The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump SCREWS HIMSELF as Election GETS CLOSER

Episode Date: September 24, 2024

On this episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast: Donald Trump is getting desperate as people leave his rallies while he is still speaking; Trump and Vance continue to double down on conspiracy theories as they get further backed into a corner; VP Harris and Gov. Walz stay focused on the issues in key battleground states; Melania’s mystery campaign cash; and more! Ben, Brett and Jordy break it down! Deals from our sponsors! Moink: Keep American farming going by signing up at https://MoinkBox.com/meidastouch RIGHT NOW and listeners of this show get FREE Hot Rolls in your first box! Qualia: To boost YOUR NAD+ levels up to 50%, Go to https://QualiaLife.com/Jordy for up to 50% off and use code JORDY at checkout for an additional 15% off. Magic Spoon: Go to https://magicspoon.com/MEIDAS to grab a variety pack and try it today! And be sure to use our promo code MEIDAS at checkout to save five dollars off your order! ZBiotics: Head to https://zbiotics.com/meidas to get 15% off your first order when you use MEIDAS at checkout. Ollie Pet Food: Take the online quiz and introduce Ollie to your pet. Visit https://ollie.com today and enter code MEIDAS for 60% off your first box of meals! #ToKnowThemIsToLoveThem Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/lights-on-with-jessica-denson On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Before that, we'll break that down. seems to fail as a critical vote or a critical legislator says he will not be supporting a special session to overhaul their electoral system this close to the election. We're learning some interesting things about Melania Trump's spousal income disclosure on Donald Trump's campaign finance forms. Well, she claims that she earned close to $250,000 from the Log Cabin Republican Organization, except the Log Cabin Republican Organization says that they never paid her that money. So who keeps paying Melania Trump when Trump is disclosing that? And he's been doing that since 2022, saying that Melania is getting this payment from the

log cabin Republicans. I would say it's beyond suspicious and we'll break it down. Donald Trump's stock DJT continues to crash. I thought he was a great businessman. And this has his name on the stock. How come it is crashing like this? Just take a look at that. About 70% to 75% decline in the past six months alone. Imagine if that was your 401k. Imagine if that was the American economy, where our stock market is performing 55% to 60% higher now than when Donald Trump was in office. That's how Trump's own stock performed. And don't say we didn't warn you here, Magas, on the Midas Touch Network, two and a half years ago, we said that's exactly what's going to happen. We also said, take a look at Donald Trump's history in business failure after failure

after failure. And speaking of failure, one of Donald Trump's digital ad campaigns targeting Georgia has photographs of Georgia, not the state, the country. Seriously. This is the Midas Touch podcast. I'm Ben Micellas, joined by Brett and Jordy. I also want to get into a filing that Donald Trump made in the Washington DC criminal case where Donald Trump says that the judge should ban special counsel Jack Smith from making a filing on the issue of absolute immunity because even briefing and discussing the issue would cause Donald Trump, he says, opprobrium, embarrassment, and that he's immune from embarrassment as well, he says, and that he shouldn't be embarrassed. I'm not making that up. That was his argument

in federal court today. Brett Jordy, how are you doing? Oh, I don't think there's a constitutional right to not getting embarrassed, Donald Trump, and don't do the crime if you can't deal with the facts that come out in the indictments, I guess. But no, I'm doing good. It's interesting to see the Trump campaign just kind of really flailing right now. And one of the things that I've noticed in particular over these past few days is that the Trump campaign has been ramping up the grift. And not only the Trump campaign, Donald Trump himself, Melania Trump, it's like all the family right now. They're all getting together and they're like, we better milk this thing for all

we got while we still can. I think it kind of tells you a little bit of something behind the scenes, especially as you read the tea leaves and you see kind of the polls coming out. You see him try to rearrange the way he's doing his rallies. Like Benny's also embarrassed about his rallies length now because Kamala Harris called it out and these people are leaving. And so he's really in his head. And there are what, about 43 or so days until Election Day. And he hasn't even been able to disavow the man in North Carolina who refers to himself as a black Nazi and wants to bring slavery back. I mean, that's where they're focusing their time right now. This is a campaign in absolute chaos.

And I think Vice President Harris and Governor Walz are doing a brilliant job right now, staying on message, speaking to the voters. It's so great to see, and it's so refreshing. Jordy, what's new out there in Pennsylvania? Shout out PA. Yeah. No, I just want to hit on exactly what you said right there, Brett. The Trump family has upped the grift tenfold, and that's because, I like to imagine, they see the writing on the wall. This is their grift going out of business magus sale, where now they're hawking coins and characters and crypto. I mean, the list goes on and on. We'll get in it on the show today, but they do feel like there is some form of major desperation happening from the Trump family right now. Ben, what say you?

Well, if you want to know how you buy a hamburger with crypto, don't ask Donald Trump, even though he claims to know what the heck he's talking about. That's what he's been bragging about. I bought the burger with the crypto. He said, I mean, it's like, what are you talking about? He held this weird event for the Trump trading cards and these weird events for Trump crypto and like not actually campaigning. And then when he is campaigning, this is what we're seeing now. Here are attendees leaving Trump's rally in Wilmington, North Carolina. It only went for about an hour total-ish. And here they are leaving at the 28 minute mark. Here we got this video.

But take nothing for granted. You have to get out and vote. You just have to get out. We cannot accept what they do. The only thing they do well, they change. The policy. And you hear him in the background, though, because he's not actually saying things. Well, he did say you have to get out.

