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We've got a lot to discuss on this. episode of the Midas Touch podcast. It. isn't Groundhog's Day, or maybe it is, but Donald Trump has called off the. threatened strikes against Iran once. again as the US runs out of Patriot. interceptors, THAD interceptors, Navy. destroyers as Middle East countries tell. Donald Trump that you will not do this. if you ever want to have any deals with. us ever again. Donald Trump backs down. and Donald Trump lies and says, "Iran.

called me. They begged me. They said, "Please, Donald, please." We'll get into. it. It's so utterly humiliating. Also, Donald Trump putting Janine Piro and. frankly the entire country through a. constant humiliation ritual. As you. know, at the end of last week, although. it feels in this news cycle like months. ago, but it was literally the end of. last week, the Department of Justice. dismissed the felony reflecting pool. case against David Hearn. They admitted. that all of the evidence against him was.

fabricated. Janine Piro said that the. Department of Interior led by Doug. Bergam was giving her incorrect. information. And of course, Bergam was. getting his information from Donald. Trump. And Trump's like, "No, it was the. Vandals. It was definitely Vandals. She. chickenened out. She folded like an. umbrella and we believe that she will. either be forced to resign or be fired. at any moment now. We'll be covering. that. Then you go from Piro to another.

DOJ story, Todd Blanch. Like, and it. should be noted too that Janine Piro, who's the top attorney in Washington DC. for the federal government, she still. reports to Blanch. So Blanch supervised. her doing that, which in any normal. period, that alone would be. disqualifying for the AG, forcing the AG. to resign if you fabricated charges. against someone like David Hearn. Um, but now, right around midnight last. night, Donald Trump and Todd Blanch.

pulling this scam in order to get Blanch. confirmed. They said that they will be. rescending. not the settlement agreement but an. order regarding the anti-weaponization. [clears throat] fund is what they call. it for J6 insurrectionists. What Todd Blanch posted was not signed. by all of the parties. Hence it is. uninforcable. Also, his document, whatever the hell he.

did, this order doesn't actually talk. about the immunity that Donald Trump got. out of the settlement agreement when he. sued the government where he never gets. audited. He gets auditing immunity, IRS. immunity, not paying taxes immunity from. the date of the settlement agreement. going back in time, which isn't just. tens of millions or hundreds of. millions. It could be billions of. dollars in taxes, right? based upon all. the quidd proquo deals Donald Trump did. and the billions of dollars he made. But.

notably, uh Todd Blanch, the document. was a press release that said an update. on the other on the May 19th uh. agreement and they affirmed it. They. affirmed Donald Trump's immunity. But. you know, these MAGA cowards Tom Tillis. and Cornin are like that's what we. wanted. They clarified it. What what are. you sickos talking about? And the way. corporate news reported on this was so. awful. It's why we need independent. news. And the people though understand.

it. What's actually good about this. horrible moment is that the people. understand the scam and they know that. Trump and Blanch were just out and are. just out to protect Trump from paying. his taxes. Like and that's this massive. corrupt griff. That's what it's all. about. Also in other international news, Donald Trump refusing to give Zalinski. Patriot Interceptors or Patriot. Interceptor licenses. Trump tap Zalinsky.

along back in. two or three weeks ago at the NATO. summit in Turkey. Trump said, "I'm going. to give you the interceptor licenses so. you can do it yourself and stop. complaining." And then Donald Trump just. rugpulled Zalinsky and was like, "Actually, we're not going to give you. those interceptor license because you. may turn against us and use the. interceptors. Use the interceptors again. Use the. interceptor interceptors, right? Not. even affirmative to stop the ballistics. You may use that technology against us.

one day. Never trust Trump. You can't do. a good deal with a bad person." It's a. quote from Warren Buffett and it's very. true. Um, also Trump's FIFA buddy, Giani. Infantino, uh, is now begging Donald Trump and. Marco Rubio to help him keep his job. after he tried to pull that FIFA forward. scheme where he wanted to sell FIFA. World Cup to private equity and. Kushner's company and sell 20% of it.

And UEIFA, the European football. association, and Kanka and all these. other uh, international football uh, associations uh, called it out. They. stopped the plan to sell it. Kushner's. uh fund ultimately backed down. It's. Jared's brother's fund ultimately backed. down. Um and now they want to see. Infontino out. They want to see and you. know Infontino they say scammed him. They're threatening to sue him. And so. Infontino runs to his daddy Trump. I. need your help. Keep my job. And.

meanwhile while all of this is going on, the market manipulation. continues. Let's bring in Brett and. Jordy. That's like an intro that is right out. of you know that's why it's like and. people like Ben when was the last movie. you saw when I go I look I and I I I. probably need more hobbies you know and. I was great to get out in Carmel by the. sea with the family and hang out. somewhere else but like tracking all of. this stuff right now is occupying a lot. of space right now.

>> It does occupy a lot of space and you. know it's good to see you Ben. It's good. to see you Jordy. Good to see the. mightest mighty. You know, when I think. of all this, what's the famous I think. it's a Shakespeare line, all the world's. a stage. And that's how I feel when I'm. watching all these various elements come. to play right here. When you see this. whole charade that just occurred with. Todd Blanch and with John Cornin and Tom. Tillis. Like all these people are just. such artists. They are all. playing this game. It is all theater and.

it is all to try to act like they are. these holier than thou people. Oh, John. Korn and Tom Tillis, look, we got him to. do something. Okay, you have my. confirmation vote now. You earned it, Todd Blanch. All he's doing is showing. how corrupt he actually is. This is yet. another scam in my opinion that we are. witnessing here. And it's pretty clear. in black and white what he's doing. And. frankly, you know, shame on all the. people who went out there and reported. this as some sort of, you know, like.

this is Todd Blanch actually uh, you. know, giving Tom Tillis and John Cornin. what they want while he is literally. just protecting Trump. But I thought. Trump's comments about Janine Piro today. where he basically erupted in the Oval. Office over Janine Piro because she. what? Because she told the truth. I. think that was very revealing to the. kind of act that all of them are putting. on right now and the weak points and why. Donald Trump got mad there. I think it's.

all incredibly revealing. We're going to. get into that and more. But first, of. course, got to welcome back Jordy to the. show. Jordy, what's up, man? >> Brothers mighty, it is great to be here. Brett, first off, I didn't know you were. so uh read up on Shakespeare. Wow. I I. didn't know we were going to start the. show with a little Shakespeare. >> You never know what's going to come out. of my mouth. Yeah. >> Ben's quoting Buffett. You're quoting. Shakespeare. What what show is this. right now? This is great. >> I saw the I saw the Odyssey over the. weekend, so you know, I'm. I'm in the literature right now. >> Look, I I'm excited to dive right in. Benji, I'll toss it straight to you, but.

just my my big thing here is like it's. so incredible to me and like incredible. in a bad way how corporate media a after. 10 years of covering Donald Trump, the. Trump regimes, how they just still have. no idea how to cover him. How they just. become stenographers for him. how they. just basically repeat everything that. him and his regime sort of put forward. as if here take this at face value and. meanwhile all the way the American. people continue to get conned and so. much of that is truly due to corporate. media's just awful coverage uh of so.

much of this. We're going to get into. what I mean very shortly. Benji, great. to see you big bro. Where are we. starting off? You know, I've seen a lot. of news also quote me in my analysis. that this thing that Trump and Blanch. did at midnight, by the way, when you do. something at midnight, you're usually. trying to, you know, >> nothing shady ever happens at midnight, right? >> You know, and often times the way it's. phrased though is is that, you know, Mr.

Myelis argues that it's uninforcable and. that it doesn't address the tax immunity. to Donald Trump and it's phrased as like. I'm make I'm not making an argument like. I'm literally just giving you the facts. of what it is. It's not an argument. Uh. it's very clear that the original May 18. settlement agreement says the only way. that you can do any modifications is by. doing it in writing by all of the. parties. parties plural, not one party.

