The MeidasTouch Podcast - Fox News Throws Trump Under Bus by Accident

Episode Date: July 10, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on how Fox News in trying to cover up and protect Donald Trump just reminded the public he is a felon who pled the fifth many times. Get 20% off all IQBAR products. Text TRUTH to 64000. (Message and data rates may 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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he was called to testify before a MAGA Republican committee on Wednesday. And all of the state regime media hosts on Fox wanted to let everybody know, if you invoke the Fifth Amendment, you are most likely guilty. So here you have MAGA Republican James Comer first. He goes on Fox and he says that let's play the clip. The witness, Dr. O'Connor clearly wasn't going to answer any questions. You, you plead the fifth.

Usually when you have criminal liability. And then you've got Fox propagandist Jesse Water saying it here, play this clip. What's O'Connor hiding? When the truth's harmless, no one hides behind the fifth. Where did I see somebody invoking the fifth over and over and over again who's currently in charge right now? No, it's not former President Biden. He didn't do it. Oh, was it Donald Trump at his deposition?

Oh, that's right. I have the tape. Let's play it. So, Mr. Trump, I take it you are not going to answer any questions about your preparation today with your counsel. Is that correct? Should I say this or should I respond to that? For all of the reasons provided in my answer, which is incorporated herein, in its entirety

I decline to answer the question. Same answer. Same answer. Same answer. Same answer. Same answer. Same answer. Same answer.

Same answer. Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool. One statement or answer that is ever so slightly off, just ever so slightly by accident, by mistake, such as it was a sunny, beautiful day when actually it was slightly overcast, would be met by law enforcement at a level seldom seen in this country, because I've experienced it. The United States Constitution

exists for this very purpose. Hello. Okay. You know, the dinner Donald Trump said, only the mob pleads the fifth. And I'm kind of focused on what's happening right now, rather than what former President Biden's doctor. I'm not going to get lost in that trap. But mega Republicans want to also let you know, with state regime media

known as Fox, that it was perfectly acceptable for Ted Cruz to be going on vacation while the flood was taking place while the flash floods. Here's what they said. Let's play it. I don't understand the lack of compassion, the heartlessness, the lack of any kind of dignity, love, thoughts, prayers, a dollar, lend a hand, donate something, contribute, show up and help from your colleagues on the other side of the aisle. Yes, you're on vacation with the family.

Good for you because you work tirelessly for weeks, if not months, on that big, beautiful bill. And not a single one of the same Democrats now attacking you and President Trump dared vote for that bill. That would help. And so the lies have to stop, but the sheer lack of compassion and heartlessness

is something I just cannot abide, acknowledge, and accept. Oh, you should be commended, Ted Cruz. That's what Kellyanne Conway on State Regime Media says. Great work. You deserve that vacation after the disastrous budget bill while there was a catastrophic flash flood in your state. And it seems that you're always on vacation when these things happen. And yes, you've ripped away Medicaid from 17 million people and you've defunded even more agencies and made the United States that much more dangerous. Kudos, go on vacation, Cancun Cruise. He was in Europe, he was in Greece

during when the flash floods hit his state. So then you go to this other Fox show, Will Cain's show. They bring on this guest and I think they're trying to, you tell me what they're trying to do. They're trying to talk about cloud seeding. Cause a lot of these mega Republicans were trying to imply that in Texas, that's why you have these weather events, not because of climate change

and not because also of the unpreparedness, but because of they're going to this cloud seeding is doing it. So here's what they were talking about on Fox, here play this clip. People can listen to long reform interviews that you have done about some of the safety and research that you've done on what you your Play This clip. People can listen to long-reform interviews that you have done about some of the safety and research

you've done on what you use to cloud seed. Now, I want you to please address a larger question, which is one that is somewhat broad and perhaps even religious. But are you playing God? Are you messing with things that you shouldn't be messing with when it comes to the weather? I get this question all the time,

and I totally think it makes sense to ask it. My intention is to serve God. I think that in Genesis 1, 26 or 28 and then throughout the Psalms and the rest of the Bible, God tells us to take dominion over and steward creation both for our sake, creations itself and then to honor him. And so if there are droughts and we have the tools to mitigate the damage done by them for our sake and for nature itself, then we should deploy those for the sake of tending to and stewarding the world. And if we weren't to do that, if we were to

