The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Biggest Promise QUICKLY CRUMBLES Before Day 1

Episode Date: January 13, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on how Donald Trump’s top advisors now admit they lied about a 24 hour Ukraine peace deal with Russia. Thanks to Lumen! Go to https://lumen.me/meidas and use promo code MEIDAS at checkout to get 15% off your Lumen! 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/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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that the only deal he would agree to in Ukraine would be a total surrender and capitulation by Ukraine. And Putin would want Donald Trump to come begging for a deal as well, and it would have to be total capitulation and surrender. We reported last week how a meeting between Donald Trump's special envoy to Ukraine and Ukraine's foreign minister was abruptly canceled. And I was explaining the reason was because there were not the conditions for a deal and it would have been embarrassing and humiliating. So now over the weekend, we've heard from both Donald Trump's special envoy to Ukraine,

Keith Kellogg, who, by the way, is a serious guy, as well as Donald Trump's soon to be national security advisor, Mike Waltz. And both of them say no deal anytime soon. So first, I want you to hear this in their own words so you can hear it for yourself that Donald Trump broke the promise. Remember what Trump said? Trump said when he was asked, well, how are you going to do this peace deal in 24 hours? Trump said, here's what I'm going to do.

I'm going to go to Putin. I'm going to say, you got to do this. And I'm going to go to Zelensky and say, you got to do this. And then I know how to do deals. So a deal is going to happen. That's not going to happen. So Keith Kellogg, a former Lieutenant General, he's in the United States Army. He fought in the Vietnam War. He also fought in the Gulf War. Again, serious guy right here. Also served as an acting national security advisor when Mike Flynn resigned. So here is Keith Kellogg on his interview with Fox saying, maybe a hundred days we can have the conditions for a deal. So let me get this straight. It went from 24 hours to 2,400 hours for there to be conditions to maybe start conversation. Here, let me show you this clip of Keith Kellogg. Let's play.

What we're going to do, we'll set the conditions for the president, and then he'll eventually get to a position where he'll be talking to President Putin and also Prime Minister Zelensky as well. And I think they're going to come to a solvable solution in the near term. And when I say by the near term, you know, I would like to set a goal on a personal level and professional level. I would say let's set it at 100 days and move our way back and figure a way we can do this in the near term to make sure that this solution is solid, it's sustainable, and that this war ends, and so that we stop the carnage.

I think that's gonna be very important to do. It's gonna be important for our national security. It's a part of our vital national interest, and it's also good for Europe as well, and the globe as well. All right, General. Now let me show you national security advisor, or soon to be national security advisor or soon to be a national security advisor

to Trump, Mike Waltz. Here, he also says, ah, you know, we need to formulate the conditions and we'll be able to figure this all out. And, you know, uses a bunch of word salad. In other words, they are nowhere near any type of deal in Ukraine. Here, watch this. Like Trump, of course, had said that he could have the war ended even before he took office. I assume that's not going to happen. We're just eight days away

from being sworn in. What is the realistic time frame for at least a ceasefire in Ukraine? What do you think? What's the goal? Well, we would like to see a ceasefire in any minute, any day. I think that would be an incredibly positive first step on both sides. And that would then allow us to enter into the framework of some type of negotiated solution here. Everybody knows that this has to end somehow diplomatically. I just don't think it's realistic to say we're going to expel every Russian from every inch of Ukrainian soil. Even Crimea, President Trump has acknowledged that reality. And I think it's been a huge step forward that the entire world is acknowledging that reality. But now I want to show

you the tactic that they both use as well. Remember what I've been saying, WMD, weapon of mass distraction. Here's the fake because it's an obvious lie, a lie that Donald Trump promised to voters as one of the reasons they should vote for him, right? You know what we call that in common English? We call that fraud. We call it fraud. But now here's their maneuver and here's what they're depending on us to do, that we're going to be distracted by, oh, Donald Trump's going to invade Greenland

and Canada and Panama. We should take that seriously. We should take it seriously. But we should also not focus so much on the fact where we should not get distracted from the fact about Trump's lies. So let me show you what then they do, just so you see the scheme here. This is what Trump's future NSA, head of NSA, Mike Waltz does. Well, I think Greenland puts us in an interesting position if we take over Greenland, and we'll have to see. They may want to be independent. Here, watch this. Out of the box, he's trying to engage and he's putting the United States in a position of global leadership. So when you look at it historically, there's a lot of things he is saying is very, very accurate historically, and it makes a lot of sense

internationally what it looks like for the future. You know, when it comes to Panama, I was an assault brigade commander during Just Cause, the invasion of Panama. We actually did take the Panama Canal back in the late 80s during Operation Just Cause, and invasion of Panama. We actually did take the Panama Canal back in the late 80s during Operation Just Cause. And three weeks later, we gave it back to him. So we've taken it before. It's happened before. And I think his point about the Chinese running the canal is a good point because over 70 percent of the commerce that goes through the Panama Canal is in fact American. So it is in our vital interest, in our bilateral interest, that that canal stays sovereign. Are you ready to jumpstart your health in 2025?

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you know, Donald Trump gave a press conference recently where Trump said how Vladimir Putin wants to meet with him and that Trump was going to meet with Putin. Hey, Kellogg, what do you think about that? I want you to watch what Keith Kellogg says here. Let's play. You know, I don't want to divulge anything that the president says or doesn't say because he speaks for himself. I do not speak for him. We've had an opportunity to talk about it. And we'll have more after the 20th of January when he's officially the president, not president elect.

Interesting thing for the special envoy whose job is to speak on behalf of the administration regarding a discreet area, that area here being Ukraine and Russia's unlawful invasion. And you hear what Kellogg said. He goes, I don't speak for Trump. Trump speaks for himself. I was just hearing that also. I want you to watch some of the rifts that I think will develop early between Kellogg and Trump. Because what we've seen before are people who are like Kellogg, who don't make it very long in Trump administrations when Trump pulls crap like this.

Because what Trump will do is he'll undermine the negotiations by Kellogg. Kellogg knows you're not in a position of power if you brag about Vladimir Putin inviting you to meet and you go there with your hands out begging Vladimir Putin for a deal. That doesn't put you in a strong negotiating posture. It doesn't put you in a strong negotiation posture. In fact, as I teach my law students and my undergrad students, when I teach negotiation, the worst thing you can do as a negotiator is impose arbitrary timelines and deadlines on yourself in a negotiation and allow your adversary

to know that because you give up a major part of the negotiation power, which is time and your utilization of time. But that's precisely what Donald Trump does over and over again. And I'll leave you with this clip right here. This was a man at a Trump rally. He's asked by one of these right-wing propaganda networks if he believes Donald Trump will end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Watch this. And that President Trump often says that he can solve this problem in a matter of time instead of just throwing money at it. Absolutely. He has a plan. He knows those people. He's dealt with them when he was president okay but then they move on to greenland canada oh who who are we mad at new scum who are we mad at what's he tweeting today what's he posting today that's you keep

the base in a constant rage that's what trump and these magnus do oh you should get mad at the transgender volleyball player we We mad there. Oh, wait a minute. You thought we were actually going to lower prices. You thought we were actually going to make housing more affordable. You thought that we were going to do the things that we said. No, but aren't you mad about the transgender athletes in the NCAA? There's about 10 of them out of 510,000. Should we bully the transgender folk who are playing? Should that what we do? Should that be what we do?

And let's bully some new marginalized community today, which is just absolutely horrific. It's all part of their WMD, their weapon of mass distraction, folks. Focus, focus on what's going on here, okay? Well, Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. Love this video?

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