The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump SPIRALS OUT OF CONTROL as He CRUMBLES Under the Pressure

Episode Date: October 13, 2023

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praising Hezbollah and attacking Israel. Israel and the White House responded and condemned Donald Trump's shameful statement. We'll discuss. And we're more than nine days since MAGA Republicans ousted its former speaker, Kevin McCarthy, and the chaos MAGA Republicans are causing to our government, it's only getting worse. And it's not a both sides issue. There is still no speaker. On Wednesday, MAGA, in a closed door session session voted 113 to 99 to nominate MAGA Republican Congress member Steve Scalise as its speaker, who compared himself to the KKK leader David Duke a few years back. But then MAGA quickly attacked him and undermined his ability to get the votes needed on the

House floor to become the Speaker of the House. And this, just in breaking news, Steve Scalise has removed his name from consideration as Speaker of the House after winning the majority vote. MAGA Republicans in utter chaos. And we saw when that vote took place, you had MAGA Republican members of Congress entering the chambers with lasso ropes, scarlet letters painted on their shirts, and it got weirder from there. And now the breaking news to report, Steve Scalise, MAGA Republican who compared himself to KKK leader David Duke is out. And now that leaves Jim Jordan, who covered up sexual abuse at his prior job, but he likely does not have the votes.

My crew. We'll discuss. attorney, Fawnie Willis, speaking of Jim Jordan, sent a scathing letter to MAGA Republican Jim Jordan yesterday, informing him that if he wasn't protected by the speech or debate clause under the Constitution, his conduct towards her and Fulton County in trying to obstruct the RICO criminal case would be a felony under Georgia law. And it was another devastating day for Donald Trump in the New York Attorney General's civil fraud case where it looks like he may have been involved in an additional criminal obstruction scheme with his former CFO, Allen Weisselberg. Think about that. Weisselberg testifying at a

civil fraud case and likely implicated himself and Donald Trump in more criminal conduct. Also, it seems like Weisselberg committed perjury during his testimony today. It was abruptly halted. Speaking about being abruptly halted, Judge Eileen Cannon created chaos in her courtroom today during what's called a Garcia hearing on potential conflicts of interest for the lawyers who are paid for by Donald Trump's political action committee and representing Donald Trump's co-defendant. Judge Cannon demanded that the prosecutors on Jack Smith's team provide her with what they believe the remedy should be before the actual conflicts hearing could take place. And then despite the fact that they provided potential outcomes in the motion they filed, she got enraged,

couldn't control herself, just lost it, and postponed the hearing indefinitely, screaming at Jack Smith's team. We'll discuss. I'm Ben Mycelis. This is the Midas Touch Podcast. I'm joined by Brett and Jordy. Yeah. As I was reading that opening, getting the breaking news that Steve Scalise is out and it's not like there's someone who's in. You have the mega Republicans just making a mockery, an utter mockery of our government, but I guess mirroring what Donald Trump was doing in West Palm Beach. Yeah, a big loss for KKK Grand Wizard David Duke to lose one of his best friends, Steve Scalise here, Ben. I mean, wow, when you look at just the choices they have there,

and I think you broke it down perfectly in the beginning of the show by telling us who these candidates for Republican Speaker of the House actually are. It shows you just the depths of depravity of this party and how they really just do not want to coalesce around anybody normal, if there is anybody normal. And the fact is out there, guess what? If five Republicans came over and voted for Hakeem Jeffries. Hakeem Jeffries would be Speaker of the House. Agreements could be made. Deals could be made. I've been saying this every episode of this podcast since this chaos began with the Republicans and the Speaker issue. They could get a more, I'm going to shock the Republicans by suggesting this idea, a more moderate Speaker of the House

who represents more of the country and make some sort of power sharing agreement and work with the Democrats. But these Republicans, they'd rather work with Hezbollah and Hamas, I think, than work with the Democrats, which is a sad state of affairs. We could have a government that functions, that works together to get things done for the American people, but they flat out refuse and it is disgusting and they are in chaos. They're making the whole country look like another clown show and it's ridiculous. Jordy, anyway- I don't think, Brett, what you're saying there is sarcastic though. Because of the disinformation, lethal disinformation echo chamber that is Fox. I truly believe that if you presented to Republicans who are now the MAGA Republicans with that choice, who would you rather have Speaker of the House, Vladimir Putin or any Democrat, the leader of Hamas or any Democrat. I truly believe that the MAGA Republicans

would choose Hamas, Hezbollah, or Vladimir Putin. That is how radicalized and extreme the MAGA Republicans have become. I don't think that's hyperbole. At this point, we just have to think, is it going to take more rounds than days? Meaning it took 15 rounds for McCarthy to get elected. How much longer are the American people going to have to wait until we have a speaker? Is it going to go past 15 days? Are we even getting closer with the Scalise news now? Are they narrowing it down? No, I don't think they are. They thrive in the chaos and they don't thrive in the chaos. They just love to live in the chaos. A vote isn't even on the horizon,

Jordan. We're not even anywhere near there. Remember, Steve Scalise, he won. They had the secret closed door meeting. Secret, secret, secret. Secret. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a meeting of the five families. Marjorie Taylor Greene always speaks in a mafia talk. So meetings with the five families in the secret closed door meeting. And they had to take away the phone because snitches get stitches. These are things Marjorie Taylor Greene actually said.

They needed to take away the phones like it was like a comedy show and they didn't want it to like leak before the next Netflix special came out. They had to take away the phones because these Republicans are complete toddlers, I guess, who cannot control themselves and who just snipe at each other over X and on various social media all day long. They had to confiscate the phones. They go in this closed door meeting. They have this vote. It's very contentious. Steve Scalise wins this closed door vote, 113 to 99, beating Jim Jordan. I think it's important to also say Jim Jordan was Donald

Trump's choice for the role. So Donald Trump losing, he put his hand out, his arm out for this one in endorsing Jim Jordan for the position. And then Jim Jordan ended up losing this vote. But what Chip Roy offered another Republican, what he said during this meeting was he tried to say, you know what, we should not leave this room unless we have a consensus candidate that could get the 217 votes needed in order to actually become Speaker of the House. And the Republicans rejected that idea in the closed-door meeting. I got to say, when Chip Roy, when Chip freaking Roy is the smartest guy in the room, you know that there is a big –

Or just when Chip Roy is the voice of reason. That's a scary, scary thought. You're telling me, Jordy. Let's talk about the people who were in this room and what they were saying. Because as you watched what was going down, it looked like an SNL parody. And with the writer's strike over, it could have been, except it's so dangerous. I mean, you have people walk, MAGA Republicans, let me be clear who, walking into the conference room where they're holding these closed door sessions with lasso ropes, with scarlet letters on their shirts. If you don't believe me, here is MAGA Republican Harriet Hageman walking into the meeting where they

voted for Steve Scalise, who's now withdrawn his name as we were doing the intro, but she walked in with a lasso rope. Play the clip. So now you have Harriet Hageman walking in. She's got a giant lasso in her hand. She's walking, she's smiling, and she just walks past the press. Very strange video. Very strange indeed. Then you have MAGA Republican Nancy Mace walking around the Capitol building with the scarlet letter A on her shirt, basically saying that she feels dehumanized by other MAGA Republicans, but she is supporting MAGA Republican Jim Jordan and palling around with Matt Gaetz on the Steve Bannon show, who she previously voted to hold in contempt of Congress. She was begging for donations on Bannon, where she previously mocked Matt Gaetz as a fraud for going on the Bannon show and asking for donations. Did you follow that?

