The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump RAGES after Horrible DAY FOR HIM

Episode Date: May 10, 2024

On this episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast: The Trump trial continues as day 14 continues to spell trouble for Trump, with the cross-examination of Stormy Daniels backfiring on his legal team. Trump made a few desperate motions during the trial, which were swiftly denied by the judge at the end of the day. Meanwhile, Trump's absence from campaigning raises eyebrows, replaced by a lavish NFT event where he boasts about his mental acuity. Nikki Haley's strong showing in Indiana shows more warning signs for Trump’s chances in November. Meanwhile, President Biden's announcement of a $3.3 billion investment from Microsoft in Wisconsin contrasts sharply with Trump's unfulfilled promises, showcasing Biden's commitment to job creation. Ben, Brett and Jordy break it all down! Deals from our sponsors! HexClad: Find your forever cookware @hexclad and get 10% off at https://hexclad.com/MEIDAS! #hexcladpartner Oracle: Take a free test drive of OCI at https://oracle.com/meidas Momentous: Go to https://livemomentous.com/meidastouch and use code MEIDASTOUCH to get up to 36% off your first subscription order. Smileactives: Visit https://smileactives.com/meidas today to receive a special buy-one-get-one-free offer! Support Ukraine and get your official MUGA hat here: https://store.meidastouch.com/products/muga-hat 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 Coalition of the Sane: https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/coalition-of-the-sane/id1741663279 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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As we are in day 14, week four, things did not go well today during the cross-examination of Stormy Daniels for Donald Trump, that is. People were thinking that Donald Trump with his team of lawyers who supposedly had good reputations in New York, like Susan Necklace, they were going to show Stormy Daniels. They were going to cross-examine her. And Stormy Daniels not only held up, I think she did much better on cross-examination than she did during direct examination. And I think she did just fine during direct examination. She was calm. She was confident. And as Donald Trump's lawyers tried to attack her and themselves focus on all of the quote unquote salacious stuff. Stormy Daniels explained in meticulous detail everything that went down. And we will go over all of that here.

And Donald Trump left saying, I'm so innocent. I'm so, so innocent. It's exactly what you'd expect innocent people to say when they leave their criminal trial, right? Donald Trump whining in court, Donald Trump whining about not being able to campaign because of his criminal trial. But let's just face it, that's a scam as well. When Donald Trump is off from trial, he's not spending his time campaigning. On Wednesday, Donald Trump spent the day at Mar-a-Lago hosting an NFT event for his Trump NFT trading cards where guests arrived at Mar-a-Lago with $425,000 Hermes Croc Birkin bags. I hope I'm saying that the right way, or maybe I don't hope I'm saying that the right way. At this event, Donald Trump was bragging about solving math problems. I took

2,373 and I multiplied it by 400,000, three, two, multiplied, divided, seven seven equals. I knew the answer. It's like actually just like that. He also bragged about not being cognitively impaired. I'm cognitively good. He wanted everybody to know. Well, he was not doing all that good in Indiana of all places. Yes, there was a primary held in Indiana. Nikki Haley, who dropped out of the Republican primaries two months ago, got over 20% of the vote. Let me repeat that. Nikki Haley got over 20% of the vote. She got over 100,000 plus votes in Indiana. Yet corporate media wants to say, oh, just take a look at our polls, not this statistically significant actual voting behavior that we've seen in each and every one of the primaries so far. Didn't y'all learn your lesson with the red wave?

I don't think you did. Speaking about not learning their lessons or perhaps just not learning anything at all in life, Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion to vacate the speaker, Maga Mike Johnson, and then another motion to table Marjorie Taylor Greene's motion, basically reject the motion, was immediately introduced. Marjorie Taylor Greene's motion to vacate was immediately rejected as she got booed throughout the speech that she gave. It was quite humiliating, but quite delightful. Speaking about quite delightful, President Biden spent his Wednesday

in Wisconsin where a new Quinnipiac poll actually has President Biden up big, but I know I shouldn't be focusing on polls. Let's focus on things like President Biden announcing a $3.3 billion investment in Microsoft, bringing an AI data center to Wisconsin in the exact same county, in the exact area, in the exact same plot of land where Donald Trump, when he began disgracing the Oval Office, claimed that Foxconn was going to build the factory. You know how we've been exposing all the Trump scams where he brings out fake people who he claims are supporters and he goes to the bodega and he goes to the Chick-fil-A. When he had the Oval Office, he would run those scams. He had Foxconn say they're building a factory. This is going to be the eighth wonder of the world. He said they brought golden shovels. They ended up screwing over the taxpayers of Wisconsin, and get this, building nothing. Who would know that the biggest destroyer that there is Donald Trump, who's never been a builder, who bankrupted everything, who lies about everything

would lie there. And president Biden actually gets the things done. And as we talk about president Biden's trip in Wisconsin, it is the perfect juxtaposition, the perfect contrast that we highlight. Do you care about reality? That's why we go, this really ain't about politics. Do you care about reality? Do you care about getting things done? Do you care about actual data and facts and doing things? Or do you just want a horrific and despicable snake oil salesman and a propaganda machine to just tell you a bunch of BS just because we don't do that here on the Midas Touch Network. We break it down with all the facts. I'm Ben Maiselis joined by Brett and Jordy. How you doing? scam. And I think it's really highlighted now more than ever. I mean, that's side by side that we are seeing, especially in these past few days of Donald Trump in the courtroom,

stewing in his seat, literally cursing audibly in the courtroom, having to be reprimanded by the judges, begging the judge to just loosen his gag order so that he could attack the witness, so he could attack Stormy Daniels because he didn't like what she had to say, and just all of these antics. And then you see President Biden out of Wisconsin actually getting stuff done. I think it was very powerful that this factory is actually being built in the same exact place that Trump said that he was going to have this Foxconn factory built in and promised all of these jobs. All he ended up doing was displacing residents in Wisconsin. He literally bulldozed people's homes. It's the most Trumpian thing, bulldoze people's homes. He stood there with a gold

shovel, and here's a photo for those watching of him holding a gold shovel, he's promised, I'm building the eighth wonder of the world. And then nothing happened. It never happened. It was all a scam. It was all a scam. I tried to think of like a theme throughout these episodes. I think the scheme today, scams. And we're going to see a lot of that here from Donald Trump.

