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Donald Trump is going to war with America, sending the National Guard and even potentially the Marines against the people living in the United States of America. Donald Trump is terrorizing America.

began with ice raids, not targeting criminals, targeting hardworking migrants. They were going to factories, to courtrooms. They were going to Home Depot parking lots. They're going to schools and neighborhoods, ripping families apart to try to incite anger, confusion, sadness within these communities. And then

protests were peaceful here in California. Just take a look at what the LAPD had to say. The LAPD, as of Friday, was thanking the organizers for peaceful protests. Sure, there were certain protests where there were some agitators and they could be dealt with.

by the LAPD and the LA sheriffs. We have more police here in California than most countries have in military, but Donald Trump very quickly escalated this intentionally to be provocative, to cause violence,

to provoke a situation where he would then call the National Guard, unlawfully, I might add, where he used a statute, which is not the statute that should be used. There's no statute that should be used to send national, to federalize the National Guard and send them against people here in the United States of America. California has responded with a lawsuit. We'll talk about that on this episode. And Trump is, of course,

quite literally going to war with the state of California. He's saying that California Governor Gavin Newsom should be arrested, notably when Donald Trump sees Governor Newsom face to face. He never goes new scum. In fact, as we showed you when it came to the wildfires, when Donald Trump visited Los Angeles and Gavin Newsom met him at the tarmac, Donald Trump

cowered away, only said nice things in Newsom's face. And when he's a little keyboard warrior, goes new scum, he says, bring in the troops, exclamation point.

This is unprecedented times that we're living in in American history. While Donald Trump prepares a dictator parade for himself, a military parade for himself on June 14th in Washington, D.C., we see hundreds, if not thousands, of tanks and missiles rolling into D.C. each and every day, a sight that makes the United States look like North Korea or Vladimir Putin's Russia.

While we talk about what's happening, though, in California and Los Angeles, I don't want to lose sight of the fact that the MAGA Republicans are pushing through a disastrous budget bill that's going to take away health care from 15 million Americans. That's going to be the biggest problem.

transfer of wealth in American history from low-income Americans to the wealthiest, the wealthiest billionaires and decamillionaires will be getting trillions of dollars in tax cuts paid for by ripping away people's healthcare and food stamps and other essential services that, uh,

and working class people need to live. I don't want to get distracted. I think we need to focus on everything at the same time here. And also, I don't want to forget about the fact that Donald Trump is

Failing the United States would be an understatement internationally, basically allying himself with Vladimir Putin. And America is no longer the leader of the free world. And we're seeing Europe step up to help President Zelensky. I don't want to forget about the ultimate portrayal Donald Trump has done to Ukraine and to our allies. So we'll talk about all of that.

Let's bring in Brett and Jordy. Brothers, it's good to see you. And for those out there who don't know, while Jordy lives out of state, Brett and I live in Los Angeles. For many years, I was living in downtown Los Angeles, working in downtown Los Angeles.

My wife grew up and my wife's family currently lives in an area called Huntington Park. My wife is first generation American. Our family's from Guadalajara. I've seen the videos today of the principal at the graduation for middle school students.

Talking to the parents about ICE, circling around the middle school where my wife went to middle school, where her nieces and nephews were graduating today. Seeing ICE agents chase after people in Home Depot parking lots.

pregnant women going into factories there and in downtown LA and Paramount and Santa Fe and other areas. They're not going after criminals. They're going after hardworking families, ripping them apart to torture and terrorize their terrorists. They're terrorists. I don't want to hold back how I feel and what the language is because I know corporate news is not meeting the moment. But Brett and Jordi, I'll throw it to you.

Yeah, and this is a war against the United States. This is a war against Los Angeles. And Donald Trump, why is he doing this? Because he has authoritarian dreams, because he wants to use this as a predicate in order to invade not just Los Angeles, but the entire country to declare martial law. I want everybody to know from the top, I want to be extremely clear about this.

Everything that's happening right now is 100% manufactured by Donald Trump. This is the most contrived quote unquote crisis that I have ever seen since I began doing this, probably even before. And it's so they're not even being subtle about what they are doing. There's been no issues here in Los Angeles. There were no issues here in Los Angeles until Donald Trump and his goons got here in order to stoke violence, in order to stoke chaos.

And that's exactly what they are doing. They are trying to instill fear in people. They are doing everything they can to make the problem worse because Donald Trump is a one-man wrecking machine and he is backed up by a bunch of sycophants who accept his false –

presentation of reality, which bears zero resemblance to reality at all. And they move forward with this propaganda in a very 1984 style way. What they also do is they take little images, little clips here and there of things that happened, and they blow these up and try to act like this is what's happening everywhere. If you're on social media right now, or if you're watching Fox, you'll probably think LA doesn't even exist anymore.

To you, it's probably, oh, it's an apocalyptic hellhole. Everyone must just be running for the hills right now. The whole city's on fire. The whole city's a mess. I want to be absolutely clear about that as well. As ICE terrorizes people in these select neighborhoods and areas, and a lot of the images that what you're seeing right now are confined to a few blocks in downtown LA. And if you're not in those few blocks of downtown LA right now, I bet a lot of people in the city don't even know anything's going on here as

here, as crazy as that may sound and as crazy as it may be. And the only reason I want to highlight that is because you have all these propagandists, you have Donald Trump, you have the Sean Hannity's, you have all these folks trying to act like the entire city right now is burning down, like the entire city right now is rioting, that there's all this chaos happening. And they want to use that false information.

in order to allow Donald Trump to do the things that he is doing, to allow him to increase the power of the federal government, to allow him to send the Marines into Los Angeles, to federalize the National Guard. He is using this propaganda to do really, really, really terrible things. When, if you go out in Los Angeles right now, like I was out all weekend, my friends are out, you see family members out, you see neighbors out, people are in parks,

You know, people are at farmers markets. People are going to the beach. The weather is beautiful. People are hiking. Like the images that you see on TV don't line up with the reality of what's going on here. Yet, despite that fact, despite the fact that there were these peaceful protests, Donald Trump

decided to come in here and decided to start shit. He decided to start trouble. He decided to try to provoke people, to try to get these images and everything that you're seeing in those areas that I was describing, all those images out of downtown when you see smoke or whatever it is, that's all because of Donald Trump. And this would end in a second if Donald Trump got the hell out of my city.

