The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump CRASHES and Keeps GETTING WORSE

Episode Date: August 13, 2024

On this episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast: A tale of two rallies: Trump rambles nonsensically and spreads fear at his Montana rally while VP Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz uplift and inspire voters in the swing states; Trump panics over Kamala Harris’ crowds and falsely claims they are AI; JD Vance asks Democrats to stop “bullying” the GOP; Donald Trump is caught flying on Jeffrey Epstein’s jet for campaign events - in 2024!; New positive updates on the economy; and more! Ben, Brett and Jordy break it down! Watch the FREE stream of Against All Enemies: https://youtu.be/D2uwOZhqGS0 Deals from our sponsors! Zbiotics: Head to zbiotics.com/MEIDAS to get 15% off your first order when you use MEIDAS at checkout. Fum: Head to TryFum.com/meidas and use code MEIDAS to get a FREE GIFT with the Journey Pack today! AeroPress: Head to Aeropress.com/legalaf to save 20% at checkout! American Financing Corp: Visit americanfinancing.net/Touch today or call 866-886-2026. Disclaimer: NMLS 182334, nmlsconsumeraccess.org. NetSuite: Do you know your own numbers for your business? Download NetSuite’s ultimate KPI checklist right now at netsuite.com/meidas 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 Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/lights-on-with-jessica-denson On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered 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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Donald Trump is having an absolute meltdown over the fact that Vice President Kamala Harris is drawing massively larger crowd sizes than Donald Trump's crowd size. Over the weekend, Donald Trump made post after post claiming falsely, very falsely, borderline, what in the heck are you even talking about falsely, that Vice President Kamala Harris is, according to Donald Trump, AI-ing her crowd, that there's actually nobody attending her events, and that she's using AI to pretend that there are people at her rallies. Donald Trump's false statements are now being parroted by all of the MAGA Republicans

who have taken over the Republican Party. It is odd. It is strange. It is disqualifying. This is not someone who should be near a position of power, yet alone the nuclear codes. We will break it all down. As Donald Trump and his campaign continue to claim that Vice President Kamala Harris turned black, that she's actually Asian is one of the things they keep on saying over and over again, that they call her Kamabla, that Shady Vance or J.D. Vance tried to go onto her airplane and Donald Trump's campaign spokesperson told Shady Vance to smell it or sniff it to see if it smells. While all of that's going on, J.D. Vance over the weekend gave a press tour. He spoke to various media outlets where he called on Democrats to stop bullying.

He was complaining about the bullying tactics and says that it was unfair that Democrats are bullying him and Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Donald Trump has been caught using Jeffrey Epstein's airplane, not in the past tense. Currently, he's using the Epstein plane to campaign. One of the main planes that Trump is using is the exact same plane that Epstein used to traffic women. What in the world is going on here? This has been confirmed by our reporters at the Midas Touch Network. It was confirmed by the Miami Herald, the same exact plane. We'll talk about what went down, but apparently the Epstein plane was sold to a Republican donor and that person's giving

Donald Trump use of it. So they basically just changed the, they rewrapped the plane on the outside. So it says Trump 2024, but it's Epstein's jet. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is plummeting in the polls. So in addition to posting on social media over and over and over again, Donald Trump does what he normally does. He's threatened to file a lawsuit against the Department of Justice. He filed a notice to sue, which is the precursor to a lawsuit. He just picked the number $100 million, which is part of his tactic. Just pick a big number so the corporate media can run with it. And he says that Mar-a-Lago was unlawfully searched by the FBI and DOJ, and he wants $100 million for it. Meanwhile, a magistrate judge signed off on the search warrant.

Donald Trump lost the case when he tried to challenge the warrant before Judge Eileen Cannon in the 2022 case, where the 11th Circuit overturned what Judge Eileen Cannon in the 2022 case where the 11th Circuit overturned what Judge Eileen Cannon was trying to do. We will talk about Donald Trump's whiny descent into madness versus Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Wallace' path towards a hopeful future. I'm Ben Micellas, joined by Brett and Jordy Brothers. How are you both doing? I'm doing great, Ben. I'm doing great, Jordy. You never know what a day is going to bring. I mean, I didn't wake up today and think, hey, are we going to learn that Donald Trump has been flying around in literally Jeffrey Epstein's former jet to campaign and go to fundraisers since his plane

broke down? I mean, come on, out of all the planes in the world, somehow he ends up with Jeffrey Epstein's jet. Come on, give me a break. This campaign just gets crazier and crazier, and we're watching every single day. We've been saying it now for a very, very long time that Donald Trump is a madman, that Donald Trump is declining, that Donald Trump is deteriorating before our eyes. But that's even accelerated to a whole other level over the past few days. I mean, the things that we are seeing are not only showing a man in decline, they are showing somebody with a complete and total psychological break from reality. The sad part is everything that Donald Trump does, He takes his followers down that same rabbit hole and down

that same descent into madness. It's a real sickness that we are witnessing, but we are going to get into that and much more. But first, of course, we always got to check in with Jordy. What's up, man? I'm doing great. Can we just get into the show? We have so much to talk about. Come on. Can I say something? You just have to explain. Come on. Can I say something, Jordy? Jordy is wearing a red hat on the show, not a, for the listeners, a normal sports hat. By the way, I'm doing it on purpose and I think you're going to hit on why and we haven't even talked about why. I just want to say I can't wait to the days where we could bring the red hats back and not have

people look at us. Every time I see someone in a red hat, I got to do a double take and just like- You know what? So Brett, I actually, I consciously chose this today because we here at the Midas Touch Network have been leaning in to the American iconography, the flags, the Eagles. We're taking and reclaiming patriotism back from these pretenders. When I do the show quite often, I'm traveling right now, so I don't have my normal setup, but I always have the flag flying behind me. And people ask often, why? When I see the flag, I think of MAGA. And you know what? That breaks and broke my heart the first couple of times that I heard that. And quite frankly and candidly, I would think that too, right? These MAGA Republicans have so bastardized these

