The MeidasTouch Podcast - Fox News Collapses on Live TV as Trump’s Scheme Blows Up

Episode Date: September 14, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Fox News losing control in live tv as its attempt to blame certain groups for the shooting death of Charlie Kirk just backfired. Save more than 50% on term ...life insurance at SelectQuote.com/MEIDAS TODAY to get started. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:02:42 to take the programs, a lot of them don't want to get the help there that is necessary. You can't give them a choice. Either you take the resources that we're going to give you or you decide that you're going to be locked up in jail. That's the way it has to be now. involuntary lethal injection or something. I'd just kill them. Brian, why did it have to get to this point? Right. I would say this. We're not voting for the right people. In North Carolina, wake up. Now, I went back and I tried to watch it and say, you know, was I taking this out of context in any way? Could he really have said it? Did he say those words?
Starting point is 00:03:15 He did. And then he's continued to say those words over and over again this weekend. Again, you have Brian Kilmead, blaming the, political assassination of Melissa Hortman, the former Speaker of the House in Minnesota. She was killed by a radical right trumper with a political agenda against her as a Democrat. That's what happened. It is an undisputed fact. This is not a situation where it was in the Charlie Kirk case, a 22-year-old white kid of ambiguous background, but whose family was a Trump supporter.
Starting point is 00:03:55 that was a there's a big distinction there so here brian killmead says the minnesota legislator was killed because they didn't like what tim walls was doing or a former staffer of tim walls so he's just blaming democrats again here that's what you're doing the same thing that fox was trying to push as it relates to charlie kirk also and that narrative was fall this all they do is just freaking lie over and over again here's kill me play this clip. And then June 14th, these Minnesota legislatures were knocked out, were killed. Something to do with what's going on locally. They didn't like what Tim Walts was doing or a former staffer of Tim Walts. Regardless, deranged actions, life and death. And then you have Kill Mead over here
Starting point is 00:04:43 saying that, you know, it's pretty obvious that Charlie Kirk's killer was not a Trump guy, because if you're not for Charlie Kirk, you're not for Donald Trump. Here, play this clip. No, his grandparents said we're a Trump household. He was unaffiliated, and it was pretty clear that he was not for Trump, because if you're not for Charlie Kirk, you're not for Trump. And by the way, it kept on going. They said, you know, those Democrats, they refused to allow a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk.
Starting point is 00:05:16 They refused a moment of silence in the House of Representatives. Here, play this clip. Yeah, they wouldn't even know. Exactly. This is a perfect example. sample of their fake compassion. They wouldn't even allow a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk on the house floor. They said no to that. And so I'm just unimpressed. They did do a moment of silence. You had Maga Republican Maga Mike Johnson called for a moment of silence. Then everybody
Starting point is 00:05:48 was silent for the requisite period of time. I'm only going to show you 18 seconds because I don't want to show more, but then I'll tell you what happened. Here, play this clip. The chair would ask that all members president in the chamber and those in the gallery, please rise for a moment of prayer for Charlie Kirk and his family. Okay, so clearly there was a moment of silence. What happened after was Maga Republican Lauren Bobert says, let's do it again, she says. And now let's do a prayer session for Charlie Kirk. Let's do a prayer session, everybody.
Starting point is 00:06:35 And then Democrats are we're not doing a prayer session. We just did a moment of silence. Let's get on with the business of the House. Like, what are we doing here? Another separate prayers. If you want to do a prayer session, do a prayer session separately. But then the Maga Republicans are we should have done a prayer session. What the hell is even going on here? And then they continue on and what do the
Starting point is 00:06:56 Maga Republicans do now on what does the Fox propagandists do? Blame Obama. Yeah. There's they go, there's no real remorse on the left. They are complicit because they're not showing the right amount of remorse. Where's Barack Obama? Where's Obama? Let's blame Obama. That's a goodie and an oldie let's just blame obama let's blame obama what are you talking about your play this clip there's been no real remorse on the left i mean i've it's been so tepid they're so obviously implicit in the language that you use me just that video alone but has anybody seen anyone come out in a very forceful and meaningful way to say knock it off on the left no yeah i think there's two couple of things. I try to watch
Starting point is 00:07:49 other things as much as possible, especially I get up in the prime time repeats, and we're preparing for this show. CNN, I think, has been really good. They've been really good, been really fair. MSNBC is so bad, their own executives are writing a memo to basically say, knock it off and show some respect.
