Trump Gets Smothered by Town Hall Backlash

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Speaker 2 And they didn't like some of Scott Fitzgerald's answers.

Speaker 3 The end result of the fraud and abuse that has been discovered already?

Speaker 4 Michael Wittig is power to the people at these town halls. Americans from all political parties are having their voices heard.

Speaker 4 What you saw there at the beginning of the video was a town hall held in Wisconsin by MAGA Republican Congressmember Representative Scott Fitzgerald.

Speaker 4 And you heard people there who were pissed that he was enabling and allowing Elon Musk and Donald Trump to go through their personal data and have access to their social security information and medical records while they gut and destroy the government and take and tank our economy.

Speaker 4 Let me just show you a longer clip from that town hall.

Speaker 4 And then I want to show you that from Wisconsin to Georgia to New York to the West Coast, people are rising up right now and having their voices heard.

Speaker 4 Red states, blue states, purple states, all of the colors. People are angry.
People are pissed. People demand action.
Watch this right here from that town hall. Let's play it.

Speaker 2 And they didn't like some of Scott Fitzgerald's answers.

Speaker 3 The end result of the fraud and abuse that has been discovered already?

Speaker 2 Michael Wittig is concerned with Elon Musk's role in the Trump administration. He held up a sign that read, presidents are not kings.

Speaker 6 Are you going to subpoena him at some point?

Speaker 6 After you're done with the budget or whatever, are you willing to use your subpoena power to act to say, Trump, or sorry, Musk, come in here, stand in front of Congress, and answer some hard questions.

Speaker 2 Congressman Fitzgerald insists Musk's efforts to find waste and fraud are working, and Congress will eventually have budget oversight.

Speaker 3 Certainly, the discussion in and around Doge

Speaker 3 and with the probationary moves that have already been done,

Speaker 3 they're going to have to be scrutinized at some point.

Speaker 4 So, now I want to share with you what was going down in New York in Representative Paul Tonko's congressional district, Democrat Paul Tonko,

Speaker 4 here at this town hall. A huge ovation as a teacher encourages Congressmember Paul Tonko, who is pushing pushing back to do more,

Speaker 4 to work harder, even if that means getting arrested for civil disobedience.

Speaker 4 If you're in public service right now, you cannot sit idly by as Elon Musk and these billionaires take away all of people's rights and freedoms. Watch the energy in this room in New York.

Speaker 4 Play this clip.

Speaker 7 I'm a 20-year veteran teacher. As I said, I've been behind you in local stores.
I you came to the Albany, the 100th anniversary of the Albany Library branch celebration where my band played inside.

Speaker 7 Okay?

Speaker 7 I saw you on TV at NOAA, I saw you on TV at the Department of Education.

Speaker 7 What I'm saying is this: somebody asked you what your red line was, and you said that the time is always right to go.

Speaker 7 Does that mean the red line has already been crossed?

Speaker 7 Because I think it has. If you ask us to show up, Congressman Tonko, we will show up.

Speaker 7 But it can be,

Speaker 8 we have to take the gloves off.

Speaker 7 We can't wait for protocols. They're not playing by the rules.

Speaker 7 We have to take it to the

Speaker 7 next step.

Speaker 7 When I saw you at West Prince, when I saw you next to Maxine Waters, yes, I was so proud that my representative was on the front line right there.

Speaker 7 But

Speaker 7 I thought about Jimmy Carter and I thought about John Lewis and I know what John Lewis would have done. He would have gotten arrested that day.

Speaker 8 Make them, make them outlaw you.

Speaker 8 We will stand behind you. We will be there with you.
I will get arrested with you.

Speaker 8 I will do it.

Speaker 4 So then one of the things that we're seeing is that a lot of Republicans, surprise, surprise, because they are spineless MAGAs after all, they are not even showing up at town halls.

Speaker 4 So, here, Democratic Congressmember Mark Pokin points out that these MAGAs are not even showing up to town halls.

Speaker 4 This Congress member, the Democrat, goes, I just held the town hall with Wisconsin's farmers union. They invited all elected officials in the area.

Speaker 4 Unfortunately, not a single Republican showed up, including Representative Van Orden and Representative Tiffany.

Speaker 4 The farmers I spoke to are worried about Trump and Elon Musk cutting their federal funding and contracts. To all of our Wisconsin farmers, I hear you and I have your back.

Speaker 4 Let me just play you this video. Let's play it.
Then let's talk about it.

Speaker 9 This is Representative Mark Pocan from Wisconsin. I'm here in Triple Falls, Wisconsin right now.
We just had a town hall that the Wisconsin Farmers Union put on.

