This episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast, hosted by Ben Meiselas, covers a sparsely attended Trump rally in Ohio and a series of the president's recent remarks on foreign and domestic politics. Meiselas reviews Trump's comments on Iran, including his claim that a letter from JD Vance was meant to deliver medical aid, and reports Iran's stated seven conditions before any nuclear talks.
He also examines Trump's response to Flávio Bolsonaro's posts about Brazil's election and his calls for Alaska Senate candidate Mary Peltola to be prosecuted. The host argues these statements are misleading, and listeners will also hear about a Federal Reserve rate decision and reporting on election security concerns.
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Donald Trump is losing it as he just became aware about how small the crowd is in Ohio, where he's going to speak. Look at this venue. It is a teeny tiny high school gym, like a really small basketball court. So Donald Trump was on the tarmac, he was losing his mind, ranting and raving like a lunatic. Also, it became public that Donald Trump directed JD Vance to reach out to the top advisor of Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, Motion Razaei, and basically beg for a deal before the midterms. Please, Motion Razaei, will the Ayatollah do a deal with Donald Trump? Can we just say that you're going to be addressing the nuclear file? And Motion Razaei has said, no, we're not addressing the nuclear file. We don't trust you at all. And we've already destroyed most of the US military bases in the region. And we know that if you were to escalate, you've basically run out of weapons. So with this news surfacing about the J.D. Vance letter to Mohsen Razai, the top advisor to Ayatollah Khamenei, Trump was asked about it. They're saying, well, you're saying you're about to obliterate Iran and destroy them and blow them off the face of the earth or whatever you're saying.
And so you're having J.D. Vance send this letter to them at the same time. And then Donald Trump responds, I kid you not, he goes, no, no, no. We're just trying to help Iran. They need medical supplies and other resources. So I just directed J.D. Vance to, to try to help Iran and get them resources and medical supplies and just help them out a little bit. Literally every word out of Donald Trump's mouth, every sound, every syllable is a complete and utter lie. You're threatening to obliterate the civilization. You've put a blockade as you've said, right by the Strait of Hormuz. It's actually closer, you know, to the Arabian Sea, but you're the reason they don't have medical supplies. And now you're saying you're trying to help them. What are you talking about? Here, play this clip.
Did you direct Vice President Pence to have Iran put its cargo into those vehicles?
No. What that is, is we— they need help with medical supplies and various things. Uh, he asked me what I thought. I said, if you want to do that, that's Okay. Basically, it's getting supplies in to help people that are not well.
So then Donald Trump was asked also, okay, that's a pretty weird freaking answer given everything we know. Have you spoken to Flávio Bolsonaro? Because the loser in the Brazilian election who has now fled to the United States, and your State Department, Donald, helped fly him in a private jet. They were like blocking him with umbrellas. That's how Border Patrol and ICE saw are working for Flávio Bolsonaro, literally covering him and his family up. So have you spoken to him? He, he also— Flávio Bolsonaro just posted on social media that he's the legitimate president-elect, and he will be working in the United States to overthrow the duly elected Brazilian government led by President Lula. Are you aware of this, Donald? Like, what do you know about this? Like, I haven't spoken to him. I don't know anything about it. You don't know anything about the letter that Bolsonaro just posted thanking you and Javier Milei. Watch what this lunatic liar is saying over here. Play this clip.
No, I have not.
More from Donald Trump about Brazil. Donald Trump says, look, let me say this though about Flávio Bolsonaro. He and his family were treated very unfairly, very unfairly. Folks, the through line throughout MAGA and Trump and these Trumpers, they are losers. They huff and they puff and they fraud and they scam. But when you stand up to them, which is what we the people need to do, these people are such cowards and whiners. How are they treated unfairly? There was an election that the Trump regime tried to interfere with in Brazil. Trump and his oligarchs manipulated the algorithms and did every everything they can to bolster Bolsonaro. You threatened economic chaos and turmoil if Bolsonaro wasn't elected. You threw everything and the kitchen sink at this election, election interference like we've never seen, and Lula still won. And you're saying Bolsonaro was treated unfairly? Here, play this clip.
Your position in the election, as you know, but when I see something that's inappropriate, I bring it up. I thought he and his family were treated very unfairly.
Then Trump is asked, well, Flávio Bolsonaro just posted a letter where he declared himself the rightful president. Do you agree with that? Trump's like, I'm not going to get involved. I don't want to get involved in this at all. It's just very strange. You don't want to get involved? You are involved. You are complicit. And this is what I mean, what makes him also so weak. It's like your regime, Trump, just worked with Bolsonaro to help him escape Brazil, flee, and head to Miami where you are protecting him. So now you're too cowardly just to acknowledge that fact? Just acknowledge it. Just own, own it. Own it. If this is what you want to do, the same thing with you and Putin. You know, if you're all in on throwing Ukraine under the bus and throttling Starshield and Starlink and denying Ukraine interceptors, then don't say in Ankara in July, we're going to give you the license Or we're, we're, we're doing our best out. Just admit it. Just say what you are. But they can't because these people are freaking predators. They're sex predators. They're Epstein class. They're disgusting. They're demonic. And this is what they do.
This is their behavior. Watch Trump's answer here. Let's play this clip.
Good governor.
President Trump, Flávio Bolsonaro has declared himself the rightful president of Brazil. Do you agree?
