The MeidasTouch Podcast - MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 4/15/25

Episode Date: April 15, 2025

On today’s episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast: Donald Trump’s Oval Office meeting with El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele was nothing short of disgraceful. The two strongmen openly defied a U.S. Supreme Court ruling and shrugged off responsibility for returning a wrongly deported man now rotting in a Salvadoran prison camp. Meanwhile, top economists and CEOs are sounding the alarm about a potential recession—or worse—as Trump’s chaotic trade war policies wreak havoc. In Ukraine, a horrifying new attack ordered by Putin is met with silence from Trump, who refuses to condemn his authoritarian ally. And back in the U.S., Bernie Sanders and AOC are drawing massive crowds in key swing states as part of their “Fighting Oligarchy” tour, taking direct aim at Trump and the billionaire class propping him up. Ben, Brett and Jordy discuss all this and much more on a must-hear episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast. Subscribe to Meidas+ at https://meidasplus.com Get Meidas Merch: https://store.meidastouch.com Deals from our sponsors!  VIIA: If you’re 21+, try VIIA during their annual SPRING 420 SALE for Black Friday-level savings up to 35% OFF site wide! Go to https://viia.co/MEIDAS and use code MEIDAS! ProLon L-Nutra: Visit https://ProlonLife.com/MEIDAS to claim your 15% discount and your bonus gift. Armra: Go to https://tryarmra.com/MEIDAS or enter MEIDAS to get 15% off your first order. Miracle Made: Upgrade your sleep with Miracle Made! Go to https://trymiracle.com/MEIDAS and use the code MEIDAS to claim your FREE 3 PIECE TOWEL SET and SAVE over 40% OFF. Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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exclusions, and terms apply. Instacart, groceries that over-deliver. The Trump regime is refusing to comply with the Supreme Court's unanimous 9-0 ruling, ordering them to return Abrego Garcia, a migrant with protected status who the Trump regime kidnapped from Maryland and put in a gulag in El Salvador. In fact, the Trump regime has been pretending that they actually won the Supreme Court ruling when they lost 9-0. And relatedly, the Trump regime rolled out the red carpet earlier today for El Salvador's authoritarian leader, Nayib Bukele. Trump was on a hot mic speaking to Bukele, saying that American citizens should be sent to the El Salvador gulags and asking Bukele to build five more facilities so that Americans can be sent there. Sounds pretty dictatorish

to me. We'll cover that. We'll also cover other things that went down in Donald Trump's bizarre and dangerous Oval Office press conference, where now he's talking about additional tariffs on pharmaceuticals. What even is the status of these tariffs at this point? The volatility, the exemptions. I'm not sure the American government or the Trump regime even knows what it is. We'll talk about that. Also, Donald Trump's been spending the past 48 hours, frankly, like he's been spending the past few months in these, what are we, 75, 100 days, and it's still less than 100 days, attacking the president of Ukraine, President Zelensky. It's particularly morbid what Donald Trump is doing as Ukraine experienced one of the most deadly attacks against it by the invader, by Russia. Two ballistic missiles on Palm Sunday killed 34

innocent Ukrainians, injured about 117 others in the city of Sumy as people were out going to church to celebrate Palm Sunday. Donald Trump used the time to attack Ukraine. Also, a United States special envoy to Russia, Steve Witkoff, was there over the past few days in St. Petersburg, Russia. And in this bizarre photo, puts his hand over his heart and shows subservience to Putin. Looks like he's pledging allegiance to Putin. Also, let's talk about the fight, the oligarchy tour, which is taking the country by storm, led by Senator Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman AOC. On Saturday, about 36,000 people showed up in Los Angeles. Then Senator Sanders went to Coachella on the main stage,

spoke to about 125,000 people in Coachella. They were all booing Donald Trump when Sanders brought up Trump's name. Then on Sunday, Sanders and AOC took the Fight the Oligarchy tour to, of all places, Utah, where about 10% of the entire Salt Lake City population showed up, filled this arena, 20,000 strong, chanting, tax the rich. That and more on the Midas Touch podcast. I'm Ben Micellis, joined by Brett and Jordy. We've got a lot to discuss today, brothers. Indeed, full-on authoritarian beyond constitutional crisis in the United States. It's an authoritarian regime here. The question is, what does the resistance to an authoritarian dictator look like?

Yeah, well, it looks like never stopping, never quitting, keeping up the pressure, and that's what we're going to do. It's great to be here with you, brothers. It's great to be here with the Midas Mighty, everybody listening right now on audio, on Apple Podcasts, on Spotify, everybody watching right now live on YouTube. This is another instance where these so-called alarmists, I put that in quotes, the alarmists about Donald Trump are right once again. People have been consistently warning that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. They keep being proven right over and over and over again. They were right when they said he wouldn't respect the court rulings, right when he said

he'd surround himself with these authoritarian strongmen who undermine our institutions. They were right when they said he'd flirt with these foreign governments to enforce his domestic political agenda. And now Trump is out here openly defying a Supreme Court order, floating the idea, at least, of sending U.S. citizens to prison camps in El Salvador. This is the perfect storm of chaos and incompetence that we are seeing with the Trump administration. And there is just so much going on that sometimes it's hard to keep track of it all. He's crashing the economy this day. He's doing this horrific foreign policy thing this day. But we try to make sense of it all as best we can here and bring you all the data, all the information. Because the truth is, in horrifying days like today, you cannot

cover your eyes. You cannot cover your ears. You need to actually understand what is going on and you need to be able to sound the alarm to your friends and family. And so we're going to help you guys do that here on the Midas Touch Podcast. Jordy, what's new on your end? No, absolutely, Brad. and continue on with that. You can't cede any ground. You give a guy the inch, you give the guy the inch, he takes your life. We've said that multiple times throughout this podcast, a bunch of episodes. Don't give him anything because what he's doing right now is disgusting.

