The MeidasTouch Podcast - All Hell Breaks Loose as Trump Invasion Backfires

Episode Date: October 16, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump causing hell to break loose in Chicago and cities across the United Stated as Trump uses ICE to try and provoke peaceful communities in order to find a pretext for more extensive military invasions. For a limited time only, get 60% OFF plus FREE SHIPPING on your first order when you head to https://Smalls.com and use code: MEIDAS 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

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Peaceful protesters under attack by chemical warfare being inflicted on them by the Trump regime. Ice Gestapo raiding Walmarts, raiding grocery stores, beating people, attacking people. You see people running out with baby strollers trying to avoid the chemical weapons. being thrown at them by Trump's ICE Gestapo. Trump is trying to find any pretext to justify the military invasion of Chicago. He's ratcheting things up. We have this caught on tape,

but you all have to see what's happening right now. And you need to share these videos with everybody you know. You need to know that there is a war taking place inside the United States. And it's coming from Donald Trump invading blue states and blue cities with ICE Gestapo, military weapons, black, black hawk helicopters destroying the communities that just want to live in peace dammit and trump's the

one who's creating the war zone people are just trying to live in peace and this is what the trump regime is doing it's despicable as governor pritzker posts gregg bovino christianome and dhs need to answer for their unchecked attacks on chicago residents they're going through the streets and they're shooting pepper spray bullets at people and punching people and knocking people off and ramming their cars into people. As Governor Pritzker says, ICE is an out of control danger to our peaceful communities. These images from the Sun Times today speak for themselves.

Look at these image, image, image, image, image, look at these images right here. And this, the community, just trying to live peacefully. You have ice shooting tear gas toward a father carrying an infant, still in the baby carrier. You have 13 Chicago police officers were tear gassed. as they were there just to try to de-escalate ice, trying to attack the community there.

Infants getting sick from the chemical agents. Watch what happens in this community. Watch this is happening on the southeast side of Chicago. Play this clip. Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

I'm going to get me that's caught, man! Get back! Come on! Then you're not, I'm not, I'm not, I don't know. Then you have ICE raiding a Walgreens in Chicago. You'll see this older white ICE Gestapo agent tackling a black man to the ground, arresting him for running. He's a U.S. citizen. he's American, a woman yells, that's my brother-in-law.

The store location was forced to close because of everything with ice. Manager told the rest of the customers, this is crazy, he said. They're closed for ice stuff going on as ICE is declaring war on a freaking Walgreens at 106th, 106th in Chicago. What the hell's going on? Here, play this clip. Americans don't want to get the fuck out of here get the fuck out of here you don't know get the fuck out of here he's a citizen he's a better thing why are you running because he's a citizen he's a citizen that's my brother and no

you don't know what's going on so get the fuck back back back up And then there was this powerful moment yesterday in the New York Federal Courthouse, 26 Federal Plaza Immigration Court. So these ICE agents separate a family. Our friend Sandy Bacon is there. And she's been recording footage that she's allowed us to share with the Midas Touch Network. Thank you, Sandy. Sandy's a great video journalist.

Give her a shout out. support her work. We at the Midas Touch Network want to support video journalists like that on the ground doing this work. So great work, Sandy. She gave us this video. This is at 26 Federal Plaza. Ice agents separate the family. And then this lady who is family member was just kidnapped by ICE Gestapo. She stands up to ICE. And she's like, I'm not scared of you. What the hell are you doing here? She's like, you're weak. Here, play this clip. This woman's a hero. Here, play this clip. Stupid bitch.

That's why you all your bunch of fucking criminals. I wish you would. I wish the fuck you would. Yes, the fuck with his family. You all a bunch of big poosies. Don't tell me. Calm down.

Who the fuck is you? We don't like none of you. You okay? No, how can I be okay? You okay? Are you okay? I look like I'm okay. Don't come up in my face here because I hit hard.

Fuck wrong with you. Try it. I wish you would. You try me and see what the fuck happened. Are we angry? All of us angry out here. So don't think it's y'all alone. You, who are you telling get out of here? Why are you telling me get out of here? Have you asked me a question? And I'm answering you. Fuck wrong with you.

Oh, stupid ass bit. That's why you're going to hide your face. You want to go to jail? You want me? No mother can tell you anything. You want to go to jail with you? You want to hit me? Hit me, bitch. He ain't got me. Nobody's scared me. So here you can fight, you a pussy bitch. You're a pussy bitch. That's why you kiss them don't like you.

And your wife is fucking on you. That's why you're gonna hide your face. My face ain't headed, bitch. I'm American, you stupid bitch. Fuck wrong with y'all. You can take me too high. I'm Charlott in the Zudia Fress. You know what to do?

