LIVE: MeidasTouch RESPONDS to MAJOR BREAKING NEWS - 9/10/26

We've got a lot to discuss on this. episode of the Midas Touch podcast. The. United States set a record today, but. not the record that you want to be. setting. Diesel hit $6 a gallon for the. first time in US history. This as. Treasury yields continue to rise, inflation is surging, and Donald Trump. has created an economic catastrophe here. at home. But if you watch Donald Trump. at this bizarro Republican midterm.

convention, Donald Trump would tell you. that we are now experiencing a golden. age. We've never done better. economically in the history of the. United States. He said, "We're doing so. well that he promises if you vote MAGA. Republican in the midterm elections, he's going to give you $5,000. or this morning $500. in addition to the $5,000. But here's. the catch, ladies and gentlemen. You got. to vote MAGA Republican because then if.

you do that, as soon as the elections. are over, oil prices are going to go. down, down, down. The war is going to. end immediately, magically, after the. election, but all you got to do is call. 1800 vote magublican and you will. succeed. It's like the stupidest thing, you know, more fraud from Donald Trump, literally begging and defrauding the. American people to vote MAGAR Republican. by saying he's going to give him $5,000. And then it just got from the fraud to.

the weirdness. You had all these MAGA. Republican senators, you know, going up. there and basically saying, and I got to. tell you, God is non is not non-binary. Anybody who says God is non-binary, we. need to we need to make sure that those. people are barred from civil society. It's just some of the strangest stuff. that they just wanted to talk about that. God has a penis. and they wanted to. repeat that over and over again like. MAGA Republican Tim Scott and Ken.

Paxton's weirdo speech. We'll get into. all of that. Um, and we're going to talk. about what's going on internationally. You have the Houthis making major. advances in Yemen. We've been reporting. on this for a long time here at the. Midas Dutch Network, but officially they. were able to take control of the port. city of Mocha in Western Yemen. Also, the Hanish Islands that are right off. the coast of Western Yemen. The Houthis. continue to make advances and they're. heading to take full control over the.

Bob Elandab Strait and the territory uh. surrounding it which is expected to. occur very very soon. And right before. we went live, we learned that the Saudi. Arabian East West pipeline seemed to. also be struck by the Houthis right by. the Medina area. We're seeing satellite. footage right now and remember Donald. Trump and Bessant were bragging we don't. need the straight of horses because. we've got the pipelines that are working.

even more than the straight of I mean. look the pipelines were always there. Um. but you need both. Um but in any event. that pipeline the east west pipeline um. seems to have been seriously impacted by. the recent Houthy uh strike. We'll break. down the impact of all of this as we're. learning that the US has now sent over a. hundred military officials to help Saudi. Arabia uh work with the Saudibacked. group in Yemen against the Iranianbacked.

group in Yemen, which is the Houthis. And so there's this proxy fight going on. there. And surprise surprise, just like. Iran won the catastrophic war that Trump. and Netanyahu launched against it, the. Iranian proxy group, the Houthis, is. winning that war against the Saudi. Arabianbacked group uh in Yemen right. now. We'll talk about that and um we'll. talk about just some additional data. points we're getting. Uh the Iranian. strikes this past week resulted in major.

damage to US military bases. We're. learning more about multiple F-15s, about eight F-15s. that were struck pretty hard and. damaged. Blackhawk helicopters, A10s. Trump says there was no damage to the. military bases. I promise you, no damage. at all. I mean, we literally saw the. Iranian ballistics striking the US. military bases like King Fisel and. Moafic Salty and the other bases in the. region. And the US interceptors, some of. them worked at first, but by the third.

or fourth wave of Iranian ballistic. missiles, those US interceptors were not. even functioning anymore. The US. continues to deplete its munitions. We. learned that JD Vance and Spring and. Summer reached out to all our top. generals and admirals to get an. assessment of what's going on with this. uh munition situation, and they all told. them it's dire. There are some areas. that have less than 100, which I want. you to think about this. In the recent. Iranian strikes in Jordan that took.

place in the past few days, it appeared. the US used maybe its last 60 to 80. defending those bases and the Iranian. new ballistic missiles. Some of its uh. Shakum, it's it's a Keshum shakens and. others are able to go around uh the. interceptors. And we're running out of. interceptors, which we've been talking. about before. We'll talk about that and. more. Um, oh, and then 60 more. casualties added to the database that. the Pentagon uh keeps of uh injured and.

killed service members. 60 new injured. service members were added since August. 31st. 60 that's 61 additional Americans. were wounded uh in action. And again, we. believe that the Trump regime is uh. still uh giving false numbers. We. believe the number is much higher. But I. just want you to think about that. The. only way this was learned is that Stars. and Stripes and Might as Touch Network. and others just look at the public. database which seems to be manipulated. on a daily basis. Like there's no public.

communication about this. Instead, you. get Trump and Sentcom just lying about. everything. So, in other words, we've. got a lot to discuss in this episode. Brett and Jordy, how are you doing? >> Lot to discuss hanging in there, Ben. Good to see you. Good to see you, Jordy. Good to see you, Midas. Mighty. Certainly a lot going on and the Trump. regime just continues to lie to us, continues to hide the truth. The. Pentagon isn't even doing press. briefings anymore. And so Donald Trump. just gets out there. He says everything. is going great. But I think all the data.

points that we're seeing and continue to. see show that this is an incredibly dire. situation. I don't want to sugarcoat it. This war is going horribly for the. United States. And what happened earlier. today with the Houthis and what's. continuing to happen over there is. absolutely dire for the United States, for our military, for this entire war. effort. It continues to spiral. And as. the United States runs out of munitions. and runs out of interceptors, you see. the squeeze being put on not only by. Iran but by the Iran proxy groups out.

there. And you see this whole. architecture uh out there right now. Whether it's the United States, Saudi. Arabia, this entire defense sort of. architecture over there kind of. collapsing before our eyes. And that's. not all that's collapsing. The US. economy, which Donald Trump continues to. insist is the greatest ever. And the. Republicans have to get on stage at. their bizarro bizar, weird AF uh midterm. convention and act like everything is. amazing and this is the golden age.

Trump likes to say the economy is hot, hot, hot. Well, he's right, just not in. the ways that he wants the American. public to believe. He's right in that. inflation is hot, hot, hot. PPI hot, hot, hot. Core PPI hot, hot, hot. Diesel. prices hot, hot, hot. Oil and all these. things are moving through the economy. and they are affecting the average. American while Trump tries to pretend. that these problems are non-existent. And that's an issue because he's pushing. the economy to the brink. He's pushing.

our military to the brink. And when you. do that, eventually these things tend to. collapse. It's a house of cards right. now. And I think uh you know, we we all. kind of know what's coming. And so, buckle up. We're going to get through it. all. Uh Jordy, what's the latest on your. end? Brothers, mightest mighty, it is. wonderful to be here tonight. We have a. lot to get into. Brett, I think all of. the points that you laid out, Ben, all. the topics that we're going to talk. through tonight, it is just the result. of not having competent leadership. To. have someone who is such an utter.

buffoon, such a loser at the highest. position of government as president of. the United States of America, someone. who is so wholly incompetent that we. know that this war in Iran is not going. to end anytime soon. And like we've been. saying on this show, now that again. we've seen the revised numbers up to 61. casualties and and deaths. It's going to. get worse. We only even know half the. story as more and more people press for. the truth. I can only imagine what Trump.

and the Trump regime are trying to hide. behind closed doors right now. Benji, with that, where we getting started. tonight, big bro? Well, look, just. remember this past week, Sentcom. announced that it struck five civilian. Iranian oil tankers and it like bragged. about it like it was some major. accomplishment. And SenCom claimed, "Look, Iran tried to strike our navy. ships, our battleships, and our aircraft. carriers." So, we responded very. powerfully. Well, how would you respond. to that? Sounds serious. We struck five.

of their civilian oil tankers. They're. oil tankers. Really? That seems like a. war crime. and why are you going after. civilian stuff? But any event, then Iran. said, "Okay, we're going to respond." So. Iran's been striking multiple tankers. Right before we went live, we learned. that two more tankers just in the past. hour were struck by Iran. And then few. days back after the US launched its. strikes against the Iranian oil tankers. and the story of Moose, Iran hit Jordan. hard. What happened? It's the same story. and over again. The Jordanian government.

