The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Wrecks Everything as Troops Move In

Episode Date: October 8, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s invasion of Chicago with Texas National Guard Troops which is destroying the entire American experiment as Trump continues to cause serious harm to the country in every respect. 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

That's the Texas National Guard right outside Chicago, getting ready for the military invasion of the city that was ordered by Donald Trump. Yep, hundreds of troops from Texas being sent to invade a blue state and a blue city against the will of the Democratic governor of Illinois, J. B. Pritzker, who's doing everything he can within his lawful power to resist. At the same time, that is taking place. Donald Trump has his ICE agents throughout Chicago positioned on rooftops, sniper rifles trained on peaceful protesters, and they are shooting pepper balls at people on the ground. They shot an unarmed priest with a pepper ball, and everyone around him was impacted as well. No one was posing a threat. These were peaceful protesters, a peaceful unarmed priest. You have the Trump regime sending their Gestapo to provoke communities and cities and towns throughout

the country in order to create a pretext for military invasions. Here, I want you to just watch what took place here. Let's play it. it was described right here what you just saw. Last month, the Reverend David Black stood in front of a Chicago area U.S. immigration and customs enforcement facility and spread his arms wide, adorned in all black, and wearing a clerical collar. The pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ice agents on the roof and began to pray. I invited them to repentance, Black, a minister in the Presbyterian church said in an interview. I basically offered an altar call, I invited them to come and receive that salvation and be part of the

kingdom that is coming. But when Black began to lower his arms for a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rush to his aid and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain the agents continued to fire we could hear them laughing black said and we see incidents like that taking place now on a daily basis these sniper rifles train shooting down with these pepper bullets at people all of this is going on Donald trump is reposting his demand that pregnant women stop using Tylenol that's how derange this

maniac is. He's also making posts late last night attacking the former special counsel Jack Smith and saying Jack Smith and the Biden DOJ spied on Republican senators and at least one Republican congressman. This is really bad stuff. They tried to take down the Republican Party and got caught. More deranged conspiracies by Donald Trump, who was involved in the insurrection. And that's what Special Counsel Jack Smith was investigating, because we all saw. saw it before our eyes, which Donald Trump now tries to pretend never took place, and he tries to blame the FBI for causing the insurrection. But that's where Donald Trump now wants to distract, as he is clearly continuing to cover up the Epstein files. A full-fledged cover-up of a

pedo-sex trafficking ring is ongoing by Donald Trump, Maga, Mike Johnson, and Trump's entire FBI and DOJ apparatus right now, who forced out most of the actual professional. and kind of top people there, we know that Maga Mike Johnson at the instruction of Donald Trump refusing to swear in Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva from Arizona's 7th Congressional District. I had an exclusive interview that I did with her yesterday, where she just wants to be able to represent her 800,000 constituents during these critical moments right now. But she would become the 218 signature on the Epstein discharge petition, which would lead to a vote to release the Epstein files. and one of the main reasons that Donald Trump

is shutting down the government right now in addition to wanting to rip away Americans' health care and implement his project 2025 agenda is also it's a convenient excuse for him also to block the release of the Epstein files. We showed you lots of clips yesterday of Democratic senators grilling and cross-examining

Trump's Attorney General Pam Bondi who refused to answer questions about whether she saw photographs of Donald Trump with little girls that some witnesses had talked about potentially seeing that Epstein had showed, for example, Michael Wolfe, the author of multiple Trump biographies and was potentially going to be the biographer for Epstein, claimed that Epstein showed him photos of girls, an indeterminate age that was being kept in a safe at Epstein's house.

So Democratic senators asked Pam Bondi, were those photos? Remember what I've always been saying? You go back years. You'll see me reporting and saying, I wonder if those photos are in the Epstein files. Go back like four years. You'll see my reporting here on this network talking about it. Or three years, you'll see my reporting on the network talking about it.

She refused to answer that question. She refused to say whether there was a video of Tom Homan accepting the $50,000. She claimed that she just doesn't know any of these things. That was her answer for a lot. I don't know. Ask Cash Patel. I'm not going to answer that question. I'm not answering that.

So when did you find out Trump's name was on the Epstein Files? I'm not going to answer that. What did you tell Donald Trump about him being in the Epstein files? I'm not going to answer that. It's in the House Oversight Committee. In any event, Donald Trump's attacking Senator Blumenthal, who he calls sanctimonious Richard the Nang Dick Blumenthal, perhaps the biggest joke.

But when you go on and you read this, what Donald Trump is implying is that he wants to pardon George Santos, is what he says over here. And he's like Blumenthal was worse than George Santos. So maybe we should pardon George Santos. So that's what they're doing there. Great.

