The MeidasTouch Podcast - MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 7/29/25

Episode Date: July 29, 2025

In this episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast, we dive into Donald Trump’s escape to Scotland—where protests and renewed scrutiny over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein follow him across the Atlantic. We expose Trump’s disturbing claim that he should be thanked for the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, as reports confirm mass starvation under Israeli blockade policies. Plus, we break down Alina Habba’s flailing attempt to cling to her role as U.S. Attorney after an unprecedented judicial rebuke, and more. Ben, Brett and Jordy break it down. Subscribe to Meidas+ at https://meidasplus.com Get Meidas Merch: https://store.meidastouch.com Deals from our sponsors!  One Skin: Get 15% off OneSkin with the code MEIDAS at https://www.oneskin.co/  #oneskinpod Armra: Go to https://armra.com/MEIDAS or enter MEIDAS to get 30% off your first subscription order. Qualia: Head to https://qualialife.com/meidas and use promo code: MEIDAS at checkout for 15% OFF your purchase of Qualia's products. L-Nutra ProLon: Visit https://ProlonLife.com/MEIDAS to claim your 15% discount plus a bonus gift! 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 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No Frills delivers. Get groceries delivered to your door from No Frills with PC Express. Shop online and get $15 in PC Optimum Points on your first five orders. Shop now at nofrills.ca. Donald Trump's nightmare in Scotland continues. He tried to run away from the Epstein scandal, but he ran right into it even more as the cover up there gets worse. He had a disastrous press conference with the president of the European Union commission. He had a disastrous press conference with the prime minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, kept on talking about Epstein and said that he did not have the privilege to go to the island.

He called it the privilege. Also, you have Donald Trump making more fake trade deals. Japan says that they're not investing $500 billion into the United States. If anything, it's going to be a loan, even though Donald Trump announced $600 billion investment from the European Union in a so-called trade deal. The European Union really is saying that

that's not realistic and they have no way to actually get its member countries to actually go about making such an investment. Meanwhile, Donald Trump continues to bend the knee for China. Donald Trump blocked Taiwan's president from entering into the United States at the request of China's leader, Xi Jinping. Also, Donald Trump continues to do whatever Netanyahu wants him to do. Um, although I think that's what Donald Trump wants to do as well.

Netanyahu says that, uh, he will be annexing basically all of Gaza, uh, phase by phase and that that's the next step, just getting rid of the Palestinians totally. Um, and Donald Trump's like, well, it's going to be up to Netanyahu and the U S is, uh, supporting's going to be up to Netanyahu and the U.S. is supporting that. We'll talk about that. Also, Donald Trump, in order to distract from his dark past, which Jeffrey Epstein continues to talk about charging former President Obama with treason.

Over the weekend, Donald Trump was posting photos of Obama's face on OJ Simpson in the Ford Bronco chase. And you had Donald Trump, CIA director and others saying that, yeah, there's no statute of limitations on trees and we're going after Obama from from what? From 2016 what? Donald Trump was involved with Russia. Russia, Russia, Russia is real. Donald Trump says Russia, if you're listening, hack into my opponent's emails. I mean, a bipartisan Senate commission said

that Russia tried to interfere with the 2016 election. Why are we talking about 20, what are we talking about, 2012, 2008? What are we gonna talk about, 2002? It's so obvious what Donald Trump is doing. Oh, he's also talking about arresting Kamala Harris, Beyonce, Oprah, Al Sharpton. We'll talk about that, I guess. Brett and Jordi,

or you guys, doing might as mighty. We've got a lot to discuss on today's show. I mean, we got a lot to discuss every day. First off, I just want to say how upsetting it is to be the bad guys. It's really upsetting seeing everything the Trump regime is doing here and across the world and understanding that, you know, our country is complicit in so many horrific things going on and seeing Trump's deflection from the Epstein scandal. I swear the more this guy speaks, the guiltier he seems. Like if there was a masterclass on how to appear guilty for something that you're not

necessarily guilty, I'm sure you have a lot of connections with Jeffrey Epstein. Nobody's saying that you specifically committed any sort of crimes. The way Donald Trump is behaving is certainly, I think, opening a lot of eyes and making people wonder what the hell is in those Epstein files and why is he so afraid to let them see the light of day? I mean, you just got to think about it. Whatever's in there has to be so bad that he called him a hoax, accused Barack Obama of treason, shut down the Epstein investigation entirely, had Mike Johnson a recessed Congress to prevent a vote on releasing the files, rushed his criminal attorney to the federal prison to offer Epstein's accomplice an immunity deal. This is just absolutely outrageous. Nope, there's never been a

guiltier looking individual, I think, in the history of the world. But here we are. This is the United States of America in July 2025. What a shame we will go through it all. Jordy, what's the latest? Brett, well said. Excited to get in. We do have an action-packed show. I just want to remind those watching and listening, if you haven't already, please download the Midas Touch podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Benji, where do you want to start off today? Oh, wait, let me say this also. We're going live on Patreon right after this for a Q&A. So make sure you check it out. Sign up now if you're not already at patreon.com slash Midas Touch. We're looking forward to our Q&A immediately following this live broadcast on YouTube.

Let's go to Turnberry Scotland, Donald Trump's golf course. He was there to enrich himself and promote his business. And on the side, he brought in the president of the European Union Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and he brought in the prime minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer. Let me show you what went down with Keir Starmer earlier in the day. Donald Trump basically on his own talks about Epstein's Island and Trump says, I never had the privilege of going there. He calls it a privilege, the privilege here. Play this clip. That was it.

I'm glad I did. If you want to know the truth. And by the way, I never went to the island and Bill Clinton went there supposedly 28 times. I never went to the island, but Larry Summers, I hear, went there. He was the head of Harvard and many other people that are very big people. Nobody ever talks about them. I've never had the head of Harvard, and many other people that are very big people, nobody ever talks about them. I never had the privilege of going to his island. And I did turn it down, but a lot of people in Palm Beach were invited to his island.

In one of my very good moments, I turned it down, I didn't want to go to his island. The privilege, he says. Then he's asked if he was briefed by his attorney general, Pam Bondi, by the way, who's been very quiet lately, regarding his name appearing in the Epstein files, which he was briefed. And then he lies and at first says no, but then he realizes, wait a minute, how am I going to lie about this? And he goes, well, you know, the whole thing is a big hoax and the Democrats had the files. So like Biden probably did stuff to the files and put my name into it. Play the clip. One.

You said they could have not been briefed on the Epstein files or your name has not appeared in the Epstein files. But doesn't the AG have to tell you if your name is? Well, I haven't been overly interested in it. You know, it's something — it's a hoax that's been built up way beyond proportion. I can say this — those files were run by the worst scum on Earth. They were run by Comey. They were run by Garland.

They were run by Biden and all of the people that actually ran the government, including the auto pen, those files were run for four years by those people. If they had anything, I assume they would have released it. The whole thing is a hoax. They ran the files. I was running against somebody that ran the files.