said there were 20 ballistic missiles. from Iran. We intercepted 18 of them. The two we didn't intercept, they just. went into areas that posed no threat to. anybody. And it was like, we saw it. I. was posting what went down. And I saw. multiple Iranian ballistic missile. strikes go right into the US military. bases. Like you're a bunch of And there. was far more than 20. So they lied. Then. Sentcom lied and they acted like there.

was no damage. Then Trump said no damage. at all. Then what happens? It's the same. pattern, right? And you just go back to. Donald Trump's civil trial, right? Where. he was uh sued by the New York State. Attorney General for just lying about. every one of his numbers on his. property, right? That was bad behavior. It was disqualifying behavior. He's. doing that stuff and stuff he's done his. whole life where he's bankrupted. entities and he lies and just makes up. every word as a lie. He's doing that in. the United States with our economy, with.

the military. And look with the United. States postworld war II architecture. being the kind of main uh area for. global economic uh relations and being. the main hegeimon in the world for. military soft power strong power. It's. not easy to break it all that quickly. But damn well there's one thing Trump. did. He destroyed America's standing. economically, militarily, uh, soft, hard power very, very damn.

quickly with just the lies and the. weakness and the loser behavior. And. then it was accelerated by this. catastrophic and unlawful war in Iran. And so then we learn about all of the. strikes that took place. And again, Trump lied, the Jordanian government. lied. Surprise, surprise, Iran striking. more tankers. The Houthis are advancing. and all of this stuff is impacting us at. home as well. That's why diesel hits $6. a gallon. That's why the price of gas is.

heading to $6 a gallon soon. It's why. Brent and WTI are both over $100 a. barrel. And Trump's instinct is just. what he always does, lie. Don't worry, it's amazing. and I got 65 billion. barrels of oil coming in from Venezuela. and that's going to be great. Our. strategic reserves are saved. It's like. no, those res the oil from Venezuela. isn't getting into our strategic.

reserves. It's hypothetical stuff that. has to be refined and it's not even the. right texture. Just stop with the lying. We need real serious people. We're not. even having a debate. This plan versus. that plan. Donald Trump just gets up. there and spews the most deranged things. imaginable. And you know, I led off with. diesel because diesel is the fuel that. moves the economy, as Gas Buddy. explains, powering freight trucks, trains, agriculture equipment, and. construction machinery behind nearly. everything Americans buy. This means Gas.

Buddy says the impact reaches far beyond. the transportation sector. As diesel. climbs, higher supply chain costs work. their way into the price of groceries, household goods, deliveries, and. countless other products families rely. on every day. Even the households that. never fuel a diesel vehicle. So, what. does this mean? That's why inflation is. surging. It's one of a number of. factors, including Donald Trump's. disastrous trade war against the world.

Brett, put those figures up one more. time from this morning where we got the. PPI readout. PPI inflation rose 5.4%. yearover-year, 5.4% more this year than last year. And. last year was worse than the year. before. And Donald Trump's whole selling. point was that I'm going to bring down. prices. I'm going to make things much. cheaper. Electricity is going to be cut. in half. Gas prices will be $2 a gallon. Just you'll see. I'll end the war in.

Ukraine in 24 hours. I'll speak to. Putin. I'll speak to Zalinski. I'm not. going to tell you what I'm going to say, but it'll take me 24 hours after the. election. I'll bring peace there. No. more neverending wars. And what have we. gotten? Things are far more expensive. The cost of living crisis is way worse. There's no way out of this catastrophic. war. Iran is emboldened. Iran's allies. are emboldened. The US security. architecture across the world is. destroyed. We'll get into more of that.

in this episode. And then Donald Trump, this orange blob blabbering buffoon at. the so-called midterm convention, it's. just lie after lie and it's the. stupidest lies. He gets up there and he. says, "This has been the most successful. two years financially and every other. way in the history of the presidencies. every other way." Here, let's play this. clip if we got it. >> You four years of disaster, bedum, and. death under sleepy Joe Biden.

And I'm asking you to let us finish the. job we began with the greatest two years. in the history of the presidency. This. has been the most successful two years. financially and every other way in the. history of the presidency. >> More false, utterly deranged. >> Ben, real quick, he's still talking. about Biden. And also, by the way, just. to be clear, he's actually correct. It. is in history the best financial years. in the history of the presidency for.

himself for he's raised over two he's. made over $2 billion in investments for. him and his family. He's exactly right. and they're cheering him on because they. think he's trying to say he's talking to. them. Uh-uh. Uh-uh. He's talking about. himself. He has financially gained off. of his two years more than any time in. history of anyone else holding that. seat. By the way, is it just me or does. it sound like a threat when he says, you. know, uh, help us win the midterms and. I'll finish the job. It's like, dude, you you've done enough damage. We don't.

need you to finish the job. Finishing. the job sounds like finishing the. destruction of the United States of. America. And I don't think we want that. >> And there's no other way to look at it. though, that that's what the guy's. doing. You know, I saw a reporter on. Bloomberg say like if you were to design. a SCOP to improve China's ability to. become the global hegeimon and destroy. the US post World War II architecture, you couldn't like design a better. version of it than what Donald Trump is.

doing. this wrecking ball who lies and. loses and looks dumb and just tarnishes. the reputation of our country every damn. day. It's why we need to just call it. out. Not even in a political way, just. in an objective reality like he's a. loser and now our nation is a loser. nation because of him. If we're. patriotic Americans, it's our duty to. call out this loser, traitorous, treasonous behavior that we see. Then.

Donald Trump at this uh deranged midterm. Republican convention says, "Tariffs are. making us richer than ever before than. we ever thought. We're taking in. trillions." Here's what he says. LET'S. PLAY IT. >> TARIFFS ARE MY FAVORITE WORD. It's going. to make America rich. It's making us. much richer than we ever thought. But. we're taking in trillions of dollars. Okay. But I said tariff is my favorite. word. And the fake news went crazy. They. said, "What about love? What about wife? What about God? religion, family.

>> I mean, in addition to just him being a. crazy psychotic lunatic, we're not. bringing in trillions of dollars. Our. debt has now increased trillions of. dollars. Our debt is over $40 trillion. because the Treasury yields are so high. because all of these countries and. companies are unloading our Treasury. bonds unless they get a higher rate of.

return. The interest we are paying on. our debt is trillions of dollars a year. before we even have to budget for other. things. Our Treasury bond sales are. awful. Treasury Secretary Bessant has. some new Ponzi scheme thing that he does. every day. Two weeks ago, it was, "I'm. going to do a $2 billion bond buyback.". That was after bailing out the Japanese. yen for a day before the Japanese yen.

continued to crash. Then he bailed out. the bond market by saying he was going. to do a buyback for less than a day. And. in the latest iteration where he talked. about a $6 billion bond buyback where he. would buy out long-term treasuries and. then try to, you know, replace them with. shorter term treasuries. Um, that lasted. maybe two minutes and then immediately. the bond market got worse because. they're seeing it as a sign of panic. So.

they're saying, "You think you're going. to be able to fight the bond market with. $6 billion bond buybacks? It seems like. you're a bit of a panicking." And wait, Treasury Secretary Bessant, weren't you. the loser who when you started a uh your. own firm that had $4 billion within. about a year there was 90% redemptions. because people figured out pretty. quickly that you're a dumb loser and you.

can't do this on your own. So yeah, the. guy who has his own dumb loser MAGA arc. who's up there now be you know like I. was he even acting like you know it's. like some old western movie. You don't. want to play with the Treasury. Department cuz you're going to end up. burnt or whatever the stupid things that. this guy has demonstrated that he's one. of the weirdest if not the weirdest of. all of these during. >> he's like he's like I am the house. I am. the house now. Well, you are the house. in a Trump casino which consistently.

went bankrupt. You That's exactly right. You are the House Treasury Secretary. Besson in Trump's casinos that went. bankrupt over and over again per Jordy. to your point exactly what he's what. he's doing. And so, you know, you're. seeing across the board here um far from. uh tariffs making us richer, they have. caused more inflation. They have closed. uh export markets for our farmers and. manufacturers. Increasing input costs as.

