The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump’s DANGEROUS PLAN DECODED in PUFF PIECE

Episode Date: July 17, 2024

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tell the American people the threats that Donald Trump poses to them and our national security. Look what just happened. Bloomberg spent some time with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. They wrote this puff piece on him, but buried in the puff piece is the fact that Donald Trump said that he would not commit to protecting Taiwan from an invasion by China. So we know what Donald Trump's foreign policy is. He's going to do whatever President Xi wants. He's going to do whatever Vladimir Putin wants. He's going to do whatever Kim Jong-un wants. Donald Trump wants to create an alliance of authoritarians. He wants to be a part of that.

He looks up to authoritarians. So here's what's in that Bloomberg piece. But you got to like read deep into the article to kind of get there. And they don't really flag it. It's like, here's what it says. Donald Trump's asked about whether or not he would commit America to protect Taiwan, and he goes, look, a couple of things. Number one, Taiwan. I know the people very well, respect them greatly. They did take about 100% of our chip business. I think Taiwan should pay us for defense. You know, we're no different than an insurance company. Taiwan doesn't give us anything.

Taiwan is 9,500 miles away. It's 68 miles away from China. A slight advantage, and China's a massive piece of land, they could just bombard it. They don't even need to. I mean, they can literally just send shells. Now, they don't want to do that because they don't want to lose all those chip plants. You know, all those plants, and they don't want to do that. But I will tell you, that's the apple of President Xi's eye. He was a very good friend of mine until COVID. That I really, you know, I was, I didn't feel the same way.

Same thing with Putin. Putin and I got along very well with our relationship. We were never in danger of a war. He would have never gotten into Ukraine. I said, don't ever, ever go into Ukraine. The oil prices, it was so crazy. The oil price was so crazy. And it was always the apple of his eye. Just like with China, it's the apple of China's eye. It was the apple. It's the apple of

his eye. But the day they left, they sent 28 bombers right over the top. And they've been very aggressive ever since. They got ships all over the place. I wouldn't feel so secure right now if I was them. But remember this, Taiwan took our chip business from us. I mean, how stupid are we? They took all of our chip business. They're immensely wealthy, and I don't think we're any different from an insurance policy. Why? Why are we doing this? They took almost 100% of our chip industry. I give them credit. That's because stupid people were running the country. We should have never let that happen now.

We're giving them billions of dollars to build new chips in our country. And then they're going to take that too. In other words, they'll build it, but then they'll bring it back to their country. And then so there's a fact check, but you have to like read the footnotes here in this interview. And it says Taiwan produces 92% of advanced microchips, according to the Semiconductor

Industry Association. And then it talked about in Trump's last year, Taiwan recorded 380 flyovers by China into their zone, the largest number ever occurred when Trump was in office. But you have to go down and look at the footnotes to see that. Now, I know that the media and Donald Trump pretends that he wasn't in office for four years, but I very much remember him disgracing the office. So what were you doing with semiconductors when you were in office? The stupid people you're referring to, are you? You were in office.

You did not pass the CHIPS Act. And the issue that we saw was when COVID hit how dependent we were on overseas semiconductors because we were not making them here in the United States. So President Biden pushed forward legislation called the CHIPS Act, which now has led to a semiconductor manufacturing boom here in the United States. And with the Infrastructure Act and the Inflation Reduction Act, policies put forward and pushed by President Biden, we are in a much better position. And Donald Trump mentions oil. For the first time under President Biden, we are energy independent. And I know that Donald Trump and MAGA want to go drill, baby, drill.

While President Biden is focused on climate change as a real threat to our country and to the world, frankly, and to future generations, to the survival of our species, which it is. President Biden still has more domestic drilling than Donald Trump did or as America has or any country ever in the history of the world right now. Those are just facts right there. And so as you read this, how do you bury the fact that Donald Trump essentially is inviting an invasion by China of Taiwan and upending all of our policy?

Donald Trump wants to take America out of NATO. He will allow China to invade Taiwan. Donald Trump will give Ukraine to Russia. That's what he will do on day one. He will give Ukraine to Russia. But you want to know what the actual headline was from Bloomberg? You want to know how Bloomberg framed that story? Donald Trump now seems even more likely to be the next U.S. president

following a failed assassination attempt over the weekend. What might his second term in office mean for your portfolio? Look, I know what people's portfolios are looking like now. 401ks are through the roof. The stock market has hit record highs. The Dow yesterday was up 743 points in one day, over 2% growth in one day. The S&P 500 has hit record highs, record highs over and over again as a result of President Biden's policies. But Bloomberg doesn't cover that. They don't give that the attention. And then they bury the fact that Donald Trump is going to sell out America's foreign policy.

