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We've got a lot to discuss on this. episode of the Midas Touch podcast. The. rot runs deep in the Trump regime. Algae-infested reflecting pools, a. collapsing state fair, a literal. collapsing state fair, symbols of the. rot that has infected this country and. the entire world by Donald Trump and his. despicable regime. This past week, Donald Trump produced a partial. financial disclosure, which I still.

believe there's a lot missing there, but. it shows that he's made over two billion. dollars in 2025 alone from crypto. schemes, over 21,000. stock trades, deals with foreign. countries, and other licensing deals. We'll get into that because while Trump. was doing that, we got one of the worst. jobs reports in recent history today. It. fell far below expectations.

Other than the healthcare sector right. now, America is losing a massive amount. of jobs. We are in a jobs recession. We'll cover what went down there. Internationally, the world is on fire. In Ukraine, Kyiv is burning right now. They don't have the Patriot interceptors. to respond to the Russian ballistic. missiles because Donald Trump is. withholding the Patriot interceptors,

and Donald Trump's catastrophic and. unlawful war in Iran has also reduced. America's supplies of the interceptors. And Donald Trump is also, of course, being malicious to Ukraine. People in. Venezuela right now, facing unthinkable. tragedy after those back-to-back. earthquakes, but the Delcy Rodríguez. regime, which is basically just a puppet. regime of Donald Trump at this point, unable to really respond to the search.

and rescue demands that are needed, unable to provide the supplies necessary. to the people, compounding matters there. and making it much worse. We're also. hearing rumblings that Donald Trump is. potentially working on a deal with. Maduro for Maduro to lie about the 2020. election and to perhaps return Maduro to. Venezuela with Delcy under Donald. Trump's control, and Donald Trump is.

preventing Maria Machado from going back. to Venezuela, and Trump has called her. behavior grotesque and says that she's. just looking to do a publicity stunt in. Venezuela by going there to help the. people with supplies. Also, because of. this catastrophic and unlawful war in. Iran, America's strategic oil reserves. continue to diminish, the lowest in. American history in Cushing, Oklahoma. Gas prices have not gone down the way.

Donald Trump has promised, although. last night Donald Trump was making. social media posts of AI gas stations. that he's referring to as freedom. centers, which are apparently. miraculously reducing gas prices. He. says it's taking place in the greater. Philadelphia area, although he posted a. weird AI image. He's posting weird AI. videos of himself as a doctor, and of. course he's spending his evenings. attacking former President Obama and.

Biden while the American people are. suffering. Got a lot to discuss. Special. Counsel Jack Smith is breaking his. silence. He spoke to our friend Nicole. Wallace on MS Now. We'll talk about. that. Trump gave an interview with. Jordy's friend, I'm being facetious, of. course, Joe Kernan, who. Jordy criticizes all the time. Kernan. did an interview. with Donald Trump where Trump goes, "Of. course my kids have inside information. Of course I did these trades. What do. you expect me to do? But I waived my.

salary. I didn't Every other president. took a salary. I didn't take a salary at. all.". We've got a lot to discuss, Brett, Jordy. >> We do indeed get to see Ben, good to see. you. Jordy, good to see you, Midas. mighty man. The corruption, the level of. depravity that is on display is just. never been seen in American history. It. is so far beyond I think even most. people's comprehension. But I do have to. say, you know, we've been predicting. this stuff since day one or probably. even since before day one. I almost want.

to dig through some of the Midas touch. podcast archives because listeners know. from the very beginning, especially of. this Trump administration, what have we. been referring to this as? The rug pull. presidency. We've been saying that since. day one. I don't think we realized how. literal the rug pull presidency would be. that Donald Trump would have these meme. coins that he would pump up and pump up. and pump up and then dump and just. totally screw over all of his supporters. while he makes money to the tune of. billions and billions of dollars. And I.

remember, Ben, Jordy, us talking about. this whole Maduro scheme early on, like. right after that whole situation went. down. Where we said, "What if he goes. and he tries to cut a deal with Maduro. to try to spread his election crap?". Like that's something that he would do. Now we're starting to see all this stuff. kind of come to fruition. And what a. metaphor this great American state fair. is right now for the Trump regime, for. the whole country as a whole. We're.

going to get into it all. You know, I. got to first toss it over to Jordy. Jordy, what's the latest? >> Well, look, Brett, the grift at the. expense of the American people from this. Trump regime, it's just so obvious and. unsettling and infuriating, right? Like. first off, just some stats from the last. month. The economy added 57,000 jobs in. June, which was way fewer than most. people expected. Investors thought there. would be roughly 114,000. new jobs. So, that's way down. But, don't worry, everyone, because Trump and. his family, they're making billions. In.

fact, Trump brought in What was it? 1.4, roughly 1.4 billion in crypto earnings. last year alone. Guys, affordability. crisis, what are you talking about? This. is the golden age. Can't you see it? I. mean, that's what he meant, right? The. golden age for for Trump and his family. and just pulling the grifts of all. grifts here. The Republican Party it's. become a cult of these grifters and. these frauds and these cowards. And the. thing is, like, I'm not overreacting. here. I I think I'm actually. underreacting. Like, this shouldn't be a.

partisan issue. Donald Trump made 1.4. billion off of crypto. You can't afford. groceries or gas. He's making 1.4. billion off of crypto. It is. infuriating, Benji. >> You know, it absolutely is infuriating, Jordy. You know, when I was a litigator, I would do civil prosecution, civil. cases against. big Ponzi schemers. I handled the case. against. some of the biggest Ponzi schemers in. California. I was appointed by an SEC.

receiver, and I went through terabytes. of documents and, you know, as part of. this case. And I I I I did a lot of. cases like that. And so, when I see. these Trump regime characters, like the. Lutnicks, and the Chris Wrights, the. energy secretaries, the Treasury. secretary, Bessons, the Kevin Hassett's, the national economic advisor, it gives. me flashbacks to the depositions that I. would take in these Ponzi scheme cases.

of people who looked and talked and. walked and behaved just like that. And. they would always tell their investors. that it was right around the corner, and. it was going to be great and don't worry. you're going to get rich and frequently. in the cases that I handled what the. Ponzi schemers would do is they would. create these SPVs, these special purpose. vehicles. So they would have special. purpose vehicle one, special purpose. vehicle two, special purpose vehicle. three, special purpose vehicle four. And.

so they would create special purpose. vehicle two to pay out some of the. investors to just kind of keep them. going a little bit on SPV one, but then. they would take all of the money. And. then they would do that with SPV three, pay a little bit to the SPV two people, and then try to pay a little bit to one, but then take more money. They would do. this kind of over and over and over. again. And I look at our economy right now. or the destruction of our economy and I. go that's just like that. I mean this is.

Bernie Madoff on nuclear steroids at. this point right now. This is. Trump's biggest fantasy, frankly. I I. think Trump was actually proud. of what that financial disclosure looked. like. I think for the first time in his. life I think he wanted to release it. I. think he's still hiding a lot. But I. think he wanted all of those people out. there who he thought never respected him. to see I do the schemes to look look how.

I did it. Look how I did it. And. meanwhile at the higher level they're. out there destroying the economy of the. United States now together. They're. partners. We're doing this we're doing. this together. So when I watched this. super cut that MSNow did of Lutnick, of. Besant, of Hassett, of of these guys who. were out there saying don't worry it's. right around the corner, quarter one, quarter two, quarter three, it'll be. right there in 2026. I'm thinking to. myself that's what they would do,

special purpose vehicle one. Don't. worry, we're going to get our money in. special purpose vehicle. Don't worry, we've got number three going. Don't. worry, we've got number four. I want you. to watch for yourself here. Let's play. this clip. >> In the fourth quarter of 2025, this. economy is going to be humming. >> I think we're going to really pick up in. the fourth quarter. >> This is going to be the greatest growth. economy, right? 6 months from now, a. year from today. >> The economy that Donald Trump owns. starts at the end of this year.

