The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Loses it as Invasion Backfires in his Face

Episode Date: January 4, 2026

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s invasion of Venezuela backfiring as his plans for instantly occupying the country and taking all of their oil faces opposition and Trump lashes out with more deranged behavior on social media and in public. 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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Cargooros. Donald Trump is losing it right now as his invasion of Venezuela did not go as planned. Sure, he captured Nicholas Maduro, but Maduro looks happier than ever. He's given the cameras, the thumbs up sign as he is in the federal prison in New York right now when he was walking into the federal prison wishing people, happy New Year's. And I guess Donald Trump just thought, what, the people of Venezuela were going to be like, hey, Donald, let us give you our oil. You can run Venezuela.

as Democratic Congress member Eric Swalwell said, I'll play this clip in a little bit. He said, Donald Trump couldn't even run a casino. You expect him to run a country like Venezuela of 28 million people. The people of Venezuela do not want Donald Trump to run or operate Venezuela or occupy Venezuela. We're hearing from the former vice president, now the interim president of Venezuela, Delsi Rodriguez. And she's saying that she absolutely does not want. Donald Trump to be occupying Venezuela. She says there's only one true leader of Venezuela, and that's

Maduro. Also, the governors of the various regions loyal to Maduro, at least as of this recording, show no signs of surrendering or just handing over Venezuelan oil to Donald Trump. At the same time, Donald Trump, through the main opposition leader, Maria Corino Machado, under the bus. I mean, people expected that she was going to be the person who would be installed as the new leader of Venezuela. She was the main opposition leader. She won the Nobel Peace Prize. I mean, she's someone who's supported by the Europeans, the Canadians, Australians, you know, and others as a pro-democracy voice. That's at least, I'm just letting you know how they describe her. There are people who describe her differently, but I think she expected that she would be the new

leader of Venezuela, but Donald Trump says the people of Venezuela do not respect Maria Karina Machado. He goes, she's a nice lady, but she doesn't have what it takes to actually rule and lead Venezuela. Trump says that he wants to be the one ruling Venezuela and occupying it for some uncertain period of time in order to take their oil away and give it to the American oil companies. I mean, I just think that Donald Trump probably cut some deal with Putin and Xi Jinping, that he would take the Western Hemisphere and Xi Jinping can have Asia and Putin can take all of Europe and they

would just share the spoils of invading all of these nations and extracting resources. What other justification can you have for Donald Trump's the way Donald Trump is behaving right now? It just seems to make sense if you kind of put those puzzle pieces together right there. Now, Donald Trump's been making deranged post after deranged post all night. I'm talking about like 100 posts, post, post, post. making posts like this, again, on a day where the United States invaded a country, Venezuela, Donald Trump says it is an occupation to take their oil and that he's going to run it for an indefinite period of time, right? While the American people, I guess, want to see like some semblance of stability here, this is what Donald Trump is actually posting on his social media

platform. Donald Trump says the CIA overthrew the 2020 election, and that's why he lost in 2020. This is a real post that Donald Trump made. Donald Trump repost an account that says the central intelligence agency toppled the United States government on November 3, 2020, live on national TV. And Donald Trump says 2.7 million Trump votes were deleted by Dominion. In 26, as Donald Trump invades Venezuela, Donald Trump is saying the CIA overthrew the 2020 election. This is what a deranged maniac he is. Donald Trump also says that he is sending yet another warning to Nigeria after invading Venezuela. He says that the Nigerian government better move fast and stop killing the Christians.

Or Donald Trump says he's going to come into your country, Nigeria, guns ablazing. That's the video that Donald Trump put out, that he's going into Nigeria, guns ablazing. He says. First, let me be very clear. The Nigerian government is not persecuting Christians the same way Donald Trump claims the South African government is engaged in a genocide of white people in South Africa. Donald Trump is using this as a pretext to try to invade Nigeria. He's already bombed an area of Nigerian claim that he was attacking ISIS there, which he previously claimed he totally dismantled, but he said he had to attack it because they're going after the Christians. The terrorism that does exist in Nigeria, impacts Muslims more than it does Christians. And Nigeria is more tribal than religious-based in any event. But what Donald Trump is doing, let's be clear, who has the largest oil reserves right now, basically in the world other than Venezuela, which Donald Trump invaded and wants to take that oil for the oil companies? Nigeria. Nigeria also has massive lithium deposits, which it has deals with China over. So that's what this is all about. It's about invading

and taking the rare earth elements, and that's what Donald Trump is doing. So just think about it. In the past 24 hours, Donald Trump has now also threatened to invade Nigeria, Mexico, Colombia, Cuba. Oh, and Donald Trump has made social media posts from the Trump War Room account with a cartoon that says the Don Roe Doctrine, and it is a cartoon image of Donald Trump. This is what Trump posted, an image of Donald Trump stepping on South America, Central America, North America, Canada, and Alaska, with his foot kind of in the area of northwest Canada, basically saying that he's going to be taking over this territory. He's calling it the Don

Roe doctrine, and he repeated that during his speech. He goes, the Don Roe doctrine is that he's going to use American power to dominate the Western Hemisphere. And I've talked about spheres of influence before that Trump is saying his sphere of influence for the United States is the Western Hemisphere and must dominate the Western Hemisphere. And must dominate the Western Hemisphere. hemisphere, that Russia can basically take all of Europe and China can take all of Asia. That's how Donald Trump views the world. It is very, very dangerous, but it's important that you understand what his demented perspective is and how that will move us closer to a world war if we aren't already in a cold or medium heated world war right now. Donald Trump is also

making posts like this. He's accusing Governor Walls, I should say defaming Governor Walls of Minnesota of assassinating Melissa Hortman, the former Speaker of the House who was assassinated by that MAGA guy over the summer. Remember Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered brutally by that masked MAGA person? Remember that went down?