And there's no other way to even talk about what's happening right now and the way he's, quote unquote, leading this country. It's a disaster what he's doing right now. And don't be gaslit by corporate media into thinking that what's happening is normal. None of this is normal. Continue to stay strong in the fight. Don't give him an inch. Benji, where do you want to start? With Donald Trump, what's up is down and down is up. What's right is left and left is right. It is topsy-turvy. And Donald Trump's view of strength is actually weakness. I mean, you look at who Donald Trump admires the most.

Obviously, number one is Vladimir Putin. But then Javier Millay in Argentina, right, where inflation is surging. The poverty rate there, what, like 40%, 50% in Argentina. Not exactly what you'd want to use as the model for the United States, the United States, which is supposed to be kind of the icon of stability, which Donald Trump is shattering, turning our dollar into basically the Trump dollar sign Trump mean coin or the dollar sign Melania, Melania mean coin at this point. And who else other than Javier Millet does Donald Trump look up to? Victor Orban, who's turned Hungary into like a failed state, contrast Hungary's just kind

of awful economy with a democracy like Poland, which is thriving. Does Donald Trump like Poland? No, Donald Trump likes Hungary. And then you go and you see Nayib Bukele, the leader of El Salvador. And El Salvador is a poor Latin American country. Its entire annual GDP is like $34 billion, right? Donald Trump attacks Canada, says Canada's GDP is like $3 trillion. Donald Trump attacked Europe, like real wealthy nations. But Donald Trump loves Nayibu Kelly. Why? Because the incarceration rate per capita in El Salvador is the highest anywhere in the world. Trump loves this image of Naibu Kelly sitting there, no tie, looking like, you know, this dictator of the modern age, you know, chin lifted up, you know, while they talk about

torturing human beings. Trump loves the torture. That's why he loves Naeem Bukele. Just showing you other facts about El Salvador. The poverty rate in El Salvador is about 20 to 25%. About 10% of the country in El Salvador lives in extreme poverty. So this isn't exactly the success story that MAGA Republicans want to tell you about. But just think about it. El Salvador, Argentina, Hungary, Russia, North Korea, right? That's who Donald Trump admires. So with Naebu Kelly showing up, I can't but think of the contrast between how Donald Trump attacks our allies in the Oval Office, then the Trump propaganda media that's there would like attack Zelensky for not wearing a suit and tie. But here you have the authoritarian leader of a poor Latin

American country who's now cut some partnership with Donald Trump so that the Trump regime can kidnap migrants, and soon they want to do this to American citizens, kidnap them, disappear them to El Salvador, torture them, and put them in basically an extermination camp where they'll never be heard from or seen ever again. That's what's going on. Let's use the right language. Let's not mince words about what's actually taking place here. So with that said, Bukele is sitting there with Donald Trump. And for these quote unquote strong men who claim they have all of the power, who are in a partnership with each other. You have Naeem Bukele in the Oval Office getting the VIP treatment saying,

there's nothing I can do. I cannot return Abrego Garcia. There's nothing I can do. What are you talking about? Here, watch this gaslighting 101. Let's play it. How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I don't have the power to return him to the United States. You could release him the power to return him to the United States. But you could release him inside of the United States. Yeah, but I'm not releasing, I mean, we're not very fond of releasing terrorists into our country. We just turned the murder capital of the world into the safest country in the Western Hemisphere, and you want us to go back into releasing criminals so we can go back to being the murder capital of the world?

No, that's not going to happen. Well, they'd love to have a criminal released into our country. I mean, there's a fascination. They would love it. Yeah. Abrego Garcia has never been charged with a crime. He's been checking into the ICE detention centers in Maryland pursuant to his protected status order that was issued by a Trump immigration judge during 2019. That's what happened and he was disappeared. Same thing with all these other individuals like the gay hairdresser who fled Venezuela and he had a tattoo that said mom and dad on his arms.

But the Trump regime, which farmed this out to like private security guards. And when you look at some of these private security guards, their background was like they were fired from the police force. Well, they just use a point system. They're like, okay, two tattoos equals Tren de Aragua gang member, MS-13. Send them to the gulags. And we've seen that repeat itself over and over again.

60 Minutes did a report that 75% of the people who are now in the extermination camp, the gulag in El Salvador, had no criminal record in their home country, no criminal0 against the Trump regime. And they said, Trump regime, you are hereby ordered to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia and treat him as though he never left the country. And yes, the district court has jurisdiction. The attorney general, the top law enforcement officer in the United States is going with the line that actually Trump won 9-0, even though he lost 9-0. Here, play this clip from Pam Bondi. That's up to El Salvador if they want to return him. That's not up to us. The Supreme Court ruled, President, that if, as El Salvador wants to return him,

this is international matters, foreign affairs, if they wanted to return him, we would facilitate it, meaning provide a plan. I'm going to read for you what the Supreme Court said so that it's very clear, because I think it's important that facts matter. But here's Stephen Miller, Donald Trump's other top authoritarian advisor. Here he talks about, oh, we won nine to zero. The Supreme Court said Trump wins nine zero when it literally did the opposite. Play this clip. I promise you, if he was your neighbor, you would move right away.

So you don't plan to ask for it? But the Supreme Court is asking to... What was the ruling in the Supreme Court, Steve? Was it 9-0? Yes, it was a 9-0. In our favor. In our favor against the district court ruling, saying that no district court has the power to compel the foreign policy function of the United States.

