Transcript of Thursday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben — 2/19/26 New

Welcome to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Meisellis, and this is breaking news. Breaking moments ago, Donald Trump was aboard Air Force One, and he wish the former Prince Andrews, never a prince at all, Andrew Monpeton. He goes, basically what Trump used to say about Ghislaine Maxwell, I wish her well, Donald Trump said about Andrew and the royal family. I feel bad for them. I feel so bad for what they're going through. It's very tough. It's very tough. How about the survivors? How about you feel bad for the survivors? How about that? Here's what Donald Trump said moments ago aboard Air Force One. Let's play it. That was not a good one, Peter. What do you think? I got a question about something big overseas today, the former Prince Andrew, arrested by the police there. Related to something with Jeffrey Epstein. Do you think people in this country, at some point, associates of Jeffrey Epstein, will wind up in handcuffs, too? Well, I'm the expert in a way because I've been totally exaggerated. That's very nice. I can actually speak it very nicely. I think it's a shame. I think it's very sad. I think it's so bad for the royal family.

It's very, very sad. To me, it's a very sad thing. When I see that, it's a very sad thing to see it and to see what's going on with his brother who's obviously coming to our country very soon, and he's a fantastic man, the King. I think it's a very sad thing. It's really interesting because nobody used to speak about Epstein when he was alive, but now they speak. But I'm the one that can talk about it because I've been totally exonerated. I did nothing. In fact, the opposite. He was against me. He was fighting me in the election, which I just found out through the last 3 million pages of documents. Yeah, please. He said today on Iran, bad things will happen. That's interesting because we learned in the documents that dropped that your name appears over 38,000 times in some of the most disgusting and grotesque ways. We've learned that there's potentially 50 terabytes more of documents that have not yet been produced, potentially hundreds of millions of documents, and that your name appears millions of times, purportedly on some of these other documents as well. We've seen very serious allegations that were leveled against you, but were never ever investigated.

We know that one of the accusers as well was interviewed by the FBI on four separate occasions. Now, Roger Solenberger did a great reporting on that as well. We know remember the the handwriting expert that the FBI sent, the Jeffrey Epstein letter, where Epstein sent a letter to Larry Nasser, convicted sex offender, Larry Nasser. And then they talked in the letter, Epstein was saying all these things about Donald Trump as well. And remember how the FBI was like, Oh, well, we hereby declare... The Midas Touch was the first to report that, by the I'll just read you what the letter says. This was from Epstein to Larry Nasser, and this was right around Epstein's death, which we know by now was likely, almost certainly not by suicide. Dear LN, Larry Nasser, as you know by now, I've taken the short route home. Good luck. We shared one thing, our love of caring for young ladies at the hope they'd reach their full potential. Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by, he loved to grab, snatch, whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system.

Life is unfair. Yours, J. Epstein. And this letter was then returned to sender. We actually have the FBI report now, and the forensics were actually inconclusive. Meaningful handwriting comparisons could not be conducted between question items four and five. Isn't that the thing with all the Epstein files? When it came to what the CIA said in response to public records request from Epstein or the National Security Advisors team said in response to public records request, we can either confirm nor deny. We can't produce anything because information may be classified. We can't turn anything over. But you certainly, Donald, were not exonerated by those files. I mean, do you realize how insane you sound? You probably don't because you are walking insanity. But when you say you are exonerated by those files, I mean, Those files that were produced could not be more damaging. Or how about by your own words that Donald Trump has said, he grabs women by their genitals because he's rich and you get away with it. He's on tape saying those words and that he inspects girls naked at his beauty pageants. Because when you run the beauty pageants, you get to be the inspector and non-consensually sexually assault and harass girls, apparently, is what Donald Trumps.

I'm despicable of things like that for you to say those things. I mean, those are things that you've said. You said the most disgusting thing about your own daughter. We have you on tape saying these things. You've been found civilly liable for sexual assault. But I digress. Yesterday, of course, by now, Les Wexner was deposed, 88 years old now. He was the guy who was basically the money man for Epstein. He apparently gave Epstein a billion dollars. It doesn't know why he did it. We'll post his full deposition here on the Midas Touch Network. You should watch this deposition. I watched the full five hours. The guy's like, Well, why did you give him $5 billion? Why did you give him a billion dollars? Why would you Who did that? He tricked me. He was very cunning. So you gave him a billion dollars? Why would you have a guy who's not a money manager, be your money manager and run all of your money when he never had that? He's very tricky. He's a very tricky guy. Did you see Donald Trump and Epstein in rooms together? Maybe. Maybe, like at the Victoria's Secret events that I ran.

