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1:00Welcome to Ben on Breaking News.
1:02I'm Ben Micellis, and this is Breaking News.
1:05Breaking moments ago, Donald Trump was aboard Air Force One, and he wished the former
1:11Prince Andrews, never a prince at all, Andrew Montpeton.
1:15He goes, basically what Trump used to say about Ghislaine Maxwell.
1:17I wish her well, Donald Trump said about Andrew and the royal family.
1:22I feel bad for them.
1:24I feel so bad for what they're going through.
1:28It's very tough. It's very tough.
1:30How about the survivors? How about you feel bad for the survivors?
1:34How about that? Here's what Donald Trump said moments ago aboard Air Force One.
1:37Let's play it. That was not a good one, Peter.
1:40What do you think? I got a question about something big.
1:42Overseas today, the former Prince Andrews, arrested by the police there, related to something with
1:49Jeffrey Epstein. Do you think people in this country at some point, associates of Jeffrey
1:54Epstein, will wind up in handcuffs too?
1:57Well, you know, I'm the expert in a way because I've been totally exonerated.
2:01That's very nice. I can actually speak about it very nicely.
2:04I think it's a shame.
2:05I think it's very sad.
2:06I think it's so bad for the royal family.
2:09It's a very, very sad.
2:10To me, it's a very sad thing.
2:12When I see that, it's a very sad thing to see it and to see
2:15what's going on with his brother, who's obviously coming to our country very soon, and
2:20he's a fantastic man, the king.
2:23So I think it's a very sad thing.
2:25It's really interesting because nobody used to speak about Epstein when he was alive, but
2:29now they speak. But I'm the one that can talk about it because I've been
2:33totally exonerated. I did nothing.
2:34In fact, the opposite. He said he was against me.
2:36He was fighting me in the election, which I just found out through the last
2:40three million pages of documents.
2:43Yeah, please. Yeah. He said today on Iran, bad things will happen.
2:47Oh, that's interesting because we learned in the documents that dropped that your name appears
2:52over 38 ,000 times in some of the most disgusting and grotesque ways.
2:57We've learned that there's potentially 50 terabytes more of documents that have not yet been
3:04produced, potentially hundreds of millions of documents, and that your name appears millions of times
3:09purportedly on some of these other documents as well.
3:13We've seen very serious allegations that were leveled against you, but were never, ever investigated.
3:19We know that one of the accusers as well was interviewed by the FBI on
3:24four separate occasions. Now, Roger Sullenberger did a great reporting on that as well.
3:30Well, we know that, remember the handwriting expert that the FBI sent the Jeffrey Epstein
3:39letter where Epstein sent a letter to Larry Nassar, convicted sex offender Larry Nassar, and
3:48then they talked, and in the letter, Epstein was like saying, you know, all these
3:52things about Donald Trump as well, and remember how the FBI was like, oh, well,
3:58we hereby declare, the Midas Touch was the first to report that, by the way.
4:02I'll just read you what the letter says.
4:04This was from Epstein to Larry Nassar, and this was right around Epstein's death, which
4:09we know by now was likely almost certainly not by suicide.
4:13Dear L .N. Larry Nassar, as you know by now, I've taken the short route
4:17home Good luck, we shared one thing, our love of caring for young ladies at
4:21the hope they'd reach their full potential.
4:24Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls.
4:27When a young beauty walked by, he loved to grab snatch, whereas we ended up
4:32snatching grub in the mess halls of the system.
4:35Life is unfair. Yours, Jay Epstein.
4:38And this letter was then returned to sender.
4:42We actually have the FBI report now, and the forensics were actually inconclusive.
4:49Meaningful handwriting comparisons could not be conducted between question items four and five.
4:55Isn't that the thing with all the Epstein files?
4:57When it came to what the CIA said in response to public records requests from
5:02Epstein, or the National Security Advisors team said in response to public records requests, we
5:10can either confirm nor deny.
5:11we can't produce anything because information may be classified.
5:15We can't turn anything over, but you certainly, Donald, were not exonerated by those files.
5:20I mean, do you realize how insane you sound?
5:24You probably don't because you are walking insanity.
5:28But when you say you are exonerated by those files, I mean, those files that
5:33were produced could not be more damaging.
5:36Or how about by your own words that Donald Trump has said he grabs women
5:43by their genitals because he's rich and you get away with it.
5:47He's on tape saying those words and that he inspects girls naked at his beauty
5:53pageants. Because when you run the beauty pageants, you get to be the inspector and
5:57non -consensually sexually assault and harass girls apparently is what Donald Trump's despicable of things
6:03like that for you to say those things.
6:07I mean, those are things that you've said.
6:08You've said the most disgusting thing about your own daughter.
6:11We have you on tape saying these things.
6:14You've been found civilly liable for sexual assault.
6:17But I digress. You know, yesterday, of course, you know by now, Les Wexner was
6:21deposed, 88 years old now.
6:23He was the guy who was basically the money man for Epstein.
6:27He apparently gave Epstein a billion dollars.
6:32Doesn't know why he did it.
6:33Like, we'll post his full deposition here on the Midas Dutch Network.
6:37You should watch this deposition.
6:39I watched the full five hours.
6:41The guy's like, well, why'd you give him five billion dollars?
6:44Like, why? Why'd you give him a billion dollars?
6:46Like, why would you do that?
6:49You know, he tricked me.
6:50He was very cunning. So you gave him a billion dollars.
6:53Why would you have a guy who's not a money manager?
6:56Be your money manager and run all of your money when he never had that?
7:01He's very tricky. He's a very, very tricky guy.
7:05Did you see Donald Trump and Epstein in rooms together?
7:09Maybe. Maybe. Like at the Victoria's Secret events that I ran and Wexner's company was
7:17the parent company of Victoria's Secret.
7:19Maybe I did. I don't know.
7:21I don't know. I don't know this.
7:23I don't recall this. By the way, not a single Republican Congress member showed up
7:29to Les Wexner's deposition. Not a one.
