The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump LOSES STAMINA at WORST TIME

Episode Date: September 27, 2024

On this episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast: Donald Trump continues to grift like there is no tomorrow and is now selling watches for $100,000 (no, that is not a typo); Michael Popok joins for a legal update as Jack Smith files 180 damning pages regarding the evidence against Trump in the DC election interference case; VP Kamala Harris delivers an economic address to voters in Pennsylvania; A MAGA congressman goes off-the-rails with his latest remarks; and more Subscribe to the new Legal AF channel: https://youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN Subscribe to Meidas+ at https://meidasplus.com Deals from our sponsors! ZBiotics: Head to https://zbiotics.com/meidas to get 15% off your first order when you use MEIDAS at checkout. Prize Picks: Download the PrizePicks app today https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/MEIDAS and use code MEIDAS and get $50 instantly when you play $5! VIIA: Try VIIA Hemp! https://bit.ly/viiameidas and use code MEIDAS Nutrafol: Get results you can run your fingers through! For a limited time, Nutrafol is offering our listeners $10 off your first month’s subscription and free shipping when you go to https://Nutrafol.com and enter the promo code MEIDAS. Momentous: Go to https://livemomentous.com/meidastouch and use code MEIDASTOUCH to get up to 20% off your first order. 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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going to bring in legal AFs, Michael Popak to join us with all the latest legal updates. I know you folks are going to be excited for that. Trump also just held this truly bizarre kind of fake press conference at Trump Tower, which is full of more whining and lying. So basically the same old routine we have come to expect from Donald Trump. Plus, Vice President Harris takes her economic message to Pittsburgh, Geordie's hometown, sits down for an exclusive interview with MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle, and meets with Ukrainian President Zelensky, you know, doing things that actual like real candidates and leaders actually do. We'll let you know everything that she had to say. And just when you thought MAGA could not sink any lower, although I know the Midas Touch audience here knows that there is no bottom here,

Congressman Clay Higgins delivers a truly horrific tweet targeting Haitian migrants, all this and more on today's episode of the Midas Touch podcast. My name is Brett Mycelis and I am here with Jordy Mycelis. Ben is out on paternity leave. More on that in a bit. And we're going to check in with Jordy in just a sec. But first we got to check in with this Trump press conference. And I use that term quite generously because it was an absolute mess. It happened this evening over in Trump Tower. And Trump was just rambling and whining. And it was just the same old bizarre crap. Donald Trump at one point demanded an apology from ABC because ABC was mean to him in the debate. He still can't get the debate off his mind. And even when he tried to ask for an apology, he couldn't even like speak right. He was like, they need a policy, a policy. Watch this.

And I haven't gotten an apology. I want an apology from ABC. Harris worked at McDonald's or he says that's a lie, even though it's not a lie. He continues to this is like one of the main things that Donald Trump speaks about now anytime he is in front of an audience. And you could hear him today. This is what he is absolutely fixated on with about 42 or 41 or so days before the election. These people are a fraud, just like nobody talks about it. But Kamala never had a job at McDonald's. Her resume talks about McDonald's, McDonald's, McDonald's. When I worked at the French fry counter, it was so tough, so hot. She didn't work there. She never worked at McDonald's. It was a lie. I mean, she did. I'm sorry, Donald. She did not put it on her resume when she wanted to become a prosecutor because

that would be weird. I did not put my pizza delivery experience on my resume when she wanted to become a prosecutor, because that would be weird. I did not put my pizza delivery experience on my resume when I wanted to work in the film and television industry because it would not apply. But I guess you don't understand how the working world works and that sometimes people actually have actual jobs that are not just handed $400 million on a silver platter. Right? I mean, give me a break here. Donald Trump is trying to stir up a lot of hatred and stir up potentially violence in these towns across America, like Aurora and like Springfield, Ohio, where he's been making up these fake stories about migrants to try to rally people against immigrant communities who are there illegally.

You could watch this clip. has going in with guns. The governor of Colorado is a coward. He's afraid to do what you have to do. And every other. And this was the same sort of language that Donald Trump used, if you remember, around January 6th, when he would tweet out all caps or truth, whatever it was, liberate Michigan, liberate Michigan. And what happened? Violence started. You know, this is the same January 6th mindset. And I think it's important that we call it out. January 6th was on Donald Trump's mind as well. Donald Trump says that Nancy Pelosi should be prosecuted for January 6th. And once again, with 42 or so days until election day, this was Donald Trump's message to the American people.

And Nancy Pelosi has a little problem because her husband sold their visa stock. They had a lot of visa stock one day before visa was announced that visa is being sued by the Department of Justice. Think of that. Nancy Pelosi sold vast amounts of visa stock one day before the big lawsuit that we all read about a few days ago was brought against Visa. You think it was luck? I don't think. She should be prosecuted. Nancy Pelosi should be prosecuted for that. And she should also be prosecuted for J6 because she turned down 10,000 or any number she wanted, soldiers or National Guard. And I hope you all read John Solomon and what John Solomon wrote two days ago. I mean, it's just like one deranged thing after the next. Jordy, I do want to play some of the other clips because the press did have a chance to ask him a couple of things as he was running away from the event. And that

was a complete disaster. But first, Jordy, I want to bring you in. I had to play those clips off the top because this was just it's just particularly deranged. And I think boom, boom, boom, right? You got to show people just the level of craziness kind of all at once, because the things that I've noticed, Jordy, is that when you watch a show like when you watch a report on CNN about these sorts of things, what they immediately do is they will show a clip and then they will go and immediately saying, watch it. They will say Donald Trump giving a stirring address on the economy today. And you're like, that's not what I heard. So I wanted you to hear it unfiltered first, right off the bat. Jordy, how are you doing today, man? What's the latest? I'm doing great. I can't wait for today's episode. I'm super pumped for the crossover episode of Midas Touch Podcast, Ex-Legal AF Podcast. This is going to be really some groundbreaking stuff.