Jordy, what's up, man? Who are you, John Mulaney, theming the episode? I like it. There we go. Can you pull up that picture of Trump one more time for the viewers? I mean, it looks like the man has never held a shovel in his life. He looks wildly uncomfortable. Just humiliating. I'm excited to get into it, but Ben kind of buried the lead. Ben, I heard you bring it up during beatdown, so I'm just going to bring it up here. We got a big wedding coming up, don't we? Yeah, that's right. We got a big wedding coming up don't we yeah that's right we have a big wedding coming up let's go big bro i am getting married on may 18th that's one day also before

my birthday where i turned 39 on may 19th so we've got all of our family coming in and yes i am truly excited the love of my life, Sochi Marine. And we will have photographs there. We will share it. We will share it with the Midas Mighty. So Jordy, thanks for that. I can't wait. A little bit of payback from when you guys went behind the scenes at my wedding when I was all crying and stuff.

And you guys just blasted those to the internet when I got my phone back. I'm like, okay, I know we were posting photos, but that's cool. Okay. We did post the crying Geordie meme, a crying Geordie photo. I'm upset that it never became a meme. You know, like- It easily can. It still can.

That's the beauty about the internet. We can bring it back. Meme, crying Geordie. Well, not crying, but Donald Trump whining over and over again in the criminal trial in Manhattan. A few hours ago, after Donald Trump and his lawyers tried to argue in favor of a mistrial based on the testimony from Stormy Daniels that they elicited on cross-examination, which Justice Mershon was like, what are you talking? You asked her these questions. You've made it, for reasons that are unclear to me,

a part of your defense that your interactions with her never occurred and that she's making it up. So of course she has to be able to talk about it if your theme is that this never happened and she's a liar and she's making it up. And by the way, Donald Trump, your lawyer, Susan Necklace, first and foremost, didn't object to almost anything while the prosecutor was asking questions on direct.

The judge says, I stepped in at one point in time when Stormy Daniels was talking about how you said that you would take her out of the trailer park if she was slept with you or whatever. I objected as the judge for your lawyer, sua sponte, on my own. Your lawyer should have objected, but that was it. I was the one who jumped in there. So I don't know why your lawyer, and just looking at the lawyer right there, didn't make objections. Ms. Necklace, he said, that's her name. Ms. Necklace, I have to say, I was shocked by your conduct. I was very surprised. And then Ms. Necklace, you proceeded to ask Stormy Daniels about all of these questions. And you asked her about the films that she was in and the films that she made

and whether because she made films like that, that has a script, that the script was like that she makes up scripts. And you asked her these questions where, of course, she's going to respond with some level of specificity. So like, what are you even talking about? Mistrial motion denied. And then Donald Trump stormed out of the courtroom, quite literally, and then started whining how unfair it was and how unfair he was treated.

Take a look at this when Donald Trump lashed out at the judge after today's trial. Play the clip. Thank you very much. Everybody saw what happened today. I don't think we have to do any explaining. I'm not allowed to anyway because this judge is corrupt he's a corrupt judge this judge what he did and what his ruling was is a disgrace everybody saw what happened today he's a corrupt judge and he's totally conflicted and I gotta get back on the campaign trail I'm not supposed to be here. We are so innocent. There's never been anything like it.

Read every single analyst, legal analyst. I'm innocent and I'm being held in this court with a corrupt judge who's totally conflicted. Take a look at his conflict. It's a disgrace to the city of New York, to the state of New York and to the country. Thank you very much. You know, the state bar of New York looked into the conflict because Justice Mershon disclosed that they're saying there's a conflict. I don't think there is. But state bar of New York, if you think that basically I'm not allowed to have a daughter who has a job, then I'll leave this case.

But you can tell me that. And the state bar was like, yeah, that's not a conflict. That doesn't exist. The fact that your daughter has some job in politics and has worked in places, if that was the standard, then judges would be disqualified from quite literally everything if you're held to the standard of if you have kids and they work in locations. And so there is no conflict. Innocent people don't say, I'm so innocent.

I'm so, so innocent. One of the things that Donald Trump's lawyers asked Justice Mershon was for permission to attack Stormy Daniels afterwards. And that was actually a request that they made. And here's the thing, you know, the, if Trump could say, look, this event happened, we did this, we entered into a settlement, I made the payment. I didn't know how it was categorized. And, you know, you can't hold me for that. I clicked the wrong button. But of course, I engaged in this behavior. I did it. I wasn't proud of it. But I didn't intend to do anything criminal. If he went there, I'm not giving him advice because he's already didn't go there. He's not listening to this advice. Anyway, it's too late.

So that's why I could talk about it now. At least there would be a cognizable defense, right? Their whole thing is the Fox defense or the Newsmax defense or the OAN defense. And they're trying that in a court. None of this ever happened. Quite literally nothing. And it doesn't matter that you've seen the checks, the text messages. It doesn't matter that Stormy Daniels has Donald Trump's bodyguard's number, Keith Schiller's number in the phone, that there are text messages,

that there's on the file from Donald Trump's controller for 40 years, $130,000 reimbursed to Cohen, gross it up, buy two, add this payment. Just ignore all of that. None of this is actually happening, and everybody's a liar, and it's one big giant effort to go and get Donald Trump. That's what they're running with right now. And so it's like, what are you – It's like, how offensive can you be? I mean, how offensive can you be? There is one way that if you really want to respond to Stormy Daniels, if you want to respond to all the allegations made against you, guess what? There's an opportunity within the court of law for you to do this. It's called you get up on the witness stand, you swear an oath, and you testify to those things. So why are you, Donald Trump, why are you so afraid to under oath say that these things with Stormy Daniels never happened? Why do you only want to do it outside of court in these extrajudicial statements? he was like, no, I can't trust your client with this. You think I could trust your client after everything he did? And also acknowledge that this is not just about even protecting Stormy Daniels.