7:34Just think about that. They were too busy.
7:38They didn't want to even give credence to it.
7:41So none of them showed up.
7:42They've been ordered by Trump and MAGA Mike.
7:45Do not pursue this investigation.
7:48As I said before, there shouldn't be a Democrat, Republican, independent issue.
7:51There are so many issues right now that we've been fraudulently led to believe are
7:58political issues when they're moral issues.
8:01And I think the American people are waking up to that.
8:04The coverup of this child sex trafficking, that should not be a political issue.
8:10It should not be. It is a moral, ethical crimes against humanity issue.
8:15Which, by the way, independent experts at the United Nations are calling what they've seen
8:19in the Epstein files, crimes against humanity.
8:22But I didn't need experts to tell me that.
8:24I read it. You've read it.
8:26We've all looked at it.
8:28We've discussed the files. And it's disgusting what's taking place.
8:33Disgusting. And it's disgusting that Republicans are saying, we don't care about this.
8:38And that Trump's saying he feels bad for the royal family.
8:42But that's just in keeping with who he is.
8:46He cares about royalty while royally screwing over everybody else.
8:51Yeah, that's Andrew. That's that crook right there.
8:54That's that despicable sicko who had everything in life.
8:59Had all of the drapings or whatever of wealth and success and had it all
9:09handed to him, just like Donald, on a silver platter and utilized it to do
9:18sick things to little girls.
9:21It's going to be despicable.
9:24Despicable people. Anyway, a deposition yesterday of Les Wexner.
9:29No Republican showed up. Congress member Garcia, Robert Garcia is the ranking Democratic member from
9:37the House Oversight Committee. The Democrats showed up.
9:40And I'm not saying that in a political way.
9:41They they literally showed up.
9:43They were there asking questions because they're taking this investigation seriously.
9:48And again, I know you watching this, regardless of what political party you're from, you're
9:52taking this seriously. This is serious stuff.
9:55Well, here's what Garcia had to say here.
9:58Play this clip. It's about a billion dollars that was either transferred, provided in stocks
10:04or given directly to Mr.
10:07Epstein by Wexner. We should be very clear that the two were very close per
10:15reporting. They spent a lot of time together.
10:19He, Mr. Wexner admitted that he traveled to both Epstein's island as well as his
10:24other properties. Mr. Wexner also admitted that Jeffrey Epstein had access to a lot of
10:32Mr. Wexner's wealth. And when asked even simple questions, even as it relates to Mr.
10:39Epstein. Being the co -president of the foundation that established the area that we're in
10:45today, Mr. Wexner had little to say.
10:49In fact, it's clear that Mr.
10:50Wexner is trying to downplay how close Jeffrey Epstein and Mr.
10:57Wexner actually were. And we should be very clear that there would be no Epstein
11:02Island, there'd be no Epstein plane, there'd be no money to traffic women and girls,
11:09Mr. Epstein would not be the wealthy man he was without the support of Les
11:16Wexner. I think it's very important for us to note at this moment.
11:21I think it's also important to note what the hell is going on with that
11:26New Mexico ranch of Epstein, Zorro Ranch, as it was called.
11:31Now it's called San Rafael.
11:33It was purchased by a big Trump supporter back in 2023 using an LLC to
11:42purchase it. The Trump supporter is someone by the name of Don Huffines.
11:46He's a former Texas state senator, someone who went to Moscow in 2018 to try
11:52to improve relations with Vladimir Putin back then.
11:55Don Huffines' son, Russell Huffines, works in the Trump administration in a pretty significant position
12:03there. The Huffines made their money a few generations back in the automobile industry.
12:09Their great -grandfather opened up one of the first auto dealerships in the area.
12:15This family comes from a lot of money.
12:17They decided to buy Epstein's property back in 2023.
12:22We've seen from the Epstein files allegations that there are bodies buried there.
12:29Just allegations, but there are bodies buried there.
12:32We know that that was the site of torture, of trafficking by Epstein and Ghislaine.
12:41But that site was never subject to subpoena or search warrants or any investigation by
12:47the feds. When the local New Mexico attorney general's office said they were going to
12:51be investigating it, the feds said, don't do it shortly after or right around the
12:58arrest of Epstein and then shortly after Epstein died.
13:03So fortunately now, I guess, better late than never, but sometimes late is a problem
13:09and is fatal. But there's a truth commission that was just launched by the New
13:14Mexico legislature, a unanimous vote to create this truth commission.
13:19So they want to start investigating the Zorro ranch, Epstein's ranch that Epstein had from
13:251993 until the time of his death.
13:28He would fly in there with helicopter, with young girls, who he said were masseuses.
13:34There needs to be an investigation there.
13:36There is an investigation there.
13:38But now we learn from the owner of the new owner of the Zorro ranch,
13:44Don Huffines, that the property, it's already under construction, y 'all.
13:51It's already under construction. They're going to turn it into a children's Christian retreat.
13:56They're turning Zorro ranch into a Christian retreat for children.
14:01So there's already bulldozers. And what do you know?
14:06What do you know, folks?
14:08Don't trust me. Listen to Don Huffines with Matt Gaetz.
14:13Yeah, Matt Gaetz. Interview Don Huffines.
14:18Gates, who was found by the House Ethics Committee to more likely than not have
14:24engaged in underage sex, is interviewing Huffines about turning Epstein's ranch into a Christian retreat
14:37for children. Play the clip.
14:42Now, you have plans to take something evil and bring it into goodness, bring it
14:47into light and positivity. Tell us about that plan.
14:50Well, of course. That is the main reason I bought the property.
14:55This was obviously a dark place.
14:57And we wanted to put light in a dark place.
15:00It always shines the brightest when you do that.
15:02My faith is so strong in Jesus, and it really is.
15:07And I'm going to make this.
15:08The plan all along is to make this property into a Christian retreat.
15:12As a matter of fact, it's under construction today.
15:15And that's our goal. That's why we named it St.
15:18Raphael. We named St. Raphael, as you probably know, an archangel.
