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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference

Wed, 19 Mar 2025

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the Trump White House going into cover up mode of their disastrous and unlawful policies. Try Mosh today and use MEIDAS to save 20% plus free shipping at https://moshlife.com/MEIDAS Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Chapter 1: Who is Caroline Leavitt and why is she criticized?

0.069 - 21.029 Ben Meiselas

Donald Trump's chief propagandist, Caroline Leavitt, who calls herself a press secretary, is just so sloppy and unprepared. Her press conferences, like the one today, are always just so disastrous. Caroline, I know you don't do your research. I don't know. Maybe just go on Wikipedia for some of these judges before you attack them.

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21.409 - 38.046 Ben Meiselas

Like here, Caroline Levitz says, oh, this Obama appointed activist DC judge and the judge's wife, they're going after Donald Trump. Caroline, the judge was first appointed by George W. Bush, a Republican. Here, play this clip.

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38.226 - 53.733 Caroline Leavitt

And this judge, Judge Boasberg, is a Democrat activist. He was appointed by Barack Obama. His wife has donated more than $10,000 to Democrats. And he has consistently shown his disdain for this president and his policies, and it's unacceptable.

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53.753 - 63.417 Unknown Speaker

You took me right where I wanted to go about the idea that these people are all foreign terrorists. But Judge Boasberg was originally appointed by George W. Bush and then elevated by Barack Obama. I just feel like I should clear that up.

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64.417 - 90.205 Ben Meiselas

She just doesn't know anything. And by the way, to have a press secretary from the White House attacking the judge's wife after Chief Justice John Roberts also put out a public statement for Donald Trump to stop attacking federal judges if he doesn't like their orders. She's attacking the wife of the judge, but that's very Trumpy here.

90.725 - 108.053 Ben Meiselas

Caroline Leavitt is asked another question, which she doesn't know the answer to, about has the White House shut down the program whereby the United States, through this research institute, finds Ukrainian children who are being trafficked by Russia? Here, play this clip.

108.493 - 132.612 Annie

Annie, go ahead. Thanks so much. In the statement that you read, you referenced the president's interest in helping return Ukrainian children to their parents, to their families. There's an organization that provides intel and information about those children that their aid has been cut. It's a Yale University program that used foreign aid. And I'm curious if, as part of this,

133.232 - 136.154 Annie

and you're thinking with Ukraine, that aid might be unfrozen.

136.555 - 140.578 Caroline Leavitt

I have no updates about that or that specific program at this time. Karen.

Chapter 2: What misinformation is being spread about Judge Boasberg?

347.654 - 361.682 Donald Trump

They chose to ignore the autopsy report. They chose to ignore the full body camera footage. They decided to slander Derek Chauvin as a racist cop instead. Does the administration believe Derek Chauvin received a fair trial and will they consider a pardon moving forward?

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361.842 - 366.645 Caroline Leavitt

The president has been asked and answered this question. He said it's not something he's considering at this time. Philip.

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367.688 - 391.181 Ben Meiselas

praising Derek Chauvin, who murdered George Floyd. As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, says, great idea, Trump regime, for letting all these right-wing nutcases into the briefing room to make speeches and turn this all into an InfoWars episode. So ridiculous. And by the way, here's another clip, though, of a real reporter, Rachel Scott to Levitt, saying...

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391.721 - 400.206 Ben Meiselas

Okay, look, if y'all are publishing these images and photos, then of these Venezuelans, you can't say what they did? Here, play this clip.

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401.206 - 418.696 Reporter

Back to those deportation flights to El Salvador, can the administration provide any more details on how authorities determined that each of those men were in fact members of a gang? And if the White House can publish images, photos, videos of those men, why can't the administration just release basic information like their identities and names?

418.996 - 444.314 Caroline Leavitt

we are not going to reveal operational details about a counter-terrorism operation but what i can assure you as i said on monday we have the highest degree of confidence in our ice agents and our customs and border patrol agents who have committed their lives to targeting illegal criminals in our country particularly foreign terrorists and they had great evidence and indication they have the highest degree of professionalism and they were

445.515 - 451.563 Caroline Leavitt

100% confident in the individuals that were sent home on these flights and in the president's executive authority to do that.

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