Wexner's Company was the parent company of Victoria's Secret. Maybe I did. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know this. I don't recall this. By the way, not a single Republican congress member showed up to Les Wexner's deposition. Not Not a one. Just think about that. They were too busy. They didn't want to even give credence to it, so none of them showed up. They've been ordered by Trump and Maga Mike. Do not pursue this investigation. As I said before, there shouldn't be a Democrat, Republican, independent issue. There are so many issues right now that we've been fraudulently led to believe are political issues when they're moral issues. I think the American people are waking up to that. The cover up of this child sex trafficking, that should not be a political issue. It should not be. It is a moral, ethical crimes against humanity issue, which, by the way, independent experts that the United Nations are calling what they've seen in the Epstein files, Crimes Against Humanity. But I didn't need experts to tell me that. I read it. You've read it. We've all looked at it. We've discussed the files, and it's disgusting what's taking place.

Disgusting. It's disgusting that Republicans are saying, We don't care about this, and that Trump's saying, He feels bad for the royal family? But that's just in keeping with who he is. He cares about royalty while royally screwing over everybody else. Yeah, that's Andrew. That's that crook right there. That's that despicable sicko who had everything in life, had all of the drapings or whatever of wealth and success, and had it all handed to him, just like Donald, on a silver platter and utilized it to do sick things to little girls. This is going to be despicable. Despicable people. Anyway, at the deposition yesterday of Les Wexner, no Republican showed up. Congress member García. Robert García is the ranking Democratic member from the House Oversight Committee. The Democrats showed up. I'm not saying that in a political way. They literally showed up. They were there asking questions because they're taking this investigation seriously. Again, I know you're watching this regardless of what political party you're from. You're taking this seriously. This is serious stuff. Here's what García had to say. Here, play this clip. It's about a billion dollars that was either transferred, provided in stocks or given directly to Mr. Epstein by Wexner.

We should be very clear that the two were very close per reporting. They spent a lot of time together. Mr. Wexner admitted that he traveled to both Epstein's Island as well as his other properties. Mr. Wexer also admitted that Jeffrey Epstein had access to a lot of Mr. Wexer's wealth. When asked even simple questions, even as it relates to Mr. Epstein being the co-president of the foundation that established the area that we're in today, Mr. Wexer had little to say. In fact, it's clear that Mr. Wexer is trying to downplay how close Jeffrey Epstein and Mr. Wexer actually were. We should be very clear that there would be no Epstein Island, there would be no Epstein plane, there'd be no money to traffic women and girls. Mr. Epstein would not be the wealthy man he was without the support of Les Wexer. I think it's very important for us to note at this moment. I think it's also important to note what the hell is going on with that New Mexico Ranch of Epstein, Zoro Ranch, as it was called. Now it's called San Rafael. It was purchased by a big Trump supporter back in 2023 using an LLC to purchase it.

The Trump supporter is someone by the name of Don Huffines. He's a former Texas state senator, someone who went to Moscow in 2018 to try to improve relations with Vladimir Putin back then. Don Huffines son, Russell Huffines, works in the Trump administration in a pretty significant position there. The Huffines made their money a few generations back in the automobile industry. Their great grandfather opened up one of the first auto dealerships in the area. So this family comes from a lot of money. They decided to buy Epstein's property back in 2023. We've seen from the Epstein files allegations that there are bodies buried there, just allegations, but there are bodies buried there. We know that that was the site of torture, of trafficking by Epstein and De Laine, but that site was never subject to subpoena or search warrants or any investigation by the feds. When the local New Mexico attorney general's office said they were going to be investigating it, the feds said, Don't do it, shortly after or right around the arrest of Epstein, and then shortly after Epstein died. So fortunately now, it gets better late than never, but sometimes late is a problem and is fatal.

But there's a truth commission that was just launched by the New Mexico legislature, unanimous vote to create this truth commission. So they want to start investigating the Zoro Ranch, Epstein's Ranch that Epstein had from 1993 until the time of his death. He would fly in there with helicopter with young girls who he said were masseuses. There needs to be an investigation there. There is an investigation there. But now we learn from the new owner of the Zoro Ranch, Don Huffines, that the property, it's already under construction, you all. It's already under construction. They're going to turn it into a children's Christian retreat. They're turning Zoro Ranch into a Christian retreat for children. So there's already bulldozers. And what do you know? What do you know, folks? Don't trust me. Listen to Don Huffines with Matt Gates. Yeah, Matt Gates interview Don Huffines. Gates, who was found by the House Ethics Committee to more likely than not have engaged in underage sex, is interviewing Huffin about turning Epstein King's Ranch into a Christian retreat for children. Play the clip. Now, you have plans to take something evil and bring it into goodness, bring it into light and positivity.