That's exactly what the American people are thinking of right now. These people are despicable. Fox then kind of ran with Donald Trump's new conspiracy. All right, let's focus on Biden and Jack Smith and not the government shutdown in Donald Trump hiding the Epstein files and America's economy crashing. let's not an American farmer's going bankrupt. Meanwhile, you had Christy Nome,

Department of Homeland Security Secretary. Yesterday, she went to Portland. She took her cosplay, fascist roadshow to Portland where she was shooting these, like, films that she makes of herself. She has, like, I think she has Buceli from El Salvador's film crew to make these, like, Nazi style,

but like in a modern form, concentration camp, like, despicable, like videos. These propaganda videos where they like go in and they like bust down the roof, the doors like, look, we're coming for you, migrants. We're coming for you. So she was making a video yesterday. She was shooting these films of herself in Portland. So just watch her. In this clip, she confronts an arrested person in the back of a police vehicle. I mean, what are you doing? You're the director of Homeland Security. This stuff is so embarrassing. Here, play this clip. Hello, I'm Christy. I wanted to ask you a few questions. How long have you been in the United States? You don't know? No English?

How many times have you come in and have gone out of the country illegally? How many times have gone out of the country illegally? And so this corner over here is what they claim to be the invasion. These are all the people, this is it, who are by the ice facility in Portland. So this is what, when they say that they're being invaded, there's this guy in a, in a chicken suit. You see him right here with Pam Hemphill right there in the chicken suit. So this was part of the film that Christy Noem was making. And so right-wing MAGA influencer, Benny Johnson, he's not saying this sarcastically.

Like, he's saying this for real. Like, this is what they think, they think that she looks tough in this video. So this is what they were pushing, the MAGA influencers were pushing. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristy Knoem stares down an army of Antifa and a guy in a chicken suit from the, they're not joking. This is them being serious. From the rooftop of the ice facility here in Portland, Noam says, hey, guy in the chicken suit, you can do better. Too bad they are uneducated and ill-informed. Noam isn't a chicken. Here, watch this. So, you know. So you can see? That's the other than that one. You get up to the school

for the city. So these are so trained right now. They will stay. We don't want to outside of that one and they're going on. I've got to go for a long time. Come on you!

Come on down, I got some way to have this one. Come on down, I got some way for you for you. Woo! So is it totally you have this meeting? Yes. Back probably will be here right about this one. Yeah. They'll be right.

You're right. Yeah. Secretary, Secretary, do you have a message to the protesters, especially the man in the chicken out, goodness sakes it. 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. He could do better. Our goal is that people would peacefully protest, but that we would still be allowed to enforce the law in this country. It's too bad.

They're uneducated and melanchored. Yeah. Good. It's good to see. We'll see what we can do to get it. This is absolutely nothing as to what it is at night, though. No. It's really bad.

The hell was that. Did you see her face? She's like looking down to like eight people and one guy in a chicken suit. And she's like, yeah. Do you see them right there? Do you see these people? I mean, again, these Trump cabinet people are like deranged human beings. Like, I'm sorry if you don't like me deranged.

Like, these are like weird, strange, like sick people. And I don't know how else to describe it. Meanwhile, Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed during Pam Bondi's hearing yesterday before the Senate Oversight Committee that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in. Inside were her crib notes for. attacking the senators. The GOP now practicing cliff note fascisms. In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance. Denise Wheeler, apt description of what went down. So she had like

her canned lines. By the way, Cohen said that that's what he thought that she was going to do because Cohen wrote that script for Trump. So he goes, no, she's got literally the script probably on the folder. Like Cohen was so spot on. So this is the folder where the script was written. And so So when she was asked questions by the Democratic senators, she would just read the script rather than answer their questions like, so what's up with the Epstein files and what's up with Tom Homan taking $50,000 in cash? Like, what's going on with that? So this is Donald Trump's schedule tomorrow, just so you can see. This is literally on a schedule. It says, president participates in a roundtable on Antifa. President participates. Oh, let me see these people are, that that's the round table you're going to do. Antifa Roundtable. Oh, you're going to go after this. Ridiculous.

It's like make up a boogeyman. But let me show you again, just three critical moments from that hearing yesterday. This was Democratic Senator Welch cross-examining. Pam Bondi, let's play it. I do want to go back to Holman. You know, there's a tape, right, with Mr. Homan. I mean, first of all, is there a tape that has audio and video of the transfer of the 50,000? You would have to talk to Director Patel about that.

No, I'm talking to you. I don't know the answer, Senator. You do know the answer to that. Don't call me a liar. I didn't call you a liar. You just said I know the answer. I said I don't know the answer. You have to talk to Director Patel.

