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The MeidasTouch Podcast — Trump’s Advisors Warn of Midterm Disaster in November. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
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Top White House advisors. These are the top White House outside advisors who spoke on conditions of anonymity to Bloomberg. And here's what they are saying. Republican strategists worry there's no way to keep the Iran War from hurting the party's prospects in November's midterm elections. The continuing hostilities have demoralized GOP voters who sent Trump to the White House in order to tame inflation and keep the US out of overseas conflicts. Compounding Republican fears is Donald Trump's apparent lack of concern. Then it says over here how several outside advisors to the White House. And these are people who are currently hired to advise the White House in an outside capacity. Granted anonymity to speak candidly said they do not expect the war to be resolved or gas prices to go down before November. They also worry that the White House has damaged its credibility on Iran after Trump's repeated claims that the straight of war moves is open to ship traffic
and that gas prices are falling. What do you mean? I thought that everybody believed Barack Reved over at Axios that the United States is powerfully dominating the straight of war moves because Donald Trump and Pete Hegset said, oh wait, nobody's buying that. Also nobody's buying that Donald Trump's claim that he just did the biggest deal ever with Venezuela and the US has conquered it and it's taken over 65 billion barrels of oil, provable reserves underneath Venezuela. That's going to solve the oil crisis right now. No one buys any of this crap, treasury, secretary, bessence, market manipulation, crap, nobody's buying. People know what their gas prices are. Gas prices are surging to record highs. They're at record highs. Diesel is at record highs right now. Donald Trump's screwing over our ranchers. You heard from that rancher over there in Michigan.
These were ranchers who were at a beef show in Michigan. These are people who voted for Trump. They're like, resign 25th Amendment please. Get the hell out of here. Ranchers are outraged over. Trump's move to flood the market with 300,000 metric tons of discounted frozen beef from overseas. Make America great again. And then you have the head of the RNC chairman Joe Grudders. I mean, look at this pathetic loser. He does the American flag face thing. He's all we just have to be meaner to these people. I mean, these people are a bunch of losers and we need to stop normalizing these individuals and act like they know what the hell they're doing. This is the chair of the RNC Joe Grooters. And he's like, we're two weeks away from Trump, a pollusa, everybody in Dallas. Everybody be there December 9th and December 10th. It's going to be a rockin' in Dallas everybody. Okay, first off, it conflicts with the NFL number one. Number two, nobody wants to go to the midterm convention and be on stage with Donald Trump.
He is poison right now to this country. He wants to make it all about himself where he's going to say affordability. It's a hoax. I've never heard of that word. It's a new word that they must have invented. No Republicans want to be on stage with this guy. But you know, and then on the September 11th, 25th anniversary, Trump's refusing to show up to Manhattan because they're not allowing him to do a speech because he wants to do like a political propaganda speech on 9-11. So he's like, I'm not going. So you're going to have like partying the day before the 25th anniversary of 9-11. Joe Grooters seems to think that's a good idea. Here's what he had to say play this clip. Joe Grooters, Republican National Committee Chairman here. Here outside the American Airlines Center, we're in just two weeks we're going to have the biggest midterm convention in the history of the party. You can join us. Go to GOPconvention.com, get your tickets. It's going to be awesome. It's going to be a Trump of Paloza.
We're going to hear from the President, the Vice President, and 109 different speakers. Make sure you get your tickets and let's go. Checking in with Maga Mike Johnson. Hey, Maga Mike, what do you think about all of this here? Maga Mike Johnson gave an interview just now over B-roll of Trump and Maga Mike's like, it's not unlawful for crazy people to run for office. That's happened throughout the history of our country. Never at this level. Like their whole campaign is like, the Democrats are crazy. And we need to stop the crazy people. Hello. We've seen in what you all been doing for the past two years. You're weird. You're crazy. You're dangerous. You're war criminals. You cover up child sex trafficking. I mean, you cover up the Epstein Palace. I mean, you all have caused so much pain and have behaved like such lunatics. It is outrageous. And then you're like, well, they're the crazy ones. Let's play this clip. But you're getting to an important point there. It's a constitutional attorney.