Don't worry if you didn't. Just watch MAGA Republican Nancy Mace. I'm wearing the scarlet letter after the week that I just had last week, being a woman up here and being demonized for my vote and for my voice. I'm here to let the rest of the world know and the country know I'm on the side of the people. I'm not on the side of the establishment. And I'm going to do the right thing every single time, no matter the consequences, because I don't answer to anybody in D.C. I don't answer to anyone in Washington. I only answer to the people. Oh, what?

Nauseating. Do you think she knows the A on the shirt stands for adultery? Do you think she knows the full story and that that's what the actual letter on the shirt stands for? And it's not because she is a woman. I mean, give me a freaking break. And she wants to act like she's standing up for her constituents. This is somebody with zero spine whatsoever. This is an individual who went to Donald Trump, who went to Trump Tower in New York and took a selfie video of herself saying, look, everybody, I'm at Trump Tower. I love Donald

Trump. You're going to endorse me. I love Donald Trump. And then what happened? Donald Trump humiliated her right after saying, I don't support this lady whatsoever. Does she have a humiliation thing? It's an attention seeking thing. At a certain point, I think I respect Harriet Hageman a little bit more for not even addressing the weird lasso thing because at least she didn't

stop the cameras and say, I have this lasso because I blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. She just kind of kept walking with it, which by itself is just So, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. She's got a quiet engine. Which by itself is just a strange thing. I'm just going to be a weirdo and I'll let the people talk about it. They can come to their own conclusions on this one. There's a gnarly video of Nancy Mace from 2017 that's resurfaced where – okay.

Whatever you want to do in your private is your private, but I've never seen anything like this before in terms of drinking games. It's a video of her from 2017 where she takes, it's really, she takes a shot. She takes a shot of alcohol. Okay. And then she spits it in the mouth of the person sitting next to her. And then the person sitting next to her spits it in the mouth of the person sitting next to him. And then the person spits it in the mouth of the person. And then the person vomits on the person sitting next to him. It's the most disgusting video I've ever seen. Did the full video make it into your hot take of this morning? I couldn't do the full video in my hot take.

This was legitimately a little behind the scenes. And we'll talk more behind the scenes on the Patreon, MidasMoreAfterShow, patreon.com slash MidasTouch. But one of our big debates last night was how much of this video do we actually show and not take? Like, do we show two rounds of the shot going from person to person? Do we show the actual throwing up? Is that too disgusting for the audience? We spent a good 30 minutes on that. Well, here's the thing, though.

Where that video first – I decided to cut it. I decided to cut it. Where that video surfaced when she was running for the South Carolina House of Representatives and claiming that she was this moderate centrist, her democratic opponent said, you know, recording yourself doing that is probably poor judgment. And then the media didn't really pick that up. And then she kind of created this image as a centrist. And then she won in 2020 by like 8,000 votes. And right now she's there in South Carolina and she just kind of lies about everything. Anyway, if you thought it couldn't get worse than a MAGA Republican walking in with a lasso and another one wearing a scarlet letter A. Here is MAGA Republican George Santos, fresh off of a superseding indictment for stealing credit

card and identities of people and charging it so his campaign was able to raise money based on theft. Here he is now saying that because Scalise didn't return his phone calls, he's never Scalise. And because of the power that the MAGA Republicans gave to Santos, he's able to tank the leadership votes. here, play this clip of Santos. Yeah, it's never Scalise at this point. You you're, we're going to have to find someone else in leadership that comes forward. That's going to be a compromise candidate. But as for me, it's never for Scalise. No, it's not because he didn't call me. It's because if you're in leadership, there's 222 members of your party, 221. Now you talk to everybody. I've reached out numerous times to

Congressman Scalise and me reaching out and asking him for guidance in his leadership and him not reaching back out. That's a dereliction of his duty as a leader. So I'm not voting for somebody who lacks fundamental leadership skills.'m gonna pass out i'm like gonna actually pass out like this is not an snl skit this is a major American political party, but this is what Donald Trump has done to this political party. They are devoid of any sense of purpose and what they do. And they all act like him. They act like fascist babies. The Lasso, The Scarlet Letter, you got throw George Santos in. So let me just show you, this is what our house is. One sec. I need to comment on the Santos thing real quick because that clip right there, and Brett, I want to hear your take on this. It's hilarious. It's the funniest clip I think

I've ever watched. And here's why. The person asking the question, just point blank, are you never Scalise because he didn't return your phone call? And his first instinct, Santos, is no, that's not why. And then he spends the rest of the video talking about that he's never Scalise because Scalise never returned his call. It's really incredible. And then you know what? Santos always talks like this and moves like this in all these videos that he's in. It's really incredible. I was trying to think what it was. It's like a kid who has to go to the bathroom, like doing the pee pee dance. That's what Santos is in every video when he gets

asked the question. The funniest thing about Santos too is when he found out that there was a superseding indictment against him because the MAGA Republicans had to confiscate the phones of all the MAGA Republicans. When he was in that closed door vote, he didn't realize a superseding indictment. So we all knew that he was now charged with the fact that his treasurer and his other campaign finance person told on him that he stole people's credit cards and came up with a fake loan. So he walks out and the press are like, so you stole people's credit cards? And he's like, what are you talking about? And they're like, you stole people's credit cards. Like, that's not true. And then he just kind of like, it's always him running away from people also. But in all seriousness,

here's what the House of Representatives looked like today when it went into recess after just two minutes. So just to be clear, whereas when Democrats controlled the House of Representatives, we had major pieces of legislation. When I say we, I'm talking about Americans. We had infrastructure. We had the PACT Act. We had the CHIPS Act. We had the Inflation Reduction Act, right? We're talking about reducing the PACT Act. We had the CHIPS Act. We had the Inflation Reduction Act. We're talking about reducing the cost of insulin. We have 36,000 infrastructure projects going up. We have the

