The MeidasTouch Podcast - GOP has INSTANT REGRET over Trump Plans

Episode Date: November 18, 2024

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on GOP leaders trying to walk back Donald Trump’s deeply unpopular policies and plans. Try Mosh today and use MEIDAS to save 20% plus free shipping at https://moshlife.com/MEIDAS 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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to do the tariffs. We don't think we're going to do the bloody mass deportations. We don't think he really means that, does he? Yes, he absolutely means that. But now that the constituents of like MAGA Mike Johnson or Congress member Gonzalez from Texas are saying, wait a minute, you're really doing this? They're trying to do some damage control here. I mean, the entire Trump inner circle right now is a total mess. Apparently, his chief of staff, Susan Wiles, has completely lost control. Donald Trump's like making cabinet picks at his kind of whim, which is par for the course for Donald Trump when he's on his airplane or at a UFC fight. You've got just complete and utter chaos with Howard Lutnick, for example, who is trying to

position himself to be the Treasury Secretary. We're learning this from a recent New York Times piece. Mr. Lutnick, who has been running Trump's transition operation, is getting on Trump's nerves lately. Trump has privately expressed frustration that Lutnick has been hanging around him too much and that he has been manipulating the transition process towards his ends. And you take a look, you have Elon Musk, who's letting everybody know that he is a co-president. You see him with Donald Trump right there. As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski said, Trump's face says, how the hell am I going to get rid of this guy? Because he doesn't seem like he wants to go home. Also, have you seen this meme right here? This is of RFK Jr. The one hand that says, I flew on the Lolita Express with my friend Jeffrey Epstein.

And all the kind of MAGA red hat wearers are like, great, that sounds absolutely amazing right here. Going through some more of these kind of inner circle MAGA people, let me just show you, for example, what's taking place right here. We have on the, take a look at MAGA Mike right there at the UFC fight. I mean, this stuff is just so utterly embarrassing. Oh, here you've got on the airplane as well. Remember, they're all like, make America healthy again. We are going to dictate what it is you can eat and not eat based on whatever RFK Jr. says at any given time. Then you see like RFK, Elon Musk, Don Jr., and Donald Trump eating McDonald's on the plane. By the way, you then have RFK Jr. with some Zin, which is like nicotine dip. The ingredients, artificial flavor, stabilizers, binding agents, and synthetic nicotine.

But no seed oil, so I suppose it's good for you. Also, we're learning that Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump's pick for Secretary of State, we talked previously about sexual assault allegations that have resurfaced. Well, we're also learning right now that he paid a woman an undisclosed amount after she accused him of sexual assault. So there's a hush money component to this as well. I mean, what a complete and utter disaster. New York Times also is reporting the following. demise with a corrupt, incompetent, and extremist men and women around him for these critical posts. Also represent direct threats to Donald Trump. Let me show you this right here. This is

MAGA Republican Representative Tony Gonzalez. He's a Congress member from Texas. They define him as a Texas border rep based on where his district is located. And so, you know, of course, Donald Trump appointed Tom Homan to be the border czar who said bloody mass deportations, which literally means knocking on people's doors, doing worksite raids, and taking away people who have been productive and who have contributed to the American economy and ripping them away and just putting them in cages or concentration camps and sending them away. That's what Trump said he was going to do. That's what he said he's going to do. But now, MAGA Republicans are like, look, if the message is we're going to deport your abuelita, not happening. That's not going to work out. Well, that's what they're talking about. MAGA Republican, play MAGA Republican

games, win MAGA Republican prizes. Here, play this clip. Our message has to be one of positive. We want to hold on to these gains. If the message is we're here to deport your abuelita, that's not going to work well. It has to be one of holding these hardened criminals. But that is the message from the Trump administration. They are doing mass deportation. Pack your bags. You heard Tom Holman say that. Now, they have said they will deport criminals first, but they've also said everyone else, there are 11 to 13 million undocumented workers in this country. So how does this work? How do you convince them to let people who are picking fruit stay? Now, I don't exactly see it the exact same way. You know, months ago, I reached out to ICE and

I asked for empirical data on how many convicted criminals are in our country. The number is hundreds of thousands. More than 600,000. It's absolutely mind boggling. So how do you even round them up? How do you have the manpower to even do that? That's where we need to focus. We need to focus, I'm talking about the convicted criminal aliens that keeps all Americans safe. By the way, if you're saying that MAGA Republican Rep Tony Gonzalez looks familiar, yep. He's the one who previously was on CNN and talked about how Matt Gaetz would pay minors, pay children to have sex with him at drug parties. Remember this? Here, play this clip. Look, the house is a rough and rowdy place, but Mike Johnson is going to be just fine.