I mean, we've been thinking about this researching it again. Not a lot of precedent on this. I mean, it's not unlawful for crazy people to run for office. That's happened throughout the history of our country. Never at this level. And never a number of people who are so determined to rip the Constitution in half. I mean, listen. All right. Speaking of who the crazy ones are. Have you seen this? Let's zoom in on Texas right here. Let's take a look at some of these Maga Republican candidates. Shall we? So this is Ken Paxden right here. His team posted this. They think this makes them look good. The future of our state and the future rides future of our country rides on this race here playing this clip. But the future of our state and the future of our country runs on this race. So I'm out fighting. Okay. Okay. Let's check in and see what's going on with Maga Republican senator for Maine, that said in her Collins, who tries to pretend that she's a centrist and she's like, I'm so disappointed that Donald Trump has destroyed the livelihoods of the lobster men in Maine
and destroyed our hospitality industry and destroyed the lives of people in Maine. I'm so utterly disappointed. Watch me take a champagne bottle and slam it into the hole of the watch. What happens here? She, she, the video speaks for itself here playing this clip. And so let's take a look at the energy though at the James, Tallahreque huge crowd in the Rio Grande Valley. Let's play this clip. And I will share with you. Let's take a look at, let's check in right here. So much energy with Ken Paxden. Let's play it. And then they did a bizarre outdoor prayer thing with Ken Paxden. Let's play it.
Your blessings be upon him, Bob. You brought him on this amazing journey and we're glad to get so much to store him. For Lord God, you pick our authority. And now I want to share with you James Tallahreque because we should highlight what the contrast looks like as these Maga Republicans are flailing and as the insiders and the Trump advisors are like, we are screwed. We're likely going to lose both the House and the Senate. Let's play this clip of Tallahreque. I am running for LBJ's Senate seat. And like, and like Lyndon Johnson, I was a public school teacher before I ran for office. In office, LBJ made the largest investment in America's children and families that this country has ever seen. Head start. Title one. Medicare. Medicaid. Public television. The Voting Rights Act. The Civil Rights Act. When we win back, LBJ's Senate seat,
we can pass an LBJ-sized investment in America's government schools. We can give every Texas teacher a long overdue pay raise. We can pass universal childcare and paid family lean. So no one has to choose between raising a family and earning a living. We can expand the child tax credit and make it permanent so no child in the wealthiest nation on earth is growing up in poverty. We can do that when we win LBJ's Senate seat. We can slash the red tape that is preventing us from building millions of new homes. And we can provide assistance to first-time home buyers so that every American has a place they can call home. And we can fight to the end nail against any and all attacks on Medicare.
And we can force the wealthiest in this country to pay their fair share into Social Security so we can hold a board to retire with dignity. But all Donald Trump was saying on Friday, he's freaky. Freaky freaky. Telefrico. That's all these magas have. They're losers. They name go to tele freaky everybody. You want to talk about freaky. You want to talk about real sick shit. I'm confused my language. Look in a freaking mirror man and look at all of the people who are surrounding you. It's like the weirdest, strangest group. But it's all projection with this crowd. That's all they've got. And you know what? The bottom line too. They have made the United States look like such losers on the world stage. That's one of the things that I don't think no matter what your political party you can ever forgive about these Republicans. They made us all look like the biggest losers ever. And we should never have gotten into these catastrophic and unlawful wars.
The war crimes. All of the horrific conduct. I mean the attacks on our greatest ally, Canada. The attacks on NATO. All of this behavior. I think it's also worth reflecting on as Canada knows, as Iran knows, as NATO's. These people are losers leading the country. Here's Trump. Like, Telefrico play this clip. Thank you. So I'll be going to Texas. And we're working very hard. We want to win that race. He's running against a man who should never be. We have a very good candidate, Ken Paxton. And he's running against Telefrico. They call him because he is a little freaky. And that's not a man that represents the value of Texas. So I'm going to help Ken Paxton. And I'm going to spend a lot of time in Texas. Show you this brilliant new ad from James Tolerico. Torching Ken Paxton. Brilliant stuff right here. Let's play it. Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in Texas. Since taking office, Ken Paxton's net worth has increased 7,000%.
He now owns 15 homes. While most Texans can't afford one, Ken Paxton was impeached by his own party. For taking bribes from wealthy donors while blocking overtime pay for Texas workers and gutting our health care. We cannot afford Ken Paxton's corruption. I'm James Tolerico and I approve this message. Now let's check in on Dr. Abdul El-Sahead. Here's what he had to say again, absolutely brilliant. US National Debt just hit $40 trillion. Stop. Let's talk about this for a minute. You know what Republicans are going to tell you. They're going to tell you we have a national debt of $40 trillion. We can't possibly pay for Medicare for all or Universal Child Care or anything else for that matter. We got to cut it all. But it might be worth trying to figure out why our national debt just got so big. They cut taxes on the richest people because at the end of the day, a debt balance is about the amount of money in and the amount of money out. Republicans always like to do one thing with our money. They don't want to give you health care. They don't want to give you child care.