As Pam said, the ruling solely stated that if this individual at El Salvador's sole discretion was sent back to our country, that we could deport him a second time. Well, no version of this legally ends up with him ever living here because he is a citizen of El Salvador. That is the president of El Salvador. Your questions about it per the court can only be directed to him. And I want to be clear here. First, the Supreme Court did not say that at all. The Supreme Court actually said the opposite. Second, this is more than just a Brego Garcia, although it's a travesty. If any human being we're talking about, human beings are treated like trash and sent to extermination camps because that's what they are and disappeared and never heard from again. But it starts with Abrego Garcia, and then it moves on to American

citizens. And then it moves on to people who Donald Trump says are the enemy of the people, who Donald Trump says are criminals, right? It's people in the media. It's people like prosecutors Donald Trump doesn't like. It's politicians who Donald Trump doesn't like, who he calls scum, who he calls vermin. Remember how we covered that during the campaign and the media didn't want to acknowledge the parallels between Trump's language and Hitler's language. And we made it very, very clear. Well, here's Donald Trump on a hot mic speaking to Bukele about the homegrowns. Donald Trump says the homegrowns need to be next, Naib.

This was before the official press conference took place, but they were mic'd up. And Trump goes, you got to build five more places for the homegrowns. Here, play this clip. I love you. I love you. I want you to support us. I want you to support us. Homegrown criminals. I said, homegrowns are next. The homegrowns. You've got to build about five more places. Yeah, that's fair.

All right. It's not big enough. No, yeah, yeah. Come on. So this is a much different five more facilities. He says, you got to go after the homegrowns next Brett and Jordy. I want to get your reaction.

Then I want to go through just what this is. I want to read what the Supreme court actually said. So people can hear not my commentary, but the language. I just think it's all the epitome of evil. And I think it's just so Orwellian to take something that was so clear cut, like a unanimous Supreme Court ruling against the Trump administration's a billion times more evil than anything we saw during the Trump administration. And it is just sickening to the core, especially hearing, you know, not only that Donald Trump is now trying to go after American citizens, trying to send them to these El Salvadoran prison camp, trying to expand this program, which has been so horrific. I mean,

there was the court filing that the Trump administration put today, filed the other day, and they've been incredibly evasive with the district court judge about this issue where the district court judge was simply asking, is Abrego Garcia alive? Is this person still living? We need proof of life. And even the way they answer those questions are just so offensive to me. They say, per what we've heard from the ministry in El Salvador, he is alive. Just all sort of hearsay, not actually saying, yes, we know he's alive. Here's a photo. Here's what we know. They are just trying to toy with the courts here. And quite frankly, shame on the Supreme Court, because this is what happens when you do these decisions like the immunity decision, and you give Donald Trump essentially full power

to do whatever the heck he wants. Guess what he's going to do? You think he's going to hold back? No, he's going to say, well, I have immunity from doing anything. What's the Supreme Court going to do? They've already ruled in my favor on immunity. What are these district courts going to do? What's the DOJ going to do? I control them. You gave Donald Trump carte blanche to do this. And by the way, at least the time that we are live right now on this, I've not heard the Supreme Court come out with a statement rebuking Donald Trump for his twisting and complete fabrication of the Supreme Court's order. And to me, this is a constitutional crisis that demands a crisis-like response. It demands an emergency response from the Supreme Court to be

incredibly clear and unequivocal about this, that Donald Trump is violating their order. And the Trump regime, they lie as easy as people breathe. I mean, this is why we say you can't trust anything that comes out of the Trump regime because, well, what we're showing you right now. I mean, it's so upsetting to me that these people have so much control over the lives of the American citizens, and yet they're the most despicable and hateful people. It's cruelty for cruelty's sake. It's unbelievable to see play out. And quite honestly, it's just frankly upsetting to me as someone who deeply loves this country to see our quote unquote leadership act in such a way that just makes a mockery of our constitution, that makes a mockery of our constitution,

that makes a mockery of our country and of the great people that make up this country. And I want to be clear, if they could say this about Abrego Garcia, if they could so nonchalantly sit there in the Oval Office, the Oval Office of the United States of America, sit in our White House, the people's house, they could sit there and go, this person's a criminal, this person's a terrorist, no more questions. We've deemed that to be the facts. And so they're okay to be shipped off to this El Salvadoran prison camp. I'm telling you, if they could do it to him, they could do it to you. That's all they have to say in their world to justify their actions. And you see that they are more than willing to do so. You know, it's because Donald Trump, though, is causing such grievous harm to the economy,

to the dollar, to the bond markets, though, that I actually think that lots of people give a crap. I unfortunately think that if it wasn't affecting people's money, that they would, a lot of people would be okay about the authoritarian extermination stuff that Donald Trump is doing, which I think is absolutely reprehensible. So the fact that the economy is having this level of volatility with the tariffs all backfiring at the same time of the extermination camps in El Salvador, they then become inextricably intertwined. So I think that's just an important point. And then Brett, your point of having this El Salvador dictator sit there, feign that they don't have any authority whatsoever in the people's house, in the Oval Office, is a image and a message that is something that

