The MeidasTouch Podcast - All Hell Breaks Loose as Trump Goes Nuts with Failed Cover Up

Episode Date: December 22, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump causing hell to break loose in the streets of the United States as he craves more distraction from the botched cover up of the Epstein files. Get 20% off all IQBAR products. Text TRUTH to 64000. (Message and data rates may apply) Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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ICE and Border Patrol, Gestapo, torturing, terrorizing people throughout this country and this week has been no different. The horrors, the atrocities, they've been caught on tape, they've been caught on film, they've been caught in photos, courageous citizen journalists out there showing what this Trump regime is doing, taking out Donald Trump's cover-up cowardice on terrorizing these communities. Let's take a look, for example, what just went down in Pittsburgh as ICE brutally detains a Pittsburgh man. They put their knee to his, who is head they torture this individual. He's screaming, I can't breathe, I can't breathe. And witnesses are saying he can't breathe. What are you doing here? This incident took place on Norton Street

in the Mount Washington neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Let's play this clip. and then this week you had ice basically pinning down and dragging to be a pregnant woman and people are saying she's pregnant she's pregnant you're torturing a pregnant woman you're beating down on a pregnant woman and you're choking her what are you doing this is what Trump's America looks like no wonder tourism is down in the United States by like 40 50% who the hell wants to come to this authoritarian regime. Here, play this clip. We kept yelling, she's pregnant, she's pregnant, she's pregnant, they put their knees in her,

and we kept telling them she can't breathe, let her up, let her up. In the chaos, the woman who was handcuffed was suddenly being dragged by one arm as the angry crowd through snowballs and screamed at the federal agents. And this is going on from me. coast to coast, right? So, for example, in Buffalo, New York, you're seeing ice attacking roofers, people who are working on construction projects. The lady who owns the home is like, what are you doing? Like, these people are working on my house? Why are you, we're pointing guns at them, and you're pounding them to the floor and you're choking them to death? What the hell

are you doing, Trump regime? Here, play this clip. We got a fight up front. What's going on? Relax, now, now get down, now. Relax, now get down. You down, now. Now, now. Let me just show you another angle. right here of what went down in Pittsburgh because after the ICE Gestapo, the Border Patrol,

Gestapo took him around the car, they put their knee on the guy's neck and they tried to choke him to death, basically. Play this clip. Now here's the sicko, here's the terrorist. Here's, in my opinion, the war criminal. out there who's going around terrorizing people. He calls himself the commander at large. He's a cartoonish villainous character who if he wasn't causing so much pain, this guy would be a parody. What a pathetic individual.

This guy is Dan Bovino. Here he is showing up in Forest Park and he's been in Evansville, Illinois as well. And here he is like making a mockery of it all. He's like playing rock paper scissors over who goes. next to torture human beings. They're doing rock-paper-cissor over torturing migrants or torturing anybody who they believe looks like migrants.

These are sick terrorists that work for the Trump regime and that Trump regime enables and ratifies. Here, play this clip. You guys are fucking losers. Christmas is going to be a piece of shit because you're a piece of shit. You're a piece of shit. Folks, even Governor Pritzker at Illinois put out the following statement. In Illinois put out the following statement.

This is an enforcement. This is harassment. They're grabbing people off the street for how they look. They're separating families. They're scarring communities with masks, agents, with guns. I encourage everyone to do as they have. Peacefully protect your neighbors and your neighborhoods. Here's Bovino again.

Here's a terrorist here. Let's play this. clip. It's a cold, but not too bad. What's it like being back in Chicago? I love Chicago. It's going to be a Merry Christmas in Chicago, so we always love Chicago. And what brings...

What's that? How many days are going to be here? Unknown at this time. We never quit. Do you have a goal so far? The next few days are here? Title A immigration enforcement. We're going to enforce immigration law and that's what we're here doing.

And where have you been today? We've been in several locations, Cicero, Little Village, various other locations all over Chicago. We got a lot of teams. How many agents have you brought from New Orleans? Several hundred. Okay. So how many total border patrol agents in Chicago right now?

Border and others as well. So good guys. Now, here's how it's being reported on 11 News in Pittsburgh about what went down with that individual. And by the way, ICE and Border Patrol never got back to the network about why they were going after that guy. That's a common theme that we hear. Play this clip. It's scary. Neighbors described chaos and confirmed.

fusion as they watched federal agents take a man into custody on Norton Street in Mount Washington. Yo, he told you he can't breathe. Cell phone video taken Wednesday morning shows a struggle that continued for several minutes. You know, the ice agent car was blocking the truck. He was going up. The truck was going up. And there was another car in front of him, so they must have blocked him in. Neighbors watched and listened from a distance, many of them taking videos and asking questions. One neighbor told us he heard a loud boom, which he believes was the man's truck window being broken. That truck was still parked along Norton when our Channel 11 crew arrived. A public information officer from the city of Pittsburgh told Channel 11,

police and EMS were called to evaluate all parties following the incident, which included federal agents from ICE and. and the man who was the target of the operation. Channel 11 asked about Pittsburgh police's role in the incident. Police sent this statement, reading in part, quote, Pittsburgh Police is not apprised of ICE activity, such as federal administrative warrant service in the city of Pittsburgh and does not assist ICE agents with such operations.

