The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump IN FREE FALL as his World COLLAPSES

Episode Date: August 2, 2024

On this episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast: The Biden-Harris Administration secures the release of wrongfully detained American prisoners; Trump falls apart as Kamala Harris overtakes him in the polls; Trump, scared and weak, resorts to racist attacks on Vice President Harris as his campaign falters; Trump self-destructs at the NABJ event; and more! Ben, Brett and Jordy break it down! Set your reminders for the FREE premiere of Against All Enemies on August 5: https://youtu.be/D2uwOZhqGS0 Deals from our sponsors! Zbiotics: Head to https://zbiotics.com/meidas to get 15% off your first order when you use code MEIDAS at checkout Beam: Get up to 40% off for a limited time when you go to https://shopbeam.com/MEIDAS and use code MEIDAS to try Beam's best-selling Dream Powder! Miracle Made: Upgrade your sleep with Miracle Made! Go to https://TryMiracle.com/MEIDAS and use the code MEIDAS to claim your FREE 3 PIECE TOWEL SET and SAVE over 40% OFF. Lumen: Take the next step in improving your health. Go to https://lumen.me/meidas to get 15% off your Lumen! 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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posts that he is making over and over again, saying that Vice President Kamala Harris isn't black. This follows Donald Trump's disastrous interview at the National Association for Black Journalists, which combined racism, weirdness, cognitive decline. We'll cover it all after donald trump spoke before the national association of black journalists in chicago he then spoke in harrisburg pennsylvania where he gave an equally unhinged and deranged speech talking more about hannibal lecter and other very very odd things we will get into that on the the other hand, you've got President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris securing the release of hostages from Russia, including Evan Gerskovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter, and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan. Donald Trump previously stated that

Vladimir Putin would only release these hostages to him because of his special relationship with Putin. We're now learning details of these negotiations that President Biden was intimately involved in. Even while the corporate media was pushing on President Biden to drop out of the race, one hour before President Biden made it official that he was not seeking re-election. He had called a counterpart in Slovenia to deal with a very kind of micro issue to make this deal work based on a release of someone who was incarcerated there from Russia. So he was involved in this every step of the way. So one of the things the White House post earlier in the day, as all these MAGA Republicans were saying, where is Biden? Where is he in spreading conspiracies?

He said, look, I've been busy doing the work of the presidency. Sorry, I haven't been putting in all caps, deranged and unhinged posts like your cult leader. Biden didn't say that, but that's must've been how he felt. He did say, I've been busy working. Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris continues to surge in the polls. She gave a great speech in Houston and Atlanta that, get this, actually talked about policy. And you can see in some of the seven recent national polls, she's pulling ahead. And also when you look at the battleground state polls, she's pulling ahead. I interviewed Simon Rosenberg earlier in the day.

That video is on its way to a million views, that interview. But Rosenberg basically said, look at all of the trends, all of the momentum. It's all going in a very positive direction. We'll talk about that and more here on the Midas Touch podcast. I'm Ben Micellis, joined by Brett and Jordy. Look, we've been saying it before. We'll say it again. Momentum, momentum, momentum. Momentum, momentum, momentum. But there's something I really don't understand about what's going on right now. I mean, I've been listening to these incredible Kamala Harris speeches lately. I've listened to her incredible energetic rally in Atlanta.

I listened to her in Texas. Didn't hear her thoughts once on being electrocuted by boats or getting eaten by sharks. Didn't hear any thoughts on windmill sound cancer. Didn't hear any thoughts on the late, great Hannibal Lecter. So I'm just trying to figure out how am I supposed to decide in this upcoming election? Now, Kamala Harris is doing a fantastic job. The energy is real. The momentum is real. And I didn't quite realize that Donald Trump would self-destruct this quickly. But here we are every single day digging his hole deeper. And I know, Ben, you have constantly on this show spoken about

the rule of holes. What are you supposed to do? What are you not supposed to do? You're not supposed to keep digging. And day in and day out, Donald Trump just keeps taking that shovel, and he is digging away, trying to do the same old tired tactics that he thought worked for him in the past, but he is being repudiated. He is being rejected by the American people. He is losing his support from the voters who matter, and the bottom is falling out of the Trump campaign before our very eyes, and it is quite the sight to behold, if I do say so myself. Jordy, what's new? Could not agree more. I mean, he is more and more unhinged every moment of the day, spiraling. You just don't know when he's going to hit bottom. I don't think there is a bottom

for him necessarily, because it's also not just him too at this point. It's his entire campaign staff around him. They're such sycophants. They can't tell him no, and they have to dig in and double down on the awful behavior. And they can never admit when he misses, and he misses a lot and quite frequently. And it's been just extraordinary to see, especially over these past few weeks. Look, Donald Trump doesn't have a lot of moves, right? It's kind of xenophobic, racist, talk crap about America and just try to scare people and then just lie, lie, lie about himself. I've given the example before of, you know, if you watch a basketball game or, you know, you have a basketball player who can only dribble with their right hand and the moment they have to adapt, it's like you can easily steal the ball. Trump's got one move. He can only dribble with one hand and that hand is racist, xenophobic, convicted felon,