symbols that we hold so near and dear to our hearts that when true patriots and pro-democracy warriors reclaim them, I mean, that is the day and that is the America I want to live in. And that's the America we are living in right now. So I wore this hat intentionally because I was thinking to myself, every time I do see a red hat, I have the same frigging reaction as you, Brett, but I'm just sick of it. I'm not going to let these magas just totally ruin the way I operate my life. And so, red hat, you go. Look at that. Look, I think we should start with the flag, the eagle, the symbols of the patriot, the constitution. Then I like the idea of the red hat. But I wouldn't exactly say a red hat is a symbol of patriotism. But I mean, I hear,

just being honest, I hear you though. I hear you. I see where you're coming from. I see where you're coming from there, Jay. All right. Look, when sometimes I see, to the extent there are sometimes criticisms of Midas Touch, the biggest one I see sometimes is when you keep saying Trump's having a meltdown or you're using the term cognitive decline, or you say Trump's in a panic, why are you using terms like that? Can you be a little more kind of level-headed in your terminology that you use. And then I say, I'm using the only words that I think exist appropriately to describe what it is that I'm watching. I think the problem is

when corporate media does not use the words for the moment and they try to normalize this behavior because this isn't just some eccentric political views. This is actually very deranged, bordering on real serious mental issues and probably is real deeply seated mental issues, malignant narcissism, being a sociopath, being an actual psychopath. I mean, I've spoken to George Conway, who runs the Anti-Psychopath pack, and he says, look, you go and you look at how psychiatrists diagnose psychopaths. Donald Trump is clinically a psychopath. So I'm trying to just use the language that captures this moment. So let's take a look at what Donald Trump was saying. Let's compare it to what Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Walz is saying. And, you know, look, while it is, you know, I think important and a positive sign that Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Walz are pulling ahead in the polls, pulling ahead

in the swing states, even the polls that Donald Trump used to post about Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Walz are pulling ahead. But after seeing just what a Donald Trump event looks like versus what a Kamala Harris, it's like, how is this even close? How is this even a tough decision? And there are broader, more systemic issues that need to be addressed here. It's like, yeah, I'm not going to vote for the crew that flies around in Epstein's plane right now, presently. Could we all stipulate to that concept? Or how about what Donald Trump was talking about in Montana? So one of the things that Donald Trump was doing was he was mocking the

Senator of Montana, John Tester, and said that John Tester has the biggest stomach he's ever seen. And then Donald Trump proceeds to mock former Republican Governor Chris Christie. This is Donald Trump's message on his stump speech. Play the clip. His name is Jon Tester. And I don't speak badly about somebody's physical disability. But he's got the biggest stomach I have ever seen. I swear. I swear. That's the biggest stomach. I have never seen a stomach like that.

Because he doesn't look that heavy. You're not allowed to use the word fat. So if you use the word fat, you can say obese, you can say anything, but you can't say fat. That's the end of your political career. I said it the other night, somebody in the audience said, Chris Christie is a fat pig. And I said, sir, Chris Christie is not a fat pig. You should not. And we argued about it for three or four minutes. So that was, nah, he's not a fat pig. You should not. And we argued about it for three or four minutes. So that was, nah, he's not a fat pig. Look, 95% of his speech is just like that. For example, here he talks about this fan fiction that he's invented in his mind about what happens if

President Biden shows up at the Democratic National Convention and he takes back the election and he goes, I'm running. Stay away. Kamala here. Play this clip. Now he's seeing what the competition is. I hear he's going to make a comeback at the Democrat convention. He's going to walk into the room and he's going to say, I want my presidency back. I want another chance to debate Trump. I want another chance. But I handed Kamala and Crooked Joe a surging. Let me just say that you said before that, you know, borderline mental illness. I'm going to take away the borderline. I mean, this is some serious psychological issues

that we are witnessing with Donald Trump. And I also want to call quickly attention to the fact that why is Donald Trump hosting a rally in Montana anyway? Why the heck is he in the swing state of Montana? I say that obviously very sarcastically, as you have Kamala Harris actually hitting multiple swing states in a week. He's there, I guess, to settle some personal scores with Jon Tester on behalf of his drug dealer, Ronnie Jackson, because he views that John Tester is the reason for Ronnie Jackson getting caught with all the things, the pill mill in the White House when it was an inspector general's report that the Pentagon released. The whole thing is very weird. Why is he even there in the first place? And then we keep seeing Donald Trump say things like this,

which just show a complete psychological break from reality. And we see other people in his camp parrot the same things. Like we see his campaign managers start to parrot the same things. I hear that President Biden is going to deliver the speech during the convention and he is going to declare, I am the nominee now and I am taking, what are you doing here? What are you saying here? And if this is a strategy, I am the nominee now. And I am taking, it's like, what are you doing here? What are you saying here? And if this is a strategy, it doesn't make sense. It's not something that's going to work.

It just makes you look like a bunch of lunatics. And we keep seeing there's a very tiny backlash to anytime Donald Trump says crazy stuff like this from some people who are maybe a tiny bit more level-headed in the Republican Party. And they go, why would Donald Trump's advisors let him do this? Why are his advisors? He needs to fire his advisors. It's not the advisors, okay? Man up. Accept the fact that this is your deranged candidate who cannot control himself. It's not the advisor's fault. Stop trying to give him some sort of out. He is an absolute lunatic. Sorry, Ben. Well, Brett, you mentioned the pill mill that was being run out of the Trump White House during the years he was there while Ronnie Jackson was

overseeing medical treatments. He's not licensed anymore, but at that time he was medical treatments at the White House. Just think about the fact that we talk about that on the Midas Touch Network over and over again, the corporate media never even gave that half a day of coverage that they were giving out Versed, which is the date rape drug, ketamine, fentanyl patches in large quantities in the White House without any checks on it. And the Department of Defense did an inspector general's report on that fact. Again, you go through all of these things. Could you imagine if that was taking place when Obama was in office? I mean, the MAGA Republicans and media tried to create a scandal

when at the visitor center in the White House, a small tiny baggie of cocaine was found while Biden's been in office in the visitor center where there are literally tens of thousands of people who pass through every single week, if not more. Again, it just shows you the incongruity of the coverage, which is, by the way, I think one of the main reasons that this network is seeing a meteoric rise with the pro-democracy community and people caring about the fact, say, yes, talk about the pill mill in the White House when Trump was in office. Talk about Epstein. Why not talk about Trump's connections with Epstein? That should be absolutely disqualifying. Call Donald Trump a sexual predator because that's what he is. We're going to keep on doing that here on the Midas Touch Network. Going through this Montana unhinged event that Donald