And then they have some narrative that doesn't even meet the data. According to FiveThirtyEight's recent computer model with over 1,000 projections, Biden wins 53 times out of 100. Trump wins 47 times out of 100. Trump wins 47 times out of 100. And if you look at the current electoral map, according to FiveThirtyEight, while it gives Biden a 53% chance of winning, Biden is within 10% in Nevada, Arizona, North Carolina, and Georgia. Trump is within 10% of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. It's a toss-up election, and we've seen pro-democracy over-performing authoritarianism over and over again in actual

elections. So what in the world is that framing right there? Now, let's take a look at what Nikki Haley had to say. Now, Nikki Haley endorsed Donald Trump based on a callous political calculation at the Republican National Convention as she was getting booed by the crowd. But here's what Nikki Haley had to previously say on CNN when she was at the debate. Here, play this clip. It should matter. First of all, I don't think we should give cash to any country, friend or foe, because you can't follow it. You can't hold it accountable. I don't think we need give cash to any country, friend or foe, because you can't follow it. You can't hold it accountable. I don't think we need to put troops on the ground.

And Ukrainians want to win this themselves. But dictators always say, always do what they say they're going to do. China said they were going to take Hong Kong. They did. Russia said they were going to invade Ukraine. We watched it. China says Taiwan is next. We better believe them.

Russia said once they take Ukraine, Poland and the Baltics are next. Those are NATO countries. And that puts America at war. This is about preventing war. It's always been about preventing war. If we support Ukraine, that's only three and a half percent of our defense budget. Biden and no one else is telling the American people the truth about that. The Europeans have put in more than that and they should. It's their neighborhood. But this is a pro-American, freedom loving country. And we better remember that you have to be a friend to get a friend. And we needed a lot of friends September 12th. We've got to make sure that we're having the backs of the right friends, because if Russia wins, China wins. There's a reason the Taiwanese want us to help the Ukrainians. And that's because they know if Ukraine wins, China won't invade Taiwan. This is about preventing war. Now, speaking of the Republican National Convention,

one of the featured speakers at the event was someone named David Sachs. And during David, he's a venture capitalist. All the tech bros want to pay less taxes. They're all in on Donald Trump. And they also are big supporters of Putin and Putin's policies. So here we have David Sachs here saying that the fault for Vladimir Putin, and this is actually what went down, by the way, at the Republican National Convention. David Sacks says it was NATO's fault and America's fault for supporting NATO that Vladimir Putin felt he had to invade Ukraine. Play this clip. Then he provoked, yes, provoked the Russians to invade Ukraine with talk of NATO expansion. Afterward, he rejected every opportunity for peace in Ukraine,

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that he doesn't think Russia is a big threat, and that he would consider removing America from NATO. Play the clip. At home, the State Department, the defense bureaucracy, the intelligence services, and all of the rest need to be completely overhauled and reconstituted to fire the deep staters and put America first. We have to put America first. Finally, we have to finish the process we began under my administration of fundamentally re-evaluating NATO's purpose and NATO's mission. Our foreign policy establishment keeps trying to pull the world into conflict with a nuclear-armed Russia based on the lie that Russia represents our greatest threat. But the greatest threat to Western civilization today is not Russia.

It's probably more than anything else, ourselves and some of the horrible USA-hating people that represent us. Now, here is Donald Trump in an interview that he gave with Fox Business saying that, you remember in the article, the apple of his eye, the apple of his eye? Here's Donald Trump saying that he was the apple of Putin's eye. Play the clip. Putin would have never gone into Ukraine. But that was just on my relationship with him. My personality over his would have never gone. I used to speak to him, it was the apple of his eye, but I said don't ever do it. And it was, you know, tough

stuff there, but he would have never done it. But he wouldn't have done it for another reason. And maybe this is even stronger. We with this green energy drove up oil, the oil price, so high, where he was getting $125 plus a barrel, that he made so much money that he was able to go and prosecute the war. Here's Trump saying that Putin liked Ukraine. It was the apple of his eye. You never heard these things being talked about.