They don't want to address our broken infrastructure or our failing public schools. You know what they want to do? They want to go to war. And Donald Trump came to power saying this. Under Trump, we will have no more wars, no more wars, no more wars. And then he did this. The United States military began major combat operations in Iran. Billions of your taxpayer dollars being spent wasted in the war he doesn't know how to get out of. So now we've got $40 trillion in debt. And yeah, we got to do something about it. So here's my plan. I think billionaires should pay their fair share. We should tax billionaires their wealth. And the loopholes that big corporations used to get out of paying their taxes, we should close them. And then you should do stop going to dumbass wars. Okay, so mega Republicans who are advising Donald Trump are very nervous. What would you be nervous about?
I don't know. Trump posting yesterday Lake America predicted by Donald ducks. Oh, very, this is what the American people want to see. It's not even funny. These are real people's lives, man. Your tariffs and your trade war against Canada is part of the factors that have increased costs so much on people. No, this isn't funny. People don't do 21,000 stock trades like you do and manipulate markets. And they don't get to do quid pro clothes with the UAE. And now we know one of the leaders of the UAE has an additional 49% stake of the world Liberty Financial Bank, which just got an exemption. So you can now operate as a bank that's an addition to the hundreds of millions of dollars that were given by the UAE to the Trump company in addition to the crypto and addition to most people right now. Really can't even afford groceries and they've had their healthcare ripped away and you do crap like Lake America predicted by Donald ducks. It's not funny. It's not funny. And Canada's our ally. This behavior's just sick here. Play this clip.
And he's just been on a tear. This is what he's posting. The next one was AI Trump replacing Lake Ontario sign with Lake America. Then he dances to the YMCA. He's so outrageous. What a crazy guy. Let's forget that he's a war criminal and he's eating and abetting genocide and he slaughtered little girls in Iran and he lost the catastrophic war and the straight of our Moses glue of clothes and oil and diesel and gases at record highs right now. And then he screwed up everything and his trade war against the world backfire that he didn't end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours like he promised. And he lies about, oh well, let's just forget because he's doing crazy stuff. He's looking at him. He's doing YMCA dances so freaking pathetic. Here, let's play this clip right here. Yeah, and then as I reported yesterday morning, House GO peers and private meeting are continuing to say Trump is exhausting our voters.
We're not helping ourselves today when we decide to rent rename Lake Ontario Lake America, bull work out the scoop at Oklahoma State University, where a mega Republican Congresswoman Stephanie Bice. She was speaking with the group of students and others at the university and she said the challenge that we have is that we have to get over the narrative that I don't like this guy. So I'm going to vote for the Democrat because I'm telling you right now I'm hearing it already and what happens is this will have an impact on me because two things will either happen. They're going to vote for the Democrat and they may split the ticket and vote for me and a few others or this is my big air fear right now. People don't go to vote. That's what they're saying about their mega Republican base right now and everything's going on. But according to mega Mike Johnson, we are now quite literally locked into a contest to determine whether we're going to keep our Republic because he says despite the fact that magas have controlled the House, the Senate, the executive branch, which they literally destroyed the White House, like actually demolished it.
And the court, the Supreme Court, they said that Democrats are the ones who pose an existential threat really because the last time I checked, you also now have increased the debt over $40 trillion. What about those? Where are we going to get dividend checks? Where are we going to get rebate checks? He made us a lot of promises. But guess what? I guess like Donald Trump's whole life where he bankrupted this casino, that casino, this thing, that thing. I guess it's all one giant fraud because y'all are just a bunch of con artists and frankly, you're a bunch of communist con artists too. And you have a deranged form of communism that also benefits only two interests. Donald Trump and foreign countries apparently, okay, because that's what we're saying. Anyway, here's what Maga Mike says here, play this clip. Yeah, this is not a game. We've said, even a few years ago, Republicans and Democrats in Congress are arguing over marginal tax rates and shades of regulation. We are now quite literally locked into a contest to determine whether we're going to keep our republic to keep the country as it is or to break this thing down to the foundation and go to an entirely different road instead of principles towards communism.
That's the balance. And look, we see. Right. I mean, Donald Trump announced yesterday that we are creating a Trump-owned oil company in the United States, a government-owned oil company without congressional approval that sees in 65 billion barrels of oil from Venezuela. Really good luck with that. You understand the way the oil actually works in Venezuela that the crude there is actually a very dense sour viscous type material that you need to act as a president. That you need to actually build refining capacities for it. That there actually is no written deal. Advilates the Venezuelan Constitution and the United States Constitution. But just keep on lying. Just lie about everything. Oh, I mean, just a bunch of freaking liars all day. Anyway, everybody will keep you posted every step of the way. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks, everybody. Breaking news right now. My brothers and I wrote a book. It's called WTF America. And well, doesn't that just say it all? It comes out officially this October. But you can pre-order your copy today. Just scan the QR code or click the link in the description below.
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