The MeidasTouch Podcast - DeSantis Sends Cops to SHUT DOWN Trump Supporters

Episode Date: March 2, 2023

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent a store security guard and then the local police to stop Trump supporters who were protesting DeSantis’ book signing event. MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports. DEALS FROM OUR SPONSORS: Thank you to Rhone for sponsoring this episode! Head to rhone.com/meidas and use code ‘MEIDAS’ to save 20% off your entire order Shop Meidas Merch at: https://store.meidastouch.com Join us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/meidastouch Remember to subscribe to ALL the Meidas Media Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://pod.link/1510240831 Legal AF: https://pod.link/1580828595 The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://pod.link/1595408601 The Influence Continuum: https://pod.link/1603773245 Kremlin File: https://pod.link/1575837599 Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://pod.link/1530639447 The Weekend Show: https://pod.link/1612691018 The Tony Michaels Podcast: https://pod.link/1561049560 American Psyop: https://pod.link/1652143101 Majority 54: https://pod.link/1309354521 Political Beatdown: https://pod.link/1669634407 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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and Donald Trump supporters show up to protest Ron DeSantis having a book signing. What does Ron DeSantis do? Ron DeSantis sends the store security officer to go out and see the protesters, the Trump supporters who are protesting DeSantis' book signing. And the store security guard says, anyone wearing Trump has got to go right now. And the Trump supporters say, we have a right to free speech. Why are you not letting us protest here? And he said, look, my instructions were, if you're wearing Trump, you got to go. Here, play this clip. DeSantis' people are in there saying, let me come out to tell you guys

not to be here, why he's here. I thought that Governor DeSantis was, like, he always talks about how he's in favor of free speech. Like, we have a First Amendment right to be here to rally in support of President Trump. Right, you do. Right, so DeSantis' people told you that we have to leave? Yes. Okay, so DeSantis' people are anti-free speech. Okay, now you sound like CNN. No, I'm definitely not CNN. You sound just like CNN.

CNN's anti-Trump. Oh my, I told you that, you didn't wanna look. I did, I did look. Okay, I need you guys to leave, please. Okay? We don't want DeSantis to run for president. That's all. Okay, that's fine. I don't want you to run either.

I respect law enforcement. I'm simply telling you. But I'm asking you. I'm doing my job, okay? If you're going to film me, I'm going to stand in front of you. I want you to leave because I'm doing my job, okay? And DeSantis is making us leave, right? Whatever. I just need you to leave because I'm doing my job. And DeSantis is making us leave, right? Whatever.

I just need you to leave. Yes, yes. DeSantis hates the First Amendment. Okay, you guys are just like CNN. DeSantis hates the First Amendment. We got it. DeSantis hates the First Amendment. We understand it's not you.

We understand it's not you, but it's Ron DeSantis. But they sent me out here to ask you to leave. And I thought you guys being Trump supporters that you would understand and leave. But no, you're acting like the far left. You guys are acting like the far left. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're trying to get Trump elected. That's the far left, right?

Time out, time out, time out. If somebody was over there with the Trump sign, would they have to leave the property? With the shirt on that said Trump? And they were in that line, would they have to leave the property? Yes. Why? Yes. Why? Because. Because of what you're wearing?

Because they told me to say anybody wearing Trump has to go right now. Oh, that's good. Free speech. Free speech. You're in the signings. Free speech. I'm sorry, guys. I have to call LPD now.

That's fine. Thank you. That's all right. That's perfect. Thank you for that clip. So you heard that. Okay, the Trump supporters aren't acting as leftists. The DeSantis supporters aren't acting as leftists. They're both acting as fascists.

They inject such a daily diet of Fox and OAN and all this disinformation that you see the language that they use, the leftist, the this, the that, and you see the power of Fox basically just to spew these lies to these people where they're out there saying, you're acting like leftist, you're acting like leftist. What are you talking about? Everyone in this scene, including the store officer, the DeSantis faction, the Trump faction, are all acting as fascists right here. And then here, the actual Leesburg police is called. DeSantis then calls the Leesburg police to show up to kick out the Trump supporters who are protesting DeSantis. Well, this is the type of stuff that DeSantis does all the time in Florida. These are just DeSantis' tactics in those states. And so what does Donald Trump do? Donald Trump takes to his social media platform.