15:24And what he does and helps people with is healing and being the healer and
15:32also blessing those that are traveling.
15:34And we think that's really germane to this property.
15:38Yeah, I bought the property because I said, let me find the worst location for
15:43that sex trafficking. Let me find it.
15:45And I said, find me the worst location.
15:48And I bought it because I wanted to turn it into place for the kiddies,
15:54for the retreat, for God.
15:56I called St. Raphael, Jesus.
15:59I did this for Jesus.
16:00In other words, I'm, this is Jesus and the archangel, St.
16:05Raphael, you may not know, St.
16:06Raphael. by L. Matt Gaetz.
16:08And Matt Gaetz, you're the perfect person for me to be talking to about this.
16:11Matty, you understand what I'm doing here?
16:14I said, how do I turn Epstein's or?
16:18And you know what? I wanted to do it in such a way that I
16:22created a shell vehicle called San Rafael LLC.
16:26And you see, I purchased it with an LLC because I, of course, wanted everybody
16:30to know that it was me.
16:32Otherwise, I did that. And then I said, how are we going to make it?
16:35How can we get more children there?
16:37And it's under construction today.
16:38And I'm doing interviews now about it today.
16:41On the same day that they announced the Truth Commission, it's under construction now.
16:45And they're bulldozers. San Rafael, Jesus, Jesus, amen, amen.
16:52I mean, like, they just think we're stupid.
16:56That's the thing to me, is that these people, like, literally think you're dumb and
17:02that we're dumb. Like, that's what, that's one of the things that, like, you think
17:06we, you think you're smart.
17:08Like, they think that they're smart right there.
17:10Like, they, you got me.
17:12Okay. You're doing it for the kiddos.
17:15You're building a Christian retreat.
17:17I'm, we're sure about that.
17:19Like, you just think we're stupid.
17:22And they treat us like we're stupid.
17:24They enact policies that destroy us because they think we're stupid.
17:30And you know what? They've convinced a lot of people to vote for this crap.
17:35And maybe they believe, you see, I guess, you know, I guess if we get
17:38them to vote for us, let's just keep on doing this over and over and
17:41over and over again. Not, not that way anymore.
17:45People are waking up. People are waking up to this crap.
17:51What is that? I, you know, it's just interesting, right?
17:54Because you have Andrew getting arrested.
17:58Good, right? They did what, you know, Trump should get arrested.
18:02I mean, Trump should be thrown in jail.
18:04All these people, you know, in my opinion, Howard Lutnick should be investigated.
18:08This, this whole cabal is in the, is in our freaking white house.
18:11These leeches, these rodents, these, these sickos are in the white house.
18:17And I'm not, not I'm saying in a political way.
18:19I mean, the cabal is in, it's objective, undisputed.
18:23They're in the, they're in the oval office.
18:25Like literally pedo protectors, sick, sick, sick people.
18:31I don't even, frankly, I don't even know how a new administrator, like, I don't
18:35even know how you go into like, like the white house is basically the Zorro
18:39ranch, right? Like, I don't know.
18:43You become the next president.
18:45If I were to run for president and I weren't, what am I going to?
18:48And I, and I won in 2028.
18:50I would not want to, I don't think I'd want to be in the white
18:54house. Like I, I would, I would, I think I would need six months of
19:01fumigation of, of, of a lot of things that need to go down before I
19:09would feel comfortable living in that gross and disgusting cesspool.
19:13Like, I think that that's just mad, but so in the United States, our Supreme
19:20court creates a made up fake doctrine.
19:23It's not in the constitution called absolute immunity to protect Donald Trump because we have
19:29a right -wing fascist Supreme court.
19:33Our entire constitution was created.
19:35Created as a rejection of absolute immunity.
19:41It was a response to monarchy saying, we don't want Kings.
19:46So if you want to approach this from an originalist interpretation, a strict textualist interpretation,
19:55whatever framework you want to build to try to analyze the constitution, it was no
20:02Kings. That's the main theme of our declaration of independence to our constitution for our
20:08nation's founding is no absolute immunity.
20:10But my point is even where there are Kings, even in the UK where there,
20:17where there's a Royal family, they don't have the doctrine that our Supreme court created
20:23to help Donald Trump. Just think about that.
20:27Even in the UK, they're like, you know what?
20:29You're no longer a prince.
20:33You're just Andrew and you get arrested.
20:37Show the photo of Andrew one more time there, Jeremy, so we can see what
20:41Andrew looks like. Yeah. That's what Trump should look like.
20:45That's what Howard Lutnick should look like.
20:49That's what Pam Bondi should look like.
20:52That's what Pete Hegseth should look like.
20:56That's what RFK Jr. should look like.
21:01Instead, do we have this photo of Hegseth and Dr.
21:05Oz? They're on a, they're on a play date.
21:08They're on a play date today, everybody.
21:11As, as the United States is very close to war with Iran, they're climbing trees,
21:15everybody. Here's Dr. Oz and Pete Hegseth on their play date.
21:20They're posting these photos of them.
21:22As we have two aircraft carrier groups right by Iran.
21:28For those who are listening just on audio, I'm showing you the visual right now
21:32of the amount of American.
21:34American forces that are in an armada right now.
21:39No, no one's making the case to the American people why we should be in
21:43war with Iran, why a long -term war with them is in our interest.
21:47It isn't. Donald Trump did promise he was going to help the protesters.
21:53Remember when he said that go out, protest, keep protesting.
21:57I got your back. Well, you didn't have their back.
21:59So that's done. They all got massacred.
22:02Thousands of protesters got massacred.
22:04Then you bragged about stopping a hanging of 800 protesters.
22:09There's nothing to brag about.
22:10I stopped the hanging of 800.
22:12Good. But you caused thousands to be killed.
22:16But I guess our media is too busy reporting on the fact that Donald Trump
22:20directly led to the deaths of thousands of Iranians who he told to go out
22:25and protest. And he's saying he's got their back.