Trump had, here's more part of his fan fiction where he talks about Biden wanting to debate, and then Trump's like, why did I debate him? He's having his own pathological psychiatric session in front of this. It's so strange to watch. Here, play this. We're going to get Joe Biden out of the White House. What's he doing now? Greg, what's he doing? You know, he wanted to debate. If we didn't have a debate, he'd still be there. Can you imagine if we didn't have a debate? Why the hell did I debate him? I wouldn't want this guy anywhere near anything, yet alone the nuclear codes in the office of the president. If someone were, think about this, imagine that you are in a very important meeting in your office, whatever job you have,

or maybe just say you're doing a meeting with a nonprofit you're associated with or a social club. So close your eyes and imagine this. And then one of the leaders shows up and starts talking about an individual. And they talk about the individual like this. And I'm going to show you, this is what Donald Trump was saying at this rally about Vice President Kamala Harris's name. So I want you to think you're sitting there and maybe your organization is dealing with somebody else. You're talking about a big conference call, a big case, a patient, a client, a big deal. And then someone on your team starts talking about the person's name on the other side like this. Here, play this clip.

Kamala Harris, you know, it's interesting. Nobody really knows her last name. If you ask people, do you know what her last name is? Nobody has any idea what it is. Harris. It's like Harris. I don't know how the hell did this happen. And then here, Donald Trump says, I don't even care if I say her name the correct way. Here, play the clip. Sometimes referred to as Kamala. You should get about nine different ways of pronouncing the name. And because the press is so dishonest, no matter how you say it, they'll say you were wrong. You were wrong. I don't care if I get it right. Actually, I couldn't care less. I actually haven't been accused that I know of calling it wrong, but if I did, they'd say that he did it on purpose. And you could do that. I've done a lot of bad name calling

where you call somebody that you know how to say the name perfectly and you call it on purpose. They say, sir, you made a mistake. I said, no, I didn't. What in the world is that? This is some weird stuff. You know who was a pioneer in calling out some of this weird stuff? Actually, got to give George W. Bush a little bit of credit. After the inauguration, do you remember the comment that Bush made? After he heard Donald Trump's inauguration, Bush, if you guys remember, he said something like, well, that was some weird shit. And it's persisted for a long, long, long time.

And we've been calling out the weird stuff for a while. And the reason why that attack lands is because it's very true and they continue to prove it every single day. I think an interesting thing that we noticed in a lot of these statements, though, also was basically an admission from Donald Trump that he's in deep trouble in a way that kind of Donald Trump could only present it. And that first clip where you have Donald Trump talking about the debate against Biden, at the end, he goes, why the hell did I debate him? And then after that, when he's talking about Kamala, he speaks her last name, Harris. Nobody knows her last name. What does that even mean? Is this your new line of attack? What are you talking? Talk about policies. What is going on here? At the end of that, he goes, how the hell did this happen? How the hell did that? I think his world has just been so completely upended over the past few weeks. He thought he had this in the bag a few weeks ago at the convention, after the shooting, he thought he was just going to glide to victory. All of a sudden, the Democrats came together.

They made this change. They rallied behind Kamala Harris. We've seen a renewed excitement that looks more like Obama in 2008 than any other race, perhaps even more than that. And Donald Trump has no idea what hit him. And he cannot psychologically cope with the fact that he is losing now. He cannot psychologically cope with the fact that he is losing now. He cannot psychologically cope with the fact that Kamala Harris is getting bigger campaign crowds, that she's getting better attention on social media. Something like 80% plus of the content now on TikTok is positive Kamala

Harris and negative Donald Trump. That's a big shift from the way that it was a few weeks ago. And this new reality as it sets in, Trump has no idea how to handle it. And he's full of yes men who do not want to tell him the truth, that things are looking really bleak for him right now. Do you guys remember the leaked call with Trump and RFK Jr. that came out when Trump was sounding awfully confident at the time? Now, this is three weeks ago. This was pre-Biden dropping out and Kamala taking over. And he, I mean, it's like when you're watching a basketball game and there's like two minutes left on the clock or whatever, and your team's up six. You're like, oh, I got this in the bag. You start acting real cocky and confident. And it always comes back to bite you.

And I got to say, it is just so bizarre as a society that we've normalized this behavior from Donald Trump. And he could just stand on stage and say, Kamala Harris, what's her last name? Is it even Harris? I mean, one, I don't even want to think that much into it, but is it like a racist dig? Is that what he's sort of hinting at that Harris can't be her last name? And then it's just the dog whistle to, yeah, it is. It's just a dog whistle to his MAGA supporters, but it's just truly sick and bizarre that we've normalized that that's okay from a leader of an entire Republican party. He does that a lot though. So with Jack Smith, he says Jack Smith isn't his real name. And what Donald Trump was saying is, doesn't he really have a Jewish last name? And