It's about protecting all of the witnesses in this case. The witnesses in this case know that they're coming on this stand. And then immediately once they leave, all of a sudden, the gag order is that Donald Trump is allowed to attack them, that is going to be intimidating to these witnesses. And Donald Trump just wants to continue to bully and intimidate these witnesses. I like how he always says like, oh, all the legal experts say that I'm right. And then when he ends up citing people, he cites like Sean Hannity, Tom Fitton, who's not an attorney, but wears very tight t-shirts on Fox News. Like these are his legal experts who say it. I think most legal experts, anybody of good faith would have to admit that this is a very strong case. Witness after witness

that has come to the stand has corroborated all of each other's stories in this matter, which I think has been very, very powerful. By the way, I'm also a little upset at a lot of the ways that not only like you expect the Trump people to say certain things about Stormy Daniels testimony about, oh, woe is me. It's so salacious. But seeing like media personalities on TV say things like that to me, like it really honestly bothers me. And it was like the attacks. And we'll get into the attacks from Susan Necklace as well, that you were hinting at before against Stormy Daniels. But it really felt like, you know, what Trump's attorneys were doing is they were trying to say, because you work in the adult film industry, you cannot be trusted. Because you have appeared in adult films,

you cannot be trusted. You are beneath us. You are beneath me. And I thought that was absolutely, it's like sickening to do that to her, to say that to her. And then to have people say, oh, all this testimony is so salacious. She's giving her experience and it's a powerful experience. It's a powerful testimony. And the reason that she has to do that is because Donald Trump and his attorneys are calling her a liar. They're saying that she made up the whole thing. So if you're going to say this woman made up the whole thing, then you have to accept that she is going to defend herself and she is going to try to corroborate her story to ensure that the jury trusts her. And so that's

what we were seeing playing out. And you had this interesting mix today of her there and then some other witnesses that were kind of more dealing with more kind of black and white issues of checks being signed and things like that, which ironically were probably even more important to actually the case itself. But I think Stormy Daniels did an incredible job on the stand today. And I really, really, really resent anyone for denigrating her because of her line of work. I just think it's simply like disgusting. It's 2024.

Like, what are we doing here? Absolutely, Brett. And you're so right. And I just want to add this to your point, Brett, about just having legal experts actually talk and diagnose this case. We're just so lucky here in the Midas Touch Network to have Ben and Karen Friedman Agnifilo and Michael Popak and all the lawyers that we have on the channel. Ben, your pre and post coverage with Karen is incredible. And I highly recommend that if any Midas Mighty out there has not seen the coverage each day that they do before the trial and then after the trial, definitely check that out because those breakdowns from Karen and yourself, Ben, are amazing.

Well, look, to have Karen Friedman Agnifilo lead our Trump criminal trial coverage here, she previously served as the acting Manhattan district attorney. She was the number two as well in the Manhattan district attorney's office. She worked in that office for almost 30 years. She's appeared before Justice Merchant. She's tried countless cases to jury verdict. She's tried cases to jury verdict in front of Justice Merchant. She knows the court well, and now she's in private practice as a criminal defense lawyer. So she gives it from all perspectives. If there are aspects of the testimony that are favorable for Trump

or that the prosecution has not made their case out on certain issues, Karen addresses it in an objective way. And she's been methodically going through it. And she says this, at this point, she goes, even right now, the prosecution has established beyond a reasonable doubt that a crime has been committed, that Trump has committed the crime, that Trump's crime of falsification of business records was also done in connection with efforts at tax fraud. And the one piece that she says she's waiting to see from a few other witnesses is to attempt to interfere with the

election. All the prosecution would have to show was it to hide tax fraud. And that's what makes it from a misdemeanor to a felony. And she even thinks as of right now, those elements have been met. And also, she was a sex crimes prosecutor. And so she's dealt with victims and have prosecuted men who have denied that the acts take place because that's the only defense in cases like that that's usually asserted. And here, Jordi, in your point, when Karen Freeman Agnifilo was chatting with me, first and foremost this morning, the key thing she said is, remember this phrase, opening the door, opening the door.

Will Trump lawyers open the door to allow Stormy Daniels to say things by questioning her? And then at the end of the day, that's exactly what Justice Mershon was talking about. You open the door, Susan Necklace, on your cross-examination. Here's Karen Friedman Agniflo and I talking about the testimony by Stormy Daniels. And here's what KFA had to say. Play the clip. She also talked about Trump's wife, that you know, Trump said that, that, you know, Melania is very beautiful, but we don't sleep in the same room. Apparently Trump shook his

head at that point. You know, she talked about, you know, the whole thing about, he asked her about condoms and does she wear condoms as a porn star? And of course everyone knows he's a germaphobe. And then like at one point before they have sex, he's like, you know, he reminds me of Ivanka. I realized the context that it was in, it seemed like it made sense. But when you know that he then had sex with her afterwards, it's so disgusting. I don't know. As Peter Henlein says, who's a DeSantis supporter, quote, you remind me of my daughter because she is smart and blonde and beautiful, is a very, very strange thing for a man to say to a adult film actress that he is engaging in the

acts with that Donald Trump did. Very strange. And then he has the photos of them. We're not going to play him here, but hat tip to Brett for doing the videos. So there's those Kendrick Lamar v. Drake rap battles taking place. And Brett's been taking the Kendrick Lamar diss tracks and has been showing Donald Trump's abhorrent behavior over the years, directed at his family, the Epstein connection and and and all of that so i could tell people go and search that on our social media we're not going to play it's on our youtube shorts and it's on our twitter and it's on our instagram and it's on our tiktok so you could find it we did we did two with two of the kendrick uh drake diss tracks and i gotta say they're they're really good they're horrifying and they're very revealing about just how disgusting that this man is. One of the things that we also broke on MidasTouch.com, our editorial team

broke the news that Alina Haba after Stormy testified, Haba was going on all the right media, Fox and others, and she was attacking Stormy Daniels. And so we were all looking at the gag order, and the gag order clearly says that Donald Trump is prevented from attacking witnesses, the jury, and family members of the prosecution. Why would you even do that in the first place? It's such a ridiculous thing to say. What a wild thing to have to even be told that you shouldn't attack the jury, witnesses, and family members of the prosecution. Even the mob and mafia doesn't do that. But Trump has also prevented from directing others to do it because obviously if you can get around it by having your spokesperson do it on your behalf, clearly that would not make, there would be no point to the gag order.

