The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump MELTDOWN Continues, GAGGED and DESPERATE

Episode Date: October 31, 2023

Judge Chutkan reinstates her gag order against Donald Trump, Judge Engoron sets dates for Trump and his adult kids to take the stand in the NY fraud trial, the disqualification case in Colorado begins, Trump has a series of bizarre cognitive lapses, the Republicans’ new scheme to hold up foreign aid, a big win for UAW and more! Ben, Brett and Jordy break it all down on the MeidasTouch Podcast! Watch the Meidas More after show on Patreon: https://patreon.com/meidastouch Add the new Mea Culpa podcast here: https://linktr.ee/meaculpapod DEALS FROM OUR SPONSORS: Henry Meds: Get our exclusive offer at HenryMeds.com/meidas NutriSense: Go to nutrisense.com/meidas to save $30 off your first month plus get a month of board certified nutritionist support Quip: Get 20% off any electric toothbrush, mint and gum dispenser, and water flosser at getquip.com/meidas 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 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And it was now reimposed after Donald Trump engaged in more witness tampering, this against his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and like a petulant third grade fascist bully, said about Mark Meadows, quote, a weakling and a quote, coward. I mean, what are you talking about? And then Donald Trump continued to post more deranged things after the gag order was reimposed. We will break it down. In Sioux City, Iowa, Donald Trump thought he was in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. And throughout the weekend and speeches, whether it was in Sioux City, not Sioux Falls or Las Vegas, Donald Trump just continued to short circuit. He would blame the lights for not being able to read. There was a lot of very concerning moments. And we've been leading the coverage here at Midas Touch Network about that. I don't know if you've seen this, Brett, Jordi, or others out there. Legacy Media is now following our coverage, and they are finally reporting about it because we're putting it out there, and it's clear and convincing. Also, we're in week five of the New York civil fraud case against Donald Trump. And

later this week, it's time for Don Jr. and Eric to testify. Next week is Ivanka and Donald Trump. She was supposed to go this week, but that got moved to next week. And let's not forget about the other just damaging testimony that's happening on a daily basis. We're covering it here on the Midas Touch Network. Like today, Raymond Flores, you know Raymond, right? A former Trump organization vice president. Well, Raymond testified today under penalty of perjury, he worked at the Trump organization, that it was the Trump organization itself that made the valuation of Mar-a-Lago at being $26 million, not $1.5 billion, and that they very intentionally checked the box. We don't check the box. We check the box. They checked the box that it was a commercial property, not a residential property, so that they

could pay lower property taxes. I'm surprised everything that Donald Trump says is a lie, but I'm sure Donald Trump will say, Raymond Flores, who? Who's that? I don't know. We don't know who Raymond Flores is. Wait for that to happen. And Republicans also have selective memory. They're trying to very quietly bury the impeachment inquiry into President Biden, right? MAGA Republican James Comer, who chairs the Oversight Committee, says that, I think we're going to focus more on depositions. Well, newsflash, you did depositions. And when Democrats tried to introduce the transcripts of the depositions you took, which you claim was bombshell evidence, you wouldn't allow Democrats to introduce your evidence into the

congressional testimony. Think about that. And earlier today, MAGA Republicans under their new Speaker of the House, MAGA Mike Johnson, released their first piece of legislation. It's for foreign military aid. It provides no money at all to Ukraine, $14.3 billion to Israel with a stipulation that the IRS must be defunded by $14.3 billion. Republicans are now intentionally increasing the deficit, claiming they are decreasing the deficit, screwing Ukraine and playing games with our national security all at once. This is what actual deal-making looks like between the United Auto Workers and the big three car manufacturing, raising wages for workers by more than 30%, improving working conditions, more jobs, more paid leave, and other critical benefits. And President Biden had been there every step of the way and didn't blink. This, by the way, as GDP grew to record levels of 4.9% in the third quarter. Remember when the media was praising

Donald Trump for like 2.7% increases? Remember that? 4.9% in the third quarter oh yeah and then a disqualification case against donald trump went to trial today for under the 14th amendment section 3 in colorado so in other words you've got a lot to discuss on today's show i'm ben mysellish joined by brett and yes we've got jordy ain't leaving us it wasn't just one show last week. Jordy's here. I was here last week. We can't do this every week. That's a surprise. I'm here. I mean, I literally did. We're not going to do that every show. It's nice of you to show up today, Jordy. It's good. I'm just kidding. It's great to see you. We had a great chat with our patrons today. That was a whole lot of fun. Thanks to everybody who signs up for our patron at patreon.com slash Midas

touch for joining us. It's always so fun to answer your questions. And there's so much going on. You know, I was going to joke about how do we keep track of all these trials? Everything is going on. Well, the MidasTouch network, we got Ben. We got us. We got our great team of researchers.

That's literally what we do for a living. We've got the editorial staff of MidasTouch.com. And so we're here to put it all together and to bring it all to you. I wonder if Trump could even keep track of all of his legal troubles. He's like in court more than most attorneys are in court, I think, at this point between every single trial across the country. I thought the Colorado trial today was very interesting. You had Representative Eric Swalwell actually testifying

against Trump, giving his account of his harrowing experience during January 6th. Just a lot of very interesting things going on. And I love that we're going to be able to follow up on this episode about the United Auto Workers, those union workers who stuck it out, who fought, and who won big in their negotiations. A huge shout out to all the union workers who listened to the Midas Touch podcast and all the union workers out there in general. Jordy, always great to see your face here. Just joking with you before, but it's great to have you here. What's up, man? Great to be here. Cannot wait for today's show. You know what? Let's just get into it. There's a lot to cover ben where do you want to ask for it it is here judge arthur and goron emojis yes really really we have one

so we've made a judge arthur and goron emoji for our youtube members which is different than our Patreon. We will release the Ngoron. Ooh, condition. 300 new memberships. I like it. 300 new memberships. We will release the Judge Ngoron emojis. And look, after all, Donald Trump and Don Jr. accused Midas Touch Network of giving Judge Ngoron his order,

so we might as well make an emoji for him while we're at it. We need that. The Midas Mighty will not let us down. And just a reminder, you could give people memberships if you already have memberships. Ben, 300? You think we could hit that? Oh, I think we can hit 300 before this ad count. Let's get right into it. Federal Judge Tanya Chutkin in Washington, D.C. reinstated the gag order on Donald Trump. She temporarily stayed her order because she wanted to give Donald Trump the opportunity to make his argument why he thought the order should be reconsidered. That's her style. She's very diligent. But I think she also did it as well to help build the appellate record because she knew that even if she just did it for five days where she stayed it and stopped its enforcement, that Donald Trump would immediately

violate it. And that's what he did absolutely right away by starting to attack witnesses like his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows. And so what she's able to do, right, where Donald Trump's going to argue, you know, it's not required. There doesn't need to be a gag order. There are other less restrictive measures. What she's able to say, which she just did in the order, it's why it was just so brilliant is, well, if you say that's the case, then why, when the order was imposed for a short period of time, it stopped. Then as soon as it was temporarily stayed, you engaged in the conduct. Clearly, you prove that the gag order works. And clearly, you are incapable, Donald Trump, of conducting yourself the way all other criminal defendants

conduct themselves. And by the way, there was a situation in federal court earlier in the day as well. I'm doing a hot take on it, where a January 6th insurrectionist follower, a Trumper by the name of Vitaly Gostyankovsky, he copied Donald Trump. He's a January 6th insurrectionist who was convicted of felonies for January 6th for attacking police officers. What'd he do? He went on social media, started attacking federal agents, used horrific anti-Semitic language as well against the agents and horrible things about the agents, but was attacking agents online. So what did the Department of Justice do? Probably what they should do soon when it comes to Donald Trump when he violates the gag order. Department of Justice filed a motion to revoke the defendant's post-trial release. Here with Trump, it would be a pre-trial release.

