The MeidasTouch Podcast - Fox News GETS IMPLICATED in Trump CABINET SCANDAL

Episode Date: November 20, 2024

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This is what ABC is reporting. Also, one of the lawyers for the girls who are the victims of Matt Gates was speaking out on CNN as well. Now, put this all together. Do you remember back? We reported on this then. Think about the links here. March 30th of 2021, when Tucker Carlson was still a host at Fox at that time. Remember when Matt Gaetz implicated Tucker Carlson in his underage girl trafficking matter investigation? Do you remember that? Remember he went on Tucker? Remember what happened here? Watch this. Again, I only know what I've read in the New York Times. I can say that actually you and I went to dinner about two years ago. Your wife was there and I brought a friend of mine. You'll remember her. And she was actually threatened by the FBI,

told that if she wouldn't cop to the fact that somehow I was involved in some pay for play scheme, that she could face trouble. And so I do believe that there are people at the Department of Justice who are trying to smear me. You know, providing for flights and hotel rooms for people that you're dating who are of legal age, is not a crime. And I'm just troubled that the lack of any sort of legitimate investigation into me would then permute, would then convert into this extortion attempt. I don't remember the woman you're speaking of or the context at all, honestly. You saw Tucker's reaction right there right there right this is from the interview as well let's play it congressman thanks so much for coming on appreciate it um so this is obviously a serious allegation tell us what the truth is from your perspective it is a horrible allegation

and it is a lie the new york times is running a story that I have traveled with a 17-year-old woman, and that is verifiably false. People can look at my travel records and see that that is not the case. What is happening is an extortion of me and my family involving a former Department of Justice official. On March 16th, my father got a text message demanding a meeting wherein a person demanded 25 million dollars in exchange for making horrible sex trafficking allegations against me go away. Our family was so troubled by that we went to the local FBI and the FBI and the Department of Justice were so concerned about this attempted extortion of a member of Congress that they asked my dad to wear a wire, which he did with the former Department of Justice official. Tonight I am demanding that the Department of Justice and the FBI release the audio recordings that were made under their supervision

and at their direction, which will prove my innocence and that will show that these allegations aren't true. They're merely intended to try to bleed my family out of money. And I will show you one more clip from that same interview here. Play this clip. And I believe we are in an era of our politics now, Tucker, where people are smeared to try to take them out of the conversation. I'm not the only person on screen right now who's been falsely accused of a terrible sex act. You were accused of something that you did not do. And so you know what this feels like. You know the pain it can bring to your family. And you know how it just puts people on defense when you're accused of

something so salacious and awful. But it did not happen. It is not true. I mean, you see Matt Gates there saying to Tucker, look, you know what, you've been accused of things like this, or I was at dinner with you. When we put together the latest allegation that may be embedded in this ethics report about Matt Gaetz, and then you take a look at that interview with Tucker, I think serious questions need to be asked about, is that what Matt Gaetz was referring to there? Was Matt Gaetz sending a signal to Tucker? Hey, you know what I know. You need to protect me.

Was that what was going on? Because what's interesting about what's taking place as well about this ethics report is just obviously MAGA Mike Johnson. I was told not to call him MAGA Mike Johnson anymore. I was told to call him Donald Trump's little Johnson, but I still call him MAGA Mike Johnson for this video. MAGA Mike Johnson and Jim Jordan, all wanting to make sure this ethics report doesn't get out. I wonder if one of the things they're trying to protect

is not Matt Gaetz, but I wonder if they're trying to protect Fox here, that these sex trafficking victims may have been going to Fox and Gaetz was taking girls there to watch them. Here's what Johnson said. Play this clip. I would strongly request that the Ethics Committee not delete the report because that is not the way to do things in the House. And I think that would be a terrible question. Now here's Jim Jordan. Let me play you this clip right here of him saying that this ethics report detailing sex trafficking by Matt Gaetz, drug use, and more should not be released. Play this clip. And Congressman Jordan, do you have any sense about what will happen with that House ethics report that was supposed to come out Friday?

Remember, Gaetz had been accused of things and no prosecution had been continued. It had been dropped. But Dick Durbin is trying to get his hands on that report, obviously, to leak it out to hurt President Trump. What is your sense on that? Well, it's my understanding that is not supposed to go public. So if it's not supposed to under the rules, it shouldn't go public. And what I know about Matt Gates is one of the best members we had on our committee in my time in Congress, which has been a while, I don't know, there are very few people who have the cross-examination skills he does. And I want someone in the Justice Department who's not going to say moms and dads at school board meeting needs to be investigated. I want someone at the Justice Department who's going to say it's wrong for the FBI to do a memorandum and say that pro-life Catholics are extremists. I want someone at the Justice Department who can tell us who planted the pipe bombs on January 6th, who leaked the Dobbs opinion,

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now is the time to get started. Levels.link slash Midas. Now, Mark Wayne Mullen, who's in the Senate now, Mark Wayne Mullen is a Senator from Oklahoma. He had previously said of Gates that Gates would go around and brag about crushing erectile dysfunction medication and having sexual girls. He would be telling all the other MAGAs that in the House of Representatives. This is a MAGA guy, Mark Wayne Mullen, who said that about Gates there. But now Mark Wayne Mullen is a little bit mum about the report. So

