The MeidasTouch Podcast - GOP Goes to WAR With ITSELF over Trump Picks

Episode Date: November 24, 2024

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on how Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks and transition moves are causing a bitter war within the Republican Party already. Miracle Made: Upgrade your sleep with Miracle Made! Go to https://TryMiracle.com/MEIDAS and use the code MEIDAS to claim your FREE 3 PIECE TOWEL SET and SAVE over 40% OFF. Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! Join the MeidasTouch Patreon: https://Patreon.com/meidastouch 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 Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/lights-on-with-jessica-denson 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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these like defenders of Matt Gaetz now attacking people who are loyal to Kevin McCarthy, who are still in the House of Representatives. I'll go over that in just a moment. Then you have Donald Trump selecting as his Treasury Secretary, literally George Soros' chief investment officer. So after all this time where these magnates are saying, George Soros this, George Soros that, they picked Soros' protege to lead the Treasury Department. Then you've got Marjorie Taylor Greene out there saying that she's going to expose her Republican colleagues' links to Jeffrey Epstein and all of her Republican

colleagues' sexual assault allegations and all of their cover-ups if they were involved in trying to tank Matt Gaetz's nomination because Matt Gaetz was being investigated for child sex trafficking. And then you've got a lot of the MAGAs who support the January 6th insurrectionist pissed at Donald Trump's selection of Pam Bondi as the attorney general. They say she's not MAGA enough and she hasn't been out there talking about the insurrectionist or what she's going to do with him. So there is this just tapestry of chaos right now, again, because they can't govern. And all they do is just rage bait all of the time. So let's just take a look. This is Mike Lawler posting this. He's a Congress member from New York.

He does this weird image of Kevin McCarthy with like the dark Brandon type like eyes. And then he goes, justice has been served. This is a Republican Congress member. And then all the Republican like supporters who like Matt Gaetz for whatever reasons they do, they're out there attacking Lawler. So all of these right-wing influencers are out there saying, thank you for outing yourself. No, sir, you're a petty little man in the shadow of John McCain. And that's no compliment to be in the shadow of John McCain because the MAGA's hate John McCain, a war hero. Justice will be served when you are primaried and lose. Hey, Mike, hope you realize that Gates is still congressman-elect of the 119th Congress.

He resigned the 118th Congress. Yeah, Rhino. Okay, Matt Gates is not going to be in the 119th Congress. He resigned the 118th Congress. Yeah, Rhino. Okay, Matt Gaetz is not going to be in the 119th Congress. Let me be very clear. He is out. He does not want that report being released. I hope the report is still released, though. All these people, primary this Rhino because Lawler is celebrating Matt Gaetz leaving. You've always been a piece of Rhino garbage. Thanks for reminding the world. No, sir. The people wanted Matt. Let's primary his ass.

I guess you want to be primary. You've just made yourself an enemy of the American people. Imagine celebrating a Republican loss, another rhino backstabber. And I like that this Mike Lawler engages with these people. He engages with Annie060380265. Like you're a member of Congress. Why are you responding to ANNIE060380? But that's what I mean.

They love being on Twitter and troll baiting each other, but they hate governing. So Annie goes, as a constituent and one of your local neighbors in PR, I think this person's really a constituent. It's probably some like bot in Russia writing this. I find this so offensive that you were dancing on the grave of Matt Gaetz. Your love for Kevin McCarthy has blinded you. I hope you never become governor of New York. You're just so smug. And then Mike Lawler goes, you mean the guy who literally tried to destroy? Lawler, why are you responding to this again? You mean the guy who literally tried to destroy our majority at a personal vengeance and teamed up with 208 Democrats

to remove the Republican speaker? Funny how that doesn't bother you. Feel free to vote for someone else and have a Democrat majority. And then again, this random account goes primary. And then Lawler goes, feel free to stop hiding behind social media and go ahead. Then Tim Pool, the right wing podcaster, jump in. He goes, I'll second that primary because why are you on Twitter responding to these trolls in the first place? And then Kelly Turmbullin goes, sunlight is the cure. Primary each and every one of this.

