The MeidasTouch Podcast

Trump Loses it on Air Force One as Collapse Accelerates!!!

19 min
Feb 7, 20262 months ago
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Summary

The MeidasTouch Podcast episode discusses Trump's alleged connections to the Epstein files, controversies surrounding a racist meme posted on his social media, backlash against JD Vance at the Milan Winter Olympics, and Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS. The hosts also cover Virginia's redistricting efforts that could flip Republican seats to Democratic control.

Insights
  • Trump's administration contains multiple officials with documented connections to Epstein, suggesting systemic issues within the current government structure
  • Trump's inconsistent messaging on the racist meme post (denying knowledge, blaming staff, then claiming responsibility) undermines credibility on accountability
  • Mid-decade redistricting initiated by Trump is backfiring, with Democrats gaining more seats through similar tactics in states like Virginia and California
  • Trump's proposed $10 billion IRS settlement could establish a precedent for using charitable donations as tax avoidance mechanisms for government payouts
Trends
Increased international backlash against Trump administration officials at major global eventsDemocratic counter-gerrymandering strategies neutralizing Republican redistricting gainsWeaponization of charitable giving structures for tax avoidance by high-net-worth individualsErosion of presidential accountability standards through contradictory public statementsInternational protests against U.S. immigration enforcement policies at diplomatic events
Topics
Epstein Files and Government Official ConnectionsRacist Content on Social Media and Presidential AccountabilityJD Vance International Backlash at Winter OlympicsTrump IRS Lawsuit and $10 Billion SettlementMid-Decade Redistricting and GerrymanderingVirginia Redistricting AmendmentImmigration Enforcement ProtestsPresidential Fact-Checking and ContradictionsCharitable Giving Tax Avoidance SchemesGovernment Official Vetting and Epstein Connections
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AdFin
Investment company where Commerce Secretary Lutnick and Epstein were business partners in December 2012
People
Donald Trump
Central figure discussed regarding Epstein connections, racist meme post, and IRS lawsuit
Howard Lutnick
Documented business partner with Epstein in AdFin investment deal in December 2012
JD Vance
Booed at Milan Winter Olympics opening ceremony amid ICE enforcement protests
Marco Rubio
Booed at Milan Winter Olympics alongside JD Vance during opening ceremony
Kathleen Feinberg
Appears in hundreds of Epstein files documents with alleged money laundering scheme involvement
John Phelan
Named on Epstein flight manifest found in released documents
Virginia Giuffre
Epstein trafficking victim who worked at Mar-a-Lago spa and recently died by suicide
Barack Obama
Former president whose image was photoshopped onto ape in racist meme posted by Trump
Michelle Obama
Former First Lady whose image was photoshopped onto ape in racist meme posted by Trump
Tim Scott
Called racist meme 'the most racist thing he'd ever seen out of the White House'
Gus Kenworthy
British-American Olympian who posted anti-ICE protest on Instagram during Milan Olympics
Spanberger
Signed redistricting bill allowing Virginia to vote on maps, potentially flipping four Republican seats
Scott Besnikas
Will oversee IRS settlement of Trump's $10 billion lawsuit through Treasury Department
Laura Ingraham
Fox News host skeptical of Trump regime's explanation for racist meme post
Caroline Levitt
Trump spokesperson defending racist meme as internet meme from Lion King video
Quotes
"Your message to the many Americans who are offended by the video? I didn't know about it, so I went up. I really have no message."
Donald TrumpAir Force One interview
"Black voters have been great to me. I've been great to them. And I am, by the way, the least racist president you've had in a long time."
Donald TrumpAir Force One interview
"Anything I win, I'm going to give 100% to charity. But that still takes it from the American people."
Donald TrumpIRS lawsuit discussion
"Virginia has the opportunity and the responsibility to be responsive in the face of efforts across the country to change maps."