Tell him. No, no, no. You want me? Fuck wrong with you. Fuck on you. Put that on the news. Let come see it. I'm so fucking rag, man.

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at smalls.com. Now, this was taken from by Laura Rodriguez press over at the Chicago Tribune. This was a scene from yesterday's ice operations in Chicago as well. Well, another angle of what went down. Play this clip. By the fucky, that's up, back up! You're not a front! Get me! Get me!

Get me! Get back! You're not a crook! Get back! Get back! Get back! Get back! Get back!

By the way, you can see the man right there with the holding the baby as he's being gassed by ice. I mean, this is what's happening in the United States of America while Donald Trump's saying, oh, I want a Nobel, I want a Nobel Peace Prize. You are inflicting war inside the United States with a personal military police force? How am I going to explain this to my baby girls one years old right now? He meant it. How am I going to explain it to her when she's older? What, you know, I'm just happy that she'll not, hopefully not remember why any of this stuff that's going on. Take a look at this scene right here as ICE agents.

Anybody who records them, they go after play this clip. You're going to be arrested, okay? If you keep doing that, you're going to arrest you. You understand? You understand? You're going to be arrested. You've been warm. You have been warm, okay?

You're impeding. We're going to arrest you for impeding. Here's another video clip. This one's activity in Rogers Park, Edgewater play this clip. This is a warning. When we leave, and if you keep following us, we will place you under arrest for impeding operations and telling us, ma'am. I am warning you. I am letting you know, okay? And you can film me saying that, I'm filming you. you right now talking to you. Why don't you take off your mask? Because I don't want COVID. So, here. That's because of COVID. Can we see badge numbers? November 5.3. Okay. Let's tell you right now, you need to leave and quit following us or we're going to yank you out of this car, both of you. Okay. You understand? Okay. But you understand my warning, right?

No, I don't. What do you need me to explain? I need you to get the fuck out of this neighborhood. No, no, that's not going to happen. We're doing operations here, ma'am. And that's a problem. Are you saying that right now what you just said is proof that you're impeding our operation so do you want me to yank you out of this car but you need to quit telling us okay we are not leaving here back at your car and let's see us the move we'll let you leave this is me warning you and trying to be civil with you just as much as you're forming us we're flaming you too yeah okay yeah likewise watch out hey sir he's Hey! Whoa!

Hey! Whoa! Why are we putting guns to people? You guys okay? Yeah, we're fine. We're just... We're trying to use intimidation techniques. We'll be following them for like 20 minutes.

Yeah, okay. And this is what it looks like. If you're driving in Chicago, you'll just see ice agents kidnapping people on the ground, beating them on the floor. And also shooting chemical agents, pepper spray bullets at people. Play this clip. And then finally, I want to show you this clip right here from the local media network. So ICE is setting up raids outside Catholic churches. The priest have to give special warnings during Mass because the church is now being swarmed by ICE agents because they know that immigrants want to go there to pray and be there to.

in order to, you know, because they're religious people. And now this is what's going down. I mean, how despicable play this glimpse. In Rogers Park, the presence of federal agents outside of a local church brought out many in the community determined to keep parishioners safe. It was just after 8.30 this morning when Julie looked out her Rogers Park window to see this. Immigration enforcement agents interrogating a man stopped right in front of St. Jerome Catholic Church. I think they've been casing the church.

I mean, the mass times are down. I think that they've been case in the church. There was somebody up the street up there the other day that got picked up. They're in this neighborhood for a reason. With a Spanish language mass going on at that hour, Julie and her partner alerted the priest, along with several others in the neighborhood, who took it upon themselves to make sure people were able to leave the church safely.

I felt really badly for them. I mean, they were inside, scared to come out, and I can understand why. She and others were back again for this evening's bilingual mass. The goal here is not to create any conflict, but actually to create a safe space. Peritioners telling us they're unnerved and not just because of what happened today. Right now, everybody didn't want to come out because you don't want to be deported. The Archdiocese tonight did not comment on the incident, but on CNN, Cardinal Blaise Supich spoke of the ongoing raids.

Yes, we surely and have the need for a state to provide safety for people and also secure its borders. But let's not forget that human dignity also has to be preserved. Many of these people who don't have documents have been working here for a long time and contributing to our society. Horrific videos. I have to show it to you. I have no choice.

We have to see what's going on. Share this with as many people as you can. We must get the word out. I know it was tough to watch that. Shout out, Sandy Baker. Shout out all the video journalists who, you know, created this footage. We're so grateful for you and the heroic work that you're doing. Everybody hit subscribe.

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