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GOP Gets Instant Karma at Rowdy Town Halls

Wed, 16 Apr 2025

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the latest town halls where Republican leaders like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Brian Mast and Chuck Grassley were ruthlessly booed. Mosh: Head to https://moshlife.com/MEIDAS to save 20% off plus FREE shipping on the Best Sellers Trial Pack! 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: What happened at Marjorie Taylor Greene's town hall?

3.928 - 18.728 Marjorie Taylor Greene

why are you such a coward in the face of an obvious fascist takeover andrew that was from marjorie taylor green's town hall in her district obviously a ruby red district she did everything she could

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19.168 - 38.872 Ben Meiselas

to try to keep out people with any dissenting views. She wouldn't really even have people ask questions. She was reading the questions live, and you got questions like that. You also got Marjorie Taylor Greene get questions like this about Donald Trump being not physically or mentally well. Watch how she handled it. Play this clip.

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Chapter 2: How did Marjorie Taylor Greene respond to questions about Trump's mental health and policies?

40.472 - 70.806 Marjorie Taylor Greene

What are you doing to protect us in the 14th District from the damage and extreme hardship of Trump's tariffs? Gutting of Social Security and Medicaid. Doge gutting our government with a chainsaw approach and the utter destruction and ignoring of our Constitution and rule of law. He is not well physically or mentally, and he's making nonsensical orders based on his whim of the day.

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70.826 - 99.887 Marjorie Taylor Greene

How are you going to rein him in to protect us? Oh, poor Christina. Poor, poor Christina. Well, I'm sure, Christina, you think that you're pretty smart. But the reality is you are being completely brainwashed by whatever source of news you listen to. The facts are this. No one has lost their Social Security. No one has lost their benefits. Criminals have lost it. Yes.

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100.848 - 126.333 Marjorie Taylor Greene

Fraudsters have lost it, yes. And illegal aliens have lost it, yep. And if you want to defend those people where you hate our country and you hate America, what am I going to do? I am going to stand by my president. I am going to support my president. And I'm going to fight for his agenda with everything I have in Congress. And that's what I'm going to do for the 14th District.

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126.613 - 144.39 Marjorie Taylor Greene

Because I know for a fact you are going to have more money in your pocket. You're going to have more jobs available. You're going to have a stronger economy. And you're going to have safe cities and communities to live in. And you'll be safe from terrorists, cartels, and criminals. And God bless President Trump for that.

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Chapter 3: What was the reaction to Brian Mast at his town hall in Florida?

146.397 - 164.024 Ben Meiselas

I'm going to show you more of Marjorie Taylor Greene's town hall from yesterday. I also want to show you MAGA Republican Congress member Brian Mast from Jupiter, Florida. Now, he got mercilessly booed over and over again. Let me show you one such incident of that. Let's play this clip right now.

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184.576 - 197.365 Ben Meiselas

yeah it was pretty much him getting booed the entire time right there um let's go back to the marjorie taylor green clip i showed you at the beginning so you get the full context of the question and ultimately how she answered here let's play the clip

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201.263 - 230.855 Marjorie Taylor Greene

Why are you such a coward in the face of an obvious fascist takeover? Andrew. Scary. That's scary. You know, I've yet to see a fascist gathering that doesn't exist in the Republican Party. As a matter of fact, President Trump is the most transparent president in history. The man literally talks to the press every single day. It's amazing.

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231.316 - 250.03 Marjorie Taylor Greene

Not only that, he takes them on Air Force One and takes them to UFC fights. He talks to them and gaggles on the plane. He talks to them all the time. This is such an amazing thing that happened. You know, well, the Associated Press shouldn't have told as many lies as they did about President Trump.

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250.811 - 258.833 Ben Meiselas

Okay, then a protester was there who referred to Marjorie Taylor Greene as you are a butch body bigot. Here, play this clip.

259.313 - 286.458 Marjorie Taylor Greene

That are not just living at the border. Ladies and gentlemen, they're all inside the interior of the United States. All inside the interior of the United States. You can head out. The protest is outside. Thank you very much. Protest is outside. Protest is outside. Bye. Have fun out there.

