The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump and the GOP NIGHTMARE Must Be Stopped

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Starting point is 00:00:50 charge bet mgm operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming ontario republicans are professional rake steppers this week they held more hearings where Democrats exposed just how radical and just how extreme and incompetent the modern day MAGA Republican Party is. Thank you, GOP, for showing us all what not to be. Speaking of George Santos, George Santos, a symbol of how far the GOP has fallen. A liar, a criminal, a MAGA Republican. They all basically mean the same thing. George Santos. We've been calling it here. We've been saying it over three months ago. We said he would be criminally indicted by the Department of Justice in about three months. And I would say our prediction was right on target and rightfully so. We will go over those charges here on this episode. CNN decided, heck, let's host a fascist Trump rally in New Hampshire and call it a town hall where,

Starting point is 00:02:13 with very little pushback, let's let him go full fascist. So Donald Trump mocked E. Jean Carroll after losing in federal court to her. He defended his Access Hollywood tapes. He called a black police officer who protected the Capitol building on January 6th a thug. He called the interviewer, Caitlin Collins, nasty. He announced he would pardon most January 6th insurrectionists. He announced he would not provide funding to Ukraine if he was elected. He encouraged the GOP to force America to default on its debt. He spread more election lies, and he lied on just about everything in front of a crowd of 400 Trump supporters. And then CNN bragged about making news, that they made the news after the event. I'm not sure they know

Starting point is 00:03:07 what their role is, but it was- When you put it like that, it sounds pretty bad, I'm just going to say. It was really, really despicable. Also, Donald Trump's former top lawyer, Jenna Ellis. Actually, anybody's former top lawyer? But you get the lawyer you deserve. Well, she's apparently missing. She's essentially vanished according to a new federal court filing in the defamation case against Rudy Giuliani by plaintiffs Ruby Freeman and Shea Moss. Their lawyers say they believe Jenna Ellis has fled Colorado. She may be hiding in her mom's basement somewhere in Florida, but the private investigators the plaintiffs hired to try to find her can't locate her, and she continues to evade service. Sounds about right. Donald Trump, during his trial, he flees to Scotland and Ireland. I

Starting point is 00:04:00 think Jenna Ellis is just taking a page out of the cowardly fascist playbook. Also, E. Jean Carroll's lawyer may be filing a new defamation lawsuit for E. Jean Carroll against Donald Trump after he made a ton of additional horrific defamatory statements against E. Jean Carroll since losing the federal trial and a jury awarding E. Jean Carroll $5 million. I'll break down for you why I think the existing verdict will make it very easy for E. Jean Carroll to prevail in a future defamation case against Donald Trump. This and more on the Midas Touch podcast. I'm Ben Micellis joined by Brett and Jordy. I'm back in California. I've been traveling the entire country. It's good to see you both here. That's why in some of the hot takes, you may have seen me in like 20

Starting point is 00:04:53 different locations. I walk around with all of my equipment and people are wondering what I'm doing. And I got to explain. It's for the mightiest sake. Might be time to get in your travel mic, Ben. But as a little bit of like, where in the world has Ben Mycelis over the past week? Where in the world is Ben? Every time you opened up the hot take, you just didn't know what to expect, people. But I'm still in Long Island. And I'm just saying, folks, when I was in London, that's when Boris Johnson actually had to resign as prime minister. I come to Long Island, George Santos, our hometown

Starting point is 00:05:25 congressman. And oh my gosh, does it pain me so much to have to say that our hometown congressman, George Santos, indicted, arrested, arraigned at the local federal courthouse. You know, I thought about going. I'm happy I didn't because he sort of hid in the beginning, but I really did think about going just to see like maybe I'd catch Santos and have some choice words for him. But what a week, a week of justice, by the way, too. Like I think we all needed this week of justice after a rough couple of weeks, seeing Trump held liable for his actions, seeing Santos arrested and arraigned, watching that horrific town hall, however, last night.

Starting point is 00:06:04 Oh my goodness. We will get into that. But Jordy, so great to see you. Jordy and I are like one room next to each other right now. Yeah, yeah. I'm doing well. Hey, and it continues. I'm finding more pictures of the brothers.

Starting point is 00:06:16 It's my goal is every episode now that I'm on Long Island to just find more pictures of the... Ben, I still need to find one of me and you. Here's me and Brett. Not sure exactly what we're doing. I think we're showing off the gun show over there, but super excited. And good muscles. Yeah, we get this picture. They just kind of show up.

Starting point is 00:06:37 Ben and I spend the time like researching the outline, trying to get you all the content for the show. And Jordy's looking for ways to embarrass the brothers. I think that's the theme of how these shows go. But it's all an important part of the show. Look, I think the theme of this show is the importance of law and order versus lawlessness. And we've seen that contrast this week, right? We've seen what the justice system is supposed to look like. We've seen intelligent, competent lawyers like E. Gene Carrolls, people like Special Counsel Jack Smith, people like Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, people like New York Attorney General Letitia James, people like the Fulton County District Attorney Fawny

Starting point is 00:07:20 Willis, people who take their jobs seriously in support of law and order. And then we've contrasted that with people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, George Santos, Donald Trump, Jenna Ellis. Those are the modern day MAGA Republicans. That is what the party is. And as we've always talked about here, it is a combination of fascism meets idiocracy. And thankfully, the fascism is anchored in idiocracy, which restrains its reach because the intent is truly apocalyptic. And it's only restrained by the fact that these MAGA Republicans are complete and total idiots. And we should be thankful for that. But we should also call it out at each and every turn. And we need to show that contrast. And so I like that President Biden's got his kind of

Starting point is 00:08:21 quick response team ready to go in the campaign. And so within just moments of that town hall, maybe about 12 hours, so a little bit longer than moments, but within about- The other one that were during the town hall, actually, I noticed, but this is like the more polished one. The more polished one within about 12 hours after the town hall, Biden was out with an ad about different priorities. And the split screen shows what Donald Trump was talking about at the town hall and compares it to what President

Starting point is 00:08:52 Biden is talking about to the American people. If we have that clip, can we play that right now, Bert? We should grow the economy from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down. Getting rid of Roe v. Wade was an incredible thing. I was able to do it, and I was very honored to do it. The past two years, we've created a record 12.7 million new jobs. January 6th, it was the largest crowd I've ever spoken to. They were there with love in their heart. That was an unbelievable, and it was a beautiful day.

Starting point is 00:09:23 The price of insulin went from $400, $500 hundred bucks a month down to thirty five dollars a month. It saved the government one hundred and sixty billion dollars. It was a rigged election. We had a rigged election. I thought it was a rigged election. The election was rigged. That election was rigged. Four more years or four more years.

Starting point is 00:09:44 As President Biden says, don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative. And the 2024 election and in general, the political party, how they've split, it's all about choices. And there's a choice between democracy and normalcy and intelligence. And look, do Democrats get it right all the time? Do I agree with them on everything? No. But are they trying to at least address the issues and taking their best shot at trying to resolve it and grappling with reality? Yes. And meanwhile, you got MAGA Republicans talking whatever Donald Trump wants the cult to talk about, they talk about. They've got to talk about in 2023, rather than talking about jobs and rather than talking about healthcare,

Starting point is 00:10:39 rather than talking about equality, they're talking about the 2020 election and Donald Trump whining like a little freaking baby about the 2020 election spreading conspiracies. That's all they talk about in 2023 because they're freaking losers. I think we have to use that language. We have to call them out as being just complete liars, deranged losers, and fascists. And look, this MAGA base represents about 15, if I'm being generous, 20% of the American electorate. And yet we see time and time again, large media networks want to present the both sides of it and act like that's just generally where America stands on the issue when it is just absolutely not. And I know we're going to show some videos now of comparing the choice between what are Democrats talking about? And again, what are the professional rake stepper MAGA Republicans talking about? So let's talk about rake steppers, shall we? Professional rake stepper. Boy, I tell you.

