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We have a lot to discuss on this. Christmas episode of the Midas Touch. podcast. Donald Trump's cover-up of the. Epstein files gets worse by the day. The. Department of Justice now says they. miraculously found 1 million additional. documents out of the prosecutor's office. from the Southern District of New York. This follows the Midas Touch expose. where we said there's probably about a. million to 5 million documents in. Southern District of New York which have.

not even been produced to the Department. of Justice yet. Literally within 12. hours of our report, the Department of. Justice makes that post. We found more. documents. We'll get into it all. We'll. also talk about Donald Trump's deranged. behavior on Christmas on Christmas Day. He's posting over and over again 100 to. 200 posts calling for former President. Barack Obama to be prosecuted, complaining that the 2020 election was. stolen. And it actually gets more.

deranged from there if you can believe. it. And then there was that. what you even want to call it, Donald. Trump holding that press conference on. Christmas Eve where he told a little. 8-year-old girl how cute and beautiful. she sounds and must be. Donald Trump. saying that they're there to stop the. infiltration of Santa. Can't do anything. normal at all there. Um and it's just an. interesting observation right now that I. think does not get enough attention is. what's taking place internationally. I.

mean a French general is echoing the. sentiments of a lot of people in Europe. right now suggesting that the United. States is now a systemic adversary of. Europe. The United States is imposing. sanctions on European officials as Marco. Rubio says Europe is a censorship regime. against the United States. So while you. have Russians in Miami meeting with. Trump's people in order to plot the.

surrender of Ukraine um they're not. being sanctioned. In fact, the US is. removing sanctions from Russia. The US. is now imposing sanctions on Europe on. the basis of free speech censorship. Only thing Europe's been involved in is. protecting against consumer fraud and. the type of rampant disinformation that. MAGA wants to spread there. Remember. folks, authoritarianism is an. international movement. Trump is a. vessel the same way Orban and Putin and.

others are. We'll get into this and more. here on the Midas Touch podcast. Merry. Christmas everybody. Happy holidays. Happy Hanukkah. Happy Kwanzaa. Uh it's. great to spend this Christmas with you. and to give you an original podcast on. Christmas. Brett and Jordy. Merry Christmas Midas Mighty and happy. holidays to all and thank you for. spending this time with us. Honestly, it. really means the world to us that on. these holidays you spend this time with. us. We actually love doing these holiday.

shows. They're meaningful to us. We. obviously love spending time as a family. and it's always nice to kind of be able. to invite you into our family. celebrations here. Jordy, what's the. latest on your end? Excited to get into today's show. You. know, I heard happy Kwanzaa. I heard. happy Hanukkah. I heard the Merry. Christmas. Y'all left off Festivus. Festivus for the best of us, you know? You guys like my Christmas PJs by the. way? The Christmas PJs are fly, Jay. What what does it say? Does it say dump? Just just a lot of different basketball. terminology. Jump. >> says jump. I thought I thought your.

shirt said dump on it. I was like that's. weird. No. Wrong. Incorrect. Benji, where are we starting off with today, big bro? Why don't we talk about the. Midas Touch report where we said that. there was likely at least 1.2 million. records that had not been produced. And. I'd like to say that we really dug deep. in there. I mean, to some extent we did. We've been reviewing every single record. that's been produced to date. But you. know, my experience as a litigator. having dealt in the past with massive. document productions of terabytes of.

information in cases I handled where we. would deal with 5, 10, 20 million. documents in in our cases. it was obvious to me that there was. there had to be more than just a few. hundred thousand records or doc. documents is what they're saying in the. Epstein files. It does Just think about. a financial record alone for a. billionaire or for like billion-dollar. transactions, right? Those records alone. could be millions of pages with each. individual transaction having to be.

combed over by forensic accountants to. determine if there's suspicious issues. and then suspicious activity reports are. generated. So none of it ever made sense. to me. And then I was reading the files. and I came upon this file right here. where it is. certain prosecutors emailing certain. contractors who are likely involved in. document review in connection with the. Epstein and Ghislaine matters in 2020. So this is October 30th, 2020. Uh here's.

what this email said. It said good. afternoon, Ed. Again, it's from a. prosecutor to a contractor who's. involved in document review in 2020. And what are they doing in 2020? Well, by by this time Epstein had already died. by alleged suicide. They were prepping. the case against Ghislaine and there. were at least 10 other co-conspirators. and maybe more who were involved. Um and. we know the 10 additional. co-conspirators despite Kash Patel lying.

and saying there were no co-conspirators. because in other records that were. produced it says from the Southern. District of New York prosecutor's office. it says of the 10 co-conspirators, three. have been identified. Here two are. there. One's here. Three we haven't been. able to locate yet. So there are at. least 10 conspirators. I just want you. to think about this for a second, Ben. and Jordy and and Midas Mighty. Think. about all the millions of documents that. we know about now and this additional. million documents. And then think back. over the past few months when people. like Kash Patel and Pam Bondi not only.

implied but said directly that the only. people involved in this entire scheme, the only ones Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine. Maxwell and they got them. No no other. co-conspirators. Nowhere else to look. No other people involved here. Really? And you have millions and millions and. millions of documents. And of course, as. Ben said, we're learning that's total BS. and they knew it was BS. Kash Patel knew. it was BS and he lied to the American. people and likely perjured himself in. front of the American people during that. congressional hearing in my opinion. Well, look. So by their own admission,

which I'll explain in a little bit. the DOJ has never even reviewed or. looked at at any level. these million-plus documents. So how would you go to Congress and. testify that you've reviewed the. documents when you haven't? And this was. not like some like super secret source. that they found underneath, you know, whatever. Like. this was clearly in the Southern. District of New York's possession and. custody and control. It it was the main.

documents. that were part of the Epstein files, okay? And and and it says so here in. this email that I uncovered. And then I. put this out. Midas Touch wrote stories. about it. And then 12 hours later the. DOJ said they found We found it. We. found it. So here's what the email said. Again, it's from the prosecutors to. other prosecutors involved in document. review dated October 30th, 2020. Following up on our earlier phone. conversation, a hard drive with the. following production is being sent to. SDNY via FedEx with the following.

production in the USV Epstein workspace. And then they have the prefix. We call. it Bates numbers in in the legal. practice. But SDNY PROD. So Southern. District of New York. That's the. prosecutor's office in New York, the. Southern District of New York. They're. the ones who prosecuted Epstein and. Ghislaine. Um then Epstein died by. suicide or allegedly before he his. prosecution actually took place. 008, 009, 0010. 0011. Note, this is a.

