Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump's Election Day announcement that the United States would cut aid to Israel, a claim Israeli officials reportedly pushed back on. He also covers Trump's reflecting pool remarks, a closing message involving former FBI deputy director Dan Bongino, and frustrated voters interviewed in Iowa and Arizona.
The episode analyzes early turnout figures in Nevada, Virginia and Florida, compares them with the 2022 midterms, and discusses White House talking points. Listeners also hear criticism of Trump from Republicans and Democrats, including comments from Ron DeSantis about the midterm outlook.
In this episode Ben Meiselas
This episode's transcript on Trump's Israel aid claim and early voter turnout was made with HappyScribe technology, the same technology behind the AI tool that takes meeting notes.
Ads in this audio differ from the text. Tap the sentence you're hearing to follow along.
Synced: the text now follows the audio.
Ab jetzt wird's günstig, und zwar richtig. Flaschenpost ist jetzt größer, günstiger und liefert wie gewohnt bis an deine Haustür. Mit über 4.000 neuen Produkten bekommst du Lebensmittel, Getränke und noch viel mehr für deinen kompletten Wocheneinkauf. Alles so günstig wie nie zuvor. Und noch besser: Spare jetzt mit dem Code SPAR15 ganze 15 € auf deine erste Bestellung. Jetzt App öffnen, riesiges Sortiment entdecken und deinen Einkauf günstig liefern lassen. Flaschenpost.
Black Week Wahnsinn bei Simone Mobile. Sicher dir 12 Monate 99 GB ab supergünstigen 9,99 € oder unglaubliche 999 GB ab 19,99 € monatlich. Und höre deinen Lieblingspodcast unterwegs. Top D-Netzqualität, inklusive 5G, Allnet-Flat und monatlich kündbar. Mit dem Code EXTRA10 gibt's für Neukunden bis zum 13.12.26 zusätzlich 6 Monate lang monatlich 10 GB on top. Mehr unter simon.link/spotify.
Donald Trump's Election Day Stunt just backfired in his face, yet again exposing what a fraud, what a phony, how utterly weak and pathetic that he is. So the Trump regime announced the following breaking news on Election Day: President Trump to cut US aid to Israel after Donald Trump said that he would make a great Prime Minister of Israel and he's got 99% of support in Israel. And after Donald Trump sent multiple aircraft carriers over there and more interceptors to Israel and Donald Trump's given Netanyahu carte blanche authority for genocide on Election Day, Donald Trump says, "We're cutting US aid to Israel," and everybody knows he's lying.
You're just a liar. This is your Election Day freaking gimmick. The Trump war room was pushing it out this morning. Trump and Netanyahu reached an agreement to end annual aid because a strong ally no longer needs American taxpayers footing the bill. We give them more than anybody else, and they don't need it any longer. So state regime media, which calls itself Fox, immediately reached out to the Netanyahu regime. And the Netanyahu regime says, "We have no clue what he's talking about. We are expecting our money to come in exactly when it comes in every year."
We have no clue where this statement came from. Here's what they said on state regime media, which calls itself Fox. Let's play it.
And just to wrap up quickly on that breaking news about the aid to Israel, the Israeli Finance Ministry now reportedly telling local media here that they were entirely unaware of any intention by the US to cancel that 4 billion dollars in aid. So it really is a political and financial earthquake here in the region.
Thank you. We'll watch the follow-up from there.
Then Donald Trump tried to pull yet another gimmick. So he calls up Dan Bongino, the former Deputy Director of the FBI, and Donald Trump says, "Look, you're the perfect guy to carry my closing message." What is it? The reflecting pool. The reflecting pool. But all this did is remind people about the cover-up of the Epstein files because Bongino's entire career was saying that the FBI and the deep state was covering up the Epstein files. Then Bongino became complicit in it all.
So when Trump did this interview this morning talking about the reflecting pool, whatever he was ranting and raving about like a freaking lunatic, everyone's like, "Yeah, the Epstein files. You two are part of the group covering this all up. You're the leaders. You're the ring leaders covering it all up," was what people were saying. Here, play this clip.
Situation, actually. But Washington has never looked as good. We fixed 83. We had a news conference on it yesterday. The reflecting pool is gorgeous. We opened up 83.