government negotiating lower prescription drug prices. We have so many things happening. And this is what it looks like. This was the full session today in the House of Representatives. Play this clip. this is what it looks like. This was the full session today in the House of Representatives. Play this clip. Pursuant to Clause 12A of Rule 1, the chair declares the House in recess, subject to the call of the chair. And now I want to show you- Bravo. Bravo. Great day of work, everybody. Great day of work. The Henry's are the people better at hitting the gavel. The first time when he hit the gavel, like he was Thor. Yeah, that was weird. A bit more measured on the gavel. The gavel hit him. Yeah hitting the gavel the first time when he hit the gavel like he was four yeah that was weird measured on the gavel hit him yeah the gavel in soviet russia gavel hits you

what i don't understand like these are the same folks who go on and on about we need stricter work requirements on the money going out for these various programs it's like y'all worked for two minutes today where are the work requirements on you money going out for these various programs. It's like, y'all worked for two minutes today. Where are the work requirements on you? How about we actually put together how much time you are working for the American people and adjust your salaries accordingly? Because you're not doing a damn thing. In fact, it's worse than you're not doing a damn thing. You are actively harming people. You're actively harming the entire United States of America. And by the way, the world. So in essence, you should actually be charged. Like these people should be fined for this sort of behavior at the end of the day.

And then Brett, compare that to all of them freaking out and spreading the misinformation about when Biden put the lid on, you know, before noon or whatever. And they're, oh my God, he's not working. How can he not work? What's going on? Meanwhile, the guy was working. That's not what a lit is. And these folks, these MAGA Republicans, they're like, no, I'm done for the day here. Well, Jordan, I said this on the last show. Here's what the problem is. They believe, genuinely, I think they believe this, that when they are tweeting, that they are working. They think, oh, I sent out some tweets today. Ted Cruz, I promoted my podcast today. So that's what they view as working.

And so they think if they just shitpost a little bit, send off some tweets, that's good. They did their job, right? They riled up their base. They made it the appearance that they're doing work. And the disparity that I think they have realized works to their advantage is on the Democratic side of things and in the White House, they're not tweeting all day. They're actually out there on the field doing the work, speaking with world leaders, figuring out how to make life better for Americans, figuring out how to solve really complex geopolitical issues. They're not spending all day on Twitter. So what these Republicans have realized is all the time that this real work is being

done, they could use that time, that vacuum of information to then spread their disinformation and they view that as working and that's all they care about. We said this on the last show, they've become the blame America first party. They like to call themselves America first. They are blame America first. There is never a problem that this country faces where they don't go and blame America first. They're fundamentally anti-American. That sort of attitude is so, so anti-American because when tragedy used to strike in this country or around the world, we used to rally around the government. We used to rally around the people. We used to go, okay, this horrible thing happened. What are we going to do next as a country? We didn't go and start blaming the people in charge for the catastrophes.

I mean, that's the big difference right now of this Republican Party. You've heard the term mansplaining. What I refer to the Republicans as is magasplaining because these are the people right here who are trying to control you. They want to take away your freedoms. These people who can't even elect a leader amongst them, they want to tell us how we should balance our deficit. They want to lecture us in fiscal conservatism.

Is it any shock that this group of clowns that you're seeing right now are the reason why there's $7.8 trillion in debt that was added to our country's balance sheets when Donald Trump was in office? This is how they behave and then like an abuser, like a sociopath. And when you start framing their behavior in those terms, it actually all fits into place. They create the problem, they're the arsonists, and then they blame you for it. And so it's kind of sociopathic, malignant narcissism. It's that type of abuser mentality and behavior at a group think

level that has become the MAGA Republican Party, that has taken over the Republican Party as they've ceded all of their power to Donald Trump to take over it because that's ultimately his pathology and they've created the image of him. Then what do they do? Blame the Democrats. It's you who did it. It's you who did it. That's why I think there are so many people. I see it in the chat. I see it in the comments. I see it in the comments and people who talk to me all the time, where it does feel like PTSD. It does feel like the way you feel when you're abused by someone, because the Republicans will do it to your face. They'll screw you. They'll take your freedoms. They'll behave like utter clowns. And they go, what do you mean? You need to get off social security. You want health care? You greedy person, you.

And it's like, shut up. What are you talking about? And it's like every topic, right, Ben? It's like they want to lecture Democrats on crime. Jim Jordan, he holds all these hearings. Let's hold a hearing on Chicago. Let's hold a hearing on DC. How about we hold a hearing on your district, which is called Danger City, which is one of the biggest crime hotspots in the United States of America, Jim Jordan. How about that? These are the people who want to lecture us. How about when they took the traveling circus on the road when they went to New York? I mean, they're unbelievable people. They're just performance artists. They go to cities and their own districts have worse crime than the cities they go to.

This is the entire thing. They want to talk about fiscal responsibility when they've run up the budgets, they've run up the deficits, they've run up the debt more than anybody in our history. So they actually have no leg to stand on. But one of the things that they do through their abuse and one of the things that I think too many people fall for at the end of the day is this idea that they are somehow winning. I hear this so much, but the MAGA people, they're winning though. They're winning. Look, they're winning. I go, what's the proof? How do you define winning? What's the proof of the

winning? They make a lot of noise and they humiliate themselves a lot and they get a lot of headlines for being ridiculous. Okay. I don't think that's winning. How about we look at all the special elections that have taken place since 2022? How about we look at the midterm results and how are they were supposed to be? How about we look at the midterm results and how are they supposed to be? How about we look at all these ballot initiatives that we've seen? How about we look at the Supreme Court races that we've seen since 2022? They've lost all of them, like 100% of them. So I don't know how these people who are saying this define winning, but they're really not winning. They're simply not winning. They're simply not winning. They're

just very loud. They're very obnoxious. They're very in your face, but that is not winning. I want to show you this too. This is Republican McCaul. One of the things that he says here is he's like one of the biggest threats right now in the world, he says, is that the Republican Party is behaving this way. This is a Republican who is saying this. But also, when the solution is staring him in the face, he's like, well, I don't know what to do then. Here, play this clip. Every day that goes by, it gets more dangerous. I was on the phone with our friends from Israel. They're going to need a supplemental, an aid to replenish the Iron Dome.