287.597 - 302.385 Ben Meiselas

Then a protester was there with a sign that said, jail for insider traders. That obviously struck a nerve with day trader or Marjorie Taylor Greene, who made a lot of suspicious trades right before Donald Trump's announcements on tariffs. Play this clip.

302.505 - 313.451 Marjorie Taylor Greene

Live in a place where I am one of the members of Congress that usually has the highest amount of death threats. As a matter of fact,

316.119 - 328.154 Ben Meiselas

Going to Iowa right now, Chuck Grassley got jeered at a town hall meeting when he was asked about Donald Trump refusing to abide by a Supreme Court's ruling. Play this clip.

Chapter 4: How did Chuck Grassley face criticism regarding Trump and Supreme Court rulings?

Chapter 5: What controversies surrounded Marjorie Taylor Greene's stock trades and audience protests?

328.574 - 333.881 Democratic Congress Member Garcia

Are you going to bring that guy back from El Salvador? Yeah.

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333.901 - 344.388 Democratic Congress Member Garcia

Are you? Yeah. That's not a powerful conference. The Supreme Court said to bring him back. He's defying the Constitution.

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344.428 - 351.609 Democratic Congress Member Garcia

Trump don't care. If I get an order for $1,200 and I just say no, does that stand up? Because he's got an order from the Supreme Court and he's just said no.

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351.629 - 352.009 Democratic Congress Member Garcia

Yeah.

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369.918 - 371.039 Democratic Congress Member Garcia

You ignored my letter.

372.299 - 379.623 Democratic Congress Member Garcia

Guatemala is an independent country. Can you speak up, please?

379.663 - 380.403 Democratic Congress Member Garcia

We can't hear you.

380.423 - 389.948 Democratic Congress Member Garcia

The president of that country is not subject to our U.S. Supreme Court. We're paying him to keep him down there.

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511.69 - 537.064 Ben Meiselas

More from that town hall right here. You have MAGA Republican Senator Chuck Grassley seeing very angry Iowa residents who were letting them know about, you know, so Donald Trump is, I'm trying to get this straight. So Donald Trump is doing tax cuts for billionaires, $4.5 trillion in tax cuts. But y'all are saying that $70 is too much for food stamps for people who are starving to death?

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537.545 - 538.205 Ben Meiselas

Play this clip.

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538.565 - 561.219 Democratic Congress Member Garcia

I think the general population is sick and tired of hearing about the tax cuts for the wealthy, the ultra-wealthy, the uber-rich, whatever you want to call them. When you start nitpicking about whether some single mom or single dad or somebody with somebody in prison is getting $70 too much food stamps, it doesn't even buy you anything at the grocery store.

566.027 - 569.629 Ben Meiselas

More on Senator Chuck Grassley's town hall here. Play this clip.

570.25 - 578.555 Chuck Grassley

There's money going to go out to the people that are doing Medicare Advantage. That is privatization of Medicare. And we don't want it.

Chapter 7: How are Iowa residents reacting to Republican policies and tax cuts?

578.955 - 581.697 Democratic Congress Member Garcia

They take advantage of people all the time.

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581.717 - 584.039 Democratic Congress Member Garcia

But 50% of the seniors do want it.

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584.099 - 584.979 Chuck Grassley

No, they don't want it.

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587.821 - 595.548 Democratic Congress Member Garcia

Let me explain why I said 50%. 50% of the seniors are enrolled in Medicare Advantage.

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595.668 - 600.172 Chuck Grassley

Because, no, that doesn't mean they want it. They've got to know.

600.212 - 601.413 Democratic Congress Member Garcia

They've got a choice.

601.873 - 613.743 Chuck Grassley

It's insurance companies that are, of course, insurance companies are then controlling you. And they'll tell you that you must call in every year because they can change the rules whatever they want to do.

613.823 - 656.935 Ben Meiselas

And then there was a moment as well in Marjorie Taylor Greene's town hall where an individual who was there protesting her or disagreeing with her was actually tased by the police. Here, play this clip. And then Marjorie Taylor Greene lied and said that tariffs are not a massive tax on the American people. Let's play this.

657.745 - 675.243 Marjorie Taylor Greene

The reality is tariffs are not a massive tax on the American people. The tax on the American people that you've been suffering with is the inflation that Biden and the Democrats put on the American people from their absolute reckless spending for the past four years.

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