Then state regime media, Fox, they were talking to Trump and they're like, "Wait, what? You want to cut off aid to Israel? Weren't you Netanyahu's guy? What are you even talking about right there?" And then Donald Trump's like, "I can't. Abdul is using it against us. So I've got to say it. I've got to say it." Here's what Donald Trump said. Let's play it.
Mr. President, I just want to clarify something you said earlier. When it comes to Israel aid, we understand we've cut off aid to Israel. We weren't giving them 4 billion, and you're no longer going to be giving them 4 billion.
We were giving them 4 billion. We are, but it gets cut off at the end of the year.
Why?
Why? Because they don't need it, Brian. I mean, I asked them because they don't need it. And because why should we suffer the slings from lunatics like an El-Sayyad when they don't need it? It's a bad talking point because you say, "Why don't we give everybody 4 billion dollars?" Israel's our number one. We give them more than anybody else. And they no longer need it. We've been doing it for years. I've been doing it. But Israel is a very thriving country. They don't need it. If they did need it, I would say keep it going.
But Bibi Netanyahu, we reached an agreement on that. And can I be honest with you? He brought it up. He brought it up. He said, "I think it would be appropriate if we do not receive aid." Because he understands that this is one of their points of contention. Israel's been a great ally, much more reliable than most. I mean, look what happened with Europe, although they did give me Greenland for the United States. When I say give it to me.
Can I just ask again?
Now let me share with you what voters are saying. Here's what a former Iowa Trump voter had to say. Play this clip.
Does America feel great again?
No. No, no. It doesn't. And I feel lied to.
You feel lied to by President Trump?
Oh, yeah. Yes, very much.
Why?
Because I expected that the economy would be doing a lot better at this point, and it's not. I don't think that the tariffs were good for anybody.
Here is what another Iowa voter who voted Republican every year since he was 18 years old. Here's what he had to say. Play this clip.
I am so fed up with the way things are going. I really think we need a change due to medical reasons. I have to, you know, I can't work no more. But they just slam us every which way. And this economy, we're slammed. And then they closed the rural hospitals all with this big, beautiful bill. I voted Republican since I was 18 years old. This year I voted for every Democrat. If there was one under a rock, I'd vote for them today.
Here is what an Arizona voter had to say. Let's play this clip.
How would you describe how you're feeling about the election?
Optimistic, then.
Wow. Okay, why?
Well, I think that so many people are so fed up with the Trump administration for a variety of reasons.
Ever notice how you don't think much about your credit until someone else is checking it? You fill out the application, they start running your credit, and suddenly you're thinking, "I hope everything's okay." Hope isn't much of a credit strategy because by the time someone else is checking your credit, it's too late to do anything about it. That's why I like Smart Credit. It doesn't just show you your credit score, it helps you understand it. You'll see your full credit picture, what's helping your score, what's holding it back, and get personalized actions like Smart Credit's best paydown date so you know what to do to help maximize your score.
Because hope won't change your credit, understanding it will. In fact, Smart Credit users average a 34-plus point increase in just 30 days. Don't wait until someone else is checking your credit. Walk into your next application knowing where you stand. Start with Smart Credit today. Go to smartcredit.com/mitas and try it for just $1 for seven days. That's smartcredit.com/mitas. Results vary. Cancel anytime.
And folks, we're getting some of these early turnout numbers, and it is awful for MAGA Republicans right now. You take a look at Nevada's Election Day turnout update, where Democrats are now narrowly leading in Clark County Election Day voting, which would be a major reversal of the 2022 midterms when Republicans won the Clark County Election Day vote by 15 points. Democrats were huge with early voting, but Democrats usually sluggish on Election Day voting.
But Democrats right now doing incredible on Election Day voting. They are also in Virginia. Election Day turnout update. Democrats are leading in turnout rates there by about 10% as of noon. This is on top of the Democratic lead in early voting. You also take a look at what's going on in Florida, for example. There's currently no Republican Election Day surge making up for their decline in early voting. And what we're paying attention to is that while Republican by percentage is doing where it's done somewhat in the past on Election Day, in terms of quantity, they are nowhere near where they previously were, while Democrats and Independents came out strong during the early voting.
