The MeidasTouch Podcast - Fox Has Major Meltdown on Air as Trump Suffers

Episode Date: July 3, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the meltdown by Fox News last night and their attempt to coerce Republicans to vote for the disaster budget bill. Go to https://hometitlelock.com/meidas and use promo code MEIDAS to get a FREE title history report so you can find out if you’re already a victim AND 14 days of protection for FREE! And make sure to check out the Million Dollar TripleLock protection details when you get there! Exclusions apply. For details, visit: https://hometitlelock.com/warranty 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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we can threaten the MAGA Republicans who don't want to vote for this. Let's do coercion together. Literally, that's what they said. Here, play this clip. Just now Trump on Truth Social said the following, for Republicans, this should be an easy yes vote ridiculous. Just now the president is still up. If he's watching Mr. President call in we will do some coercion together.

And that's the whole thing. And then they started doing coercion together. I mean, for example, you had former MAGA Republican Congress member Sheffetz go on Fox. He was on Hannity. He was on Hannity. He was on Jesse Waters and he was saying to all those Vagabrepublicans who want to vote against this shame on you. We're coming for you. We're coming after you here Watch this and so you can either vote with the AOC or you can vote with Donald Trump So don't tell me that you're a conservative if you're not with Donald Trump, that's not gonna fly

that you're a conservative if you're not with Donald Trump. That's not gonna fly. You're never coming back and shame on you. And you get on that plane and try to go home and try to tell everybody, oh, I stood tough. Yeah, I got these big Instagram muscles. Look how tough I am on Twitter. Well, you don't support the president. That's just not gonna fly.

They want clicks, Jason. Everyone's looking for a click. And he continued. He or Shafet said one more time, if you're one of those last three nay votes, if you vote no, again, we are coming after you. Here, watch for yourself. That's why you better get in line.

This is a game right now, Sean, of musical chairs. If you're one of those Republicans that are in the last three, because that's what it will be, if there are three nay votes, you will never be involved and engaged in politics because you can't say that you're a Republican and support Donald Trump. That's the game they're playing. That's the dangerous game they're playing.

And why they're messing around with President Trump at this hour, at this time. Get over it. Vote, yay. Get on with the, and then vote on final passage. I tend to agree. I think it's extraordinarily well said. Then they had Congressmember Smith go on. They started showing the graphics of the MAGA Republicans who were voting against the disastrous budget bill.

And they basically said, we're coming after you. We know who you are. The Chiron look at what the Chirons reading it's basically reading Trump pressures the holdouts and Fox went on this full court press here. Watch it. Let's play it. Trace failure is not an option. This bill will go through it will be sent to the president's desk so that he can sign

it into law on July 4th. The members that are holding out right now from not voting, they will vote for this and we will have the votes to pass it and send it to the president's desk. The last thing those members want to do is to align themselves with the Democrats and allow the largest tax increase in the history of America to show up on every one of their constituents. Okay more from this Shaffetz guy he goes I dare you to vote against our dear leader he goes president I dare you to vote against it here watch for yourself let's play it big big picture does he have what happens in the house with that bill

they'll pass it in the middle of the night they're gonna cut some sort of deal I will bring up your piece of legislation they don't have earmarks have what happens in the house with that bill? They'll pass it in the middle of the night. They're going to cut some sort of deal. Oh, we'll bring up your piece of legislation. They don't have earmarks anymore, which is a good thing. But the president, he's going to get there. And you know what? I dare you, dare you to vote against the president on this because your political career will just be bye bye.

Yeah. Tom Tillis. Bye bye. Seriously? He keeps on going. He goes, how dare these people? These are all different clips. And Fox was airing stuff like this

the entire day, you're watching. And how dare these people sit back and say, every one of those members of Congress who can't get over the hump and actually vote for his signature piece of legislation, give me a break. You wrote Donald Trump's coattails all the way to the finish line.

You bragged about your proximity. You probably posted up pictures with the president. Vote for that darn bill and pass it out tonight. And then so they attacked Mago Republican Congress member Thomas Massey live on. They were attacking him the whole

day. But this Fox guest then says, who voted for Tom? I didn't vote for Thomas Massey. Thomas Massey is a congress member. I mean, his who voted for Tom I didn't vote for Thomas Massey Thomas Massey is a congressmember I mean his constituents voted for him and then she talks about Democrats supporting a brego Garcia and she goes and a brego Garcia killed Americans did he kill Americans what the hell is wrong with this regime media this propaganda network here play it I just think it's interesting that all of a sudden people voted for Thomas Massey.

