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Speaker 7 Earlier in the day, Donald Trump held a press conference in the Oval Office with UK's Prime Minister Kier Starmer.

Speaker 30 Donald Trump was asked by a reporter if he still thinks Zelensky is a dictator, since Donald Trump's been repeating that over and over again while refusing to condemn Putin.

Speaker 5 Here's what Trump said.

Speaker 34 President, do you still think that Mr.

Speaker 35 Zelensky is a dictator?

Speaker 36 Did I say that? I can't believe I said that. Next question.

Speaker 37 Did I say that?

Speaker 29 Either severe cognitive decline, gaslighting, or just being malicious.

Speaker 40 I think it is all of the above, by the way.

Speaker 41 Here's what Donald Trump wrote, where he clearly calls Zelensky a dictator.

Speaker 40 It was in a social media post that Donald Trump made.

Speaker 44 Donald Trump is then asked if what would happen, Donald, if the UK was sent peacekeeping forces into Ukraine and they were attacked by Russia.

Speaker 46 Would the United States help out its ally the United Kingdom?

Speaker 41 Play this clip.

Speaker 36 If British soldiers in Ukraine, you know, I've always found about the British, they don't need much help. They can take care of themselves very well.

Speaker 45 Then, Donald Trump, while sitting next to Kier Starmer, now UK's prime minister, was trying to say, look, this is a great relationship we have with the United States.

Speaker 16 And then Donald Trump like bullies him and humiliates him or tries to humiliate him in front of the world press by saying,

Speaker 53 I think Russia's been acting very, very well, Kier.

Speaker 60 What do you think?

Speaker 61 What do you think is happening?

Speaker 64 Do you think, he goes here, he goes, Starmer, do you think the UK could take on Russia on its own?

Speaker 66 Here, watch this.

Speaker 67 Between our two countries, that is why this is the greatest alliance for prosperity prosperity and security I think the world has ever seen. Whenever necessary, we absolutely backed each other up.

Speaker 67 And that's the problem.

Speaker 36 Could you take on Russia by yourselves?

Speaker 68 Well,

Speaker 50 all right, one or two more.

Speaker 24 I mean, just absurd conduct there by Donald Trump.

Speaker 58 And then Donald Trump says that under no circumstances will Ukraine join NATO.

Speaker 37 And then Donald Trump blames Ukraine wanting to join NATO as the reason for Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine.

Speaker 48 The Europeans want Ukraine to be part of NATO as part of this deal. Are you willing to budge on that at all?

Speaker 50 Or is it a further?

Speaker 36 Well, I could be very nice and say, oh, well, we'll work to it. Look, it's not going to happen.
It's just not going to happen. That's what started this whole thing.

Speaker 8 And then...

Speaker 72 Flashback, what, 24 hours, Donald Trump convened a cabinet meeting that was led by Elon Musk, not a cabinet member, Elon Musk wearing his dark MAGA hat and a t-shirt with a jacket over the t-shirt.

Speaker 33 And then Elon Musk was saying, you know, look, we're going to make mistakes at Doge.

Speaker 75 We're going to make the mistakes.

Speaker 76 Like,

Speaker 59 remember when we made the mistake recently about

Speaker 77 Ebola?

Speaker 59 And we fired the wrong Ebola people.

Speaker 78 I mean, by the way, he also fired like people who work at our new over nuclear material.

Speaker 79 He fired critical people who were focusing on the avian flu.

Speaker 70 And he fired

Speaker 32 tens of thousands of government employees who worked hard and sacrificed for our government.

Speaker 75 But it's all one big joke for Elon Musk.

Speaker 50 They're like, well, is this real?

Speaker 35 Just go to Doge.gov.

Speaker 35 Line item by line item. We specify each item.
So,

Speaker 35 and we, and I should say, we also, we will make mistakes. We won't be perfect, but when we make a mistake, we'll fix it pretty quickly.

Speaker 35 so for example with uh usaid uh one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was ebola ebola prevention i think we all wanted the ebola prevention so we restored the ebola prevention immediately and there was no interruption okay all you got to do just go to

Speaker 64 go to doge.com all you got to do is go to doge.com i'm not going to testify I'm not going to testify before Congress like I'm supposed to, but go to Doge.

Speaker 81 We may make mistakes like Ebola. It's a good joke, everybody.

Speaker 24 Good joke. I mean, what the hell are we watching?

Speaker 73 Let me bring in Brett and Jordy from the Midas Touch podcast.

Speaker 81 And want to start with those clips right there because it is dystopian, to say the least.

Speaker 13 It is incredibly dystopian. Good to be here with you, brothers.
Good to be here, everybody watching and listening to the Midas Touch podcast. You know, a few things.
First off, Trump looks tired.

Speaker 13 Like for those listening, the bags under Donald Trump's eyes are growing. He looks exhausted.
He looks out of it. And frankly, like, you're right.

Speaker 13 It's like you have two options, Trumpers, in that situation. When you hear comments like that, like Dzelenski, did I say he was a dictator? I don't know.
He's either senile or he's a liar or both.

Speaker 13 So I'll let you guys decide how you want your dear leader to be described. But he's one of those things.

Speaker 13 Elon, when I hear Elon, you know, and he's just bizarre that he's taking over these cabinet meetings and whatnot.

Speaker 13 But there's this guy who went viral this week who's been doing an Elon Musk impression.

Speaker 13 And I cannot listen to Elon Musk now without without thinking of have you seen this guy on TikTok it is it's so maybe I'll pull up the clip if I can in a second but uh but yeah no it's completely uh it's completely bonkers what we are seeing but honestly when I look at Trump in all these situations I just see like I see such weakness like weakness I feel like he's tired like his heart is not in it and it feels like one of the reasons why he's just kind of delegating everything letting Elon Musk basically do his job for him it's just like his heart isn't in this thing like like it's just a whole bizarre dynamic but anyway we've got a lot to discuss I'll turn it over to Jordy.

Speaker 13 Jordy, what's new?

Speaker 46 I'm excited to get into it.

Speaker 46 There's just too much to cover. So with that, I just want to say, what's up, Midas Mighty? Can't wait to get into today's show.

Speaker 16 And Benji, where do you want to start us off?

Speaker 82 Let me start off by showing you this photo right here of Donald Trump.

Speaker 7 If we've got a photo of him without the orange, do we have that photo of him, Brett?

Speaker 11 Yeah,

Speaker 11 I got it.

Speaker 32 Pull it up in a moment, but let's first show you.

Speaker 6 There it is right there.

Speaker 45 This is a guy at Dave MMC post this.

Speaker 58 This is what Donald Trump would look like if his skin tone matched the color around his eyes.

Speaker 82 Have fun sleeping.

Speaker 32 I think the hesitation there of Brett posting that photo is, Ben, are you really calling up this photo?

Speaker 24 Yes, Brett, I'm really calling up this photo because to me, one, I had to see it.

Speaker 39 So all of you might as mighty have to see it as well.

Speaker 79 And two, it highlights the absurdity of all of this, that we literally have a human being in the White House who paints his face like a orange and then just goes out and does things that are obviously destructive to every aspect of our country.

Speaker 76 And then you have these spineless MAGA Republicans like, oh, I guess you made a boo-boo when it comes to Ebola.

Speaker 6 Oh, you made another boo-boo when it comes to the nuclear scientist.

Speaker 64 What are we talking about?

Speaker 76 Measles?

Speaker 22 This happens.

Speaker 81 all of the time. Measles, you don't say.