And so we're focused there. And you have a lot of Republicans in Florida sounding the alarm. G. Elliott-Morris says, "Have been writing this for weeks with early vote data." Big, big turnout problem for Republicans everywhere you look today. Zoom in, for example, in Florida, Orange County. Take a look at this. Orange County, which is Orlando. Use that as an example, as Tom Bonnier did. Democrats performed so well in the early vote that Republicans needed a massive Election Day tsunami just to get close to their 2024 numbers.
They're not there yet. You take a look at Arizona, and you're looking at turnout in Arizona amongst the MAGA Republicans very much under 2022. Sluggish, slow, and unenthusiastic electorate over there. We're paying close attention. Meanwhile, Axios has the White House Election Day talking points that Donald Trump leaked. Trump often uses Axios as his stenographer. So here's what they're saying. The White House circulated Election Day talking points praising Trump's campaign efforts as Republicans brace for potentially disappointing midterm results.
The document claims that the regime has had the most successful two years in American history. It labels Democrats Democrats, frames the election as common sense versus communists, and urges supporters stop the communists and jihadists. Go vote. That's one of the main messages of the despicable, disgusting sex predator covering-upping Trump regime for you over there. Speaking of, RNC Chair Joe Grutters, who's part of the Republican protection racket, in my opinion, perhaps your opinion as well, he said, "This is the president's party.
This is the president's party." Never forget that this is his movement. Here, play this clip.
Don't forget. This is the president's party. This is the president's movement. He has built something. He is going to have a larger-than-life presence as it comes to what happens in 2028. His policies is issues. We're going.
By the way, I found it fascinating that Hunter Biden did some interviews this morning as well, where he was slamming Donald Trump for losing to Joe Biden back in 2020 by about 8 million votes. And Hunter Biden says, "We can do this, people. This guy, this loser, Donald Trump, this scumbag Donald Trump, this sex predator Donald Trump, this felon Donald Trump, he lost to my dad by 8 million votes. We could beat this guy." Listen to what Hunter has to say. Play this clip.
That in 2020, my dad beat Donald Trump by 8 million votes. And I know in 2024 that he was not on the ticket. Regardless of what anybody thinks about whether or not he would have won or not, I think that Donald Trump and his brand of politics has become this almost what we believe in our minds is somehow some unstoppable force. I believe it's stoppable. I believe that people have been fed an enormous amount of disinformation through their social media and through their media sources.
And I think that the reason for that is that it's controlled by a very few number of people. And.
And where's Hunter? He's right over here saying that Donald Trump is a complete and utter racist pig. Let's play it.
Another example that Donald Trump is a complete and utter racist pig. That's what I think. I think that he is an Islamophobe. I think that he is a racist through and through. And I don't need to say that as if it is a conjecture on my part. There you have the evidence of it. I mean, because his name is Abdul Mohammed El-Sayyed, he therefore needs to go through a medical detector. Why? What is it? What are the things that would require that of someone that is running for the United States Senate that was born in Michigan, other than the fact that he's Muslim?
And I think that that is I hope we are done with this BS in American politics. Call it what it is. He is an Islamophobic racist pig.
You also heard from Republican John Bolton, who says, "Let's be honest, Donald Trump really isn't even a Republican." Play this clip.
No, he has used the party for his own purposes, but philosophically, I don't think he's a Republican. His administration has taken equity stakes in major American corporations. The only people who support that elsewhere in the country are Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and the Democratic Party, the Democratic Socialist of America. There's a long list of things like this, including in particular, the tariffs, which are a tax increase on Americans. I think the whole Trump tariff policy violates decades of basic Republican principles.
So I think Trump used the Republican Party as a vehicle. It was useful to him. He took advantage of it. He took advantage of many members of Congress, many of the big donors to the party.
And then John Bolton trashes Donald Trump's catastrophic war in Iran and says, "Trump doesn't know what his strategic objective is at all." There is no strategic objective. It's just Trump doing things. Like he doesn't even know what the hell he's doing. Here, let's play this clip.
Between and neither does he. He doesn't have a strategic objective in the Gulf. And that's been the problem in his conduct of the war since the very beginning. He doesn't know what he wants.
By the way, Bolton was Donald Trump's former national security advisor, I might add. Marjorie Taylor Greene seizing on Donald Trump's post about cutting off aid to Israel, which we all know is bogus and false and just another fraudulent gimmick by Donald Trump. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was pushed out of MAGA because she wanted Donald Trump to release the Epstein files, and Trump says, "You're going to hurt really powerful people who are involved in the sex trafficking ring, Marjorie, if I release their names." She was purged from MAGA. She's also called for a cutting off of aid to Israel. And here's what she said.