And he needs to get the hell out of my city because what he's doing here is dangerous. It's the same thing he does everywhere he goes. It's the same thing he did when we're talking about hurricanes in North Carolina during the Biden administration. What did he do? Donald Trump did everything he possibly could to make the problem worse.

When there were fires in Los Angeles, Donald Trump did everything he possibly could to make the fires worse. When there was COVID, Donald Trump did everything he possibly could to make the problem worse. Ron Filipkowski, our editor-in-chief, I'm paraphrasing something that he said online the other day, but it was something along the lines of, Donald Trump has not been successful at anything in his life. All of his businesses were failures. He's been a complete and total failure of a human being.

But the one thing that he's been incredibly successful at is dividing Americans and stoking conflict, stoking chaos. And that's exactly what he is doing right now. He stokes the chaos. He then uses it for his political benefit. He uses it to try to take more power away from the people. And that's why we need to remain unbiased.

on guard here and that's what we're going to do as we cover this every single day here at the Midas Touch Network. Jordy, let's go. Powerful intro brothers. Benji, why don't we just kick it to you? Where do you want to start off? I'm going to have certainly more to add, but I want to start the show. Look, things were peaceful here in Los Angeles and in the surrounding communities, both the city and the surrounding areas in the county of Los Angeles.

Don't get me wrong, every city has its problems and has its issues. I'm not trying to portray this as a perfect utopia, far from it. A lot of things that could be addressed, but people were going about living their lives. You had hardworking people. We are a community made up of immigrants.

A major percentage of people who live here are first generation, second generation. And we have a lot of people who are recently here in the United States or they came here undocumented. That's part of the cultural fabric of Los Angeles. And we embrace diversity here in Los Angeles and in California. You think about it, California is the fourth largest GDP country.

not in the United States, in the entire world. So if you want to think about diversity being a strength or a weakness, think about the state that probably has the most diversity in the entire country, like California with lots of people from Latin America, from Mexico, Caribbean, from Africa, from Europe, from everywhere.

from Mexico, from everywhere. And it is the fourth largest GDP in the entire world. California is a donor state, unlike most of the red states, which are taker states. And so while Donald Trump

he's been trying to find different ways to attack california i think california governor newsom's done a really good job and a great job i think specifically as it relates to uh donald trump federalizing the national guard we'll talk about that in the world but it started right with the wildfires donald trump taking spreading all of these lies about the wildfires then taking billions of gallons of water from northern california

that weren't even connected anyway to the fires. And after the fires were fully contained, rerouting that water, kind of flooding farmland and removing it from dams that was holding on to the water in case there was a dry season.

So they started off with that. Donald Trump wanted to escalate with a transgender athlete who came in like tied for second place based on the rules where a transgender woman became second place. And so Donald Trump said based on allowing her to compete in what was like a long jumping competition or something where, again, it was like tied for second place because they changed the rules.

in terms of how you could do it in a way that seemed to be a compromise that people were happy about, except for people who want to provoke. Trump says, I'm going to withhold all federal funding, right? To which California Governor Gavin Newsom said, well, then I'm going to withhold the federal. We fund the red states in California. We don't complain about it. We don't whine about it. We're the biggest contributors.

to the federal government more than 80 billion dollars so what what if we don't do that to then all of a sudden then the maga plays the victim right you have treasury secretary scott fesson we're going to go after you for unlawful tax evasion is that a threat we're going to arrest gavin newsom for that so they were going in that direction and then they kind of waited to do these coordinated ice raids uh focusing on the los angeles area

And what they did, again, was not going after the criminals. They went after the cities and towns that were like Huntington Park, like Downey, like Paramount, for those who are in L.A. who know those towns, that have big Mexican populations largely, but from other countries as well.

other Latin American countries, Central America, South America as well. And they would go to the Home Depots where people would be waiting to work. And then the ICE agents wearing masks

dressed in a very militarized fashion would snatch him off the streets, chase him, snatch him. They kind of make a scene out of it, creating a situation. Then they would raid these factories, apparel factories, and just people, sewing factories, knitting factories, people who were just engaged in a hard day's labor, and people who had been just living their own American dream. They'd go back to their communities, and ICE would target these places of work. Then ICE targeted

of the courthouses, people who were going through a lawful process. ICE would be waiting in the bushes, they'd be waiting inside the courtrooms, and they were testing this all throughout the country in smaller places, right, before they really launched their big full force, full mission here in Los Angeles. So then they're waiting in a courthouse called Roybal in downtown, and then they just started detaining everybody, throwing them into the basement

regardless of what their status was. And we showed videos of this where you could hear people saying, Daddy, Daddy, where are you? You would hear people screaming like out of a horror movie. And so they were doing that. And so then you started to have the peaceful protests develop. Now, one of the things that ICE did right away, and they did this on purpose, is they attacked a major labor leader in California, a guy named David Huerta.

who leads the SEIU union here in Los Angeles. And he's the president of the union in California. And you take a look at this video and they literally just throw him to the ground, arrest him. And then the Department of Justice charges him with obstructing official ICE duties. So they were looking at these various kind of touch points to provoke this.

Still, you had the peaceful protests, you know, through Thursday, even through Friday. The LAPD issued a press release thanking the organizers for peaceful protests, talking about the coordination to make sure that the protests were peaceful. Were there some sporadic protests?

of agitators? Yes, there were, but very small groupings. Did those get an inordinate amount of media attention? Yes, but small incidents. And on that basis, Donald Trump then invokes, uh,

or calls up the National Guard, federalizing the National Guard under a statute called 10 U.S.C. Section 12406, which it's not the Insurrection Act.

