The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Under Fire as Calls for Accountability Grow

Episode Date: August 1, 2026

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Donald Trump largely went silent all last night following the news that the Department of Justice and Janine Piro moved to dismiss the indictment against David Hearn in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool case, admitting that the damage was the result of flawed, botched installation work, not vandalism. and you had Geneer Piro throw Donald Trump under the bus now. Even Scott Jennings, you don't get much more of a maga bootlicker than that guy on CNN who literally takes Donald Trump's boot and starts licking it on CNN. Even he is saying the man prosecuted by Janine Piro should sue the hell out of the Trump administration. They drag this guy's name through the mud, a two-time, a limited. canoeist who was wrongfully targeted because Donald Trump was too stupid to even deal with a reflecting

pool and was telling everybody if you just paint it blue, the algae will go away. Well, you can't just paint things blue, Donald, whether it's a reflecting pool, whether it's the economy. You can't just make up $19.1 trillion are coming in when it ain't coming in. You can't paint it blue and say you control the straight of Hormuz, when you don't, you can't say, oh, you're speaking with the Iranians and they really want to make a deal. They're begging

you because they don't have a Navy or military. You can't paint it blue. The algae always comes back and you are exposed as a liar. It's a karma boomerang, as Scott McFarlane from the Midas Touch Network explains. The final paragraph

of the Justice Department's motion to dismiss the case. Against David Hearn is quite something. Here's what it says. A recent visual inspection showed damage throughout the reflecting pool, even in the middle of the pool, where a vandal would not likely attempt to peel the lining. Given all of this newly discovered information,

it is difficult to attribute the widespread damage to the reflecting pool to vandalism, let alone to establish that fact beyond a reasonable doubt. It also goes on to say in the motion by the DOJ, almost immediately after the work was initially completed. Before David Hearn was ever arrested, peeling was observed along the pool perimeter. Duh, we were showing that on the Midas Touch Network. The NPS, the National Park Service engineers, June 11, 2026 email, stated that the cause of the

damage was contractor era via overspray, that the peeled lining would not float, and that the appealing would not impact the strength of the liner. Yeah, you're all a bunch of frauds. But I want you to remember this. This is the Trump DOJ covering up child sex trafficking rings, covering up the Epstein files and telling everybody, we produced everything. Really?

This group of people who did this to the reflecting pool want us to believe they've turned over the Epstein files. BS. This is the same group of people saying they brought in 19.1 trillion. dollars while our debt increases and the deficit expands. They're a bunch of damn frauds. They're scumbags. They're con artists.

These are terrible human beings. Remember that. These are just bad people who hate America and they hate us all and they just want to take from us, these despicable Trump regime people. These are the same people who are doing this catastrophic and unlawful war in Iran. The reflecting pool people. The Burghams, the Latinx, the Trumps, The Piro's, the Heggsitts, this sicko group of Epstein class.

You know what I was about to say. So people are calling for Trump to be impeached, for Janine Piro to be disbarred. People want Donald Trump to go before the ICC. Throw that war criminal before the Hague. Hegzith is a war criminal. Put him before the hag. Brad Cooper, the head of Sencom, a war criminal. And why do I say this?

I'm not being hyperbolic. You all killed little girls at an elementary school in Manab. You keep on killing people off the coast of Venezuela in fishing boats. You killed civilians across the Middle East. You ate in a bet genocide. I want to look at what you did in the past 48 hours, as New York Times reports. We reported this before. Visuals suggest the U.S. dropped a 2,000-pound bomb on a home in Iran, killing three.

Here's the family of three. who were killed. Three members of an Iranian family were killed and two other children from the family were injured in a U.S. airstrike in a residential neighborhood of Kesham Island. Remember when we reported on that 48 hours ago and everybody was like, well, I'm not reading that anywhere else yet because they don't know what the hell they're talking about. The Americans dropped a 2,000 pound bomb on these civilians and they killed a husband, his wife, and their two-year-old son. But when Donald Trump was in Camp David right before he leaked to CBS, which is state regime media, and he leaked to Wall Street Journal that the U.S. was about to massively escalate in Iran with Netanyahu and destroy

power plants and bridges and desalination facilities and cause mass death amongst the 90 million population over their more horrific war crimes before Donald Trump leaked that piece as part of his We're going to bomb the hell out of him. They want to do a deal. We're going to bomb that out of him. When Trump was in Camp David, this part doesn't get enough attention. You have Marco Rubio was talking about how the United States is attacking the international criminal courts, the ICC. And Trump's like, I just want to let you know.

They're not going after me. We just want to protect Bibby. We want to protect Netanyahu. Listen to what Trump says here for yourself. Let's play it. We're very arrogant. We've now begun an effort to really. try to bring that court to heal.