So this morning on Election Day, Trump goes on Fox and announces he's going to stop $4 billion per year in aid to Israel. Last year, when my amendment to strip funding to Israel failed in the House because only six members of Congress, including myself, voted for it, I was labeled an anti-Semite. Amazing how being on the verge of Republicans getting wiped out in the midterms changes hearts and minds. Reality is Israel is financially rich with state-funded healthcare and college, while Americans are financially suffering with $40 trillion in national debt.
And the majority of Americans are furious our taxpayer dollars and military weapons have been used to kill 22,000 children in Gaza. Trump getting permission from Netanyahu to end annual aid to Israel isn't going to change today's election results, nor is it going to end the war with Iran or stop Israel from murdering innocent Palestinians. As I noted earlier, there have been more of these clips trickling in of Republican Governor from Florida, Ron DeSantis, beginning his tour, where he's clearly going to be running for president on the Republican ticket, trashing the Trump regime and already predicting doom for Trump and MAGA Republicans in the midterms.
Here's what DeSantis says. "About every time people go to the gas pump, they're reminded about how bad this is." Play it. Think about some of the issues people care about. Every time they go to the gas pump, they're reminded the gas is higher. A lot of people didn't like the Iran conflict. They didn't want to see that resolved. You also have other things that have happened with general inflation. DC is a total mess. And so our candidates are running into the wind on that, and the Democrats have more momentum. More from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over here, who says, "I can tell you Trump's been advised that this catastrophic war has destroyed his presidency.
It's on him now." Here, play this clip. To a conclusion. Because I can tell you he's been advised, and I think you've probably seen the reports where there are people who have told him this is going to drag on for the rest of his presidency. If it drags on for the rest of his presidency, it's going to be devastating to his ability to get anything done, and it is going to be very, very difficult for Republicans in the next cycle. There you have it, everybody. Donald Trump's gimmicks backfiring, his stunts backfiring in his face. Question for you. Did you get WTF America? The way out of this hell and back to democracy, the book I wrote with my brother is currently number two on the New York Times bestseller list.
Let's get it to number one, folks. We talk about the globalist authoritarian network for which Trump is a member of and how they are working globally to destroy elections and how we fight back against that beyond a specific election cycle. I think you'll like the book. Thanks for watching. MidasTouch election coverage begins at 4:30 Eastern Time, 1:30 Pacific Time. Then we'll be live for the rest of the night. Scott McFarland and Katie Fang will take over for me a few hours into the coverage, and we will have live coverage from our studio in Washington, DC.
I'm Ben Mysellis from the MidasTouch Network. Thanks for watching. One book, a whole lot of WTF. My brothers and I wrote WTF America about how we got into this mess, the millions of you who refuse to back down, and how we get out. Scan the QR code, click the link in the description, or find it anywhere books are sold and order today. Ab jetzt wird's günstig, und zwar richtig. Flaschenpost ist jetzt größer, günstiger und liefert wie gewohnt bis an deine Haustür.
Mit über 4.000 neuen Produkten bekommst du Lebensmittel, Getränke und noch viel mehr für deinen kompletten Wocheneinkauf. Alles so günstig wie nie zuvor. Und noch besser: Spare jetzt mit dem Code SPAR15 ganze 15 Euro auf deine erste Bestellung. Jetzt App öffnen, riesiges Sortiment entdecken und deinen Einkauf günstig liefern lassen. Flaschenpost.
Hallo? Dein Rücken hier. Mir reicht's. Noch länger sitzen und ich streike. Du kannst dir jetzt gut tun. Mit der App TK-Coach sofort in Bewegung kommen. Viel besser. Auch für Nicht-TK-Kunden vier Wochen kostenlos. Die Techniker. Immer besser. Für dich.
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s Election Day stunt backfiring as Israeli officials push back on his sudden claim about cutting off aid to Israel after his unwavering support for Netanyahu. Meiselas breaks down Trump’s desperate messaging and analyzes the early voter turnout numbers.
Order the new book from MeidasTouch, WTF America?!: The Way Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy, today: https://bit.ly/wtfamericayoutube
Visit https://meidasplus.com for more!
Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts:
https://meidasnews.com/podcast
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices