The MeidasTouch Podcast - All Hell Breaks Loose as Trump’s Invasion Caught on Tape

Episode Date: September 29, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s invasion of cities across the United States which was all caught on tape. Get firearm security redesigned and save 15% OFF @StopBoxUSA with code TRUTH at https://stopboxusa.com/TRUTH! #stopboxpod 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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We have the receipts. We have the photographs. Donald Trump is currently terrorizing the city of Chicago and other cities across the nation with his ICE Gestapo agents. And as you look at what he's trying to do, especially right now in Chicago, we saw this over the weekend. He wants to provoke a reaction from the people of Chicago

that Donald Trump can then use as pretext to call in the military to invade Chicago. So all throughout Chicago, Donald Trump sent hundreds and hundreds of militarized ice forces through the city, they were marching as though they were troops invading a city. They were in the waterways as well. You'll be able to see that and we'll show you what was going down there. And they were attacking people in the communities.

I just want to show you everything that went down. You see Donald Trump posting right here on his social media platform, the photo of these ICE agents marching through Chicago. you see them right there in the water. Let me show you what went down as a man was arrested outside of the Broadview Ice facility in Chicago. Just take a watch at how this Gestapo is operating. And again, they're trying to provoke a reaction so then Donald Trump can say, you see, there's violence there.

We're sending in the military as he has ordered the military to enter Portland, Oregon. This is what just happened in. Chicago. Here, play this clip. How are you? Yeah! What's their name? What's their name? How are we?

How are we? How are you? And now over here, you'll see these hundreds of federal agents patrolling the Chicago Riverwalk. Here, take a look right here. Let's play it. Here's another view right here of these ICE agents, border patrol agents, kind of marching through menacingly Chicago. Here, play this clip right here. Here's another angle of that, let's play it. And here you'll see what it looks like in the Chicago River right now.

You know, I've taken the trip before on the boats where you take the architectural tour of Chicago, and you just have ice agents harassing people in that riverway. Here, play this clip. And I'll just show you, this is what we're seeing across the country right now. ICE agents try to break into people's homes. And the people in the homes are like, can you show us your warrant? And the ICE agents are like, we don't have to show you anything. Here, play that clip. I want to see the warrant. You just going to see how they're going to come in. They don't want to show us the warrant. They don't want to show us the warrant. We have to, we have to see the warrant.

Let's see it. No. They're taking my husband. They don't want to tell us a warrior. Is that a killer? He's nothing like that. We have five kids. Why? Why? Drop the phone. Turn around.

Turn around. Turn around. Don't move. Here's another video of, uh, uh, uh, shik. In Chicago, you'll see ICE. They tripped over a fence during a chase, and they start pointing their weapons at the local news cameramen filming their incompetence. I just wanted you to watch what it looks like.

Here, play this clip. What are you pointing at them? Stop! Leave them alone. Their hands are up. Their hands are up. They're not doing anything. Oh, my ankle.

That's crazy. That's crazy. That's crazy. Stop pointing at people! Leave them the fuck alone! Stop pointing your fucking taser at people who have their hands up! Stop pointing your fucking taser at people who have their hands up! Stop!

Now we'll bring you to New York at the Federal Immigration Court there. Our friend Sandy Bakeham, she's there in the courtroom almost every day in the courthouse filming what's taking place. She's talked about the traumatic scenes that she observes as people who are seeking asylum there are ripped apart from their family. In this video she recently took, you'll see a father. ripped apart from his wife and his children. This is a scene of utter cruelty unfolding every single day at that federal immigration courthouse.

As people are showing up for their asylum applications and the ICE agents are brutally separating them from their families. We can't look away at what's happening here. Play this clip. No! No! No! No! No!

No, for me! No! No! No! No! No! No! Please me.

Sorry. Oh my. No. Let me. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. I'll bring you now to Los Angeles, where I live, an incident that happened near where I live,

where ICE brutally detained a U.S. citizen just for filming, knocking her unconscious. Agents then took her to a side alley, beat her up. and then potentially called an ambulance and then all the ICE agents were waiting in front of the hospital to block any protesters from entering the hospital. Real horrific stuff right here. The individual who was beaten, just an observer who shows up and tapes what ICE is doing and tries to help the migrants there. She's a member of a network that monitors ICE. And ICE threw her in the alley, beat her up, beat her up, knocked her unconscious. It's really horrific here at play this clip.