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Starting point is 00:12:29 That was epic. Oh, that's a staple. That's officially a staple of the show. And they just can't stop stepping on rakes, these people. Because, Ben, like you said, they don't believe in anything. So they fall for everything. And they consistently try to just shovel BS out there. And they continuously throw those rakes out there. And inevitably, try to just shovel BS out there and they consistently throw those

Starting point is 00:12:46 rakes out there. And inevitably there is nothing there. So once they arrive, the rake smacks them in the face every single time. And one of the interesting things now in the post Tucker Carlson Fox era and the post Dominion major settlement era is you now see a little more pushback even from Fox on a lot of these things. You still have the people like Hannity and Maria Bartiromo who are pushing the BS constantly, but you see some of these other reporters actually trying to pretend to be reporters a little bit now and actually call these Republicans out. And that to me is like, I feel like I'm living in the twilight zone between Fox calling these Republicans out and CNN bringing all the MAGA people on and trying to court the MAGA base. I just feel like I am living

Starting point is 00:13:30 in the upside down at this moment in time. Well, we have some of the clips that we have the clip, for example, of Steve Doocy to James Comer, right? Because remember this week, James Comer said, we will be revealing a report that shows blockbuster evidence and whistleblower this and whistleblower that, that shows Joe Biden was engaged in a bribery scheme. And then they all went with that Joe bribery, they called them. They just defame them. Like they just lie. They just completely make it up. And they have absolutely no evidence about it. So where they now leaned on is we should just infer, like let's just infer bribery. Like let's just make it up in other words. And here in this clip, Steve Doocy says to James Comer, like, yeah, but like you don't have any facts though, right? Here play this clip. I know the Republicans said that the smoking gun were these financial records that you

Starting point is 00:14:24 were able to subpoena and got your hands on. They'd show that some of the president's relatives were paid more than $10 million from foreign sources between 2015 and 2017. And your party, the Republican investigators, say that that's proof of influence peddling by Hunter and James. But that's just your suggestion. You don't actually have any facts to that to that point. You've got some circumstantial evidence. And the other thing is, of all those names, the one person who didn't profit is that there's no evidence that Joe Biden did anything illegally. Well, if you look at the laptop and the emails between the president's son and his associates,

Starting point is 00:15:05 they went to great lengths to hide Joe's involvement. This is what they've been talking about, that they've got the goods, that they've got the evidence that, you know, and it's just more, let's infer, let's infer. Here, this is on Fox Business too, by the way, where it says, where they asked Ron Johnson, MAGA Republican, okay, well, where's the quid pro quo? And Johnson's like well it's a difficult thing to prove so let's just let's just infer and let's just make it up here play this clip events where is the quid pro quo what are whistleblowers and more bank documents now showing alleging barb bribery there and more what do you say what do you see well again that that is a difficult thing to prove.

Starting point is 00:15:53 It's really not. It's really not a difficult thing. It really isn't. You could prove, if it existed, you had the most weaponized DOJ where Donald Trump had Bill Barr specifically kill investigations into Trump and go after all of his political adversaries every single day and they couldn't find it. Now they're regurgitating the same exact BS from like eight years ago that they talked about then. And by the way, a lot of this time when the family made money, like Biden wasn't in in office. Trump was in office. It was 2019, 2018. Unlike Donald Trump, who while he was in office, his kids made $650 million while he was in office. While there were clear quid pro quos taking place. And Ben, I was going to say, being kind of out of my normal element and being on the East Coast and kind of living between multiple different homes at the moment while I'm away,

Starting point is 00:16:55 I've been subject to a lot more local news. And I see why they do these wild goose chases, because the way they're covered on the local news is very matter of factly. And it makes me want to throw the remote across the room every time I see these stories, because they will just report something like, and House Republicans have opened a probe into a alleged Biden bribery scheme. More on that at 11. And then da, da, da, da, da, da, move on to the next story. And that's all they want. All they want is the headline. All they want is the Biden bribery. They want that connection. And then of course you have New York Post, you have all these periodicals start running with that right away. And they

Starting point is 00:17:39 cover themselves because they say, GOP says, a whistleblower says, to not have it be upon them so that they don't get sued and that the Republicans are protected by the rules of Congress. It's just absolute BS. They obviously just want to try to draw this false equivocation between them and, well, between Trump and Biden and be like, look, they're just both corrupt. It's just everybody. Look, you think Trump is bad. Look at what Biden's doing. You think, oh, Kushner, you're looking over here. Look over there. It's like the movie, what was it, Up with Squirrel, when they would go, squirrel, squirrel. And then the dog would look like that's what they do to their followers.

Starting point is 00:18:18 And that's what they try to do to gaslight the United States of America over and over and over. And you could go back to Benghazi. You could go back to every single one of these Republican investigations over decades and decades and decades. They all are the same. They all ended absolutely nothing. I mean, even look at the last Hunter Biden thing where they had the special prosecutor and that ended in absolutely nothing. They constantly try this just to muddy the waters and push BS and conspiracies out there when they have absolutely nothing.

Starting point is 00:18:52 It's just straight up defamation and slander. Like it's just straight up defamation. And by the way- No, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is. But Brett, first off, deep movie cut, like really excellent movie reference. Squirrel Up, you know, I haven't seen like, like really excellent movie reference of squirrel up. You know, I haven't seen that one in quite some time. So good job. Good, good, good job on that. And then on a more serious note, you know, they're doing it because they want to make it a horse

Starting point is 00:19:16 race, right? The, these stations are doing this because they want to make it seem like the race is much closer than it is. You know, I always say all the time, hey, give Comer the mic, give Marjorie Taylor Greene the mic, let them speak. Because when these people speak, the Jim Jordans, the Matt Gaetzes, I mean, overwhelmingly, the American people disagree with what they have to say. And not just like disagree, like, oh, no, I don't necessarily agree with that. Like, like, yo, you're crazy person. And I don't necessarily agree with that. Like, yo, you're a crazy person. And I don't want you anywhere near my government when you have the microphone and you're in charge of legislating me, my family, and the people who I love. So let them speak. The media is going to continue to make this a horse race.

Starting point is 00:19:56 And I implore our audience, don't get fooled. Don't be fooled by these weird polls that you see. Honestly, Jay, it's also laziness. Honestly, it's laziness in a lot of these local news cases. I'm not saying all local news. It's the lowest hanging fruit. It's the lowest hanging fruit. Why investigate? Why go deeper into the story when you could just grab the headline? Their show is divided into blocks. They need five minutes for weather. They need five minutes for sports. They need five minutes for the local news, the stabbings, the murders, the stuff they're

Starting point is 00:20:25 going to scare people with. And they need five minutes for national politics. And they need that tease in the beginning that's quickly summarizes all three of them. And they just plug it in like a puzzle every night, you know, without, without deeper. And I'm sure we'll get to this later in the show about Santos, but like, we're very data driven. Our audience knows in the Midas Mighty knows we're very data-driven. We are on record saying, hey, criminally, Santos will eventually get in trouble for all of the things that he's done. But no, none of the legacy media was really calling him out on that.

Starting point is 00:20:56 They would just use him as a prop in order to get ratings and bring them on their station without really giving a deep dive, just know, just, just, just assertion into what was going on. Like, like, like, like the facts matter, truth matters. And when you have the facts on your side, it's, it's imperative that the media actually does their job because when they don't do their job, it creates a dumb society. And that's a frustrating place to be in because we care about this country the mightiest mighty cares about this country and and i want this country to succeed but when the media does the laziest absolute lowest hanging fruit work that they can do well what are you left with you're left with a horse

Starting point is 00:21:36 and pony show you're left with a horse racer of oh this side says this and this side says that no there's only one truth at the end of the day. Fantastic. It was your word, ascertain. You made a few words there. Jordy's entered a few new words and phrases into the lexicon. I'm trying. I'm trying. It happens. It was great. I would only... I appreciate it. I wasn't going to even correct you until you just asked me. It was the only reason why I said anything.