well. The disastrous trade wars have all. backfired as countries are standing up. to the Trump regime. And he just lies. over trillions of dollars. I brought in. trillions. And then you know he starts. to ramble and he does the we he goes. weeaves in this topic. He's like they. like when I weave. You know I weave. I. talk about something then I talk about. the ballroom then I talk about my. airplane. Then I talk about Air Force. One. Okay, that is your airplane. Um, and then I get back to the topic. You're what what what are you what are.

you even talking about? This is what he. said. Here, play this clip. So, what I. because I love the weave. You know what. the weave is? You talk about something, then you bring in a ballroom or you. bring in an airplane or you bring an Air. Force One. But you notice I always get. right back to the same topic. Now, when. I don't come back, she's great. He loves. He says, "I love Melania. She's doing a. good job.". So when someday there'll be a time when. I do the weave is weave weave. Someday.

there'll be a time when I don't get back. to the original subject and then you can. say he's had it. You've had it. Air. Force One is the airplane. Okay, those. aren't. And then the ballroom. While the. American people are suffering right now. and they can't afford things, you're. weaving and bragging about Ballroom and. Air Force One, back to Jord's point, your grift. You enriching yourself, stealing from the American people this.

absolute criminality, and then it's not. really much of a weave. He goes, "Do I. get credit for building the ballroom. with my money?" He didn't. No one wants. this ballroom. Shut the f up about the. ballroom. It's not your money. The. taxpayers have to pay a billion dollars. You destroyed the East Wing. I just will. be very clear. If Obama did this to the. East Wing, he would have gotten the. death penalty. I'm not even. exaggerating. Obama wouldn't have just.

been impeached or arrested. If Obama did. to the East Wing what Trump did, Obama. would have got the death penalty. Does. anybody actually dispute that they would. bring him up for the biggest high. treason and they would bring back, you. know, the most horrible thing. Donald. Trump, the Supreme Court goes, "Oh, well, maybe maybe we we should just wait. a little bit because we'll just agree to. uh to stay the lower courts." The guy. blew up the East Wing and he's bragging.

about it while the American people are. suffering. Here, play this clip. changes. because it's numerous exchanges and more. than one and it's uh been amazing. Do I. get credit for it? No. Do I get credit. for building a ballroom with my money. where I have I'm the only one I build a. ballroom. No money, no tax. I don't want. tax money. I don't want anything. It's. me and a bunch of patriots. They put up. lots of money to build this which is. desperately needed. And it's going to be.

beautiful. And everyone's going to say, "Oh, thank God." No, it's going to be. beautiful. Zero tax dollars for the ballroom. Zero. tax dollars. And what happens? I get. criticized. It's the most INCREDIBLE. THING. ANYBODY ELSE would do that? They. say, "What a nice gesture.". >> Brett, I want to get your reaction to. it. >> We got to study the people behind him. and the people who are actually. attending this thing. Like obviously, >> you know how I know we're brothers, Brett? Because I'm sorry to cut you off, but that's exactly where my mind was. going to. Sorry, I'll let you cook and. then I want to get in there. all these.

people behind him with these vacant. stairs and these smiles on their face. like, "Oh yeah, ballroom.". Like, "What are you doing? This guy is. actively ruining your life. The guy's an. idiot. The stuff he's saying doesn't. even make sense at all. Everything is. objectively horrible and getting worse.". It's like, "Do you just you like being. conned? Do you like being mocked? Do you. like being uh lied to at all times?". Like I it's truly difficult to fathom. how anybody who isn't being kind of paid. or isn't in this ecosystem and getting.

deriving some kind of financial benefit. or or some other benefit. How could you. even support this? Like everything about. this is crazy. None of it is. conservative by the way for all the. people who are like, "Well, I'm a. conservative, so I got to vote for. Donald." Nothing about this is. conservative. Everything he says is a. con. And this entire event, and we'll. get to more of the event, you know, I'm. sure after after the break, but the. entire event was just so weird. And at. no point at all do you actually hear any. sort of concrete plans to help people?

And it's like, are we forgetting what it. even means to be a politician? Are we. forgetting what it even means to be a. president, to be a congressman, uh to be. a senator? These are jobs. They should. be boring jobs. They should be jobs that. are going through legislation that are. trying to figure out, okay, how do we. improve this aspect of Americans lives? How do we improve this aspect of. Americans lives? And it's like all they. have is like, well, God, you know, God. has a penis. That's what I want to talk. about. God has a penis and James.

Telerico is a vegan. It's like, what is. this messaging? Who what are you talking. about? How does this help a single. person? What is your message to the. American people? I I truly do cannot. even comprehend how anybody could be. okay or support any of this. But I guess. that's why Donald Trump's approval. rating with like independence right now. is like 20% or something crazy. >> Brett, exactly what's his message? He. doesn't have a message. He's got nothing. to show for his previous two years as.

president and he's got no vision for the. future. Usually if if you're the. president of the United States and. you're going to go and you're going to. speak at your convention to rally up. everyone to go and vote for XYZ vote. down ballot all of that nonsense you'd. be touting all of your legitimate. accomplishments. I don't think Trump. even uttered one clear path or vision. forward to address the affordability. crisises in in this country because. again to him it's there is no crisis. It.

is the most financially beneficial. presidency in the United States history. Guys, these two years, more money than. any president. And the lemmings behind. him, Brett, to your point, exactly. Cheer him on. If there's anything. scarier than Trump talking about, whatever the heck he wants to talk about. while he's up there, it's always the. people immediately behind him because. they are so far gone. And I know there's. always theories out there, oh yeah, there are literally paid actors that go. behind him. I'm not here to say that or.

not, but those people behind him, they. are drinking the Kool-Aid studied. Honestly, >> they need to be studied, but also the. the question we always get asked here at. the Musch Network. How are you breaking. through to those MAGA people? I'm not. breaking through to those people. I. don't want to talk to those people. Those people are chomping at the bit for. another 4, 10, 20 years of Donald Trump. running this country into the ground. Those aren't the people we're trying to. talk to or at least not me specifically. because they are so far gone. They those.

people behind Donald Trump hate this. country with a capital H. They truly do. They pledge allegiance to one man and. that is Donald J. Trump. Benji, take our. first break of the show. When we come. back, I want to talk a little bit more. about what's been going down at this. deranged Republican midterm convention. I want to turn our attention to a lot of. these international developments that. have been taking place. I want to talk. about the United States Supreme Court.

actually making a good decision. upholding what the Missouri State. Supreme Court did regarding uh the map. that will restore or keep in place a 6-2. Republican Democrat map instead of the. unlawful MAGA gerrymandered 7:1 map. We'll talk uh a little bit more about. also some major resignations at the DOJ. A top Trump loyalist tendered a. resignation uh before we went live. We'll talk about that and more. So,

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old at home, but we're doing our. damnedest. Benji, how you doing, big. bro? Where to next? >> I'm doing good. In a little bit, I'll. share with you Maggami Johnson speech. from earlier today at this bizarro. midterm convention. It was more lies. And I'll show you what he was saying. He. was like, "We need a little more time. Takes a long time to stop the inflation. and to stop Biden's this and that and. the other." It's like, "No, you don't. Okay, you're two years in. Okay, uh, grow up." Okay, and Donald Trump.

promised on day one he was going to. solve these problems. They really are. just a bunch of con artists. And and you. saw Donald Trump's speech where he said, "Because of what we're doing with. Venezuela, we've been able to replenish. our strategic petroleum reserve. stockpiles. 65 billion barrels are ours. That's ours. right now." Listen to these lies about. Venezuela and this deranged arrangement. that he made with Venezuela. Let's play.

it. But getting back to oil, okay, we we. you are doing and as I said, you're the. biggest with now the biggest in the. world. We were nowhere near that. Now. you're we're the biggest in the world. And that's without Venezuela, which. we've just added to our little. stockpile. It's. it's the biggest. oil deal and probably it's the biggest. deal in the history of our country. 65.