>> I am very optimistic about the first, second, and you know, accelerating into. the third quarter in terms of growth. >> I am very, very optimistic on 2026. >> Look for the second quarter of 2026 to. be amazing. >> I think we're going to grow more than 5%. GDP this quarter. >> We expect that the global economy is. going to have a big positive shock as. soon as this is over. We might have been. growing at four in February. I think. we're going to get back and we can have.

something with a three in front of it. this year. >> We're cruising at about three, and. again, I expect the second half will. cruise about four. >> 4% growth in the second half. >> That's right, yeah. >> Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's what. we're going to do. And then, they have. their regime officials who are. instruments of this fraud. They go out. there and say, "And look, we actually saved you. You. don't realize it, but like, you know, there would have been a nuclear. annihilation right now. There would have.

been mass blackouts. We saved you from. hypothetical things. that. uh weren't going to happen, and things. would have been much better, but we'll. just continue down with the boogeyman. story, and we'll say we saved you from. these things, so you actually should be. thankful to us." Watch as Chris Wright, the energy secretary, then goes, "Yeah, and there would have been mass. blackouts, and you would be suffering. right now if it was Kamala Harris, huh? Huh?" Watch what they do here. Play this.

clip. >> Now, if we had President Harris right. now, we'd be dealing with blackouts and. massive economic disruption cuz they. would have continued to close all the. all the coal plants and they wouldn't. have encouraged building anything new. unless it was carefully blessed by the. climate cult gods from above, which. means nothing meaningful would be built. and and expanded. But that's. >> Fortunately, we're not in those ages. We're celebrating 250 years of the.

greatest nation on Earth. America became. a great nation by bold people taking. chances and building big things. We're. going back to that. >> I love that, Secretary. I love it so. much and. >> And then, on state regime media today, when you got. Jordy alluded to it before, those really. bad job numbers where they even had to. do real big revisions for May and April. May revisions down 43,000 jobs. April. revisions down 31,000 jobs. The US added.

only 57,000 jobs in the latest jobs. report, far below the expectation, which. was supposed to be soft. Like everybody. expected it was going to be soft. But it. was supposed to be like 115,000 jobs. created. So, y'all remember during. former President Biden, it would be like. 275,000. jobs created and Fox would be like and. Maria Bartiromo would be like, "We. underperformed, everybody. We thought we. were going to hit 400,000 jobs." I don't. know. It's a good.

>> You don't even have to go to you don't. even have to go to Fox. You can look at. the New York Times and all the the way. they do their headlines. It would be. like, uh you know, President Biden posts. 250,000 jobs, a sign of a slowing. economy, a sign of a weakening economy. Um and then you look at them post the. Trump numbers and they're like, literally today, I think the headline on. New York Times for Trump's. underperformance was economy remains. steady. That was like actually the. headline they ran and it is just. absolutely mind-blowing. But this I this. way that they use these counterfactuals.

where in which they invent a false. reality to try to compare themselves to, it's such a wild propaganda technique. and it's just crazy that this actually. works on people to kind of build up this. magical what if what if Kamala Harris. was in there, your life would be the. worst ever. So you should be grateful. that the worst thing that happened to. you is that you lost your job and that. you lost all your money in Donald. Trump's meme coin. And the contrast. right now, you know, at the same time.

this jobs report coming out and you. know, it being revealed more and more. and more about the cracks in the economy. as we see the billions and billions of. dollars that Trump has made grifting off. his presidency. It really is it defines. like the entire economy of the rich. getting richer and richer and richer. while the rest of us while the rest of. the people in this country are suffering. more and more and more while Donald. Trump tries to sell you on this is the. golden age, this is these are the. greatest times ever. You should be.

thankful, say thank you to me. Like. this the fraud could not be more obvious. in my opinion what we are witnessing. And Donald Trump has said it himself. Speaking of the New York Times, you. know, they did speak about this issue. and they said, "Trump returned to the. White House with an epiphany about. mixing business and politics during his. first term in office. Quote, I found out. that nobody cared, Trump said, revealing. a remarkable indifference to potential. conflicts of interest." And I think. that's the way Trump feels about.

everything right now. You know, basically the Supreme Court made me. untouchable. I'm not I don't what do I. care? I ran for president in the first. place to avoid prison time and while I'm. here, I'm just going to use it to make. as much money as I possibly can. And. when you look at the intricacies and the. nuances of Donald Trump's various stock. trades and his money-making schemes, it. gets very granular also, you know, Like, you look at what he did and he must have. his team, this is, you know, his team, I'm speculating here, but I'm assuming.

Donald Trump is not on E-Trade, uh you. know, whatever, you know, making his own. trades every day. But, his team is. clearly following, in my opinion, the. information that Trump is putting out, that Trump is telling him, that the. Trump kids are telling him about things. that are happening, because the trades. that happen are always also happening at. very, let's say, opportune times. Uh. like, Donald Trump would buy a whole lot. of stocks right after the markets crash, after so-called liberation day, right? Donald Trump scoops up a whole bunch of. stocks. And then, you know, right Donald.

Trump buys a bunch of stocks right. before uh he says that he's going to. call tariffs off, then the markets. surge, and he all of a sudden makes. millions and millions of dollars. Like, all the trades are timed like that, and. there's so many. Ben, what are they, like, 80 trades a day? It's something. obscene. The whole. >> 1,000 total, over 80 a day, and to your. point, these are very granular trades of. individualized companies. And then, Trump will say, "Look, this is a blind.

trust. I don't look at it. I don't. know.". All we can say is that what's reflected. there does not reflect a structure of a. blind trust that I'm aware of, George. >> I just want I don't want to hear. anything ever again from any of these. people. Don't Don't bring Don't bring. Hunter Biden into this. Don't Don't you. dare talk about Nancy Pelosi's stocks. Don't talk about I don't I don't want to. hear [ __ ] from anybody about any of. this. If you are okay with this, then I. don't even know what to tell you. This.

fraud is staring you in the face, and. all the people who go, "Oh, but he's not. taking a salary." Yeah, I don't think. that really matters. The guy is making. billions and billions and billions of. dollars off the presidency. It is. obscene. It is immoral. It is illegal, in my opinion, and it is not what a. United States president should be doing, and that is not a partisan thing. It's. not a liberal Democrat or leftist. conservative idea. This should just be a. an just an American idea, and anybody.

idea, right? We should all be able to. agree on something this obvious. >> And Brett, look, I agree with you, too. I don't think Trump is sitting behind. E*TRADE, you know, his computer on. E*TRADE doing these trades or whatnot, but it it boats another question, like. it this becomes a national security risk. at a certain point, because what level. of information do the people in Trump's. team have? And what are their clearances. to get that information ahead of these. big announcements? Yeah, I don't think. I've heard anyone ask those types of. questions, right? Cuz if the obvious. answer to you is, well, Trump's not. making the trades, guys. Okay, so then. he's a team around him making the. trades, and I don't think they're.

