The MeidasTouch Podcast - UNHINGED Republican Leaders LOSE IT on LIVE TV

Episode Date: May 2, 2024

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on GOP leaders making total fools of themselves live television appearances in the past 24 hours as the Republican Party has been remade in Donald Trump’s image. Head to https://www.fast-growing-trees.com/collections/sale?utm_source=YouTube&utm_medium=show+notes&utm_campaign=meidastouch right now and use code MEIDAS at checkout to get 15% off your entire 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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I want to share it with you now because this is just getting stranger and stranger by the day. Here is Kristi Noem from last night on an appearance that she gave on the Sean Hannity show on Fox where she tries to justify killing her dog Cricket as a way for her to sell more books. Just listen to how ghoulish this is. Play this one first, and then I got to show you just what other MAGA Republicans were saying as well on other topics. Play it. Tell us, in your words, why it came to that decision. I mean, unfortunately, dogs that are violent sometimes have to be put down. But I guess people, because you shot the dog,

is there a difference which way you put a dog down? I'm not really sure, but I don't think people understood it. I want to give you a chance to explain. Well, Sean, you know how the fake news works. They leave out some or most of the facts of a story. They put the worst spin on it. And that's what's happened in this case. I hope people really do buy this book and they find out the truth of this story. Because the truth of this story is that this was a working dog and it was not a puppy. It was a dog that was extremely dangerous. It had come to us from a family who had found her way too aggressive.

We were her second chance. And the day she was put down was a day that she massacred livestock that were part of our neighbors. She attacked me. And it was a hard decision. And the reason it's in the book is because this book is filled with tough, challenging decisions that I've had to make throughout my life. Now, here's MAGA Republican Troy Nell just a little bit earlier in the day. And here's Troy Nels saying that he believes that it's the Congress's duty to help Donald Trump get reelected, not help the American people. Play the clip. Everything that we do in the House of Representatives should be in the best interest of getting Donald Trump reelected. This guy right here. Now here's Donald Trump's chief legal counsel, Alina Haba, filming herself jumping into a ball pit.

Play this clip. MAGA Republican Senator J.D. Vance saying that he does not believe that former Vice President Pence should have felt that his life was at risk and that this is all part of some kind of fake news operation. Play this clip. The last time I checked, President Biden wasn't approving of the chance to hang his Vice President and did not call his vice president when their life was in danger on Capitol Hill, something that Mike Pence himself has testified to. So my question is, does it give you any pause to be his vice president, given how he has treated Mike Pence? Caitlin, I'm extremely skeptical that Mike Pence's life was ever in danger. I think politics and politics people like to really exaggerate things from time to time. I know a lot of folks in the Democratic Party, a lot of folks in the Democratic Party, Caitlin, act as

if January the 6th was the scariest moment of their lives. I think notice over and over again, they're just parroting Donald Trump talking points. It's the fake news. You heard what Kristi Noem said. Fake news. Yeah, former Vice President Pence shouldn't have felt the way he did when people were saying to hang him. By the way, here's Kristi Nome again. And here she says that this is just what people do in rural America. In rural America, people kill their dogs. They kill their puppies. They kill their goats. Just happens all the time. They just shoot them. Play this clip. And that was the situation that we were dealing with. And I'm a dog lover. I've trained dogs for years. I've been around hundreds of them, of course. And so this was a tough situation and very difficult. But that's what happens in rural America many times.

And no, Kristi, no, that's not that's not a normal thing. That's not what takes place here is Donald Trump's main lawyer Alina Haba as well and right on right-wing media spreading this propaganda that she says Donald Trump is the strongest and most energetic person that he's ever met but she's ever met play this clip yeah I mean who you know you're on a trial and the thing that you do is go campaign there's literally nobody tougher or more energetic than president trump i can tell you that i'm pretty sure if it was me i'd be resting um but he and here is lisa rubin though a reporter for msnbc i think she does great job she's a lawyer as well she's in the. And here's how she reported that Donald Trump,

how Donald Trump looks like in the trial itself, in the Manhattan criminal trial. Play this clip. Really quickly, if I can, Lisa, your observations on Donald Trump today. Sleeping. Again, they have tried a number of different devices. Yeah, sleeping for a lot of it. I would say they've tried a number of different devices. Yeah, maybe for a lot of it. I would say they've tried a number of different devices to keep Trump awake, partially in response or what appears to be in response to collective press corps observations. So, for example, when there are sidebars, an attorney doesn't leave his side anymore because leaving him alone means leaving him to potentially sleep. He has a stack of papers with him at all times now to go through. But neither of those things seem to have protected Trump from his own exhaustion today. More than, you know,

more than not, when I looked up to see how Trump was receiving the testimony, Trump was not receiving it at all because his eyes were closed. Now, here is a video from a week or two ago of the MAGA boxer, Ryan Garcia, who went to Mar-a-Lago after winning a fight a few weeks back. And now we've learned that this MAGA boxer, Ryan Garcia, or at least it's being reported that he tested positive for performance enhancing drugs. He denies the claim, but doesn't it seem like a ongoing theme here that MAGA Republicans are consistently trying to cheat? But he denies the claims, but this was him at Mar-a-Lago. Play this clip. Down the chart 2024.

