Transcript of Obama Draws Massive Georgia Crowd as Trump Faces Renewed Midterm Scrutiny

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Ben Meiselas reports on former President Barack Obama's Georgia rally, which he contrasts with a smaller Trump event in Ohio. He covers the heckling at the Ohio gym, Trump's denials of ties to Jeffrey Epstein, and Obama's mockery of Trump over prices and the Cheesecake Factory remark.

Other segments cover the East Potomac golf course dispute, the firing of a three-star general, and Iran negotiations. The host presents these as his own critical reading of the events, and the people he quotes are responsible for their own claims.

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This episode's transcript on Obama's Georgia rally and Trump's Ohio speech was made with HappyScribe technology, the same engine behind its AI tool that takes meeting notes.

00:00:00

Donald Trump is losing it as his speech in that tiny high school gym in Ohio last night was a complete disaster. He was being heckled the entire time. People were talking about his connections with Epstein. Then you contrast Donald Trump's speech in this little teeny tiny high school gym in Ohio to the speech that former President Obama gave with Senator Ossoff in Georgia with a packed arena with thousands and thousands of people cheering. And Former President Obama just dropped the hammer on Donald Trump and mocked him ruthlessly. It was a thing of beauty. We'll talk about that in a moment, but just take a look at the difference of the crowd size over here. I'll show you here. This is the Obama-Ossoff speech, and this is the Donald Trump speech at a little high school gym. Take a look at it. Let me just show you the energy at the crowd where former President Obama and Senator Ossoff brought the house down. Here, play this clip. On the other hand, when Donald Trump was giving that speech in that teeny tiny high school in Ohio, there were protesters and hecklers like our buddy Robbie Roadsteamer who was there.

00:01:24

Shout out Robbie. I see you. And he was there at the Ohio gym and he was like, Trump was on the Jeffrey Epstein plane and you could hear it during the live broadcast. Listen up here. You can hear it for yourself. Let's play it.

00:01:39

Trump went on the Jeffrey Epstein plane.

00:01:51

And I'll just show you over here. There were protesters throughout Donald Trump's speech. Even in that teeny tiny gym, there was like 5% of the people that were basically heckling him and protesting. I'll show you this one right here, a lady giving him the middle finger. Let's play it. A man giving him the middle finger over here. Then Donald Trump got a little sensitive over his connections with Epstein. We know that Donald Trump was best friends with Epstein. We know that Donald Trump said that Epstein is a great guy who likes women on the younger side, beautiful women on the younger side. We know that the Mar-a-Lago spa was basically moved to Epstein's home, um, which was just about a mile away. We know that Donald Trump's been found civilly liable for sexual assault. We know that some of the people who worked at the masseuse or the massage place in Mar-a-Lago were trafficked by Epstein. Um, and they were identified and trafficked when they were underage girls working at Trump's massage place in, uh, Mar-a-Lago. We know that Donald Trump brags about beauty pageants that he would own. Like, first of all, like, why are you owning beauty pageants?

00:03:16

It's like, anyway, it's a whole other story. But then he said he would use the beauty pageants. He's on tape saying this, um, that he would look at the girls naked in the locker rooms when he would go do these beauty pageants. There were young girls in these beauty pageants. And then he also said that that he would sexually assault women and he grabs them by their genitals because he's rich. And he said, that's what you do when you're rich, you get away with it. Um, and then Donald Trump though said, uh, you know, Epstein was a Democrat. I threw him out. I threw him out. I didn't like Epstein. Does Donald Trump— as Trump covers up the Epstein files, as this sicko predator, sex predator demon is closing up, this is how— this is his closing message in the midterms as he's covering up the child sex trafficking ring that is the Epstein files. Here, play this clip.

00:04:02

As far as the Epstein files is, I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. I threw him out of my club many years ago because I thought he was a sick pervert. But I guess I turned out to be right. But you know who does have? Bill Clinton. Larry Summers, who ran Harvard, was with him every single night, every single weekend. They lived together. They went to his island many times. I never did. Uh, Andrew Weissmann are here. All these guys were friends of his. You don't even talk about those people.

00:04:33

By the way, hat tip to Katie Fang at the Midas Touch Network. She won another major court victory yesterday, this time before the DC Circuit Court of Appeals against the Trumps. She filed that lawsuit against Todd Blanche and Trump's DOJ for the release of the Epstein files. The Trump regime filed an emergency appeal before the DC Circuit Court of Appeals saying it would cause irreparable harm if they had to review the foreign language documents from the Epstein 16 files, which they don't want to produce. And the 3-judge DC Circuit panel said, review the documents. What do you mean it's going to cause you irreparable harm to look at the foreign language documents? Like, what the hell are you covering up? Now, at the Midas Touch Network, we made this devastating supercut last night that shows Obama versus Trump. Obama in Georgia, Trump at the teeny tiny little high school, uh, in Ohio. Take a look right here. This is an incredible— my Brett did this. Shout out to Brett for making this. Here, play this clip.

