The MeidasTouch Podcast - MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 1/23/26

Episode Date: January 23, 2026

On this episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast, we break down Special Counsel Jack Smith’s unprecedented public testimony before Congress detailing Donald Trump’s crimes, as new warning signs about Trump’s health emerge with continued and spreading bruising. We also cover Trump’s laughable “fake deal” on Greenland after the world pushed back and further isolated the United States, and how Gavin Newsom stepped into the role of opposition leader on the global stage at Davos. Plus, we expose the Trump regime’s disturbing use of AI with a fabricated image of a protester they arrested, provide updates on Gaza including Jared Kushner’s grotesque new “master plan” for real estate development on the land, and explain the regime’s latest authoritarian move to prosecute Don Lemon, and much more. Subscribe to Meidas+ at https://meidasplus.com Get Meidas Merch: https://store.meidastouch.com Deals from our sponsors!  Smalls: Smalls New Year’s Special -  get 60% off your first order, plus free shipping, when you head to https://Smalls.com/MEIDAS. Smart Credit: Go to https://SmartCredit.com/meidas  and start your 7-day trial for just $1. Miracle Made: Go to https://TryMiracle.com/MEIDAS to try Miracle Made sheets today. You’ll save over 40%, and when you use promo code MEIDAS, you’ll get an extra 20% off plus a FREE 3-piece towel set. Shopify: Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial and start selling today at https://shopify.com/meidas Hims: To get simple, online access to personalized, affordable care for ED, Hair Loss, Weight Loss, and more, visit https://Hims.com/meidas 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 Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan 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 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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hand now is on his left hand. And it's even worse than while Donald Trump held a meeting with a group that he called the Board of Peace, which is really the access of evil, just Trump and a bunch of authoritarian regimes, he basically had a stop for a little bit to put makeup on his hand to cover up the bruising and the discoloration. We'll break it down. Donald Trump continued to break down America's relationship with NATO while in Davos, Switzerland. He continued to attack our allies, mock our allies and just behave like a complete and utter idiot. And you can see that mental cognitive decline taking place during what may have been the worst speech I've ever seen at Davos or on the international stage.

Donald Trump continued to confuse Iceland with Greenland. He referred to Greenland as a block of ice as well and said, I need it, I need it. And then when the day was over, Donald Trump announced a fake deal that he claimed he entered into with NATO to do something. There was no details regarding Greenland and he was happy about it. He then leaked out to the press that the U.S. was going to control certain areas in Greenland. It would become sovereign territories of the United States. Well, that was utterly bogus. Denmark said it's rubbish. Greenland had no clue what he was talking about. Mark brought the Secretary General of NATO said, we don't know what the hell you're talking about.

Just another fake and demeaning deal by a demented individual in. Donald Trump. Also, we've been seeing more horrifying image of the ICE and border patrol Gestapo. They are now using children as bait in order to attack the parents. We saw them use a five-year-old returning from preschool wearing like a Pokemon cap as bait to lure out the father. Then ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo kidnapped both and moved him to a detention center or concentration camp in Texas. You're also seeing more chemical agents. agents being deployed on the peaceful populations in Minneapolis and St. Paul, we'll break down for you everything that's going there.

And Trump relentlessly trying to prosecute our friend Don Lemon as well. We also learned about a whistleblower complaint that was sent to Congress showing that the ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo have ordered their Gestapo on the ground not to follow the Fourth Amendment and to conduct searches and seizures without warrants. to instead use administrative warrants that they basically fill out for themselves and then go into homes without judicial warrants. We'll talk about that. Special Counsel Jack Smith testified on Capitol Hill today.

Once again, the MAGA Republicans look so utterly foolish. They were too scared to really even talk about January 6th. They kept on talking about Cassidy Hutchinson the entire time and also didn't mention that she was Mark Meadows top aide, like she was a top aide in the Trump White House. They're like, well, what do you think about Cassidy Hutchinson talking about Donald Trump attacking people in the suburban? What do you think about that, Jack Smith? She was on your witness list. Doesn't this show Jack Smith that you're not credible?

Jack Smith's like, what, what are you? What, because she was on the witnesses? What are you even talking about Jim Jordan who doesn't have a bar license, who's not licensed to practice law, who the MAGA's place to lead the judiciary committee? And also just in a typical Donald Trump day, he's sued JP Morrill. Morgan Chase, he claims for debanking him. He sued JP Morgan Chase for $5 billion. He's threatening to now sue the New York Times

or amend some one of his millions of lawsuits against journalists and reporters to add claims that the New York Times Siena poll, which shows Donald Trump's approval rating at 40%. Trump says, I don't believe it. That's defamation. I'm suing you for it. The New York Times poll shows that Donald Trump is underwater, on basically every issue from the Epstein files where he's negative 44 points to the economy where he's

deeply underwater as well. Donald Trump ranting and raving like a lunatic there. We've got a lot to discuss, Brett and Jordy. This is the Midas Touch podcast. Great to see what in the world is going on. What in the world is going on? Indeed, I just got word that Jordi lost power. So it looks like me and you battling against the elements here, but the show does not stop. We keep on going. I'm doing well, Ben. I think, you know, I feel like, you know, every episode we have, obviously, examples of this, but in the past 24 to 48 hours or so, we've even seen an escalation of just the pure evil of this regime and the pure evil of the party who is propping him up. And we're seeing the ramifications of that evil as it is inflicted on the entire world.

and as it is inflicted here on the American people, it's complete and total disgrace. I am looking forward to speaking about it, talking about just the horrifying things we did. We broke a big story here at the Midas Touch Network earlier when we noticed immediately, when the White House posted an image of one of the protesters who entered a church in Minneapolis,

posted a picture after arresting this protester, and they used artificial intelligence to edit the image in order to make a picture. it appear like she was crying in order to make it appear that she was distressed and had tears streaming down her face i mean the stuff we're dealing with right now is just super say i'll we'll go into it in more detail at some point probably but i'll just show you this image this is the image that the white house posted as people are seeing it here as i describe her audio listeners you see uh she looks like she's in distress as she's being arrested by the officer tears streaming down her face we immediately our team

said this picture does not look right let me see if we could find uh if this was a on there's something about it. Sure enough, we found the original photo that was posted by Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noem that shows she is making no such face. And this is just one of so many examples of how deceitful this regime is, as to how evil this regime is, to how this regime does not care at all about justice or following the law or doing right by the American people. They just want to cause terror. That is their goal. And we got Jordy back. This is super exciting. And so we got to talk about this. We need to continue to keep our eyes open for other deceptive tactics just like this one, because this is how they use their propaganda to inflict pain on the American people. One thing we talked about here on the show repeatedly is how just thinking back to the days

where people assumed that all this access to information, the Internet, all of this would actually lead people to be more educated, help people be more informed, But what we've seen is that these technologies have actually just been weaponized by authoritarian to brainwash people, to fool people, to put so much information out there that people can't even understand what is real and what is fake. And that's what this White House is relying upon when they do things like this. It's 1984 taken to levels that we cannot have even imagined a few years ago.

We're going to speak about this and more excited to have Jordie back in the house. Jordy, what's the latest? What's up, brothers? What's up, Midas Mighty? That was where my power went out right when we started the show. So I'm back. I'm happy to be here. Brothers, Midas Mighty.

When we're seeing all of these events unfold, whether it's the Republican congressional folks going after Jack Smith and the matter that they did today, or the Trump regime doctoring photos bred of that woman that you showed as she was being arrested, it's really just like, I take a step back. And I just think to myself, this isn't even political. It's truly just not like, it's just a matter of good versus evil at this point.