If they had something, they would have released. Now, they can easily put something in the files that's a phony, like as an example, Christopher Steele, a person you know well, happens to be from your country. But Christopher Steele, as an example, wrote a book, a dossier, we call it the fake news dossier. And the whole thing was a fake. The whole thing was a fake. They can put things in the file that are fake. By the way, I think Donald Trump owes Christopher Steele about $600,000 after a frivolous claim that he's making there. Christopher Steele won the litigation against Donald Trump and Trump has refused to pay

the judgment. Let's just pause there, Brett, your immediate reaction to what I just showed you. Not the comments of an innocent man, I will say lightly. And nobody's buying this crap. Not even most of Donald Trump supporters are buying this crap. If you look at even kind of those right wing podcasts who a lot of people talk about, you know, help Trump in the lead up to this election, none of them are believing any of this stuff. We saw even Joe Rogan in a recent episode say that this is a line in the sand and how Trump's

trying to gaslight people. We're seeing folks from this other podcast say how, like what I was saying before, the more Trump acts like this and says it's a hoax and says it was planted by Biden or Comey or whatever other name he wants to throw in there, the guiltier that he seems. And it's very obvious that whatever is in those files, as I said before, has to be so horrific, like not even just like a little bad, but it needs to be so bad for him to have this sort of reaction to it. I mean, this was Donald Trump's government when Epstein was arrested. The sweetheart deal given to Jeffrey Epstein back in Florida, and we get into this a

little later, what's going on with that. The sweetheart deal was given by US attorney Alex Acosta. Alex Acosta was then brought into the Trump administration as a reward after that sweetheart deal, this non-prosecution agreement, which now Ghislaine Maxwell is using to try to get out of prison based on that and based on what Donald Trump has been doing. So what we're seeing right now is clearly a coordinated effort by Trump and his allies to actually try to free Epstein's accomplice, to try to actually absolve himself of blame for whatever he may have done in this entire scheme. And now the entire Republican

party has turned into, and there's no real other way to say this, into this pedophile protection racket. And they are now all working together in this real life conspiracy to try to conceal the crimes of Epstein and any of Donald Trump's affiliations with them. 1000%. And can we just pause real quick and go back to that first comment,

the clip that we played of Trump saying that he didn't have the privilege of being on Epstein's Island. Let's just give him the benefit of the doubt and say he's being sarcastic there. Yeah, he's being sarcastic, trying to be funny. What are you doing trying to be funny about this? They're real victims. These are real people. And you're trying to make light of it and make a joke saying, oh, I didn't have the privilege of showing up

there. I mean, this guy is such a jag off, Ben. Next he's asked, are you considering a pardon of Ghislaine Maxwell? Before you play it though, he's sitting with the prime minister of the United Kingdom. OK, like I just want to reflect on what this is. This is a meeting of two leaders of countries that are supposed to be talking about issues like the war in Ukraine, Russia's unlawful invasion, the humanitarian crisis and the mass slaughter of innocent people in Gaza right now, and Israel wanting to annex all of Gaza.

Which, by the way, even people in Israel are starting to say to Benjamin Netanyahu, dude, what are you doing right there? And Netanyahu's support base in Israel is still like 35% of the Likud, it's not all of Israel, you know, and, and I mean, you're supposed to talk about, you know, issues about, you know, trade and bringing the world together. But this is what Donald Trump is, is not because Donald Trump's like talking about it too. I mean, the question wasn't have you visited the island Trump on his own said, I, you know, I just didn't have the privilege to go there. Didn't have the privilege, Bill Clinton, former president of Harvard.

Why do we care? Bill Clinton, okay, Bill Clinton didn't hold him accountable. The former president of Harvard, okay, sure. You too, you too. You lived, it was worse. You lived down the block from the guy and threw parties with him at Mar-a-Lago. We see video games.

And here's the thing, Ben, that I also try to keep hammering home. Like even going to the island as screwed up as it is, that's not a crime in and of itself. Even going on Jeffrey Epstein's plane, that's not a crime in and of itself. Writing a Jeffrey Epstein's birthday book, not a crime in and of itself.

But Donald Trump's reaction to this news coming out, now that raises a lot of eyebrows. And that says, oh, so maybe that isn't actually just an innocent birthday note amongst two friends. Maybe there is something deeper to it because Donald Trump is denying that he even wrote it in the first place.

That, to me, is what makes the smoke seem like a fire around this entire issue. Here, Donald Trump was asked, are you considering a pardon of Ghislaine Maxwell? Let's play it. Mr. President, you completely ruled out a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell when you landed. Is that something you would ever consider?

Pardon for who? For Ghislaine Maxwell. Well, I'm allowed to give her a pardon, but nobody's approached me with it. Nobody's asked me about it. It's in the news about that aspect of it, but now, it would be inappropriate to talk about it. So... No, it would be inappropriate to do it. He goes, it would be inappropriate to talk about it.

Meaning he's considering doing it. He's saying it's inappropriate to talk about it because he has his former criminal defense attorney, the number two now at the Department of Justice, who met with Ghislaine over 10 hours, gave Ghislaine what's called Queen for the Day status. That's the name for it, where they gave her a special form of immunity where she can no longer be prosecuted for anything that she said. Granted, look, she's already in prison for 20 years for sex trafficking and being Epstein's co-conspirator,

but she didn't testify at that trial. She didn't cooperate. So arguably she could have been charged with many more things and been to prison for even longer than what she was sentenced for, but now she can't be charged with the other stuff that she basically talked about because that's called use immunity.

Arguably the government can say that they found it from other sources, but it's very hard to make that claim. So they basically insulated her from that. And what was the point of that? She's going to name all these other names, but not Donald Trump's. And Trump's plan is let's distract with that. And maybe people will forget that what they were asking all along for is not a Ghislaine Maxwell statement or grand jury testimony. We just want the files the 300 whatever it is, you know gigabytes of data that

exists that that's what we want. That's what we're asking for not any of his other stuff. You don't need to go to Ghislaine Maxwell. You could go to the victims. You could hear from them and people have done that and you could go to the files that you are preventing the public from seeing that has all the information. And I should also say Trump's statements that you heard right there where he says like, oh, I haven't even thought about that. And that's something I really thought about. I

don't know. I can do it, but I haven't thought about that. Same exact statements that he made prior to pardoning people like Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Roger Stone. Donald Trump says the same thing before he pardons people. I'm not saying I have a magic eight ball and I can predict what Trump is going to do in this situation, but I will say this is what he has said in the past prior to pardoning people who are controversial to be pardoned. It's also just an insane thing to say. I could pardon her. Like for that question, that's your response. I could do it. You could do a lot, Don. You could pardon a lot of people. How about no? Yeah. How about just a flat out, no. You could pardon a lot of people. How about no?

Yeah, how about just a flat out no. No, I'm not gonna pardon. He's one of the most vile, most despicable sex traffickers known to man who's committed some of the most heinous crimes. Brett, I could do it, Brett. I could do it. Are you kidding me, man? Unbelievable.

Then Donald Trump says, though, that everything relating to Epstein is good for him. He goes, this is good for his phone numbers. Here, play this clip. I just don't. When you, you know, when you talk about files, I just keep going back and other people too. Even the enemy says this thing is not correct because if we had it, we would have used it on the guy. It's a bad issue. They say it's a good issue for Trump. Do you know that my poll numbers are up four and a half points since this ridiculous Epstein stuff?

My poll numbers have gone up four and a half points because people don't buy it. Okay, people don't buy it. And he's gone and we want to focus on trade deals. I want to focus on the deal we just made with the European Union, which is the biggest trade deal in history. It's the biggest deal, I think, in history, not just trade deal. So if they would have had something, they would have used it. And let me be clear, too.

There's a lot of damaging files that are already out there. That's one of the things, too, about this whole thing. And go back and watch the videos, though, that I've done. I'm not going to repeat it all here. Or you talk about a 14 year old girl going to Mar-a-Lago with Epstein and Ghislaine. And Epstein allegedly saying to her, or pointing at Donald Trump and saying,

do you like this little one? Or Virginia Joufray, underage girl, towel girl working at Mar-a-Lago after being homeless, somehow got a job at Mar-a-Lago. And then Ghislaine Maxwell went over to the Mar-a-Lago spa and said, somehow got a job at Mar-a-Lago. And then Ghislaine Maxwell went over to the Mar-a-Lago spa and said, oh, you're working at this spa, you wanna do massages for Epstein and then Epstein sex trafficked her.

Or Donald Trump and Epstein doing like a party together where they brought over 30 girls from like a pageant of like indeterminate age and said they were gonna meet VIP in the modeling agency and it was just Trump and Epstein. So there, I mean, look, there's a lot of other stuff that's already out there that I've always told people, let's focus on that as well. Also, Ben, Trump has tried to normalize this idea that it's normal for the Department of Justice to try to go after political opponents. And I've seen even some people take the bait on our side and say, yeah, why didn't Biden release the files? He could have brought down Trump because that's not how the Department of Justice is supposed to operate. Even some people take the bait on our side and say, yeah, why didn't Biden release the files?