six-part production. 0012, 0013, 0014. The email goes on to say there are. approximately 1.2 million records. currently being imaged. The images will. be available on Monday, November 2nd, 2020 at the earliest. The production of. the records will begin as soon as the. images are available in the workspace. Please feel free to contact me if you. have any questions. Thanks. This is. something I'm very familiar with. When.

they talk about USV Epstein workspace, the workspace is the e-discovery, the. electronic discovery platform where. these documents are being uploaded on. That's why they're saying these records. are being uploaded. They say 1.2 million. records right here. But notice that it. says PROD 008 to 0014. So one question I immediately have is. okay, what about 001 to 007? That. clearly exists. They don't just don't.

start at 008. Um so that's why I go. there's probably a lot more than 1.2. million records. And then there could be. production 0014 to 0050 for all we know. This is just one hard drive. Right? I. don't have the other emails. So I don't. know the other hard drives. But I found. this email and what I was able to. review. So there may be 10 hard drives. with more stuff like this. And this is. just the workspace, the e-discovery. involving electronic discovery USV. Epstein. This is not USV Ghislaine. And.

this is only in the Southern District of. New York. So this isn't in the Southern. District of Florida where there was that. sweetheart deal that Epstein entered in. '07-'08 with Acosta, Trump's guy who. became the Labor Secretary. So there's. probably a whole lot of other documents. there. And then even if you that universe, that's just the criminal cases. What. about all of the civil cases? What about. the international stuff, the Virgin. Islands stuff, this the island, the St.

James stuff? What what what about all of. those cases? What about the cases. against the banks? What about So, between all of that stuff, to me it's. obvious that we're talking about at. least 5 million records, not even. documents. One record could potentially. be 1,000 pages. So, we could be talking. about tens of millions of actual stuff. here. And that's the analysis you know, that's how I get that. I want you to. know I don't just like come up with. these things. Like that's how I estimate.

that. And any litigator who's been. involved in big document production. cases would know that I'm saying is like. I've so obviously true in our profession. would be like 1 + 1 = 2. Like it's not. even a like a it's not even like a whoa, I'm going out on a limb here. And then. so the Department of Justice yesterday. wrote the following. The US attorney for. the Southern Just think about this what. they wrote on Christmas Eve. This is. their message. The US attorney for the. Southern District of New York and the. FBI have informed the Department of.

Justice they have uncovered over 1. million more documents potentially. related to Jeffrey Epstein's case. The. DOJ has received these documents from. SDNY and the FBI to review them for. release in compliance with the Epstein. files transparency act, existing. statutes, and judicial orders. We have. lawyers working around the clock to. review and make the legally required. redactions to protect victims. And we. will release the documents as soon as. possible. Due to the mass volume of. materials, this process may take a few. more weeks. The Department will continue.

to fully comply with federal law and. President Trump's direction to release. the files. So, when we know that between March and July. there were 1,000 lawyers and FBI. officials purportedly working on the. Epstein files, we know that they were. billing the taxpayers because we've seen. through Jason Leopold at Bloomberg's. great reporting that there were tens of. thousands of overtime hours alone, let. alone the other hours, millions of. dollars. So, what were they doing with.

those millions of dollars when I in. document review? When I was a litigator. handling document productions far bigger. than this, I had a team and and for. those litigators out there listening, they'll be like, "Yeah, I absolutely get. what you're saying, Ben.". My team was five associates. And we'd be. able to get through this in not like. overnight. We'd be able to get through. all of this easy 90 days, no problem. We'd load it on our workspace. We'd have. keyword search terms. The privilege. would have notes about why it's.

privileged versus why it's not. privileged. This was an easy production. to do. What were those thousands of. lawyers spending hundreds of thousands. of hours doing? The first thing you. would do in a situation like this, if. you were let's say the main partner or. the attorney general tasked with this, you know that the unit you know where. the universe is. I heck I know where the. universe is. You know it's Southern District of New. York, you know it's Southern District of. Florida. You know the civil cases, so. you create a list first. What are all of. the cases, right? Then you put out a.

request to each of the people who run. these offices cuz there's, you know, and. then you say, "Let me get them." So, that's the process. But I will remind. you that Maureen Comey was the lead. prosecutor in the Southern District of. New York against Epstein and Ghislaine, James Comey's daughter. She was a. renowned prosecutor out there in. Southern District of New York. She was. fired by Donald Trump. um as part of Trump's retaliation or. retribution many many months ago. She. but but there are still people that that.

they clearly have a file where the stuff. is kept regardless of Maureen Comey. being fired. So, I just wanted to give. you that inside perspective of how you'd. go about this and why this is all just. completely BS. And then I I look at I'll. pass it to you, Brett. I'm sorry for. hogging it. I you know, Democratic. ranking member of the House Oversight. Committee Garcia credited the Midas. Touch reporting for breaking the story. He said new media organizations like. Midas Touch are critical to holding the. administration accountable. Their. reporting is making an impact after we.

uncovered this. And so it's it's an. honor to uncover it, but you know, I I I. I wish I didn't have to use those skills. to figure out that the executive branch. is covering up a child sex trafficking. ring. Sometimes the biggest stories are. staring you in the face as was this one. once we saw the document. And like if if. we were able to discover it here at the. Midas Touch Network, like they. definitely should have known about these. documents. It's very suspicious. And of. course now it's oh, it's just going to. be another couple weeks, another couple. weeks. This is going to take a little.

longer than we anticipated to get these. documents out there. They've been slow. rolling this thing now for so long. And. remember everybody, back in February In. fact, first off, Donald Trump made this. like his one of his big campaign issues. that he was going to release these. files. And he was like the dog that. caught the car. And once he got in and. once his own followers and everybody. were demanding the release of the files. based on his promise, all of a sudden it. was excuse after excuse, lie lie lie. after the next. And Pam Bondi in. February said, "I have the files. I have.

the client list. They are on my desk. right now. I'm going to release them.". Remember that? They were on her desk. Then all of a sudden vanish. They don't. exist anymore. She says all of a sudden. there is no client list. That doesn't. exist anymore. Then she goes uh they get. do the whole binder uh fiasco where they. give the binders uh to the uh MAGA. influencers from Twitter. And that's. that was their strategy. And they. released previously released information. just with additional redactions. documents that we had already seen be.

released during the Biden. administration, during the Ghislaine. Maxwell court cases. They tried to pass. those off as if they were new documents. And then it was just lie after lie after. lie. Pulling teeth to try to get any of. these documents released. Donald Trump. refused to do it. And then all of a. sudden uh. you he starts calling it the Epstein. hoax over and over again. Finally, it. takes an act of Congress. It takes. Congressman Ro Khanna and it takes. Representative Thomas Massie, a Democrat. and a Republican respectively, to come.

together to do a discharge petition. because Mike Johnson refused to put a. popular bill on the floor to release. these files. Mike Johnson refused. because he said he was worried about the. effect it may have on the real victims, the men who were around Epstein when. their names leak out. That's actually. what Mike Johnson said. And then the. discharge petition goes through and here. we are today. It's just been such a. mess. This has been the worst handled. situation. And the fact that this. administration has the nerve to go out.

there still and tweet unironically that. they are the most transparent. administration in history is just so. batshit crazy that even his own. followers right now, every time they see. that stuff, are like, "No, you're not. This is This is appalling." And I know. that I think it's honestly part of the. reason why we see Donald Trump's. approval collapsing the way that it has. because this issue in particular is one. that is getting to his own base.

