The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Instantly Surrenders in Huge Loss for Admin

Episode Date: May 28, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump capitulating in his biggest promise in international relations as the world views him as a pitiful and pathetic and weak person and Meiselas interviews Navy veteran Ken Harbaugh who is now in Ukraine on a fact finding mission and humanitarian mission for MeidasTouch and Valor media. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! 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 On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Donald Trump tried to cast it as a win. Look, I've got the two sides to actually speak together for the first time. That's just complete and total BS. And I want to just also show you some data just over the past week as well. There's a lot of things happening internationally. I mean, it's obvious to everybody in Europe right now that America is out and in fact not just out, now that America is out and in fact, not just out, affirmatively rooting for Putin on the sidelines because Donald Trump wants to either do personal deals

with Putin or wants to help Putin. That's kind of obvious to Europe. We saw Europe and Greenland enter into a lucrative minerals deal as a big intentional middle finger to Donald Trump. And don't think folks that these things are in any way unrelated. I mean we continue to see Zelensky doing I think brilliant diplomacy with his European allies with

Canada, Australia and others. This past week you had Marco Rubio testify in the Senate and also in the House. I mean he was asked repeatedly over and over again, you know is Vladimir Putin a war criminal? Do you think Putin is a war criminal? I want you all to remember also We can't forget all of these things It was just what three or four months ago that when there was a United Nations resolution Condemning Russia for its unlawful invasion. The United States was one of like only three countries to side The United States was one of like only three countries to side with Russia and vote no to condemn Russia.

Didn't just even abstain voted with Russia against the free world. Like we can't forget what a big deal that was. And here's Rubio, who at this point has really become one of the most pathetic vile gremlins that there are here. Let's let's let's play a Rubio from this past week. Let's play. Secondly, the person we're negotiating with Vladimir Putin. Is he a war criminal? Well, I think you can look at instances that have happened there and certainly characterize them as war crimes. But our intent is to end the war. Is he a war criminal? We can't end the war without talking to Mr. Putin.

That's pretty simple. Is he a war criminal? Well, that's just me and we're negotiating with Vladimir Putin. Is he a war criminal? That's not tough. But what I'm trying to answer your question by telling you that we're trying to end the war here. Go ahead.

No, it's not a simple answer. You are equivocating, sir. Just answer the question. I'm answering your question. And the answer is that war crimes have been committed, no doubt. And who's responsible for that? there will be time and place for that accountability but right now. Wow because that's the exact opposite of course what Rubio was saying when he was a senator and he was asking Rex Tillerson who was then Donald Trump's

secretary of state who's previously in the job that Rubio now has. And of course, Tillerson called Donald Trump during that first term, I think like the dumbest piece of shit I've ever seen in my life or words to that effect. And he had a short tenure. But just take a look at this. Let me ask you this question. Is Vladimir Putin a war criminal? I would not use that term. Well

let me describe the situation in Aleppo and perhaps that will help you reach that conclusion. In Aleppo, Mr. Putin has directed his military to conduct a devastating campaign. He's targeted schools, markets, not just assisted the Syrians in doing it. His military has targeted schools and markets and other civilian infrastructure. It's resulted in the death of thousands of civilians. This is not the first time Mr. Putin is involved in campaigns of this kind. Back when he was just appointed Prime Minister before he was elected, and I'm sure you're aware of that period of time, there was a series of bombings and they blamed it on the

Chechens. And Mr. Putin personally said that he would punish them. And so he ordered the Air Force to bomb the Chechen capital of Grosveni. They use scud missiles to hit hospitals, the city's main outdoor market packed with shoppers. 137 people died instantly. They use thermobaric and fuel air explosive bombs. These are the...

So he goes on and on and on to say Putin is a war criminal there. And that was before Putin unlawfully invaded Ukraine. It was right around the time of Crimea. Crimea was a few years before that, but that was right before the invasion of Ukraine a few years back. Let me just show you this last clip here of Donald Trump with the president of South Africa saying how upset he is that Putin is not part of the G7. Donald Trump said he would like a G8, by the way, with the president of South Africa there and

Donald Trump has no understanding of the dynamic of the BRICS block and what he's actually indicating there and the amount of weakness that he showed your playlist clip So without the United States the g20 just like the g7 used to be the g8 but brilliantly they threw Russia out Would have been a lot better if Russia was in you know a lot of people would say oh this sounded because if Russia was in You probably wouldn't have this war And if you had a different president you wouldn't have the war either But you got the president of South Africa saying what the heck is going on? I want to bring in Ken Harba. You all know Ken from the Midas Touch Network.

He's also started a venture called Valor Media as well. Ken as a Midas Touch correspondent is in Ukraine while this is airing. We are shooting this before he's going to be in Ukraine, but he's gonna be there doing reports for the Midas Touch Network in Valor. He's gonna be giving them exclusively to us, fact-finding, humanitarian-based, and he's gonna be doing a lot of work there.