ban cloud seeding wholesale, despite knowing that it's safe, despite knowing it could help alleviate these problems, we'd be abdicating our guy-given responsibility to be stewards of the world. You know, one of the things you could have talked about as well, as we covered here on the Midas Touch Network, HATTIP for CNN for being the first to report it, is that in the first 72 hours, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem did not approve some of the critical equipment to get into Texas. The Department of Homeland Security changed the approval process on equipment that anything that costs more than $100,000, Christy Noem has to

personally approve and sign off on for FEMA and they couldn't get her approvals. Donald Trump was at Mar-a-Lago licking ice cream cones and playing golf. No, he's at Ben Minster. He was licking ice cream cones and playing golf. He was golfing wherever he was. And Christy Noem was posting Instagram photos of herself and asking which photo is the best one should be her governor's portrait. Anyway, going to the Larry Kudlaw show, here he is having a chat about golf.

Let's play the clip. What's your golf handicap, Senator Paul? I'm a 10. Whoa. And very competitive with the president. The president's a good golfer. Very good. But I enjoy it, and it, very competitive with the president. The president's a good golfer, but I enjoy it. And it's a great form of exercise. If you walk, you can't get in a buggy.

You can't ride a car. You got to walk. I got to get out. Senator Antall, you're terrific. Then they bring on Ashley Moody, a MAGA Republican Senator from Florida. And he or she cheerleads the political persecution, as Aaron Rupert puts it, former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan. This is a distraction from the fact that the Trump regime is now claiming the Epstein files

do not exist. And the way this MAGA Republican Senator refers to Comey and Brennan, you have radicals roaming institutions like termites. Yeah, that's the language right there of genocide. Here, play this clip. James Comey and John Brennan, obviously, no strangers to controversy here. What do you make of this investigation? You know, look, this could be unprecedented that you have a current CIA director forwarding information to the FBI for investigation about a prior CIA director. And you know, again, I'm going to go back to the hypocrisy of the Democrats. They keep

talking about that Trump is bringing retribution and that he's using these institutions for political reasons. This is not retribution. This is fumigation. You've had radicals roaming in these institutions like termites, destabilizing them, weakening them. The Dems talk about these institutions being weakened by Trump. He is fumigating these. He is bringing back integrity and accountability. And I believe that these things should be looked at

so that the American people can be restored in their belief in these institutions and know that they are in fact a government of the people, not a government of a political party seeking to deliver a political agenda. That is not how these institutions should operate. And so I commend the FBI, Director Patel, and the administration for taking a fresh look and considering whether accountability and some of these people need to be brought to justice. Yeah, and John Brennan, Patel and the administration for taking a fresh look and considering whether accountability and some of these people need to be brought to justice. Yeah, and John Brennan, we'll remember, was one of those more than 50 intel officials who signed on to that letter saying that the

Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. That obviously turned out not to be true. Yeah, they're very sick, sick people. These magus, really disgusting people and just call it out These are bad evil human beings who the hell talks like that Then you have Kevin Hassett who's Donald Trump's national economic advisor. This guy has been wrong about everything his whole life He's the guy who said there was gonna be the dot-com boom was gonna make the markets hit 50,000 back in 2000 and then then there was the dot com bubble, it crashed. Kevin Hassett is literally the guy always wrong about the economy. So it's fitting that he's now leading the economic policies of Donald

Trump. And he's expected to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve. Here he lies and claims that all the prices of goods are going down that everything is very cheap right now and that We've stopped inflation here play this clip and they'll just eat the cost and that's what we're seeing But the second thing that we're saying is so why is it the prices are even going down for imported goods It's because President Trump has highlighted How important it is for all of us to believe in an America first agenda and America first means that if you buy American if you buy American products,

then you're helping yourself by getting a better product, but you're also helping American communities for the people who make those products. And so I think that the demand for imported goods has gone down because the president has convinced people of the benefits of buying American. Just ridiculous stuff right there. This episode is brought to you by IQ Bar,