Speaker 32 I mean, look, you have RFK Jr.

Speaker 79 at the cabinet meeting being asked and Donald Trump's like, Junior, you tell me what's going on with the measles.

Speaker 74 And then he's like, and then RFK Jr.'s like, oh, well, it happened.

Speaker 8 Hold on, I know.

Speaker 13 Yeah, you don't have to do the impression.

Speaker 6 No, no, do the impression.

Speaker 13 All right, Ben. Ben, for the audience, everybody is asking in the comments to hear your RFK impression.
So if you really want to do that. I'm not doing the RFK.

Speaker 6 And if you really, if you really want to do the impression, we'll let you do it.

Speaker 46 I have to say this before Ben does the RFK impression and maybe gets canceled or not is it just so bizarre to me that the magazine it will never not be bizarre to me uh with the magaz like i'm not even talking about the politicians out there i'm talking about the diehard trumpers

Speaker 46 dude wears orange makeup i mean just like what's alpha about that what's alpha you know trump supporters about kissing the feet of billionaire oligarchs.

Speaker 46 These people wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire, and yet you're going to go to the grave defending them.

Speaker 46 They are the most anti-American, anti-democratic people to ever exist and to ever walk this country.

Speaker 13 What is it, Ben?

Speaker 16 I was going to say that they are pissing on their supporters, even though they're not on fire.

Speaker 30 And then the supporters are like, more pee-pee, please, Mr.

Speaker 85 Trump.

Speaker 6 Take away my Medicaid.

Speaker 13 More pee-pee. This episode's starting on a crazy foot.
So, Ben, as we await your RFK Jr. impression, can I play this guy's Elon Musk?

Speaker 58 The Elon Music.

Speaker 13 After this,

Speaker 13 we'll go to your

Speaker 13 let me show you this guy and then we'll get into the RFA clip because it's so good. This is not Elon Musk.
I think this guy's name is Alex Byron, if I'm saying that right. Alex Byron, he's a comedian.

Speaker 13 It's a pitch-perfect uh impression of Elon.

Speaker 33 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 90 So, comedy try to take they're trying to take this away.

Speaker 33 No, not gonna let them.

Speaker 6 Yeah,

Speaker 33 I saw Tony Hinchcraft at the skit, you know, and he said

Speaker 90 Puerto Rico was a pile of garbage and it's it's like yeah well it is so

Speaker 85 it's really good

Speaker 38 for the record we've we've built up this audience now to beat Rogan I'm not doing an RFK impression I'm not doing

Speaker 30 I'm gonna show self I'm gonna show self-restraint but I will show the clip of RFK which is absolutely deplorable from the cabinet meeting let's play the clip we uh

Speaker 50 Bobby do you want to speak on that we are following the measles epidemic every day. I think there's 124

Speaker 50 people who have contracted measles at this point in Canes County, Texas.

Speaker 50 Mainly, we're told of the Mennonite community.

Speaker 50 There are two people who have died,

Speaker 34 but

Speaker 50 we're watching it, and there are about 20 people hospitalized, mainly for quarantine.

Speaker 50 We're watching it. We put out a post on it yesterday, and we're going to continue to follow it.

Speaker 50 Incidentally,

Speaker 50 there have been four measles outbreaks this year

Speaker 50 in this country last year. There were 16.

Speaker 48 So it's not unusual.

Speaker 67 We have measles outbreaks every year.

Speaker 27 You sound a little under the weather yourself, right there.

Speaker 50 I just, I have a permanently bad throat.

Speaker 31 Yeah, that reporter with that question, you sound like you're under the weather.

Speaker 34 I mean, come on.

Speaker 24 Come on, come on, reporter.

Speaker 87 I mean, but, but, but, let's

Speaker 88 let's not get distracted here, brothers.

Speaker 71 Okay.

Speaker 18 That's not true.

Speaker 38 Okay.

Speaker 26 There's not nothing he's saying is true.

Speaker 70 And oh my gosh, the conspiracy theorist who says that he wants an eight-year moratorium on infectious disease research,

Speaker 71 who attacked vaccines over and over again and is maybe one of the leading spreaders.

Speaker 27 of freaking measles and other pandemics from the past that we stopped with vaccines.

Speaker 29 It shouldn't shock you that he's out there spreading medical disinformation.

Speaker 79 And at the same time, a lot of these jobs that are being cut, NIH, CDC, working groups within Health and Human Services, which is under the purview of RFK Jr., these working groups that are responsible for kind of investigating and then coming up with the formulations for flu vaccines, right?

Speaker 29 For like next season,

Speaker 45 they've been gutted as well.

Speaker 25 So, there's been a lot of reporting.

Speaker 84 Are we going to be able to have flu vaccines for next year?

Speaker 22 Right now, as America is less vaccinated because of idiots, yeah, here's the article from Bloomberg: the Trump administration has canceled an upcoming meeting of the Food and Drug Administration Vaccine Advisory Committee, a move that could

Speaker 61 complicate efforts to produce flu shots in time for the upcoming season.

Speaker 17 And that, as they they also got NIH and CDC jobs as well.

Speaker 77 And we know that flu deaths right now are very, very high. I don't even know if we're getting the accurate information of just how high they are because Trump's cut so much out of the government.

Speaker 23 And by the way, COVID cases are very high as well.

Speaker 65 And Trump and his administration are looking away.

Speaker 81 But these are the people who brought you.

Speaker 70 Inject ivermectin into your arm, which you should never do.

Speaker 29 That was not good advice.

Speaker 56 Like a miracle, it's all going to go away. It's never going to hit our shores.

Speaker 29 I mean, these people are liars about everything.

Speaker 7 And of course, Donald Trump is a liar in a way that's hitting you in your purse, in your pocketbook, in your wallet.

Speaker 29 Donald Trump's promised day one, prices will go down immediately.

Speaker 92 Jobs will be, there'll be so many jobs, you're not going to know what to do with all of your jobs, he said.

Speaker 93 War in Ukraine caused by Russia's unlawful invasion.

Speaker 55 He said it would be resolved in 24 hours.

Speaker 18 No, what Donald Trump is focused on, though, is a budget that cut $4.

Speaker 56 trillion in taxes for the billionaires and Deca millionaires, and then cut your Medicaid $880 billion of your Medicaid.

Speaker 8 It will add

Speaker 55 $19 trillion to the deficit at least over 10 years.

Speaker 56 And let me tell you what I think the real number that it's going to add to the deficit.

Speaker 29 And let me give you my data points for it as well. I think it adds $50 trillion to the deficit.

Speaker 18 And you want to know what I think is Donald Trump's top tell.

Speaker 65 You know, those stupid Trump gold card things that he's selling where he's saying that if you are from another country and you want a visa and then to become a citizen, he goes, here's what you got to do.

Speaker 56 We're going to replace our immigration system with Trump gold cards.

Speaker 27 Russian oligarchs, you're welcome.

Speaker 60 He literally said, Russian oligarchs, you are welcome.

Speaker 23 Chinese oligarchs, you are welcome. You just pay $5 million.

Speaker 29 And he goes, if we can get 10 million of these Chinese oligarchs, Russian oligarchs, he said this, to become citizens of the United States through the purchase of the Trump gold cards, we can make up for 50, we can make $50 trillion.

Speaker 53 So to me, what I think they're doing as they gear up for the reconciliation process after passing the blueprint for this budget that will add $19 trillion, they're going to use Doge to come up with all of these phony numbers.