Starting point is 00:22:05 But look, I think the format, I don't think all formats, Jordy, of giving them the mic is the right format though. And the format is actually very important. So with respect to Donald Trump at this event, I'm generally against the idea because the media isn't able to really figure out how you actually grapple with and deal with Trump. But under the right circumstances, with the right person who can ask the right questions, with a fair kind of audience, with someone who can push back, who can fact check right away. You'll have to be very prepared because there's so much lies that take place. In theory, I'm open to the idea of, okay, you can do an interview with almost

Starting point is 00:22:54 anyone. The problem about this interview is the whole thing was actually done in a way that I think traumatized the American, that traumatized the American people. And they lied. It wasn't a town hall insinuates that it is kind of a group of a cross section of the population, right? And you're getting questions from lots of different people with lots of different views, and you're in search of the truth, right? It wasn't a town hall. Part of the deal that CNN entered into with Donald Trump is they were going to find 400 of his supporters. They advertised through the New Hampshire GOP, and they found a bunch of Trumpers to be in the audience who would kind of laugh and mock sexual

Starting point is 00:23:42 assault victims, E.G. and Carol, who would laugh at the idea of giving aid to Ukraine, who would laugh when Donald Trump mocked the interviewer, Caitlin Collins. And she didn't push back. Occasionally, she responded in kind of fact. As well as she could do. But not the way you should. And that's my overall kind of- And no, Ben, let me just clear this up really quick though, because that's not, I just want to be clear. The town hall was an egregious misuse of time and of the public space right there. All I'm saying there is the proverbial mic. Like when Marjorie Taylor

Starting point is 00:24:18 Greene wants to go off on her, do a selfie style video, or when she wants to say some dumb stuff during Congress or whatnot. Let her speak there. I'm saying what CNN did, could not agree with you more. What an egregious misuse of the media. And let's talk about a format though that I think where you could really expose these professional rake steppers. Cue the music one more time. Professional rake stepper. Professional rake stepper. Boy, I tell you. So good.

Starting point is 00:24:52 So good. One of the hearings that the MAGA Republicans held this week as a hearing on environmental, social, and governance, ESG, the investing criteria that private businesses are not forced to use, but if they believe that will help with their own shareholder value to be focused on doing things that aren't going to destroy the environment and things that will promote equality, those are usually-- Things that will destroy your investments also. Let's break it down to the brass tacks. Let's even go past the values-based argument of this. If you are investing your money with an investment bank, with an investor, they're using your money and they are looking at the future and they see that a company that you are investing in may be impacted heavily by climate change, may be impacted heavily by a variety of issues that are affecting the nation and are affecting the world.

Starting point is 00:25:58 All they are trying to do is say, you know what, you should disclose those risks to the investor when you put their money in those companies. That's it. It's actually a really important thing for investors because you don't want to go and put your money in an industry that gets completely eviscerated and wiped out by the climate crisis or in any number of other crises. But because Republicans don't even believe those crises exist and don't don't even believe those crises exist and don't want to even acknowledge science in its most basic form, they want to tell these companies ultimately that they are not even allowed to consider that when they go to invest. They're not even allowed to –

Starting point is 00:26:38 They want the government. Yeah, the government. They want to use the government to force – they want the government to force private companies not to even consider ESG. I mean, what is more anti-business than that? But again, this is a tale of contrast, right? Going back to what Biden says, don't compare me to the almighty. Politicians are flawed, but let's compare to the alternative. So first, let's take a look at this video of Lauren Boebert, who basically just says woke a bunch of times and then invokes Anheuser-Busch and Disney and Nike, like iconic American companies or just iconic companies in general, and says how woke they are.

Starting point is 00:27:26 Here, play this clip. As we have heard today, there are numerous concerns related to so-called environmental, social, and governance policies being indoctrinated into accounts by woke asset managers. Today's hearing will help us better understand what Congress can do to ensure that activist stakeholders will not encourage woke corporate activism as we've seen recently with Anheuser-Busch, Disney, and even Nike. Because as we all know around here, when you go woke, you go broke. I mean, you don't. I don't know what that is doing a poem. OK, let's compare that, though, to Katie Porter, the Democrat.

Starting point is 00:28:13 So you saw Lauren Boebert, MAGA Republican. Let's show you Democrat Katie Porter from the Orange County area in California. Play this clip. It's very important to be clear with the American people. The Labor Department's rule does not impose a mandate. It permits fiduciaries to consider ESG standards if they believe those considerations are prudent in their decision making and what the information is they want to provide investors. There's no mandate under the Department of Labor. And I think these antitrust concerns are at best misplaced. There is simply no evidence that there is a violation of the Sherman Act going on. There's no evidence that this is what's happening. It is up to each of these companies to these initiatives are no different than other initiatives

Starting point is 00:29:03 that corporations have that come together. These are private actors making their decision. It strains credulity for me to hear people suggest that BlackRock is some kind of leftist commie organization for crying out loud. BlackRock is about delivering value. And in doing that, they are looking at a lot of different kinds of propositions about value including good governance, including the effect that climate change may have on their bottom line. That's the whole point. This is about freedom. That's what we're talking about. Capitalism delivers freedom and that happens when markets let people choose what they want. That's all that

Starting point is 00:29:42 you're trying to block here. You're trying to block people from looking at disclosures that they find valuable if they don't find them valuable don't look at them and i think capitalism is about choices i heard you say you do too so i hope you'll reconsider your policy the guests there by the way uh who are testifying are election denying mega republican attorney generals who in their Republican states are implementing or will be implementing policies that attack the businesses in their states that have ESG or diversity and equity policies. Like the MAGA Republicans are such a fascist movement that they just spew the fascist – Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Starting point is 00:30:30 You're telling me those weren't economists or investment experts? These were MAGA attorney generals who wanted to overthrow the election and want to ban diversity and equality? That's interesting. Yeah. But meanwhile, like in another hearing, you know, one of the witnesses that I think the, you know, that are called by the kind of Democratic Party, Dr. Cynthia Miller Idris, Idris, an award-winning author and scholar of extremism and radicalization and founding director of polarization and extremism. You know, She was brought in there, but the MAGA Republicans wanted to grill her, right? And basically be like, so you hate Trump supporters.

Starting point is 00:31:10 And again, let's just compare here, Marjorie Taylor Greene in this hearing, and then I'm going to show you a Democrat going back to the ESG hearing. This is a different hearing, but let me show you Marjorie Taylor Greene here. Play the clip. Miller, just real quick, I'm out of time, but would you consider Trump supporters extremists? We are worried about violent extremism, so that to the extent, not about what people believe, but to the extent that they are moving toward violence. Trump supporters specifically.