We have a YouTube channel now for the Legal AF YouTube channel. We'll get into that too when Michael comes on because I want him to talk to us all about how awesome that's been going. Let me just react very quickly to that last clip you played, Brett. I mean, the gaslighting by Donald Trump is one of the most infuriating things for me personally. Pelosi should be prosecuted for January 6th. Trump, you should be prosecuted and found guilty for everything that you've done and that you did on January 6th. And let me just say this too, Brett, about the whole resume, you know, conspiracy that these right-wing lunatics have going on right now, especially with Trump. You hit the nail on the head. Trump has never had to submit a resume. Neither have any of his kids had to

submit resumes. He has no idea how resumes work for people living in the real world. So when he starts with this weirdo conspiracy theory about how Kamala never worked at McDonald's, even though she, why would she put that on her resume when she was applying for jobs at that point in her career, right? It's just a fundamental misunderstanding of how folks in the real world write their resumes and really try and work themselves out. Here's the thing, Jordy. He sees the rest of it all slipping away from him. All the things that he had to run on, whether it was immigration or the economy, he doesn't have anything left. Inflation's coming down. The Fed is cutting rates. He tries to now frame that as a bad thing. Immigration is at its lowest levels, the border crossings lowest levels in years and

years and years. So all of these kind of same old attacks don't quite hit the same. So he's got to make up new kind of deranged ones. Heck, we even found out today that we learned this morning that the economy has grown 3.2% per year during the Biden-Harris administration. That's even stronger than previously estimated and better than the first three years of the Donald Trump administration. So this is actual data that people are seeing and people are feeling in their actual lives. And so when they're confronted with that, the Trump campaign, what they have to do is they need to start making up a whole host of things. And Jordy, we're going to get into the January 6th of it all and all these legal updates

and the legally F YouTube channel. I got to say, go ahead and subscribe youtube.com slash at legal AFM TN. That channel is on fire or as Michael Popock would say, that channel is a rocket ship folks. It's an absolute rocket ship. Popock is cranking out the takes, every issue hitting him like breaking news. It's really, really awesome. And it's been so great to see the level of enthusiasm for that Legal AF channel. We're going to have Popak on in just a bit to give us all the latest here. I want to go into some of the questions that

were happening at this event at Trump Tower just before. Donald Trump was asked about Mark Robinson, the Lieutenant Governor, who was handpicked by Donald Trump to run for governor in North Carolina. Of course, we've just had this whole scandal where it turns out Mark Robinson referred to himself as a, quote, black Nazi. He said he wants to bring back slavery. He said he used to peep on girls in locker rooms, just like Donald Trump, I guess. Here is what Donald Trump said when he was asked if he was going to rescind his endorsements of Robinson. Are you going to pull your endorsement of Mark Robinson? I don't know the situation.

Do you believe that? I don't know the situation. Just an absolute coward. And if you notice, when Donald Trump was being asked questions, it was always like he was running away, running away. That's what Donald Trump does. Even the answer, right? He's running away, running away. And that's what he's also like done to the Republican Party. They all answer the same kind of way. And so Trump was also asked as he was running away about Ukraine. What would you do with Ukraine? Would you give away Ukraine's land? And this is what Donald Trump had to say that situation. Do you think that Ukraine should turn over some of its own land to Russia in order to end the war? We'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. Donald Trump has been especially mad at Zelensky in recent days. I

actually heard earlier that it looks like they may be meeting tomorrow, Zelensky and Donald Trump, because what happened was initially Trump was actually supposed to meet with Zelensky. Vice President Harris met with Zelensky at the White House today. Zelensky was, of course, in town for the UN. And I want to play some of Vice President Harris's remarks with Zelensky shortly just to show you the incredible contrast. But Trump got mad that Zelensky had the nerve to meet with Vice President Harris and had the nerve to meet with Governor Josh Shapiro, Geordie, your governor in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Zelensky went and he visited some of the munition factories who were making some of the weapons that they were using over

in Ukraine, and he wanted to thank the workers. And so he went over there. Donald Trump took that as a personal attack. So Donald Trump has been attacking Zelensky day in and day out. Like I said, I do want to get to those comments by Vice President Kamala Harris. But Jordy, the grift is through the roof right now with Donald Trump. And sometimes I wake up and I'm like, I wake up here on the West Coast, try to rub my eyes, try to see what's going on. What is this? I get all the text messages. And then someone sends me this.

And I go, the official from the real Donald Trump. The official Trump watch collection is here. And these watches are truly special. You're going to love them. Would make a great Christmas gift. Don't wait. They go fast. I'm like, this can't be real, right?

And then someone's like, no, there's a video, right? There's a video. Special. I think you're going to love it. My new Trump watches. We're doing quite a number with watches, and the quality to me is very important. The Trump Victory Tourbillon. This isn't just any watch.

It's one of the best watches made. It's a tourbillon watch with almost 200 grams of gold and more than 100 real diamonds. That's a lot of diamonds. I love gold. I love diamonds. We all do. Only 147 of these extraordinary watches will ever exist in the world, and owning one puts you in a very exclusive club. I have watch number one, and I'm going to keep it. It's mine, and that's the way I want to have it. Each watch is numbered and extremely rare, a true collector's item and it includes a

personal letter signed by me. Get your Trump watch right now. Go to get Trump watches dot com. It's Trump time. Come on. I know we say that. I know we say that. But that's phrase. It's Trump. Trump has a catch we say that. He has his own catchphrase? It's Trump time? Trump time? He has his own catchphrase. Could you imagine if Joe Biden had his own catchphrase? It's Biden time. I mean, come on.

And you're like, okay, so he's selling watches. They're affordable though, Brett, right? Like any of his followers could easily just get one because they're selling it for Christmas, right, Brett? Yes. How much is he selling these things for? And then you click on the page. That watch that he was just promoting costs a hundred thousand dollars, like a hundred thousand dollars for that watch. And, you know, I've been looking up what like watch experts are saying and they're like, yeah, it's like not worth anywhere near that.

Obviously it's not a well-made watch. And he, you. And I think he's also putting that out there so that he could sell the quote unquote cheaper ones that are like a thousand bucks and 500 bucks. And people think, oh, we got a deal. Also, this to me, maybe we could ask Michael Popock when he comes in about it, could like the legal ramifications of selling a product, a presidential candidate selling a product for $100,000 that very few people could buy. To me, that is ripe for corruption, a foreign leader to step in and spend $100,000 on a product. You think Donald Trump, Mr. Transactional, is not going to be like, oh, that guy bought my watch for $100,000. I'm going to give him special treatment. Of course he will. I just want to be really clear here too, this isn't normal.

It's not normal for a former president to have a catchphrase and to continue just to grift on and on, whether it's his crypto or his coins or his sneakers or his state, I could keep going and going. Or now his watch. This is objectively just a very weird behavior that corporate media, not to do this, but that corporate media just let slide. We were talking to Ben today, right? Ben's at the hospital and he's forced to be watching cable news right now. And he said that they were reporting about the Trump watch as if it was just like and Donald Trump releases his watch collection today. Like this is a normal thing that presidents do. It's not.

And we're going to call that out here. This is not normal. It's weird behavior. It's grifty behavior. And it should never exist in the political ecosystem at all. You know, it's not normal with this close to the election when Donald Trump is in North Carolina, a must win state for him. And he's already experiencing all the troubles that he has. First off, the guy looks like a mess. Like I'll pull up these photos of Donald Trump where like, like, I'm just going to say yikesikes. For the audio listeners, it's rough. I'm just saying it's rough. Our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, got these glorious photos of Donald Trump that he posted. But you just hear it in his voice. You hear it in the rambling and the lies. He doesn't even know.