billion barrels are ours and you know. what they say it is lifetime 500 years. and oh so I guess the price of gas is. going down right I guess the price of. diesel is going down I guess the overall. price per right I mean if it's ours if. it's added to our stock piles if you. really get a deal Donald then what do we. be oh wait a minute oh do we get to see. the deal no I saw some press releases.

appar Apparently, because private. businesses view Venezuela as. uninvestable by and large, you had to. create a Trump oil company within the. defense department to do deals with Deli. Rodriguez and this guy Alejandro. Bentacord, a very corrupt person over. there. And uh sounds a little bit. communist to me, communist authoritarian. to me. But but okay. Um you want to. maybe tell the audience that all of that. 65 billion barrels is hypothetical. its. potential that it would actually take.

tens of billions of dollars and years, maybe even hundreds of billions of. dollars and decades before the refining. can really even begin that that type of. oil doesn't go into our salt caverns and. our strategic reserves in Texas. And. those are just facts, Ben. Why would we. do facts? The people behind him, they. just want to see Shamu eat some. sardines. That's more of a seal, but that's like, is that what you want to see? is do you. really want I saw some people posting.

clips of idiocracy. This is far more. deranged than idiocracy was far more. coherent than what I've been observing. right here. And then Trump goes I think. we're going to call the hormoo straight. the Trump straight. You know what I. think I'm going to call it, Donald? I'm. going to call it two more tankers were. struck right before I went live. That's. what I'm going to call it because Iran. continues to control the straight of. Hormuz. This past week, two more. unmanned US submersives, these cutting. edge technology uh drones that go in the.

water. They were captured by Iran. One. today, one two days ago, and the Trump. regime's like, "That's an old model. You. mean they're all new models. It's not an. old model. We didn't care about that. one." Oh, really? Because Iran's going. to reverse engineer that one right away. They probably already have right now. Um. but this is what Trump I'm going to. rename it. I've renamed Lake Ontario. I've renamed New Mexico. And it's like, what stupid crap is this? What stupid.

crap is this? Here, play this clip. During my administration. and food prices AND ALMOST EVERY OTHER. item are rapidly going down. And by the. way, oil will be going down as soon as. we win the war with Iran, which is. taking place right now. We'll win it. We're winning it. We control. the hormone straight. I think we should. call the hormone straight. We should. call it the Trump straight. I should get. something out of there. The Trump.

straight. >> It's going to be called, Ladies and. gentlemen, I'll have an announcement. >> Yeah. I mean, real sick stuff. And. Jordy, >> is he is he is he calling it the hormone. the hormone straight? I don't you can't. pronounce it. >> the PE. But anyone who's clapping, I. think I should get something out of it. That's the revealing line. I should. >> I was gonna say it's revealing to his. entire thought process about everything.

he does that he's always in it to try to. get something for himself. We keep going. back to Jord's point in the beginning. He's constantly trying to extract from. other individuals, from companies, from. whoever. And it's all to benefit his his. himself, his family, whatever. And you. know that's why when you see some of the. people get up at this convention the. things they say are also just like it's. like do you live in this on this planet. like what the heck are you saying? Anna. Paulina Luna uh rep congressw woman from. Florida got up there yesterday and she.

decided to give her whole speech against. like enriching oneself in in public. office and she's like all these people. stock trading while in office. Donald. Trump literally a few days ago, not not. only has all his stock disclosures come. out showing that he makes thousands and. thousands and thousands and thousands of. trades and has made a ton of money stock. trading presumably off a lot of inside. information in my opinion. But you also. have Anapole Luna going out there and. trying to talk, you know, against this. while he is then posting memes on his.

Truth Social account, depicting himself. stock trading in the Oval Office and. saying, "I got rich off these stocks for. you." It's the sickest messaging ever. And he's like throwing it in their face. Can you imagine? What's Jordy? I know. you love this game. Can you imagine if. Joe Biden posted a an AI image of him. stock trading in the Oval Office? I. think like Biden, I think they'd give. the guy the death penalty as well. This. is the craziest stuff that we are. witnessing. It is such blatant. criminality being propped up by all of.

these con artists, by all these huers, by all these charlatans. And then they. bring religion into it. They have. preachers and pastors, these people to. say this person's e James Terico, evil. man. Evil man. Ken Paxton, great guy. Ken Ken Paxton, the corrupt guy who was. indicted on securities charges. The guy. who cheated on his wife and got divorced. on biblical grounds. The guy who was. just a all-around horrific individual. That's a great guy. James Terico, evil.

Donald Trump, great guy. Great guy. Biblical. Biblical. Incredible. And it's. like they live in this inverted world, but it's all it all is enabled by this. fraud. Everybody who's involved in it is. just fraudulent in some sort of way. and. as a hu really just manipulating people. and doing it in such a vile vile vile. vile way. It goes. >> very evil. Very very evil. Especially. how they weaponize religion for a lot of. people who really believe and you know. no knock on anyone whatever their.

beliefs are but like really believe and. how they twist that and so bastardize. that to just promote a political party. You want to talk about someone who is. actually deeply religious? Joe Biden. went to church every Sunday. But what. are we what are we even talk Donald. Trump I don't think has ever stepped. foot in a church for prayer. What are we. talking about here folks? It's not even. close. What we saw out of this. convention and will continue to see. these people are freaks. These people. are absolute freaks. The lowest of the. low, the scummiest of the scum. And we.

have to figure out as a society how we. move past that. How these people got so. weird in general. and how we start to. fix this damn country that Donald Trump. has so deeply broken, >> right? I mean, if you study what these. Iranian generals are saying and leaders, one of the things that surprised them uh. since the Trump Netanyahu invasion and. that they didn't fully appreciate the.

depths of it, while they assumed that. Donald Trump was corrupt and stupid and. all of these things, they were shocked. that he literally doesn't care about the. national interest of the US. They were. not prepared to deal with someone who. truly just cares about himself. And. similarly, the purported negotiators. Witoff and Kushner Dumb and Dumber who. travel around the world and you know are. basically the Pied Pipers for their own. funds. We learned that Witoff made what.

hundred million plus dollars last year. we sort of somewhat knew it already but. the disclosures had to be made public um. from you know his crypto schemes with. world liberty financial which had major. investments from Middle East countries. which further compromised us in these. areas but you know these IRGC generals. and military leaders and politically are. like wow like they just don't care about. the US and so once you understand that. Trump is not operating from the US. interest you do what Putin does which is.

You bring out Kel Demetri and Yuri. Yusikov, the money guys, and you make. everything about deals with Trump and. figuring out ways to, you know, to to. talk about even even when they're lies. You know, Putin does the Trump stick. You you know, Trump says, "I'm going to. do this that." Putin's like, "I'm going. to bring you trillions of dollars, Donald. Personally, trillions of dollars. we'll make sure you get." when, by the. way, Russia's GDP is less than Canada's.

GDP while Donald Trump attacks Canada, right? I mean, Russia's GDP is less than. California's GDP. And you know, that's. how you play Trump. You just say, "Hey, I'm going to get you something. personally." And you know, you saw this. approach. Saudi Arabia and UAE and all. of these countries, they did it as well, except they believe they were getting a. US security umbrella out of it. But as. Saudi Arabia has now seen uh as Iran's.

backed Houthies or Iran's ally the. Houthis as we went live struck the East. West pipeline right by Medina. I mean. that's going to be crushing to Saudi. Arabia's economy after numerous. refineries on both the east and west. coasts of Saudi Arabia have also been. destroyed by the Houthis over the past. uh several weeks. And remember Saudi. Arabia used its Saudi aligned government.

group in uh Yemen uh to strike the Sana. air base which was area controlled by. the Houthis back in mid July. And Saudi. Arabia felt all right we can do this. The US has our back. We've got the. weapons. We're ready to go. We're going. to prove a point because back then there. was supposed to be a meeting between. Iran leadership and Houthi leadership in. the Houthi capital of Sana and before. the plane even arrived uh Saudi Arabia. struck the air base and the Houthis they.