And then also, if you look at the. document that Todd Blanch posted on. social media at midnight, it doesn't say. anything about recision of the. settlement agreement. All it says is a. uh recision of the order and an update. on the May 19th uh addendum. And so you. could just read what I'm not I'm not. trying I'm not arguing. I'm not I'm not. doing a debate with you about what it.

says. And it's often framed as a debate. Like I'm just telling you what's. actually in it. And corporate news where. they've lost their way a long time ago. is they shouldn't say, "Well, Donald. Trump says, but on the other hand, the. legal experts are arguing and saying. then it becomes two sides to there's not. two sides." Okay? Trump preserved his. tax immunity and this is a. non-inforcable order regarding the J6. fund which Todd Blanch can resurrect at.

any time with another order though it. doesn't do anything. Okay? And I've even. posted on uh on on our social media. accounts. You know how easy it would be. to resend the settlement agreement. Here's what you would post. All parties. to the May 18th settlement agreement and. the May 19th addendum hereby forever. rescend and revoke both agreements which. shall hereby be deemed uninforcable. signed by all of the parties. That's it. That's the document. That's all you need.

and then it goes away. What they did was. a scam and a fraud on the American. people and it's so damn obvious. And. shame on Tillis and Cornin for. pretending with the Kabuki theater that. they were going to stand up for, you. know, it's like y you losers. Donald. Trump already destroyed your careers. I. mean, Cordon was a former Texas Supreme. Court justice. He was a Supreme Court. justice in Texas before becoming a.

senator. Tillis, business person, rose. up through the ranks. I think he was. like the speaker at the state level. before becoming a senator at the federal. level. I mean, these people had real. careers and Trump destroyed your careers. because you didn't go full ultra MAGA. into the cult, but there were some areas. despite you both being bootlickers, there was just small areas where you. were willing to challenge him. And for.

that you've been pushed out of the party. and still still even here you can't even. do the right thing. It's fascinating and. distressing that that exists. That. that's actually human nature that these. two people then go on and say, "Oh, well, we accomplished what we wanted to. do. You accomplished what you wanted to. do." a non-inforcable order regarding. the anti-weaponization fund. It. shouldn't even be called that, but a.

non-inforcable order there and giving. the Trump family tax immunity for the. for from the date of the agreement going. back in time. And I think in Tillis'. post, he's like, "And we got what we. wanted by clarifying the scope of the. tax immunity." What clarify? According to the document that was just. filed by Blanch, Donald Trump, Don Jr., Eric Trump, all the Trump trust, all the. Trump companies get tax immunity from. the date of the settlement agreement and.

addendum, May 19th, going back in time. Well, we stopped it from being. forwardlooking and stopping audits in. the future over future conduct. Well, you can never enter a settlement. agreement in the first place that waves. future unknown claims that doesn't. exist. the the waiver, what we called in. California, what we call in California. when I was a litigator, a section 1542. waiver. You can't wave perspective. claims that don't exist. I mean, think.

about it. Let's just assume you're in a. car accident with somebody and you. settle and you get into a settlement. agreement uh over that. You're not going. to wave future car accidents that don't. happen, right? How could you do that? you wave past unknown claims and known. claims when there's an exchange. And so. here the agreement never purported to. wave future tax audits regarding unknown. things in the future. It was always a. past waiver. And so it clarified nothing. if anything. It strengthened Trump's.

arguments to tax immunity by putting it. more in writing that we support it. Like. it's the worst document imaginable. It's. a total fraud on the American people. It. was obvious to me quite literally. Brett, it posted in 60 seconds. We were. up at the Midas Touch Network with a. post because it I looked at it. I go, "What the hell is this? What the hell is. this scam?" And then we did it and. people like Scott McFarland and Katie. Fang and Legal AF all called it out. Then I started looking at ABC and CBS. and Newsweek and all of their headlines.

and we started on State Regime and it's. like the $1.8 billion fund has been. rescinded. It's like do a modeiccom of. analysis and research about what's. really happening. Brett, >> the the irony is I think Newsweek was. one of the publications that wrote about. you as well and and used your quotes, but yet they still went with that. headline when they tried to write their. sort of straight news piece because. they're all just so afraid of Trump. They're all so afraid of this. administration. They want to try to act. like, "Oh, look, we're we're we're.

playing this straight. We're playing. this down the middle, but these aren't. downthe-middle issues." And for Tillis. and Cornin to fold like this, speaking. of what was Donald Trump's stupid. phrase, fold like an umbrella. Speaking. of folding like an umbrella, y'all have. zero. Like there's nothing even holding. you to this man anymore, I guess, other. than his rabid followers. But you have. no future career in politics right now. in your jobs. You have nothing to no.

reason to give Donald Trump any favors. no reason to do anything. He screwed you. over. He essentially ruined your life. and you were going to come up with this. ridiculous theater in order to get to. this end point that was clearly. predetermined from the get-go. I'm happy. that we at least called this BS out, you. know, in the previous week's show. acknowledging that these people were. likely ultimately going to come around. regardless. And I I remember Ben weeks. and weeks ago also you said watch for. the head fake here because the thing. that Donald Trump really wants out of.

this is that immunity for the taxes and. the $ 1.776 billion weaponization fund. is a little bit of the distraction. there. It's the dangling of the keys to. get people focused on this other. incredibly heinous thing that he's. doing. But while he's giving away that $. 1.776 billion dollars to. insurrectionists, to fraudsters, to. copers, while he's doing that, he is. absolving himself of having to pay. billions and billions and billions of. dollars in taxes. And he's protecting.

himself and his family from potential. financial crimes. And that really is. what Donald Trump wanted at the end of. the day. And that's what Tillis and. Cornin gave him. And I'm sick of these. people, whether it's Tillis or Cornin, or whether it's somebody like a Susan. Collins in Maine, or whether it's uh. who's the guy who voted for RFK, his. name's slipping my mind for a second. here, but all these people who act like. they are so concerned, and I'm not sure. I could let this guy, I'm not sure I.

could let this person this position. because it's so dangerous. And then they. make some BS agreement in order to get. to that end result. And then they have. to act like horrified when all the bad. things that happen happen that everybody. told them was going to happen. Like we. will likely see this weaponization fund. because it's not really a way. We'll. likely see this come back. Uh we're. going to see Donald Trump obviously use. this now to try to protect himself from. all these various potential financial. crimes in the future. We're going to see.

his sons, his his entire family. This is. the most corrupt act imaginable. And it. is quite literally, in my opinion, the. biggest fraud perpetrated on the. American people, bar none. And the fact. that these people could even get through. a sentence saying that they're targeting. fraud and getting JD Vance out there. were coming after the fraudsters when. the biggest fraud like in the history of. the world is happening in that very. building. What an affront to our. intelligence. And I still cannot even.

fathom how any of these people, any of. these MAGA people who are making mere. fractions of what these people make in a. second are defending these people for. stealing their money and giving it to. their family members and friends. It's. obscene. The whole thing is obscene. >> Absolutely. It's my biggest issue with. politics in 2026, quite frankly. You. know, look, say what you want about the. Democrats. You know, obviously there's. stuff to go around there. These. Republicans have no spine, zero spine.

They would rather let Donald Trump get. away with every single grift imaginable. than stand up and actually have a. backbone. There is not a person in the. Republican party, in my opinion, that. actually wants to help their. constituents. All they want to do is. bend over backwards to appease their. dear leader, Donald Trump. It is. pathetic and it is the absolute worst of. this country. It it really really is. These people don't care about about. healthcare. These Republicans, they. don't care about affordability. They. don't care about finding houses that.

that people can actually afford in this. country. Uh-uh. All they care about is. that when they leave office, in this. case with Cornin and Tillis here, that. that they still get to be a part of the. cult that that they still get to join. the fun, right? Their own weird MAGA. cult fun. It's bizarre and it's. disgusting. And so, it's to me it's. obvious that they just needed something. on paper. They needed something that. they could go and that they could sleep. at night and be like, "Oh, look. No, look, Blanch did that and that's a. document and and I know corporate media, they're going to look at that document. and it's going to be signed by Blanch.

and they're going to say he did. everything and so I'm going to say it's. a win for me and this way Donald Trump. won't be mean tweeting at me at night, mean posting about me and my and then I. get invited to the cocktail parties. Oh, my constituents I don't give a I. don't I don't really care about them. This is for me to save face. And that is. just so disgusting to me at such a core. value of this country. Well, and by the. way, this is why Donald Trump is so. perplexed by Iran and so perplexed by. Canada and so perplexed by Greenland,

right, and so perplexed by Eugene Carol. uh and a Brago Garcia, right? And even. like a David Hearn or people who just. stand up to him and say, "No, no, no. Why these MAGAR Republicans have. functioned in a more subservient way. than the Russian Duma is like the. craziest thing. You are a damn branch of. the United States government. How you.

