The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Sends World INTO SHOCK with LATEST NOMINATIONS

Episode Date: November 14, 2024

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s latest nominations of Matt Gaetz as Attorney General and Tulsi Gabbard as DNI. SimpliSafe: Protect your home with 50% off a new SimpliSafe system, plus a free indoor security camera, when you sign up for Fast Protect Monitoring. Just visit https://SIMPLISAFE.COM/MEIDAS Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! Join the MeidasTouch Patreon: https://Patreon.com/meidastouch 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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at this very moment as Donald Trump has announced that he is nominating Matt Gaetz to be the next Attorney General of the United States and Tulsi Gabbard to be the next Director of National Intelligence. I'm not making this up, folks. This is not a prank. This is real life. But as Democratic Congress member Jared Moskowitz said, this is what the people voted for. This is what MAGA wanted. This is what happens when corporate media both sides it.

Let me repeat that one more time. Matt Gaetz, formerly nominated by Donald Trump to be the next Attorney General of the United States, and Tulsi Gabbard nominated to be the next Director of National Intelligence of the United States. As Anne Greyer of CNN reports, House GOP members were meeting behind closed doors when they heard the news that Trump named Matt Gaetz to be his attorney general. There was an audible gasp from the members in the room the moment they found out, according to sources who were in the room. Let's take a look at some more information there. Melanie Zanona, who was there as well, says, early reaction from GOP members on Trump selecting

Matt Gaetz for attorney general. Representative Don Bacon says, I've got no good comment. That's a Republican. Meanwhile, Representative Garrett Graves, a Kevin McCarthy ally, literally ran away from me and Annie Greyer of CNN when we tried to ask him about Gates. Ran away, grabbing other members by the Gates questions that he stopped talking to reporters and he stood there stone-faced for about 30 seconds. Andrew DiSiderio says that his phone has been blowing up with Senate Republican aides aghast

at Trump's nomination of Matt Gates to be the next Attorney General of the United States. Some quite confidently saying there's no way that their bosses, that these senators, even the Republican senators, will vote to confirm him. We will see, recall Donald Trump wants to push through his nominations through a process called recess confirmations, where he doesn't even want the Senate to hold hearings. He wants to rule like a dictator. We reported earlier in the day that Republican Senator John Thune became the majority leader. He's more of a moderate Republican. We're ultimately going to have to see what he does. Ron Filipkowski writes, so did the normies who voted for Trump because they think Biden made bacon more expensive even though he didn't realize that Matt Gaetz would be attorney

general, a Putin propagandist in Tulsi Gabbard would be the director of national intelligence, and a Fox host would be secretary of defense. Can't forget about that. Donald Trump named like a random Fox news host to be the secretary of defense. Can't forget about that. Donald Trump named like a random Fox News host to be the secretary of defense. I have a feeling this won't be the last time that we say we try to warn you. Ron Filipkowski also writes, shouldn't the attorney general be someone who has actually practiced law at some point? Well, no, Matt Gaetz posts things like this. Before the election, Matt Gaetz wrote,

the core plot of the Barbie movie was distracting men so they wouldn't vote. Don't make the Barbie movie come true. Matt Gaetz also said during the midterms that women who were upset about Roe being overturned were fat and ugly, and that's why they were concerned to begin with, he says, because they're fat and ugly. And that's why they were concerned to begin with, he says, because they're fat and ugly. Here, play this clip.

Is it safe to say that based off of your comments, you're suggesting that these women at these abortion rallies are ugly and overweight? Yes. What do you say to people who think that those comments are offensive? Be offended. By the way, others on Capitol Hill, like Mark Wayne Mullen, a senator from Oklahoma, had previously said that Matt Gaetz would brag about how he would crush erectile dysfunction medication and chase it with energy drinks so he could go all night. Play this clip. You got to think about this guy.

This is a guy that the media didn't give a time of day to after he was accused of sleeping with an underage girl. There's a reason why no one in the conference came and defended him, because we had all seen the videos he was showing on the house floor that all of us had walked away of the girls that he had slept with. He'd brag about how he would crush ED medicine and chase it with an energy drink so he could go all night. This is obviously before he got married. And so when that accusation came out, no one defended him. And then no one on the media would give him a time of the day. All of a sudden, he found fame because he opposed the Speaker of the House back in November. And he's always stayed there. And he was never going to leave until he got this last moment of fame by going after a motion to vacate.

