The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Rolls Out INSANE DEFENSE of his Crimes that NOW INVOLVES PUTIN

Episode Date: July 5, 2023

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on how Donald Trump invoked Putin his recent speech in South Carolina as part of his defense to criminal charges of violations of the espionage act. Meiselas does a deeper dive into Trump’s obsession with Putin and Republican efforts to gaslight us by claiming Trump’s own words and conduct is somehow a hoax or a joke.  Thanks to our sponsors! NetSuite: Head to netsuite.com/meidas to get the visibility and control you need to weather any storm in your business! Remember to subscribe to ALL the Meidas Media Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://pod.link/1510240831 Legal AF: https://pod.link/1580828595 The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://pod.link/1595408601 The Influence Continuum: https://pod.link/1603773245 Kremlin File: https://pod.link/1575837599 Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://pod.link/1530639447 The Weekend Show: https://pod.link/1612691018 The Tony Michaels Podcast: https://pod.link/1561049560 American Psyop: https://pod.link/1652143101 Burn the Boats: https://pod.link/1485464343 Majority 54: https://pod.link/1309354521 Political Beatdown: https://pod.link/1669634407 Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://pod.link/1676844320 MAGA Uncovered: https://pod.link/1690214260 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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charge bet mgm operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming ontario i'm ben mysellis from the midas touch network just how obsessed is donald trump at vladimir? Well, he has to invoke the name of the despicable tyrant, the genocidal maniac in like every one of his speeches. And he always has to praise him over and over and over again. It is dangerous and deranged. And Donald Trump did it in South Carolina in a speech Trump gave before a very small crowd there. Using the Putin tactic, Donald Trump and all the MAGA Republicans and right-wing media said, wow, there was 75,000 people who showed up for this event. There was not 75,000 people. It wasn't anywhere close to 75,000 people.

Perhaps 5,000 people if I'm being generous, but in the Putin fashion, just lie. But here in the speech, you'll see Donald Trump is saying the reason why he should not be charged with violations of the Espionage Act is because Vladimir Putin says that he is vicious, but also he got along with Vladimir Putin. What in the world? Play this clip. Charging a former president of the United States under the Espionage Act of 1917. Espionage, me, espionage. As Putin said, you are the most vicious president ever. There's never been a president that did this to me, and yet I got along with him, isn't it? Look, Donald Trump's obsession with Vladimir Putin stares us in the face. You don't have to look at some smoking gun piece of evidence where you have to find the needle in the haystack.

It is right in front of our eyes over and over again. And when these MAGA Republicans try to gaslight you and say Trump isn't obsessed with Putin. Russia is a hoax. Well, let me prove that point completely wrong right now. And let me arm you with all of the tools you need to show any of your MAGA Republican friends the actual evidence and the facts. And I'll break it down in the most simplest term, right? So the MAGA Republicans, every time that Donald Trump brags about Putin, this, that, they go, Russia, it's a hoax. It's a hoax. It's a hoax. In fact, they censured Adam Schiff, Democratic Congress member, for investigating Donald Trump's connections with Russia. You remember the censure occurred in the past two weeks. This was Marjorie Taylor Greene on the

House floor right before the vote to censure Congressman Adam Schiff, saying that Donald Trump's connections with Russia is a hoax. Here, play this clip. Adam Schiff lied to the American people by leading the fake Russian witch hunt against President Trump. He weaponized the House Intelligence Committee to abuse all principles of due process and perpetuate the lies of Russia collusion. And he did that on the media over and over again.

His committee conducted approximately 53 interviews during its 2017-2018 Russia probe. And then over the weekend, Donald Trump posted on his social media platform in response to the Diamond and Silk account, I believe one passed away due to COVID. They wrote, is a censure resolution for shifty shift enough for all the nefarious things he did to target a sitting president? And Trump's response is no, it's not nearly enough. He's a treasonous sleazebag who has hurt our country greatly. He lied, leaked, and misrepresented everything at levels not seen before. He should pay a big price and maybe someday he will. By the way,

that sounds like Vladimir Putin is writing that. So let's go back to the campaign when Trump was running against Hillary Clinton, right? Let's not just forget the video where Trump says, Russia, if you are listening, and tell me if you think this is funny or if you think this is a joke, play this clip. Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. And I ask you, tell me if you think this is funny or if you think this is a joke, because in 2020 and recently, that's how Donald Trump and the MAGA supporters justify that. They said that was being funny, that Trump was doing a stand-up comedy routine there. And we all, we just didn't get the joke. We didn't find humor in it, but that was funny. Reaching out to

a foreign adversary to try to hack into a political enemy's email accounts here. Play this clip of Donald Trump from 2020, where he says this was just one big joke. Play the clip. Remember when I said Russia, if you're listening in front of this message, Russia, if you're listening, find out where her emails are, whatever. And then everybody laughed. I laughed. They actually

play it all the time. When he spoke to Russia, do you ever see it? And they cut it off before the end. They don't see any. I said, Russia, if you're listening, these people are sick. He wants to erase your borders. Yeah, that was supposed to be a joke, right? It was a joke. Everybody was laughing, but they refused to go to the next quarter of a second. I know a lot of you watching are entrepreneurs. You run your own business. Heck, I run my own business too. So I know how hard it is to manage your numbers, manage the trends in the market, and budget,

