The MeidasTouch Podcast - GOP Gets Instant Karma at Rowdy Town Halls

Episode Date: April 16, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the latest town halls where Republican leaders like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Brian Mast and Chuck Grassley were ruthlessly booed. Mosh: Head to https://moshlife.com/MEIDAS to save 20% off plus FREE shipping on the Best Sellers Trial Pack! 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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What are you doing to protect us in the 14th district from the damage and extreme hardship of Trump's tariffs? Gutting of Social Security and Medicaid. Doge gutting our government with a chainsaw approach and the utter destruction and ignoring of our constitution and rule of law he is not well physically or mentally and he's making nonsensical orders based on his his whim of the day how are you going to rein him in to protect us oh poor christina poor poor christina well I'm sure, Christina, you think that you're pretty smart, but the reality is you are being completely brainwashed by whatever source of news you listen to. The facts are this. No one has lost their social security. No one has lost their benefits. Criminals have lost it. Yes. Fraudsters have lost it. Yes.

And illegal aliens have lost it. Yep. And if you want to defend those people where you hate our country and you hate America, what am I going to do? I am going to stand by my president. I am going to support my president and I'm going to fight for his agenda with everything I have in Congress. And that's what I'm going to do for the 14th district, because I know for a fact you are going to have more money in your pocket. You're going to have more jobs available. You're going to have a stronger economy. And you're going to have safe cities and communities to live in. And you'll be safe from terrorists, cartels, and criminals. And God bless President Trump for that.

I'm going to show you more of Marjorie Taylor Greene's town hall from yesterday. I also want to show you MAGA Republican Congress member Brian Mast from Jupiter, Florida. Now, he got mercilessly booed over and over again. Let me show you one such incident of that. booed the entire time right there. Let's go back to the Marjorie Taylor Greene clip I showed you at the beginning so you get the full context of the question and ultimately how she answered. Here, let's play the clip. Why are you such a coward in the face of an obvious fascist takeover, Andrew?

Scary. That's scary. You know, I've yet to see a fascist gathering. That doesn't exist in the Republican Party. As a matter of fact, President Trump is the most transparent president in history. The man literally talks to the press every single day. It's amazing. Not only that, he takes them on Air Force One and takes them to UFC fights.

He talks to them and gaggles on the plane. He talks to them in gaggles on the plane. He talks to them all the time. This is such an amazing thing that happened. You know, well, the Associated Press shouldn't have told as many lies as they did about President Trump. Okay, then a protester was there who referred to Marjorie Taylor Greene as you are a butch body bigot. Here, play this clip. That are not just living at the border. Ladies and gentlemen, they're all inside the interior of the United States.

All inside the interior of the United States. The protest is outside. Thank you very much. Protest is outside. Protest is outside. Bye. Have fun out there. Then a protester was there with a sign that said, Jail for insider traders. That obviously struck a nerve with Day Trader or Marjorie Taylor Greene, who made a lot of suspicious trades right before Donald

Trump's announcements on tariffs, play this clip. I live in a place where I am one of the members of Congress that usually has the highest amount of death threats. As a matter of fact, as going to Iowa right now, Chuck Grassley got jeered at a town hall meeting when he was asked about Donald Trump refusing to abide by a Supreme Court's ruling. Play this clip. Are you going to bring that guy back from El Salvador? Yeah. Are you? Yeah.

Yeah. Why not? Because that's not a powerful conference. The Supreme Court said to bring him back. The president has said, he's defying the Constitution. Trump don't care. If I get an order for $1,200 and I just say no, does that stand up? Because he's got an order from the Supreme Court and he's just said no.

Yeah. Screw it. I'll be able to answer your question. You ignored my letter. A lot of my letters. Mine too. El Salvador is an independent country. Can you speak up, please?

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to save 20% off plus free shipping on the bestseller trial pack. That's 20% off plus free shipping on the bestseller trial pack. That's 20% off plus free shipping on the bestsellers trial pack at m o s h l i f e.com slash Midas. Thank you, for sponsoring this episode. More from that town hall right here. You have a MAGA Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, uh, seeing very angry Iowa residents who were letting them know about, you know, so Donald Trump is, I'm trying to get this straight. So Donald Trump is doing tax cuts for billionaires, $4.5 trillion in tax cuts. But y'all are saying that $70 is too much for food stamps for people who are starving to death?