I think still needs to even be processed how bad it is. Let me just read from the Supreme Court ruling so people can know what the Supreme Court actually said. Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that this case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador. That's nine to zero. Had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador. Okay. Now the Supreme Court does go on to say the intended scope of the term effectuate in the district court's order is however unclear and may exceed the district court's authority. The district court should clarify its directive with due regard for the deference owed to the executive branch and the conduct of foreign affairs. For its part, the government should be prepared to share what it can concerning the steps it has taken

and the prospect of further steps. The order heretofore entered by the Chief Justice is vacated. So the Trump regime reads that last part as saying, we've taken all the steps. We asked Bukele and Bukele says, nope. So now there's nothing we can do. So you can't force us to do anything. That is it. Let me read you the opinion that is by the three liberal justices who agree with the disposition of the Supreme Court's ruling, saying facilitate the return and treat Abrego had he not been improperly sent to an extermination camp in El Salvador. Let me read for you just how powerful this language is. It says the United States government arrested Abrego Garcia in Maryland and flew him to a terrorism confinement center in El Salvador where he has been detained for 26 days and counting. To this day, the government has cited no basis in law for Abrego Garcia's warrantless arrest,

his removal to El Salvador, or his confinement in a Salvadoran prison, nor could it. The government remains bound by an immigration judge's 2019 order expressly prohibiting Garcia's removal to El Salvador because he faced a clear probability of future prosecution there and demonstrated that El Salvador's authorities were and would be unwilling to protect him. The government has not challenged the validity of that order. Instead of hastening to correct its egregious error, the government dismissed it as an oversight. The government now requests an order from the court permitting it to leave Abrego Garcia, a husband and father,

without a criminal record in a Salvadoran prison for no reason recognized by law. The only argument the government offers in support of its request is that the United States courts cannot grant relief once a deportee crosses the border, and that is plainly wrong. The government's moreover implies that it could deport and incarcerate any person, including U.S. citizens, without a legal consequence so long as it does so before a court can intervene. Because every factor governing requests for equitable relief manifestly weigh against the government, I would have declined to intervene in this litigation at all and denied the application in full. Nevertheless, I agree with the court's order that the proper remedy is to provide Abrego Garcia with all the process to which he would have been entitled had he not been unlawfully removed to El Salvador.

That means the government must comply with its obligation to provide Abrego Garcia with, quote, due process of law, including notices and an opportunity to be heard in any future proceedings. It must also comply with its obligations under the Convention Against Torture. Does that sound like a nine to zero opinion that Trump won? I just read from you what the Supreme Court ruled. And Brett, just one note, you know, the Supreme Court on its own is not going to just issue statements. It has to, the case has to go back to be heard before they're even allowed to comment, which it will forth, which that's going to happen. But now the question is, is that they're already being defied and the Trump regime's going

to say, okay, Supreme Court, you said facilitate. We facilitated. He's in El Salvador. There's nothing we can do. And the reason why the absolute immunity opinion is so significant is that had the Supreme Court not given Trump immunity, Trump, someone in that position, would be afraid that they can be personally charged with murder, right? Like kidnapping, like it would be a crime what took place. But because the Supreme Court said, well, you get immunity, there's no ramifications other than the Supreme Court saying you've been naughty, you've been naughty. And that is why the Trump regime is doing what it's doing. I want to talk about more aspects of what went down in that Oval Office meeting. I want to talk about Trump's talking about more tariffs on pharmaceuticals

this time and the chaos that's causing with treasury yields, the 10 and 20 year soaring now, the dollar at some of its weakest levels almost ever, money finding its way into the London gold market now because America's not looked at as a stable economy anymore. Mortgage rates above 7%, a lot of instability here. I want to remind everybody that on Thursday, we will have our Patreon meeting with all of our patrons, the state of the resistance, with all of our patrons, the state of the resistance, the state of the opposition, the state of the Midas Touch Network. If you ever wanted to meet Brett, Jordy, and myself, that's where you do it. You could ask us questions. There's a secret link

on patreon.com slash Midas Touch on Thursday. As soon as that live show ends, we'll go right into the Zoom meeting and you'll click on the secret link. Also, store.mid that live show ends, we'll go right into the Zoom meeting and you'll click on the secret link. Also, store.midastouch.com. Get your Midas merch, including 100% made in Canada, maple Midas merch. That's store.midastouch.com. Of course, Canadians, you know we had to make it elbows up, 100% made in Canada. And then for everybody else, you've got the other Midas Touch gear at store.midastouch.com. We've got a lot more show, a lot more to discuss, including what's going on with the Fight the Oligarchy Tour. We'll talk about that and more. Let's take our first quick break of the show. Hey guys, Brett here. And I've got to tell you,

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based on the deficit being used as a measure of how the Trump regime viewed tariffs going against the United States. So then tariffs went down to 10% on everyone but China for 90 days. And then actually, we then learned that there's still 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada, even though they weren't included on the Liberation Day chart. And then there was 50% more tariffs on China and 50% more tariffs on China, but then not computers and electronics, but then maybe on computers and electronics. Also due to a system glitch, a lot of the tariffs haven't been collected. Also, some of the tariffs may have to be returned on computers and electronics. So the external revenue service is actually the external return service. Also, there's going to be separate tariffs on steel pharmaceuticals and semiconductors.

Maybe it's possibly there's going to be just some gifts given to Tim Cook and maybe to some automakers temporarily. Trump doesn't know. We're going to have to find out what he posts next. OK, now, if you are a business, what are you going to do? What are you going to do? What are you going to do? Your goal, how is there going to be M&A activity, mergers and acquisitions? How do you know what the cost of your supplies? How are you going to make projections? You're going to build a factory?

You're not going to build a factory? Is Donald Trump going to wake up and make this post or that post? Donald Trump in the Oval Office was asked about uh additional tariffs and he talks about tariffs on pharmaceuticals that's one of the big ones that he wants to go after tariffs on on pharma here listen to what donald trump said in this bizarre and dangerous press conference with naibu kelly let's play uh questions No, not you. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President. The President.