Tell us about that plan. Well, of course. That is the main reason I bought the property. This was obviously a dark place, and we wanted to put light in a dark place. It always shines the brightest when you do that. My faith is so strong in Jesus, and it really is. And I'm going to make this. The plan all along is to make this property into a Christian retreat. A matter of fact, it's under construction today. And that's our goal. That's why we named it St. Raphael. We named St. Raphael, as you probably know, an Archangel. And what he does and helps people with is healing and being the healer and also blessing those that are traveling. We think that's really germane to this property. I bought the property because I said, Let me find the worst location for that sex trafficking. Let me find it. I said, Find me the worst location. I bought it because I wanted to turn it into place for the kitties, for the retreat for God. I called San Rafael, Jesus. I did this for Jesus. In other words, this Jesus and the Archangel San Rafael. You may not know San Rafael, Matt Gates.

Matt Gates, you're the perfect person for me to be talking to about this, Maddie. You understand what I'm doing here? I said, How do I turn Epstein Zora? You know what? I wanted to do it in such a way that I created a shell vehicle called San Rafael LLC. You see, I purchased it with an LLC because I, of course, wanted everybody to know that it was me. Otherwise, I did that. Then I said, How are we going to make it? How can we get more children there? It's under construction today, and I'm doing interviews now about it today. On the same day that they announced the Truth Commission, it's under construction now, and they're bulldozers. San Rafael, Jesus. Jesus, Amen. Amen. They just think we're stupid. That's the thing to me is that these people literally think you're dumb and that we're dumb. That's one of the things that you think you're smart. They think that they're smart right there. You got me. Okay. You're doing it for the kiddos. You're building a Christian retreat. We're sure about that. You just think we're stupid. They treat us like we're stupid. They enact policies that destroy us because they think we're stupid.

You know what? They've convinced a lot of people people to vote for this crap. Maybe they believe, You see, I guess if we get them to vote for us, let's just keep on doing this over and over and over and over again. Not that way anymore. People are waking up. People are waking up to this crap. What is that? It's just interesting because you have Andrew getting arrested. Good, right? They did what... Trump should get arrested. I Trump should be thrown in jail. All these people, in my opinion, Howard Lutnik should be investigated. This whole cabal is in our freaking White House. These leaches, these rodents, these sickos are in the White House. I'm not even saying in a political way. I mean, the cabal is in its objective, undisputed. They're in the oval office, literally, pedo protectors, sick, sick, sick people. Frankly, I don't I don't even know how a new administrator... I don't even know how you go into... The White House is basically the Zoro Ranch. I don't know, will you become the next president. If I were to run for president, and I which I'm not going to, and I won in 2028.

I would not want to... I don't think I'd want to be in the White House. I think I would need six months of fumigation of a lot of things that need to go down before I would feel comfortable living in that gross and disgusting sess pool. I think that's just mad. In the United States, our Supreme Court creates a made-up fake doctrine, it's not in the Constitution, called absolute immunity to protect Donald Trump because we have a right-wing fascist Supreme Court. Our entire Constitution was created as a rejection of absolute immunity. It was a response to monarchy, saying, We don't want kings. If you want to approach this from an originalist interpretation, a contextualist interpretation, whatever framework you want to build to try to analyze the Constitution, it was no That's the main theme of our Declaration of Independence to our Constitution for our nation's founding is no absolute meaning. But my point is, even where there are kings, even in the UK, where there's a royal family. They don't have the doctrine that our Supreme Court created to help Donald Trump just think about that. Even in the UK, they're like, You know what?

You're no longer a Prince, you're just Andrew, and you get arrested. Show the photo of Andrew one more time there, Jeremy, so we can see what Andrew looks like. That's what Trump should look like. That's what Howard Lutnik should look like. That's what Pam Bondi should look like. That's what Pete Hegset should look like. That's what RFK Jr. Should look like. Instead, Do we have this photo of Hegsith and Dr. Oz? They're on a play date. They're on a play date today, everybody. As the United States is very close to war with Iran, they're climbing trees, everybody. Here's Dr. Oz and Pete Hegsith on their play date. They're posting these photos of them. As we have two aircraft carrier groups right by Iran. For those who are listening just on audio, I'm showing you the visual right now of the amount of American forces that are in an armada right now. No one's making the case to the American people why we should be in war with Iran, why a long term war with them is in our interest. It isn't. Donald Trump did promise he was going to help the protesters. Remember when he said that, Go out, protest, keep protesting.

