The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Caught On Tape as His Invasion Declared Illegal

Episode Date: October 5, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s invasion of American cities with the United States military being caught on tape at the same time a federal judge he appointed has declared his military invasion inside United States illegal. Visit https://meidasplus.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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have it all on tape. We have the videos. We have the photos. We have the receipts. I'm going to show it to you. Donald Trump unleashing his militarized Gestapo ICE agents across cities and towns in the United States of America. They are utilizing chemical agents against people inside the United States. They are indiscriminately attacking individuals on the street. They are disappearing people to concentration camps. I need to show you what is taking place. this comes at the same time that a Trump appointed judge in Oregon made a major ruling on Saturday afternoon that Donald Trump was trying to utilize martial law through unconstitutional, pretextual means to turn the United States into a military state. I think we are already a military state, but to hear a Trump appointed judge from 2019 use the words military state like

that send chills down my spine and it should across the entire country and the world no matter what political party you're from what i'm about to show you right now shocks the conscience it is despicable but we have to watch it please share this with as many people as you can here you have portland ice agents jumping into a brawl to pepper spray a person in a frog costume and you'll notice that they spray inside the frog costume where the person's like able to breathe in order to put the chemical agents into the frog costume. Here, play this clip. And just so you can see what was taking place before they put the chemical agents into the frog suit. Just take a look at this here, play this clip.

Then, I'm not going to be able to our traffic. All is that is you know, for me in Delaware traffic. I'm on these chemical agents on these chemical agents on people on people in to try to provoke a reaction. They've been doing this. For multiple days now, you probably saw the video I did on Saturday. But here we have ICE agents and military personnel terrorizing peaceful communities in Chicago.

And you'll see the chemical agents that are used to try to suffocate the people in Chicago. And we've heard multiple stories of children who got very sick and others who inhaled these chemical agents here, play this clip. We don't like that. Do something! That's what you're for thinking, Officer! What a little bit ass! Watch the house! Watch the house!

Don't know! Hey! I don't know! Look! Cattle! Cattle! No! Look!

Look! Oh! While these peaceful protests were taking place in Chicago, you had Christy Knoem, as Molly Plufkins explains, posing proudly from a sniper's nest aimed at the protesters. This is what they're doing. It's absolutely despicable. Play this clip. And Jake Sheridan, he's been doing incredible work on the ground.

Here he talks about angry crowds have been following and chasing ice through Chicago. Play this clip. And again, they're just like, and again, they're just like, and again, they're just like, Get out of our towns. What the hell are you doing here? Here's a person on TikTok. BS creates someone who was in the area as ICE was apparently shooting people in a Home Depot parking lot in Chicago. Look at the vehicles you can see right there.

Just these militarized tanks rolling in. And again, you know, Donald Trump, you know, sending the troops, federalizing troops in Illinois. But again, this comes at a time where we got that powerful ruling. from the Trump judge in Portland, Oregon. But let's play this clip. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. That's so scary. Gregory Royal Pratt post this next one. This is tear gas at 39th and Kedzi. Here play this clip. You don't get justice! You will get justice! And Armando Sanchez post is this one.

Here's the current scene near 39th in Kedzi in Chicago with a large group of federal agents and protesters after it seemed that the ICE Gestapo agent shot an individual. Here, play this clip. We keep us safe. We keep us safe. I know everybody wants to be going to keep us safe, but everybody got to be kind of line. Because who keeps us safe? We keep us safe. Now earlier, this was from Friday, ice deploying tear gas on the crowded public street with two-year-olds and others requiring medical care after this.

Play this clip. And fuck you, you fuckers. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fucked bitches. Get the fuck the bitches. you'll see ice body slamming an unarmed U.S. citizen to the ground who is just standing on a public sidewalk. Stop. He's not doing anything. The woman filming cries. Your next, the agent threatens her. This happened three blocks away from where a woman was shot by agents during an ice patrol a couple of hours earlier. The violent takedown in this video occurred near the corner of West 37th and South Kedzie in the Brighton Park neighborhood of Chicago. Here play this clip. I'm on a public floor.

He's not doing anything. You're saying that. Whoa! No! He's not doing anything to it! He's not doing anything. He's not doing anything. Oh, he's not.

I'm standing right here. He's not doing... I'm not doing... I'm standing right here. I'm just right here. I'm standing right here. Let's stand right here. He's not doing anything.