behave again more of a cult than Jim. Jones Kool-Aid drinking people is is not. a political point to me. But that's why. when you say no. and you're forceful with him and you. push back, he's like, "Oh, oh, we're. doing fake deals. Oh, they want to talk. to me. Oh, oh, they're doing fake." You. know, I it it shows you when you stand. up to the guy and you fight back. He is.

a pathetic loser his whole life. Remember when he was sitting on the bed, the photo of him when he's a loser. This. guy was a loser in middle school, a. loser in high school, a loser in. college, a loser in life. He's a loser. And all he I huff and I puff and I blow. your house down and I'm threatening you. and I [laughter]. Okay, sit for a deposition. Oh, I can't.

do that. I can't do that. I don't want. to sit for a deposition. You sued me for. $10 billion. Sit for a deposition. Shut. up. Sit for a deposition. Show up and. testify. Oh, I don't want to do that. Can we delay? Delay. I don't want to do. it. You brought the case. Sit for a sit. Sit. Testify. What are you doing? Sit. and testify. I want you. Okay. I'm going. to blow the f I'm going to blow the. effing s out of them is what he says. I'm not going to even do the curse. By. the way, when when I speak like him, it. sometimes gets flagged on YouTube. Just.

think about that. Me quoting the. president of the United States sometimes. can get flagged on YouTube to harm the. ability of the algorithm because of the. way the president of the United States. speaks and directly quoting. I'm going. to blow the effing ass out of them. Okay, you've said that a hundred times. No one wants you to do that. Are you. going to do it or you not? I mean, they're doing a deal with me and Iran's. just like, really? This is what the. United States has become. Really? How.

pathetic is this? What? And by the way, that's what they think about us in the. Middle East. That's what our allies, our. former allies think about us. How. utterly pathetic can you be? By the way, you look at a headline like this. Fine. print. This is This is a raw story. This. is actually one of the better stories, but here's how they reported it. Fine. print shows Blanch tried to sneak. through overnight scam to shield Trump. report. By the way, it ain't even the. fine print. It is the print. It is the.

main print. If you look at what he. submitted, it is a press release. It's. not a recision of a settlement. agreement. It says Department of Justice. rescends anti-weaponization or it's the. first sentence. It's the title. Department of Justice rescends. anti-weaponization order and addresses. the May 19th release. I'd like to. believe that I'm a good lawyer who can. analyze into the weeds and get into the. fine print. This isn't the this is this.

is the print addresses the May 19th. release and when they address it they. say. that that they're affirming the. existence of it that they are good with. it. Okay. Um and also it's not a. recision of the settlement agreement. you are rescending at an order that you. can just bring back immediately anyway. and that's a press release and then the. order is only signed by Blanch. I mean.

it actually doesn't require a great deal. of legal analysis to call the red flags. out on you know this thing. But here's. the the broader context. Connect this to. everything that's happening, right? While Donald Trump is out there. threatening to blow the S out of Iran. and then makes up these fake deals in. his mind, what is he doing on his social. media uh thing, his social media company. while he's making all of these deranged. posts? He's selling access $100,000.

to Wall Street firms to get inside. trading is information based on early. access to his posts in order to. manipulate the market. It it it's. happening right out there. This is this. isn't some idea hypothetical. This is. what Trump's social media company is. doing. Look at the filing from Capital. One, right? Trump sued all of these. banks and say, "You debanked me. It was. so unfair that you debanked me." Well,

in a court filing, Capital One said, "We. have anti-money laundering detection.". And the reason that there was a. so-called debanking is that the. necessary compliance triggers for. potential money laundering compliance. issues were triggered. And that. automatically makes us flag an account. and debank them. Whether it was the. Trump organization or whatever the.

organization is. You engage in ex. behavior that becomes the result. That's. it. That's not a Democrat or a. Republican or an independent thing. It. is an objective criteria thing. Now. Brett and Jordy, I want to get back to. you. I want to talk about that point. We've got to take our first quick break. of the show. We'll come back and we'll. get into that. We'll get into the other. developments uh of the day as well. We'll get into Trump likely firing Piro, which could happen, frankly, any moment. now. I wouldn't be surprised it even.

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now." That's what $100,000 gets you. You. get that post first. So, I just want to. let you know we're not going to be uh uh. doing that. But then, in all. seriousness, I want to say the the the. scam that we're seeing here is the same. scam that we've seen play out throughout. the years. It's the same story every. single time. And you could go back to. the election lies. Donald Trump goes out. there, spouts these election lies, stolen election, stolen election, stolen. election. They get in the courtroom, what happens? They lose dozens and. dozens of cases because they actually. don't have any evidence. All the things.

that Donald Trump is ranting about. online are not true. They're all lies. They have nothing to actually present in. a court of law. He says the reflecting. pool is destroyed. It's destroyed. The. Vandals did it. The Vandals, Antifa, this, that. We got to put up fences. We. got to have the National Guard watching. it. What happens? They get into a. courtroom and they have to have to. actually explain themselves. Suddenly. the story changes. Suddenly it's oh we. actually don't have the proof and oh by. the way it turns out we lied to the. grand jury to secure this indictment. Like so incredibly so incredibly.

criminal. Um you go to the capital one. thing. You know this was such a big. thing that uh these kind of maggot. people kept pushing. They debanked. Donald Trump. How could they debank. Donald Trump? Sure enough this is going. through the courts right now. And what. do we find out? Did they debank Donald. Trump because of his conservative. viewpoints? First off, they're not even. freaking conservative thinks that he is. But no, they debanked him because his. account was flagged for potential money. laundering. And so you see the pattern. here. And what is also the kind of.

broader pattern? What are they covering. up? They're covering up for their own. crimes. And that's what we're seeing. over and over again. ways that they. could deflect by stealing from the. public, by making billions and billions. of dollars for themselves and their. buddies while they then blame the fake. news media or they blame this person or. that person. It's like I said earlier, this is the biggest scam that we have. ever witnessed perpetrated not only on. the American people, I'll expand it, but. on the entire world. >> Brett, can you bring back up that photo.

really quickly that you just had of. Trump? So, this is the biggest cell. phone that I think I've ever seen. So, Donald Trump, for the audio listeners, he posted some sort of photo him on True. Social. It's a modern-day Donald Trump. staring affectionately at uh Donald. Trump's younger self from from military. school, saying, "Same guy, even more. energy." Now, the same guy. That's a. photo from Donald Trump when he was in. military school. The the common thought. is he was put in military school because. he was such a bad student and bad. individual that he needed to be sent. away to correct his behavior. So, the.

fact that he's posting that as if he's. looking at it affectionately like same. guy. Yeah. Yeah. No, Donald, we know. that's the same guy. That That's part of. the issue. There was no growth to your. arc here. You are the same putts that. you were back when you were 16 and 17. Also, it just feels like a stolen valor. type of thing. Like he he pretends that. he's like a veteran that that he was. like like this great mil like because in. the photo he's got he's got these like. medals sort of on his uniform or or. whatnot. I I don't know what they. technically signify, but Donald Trump is.

trying to convince the American people. that these are like medals from war, that this is like he's some war hero. that he's. >> not that he went to boarding school. because his parents thought he was a. piece of. >> Exactly. [laughter]. Other things that we may have heard. through the grapevine that it is really. really next level stuff. Just uh. commenting quickly on the Janine Hero. situation. I mean, doesn't it really. feel like she's the dog who who caught. the car? That she had this real cushiony. job at Fox News, paying her millions of. dollars a year. She had a prime time.

slot, all accounts, like crushing it if. you want to be like a media figure for. for for like that type of of of content. And then because of her relationship. with Donald Trump, she gets put in this. position where she really actually has. to has to act and she really actually. has to now put things in like legal. writings and put her name behind it. And. what do they always do? What does Fox. and these MAGA folks always do? They'll. get in front of the camera every time. and spout whatever lie they want. But. the second the second they actually have.

