The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump’s Plan Caught on Film as Hell Breaks Loose

Episode Date: August 18, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas continues what he considers to be the most important video series he has ever made where he exposes Donald Trump’s ICE forces going after migrants and citizens in the United States in the most brutal and shocking ways imaginable and as Meiselas pleads with his viewers and supporters to please share this video to everyone you know. Get 40% off your first order of Sundays. Go to https://sundaysfordogs.com/MEIDAS or use code MEIDAS at checkout. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is, again, one of the most important, if not the most important videos we do on the Midas Touch Network. As I asked you over the weekend, let me ask you again because no one else is really covering it the way we do. Please, please, please, do me this favor. Share this video again with as many people as you know. This is part two, where we show you Donald Trump's Gestapo, raiding the streets, cities, our communities, attacking Home Depot parking lots and food vendors and hardworking people, kidnapping people, throwing people into concentration camps. We can't have a media blackout of all of this. There are incredible citizen journalists who are out there exposing this. And the fact that the Midas Touch Network has this platform, I need to share with you what's going down.

I'll give you the same warning I did yesterday, but I please, please, please, I ask you to do your best to watch the full video. But the warning is the stuff is hard to watch. It's hard to see literal Gestapo ICE agents, just like Nazi Germany, going into our communities, grabbing people, shooting at windows, beating people, disappearing. them to concentration camps, people who are just trying to work, people who have contributed to our country, but we have to take a look at it. So the first thing I want to show you is from Norwalk, Connecticut from this weekend. South Norwalk, Connecticut, ICE agents set up a local police station until the chief forced them out. Soon after, 12 masked agents smashed the windshield

of a red pickup and dragged out Ricardo Chavez and his brother. Ricardo ran but was chased, tased, beaten, and shoved bleeding into an unmarked ice car despite demanding a warrant and saying his daughter was bringing his papers. They left his wrecked truck in the street for his daughter to recover. She is fresh out of Yukon and now studying psychology. She spoke through a megaphone at a massive vigil outside the station joined by the mayor officials and hundreds of residents demanding an end to ICE terrorism in the city. Since ICE appeared Thursday, at least six local families have lost their breadwinners.

Black and Brown residents are terrified, a campaign of terrorism being inflicted by the Trump Gestapo. The rest of us are furious. This is what Trump is funding. This is what ICE is doing, bringing violence, bringing violence to our communities. Thank you, Frontwater Protectors. Here's what went down in Norwalk, Connecticut. played. This is not. This is Norwalk, Connecticut.

Sir, please stop. He did. He did. The end of the ground. The end of the ground. Sir, please stop. Sir, please stop. Sir.

Why? You guys better call an ambulance. He hit his head really hard. Fucking ass. Fucking ass. Fucking pieces of shit, yo. I want to see the Warren. I want to see the Warren. I want to see the Warren. Why? My wife is coming for it.

I told you all my, almost, what you mean? Oh, my God, I want to see the word, come on! How do you, brother? How's it? Leonin'a, what? I told you, it's tough to watch, but we have to see this. We can't look away. The next video I want to show you is an ice raid at a car wash in Orange County that happened on Sunday.

This happened in Garden Grove, August 17th, 11 a.m. It appears they took at least one person, the man that four to five agents detained and brutalized. Listen to the video. You can hear someone upset and crying in the background. If anyone has any more information, please let Veronica Delacruz TV know. Please let OC Active know. It's just an honor that we are able to use our platform to try to show the great work of these incredible citizen journalists. Here, play this clip.

Hey, he's not doing nothing! Hey, he's not doing nothing! He's not doing nothing! Hey, chill out! Hey, chill out! He's not doing nothing! Hey, leave him alone! Leave him alone! Look at that shit! Now, buddy?

I want to show you is what happened when a group of Latino family and friends were targeted by ICE over the weekend as they just enjoyed a nice day at a river in Dover, Arkansas. ICE was forced to release everyone after they detained them since they were all documented. This is the racial profiling we see in Arkansas, in California, and every state. and people are getting thrown into concentration camps as well. Here, let's play this clip. Okay, so he said he's asking everybody, but everybody's just standing over there,

and he's not sending anybody else. They came directly out of us because we're Hispanics, and I know they're checking to see if we have papers or not. This is someone. Are y'all going to ask for everybody else? Are you just going to ignore the fact that you are racially profiling us? Why is he being it? Why are y'all guys doing that? Why are y'all doing that? Stay back.