I got your back. Well, you didn't have their back, so that's done. They all got massacred. Thousands of protesters got massacred. Then you bragged about stopping a hanging of 800 protesters. There's nothing to brag about. I stopped the hanging of 800. Good. But you caused thousands to be killed. But I guess our media is too busy reporting on the fact that Donald Trump directly led to the deaths of thousands of Iranians who he told to go out in protest. He's saying he's got their back. They've been massacred. Now, months later, we have in our armada off the Coast of Iran to put our own troops now in peril, to put American lives and treasury at risk and treasury and lives of the others in the region at risk. This is what we're going with. But I digress. South Korea, their former insurrectionist president, sentenced to life in prison today. Life. Life. That's how they deal with it in countries. When you have insurrections, they don't invent absolute immunity doctrines. They throw you in prison, just like Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil. Prison for 27 years, as Scott Shapiro goes, and UK, Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea, former President June, sentenced for life.

In Brazil, former President Jair Bolsonaro serving a 20-year sentence, 27-year sentence. In the United States, Donald Trump soos the government for $10 billion, and the taxpayers have to fork over $10 billion to Donald Trump for filing a frivolous lawsuit against his own IRS. He builds golden ballrooms. It just goes to show you that our country is sick, and it is the Epstein class on the Supreme Court, Epstein class. Just think about the corruption there. Those right wing Supreme Court justices flying around the country on private jets and yachts and all of these trips getting millions of dollars from Epstein class people were paying them to make rulings. To make rulings. Again, they dress themselves up and they act like they're superior to us and they lecture us in originalism and strict contextualism and states rights and the unitary executive theory. Then at the end of the day, they hoist up a stupider version of Kim Jong Un here in the United States who's covering up a child sex trafficking ring and who has very, very serious allegations being leveled against him in those files that seem to have never been investigated. South Korea did what it needed to do.

Brazil did what it needed to do. In the UK, they're doing what they need to do when it comes to Andrew. You have commissions being set up and everywhere from Poland to you name it. But here in the United States, you heard from Trump. I've been vindicated. I've been vindicated. I've been vindicated. Dude, you are an idiot. You are a felon. Why do we listen to this guy? I mean, take a step back. This guy is a felon. He's been adjudicated to be a felon. He is a fraud. He's been adjudicated to be a fraud. He's a sexual predator by the courts. Not me being hyperbolic. A federal civil jury heard the case where Trump was too scared to testify. Could have testified. Tough guy. Could have testified, tough guy. You didn't. He was found He was civilly liable in a unanimous jury. You know what Trump's response was? At least the jury didn't make a finding that it was his penis. That was Trump's actual response to a verdict, finding him civilly liable of sexual... But it wasn't his penis, it was his finger. When you go, Well, Ben, what are you talking about?

Well, Trump sued George Stephanoff Stefanopolis, because George Stephanopoulos said that it was rape. Donald Trump said that's defamation because under the New York Technical Statute, New York since closed this loophole, But they changed it. In New York, they've said that, well, a sexual assault is a finger and a rape is genitals or something like that. The jury said, We didn't necessarily know whether it was based on the testimony. I'm not trying graphic here. I just want to let you know what the facts are. The jury said, We didn't really know if it was a penis or a finger. But there was a sexual assault that took place at the Bergdorff Goodman, and that's why they found that Trump was civilly liable, and they just made that finding. And Trump took that as though that was a win and then sued Stephanopoulos, and you want to know how sick our country is, then ABC paid Trump basically a quid pro quo bribe, in my opinion, which is giving me my opinion, masquerading as a settlement In the face of an allegation. Could you imagine if Donald Trump actually had to sit for a deposition and be asked, so you were found liable for sexual assault, were you not?

And you're saying your reputation has been harmed because your argument is that... So you see the sickness that's in the White House. And how is this even being normalized? How is this even being talked about without making you want to freaking vomit? When I do these shows, sometimes, it's sometimes, just so you know, because this stuff... What at least is good right now is that you all get it. I think the country is getting it. I think this message is breaking through. I do. You can call me, Oh, you're just being an eternal optimist, blah, blah, blah, blah, are saying, what the hell is this? It shocks me that there are some people who don't see it. I don't get it. I try my best to put myself in as many shoes as I can to understand and try to be empathetic and try to understand what could it be. But right now, February 19th, 2026, with all that's gone down from masks, agents, terrorizing people in the streets to the The Don't Tread on me' crowd. You like that? Or the Trump regime saying, People can't conceal carry. You deserve to die. If you show up at a protest with a concealed carry permit, you deserve to die.