Smith isn't his real last name. With Vice President Kamala Harris, he's trying to say to his crowd, look into it deeper. Shouldn't she have an Indian last name? That's why he's saying that. That's the dog whistle right there. But compare what Donald Trump was saying there, whatever that was, to Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Walz's speech. So while Donald Trump is doing, again, whatever that even was. That's not a normal political thing. That is a weird cult WWE cosplay fascist convention where just this oddity is happening versus here's Vice President Kamala Harris in Nevada, and here she is talking about what she promises to do as the president. This is what you're supposed to do in a stump speech. Like, this is what you're supposed to do in a stump speech or play this clip. And it is my promise to everyone here,

when I am president, we will continue our fight for working families of America. Including to raise the minimum wage and eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers. Now, imagine if Vice President Kamala Harris, when giving that speech, she goes, you know, a big issue that I'm having right now, I'm having an issue with Lindsey Graham's belly, his stomach. I've never seen a stomach like that before. Have you seen Hannibal Lecter, my friend? Hannibal Lecter, he's my friend. By the way, Ben, I like the fact that Fox,

they're so desperate to kind of try to create a scandal of some sort, and you see their wheels turning. How are we going to get something to stick to Kamala Harris and Tim Walz? They're trying everything in the book. And Fox always looks like a propaganda network, and these Republicans always look like complete and total hacks at this point. But now it's more than ever because you see them trying to do this messaging. And then you'll see Trump try to run with the same

messaging because Hannity and Trump, they all coordinate on all this stuff. And so one of the things that Fox has been pushing is, have you noticed that Kamala Harris says the same things in a lot of her speeches? It's like, yeah, that's called a stump speech. It's literally been what politicians do for decades and decades and decades and hundreds of years, perhaps. By the way, Donald Trump also has a stump speech. You know why he talks about Hannibal Lecter in every rally? Because that's actually part of his stump speech. That's how weird of a person Donald Trump is. So yes, everyone has a stump speech. Somebody's talking about jobs and healthcare and reproductive freedom. And somebody's talking about Hannibal Lecter and sharks and electric batteries shocking you in the water. There's a difference here. And that's why

it reeks of such desperation when you see all of these attacks right now coming out of Fox. And Kamala just rises above it. The passion's there. The energy's there. The people are with her and you could feel that shift in energy and that people are really trusting her right now and are excited about her. Look, I'm very excited also to have this discussion with our patrons. So after this show at 915 Eastern, 615 Pacific on our Patreon, we have a secret link right now for a Zoom meeting. There will be a meeting with me, Brett and Jordy. So if you ever

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One of the things she said in that clip that you may have caught is she talked about eliminating taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers. I want to address this right now. Donald Trump, unfortunately, was once in office. So he has a record. So we can actually compare his words and his false promises to what he did. What a novel journalistic concept. So rather than just regurgitate Donald Trump's words, maybe we take a look, what did his labor secretary introduce when he was in office. Maybe the Trump administration introduced a policy not to eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers when Trump was in office. What Trump advocated for was the right of bosses and employers to take the tips away from service and hospitality workers and to make the Fair Labor Act clear

that the boss can take the tips. That was the policy. There had to actually be an amendment that was added by a Democrat to an omnibus spending bill in 2018 to stop Trump from allowing employers to take the tips away from the service workers. So we can actually look at his policies. And the same thing like when J.D. Vance and Shady Vance, when they talk about, because we'll talk a little bit about what Shady Vance was saying over the weekend when he gave this bizarre media tour. He's like, I want to have child tax credits that are bigger than the Biden-Harris child tax credits. No, you don't.

No, you don't. You know how I know? Because there was a vote on it last week. And guess where you were? Not voting in favor of it. You and the Republicans voted against it and stopped that from becoming law. So it is important that we actually articulate the truth and the facts here. And the fourth estate, the media, has given up that role. So let's just talk about the actual facts. It's why we here at the Midas Touch Network make a very clear editorial decision that we don't air Trump press conferences and Trump speeches without me doing a fact check on them. I hear he's doing something right now with Elon Musk right now as we're recording this live. I'm not covering that until I watch it and listen to it so I can fact check it the way I just did.

I think that is a very important function that we do here. And I hope it's something that you appreciate that we do. Although, you know, I watch those things and I read the emails, as I say, you know, so you don't have to. But, you know, you take a look at even some of these emails that Donald Trump was sending over the weekend. You know, when I cover them in my hot takes in the morning. And Donald Trump's like, I love Elon Musk because Elon Musk endorsed me. But I love Ben even more. I love you.

Do you want to win the gold medal? I swear to you, Jordy, it is actually this. Yeah, that's crazy. Do you want to win the gold medal? I've given you my gold medal. Here it is. It is a gold MAGA hat. Click on it and it's yours for free.

Then you click on it. It's like, what? You have to pay $1,000. Like, what in the world is this? Sorry, I digress. I wanted to make that point about the eliminating taxes on tips. I'll also say, she gives actual details about her plans also. You can ask the campaign. They'll actually give you details about it. Because one of the issues that

people had with the Trump idea was that it's just a Trojan horse for hedge fund managers, for lawyers to basically reclassify their income as tips and avoid taxes. That was the whole scam of the Donald Trump plan. And so the Kamala Harris plan, when you ask about the details, I got word directly from campaign officials about how they want to implement this plan. The campaign officials said that it would, A, require legislation because she's not a dictator like Donald Trump wants to be a dictator. She would work with Congress to craft a proposal. It would have an income limit with strict requirements that specifically prevent hedge fund managers and lawyers from restructuring compensation in ways to take advantage of the policy.

And she will do it in conjunction with an increase in the minimum wage. Those are big differences as well. And that's the concept, you know, when Donald Trump talks about, I have the best healthcare plan, the greatest healthcare plan, the best infrastructure plan. Okay, well, let's see it. Let's see it. Oh, it's coming in two weeks. All right, two weeks passed. You got it? No, it's coming in two weeks. You got it now? No, I'll be holding a press conference. Okay, well, months have passed now, years have passed now. We haven't heard a single actual idea, just platitudes every single time. Look, Donald Trump has spent his entire life

screwing over workers with schemes and stunts that benefit him and occasionally billionaire and decamillionaire friends of his, as long as they have memberships to Mar-a-Lago. So why do you think this time it's going to be changed? Especially as I told you, go and research his record, where in the past he advocated that bosses get to steal your tips. That was literally his labor department's policy. It had to be stopped from becoming the law. Let's go on and talk more about what Vice President Kamala Harris is talking about on her stump speech. She talks about these tired and failed policies of Donald Trump. Let's play this clip. America has tried these failed policies before, and we are not going back.

