Newsom Brings the House Down to End Trump’s Term

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on California Governor Gavin Newsom’s powerful speech in San Jose and his other actions where he leads the fight for democracy and the fight against Donald Trump.
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Speaker 12 Uh-oh, Donald, that's giving strong Iowa caucus vibes right there. That's California Governor Gavin Newsom in San Jose before the SEIU local 2015.

Speaker 12 He brought the House down, speaking with moral clarity and authority, speaking about Prop 50 to redistrict California in response to Trump rigging the midterm elections.

Speaker 12 And the crowd there in San Jose was loving someone standing up powerfully to Donald Trump. Watch this moment where Governor Newsom's mic goes off and he's like, I don't need the mic.

Speaker 12 This was an incredible moment from that speech in San Jose. Watch it.

Speaker 13 So I just put the mics out.

Speaker 11 I don't need a damn mic.

Speaker 11 So all I have left. All I have left to say to you is the future is not something to experience.
It's something to manifest. The future is inside of every single one of you.

Speaker 11 So, let's get in, let's knock on doors, let's make phone calls, and let's send a message to Donald Trump. Hell no, we're done with this video.

Speaker 12 And here's another moment where Governor Newsom kind of walks through the crowd and just has an incredible presence in that room. Play this clip.

Speaker 12 Good morning, everybody.

Speaker 12 I gotta come in and check everybody out, but get here.

Speaker 12 Good morning, everyone. And then Governor Newsom wanted this message to be loud and clear.
Donald Trump is a loser, and California is going to stand up to him and hold the line for our democracy.

Speaker 12 Here, watch this.

Speaker 11 And you know what? They thought we were going to do

Speaker 11 sign a petition.

Speaker 11 They thought we were going to maybe write an op.

Speaker 11 they thought we would you know sit back maybe have a candlelight vigil

Speaker 11 they did not expect all of you they did not expect this campaign they did not expect proposition

Speaker 11 because this is important This is there's a reason this is called Prop 50.

Speaker 11 Yes, this is about the state of California, but it's about the United States of America. It's about all

Speaker 11 states. It's about our democracy.
It's about our republic.

Speaker 11 It's about these enduring values that our founding fathers established 249 years ago.

Speaker 11 The best of the Roman Republic, the best of Greek democracy, popular sovereignty, the rule of law, not the rule of God.

Speaker 11 And so that's it.

Speaker 12 Then after that speech, Governor Newsom took to social media. He posted the following on Friday.
Happy Friday, Patriots. Have a peaceful weekend.
Then he posted this.

Speaker 12 Dozy Don is literally destroying the people's house. Founding fathers are rolling over.

Speaker 12 Instead of lowering prices like me, America's favorite governor, he's building himself a Timu Versailles gold-plated ballroom, and the price keeps changing. 200 million, 250 million, 300 million.

Speaker 12 Now 350 million for his golden ballroom. No art in that deal.
Next week, it'll be a trillion, a bargain. He claims it's his money.
False. Donor bribes.

Speaker 12 No health care for you, but a gold ballroom for him. Epstein invited to party later this year.
Question mark.

Speaker 12 It's time to return this sad party city Putin Palace and the discount dictator focused on decorating. Throw dollar store Don and his fake gold out.
Democracy, exclamation point.

Speaker 12 Thank you for your attention to this matter. GCN.
Governor Newsom then posts, it appears Americans going hungry does not qualify as an emergency for Donald Trump. Disgusting.

Speaker 12 In response to the politico article, Trump administration won't tap emergency funds to pay food aid. This move means 42 million people will miss their snap benefits in November unless Congress acts.

Speaker 12 This is the Trump MAGA Republican government shutdown where they're taking away health care from 20 million Americans by not extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies.

Speaker 12 And by shutting the government down, in order for them to rip people's health care away, they're also depriving 42 million people of their SNAP benefits.

Speaker 12 Very Trumpy while they build a golden ballroom. And then Trump talks about next doing a triumphal arch, a triumphal arch, an arch day Trump.
How ridiculous is that?

Speaker 12 Governor Newsom's press office then says the following in response to a Fox article about Pharmageddon. Trump's trade war and shutdown are crushing the heartland.

Speaker 12 Across the Midwest, Combines sit idle and bins overflow with unsold grain. Donald Trump's reckless tariff war is crushing America's farmers.
Governor Newsom says the following.

Speaker 12 Donald Trump's reckless tariff war is crushing America's farmers. He's just quoting.
Across the Midwest, combines sit idle and bids overflow with unsold grain. Just quoting Fox.

Speaker 12 Corn prices are down nearly 50% since 2022. Soybeans have dropped 40%.
Fertilizer and equipment costs are up double digits. And eight in 10 farmers now say they believe the U.S.

Speaker 12 is on the brink of another farm crisis reminiscent of the 1980s. This time, the crisis isn't a result of macroeconomic conditions.
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Speaker 12 Governor Newsom then posts this article from CNBC. Tariffs cost to companies this year will hit $1.2 trillion with consumers taking most of the hit.
SNP says.

Speaker 12 Donald Trump promised Americans wouldn't pay the price of his tariffs, Newsom writes. Another promise broken, a total betrayal by Donald Trump.