Now, this is the type of videos that ICE is putting out as well from the official Homeland Security account. They write, expel criminal illegal aliens, save America. I'll show you a portion of this commercial, as my friend Sandy Bacon writes. This has to be the same advertising agency that Buckelly, the dictator of El Salvador, uses for his prison. videos. She goes, I produce commercials my whole career. This is exactly the same template, music, editing, drones. And like the prison video, it was not shot in one night. So this is what ICE is releasing to try to terrorize people across the country. Here, play this clip.

You probably have seen those. You probably have seen those ads before as well. And we talked about yesterday, I showed a video where a Black Hawk helicopter raided an apartment complex. in Chicago and then they separated, they tied up like as though they were criminals, even though we're not dealing with, you know, most of these people weren't criminals there. They had a group of kind of black people in their own area and immigrants in their own, you know, and people who they viewed as migrants, like just tied up after a Black Hawk helicopter shows up and starts wreaking havoc. I want to give a shout out to the Robbie Harvey here does an incredible video. This is what's happening in courtrooms across the country right now. I've showed you what happens in the

New York courtroom, but in federal courtrooms, you just have these ICE agents who don't identify themselves. They're just wearing like sweatshirts. They wear like civilian clothes. They don't show warrants. And then they just pull up to people and then disappear him to concentration camps. Watch this. Watch this man get detained by ice. And then in a moment, I'm going to tell you exactly what's going on. He's going to remain silent. You have no arrest warrant either. So let's go. Let's go. Let's need the arrest warrant, Ben. You don't have the right to let go of him. Hold on. Let go of him.

Where's the arrest warrant? You don't have to talk to him. Yes, he's not going to talk to you. He's going to stay quiet. He's not going to say anything. You have no confirmation of anything. This is a third time pushing down the elevator go down and you're preventing us to go downstairs. You're preventing us, again, you're blocking the elevator the third time they were trying to go downstairs. He's coming with me. You have no idea who he is. Let's go. Let's go this way.

Again, you're holding him without an arrest warrant. Let's see the arrest warrant, sirs. Let's see the arrest warrant. Let's go. where's the arrest warrant guys i've spoken with people connected to the situation they tell me that this man is in the country seeking asylum and he's going through the court process right now and he's done everything that the united states has asked him to do he said everything that the courts has asked him to do and he showed up at the court hearing on this day in good faith

expecting that the united states would treat him fairly and that he would do what is asked of him. Instead, he was tricked and detained by ICE without apparently an arrest warrant. Let me get yourself. Just say, shake your head, yes. Thank you very much. Where are we going? According to his attorney, they will be fighting this and they will fight for their client. I'll keep you updated. And then finally, I want to show you this, that a man who was shot the head at an ICE detention center in Dallas. His family was never notified. They found out because there was a video of him on TikTok describing him being shot. The family didn't have any idea if he was dead or alive for several days. The worst goes through your mind, even more so

when you don't have information, said the father. It's something I wouldn't wish upon anybody here. Play this clip. Revealing his gunshot wounds, this was the first sight. Two parents got of their injured son, one of three men shot at a Dallas ice facility. Much preoccupation. We feel so worried. We're in distress, says his father, who lives in Venezuela, their son, Jose Andres Bordones, a dad of two, was the only survivor. He says they've received little to no information. Bordonez his wife, who also lives in Venezuela, learned he was one of the detainees shot through a TikTok video. The worst goes through your mind, even more so when you don't have information. It's something I wouldn't wish on anyone. He says this is his son, seen

running into the facility with bloodied shorts. According to ICE, Bordones was taken to Parkland Health Hospital and released back into ICE custody. He last told his family he was at the Prairieland detention center. What's going to happen to my son? His dad asks, what would you like to see happen? First and foremost, he needs. First and foremost, he needs medical attention. His dad says Bordones was grazed on his head and required stitches. They worry his safety while in custody is at risk. Ice arrested Bordones after he was jailed for an alleged traffic offense in Hearst. Like many, he immigrated for the American dream. Unfortunately, he got a nightmare. His dad says this father, desperate to see his son heal and return

home says he is begging the U.S. government for help. In Dallas, I'm Adriana Delb. ICE tells us that Bordonez still faces deportation proceedings. There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. I want to give a shout out to all of those citizen journalists and journalists who are doing heroic work out there. I just think it's so critical in this time where our nation is captured by an authoritarian regime that we show you. you what's going on. And those individuals are the real heroes too right now. And everybody who's peacefully resisting ice. Hit subscribe. Let's get to six million things for watching. Want to stay plugged in? Become a subscriber to our substack at Midasplus.com. They'll get daily recaps from

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