Let me just show you a few of Donald Trump's posts. This is Donald Trump saying, Fox is working overtime for DeSantis, but they are failing. Look at the polls. We are MAGA and DeSantis is just getting absolutely crippled in the polls right now by Donald Trump. That's accurate. Look, when the MAGA Republican Party is now the MAGA Republican cult, when the Republican Party has lost any and all of its integrity? How do they think they're going to get rid of the cult leader that they created? How are they going to get rid of Kim Jong-un in the North Korea that they created? This is the

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wanting Ron DeSantis. Does that tell you anything? Remember, Ron fought hard to very unfairly cut Social Security and Medicare, also wanted to raise the age limit for Social Security to at least 70 years old. So Trump attacking DeSantis there and somehow bringing George Soros into this with these deranged conspiracy theories. But again, let them fight. Let them fight. Here, Donald Trump says, new poll, Trump holds gargantuan 30-point lead over DeSantis and 61-point lead against Nikki Haley. I think I've seen the quote somewhere that the more you get to know DeSantis, the more you actually despise DeSantis.

I don't think that's a quote somewhere. I think it's just the reality. Although I would say you should probably despise DeSantis right away the moment he starts speaking. And the same with Donald Trump. But this is what we are dealing with, folks. This is what is taking place in the MAGA Republican Party right now. And let me just show you how embarrassing it is of what's going on on Fox, just their relentless promotion of DeSantis. Here's Jesse Watters basically saying, you're obviously running for president. Here, just watch this clip of Jesse Watters on Fox,

just turning that platform the same way they did for Trump into now the DeSantis platform. Here, play this clip. The courage to be free. I got it a little while ago. I'm through chapter two. It's well written. I mean, you're obviously running for president. You got the book. You're going around the country doing these events. I mean, what's going on here, governor? I have. I've got. Well, I'm proud of i'm proud of what we've done in florida a lot of people ask me how you do it but i've got over the next few months i've got a big legislative session we just want a big re-election victory i've made a lot of promises we're going to deliver on those promises so uh finish reading the book i'm happy to come back and discuss that

with you but i'd like to come back over the next three months and discuss a lot of these legislative wins that we're having. For example, we're going to make sure our universities are free from this DEI ideology. And that's going to be a great bill to be able to sign here coming up very soon. You know, and here's the thing for Fox that we just learned in the new Dominion filing. You know, We knew this before, but we see it very clearly in the filing by Dominion in their most recent motion. Here's like deposition testimony from Rupert Murdoch where he goes, it's not red or blue. What we care about here is what's green.

It's green. That's why we're letting Mike Lindell on the air. That's why we're letting election disinformation. And we saw, for example, as well, that during the Trump campaign, Rupert provided Trump's son-in-law and senior advisor Jared Kushner with Fox confidential information about Biden's ads, along with debate strategy, like literally giving Kushner a preview of Biden's ads before they were public. I mean, how disgusting can you get? I mean, and you go on and on and on in these filings that were released with the

deposition transcripts and text messages and emails. Here's one page that I always like to talk about where here's what it says from the filing. Rupert Murdoch understood that Fox could do something about the false claims. Indeed, he believed Fox was uniquely positioned to state the message that the election was not stolen. On January 5th, Rupert Murdoch and Suzanne Scott, the CEO of Fox, discussed whether Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and Laura Ingraham should say some version of, The election is over, and Laura Ingraham should say some version of, the election is over and Joe Biden won. He hoped those words, quote, would go a long way to stop the Trump myth that the election was stolen. And again, this is citing Rupert Murdoch's deposition. This isn't just some random filing. These are the words of Rupert Murdoch. Suzanne Scott told Rupert Murdoch, the CEO of Fox, that,

quote, privately, they are all there. But, quote, we need to be careful about using shows and pissing off the viewers. So nobody made a statement. The next day was January 6th. So privately, they were all there, meaning Hannity, Carlson, and Ingraham. All were aware that Trump lost. They knew the election was over. They knew that it wasn't rigged.

They knew there was no fraud. They were all uniquely positioned to state the message that the election was not stolen. Yet what did they do? They continued to spread election disinformation because they didn't want to piss off their viewers, the same people who they've called effing lunatics and morons and idiots and all the other stuff in the text messages and emails that were revealed as part of the filings. But, you know, you got Trump now relentlessly attacking Fox even after all of that, saying, why is Rupert Murdoch throwing his anchors under the table, which also happens to be killing his case and infuriating his viewers. He had Trump upset, in other words, that Rupert Murdoch confirmed what the documents that were

contemporaneously made, the text messages and emails, what they actually state. And so I guess Trump wanted Rupert Murdoch to lie. And this is all the chaos that's going on in the MAGA Republican Party right there. And I think it's epitomized by that scene of DeSantis sending the store security and police after the Trump supporters out there who are protesting a book signing. It's going to get interesting, folks, and we're going to keep highlighting that conflict, that civil war in the MAGA Republican Party, the complete and utter chaos that exists there. And then comparing that, of course, to the stability, normalcy, decency, humanity of what's going on in the other world, the pro-democracy world, which is best embodied in the Democratic Party today. We'll

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