Because you can't tell me that what I'm seeing with my own eyes and seeing how these maga, you know, lunatics are behaving is appropriate. Is what we want out of government, is what we want out of our leaders. And it's really disheartening to see. And just from like just the baseline of is this the right thing? Is like, are we trying to help people here? Or are we just trying to smear good folks? for no reason. And time and time again, what I see is Trump and the Maga regime taking that route

of just smearing folks, just lying on people, just making up whatever narrative that they want to see. The propaganda coming out of the regime right now is eye, like, is eye opening. Like true, true propaganda. When you show that video, Brett, like that's the only word that comes to my mind is the story they, that's actually happening. And also then the story that they want their followers, their lemmings to them parrot. It, it's truly crazy. I'm excited to get into the show tonight. Benji, where are we starting off? Well, just talk about that for an example, right? You have a reporter or someone Libby Dean, she goes,

during his World Economic Forum remarks, Donald Trump appeared to mix up Greenland and Iceland around three times. Caroline Levitt, Donald Trump's chief propaganda goes, no, he didn't, Libby. His written remarks referred to Greenland as a piece of ice, because that's what it is. You're the only one mixing and, anything up here.

Okay, I mean, look, we have the videotape. We saw that Donald Trump repeatedly was calling Greenland, Iceland. There was a point where he also, in calling Greenland, Iceland, said that it is a piece of ice, but on multiple occasions, Donald Trump talked about wanting to acquire and take over Iceland. Like we have the tapes. So here's one of those tapes, then I'll play you another one, but let's just play it so we can all say, hey, Caroline, you.

are a liar, but like they lie about the most brazen things. Like we hear him, here, play this clip. But the problem with NATO is that we'll be there for them 100%. But I'm not sure that they be there for us. If we gave them the call, gentlemen, we are being attacked. We're under attack by such and such a nation. I know them all very well. I'm not sure that they'd be there.

I know we'd be there for them. I don't know that they'd be there for them. I don't know that they'd be there for us. So with all of the money we expend, with all of the blood, sweat and tears, I don't know that they'd be there for us. They're not there for us on Iceland. That I can tell you. I mean, our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland.

So Iceland's already cost us a lot of money. But that dip is peanuts compared to what it's gone up. And we have an unbelievable future. Then he said it again and said it is a piece of ice, but he says Iceland again as well. Let's play that either one, Brett. But in doing it, I'm helping Europe. I'm helping NATO.

And until the last few days, when I told them about Iceland, they loved me. They called me daddy, right? Last time, a very smart man said, he's our daddy. He's running it. I was like running it. I went from running it to being a terrible human being. But now what I'm asking for is a piece of ice, cold, and poorly located that can play a vital role in world peace and world protection.

Okay, so you heard him. There were so many disgusting things that were said there as well, which I'll address. Number one, when he says NATO won't be there for us. The only country that's ever invoked Article 5 of NATO is the United States, and the NATO nations were there with the United States, particularly Denmark. Danish soldiers had more deaths per capita of fighting alongside American troops in Afghanistan than any country. But our NATO troops fought with us in the United States. They died on the front lines. And that's just straight up defamation by Donald Trump against our NATO allies.

And it's utterly despicable. Then, you know, Donald Trump saying, they call me daddy. They call me daddy. Again, he's speaking at the World Economic Forum. And he looks so utterly insane during that whole entire prime. And then referring to Greenland, a proud country, as a poorly located block of ice, which he refers to as Iceland, is one of the most degrading and horrible things to describe a country also that you want to take over and acquire it. It's so utterly offensive. So you have Caroline Levitt saying he didn't say those things.

Well, we heard him say those things. Also, when it, so everyone watching here and for those in audio listeners, I'm showing where Caroline Levitt says he never confused Iceland and Greenland. Then regarding Donald Trump's hand, what Caroline Levitt is saying is that, so at first, Donald Trump's right hand was just completely bruised and discolored. And remember, she said that was caused by the handshakes. Now she's out there saying that his left hand, by the way, his left hand, by the way, his left hand looks way worse than the right hand looked and the right hand looked horrible. But now they're saying,

oh, he knocked into the edge of a table and because he's taking lots of aspirin every day, that when you take lots of aspirin and you bunk into tables, that's what happens to your hand? No, I mean, I think one of the things it looks like is it looks like an IV injection puncture site with edema and bruising consistent with IV infiltration. This is an opinion. Let me be very clear. But I can assure you that when someone says that the right hand looked that way from shaking hands and the left hand looks that way from knocking into a table when he was speaking with this access of evil that he calls the board of peace, that's not what is happening. Like stop gas sliding and lying to us like that.

But then the Trump regime will do things like they'll make an announcement and say, Belgium has joined the board of peace. And then Belgium will put out a statement like, no, we have. We haven't joined that. The countries that stood with Donald Trump in Davos were like Pakistan, Qatar, Belarus, the Russia wasn't there. Russia's part of Donald Trump's access of evil that he calls the border of peace. Bahrain, Indonesia, Uzbekistan, no NATO allies, no one from Europe, no Australia, no

Canada. This is what the United States has become. has become under the Trump regime. And then Donald Trump goes out there. And Donald Trump says, after saying all those horrible things that you just heard him say, we're going to take over Greenland. We're going to take over. It's ours.

It's ours. Trump announces that he did a deal on social media. He just writes it. We did a big deal with Greenland. He said, he said we did a deal with NATO. And then NATO says, and then no, the deal. I won't reveal the terms, but we've reached a framework to talk about a future deal with Greenland and Denmark. And NATO has assured me it's going to be great.

Trump just made this up. None of that happened. Greenland didn't agree to anything. Denmark didn't agree to anything. The NATO commanders, we've heard from the NATO commander in that region who said NATO was never briefed on any deal that was made around this at all. It was just completely made up. And then the Trump regime leaks things about it. Like, oh, well, actually what the deal is.

It's going to give the United States sovereignty over its bases within Greenland. And we'll control certain territory within Greenland. That's news to Greenland. That's news to Denmark. And that's news to NATO because that was never even discussed with Donald Trump at all. And here's my thing, Ben, that I want to add here. If you're a media organization and Donald Trump says we made a deal, you don't have to make your headline Donald Trump made a deal, okay, or a concept of a deal, whatever it is. You don't have to follow this bullshit because if you've covered Donald Trump for even a day, you understand that this is his move.

And this is especially his move when that he views that he needs it out of something. He needs to weasel his way out of something because Donald Trump's back was against the wall. And I want to give a shout out to Canada. I want to give a shout out to Europe. I want to give a shout out to all the nations who stood strong up to the United States and said, get the hell off our back, respect our sovereignty, and stop acting like a dictator. And Donald Trump, and especially all the other moves they did, right, getting rid of the kind of the pension funds that affected U.S. bonds, the trade bazooka that was threatened against the United States, all of the other sort of trade partnerships that these European countries in Canada were undertaking to further.

isolate the United States, the U.S. stock market crashing because of all this and because of Donald Trump's moves. His back was against the wall, and Donald Trump does not like to look like a loser. So he comes up with a fake win. He says, I have a deal. Here's the deal, everybody. I'm going to call off those tariffs that made the market tank. I'm going to call off all this craziness because I got a deal, and this is going to be great. So your job as a media entity isn't to go, Donald Trump got a deal, everybody. No, it's to say that this is his out. It's to call out the scam, to call out the fraud. He's a con man. He was adjudicated as a con man. Everyone knows this man is a fraud and he could perpetually commits various frauds upon the American people and upon the world. So call this crap out

and do not give him the headlines. Obviously, you're going to have those right wing entities like Fox, right? And and other right wing entities that are going to try to spike the football and are going to try to create this narrative because that is straight up state regime media. Their goal is to prop up the regime no matter what Donald Trump does. They're not meant to be a check on power. They're meant to be a mouthpiece of the regime in order to spread this propaganda. But that makes it that much more important for the other press out there to get their stuff together and to actually tell these stories correctly and make sure the American people are

informed. What we did here at Midas Touches, we quickly reached out to sources who were based in Denmark, were based in Greenland, people who had ties to these areas, former ambassadors, and asked them questions about this deal. And they all said that the whole thing was BS and that Greenland was that were contacted. And then finally this morning, you know, there were stories. Oh, there's no deal actually. Denmark and Greenland actually say that nothing's happening here.

