The MeidasTouch Podcast - Fox LOSES CONTROL over Trump’s Mental COLLAPSE

Episode Date: October 14, 2024

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Fox struggling to deal with Donald Trump’s rapidly accelerating cognitive meltdown. Thanks to Lumen! Go to https://lumen.me/meidas and use promo code MEIDAS at checkout to get 15% off your Lumen! Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! Join the MeidasTouch Patreon: https://Patreon.com/meidastouch 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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because he says he protects them. Here, play this clip. I also think I'm doing really good with women because women want protection. They want- It's about security. They want security. They don't want to have migrants

coming into their backyard. And I'm going to get the migrants out. Then Donald Trump attacks the European Union. Notice, he always praises Vladimir Putin, President Xi of China, Kim Jong-un. But when it comes to our actual allies, he attacks them. Watch this. Play the clip. We've been screwed by Mexico and by China and by Canada and by the European Union. Oh, European Union. It sounds so nice. The villages of the European Union, right? They are brutal. When you add up all of those countries, they're about the same size as us.

They're a little bit smaller. And the European Union takes advantage of us unbelievably. And then Donald Trump says that he will send the United States military against American citizens who don't like him. Just be clear what he's saying here. He's saying that he will use the U.S. military to go after who he claims are the enemies from within, who he claims are leftists who don't like him. Play this clip. Let's remember, you've got 50,000 Chinese nationals in this country in the last couple of years. There are people on the terrorist watch list 350 in the last couple of years. You got, like you said, 13,000 murderers and 15,000 rapists. What are you expecting? Joe Biden said he doesn't think it's going to be a peaceful election day. Well, he doesn't have any idea what's happening in Roe v. Wade as he spends most of his day sleeping.

I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within, not even the people that have come in and destroying our country. By the way, totally destroying our country. The towns, the villages, they're being inundated. But I don't think they're the problem in terms of election day. I think the bigger problem are the people from within we have some very bad people we have some sick people radical left lunatics and i think they're the and and it should be very easily handled by if necessary by national guard or if really necessary by the military uh because they can't let that happen and, you won't hear corporate media talking about this. They won't be raising the red alarm.

Donald Trump quite literally using Nazi rhetoric, using Hitler rhetoric. We call it out here on the Midas Touch Network. Contrast that to Governor Walz's appearance. And notice the framing's very different. They fawn over Donald Trump's propaganda. And then when they speak to Governor Walz and they ask him about delivering services to you and me, to we the people, improving infrastructure and roads and making sure that we, you, your family gets health care and better education and actual services. It's like using government to lift people up, not bludgeon people and push them down in Donald Trump's authoritarian dystopian world. They're like, so that's socialism, isn't it? And Governor Walz is like, what are you talking

about? I think that people shouldn't have to be responsible for quite literally digging the roads for themselves outside. Government should do things also for the people and not just work for billionaires. How about that concept, Fox? Here's Governor Walz. Let's play it. You've moved to the left. I think that is fair to say. Here's what the Intelligencer says. Walz had a fairly conservative voting record in Congress where he represented a red district. He used that record to win the governorship and then moved sharply left. Here's something that you said weeks ago. Don't ever shy away from our progressive values.

One person's socialism is another person's neighborliness. Okay, so Merriam Webster dictionary on socialism says it's a system of society or group living in which there's no private property or this condition of society in which

the means of production are owned and controlled by the states. Did you mean to advocate for that here in the US? No, no, Shannon, look, I'm a capitalist. I was making the point of is Republicans oftentimes talk about socialism. And what I would make the case of is we build our roads collectively together. I don't think anybody's arguing that you should have to build your own road from your house to your business place or whatever. So I said this definition that the right uses about this, things that we collectively do together that look, I believe in moral capitalism. I believe capitalism works and it lifts everyone up. But I also believe you have to make sure that there's things that we collectively do together.

We educate our children by using our public schools. We build roads. We do some of the things like public health where we work together. So the point being on this is of trying to divide that, but you certainly can't have a capitalism that says billionaires get everything and the middle class gets nothing.

And I think Kamala Harris's point on this is lifting up the middle class, making an opportunity economy, making housing affordable, making drug prices more affordable. That's what we're talking about. And so I said, don't listen to them tell you that these things that we can do together, but also we want people to succeed.

And when you succeed, all we're asking is that you pay your fair share. I'm excited when people become, if they make it, their business grows, they become wealthy, that's fine. Just pay your fair share and then all of us do better. Okay, so the word, did you not mean to use the word socialism? Was it a knucklehead thing or did you mean to use it? No, it was what the right uses. Would you describe Shannon and

your viewers that building roads is socialism? No, but that's also not the government controlling all property and means of funding those roads. And taking from you and saying you don't have your private funds.