Play this clip. I think the general population is sick and tired of hearing about the tax cuts for the wealthy, the ultra wealthy, the uber rich, whatever you want to call them. When you start nitpicking about whether some single mom or single dad or somebody with somebody in prison is getting $70 too much food stamps, it doesn't even buy you anything at the grocery store. More on Senator Chuck Grassley's town hall here. Play this clip. There's money going to go out to the people that are doing Medicare Advantage. That is

privatization of Medicare. And we don't want it. And they take advantage of people all the time. But 50% of the seniors do want it. No, they don't want it. Let me explain why I said 50%. 50% of the seniors are enrolled in Medicare Advantage. Because, no, that doesn't mean they want it. They've got it out. They've got a choice. It's insurance companies that are, of course, insurance companies are then controlling you,

and they'll tell you that you must call in every year because they can change the rules whatever they want to do. And then there was a moment as well in Marjorie Taylor Greene's town hall where an individual who was there protesting her or disagreeing with her was actually tased by the police. Here, play this clip. This is a peaceful town hall. Now, this is a peaceful town hall. And then Marjorie Taylor Greene lied and said that tariffs are not a massive tax on the American people. Let's play this. The reality is tariffs are not a massive tax on the American people. Let's play this. The reality is tariffs are not a massive tax on the American people. The tax on the American people that you've been suffering with is the

inflation that Biden and the Democrats put on the American people from their absolute reckless spending for the past four years. I want you to see the contrast between a Marjorie Taylor Greene town hall. What are Democrats doing to fight the oligarchy tour? Bernie Sanders, AOC. Yesterday they were in Bakersfield, which voted for Trump like 60% of the people voted for. Trump beat Kamala Harris in Bakersfield, which is part of Kern County, by like 30 points. Even Senator Adam Schiff didn't win Kern County. I think he lost to the Republican candidate by like 30 points as well. Ruby Red area, but they have a MAGA Republican Congress member, Valadao, who's refusing to show up and do town halls.

He's scared and vulnerable. And Bernie Sanders and AOC, after going to Idaho, Salt Lake City, they were in Nampa, Idaho, Salt Lake City, Utah, Los Angeles. They've been traveling the country. And then I've been following Bernie's tour when he was in Michigan and Wisconsin. But here he is in Bakersfield, California, which is a ruby red area in California. Play this clip. Now you have a congressman here. his name is Representative Valadero. So I don't know if he's watching the live stream or not. But if he is, let me just say this to him.

I come from the state of Vermont and I'm here in Bakersfield. Alexandria comes from New York, and she is here in Bakersfield. Now, Mr. Congressman, you live in this district. Why don't you show up at a town meeting like this? And here is AOC not holding back. Play this clip. Bakersfield, this is a matter of fact. Donald Trump is a criminal. He was found guilty of 34 felony counts of fraud, found liable for sexual abuse. And if he wants to find the rapists and criminals in this country, he should look in the mirror. Chair, this was with you as well.

Our friend, Democratic Congress member Ro Khanna. Here he was speaking to students and he was saying how J.D. Vance is a stain on the degree of every Yale law student. Play this clip. In Vance's America, police can knock on any immigrant's door, deport him to a dictatorship without due process, and then wash their hands of his fate, pretending that America is powerless to free someone outside our borders. That's what they did with Abrego. That's what they've done with Merval Gutierrez, a 19-year-old Venezuelan who may have no criminal record and whose heartbroken father is searching for him in vain. Let me say this as

clearly as I can. J.D. Vance, your cold indifference to the lives of vulnerable immigrants betrays every principle that this law school was built upon. Finally, former President Biden spoke yesterday in Chicago, gave a great speech. And here's a small clip of what he had to say. Play this clip. So this would desperately need you. Folks, it's not just the Secretary of Commerce. We heard how others, empowered and emboldened by this administration to talk about Social Security. One of them called it a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme? What the hell are they talking about? People earn these benefits. They paid into that benefit. They rely on that benefit. And no one, no one, no one

should take it away. Oh, this was a great moment too. So Michael Cohen, Jim Acosta, Don Lemon held a town hall in New York and they gave the Midas Touch Network a shout out. That was a pretty cool moment from the town hall by Lemon, Acosta, and Cohen on New Media. Let's play this clip. It's going to make a difference in getting the word out. You want to know how we get it done?

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