But they can't do that if we don't have a speaker in the chair. So I see a lot of threats out there. But one of the biggest threats I see is in that room because we can't unify as a conference and put a speaker in the chair to govern. I can't get my resolution of 416 co-sponsors condemning Hamas and supporting Israel without a speaker in the chair. I can't get that supplemental aid to Israel without a speaker in the chair. So it's very dangerous what we're doing. Well, maybe, just maybe your party is fatally flawed. And just maybe if you looked across the aisle, the demonization that comes from Fox and the right-wing echo chambers, maybe that's actually not what exists. Maybe what exists are pragmatic people

who are trying to solve problems for the American people who you may disagree with on certain issues, but who fundamentally we should be able to work together to deal with existential threats. I had Democratic Congress member Jackson on, he said something super interesting to me. He goes, you know, Ben, the incentive structure for MAGA Republicans is really one of the core problems. For Democrats, the incentive structure is you get rewarded for actually passing legislation and doing good things for the American people. In the MAGA Republican Party, the incentive structure is how outrageous can you be and how can you own the libs? Then you get rewarded by going on Fox and going on Hannity

and Laura Ingraham or one of those. It's deeply embedded in the incentive structure. The incentive structure should be on the American people. The incentive structure should be, how do we make our country better? How do we improve things here? Frankly, it's the pro-democracy coalition of Democrats and people who get things done, independents, people who have left MAGA to join up this pro-democracy coalition of Democrats and people who get things done, independents, people who have left MAGA to join up this pro-democracy coalition, who is getting things done. I want to compare what we just saw right now at the congressional level to their cult leader, Donald Trump, and his behavior as well, how disqualifying it is. I want to talk about it. Then I want to contrast

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taking shots with nancy mace uh the commercial break i saw it in the camera so you can't even go there i tried to men in black that image. That video of Mace, though, is really the culmination of what we always say about these MAGA Republicans of like how they like to cough and sneeze on you. I mean, just show somebody that video as you describe MAGA Republicans, and that's exactly what you get. I got to say, I just want to say before we get to the next segment, though, I just want to say earlier today we posted on the midas touch account uh just a little question to the viewers to the to the followers right this is on the midas touch on threads on x etc uh ken scalisa speaker dreams outlast this lettuce we had a picture of steve scalise next to a head of lettuce lish trough. That's from this morning. And we could safely say

the lettuce has won everybody. The lettuce has outlasted Steve Scalise's speaker dream. We tweeted out my money's on the lettuce. I guess we go and collect now. Who is the lettuce? No, just the head of lettuce. Just the head of lettuce.

Ben doesn't know memes sometimes. That's a meme. I'm saying they both look like a head of lettuce. Just the head of lettuce. Ben doesn't know memes sometimes. That's a meme. I'm saying they both look like a head of lettuce. Oh, that went over my head. They do look exactly the same. It was too smart, Ben. All right, let's get into it. Okay, but this Trump speech last night in West Palm Beach. It went from weird to dangerous to red alert.

And especially when you know that one of the classified documents that Donald Trump stole were war plans of Iran. And you think that, how do we know that? It's not like, oh, the Benjel's saying that. It's on audio recording and not like when MAGA Republicans say that they have audio recordings. We've heard the audio recording. We've played it. You can hear Donald Trump talk about it. And Donald Trump's excuse was, that was just paper that I was showing. That wasn't the war plans that I said. But then there's an exhibit of those documents. It's like count 31, 32, or 33, I forget which one it is, on the superseding indictment in the Mar-a-Lago case in the

Southern District of Florida. We know those existed. Think about that. That was one of the documents Donald Trump had and how he feels about Israel, how he feels about Hezbollah. Take that into account when you see this. So first off, it starts with Donald Trump just whining about his microphone. One thing I should say too, where is this? It's at the Hilton Airport Hotel lobby. And they call it, they used to call it Club 45. Now they call it Club 47. But like the same way Donald Trump like went to a non-union shop and like pretends it's a union shop and has people like hold up signs who aren't union workers and say union workers,

like it's all a set. It's all a fake. It's all a fraud when it comes to him. So it's not a club. It's like the Hilton conference room that he does these things in and he calls it club 47. I think that context is not discussed. Everything is a fraud. Everything. Four seasons, total landscaping. Yeah, there's a theme here. There's a theme. I'm sensing a theme.

Here is Donald Trump complaining about his microphone and yelling at his staff for the bad microphone. Play this clip. I'm glad it's such because this is the worst microphone I think I've ever had. I hope you can hear me back there. Justin, don't pay the bill for this mic. I'm blowing out my voice talking to this stupid mic. This is the worst mic I've ever had. OK, now we'll get back to the speech. I'm trying to get their attention.

Turn up the mic. Is it OK? And then I don't pay a bill and they say Trump doesn't pay his contractors. OK, so then we get back to this. Even the way he's speaking, though, like a mobster, right? Like he's doing an impression of like a mobster in a mob movie. It's a very particular way that he's even talking. It's just very deranged and, and off putting. And usually in the mafia movies, like it's like one mafia boss yelling at another.

He's yelling at the microphone. Like, let's speak like, like, like he, you stupid effing microphone, you piece of crap, fricking microphone idiot. It's like, okay. Like, and, and that's not far off from the way he was behaving and legacy media is like, and Donald Trump went to Club 47 where he was impassioned. He was impassioned. It's like he's yelling at a microphone. Okay. But then he's like, I want to get back to the speech, you shitty microphone. That's a good thing. Then he gets back to the speech and it's horrific. Here he is. And we did a little compilation of the lowlights. He attacks Israel, praises Hezbollah, attacks an Israeli minister,

calls Hezbollah smart, praises President Xi, all within a few moments. Play this clip. You know, Hezbollah is very smart. They're all very smart. The press doesn't like when they say I'm smart. But Hezbollah, they're very smart. I'll never forget that Bibi Netanyahu let us down. That was a very terrible thing. I will say that.

They've got to straighten it out because they're fighting potentially a very big force. They're fighting potentially a very big force. They're fighting potentially Iran. And when they have people saying the wrong things, everything they say is being digested by these people because they're vicious and they're smart. And boy, are they vicious, because nobody's ever seen the kind of sight that we've seen. But they cannot play games. So we were disappointed by that, very disappointed.