So Ken is also a veteran of the Navy, a Navy pilot. Ken, comment if you can on the videos I just showed you. I mean, it's absolutely outrageous, the mental and moral gymnastics that people like Marco Rubio, and in fact, everyone in Trump's orbit have to put themselves through to keep the alpha in the White House happy,

who turns out not to be an alpha at all, as you see every time he genuflects before Vladimir Putin. He, I think the saying goes, every bully at heart is a coward, right? Donald Trump is a coward. And when he looks at someone like Putin and says, that's the kind of power I want,

it should terrify us all, because that's what he is signaling. He wants the kind of power I want. It should terrify us all because that's what he is signaling. He wants the kind of power to intimidate his political opponents. He's grabbing for it. You know, and if you look at where he's also impressed at the Middle East, authoritarians, the royal families, the Saudis, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, you know, he'll say things like,

they're the richest that there are, they're the most powerful that there are, and they objectively aren't. Like you look at Qatar, $200 billion annual GDP, the royal family takes a lot of that money for themselves, and it's a very small population as well there, but you look at the GDP of say, just California alone. And it is what 50 X Qatar and California, which he attacks,

you know, which has like a four and a half, five trillion dollar GDP. Canada's GDP is three trillion dollars. So for him, weak is strong, strong is weak. And his whole framework winning is losing, losing is winning. The whole framework is out of whack. Well, what he admires are the gilded jets and the ability to wield power to intimidate, which I think leads us to the inevitable conclusion that he doesn't see his fellow Americans as compatriots.

He sees them as subjects and he really wishes we would comply. He looks at the power that someone like MBS has, whose nickname by the way is Mr. Bonesaw because this is the man who ordered the dismemberment, the murder and brutal dismemberment of an American resident, an employee of the Washington Post, and there Donald Trump is sitting with him, calling him one of America's best friends. Look, I know we need allies around the world, but that is very different from gripping and grinning like President Trump does, and just embracing

these brutal tyrants and looking up to them, wanting to be like them. That is our takeaway. Look, you've done a number of trips to Ukraine since Russia's unlawful invasion. You've done a lot of humanitarian work there. You've done a lot of reporting for the Midas Touch Network there. I know there's things you can share and can't share about this particular trip,

but whatever you can share about it, you can let the people know what you want to try to accomplish. And it could be even at a general level, because I know a lot of these things have to be dealt with carefully. For sure. We're going to we're going to be clean on OPSAC here, not Pete Hegseth's version of clean. We're not going to share times and locations. But in general, we are bringing a convoy of ambulances to frontline units because an ambulance in Ukraine lasts an average at the front of 11 days. They need a lot of them.

And that's not just collateral damage. That is because the Russian military intentionally targets ambulances. If you're still wondering who the bad guy in this conflict is, it's Putin. The way he deploys his military, I mean Marco Rubio knew this a few years ago, right? He seems to have forgotten it all, but there is a clear aggressor, a clear villain in this conflict and it's Putin and Russia. I'll also be reporting from the front for Midas Touch Network and Valor Media. But look, the Ukrainians are in this fight, whether we have their backs or not. I think it might help some Americans to understand what an existential fight actually looks like.

Just because Donald Trump is going to walk away from it doesn't mean they're going to stop fighting for their freedom. And I sure wish Americans would get back in the fight and not leave it to our allies to be the the bulwark of freedom because if Ukraine falls it won't be the last one Putin has his eye on Estonia Lithuania he's gonna keep rolling and before we go Ken this is gonna be airing around approaching Memorial Day you know any messages that you have as a veteran? Thanks. Another important thing to remember is that Memorial Day is for the fallen. It's not the same as Veterans Day. And look, I understand that we sometimes get carried away on Memorial Day with

the mattress sales and the backyard barbecues. And that's fine. My buddies who did not make it home, they paid the ultimate sacrifice so that we could have that kind of a life. And I actually don't even begrudge people who say happy Memorial Day on that day, as long as they take a minute to realize what it means and what it stands for. Every morning on Memorial Day this morning will be a little different because I'll be down range, but typically I go to the water, go to the lake, and I watch the sunrise and I think about my buddies who didn't

make it home. And then I do my best the rest of that day to to live the kind of life they would want me to live to spend time with my family. I would add that this Memorial Day is going to feel a little bit different not just because I'm in Ukraine but because it feels like the whole country is looking to veterans for guidance for inspiration on how we resist, how we defend our democracy when the threat this time is from within. So it's got a different feel to it, and I sure hope we meet the moment.

Ken Harba from the Midas Touch Network and Valor Media, thanks for joining us and thanks for all you do. Thanks Ben. Everybody hit subscribe, let's get to five million subscribers.