and deeply, deeply troubled. Let me just show you, as past is prologue for this behavior, as I was watching the National Association of Black Journalists event, I wanted to do some my own digging and go into the past and say, I remember Donald Trump almost saying something exactly like this. And I know that he pretty much says stuff like this every day, but I was like, I'm sure in the early 90s that I remember him just, it almost seemed identical. And then I found those clips. And so here's one of them. And it was an interview that Trump did with Roger Ailes in the 1990s. And in the interview, Donald Trump contrasts his casinos,

which went bankrupt eventually, with the ones on Indian reservations. And he said his casino is great for the country, but Indian gaming, he says, will cause the greatest crime wave in the country. And when you watch that language, we'll compare it to the language he's using today. But this is who he's always been. Here, play this clip. Atlantic City is way up from last year, way up from the year before. It's having the best year it's ever had. And I don't say it's great for the country, but, you know, more and more you're seeing this. I will say this. I think the greatest crime wave in this country is going to be caused by the Indian gaming. I think it's totally out of control.

I don't think it's properly supervised. The politicians are doing a tremendous disservice to what's going on. I mean, the great, great crime wave, the Al Capone crime wave of this time, of this generation, is going to be caused, in my opinion, by what's happening on the Indian reservations with respect to what I consider to be unsupervised gaming. He's also been obsessed with Al Capone for a long time, apparently. Yeah. And look, just substitute America for Atlantic City. Donald Trump ended up destroying Atlantic City. All of his casinos went bankrupt. And what he was trying to do was blame the fact that he couldn't competently run something on the fact that there were casinos that were run by Native American tribes.

And he said they're going to cause the greatest crime wave in the history of America. To your point, Brett, you also hear the Al Capone there, but it's the exact same language that he uses over and over again. Here is Donald Trump speaking before Congress in 1993, and here he's saying that Native Americans should be denied casino licenses if they don't look Indian enough to him. He's going to judge if the Native American looks, and I'm using Trump's language, Indian enough. And if they are, then he will decide whether or not they should have licenses based on their physical appearance. Here, play this clip. Is this you discussing

Indian blood? We're going to judge people by whether they have Indian blood, whether they're qualified to run a gaming casino or not. That probably is me. Absolutely. Because I'll tell you what, if you look if you look at some of the reservations that you've approved, you, sir, and your great wisdom have approved. I will tell you right now, they don't look like Indians to me and they don't look like the Indians. Now, maybe we say politically correct or not politically correct they don't look like Indians to me and they don't look like Indians to Indians and a lot of people are laughing at it

and you're telling how tough it is how rough it is to get approved well you go up to Connecticut and you look now they don't look like Indians to me sir thank God that's not the test of whether or not people have rights in this country or not, whether or not they pass your look test. Depends whether, yeah.

Depends whether or not you're approving it, sir. No, no, it's not a question whether I'm approving it. It's not a question whether I'm approving it. Mr. Trump, you know, in the history of this country where we've heard this discussion before, they don't look Jewish to me. Oh, really? They don't look Indian to me. They don't look Italian to me. They don't look Indian to me. They don't look

Italian to me. And that was a test for whether people could go into business or not go into business, whether they could get a bank loan. You're too black. You're not black enough. Now, take a look at what happened at the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago. Donald Trump and his MAGA base are now using this term DEI to basically denigrate people and saying, oh, they're a DEI hire, DEI this. So Rachel Scott, who I think did an excellent job on the panel, asked Donald Trump, what do you mean by that? Why are you saying that? Is this truly your views right here as it relates to Vice President Kamala Harris? And take a look. And now remember those clips that we just showed you of Trump in the past. And now let me show you what

went down this week at the National Association of Black Journalists when Trump sat for that interview. Play the clip. Some of your own supporters, including Republicans on Capitol Hill, have labeled Vice President Kamala Harris, who was the first Black and Asian American woman to serve as vice president and be on a major party ticket, as a DEI hire. Is that acceptable language to you?

And will you tell those Republicans and those supporters to stop it? How do you define DEI? Go ahead. How do you define it? Diversity, ahead. Diversity, equity, inclusion. Okay, yeah, go ahead. Is that what your definition is? That is literally the words.

Give me a definition then. Would you give me a definition of that? Give me a definition. Sir, I'm asking you a question, a very direct question. Define it for me, if you will. I just defined it, sir. Do you believe that Vice President Kamala Harris is only on the ticket because she is a black woman?

Well, I can say, no, I think it's maybe a little bit different. So I've known her a long time indirectly, not directly very much. And she was always of Indian heritage and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn't know she was black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black. And now she wants to be known as black. So I don't know. Is she Indian or is she black? She is always identified as a black. I respect either one. I respect either one, but she obviously doesn't because she was Indian all the way.

