The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump ATTACK ON BRAVEST will BACKFIRE in HIS FACE

Episode Date: December 4, 2024

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s plan against American veterans and how the media is enabling it. Go to https://hiyahealth.com/MEIDAS and get your kids the full-body nourishment they need to grow into healthy adults. Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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seeing. And as I've said before, I'm not showing Donald Trump videos and I'm not playing his audio, but the threat he poses is very real. And I want to talk about an attack that he is currently engaged in attacking the veteran community. And I want to talk very specifically about what he's doing. I don't want to speak in kind of broad language. I want to really get into the nooks and crannies here. So Fred Wellman, who's on the Midas Touch Network and a veteran himself, here's what he writes. He goes, I'm concerned that this chatter, like Wall Street Journal op-eds, Sean Hannity pieces, The Economist article, all talking about cutting veterans affairs and cutting veterans benefits, are really just trial balloons to what Donald Trump and Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are going to do to veterans and the veteran community. They're shaping the discussion, so anything short of cutting all of our benefits, healthcare, and closing the VA is a compromise.

And Fred Wellman says what this really means is that millions of veterans are going to be losing life-saving benefits, being thrown into an unready civilian healthcare network, and homelessness spiking. I've been in politics long enough to see how this plays out. It's not good. A lot of the current homelessness problems comes from Ronald Reagan's policies as well like this, basically throwing people onto the streets. Fred Wellman then says, look, to be perfectly clear, what I'm concerned about is all of this chatter from these op-eds that are basically conditioning people. Now, here's an example of this. Here's the economist headline. This is how they're framing it in kind of an academic way.

I referred to it last night on the Midas Touch podcast as the banality of evil, a term that was used to describe what took place during the Nazi era. Here's what the economist writes. American veterans now receive absurdly generous benefits. An enormous rise in disability payments may complicate debt reduction efforts. The banality of evil right there. Oh, veterans getting rich off of healthcare benefits. Absurdly generous healthcare benefits. Oh, are they living in palaces with golden toilet bowls? Oh, no. That's Mar-a-Lago.

That's Donald Trump. That's Elon Musk. That's them. Adam Kinzinger, a veteran, writes, this is an insane article. The vast majority of this increase is because we were exposed to burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's our generation's Agent Orange. As a burn pit veteran myself, The Economist is absolutely wrong here. My guess is there were no burn pit vets on the board that wrote this. Exactly. I just don't get who these people are the audacity these people have to go after and attack our veterans to attack communities like this and then it's just intellectualized through this banality of evil lens just to remind you over here trump's project 2025 plan to dismantle veterans' health care has different tiers.

Four main ones that we should discuss. One, push veterans to a for-profit system. Veterans get pushed out of the VA into for-profit care, and they will receive worse care. Increase the strain on VA facilities. VA care consistently outranks private care. Cut disability benefits. Millions of disabled veterans could lose critical benefits. Project 2025 seeks to lower the disability ratings to save money. Gut specialized care for veterans. End specialized care like reproductive health care for women. That's going to be day one.

Threaten to end all non-service connected care from the VA, which could affect millions of seniors and women veterans. And then the other category, as you hear my dog sparking in the background, loyalty over expertise. Trump loyalists will replace experienced VA workers. Politicization will weaken veterans health care. And we've already seen, for example, with respect to the Navy, Donald Trump has appointed as the secretary of Navy, someone who's never been in the Navy. A hedge fund guy who's donated like close to $2 million to Donald Trump is now the Secretary of the Navy without any naval experience

at all. All right. I want to take a look at the following. I just want you to see this article from The Economist. So you see, in my view, the banality and evil that's taking place and the type of conditioning that Trump and the media is doing to execute this plan. I want you to be knowledgeable so you can share this with veterans in your family because we need to push back against this. So this is the article from The Economist. It's called American Veterans Now Receive Absurdly Generous Benefits and Enormous Rise in Disability Payments May Complicate Debt Reduction Effort. I just wonder, do you ever see headlines like this from The Economist or The Wall Street Journal about billionaires getting corporate welfare that then allows them to buy 10 extra personal private jets for themselves? Is that absurdly beneficial benefits that the billionaires are getting?

Are they getting absurd benefits? That's what's kind of absurd. And again, look, I'm a capitalist. I think that, you know, people can get wealthy. There could be rich people. I just think it is important to not forget that 99% of Americans need to be looked after. I think it's important that we reflect upon the fact that housing is unaffordable for people.

And meanwhile, you've got these billionaires getting tax cuts to allow them to buy up more beach houses, more million dollar whatever. And they already have enough. It's enough. And they're getting the handouts to let them do it when we could be helping workers out. But that's just me.