What I said is that investigation was closed. If you don't know, why don't you know whether there was a tape and video? Senator, I believe that was resolved prior to my confirmation as attorney general. Do you think that it is of public interest for the people to know what happened to the 50 grand that the FBI turned over to Homan? Did you hear what I just said? That was resolved prior to my confirmation as attorney general. That's why I said I would not know. It's not resolved. There's $50,000. Homan has it or somebody has it. Do you have no interest to know where it is? You're not going to sit here and slander Tom Homan.

The FBI and Deputy Director Blanche said there was nothing. I'm not slamming Tom Homan. He got to 50 grand. How do you know that? Tom Homan is doing a great job, as our borders are, keeping your border state safe. Here was Senator Schiff, cross-examining, Bondi, let's play it. But in case I just didn't hear you, what is the answer?

Did he take the money? Senator Schiff, that happened prior to my confirmation as Attorney General. as Attorney General. I said that. Do you know sitting here? All I know is that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Patel said there was no case. And Caroline Leavitt is one of the most trustworthy human beings I know. So was she, you know, Senatorship. If you work for me, you would have been fired because you were censured by Congress for lying.

We can stipulate to all your personal attacks on the Democratic members of the committee. personal attacks you've been attacking my FBI director you've been attacking my office you've been but we're interested in borders all we're interested in is the answer to these oversight questions you want your so you were asked you were asked by my colleague you were asking good people regular word of madam shares so I can ask a question and here was senator white house cross-examining pan bondi let's play it let me ask you something else there's been public reporting that jeffrey epstein showed people photos of president trump with half-naked young women. Do you know if the FBI found those photographs in their search of Jeffrey Epstein's safe

or premises or otherwise? Have you seen any such thing? You know, Senator White House, you sit here and make salacious remarks once again trying to slander President Trump, left and right. When you're the one who was taking money from one of Epstein's closest confidence, I believe, I could be wrong, correct me, Reid Hoffman, who was with Jeffrey Epstein on multiple occasions, and the senator sitting right next to you tried to block the flight logs from being released. Yet you're grilling me on President Trump and some photograph with Epstein? Come on. The question is, did the FBI find those photographs that have been discussed publicly by a witness who claimed Jeffrey Epstein showed them to him.

You don't know anything about that. Okay. And finally, you know, the government is in a shutdown right now, but even before that, we were basically in a shutdown. I mean, Trump destroyed the government. His tariffs against the world were crushing Americans in all different industries from farming to construction to manufacturing. Our housing industry is as bad as it's ever been since 19.

1995. Jobless claims are super high. The government's no longer even reporting economic data. They're using the shutdown as a pretext not to report any Bureau of Labor Statistics data. So they're not even reporting inflation anymore. They're not reporting job losses anymore. They're not reporting any of that. Why? Because that was always Trump's view. If you don't test, if you don't talk about it, just pretend things are great, even as people are suffering. and we see we're heading down a very, very, very dangerous path here. And very soon, as we know right now, Americans are losing their health care, and the Trump regime refuses to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies.

And I've been showing you the Midas Touch Network's been making these graphics that show what it's like without the subsidies. $400 a month becomes $2,000 a month. Who can pay $2,000? Seriously, who can afford right now or at any time $2,000 a month for? for health care. People are gonna drop off healthcare. They're not gonna be able to be treated

and they're gonna die. But that's what Maga Republicans want. Kick everybody off, help the billionaires and let people die. That's what Trump and the Maga Republicans want. They want people to die. How else can you interpret their actions? And meanwhile, you've got farmer suffering.

Listen to this farmer right here. Here's what he's gotta say. Let's play it. Well, the stop gap needs to come because they've kind of painted the farmer in a corner. I mean, I won't trade, not a I need a market. I need a place to sell this stuff. I can work hard enough and make a

product. If you give me someplace to sell it, I'll take care of myself. But they've painted this in a corner with this China deal and China buying no soy beans. I mean, they tore a market in half. I mean, if you take the four years prior to Trump's first tariffour, the average price of a bushel of soy beans is $12.54. The average price for the four years during Trump's first tariff war is $9.39. That's $163 an acre swing to the minus. The next four years after the tariff war, the average price is $13 and $59. That's a $218 up swing. Now we're back to $10.21. I think the board is today. My local elevators, $9.79. So I'm at $172 an acre loss. I mean, you can't, the farmer can't continue to produce a crop below the cost of production.

And that's where we're at. And we don't have anywhere to sell it. We're in a tariff war with China. We're in a tariff war with everybody else. I mean, where do they want me to market this stuff? Thanks for watching, everybody. We'll keep you posted every step of the way. Just keep bringing you the facts.

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