And as John Kowski, gosh, John Kowski was remanded into custody, guess what he did? Started assaulting the police officers in court. Started fighting with the police. He had to be restrained by like a dozen agents. He was described as being as big as a linebacker. That just goes to show you you that's the modern day Republican party for you. And I'm- He wasn't Antifa, Ben? He didn't turn into Antifa when he was attacking the police? No? Yeah, the guy like that, man, I bet he's got the back, the blue sticker on his truck. Don't know it for a fact, but fits the model. It's so wild. I heard he was a fed, Jordy. I heard he was a fed plant. Oh, okay. Makes sense. Makes sense. Exactly. I'm seeing these signs a lot lately. I'm a Republican, but not a fool. Biden for

president. I don't know if you've seen these signs going around. Because you could be part of the gosh, Jankowski crew. That's like the modern day Republican party. It's like, what in the world is that anyway? Judge Chutka reimposed the gag order. And within a pretty short period of time, Donald Trump seemed to have potentially violated the order. Here's what Donald Trump wrote. He goes, I called Bill Barr dumb, weak, slow moving, lethargic, gutless, and lazy, a rhino who couldn't do the job. He just didn't want to be impeached, which the radical left lunatics were preparing to do. I was tough on him in the White House for good reason. So now this moron says about me to get even. His verbal skills are limited. Well, that's one I haven't heard before. Tell that to the biggest political crowds in history of politics by far. Bill Barr is a loser,

kind of proving Bill Barr's point there in the post. Loser, rhino, gutless. And in Judge Chutkin's order, the fact that she reprimands him for saying that Mark Meadows is a weakling and a coward. It always just shocks me and it shouldn't anymore when legacy media and others just normalize this behavior. It's just a complete and utter maniac. When I did a video over this weekend about Donald Trump's behavior. One of the things that Donald Trump does in his speech is during the speech, he does this thing where he goes like, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh. The point I make that I said in the video is that I said, regardless of what the context is here, the fact that we have to even ask the context, the fact that we have, you know, goes to show you like how Donald Trump has like destroyed all norms. Like there should be no context at all

where somebody running for the presidency is going, the context definitely makes it worse that it's part of Donald Trump's speech where he is mocking trans people and weightlifting. And I don't even know what he's talking about. It makes it extra worse, but there's no behavior where like, could you imagine from elections in the past of like Romney versus Obama? If Romney were to go up there and go, hey, everybody. It is so demeaning. It is so embarrassing to our country to watch that behavior and go, yep, that's the leader of a major political party in America.

That's who we have. I'd rather there be a robust pro-democracy Republican Party of people who I vehemently disagree with on a lot of issues, but ultimately, we support democracy with the Mitt Romney, with the Kinzinger, with the Liz Cheney, people who I definitely disagree with. But we can say this is a democracy, not as MAGA Mike Johnson says, a biblical republic where mass shootings are blamed on no-fault divorces. It's what the MAGA Republican leader and the Speaker of the House says, that mass shootings are caused by no-fault divorces and the cultural revolution of the 1960s? What? Anyway, so Judge Chutkin's gag order has been reimposed. Since it's been reimposed, by the way, Trump's been whining about it. But here's the thing. Trump is weak.

Trump is cowardly. That's why, by the way, next week, I still don't think, and no one's saying this, it's a very interesting prediction. I don't think he can make it through his testimony in New York. I just don't. I don't think either he's going to invoke the fifth or come up with some excuse. I do not fathom a scenario where he can make it through two full days of testimony on cross-examination. I think he's incapable of it. I don't know what you think. Well, just think about when he was called to the stand the other day. He was like a child on the stand when he got called for violating the gag order before Judge Angoron. And he really didn't even want to say anything when he was on the stand

there. And N'Goran had to kind of treat him like he was a baby. And then Trump just blatantly lied. And immediately, Judge N'Goran was like, okay, the witness is not credible. I'm fining you. This is absolutely ridiculous. And that's a big thing also, the fact that Judge N'Goran has actually stated that Trump under oath lied, essentially is what Judge N'Goran has actually stated that Trump under oath lied, essentially is what Judge N'Goran said when Trump was called to the stand. I mean, that is a big deal. So that already, before Trump even testifies whether he does or does not, that is an absolutely major deal. And also, like I like to say, every time we're talking about the New York fraud trial, Trump already lost this case. He lost, he lost already. He's already lost. So when he comes out and he goes, actually, I won the case. Actually,

they said that I won. Actually, they're like, no, actually, you've already lost the case. And then in reading Judge Chutkin's gag order, it's interesting, I don't know if that's the right word, but to see Donald Trump's visceral and childish reactions to Judge Chutkan when she reimposed the gag order, I mean, that's to be expected from Donald Trump. Because when you actually read the text of the order, and honestly, every decision Judge Chutkan makes, she is overwhelmingly fair. She is one of the most measured judges. She gives the most measured opinions in her orders. And she even clearly delineates what Donald Trump is allowed to say and what he is not allowed to say. She talks about his attacks generally on the Justice Department, his attacks against President Biden, his attacks, his comments saying,

I'm innocent. I did nothing wrong. She lists a bunch of examples of those things and goes, guess what? You're allowed to say all of that. Go crazy with it, right? These aren't the words she uses, but go nuts. Go wild. Say the election was rigged. Say Biden is behind. Whatever you want to say, whatever lies you want to spew, that's okay. But when it comes to the witnesses, the prosecutors, you can't threaten witnesses. That's just not something that criminal defendants are allowed to do. And so it's a very targeted order. And she probably could have went even broader with it, but it shows her judicial restraint. It shows how she's trying to try this case as a very balanced justice. And it's actually, you know, she's the best possible judge for this case at the end of the day. And Trump's reaction to it just shows how in the wrong he is, just shows how kind of dead to rights he is in the

court with all these things, with just the mountain of evidence that is against them. Could you just imagine though, again, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Romney, McCain, Bob Dole, just behaving this way? I mean, this to me is where this behavior should be. It should be a nonpartisan thing. This should just be condemned. It's really beyond unhinged and every American who supports our government should look at this and go, this is a crazy person. This is not normal behavior. is bring the facts, is bring the evidence and focus on, okay, well, what's being said in the courtroom? What is being said? And one of the things that I often argue with, you know, when I have civil conversations with people who I guess are still maga-leaning is I ask them, I just say, If what you are saying is true, then why isn't the MAGA saying the same? Why isn't the MAGA Republican when they are in court under oath? in court, he says a different thing. Why is Sidney Powell saying one thing on these crazy right-wing networks, but then in court saying another thing? It's the same thing with Donald Trump and Eric and all of these things.