Witnesses tell us the woman was monitoring an immigration enforcement operation when she was detained and then taken to the hospital. Let me go. Let me go. Witness video from a Lederah Heights Home Depot this morning shows a woman screaming as she is detained by federal agents. At one point, she identifies herself as an American. She has also heard pleading for someone to call her family. and a lawyer, giving out her name. My name is Rachel Simon. I was there to do it.

I was born to go. It's still unclear what led up to the confrontation. Witnesses say she is a member of Hill Network, a community immigration defense group, and that she was monitoring the area. She goes there to protect day laborers at this twice a week. You know, she's there.

On social media, the group said a woman named Rachel S was injured and detained by federal agents at that same home depot and then was transported to Cedar Sinai in Marina del Rey. Hours later, demonstrators gathered at the hospital, demanding answers. A statement from the hospital confirmed federal agents were present after being at a nearby business, but offered no details on why. The LAPD was also at the hospital. They say officers initially responded to reports of masked men, but once they saw, they were federal agents. They backed off. A day laborer who did not want to be identified says he saw five SUVs arrive with about

20 federal agents and that around eight people were detained. His account echoes the concerns of community organizers who say operations like this have a devastating impact on families. People need to know that these are real lives, that people have families, that they're not destroying families. We reached out to DHS to ask them about the operation. They acknowledge they receive a request but have not given us a response yet. At this time, we don't know the condition of the woman, the group she is a part of Hill Network posted of social media

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They took her to an alleyway near the Home Depot. I'm familiar with the area. There are several alleyways just to the south of it. Apparently a bystander filmed part of what happened. I'm not sure if they got the entire interaction, but apparently one of the women who was taken was beaten unconscious by ICE. We all showed up down to the hospital where she was taken in Marina Del Rey and watched as they had cops in full riot here protecting the hospital so that no one could help her. Then they forcibly removed her from the hospital while she screamed for help and the hospital staff could do nothing about what happened. Right now, we are heading to the metro detention facility to protest that she was taken.

Oh, sorry, not to mention two bystanders that were customers at the Home Depot tried to help and were also detained. They are two American citizens that were detained, and they also detained the woman that was making tortillas on the side street. This is getting crazy. We need people to help. The reason that she was so easily abducted, this easily happened to her, this woman was patrolling that Home Depot alone, just never do.

But they don't have enough coverage. We need more people. We need more help. Like, we have to stand up to fascism. This is insane. I'm going to go now because now I'm officially driving. So from Chicago to Los Angeles, this is in Louisiana right here, where a warden at an ICE detention facility is accused of sexually abusing detainees at the female detention center and putting transgender inmates into forced labor. One job was pushing heavy cinder blocks across dorm just to push them back where they started and repeat.

Quote, if you want to be a man, I'll treat you like a man. would yell. Aren't you strong enough? Aren't you a man? This is how they try to target and psychologically torture the transgender person. Here play this clip. Allegations of rampant sexual abuse of immigration detainees at an ice facility here in Acadiana. And those accusations are contained in this newly filed civil rights complaint with the U.S. Office of Homeland Security. Now, that misconduct reportedly taking place at the South Louisiana Ice Processing Center in Basile, the complaint outlines the sexual abuse of a woman and three transgender individuals during a two-year period at the facility. The abuse allegedly occurred on a near daily basis at the hands of

the assistant warden, prison officers, and other ICE employees. The complaint also contends that ICE tried to cover up sex abuse complaints and threatened retaliation against the four if they talked with investigators. The attorneys that filed the complaint are seeking to have the ICE facility in Basile closed. Bringing you back to Chicago, Illinois, ICE ran over a protester with their truck at 30 miles per hour. He's hospitalized for a burst neck artery. When local police went to investigate the hit and run, ICE agents shot pepper balls from the rooftop to disperse the crowd. Here, let's play this clip right here.

