The MeidasTouch Podcast - All Hell Breaks Loose as Trump’s Plan Backfires

Episode Date: June 25, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on how Donald Trump’s plan for attacking cities is backfiring as people are lawfully standing up to ICE agents and catching the unlawful behavior of ICE on video tape. Go to https://everydaydose.com/MEIDAS for 45% off your first order! 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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car washes, home depot parking lots, swap meets are being invaded by masked ICE agents and potentially bounty hunters who have been deputized as ICE agents, correction officers deputized as ICE agents, targeting hardworking migrants, beating them, attacking them, making them disappear. And we're seeing how others in the community are observing what ICE is doing, standing up against ICE, and they're getting this all on tape as well. I wanna highlight some examples over the past just 48 hours or so.

I wanna give a shout out to Brittany Mejia over at the Los Angeles Times. I think she's doing a great job reporting on this as well. She spoke to an individual named Job Garcia, a United States citizen who was arrested by Border Patrol agents outside a Home Depot in Hollywood. Here's what Job Garcia heard them say, how many bodies did you guys grab today? Oh, we grabbed 31. Oh, what a good day. High five. Talking about hard

working migrants, people who have lived here in many cases for decades, who are now ripped apart from their family and before doing that physically ripped, thrown to the ground, beaten, beaten ruthlessly by these disgusting ICE agents, the American Gestapo. It's on tape. It's being filmed. I'll show you. Job Garcia shared this video he took shortly before his arrest.

You'll see the ICE agents going to a truck driver. Boom, they bang the windshield, they grab the truck driver. Job Garcia's like, what the F are you doing? So just a warning, the language here, lots of cursing, there's a lot of physical, you're gonna see violence here. We can't look away from this though. We have to know, this is happening.

I know with Donald Trump provoking and escalating wars overseas, and all of the things that Trump is doing, he wants to distract from the fact that he has a Gestapo like the Nazis going through the United States and doing this here, play this clip. You are fucking serious bro? Get down! Get down! Get the fuck down! Get the fuck down! Fuck off son, let's go! Get your fucking hand up!

Give me your fucking hand! You want it? You got it sir! You fucking got it! You fucking got it! You fucking got it! You fucking got it! You fucking got it! You fucking got it! Give me your fucking hand. You want it?

You got it, sir. You fucking got it. You want to go to jail? Fine. You got it. Horrible, horrible stuff. Here Pablo Manriquez posted the following employees and bystanders at Salgado Tire Service in Pico Rivera, California run an immigration agent off their property for harassing their

workers. As Adrian Carrasquillo explains, they don't want the attention for what they're doing, these ICE agents and those deputized as such They don't want anyone to know who they are and that's why they're masks They don't want videos like this out there We've seen multiple examples of too much attention and light flushing them out So let us use our platform here at the Midas Touch Network with over 5 million subscribers to be that light.

Play this clip. You guys don't have to talk. You guys don't have to talk. You guys do not have to answer any questions. No questions at all. What's your badge number? What's your badge number actually? What's your badge number?

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What's your badge number? What's your badge number? What's your badge number? What's your badge number? What's your badge number actually? Yes. What's your badge number actually? What's your badge number actually? What's your badge number actually? What's your badge number actually? What's your badge number actually? What's your badge number actually? What's your badge number actually? What's your badge number actually?

What's your badge number actually? What's your badge number actually? What's your badge number actually? What's your badge number actually? What's your badge number actually? You don't have to say anything to him. You don't have to say anything. You don't have to say anything. You don't have to say anything. You don't have to say anything. You don't have to say anything. Talk to him. Until he leaves. I Next, I want to show you this.

A brave woman stopping a kidnapping by these individuals who claim that they are ICE agents. I mean, a lot of people claim they're deputized as ICE agents. And this is from a car wash also in the area as well, same area, and you'll hear her say, this is effing kidnapping. That's not your badge. I do have a little bit of an education. Get the eff out of here. Racial profiling is illegal.

Play this clip. No tiene que contestar nada. No tiene que contestar nada. You need to identify yourselves no you need to identify yourselves this is kidnap this is kidnap you need to fucking identify yourselves you identify identify yourselves that's your batch number no we didn't see any of that, we didn't see any of that shit. We didn't see any of that. No, no. You didn't get to start me with a bad one. Say that if you go from the step, okay.

Me mother's not contested. Now that no contest, another me feel a man. Now that can't be away from us. No, why don't you question me? You guys are not even ice. You need to identify yourselves.

Just nothing but fucking bounty. Can I see your badge please? My badge is right here. No I don't see it. Yeah it is right there. No I need to see it. No this is kidnap. This is kidnap.

This is kidnap. This is an immigration inspection. This is a kidnap. You can record all you want. Just stay out of the way so you're safe. I am staying out of the way. But it is also my right to record. Yeah absolutely.

We're all in this. I agree. of the way but it is also my right to record so this is fucking kidnapped because you guys just show up and you do not identify yourself so they don't have to go they don't have to go with you guys you identify yourselves I need to see the batch no that is not your badge is right here. No, that is not your badge. It is. It's not your badge. You know what? I do have a little bit of education, and I know that that is not your badge. That is not your badge.