When we think about Eric Trump's testimony later this week, I think Eric's and Don Jr.'s testimony is going to be so explosive. Because also, they're very scared people. They go on their right-wing networks, they go in their little bubbles, but they are terrified. I'll show you just what Eric Trump looked like in his deposition back in March of this year when he was deposed. Again, if Eric's supposed to be the leader of the Trump organization during the relevant time period, he was the one who was designated to run the Trump organization. That means he's supposed to be the one who was involved in the appraisals. He's the one who's involved in operating the business. He's supposed to know what's going on. Let me show you what takes place or what took place when Eric Trump was deposed. This is a

clip right here that we hadn't showed before. When I watch this clip, I just see a weak, terrified person. Show this clip to people just see a weak, terrified person. And show this clip to people who you know who are MAGA. Because if you think this is your view of a tough, confident business guy, play the clip. And do you recognize the name David McArdle? I recognize the name very vaguely. Yeah, I recognize the name very, very vaguely. Cushman, Cushman Wakefield. Yes, I recognize the name.

And does this refresh your recollection that in mid-2014, Cushman and Wakefield had been retained to provide consulting services related to an analysis of the estimated value of a potential conservation easement on all or part of the Seven Springs State? Truthfully Andy, it really doesn't. This isn't to me. I didn't sign this. This looked like it was something between Sherry Dillon and Cushman and Wakefield. It's extremely consistent with what she would have done. It's extremely inconsistent with what my role is at the company. I just don't... I think I was very kind of clear that, to the best of my knowledge knowledge I really haven't been involved

in appraisal work on this property. Well are you saying that this engagement could have happened without your knowledge and approval i'm just saying i don't remember this um i'm not on here i never signed this document um i i just don't seem to recall anything about this you You know, it's, I pour concrete. I operate properties. I don't focus on appraisals between a law firm and a Cushman. This is just not, it's not what I do in my day-to-day responsibilities.

And I mean, I hardly recognize the name. Okay. You could see the beads of sweat coming down from his face. Oh my goodness. I thought Eric was going to cry. I thought he was going to call his daddy in for some help. I pour concrete. I pour concrete. I don't really do this sort of – I'm not familiar with appraisals that are in the hundreds of millions of dollars. You run the business. Yeah. By the way, just to be clear, nothing wrong with being the guy who pours the concrete. Absolutely nothing. But when you put on this shtick for all these years – But Eric ain't pouring the concrete. That you're the decision maker and you're not even pouring the concrete.

Yeah, that's a great point. But when you put on this false bravado and you slick back your hair, when you act like you're this tough businessman and then you get – you get questioned like that and it looks like you're going to cry. Oh my goodness. Eric was a step away, Jordy, from like doing what Trump does to people on his own. Like he almost self-inflicted one of like the, you know what? I was just the coffee boy. Cushman and Wakefield has annual revenues of over $10 billion a year. Cushman and Wakefield is far bigger by multiples than the Trump organization could ever wish to be. The fact that he's looking at Cushman and

Wakefield, anybody in real estate knows what Cushman and Wakefield is. It's one of the biggest companies out there. The fact that he's like, what is this? Cushion? Is this a cushion and wake me – cushion and wake me up? I mean – and again, for all of the Magisplainers out there who want to Magisplain to me, you see, Ben, the fair market value is always over 5,000% higher than what the appraisal is. It's over, everybody knows, everyone knows that. Okay. The bottom line is also, we're supposed to believe that Eric Trump doesn't know what Cushman and Wakefield is and was not involved in the appraisal conversations. And here's one of the questions that I know some people may have. Why didn't Eric just invoke his fifth amendment rights against self-incrimination?

He previously did. He tried to. But the problem is, in a civil case like this, it's an adverse inference if you invoke your Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. So because for the Trumps, their money is more important than their life and liberty, they – for this specific case, they don't invoke their Fifth. Because they know by invoking their fifth, they basically admit to liability in a civil case. In a criminal case, when you invoke your fifth, it is unconstitutional for the prosecutor during the case to go to the jury and say, you see why this so-and-so didn't testify or why they invoked the fifth? That means they are guilty. In a civil case, that's about money. You can do precisely that. You can go to the trier of fact, the jury,

or in this case, Judge Ngoran and say, the reason this person invoked their fifth amendment is because they're liable and they're responsible. And had they answered these questions, they would be admitting liability. So he had to answer the questions. But see, now I wonder if what they're trying to set up for next week is basically say, look, this was one big, or later, this was a witch hunt. We're invoking the fifth. This is all under protest. We are not even going to testify. They're just so cowardly. It is hard for me to believe that Donald Trump will sit there for two days, but let me know what you think. I've heard of the insanity defense, Ben, in my brief legal expertise here, but I've never heard of just the blanket stupidity defense. That was truly a spectacular video of incompetence

from Eric Trump. Because they lie so much that when you tell the truth, it's not really hard to sit through a deposition. But when everything is a lie, you have to then think through like, okay, what do I say here? How do I deal with that? He's thinking, how do I deal with the fact that I was aware of the fraud? The question makes it very clear cut. So his whole response is basically, I don't know who McArdle is, who by the way, was an executive at Cushman and Wakefield. I don't do appraisals. And when McArdle testified last week, they showed that depot to McArdle and they were like, is that your understanding of Eric that he pours concrete? And McArdle's like, no, he did the appraisal with me. What are you talking about? And so that's what's going on, but we will keep you posted with more on Eric Trump as we learn more about this testimony taking place this week. I want to show you more about Donald Trump's speeches over the past 48 hours. I mean, we've been saying, look, there's something deeper going on here. And you know, with these MAGA Republicans, it's always projection

and confession. They're always trying to create exactly what's going on with him and say, that's Biden, that's Hunter, that's this, that's that, and the other thing. This is some wild stuff we're about to show you. Also, we've almost unlocked the Judge Ngoron emojis. Yes, we've almost unlocked it. So I appreciate it. The chat's been going wild. The chat has been going. 71 more. 71 until we unlock it.

71 until we unlock it. And Brett, will we load later for those who join? And Patreon's different than the YouTube memberships. I just want to be clear about that. For those who join patreon.com slash MidasTouch and miss today's chat, can we load that later for everybody as well so they can see the Zoom chat? Yeah, we'll have the full Zoom chat available on patreon.com slash MidasTouch after this. We answer lots of questions.

We answer a ton of questions. Love seeing everybody face-to-face. Some intimate questions too. Intimate ones, yeah. Intimate. Very. That's what I love about the Patreon. You could-to-face. Some intimate questions too. Intimate ones. Intimate. They ran again. That's what I love about the Patriot. You could ask us anything and we're open books.

I'm like Eric Trump. We don't lie. We don't have anything to hide. You know what's hard about the Eric Trump lies? They tell so many different lies to different people that it makes it even that much harder. So it's not like they told a lie to one person and they need to remember what the lie they told that one individual was. They told one story to one group of people, one story to another group of people, one story to another group of people. So they box themselves in, in this web of lies where they cannot possibly even tell the truth

at the end of the day. And that's why you don't commit fraud. I mean, that's why you don't get yourself in these situations, Eric. And so that's something to look forward to. I think the schedule now is we got Wednesday, Don Jr., Thursday, Eric. Ivanka was originally scheduled for Friday. She got moved now till after Donald Trump is scheduled to go. And I think he's going on the six. So there is going to be a lot, a lot, a lot coming a lot for us here to cover on the Midas Touch. Let me just, let me just, let me just tease this. Sorry. No, Brett just gave me a great idea for the after show today at patreon.com slash Midas Touch. We once spoke with Mary Trump and we got the definitive answer of who she thinks is the

dumbest Trump child. And so we have that. It's an old video. We could definitely replay that, go through the question, go through some other things about happening next week. Ben, Brett, what do you think about that? I love that idea. And I also love that after this quick break, we're going to be showing what went down in Sioux City and Las Vegas. And it ain't pretty for Donald Trump. Play after this quick break. Good health starts with good habits. Quip makes it easy by delivering all the oral care essentials you need to care for your mouth. Every time you pop Quip's new mints, you'll be caring for your mouth both inside and out.