Maybe they just missed the get out and vote part of it. They said, you got to get out. They said, all right, I'll see you later. Heard this before. right away, like right after January 6th. Then the corporate media went into high gear and they've started with the polls already while President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were trying to like run a country and clean up after Donald Trump's mess. When I was saying it as I was watching these, I'm like, Trump's not saying things like he's not speaking in sentences. Like why are we saying washing it back then? His first speech in Waco, Texas, that's where he chose to do it on the 30 year anniversary of the Waco siege, had the opening act right before Donald Trump, Ted Nugent went into this screaming rant calling

President Zelensky a homosexual. And that's how they started it. Then Donald Trump said, all right, time we all sing the J6 anthem song. I'm like the J6 anthem song. What are we talking about? And then it was an anthem by the J6 insurrectionists that Trump replaced the national anthem with. And I'm like, hello, anybody else like going to cover this thing? Like this is pretty crazy stuff right here. And now people are focusing on the home stretch. But I'm like, where were you back then? But now Trump's just up there like, I'm not weird.

I'm not weird. I'm not weird. J.D., we're not weird. Here, play this clip. This is his closing message to the voters. Play the clip. To do it in Minneapolis. That's why she picked this character, this weird guy.

You know, he said weird. J.D. and I are not weird. We got a lot of problems, so we're not weird. Also, we have a lot of problems, but we're not weird. Saying that is very, very weird. And then Donald Trump now is refusing, and we know that before, but refusing to debate Vice President Kamala Harris again. She's been having a lot of fun with it, just saying, I thought you said anywhere, anytime, anyplace. I'm ready to beat you again. Let's just do it.

You want to do it on CNN? You seem to love those moderators. Let's do it again. Then Donald Trump spending his time giving his closing message, saying there's not enough time to debate, even though in 2020 he debated in October. What are you talking about here? Play the clip. That's not what you want. That's not what you want. Kamala and her group have seen what's happening to their campaign and it's not going well for them. And they would like, just announced a little while ago as I was coming off the plane,

they would like to do another debate. Although good entertainment value. A lot of people say, oh, do it, it's great entertainment. I've already done two. One with Crooked Joe Biden at CNN and the other one with Kamala on ABC. CNN was very fair, I thought. Joe was driven out of the race.

It was a coup, by the way, but he was driven out of the race. And they've been widely criticized by the radical left lunatics for all of the fairness. They were very fair. In other words, they won't be fair again because they took a lot of abuse from the radical left. ABC was three on one, but I was given credit for having done a very, very good job. I appreciate that. We did a great job. It was three on one. The problem with another debate is that it's just too late. Voting has already started. She's had her chance to do it with Fox.

You know, Fox invited us on and I waited and waited and they turned it down. They turned it down. But now she wants to do a debate right before the election with CNN because she's losing badly. You know, it's like a fighter. She sees the polls. She sees what's happening. She's losing badly. But it's like a fighter who goes into the ring and gets knocked out. The first thing he says is, I want to rematch. I want to rematch.

After the debate with President Biden, Donald Trump was saying, I want to rematch. I want to rematch right away. Vice President Kamala Harris is up. And again, polls don't vote. So I don't want to focus on this poll versus that poll and all things. Vice President Kamala Harris is breaking 50% in a lot of polls right now. She's doing very well there. And so you've got that. And then you've got Donald Trump as well, just continuing to go on and whine about the moderators and about this. Here, by the way, Donald Trump, then he's been posting about this and he's been saying that he's been saying, I'm here to protect women. I want to protect women here. Watch this here. Play this. And at long last, this national nightmare that we're going through will be over.

Women will be happy, healthy, confident and free. You will no longer be thinking about abortion because it is now where it always had to be with the states and with the. And that's one of the things that he's been posting about as well. And he's these weird posts. Women need me. I'm here to protect the women. You'll never have to think about abortion again. And again, these are very weird and creepy things for him to be saying.

Then over here, Donald Trump continues in the speech. Here he talks about Oprah. Here, play this clip. She's not competent to be president either, but I don't want to be rude. I don't want to be rude. She's not competent to be president. Did you see her on Oprah?

That's not going to be president. That's not going to be president. Oprah didn't know what the hell to do. Oprah was like embarrassed. She wanted to hide under the table, but she's a professional and she was able to sort of disguise it. No, she wanted to go right under the table, but she's a professional and she was able to sort of disguise it. No, she wanted to go right under the table.

You know, and again, he's just not reflecting the reality. I mean, Vice President Kamala Harris had a great appearance on Oprah. A lot of great endorsements were there as well. Here's what happened during Oprah. Here, play this clip. And so part of my plan is to give startup small businesses a $50,000 tax deduction to start up their small business. Right now it's $5,000. Nobody can start a small business with $5,000. So that's part of my plan. That's a teeny tiny business. That's a business in a teeny tiny business. It's a concept of a business, right?

Yes. You know where I'm going. That's right. You know, when she spent her time on Oprah talking about policies, talking about tax credits, talking about health care, talking about Social Security, answering about healthcare, talking about social security, answering questions from the audience, really addressing concerns. She wasn't up there whining, spreading conspiracies about the 2020 election, 2016, talking about Hillary Clinton or this, that.

She was just up there talking about issues that help the American people. So now also that inflation is going down and inflation has been dealt with by President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Donald Trump's message right now is that the reason inflation is coming down is because he says our country is doing so bad that inflation is under control. Here, play this clip. And we will rapidly defeat inflation. So inflation is a misnomer because the inflation is now getting stabilized because our country is doing badly. What? Inflation stabilized because our country is now doing badly? No. The issue was, is that you left us $8 trillion in additional debt. That is what you did. In addition, you printed money recklessly. In addition, during COVID,

because you said like a miracle, it was all going to go away. You did not prepare the country for it. You did not prepare business and industry, which is what your job should have been. You passed no meaningful infrastructure legislation. So things like chips, semiconductors, and other critical pieces of our supply line were broken as well, and things weren't getting here to the United States. So, oh, and then your failed trade war also against China was inflationary. So inflation has root causes. And I think we, the people have to understand and recognize though, that when you add a trillion dollars that more than anyone before the way

trump did recklessly print money the way trump did have a ppp program with no safety protocols really in place that was rampant with fraud do not shore up the supply lines that's going to cause inflation when things get back to normal and president President Biden brought things back to normal. Then he passed the Inflation Reduction Act and everybody predicted 100%, Bloomberg said, chance of recession. 100% all the economists were saying. President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris avoided the recession. And now we have interest rates being cut 50 basis points with inflation under control. And as Vice President Kamala Harris says, that doesn't mean we spike the football, but also it means we could recognize that work from leaders was done to get this to happen.

