The MeidasTouch Podcast - FED UP Dem Congressman Jake Auchincloss DROPS THE HAMMER on Trump

Episode Date: July 13, 2024

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas interviews Democratic Congressman Jake Auchincloss who goes on the offense against Donald Trump. 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 Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/lights-on-with-jessica-denson 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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they become hostages, unfairly imprisoned for long periods of time. But fortunately, the Supreme Court has just ruled and they should be out soon. Okay, you have QAnon music in the background. You have Donald Trump praising January 6th insurrectionists. I want to call in Congress member Jake Auchincloss. Congress member Auchincloss, you were on Fox the other day. You've previously been on the Midas Touch Network before, you know, and as they were trying to go, President Biden this and so divisionally, can we talk about what Trump is saying for a second? media is talking about, the fact that that's not front and center drives me crazy. It led me to build a media network and quit my job as a practicing lawyer. What goes through your mind when you see that? I share your frustration because there is unfortunately the sense that

because it's not new that he is saying things like that, it's not newsworthy. And that's not true because the threat that he poses to democracy has not declined in the last eight years. His first administration was the worst presidency in American history. His second administration will be even worse. And let's put some facts to that claim. We need to look no farther than Project 2025, which Donald Trump's closest advisors have pieced together as a MAGA administration and waited. And number one, they're going to launch a war on women. They're going to monitor pregnancies throughout states to criminalize abortion, including abortion before six weeks. They are going to try to prevent the shipment of abortion medication across state

lines. They're going to try to criminalize in vitro fertilization, which allows young families to start and to have kids. They are going to try to enforce a quote, biblical definition of marriage. And anyone who is familiar with the Old Testament knows that women are the property of their husbands under Old Testament law. And that is a deeply dark harbinger for how a Trump administration would treat the rights of women.

And you can hear that in their own commentary. One of the founders of Project 2025 joked about rescinding the 19th Amendment that allows women to vote. I don't think that's a joke. You know, when I speak to the, when I hear from the American people, and I have an interesting vantage point here, running this network where there are liberals, progressives, mainstream conservatives, mainstream Republicans, not MAGA, independents, they get that. And what they're confused with and why they come to the Midas Touch Network is why isn't that what's being talked about on corporate media? And why is there this kind of blatant kind of

ageism, this constant focus on the debate? We're two weeks into this now when the American people want to hear about the issues so they can know if they're going to live and if these policies are going to result in quite literally life or death. Why do you think though, I mean, one, are you hearing that from your constituents? And two, why do you think that there is this incongruity between what the people are asking for and what they're being dished? Well, to be candid, what I'm hearing from my constituents is deep concern about the president's acuity. And I don't think it's necessarily ageist to ask probing questions about

the president and fitness for office. I do think that's an important journalistic service. I also think it's an important journalistic service though to make plain and to delineate clearly what another presidential candidate is offering to do. So the last time that Donald Trump said he would not respect the results of an election, police officers died in a line of duty and he aided and abetted an insurrection. He's saying it again on the debate stage, refused to accept the results of this upcoming election. Who in their right mind thinks that we will not have a repeat of January 6th if he yet again tells his base that it was stolen from him, which of course he will because it's a grievance-fueled narrative that drives his campaigns. And so that needs to be, I think, day in, day out, brought home to

voters that we are looking at further instability. You know, I saw this recent report from Northeastern University, you know, near your district. And the study found that they said, the report found that Biden held on to 94% of the people who said they would support him before the debate for Trump. Eighty six percent of the people who said they would support him before the debate said they would do so after the debate. And I think to your point, people could reckon we could say, wow, that was a pretty bad debate performance by President Biden. We could also say, yeah, but he was like saying things that sound like democracy in America. And Donald Trump was saying the exact opposite like this. Here's what Donald Trump said when he was in Miami. And this is what he said about his knowledge of NATO. Here, play this clip. I didn't even know what the hell NATO

