On this episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast: The Trump administration accidentally leaks top-secret war plans to a journalist via a Signal chat, in what is one of the biggest national security scandals in U.S. history; democracy shows a pulse as Democrats fire up crowds across the country over the weekend; Trump loses in court as he seeks to defend his kidnappings under his invocation of the Alien Enemies Act without due process; Greenland slams the Trump administration over a planned visit; Canada PM Mark Carney calls snap elections; and more! Ben, Brett, and Jordy break it down! Subscribe to Meidas+ at https://meidasplus.com Get Meidas Merch: https://store.meidastouch.com Deals from our sponsors! Prolon L-Nutra: Visit https://prolonlife.com/meidas to claim your 15% discount plus a bonus gift! ZBiotics: Go to https://zbiotics.com/meidas to get 15% off your first order when you use code: MEIDAS at checkout Simpler Hair Color: For 10% off your order, head to https://simplerhaircolor.com/meidas and use code MEIDAS Fast Growing Trees: Head to https://www.fast-growing-trees.com/collections/sale?utm_source=YouTube&utm_medium=show+notes&utm_campaign=meidastouch right now and use code MEIDAS at checkout to get 15% off your entire order! 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
Chapter 1: What was leaked from the Trump administration?
The lunatics are running the asylum or I should say turning the United States into an asylum. Let's just talk about what went down over the past 24 to 48 hours. We learned that the Trump Department of Defense and national security apparatus would make war plans via group text threads with emojis like fist bump emoji, fire emoji, American flag emoji, the most common.
classified, sensitive, compartmented information that exists was all there on a text thread. And how did we learn about it? Because the Department of Defense, led by Pete Hegseth, a former Fox host, invited into the group chat the editor in chief of the media company, The Atlantic, who was just in the group chat. He wrote an article.
The Trump administration, we should call him a regime, texted me its war plans. He talks about how he was invited into this chat. He saw the most highly classified information. He didn't know what the heck in the world was going on. And if this was even real, the information was so sensitive he couldn't even write about a lot of the stuff that he saw.
And by the way, Donald Trump was asked about it today at a disastrous press conference and public cabinet meeting after Donald Trump was posting about how upset he was at this portrait being put up in Colorado of him, which he said is a really bad photo. And that was making him really angry. angry, he said, in a long ranting and raving post on his social media platform.
But then he held this public cabinet meeting, which was also led by Elon Musk. And then a press conference, Trump was asked, hey, you know, you're doing like your war plans in Yemen with the attack on the Houthis and leaking all this classified information on group text threads, which is one of the most serious violations of the law. Here's what Donald Trump had to say. Let's play it.
I don't know anything about it. I'm not a big fan of The Atlantic. To me, it's a magazine that's going out of business. I think it's not much of a magazine, but I know nothing about it. You're saying that they had what? They were using signal to coordinate on sensitive materials and... Having to do with what?
Having to do with what? What were they talking about? With the Houthis. The Houthis? You mean the attack on the Houthis? Well, it couldn't have been very effective because the attack was very effective, I can tell you that. I don't know anything about it. You're telling me about it for the first time. Anybody else?
The Department of Defense spokesperson has since confirmed that this was indeed an authentic chat that was taking place. Did you see Donald Trump's response? I don't know anything about it. I don't know anything about it.
But what I do know is that for, what, about a decade now, the Trump regime has been attacking former Secretary of State Clinton, frankly, based predominantly on lie after lie after lie. And as she posts today, you have to be kidding me, where they would talk about, oh, she kept this stuff on a server. And a lot of that story was total BS and debunked to begin with.
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Chapter 2: How did the Trump administration respond to the leak?
In Canada, Canada's Conservative Party was involved in very malicious election interference efforts with Donald Trump to try to have Donald Trump say the types of things to try to undermine the Liberal Party to help the Conservative Party using the premier from Alberta, Daniel Smith, as a conduit. This is some wild explosive stuff going on in Canada.
I also want to talk about the ruling earlier today by Judge Boasberg in Washington, D.C., who rejected Donald Trump's attempt to try to remove the injunction blocking the Trump regime from further kidnapping people and sending them to concentration camps in
in el salvador without giving some sort of process to determine if under the alien enemies act individuals are actually venezuelan gang members or if they are not what a what a concept there should be some process before human beings are kidnapped
and put in concentration camps from a united states government i mean the overton window has been so turned on its head that i have to even say that that is a thing that had to be ruled on by a federal judge reminder patreon.com slash Midas Touch. We will be shortly announcing when our next meeting will be on Zoom.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of leaking classified information?
This guy hasn't held a town hall once. So we said, you know what, let's go out there. We'll hold our own town hall. We thought wildest dreams out there in Greeley. We thought maybe 2,000 people would show up. 11,000 people. came out to Greeley. Then we went to Denver. And now in Denver, Colorado, again, our wildest dream.
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Powerful, powerful stuff right there. And, uh, I don't even think it's worth showing you the clip. I'll do a whole other take on it. But what Pete Hegseth is now saying is that the Atlantic was lying. It's all fake news. It's all one big lie. All right, I'll show it to you. I just I got to come with receipts just so you can be like, really? I got to come with the receipts here. Let's play.
one question. Can you share how your information about war plans against the Houthis in Yemen was shared with a journalist in the Atlantic? And were those details classified?
So you're talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who's made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again to include the, I don't know, the hoaxes of Russia, Russia, Russia, or the fine people on both sides hoax, or suckers and losers hoax. So this is the guy that peddles in garbage. This is what he does.
I would love to comment on the Houthi campaign because of the skill and courage of our troops. I've monitored it very closely from the beginning. And you see, we've been managing four years of deferred maintenance under the Trump administration. Our troops, our sailors were getting shot at as targets. Our ships couldn't sail through.
And when they did shoot back, it was purely defensively or at shacks in Yemen. President Trump said no more. We will reestablish deterrence, we will open freedom of navigation, and we will ultimately decimate the Houthis, which is exactly what we're doing as we speak from the beginning, overwhelmingly.
These people, Ben, are so reprehensible, I just want to say. Never take any responsibility. Everything's just a game to them. Everything is attack, attack, attack. Try to deflect. Pete Hegseth put our national security at risk due to his incompetence, and he continues to treat this like he is on his Fox News morning show, which is maybe the only thing that he is qualified to do, if that.
He's not qualified one bit to do that.
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