We don't just burn it down, but you know who does burn it down? You see this, Brett and Jordy, J.D. Vance, essentially admitting that he is an arsonist. I don't even know what he's talking about. When he was giving this speech in Pennsylvania, he says that my son is like me. We like burn things to the ground. What? Here, play this clip. It's so amazing when you get, when you have kids and you see how innate their personalities really are so the seven-year-old is probably somewhere around here reading a book he's like his mother and the four and a half year old is is is much more like his dad he's probably trying to find a building to burn down or something like that why what i truthfully like i'm trying to understand like what he was even trying to get at in that speech.

And I truthfully have no idea. Like, I understand he's trying to be relatable there. That's Vance. That's Vance trying his hardest to be like, look, I'm just like my kids. You guys have these crazy kids, right? They're running around burning down buildings. It's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, I was, I was with you. and then what'd you say at the end they did what you were you were with you you're doing what with your kids because i was following you and i was like yeah yeah i'm like my kids too you'd said what uh burn we burned down buildings jd that's not normal buddy j it's not no no jd that's not a normal thing. What about, are they eating dogs and pets? JD, stop it. What are you saying right now?

It's just, he's the weirdest person on the planet. Let's face it. And what I've noticed of him on the campaign trail is he tries so hard to be like Donald Trump. And I expect this now to happen also at the debate where people ask him very simple questions and instead of answering them honestly or trying to give a thoughtful explanation he tries to pull a trump he yells

at the person he yells at the reporter he goes you're disgusting actually then he's like a marjorie taylor green like response right you're actually disgusting because you asked that ask the people of spring like he gets very abrasive in that way but he doesn't understand that like he lacks all the other qualities of trump that i think makes trump appeal to trump supporters so to me vance anytime he says anything just comes off as like the most unlikable human in the world and i think america is going to see that also uh in the october debate when he goes up against waltz because he's not gonna he's backing himself into all these really weird positions and policies. And it's going to be interesting to try to watch him kind of warm

himself out from them. He's so unrelatable because he's also just so uncomfortable in his own skin. I mean, just look at the facts of it. This is a guy that changed his name multiple times, more than three times. This is a person who's also changed. He wrote about it in his book, his sexual orientation a couple of times as well. This is someone who doesn't know how to be himself. And so he's trying to be what he thinks the GOP needs him to be in this moment. And then that's how you end up with, you know, my son is just out there trying not to burn down houses. And it's like, bro, what are you talking about?

Like, just take a breath. Who are you, man? Well, he's a smart guy, though, in the sense of he can mimic the words. And what makes this very interesting is he understands very quickly how to adopt the language when he goes into these different identities of his. So he is using the Maga language. So the words are the words that appeals to these people, but there's an incongruity between the words and the delivery. So he seems such an inauthentic messenger of the presentation because it's like, what is this guy saying? What are you

talking about? And he's up there again, wearing the eyeliner, the way his body's position doesn't match the words. And he's trying so hard. There was this great TikTok video of a guy who just analyzed JD Vance playing one of these arcade games. And everything that JD Vance did with it was showed how he was a fraud in every interaction, the way he was holding the arcade game gun. When you looked in the background, it was like a deer hunter game. He had missed every one of the deers. He called the game the wrong game. The whole thing is a fraud and every interaction that he does is one.

It's why when we analyze him drinking a root beer or trying to order a Philly cheesesteak or whatever, it comes off so inauthentic because he's saying the words that like a tourist would say, but not that the actual people in the communities themselves would say. And speaking of in the communities himself, he does this thing again during that same event that we're showing you right here in Pennsylvania, where he's talking about Springfield, Ohio. Again, he's quadrupled down on this and he's like, I dare any reporter to go there and to tell me what's really going on. Here, play this clip. What I said is that we create media stores. In other words, we focus the people's attention on here, play this clip. And again, there, you heard him. He said, illegal alien policies and tell me that these are stories made up by politicians.

And again, there, you heard him. He said, again, he admitted there at the beginning that he makes up the stories, he says, to bring attention to what's going on. And then when he says what's going on, he says all of the illegals who are there in Springfield. That's not true. They are lawfully, legally legal. They are there under a protected status. They were invited there. The Republican governor of Ohio says that they are very important to the economy there and to Ohio generally. The mayor of Springfield, the city manager, reporters have gone there and asked that question and have spoken to people. J.D. Vance, once again, is lying. And you have Donald Trump and J.D. Vance saying things like, you need to take the illegal Haitians and they're there lawfully.

They're not illegal. And they go and send them to Venezuela. Take the Haitians and send them to Venezuela. on day one, where he wants to order the local police to round up people, he's also talking about people who are here lawfully. I think it would be horrific and brutal and sad if you took people who even weren't here lawfully, but who were contributing to the economy and you rip them away forcefully and have these images of kids crying and parents being hurt and harmed because Trump says it's going to be bloody. He calls it bloody. I think that would be a very difficult image in and of itself.

