The MeidasTouch Podcast - Wow! Trump Gets Thrown Under Bus by Top Supporter

Episode Date: July 3, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the brutal op-ed by Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal which skewered Trump and Meiselas reports on how Fox viewers are getting fed up with Trump. Check out the Popok Firm: https://thepopokfirm.com 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

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Trump's lawfare against the free press. He suggests prosecuting CNN while pressuring a settlement out of CBS. Seems that state regime media recognizes that if it does not remain state regime media It is next it is next in Donald Trump's shakedown routine I think it's also important to note and I've been studying the Fox social media They've published very little on the disastrous budget bill They focused on a ton of other stories, but when they did publish a story on the disastrous budget bill. They focused on a ton of other stories. But when they did publish a story on the disastrous budget bill or post an interview with Mike Johnson like this one, the comments were just devastating to Fox and to the mega Republicans.

Here's like one of the only posts I saw on their Instagram where they covered the disastrous budget bill and it's comments like this that they got. It was an interview for MAGA Mike Johnson who says the big beautiful bill is at the one yard line. And then people responded, how is adding $4 trillion to the national debt conservative? Another person said that I've been with Trump through thick and thin. This doesn't seem fair to me at all. Someone goes, stop trying to make it sound like you're for the people. I don't see how any MAGA person can support

this. Adding 3.5 trillion, it's 5 trillion that's being added there. Adding 3.5 trillion to the national deficit is not savings. Yes, we hate our constituents, but love our donors. The Republican Party has no morals. Speaker Johnson sickening, I don't know how you look in the mirror, little Johnson. Thumbel, vote no, piece of S. And they said, let them eat cake right there. Let's take a look at this op-ed from the Wall Street Journal on Trump attacking the free press. President Trump has taunted the media for years. And some of his jibes are deserved deserved given a group think in most newsrooms.

They start off trying to be favorable to the Trump regime. What's happening now is different. The president is using government to intimidate news outlets that publish stories he doesn't like. It's like a low move in a free country with a free press. On Tuesday, Mr. Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem suggested CNN might be prosecuted for publishing a report about an app called IceBlock, which lets users flag locations where they've spotted operations by immigration and custom enforcement agents.

Ms. Noem was asked if CNN could be in legal jeopardy for having pushed the app. We're working with the Department of Defense and Department, we're working with the Department of Justice rather to see if we can prosecute them for that, because what they're doing is actively encouraging people to avoid law enforcement activity operations," Ms. Noem said. "'What they're doing, we believe, is illegal.'" Mr. Trump indicated this is fine by him, and they may be prosecuted also for having given false reports on the attack in Iran, insisting

again that its nuclear sites were obliterated. CNN had reported otherwise, citing an analysis by the Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA, so they may very well be prosecuted for that, Mr. Trump added. What they did there we think is totally illegal. What's wrong is thinking this is illegal. Traffic apps such as Waze and Google Maps sometimes warn drivers that other users have flagged police activity or speed traps ahead on public roads. Iceblock isn't operated by CNN, which merely ran a story on its existence.

The DIA's early assessment of the Iran strikes was hyped given its analytical limitations and low confidence, but accurately reporting the contents of government documents isn't illegal. It's journalism protected by the First Amendment. Whoever gave CNN the DIA's conclusion might face repercussions, though finding government leakers isn't easy. Is Mr. Trump prepared to start—notice they call him Mr. Trump versus President Trump as well—is Mr. Trump prepared to start jailing journalists until they reveal confidential sources?

Maybe. If they want to, they can find out easily. You go up and tell the reporter National Security who gave it. Mr. Trump told Fox News, and I suspect we'll be doing things like that. Separately, Paramount says it's agreed to pay $16 million to settle Trump's meritless lawsuit accusing CBS of distorting a campaign interview last year with Kamala Harris. Face the Nation and 60 Minutes aired different halves of Ms. Harris' reply to a question, but the full tape proved that CBS didn't put words in her mouth, yet Trump sued claiming

$20 billion in damages. His real leverage is that Paramount requires federal approval for its $8 billion merger with Skydance Media. Apparently, Paramount executives decided that paying eight figures to Mr. Trump was better than risking the deal. The $16 million, minus Mr. Trump's legal cost, will go towards his presidential library. The settlement does not include a statement of apology or regret," Paramount said. Not to Mr. Trump at least, which is nice, but CBS viewers and journalists might like

an apology for this sellout. Wall Street Journal calling CBS for selling out. The company also agreed that 60 Minutes will now routinely release transcripts of future interviews with presidential candidates. This can be good journalistic practice, but the president has no business dictating CBS's editorial policies. Democrats are raring to investigate. Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval, Senator Ron Wyden wrote on social

media. When Democrats retake power, I'll be the first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court. If the result is two grim years of partisan trench warfare, and whether this technically counts as bribery, thank you Mr. Trump. And for what? Another chance for Mr. Trump to bluster about fake news?