But we did the job ourself, and it was absolute precision, magnificent, beautiful job and then Maybe tried to take credit for it. That was a good that didn't make me feel too good, but that's all right So they got to strengthen themselves up and they said gee I hope Hezbollah doesn't attack from the north Because that's the most vulnerable spot. I said, wait a minute. You know, Hezbollah is very smart. They're all very smart. The press doesn't like when they say you know, I said that president Xi of China, 1.4 billion people, he controls it with an iron fist. I said, he's a very smart man. They killed me the next day. I said he was smart. What am I going to say? But Hezbollah, they're very smart. And they have a national defense

minister or somebody saying, I hope Hezbollah doesn't attack us from the north. So the following morning they attacked. They might not have been doing it, but if you listen to this jerk, you would attack from the north because he said that's our weak spot. But Hezbollah, they're very smart. Trump is one speech away from saying that he's in love with Hezbollah and they send him love letters the same way Kim Jong-un is. I just want you to think about there's Trump, he's seething with jealousy because President Biden is acting like a leader. You've got the Israeli government thanking President Biden for acting like a leader and showing leadership following a horrific terrorist attack. There were those billboards up in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv saying, thank you, President Biden. Then you have Donald Trump angry, has a personal grievance

against Benjamin Netanyahu because the Israeli government and Netanyahu wouldn't support Donald Trump when he was claiming the 2020 election was rigged. When you think about that, you think about that one of the classified documents involved war plans regarding Iran, and you start to make connections. You start to realize, okay, we should have realized it a while ago. We all realized it. Who watch The Midas Mighty community has, who were the first people that Donald Trump invited to the White House? To the White House. Putin's top people smiled, mocked us in the Oval Office, right? Sergey Kislyak, Sergey Lavrov mocked us in our Oval Office. Donald Trump wouldn't let the cameras or anybody else meet with them, went into the room, spoke with them privately.

A year later, Donald Trump did the same in Helsinki. Think about that. Think about that. Think about where are the weapons and the money coming from. It's being funneled in to Iran, to Hamas, and Hezbollah. It's coming from Russia. Donald Trump has those war plans that he's bragging about. Think about it. It's horrific. I want to show you this clip as well. Two plus two equals four, I will say. This is Donald Trump saying that President Biden let terrorists into the country, and then he just keeps on saying Barack Hussein Obama and just keeps repeating that name and emphasizing Hussein. And then Donald Trump just says the Capitol looks like shit. Play this clip. Instead of keeping terrorists and terrorist sympathizers out of America, the Biden administration is inviting them in. You know why? Because he's got a boss. Who's his boss?

Barack Hussein Obama. Barack Hussein. Barack Hussein Obama. Remember the great Rush Limbaugh? Barack Hussein Obama. Here you go, Barack. Hussein Obama. Hello, Lee.

Unbelievably, the corrupt Biden Department of Justice recently invited an Iranian-backed judge from Iraq to visit our nation's capital. Isn't that nice? He couldn't have been too impressed with our capital. It looks like shit. No, have you seen what they've done? Disqualifying, disgusting, despicable, deranged. I could go on. Sick. You can't look at that and be like, that's my guy. That is the person who I want to trust the life of my family to. Would you let someone like that even into your house? Would you let someone like that near your family? Who behaves that way? Well, the MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives with their lassos and scarlet letters and George Santos's, I guess they do. Who behaves this way? Think about if you had a

neighbor, you had a coworker, if you had someone who acts like that. This is who the mega Republicans pledge their allegiance to. But if you think about it, if they're afraid of George Santos, think about what they are with Donald Trump. And think about what they are with Donald Trump. And think about what they are with people like Vladimir Putin. Think about that. And here is Donald Trump connecting the terrorist attack on Israel with Donald Trump's election conspiracies from 2020 that have all been debunked. Play this clip. And if the election wasn't rigged, there would be nobody even thinking about going into

Israel. The election was rigged, very sadly rigged. Can you think about how the standards of American politics and behavior has been degraded by the MAGA Republicans, by that disgusting, traitorous individual, and by legacy media's complete resignation of their duty. Could you imagine somebody saying things like that just 10, 15, 20 years ago? The way that kind of fascism works is that it creeps. It creeps. It tests the limits. Okay, I got one yard. I got three yards. I got five yards. And when people give in and they're like, okay, I'll let you find me. Just do that. I don't have enough time for this.

Then they go a little further. Then they go a little further. Then they go a little further. Or you could say it another way. First, they went after that group. Then they went after that group. Then they went after that group, right? And whichever prism or paradigm you want to look at, before you know it, because that's

been allowed to happen by the completely, completely weak legacy media, the fourth estate who does nothing, because that's been allowed by the Republican party, all of a sudden, you wake up. It's October, when that speech happened, it's October 11th, 2023. Before you know it, in the blink, in the blink of an eye, you have the leader of a major American political party, the Republican Party up there saying things like that. And you go, what happened? What happened? But it was happening all along. And the good news is we can reverse that trend. We really can. And to Republicans who care about our democracy, I tell you, look, I know your echo chambers. I know your Fox and your

right wing, all of that. I know your incentive structure is to attack us and say, these are lefty, radical, extreme. I know it's for you to say, these Marxist communists. But I promise you what we care about is healthcare for our people, protecting our seniors, protecting our troops, protecting our veterans, making sure that people have their freedoms, that women have the right to control their bodies, that people can love who they want to love, that people can read the books that they want to read without the government telling them how they need to behave. We want access to education. We want access to life-saving healthcare. We want jobs. We want better working conditions. We want better infrastructure. Our sleeves are rolled up to do that. That's what we want. Stop demonizing the real silent

majority of Americans who just crave normalcy. We crave compassion. We just want intelligence. Frankly, we don't give a crap about political parties and labels. What we care about is freaking normalcy, which is only embodied in one political party right now, the Democrats. But if it wasn't, we'd think differently. But that's just the way it is right now. And there is a chance. There is an opportunity to break free from this. So to any of you who are watching this for the first time, I tell you, this Midas Mighty community that everybody here has built that you are all a part of, to me is the difference maker because it represents normalcy, compassion, intelligence, and being unapologetically pro-democracy. It's a

rebuttal of everything you just saw. Sounds very communist, Ben. That's all I got to say. Total, total. Commie Marxist. What a woke rant. I'm obviously kidding. Let me show you this. I just want to say that with Trump though, if you notice, and I think our followers have noticed, right? Everything is about him. At the end of the day, every single thing is about him. When he speaks about how adversaries speak to him, to them, they're his friends. Why are they his friends? They called me, sir. They called me President Xi. He called me, sir. They don't call Biden, sir. He could say the same thing about Hamas. He could say the same