But that's not what he's even talking about. He's talking about people who are here lawfully if your skin is a different color or you look a certain way that you could or he thinks that he doesn't like you. Maybe you're a debate moderator he doesn't like. He'll just say you're here unlawfully. And then he'll round you up bloody and they'll send you away. What do you think they're talking about? What do you think they're doing? That's their plan. And that's what they want to have on day one. Could you imagine the trauma that will cause our country? And that's what they're talking about. Brett, I want to get

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the voters and particularly voters in North Carolina. Here's J.D. Vance earlier in the day. Let's play it. A sex scandal in North Carolina is between the lieutenant governor and the people in North Carolina. They're going to make their decision and we support them. OK, play that one more time too. Actually, just do it one more time. Play it one more time. The party of family values, everybody. There they are. I mean, in every level, there's no leadership. They're the exact opposite. I had to do it three times and the third time was pretty annoying. So I apologize for showing it that third. I did it one time too many because i annoyed myself with time

number three it was so startling to actually wait what'd he say wait wait wait wait what'd he say oh got it there were the sex scandal between a governor and his constituent what in the world did they talk remember when a simple pyo was enough to just that's it you you be on stage you're out and now and now we're seeing that. I had to mention it's so much more than a sex scandal. Yes. He was on this website, nude Africa, and, uh, apparently it was a big commenter and message comments. He's commented a whole, whole lot of nude Africa. Like he said, commenting on not, not the kink shame. if you're commenting on porn sites that's more egregious

than the watching of whatever porn he was watching to me like he was he was like a full-time commenter paragraph like long paragraphs on dudeafrica.com like he spent his time on this porn site and spent a lot of it like typing his theories on life. Like to me, that is one of the most bizarre things. This is who Donald Trump calls Martin Luther King times two. Like, yeah, that's like, yo, I can't, can't you just like tweet or like threads or like Instagram, like the rest of us. And the things that he was talking about,

I'm not sure what gave me this idea to do this. Probably one of the dumber ideas that I've done. I'm like, I'm going to go through the comments. I'm like, people gave me this idea to do this. Probably one of the dumber ideas that I've done. I'm like, I'm going to go through the comments. I'm like, people need to hear his words. So I tried reading them and I got through about four of the posts and it was some of the most vile things I had ever read. You know, he's talking about peeing on his wife's sister and his wife's sister peeing on him.

I'm not going to go more than that because it gets even grosser than that, but his posts are talking about that. So it's about cheating on his wife with his wife's sister who he and she pee on each other. And so there's that. Then he calls himself on these posts, a black Nazi. There are all these other posts and images of the SS as well. And by the way, the other stuff he said that people knew about before those posts, in my view, are even more egregious. I mean, saying that liberals should be put to death for being liberals, basically. He's out there saying that liberals should get killed. I mean, before this, that was known at the time.

That's why Donald Trump endorsed him. Those were the types of things that he was saying. He's anti-LGBTQ, but he loves transport. And that's one of the things that he posts about all of the time. But he believes that anti-LGBTQ people also should get like serious penalty, like death penalties, this type of things that he's like saying like horrific stuff is what he's talking about horrible yeah well watch whatever you want do whatever kink thing you're into this is all good can you not hear me no no no i got you we got you he was just you just looked really shocked like when you went into what you were about to say that ben went into all of what he just went i mean it's certainly shocking stuff when you lay it all out like that. I mean, don't get me wrong, but listen, do whatever, let your freak flag fly, do whatever you want, right? Just don't tell other people what to do and then don't go out

there and try to legislate against these people. I think one of the craziest things getting lost in the whole Mark Robinson saga is that he is the current Lieutenant governor of the state. Like, like we forget that he is currently in a leadership position in this state. This isn't just the guy who is running. He has the second most powerful position in the executive branch of the state of North Carolina. I just feel like it's a really important point, right? It's not like this is like a Doug Mastriano who was just trying to run here, you know, in PA. No, this person already holds a very high position that he got through on with all of the other crazy and awful stuff that he has said that we all know that prior to this investigation. Doug Mastriano is Pennsylvania state senator. That's an excellent point, which at least is more localized than the whole state.

But still, but point point taken however you know what i think with robinson like we just see the same pattern with maga that happens over and over they refuse to just admit they were wrong they refuse to like just say like you know what like we screwed up on this one or you know what like we actually don't support nazis like we're like not cool like we're not't support nazis like we're like not cool like we're not good with nazis actually it should be hard to say right like but they're incapable the north carolina gop released the very trumpian statement as well where they were like uh these you know is typical liberal media that's going after mark robinson with these unfounded allegations

blah blah blah blah after these allegations were reported on, somehow somebody found their way into the account of Mark Robinson and deleted a lot of these posts. So it's like, oh, how'd you get access to that account? I'm almost impressed, quite frankly, that you had the password to this account this many years later, that you still had access. Were you still using it? Were you lurking on the website? Because I got to know how you still had access to this account. But it's just that defiance, that refusal to admit you're wrong, and the constant gaslighting that comes with MAGA that, to me, I've always said bothers me even more than any sort of policy or anything else.

It's just this constant lying and gaslighting. It's turning misinformation and disinformation into a strategy and really just poisoning the kind of psyche of the American people with their endless lies. Well, look, his general counsel, his campaign manager, his finance director, his deputy campaign manager all resigned from Robinson's campaign. That's not exactly something that you do when you didn't do it. And so those are some of the people who are closest to him, but he's staying in the race. There's really hard.

Let me put it in perspective. Let me put it in perspective for a second, Ben. He currently has three people working for his campaign. It's the amount of people who are hosting this podcast. By the way, one is his bodyguard. Like,

like this is a rudderless ship right here. This is like insane. The other is the admin from nude Africa. Moderator. The third, the third is nude Africa moderator. Yeah. So, yeah. So, so that, but North Carolina is a critical state for, it's a critical state.