It's something else. And it transmits a memo to the Department of Defense. But when you invoke this act, it has very strict requirements. And it says when you look through it, when you look through the statute, 10 U.S.C. Section 12406, it says that you have to coordinate with the governors of the states to

as part of your duties. There has to be coordination with the governor and the governor has to be the one who you transmit and the governor has to be the one basically to approve it. And it could only be invoked when there's repelling an invasion of the United States by a foreign nation, suppressing a rebellion against the authority of the government of the United States, or that the president can no longer execute the laws of the United States anymore.

That did not, none of those qualifications were met. Trump did not mention any of this to California Governor Newsom.

Gavin Newsom, he just sent a letter to the adjutant general of the National Guard. It's the leader, the head of the National Guard in California, which is run by the governor. It's not supposed to be run by the federal government. Invoked the statute and said, we're making the federal, we're federalizing the National Guard. Now, Trump didn't even have the resources for these National Guard troops to

So they had to actually sleep on the floor. They didn't have food. San Francisco Chronicle did a good, they didn't have equipment.

San Francisco Chronicle did a really good report on this, and for those audio listeners, we're showing those who are watching on our YouTube channel the National Guard sleeping on the floor. And once the National Guard were activated, and then there was the threat also by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to call in the Marines from Camp Pendleton to turn the Marines

and put the Marines and work through the different types of engagement. In other words, the levels of engagement and the rules of engagement of when you can basically shoot to kill protesters.

and how to use lethal versus non-lethal. But they're walking, you know, but then Hegs said, I'm sending basically the Marines in and the Marines were then activated. All while Donald Trump was making social media post after social media troops, bring in the troops, exclamation point. If you spit, we hit. You spit, we hit.

You spit, we hit. And he was, again, trying to provoke and make people, you know, very, very, very upset in the communities. And when you rip people apart from their families, that's going to be the natural consequences. So we saw Trump escalate, Trump provoke. I also, before throwing it back to you, Brett and Jordi, and I'm sorry if I kind of rambled a little bit there.

Just so everybody knows how the process would normally work, as I mentioned at the outset, between the LAPD and the LA sheriffs, there are more police than most nations have in their entire army working for the combined LA sheriffs and the LAPD. There's an escalation protocol within the LAPD and LA sheriffs. And then if they don't have the resources,

After going to the highest level of escalation, they didn't even have to go anywhere near that. There's then a process where they can reach out to other counties and cities to ask them for support within the state.

then if that escalation doesn't work, then the governor can use the National Guard. If the governor feels they're unable to utilize the National Guard themselves effectively, then the governor is the one who requests of the president, "Hey, we need your help. We need federal resources," which has very rarely happened throughout American history.

And even before then, then the governors often reach out to other governors in other states because right, states rights, where have we heard that states rights?

And then the states help out California before you get to a declaration, essentially, of an insurrection under the Insurrection Act or a federalization of the National Guard, which I read for you the categories, foreign invasion, rebellion, or the inability of the president to execute laws anymore. And that didn't happen. But Trump was thirsty for this moment.

And I want to add this important factor because when we come back, we'll talk more about the lawsuit that California filed, the implications of that lawsuit. But when Trump invoked this statute, he also did it for a period of 60 days. And it doesn't mention Los Angeles or California.

It says 2,000 National Guard troops to start, but then it says at the discretion of the Secretary of Defense, it can be raised to whatever. And it's not limited to California. What this declaration allows is any state in any city within any state in any county for the next 60 days, it's basically a way to declare martial law without permission.

Actually saying it is what this declaration is doing. It's a way to invoke a military dictatorship without actually saying those terms. Because think about it. If in a 60-day period you've given your power, you've given yourself the power away from governors to put the military anywhere in the United States, which is what this gives Trump and Pete Hegseth the power to do,

How is that not a dictatorship? Frankly, how is anything that Trump did before not a dictatorship? I've been saying we've been living in an authoritarian regime already. And then I'll layer this last piece on, this last piece on, which is I think that the timing of this is very much related to

to the military, the dictator parade that Donald Trump is holding on June 14th, which is his birthday. Thousands of tanks and missiles and soldiers, they're all headed to Washington, D.C. And I think that Trump views that day symbolically always as his dictator day. And he wants not just the trappings of dictator, but the force of dictatorship.

And so I think that all of this is also related to that date in particular. And I think that Trump and the regime know

The No Kings protest and a lot of other people and a lot of other related protests are going to be happening on that June 14th. And I think they want a military presence to try to shut down those protests, scare those protests away. And, you know, it's my belief right now America is currently a dictatorship.

I don't think that's a controversial thing to say. You don't hear that in corporate news. America is no longer a democracy. America is a dictatorship. We live under an authoritarian regime led by an idiot, still very dangerous. It's an idiocracy, a cacistocracy, the Trump regime. Congress is

as all these mega mike johnson and uh all these mega morons who just do whatever donald trump does no different look there's a parliament in north korea there's a parliament in russia right they're they're made up of mega mike johnson types who do what putin wants who does what kim jong-un wants and they say they have a parliamentary system and they don't

That's what exists right now, at least before the midterms. Donald Trump's going to try to make sure we don't have elections in the midterms with the military. That's, to me, part of what this plan is right here. You know what? I'm not trying to...

say this to be hyperbolic, when we come back from the break, we'll show you the receipts. I mean, I'll show you what it is he's saying, calling for Newsom to be arrested, sending the Marines, calling in the National Guard. We'll show you the facts. Trump's saying that he wants to have troops everywhere. We'll show you the receipts. We need to be prepared. We need to look at this clear-eyed. We need to understand the reality. You also layer in the fact that what

You had that great reporter at ABC, Terry Moran, who criticized Trump and Stephen Miller for what they've been doing in a post. And then the Trump regime calls Disney and immediately Terry Moran gets suspended. The regime calls the media company and then the media company suspends the reporter for saying that what Trump and Miller are doing is cruel because it hurts the regime's feelings.