Donald Trump is posting a video that said, did Tim Walls have Melissa Hortman assassinated? And this deranged videos like, oh, she was exposing fraud in Minnesota. so Governor Walls was the one who actually had her killed. So what Donald Trump is posting. The CIA overthrow the 2020 election, the Don Roe Doctrine, he's accusing Governor Walls

and defaming Governor Walls of murdering Melissa Hortman. I mean, how utterly despicable. But let's not forget what also was supposed to take place today. What was supposed to take place was that the Epstein files, The DOJ was supposed to prepare a report outlining if they made redactions to the Epstein files. And they were supposed to prepare a report about where they searched and what documents they turned over, what documents they didn't turn over. That was due. They blew that deadline as well.

The same way they blew the deadline of December 19th, which was the Epstein Transparency Act deadline. The Epstein Transparency Act also called for today. being the day where the DOJ had to write a report about its document review, why it made redactions. And so it's just very coincidental that while that takes place, you have this wagged dog moment where Donald Trump invades Venezuela. He's now accusing the CIA of tampering with the 2020 election. He's accusing Governor Walls of assassination. He's threatening to invade every other country. Let's be very clear what this is. This is Donald Trump's effort to distract from the Epstein files. And that's obviously what he's trying to do. We're not going to let him do this. As Donald

Trump and the DOJ are engaged in a vile cover-up of a child sex trafficking ring. To show you some more photos right here of Nicholas Maduro, you see the photo of Maduro here. There he is thumbs up again. The Trump Rapid Response account, Rapid Response 47, posted this video. They called it Perp Walked. And it's Nicholas Maduro. walking with FBI agents and he wishes people a happy new year take a look at this video that they posted on the rapid response account here play this clip we're also getting this data in folks as well this is the latest you gov poll support for the u.s running venezuela acuio Venezuela. Currently right now, significantly more Americans oppose occupying Venezuela than

support it. Only 16% of Democrats support occupying Venezuela, I know who these 16% are, support occupying Venezuela, 26% of independence support occupying Venezuela. 60% of Republicans, though, support occupying Venezuela. That tells you all you need to know right there about all of the about these various political parties. Notably as well, French President Emmanuel Macron states the following. I spoke with Maria Carina Machado, the opposition leader of Venezuela. I fully support her call for liberation and the protection of political prisoners of Nicholas Maduro's regime. Like all, Venezuela, and she can count on France's support to raise her voice in favor of a peaceful democratic transition. Notably as well, Jim Scudor reports. Sources and the Venezuelan,

Venezuela opposition tell me that the opposition has been in touch with governments across the world following the arrest of Nicolas Maduro. Those countries include France, Argentina, Ecuador, Panama, and Paraguay, who the opposition says expressed their support for restoring the will of the people in Venezuela. Note the country not on the list. Donald Trump does not want her to run Venezuela. Trump wants to run Venezuela. He's jealous of her for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. And also Donald Trump doesn't want there to be democracy in Venezuela. Trump wants there to be authoritarian puppets who give him the oil for the oil companies. Trump doesn't want Europe to have any influence there or Canada to have any influence there. Trump wants it all for himself. Let's just call it out what it

is. I want to share this with you as well. You're seeing some of the protests, massive marches in New York City against Trump's war in Venezuela, massive protest in Chicago, massive protests in many cities across the United States. Let me share with you what was said during a speech by New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani. He says he called Donald Trump yesterday morning to voice his disagreement with the aggression in Venezuela and capture of Maduro. Here's what Mamdani said. Let's play this clip right here. As well as other members of my team, I called the president and spoke with him directly to register my opposition to this act and to make clear that it was an opposition

based on being opposed to a pursuit of regime change to the violation of federal international law and a desire to see that be consistent each and every day. And what was his response to you in that conversation? I registered my opposition, I made it clear and we left it at that. Thank you. And I think this is a great line by Democratic Congress member Eric Swalwell, who is running for governor of California. Here he says that Donald Trump can't run a casino.

Now he thinks he can run a country in South America with 28 million people. Here's what Congress member Swalwell says. Let's play this clip right here. Are you with them? Well, I do. And, you know, I talk to Californians all over the state and going into Venezuela and, quote, running that country ranks at about 200. on their priorities. They're not focused on Venezuela. They're focused on the cost in Ventura and Vallejo, the rent in Los Angeles, and the grocery prices in Pasadena. And they have no faith that

Donald Trump can run a country who couldn't run a casino. And now he's going to run a country in South America while we watch as he fails to run a country in North America. That doesn't add up. And neither does this whole concept that we're going to get the oil from Venezuela and that it will pay for itself, essentially. We heard that over 20 years ago from George Bush, that we'd get the oil from Iraq, and that cost us $3 trillion. So utterly deranged behavior by Donald Trump, we'll keep you posted every step of the way here on the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers together, and thank you all so much for watching. Love this video, support independent media, and unlock exclusive content, add free videos, and custom emojis by becoming

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