Speaker 9 They invited all the elected officials from the area, both in federal and state office. Unfortunately, no Republicans showed up.

Speaker 9 Jarek Van Ordin, Tom Tiffany, or No Shows, as well as the state legislators who are Republicans in the area. But we're talking to farmers, about Sati-taka people, about what they're seeing.

Speaker 9 They're worried about cuts they're seeing. They're worried about what's going to happen to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for the neediest, because it's all food that they're growing.

Speaker 9 They're concerned about funds that have been stopped and loans that they are using to get their crops out. They're concerned about the immigration and staffing they're going to have on farms.

Speaker 9 They're concerned about a lot of things around Medicaid and cuts to education as well in the rural areas.

Speaker 9 So we've had a great conversation and I just hope that more people will hear about the Republican rip-off, which is this four and a half trillion dollar transfer of wealth from the middle class and those aspiring to be in the middle class, the programs we talked about today, to a tech for the wealthiest.

Speaker 9 Because at the end of the day, that's who gets the money. DeRon Musk, Donna Trump, and others.

Speaker 9 I'm just really glad we have a lot of farmers sharing their very real stories and a lot of emotion today and um

Speaker 9 you know i hope more republican members of congress will be listening to their constituents like the democrats were dear too

Speaker 4 and that's the thing they are crushing farmers by the way they crushed farmers with trump's failed trade wars during the first term and now it's going to be far worse devastations about to hit farmers across the country if you look at trump's budget it's 4.5 $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the billionaires like Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

Speaker 4 There's close to $300 billion in cuts for farmers, close to $400 billion in cuts in education. And who are the people that they're attacking most with Doge?

Speaker 4 The most vulnerable. Like the group they pick on the most?

Speaker 4 Farmers, disabled veterans. Disabled veterans are their number one group that they pick on.

Speaker 4 Disabled veterans who served our country now working in the federal government because disabled veterans are often probationary employees because they go to different jobs and they travel and also military spouses also travel a lot.

Speaker 4 So they're technically probationary. These are the people who are getting fired the most, but tens of thousands of people are being let go.
And my thing with these spineless MAGAs, show up.

Speaker 4 Show up and hear from your constituents. What? You just want to live in your Twitter, which is now ex-Elon Musk's bubble, which is not real life.

Speaker 4 because in real life, people freaking hate you, and you need to hear how angry you've made us at you for your betrayal, for your support of Putin, for your support of traitorous policies, for your support of destroying our country every day, for letting billionaires have access to our tax records and our social security information and our medical files, invading our privacy.

Speaker 4 You MAGA's, spineless idiots, you need to hear how angry we the people are when we show up at these town halls.

Speaker 4 And I encourage all of you, Midas Mighty, call them, call them cowards, call them spineless magnas, call up their offices, tell them what you think about them, and show up at these town halls and demand they hold these town halls.

Speaker 4 Not this stuff right here. This is what Elon Musk was doing during the week while he was destroying people's lives.
This is what he was doing.

Speaker 4 I was on the stage with Javier Malay, who's embroiled in a massive crypto scandal right now in Argentina, where he pumped and dumped a

Speaker 4 Libra crypto coin, causing people to lose their life savings. Sounds familiar.
This is what Musk was doing. Play this clip.

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Speaker 11 Now going back to MAGA Republican Congress member Rich McCormick, this was his town hall where he compared his own constituents asking tough and fair questions to being January 6th insurrectionists play this clip tyranny is rising in the White House and a man has declared himself our king so I would like to know rather the people would like to know what you congressmen and your fellow congressmen are going to do to reign in the megalomaniac in the White House

Speaker 12 I'm not going to give you my best fog whore length whore in response to that.

Speaker 12 But what I was saying, you can go ahead and sit down. Thank you.
you.

Speaker 12 When you talk about tyranny, when you talk about presidential power, I remember having the same discussion with Republicans when Biden was elected.

Speaker 12 The funny thing is, the funny thing is,

Speaker 12 The funny thing is, you're sitting here and

Speaker 12 a lot of you would probably say those January 6s who are yelling just as loud as you, who are upset just like you.

Speaker 4 A C-SPAN caller from West Virginia reached out and said, hey, you realize that all of a sudden I'm diabetic and on Medicare and now my insulin was $6 for a 28-day supply. Now it's back up to $80.

Speaker 4 Well, yeah, because Trump reversed what Biden did on everything. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 13 Yes, ma'am. I'm calling from West Virginia, which is a red state for Donald Trump.
And they have a place called down here, Public Debt. And a lot of my neighbors would vote for Trump.

