This episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast, hosted by Ben Meiselas, covers Donald Trump's weekend before the midterm elections, including his attacks on Barack Obama and a Reuters reporter. It looks at Republican fears of a bad midterm result, Democratic plans to subpoena his AI chatbot conversations, and the White House's reported push for an Iran deal.
The host also covers Iran's supreme leader warning of a wide military response, North Korea's missile tests, and Canada's trade talks with the United States. Listeners get a running, commentary-heavy account of these stories, with opinions attributed to the speakers.
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Donald Trump's Saturday is plunging into turmoil as the midterms approach. This is the final weekend, folks, before the midterms, and Donald Trump is not handling it well. He keeps on posting memes about former President Obama like this. Life before Obama, there was no ISIS, there was no Black Lives Matter, there was no war on police, there was no Russia hoax, there was no expensive Obamacare, there was no TDS, which Trump says is Trump Derangement Syndrome. And this is what he's posting over and over again this this weekend already. Then he posts a photo of the Reuters reporter who asked him last week, are you not doing any more rallies because you're just sick of traveling? And Donald Trump was like, put yourself in shape. You're a disgusting looking person. Well, Donald Trump is posting photos of him on his social media platform. Trump writes, Reuters, one of the worst reporters. Put yourself in shape. You look like hell. By the way, this is a photo of Donald Trump from the other day. So this is the man berating the Reuters reporter about being overweight. Meanwhile, Donald Trump's former top adviser, Steve Bannon, predicts that Republicans will erupt in a civil war after the November 3rd midterm elections.
According to the Financial Times, the Republicans are facing a blue tsunami, folks. The latest polling data suggests that Democrats lead the generic congressional ballot by at least 8 to 9 points, with the main polling averages showing that. Days before the November 3rd midterm elections. Democrats are forecasted to win both the House by large margins as well as the Senate. We will have live coverage here at the Midas Touch Network on Tuesday. We will have a studio in Washington, D.C., and the midterm coverage at the Midas Touch Network will be hosted by Scott McFarlane and Katie Fang, and I will be hosting it with them as well. Also, Luke Radel will be, uh, joining the team. He's our White House correspondent. As the Democrats prepare to take over the House and launch massive investigations investigations into Donald Trump and his regime's criminality. Top House Democrats are demanding that Donald Trump preserve his conversations with AI chatbots, including Elon Musk's Grok, amid concerns that AI influenced the White House decisions and war strategy, or just the catastrophic wars that have taken place. Congressmember Jamie Raskin and Congressmember Robert Garcia— Raskin will be the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, Garcia will be the chair of the House Oversight Committee— cited reports reports that Donald Trump consulted Grok about Venezuelan reactions to capturing Maduro before ordering US military operations.
They accused Trump of consulting AI rather than Congress on military matters. Preserve all of your chatbot communications, Donald Trump, because the Democrats in the House Oversight and Judiciary will be subpoenaing those queries that you searched. Now, one of the things that the Trump regime is desperately doing this weekend as well is trying to do a deal, any deal with Iran. And here is what the Trump regime officials are leaking to Barak Ravid over at Axios. Barak Ravid posts, one US official said that Donald Trump might be more inclined to order major military operations against Iran if Republicans lose badly in the midterms. If he feels embarrassed or disenfranchised, he will do something bold, do something Bold? You mean he will do more war crimes? He will do something catastrophic and idiotic and apocalyptic? That's what everyone are telling the Iranians. This Trump official told Barack Ravid, their best shot to get a deal is right now. Trust us, Iran. If you do a deal now, things are going to be good. But if you wait until after the election and Donald Trump is humiliated, then things will be bad. How could you believe a word out of the Trump regime's mouth?
I mean, the tactic is something that I wouldn't even expect a 2-year-old to do. I'm going to get very mad at you and things are going to get very bad if you don't help me out now. The bottom line is that if Donald Trump was able to keep control of the House and the Senate, which he's not going to be able to, he'd obviously be more likely to engage in the warmongering and this horrific conduct we've seen without checks and balances. The checks and balances are needed to stop him from his catastrophic behavior. But apparently Donald Trump thinks everybody is as idiotic as him. These videos are being released this morning as well. This is Donald Trump's message before the midterms, apparently after that Daytona Beach event that he had last night. He was speaking with Benny Johnson, and then Donald Trump was asked— right-wing propagandist— and then Donald Trump said, oh, on Ukraine, we're very close to getting a deal. We're very close to getting a deal. And he said, I have never been saying that before. But now we're very close. What do you mean you've never been saying that before? That's all you've said before.
Right around the corner. A deal's right around the corner. When you ran for office in 2024, you said that you would be able to secure peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. That's quite literally all you say.
You mentioned Iran. There's a lot of rumors about the G20 at Trump Doral in December that you might be bringing Russia and Ukraine together, maybe some type of larger peace deal, peace agreement. Can you give us some data?
Well, I think we're getting very close to making a deal there. And I haven't been saying that. I wasn't Saying that initially the hatred was tremendous between the 2 leaders, as you know. But I think there's a real good chance we're going to have that one worked out also. We're working out a lot of deals. All right.
