The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump’s AIRPLANE Exposed as Part of Major DONOR GRIFT

Episode Date: June 15, 2024

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump diverting massive amounts of campaign money to fund his private business and specifically his private air travel. Go to https://LiveMomentous.com and use code MEIDASTOUCH to get up to 20% OFF your FIRST order! Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! Join us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/meidastouch Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/lights-on-with-jessica-denson On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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When he then uses that money, as long as he could try to make some connection to the campaign, such as Mar-a-Lago hosts events, or I need my airplanes in order to travel, he doesn't have to pay taxes on that. And look, we've done deep dive exposés from Donald Trump's tax returns over the years. And we've showed after Congress got his tax returns while in office and immediately before that he's basically paid almost no taxes at all. There were some years where he quite literally paid $0. Other years where he paid $750 in taxes, which is basically the filing fee. But what we're now learning from this new report from Forbes,

and I think they're undercounting here, and they don't even include the 70, 80 plus million dollars Donald Trump's diverted to legal fees and legal fees for witnesses. But according to this Forbes article, Trump has shifted nearly $5 million of campaign money into his private business. And a lot of that, about $4.2 million, going into one of his aviation companies called Tag Air, which when it was originally reported on his financial disclosure forms, had very minimal value.

And then all of a sudden it had a little bit more significant value. But in any event, it's a 757 that he's basically utilizing some Mr. and Mrs. Magadonia's money to fuel, quite literally, and to support the appearance of this lavish lifestyle. We previously reported as well that Trump recently sold a smaller Cessna private jet that he controlled to a Republican donor from Texas. And this Republican donor is this ultra wealthy person who literally has a water park in his backyard. I could see why these deca millionaires and deca billionaires,

they think they're gonna get the tax cut so they could fund lavish water parks in their backyards. Well, many Americans are working more than one job and hardworking Americans deserve to be paid fairly for their labor while their CEOs are getting hundreds of percent more than what the hard workers are making. But anyway, that's a whole other discussion. But Donald Trump sold his jet to a donor. We don't know what that sale was for or whether or not that sale was at arm's length.

But now we are learning about Trump shifting nearly $5 million of campaign money into private business and most going to his airplane. In addition to the Forbes article and everything we've already reported on Trump's history with airplanes, the New York Magazine and their Intelligencer section, an article came out just in the past day or two that says, for a billionaire, Trump flies a crappy plane, the truth about his vintage Boeing 757. Let's just tie these stories together for you. Here's the article from Forbes. It says, Businesses have continued to charge his political operation for food, transportation, and facilities. As a result, Trump has moved $4.6 million of campaign money into his business empire,

according to a review of Federal Election Commission records. The bulk of that cash, some $4.2 million, has flowed to one of Trump's aviation companies, Tag Air. The Secret Service, which has to travel with Trump, has paid more than $800,000 for airfare to his campaign. The former president, it says, owns a 1991 Boeing 757, which required $4 million in an engine overhaul around the time he left the White House. After speaking with six aviation experts, Forbes estimates that the plane is worth about $12 million. So you may assume that you're getting everything your body needs from your diet or simple green juice. But you know what I recently discovered that most people, including myself, are still

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state, is only worth about $12 million. Yet he funnels all of this money to create this appearance of grandiosity. It goes on to say, when asked about the various transactions flowing into his own private businesses, the campaign did, well, what about Joe Biden? What about President Biden traveling to Delaware? Let's be clear, Donald Trump spent about one full year playing golf and massive amounts of taxpayer dollars while he was in office, traveling back and forth to Mar-a-Lago and traveling back and forth so he could play golf all of the time. And of course, we know that it's $50 to $100 plus million that he's paid on legal fees

already. Also, Forbes estimates that while $4.6 million has flowed to Trump's businesses from his campaign in 2024, his businesses have probably collected more like $7 million since 2020, although I think it potentially could even be more than that. Are they even including in that tabulation the fact that Melania's hairdresser and stylist has gotten paid around half a million dollars. I think that's important to mention. Here's what the Intelligencer just put out. If Donald Trump gets reelected in November, he'll win a bonanza of benefits, including freedom from prison, the ability to jail Joe Biden, a $400,000 salary,

and king-like powers. He'll also get a massive upgrade in the quality of his air travel from his 90s vintage 757 dubbed Trump Force One to the real Air Force One. To hear Trump tell it, that's not much of an upgrade at all. Trump claims that Air Force One is a step down from his 757 in every way, but that is pure delusion. Yes, maybe Trump's plane is big and it has a shiny new paint job, but from a true private jet aficionado's point of view, those are about its only virtues. It's like if you wanted to brag about having a massive yacht, so you bought the Staten Island ferry and converted it, says a private jet broker who preferred not to be identified.

That's not something that people who really know yachts would find impressive. Trump Force One, you might say, is a poor man's idea of a rich man's plane, a big shiny bobble that behind the scenes is a plane past its prime with decaying mechanics and exorbitant storage fees. No worries though, the Mr. and Mrs. Magidonia pays for it. Which raises the question, why is a guy as supposedly rich as Trump flying around in this thing? People with this kind of wealth generally fly planes like Gulfstream, G650s, and other planes like that. By comparison, Trump is flying a secondhand school bus. Then the article goes on and talks about Trump's histories with planes and how a venture that he was involved in

with Eastern Air Shuttle got repossessed. The plane, the venture defaulted on its debt in 1992 and was repossessed by banks. All of the kind of typical things that you expect from Trump with all of his kind of business failures, Trump heir, which was an utter failure. And it says, as a frequently bankrupt man whose main asset is the carefully nurtured perception that he is a skilled and successful businessman, Trump has mastered the art of flaunting his status symbols even when their shortcomings are evident, which is basically a way that you could describe him. And so as he talks about how big it is, how beautiful it is, there are very few people just kind of questioning what's actually going on here. And there's a

massive grift, a massive con that's continuing to go on in every aspect of his life. So Mr. and Mrs. Magidonia, this is what you are funding. You know, we just reported, too, a few weeks back, you may recall our reporting about how Donald Trump's, that airplane clipped another plane while it was on the tarmac. So there are all these issues. Previous airplanes of Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein would go on that airplane. Trump would go on Jeffrey Epstein's plane.

He's on the plane log over and over and over and again. So just more shady red flags here with every aspect of his life. I'm Ben Micellis from the Midas Touch. Know or Kid Subscribe. Let's get to 3 million subscribers thanks to your support. Have a good day. Love this video? Make sure you stay up to date on the latest breaking news and all things Midas by signing up to the Midas Touch newsletter at MidasTouch.com slash newsletter.