The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Gets News He Feared as Rallies Against Him Expand

Episode Date: April 13, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump spiraling more as the rallies against him grow bigger. Want more Meidas? Join us on Substack at MeidasPlus.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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If you have questions or concerns about your gambling or someone close to you, please contact Connex Ontario at 1-866-531-2600 to speak to an advisor free of charge. BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. You see those crowds, Donald? They're not here to cheer you. They're here to fight you. They're here to fight you. They're here to fight your authoritarian regime. 36,000 people, Donald, who gathered in Los Angeles as part of Senator Bernie Sanders' Fight the Oligarchy tour that he did with AOC and others. We did a whole video covering it

last night, and we streamed it live here on the Midas Touch Network. People are ready to fight your oligarchical kleptocracy regime. This is what Donald Trump was doing yesterday, not making this up. He was posing for photos in front of a new gold statute of himself at his golf course while he was vacationing at the taxpayer dime. Here he is with a new golden statue at his golf course, shaking hands with donors and other people and billionaires and rich folk laughing at the people, laughing as they disappear migrants in the United States to concentration camps in El Salvador and then violate court orders. Here's Donald Trump golfing. Oh, by the way, last night, then Donald Trump went to a UFC fight. Here he is walking into the UFC fight, by the way, just totally ignoring

the wife of RFK Jr., Cheryl Hines, right there. Good for her. But earlier in the day, while Donald Trump, I know he was very busy posing in front of gold statutes of himself, like what in the Kim Jong-un is that? What in the Saddam Hussein is that? What are we talking about here? While they crashed the economy, while people's pensions are destroyed and gutted, life savings are being erased while Donald Trump and his oligarchs manipulate the market and say, now's a good time to buy. And we see rampant insider trading.

He goes back to Florida on our money, on taxpayer money, and takes freaking photos in front of gold statues of himself while he grifts off of us. Are you kidding me? How could you possibly be okay with that unless you were just an absolute death cult member? Go live in North Korea if you like that crap. That's not what our constitution is about here in the United States. And we're going to fight like hell every day on the Midas Touch Network to make sure that that is something that our future generations don't have to ever deal with.

We'll work every day for that. Yeah. So while Donald Trump was doing all of that, by the way, he violated the Supreme Court's order and a district court's order after the Supreme Court in the nine to zero decision ordered Abrego Garcia to be returned. Remember nine to zero. They said Trump regime facilitate the return of a Brego Garcia forthwith to which the district judge of Maryland judge Zenith held a hearing and said, okay, when are you returning a Brego Garcia

file papers by 5 PM on Saturday? And let me know what the heck is going on. The Trump regime blew the deadline because, of course, Donald Trump was too busy posing for photos in front of gold statues. And then when they finally submitted a declaration yesterday, they wrote they had someone from the State Department write the following. It is my understanding, based on official reporting from our embassy in San Salvador, that Abrego Garcia is currently being held in the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador. He is alive and secure in that facility. He is detained pursuant to the sovereign domestic authority of El Salvador.

Well, you filed that late, too. This is hearsay because you clearly don't have personal knowledge. You're saying based on official reporting from the embassy, then someone from the embassy should write this declaration. If you don't have firsthand knowledge, that's called hearsay, by the way. And also what Judge Zinnes put in her order was here was what was supposed to be filed. One, the current physical location and custodial status of Abrego Garcia. Two, what steps, if any, defendants have taken to facilitate his immediate return to the United States. And three, what additional steps defendants will take and when to facilitate his return.

A follow-up person in hearing, a follow-up hearing will take place on Tuesday. And you see what the Trump regime didn't respond to. What are you doing to return him and what steps need to be taken to return him? Because the Supreme Court ruled nine to zero facilitate his return. So when I read that filing by the Trump regime secretary, State Department person, Michael Kozak, I said, oh, I see what they're doing right here. They're going to say sovereign authority of El Salvador, nothing we can do to facilitate it anymore. Then sure enough, what does Donald Trump post?

The following, looking forward to seeing President Bukele, Nayib Bukele, the authoritarian leader of El Salvador. On Monday, our nations are working closely together to eradicate terrorist organizations and build a future of prosperity. Bukele has graciously accepted into his nation's custody some of the most violent alien enemies of the world, and in particular, the United States. These barbarians are now in the sole custody of El Salvador, a proud and sovereign nation, and their future is up to President Bukele and his government.