He can't even stay on message with his stupid messages. So here's Donald Trump still talking about now the 2020 election. And his new thing is to go back and forth between saying he didn't win the election or he won the election or he lost it by a whisker. So he used this lost by a whisker line again in North Carolina. And I'll play this first. Getting ready to do it. And then a lot of bad things happened. We did much better, by the way, in the election of 2020 than we did in 2016. Just remember that millions and millions of votes, more more votes than any sitting president in the history of our country. But they beat us by a whisker. They beat us just by a little whisker.

He beat us from the basement. And do you remember when Donald Trump was asked literally about those words during the debate because he had used them previously? And this was Donald Trump's response when he was asked about, did you lose by a whisker? This is what he said.

The focus truth in these times that we're living in. Mr. President, for three and a half years after you lost the 2020 election, you repeatedly falsely claimed that you won, many times saying you won in a landslide. In the past couple of weeks leading up to this debate, you have said, quote, you lost by a whisker, that you, quote, didn't quite make it, that you came up a little bit short. I said that. Are you now acknowledging that you lost in 2020? No, I don't acknowledge that at all. But you did say that.

I said that sarcastically. You know that. We said, oh, we lost by a whisker. That was said sarcastically. I don't think it was sarcasm. And I'll let the folks in the comments here, you know, we're live. You could let me know. Did he hear sarcasm in Donald Trump's voice?

I mean, he just said it again. Did he hear sarcasm in his voice or did he actually say it? And, you know, it's this kind of behavior from Donald Trump that I think we're all so sick and tired of. And it's really rubbed off on these Republicans in Congress. And later in the show, I want to also go through like just the cowardice of people like Speaker Mike Johnson in the face of some of these horrific incidents that have been taking place in the House GOP as they get really concerned about losing the House in November. But you just see this guy totally flailing and lying, and he can't find his footing anymore. So now that the economy, the inflation coming down, interest rates coming down, Donald Trump has to say, oh, all that's happening now because the economy is actually doing badly. That's why all these things are improving. Watch this.

She didn't support domestic manufacturing. She killed 24,000 US manufacturing jobs. In the last month alone, we lost 24,000 jobs. You know, there is a reason for the interest rate cut from the Fed. Big part of that reason is that our economy is doing really, really badly. Kamala. I mean, come on. Like, is anyone really buying this stuff anymore? The good thing is, is that things are moving along in the courts and people are speaking out on the streets. You know, you see a lot more. Jordy, you showed me today, you know, even by you in Pennsylvania, a Republicans for

Harris sign. And we're seeing this outpouring now of people saying like enough, like we do not want to deal with this crap anymore. And so, you know, as we sort of see these things, Jordy, like what's your take now, like on the ground as you kind of are seeing all these things come together? Yeah, no, look, anecdotally here on the ground, folks, the energy is real and it's a very exciting thing for me to see day in and day out. So I live in a county that's it's an important county in Pennsylvania. It's Allegheny County. And traditionally, very slightly falls and leans Democrat, especially in the last election. It's a

key county that Dems need to win. Now, I was here in 2020. I'm here in 2024. And I could tell you just from the signage alone, the energy for Harris Walls is palpable. I can't go more than a block or three houses, literally, without seeing a Harris Wall sign or Republicans for Harris sign. It is really incredible to see. I'm not saying the energy didn't exist in 2020. It's on just a whole new level right now as we head into the election in 2024. And yeah, I see the Trump signs. Absolutely. There are plenty of them. Yeah, I'm not going to say there aren't. But when you compare and contrast how many Harris Walls signed I've been seeing here in Pennsylvania in this county versus how many Trump signs, I mean, it will blow you away. I don't know, Brett, if we have that photo today, but I was just really

jazzed seeing that one, especially. That's a new one. They pop up every single day. It's just incredible. As the days get closer here to the election, what's going on here on the ground? I got to see if I could find it. And if you send it to me, maybe after break, we could show it. But I think people are tired of things like this like donald trump continuing to spread these lies like we saw today and he was doing it also in north carolina speaking about migrants having a quote hostile takeover of springfield ohio i mean this is just it's sickening should have closed the border years ago and we wouldn't have hostile takeovers of springfield ohio, Aurora, Colorado, where they're actually going in with massive machine gun type equipment. They're going in with guns that are beyond even military

scope. And they're taking over apartment buildings. They're taking over real estate. They're in the real estate development business. Congratulations. It's such dangerous rhetoric to be putting out there because people are going to get killed. And we've already seen now a series of incidents that have happened with schools getting shut down, hospitals getting shut down, various sorts of evacuations across Ohio, across Springfield. And this is a direct result of Donald Trump's words. Thankfully, we see the Haitian community rising up and they are pushing back against all of this. The Haitian community, a nonprofit, actually filed criminal charges against Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. And there's

a special way in Ohio in which basically private citizens are able to bring charges against people like Donald Trump and J.D. Vance for doing things just like this. And now they're hoping that the courts are able to issue an arrest warrant for the behavior that we have seen from J.D. Vance and Donald Trump. And we've seen that sort of energy out there also. When Donald Trump was in Uniondale, Long Island last week, we saw the Haitian community out there and they were speaking loudly and proudly for their community saying, we don't eat dogs and cats, but we vote. And we were seeing the Haitian community be activated in places like Florida too, where Republicans think that it's safe, but the polls lately have actually been quite close in Florida. And there are something like 500,000 plus Haitians who there who can vote and they are absolutely pissed off.

Speaking of criminal charges, I do want to get into all the legal with Michael Popak, who is here with us after this break. It's going to be an incredible analysis. I love listening to Michael Popak and his new Legal AF channel. And of course, you'll always hear him here on the Midas Touch Network, but go to youtube.com slash at Legal AF MTN and go and subscribe to the Legal AF channel. It's also, if you go to the Midas Touch YouTube channel that you already know, scroll all the way to the bottom, you'll see all the Midas Touch affiliated channels. You can just go through and just subscribe to all of them. All right. We'll be right back with

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Those are some fabulous, fabulous products. Brett, where are we going next? And I think it's going to rhyme with, I was going to try and find something that rhymes with Michael Popock, but it's actually way harder than- Michael Lodak? Yeah. I didn't want to be offensive. It just got weird.

Yeah, it could go wrong quickly. That's why we got to leave things to the experts sometimes. So let's bring in the expert. Michael Popak from Legal AF is joining us. Michael Popak, how are you, sir? Michael TikTok. What is it? I killed some time.