Including, you know, survivors who have. voted for who voted for him, you know, they've talked to other survivors. They've started to hear stories from. other survivors about the Epstein files. And so all of this now is coming to. fruition. And ironically, Donald Trump's. attempt to hold back information on this. issue to protect himself has actually. caused more damage than he ever could. have imagined. 1,000%. And I guess like. it comes down to the central ethos is. that. anytime this administration opens their.

mouth, anytime anyone from this. administration opens their mouth, they're lying. And and the American. people feel that. And as you just laid. out, Brett, even Trump's most loyal. supporters are starting to feel that. And I guess my big question, Ben, for. you, I'm interested in your perspective. here. What is their ultimate outcome here for. the Trump regime? Are are they just. trying to gaslight the American people. so much that ultimately they think the. American people will stop caring. ignorantly? Or are they going to just.

distract distract distract start wars? Like just do crazy things in order to. force the issue to go away in their. minds? Like this could get really. destructive in my opinion and in a very. dangerous way. Well, it is already, right? We've reached that point. Like. when people go, "We're in a. constitutional crisis." I go, "No, we're. past the constitutional crisis point. We've got an authoritarian regime." And. the question is is will we be able to. remove that authoritarian regime as we. head into the new years? I'm confident. actually that the people will be able.

to. But it's like 1984, Jordi, perhaps. even worse, 1984, the book on steroids, Orwell's book on steroids. Uh they want. you not to believe anything, right? And. so when you take, for example, the. letter purportedly sent by Epstein to. Larry Nassar, despite the fact that. there's a lot of corroborating. information that came out previously in. internal emails that the Bureau of. Prisons produced that they found this. letter at MCC, at the prison where.

Epstein was, uh that all looked to be. sent from Epstein, that it was sent out. for uh handwriting analysis at an FBI. lab. No one ever got what those results. were that would help answer the question. in 2020 if the handwriting analysis was. done. You had Epstein allegedly saying. to Nassar, "If this is an authentic. message that was they said that they. liked young new bio girls and that. Donald Trump the president likes them. also that way." What were words to that. effect. Um Midas Touch.

was the first to report on that letter. also. We've been the first to report on. a on a lot of these things. And by the. way, when I do this, it's not just for. me like spike the ball. Midas Touch. this. I want to let you know as a. community that while you have people. like CBS bending the knee or entities. bending the knee and not doing the work, a people a people powered network has. the ability to be breaking the big. stories here like like the NASA story. and and and and all of these stories and. the missing 1 million documents. So then.

the DOJ their social media account which. is now being controlled by Trump. Like. Trump's White House is running the DOJ. social media account. They're calling. reporters dopes. You're a dope. It's a. fake document. We were told to produce. everything so we were going to produce. fake documents. Well, let's be very. clear. The Trump regime's as part of. their cover-up, one of the things that. they've always been saying to not turn. over other documents, what have they. always been saying Jordy Brett and Midas. Mighty? We're going to focus on the.

credible documents. We want to put over. credible information first. The credible. info is what we're going to get. produced. So, if they believe it's a. fake document and just assume that it is. fake and I'm not convinced that it's. fake. I want to see the laboratory. results, the forensic analysis that was. done in 2020 cuz that document's being. concealed. But just even assume it's. fake. Doesn't that make it worse? That. the regime's prioritizing. putting out without context fake not.

credible documents first? To what? To to torture the victims? To. make the survivors suffer more? So your. priority what what you are turning over. are the fabricated ones and you're. holding back the real ones? That's how you've interpreted the. Epstein transparency. I think it makes. it worse if you accept what they're. saying is true. And Jordy, the point of. all of this though is what they want to. do is they want to assault the truth and. they want to wear people down so you. don't know what's true or false and in.

this chaos Donald Trump can steal for. himself and enrich himself and enrich. his family. That's their end game. There. is no end game to benefit the country. There is no end game to benefit. institutions or my Trump just wants to. try to get as much money as he can, hoard it for his family, destroy the. country, get the hell out. You think. Trump truly cares if America is strong. in the future, if if future generations. prosper, if Russia takes over Europe? Do.

you think Trump truly cares about it? Of. course he doesn't care about that. He. cares about Trump and Trump making. money. That's it and people are seeing. that. All right, let's take our first. quick break of the show. When we come. back, we've got a lot to discuss. A. reminder, check out midasplus.com m e i. d a s p l u s.com. That's where we've. been breaking a lot of these stories and. those Midas Touch Plus Substack. memberships have been a major help in. our growth. Also, the YouTube. memberships right here have been a major. help in our growth. You can click join.

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probably my favorite episodes, these. holiday episodes cuz I think most folks. think maybe we'll take a day off or or. do something and not actually show up. for the show. We're here because we love. you guys and this really means the world. to us that we could all experience this. together on these holidays. It's been a. long freaking year and uh I wouldn't. want to be in this fight with with. anybody other than the Midas Mighty. So. thank y'all for showing up tonight. Thank y'all for listening and all right, Benji, where to next? I think one of the. things also though is, you know, I don't. view this as a job.