thing about Hezbollah. He could say the same thing about Russia because all he cares about is that gratification. That is the kind of thing that allows you to be played by dictators and autocrats across the world. That is not what makes you strong. That's actually what makes you incredibly weak. That's what makes Donald Trump a weak person who is incredibly susceptible to foreign influence that is damaging to the United States of America. When we have a moment like we have now, which is the single most complex situation you can navigate, Middle East peace, attacks in the Middle East, I can't think of a more complex, more heated issue. You need somebody in there who has a steady hand, somebody who is not influenced by foreign actors saying nice things to you. Sir, sir, they called me, sir. They called me. That's not the person you want to have in power at that time. You want a person who is able to look at what's going on, who's able to take a measured approach, who's able to do what's best for the world, who's able to do

what's best for the United States of America. And if you know anybody who supports Donald Trump right now, I want you to show them these videos and ask if they are okay with this kind of rhetoric. One of the comments that I saw that we received, most people were happy. We were one of the first people, I think the very first people yesterday to report on Donald Trump's comments about Israel last night. We broke that story. Our researchers are incredible, a hat tip to them for their incredible, incredible work. But I saw a few comments in the mix that said, why are you platforming this guy? He's nobody. Why are you platforming this person? Why are you giving him person? It's not about giving him a platform. He is the leader of one of the two major all these news articles throughout the past few months after his rallies. Donald Trump gave an uproarious speech to adoring fans where they chanted Trump,

Trump, Trump, and everybody chanted in applause when he said, Biden, you're fired. And the crowd erupted at Club Mar-a-Lago, whatever the hell he calls it. That's been the coverage that he has. So it's actually important that people see the real Trump, that people are exposed to the raw, unfiltered nature of what he is saying, the hateful nature of what he is saying. And they are forced to confront that reality because it can't be sanitized and people need to see what is actually going on. Because if we close our eyes to this, if we cover our ears, then people are not going to understand what is actually happening. They're going to take the legacy entire messaging argument to Donald Trump, who's able to present that speech

then any way he wants to, rather than getting ahead of it and saying, look what he said. Defend that. Defend that. I think it's so important that we highlight these words. Well, you think about the rise of authoritarians and just use the logic of someone who was like, just let the authoritarian go on and keep building and spreading the lies. Just let them do it and don't worry about it. You don't want to plot for them. You got to cover the truth and wake people up and let people know here is what is going

on. That is the disinfectant for that. And finally, with all of the projection that comes from Donald Trump and MAGA, it's always projection and confession. When they try to go after Biden's mental acuity, it's always a red flag that there's probably something serious going on with Donald Trump. I really mean that people need to take a serious look and focus on this. One of the biggest tells is how deep they're going in on President Biden for it with just bogus crap and actually edited type of stuff. Because if you look at the things that Donald Trump's been saying, he's accused Biden of starting World War II. He repeatedly says that he believes Obama

is the president in lots of speeches. He keeps saying he believes he's running against Obama, that Obama is doing this and Obama is doing that. And today, again, he went on Fox. He spoke with Brian Kilmeade. And he, again, called Biden Obama and says it's against Obama. Watch what happens here. Play this clip. Brian, it's all coming through Iran. And Obama wants to, he doesn't want to talk about it.

He doesn't want to mention, he doesn't even mention them in his statements. It's all coming through Iran and Obama wants to, he doesn't want to talk about it. He doesn't want to mention, he doesn't even mention them in his statements. It's all coming through Iran. But you mean president Biden. So, uh, and could you imagine if that was just the other way around and it happened on a, almost a daily basis when Donald Trump is, is, is doing that. I've showed you a lot of Trump. Let me just show you President Biden's speech from earlier this week on Wednesday. This is President Biden talking about the solemnity of the situation, about how serious it is, and that silence is complicity. Compare what you saw with Donald Trump to this type of leadership.

Play the clip. This attack was a campaign of pure cruelty. Not just hate, but pure cruelty against the Jewish people. And I would argue it's the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. The deadliest day since the Holocaust. One of the worst chapters in human history to remind us all that expression I learned from my dad early on,

silence is complicity. I mean, silence is complicity. It really is. And I want you to know, I think you've already figured it out I refuse to be silent I know you refuse to be silent as well I'll show you another powerful moment from that speech right now play the clip that's why I took my kids everyone when they turned 14 years old, one at a time, put them on a plane and took them to Dachau. I wanted them to see that you could not not know what was going on walking through those gates. You could not fail to understand

as a country what was going on. And that's a fact. It had a profound impact on my children and my grandchildren. Some thought taking a 14-year-old grandchild did not make sense, but it took them one at a time. They got three more to go. And folks, it's important. Think about all of the billions of dollars that the right wing, in wanting to foist upon us a Putin-style oligarchy, is spending to try to demonize that good man right there, President Biden. Say what you want about certain policies, or do I agree with President Biden on everything?

I shouldn't. You shouldn't. You don't have to. But the one thing we should all agree on, that is what a leader looks like. And what we saw earlier in today's podcast of Donald Trump is not only what a leader does not look like, but that is what an enemy to the United States looks like, how an enemy to the United States talks. Got a lot more show to discuss. Let's talk about the court proceedings that have been occurring over the past few days. We'll talk about that and more after our last quick break of the day.

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any time. I want to just mention this here, but we'll be talking about it more. This Sarah Huckabee Sanders podium scandal is heating up. For those who don't know what's going on in Arkansas, she apparently purchased, and I put that in quotes, a $19,000 podium from her friend who just started a consulting company using taxpayer dollars, even though the person who's her friend doesn't sell podiums, that the podium seems to be a fake podium and is not that expensive at all. money in Arkansas to her friend to basically travel to Europe and have the time of their lives together. Wow. What's being hypothesized. And then she used the podium payment to cover up using taxpayer dollars to her friends.

Podium payment plan. I just want to put that on everybody's radar to start looking into it. That's going to start. It already is heating up. It's getting big. And there have been contemporaneous letters written at the time by concerned employees within the governor's office who sent emails out saying, I just want to flag this payment that is an irregular payment that makes no sense just for the record so that it's in writing. And the more that comes out, the more criminal that this scheme looks. This could easily go to the Department of Justice, wire fraud. Sarah Huckabee Sanders could be charged with a federal crime for what she's

been involved with here. And we're at the beginning stages of this. And there's been little by little, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, little drips coming out of this. And there's been like little by little drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, little drips coming out of this story. So we haven't done a full comprehensive hot take on this, but we may be due for one soon. I'll show this comment from Senator John Fetterman related to this. Fetterman has the best clapbacks ever. And so Mike Huckabee, Sarah Huckabee's dad, went and wrote this tweet in response to RNC Research, which is the RNC's ex-Twitter account. It's like the worst account ever. They call themselves Research. They don't do anything. So they posted a clip of John Fetterman. They're the worst account. They posted a clip of John Fetterman, I think he was on the Cold Bear show,

saying, John Fetterman unironically stating, America is not sending their best and brightest to Washington, D.C. Their implication saying that, look, John Fetterman is talking about himself here. That's what they're trying to say. I mean, what they're actually doing is they're mocking a stroke victim, just to show you the Republican Party, that's what they're doing. They're mocking a recovering stroke victim because they're horrific people. What did John Fetterman respond? So Mike Huckabee takes that RNC research tweet. He responds, Fetterman speaks truth. He's unaware of it, but he embodies the very truth he speaks. This could have been a skit on SNL, but it was a rare funny moment on Colbert.