allowed to just view classified. information like his his stock team. I I. don't know. I'm not I'm not the lawyer. there. Our Our editor-in-chief, Ron. Filipkowski, made made a great point. I. just want to reiterate it here. It goes, "Trump's turned the US government into. an organized criminal enterprise to. enrich himself, his family members, and. his cronies, all to the tune of billions. of dollars.". He's exactly right. They're doing this. openly and brazenly brazenly while the. GOP specifically just sits idly by. And like you just have to ask, why? Like.

why won't anyone speak out? Are they. afraid of the mean tweets that Trump's. going to send his way? Are they scared. that that Trump's going to blackmail. them in some sort of capacity? Do they. want to just hold their hands out as he. does this and hope some of it kind of. trickles down to them? For some of them, I'm I'm sure it has already trickled. down to them. But I'll tell you who it's. not trickling down to, and that's the. American people. Once again, you get. screwed off of Donald Trump's grift. >> You know, it's a it's a propaganda. operation, right? And you have to. remember that first and center. It's a.

propaganda operation, and it has relied. on a radicalizing a small group of. people, but a large enough group of. people who could dictate what happens in. a Republican primary, especially in red. states. So, you have all of these. members of Congress who are not. necessarily even terrified of Donald. Trump, but they are terrified what he is. going to do to their livelihood, to. their jobs that they worked for, right? And I don't know why you even want to be. a member of Congress if you don't. actually get to exercise any power, but.

think about all the people who have. decided to go against Donald Trump. Essentially, all of them right now, essentially none of them are going to be. returning to Congress in the next. session because Donald Trump found. people, he recruited people, he ran. people against them in primaries, and he. got MAGA to show up. While MAGA may be a. small and dwindling movement, it's. enough in those Republican primaries, especially in red states, to oust people. that Donald Trump does not like. That. strategy doesn't quite work in the. general elections, but it's definitely.

working very well for him there. And so, they are kind of running on on I think, and this is not defending them at all, I'm just trying to get in their head, this is their survival instinct, right? And they are also scared of the kind of. stochastic terrorism that Donald Trump. instills in people. When Donald Trump. starts directing people. to attack somebody that he doesn't like, those people start getting death. threats, they get phone calls, they get. people coming to their homes, their. families get threatened. This is a. pattern that we've seen throughout the. years. And so, at a certain point, some.

of these people, they just don't want to. go through it, they don't have a spine, so they go, I'll I'm just going to be in survival. mode, you know, I'll I'll go with the. flow, this will be done eventually, and. and I'll be praised for doing this, right? It it comes down to incentive and. structure in. incentive structures for me, and that is. the incentives that the Republicans have. right now. >> Yeah, look, when you look at. the distribution of profits for the. Trump meme coins or his crypto scams or.

World Liberty Financial, it looks just. like the K-shaped graph that people. describe the United States of America. where you have the kind of core group of. insiders, the people at the top, the. Witkoffs, the Trumps, the Bessons, you. know, that whole class, the right-wing. oligarch class, they're crushing it. They're making a lot of money. And then. you have the biggest distribution of. losses, right? So, Trump's meme coin.

stuff, $2 billion or so in profits for. him and the insiders and like that crew, $2 billion in losses for most of the. investors. World Liberty Financial, Donald Trump and the Witkoffs and. everybody, they made most of the. profits. 78%, 79 losses distributed to a. lot of the people who in my opinion are. the marks, right? The kind of pump and. dumps in our economy, the dump is. basically really the 99% of everybody.

else and the 1% are doing good and they. are manipulating this and they control. these right-wing propaganda machines. It's why they want to own and. consolidate all the right-wing media. It's why we're a threat to them here on. independent media on the Midas Touch. Network cuz we can actually call that. out and be the voice of a pro-democracy. movement. So, how do you though. run a Trump meme coin scheme and then. convince all of those people who are.

suffering the losses that it's not your. fault. Well, you create an enemy. In. fact, when you take a look at this. Reuters article that was just released, a lot of these Trumpers who gave their. life savings to the Trump meme coin, they blame the Democrats. for shorting Trump's meme. They've come. up in their mind. that the Democrats shorted Trump's meme. coin and that's why they've lost the. life. People have put $40,000 cuz they.

assumed. if I'm giving, you know, I want to think. about how rich Donald Trump will make. me. I got an opportunity to buy the meme. coin of the president. I'm going to make. all this money. And And you read some of. these comments and people are saying, well, I I don't think it's Donald. Trump's fault. And so then when it comes. to the economy, what is What do they do? It's the same exact tactic. You just. have to create the other. And that right. now it's oh, we were going to do great,

but it's the Democratic Socialists. And. oh, we were going to do amazing, but. they screwed me over. Mom Donny screwed. me over. This person screwed me over. I. don't want your communist thermostats, Mom Donny. Like uh New York City Mayor. Mom Donny posted the exact same kind of. suggestions that were on the Department. of Energy's website. Set your AC to 78°. Turn off lights and electronics you're. not using. It's hot out there. Let's.

work together uh to make sure the power. grid keeps on working because it's. working overtime right now to keep us. cool. There's no difference in what he. said than what the Department of Energy. website said. But the Fox machine kicked. into high gear. They attacked Mom Donny. The one thing they forgot is whoa, the. Department of Energy website says the. same thing. So the Department of Energy. just deletes it. They delete their own. suggestions. And their own suggestions. are the right helpful scientifically. proven suggestions for how people can.

get through heat waves collectively. and avoid these massive power outages. that can result in the types of deaths. that we saw happen in places like uh. like Texas and other places where they. screwed up their grid in the past. And. so. >> the same recommendations that we've seen. for decades. I think And I think this. story, as stupid as it is, is the. perfect microcosm for how this media. works on the right, this right-wing mega. ecosystem. It's like they wake up every.

day and the past doesn't exist. Like. there's there's no history at all. It's. just they wake up anew and they have. something to complain about. It It. doesn't matter if they're being. hypocritical or not because all like and. and it's all coordinated. Like all at. once you saw everybody from Spencer. Pratt to the Fox host like Harris Harris. Faulkner to uh people in Trump's orbit. to Nikki Haley to even Marjorie Taylor. Green and all these people. They're all. saying the same thing. Uh uh Ron. DeSantis, oh socialist. Oh, is this the. warmth of collectivism? Communist. Okay,

calm down, okay, show us your. thermostat, Mom Donny. When this was. literally the same guidance that was. given not only by the Department of. Energy then, but also by Mayor Giuliani. when he was mayor of New York City. Also. the same guidance given by the people. who are complaining about Mom Donny. doing it. Nikki Haley had a very similar. post where from when she was governor. urging people to do the same exact. thing. Uh the Florida power department. uh recommends the same thing. The. Georgia power department recommends the. same thing. You can go through all the.

states. They all recommend the same. thing, but Mom Donny does it. A Democrat. does it. It's a front-page New York Post. story. They got to do the full spread. It this this is the perfect example. And. if you're one of those people or if you. know somebody who is like a New York. Post reader and they're like, "Ah, [ __ ] Mom Donny, 78 degrees. Show me. your thermostat. I'm going to I'm going. to put mine at 65 just to uh you know, just to prove something to you. Uh. okay, but like. let's be let's do what you want at the.

end of the day, but let's be. intellectually honest here and. consistent here. You're okay when Donald. Trump does it. You're okay when all. these other people do it. And or are you. just using this as a way to try to get. angry at somebody that you don't like? And are you being used as a tool by this. right-wing propaganda media? Are you. being rage-baited so that you can give. these same billionaires who are making. billions and billions of dollars like. Donald Trump is while you're suffering.