The Second Amendment folks, you like that? Or maybe you just like... What you really like is, let's just face it, you like, you want a Kim Jong Un. You want your own version of that. You don't like democracy. It's easier for you to be or you like being in this dystopian reality, hate-fueled show, where you feel for now comfortable that somebody acknowledging your hate and accepting your hate of others is the most important thing to you that's out there. That's the predominant factor. Forget Trump shooting somebody in Fifth Avenue. What he's doing is way worse. It's not in Fifth Avenue. It's across this country. All right, we're going to take our first and only quick break of the show. Do you see how close we are to 6 million subscribers, everybody? We're right there. We're right there at 6 million subscribers. You may think that you're subscribed. Double check. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million. I want to get to 6 million this week. Let's try I do that. We'll take our first and only quick break of the... Store. Mitistouch. Com. Check out the merch. I got The Brother Show tonight. I do a show with my brothers 8 Eastern, 5 Pacific.

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She's not running anymore. In my view, it just brings more attention to his Epstein cover-up. It's the only reason that Marjorie Taylor-Greens was basically pushed out of politics and the party was that she objected to Donald Trump covering up a child sex trafficking ring, and that was not MAGA of her. For you to be MAGA, you must cover up child sex trafficking rings. Marjorie Taylor-Green said, Well, I guess I'm not MAGA anymore because while I agree with MAGA on 98% of the things, covering up child sex trafficking is a pretty big deal. I'm not going to go along with that. Donald Trump said, But you're going to hurt my friends. She goes, Well, okay. If they're pedos, then they can be hurt. That's okay then. Then Trump said, Well, get the hell out. She said, Yeah. That's why Trump's going to Rome, Georgia right now. He's aboard Air Force One. He was leaving from that peace board thing that he was doing. Peace board? So stupid. It goes with the Board of Peace that no democracies are a part of. It's Pakistan, and it's like, Bahrain. Ukraine, and Belarus, and Qatar, countries like that. They showed up.

Viktor Orbán was there from Hungary, showed up. Orbán was also like, Why am I the only leader from the European Union that's actually here? Because that's the answer, because this is not actually a peace board. It is a way that Donald Trump can hang out with authoritarians, and that's what he wants to do. It's weird. It's utterly humiliating for the United States, but this whole guy is humiliating for the United States every day, every day, just humiliating. I think if you don't think this is humiliating, you have no shame. At the end of the day, this is as humiliating as it gets. Anyway, here's Donald Trump aboard Air Force One. He's asked a question by Ducey from Fox about Barack Obama saying Aliens are real. Here was what Donald Trump's response was to that. Here, play this clip. I would look at China and Russia. They've been invited. Something that got a lot of attention. You need both. You need all persuasions. No discrimination. Something that got a lot of attention this Barack Obama said that aliens are real. Have you seen any evidence of nonhuman visitors to Earth? Well, he gave class to write information.

He's not supposed to be doing that. So aliens are real? Well, I don't know if they're real or not. I can tell you he gave classified information. He's not supposed to be doing that. He made a big mistake. He took it out of classified information. No, I don't have an opinion on it. I never talk about it. A lot of people do. A lot of people believe it. You believe it, Peter? Well, the President can declassify anything that he wants to. So if you want to make an announcement-I may get him out of trouble by declassifying. We know illegal aliens, really. Yeah, illegal. Only illegals. What else? Based on what you've been told, what do you think happened to-He's in a lot of trouble? I mean, this guy is a demented lunatic. He's in a lot of trouble for saying something about aliens. I mean, you do realize that the person That person that we're watching there is not normal. This is not a normal human. This is not normal behavior. Anybody who acts like this is just a grown up or an adult. This is really just an utterly demented human being. I don't know how else to describe what I witnessed over there.

He's not speaking in sentences, slurring his words, obsessed with Obama, randomly flying to Rome, Georgia. Before I showed you in the first half of the show, I'm the expert on these things, and I feel bad for the royal family that Andrew got arrested. That's who you feel bad for, not the survivors? Well, here is Donald Trump at that Board of Peace meeting this morning, where Donald Trump bangs a small golden gavel with YMCA playing in the background. Let's play this clip. Ready? Thank you. Thank you. We'll take it. That was strange. You had Viktor Orbán there from Hungary, noting that no one else from Europe is there. It's the point. Here, play this clip. Dear Mr. President, excellences, dear colleagues, first of all, Let me express the appreciation of the Hungarian people to President Trump for his tireless peace efforts all around the world. Hungary is the only country to be represented here on the highest level among the founding members from the European Union. I represent the country- Next to him, you have Javier Mallet, who's Donald Trump's MAGA puppet in Argentina. The United States gave Argentina $40 billion in a bailout to help prop up Javier Mallet in their elections.

