The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Has Disastrous Public Event Defying SCOTUS

Episode Date: April 14, 2025

MeidasTouch host Brett Meiselas reports on a disastrous Oval Office meeting between Donald Trump and El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, which took place as Trump openly defied a Supreme Court order requiring him to facilitate the return of a man "mistakenly" deported to a prison camp in El Salvador. Thanks to Fast Growing Trees: Get 15% OFF your first purchase at fastgrowingtrees.com/meidas when you use code: MEIDAS at checkout! For more Meidas, visit MeidasPlus.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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held a disastrous meeting in the oval office with el salvador's autocratic president naib bukele i am not being hyperbolic when i say that this was one of the single most shameful meetings to ever take place in the Oval Office in American history. Trump spread Russian propaganda, said he'll be defying a ruling from the Supreme Court, and said he's looking into sending American citizens to concentration camps in El Salvador. What we are witnessing right now is a full-blown constitutional crisis, and we must not avert our eyes to the reality unfolding in the United States of America. My name is Brett Mycelis with the Midas Touch Network. Remember to subscribe to our YouTube

channel. We are on the way to 5 million subscribers. So Trump gave Bukele a very warm greeting as he entered the White House. I got to say, the difference between the respect that Trump shows to autocrats compared to our allies, like Ukrainian President Zelensky, for example, is striking. And by the way, Bukele did not wear a suit, but that did not seem to bother Trump and his administration this time. As Midas Touch editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski said, quote, what a contrast between how our allies get treated versus little dictators like Bukele. Not a word about him not wearing a suit either as he petitions the US to expand his country's mercenary penal colony by sending him more money. In this moment, Caitlin Collins asked Trump if he plans to ask to return Kilmar

Abrego-Garcia, that's the man the Trump administration admitted to sending to an El Salvadoran prison camp by, quote, mistake. Trump attacked the press and then Attorney General Pam Bondi lied about Abrego-Ggo Garcia's past and immigration status. As a reminder, he was here legally and said that it's up to El Salvador if they want to return him to the United States. Watch this. Let's hear the question from this very low rated anchor. Do you plan to ask President Bukey to help return the man who your administration says was mistakenly deported? The man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador? Well, let me ask Pam, would you answer that question? Sure, President. First and foremost,

he was illegally in our country. He had been illegally in our country. And in 2019, two courts, an immigration court and an appellate immigration court ruled that he was a member of ms 13 and he was illegally in our country right now it was a paperwork it was additional paperwork had needed to be done that's up to el salvador if they want to return him that's not up to us. The Supreme Court ruled, President, that if El Salvador wants to return him, this is international matters, foreign affairs, if they wanted to return him, we would facilitate it, meaning provide a plane. So then the El Salvadoran president said that he doesn't have the power to return Abrego

Garcia to the United States either. How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I don't have the power to return him to the United States either. How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I don't have the power to return him to the United States. You could release him inside of the United States. Yeah, but I'm not releasing, I mean, we're not very fond of releasing terrorists into our country. We just turned the murder capital of the world into the safest country in the Western Hemisphere and you want us to go back into the releasing criminals so we can go back to being the murder

capital of the world? No, that's not going to happen. Well, they'd love to have a criminal, you know, released into it. I mean, there's a fascination. They would love it. Yeah. So suddenly all these people who like to consider themselves so powerful, all of a sudden they are just powerless to do anything here.

You see what's going on here? And did you notice, by the way, what he said? Quote, we're not very fond of releasing terrorists. Listen, if they can call a wrongly deported innocent man a terrorist and sent him to a foreign gulag, then nobody is safe. Caitlin Collins then asked Trump about his own comments that he said the other day, that he would listen to the Supreme Court. Trump naturally insulted her. Watch this. Well, the president, Mr. President, you said that if the Supreme Court said someone needed

to be returned, that you would abide by that. You said that on Air Force One just a few days ago. And they said that it must be facilitated. Why don't you just say, isn't it wonderful that we're keeping criminals out of our country? Why can't you just say that? Why do you go over and over? And that's why nobody watches you anymore. You have no credibility. Please go ahead. Then Stephen Miller and Trump said that the Supreme Court's ruling was actually unanimous ruling in favor of the Trump administration. This is one of the most heinous bald face lies that we have witnessed yet.