00:05:34

We named a lovely lake named like Lake Ontario.

00:05:43

Trump went on the Jeffrey Epstein plane.

00:05:47

The president wasn't even mad about the Saddam Hussein comparison. That part didn't bother him, but he was very upset about the Cheesecake Factory comments. He took great umbrage. He said, I didn't understand the work of the artisans in the White House. It's all crazy, but this was the really crazy part. They mobilized a whole-of-government response to that joke, not to inflation, But to that joke—

00:06:20

but will you 2 guys stand up, please? Everyone thinks they're my best friends. I don't know them. Blacks and Trump. There's only 2 tonight. What's going on?

00:06:30

These are not serious people. They don't have solutions to actual problems. So they'd rather have the media and you talking about the Cheesecake Factory. That's the game they've been playing for the last 2 years, just keep throwing distractions out there, attacks, fabrications, phony outrage, and hope that you won't notice that your bills are higher and your life is tougher.

00:07:00

We— I passed 3 cognitive tests.

00:07:08

Former President Obama makes a great point right here. He said, so Donald Trump was not mad that I compared him to Saddam Hussein and said that the Oval office looked like Saddam Hussein's palace. He was mad at the Cheesecake Factory part? Former President Obama said Trump wasn't mad that I called out this regime for causing prices to skyrocket, diesel and gas at record highs, electricity at record highs. People can't afford anything. They've destroyed the economy. Obama's like, Donald Trump wasn't mad at that. What got him mad was the Cheesecake Factory line? And then Obama goes, So then they sent the Treasury Secretary, Besant, who's supposed to be the one dealing with affordability and helping the American people out, who's worth like a billion dollars. They sent him to the Cheesecake Factory to talk about how the Cheesecake Factory's a great place. What are you doing here? It was a great line by Obama. But look, folks, the price of diesel, the price of gas continues to surge to record highs. The Wall Street Journal did an article saying, Trump's deal with Putin hasn't done much to ease diesel prices. Why would it ease diesel prices at all?

00:08:21

They're bringing in 300,000 barrels to the United States unlawfully, I might add, 300,000 barrels. You know, when I report how Iran strikes those VLCCs, those very large cruise carriers that are exiting the Strait of Hormuz, which now charge $1.5 million a day, uh, if they are chartered because The risk premium is so high. Those carry 2 million barrels on a VLCC. 300,000 barrels is what, like 10 minutes worth of diesel in the— less, 5 minutes worth of diesel in the United States. And this is what Trump is bragging about. It's the great deal that's going to bring down the price of diesel. No, you're just a great freaking fraud and a Putin bootlicker. And Putin wanted to do this so that he can say, we're partners with the United States, which is what he now says. Our partners in the United States. United States to try to demoralize Ukraine, demoralize Europe, and, uh, continue to strike deep into Ukraine and escalate the catastrophic war there. And folks, as we are days away from the midterms, days away from the midterms, folks, it's right around the corner. This is what Donald Trump was posting all last night after that disastrous speech before the teeny tiny crowd in Ohio.

00:09:39

He was posting photos which purport to be the East Potomac Golf Course where he already unlawfully destroyed oaks and the mature oaks and the maples and the cherry blossoms over there in violation of a court order. And then the Trump DOJ told the federal judge, Judge Reyes, that Donald Trump did not have any official plans to then take over the course and shut it down on November 15th. Then Trump posted, I'm taking it over on November 15th. So there's a lot of emergency hearings going on there, but this is what he's focused on. Golden ballrooms, East Potomac Golf Course. As former President Obama would mock Donald Trump, Obama was like, he's out there doing arts and crafts. What is he doing? Painting little fake gold medallions and posting them to the wall while we're in a catastrophic, never-ending war, while inflation is surging to record highs. He's doing arts and crafts project, folks. What the— Obama's like, you remember when I wore a, a tan suit? And everybody, that was the big national crisis. I remember those days. This is what Trump posted last night. East Potomac Golf Course is highly dangerous, dilapidated, and absolutely disgusting.