So one of the things that we pointed out, we did a video, we did a story about it is she's Trump's legal spokesperson. She has his authority to speak on the news about cases and she's attacking witnesses and that that's improper. That should be improper and be violative of the gag order. So we publish that. And then earlier today, we have this video of Alina Haba after we broke our story. here's what Alina Haba had to say. Play this clip. How is the prosecution's star witness allowed to say anything that he wants, and then the former president is not allowed to respond? Because we have a dual system of justice and a very unconstitutional gag order.

As his legal spokeswoman, I'm nervous about what I can't say, and that's also unconstitutional gag order. As his legal spokeswoman, I'm nervous about what I can't say. And that's also unconstitutional. The fact that they will not let a defendant speak and exercise his First Amendment rights, never mind the leading candidate for president, that is un-American. It violates his First Amendment rights. And yes, yesterday we filed something in the appellate division to appeal this completely ridiculous order. in the appellate division to appeal this completely ridiculous order. Hopefully the appellate division will see that it is unconstitutional, as we say it is. And the American people definitely already do. Look, I can't wait for a time in our politics where these super annoying people are just gone from our politics.

And they could go back to being annoying in their own annoying bubbles, like be annoying when you practice law, whatever annoying practice you have. Can you just stay out of our politics where people's lives are on the line? Like, she couldn't even say what she was saying there made no sense. I think she said it's unconstitutional that she's nervous, I think. I think that's unconstitutional. And then gag orders are unconstitutional like she doesn't make any sense and she clearly saw our reporting because she was attacking stormy um on uh fox like repeatedly the other night we did a whole kind of expose and broke down why

we believe that to actually be a violation of the gag order because i mean if you think about it if donald trump put out a press release that attack that said the same exact things that Alina Haba said, it would be indisputable, right? So why is paying somebody, basically paying a walking press release, paying somebody to do your press for you, somebody who goes on as your literal mouthpiece, who is listed as Donald Trump's spokesperson on all these shows, legal spokesperson to go and send them to attack people. And then, you know, I have a theory too, and we can maybe get into this after, but I think the other people who are showing up at the court today, we saw Rick Scott, the Florida Republican Senator. We saw Janine Pirro, the Trump-obsessed, very strange lady who's always drunk purportedly on Fox.

And I think, honestly, Donald Trump is having a lot of these people come in also to act as his attack dogs. And I'm curious to see if there's any communication between Trump's team and somebody like Rick Scott to say, come so that you could stand out in front of the court when the cameras come and you could attack Stormy Daniels. You could attack this person because we can't. Because I think that's a kind of what part of a strategy of getting all these people to the court, honestly. Impact reporting right there. You see what Midas Touch Network is doing to expose this corruption, to expose what's going on that corporate media is not touching. And maybe they're complicit, maybe they're lazy, maybe it's all of the above, but we're going to cover it here. Patreon.com slash Midas Touch. If you want to help support the growth of this

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That looked awesome. It is indeed. That is the world famous pan from my Instagram story where I made when I was making the halibut piccata, which came out amazing, by the way. And everyone was, I see the comments. I see everyone says more Brett Reeds, more Brett Reeds. Absolutely. So Jordy, sometimes you got to give the people what they want. I love it, B. And Ben, amazing Oracle read. Shout out, click the link. You guys got as good as the Brett Brett read. I'm just kidding.

No, I think they were both equally as good. Trump trial day 14, we're in week four, a stormy day, stormy cross-examination, stormy Daniels redirect. We thought that she handled it very well. And a very bad day for Trump's lawyer, Susan Nicholas, who was not only ineffective. Surprised me, to be honest. Not only ineffective. Yeah, I was told she was a good lawyer. Not only ineffective on cross-exam, Stormy Daniels really dominated the cross-exam, which is kind of like an odd thing because usually a skilled trial lawyer would do a decent job cross-examining someone and not there. And then Susan Necklace basically got admonished in front of Donald Trump for not doing her job effectively and not objecting when the judge said, hey, I thought you were going to object to certain points. You didn't object, so I'm not doing your job for you. So Stormy Daniels testified. Then we had Rebecca Minocchio,

a bookkeeper from the Trump organization. She testified about processes and procedures of when Donald Trump was disgracing the Oval Office, sending checks for Donald Trump to sign at the White House. But there was another set of checks that she had to send directly to Keith Schiller, Donald Trump's personal bodyguard. Those went to a different location to be brought to Donald Trump. And we believe those, of course, were the ones that Donald Trump signed where he falsified the business records. Then you had Tracy Menzies, a HarperCollins exec testified. She was a custodian of record. She went through, because Donald Trump is not agreeing to authenticate

his own books, he's distancing himself from his own words. She had to show more Donald Trump books about the types of things that he would say, like, hire the best, but don't trust them at all. Make sure you review each and every record, micromanage everything, things like that, showing that if the defense is going to claim that Donald Trump would just let other people do it and he was not aware of these checks, that basically kind of counters any argument that the defense would try to make there. Then they had Madeline Westerhout, or how she testified, Trump's executive assistant, and then she worked in the White House and her desk was right next to the Oval Office. People who were there say Trump scored some points with her

because she got fired for apparently making statements about Tiffany Trump's physical appearance. But she still has this affection for Donald Trump, for whatever reason. She still, you know, likes Donald Trump and the Trump family. So she said nice things about him for a few minutes. And so people were saying, oh, you know, so she was good there. But if that's like the best that you can get during a trial, that's not really, you know, all that, you know, all that good. Because the key things that the prosecution called her to testify was how close Donald Trump and Michael Cohen were during the relevant time period and how they were on good terms and Trump liked Cohen. And she would observe them having

all of these meetings together. So if they're trying to discredit Cohen, all of these meetings were corroborated by her. She testified how Dan Scavino, the deputy communications director at the White House, who also worked on the Trump campaign, how he was responsible for writing Donald Trump's tweets and social media posts. He would bring them over to Donald Trump and Trump would add exclamation points to it. And they were the only two people who controlled Donald Trump's social media. So she established that. She established that Trump, because she would have the call logs to Donald Trump, and she'd be on some of these calls, that Donald Trump would call Alan Weisselberg to ask questions about the hush money payment checks. So that was important testimony. And then she corroborated a Hope Hicks text message to her about David Pecker and Trump wanting to speak to Pecker about the payments. Then there was that mistrial hearing at the end, from Susan necklace where she was like asking a stormy Daniels. So you've acted in more than 200 adult films.