Pittsburgh police officers respond to emergency calls for service in their jurisdiction. I don't think anybody is against going after criminals, regardless of your legal status. I think we all want to, like, live safely. The issue is that we don't know. So until we do know, like, that's where the issue is. That's where we need more transparency. Now, we reached out to Homeland Security investigators to ask exactly why the man was taken into custody. And if there were any warrants out for his arrest, those questions remain unanswered tonight. We're live in the south side. Lawrence Alata, Channel 11. Next, we'll talk about ICE detaining a pregnant woman, different pregnant woman than we just talked about in that prior

footage. This is a pregnant woman in Nashville, Tennessee. The prior footage was a pregnant woman in Minneapolis. This is in Tennessee right here. Ice detained her. She gave birth in custody. Then they took away her two and a half day old baby. While they tortured her, they took away her baby and made her give birth in custody and then stole her baby. Here, play this clip. Esther Lopez Sanchez is in ICE custody while she says her baby who is a U.S. citizen is in DCS. custody. Lopez Sanchez talks to Zeneb Al-Mathcour from the detention center. This has destroyed her. Almathcourt tells me Rutherford County deputies arrested Lopez Sanchez last year while pregnant.

Once into the Rutherford County Jail, Al-Mathcourt tells me Lopez Sanchez went into labor and gave birth at a hospital. Then she was sent to a detention center without her baby. focus is regaining custody of her daughter, whether that means fighting deportation here, going back to Mexico. Deputies arrested Lopez-Sanchez, along with her partner, Roberto Nunez Gomez, for drug and firearm charges. Lopez-Sanchez's charges were dropped last month, but Nunez Gomez was convicted. Al-Math-Cour tells me Nunez Gomez is the baby's father.

The mom is perfectly capable of caring for her. her child. Steve Gill is a conservative political analyst. The real focus has to be what's best for the child, whether it's being under foster care here in the U.S. while the mother is back in Mexico or whether it is dispatching the child with the mother back to Mexico. Attorney Andrew Rankin agrees custody needs to be in the best interest of the child, but says first migrants should be heard in court. There is an argument that as a matter of due process, parents have the right to parent their child.

Rankin tells me reliable family members should be next in line. Does it matter if that family member is undocumented? It could matter to DCS. He says it matters because a family member might be detained to leaving the child in limbo. A DCS spokesperson tells me that they can't comment on Lopez Sanchez's case. because that information is confidential. A nice spokesperson tells me they are working on a statement for us, but we haven't received that yet.

When we do, we'll keep you updated, reporting live in Nashville. Karen Aguilar, Fox 17 News, your code red station. This episode is brought to you by IQ Bar, our exclusive snack and hydration sponsor. IQ Bar is the Better for You plant protein-based snack made with brain-boosting nutrients to refuel, nourish, and satisfy hunger without the sugar crash.

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Now, I think you'll see a common theme here. Ice, they love to attack women. They love to take everybody. They go after women pretty hard and torture women. ICE detained a mother dropping their kid off at elementary school because ICE said they got a tip from the estranged father. So six agents swarm her car, smash her windows, drag her out, throw her on the floor in front of traumatized students.

Her daughter has not seen her. her dad in over a year. She doesn't want to go with her dad, but now you're seeing Vanessa Parazal was brought to the U.S. 22 years ago at the age of two years old, and she was just tortured by ICE in front of children. Here play this clip. 24-year-old Vanessa Parazal had just finished dropping her daughter off at Pinehurst Elementary School when she was swarmed by immigration customs enforcement agents wearing masks and vests. Her neighbor, Beth, she was riding behind her. Got out. the car and videocated everything that happened.

Elizabeth Watkins captured this video. In it, you can see at least six men trying to pull Vanessa out of her vehicle. When that didn't work, they smashed the driver's side window. Vanessa's sister-in-law, Sophia Livingston, alleges the father of Vanessa's child called ice on her because of a custody dispute. She called me earlier. I could barely understand her from how upset she was. She said, please protect my child.

