The MeidasTouch Podcast - Republicans Make TOTAL FOOLS OF THEMSELVES Defending Trump

Episode Date: March 11, 2024

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on GOP leaders embarrassing themselves trying to defend Donald Trump on the weekend news shows. Head to https://TryFum.com/meidas and use code MEIDAS to save 10% off when you get the journey pack today! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/lights-on-with-jessica-denson On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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administration, that particular person. Well, I very clearly said I spoke to a woman who told me about when she was trafficked when she was 12. So I didn't say a teenager. I didn't say a young woman, a grown woman, a woman when she was trafficked when she was 12. And so listening to her story, she is a victim's right advocate who is telling this is what drug cartels are doing. This is how they're profiting off of women.

And it is disgusting. And so I am hopeful that it brings some light to it and we can actually do something about human trafficking and that that's what the media actually decides to cover. Okay. Then, of course, Fox welcomed their new RNC co-chair, Lara Trump. And here's what she had to say. Play the clip. Here's what I want to say to anyone out there who is thinking about cheating in an election. We will go after you.

You will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. It is not- There is a bit of irony there as well. And of course, when it comes to the MAGA Republicans, they're still whining about the 2020 election, spreading all of their election conspiracies there. Next, we go to George Stephanopoulos, and he did some, I think, incredible questioning

of MAGA Republican Nancy Mace from South Carolina. And just watch as he confronts Nancy Mace with her support of Donald Trump, an adjudicated rapist. Play this clip. He defended himself over that and denies that it ever happened, but he was not found guilty in a criminal court of law. It was a civil judgment. So is that the distinction you're making? A civil judgment is OK, but a criminal judgment is not?

This is different. And they didn't even put all of the evidence into the civil case either because some of the information she provided wasn't even accurate or correct. But to sit here and ask me as a rape victim to try to shame me for my political choices is wrong. And I think it's offensive. You can repeat that again and again and again and again. And I'm going to because I find it deeply offensive. You don't find it offensive that Donald Trump has been found liable for rape? I find it offensive as a rape victim that you're trying to shame me for my political choices. And then Stephanopoulos questions Nancy Mace about prior statements that she made regarding January 6th and how now she seems very supportive of what went down that

day. Play this clip. About that. Let's talk about January 6th. You had just been sworn into Congress on January 6th. You voted to certify the election and you said Donald Trump must be held accountable for the violence right after the riot. Let's show that. We've got to hold not only the president accountable and ensure that he doesn't hold office again in the future, but also we need to hold members of our of our Congress, even in my own party accountable for the rhetoric and the actions that led up to Wednesday's events. You said he should never hold office again, so why are you supporting his run for president? Well, I listened to my voters, I listened to my voters in South Carolina and they've moved beyond January 6th.

I said my piece on January 6th, I was very clear about how I felt about it. And I also as you- You hear felt about it. And I also, as you see, you hear what she says there. She goes, we've moved beyond January 6th. We're past that now. By the way, back to Alabama's Republican Senator Katie Britt on Fox News Sunday. And again, I mean, this was like a redo of what she was saying at the State of the Union. And they just lie with impunity. They are totally and utterly shameless. And they, you know, try to blame President Biden for everything.

There's no logic here at all. And it's just kind of this dystopian MAGA made up propaganda stuff that gets platformed and perpetuated by the modern day Republican Party, which is full MAGA, made-up propaganda stuff that gets platformed and perpetuated by the modern-day Republican Party, which is full MAGA. Play this clip. Did you mean to give the impression that this horrible story happened on President Biden's watch? No, Shannon. Look, I very specifically said this is what President Biden did during his first 100 days. Minutes after coming into office, he stopped all deportations. He halted construction of the border wall. And he said, I am going to give amnesty to millions. Those types of things

act as a magnet to have more. And speaking of it being full MAGA, here's Don Jr. saying the Republican Party's all MAGA now. We don't want anybody else. We're all MAGA. Play this clip. I think the RNC is going to be a little bit more of that old school establishment. That Republican Party, frankly, no longer exists outside of the D.C. Beltway. But it takes a little while to make that transition. But again, I think, you know, the moves that happened today, I think that's the that's the final blow. People have to understand that America first, the MAGA movement is the new Republican Party.