It's important to know Congressman Gates has never been charged with any sex trafficking crime, and he gave this statement to CNN in response. I don't think Mark Wayne Mullen and I have said 20 words to each other on the House floor. This is a lie from someone who doesn't know me and who is coping with the death of the political career of his friend Kevin. Thoughts and prayers. Former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy said at the Republican National Convention that Matt Gaetz looked unhinged, people have concerns about him, and that he hopes that the young women who Matt Gaetz was with will get the justice they deserve. Play this clip.

You would get booed off the stage. That's the biggest challenge we have. this clip. He said you would get booed off the stage. What's your response to him? Well, you know, he looks very unhinged. I mean, a lot of people have concerns about him. And I'm not sure if he was on something, but I do hope he gets the help that he needs. But more importantly, I hope the young women get the justice they deserve when it comes to him. I mean, you're referring to the House Ethics Committee investigation that is ongoing. Yeah, with his partner in jail because they paid underage women for sex and drugs. Yeah, that's what I'm referring to.

So he is denied all of that. I'm wondering, doesn't he deserve the presumption of innocence here? Well, people are in jail. The women have confirmed it. He came to me. If started still want to be speaker I could have done something illegal and stopped the Ethics Committee investigation that started four years before told you to stop the other yeah that's what the that's what the whole motion to vacate was about he believed

he wanted me to engage and thought somehow I started this investigation it started long before I was ever speaker I and as you know it's congress i don't get involved in ethics it's an equal number they could investigate me it's it's it has to be in its own arm and branch and so he wanted to leverage me to try to do that and if i didn't he wanted to do a motion to vacate and he's denied that of course that he urged you to stop the investigation no No, I had other members come to me. He came to me. I had other people who were on a direct conversation. Talk to you.

Yeah. Yeah. So, no, there's no denying it. Here's Matt Gaetz. Here's Kevin McCarthy again talking about Matt Gaetz. Play this clip because you were ousted because you tried to work with Democrats to keep the country from defaulting and to make what spending cuts. You know, that's what the press writes. That's not why I was there.

Well, okay, so you're going to say it's all because of Matt Gaetz. What exactly did he do as far as the House ethics investigation? I don't want to get all this, but Matt came to me. Matt has an ethics complaint, and if you watch ABC News, apparently, I'm not a liar, it's true, about he has a challenge with a minor and paying her money uh it was it was asked put into place in ethics more than before i ever became speaker he wanted me to stop the ethics challenge i wouldn't so he he got some other people who didn't vote for me eight people and partnered with all the democrats to remove me well he calls you a liar he denies having sex with him so does he deny what mark wayne says he said about does he deny the testimony that the ethics committee has been given about what was said does he deny he came up to me to try to influence me does he deny what Mark Wayne says he said about? Does he deny the testimony that the ethics committee has been given about what was said?

Does he deny he came up to me to try to influence me? Does he deny he told other people, even from your same network, to call me about it? I don't know if all these people are liars. I don't believe that to be true. I know what transpired. Even if you look at Byron Donaldson's latest quote this week. Byron Donaldson, yeah, Lord of the Flies. Yeah, that what Matt Gaetz did has broken the Republican majority.

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There's no safe like SimpliSafe. Now let's talk about Tulsi Gabbard. Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence right now, as she's nominated. Many people believe that she has been compromised by Russia. She parrots a lot of direct Russia talking points. For example, we previously reported on this word-for-word Russia propaganda where she posted the following. There are 25 plus US funded biolabs in Ukraine, which if breached would release and spread deadly pathogens to the US and the world. We must take action now to prevent disaster. US, Russia, Ukraine, NATO, UN, EU must implement ceasefires now around these biolabs until they are secured and pathogens destroyed. This is false. This is literally Vladimir Putin