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And, yeah, we're going to be doing that. That's going to be like we have on cars. We have, as you know, a 25% tariff on cars. We have a 25% tariff on steel and aluminum. And that's what that category fits right now. It's unclear what the hell he's even doing. And by the way, I'm not sure if you noticed that moment at the very beginning where he got asked a question and he just looked at the reporter.

And I think it was a female reporter. And he was like, not you, not you. And kind of just like shoot off the reporter. That's not normal behavior. I know in the swing of things, what he does, like people just ignore that behavior. I mean, could you imagine again, just like the CEO of a company behaving, just behaving like this? You couldn't, you know why? Because if someone was a sexual predator, a sexual abuser found liable for sexual assault, someone's a felon, a felon 34 times over, someone found liable for fraud, and someone who's bankrupted business after business after business in their life is a

destroyer, not a builder. And by the way, someone who speaks in front of kids like Donald Trump spoke at the young Republicans in New York in the past two years and said the most courageous thing he was told he did, he claims, by someone who was a general who said he's seen death on the battlefield was tell Donald Trump how courageous it was when Trump referred to sexually assaulting women as locker room talk. Trump said that's real courage. That's part of the message to the young Republicans. Okay. There's a reason why character matters and why Donald Trump's character is disqualifying. I won't even get into it on the show. I covered it elsewhere as well. But like Donald Trump released what he claimed to be his physical, and they described he is clearly in good health, as indicated by the fact that he's won many golf

tournaments recently. It actually says that. And then it refers to what took place in Butler, Pennsylvania, as his ear being scared. It says his ear was scared. The word is scarred. They don't even know how to spell it. And then they claim he's what? Six, three, two 20 or two 24. It's the most ridiculous document ever. And I know just sometimes like the way the question was asked and, you know, saying that, Oh, he's so strong because he wins golf tournaments in the swing of things. It seems minimal, but it's all part of this demented mindset of this insane, despicable, vile human being. And then just talking about Donald Trump not answering that question and Donald Trump defying court orders. Trump is defying a court

order from a judge that Trump appointed in D.C. Judge McFadden is a Trump appointed judge who ordered that the Associated Press be able to return to the White House press corps and be able to ask questions. A Trump-appointed judge. But the Trump regime will say all of these leftist injunctions, that they're killing everything, all these leftists, this leftist, that. Trump-appointed judge. Trump's refusing to abide by that court order as well. Utterly despicable. Brett and Jordy, speaking about utterly despicable, what Donald Trump said about Zelensky at this press conference and over the past, it's been since he I guess, what is three days ago at this point, sent Steve Witkoff, his special envoy to St. Petersburg. Witkoff looks at Putin,

puts his hand over his chest. It looks like he's pledging allegiance. Laura Loomer, the 9-11 conspiracy theorist, posts about how strong Steve Witkoff is with a photo of him shaking Putin's hand and putting his hand over his heart. And Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, is reposting a 9-11 conspiracy theorist, reposting a video from the Kremlin of an American special envoy putting his hand over his heart and greeting Vladimir Putin. Okay, what in the mad libs is that? Right. Did you hear that? All of that happened. Then Trump in the Oval Office, here he is attacking Zelensky. Let's play it. Let's not start with Zelensky because they're so, they're just so wrong. Yeah, please. Yeah. Thank you, Mr. President. You repeatedly mentioned last night that Russia's attack on Ukraine was a

mistake. What is the exact mistake? And had you given Putin a deadline to actually move toward a ceasefire? The mistake was letting the war happen. If Biden were competent and if Zelensky were competent, and I don't know that he is. We had a rough session with this guy over here. He just kept asking for more and more. That war should have never been allowed to happen. That war, I went four years and Putin wouldn't even bring it up. And as soon as the election was rigged and I wasn't here, that war started. There was no way that war should have been allowed to happen. And Biden should have stopped it. And you take a look at Putin. I'm not saying anybody's an angel, but I will tell you,

I went four years and it wasn't even a question. He would never. And I told him, don't do it. You're not going to do it. And it was the apple of his eye. Apple of his eye. He says the 2020 election was rigged. He blames Zelensky for Putin invading Zelensky. He calls Zelensky not competent with Nayib Bukele, the leader of a poor authoritarian Latin American country sitting by his side. Yeah. And it's just the whole thing is horrific to watch. He continues to make an enemy out of Vladimir Zelensky. He calls what Putin did a mistake. I mean, that's the most that he could say, that it's a mistake. And when he says that, he clarifies there that he's not even saying that, which is like maybe the best way that you could even decipher this. He's not even saying that Putin made a mistake.

He's saying the mistake was made by Zelensky and it was made by Biden because the war should have never been started. 34 people died in these missile strikes. Putin is essentially laughing in Donald Trump's face, as Donald Trump said in the first 24 hours that he would solve the Ukraine issue. He said he was going to be able to just get everybody together and fix this thing. And ever since Donald Trump even started to do anything here, tried to bring the sides together, Putin has just been mocking him with these attacks. The second Donald Trump says, oh, we have an idea about this peace treaty,

bombs start falling in Kiev. Bombs start falling throughout Ukraine. It's the same pattern we see over and over again. Now, two children died in these attacks. 34 people total, 117 people were wounded. And Donald Trump can't even build the courage to say that was wrong. He can't even say the minimum here right now because he's on Vladimir Putin's side. He wants Putin to be killing Ukrainians. He wants to embrace dictators like Bukele and Putin and Orban and all these folks around the world. That's who Donald Trump has an affinity for. He does not have an affinity for the free world, for our allies. That's why right now the United States is quite frankly not a rational partner to be dealing with in the world. Donald Trump has completely upended the

entire world order, the entire global order. That's why you see leaders like Mark Carney coming out and saying, the United States cannot be trusted anymore. That's why you see people from the EU coming out and saying the United States cannot be trusted anymore. This is happening all across the world right now. And it's because of one individual, Donald Trump, and those sycophants around him, like the Marco Rubios, who damn well know better, but are embracing fringe figures who are now, I guess, part of the mainstream in Donald Trump's administration, like Laura Loomer, and are just trying to parroting everything that Donald Trump says, which are the most despicable things imaginable. The closest he got to criticizing Putin was saying, he's not an angel. That was it. Then he spent the rest of that answer criticizing Zelensky, criticizing former President Biden.