had just been kind of sitting in the. background preparing and they're like. got it game on. That's when the Houthis. really began in earnest to start uh. doing a blockade in the Red Sea. And. then they started saying, "All right, you're coming after us. We're going to. strike in Saudi Arabia." The Houthies. experience is the same experience that. Iran saw. And they learned together, of. course, when Iran was striking US. military bases in the region. It's got. it. The US security umbrella doesn't.

work. Trump got rid of all the top. generals. The US doesn't know what it's. doing. Pete Hexith is running the show. This guy is not just a malignant. narcissist, he's an idiot also and he. doesn't know what he's doing. So the. Houthies day by day, just like Iran got. more and more emboldened and they said, "Oh crap, if Iran was able to bring down. the US, we can bring back Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is getting its weapons from. the US. Saudi Arabia is backing the. other government group that occupies its.

capital in Aiden in Yemen. We can we can. let's let's go let's go on our. offensive. In the past 24 to 48 hours, the Houthis have been able to take over. 1,500 to 2,000 kilometers of areas in. western Yemen. They took over Alchoka, the key port city that's 60 kilometers. away from the Babel Mandab Strait. The. Houthis are continuing to advance. Notably, the Houthis were welcomed by. various tribes, also Sunni tribes. The. Houthis are Shia. these Sunni tribes.

were greeting them. And I've been. noticing this recently as well that. you're seeing the populations in these. areas increasingly feel got it the US. security umbrella is broken. Meaning all. the US proxies in the region are weaker. and they're feeling a more uh they're. feeling they have more of an ability to. work with the Iranianbacked groups and. and other groups. I mean, when we were. showing you the footage of Iran striking.

in Jordan, what I noticed and was one of. the reasons I showed you this footage, the Jordanian people who were eating on. the rooftop restaurant seemed very. metropolitan people, you know, who were. eating, you know, who were having dinner. there, they were cheering on Iran. striking Jordan. So, if you're the. Jordanian monarchy right now, you are. very nervous. If you're the Saudi. monarchy, the Houthi advancements in. Yemen taking Al Mocha, taking the Hanish.

Islands, and pretty soon the Houthis. will have all of Western Yemen, they. basically already do. And their question. is, are they going to go and take over. Aiden, which is the stronghold for the. Saudi back government, but they don't. even need to. The the the land that's. most valuable is all along the coast. And the Saudi back government's last. stronghold was Mocha. And if you could. take Mocha, you can take the other. areas. But if you're the Saudi monarchy. right now, you're thinking to yourself, can we defend Saudi Arabia? Think about.

beyond Yemen. Can the Saudi monarchy. survive this right now? Because a lot of. their power emanated that from this. deal, not just with Trump, but over. generations that the United States. provided the security. all of these. monarchies and Iran did not agree to. that. Iran created its own access and so. we're seeing that development happen. now. China rise, Russia feeling more. emboldened. That's the broader.

geopolitical story here. >> You you know what it kind of reminds me. of and they're obviously all incredibly. different situations. So it's certainly. an oversimplification, but you see. certain countries like Saudi Arabia, you. know, they what do they do? They they. really tied themselves to Donald Trump. in a lot of ways. uh you know with the. way they uh you know gave all that money. to Jared Kushner with the very close. relationship with Liv Golf I mean they. really made that relationship very close. and in a similar respect you saw that in. Canada right with the Maple MAGA folks. with the Pierre Polyvs you see these.

folks they tie themselves to Donald. Trump and the thing that people always. find out the hard way is that everything. Trump touches dies it's a cliche for a. reason and and it's true and so kind of. all the everything's coming home to. roost right now uh with all of these. kind of uh you know deals cut with the. devil so to speak whether it's Saudi. Arabia whether it's the Maple MAGA folks. and you see them in real time now trying. to deal with the consequences of this. and Trump's and ultimately it takes. until there is an existential threat to. those individuals themselves or to their.

power structures that it takes for them. to realize I better stand up to this or. I got to do something or we have to. adjust what we're doing because right. now as you look at it like I think you. could in in some respects kind of look. at the Saudi monarchy really in dire. conditions right now and having to make. a choice right now because they have to. choose am I going to stick with this. relationship with Donald Trump that. right now is screwing us over or am I. going to protect my people here? Uh I. ironically that kind of idea, you know,

Donald Trump's America first, everybody. take care of themselves sort of. strategy. Right now people in a lot of. these countries are thinking, I don't. know why I tied myself to this guy. I. got to be thinking of my own country. And I think it's particularly. interesting with with people, you know, like the Maple MAGA folks who were all. in on Donald Trump, right? Some of these. people like uh like like Doug Ford, uh. like Pierre Palv, all in on Donald. Trump, right? And then what happens? Donald Trump does stuff. He attacks. them. He attacks their countries. He. threatens their people. And then all of.

a sudden, they're forced now to. completely change their entire way of. speaking, everything they do. in Canada. One of the things that really struck me. over the past 24 hours or so uh was. Pierre Palv, the uh Maple Naga figure in. in Canada who had uh was had run for who. would have been prime minister if his. party won, who ended up losing his. writing, which is essentially like a. congressional district in the United. States before uh you know reemerging. like a video game character in in.

another writing, stealing someone else's. seat. You know, he was asked about Mark. Carney by the media. I think it was an. American I think it was an American. channel if I'm not mistaken. I think C. it was it was like CNBC or or one of. these channels and they kind of set him. up to try to criticize Mark Carney. At. any other time he would happily. criticize Mark Carney. He would happily, you know, try to back Donald Trump's. policies and and that sort of rhetoric. This time he said something interesting. This time he said, "I am not about to. come on American television and smear.

our prime minister back at home." like. there's a line that he would not cross. right there. And you see a lot of the. people in Canada right now having to. realize that they they almost have to. choose a side, right? Am I going to. support my own leadership here in our. country? Am I going to support our my. own people here or am I going to cowto. to Donald Trump's threats as he tries to. destroy us in every possible way and. completely completely destroy our.

sovereignty here. And so the reckoning. has really I would say begun, but we are. so far past uh the reckoning beginning. It is in full swing. >> Well, we got a lot to discuss. When we. come back, I want to show you what Mag. and Mike had to say. Want to talk a. little bit more about the Supreme Court. ruling. Actually, a good ruling by the. Supreme Court upholding what the. Missouri State Supreme Court ruled. And. the Missouri State Supreme Court is five. Republican justices and two liberal. justices. and they unanimously agreed.

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>> Yeah. Look, it's uh, you know, but you. know, I was speaking to Jessica Tarlov. about. It was great to have her on. She's got a book coming out also. Um, and one of the things that, you know, I. think we both talk about in our books is. family. And, you know, that's one of the. ways I think we can speak across. political parties. Um, you know, and I. think objectively Donald Trump who you. see how he behaves around his family and.

the horrors. I mean, he brought his kids. around Epstein and, you know, and how. Donald Trump is behaved his whole life, you know, whatever. But but but we we I. think we can recognize that Trump has. attacked the American family. um he has. attacked uh the ability of people to. just live their lives. So he's he's. constantly in your face and the. predatorial behavior and you know it's. always about me me. And by the way, Ben,

they all are the entire Trump family are. they're just so weird and they make it. so about themselves as Americans are. suffering. They're they're continuously. like touting their wealth and and their. importance. I don't you see that Ivanka. thing where she was like riding on a. horse so eloquently across the sunset. like what was that po like who was that. post for. Monica very mad. >> in college or whatever but she gave like. a room tour of her super uh like maxed.

out dorm room which is like better than. 90% of people's homes. It's like they. are so tonedeaf. I would say that but. yet they don't have any tone. It's all. always about them and they're continuing. to win and profit off the American. people and the American misfortune, but. they don't care about that and they. can't even see it through their own. lenses. Man, it's wild. >> Yeah. And. so much of what government's supposed to. do, Brett, Jordy, you talked about this. earlier, is just the basic blocking and.

tackling, right? It's not supposed to be. a reality show. It's not supposed to be. dramatic or bizarre or any It's supposed. to just be like, you know, delivering. the mail, right? Uh ensuring that people. are able to. uh get access to services. Um it's to. ensure that you know people are able to. um you know live and prosper and go go.