He could have brought down Trump because that's not how the Department of Justice is supposed to operate. This was an act of investigation until very recently when Donald Trump shut it down. You normally actually don't release things of an active investigation because it could affect the government's case. When a Galen Maxwell goes to appeal her case, it could affect going after other people who are involved in this scheme. Believe it or not, most presidents, except for I guess Richard Nixon and Donald Trump,

viewed the Department of Justice as off limits for the president to interfere with. That was like a, that's a big policy that has existed, the separation between the president of the United States and the Department of Justice. They do not view it as a tool to attack their political opponents, even if Donald Trump believes that to be the case because he was prosecuted for actual crimes over the past few years by the Department of Justice. Donald Trump is the individual who closed down the case. Donald Trump made it his cause to release the Epstein files. Donald Trump is the one who weaponized the Epstein files to try to smear his political

opponents. He said he would release everything. In the second he took a look in those documents and saw that his name is apparently all over it, he backtracked and called it a hoax. So he is not able to slip out of this. People know exactly what is happening here. I'll show one other clip of Trump talking about Epstein

in this meeting with the leader of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer. And I'll show you some other things that Donald Trump said. But he starts describing why it was that he stopped being friends with Epstein. And the kind of fake MAGA explanation is that, oh, Donald Trump thought Epstein was a creepy guy and said, look, you're banned from my...

You're banned from this locat... From Mar-a-Lago, get out! And Donald Trump was like the hero. He stood up to Epstein. But here Donald Trump says, he goes, Epstein did something really inappropriate in my presence. Okay. What is it? And then he goes, he hired help that worked for me. Trump goes, He hired the help that worked for me and he stole the people who worked for me. And Trump calls the people who worked for him help.

So that's what Donald Trump says was inappropriate about Epstein's relationship with him, was hiring Trump's help. Here, play this clip. People keep writing stories about the time he threw him out of Mar-a-Lago. Can you settle that? What was it about?

What caused the breach? That's such old history. Very easy to explain, but I don't want to waste your time by explaining it. But for years I wouldn't talk to Jeffrey Epstein. I wouldn't talk because he did something that was inappropriate. He hired help and I said, don't ever do that again. He stole people that work for me. I said, don't ever do that again. He stole people that work for me. I said, don't ever do

that again. He did it again. And I threw him out of the place. Prasanna and Angada. I threw him out and that was it. I'm glad I did. If you want to know the truth. So if you want to know the truth, that's always what people say who are telling the truth. If you want to know the truth, okay, let's talk about other things that would destroy like the entire MAGA line about all of this. It just like, it just goes with and is he talking about actual like help around Mar-a-Lago or is he speaking? Is he using a euphemism for like taking Virginia Jouffre from him? Like that's what I don't know either. Is it even darker than even that we are hearing from Donald Trump in that instance. Whatever it is, we know that this whole story

that MAGA has made up where Donald Trump is some sort of crusader against people who have been sex trafficked in women is complete and total bullshit. Even like Jeffrey Epstein's brother has come out and said that, like, Jeffrey Epstein actually was skeeved out by Donald Trump and said that Donald Trump was a crook.

And they got into some, there's also all these reports that they got into some sort of feud about real estate where they were trying to bid on the same property and Trump was upset that he was trying to get the property. I could tell you right now from everything we know, it had nothing to do with the fact that Donald Trump knew that he was creeping and sexually abusing and raping young girls.

Nothing to do with that. Everything to do with the fact that these other ancillary stories that we keep hearing about. I want to emphasize what you just said. Jeffrey Epstein's brother is on record saying that Jeff had to cut ties with Donald Trump because Trump was too big of a crook.

Imagine how big of a crook you have to be for Jeffrey Epstein to cut ties with you. So when you know that part of the story and then you re-listen to that clip that we just played, he's a terrible liar. Donald Trump is a terrible liar. And when you watch that clip knowing that he's lying, I mean, you hear it in his voice and you see it in his mannerisms. Terrible. It's almost the concept though, too, of the big lie that he's such a bad liar that all of his, uh, MAGA sycophants in Congress, like MAGA Mike Johnson, they like pluck meaning from it and try to like act like they've

interpreted what he said. But it's like, no, just listen to what he's saying. I mean, this is a liar who is also like cognitively addled and who is humiliating the United States on the world stage each and every day. And so just shifting gears, he was asked about Russia. Obviously, there's not peace in Ukraine in 24 hours, as Donald Trump promised. And Putin continues to escalate, killing innocent Ukrainians using ballistic missiles and Shahi drones from Iran. Let me just show you what Donald Trump, Donald Trump's response was, I'm just not interested in talking to Putin anymore.

I'm just done, done talking here. Play this clip. But every time I think it's going to end, he kills people. Could a meeting help and are you considering it? I don't know. I'm not, you know, I'm not so interested in talking anymore. He talks with such nice conversations, such respectful and nice conversations.

And then people die the following night with a missile going into a town and hitting, I mean, recently, I guess, the nursing home, but they hit other things. Whatever they hit, people die. So, I don't know. We'll see what happens. And then Donald Trump continued on this trip to talk about how much he hates wind,

and wind is a disaster, and that Europe shouldn't have windmills, and that he's banned windmills in the United States, and they're very ugly, and he looks out of his golf course window and says, I don't like those windmills, and then there are windmills by Aberdeen and I don't like that. Again, it's just, it's so incredibly humiliating. Here, play this clip.

Wind is the most expensive form of energy and it destroys the beauty of your fields and your planes and your waterways. And look out there, there's no windmills. But if you look in another direction, you see windmills. When we go to Aberdeen, you'll see some of the ugliest windmills you've ever seen. They're the height of a 50-story building. And you can take 1,000 times more energy out of a hole in the ground this big.

This big is called oil and gas. And you have it there, the North Sea. This big that nobody would even see. You can take a thousand times more power because the wind is intermittent, it doesn't work, it's extremely expensive. He's just making up numbers too. Like he's just saying random numbers that aren't even accurate. And actually, wind is very effective in Scotland

and in Europe. And again, it just looks so ridiculous to watch that. It looks ridiculous. It is ridiculous. It's incredibly dangerous. And you see people in the Trump administration now going on TV and they also try, they like act stupid, right? They're either stupid, they're acting stupid, they think you're stupid,

whatever you want, a combination of all the above. They go, oh yeah, wind, the energy actually can't even be captured. Once it stops, and you see like Trump saying that there, once it stops, the wind stops blowing, you just run out of energy as if like batteries don't exist and other ways of storing energy don't exist. And you just see at every step of the way this administration is attacking our climate and they are doing just severe damage. You also see how kind of our entire infrastructure was built on having experts at the helm who knew what the hell they were doing and us putting trust in them

and allowing them to do their thing. Trump is dismantling it all. And so I should just mention also one of the most dangerous things that the Trump administration is doing right now that isn't getting nearly enough attention is that they are preparing to eliminate the endangerment finding. So what that is, and like this is probably going to blow a lot of people's mind, that's the 2009 scientific determination by the United States government that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. So what Donald Trump is trying to do is he's trying to take away from the United States government, the stance that greenhouse gases are bad for the environment and bad for people's health. And you might ask, okay, so why, why, why do that just as an FU? Well, that finding that proclamation by the US government actually has legal weight. It's the

legal foundation for regulating emissions of greenhouse gases. So that is the first step to dismantling all of our regulations on greenhouse gases and taking away all the safety precautions and guards that we have right now on all of this stuff. Lee Zeldin, who runs the Environmental Protection Agency for Trump, that former far-right congressman, he calls that determination that greenhouse gases not so good for the environment. He calls it the, quote, holy grail of the climate change religion.