They will never threaten or menace our citizens again! Let's be very clear. 75% of the individuals who you disappeared to this concentration camp in El Salvador do not have any criminal records in the United States or in their home country. Some of them weren't even from El Salvador in the first place. Lots of these people were in the United States lawfully. They were asylum seekers. They submitted applications. The Trump judge, for example, in 2019, a Trump immigration judge, as it relates to Abrego Garcia, the Trump judge gave Abrego Garcia in 2019 protected status. There's no criminal record that this individual has. There's no any allegations that this guy is, or proven allegations that this guy is a gang member. And this is an

individual who showed up to ICE, checked in, and then was sent to a concentration camp in El Salvador. By the way, Bukele is in Washington, D.C., or he's in wherever he landed right now. We have photos of him landing that he posted on his social media. And there Donald Trump is saying, you can see Trump saying, they're barbarians. We didn't give him due process and I'm not going to return him. So there Donald Trump openly defying the Supreme Court. There's a Brego Garcia, by the way, and also Donald Trump's White House propaganda account posted the following. Very exciting. This is what they posted yesterday. Very exciting for America and the world. We are doing really well on our tariff policy. Very exciting for America and the world. It is moving along quickly. DJT. I mean, this is some of the most heinous propaganda that would make North

Korea blush. And I think what's happening is Donald Trump sees the opposition and resistance growing, that we the people are pissed and fighting back. They see the hands-off protests growing. Donald Trump sees the fight the oligarchy protests growing. He sees where people are. So I think Donald Trump's now accelerating the authoritarian machinations. And now he's saying to the Supreme Court, nine to zero, I'm not listening to you. I'm not facilitating the return. The migrants are with Bukele in El Salvador. He can do what he wants.

That's me facilitating. Go pound sand. So in the same week that Donald Trump reeks of fascism, Donald Trump's imploded the economic markets, imploded the bond markets. Mortgages are above 7%. The 10 and 30-year treasury bond yields are going way, way too high right now, showing instability in the United States markets. And Donald Trump has created a constitutional crisis, the biggest constitutional crisis in United States history. By the way, yesterday as well, Donald Trump caved once more and his regime announced exemptions as it relates to his tariffs to certain electronics like laptops and iPhones.

In other words, helping people like Apple, Tim Cook, helping NVIDIA, helping semiconductors and the semiconductor industry, but screwing everybody else. So the billionaires, they'll get exemptions and the rest of the people, including Trump voters, are going to get screwed. But Trump didn't even have the guts to himself admit these exemptions because remember, he's been going around saying no exemptions, no exemptions, no exemptions. As this intraday commentary from Vital Knowledge explains, notably the exemption announcement by Trump was not made by Trump himself, but was instead posted on the U.S.

Customs and Border Protection website, suggesting that Donald Trump isn't keen to advertise what amounts to his second major tariff retreat in just a few days. It also speaks to a trade policy that's increasingly mercurial, incompetent, and to quote China from Friday, an absolute joke. The fact Trump didn't herald the exemption suggests even he was somewhat embarrassed about it. Trump abandoned a significant amount of negotiating leverage. Remember, didn't Donald Trump say, no exemptions, here's what I'm going to do? Then quietly, he just has the U.S. customs announced that actually there's going to be exemptions to iPhones and to electronics and to laptops when he said that was not going

to happen. So what a coward, pathetic person he is. And China and the rest of the world realizes how pathetic he is. By the way, I'm going to do a video shortly on Canada's secret meetings. You got to watch this video with other world leaders where Prime Minister Carney, the banker versus Donald Trump, the bankruptor, right? Canada has the top banker. America has the top bankruptor. Prime Minister Carney met with world leaders and showed him how you engineer a bond implosion in the United States market.

Watch that video after this one. Let's go right now to Bernie Sanders' Fight the Oligarchy rally. We did a longer video on it. But let's see Bernie Sanders trolling Donald Trump at the crowd size that Bernie gets that Trump doesn't get. Play this clip. When Donald Trump looks out at this crowd and they pay attention to this stuff, and Elon Musk does, you are scaring the hell out of them.

Because they know what you know and what I know, is that they are the 1%, we are the 99%. And here's AOC talking about oligarchy versus democracy. Let's play this clip. Oligarchy or democracy, but we cannot have both. Los Angeles, I've made my choice. We must fight the oligarchy that has created this nightmare. And that is why I have never taken money from lobbyists or corporations. And it's why I never will. And here's Democratic Congress member Gomez from Los Angeles talking about we're in the F around and find out stage here.

Play this clip. And here's the thing. It doesn't matter if you're young, old or Gen X, Gen Z. I don't give a shit. But I come. We're now a new generation. We are the fuck around and find out generation. Fuck around.

Fuck around. That's the energy we need. Thank you so much. And there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. We'll keep you posted every step of the way. I'm Ben Myselis. This is the Midas Touch Network.

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