I killed some time buying this lovely watch. Is it a Trump watch? $100,000? Yeah, I Trump. Crazy. A thousand dollars. Yeah. Yeah. I just told you, you know, I,

I said on a recent legal AF, or maybe it was on a clip that's on the new channel. Thank you for talking about it. Collaboration with the Midas touch network and the brothers. We got legal AF, MTN up and running with going to hit a hundred thousand subscribers in our first 10 days by Sunday with the help of the Midas money. And that's like unheard of.

I never heard of it. Not that I have anything to point of reference, but I never heard of that. So what I said there was, if you just go on, like if you're bored, and you just go on Donald Trump's X account or his Truth Social,

and I stripped the name off, and I told you just read the first 30 posts. And then at the end, I'll ask you, now, do you think that's somebody that's running for president or that's somebody that's running an infomercial empire? Because it'll go like this, right? It'll go crypto, selling coins, selling watches, Kamala Harris failed us at the border, selling watch again. Yeah, one of them has much more priority than the others. Right, and it's just all smushed together because, again, it reinforces my theory that what we've been watching, we just didn't know it. What we've been watching is a new show

called Donald Trump is Quiet quitting his own campaign. He has no real, he's making the closing argument not to be the president of the United States. There's no other way for me to put this. I just did a hot take on the new channel where in the waning moments of the election, where you're a campaign, there's only 40 something, 39 something days left. When you're supposed to be putting all of your energy and focus and all your proxies and surrogates trying to help you, I guess, win the election, he sends Don Jr. to the Balkans to give a speech to try to pick up Albanian and Serbian American votes from over there while he, of course, undermines our NATO relationships in Western

Europe. This is the best you can do. The battleground state of the Balkans at this moment, they have no interest. All they care about, all the Trump family cares about, is making themselves better off than four years ago so that they're set up financially, whether it's Jared Kushner and his $3 billion Saudi-Qatar UAE fund that's now gotten the ire of the Senate Democrats and the Senate Investigation Committee about, as you said before, Brett, foreign influence and peddling in our system of government, in our election system. That's all they care about. He would love to lose this election. And the question is, are the mightiest Mighty, people that follow our channel and all our related channels, are we going to make that happen?

Are we going to give him that gift and put him out of his misery? As Ron Filipkowski, our editor-in-chief, said the other day to us, Trump's tried for decades to slap his name on things and try to sell it. And he's failed for decades at it, whether it's Trump Steaks or Trump Vodka or Trump Airlines, and the list goes on and on and on. Finally, he found a platform that he could run for president. And when he slaps his names on things, his rubes actually now buy him. And so I think he's taken advantage of that in this final stretch because he certainly does not know what is going to happen in November. And I think he's

looking at it with extra fear and extra panic. And I think Popak, he's looking at these legal cases that are hitting him also, and he's trying to figure out what is happening there. So, Popak, I want to ask you, what is happening there? I know Jack Smith apparently filed this 180-page document, this evidence bomb, if you will, on Donald Trump. I want to hear about that. I think there was an appeal today, too, by Donald Trump that was being held of the $454 million civil fraud judgment, wherever you want to start, Popak. But I know the Midas Mighty wants to hear from the expert on all the latest legal news. Appreciate that. And I'm just feeling big,

giant shoes, shout out and love to Ben and Sochi and Jimena, the new baby myself. As I joked, the Midas maternity ward has been working overtime for democracy, starting with Jordy, me, and now Ben. You know, no pressure, Brett. Anyhow, moving on. Let's talk about the thing. I'll do it in the order that you laid it out. I think that's the right order. We got Donald Trump has been squealing like the stuck pig that he is for a while now about, I don't want to see, or I don't want the electorate to see the 180 page brief with attachments and witness statements and evidence, basically a mini trial in the form of a filing before the election. And he certainly doesn't want to see two of them before the election,

but that's exactly what Judge Chutkin said she needs to have in order for her in the D.C. election interference case to do what the Supreme Court has asked her to do and demanded that she do and remanded that she do, which is to take their immunity decision and map it on to the superseding new indictment and figure out how much of it survives. And the heart of it, just to make it simple, make it more streamlined, the heart of it is the official conduct stretched to its outer boundaries that has given a rebuttable presumption of immunity that the government can rebut, can overcome. And that's a lot of what we're going to see

when we all get to see the 180 pages. And I'm not hiding the ball. It's not a cliffhanger. It's just that we only got a notice of filing today because the 180 pages has to be reviewed because of classified information by the judge, and she'll figure out what goes on the public docket, and then we'll get our hot little hands on it and talk about it.

But I can talk about it with a good professional judgment and hunch that we always have for working here on MIDAS and illegal AF. So that's where the 180 pages are going to go, to rebut the presumption of official conduct that Donald Trump was doing this as part of his job description. Absolute immunity, which is the category of constitutional presidential function, is not that hard. And they took care, because just to remind our audience here, or tell them for the first time, the indictment is new. And it was generated and obtained from a grand jury after the immunity decision on July 1st. So they had the benefit of

it. So they knew what they were shooting at. They knew the target they were shooting at. And so I think they've resolved the absolute immunity issue. I think they've resolved listening to the oral argument and reading the decision by the MAGA Supreme Court that ruled this way. They know what to do with the Vice President Pence issue, which Trump keeps raising over and over again, ad nauseum in his papers, about it's all about Mike Pence and the pressure campaign. That is a complete, ridiculous rewrite of the indictment, if that's what they think the entirety of the indictment is all about. Or as one federal judge said recently, they don't want to remove the lawsuit,

the indictment to federal court. They want to rewrite the indictment. And that's what Donald Trump has been trying to do forever is to bamboozle his followers in the electorate about what the indictment says. And now here's 180 pages. It's going to remind everybody about what, much the way the Jan 6th committee, when it's 350, 360 page bomb, a dirty bomb that landed on the table, know a year ago uh i'm in new york sorry i'm on the road to the un and these things happen this is the it was live you're putting our listeners in the action though so that's live tv ladies and gentlemen uh so that 180 pages is not

the only thing we're going to see it's and i think that what we're going to finally see, Jordi and Brett, is two categories. One bucket of stuff in that 180 pages is going to be like, oh yeah, that doesn't surprise me, that evidence, that witness. We heard about that on the Jan 6th committee and we've heard about that in other leaks. And then there's going to be this whole group of, oh snap, they got that guy.

They got that audio. They got that audio. They got that video. They got that email and stuff we hadn't seen before. Even in the Jan 6th committee report, as exhaustive as that was, remember, they didn't have criminals that peen the power like a prosecutor. So there were witnesses that refused to testify. There were documents they couldn't obtain, but that wasn't Jack Smith's problem. So now he's packaging it in this 180, and then, which Donald Trump, every filing he's had, has been saying, Judge, reconsider. Don't do that. We can't. Two briefs. I should go first. I should get two briefs. He shouldn't get two briefs. Well, fuck it. They're getting, pardon me, they're getting two briefs. We allow that when Ben's not here.