Starting point is 00:31:39 If they're calling for violence, it doesn't matter to me who they support. Haven't seen any. By the way, there's a great rally in Iowa this weekend. If you want to study people on the right and what they believe, you'll find secure borders, freedom of speech, no crime. No crime. I mean, they are incredibly, incredibly dangerous and just very weird and just, again, idiocracy. Fascism anchored by idiocracy. So compare these MAGA Republicans. Let me show you a clip right now. I'll show you two. Let me show you first. Let me show you Democratic superstar Jared Moskowitz, who hits back at the GOP and asks, really, this is where you think the government should be involved in? Play this clip. I'm pretty sure I just saw, you know, some of my colleagues

Starting point is 00:32:31 going out and, you know, shooting Bud Light cans because, you know, they didn't like what Bud Light was doing. Do we have government mandate that they got to go invest in Bud Light because we want to support Bud Light? I mean, that's what you guys are advocating. I mean, I just, it's really kind of crazy. And so, you know, I don't know what we're doing here, Mr. Chairman. You know, this is part one. There's going to be a part two. I mean, part one was just so fascinating. I can't wait for part two. But, you know, this committee has not taken any action on gun violence. We want to talk about a deadly weapon. This committee has not looked at all into AR-15s or deadly weapons or school

Starting point is 00:33:20 shootings or mass shootings. I mean, you think parents in this country care about ESG? No, they care about dropping their kid off at a movie theater or at a mall, you know, or at school. They don't care about ESG. You know, this is stuff that like 10% of Twitter cares about. Okay. And so I just want to know when we're going to get serious here. 10% of Twitter.

Starting point is 00:33:45 I love that comment because honestly, well, first off, Moskowitz, Rookie of the Year. There's got to be a Rookie of the Year award for Congress. That's pretty funny. We should. There's not one Rookie of the Year. Moskowitz for Rookie of the Year. This guy brings it every single hearing. He is there.

Starting point is 00:34:01 He's on it with the clapbacks, with the facts, and always taking the focus back to the things that matter, which to me is the most important part about all of it. But I love that he brought up just terminally online and they say things where if you actually said them to people on the street, like Twitter references, they'd be like, people would be like, what the heck are you talking about? What are you talking about? But they use this to dictate policy for the United States of America. And as you watch all these clips, as you see Lauren Boebert going, the woke companies and the woke this, the woke that, the woke that, and you see the actual intelligence of people like Katie Porter and Jared Moskowitz and other Democrats over here. Remember, these are the people making decisions over your lives. Lauren Boebert over here wants to decide how you invest your money. Just think about that. Do you think Lauren Boebert should decide your investments? Nope. That's a scary, scary thought. I'll tell you why they use Twitter so much too, is because it's the only place, Brett,

Starting point is 00:35:14 to your point, that they could find anyone to agree with these very hateful viewpoints. These Russian bots or whomever, the fact on Twitter, that's the only place in the world where that they could get some sort of, or at least perceived agreement for all of their hatred. Because to your point, if they're walking up to the average Joe on the street, that person's going to look at them like they got four heads. Like, what are you talking about? You forget they live in gerrymandered districts with people who agree with them, Jordy. So like the people around them agree with them, but they do live in bubbles. Everyone kind of lives in bubbles, honestly. But they draw the maps in a way.

Starting point is 00:35:45 If you look at Jim Jordan's district, the map is drawn in the craziest way so that all the people in his district, a lot of them think like Jim Jordan. And that's their strategy. When they go out, when they go to meetings, these are the things that they do hear from people. So I think we should be careful about saying the American people, the American people overall, because the people who they are encountering on a daily basis are the people who CNN decided to put in the audience. There's a very small percentage of the population, but it's who they are interacting with every day. And I think they

Starting point is 00:36:12 are also deluded into thinking that they are the majority when they are so not because they don't trust experts. They don't trust data. They don't trust the numbers. They only trust anecdotal things, which are what they, whether their interactions, which are Twitter and their districts with the people who come to their rallies. I want to show you this. Jamie Raskin, Democrat, says, really? You're focused on ESG? I mean, you don't want to focus on the fact that Jared Kushner got like six hundred and fifty million dollars from like the Saudis here. Play this clip. Nobody should think, by the way, that this movement is striking a blow against global elites, which we've heard a lot about today.

Starting point is 00:36:56 If you're interested in that, you should join our investigation into Donald Trump and Jared Kushner, who brought home $2 billion, not million, $2 billion from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for a company he created the day after the Trump administration ended. So don't talk to me about global elites. That's the Trump family business, trafficking in global elites and their businesses. And he collected millions of dollars in unconstitutional foreign emoluments from Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Egypt, a whole bunch of countries that patronized his hotels and his golf courses. So I don't want to be lectured to by anybody

Starting point is 00:37:36 about global elites because I was here for the four years of the Trump administration. We were all here too for those four years and we remember what took place. And again, it's law and order, Democrats versus lawlessness, MAGA Republicans, fascism anchored by idiocracy. Speaking of which, we got to talk about this George Santos indictment. We got to talk about Donald Trump's lawyer, Jenna Ellis, just completely missing. Let's break down a little bit. We won't have to go over all of it. This fascist Trump rally that CNN thought it would be wise to host. It was just completely, completely disgusting and more. But let's just take a quick break. Now let's take a quick break to talk about our next partner,

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Starting point is 00:41:55 sponsoring this. Welcome back. Right on, right on. Great ad reads, Jordy. Welcome back. Gotta love those sponsors, man. Hey, if you're interested, if you're in the market, go check out the description right now. If you're watching on YouTube, we have the links right there. You can go right there, hyperlink. It really helps the show. If you're listening on the audio podcast, same thing. Check the description in the audio pod and click those links. It helps the show. So George Santos, criminally indicted out of the Eastern District of New York, Department of Justice. He was arrested in Central Islip in the courthouse over there. Apparently, three anonymous donors basically posted his bail for $500,000.

Starting point is 00:42:37 Come on. Yeah. I mean, everything he does is completely shady. I want to go back though, because we do spend a painstaking amount of time analyzing the various data points. When we make predictions ultimately, like here's when we think the Manhattan District Attorney was going to criminally indict. Here's why we thought that there wasn't going to be a red wave. We put together just, I think, a clip of, we had been doing all the videos on the whole Santos

Starting point is 00:43:13 saga. And let's play this though, just so you see how we analyze this about three months ago. Play this clip. Stay tuned. It's my expectation. Again, I've been pretty good on these predictions and no one's being so bold as to make this prediction yet, but I think you'll see an indictment based on my own opinion, based on the data that I've seen, an indictment in the next 60 or 90 days of Santos for campaign finance related violations. He's going to get indicted. He's going to get indicted soon. It's only going to get worse every day. It's drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip. What's the next drip? And this just shows you what a horrific leader Kevin McCarthy is. There's so many campaign

Starting point is 00:43:57 finance violations. He's going to be prosecuted for that. It's just a matter of when, not if. Here's the thing. Santos is going to get criminally indicted soon. Where did the money come from? Show me the money. And that is what we all need to be laser focused on. He's still lying to this day. He's still committing more campaign finance crimes while he tries to cover up his past campaign finance crimes.

Starting point is 00:44:20 And that's why this is all going to catch up to him. And you can't escape justice when it's numbers, when it's finance. This is how the government gets you on this stuff. And this in particular is how politicians have gone down throughout history. It's a follow the money game. yet because we're doing, we got this, okay? Which usually signals imminent indictments and an ongoing criminal investigation there. We know Santos is being criminally investigated by everybody, state, local, federal, international prosecutors, committed crimes in Brazil. So this is signaling that indictments are coming. And like the loser that he is though, we have the video of George Santos after he was indicted on these 13 federal counts, basically doing the exact MAGA playbook, right? It's just another version of Trump. It's really pathetic. Here's a clip of him saying, oh, it's a witch hunt. It's a witch hunt, everybody. Joe Biden, Joe Biden,

Starting point is 00:45:25 Hunter Biden, laptop. Play the clip. Look, this is the beginning of the ability for me to address and defend myself. We have an indictment. We have all, we have the information that the government wants to come after me on, and I'm going to comply. I've been complying throughout this entire process. I have no desire not to comply at this point. They've been gracious in there. Now I'm going to have to go and fight to defend myself. The reality is, is it's a witch hunt because it makes no sense that in four months, four months, five months, I'm indicted. You have Joe Biden's entire family receiving deposits from nine, nine family members receiving money from foreign, from foreign destinations into their bank accounts. That clip took like a very like bipolar turn really quickly. Like I wasn't even sure if it