I promise you if he was your neighbor, you would move right away. So you don't plan to ask for it? But the Supreme Court's asking to- What was the ruling in the Supreme Court, Steve? Was it nine to nothing? Yes, it was a nine to zero. In our favor0 in our favor against the district court ruling, saying that

no district court has the power to compel the foreign policy function of the United States. As Pam said, the ruling solely stated that if this individual, at El Salvador's sole discretion, was sent back to our country, that we could deport him a second time. No version of this

legally ends up with him ever living here because he is a citizen of El Salvador. That is the president of El Salvador. Your questions about it per the court can only be directed to him. So that is, of course, the opposite of what happened. That is utterly Orwellian and anti-American. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Trump must facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia. There was no gray area here. The court wrote, the rest of the district court's order remains in effect, but requires clarification on remand. The order properly requires the government to facilitate Abrego Garcia's release from custody

in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador. Stephen Miller then called it, quote, arrogant for the press to ask about Abrego Garcia and lied about the Supreme Court ruling some more. Watch this. Stephen Miller, wait a minute. Can you just also respond to that question? Because, you know, it's asked by CNN and they always ask it with a slant

because they're totally slanted because they don't know what's happening. That's why nobody's watching them. But would you answer that question also, please? Yes, gladly. So as Pam mentioned, there's an illegal alien from El Salvador. So with respect to you, he's a citizen of El Salvador. So it's very arrogant even for American media to suggest that we would even tell El Salvador how to handle their own citizens as a starting point. As two immigration courts found that he was a member of MS-13, when President Trump declared MS-13 to be a foreign terrorist organization, that meant that he was no longer eligible under federal law, which I'm sure you know, you're very familiar with the INA, that he was no longer eligible for any form of immigration relief in the United States. So he had a deportation order that was valid, which meant that under our law,

he's not even allowed to be present in the United States and had to be returned because of the foreign terrorist designation. This issue was then, by a district court judge, completely inverted, and a district court judge tried to tell the administration that they had to kidnap a citizen of El Salvador and fly him back here. That issue was raised to the Supreme Court and the Supreme

Court said the district court order was unlawful and its main components were reversed 9-0 unanimously, stating clearly that neither Secretary of State nor the President could be compelled by anybody to forcibly retrieve a citizen of El Salvador from El Salvador, who again is a member of MS-13. We've got a lot more to report here. I'll be back after this quick break. Did you know Fast Growing Trees is the biggest online nursery in the US with thousands of different plants and over 2 million happy customers? They have all the plants your yard needs, like fruit trees, privacy trees, flowering trees, shrubs, and so much more. Whatever plants you're interested in, Fast Growing Trees has you covered.

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to El Salvador in torture camps. I think, just to follow up on the clarification, you mentioned that you're open to deporting individuals that aren't foreign aliens, brought criminals to El Salvador. Does that include potentially U.S. citizens fully naturalized in the area? If they're criminals and if they hit people with baseball bats over the head that happen to be 90 years old,

and if they rape 87-year-old women in Coney Island, Brooklyn, yeah, yeah, that includes them. Why do you think there's a special category of person? They're as bad as anybody that comes in. We have bad ones, too. And I'm all for it. Because we can do things with the president for less money and have great security. And we have a huge prison population. We have a huge number

of prisons and then we have the private prisons and some are operated well, I guess, and some aren't. But he does a great job with that. We have others that we're negotiating with, too. But no, if it's if it's if it's a homegrown criminal, I have no problem. Now, we're studying the laws right now. Pam is studying. If we can do that, that's good. And I'm talking about violent people. I'm talking about really bad people, really bad people. Every bit as bad as the ones coming in.

And I made the statement when I heard about this a long time ago now, four years ago, when I heard that this guy was having open borders, I said every single criminal from all over the world is going to be dumped into our country. And that's what happened. Jails, the jails of the Congo were emptied out. And by the way, here's footage that was captured on the El Salvadoran government's live stream. This did not make it on the cable networks in the United States. The quality isn't great, but you could hear Trump endorse the idea of sending what he calls, quote,

homegrowns, that means American citizens, to El Salvadoran more places. Yeah, that's fair. All right. It's not big enough. Marco Rubio, a man who has completely sold his soul, jumped in during the meeting to lie about Abrego Garcia's immigration status and play dumb as to why anyone would be upset about the situation. I don't understand what the confusion is. This individual is a citizen of El Salvador. He was illegally in the United States and was returned to his country. That's where you deport people back to their

country of origin, except for Venezuela that wasn't refusing to take people back or places like that. I can tell you this, Mr. President. No, the foreign policy of the United States is conducted by the president of the United States, not by a court. And no court in the United States has a right to conduct the foreign policy of the United States. It's that simple. End of story. By the way, this is not the only court order that Trump was defying today. The Associated Press reported that their journalists remain blocked from the Oval Office despite a court order demanding their reinstatement. The AP said, quote, our journalists were blocked from the Oval Office today. We expect the White House to restore AP's participation in the pool as of today as provided in the injunction order. Speaking of the media, Trump attacked CNN as fake news and

said that they hate our country. Watch this. debt as of this morning, 99%, 99.1% to be exact. Why are those numbers not in the media? Well, they get out with the fake news, you know, like CNN, CNN over here doesn't want to put them out because they don't like, they don't like putting out good numbers. They only like putting out because I think they hate our country actually. But it's a shame. You're right. Isn't that a great question?