to put their name behind something and. say it with their chest in a legal court. document, they bail. They bail and then. they rely on the actual facts of the. case because they don't want to get. sued. >> And J, I want to remind you that she a. lot of these people were serious people. back in the day. And like I almost like. you almost want to track like the. zombification or whatever you want to. call it of these people. Like how did. these people develop such brainworms to. the point where they were actually. serious people who had very important.

jobs to just being complete and utter. clowns and pawns of Donald Trump? And. she is one of them. I think she was the. DA of Westchester County back in the. day. Janine Piro, like that's a serious. job. And then it makes you kind of think. like, okay, so we're all of like now. like anyone who got prosecuted under. Janine Piro back in the day, like does. that have to be looked in a different. lens or or was she changed by this whole. MAGA thing? Even like a Maria Barta Romo. who like you watch on Fox Business Now. and you're like, who's this crazy. person? This is a crazy individual. like.

she used to be like like the serious f. business host like a business like and. and just to see the soul kind of get. sucked out of these people and then to. become like these I think zombies is. kind of the best way to put it right. it's a bizarre trajectory and weird. thing to want to throw away your life. like that. >> don't talk about Maria like that you're. talking about the next head of the Fed. Fed chair right after Kevin Worsh sort. of wraps up and gets canceled by that. that that's the I mean that we have our. anything is possible under this regime I.

think real Quick, sorry, Ben, tossing it. back to you. It's the money. I I think. the money for them gets so big it. corrupts their brains in such an evil. way where they truly stop caring about. why they got into these positions of of. stature and like actually wanted to do. good work in the first place and then. they're like, "Oh, I could just make a. quick buck doing this instead." I'm. going to go all in on that route. For. me, I I believe that's the case and. that's why you see it so often in the. society. >> Yeah. Well, this fake world is becomes a. safe place for them that has its own.

language, its own characters, its own uh. storylines and plots and all of these. things. And it ultimately all revolves. around Donald Trump. It's typical kind. of cult behavior, but it's not reality. It doesn't exist. And when it clashes. with reality, sometimes in a courtroom. where the rules of evidence apply, right? where admissible evidence and. jurors and judges have to referee. evidence, right? And then it clashes.

against reality sometimes where. internationally another country doesn't. want to play the game. They don't want. to exist in that reality. Sometimes they. do. Deli Rodriguez in Venezuela, part of. the Chaveista rise, the Maduro regime. For her, playing along with Trump's fake. reality was something that she was okay. with. I mean, she was an authoritarian. who was willing to submit the. sovereignty um you know, over there. But.

when Donald Trump's, you know, fake. reality clashes with Canada's. sovereignty or Greenland sovereignty and. Denmark sovereignty, right? When Trump's. behavior clashes with a country like. Iran that is not motivated by fraudulent. transactional promises by Donald Trump, but are rooted in uh history of. thousand-year civilization. He he he's not equipped to deal with it.

and you see you see the kind of clash I. almost think sometimes I don't even know. if they're real but you know sometimes. that image where the two bodies of water. meet and it almost looks like they're. two completely different like colors and. like the Atlantic and Pacific meet you. know what I mean like at some point you. know you have this situation where this. fake reality juts up against the actual. reality and you In the past, leadership,

the quality of leaders in the United. States were and and our institutions. were able to hold up and swat. nats like Trump down, right? I mean, Trump's entire life was always wanting. to, you know, show that he knew what he. was doing. And a lot of the institutions were like, you know, you're you're you're you're. frauding. You know, I I think about some. of these early hearings where Trump.

would want to put his casinos on tribal. lands, indigenous lands, right? I. remember one of these hearings, too, where you would see the lawmaker kind of. cross-examining Trump about being a. racist and Trump's response and, you. know, people would stand up to him and. stand up to him. you know, the one evil. superpower that he has, you know, is. that and it's it's me it's a little. there's a few of them, but the fraud, the fire hose of it is relentless. He. doesn't stop and it just constant.

constant constant constant constant. where then some people like, "All right, what what what are you trying to do. here?" I mean, just again, look at Iran. Look at Iran. Look at what he did there. and what he's doing there and think. about trying to do that on a human. being, right? You have Iran, a. civilization of a thousand years, you. know, and you see them fighting back, you know, and one fighting back. literally, but also fighting back. against what Trump is bombarding him.

with from an information disinformation. campaign. Oo, just like lying. The. president spoke to me. The foreign. minister spoke to me. this person talk. to me, that person, they want to do a. deal, they want to do, you know, and. it's non-stop. And Trump will put the. United States through the ultimate. humiliation ritual and won't stop where. you're just start thinking like, man, is. this person like a psychotic? Like is. like a psychotic you like, what are you. doing? What are you talking? You're. doing fake conversations with yourself. Yeah, dude. This is the guy in the 80s. who made up his own publicist and would.

call people on behalf of himself and. would change his voice, but would kind. of do it in his voice so you knew it was. him. He's a psycho. Like he's literally. like a psycho. Oh, I'm calling on behalf. of Donald Trump. It's like John Baron. calling on behalf of Donald Trump. Like. like he's doing that stuff right now at. this at this level. And think about it. If he does this in, you know, Iran, you. know, think about what it took for ago. Garcia to stand up to him or Eugene. Carol to stand up to him or any of these.

very courageous people who have stood up. for I mean, look, look at state regime. media earlier today, and this is Trey. Yinks. This is what they did a whole. segment on this today, and this is. breaking. This is Fox breaking. And by. the way, even though they're regime. media, CBS's regime media, Oxios's. regime media, all these regime media, even the ones that are adjacent regime. media, which to me is the rest of. corporate news, they all look like this. Like even though I'm going to show you. Fox, they all look like this. And so.

breaking, Trump says right after that, the story should end. Trump's Trump's a. liar. What Trump says doesn't matter. Trump's a freaking liar psycho. So what. this scumbag says after Trump says is. like, "Okay, what what what tell me. what's Trump?" Oh, he's doing another. deal with Iran. Iran called him and they. begged him for a deal and this time it's. going to be real. Okay. What else? What.

else did uh what else did they tell you, Donald? Like for real though, this is. what we would expect someone with an. involuntary 5150. What else were they. telling you, Donald? What else were they. Oh. Oh, really? And it's like this is. the United States of America right now. This is this is our country. And again, in the rest of the world that doesn't. live in this, they're looking at this. like, man, y'all are really crazy. Like. y'all like y'all are like think about. regimes that we used to grow up with and. think are like you know you know it was.

like South North Korea, Taliban, you. know like the US is on a whole new level. of of like some crazy dysfunctional. sick thing. Like look look at Fox right. here. Let's play this. >> President Trump calling off planned. strikes against Iran as he says a deal. is close. According to the president, talks will resume today aimed at. finalizing an agreement on the Strait of. Hormuz. Trump says he was asked by. Qatar, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia to hold.

off as diplomatic efforts play out. >> We had attack that would be the biggest. attack since World War II, and it would. have been disastrous. And they didn't want us to do it. And. and frankly, Saudi Arabia didn't want it. either. you thought that the deal is. eminent. >> Overnight, Iran's president, Massud. Peskin, posted to X about the memorandum. of understanding that was reached. earlier this year, saying in part, I.

believe this memorandum will be the. center of gravity for our foreign. relations in the future. We must strive. to compel the enemy to remain committed. to what it has signed, the security of. the country. No, the way they even tried to frame the. president of Iran, what he said, they. almost made it try to appear without the. audience understanding what was going on. as though that was affirming what Trump. was saying. Did you notice that what. they were saying, the president of Iran.

said, is that we did a deal with you. called theou which you breached. We're. not having discussions with you unless. you agree to what you agreed to. previously in theou which before theou. Iran was saying the same things back in. March. Sure, it was codified in an MOU, but the but when Trump did the. unilateral ceasefire, you know, whenever. it was 40 days into it, when Trump said, "I'm going to blow up the bridges and. destroy your civilization," set a. deadline and then on his own said, "Okay, I'm agreeing to a ceasefire that.