And then all of a sudden she made a turn and she went she became a black person. Just to be clear, sir, do you believe that she is a black person? I think somebody should look into that, too, when you ask a continue in a very hostile, nasty town. It's a direct question, sir. Do you believe that Vice President Kamala Harris is a DEI hire, as some Republicans have said? I really don't know. I mean, I really don't know. Could be. Could be. There are some, and there are plenty. So there's so much to break down there. I mean, a horrifically racist and xenophobic answer, where finally, after pressing, Rachel Scott did an incredible job. Donald Trump's response was, could be a DEI hire. That's the leader of the

Republican Party saying, Vice President Kamala Harris, incredibly, way more experienced than he ever is. Way more experienced than Shady Vance ever is. He goes, could be. But you just take a look at all of those tactics that he uses there. One, it shows how incredible I think Rachel Scott did it. But Donald Trump went through his entire arsenal, right? First, the kind of combativeness of, give me a definition, give me a definition. You ready? You ready? Give me a definition. And then she goes, it's diversity, equity, and inclusion. Do you believe that? And then when Donald Trump starts to answer, he then gets nervous. So he does the hands thing and you get the accordion hands coming out. Then he goes, she turned black. He gets laughed at. So then he tries to turn it into like, not like a joke, but he uses like a baby voice. And he goes like,

she turned black. She turned black. And so he says it like in a really weird voice. And then he realizes that they're laughing at him. He realizes what a fool he's made of himself. So then he goes and cycles into, it should be investigated. It needs to be looked into. He goes, it should be looked into. And then he says to Rachel Scott, once the crowd's laughing at him, he calls her nasty and hostile. And all of that took place within a minute and 30 second clip or whatever it was that we just played there. It was all packed into it. But by the way, that's the same Trump we saw in the 1990s, in the 1980s, in the 1970s when he prevented black people from living in his buildings and when he was written up by the Justice Department

for engaging in racism. This is the person who demanded the death penalty for the exonerated five. This is who he is. Yeah, 100%. I mean, and also, I want to be clear that these are the actions of somebody who is weak and scared and desperate. It's weird. It's creepy. It's racist. It's offensive. It is all of that. And it is also such a sign of weakness. And I think you could see, you know, despite all of like the weird things that Donald Trump has said over these past few months, whether it be Hannibal Lecter or being electrocuted by sharks and boats, you know, all the things I was joking about earlier on, he has kind of held back this part of him in many ways over these past few months, because I think he's gotten a little cocky looking at the polls and him feeling this kind of positive momentum on his side, at least what he

considered to be positive momentum. And I think he got to a place of complacency. And all of a sudden, virtually overnight, the election shifted, the momentum shifted, the polls have shifted away from him, and voters are fleeing Donald Trump right now in crazy numbers. So Donald Trump is lashing out in weakness and in panic. And in doing so, he is putting on the same old boring reruns of the Trump show that we have seen throughout the decades. And you could bring it up and to Obama and beyond. I mean, it's the same BS. And I don't think people are buying it at this point. I think people just want normalcy. I think people are sick of this race baiting or they are sick of this just disgusting attitude every single day. And they just want normalcy and they want an actual leader

who's going to actually do things for the American people. And Donald Trump going out there and behaving like that, I think will be a defining moment of this election. Like it should be, quite frankly, a bigger moment of the election than even the Biden debate. I mean, this was Donald Trump at his absolute worst. And the fact that these Republicans, when you go to Fox News, when you, you know, try to ask some of these Congress people about it, some of them are smart enough to either not speak about it or to condemn it. But most of them try to gaslight the American people and be like, oh, he was great. That was him at his best. He is a superstar. Wow. He crushed it. All right. All right. At least with the debate, you had Democrats and others saying, listen, we could acknowledge that that was not great. That was not a good situation. With this, they try to gaslight you into making it sound like that was a good thing.

Can I tell you what Shady Vance said? Shady Vance's quote was the following, quote, what Donald Trump said, I thought it was hysterical. I think he pointed out the fundamental chameleon-like nature of Kamala Harris. The chameleon-like from the guy who's changed his name now, what, at least three times, the guy who went from never Trumper to pro-Trumper, the guy, by the way, how offensive do comments like that have to be to J.D. Vance's own family. J.D. Vance is married to an Indian American woman. J.D. Vance's kids are of mixed race. And J.D. Vance right there is saying F you to all the biracial Americans in this country, which, by the way, is a sizable portion of this country. When you look at Kamala Harris's family, you are looking at America. That is what America looks like in 2024. And for Donald Trump and J.D. Vance to say stuff like that, I

cannot imagine being J.D. Vance's kids and having that as your father, defending that scum, defending that disgusting attitude. And I should note as well that Donald Trump showed up to this event and refused to get on stage for more than an hour and then tried to blame the equipment in public and tried to just yell at the reporters the entire time. And this has now been confirmed by at least two reporters. You have Philip Lewis of HuffPost during the event saying that he was told that Trump, this is before the event, I'm told Trump is demanding that NABJ not do the live fact-checking and that's why the event hasn't started yet. Quote, we're in a standoff, end quote. New York Times later confirming that Donald Trump was too afraid to take the stage because he was demanding