Starting point is 00:08:06 Yeah. So, and I saw ABC, actually, I watch the leaders. Where's Barack Obama? Very tepid response. I mean, and... Bernie Sanders actually had the best response. I think Federman had a good tweet too. I mean, there are not surprising. Yeah, there are a couple people. How about a set of a tweet? How about a big old speech? Yep. That's a good idea. And how about some action? How about some action?
Starting point is 00:08:29 And by the way, Obama immediately condemned political violence, violence in all its manifestations. Here's what Obama said. We don't yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. and I will be praying for Charlie's family tonight, especially his wife, Erica, and their two young children. That was viewed 103 million times. By the way, very different than when Donald Trump was asked about it. When Donald Trump was asked about Charlie Kirk, you know what Donald Trump talked about? He said, well, everybody knows about the big ballroom. Everybody knows about the big ballroom. Here's what Trump said. Play this clip.
Starting point is 00:09:17 He was very hurt when he saw this, but I mean, everybody was, oh, when I heard it, I was in the midst of, you know, building a great, for 150 years, they've wanted a ballroom at the White House, right? They don't have a ballroom. They have to use tents on the lawn for President Xi when he comes over. If it rains, it's a wipeout. And so I was with the architects and what design. It's going to be incredible. And they came in, they said, Charlie Kirk is dead. I didn't know what they meant I said what he'd be dead Charlie Kirk was shot and they thought he was dead because it was so horrific
Starting point is 00:09:55 you know and I said dead you got and by the way just so you know it's not a fluke here Trump is talking about the ballroom again when he's asked about Charlie Kirk here play this clip condolences on a lot of your friend Charlie Kirk may ask sir personally how are you
Starting point is 00:10:11 holding up over the last day and a half sir I think very good and by the way right there you see all the trucks they've just started construction of the new ballroom for the white house and again what the undisputed fact is is that there was a 22 year old white male in utah from a trump supporting republican family they had close affiliations with the church in utah it was a gun toting family that's what the mom amber would post over and over again were a gun-toting family, that's who they were. He actually fit the profile of a lot of these school shooters that we see,
Starting point is 00:10:53 these young white men, oftentimes Republican, radicalized who go down this rabbit hole. But whether he's rightist or leftist or this or that, the bottom line is that he got radicalized as this accelerator, revolutionary wannabe type. And this is what we've seen over and over again in these situations. It's the Democrats' fault. They did this. They don't know what they've unleashed. No, what you're unleashing, Fox, is division in our country and trying to cause an irreparable harm or like a civil war.
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Starting point is 00:13:18 dot com slash midas and then they go on and they said you know and now you hear this is one of the right wing talking points too there's there's a few talking points one of them is is they go they go uh the guy uh the guy the guy the shooter's roommate was trans and maybe they had a relationship and so the the trans ideality what do you talk what is what is what is what you're talking about and then the other one is that they go is um he went to one some you know he went to university back in 2021 he went to utah state university for one semester that radicalized him oh he spent the past few years in an electrical apprenticeship program at utah's dixie technical college as max steel goes a hotbed for leftist militancy i know here's what they say here play this clip it is a good point
Starting point is 00:14:10 I want to point something else out. You heard the family members say that this man became more political, this young man became more political in recent years. Well, what did he do in recent years? He went to college. That's where kids are getting radicalized. It's not just online. Our campuses are where a lot of radicalization, hate, and intolerance starts from. And so when he says it's an attack on all of us, I'm going to say this.
Starting point is 00:14:37 No, it's an attack on conservatives. It's an attack on Christians. And then you have Jesse Waters, basically out there, like, you know, basically saying, enough is enough. We have to end these people. The language that he uses is so extreme. And this is what they're platforming on Fox. You know, I showed you the first clip where they're talking about, like, involuntary death squads
Starting point is 00:15:03 and injections and killing people. And you have Jesse Waters then saying the following, here play this clip. And so our response has to be, we have to do what Charlie would have wanted to do. We have to win. We have to win at the ballot box. We have to win at the marketplace. We have to win online at the universities. We have to politically destroy the sick movement that's giving birth to these killers.