Well, I'm not going to make a comment about that, but I Know that we gave him a pass to come into the country. So we'll see. But I won't get involved. It was a very strange election, that's for sure.
Yeah, Bolsonaro posted that letter just so you can see the letter that he posted. He then deleted it because it said, I am the rightful president-elect. Then he changed it to say, I am the rightful leader. And then there's also getting a little bit in the weeds in Brazil. One of the things that he also posted Um, you know, was the way he described Brazil as the, you know, United States of Brazil. I mean, just the language that he's been using is very, um, you know, it's very bizarre. In any event, Donald Trump is then asked, uh, about Alaska because Donald Trump is obsessed now. He's been post after post where he's saying Mary Peltola, the Democratic candidate from Alaska, needs to be prosecuted. She needs to be thrown in jail. The Alaska election needs to be canceled because there's another person on the ballot named Dan Sullivan. There's Senator Dan Sullivan, who's the incumbent. It says incumbent on the ballot. There's another guy running, a Republican, Dan Sullivan. Then you have Mary Peltola. You know, Alaska is vast in size but doesn't have all that many people. The people of Alaska understand the issues.
This issue has been addressed by the Alaska Supreme Court. But this is Trump. This is like the closing message from Trump. The closing message is he loves men's asses, loved Jon Euston's ass. He's going to check out Jon Euston's ass tonight in Ohio. And Mary Peltola, the Democratic candidate for the Senate seat in Alaska, not only should resign, but she needs to be prosecuted criminally. This is what the president of the United States is saying, a real sicko, and he's a sex predator. Here, play this clip.
And Mary Peltola should resign from the race. I think she should be prosecuted criminally for what she did.
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Mohsen Razai responded and said, look, we, we've reiterated to you over and over again our 7 demands. We control the Strait of Hormuz in Iran. You unfreeze the funds. Israel leaves southern Lebanon. You recognize a Palestinian state. There's a ceasefire throughout the region, and all of the, uh, Axis of Resistance, um, of Iran is, is gets the ceasefire, Iran keeps its weapons, we do all of that, there's a redevelopment fund for Iran, then we can maybe talk about the nuclear file. But until those 7 conditions are met, Mohsen Razai and Araghchi and President Pozhansky of Iran and MB Galibaf, there's nothing to talk about. So Mostafa Najafi, Iranian reporter who knows a lot about this stuff, recovers Iran. He says the US government, and specifically Trump-Vance, are engaged in extensive and intensive efforts through intermediaries Aries to reach an agreement with Iran in the remaining days leading up to the midterm elections. They want to leverage the agreement for the elections and insist that nuclear concessions also be part of the pre-election deal, which Tehran does not accept. Iran says, we will not talk about nuclear. We will not talk about the nuclear file until you agree to all of our preconditions, which were in the MOU.
There's nothing for us to talk about. We are not talking to you about anything about our nuclear capabilities. In fact, What actually happened was you had Iran's President Pahlavi went to Moscow and attended the Gas Exporters Conference and was basically treated as the honorary guest attending this conference with Russia and Qatar and all these other gas exporters. And Russia and Iran did more deals about Russia investing in Iran's nuclear capabilities, not just the Bushehr plant, where there's already a joint venture where Russia says it will increase its staff to 700 people at Bushehr, but they will also develop additional, uh, capabilities at Bushehr and additional nuclear plants throughout Iran. So Iran's actually leaning in more on civilian nuclear, it says, um, and Russia has got its back and China has got it back. Iran insists, again, we're not going to talk about the nuclear file until our 7 conditions are met. And Iran says that that's what we're going to do. And Trump has J.D. Vance write this letter to Mohsen Raisi to try to get this deal before the elections over here. Iran has released this video a little bit earlier showing how they would cut the internet cables and fiber optic cables underneath the Strait of Hormuz and shut down connectivity to data centers and shut down all of the internet in the Middle East if they were attacked again.
This is a video that they just released. Let's play this clip right here.
All stations, shift to high gear now.
Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.
No, no, no! The website won't load! The internet's down!
Come on, why isn't it working?
Nothing's going through, none of the cards.
Then what are we supposed to do?
What the fuck?
Now, I also want to point out that right before Donald Trump left to go to Ohio in front of that tiny gym, the Federal Reserve Board voted to not raise the interest rates. Interest rates have been kept the same at that 3.75 to 4% range. And the reporter was asking, uh, the Fed chair. Um, so, uh, Warsh, Kevin Warsh, Donald Trump had made certain types of statements. Can you respond to the statements? To which Kevin Warsh said, I will not respond to quotes from public officials. You're the President of the United States. Here, play this clip.
Thank you so much. Uh, thank you, Mr. Chairman. James Rosen with Newsmax. You spoke of interrogating reality. Since reality is a no-show here today, I'm going to satisfy myself with interrogating you. You spoke earlier in your remarks here today about how your colleagues are serious and sober people who are committed to price stability. In an event in the Oval Office on October 7th of this year, President Trump said, and I quote, Kevin is great, but Kevin's one vote out of a board with numerous people that were put on by Obama and Biden and a couple by me. So you have a board that would like to see the country do badly, in my opinion. Do you agree with those comments?
So, James, I appreciate the question. I'm not going to be responding to, uh, to quotes from public officials. Um, what I can tell you is my experience in 5 months here. We just came out of a heck of a family fight, a serious, sober discussion. I think we came to, uh, the right policy decision for this moment, and I'm honored to be here and honored to be the chairman of this group.
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