22:28They've been massacred. And now, months later, we have an armada off the coast of
22:34Iran to put our own troops now in peril, to put American lives and treasury
22:40at risk, and treasury and lives of the others in the region at risk.
22:46This is what we're going with.
22:50But I digress. South Korea, their former insurrectionist president, sentenced to life in prison today.
22:58Life. Life. That's how they deal with it in countries.
23:02When you have insurrections, they don't invent absolute immunity doctrines.
23:08Okay? They throw you in prison, just like Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil.
23:14Prison for 27 years, as Scott Shapiro goes.
23:17In UK, Prince Andrew arrested.
23:19South Korea, former president, sentenced for life.
23:22In Brazil, former president, Jair Bolsonaro, serving a 20 -year sentence, 27 -year sentence.
23:29In the United States, Donald Trump sues the government for $10 billion, and the taxpayers
23:35have to fork over $10 billion to Donald Trump for filing a frivolous lawsuit against
23:42his own IRS. He builds golden ballrooms.
23:46It just goes to show you that our country is sick.
23:51And it is the Epstein class on the Supreme Court.
23:55Epstein class. I mean, just think about the corruption there.
23:59Right? Those right -wing Supreme Court justices flying around the country on private jets and
24:06yachts and all of these trips, getting millions of dollars from Epstein class.
24:10People were paying them to make rulings, to make rulings.
24:16And again, they dress themselves up and they act like they're superior to us and
24:22they lecture us in originalism and strict contextualism and states' rights and the unitary executive
24:33theory. And then at the end of the day, they hoist up a stupider version
24:38of Kim Jong -un here in the United States, who's covering up a child sex
24:44trafficking ring and who has very, very serious allegations being leveled against him in those
24:52files that seem to have never been investigated.
24:55South Korea did what it needed to do.
24:57Brazil did what it needed to do.
25:01In the UK, they're doing what they need to do when it comes to Andrew.
25:08You have commissions being set up and everywhere from Poland to you name it.
25:14But here in the United States, you heard from Trump.
25:17He goes, I've been vindicated.
25:19I've been vindicated. I've been vindicated.
25:21Dude, you are an idiot.
25:23You are a felon. Like, why do we listen to this guy?
25:27I mean, take a step back.
25:29Like, this guy is a felon.
25:33He's been adjudicated to be a felon.
25:37He is a fraud. He's been adjudicated to be a fraud.
25:41He's a sexual predator by the courts.
25:45Not me being hyperbolic. A federal civil jury heard the case where Trump was too
25:53scared to testify. Could have testified.
25:56Tough guy. Could have testified.
25:58Tough guy. You didn't. And he was found civilly liable in a unanimous jury.
26:06And you know what Trump's response was?
26:11At least the jury didn't make a finding that it was his penis.
26:17That was Trump's actual response to a verdict, finding him civilly liable of sexual assault.
26:24But it wasn't his penis.
26:25It was his finger. Right?
26:27And you go, well, Ben, what are you talking about?
26:28Well, Trump sued George Stephanopoulos because George Stephanopoulos said that it was rape.
26:38And Donald Trump said that's defamation because under the New York technical statute, New York
26:46since closed this loophole, but they changed it.
26:49In New York, they've said that, well, a sexual assault is a finger and a
26:53rape is genitals or something like that.
26:55So the jury said, we couldn't, we didn't necessarily know whether it was based on
27:00the testimony. I'm not. make a graphic here.
27:03I just want to let you know what the facts are.
27:04The jury said we didn't really know if it was a penis or a finger,
27:08but there was a sexual assault that took place at the Bergdorf Goodman.
27:12And that's why they found that Trump was civilly liable.
27:15And they just made that finding.
27:16And Trump took that as though that was a win and then sued Stephanopoulos.
27:21And you want to know how sick our country is?
27:23Then ABC paid Trump basically a quid pro quo bribe, in my opinion, which is
27:29giving you my opinion, masquerading as a settlement based on an allegation.
27:33Could you imagine if Donald Trump actually had to sit for a deposition and be
27:38asked? So you were found liable for sexual assault, were you not?
27:43And you're saying your reputation has been harmed because your argument is that it was.
27:50So, I mean, you see the sickness that's in the White House and how is
27:54this even being normalized? How is this even being talked about without making you want
27:59to freaking vomit? When I do these shows, sometimes it's sometimes just so you know,
28:04I like, you know, because this stuff and what at least is good right now
28:10is that you all get it.
28:13And I think the country is getting it.
28:15And I think this message is breaking through.
28:18I do. You can call me, oh, you're just being an internal optimist and blah,
28:23blah, blah, blah, blah. I actually think the message is getting through, not to everybody,
28:28but I think people are waking up.
28:31You know, I think people are saying, what the hell is this?
28:35It shocks me that there are some people who don't see it.
28:38I don't get it. I try my best to put myself in as many shoes
28:45as I can to understand and try to be empathetic and try to understand.
28:50What could it be? But right now, February 19th, 2026, with all that's gone down
28:58from masks, agents, terrorizing people in the streets to the don't tread on me crowd.
29:04You like that? Or the Trump regime saying people can't conceal carry.
29:09You deserve to die. If you show up at a protest with a concealed carry
29:13permit, you deserve to die.
29:15The Second Amendment folks, you like that?
29:17Or maybe you just like, what you really like is, let's just face it.
29:22You like, you want a Kim Jong -un.
29:24You want your own version of that.
29:27You don't like democracy. It's easier for you to be, or you like being in
29:34this dystopian reality, hate -fueled show, where you feel for now comfortable that somebody acknowledging
29:44your hate and accepting your hate of others is the most important thing to you
29:51that's out there. Right? I mean, you know, that's the predominant factor.
29:59Forget Trump shooting somebody in Fifth Avenue.
30:03What he's doing is way worse.
30:06And it's not in Fifth Avenue.
30:08It's across this country. All right.
30:11We're going to take our first and only quick break of the show.
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34:14great discounts. So let's also talk more about Donald Trump's flight.
34:20He's heading to Rome, Georgia right now.
34:23Why is he going there?