about go about their day. And the same. way Trump and Hegsith don't give a. about logistics when it comes to war, Trump and Bessant don't give a. about logistics when it comes to uh you. know basic economic things. You know, they they deal in this whole propaganda. world and not only are the basics of. what this is all supposed to be about. get ignored, but they're just under. attack. It's like the parallels here are. so close. It's like the reason that the. aircraft carriers were not getting.

supplies and still really aren't is that. Iran struck the logistical hub that the. US military always used in Bahrain, right? It's like, how do you not. recognize that? Like, we got to protect. Bahrain and we got to protect our bases. because that also supplies a complex. network of food because our sailors and. our marines need to eat. if you have. them out there and you're gonna do a. never- ending war, which we shouldn't. do. You got to make sure you have the. supplies. But no, the Trump regime's too. worried about whatever scheme or scam,

they don't do that. And then, you know, you can get away with it for a little. bit, but then as WebEs always said. before and we talk about in our book, just like with the reflecting pool, the. algae always comes back. You know, your. fraud gets exposed. You can't do it. forever. And the more you compound the. problem, the worse that it gets. And. that's why we're in this situation with. these gas prices surging. And you you. may all have thought that I hope I hope. you didn't think that I sounded a bit. hysterical a few months back, you know, 60 days ago when I was warning about.

these things happening and I gave you. specific details about the reserves, about what's going on in Yemen, about. what's going, you know, I was talking to. you about pipelines and things that. really weren't being covered. And I hope. you didn't think that I was just doom. and gloom and just saying these things. because whatever they were inflammatory. and I really wanted to give the road map. of what I saw developing by the end of. August, early September. You know, we're. seeing a lot of those things happen. So, you know, that's why Donald Trump then, you know, he goes rinse and repeat at.

the midterm convention. You all heard. him say it. I don't need to play the. whole clip again. I'll play a little bit. of it, but he goes, "I'm the only one. who can do it. If you vote Republican, but it's under this one condition that. you vote Republican, I will give you all. $5,000. Congratulations. Congratulations. Really? You now get. $5,000. And then I went back and I was. like, I remember he would send all of. those emails with Doge, the $5,000 Doge. dividend check he promised. And he would. email all of his supporters. I'll give.

you a 5,000 Doge dividend check, but you. got to pay my MAGAPAC money and donate. to me and then I'll give you a Doge. dividend check or tariff rebate checks. or all of this stuff. And I mean, I just. think it looks so utterly desperate. I. think the American people see it for. what it was. But here's what he said. again last night so you can see it for. yourself. Let's play. >> that only I can make this promise to. you. And here is my promise. If the. Republicans win the House of. Representatives and the United States.

Senate, both of them because of our. economic. tremendous economic success like in in. history, we've never had anything like. what's happening. But because of our. tremendous strength and success. economically, I will issue a dividend to every adult. citizen in the United States of America. for $5,000.

Very much like. a successful company will do a cash. distribution to its shareholders or like. last year when I gave our great members. of the military. 1776. Remember. >> again this error is going to be studied.

It needs to be. >> It's just it's just the weirdest thing. I mean if you're watching that clip. first off he's hugging the podium as if. he's hugging it to make sure that he. doesn't fall over. And it is like the. voice inflection of how he even speaks. It is so utterly bizarre. And then he. makes it a game show. He makes it a. contestant. He goes $5,000. Real world freaking road rules, man. It's absolutely pathetic. >> But only if you do this thing. >> Only if you do this though. That that's. how you get this.

>> You got to as if it wasn't a bribe. As. if it wasn't clear enough that it was a. bribe. I want to tie it directly to the. election results if you do this thing. Right. And and you know, I think one of. the most devious things about all of. this is if you kind of step back and and. you remember just how much Donald Trump. has just crushed the average person in. this country, right? And uh you know, Ben was saying uh you know, just before. how he uses these moments to commit more. fraud by then sending emails out to his. supporters and saying, "You want to get.

that $5,000 check? Well, do this one. thing. You got to give me money first. And when you give me money, you're going. to get rich in a little bit. But first, just send me money." Right? It's like. those like Nigerian prince emails, right? Send the money here and this. Nigerian prince will make you rich in a. few months. You're going to get a. million dollars, but you just need to. send right now $1,000 to this prince and. you need to help him out. It's it's. really no honestly it's like there's no. daylight between the two things. And. then Trump followed it up earlier today. by uh you know saying in addition to the. $5,000 we're going to give away these.

$500 rebate checks to 1 million lucky. people uh who suffered under Obamacare. again very like game show like and he. wants you to forget that his regime let. the enhanced affordable care act tax. credits expire and so that everybody. right now because of Donald Trump's. direct actions before we even get to the. increases of premiums generally due to. the insurance industry and everything. else happening in our economy the. average enrolly right now in insurance. is uh paying an extra $1,16.

a year with the same plan they had last. year because of what Donald Trump did, or rather what Donald Trump refused to. do. And that's of course on top of. Americans already spending right now 670. to 770 extra dollars per household this. year just on gasoline and diesel. And. these stats are like a month or two old. So it's even more than that right now. like uh the Moody's guy, Mark Xandandy, at Moody's Analytics, he estimated in.

June that the war had already cost the. average American household roughly. $1,000 each due to higher fuel, food, and other expenses. And so that's even. more now. So Donald Trump here, I just. was what I want to point out is that. he's doing what authoritarians have done. throughout history, ironically, what. communist dictators have done throughout. history. a point that Donald Trump has. pointed out himself and told you the. plan directly over the past few months, saying, "I'd be the best communist. All. I'd have to do is offer all these free.

things and never deliver." It's what. he's doing. He had already done it. before then. It's what he's doing now. But it's even worse because he's. following this authoritarian playbook. and he's imposed pain on people. He's. making people suffer and then he wants. them to praise him for offering them. scraps which they will never even. receive. That's the tactic. That's the. plan. >> Exactly. And real quick, I just want to. emphasize again just how utterly bizarre. that clip that we just played act like.

the visuals of that really are. So you. have Trump and the weird inflections in. his voice. You got the crazy people. behind him who are just like locked in. like zombies. You have Trump's face. itself. It looks like it's it looks like. it's melting off. He's hugging the. podium. I I'm just describing what I'm. see. He's hugging the podium so he. doesn't keel over. And then the camera. cuts to who? Scott Besson. And what does. Besson do? He tries to smile. And we all. know Mr. Besson has quite a bit of what. I presume is just tons of freaking Botox. in his face. So he just opens his teeth.

like he opens his mouth and does this. like weird little clap, if you could. even call it a clap. Musters it the. whole damn thing, man. It is a clown. show, Ben. Yeah. And he makes you. suffer. He essentially steals your bread. and then dangles breadcrumbs in front of. you that he's never even going to give. you the breadcrumbs from your own bread. that he stole. And then he tries to make. you think that you're indebted to him.

for the bread that he literally took and. stole from you. He runs this scheme all. the time. And look, here's the thing. The American people are suffering right. now. And $5,000. is a lot of money is so much money to I. mean most Americans can think about that. $5,000. and this is what makes it so extra cruel. that that you know $500. for Americans, $250.

for most Americans could be the gamecher. right now about are they going to be. able to eat the requisite amount of. meals to get the right type of. nutrition. Will they be able to feed. their kids. who are going to school because Trump's. cut their lunch programs? So, you talk. about $5,000. compared to what Americans are making. right now. And he's saying, "I promise. you, and it's coming from the president. of the United States, but it's all a. lie." It makes the thing so extra cruel.

even beyond even beyond, you know, just. the just the fraud of it all. Um, and. then he goes on Laura Ingram, State. Regime Media Fox, and she goes, "Well, so why not just give it right now? American people are suffering. So if you. can give 5,000, it's actually a decent. question. If you can give 5,000 after. the election, just do it right now, right? Why Why can't you?" And watch. what he says here. Play this clip. >> Why not just give the money now? If you. have the money, why not give.