And I just sincerely ask the reporters in that room, I know you care about that access. I know you do. I know you hold this as a high regard. And look, I appreciate your craft. I genuinely do. But please, for the love of this country, you need to push back on the guy. You need to say, you are president right now. What are you going to do about this?

What are your thoughts about this? And don't let him escape on, I didn't know about that. Or, I haven't read that yet. Stop it. Stop it. This isn't a freaking game. This isn't a game show. These are real world consequences. These are people's lives. People are dying. He's the leader of the free world, whether we like it or not. Hold his feet to the goddamn fire and ask him some questions. I got to disagree with you. He's no longer the leader of the free world. Let's be very clear. He's not. America right now is like a bigger version of North Korea to the rest of the world. No one's looking towards

America. We were the leader of the free world. America looks like a regime right now, a la North Korea. Europe is forming its own alliances and Canada looking to Europe as more reliable partners. Australia looking to Europe. That's the dynamic right there. You know, I think we saw from the European Commission, when they send their diplomats over, they now go through the same protocols as though they were going to Russia or China. They bring burner phones and they protect themselves as though the United States is a hostile nation. That's from the Financial Times. And who's this benefiting most? Xi Jinping is just feasting, right? He's going to Australia to buy beef over there. He's

going to all these other countries saying, join the BRICS block. He's going to Europe and saying, hey, we're going to make our BYD electric vehicles available to you. Why don't we do deals with you? We're a better partner than the United States and we should be relied upon more. So that's who's benefiting most from this. And then something that I think has gone underreported as well, but it's one of the biggest stories, is that you have China suspending the rare earth exports as part of the trade war. So I think Spencer Hakimian points this out aptly here, where he goes, I don't think people are appreciating what this means that China is suspending rare earth exports as the trade war with the U.S.

escalates. You can't build weapons, drones, radars, cars, smartphones, laptops, MRI machines, CT scans without rare earth minerals. China has about a 95% market share over these minerals and their refinement and has chosen to stop exporting them to the United States. This will be front cover news within a few days. Just wait. And Brett, I think you've mentioned this before. You're like, you know, my level of viewing what the business community is saying is at an all-time low. Also, business news reporters who like always underplay the facts, you know, would be like in a tsunami where the water is receding. And most people would say a tsunami is coming. They're like, yeah, that just looks like a unique wave pattern that's taking place. It's like, say what's happening so

people can prepare for it. Because what China is doing there and the way China is just outplaying Trump in this trade war every step of the way, the fact that the impact is being felt now, that's the actual shocking part because we know it's going to be felt soon when the data starts picking all of this stuff up. That was supposed to happen more like the summer or at the end of the year, but it's happening already, Brett. Right now, the economy is in a really bad place. And we see the dollar falling every single day. We're just seeing a weakening of the United States as people around the world realize that the United States can't be trusted to do business with. And I think that's a first in a very long time that that is the case. It's interesting because I think we have a benefit here that we

have a global audience, which is something super cool that's just really incredible for us to have. We get to speak with people all across the world. We get to get feedback from people all across the world. Not that we necessarily needed verification of this, but when Donald Trump says things like America's never been more respected, those are the first people to tell us, you know, everybody here is laughing at you right now. Everyone here is scared of you right now. And this is not the United States that we are supposed to be as a country. And so we do need to fight back against this every step of the way. I see some great movements building up every single day, every single week in this country. You see the 50-51 protests all across the country, the protests that we saw April 5th. There's going to be more, I think, later

this weekend. And then you see Bernie Sanders at AOC. They're building these crowds, the fighting oligarchy tour. And you see that the people have had enough. The people do not want to live in the United States of America. That looks like this. That looks more like North Korea or Russia or Nazi Germany than it does the United States of America. So I'm calling on everybody out here right now to continue to fight back because the autocrats want you to give up. They want you to be so overwhelmed with anything, but I know that this community will not do that. So keep fighting, keep pushing ahead. Let's make them more afraid of us than we are of them. And let's continue to spread

pro-democracy values and just be a team in this pro-democracy movement. Look, we've got a lot more to discuss. I also want to send our kind of heartfelt message to Governor Shapiro, Jordi, of your state, of the Commonwealth, who was targeted for an assassination attempt. The governor's residence received serious damage when an arsonist lit it on fire. And the plan by this arsonist, by this individual who engaged in an attempted murder was to go there and to kill Governor Shapiro on Passover with a hammer. By the way, what Donald Trump mocked Nancy Pelosi's husband for being a victim of a hammer attack, which Trump and the MAGA Republicans there kind of, you know, played off as like some sort of,

you know, sick, twisted joke. When we get back, I'll show you when Trump was asked about Governor Shapiro, Trump said, Trump said nothing. He goes, I heard about it. No message of sympathy of like, we're with you, like that can't be tolerated, nothing at all. But goes, I heard about it. No message of sympathy of like, we're with you, like that can't be tolerated, nothing at all. But instead, Donald Trump wanted to talk about the masters, the golf tournament, Donald Trump posing in front of gold statues of himself. He's building more gold statues of himself at his properties when he goes back over the weekend to golf and vacation. We're going to talk about that and more. We're going to take our last quick break of the show.