34:24That's Marjorie Taylor Greene's congressional district.
34:27He's obsessed. I think he thinks that this is a way to give Marjorie Taylor
34:31Greene the middle finger. She's not running anymore.
34:34And in my view, it just brings more attention to his Epstein cover -up.
34:39It's the only reason that Marjorie Taylor Greene was basically pushed out of politics and
34:43the party was that she objected to Donald Trump covering up a child sex trafficking
34:48ring. And that was not MAGA of her.
34:50For you to be MAGA, you must cover up child sex trafficking rings.
34:54And Marjorie Taylor Greene said, well, I guess I'm not MAGA anymore because while I
34:59agree with MAGA on 98 % of the things, covering up child sex trafficking is
35:05a pretty big deal. I'm not going to go along with that.
35:09And Donald Trump said, but you're going to hurt my friends.
35:12And she goes, well, okay.
35:14If they're pedos, then they can be hurt.
35:19That's okay then. And then Trump said, well, get the hell out.
35:22And she said, yeah. So that's why Trump's going to Rome, Georgia right now.
35:28He's aboard Air Force One.
35:30He was leaving from that peace board thing that he was doing.
35:36Peace board, so stupid. It says this board, he calls it the board of peace
35:40that like no democracies are a part of.
35:44It's like Pakistan and it's like Bahrain and Belarus and Qatar, countries like that.
35:55They, they showed up. Viktor Orban was there from Hungary, showed up.
35:59Orban was also like, why am I the only leader from the European Union that's
36:05actually here? Because that's kind of the answer because this is not actually a peace
36:14board. It is a way that Donald Trump can hang out with authoritarians.
36:21And that's what he wants to do.
36:23And it's weird. It's utterly humiliating for the United States.
36:28But you know, this whole guy is humiliating for the United States every day, every
36:31day, just humiliating. If you don't think this is humiliating, you have no shame.
36:35At the end of the day, this is as humiliating as it gets.
36:38Anyway, here's Donald Trump aboard Air Force One.
36:41He's asked a question by Ducey from Fox about Barack Obama saying aliens are real.
36:48And here was what Donald Trump's response was to that.
36:50Here, play this clip. I would love to have China and Russia.
36:54They've been invited. Yeah. You need both.
36:57You need all persuasions. No discrimination.
37:00So I think they got a lot of attention this week.
37:02Barack Obama said that aliens are real.
37:07Have you seen any evidence of non -human visitors to Earth?
37:11Well, he gave classified information.
37:13He's not supposed to be doing that.
37:15So aliens are real? Well, I don't know if they're real or not.
37:17I can tell you he gave classified information.
37:19He's not supposed to be doing that.
37:21He made a big mistake.
37:23He took it out of classified information.
37:26No, I don't. I don't have an opinion on it.
37:28I never talk about it.
37:29A lot of people do.
37:30A lot of people believe it.
37:33Do you believe it, Peter?
37:34Well, the president can declassify anything that he wants to.
37:37So maybe I'll get him out of trouble.
37:39I may get him out of trouble by declassifying.
37:41We know illegal aliens, really.
37:42Yeah, illegal. Only illegals. What else?
37:47Based on what you've been told, what do you think happened to...
37:51He's in a lot of trouble.
37:53I mean, this guy is a demented lunatic.
37:57He's in a lot of trouble.
37:57for saying something about aliens.
38:00I mean, like you do realize that like the person that we're watching there is
38:04not normal. Like this is not a normal human.
38:07This is not normal behavior.
38:10And anybody who acts like this is like just a grownup or like an adult.
38:16Like this is really a just a just a utterly demented human being.
38:25I don't know how else to describe what I'm what I witness over there.
38:29He's not speaking in sentences, slurring his words, obsessed with Obama, randomly flying to Rome,
38:38Georgia. Before I showed you in the first half of the show, I'm the expert
38:46on these things. And I feel bad for the royal family that Andrew got arrested.
38:53That's who you feel bad for, not the survivors?
38:56Well, here was Donald Trump at that Board of Peace meeting this morning, where Donald
39:02Trump bangs a small golden gavel with YMCA playing in the background.
39:07Let's play this clip. Ready?
39:11Thank you. So strange. You had Victor Orban there from Hungary, noting that no one
39:22else from Europe is there.
39:23Yeah, it's kind of the point.
39:25Here, play this clip. Dear Mr.
39:29President, excellencies, dear colleagues. First of all, let me express the appreciation of the Hungarian
39:35people to President Trump for his tireless peace efforts all around the world.
39:41Hungary is the only country to be represented here on the highest level among the
39:47founding members from the European Union.
39:50I represent the country. Next to him, you have Javier Malay, who's Donald Trump's MAGA
39:57puppet in Argentina. The United States gave Argentina $40 billion in a bailout to help
40:03prop up Javier Malay in their elections.
40:06Donald Trump is trying to now do something similar with Orban.
40:10He had Rubio show up in Hungary.
40:12Orban is trailing significantly in the polls in Hungary.
40:16So Orban's been calling in his friends at the AFD in Germany.
40:20That's like the MAGA party there, their far -right extremist party there.
40:23Putin's team came in to Hungary.
40:26Trump sent Rubio there. And basically, the message from Rubio was, if you want America
40:32to help you, Hungary, you need to vote for Orban.
40:35Otherwise, America won't help you.
40:37But the reality is, is that, you know, at this point, Hungary can choose.
40:42You want to be a Soviet country.
40:45You want to be in Putin world, which is basically Putin, United States, Belarus, North
40:54Korea. You know, like the delusional aspect of Trump, though, too, is that like Trump's
41:02not even in that crew.
41:03Like Trump loves Putin, but the actual alliance is Russia, Iran, China, North Korea, and
41:14they bring in, you know, some other BRICS nations.
41:19And so like, so America, United States, is close to going to war with Iran.
41:28At the same time, Donald Trump is trying to help Putin.
41:34And Iran is sending their Shahid drones to help Putin.