There's really no path for Trump without North Carolina. It's one of the things though, Vice President Kamala Harris has done in expanding the map as well. Also, you take a look at the map over the weekend, it was probably some of the best polling for Vice President Kamala Harris. Yet, take a look at the NBC poll and she was a big there. You take a look at the, there it is right there. In a national poll, when all third party candidates are listed, she was actually up six against Donald Trump. And then when you look at the crosstabs and some of the other polling data as well, there's some really alarming numbers there for Donald Trump in terms of Vice President Kamala Harris having a pretty high favorability rating in the history of NBC News, taking a look at the favorability of politicians. I think she went up 16 points over the past few months, and that's been her trajectory. The only person who's had a quicker rise in their popularity was George W. Bush after 9-11, like in the history of NBC

doing that. Meanwhile, you have Governor Walz, who's also very popular. J.D. Vance is still like one of the most unpopular ever. He's underwater. Donald Trump is also underwater as well, unfavorable there. On the CBS poll, Vice President Kamala Harris has also cleared 50%, which is big too, 52% to 48% there. And you take a look at what's Donald Trump's plan in response to this. Well, one of his plans is to try to pressure states to do things like he did in 2020, right? So Donald Trump's out there having his Georgia election board people try to change all of the rules. And now they're passing rules in Georgia, which are going to be challenged in lots of court cases now coming up that we're going to be very focused on, saying that all of the votes now have to be hand counted before there can be a

winner so that there could be mischief done to a very safe and secure voting system in Georgia, where the secretary of state is a classic Republican, Brad Raffensperger. And they have very safe and secure elections in Georgia. Lindsey Graham went on an offensive to try to change the state of Nebraska into a winner-take-all electoral system where Nebraska right now awards two electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote. Then in the various three congressional districts, if you win the congressional district, you win an electoral vote there. And so in 2020, for example, Nebraska had four electoral votes go to Donald Trump. One vote went to President Biden because Biden won the second congressional district in Nebraska, which is the Omaha area. Remember, that's where Governor Walz gave that incredible speech a few weeks back as well. Vice President Kamala Harris is winning in that second congressional

district area. And so Donald Trump wanted to change all of Nebraska's voting system right now on the eve of the election because one of the ways you get to 270, if Vice President Kamala Harris wins Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin and all the other states she's supposed to win, but doesn't win any of the other states she's supposed to win, but doesn't win any of the other states. Doesn't win North Carolina, doesn't win Arizona, doesn't win Georgia, for example. She only has 269. So that one vote gets you to 270, and that's a path to victory. So Donald Trump wants to interfere with that path, have a special session of the legislature called in Nebraska. The Nebraska governor was kind of pushing for that, but said he wouldn't do it unless he knew they had 33 votes.

And one of the more moderate Republicans came out earlier today and said, look, I'm not going to support changing our entire election system this close to the election. I don't feel comfortable doing it. So that crisis is averted, but I want to let everybody know what's going on with these different states because Trump is going into each of these states now to try to do early what he was doing post-election last year as well. Also, you might as well pull up that one as well, Brett, because over there, Donald Trump's messaging is off. All he has is his own election interference, right? It's always projection and confession.

I mean, he's running campaigns in Georgia right now by showing them images of the country Georgia. I mean, and again, this is the type of stuff that in other normal areas, that in normal eras would be disqualifying. I mean, you're calling Georgia the country of Georgia. It's also magnificently stupid too. Like what in the world are we talking? But that's MAGA right now.

They do things like that every single day. And I've just noticed too, that really the only campaigning emails I get from Donald Trump or JD Vance now talk about the assassination attempts. We know it's an emotional time. Donald Trump's got another attempt on his life. Please donate money right now. We need your money over and over again. We love you. We love you. But please, all the fundraising is based off assassination attempts. And then they sell assassination sneakers, assassination mugs, assassination edition, merch, t-shirts, signing things.

And that's what they're doing now. It's all so stupid. And you just see, these are all the marks of just a very incompetent campaign, which makes it all the more frustrating that the race is as close as it is when you peel back the onion a bit. If you start peeling back those layers and seeing what's going on behind the scenes, and you see this campaign that's in just utter chaos behind the scenes. And you look at who Donald Trump put in charge of the Republican party. He put in charge Lara Trump and now surprise, surprise. I mean, this is something that brothers we called months and months and months ago when it happened, we said, oh, they're the people in these races

across the country. These other elections that aren't Trump, they're going to get screwed really badly. And that's exactly what's happening. There's panic on the ground in these swing states because people are trying to find out where the Republican get out the vote operation is, and it's non-existent. And in many places, the RNC has farmed out their door knocking operation to groups like Elon Musk's PAC, which is also not doing a good job at it. So they have like no ground game whatsoever. You have all these donors who are wondering what the hell happened to all my money. Like I've been giving all my money to Lara Trump and the RNC. Well, why don't you check in on Melania Trump's speaking fees, which we'll get to in a little bit.

Maybe that could be a hint. I don't know. But it's just this kind of perfect storm right now where Trump has lost the issues that are kind of everything that he's run on. Right. He's been running on crime. Crime is down significantly. And there was just another report that shows crime further decreasing. He's running on immigration and the border. But we have border apprehensions and and border crossings down to their lowest levels in years. He's running on inflation. But inflation is now heading towards deflation. He was running on high interest rates. Now the rates are coming down. Everything he's running on

isn't working. So the only thing he has left to even fundraise on at this point are these ridiculous lies about they're eating dogs, they're eating cats, and the assassination stuff. And that's why it's all he's pushing, because it's all he's got. He's a desperate guy. That's why his campaign appears so desperate right now.ry trump scares me though she's a real asset because you didn't mention she's like a a 16-time grammy recording artist i mean she you know i don't know how she's able to both be such an incredible musician and also head up the rnc it's just she's just super impressive persontalented, yeah. But this is really where the failure does come in with corporate media. And I'm not going to go into it much, but it's just like, why isn't anybody holding

the other failure of the Trump campaign accountable? The fact that they don't have any ground game, the fact that they actually don't have much spend at all to put on TV, the fact that it's just a continuous grift. To your point, Mr. and Mrs. Magadonian, that money is all just going to Trump and Alina Haba and Melania Trump. It's like corporate media, wake the heck up. But also at the same time, fine, don't. Because we're here as the collective we, the Midas Mighty to fill that void. Please, if you haven't already, hit subscribe to this YouTube channel. We're on our way to 4 million subscribers. And it's all thanks to y'all and just this idea of chasing down the truth with facts and data points and not this corporate spin of making this a horse race between the two candidates. The choice is clear.