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when he was in office announcing that he and Vladimir Putin discussed forming a cyber security unit. That's where not focus on our allies, Russia whose modus operandi destroy the United States of America and engage in cyber attack after cyber attack on the United States of America and literally kill Americans abroad and destroy democracy abroad. This is what Trump said. This is his post. Putin and I discussed forming an impenetrable cybersecurity unit so that election hacking and many other negative things will be guarded. Many other negative things will be guarded. How about we take a look at Don Jr.'s text messages from June of 2016, where he

believed he was arranging a meeting with Russian emissaries who were going to give him dirt on Hillary Clinton. This is from one of his aides, Don. Hope all is well. Emin asked that I schedule a meeting with you and the Russian government attorney who is flying over from Moscow for this Thursday. I believe you are aware of the meeting and so wondered if 3 p.m. or later on Thursday works for you. I assume it would be at your office. Best, Rob Goldstone. And Don Jr. responds in June 2016 to set up the meeting. How about three at our office? Thanks, Rob. Appreciate you helping set it up.

The meeting actually did take place. Don Jr. was ultimately upset at the fact that he didn't get the dirt that he was expecting and the people overrepresented their links with Putin and actually didn't have the dirt. And just watch. Trump gets tongue-tied even trying to speak about his communication with Putin and actually didn't have the dirt. And just watch, like Trump gets tongue-tied even trying to speak about his communication with Putin because it's all lies. And he's like, we should watch this. This was from that Brett Baier interview from a few weeks back, where here Trump talks about his call that he had with Vladimir Putin. And Putin said how,

I'm scared of you, Donald. You make me very scared. Here, play this clip. Look, I talked to him. I said, if you do it, there's going to be hell to pay. It's going to be a catastrophe. Don't do it. He said, no, no, no, you won't do that. I told him I was going to do something. He said, no, no, no, you will not do that. I said, I will, Vladimir, I will do it. I'm going to do it. And you know what? He didn't believe me. Whatever. It was pretty bad. And he didn't believe me at all, except for maybe 10%. And 10% is all you needed. And then we have to look at this. We can't forget about this stuff that's going down, right?

So this was, remember when Trump was in office, he had that meeting at Helsinki with Putin. And I just want you to watch this video. Watch this full video. Watch how Donald Trump answers this question and how he just so disgraced the United States of America, weakened us, and bowed down to Vladimir Putin. Play this clip. My first question for you, sir, is who do you believe? My second question is, would you now, with the whole world watching, tell President Putin, would you denounce what happened in 2016

and would you warn him to never do it again? So let me just say that we have two thoughts. You have groups that are wondering why the FBI never took the server. Haven't they taken the server? Why was the FBI told to leave the office of the Democratic National Committee? I've been wondering that. I've been asking that for months and months, and I've been tweeting it out and calling it out on social media. Where is the server?

I want to know where is the server and what is the server saying? With that being said, all I can do is ask the question my people came to me dan coates came to me and some others they said they think it's russia i have president putin he just said it's not russia i will say this i don't see any reason why it would be but i really do want to see the server. But I have confidence in both parties. I really believe that this will probably go on for a while, but I don't think it can go on without finding out what happened to the server. What happened to the servers of the Pakistani gentleman that worked on the DNC. Where are their servers? They're missing.

Where are they? What happened to Hillary Clinton's emails? 33,000 emails gone, just gone. I think in Russia they wouldn't be gone so easily. I think it's a disgrace that we can't get Hillary Clinton's 33,000 emails. I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. And what he did is an incredible offer. He offered to have the people working on the case come and work with their

investigators with respect to the 12 people. I think that's an incredible offer. Thank you. I should also mention that Donald Trump's campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was convicted twice. Two separate cases, two separate juries for his conduct relating to links to Russia. Mike Flynn, guilty, pled guilty. all of Donald Trump, former national security advisor, the people close to Donald Trump, dozens and dozens of criminal indictments, tons of guilty convictions based on the links to Russia. I mean, it's all there. I mean, it's staring us in the face.

And then, of course, you got Donald Trump when actually just giving a speech, the way he is defending himself is by invoking Putin. Think about that. Think about that. I'm Ben Maiselis from the Midas Touch Network. Hit subscribe. We're on our way to 1.5 million subscribers. Thanks to your support. Check us out at patreon.com slash Midas Touch,

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