The MeidasTouch Podcast - Fox News in Complete Panic as Trump Screws Them

Episode Date: February 12, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Fox News sinking to new lows trying to justify Trump’s outrageous behavior. Ramp: Get $250 when you join Ramp. Go to https://ramp.com/MEIDAS Cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC.Terms and conditions apply. 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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So they have to hit their beats every day. So one of the beats they wanted to hit over the past 24 hours is there really shouldn't be any opposition or strong opposition to Donald Trump. You just got to live with it, people. Live with it. So this is what Sean Hannity said here. Play this clip. You know, Joe, all these years I've been doing this, there have been elections that the candidate

of my choice didn't win. And you know what? I didn't go out there and start singing. I didn't start saying F them, F them. I didn't go out there and say we're the resistance, a constitutional crisis. No, you know what? I pointed out their flaws and fought for better ideas. Then as Donald Trump talks about conquering Gaza or just taking Gaza and occupying it and forcing all the Palestinians to go into countries that are not agreeing to accept Palestinians

and engage in this horrific ethnic cleansing and Trump's bragging about it and calling it a real estate deal, Fox is trying to get its viewers to be like, yeah, let's do it. So they have Jesse Waters, who's like their xenophobe in chief. And he starts saying, look, that what makes Palestinians such a threat is that they have far more babies than the people in Israel. Here, just play this

clip. Let's play it. But this this population in Palestine is hostile. It's uneducated. It's even more radicalized than they were at the beginning of this. I mean, now they have no homes at all. They're even more hateful of the Israelis. And their birth rate is explosive. The average Palestinian woman has five and a half babies. The average Israeli woman has only two and a half babies. So demographically, they're a threat, not to mention the national security threat.

There is no way you can have these two peoples living side by side. Interesting. All right. So then they move on to this issue of impoundment, right? This is what Donald Trump and his regime is setting up for before the Supreme Court by trying to cut off all government funding to essentially all of the agencies they don't like, which is basically all of the agencies. Impoundment, it is what it sounds like. Trump wants to impound, take the funds that Congress appropriated and keep it for himself. Rule like a dictator. So he gets to decide where it goes. So Fox is starting to talk about, and by the way, where do you think it goes? Probably to, he said it, a sovereign wealth fund for him and Elon Musk to buy things for him and Elon Musk so Trump could rule like a Saddam Hussein or

Kim Jong-un or Vladimir Putin or MBS in Saudi Arabia. I mean, that's what they're saying. That's what Donald Trump wants. So Ted Cruz then goes on Fox and he says the quiet part out loud. He goes, well, I think the Trump administration, they're teeing up a challenge to bring back impoundment. OK, first off, what do you mean bring it back? It's unlawful. It's violative of the law. Here, but play this clip. Listen, what President Trump and Elon Musk are doing is they are trying to rein in the out of control spending.

And in terms of the Constitution, there is a long history of presidents exercising a power called impoundment. As you know, I do a podcast every week called Verdict with Ted Cruz. Yesterday's podcast does a deep dive explaining what Trump and Elon are doing. But you look at impoundment. Thomas Jefferson first exercised impoundment in 1801. And I think the Trump administration is teeing up a legal challenge to bring back impoundment, to turn around spending and debt. And that's a very good thing for American taxpayers. So that was one of the messages that they wanted out today, right? I mean, they have to message number one,

there shouldn't be opposition. Let's all just kind of get along and let him do his thing, right? Because Fox knows that resistance is growing. There's protests that are happening. Corporate media is covering it up. We're addressing it here. The other thing is we got to justify Donald Trump saying he's got to conquer Palestinians. So let's just talk about that they give birth to too many babies, right? So then they do that. Then impoundment, boom, they bring on Russ Vogt, architect of Project 2025, who runs the Office of Management and Budget for Donald Trump. And here he talks about impoundment again. Here, play this clip. You know what? If Congress says build a bridge for a billion dollars and Mr. Trump says,