Freaking amazing doing this. Does that make you feel so tough doing this? We provided the right documentation that is so fucked up. Y'all can't do it. Hey! We didn't hear anything that's... They're not talking to you. You can't do that.

Carlos, Carlos. No, no, back. You came to record, you can actually. Why are you taking? No, no, Carmen, Carlos, Carlos, Carlos, Carlos. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, Hey, hey, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Hey, hey, can record.

No, no, no. Hey! Now, Carlos, Carlos. Now, if you want to see as well what some of these ICE agents, ICE Nazis, many are calling them, are doing. Take a look at the Mount Pleasant neighborhood in DC. You'll see the ice agents walking around and just tearing down anti-ice signs. And then the community puts a new one right up. But here, watch as they tear it down.

My, we're taking America buck, baby. This is for America. The United is number one. We're taking another again. Now, here they are. Now you see the sign being put back up right there. And one of the things we see these ICE agents doing, it's all a photo op with real world consequences.

And they're just shooting movies. They shoot Al-Qaeda, style terrorism movies, except the people being attacked. Well, it's Americans attacking people here in the United States. Take a look at this, the video that they're shooting right here. Here, play this clip. Now, whenever we can amplify local media stories, we try to do that as well. on the Midas Touch network.

So here are Trump's masked ICE agents attempting to kidnap a family in San Bernardino without identifying themselves. They smashed their windows and shot at the car when the family took off scared like any person would do if mask thugs rolled up with no IDs. Here, play this clip. Now to that story on the shooting involving immigration agents.

Tonight we're hearing from one of the people inside that vehicle when it happened. There are still a lot of unanswered questions about what led up to this shooting. I-Witness News reporter, Annabel Munoz, is in San Bernardino with the latest. Martin says he was working with his father-in-law and 18-year-old son-in-law this morning when their vehicle was suddenly surrounded by unmarked cars and masked men. They hopped out with their pistols already drawn. Then they proceeded to ask us to lower the window and open the doors.

Martin stresses they asked, but masked agents did not identify themselves. They stay in the locked car as agents insist. they come out. Moments later, they shatter two windows. Once the glasses were shattered, my father-in-law feared for his life from his perspective. And so he, I guess the car was already in drive. So he drove the vehicle away from where those agents were at. Three gunshots can be heard. Thank God the bullets didn't go through the truck. They just got stuck into the door.

But they were aimed at my brother-in-law, who was in the passenger front. The family sought the help of San Bernardino police who arrived at their home. We made a report with them. They told us FBI wasn't going to contact with us. They say instead it turned into an hour's long standoff with several federal agencies showing up at their home. They say this officer seemed pulling out a weapon during the vehicle stop is the same person who fired the gunshots. He said that he didn't shoot. that those three shots were him tapping on the glass, but we have bullet holes in the side of the vehicle now.

The Department of Homeland Security released a statement saying in part that during a vehicle stop, a subject refused to exit his vehicle and tried to run CBP officers down, saying he struck two officers with his vehicle. And that one officer had to discharge his firearm in self-defense. The video we reviewed does not show the driver trying to run the officers down. The agency did not answer our questions about why the driver was stopped or whether the agents had an administrative or judicial warrant. Community groups are calling for accountability. It seems there's to be like a lot of impunity. And this might be, again, one of the cases where we can bring forward to courts and say this is what's happening, right?

When you let loose an administration and an agency to just basically create their own rules. Annabel Munoz, ABC 7, I Witness News. Next, I want to show you ICE detaining a high school soccer star while driving to school. Handcuff and arrest him in front of all the other students. He had just dropped his mom off at work or routine they followed for years. A member of the first ever state championship win for Tooms County Soccer, that's in Georgia. Here, play this clip right here. An 18-year-old Tooms County High School student and athlete is now sitting inside of Steward Immigration Detention Center after being arrested here in Tooms County.