I served 20 years in the military. It's my absolute honor to be in Congress, but I served with some real scumbags. Look, Matt Gaetz, he paid minors to have sex with him at drug parties. Bob Good endorsed my opponent, a known neo-Nazi. These people used to walk around with white hoods at night. Now they're walking around with white hoods in the daytime. Well, now you have Matt Gaetz being appointed as attorney general as well. So then you have MAGA Mike Johnson goes on CNN over the weekend, and he's asked about Donald Trump's tariffs, the 2,500%, 3,000% tariffs, which would be a tax on Americans. I like how everyone's like, oh, let me Google what's a tariff right now. Wait a minute. It's

not a tax on China. It's a tax on american companies that import so i'm not getting my christmas bonus anymore wait a minute i'm not uh they're not giving me the raise that they promised me because now there's threats of tariffs so corporations are reigning in uh their growth what here's what mega mike has to say play this clip another top priority for the incoming trump administration and across the board 10 tariff on all imports and even larger tariffs on all imports from China. Some experts say that President-elect Trump could enact the China tariffs on his own, but might need legislation for the new universal tariff. Are you going to bring that to the floor of the Congress in the first 100 days, a new 10% across the board tariff on all imports? Well, just like with immigration policy, I'm not going to put the cart before the horse.

The president and I have talked about this as recently as yesterday, the use of tariffs in the economy and how that might be done. It will be a balancing act, as it always is, but he has some ideas some ideas aggressive ideas to grow this economy again and to reduce the cost of living and there are a number of factors that will go into that i mean we have lots of legislation already planned and and he has action from the white house already planned to bring down the cost of living how by well incentivizing american companies to invest here again and to grow jobs create more jobs for more people hey my dis mighty with all these videos that i've been doing recently and as i get a little bit older, it's important that I take care of my body, take care of my health, just be a little bit more intentional with the way I live.

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this episode. And by the way, just like MAGA Republican Representative Gonzalez, here MAGA Mike Johnson says this is kind of their go-to right here. I don't really fully remember the specific promise that Donald Trump made when Trump said, it's not just deporting criminals and terrorists. The Obama policy, the Biden policy has always been you arrest and deport criminals and terrorists. That's what they did. It's actually Donald Trump who told MAGA Mike previously to kill a bipartisan border deal,

which would have aided and buttressed the border enforcement that President Biden wanted. Because Donald Trump said, look, chaos is a winning issue for him. But here, MAGA Mike Johnson is acting dumb, playing dumb. He's dumb, but he's playing dumb. And he's like, yeah, I don't really know about getting rid of all the undocumented. I think we're going to keep, really? This is how they're trying to walk a background. Listen to yourself, play this clip. The promise wasn't just to get rid of criminals. It was to get rid of all of the undocumented

immigrants. And one of the reasons why their presence in cities is controversial and why Democrats lost ground in the election in places like New York is because of the degree to which these migrants were sapping resources. I can't think of a better term for it, but like they were caring for them was costing a lot of money and money that cities didn't have. So the promise is really to get rid of all of them. I'm not saying my position on it one way or the other, but it's more than just the criminals we're talking. Well, look, I'm not sure what the specific promise is. I know the president said that he wanted to engage in the largest mass deportation effort probably in history because that is what it's called for. I mean, you admitted yourself that maybe as many as 20 million undocumented persons, illegal aliens in the country. MAGA Republicans as well. Here is Mark Wayne Mullen, who previously said on CNN that Matt