Donald Trump is trying to now do something similar with Orbán. He had Rubio show up in Hungary. Orbán is trailing significantly in the polls in Hungary. So Orbán has been calling in his friends at the AFD in Germany. That's like the MAGA Party there, their far-right extremist party there. Putin's team came in to Hungary. Trump sent Rubio there. And basically, the message from Rubio was, if you want America to help Hungary, you need to vote for Orban. Otherwise, America won't help you. But the reality is that at this point, Hungary can choose. You want to be a Soviet country, you want to be in Putin world, which is basically Putin, United States, Belarus, North Korea. The delusional aspect of Trump, though, too, is that Trump's not even in crew. Trump loves Putin, but the actual alliance is Russia, Iran, China, North Korea, and they bring in some other bricks nations. America, United States, is close to going to war with Iran. At the same time, Donald Trump is trying to help Putin, and Iran is sending their Shahid drones to help Putin. You have Hungary giving its oil or getting all of its oil from Russia, while Donald Trump attacks European Union saying that they get their oil from Russia.

When it's Hungary, that is the main country that gets its oil from Russia, especially from the European Union. Our foreign policy is so disjointed and nonsensical right now. I can literally, we just alienate everybody, and it's just Donald Trump sucking up to Putin. Then you have all these other countries that are recognizing that all you have to do is give Trump flattery, and you could basically outmaneuver him, and you could get him to do things for you. It's weird. It's weird. Here, Donald Trump is saying that, Where is President Malay? I endorse him. I endorse Orban. This is from that same meeting. Let's play it. But we're honored to be joined today by Prime Minister Rahma of Albania. President, where is President Malay? You're another one, I'll tell you. Where is President Malay? I endorse him. I'm not supposed to be endorsing people, but I endorse... When I like people, I've had a very good record of endorsing candidates within the United States. But now I endorse foreign leaders, including Victor Orbond, who's here, and others. I endorse this gentleman, Millet. He was a little behind in the polls. He ended up winning in a landslide.

I just endorsed the Prime Minister of Japan. She was in a tight race, but was probably going to win, and she wanted the largest number in the history of Japan. So she likes me a lot. But it was an honor. And you're doing, Oh, look, they're sitting right Thanks, Victor. But ultimately, I think I'm going to end up endorse. Hey, look, as long as it works, it's okay with me. But the endorsement seems to be working in foreign countries, too, so that's good. But nice to have you both, Victor. Nice to have you both. Very proud of you. The Prime Minister. Then while Donald Trump was there, he was talking about the United Nations and how he's obsessed with that the escalator turned off when he was at the United Nations several months ago. He's I was obsessed with that and the teleprompter didn't work. He has this weird story also that Melania saved him when the escalator was shut off and he grabbed onto her, and otherwise he would have fallen. She saved him. First, let me show you the clip of him winding. Let's play it. You're going to push your hands before the meeting.

Why did he cancel the meeting? President Trump. Oh, good President Trump is tumor. Oh, God. Oh, this is a good guy. Now, for mostly any human being, that interaction. I'm trying to think about something that happened to me today. What happened to me today? I took my 16-month-year-old to a bubbleologist at the local library. It was a bubbleologist library, and they were playing with bubbles. And so I show up to the library and it's packed. And so I had to park nearby at a shopping center and then walk over. That's not an interaction that I'll be shit. Imagine six months from now, you saw me on the show and I was like, and I went to see a bubbleologist and they told me There would be parking and I show up. Not only is there no parking, but I look, I'm about to crash my car, and then my wife saves me, and she's like, Honey, you got to hold on. What the hell is going on? Imagine I just talked about that. The interaction that he's still talking about was what you just saw right there. That's what he's whining about. Again, this is like a demented individual.

This is a demented individual. A thing happened to you in the day. Get over it. Get over it. And just so you can see, here's what he was saying while he was at this board of peace meeting in DC. Here's how he described what went down at the United Nations. Here, play this clip. My last speech, they did turn off my teleprompter. I got up there. My teleprompter didn't work. I'm sitting in front of all of you people and more. I had no teleprompter. I knew I was in trouble because I'm walking up. You know the telepromptors are over. I had the most beautiful speech ready. I was all set to knock him dead. First, I had an escalator that stopped. You know that? It's going up. It's lucky my movie star first lady was in front of me because I put my hand on a certain part of her body. And I was able to stop my fall. Because she had no trouble. I said, boy, that was a very sharp stop, Johnny. So I said, that was strange. I've been on a lot of escalators. It's never happened before. Usually it stops very Very slowly.

This was just boom. But our first lady was right in the proper location for me. I'm waving to people, and she was holding it a little tighter. She knew what was happening. What? What are they even talking about? What are they even talking about? Sometimes I watch that stuff and I'm just like, really, Magga, you like this? Like, this is like This is what you're into right now. It's so bizarre. I'll just read this for you. Obviously, countries like Canada, the UK, every European Union country isn't there. This latest poll from Politico shows that only about one in three Canadians still view the United States as an ally. Frankly, I don't know who those one in three are. If you ask Canadians in a poll, who's the biggest threat? The United States or Russia, overwhelmingly, two to one people in Canada view the United States as a much bigger threat to them than Russia. 48% of Canadian survey say the US is the biggest threat, 29% say Russia, 10% say China. I think that's fairly accurate right there in terms of what's going on. Then in terms of MAGA in general, as I said, this whole movement is a fraud.