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On the campaign trail, he doubled down, vowing further increases in defense spending and promising to tackle a recruitment shortfall. Okay, well, their first act is going to be to get rid of transgender service members and what to like ban gay people from the military. Yet he also wants to cut government waste and has hired Elon Musk to lead a department of government efficiency. Again, it's a fake government agency that doesn't exist. But just take a look at that paragraph right there. Every sentence is like Kim Jong-un style propaganda right there. It goes on to say, when it comes to the Department of Veterans Affairs, these two instincts may be in tension. The department's budget has surged over the past two decades, rising from $86 billion in today's dollars, then equivalent to $2.6 of the federal budget in 2000 to $336.5 billion of today's budget this year, and now receives almost three times as much as the Department of Transportation. Remarkably, this boom has occurred despite

nearly a one-third decline in veteran population, which has fallen from $26 million to $18 million. Annual spending per veteran, as a consequence, has risen six sixfold. Then goes on to say, Mr. Musk is zeroing on discretionary spending, right? That's how we refer to healthcare for veterans. It's just discretionary. It's an entitlement. You're so lucky that you get, no, it should be what's viewed as mandatory spending. Our veterans deserve the best care, he goes, which includes programs such as the department's medical services. But the main driver of its spending surge is mandatory outlays for disability compensation. Between 2000 and 2024, such payments ballooned from $26 billion in today's prices to $159 billion. Last year alone saw a 17% jump, and the department's latest budget request forecast that compensation will soar to $185 billion over the next two years. You notice how they frame it too? As compensation, you're getting all of this money. You're rich. You're rich for toxic burn pit exposure. Now you're getting rich.

Again, the economists, they don't write this about their billionaires who they focus on. The current system was introduced during the First World War. And it goes on to describe the modern program bears little resemblance to its original form. This year, 6 million veterans or a third of the total qualified for payments with an average monthly benefit of $2,200. Veterans may file claims for an unlimited number of disabilities and appeal against decisions as often as they wish. Oh my God, they get to apply for all of the disabilities that they have? What? And they get to appeal it an unlimited amount of times if they're suffering from disabilities for fighting for our troops, for fighting in wars? Oh my God, let's clutch our pearls. The average rating has climbed above 60%

and one in four disabled veterans now receives the once rare 100% rating. Maybe if you're exposed to toxic burn pits, that's why. Such a designation ensures generous $4,000 monthly payment for life with no conditions attached. No conditions attached, everybody. They're rich. Starting at the age of 2025, a former soldier could earn well over $2 million in present value terms over the course of their career. Wow.

Oh my gosh. Someone who can't walk or talk or speak or who could be dying, they get that amount of money so that they could freaking live? That's how they cover that, by the way. It should also be noted, too, in terms of how they want to treat our troops. I just want you to think about this. Pete, I covered this before, but I think I deserve to cover it in this context. Now, we all know Donald Trump's Secretary of Defense pick, Pete

Hegseth, the Fox weekend news host who doesn't have any experience commanding a military company. We all know. I mean, just think about that sentence that I just said there. We all know that he's also been, that he has sexual assault allegations against him. Rape of an unconscious woman, which he denies. At a Republican event is where he met this lady who accuses him. He denies the accusations. His only leadership, I can't even believe I have to go in addition to the rape accusation. Yeah, but in addition to that, his only leadership of like veterans was two veterans organizations. And here's the article from the New Yorker. So I just want you to think this is the guy Trump picked to look after the military. It's defense secretary. Pete Hegseth, faces new booze,

strippers, debt, and NDA claims at veteran groups. He rants. It goes on to talk about him having a drunken history of mismanaging veterans organizations,

two of them, that left the staff so disgusted by his allegedly lecherous behavior that they pushed him out. One group, the Veterans for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America, was the other group. Veterans for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America.

They described financial mismanagement, inappropriate sexual advances, and at one point, Hegseth drunkenly yelling, kill all Muslims at a bar while on an official tour in Ohio. Hegseth denies it, as lawyers call these accusations outlandish and being spread by a disgruntled former worker at the organization. But let's not forget that Pete Hegseth's own mother sent him a letter in 2018 calling him an abuser of women who need to get help immediately. This is who Trump picked to lead the Defense Department. It goes on to talk about this whistleblower report on Hegseth

at the Organization Concerned Veterans for Americans from 2013 to 2016. It accuses him of being repeatedly drunk while on the clock. It talks about while he was married at that time. By the way, he had a baby with his third wife while he was married to his second wife. And during that time period, he was also accused of rape. It goes on to say that he would divide the women who worked for him into two camps, party girls and not party girls. Then he would try to sexually pursue all of the female employees who worked under him.

It talks about another NDA for one of the women who worked there after a strip club incident that took place. And then it talks about this kill all Muslims incident where he said that at a bar very loudly. One person who worked there said, I've seen him dragged away not a few times, but multiple times to have him lead the Pentagon would be scary. So I just want you to reflect on this all. We can say we support our troops. We can say we support our veterans. But we do that with our actions, with our behavior, with our conduct. And I'm so sick and tired of hearing Donald Trump and the media just go, oh, the troops, the troops. You heard

what he said in The Economist. He says he loves the troops. Well, his actions show the exact opposite. And by the way, what The Economist describes right there and how they describe it and how they normalize it is absolutely disgusting. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. I hope you've been liking the new format of these videos. Sometimes there's a lot of me talking. Less Trump videos. But let me know what you think in the comments. And occasionally you hear my dog barking and my little girl in the background.

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