Speaker 12 Donald Trump and the White House account responding to each other. Trump goes, the United States is wealthy, powerful, and nationally secure again, all because of tariffs.

Speaker 12 The most important case ever is in the United States Supreme Court. God bless America.

Speaker 12 I think Donald Trump's telling the Supreme Court that even though the power to tariff, to tax, is in Article I, the Congress, Donald Trump thinks that he gets to rule as a dictator and just say anything goes in terms of emergencies.

Speaker 12 Emergency with Canada, emergency with Mexico, emergency with Europe, emergency with Australia where there's a trade surplus, emergency with Brazil, because Donald Trump supports the former insurrectionist president of Brazil, Bolsonaro, and is upset that Bolsonaro was appropriately prosecuted for an insurrection in Brazil.

Speaker 12 Emergencies everywhere, Donald Trump says. But Governor Newsom says, reality check, inflation is climbing, wages are stalling, and Trump's economy is collapsing.

Speaker 12 Governor Newsom then submitted a brief to the United States Supreme Court regarding the decision that the Supreme Court will soon have to render on tariffs,

Speaker 12 Donald Trump's tariffs and trade war against the world. Governor Newsom says, Newsom is taking Trump's illegal tariffs to the U.S.
Supreme Court. Congress never gave Trump the power.

Speaker 12 Americans and small businesses are paying the price. Trump's tariffs are raising costs, threatening jobs, likely leading to a $25 billion loss and 64,000 fewer jobs in California alone.

Speaker 12 Governor Newsom is deploying the California National Guard to help people who are suffering as a result of the Trump shutdown.

Speaker 12 At the request of Governor Newsom, the California National Guard members and teams from California volunteers have begun their work to assist food banks across the state in response to Trump's prolonged government shutdown, cutting off access to federally funded food benefits and support like SNAP and CalFresh.

Speaker 12 Governor Newsom also had to issue a powerful response to the news that Donald Trump is sending the DOJ and so-called election monitors to California and New Jersey.

Speaker 12 And this is a election that just involves on November 4th, the the state of California. Okay.
It has nothing to do with the federal elections or DOJ.

Speaker 12 State of California, sovereign state, can it change its independent commission and have a short-term response to the rigging of the election by Donald Trump by doing a mid-a-decade redistricting in California?

Speaker 12 It's what it's about. Can California change its constitution, have this amendment, and then redistrict? That's what it's about.
And Trump wants to interfere with that.

Speaker 12 And Governor Newsom says this is not a federal election. The U.S.
Department of Justice has no business or basis to interfere with this election.

Speaker 12 This is solely about whether California amends our state constitution. This administration has made no secret of its goal to undermine free and fair elections.

Speaker 12 Deploying these federal forces appears to be an intimidation tactic meant for one thing, suppress the vote. Then Governor Newsom made the following video right here.

Speaker 12 Donald Trump's puppet DOJ has no business screwing around with next month's election.

Speaker 12 Sending the feds into California polling places is a deliberate attempt to scare off voters and undermine a fair election. We will not back down.
Californians decide our future. No one else.

Speaker 12 And watch this video that Governor Newsom made. Play this clip.

Speaker 15 So today, the Trump administration announced they're sending election monitors to five specific counties here in the state of California. They have no business doing that.

Speaker 15 They have no basis to do that. In fact, we have a statewide election for a statewide constitution.
This is about voter intimidation. This is about voter suppression, period, full stop.

Speaker 15 And it's a pattern, isn't it? It's consistent with what they've done with the federalization of the National Guard and the intimidation and the chill that that's created.

Speaker 15 They'll do that right around election day as well. Same thing with ICE and Border Patrol, masked men.
Watch that space showing up in and around polling booths and voting places.

Speaker 15 But this is a bridge too far. And I hope people understand it's a bridge that they're trying to build, a scaffolding for all across this country in next November's election.

Speaker 15 They do not believe in fair and free elections. Our republic, our democracy is on the line.
We all need to wake up.

Speaker 12 Powerful stuff right there by Governor Newsom. He also points out the following facts.
Donald Trump has done nothing but make America more expensive. Inflation is up.

Speaker 12 Beef prices are at an all-time high. Coffee prices are up 20.9%.

Speaker 12 Electricity bills are up 10%.

Speaker 12 new car prices just eclipsed $50,000 for the first time, and healthcare costs are about to skyrocket and medically bankrupt over 20 million Americans as the Affordable Care Act subsidies are not being extended.

Speaker 12 People, you may be getting your letters already. In Colorado, it's going to cost a family like $24,000 a year more for health insurance.
In Pennsylvania, 103%

Speaker 12 increases in your monthly premiums. We're seeing numbers like that across the country.
We've been showing you those numbers on the Midas Touch network.

Speaker 12 Look, in the meantime, Governor Newsom is fast-tracking $80 million

Speaker 12 to try to provide life-saving food benefits as Americans are literally starving as a result of Donald Trump. And Newsom also points out the Trump effect.
The total U.S.

Speaker 12 debt officially crossed $38 trillion for the first time in history. And there's more federal government spending right now than under former President Biden.
Year over year, we're up 7%

Speaker 12 in federal spending. We'll keep you posted every step of the way, but I wanted to share that.
Governor Newsome, standing ovation, San Jose, S-E-I-U-2015 local.

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