Although people would argue about taxes, some people argue that they do feel like it feels confiscatory. No, we made no problem. Look, the point being is, as Donald Trump says that this is a socialist or Marxist government, Kamala Harris is actually doing just the opposite of that, creating a free economy that works and people can grow into the middle class. So I think the argument here is that just trying to blanket over, most people recognize that the Infrastructure Act is creating massive private wealth because of building that out together. And that's what Kamala Harris has done, understanding that the things

that government should do, government can do. The things the private sector can do, they should. That's a big difference from Donald Trump skewing things towards the wealthy. Then the interview with J.D. Vance, where he basically, once again, endorses a national abortion ban because he said that before. It's what he says. He probably wants abortion bans that look like the most drastic ones because that's also what he said. But here, watch this.

OK, I want to get to the Trump and Vance approach when it comes to abortion. Clearly, that's one of the issues that appears to be leading to this gender gap that you guys have a disadvantage with. Governor Walz, when he joined us last week, said here that you have supported a national abortion ban in the past. He may have been referring to this position you took in 2022. This is from your Senate debate then. You would vote for Lindsey Graham's 15-week ban? As I just said, I think it's totally reasonable to say you cannot abort a baby, especially for elective reasons after 15 weeks of gestation. No civilized country allows it.

Okay, so not a federal ban per se on the procedure everywhere. But if you're talking about 15 or 20 week ban nationally, that is going to cut off access to a lot of people who have greater access in a number of different states now. You've talked about how this is back to the states. Has your position on that changed? Would you vote for something that was a 15, 20 week ban at the national level? Well, Shannon, first of all, I do think it's reasonable to say at a certain level, late term abortions are barbaric if they're done for elective reasons. Of course, you have to have the exceptions. But late term abortions for elective reasons

is something that no civilized country allows. And certainly there is a contrast here between Governor Walz and Kamala Harris. They want late term abortions funded by taxpayers, forced on Christian hospitals. And that's not something that Donald Trump and I like. But even within that moral framework, Shannon- Okay, but when you talk about a 15 or 20 week ban, people will say that sounds like a national ban. I mean, we're just playing with semantics here. No, no, it's not, Shannon, because look, President Trump, who of course is the leader of the Republican Party, has explicitly said that he would not support a national abortion ban.

He has said that he thinks this issue should be left to the states. That is the official policy of the Republican Party in this election. And it's something that clearly President Trump believes in. And I think it's important to say why, Shannon, because it illustrates how different our approaches are here. President Trump recognizes that California is a different state from Alabama, which is a different state from Pennsylvania. We want the voters in these states to make these decisions. We're sick of the nationalized culture war over this topic. And I think the best way is to return it to the voters in the states. President Trump has certainly made that the official policy of our party. And then J.D. Vance dodges a question on Fox when he's asked,

where would people deliver service? How would people get reproductive health care services if you're going to shut down Planned Parenthood? Because one of J.D. Vance's platforms publicly is shutting down all Planned Parenthoods across the country. That's what they will do also on day one. Mass deportation. Send the government after American citizens who don't like Donald Trump. Shut down Planned Parenthood. That's what they're saying they're going to do. Believe them when they tell you who they are. Believe them. Here's J.D. Vance. They'll

play the clip. Party. And quickly on Planned Parenthood, you guys have talked about defunding them, taking away government funding. They say that no U.S. taxpayer funding can fund to abortion, can flow to abortion at any stage. But they say they do hundreds of thousands of cancer screenings, birth control, which they say actually prevents hundreds of thousands of cancer screenings, birth control, which they say actually prevents another 500,000 abortions a year, and all kinds of other testing and medication contraception.

Where would those patients go if Planned Parenthood lost the funding? Well, Shannon, what we've said is that we don't want taxpayer funding for abortions. And that, of course, has been the bipartisan approach over 40 years in this country, until, frankly, Kamala Harris came along. I know that Planned Parenthood does a lot of things that a lot of young women, a lot of young families need. We're talking about we don't believe in taxpayer funding for abortions. That's been the policy, not just of the Republican Party,

by the way, but even a lot of Democrats who are pro-choice, who want wide access to abortion, will say we don't think taxpayers should be funding this stuff. And that, again, that bipartisan consensus is something President Trump very much supports. Okay, so maybe not a full defunding of Planned Parenthood per se, but anything that you would be able to potentially track, which they say doesn't happen, but to abortion. We have so many more questions. Lumen is the world's first handheld metabolic coach. It's a device that measures your metabolism through your breath then on the app it lets you know if you're burning fat or carbs and gives you tailored guidance to improve your nutrition workout sleep and even stress management that's

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He doesn't know what tariffs are. He doesn't know that it's a tax on imports or he just thinks that as long as he says the word tariffs, it's like build the wall and Americans don't know what it is. So just say, I'm going to tariff a nation. But what he's talking about is 500% taxes on American importers because that's what tariffs are. Play this clip. Your thinking is the threat of a 200% tariff will stop them from taking the car.