Speaker 29 They'll use the Trump gold card to come up with all of these phony numbers to claim there is a perfect offset to the deficit that they are going to be creating by selling gold cards and snake oil because Trump is a fraud.

Speaker 53 The guy's been a con artist his whole life.

Speaker 55 He's bankrupted every, basically all of the casinos that he's run.

Speaker 29 I'm not going to show it again because I show it in so many videos.

Speaker 92 Go read Donald Trump's annual financial reports in the reports.

Speaker 55 Donald Trump has to list all of the businesses that he bankrupted.

Speaker 83 He's not a good businessman.

Speaker 29 He's not a builder.

Speaker 81 He's a destroyer.

Speaker 94 You go through it line by line.

Speaker 54 And I've read I've never seen someone go bankrupt so many times over and over again or run businesses into the ground.

Speaker 25 And by the way, the business he's running now, Trump Media, that earned less than $4 million in revenue last year.

Speaker 28 So the Trump business lost $400 million, made less revenue than your local boba shop.

Speaker 83 Okay, Okay, this is not a good business person right there.

Speaker 29 Well, here he is at the cabinet meeting saying, blaming the current administration for the fact that eggs are a disaster, the prices are going up.

Speaker 29 And he pretends that he's not the current administration here.

Speaker 89 Watch this.

Speaker 36 Eggs are a disaster. The

Speaker 36 Secretary of Agriculture is going to be showing you a chart that's actually mind-boggling what's happened, how low they were with us and how high they are now.

Speaker 36 But I think we can do something about it, Madam Secretary, and I think you're going to do a fantastic job in that position.

Speaker 89 You know, while all of this is going on, remember Elon Musk's post from, I think it's January 28th, 2025, fork in the road.

Speaker 95 The Trump administration's offering all of these federal workers buyouts, and then they're firing all of these people.

Speaker 58 This was Elon Musk's post today.

Speaker 10 Today, this was his post.

Speaker 72 There is a shortage of top-notch air traffic controllers.

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Speaker 96 Please consider doing so.

Speaker 72 So now they fire everybody.

Speaker 72 So he goes on his social media platform to then beg people to work who are

Speaker 95 retired.

Speaker 34 Brett.

Speaker 13 It's also bizarre that they're making all these government edicts on Twitter. Like, how are people even supposed to get these messages?

Speaker 13 Like, he just assumes that everybody is on Twitter all the time and following his messages who works in the federal government. That's just kind of a weird thing to begin with.

Speaker 13 And that's what happens when you go through and just try to like destroy everything. I've seen the way these tech people view the world is through the lens of how they view the tech world.

Speaker 13 And there's that phrase,

Speaker 13 you know, you got to break stuff or whatever the phrase is, right?

Speaker 13 That doesn't work with the federal government. When you turn off things on Twitter, there are glitches that happen.
Your DMs don't work. Your retweets may stop working.

Speaker 13 When you turn off things with the government, people lose their healthcare. People die.

Speaker 13 Parks aren't protected. Parks go on fire.
Airplanes start crashing. Food gets poisoned.
That's what happens when you break things in the government.

Speaker 13 And that's why you can't use that strategy in the federal government, even if it is, maybe it does work in the tech world. Maybe it is a disruptor thing.
Doesn't work in the federal government.

Speaker 13 And I think they're finding that out every day. And just like

Speaker 13 how cavalier they are about it is what drives me absolutely crazy. They try to act on that they're being transparent when they're anything but it.

Speaker 13 They're putting all these fake numbers on the Doge website, which every time reporters are looking at it, they'll say, we saved $66 billion.

Speaker 13 And they'll like, the reporters will be like, no, it's actually six.

Speaker 13 And even that is not, you know, doesn't look quite right. And then they just act like, oh, oops, we turned off the Ebola.
What are we going to do? We turned it back on. Everything's okay.

Speaker 13 Then we find out that that is a lie also, that things were actually severely damaged as a result of Elon Musk getting rid of the Ebola funding. And it's just one thing after the next.

Speaker 13 after the next one scam on top of one scam on top of one scam just like we would expect from donald Trump. The latest scam, Ben, of course, is the one that you were referencing earlier with the

Speaker 13 gold cards, they're calling it.

Speaker 13 And they're going to use this, and all the Republicans are going to use this, including MAGA Mike Johnson, to say that, oh, you might see all these numbers.

Speaker 13 I want you to be prepared for it because they're already starting it. You're going to see all these numbers about major deficit spending.

Speaker 13 You're going to see all these numbers about the debt skyrocketing to levels that we've never seen before. in American history.

Speaker 13 But once those gold cards kick in, ooh, it's going to be a gravy train in this country where you're all going to be getting money. Everyone's going to be, it's going to be a boon to this country.

Speaker 13 It's a scam. This is like literal snake oil that they are selling you, and they expect people to believe it.

Speaker 13 I just hope people are starting to see through this con because it's such an in-your-face con. I mean,

Speaker 13 this puts multi-level marketing schemes to shame. This puts like Bernie Madoff to shame.
This is a con on such a massive level right now. And I just hope that people don't fall for it.

Speaker 13 And that's why even reporting this stuff, I think you need to report it with clarity like that and not accept these as real premises, not to run your headline as like Mike Johnson suggests that the gold cards are going to pay for the deficits.

Speaker 13 Don't even like allow them to put that lie in the headline like they want because it is totally bogus, Jordan.

Speaker 46 Your job as a reporter, as a journalist, is not just to echo the MAGA and right-wing talking points, it's to get to the bottom of them and to make sure that what you're reporting and putting into the world is actually factual, not just whatever, you know, bullet statement that they want, that they, these MAGA Republicans, Mike Johnson, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, want you to just regurgitate.

Speaker 46 It's a dangerous thing. I don't like bashing on the Fourth Estate.
Absolutely not. Are you kidding? I need to defend it at all costs.

Speaker 46 But I'm just urging every single reporter out there, please, just don't be a mouthpiece. for this administration.

Speaker 47 When it comes to Elon Musk, he is an egomaniac, Brett.

Speaker 46 He does truly think that when he tweets, everybody sees it. All the federal employees, everybody on earth, everybody in America.

Speaker 8 He thinks his tweets basically serve as law.

Speaker 46 You know, no, look no further than the five bullet points of what you did this week that he sent out last week that sent mass chaos throughout this country.

Speaker 46 You know, once you start ruling, dictating by Twitter, it's a scary place to be. I mean, just like the malignant narcissist in chief, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, who's actually the president.

Speaker 46 Sorry, Donald, you ain't. You ain't.
Elon's the one in control now, buddy. You know, and they're just such babies, too, when it comes down to it.

Speaker 46 Because when you do call them out for it, Brett, and these reporters do a nice job and they try to get to the bottom of it, all of a sudden, transparency, not a thing.

Speaker 46 They don't want to be as transparent with you, Brett. When they're in charge, Elon Musk is in charge.

Speaker 46 He wants to fudge the numbers. And if you start to question his numbers, you're fake news.
Uh-uh. six, no, that's that's fake news, just like when it comes to comedy, right?

Speaker 46 When you start making fun of these people, what do they say? Oh, that's not funny, that's that's mean, that's hurtful.

Speaker 46 Oh, the tolerant left, what about no-uh, uh-uh, we all have to play by the same set of rules, you MAGA crybabies, Brett, pull up that photo one more time.

Speaker 16 Yeah, there it is right there.

Speaker 19 That's Donald Trump before he paints his face orange.