Well, there's no information that they're after me. It could happen. Just so you know, because she's talking about it and saying, that means that he's not trying to defend me. He is trying to defend BB and various other people. But there are many people that shouldn't be looked at that way. But there is no indication that I'm one of them at this moment. Now, Donald Trump then went to state regime media CBS,

state regime media, Fox and other regime media, and said, the United States is going to massively escalate, destroy all the power plants in Iran. He was doing that. Now, when he did that, he thought that Iran was going to be scared. What's the thing where you do the same thing over and over again and you expect a different result? Yeah, insanity. I mean, Donald Trump is literally a psychotic, insane lunatic, right you know if you saw him in the corner of like a bar you know like screaming r rar that's basically what we have right now in the oval office i'd actually trust that drunk at the bar who's doing the rha rha actually more than donald trump because the guy at the bar may actually fall asleep at the right hours of the day whatever that means let me let me explain to you what iran

just did. Iran didn't just strike one. Iran struck at least two tankers, maybe more, that were once again trying to go through that southern route in the Strait of Hormuz. Cassent comes like, come out. We got you. We got your back. And Iran's like, bam, no you don't. We don't got you. Stop using the southern route. We told you we're going to strike you. We're going to destroy your ship if you do that. So Iran did that earlier yesterday than late last night early this morning. Another tanker bio. Mon was reported by the UK MTO. Hey, we got a UK MTO warning. Haven't seen those.

Do they just stop them? We knew that Iran was striking a lot of those tankers in the southern route. But it seemed like the UKMTO went silent. We were seeing all these tankers being shot in that southern route. Now, I also want to point out the following. Iran's undeterred, right? Iran's not worried about Donald Trump saying that Iran sees Trump as reflecting pool boy. America is a, it doesn't mean that Trump can't unleash devastation.

The United States has powerful, I don't want to underestimate it, okay? The U.S. has a powerful military arsenal. But Trump's reflecting pool boy, right? You're willing to lie about reflecting pool, you pathetic scum, you're going to hurt your own U.S. Olympic canoeist, you scumbag. What do you think Iran thinks when they see that? What do you think are outlaw? What do you think people look like? They go, this guy is.

a scumbag loser. That's how people view the leader of the United States. People view the U.S. as some grotesque thing right now under this sick regime leadership. So with all of that going on to, let's talk about what else is happening, right? What was it? 48 hours ago, Donald Trump announced the deal. What was it, Warren Buffett, who said, you can't ever do a great deal with a bad person. Can't do good deals with bad people, okay? It doesn't work that way. Bad people don't do good deals. They do bad deals. They don't do deals. They're bad. So Donald Trump announced 48 hours ago, today the Board of Peace reached a historic agreement

for the complete disarmament of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza, a monumental step toward lasting peace. Would you do this deal with yourself? What would you do this deal? The Board of Peace. What the hell is that even? The Board of Peace, you're like making up like a...

When I grew up, there was a Met Monk. mock United Nations in metropolitan area. We create our organizations. The Board of Peace declared it. Okay, but you know who didn't declare it? Israel, okay? Israel authorities mark the new Trump Board of Peace Agreement with massive airstrikes targeting residential blocks in Gaza

in the middle of the night, killing a ton of people with the continuation of the genocide. Great work, Donald. You did it. You did the deal, Donald. You did the deal. you're a deal maker, Donald. Deal, deal, deal, deal, deal.

You do deals, Donald. Deal, deal, Donald. You pathetic loser. What a pathetic scumbag loser is to play this clip of what really went down. Speaking of pathetic scumbaggues, you then have Kevin Hassett who's like, okay, okay, people. Okay, I know I promised you four. GDP growth, but it's 1.5, but if I just say a bunch of economic terms, supply, demand, curve, yields, just say a bunch of words, and then I'm going to say, I got it right.

These are the worst con artist, but setting aside that part, Kevin has its big push, the Trump regime's big push, is be a winner, don't be a whiner, have a data center in your backyard, and shut the hell up. That's really their message, right? I showed you Vivek, be a winner, not a whiner. Winners love data centers in their backyard. Chris Wright, Trump's energy secretary, be a winner, don't be a whiner, data centers. Love it. Shove this data center in your face. Here's Kevin Hassett what he had to say about data centers. Let's play it. Because it's local officials, local selectmen, and mayors and so on that are negotiating these deals. And they've been negotiating the deals, you know,

pretty generously in the sense that they've had happened all over the place because the data centers are very good for towns because it creates so many jobs, bring people in with high incomes, they could buy houses and stuff like that. And so if you take a sleepy town that hasn't really seen much in the last 20, 30 years and put a data center there, then they're going to be a whole bunch of happy residents of that town.