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Another two speeches he gave in Las Vegas. about the workers, where President Biden is talking about building an economy from the middle out and the bottom up, where President Biden is talking about issues in an adult-like manner. It's a bare threshold for me when it comes to politics. I'm not looking for kind of WWE cosplay fascism bad guy characters and giving them the nuclear code. Sorry, that's just not my idea. But Donald Trump's conduct has just gotten more and more and more unhinged with each and every speech. And one of the things and one of the reasons why I'm confident in 2024, but my confidence should not be viewed as in any way complacency.

We need to make sure that we're registered, that we've registered others in the pro-democracy community, and that we continue to do our part. Everything that each one of us can do every single day, we need to do. But you remember back in 2020, remember the stand back and stand by moment? And that was like a big deal. Stand back and stand by and everyone's like, whoa. Okay, Donald Trump is making music with insurrectionists. He's releasing the songs. Dude, he calls them the J6 choir. On Apple Music. Donald Trump on a daily basis is giving speeches where he praises authoritarians and then mixes up where the country is. He said that Viktor Orban is the leader of Turkey. He was not. He's

the leader of Hungary. He says that Hungary has a border with Russia and everything he always says about Viktor Orban. He knows in his mind, Viktor Orban, authoritarian, I must like him, but has no other fact about Viktor Orban at all or what Hungary is or where Hungary is located or anything like this. Donald Trump is going to have to go through three debates. One of the things that MAGA Republicans did in 2020, and they're doing it again, is that the things that they say, and by the way, that legacy media buys into about President Biden, is they act like Biden can't even say words. Like he can't even say words. Legacy media loves buying into that. Loves buying into that. So then when people actually see President Biden speak,

like the important foreign policy speech he gave in the past two weeks, like the State of the Union. You always hear from the media, whoa, that was such a powerful moment. It's always pretty powerful. You just don't listen to him speak and you buy into narratives, easy narratives, cheap narratives, both sides narratives. That's just what legacy media does. And that's one of the reasons we started the Midas Touch Network, because I would look at these cheap, easy to debunk, silly narratives, dangerous narratives, and just be like, yeah, but what are they basing that?

They're just saying things just because? Like, can we go bring the data here? So what will happen in these debate performances is President Biden's going to be the President Biden who we cover here on the Midas Touch Network. He's going to do a good job. Yes, he's older, but I like older statesmen. I think that's a good quality in a leader, right? And he's going to be older, but he's going to know his facts. He's going to be very competent and diligent and calm. He's going to know where countries are located. He's going to talk about policy. And I think you're going to see Americans react very favorably to that. And then you're going to have Donald Trump do things like this. Here's Donald Trump not knowing the city that he was in, and he had to be reminded about it.

Here, play this clip. A very big hello to a place where we've done very well, Sioux Falls. Thank you very much, Sioux Falls. Thank you. So Sioux City, let me ask you. And again, the arrogance, he could have also have just said, like made a joke about it, that he messed up or, hey, I've been real. He goes right back into it though, because he can't possibly fathom. His own pathology won't let him be wrong. And so he just goes on and says, oh, that's what I always meant. That's what I meant. That's what I meant.

I think he was genuinely befuddled, like genuinely just completely confused by the whole situation. Like the look on his face, just his whole face kind of drooped down. And he looked at the guy and was trying to like take in what the guy said. It was local Iowa state senator who came on stage and shook Donald Trump's hand. And it might be a little hard to hear if you're listening on the audio podcast. But what he said in Donald Trump's ear as he pulled Donald Trump close, that was picked up on the hot mic. He goes, because you're actually in Sioux City. The name of the city is you're saying you're in you're in the wrong place.

And he had to treat him like he was a child and actually remind him of the facts. Well, that actually, Brett, you're getting to it. That was the look on his face, though, of a look of someone who for years has surrounded himself by yes-men. Oh, he calls it this thing? Everyone around him will start calling it that thing. It's the first time in a while in front of a large group of people, actually even being televised, that someone went and corrected him and he had to admit that he was wrong. That was the look. It was the look of him not being surrounded by a total yes-man in that situation. I'm sure the guy is a total yes-man, but just for argument's sake here, it's the first time in a while he was actually corrected and didn't really have an out to make up a lie and actually say,

no, I'm actually here, blah, blah, blah. It's a universe that he surrounded himself within. Watch that state senator though, because I'd be interested to see if there's a primary opponent who runs against them. I bet you Trump will do something retaliatory. And by the way, that state senator is a total MAGA chaos agent. I think that was the state senator who had made some comments that the FBI is going to be coming after all MAGA people. He's going to have to just change the name of the city to appease Trump so that he could be like right at written rest. But seriously, you're joking. But really, that's the play in order for him to save face. But you know, there's that moment, right? But I think what we have to look for is patterns, right? It's easy to look at that and say, okay, he slipped, he made a mistake of the city name, you know, maybe that was just it there. And I will concede that fact, right? But we have to look at the patterns that we've been witnessing, especially over these past few

weeks. And we're going to get into a lot more clips, but just remember a few weeks ago, Donald Trump went on a whole rant saying that Jeb Bush was president. And it was very clear that he did not just simply mess up the name Jeb Bush and George W. Bush, because he spoke about running against Jeb Bush in the election. He spoke about Jeb Bush's campaign slogan. And then he spoke about Jeb Bush sending American troops to the Middle East. She's completely not with it. You've had him now on multiple occasions say that he's run against Barack Obama in the past or is running against Barack Obama in the future.

You have him say things like President Biden led us into World War II. World War II, of course, has already happened. These things just continue to happen with increased frequency. Now it seems like every single time he gets behind a microphone, there are these incredible cognitive lapses that are also connected with these bizarre outbursts of rage, which he didn't used to really do on stage. There used to be the occasional, you know, line that he had, but not like it is right now where he's just like ranting about the lighting or screaming at the microphones or just starting to like randomly curse at the crowd. It's bizarre, unhinged,

untethered from reality behavior that I think shows a very concerning mental decline. He builds Viktor Orban into a major part of his speech. This isn't something that he wings. He talks about praising the authoritarian leader of Hungary, Viktor Orban, and he always messes it up. He either says Viktor Orban's the leader of Turkey or that Hungary shares a border with Russia or something. But just think about that. That is a major part of his speech, this weak, odd, right-wing authoritarian Putin ass-kisser. That is who Donald Trump puts in the speech in the United States of America. What? Here, Donald Trump claims that Hungary has a border with Russia, which it does not. Play this clip.

Victor Orban. Did anybody ever hear of Victor Orban? He's the head of Hungary. Hungary fronts on both Ukraine and Russia. It doesn't, it doesn't at all. False. Here, Donald Trump just in another speech praises Viktor Orban, play this clip. And I make this promise you as president, we will restore peace through strength on the earth, beyond on the earth. Victor Robben said the other day, the only way that this world is going to be solved, he's a very strong man, as you know, from Hungary. And he's the boss. There's no doubt about it.