Then Donald Trump attacks former President Obama, you know, and it's all projection about himself. Donald Trump's like, Obama just doesn't understand cleanliness. He doesn't understand quality and cleanliness. I mean, you are a disgusting slob. What are you talking about? And again, you are obsessed with Obama. I mean, the way Obama has triggered Donald Trump and continues to trigger Trump is a sight to behold, especially in the closing days before the midterm elections. Play this clip.
Barack Obama's on the campaign trail. He's going after you. And he said that you've decorated the White House like a Cheesecake Factory, a Saddam Hussein Cheesecake Factory. Any response to Barack Obama?
Well, you know, he doesn't understand, I would say, quality. He doesn't understand cleanliness. He doesn't understand we don't want broken windows in the White House. We don't want broken moldings in the White House. on the exterior especially. And we've made it beautiful again. We've brought it back. And, you know, the White House is a symbol of our country, a very big symbol, maybe the number one symbol in a certain way. And we don't want a White House with cracked stone all over the place, with bad— no paint, with missing paint, missing sidewalks, broken sidewalks, broken stone. No, we've made it beautiful. It's more beautiful than it was in 1792 when it was built. And people get that. People get that.
And then Donald Trump just wants to talk about Nicki Minaj and Nicki Minaj potentially being the press secretary. Play this clip.
Is Nicki Minaj going to be the next press secretary?
That's a good idea. I think I'll have to think about that. I'm going to think about that. How about you? You'd be pretty good too.
Meanwhile, in Iran, they're not like scared of Donald Trump's threats and they're not even paying attention to, you know, the idiotic noise. Iran's Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khomeini issued a written statement today, Meeting of Senior Armed Forces Commanders with the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, which was released. Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khomeini ordered senior military commanders to respond to any threat against Iran with an immediate, impactful, and geographically unrestricted response. The Supreme Leader also ordered the military to put all US and Israeli assets within firing range. The The military target database has been updated comprehensively to ensure that all kinds of physical and non-physical assets of the US Zionist enemy are brought within the reach of the armed forces, Mojtaba Khomeini writes. Iran has previously defined those non-physical assets, including detailed plans to cut the 7 undersea cables in the Gulf, US-linked data centers, AI facilities across the Gulf, as well as liquefied natural gas facilities, liquefied petroleum gas facilities, refineries in the area are all part of Iran's targets. And what has already been struck and destroyed was part of their more limited doctrine. And now they are asserting a more expansive doctrine that if war starts, they're not going to hold back and there will be a catastrophic response in the region.
As I reported earlier this morning, the Trump regime was leaking out that they're planning on striking Iran literally the day after the election. And Iran says if it appears that that's actually going to happen and this preemptive strike is going to take place, we're not going to wait. Should signs of a hostile act by the enemy be confirmed, the Iranian Armed Forces will not wait for the aggression to begin but will immediately determine the timing and manner of retaliation. Armed Forces Chief of Staff Abdul Ali has said. Also, Donald Trump's buddy Kim Jong-un of North Korea said, take a look at our nuclear weapons there, Donald. He was showing off a test this past week. 10 ballistic short-range missiles that were capable of carrying nuclear warheads were tested out. And Kim Jong-un continues to mock the idea of any sanctions against North Korea. A foreign ministry spokesperson from North Korea said sanctions and pressure may work on the weak, but never will they work on us. Let's take a look, by the way, of what Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney said earlier in the day. As you know from our prior reporting, he's been meeting with the European Union Commission president and the European Council president, and they talked about now having Canada as an associate member of the European Union with basically all of the benefits, responsibilities of— or benefits, I should say, of the European Union without actually having to be a formal member because of obviously geography and other factors.
But here's what Prime Minister Carney said when he was asked earlier. So what do you— what's the deal with the current trade negotiations with the United States? Are you willing to wait for the next US president if that's what it takes? Let's listen to what he has to say over here. Let's play it.
So another way of asking it would be, you're willing to wait for the next US president if that's what it takes?
Well, we'll have to if that's what it takes. Yeah. And, you know, and American families, American businesses will also lose out because of that. They're not winners in this circumstance.
And let's check in on what's going on with Donald Trump's invite of Russia's foreign minister. Sergey Lavrov, who's currently in Atlanta as part of the G20 Foreign Ministers Summit. Sergey Lavrov used his speech to say that Poland should not be a permanent member on the G20. So Donald Trump invites Russia's foreign minister to the G20 Foreign Ministry Summit in Atlanta, and then Sergey Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, proceeds to say Poland should not be a member of the G20. Egypt's Foreign Minister, uh, Badr Abdelaziz, said the following about the Iran war: We have to push very hard in order to prevent escalation because we are confident that the second round will be more dangerous, more destructive, and it will lead to nowhere. We have to draw lessons from the past. Military options are not the right solutions. While Donald Trump has basically turned Mar-a-Lago into his own bunker. He's put these Avenger surface-to-air missile trucks that are surrounding Mar-a-Lago right now, just as those trucks follow him when he's playing golf. He's terrified, he's panicked. And folks, the midterm is just a few days away, and I think we will see a very different country after that in a good way.
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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s Saturday plunging into chaos as he lashes out at former President Barack Obama and posts photos of a Reuters reporter he continues to target for public shaming. Meiselas breaks down Trump’s latest attacks as Republicans panic over the prospect of a worst-case scenario with the midterms just days away.
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