Iran wasn't even offering." And then. Trump just retweeted or reposted foreign. minister Arachi's points. This is what. I'm agreeing to. And then they sent. people to Pakistan and then they didn't. agree to it and they dragged this out. Then they did theou and they dragged. this out. We've been saying the whole. time Trump can't do deals. But the way. they were framing this was that as. though Iran was, you know, in in. agreement. This is what it would be. like. Remember when Belgium beat the. United States in the World Cup 4 to1. Imagine if while that was going on, while Belgium was up 4 to1, the.

announcers were like, "And the United. States just scored again. Go.". [screaming]. It's like, what? And they scored again. It's now 4-3. I'm like, "Yeah, I'm. watching the game. It's 4 to1 Belgium.". Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. THEY'RE ABOUT TO SCORE. GO. [screaming]. FOUR TO FOUR. OKAY. And wait, wait, wait, wait. The US 5 to4. We just took. the lead. Guys, you're you're not. describing what's happening. The US is. losing four to one. And and and Belgium. has surrendered. They have disqualified.

themsel from the match. The United. States has gone on to win the game. And. it's like they lost the game. What are. you to what world are you talking about? Like my segue there to talk about Giani. infantino. But Brett Jordy, that's like. that that's what's going on. You know, you you're literally what are you doing? What do you what what is going on? Iran. controls the straight of Hermoose. The. Houthis have a pretty strong grip on the.

Red Sea and the Babel Mandab. It's why. Saudi has to Saudi Arabia has to send a. lot of its tankers now in a new route. That's why Saudi Arabia told Donald. Trump through both NBS and NBS's. brother, you can't do this strike. You. have Iran speaking to Oman, not the. United States, about Iran's control over. the straight of Hormuz. And Trump is out. there pretending he's doing deals with. Iran. And he's done this now 10, 20, 30,

50, like 60 times of where it's like, and this right here is. it's hard to even articulate the level. of embarrassment and shame. The shame to. America. Honestly, this is so shameful. that this is the behavior. It's sick. It's like real. It's like it's it's like. gross that like we have to be now a part. of like a Trump organization which are. all failures. Like I don't want to be a. part of the Trump organiza. By the way,

find me some other competent freaking. people out there, you know, who at least. behave like grown-ups. Like it's that. basic to me Jordy. >> And you look at all the data and it. looks like a Trump business. When you. look at the yield reaching like record. highs, when you're looking at just. everything that's coming in, it's it's a. disaster. >> A good point on that, too. I want people. to understand that the 30-year yield is. like 5.2%. The 10-year yield is approaching 5%. That means that the payments that have. to be made to simply service the debt by.

the United States is trillions and. trillions of dollars. Um, which will. increase the debt dramatically. Ultimately, all of that means the. mortgage rates will start hitting 7%, 8%. and continue to go up. The reason the. United States had to bail out the. Japanese yen is because they're the. biggest holders of our treasury bonds. And because they keep trying to bail out. their yen, which is causing the yen to, which by the way is not actually.

working. The US had to give billions and. billions of dollars. We sold euros to. bail out the yen so that the Japanese. would not sell US treasury bonds which. would cause the yields to go up even. higher right now and that creates. massive instability. I just want people. to know the context there. >> Yeah. Yeah, with with the yen situation, it almost feels like the entire global. economy right now is being held together. like with scotch tape or something and. and and the Trump regime continues to. break things over and over again and.

then they try to scotch tape over it and. then hope it lasts long enough so that. they could put scotch tape on the next. issue before that becomes a bigger issue. and then they rinse and repeat. That's. what we're seeing every time. And I also. want to emphasize that uh Donald Trump's. comments right there because he says. this so flippantly and he's said it now. at least a handful of times in various. social media posts and you heard him say. it out loud there, but he said, "I had. an attack planned that was the biggest. since World War II." I just want to. emphasize like he's clearly talking. about nuclear war. He's clearly talking.

about dropping an atomic bomb or a. hydrogen bomb or or something like that. That's at least what his threat is when. he says things like this. And you know, at at this point, you never know. I. mean, your your default is just don't. believe anything he says because he lies. about everything. But you also know that. he's an unhinged maniac and could very. well do something like that. And that's. a very uh a frightening thought. Uh but. it just brings us back to this Groundhog. Day loop where Donald Trump says, "I'm. escalating. You know, we're about to.

have the biggest bombing campaign ever.". And then all of a sudden, oh, Saudi. Arabia and Iran and this country, they. all begged me. They said, "Please, sir, don't do it. Please, sir, let's find a. deal. And we've been going through this. now for months and months and months. And we know from reporting and from just. seeing what's going on that Donald Trump. is growing in uh increasingly stressed. behind the scenes, increasingly panicked. over the situation behind the scenes. that our generals and our admirals are. kind of a little bit freaked out right. now about what's going on because they. saw the reality of what's going on with.

uh the lack of munitions and. interceptors that we have. It's just a. constant dwindling supply. Iran. essentially knows that they just have to. kind of try to wait this thing out as. long as possible. And it's really hard. to fathom like what is what is a deal. even look like here? And I think to the. Iranian president's point, the deal. looks like what we actually what I. actually achieved uh in Switzerland with. theou. Like that's that's probably going. to be the best we got at this point. Like and and we talked about that.

agreement a lot, right? We even said, you know, good on them for at least. getting a document. Yes, it's horrific. for the United States, but I'd rather no. war than a stupid war. And and when you. lose a war, you got to give up certain. things. And it seemed like a a fair. compromise ultimately considering. everything that's happened. Uh but they. couldn't even abide by their own word. there. And Trump continues to make up. all these uh different scenarios and. what the Iranians are saying. And then. he projects back at them what he's. doing. And he goes, "Oh, they can't be.

trusted. They're constantly changing. their points. Nobody knows what they. want. It's like again, that's that's. you, man. That's you. Like, what what's. the what's the plan here? We're just. going to be here forever. Like, oh, oh, we don't have a plan. That's right. >> Yeah. Yeah. Be there for forever. I. mean, that thatou is is really the. starting point for the next president to. to start to go off of and then get. blamed for how bad thatou is. I mean, that that that that's where we are. Donald Trump, I want to I want to say. this really plainly here. He's the. world's worst businessman. Like, we've. talked about this. I'm not saying this.

is part of the business of it, but I'm. saying he's the world's worst. businessman. This man has bankrupted. casinos. He he has Trump stakes, these. Trump Airlines, all all these flops. after flops. He's not some great. businessman that the apprentice tries to. make him out to be or or how people like. to talk about him in the Oh, he's a good. businessman, though. No, he's not. He. had daddy's money and daddy's lawyers. And then he was able to bully all of his. contractors while he was in business or. anyone that he was doing business with. because he simply had more money and.

power than they did. That was the. dynamic that Trump used to take to his. business dealing. Just ask anyone in New. York City who ever did any sort of work. from him over there. It's absolutely. pathetic when people say he's this great. businessman. Now where we see ourselves. is a negotiation. Now the negotiation a. little bit of a higher stake, eh? Right. We have US troops dying. We have the. economy here in the in the United States. being impacted based on the oil prices. and everything going on over there with. this war of choice by Donald Trump. And. Donald Trump has not gotten us any.

closer to actually getting out. There is. no there there's no ifands or buts about. it. We are stuck here because Donald. Trump is such a maniac. And I've said. this before on the podcast that the only. way I could really see like this ending, and I don't say this sarcastically, and. I don't say this lightly, had been if. Donald Trump just like like nukes them. Like that that that feels like the stage. where Donald Trump wants to to take this. thing. And it's no wonder why these. military military leaders behind the. scenes are starting to get really, you. know, like stressed and and concerned.

about Donald Trump's uh uh escalating. stress and his panicking behavior and. him having no clear idea of how to. actually get out. The reality is from my. perspective based off all the data that. we see this will not end under Donald. Trump's presidency. We are nowhere near. close to ending this thing as we were. three months ago, four months ago. This. will continue to go on in this cycle. because Donald Trump cannot actually. negotiate. He has no skill. He has no. tact. What he does have is the United.

States Army and a lot of weapons behind. him where he could cause serious damage. and a lot of people around him that have. become yesmen and and folks in the. military. That is very scary to me that. we need real accountable folks behind. the scenes to make sure that Donald. Trump does not do something that we. cannot undo. And that to me as a someone. who loves this country is very. concerning. >> Well, look, he certainly very loosely. kind of talks about nuclear weapons, right? When he says it's going to be the. biggest attack since we did since World. War II, I mean, he's talking about.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki, like that's what. his implication is, that we were going. to do something like that, which is a. real sick thing to say. But Jordy, you. bring up an important point, which is, and this is what we talk about in WTF. America also, is that what we have to. recognize is this loop that we need to. get out of. And it's not just a one. election loop in order to deal with. because we can keep going back to the. arsonist and then the firefighter and.

then the arsonist blames the firefighter. and the arsonist comes back, right? I. mean, what Trump is preparing to do and. what MAGA is preparing to do is now dump. this mess that they've created, Brett, as you said, kind of scotch tape. together economy, all these different. things are broken. But Donald Trump. personally has made a killing and a. small group of right-wing oligarchs have. made enough money for infinite. generations of their family while the.

American people suffered. So they got. theirs while everybody else didn't and. they lead us further and further down. this path of devastation where someone. and it's current. It's not like. necessarily the future. It's right now. most Americans feel and there's a reason. why consumer confidence is at an. all-time low just historically but. someone has to deal with this. And if. you deal with it responsibly and if you. remove the bandage or if you acknowledge. that Trump has not given the medicine,

he's been giving the placebo. He's been. giving the water pill, not the medicine. to try to make his people feel good to. manipulate the market. And then you. actually have to diagnose the sickness. That means you have to recognize the. sick. And when you recognize the sick, like Biden had to recognize the sick, what happens? There's a reason why the. inflation was what it was. There was a. reason why the gas prices were what they. were. There was a reason why those first. two and a half, three years weren't.

easy. Because surgery isn't easy. Open. heart surgery isn't easy. Now, doing. that in the context of fixing what Trump. broke the first time. Doing that type of. surgery is not easy. You know what's. easy? Oh, we're going to be amazing. Everything's great. Don't you worry. I. brought in 19 trillion. It's amazing. Look at my hands. be hypnotized by my. hands. I did 19 trillion. Things are the. greatest. We've never been richer. We've. never been more powerful. I'm gonna do. That's easy. That's easy. Oh, it's this.

country that did it. They did it. It's. their fault. Their fault. Democrats. Easy. That's a that that that's a con. artist doing that. Okay. Actually, now. addressing how do you fix the bond. yields? How do you fix the broken. economy? How do you deal with this? One. of the things that I saw in a Bank of. America report, they're like, "The way. Kevin Walsh has been handling his very. short tenure thus far as the Fed chair. has been what we used to see in emerging. markets, corrupt emerging markets. On.

the one hand, Wars spoke all hawkish a. few weeks back about how he was going to. need to probably raise interest rates, but then when he probably needed to. during the last time the interest rates. came up, he didn't push for that." And. that's increasing the interest rates. will have a very harmful effect on the. market. It will have a harmful effect on. people, but it may address inflation. And that ain't easy to do. That's a hard. thing to do. But it may be what's needed.

in order to treat the sick, the sick. country that we have. How how are you. going to deal with Iran? A future. president may actually have to recognize. we lost the war, which we did. So what. do you have to do? you may have to give. Iran control over the straight of Hormuz. because they won the war and doing a. catastrophic you know there's a new. dynamic and then what it's easy for you. to be like ah look you're weak you're. pathetic you're a weak pathetic person. you're a loser you let him control it. Donald Trump would never do that we we.

have to get out of this generational. fraud cycle and the media is a major. engine in it by creating and. perpetuating these gamified politics and. not recog recognizing that this is not. what I've said isn't political. Trump's. a con artist. He's a fraud. He's a. psycho. He's a scumbag. He's a loser. And he's caused this harm. Not because. he's Republican. He happens to be. Republican now, even whatever. And and.

has turned the Republican party into his. cult. But this isn't a political I'm. rooting for Democrats or independent. It's just this is broken. He broke it. They're covering up a child sex. trafficking ring. Trump is making. billions of dollars. He's doing 21,000. stock trades. He's waving tax liability. I'm I'm not even making a political. argument. I'm making a basic. argument about life. That that shouldn't. be taking place. That's all. And we have. to get out of this loop. So when the. next person, you know, takes over and.

they want to fix it, what are the. Republicans going to do? Oh, you screwed. it up. Donald Trump was going to fix it. Everything was going to be amazing. Remember, we said we were going to have. 6% GDP growth. But then you all screwed. it up. No, you had a chance. We're two. years in. You promised us 4% 6% GDP. growth that electricity prices would be. cut in half. You and now what? The same. thing. It was all going good until COVID. hit. And then Dr. Fouchy screwed it up, right? It was all going really good, but. then I had to take my detour in Iran. It.

was all going perfect. Then I had to. take my detour. And then the Democrats. won the midterms. The Democrats did it. And then it all derailed. But those. first two years, it was the golden age. No, it wasn't. The first years of Trump. were in a golden age. And guess what? CO's on you, buddy. Co's on you. The. catastrophic war is on you and. Netanyahu, buddy. That's who did it. Anyway, let's take our last quick break. of the show. A reminder. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. That's why this WTF America book that we.

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look. And Jordy, look. And mightest. mighty look, the person who bankrupted. casinos has bankrupted our military. Right. Trump like, I rebuilt it. I built. it. I did. I was the one who built it. No, you didn't. He's the one who breaks. it. Just take what he says and it's the. opposite like every single time, right? We're out of Patriot interceptors. We're. out of fat interceptors. We're out of. navy destroyers which have these. anti-bballistics on them as well. Okay. We've abandoned our bases in the Middle. East. Like you all realize that, right?

like we've abandoned our bases uh in. like Bahrain and Qatar aloud the fifth. fleet in Bahrain our bases in Kuwait and. we've moved our troops and we've moved. the remaining equipment that hasn't been. destroyed by Iran has been moved to. Israel because the Iron Dome still. exists in Israel but guess what doesn't. work the Arab dome doesn't work but the. Iron Dome is still working so some. people like well why hasn't Iran hit. Israel Well, because Iran has a strategy.

and they're like, "Why would we bring in. Israel into this right now? They have an. Iron Dome that actually works. We want. to show the Arab nations that the United. States has played you and that they went. into this war with Israel and Netanyahu. without telling you. And Israel's system. works, but yours doesn't. All those. billions of dollars you've paid for it, all of the quidd proquo deals you did. with Donald Trump. And that's why Trump. then has to go to the UAE and say,

"Okay, okay, okay. You want some of our. Blackwell chips? We've got the most. highly classified semiconductors UAE. because the security umbrella failed. So. Trump's got to give them something which. has second and third level consequences. because they just take the black whale. chip and guess what they do with it? They give it to China. Saudi Arabia, we're going to give you the ability to. do uh nuclear power plants. Then there's. some outrage there here in the United. States. Wait a minute. You're gonna give. them nuclear power plants? Can't they.

just enrich it? No. No. No enrichment. No. Look at my hands. Get hypnotized. No. enrichment. Well, what are you talking. about? That's the way nuclear power. plants work except small numbers in uh. Canada which don't have enriched for. civilian purposes, but you're going to. have to enrich it. So, the question is. weapons grade or non-weapons grade? Well, actually Saudi I'm not sure why I. did that voice, but Saudi Arabia then. you need to do the Abraham Accord. You. need to do the Abraham Accords with. Israel if you want the nuclear power. plant. Sarah Becca, we're not we're not.

doing that. Like what are you talking. about? We're not going to do the Abraham. Accords. You want the Kingdom of Saudi. Arabia to topple. They made it clear. they're not going to do it. But but so. he's scrambling. He doesn't understand. any of the geopolitical um you know. dynamic that's taking place. He's making. things. But the real situation is that. we're out of interceptors. And then back. in Turkey during NATO summit, he sat. there with Zinsky and he said, "I'm. going to," he acted like Zolinsky is. like burdening him with all of these. requests for interceptors. He's like, "I'm going to give you I'm going to give.

him We're doing a deal." Is what Trump. said. "I'm doing a deal. We're going to. give Zalinsky the interceptor license. because this way you're not going to bug. me about, you know, not giving you. interceptors." Okay. Okay. Then Zalinsky. went to Washington last week which may. as well felt like 2025 you know in this. news cycle but that was la early last. week right the same time it was Lindsey. Graham's funeral which was also somehow. last week you know which again feels. like weeks ago and months ago or. whatever but what did Donald Trump.

promise then as well Trump promised that. he was going to once again give the. Patriots and and give the interceptor. licenses and did he do it? No, he. didn't. He he lied to Zalinsky about. that as well. And then last week it came. out. I'm not giving you the. interceptors. I'm Why are you not giving. the interceptors? Be This is what he. said on Friday at Camp David. Because. they may use it against us. That's why. we don't give the Nvidia chips. Just. think about it. It's a highly You did.

