The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Loses it as Illegal War is Imminent

Episode Date: December 17, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump losing his mind as his term is falling apart so has decided to launch a major war to distract from his utter failures. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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and audio you heard is from the retirement of four-star Navy Admiral Alvin Holsey who was pushed out of his job as the head of Southcom because he refused to follow unlawful orders from Pete Higgseth who demanded the war crime that have transpired take place, the shooting of these fishing boats, the double strikes,

the entire war crime operation or crime against humanity. And Alvin Holsey is now retired, replaced by people who are willing to go along with the Trump regime's war crimes. War is now all but inevitable between the United States and Venezuela, as Donald Trump wants to distract from the release of the Epstein files, which is supposed to take place on Friday, but we know Donald Trump's going to do anything in his power to obstruct, including launch a war. Also, Donald Trump's desire to distract from the fact that the MAGA Republicans are ripping away the health care of tens of millions of Americans, not offering any extension to the Affordable Care Act subsidies, which is necessary to keep tens of millions of Americans on their affordable.

Care Act plans, and Donald Trump's desire to cosplay this authoritarianism that he admires in Vladimir Putin. And so Putin's denotification invasion of Ukraine, not too dissimilar from Donald Trump saying, you know, Venezuela has all of these drugs and they stole our oil and we need to reclaim our oil. There's some differences, of course. Let me be very clear. Maduro, the dictator of Venezuela, is indeed illegitimate, but that doesn't mean that I support

regime change or that I support a full-scale war or war in general without being authorized by Congress, which is actually what's required by law. Now, Donald Trump posted the following. Before I read this post, just a reminder, hit subscribe to the Midas Touch YouTube channel. to 6 million subscribers, and you know we're under attack from the Trump regime and state regime media known as Fox. So please, if you can hit subscribe and help us get to 6 million, you may think you're subscribed, but you may not be actually subscribed. So here's what Donald Trump writes. Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest armada ever assembled in the history

of South America. It will only get bigger until such time as they return to the United States all of the oil land and other assets that they previously stole from us. What are you talking about? I'm ordering a total and complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers going into and out of Venezuela and he says a lot more. But he's ordering a blockade installing this armada there and essentially declaring war. I don't know how else you can describe it, unlawfully declaring war. Again, I want to be clear about the facts.

when it comes to Maduro being illegitimate, that's accurate. But drugs are not coming into the United States from Venezuela. Certainly fentanyl's not coming in from Venezuela. In fact, cocaine's not coming in to the United States from Venezuela. Now, you can criticize Venezuela for human rights abuses and other things, for sure. But that's a case that if you're going to make it, make it to the American people and make it to Congress. And if you were to make that that's the reason for regime change. And for Americans to put boots on the ground

and go to war, sorry, I think we need a war right now. The American people are suffering right now, okay? And we got the data yesterday about job claims, and we see that unemployment ticked up to 4.6%. In terms of job losses over the past year, up 54%, 1.2 million jobs lost. That's like great recession numbers right now. American psychologically tortured, living paycheck to paycheck, can't afford rent right now.

Things are less affordable. You're launching wars, talking about golden ballrooms, and you're hiding the Epstein files. Everything with this regime is hide, hide, hide. So Pete Hegstiff, who's someone who's not admirable at all, who's responsible for Admiral Alvin Holsey, the four star admiral resigning, which you saw there at the outset. and then Hegsteth has engaged in all of these war crimes. Remember when Donald Trump said that he was going to produce the video of the strike off the coast of Venezuela, the full video, not the part that they just cherry-picked to show the first part where they actually were the second part where they killed the survivors?

Remember Donald Trump said he was fine releasing that? Well, now Pete Hegset says that's not being released. Donald Trump says whatever Hegsteth wants. that Heggsitt's like, of course, we're not going to release it. We can't talk about our sources and methods. We can't show you that. So you could only show the first part of the video, but not the second part of the video. What are these people talking about?

Everything with them is hide, hide, hide, defraud, defraud, defraud. Here's what Hegsaid said yesterday. So this is again, think of that first image I showed you of Alvin Holsey, Forster, Adibald, resigning. And then you have this Hegsa, this Fox Weekend host, this person who couldn't run, nonprofits for veterans without screwing it up and being deemed utterly incompetent and unprofessional. And here he is disgracing us all. Let's play this clip. Also going to tomorrow allow the Hask and Sask to see the unedited video of the September 2nd, alongside with Admiral Bradley, who has done a fantastic job, has made all the right calls

and we're glad he'll be there to do it. But in keeping with longstanding Department of War Policy, Department of Defense Policy, of course, we're not going to release a top secret, full, unedited video of that to the general public. Haskin-Saskin, appropriate committees will see it, but not the general. Look, our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski called it. He called it many, many days ago. Well, I think that Trump's dismal approval ratings and the Republican Party having no answers on health care and needing a big distraction as the deadline,

means it's time for Trump to invade Venezuela, and he was right. You also have Donald Trump trying to distract with posts like this unreasonable search and seizure. That was the FBI's criminal raid on Mar-a-Lago. This can never be allowed to happen again. And then another person goes, someone should be arrested, Christopher Ray and Garland,

former Attorney General Eric Garland. And Donald Trump goes, and many others, and many others. Donald Trump then writes, Alvin Bragg case against Donald Trump is the worst case I've ever seen in 62 years of practicing law in the United States of America. It was totally contrived, unfair, and unjust. It should not be allowed to stand, Alan Dershowitz.