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See terms for details. Jesse Waters, though, is very excited about the new thing that they're dangling in front of the MAGA base with James Comey and John Brennan and prosecuting them, but he goes, I'm a little worried because we were promised the Epstein file, so what's gonna happen? Here's what Water says, let's play it. Well, that might be the predicate for these charges

because it turns out these guys both knew that the Russia hoax was cooked up by Crooked and they pushed it anyway. They sabotaged and spied on his campaign and tried to take down his presidency and then they got caught red handed. And we'll find out if there was a conspiracy or they whether they lied to Congress and I hope they pay the price but they might not because a lot of these guys skate all the time. So I'm not going to get my hopes up. You saw what happened with Epstein. You know you get your hopes up and then all of a sudden po poof, everything disappears. So the Justice Department and the FBI have a

lot riding on these prosecutions. I'd like to see justice, but it's like you get guys out there that say that there's this pipe bomb at the DNC and then like whatever happened to that. What about the Vegas shooter? Remember how suspicious that whole thing was? Poof, that disappears. You know, all these things always come across and then they just disappear and it's very frustrating for the American people. Yeah. I mean, I just said, where did this guy go? Where did that whole case go? Where did all the files go? They just went nowhere. No one even believes that.

So you got to go after these guys and you have to go after them hard because the American people aren't going to tolerate the corruption. You got someone like Nancy Pelosi. Her stock portfolio went up 40 million dollars last year. That's more than any hedge fund in the United States. And her husband is not even a professional investor. He owns a vineyard. And then Joe Biden's taken millions from the Chinese all over the table.

He got nothing to show for it. And at the end of the day, he pardons his whole family and walks out the door. And then his stupid doctor pleads the fifth under oath. No one is going to get punished for any of this stuff. It just seems like Trump's people always go to jail and these Democrats and these deep state darlings always skate. Well, you have a point there, Jesse. And here's Donald Trump's top legal advisor, who's not a lawyer, Tom Fitton.

And he's pissed that there was no Epstein list. Let's watch this. So what changed? I think they decided for political purposes, they didn't want to include the individuals who are on these lists and put them in the public domain. And they were concerned that some of them maybe may not have done something, warranting the disclosure. I mean, that's the most charitable interpretation. But there is a list.

There's no doubt. I mean, they talk about it in the memo. They wrote, well, there's no incriminating client list. Well, what does that mean? I want the non-incriminating client list. And of course, a client list is a term of art, right? Where are his associates? Where is the list of contacts?

We asked under our FOIA lawsuit, Pam Bondi, give us the documents that you say you were looking at. Give us documents about the release of these documents. You said the FBI was obstructing the release. They came back to us and said, we have nothing. Then Jesse Water starts talking about how rules for men, a man should never Photoshop his picture.

Here, play this clip. Has this ever happened to you, Jesse? Me? Emma, but not me. She doesn't Photoshop, but she does things, I think. I don't know. Actually, she doesn't. She doesn't.

But you know how women do. They do stuff. Rules for men. Paris. A man should never Photoshop his picture. Ever. A man who Photoshop's his picture is a woman. And you never shrink your hips. Why is he shrinking his hips? Does he have childbearing hips? What is it about his hips that he's uncomfortable with? That's the question. Okay, literally all of Donald Trump's images that he uses, maybe mostly all of them are Photoshopped AI images that aren't actually him. Going to the other economic visor of Donald Trump, Peter Navarro.

Again, this idiot's been wrong about basically everything as well. He also was in prison for contempt of Congress, and he was very intimately involved in the insurrection. Remember, the Green Bay sweep, how to steal the 2020 election was his plan. And here he says, look, we're given the business community certainty. Everybody knows Trump's sending letters. The business community totally understands what's going on with tariffs right now. And here's the thing, these people lie about everything.

Again, I don't know what your political views are watching this or listening to this. I don't know if you're a Democrat or Republican and independent. I don't know if you don't like politics. I used to not like politics. I still really don't. I just like people and trying to sift through all of this crap and bring you the truth. But what are we talking about here? There's clearly not certainty.