You You gave it to You gave the Nvidia. chip to UAE and you didn't give the. black belt to China, but you gave their. next highest level one. Like what what. are you doing, you psycho? like quite. literally what the hell are you doing? And so this is this is the reality of. what exists right now. You may not like. the reality. It's not a Democratic. reality or a Republican reality or an. independent reality. The reality is is. that just as he's bankrupted everything. he's touched or most of the things he's.

touched, that's what's happening with. our military right now. And what's. ultimately going to happen in the Middle. East, which future presidents are going. to have to deal with, is that China will. be the main actor in the Middle East. You know, the whole idea of the petro. dollar that's going to be shot. The. dollar's value, by the way, is going to. be in significant decline. People are. going to buy less US treasuries. The. yields are going to continue to go up. That puts us in a constant cycle of. debt. That ultimately makes it very. harder for affordability. Does this want.

to talk about real trickle down? It. ain't rich people giving uh stuff and. giving their money to most Americans. It's the opposite. It's trickling down. the pain is what actually is really. happening. And again, when you have. Donald Trump out there willing to. prosecute a two-time Olympic canoist and. blame him as being a reflecting pool. vandal, there's no depths to the. depravity when that's the depths to. which you talk about reflecting pools.

all of the time. So before we went live, you had Donald Trump saying, "Uh, Janine. Piro, she choked. Janine Pro, she's a. choke artist." Let's play this clip of. Donald Trump saying that. >> because because the judge was really. vicious. Instead of going after the. people that did it, the judge went after. her and went after her department. And I. guess she choked. I don't know what the. hell happened. >> Are you reconsidering her role? You're. >> I don't know what you You don't You're.

fake news. Don't don't ever talk again. You're fake. There's one of the one of. the worst in the business. Fortunately, nobody watches you. But. >> that's why if I was the reporter, I. would just be I'd probably get like. arrested. [laughter]. I mean, that's why I can never be like. if if I if someone was like that to me, I think I'd really just be like, you. know, as much as I don't curse, I think. I would just like I'd be like, you are. an I want to say what I would say, but I. probably, you know, I. >> That's because you have a backbone, big. bro. You got a backbone. all these.

reporters and they care so much about. the access so much to tell their mommy. and daddy I'm my way I asked questions. to the president today it's okay stick. up for yourself man stick up for. yourself. >> yeah you're you're you're f and you know. what you could say too is you know that. was Todd Blanch's you know that Todd. Blanch approved that too or was he not. paying attention to that document. so then Donald Trump's like well now we. have a big decision to make a really big. decision to make so let me show you what. Trump's big decision is right with. Everything going on right now, right?

Whether it's the catastrophic war in. Iran, Treasury yields rising, bailing. out Japan, people can't afford anything. here. What's the big decision, Donald? Tell us. >> And I was disappointed with Janine Pure. Really disappointed with Janine Pure. She uh she folded like an umbrella and. people get away with things and it's a. it's a disgrace. But we're very proud of. Lafayette Park. Now, we have a big. decision to make. Do we take the pavers. that are red, you know, the red brick.

pavers, and do we change them into a. granite. to gray granite? They're beautiful, but. they're not the original. So, we're. going to have to make that decision. You. have a good sense of taste. What would. you do? >> Okay. What the hell is he. >> incorrectly incorrectly saying phrases. uh like folded like an umbrella? I think. he meant lawn chair. It's just a sign of. some mental diminishing right before. your own eyes. I I just I I truthfully. just cannot fathom like how horrible of. a person you have to be to be willing to.

try at least to send an innocent person. to prison for 10 years to cover for your. own failure and your own inability to. get something built the way you said it. was going to be. >> Any. and a US Olympian on top. Like it. couldn't It's a good point. Like it. couldn't be any more of like a parody of. somebody who like wants to destroy the. United States and just is like an evil. human being. Not only is it a random. person, which is bad enough, but a US.

Olympian is is who you're doing this to. >> You know, in in criminal justice, we. talk about restorative justice, rehabilitation, right? Incarceration as a c can you. rehabilitate? Um and uh the difference, you know, this is early crim law. You. kind of delve into this like uh. restorative justice, rehabilitative. justice versus retributive justice and. punishment, right? Punish and the.

balance uh in criminal justice systems. And there's a reason though why felons. should be in prison, right? There's a. reason why. And not to say that felons. can't be rehabilitated. I think that I. believe in second chances, right? You. know, not all the time. Um I'm not. really a third chance guy, but I believe. in second chances, but also not all the. time. It depends on circumstances and. oftentimes accepting accountability. But. there's a reason why Trump should be in.

prison. Okay? He's a criminal. Um you. know, and so the fact that he's behaving. like a criminal shouldn't surprise. people. That's he's a criminal. you you. know it's it's it's like you know I. don't need to give other examples of. horrific people doing horrific things. but what do you think you know what do. you expected the guy's the guy's a fraud. too the you expect the fraud guy not to. be extra fraud could you what do you. think would happen if you put Bernie. Maid off as president of the United. States do you think Bernie Maid off.

would be like well now that I have this. position I am going no guy would you. know engage in the Ponzi scheme even. more I think it was former President. Obama Obama who said this, but I I I. don't think it's necessarily a unique. observation that the presidency brings. out your character. So, if you're. empathetic, you become extra empathetic. If you're panic, you become extra panic. If you're a fraud, you become an extra. fraud. Like, it it it brings it all out, you know? And this guy's a sexual. predator. It's been found civily liable. for sexual assault. Like, he's a like.

this is a bad human. This is a America. is run by a bad human being who is also. a loser who bankrupts things. A bad. human being, loser, sexual predator. And. that's not me being like hyperbolic like. I think those are objective facts. And. so the fact that the country is behaving. that way, it's like duh. And that's also. why and again I'm not just trying to. Okay, Ben, stop plugging the book. Stop.

plugging the book. It's important. I. wanted to leave it as a lasting like I. have conversations with myself based on. what I see sometimes in the chats but. I'm proud of it damn it I'm proud of it. but we need to talk about moral. character and that's not happening we. need to talk about moral character we. can also talk about forgiveness we could. also talk about mistakes we could also. we could talk about a lot you know it. doesn't speaking about moral character. doesn't mean you know you're weak or. speaking about empathy doesn't make you.

weak quite the contrary. But that's what we should expect of. leaders. So let me give you two more. examples. This from the earlier Oval Office press. conference. Donald Trump claims we have. photographs or tapes like moving. cameras, right? Where people are on the. side cutting it with a box knife. Listen. to what he says here. Play this clip. >> Beautiful. Now we have photographs or. tapes like moving cameras, right? We. have them where people are on the side.

cutting it with a box knife was it. So. now I'm not saying I was 100% thrilled. with uh the contractor, but the. contractor was rushing. We wanted to get. it open for July 4th and we got it done. But in addition, there was vandalism. There wasn't. There wasn't. Where are. the photographs? They show one over the one video that.

they show which he had Jesse Waters play. is this overhead. By the way, there's an. interesting moment that Jesse Waters. today was like, "Why are we covering. this WNBA story, which people thought. was an interesting one that he said, but. he's he's going to get sued by David. Hearn. He's going to get his ass sued.". But it's coming from a place of he's. actually privately pissed right now. >> and deservedly so. Honestly, he should. get sued. Pier should get sued. Trump.

he he behind the scenes. He That's. what's actually happening is that he's. under a lot of pressure right now. He's. got emails and messages. He knows he's. going to get document preservation. requests. And so, it's actually coming. from a place of they were running a WNBA. story and he lost his cool. And he was. like, why are we even covering these. stories? Because what he was trying to. articulate was why are you have you know. if you listen to his mom when he when. Jesse got the job his mom's actually a. Midas fan and Jesse's mom.

you know Jesse's mom knows that it's an. act and it's a very dangerous act that. he plays you know he plays the character. in the Hunger Games. He looks like the. guy in the Hunger Games. And it almost. it makes it worse that this is like, you. know, because, you know, it's equally as bad, if not worse, that. this is an act by this guy because it's. all fun and games and he makes a lot of. money, but then something like this. happens and that just so you all know, I'm giving you my opinion, but that's. what's going on behind the scenes there.