You directed over 150 of them. So, so you have a lot of experience making phony stories up about sex and stormy Daniels would be like, wow, that's not how I would put it. The sex in the films is very much real. just like what happened to me in the room with Donald Trump.

So you memorize fictional stories and you repeat them. Isn't that right? And Stormy Daniels would be like, the scripts, not the actual sex. Pretty sure we all know how to do that. Then there was this other weird line of cross-exam where Susan Necklace was like, so you went to the hotel room, you thought you were going out to dinner, even though you spent three hours, you never ate dinner. Then she's like, yeah, we never ate. But you wrote in your book, I was freaking hungry. And you made a point of that in the

interview, Stormy Dennis. I mean, it was dinnertime. I was hungry. We talked about ordering food and going to get food, but it just never happened. I went to dinner and I didn't get dinner. I'm not sure why that's so hard to understand. And that was the type of cross-exam. And then the other type of cross-exam was when Susan Necklace would say, isn't it true that you said that you hoped you would be instrumental in putting Trump in jail? And Stormy Daniels said, show me where I've ever said I want to be instrumental in putting him. I don't think I've ever said that. So then she shows him something, shows Stormy Daniels something, which is like some weird Twitter troll account called the Pink Elephant

Room from last March. Michael Cohen and at Stormy Daniels, AKA the human toilet are their star witnesses. So necklace shows this to Stormy Daniels and Stormy Daniels notes that she's replying to someone calling her a human toilet. She goes, someone's calling me a human toilet. So I'm making a joke back to someone calling me a human toilet. I never said instrumental, like, what are you talking about? So that was the, I mean, just when I say like disastrous cross, I'm not just, unlike right-wing media, it's not like I'm just saying it was a disaster. I want to show you specific portions of why I think it was. You may agree. You may disagree.

But that's why I think it was a disaster. All right. Also a disaster. Also, dare I say, a human toilet. Mar-a-Lago at this NFC event. Mar-a-Lago, the human toilet and a crime scene. This was the event right there. You see some photos for those watching. There's some of the guests there. We did a review. Our editorial team really digs deep. They looked at the bag and found out it was a 450,000 Hermes. I hope I'm saying it right. Hermes Birkin.

Maybe I don't hope I'm saying it right. You're crushing it. Hermes Croc Birkin bag. So those are the kind of people chilling. I think it's Hermes. I thought it was Hermes. I thought it was Hermes. I don't think you pronounce the H. Okay.

Well, anyway. So Trump at Mar-a-Lago NFT event on Wednesday, Donald Trump gave a speech, and he was bragging about solving math problems to prove he's not in cognitive decline. Let's play this clip if we got it. But they also asked other questions. They say 2,347 and 2,913 divided by two, multiplied times four, divided again by seven,

multiplied by nine, right? What's your answer? And I got it right. You're a genius. You're a genius. Wow. Wow. Wow. By the way, the actual question is count back from a hundred by subtracting seven is the actual question. And he turned it into this extra convoluted thing. I mean- That's what I was saying in the intro. It's like, you take 2,397. By the way, why he is like a fourth, like no offense to Petula in fourth grade. I feel like when I first discovered a calculator, I would go like 3,200 times 403 times 64 times divided by two multiplied. I'm like the first time I discovered

what a calculator is here. Just look at this scene. Just look at this scene. I'm sure he's got a really good personality. By the way, while he's got people there with $450,000 Hermes crock bags, you had that Washington Post exclusive as well today about Trump just straight up promising oil executives that if they gave his campaign $1 billion, he would remove all of the things that President Biden has been doing with electric vehicles and trying to help climate change. Is that even legal? You give me $1 billion oil expense. As Governor Gavin Newsom said, he goes, have we just accepted this as the new norm? Big oil is literally writing up executive orders for Donald Trump to sign on day one with a promise of $1 billion in return. He's giving away our planet in return for our cash, not even just giving away our planet. He's giving away good business. Electric vehicles is the wave of the future

for better jobs. Clean energy is a job-creating plan. You can't just be for horse and buggies. Technology evolves. We need to be the leaders of cutting-edge technology. But Gavin Newsom's rhetorical question, have we just accepted this as the new norm? Like with these clips we're showing you at Mar-a-Lago, here's another one from Wednesday at an event where Trump's talking about, okay, I'm not cognitively declined, because another tough question was a lion, giraffe, a bear, and a horse. Here, play this clip. You know, they show you the first question, which is a lion, a giraffe, a bear, and a freaking horse. And they say, which one's the lion? And here he is talking about to the people there. He goes, where are my rich people at?

Where are my rich people at? Here, take a look at what he says here, play this clip. Look, I have all my rich people. Look, see, that guy, see, they're shaking hands on a deal. Look, they just shook hands on a $10 billion deal. They're trying to figure out how do they get advertising like. They just shook hands on a $10 billion deal. And quite literally, everything he says is a lie. I want to remind you, too, that remember in the courtroom, Donald Trump says, I'm here, but I could be campaigning and they're keeping me away from the campaign trail.

Guess what? Instead of campaigning, Donald Trump was holding an NFT event for people who bought NFTs of photos of him, fake photos of him in spacesuits and as a cowboy. I'm not sure if you saw this too. on the table, the tables for this NFT event, Trump had these brochures for the Trump sneakers, those like ridiculously ugly gold, fake gold sneakers, saying 10% off sneakers for NFT card holders. Like just think about that, that the leader of the Republican party was holding an NFT event where he's then telling the people that they can get his fake gold sneakers with a 10% discount for purchasing the NFT trading cards of himself. How bizarre. But then Trump also gave earlier this week some local interviews with local Pennsylvania TV networks. Here's one of them where he's asked about, would you be okay with states monitoring women's pregnancies? Monitoring women's pregnancies. Are you good with states doing that? Here's Donald Trump's response. Running that say that you would support

certain states with bans monitoring a woman's pregnancy? Well, that would be up to the states. Again, they will make a decision as to how they do it. I go back to Gavin Newsom's statement. Have we just accepted this as the new norm? Is this just something that, look, Trump's saying it. Look at what Trump's saying. So, you saying. Don't take what he says seriously. Of course, we should not accept this at the new norm. States monitoring women's pregnancies? Are you kidding me? They're not. That's actually the platform of MAGA Republicans. One other point I'll make too, and I'll show the image in just a little bit as well. Just think about this.