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of evil in America. And as I told the governor yesterday, we must stand united against hatred and violence. As Carl Quintanilla writes, at least one U.S. president cares to denounce this attack. You know, a lot of what we talk about here on the Midas Touch Network, I think, is beyond politics. Right. I mean, I like to think of what we do here first as beyond fighting for, you know, objectivity, equality, workers. And then I think once you're there and you have the strong values and principles set, then the politics falls in line. But we have to start with the fact that a governor of a state in the United States was targeted, a Jewish governor also on Passover, was targeted with an assassination attempt on Passover. And you don't even hear Donald Trump saying anything about it. I mean, just think about that statement I just read from former President Biden. But the media wants to be like, oh, Bukele, you've got a cool dictator in the White House, you know, or like or Trump spending the day glazing an authoritarian. States does not acknowledge and express sympathy and solidarity with a governor or anyone who goes

through that situation who's targeted with an assassination attempt. Not to even mention, and I did a whole video on this too, Donald Trump denied the governor of North Carolina's request for additional FEMA aid from Hurricane Helene the same way to emergency removal of debris. Right. With everything, that story gets lost and drowned out. The same way Donald Trump denied the request by the governor of Georgia, Republican Governor Kemp of Georgia's similar request for the removal of debris. Donald, I mean, come on. You should not be okay with that, regardless of what political party that you're from. You should not be okay with the fact that you have the head of health and human services, our health department here, RFK Jr., doing exactly what people warned about,

bringing in people who are vaccine deniers, going to post things to the website that spreads lies about vaccines. You shouldn't be okay about that at all. You shouldn't. You shouldn't be okay, you know, that they are attacking Medicaid, that necessarily in their Republican Trump budget plan, it's $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid. That's just what it says. It's what it says. They want to hide it, but that's what's in there. We already know Social Security Administration offices are being shut down. Again, to me, regardless of what political party you're from, you should not be cool with that. Here's Donald Trump landing in D.C. today.

He's asked about Shapiro and the assassination attempt. Here's what Trump says. Let's play it. Mr. President, any reaction to the governor of Pennsylvania, his mansion, set on fire? Do you have any reaction? I just heard about it. No, I have to look into it. You got the perfect health report. Everybody in the press wants to know this. How do you do it, Mr. President? I haven't You got the perfect health report. All of our, all, all, everybody in the press wants to know this. How do you do it, Mr. President? I haven't set up the two-way.

And did you hear the second question by one of the propagandist media? You have incredible health, Mr. President. How are you staying so healthy? I mean, maybe he's lying. Maybe because the report is like a bunch of bullshit. He's not 220 pounds and six, you know, not how much he weighs. Okay. It says his ear is scared. You mean scarred. Okay. We've never seen scarring on the ear.

He claims his ear was hit with an AR-15 bullet, but he didn't need stitches and refused to release the report from the Butler Medical Center. Okay. He claims that he's in perfect mental health and you can tell because he wins golf tournaments. As Sean Broderick says, there's an old saying from Turkey, I think, when a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus. Boy, do I think of that a lot lately. And thinking about the circus, by the way, no offense to clowns. These are fascist clowns. Clowns is a real profession. Elon Musk

now saying that what Doge is going to just be able to cut 150 billion, that's his claim. And I think 100 billion of that is also in doubt. There's more federal government. Remember he said it was going to be 2 trillion in cuts? 2 trillion. That was their promise. Now they're saying $150 billion. About $100 billion seems made up from that as well. And there's more federal government spending now with their hostile government takeover and destruction of our federal government firing veterans. Think about the impacts of what's going to happen, though, with future pandemics and illnesses and aviation issues and all of the above as a result of what they're doing. And Brett and Jordi, just did you notice the turnaround in a short period of time of this morning consult poll from last week to this week? Congressional trust on issues whom voters trust more on issues like the economy and national security, national debt, foreign policy. The Republicans were ahead just last week. And pretty much now, Democrats are

ahead on essentially every issue, the economy plus three. It's the first time since May 2021 that more voters trust Democrats than Republicans to handle economy. That's like their issue. And then if you look at the remaining issues, more people trust Democrats in foreign policy taxes, the economy, trade, energy, Medicare, healthcare, abortion, LGBTQ, and still more people for whatever reason, trust Republicans on immigration, national security, and national debt. I think a lot of it has to do also though, Brett and Jordy, with the fact that Democrats are fighting back. They're doing the fight, the oligarchy tour. They're taking the message to the people in red states and purple states

and areas as well. And they're actually fighting. And voila, when you fight, it has results. And we're seeing that, huh? Yeah, the fight is important because right now what we're seeing, I'm sure a lot of you have heard the saying death by a thousand cuts. We're seeing death by a thousand cuts to the United States of America every single day. And oftentimes, you see the one big event like the Signal event. You see the incident with Veselinsky in the Oval Office. You see the deranged press conferences where he has his stooges asking the questions. Each of those on its own is crazy. And you're like, okay, that was a crazy singular incident that happens. Together, it's that death by a thousand cuts. And when you stack it single day, just destroying the democracy that we all knew and love. Thankfully, there are people out there speaking out.