Please protect my family. her daughter has not seen her dad in over a year her daughter does not want to go with her dad parents and community members organized a protest outside of pinehurst elementary during pickup time olivia wackett says she had just attended an event at the school a week prior it's so jarring to have gone from experiencing that and feeling like this true sense of belonging and community and loving and supporting one another to look out you know my window and see this car just completely bashed in. She says Wednesday's events have shaken the entire community. This has a ripple effect. It's not just the person who was ripped from her car this morning

that this is impacted and her family. It's our entire community. It's our children that are being impacted by this. Reporting in Salisbury, I'm Layla Wea, WMDT, because local matters. The next clip I'm going to show you, ICE hit a man with their SUV at a high sped and then detained him without calling an ambulance to, in my opinion, try to kill him. Here, play this clip. It was caught on camera when a man running from a fast-moving truck turned back to look and got hit by the side mirror. He somersaulted over the pavement and got back up to run again.

That's when authorities and masks and tactical vest swarmed in and handcuffed him. If that was one of my family members, I'd be pissed off. Because you have to hit me and deport me. That is crazy. Hannah Sanchez says the men who arrested him were wearing ice logos and that they almost hit her first on the other side of the building. You're a federal agent. Why are you not paying attention? When they chased the man out of the laundry mat next door. The guy was doing his laundry with his family.

I heard the wife crying. What are you bothering him for? There's bigger fish to fry. We reached out to border protection, immigration and customs enforcement, and the Department of Homeland Security for clarification on who was going after this man. and for what specific reason, whether or not they believe he may have a criminal record. We have not yet heard back, but local authorities confirm it was not them. Rialto police say they were not notified before or after the incident, but now they're investigating and trying to identify the man who was driving this black pickup. We don't know if they were actually looking for this person or if they just racially profiled him.

Hathier Hernandez is the executive director of Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice. He says they're waiting to hear back from several consulates for any information about who was involved in this incident. They're demanding answers. It seems very clear that the intentions of these officers were to stop this gentleman at whatever cause necessary, that included, you know, hitting him with their vehicle. Next, you have Mayor Biss of Evansville, Illinois, confronts that terrorist, that despicable, vile piece of trash who goes by the name of Greg Bovino.

So watch as the mayor confronts this little, this little piece of trash. Here, play this clip. We got Mayor Biss right here. Mayor Biss of Evanston. Excuse me. I'm so sorry. Back up. Back up.

Yes, yeah, I'm sorry. Back up. Back up. Back up. Back up. Yeah, there you go. I love you today. I'm going to go ahead.

I'm disappointed. I'm disappointed. Do you have done? Why don't you guys? Is unacceptable? And the violence is acceptable. And the violence is acceptable. Yeah, that's why we're here.

That's why we're here. We are in your community. Here you're used to do what we are doing. A violent. Thank you. We're violence committed by as they should be here in your community. I'm unaware of that happening.

That's probably the problem. May you should be aware of. Hey, Ovino. We don't want you here, bro. We don't watch it here. So a few minutes ago, a bunch of ICE and CBP agents were here. I stood face to face with Greg Bovino right here, and he threatened us, said he's going to continue the enforcement.

Of course, what he said was he's keeping us safe from violence, but what we know is that the violence is being perpetrated by federal agents. They had a conversation with our police chief. It sounds like they plan to be here throughout the rest of the day. I'm delighted to say there were tons of rapid responders. There were people pushing back. The tragedy is that I saw, with my own eyes, two people who they abducted. I'm told there may be more.

It's not clear yet, and I don't want to say anything unless I'm sure it's true. But what I would say is this, stay alert, stay active, keep yourself safe. If you're trained in rapid response, be out and about and always remember the ICIRR hotline, 855-435-76693. We need to keep each other safe. And then finally, give a hat tip to this woman, as Mediasan says, a hero who stands up to the fascist Gestapo and tapes what they're doing. here play this clip so i want to know why you're doing the neighborhood i can do whatever i need to do no you don't you don't you don't record this guys let's find out uh their status please do it be my guess please do it this is an immediate a eyes this is the eyes what is your what is your

status i'm not answering well you need to i don't i have you have what you have what you have why don't you go ahead and tell me what your status is i'm i don't have to yeah show me what are you doing here? No, no, no, no, no. Why do I have to? Why don't you tell me? Because I don't want to. Where do you say that I have to? Tell the people inside that the ice is here. Go and tell the people inside, please, sir. Go and tell the people inside that the ice is here outside. Please, go and tell the people inside that the ice is here in the parking lot.

Yeah, go ahead. Yeah. You should feel sorry for your job. Oh, should I? Yeah, of course. Of course. Of course. I feel sorry for you. Including all the sex offenders that we've arrested? No, excuse me, show me one. Show me one.

One of the people that you have arrest, tell me one, one of them. I feel sorry for your job. And we're watching you. There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to six million subscribers. Hey, Midas Mighty. It's Ben Breton, George. We just wanted to thank you for being the backbone of this movement.

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