And then Based in SB goes, primary Tim Kast and others. Please keep this alive and let us know where to send money. I will happily donate to ruin this feckless McCarthyite anti-American rhino piece of shit's political career. Who talks like this? For real, who talks like this? But this is MAGA. This is what people like Lawler have enabled. So here, by the way, is what Lawler said before Matt Gaetz withdrew his name. Let's

play this clip. I called him a clown and a charlatan. Can you stand by that? Yeah. Separate news. One quick question. Should a clown and a charlatan run the Justice Department? Look, obviously, the president has every right to nominate who he chooses. There will be a confirmation process. We'll let that process play it out. And, of course, it'll all come down to the votes, Jake. There are 53, expected to be 53 Republican senators, assuming the Pennsylvania Senate race, which is in a recount, goes the Republicans' way. That means they can only lose three at most Republicans on any party line vote. And that means that Matt Gates has some work to do in order to get confirmed. All right, Manu Rajar on Capitol Hill. Thanks

so much. My next guest is a Republican just elected to the. And then previously, when Matt Gates was voting to remove Kevin McCarthy, Lawler called Gaetz a vile person. Here, play this clip. Matt Gaetz is, frankly, a vile person. He's not somebody who's willing to work as a team. He stands up there, he grandstands, he lies directly to folks. So that's emblematic of the fight that's going on. All right, are you ready for this fact? Traditional bed sheets can harbor more bacteria than a toilet seat. It can lead to acne, allergies, and stuffy noses. It's just gross. Miracle-Made, however, offers a whole line of self-cleaning antibacterial bedding, such as sheets, pillowcases, and comforters that prevent up to 99.7% of bacteria growth and require up to three times less laundry.

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she goes on to say that I'm going to reveal your secrets, your Epstein connections, the sexual assault allegations that you settled secretly. She says that she filed ethics investigations against people, that she's going to out that. Her reports, she says that she'll out that. And she goes, it's not even Epstein. She says the Republicans are working with other people like Epstein as well, and she's going to out that. That's what they're doing right now. So you've got that. Okay, next you have Donald Trump's Secretary of Treasury pick right here, right? So his name is Scott Besant. He's George Soros's protege. He literally was the chief investment officer of Soros's fund back in the day. He quit and then went and started his own hedge fund. But he was like Soros' main guy.

Here it is right here from 2011. Soros puts new man at helm. George Soros, fund management LLC, taps Scott Besant. And so like here you have MAGA Republican Tim Burchett. Remember, I mean, this is just like anti-Semitic rhetoric from Tim Burchurchett, MAGA Republican from Tennessee. He's like, George Soros is a money changer of the worst kind. It's like medieval anti-Semitism. Here, play this clip. You have a man that does not have America's

interests at heart. He wants to destroy this country. And he is a money changer of the worst kind. And he will destroy this country and the economy of it. And then's exactly, he is a money changer of the worst kind and he will destroy this country and the economy of it. And then of course, Donald Trump would repost stuff like this, like Alvin Bragg is a Soros appointed DA. Well, you just picked the treasury secretary, like quite literally, like not the lies, like this guy's actually Soros funded. Like this guy was Soros' money guy, like quite literally, not in your, you know. And look, all of this stuff right here from the New York Post to Donald Trump's,

like email after email was all, this is a George Soros fact, whatever. So, you know, take a look at what Elon Musk had posted six days ago before Besant was picked as the Treasury Secretary. Musk goes, would be interesting to hear more people weigh in on this for Trump to consider feedback. My view, for what it's worth, is that Besant is a business-as-usual choice, whereas Howard Lutnick will actually enact change.

Business-as-usual is driving America bankrupt, so we need to change one way or another. So already we see some rifts developing there as well with Besson's pick. And then there's this Pam Bondi story right here. Pam Bondi picked as attorney general for Donald Trump and all like the January 6th sympathizers are now worried. Are she going to pardon the January 6th or she's going to recommend that the January 6th insurrectionists are pardoned? What's she going to do with the January 6th cases? And by the way, the Trump appointed judge in D.C., Judge Carl Nichols, who, by the way, handed Trump a win in some of these January 6th cases.

He was the guy, remember, who said that the 1512 C-2 obstruction of official proceeding charge shouldn't apply to the insurrectionists because he said that 1512 C-2 only applies to where there's like the destruction of documents. That was appealed all the way up to the United States Supreme Court and was challenged. And ultimately, the Supreme Court sided with the Trump-appointed Judge Carl Nichols, and that threw out a lot of insurrectionist cases on that 1512c2 charge. But even Judge Carl Nichols is saying to Donald Trump, you shouldn't be pardoning these January 6 people. Maybe some of them, but a lot of them should not be pardoned. So we've got... Remember what I said a few weeks ago, I said in chaos, there's

opportunity and Trump and MAGA simply don't know how to govern. We're seeing that here. And, you know, I think there is a role for us to play in educating everybody on what's going on, where these fault lines are. So ultimately one day democracy can prevail again. And what we have to do is demonstrate who's against who and develop the strategy together, which we're going to do here. So thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million together and appreciate you. Love this video? Make sure you stay up to date on the latest breaking news and all things Midas by signing up to the Midas Touch newsletter at MidasTouch.com slash newsletter.