Like I don't be like, "Oh my god, I got. to work today.". Totally. I mean, I get to go I get to go. on. I'm going to speak to Brett and. Jordy anyway at some point today, right? We're going to do we'll probably speak. for 30 minutes and we'll probably end up. saying, "Oh, did you see what he just. did? Could you believe that?" Like so. we're going to have these conversations. on the court. Um and we love all of you. who watch and listen to this. So to me. it's like, you know, it's actually a. great way to spend Christmas. I get to. hang with my brothers and I get to hang. with the Midas Touch community. Like.

that that's actually a fun thing for me. So if people are like, "Oh, you work.". It's actually doesn't feel like work. Uh. I'll I'll address that anyway. Let me. show you. Trump supporter Haley Robson. who's a survivor of Epstein, uh she was recently interviewed after. this just disastrous Epstein file. cover-up that was on top of the other. cover-ups and she's finally said she's. done with Trump. She's done with Maga. Mike. She wants to see Trump thrown out.

and impeached. She wants Maga Mike. thrown out and impeached. Watch what. she's got to say. Let's play. about. Trump, right? Just to be clear in terms. of pointing the finger or they're having. Yes, exactly. And you said that before. that you have never heard anything to. implicate him. >> Exactly. It wasn't until I started. meeting some of the other women from. different countries and different states. where I really started to hear their. stories. And of course as a survivor. sister and going through what I went. through, I do believe these girls. But at the end of the day, I am no. longer supporting this administration. I.

redact any support I've ever given to. him, Pam Bondi, Kash Patel. I am so. disgusted with this administration. I. think that Pam Bondi and Kash Patel both. need to resign and I would love to see. number 47 get impeached over this. And I'm just waiting. Should Pam Bondi. maybe be held in contempt, you think? She needs to be held more than in. contempt. Absolutely. Okay, Haley, stand. So I do want to provide for anybody who.

was misled and brainwashed by Trump. even if they're making this realization. now. an off-ramp. As hard as it is sometimes to be like. cuz I could go into it and be like, "Really? This wasn't a giveaway or that. wasn't a giveaway and this wasn't a. giveaway and that wasn't a giveaway.". I do think that we. we can feel that way. Like nothing's. going to change that. I I could probably. do 10 podcasts that last 10 hours each.

trying to. go into that entire universe. I I'm not sure if it's a productive. exercise. We need to expand a coalition. of people who care about empathy and. truth and accountability and democracy. And so I'll take it wherever we can get. it. Um and I think her sentiments are. being echoed by a lot of people. I mean, look, even Marjorie Taylor Greene is out. there, right, saying she's, you know, you know, she she's done. So, when you. got Marjorie Taylor Greene out there.

saying she's done, you have a lot of. these MAGA Republicans even retiring. from Congress. Um you know, to me, I. just think rather than get distracted. with our time in saying really, I think. it's kind of like let's embrace people. who have left him and let's let's get. into accountability mode. I want to. address one thing, Brett and Jordy, and. I'll I'll I'll I'll turn it to you. Every time I see, whether it's CNN or MS. Now, uh by the way, state regime media. doesn't even cover this stuff. Like, I. don't even know if Fox has done an.

Epstein story, right? Their big story is. some Oklahoma teacher who failed the. student because the student didn't. respond to the science project and. answer the prompt. It was I forget if it. was science or what the topic was, but. the student answered it by citing Bible. verses, so the teacher. >> No, no, no, no, no. Didn't even cite. Bible verses. Didn't even do proper. citation. This was honestly the craziest. story, and we could spend a whole. podcast going through this crazy story. that they did there. But, she basically. the way you did, Brett. I I I I I.

watched the I'm like, all right, what. the hell is this? Brett's really Yeah, yeah, yeah, no. So, the the this uh. woman, a young woman in college, she. wrote an essay for a a a high-level. college course, and she wrote all about, you know, it was uh transgender bad was. basically the thesis of her paper. And. rather than making a coherent argument. to back up that thesis, she ended up. just saying, "The Bible says that. transgenderism is evil. The Bible says.

the devil this. The Bible says The Bible. says." And didn't even cite like. chapters of the Bible or verses of the. Bible, just said The Bible said that. And when you actually also read the. piece, it was written like a third. grader wrote it. And I I cuz I read it. It was the worst written essay I had. ever seen. And I could not believe this. person was accepted to college writing. for a college. you know, class. And the professor was. like, "I'm not giving you a bad grade. because of your thesis and because it I. politically disagree with your thesis.

The writing was horrific. You didn't. cite any of your sources. You didn't do. the assignment." And so, now this is the. case where Fox amplifies this person's. story. The person does the circuit. They. get invited to the Turning Point USA. type events. They are heralded as some. sort of celebrity because they stuck it. to those woke professors who were trying. to indoctrinate her. When in reality, she couldn't even do the basics of. writing an essay at the lowest of.

collegiate levels with sourcing or any. It It It was It was horrible. It was. like bad writing. Bad, bad, bad. They're. so pathetic, man. >> [laughter]. >> They're just such whiny And. then they go around and they, you know, they they just play this like weirdo. victim card. And This is the strategy, Brett. You You lose You lose in your. race, right? You you you you you you do. bad. Instead of actually internalizing. it and say, "How do I do better?" you. whine on Twitter, you whine on the. internet, you hope you get the Fox. invite, you try to become a MAGA. celebrity, you try to make money off.

your grievances, and that becomes your. entire personality. It's really what. this whole right-wing ecosystem is. >> Losers. fueled by at this point. >> Losers. It's how you get. fans up there. mean people, losers, evil, like they just shitty losers. Excuse my language. Like, you know, and. and and as a society, it's been tolerated so much that it's. like, at some point you need to just. stand up and say, the the the this is. not what strength looks like. This is. not what compassion looks like. >> Yeah, not only tolerated, it's been. elevated. There's an entire media.

ecosystem that elevates these people as. if they are heroes, as if this is what. you are supposed to do. And it's all. ironic coming from the party that's. supposedly all about pull yourself up by. the own bootstraps. The second they get. told, "You lost the race." or "You're. failing that essay." They don't go, "How. can I do better? How could I be smarter? How could I swim faster?" Whatever the. issue is, they just whine, whine, whine, whine, whine. It's just like It's just. what they do. You know, setting aside. all of Donald Trump's connections to.

Epstein and the obvious question, which. is when they were hanging out, when they were with. 16-year-old girls, 17-year-old girls, 18-year-old girls, 19, 21, whatever. But, sometimes as young as 14, you know, at. these events, okay? When they would go. back to the house, Mar-a-Lago, or. whatever, together, right? And they. would all go back. And there were girls. that age hanging with men at the time, Trump and Epstein, who were in their. late 40s, 50s. The obvious.

What What do you think was going on. there? What do you What do you think. that What do you think was happening. there? But, but but setting aside that, setting aside all of the. um. you know, the connections between Trump. and Epstein and how Mar-a-Lago itself. was used to recruit was part of the sex. trafficking ring. Like, that's how. Virginia Giuffre was recruited at. Mar-a-Lago. You know, CNN and and MS. Now, you know, and these other networks, but there's been no evidence that Donald. Trump was involved in anything.