Yeah, yeah, when Ben's not here. Thank you. Nobody tell him. Once in a while. And then there's going to be another brief. Now, the interesting thing here, not to get too kind of inside baseball, but I think people kind of like that aspect of it here, is that Donald Trump was so busy arguing against 180 pages

and saying it's a monstrosity. There's no precedent for it. Where can you – you can't allow it. You can only allow 45 pages, which is ridiculous. I've never had a huge case where I haven't asked for more pages in my filing and gotten it. But he never asked for his own symmetrical 180 pages to oppose. So right now, as of right now, as of the time of my Trump time, watch, it is 45 pages all Donald Trump has to oppose 180 pages plus. Now he's going to have to sheepishly, after he gets the 180 pages, you're going to see, and we'll do a hot take on it,

he'll have to come with his tail between his legs. Well, we were opposed to the 180. You should just dismiss the indictment right now as it is. Shouldn't do any more work around her. But, like, if they're going to get 180, we should have 180. She's going to give them more pages. But because they could not bring themselves to acknowledge that more pages were necessary to do the job, they never asked for their own. That's what they should have done if they wanted credibility. They should have said, we oppose. We don't think 180. We think 150 and we'll take 150. The judge probably would have been

like, well, 150 is easier for me to read than 180. Okay, do 150 apiece. But no, because he, and then my favorite part, I'll leave it on this issue. My favorite part is he got a motion denied that he didn't even file. So Donald Trump has been acting like he's asking for what we call a motion for reconsideration, asking the judge to reconsider her original briefing and the way she's laid out this case in September, but he never formally filed it. So the judge said, I'm going to treat everything you've been doing here as a motion for reconsideration, and it's denied. So I'm like, now he's getting motions denied that he didn't even file. That's how it's like getting fired on your day off. It's like, how do you get fired on your day off, man? Is that a movie

Friday? Random quotes come to mind. So Popak, I guess my question for you while we have you here is currently this is under seal, this massive filing. And like you said, there could be a lot of really damning information in here that the public has not yet been made aware of. So I guess who is the ultimate decider of if the public gets to see this sort of new evidence and when would that take place? Yeah, it's going on right now, Brett. So the judge has the final word. There's no appellate process for it. The judge has given the absolute discretion, sole discretion. It's on what's called an abusive discretion standard, meaning no judge gets

reversed on this decision ever. She goes through it methodically, usually asks for both sides to make proposals. And then there's a little bit of workshopping about it and what should be redacted in the black lines. The government has the obligation first to make the proposal. Trump can say, no, i don't like the fourth line being blacked out i think that the public should see that you know he's so crazy he thinks the public should see all the bad evidence against him because you know he he still subscribes that old adage that you know bad news and being notorious is just as good as being you know being good news so it's like just just don't forget to call me late for dinner you know whatever

so they're gonna fight over the the redactions, the blackouts. And the judge makes the final call. And then what she's doing is balancing as the person responsible for the administration of justice in that courtroom, not just for this defendant, but for all defendants. She has to make that decision about, yes, it's a public process. The public has a seat at the table in our criminal justice system. That's why we have Speedy Trial Act. It's not just for the defendant. It's for the public to know whether a person is guilty or innocent, you know, so they can make their own decisions about that person. So there's not an overhang or a shadow over that person longer than there needs to be. That's why you usually want to go to trial faster. So all of that gets done with that weighing,

that balancing is by the judge, it's being done right now. And then this is a first cut. As the case goes on and when it gets to trial, the judge has to reconsider a lot of her redactions and go, well, that's now in the public record. Take that new version, new version, new version. It gets stripped and stripped and stripped and stripped. By the time the trial is over, the whole thing is public. Unless it's top secret and classified. We have that overlay in this case and in what will soon be the reinstated Mar-a-Lago case, hopefully. But we have that overlay of top secret and classified uh stuff stuff that your brother loves you know his jam his his sepa ben loves a good sepa jam ben loves sepa jam sounds like something we should be selling jordy sepa spax and sepa that that's like all that's all ben right there yeah i got a hole in

your ceiling use spack uh so so it that will play into this role And that's up to her as well about it all. So they're up to their neck in alligators on the Trump side with their lawyers, for sure. And because we got other things, of course, to update the audience on on the legal side related to a huge, huge oral argument today before an appellate court in New York about the $465 million fraud judgment against Donald Trump. Yes. And that's why, folks, you got to make sure you're following the YouTube channel for Legal AFMTN. There'll be a link in the description of this episode. And like I said, all the kind of channels associated with the Midas Touch Network, you could see if you go on our YouTube channel on the very bottom, it says more for Midas Touch. It's super easy. You could just go subscribe, subscribe, subscribe. It takes two seconds to do, or you could go straight to the address, which is youtube.com, the at symbol

slash youtube.com slash the at symbol legal AFMTN. You got to make sure you have the at legal AFMTN for it to work. Popak, I know your, your time is precious and I know you got to run soon. Are you able to give us a briefly the latest on this appeal argument that happened today in New York civil fraud court? And also there are so many cases that I know we're aware of all the various cases. It's easy to forget which one is which. It's easy to not remember which one is which. So just also remind people which case is this one. Yeah, I won't talk in too much shorthand. And by the way, one of the reasons that I'm running a little bit short of time is I have a date tonight. Here's where you guys say, but you're a married man. They just had a baby. Go ahead and ask me, who's my date? You're a married man. Yeah. With, with, with the anchors of mistrial.

That's awesome. So we got it. Listen, folks, we got a crossover episode here, right here on the Midas and a crossover dinner happening with, and I was on this trial today. Well, look at that. I mean, look at that. This, this Midas touch ecosystem, man. And we're going to have some more news by the way, about the Midas touch ecosystem later. Um, uh, once Popak has gone, Jordi and I are excited to tell you about a little new project we're cooking up. But, uh, but Popak let's hear about this. Uh, let's, let's talk about what happened today. And Jordy and I are excited to tell you about a little new project we're cooking up behind the scenes. But Popak, let's hear about this. All right, let's talk about what happened today.

