The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump SHUTDOWN STUNT Fails…EXPLODES in HIS FACE

Episode Date: September 23, 2024

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump failing for the third time to shut down the government and cause economic calamity. FUM: Head to https://TryFum.com/meidas and use code MEIDAS to get a FREE GIFT with the Journey Pack today! 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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did was try to disenfranchise millions of Americans right before the election. We can do a whole video on the SAVE Act. But anyway, Trump says it needs the SAVE Act because Trump's trying to disenfranchise voters or we have to crash the economy right now. And MAGA's were like, we're going to do that. We're going to do that. Democrats said, go for it, Republicans. See what happens to you in the election. You're already going to get crushed, but go ahead. You want to do that? We're going to stand up for the American people and we're not going to allow you to put poison pills. Fund the government. That's our job. And the MAGA Republicans have capitulated. In a late night announcement last night on Sunday, we got word from MAGA Mike Johnson in a letter that they will now be passing what's called a clean continuing resolution without the poison pill that Donald Trump wanted in there to disenfranchise voters.

And one of the things that Donald Trump wanted to do was shut down the government to screw a booming or pretty good economy right now. So here's the letter that MAGA Mike Johnson says, dear friends and colleagues, this is what he sent late last night. This letter is to provide a brief update on our path forward for government funding because the end of the fiscal year is upon us and Senate Democrats fail to pass a single appropriation bill or negotiate with the House on an acceptable top line number for 2025. A continuing resolution is the only option that remains. As you all know, we presented a plan last week for a six-month continuing resolution accompanied by the SAVE Act so that we could both meet our funding obligations and do all within our power to ensure election security. Due to the urgency of that issue, the American people deserve nothing less. What? We deserve nothing less than you making up a fake issue that doesn't exist

because people who are here unlawfully do not vote. So you are just making this up. One of the things the SAVE Act would have done is you have to vote using your name on your birth certificate, which could then disenfranchise, get this, get this, not a shocker, tens of millions of women who don't go through a process to conform their maiden names with their current names and therefore disenfranchise them. That's what this was about. But it goes on to say, since we fell a bit short of the goal line, an alternative plan is now required.

The feedback and ideas from everyone have been helpful. And next week, the House will take the initiative and pass a clean three-month CR to prevent the Senate from jamming us with a bill loaded with billions of new spending and unrelated provisions. Our legislation will be a very narrow, bare-bones continuing resolution, including only the extensions that are absolutely necessary. In other words, MAGA Mike Johnson is admitting that he is completely folding. Now, after that was announced, a Trump surrogate, who Trump was

speaking to moments before, Maga Mike Johnson put out that statement, wrote the following, Johnson is a DC swamp rat, deep state plant and rhino trader, Wayne Allen Root, again, he's shoulder to shoulder with Donald Trump in this. I wouldn't be surprised if Donald Trump had him write this horrible person referring to Maga Mike. Same as McCarthy, same as Paul Ryan, same as Boehner. Clearly, they have videos or photos of this weak, milquetoast, backstabbing loser in bed with someone or something very bad. Just to remind you, here's the post that Donald Trump

made on September 18th, 2024. He goes, if Republicans don't get the SAVE Act and every ounce of it, they should not agree to a continuing resolution in any way, shape, or form. Democrats are registering illegal voters by the tens of thousands as we speak. They will vote in the 2024 presidential election. Don't let this happen. Again, that's not happening. He's lying. And he wanted to crash the economy. Now, if you're saying to yourself, that looks familiar. Did he say something like this before? Yeah, he did. When the budget was previously being discussed, when the government funding bill happened over a year ago, he wrote, Republicans lost big on the debt ceiling, got nothing, and are now worried they will get blamed

for a budget shutdown. Wrong. Whoever is president will be blamed. In this case, crooked as hell, Joe Biden. This was over a year ago when he was trying to shut down the country then. Our country's being systematically dismantled by leftist Marxist thugs. Unless you get everything, shut it down, shut it down, shut down our country, shut down our economy. You wanted to throw we the people into economic depression. Because again, he thinks our suffering helps him. That's why at every step of the way, he roots against us. Then if you go, that looks familiar. Yeah, he posts this like every six months. This isn't deja vu. This is just every six months he does this. He tries to create a shutdown. So then again, on January 17, 2024, he goes, I do not think we should do a border deal

at all unless we get everything needed to shut down the invasion, he says. I have no doubt that our wonderful Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, will only make a deal that is perfect on the border. In other words, he killed a bipartisan border deal that had everything the Republicans wanted because Donald Trump wanted we, the people, to suffer. Then Donald Trump also said that he didn't want the debt ceiling to be raised, which would have thrown America into default, and we would have went into an economic depression. Remember at that so-called CNN town hall that Donald Trump was a part of

after being found liable for sexual assault? Remember what he said about raising the debt ceiling, how he opposed it? Here, play this clip. You think the U.S. should default if the White House does not agree to the spending cuts Republicans are demanding? We might as well do it now because you'll do it later because we have to save this country. Our country is dying. Our country is being destroyed by stupid people, by very stupid people. You once said that using the debt ceiling as a negotiating wedge just could not happen. You said that when you were in the Oval Office.