This whole thing is a fugazi. The way Trump's been a fraud his entire life, and he attracts just fraudulent people and grifter people. I just found this interesting today as well. You have the House Committee on Agriculture announced as the following, Thank you, President Trump, for acknowledging the importance of glyphosate-based herbicides in American agriculture. This is a vital step forward in ensuring domestic supply of this critical crop input remains available for our producers. So like one of the main things that RFK pretended he cared about and Maha, make America healthy again, and all of these things was these pesticides in crops. Rfk said back in June of 2024, the herbicide glyphosate is one of the likely culprits in America's chronic disease epidemic, much more widely used here than in Europe. Shockingly, much of our exposure comes from its uses in wheat, not as a herbicide. From where it goes straight into our bodies, my US Department of Agriculture will ban that practice. You may have all seen those lawsuits that were filed against the companies that Roundup that made these products and a lot of medical literature that these products, that this glyphosate causes non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

And, they were bankrupted the company that made Roundup. And, and now the announcement, Trump makes an executive order, basically endorsing and protecting glyphosate-based products. You have some MAGA people out there who are basically saying, I did not vote for this, Donald Trump. This is a failure to protect the American people and a continuation on the attack American health. More gaslighting, Secretary Kennedy. This makes so much of what you've both been saying an outright lie. A lot of us have stood by you through some insane stuff. This is worth revolting over. Protect phosphate for defense reasons? Sure, I buy it. The executive order should have stopped there. This needs to be talked about. The person tagged me over at my desk. I talk about this every day, Matthew. I agree with you. I mean, I agree, but all I can say, when you said over here, a lot of us have stood by both of you through some insane stuff. Just why? Why do you stand by them through some insane stuff? I mean, I truly mean it. Okay, maybe the first insane thing, I get it. But after multiple insane things, why do you stand by them?

I don't understand it. As I've been saying, there's so many issues right now that, again, I believe has a political dimension to him. I mean, people are like, Well, why didn't Biden's DOJ go after Epstein? Well, then that was a massive failure. I'm not defending that. Merrick Garland should have done a lot more prosecutions than he did. Merrick Garland failed. The cover-up of the Epstein file spans decades and decades and decades. There's massive failure and massive blame going around. I can tell you when Donald Trump's out there saying he feels bad for Andrew and the royal family and not the survivors, when Pam Bondi is up there, though, testifying and says, The DAO is over 50,000, and that's why I'm not going to look at it. You are from Culver City. I could tell you I've never seen anything so embarrassing and humiliating ever from the Department of Justice before. I could tell you that that's horrible. The fact that they leaked the names of survivors and gave personal identifying information and protected the identity of the Epstein class in these files. I'm outraged at that. You have to realize, Matthew, is that the Epstein class wants to divide everybody else into viewing certain things as political issues.

And what I'm here to tell you is that a lot of these issues are not political issues. A lot of America view lots of issues as 70, 30 types of issues. And when you are talking about child sex trafficking cover-ups, we should all be against that. When it comes to data centers being built in your communities that are draining your energy supply and causing the price of your energy bills to skyrocket and unregulated AI replacing workers, we should all be against that. Now, we could recognize that there are some uses for AI that are beneficial and that could help humanity, but there should be some common sense regulations and safeguards around it. Don't we all think that? Can't we agree on that? I saw in protests and people being arrested at town halls yesterday in Oklahoma, protesting data centers in their community, which corporate news is not covering at all. We talk about AI data centers all the time here on the Midas Touch Network. My view as well, Matthew, is that we need to be very careful about the types of chemicals that are going into our crops and that are going into our food supply.

And things like glyphosate and stuff like that, that can potentially cause cancer. And that's why we have regulations, safety regulations, to which people like Trump go, Oh, these bureaucratic regulations. Sometimes I'm with, sometimes the regulations may go too far. But there's a reason why we have a lot of regulations and agencies and why we have a human experience, a lived experience to do regulations. Oftentimes, it's to protect you and to us and to protect others from harms, not to encourage these types of harms. There's a reason. You remember the Erin Brockovich movie, right? When they uncover what was taking place in the community and how people are getting cancer and dying and things like that. We be able to agree on certain things like this. I just think there are so many countless other issues. I don't know what you feel, Matthew, but I don't feel like it should be demeaned or be viewed as like, you're a social in a bad way. If we all agree that we should all have good health care, don't you agree that health care is a human right? I do. And if we agree that Obamacare has flaws, shouldn't we work to fix it versus just have a ranting lunatic like Donald Trump out there saying, I've done most favor nations.