This is Roberto Istep Kaba, a Tumes County High School junior who is known in the community to be a star soccer and cross-country athletes. The Toms County Sheriff confirmed to me that on August 8th, Kaba was pulled over for running a stop sign outside of the Tumes County High School. Caba was taken into custody for driving while unlicensed. Federal Immigration Services were quickly alerted of Caba's arrest from a system that processes fingerprints at the county jail. Monday immigration services came and took Caba to an immigration detention center. The sheriff tells me that there's been an administrative warrant for him for around nine years. I spoke to the Caba family who says that when they brought their son to the United States from Guatemala, They brought him under asylum.

Now they say they are devastated and are holding out hope for Roberto's safe return. Roberto's father and translator asked me not to show their faces on camera for their own safety. He didn't deserve this. He was almost graduating. He had this year and next year. And yeah, he just hopes in a miracle that God can do for us and that there's just a better opportunity for him. They come from Guatemala in hopes of a better future.

in hopes of a better future because there's so much going on in Guatemala and they came here just to be in better hands. Reporting from Toms County, I'm Olivia Wright. WTOC. News. And by the way, the individuals named is Robert Aetzeb Kaba. This was his second day of school. He's lived in Toms County, Georgia since he was four years old now. Instead of being in class or on the field. Roberto is in jail on an immigration hold and his family has no idea where he will be taken next.

He has two sisters, one brother, and a new sibling on the way who need him home, the only ones he's ever known. We hope this reaches the right audience. Go check out his GoFundMe help bring Roberto home. Now I'll show you this. ICE detaining a two-year-old

Canadian toddler for 41 days. More than double the legal time allowed. Another three-year-old child was locked up for four days in a holding room meant for detention under 12 hours. I don't want to die here. I don't want to die here. A 13-year-old said in written testimony held for weeks with no access to toys, activities, or schooling. We served a family with a nine-month-old baby who lost 8.82 pounds over a month's time, read another testimony. These people are being starved to death and killed are brought to the brink of death in these death facilities like the ones in south texas here play this clip two canadian toddlers both under the age of four

have been held in custody by u.s immigration and customs enforcement this year and one of those children was held for 51 days under the age of four this is based on new data obtained by the globe and mail nearly 150 Canadians have been detained by ice officers this year So 149. That is on pace to double the number of Canadians detained when we look at the entirety of 2024 for a closer look at these detentions. I'm joined in studio by Catherine Blaisebaum with the Globe and Mail. Good morning to you. Morning. You know, I have three children. I know what they're like when they're little. I mean, thinking about the fact that these two children, they're little, under the age of four years old, held in these facilities. Who are these kids? What do we know about them and what do we know about the conditions? I too. I'm a mom of three and it was horrifying reading through. details about the facility where they were being held. So what we do know is that these two children were held for weeks. One of them held for more than seven weeks at a facility in South Texas. That is at the center of allegations of not providing adequate drinking water,

mothers who can't access formula for their babies, no soap to clean their bottles, children who don't have toys, guards taking a doll away from a little girl, you know, no access to medical treatment or reduced access to medical treatment. very challenging circumstances for these for these families including these two Canadian children we do know that both of them have been released they were detained separately these are two separate families we understand based on the data both detained in May one released a couple weeks later and then the other one the data showed that this person and their grown up along with another

child were released in mid-July do you know why they were detained like what the reason was what we do know based on the data analysis is that they were detained with what appear to be grown-ups. We don't know if they are their mothers. But in the case of one of the children, it was a Bolivian mother. In the other, it was a Congolese woman. And it appears that they were picked up for what are known as other immigration violations. So no criminal records, but rather some other immigration violation.