Starting point is 00:46:19 was the same clip. Like I was like, is that, is that the one, you know, he starts off the clip kind of semi-normal. He's like, look, they were very gracious in there. We're collecting the information. The thing about this is it's a witch hunt. The MAGA thing snaps. The MAGA kicked in. MAGA thing snapped and he's like, it's a witch hunt. Joe Biden, he lost the plot. Talking point. Talking point. Yeah. what I love about this though, actually is besides it's kind of enjoyable to watch him freak out and squirm a little bit. And you know, that he's incredibly distraught out there and he's well, definitely deserves it. Um, but Santos using the witch hunt language and the Trump language, even though it always sounds

Starting point is 00:46:59 ridiculous coming from Trump itself, coming from Santos, it just shows you how hollow everything that they say is. When you hear this man's defense, who is so obviously guilty, who is so obviously committed these crimes, who is one of the single, if not the biggest fraud ever to be in the United States Congress or the United States government. When you hear him saying, witch hunt, witch hunt, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, it somehow cheapens the whole thing even more. It was cheap to begin with, but hearing it out of his mouth. And by the way, we didn't mention this in the last segment when we were going through this, and I want to make sure I put this up on the screen, because not only did Fox clap back at the Republicans who tried to push this Joe Biden nonsense.

Starting point is 00:47:46 The House Republicans clapped back at themselves in a true race stepper fashion. They released their own report. They released their own report on their investigation into Joe Biden and his dealings. And guess what they found? No evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden after months of investigation and many public accusations of corruption against Mr. Biden and his family. The first report of the premier House GOP inquiry showed no proof of misconduct yet. This still does not stop them from trying to go on all the networks to spout the same BS that even in their actual witch hunt, they came up with actually nothing, zero. And they were

Starting point is 00:48:26 trying to fabricate it and they couldn't even fake it in a report. It's like over and over again. Going back really quickly to the Santos clip, have you ever seen a politician look so disheveled than when he's trying to talk to the press? I mean, his hair is all over the place. He just looks guilty. He sounds guilty. The man is guilty. And here's the thing for our audience. Most of y'all probably know this by now. It's our district.

Starting point is 00:48:53 He represents our district. We grew up in this district, the one that he represents, New York's third. It's infuriating. And that's why I'm so happy to have brothers. I mean, we're here right now. And I'll tell you, like, I've been out and about. People hate the guy.

Starting point is 00:49:04 I'm talking. I'm like in the middle of a whole thing. we're here right now. And I'll tell you, like, I've been out and about. People hate the guy. I'm talking. I'm like in the middle of a whole thing. I know. I know you script out your rants, but we could go back and forth and have a discussion. Anyway, all I was going to – you know what? I totally lost my train of thought. Go for it. Kyle, you were doing great.

Starting point is 00:49:18 I'm sorry. No, I lost it. I completely lost it. You were on fire. You're in New York's third and New York's third district. I'll give this to our viewers. You see, Jordy and Brett are at the same house together. So when they're in such close proximity to each other as younger brothers who live, you

Starting point is 00:49:37 get more of the younger brother if you want me to actually analyze what's going on. You were on a roll. I don't want to interrupt, but sorry, go on. Seriously. I literally lost all of it. Thank you. I appreciate it. Can I tell you what Michael Cohen said?

Starting point is 00:49:50 Cohen had a very funny observation, though. Cohen was like, why is he wearing all those layers of clothes? He's like, it's like 85 degrees in New York right now. And he goes, and then he said the same thing about Bannon. He's like, you ever see what Bannon wears? He wears like a turtleneck on top of a turtleneck on top of a collared shirt, on top of a collared shirt, and then a button. What are these people wearing?

Starting point is 00:50:14 Let me just break down what the charges are so everybody knows. They roughly fall into three categories. The first is in the indictment that Santos created his own LLC. It's his own company. And he was telling people as part of the company that if you donated to it, it would go to his campaign. And he would then just buy himself luxury gifts with it. And so that was kind of the first crime. The second crime is unemployment benefits fraud under the CARES Act, where certain unemployment benefits were distributed to people who actually and truly needed it as a result of losing their jobs due to COVID. When Santos was employed, he got about $25,000 from that fund, which he was not entitled to have by lying about his employment status. Then finally, he made numerous misrepresentations

Starting point is 00:51:15 on his house disclosure forms about the amount of money that he would make, about how much money he raised, and there were so many crimes committed there. And so those are the three categories. And the indictment details pretty specific communications. And so even after that, the fact that Kevin McCarthy, the weakest speaker of the House in history, can look at that and then be like, well, we still don't know what we're going to do. It just goes to show you how weak McCarthy is. But let's remember, George Santos was the key vote to Kevin McCarthy, the speakership. It was that vote that it was like literally one vote essentially that did it in the... Granted other people then kind of moved over to the McCarthy camp as you got to like the 15th round. But Santos' vote kind of put it over the edge.

Starting point is 00:52:11 And similarly, this horrific bill that the MAGA Republicans pushed that would basically take away massive amounts of fundings from veterans and just critical social programs. Otherwise, they state that they're going to force Biden to default or force the country to default on that Santos was the critical vote there as well. So Santos, this complete and utter fraud- Total fraud. Lied about every aspect of his life, where he went to college, what his jobs were, where he lived, that his grandparents were Holocaust survivors, that his parents were 9-11 survivors. I mean,

Starting point is 00:52:50 the most horrific and ridiculous lies and engaged in all of these crimes, he is casting the critical votes that are impacting your life. You watching this, you listening to it, that's what's going on. Jordy. So the Santos lies in general, just to piggyback upon what you're saying there, Ben, they were super sympathetic to the people in this district. Because when you're talking about 9-11 here, where we grew up, when you're talking about families who had survivors of Holocaust in their own family, I mean, those are issues that are really near and dear to their heart. So it's not just that Santos lied to get, you know, to win his election. It's the type of lies that are so diabolical and disgusting in which the way he did it. And now I remember also what I was going to say, and I don't even want to say it anymore because I was going to compliment you, Brett,

Starting point is 00:53:39 and I was going to compliment you, Ben, because for our audio listeners, the one thing that we didn't call out when we played those clips of you guys predicting the future and incoming indictments, those were from January. Those were from December. Those dates have timestamps on them. And I'm just so lucky and fortunate, and the Midas Mighty are too, to have you guys here to really just read the tea leaves, but also analyze the data and then figure out where that's going to lead to. We don't make guesses on the Midas Touch Network just to make guesses because we like to say salacious things. What we do is we look at the data, we're data first, we're truth first, and we're democracy first. All those things can be first at the same

Starting point is 00:54:20 time. And that's what we do here. And I think that's what our audience appreciates. So Ben, great job. Brett, great job. I wish you didn't interrupt me. Jordy, great job. Everyone's happy to have you here also. You are great. You're the best ad, you're the best ad person in the business. I love the condescendingness. I love it. No, I love it. I love it. I love it. He's being serious. He's being honest. That was not condescending at all. I'll pivot to talking about Jenna Ellis, who to say Jenna Ellis was anybody's top lawyer is something that is- Is she the one who Rudy Giuliani farted on and gave COVID to?

Starting point is 00:54:55 The answer- Do you have a point of order? The answer that I gave you is they didn't bother to interview a single witness. Just like you, they don't want to know the truth. That's right. Yeah, she is the one, in fact, that Rudy farted on. You guys didn't know I had that in the chamber. And Janet didn't know Rudy had that in the chamber either. That's good. That was really good. Brett is always ready with that video at any given moment.