Here's the news that broke from ESPN that Ryan Garcia tested positive from performance enhancing drugs the day before and the day of his upset win over David Haney in their recent boxing match. Garcia has 10 days to request his B sample be tested. A sample also screen positive as well for other substances. Now here was Ryan Garcia's responses. Now doesn't this look like a very Trumpian post, like just even the way it looks? Here's what Garcia responded, the MAGA boxer. He goes, if I took the steroids, then I'm for sure gay. Hmm, I'm seen with Trump and now I'm positive for steroids. This is a straight attack, crazy. The club does not fit. I'm find out who paid who to create this lie.

Now I'm a release everyone's shit. Time to expose the real stakes. I need more steroids. I'm addicted. That looks just kind of like how Donald Trump posts. Just take a look at just the way Trump posts, the way Ryan Garcia posts. By the way. Then on some of the right-wing media, we saw the MAGA prophet, Julie Green. They have a MAGA prophet and she speaks, this person I'm about to show you, she speaks at like big MAGA Republican events. She spoke at Trump Doral at an event in the past year and she goes to all these right-wing speeches. She's featured at these speeches and at these events. And she's like a major speaker in the MAGA movement.

Here she is from yesterday. This is the MAGA prophet who gives these speeches. Play this clip. My children, you are about to see biblical-type plagues strike some of your enemies, even on their faces. Boils will be seen. See who was infected by them. See how they will try to explain it away. But know your enemies are very afraid, just as they were in Egypt. Watch as you have read in my word, and now you will see plagues in your time. To show you I am still the same God, and I still deliver my people from the enemy, saith the Lord.

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gubernatorial candidate, Tudor Dixon from Michigan. And here she makes these just despicable comments about the Democratic governor, very popular, Gretchen Whitmer. Play this clip. I don't know if you saw the latest video where she talks about nicknames. She has a bunch of different nicknames. She left one out. Did you notice that? You know the nickname I'm talking about? Stretching Gretchen. Just between us girls, when you're campaigning, you hear a lot of stuff you normally wouldn't hear. And one of our legislators told me that Lee Chatfield was actually pretty familiar with that name. I guess I can't accuse her of being nonpartisan or not bipartisan anymore, huh?

She is bipartisan, apparently. I did a whole other video of this. I hope you watched it. But Governor Gretchen Whitmer is a survivor of sexual assault. And in 2013, Governor Whitmer gave a very compelling speech. Go look at the other video I made of this when she was in the state Senate. And Tudor Dixon knows that. And it's just so utterly, utterly despicable, that conduct. Here's Marjorie. This is all happening in 24 hours, by the way. All this stuff I'm showing you all happened in 24 hours. That's why I'm showing you different looks of who the MAGA Republican Party is. I could show you more Trump videos, but you've seen that. So I'm not going to do that now. Here's from the same 24 hour period. I did a whole video series on that.

Here's Marjorie Taylor Greene explaining why she voted against an anti-Semitism bill or bill to stop anti-Semitism. Play this clip. This particular bill, this was a Mike Lawler bill. And this bill had some language in there talking about the way they define anti-Semitism with the contemporary language. And a particular example that struck many of us that we're concerned about is that possibly a contemporary example of anti-Semitism, according to this bill, could be the very belief that we all believe in the gospel, if you're a Christian, is that Jesus was handed over to be killed, and that decision was made by the Jews. According to that definition, that could be considered anti-Semitism.

And then let me just show you this to close. This is just a very small portion of my interview with Democratic Congress member from the third congressional district, Tom Suozzi. Just look at like the normal conversation that he and I are having. And again, that's why I don't care what, it's like a political party thing. It's like we just have normal adult conversations kind of thing. And Democratic Congress member Tom Suozzi, he took over George Santos's seat in the third congressional district. Like what an upgrade, right? Play this clip. In December, I talked to a member of the Republican Party who is now the chairman of a major committee.

I won't say who it is. But I said, you know, we can't just appease Vladimir Putin. We have to support Ukraine. If we don't support Ukraine and we appease the Russians, we'll be no better than Neville Chamberlain. And his response was, chairman of a major committee now, major player, his response was, who's Neville Chamberlain? So, I mean, just so your viewers know, Neville Chamberlain was the British prime minister who appeased Hitler when he first invaded Czechoslovakia and other places. And then it was one after another of countries that he invaded after that, which is what exactly Putin will do if we let him get away with this in Ukraine. And so, folks, you know, over and over again, one of the fundamental things we talk about

here is normalcy. I just want normal adult leadership in our government. That's the bare minimum. And when I show you what the Republican Party has become, I show you these videos so you can see just how extreme, how outrageous their behavior is at the leadership level. And one of the things I respect about the Democratic Party is at the leadership level, you're dealing with pretty moderate, just normal, pro-democracy people who are trying to make deals and reach compromises. And that's just what I'm looking for. I don't know what you're looking for, but I know you have to make deals sometimes in government. I just want normalcy.

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