The price for the country is another worrying precedent as the political culture spirals downward into lawfare. But y'all supported this guy. Murdoch, y'all supported this guy. Hey everybody, Ben Mycelis here from the Midas Touch Network. I wanted to let you know about my podcast partner, Michael Popok's new law firm. It's called the POPOC firm. Michael POPOC's pursuing his dream of starting his own law firm, really based on the popular demand by all the Midas, Mighty and Legal AFers who were approaching Michael POPOC with their cases

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would be able to have nuclear weapons in a year to two years just so you can hear it for yourself. Let's play this clip right here. You know our assessment of the battle damage around Fordow, Nantes, and Istafan remains unchanged. I mean, we believe, and certainly all of the intelligence that we've seen have led us to believe that Iran's, those facilities especially,

have been completely obliterated. And the interesting kind of side point about this, Tara, is that all of the conversations that we've had since Operation Midnight Hammer with our allies all around the world, but certainly also in the region, they say a couple of things. They share our sentiments about the degradation of Iran's nuclear program and the fact that we have degraded their program by one to two years. At least Intel assessments inside the department assess that, and I think their intelligence

shares that conclusion. Is this assessment by this department think it's been degraded or delayed by one to two years? I think we're thinking probably closer to two years, like degraded their program by two years. Okay, here is Kristi Noem talking about arresting us going after CNN and arresting journalists so you can hear it for yourself. Let's play that clip right here. Remember that many of these law enforcement officers live in these communities. Their

children go to those schools. They go to church there. These are their neighbors they're trying to protect. And to have someone like CNN openly describing how to use technology to reveal the activities and the operations that these law enforcement folks are trying to conduct. It's shameful and it could be prosecutable. So I'm glad that Pam is looking into it. Now, I think one of the things we've seen on Fox as well, and whether this is being directed by Murdoch.

Trump is crashing the economy. He's causing serious damage to the economy. And you may go, well, Ben, saying crash is hyperbolic. The markets are up now. The markets go up and down. And to have it back to basically even is not exactly something that should be applauded. But core inflation is rising. The dollar is at its worst start since 1973 and if you look at jobs

we are losing jobs. Every month if you look from January to now jobs are being lost and the past month in June the jobs report was actually talked about on Fox. There were supposed to be a hundred thousand jobs created, but there was 30,000 jobs that were lost. Watch what went down. Let's play this clip. Trump would like to sign this right before the July 4th holiday to celebrate freedom and independence. John, we are 30 minutes away from the opening bell for a Wednesday in a holiday shortened

week. Your thoughts? Well, our big surprise today had to be that ADP report on private sector employment that was down by 33,000 jobs. The labor market is softening, it's flattening out. And that tells me that companies can go ahead and increase prices in response to higher tariffs. But I don't think that consumers are going to respond positively.

They'll pull back on spending. So any increase by inflation because of tariffs will be quite limited. Ultimately, tariffs may do more to increase federal revenues, reduce the federal deficit, than to add to price inflation. And of course, all this adds up to lower than expected interest rates by the end of this year. Yeah, great point. Markets have turned negative now 30 minutes before the open on the heels

of that. We couldn't expect a June ADP report. That's why president Trump keeps talking about growth Ashley. John, you just mentioned, you know, people will have to raise prices, not in mom Donnie's New York, Ashley. No, no, no, no. Not if the government is running the grocery stores. Now here is Maria Bartiroma again with a MAGA Republican senator talking about how they were about to applaud the job growth, but then they found out that we've lost 33,000 jobs. That's very bad. And that may get revised downward even more. Here, play this clip. Of course, President Trump is talking about this bill leading to growth in the economy We are waiting any moment now to get the jobs numbers for the month of May

the expectations call for the ADP numbers to be up 95,000 for the month of June rather it's the June jobs data and will of course Right now seeing seeing the number actually show a decline in jobs down 33,000 on on ADP The bill includes 25 billion dollars for the Golden Dome the missile defense system the senator you introduced a bill supporting the construction of that system And by the way, here's very far right wing propagandist Brian Kilmeade. He's speaking with Treasury Secretary Scott Besson here. And here's Besson's response of,

at least Kilmeade asked him the right question, like, dude, what's going on with these rare earth minerals? China's not releasing these rare earth minerals. And that's significantly harming, you know our country's ability to to manufacture things here watch what he says let's play it true or false the Chinese still are not giving us the rare earth we're paying for we are hoping that they will flow at a faster rate rare earths magnets are flowing they are not flowing as they did before April 4th, but we are confident that the Chinese will live up to their side of the deal.

And you know, finally, it is a sellout by CBS for settling with Donald Trump for $16 million. I don't care that they say they're not offering an apology. They're giving him $16 million. What are you giving him $16 million for? It was the most frivolous lawsuit in my opinion that I had really ever seen. What, that 60 minutes aired one version of the interview that was the same version of the interview that faced the nation at it. That was what, that was edited a slight amount. There was no material change. Some ums and ahs were taken out to make the thing go quicker.

The full video was out. There wasn't like they were hiding anything. And Trump was too scared to show up for that interview with 60 Minutes. Trump got invited to be on 60 Minutes and he would not do the interview. Former Vice President Kamala Harris did the interview. So Trump sits back, whines about an interview that he doesn't do, sues CBS, gets them to pay $16 million. I don't know how you can be, I don't know what the journalists at CBS are doing right now. I'm sure there are good journalists that still work there,

smart people who still work there. I don't know how you're able to do your job in that environment. I just, I don't know how you're able to do your job in that environment. I just I don't know how you're able to do that job We saw the 60 minutes executive producer resign, right? We saw the president of CBS News resign There you have it that's what Murdoch saying anyway hit subscribe let's get to 6 million subscribers Thanks for watching.