That's how these people sort of speak. And this all comes the same week. The United Nations top court, the International Court of Justice, issued a unanimous opinion stating that countries have a legal duty under international law to protect the environment from man-made greenhouse gas emissions. So you see the United States government here going right against that, doing something that's going to damage our health, damage our economy,

damage our environment. And so I think there's just, people out there think that people don't care about these climate issues. So I'm just just gonna say keep making noise about all of this stuff and Don't let them get away with it even like leave comments in this very video on this podcast Let people know that you care about this issue because we have to continue to make noise Whenever Donald Trump makes one of these fake deals the American media whether it's the New York Times or the Washington Post or Whatever network right they go a big deal was made! Donald Trump says! Whenever you start a sentence with Donald Trump says, you probably should pull back and reflect on what does the counterparty say and do we have a document, right? What does Japan say? What is European Union actually saying?

And can we look at a document? Because it's never existed before that a trade deal is just a concept of a deal. They're usually written documents, very meticulously drafted. Every word has a significant meaning. And so the biggest red flag on all of Donald Trump's fake trade deal should be that there's just no piece of paper around it. So basically it is Donald Trump saying one thing and then the other countries going back to their own parliaments or their own commissions or whatever and saying a completely different

thing. There's no real understanding of what it is. And it seems that all these countries are really just waiting to see if the United States trade courts ultimately strike down Donald Trump declaring emergency powers. And so they're willing to give Donald Trump

a temporary fake deal because 15% is better than 25%, even though a 15% tariff means America is taxing its own importers and passing it through to consumers. So when we get back, I want to talk about that. I want to talk about Donald Trump's press conference with Ursula van der Leyen, the president of the European Union commission. I want to talk about Donald Trump cheating in golf in Scotland. I want to talk about Donald Trump banning the president of Taiwan from entering into the United States and just the broader implications too with the World Cup and Olympics, you know, eventually coming up as Donald Trump bans like baseball teams from Venezuela from showing up or as

Donald Trump bans, you know, people from across the world from being here and nobody wants to come to the United States, Donald Trump can brag about, there are zero crossings. Why don't I even know if that's true, number one. Number two, you know where there's zero crossings? North Korea, no one wants to go there. People don't wanna come to the United States.

Why would you take a trip to the United States and end up in alligator concentration camps? Like that's why we're seeing tourism down significantly. Or we'll talk about that. Reminder, as soon as this show ends, we will be on Patreon and it's ask us anything. We'll do about a 30 to 45 minute lightning round. We'll take as many questions as we can.

There's no question that's off-limit. If you ever wanted to meet me, Brett and Jordy in a more intimate setting, you'll join us on that Zoom. There's a secret Zoom link at patreon.com slash MidasTouch, and it helps grow this independent media platform. So since we've grown this without any outside investors, it's just a fun way to keep on growing. So we'll see you after the show, but don't worry. We've got a lot of show left. So become a member of patreon.com slash minus such. We'll be right back. Okay. You know, you need to protect your skin from the sun, but what if you could protect it from things like collagen loss and inflammation and even repair some of the damage you did

when you were younger? The good news is you can. Something I learned from my scientist friends at OneSkin. I've been using their whole line of mineral SPFs for the face, body, and lips, and I'm honestly impressed. Not only do they protect against UV damage now, they work at the cellular level to help reverse the sun damage I racked up in my teens and twenties. My skin feels smoother, looks more even, and I've noticed age spots and fine lines starting to fade. The Face SPF is lightweight and breathable, available in tinted or untinted. The Body SPF is water resistant and helps prevent collagen loss. And the Lip SPF? It hydrates instantly and is scientifically proven to keep lips healthy, bouncy, and firm. It's all made with mineral non-nano zinc oxide,

vitamin C, and the powerful OS1 peptide. So you're getting protection, nourishment, and repair in one step. It's advanced sun care that performs like skincare. OneSkin is the world's first skin longevity company. By focusing on the cellular aspects of aging, OneSkin keeps your skin looking and acting younger for longer. For a limited time aspects of aging, OneSkin keeps your skin looking and acting younger for longer.

For a limited time, you can try OneSkin with 15% off using code MIDAS at Oneskin.co. That's 15% off Oneskin.co with code MIDAS, M-E-I-D-A-S. After you purchase, they'll ask where you heard about them. Please support our show and tell them we sent you. We live in an environment our biology was never designed for. EMFs, artificial light, seed oils, microplastics, endocrine disruptors, chronic stress, these modern assaults disrupt cellular signaling, negatively impacting gut health and accelerating aging.

Armra colostrum revives cellular signaling, bolstering our health from within to defend against everyday threats. Colostrum is nature's first whole food with over 400 bioactive nutrients that work at the cellular level to reactivate your body's innate capacity to regenerate and thrive. Ready to reclaim your health? We've worked out a special offer for my audience. Receive 30% off your first subscription order. Go to armra.com slash mitis or enter mitis to get 30% off your first subscription order. That's armra.com slash mitis. That's armra.com slash Midas.

Let's go. Shout out to our sponsors, links in description of both the YouTube and the audio. Use the links, use the codes. If there's an exit survey, let them know we sent you. Benji, where to next? Talked about the press conference with Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Let's go to the one with Ursula von der Leyen,

the president of the European Union Commission. This is where Donald Trump announced a purported trade deal, but it seems the trade deal is fake. We'll get into that. But the reporter asked Donald Trump if he thinks Israel should be doing more to allow food into Gaza. And then Donald Trump turns it into himself or makes it about himself and says, why don't I get thank you? People need to be saying thank you to me. I need more thank

yous. Here, play this clip. Should Israel be doing more to allow food into Gaza? Say it. Should Israel be doing more to allow food into Gaza? What did you say? Israel, should Israel be doing more to allow food in the Gaza. Well, you know, we gave 60 million dollars two weeks ago and nobody even acknowledged it for food. And it's terrible.

You know, you really at least want to have somebody say thank you. No other country gave anything. We gave 60 million dollars two weeks ago for food for Gaza. And nobody acknowledged it. Nobody talks about it. And it makes you feel a little bad when you do that. And you know, you have other countries not giving anything. None of the European countries, by the way, gave, I mean mean nobody gave but us. That's not even true number one and he goes it makes you feel bad meaning it hurt his feelings. What I mean there are millions of people starving to death in Gaza right now. Innocent children men women starving to death.

This is one of the biggest humanitarian crises, an avoidable one as well in human history. And Donald Trump saying that he's upset because he didn't get enough thank yous. And this as we've also learned that Donald Trump has greenlit the plan by Israel to just annex and take over, just take it all over, take over all of Gaza and push Palestinians out according to multiple reporting.

Netanyahu has also made a deal with the far right members of his coalition government in order to stay in power. And this is what they're pushing. And you heard Donald Trump's response to that. But by the way, did you hear how Donald Trump answered the question at the beginning where he was like, say it, say it. And then he needed somebody next to him to explain what a very clear question was. And by the way, I'll just show you this clip today with Keir Starmer.

When Donald Trump was asked if he believes that the interest rates are going to decrease. And watch, he struggles to understand what people are saying. And he goes, cut taxes, save, cut taxes. No, no, no interest rates. What are you talking about? Your players clip. Yes. A rate cut meaning a mini a tax cut. Oh, I think he has to. You had 11 cuts, you know, in Europe, they had 11 cuts. In other places, they had 10 or 11 cuts. And we had none. But I'm not going to say anything bad.