Why doesn't the media, why don't they put out numbers? Yeah, 99%. I mean, it's crazy, right? We're doing the El Salvadoran president told Trump that he has 350 million people to liberate in the United States. But in order to do that, Trump must imprison people. Watch this. And in fact, Mr. President, you have 350 million people to liberate. But to liberate 350 million people, you have to imprison some. That's the way it works, right? You cannot just free the criminals and think crime's gonna go down magically. You have to imprison them so you can liberate 350 million Americans that are asking for. Trump then spread Russian propaganda and refused to condemn Vladimir Putin after the

horrifying attacks we witnessed this weekend in Ukraine. A Russian missile attack had killed 34 in Sumy and Ukraine on Palm Sunday, including two children. But Trump has refused to say a single bad word about the attack or about Putin, and instead he's ramping up his attacks on Zelensky. Trump on social media this morning wrote, quote, President Zelensky and crooked Joe Biden did an absolutely horrible job in allowing this travesty to begin, blaming Zelensky and Biden for Putin's illegal invasion.

Trump earlier also called Putin's attack simply a, quote, mistake. He was asked about that during the Oval Office meeting, and he ended up attacking Biden and Zelensky for, quote, letting the war happen. You repeatedly mentioned last night that Russia's attack on Ukraine was a mistake. What is the exact mistake? And had you given Putin a deadline to actually move toward a ceasefire? The mistake was letting the war happen. If Biden were competent and if Zelensky were competent, and I don't know that he is. We had a rough session with this guy over here. He just kept asking for more and more. That war should have never been allowed to happen. That war. I went four years and Putin wouldn't

even bring it up. And as soon as the election was rigged and I wasn't here, that war started. There was no way that war should have been allowed to happen. And Biden should have stopped it. And and you take a look at Putin. I'm not saying anybody's an angel, but I will tell you, I went four years and it wasn't even a question. He would never, and I told him, don't do it. You're not going to do it. And it was the apple of his eye. Trump then blamed Zelensky for starting the war and scolded him for asking for weapons. Trump said, quote, when you start a war, you got to know you can win a war, parroting Russian propaganda yet again, and refusing to acknowledge that it was Putin

who invaded Ukraine. Watch. President Zelensky's serve out his offer to purchase more Patriot missile batteries. He's always looking to purchase missiles. You know, he's against. Listen, when you start a war, you got to know that you can win the war. You don't start a war against somebody that's 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles. Trump then bragged about passing another cognitive test over the weekend. Trump then bragged about passing another cognitive test over the past few days. This is one of those tests that are designed to detect signs of dementia. And he bragged that he got the highest marks of anyone ever. Watch this. Very low IQ president. And by the way, I took my cognitive exam as part of my physical exam

and I got the highest mark. And one of the doctors said, sir, I've never seen anybody get that kind of, that was the highest mark. I hope you're happy with that. Although they haven't been bugging me too much to take a cognitive, but I did do my physical and it was released. I hope you're all happy with it. I noticed there's no question. So probably you are. But the cognitive, they said to me, sir, would you like to take a cognitive test? I said, did Biden take one? No. Did anybody take one? No, not too many people took them. I said, what about what about Obama? Did he take one? No, he didn't take one either. I said, let me be the only one to take one. But I've actually taken them three times already. I

like taking them because they're sort of, they're not too tough for me to take. Trump then said that he was going to raise prices on pharmaceuticals by implementing a tariff. Watch this. Questions? a tariff. Watch this question. On tariffs, today, on semiconductor tariffs and potentially pharmaceuticals. Semiconductor tariffs and potentially some pharmaceuticals. Pharmaceuticals we're going to do. We have, we don't make our own drugs, our own pharmaceuticals. We don't make our own drugs anymore. The drug companies are in Ireland and they're in lots of other places, China. And all I have to do is impose a tariff. The more, the faster they move in. The higher the tariff is, it's inversely proportional. The higher the tariff, the faster they come.

And yeah, we're going to be doing that. That's going to be like we have on cars. We have, as you know, a 25% tariff on cars. We have a 25% tariff on steel and aluminum. And that's what that category fits right now. Finally, Trump then threatened to bomb Iran. They're not going to have one. And if we have to do something very harsh, we'll do it. And I'm not doing it for us. I'm doing it for the world.

And these are radicalized people. and they cannot have a nuclear weapon. Does that include a potential strike on Iranian nuclear facilities? Of course it does. So was I lying or being hyperbolic when I said this was possibly the most shameful Oval Office meeting in American history? This was some deranged, psychotic, evil, anti-American filth that we all just witnessed, but we cannot close our eyes or cover our ears to the reality. We need to continue to grow this community and keep up the pressure. I know that we will never relent here at the Midas Touch Network.

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