The data is clear. And we're here, the collective we, to hold truth to fire every single day, Ben. You used a horse race example, though. But sometimes in a horse race, one horse is much faster than the other horse. And we're like the faster horse is much faster than the other horse. And we're like, the faster horse is clearly the winner. What corporate media wants to do, though, is where there's one horse that's clearly significantly, not just a head, but running a traditional pro-democracy campaign. And perhaps the other horse, meanwhile, is injected with all

of these steroids and is cheating in every single which way and doing everything wrong and inappropriately and breaking all of the rules. The media is not only calling out that horse that's behind. They're pushing the horse forward. was Game Genie, which would attach to your Nintendo. And all of a sudden your characters would be able to beat the game without actually having to go through and play by the rules. And the media wants to make the horse race close is the bigger issue too, that they're not covering the race accurately. And also you remember when they were writing all of those editorials that Biden had to go and what a disaster it was. Remember, Biden was down less, significantly less than where Trump is now, when all of that was taking place. And that's everything what the media, every day the media reported that, not so much right now at all. And then even the way we'll talk about this Melania story in a bit, they're just like,

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Ben, where to next? One of the things I should have mentioned earlier when I talked about Donald Trump and J.D. Vance attacking the Haitian community is how it's also backfiring across the country. For example, in Florida, where there's over 500,000 Haitian Americans. The largest Haitian population lives in that South Florida area. And I'm not sure if you saw some of the signs that were there in Uniondale, Long Island, when Donald Trump was giving a speech there, but they said, we don't eat pets, but we sure vote. And the Florida Haitian community has made it very clear that they will not be supporting Donald Trump and J.D. Vance as a result of the attacks on the Haitian community. It should also be noted that when you take a look at the margin that Donald Trump beat President Biden in Florida by in 2020, I mean, it comes to

slightly under 400,000 votes or so. So there are more people in the Haitian community. If they all were to use their voting power against Donald Trump, that in and of itself could potentially flip Florida from red to blue right there. And then you're also seeing places like the villages and other very conservative areas in Florida where, as I like to call them, and I know there are a lot of them who are fans of the Midas Touch Network, classic Republicans, classic Republicans. They're saying, we're not supporting Donald Trump. We saw what happened on January 6th. We saw what he did with COVID. We may have voted for him before.

We're supporting Vice President Kamala Harrison. I hope you all appreciate the videos we do here on the Midas Touch Network, where we highlight all of the stories of former Trump voters who are now supporting Vice President Kamala Harrison. Again, it's all anecdotal data that I have. But Brett, Jordi, would it be an exaggeration to say that I've at least gotten tens of thousands of these stories, a lot of them unprompted, potentially, even when you look for the ones where I've asked for comments and feedback, I would say it's over

a hundred thousand and potentially more people who have shared these stories in long paragraphs with me and explaining in detail what made them change, how they've changed. And we've been covering this now for two and a half, three years. And I think that's going to be one of the most significant trends that we see when the election data comes in. And here's why. I saw what happened in the primaries. This was six months ago, seven months ago. The 538 polling aggregates had Donald Trump supposed to get 90%, 95%, and he would get like 80% or like 75%. And Nikki Haley, when she dropped out, would get like 20%. Donald Trump underperformed in 46 of 50 states. And in Michigan, he underperformed the 538 average in the actual primary by 15 points.

15 points. Mike Madrid, who I interviewed recently, it was a great interview that came up. He goes, polls give you the map, but they don't specifically tell you the terrain once you're on the ground. But primaries give you the terrain data of being on the ground. And he said that that is statistically significant. And I just think one of the things voters are fed up about, there's so many examples, but it's like yet again, Donald Trump tried to shut down the government. It's like the fourth time. Remember he tried to get Kevin McCarthy not to raise the debt ceiling. And then he tried to get Kevin McCarthy not to pass a budget or not to

reach a compromise. And then he tried to do it with MAGA Mike Johnson. And then he tried to stop MAGA Mike Johnson from passing a continuing resolution, then tried to get MAGA Mike Johnson. And then he tried to stop MAGA Mike Johnson from passing a continuing resolution, then tried to get MAGA Mike to do it again. Donald Trump was able to block a bipartisan immigration bill led by the most conservative Republican basically in the Senate, James Lankford from Oklahoma, which would have been a very important bill. Trump got the MAGAs to kill that, but he failed once again to try to get them to not fund the government. Donald Trump put out this message last week or in the past week and a half saying that they need to not fund the government, they need to stop. And he's been posting message like this over and over again, telling people to

shut down the government, shut down the government. And so, you know, MAGA Mike Johnson does the same dance over and over again, where he put in a poison pill into the original continuing resolution. This poison pill was what's called the SAVE Act, which Donald Trump says, this is the only way that you can stop illegal aliens from voting and Democrats are getting all the illegal aliens to vote. So you need the SAVE Act so that you can actually use your birth certificate to determine who's an American citizen. Well, let me be very clear, folks. There's no evidence at all that illegal aliens are voting, that people who are here unlawfully, I don't want to use the pejorative term by the MAGAs, that people who are here unlawfully, I don't want to use the pejorative term by the

MAGAs, that people who are here unlawfully or don't have legal status, they're not allowed to vote. They're not voting. There is no evidence of them voting. But what the SAVE Act would do by requiring this overhaul of the electoral system just weeks before the election, if you focus on a birth certificate, who do you think that impacts a lot? Which type of voters do you think that actually impacts? Women voters whose maiden name may be and oftentimes is different from their current legal name. So women would have to go through a ton of hurdles to prove that their current legal name is consistent with their birth certificate name or else they'll be removed from the voting rolls. So that was part of the hustle of the SAVE Act right there. And Donald Trump was claiming, oh, all these unlawful people.