So this was the long-awaited oral argument, the hearing, five-judge panel, five justices of what we call the first-level appellate court in New York. It's a very important one. It sits in Manhattan. It handles all New York Manhattan appeals, criminal or civil. It's the same court. It's presided over by Justice Renwick. And then there's a random selection of five other justices. the panel was going to affirm or vacate all or part and throw out of Judge Angoron's ultimately $456 million discouragement judgment that he rendered back, wow, it's back by the holidays, after six weeks of trial in finding that Donald Trump,

Don Jr., Eric, and the entire Trump organization for 10 years or more committed persistent fraud, as that term is used under a fraud statute that has been devised by New York to allow the attorney general to be a watchdog and a sheriff over the financial markets, the business community in what is the business and financial market of the world, New York, which explains why the New York attorney general is given that tremendous set of powers, those robust superpowers that are unique among even the other 49 attorney generals around the country. Now, there's a little trade-off there. The New York Attorney General doesn't have much criminal prosecution powers. She has a couple small ones, whereas in other states, they have a lot of criminal prosecution powers, but she has this one, this superpower, the 63-12 law to go after

people like Donald Trump. And Goran did a very methodical 30-page decision. He categorized all the times this is the case about Donald Trump inflating his assets, reverse engineering them through our fellow podcaster, Michael Cohen, back in his prior life, and some other financial people within the company to pump up the numbers in order to act like he was a two, three, four, five billionaire in order to enhance his personal financial statement that he submitted to counterparties like banks to get loans, insurance companies to get insurance coverage, to do real estate transactions, and different things like that. And he defrauded those parties because had they known that he was not a four billionaire and his personal financial statement

was a mess, which he signed in his own little John Hancock there, they would not have, the argument goes, given him, the testimony supported it, would not have given him favorable rates. They wouldn't have let him off of personal guarantees. They would have maybe not even given him the loan at all. And so how it harms the market is you and me and Jordy and Ben, we're waiting in line at the bank and we get to the front of the line. There's, oh, sorry, we don't have any more money left. We gave it all to that guy at 4% interest rate. Like what? And that's how, and that's because everything's finite. If they give it to him, they don't have any more money left. We gave it all to that guy at 4% interest rate. Like what? And that's how, and that's because everything's finite. If they give it to him, they don't have any for you potentially. And so it's like that. So we had a little bit on Legal

AF, a little bit of a heart palpitation when this same panel of five justices about four or five months ago decided to lower the amount of the bond, which is a financial instrument that sits behind a judgment so that the judgment does not get enforced while the appeal is going on. And the bond usually is an amount that will make the judgment creditor, the people of the state of New York, whole if the guy defaults and doesn't pay up, doesn't have the assets. And we said, oh, well, it'll be like a $475 million bond. And they were like, yeah, $175 million is fine. And we thought, uh-oh, maybe they're going to be. And that's the problem. And that's just something in practicing 32 years in New York that I've always understood, especially my commercial practice, is that the appellate department, the first

department appellate division, which is this court I'm talking about, is like a meat grinder. Almost no judgment, number judgment, money judgment goes unscathed. They're always pulling out their pen and reducing and lopping. They never increase. I've never had a case where they were like, no, Mr. Popock, we think you should have gotten 10 million more. That never happens. It's always like, you should have gotten six, not 10, or something like that. Now, here's what happened at oral argument today. It was argued by John Sauer, that gravelly voiced

guy who's the lead appellate lawyer for Donald Trump. And to his credit, look, he won twice in the United States Supreme Court. He won on that immunity decision I just told you about. He won on the case in Colorado about whether Donald Trump was an insurrectionist that should be barred from the ballot. So he's got a track record, but just not in New York. And New York is a different, State Court New York appellate is not that. And his approach, I didn't think, was very effective. The lawyer, the appellate expert for the New York Attorney General, Ms. Vail, I thought did a miraculous job. Judith Vail, I thought she did a great job.

She's a straight shooter. She knows her record. She knows her documents. She knows her law. The panel is a little weird. I'm not worried about Renwick, who's the chair, who's the presiding judge. And I'm not, I wasn't worried about Judge Justice Moulton until he asked the question,

I'll leave you the analysis on, that I was like, uh-oh, that's not good. And then you've got Higgett, Rosado, and Friedman. Friedman is a complete wildcard, it's not the right word. He's the guy that's basically sided with Donald Trump a couple of times by stopping certain actions in the case until the appeal court could get around to resolving it. He loses every time. The appeal court always reversed him. But he was on the panel, and he was throwing not just softballs at the lawyers for Donald Trump.

He was blowing kisses at them. And it was like, oh, shit, really? I mean, that's where you're going? We know. But we just need a majority decision. There's five people. Three's enough. And the question is, can Renwick, Moulton, and Higgett, which I think is the likely fulcrum, the center of this panel, can they save the judgment? And at what amount?

And my gut is, they're going to reduce the amount. I'll tell you why. Moulton, in asking a question to Ms. Vail for the New York Attorney General, started it with, I'm troubled by the size of the judgment. Well, that's not a good sign. I mean, she basically said the right thing, which is, don't let him be benefited by the fact that he was so successful at his fraud for so many years that the size of the amount of money that we had to claw back from him was so large. He shouldn't benefit from that. You know, if you're just a super successful criminal, you know, like, well, it's just such a big number. Oh, well, what should we do with it? So she had a good response to it.

But but Moulton's who I was counting on as the potential writer of the opinion, that's not a great way to start with troubling. Here's what I think is going to happen. I'll short note it here. They're going to reduce it. They're not going to throw it out. They're going to reduce it to like $200 million, $300 million. I don't think it goes all the way down to $175 million, but I don't think it's going to stay anywhere near $565 million. It'll be somewhere kind of in the middle.

And I think that decision, and you can have me back on the show, although Ben will be back by then, is going to come out. I mean, this court, as opposed to federal appellate courts that take months, they usually render a decision within four to six weeks. And I think they may feel, they don't normally have to look at an election clock, but they may feel like they got to get this out before the election. So I'm not going to be shocked at all. In fact, I'll be surprised if they don't get it out by, let's say, the end of October. Wow. All fascinating, Popak. Thank you for all the updates.

We really appreciate it here. And thank you. I felt like I was inside the courtroom during the argument, hearing your play by play there. And, you know, we're really grateful, of course, for, you know, all the work we've done together, Michael Popak over these past few years and what you've helped us build here. And, and we're so, uh, it's, it's been amazing to see what you're building over there at legal AF MTN. So folks, we're on the race to a hundred thousand subscribers over at legal AF MTN. So make sure that you, honestly, like, I don't think this has ever happened to you, but this is unbelievable.