Like, I don't remember voting for Thomas Massey with this. I remember voting for Donald Trump to get this bill passed. And I feel like a lot of Americans who voted for Donald Trump feel the same way, especially not only with Thomas Massey, but a lot of the other Republicans who are kind of leaning towards no, they didn't vote for these Congress people. They voted for President Trump. They voted for this mandate. And if you're gonna vote no on this,

then you're voting along with Democrats, especially Democrats like Maxine Dexter, who was on the Hill today dressed in a white robe, who also visited El Salvador to go see Kilmar Brayo Garcia, who killed Americans. This is something that a lot of people are passionate about passing. If you're not siding with Republicans,

then unfortunately you're siding with Democrats. Then you have a Congress member, Smith, saying, don't allow perfection to get in the way of greatness. Let's play it. If your colleagues who voted no on this are watching, what would you say to them? I would say to them, do not allow perfection. Get in the way of greatness.

This is a great bill. It's a largest tax cut in the history of America. It's the largest spending cuts in the history of America. The largest one time investment in the border and in national security. This is delivering on all of the president's priorities and what 77 million Americans voted for. Do the right thing. Do not allow perfection to get in the way of greatness and vote for this bill. These Fox hosts are ridiculous. Then one of the other propagandists on Fox says, why didn't

the Democrats try to cut a deal with Donald? Maybe we would have given you the Dreamers if you just would have asked. Maybe Donald would have given you the Dreamers. Give you the Dreamers? What the hell are you talking about? You're talking about the people who opened up alligator Alcatraz

to throw our migrants to alligators to get killed and eaten in the Everglades. Yeah, we're gonna put the dreamers in the bill. Bunch of idiots here, play this clip. Democrats have replaced us with the wrong and corny now. And I just look at them. Look, I have my problems with some portions of the bill. I want more spending cuts there.

But I don't live in this fantasy island. I understand what we're dealing with. But this is a party that lacks creativity. Take Murkowski. Can't stand the way that she votes. But she got something out of it. She went in and says, I want you to put a card out for me.

Any Democrat could have went to the president and say, if you want my vote, put this in the bill. And I could have ran on it. I got this for my state. But they don't wanna work with them. They don't want any wins. They just wanna be the party of resistance. So they could have got on it. I got this from my state, but they don't want to work with them. They don't want any wins. They just want to be the party of resistance. So they could have got the dreamers in there.

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And he goes, why is it that it is the people in the Democratic cities who suffer so much more than the Republican cities? What are you talking about? The crime rates, the poverty rates are far worse in red states and red cities. And by the way, it's the blue states and blue cities that subsidize or the donor states for the taker states, which are often the red states and red cities. Play this clip. And this further point, they go on about the poor. Where are people suffering the most from poverty? In places run by Democrats.

The highest poverty in America, right here in California, run by Democrats. Worst outcomes for people on low incomes, places like New York, Chicago, the Democrats are the party who crush people's hopes and aspirations and keep people stuck in poverty. This kind of legislation is what lifts people up

and that's why we need it. And by the way, that tactic you see there is exactly what happens on state regime media in North Korea. What red states say about blue states is what North Korea says about South Korea. Oh, they're suffering there. They hate their lives. And meanwhile, it's these red states, worst education, the worst health, the worst, the highest poverty rates, the most violent crimes. I can go on and on and on. Here you have a mega Republican on the more propaganda right here on Fox saying,

why can't Democrats celebrate a win here? You know, we all know this is a bill that will lift all ships, that will lift all boats. As one person said, no, it's just going to lift the people who have fancy yachts and screw over the rest of Americans here. Play this clip. And the other thing is this bill is being passed at a point where you see egg prices coming down, gas prices coming down, and people feel a little bit more confident in the economy. There are some tricky spots indeed, but once you have this bill and people have the confidence that their taxes aren't going to go up, maybe that fuels some economic growth. Well, and this goes to show that why can't Democrats celebrate a win? Why can't they

join together to celebrate and propel a vehicle that really would lift all boats? As my friend Brian Tyler Cohen says, this bill will strip health care away from 17 million Americans, food assistance away from 17 million Americans, food assistance away from three million Americans, eliminate school meal access for 18 million kids, and add 3.5 trillion to the deficit, at least. But go on. Earlier in the day, you had Maria Bartiroma,

one of Fox's top propagandists. She was getting ready to announce those good job numbers. They thought 100,000 jobs would be added, which would be far less actually than former president Biden was adding month over month. But then they learned that that the job numbers, the ADP private payroll numbers showed a loss of 33,000 jobs when they thought there would be a gain of 100,000 jobs. And they know that this is a sign of a recession happening, which we've been talking about the whole time here. Play this clip.