no, no, I can do it cheaper at 500 million, why not impound the unused 500 million? Well, look, Larry, you know, the president has recognized that 200 years of presidents had the ability to impound funds. And as a result, we're able to do a far better job of being able to control costs. And what we see at the end of fiscal year is agencies have the normal bureaucracy approach to use it or lose it. But what the Impoundment Control Act does is come on and say, look, if you're trying to save money in the end of the fourth quarter and do things smartly, oh my gosh, that's something that is a violation of the Impoundment Control Act. And what we see at the end of the fourth quarter is flat screen TVs and copy machines in the halls of every agency because they're just trying to push it out the door. The president is well aware of the authority that other presidents have had, and he has put forward on the campaign trail ideas on that front.

We don't have anything to announce today, but this is certainly something he's well aware of the power that should exist with the executive branch. But then Fox has to pivot to their next message, which is that this is, by the way, all out of the fascist playbook. You see, I'm going through the fascist playbook right now, one by one. So then they have to go to Donald Trump needs to defy court orders because Republican courts, Democrat courts, meaning judges who have been appointed by Democratic presidents, judges who have been appointed by Republican presidents, including judges appointed by Donald Trump, they've ruled

against Trump over and over and over again. Trump keeps losing in court. So as he keeps losing and these judges are issuing nationwide injunctions because what Trump is doing is so unlawful. Now they attack the judges. So now Fox pushes the message. Okay, these judges are defying the Constitution and we should start not following what courts do.

Watch. These judges are getting silly. I don't know how and when this is going to be resolved, but there's a certain, you know, it's a preposterous notion that political appointees can't see it. And that says it's preposterous that outsiders or now employees of the government, like Elon Musk, can't do their job and search for fraud. I do not understand this, and I think a lot of people are scratching their heads, Russ. Well, it defies common sense. It defies the Constitution. But the reality is this has been a key pillar of the Democrats' administrative state. And one of their principles is that career individuals and not political appointees are the

ones that they want to rely on making decisions and shielding those of us who are political appointees from the actual information that we need to make decisions based on what the president would do if he was in our shoes and you can't do that if you don't have access to the information and you don't have the tools at your disposal to make sure everything's going across your desk that you need to know to be a sound representative of the president. Yeah, I mean, it seems to me an intrusion into presidential authority and executive authority. As I'm sure you've been noticing, the Midas Touch Network's expanding rapidly and and we've got employees, reporters, and contractors across the country and the world. And I've got to keep track of all of our receipts

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now they start talking about, they say we need, they're trying to justify this. Let's bring back Andrew Jackson's playbook and Trump should not follow what courts do. He should be like Andrew Jackson's playbook. And Trump should not follow what courts do. He should be like Andrew Jackson. So now what they're trying to do is find some historical precedent to justify authoritarianism. And now what they're going to push out is federal judge orders don't matter. So Trump should just rule like a dictator. That's what they're saying. That's why I'm playing this for you. I want you to see the playbook of what they're saying. Here, play this clip.

Just enacting your agenda and looking for waste is now something that requires a nationwide injunction to stop. Congress has got to step in on this nationwide injunction issue. I think that should be, that's like right up there with election integrity. Well, let's keep in mind, I'm going to be quick here. The president beat lawfare when it was going after him when he was a candidate. The president's going to beat this in my opinion. Yes, I think he should take a page out of Andrew Jackson's playbook. At some point, J.D. Vance is right. When J.D. said, hold on, you can't have a judge step in when the president is exercising his constitutional authority. Imagine if a judge said, Mr. President, as commander in chief, you can't bomb this particular city or this certain area. You can't do that.

You got to give the president the ability to be the chief executive. I hope he'll continue to do that. Congress, by the way, we need to make his executive orders permanent. We need to pass laws to back up his agenda. We need to move quickly to do that. And then we can stand behind the president. But the president's right to say he'll follow the law. But the Constitution matters, too. And he can do his job. And then they bring in Cruella, I mean, Alina Haba. And Alina Haba goes, there's a separation of powers for a reason. The executive branch is the ultimate authority on federal issues.