Okay, you don't want data centers. All right, right, Right. World War III. We're already basically in it. The world is at war. That's not hyperbolic. The whole world is in a war right now. Whether it's Russia strikes on Ukraine and Kiev, killing at least nine people, I think it'll probably be closer to 15 to 20, injuring 27. Four children were severely harmed. Ukraine is out of its patriot interceptors. It doesn't have any. By the way, the U.S. is basically out of interceptors, too. And so now Russia is just hitting. Ukraine hard with these ballistic missile salvos. And Trump promised Zelensky, I'll do a whole other video on this morning. He promised Zelensky interceptors or at least licenses. And then he's like, nope, I just dragged you along. I tapped you along Zelensky for a month, made you really dependent and then screwed you over. But I digress. Here's Rubio on state regime media Fox talking about, I don't know, should the U.S. and China go to war with each other? What would have

happen there. I don't know. Why are you saying these things, Rubio? Who are these people? Who are these people? Here's what Rubio says. Let's play it. In China, be it economic or be a military, God forbid, would be catastrophic for both countries and for the world. So we have to manage that, but we can't walk away or forfeit our national interests. So this is the hard work of foreign policy, and it requires every administration to sort of balance these two competing tugs against them. And here's the thing also, as Trump threatened to escalate this catastrophic war in Iran, Iran had to announce, Donald. If you do that, we're preparing a comprehensive response.

If you and Netanyahu strike us the way you claim you're going to do on the energy infrastructure. As Mark Amos explains, Iran has to pre-announce the global catastrophe they can inflict because the Trump regime still hasn't learned from five months of failed war. warfare and Trump himself says he had no idea Iran would shut down the strait of Hormuz in response to getting attacked. He's reflecting pool boy. He's an idiot. He, I mean, he's a dangerous idiot. Reflecting pool boy.

What a weak, pathetic loser he is. So Iran has to pre-announce the catastrophe. And here's what they say. Iran announces it will strike the world's most important energy facilities, located in Arab countries and Israel, all within range of Iran's precision missiles, in response to any new U.S. and Israeli strike per Fars. The Guwahar oil field in Saudi Arabia, the backbone of Saudi production, disruption puts 5% of the world's oil supply at risk.

The Abkhik and the Curis in Saudi Arabia, 7 million barrels a billion barrels per day. Throughout world's largest oil stabilization plant, the Ruei is refined. Read North Gadir gas field and the Roslophan LNG in Qatar, which is 20% of global NLNG. The Bergen oil field in Kuwait, 67 billion barrel reserves, 2 million barrels per day. DeCitra refinery in Bach Raine, the Leviathan Tamar gas fields, Israel's second largest gas fields. Iran adds that during the 40-day war, Iran bombed Qatar's most important gas refinery in response to a strike on the South Pars facility

with Trump apologizing on truth, social promising. It will not happen again. So what else is going on? What else is going on in the world? Well, now Donald Trump is saying, well, well, well, Iran, if we make progress on the diplomatic track, maybe I won't do the strike on you.

Maybe I will. Maybe I won't. As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski says, it responds to one of Trump's post on the reflecting pool. Like so many other things, it was a deranged lie from a sick-twisted, demented scumbag who uses narcissists and unqualified hacks to do his dirty work, because besides being a soulless windbag, devoid of normal human emotions and morality, fundamentally, he's a coward. Now, that's what separates the minus touch network. That's our editor-in-chief right there. That's our voice. That's our editorial voice right there. Unapologetic, by the way, have you pre-ordered WTF America, the book I wrote with my brothers? It comes out October, but our publisher says to us, our publisher says to us, if you order it now,

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What kind of animals would do such a thing? We are looking for a vandal-proof material, but such a thing should not have been necessary. The scum in court will hopefully be prosecuted to the max. D.J.T. But as our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski points out, Trump has been falsely accusing people of crimes for decades. Exonerated Central Park Five members speak out against Donald Trump

at the Democratic Convention. I'll leave you with this right here. Professor Morandi, he's a professor from Tehran. Here he was debating Alan Dershowitz, Epstein's lawyer, Trump's lawyer. And he did get a massage at Epstein's home, although Dershowitz said that he was wearing his underwear

when he got a massage, that he doesn't like massages, and he happened to be wearing an underwear when one of the ladies or girls or whoever gave a massage. It was, uh, underwear was on is what Dershowitz says. But watch as Professor Morandi just rips Dershowitz to shreds right here. You're going to want to watch this whole thing. Let's play this clip. Howard. You are a coward. You won't let me talk. You're afraid. You're afraid of me talking. Don't tell me I'm afraid. The lawyer. Epstein's lawyer,

Trump's lawyer, is afraid of me a layman talking. Why? Because you have no left to stand on. The Iranian people have spoken. They went to the streets and the tens of millions. You're a coward. You won't let me talk. I let you talk because I'm not afraid of you. People are not afraid of you anymore. You can kill Epstein.

You can kill whoever you like, but we're not afraid. You can bomb my house. You can kill me with my family. But I'm not afraid of you. I will support the Palestinian people until your regime bombs my home. So go and tell them that. I'm prepared to die for the Palestinian people. But you, you so frequent Epsine Island, you have no principles and no morality.

The Iranian people came to the streets in the tens of millions. We all know it. The footage is there. The international journalists were there, not just in Iran, but in Iraq. The Iranian people have spoken whose side they are. No one is going to be fooled by your... Alan Respondi, Gandh, and it's a judge if I war. It's a professor from Tehran.

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