Speaker 72 I don't even know. I mean,

Speaker 40 that is a rendering of what he probably may look like

Speaker 87 this guy, David, that this guy David posted.

Speaker 60 I'm showing you there for no reason.

Speaker 32 But what I do want to talk about

Speaker 59 when we get back is Donald Trump's and Epstein's connections, because you're not going to hear about that on the corporate media.

Speaker 84 But this has actually become a big deal again right now.

Speaker 25 We've always been covering it here because the MAGA Republican Congress members led by Congresswoman Ana Paulina Luna are saying, wait a minute, Donald claimed that he was going to release all the Epstein files.

Speaker 79 That's really all we've cared about, apparently. That's like their big issue.

Speaker 39 And now all of a sudden, you're not releasing it.

Speaker 39 And then the Department of Justice claimed that they were releasing it, but then they released like phone logs or like the phone log sheet that we know that Trump's name was already on the stuff that was released in 2021, like a very small portion.

Speaker 18 And now you have...

Speaker 73 Anna Paulina Luna, MAGA Republican, yelling at or attacking the head of the Department of Justice, Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Speaker 23 Attorney General Pam Bondi is attacking Cash Patel and saying, Patel, you're not turning over the records to me.

Speaker 79 I don't really have it.

Speaker 18 And then I wonder maybe the fact the guy who's in the White House is the guy who said that Epstein's a great guy who likes women on the younger side, who partied with Epstein and who Epstein would find women to traffic at Mar-a-Lago, like Virginia, Juffrey, and others.

Speaker 74 Oh, yeah, and Donald Trump wished E-Lane Maxwell, who was the sex trafficker for Epstein, well.

Speaker 42 See, you're not going to hear about this in other corporate media.

Speaker 37 That's why independent media is the way to go.

Speaker 25 We'll talk about that when we come back from our first quick baker.

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Speaker 5 influencer i am doing it this is what he said today

Speaker 18 He goes, if I'm going to be fair, these questions need to be asked today.

Speaker 37 Why is the release of the Epstein list always a shit show?

Speaker 45 What's the point of booting out illegals and criminals while somehow becoming a safe haven for the Tate brothers who are alleged to have engaged in sex trafficking, were arrested in Romania.

Speaker 18 They came back to the United States today.

Speaker 30 And there has been a lot of reporting that the Trump administration advocated for their return.

Speaker 52 And also, Donald Trump's top advisor, Alina Haba, like fangirled over Andrew Tate on a recent podcast and said how much she like idolizes him or like looks up to him or thinks he's great.

Speaker 44 He goes, Why is crypto in the toilet if Trump is the crypto king?

Speaker 52 Trump's literally been the worst president on everything, but also for crypto, when his whole thing was like crypto, like it's in the toilet right now.

Speaker 30 How far does Tesla stock have to crash before Elon goes back to work? That means a lot of other questions to ask as well, which is why is inflation surging again?

Speaker 60 Why hasn't the war in Ukraine been resolved in 24 hours as Donald Trump promised?

Speaker 60 Why is it that they are gutting Medicaid?

Speaker 44 Why is it that Donald Trump said that he had nothing to do with Project 2025?

Speaker 42 And now Russ Vogt, who's the author of it, is running the show and running everything.

Speaker 102 Why? I can go on and on.

Speaker 24 You get the point, Brett.

Speaker 13 Yeah, you know, this Epstein thing is honestly,

Speaker 13 you know, it's obviously a dark subject matter, but the fact that they are in this situation right now, there's definitely a lot of humor to it.

Speaker 13 They are the dog that caught the car, and now they do not know what to do about it because they've been hyping this up as like, this is going to be like their Super Bowl, their Christmas, however you want to describe it.

Speaker 13 The release of the Epstein files. And by the way, Donald Trump was in power before.
Nothing happened with the files then. Nothing's going to happen with the files now, anything substantial.
And

Speaker 13 they've hyped up that there's this existence of these files. And in their mind, there exists a list.
And the list says something like

Speaker 13 pedophiles in Hollywood. And then you read down the list, and it's all your favorite Hollywood celebrities.

Speaker 13 And it's going to be the big, we got the Democrats, we got Hollywood, they're all on this one list. Look at it.

Speaker 13 The odd thing about this to me from the very beginning is the obvious thing, which is why would you make this your main cause when the guy you worship was quite literally Jeffrey Epstein's best friend?

Speaker 13 You don't have to believe me when I say that. Jeffrey Epstein said that Donald Trump viewed him as his best friend.
They hung out all the time in Mar-a-Lago.

Speaker 13 I know they like to say, they make up this whole story that actually

Speaker 13 Donald Trump was.

Speaker 13 Trump banned him when he found out. Actually, Donald Trump just kept him close so that he could report.
I meant, give me a freaking break with that bullshit, okay?

Speaker 13 But they've invented this whole story where somehow Donald Trump has cleaned his hands of this, even though there's nobody who was ever closer to Jeffrey Epstein than Donald Trump, per all the reporting out there.

Speaker 13 And it goes beyond just even Donald Trump's name on these various lists and things like that.

Speaker 13 Like you could go into Ben's deep dives, but all the modeling agencies, all the things that took place at Mar-a-Lago, there's a whole lot of actual evidence to behavior that may be worse than just a name on a list.

Speaker 13 But the lists that do exist are the lists that have been public for the past few years, if not over the past decade.

Speaker 13 There's his little black book, the Epstein Little Black Book, and guess who's on Epstein's little black book? Donald Trump and like 50 phone numbers.

Speaker 13 I'm exaggerating there, but it actually is like 11 phone numbers. Do I have the little black book here? I'll find it.
Yeah, here it is right here. The little black book.

Speaker 13 I mean, that's a lot of contact information for one person to have of another human being.

Speaker 13 If you're looking at this, there's a few 212 numbers, three Florida numbers, another New York number, like another five New York numbers, another three.

Speaker 13 There's a lot of numbers on this, is my point. Melania's number, her name's spelled wrong.
Trump's security, like, like he's got, like, like people like who

Speaker 29 emergency. He's got the emergency contact.

Speaker 56 He's emergency contact.

Speaker 76 He's got Trump's emergency contact.

Speaker 13 Like, like, I get a lot of people's phone numbers. I don't know if they're emergency contact and their security.
This is a close relationship.

Speaker 13 And by the way, I'm going to say right up front, just because a name is on this phone log doesn't mean that any bad behavior was done.

Speaker 13 For that, we'll go into Ben's deep dives on the Epstein stuff and you'll see the more tangible stuff. But you want a list.
Here is a literal list. It exists right here, right?

Speaker 13 The other litteral list that exists, and this is the one that apparently Pam Bondi is planning on releasing that these MAGA influencers have been holding up in this binder.

Speaker 13 It was the phone records that I just showed you that Donald Trump's name on. By the the way, when we actually see these, let's see if they keep Donald Trump's name on it or not.

Speaker 13 But there's also the flight logs. We need to see the flight logs.
We need to see the flight logs. The flight logs were released in 2019.

Speaker 13 They were released as part of the Gislane-Maxwell trial, the federal trial. Signed affidavit.
These are the official logs.

Speaker 89 We have them right here.

Speaker 13 Donald Trump is listed in these logs by name. He brought his kids on sometimes.
He was often on it with Epstein himself. You could see the name J-E on these various logs.

Speaker 13 But Donald Trump was on the flight logs

Speaker 13 seven times. These were released, sorry, they were released in 2021 and not 2019.