Of course, you can see the internal contradiction right there. The separation of powers means that there are three co-equal branches of government. Let me repeat that because I know MAGA has gutted civics. Three co-equal branches of government. The executive branch, Congress, the House of Representatives, and the Senate, two chambers, and the judiciary. Under the judiciary, there is judicial review, where federal courts, with the highest level of the Supreme Court, rules on the constitutionality of acts. Executive branch acts, they interpret the Constitution and make sure that things are conforming to it. But now what Elena Habba is saying here is that the separation of powers means that the executive branch has ultimate authority. That's literally the opposite of separation of powers. Co-equal, co-equal, equal. Play this clip. Separation of powers. It's a really novel idea, but

our founding fathers created a document, the Constitution. There's a separation of powers. It's a really novel idea, but our founding fathers created a document, the constitution. There's a separation of powers for a reason. The executive branch is the ultimate authority on federal issues. And we have rogue judges who are trying to stop members like Doge team, Besant, from doing their job. And that's to protect taxpayer dollars, to look at what we're doing with spending and to run the federal government under President Trump. So here's what- And then here is Alina Haba again. And here she attacks Democratic Congress member Ted Lieu for saying that court orders should be followed. And Alina Haba's like, ah, this guy's not a lawyer.

He doesn't know what he's talking about. Democratic Congress member Ted Lieu went to the law school that I went to, Georgetown University Law Center. He was the editor of Law Review. He was a lawyer in the military with the JAG. He was a member of JAG. He received lots of distinguished honors for his job as an advocate in the military. He was an accomplished lawyer, unlike Alina Haba, who was, no offense to parking lot lawyers,

because there may be some good parking lot lawyers out there, but that doesn't qualify them to be doing this at the White House. I'm sure parking lot lawyers would agree. Yeah, we'll just stick to the parking lots. She was a parking lot lawyer who basically lost all of Donald Trump's cases. And then Donald Trump elevated her to the top. And now she's his main advisor. Play this clip.

Every president, including Donald Trump in his first term, comply with court orders. If this administration is going to start ignoring court orders, they're essentially eliminating entire judicial branch because why even have judges if you're not going to follow their court orders? So we expect this administration to follow the court orders. And then what J.D. Vance said was just clearly insane. If he really wants to eliminate the third branch of government, I think there's going to be enormous pushback from both Republicans and Democrats. What's your legal take on these arguments, Alina? What a spin, Martha. What a spin. That guy should get a degree in spinning. Number one, he's probably not a lawyer because

that made zero sense to me. All right. So you see the different things that Fox is doing, right? Attack the Palestinians. Attack the courts. Promote impoundment. Say there shouldn't be opposition. Now let's add just some spicy propaganda. Let's just start talking about Gulf of America, America, right? Let's just, let's fire up our Fox base, America. Here, play this clip. American energy production, Larry, finally opening up from the Gulf of America in my district, all the way up to Anwar and Alaska and every point in between America's ready to produce more energy. All right. And now it's the evening hour. So what do you do on Fox after doing all of those

things that I just mentioned? Fear. Fear. You got to scare your viewer. You got to scare them. So how do you scare them? Bring on Tom Holman, who looks pretty scary in and of itself. But he goes, and again, he's the border czar. It's like a made-up position. And he goes, I don't sleep well at night because I'm afraid of the people walking the streets. Here, play this clip. I'm taking this seriously. I don't sleep well at night because I'm afraid of the people that are walking the streets here every day because sanctuary cities to protect them sanctuary cities are sanctuary for criminals bottom line so we're going we're going to do everything we can to find them no regardless of what it takes we got a

strong president of the white house has given us all the authority we need we're coming let's think about it he's saying that he doesn't sleep well at night he's afraid to walk around the country because of the people walking the streets that he doesn't want to walk night, he's afraid to walk around the country because of the people walking the streets that he doesn't want to walk. He's the borders are so alpha, so alpha. I'm being sarcastic. Hit subscribe. Help us get to 4 million subscribers. Thanks for watching. Have a great day. Can't get enough Midas? Check out the Midas Plus sub stack for ad-free articles reports