The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump INFLUENCE PEDDLING OP exposed in UNDER 13 MINUTES

Episode Date: December 1, 2024

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who's been under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, who recently gave $30 million to basically support Donald Trump's Bitcoin, which was failing before this infusion of capital. And then I want to talk about Donald Trump appointing Charles Kushner, Jared Kushner's daddy, to become the ambassador to France. I want to call all of this out. And then my final message to anybody here is, how is this helpful to most Americans? How is this helpful to 99% of Americans? It seems that all this is doing is just funneling money to Donald Trump.

Let's go through it right now. So here's the article by the Wall Street Journal. It's called Corporate America Launches an Orthodox Campaign to Gain Trump's Attention. Companies look at scrubbing left-leaning policies from their websites and scoping out appearances on conservative podcasts. It says, Corporate America is unleashing an unorthodox campaign to influence Donald Trump's agenda in the weeks leading up to his second inauguration, a period that is emerging

as a key stretch for shaping the next administration. What do you mean emerging as a key stretch for shaping? It's the transition. It's always the key moment or the key stretch for shaping an administration. That's why it's called a transition. And they call it an unorthodox campaign here. What do you mean? Bribery? Let's go on and read it. To break into the unusual circle of influence that surrounds Trump. Pause there. Unusual circle of influence. What do you mean? Trump's family members and people who are inexperienced and unqualified, whereas normally the transition is handled in an ethical and very diligent manner. it's not. But I guess that's all very unorthodox for you.

It goes on to say, chief executives, corporate leaders, are discussing whether to try to secure an appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast. They are buying the Trump's family cryptocurrency token and emailing tips about spending cuts to Vivek Ramaswamy. Wait a minute, they're buying Trump's family cryptocurrency token? That sounds like a conflict of interest. That sounds like it has many legal ramifications. We'll get to that in just a moment. It goes on to say, some lobbyists are instructing companies to scrub their websites and corporate policies of language that favors Democrats and instead tout GOP-friendly issues such as job creation. You notice how the Wall Street Journal is doing this propaganda here. They're like, the GOP-friendly issue is job creation. What corporation is not trying to do job creation and build their company and grow?

I never realized that job creation was an anti-democratic issue, but that's how it's framed here by the Wall Street Journal. Then it says that corporations are removing policies that favor Democrats. I mean, like what? That you shouldn't discriminate against people on the basis of gender, ethnicity, race, or religion? I think that's what they mean. It goes on to say, quote, my inbox and text message box looks like the Niagara Falls, said Ramaswamy, who is co-running a new department to make the government efficient. They're talking about Doge right there. And notice how they normalize it as well. A new department, really?

Because when I last checked, new departments have to be made by laws. They don't just sprout up, but they're like, here's a new department to promote government efficiency being led by an unelected bureaucrat. And they just normalize that language as though this thing is like a normal department. It's not actually a department. You should state that in your article. It goes on to say, now this paragraph right here basically just describes bribery. Listen to it. Those who can garner sway with Trump or his team could ask for exemptions to forthcoming tariffs and

influence staffing. They could recommend officials who are friendly with the pharmaceutical industry, for example, to counterbalance vaccine skeptic RFK Jr.'s top health agency nominee. At least one pharmaceutical company is in final negotiations to hire a Republican lobbying firm to help advise about Kennedy and how best to navigate the second Trump administration. So let me just get this straight. Your nighttime bedroom temperature has a huge impact on your sleep quality. So if you wake up too hot or too cold, I highly recommend you check out Miracle-Made bedsheets. Miracle-Made sheets are inspired by NASA and they use silver-infused fabrics that are temperature regulating so you can sleep at the perfect temperature all night long. Using silver-infused fabrics inspired by NASA, Miracle-Made sheets are thermoregulating and designed to keep you at the

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OK, basically, the Wall Street Journal is describing bribery right there, but they don't call it out. They normalize. This is unusual. This is an orthodox. This is just a little bit different right here. It goes on to say, one lobbyist has recently counseled clients that they need to get rid of corporate policies adopted during the Biden administration that favor one party over another, such as bans on corporate PAC donations to lawmakers who didn't vote to certify the 2020 election. Oh, so now they got to go full election denial mode. It goes on to say, another strategist said he recently instructed a clean energy company to strip a section on environmental, social, and corporate governance policies from its website

and instead focus on the issue of job creation. So I guess if you talk about the environment now, or you talk about corporate governance issues, that's not what you got to do. You got to buy the cryptocurrency of Donald Trump. It goes on to say cryptocurrency executive Justin Sun said on Monday he is now the largest investor in World Liberty Financial, a crypto project backed by Trump and his family by buying $30 million in the project. Wait a minute. A guy named Justin Sun just bought $30 million in Trump's cryptocurrency. Who is this guy? I mean, he can't possibly be someone who's under SEC investigation, is he?