Speaker 13 And his name's all over it. But yet you show this to the MAGA people and they're like, what? That doesn't mean anything.

Speaker 13 What list are you looking for? The list you're looking for doesn't exist. These are the lists that actually exist.
And then you have these White House influencers now going to the White House.

Speaker 13 And so you have people, and it's disgusting to see some of these people at the White House, holding up binders, holding up literal binders.

Speaker 6 Small binders.

Speaker 13 Small binders, like this guy. Who is this? This is a Cernovich.
I don't know. I'm upset that I know any of these people, but they're people like Libs of TikTok and Cernovich and

Speaker 66 I don't know.

Speaker 32 DC Draino.

Speaker 13 DC Draino. Here's the DC Draino photo.
And they're holding these things up. There's Libs of TikTok in this photo.
And they're smiling and they're celebrating.

Speaker 13 And these binders say phase one, the Epstein files, the most transparent administration in history. It has a fake declassified marking.
It's not a real declassified. It's like it says it.

Speaker 6 Like they just printed it on the thing.

Speaker 13 And they gave it to these 15 influencers. Apparently, this is phase one of the release, which is all this information that I just showed you.
Like it's already already public,

Speaker 13 apparently. And they're like smiling and celebrating.
And it's just weird because, like I said in the beginning of this, this is disturbing stuff. Like this is evidence of somebody who

Speaker 13 like raped children. I was trying to see if I could make it a little softer for this episode, but I want to be clear about what it is and not use the link.

Speaker 13 And they're smiling with these binders as if, look what I got, look at this great thing.

Speaker 13 It's completely bizarre, not to mention the fact that the people who have accused the media of being regime propagandists under Biden,

Speaker 13 this is literally the definition of regime propagandists. I mean, how do you ever recover from this?

Speaker 13 You holding your binders to try to cover for Donald Trump and his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein? Because that's all this is about right now.

Speaker 13 And now you have these rifts forming because you have these these MAGA people who are willing to do whatever Donald Trump wants, right?

Speaker 13 Then you have other MAGA people who view themselves as like pure blood MAGA, you know, like I am the real MAGA and I actually stand for my beliefs. And you know what?

Speaker 13 To their credit, some of these people I actually do think stand by their beliefs as horrific as they are. Like a Laura Loomer, for example.
Horrible person.

Speaker 13 She's pretty consistent, though, in being a horrible person. person.
She wouldn't probably partake in a situation like this.

Speaker 69 So then you have a Laura Loomer

Speaker 13 getting angry now at these MAGA influencers, getting angry at the Trump administration.

Speaker 13 You have Pam Bondi saying that she was going to release all the Epstein files, but the FBI is not going to allow her to release all the Epstein files.

Speaker 13 You have the FBI going, What are you talking about? They're all trying to blame each other. And now it's just MAGA is in chaos over this thing because the dog finally caught the car.

Speaker 13 And now they don't know what to do because they've hyped this moment up for so long as the moment that was going to take down the deep state and the Democrats and liberal Hollywood. And guess what?

Speaker 13 The only person's name who keeps coming up on these lists is Donald J. Trump Ben Holtz.

Speaker 6 Let me tell you what actually does exist, though.

Speaker 45 What does exist

Speaker 96 is

Speaker 38 millions of records from the Department of Justice investigation?

Speaker 72 Witness statement.

Speaker 29 I'll give you an example of what exists that hasn't been released.

Speaker 51 That if you were to release all of the files, would be released.

Speaker 96 There was a 14-year-old girl.

Speaker 18 She testified at the Gheelane Maxwell trial as a woman who said that Epstein brought her and introduced her to Donald Trump.

Speaker 29 We don't know really what that testimony was because a lot of it was under seal and then was classified, but we know that it took place because we're aware of Jane Doe, Trump, Gheelane Maxwell.

Speaker 60 That's what was reported, right?

Speaker 71 So, just for that one victim, for example, I'm sure there are pages of witness statements from police officers and investigators about what she told them happened.

Speaker 52 And then with all of the victims, there are police reports, phone logs, records,

Speaker 71 you know, statements, photographs, all of that, right?

Speaker 8 And that file,

Speaker 38 from my experience

Speaker 18 as a lawyer who dealt with, you know, big document production cases, I think you probably have terabytes of data that's out there.

Speaker 45 Now, if they claim they're Doge efficient, they should have been able to go through those terabytes of data.

Speaker 69 And if they had to redact a name of a victim, I get that.

Speaker 22 But the people who are being accused, that's the type of stuff that you would assume that they would want released.

Speaker 58 That's what they're asking for, right?

Speaker 94 So to your point, Brett, the only lists.

Speaker 44 that exist list

Speaker 24 Trump's name on them, phone logs, flight logs, right?

Speaker 18 But in terms of the data, I know, for example, that there was depositions released in part of these cases and Trump's names on the depots that have been public, where one of the victims that Epstein trafficked talked about Epstein calling Trump from the jet or before they went in the jet to go to a casino with her where they needed to reroute their flight.

Speaker 29 So, you know, that information's out there.

Speaker 18 And the question is, why don't they want to release it?

Speaker 25 And again, you have MAGA Republican Anna Paulina Luna.

Speaker 74 She posts, that's not the information that we asked for.

Speaker 95 Turn it over.

Speaker 47 I want to pivot and talk about the relationship between Andrew Tate and all of this with Andrew Tate, who was accused of sex trafficking in Romania,

Speaker 18 returning now to the United States.

Speaker 32 But, Jordy, let me have you comment first on the Epstein stuff.

Speaker 46 No, I just wanted to say this. Like, if they're, and I don't want to be that, but if Biden, but if, but, but in this situation, if there, if you were to Google Joe Biden, Jeffrey Epstein,

Speaker 46 just

Speaker 46 in the chat, how many photos pop up of Joe Biden standing next to Jeffrey Epstein? Oh, you're you can't find any. Okay, same question.

Speaker 46 Now, for the chat, for the listeners, Google Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein.

Speaker 33 The photos go on and on and on.

Speaker 46 And for our audio listeners, Brett just put one up. Trump's arms totally all around Epstein.
They're having

Speaker 46 what seems to be a very happy, cordial conversation between between the two. God knows what they're talking about right there.
The video of that moment, if you look at it, is repulsive.

Speaker 46 Trump is doing like a weird like dance move thing where he's bobbing his head. The whole thing is really awful.

Speaker 62 He's licking his lips.

Speaker 46 He's grinning his lips. It is disgusting.
Like absolutely disgusting. But here's one more for you.
Jeffrey Epstein's own brother.

Speaker 46 has come out and said that Jeff stopped hanging out with Donald Trump when he realized that Trump was a crook. Imagine being too dirty and too crooked for Jeffrey freaking Epstein, man.

Speaker 13 By the way, I totally buy that it was Epstein that cut off the friendship, not the other way around.

Speaker 80 I completely buy.

Speaker 13 Before you go on to Tate, I want to say one more thing also, which is this.

Speaker 13 I see all these MAGA people online saying, Why don't the Democrats, why don't anybody who's not MAGA, why don't people say release the Epstein list?

Speaker 13 It's because they're scared that they're on it or their friends are on it or their whatever politicians are on it, celebrities.

Speaker 13 We've been saying it all the freaking time. Release the list.
We don't give a shit.

Speaker 80 We

Speaker 13 released it. Release it.
We've seen the list that exists. Your guys on it.
And we don't care who is on the list. We'll acknowledge it.