And then the guest often buys that. premise. They're like, "Well, no, no, no, look. Donald Trump was found civilly liable. for sexual assault. A federal jury heard a case involving. Donald Trump sexually assaulting a. woman. And the jury. unanimously said, "Yes, he did it.". "Yes, he did it.". And then Donald Trump sued ABC because. Trump said it hurt his reputation. by calling it rape when he was only.

found liable for using his fingers to. sexually assault a woman. That was. essentially Donald Trump's claim of why. he was being defamed because. Stephanopoulos called it the R word, and. Trump said that's not what the It was. civilly liable for sexual assault. Trump. did a defamation case based on that. concept. We have the guy on audio saying. that he would go to the beauty pageants. And by the way, we know these beauty. pageants had girls as young as 14, as.

old as 28, but the general age was. around 16 to 18 of of these beauty. pageant girls. Some older, some younger. But, Trump said, you know, with these. beauty pageants, I go in there and I. look at them naked. I inspect them. I. look up their butt. You know, and how it. works that effect. And you get to do it. You get to do it when you're the. >> about Miss Teen USA he said that. And. then those were widely reported. statements. And I also I want I want to. hone in for a second, too, just on that. Haley Robson clip that we played at the. beginning of this segment. Um because. she said something, and I'm not going to.

go into any sort of speculation about. what what she particularly meant by it, but I'll let the audience, you know, and. I'll I'll I'll just raise the point that. she said. She said she was supported the. administration until the handling of. this. But, she also said that she spoke. to her fellow survivor sisters. and heard their stories. And she. believes their stories. And so, why. would their stories necessarily make her. change her opinion on Donald Trump? I'm.

I'm just going to kind of throw that out. there because I think she could have. heard things from the other survivors. potentially about interactions with. Donald Trump. And I want to remind. people, too, about this other documented. party that we know about here at the. Midas Touch Network that's been. reported. It was reported months ago. If. you remember, there was a party at. Mar-a-Lago. I believe it was in the. early '90s. And it was a calendar girl. competition with a swimsuit contest. And. it was organized by this big Florida. businessman at the time. And Donald.

Trump had him set up this party at. Mar-a-Lago. And the businessman looked. at the guest list for the party. Remember, there were all these all these. girls from this uh swimsuit competition. who were invited. And uh it was supposed. to be It was branded as a party with. VIPs. This is going to be a party with. these swimsuit girls and VIPs. And this. Florida businessman looked at the guest. list that Donald Trump had. And the only people on the list,

aside from the models that were being. sent to Mar-a-Lago for this party, were. two people. Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. Just. let that sink in for a second. I feel. like people don't focus on this party. enough. I mean, this is one of the. craziest things. And the direct quote. from the Florida businessman, and I will. read it right now. He said, "You're. telling me it's you and Epstein?" Like, like as in like those are the only. guests at this party that you were. doing? It's just a How do we skip over.

things like this? >> the thing, too. Like, let's not Like, when did all of people's minds go to. mush? Like, you know, like or or. or people were so afraid, you know, corporate news being so afraid to report. this. What do you think they were doing. or intending to do? What do you think they were doing or. intending to do? This isn't a difficult. concept. It's a sickening concept. I. think we don't like what the answer is. But, what do you think was going to.

happen? Like, are we ridiculous? Come. on. Like, what are we talking about? The. guy who says that when you're rich, you. can grab women by their vaginas and they. let you get away with it cuz rich guys, you know, get away with it. And then. when he was asked at a deposition about. it, he goes, "Yeah, that's true." He. goes, "True. Fortunately or. unfortunately, for millions of years.". He has to come up with a year. "Millions. of years. This is what rich guys would. do. This is what you do.". So, let's just cut with the crap. Other. than Jordy, what's the end game here?

The end game, almost certainly, again, I'm giving you my opinion, though, of. course. First Amendment protected. speech. All this This part This show is. 100% First Amendment protected speech. opinion. Uh. it is. it there must be devastating devastating. information and devastating beyond. anybody's worst nightmares, right? Because it's beyond everybody's worst. nightmares how the document production's. been handled so far. So, the only. logical leap the same way, the only.

thing conclusion you could reach. By the. way, there's a legal concept for it. It's called an adverse inference. When somebody behaves this way in a. litigation case, so let's say Jordy and. those document productions I catch a. party. Like I'm I'm suing a massive. Ponzi scheme case, right? And there's 4. million documents they've turned over. 500,000. They hide the rest. Do you know. what I get to tell the jury Jordy and. Brett and Midas Mighty in a case like. that? An adverse inference instruction. I get to say the reason that they're. hiding it and the judge will instruct. you is they're covering up their.

criminality. And then the jury finds them liable. And. think about other things they're hiding, right Ben? Think about just like the. most basic things and this is why. Trump's approach has been a complete and. total disaster. Trump said Trump was. like, "Yeah, I knew him. He knew. everybody. We really weren't good. friends." Well, we know you guys were. like best friends. Like like he called. you like my best friend Don. You guys. were best friends. You said very nice. things about him in public. You said. very nice things about him to magazines. We know about the friendship. So, like. why would you deny the part that people. know about? He also denied ever going to.

Epstein's office. Uh an assistant in one. of the documents said that Donald Trump. was at the office quite frequently. So, why lie that you never went to the. office? Donald Trump lived like what a. half a mile away from him in Palm Beach? Uh Donald Trump was at all these events. with him including the Victoria's Secret. Fashion Shows and all these things. They. had sat like right next to each other. And by the way, the guy who ran the. Victoria's Secret Fashion Show was Les. Wexner who who runs Limited Brands and. he is listed as one of the potential. co-conspirators in the Epstein files in.

the documents. And so and and Donald. Trump ran beauty pageants. He ran Miss. Teen USA. He ran all these other beauty. pageants. And we have exposed all that. other footage uh from decades ago of. Donald Trump leering at these young. girls during these beauty pageants. Girls as young as 14, 15, 16. We've. posted that footage online. It's all out. there for you to see. Many of these. model agencies that Donald Trump was. connected with and the folks that Donald. Trump was connected with in this circle.

like Jean Luc Brunel and all these other. people who were there, they were people. who were also credibly accused of the. same things that Epstein were accused. of. Some of them met a very similar or. the same fate as Epstein ultimately. So, look at the circles. Look at the. documented proof. Look at what people. are saying. There was also that uh that. quote from the Epstein uh assistant. which was just like one of the grossest. quotes that we saw. That said that. Epstein would basically put Donald Trump. on speakerphone and Trump would say like.