so you can continue to give them the. distractions they want while they. rage-bait you and make money off your. back because that's what you're doing. when you're the mark here and there are. a whole lot of marks out there. Also, they've run this playbook before. Do you guys remember Biden and the gas. stoves? This is a continuation of this. stupidness. It's not the gas stoves. anymore, y'all. It is the thermostats. Do And this is the brilliance and I mean. it like like not not like a good. brilliance, but this is the evil.

brilliance of the trillion-dollar. propaganda operation, the Fox News, of. all this right-wing media is that on the. on the next day when Trump's financials. come out of the 1.4 billion-dollar. crypto, that coming to light and. everyone losing their ass on the other. side of it, all the MAGA people who. invested on the on the crypto dollars, they lost their their ass or their life. savings or whatever, don't be mad at Trump, y'all. Have you. seen your thermostat lately? Mom Donny's. coming to change that. He's going to put. that at 78. You you can't let him do.

that. That's that's communism. That's. crazy. Don't be mad at Donald Trump that. you're broke now because you put all of. your life savings in the meme coin. That's so yesterday. Mom Donny's coming after your thermostat. and you better watch out. Look, look, you just have to give him something and. that's all the Trump support, something. to validate the cult and they're like, "Okay, got it. Got it. Got it." like the. reflecting pool. It's vandals and. criminal algae. Donald Trump said it. Okay, got it. It's it's vandals and. criminal algae. Meanwhile,

you take a look what's going on in the. Democratic Party right now as you head. to the election and you see all of these. fights taking place. Oh my god, the new. Democrats who are out there trying to. help people and deliver. Oh my gosh, can. you can you imagine it? And I'm like. thinking to myself, I'm like I'm to. think like how how is it that every. elect I you forget sometimes. Then the. election starts to happen and you start. watching it go down and you're like, hey, do we all realize that we're in an. existential moment right now? And do we.

realize that there could be different. approaches to how we help people, but. ultimately on the one hand, we have this. fascist rot oligarchy that is destroying. the world. On the other hand, we have. honest debates about what's hap- Could. we please just get it, you know, that. that that's why I watch and that's why I. often say on this show that even though. the Midas Touch obviously is a we we we.

cover politics, what matters most to me. are the human values and principles. behind it all because the most important. skill is are we listening to the people. and are we fighting for and delivering. to what the people say and stop forcing. certain candidates and certain people. who are not responsive to what the. people are actually saying. We need. fighters out there like the Momondanis. who are standing there with the people. We need fighters like the Bernie Sanders.

who are standing there with the people. every day and you can see it in the. crowds. It's like Bernie Sanders, AOC. draw 30,000, 40,000 people, you know, in. in uh Salt Lake City, you know, where. they go to like West Virginia on off. years. The people are like, "Yeah, but I. just don't know." I'm like, "Are you. watching what the Just look, it's clear. what people are saying. Listen to what. people are feeling and they're. psychologically tortured under this. Trump regime. Deliver for the people and.

stop imposing whatever you think is the. framework. The Listen and deliver and. fight for people.". >> You know what I got to say? I just want. to say, to say while we're on this note, very quickly, you know, I I I. I like that we're political outsiders, right? I like that we are never. consultants, that we were never cuz we. don't play the same games that these. people play. But, I think one of the. most eye-opening. revelations to me being in this world of. covering this world of politics is how.

there are so many factional intra-party. fights amongst people not based on. necessarily ideas, but based on. consultant versus consultant. This. consultant represents this person, and. they don't like that this person. represents another person, and there are. these factional wars just based on. people wanting power and wanting jobs, rather than thinking, "What do the. people want? Okay, what do what do the. people want?" And "Oh, that person's. candidate won. Well, why? What was it.

about them that they liked? Maybe there. are some ideas that we can learn or some. strategies that we can learn." But, instead, it just becomes attack. Okay, that candidate won. Now, we need to burn. them to the ground because that. consultant is stealing my jobs and my. platform and and my ability to earn. money in politics. And it's like, "No, no, no, no, no, no, no." That should not. be why you're in this. It's again why I. am thankful that that is not what we do. here, and that's not our experience.

going into Midas. Instead, we're just. people who are concerned about things, not people who are these consultants who. just want to manipulate everything, apparently. >> Let's take our first quick break of the. show. A reminder, please subscribe to. the Midas Touch Podcast wherever you get. your audio podcast. That's really. helpful to the growth of this network. So, even if you're not an audio. listener, help us out. Go look at whatever app you. have on your phone or computer where you. can get audio podcast. Subscribe to.

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>> You're following the advice of the. Department of Energy or Mom Donny's. >> It's It's at 78 It's 78° dude, not 80. It's It's at least It's at least 90° in. this room right now. And I don't know if. I'm going to make it through the. episode. >> In in in in all seriousness, though, it. is important. And all it is important. for best safety practices and it is. important to follow science and guidance. and so, you know, I I I like to be, you. know, told, "Hey Ben, what a great. prediction you made." I mean, how'd you. predict this, that, or the other? And. I'm just like, well,

and wasn't it kind of obvious that if. they used the same water source for the. reflecting pool and there's algae in it, that it's going to grow algae cuz that's. like, I don't know, the way that algae. works unless they figured out some new. advanced technology and painting the. bottom blue isn't going to change that. Like when I look at this event that is. shaping up for July 4th, where it's. going to be 107°. in Washington, D.C., which is hotter. than the room that Jordy is in right.

now. Although there is a heatwave, Jordy's on the East Coast where he is as. well. But 107°. Jordy, if you're. actually not feeling good, you could. take a break. >> No, we're good. I got my. >> 107°. in Washington, D.C. And Donald Trump was bragging and. boasting during that weird speech he. gave in North Dakota that he was going. to give a very long speech to show how. strong he is during the 107°. heat, and he wants to do it late at. night. based on the security regulations. They.

need to have everybody kind of wait for. Donald Trump's speech for hours and. hours and hours. Fireworks won't begin. until 11:00 p.m. while this heatwave is. taking place. The heatwave is so bad. that there have had to actually been, you know, you know, lots of, you know, in whatever's been opened at this fake. state fair, whatever you want to call. it. They've had to shut down certain. things because it's been so hot right. there. But Trump's going to, whoever's.

going to show up, and I think the Trump. regime is terrified that no one's even. going to be at this. event because so late and it's hot and. it's Trump and he's unpopular, you know, all of those things. But you're going to. be bringing people into a death trap. Like you truly don't care that you're. bringing people into a death trap. I. mean, you think about when Donald Trump. ruined the one Nick game where they. lost, like he literally did kill the. vibe. There's a other presidents can go. to the Super Bowl and can go to these. games.

They don't because they have a respect. for the people in the cities and the. communities and the places cuz they know. that their presence creates. inconvenience for everybody else. Not. only does Donald Trump not care about. that, Trump doesn't care when he creates. these death traps. And because, I mean, I want people to. pay attention to this because I know. this will be a big story in in 5, 10, 15. years from now because also my. background as a litigator, although I. did not handle asbestos litigation, I.

worked with lots of lawyers who did. handle cases where people got. mesothelioma from asbestos contact, and. I know the way Donald Trump ripped down. that East Wing of the White House, that. contained a lot of asbestos. I did a. report on it. And so, when I'm proven to. be right, but how did you know that it. had asbestos? I'm not I don't take joy. in the fact that there are a lot of. people in that area and neighborhood who. could potentially be getting serious. serious health issues down the road.

because these microparticles that. they've ingested, but but what you would. need to do to go through a process. if you were doing a construction site. like that and you had union workers and. you did it the right way, they would. guard against asbestos, but Trump didn't. do that. Uh so, as you look to this July. 4th event, 170 107°, Trump is creating a literal death trap. there, and if you look at how they even. dealt with this so-called Great American.