Starting point is 00:15:30 And I don't care what you have to do. We can love them, but we don't give them any quarter. enough is enough this ends now and there is a wicked strain that's bubbling up and you see it all over the place and we know who we're talking about and it's permeated the media the culture and even congress and it has to be cordoned off and eliminated we've done this with other factions in our political past we've did it with communism with racism it's been done before anarchism. Then you have Laura Ingram also spreading these vicious, vicious lies. Here play this clip. This agony we're all feeling must not dissipate into a stubborn apathy
Starting point is 00:16:18 or morph into a violent rage. But we do need to embrace the truth at the same time that the left has a lot to answer for at this moment. We've been warning for years that their rhetoric would lead us to a very dark place. Then you have Stephen Miller over here talking about, oh, it's the universities. The universities are the hotbed. Dude, you went to Duke. You went to Duke. These are all these people are so phony.
Starting point is 00:16:48 You grew up in Santa Monica after a wealthy family and you went to Duke. Here, play this clip. Our universities in many cases have become incubators for extremism. They become the equivalent of madrasas for jihadists. And just so you see they're trying to like one up each other, Megan Kelly, who used to be on Fox, who now makes her livelihood as a right-wing pro-Trump podcaster, despite Trump attacking her and saying that she's got blood coming out of your,
Starting point is 00:17:20 you know what, during a debate in front of all of America, but she's a big Trumper now. And then she goes, you know, the real issue here, Obama, the division in our country. country is caused by Obama. And yeah, the way he tried to subtly inject race into everything. Are you just saying that he's a black man? Is that what you, is that what you want to say? It's ridiculous. And the racism is so obvious in my opinion. Here, play this clip. We don't feel like ourselves. We haven't felt like ourselves in a while. And I'm sorry to get
Starting point is 00:17:57 political, but I'm just going to be honest. We haven't felt like ourselves since Barack Obama. I just think he was such a slick snake. You know, he was this affable guy who was, like, wearing good suits and looked the part and sounded the part and dressed the part, but was so divisive in his messaging. The left, they look at you like when you say this, they don't know what you're talking about. It's like, because you don't pay attention to the other half of the country. You only pay attention to your absurd news sources, which spin and spin and spin to protect Democrats, especially. if they're named Obama. He's the one who started to inject race where no one had been doing it. He's the one who started to use his pen in the phone to shove things down our throat that we didn't
Starting point is 00:18:43 want. He's the one who shoved through an entitlement on our health care and our personal doctor visits that he promised he wouldn't mess with. And then he did really hurting people, causing massive anger and open lies. He never missed an opportunity to twist the knife on the racial issue. He would do it subtly in his own way, but it was very clear what he was doing. He never, for the first time we had a president who weighed in on legal cases before they'd played out. We never did that. That was a taboo that had never been crossed before him. And Donald Trump was the reason Barack Obama, reverse that. Barack Obama was the reason Donald Trump came about, that he was born as a political figure. They say Trump's divisive.
Starting point is 00:19:25 He was the antidote. He was the answer. to the divisiveness of Barack Obama. And we just haven't felt like ourselves for years now. And meanwhile, you have Donald Trump out there consistently calling Kamala Harris a fascist. And Donald Trump, you know, talking about getting rid of the vermin and exterminating the enemy from within. You want to know where it's coming from? It's coming directly from the Oval Office and these hateful rhetoric from Massachusetts from
Starting point is 00:19:57 MAGA Republicans. All I know is you want to talk about like the left liberal. We're thinking about the leadership and what most people are saying at a leadership level is we need to condemn political violence. We need to come together. One of the issues though is, you know, with when they go low, we go high. When they go low, they knock out your knees these MAGA people, whether it's a wildfire that, you know, takes place in my hometown in Los Angeles, where while the fire was burning. It's just lie, lie, lie, lie, lie. Everything that former President Biden,
Starting point is 00:20:33 no matter what the issue was, they would come up with, you know, whatever their conspiracy there was. Remember, they would just invent like terrorist attacks in Buffalo? Do you remember that when Biden was in office? Biden let the terrorist attack happen in Buffalo. It was like a guy coming back from a casino
Starting point is 00:20:48 who was like drunk or something, who crashed his car. No matter what it is, they would spread these vicious lies. Anyway, you saw what Trump said. Anyway, let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to $6 million, and thank you for watching. Thanks for watching.
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