Since this fencing went up earlier this week, protesters have since been gathering on the other side of buildings just to our right. and that has access to this facility, and that is where that man was struck. He had hopped up over the curb, ran right into me. That's where you've seen I was thrown right here on the side of the road, and he took off back there, which leads back to the ice facility. Daniel Schultz is describing this moment. Hey, what the fuck, man?

Which happened Wednesday night near the Broadview Ice Facility. Like, how is this allowed? And then there's nothing we can do about it. There's no accountability. There's, like I was telling you, the officers came up, came to me at the hospital, and they had asked if I would be able to point the person out in the lineup. And how could I do that when they all wear masks?

Like, they have no name tag. They have nothing. There was three of them in the vehicle. That's the only thing I could tell the officers what had happened. The village of Broadview Police Department says they are treating this incident like they would any other traffic accident. Witnesses told police a pickup truck struck shouts and continued driving into the the parking lot without stopping. The video shows the tail end of the impact as

Shouse is carrying a flashlight and glow sticks around his neck. The Broadview Fire Department administered aid and transported Shouts to Loyola Hospital in stable condition. They had me stay overnight because one of my arteries and my throat they were worried about because it looked weakened and like it was going to burst. He was released this afternoon and made his way back out to the facility. That's for my arms. I got stuff like on my side here and stuff like that. My whole leg is all bruised up. I got road rash on the knee.

But I actually lucked out from what, at least the officer is saying, they're estimating the vehicle is going about 25, 30 when they hit me. Broadview police say they requested to speak with the ICE agent who had claimed to witness the incident. The agents at the gate told police they were unaware of such an agent and had no knowledge of an agent being involved in such an incident. As police officers were surveying the lot for a vehicle matching the description, ICE agents began deploying pepper balls towards protesters, which affected Broadview officers. Due to visibility and no further identification of a suspect vehicle, Broadview Police left

without further incident. I just want to show them that you can't silence us. It doesn't matter what you do to us. It doesn't matter how many times you shoot us or what pain you want to put onto us. We'll be here. We're going to keep fighting for accountability. And we want to see name tags and no mass. We reached out to ICE and the Department of Homeland Security for comment on this incident, but have not heard back yet. Shouse says that this incident will not stop him from coming out here. He says he's not associated with a group or organization and says he just wants to see accountability.

For now, reporting live in Broadview, Christine Flores, WGN News. And remember how we share that story about the raid at the Cato facility in Cayuga County, that nutrition bar confectioners factory where it was like over 60 of the workers were rounded up there at that factory. It's hardworking migrants, not criminals. Well, body camera footage released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement through a Freedom of Information Act request caught the federal agents calling immigrants animals and bragged about the number of illegals detained

despite that not being the case in at least one instance. So an individual by the name of Hedberto Ramirez Perez was detained and deported in that raid. Now sits in Guatemala with his U.S. work authorization card and no answers after the September 4th raid at the Nutrition Bar Confectioners Factory. Suddenly the doors were blocked and we were all trapped inside because ice was all over the place. People started running to try to get away, but we were told to go to the break room. Ramirez Perez said through a translator, through a freedom of information, Law request, the Cayuga County Sheriff's Department provided the body camera footage from the officers on scene that day. In one scene, federal agents are discussing the conditions at the Central

Processing Center in McAllen, Texas, better known as Ursula, one of the agents discussed his time working there. Quote, I would not let anybody out of their cells, so we did it in an orderly fashion, had them all lined up, it's bathroom time, or it's fucking brush your teeth time, or it's food time. Other than that, nope, your ass is staying in there. But you can't do that. I absolutely can. I need a phone call. No, you don't.

I need to go to medical help. Nope, you look good to me. The agent said mimicking a conversation with detainees, migrants who are detained. He continued to say that they kept the bathrooms inside the cells where people were held. They're there. They're animals anyway. That's what I would tell my kids all the time, said the agent who said he worked in the intelligence unit.

They're animals, referring to the migrants. So that's where we're at right now. We'll keep you posted every step of the way as we learn more here on the Midas Touch Network. But the people in Chicago are not being provoked. Trump's obviously trying to terrorize them and people across the country and people are remaining peaceful. We're going to keep you posted every step of the way. So hit subscribe.

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