41:39You have Hungary giving its oil or getting all of its oil from Russia, while
41:46Donald Trump attacks the European Union, saying that they get their oil from Russia.
41:53When it's Hungary, that is the main country that gets its oil from Russia, especially
41:58from the European Union. Like our foreign policy is so disjointed and nonsensical right now.
42:05And I can literally, we just alienate everybody.
42:08And it's just Donald Trump sucking up to Putin.
42:11And then you have all these other countries that are recognizing that all you have
42:18to do is give Trump flattery, and you could basically outmaneuver him, and you could
42:23get him to do things for you.
42:26It's weird. It's weird. Here, Donald Trump is saying that, where is President Malay?
42:32I endorse him. I endorse Orban.
42:35This is from that same meeting.
42:36Let's play it. But we're honored to be joined today by Prime Minister Rama of
42:44Albania. President, where is President Malay?
42:49Another one, I'll tell you.
42:50Where is President Malay? I endorse him.
42:55I'm not supposed to be endorsing people, but I endorse, when I like people, you
42:58know, I've had a very good record of endorsing candidates within the United States.
43:04But now I endorse foreign leaders, including Victor Orban, who's here, and others.
43:11And I endorse this gentleman, Malay.
43:14He was a little behind in the polls.
43:16He ended up winning in a landslide.
43:17I just endorsed the Prime Minister of Japan.
43:20She was in a tight race, but was probably going to win.
43:23And she won in the largest number of people living there.
43:24And she won't be a great leader actor.
43:25And she is this gentleman or a wonderful It's the history of Japan.
43:27So she likes me a lot.
43:29But it was an honor.
43:31And you're doing that. Oh, look, they're sitting right next Victor.
43:34I think, but ultimately, I think I'm going to end up endorse.
43:36Hey, look, as long as it works, it's OK with me.
43:39But the endorsement seems to be working in foreign countries, too.
43:42So that's good. But nice to have you both, Victor.
43:44Nice to have you both.
43:45Very proud of you. The prime minister.
43:49Then while Donald Trump was there, he was talking about the United Nations and how
43:54he's obsessed with that. The escalator turned off when he was at the United Nations
44:00several months ago. He's obsessed with that.
44:03And the teleprompter didn't work.
44:04And he has this weird story also that Melania saved him when the escalator was
44:11shut off and he grabbed onto her.
44:13And otherwise, he would have fallen.
44:15And so she saved him.
44:16So first, let me show you the clip of him winding.
44:19Let's play it. Now, for mostly any human being, that interaction, I'm just trying to
44:46think about something that happened to me today.
44:48You know, like what happened to me today?
44:51I was, I took my 16 -month -year -old to a bubbleologist at the local
45:01library. It was here at a bubbleologist library.
45:04And they were playing with bubbles.
45:06And so I show up to the library and it's packed.
45:11And so I had to park nearby at a shopping center and then walk over,
45:18right? Like that's not an interaction that I'll be shit.
45:22Imagine six months from now, you know, you saw me on the show and I
45:27was like, and I went to see a bubbleologist and they told me there would
45:33be parking. And I show up and not only is there no parking, but I
45:39look, I'm about to crash my car.
45:41And then my wife saves me.
45:43And she's like, honey, you got to hold on.
45:45What the hell's good? Imagine like, I just talked about that.
45:48I mean, the interaction that he's still talking about was what you just saw right
45:52there. And that's what he's whining about.
45:55Like, again, this is like a demented individual.
45:58This is a demented individual.
45:59Like a thing happened to you in the day.
46:01Get over it. Get over it.
46:04And just so you can see, here's what he was saying while he was at
46:08this board of peace meeting in D .C.
46:10Here's how he described what went down at the United Nations.
46:13Here play this clip. My last speech, they did turn off my teleprompter.
46:17I got up there. My teleprompter didn't work.
46:21I'm sitting in front of all of you people and more.
46:24I had no teleprompter. I knew I was in trouble because I'm walking up.
46:27You know, the teleprompters are over.
46:29He had the most beautiful speech ready.
46:31I was all set to knock him dead.
46:34First, I had an escalator that stopped.
46:36You know that it's going up.
46:38Boom. It's lucky my movie star first lady was in front of me because I
46:44put my hand on a certain part of her body and I was able to
46:48stop my fall. Otherwise, because she had no trouble.
46:52I said, boy, that was a very sharp stop, Johnny.
46:56So I said, that was strange.
46:58I've been on a lot of escalators.
47:00It's never happened before. Usually it stops very slowly.
47:03This was just boom. But our first lady was right in the proper location for
47:08me. I'm waving to people and she was holding on a little tighter.
47:14She knew what was happening.
47:20What are you? What are they even talking about?
47:24What are they even talking about?
47:26Sometimes I watch that stuff and I'm just like, really, Maga, you like this?
47:31Like, this is like, this is what you're, this is what you're into right now.
47:35So bizarre. I'll just read, read this for you.
47:39Like, you know, obviously countries like Canada, the UK, every European Union country isn't there.
47:44This latest poll from Politico shows that only about one in three Canadians still view
47:50the United States as an ally.
47:52Frankly, I don't know who those one in three are.
47:55If you ask Canadians in a poll, who's the biggest threat, the United States or
48:00Russia, overwhelmingly two to one people in Canada view the United States as a much
48:05bigger threat to them than Russia.
48:0748 % of Canadians surveyed.
48:09The U .S. is the biggest threat.
48:1129 % say Russia. 10 % say China.
48:15I mean, I think that's fairly accurate right there in terms of what's going on.
48:21And then in terms of kind of Maga in general, as I said, this whole
48:25movement is a fraud. This whole thing is a fugazi.
48:28The way Trump's been a fraud his entire life, and he attracts kind of just
48:31fraudulent people and grifter people.
48:33I just found this interesting today as well.
48:36You have the House Committee on Agriculture announces the following.
48:41Thank you, President Trump, for acknowledging the importance of glyphosate -based herbicides in American agriculture.
48:50This is a vital step forward.