propaganda right now. Here's Hillary Clinton talking about Tulsi Gabbard many years back, where she warned how she believed Russians were grooming Gabbard for a third party run or to try to interfere with American foreign policy. Play this clip. Not making any predictions, but I think they've got their eye on somebody who's currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third party candidate. She's a favorite of the Russians. They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far. Now, when asked if Clinton was referring to Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, Democrat of Hawaii, Clinton's spokesman said, quote, if the nesting doll fits, he added, quote, if the Russian

propaganda machine, both their state media and their bot and troll operations is backing a candidate aligned with their interests, that is just a reality. It is not speculation. The Vote Vets group came out with the following statement, Putin putting Tulsi Gabbard in charge of our intelligence, which keeps Americans safe here and abroad, is dangerous and reckless. In Gabbard, Trump has complete and total loyalists who will use and wield our intelligence to Trump's benefit not to protect America and our Constitution. In combination with many of Trump's other appointments and nominations, we see a picture coming together of an administration made up of unqualified,

marginal zealots who will constantly be trying to please their dear leader rather than fulfill their oath to put the Constitution and the safety of the American people above the president's ego. Many warn that Trump would dispense all guardrails in a second term. So every whim of his would be carried out without question. We are now seeing exactly what that looks like. Let's also show you this clip here of Alyssa Farah on The View talking about Tulsi Gabbard would be Vladimir Putin's dream ticket with Donald Trump. Well, Donald Trump just picked Putin's dream. Here, play this clip.

So the thing to remember about Trump is first and foremost, he's running for president to stay out of jail. That's what this comes down to. So he wants to win. And I'm a little bit stunned that he said most of these folks are on the short list. Now, Donald Trump, Tulsi Gabbard would literally be Vladimir Putin's dream ticket. That does not, you would lose every normie Republican like myself who wants to stand by NATO, wants Ukraine to defeat Russia.

That's bizarre to me. But some of the others were extremely weak as well. Vivek Ramaswamy, one of the most single off-putting individuals I've ever seen on national television. He's less popular than Ted Cruz. He stole money from his investors. The one theme I saw here was a lot of people who have a lot of rage, with probably the exception of Tim Scott. And to me, Tim Scott is, what does he add unclear to me? Well, he loves. Now, finally, let me just show you this moment right here.

This is when Pete Buttigieg called out Tulsi Gabbard during the Democratic primary debate way back. Play this clip. I want to get back to Pete Buttigieg and his comment about experience. Pete, you'll agree that the service that we both have provided to our country as veterans by itself does not qualify us to serve as commander-in-chief. I think the most recent example of your inexperience in national security and foreign policy came from your recent careless statement

about how you as president would be willing to send our troops to Mexico to fight the cartels. As commander in chief, leader of our armed forces, I bring extensive experience serving for seven years in Congress on the Foreign Affairs Committee, on the Armed Services Committee, on the Homeland Security Committee, meeting with leaders of countries around the world, working with military commanders of different commands, dealing with high-level national security briefings, understanding what's necessary, the preparation that I've gotten to walk in on day one to serve as commander-in-chief.

Congressman, thank you. Mr. Mayor, I'll allow you to respond. I know that it's par for the course in Washington to take remarks out of context, but that is outlandish even by the standards of today's politics. Are you saying that you didn't say that? I was talking about U.S.-Mexico cooperation. We've been doing security cooperation with Mexico for years, with law enforcement cooperation and a military relationship

that could continue to be developed with training relationships, for example. Do you seriously think anybody on this stage is proposing invading Mexico? That's not what I said. I'm talking about building up alliances. And if your question is about experience, let's also talk about judgment. One of the foreign leaders you mentioned meeting was Bashar al-Assad. I have, in my experience, such as it is, whether you think it counts or not, since it wasn't accumulated in Washington, enough judgment that I would not have sat down with a murderous dictator like that. Well, there you have it, folks. Donald Trump officially nominating Matt Gaetz now and Tulsi Gabbard,

Matt Gaetz, Attorney General, Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence. Horrifying stuff. Shocking DC, shocking the nation, frankly, shocking the world. Can't tell you how many calls I've gotten from people overseas saying what the heck is happening to the United States of America. We'll keep you posted with more updates here. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers. It is more important than ever now that this community continues to grow and let's keep growing while they let us have YouTube, while they let us on the air, because the way this is going, who knows, who knows, but we're going to fight back every day until they shut this thing down.

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