Two days ago, Donald Trump posted a meme from a QAnon account on his social media platform blaming his own former Vice President Pence with election interference on a meme with President Biden, and I think it says guilty on President Biden's head, and Nancy Pelosi. Just think about that. Could you imagine if for a moment President Biden made one post with Kamala Harris on a meme accusing her of committing crimes and the fact that that will never even get talked about anywhere other than the Midas Touch Network. I go back to what Gavin Newsom says. We just accepted this as the new norm that no one's even... Look, hat tip, for example, to some of the media who writes these big stories. And I want to give a hat tip, you know, to the Washington Post, who, by the way, is one

of the sponsors, the Midas Touch Network on with some of our shows. I thought that was a good story. What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to do his campaign. It's a great story they broke. But with the Times, the New York Times, everything is a problem for President Biden. This is a problem. That is a problem. That's how the New York Times writes all of this is a problem. That's a problem. The fact that the Times won't cover the fact that Trump is posting memes attacking his former vice president who won't endorse him, accusing him of crimes.

And that's just like, oh, you just post a lot of things. And it's a QAnon account. It's an account from a literal death cult. By the way, at that event, what Trump was also doing on Wednesday, he gave himself an award for his J6 anthem song for like a very short period of time. It climbed on the billboard charts. So Trump was celebrating his new version of the national anthem that he sang with the J6 insurrectionists who he calls hostages. Have we just accepted this as the new norm? We better not.

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old-fashioned, but if I'm running a media network and the former vice president to someone who's leading the party is not endorsing them and says that they are not qualified to be in office, former vice president. And then the person makes a post saying that your own former vice president is stealing an election. Maybe let me say it this way. What if there was a text message that was uncovered? Maybe the media wants to hear it in this terms. What if you did a public records request and you got a million documents and you were going through the documents and then in the documents you saw Donald Trump say, you know, Pence was trying to steal the election from me. And he conspired with President

Biden and the former Democratic Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, that they're part of a cabal. And you found that. Then I think it would probably make the, because did you have to discover that? Why when they are telling you who they are right there, can't you just say, hey, take a look at this, everybody. That's the part that Trump's been able to master. And he shouldn't be because it's the stupidest thing in the world. It's right in front of us. So call it out about what it is. And then what Trump can do is he projects his things on the other people. And then the media writes it about the other people. And I'm just thinking, hey, it's pretty freaking easy to put up the photo. Here,

Brett, put up the photo. Abracadabra. Voila. That didn't exactly take much exertion of effort for me to point that out. How about this? Have you seen tonight on any of the major networks or any of the corporate media or any of the media at all that Donald Trump made multiple videos of himself attacking Jewish people today and just saying, if you're Jewish and you vote against me, shame on you, like over and over again? Are you seeing that in a lot of places that that one didn't make, didn't cut it? Because seems to be a pretty big, significant point to make. Abracadabra. If you're Jewish and you vote for him, I say shame on you. What Biden is doing with respect to Israel is disgraceful. If any Jewish person voted for Joe Biden, they should be ashamed of themselves. And if Jewish people are going to vote for

Joe Biden, they have to have their head examined. This is really sick. This is really, really, really sick. I censored myself there. He's a real sicko. He's a real, real, real sicko. It's so offensive. It's one of the most offensive things you could possibly say. I cannot fathom what the reporting would be like if Joe Biden said that. It is absolutely just, it's horrible. It's horrible to attack Jewish Americans in that way. They should be ashamed. You should be ashamed. You should be, anyone who votes for you should be ashamed. You are the scum of the earth, the bottom of the barrel. You are absolutely disgusting. Have some introspection.

Jeez. Honestly, it really makes me angry, those clips. All day today, he was on this all day, just attacking Jewish people, attacking Jewish people, attacking Jewish people. It's disgusting. What about also Donald Trump saying that he would vote for President Biden over RFK? We got this clip here. Play this one. I'd even take Biden over Jr. because our country would last about a year or two longer than it would with Jr. It would collapse almost immediately. And his family, a radical left, a crazy left, a bunch of lunatics would take over and our country will die very quickly. So RFK's views on vaccines are fake, as is everything else about his candidacy. He is not a Republican. So don't think you're going to vote for him and feel good. He's a radical left Democrat. Let the Democrats have RFK Jr. They deserve him. The internal polling's got to be horrible, right? I mean, Trump and-

Bonser, they created on their own. Yeah. And I understand that there may be people out there who are trying to find, I don't like this person. I don't like that person. Let's try to find somebody else. But it's a binary choice that we have here in our elections. And you have Donald Trump, a criminal who tried to quite literally overthrow our country. And you have Joe Biden, who is getting things done, who's been one of the most successful presidents in history, who's passed some of the most legislation in history, who has done tangible things, whether it be on the economy or infrastructure or things like the CHIPS Act or things like helping our veterans. The list goes on and on and on.

And when you have those two choices, the choice is very clear. And you have a guy, an RFK Jr., who quite literally is being propped up by all the Trump money, like the Trump super PACs. They've got the same donors. You got the, Steve Bannon was pumping them up for a very long time. You had all these Trump acolytes pumping them up for a very long time. And now guess what they're finding out? They're finding out that RFK is taking away more votes from Trump than he is for Biden because RFK's big thing is to be anti-vax and things like that. And those are things that appeal to Trump voters. And so now Trump is desperate, like desperately trying to reverse course. And now he's attacking

RFK. And it's interesting, if you go back and you look at interviews of RFK on like a show like Hannity, if you look at like him a year ago on Hannity, Hannity also is propping him up. Oh, and then, you know, just all of his various issues like just very positively right then rfk went on hannity show again once they found out that uh not going so well for donald to have rfk jr in the race and what did we see there hannity a huge tone shift if you want to call it that hannity just like attacking the guy calling him a radical liberal like it's like two different people you know and it just shows you how also disingenuous their reporting is, and how the second that they view anything as a threat, what their move is. It's the same move

as always, you're radical, you're left, you're liberal, you're this, you're that. And then you see, I even saw, I'm not going to even repeat it, but one of these MAGA Republican congresspeople wrote one of the most horrific tweets about – there was the brainworms thing, which was an entertaining story about RFK Jr. That he literally has brainworms. But then this MAGA Republican congressman, big Trump supporter wrote a a thing comparing it to like JFK being shot I'm not gonna get into the details it was like gross though these people are sadistic but they always go to like just the bottom of the barrel it's you know and never apologize and and just they thrive in like how could we be as disgusting as possible that's why I constantly want to be like you know no matter who no matter who we're talking about here,

can we please be decent? Can we go back to decency and normalcy? And I hope that when folks watch the show, they understand that that's what we're pushing for above anything else. It's like, let's be decent human beings to each other. Okay, let's be normal. Okay, we don't need any of this crazy stuff.