00:10:52

Below are new photos of the deplorable conditions of the driving range building, including excrement in the stairwell. The gaping holes in the driving range's protective netting are highly hazardous. Golf balls soar through the holes at high speed and hit unexpected golfers. Including a White House staffer who was sadly hit violently in the chest. Oh, it just so happened that when you went there, a White House staffer was violently hit in the chest. This is Donald Trump's closing message. Men's asses making up fake stories about golf courses. But this also speaks to his broader demented behavior where he's the arsonist. He destroys the golf course. He destroys the East Wing of the White House. He destroys DC. He destroys our foreign policy. He destroys America's alliances abroad. He destroys our economy. He destroys everything. And then he's like, let me fix it. Only I can fix it now. I'm the one. And then he blames the destruction on other people. Only I can fix it. I'm the only one. You're the arsonist. You're the one causing the problems, and you're a freaking sex predator. Yeah, we should just call him out for what he is. He is a sex predator.

00:12:09

He is a felon. He is a piece of shit. He is a liar. He is a criminal. He is a bankruptor. He is a freaking loser. He is pathetic. I mean, you just watch him. Do you watch what his behavior— he is a pathetic freaking loser. And it's time that we just stand up and just call him out and stop normalizing all of this behavior. It was Dr. Bandy Lee who said we have battered nation syndrome when people try to normalize this behavior. Well, you know, that's the Republican— no, no, no, it's not a Republican-Democrat. This guy is a demented traitor. He's a felon. He's a sex predator. He's a heinous, despicable piece of trash. And call him out. Call out these demonic people for what they are. It's not normal politics. This ain't just Democrat-Republican. These are demonic sickos. And by the way, any person who wants to run on the Democratic ticket needs to say on day one, they destroy the Golden Ballroom and all of this stuff on live TV, destroy it extravagantly. And then put the Trumps of the world and the Hegsets, put them in The Hague, have them turn them over for war crimes prosecutions because they're a bunch of freaking war criminals.

00:13:20

What a weird regime they have. This Katie Zakaria, remember the former press secretary who lasted 5 days? She went on Piers Morgan Show last night and this went down. This is real. This went down last night. Play this clip.

00:13:33

Pierce, I will keep private conversations between the president and myself confidential. I will say that what I am doing is what I've always wanted to do.

00:13:44

Katie, he made that comment. That's not what he said.

00:13:46

You asked what I said. You asked what I said, Pierce. That is not what you— that's not what he said on the South Lawn. You asked what I said.

00:13:54

Katie, Katie, come on. Katie, he's told— he's told the entire world what he said to you.

00:13:58

Pierce, I'm not going to mince words or split hairs over this. I will not disclose private conversations that I've had with the president. I will keep fighting for him every single day, no matter how hard the media wants to spin, no matter how hard anchors, pundits, reporters, journals want to spin what he's doing and focus it on me. I will continue fighting for him. I am ruthlessly loyal. I always have been, and I will continue to be, Piers. This interview should not be about me. Listen, I— It should be about the fact that we are less than 5 days away from the midterms. Katie, Katie, sorry, I'm sorry. And I have been able to experience that with him.

00:14:30

Katie, Katie. Katie, Katie, Katie, the whole point of the interview was it was about you. You know that and I know that. So come on, let's cut the crap here and have a serious, genuine conversation. You sounded like a robot. Has Donald Trump got some program plugged into you to make you come out with all this stuff?

00:14:48

What are the Trump propagandists now talking about on state regime media Fox, right? As we're days away from the midterms, as the American people are suffering, What are they talking about? They're attacking Miss Rachel. Play this clip.

00:15:02

Sean, this woman is so bizarre to me, just in every sense of the word. She's 43 years old. She dresses like a child. She wears a headband and bibs. And here she's doing a video in a kiddie voice, but she's talking to people who are of age to vote, I presume. So I don't know why she's talking to them like they are little children. It's weird. It's bizarre. She masquerades as this child entertainer or educator and does these YouTube videos, but she's anything but. She spreads Hamas propaganda. She sits outside of ICE detention detention facilities. She's got a number of friends with very controversial and antisemitic pasts. So this woman is not a child entertainer. She's more than welcome to do whatever she wants to do. We live in a society where we have free speech and you're— you can let your kids watch whatever. But I would say to parents, maybe look at what your kids are watching, because this 43-year-old woman dressed like a child is bizarre in every sense of the word. And I don't know why anybody would want her endorsement. It is so bizarre.