Yes. Yes. That's exactly. Exactly. Don't buy this guy's con is my main message. And stop falling forward. And good on these European countries, by the way, for saying, hell not. I'm not joining your board of peace.

And what an embarrassment for, you know, Caroline Levin to continuously lie and say, oh, Belgium's joining. And then they have to be like, no, we're not. No, we're not. You could be there with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan and Pakistan. Like, enjoy. Enjoy your new friends, United States. We got our own thing going now. Absolutely. The thing, too, is Donald Trump has never given you a reason to take him out his word,

whether it was every business that he has ever bankrupted or just seemingly any time he opens his mouth, he is lying. That is just the fact of the matter here. And so for corporate media to take Donald Trump again and again, it's like a Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown. Yeah, that's a good analogy on this one. But corporate media knows what's going to happen. And they're like, take the football away and let me fall to the ground again. It's insane to me that they just won't call him out for this BS. And I think it's because they're scared, quite frankly, of losing access. They're scared of losing their access to the White House for the interviews and for the Q&As or Air Force One to ask Trump questions there. That shouldn't be what media is.

It just shouldn't be at its core. And look, I'm not just rallying against media for the sake of it. I think it's vital to have a strong fourth estate here in this country. I think it is so crucial now more than ever. And that's why I'm just looking for good media. That's why I'm looking for people to actually ask legitimate questions. and not just parrot Caroline Levitt's talking points and put it in a headline and make it all pretty.

Get to the bottom of the issue. Just stop giving them these like weirdo wins because you don't actually want to do the work or you're scared you're going to get called the name in a true social post, Ben. One thing too, though, and it's California Governor Gavin Newsom would say that Donald Trump is weakness masquerading as strength. But I think Newsom has since pivoted away from that

and just that it's just weakness. And when Donald Trump is in a room with the person that he's been mocking, Donald Trump behaves differently than when he leaves and then he goes on his social media and then starts making all of these posts, right? So the whole time Donald Trump's been posting, Gavin Newsom this, newscombe that, you know, all of these horrible things about Newsome. Newsome shows up and attends Donald Trump's speech and newsome was there at davos actually behaving like a statesman or a statesperson representing what america could be basically a shadow president there so donald trump you're in front of the world right now right now right you have newsom standing right there a guy who you've called new scum who your entire

regime has been attacking all throughout davos well he's there he's right in front of you so what are you going to say about the guy who you've been calling scum because he's right there donald so all right tough guy let let let's see how it goes down let's play it we can do that all over we're going to help the people in california we want to have no crime i know gavin was here i used to get along so great with gavin when i was president i Gavin's a good guy and we're gonna if he needed it i would do it in a heartbeat i'd love to see we did help them a lot in los angeles a lot with the early early in my term when they had some problems but we would love to do it i would say this If I were a Democrat governor or whatever, I would call up Trump.

I say, come on in, make us look good because we're cutting crime down to nothing. So California Governor Gavin Newsome, for those on audio, looks at Trump, as Trump's saying, about like, this is like a crazy person. This person's insane. Donald Trump goes, Gavin is a good guy. But see, that's the thing. And I have zero respect for Donald Trump in general. about every aspect of his behavior.

But like if you're going to commit to the shtick, like when the guy's right in front of you, if you're Mr. Tough guy, then don't you, don't you go Nuscombe? Right? Well, don't you, he's right there. You're not going to say it to his face. You're just going to go back and then go, what should I type?

What should I type? He is the definition, Donald Trump, is the definition, Ben, of a keyboard warrior. Too scared to say. Let me say this about this. Let me say this about this Trump regime quickly. and sorry if i cut you off already if you want to say anything else let me know but i just want to say the the the government should lead with do no harm and it should frankly be better than that

it should be help the people and ensure that they're safe and secure and and all of those things and donald trump in that whatever the hell you call whatever the freak that was donald trump you know was talking about how he went into los angeles how he helped california so much yada yada I were, me and Ben are here in Los Angeles. I'm sure we have a lot of listeners. I know we have a lot of listeners in Los Angeles. There was no riots, chaos, fires. All the things that Donald Trump did when he came here were pointless and only stoked more

tension and more violence. And we've seen Donald Trump do this everywhere he goes. This entire regime does this everywhere they go. They do this in Minneapolis. They do this in Greenland. They do this everywhere. This is their move. They go in there.

They cause chaos. They cause the. problem. They are the problem. To me, it should just be a, there's a very simple litmus test as to whether the government should be doing what it's doing. And that's if the government right now, if these ICE agents who are terrorizing people in Minneapolis, if these, all these federal agents throughout the country right now, if they went home, if they left, if they got the hell out and stopped terrorizing people, and that would make everything come and everything, would be peaceful and there'd be no tensions and there'd be no violence and there'd be no chaos,

that means that they are the cause of that chaos. That means they are the cause of the violence. That means that they are the problem. So get the hell out. It's very clear. When Donald Trump came to Los Angeles, they were the problem. Those officers were the problem. Those people who were in Los Angeles were the problem. Donald Trump interfering with the fire response, he made things worse. And you never want to make things worse. But Donald Trump's whole thing is stupe. choke the flames, make sure that things are as chaotic as possible, so that it could create a pretext to do whatever the hell he wants. It's just crazy. It's an abusive government. It's the actions of an abuser. And it's no surprise that this government is led by an abuser and a party of abusers and people who protect sexual predators because this is their MO.

This is what they do. This is what they're good at. It's the only thing they're good at. And as part of that predator conduct, it's relentless, right? The way Donald Trump is with Greenland is like a sociopath who you need a restraining order against, right? I want and I need it. I want and I need it. It's a piece of vice. I want it.

I love it. I need it. I hate it. I hate it. I need it. I need to need it. It's like, so the only way you can stand up to that is forcefully. Like there's no other way to do it.

Like you have to assert yourself even if it's selfishly. You can't appease that because it's just nonstop. I need it. I need it. I need it. You got to be like, you got to push back strong. And I hope the world is realizing that right now. That was one of the message that Newsom was delivering there is you got to push back. He's saying this as an American, you got to push back and hit back strong against the regime. So when we come back, I want to talk more about Donald Trump's fake deal and what he said this fake deal is about.

I want to talk about how state regime media tried to prop up that fake. deal and say, this is amazing. This is promising. So what's promising a big deal? What are you talking about? And then I want to queue in on what's going on with the ICE and Border Patrol invasions. Their attempts to prosecute Lemon and go after protesters, gas protesters, terrorizing communities, using five-year-old children as bait. Talk about that and a lot. Of course, the cover-up of the Epstein files. A lot to discuss. Let's take our first quick break of the show, a reminder to everybody. Make sure you hit subscribe on our YouTube channel. You may think you're subscribed, but you may not actually be subscribed. So double check, hit subscribe,

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Use the links, use the codes. If there's an exit survey, let them know we sent you. Benji, before I saw it back to you, I was visiting mom the other week. at a great time. And when I was there, you know, I bumped into some folks that I went to high school with. And it was at the pizza shop. And let's just say, they sent me some pretty nasty text over the course of these couple of years.

And what jogged my memory of this was when we were talking about Trump being a keyboard warrior. And like, these kids have really like said some vile stuff to me. And when I walked into the coffee shop, clocked them immediately. They saw me. You know what they did? Immediately. put their heads down and sunk to the side. A lot of keyboard warriors in this life, folks,

a lot of keyboard warriors stand up for your values, stand up for your beliefs, because integrity, you know, it's everything these days. And those kids, I wish I could say their names right now, but I won't. I won't. I won't. I'll take the high road. Benji, where to next? Okay, let's just show you when Donald Trump

was asked some questions by Caitlin Collins and others about, well, what was this deal that you claim you entered into with NATO about Greenland and Denmark, even though NATO doesn't have the power to even do that. So are you going to acquire Greenland? Is that part of this? Look at Donald Trump's answer here, play this clip. It's a deal that everybody's very happy with.