Governor SpanbergerRedistricting bill signing
Full Transcript
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US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, not only continued the relationship with Epstein, well after he said he stopped talking to him, but apparently they were business partners together. They entered into an investment for a company called AdFin together in December of 2012, four days. They were apparently hanging out with each other and with, apparently Lutnick's children were on the island as well or with him, and then they entered into this deal to invest in a company called AdFin where they were both partners on. We're learning that the Pentagon Deputy Secretary Feinberg and a company he co-founded appear in hundreds of documents in the Epstein files, including personal emails, sent by Epstein and whistleblower emails, alleging a vast money laundering scheme. We're learning that Navy Secretary John Phelan is named on the flight manifest found among the documents that were produced there. Yes, and Donald Trump's appeared 38,000 times. Let's be clear about that. Shifting gears for a moment to what's going on in Milan right now, where there is the Winter Olympics, the United States, delegations getting absolutely booed, JD vans, Rubio, Ushavans getting mercilessly booed. There were protests there against ICE because it was believed that the Trump regime may be sending ICE officials to guard JD vans when he's in Italy, when he's in Milan, and maybe some of the athletes. And that's what the Trump regime said at first. And now they're saying, no, it's actually DHS Special Agents, Department of Homeland Security Special Agents out there, where the people are doing F ICE chants, booing mercilessly JD vans and Marco Rubio and all of them. You have people doing urine protests against ICE, like the British, American, Olympian, Gus Kenworthy. He's a freestyle skier, and he posted urine saying F ICE on his Instagram account, and that's gone mega viral. And then you had Donald Trump two nights ago. He was posting the photo or the video of former President Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama with their faces photoshopped on apes. And then Donald Trump's regime first said, oh, that's just Donald Trump being funny because he's saying this is like the Lion King movie, and he's the king of the jungle. And so that's why he posted that photo. And he did it, but that's why he posted it. Then they blamed it on a staffer and said, oh, Trump didn't know what he was doing. Had nothing to do with it, even though it was posted at midnight. Apparently there are staffers who are making the post for him at midnight. But then Donald Trump said, no, no, no, I was the one who did it. So let me just show you what went down here. Donald Trump was an Air Force one. Of course, he was going to Palm Beach, right? The going back to the site of the sex trafficking at Mar-a-Lago, right? And that was the site. I'm not saying things that are like, oh, Ben, you got to say allegedly. No, I mean, undisputed fact, Mar-a-Lago was one of the sites where child sex trafficking was connected to, right? Virginia Jouffray worked at Mar-a-Lago. She worked at the spa. And that's where she was recruited by Epstein and sex traffic. And she tragically died by suicide recently. It's horrific, horrific stuff. And then we know that Trump's Mar-a-Lago would send the spa to Epstein, and Epstein would expose himself to the girls. And that was one of the ways he would try to recruit girls to this. Again, that's just something that's known right now. And that's a horrific fact. But Donald Trump says he's vindicated, even though he says Epstein's a great guy who likes women on the younger side, even though Donald Trump says he grabbed, Donald Trump said that he grabs women by their vaginas without their consent because he's rich and he gets away with it. He said that he is, when he owns beauty pageants, he gets to look at girls naked non-consensually and inspect them. He goes, because he becomes an inspector. Sick, sick, sick human being, evil, evil, evil human being anyway. When Donald Trump was on Air Force One, how'd I get there? I was like, yes, he was going to the crime scene, Mar-a-Lago. That's, ah, yes. Donald Trump is asked by a reporter. So what's your message to many Americans who are very offended by you posting a photo with the former president of the United States and the former first lady's heads, photoshopped on apes? Would you want to apologize? Here's what Donald Trump says. Your message to the many Americans who are offended by the video? I didn't know about it, so I went up. I really have no message. All I know is, here's my message that our country has never been in a position like this. We were a laughing stock all over the world, and now we're a country that's respected more than we've ever been respected before. If you go back a year and a half ago, our country was a laughing stock, and now we're respected all over the world, like probably almost never before. I would say maybe like never before. Okay, no apology. Again, he's a sick human. He's evil. He's horrible. He's trash. Should be non-partisan. We should all agree that's just a real trash human, right? I mean, he's just a bad, just let's not even talk politics. Let's just speak basic morality. That's a horrible human being right there. Donald Trump has then asked about JD Vance and America being booed in Milan. Here, play this clip. Did you see the vice president got booed during the opening ceremony, though? What do you make of that sort of frosty? The vice president got booed during the opening ceremony. What do you make of that frosty? Is that jail? Is that right? Yeah. That's surprising, because people like him. Well, I mean, he is in a foreign country, you know, in all fairness, but he doesn't get booed in this country. Oh, and then Donald Trump wants everybody to know, though, he's the least racist. There's never been a president less racist than him. That's clearly what people who aren't racist all go around saying that they're the least racist. So if he says it, he says it. Here, play this clip. Black voters have been great to me. I've been great to them. And I am, by the way, the least racist president you've had in a long time, as far as I'm concerned. We have. I've had a great relationship. Think of what I've done. Okay, ridiculous. Donald Trump is then asked about the fact that he sued the IRS for $10 billion. He sued his own government. And now he's going to have the DOJ and Treasury Secretary Scott Besnikas, the IRS is under the portfolio of the Treasury Department, pay him $10 billion. He's going to give himself a $10 billion payout from taxpayer money, stealing our taxpayer dollars, because he's claiming that he was part of an IRS data breach and his tax returns were leaked in 