Starting point is 00:55:18 If you talk about Rudy Giuliani. Do you have a point of order? The answer that I gave you is they didn't bother to interview a single witness. Just like you, they don't want to know the truth. Sorry, you said the secret word, which is Rudy, and it just plays automatically. I can't even control it. It just happens. It's really good. So Jenna Ellis lives in Colorado. She was recently censured by the Colorado State Bar, which governs the legal licenses of lawyers for repeatedly lying. She stipulated to all of her 2020 election lies and then lied about stipulating to the lies. Well, Ruby Freeman and Shea Moss in their federal defamation case against Rudy Giuliani have

Starting point is 00:55:58 been trying to subpoena her. They've been trying to get her testimony. They've been working with people who purported to be her lawyers. But then when they said, hey, we need you to accept service of these documents, they're like, yeah, we don't represent her anymore. And then the plaintiff's lawyers were like, well, do you know where she is? And they just ghosted them and wouldn't respond. And again, that's just like a MAGA quality. It's just wrong. It's incompetent. It's just like wrong. It's like incompetent. It's just bad behavior. And so Ruby Freeman and Seamus lawyers had to hire a private investigator and they told the judge, it's federal judge Beryl Howell, hey, Jenna Ellis, we've learned, has left Colorado. She's posted occasionally on social media, but we don't know where she is. We believe she may be hiding in her

Starting point is 00:56:46 mom's basement in Florida. And so can you let us serve her with a subpoena via, not via fart, but via social media, but via social media, direct message and email and a few other methods of service? And the judge was like, yeah, sure. I mean, it's a real problem that she can't be found, but she's obviously aware of these proceedings. She's going to have to testify. And the judge is like, we'll extend the deadlines for Jenna Ellis to testify. So if Jenna Ellis thinks she's going to hide and run out the clock on the case. She's going to get deposed. And so also goes to show you because Jenna Ellis has said certain things that were complimentary of Ron DeSantis, not like all in for DeSantis, but just hasn't posted all of the kind of Trump

Starting point is 00:57:41 anti-DeSantis memes and things like that, all of the MAGA Republicans have turned on Jenna Ellis and they absolutely detest her and despise her and mock her. And then Jenna Ellis did a post recently about how she feels that the MAGA Republicans are sexually harassing individuals and women. But Jenna Ellis would also post all of these horrific things of MAGA Republican men sexually harassing AOC. It's just a mess. It's just a mess. And at the end of the day, the thing is, whether you're Jenna Ellis or Bill Barr or Ron DeSantis or Chris Christie, whoever, your role as a MAGA Republican is strictly based on your obedience to Donald Trump. And the moment you aren't strictly obedient cult member, you're out. And when you're out, they call you a rhino,

Starting point is 00:58:46 a Republican in name only, or a uniparty Republican, or they call you a leftist or a Marxist or whatever their name is, and then they come for you. History here has so many examples of this. This isn't a new phenomenon. Sadly, it's a new phenomenon at the highest level of politics in the United States of America. who come to power utilizing these types of tactics, who create these cults of personality and behavior that function in the way the modern day MAGA Republican Party does. We just never thought that that could happen here in the United States. But seeing what took place in this CNN fascist rally event, seeing the complicity of media, seeing the complicity of the entire Republican apparatus, seeing all of that shows you that we were not immune. We are not immune to that happening and taking hold in the United States of America. So let's talk about that and what we can do together to fight back against it. But first, let's take this quick break.

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Starting point is 01:04:08 athleticgreens.com Midas check it out welcome back Jordy you really do great at reads welcome back we are live here on the Midas Touch podcast. And as I mentioned before, I think that if you were going to do an interview with Donald Trump, you got to have the right conditions. And because it's so hard to make the right conditions, given how despicably you know he lies and how ill-equipped an entity like cnn is you if you're not ready to do it then you can't do it because the results of it the actual harm it causes the country is a real problem and media companies necessarily as the fourth estate should have a sense of responsibility in what they are doing. What Donald Trump did and how CNN portrayed it traumatized most of the country who watched that. And it's a real trauma because in his mockery of basic human rights, in his mockery of basic

Starting point is 01:05:30 American values, in his mockery of sexual assault victims, in his mockery of our democracy, it actually, to most Americans who care about this country, which is far more than MAGA, it is an insult. And so people say, well, what could Caitlin Collins who hosted it do? Practice. And I think she did. I think she did an okay job in certain areas. Yeah. But I think that what you really have to do, if you're going to do it, and I get that it's almost an impossible job, you either frame it the way we frame it here on the Midas Touch Network, that what you're about to watch is fascism, what you're about to watch is lie

Starting point is 01:06:22 after lie. Maybe you have a big board that fact checks them, but you have to call it out in real time as fascism, which you're about to watch as lie after lie. Maybe you have a big board that fact checks them, but you have to call it out in real time as fascism. Or a moderator like a Caitlin Collins would have to practice against someone like a Trump to say, be quiet, be quiet, you're wrong. You're lying to the American people right now and let me explain why. You're a liar. And if Donald Trump walks off the stage and can't handle it, that's fine. But you can't let that fascism assert itself in the way it does. If that's going to happen the way it played out, you just don't do it if you don't

Starting point is 01:07:02 have the scenarios that I just mentioned. And that's how I feel about it. Again, I get the idea of why you may interview, but you got to be so super careful. And I noticed in the lead up to this, every red flag was there. First off, we've seen the direction that CNN has been going under the new leadership. We know that their ratings have been suffering. We heard that they made a deal with Donald Trump to get him to appear. So all the red flags were glaring then about, I think it was the day before, I think this was yesterday, one of these CNN correspondents or journalists wrote this, which really in particular bothered me. Tonight's town hall, Trump's first CNN

Starting point is 01:07:46 appearance since the 2016 election, joins a list of other signs Trump and his team are attempting to adopt a more traditional campaign in his third run. Once I saw that, I said, any hope that anybody had of this being an actual neutral setting, a legitimate space, a legitimate town hall where he was going to get real pushback, that just went out the window. Because if you follow us here on the Midas Touch Network, we play a lot of clips from his rallies. We play a lot of clips from him on the campaign trail.

Starting point is 01:08:19 It's anything but traditional. Heck, even just a couple of weeks ago, he was hugging that woman who was the QAnon supporter, who was the Jay Sixer. He made a point to go over to her. This is somebody who tried to overthrow the United States government. She wears this wacky outfit. She actually went to jail for the January 6th insurrection. And he told her, you've been through too much. You're going to wind up being happy when I'm president. This is somebody who has repeatedly goes on the campaign trail. He calls Stormy Daniels horse face. He goes off on his, I'm going to pardon all the January Sixers out there. He formed the January Six Choir, a choir of people in jail for trying to overthrow the United States government. And you have somebody at CNN going, oh yeah, he just, oh,

Starting point is 01:09:03 shucks. He's just making that shift towards a traditional lane. And it became a joke so much on the old CNN also. I mean, they were not innocent either where they would say, oh, it looks like Trump's adopted a new tone, new tone, new tone. That became a whole joke, but it's always the same Trump. You're always going to get the same person and they never, never learn. And now the new gaslighting is like, oh, well, you know what? You just don't want to hear. I guess you just can't hear people outside your perspective.