Does it still include the United States having ownership of Greenland like you've said you wanted? It's a long-term deal. It's the ultimate long-term deal. And I think it puts everybody in a really good position. especially as it pertains to security. There's no deal. He made this up, which is hard for some people to grasp. None of this is, none of it is true.

So did Donald Trump even talk to NATO at all about Greenland and acquiring? No. Remember how Jordy just said when he saw those old friends who would say things to him, now they're embarrassed, they put their head down? That's basically what Trump did. Trump did his fake board of peace thing, which is actually the access of evil, which, by the way, Donald Trump was saying tonight, that he gets to lead it for the rest of Trump's life, he says.

So even when Trump's out of office, Trump says that he will be the leader of this board that will conduct foreign policy, which again is unlawful and is absolutely ridiculous. But when Donald Trump was there with the Secretary General of NATO, it wasn't even a topic that was brought up. Trump leaves it and then makes up that he has a deal to take over parts of green. Like, this is beyond sociopathic. None of it is true. So Donald Trump is asked by Caitlin Collins.

The next follow-up is, how long? How long is this deal? And Trump's like, the infinite deal. It's the infinite deal. Here, play this clip. How long would the deal be, Mr. President? Infinite. Did you speak to Denmark?

There was no time limit. It's forever. And how would you ratify the deal? It's signed forever. But you haven't signed anything yet, right? It's a deal that's forever. The guy's just a clown. Like, just enough.

normalize, can't normalize, what are we talking about? Infinite. Never ends. How are you going to ratify it? Doesn't matter. What are we even, what are we watching there? Like, do we realize that it's not even to call that crazy or to call that demented doesn't do it justice? It is literally the same as seeing, you know, I don't know, you know, how Donald Trump talks about, let out the people in the mental institutions or whatever. Like, that's you, Donald. Like, like, I don't, I don't want to blame it on serious issues. But he's out of, what are you talking about for life forever?

And Greenland and Denmark and NATO don't know anything about this at all. And the American guy, the commander who leads, then who leads NATO, doesn't know anything about this either. Just completely made up. But state regime, media known as Fox, Will Kane. He goes, Trump described this as an infinite deal, here to join us, the former ambassador. I think he brings like a former ambassador to Denmark. So what do we make about this? And then she's like, I'll play the clip for you, but she's just like, well, this may be like the United

States' relationship with Puerto Rico, but we don't really know for sure, but this is very promising. Like, this is very promising. What are you talking? What is promising about this? You have a delusional demented psychopath in the Oval Office making up fake deals that nobody knows what he's talking about but himself. What is promising about it? Like how do you even do this? Like how does truthfully, how does this even exist? How am I even talking about this? Why am I talking about this? Sometimes I think about that, right? And I'm like, what is this? Here, just watch for yourself. Here, play this clip. So joining me now as former U.S. ambassador to Denmark and Greenland, Carla Sands. Thank you for being with us here today.

I don't know if you have more information than what we've been able to gather so far on the framework of this potential deal. What is your suspicion on President Trump described it as an infinite deal, a big win for all parties, which is an interesting framing considering earlier today. He said, who in the hell in their right mind would want to lease or license presence on Greenland? Yeah, I don't know what he's ended up with. that he said unequivocally that we had to own it. And I had thought it would be a COFA, more like a free association, but that's not what that is.

So does it look more like our relationship with Puerto Rico? I really, I'm looking forward to learning as much as you are about this new deal that the framework is in place. But it's really encouraging. It's really encouraging, she says at the end, but it's really encouraging. This may be like the US and Puerto Rico. Where are you getting that from?

Where are you getting that from? You're just making nothing that she's saying or that Will Cainton. It's not even tethered to reality. I want to give a hat tip. I'm not going to play the clip here though to politics girl Lee McGowan, who's on the Midas Dutch Network. She's channeling all of us. Remember when Scott Jennings was like, why do we even care about the Epstein file?

So just a little bit of noncompliance. And then she's like, a little bit of noncompliance. Just why the hell are you talking about? like that. It's just a little bit of sex trafficking. Who do we care? It's like, what are you talking about? You're covering up child sex trafficking and you're like, don't get all worked up about this. Don't get all worked up about this. It's just enough of this crap. The exact quote by Scott Jennings is even where let's not get our knickers in a twist is what Scott about the Epstein files and the cover up of a child sex trafficking ring. But, you know, I think when we

look at all this stuff, you look at Fox, that's a multi-billion dollar operation that's designed in order to push state regime talking points. Social media apps like X, that's a multi-billion dollar operation and algorithm in order to push particular talking points to try to brainwash the American people. And I believe that these platforms have made our country very sick because in a healthy country, in a healthy nation, we would run these people the hell out of this country. We would not accept this BS. I know our viewers don't accept this BS, but in a normal country, it would be like 96% of the country not accepting this BS, not just like 75% of the country or 70% of the country wanting to run these people out. But it would be like 95, 96%. These people are, they're

lunatics. And it really is a battle of good versus evil. And we'll get to like the Jack Smith of it all later. But you really just see the evilness on display and their desire to constantly, rewrite history and to try to shift the narrative and to try to just outright lie to people in order to create their own version of reality. They took that concept from Trump's first term with Kellyanne Conway when she called it alternative facts. And they made that their MO. They made that their whole shtick. We're just, okay, reality sucks for us. We're not very good at governing. We're not very good at anything. We caused terror. Everybody would actually hate us in any sort of normal world. So we got to create our new, our own reality. We got to pump all this money into

these networks, these social media apps. We need to brainwash the people the way dictatorships have brainwashed their people for decades, but use these new tools like artificial intelligence and algorithm, social media, use all of these tools not to inform people, but use them as weapons and use them as weapons and point them at the American people. And just the amount of people you see on these social media apps, many of whom are probably bots and stuff, by the way, you know, I'm sure, but a lot of real people behind these accounts as well that defend this crap on a daily base. Oh, it's funny that they did AI of the

of the lady. It's funny that they know it's not it's not funny. And by the way, if you actually cared about justice, then you wouldn't want the white house to do that. If you actually wanted this person to be arrested, you wouldn't give prejudicial information to the public that could affect your case and blow up your entire case and hand the defense an instant out for your BS case to begin with. You wouldn't want that. So I know you don't care about the facts. I know you don't care about truth or justice or democracy or the United States of America. You just want to be in your little cult and you just want to spread your little cult BS. And that's it. You don't care about the country. You don't care about anybody except yourself.

And it's honestly a shame. And you brought shame to this country, to the United States. And you have shamed the United States in front of the world. And I don't understand how these people live with themselves. They're like sick. Honestly, sickos. Sickos. They're absolutely sick, Brad. And it's just like the entire MAGA ill too. You're talking about the folks who you know about that photo who are like oh that's hilarious isn't comedy back you lib you should be laughing at that it's like you're all the same people that wear the don't tread on me shirts that are now cheering on government going into cities and shooting women that's what you're cheering the don't tread on me folks love government they love big government actually because that's what y'all are saying that's what

you want isn't it you know the reality brett that fox news and and all of these like like really radical like these right-leaning entities have created this own reality that they could pay for because they are so well-funded with the billions and honestly trillions of dollar ecosystem that could just rot the brains of Americans. There is a bit of me that genuinely feels bad for a lot of the country of how they could get deceived when it's a multi-billion dollar, multi-trillion dollar operation that is set on your phone, on your laptop. You can't avoid it.

You cannot escape it like we were talking about with the internet early. Brett, no matter where you go, it's just so prevalent. And it was supposed to be, I think, used for good. At least that was the common thought, but it's now being used in so many manipulative ways that I can understand, like how someone that maybe doesn't have great family ties, that maybe isn't super well educated or maybe is, and just gets it just so, just in front of their face,

so frequently and so heavily, gets brainwashed and manipulated by this stuff. But at the end of the day, right, we're all playing by the same set of rules. And so we see the stuff too. You have to be able to take the step back as a person I'm saying and be like, this isn't okay. This is not okay.