He actually asked me for my endorsement, and I gave it to him. I said, what do you need it for? He says, because I like to win by a lot. And he did. But he said, they asked him a question at an interview interview and they said, what would you recommend to Biden? And he said that I recommend that he resign immediately and put Trump at his place because during Trump, there were no problems. China respected us. Russia respected us. Everybody respected us. And he always is citing the enemies. He's never citing our allies and our military. How does he refer to them?, it's never, ever, ever that. It's wait till you hear what Kim Jong-un said about President Biden. You are not going to

believe the negative things. It's like, really? These are your references here? You are going to praise dictators. You're going to praise the adversaries of America. And then you are not only going to ignore our allies, but you are going to actively attack our allies and attack our troops and attack our generals every single time. Here, this is where he says that Viktor Orban is the leader of Turkey. He's not. He's the leader of Hungary. Play this clip. You know, I was very honored as a man, Viktor Orban.

Did anyone ever hear of him he's probably like one of the strongest leaders anywhere in the world and he uh he's the leader of right he's the leader of turkey fronts on both russia and he's doing the russia thing again it's another country that doesn't front on Russia. I mean, again, remember there was a time where a politician who spelled potato the wrong way was disqualified. If you were in a windsurfing video, that was disqualifying. Heck, the precursor to the MAGA Republicans when Republicans were kind of the chicken hawk Republicans, they went after John Kerry, who served admirably in Vietnam for not being courageous enough in Vietnam, which was total

and utterly false and trash. And now you have the Republican Party led by someone who literally praises Victor Orban, doesn't know what the borders are, has no clue the way the world even looks. Not at an existential philosophical level, how it looks. Legitimately does not know where countries are on a map. And that's who they're like, yeah, give that guy the nuclear codes. Here, Donald Trump is unable to say the word terrorism. Play this clip. Colleges and universities will purge the anti-Semitism and pro-terrorism. What you're doing, the terrorism. And so one of the things he does, because that moment happens a lot in his speeches now, what I've been noticing is when he starts the speech and throughout, he will always blame something in the audience,

every speech. It's part of the speech now. He's doing it to cover up the fact that he's really struggling to speak. He'll do things like, the lights, the lights, it's the lights' fault. I'm going to have to fire somebody. You're fired. It's part of every speech. That shtick, Ben, you're so right. It's been increasing more and more, but let's go back during the presidency. Remember when there was the crying baby, how he handled the crying baby? It's like, get that baby out of here. I can't do my speech with that crying baby in the room. But now, Ben, to your point, it's every time. It's the lights. it's the microphone. I mean, the guy is literally like cognitively deteriorating, like right before our eyes at every step of the way.

Here he is in their most recent speech, lashing out at the lighting. Play this clip. And I apologize for those lights. The only place I don't have a light up here. So that means we're going to have to wig it tonight. Okay. There's no light. They give us plenty of lights, but not to read this crap.

Look, they wrote me a beautiful speech. I might as well throw it right out that window. The one thing he's right about is that it is crap. And by the way, and it's not the first time recently he's blamed the lights. Here he is a few weeks ago blaming the lights as well. You know, we have these strong lights. As we get better and bigger, the lights get much more powerful. But you look like crap on television.

I was going to tell my people. I'm telling my people now. I'm talking. This isn't for you. These lights are so powerful. They probably cost a lot of money because we're doing so well. Everyone's sending in lots of cameras. But these lights are no good.

Number one, you can hardly see the audience. Number two, when you go home to watch it with our great first lady, how did I look? She said, you didn't look good. Too much light. These lights are terrible. They're terrible. They look pretty when you're here. It's lit up like a Christmas tree.

By the way, remember Christmas, by the way? We brought back Christmas. Remember Christmas? Christmas, everybody. That's a wild moment, too, when he goes, and it lights up. And then his brain is like, lights, Christmas, Christmas tree. Remember Christmas? It's a scary way it all connects.

But it's an old theater trick of why they make the lights so bright. And it is because they don't want him to see how truly empty the crowds are. So if they could blind him, his yes men around him could tell, oh, sir, it was packed. Everyone was all over the rafters. You had 30,000 people there. It's one of the reasons why they make it so bright and blind the guy. He's talking about lights. He's so angry at lights like he is against windmills.

That's going to be his new running point. He's going to be like, we got to ban these lights. The guy's unhinged. Alternative points. The lights are fine. And he is unable to. Exactly. The lights are actually normal lights.

Here he is complaining about his microphone. Here, play this clip. And I'm glad it's such, because this is the worst microphone I think I've ever had. I hope you can hear me back there. Justin, don't pay the bill for this mic. I'm blowing out my voice talking to this stupid mic. This is the worst mic I've ever had. Okay, now we'll get back to the speech.

I'm trying to get their attention. Turn up the mic. Is it okay? And then I don't pay a bill and they say Trump doesn't pay his contractors. he's lost. He's saying things to try to remember where he even is right now. This is every speech. Blames the lights, blames the mic, praises Viktor Orban, attacks NATO. Just think about this speech. This is the stump speech. We're going to compare it to what President Biden's talking about, so don't worry. But the speech is, you go in there, praise Putin, praise Kim Jong-un, yell at the lights, yell at the mic, praise Viktor Orban, attack Special Counsel Jack Smith, mock President Biden, start doing like a grunting noise, start doing that, and then attack NATO and then leave the stage. That's what he does. This is him attacking NATO and saying that he told our allies, remember he says, Viktor Orban he loves. But to our actual allies, he told them that he will not defend them if Russia attacks them. Play this clip.

I'm not going to protect you any longer. And I remember the head of a country stood up, said, does that mean that if Russia attacks my country, you will not be there? That's right. That's what it means. I will not protect you. That right there is the most chilling of anything he said during the speech, in my opinion. I mean, that clip alone, those 11 seconds, or however long that clip was, is disqualifying enough. Had anybody ever said that throughout our history since the existence of NATO, they would be considered disqualified for the presidency. But this is this MAGA Republican party's leader. This is their cult leader. Couldn't agree more with you. And I want to show you President Biden, what he's been saying. I want to talk also about the MAGA Republicans in

the House of Representatives, their first piece of legislation with MAGA Mike, which is to try to tie foreign aid with defunding the IRS, which will actually increase the deficit. And they're trying to act like that's going to decrease the deficit when they are the ones who added $8 trillion to the deficit. I've used this time and time again. I've called it magasplaining. It's worse than even mansplaining, which is really bad. Magasplaining, when you have this conversation with them and they're like, let me explain to you how we need to be fiscally disciplined here. It's like, well, weren't you the people who added $8 trillion to the deficit and printed money so haphazardly like the most in American history? Well, let us lecture you

about how you need to do. Let's start with cutting your Social Security and your Medicare. But didn't you give billionaires all of these tax cuts and allow them to write off their private jets and their yachts and now you want to cut my social security and my Medicare? Desperate times call for – and they say it like that. They say it like arrogant jerks too. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and there's an emergency right now. Yeah, one that you created. You created it. $8 trillion was caused by you. Here's the thing. Democrats, though, need to do a better job messaging it the way that I just did. It's very easy to remember $8 trillion. T like Trump. Trump and the MAGA Republicans caused $8 trillion to our deficit. They are the arsonists.