>> They can't. I'll tell you what, because. the Democrats can't do it because with. them it's negative growth. With with us. it's so positive. So we're taking in 21. trillion. Nobody no country's ever taken. in anywhere near that. It's four or five. times higher than the next. All because. of that beautiful word that you and I. love more than most others, tariffs. >> Do you like Do you. >> again completely deranged? He didn't. even say a sentence. He just said a. bunch of different words. Because the. Democrats won't let it. What does that.

even mean? You control all branches of. government right now. What do the. Democrats have to do? Anything? Because. the Democrats won't let it. But after. the election, the Democrats will let it. In your view, if the Democrats lose, then they're going to let it. And then. that's. >> the opportunity is now. To your point, control all three branches of. government. The Democrats have nothing. to do. If you wanted to launch this now. and give this to people, they couldn't. stop it. So do it, Donald. Do what's. holding you back here. Oh, you're trying. to make this a game show and lie to. people.

It is Ingraham. For the people that ask. Ben in the comments, we haven't played. that interview in a very long time here. We've confirmed it with her brother in a. very interesting interview that we've. done in the past. It is a little bit of. a digression yet, but yes, the brother. did confirm that it is. >> I saw someone leave like a really nasty. comment to Ben and I'm like, I need to. defend my brother's honor and he's. correct. >> Shoo shoo comments. Uh, what am I going. to say? Um, yeah, you know, Scott. Bessant there, um, you know, making. those faces, you know, smiling and. acting like all is well. You know, the. the irony of it is Donald Trump wants.

everything every every way, right? He. wants you to think that he could just. give you all this money. That would be. like trillions of dollars, right? if he. actually handed out, you know, the. $5,000, which would ironically cause. massive amounts of inflation, massive. amounts of inflation if Donald Trump did. anything like that and would cause. interest rates to go even higher and. higher and higher. But what Trump thinks. that he could do is just keep stress. testing the market and keep stress. testing the market and he thinks that. all the other kind of market.

fundamentals will continue to ignore. them. At a certain point, the markets. reach a breaking point. And we're. already seeing that with these, that's. why the Treasury yields are so high. right now. And when you see what Scott. Bessant is doing with these Treasury. buybacks to try to calm the bond market, what you're seeing is that the bond. market is realizing he's not calming it, but he is conning the bond market. And. they understand that panic and they. understand what is going on. You can. only stress test the market so much. The. fundamentals will always come back to.

burn you. And so Trump right now, you. see him also, he's constantly pushing. for what? Lower interest rates. If. Donald Trump wanted lower interest. rates, he wouldn't be doing all these. other things that he'd be doing because. all Donald Trump needed to get lower. interest rates would be to not do. anything. If Trump came into office and. let the Biden economy continue on its. trajectory, interest rates, remember. back then, were projected there to be. multiple cuts, multiple cuts to interest. rates. Inflation was projected to keep.

going down below the Fed target of 2%. Everything was heading on the right. trajectory. All Donald Trump had to do. was do nothing. But Trump did everything. possible to cause incredible damage to. the foundations of not only the United. States economy, but to the global. economy. And then he thinks that he can. impose his will like he does tries to do. with everybody on these markets that. don't give a damn about his will. They. just care about the market fundamentals.

And that's why I think this thing is. heading for a crack. That's why this is. heading in a dangerous direction. It's. why we're not going to see lower. interest rates. On the contrary, we're. more likely to see interest rate hikes. right now, no matter what Donald Trump. wants to say. And this isn't some. external market force that's causing it. It's Donald Trump's own actions having a. direct impact on these markets. >> You think about what the bond market is, though, right? what's actually. happening, right? The Treasury.

Department is doing bond auctions. And. so, who's buying bonds at bond auctions? Countries, large companies, large. institutional holders. And they're. looking to see, is this a stable bond. market? And so the tension is between a. seller of the bonds, the Treasury. Department, and you know, who's. basically saying, "Look at all the. demand that I have for my bonds, right?".

And the bond buyers, whether it's. countries or institutions and so the. institutions and the countries are. saying, "You know what? I'm seeing. Norway unload billions of dollars of. bonds. I'm seeing lots of countries sell. their bonds right now. I'm seeing you do. these bond buybacks, which is actually. telling me that you're very nervous. about your uh ability to sell bonds at.

these auctions. So, we are not going to. buy your bonds at the interest rates or. at the Treasury yields, the return, the. yields that we're going to get. you have. to entice us more if you want us to buy. your bonds. And Bessent is trying to. say, well, I'm going to control this. because I'll do a $6 billion buyback of. some of the 30-year treasuries that are, don't mess with me. And the market,

which I just want to let you know what. that means. These are countries. These. are institutional. They're saying, "You. think that your scheme is going to get. us nervous? We now see weakness. We see. that you don't know what you're doing. and in general we know that you can be. paying us a lot more money if you want. us to buy your bonds. So when they do a. round of auctions, these countries and. institutional investors are saying uh-uh. you you have to entice us more. And that.

ultimately means the US is paying more. interest on the debt, the notes, the. bonds that are being purchased by these. outside ent. Just want to explain to you. what that means because the parallel. here is very similar to what the world. is seeing about the United States soft. and hard power. No more soft power. destroyed. The secretary uh the state. department's destroyed. Um the. multi-olar world that we now live in no. longer has the US. It's done. The US is.

not a global superpower. That's done. The US is still a powerful entity in. theory in a multi-power world in a. multi-olar world. But what you have. increasingly now seen is it is much. weaker and you have to look at all these. other polls that have developed a Canada. EU polarity, a China, Russia, North. Korea bricks polarity. Um uh uh and and.

then the US with its kind of. exploitation and attack on its allies, as former Secretary of State Hillary. Clinton said today, and this is the. former Secretary of State. I think we. have this clip where I go check for it. She goes, "We're not a serious nation. anymore. We're a dangerous nation. We we. we go out, no one takes us seriously.". And that impacts our bond markets. That. impacts our equities market. It impacts. our ability to project strength, soft.

and hard power abroad. It impacts. everything. Just take a look. This is. former Secretary of State Hillary. Clinton. You play play if you got it. >> Look, right now we're not a serious. country. It we're a dangerous country. We're causing all kinds of problems in. the world. We're making ridiculous, you. know, stands. Uh we're picking fights. with our best friends. Uh we're. threatening our best friends. We're. giving passes to those who wish us ill. I mean, we are not a serious country and.

we don't have serious leadership. If we. do, again, I think we can actually make. progress. I remember. >> Yeah, that's an important point and it's. one I've been emphasizing and it's not a. political point. It is we are not a. serious country. We're not behaving like. serious people, like grown-ups, like. adults. And when you watch the behavior. of what's taking place at that. convention, this is not serious adult. grownup behavior. This is the type of. behavior we would expect to see in the.

most weirdest and deranged of cults, which by the way sometimes can have a. lot of followers, but it's not that of. serious governance. Regardless of. whether you're a Democrat, Republican, independent, this is not serious. grown-up behavior. I'll show you serious. grown-up behavior. Prime Minister Carney. in Ukraine with Zalinski talking about a. true vision of strength for the world. and Canada's role in it. Let's just see. what Prime Minister Carney had to say.

Let's play it. I don't want to frontr. run things, but um we will uh we will be. looking to use uh the coming months uh. to explore a deepening of that. partnership across a broad range of. areas. uh and uh we'll have more to. speak say to that in Strasburg. Thank. you. >> Thank please. Yeah. >> That was the non-ans answer to the EU. membership. >> Now contrast him to Magga Mike. Here was. what Magga Mike had to say about uh.

let's play any Magga Mike clip there. >> Say I am on the ballot because in a real. sense he is. If he were to we were to. lose the midterms, heaven forbid these. Democrats y'all impeachment is not even. the big concern. They will turn every. committee of Congress into an. investigative body and they'll go after. the president's family, the cabinet, his. donors and friends. >> Yeah, it should be that's what the. Congress is supposed to do oversight. If. you're stealing money from people, if. you're covering up child sex trafficking. rings, if you're looting and pillaging. our treasury, there should be investig.

literally you are a supposed to be a. co-equal branch of government, not. supposed to be turned into, you know, normally I would do this, Brett and. Jory, I'll bring you back in. Normally I. would say like the Russian Duma or the. North Korean Parliament or whatever it. is. I honestly believe that that they. behave far more seriously than this. group of clowns. And it's pains me to. say that. But the way this Trump the way.