We are not going back. And we are going to move forward. We will move forward. We've got, of course, the We're Not Going Back shirts, 100% union made, 100% made in the USA at store.midastouch.com. Check that out as well. Also, you have Governor Walz. When he spoke in Nevada, he talked about, and this is one of my favorite lines, mind your own damn business. Stop with your weird policies that are designed to take away our freedom. Just mind your own damn business.

Don't tell me what I need to do to take care of my family, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Matt Gates, Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene. You want to do that with your family? You want those weird ideas? Go for it. Just stay away from our families. Watch this clip. I'm sure it's true here in Nevada as it's true in Minnesota. We respect our neighbors' rights to make their own personal choices. We don't have to agree with them or make the same choice, but we know that this nation, things work best when you mind your own damn business. I don't need any help. I don't need any help. I don't need any help from those guys telling me which books to read.

I sure the heck don't need any lecture about morality from those guys. And the last thing they can mind their own damn business is i don't need any help from them talking about my family we also have the mind your own damn business t-shirts as well 100 union made 100 made in the usa at store.midastouch.com a bestseller there as well so donald trump over the weekend i'm just going to show you a handful of his posts because I could spend, unfortunately, hours going over these things. But Donald Trump wakes up and he says, release the J-Sticks hostages now, a great victory for justice. He calls the insurrectionists hostages. Then he goes on

and talks about this fan fiction about, he invents this debate that's not happening on Fox that no one's agreed to. The first debates on ABC on September 10th with George Stephanopoulos, who Donald Trump calls Slopadopoulos because Donald Trump is a petulant wannabe third grader. He goes, the first debate with Kamala Harris for president of the United States will be with Fox News on September 4th, 2024, live from beautiful Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. No, no, it's not. It's not when the debate is. That's not a thing that's not happening. Then Donald Trump goes, the second debate will take place on fake news ABC, home of George Slopidopoulos, to be anchored by David Muir on September 10th at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. No, I mean, that's the main debate. Don't call another adult Slopadopoulos. And again, it's not even funny. It's just, again,

it's just freaking weird. Then Donald Trump posts that Vice President Kamala Harris's crowds are not really there. Donald Trump is spreading a false, a very, very false and horrific conspiracy that the crowds are added using AI. Let me be clear. Donald Trump and his base use AI all the time, especially as part of Donald Trump's bogus and racist outreach to the black community. We've seen Donald Trump post these photos, Donald Trump supporters post these photos where it's like people with like three arms and just really strange stuff. So Donald Trump uses AI this way. We know that Donald Trump waves to imaginary crowds when he gets on the plane. And our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, has done montages on that.

And they add in the crowd later. So it's all projection and confession with them. The same way, by the way, we'll get to this in a moment, when Donald Trump's spokesperson told weirdo Shady Vance to go and smell Vice President Kamala Harris's airplane, and then J.D. Vance went over with his crew of people. He literally said to Donald Trump's campaign spokesperson posted that J.D. Vance needs to smell Vice President Kamala Harris's plane, Air Force Two, because it probably smells bad. Donald Trump's on Jeffrey Epstein's airplane presently. Now he's flying around in Epstein's plane.

It's all confession and projection with these folks. That's how you just basically, oh, what is it you're saying? Oh, got it. You're on Epstein's plane. You wrapped Epstein's plane where he trafficked people, a freaking crime scene. And you're a walking crime scene on that crime scene. And then Donald Trump says it's AI. And then he posts another one. It's AI. And then Donald Trump says everything about Kamala is fake. This is what Donald Trump's doing. And then J.D. Vance, so we'll talk about this in a little bit. He goes on his media tour over the weekend and J.D. Vance says, stop bullying me.

He says the Democrats are running a bullying campaign and they need to stop their bullying. I saw one person say, what's he going to say soon? When they go low, nicknames. Everybody's a nickname. His whole thing is bullying. And J.D. Vance goes on and says, stop the bullying. And then J.D. Vance, who tried and failed to call out Governor Walz, who served in our military, not for one year or four years, which by the way, would be, he deserves applause if he did it for one year or four years, served 24 years in our military. And Donald Trump and J.D. Vance were accusing Governor

Walz of stolen valor. Now, J.D. Vance in his media tour was accusing Governor Walls of not loving his wife or not being in a loving marriage because there was an occasion where Governor Walls shook his wife's hand, which J.D. Vance is like, let me compare step-by-step how I interact with my wife. I give her a kiss. And then let's see who's weird. There was a commentator on Twitter who put that. I thought it was so spot on. Just, I want you to watch what JD Vance said, but I want to show this too as well. Pull up these pictures of JD Vance cross-dressing that have been appearing. There's multiple photos of J.D. Vance cross-dressing now that these are authentic, real pictures of him. And we know from this article in The Advocate and from J.D. Vance's

book, J.D. Vance grew up thinking he was gay, and then he changed his name twice and became anti-LGBTQ and became an anti-LGBTQ extremist after his grandmother told him not to be gay. And now he's devoted his life to attacking people's freedoms and taking away freedoms. And look, for J.D. Vance, the way he cross-dressed or whoever J.D. Vance is, we would have fought to protect his freedoms to live the life that J.D. Vance wanted to live. You know, and to be free to live how he wants to live, to love who he loves. But now you have J.D. Vance going on CNN talking about how Governor Wall should kiss or not kiss his wife on stage. Let me show you this clip from J.D. Vance over

the weekend on CNN. Play this clip. I had just been announced as a VP nominee. I gave my big speech and I saw my wife and I gave her a big hug and a kiss because I love my wife. And I think that's what a normal person does. Tim Walz gave his wife a nice firm Midwestern handshake and then tried to sort of awkwardly correct for it. So I think that what it is, is two people, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, who aren't comfortable in their own skin because they aren't comfortable with their policy positions for the American people. And so their name calling, instead of actually telling the American people how they're going to make their lives better. I think that's weird, Dana, but like they can call me whatever they want to. You're saying Tim Walz doesn't have affection for his wife. I don't even understand that.

