The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Steps Into World of Hell as He Is Caught on Tape

Episode Date: October 9, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s invasion of American cities and towns across the United States being caught on video and in photos all documenting this unprecedented time in American history. Hexclad: Shop the biggest sale of the year and find your forever cookware @HEXCLAD at https://hexclad.com/meidas #hexcladpartner Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! 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 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

The photographs, the videos, we have it all caught on tape, on camera. Donald Trump's Gestapo going around the country with weapons of war pointed outside of their vehicles. Donald Trump's Gestapo pummeling people on the street, throwing them into concentration camps. Donald Trump's Gestapo engaged in chemical warfare against people, pepper spray, other gas agents, Donald Trump's Gestapo on the street, ramming into cars, officers getting out shooting people multiple times. Donald Trump's Gestapo killing people in the United States of America. This is happening before our eyes. It's being documented before our eyes.

Wake up people. I know our Midas touch viewers get what's happening, but please share the video I'm about to make right here. share this video with as many people as you know. That's the favor that I ask of you because we have to get the message out about what is happening in the United States right now. The United States is not in a constitutional crisis. We are in a dictatorship by a weak and pathetic wannabe, I don't know, man in Donald Trump, who every day destroys our constitution evermore.

I mean, look at this photo. right here. This is what it looks like to live in the United States of America today. As Laura Rodriguez Pressa writes, a federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them. Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ice activity across the city was filming when the incident occurred earlier today. And that was in the Chicago area. Just so you see what it looks like in Chicago as well. As members of the Texas National Guard have arrived in Illinois, according to sources familiar with the whereabouts and video taken of them at an Army Reserve training facility in Chicago suburb.

You see them right there. The New York Times reports that neighbors warn neighbors as fear of ice ripples across Chicago. Parents are standing guard at school. Some restaurants have stopped delivering food or simply close. Every single person who looks brown is scared. A lawyer said, quote, Our family gatherings are filled with crying and trying to figure out how we get past this moment. One person noted, Mr. Aguayo, people are being terrorized, people are being attacked.

That's what it feels like. And my language is not hyperbolic. I get pissed off when others may say, well, why are you speaking like? Why are you saying that this is what is happening in the United States. of America right now, ICE dragging a U.S. citizen out of a car. They lie about her making an illegal U-turn. Quote, I was driving around and told to leave, but I was boxed in. She said, I told them, I couldn't, and they pulled me out of the car.

Agents were upset. They missed their migrant quota, so they go target people who were brown to throw them the concentration camp quota. Only one, and she's a citizen. Only one, and she's a citizen. They were pissed. They were talking in the car and asked how many were arrested. They were disappointed that I was a citizen.

Dariana Faharda is a native-born American citizen when she called out for the mayor Sam Cunningham to help. He came over to try to de-escalate the situation right by City Hall. Here, play this clip. You have a lot of here. You have a little. What are you doing? Do you have a word? Man.

You don't get out. You don't get out. You don't need a lot. What the fuck? You have a deal for a word? For him, you don't need a warrant. You don't need a warrant.

You don't need a warrant. You don't need a warrant. Now that clip proceeds for several minutes and then I want to show you when the mayor, Mayor Sam Cunningham tries to intervene. Let's play the latter part of that longer clip. I cut it for you so you can. so you can see kind of one of the other key portions, let's play it. Are you sure? These are the key. All right.

I'm going to have somebody come and get the car. Guys, you're killing mine. They're destroying the city, mayor. I know. Right now. Ma'am. Hey, get in the car. Tell me to get in the car.

Man, man. Come on to get in the car. Get in the car. Yeah, no. anything. Get on the sidewalk. Don't have for any questions. Hey!

They're not doing anything. You're the ones that are fucking harassing me. Right. Hey, it's okay. Don't let... That's what they want. It's okay. It's a...

It's a... I don't want you. It's okay. I get it. I get it. I can't care for you. I don't care for you. I'm not the one's wrong.

I am. I'm going to go. Everybody. Let them go. Everybody. It says, kidnapping first, asking questions later. This is a kidnaping first, asking questions later.

This was a kidnapping by ICE agents that took place in West Chicago. took two Latino indigenous men for no reason other than being brown skin and then ICE decided to drop them off a block away because they found out they are here lawfully here play this clip what the fuck you're doing you I don't get you guys

back up back up do something for the back back to back go on with you Get your ID fast! Big, stopper! Make your back! You're back!

You do it! Get back! Get back! Get back! Get back! Now, while that was going on, Christy Gnome took her fake Christian stick to Portland, Oregon, which is like, let us pray, let us pray. By the way, you know, whether you're religious or not religious, I mean, this is just a vile,

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She stared down an army of Antifa and a guy in a chicken suit from the rooftop of the ice facility here in Portland. Nome says, hey, guy in the chicken suit, you can do better. Too bad they are uneducated and ill-informed. Nome isn't a chicken. This is not sarcat. This is what they really are saying, what they consider to be a war zone. Look at the photograph here. You see the guy in the chicken suit right there, and here's what Christy Nome.

This is what it looks like. Here, play this clip. Come on the outside of that Come on there, I've got to come in Florida. So is it to look at home. Yes. Yeah,

but I'm going to be here, but it's going to be here in Florida. Yeah. So is it to hopefully you have this one for a little? Yes. Back now we'll be here, but it'll just come in.

Yeah. Secretary, that's because he's got to be. Secretary, do you have a message to the protesters, especially the man in the chicken outfit. The man in the chicken outfit, I just see him now, goodness sakes. We could do better. Our goal is that people would peacefully protest, but that we would still be allowed to enforce the law in this picture.