Starting point is 01:09:33 I guess you're just afraid. That's not it at all. If you want to do this, you could do it absolutely right. And I think there is nobody we are hearing from more on a daily basis than Donald Trump, first of all. We are not blinding ourselves. We do not blind ourselves to him here. That is the last thing we do. But it's just so pitiful to see their take on this and then to see the aftermath, which is just them kind of praising themselves and patting themselves on the back for a job well done or something that was just so obviously an absolute disaster. And you never, never, you are the news network. You do not agree

Starting point is 01:10:13 to the conditions of somebody as controversial as Donald Trump. If he says fill the audience with MAGA supporters, you do not, this is a town hall. You do not fill the audience full of 400 MAGA supporters. You've already lost. You've already lost the battle. You've already lost every piece of journalistic integrity you maybe had, every modicum of that you had by putting in the audience 400 MAGA people. You might as well put the January 6th choir. They basically did, Brett. They basically did. So back in my marketing days, real quick, when we would be preparing for a really big meeting, we talk about theater. And what theater meant was, hey, how are we going to organize the room to be in the best interest

Starting point is 01:10:54 of us? How is it going to benefit us the most? And so what disturbed me the most, even outside just the town hall in general, was the theater of it all, was the peanut gallery, was the MAGA Republicans, these lunatics that they had clapping for Donald Trump with every word, everything he said. They were hanging on, ready to clap. Oh, we're going to call him Stormy Horseface Daniels. Clap, clap, clap. Oh, we're going to make fun of E. Jean Carroll. Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap. That tells you everything you need to know about what a sham town hall this was from CNN. And it's no wonder, there's no wonder why all of the Midas Mighty that I see in the chat from day to day growing each day, week over week, day over day, say, hey, I used to watch CNN. I can't do that anymore. They're no longer the beacon of truth. All I care about

Starting point is 01:11:46 is the truth. I don't want to be gaslit. CNN continues to move towards the realm of the Bill Mars of the world, where you just scratch your head and you're like, hey, at the end of the day, like, sure, are there issues where I think, you know, maybe we go in general a little bit too far in certain respects? Yeah, but let's have a conversation about that. Don't just give me this gaslit BS and make it seem like I'm the crazy one while you continue to gaslight me, CNN, by having these lunatics at your town hall cheering on an insurrectionist. It's unbelievable. Let's talk about if the conduct was, to use CNN's words, traditional. Okay. How about Donald Trump from the get-go saying that the 2020 election was rigged when it absolutely was not rigged? Just look at the way he says it and just look how already from the outset,

Starting point is 01:12:43 Caitlin Collins loses control. Play the clip. When you look at that result and when you look at what happened during that election, unless you're a very stupid person, you see what happens. A lot of the people, a lot of the people in this audience and maybe a couple that don't, but most people understand what happened.

Starting point is 01:13:00 Right there is where you jump in. It was a rigged election and it's a shame that we had to go through it. It's very bad for our country. All over the world, they looked at it, and they saw exactly what everyone else saw. You could stop the clip right there. Because that's where I would stop it. I'm just – the moment he said stupid people, I would say, are you calling 80 million Americans stupid people?

Starting point is 01:13:21 Are you calling everybody who worked for you stupid people? When he would go, let me finish. I go, no, I'm not going to let you finish. If you're going to keep going down this path, I'm not going to let you spew lies here on this platform. And I know that's very hard to do. And by the way, I wouldn't allow him on the Midas Touch platform. But if you're going to do what CNN do right there where I said, that's where you jump in, that's where you got to jump in. You got to say, I'm not tolerating this right there. where i said that's where you jump in that's where you got to jump in and you got to say i'm not tolerating this right there so i think that's what you would do so here let me show you the next one is this a traditional view he goes he would pardon the insurrectionists play this clip and what they've done and i love that question because what they've

Starting point is 01:13:59 done to so many people is nothing nothing and then what they've done to these people, they've persecuted these people. And yeah, my, my answer is I am most likely if I get in, I will most likely, I would say it will be a large portion of them. You know, they did a very, and I would say right there, I jump in right there and I would say, who I'd say, would you pardon the Oath Keepers? Would you pardon the Proud Boys? Who exactly would you pardon? Would you pardon the individuals who attacked the police? Name me who you're going to pardon. And again, because CNN set this up in this stochastic, terroristic way with the crowd clapping like that. It looked like fascist... What are one of those talk shows from back in the day where almost like a fascist Jerry Springer.

Starting point is 01:14:59 It looked like those clips that we see of Russian propaganda shows. Exactly. It looked exactly like, even the set kind of looked like it. Totally. And especially with the audience clapping along. It was like they were creating consent for these fascist beliefs pretty directly there by broadcasting that along with this incredibly favorable audience then.

Starting point is 01:15:23 And here he is, he gets a question about the Access Hollywood tapes. Let's listen to his response here. There was a tape deposition of you from October in it. You defended the comments that you made on that Access Hollywood tape about being able to grab women how you want. Do you stand by those comments?

Starting point is 01:15:40 I said, if you're famous and rich or whatever I said, but I said, if you're a star, you are, and I said, if you're famous and rich or whatever I said, but I said, if you're a star, you are. And I said, women let you. I didn't say you grip. I said, women let you know, you didn't use that word. But if you look, women let you. Now, they said, will you take that back? I said, let you assault them for a million years. This is the way it's been. I want to be honest. This is the way it's been. I can take it back if you'd like to. But if you're a famous person, if you're a star, and I'm not referring to myself, I'm saying people that are famous, people that are stars, people that are rich, people that are powerful, they tend to do pretty well in a lot of different ways. Okay.

Starting point is 01:16:21 You could stop running right there. Yeah. So you see there where she talks and then he just talks over her and then, and then she lets him kind of, you know, again, just kind of go on and on and on there. Like, you know, period, full stop. That's disqualifying right there. Like, and she, as the interviewer at that moment in time, if you're going to bring him on and you're going to do this, you're, Brett, exactly what you said. You're saying that it is your view that women let stars and celebrities sexually assault them? That's your position, that that's just what women allow? I just want to be very clear.

Starting point is 01:17:00 That's what you're saying right there? And she didn't ask that question. Like she had her scripted questions. Yes, she knew what you could say to push back, but she did such a kind of feigned it. It wasn't even like real, you know, it wasn't real pushback at all. And then here, I'll show you this one.

Starting point is 01:17:23 This is where he's answering a question on the US defaulting on its debt. And he's like, yeah, let's just do it. Let's default on our debt. Play this clip. Speaker 4 Do you think about the United States current debt situation and how can we move forward? Speaker 5 Such an important question. So we're at $33 trillion, a number that nobody ever thought possible. When we had our economy rocking and rolling just prior to COVID coming in, like literally, we were making a fortune. And oil, we were going to make so much money from oil, we were going to start paying off debt. But then with

Starting point is 01:17:57 COVID coming in, we had to do other things. We had to keep this country alive because it was so serious. But we have to get the country back. We have to lower energy prices. We have to lower interest rates. Interest rates are through the roof. Energy has to come down. It all has to come down. And we have to start paying off debt. But when we have a debt limit and they use that very seriously, I mean, they came in, Schumer came in with Nancy Pelosi and they were using it. We'll violate it. We'll do whatever. They talked a whole lot different than they do right now. I say to the Republicans out there, congressmen, senators, if they don't give you massive cuts, you're going to have to do a default. And I don't believe they're going to do a default because I think the Democrats will absolutely cave because you don't want to have that happen.