2021 as part of a data breach involving 400 to 500,000 other people's personal tax returns. So he's suing for $10 billion. And here's how he describes it. Play this clip. Mr. President, you're suing the federal government about your taxes. I'm wondering, is it fair to ask the American people to pay for that? Well, anything I win, I'm going to give 100% to charity. But that still takes it from the American people. Because they give money to charity. And they give away $40 billion a year to charity, our government. You know, our government gives away $40 billion plus a year to charity. So anything I win from that, but when they go and release your tax returns, which is totally illegal, people go to jail for that. And they've already found a person that did it. And as you know, they got in big trouble. And based upon that and other things we did, we did sue. And anything I win, I'm giving 100% to charity. Really good, very, very good and respected charities. What do you mean no because they're giving money to charity? What does that even mean? You're stealing taxpayer dollars. And you know, assume it goes to charity, you understand what his charity scheme is, right? His charity scheme is he's going to settle with the IRA. Let's just assume it goes to charity, which I don't think it even will. He'll settle with the IRS. He'll claim a personal physical injury under the IRS code so that he can take a personal injury settlement. He'll claim emotional trauma is my guess. So he won't pay any taxes on the money. Then what he'll do is if he donates the money to a charity, he'll then use that as a deduction to then roll over year by year based on the income that he's now making by selling off semiconductor chips and other classified information from the United States to UAE, the Saudis, Qatar, whoever, you know, our foreign adversaries, they are getting our classified information. Trump's getting richer and richer. He's made $1.5 or $2 billion more that we know about right now. He's probably made a lot more than that. That's hidden in secret, Qatar bank accounts. I don't know that I'm giving you my opinion. This is all First Amendment speech, opinion speech, right? I'm allowed to articulate this video is hereby protected by my First Amendment right to give you opinion. So let's just clarify that as well. And then Donald Trump will roll over, in my opinion, the charitable giving as a deduction. And he'll say for the rest of his life, he doesn't have to pay taxes. So that's his scheme there when he says whatever. Okay. Here, he's asked by a reporter, well, you frequently criticize Biden for not knowing what was going on in his name. But now you claim you don't know people who make social media posts on your behalf here. Play this clip. You frequently criticize Joe Biden for not knowing what is going on in his name. This racist video that was posted on your social media. I don't know a hell of a lot better than you do. You don't know what's going on. I know what's going on. Now, Joe Biden didn't have a clue, but we know everything. By the way, even Laura Ingram wasn't buying what the Trump regime was selling yesterday. And she's like, can you really? This is what she was saying to Caroline Levin. Are you really going to throw a staffer under the bus here playing this clip? It's been issue after issue at the same time. And I know you've been even dealing with this today. But Donald Trump's true social post set off a firestorm online. I only noticed it this morning because I was writing, but it was a video that he had posted portraying Michelle and Barack Obama with an eight motif. And I guess there were other politicians who were portrayed in other animal motifs as an internet meme. Tim Scott, the senator, obviously African American, said he was praying it was fake because it was the most racist thing he'd ever seen out of the White House. The president should remove it. Caroline, I know the president did remove it, deleted it, but it was up for, I think, 12 hours or something like that. How did this happen? And can you really throw a staffer under the bus for this? Well, look, Laura, it was a meme that was posted by a staffer on the president's true social account. It was from a Lion King video depicting, as you pointed out, different Democrats as different animals. I think Kamala Harris was depicted as a turtle in this video meme. The president did take it down. He spoke with lawmakers today out of respect for them, including Senator Tim Scott. The post was removed. But leave it to the leftist media, of course, to talk about this all day, rather than talk about the fact that the Dow has broken over 50,000 points for the first time in our nation's history. Caroline Levitt's pure trash also. I mean, utterly evil. Then finally, let me bring you to Virginia right here, where you have Virginia Governor Spanberger signing the bill, allowing Virginia to vote on redistricting. 10 to 1, they're going to wipe out four Republican seats in Virginia. And so Donald Trump's gerrymandering plan totally backfired when he wanted to rig the midterms and do the mid-decade redistricting. So he tried to obviously do it in Texas. They picked up five seats there. California Governor Newsom fought back, picked up five seats there, neutralized Texas. And now you have Democrats in Virginia picking up four seats there to counteract the other seats that Republicans are picking up in other districts. Then Democrats are still considering it in other states. Democrats are going to end up picking up more seats through this gerrymandering process than Trump did. And this is a fight that Trump started. And as you'll hear, the new governor of Virginia, Governor Spanberger, who we interviewed a lot during the campaign here, she sets out, you know, we're doing this to save democracy here, play this clip. All right. On this one, our fourth and final one is the redistricting amendment. This is the work of the legislature. It's recognizing that Virginia has the opportunity and the responsibility to be responsive in the face of efforts across the country to change maps that Virginia is moving forward with this temporary and responsive effort to redistrict. Now, there, I know there's many press in the room. There are multiple steps. This is the one that will enable us to move forward with this record. I was gonna go in order, but you're right there. There you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers. We're almost at 6 million, huh? We're like, like 70,000 or so subscribers. Right. So hit subscribe. Help us get there. We appreciate you so much. Have a good one. Want to stay plugged in? Become a subscriber to our sub stack at mitusplus.com. They'll get daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski, add free episodes of our podcast and more exclusive content only available at mitusplus.com.