State Fair as well, fortunately, there's. like very little people attending cuz. it's straight-up dangerous. And there. was an incident today that Aaron Parnas. was the one who broke the exclusive, Aaron from the Midas Touch Network, of. these young girls who were rehearsing. for the July 4th event and the stage. literally collapsed on them and almost. killed the young girls. And of all they. didn't almost Yes, it did. I'm going to. show the video. Fortunately, nobody was. injured or hurt. But you'll see that the.

stage almost fell down on the young. girls. And there's a broader point to. connect this to as well. I mean, if you. think about the way Donald Trump even. got involved in this catastrophic and. unlawful war against Iran in the first. place, who were the first people that he. killed? A group of young girls in Manbij. elementary school and didn't even care. about updating their logistics about. what was happening in Manbij when it was.

known that was an elementary school by. all of our intelligence officials and. they slaughtered at least 168 little. girls and then they cover it up. Look at. the Trumpenstein regime covering up the. Epstein files and the horrors and. atrocities inflicted on little girls. I you know, I understand that they. inflict this pain on the American people. writ large, but when I look at what's. happening here, too, I don't think it is. not right to compare, you know, what you.

see here to how Donald Trump's has such. a dim He doesn't care about anybody's. life other than himself. A little bit. his family, but mostly himself. And just. watch what happens as this stage. literally fell apart. Let's play it. >> [music]. [music]. >> For the audio listeners, some large.

piece of equipment from the kind of, you. know, ceiling from the top of the stage. came down. And it looked like a big. heavy piece of equipment and it fell. right like just right behind, it looks. like, one of the girls who is dancing, a. a young girl dancing during this. rehearsal. That video is actually hard. You know, there are a lot of things to. kind of laugh about about this. Freedom 250 event, but when I saw this. video, I was actually horrified because. that was honestly mere feet or inches. away from from killing.

a little girl or multiple young girls. The negligence there, like if this was. any other kind of company and not Donald. Trump in the White House, the amount of. lawsuits that could stem from even what. we just saw. But but thankfully, you know, we avoided. the worst of what could have happened. there. But but this is how Donald Trump. runs everything, right? He's always. cutting corners, and we actually did. this whole, you know, a great report, Scott McFarland on Midas News dot com.

We were one of the first to to break. this this morning. The way, and and we've talked about this. before on this on this podcast, the way. that Donald Trump ultimately funneled. the money that was going to the. non-partisan America 250 organization. that was set up to host events like. this, that was going to be a great big. event with incredible acts and. entertainment and and a really solid. plan. And how Donald Trump funneled that. money to his own private organization.

called Freedom 250 of Trump allies, and. misled donors who thought they were. giving their money to a non-partisan. event, who then that money came through. went right into the pockets of Donald. Trump's allies, who then distributed it. to other Donald Trump allies. And this. goes back to that kind of no-bid. contract situation. I don't know what. the deal is with that you know, stage in. particular. So I here's the article for. those watching right now. Democrats. allege Trump allies misled donors to. bankroll Freedom 250. You could read.

this at Midas News dot com. But it goes. back to this no-bid situation. I don't. know what happened here, but I assume it. was just, you know, a Trump friend or, you know, a Trump. ally friend who is setting up the stage, but something bad happens. It could have. been catastrophic, and they will either. just completely ignore it, or they'll. try to blame somebody else. And you. could also see the level of derangement, even if you look at the comments in the. videos, like, uh, you know, that that. you see. That video, you know, Aaron.

Parnas posted the video. One of the. comments is from a Trumper, like, "Oh, you sick libs again. You sick libs. You. I One of you probably did this." Goes. back to the whole vandal thing, right? They're constantly looking for someone. else to blame. When the most obvious. answer is the answer here. Donald Trump. is to blame. He's the connective tissue. throughout all of this stuff. And just. like it was risking the life of those. young girls who were dancing on that. stage, it's risking all of our lives. >> Absolutely. That video brought to us.

again by Aaron Parnas. That's going to. be on our Instagram. So, definitely. check it out at Midas Touch. If you're. want to see what we're talking about. here, it is absolutely horrific. It's at. Midas Touch on Instagram. Go check it. out. You might have to scroll down a. couple posts to see it. You know, our. producer Softy, that many of you you all. know, he worked live events. And he is. just appalled by the shoddiness of how. all of this has been coming together. Look, someone is going to get hurt at. Trump's DC rally over this weekend. Because Donald Trump hates you. Look, like not you watching, but yeah, he.

hates you, too. But like he hates you, MAGA. Like he hates his own base. The. people that are going to like watch him. speak, you're like someone's going to. get hurt inevitably. He doesn't care. about your life. He's using you as a. prop. And like it just I just want to. shake someone, like, "Don't you see. this?" Right? Like as Ben mentioned, DC. has like these emergency warnings. region-wide right now. It's supposed to. top a 104° or something like that the. next 48 hours, but with the DC. swamp-like conditions, it's going to be. much higher than that. Scott MacFarlane.

here at the Midas Section Network, he. reported on all of this. He said given. the security of the event that there are. also limitations of like what could be. carried in. So like no like thermoses. Like you can't bring your own thermos. That feels like a really dumb idea. Just. from start to finish this event supposed. to last around 10 hours. Like when you. check in to like finally when the. fireworks go off at 11:00 p.m. that. night. A sane leader. would maybe relocate the event, maybe to. hold it indoors, maybe not even hold the. event at all. But what does Trump tell.

his lemmings? I want you to risk your life to watch me. speak. You You don't love me if you're. not willing to die to watch me speak. I. know it sounds like I'm being. hyperbolic. I'm really not. >> You almost wonder if he wants something. to happen so he could go, I told you we. should have had a ballroom. >> This is a loyalty test and you are exact. as a great point. This is a loyalty test. that's literally life and death. camouflaged as like a celebration of our. country and Brett, I I have not heard.

that perspective. 1,000% I just want to. reiterate that here. Brett said this is. going to be another excuse for. almost Trump to hope something goes. wrong. >> Listen, if you want to call me a genius, you can call me a genius. >> Well, it doesn't even have to make sense. to be a genius. It doesn't have to make. sense cuz it's a fireworks show, too. So. it's like we were going to do the. ballroom, but now we need like. >> But when does When does it have to make. sense? When do When do the Trump people. have to. >> record fireworks also. The whole thing. is a threat. It's a threat to public. safety. It could start fires. There. There've been reports that the. Washington Post earlier today uh.

reported that the the way they're doing. the fireworks is going to cause the air. to become very toxic and could make. people very sick who are in the area. Like they don't they don't do anything. by the book. They don't care. Jordy, you're 100% right. It's It's It's It's. insane. >> And look, it's about that, but then this. is the same driving force when they go. tariffs are going to make us rich. because it is a tax on the countries and. not on the importers that are passed on. to the American consumers. And then if.

inflation didn't rise like right after. April when Trump had the. liberation day which was like actually. liquidation day. Look, we told you it. was but like it's hitting now cuz that's. the way the economy works. Like Donald. Trump's disastrous first term bled into. former President Biden's term and then. Biden had to fix it and then Donald. Trump screwed it all screwed it up. again. So now all these tariffs against. the world compounded by the catastrophic. war in Iran. And then Donald Trump just.