No, they're not. It would never pass in the Senate. And the Democrats stood up to this ridiculous performative crap of a poison pill. And they said, we're not doing it. And the MAGA Republicans for their own self-preservation, because they know that there's a lot of house members who know that the people are that people have caught up to their schemes and stunts at this point. And so they are trying to keep, like they're not doing this because they're rejecting Trump. They're doing it out of self-preservation for themselves to try to stop the bleeding where they're already likely going to lose the House. They just don't want to lose it by even more.

And that's what they're trying to prevent again. So MAGA Mike sent this letter yesterday saying, we tried to do the SAVE Act. We tried to do it, but oops, we didn't do it. So now we're going to pass a clean continuing resolution. But he had to go through the humiliation ritual that Donald Trump forced him to go through. But then part of the dance you have to go through, then Maga Mike goes on Fox and then compares Donald Trump to Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. And they all got to be like, but he's so powerful. He's so great. And then Donald Trump forgets about it and moves on. The same way that Donald Trump all of a sudden started being very pro-vaping, like in his speeches and in his events and in his posts,

one of his closing messages is pro-vaping. It's because he spoke to the head of the vaping lobby recently, as the Washington Post reported. It's like whoever he speaks to last who flatters him is ultimately where he sides with on all of these issues. So there's no government shutdown. I want to say this though. I showed you the photo at the outset of this with Donald Trump, stock Trump media, DJT taking a pretty bad hit again today. It was down like 10% today. I mean, just look at, I mean, it was not like six or 7% today, but just take a look at what it looks like over the past month or so. Just look at that. It's been down 70% to 80% over the past six months. The stock starts trading at $10. So the fact that it's 12 is a bit of a misnomer. 10 is the

starting point for special purpose acquisition companies. And remember the pump and dump aspect of this. And so now, if you bought this at 80 or 100, your entire life savings is probably completely lost on this thing. We've been warning about this every step of the way. So Brett, Jordy, that brings us to what you were saying at the outset, which is the MAGA grift right now, because Trump media, that's another Trump failure. Put that in the bucket of Trump vodka, Trump steak, Trump mortgage, Trump airplanes, Trump casinos, Trump university, and all of those things that have completely failed and went bankrupt. It's easy to predict future behavior when past this prelude. So now what are they doing? They're selling the trinkets. Trump's selling

the Bitcoin for the burger. Do we have the video clip of Donald Trump bragging about Bitcoins for burgers on Fox? This is literally his closing message right now as we get close to November election. Here, play this clip. I don't even get it. Do you understand you bought hamburgers? I did. I bought a hamburger with Bitcoin. This was the first purchase ever made, I guess, of a hamburger or something. And now look, I'm a believer in staying at the top. This is a hot thing. And rather than having giving it to China, like the AI stuff, you know, artificial intelligence, China is going crazy about it.

They're also going crazy on Bitcoin and crypto cryptocurrency. And I do understand it. I think it's going to be a very hot industry. China's not going crazy about it. China has actually banned it as part of its policy from cradle to grave China. They have their own digital currency and you can't go outside of what the government allows you to have there. So he's trying to sound smart by mentioning China. Again, he does not know what he is talking about there at all. Also, what weird background music there.

Is Fox just doing an ad? Yeah, they are. It sounds like music from- By the way, I've noticed this now in the last few Trump interviews, hits on Fox, on Newsmax, on other stations. They're all incredibly heavily edited. And in the Fox case, the last few segments like that have included this weird music to kind of try to smooth it out in the background. It's very bizarre. And I wonder what the actual reasoning is behind it. Because like you said, Ben, that sounds more like Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous kind of E or Access Hollywood show. I'd say you know best as an editor, right? It's a trick to pump more energy into the clips to make sure that he doesn't feel like low energy Donald, that he makes sure that what he's saying is actually, I don't know, accurate, I guess, for lack of it. Like just adding music is like an editor trick just to make sure that people think that he is like in tune with it.

And he's like, if you look carefully at a lot of these interviews, you'll see just like random points kind of while Trump is in the middle of speaking. It cuts to like the interviewer cuts to something else. And it sounds unnatural because it is unnatural. Like they don't even do a good job at editing it. But they take away a lot of the things that he says. You know, I don't know if it's for legal reasons or to protect them. Probably a combination of all that. But that's what we're seeing.

I think it's actually to distract from his words. And you just kind of put him up there. It's actually so people don't listen to what he's saying. Just like white noise in the background. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just like, you know, it's just like images and people just see him speaking. And if you listen to what he's saying, like it's quite literally psycho. Like I don't use the term, like it's actually psychotic. What are you talking about? Bitcoin to buy a hamburger,

right? Like what the hell are you talking about? Like this is an election where people's lives are on the line, right? Like whether or not you have the healthcare that you need for lifesaving treatment and Donald Trump has concepts of a plan, whether you're talking about social security that you need to afford to like live that you paid into a system, right? Whether veterans are getting lifesaving healthcare from burn pits, right? We're talking about whether your prescription drug prices are good. We're talking about infrastructure. We're talking about- And by the way, Ben, there are serious ways to have crypto, regulate crypto, allow people to use crypto. But I think one of the things that Trump likes is that it is right now like a wild, wild west basically. And Trump loves something that he can manipulate and