the grossest uh most grotesque things um. like speaking about girls' pubic hair. and the length of the pubic hair and. asking if you were able to uh floss your. teeth with the pubic hair. I mean, these. are all documented things and people. want to pretend uh you know, just cuz. it's just cuz they were friends. Donald Trump is denying even the most. basic things that we're finding out all. this stuff. Yeah, and Donald Trump said he was never. on Epstein's plane. Remember back in January 2024, Trump. made a social media post, "Never been on.

the plane." And then Trump just says. like everything's like AI. It's AI. I. was never on the plane. Well, we know he. was on the plane. There's also an email. from the prosecutors January 8th, 2020. "For your situational awareness, wanted. to let you know that the flight records. we received yesterday reflect that. Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's. private jet many more times than has. previously been reported or that we were. aware." And there's Donald Trump denying. that he sent Epstein a 50th anniversary. a 50th birthday card uh you know, in in.

in his 50th birthday back in what 2003. or 2004 or whatever it was. I mean, it's. Trump's signature. It's Trump's. handwriting. And then here's why the. denials of something like the Larry. Nassar letter. He here's why Trump's. lies come back to burn him and here's. why he shouldn't lie about things that. are obviously true. Because that. birthday letter, in my opinion, is. obviously a real letter. It's Donald. Trump's signature. Uh it was in the the. birthday book that was released with. other people. No one else is disputing. their signatures in that book. Donald.

Trump is of course suing and he is. denying it. But the fact that he would. deny something. that, in my opinion, is so obviously. real. and true, all of a sudden then when you. start denying things that may or may not. be true like the Larry Nassar letter, you've lost all credibility. I don't. know anymore. All I know is I cannot. trust you. So, I need to see what the. actual investigative results are, what. the actual uh you know, agents who. worked on this case actually discovered.

about things. Because the word right now. of Donald Trump, of Pam Bondi, of Kash. Patel, of everyone else in this. administration means absolutely zero. Yeah, and. and then you look at. their explanations that are obviously so. false and you're just like, "You think. we're stupid.". Like you just think we're stupid. Do we. have this clip where I just I could go. in any other area right now, but like. you have Howard Lutnick,

Commerce Secretary. They they it's. I'm not going to go on this whole. tangent of. it does seem like the books were cooked. as well on the GDP numbers the same way. that they claim they brought down. inflation, cherry-picking numbers with. the government shutdown to be like, "Oh, look. Everything's going great." And and. and lots of economists again are saying. when it comes to the GDP numbers, they. don't look they don't look right. Shouldn't shock you because again, this. is the same people who are saying that.

Donald Trump was never on the plane with. Epstein. These are the people covering. up a child sex trafficking ring, right? When you're willing to cover up a child. sex trafficking ring, do you think. they're willing to fudge the numbers of. GDP by 1%? You know, or 1 and 1/2%? There's no depths to their depravity. >> covering up the child sex trafficking. ring, that's okay. Uh covering up a bad GDP report, that's. one step too far. >> One step too far. We're not going to. We're not going to add an extra. percentage point on that GDP. Why why. why would they ever do such a thing like. that? Because the people know they're.

suffering right now. Like the people. know the economy isn't good. You go. outside, you know it's bad. You know the. job market's horrible right now. You. know everything's every metric is bad, but okay. And so now they go, "The GDP's. third quarter increased 4.3%.". And guess what? In the UK, it's 0.1%. Well, they're probably doing it. accurate, number one, okay? They're. probably giving the real numbers there. Um and then also you go you go through. it again. He's like, "That makes you. 4.3% richer. We just made you 4.3%.

richer." Here, play this clip. The 4.3. GDP growth beating it by a full point of. 3.3. How does that affect our bottom. line, our pocketbook issues? So, just think at the whole world out. there in the third quarter, the United. Kingdom grew 0.1. The European Union grew 0.4. And Japan fell 0.6%. Fell 0.6%. Donald Trump's economy grew, the United States of America, the.

biggest economy in the world, 4.3%. What that means is that Americans. overall, the all of us are going to earn. 4.3% more money. We're making a raise. It's a simple way to do it. We've got. more jobs, lower energy costs, and lower. interest rates coming. This is the. golden age coming. 4.3% this quarter. means Americans on average are making.

more money, more money in their. pocketbooks. That makes for a great. Christmas. Oh, >> He sounds I mean, he literally sounds. like a like one of those bad car. salesman commercials that you get fed to. at like 3:00 a.m. in the morning. They. they that's the exact delivery that you. would say, "Oh, this guy's trying to. scam me." Well, guess what? That guy. right there that you just listened to, he's trying to scam you. Yeah, they think you're stupid. They. think they think you're stupid. >> Right? I mean, come on. And and by the. way, I I'd be remiss if I didn't mention.

that. Lutnick like lived next to. Epstein's townhouse and then ended up. buying the Epstein townhouse that was. previously owned by Jeffrey Epstein. Which just a weird connection. Remember. that podcast he did uh with the New York. Post. I think it was with Miranda Devine. at the New York Post or something where. he spoke about going to Epstein's house. and he said, "Oh, it's disgusting." And. da da da. And then he's like, "I you. know, I have no doubt that high-profile. associates of Jeffrey Epstein. participated uh in activities um with.

Jeffrey Epstein, you know, bad activities with Jeffrey Epstein. I. have no doubt about it. And people who. are denying that fact, it's because they. were involved.". Didn't you just hear what you just said? Do you know who your boss is? This is. like what's happening here? Yeah, look. Energy prices are obviously up. We all. know. If you've looked at your bills lately, you know that the energy prices are. significantly up. We know that jobs are. down 54%. Isn't it interesting that when. you get the data that doesn't come from. the government, you actually get start. looking at private sources that report.

the data, that you actually get to see, "Oh, wait a minute. These private sector. jobs are down. Huh. That's interesting.". Um but when it comes to the Trump regime. data, it's all you know, manipulated. anyway. They they they think you're. stupid. You're not. We're not. And we're. going to stand up to this regime every. step of the way. All right, let's take. our last quick break of the show. Home. stretch coming up. A reminder, make sure. you hit subscribe here. Become a member. right now of the Midas Touch YouTube. channel. And on Christmas, why don't you give the gift to other. people who can't maybe afford a.