Bernie Sanders, this weekend, I've seen a few different quotes for the LA crowd. I've seen upwards of like 70,000 people out here in LA for that Bernie crowd in LA. Whatever the number was, it was a whole lot of people. And that was almost just like the start because now Bernie's going to, and Bernie and AOC, they're going to all these Republican areas. Now they're going to Montana. They're going to Idaho. They were in Utah. I mean, they had so

many people in Utah. They filled the Huntsman arena completely. So we're at 20,000 people in the arena by itself, but that wasn't it. They filled the overflow area. Like as far as the eye could see, you saw people in the overflow area. That's in Utah, which is supposed to be red state Utah. Bernie Sanders and AOC able to get those sorts of crowds. And you're seeing people are flocking to their ideas because they're good ideas. They are ideas that speak about the needs of people, that speak about to cost of living, that speaks about Donald Trump as a dictator, that speaks to people's want for universal healthcare. They are speaking to people right now. And it is such a contrast to what Donald Trump is offering and what Donald Trump is doing right now every single day to

the American people. And it's giving folks what we really need right now more than anything. And that's hope. Because like I say on the show, the thing that authoritarians want is they want you to give up. They want to beat you down so bad that you're not even gonna wake up in the day and fight back. What AOC right now, what Bernie are doing, they're getting out there.

They're keeping people hopeful. They're keeping people strong. And most importantly, when it's not even an election year, they are out there building a movement. That is the most important thing. I see people be like, okay, but what does it matter?

They got crowds here. They got crowds there. How do you think movements form? You don't just go a week before the election and go, okay, everybody, here are my ideas. Let's go beat them. That's not how it works. You got to build a movement from the ground up. And that's exactly the kind of work right now that Bernie and AOC and the other folks who are joining the tour are putting in. It's so perfectly said, Brad, right? What's one of the expressions we say on the show? ABC, always be campaigning. And now we get to see that play out in real life. And it's

not campaigning just for campaigning sake, right? These are good ideas. These are ideas for the people. They're timely ideas. It really matters to people. And you can't just show up, Brett, to your point, three months before an election and expect that folks just have your back because you're the Democratic Party. No, the Democratic Party, it's truly the party for people. It's the party for the working class. It's the party for America, hands down. But the ideals and ideas constantly get lost in the shit show that is our politics because the Republicans like to grab the microphone and just spout all this MAGA nonsense and frankly lie, lie to the

American people. So to get out in front of crowds, to go to states, to go to red states as Democrats and hear your message resonate and hear it loud and hear people understand like, I get this. I am for this. Yes. And not be concerned that the next election is two and a half, three years away. No, you got to get those ideas. You got to get the movement going now. So let's show some of those ideas, because here's the thing. The moment politics becomes gamified, right? And it's viewed like a sporting event. There's the team Democrats, the team Republicans do a split screen, watch people fight in two minute sound bites, and then go to the next one and show anger and rage and who's going to win.

I saw this interview over the weekend on Meet the Press with Senator Cory Booker and Kristen Welker, the host of Meet the Press. What her main focus was this weekend is, so what do you think about Kamala Harris running in 2028? And Booker was like, stop, stop. And that's not what I'm trying to talk about. I want to talk about the people suffering right now and what we're doing to address that. And Welker from Meet the Press, she would keep pushing. But I really want to know, what do you think about Kamala? Are you going to support her right now? And he's like, stop asking those questions. She'll make whatever decision she wants to make. I want to talk about what's happening to the people. I want to talk about the fact that

people are being disappeared to concentration camps, that people are losing their life savings. I want to talk about that veterans are being fired or having their lives destroyed, that the VA is being gutted, that all these government programs are being gutted and destroyed. I want to talk about those things. And I want to talk about what the MAGA Republicans are doing to create this fascist state in the United States. So stop gamifying this. So that's why I always say here on the Midas Touch Network, to me, you always have to talk about your values and principles. And sometimes those just start with empathy, trying to be a good person, lifting people up, not punching people down, not attacking marginalized communities, being a helping hand to support people, right?

Building community, bridging gaps. That to me is kind of equality. That's peak. And then we can start going, okay, well, now that I have these values, who are the people fighting for them and who are the people fighting against them, right? To me, that's why this is fight the oligarchy, not necessarily fight for or against a party. It's fight. It's appropriately identifying the source of this problem is a fascist oligarchy that's trying to destroy and is destroying our country. So here's Bernie Sanders from the speech. And he's like, OK, idea one, instead of spending one trillion dollars a year on the military. Maybe we focus on things like low-income housing. We build homes, okay? Here, play this clip. Here in LA, in Burlington, Vermont, and all

across this country, we have a major housing crisis. Am I right? And it's not just homelessness. It's people paying 40, 50, 60 percent of their limited incomes in housing. Instead of spending a trillion dollars a year on the military, let's build five million units of low income and affordable housing. Let's talk about education, right? As Donald Trump wants to abolish the Department of Education, as Donald Trump attacks universities, as Donald Trump attacks opportunities available to Americans. What are Bernie Sanders, what should we be fighting for here? Senator Sanders in his fight the oligarchy speech from this weekend talks about education's a human right. Here, play this clip. Brothers and sisters, we live in a competitive global economy.

And if we're going to effectively compete, we need the best educated workforce in the world. There is nothing less than insane and counterproductive that we have young people leaving higher education fifty, eighty thousand dollars in debt. We need more doctors. You know what doctors are leaving medical school with? Five hundred thousand dollars in debt. Nurses are leaving a hundred thousand000 in debt. Education is a human right from childcare through college. We need sheet metal workers.

We need carpenters. We need construction workers. We need apprenticeship programs. We need to make public colleges, universities, and trade schools tuition free. And that is how it's done. We stream the Senator Sanders fight in AOC, fight the oligarchy speeches live. We then do lots of videos about them. And I just want to leave you all with this, like how we try to meet the moment at the Midas Touch Network, how we use our platform now that the Midas Touch Network gets more views than Fox News, twice as many podcast downloads as Joe Rogan. We're the fastest growing sub stack on all of sub stack. By the way, you can join the

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