Trump and this MAGA movement and these. Republicans behave, it's just the mo. they are they are the enemy from within. They are working against the United. States. They are a poison pill within. our country and the behavior is just. straight up absolutely deranged. So, two. more data points I'll just make. pretty. much have talked about it a lot, but the. United States Supreme Court um issuing a. ruling that basically sides with the. Missouri State Supreme Court, which.

blocked the efforts by the MAGA. Republicans in Missouri to implement a. new map that would be 7 to1 in favor of. Republicans and congressional districts. when it was previously 6 to2. Now, the. MAGA Republican Secretary of State and. Attorney General ignored all of the. warnings by the state supreme court. before and by other election officials. saying, "You may go through a primary. with the wrong map and we'll have to. overturn that and you can come back and.

whine and say, "Oh, we already used the. illegal map, so that must be in place.". And the state supreme court once they. got this case before them and it worked. its way through court said, "We warned. you about this. We're not saying you. can't do a new map. We're saying you. can't unilaterally impose it. If you. want to do it, you have to do a. referendum. Do the referendum. You all. MAGA leaders have blocked the. referendum. You've made it more. difficult to do what we told you you. should have done. And if you believe. that the state would have voted for it,

you could have done what California did. and and and then we would have agreed. with it. We would have been fine with. it. But you didn't do that. So on a. seven to zero basis, the Missouri state. supreme court struck down the unlawful. map that was used for the primary. And. then the Republicans, the MAGAs argued, well, we used it for the primary, so we. can't change it now. And the state. supreme court said, no, you used an. unlawful map. Sorry, we're going to use. the other map. And so the MAGAS in. charge rushed to the Supreme Court last. week. The Supreme Court blocked what.

they were trying to do to restore the. unlawful map. And then the MAGAS forum. shopped and got a Trumpappointed judge. in Missouri in the district court who. blocked the Missouri state supreme court. just made up fake law about the US. Constitution claiming it says if there's. a primary you can't go back that's well. who made up that why does it say that in. the constitution then the eighth circuit. court of appeal said we don't have. jurisdiction so then there was an. emergency appeal to the supreme court.

and today the supreme court said we saw. side with the state supreme court of. Missouri. We're going to block what the. district court did and what the eth. circuit did and we're going to agree. that it's the six to2 map. So you had. that development which which was a but. but just think about. >> say think about all the minations of. corruption too that are coming out of uh. you know Missouri and all these kind you. know Republican states when these things. happen there was you know another uh. part of the story and it was very. confusing right because you had one. ruling that said one thing another. ruling that said another and there was a.

lot of confusion amongst people like so. what is actually happening then you had. the Missouri secretary of state a guy by. the name of Denny Hoskins uh he was. telling the state to use the illegal. maps and so then uh you They went to the. Missouri Supreme Court, the uh you know, the people who were trying to get rid of. these gerrymandered maps. And the. Missouri Supreme Court today actually. found that the Missouri Secretary of. State would was in contempt of court, in. contempt of court because he was. disobeying the court order from the.

Supreme Court and was telling his. officials to use this other map. He was. able to get that contempt of court. purged before it actually took effect, this civil contempt because he. ultimately ended up folding as he should. and ordered officials to use the correct. map, the 2022 congressional map that is. uh a six Republican seats to two. Democratic seats. But it just shows you. how corrupt this entire system is and. how these officials are just do. everything they can to just keep their. power at all costs, even if it's just.

incredibly incredibly corrupt. Yeah. Then you had uh this MAGAR Republican. Trump loyalist Joe D. Gova who had been. tapped to oversee the DOJ conspiracy. investigation that targets all of Donald. Trump's political rivals. He resigned. abruptly and obviously um you know we're. trying to get to the bottom of more of. that resignation. Um, but sources. described it to uh Katherine Fers as.

growing frustration from Trump and. senior DOJ officials regarding his work. on the so-called grand conspiracy. investigation based out of the US. attorney's office in the Southern. District of Florida. And so the short of. it is here is that even the most extreme. Trump loyalists are not loyal enough to. Donald Trump's view of going after. Trump's political opponents as they. can't find things to go after him for. and they're trying desperately and so.

there's all of this infighting taking. place. And you know, I I I think it's a. an appropriate point to just uh end this. episode because, you know, the the. wheels are coming off in a profound way. right now. They are. And the thing that. is. disconcerting is that last time in 2020, we had an election where we had a new. president. This is an election where. we're voting for the House and the.

Senate. They're still not the executive. branch. And I think one of the things. that Trump is setting up for is what. he's frankly best at, and I don't mean. this in a positive way, is blaming. A. lot of the I promise you $5,000. I. promise you this and that, is also the. setup for the blame. When his policies. result in catastrophe, he finds a Dr. Fouchy, a Biden, someone to put it all. on. And so what he's looking to do now.

and what the broader plan is, this is. how losers behave. Losers behave when they lose. They don't. take accountability. They blame. And so. what he wants to do, ah, it was so. close. We were right about to get rich. Everything was about to be amazing. You. were about to get $5,000. Things were. going to go great. I told you we did. everything I said. I had to stop Iran. from getting a nuclear weapon. I had to. stop him. I had to do it. even though he. said you obliterated and you're the one. who got out of the JCPOA which stopped.

them under the Obama administration. You're the reason for all of these. problems. Then he goes, "We were so. close." And then the Democrats came in. and now they screwed it up. Watch their. quick pivot. And then everything from. New York City Mayor Mom Donnie giving a. heartfelt speech supporting 9/11. survivors and families of loved ones and. releasing health records. All of that. becomes Obama tan suit 2.0, right? Oh,

Obama Zoran Mandani handed a pen to. somebody to the police commissioner who. gave it to this guy and oh my, did you. see the way he handed the pen? How dare. he hand the pen like that? It's like, yeah, Donald Trump's a literal traitor. to our country. Like, he's a treasonous. trader and they're going to devote all. Hassan the pen, the this, the. that, look at him naked on screen, you. know, all this crazy stuff. The Obama. playbook. They, you know, they will push. the blame and the craziness. A tsunami,

a fire hose of disinformation and blame. Oh, we they're not being fiscally. conservative. Y'all ran up the debt to. over $40 trillion. you screwed up every. you're not fiscally conservative then. they want to act like oh they're the. ones who solve it you were the arsonist. you created the fire you created the. massive catastrophe that we're all. dealing with so what we talk about. though in WTF America and why I think. it's an important book way beyond the. election is it's how do we get out of.

this hell generationally because we. can't just go back to the status quo. both from the perspective of we can't go. back to a status quo democrat kumbaya. Let's just whatever. It's all good. Things are norm. No, no, no. We have to. understand what the people are. experiencing and what they're going. through. But we can't go back to this. seessaw of Republicans break it and. destroy it. Then you try to fix it and.

then they tarnish the people trying to. fix it and then we go back to them to. break it again. This cycle is something. that has led to Trump being a vessel of. this authoritarianism forming. And. Trump's an idiot, but the next. authoritarian that comes in may be a. little bit smarter than this idiot fat. But the wrecking ball that this person. is causing, we can't normalize. It's not. about political messaging. This isn't a. normal election. This is some. existential stuff that we have to.

recognize if we want our nation to. survive. Truly, we have to get out of. this seessaw cycle of returning these. degenerates, these Trump regime. arsonists, whatever manifestation they. take, back to power. Otherwise, we're. done as a nation. We truly, and it's not. me being hyperbolic. And right now, we're at an existential moment. We. really are. We really are. And we all. have to now more than ever stick. together, fight together, and call this.

stuff out. So, that's what I got. Brett. Jordan, anything else you want to say. before we go? >> I think you summed it up well. Great. episode, brothers. We went through a. whole lot today. Long episode, but hey, there's a lot of news and and it's all. incredibly important. We're going to. stay on top of all the coverage. Remember to tune in to our YouTube. channel for new reports just about every. 90 minutes, including a uh you know, incredible live shows as well uh. throughout the day, every single day. Um, Midas Touch Podcast. Make sure you. add the show on Apple Podcast, on. Spotify, any sort of podcast app. Just. search for the Midas Touch Podcast. And.

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