It was a long rant by me. I apologize. But I think I had to – I don't know how else I could cover the developments of what has happened, Brent and Jory. I know. Yeah. What else can you say there, Ben? You summed it up perfectly. And I know it's deeply personal for you, especially with your family and your daughter. And just it's so insane to see this play out on such just a human level. Like this is just so not right.

what we're witnessing and don't be gaslit by anyone into thinking that any of this is normal. And Ben, I think it's very astute of you to also bring up what's happening this weekend. I think there's a larger macro picture here of this authoritarian playbook 101 that we're witnessing unfold before our eyes, right? So when you're looking at what Trump's doing this week, instigating this civil uneasiness, going into these communities, going into middle, sending ICE into middle schools,

And this is disgusting stuff, dystopian stuff, sending ICE to Home Depot. These aren't criminals. These are pillars of the community that he's disappearing. And so, of course, people are going to be upset by this. This isn't even necessarily what he campaigned on, right? He said, we're getting the criminals out of here. Tell me a middle school student that's committed a crime of this severity. I mean, it is absolutely disgusting.

And then you fast forward here and you're looking at this weekend. And I'm going to say this because, you know, Bill Maher, before he went sideways, used to really say this a lot. And I really appreciate it when he dug in here. Military style parades in the streets of the United States. Are you kidding me? That stuff you see out of North Korea, that is disgusting. That's stuff you see in Russia. That is disgusting. And so now to celebrate, quote unquote,

Dear leader's birthday. Not only are we disappearing people from the streets of Los Angeles, but now we're going to hold a military parade in honor of dear leader. Are you kidding me? Like, I know our audience is as frustrated and disgusted and appalled as we are. I know y'all are.

This isn't normal. Like this really is unhinged, maniacal, disgusting behavior. And there's no other way to look at it. You cannot normalize this stuff for not even a second. Brett. I'm going to disagree with you in one thing.

This is exactly what Donald Trump ran on. This is exactly what he said he would do time and time again. And everybody constantly said, oh, he doesn't mean that. He doesn't mean that he's going to do that. No, we told you time and time again that he meant exactly what he was saying he was going to do. And now he is doing it. And now we are seeing the chaos of this.

Heck, Kamala Harris warned about this on the campaign trail. And we have the receipts. If we have time, we'll play at least a clip of her warning about this back in, this is at least October 2024, speaking about the actions that Trump was threatening. And I want to just paint the picture for you clearly. And this goes off what Ben was saying before. Right now, you have 700 Marines being mobilized and sent into Los Angeles for no reason. There's no reason to ever do that.

You have that happening here. You have the National Guard here in Los Angeles. You have Donald Trump saying that he is going to Camp David to meet with his top military leaders to discuss strategy, to discuss a lot of important issues right now. So he's going to meet with top military people at Camp David. You have those two things. In addition to that, you have these harrowing images of tanks flying.

rolling into Washington, D.C. for Donald Trump's dictator parade. I think when you put all those things together, when you take any one of them by himself, they look bad enough. But you put those three things together that are all converging on this exact week right now, I think it's a recipe for disaster. And I think it bodes very poorly for what his plans are for the summer. But you know what? The people are fighting back. And I think one of our last vestiges of hope that we have here

as the people who abdicate their responsibility, the politicians, the media, you name it. We have our voices and I think that's important. And as long as we're able to speak our truth here on the Midas Touch podcast, as long as you are able to go out and are able to combat this disinformation and speak out, whether it's on social media, whether it's in text message chats to friends and family members, we all need to continue to use our voices to spread the truth

to get out the word as to what is actually going on here. And I also just want to sound the alarm because the propaganda that's going to be pushed by not only just right-wing media, but by media in general who wants to see conflict, the comments that are going to come out of the White House that are going to be reaffirmed by folks in Congress who are supposed to be people who you would ordinarily be able to trust in situations like this,

They're going to constantly be spreading lies. They're going to constantly be trying to paint images of Los Angeles that don't reflect reality, images of other cities that are most likely, I'm going to say definitely, going to be cities that are democratic. They're going to paint images of cities like that in the same light. They're going to keep pushing this propaganda so that Donald Trump can

acquire more and more and more and more power. So we all need to remain vigilant. And just before we go to this quick break, I do want to give a little bit of positive news before we go to break. And that's that the SEUI California President Huerta, David Huerta, has been released from custody, thankfully. He still faces an unjust felony charge.

But he has been released and reunited with his family. And we are showing a picture right now of the moment that he was released. So at least a little bit of positivity there. Ben, any final words before we go to break? I want everybody to subscribe to this YouTube channel. We're on our way to 5 million subscribers. We're about 90,000 short as of this recording.

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Well, I now got to bring the receipts right after going through everything we did in that first segment. Let's now play the clip, show the receipts. But I want to do it not just by playing Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. I don't I'm all sick of him. I don't want to hear his voice that much. There's some.

clips that I'll still have to show. But here's the first clip I want to show. It's a MAGA Republican Congresswoman Salazar. I believe she's from Florida's 27th Congressional District.

She's the daughter of Cuban refugees, a big ultra mega person. And she was one of these leaders. First, she was I think she was a newscaster and she was a big Trump supporter, you know, always. And then as a congresswoman, been one of the biggest Trump supporters. And she would go as a leader in the Cuban community there in her district has little Havana and and.

areas of Miami. And she would say, you got to support Trump. He's with us. He's never going to go after the Cubans who are not criminals. This is just about the bad guys. He's got our back. He's got our back.

So, after the election, she was interviewed by PBS. And it was a great interview because the interviewer kept on pressing Congresswoman Salazar. Brett, it was your point. And the interviewer was saying, I know you're interpreting what he's saying as that he's only going to go after criminals.