And this comes as we know from the Susan Wiles interview or the 11 interviews she gave with Vanity Fair that she said Trump's all over the Epstein files, all over the Epstein files that Trump has the personality of an alcoholic that Pam Bond and he whiffed on Epstein. Why I'm bringing up Epstein there is that Dershowitz would hang out at Epstein's home. Dershowitz got a massage there. But he says he had his boxers on the whole time.

He said, don't worry. And he says he doesn't like massages. And then he had his boxers on. And that's what his main point was there. Now, Donald Trump also writes, just makes this up. Numbers release show that tariffs have reduced the trade deficit by more than half.

This is larger than anyone, except me project. This is nothing true about this. Our deficit is not decreased by half. We continue to incur massive amounts of debt. Our deficit continues to increase. Our deficit was cut in half. We'd be in a different economic situation right now.

Okay, just moralized by Donald Trump. Now, what is the FBI doing with all of this? What's Cash Patel doing while we still have a killer, a school shooter on the loose after the FBI, FBI botched the investigation at Brown University. As we have so much going on in this country that's making us so much less safe, Cash Patel and his young girlfriend go on the Stephen Miller wife podcast. Stephen Miller's wife has a podcast, and Cash gets emotional describing how he and his girlfriend

deal with people on social media who criticize their relationship, play this clip. On a personal level, of course, I wish we didn't have to deal with the attacks. Like, she should be out there touring and crushing it on the country music stage, as she always has been, and she shouldn't have to deal with the collateral consequence of just being the FBI director's girlfriend. But I think with the hyper-sensitive nature of the media, especially the social media space, people come at you because it takes me back to, like, when I first did a investigation of consequence, you know, Benghazi or Rushagate or what have you. You know, they always said it's going to be the loudest when you're over the target. And, yeah, it's been the loudest for us in recent history. And then Cash Patel and his girlfriend on Katie Miller's podcast, say the following, playing this clip.

Things don't matter. You know, she's touring. We're campaigning. She's also doing campaign and political stuff at the same time. So we just, like everybody else, got on planes, met where we could, made it a point to see each other either in Nashville and Vegas. And sometimes it ended up being in D.C. Or sometimes it's on the road where she was performing. And so you just make it happen if it's worth it.

it is. With all this taking place as well, we should also note that the U.S. Coast Guard quietly enacted a policy downgrading swastick as anus from hate symbols to potentially devices. The manual is now in effect despite public outrage and warnings after the draft was revealed last month. So do you all recall when that story broke and the Trump regime denied it? And said, that's not the case. And then the Coast Guard admitted it, but then said, we don't worry that's not going to be the policy. Of course, we'll say that swastikas are hate symbols. Not anymore. Swastikas, nooses, they're viewed as potentially divisive, but no longer hate symbols. I often ask myself with this Trump regime, with all they're doing to inflict pain on people, take away people's

health care, make people's lives much worse, take away educational opportunities. You think about the ideas that they come up with when they're sitting around. Like, hey, here's a good idea. This is actually from the Trump regime. Let's take away the professional designation of nurses. Let's say that if you're a nurse, it's no longer a professional degree. And they high five each other. They are attacking nurses. Who sits around and does that? Who sits around and says, you know what's missing swastikas confederate flags? Let's make those no longer hate symbols. And then they high five each other. Well, let's take away the hepatitis B vaccine and spread lies about it and say that you should only get it at the age of 12, despite the hepatitis B vaccine reducing the hepatitis B in about 99% of K, 99% decrease.

So these are the despicable ideas from the Trump regime. And by the way, all Donald Trump wants to talk about, as we are on the verge of a war with Venezuela, you could view his post as a declaration of war, is his golden ballroom. Golden ball, building golden everywhere, gold 400 million dollars now. here play this clip for 150 years they've won in a ballroom and we're giving them myself and donors are giving them free of charge for nothing we're donating a building that's approximately 400 million years i think i'll do it for less but it's 400 i should do it for less i will do it for less but just in case i say 400 otherwise if i go three dollars over the press will say it costs

more i built i built under budget and a head of schedule right jason always Well, there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. We're going to keep covering this every step of the way. Hit subscribe right now. Let's get to $6 million. Hey, Midas Mighty. It's Ben Brett and Jordy, and we just wanted to thank you

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