I've done the prices are lower, everything's great, when we all know that there are tens of millions of Americans now have been kicked off their affordable care plan who can't afford it. There's hoping they don't get sick or maybe they're dying quietly and we don't even know about it because they didn't go get a preventative care appointment because they can't afford it right now. Aren't these issues that we should all be able to rally around and recognize that what this is really about is the Epstein class that's attacking us? And that that's actually what's happening here? I have this clip as well. Isn't this so revealing? You have Dan Bongino, former number two at the FBI, and Cash Patel, who's currently the FBI director right now. You have the number 1 and the former number two at the FBI. They do a show together. They're doing a podcast together, okay? Obviously, the people want to know about the Epstein file. What else do you think when you put these two people on together that we want to hear about? But instead, they whine and they say how difficult that their job has such difficult decisions and things are so hard for them and that it's so hard for them to do and that Trump has to stage 11 decisions, whatever the hell that even means, and he's so brave for having to make decisions.

Don't we agree, Matthew, when you say you stood by Trump on in saying, Don't we agree that even me playing this clip that I'm about to play is insane enough that that should end the discourse right there. Here, play this clip. Everything's a level 10 decision, Cash. A level 10, meaning there's a, pardon the language, but a shitty decision and a shittier one. Because if there was a good decision to be made, someone else made it. And then when those decisions, that's every day. I know you know this because I would knock on your door and you'd be like, What now? And I'd be like, Here we go again. Something else will come up. But I just want to put into perspective for folks out there. When that decision can't even be made by me, it goes to you. When it doesn't go to you, it goes to the president's desk. He's dealing with level 11 decisions. And that's the thing in DC is that's why the batting average isn't always going to be a thousand. There What is that? Or Matthew, remember before the latest batch of Epstein documents were released and Trump was asked about Epstein?

And watch Howard Lutnik in the background right here. Here, play this clip. Respond to the Epstein situation. Is he hosting some gathering of top advisors this evening to talk about how to respond to the Epstein situation? I don't know. I could ask you that question. I don't know of it, but I think. About how to respond How long to the Epstein in situation? I don't know. I could ask you that question. Right. Lutner claimed he only met Epstein once in 2005, and then it turns out he's on the island with his children. And then Trump and the regime said, That's fine. You saw him there. Because they think you're stupid. That's really what it boils down to. Matthew, they believe these stupid people have stood by our sides all the time as we laughed in your face. That's what they think about you. I just want to tell you that what you saw there with Lutnik, that's what they're saying to you behind your back. That's what they think about all of their supporters. They're stupid. They're going to support us. They hate you. They actually hate you. They want to steal from you, and they want to take from you.

That's who they are. I want anybody to know still, even though I don't understand how you could support these people, I don't. I don't get it. But I will say this on February 19th. It's someone saying, Who's Matthew? Matthew is the commentator, the person who wrote the comment. Is the guy named Matthew? Do we do it? Someone's like, Who you keep... See, this Just so you all know, I'm not talking to an imaginary friend named Matthew. Just so you know. Matthew tagged me in this post, so I don't have an imaginary friend named Matthew, just so everybody knows. I want you to think because I People are like, You never sleep. So did you invent an imaginary friend? I want you to know Matthew and all the Matthews out there. Now's the time to make the break. I don't say, make the break and become a I'm not saying that at all. I'm just saying, Free your mind from this poison of MAGA and step into a world of truth. At the Midas Touch Network, to me, beyond this political party and that political party and this or that. To me, I think that this is a place where truth prevails, where we bring receipts, where we show the clips, where we let people know, Here's what's happening right now.

People can judge for themselves. Ultimately, for me, that makes me not want to be supportive of the Republican Party and MAGA right now because they completely don't align with the truth and my values and principles. But if one day another party, the Democrats or someone else, doesn't align, I'm not going to be like, Oh, well, I'm on this team or that team. I'm on Team Truth. I'm on Team Facts. I'm on team receipts. I'm on Team Building Bridges internationally to support democracy and truth globally. That's where I'm at. I hope you join me, Matthew, and others as well. So thanks, everybody, for watching. We're grateful for you. We appreciate you. Hit subscribe. Look how close we are to 6 million subscribers. Let's try to get there this week. Oh, and by the way, you probably know that we are leading the boycott against Donald Trump's State of the Union. We're distributing the boycott, I should say, on our YouTube platform for State of the Union. We have tons of senators and members of Congress. They're going to be with Midas touch and not in the Capitol building. We have a permit. We're right outside the Capitol building, not inside the Capitol building.

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