But he is saying that he's going to go after everybody. So why do you have this great degree of confidence? And she would be like, because I wrote the Dignity Act. And he told me he said he likes the Dignity Act. I want you to watch this clip. I am sure not all 200,000 undocumented in your community. Is that what you're saying?

I am sure that we're not that the Trump administration is not going to be targeting those people who have been here for more than five years that have American kids that don't have criminal records, that have been working in the economy and paying taxes. I am sure that they're going to hone in on the criminals who arrived less than four years ago because I wrote the Dignity Act and I am the first one who understands that you have to give some type of dignity to those who have been here for more than five years. People who have roots.

in the country, not people who are coming to commit crimes. If I can just clarify from you, have you received those kinds of details from anyone in a potential Trump administration? Because so far what we've heard is proposal for mass deportations. We have about 30 seconds left. Have you gotten those assurances? Mass deportation to those who are committing crimes who have been here for less than five years.

you understand that you have millions of undocumented who are contributing with the economy and are helping our country to be a better one.

The ultimate betrayal right there, right? I mean, just think about that. And she put out a statement recently over the past few days saying that she disagrees with what she's strongly opposes what Donald Trump is doing towards the Cuban and Venezuelan and immigrant population. I'm fully aware of them. I'm heartbroken. I'm heartbroken about the uncertainty now gripping Florida's 27th district. I share your concerns.

You walked your constituents into it to a place where they're going to get deported and potentially get killed. Like you, your parents fled Castro, or if you were from Venezuela, Maduro, or the line of dictators there, Chavez, to then...

elect Trump who's, who's a worse version of them. And then you, then your legacy will be selling out your people and saying to vote for the guy who's there to kill him, you know, and then say, you know, and then Ileana Garcia, she's a state Senator, um,

in the similar area. She started Latinas for Trump, been a big Trump supporter since 2016. And she reiterated, "I stand with Congresswoman Salazar, how deeply heartbroken I am. I can't be silent." But here's the thing, those people will still support Trump. We disagree with him on this issue, but on the other issues, we still think that we're Republican and we agree with those issues.

The issue you disagree with him is that he doesn't want you to exist. I don't know how you get to the issue of being angry about a transgender volleyball player or focusing on whatever the culture war issue that Fox is pushing when the main issue is your very existence. If a politician ran, when I'm in office, if your name is Ben, I'm going after you.

I'm going to kill you. I'm going to send you to the worst places. And I'm a Ben. And I go, you know what?

He does make a good point, though. What are you talking about? In what world? In what world does this make sense? And you have to believe that because how Donald Trump made them feel, that they felt they were different, that they thought that they could hang out at Mar-a-Lago and they would be like the white people at Mar-a-Lago, you know, like the Afrikaners, you know, who Trump wants to –

claim there's a fake white genocide going on in South Africa and bring over. You can hang in Mar-a-Lago and that Trump will put his arm around you. No, you were a pawn. You were a puppet. Wasn't it so obvious? You were the mark. And now you've put your whole community through this and all you've got is that you're heartbroken. You've destroyed lives. You're as complicit, if not worse, than even Trump. But Brett,

Former Vice President Kamala Harris did it. She gave multiple speeches. And then she had even like video behind her where she would show what the statements are. Let me show you this speech. I think this was October 23rd, 2024. Former Vice President Kamala Harris. One of the speeches that she gave was right around that time period, at least. Here, let's play it. Yesterday, we learned that Donald Trump's former chief of staff, John Kelly, a retired four-star general, confirmed that wild,

Donald Trump was president, he said he wanted generals like Adolf Hitler had. Donald Trump said that because he does not want a military that is loyal to the United States Constitution. He wants a military that is loyal to him. He wants a military who will be loyal to him personally.

one that will obey his orders even when he tells them to break the law or abandon their oath to the Constitution of the United States. In just the past week, Donald Trump has repeatedly called his fellow Americans the enemy from within and even said that he would use the United States military to go after American citizens. And let's be clear about who he considers to be the enemy from within.

Anyone who refuses to bend a knee or dares to criticize him would qualify in his mind as the enemy within, like judges, like journalists, like nonpartisan election officials. It is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler, the man who is responsible for the deaths of six million Jews.

and hundreds of thousands of Americans. All of this is further evidence for the American people of who Donald Trump really is. This is a window into who Donald Trump really is from the people who know him best. Let me pull up this headline right here. Here's the headline. This was written about that time when Kamala Harris said that October 16th, 2024 in the Hill by opinion contributor Derek Hunter.

Kamala Harris' newest lie, Trump will send the army after you. And then it goes on and on to say how Kamala Harris is fear-mongering and how she is a liar for repeating what Donald Trump said at the time that he would send the military after American citizens in the United States of America.

They called her a liar. And that's one of the issues also with this whole concept of like both sides media. I know on the top of this Hill article, it says that these aren't, these are the expressed views by contributors or their own and not that of the Hill. But the Hill, you publish this piece because what you do is this both sides journalism where you give credence to both sides, no matter what is true and what is false. That should not be how reporting is. Just tell us the facts.

Just tell us what's happening. I don't need somebody arguing with me who is arguing from a false premise. It's why I hate these CNN argument shows where they just go back and forth at each other. There's not always, sometimes things are kind of black and white. And in this case, things are very black and white. And now people are seeing it firsthand.

Brett, to your point, the CNN fight show, I have to, that's bad for the country. I'm just going to say it, that the fight show that airs at night is genuinely bad for the country. Like it is brain rot to the highest level. I cannot stand that show. So Donald Trump's former chief of staff, John Kelly,

who before being the chief of staff was a former four star general, right? Someone with a great deal of credibility who was Trump's number one guy. He was the source that said that Donald Trump wanted Hitler generals. Didn't come from a left wing. It didn't come from an anonymous source. It came from Donald Trump's

former chief of staff, a four-star general, and it got almost no attention. We were talking about it here. Former Vice President Kamala Harris was talking about it. But how much more attention was the media focused on was, why isn't Kamala Harris doing, why is she doing interviews with her vice president? Is she scared?