And snap yourself out of it at the same time. What the Trump regime is doing right now, it is so morally bankrupt. That's the word that just keeps coming back to my mind. Morally bankrupt, this entire administration morally frigging bankrupt. When Brett and Jordy are talking about the manipulated photos for those just kind of joining now, They're talking about the photo that was posted of Nikima Levi Armstrong, and she was the leader of the protest at the St. Paul Church, where protesters went in to protest someone who worked at the church who allegedly was working for ICE or was an informant for ICE at that church.

And so, Christy Noem posts a photo of Nakima Armstrong and noticed that the officer's face is blurred, but her face isn't blurred. And she's not crying. I mean, she's just been arrested. And, you know, and she's, you know, standing up for her. She's, you know, standing up on her rights. And she's... By the way, she's a civil rights attorney. I hear she is as tough as nails, as tough as it gets. And so that was also one of the things I think that set a lot of people off this morning when they showed the photos saying she would never be crying in this situation. And then, you know, we reported first on the Midas Touch that I'm like, because at the moment I saw this, I was like, yeah, they AIed that. And we did a report on it right away. Then the White House did an AI image of her. crying hysterically, totally fabricated image. And by the way, she's going to go into court with her lawyer now, and she's going to say, this is a vindictive prosecution. Look at what they did. And there's going to be a finding of vindictiveness. And then the Trump regime's going to whine and say,

the judges are against us. They're weaponized in Minneapolis. No, you posted that. You're supposed to behave like adults. You're supposed to follow the DOJ guidelines and rules and the constitutional rights that people have. And when you posted that, first off, to me, this whole prosecution is bogus to begin with, in my legal opinion, but setting aside that, then you do this. And then, of course, Nekima is going to do a vindictive prosecution.

And it's going to be granted. And then they go, oh, my God, how did that happen? Same thing by all these right-wing people. They want Don Lemon to be prosecuted. Prosecute Don Lemon. And then you have one of the top people in the DOJ repost a polymarket, a betting market account, that says DOJ arrests two suspects in connection with the storming of a Minnesota church. Don Lemon potentially implicated for KKK Act violations.

36% chance he's criminally charged. Then like the top three person at the DOJ goes, three now arrested. And as Adam Klassfeld, who does a lot of work with our network rights, the head of Trump's DOJ Civil Rights Division boosts prediction markets, placing 36% odds that she'll be able to prosecute Don Lerner, Lemon for his journalism after federal magistrate judge found no probable cause of a crime. The DOJ went to a magistrate judge to try to get Lemon arrested today. They're not trying to go through an indictment process where they have to go before a grand

jury. So they try to get a magistrate to just sign off on it. And this magistrate said, I'm not going to sign off on it. So the DOJ starts doxing the magistrate's wife and say, oh, well, the magistrate's wife works at the Attorney General's office. which, by the way, would be perfectly, how do you think lawyers meet each other? They often meet each other in law school. I mean, you know, how do they, husband and wives, they often find each other in law school.

It's not shocking that a judge would be married to somebody else who has a job in government. But so they docks the wife and then they boost a prediction market and manipulate markets potentially about Don Lemon. And so if Don Lemon gets arrested, he's going to say vindictive prosecution as well. And by the way, if you actually look at the face act that they're charging these people with about engaging in threatening physical threats and physical obstructive conduct or other types of violent threats, Don Lemon didn't do that. The only person who touched someone was the guy who worked at the church who touched Lemon. And it's on videotape. And Lemon said, don't touch me. I don't want to be touched by you.

I just want to know what your view. Lemon asked him what your view is. about people protesting here. Do you think they have a right to do it? And the guy who worked at the church was like, this is a house of God, we just want to pray, but this is a house for all people of God. And Lemon was like, so wouldn't that mean

like the immigrant population as well? Shouldn't we be protecting that population? And that's why I want to talk about J.D. Vance going to Minnesota and again, doing more of the regime gas lighting here. But I'd be remiss if I didn't talk about it in the context of what needs to be mentioned, which is ice using a five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos as bait for his father. So ice agents kidnapped.

This five-year-old is wearing like a, like, is that much? Is that a blue Pokemon hat or a blue whatever hat, teddy bear hat? They kidnapped the five-year-old. They're holding on to the five-year-old by the five-year-old's backpack. A grown ice agent man is holding on to a five-year-old that he's just abducted off the streets. as the five-year-old is walking back from preschool. They take the five-year-old, they show up at the door, come out for your five-year-old. I've kidnapped your son.

I've kidnapped your five-year-old. Then ICE kidnaps the father and the five-year-old and sends them away to a concentration camp in Texas. That's what's taking place right now on the streets of Minnesota. And across this country, not to mention the fact that you have the head of Border Patrol, Dan Bovino, or Greg Bovino, rather, who's at. out there himself gassing people, this kind of green, noxious carcinogenic gas. They're throwing at the people there.

And by the way, if you've done studies on police departments in their use of force, big police departments like Chicago, PD, and others, they've never used this gaseous, toxic carcinogenic substance ever as a form of force to be used on people. Ice just sprays it on people. And I think we're going to learn one day that it's causing cancer. causing all of these things. And I think the government's going to pay massive settlements for it, which is the least that they can do for all of this conduct that they're engaging in. And that's happening in plain view. How many thousands of people are going to die that have inhaled this

stuff that we learn later on have the things that are equivalent of mesothelioma and things like that. Like that's what's taking place on our streets right now. So that brings me to J.D. Vance. So J.D. Vance goes into Minnesota and he tries to be like the rational calm voice here. I want to talk about J.D. Vance and I want to talk about much more. But first, I want to take our last quick break of the show, our producers saying, you got to go to a commercial break. So let's take that last break of the show. A reminder, make sure you subscribe to the Midas Touch YouTube channel. You may think you're subscribed, but you may not actually be subscribed. So hit subscribe now if you can. Also, if you watch on YouTube, subscribe to our audio podcast. So wherever you download audio podcast, just search Midas Touch. Even if you don't plan on listening it on audio, you never know. but that helps us with the algorithm. So subscribe there as well. Also, we're going to be launching the Aaron Parnas podcast on the Midas Touch Network audio podcast.

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should get absolute immunity. Anybody who says such a thing is D.R. No one actually would say that officers like these ICE officers get absolute or these ICE Gestapo get absolute immunity, okay? What I was just saying is that there need, no, what I wanted was due process, that's all. But no one ever talked about absolute immunity. So watch what he says first here. And then I'll show you the clip where he said, well, like yesterday, every day he's been saying absolute immunity.

But first, let me play the clip from earlier today. Let's play it. After the Renee Good shooting, sir, the administration seemed to say, yeah, well, you can go next. John, I'll take both. After the Renee Good shooting, sir, the administration seemed to, after the administration seemed to suggest that ICE officers enjoyed near complete immunity. But today you told the Washington examiner that when appropriate the administration might take disciplinary actions against ICE agents.

So is that a change of opinion? And if so, why they're being told? No, I didn't say, and I don't think any other official within the Trump administration said that officers who engaged in wrongdoing would enjoy immunity, that's absurd. What I did say is that when federal law enforcement officers violate the law, that is typically something that federal officials would look into. We don't want these guys to have kangaroo courts. We want them to actually have real due process, real investigation, because, again, sometimes they're accused of wrongdoing. And it turns out when you learn the context, they didn't actually do anything wrong.

Oh, okay. Well, so when you said that they get absolute immunity the other day, that didn't happen. Okay, got it, J.D., got it. Here, play this clip. The precedent here is very simple. You have a federal law enforcement official engaging in federal law enforcement action. That's a federal issue. That guy is protected by absolute immunity.