I knew about them because I'd be with President Xi. I talk and he likes Taiwan a lot. And Putin, like Ukraine a lot, was the apple of his eye. But he never made a move with me because he knew he couldn't do it. Remember this also with Putin. You know, they like to say, oh, Trump was soft. I was tougher in Russia than anybody in history with the sanctions and everything else. You said you could end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Yes. How would you do that? I know Zelensky very well. I felt he was very honorable because when they asked him about the perfect phone call that I made, he said it was indeed. He said it was he didn't even know

what they were talking about. He could have grandstanded. Oh, I felt threatened. Well, that's not going to be enough for Putin to stop bombing Ukraine. No, no, no, I'm not saying that. What I'm saying is that I know Zelensky very well, and I know Putin very well, even better. And I had a good relationship, very good, with both of them. I would tell Zelensky, no more. You've got to make a deal. I would tell Putin, if you don't make a deal, we're going to give them a lot. We're going to give more than they ever got if we have to. I will have the deal done

in one day. One day. And here is former Australian Prime Minister Turnbull, Malcolm Turnbull. And here he talked about Donald Trump's infatuation, obsession with Vladimir Putin, how much he admired him. Play the clip. When you see Trump with Putin, as I have on a few occasions, he's like the 12-year-old boy that goes to high school and meets the captain of the football team. My hero. It is really creepy. It's really creepy. And that struck you at the time? Oh, absolutely. It is really creepy. It's really creepy. And that struck you at the time?

Oh, absolutely. It struck everybody. It was like you could touch it. It was creepy. The creepiness was palpable. Are you trying to say they're having a bromance? No, I'm not saying. I'm just telling you what I saw.

Regrettably, the Republican Party under Donald Trump and particularly the right wing of the Republican Party, are very sympathetic to Vladimir Putin. I mean, I've been with Trump and Putin. Trump is in awe of Putin. Tyrants are often popular. You see, the key to democracy, liberal democracy, is that it empowers the majority, but it also, through the rule of law, constrains the majority. And if you get to the point where anybody who can muster a majority, and I don't think Trump can do that, by the way, but anyone who can muster a majority is given absolute power and then can do whatever they like to the minority, that's not a democracy. That is a tyranny. That is an autocracy. Even if it's got

the support of 50, 51% of the population, that is not what makes a democracy. A democracy, as we understand it, is one where the rule of law protects all citizens and the rule of law applies to all citizens, whether they're the president or the prime minister or an ordinary, you know, elector. Here's Donald Trump at his recent speech saying he didn't even know what NATO really was. Play this clip. I went, I didn't even know what the hell NATO was too much before, but it didn't take me long to figure it out, like about two minutes. And the first thing I figured out was they weren't paying. We were paying. We were paying almost fully for NATO.

Here he is praising Vladimir Putin and President Xi in another speech. Xi of China, when you see Kim Jong-un of North Korea, when you see Putin and you see all of these people, they're at the top of their game, whether you like it or not. And they can't believe that this has happened to the United States. Now, compare that to what President Biden recently said about NATO speaking at the 75th anniversary. Play the clip. Before this war, Putin thought NATO would break. Today, NATO is stronger than it's ever been in its history. When this census war began, Ukraine was a free country. Today, it is still a free country. And the war will end with Ukraine remaining a free and independent country.

Russia will not prevail. Ukraine will prevail. So if you want to actually report on this media, if you want to do your job, report on these things. Maybe you want to show, maybe a big headline is that Donald Trump's former national security advisor John Bolton says that Donald Trump will withdraw from NATO. Maybe make that the biggest headline, that America will destroy NATO and we will be plunged into chaos. That's not hyperbolic rhetoric.

That's the, I'm showing you what the people are saying around him, play the clip. It's great to have you. I just wonder kind of bluntly, if Donald Trump is reelected, do you think that means the end of NATO as we know it now? Yes, I do. I think he will withdraw. I think you have to take what he's saying as coming directly from what he has long been saying privately and in some cases publicly. It's a little disturbing now to hear some Republicans saying,

well, you know, he's just bargaining with NATO or this is just the way he talks. That's not right. He has used this failure of many members, a majority of NATO members, to spend 2 percent of their GDP on defense, as they all voluntarily committed to do in 2014, not to strengthen NATO, but to help destroy it. It is true that after his criticisms, more was spent by European members of NATO on defense. But that wasn't going to change his mind because there were a lot of other criticisms he had as well. So, you know, it is, I was there with him in the spring of 2018 at the NATO summit in Brussels where he damn near did get out of NATO. He is serious about it.

And whether you're a Trump supporter or Trump opponent, don't think he's kidding about this one. Yeah. Now you can say, oh, all of that's fake news. Trump's, it's all one big, everything's a lie. Don't listen to them. I've never comprehended that concept that the only thing that we have to believe no matter what is this Republican propaganda,

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