that these journalists not live fact check him while he was on the stage. Here's the New York Times. About 45 minutes before Trump took the stage, the former president pushed back on NABJ staffers who wanted to live fact check the event, according to a person familiar with the planning. The board pushed back against the last minute demand. When Trump took the stage, he said the delay was due to the NABJ's audio issues. I mean, the guy is a coward. The guy is a weakling. The guy is scared. He is lashing out. And all this new kind of rhetoric, not new, but him rehashing this racist rhetoric shows is that he is absolutely terrified of Kamala Harris. And he knows that the momentum has

gone against him and that he's on track to lose this election. And the guy is freaking the F out. And real quick, like his demeanor on this stage, I know we're going to show some more clips too. You know what it reminded me of? Reminded me of his debate with Hillary Clinton when he tried to like throw his body weight around and intimidate her. Like he's a high school bully, like at its core, he's not equipped with intelligence or compassion or decency, and least of all facts. And so what does he do? He has to behave like a bully. And Brett, to your point in 2016, I think Americans were maybe surprised by Trump, but in 2024, Americans know better and they're so sick of him. So sick of him. He took Rachel Scott's water. So Trump had his own water next to him. He took the person who was interviewing Rachel Scott's water,

grabbed it, like stole it, twisted the cap and made it tighter and then put it back on the table. Here, watch. Just watch for yourself. Who does this? Here, play the clip. What did you say? So what I wanted to say was the last time we spoke, you said some words that were prophetic. I mean, it's all things like that as well. And Brett, you mentioned the types of things that Donald Trump would say and do with respect to former President Obama. What's Donald Trump doing today? He's posting images of Vice President Kamala Harris's birth certificate or purportedly her birth certificate to say that

she's not black. And then he's posting creepy messages and creepy photos or messages with photos with creepy messages saying this. Thank you, Kamala, for the nice picture you sent for many years ago. Your warmth, friendship, and love of your Indian heritage are very much appreciated. I mean, just think about the way – and then here's the one that was creepy where he has like 2016 and 2020. Like is he handwriting on these images like himself, like a stalker? Like it is very strange. Let's face it. It's abuser behavior. It is abuser behavior. Exactly. This is the behavior of an abuser.

Textbook abuser behavior. I want to talk more about the National Association of Black Journalists event. I want to talk about what he did in Harrisburg. I want to talk about the incredible accomplishment by the Biden-Harris administration in bringing these hostages home. I want to talk about some of these polls. I want to talk about that and more. I want to tell everybody as well, though, I remind everybody about our Patreon, patreon.com slash Midas Touch. Over the past 48 hours, we've had 26 million views on the Midas Touch network. That is more than MSNBC, Fox, or CNN. And we were number one across all categories on YouTube. Sometimes we're one. Number two depends on how many views the Olympics are getting. And that's thanks to you. We don't have outside investors. So we grow this

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It's hard to imagine that that is real life. I've been seeing a bunch of people from the cast of Idiocracy lately giving interviews when they've been asked about this. And they've been saying, yeah, like it's actually even worse than idiocracy. Yeah. I can't even believe it. I mean, you know, they had, I mean, when you have Hulk Hogan go to the Republican national convention on the key date and rip off his shirt and say, the Hulk's telling you that I'm going to give you a beat down if you don't vote Trump. And I'm just thinking to myself, I'm like, how is this real? But Ben, Tom Lama, or however you pronounce that, dude. Tom Lama, he was saying, Hulk Hogan, that was the most powerful speech of the whole event.

I hate corporate media. Who's Tom Lama? I don't even know who that is. Tom Lama. I think Jordy's talking about some NBC reporter afterwards who was covering it on the floor. I remember them. Yeah, just like – it's crazy to think that – Come on, Mamas.

Come on. It's crazy to think that that was like two weeks ago. We've entered like another dimension in these past two weeks. It is quite – and they were so cocky, these Republicans, and they had the dumbest convention, like the worst convention ever. And they were just praised nonstop by this corporate media who was just slobbering over them. And we were like, is this not crazy to anyone else? Like everything about this is nuts. Like why are they eating this up?

And I think finally reality is setting in and it's just unavoidable to show how crazy and weird these people really are. Yeah, there are a few main factors, right? I mean, President Biden passing the torch in such a selfless way, Vice President Kamala Harris taking that torch and really just surging ahead on day one, Donald Trump picking the weirdest dude in Shady Vans to be his VP pick, which also then reflects in a different way Donald Trump's dangerousness and weirdness as translated through Shady Vans, emphasizes both of their kind of qualities together. Yeah, I think he hates Vance also. I really get this. You get. I think he hates Vance also. I really get this. You get the sense that he hates Vance. And he's- One of, you know, Simon Rosenberg had an interesting theory among others,

you know, on the interview that I did. And he said, one of the reasons that he thought that Donald Trump continued to like keep on posting about the biracial aspect of Vice President Kamala Harris, that she's biracial, is the fact that he wants to, in the back of his mind, like in Trump's sick way, it's a way to also punish J.D. Vance to make J.D. Vance's life uncomfortable with his wife and kids because he's that pissed off at J.D. Vance. Look, I think that Donald Trump is a racist, xenophobic person, and that's the main reason that's driving it. But it was an interesting thought, I think that Donald Trump is a racist, xenophobic person, and that's the main reason that's driving it. But it was an interesting thought though, that Donald Trump is doing that also, you know, you know, for, for, for potentially other reasons. So Donald Trump continues to make post after post vice president Kamala Harris, though, surging in the polls, Simon Rosenberg,