He was doing his job. The idea that Tim Wals and a bunch of radicals in Minneapolis are going to go after and make this guy's life miserable because he was doing the job that he was asked to do is preposterous. Where would anybody get this idea that he said absolute immune? Where would one have ever got that idea from? But then J.D. Vance says, look, all we're trying to do here. Why is ICE and Border Patrol here? We're trying to get the petos off the street.

That's it. We just need some help. There are some sex offenders here. We all don't like sex offenders, right? So that's all we've been trying to accomplish. So we have to go after them. It's the petos. And we're being blocked.

So just help us find the petos and we'll be cool. So why is there resistance to that? Here, play this clip. The types of cooperation that we need. Look, I don't know. Tim Walls or Jacob Frey or anybody else to come out and say that they agree with J.D. Vance or Donald Trump on immigration. I just don't need that. What I do need them to do is empower their local officials to help our local or help our federal officials out in a way where this

can be a little bit less chaotic and it can be a little bit more targeted. Like if we're trying to find a sex offender, tell us where the guy lives. That's just authoritarianism 101, right? They're launching special operations to find the sex offenders and why are you stopping us from doing that? no one would stop you from finding sex offenders. You know how that's normally done? Cooperation between the FBI and local law enforcement that form these strike units together and cooperate jointly in these task force to go after trafficking, drugs, cartels. If they wanted to increase resources to federal state task forces for the purposes of doing that, all the state governors are over. okay with that. That has happened before and it should happen again. But notice that they go there. Why? Because they're sociopaths. And as sociopaths, they frame the arguments in ways that sociopaths. We're just going after the pedos. I just want to call this out also because you, you brought this up before. And this is usually their go-to also, right? Oh, you don't, so you don't want us to investigate

sex trafficking. Oh, that's what you're doing. Oh, wow. Wow. I can't believe you wouldn't want us to get the petos off the street. Dude, check 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, first of all. I think you'll find plenty right there to start. But moving beyond that point, everyone's demanding you release the Epstein files. You're doing everything you can to cover it up. You've released less than 1% of the Epstein files. At every opportunity where you could release more, you've refused to. Everything has been shrouded in secrecy and deceit. You fought in the courts saying that no courts have the right to make you release the files. I mean, it's very clear what you guys are covering. up there and everything, quite literally, every, the way J.D. Vance argues, both on the internet

and in moments like that, is he creates a straw man that no one is arguing against. And then he forcefully argues against this point that nobody's talking about. There's nobody saying to him, no, we don't want you to go after the sex offenders, save the sex offenders. But he tries to re-center the conversation on maybe don't shoot mothers in the face. Maybe you shouldn't be able to do that with impunity. How about that? And he tries to to re-center the conversation to say, these people don't want us to go after sex offenders. How dare you? No one's talking about that. That's how he reframes the arguments all the time. It's his only rhetorical move when it comes to arguments with J.D. Vance is doing that.

And then I think we should mention just, you know, quickly while we're on the topic of ICE, this leaked memo that is out there right now from a whistleblower, which is really horrifying. And this is honestly, perhaps one of the most important. leaks that we've seen come from a Trump administration, and I say a Trump administration, because I'm including the first one as well. This leaked document is a bombshell, and I'll just explain kind of briefly what it is. There was an ice whistleblower, and they revealed the existence of this internal memo that authorizes ICE officers to break into people's homes without a judicial warrant. Now, the government's own training documents themselves at the Department of Homeland Security

say that this is unconstitutional. And so, and it's a clear violation of the Fourth Amendment. I mean, we have a Fourth Amendment specifically for instances like this. But here's what ICE is doing. ICE is telling their officers, not in writing, because they don't want this stuff to spread and get out there. They have, like, limited memos. So by word of mouth, they are telling people that if Donald Trump and his regime

wants someone removed from this country, that ICE now has the full authority to break down, the door and to remove them and send them off to God knows where. And all they need is an administrative warrant. An administrative warrant that comes from like ice courts. It's basically just someone with an ice who's signing off on it. It's not like an actual court where you actually have to get a real warrant signed off. This is how they're getting around the actual process and they've actually purged a lot of the legitimate people in these positions and they're putting in these lackeys. I think they're even like, I've seen them hire people like off Twitter for the specifically.

position. They're like, serve your country. They have that, you know, authoritarian propaganda that they use. And they're putting people in these positions to allow this sort of stuff. They have these basically blank, you know, fake warrants that they create. And then they give themselves the permission to break down people's doors and whisk them out of their house. And so we've been seeing these images over the past a few months, a few weeks, year, whatever, of ICE officers forcibly entering people's homes and we're wondering on what justification are they doing this well this is actually shining some light on the internal processes that are happening behind the scenes that are allowing them to do just that and it's obviously incredibly illegal this whistleblower said that one instructor

has reportedly resigned rather than teach this illegal behavior as i said it's illegal in the dhs's own training materials which is why they're doing it all by word of mouth and The only kind of legal opinions that they are basing this on are legal opinions from the Trump loyalists who they installed inside the Department of Homeland Security. Because the previous attorneys, the actual real attorneys who are in there, would never sign off on this. So Trump purge them. Trump gets rid of them. He brings in these new fake attorneys, the same way he's brought in these fake attorneys everywhere else. These just political hacks to write a secret memo.

It's a secret memo that says, you have. the authority to do this, that this is okay by the U.S. Constitution, even though it's not. It just, it shows you that they know it's illegal because they're not letting anybody even, like, read the memo. They're not even letting the agents or officers take notes while they're being told about the memo. They're trying to do this all in secret. They're trying to make this a secret off the book's policy where to allow them to go after people. And so, and then I just want to point out one other thing. There was a little footnote on the documentation that was leaked. And the footnote suggests that ICE may actually have authority to not only do this to people

who have been ordered removed by the Trump regime, but to do this to anybody. So basically, anybody is at risk. Anybody can just be sitting at home and then ICE comes in with a battering ram or kicks down your door or whatever and terrorizes your family. I don't know. These are all red alerts. I know we're dealing with like red alerts day after day after day and multiple every day. But to me, guys, like this is one of the biggest attacks on our constitution of the from the Trump regime from either of the Trump administrations. And this leak, I actually think is like one of the most important leaks and one of the most important whistleblower documents and testimony that we have seen like ever. Absolutely. It's all so horrifying. And that's what, again, that's why

I keep just putting my feet on the ground on this. Like, this shouldn't be political. And by that, I mean, like, this shouldn't be a left versus right issue. Like, what's happening right now with ICE using five-year-olds as bait, just breaking into houses, just costs, it's not right. Like, at a core human level, we should want to step back and be like, whoa, I think things maybe are getting a little out of control.

They're killing protesters. They're killing mothers. Yeah. And then you have J.D. Vance up there. there with all this smugness doing this double speak. And that's how I could just describe J.D. Vance every time he has this like certain smugness about him, which is just so incredibly off-putting. I know that's his whole shtick like he likes doing it to, I guess, irk people.

But he's not an intelligent guy. He's not, he's not a smart guy. He just plays this like weirdo victimies type of mentality where he's always the oppressed one on the defense and how could you guys not be looking at? at it from this angle, come on. The whole thing to me. And I will always say it, Ben. I will always say it. This should not be a left or right issue. This should not even be a political thing. Well, we should all be collectively witnessing right now from a core human level in the United States that is going on with ICE that none of this is right. I agree with you with mostly all of you said.

I disagree with you when you said that J. D. Vance is not a smart guy. J.D. Vance is a super smart guy and he knows exactly what he's doing. To me, that's what actually makes it worse. He's a Yale law grad, and he's a chameleon, and he knows how to shape shift and come up with different personalities depending on the moment, right? I mean, and he's had three different identities in his life, different names and just overall different identities.