Talking about she did a debate where she kicked Donald Trump's ass and he was too afraid to do a second debate. Was she scared? Maybe she doesn't want to do stupid interviews with both sides media that's shooting for a gotcha when she can just show the American people, put me on a stage next to this freaking coward and watch me whoop his ass. And Trump was too afraid. Like you like it. That was the narrative. Why isn't she doing? He was afraid to debate her more than once because she kicked his ass.

And then after Biden's debate, what the media do? Oh my God, it was the worst thing ever. Trump's debate was, first off, Trump was just as bad as Biden in the first debate.

Let's be very clear about that. Although Biden had a terrible debate, Trump was not much better. Okay. Number two, Trump was worse in the second in the debate with Kamala than Biden was in the first debate. He talked about people eating cats and freaking dogs and you're eating the dogs. They're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats.

And then that was turned into like a song. They're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats. The guy's a crazy person. And this whole thing was freaking normalized. And we knew it all. And by the way, I could show you clips like this all the time today during a disastrous press conference by Donald Trump.

He was talking about his military parade and then he brings up Hitler did a parade. Hitler did the parade. He was in the Eiffel Tower. He always brings up Hitler like Hitler did a good parade. Here, watch this. - Picking up for Russia. Now they lost 51 million people and you know, can't forget that. But France was celebrating.

And as you know, Hitler made a speech at the Eiffel Tower. But when I spoke to President Macron, he said, oh, we are celebrating the great victory of World War Two. How kind of non sequitur sentence is that to begin with as well?

The whole thing is so ridiculous. When we get back, I want to show you the response by California. And then I do want to talk about a little bit Ukraine, the disastrous budget bill. I don't want that to fall off of our radar. And so I'm going to bring it up. Let's take our last quick break of the show. A reminder, become a member to our YouTube channel right now. Activate those emojis.

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benji where's your next i'll i'll have to stay on the knee avoid any surgery i'm gonna do my i'm gonna i'm gonna tough it out i'm gonna tough it out bro yeah a lot of that a lot of that bravado is actually based on you recording from your knees for the next 20 days so don't stop i i'm aware of what was implied in that uh california governor gavin newsom fighting back and

It's been a real, I think, great moment for California Governor Newsom, not one that he wanted, but he was made for this role. And we saw California Governor Gavin Newsom stand up to Donald Trump during the wildfires. And I thought that was one of the kind of real first, I think, rallying calls, I know for our audience here, when they saw how Gavin Newsom was standing up to Donald Trump when Trump was bleakening

lying about the wildfires. I think even if you spoke to Governor Newsom the way I have, he'll admit to you that he was caught off guard at the degree to which the right wing during a tragedy would exploit it and just spread all this disinformation. And so with the wildfires, I think it took him about a day and a half before he really understood, wow, they're shaping the narrative in a way that's completely... I got to...

I don't just have to actually do what the governor's job actually is, which is to get the resources and mobilize the state like never before in a successful way.

I have to equally spend my time fighting the disinformation. You saw in real time him make that realization, but he's been ready for this to happen again. And the way he's been standing up to Trump and Tom Homan, the rapid fire, him pointing out when Donald Trump tried to take credit that the National Guard stopped the protests

He said, first off, the National Guard hasn't even arrived yet. So you have no clue what the hell you're talking about. And then the next day when the protests continued. So now what? So now you lied and said that they stopped it. No, you've actually made things significantly worse. And Governor Newsom has been pointing out all of these facts, you know, like when the when these red states try to attack him and go, oh, California is a failed state. He's like, we're funding your state, moron.

Your state exists and hasn't gone bankrupt because of us. Oh, you want to talk about violent crime in our state? The violent crime in your state? Let's look at your stats. Maybe you should go be a coach, a bad one, Tuberville. Stick to being a bad coach. You don't even know the football players who are even on your team.

rather than being a senator, 'cause you have no clue what the hell you're talking. So he's been going back and forth. And then to me, like this moment that I think is really defining of the past few days is, you've got that guy, Tom Homan,

I do a Tom Homan impression. He gives Barney Rubble a really bad name. But Tom Homan, weird dude. You know this guy is weird because his thing about AOC gets – I'm going to arrest AOC. I'm going to arrest her. I'm going to arrest AOC. He goes, I'm going to tell you what we're going to do.

We're going to arrest David Newsom today. Okay, everybody. All right. We're going to arrest you. We're coming for you. You know, and he's like evil and just like, like, like weird. I don't know. He's working on his last brain cell over there. You're going after you. That's what we're going to do. We're going to go after everybody. It doesn't matter what you do. Do we have Tom Holman? So people can just see that my impression is somewhat spot on right here.

Is everyone that has been arrested by ICE agents have a criminal record like those you've described? Absolutely not. And I said from day one, January 20th, we will prioritize public safety threats and national security threats. However, we will enforce law. I may prioritize my family life over my work. It doesn't mean I ignore my work.

We're going to force immigration law. We've been asked about that from day one, especially in sanctuary cities. Well, we can't get that bad guy in the safety and security of a jail. They release him to the street. Well, we got to go to the street and find them. And when we find them, many times they're with others. Others that are in the United States, maybe, may not be a criminal target, but guess what?

If ICE is there arresting that bad guy, other illegal aliens are there, we're going to arrest them. That's what sanctuary cities get. They put us in the neighborhood, they force the neighborhood. This is what happens. Now here's what Governor Newsom had to say about that. Let's play. He's been here 10 years. The fear, the horror, the hell is this guy? Come after me, arrest me. Let's just get it over with. Tough guy. You know, I don't give a damn.

