having an effect.

I represented back in the day when I did this type of practice, some of the world's largest shipping companies including Hapag Lloyd. Hapag Lloyd number five container ship container organization in the world. Their bookings already because of the announcement is down 30% in worldwide container movement. That's how things move in this world. On big ships, container ships, a little bit by air, a lot by ships, a little bit by trucks

once they hit the coast. Okay, now the impact of that is the port of Los Angeles, for instance, incoming shipments that are coming in now, these were booked at the time of the tariffs being announced against China are down 40% in fact logistics experts believe that the China Incoming from China imports from China on current sailings that are booked are going to be down 80% Hence the use of the term embargo. That means empty shelves as American stores and department stores, as Donald Trump likes to say, scramble to

try to fill their shelves with merchandise, including, get this, going back to last Christmas's inventory to try to just fill the holes on the empty shelves. That is not a healthy economy. Then Donald Trump is interviewed during his now infamous Time magazine 100 days interview. By the way, he just did another interview very similar with the Atlantic. He's on some sort of speaking tour, a speaking engagement tour, where he's trying to convince the American people that what they're seeing with their own eyes, ears, and pocketbook and purses is not really happening to them over the first hundred days.

And so they brought up the issue during the interview with Time Magazine about trade deals. As Donald Trump claimed, before he hit the brakes on the tariffs, after all the CEOs of Walmart, Target, and Home Depot came crying on the doorstep of the Oval Office and told them, stop, stop, we're the ghosts of Christmas future.

The shelves look bare. Those are Walmart voters you're losing out there in red country, hence the poll numbers that we're seeing. They asked them about, well, what are the trade deals that you're making? He goes, oh, I've made trade deals. He goes, can you name them? They said, Peter Navarro, your trade representative,

fresh off a stint in prison, he said, we're gonna do 90 deals in 90 days. Remember that? I feel like Earl Scheib selling a 99.95, a new car paint. You want your car painted? 99.95. You have Peter Navarro telling the world, oh, the tariff pause is good. We're going to do 90 deals in 90 days. You know how many deals they've done in the 14 days since the pause? Zero. Zero. Did you know the liver is the second largest organ in your body? It's responsible for over 500 functions. But for some reason, liver health doesn't always get the attention it

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That's D-O-S-E-D-A-I-L-Y.CO slash Legal AF for 30% off your first month subscription. So they asked them, all right, you got a little bit time left on the clock, but you've done zero in 14 days. So in the next 76 or so, are you gonna do 90? And he said, do 90? Trump said in the time interview,

I've already done or I may do, or I'm gonna do, I'm he said, do 90? Trump said in the time interview, I've already done or I may do or I'm gonna do, I'm thinking about doing 200. And they said, 200? What are they? Well, I can't name them. You know, what do you mean you can't name them? He said, well, you know, and then he went off to define how deals, how he defines deals. And this is the problem because the way he defined deals is he uses the department store analogy. It's like if I own a department store this is how we this is how simplistically and yet so so wrong he sees the American economy and I raise the prices then that's a deal. That's a deal. How about if the

consumer doesn't buy it because it's ridiculously high priced? And all of those price changes, that's a deal. So see how he narrowly defines a deal and he can throw everything into the definition of a deal. Those are 200 trade deals because it's like I'm running a department store. He's got this weird department store thing. And just to remind people,

that's where a two separate juries determined that he sexually abused E. Jean Carroll and he owes her $100 million as a result in a department store in the Bergdorf Goodman's. I don't know why he wants to remind people of that. I think it's a verbal tick, right? It's like the Scarlet Letter, it's like a confession. So they pressed them on it in the interview.

They said, are you gonna get it done? Trump said he would announce the supposed 200 trade deals in the next three to four weeks. But he also said the reporters seemed, or it was obvious for the interview, seemed confused about whether the deals were done or not done. And we're finished, by the way, he said in the interview. You're finished?

Time asked. We'll, we'll be finished. Trump clarified, Oh, you'll be finished in three to four weeks. I'll be finished. Now some countries may come back and ask for an adjustment and I'll consider that, but I'll basically be with great knowledge setting. Ready? We're a department store, a giant department store.

You're not. The biggest department store in history. Everybody wants to come in and take from us, launching into this department store thing. And then he says during the interview that the president of China, Xi, has called him. Said he's called, I don't think that's a sign of weakness, but he's called. And that's another lie because China has come out and said that the president Xi didn't

call Trump. So now he's got fictitious phantom figment of his imagination, phone calls with the president of China, while a trade embargo goes on before our very eyes. And all that happens is that the pump and at the grocery store prices have skyrocketed. They've gone up at the grocery store, the supermarket, 2.4% rise in prices since March. How's those egg prices doing? Those that voted for Donald Trump like independents? Not well.

So when you put together the lying about the 200 trade deals that his secretary of treasury doesn't know anything about and can't confirm, he can't name one of them, then he uses the weird department store thing, which is doubly weird, then the impact now on actual in the real world, real time, logistics and supply chain. I'm talking cargo ships and sailings and the price of cargo. It's been a disaster, a disaster for Donald Trump and therefore for the American people. Let me make it clear, I'm not wishing ill on the American economy. I'm part of the American economy.

One of my colleagues once said, economy. I'm part of the American economy, right? One of my colleagues once said, why would I wanna crash the plane that I'm on? I don't, but I have to observe and commentate about it. We've gotta call it out. This administration's report card is in at the 100 days and it is straight F minuses right down. There is no silver lining.

Well, you got Karl Rove coming out on Fox News, laughing about this president and his economics. You got Fox itself coming out and can't find a silver lining in the poll numbers or the economy. And this was the only reason people apparently voted for Donald Trump. And how's that going?

Lying in his interviews. reason people apparently voted for Donald Trump. And how's that going? Lying in his interviews. Lying on easily refuted facts. Because Donald Trump never let anything come between him and a lie. Stubborn little thing like a fact isn't going to get in his way. I'm going to follow it all, just as we always do. Sometimes I put on my Wall Street ad at the intersection of law, law politics and the global and US economy right here on the Midas Touch Network. Come on over to our Legal AF YouTube channel. We're gonna hit six

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