Oh, wait a minute. He is. Here's the Bloomberg article. Trump's crypto project was a bust until Justin's son stepped in. His $30 million investment gives the struggling venture a boost. Sun, who also paid $6 million for banana art, faces an SEC suit, which he denies. I know all the factory workers who voted for Donald Trump, all those hardworking Americans who voted for Trump, they are just like Justin Sun, buying $6 million banana art, right? Goes on to say, Donald Trump's crypto project,

World Liberty Financial, it was looking like a bust, like all of Donald Trump's projects. The president-elect and his sons had been promoting its cryptocurrency for weeks, saying it would make finance great again, but the industry largely rejected it. Sales fell 93% short of the goal. Solo, they failed to hit the minimum required to trigger a payout to Trump. But then, on November 25th, happy goal. Solo, they failed to hit the minimum required to trigger a payout to Trump. But then on November 25th, happy Thanksgiving, everybody, Thanksgiving week, Justin Sun, a flashy China-born crypto founder, announced he was investing $30 million in World Liberty tokens. It's also interesting. Flashy, flashy person. What is it? Flashy. That pushed the project over the threshold. And the Trumps now stand to collect at least $15 million based on terms detailed in World Liberty's gold paper. So World Liberty has gold paper, which outlines the terms for how the Trumps

make money. And now that Justin Sun gave it $30 million, now the Trumps directly get $15 million. It says Sun, 34, who five days earlier paid $6.2 million at a Sotheby's auction for a banana duct tape to a wall, is a controversial figure in the crypto world. He's fighting a lawsuit from the United States Securities Exchange Commission, which sued him in 2023, alleging he defrauded investors by manipulating the price of his Tron cryptocurrency with fake trades, which he has denied. What is Tron cryptocurrency? Oh, Tron has been criticized for facilitating illicit activity. It hosted 45% of all illicit flows last year, more than Ethereum or Bitcoin, the blockchain tracking firm TRM Labs said in a March report. And in October, the United

Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said in a report that Tron was the preferred choice for Asian crime syndicates. Tron in September announced a partnership with TRM to stop crypto crime. Quote, illicit activity is not welcome in our industry, Sun said in a statement at the time. Much of activity on Tron involves stable coins, cryptocurrencies backed by real world assets held in reserve. But Circle Internet Financial, which controls the biggest U.S. stable coin, discontinued support for Tron in February, citing, quote, risk management, among other reasons. World Liberty plans to launch its own stable coin.

Sun said that he hoped it would help connect Tron to U.S. financial institutions. So this is now who is influencing potentially the Trump administration. And the crypto folks are getting what they wanted. The crypto industry is helping Donald Trump pick their SEC chair. They're out there telling the press. The president-elect's transition team is consulting with industry vets to find a pro-crypto SEC chair. Look, my own view is that there is a place and a role for crypto. We have to get with the times. Crypto exists.

There's a place for it. But it can't just be unfettered. I mean, it can't just have zero regulations at all. There's sometimes cryptos used for nefarious purposes. And Donald Trump's now using it as a way to gain and garner influence. So I ask you, the American people, as I said, as I would at the beginning of the video, which is, who is this benefiting? Is this benefiting 99.9% of Americans?

Or is this benefiting the 0.01% of people who hang out at Mar-a-Lago? And more significantly, benefiting Donald Trump, who's directly finding ways to profit from this all. Basically, creating these various hubs through all of these schemes of his as ways to buy influence. And Wall Street Journal, which is supposed to be a credible business paper, although it was bought by Murdoch, they're just acting like, oh, this is just a bit unusual. This is a bit unorthodox. But, you know,

this is just how you have to do it right now. You got to go and buy some Trump family crypto right here. Oh, yeah. Finally, I wanted to talk about, and I said this at the outset, Jared Kushner's father, Charles Kushner. Remember back in 2004, 2005, he pled guilty to witness tampering, as well as Federal Election Commission violations. He was under investigation by the Republican United States Attorney, by the way, named Chris Christie at that time. And one of the things that Charles Kushner was alleged to have done was set up his brother-in-law with a prostitute because his brother-in-law was testifying against him in the investigation. So Kushner wanted to set up the brother. That was part of this witness tampering allegations. Yeah, that's great, right? Donald

Trump pardoned Kushner and then made him now the ambassador to France. So Charles Kushner, the ambassador to France. So that's the United States of America for you. It can be bought and sold to the highest bidder. I didn't even talk about the guy who's the United States, the head of the U.S. Navy right now, who was never in the Navy. This guy, Felon, a hedge fund guy who donated $1.7 billion. And now he's the leader of the Navy. Someone who's never been in the Navy before. It's ridiculous.

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