But I care about my community. I care about this community. The hell are they doing? These guys need to grow up. They need to stop. And we need to push back. And I'm sorry to be so clear, but that kind of bloviating is exhausting. So, Tom, arrest me. Let's go. You know, in terms of the YouGov poll, the handling of Trump's deportations, 50 percent disapprove.

a new new pull out i mean this guy is the most unpopular when you go to communities when you're in the real world and you're not okay when you live in the real world and you have to exist with other human beings you realize that they don't all look like you okay and you realize that your neighbor who may be a different ethnicity from you

It's actually someone who contributes and you like them. And these are people who you work with and you go to your school and maybe they're not the same sexual orientation against as you are, but you work with people, you embrace their humanity, you respect their existence and their dignity. I think I'm Tom Homan. It's just so utterly ridiculous. And Americans don't want that shit.

We don't want military parades. We don't want that crap. We don't want families being separated. We do want go after the criminals. You have all of our support. Go after criminals. Go after terrorists. Go after the bad guys. Do not start ripping kids and pregnant women and hardworking. What are you doing? And people who are paying their tax, people who are showing up at court.

It is utterly, utterly ridiculous. And then meanwhile, I don't want to forget about the budget bill. Let me show you right here, MAGA Mike Johnson talking about the budget bill. And he's like, well, we of course need to make sure we're protecting not just the billionaires,

but silencers, gun silencers, the second amendment. We wanna make sure there's no regulation on gun silencers. So we're gonna take away your food stamps and your healthcare to 15 million Americans, but tanning beds and gun silencers, of course that's what we're focused on. Here, play this clip. - One, there's a provision that eliminates attacks on gun silencers. Now this is a tax that has been on the books for about 100 years.

Why are you suddenly cutting a tax on silencers? Well, there's a lot of thought and deliberation that went into that as well. The Second Amendment is a critical freedom in the Constitution, and there's no real rationale for adding taxes on these pieces of equipment. And we had the votes to do it. I think it was a long time overdue. I think we have to protect the fundamental freedoms of the American people. And there's no rationale the government should not be making money on something that you have a fundamental inalienable right to.

Do not forget about this disastrous budget bill. Okay? It's going to rip away healthcare from 15 million people. It's going to literally give $1,000. Take it, steal it out of the hands of people making under 50K and give it to the billionaires so that people making more than $4.2 million can get...

what, $400,000 more? Like that's what they need. Imagine if you took that $400,000 and you actually put it to giving people healthcare and helping people and putting people in houses. Could you imagine if that's what our focus was on?

And then finally, let me share this with you. This was Zelensky in his interview this weekend, where he has to again go to the American media and say, we know that Trump's an idiot, basically, but we're still fighting this war and we need you here to play this clip. Does President Trump believe that Russia is winning this war, do you think? Yes. Has he told you that?

I think he's publicly sad about it, and I know that he shared this information with some people around him. And I think the separation... And I said it a lot of times. It's not true. It's not a victory when you spend, really spend money.

One million people. Powerful words from Zelensky, and he has taken a, you know, he's taken a stand here against all the disinformation that we've been seeing from Donald Trump. It's like literally, quite literally every situation that we've seen, Donald Trump just makes things worse over and over again, whether that's in Ukraine, whether that's with these so-called trade deals that don't exist, by the way, whether it's literally nothing.

name an issue and I will say, yes, that happened again on this issue. And just to go back to what Maga Mike was saying, and Ben had to run out of here to do something quickly, to go back to what Maga Mike was saying before, I want to give you some updates on this GOP budget bill because the thing is still in utter chaos. So this is coming right now from Jake Sherman who reports on The Hill. And so...

They haven't even sent the bill to the Senate yet, we're finding out. Mike Johnson has not sent that budget bill to the Senate yet. And we're seeing, you know, all this chaos surrounding this bill, all these Republican politicians that have come out against the bill. We saw Elon Musk completely blow up the bill last week. Well, now we're learning that House Republicans plan to use a rule this week to make technical changes to the bill.

So I think they're going to have to re-vote on this bill. They're going to have to go through the whole process yet again. And they're trying to figure out now, how do we appease all these various factions in the Republican Party? How do we try to get this bill through? And so now they're looking at all sorts of various things right now. There's the issue that Marjorie Taylor Greene was upset about.

which was the AI issue. There was a rule that said that states are unable to regulate AI at all for like a period of 10 years. And even Marjorie Taylor Greene was like, that's kind of crazy to take away the rights from states to not be able to regulate this technology that's growing so rapidly and a whole bunch of other things. So we're going to see ultimately where that lands, but there are certainly- This is not the most Republican, modern day Republican party thing, Brett, that you've witnessed. They didn't read the bill. Did they?

Is anyone reading? That's why they have to go back and re-vote on it now. It's absolutely pathetic. Do your job. Do your job. Do your job the first time. You're voting on law. What are you doing? You're not reading the bill. Now we have to go back and do this whole process all over again because you were too lazy to do what the taxpayers are paying you to do? What are we doing?

Yeah. And it's like now Republican politician after Republican politician continues to come out with a statement. Oh, I didn't actually read this portion. I didn't actually know that we were going to, that's it. That's actually your job. Okay. And if you want to blame it being rushed through or whatever, well, you guys did that. So like enough is enough. Take some damn responsibility for your actions. And it's just insane. Stop making the American people, the victims of your ineptitude.