00:15:56

But, you know, former President Obama explained exactly what's going on when he was in Ohio. And he said, you know, they just want to distract you with all of these things and men's asses and Cheesecake Factory and Nicki Minaj and Mike Tyson and this and that. Because if they have to address reality, that— they don't want to talk about that. They want to talk about hypothetical future, how worse it's going to be in the future. They don't want to address the fact that these putrid, disgusting, demonic failures have screwed your lives. They've destroyed our country. They're a bunch of traitors. They're selling our country out while these oligarchs are making billions of dollars and screwing you over. So they want to talk about asses and this and that and, oh, uh, you know, um, I took cognitive exams and this and that, because they want us to go Oh my God, could you believe it? We're not going to talk about— No, we're going to talk about the price of gas, the price of diesel, the fact that you assholes want to put data centers in everybody's backyard, the fact that you all are looting and stealing and inside trading, the fact that you all are covering up the Epstein files, the fact that you're taking our taxpayer dollars and giving it to the Netanyahu regime and you're blowing up little children and freaking committing genocide abroad.

00:17:15

No, we're going to remember what the hell you're actually doing. And we're not going to forget. We're not going to be distracted. We'll call you out for the weird pieces of crap that you are. We'll call you out still. I'm not going to ignore the fact that it's freaking weird that you're talking about men's asses. Like, that's not normal behavior. There was once a time where if a politician spelled potato wrong, that was the end of it. No. So we're going to call out the behavior, but then we're going to quickly focus and say, you know what? They're involved in never-ending wars. Electricity prices are through the roof. Diesel and gas prices are surging. Grocery prices are surging. Take a look right over here. What, uh, JD Vance's message was, oh, is there a mosquito? There's a mosquito. Is that a Chuck Schumer AI mosquito? What are you even saying? Here, play this clip.

00:17:57

I've got a mosquito flying around up here. I don't know if you can see it. I think it's a drone paid for by Chuck Schumer and the Democrats. I didn't know. I didn't know they had that technology, ladies and gentlemen.

00:18:12

And then JD Vance, What else was he saying? Some story about, uh, he blew his hand up with a firecracker and his children and the secrets. Do you even know what the hell this is? What J.D. Vance— this is J.D. Vance's closing message yesterday. Here, play this clip.

00:18:27

See, I still have a giant blister on my finger. People always ask me what it's like to be the vice president of the United States. And I'll tell you a little story because about 3 or 4 days ago, I was hanging out with my kids and My kids, you know, we had— we were playing with fireworks, and my kids said, well, what would happen if you took one of those fireworks and instead of dropping them in the tube, you just kind of let it explode? And what I should have said as their father is, we're not going to find out. But what I did in fact say is, I don't know, let's see. Now, like a good father and a good Marine, I did make sure that my kids were behind a tree very, very far away. But what happened, as kids sometimes do, is one of them popped out from the tree. And so I couldn't just drop it, so I had to make sure they got back behind the tree. And anyway, long story short, I burned the hell out of my finger. It still hurts to this day. And I bumped it on the way out here and I was like, oh man, that— and that was because of that, that burn.

00:19:29

So now normally, the one thing I'll say, a downside about being vice president, is that when you do something stupid like that and you're not vice president, then you just like, you kind of deal with it. Maybe you take some ibuprofen. But because I'm constantly surrounded by people, there were like 35 Secret Service agents and about 25 staffers who knew what a dipshit I was. And they're all coming to me with burn cream and medicine and all these other things. Again, that's the benefit of being the vice president of the United States. But the downside is that I now have 60 people who know, and now I've got about 500 more beyond that who know that I should not be trusted with fireworks. So as much as I love the Marine Corps, ladies and gentlemen, not all of the lessons take. That is, that is the point of that story.

00:20:18

But pay attention because what J.D. Vance was also doing behind the scenes was while Donald Trump was claiming, oh, Iran is begging for a deal. Iran's military's destroyed. I get to decide when this war is over. No, J.D. Vance sent a letter to Mohsen Raisi. Mohsen Raisi, as you now know from watching this network, the top advisor to Ayatollah Mojtaba Khomeini. He's like the head national security chief of Iran. And J.D. Vance is like begging for a deal before the midterms to Mohsen Raisi of Iran. Mohsen Raisi of Iran's like, no, we're not going to do any deal involving denuclearization, or we're not even going to talk about the nuclear file. I mean, Iran's position is, didn't y'all claim that you obliterated our nuclear capabilities last year? Every year it's like an anniversary of re-obliteration. But Iran's position is, we're not talking about nuclear weapons. We're not talking about the nuclear file at all until you agree to our 7 conditions. Then maybe we open up the Strait of Hormuz, but we're not going to exchange anything to talk about the nuclear file. Uh, never talking about that. You want the Strait of Hormuz open?