So you won't actually have to do it. So you're not going to actually push prices higher. I never until now I said 200. I'm using that just as a figure. But you say 200 a lot. I'll say 100, 200. I'll say 500. I don't care. They're not going to bring cars into this country from Mexico and destroy what car companies we have left. But much more than that, I'm going to put. Here he is again talking about tariffs. Play this clip. What about the criticism, and the journal has done this as well, that if you do put something like a 200% tariff on a product, that it's only going to mean higher prices for consumers. No, it's not. No, no, it doesn't mean that at all. It's got to be passed on somehow.

All I'm doing is saying, I'll put 200 or 500. I don't care. I'll put a number where they can't sell one car into the United... I don't want them to sell their car because I don't care. I'll put a number where they can't sell one car into the United. I don't want them to sell the car because I don't want them hurting our car companies. We're going to have a lot of companies moving into the United States. When I use 200, I'm using it as a number. I don't want their car. They will not be able to sell cars. I'm not going to let them build a factory right across the border and sell millions of cars into the United States and destroy Detroit further. Then when Maria Bartiromo asks him about the $7.5 trillion in debt that his plan conservatively would add to the budget, it will likely add more than that, $7.5 trillion

in debt that it would add. Here's what Donald Trump says, play it. It's because you've said you want to eliminate taxes on tips, eliminate taxes on Social Security, on overtime pay, ending the double taxation of Americans living abroad, a proposal to make car loans interest tax deductible. That was said. You said that in Detroit. You even introduced this 15 percent corporate tax rate for companies to produce in America and hire American workers. But will you pay for it the committee for a responsible budget says your plans will increase the debt by seven point five trillion dollars but they don't know that Wall Street Journal said that your plans will increase the debt and deficits more than Kamala Harris's if I do this you're gonna have car companies

coming back to the country because of the taxes and the tariffs the tariffs will protect them when they come in. So they will protect from other companies coming in because if the other companies don't come in, they're going to have to pay massive tariffs and that's it. So I was told. Donald Trump also says that he's in daily communications with Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of Israel. You want to know why that there's that currently right now there's

no ceasefire. One of the reasons is Donald Trump thinks it's a winning issue for him not to have one. He thinks the more chaos in the Middle East benefits him. And he's said things like that before. Play this clip. I thought it was odd that today President Biden said that he spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the first time in seven weeks or something. They've been at war for over a year and he hasn't spoken with him in seven weeks. When was the last time you've spoken with Netanyahu? Like two days ago and he came to my house in Florida, Mar-a-Lago, with his wife was lovely, but he came to my to Mar-a-Lago. He came to I

guess he was at the White House, maybe the UN. Is there anything you could share with us in terms of that the Israel Iran conflict? What would you do? Yeah, to end the war on Israel? I could say I could tell you that BB has been very strong. He's not he is not listening to Biden. It sounds like he stopped sharing information with the U.S. Look, Biden is the one that came up with the Afghanistan plan.

So yes, Donald Trump is speaking with Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu. He's speaking with world leaders to undermine right now America's foreign policy, the same way Donald Trump's also killed the bipartisan immigration bill. Donald Trump's actively spent four years working with MAGA, Mike Johnson, and others to undermine our government, to hurt us so that he could be a strong man and come into power by claiming he will fix the pain and be your protector. Just watch what he's doing. You see it, right? And so here, MAGA Mike Johnson is already starting on the lie that there's going to be cheating

because he says he's probably not going to certify the election results. So they're leaning in on that already when Trump loses that they won't certify the election. Play this clip. Now, look, as President Trump says all the time, and I agree, our side, what we say at the rallies, you've heard, is we've got to make it too big to rig. I think that's really important. I think there is going to be some cheating in this election. I think non-citizens are going to vote. Look, case in point. You know that it is against the law for non-citizens to vote in federal elections. That's established law. Of course it is. Of course it is against the law for non-citizens to vote in federal elections. That's established law. Of course it is. Of course it is. But of course it is. But here's the problem. There's a number of states that are not requiring proof of citizenship when illegals or non-citizens

register to vote. We know that's happening. But respectfully, everybody should want the law to be followed. Absolutely. Respectfully, Speaker, you both in the course of this interview said that you do believe that states have taken measures that will help the integrity of this election. And then you just also seem to undermine confidence in the integrity of the state elections. Hold on. Wait a minute. Wait, wait just a minute. It's not me undermining it. It's the actions of the Biden-Harris administration in some of these states. Non-citizens are not allowed to vote under federal law. So if your issue is with certain governors, shouldn't you be talking to them? We have been. We have been. And the Republican governors have done heroic work. They've done their own audits of the voter rolls to try to ensure and do their best duty to make sure that this is a free, fair and legal election. We're calling on-

