The MeidasTouch Podcast - Ivanka CAUGHT GRIFTING Trump PAC Money FOR Her Lawyers

Episode Date: February 10, 2024

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on how Ivanka Trump received in excess of $2 million to pay her legal fees in the New York AG civil fraud case from Trump’s PAC donors. 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! 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 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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What did you mean? Like I said, I don't remember. I don't remember the email. I could have meant, I don't know. It could have been on the property. It could have been on any number of things. So I just don't know. Not what your email says. My father will send you his most recent financial statement. The prior sentence, you mentioned that you were including marketing materials on the property as well as our projections. And in our, you're referring to the Trump organization, right? Or his and ours, yes.

I mean, I use them a little interchangeably, but... Yeah, I don't know. I think the last sentence is clear. My father will also... This is your statement. My father will also send you his most recent financial statement. Okay. Do you understand that to mean that it was your father's financial statement? I mean, it says what it says, but I just don't, I don't have any recollection of this.

I don't know what I meant by it, or I don't recall having sent it. So I don't know. But in the process, that was Ivanka Trump's deposition in the New York Attorney General civil fraud trial. You see Ivanka Trump saying she doesn't remember, she doesn't recall, she doesn't remember. Even when presented with the email, she said she doesn't recall. paid more than $2.3 million in donor money to law firms helping Ivanka Trump with her legal problems last year. And the law firm representing Eric, Don Jr., Allen Weisselberg, and others, when you combine that, it's like an additional $5 million. But let's drill down on this $2.3 million first paid to the law firm of Ivanka Trump. And it's just so convenient that after paying the law firm $2.3

million and then Ivanka Trump was sitting there in the deposition, she just didn't remember and she just didn't recall anything even when presented with the emails. And I just want you to think about this, folks. And we've previously covered how Donald Trump has spent nearly $60 million on legal fees with money from his political action committee, taking his donor money and spending it for his own legal fees for witnesses who then conveniently don't remember things on other litigation expenses from his donors, from Mr. and Mrs. Magadonia, and spending it for the legal fees of Ivanka and Don Jr. and Eric. You have Mr. and Mrs. Magadonia from Middle America funding these legal fees.

Let's take a look at the homes of Ivanka, Don Jr. and Eric. Take a look at this. There is Ivanka's $24 million home. There is Don Jr.'s $4.8 million, $9.7 million home. There's Eric's $3.2 million home. And yes, this is who, we'll just go through some of these photos of the homes. Yes, this is who is getting the money from people who may be living paycheck to paycheck, who are then complaining about not having enough money for groceries, which is a serious issue. But they are spending their money to help the legal fees of the children of a billionaire. I guess also spending that money for Melania's hair, right? Melania's hair and makeup, $300,000, $400,000. Melania Trump has used political action committee money, and you don't even see Melania Trump on the campaign trail.

You've got Waltine Nauta, Donald Trump's co-defendant, his body man who gets him the Diet Cokes. He's been paid somewhere in the range of about $300,000 or more. And Nauta's lawyers also have gotten paid a huge sum of money. $1.7 million of Donald Trump's donor money went to Donald Trump's jet. And yes, you have someone who purports to be a billionaire using his donor money to fund this lavish lifestyle and all of these legal fees and his wife's hair and makeup. And that's what MAGA is all about. And it's a perpetual grift on grift on grift. But let's take a look at this business insider story right here that I was talking about earlier.

A political action group controlled by Donald Trump paid millions to law firms representing Ivanka. Two firms representing her in the Trump Organization civil fraud trial got $2.3 million last year. Another law firm repping other Trump family members got more than $5 million. It goes on to say how, according to the FEC filings, the Save America PAC spent a combined $2.3 million on Ivanka's legal fees, spent another $5.3 million on the law firm of Robert had Cliff Robert was the lawyer who attacked Justice Arthur and Goran for requesting recently information about whether or not Allen Weisselberg, the former Trump CFO, committed perjury in the courtroom because he's allegedly in negotiations with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office regarding committing crimes in the court before Justice Arthur N. Goran in the New York Attorney General civil fraud case. And again, you pay these lawyers a lot of money, $5.3 million, $2.3 million, and all of a sudden the witnesses are not saying that they remember things anymore

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channeling tens of millions to a pro-Trump super PAC, which then also pays their personal expenses. In 2023, Save America dispersed a total of $1.3 million to the Troutman Pepper Hamilton law firm and $1.1 million to the firm of Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Feigl, and Frederick. Both firms represented Ivanka in the New York Attorney General civil fraud case right there. You saw Ivanka's testimony. Let's take a look at some of the other testimony, okay, if we will, for all of this money being funneled and channeled to represent these individuals, I think we'll see some commonality here. Let me show you. First, we'll do Eric Trump, who also seems to not believe that he has any

knowledge about the organization, that he's allegedly the founder or is one of the co-trustees of Rather Play. Eric? I don't remember a video conference in 2021 talking about the statement of financial condition. Did I? I mean, maybe you could show me something, but I, you know, again, I don't think I ever signed a statement of financial condition. I don't, you know, I've done a lot to try and jog my memory and I simply can't because I don't think I've ever had any involvement in the statement of financial condition to the best of my knowledge. Here is Don Jr. saying he doesn't know what generally accepted accounting principles are. Play the clip. Do you have any familiarity with an acronym GAP? G-A-A-P? Generally accepted accounting principles, yes. Okay. How did you

become familiar with that acronym? Probably an accounting 101 at wharton okay um what do they teach you about generally accepted accounting principles in wharton well i'm not an accountant but that they are generally accepted anything else that's that's pretty much what I remember from accounting 101. Have you told me everything you know about TAP? Basically. I'm sure I could come up with some creative stuff to kill time, but I'd be doing neither of us a favor in terms of educating ourselves. And here's Allen Weisselberg, who's now allegedly in negotiations for committing perjury in this case, saying that although he was the CFO of the Trump organization,

he doesn't know what generally accepting accounting principles are. Play the clip. If I said the phrase GAP, G-A-A-P, are you familiar with that acronym? I've heard of that, yes. Okay. Tell me everything you know about GAP. What is GAP? Generally accepted accounting principles. I don't know what's in GAAP. I never took the CPA exam. I never studied for it. So I don't know all the various

components of what GAAP is. Are there any components you know about what GAAP is? Not really. Okay. No. Folks, I just want to play it for you so you can see it. I know that the New York Times wants to blast on their front page what politically-minded Trump appointees are saying in reports that conflict with what we see with our eyes or hear with our ears. And that's where the New York Times wants us to be focused. But I want to view what is actually being said in depositions like that. And I know the New York Times and all of this legacy media, they love fascism. I know they want to hoist it up. But we don't love that here on the Midas Touch Network. And that's why this is the fastest growing independent media channel in the world.

Because we're standing up to fascism. And we're just showing you this is what they said. You saw Ivanka. I don't remember. I don't remember. I don't remember. I don't see that on the front page of the New York Times. You saw Eric. You saw Don Jr. You saw Allen Weisselberg. By the way, I could show you Trump's deposition where in the case involving E. Jean Carroll, he didn't recognize his own wife and thought it was E. Jean Carroll. But you don't see the New York Times talking about that, do you? You don't see legacy media talking about, do you? You don't see CNN talking about that, do you? Look, we're going to focus on the facts here at the Midas Touch Network. Let's

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