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the links, use the codes. If there's an. exit survey, let them know we sent you. Benji, how's your Christmas, buddy? My. Christmas is great. I want to spread. Christmas joy. I want to spend time with. the Midas Mighty and my family and. brothers, everybody around. You know, it's a time to spread joy, to spread. love. You didn't want to do the. Christmas PJs? Yeah, exactly. You got. you got nice Christmas PJs there. But, you know, it's a time where in the past. you'd have great, great PJs. You'd have. leaders, former presidents, governors,

you know, posting photos with their. family, right? Saying Merry Christmas, wishing. everybody the best as we reflect on the. season. You know, we wish you, you know, how happy and a healthy. You know, you. just say nice words, right? Pretty. pretty basic. Um, but what we've been. living with for the last 10 plus years. in the United States is Donald Trump and. this Trumpism and this behavior, which. I've described before as frankly loser. behavior that's been normalized, evil.

behavior. that's never been really called out as. that's evil. That's bad. That's not how we should behave. Right? Like we don't No one speaks about. it like they talk about Oh, the. Republican. No, no, no. This isn't a. Democrat, Republican, independent thing. These are bad humans. These are bad. people. These are people who behave in ways that. in normal times a civilized society. would say, "This is not civilized. This. is not how human beings should act.".

With Donald Trump as the leader of this. MAGA mush movement, whatever you want to. call it, it's been viewed incorrectly. through a framework of political prisms. And that's the wrong way to look at it. I think one of the things that Midas. Touch does is say, "Stop with that. framework. You have to look at it as evil behavior. and call it out and call out the. morality. Call out the despicable. conduct." I mean, this is what this guy. is doing on Christmas. He posts, "Merry.

Christmas to all, including radical left. scum that is doing everything possible. to destroy our country, but are failing. badly. We no longer have open borders, men in women's sports, transgender for. everyone, or weak law enforcement." And. then he goes on to say that um. that there's no inflation. He goes, "There's. lowest crime numbers in decades, no. inflation," he says, "and tariffs have. given us trillions of dollars." Just.

things that are obviously false. And. then he goes on to say, this is what. he's reposting on Christmas as tens of. millions of Americans are worried that. they're not going to be able to get on. their health care exchange from the. Affordable Care Act plans that they're. used to because they can't afford it. with the subsidies not being extended by. MAGA controlling all branches of. government. Trump posts, "It's time to. abolish the Barack Obama Affordable Care. Act.". That's what you're posting. It's time to. abolish the Barack Obama Affordable Care.

Act. "The election was stolen. Trump was. correct," he writes. Then he goes on to post about how former. President Obama needs to be prosecuted. "The people demand accountability. Obama. should be charged and prosecuted." And. by the way, none of this will get. covered anywhere other than here. Well, you you won't see a line about it. in the New York Times. Setting aside even buried on page 20, you won't even see it. It's not even the. thing they talk about. Why? Because. they've so normalized that this is how.

he is. So, why do we cover it? Just who he is. It's not newsworthy. What's newsworthy is you have an evil. evil regime. An authoritarian regime that should be. covered as such. And the question is is will. authoritarianism define us. or be a horrific blip in our history? And I think it needs to be discussed in. those terms right there. Tell you how.

they're talking about us in Europe. French General Nicolas Rochon, "The USA are now systemic adversaries.". "Systemic adversaries.". "Similar measures banning entry into. their areas essential, unless one is. willing to drop one's pants. The problem. is many in Europe only listen to their. courage, which generally doesn't tell. them much. We need to treat America like. an enemy," is what the generals are. saying over there. You've got everybody.

from the deputy prime minister and prime. ministers of places like Poland and the. European Union Commission and French. President Emmanuel Macron. They have to. post, "We stand in solidarity with. Denmark. against the United States. We respect Denmark and the sovereignty. of Greenland, which is still part of the. kingdom of Denmark after the Trump. regime continues to talk about. conquering it.". "The United States is imposing sanctions. against Europe.

while lifting sanctions against Russia. and against real free speech, civil. rights, humanitarian icons in Europe. Like they're, you know, like like some. people who are viewed in Europe as. heroes. against discrimination are being. sanctioned by US and banned by our State. Department.". >> They always use that Soviet-style. language as well to justify all these. things. Like they will attack free. speech and they will present it as we.

are protecting free speech. It's that. 1984 framing that we were talking about. earlier in the show, and that's what. Donald Trump and this administration. does when they do all of this all of. this stuff. And so, the sanctions story. I think is honestly one of the. one of the biggest stories uh maybe of. the administration, but it it's it's. such a massive story that happened this. week that sort of went under the radar. uh because for rightfully so of the. Epstein files, but also because of the. chaos that the DOJ and what they're. handling of the Epstein files. But,

these sanctions, I mean, it basically when you look at it also, it kind of also stems from the fact that. these uh. the EU fined X aka, you know, formerly. Twitter, Elon Musk's uh social media. app, fined them like $140 million. basically because they were breaking. European law. They were breaking. European law on deceptive advertising. practices. Their verification system. violated the law because it was. presenting uh verified figures who were.

not actually the figures behind the. account. It was duping people. There was. all this disinformation that they. allowed so because what Elon Musk and. all these authoritarians around the. world want to do is they want to be able. to weaponize social media and control. the flow of information the same way. that they do here in the United States. They want to be able to do that. everywhere else. And so, because there. was this fine that was imposed by the EU. on Elon Musk on X, the United States. government retaliated basically in.

defense of Elon Musk, in defense of the. world's richest man. So, if you needed. any additional proof that the United. States is an oligarchy, well, here you. have it. The full weight of the United. States government, our trade system, sanctions being levied basically to. protect the world's richest man. That's. where this all stems from, and they're. sanctioning these figures. They're. threatening EU officials who are United.

States with deportation. And as Ben. said, simultaneously. loosening sanctions, removing sanctions. from Russia. And the irony, of course, of all of this is that Russia and a lot. of these countries that Donald Trump is. basically, you know, bending the knee to. at every. everywhere you look, they literally. banned Twitter. They banned these social. media apps outright. They don't even. allow them to exist. People need to try.

to figure out, you know, how do I access. this maybe a VPN, whatever. How do I get. it? They don't even allow people to go. on these platforms. You just think about. what this regime has done and the. censorship that happens here at home. This has been the most anti-free speech. regime that we have ever seen in United. States history, and they present. themselves as these warriors of free. speech. It is so utterly backwards. I. mean, just think of what they did by. banning these news organizations from. the press room and installing these MAGA.

loyalists in the Pentagon. And all you. could go list by list by list attacking. students for writing op-eds. This is an. anti-free speech regime. And they are. trying to act like they are, you know, bringing free speech to the world. It's. just such a backwards thing. And and. that disinformation and the platforms. like X and other platforms that these. billionaires own are all part of like. pushing that disinformation and and. spreading these 1984 style lies. It's.