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Go to tryfume.com slash MIDAS and use our code MIDAS. And here's Maria Bartiromo with Lara Trump just making up a completely fake story and spreading lies and propaganda on the network. Like, what? Play this clip. I had a friend the other day tell me she was standing at a food truck. Two gentlemen approached her. One had tattoos all over his face.

They looked like illegal, she said. And one had a clipboard and he said to her, hello, miss, do you want to sign up to become a Democrat and vote? So you're talking about people that you want to hire. They're already doing that. And they may be doing it with illegals coming into this country. Then you have Lindsey Graham being asked about Donald Trump saying that America essentially should withdraw from NATO and that Russia should invade NATO countries. But the Republicans, well, he maybe shouldn't say that, but you know, he didn't really mean it. Here, play this clip.

A point before we move on to my very last question. Trump has said to Putin that he would welcome him invading a NATO country, Senator, if they didn't pay their bills. Should people not hear that rhetoric and feel as though he is potentially aligning himself with the type of leadership that Orban has shown? That was in reference to NATO paying their fair share. There are 19 nations that don't pay the 2% they're supposed to. When Trump was president, he had a foreign... He's inviting you to invade a NATO country. No, no, that's not...

Here's MAGA Republican Byron Donaldson. By the way, I'm going to play some of the kind of Democrats who went on soon. So don't worry. Here's MAGA Republican Byron Donald saying the way that he believes the State of the Union was not good is because the MAGA Republicans did not stand at all and did not show respect for President Biden. And that's how you know it wasn't good. Play this clip.

On a whole, the State of the Union speech was disgusting. I've never seen a speech like this where the opposition party from the president's party did not stand for an hour in that speech. It was partisan. It was a campaign speech. All right, so now compare all of that to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg from the Biden administration. Play this clip. Economy rebounded from COVID. Let me be clear, unemployment is lower than it was even before COVID. Stock market is higher than it was even before COVID and job creation is faster than it was even before COVID. So no matter what rebound effects you're talking about, these are economic

results that have not happened since before I was born. Now, in terms of cost, that's been a major issue. And by the way, that's been a major issue in every wealthy country. This is an example of something that was largely affected by COVID. But I think there's a reason why inflation in the US is lower than it is in any of the other G7 countries. That's actually not true. Well, not according to the Washington Post. They say Japan, Italy, andany all had lower inflation rates than we do and italy's is less than a one percent they may have been looking at a different time period but i'm telling you if you look at the the overall time period when it was toughest our inflation rate was better and i would add right now wages are going up faster than prices that means even after inflation. Or Senator Bernie Sanders. Here's what Bernie

Sanders had to say. If you believe that climate change is real, you've got to vote for President Biden. If you believe that women have a right to control their own bodies, you've got to vote for President Biden. If you think that at a time of massive income and wealth inequality, you don't give trillions of dollars in tax breaks to the 1%. You've got to vote for Biden. If you want to lower the cost of prescription drugs, you got to vote for Biden. If you believe in democracy and involving people in the process rather than keeping people from voting, you have to. And then just in terms of like what else was taking place this weekend, you had Donald Trump making fun of the disability of stuttering. Play this clip.

I'm going to bring the country together. I'm going to bring it together. And you had President Biden talking about empathy, compassion, and the importance of character in leadership. Play this clip. Trump and I have a very different value set of Ananabis already. Mine is based on core values of the defined America. And the rest of the world looks at us that way. Decency, honesty, fairness, equality. But we all know Donald Trump sees a different America.

An American story of resentment, revenge, and retribution. That's not me. That's not you. So folks, tell me what you think in the comments below. But just wanted to sum up for you what went down on the weekend shows, as we always like to do here at the top of the week. And hit subscribe. Let's get to 3 million subscribers together shall we

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