not get in trouble for ultimately, like his his stock where he had his people put in their life savings into this thing where he gets to cash out at a certain point and they get stuck with the bag of losing tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of dollars in some cases. But that's the whole thing with the Trump family. The whole thing is one big rift. We saw Melania Trump. This is from a CNN report, but it follows reporting that we've done here at the Midas Touch Network now over the course of, what, many months, Ben, if not over the past year or plus. Melania Trump was paid $237,500 for a speech at an April fundraiser for the Laga Cabin Republicans at Mar-a-Lago. So let's put it in perspective for a little bit, right? Melania Trump at the place where she and Donald theoretically live. I know she's often not there, but she takes a step foot, she takes a foot out step. I can't speak today

for some reason. She takes a step out of her home. She speaks for what? Five minutes. She gets paid $237,000 for it. And that's it. And this has happened repeatedly. Like you look through the records, she was paid $250,000 for a log cabin Republican event in December, 2022. She had at least like three other payments that were $250,000 or more that she received for speaking that month. And CNN actually went to the log cabin Republicans and they said, did you pay this money? Like we see it on this report that Melania Trump was paid $250,000 here, $240,000 here. And what they've said was, no, well, we didn't pay it. We don't know who paid it. So there's actually no real record right now of where Melania Trump even is getting this money

from, but that even right there, you know, and there, by the way, there have been events since then, which have not been reported at this point. She's made like apparently well over a million dollars by speaking for a couple minutes here, a couple minutes there. And just like, and she's barely on the campaign trail. It's not like she's giving like, you know, speeches at big corporate events or whatever. She is speaking on her own property and using what appears to be, I don't know, campaign money or PAC money or could be secret donors. You just have no idea. There's no record of where the money's even coming from. Do you have the speech that she was paid $237,000 for? I know our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, posted it in real time. Let me just

show you what somebody, it's not the log cabin Republicans because they just said the payment didn't come from them, even though the financials claim it came from them. But this was the speech. This is $237,000, folks. Here, play this clip. Incredible historic event that we're having here. And obviously, having the First Lady here just means so much to us. Ladies and gentlemen, the former and next First Lady. Thank you so much for your kind introduction and beautiful words. Good evening. So great to see so many familiar faces here tonight.

It is an honor and a privilege to be in your presence once again, surrounded by friends and allies who share the common goal of promoting equality for all. I get it now. That's worth at least 10 million right there. Let me show you though, here's one of the board members of the, if you want to like, well, what are they doing on a daily basis? The log cabin Republicans. Here's one of the board members. She's one of the top MAGA surrogates right now. Her name is Sophia Hutchins. She's also Caitlyn Jenner's manager. She's a transgender woman and she makes videos like this frequently as part of the log cabin Republicans that she's a part of.

And again, this is the organization that on the financial disclosures said paid Melania money, but then didn't. This is the types of videos that Sophie is posting daily. Here, play this clip. And since I'm responding to your fun comments, I just put more cream on this hand, more cream on my foot. Another Benadryl because it's just like, oh, driving me crazy. When I said a person to be lazy in bed with, I very specifically meant a man, just to be very clear in case there was any question out there because of course some of you are dming oh well any kind of person do you mean like are you bi are you a lesbian no red-blooded straight very heterosexual and uh definitely looking for like a red-blooded

all-american type man, you know, for instance. One of the main MAGA surrogates right there, Sophia Hutchins. And here she is again, railing about some of the biggest issues confronting America today and the LGBTQ community as a board member of the Lockheed Republicans. Here, play this one. I'm not a big Amazon person myself, but I'm going to film a little video for you telling you how I really feel. Stay tuned. Take two. Amazon's Alexa dot bye-bye election interference. I felt so strongly I had to get a big sledgehammer. Let's see if I get it. Fuck you, Amazon. attack a Amazon Alexa device and saying F you to the Alexa device and recording herself doing so. Folks, we've got to roll up our sleeves and we got a lot of work to do.

And again, we'll continue our investigation work. When Melania started doing these log cabin Republican events, raised a lot of red flags. Go back, Midas, a year ago, we were raising red flags because this is from 2022. We were doing videos on this stuff. And I'm sure you've probably have seen our Melania series. And yeah, one of the reasons I focus on it is just the whole story of Melania is very bizarre. How she was brought into the United States, met Donald Trump at the Kit Kat Club, was not really a model, but claims to be a model from Eastern Europe, but was part of this modeling agency that would bring a young Eastern European woman to meet wealthy Manhattan men and they would party at these Kit Kat Club things and whatever. But the broader point is not that. It's also that she's very much involved in a lot of this stuff also. And so when you see these contributions going to her and now the

organization saying they didn't make it, okay, that's a red flag. Who made it? You're supposed to disclose the source of it. I don't see, again, this is my opinion that I'm sharing. It's just an opinion. I don't see how that isn't unlawful to lie about the source of funds that on a campaign disclosure, like in my opinion, isn't that what George Santos pled guilty to? Isn't that one of the major issues with Menendez, Democratic Senator in New Jersey, who was found guilty? Again, I'm just giving you my personal opinions there. All right. So on that note, I want to give a brief update quickly on my status. As you all know, we went in early last week to the hospital and we're there for a number of days, believing that that would be the day when our beautiful baby girl was going to be born.

But the beautiful baby girl was simply not ready then. Baby's healthy. Mommy's healthy, which is always the most important thing um but we were told to come back and so now uh we will be in the hospital all day tomorrow i'm going to get prepared for that um right now actually um tomorrow, uh, we expect to be the birthday of our baby girl, our first baby girl, uh, first child, uh, Jimena. So that will be tomorrow around noon, one o'clock Pacific time, but we'll be in the hospital all day. And I expect that I'll be in the hospital pretty much all week. Um, I'll, I'll see if I have the ability to do any videos or not. I'm going to always err on the side of being with mom and baby though. But we're in the

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