President Trump is talking about this bill leading to growth in the economy. We are waiting any moment now to get the jobs numbers for the month of May. The expectations call for the ADP numbers to be up 95,000 for the month of June rather. It's the June jobs data and will of course right now seeing seeing the number actually show a decline in jobs down 33,000 on on ADP the bill includes $25 billion for the Golden Dome the missile defense system the senator you introduced a bill supporting the construction of that system then this other Fox host had to admit, one of the guests had to admit, whoa, these job numbers are awful.

Play this clip. Trump would like to sign this right before the July 4th holiday to celebrate freedom and independence. John, we are 30 minutes away from the opening bell for Wednesday in a holiday shortened week. Your thoughts? Well, our big surprise today had to be that ADP report on private sector employment that was down by 33,000 jobs. The labor market is softening,

it's flattening out and that tells me that companies can go ahead and increase prices in response to higher tariffs but I don't think that consumers are going to respond positively. They'll pull back on spending, so any increase by inflation because of tariffs will be quite limited. Ultimately, tariffs may do more to increase federal revenues, reduce the federal deficit, then to add to price inflation. And of course, all this adds up to lower than expected interest rates by the end of this year. Yeah, great point. Markets have turned negative now,

30 minutes before the open on the heels of that weaker than expected June ADP report. That's why President Trump keeps talking about growth, Ashley. John, you just mentioned, you know, people will have to raise prices, not in Mamdani's New York, Ashley. No, no, no, no. Not if the government is running the grocery stores.

And then here some more of Shaffetz right here goes, has Trump been wrong about anything? Trump is always right. I mean, how pathetic can you get there at play? That's the best the Senate could do. And you're going to hold up the president's agenda. President Trump, you rode every single coattail he had. You rode President Trump's wave to get into office. You took pictures with him.

You bragged about him. You've touted him. Now the president is saying, this is my signature piece of legislation. He's been there less than six months in this term, Sean. Has he been wrong on anything? He hasn't been wrong on anything. What he's done in terms of tariffs, tackling inflation, all the safety and security, going

after trying to lock down and secure the border. And here is MAGA Republican Congress member Randy Fine one more time. And he goes, if you're giving Donald Trump any problems at all, remember that Donald Trump delivers for you, he delivers for me. Cult much? I mean, what kind of freaking cult is this? Here, play this clip. Well, I say this to my colleagues. When I won my special election primary, I got 83% of the vote. I beat two other people by 70%. And as much as I'd like to think it had to do with me, it had to do with me,

it had to do with the fact that my voters love Donald Trump and everyone who's causing him these problems tonight needs to keep that in mind. Ours is the party of Donald Trump. We have to deliver on his agenda and I'm going to do everything I can to make that happen. And then he lies that this bill has no tax on social security, which it doesn't. I mean, there's nothing about no tax on social security in this bill, play the clip. Well, I think some of them just didn't wanna work

at one o'clock in the morning, which I personally understand. I wish I was in bed right now. But what we have to understand that the American people are counting on us and people are losing sight of what this bill does. Imagine you're a waitress working right now who's depending on tips to pay your bills, or you're an older person who's dependent on social security

and you don't want to pay taxes on what you earned for your whole life. Or you're one of the people who's going to lose all of the tax breaks they've had all of this time. We need to give certain to the American people. But the most important thing is we all committed to support President Trump.

He is counting on us to deliver on his signature legislative achievement and we just have to get the job done and I'll stay here all night. I'll stay here for the next week all night. I'll sleep in that cloakroom if that's what we have to do to get the job done for President Trump. A bunch of freaking liars right there. Well tell me what you think. Hit subscribe. Do you hear it? Let's do coercion. By the way I'll do I'll do another video of Trump's posts where Trump then starts threatening

the members. So they held this thing open, right, to coerce and threaten and extort the members to change their votes. Well, what the hell are we watching here? How the hell is this America here to take away health care from 17 million Americans to put us in more debt? These MAGA Republicans are vile and despicable human beings. There's no other way around it.

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