You know, we're doing so well, even without the rate cut. With the rate cut, it would be better. It affects our housing a little bit. Look, we should be three points lower. And he consistently doesn't realize that Keir Starmer is not part of the European Union. He did that as well at the G7 where he rolled out a fake deal with the United Kingdom and said he's got to deal with the European Union. Then he drops it on the floor and it's just a bunch of blank pieces of paper and one has

his signature on it. Again, could you imagine if former President Biden was there? Say it! Say it, huh? What are you saying? What were—I mean, he should know also by the question and by what's happening this week that the Fed is looking to—this is when the Fed would determine if there would be a rate cut or not a rate cut, like the context of the question. Tax cuts! Why would she be asking about tax cuts? What are you talking about? But going back to the meeting with the European Union president, the president of the European Union Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, Donald Trump talks about what he believes the trade deal

is with the European Union. Let's play this clip first. Those things are 750 billion, 600 billion, opening up the country. We are agreeing that the tariff straight across for automobiles and everything else will be a straight across tariff of 15%. Okay. That means you're taxing your own people 15%. You're taxing the importers at the point of sale, 15%, which does get passed on to consumers. What do you mean you're opening up Europe? Europe is

open. We sell things to Europe. Europe sells things to us. What world is it that you're living in where you think that Europe's trade has been closed to the United States, but then you go 750 billion, 600 billion. 600 billion, what are you talking about? And then shortly after that press conference, this is the pattern that we've seen, the Wall Street Journal reports, US, sorry, Politico reports, EU admits it can't guarantee $600 billion promise to Trump. The extra investments pledged under the trade deal would come from private companies, which Brussels concedes it has no power to control. So it's basically they would seek to try to do something, which is just the normal course of business between the parties. And then

within that $600 billion, there was one of the language. We will also seek to try to import $250 billion worth of energy from the United States, but there's nothing, it's not binding. It's not like a contract that they're required to do anything at all. And the $250 billion of imported energy, it makes no sense. The United States just doesn't even export that amount of energy. The numbers literally don't map out to make any sense. Europe doesn't have the capacity to purchase that amount of energy. The United States doesn't have the capacity to export that amount of energy. And so again, it's just all fake. And what was it, Brett and Jordi? A week ago when they announced the Japan deal and everybody was reporting on it. What was our report on the Midas Touch Network? I was looking at what they were saying in Japanese media because I'm reading the local media and I almost had

to like reread it. I'm like, I'm like, guys, am I reading this right? Well, I remember just just so just to bring people like behind the scenes a little bit into kind of how we approach topics like this. When Donald Trump announced the deal, the first thing that we do not do at the Midas Touch Network is send out a tweet and headlines that say, a deal announced between the United States and Japan, you know, CNN might do that, all these other networks might do that. That's not how we do it. We try to say, okay, well, what is this purported deal? And then we quickly start going, okay, well, let's look at what the Japanese are saying about it. Surely, their finance minister or prime minister, whoever, somebody over there should be talking about this, right? When there's a deal, traditionally, there are statements that are released in tandem with two countries at the same time that outline the same actual, there's a statement that is prepared by both parties. It's released at the same time detailing the deal. And so our first step was, let's see what the Japanese government officials are saying. They were saying nothing at this time.

We were like, well, that's odd, right? You would say that's odd. It's all coming from Donald Trump and truth social and all these reports are coming from truth social. And we're just accepting this as fact, weird. Perhaps we should wait till more information develops here. And then as the more and more and more of it came out, we begin learning through people in the Japanese government that this deal was no deal at all. There was nothing binding about this deal that they had no intention of going through

with any of the things that Donald Trump said, that they were in no rush to make a deal with the United States at all. And suddenly you realize, oh, so what all these other news organizations have been reporting has been complete BS. And they've now just done two days of PR for the Trump administration, rather than first trying to find the facts.

Then when we did our report, it was like, what then? I probably like a 24 hour lag before we started seeing these other more mainstream publications, I guess, if you want to call them that legacy publications coming out with their stories, basically regurgitating the stuff that we were reporting about on the Midas Touch Network. And it's just like, let's not jump to trusting Donald Trump. How have you not learned this yet, that everything he says is a lie, and that you need to verify anything before you start reporting on it. I just cannot fathom how editors let that stuff slide. Well, a deal exists. So if there's a deal,

then we should, the same way I could read what's in the United States, Canada, Mexico agreement before Donald Trump reneged on that. I should be able to read the deal. It should have a lot of points and there should be obligations and it should be binding. And we should understand, okay, well, what are the terms? I don't know how you keep reporting on social media posts or concepts of plans that aren't deals.

And the thing that alarms me the most is that this is like just a gigantic Ponzi scheme. And what we're gonna see is the economic data continue to be bad and it's gonna keep happening. And then one day the floor is gonna break on something and then the media is gonna report it like it's a shock. Oh my God, how did this happen? Oh, whoa, what's gonna happen? And I'm like, well, it's here in front of our eyes. Y'all kept on reporting about deals that were social media posts. I mean, you know, Donald Trump claims that Japan was going to give America, the United States of America a signing bonus of $515 billion that the United States would keep 90%

of the profits and Japan would keep 10% of the profits. Like you should look at that as ridiculous from the outset because Japan's entire GDP is $4 trillion, so which is less than California, which Donald Trump attacks. So how is Japan going to invest like a Almost a huge portion of its GDP and then get and then get 10% back. I go they're not gonna do it makes no sense I mean it would topple the government that would crush their economy They already hold one trillion dollars of American treasuries. They already do about

783 billion dollars every four or five years in direct foreign investments. In terms of employing Americans, they're like the, they're the country that employs the most Americans of like any country in the world. Why would this, it makes, and of course it makes no sense. And the way Japan is now framing it is the $550 billion could be like a loan potentially, maybe less than 1% will actually be direct investment and the rest of it will be loans and it's at our discretion to give the loan or not give the loan. In other words, there's literally no difference about what's taking place. So it's just another fake deal. You know, and then Donald Trump will be like, all right, Australia is opening up their markets

to American beef. This is a big win for our ranchers here in the United States. And it's like, you're an ultra-maga rancher. You think Australia is gonna be buying your beef? What are you talking about? Japan's not buying our cars because they don't like American cars, that's why. Not because there are tariffs. Australia's not buying American beef because Australian beef is superior.

That's why. Like just the most fundamental basic concepts of this, you know, are completely out of whack, and the media just goes along with this ride. And Donald Trump and his regime and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and, you know, Howard Nutlick, the Commerce Secretary, and they're saying, oh, no, no, no, the country is eating the tariffs. There's no inflation. We've solved everything.

I'm like, there is inflation. It's going up. The countries aren't eating the tariffs. inflation, we've solved everything. I'm like, there is inflation. It's going up. The countries aren't eating the tariffs. American companies are, and American companies are then passing it on to the consumer. So either the company's gonna go out of business, or the American consumer's going to buy more.

And we've all gone into stores. We've all shopped, we've all bought food recently. We know the prices are going up. And Donald Trump said he would end inflation on day one. But you always have to go back to his character. And his character is he's a sexual abuser. He's a felon. He's a fraud. He's a bankruptor. And so, you know, he bankrupted Atlantic City in the early 90s. Well, Las Vegas, you're next in 2025 as tourism goes down. His behavior that we're seeing is consistent with someone who bankrupts things and he somehow with his company's got

people to go along with some of this stuff and make horrible investments and then he ruins their lives. And so just trying to call it out and a lot of the stuff shouldn't be red versus blue or Democrat versus Republican. It should just be facts versus lies and good versus evil. Some basic, basic stuff right here. Ben, Ben, Ben, Ben, Ben, that's your issue. You're dealing with facts, big bro. When Trump says he has a deal, man, just report the headline. Just go, Trump said deal everybody. It's so

much easier. The market goes up that way, Ben. It's not built on a house of cards. That's all just going to come. You know, and that's the thing too, Jordy. It's like, you know, the, the Ponzi scheme market right now based on Trump's announcing fake deals. When you actually look at all of the data coming in about the country, about job creation, not good about prices going up, new home construction. You know, you go through the gambit, losing manufacturing jobs. Like, all the fundamentals are not strong. Consumer confidence is very, very low. CEO sentiment is at like all-time lows. Worker sentiment is at all-time lows.

Just this gaslighting Ben and Jordy, like, you know, when you see Lutnick going out there and he's saying like, sorry, slip of the tongue. When you see him going out there and, you know, and he says, like you were saying before, inflation is actually coming down and you see all these various people in the administration, these right wing influencers who continue to beat the drum of the experts were wrong, there is no inflation. Actually, if you look at any chart, you see that inflation has been on a very steady rise since these tariffs.