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Mike to shut it down. Here, play the clip. Why are Republicans so reluctant to ever shut down the government? Why don't they just shut it down because well let's be honest when they do shut down the government it's not really a shutdown non-essential uh workers get a furlough they usually get back pay and essential workers keep working our our armed forces keep working social uh security checks etc that keeps going out uh Essential services continue. And then people in the end end up getting a paid vacation. Why are people so reluctant against that? But Democrats have always held their ground. So in the past, for example, you had President Biden mocking the GOP for saying that you can't raise the debt ceiling. Remember

when President Biden stood his ground and said this? This was years ago at this point because they tried it early on in the Biden administration. Play this clip. Republicans say you're refusing to negotiate on the debt limit. They're saying you're missing in action. We haven't figured out the debt limit yet. Are you missing in action? I'm in inflation, Mr. President. We're not negotiating with them on the debt limit.

Will you meet with McCarthy? When can America meet with McCarthy? We're not on whether or not the debt limit gets extended. That's not negotiable. I noticed they quote Reagan and they quote Reagan all the time and they quote Trump. Both of which says, I'm paraphrasing, it would be an absolute crime to not extend the debt limit.

What do you say? Then remember where they tried to do another government shutdown and Hakeem Jeffries stood up to them? This was September 2023. They do this every six months to a year. Here, play this clip. Republicans say you're refusing to negotiate on the debt limit. They're saying you're missing an action. We haven't figured out the the United States, Are you missing in action? The Press, I'm an inflationist, Mr. President. The Press, Will you meet with McCarthy?

The President of the United States, When can we meet with McCarthy? The Press, But not on whether or not the debt limit gets extended. That's not negotiable. I notice they quote Reagan and they quote, they quote Reagan all the time and they quote Trump. Both of which says, it says, I'm paraphrasing,

it would be an absolute crime to not extend the deadline. What do you say? So then after going through all this process, so then what then the MAGAs have to do is they don't shut it down because they want to try to save their own jobs. But Trump told them to shut the economy down. So then they go through their,

it's like the game they have to go through. So then they have to go on Fox and then compare Donald Trump to George Washington so that Donald Trump doesn't get mad at them. So then MAGA Mike goes, he's like George, he's the greatest ever. Here's what MAGA Mike says on Fox, play the clip. He felt like God was with him during that.

Was he mentioning anything like that? I mean, this is the second time someone has tried to take his life. That has to be pretty jarring. It is. It's a remarkable thing. And Kelly and I spoke with him at great length about that because it is something that no one can deny. God has spared his life twice now. And I told him that it reminded me of the bulletproof George Washington,

our first president, who evaded being shot when he was an army colonel, the famous incident in the French-Indian War, where they all took shots at him and bullet holes went through his jacket and it didn't take him down. That event took place, ironically, less than 50 miles from where President Trump was shot on the stage at Butler, Pennsylvania. These things aren't accidents, it's not luck. I believe it's providence and we talked about that. It's a remarkable thing, it would move any man's heart. I think it's booed the presidents

and it's just something he's processing right now. Yeah, and then they fight with each other and then Marjorie Taylor Greene then says that Mag and Mike needs to be vacated and needs to be fired. Here, play the clip. In my meeting with him yesterday and many other members of congress i let speaker johnson know that in no way shape and form will i support any

type of cr we aren't we aren't continuing nancy budget nancy pelosi's budget and that if he moves forward with a separate deal trading our border security weakening hr2 in exchange for 60 billion dollars to ukraine i told him yesterday in his office that i would vacate the chair that that is absolutely unacceptable and we actually have the power of the purse we're the ones that are in control and we need to control the negotiations i reiterated those same points this morning, so the ball is in his court. By the way, there's just so much chaos with these MAGAs. It's chaos on top of chaos on top of chaos. But the good news is that they're not shutting it down. It's ridiculous. They're going to do their job and pass a continuing resolution, despite Donald Trump wanting to crash our economy before the election.

And they're not doing it out of the goodness of their heart or that they care about the country. MAGA Mike is doing that because other Republicans in the House of Representatives are telling him they're going to lose their job. So he thinks he's going to lose his job. So that's why he's doing it, not to actually help we the people. Can we move past this chaos? Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million subscribers together. Thanks for watching. Love this video? Make sure you stay up to date on the latest breaking news and all things Midas by signing up to the Midas Touch newsletter at MidasTouch.com slash newsletter.