lies and says, you know, look, we were. going to bring in all of this money but. then we got screwed over by all of these. judges. It's the judges fault. And then. Trump's like we brought in 21 trillion. dollars. I mean he makes up a fake. number. I mean the same type of thing. that's like, okay, there's criminal. algae and the people the criminals and. vandals they didn't just take a box. cutter to shred it. By the way, did you. notice that Donald Trump was running. around with scissors yesterday. I'll. just point that out and no. he was in North goes up running around. with scissors and wanted to put it in.

his pocket. It was like a very very very. very very odd thing. But now the vandal. there's the vandal found the vandal with. the scissors with the box cutter. He. literally tried to put it in his he. tried to put it in his jacket pocket and. then people and then people are like, dude, what are you doing? Like like like. like chill. But he says the criminals. threw the algae in the reflecting pool. And it's the same people who are like, yeah, the tariffs against the world are. going to work and we were going to be so. rich but then but then the Democrats. screwed us or then this one screwed us. and. >> Right, but it's not just the lies though.

too. It's it's how they then take the. lies and then they implement them in the. most authoritarian ways imaginable. Like. today we saw Judge Box O' Wine and your. Jeanine Pirro trot on out there and she. announced her indictment of that. two-time Olympian. He was a a canoeist I. believe back in the day. And they indicted him for touching the. water in the in the pool. Um, because they need somebody to blame. They always need somebody to blame. So, they're trying to say that because he. touched the water and touched the.

sealant that was peeling off in the pool. due to their shoddy work, he's to blame. So, he's one of the vandals. I mean, that thing's going to be laughed out. when they go in front of a jury in DC. Um, and and we've seen the way that. they've handled themselves in front of. grand juries in the most deceptive ways. imaginable in all their past cases. That's all been coming to light to get. these indictments in the first place. But, like but that level of. authoritarianism, they take this thing. that is just so stupid that you almost. want to laugh at, right? Oh, these. things say they put algae in the pool.

This is so freaking stupid. But, then. they go the step further and they start. indicting people all to try to help. their dear leader. All to try to say, "See, these insane, ridiculous, pathological lies are true because, look, we caught one." What a What a. scam. Uh, just what a stain on the. United States of America and the entire. legal profession. Everyone in this. Department of Justice should be. absolutely ashamed. >> Well, and then they blame the judges. when the case gets thrown out. Ah, it.

was a liberal judge. These federal. judges that is so unfair. And then that. reinforces their conspiracy theory kind. of deep state, you know, rhetoric. And. then even when you debate with them, you. know, I watched that CNN fight show from. time to time. And hat tip to Adam Mokler. cuz he does a good job on the debate. show. But, one of the things that I've. always thought to myself personally is. like, I don't know, sometimes just even. being there to debate these people. almost legitimizes.

their side as a side that is worthy of a. debate. On the other hand, if you just. let it go, then they'll just keep on. saying it louder and louder and louder. So, it does create the situation where. the Overton window is kind of pulled in. a direction where people are like, well, I assume the truth lies in the middle. And when special counsel Jack Smith was. on MS now, did an interview with our friend Nicole.

Wallace, he was making that point. He's. like, you know, the hard part for me, he's like, as a lifelong prosecutor, I'm. used to dealing with facts and reliable. evidence. where hearsay and propaganda and lies. don't get into the courtroom because. they're filtered out through the. pre-trial proceedings. So, he goes, you know, what's. interesting is that when I talk to. people out there, he goes, even if. people disagree with me, what I find is.

that by and large people care about. ethics, they care about the truth, they. care about facts. But the issue that's hard for me to. confront as someone who's used to. accurate data and accurate facts. is they've been they're using and. harnessing a set of things that really. aren't based in reality. And so then I. have to get like into a debate with. them. And once they're already. entrenched into views that are not. actually true at all, it's it's truly.

hard in these interactions to change. someone's mind who constantly is being. bombarded over and over and over and. over again that this reality is a real. reality. I mean, I'll show you on state. regime media Fox. You know, the you they. have the agriculture secretary Brooke. Rollins and she's been a person saying. farmers are in a golden age and. everything's amazing. So, she's the. propaganda piece to say, ah, 150,000. people showed up at this event, the.

state fair and it's been a it's met all. of our expectations, right? It's the. same exact lines of all of the how did. this meet your expectation? Like, it. should be okay. And Brett, you said this. on the prior episode, like if it was a. failure, you kind of mock it. Hey, man, I screwed up. Like I was supposed. to be big, you know, did you see that. like Timu archer arc I we screw it. Okay, the real one's going to look much. better. I get it. But no, they go in and. they go not only is it 150,000, but like.

if you criticize it, we're going to like. criminally prosecute you for it. So let. me show you what Burke Rollins had to. say. Let's play it. >> They are keeping their spirits up and. believe the critics that have been. pointing to the crowd side will be. proved wrong by the end of the weekend. >> From my perspective, it is hitting. exactly every mark that we had hoped it. would hit at this point. I do think this. weekend we're going to see massive. massive crowds, but you know, my goal is. that people can come and walk and. experience it and 150,000 people coming.

to celebrate the Great American State. Fair over the last five or six days, I. call that a huge success. >> But that's the person also who is saying. that farmers are experiencing huge. successes right now. And she's the one. who's out there saying that a lot of. these like flesh-eating bacteria that's. killing cattle and that that that's not. happening. And then Chris Wright, the. energy secretary, is out there saying. everything's amazing. The Kevin. Hassett's of the world. This is a regime.

of con artists and liars. And I know. that may be hard for some people to. digest and understand that there are. truly evil people who truly want to hurt. you, but they are. And and they're in control. right now and they are truly the ones. hurting you and harming you and they. want you to die. Like they don't care. about your life. They hate you. They. hate America. They hate everything other. than enriching themselves. Let's take.

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>> You know, [laughter] it's good for you. Benji, what do you next? >> Let's jump right into it. Donald Trump. gave an interview with uh CNBC Joe. Kernan, the ultra MAGA business guy on. CNBC. It's just very bizarre to see a. guy like that just spew just total. propaganda, but he interviewed Donald. Trump. And he was asking, he's like, "The Donald, in the disclosure. that you did, the amount of money. looks pretty much like an outsized.

number. Outsized number what you call. 2.2 billion dollars in the crypto. schemes, 21,000. stock trades in one year. A little bit. outsized there. What do you what what do you make of it? Watch what Donald Trump had to say in. response. Let's play it. >> One in AI. In the disclosure this week, the amount of money that that you and. the family made in crypto, it was an an. outsized number. I I was just saying, did you were you. know about the crypto ventures? So so.

that was just something that. >> way, I could know about it. >> I That's what I'm saying. Right. >> I mean, there's nothing illegal, there's. nothing wrong with it. I could know. >> There's a I think it's I remember a. title 18 section 208 from Congress. You, the Vice President, and you do not have. You would have to. recuse yourself. >> know that. I'm glad to. >> You would have to recuse yourself on. every. decision that could running the country. that could have anything to do with you. So it it it just isn't feasible to do. it. >> feel. >> What is he giving him the argument? I.

know he's he's giving him an argument. I. mean, you couldn't possibly I mean, you're. telling me he doesn't know. that he made 2.2 billion dollars in. crypto? That that that that. It's certainly not worse than being. involved in the crypto scheme, but the. very idea. that the argument is I didn't know. that I made 2.2 billion dollars in. crypto. I don't I. just know no clue. Look at Joe Kennedy, who's supposed to be the business guy, right? He's supposed to be the guy.