So unless you guys identify yourselves, you are not taking anybody. It's like ice with freaking out of shape fat asses. Fucking racial profiling is against the law you motherfuckers. Get the fuck out of here, assholes. What the fuck? What the hell? What's going on? No, these are not even eyes. These are not eyes. Do you struggle with bloating and discomfort after your morning coffee? Well after drinking everyday dose consistently my bloating has reduced and my face feels less puffy. Everyday dose is coffee plus benefits.

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And he was standing up for people in this Home Depot parking lot. While the Trump regime was having the Gestapo arrest migrants here play this clip. What is he doing? He's a fucking whore! What the fuck now? Hey, we're taking him, motherfucker! I'm not doing shit, dude! I'm not doing shit! Hey, what the fuck, dude? You can't be doing that shit! This is my civil right! I can fucking record you if I want!

Hey, hell yeah! What the fuck? Look, look, look! Put him in the car! Put him in the car! Hey, these are illegal citizens, you fucking pieces of shit! Fuck you! Put him in the car. Put him in the car. Hey, these are illegal citizens, you fucking pieces of shit! Fuck you! Put him in the car. Put him in the car. Hey, what the fuck is wrong with you guys? Look, look, look! Put him in the car. Hey, I got the shit all over here. Don't worry about it.

Fuck this. What the fuck? What kind of shit? They're putting hands on him, dude, and you're putting... That's bullshit! That's bullshit! Why you guys putting hands on homie? Now, in this next post, this was posted by Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries. This is a disturbing video, but they're all frankly disturbing. This is a bunch of masked men in border patrol vests, brutally assaulting and detaining a father in California. You can see his gardening equipment on the floor because he's probably a day laborer who works for homes in California and gardening and landscape.

His three sons have all been publicly identified as Marines. Welcome to Donald Trump's fascist America. Are you disgusted yet? Play this clip. I'm not sure what happened. The train is now departing. Now, this is being posted from the official White House account, right here what I'm showing you. This is official videos and photos from the White House Instagram account. If you don't believe me, go and look at it yourself. It shows ICE agents and customs and border patrol agents dressed in military fatigues.

Frankly, they're equipped with military gear that I know are soldiers who served in Afghanistan, which they may have had some of this gear. And this is what the Border Patrol post says. It says, we show up, we stand firm, we carry out the mission despite the noise. Look at this other photo of them, like an armed military. Where are they going? Where is this United States armed military invading that's being posted on the White House account?

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but frankly, lots of people showed up, enjoyed great food, great things that were for sale right there. But now border patrol agents dressed like an invading force were out there. Oh, and then they're showing people giving them the middle finger as helicopters and choppers fly overhead. That's what they're posting on the official White House account. Look, it's not a question of is there a constitutional crisis in the United States.

It's over. There's, I'll tell you, I mean, we're gonna fight back and we're going to win, but we're past constitutional crisis mode, okay? We are in fascism mode. You have Donald Trump, an authoritarian, a dictator. America is, this is a dictatorship period. That is what it is.

America's not a democracy right now. Now, there are millions of people. On the low end, six million on the high end, 10 to 12 million people, different estimates I saw protesting at the no kings, the biggest protests in the history of the United States. Think about that. You don't hear about that on corporate news. The largest mass mobilization ever is taking place against a dictatorship that now has taken over the United States with mass Gestapo punching, attacking, harming people. We heard the story of a 64-year-old man killed during an ICE transfer, killed during an ICE

transfer, horrific, horrific conditions. We've been sharing the stories of 19 year old girls, 16 year old girls ripped from their families, thrown in detention centers. I played you the clips of people crying and howling, thrown into horrific detention centers. And this hits near and dear to my heart. My wife is first generation American. Her family's from Guadalajara.

They live in, I won't say the name of the community, but in Los Angeles, in a community where ICE agents are there daily in those clips that I'm showing you. The ICE agents are going to those home depots. Those ICE agents are targeting and attacking people in my wife's neighborhood. My wife's mother is a United States citizen, as are all of my wife's family members. They don't leave their homes. I want to explain to you what's happening in these communities from a firsthand perspective.

My wife's mom, who would go to church frequently, is no longer going. It was a major part of her life, is afraid to leave her home. She used to go to church frequently is no longer going. It was a major part of her life. Is afraid to leave her home. She used to go to the gym. She is not leaving her home. And now the word on the street is that ICE is going to start going into people's homes. And you see the ICE agents. When my nieces and nephews recently graduated, you had ICE going around in circles in menacing ways, threatening and

harassing and intimidating Latino communities. And this is very reminiscent of Nazi Germany, and it's happening right now in the United States while Donald Trump is escalating wars and he's going it with Netanyahu against Iran, isolating all of our allies. And by the way, it just shows you what an idiot Trump is. As he and Netanyahu are going after Iran, Trump sent General Kellogg to meet with Lukashenko in Belarus, one of Putin's puppets. And Iran and Putin are allied.

We have the most idiotic dictator in the world, but let me leave you with some hope. And the hope is, I promise you, the pro-democracy community is going to prevail. I promise you that we, the people, will stand up and rise up like we are doing now against the Trump regime. And when we stick together, when we stay shoulder to shoulder, there is no stopping us. This is democracy summer, the protests, and I only encourage peaceful protests, period fulls only peaceful protests here at the Midas Touch Network. Peaceful protests will continue to grow.

We will continue to grow our peaceful protests. Shout out to all the organizers. You are the true hero. Shout out to everybody who is peacefully and following the law and standing up against the Trump regime. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe.

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