who I just mentioned, um, reports on the seven latest national polls where Vice President Kamala Harris is up in each and also in the key battleground polls. She's also up as well. And this is before the Democratic Convention even started, where there's usually a bump after that. And then Donald Trump's too scared to debate Vice President Kamala Harris as she's saying, look, if you want to say these things about me, Donald, say them to my face, you coward. And Donald Trump is too scared to debate. So she'll probably be debating an empty podium because she's going to show up and do the debate on ABC on September 10th. And I think Donald Trump's going to be too scared to debate. You know what the debate would look like? It would look like the NABJ. It would look like exactly what we saw there, except he'd have to confront Kamala Harris on all those things. And

it would show the American people, again, how truly deranged and batshit crazy that this man is. Show you some other clips from that National Association of Black Journalists event as well. So the very first question that Rachel Scott, the reporter, asked was actually, you know, she addressed the elephant in the room and she talked about what the issues are. But she was actually nice. I mean, she thanked Donald Trump for showing up nicer than she had to be. Thanked him for showing up. Said, we appreciate you spending an hour of time here. We have to address the elephant in the room that a lot of people don't think that you

should be here. Here are the things that you said. Then she just lists the things that he's actually- Quoting him. Quoting him. So what is your response to people? And rather than address it, Donald Trump attacked Rachel Scott for asking the question. By the way, Rachel Scott was the reporter who also asked some of the best questions on Capitol Hill as well, you know, to the members of Congress that we've highlighted, too.

So, you know, she's she's a great reporter. A plus. Here's what went down here. I want to start by addressing the elephant in the room, sir. A lot of people did not think it was appropriate for you to be here today. You have pushed false claims about some of your rivals from Nikki Haley to former President Barack Obama, saying that they were not born in the United States, which is not true. You have told four congresswomen of color who were American citizens to go back to where they came from.

You have used words like animal and rabbit to describe black district attorneys, four congresswomen of color who were American citizens to go back to where they came from. You have used words like animal and rabbit to describe black district attorneys. You've attacked black journalists, calling them a loser, saying the questions that they ask are, quote, stupid and racist. You've had dinner with a white supremacist at your Mar-a-Lago resort. So my question, sir, now that you are asking black supporters to vote for you, why should black voters trust you after you have used language like that? Well, first of all, I don't think I've ever been asked a question so in such a horrible manner. First question, you don't even say hello. How are you? Are you with ABC? Because I think they're a fake news network, a terrible network.

And I think it's disgraceful that I came here in good spirit. I love the black population of this country. I've done so much for the black population of this country. I mean, just think about his. And by the way, her question, she started off again, nicer than she even had to be to him, you know, welcomed him there. So then as the interview continues on that path, Donald Trump then blames the panelists for bad equipment, even though Donald Trump showed up late because he didn't want to be fact-checked.

So this is, again, part of Donald Trump's sociopathic nature. Here, play this clip. It is going down, and our crime rate is going to be a disaster. Mr. President, I want to get into how you address some of the issues with Black communities. And I say that plural because we live in communities of color that are different. We're not all the same. We don't vote the same. We don't think the same. It's not monolithic. So as you come here today, I want to talk about something that bursts. And this is the weight of the inflation on this country right now. The nonprofit Money Management International recently released data from its mid-year analysis that we have found a 52% rise in people who are seeking counseling for being in credit debt. They're paying for food that is sky high on their credit cards, and now they can't pay that off.

The credit counseling nonprofit, MMI, as I said, is saying now that they've seen surges that they haven't seen since we were in a pandemic of people in financial trouble. Much of that falls on the shoulders of single moms, single black moms. When you look statistically, how do you turn it around? What's your plan for the black community when it comes to money? So first of all, it's very hard to hear you for whatever reason, because of the fact that they have bad equipment, because I guess, you know, this woman was unable to get the right equipment. But it's very hard for me to hear you. But I can hear every other word. It's very difficult, actually. But so I don't know if they can fix it or do something with it. But I'll do the best I

can with it. And so Harris Faulkner, who asked that question, she's with Fox. So she would give him the softball questions or try to give him the softball question. So even when she would try to kind of spoon feed him a really easy question, he would find ways to respond by attacking Rachel Scott and the other panelists. Because, again, that is who he is. He's a malignant narcissist sociopath, and you're seeing that on display there. There was even the moment where Harris Faulkner shouted out, oh my goodness, because Trump wasn't answering the questions and he was just attacking Rachel Scott, the reporter who asked the first question over and over again. Here, watch that moment. Oh, absolutely. And who would I think I'd know?