who the financial community looks to as. if he isn't. for, you know, accurate financial data. about how's this company doing? How's. that company doing? What do we think. about this? What's going on with. interest rates? What. and and that's what he does right there? That's what he does right there. Then, during the same interview, uh Donald Trump says that. my kids do trade. Of course, my kids.

everything's inside information. Everything is inside. Here, play this. clip. >> I feel badly in a way for my kids. because every time my kids do if they. invest in a stock or if they go and do a. bill or anything they do. because the presidency is so powerful, so big everything if they buy a cupcake. company, well, the energy to make the. cupcakes is, you know, sort of like. how's my energy policy? So, therefore, you have a conflict. Almost anything.

they do if they want to buy a truck, if. they want to buy, you know, they buy an. energy-efficient truck they have inside. information. Uh so. uh. it's it's pretty tough in that sense. I. tell my kids stay away from as much as. you can stay away from, but they also. have a life, you know, they. >> Okay, it's they're buying drone. companies. They're buying drone. companies before you start a war. He's. He talked He talked about these kids. like they're also like they're setting.

up a lemonade stand, too, right? No, it's drone drone companies. It's not a. cup Also, how do you think cupcakes are. made? I know it's like his brain's going. all over the place here, but cupcakes. and the energies. Huh? >> Well, look, it's it's it's mines in. Kazakhstan and and all of these things. are backed. often by the most of them were backed by. like the federal government giving loans. and. cutting government contracts and and all. of these deals. And so, they went from. and and the problem with this is what I.

mean, the problem with the with the. debate is because. and I mean this. as someone who studies language. that the problem is language has a. limitation. and it's hard to fully channel through. words the outrage that this is. And I. mean by that is is that all you have to. do is arm a MAGA person with any kind of. talking point, right? So, you go all of. this, $2 billion, $1 billion here, $2. billion here, inside trading here. They. they invest and what do they go? Hunter.

Biden, Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden. So, once they have their thing, and then you have to explain it. Once. they start to shout, which they do, Hunter Hunter Hunter Hunter, and then. you start to debate, it's actually very. hard to debate someone who has, you. know, they have their thing and then. they start yelling cuz then to most out. not hard to debate, but it hard to. persuade a public who watches cuz then. people are like,

"It's all gross. It's all gross." Like. when you think about Hunter Biden being. on a board of Burisma from 20 what? After Biden was not the vice president. and before Biden was So, during the. years that Biden was not in office, you. had a guy like Hunter who was on boards. before appointed by George W. Bush. A. guy who went to Yale Law School. Sure. was it helpful that his last name was a. Biden? Absolutely. But, he was qualified. for the He was actually a qualified. board member cuz he sat on major boards.

before including administering. international aid for the UN and he. controlled billion-dollar budgets. So, he would be someone who would be. considered for that. But, he was making. $50,000 a month. $50,000 a month and was. not there when Joe Biden was actually in. in office. So, at most, if you wanted to. compare, at most, it would be the. difference between like. a traffic ticket, you know, versus like.

a mass murder in terms of like what was. actually going down and the Trump regime. would argue it's it's all basically it's. all the same it's all the same. And now. their argument with the Trump kids is. actually, of course they're doing. insider work. Everything's a I tell. them, try to stay away from it, try to. stay away from it, but. I bring them with me, and then they have. these conversations. And well, so that's. why I believe the two billion is just. the tip of the iceberg. I believe the.

real number, when all is said and done, will likely be 20 billion dollars or. perhaps more, because I think Trump just. has to disclose like his own like direct. stuff. And by the way, I think he's. probably hiding in in my own opinion. I'm just giving you an opinion. I could. be wrong in my opinion. Hiding and. concealing more than what he's showing. there. And I believe that doesn't. account for other vehicles, other ways. to kind of hide securities, future. interests that don't vest, that he. doesn't have to uh disclose yet. And so,

you know, that's what you know, so so I. I also think. Donald Trump's big play with the super. pardon to wave tax audits and wave tax. liability was the big play of why he. sued the Treasury Department and why he. sued. uh the IRS, because if you read the. release and the waiver of claims, it. waves everything that predates the. settlement agreement, which to me would. include all of these billions of. dollars. And whether you're talking.

about capital gains or regular income. tax, that settlement could have saved Donald. Trump potentially billions and billions. of dollars, not just a hundred million. dollars that people just, you know, say. was at issue. So, let me read what. >> let me let me read this example for a. second because it's so brazen. And and. Salty, our producer, reminded me of it. But this is from uh Yahoo Finance, and. I'll just read it for you. It says, "14. days, 14 days. That's the gap between. President Trump's trust purchasing. between 1 million dollars and 5 million.

dollars in Axon Enterprise stock on. February 10th and ICE posting a notice. on February 24th, seeking a 5-year $220. million taser contract for roughly. 17,800. new devices. That purchase would. quadruple ICE's current inventory of. about 4,300 units. The ICE document. specifications a 45-ft range, 10. individually targeted probes, match only. Axon's Taser 10, according to. procurement reviewers cited by CNBC. No. contract has been awarded. No law was.

technically broken. I mean, this is like. the craziest thing imaginable, right? Like. >> This is also what I'm getting at, too, is. I don't think Donald Trump's the one, you know, physically making the. investment himself and going there and. putting the cash down. Who in his orbit. is he allowing to have this confidential. information about these certain. companies or these certain dealings. prior to the American people, you know, finding out in the way that they should? It's a security issue, too. It's a. security issue just as much as it's a. grift issue with Donald Trump. >> Well, look, the security issue.

has unfolded. Right? The the catastrophic war. in Iran, Donald Trump was entangled. in a myriad. of conflicts of interest. Right? I mean, he's photographed on the. Qatari jet. The Qataris are the. mediators. I'm not necessarily saying. should they or should they not be the. mediator. I don't know, but I will say. that they are certainly having a.

prominent role. It didn't hurt that they. gave him a $400 million jet that the and. then the American people gave, you know, a billion dollars to the Pakistanis who. are mediators. They created a crypto. fund that gave money to World Liberty. Financial right around the time that. there was the India-Pakistan war where. Donald Trump claims he saved 30 million. Pakistani lives, which he didn't or. millions and millions of Indian lives. Trump takes credit for, you know, for. stopping that war, which which he. didn't, but the Pakistanis let Donald.

Trump take credit for doing it the in. India Modi didn't cuz Modi said why. would I let you do that but in any event. that endeared. Field Marshal Muneer to Donald Trump and. now Pakistan has had a prominent role. but meanwhile if you actually listen to. what Pakistan's Prime Minister and Field. Marshal say they are one they're going. to be at the former Ayatollah Khomeini's. funeral and they're going to be there. and having a very prominent role right. there and also you know they've been.

giving speeches about how China's the. main dominant global superpower right. now and also their interest seemed. closer aligned I'll just say with China. but they managed to gain a great deal of. influence visa v India with the United. States through Donald Trump's crypto. entities. You look at the United Arab. Emirates they gave Donald Trump massive. amounts of money through World Liberty. Financial and you think about did that. impact the strategy of war there? You.

take a look at Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia gave a lot of money to. Donald Trump how did that impact things. and obviously one of the leverage points. that Saudi Arabia had was to start. defunding projects to Trump and Trump's. buds like LIV Golf and other things that. it was previously funding when it felt. that the Trump regime you know was. basically violating its sovereignty and. continuing to bring it into all of the. you know to bring it into the war in.