Like Donald Trump's writing letters, like again, whatever political party you're from, put it aside. We should look at this as crazy. Donald Trump's writing these weirdo letters that looks like a third grader wrote them to these countries I am here, but someone put someone put it this looks like an invitation to join a multi-level marketing scheme That's the perfect way of putting it a multi-level marketing We hereby invite you to join the wealthiest country, but we're going to have to tariff you this to the Sultan of Brunei

To the kids ridiculous. Here's what Navarro says. Let's play. So do you think we are going to get clarity say by the end of the summer in terms of what countries are paying what price what the tariffs look like because the uncertainty of it he believes and others do as well is what's keeping some businesses from investing today. Well, if I were a market analyst,

instead of working at the White House, it would be very simple for me to have clarity on all this. I would simply look at all the different countries. I'd look at the size of the trade deficit that the U.S. runs with those countries. And I would be able to be very easily calibrate where the optimal tariff would likely land

given President Trump's insistence that we have a level playing field and that we reduce or eliminate our trade deficit for national security. So I think that there's tremendous clarity right now. The president has been very clear about what the goal is and how he's gonna get there. There's been, we had the initial reciprocal tariffs

enrolled back to give folks time. And now letters have gone out which calibrate more. So I think there's plenty of clarity. And then of course you have Netanyahu. He's got to go on Bartiroma and he goes, Oh, I like Donald Trump way better than Biden. Of course it's not even close. That's my impression here. Play this clip. Did it feel very different dealing with President Trump as opposed to President Biden as well as the Democrats? Is this a serious question? Yeah, it has been different.

I have to be honest. And it's been, look, I think everybody said that they wanted to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons. But it's not what you say. It's what you do. It's what you do. And ultimately, leaders are tested by what they do. Right.

What they do in the face of the experience. And then here Netanyahu and Fox just keep saying, this is what Fox is obsessed about, a state regime media. Oh, Donald should get the Nobel Peace Prize. Give him a Nobel Peace Prize. You know about peace. Why a Nobel Peace Prize for what? He's created more instability than ever. As have you Netanyahu here play this clip. On Monday, you told President Trump that you nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize. Right.

That you sent a letter to the Nobel Prize Committee. Have you heard back and you tell us more? Well, I don't know if the letter reached them, but they now know it's on route. And the reason I said that is, first of all, because he already deserves it. And here Larry Kudlaw, he has his thesis right here. Remember I showed you Kevin Hassett before, who's wrong about everything. Remember how I showed you the MAGA Republican senator from Florida calling people termites and they need to be squashed like termites or whatever the language I mean is here you have Larry Kudlow saying that the Fed needs to be

cleansed. Now the chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell is somebody Donald Trump appointed okay he's a Trump appointee and to his credit Jerome Powell is independent he's doing what needs to be done to try to bring down inflation despite what Donald Trump's doing. If you brought down the interest rates three points or four points as Donald Trump wants to do, it is going to bankrupt America. It is, we all know it's going to happen. It is going to cause massive, massive inflation. Well, here's Larry Kudlow playing this clip. The Fed is in need of Paris striker. In other words, the Fed has to be cleansed of its deep state dislike of all things Donald

Trump, and frankly, its deep state bureaucratic group think of deadwood economists with models that haven't worked in 50 years. People who are now advising Jay Powell to fight President Trump and Mr. Trump's economic growth agenda. The next Fed chair has to go toe-to-toe with the hundreds of Fed economists who are spurring Jay Powell on his fight against Trump's tariff and reciprocity free trade policies. Also Mr. Trump's tax cut policies. Economic growth does not cause inflation.

Tariffs do not cause inflation. As per CEA Chair Stephen Myron's recent paper and even Austin Goldsby's interview, Chicago Fed President, where Austin acknowledged the real world fact that exporters and U.S. companies will eat the tariffs, not consumers or consumer prices. Well, there you have it, folks. And just judge for yourself. When you go into a store, are things cheaper or are they more expensive? Is gas really $1.98 a gallon like Donald Trump claims?

No, that's not the case. You can go through all of these things and just ask yourself, is what they're, just trust yourself and not the BS propaganda that these people are spewing right now. There's a reason why Amazon Prime, Prime Day sales were down like, what were they down, like 40% for the first time in more than 10 years.

Online shopping is down, right? There's a reason that the ADP payroll data, private payroll data not kept in the Trump regime, the private data showed 33,000 jobs lost. These are the facts. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million. Thanks for watching.