It's what you do every single day. And it's just unfair to the American people. You're supposed to govern, okay? That's why you were supposedly elected for some reason, right? So maybe do your jobs and stop trying to start shit with the American people. Stop going to war with the American people, whether it's stripping them of their healthcare or whether it's sending the military onto the streets in order to spark chaos, etc.

not right. It's not okay. This is not what the United States of America is supposed to be about, but apparently it is what it is about under this Trump administration. And it is so incredibly gross. I do want to give a shout out to Gavin Newsom for the way he's been handling this crisis. You know, he's, he's really been proactive with it. And I feel like he's, I

I would watch his moves, his communication style and what he's been doing on digital especially, because he's been very good. And he's honestly probably the first elected politician that I've seen currently who has been very skilled at getting ahead of the messaging.

at making sure that he swats down the lies that prop up from this MAGA cesspool online. Because as Ben was saying before, he had to deal with this last time too during the fires when these MAGA people were spreading all of these lies about the city. So now he's doing it again. So he has to both be a governor and he also has to be a fact checker and he has to be a digital media savant.

and it has to be able to get out a message now quicker than other people are able to get out their messages. And as we know, lies often spread a lot quicker than the truth. So like I said earlier in this episode, as we go into these coming days, Trump and Hegseth and all of these people at the White House, all of these Republicans, they're going to continue to try to make things worse.

They want things to get as ugly as possible. They want to see images of burning cars. They want to see images of chaos. They like those images of whether it's National Guard or Marines pushing through crowds of people. They like that, right? They want to show what they think is strength. What I see it as is complete and utter weakness. But they're going to continue to ramp this stuff up. So I want to make sure first, know your rights.

know what you can do when you go to protest, know that you're right to free speech, know the things that you have to, and you could look all this up online, right? Know your rights, obviously remain peaceful if you're going to these protests. It's very important that you remain peaceful and

you know, show support for the folks who are out there, show support for these communities right now that are being terrorized across the United States of America, because I could assure you it's starting right now in Los Angeles and some other pockets across the United States. It will come to your door eventually. That is Donald Trump's plan. He's going to do what authoritarians do. That is the playbook. Do not be caught off guard by this. It is up to us right now to

to remain vigilant. It is up to us right now to combat the lies, to push back, to fight back peacefully, to quell this unrest that Donald Trump is trying to spark in our communities. And we also need to tell them, get the hell out, okay? I think that's the most American thing also, right? Imaginable, right? Do you want the federal government encroaching on your space? And I never want to hear

ever, ever, ever again from any of these Republicans, from any of these people who can say, oh, we're the party of small government. We don't want the government in our stuff. I've never felt the government more up in my shit than right now. And by the way, also during the previous Trump administration, you know when I really don't think about the government much? It was when Joe Biden was president and things were quietly getting done, when things were quietly getting accomplished. You know, I think people felt the government in good ways then, right?

They went to the pharmacy and they paid $35 for insulin for the first time. You know, I think that's a good way to feel the government. What you don't want to do is see exactly what's going on in our cities, in our towns, in our communities, in our neighbors. So I want to send my solidarity, you know, show my solidarity, you know, to all the

people out there um whoever who are being terrorized right now by the trump regime and uh jordy do you have anything else to add um as we sort of wrap up here no i just i just want to say this is a great episode powerful episode we covered a lot of information thanks to you guys for sticking around

listening to all of this. Thank you all for sharing these episodes. It's really helpful. Please, if you haven't yet, subscribe to our YouTube channel. I'm serious about that 5 million by July 1. I think we could hit that for sure. The power of this community is real. And so if you haven't yet, please subscribe to the Midas Touch YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the Midas Touch podcast on audio, Apple, Spotify, wherever you get your audio. Please download the Midas Touch podcast.

subscribe to it. Give us a five-star review. That would be fantastic. Fabulous. Please leave a comment as well. I like that. Fantabulous? Fantabulous. That was a new one. We're going to just have to keep rolling that out. Fantabulous. There we go. That happens. That's good. By the way, just like in the midst of all this, you know, just to go back to some news, because I had this headline in front of me that I wanted to bring up earlier.

RFK Jr. also today removed all 17 members of a CDC advisory panel in his latest move to dismantle years of vaccine policy. So these are the people who advise the country on vaccine policy and on what vaccines we all need and how to proceed with vaccines and all that stuff. So that also happened in the mix. I know there's an impulse and I totally get it. And sometimes it's 100% accurate and I guess you can consider it. But people like to say constantly, don't focus on this as a distraction. Don't focus on this as a distraction.

I think one of the issues of the Trump administration and of reporting on the Trump administration is that these are actually a lot of important issues before us every single day. And Trump does have a flood the zone with shit approach. That comes from his 2016 run, the last administration. Steve Bannon said it out loud that their plan was to flood the zone with shit. Those were his words, right? Overwhelm the system so much that people don't even have time or the ability to react.

So on the one hand, sure, are there distractions? Absolutely. He is the master of distraction. At the same time, there are a lot of important stuff that we need to be focused on. That's why I wanted to bring in this RFK story as well, because I don't want us to get in the loose site of any of these issues in particular, right?

What's happening in Los Angeles is important. What was happening between Musk and Trump, also important. What's happening at the CDC, important. What's happening to Social Security and Medicaid and Medicare, also important. What's happening with these changes to the GOP bill, also important. We live in a world now where we're going to have to stay on, you know, just keep going.

keeping track of everything. So like Jordi said, I do want to thank you because just the very fact that you are listening to these podcasts, that you're sharing these with friends and family, you are doing such a great service. And we're so appreciative that you remain in tune because I understand, we understand, trust us, it's difficult.

to sometimes get up in the morning. It's difficult sometimes to want to read the news, to want to watch videos about it. I totally get it. We live in it. We believe us. We understand. It's not easy. This is in my backyard right now. It's not easy.

But I'm so proud of everybody, honestly, that you continue to use your voice, that you continue to speak out, that you just continue to do all the hard work that you all do. So let's keep pushing along. We got a big week ahead of us. I'm not going to sugarcoat things and say that this week is going to be easy. It's not going to be easy. But I can promise you that we at the Midas Touch Network will be there every single step of the way.

of the way. So like Jordy said, make sure you're following us on all of our platforms and please make sure that you add the Midas Touch podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. That's such a huge help for us for getting the word out. Leave a five-star review there as well if you can. Jordy, want to take it away? Shout out to the Midas Mighty! Midas Mighty standing strong It's the fascists we sing our song

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