Speaker 13 I don't know why you can't acknowledge the reality that Donald Trump is the one who constantly shows up and had this very deep, close, and personal relationship with the guy, Benjamin.

Speaker 26 Donald Trump's top advisor is Alina Haba.

Speaker 82 She was his former lawyer who lost most of the cases that he was in and pretended that she won.

Speaker 42 She was sanctioned million plus dollars for filing frivolous lawsuits in federal court.

Speaker 38 Here she is a few months back, I believe, with Andrew Tate,

Speaker 38 who was accused of sex trafficking in Romania.

Speaker 18 And Alina Haba sees him, and she is starstruck. It's like she saw, you know,

Speaker 44 the most famous person, the most beloved person. Just watch for yourself.
Hi.

Speaker 34 Hello, Alina.

Speaker 6 Hi.

Speaker 103 Nice to meet you.

Speaker 13 I'm a big fan.

Speaker 68 Well, nice to meet you. I'm a fan.

Speaker 13 You're the one saving Trump.

Speaker 68 You're doing more important work than me.

Speaker 103 America. America, not just Trump.
And I agree with everything you just said. And I think that your anger is the same that President Trump has for our country.
And

Speaker 103 the time is now for us to stop being wimps. I think that's exactly the right sentiment.
Okay.

Speaker 72 Now let me show you.

Speaker 77 I'll show you a clip of Andrew Tate in his own words.

Speaker 18 Just you can follow his own words.

Speaker 30 This is what he says, what his main line of business is, in his own words.

Speaker 42 Here, play it.

Speaker 49 And I became a multi-millionaire.

Speaker 49 I did this by creating a webcam studio, by taking girls who didn't know how to be effective on webcam, girls who had never done webcam before, girls who didn't have the equipment, didn't have the know-how, didn't have the will, didn't have the premises, didn't have the ability to make money with this exchange.

Speaker 49 I created a system that allowed me to convince girls to do this, allowed me to retain 100% control of their income, allowed me to make sure they were effective because it's a super competitive industry.

Speaker 49 Don't think this is easy money. You're just going to put a girl on the camera and they're going to get rich straight away.
No, it's very competitive and it's very difficult.

Speaker 49 I learned every tip and trick it takes to make sure a girl gets paid. I know how to make sure sure the girl can't run away.

Speaker 49 Because once you teach a girl how to do this, she has the ability to make unlimited money from home.

Speaker 13 Why would she still give it to you?

Speaker 49 Why did she just run off and keep it all for herself? Why are you getting your percentage? I learned how to do everything to take a nobody and make her a somebody.

Speaker 49 I learned how to take a nothing turn to a cash cow. And betas from all across the world would be sending money into her

Speaker 50 bank account.

Speaker 49 This is what webcamming is.

Speaker 100 Okay, now we learned that

Speaker 88 the Trump administration, when they were in Munich attacking Europe, sorry, it's hard to even watch that sometimes.

Speaker 18 When Trump was, the administration was in the Munich Security Conference attacking Europe, someone from the Trump administration approached the Romanian foreign minister about bringing,

Speaker 73 releasing some of the restrictions on Tate from leaving Romania.

Speaker 72 Andrew Tate, who faces rape trafficking charges in Romania, has left for the U.S.

Speaker 40 He was believed to be going to Florida.

Speaker 5 Even DeSantis was like, I just found out about this from the media.

Speaker 95 He can't come to Florida.

Speaker 5 I don't know what the hell this is about.

Speaker 42 I'm pissed off.

Speaker 31 Of course, Donald Trump is like denying, I don't know much about what's going on there.

Speaker 73 I don't know what's going on there.

Speaker 72 But when they talk about like the Manosphere podcasts and that bullshit, like they're talking about people like that.

Speaker 102 And let me be very clear.

Speaker 37 We may be beating the Manosphere podcasts, but we wholeheartedly reject any of that disgusting filth and crap.

Speaker 27 That's not how you need to be a good podcast.

Speaker 37 It's not what you need to do to get ratings. That's what you need to be a trash, disgusting, despicable human being and just condemn that in the strongest of terms.

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Speaker 104 I mean, I'll show you this.

Speaker 73 This is what she was saying in Congress

Speaker 97 yesterday or two days ago, earlier this week, whenever.

Speaker 40 It's all the same with her.

Speaker 24 I mean, this is what MAGA Republicans are going with.

Speaker 89 And it's not just her, this is what they're saying.

Speaker 97 They're saying that these hardworking federal employees who are being fired, again, 30% of federal workers are like veterans as well.

Speaker 16 And then there's a whole other group that are spouses of veterans because, or spouses of people in the armed forces.

Speaker 44 It's when you go from base to base,

Speaker 18 the spouse will technically be a probationary employee because when you start a new job, even if you accrue experience, that technically makes you probationary.

Speaker 46 Listen to what she says about just federal workers in general, play it.

Speaker 105 You can protest all you want outside of departments of this government. You can protest all you want, but the American people disagree with you.
You're protecting the bureaucracy.

Speaker 105 The bureaucracy is not a business. Those are not real jobs producing federal revenue.
By the way, they're consuming taxpayer dollars.

Speaker 105 Those jobs are paid for by the American tax people who work real jobs, earn real income, pay federal taxes, and then pay these federal employees. Federal employees do not deserve their jobs.

Speaker 105 Federal employees do not deserve their paychecks. And these are jobs that can be fired.

Speaker 52 She's literally the stupidest person ever.

Speaker 42 I mean,

Speaker 8 oh, my God.

Speaker 51 She is despicable, but she's also really stupid.

Speaker 97 Like, Marjorie, Marjorie, you're a federal employee.

Speaker 51 Like, she literally is a federal,

Speaker 13 you're talking about yourself, Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Speaker 13 That's who you're talking about, because the federal employees I know, the federal workers, are super hardworking people who go to work every single day, live a middle-class lifestyle, often are able to do things in the private sector, but choose to give service to their country.

Speaker 13 By the way, yes, they do pay taxes and they do pay taxes back to the government from their salaries. And the the government is not a business.

Speaker 13 It's not a profit-making function, despite what you and the other Republicans want it to be. Things need to run.
Services need to be provided to people.

Speaker 13 And when did it become okay for politicians to speak down to working Americans like that? It is so, I guess, with Trump, but it's so incredibly appalling to me.

Speaker 13 And it really, really disgusts me on a gut level. And this, you're telling me this is the party that is claiming the mantle of populism.

Speaker 13 This is the party that's claiming the mantle of where for the working people.

Speaker 13 And you're saying that to people who are hard workers, who go in every single day to difficult jobs, and you tell them their jobs don't mean crap. Honestly, screw, screw her.

Speaker 46 That's 1,000%, Brad. When did it become okay to talk like this

Speaker 46 to anybody?

Speaker 46 This behavior wouldn't be acceptable in the high school, let alone within our government.

Speaker 46 It is just so deranged, upsetting, and appalling. And I'll tell tell you when, quite frankly, it's when it's, well, it's Trump, yes.

Speaker 46 But now all these MAGA Republicans sticking their chests out, you know, walking strong.

Speaker 46 They got big daddy Elon over there, Elon the oligarch, right?

Speaker 57 They got Elon, man.

Speaker 29 They got all this money.

Speaker 46 They could talk down to you, American worker. They could talk down to you, working-class folk.
They don't give a damn about you.

Speaker 46 They got Trump. They're going to go to Mar-a-Lago.
They're going to kick it there, eat their lobster. They're laughing at you.