48:52in a ensuring domestic supply of this critical crop input remains available for our producers."
49:00So one of the main things that RFK pretended that he cared about and kind
49:04of ma -ha, make America healthy again, and all of these things, was these pesticides
49:10in crops, right? I mean, RFK said back in June of 2024, the herbicide glyphosate
49:20is one of the likely culprits in America's chronic disease epidemic, much more widely used
49:25here than in Europe. Shockingly, much of our exposure comes from its uses in wheat,
49:32not as a herbicide, from where it goes straight into our bodies.
49:35My U .S. Department of Agriculture will ban that practice.
49:41You may have all seen those lawsuits that were filed against the companies that Roundup
49:49that made these products and a lot of medical literature that these products, that this
50:00glyphosate causes non -Hodgkin's lymphoma.
50:04And they were bankrupted the company that made Roundup.
50:10And, you know, and now the announcement, Trump makes an executive order basically endorsing and
50:16protecting glyphosate -based products. You know, and, you know, you have some MAGA people out
50:24there who are basically saying, I did not vote for this, Donald Trump.
50:28This is a failure to protect the American people and a continuation on the attack
50:32of American health. More gaslighting, Secretary Kennedy, this makes so much of what you've both
50:39been saying an outright lie.
50:40A lot of us has stood by you through some insane stuff.
50:44This is worth revolting over.
50:46Protect phosphate for defense reasons?
50:48Sure, I buy it. The executive order should have stopped there.
50:51This needs to be talked about.
50:54The person tagged me over at Midas.
50:56I talk about this every day, Matthew.
50:59I agree with you. I mean, I agree, but all I can say, like, when
51:05you said over here, a lot of us have stood by both of you through
51:10some insane stuff. Just why?
51:15Like, why? Why do you stand by them through some insane stuff?
51:18I mean, I truly mean it.
51:20Okay, maybe the first insane thing, I get it.
51:23But after multiple insane things, why do you stand by them?
51:27I don't understand it. And as I've been saying, there's so many issues right now
51:31that, again, I don't believe has a political dimension to him.
51:36I mean, people are like, well, why didn't Biden's DOJ go after Epstein?
51:42Well, then that was a massive failure.
51:43I'm not defending that. I mean, Merrick Garland should have done a lot more prosecutions
51:48than he did. Merrick Garland Merrick Garland failed.
51:53You know, the coverup of the Epstein file spans decades and decades and decades.
52:00And there's massive failure and massive blame going around.
52:05I can tell you when Donald Trump's out there saying he feels bad for Andrew
52:10and the royal family and not the survivors, when Pam Bondi is up there, though,
52:17testifying and says, the Dow's over 50 ,000.
52:20And that's why I'm not going to look at it.
52:23And you are from Culver City.
52:26And I could tell you, I've never seen anything so embarrassing and humiliating ever from
52:32the Department of Justice before.
52:34I could tell you that that's horrible.
52:36The fact that they leaked the names of survivors and gave personal identifying information and
52:42protected the identity of the Epstein class in these files.
52:46I'm outraged at that. What you have to realize, Matthew, is that the Epstein class
52:55wants to divide everybody else into viewing certain things as political issues.
53:03And what I'm here to tell you is that a lot of these issues are
53:07not political issues. A lot of America view lots of issues as 70 -30 types
53:12of issues. And when you are talking about child sex trafficking coverups, we should all
53:21be against that. When it comes to data centers being built in your communities that
53:31are draining your energy supply and causing the price of your energy bills to skyrocket,
53:41and unregulated AI replacing workers, we should all be against that.
53:48Now, we could have, we could recognize that there are some uses for AI that
53:55are beneficial and that could help humanity, but there should be some common sense regulations
54:02and safeguards around it. Don't we all think that?
54:06Can't we agree on that?
54:08I was on protests and people being arrested at town halls yesterday in Oklahoma protesting
54:13data centers in their community, which corporate news is not covering at all.
54:18We talk about AI data centers, all.
54:20the time here on the Midas Touch Network.
54:24My view as well, Matthew, is that we need to be very careful about the
54:30types of chemicals that are going into our crops and that are going into our
54:35food supply. And things like glyphosate and stuff like that, you know, that can potentially
54:44cause cancer. That's why we have regulations, safety regulations, to which people like Trump go,
54:52oh, these bureaucratic regulations. Sometimes I'm with, sometimes the regulations may go too far.
54:59But there's a reason why we have a lot of regulations and agencies and why
55:05we have a human experience, a lived experience to do regulations.
55:10Oftentimes it's to protect you and to us and to protect others from harms, not
55:15to encourage these types of harms.
55:17There's a reason. I mean, you remember the Aaron Brockovich movie, right?
55:22Where they uncover, you know, what was taking place in the community and how people
55:27are getting cancer and dying and things like that.
55:30We should be able to agree on certain things like this.
55:36I just think there are so many countless other issues.
55:39Like, I don't know what you feel, Matthew, but I don't feel like it should
55:44be demeaned or be viewed as like, ah, you're a socialist in a bad way.
55:50If we all agree that we should all have good healthcare, like, don't you agree
55:54that healthcare is a human right?
55:56I do. And if we agree that Obamacare has flaws, shouldn't we work to fix
56:03it versus just have a ranting lunatic like Donald Trump out there saying, I've done
56:09most favored nations. I've done, the prices are lower.
56:14Everything's great. When we all know that there are tens of millions of Americans now
56:18who've been kicked off their Affordable Care Act plan who can't afford it, and there's
56:21hope they don't get sick.
56:23Or maybe they're dying quietly and we don't even know about it because they didn't
56:27go get a preventative care appointment because they can't afford it right now.
56:30Like, aren't these issues that we should all be able to rally around and recognize
56:36that what this is really about is the Epstein class that's attacking us and that
56:42that's actually what's happening here?
56:45You know, I have this clip as well.
56:49You have, isn't this so revealing?
56:51You have Dan Bongino, former number two at the FBI, and Kash Patel, who's currently
56:58the FBI director right now.