I said that he acted weird, which he did on a national stage in front of his wife and in front of millions of them. Hello, humans. Let me tell you what normal people do. Humans, normal people as a formal person. Let me tell you how normal persons interact human beings. I mean, what in the world? Like, what in the world is that? Dude, Donald Trump's flying. Jeffrey Epstein's playing around right now. Like, what are we talking?

You want to talk about relationships? Donald Trump's been found liable for sexual assault. Donald Trump said Jeffrey Epstein is a great guy who likes women on the younger side. He was referring to girls. Donald Trump had at Mar-a-Lago girls who Epstein trafficked worked at Mar-a-Lago. Donald Trump wished Ghislaine Maxwell well. He said, I wish her well. Donald Trump has to renegotiate his prenup with his wife in order to keep her saying nice things about him. The biggest compliment, honestly, the nicest thing you could ever even say about Donald Trump was on an occasion, he shook Melania's hand and kind of pushed her and told her to sit down. That's the peak apex of compliment that you can give Donald Trump is that he shook her

hand and pushed her and said, sit down. Donald Trump met Melania at the Kit Kat Club at a modeling agency that brought Eastern European women to meet wealthy Manhattan men at the Kit Kat Club. We want to talk about relationships. Donald Trump, you want to talk about Donald Trump's relationships? Donald Trump talks about the thing that he has in common with his daughter is sex. Donald Trump talks about buying beauty pageants so he can inspect girls without their consent. Donald Trump held a look of the year competition with 14-year-old girls who went on a yacht where men old enough to be their grandfather grinded on 14 year old girls. And Donald Trump posts the photos of himself with the four, you know, with the girls,

he's posted some of them on, on the truth social thing recently as well. And the one that guardian, the guardian wrote about that's the, that's the photo that Trump like reposted in a video that he made. So we want to talk about that. Donald Trump brought his kids around Epstein. His kids hung out with Epstein. Like, what are you talking about, Shady Vance? I'm fired up. We got to take our last break of the show, but we got a lot to talk about as well. I want to also still continue to talk about the fact that he's flying on Epstein's plane. I want to remind everyone, store.midastouch.com is the place where you can get all of that gear. That gear is selling out like crazy.

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It was later sold to somebody. And then that organization that has it has, I guess, given it to Trump for the purposes of Trump being able to use it. And Trump literally wrapped the Epstein plane and it now says Trump 2024 on it. This is right now, Donald Trump flies on it. It's a Gulfstream 550 Arrow. So it's a top plane out there. Donald Trump's plane that he flies around with Trump force, whatever he calls the the stupid thing it's actually a very old and outdated you know bad plane it's really big so trump likes to say that like look at this big plane that i have but it's like a really bad plane an inefficient one to fly around this g5 this g550

is actually a very top of the line plane but it's's actually like, it's like Epstein's plane. Like who would you ever think about saying, you know what I'm going to do? Let's use the Epstein plane right now. And we're going to fly around in that and make that a major part. Maybe you got a discount, you know, frequent flyer miles, something, something to play there. And just so people can see, you know, you can just take a look at so they change the tail number to try to hide the plane and and that it has new ownership but the um but on the hull the serial number uh stays with the hull so it's five one seven three five one seven three when you compare it and then if you look at it it's the identical plane and they overlap. They overlap perfectly. So, you know, yeah, that's what Donald Trump is is flying around

in right, you know, right now. And I think that that should be called out and given more attention. And look, we've done lots of reports here on the Midas Touch Network about the Epstein list, because look, MAGA Republicans, the Epstein list, the Epstein list, the Epstein list. Well, I don't really hear you talking about that much because Donald Trump's like the main name in the Epstein list. If we're talking about the flight logs, if we're talking about deposition transcripts, if we're talking about the fact that during Ghislaine Maxwell's trial, someone who was 14 years old at the time said Epstein introduced her when she was 14 years old to Donald Trump. But we're talking about call logs and we're talking about photographs. If we're talking about deposition transcripts.

Mar-a-Lago. Mar-a-Lago. Yeah. I mean, look, Virginia Giuffre, who was trafficked by Epstein, for example, after she was homeless, she got a job at Mar-a-Lago. And then when she was working at Mar-a-Lago, Ghislaine Maxwell saw her there and then introduced her to Epstein and made her massage Epstein and then sexual assault happened. And then Epstein started trafficking her from Mar-a-Lago. And that's how that was, and Donald Trump wish Ghislaine Maxwell well at the criminal trial. I mean, it's, you know, it people he doesn't. Donald Trump does not criticize Vladimir Putin. Donald Trump does not criticize Ghislaine Maxwell. I mean, it really, those things tell you a whole lot about the man. I don't know why this is a taboo. I'm sorry, Jordy.