also why it's so important, too, that. independent media you know, it's it's. just more important than ever before. And so, we take great pride here at the. Midas Touch Network of this community, this pro-democracy community. There are. others doing incredible work as well. And we really need all need our our. collective voices in this time to push. back against this regime. You know, we. say it all the time here at the Midas. Touch Network. One sec, bro. We say all. we are not going anywhere. As long as we. have the microphone and as long as they. don't pry it from our hands, which they.

would have to do, we're not leaving. You. know, this network marches on and it's. too important at the at at this point. for the collective we here for any one. of us to stop. And so, I just want to. use this moment to just thank our. audience for using your individual. platforms that you all have to advocate. for the pro-democracy causes. Sorry, bro. Go ahead. I'll just put I'll just. put it this way, Jordy. Did you ever. imagine that in 2025 in the United. States of America that people, millions.

of people, would be rushing to try to. find a bootleg copy of a 60-minute. segment that did not air and watching a. bootleg version of a news report on what. our government was doing to migrants? I. think that right there alone sums up. where we are at. Yeah. Absolutely. >> think that in 2025 you would have the. governor of Louisiana. appointed as a special envoy to. Greenland for the purpose of.

of uh acquiring it, of annexing it, invading it. And then going on a state. regime media and talking about why the. United States wants to invade and take. it over. Do we have Jeff Landry, the. governor of Louisiana, who has, by his. own admission, he posted. I have been appointed the special envoy. for purpose of making Greenland part of. the USA. And then he goes on state regime media. and says the following. Obviously,

you're now appointed a special envoy. With comments like that, President Trump. has certainly made it very clear that he. has a great interest in Greenland. What. is going to happen next? Will you travel. there? Will negotiations begin? Because. I did see the Danish Prime Minister. uh saying that he does not want to get. on board with this. Well, one thing I can tell you, Governor, is everyone in Louisiana now. wants to go to Greenland for some. reason. It's real hot in Louisiana, and. everywhere I go in Louisiana now, the.

question I'm asked is, "Can you take me. to Greenland with you, Governor? When do. you go? Please let me know. I want to. go." Uh it really is. And you know. what's amazing is over a year ago, no. one was talking about Greenland. Okay? Uh the whole time Russian subs would. circle. Greenland. [clears throat] The whole. time the Chinese would pluck rare earths. out of the Western Hemisphere. Then all. of a sudden, we have the election of. President Donald Trump. He comes in and. says, "You know what? The Monroe. Doctrine is a real thing. We need to. protect America's interests in those.

countries and and territories in the. Western Hemisphere." And again, Europe's. just ignoring Greenland at the time. I. mean, they they don't even have. first-class status at the UN. This is an. opportunity for Greenland to be invited. to an economic table with the United. States, the strongest, most advanced. economy in the world. And we care. We. care about them. We're the fastest. security route uh to give them the. security and the protection. Uh we it's. about an hour away from the This what an.

abuser sounds like. That's the language that Putin and. Lavrov use about Ukraine. We will you belong to us. You're part of. us. You're part of our territory. You. know, he references the Monroe Doctrine. there, you know, in this idea that Trump. has that if you're in the West This is. how Trump and uh Rubio have described. the world. Western Hemisphere belongs to. the US. Everything else are vassal.

states. They must bend the knee. Canada. belongs to the US, Mexico, Central South. America, Greenland. That's the US. Europe belongs to Russia. All. And then Asia belongs to China. If you understand that that's how they. see the world, everything makes sense. That's how Trump and Putin see the world. and Xi Jinping. That that's that's the. that's the plan. And the discussions. about conquering Greenland again come at. the same time where Russia's special.

envoy was in Miami meeting with Steve. Witkoff and Jared Kushner. And so, these. are the conversations that they're. having behind the scenes. You've got. that one. Go after green. No, we get we. get Ukraine. We get this one. And by the. way, if you take a look at what's. happening in Ukraine right now, you have. uh Zelenskyy winning some major battles. with his incredible drone forces against. Putin. And Putin's out there in a very. Trumpian fashion claiming that he's. taking over territory that he's not. Like Putin's out there saying that.

Russia controls this area called. Kupiansk, and they're making uh great. advances in Ukraine. Two weeks ago, Zelenskyy went to Kupiansk. He had to do a video of himself there uh. while he's there himself. The leader of Ukraine goes to the area. that Russia claimed it was occupied. He. goes, "We took it back. This is ours. We. we we staved off Russia.". And Russia uses those tactics of like. it's the same exact language that Trump. uses, that Orbán uses, that Bukele uses.

It's an authoritarian playbook that's. international in scope that is. reactionary and responsive to centuries. of of of liberalism, of neoliberalism, of of enlightened thinking, of of of a. pushback against authoritarianism. That's, you know, these are there are. broader forces at play here. And when we. adjust our framework to understand that.

this is international authoritarianism. trying to re-. reroot itself after the expansion of. democracies for some centuries. And now. authoritarianism wants to do that. And. with AI, with the quantity of. information, it has actually eroded the. quality of information. And so, you're. back to a situation where authoritarian. say, "Aha, the information disparity.

between the lords and the peasants, as. as they see it, is very feudal in. nature. And we could create that dynamic. again because the expansiveness of info. allows for there to be proliferation of. disinfo. So, when they're doing the. sanctions against Europe, you have to. again expand the horizons of of the way. we think about things. Europe wants to. protect against bots and disinfo and all.

of the things that Musk claimed he was. against but was actually for in order to. spread disinfo for the 2024 election and. what all these right-wing oligarchs want. to do. So, the authoritarians. internationally see what Europe is doing. to try to preserve and protect its. democracies as a threat. So, they. weaponize it by saying that they're free. speech absolutists when what they really. want to do is flood the zone with bots. and lies and and foreign disinformation.

to erode the democracies there. That's. the fight that we have right now and I. think that's how we have to expand our. way of looking at it. And that's not. captured in our regular news talks about. things. So, I'll leave everybody with this. Merry. Christmas, happy holidays, happy. Hanukkah, happy Kwanzaa, happy spending. time together if you don't. >> That's it. Happy relax a little bit and. let's regroup, let's recharge, and let's. let's let's make 2026 a year of.

accountability for this regime. That's. what I got to say before I go. Brett. Jordy, take us away. >> my It's my day. >> [music]. [music]. [music]. >> Want to stay plugged in? Become a. subscriber to our Substack [music] at.

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