How would you make that decision? I think I'd know. Look, if I came onto a stage like this and I got treated so rudely as this woman. Oh, my goodness. And I'm fine with it because she it does it. She was very rude, sir. Very rude. That was a nasty. That wasn't a question. She didn't ask me a question. She gave a statement. That wasn't a question. I repeated your statement, sir, actually. Look, I can show you 10 more clips like that, but you get the point. I'd rather spend our time productively together and contrast what you just saw there to Vice President Kamala Harris in Texas.

Here's what she said in Houston about what you just observed Donald Trump do. Here, play this clip. We all here remember what those four years were like. And today we were given yet another reminder. This afternoon, Donald Trump spoke at the annual meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists. And it was the same old show. The divisiveness and the disrespect. And let me just say, the American people deserve better. The American people deserve better.

The American people deserve a leader who tells the truth, a leader who does not respond with hostility and anger when confronted with the facts. We deserve a leader who understands that our differences do not divide us. They are an essential source of our strength. So I say to Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Incorporated, ours is a fight for the future. A fight for the future, a vision for the future, while Donald Trump is trying to take us not just to the past, but his dystopian past. And that's why I wanted to start the show by showing you those clips of who he's always been. Vice President Kamala Harris spoke

earlier in the week in Atlanta before a packed house, just so you see how defensive Donald Trump is. Donald Trump then decided he was going to speak in front of the same stadium at a later date, to which you know is going to have far less energy. So I'm looking forward to comparing the crowds and the enthusiasm. But here are two of my favorite moments from Vice President Kamala Harris's speech. Here is where she talks about Donald Trump being too big of a coward to debate her. And she says, you want to say these things? Say it to my face. I'm not afraid of you.

Let's go. Here, play the clip. So the momentum in this race is shifting. And there are signs that Donald Trump is feeling it. You may have noticed. So last week, you may have seen he pulled out of the debate in September he had previously agreed to. So here's the thing. Here's the funny thing about that. Here's the funny thing about that. So he won't debate, but he and his running mate sure seem to have a lot to say about me. And by the Well, Donald, I do hope you'll reconsider to meet me on the debate stage. because as the saying goes, if you've got something to say, say it to my face.

Now, compare that to what Donald Trump said at his traveling fascist circus WWE cosplay event in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. And you can see that Vice President Kamala Harris is in his head because here's what Donald Trump had to say about her. Brett, play this clip. Trying to pass herself off as a tough on crime prosecutor. She wasn't tough on crime. She's only tough on guys like me. That would make her tough on crime. Tough on crime. Thanks. Tough on crime. I want to talk more about what happened in Harrisburg. I want to definitely

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on his little costume and he went to the border to act like the tough common man and went to the border. By the way, can I just tell you what's so ridiculous about this? It's so absolutely pathetic. We should talk about Shady Vance just like that. Yeah, yeah. Shady, you're going to put on your costume. Aw, Shady. Aw.

You got your little plan. Shady, you're going to put on your costume, J.D. You got your little plan on the border. And you know what he also – he cosplays as his family man, right? This person who cares about the family. And so what J.D. Vance did today is so emblematic of MAGA, of Trump, of J.D. Vance, of all these people because they're all such frauds. They're all such phonies. So today, you know, a few days ago, you know, Kamala Harris was criticizing JD Vance for his weird childless cat lady comments. And like, apparently this is, this is like his main thing. Like there are like a hundred video clips of JD Vance making video clips, tweets, tweets about childless cat

ladies, talk to like, like why are you so concerned with other people having kids and women? It's creepy, dude. It's weird. It's creepy. Stop it. And so J.D. Vance, a few days ago, he tried to be like, oh, what Kamala Harris is saying is she opposes the child tax credit. You mean the child tax credit that Kamala Harris said was one of her biggest accomplishments as vice president that she pushed for. And so the smart thing that the Democrats did today was they said, OK, J.D. Vance, OK, Republicans, you're for the child tax credit now because you voted it down when we tried to expand it last time when we tried to keep it going. Y'all torched it. So we're putting it up for a vote. You say you're for the child tax credit bet. Let's do it. And so Chuck Schumer puts it on the floor today. And what happens? Of course, the Republicans vote

against it. They voted down. It does not proceed. And JD Vance flees to the border for this photo op. And that's why he is wearing this outfit because he wanted to take a photo at the border. Meanwhile, in real world, this is about like, you know, talking. I was saying, Jordy, you know what it is? It's talking shit versus getting shit done. And this is the perfect example because, you know, it's actually happening at the border due to Vice President Harris and President Biden. Border crossings are at their lowest levels since September 2020. Like the work is actually getting done and things are actually being solved at the border. And instead of taking

care of families, instead of helping them, you have them cosplaying in their flannel shirts, going down to the border with all this fakery. It's just the perfect example. It makes it extra worse, Brett, because he wanted to avoid, he wanted an excuse why he didn't have to show up to the vote where he was going to vote against it. So the same way, you know, he uses,

you know, his beard to invent a different personality for him. Like he grew that beard out. Oh, an actual beard. An actual beard. Oh yeah. Maybe there's dude that plays that work,

but the way he, the way he has kind of these different personalities, he he's, you know, he uses the border as a way to distract from the fact that he was going to be voting against and Republicans voted against the child tax credit, which vice president Kamala Harris and President Biden pushed and was one of the things that they were proud of. It kind of reminds me of when Donald Trump fled, it's a common theme here for cowards, fled to Scotland and Ireland after Donald Trump saying, I'm going to show up and testify against E. Jean Carroll. I'm going to confront her. And then he held a shovel and in like when he went to like Ireland and he pretended he pretend weird, right?