I was just going to say the Trump-Epstein connections are criminal, disqualifying, and at minimum weird. We've said this on the show. Could you imagine how much corporate media would play this if it was Joe Biden who was in those videos hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein, or if it was Kamala Harris who frequently registered in those Epstein flight logs that you mentioned, Ben, or if it was Kamala or Joe using Epstein's plane for campaign events, but just crickets from them on this. It's this, it's the selective caring about Epstein and those who are tied to him. That just drives me up a wall because not only does this need to be investigated and there needs to be hearings, the American people genuinely

need answers about this. There's a major political party being run by their candidate, Donald Trump, who has a well-documented history of being close friends with Jeffrey Epstein. They just sweep it under the rug because that's their guy. They don't care, Ben, to your point. When the logs came out and all the information came out, they just stopped talking about it. Not here. It's so crazy. Well, I'm happy this has at least – we've called enough attention to it that we're at least finally beginning to see some of the networks pick this up and the Miami Herald dug into it. So I'm happy that there is a microscope finally being shined. They'll probably forget about it

by the morning, but I'm happy that for now at least this is getting out there and people are becoming aware of it. Brett, pull up the photo of the 1991 look of the year finale. This is what Donald Trump did in his business. Donald Trump had these little girls, not that one, this one, yes. Donald Trump had these girls walk in front of him like that. And the night before they were on a yacht where he was on and that there were friends of Trump's who were on the yacht as well, uh, grinding on the girls. And these are men old enough to be their grandparents. Then you have the photo of Donald Trump from that guardian article that was taken at that event. Teen models, girls, stop teen models makes it that these are girls. So just say little girls, powerful men,

and private dinners when Trump hosted look of the year. just pull back that photo one more time, you know, of, of the group who does this, like what grown man with sick, what grown man, and this is who the Republican party is saying should be the, who should be the leader. I mean, it's revolting. And I'm, and look, I'm sorry that I put that image even up there on this channel, but I have to explain and express it clear-eyed who this maniac, this lunatic, this predator is. And then I want to just talk briefly about just earlier today, Donald Trump gave notice to the Department of Justice that he will be filing a lawsuit against the DOJ for the search warrant executed at Mar-a-Lago. This is an entirely frivolous lawsuit. Trump's

just doing this to get attention. He's going to sue for $100 million. Look, the fact that a magistrate judge signed off on the search warrant and found probable cause already means that this lawsuit will be dismissed the moment it is filed. And then you bolster the fact that the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has found that Donald Trump, that this search warrant, that there was sufficient probable cause for the search warrant. Judge Eileen Cannon dismissed the case on the grounds that special counsels shouldn't exist. It's not even a real thing that she dismissed the case on. Of course, special counsel should exist. But Donald Trump, this is what he does when he's cornered and he's desperate. It's the same playbook over and over again.

He will be sanctioned for that lawsuit. And we will keep you posted every step of the way. But Brett, tell us about the economy. Tell us about some of the other data, polling data, enthusiasm out there. Tell us about it. Yeah, first, let's get into some economic updates. And we'll do that on everybody's favorite segment, the NetSuite Know Your Numbers segment. This is the NetSuite by Oracle Know Your Numbers Minute. So I'll make this quick, but we do have some good economic updates to bring you. And what I love about NetSuite and this partnership and using NetSuite is its convenience.

They provide these real-time financial data and analytics. They help businesses quickly adapt to market trends. And so I want to bring you some of those trends, like the trend of inflation continuing to come down and people's expectations of inflation coming down, which is also a big deal. You know, how people feel about the economy is often a very big deal. Inflation expectations are now back to normal. And not only that, the three-year expectations is at its lowest level ever recorded per the New York Fed's three year consumer inflation expectation survey, which began in 2013, the lowest ever. In July, consumers three year ahead inflation expectations fell by 0.6% to 2.3%. Bank of America CEO Brian

Moynihan was on TV earlier this week. He said that the bank's research team no longer predicts a recession anymore. How many times are we going to go through this where these analysts say, it's all doom, it's all going to happen, 100% chance. And they go, oops, we were wrong about that. Well, Brian Moynihan, the CEO of Bank of America, says that they no longer are predicting a recession, but he does say, you know, we still got to be careful, right? He mentioned that we won the war on inflation, but we have to be careful so we don't get so perfect that we put ourselves into a recession. This news, of course, comes after the unemployment claims. Last week came in below expectation, again, staving off the fears of recession after the constant drama that we heard from the Trump and

MAGA crew that it was all because he had one day where the stock market went down a little bit, that everything was about to fall apart. US economy grew 2.8% in the second quarter, faster than expected amid solid gains in consumer spending and business investment. And it looks like we're getting some rate cuts on the horizon, folks. Fed chair Jerome Powell says an interest rate cut could come as soon as September. So that continues to be on time. And the good thing, if you do have NetSuite, is that it'll last for quick adaptation to any new government policies that come your way through agile system updates.

So your business is always prepared. Oh, and this is actually pretty big news. The interest rate for the most popular U.S. home loan plunged to its lowest level in 15 months, giving potential homebuyers some long hope for relief. Of course, the interest rates have been quite high for homebuyers, and the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate declined to 6.34%. That is the lowest reading since April 7th, 2023. That was the NetSuite Bioracle Know Your Numbers Minute. Do you know your own numbers for your business?

Download NetSuite's ultimate KPI checklist right now at netsuite.com slash Midas. So that was the economic update. I'll go through some of the polls just briefly. You know, I don't like to harp on polls, but I do, as I say, like to see trends and the directions that things are moving and just historical data points, how they shift.

And so I found this interesting because the New York Times Siena poll has been over the past few months, very negative towards the Democratic nominee, towards Biden. They came out with their swing state poll, and it actually shows Kamala Harris now up 50 to 46 against Trump in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Now, when you go to the 538 poll averages, you see Kamala Harris up 46% to Trump's 43.3%. And this one was particularly interesting, which was a poll on how people feel, who people feel would be better to handle the economy. Now, to me, this should be the most obvious poll of all, because every time these Republicans take the White House, the economy crashes and Democrats have to come in and save the day. It happens like every single time. Yet, voters are often

tricked into believing that Republicans are better for the economy, even though they continue to put us into recessions. But for the first time in this Financial Times poll, Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump. This is the first time a Democrat leads since the survey began. She leads Donald Trump in the economic survey, 42% to 41%. And we've seen this seismic shift also in the betting markets. There's a website called PolyMarket, which now has Kamala Harris at her highest reading ever, 52% to 46%. And that difference continues to increase between the two candidates. We're seeing this kind of all across the board. And so you're seeing