Gates would tell all of the members of Congress how he would like to crush erectile dysfunction medication before having sex with girls. That's the attorney general for you right there. Jeez, attorney general right there. Well, here's Mark Wayne Mulligan saying, well, these allegations against Donald Trump's Secretary of Defense appointee, Peter Hegseth, well, that could sink his nominations. Here, play this clip. Pete Hegseth, you said on Thursday, you're absolutely planning to vote for him. But since then, allegations of sexual assault in 2017 have surfaced, including that he paid the accuser as part of a non-disclosure agreement, Senator. That's according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. Mr. Hegsess, attorney,

we want to say denied the allegations of misconduct. He was never charged. But do you think that this matter could sink Pete Hegseth's confirmation? It could, but let me tell you about Pete. He's an individual that served 20 years in the service, is an honorable discharge veteran who served as a combat individual that walked into Afghanistan and Iraq, has two Bronze Stars, highly decorated combat veteran that is a civilian today. He's a major and he fits the role of defense secretary of defense. I think he's a good pick. But once again, as allegations come out, we'll figure out if as as the Senate moves forward with

the advice and consent to the president of the United States and doing our constitutional duties, we'll figure out if he can get confirmed or not. And I do think that Pete's a good pick for this position. And just to follow up with you, because you had said you absolutely plan to vote for him. Do you still absolutely plan to vote for him? Well, I do. As of right now, I start with yes. But can I be moved off of that? I'm sure everybody starts at some point. Some people started dead even. Some people started a yes. Some people started a no. But I started a yes. And it's going to take some for some movement for me to move off of that. Let's talk about President. Let me show you this one right here of MAGA Mike Johnson. You think that the American people are ready for if the if all

whatever it is, 20 million undocumented immigrants are deported? Do you think the American people are ready for not only the tremendous disruption in the workforce and the economy, I think it's like 5% of the workforce is undocumented, but also the fact that we're going to be seeing images of families separated, people taken out of the communities they've lived in for years. Do you think the American people are fully prepared for that? I'm not sure that's what's going to happen, Jake. I think what the president's talking about is beginning with the dangerous persons that we know are here. There are criminals, known criminals. There are known terrorists in the country. There are some who have been apprehended for committing violent crimes after they come across the border illegally. So you start with that number. You've

got, by some counts, as many as three or four million people that fit that category. Begin there and then see how it transpires. Okay, now it should also be noted that as a result of the rhetoric coming out from Donald Trump's administration, as a result, for example, also of some of these posts that Elon Musk's been making lately, where Elon Musk again continues to mock President Zelensky for asserting the sovereignty of Ukraine. What we're seeing here is whether it's South Korea or Poland, other nations now say, look, we're not going to get the protection of America in a Trump era. So we got to build our nuclear arsenal. The only deterrent to Russia is if we've got nuclear weapons. So what we're going to see,

it appears, is additional nuclear arms races, nuclear proliferation as America under Donald Trump and Elon Musk and their kind of co-presidency is diminishing the role of America, or you can say outright betraying our allies. So think about also countries like Japan building out a nuclear arsenal as a result. Should be noted, too, that President Biden, who's been a strong defender of Ukraine, has allowed Ukraine, given the green light, to strike Russia with U.S. long-range missiles. What happened was, remember when Donald Trump, we can't forget these things, folks. It's so important. Remember when Donald Trump said he leaked to the Washington Post last week? Remember, focus.

We have to keep all this data in our minds. I know there's a lot coming our way. But remember, Donald Trump said to the Washington Post that he had spoken with Zelensky and Putin, but he said he told Putin not to escalate. And what did Putin do? Putin has escalated the unlawful invasion of Ukraine multiples since that call. And probably it's at the fiercest levels of escalation since really the early days of the war right now, after Trump said, don't escalate. It's Putin showing he's the alpha to Donald Trump. And that's what's actually going on. Blowing up reservoirs, hitting energy facilities, hitting more and more residential facilities. I mean, Putin's escalated like crazy.

So Biden's finally allowed Ukraine to strike Russia with U.S. long-range missiles. Let me just show you here. Here's what President Biden said. He's in Peru, or actually this was in Brazil, but he was in a conference in Peru with other world leaders. Then he was giving this press conference in Brazil. Here's what he had to say. Let's play. Back home, I signed the most significant climate change law in history, a law that positioned us to cut carbon emissions in half by 2030. This generated $450 billion in new clean energy investments, and that's created hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs and a manufacturing boom as well.

Folks, we don't have to choose between the environment and the economy. We can do both. We've proven it back home. It's no secret that I'm leaving office in January. I will leave my successor and my country and a strong foundation to build on if they choose to do so. It's true, some may seek to deny or delay the clean energy revolution that's underway in America. But nobody, nobody can reverse it. Nobody. Not when so many people, regardless of party or politics, are enjoying its benefits. Not when countries around the world are harnessing the clean energy revolution to pull ahead themselves. The question now is, which government will stand in the way and which will seize the enormous economic opportunity?

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