And by the way, Trump has reversed many of these tariffs, which may have slowed that trend, but the trend continues. And you always have to look what they are doing and at the data and what is happening, not what they are saying. You could even look at this data point that I'll show you right here. Donald Trump says he's bringing in all of this money from tariffs. By the way, anytime he says that, remember that means that's a tax increase on you. That's money he's taking from you. But anyways, we're

bringing all this money in tariffs. We're going to bring down the deficit, right? This is going to make a big difference to the debt. Well, then why is the US Treasury boosting their July through September borrowing estimate to $1.01 trillion? I thought the tariffs were going to cover all of it. Oh, I guess that was just another round of bullshit. Just like the Doge rebate checks were bullshit. Just like we're going to find gold in Fort Knox was bullshit. Just like what happened to the prison? Now they're doing tariff rebate checks. They moved on to tariff rebate. going to find gold in Fort Knox was bullshit. Just like what happened to the prison. Now they're doing tariff rebate checks. They moved on to tariff rebate.

We got new rebate checks now. I got it. So what happened to the Greenland annexation? What happened to the Panama Canal? What happened to all these schemes that Donald Trump keeps throwing out? He says it and then he moves on to the next thing. It's all a scam. It's all dangling a carrot in front of his base. They fall for it. And then he acts like it just never even happened. Enjoy those dojiri bay checks, everybody. So when we get back, you want to talk about Mr. Tough Guy, Donald Trump, and who holds the cards? Okay. China just got Donald Trump to ban the president of Taiwan from entering into the United States. I mean, talk about utter weakness right there.

So if you want to know again, you think China has the cards or Trump has the cards, just even think about the ask. The very fact that Xi Jinping thought that he could ask Donald Trump, hey, I need you to prohibit the president of Taiwan from landing in New York on a trip to Central America should be the most offensive thing to begin with. But Donald Trump was like, sure, I will grant you that, Xi Jinping. So also, you know, you have these people, right, who come into the regime who are like, we're, we're China hawks, right? We are going to decouple from China. Well, then why are

you attacking Taiwan? And why are you weakening our relationships with Japan and South Korea, and countries in in Southeast Asia? What are you doing here? Talk about that. Talk about more. We're gonna take our last quick break of the show. A reminder, when this show ends, sign on to Patreon. Go to patreon.com slash Midas Touch. I know a lot of you have asked for us to hold

one of these meetings where you can ask us anything. We'll call it the state of Midas Touch. The state of Midas Touch is strong, our friends, but feel free to ask us anything. We'll call it the state of Midas touch. The state of Midas touch is strong our friends, but feel free to ask us any question that's been on your mind. We will by the way, the link to access that patreon post that has the secret zoom link in it is in the description of this video. If you're watching this video, sorry, if you're listening on audio, sorry, you already missed it, but you can rewatch it and

join us next time. But but descriptions, link is in the description this video. So just click on it. It'll bring you to the Zoom link and you can check it out. Let's take our last quick break of the show. Want this to be your most radiant summer yet? Prolon's five-day fasting mimicking diet makes it easy to target fat loss, support lean muscle, and reset your metabolism. So you look and feel your best all summer long. In just five days, Prolon works at the cellular level

to rejuvenate you from the inside out and help you hit your summer health goals. Prolon is a plant-based nutrition program featuring soup, snacks and beverages designed to nourish the body while keeping it in a fasting state, triggering cellular rejuvenation and renewal. NextGen builds on the original Prolon with 100% organic soups and teas, a richer taste

and ready to eat meals. Developed over decades at USC's Longevity Institute and backed by top US medical centers, Prolon has been shown to support biological age reduction, metabolic health, skin appearance, fat loss and energy. No matter the season, when I'm craving a real reset, Prolon is the only nutrition program that works for me. It's convenient, backed by Nobel-winning science, and it works.

For a limited time, you can be first in line to experience the new next gen at special savings. Prolon is offering the Midas Touch Podcast listeners 15% off site wide, plus a $40 bonus gift when you subscribe to their five day nutrition program. Just visit prolonlife.com slash Midas. That's P-R-O-L-O-N-L-I-F-E.com slash Midas to claim your 15% discount and your bonus gift.

PerlonLife.com slash Midas. So you ever wake up and feel like your body just hit the snooze button on life? Yeah, same. Honestly, aging sneaks up on you in some wild ways. Whether it's a night out or a good workout, I just don't bounce back the way that I used to. One day you're full of energy, the next you're googling how to stretch without pulling a muscle. I believe one of the

best aging breakthroughs of the last decade is Qualiacinolytic, and here's why. It's designed to help your body naturally eliminate something called senescent cells, also known as zombie cells. These are the ones that just hang around after they've stopped doing their job, draining your energy and making you feel, well, old. Think joint discomfort, sluggish recovery, low energy, the whole deal. Qualia Centilitic is a groundbreaking supplement made with nine plant based nutrients, and you only take it two days a month. That's it. Since I started taking it, I felt more energized, quicker to recover from workouts, and honestly, just more like me again. Plus, Quali's Breakthrough Formulation is vegan, non-GMO, and tested by leading scientists. Experience the science of feeling younger? Go to qualiolife.com slash

mitis for up to 50% off your purchase and use code MITIS for an additional 15%. That's q-u-a-l-i-a-life.com slash mitus, M-e-i-d-a-s, for that extra 15% off. Your older self will thank you. And thanks to Qualia for sponsoring this episode. Let's go. Shout out to our sponsor. Shout out Qualia. Shout out Prolon Man. They've been with us for a long time now, especially Qualia.

Definitely check them out. Cannot say enough good things about both those folks. So check them out. Links in description of both YouTube and the audio. Use the links, use the codes. Let them know we sent you. If there's an exit survey, Benji, where to next? It's one of those headlines that I had to reread and say, no, I must be reading it wrong.

He could not have possibly done that. We're not allowing the president of Taiwan to enter the United States. Our ally, this is how we're treating them. But yes, Donald Trump is blocking Taiwan's president Lai from a New York stopover. We're not even talking about a state visit. Trump is preventing the president of Taiwan from landing in the United States on a trip to Central America after China objected. Now, Donald Trump's regime is supposed to meet with Xi Jinping's team in the coming days in a meeting in Europe. And China basically said, if you allow Taiwan in, we're not going to meet with you.

And Donald Trump hold it. Donald Trump capitulated and isn't letting the president of Taiwan in. This was being discussed earlier today and some people commented like, no, that's not going to happen. Yeah, no, it didn't happen. Senator Andy Kim from New Jersey wrote, denying President-Lai a transit is a deeply concerning break with bipartisan precedent and sends a reckless signal

to Beijing that our partnership with Taiwan is on the negotiating table. American leadership is now seen as deeply unreliable with Trump's fits and starts with Ukraine, NATO allies, and other key partners. I urge president Trump to reverse course and do what presidents of both parties have done and allow transit. And ask my colleagues in Congress to join me in that call.

So it's one of those issues that MAGA Republicans in their disinformation campaigns would weaponize against Democrats for years, right? You know, the Democrats are selling out Taiwan, the Democrats are weak on China, the Democrats, oh, you're supporting, you know, this and that in China and the Uyghurs, you're supporting, you're doing all of these things. Republicans never cared what China was doing to the Uyghurs at all. They didn't care what was happening to Taiwan.