>> It's all it's all of them. They're 99%. of them are putting on an act. They all. know exactly what they're doing. They. they discuss it in the meetings. They. they know what they want to do. They. know if there's a specific issue that. they could view as a wedge issue and. they want to go all in on it to try to. divide this community against itself. >> You say like them like the mom Donnie. story. They're like, "Mom, you need to. present photo IDs at the grocery store.". And by the way, I heard that so many. times that I just assume, you know, like. it wasn't the main story that I was, you.

know, covering, but I heard. >> to the ecosystem. >> And I and I said I said, "That's. interesting. doing they're doing the IDs. to make sure you're a New York City. resident. How does that have to deal. with people who don't have IDs? And and. then they're like, "That's not true.". Like, "What do you mean it's not true?". None of it. What do you mean none of. it's true? Yeah. It's just like it's. just the right-wing talking point that. they're we don't make people use IDs to. use the grocery store and and and that. guy like just so you know like I have my. guard up, but I'm so busy focused on. Iran and focused on Treasury yields and.

focused on all these stories that that. one seeps through and you even think, okay, well, who would just make that up? Them. They make up everything. I just. wanted to point that out. And finally, Brett, I just want to show this clip. I'll toss it to you, which is um which. is this bizarre scene where Donald Trump. then uses the people behind him as. props, whether it's sports teams or who. children, you know, here he's using. these women as props. Like, who even. knows what this presser was about.

because it was so off the rails. U but. he uses these and and he wants and he. looks at them and he's like, I'm better. than Sleepy Joe, right? Who's who's. better? Who do you like better? And he. knows they're on camera and and he puts. these women and not just women. I mean, it's all these people and he puts men. sports in very uncomfortable. compromising positions where they're. there in front of the world. It's still. the president of the United States. You're still in the Oval Office. We were. in the Oval Office. When you look at it,

it makes you feel a certain way. There's. a lot of history attached to it. and he. knows that and he abuses it and he. brings you in and then he says something. like and it's and it's objectively. I would imagine you go in there which. you shouldn't go in there knowing that. that's how you're going to be hard to. you know uh be like no you're get me out. of here right now but then for these. ladies here like the sports teams like. the business leaders like the men it's. not unique to the ladies like the men.

like anybody in there it's like Now. people will look at you and know that. you were an enabler of this. Like that's. your life. Like no matter what good work. you may have done or not good work, but. if you were a well-intentioned person, you were there and you just enabled it. and you just adopted and incorporated by. reference into all of your life's work,

whatever that may be. this and that's. how you're remembered now. Like that's. how that's how like I'll show you here. Let's play this. It's very creepy too. Here, play this clip. >> And how did I how do I compare in terms. of response with other presidents of the. past? >> No comparison, sir. >> Is it good or bad? >> No, it's good. >> Actually, it's very good. >> It's very good. We do okay. >> You do great. >> Little more than sleepy Joe. A. >> little bit more. Yes, >> I think so. Thank you. Thank you.

Did he pat her also? >> He loves patting people like they're. >> he patted the lady and and and but I. just think though too like you have to. have some agency over yourself. Like I. don't know who she you know someone tell. me you could put in the comments who she. is. Um but like that's what you were. padded. You looked like a fool and now. you're in now that's your life. Like. whatever you've done in life from. college to this to under whether you're. college like that like that's it. That's.

your moment right there. And that's how. you'll be known to your children, to. your grandchildren, you know, and and and and that's. generational. That's generational, Brett. Jordan. And and I'll just add, you know, that's why accountability is so. important. That's why the uh the. criminal cases against Trump were so. important. That's why um the law. defamation lawsuits against companies. like Fox are important. That's why Jesse. Waters being scared is important because. these people gain power when they get.

away with their crimes. And. unfortunately, the lessons that we've. learned from the past few years that. these people get away with things far. too much and that people constantly want. to try to move past an era in order to. try to get to this utopia where we just. let it all slide and everyone will just. be kumbaya and everyone's going to be. okay. No. Right now, what we're seeing. is like this revenge tour from Donald. Trump against everybody who he thinks. who has wronged him. And all the. Republicans also are trying to.

constantly uh invoke that same sort of. fear in people so that uh people kind of. think twice rather than try to get. accountability in the future. Like. earlier, I'm not sure if you guys uh. caught this as well, but uh Chuck. Grassley, Senator Chuck Grassley, 90. plus year old Chuck Grassley said uh and. as he always writes very weird online, I'm inviting Jack Smith to testify. before the Senate Judiciary Committee on. September 22nd, "American people deserve. nothing less than full transparency plus.

accountability for Arctic frost and. special counsel lawfare." I mean, this. is just intimidation. They want to try. to get people not to speak out. They. want to try to get people not to. prosecute these cases. When the next. Jack Smith comes along and says, "I want. to try to look into these many crimes. that this person has committed." They. want the that person to be like, "Gh.". But then if the Republicans gain power. in the future, I'm going to be dragged. into the in the mud and they're going to. try to when I'm 85 like Dr. Fouchy, they're going to try to ruin my life and.

have me arrested and all this stuff. All. because people were trying to get some. sort of accountability. all because they. would need someone to pass the blame on. to somebody else for their own failures. And what I think Jack Smith should say. in a situation like this is, "Okay, bring it on. Uh, I'll come, but let me. bring volume two of my report about the. Mara Lago case, about the stolen. documents case, and I'll be forthright. with the American people about what's in. that document." Uh, but they don't. actually want the truth. They just want. to berate people. They want to kind of. instill fear into people so that they. don't even think twice uh about whether.

or not they're going to prosecute, you. know, in the future and actually pursue. justice as how justice is supposed to be. pursued. And I think, you know, that's. that's the game they're playing. It's. it's it's pretty obvious what they're. doing. And they do it in the cloak of uh. calling things by the name of the. opposite thing. You know, the the. weaponization committee is the company. that is the committee that's actually. weaponizing the government. Donald Trump. going after fraudsters. They're actually. the regime that is committing all of the. fraud. And so they couch it in all these.

terms which uh to try to, you know, delude the public and hope that legacy. media and people go along with what. they're calling things. But meanwhile, the actual things that they are doing. are some of the most illegal, horrific, immoral things that you have ever seen. >> Deep cut here for all you ball knowers, but I can't look at a Chuck Grassley. tweet and not think of the time he was. tweeting about the the P. The p the pons pigeons. >> If you don't know what I'm talking. about, I unfortunately don't have the. tweet pulled up here, so you might think. I'm crazy. Just Google Chuck Grassley.

pigeon tweets and oh, you're in you're. in for a doozy there. You have never had. more power than you do right now. Midas. mighty uh pro-democracy community, folks. that genuinely care. One of the coolest. things about this network that I that I. like to say is we've never done any sort. of paid marketing to promote the channel. or or or us or or or any of this. All of. this growth has been 100% word of mouth. And that is all thanks to you. That's. all thanks to you going to your circles, to your people, to you reposting, to you. talking about it online, you doing.

whatever in your capacity to uplift. pro-democracy voices and values. All of. that is thanks to you guys and your. ability to hold these people, the these. anti-democratic institutions, the the. Trump regime accountable every step of. the way goes so far. It genuinely. genuinely does. And I just want to. remind you of of your power. continue to. call out the BS. Use your platforms, use. your circles, use your friends and. families to remind them about none of. this is normal. We are not living.

through normal times and we can get out. of this, but we're going to have to work. towards it. We can't just expect poof, everything's going to be fine or quote. unquote back to normal. What is even. normal? We know where we need to take. this country in order to succeed. And. you all have the power to get us there. So, thank you all so much for everything. that you do every single day. Benji, >> everybody, if you can pre-order WTF. America comes out in October, the. publisher lets us know. The more data we. get early versus waiting for October to.

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