And Senator Fetterman replied, I dress like your daughter buys podiums. A mic drop, a mic drop, making fun of himself a little bit of his own outfits and also laying down the hammer on his daughter, Sarah Huckabee, who could be facing some very, very serious criminal consequences. And look, here's why the MAGA Republicans attack the Department of Justice, though. And they do it so that when they engage in crimes like funneling $19,000 through fake

podium purchases is just one random example, what do they then go? It's Biden's DOJ coming after me. They're coming after me, and it's so unfair. Merrick Garland and Biden, it's like, no, y'all are just committing crimes is what is happening. And the problem is, let's be very clear, okay? The FBI and the DOJ do have a lot of problems. I don't want to just be like an apologist. I want to be like, the DOJ and FBI, they're perfect no matter what they do. There are real screw-ups and there's real disparities often in terms of how wealthy people get off things versus people who are impoverished and people of color. So there's real issues, systemic issues that need to be addressed,

right? But when MAGA Republicans support terrorists and then use that to attack the Department of Justice and the FBI versus what real criticisms could be, it additionally creates further problems, destroying every aspect of it and not actually addressing actual systemic issues that could be addressed and resolved. I want to mention that. Okay. So you have also this scathing letter that was sent today by Fulton County District Attorney Fawnie Willis, actually sent

yesterday to MAGA Republican Jim Jordan. I like reading it every day, so it feels like today. Her letters have been pitch perfect to Jim Jordan. Here's the one. By the way, it's like Jim Jordan just keeps sending her letters. She responds, then Jim Jordan sends another letter and then posts it on the RNC account, goes, oh, look at the letter I sent her. Then Jim Jordan sends another letter and then posts it on the RNC account, goes, oh, look at the letter I sent her. Then she just sends another mic drop letter back to him. In the new one, she's basically like, look, Jim Jordan. The last one she told Jim Jordan, if you want to learn about RICO law, because you're a non-licensed lawyer, you've never taken the bar exam, there's a non-bar fee of like $250 if you

want to buy the book on RICO and then maybe learn about the law and then we can have a conversation. So that was brilliant. And this one, she's like, you're a criminal, basically. And yes, you're hiding behind the speech or debate clause immunity. But I'm going to let you know that if you didn't have the potential for speech or debate clause, this but I'm going to let you know that if you didn't have the potential for speech or debate clause, this is a violation of our obstruction of justice laws here in the state of Georgia. She's 100% right. Here's how she responds to Jim Jordan's latest letter that he sent her on September 27, 2023. She goes, a charitable explanation of your correspondence is that you are ignorant of

the United States and Georgia constitutions and codes. A more troubling explanation is that you are abusing your authority as chairman of the committee on the judiciary to attempt to obstruct and interfere with a Georgia criminal prosecution. See OCGA section 1610-24. That's a felony in Georgia, what he's doing. In other words, she's saying, indeed, you confess to this motivation on Mark Levin's September 10th, 2023 show. When discussing one of my office active prosecutions, you boasted, quote, we're trying to get all the answers, but we're trying to stop this stuff as

well. While you may enjoy immunity under the United States Constitution speech or debate clause, that does not make your behavior any less offensive to the rule of law. She goes on to say more, but she is spot on there. One of the interesting things that a lot of people aren't talking about, this would likely get related to the other federal cases that were brought by Mark Meadows and Jeff Clark before the law and order judge there who's rejected them. I think that Jim Jordan would probably try to fight a relation to those cases. But that judge who's ruled against Meadows and Clark, I would argue that this is a related case to the Fulton County prosecutions. And that judge is not going to tolerate the behavior of

this MAGA Republican nonsense. And you compare that, remember, in New York, there was a judge in the Southern District of New York who was a Trump appointee, who actually bought into a lot of the Jim Jordan garbage. And it got nowhere where they wanted to take the deposition of one of the people who used to work at the Manhattan District Attorney's office. And the Manhattan District Attorney brought injunctive relief to stop it. Then the Trump-appointed judge was like, I'll let the deposition happen. The deposition happened and it went absolutely nowhere. It's like the stunt is over. What happened to that, Jim Jordan? They just rely on people not talking about it anymore. Their PR stunt was done and then they basically move on. What a waste of everybody's time. Again, horrific

ruling by that New York Trump judge. You go to the Southern District of Florida. There was a hearing today before Judge Cannon. It was what's called the Garcia hearing about potential conflicts of interest for the lawyers of Trump's co-defendants in the case where Donald Trump stole documents and concealed them at Mar-a-Lago, Waltine Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira, who are represented by Stanley Woodward and John Irving. Those are the lawyers, respectively. They're getting paid by Donald Trump's PAC. There was an earlier hearing in the morning of de Oliveira, and then the hearing for Waltine Nauta was in the afternoon. The purpose of these hearings, when you're dealing with Garcia hearings, you're supposed to ask the witness questions like, are you aware that your lawyer is also

representing these witnesses who may testify against you? Are you aware that you are entitled to independent counsel who can apprise you of what your rights are? Are you aware that there are potential plea discussions that you could have if you get independent counsel? Are you aware that the fact that Donald Trump's political action committees are paying for your lawyers, that they may have divided loyalty? It's supposed to be an adversarial process. Then ultimately, based on the answers, there's a remedy. The remedy may be it's fine. There is no conflict. The remedy may be there is a conflict, but it's a waivable conflict. The client's like, I know the issues and I intelligibly waive them. I'm okay with Trump's PAC paying for my lawyer. Or it may be an unwaivable conflict where it's ultimately decided that the lawyer is disqualified

and the lawyer can no longer represent the client. That is the essence of what the Garcia hearing is about. The case is called Garcia and It basically says that in unwaverable conflicts of interest, a lawyer could be disqualified after the hearing because the lawyer would not be providing effective assistance of counsel for the client. Apparently, Judge Cannon got livid at the prosecution because Judge Cannon says that she was shocked that one of the things that the prosecution implied is that the lawyers for Walti Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira could be disqualified, could be barred. She's like, show me the case law. Where are you getting that?