00:21:26

You admit, you agree to our 7 demands, unfreeze our funds. We control the Strait of Hormuz. Get Israel out of southern Lebanon and other areas. Recognize Palestine as a state. Ceasefire across the region. $300 billion in redevelopment funds. That's what we want. Do it, don't do it. Iran feels like it's in a position of strength right now. And then I'm going to do a video on this in a little bit, but late last night, the Trump regime filed the— Fired a J5, a lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, who— a 3-star who works in the Joint Staff. So he works right under Dan Cain, General Dan Cain, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. This guy, this 3-star who was fired last night by Hegseth, late last night, he's like the top Pentagon planner. So his job is to provide the kind of key advice of military planning to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He replaced another guy who Hegseth fired last year, and then Hegseth started defaming Brett Sylvia, the guy he just fired, and said he was leaking to all of these outlets about Ukraine and Iran, and we're going to prosecute him, and we're going to go after him, and we're going to— we've referred him to the Department of Justice.

00:22:43

This is a 1994 West Point graduate who was basically the main leader representative of the 101st Airborne in Iraq. Um, and then he took over the command of the 101st Airborne. The guy has like the most distinguished career, one of the most distinguished careers imaginable, on his way to being a 4-star general. And this is what the Trump regime did to him. He's like the 26th top 4th 3-star or 4-star general or admiral forced out or fired by the Trump regime in the past year alone. And so when Trump and Hegseth and this whole regime are like, oh, well, you know, Iran doesn't have a military, all of its leaders are quitting, it doesn't know— the Trump regime has fired all of our top 4-star and 3-star generals. So Iran has destroyed all of our military bases. The closest aircraft carrier to Iran's about 1,500 kilometers or 1,000 kilometers away in the Arabian Sea. The US is out of interceptors, out of weapons. At this point, hundreds of billions of dollars have already been spent at the war. Hegseth is lying and claims it's $50 billion. The number's way closer to $200 to $500 billion, cuz the numbers don't even include the damage to the US military bases.

00:24:00

Hegseth is undercounting the deaths as well as the injuries in this war. We know that the injuries are probably in the thousands of traumatic brain injuries that are not actually being, uh, reported. Um, there's no plan. Our generals and admirals are fired. And now you have JD Vance sending a letter to motion razzia from a position of absolute weakness that Iran and the whole world can see. By the way, Iran's President Pahlavi was just in fricking Moscow meeting with Putin, doing more nuclear deals for Iran at the Bushehr plant. And then there's going to be 7 or 8 other plants in Iran that Russia has committed to to as well. You have Rosatom and others, the nuclear energy, uh, corporation in— or company in Russia's agreeing to build out more nuclear plants in Iran right now. And Iran was bragging at this, um, at this enter— at this gas energy export, uh, conference in Russia that they're getting out more gas and more oil through alternative trade routes than they were before. They said, yeah, things are difficult, It's not like the US blockade makes things easy. They're like, we're able to get stuff out.

00:25:11

We're not worried about this at all. While Donald Trump rants and raves like a lunatic. And the closing message I'll show you from the MAGA Republicans in Texas is this ridiculous attack on marginalized communities, on transgender communities, saying, you know what, we have to protect your children from being transgendered in school. We need to save your kids from being transgendered. What do you— what are you talking about? You need to save the kids? Kids aren't being transgendered in school. What the hell does that even mean? They're getting transgendered in school? The hell are these people talking about? It's like a bunch of freaking idiots. It's just like dumb, dumb, hateful people. Transgendered in school? That's not a thing that happens. The hell is wrong with these assholes? Here, play this clip.

00:25:56

And I care about our children. I don't want to see them transgendered at school.

00:26:01

Sorry, as we get closer to the midterm, I curse more involuntarily. I don't like cursing, so I'm just so angry at these people. This is because this isn't a Democrat-Republican— this isn't even a political thing. These people are just freaking demons, and they're liars, and they're weird. How do you even— well, how are you supposed to have a conversation with somebody like Abbott? Oh, they're going to transgender the— what are you supposed to even— how do you even have a normal human interaction? Other than calling these idiots out. By the way, thank you, thank you, thank you. WTF America's number 2 on the New York Times bestseller list, The Way Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy. We hit number 2 on the New York Times list thanks to you. Maybe we'll hit number 1 next week, I don't know. But thank you so much for the support of this book. It means the world to us. So grateful for it. Did you get your copy of WTF America yet? Did you call up the local bookstores? Support independent bookstores also. WTF America: The Way Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy. Thanks everybody.

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump losing it over former President Barack Obama's closing message to the American people. As Obama draws a massive crowd in Georgia, Trump returns to Washington angry after speaking before a tiny crowd in Ohio, unleashing a barrage of rants and posts as the midterms approach.

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