Speaker 46 The people that voted for you, they're laughing at you and in your face well look i mean to your point jordy you have maga mike johnson the speaker of the house here he's speaking and and and he's like uh

Speaker 52 we really actually came up with something very incredible so we put elon in with his algorithms because in congress we couldn't do our jobs and so you see elon now has the algorithms that sift through all of your data and it's actually a quite revolutionary concept that we have uh going on here I mean, like, do you realize what you're saying, Megan Mike Johnson?

Speaker 73 Like, I'm going to show you this clip and then I'll comment on it, but just watch it.

Speaker 21 And the Congress, we could have oversight. The problem is, for decades, as we know, we haven't been able to do that job well.

Speaker 21 Because even though we requested the data and requested the insight, it was hidden. How many of you know that bureaucracy was not forthcoming, right? They're not transparent.
That's the whole point.

Speaker 21 That's the problem. That's the deep state that we talk about.
So they were hiding from Congress.

Speaker 21 We didn't know that USAID was funding drag shows in Peru or whatever, you know, transgender operas in Colombia or whatever. You know, it's madness.
But Elon has cracked the code.

Speaker 21 He is now inside the agencies. He's created these algorithms that are constantly crawling through the data.
And as he told me in his office, the data doesn't lie.

Speaker 21 We're going to be able to get the information. We're going to be able to transform the way the federal government works at the end of this.
And that is a very exciting prospect.

Speaker 21 It is truly a revolutionary moment for the nation.

Speaker 100 If revolutionary, you mean creating a

Speaker 18 tech dictatorship to overthrow checks and balances and then to use Stalinist tactics to lie about fraud, to attack political enemies, while getting rid of key functions that have literally destroyed our government, making people less safe.

Speaker 44 I guess that's one word,

Speaker 102 revolutionary.

Speaker 18 But literally, your job as a Congress member is oversight,

Speaker 88 not to give your job to a billionaire oligarch to put algorithms into our data and hand over our data and then not call the individual to testify before Congress.

Speaker 39 I mean, these are literally the most pathetic people.

Speaker 66 And it gets more pathetic.

Speaker 73 I mean, you've got MAGA Republican Congress member Joe Wilson introducing the $250 bill legislation to put Trump's face on a $250 bill because he says the most valuable president needs the most valuable currency.

Speaker 18 And then I'll just show you this image one more time.

Speaker 97 Brett, pull up that photo of Donald Trump with the rendering

Speaker 73 without the makeup on so we can just take a look at this.

Speaker 73 Because I think about, and I don't know, because look, I mean, just imagine, you know,

Speaker 24 it's like, you know, whatever, late at night in the morning, you've got the guy on my right-hand side, like on his phone.

Speaker 40 And

Speaker 102 let me reenact it for you right now.

Speaker 60 You could show me now.

Speaker 30 You know, he's on the the phone and he's like,

Speaker 34 you know, and he's looking at her.

Speaker 30 He's looking at her. And he's like,

Speaker 30 what should I post?

Speaker 19 Trump Gaza.

Speaker 32 I'm going to post Trump Gaza.

Speaker 27 Look, look, look, look, let's do AI.

Speaker 8 Look, Elon.

Speaker 101 Elon, look. It's me.

Speaker 105 It's me.

Speaker 13 It's me and Gaza.

Speaker 58 Here, pull up some of these photos if we've got them.

Speaker 18 This is a video that Donald Trump posted.

Speaker 104 First image is him and a woman not really wearing a lot of clothes dancing.

Speaker 71 Then him and Benjamin Netanyahu.

Speaker 13 Not his wife, by the way.

Speaker 89 Not his wife.

Speaker 30 Him and Benjamin Netanyahu, who, I guess, you know, what, post-genocide on a Gaza beach with Trump,

Speaker 38 with Trump hotels.

Speaker 45 Then the third photo is...

Speaker 18 what do we got there?

Speaker 69 Men

Speaker 30 with bathing suits and big cleavage in bathing suits on the beach with beards and

Speaker 44 long hair. Is that what we're looking for?

Speaker 13 I'm sure Lives of TikTok is all over that one.

Speaker 6 I'm sure they're all over this.

Speaker 30 And then a gigantic gold statue and then Elon Musk

Speaker 38 throwing money in the air.

Speaker 68 Yeah.

Speaker 24 I guess the Palestinians for Trump and the Muslims for Trump.

Speaker 8 I don't know.

Speaker 68 I don't know.

Speaker 22 Here's what you're distracting from, though, Brett.

Speaker 91 I want to show that you have to show that these people are,

Speaker 29 this is not normal behavior, but then I think you have to quickly pivot

Speaker 72 to saying, what are they distracting from, Brett?

Speaker 22 And that's the destruction of the economy that they're bringing.

Speaker 13 100%. And I just want to add as well that

Speaker 13 something I'm going to reiterate on the show quite a bit. That is you could say all the things in the world, right? You could try to create your own reality, but reality will always catch up.

Speaker 13 Caught up to Donald Trump in his last administration with COVID when he tried to create his own reality around that. Didn't work.

Speaker 13 We already are seeing that happen to the Trump administration right now across the board, and the economy is no different.

Speaker 13 Let me break down the economy, but first, you know, I got to do this as part of everybody's favorite segment on the Midas Touch podcast. This is the NetSuite by Oracle, Know Your Numbers Minute.

Speaker 13 Welcome to the NetSuite by Oracle, Know Your Numbers Minute, people. Let me break down the latest data that we are receiving today.

Speaker 13 So we got the new unemployment claims from last week rising much higher than anticipated. I know a lot of you are probably like, I anticipated it to be pretty high because Trump is firing.

Speaker 13 quite literally everybody, but this is higher. They do it based on the economist's predictions.
And this is even higher than that.

Speaker 13 So there were an estimated 242,000 claims filed, jobless claims filed last week, which is 22,000 more than the previous week. So we are seeing a pretty steep increase across the weeks right now.

Speaker 13 And all this unemployment that Trump is causing in DC and Virginia and across the country, that's going to lag a little bit also.

Speaker 13 And when this catches up, I think the unemployment numbers are going to start looking really bad once we start seeing these monthly jobs reports in like April, May, you know, and things like that.

Speaker 13 By the way, like you, first off, the expectation was 220,000. We had 242,000 jobless claims.
Just want to be clear about that. And you could use NetSuite to stay on top of all the economic indicators.

Speaker 13 NetSuite provides easy access to economic data data and trends through their integrated analytics so that you're always up to date.

Speaker 13 And this news comes as Donald Trump continues to purge these federal employees, implement these tariffs, threaten these major American industries.

Speaker 13 As you can see, everything is kind of in upheaval now, and there's a whole lot of instability. And speaking of tariffs, tariffs were back in the news today.

Speaker 13 Trump announced earlier that those previously postponed tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada will now take effect on March 4th, 2025.

Speaker 13 We'll see if those tariffs end up happening again or not, like the last time. the tariffs are set to be 25% on imports from Canada and Mexico with an additional 10% tariff on China.

Speaker 13 I should mention now that we're talking about international, if you have a business that does work globally, NetSuite is tailored to meet your various trade regulations, standards, all that sort of stuff to make sure it was compliant and on top of everything.

Speaker 13 And Trump continues to blame the flow of fentanyl for the tariffs, even like in places like Canada. It doesn't make any sense.
There's like no, I think there's more fentanyl that flows from the U.S.