I mean, growing up as a gay teenager, and then saying that he's not, he was converted to be not be gay. And then he was the hero from Appalachia, you know, even though he grew up in the suburbs of Cincinnati. I'm the hero, I'm the hero of Appalachia. And, you know, I'm an anti-Trump guy. He called Trump Hitler. He was the guy.

One of the first guys to call Trump Hitler was J.D. Vance. And J.D. Vance's kind of come up, if you will, was being the Appalachia anti-Trump guy. Trump's policies are going to kill people like me. And all throughout this time, just shifting names and identities. And then he became, and then, by the way, he worked with Peter Thiel. And then, you know, lots of money went from Peter Thiel to J.D. Vance. And we don't really knew what was J.D. Vance even really doing.

Like, you know, he wasn't like entrepreneurial. Like, what was going on there? And then J.D. Vance, you know, backed by Teal, backed by Teal, launches a Senate race. And then now he's the pro-Trump guy and he's ultra-Maga and he's adopted this whole identity. And he convinces people that all those other identities from gay teenager to convert it, no longer gay, to, you know, to Appalachia hating Trump, to, you know, to now pro, you know, Ultra MAGA and hates immigrants, but he married an Indian woman and his kids are Indian. You know, like the whole thing is utterly bizarre, but he, he knows what he's doing and he's, and he's sick.

He's a sick predator and he's an abuser and he knows how to manipulate. And when you watch him, he's using very manipulative tactics and now he kind of shirks back as like this, I'm lovable. Come on, guys. What do we talk? I just want to help get the sexual predators off. What are we doing here? And then he'll go to another room and he'll say the exact opposite. So be very, obviously, be very careful of JD. But be very careful around that guy. But contrast that to Jack Smith, someone with integrity, high moral character, who's lived a life of discipline and hard work representing people his entire life. So here was Jack Smith at the hearing today.

I've done multiple videos, so I don't need to show all the Jack Smith clips again. But here was Jack Smith during his opening statement saying that he stands by his decision. Let's play that one. And then next I'll show you one of my other favorite moments with Congressmember Moskowitz. But first, Jack Smith. As I testify before the committee today, I want to be clear. I stand by my decisions as special counsel, including the decision to bring charges against President Trump. Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in criminal activity.

If asked whether to prosecute a former president based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether that president was a Democrat or a Republican. No one. No one should be above the law in this country, and the law required that he be held to account, so that is what I did. To have done otherwise on the facts of these cases would have been to shirk my duties as a prosecutor and as a public servant, of which I had no intention of doing. Let me show you Congressmember Moskowitz what he had to say during the hearing, highlighting the hypocrisy by MAGA Republicans. Let's play it. I hate talking about the present. But you know what? Let's talk about the past real quick. Here are some quotes, because I heard one of my colleagues call you a hypocrite. Here are some quotes from my colleagues.

Chairman Jordan, right after January 6th, stop the violence, support Capitol Police. Ted Cruz, those storming the Capitol need to stop right now. The Constitution protects but not violence. Chip Roy, today the People's House was attacked, which is an attack on the Republic itself. Steve Scalise, United States Capitol Police, saved my life. Lindsay Graham, when it comes to accountability, the president needs to understand. His actions were the problem. Troy Niels, oh my God, him again.

I'm happy to stand shoulder to shoulder. with Capitol Police, Darryl Issa. The violence and turmoil we witnessed in Washington, D.C., was completely unacceptable. Rep. McClintock, the attack on Capitol, strikes the most sacred act of our democracy. And former Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, whose name we heard a lot today, what did he have to say about it? Let me be clear, last week's violence attack on the Capitol was undemocratic, on American and criminal. And make no mistake, those who were responsible should be brought to justice.

The President bears responsibility. period or exclamation point. Exclamation point. And the crazy thing was during this hearing throughout, you had all of these Republicans, their whole thing was rewrite the history of January 6th. It was honestly frustrating to watch and appalling to watch because there's no other conclusion

you could really draw watching these Republicans in there, the questions they're asking the way they're berating Jack Smith, other than that these people are just traitors who hate the United States, at least what the United States is supposed to stand for and they want to take us into autocracy, and they're just bad, bad, bad people. It's good versus evil.

That was on full display today. But the biggest irony of it all is they kept trying to attack Jack Smith and try to get him to make some sort of admission that wasn't true. They kept going one person after the next. So admit that President Biden forced you to go after Donald Trump.

So admit, admit it. Merrick Garland said you need to arrest that. Admit it. Admit that's what happened. And literally, while these people are saying that and making these accusations that are not true, Donald Trump on his social media app is telling Pam Bondi to prosecute people, is telling Pam Bondi to prosecute Jack Smith,

is telling, and he's at a history of basically almost every single day of telling his Department of Justice publicly via truth social post or verbally to go after certain people, whether the person is Don Lemon, whether it's Letitia James, whether it's you name it James Comey that's Trump's whole thing is weaponizing the government and he's doing it in plain sight and yet these projectionists are trying to act like that's what jacksmith was doing and that's what merrick garland was doing and that's what joe biden was doing like stop with the deflections like jordy said this isn't left right center democrat republican liberal leftist

conservative mag this isn't any labels this is just like could you accept reality this is reality. This is good versus evil. Could you be honest with people instead of having to lie about every damn thing? Moskowitz crushed it in there. I'm happy he brought a reality check to the comments that those people made when these events actually unfolded to just show how shameful they are in defending Donald Trump's actions today. Absolutely. And the Republicans up there, you know, you look at the Jim Jordan, for example. And it's just they're so over the top, so heavy-handed with it and just so intentionally disgusting that they're like trying to each audition for who gets the slot on fox news later this night later this evening that that's all they care about they're

like hey how can i get the best sound bite to make donald trump smile maybe he'll call me and that's why they refer to this guy as daddy like it's a weird weird relationship that they have with the president of the united states none of this is normal and don't be gaslit by by those around your corporate media into into what we're watching, into thinking what we're watching, any of this is normal because it's, it just simply not. And when you see it played out so, so perfectly, how Moskowitz, you know, just put a stamp on that. It's refreshing to see that there are folks out there that are willing to, you know, still fight. A few data points I want to make sure I hit. First off, if you look at the generic ballot of independence only, and you look at this is from Emerson, one of the top pollers,

Democrat, 50% support for independence, Republicans, 28%. Not sure, 22%. I think that from what we've seen in all of these special elections, that late breaking probably goes 80% to Democrats. So I think you're looking at in a generic ballot, somewhere in the range of 70% or more of independents going to be voting for Democrats, and I think that's going to make a big deal at the midterms.

and that number just continues to grow. The New York Times, Sienna, came out with the poll. Donald Trump's approval there, only 40%. On every issue, Donald Trump has massive, massive negatives, some of the worst polling ever. And then Donald Trump's been very upset about how horrible the polling is. So Donald Trump starts going on social media, and he's like, this is fake.

I'm going to sue the New York Times. Just to give you some more gloss on the polling. Donald Trump's net negative 44 points on Epstein. his handling of Ukraine, negative 24, cost of living, negative 29, relationships with other countries, negative 19, Israel, Palestine, negative 17, the economy, negative 18. And by the way, when Donald Trump was in Davos, he's like, things are great right now in the Middle East right now. No, they're not.