And they have been placed into what are described as expedited removal proceedings with a credible fear referral. So they are claiming that they have- What does that mean? Yeah, they are claiming that if they are sent home, that they will, that they fear persecution and now you know we don't know what happened to them we don't know where they are we are actively trying to find them and you know yeah they're just one of many people who are being held right now one of the things i want you to know about are the plans that ice has to

build a thousand concentration camps or so across the united states just like alligator alcatraz that's where our taxpayer money is going not to uh health care or education or making housing more affordable, trying to build a thousand concentration camps across the country, obviously trying to help the private prison system, friends of Trump and Republican governors make a lot of money. Let me take you to Alabama right now

where the verdict is in, the state's immigration proceedings there has a lot of American workers and people really pissed off here, play this clip. They're putting out a baby in the fact of the world in my area, experience I've had, they ain't too good to what they do. Keith Smith says most immigration workers left after the law took effect, so this potato farmer hired Americans. Problem is, he says, most show up late, work slower, and are ready to head home after lunch. Some even quit after just one day out in the field. There's a Hispanic man that works for us, and I say, you know, he's 52, and he'll make anywhere from $70 to $100 a day.

I said, if you can keep up with him and do a good job, you can make that. But they're not physically in shape to do it, and, you know, probably not mentally tough enough to do it some of it. Over on this tomato farm, the story is not much different. Brent Smith may be the only exception. The bending over, and if you're not used to working and kneeling down and bending over and constantly up and down all day long is the growing part of it. It really is. I mean, other than that, it's not any harder than anything else you think with it.

With a 9.9 unemployment rate, Alabama is almost 1% higher than the national average. Tomato farmers say skilled workers can make anywhere from $200 to $300 a day, but unskilled workers make much less. And farmers say many Americans are not physically fit and simply don't work fast enough. It's just going to take body conditioning, mental conditioning, in order to earn enough money to make it worth a day's work. Now, this is in Van Nuys, California, where you have Trump's Gestapo flashing white power hand gestures.

This is what it looks like in the streets right now. Let's play it. How does it feel being a Nazi? We don't want you here. Get the fuck. Are you doing people? You are terrorizing our community. Do you feel happy about being a Gestapo?

Get back. Get back right now. Do you feel happy about being a Gestapo? Do you feel happy about being a Zastapo? How do you feel being a Nazi? a Nazi. Do you guys feel proud being Nazis? Do you feel proud of being Nazi? Do you feel proud of terrorizing communities? And you see right here, you know, what's what's the point of this all? Just cruelty for cruelty's sake. And here is in Washington, D.C., what it looks like?

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and Logan Circle and places where like the bars are just to show the presence and it's not helping at all with the crime and crime's down 30 year low anyway and crime in D.C. is less than in any red states or red cities pretty much. But now the magas are like, oh, those are fake stats.

Those are fake stats. I want to give a hat tip to ProPublica because they're one of the only news groups that I think is new is meeting the moment right now. So here's what ProPublica explained, how they've documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officer shattering car windows to make arrests. Here, play this clip. I'm Kenneth Santizo. I'm 18 years old. And I saw ice break a man's window and then drag him out in the car while I was waiting for the bus. So I was walking to the bus stop, and I saw a car being surrounded by a bunch of other cars.

The cars, there were just like regular cars that you would see in the street with agents that have HSI, D-E-A, FBI, I'm pretty sure. Hey, ma'am, do you speak English? Okay, I'm going to break this window. And then one of the officers pulled out a weapon and pointed out the man in passenger seat. Then broke the window. Stop playing. Help them. Get out of the floor.

Get out of the forest. What's our back? Drag them down to the sidewalk and then pin them down. What are you looking for? What are you looking for? What are you looking for? What's your name? Oh, I'm like, put in church, come on.

You can do this to me in front of my kids. And it was like, And it was like a really emotional scene afterwards. They just broke the window. They just broke the window. The police, they just, I think they're trying to deport him. I'm going to fucking study right now. And these guys are, Jesus.

They just took in front of his own, in front of his kids, in front of his kids. No, no heart, no heart these people. No height, these people. No height. No height. And after that, I still went on the bus. I had my exam the next day, right? I still had to study for it. It just, like, hurts me because, like, those are people who are my community. Even weirder to think your family's life could be disrupted by just that one moment of, like, an officer detaining you, detaining your uncle, father, or anybody in your family. Great work, great work there by ProPublica. I always support ProPublica. I love the work

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