Iran and so Donald Trump and the Trump. regime and American foreign policy would. threaten okay we're not going to give. you Saudi Arabia. Patriot interceptors and certain things. while basically blackmailing and. extorting Saudi Arabia cuz we have air. bases there so Saudi Arabia has become a. target because of our air bases and then. Donald Trump says then we're not going. to give you the interceptor missiles. that we need even now that we've made. you a target. So, Saudi Arabia is now. kind of stuck. We have your bases here.

now. So, what do we do? Well, MBS is like, "Okay, well, we're. going to not fund this and that and the. other thing cuz we know that these are. personally important to you." I I can go. on and on and on and on. You get the. point. But, these entanglements it First. off, we should never have gone to war in. the first place. We should never been involved in this. catastrophic, you know, in a lawless. war. And oh, you know, I can get into. Netanyahu and Israel. The Donald Trump's. second top donor other than Elon Musk is. Miriam Adelson, who gave Donald Trump.

literally hundreds of millions of. dollars to move the embassy to. Jerusalem. You know, and she's pursued a. very right-wing extremist. Netanyahu-style agenda there, in my. opinion. And so, you have people like. her leading the way and pushing Donald. Trump, you know, uh you know, you know, to that, you know, not that he, you. know, he's a horrible person to begin. with, but this is the dynamic at play. And obviously, you know, when you see. him stuck and frozen after making. catastrophic decisions, just think about. these leverage points that everybody has.

on him from every from every angle right. now. You are quite literally. compromised. It's not Jordy, to your. point, it's not a hypothetical. compromise. It's, "No, this is why we. have an emoluments clause in the. Constitution specifically to try to. avoid things like this." And one of. Donald Trump's reasons why he doesn't. like Zelenskyy is Zelenskyy hasn't. offered him these things. Like, Ukraine.

hasn't give Trump views Ukraine as just. taking and taking and taking. And it's. like, "What are you going to give me? How do you behave?" Like, there's a lot. of other reasons because Trump. obviously, in my opinion, is a Putin. bootlicker. And But, Putin will say, "I'm going to give you a trillion. dollars." And then, it just, you know, it just plays to Donald Trump's kind of, you know, vanity. And Trump had been to. Russia in the '80s, and Trump had always. had this view of Russia as the kind of. peak and pinnacle thing that he viewed.

and kind of, in my view, his like racist. white utopia. I'm just giving you my. opinion of like what his view of Russia. was. But you have, you know, Donald Trump. viewing Zelenskyy as someone who's not. going to give him all of these things. And so, what we've seen recently, too, is Donald Trump's not giving the Patriot. interceptors to Ukraine. He's promised. that he would Well, he didn't promise. He said that he would sell the. interceptors to NATO and to European. countries, but he hasn't even done that. So, the big problem that they have in. Ukraine right now is they could shoot.

down these drones, the Shahed drones. from Russia, but they literally need the. Patriot interceptors to stop the. ballistic missiles. They don't have The only thing that. really stops these ballistics are the. Patriot interceptors or the THAADs, but. they don't have these. So, what we saw happen in the past 24 hours. in Russia realizes this is. they're going to use their drone swarms. mostly as decoys. Drone swarm is what. Russia does, and then they do their.

ballistic missiles. Um, and they know that Ukraine has to. decide. and make these choices. Which ballistic. missiles do we shoot out because every. ballistic missile we shoot is one less. Patriot interceptor that we have. And. also, Russia tries to use dummy. ballistic missiles, and they try to draw. out the interceptors with other drones. and other decoys that look like it to. draw out the Patriot interceptors.

because Ukraine is running low, and. that's why we saw Russia was able to. really strike hard in Ukraine. They hit. the um the uh one of the major five-star. hotels. uh in Kyiv. They hit a number of. residential areas in Kyiv and Kharkiv. and. Zaporizhzhia and and and other areas. But, that's what we've got going on. there. And then then meanwhile, just to. round this all out with uh. discussing what's going on. internationally,

you have that going on. You look at. what's happening in Venezuela right now. You know, and Donald Trump wants to be. like, "Oh, this is like some great, you. know, great story about how the people. of Venezuela love me." I mean, Trump's. effectively, you know, the leader of. Venezuela. I mean, he's running a puppet. government that's run by Delcy. Rodríguez. The people are livid that. Delcy Rodríguez is. really hoarding the supplies and the uh. emergency response has been horrible. You know, it's just interesting, too, because, you know, I think about Trump's.

post this morning where he posted about. Micron and saying Micron's giving $250. million to these Trump accounts, which. are investment accounts. So, Micron's. giving $250 million to an investment. account to basically invest in the. market, to invest in stocks like Micron, when in fact, Micron's received billions. of dollars from CHIPS Act funding, which. basically led to the growth of Micron. They've gotten billions of dollars. Trump posted about them, I guess hoping. that would manipulate their price. It.

didn't. The Micron stock has not been. doing great of late, although. post-Biden, it did do great because of. the CHIPS Act uh investments. But, you. have, you know, noted I I I I mentioned. that because you have like Trump saying, "Look, we gave 150 bi- $150 million to. Venezuela." It's like, "Okay, but you. took $5 billion of resources. God knows. where that money's gone." The same way. Micron's got X billions of dollars, and. they put $250 million into the account,

and they want applause like they're. doing it. And meanwhile, the people. right now in Venezuela are suffering. from this back-to-back earthquake. And. I've raised the red flag as well, and I. said, "I don't want to go down this. conspiratorial route cuz I can't make. the direct cause and effect yet, but. with the excess fracking and excess. drilling, that's been known to cause. seismic activity." And so, I also don't. know, is there a cause and effect. because these back-to-back earthquakes, a 7.2 4 quake followed by a 7.5 is.

unheard of, rare to have two. back-to-backs like that. So, is any of. the drilling activity causing that or. enhancing that? But regardless of. whether that's happening, clearly. Delcy's not doing a great job. That's an. understatement in getting the resources. out there. And meanwhile, you have. Machado who had to give Trump the Nobel. Prize. She's like, "I want to go there. and be with the people." And the Trump. regime is putting out there to the Wall. Street Journal and others, "Ah, she's.

just doing publicity stunts. We don't. want her out there." And now we're. hearing that they're planning on cutting. a deal potentially with Maduro so that. Maduro can say that he rigged the 2020. election for Biden. And if Maduro says. that, then Maduro can get a deal. And. again, there's nothing out there that is. off-limits for the corruption. As I. started off, the rot, the rot, the rot. And we're seeing it. So, I'll leave us. with that. I did a whole video on Special Counsel. Jack Smith, but I I I discussed it.

before. I don't need to show any clips. of that because you've seen what he. said. He's just said that it's just been. a total breakdown of law and order. And. the Justice Department right now under. the Trump regime has zero credibility, and they've lost their best lawyers. And. it's a big problem. And especially now. when you have potentially Justice. Department lawyers planning on doing. this deal with Maduro, we'll see if that. happens. Those are the rumors. You know, that that that's the kind of. people who are there. I mean, it's it's.

no different than North Korea at this. point. In fact, one can make an argument. that it's more corrupt than North Korea, That our country is more corrupt. That I. I don't think that's an exaggeration. under the Trump regime. Jordy, before we. go, anything you want to say? >> Benji, I really enjoyed doing this. episode with you. Brett not here. anymore. He had to go run, but love this. episode, brothers. Midas mighty, thank. you guys so much for tuning in. Please. subscribe to the audio. Please subscribe. to the audio feed wherever you get your. audio. The Midas Touch Podcast 1,000%. free. Just do it right now. Super.

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