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description, audio and YouTube. Brett, where are we going next? Well, first, I just want to say another thank you to Michael Popak. Love getting those legal updates. And we'll give you some more updates on Ben. And we also want to give you some updates on a new thing that we're starting here at the Midas Touch Network. That's a little tease for you. But first, I do want to speak about Vice President Harris and some of the things she has been doing in the past few days. It's important that we focus on her message and who she's speaking with and what she's doing. We saw Donald Trump's deranged message. I don't even know if you call it that. You saw that he's selling

these ridiculous watches, just grifting left and right. Meanwhile, Vice President Harris is out there speaking with the American people and speaking about actually her economic plans and her policies. Jordi, she was in your neck of the woods this week, actually. She was in Pittsburgh speaking to the Economic Club, and she was speaking about American manufacturing and what the Biden-Harris administration has done. And she took a particularly strong dig at Donald Trump here. Just listen to the end and watch her face, which is my favorite part if you're watching a lot. Now, look, my opponent, Donald Trump, well, he makes big promises on manufacturing. Just yesterday, he went out and promised to bring back manufacturing jobs. And if that sounds familiar, it should. In 2016, he went out

and made that very same promise about the carrier plant in Indianapolis. You'll remember, remember Carrier then offshored hundreds of jobs to Mexico under his watch. And it wasn't just there. On Trump's watch, offshoring went up and manufacturing jobs went down across our country and across our economy. All told, almost 200,000 manufacturing jobs were lost during his presidency, starting before the pandemic hit. Making Trump one of the biggest losers ever on manufacturing. Now that's how it's done. And you know that she knows that Donald Trump is seeing this stuff also, whether he watches it on the Midas Touch Network or sees it elsewhere. And she gave him that look at the end, which you know is going to get absolutely under his skin. But one of the things I've noticed about Vice President Harris, Jordi, in the past, honestly, since she started this campaign, is while Donald Trump has pushed away kind of anybody who isn't in the MAGA bubble, Vice President Kamala Harris has welcomed people with open arms, whether they are Democrats or independents or Republicans, no matter who they are. She's made a concerted effort to reach out to all these other groups and to let them know that I'm going to be a president for all Americans. You know, I'm here for everybody. And when she was speaking about her

economic agenda in Pittsburgh, she was speaking about this fact that she's not going to be like beholden to any just ideology because there's a party label on it. And I thought this was probably a message that would be that I think folks, you know, kind of of all political stripes would be happy to hear. And I promise you, I will be pragmatic in my approach. I will engage in what Franklin Roosevelt called bold, persistent experimentation. Because I believe we shouldn't be constrained by ideology and instead should seek practical solutions to problems, realistic assessments of what is working and what is not, applying metrics to our analysis. Applying facts to our analysis.

And stay focused, then, not only on the crises at hand, but on our big goals. On what's best for America over the long term. And part of being pragmatic means taking good ideas from wherever they come. That's, it's just such, it's so refreshing to hear that, especially, you know, when we're inundated with all the Trump stuff to just hear somebody who's thinking of things thoughtfully. And you see her efforts, Jordi, look like they're paying off. We were speaking about earlier, you seeing all the Harris wall signs out there in Pennsylvania and seeing far fewer Trump signs like you used to see throughout the neighborhood, which is comforting from an anecdotal perspective. And quite frankly,

it's something that a lot of you have also shared with us in the comments, but then you're also seeing it in the form of endorsements like this, which came through this week. Nikki Haley's Michigan leadership team is endorsing Kamala Harris. I mean, that's an important swing state. And as a reminder, Nikki Haley won 300,000 votes in the GOP primary early this year. Now we see polls fluctuate. We see Kamala Harris now kind of hovering around in the national polls, kind of five points up, six points up, seven points up in the state polls. Some of the state polls show her leading in all the swing states. Some of them show more neck and neck. Some of her show her down by a point or two. They're a little all over the map, but you can't deny the fact that we are seeing these coalitions coming together. And also this is stuff that I think gets even caught up. I don't think the

polls fully capture this. And I'll tell you why. Because we had elections already. They're called primaries, right? We had primary elections, and in each of these primaries that Donald Trump participated in, we saw like 20%, 25% of Republicans say that they would not vote for Donald Trump and instead voted for Nikki Haley, who was, for all intents and purposes, like a conduit for just never Trump. And when those voters left the polls and were asked why you remember, this is like hard data, right? When they were asked why they said they would never vote for Donald Trump, right. Or if they would ever change their mind, they said they would never, that's still going to be a big factor, which is why I think we see the vice president Harris walls campaign

ramping up their efforts to reach out to all of these groups. And I think it's working. I think people can acknowledge when they're sort of politically homeless, if you will, when they're kind of on the fence and don't know where they belong at this point, because they're like, I'm not this MAGA thing, but can I be a Democrat? I don't know if I could be a Democrat. Like my dad would look down on me if I were, could I really do this? But Kamala Harris is putting in the work. And I thought this clip was so instructive of that. These are people in Pennsylvania, Jordi, Pennsylvania Republicans speaking about Vice President Harris's outreach efforts. And I thought this was just really fascinating to see. The Republicans for Harris event, what do you make of the Harris

campaign trying to be a bit more bipartisan in their approach? I like that if they're genuine about it and listening to both sides and hearing what the people really want. And there's a lot of really important issues out there. You know, I've never been a part of something like this, where, like I said, the opposite party is coming in and saying, yeah, man, we're going to we're going to do a little event for you. We're going to make you feel welcome. We're going to hear you out. And I'm really happy that the Harris campaign is reaching out to Republicans like myself. driving around here in my county in Pennsylvania and seeing the Republicans for Harrison Wall signs out there, it gives folks sort of a permission structure, Brett, to what you were just saying before.

Like, wow, I'm a Republican, but can I really vote for a Democrat? Yeah, you can. And when I see people speaking out like that, Republicans who are saying that, oh, the Democrats are really the pro-democracy party right now. They're the adults in the room. I can't vote for this MAGA thing. I just can't bring myself to do it. When they speak out, it allows others who are like-minded to them, who are also Republicans or maybe have never voted or voted Democrat to be like, oh yeah, I do love this country. And the Democrats are putting out the only candidate that I can actually vote for to preserve democracy.

It's incredible to see. Kamala Harris has a fabulous ad right now that's running in Pennsylvania where she talks about when she was a prosecutor that she never asked, are you a Republican or a Democrat when she was taking on these cases? Because it simply doesn't matter to her. And that's that type of sort of just pragmatic approach that resonates with folks in the Commonwealth and frankly, across this country, that she will be a president for all Americans. And Donald Trump, right, we heard it during the DNC when we were speaking there, where it was, don't count the lies, start counting the eyes, right?

Everything is me, me, me focused when Donald Trump is speaking. He makes everything about himself. Only he can save us. That's not what society, that's not what this country is founded on. And that's not what Kamala Harris is going to do and project forward. And I just love her messaging, Brett. She's been on the ball every step of the way and it's refreshing and it's having an impact here with folks in the Commonwealth. I think most people are just like exhausted with this. Yes. You know, it's like

enough is enough. And, you know, I thought I saw this. I'm not sure if you all saw this recently on MSNBC, but it was during Alex Wagner show.. They did a focus group. This was so fascinating to me. And they asked people, who are you going to vote for? And some people raised their hands for Trump. Some people raised their hands for Harris. And then they asked, who do you think is going to win the election? I'll play this clip. Watch what happens. We are back live in Michigan. Despite the tight poll numbers in the state, the voters I spoke with yesterday in Saginaw seem to think that this race already has a clear and likely winner. Who here thinks Kamala Harris is going to win the election? Who here thinks Donald Trump's going to win the election? No one? Interesting.