First off, you've betrayed our Kurdish allies in northern Syria, and the Syrian democratic forces have been all but destroyed by Al Jalani or Al-Sharar's regime. He was the leader of al-Qaeda who now runs Syria and ISIS prisoners have been let out. It's been the ultimate portrayal of the Kurds who fought alongside the U.S. to stop ISIS. Just yesterday alone, there were multiple journalists who were killed in Gaza and multiple other deaths of innocent Palestinians at the hands of Israeli forces yesterday. So more atrocities continue to be committed there, which is not getting enough. But don't worry. Jared Kushner was out there at Davos pitching his new plan for Gaza that he ominously calls his. his master plan. And it's like even shocking that he even uses that language, his master plan for

Gaza. And I'm not making this up. I'll show the video listeners just the screenshot right here. Here's Jared Kushner's massive plan. He's asking folks in Davos to get ready and invest because he's got a new real estate operation that he's doing in Gaza. He's going to create new Gaza and new Rafa. And they're like these AI slop images of like a futuristic city that he has for each. That looks like that means. that shows like a futuristic city like this could be you know the United States if X and X X happen if you guys know like for the meme I'm talking about that's what these images look like and he's asking for investment you know we need at least 25 billion dollars to get

started and we need upwards of a hundred twelve billion dollars in order to get this to where we want it to be who asked and what role does Jared Kushner have who gave you the land who gave you the Palestinians land I mean this is it's a crazy thing that we are witnessing right now where the president of the United States' son-in-law for some reason is now given the authority to carve up these pieces of land after they were decimated, after thousands and thousands of people were brutally killed, buildings leveled, homes destroyed, families ripped apart, also that Jared Kushner could build a new fancy real estate development on top of the blood. This is like some sick stuff.

I called it depraved earlier, but depraved, like, there's no word that does it justice, just how vile this shit is. Right. And like, it just, none of it gets enough attention. And I don't even blame, honestly, like the media or whatever for it. There's just so much shit on a daily basis that is just so horrifying, so evil. I mean, just so cartoonishly evil. We just touched upon Syria. We just touched upon Gaza.

We touched upon Greenland. Like, we didn't even talk about Venezuela today, right? I mean, you could talk, you do a whole show in Venezuela alone with propping up Delcy Rodriguez and the fact that now the regime there in Venezuela has kidnapped a lot more opposition pro-democracy forces. So they claim to let out like 33 prisoners, but then they brought back in like 53 prisoners. And it's been the ultimate portrayal to anyone who was hoping that there would be a democracy there. Trump opens up a bank account for himself in Qatar. And that's where and so Trump sells oil from Venezuela to right-wing oligarch friends of his, takes the proceeds,

puts it in a bank in Qatar for himself for for Donald and that's where he wants the money that people pay for join his Peace Board which he says he's the head of for his own life and that money goes into a Qatari bank account I also should reference Qatar as well not just giving Donald Trump a private jet but um the 747 or whatever it is but you know and Jared Kushner's one real estate project that he really did 6 6 5th Avenue 666 or 666 666 6 6 666 5 Avenue, which changed its name to 660.5th Avenue. They didn't like the name 666 Fifth Avenue. But the Qataris bailed Kushner out of that. Like that was his project, right, during the first Trump regime. And then remember, like, they did like a Kushner supported a blockade of Qatar. And then the

way that Qatar got out of the blockade was, you know, many people suspect was bailing out Kushner from 666 Fifth Avenue. And now you have what you're seeing right now with Qatar being on that ridiculous board, you have Donald Trump suing J.P. Morgan. I'm not sure what's more embarrassing, frankly, though, Trump suing J.P. Morgan for saying that Trump was debanked or J.P. Morgan's statement in response, in response to being sued by Donald Trump in Miami for Trump claiming that he was debanked by J.P. Morgan, goes, while we regret Trump has sued us, we believe the suit has no merit. We respect the president's right to sue us and our right to defend our ourselves. That's what courts are for. We respect the guy's right to sue us. And by the way,

Trump's opened up the Pandora's box there if you didn't have J.P. Morgan just completely rolling over because Donald Trump saying that he was debanked, well, J.P. Morgan can say, great, well, we'll show you all the regulatory risks of your foreign entanglements and your tax issues and all of those things. And that's why we couldn't bank you. I'd love to see that trial go public. But I'm sure J.P. Morgan's not going to do the discovery that needs to happen. They're not going to be aggressive. They'll file a motion to dismiss. The case will get dismissed. We'll cover the dismissal. Donald Trump will appeal it. He'll say it was an unfair judge. And then Trump gets the headline of suing J.P. Morgan Chase for $5 billion. No one really covers Trump's loss. And then J.P. Morgan doesn't do the discovery it's supposed to do because they don't want to make Donald Trump mad.

So that's the typical pattern that we see. Like when Donald Trump sued the Wall Street, Journal when they did great reporting on Trump's letter to Epstein for Epstein's 50th birthday, right? If you were doing that case normally, the first thing you would do with Wall Street Journal is you would take Donald Trump's deposition right away. Go to notice his depot. Trump's never going to sit for a depot on that. You have a free depot. If Trump sued me, I noticed his deposition right a freaking way. But instead, Wall Street Journal files a motion to dismiss. I'm sure Trump's case will be dismissed. Trump will go unfair, weaponized judge. I'm a baby and then the case will get appealed and nobody really focused on it.

That's the that's the M.O. here and then Trump will raise money by going to his supporters. He's like what Trump's recent email to supporters was like, do you hear my MAGA cry? And it's like, Ben, I've been crying all night. It's my MAGA cry. Will you please help me? It's just utterly one sec there, but I don't want to lose this on the JP Morgan thing because this, this is just retribution for Jamie Diamond saying that he's not going to donate to the ballroom. That was a couple months ago. I forget the exact forum he was at, but Jamie Diamond clearly stated that he wasn't, he was scared of pretty much future prosecution because the whole thing just feels

and stinks of corruption. So he said, we're not going to, we're not going to contribute to that. What happens two and a half months later, Trump sues the guy over something that happened five years ago? The timing of this is also suspect. To me, it couldn't be more clear why Trump. Trump has decided to sue him now. What do you think about that?

Yeah, I agree with you. Look, the whole thing is so clown. I mean, $5 billion. Okay, Donald, $5 billion. His defamation case against Wall Street Journal is $10 billion. This is $10 billion. This guy is a clown. He is weak.

He is pathetic. He is a clown. He is a horrible human being. Yes, he is evil. J.D. Vance, when you were like talking about J.D. Vance. I don't mean, I wasn't trying to prop up J.D. Vance in any one. way, but there's a difference. Like, like, J.D. Vance is a horrible human being and a total fake and a fraud of a human

being who's very calculating his changes of, and he'll do whatever he needs to do to survive. Horrible human. Donald Trump is like the worst type of human. It's even worse. In every level. And he's pathetic and he's weak and it's just stop with this crap. Just stop it. And the world and the banks and the business,

leaders and our leaders need to just stand up to this guy. The people are standing. I'll leave everybody with this. The people are standing up to him. Look at what the people of Minneapolis and St. Paul and other towns and cities in Minnesota are doing. They're standing up to it. Part of J.D. Vance going there was because people are standing up and the regime realizes that it's also tanking Donald Trump right now because they thought they were going to be able to make the people completely give up. And no, the people are doing a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow or today, depending on when you're listening to this. That's what's going down.

That's what's going on. The people are standing up. The people have been resilient where the leaders have been pathetic. And it's people power that save the day. It's this community. It's you watching this and listening to that's been the difference maker. But for that, we'd be in a way more difficult time period right now. And I know things aren't easy, but the people have stood up.

And I think that's a really important thing. And I'll leave everybody with that, that people power has won the day. So that's my final message. Brett, I'll let you give your final message. Yeah, my final message is the same, that we need to continue to stay strong, that perseverance is half the battle, more than half the battle, quite frankly. I feel like it's 90% of it. They want to knock us down.

We got to stay standing. And by the way, that's one of the reasons why we've expanded our coverage, you know, in order to ensure that there are partnerships. and we had people on the ground in Minneapolis to capture what's actually going on there so that they can't use AI images and all this other bullshit in order to try to use propaganda and lie to the American people. It's why we have a congressional, a D.C. Bureau right now with a congressional reporter in D.C. who's asking these lawmakers from both sides to the aisle, the questions that you want

answered, holding their feet to the fire over the top issues of the day, driving the conversation, driving the narrative, making sure. that the voices of this community are heard. Right now, we all need to continue to speak out. We need to continue to use our energy and our voices and just stay in this fight. It's an honor to be here with my brothers to do this show and to be at this network

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