It was just another wedge issue to use in their disinformation war. And then like with the Epstein files, like with a lot of other things. And then when they're in charge and the bluff gets called, they're doing all of the things that they sowed fear that was actually not happening. They're the ones doing it. They're the GOP, the guardians of the pedos. They're the GOC, the guardians of China. I got to be more creative with that, Over Taiwan, G-O-C-O-T. Guardians of the People's Republic of China. I just looked into one. Do you know why GOP works though? I get what you're saying with GOP, but I don't fully understand

where you're going with the other acronym there. Guardians of China over Taiwan, but P, the People's Republic of China. People's Republic, see? Yeah, you could have kept it. Okay. So, I want you to cover that because again, that to me just shows utter weakness to our allies. It was a test by Xi Jinping of Donald Trump and Donald Trump completely capitulated right then and there. So what do you think China is going to, how do you think China is going to deal with Donald Trump at the negotiate negotiating table? So I'm talking about that. I'm just worried about the Olympics, man. Like I,

I just don't know what this country is going to do. Like I'm certainly not rooting against, you know, our country having the Olympics. I think it'd be great for, you know, it's in Los Angeles. Like I think it'd be great for the city. I think it's an exciting thing, but like now like you can't help but worry about what's going to go on. And why would any of these world leaders come here? Why would any of these citizens of other countries come here when they've already said like ice has been going through World Cup stadiums, they're going to be going through, you know, the Olympics, like if you could come here for an event like the Olympics and risk ending up at an

alligator concentration camp or risk getting sent to South Sudan or El Salvador, like is that risk really worth it? And I think there are going to be a lot of athletes and a lot of people in these countries who are really kind of thinking about that before they actually come over here. Oh, a thousand percent. And Olympics, perhaps the World Cup in 2026 here in Philly. So that's going to be also an interesting, you know, scenario as well. It's insane. You know, we're talking about sports there. The Midas Touch research team was the team that located that footage, which showed Donald Trump, Puday in Scotland, Donald Trump's caddy dropping the golf ball to give a better lie, a better position of the ball closer to the hole.

And then Donald Trump looking like, this is just kind of, I'll use the pun, par for the course for Donald Trump. He then goes and approaches the cheating ball and then goes to hit that ball. Now, this isn't new data. We know that Donald Trump's cheats. A guy by the name of Rick Riley did an entire book on

Donald Trump cheating in golf back in 2019 and showed how Donald Trump's golf cheating related to his cheating in every other aspect of life that you can tell a lot about someone by the way, you know, they play golf and the fact that Donald, I don't know if that's true or not, but, you know, but I'm sure that I'm sure there's a lot of truth to it, but there's probably other ways. Well, hey, I'll say this, Ben. So I played basketball growing up. I could tell someone's personality, who they are at such a core level within five minutes of stepping on a court with somebody. Are you yelling at the ref? How are you interacting with your teammates? What's your overall, are you getting back on defense? So I buy that a thousand percent that you could tell

someone how they behave in the real world based off how they're getting back on defense? So I buy that a thousand percent that you could tell someone's, uh, how they behave in the real world based off how they're behaving on the golf course. I buy that. But I guess my point, I wasn't clear on what my point was. The bigger tell was probably that you were Jeffrey Epstein's best friend. Okay. Then how you got, how you got. That's fair point. That would probably when you're, when your best friends are Jeffrey Epstein and

John Casablanca, um, Epstein and John Casablanca, and Casablanca cheated on his first wife by sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl, then cheated on his second wife by sexually assaulting a 17-year-old, and then his entire modeling agency was filled with predatory conduct of sexually assaulting underage girls, and that's who partnered with the Donald Trump pageants and the Donald Trump work. That's a bigger red flag than what Donald Trump does here. But we show our audio listeners, we showed the video of Donald Trump being caught cheating. But let me just remind you what Rick Riley said in 2019

when he released that book, Commander and Cheat. I think it was called or something like that. Here, play this clip. Which clip is this? Oh, of Rick Riley talking about the cheating. Do we have that one? I don't have this one. I have Michael Wolf, but I don't have the Rick Riley one. Oh, got it. No, I mean, it's just Rick Riley saying, he cheats like a mafia accountant. He cheats like crazy. He cheats whether you're watching or not. He cheats whether you like it or not. And the book was called Commander and Cheat. Finally, let me talk about Alina Habba. So her term, Jordy, this is like one

of your points too. Like you could lose with grace and dignity and you could like bow out. Like Alina Habba, your term expired as the United States attorney in New Jersey. Like, you could have, you didn't deserve that position at all. But you could have just tried to prove everybody wrong, right, and act normal. But instead, you filed charges, then dismissed them against the Newark mayor, and you behaved, you know, like someone who... has very little character, and frankly,

you shouldn't be a lawyer. You behaved like someone who was indeed little character and frankly, you shouldn't be a lawyer. You behaved like someone who was indeed sanctioned over a million dollars in other federal courts throughout the country. You behaved like someone who the judge in the New York, sexual assault cases against Trump, the civil cases and the defamation cases were like, do you even know how to cross examine people?

Like, do you know the rules of evidence? So she's refusing to leave the position right now, even though she's done. And the federal judges in New Jersey could have extended her term, but they voted not to because she's not competent or qualified. So a very competent and qualified, just lifelong Republican

who had been working at that office since 2016 became the first assistant United States attorney and then got gets the job as United States attorney because you need a functioning office to go after the bad guys, right? I mean, there's over 1,500, 2,000 cases in New Jersey against people engaged in terroristic threats and people engaged in serious violence and sexual predators and people engaged in embezzlement and other very serious federal crimes that are prosecuted out of that office in New Jersey and she refuses to leave.

So what are the criminal defendants now doing in those cases? They're filing motions to dismiss their charges. One by one, they're filing motions and saying, we have an unlawful United States attorney who refuses to leave and I can't be prosecuted if she's still there because the office is acting criminally. So you can't prosecute a criminal if you're the criminals.

And that already delayed a criminal trial and other criminal defendants are gonna flood that court now with those types of motions. So that's what it invites. And it's like, just step aside. What are you doing? No one wants you there. You're not qualified to be there.

It's just an overall really, really bad look. Brett, you mentioned the Michael Wolfe, you mentioned the Michael Wolfe clip, and Michael Wolfe was gonna be the biographer for Epstein, and then never ended up doing it. And then he was a biographer for Donald Trump as well. So he knows them very well. This video that Wol Wolf made about being

haunted by this idea of how Epstein was prosecuted after Epstein spoke to Wolf about his relationships with Trump during the first administration. This is very revealing. Watch Michael Wolf's video that he made today. 2007, Jeffrey Epstein entered into what's called a non-prosecution agreement with the federal government. He agreed to plead guilty on sexual abuse charges in the state of Florida with the understanding with the federal government that they would not also prosecute him. This is not that unusual. What is unusual, actually completely unique, is that the federal government in 2019, when Epstein was arrested, reneged on this non-prosecution agreement. The federal government has never done this before. I'm a little haunted by an aspect of this because my book, Siege, the second book I

wrote about the Trump White House, came out in June 2019. And in that book, this was the first time that Epstein had spoken about his relationship to Donald Trump. Epstein was in Paris at the time and immediately called me with some alarm and said he had thought that he may have said much too much. When he returned from Paris, and that was some 10 days or so later, he was immediately arrested, arrested on the tarmac of Titoboro Airport. Epstein immediately and logically wondered if he was being shut up by Donald Trump,

by Donald Trump's Justice department in this arrest. But equally, and this is what Steve Bannon thought at the time, Bannon believed that the Southern District, which was the prosecuting department of the justice department, the Southern District in New York, in a prosecution team bizarrely headed by the daughter of James Comey, Trump's bitter enemy, hadn't arrested Epstein precisely to get him to talk about Donald Trump. As it happened, Epstein's lawyers in mid-July, late July, actually started to have a discussion with the Southern District, with the Justice Department, about Epstein

talking about what he knew about various people, including Donald Trump. A week later, 10 days later, Epstein was dead. I think that puts it in a whole new light, by the way, right? That's what Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal that she filed with the United States Supreme Court earlier today is about. She says, look, Trump, your labor secretary, when he was the United States attorney in Florida, made a deal with Epstein and because I'm a co-conspirator with me. And it was a non-prosecution agreement. It says the United States is bound by this, that Epstein may not be criminally prosecuted and his co-conspirators may not be, and that

this has the force and effect on binding the U S government across the country from prosecuting Epstein, Delaine, or any other co-conspirator. So she goes, how could you prosecute me? You entered a deal. Now people may not like the deal and Epstein's an awful, awful person, criminal, but you made the deal, so you should honor the deal. The district court in New York, when it agreed to allow the prosecution of Ghislaine to continue, said, we will not honor a deal from the Southern District of Florida,

that that just relates to the Southern District of Florida. We're the Southern District of New York. So that is a state-specific deal. And Ghislaine's argument to the Supreme Court, whether you like, I mean, look, I think that she should personally, I think she should rot in prison for the rest of her life. My view, I think she's a liar. I think she's a sex trafficker. She's convicted as such. I think she's done the most despicable things imaginable. But her argument is, why would that make any sense at all? These Republican lawyers, sure, they wanted to protect that. You want to hold anyone accountable? Hold those United States prosecutors.