was too much before, but it didn't take me long to figure it out, like about two minutes. I mean, you have an incredible background, Harvard undergrad, MIT business school. You then served in our military. You served combat operations abroad in Afghanistan and elsewhere. So when you hear somebody say things like that, both as a member of Congress and as a veteran, what goes through your mind? It's a dangerous fusion of ignorance and arrogance. And it was put on full display in 2018 in Helsinki when he came to a summit with Vladimir Putin and prostrated himself before that dictator in the Kremlin and through his own intelligence agencies, his own military under the bus to try to earn the respect of this

autocrat. And it was a performance that was so embarrassing to the United States that two previous Republican nominees for president, Mitt Romney and John McCain, publicly criticized him for it. Now, that was before Russia invaded Ukraine. Imagine how he would have behaved in February of 2022

when those tanks rolled across the border. He would have been on the phone with Vladimir Putin, negotiating a deal that would have handed the keys over to the liberal rules-based international order. And NATO would have been much weaker now than it currently is, when it's at its strongest that it's ever been. And that really is the split screen between these two different presidents. One president has been a ferocious fighter for freedom and democracy

the world over, not just in Ukraine, but in the Middle East and across the Taiwan Strait and in the South China Sea. And the other president really, frankly, cares more about what dictators think of him than he does about what is in the best interest of the American public. You know, I always talk about character a lot here, too, which to me shouldn't be a part of any political party. You know, I always talk about character a lot here, too, which to me shouldn't be a part of any political party. You know, and I just think character in a leader is one of the most important things. So when I see that Donald Trump going out, you know, he does these speeches in churches and he starts cursing and say and leading kids in curses and saying, you know, BS, but saying the words and leading theseants in church places of worship or non-planned, like what in the world is going on? This was from the speech in Miami. Also, let me just show you what he says here. Like this is part of his stump speech that again, doesn't get any attention other than the Midas touch network in a few other

places, but play this clip. That's supposed to be a little bit Democrat territory, but we're leading in Nevada and a waitress came over, beautiful waitress. And I never like talking about physics. She's beautiful inside because you never talk about a person's look ever. You never mentioned. The other day I got very angry.

Some man called Chris Christie fat. And I said, sir. And then he said he was a pig. I said, sir, Chris Christie is not a fat pig. Please remember that he is not a fat pig. Please take it back. And the guys looked at me like, really? Now we have to defend people. You can't call people fat. So I said about nine times, he is not a fat pig. You know, how important to you is character? How important do you think in the

American people is character in this election? Ultimately, I think it's what promises the margin of victory. The best candidate to defeat Donald Trump is Donald Trump himself, because he is historically unpopular. In 2016, yes, when he won the Electoral College, but lost the popular vote. And then in 2018, 2020, 2022, whenever Donald Trump or Donald Trump's character and leadership have been on the ballot, Americans have resoundingly said, no, we don't want more of this. Americans do recognize that his lawlessness is an affront to our respect for law and order, that his bankrupt character is an affront to our nation's innate sense of decency. And they want an alternative. And ultimately, Democrats have got to draw a strong and sharp contrast that resonates

not just with our base, who are critical, but also with those Haley voters in the heartland that we are going to offer an alternative that they can subscribe to. So what is your kind of closing message, if you will, as we kind of head into deeper in the summer, the Republican National Convention's about to start. It's being sponsored by the Heritage Foundation, Authors Project 2025. What's your message to kind of the Democratic Party

right now where there seems to certainly not be unity like there was before? Well, first of all, that we are unified in the imperative to defeat a second MAGA administration in Project 2025, which would portend a war on women, which would bring a mob boss mentality back to the Oval Office. And that would herald cuts to public education and to Medicare and Social Security. We now need to go out there and win the confidence of the American public that we will be the party of the rule of law. The Republican Party likes to claim that mantle, but they're trying to defund the FBI. They are trying to surge machine guns onto our streets and in our schools. They are voting against bipartisan border security legislation. And oh yeah, they're nominating a convicted felon to be president of the United States. This is not the party of law and order.

And Democrats can claim that mantle if we campaign and we govern on it, because ultimately this is a country that wants to be a government of law, not a government that is ruled by a wannabe dictator. Congressman Jake Alkencloss, thank you so much for joining us. We hope you do come back. Take care. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 3 million subscribers this month and have a wonderful day. Love this video?

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