Speaker 13 They walking around scared, crying, nervous, and they were forever Trumpers. But on a personal note, I'm a diabetic and I'm on Medicare.
And when Joe Biden was in there, my insulin was $6

Speaker 13 for a 28-day supply. I just went to CVS to get my new supply.
It went back up to $80, they said, because the American Recovery Act was canceled. So it went from $6

Speaker 13 to $80. So I don't know if anybody else out there on Medicare.

Speaker 4 And then we also learn more about just how despicable and creepy these MAGAs are. Like, here's this MAGA Republican Congressmember, Corey Mills.
Look at this creep right here. D.C.

Speaker 4 police confirm that they are investigating an alleged assault in D.C. by this MAGA Republican, Corey Mills.
He represents the Northeast District of Orlando. And it turns out what it's about is

Speaker 4 he apparently assaulted a woman, 27 years old, who's like his girlfriend, even though he's married. And then he told her to lie about the origin of her bruises.
That's what's being reported there.

Speaker 4 Do you remember, though, the types of town halls that maybe when we showed you these videos to all the MAGAs out there who are now watching this?

Speaker 4 Because I know there's a lot of you coming over and saying, hey, we're sorry we were wrong. But I want to share this with you.

Speaker 4 Go back to our videos where we would say to you, hey, this was Trump at his town halls that he would hold during the campaign. When he would be asked questions about Project 2025 or the economy.

Speaker 4 He would say, let's not do questions. Who wants to watch me dance? Who wants to watch me hear music? Play this clip.

Speaker 12 Let's not do any more questions. Let's just listen to music.
Let's make it into our music.

Speaker 12 Who the hell wants to hear questions, right?

Speaker 12 Isn't that beautiful, though? It's so beautiful. And we played that.

Speaker 12 In Butler, Pennsylvania, we had a moment of silence, and then we had the bells of Notre Dame go off and then we had a great opera singer, Christopher, who was so incredible and a great, great opera singer.

Speaker 4 By the way, a little bit more from that MAGA Republican Congress member McCormick's town hall. Let's just play a minute and ten of this.
Let's play it.

Speaker 7 Workers from the nuclear worker,

Speaker 6 the NNSA, our nuclear stockpile, and CDC workers working on the bird flu being fired by Doge and then having to be rehired when someone realized, oh gosh, we need those people.

Speaker 6 Why is a supposedly conservative party taking such a radical and extremist and sloppy approach to this?

Speaker 6 So I've been down to CDC several times. Actually, Dr.
Howry, one of my former attendees, works there and I'm in close contact with the CDC.

Speaker 6 They have about, what, 13,000 employees? 13,000 employees at the CDC.

Speaker 6 In the last couple years, those probationary people, which is about 10% of their employee base, which is about 1,300 people, which you're referring to,

Speaker 6 a lot of the work they do is duplicit with AI.

Speaker 5 Once again, one of the problems we have...

Speaker 6 I happen to be a doctor. I know a few things, okay?

Speaker 4 Oh, and here was Donald Trump on Friday attacking the governor of Maine, Governor Mills, and saying that he was going to not fund her state because she wasn't complying.

Speaker 4 He goes, I'm the federal law. You don't listen to judges.
You listen to me, he says. He goes, I will defund your whole state.
And she's like, no, I'm going to sue you. And she stands up to him.

Speaker 4 Democratic Governor Mills in Maine, watch this.

Speaker 12 Is Maine here, the governor of Maine?

Speaker 12 Are you not going to comply with it? I'm complying with the state and federal laws.

Speaker 12 Well, we are the federal law.

Speaker 12 Well, you better do it. You better do it because you're not going to get any federal funding at all if you don't.

Speaker 12 And by the way, your population, even though it's somewhat liberal, although I did very well there, your population doesn't want men playing in women's sports. So

Speaker 12 you better comply because otherwise you're not getting any federal funding.

Speaker 12 Every state... Good, I'll see you in court.
I look forward to that. That should be a real easy one.

Speaker 12 And enjoy your life after, governor, because I I don't think you'll be in elected politics. Every state.

Speaker 4 And of course, you probably saw this, the stock market absolutely crashing,

Speaker 4 unfortunately, on Friday, caused by Donald Trump. As Donald Trump sends his followers emails like this, I'm Dark MAGA, I'm Dark MAGA, I'm Dark MAGA.
Elon Musk is Dark MAGA, weird stuff.

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