Starting point is 01:18:41 But it's better than what we're doing right now, because we're spending money like drunken sailors. So just to be clear, Mr. President, you think the U.S. should default if the White House does not agree to the spending cuts Republicans are demanding? We might as well do it now because you'll do it later, because we have to save this country. Our country is dying. Our country is being destroyed by stupid people, by very stupid people. By the way, it does look like the Russian flag in the background. It does look very Russian propaganda. And then the basic facts, again, this is all she does. The basic facts are you added 25% of all of the debt in the history of the United States with your policies. Your tax cuts for billionaires added $7 trillion

Starting point is 01:19:29 to the deficit. You are aware that 97% of all of the debt in the history of the United States accrued before President Biden was ever in office. You're aware of those facts, and you're okay with America having cataclysmic of impact by defaulting on its debt. At the end of the day, Donald Trump and the Republicans are actually trying to destroy the country. It's not hyperbole. This isn't like some leftist view of

Starting point is 01:19:59 it. It's what is going on. I refuse to be gaslit. The might is mighty. We all refuse to be gaslit by the idea that's put out there by things like CNN to basically be like, well, one perspective is what Donald Trump just said, and we should give that a fair treatment. And yeah, there's another perspective that says, don't destroy the country and don't harass people and don't engage in egregious behavior. And both can have time, but let's be fair to the sexual assaulters and the harassers and the people who want to destroy the country. Let's give them just as good, if not better treatment. And frankly, they get better treatment. All of the coverage about President Biden, when things are actually against all odds, doing incredible right now Like Donald Trump left the office with poison pills everywhere,

Starting point is 01:21:06 trying to bring the United States into a depression, right? If Trump was the president right now, I have zero doubt we'd be in a great depression right now. But even with the Fed raising interest rates the way they are, even with inflation being caused by Donald Trump's policies. That's what caused the inflation. The policies by President Biden with the Inflation Reduction Act and other major pieces of legislation, when we had a functioning government, when the MAGA Republicans didn't control the House of Representatives and passed these major pieces of legislation. Inflation fell below 5%, the lowest rate in nearly two years, right? I mean, that's significant. And we have the Labor Department reported that U.S. wages were up 4.4% year over year in April, while the unemployment rate dropped to a 50-year

Starting point is 01:21:59 low of 3.4%. And you barely hear, barely ever hear the media talking about it. Instead, they give Donald Trump a platform. Here, play the clip where he says, where he calls the moderator, he calls her nasty. She doesn't do anything in response. Play the clip. What's the answer? Can you mind? I would like for you to answer the question. Okay. It's very simple to answer. That's why I asked it.

Starting point is 01:22:22 It's very simple to, you're a nasty person, I'll tell you. Can you answer why you held onto the documents? That is the moment right there though, like where Caitlin Collins or any person who's in that position, he's there and says that you are a nasty person. And your response can be, do you really think that that is appropriate language from someone running for the office? Is that how you think you should be talking? How dare you? That's an important moment and she just lets him call her that. CNN created an environment where the crowd laughed at her while she was doing it. Then when he went on-

Starting point is 01:23:01 Pathetic. Pathetic. Pathetic. I don't even want to show the clip where he attacks E. Jean Carroll because frankly, it is that disgusting and that triggering what he says about her. And I think she's going to sue for another defamation case. I mean, her lawyer- And she should. And she should. That'd be awesome. Absolutely. She absolutely should. And then you have the, you know, you have, I'll just set the stage a little bit. You have that crowd that's laughing at Donald Trump calling Caitlin Collins, you're a nasty person. They're cracking up as Donald Trump is mocking E. Jean Carroll, who just won a trial where Donald Trump was too big of a coward to show up. A nine to zero

Starting point is 01:23:47 unanimous jury within a three hour period who actually heard the evidence made a finding that Donald Trump was liable for sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll, nine to zero, and awarded E. Jean Carroll $5 million. And the MAGA Republicans in that crowd were laughing at it as he mocked her for it. They were cracking up as he was lying about all of the evidence. And you saw them just like, you saw their faces. And again, it was a traumatizing thing to watch and experience. And I'm not a woman. I can only imagine what it must be like if you've been victimized by people like that. And to hear him say it like that, and to have CNN platform it like that, it is really PTSD-inducing. It is really trauma-inducing what they did there.

Starting point is 01:24:58 And I'll give you one other point that I'll make too. I see people say, well, they're doing it for the ratings. Bullshit. I mean, I know that's why they think they're doing it. But part of fascism is trying to create this appearance that you're bigger than you are. So people surrender before you even have to fight, right? If you even want to think about the tactic that like ISIS would use, right? Where they would just try to scare people before even coming into town. And that's the tactic that authoritarians use over and over again in general. And they make you believe the hype that doesn't exist. So when they talk about the crowd size and how big it is and the perfect phone call and they use this language they're hoping just to kind of train you to believe their hype but but the hype isn't real and and and the reality is where most Americans are what most Americans want to see is actually unapologetic pro-democracy content that calls it out. If you actually focused on the truth and you focused on going after these bad actors and being

Starting point is 01:26:15 fearless in that approach, not only would you be doing the right thing, but your ratings will benefit as well. Because that's actually, it's such a miscalculation, but it stems from the fascist fallacy and buying into it. And it's sad to see where CNN's gone, but that's why our life mission has become, we know there are more Americans out here who support pro-democracy and truth. Just build a bigger platform than CNN. Just build a bigger platform than them. And that's what we're doing. Sorry, bro. What were you going to say? No. Well, part of the fascist fallacy also, and you hear this from CNN executives, you hear this from people like Elon Musk. They try to describe their beliefs as the center. And anybody who believes anything else is just, they must be far lefties. Oh,

Starting point is 01:27:13 the leftists, the far lefties. It's not even pro-democracy versus fascism. They view anything that does not fit their fascist ideology as, oh, look at the far left. Look, we're over here in the center. And you hear this rhetoric often. They try to anchor themselves at the center when that cannot be farther from the truth. And even if you give CNN all the benefit of the doubt in the world and say, you know what? This guy is running for president. He is the leader of the Republican Party. He deserves a platform on our network. Let's give him is the leader of the Republican Party. He deserves a platform on our

Starting point is 01:27:46 network. Let's give him all the benefit of the doubt. I disagree with that. I think if you're going to do that, I think you better come well prepared. I think this actually could have been a good moment for CNN if they knew what they were doing, if they decided not to cave to his demands in the audience of Trump supporters. And if you noticed in those clips, I believe they were in those clips. And if you want to venture to other clips, good luck. You can watch those as well. But Caitlin Collins, every time she referred to Donald Trump, every single time, she didn't call him Mr. Trump.

Starting point is 01:28:19 She didn't call him Donald. She didn't call, she called him Mr. President. Weird. I'm willing to bet. I am willing to bet that was in the deal as well. That not only does the audience have to be filled with MAGA supporters, but you have to refer to him as Mr. President. And to me, that is pretty bizarre, screwed up, and also pretty propagandish. And even if he's to the fullest extent of, like I was saying, he's the likely

Starting point is 01:28:48 Republican candidate, voters deserve to hear from him. Then why in the after show do you have a guy like Byron Donalds on to break it down? A Republican election denier who voted against certifying the election on to just spew the big lies some more. He certainly didn't need to be there to break it down and talk about Trump's performance. Why the following morning, this morning, on Thursday morning, one of the first guests they had on air was GOP representative Brian Mast. They brought him on to talk about how great Trump was and to spread the big lie. So even if you give them the benefit of the doubt on the Trump thing, it does not explain the rest of it, which fully speaks to their intentions here. And also what speaks to their intentions here, the comment by the CNN of news, and that's in caps. And that is our job. I'm sorry, but your job as a news organization is not to be the story. Your job as a news organization is not to be the news. Your job is to report the news. And frankly,

Starting point is 01:30:01 you should have a bias. Your bias should be towards protecting democracy. And it's clear that you have lost that mission somewhere along the way. And that's what's so upsetting to me. But I know here, we're in a democracy, unapologetically so, and we're not afraid to do it. And that's what all you here are also doing. You are all such a huge part of this mission. And that's why I'm so thankful to constantly be here with you each and every day to be in this fight, to be pushing back against this just gaslighting and frankly, just absolute lies that we are seeing day in and day out that tell you that this is normal. This is not normal. And we know that it's not normal.

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