We want to actually get things done. We actually like when folks work together for the common good. We want people's lives to be improved by politics because I think that is, should be why people go into politics in the first place. And then wait real quick. I'm sorry, Ben, but that video of Trump saying junior, so like angrily, like, you know, he's, he's deep down. I think he's referring to a different junior in his mind when he's, know he's he's deep down i think he's referring to a different junior in his mind when he's when he's getting that out of his son probably got excited

at first he's talking about me in a very negative light though and so the an rfk and we could get to this too when we hit on the nicki haley segment that i know we have coming up it was a monster that they created in their own rfk junior that that to your point, Brett, he kept appearing on all these right-wing talk shows as like trying to run some sort of dark campaign to mess up President Biden or whatnot. And all of the stories like, oh no, RFK Jr. going to derail President Biden. And not for one second have I ever thought that a Biden voter would be an RFK Jr. voter in any sense, just based on the guy's beliefs alone and what he puts out there into the ecosystem. You can't tell me that a single person who's like, hey, I'm going to vote for RFK Jr. is actually thinking to themselves, oh, I'm going to vote for Biden as well. No, they're way more closely aligned with the Trump voter. That's their friends. Those are the

handshakes that they're doing than they are with a Biden voter. So to see Trump so scared about RFK Jr., a monster that they created on their own, they're professional rank steppers. They propped up his entire campaign as a way to try and derail Biden. It's not going to happen. It's only going to continue to hurt Trump as this proceeds. Imagine this. Imagine if President Biden in a primary only got 78% of the vote, despite the fact that all of the other candidates who were running against him were out. Could you imagine the headlines? I actually can, because the media was telling us that that's what was going to happen. All of the primaries where President Biden cleared 90% of the vote. In some states, it was like 96% of the vote in states

that we were told that Biden was going to struggle to clear 80%. Imagine the think pieces, Ben. We all saw the think pieces that came out about how Biden was in trouble when those votes were coming in. But where are those same pieces, Ben, when Nikki Haley, who's not even running anymore, continues to overperform like night after night when these elections are going down over Donald Trump? And we're talking about in Indiana. Right. In Indiana, we're talking about here, where in the recent primaries, yeah, they're still going on apparently, Nikki Haley got 128,000 votes, 21%. And Donald Trump got 78.3%. Now, we saw similar numbers in Pennsylvania. And then we saw similar, the recent primary in Pennsylvania that took

place that we covered, which was a closed Republican primary in Pennsylvania. Data matters and statistically significant data that we're seeing over and over again in all of these states is reflecting that Nikki Haley is getting around 20% of the votes or more still, which would indicate it wouldn't have to be this inferential leap that these are Republicans who are casting protest votes against Donald Trump because of issues of decency, his criminality, his attempt to overthrow democracy, his taking away women's reproductive rights. This was even on Fox Business on Donald Trump's underwhelming performance in Indiana. This is what they had to say. Let's play this clip. Well, former President Trump capturing Indiana's Republican nomination Tuesday,

voters in the Hoosier state going to's Republican nomination Tuesday, voters in the Hoosier state going to the polls to cast their ballots in the state's presidential and some state primaries. Trump secured 58 GOP delegates. Nikki Haley won nearly 22% of the vote despite dropping out in March. Look, they're at least covering it, I mean, for a short period of time. But if you go through this episode, you can see Trump's behavior, whether it's in the courtroom, outside of the courtroom, in Mar-a-Lago, in the videos he makes of himself, what he's posting on social media. Any one of those things and one moment of those

things would derail any Democratic candidate, would derail President Biden, because there are standards and we want people who are not just qualified, but who exercise leadership qualities. Yet repeatedly, Trump engages in the behavior that we showed. On the other hand, while the media wants to attack Biden and explain why all of these things are problems to President Biden, there was this contrast that took place in Wisconsin, where we just see President Biden doing the work. Think about the contrast that when Donald Trump came into office and disgraced the office, one of the first things he said is that he's building this Foxconn factory in Wisconsin that he never built, that he displaced people, that jobs weren't created,

and President Biden actually got it done. Here's President Biden, Brett. I want you to take this segment, though, and show what President Biden did as my dogs are about to bark. Sounds good. Yeah, well, President, we're talking about Wisconsin. Is that what your dogs are barking about? I'm hearing your dogs want to hear it. My dogs are really into this President Biden. Your dogs are really into chips and technology. Okay. Got it. So President Biden announced this $3.3 billion investment from Microsoft in Wisconsin, bringing this AI data center to Racine County. And as we were saying earlier,

it's at the same exact site where Trump promised Wisconsinites back during his administration that we're going to have the eighth wonder of the world. We're going to have this amazing factory. There are going to be more than 13,000 jobs. It's going to be a manufacturing boom. Infrastructure week, infrastructure week, infrastructure. Never happened. Never happened.

He said infrastructure week every week. Never happened. President Biden, on the other hand, actually happened. And we're now entering into a manufacturing super cycle, as they call it, because there are so many projects right now underway across the country. Here's that photo again of this was Trump's, the most that happened in Trump's infrastructure week. He picked up a shovel and knocked down people's homes and shoveled some dirt. That's the full extent of it. And then he celebrated. But let's go through some of these clips. So President Biden, he knocked Donald Trump and Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin for that very stunt. Here's that clip. Our country's proud manufacturing legacy. Well, we had infrastructure day every week, every week for four years, didn't build a damn thing. He and his administration promised a $10 billion investment by Foxconn to build a new manufacturing complex, create 13,000 new jobs. In fact, he came here with your Senator Ron Johnson, literally holding a golden shovel, promising to build the eighth wonder of the world. Are you kidding me?