57:00So you have the number one and the former number two at the FBI.
57:04They do a show together.
57:06They're doing a podcast together, okay?
57:09And obviously the people want to know about the Epstein file.
57:14What else do you think when you put these two people on together that we
57:17want to hear about? But instead, they whine and they say how difficult, that their
57:25job has such difficult decisions and things are so hard for them and that it's
57:30so hard for them to do and that Trump has to make stage 11 decisions,
57:34whatever the hell that even means.
57:36And he's so brave for having to make decisions.
57:39Like, don't we agree, Matthew, whether like when you say you stood by Trump on
57:46insane, like, don't we agree that even like me playing this clip that I'm about
57:48to play is insane enough that that should end the discourse right there.
57:53Here, play this clip. Everything's a level 10 decision, Kash.
57:57A level 10 meaning there's a, pardon the language, but a shitty decision and a
58:01shittier one. Because if it was an, if there was a good decision to be
58:05made, someone else made it.
58:06And then when, when those decisions, that's every day, I know you know this because
58:10I would knock under your door and you'd be like, what now?
58:12And I'd be like, here we go again.
58:13Like something else will come up.
58:14But I just want to put into perspective for folks out there.
58:18When, when that decision can't even be made by, by, by, by me, it goes
58:22to you. When it doesn't go to you, it goes like to the president's desk.
58:26He's dealing with like level 11 decisions.
58:28And that's the thing in DC is that's why the batting average isn't always going
58:31to be a thousand. There are like, what is that?
58:35And, and, or, or Matthew remember before the latest batch of Epstein documents were released
58:42and Trump was asked about Epstein and watch Howard Lutnick in the background right here,
58:47here, play this clip. I don't know.
58:55I could ask you that question.
58:59I don't know of it, but I don't know.
59:06I could ask you that question.
59:09Right. Lutnick claimed he only met Epstein once in 2005.
59:14And then it turns out he's on the island with his children.
59:17And then Trump and the regime said, that's fine.
59:19And you saw him there.
59:25Because they think you're stupid.
59:28That's really what it boils down to.
59:31And Matthew, they believe these stupid people have stood by our sides all the time
59:42as we laughed in your face.
59:44That's what they think about you.
59:45And I just won't. I want to tell you that what you saw there with
59:52Lutnick, that's what they're saying to you behind your back.
59:56That's what they think about all of their supporters.
59:59They're stupid. They're going to support us.
1:00:01They hate you. They actually hate you.
1:00:06And they want to steal from you, and they want to take from you.
1:00:10That's who they are. And I do want anybody to know still, even though I
1:00:15don't understand how you could support these people.
1:00:17I don't get it. But I will say this on February 19th.
1:00:24Is someone saying, who's Matthew?
1:00:26Matthew is the commentator, the person who wrote the comment.
1:00:29Is the guy named Matthew?
1:00:29Do we have it? Someone's like, who do you keep?
1:00:32See, this is Matthew. Just so you all know, I'm not talking to an imaginary
1:00:36friend named Matthew, just so you know.
1:00:39Matthew tagged me in this post, so I don't have an imaginary friend named Matthew,
1:00:43just so everybody knows. And I want you to think because people are like, you
1:00:48never sleep, so did you invent an imaginary friend?
1:00:53I want you to know Matthew and all the Matthews out there.
1:00:58Now's the time to make the break.
1:01:00And I don't say, make the break and become a Democrat.
1:01:03I'm not saying that at all.
1:01:04I'm just saying, free your mind from this poison of MAGA and step into a
1:01:13world of truth. And at the Midas Touch Network, to me, beyond this political party
1:01:19and that political party and this or that, to me, I think that this is
1:01:24a place where truth prevails.
1:01:26Where we bring receipts, where we show the clips, where we let people know, here's
1:01:30what's happening right now. And people can judge for themselves.
1:01:34Ultimately, for me, that makes me not want to be supportive of the Republican Party
1:01:40and MAGA right now because they completely don't align with the truth and my values
1:01:45and principles. But if one day another party, the Democrats or someone else, doesn't align,
1:01:51I'm not going to be like, oh, well, I'm on this team or that team.
1:01:54I'm on team truth. I'm on team facts.
1:01:57I'm on team receipts. I'm on team building bridges internationally to support democracy and truth
1:02:08globally. That's where I'm at.
1:02:11And I hope you join me, Matthew, and others as well.
1:02:15So thanks, everybody, for watching.
1:02:17We're grateful for you. Appreciate you.
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1:02:28Oh, and by the way, you probably know that we are leading the boycott against
1:02:33Donald Trump's State of the Union.
1:02:35We're distributing the boycott, I should say, on our YouTube platform for State of the
1:02:42Union. So we have tons of senators and members of Congress.
1:02:48They're going to be with Midas touch and not in the Capitol building.
1:02:53We're going to have we're going to be we have a permit.
1:02:55We're right outside the Capitol building, not inside the Capitol building.
1:02:58But I think it's pretty cool and pretty freaking historically.
1:03:01I don't think there's I'm not sure this has happened in history before where you're
1:03:05going to have this size boycott.
1:03:06And where's everybody going? The Midas touch stage with move on.
1:03:11So hat tip to move on who are doing that with their great partners and
1:03:15hat tip to all of the senators and members of Congress who are boycotting.
1:03:19And, you know, you should write you should reach out to your member of Congress
1:03:24and tell them to boycott as well and not show up and to join the
1:03:27Midas touch as well. All right.
1:03:31Thank you, everybody. We appreciate you.
1:03:34We're grateful for you. I somehow released a video while I was recording this because
1:03:40I'm not sure if you knew this.
1:03:41I actually have a clone and I'm on here and I did a video and
1:03:45we're good right before I went live.
1:03:47The reason I was like six minutes late to this live is I did another
1:03:50video right before that had to go out.
1:03:52So that video right now, if you go to the main YouTube channel, you can
1:03:55watch the video that I made that launched that too.
1:03:58So go and check that out.
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