So, that's too bad. They're uneducated in no informed. Good. It's good to see. We'll see what we can do to get this. This is absolutely nothing as to what it is at night, though. No, it's really bad. Now, all those right-wing MAGA influencers and podcasters,

They're playing cosplay on the roof of that building in Portland, Oregon, looking down at the peaceful protesters by the ice facilities. Look at them. They're like, they're like they're giddy. They're like they're at Disneyland or Disney World. Look, on top of the roof at the Portland Ice Facility with sniper rifles pointed down at a tiny group of peaceful protesters and a dude wearing a chicken suit. Shows you how weak these individuals are.

I want to share this story with you. an individual from Tennessee. ICE detained her son. Now his mom says he just disappeared. He called me panicking, she said. I said, where are you going? He did not know and he only had 30 seconds to talk to me. Issa A. Cabrera lived in the U.S. since he was seven months old and is adopted by U.S. citizens.

We checked into the price of getting his green card and visa and we were running at like $16,000 for the whole process. And unless you're rich, who can afford that? he was transferred to an unknown location nobody knows where he is here playing this clip family and friends want to know where is isaiah cabrera well he called me panicking saying that he was being he was being shipped out in the morning that they came in and said everybody needed to be ready by 430 that they were getting shipped out and i said where are you going he said he did not know and he only had 30 seconds to talk to me a mystery and

Mason as 24-year-old Isaiah Cabrero was at the Western Tennessee ICE Detention Center on Saturday, and a day later, his adopted mother says he's not. 24-year-old Isaiah has lived almost his entire life in the United States. Leslie Whitehead, his adopted mother, says he was brought to America when he was just seven months old. She became Isaiah's legal guardian after his biological parents were deported in 2001. She says Isaiah started a family in Holes, Tennessee, and has a young daughter that means the world to him. Earlier this month, he was pulled over for a broken taillight. When he didn't have proper identification, he was sent to the Ice Detention Center in Mason. She described the feeling when she found out her son had been detained.

I just lost my mom two months ago, and I felt a gut-wrenching feeling inside my stomach like I had just lost my son. Leslie and Isaiah have tried to get him a green card over the years, but she says the prices for proper registration have gotten out of control. We checked into the price of getting his green card and visa, and we was running into like $16,000 for the whole process. And nobody really, I mean, unless you're rich, you can't afford that. Cabrera has never learned Spanish. Leslie says since being detained, he's having a hard time being surrounded by people he couldn't communicate with. He said that the sergeant didn't like him because he spoke better English than she did. For what's to come next, Leslie isn't sure.

but hopes Isaiah can come home. I feel like we have a right to know where they are because we love him and he's got a little girl out here that says every day that she misses her daddy. And we've reached out to ICE to find out where Isaiah is right now. We haven't heard back yet, but we will let you know when that changes from downtown Memphis. I'm Harrison Clapby News Leader, WRG News Channel 3. And I think that's an important point to discuss. there have been so many migrants who have just disappeared.

Alligator, Alcatraz, what was it, about 1,800 human beings missing. They may be dead, they may be deported. Nobody knows, unaccounted for. And how many people we know of about 15 to 20 deaths at ice facilities, but is that number 10 times that, 20 times that? We don't know because there's no transparency. Human beings are just disappearing in the United States. masked agents. Okay? And here we have ICE detaining the father legally in the U.S.

in front of his son's school bus. He had a valid visa permit that grants him work authorization and an active social security number. Here, play this clip. It was a morning like any other for 17-year-old Guillermo as he waited for his school bus until his father, Silviano Moravira, a lawful immigrant, was taken right in front of him. That's when I ran over there. I dropped my book bag. I asked my mom, what was going on? What's going on?

She was like, your dad? I was like, what? Then that's when I ran towards them. I was like, who are you guys? I got swah. The men, Guillermo says, identified themselves as agents with U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. ICE claims Moravira is here illegally, but his family who asked us to conceal their identities,

say he is in the country with a rare U visa given to immigrants who are, victims of crimes or who cooperate with law enforcement during investigations. Searching for answers, Guillermo says he took his father's paperwork to the Richmond Ice Field Office, but it didn't help. So it's just like, you know, and this country is like, if we do it the right way, we still get punished. If we do it the wrong way, we still get punished. So it's just like, what way do you don't want us to do?

Like, it doesn't make sense. Like, it feels like there isn't really an American dream anymore. His dad is now being held at Farmville Detention Center along with an increasing number of detainees. Across Virginia, ICE activity has spiked since January 2025 with over 4,000 arrests, leaving families like Moravira's fearful. I know he's thinking, right, in us, of that we're going to be here and his kids that are very pegos to him

and that I'm always with him, with him. Now he, every every time that he says, no, you know, go out.

My children, see a car out of out. No, not go out. Don't say, there's a car. The family is in limbo

waiting to see what will happen. Moravira is scheduled for an immigration court hearing in late October. For VPM News, Kairus Manzaneris.

And then of course, Christy Noam last night, in typical call MAGA fashion. Losers. These are losers. These are loser people. They want to act tough. Then she plays the victim. And she's like, oh, my God, you know, it was actually the California senator, you know, he attacked me, you know, in this clip, she goes, we've been dealing with Portland. There are a bunch of pansies in Portland. We're going to step up right here, here play this clip. And that is what is shocking to me about these leftist politicians,

just how they ignore the people who elected them, jeopardize their safety, and continue. to disrespect our law enforcement officers. So one of the things I've been dealing with all day here in Portland is a bunch of pansies that are elected into political office who won't make a decision to keep their citizens safe. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million.

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