Now they want to MAGA-splain to the firefighters and blame them and say, looks like you created this fire. I am going to tell you how to put it out. The way we put it out is we abolish the fire department. That's what they are doing. Let's talk about this and more, but let's take our last quick break of the day. Today's podcast is sponsored by NutriSense. That was the sound of the NutriSense biosensor. It's a small device that you put on the back of your arm that then provides real-time feedback on how your body responds to foods that you're eating, your exercise, stress, and even your sleep. With NutriSense, you just take a photo of your meal. You adjust for the portion size and NutriSense does the rest. NutriSense helps you track your data, see your

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people care about is the Judge Arthur Ngoran emoji. I think far more people care. Let's go. At least 14,000 people who are here live concurrent making this one of the most watched. The Ngoran emoji had more supporters than Pence by at least 400 times, easily. The Angoran emoji has been used already more times than people who have said that they would support Mike Pence for his presidential race. His supporter must be absolutely devastated that he dropped out of this race. Personally, I think Mike Pence should have been forced to carry this thing to term, but if he wants to end this early, that's up to Mike Pence,

I guess. Hey, but real quick, shout out to the Midas Mighty for unlocking that Angoron emoji. I mean, everyone's been using it in the chat. It's awesome to see. Y'all the best. I knew we could do it before the show ended. Thank you. Did you see some of the crowds he was getting by the end of his campaign at this point? You're going to call them crowds? Right. It's very generous. The gatherings Spence was getting. We posted one of these on our Instagram.

For those who are following us on Instagram, that might as touch. It was a picture of a crowd at one of his events. There were six people. I couldn't tell. And it was a picture of a crowd at one of his events. And there were like six people. And I couldn't tell what even it was. It looked like maybe it was a pharmacy or a store. I don't even know what it was. But at that point, I was like, how does this guy not just pack it in at this point? This is just embarrassing. It just shows you though, when you have zero conviction, when you kind of want to play all sides of the issue, like Pence's whole thing was like, oh, I'm this constitutional guy to do my duty on January 6th. But then you're still like, yeah, maybe I'll support Trump,

the guy who tried to hang me, the guy who supported. It's like you can't play both sides of that fence. If you're going to want to market yourself as the guy who has conviction, as the guy who stood conviction, as the guy who stood up for our democracy, then go all in and defend our democracy. You don't hedge, okay? And now I'm curious to see what a guy like Pence does in terms of endorsements. Not that his endorsement has any weight to it whatsoever. I'm just curious to see how he's trying to position himself politically in a world where at this point he's basically pissed off all ends of the political spectrum and nobody likes the guy.

Well, Ben talks about it here all the time on the show. Ben's favorite expression on the show is the MAGA hokey pokey. And it's like when you want to pretend that you have some sort of spine and then you fall right back into the traps of just falling in line with MAGA. And so that's what Pence was constantly doing. When you do have no moral convictions about anything, the MAGA hokey pokey is a game everybody loses who plays it. Pence was just another domino to fall in that game. Pence's sole constituency was one mosquito. The fly.

The fly. It was the fly. The fly was on his head longer than he stayed in the race. Now it's a mosquito. I'm going to go with the mosquito for him. A little Jim Jordan. A little Jim Jordan James. It's an evolve from a fly to a mosquito.

He doesn't believe in evolution, Ben. Well, you know, I'll evolve from a fly to a mosquito in this part of this transition, which my Jim Jordan, just let it be, my Jim Jordan reference of like Jim Jordan, James Comer, all these MAGA Republicans in the house. I've described him before as these like MAGA Republican mosquitoes. Like, here comes Jim Jordan. It's like, get the mosquito away from me. Get this guy. This guy is creepy.

Get this creepy mosquito. That's Jim Jordan coming in. And one of the funny things to watch was during these impeachments. You've had some unbelievable noises and just mannerisms during the stream. I hope someone just cuts together all of them. One of the things during this bogus impeachment inquiry was to actually watch the Democratic members of Congress like swat the mosquitoes. And it was so easy to do because the MAGA Republicans would like read a paragraph and then they would read like the first sentence and not like after the comma.

And like, it was like, and then you'd have like the Democrat go, yeah, but keep on reading. Like it wasn't even like a difficult cross exam. Like you're just the Democrats asked them, one of the first questions is, so do you have any evidence to support the claims that the Republicans are making against President Biden? And they go, no, we don't. No, no, no. So during the time period that you're talking about, who was the president? I always love that one from Christian McCarthy.

Who was in president? Well, President Biden was, he's thinking about running. Who was the president? I'm not sure I understand the question. Who was in office? Was Donald Trump in office during that time period? Yeah. So what you're complaining about is something that happened not only when Biden was not the president, but when Biden was just a private citizen and not even the vice president. And you're saying Donald Trump, what, was Bill Barr in on it? And Bill Barr was this deep state agent with the Trump-appointed AUSA, and they were working together. The United States attorney was working with Bill Barr to help Biden because they knew in the future that Trump was going to get into a fight with Barr. To believe the MAGA stuff, you have to go, Bill Barr was in on the conspiracy. The Republican FBI director was

in on it. All of the Republican federal prosecutors, Trump's lawyers in the White House were all in on it as well. And the only people with the secret knowledge is Donald Trump, Sidney Powell, not Sidney Powell anymore. Donald Trump, Jenna Ellis anymore. Donald Trump and Ken Chester, not Ken Chester anymore. They're all in on it. They're all in on it too. All right, I'm losing track of it. All right. So the only people in the world who have the secret answer is Donald Trump and a man who farted on Jenna Ellis, Rudy Giuliani. And those are the only two people, those two, they have the secrets and everybody else is part of this massive conspiracy, the likes of which nobody's ever seen. Anyway, going back to my mosquito and fly. So this is a quote from Jim Comer, James Comer,

the head of the oversight committee who was formerly running this impeachment inquiry, which I guess is no longer happening. Quote, I don't know that I want to hold any more hearings, to be honest with you. And then he goes that it's hard to keep members present for hours on end, just hard to keep them seating there. So many other commitments. That's what he said. That's what he said. And I'm doing a James Comer impression. Hard to keep them there. And they've had many other commitments.

I prefer depositions. You can do a lot more with depositions. So let me also get this straight. You have all of these bombshells. Bombshell after bombshell. So after doing the first impeachment inquiry, which was supposed to be your foundation, now that you have the bombshells, you go, I would rather do secret depositions. I guess that, Mag explain that one to me. I guess that makes sense in Mag world, right? I'll Mag explain, I'll normal person explain it to you. It's because when they do these closed

door depositions that aren't in front of television cameras, they're actually able to leave those meetings and then lie about what was said, manipulate testimony, cherry pick testimony, go on Hannity and make outlandish claims. And we already see James Comer trying to do this, right? We saw just this week, he was like trying to get back on the bike, right? He had a disastrous stuff. This was like the one hearing too, when they made it a formal inquiry. They did it once. They hyped it up for a long time on Sean Hannity's show. He would be on every single night. They did one, got humiliated and called it quits. And now it's not that they're trying to stop the impeachment inquiry that is completely bogus and an utter sham. They are trying to move it to the shadows because they know now that people saw their game, now that it was televised, now that

we covered it here at the Midas Touch Network and people saw the humiliation firsthand, saw what their scam was all about, they realized we can't make that mistake again. We can't get in front of the TV cameras. Let's try to find some other kind of sketchy people who we could get quotes out of. We could cherry pick things and we could try to just make Biden look bad for the election. Because remember, that's the whole point of this. The whole point of this is to try to weaken President Biden's support. And I wouldn't take it lightly because this is the same exact strategy that they used when Hillary Clinton was running for president. How do I know that this was their strategy? Because Kevin McCarthy said on Fox News to Sean Hannity that that was his strategy. He explicitly said that

the reason that they were running the hearings on Benghazi were to hurt her poll numbers and brag about the fact that it was working, that it was doing the job. So don't get it twisted and think in any way that this is a legitimate proceeding whatsoever. And also don't think that Comer's comment there where he goes, you know, I don't want to hold hearings to be honest with you is an admission that he's going to, that it's him saying that he's going to stop doing this because he's going to keep doing this. He's going to keep tweeting out things that try to make them look suspect. Like he's already been doing this all week long. And so now we just have to see the schemes that he's working on in the shadows, behind closed doors, and we need to

all be immediately calling out these scams for what they are. But it says so much that he is backed off from these televised hearings after that complete humiliation? It's why they hate courtrooms. It's why they hate when testimony is televised, what they hate when their depositions are broadcast. I mean, again, you see what Eric Trump is really like in that deposition. We see what these MAGA Republicans are really like in the sunlight when they held that disastrous impeachment hearing. And again, this is the way I speak when I speak to if anyone's in my life that's MAGA, I go, okay, well, if you're so confident in it, why aren't they hold, where's the second hearing? Why isn't that happening? If you believe that that's a bombshell, you would want a bombshell being publicly televised, right?