this shift of actual kind of reality of hard data. And the thing that just has been a little frightening to watch as this all happens is how MAGA and Donald Trump cannot seem to handle this reality. And so this is something that I'm just concerned about as we go towards these elections, because I think Kamala Harris is going to continue to do this. And we all need to continue to act like we are 10 points behind every step of the way. It's the only thing you can do. You have to act like that because you cannot get complacent. However, these Trump people always act like they're winning. They act like everything's fake, like everything's AI. There is a sizable amount of people, and a lot

of them could be bots, who genuinely buy into Donald Trump's derangement. And they are so diseased and poisoned by Donald Trump's statement. They are honestly some of his biggest victims, these supporters, who parrot these, oh, it's all AI, the crowds. Well, why isn't anybody posting photos from their cell phone or videos? Okay, here's somebody's cell phone video. They're literally all over the place. They're everywhere. You just got to look. Oh no, that one's AI. Okay, well, here's 20 others. AI, AI, AI, fake, fake, fake. Okay, so you just do not believe in reality whatsoever. You see this bizarre thing happening too with these right-wing influencers about Tim Walz, where in their mind, Tim Walz is a drag on the Democratic ticket. Tim Walz, who's probably the most popular of all the candidates in the room, he is objectively,

by the favorability ratings, the most beloved of all the candidates, very universally beloved. And these Republican influencers try to act like Tim Walls is about to get ousted from the race by the Kamala campaign or by Nancy Pelosi. Someone's going to step in because it's all projection because they are worried about their own people. So you have some people trying to just do kind of these psychological operations, these psyops, and try to spread this garbage. And then you have a whole lot of people who are the victims of it, which are the Trump supporters who buy into it and then continue to push and spread it. And what happens is, you know, January 6th happens. That's how these things

happen. People get so brainwashed into thinking that Kamala Harris is incapable of winning because they were told by Donald Trump, they were told by the people they trust that they had this in the bag. They were told that all those crowds were fake. So this must be some sort of fraud. And so that's the thing that I'm worried about and I'm going to be kind of eyeing as we get through this next few months because we don't want another January 6th kind of situation on their hands. And you see actively the Republicans and organizations like Fox News and these right-wing people who are putting their followers deeper and deeper into this false reality, this alternative universe, they are doing such damage that I think is going to erupt in a very negative way for our country ultimately. But I'm hoping that people are

starting to wake up at least a little bit because it's so absurd and are coming back to reality and are seeing that this is not about political parties. It's not about Democrats. It's not about Republicans. This is about America. This is about American values. And the reason why I get excited watching these Kamala Harris rallies, not just because they're inspiring, not just because of the specifics of everything, but the fact that they're celebrations of America and they're celebrations of democracy. And I like that idea that Jordi was speaking about at the beginning of the episode of taking back patriotism, real patriotism, not this phony patriotism. Kamala Harris, Tim Walz rally,

they are speaking of the possibilities of America. When you go to the Donald Trump rallies, they are speaking about how much America sucks. Like America's the worst country. We're a nation in decline. Oh, have you heard about Hannibal Lecter? And you're going to die and your family's going to die. It's really such a contrast. And I think that folks out there are done with this hate and negativity and lying, an overwhelming amount of people. And so we need to keep spreading the joy. I love that with the Tim Walls messaging, with Kamala Harris messaging. Keep spreading the joy. And we can't be afraid to be unapologetically pro-democracy and unapologetically patriotic about things,

with also that idea in mind that patriotism is also working to make America as good as possible and fixing the things that we need to fix and making people's lives better. That's what we're all doing this for, right? That's why we got into this, right? We just want everything to be normal. We want people to get the help they need and to everyone have a shot to succeed. And so that's my kind of pitch at the end of this episode. I want to thank everybody for joining us. This is a good one. We covered a whole lot and Donald Trump's flying Jeffrey Epstein's flying. What the hell is happening, folks? Anyway, Benjamin. Let me just show you Kyle Sweetser, who appeared on the Midas Touch Network before. Here's what he had posted. He goes, I'm a Republican. I'm a landowner. I'm a gun owner. I hunt. I fish.

I'm a two-time Trump voter, I'm a Nikki Haley voter. I believe in America, our constitution, and the rule of law. I'm voting for Kamala Harris this November. And then he did another photo where he said, did my post hurt your feelings? When all of the MAGA people started attacking him. They said he was AI. They said his tractor was AI. Cat turd got very upset. They said he's AI. They said his tractor was AI. Cat turd got very upset. They said he's of their big podcasts is a cat turd avatar who

calls himself cat turd and the turd gets it does interviews with don jr and all of these top i mean let's just let's just reflect on that look there's a reason that we have the american flag here on the show there's a reason why you know we talk about how much we love our country, we love our flag, we love our constitution, we love our democracy. And every day we do our best to support the values of our country and the values of our democracy. And we welcome anybody who supports democracy into this pro-democracy community. Democrats, liberals, progressives, independents, mainstream conservatives, Republicans. If you support our democracy, welcome. You know, here's truth matters, facts matter.

And we'll keep on doing it here at the Midas Touch Network. Want to remind everybody about store.midastouch.com. Get all of that pro-democracy gear. Check it out. These items are flying fast off the shelf, so make sure you get them now. Store.midastouch.com. We're about to do our Patreon chat, patreon.com. If you're not a member, go right now.

Patreon.com. Subscribe. You'll see the secret link in the feed. Meet Brett and Jordy and I on Zoom. Ask us questions. We'll be there for an hour. I'm excited to meet you. It also helps grow this independent media platform. Midas Mighty, thank you from the bottom of our hearts. I feel the momentum shifting. I feel the momentum has shifted. And it's really because of your hard work and we are grateful for you. Jord will get it right whenever. It's Ken Harbaugh with the Midas Touch Network.

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