They made the deal. So now you're saying the deals don't matter when they're made by the DOJ. That's basically her argument to the Supreme Court. Trump's guy, Acosta, Alex Acosta, Trump's guy, who was brought in to Trump's administration immediately after cutting this sweetheart deal. Her and like, when you hear her argument, you almost can't help but say like, she might get off on this because of what Donald Trump did here. And I think it's also when you look at the, um, the timing of all this also, how she filed this reply brief today with the specific information about how the department of justice prosecuted

this case immediately after meeting with the department of justice in the federal prison, immediately after meeting with Donald Trump's a former personal criminal attorney who is now the deputy attorney general of the United States, my kind of conspiratorial brain starts running wild and going like, did they discuss this strategy? Did they discuss poking holes in how they made this agreement with her in the first place and saying, look, here's your out? Remember that sweetheart deal we gave Jeffrey Epstein where we said, if you take this deal, we won't prosecute you or your co-conspirators? Well, that should apply everywhere, shouldn't it,

Galen? Huh? Maybe you should take that now to the Supreme Court, see how your argument works out. I mean, remember, the attorneys here are very good friends also. You have Maxwell's attorney, very good friends with Todd Blanch. And so you could be sure that they're talking about all of this. And when they meet up, they're buddies. We've showed the clips of their podcast. Todd Blanch, I think, was the, at least at the time, was the guest who appeared the most on Ghislaine Maxwell's Lawyers podcast. They were very chummy with one another on that show.

Like, it's hard not to look at what is going on here and be like, this is why I've been saying, like, he doesn't even need to do the pardon. The pardon question to me is like an afterthought. He has given Ghislaine Maxwell the golden ticket to get out on her own in a way where he could claim that he had nothing to do with it, even though we all know exactly what is going on. Well, think about what her retrial motion's gonna be.

It's gonna be that Donald Trump has said that the FBI and DOJ tampered with my file and that it was all a hoax. I never had that information. The President of the United States is saying that the lead prosecutor, Maureen Comey's dad was the one who tampered with evidence. Now the only way the federal court rejects Ghislaine Maxwell's motion is by saying, we don't believe what the president of the United States says.

So Trump has no credibility. So no, we don't believe it. But if you believe that the presidency is a position that has access to these things, she would absolutely get a retrial just based on that basis. And you don't have to get conspiratorial, because to me, the bigger issue is staring us

right in the face. And I think it was an obvious argument for her to make about the non-prosecution agreement. She made that argument originally when she was first being prosecuted. But the fact that they gave her immunity for future prosecution, lots of people go, but why does it even matter? Sure. You

give her immunity. She's serving 20 years plus in prison anyway. So don't you want to hear what she has to say? Give her immunity. But now you've just given her immunity. Let's say the Supreme Court lets her off, right? And now she's been given immunity. Think about you. Remember the 2007 sweetheart deal, non-prosecution agreement? They basically just redid it with sex trafficking stuff that she was involved in. Do you get what I'm saying? 2007, 2008, non-prosecution agreement.

Now they basically gave her a form of a non-prosecution agreement in the form of immunity. So, and this was the deal that I believe her lawyer cut. Hey, look, we'll deal with the pardon issue at the end of the term. We think we have a great argument with the Supreme Court. So Trump doesn't have to worry about that. Let's bring back that up.

Give us, the deal happened. Like, do we get it? Like it happened already. They gave her the immunity. So now what Todd Blanche probably said is, look, I can't give you these guarantees. I'm gonna give you immunity. So now what the what Todd Blanch probably said is, look, I can't give you these guarantees. I'm going to give you immunity. I can justify that behind the scenes. Go make your argument to the Supreme Court. We think you the DOJ in their brief to the Supreme Court rec

conceded that there is a circuit split on this issue such that the Supreme Court should read it here. But pull up. Do we have her brief? Because on her brief, she says in it, the brief, she says that the government, even more remarkable, where does it say this? Even more remarkably, the government advances in interpretation of its non-prosecution agreement that flips its plain meaning on its head. Most significantly, the government concedes a circuit split on this issue, effectively admitting that defendants' rights hinge on the happenstance of geography.

That's the key line right there, right? So the government concedes the circuit split. It goes to the Supreme Court. They give her immunity regarding all of the statements she makes about the sex trafficking stuff, thus immunizing her from prosecution there. She identifies other people, says what Trump wants to hear, and then you hope the Supreme, I mean,

she hopes then the Supreme Court grants her appeal on that, that's what happened. You don't have to be conspiratorial. It literally happened in front of our eyes, what went happened. You don't have to be conspiratorial. It literally happened in front of our eyes. What went down? And so I wanted to bring that up. Finally, I want to leave the show on a very positive note as well.

You know, the Midas Touch Network is embedded with the AFL CIO in their bus tour across the country where they are meeting with union leaders and members of unions and just workers across the country advocating for workers' rights. This bus tour has been, you know, I think inspiring. This bus tour is the type of grassroots, shaking people's hands, things that are needed in this moment.

You know, and the AFL-CIO just does an incredible job and we're honored to be embedded with them in everything that they're doing here as well. So I want to show you this clip right here. This is Darren Kelly, one of the union leaders out in Pennsylvania on their stop holding the American flag. Here's what he's got to say. Let's play it. When you take this American flag

and you say that you stand behind it, you stand for what this symbol is. It's not that easy to wave it and say you're an American. You have a duty to protect those that can't protect themselves. You have a duty to stand up to see to it that all Americans retire with dignity, access to good health care, protection on the job. This isn't something you waive without having to deepen your heart. And there's a lot of people in DC that forgot what this symbol is. So I promise you, we will remind you every day, you say you stand with veterans, then how can you cut like you have at the VA? You say you stand with worker safety, how come NIOSH, MSHOT, we can go on and on and

on? Uh-uh. That's so powerful right there. I want to give him and the AFL-CIO a special thanks for allowing us to follow them on that tour. Keep checking our socials. We post a lot of clips from that tour and tell the folks at AFL-CIO if you see them in your city or state that you saw them on the Midas Touch and feel free to reach out to them

on their social media channels. Thank you everybody for watching. We covered a lot of topics. I'm excited to meet all of you now on Patreon. So the secret link is on patreon.com slash Midas Touch. If you ever wanted to meet Brett, Jordi and myself, go meet us at that Zoom link. It also helps support the growth of this independent media platform. We'd love to see you there and excited for answering your questions. Brett, anything I left out? No, I think we covered a lot. Trump Epstein, Galein, the Supreme Court, climate issues, Gaza, the truth about the so-called EU deal, the Japan deal, Russia, Ukraine, Congress, Taiwan, the AFL CIO. I think that's a pretty action packed episode. I want to thank everybody for listening. And please remember to go also add the Midas Touch podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,

wherever you listen to podcasts. If you've already done that, leave us five star review, send these episodes to friends. It really, really, really helps. So please go ahead and do that. Jordy, take it away. Shout out to the Midas Mighty. The Midas Mighty is standing strong. Against the fascists we sing our song. We will get it right whenever we can. Can't get enough Midas?

Check out the Midas Plus sub stack for ad free articles, reports, podcasts, daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski and more. Sign up for free now at MidasPlus.com