But whether or not that sentiment is actually a good thing for the Harris-Walls campaign is very much up for debate. And she makes a good point at the end there, honestly, because, you know, you can't let anything like that get you complacent. But I think it does show you what I mean, these are people in Michigan, right? A very important swing state here. This is the vibes that they're getting, you know, being on the ground. But, you know, I agree with Kamala Harris though. This isn't 2016.

This isn't 2020. This is its own thing. It's going to come out to turnout and it's going to come out to all of you, you know, getting out there and, you know, making the case and getting your friends and family to show up to the polls ultimately. And I love seeing Vice President Harris

speaking about her economic message. I love seeing she has like great surrogates out there, like Mark Cuban, like an actual billionaire out there. He's been in the TV circuit and he's been speaking about her economic policies and he's been going like, you know, into the foxhole, no pun intended, literally going on Fox, going on all these other channels, defending, you know, Kamala Harris's policies and talking about how insane and how dangerous Kamala Harris's policies and talking about how insane and how dangerous Kamala Harris's policies are. And I think you kind of need everything you could get right now. You can never get- Yeah, how insane Donald Trump's policies are. You can never

get complacent. You can never just think that, oh, this poll says this, so we're good. No, you use it all as fuel, right? That's what you got to be doing. I want to make sure that we speak about these Republicans though, because what's at stake in this election is far more than just the top of the ticket. It's the House of Representatives. Think about all the damage to just our psychological state that happened because the Republicans won the House barely in 2022. We've had to deal with bullshit investigation after investigation after investigation. Waste of money here. Waste of money here. Gridlock. Government shut down. Oh, we're going to shut down. Oh, we're not going to shut down. It's just like enough is enough. And we have to deal with people like Clay Higgins having power in this Republican party and the

Republicans being too spineless to stand up and say anything when the comments are this atrocious. Clay Higgins yesterday did one of the most disgusting posts that I've ever seen from a politician, period, end of story, or anybody for that matter. He wrote, and I hate even reading it, he wrote, LOL, these Haitians are wild, eating pets, voodoo, nastiest country in the western hemisphere cults slapstick gangsters but damned if they don't feel all sophisticated now filing charges against our president and vp all these thugs better get their mind and right and their ass out of our country before january 20th like first of all donald trump is not the president jd vance is not the vice president

they will never step foot in the oval office Office, period. End of story. Second off, these, as we said earlier in the show, are legal immigrants who came to these towns in order to help them because they were asked to, because the towns are riddled with drugs. They were unable to find people to even fill basic jobs and factories and whatnot. And these people came in, these Haitian migrants, and they filled the jobs, and they actually made the community not fail. They actually made it succeed. And people like Clay Higgins and these racists in the Republican Party continue to strive this narrative, which is absolutely dangerous. It is dehumanizing. It is gross. And we spoke about the lawsuit earlier, the criminal charges, which is what Clay Higgins is referencing there. But here's the thing. Normally, if somebody were to say something that utterly reprehensible, you had a leader of the party, the leader would step in and say, that's gross. That is not what we stand for. Mike Johnson is not such a leader.

Here's what he said. Any comment on the tweet that Clay Higgins put out today about Haitians? I heard about that on the floor just now as well. Clay Higgins is a dear friend of mine and a colleague from Louisiana and a very frank and outspoken person. He's also a very principled man. And I think he tweeted, I didn't even see it, but he tweeted something today about Haitians. And he was approached. Okay. Well, look, he was approached on the floor by colleagues who said that was offensive.

He went to the back. I just talked to him about it. He said he went to the back, and he prayed about it, and he regretted it, and he pulled the post down. That's what you want a gentleman to do. I'm sure he probably regrets some of the language he used, but, you know, we move forward. We believe in redemption around here. Why are your eyes shifting, Mike Johnson? Why are you shifting around all like that and blinking a lot while you're speaking? Is it because you're a complete and total liar who doesn't have a spine?

Because let's hear what Clay Higgins had to say on CNN about all this. Of Americans against another. Congressman Higgins has told CNN that he stood by his comments, adding, quote, it's all true. I can put up another controversial post tomorrow if you want me to. I mean, we do have freedom of speech. I'll say what I want. He also said, quote, It's not a big deal to me. It's like something stuck to the bottom of my boot. Just scrape it off and move on with my life. You know, Speaker Johnson claims he prayed about it and regretted it and took it down. Maybe he had another talk with Jesus. It really sounds like he prayed on it, Mike Johnson, and said exactly what you said. But here's the good news, okay? Here's the silver lining that I could leave you with as we begin

to wrap up here. We could change this, right? You could have those crazy people. They're going to exist, right? But you could relegate them to not positions where they're in the majority and have total control over your lives. Enough is enough. Like you could stand them. And that's why voting up and down the ticket is so important because you could get someone like Mike Johnson, you could get the gavel out of his hands and put it in the hands of somebody like an Hakeem Jeffries, who has been very outspoken on this issue, knows right from wrong. And by the way, I know for damn sure he would not be afraid to criticize a Democrat for saying the same thing. Absolutely 150%. And that right there is the difference. It's about our common values, right? It's about

common decency. It's about what it means to actually be an American. And it's about fighting for an optimistic vision of this country. I think that's what we're all here to do. That's why we have millions of people who listen to the show that are Republicans and Democrats and independents, because those labels just don't apply. We're all here to try to bring back normalcy and bring back what is good in our country. I told you I wanted to give you a few updates. First, Ben sends all of his love to you all. Ben's been in the hospital all week with his wife. They welcomed the birth of their baby girl, Jimena. She is absolutely beautiful. I had an opportunity to meet her in the hospital this week. It was awesome. I got to see Ben. I got to see his wife. It was really an incredible experience. I may have shed some tears, spoiler alert, but it's been such a

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I'm not sure if I missed anything. You held it, man. I think Ben would be very proud of this episode. I think we held it down well for him. I think so too. Thank you so much to everybody for watching. I got to get back. I feel like I got to get back very proud of this episode. I think we held it down well for him. I think so too. Thank you so much to everybody for watching. I got to get back.

Yeah, I feel like I got to get back to doing some hot takes like Ben, right? So thank you so much for watching. Remember to check your voter registration. Remember to tell all your friends and family to check their voter registration. You know, this election is going to, it's in your hands. Our democracy is in your hands.

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