So why not hold a hearing for the bombshell? And they may, if you want to argue with them over all of their Fox talking points and OAN and Newsmax talking points, you're not going to get anywhere. And so the way I do it is I go, okay, but if that is your point, let's just assume for the sake of argument, you're correct. Don't you think that you would want this? Don't you think you'd want that to happen? It's by the way, why I love what judge Tanya Chutkin did, where she in a minute order requested an answer from Donald Trump and his lawyers about whether he wants the trial televised

or not. Cause Trump's been saying he wants to televised. He wants it televised. And while there are no rules in federal court to televise trials, in fact, the law in federal court is to usually not allow televised trials. I like the way that she's saying, should we make an exception here? Because it's important. You're saying you want it. How do you feel about that? So we're going to make sure we follow that brief and talk about what Donald Trump's position is. And Brett, your point is well taken as well, although not well received, that they're trying to undermine Biden in every way. The legacy media is complicit in this. I want to try to find this headline also

from the way Politico, yeah, this is it right here. I haven't sent this to you, Brett, so don't worry if you're not going to be able to pull it up. I'm not psychic, so I'm not going to be able to pull it up. So after President Biden announced this blockbuster United Auto Worker deal. Not this is a great deal. This is how Politico's headline was. Political danger for Biden receding as second automaker has deal with UAW. Political danger for Biden receding. They can't give him credit for anything. 4.9% GDP growth is some blockbuster number where if Trump was in office and there was 4.9% GDP, which there was not, if that was the case, New York Times would be front cover. Certainly the ones they can rely on like New York Post and Fox, they would all have that front cover for sure. Economic boom, boom, American Renaissance, the greatest economy of all time, 4.9% GDP growth, the lowest unemployment in American history. There's a specific boom also in GDP growth in factories

and manufacturing workers. And you truly are seeing President Biden's vision of middle out and bottom up coming to fruition. We've got like 40,000 infrastructure projects across the nation right now. It was funny. I was speaking with a banker recently and the banker told me, hey, a lot of bankers are Republicans because that's the default. But whenever we have our conferences, we all talk about the economic boom that's going to be happening now because of President Biden. I thought that was so interesting when I had that conversation that people get what's actually going on is nothing short of a miracle, maybe slightly short of a miracle, but certainly exceeding everybody. I don't want to get carried away. Well, also, Ben, put it in the context too.

But certainly exceeding expectations by far where everybody was not just predicting recession, but frankly, it appeared at times that the legacy media was like rooting for it and trying to make one happen. Did you see the Bloomberg headline from their analysis from a year ago? This was over a year ago at this point. Bloomberg ran a headline that said they didn't even couch it. They said 100% chance of recession within the next year. They said 100% chance. They could have at least given themselves an out and said 99.9% chance and been, oh, I guess the 0.01% happened. But the fact is over the past few years, the media has continued to doubt Biden. And also the Republicans this entire time have been trying to destroy and blow up the economy

at every turn. They've held like literal blockades at the border to try to slow down goods from coming in so that prices would rise. They have tried real devious things in order to screw up things for average Americans, in order to make Biden look bad so that they could win in this really cynical, twisted way. That was the political calculation that they made. And in the face of all that adversity, we've seen all the bills passed under the Biden administration. We've seen him stand by workers with the UAW. And he really put his neck out for the UAW workers and showed in the most pro-union effort of a president, perhaps in history, at least in a very long time, standing with workers on the picket line. When have you ever seen that image in your

life? And the contrast of him, President Biden, standing alongside with picketing workers, and then Donald Trump going to a non-union plant and telling the picketing workers that they're picketing for the wrong things, and that they're not going to get what they want, and that they're screwing themselves, and that they're going to hell. These are things that Donald Trump said at a non-union plant directed at union workers. The contrast cannot be clear, and now that is actually bearing fruit. Now we're seeing all of these deals actually get made, and we're seeing the union workers win big. GM and the UAW reached a tentative agreement. It was announced today and President Biden spoke about it today during a ceremony.

This comes after tentative agreements have been made with Ford and Stellantis. These mirror the agreements that have been with Ford. I haven't seen the specifics of this deal, but they are saying it mirrors the Ford deal, which includes a 25% wage increase along the life of the four and a half year contract. That's a bigger wage increase than these union workers have received without going on strike in more than 20 years. So when you talk about are strikes effective, is this sort of collective bargaining, is this sort of collective action, is it worth it? Donald Trump spit in their face and said, you're picketing for the wrong things. So is it worth it? Well, they just got a 25% wage increase when in the past 20 years, they have not gotten that sort of wage increase.

And that wage increase goes up to over 30% when you include the cost of living adjustments that are also included. It's something like a 33% increase. That is, to quote President Biden, a big effing deal. And now I won't just quote President Biden myself. Let's go to some of the things that President Biden had to say about this. As I said, President Biden has really stood by the workers throughout all of this. And President Biden talked about standing in solidarity with the UAW workers and their right to collectively bargain and about these record contracts that they achieved. I'll play this first clip of President Biden. Before I began, I want to explain why I was delayed a few minutes.

I've just spoken with President Fain of the United Auto Workers. And let me say a few words about UAW and the big three automakers, Ford, General Motors and Stellantis. They have reached a historic agreement. These record agreements reward auto workers who gave up much to keep the industry working and going during the financial crisis more than a decade ago. These agreements ensure the iconic big three can still lead the world in quality and innovation. Due to the commitment and solidarity of the UAW workers willing to exercise their right, their right to collectively bargain, they want a record contract with over a 30 percent increase in wages, greater retirement security and more paid leave. to create more full-time middle-class jobs and invest tens of billions more dollars in plants and factories building automobiles future here in America. It was an important point that President Biden made also that I feel like a lot of people don't speak about that much, which is that these workers, you often hear one of the criticisms from the right when you say

things like, well, these companies are earning record profits. Don't the workers deserve a pay increase? That is often met with a retort to the effect of, well, if they were doing poorly, would you cut their pay? Well, this isn't a hypothetical situation. When the economy crashed, when these industries were threatened before they were bailed out and saved actually by Vice President Biden then and President Obama at the time, you know what these workers did when their companies were struggling? They did take a pay cut. They did take a pay cut. So now it's only right that when these companies are actually getting record profits, they're doing better than they've ever done in history. That some of that is passed along to the workers that are