He pretended that he was building like he was digging himself. And that's why he was going there. And then they were like, the reporters asked him, like, so are you going to go back and you're going to confront? Well, I'm building here, as you can see. But he's like, I'm going to go back and confront her. So then that word got to the federal judge. And so the federal judge was to, was, went to Donald Trump's lawyer. Um, Hey, so is Donald Trump, uh, it was Takapina, the lawyer at the time, um, Tacky Takapina. And, and, and then the judge is like, so is Trump coming back? Cause he claims he's coming back

and you just close the evidence without him. And then Takapina is like, you know what? I'm dealing with judge. Like he's a lot, like he's, he's not coming back. And the judge is like, all right, I'll give him to Monday to stop cosplaying that he's building something in Scotland to show up. It's a truce to weird things. And speaking of weird things, like the funny thing is this weird attack on Donald Trump for whatever reason is like, like it's destroying him inside. Like the MAGA people, they don't know how to react to this attack. Like they liked being called fascist. They like being called authoritarian.

Like they love that. They felt strong by it. But being kind of ostracized due to their weird beliefs and dangerous policies and their's overall creepiness has gotten in their heads so much that Trump is like bringing it up in interviews now. You had Donald Trump on this phone and interview today, and he just like wanted to insist that I'm not weird. No one's ever called me. I'm not. It's like it's really in his head. I'll play this moment. It's so funny. Well, they're the weird ones. And if you've ever seen her with the laugh and everything else, that's a weird deal going on there. They're the weird ones.

Nobody's ever called me weird. I'm a lot of things, but weird I'm not. And I'm upfront. And he's not either, I will tell you. JD is not at all. They are. I think we have a Venn diagram, though, Brett, for what he is, though, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think this is helpful for all the listeners at home, for the viewers at home. You can check it out. This is also on our social media. But it's a helpful, just, you know, we like to make helpful infographics, you know, that could be shared, that could help people out. So we made this one because they were very confused that somebody could be biracial. And Donald Trump is also a mix of a few different things. So I wanted to make sure that folks could easily get this information.

So here's the Venn diagram. You see Kamala Harris, right? She has an Indian mother and a Jamaican father. And then you have Kamala Harris, right? With Donald Trump, he's both a rapist and a fraudster. And that's Donald Trump in that Venn diagram. We love a good Venn diagram here, folks. We love a good Venn diagram. And by the way, feel free to, you know, you could Photoshop that. There's a lot of things that you could input. You could switch out fraudster with felon, maybe do more circles, insurrectionist, you know, like the list is endless. I don't think we need to stop it here. But I think this is fairly clear in getting the point across. But the funny thing is, call Donald Trump all those things, right? Felon, rapist, fraudster, like the horrible things that he is. But for whatever reason, nothing has angered him as much as being called weird. And it's just a very bizarre thing. I would say this. Those are his idols though. Those are his idols. The felons, right? Capone, the fraudsters. I mean, those are the people that he liked. The fascists, right? You always hear him talk about dictators. He idolizes them. Being called weird is heartbreaking to him because at its core, that's exactly what he is. He's not an alpha like these Republicans and these MAGAs like to call themselves. They're weird. So you can take the three brothers out of their childhood home where we would engage in sometimes immature brother banter, and you could put us in podcasts, but

we'll never still lose that element. So Donald Trump, because that is affecting you so much, before the show, Brett just made this, Brett made this video. Let's play it. I can't believe I'm doing, you know, the weird thing. When I say Hannibal Lecter, the weird magic. It's bad news, bad things are happening. Weird. Ah, mom, I'm sorry. Weird.

Ah, I can't do it, mom. Weird. The late, great Hannibal Lecter. Weird. There was a shark. Or you get electrocuted. Weird thing. He was with four hookers.

You think that was good that night? He's not into golden showers, as they get electrocuted. Weird thing. He was with four hookers. You think that was good that night? He's not into golden showers, as they say they call them. Weird thing. What an ending. It definitely had an arc. Yeah, yeah. It told the story. It really told the story.