Look what happened. They dug a hole with those golden shovels, and then they fell into it. Look, they didn't shovel other dirt. They did shovel some dirt. 100 homes were bulldozed. They wasted hundreds of millions of dollars, your state and local tax dollars, to promise a project that never happened. Foxconn turned out to be just that, a con. Go figure. So this project that President Biden is actually responsible for is going to bring 2,300 union construction jobs and 2,000 permanent jobs to Wisconsin. Imagine telling people, like, I'm going to bring you all these jobs. I'm going to bring you this factory.

And then you knock down their homes and you leave and there's no factory. Honestly, what Donald Trump did to people's lives just all across the board is horrible. CNN had an interview with President Biden, which probably made the New York Times very mad because they're very offended that they won't give them an interview. And on the interview, they asked him, why should people believe that you will succeed at creating jobs when Donald Trump failed at creating jobs. I'll play you this moment. So Trump attended a groundbreaking here where we are for Foxconn. He promised 13,000 jobs and only about 1,000 of those actually exist right now. So I know you're promising more than 2,000

union construction jobs and that 100,000 people are going to get trained in AI here. Why should people here believe that you will succeed at creating jobs where Trump failed? He's never succeeded in creating jobs, and I've never failed. I've created over 15 million jobs since I've been president. 15 million. Trump is, he started off with the golden shovels, you know. For the groundbreaking. For the groundbreaking and talked about this being, you know, the eighth wonder of the world.

When has he ever done anything he said? I'm not being facetious. Think about it. And look at what he says he's going to do if he gets elected. He says he's going to do away with what I've done on Medicare, reducing the price of Medicare drastically. He said he's going to do away with the Affordable Care Act. He said he's going to do it just down the line. So we have a very different view. I look at it from physician, not being facetious, from a Scranton perspective. He looks at it from a Mar-a-Lago perspective. Scranton versus Mar-a-Lago.

It's like, how do you think you're, why do you think you'd be able to create jobs and Donald Trump wouldn't? He looks at it from a Mar-a-playing world that quite literally didn't happen when Trump was in office. We know what those four years were. They actually happened. They were disastrous. Why are we even acting? Well, in those years, I remember those years. I know what's happening now. It's very different. There's facts, there's data, but what the power of propaganda is you say it over and over and over and over and over again, even the very premise of the question, why do you think you'll succeed while you're here and the factory's actually being opened versus when he lied about it and it didn't happen? Basically, when he held a shovel in his hand. Because this happened and it didn't happen anyway.

Anyway, the president of Microsoft, Brad Smith, also weighed in on President Biden and the Biden administration's efforts to create jobs there. I will say this. This administration has been enormously helpful. A project like this, it requires the bipartisan infrastructure bill that was passed. The chips that will be produced in America through the Chips and Science Act, the clean technology that will benefit from the Inflation Red way to the state with Governor Evers, the local village and county of Racine. Everybody has to work together. At the end of the day, that's how you get things done, whether you're a business or anybody else. The contrast was so clear that not even Fox News could back out of it. And there was a very funny moment, I don't know if you caught it on Fox yesterday, between Papa Deuce and Little Deuce, between Steve Deucey and Peter Deucey. And just watch this. It's

an interesting moment. So, Peter, this new AI Microsoft thing, $3 billion, big job creators, that's in Racine. Isn't that the same town that Foxconn said, I don't know, five, six years ago, we're going to build a big plant and they never did? Yes. And that was a huge Trump announcement back then. And he said that the factory was going to be the eighth wonder of the world. But then Foxconn decided to really scale back their plans and the land is still available. So Microsoft is going in. It's going to be good for those people. All right. When you have Fox reporting, didn't it feel like Steve Doocy was almost trolling Peter Doocy? Even the way Doocy goes, that was a big

announcement. Anybody can announce it. Big announcement, Ben. Huge announcement. It was a huge Trump announcement, but then Foxconn, it was their fault. But trump's announcement huge huge did a great announcement that's such that's so funny little deuce and i i bet he got like a call later on on the ride home like hey dad don't do that to me you embarrass me in front of dear leader i got i there was a funny comment someone we posted that clip on our tiktok and someone was like an ai the thingy majig like great reporting. What does he say at the beginning there?

Listen to how he talks about what the factory is. So Peter, this new AI Microsoft thing, $3 billion, big job creators. This new AI Microsoft thing, you're a reporter. You could talk about how it's an AI data center and what kind of jobs. The AI data thing. I'll leave you as we speak about the Biden administration's efforts in Wisconsin and getting all these jobs. They made a perfect commercial comparing and contrasting everything that we've just been talking about. I think it's also worth showing. If I'm elected, you won't lose one plant. You'll have plants coming into this country. You're going to have jobs again. You won't lose one plant. I promise

you that. The $10 billion Foxconn investment in an LCD plant in Racine County that never arrived, that land remains mostly empty. We're determined to turn it around. Thus far, since we've come to office, we've created, and with the governor's overwhelming leadership, we've created over 178,000 jobs in Wisconsin. We're going to create more here in Racine and big time. Trump had a big announcement. Big announcement. I mean, that's the thing. You could talk. The announcement was a huge announcement.

It was a huge, huge announcement. You could be a talker or you could be a doer. You could be a scam artist or you could get shit done. I mean, that's really the difference that I see with these last two administrations. Everything Donald Trump does is an absolute scam. Every, all the narratives that he pushes are a complete scam. And when the media picks these scams up and runs with it, you know, that's an issue. And like, like Donald Trump, this wizard on the economy, absolutely not. Donald Trump, Mr. I solved all crime and crime is rising under Biden. No, actually the opposite. Actually crime spiked under the Trump administration and the murder rate is actually down in 19% in 2024 already with some of the

biggest decreases coming from cities like San Francisco, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. And that's in addition to some of the biggest decreases in history in last year. It just keeps going down since Trump left office. And you see that across the board. So don't give in to the propaganda, whether it's with the trials, whether it's with election related stuff, Trump is going to lie. All of his people around him are going to lie. That's why we need to be like a wall of truth here at the Midas Touch Network. And that's why I also want to thank everybody here for making the Midas Touch Network. And that's why I also want to thank everybody here for making the Midas Touch Network the number one YouTube channel in the United States, not only just for

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