making it possible and that they are setting up these workers to be there for future technologies like electric vehicles and that they are involved in the production of what is going to be the future of the American automobile market. In the second clip, Biden talks about worker power. Once again, the solidarity of standing with workers and the good economic news. Folks, look, today's historic agreement is yet another piece of good economic news showing something I've always believed. Worker power. Worker power is critical to building an economy from the middle out and

the bottom up. And so is economic growth. We just learned that our economy grew 4.9 percent the last quarter, the highest growth in two years, just as inflation continues to come down. We have more to do, but we're finally beginning to build an economy that works for working people, for the middle class, for the entire company, the entire country, including the companies. Because when we do that, the poor have a ladder up, the middle class does well, and the wealthy still do very well. We all do well. You mean he's not talking about Viktor Orban? You know, he's not saying that Russia shares a border with Hungary. He's not yelling at the lights. He's not cursing. He's not just making grunt noises. He's talking about

issues like the economy and tangible strategies to build our economy. He's talking about lowering prescription drug prices. He's talking about confronting things and solving things. He's talking about education. He's talking about protecting seniors. You mean he's talking about protecting a woman's reproductive rights. I mean, you're telling me that he's talking about jobs and working conditions. He's talking about things that Americans care about and think about. You mean he's not saying, I'm a really handsome man. Aren't I so handsome? You mean he's actually, I mean, he's not writing in all caps and having typo after typo. What? What? What? What? I mean, that's the thing though too. Billions of dollars, tens of billions of dollars

are being spent to try to manipulate the American people into believing that the person that you just saw has the same characteristics as the person that you saw earlier in this podcast, so that they could just go, you know what? It's all bad on both sides. And so I'm just going to go with the conservative one, even though one's not conservative. Donald Trump's not conservative. If they could create with billions of dollars, tens of billions of dollars, potentially hundreds of billions of dollars, manipulation with flooding the zone with false information so that when people think about Biden, the exact traits that Trump actually exhibits, they can conflate, well, then everybody's just so confused and doesn't know what's going on. It all seems corrupt. It all seems bad. If they could just demonize Democrats, and this is what they do to say that Democrats are worse than Putin, are worse than Russia. That's what the arguments that they say.

How horrific is that? And then when you have a situation like what was going on with the Speaker of the House and the vacancy that was there for weeks on end, and Democrats saying, let's come up with something, what do they do? They pick MAGA Mike Johnson. They pick the most extreme of the extreme of the extreme. Someone who says that mass shootings were caused by no-fault divorces. Somebody who was the main author of the briefs that were submitted to try to overthrow the results of the 2020 election. I mean, you couldn't create a character of a more religious extremist than MAGA Mike, who they have as the Speaker of the House

right now. And then what's the first thing that MAGA Mike Johnson does? In an aid package that President Biden, foreign policy, right, where usually the executive asks for funds and Congress has oversight, but Congress is usually willing to support our allies abroad. And the fact that you have a MAGA Republican Party that refuses to fund Ukraine and has created this Frankensteinian funding package where if funds were to go to Israel, then correspondingly, there would have to be a $14.3 billion rescission of funds given to the IRS, which will actually increase the deficit. All of those studies by the CBO have showed that when you actually have a well-funded IRS, one of the things that have changed is actually more people who deserve to get refunds,

more people who should not be taxed. Most Americans are enjoying the benefits of that. The real people who don't want IRS to be funded well are billionaires and decamillionaires who are worried that that means enforcement actions against them and that if the IRS is funded, they'll be able to go through these returns and say, that doesn't really make sense. That doesn't make sense. And the same scheme that Donald Trump is running, where he puts an army of lawyers to try to delay, delay, delay perpetually, that's what a lot of these billionaires and decamillionaires are kind of consistently doing.

And so that's why they say defund the IRS. When the IRS is well-funded, more tax revenue is collected. And as I mentioned earlier in the show, the $8 billion deficit was caused by the MAGA Republicans. So I just want to say this very clearly, which is MAGA Republicans are lying and claiming they want to reduce the deficit that they created by defunding the IRS and tying that with a national security package. I can't think of anything kind of just more gimmicky and kind of irresponsible than that. And let's be clear, as we get closer to the continuing resolution, I believe that with MAGA Mike Extremist in place, that these are a group of people. And I actually think that they will pass a continuing resolution

in November. And here's where I think their plan is. So I just want to call it out now so you all see it. And I think I have a good predictive record here. They don't want to prematurely destroy our economy, right? They want to wait a little bit to try to cause maximum damage is what I think they're going to try to do. So I think they'll pass a continuing resolution. And also because a lot of these MAGA Republican members of Congress want to go home for the holidays because they're lazy too.

And then I think they come back in January. Now you're in 2024, you're in the election year. And I think that's when they're going to try to not fund the government. And they're worried that the economy is doing well. That's a really screwed up way of thinking about it. But look how they all acted with each other when there was a speaker vacancy. That is how they view their job and the fact that they view Democrats not as fellow Americans. I view Republicans as fellow Americans. I mean, I think this MAGA mutation is wrong and I think it is very problematic.

But they view everybody else, rhinos, Bill Barr is apparently a Democrat now. Bill Barr is a rhino apparently. Think about that. Bill Barr is now not extreme enough for them. Bill Barr is a rhino, all these kind of rhinos they want to kick out. Think about what they're going to try to do and how they are framing this and how they treat Democrats and how they view it. It is through this lens that needs to be called out the way we are calling it out here. When I say we, you're involved in that. You're the most important part of this because one of the advantages this community has that all legacy media doesn't have is that when this show ends, that's when the work begins. And that's a powerful tool.

When you take the insights that you learn here and you share it with that family member, you tell them, hey, just watch this clip. Watch this section. Watch this. And I've seen all of the comments because once you show it to someone and they watch it once, they go, it opens up eyes because it's evidence and database and that just isn't out there. And so now the work begins thanks to you. And as part of that work, I do want to remind everybody about the Virginia elections, November 7th, and what's at stake there in Virginia, where Glenn Youngkin with his sweater vest MAGA version, which is equally dangerous, is trying to flip the state Senate to push very draconian abortion bans there. That's what they are trying. They're trying to package

MAGA extremism in a vest. That's what they're doing in Virginia. And it is so critical that if you're in Virginia, you're near Virginia, or if you have the ability to reach out to people in Virginia, that you take action and you make sure you're reminding pro-democracy voters in Virginia to vote, do everything you can to make that happen. We're going to do a video about that tomorrow with our friend Simon Rosenberg, and we're going to post it on the network and also give some tangible action items about what you can be doing in the next few days. I want to thank everybody for unlocking the Judge Arthur and Goran emoji. There's nothing more I enjoy watching than seeing Judge and Goran's face show up in the

emoji form throughout the chat. We'll keep you posted on some of the testimony that will be taking place this week. We showed you a preview of what Eric's testimony is going to look like. It's going to be brutal, but we will be covering that here. We'll keep you posted on the outcome of the disqualification trial if there's indeed an outcome this week. There's a lot going on. A November 1st hearing before Judge Cannon to see if she's going to delay the May 2024 trial. If she does, let's look for Fulton County District Attorney Foney Willis to swoop in and ask for a trial date there. So there's some strategy going on there. And then we got our after show.

We're going to show in our after show that clip that Jordi teased earlier when we spoke to Mary Trump and she told us this was early Midas stage. This is early Midas. This is some vintage, immature Midas. This is some immature Midas Brothers stuff. The best kind of Midas Brothers. The best kind of Midas Brothers stuff. The best kind of Midas Brothers. The best kind of Midas Brothers. I want to say this too.

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