I wonder if there's some broader powers that be, whether it's at Fox or otherwise, that's also saying, look, guys, this report can go out. I wonder if there's something going on there. Because here's what Mark Wayne Mullen said recently, play this clip. Are you going to vote for Matt Gates? You know, Matt Gates and I, there's no question that we've had our differences. They've been very public about it. I completely trust President Trump's decision making on this one. But at the same time, he's got to come to Congress and sell himself. There's a lot of there are to the Senate and sell himself. There's a lot of questions that are going to be out there. He's got to answer those questions and hopefully he's able

to answer the questions right. And if he can, he can then we'll go through the confirmation process. Senator Mark Wayne Mullen from the great state of Oklahoma, good to see you sir. Thanks so much for being here. I really appreciate it. Now, you remember what Kevin McCarthy said at the Republican National Convention. Let's play this clip. You would get booed off the stage. That's the biggest challenge we have. He said you would get booed off the stage. What's your response to him? You know, he looks very unhinged. I mean, a lot of people have concerns about him. And I'm not sure if he was on something, but I do hope he gets the help that he needs.

But more importantly, I hope the young women get the justice they deserve when it comes to him. I mean, you're referring to the House Ethics Committee investigation that is ongoing. Yeah, with his partner in jail because they paid underage women for sex and drugs. Yeah, that's what I'm referring to. So he is denied all of that. I'm wondering, doesn't he deserve the presumption of innocence here? Well, people are in jail. The women have confirmed it. He came to me, if I started still want to be speaker I could have done something illegal and stopped the Ethics Committee investigation that started four years before told you to stop the other yeah that's what the that's what the whole motion to vacate was about he believed he wanted me to

engage and thought somehow I started this investigation it started long before I was ever speaker I and as you know, as Congress, I don't get involved in ethics. It's an equal number. They could investigate me. It's, it's, it has to be its own arm and branch. And so he wanted to leverage me to try to do that. And if I didn't, he wanted to do a motion to vacate. And he's denied that, of course, that he urged you to stop the investigation. No, I had other members come to me he came to me i had other people who were on the direct conversation yeah yeah so no there's no denying it donald trump's uh now press secretary and chief campaign spokesperson caroline levitt was on fox and i think also fox is trying to kind of pressure trump like like, no, don't do Gates.

But then you have Trump's crew like Caroline Leavitt that are, I guess, professional rake steppers. And they're like, no, we want Gates. Here, watch this. Play this clip. Caroline, what do you say to that? Does the president believe that Gates will get confirmed? And you hear Kevin McCarthy say that that won't happen and everybody knows that.

What do you say to that? We do believe that. Nine days ago, President Trump received a resounding mandate from the American people, a once in a generation mandate for change. Throughout this entire campaign, the American people made it clear they were sick and tired of the status quo from the Harris Biden administration. They wanted a new direction for this country, and they chose President Trump to put America first. He has rolled out 16 fantastic picks over the past nine days, and Matt Gaetz is one of those picks. I know Matt personally. He is a great person. He's a man of integrity. He also is a brilliant litigator.

He served on the House Judiciary Committee for eight years. Anyone who has watched him in those hearings knows that he's incredibly impressive. And like President Trump, Matt Gaetz has been a victim of the weaponized Department of Justice. And one of the promises President Trump made to the American people was to root out the corruption at the DOJ. We have seen this agency turn against the American people because of their political beliefs. Matt Gaetz and President Trump are going to put an end to that. And that's what the American people want. That's why they elected him.

So what do you say? Here was Matt Gaetz, an interview he did back in August of twenty twenty three, indicating that he had even as then was having conversations with Donald Trump about coming and becoming the attorney general, play this clip at evidence out is important for just the sake of truth itself, but I don't ascribe to the theory that we just have to surrender sending criminal referrals because somehow Merrick Garland will never prosecute them. For many of the crimes that we are observing, the statute of limitations is five years. And so we could send criminal

referrals to the Department of Justice. We go take the White House back and you never know, David, it may be an Attorney General Matt Gaetz down the road or someone of my liking who will be there to actually enforce the law and provide the accountability, not just the vision, but the actual accountability. The people that are sending you those messages deserve that in a free and just and constitutional republic. Yeah, we do. We absolutely do. And I like that. I like that. Attorney General Matt Gaetz. Are you kidding me? Man, the world is not ready. Probably certainly Senate confirmation wouldn't be. But, you know, we're getting there. I can dream. We're getting there. You can dream.

And we got it. We got to start with taking back the White House. Let's start there. Congressman Gaetz. And so when you put all of those pieces together that I just shared with you. I mean, I will say this. You can come to the conclusion that there may be some deeper powers trying to block this ethics report. that Matt Gaetz in that 2021 interview was implicating Fox then and trying to send a signal that you need to protect me or else I know stuff about you. I'm not saying I know that for a fact, but you heard it. And now lines up with the reporting of him bringing the girls to Fox and then to Broadway plays and bringing them

out on town in New York as part of this trafficking investigation. Can we just talk too about that Donald Trump appointed this guy or nominated this guy to be attorney general? I think I saw the stat. 38% of Donald Trump's cabinet right now, has accusations of sexual assault. Don't even mention Trump. He's been liable for sexual, liable for sexual assault. Wake up, people. Wake the heck up. Wake up. the Midas Touch newsletter at MidasTouch.com slash newsletter.