Speaker 13 to Canada than from the Canada to here. There's virtually no fentanyl that goes from Canada to the U.S.
So it's a fake excuse.

Speaker 13 Like I said, they use these kind of con games constantly in order to try to push forward these policies. Trump also says these reciprocal tariffs are going to take effect on April 2nd.

Speaker 13 That could affect products from the entire world.

Speaker 13 And the things that Trump is claiming need reciprocal tariffs are things like value-added taxes, VATs, which are not VAT at all and don't actually affect exports to other countries.

Speaker 13 Once again, like a lot of made-up things. As previously mentioned, these tariffs could upend American industries.
We just heard this week from the CEO of Alcoa. That's the nation's leading U.S.

Speaker 13 aluminum producer. And he said that Trump's tariffs on aluminum could destroy 100,000 American jobs while not even providing an incentive to change aluminum production in the United States.

Speaker 13 So you're getting all the bad stuff without any of the good stuff that he's going to say. He even said at his conference, once again, CEO of Alcoa.
So I'm not saying this is a liberal organization.

Speaker 13 Alcoa, the leading U.S. aluminum producer, he said, quote, at a recent conference, it's bad for the U.S.

Speaker 13 So, you know, we're going to stay on top of all the economic updates here at the Midas Touch Network, week by week, month by month, day by day, making sure that you're getting all the data and everything that is going on.

Speaker 13 And so, I'll be back soon with another segment and we'll stay on top of it. That was the NetSuite by Oracle Know Your Numbers Minute.
Do you know your own numbers for your business?

Speaker 13 Download NetSuite's ultimate KPI checklist right now at netsuite.com/slash Midas.

Speaker 25 Let me give us some legal news right now.

Speaker 19 According to ABC News, newly installed FBI Director Cash Patel has reportedly proposed establishing a key partnership between the FBI and the Ultimate Fighting Championship, the UFC, whose CEO Dana White is a major donor, to develop programs to train the FBI agents, integrating UFC into the FBI.

Speaker 18 Other important legal news I want to mention as well: a federal judge in California earlier today ordered OPM, the Office of Personnel Management, to resend memos calling for the mass termination of probationary employees, saying the agency overstepped its legal authority and must inform other agencies that lack the authority to issue such a directive.

Speaker 39 The judge said he can't stop agencies from terminating those employees on their own, but they cannot be ordered by OPM to do so.

Speaker 29 The judge wants OPM boss Charles Ezel to testify under oath next month about his agencies,

Speaker 32 about the termination.

Speaker 18 So that could be a big deal if these probationary employees are now given all of this back pay and then are required, allowed to return back to the government, then what's going to happen?

Speaker 71 And they fire him again.

Speaker 83 We're talking about massive, massive damages and massive wrongful termination lawsuits that

Speaker 74 can be filed.

Speaker 25 By the way, shout out to Michael Popak, who started his own law firm, the Popak law firm.

Speaker 41 I think you can Google a Popac law firm.

Speaker 74 Maybe we'll drop it in the description as well.

Speaker 61 But he's been handling a lot of big kind of catastrophic injury cases, wrongful termination cases.

Speaker 74 He's representing a victim's family from the plane crash over D.C.

Speaker 18 And so he's handling cases like that.

Speaker 44 I know a lot of Midas Mighty were reaching out to Popac.

Speaker 73 We'll post his link in the description.

Speaker 40 I'm proud of him for starting his own law firm. I digress there.

Speaker 7 But also earlier in the day, a judge ordered the Trump, separate judge, ordered the Trump administration officials and at least one Doge staffer to sit for depositions in a lawsuit over the group's access to sensitive government systems.

Speaker 55 Judge Bates, who's a George W.

Speaker 29 Bush appointee, called Doge's activities, quote, opaque.

Speaker 95 You think, you think.

Speaker 43 So that's your legal update brought to you by...

Speaker 80 Ben.

Speaker 43 Michael Pogel Popo.

Speaker 13 And legal AF, I should say.

Speaker 80 Michael Popac's deliverance.

Speaker 8 By the way, we have Popac for that one.

Speaker 9 What'd you say? I said Bill Popac for that one.

Speaker 46 On a totally separate note, though, I did just kind of want it because I know we're coming close to the end of the show. And I just wanted to say this.

Speaker 58 Look,

Speaker 46 them in Congress, just them in politics across America.

Speaker 22 We need you to show up.

Speaker 46 And some of y'all are

Speaker 46 doing incredible. Like rep Jasmine Crockett, I see her all the time, and she's doing it right.
She's getting the message out there. We need fighters, more fighters fighters like her.

Speaker 46 You know, we have the expression on the Midas Touch podcast, ABC always be campaigning. Look, the Democratic Party, it's truly the party for the American people.

Speaker 46 Their policies and the data, it all backs that up.

Speaker 46 But if you're not an effective communicator and you're not effectively communicating your messages where these voters are at all times, you know, you just may as well be screaming into the void.

Speaker 46 What are you scared about?

Speaker 46 Are you scared about some trolls on the internet that are going to be mean to you, you know, for what, for fighting for democracy and not kissing the feet of an oligarch oligarch or a guy that wears orange makeup?

Speaker 81 You know, I see some fight.

Speaker 46 I need to see more fight, though, out of our Dem leaders. And I know they could get there because we have some rock star talent, especially the younger ones.

Speaker 38 There you have it there.

Speaker 44 Jordy, I want to thank all the members of the Midas Mighty because.

Speaker 18 You know, one of the things that I think is important to note about this show and this network is, look,

Speaker 86 it's great when they're like, oh, the Midas Touch podcast is beating Joe Rogan.

Speaker 18 But to me, it's not an individualistic achievement.

Speaker 24 It's an achievement for this community.

Speaker 30 And this community has been growing organically step by step.

Speaker 22 And really, it's a testament to the strength of the Midas Mighty.

Speaker 79 So thank you to all of you.

Speaker 43 Thank you to the people for beating the oligarchs.

Speaker 44 Thank you to the people for pushing back on those, whatever they call them, the Manosphere podcasts or whatever.

Speaker 87 I mean, we could win with the truth, with passion, with joy.

Speaker 55 And we can be hard-hitting about it too.

Speaker 91 And we can have fun about it, like we like to do here on the network.

Speaker 28 But let's be grounded in making our country and our world actually better and helping people, not hurting people.

Speaker 7 That's some of the core messages that we have here on this show.

Speaker 86 And so, thank you to all of you.

Speaker 94 Make sure you subscribe on audio and the YouTube channel.

Speaker 79 Let's grow all of this together.

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Speaker 73 meet Jordy Brett and myself at our next meeting, we do a few meetings every month on Patreon.

Speaker 57 And there's Midasplus.com.

Speaker 29 By the way, that jingle at the end of the show, that's sung by Tennessee Brando, who's on the Midas Touch network.

Speaker 45 That's the Midas Touch anthem.

Speaker 13 Tennessee Brando just hit 600,000 subscribers on YouTube. So congratulations.

Speaker 3 I love you, Tennessee. Tennessee Brando.

Speaker 29 Absolutely. And thank you to all of our great hosts, our contributors, our staffs, the Midas Mighty, the mods, everybody.

Speaker 45 Thank you so much.

Speaker 29 Let's keep building. Let's keep growing.

Speaker 22 Keep the passion.

Speaker 23 Keep the hope.

Speaker 45 Keep the joy.

Speaker 25 And we'll take our country back.

Speaker 74 Jordy, take it away.

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