Here's Andy Beshear on ABC speaking common sense though about JD Vance. Play the clip. Hard work ahead. I'd like to hear a quick reaction to what you heard JD Vance talk about. It's just amazing. Apparently there is no lie too big for Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. I mean, when you ask him about the last election, all you're asking him to do is admit reality. And we deserve to have a vice president who believes in democracy and can say, yes, Donald Trump lost the last election. And now we're running in this election. And then the lies on FEMA and disaster response. Listen, in Kentucky, we went through our worst tornado disaster

and our worst flood disaster in our history. And I didn't have to deal with any of the shenanigans that Donald Trump is putting out right now. And his lies can hurt people. I mean, lying that $750 is all that's available, that means that individual might not apply for the $40,000 plus in individual assistance. If you truly care about the people that are harmed more than yourself, you wouldn't politicize this. You wouldn't be putting out all this misinformation. And as somebody who has led through natural

disasters, it hurts. Governor, governor. Because here's J.D. Vance refusing to say that he will, or refusing to say that Donald Trump lost in 2020. Play this clip. In interview after interview, question after question, and in the debate, you refuse to say that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. So I'm just going to assume that if I ask you 50 times whether he lost the election, you would not acknowledge that he did.

Is that correct? Martha, you've asked this question. I've been asked this question 10 times in the past couple of weeks. Of course, Donald Trump and I believe there were problems in 2020. You haven't asked about inflation. No, no, I'm sorry. Let's stick to this. I know. The American people want us to talk about how to make their lives better.

Why won't you say that? Because, Martha, I believe that in 2020, when big tech firms were censoring American citizens, that created very serious problems. And by the way, Martha, you're a journalist. You represent the American media. Look at the polling on this. A lot of Americans feel like they were silenced in the run-up to the 2020 election. That is such a bigger issue, that fundamental problem, than me and Donald Trump talking about it. And unfortunately, Martha, thanks to the fact that Kamala Harris, she's, won't just say what, that I think the 2020 election had some problems? I've said that repeatedly. Did Donald Trump lose? That's the question, and you know that's the question.

Martha, I've said repeatedly, I think the 2020 election had problems. You want to say rigged? You want to say he won? Use whatever vocabulary term you want. I want to focus on the fact that we had big technology firms censoring our fellow citizens in a way that violated our fundamental rights. The fact that you're so obsessed with what your word I use to describe this phenomenon,

rather than the phenomenon itself suggests something very broken in the American media. If we want to restore trust in American elections and democracy, which I want to do, Martha, we have to talk openly about what happened in 2020. And most importantly, we've got to talk about what happened afterwards. Americans being unable to afford the basic necessities of middle class life because Kamala Harris is in the White House. We're going to leave it right there. Appreciate your time this morning. Up next, Democratic- And just seeing how MAGA Mike is hardwired for just like cult behavior and program to support strongman authoritarians. Here he is, he's like, Donald Trump has more stamina than anyone. He's stronger than anybody. These people are so pathetic. Watch this. Move on though. We're three weeks from election day.

Former President Trump continues to make false claims. Let me read you a couple of them. Venezuelan gang members have overrun an apartment complex, he says, in Aurora, Colorado. Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, are eating cats and dogs. FEMA funds have been redirected to house migrants. Mr. Speaker, all of those claims have been debunked. If former President Trump is so confident in his policies yes they have it but if Mr. if former President Trump is so confident in his policies why not make the argument along policy lines why say

things that have been debunked by local officials the President Trump is making all sorts of arguments constantly he works 24 hours a day I saw that Kamala Harris issued her medical records. Congratulations. Donald Trump's health is on display for the entire country every hour of every day. He has more stamina and mental acumen and strength than any political figure probably in the history of the country that I can remember. He goes nonstop. So what he's talking about is the things that the American people care about. This FEMA dollars going to resettle migrants, that is a fact. I mean, that is an objective fact. What he's talking about is the things that the American people care about. This FEMA dollars going to resettle migrants, that is a fact.

I mean, that is an objective fact, what he's talking about. It's not the Disaster Relief Fund, but it's another fund that FEMA used to resettle all the illegal aliens that they let across the open border. Kamala Harris, the border czar, was the engineer of that. I do have to, FEMA funds were not redirected to house migrants. That has been debunked. It's a separate fund. FEMA has said as much. That's right. But just to the substance, why not make the argument on the substance of the policies, Mr. Speaker?

I'm trying to do that. Let me do that. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, as its name implies, should be working on federal emergency management, not resettling illegal aliens that are violating federal law. They're sending them away. You judge for yourself. What is that? Anyway, hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million. Thanks for watching.

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