I want to show you this, though, is that this is a flashback. Donald Trump recently said that certain hostages that Putin had taken would only be released if Donald Trump won. Think about all the things that Donald Trump said. He said that the stock market would crash if he didn't win, and the stock market did twice as good than it was when he was in office. And then he takes credit for it. You know, one of the things that Donald Trump says is the only person who will ever, you know, that he would have to be in office to allow hostages to be released. Almost like a threat, honestly. Almost like a, yeah, totally a threat. Well, President Biden negotiated the release of Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan, and other hostages. Let me just show you, this is the weird, creepy selfie video that Donald Trump made of himself, of him saying that he would be needed to speak to Putin here, play this clip. Evan Gershkovich, the reporter for the Wall Street Journal who is being held by Russia, will be released almost immediately

after the election, but definitely before I assume office. He will be home. He'll be safe. Vladimir Putin, president of Russia, will do that for me. And I don't believe he'll do it for anyone else. And we will be paying nothing. Biden likes to pay massive numbers. We will be paying nothing. Thank you very much. Here's what President Biden said today, announcing it's a very good afternoon,

a very good afternoon indeed. Here's the press conference President Biden held to play. Well, good afternoon. And this is a very good afternoon. A very good afternoon. Today, we're bringing home Paul, Evan, Alsu, Vladimir, three American citizens and one American green card holder. All four have been imprisoned unjustly in Russia. Paul, for nearly six years. Vladimir, since 2022. Evans, since March of 2023. And Alassu, since October of 2023.

Russian authorities arrested them, convicted them in show trials, and sentenced them to long prison terms with absolutely no legitimate reason whatsoever, none. Paul, a former Marine, was in Russia for a wedding. Evan, a journalist with Russia, in Russia, was in Russia, assigned by the Wall Street Journal. Alsu, also a journalist, was in Russia to see family.

All three falsely accused of being spies. Also, also a journalist, was in Russia to see family. All three falsely accused of being spies. And Vladimir, who was a Russian citizen by birth and holds an American green card, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and was a pallbearer of my friend John McCain's funeral with me. He spoke out against Putin's regime. And for that, he was convicted of treason. And now, their brutal ordeal is over. And they're free.

Moments ago, the families and I were able to speak to them on the telephone from the Oval Office. They're out of Russia. Earlier today, they were flown to Turkey. And soon, there'll be wheels up on their way home to see their families. This is an incredible relief for all the family members gathered here. It's a relief to the friends and colleagues all across the country who have been praying for this day for a long time. Here's an incredible piece of information as well. President Biden, about an hour before he notified the world that he was dropping out of the presidential race on July 21st, called the prime minister of Slovenia, whose country was contributing

two convicted Russian spies to the swap to secure the pardon necessary for the deal to proceed. CIA director William Burns traveled to Turkey last week to meet with his counterpart there and finalize the logistics for the swap. So President Biden working very hard behind the scenes at a very micro level to deal with the unique nuances of this. Donald Trump was asked in 2019 about Paul Whelan, one of the hostages, and Donald Trump's response was, we're looking into it. We're looking into it. And so President Biden was asked by the reporters, you know, about, you know, Donald Trump saying that he would do this or he'd be able to do this. Take a look at President

Biden's response, though, when he was asked about it. President Trump has said repeatedly that he could have gotten the hostages out without giving anything in exchange. What do you say to that? What do you say to President Trump now? Former president. Why didn't he do it? He's president. This is Biden at his best, you know, and I want you to think about, too, like the families of these people who are so cruelly imprisoned by Russia and the efforts, just the monumental efforts by the Biden-Harris administration to set them free. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan today, he said, quote, If you had not had Biden sitting in the Oval Office, I don't think this would have happened.

President Biden, this was all going on while there was all this pressure on him to step down while all this election stuff was happening. He was still keeping his head down and staying focused on the job. And I think that's one of the incredible things about President Biden and why he's going to be remembered as possibly one of the greatest presidents of all time, because he is somebody who actually gets stuff done. While you have Donald Trump spewing his hatred and his propaganda, Donald Trump is a poser. Let's get it straight. Donald Trump is a poser. He's a fake. He's a fraud. He's a creep. He's a weirdo. He's everything that President Biden is not. And President Biden is a guy who actually does the job and gets stuff done.

And that is important. I like people who get stuff done for the American people. And you got to remember also, this isn't even the first time. Remember, Biden also previously freed Marine vet Trevor Reed, who Trump also left in Russia, did absolutely nothing for. President Biden continues to get these wrongfully detained prisoners home, but Trump just continues to spew his nonsense. Of note also, I might add, they were talking about today how intimately the vice president was involved in all this. I think that's important, especially to show how she executes in these foreign policy situations.

They said that she was absolutely crucial to getting this job done as well. And it speaks to the leadership of this administration. And these are tangible things that really impact people's lives. And I don't want that human element to be lost from the political element of it and from the foreign policy element of it, that people are affected by these decisions. People are affected by the elections. And when you have someone like Putin's puppet who abandons all of our allies and Donald Trump, and then you have President Biden, who was actually able to coordinate all of this, and he emphasized this both in his written statement and in his statement before the press today. President Biden was able to get

together all of our allies, work in coordination with all of our allies, with all of these countries to get the job done. That's only possible if you understand foreign diplomacy. That's only possible if you understand that there are strength in numbers, strength in alliances, and not bowing down to Vladimir Putin like you're his puppy dog, Donald Trump. Jordy. Speaking of strength in numbers, I just wanted to use, I know we're closing out. Folks here at the pro-democracy community, the mightest mighty, thank you all for your continued support, especially over these last couple of weeks. As I said last week, I know there's a mass exodus happening right now with corporate media and their corporate interests and their corporate dollars. And we here, we the collective, we us the Midas Mighty, everyone

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