It's called Garcia. That is the nature of the hearing. Before getting to that step, the hearing is supposed to be conducted. For all we know, after the evidence is presented, there may be no conflict, right? At which case, there is no disqualification. There may be a waivable conflict. For all we know, the conflict could be cured with certain steps, right? I'm all for that. I want the evidence to come out. But the problem that I have with what Judge Cannon did, amongst other things, is she didn't let the hearing take place because she was upset that the prosecution, she said, bamboozled her in the court by saying that one

of the things they're asking for is for the lawyer of Nauta and De Oliveira to be barred. That is what a Garcia hearing is. So I know a lot of people have been saying, all right, why hasn't Jack Smith filed an appeal yet? She hasn't reached an appealable order yet. If she rejected, if she went through with the Garcia hearing and denied the remedy instead of postponing the hearing, do you see what she's doing here? If she denied it, now the order becomes appealable. Then Jack Smith can go to the 11th Circuit. But by her theatrics and just postponing it, she incrementally causes delay, delay, delay. Strategic. delay, where she's then going to say, I can't have this trial in May of 2024 anymore. The lesson that she learned when she was reversed so quickly by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeal in

2022 is that she reached a final order so quickly. So now she's learned the wrong lessons. Now she goes, okay, here's how I screw with the prosecution and I help Trump. Just delay this, delay that, take this deadline out, show up, yell at the prosecution. I just want to be clear, that's what she's doing. By the way, if ultimately she made a ruling and said, look, there was an adversarial hearing, there is no conflict of interest, I want to read the order. And if the evidence supports that, just because I don't like Judge Cannon, who cares who I like or don't like? I want to see the evidence. But stopping the hearing because you got mad at the prosecution. Could you imagine if federal judge Tanya Chutkin in Washington,

D.C. behaved like that? When Donald Trump does something and Judge Chutkin's like, that was mean. I postponed. The hearing's off. I'm angry. That's not the judicial temperament. It's all connected though, right? You saw the behavior of the MAGA Republicans in Congress. You saw the behavior of their cult leader, Donald Trump. This is the behavior of Judge Cannon, the type of federal judge that they appoint, who doesn't have the temperament. She's corrupt, but doesn't have the judicial temperament. She may as well be walking in there with a lasso. That's kind of the person. Donald Trump looked at lasso lady and was like, you George Santos type guy and was like, yeah, you're going to be my judge in Texas and picks this corrupt person who then the MAGA Republicans file all the cases in front of this horrific judge, this guy who's horrible. And then he's like, I want Lasso Lady in the Southern District of Florida. And that's who has these momentous cases who are

making these decisions right now. Then finally, just talk about what went down in the New York Attorney General civil fraud case. You had Weisselberg up there. This is wild. Weisselberg's severance of $2 million. Where did I hear $2 million? Where's that number from? Hmm, where, Ben? Where did I hear $2 million? Where's that number from? It is the criminal penalty against him in the Manhattan District Attorney criminal case where he went to Rikers Island. He had to pay back $2 million. So Trump, thinking he's smart, did a $2 million severance to basically try to pay off Weisselberg's fine for pleading guilty. It's so brazen, Ben. That's so freaking – like they couldn't even do like 1.8 million or like

1.7 million. You did the exact number. You're doing the exact number that the fine was for Weisselberg's prosecution. You're doing that exact number. In the severance agreement, in exchange for the benefits provided, employee promises, and then you basically list obstruction of justice. Now, these provisions, if this was like a normal non-compete where your employee wasn't a felon who was convicted of covering up for you. I see provisions like this from time to time in non-competes involving normal severance agreements. But in the context of a criminal prosecution, it's just obstruction of justice. And so what- Can I read a little bit of this? Can I just read a little bit from this? Because it's so brazen

to put obstruction of justice in writing like this and then offer the exact amount of money that he was fined. This is so clearly to shut Weisselberg up and you don't have to take our word for it because Donald Trump wrote that right into this severance agreement. And I'll read a couple of points that I think are the most relevant from this. So here it says, three, employee promises in exchange for the benefits provided in paragraph two, that's the $2 million, the number that matches the fine from the prosecution of Weisselberg. Employee promises, B, is relevant not to verbally or in writing disparage, criticize, or denigrate the company or any of its former entities, officers, directors,

managers, employees, owners, or representatives. That one I've seen in plenty of NDAs and severance agreements, but I think it holds more meaning here when there's an active case against the Trump Organization and Donald Trump. Then let's move down to D for a moment here. That except for acts of testimony directly compelled by subpoena or other lawful process issued by a court of competent jurisdiction, he will not, one, communicate with, provide information to, or otherwise cooperate in any way with any other person or entity, including his counsel or other agents, having or claiming to have any adverse claims against the company or any person or entity released by this agreement with regard to the adverse claim, or to take

any action to induce, encourage, instigate, aid, abet, or otherwise cause any other person or entity to bring or file a complaint, charge, lawsuit of other proceedings of any kind against the company or any person or entity released by this agreement. In other words, shut up and you get the money, but start talking in any of these court cases, that $2 million, that's all on you. You'll have to pay that yourself. This is how Donald Trump uses severance agreements, NDAs. This is how he, when he pays for the attorneys of people, other co-defendants and whatnot. This is how he keeps people silent. This is how he abuses the justice system. This is how he obstructs justice. Now, Ben, looking at this, I heard you say earlier, could this now be cause for criminal charges against Donald Trump?

Yeah. I'm not going to give you a long rambling answer. It is yes. And there is a reason why there was an abrupt halt to the testimony of Weisselberg because there are potential criminal implications now. And then Weisselberg also seems to have committed perjury and he was lying about not being involved in the triplex and like how I pronounced it correctly there, Brett, not being involved in, you know, it's a hot debate. It's hot debate. Not knowing the, not, it's not a debate. You taught me how to say it and not knowing the, not knowing the square footage of it.

And he said, I have no clue about that. And so one of the writers from Forbes who covered it basically wrote, I have all these emails that no one subpoenaed, like, hello, he's lying. And so then there was an adjournment on his testimony while you have the New York Attorney General now getting those documents from Forbes. And so I have no doubt the Manhattan District Attorney's Office is watching this very carefully. This appears to be classic textbook obstruction of justice by Donald Trump in inducing a type of deal like this, in my own opinion, in connection with a criminal case. And then you have another overt act, if you will, which is the testimony today where Weisselberg lied. So there you have it. There you have it, folks. But what I liked is that we, what I liked, the important for getting out the truth is covering this from all angles. Like what is going on in the courts?

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