The MeidasTouch Podcast kicks off 2025 with a look at the chaos defining the new year. We cover the tragic attack in New Orleans, falsely blamed on migrants by the GOP, and the shocking attack by a U.S. Army veteran outside Trump International Hotel. Rumors swirl about MAGA Mike Johnson’s shaky hold on the Speaker’s gavel just before the crucial vote. We also dissect Trump’s bizarre Mar-a-Lago New Year’s bash, his flip-flop on H1B1 visas, and the Democrats’ bold new strategy to hold him accountable. Ben, Brett and Jordy break it all down! Subscribe to Meidas+ at https://meidasplus.com Watch Ben’s interview with President Biden: https://youtu.be/TJfOAjUleTc Deals from our sponsors! Rocket Money: Let Rocket Money reach your financial goals faster by going to https://rocketmoney.com/meidastouch L-Nutra ProLon: Right now, ProLon is offering The MeidasTouch Podcast listeners 15% OFF off their 5-day nutrition program. Go to https://ProlonLife.com/MEIDAS 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 tragic event occurred in New Orleans?
So Fox and other right-wing propaganda media started reporting that this horrific attack that we now know took the lives of at least 14 people. Over 30 people were injured in New Orleans. We know that the individual's name is Shamsa Din Jabbar, 42-year-old from Texas, someone who was in the United States military, somebody who was an American citizen, someone who lived in Texas all of his life.
This was, we learned, a terrorist attack. This was not an attack, though, from a migrant or from a foreigner. It was from someone who was previously in the United States military and discharged. By the way, similarly, when we talk about the cyber truck that blew up in front of the Trump building in Las Vegas.
That individual's name is Matthew Leibelsberger, 37-year-old American in the Special Forces. He's from Colorado Springs, Colorado. It was an individual who took his own life and committed suicide and seems to be by all accounts a MAGA guy. or someone who's at least has expressed views that are consistent with the MAGA views out there.
And our team, by the way, at the Midas Touch Network was right there going through the individual's Facebook account and showing that it was a person who was saying things about like deep state and Clinton cabals and things like that. But MAGA tried to weaponize these horrific events against Democrats, against Biden. And who started it? Donald Trump.
Early in the morning on January 1st, he posted the following, which is pure lies. When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country, that statement was constantly refuted by Democrats and the fake news media. But it turned out to be true. The crime rate in our country is at a level that nobody has ever seen before.
Our hearts are with all of the innocent victims and their loved ones, including the brave officers of the New Orleans Police Department. The Trump administration will fully support the city of New Orleans as they investigate and recover from this act of pure evil.
Now, this statement should have just simply said, if you wanted to make a statement at all, our hearts are with all of the innocent victims and their loved ones.
including the brave officers of the new orleans police department we fully support the city period full stop that's all it had to be but donald trump lies and acts like this is a migrant from outside of the country and saying that there are record levels of crime right now which is also false and by the way trump has access to this information for people like oh well fox
initially reported that the individual came through Eagle Pass two days ago. So Trump was getting his information from Fox and those around him. No, Trump is the leader of the Republican Party. And as a president-elect, Donald Trump can ask the Secret Service. He can get access to highly classified briefings. He could gather this information and actually find out the truth.
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Chapter 2: How is MAGA Mike Johnson's position as Speaker threatened?
Brett, you talk about the need for a strong border and also all of these issues now that are arising about H-1B visas or H-2B visas or J-1 visas, the need for immigrants to work and or the need for our economy when construction, agriculture, hospitality, other sectors that rely on labor.
All of these things were addressed in a bipartisan immigration bill, a bipartisan border deal that would have given a lot more money to Border Patrol, given a lot more money to asylum courts, would have given a lot more money for drug detection, and that would have comprehensively also addressed the labor needs
that we hear people talking about with h-1b visas also talking about how do we help americans who have jobs in engineering get hired and not get passed over when they're clearly capable of doing those jobs and also addressing other labor shortages
and making sure that we are very strong when it comes to criminals and terrorists and people who cross the border and commit crimes, but also when people are here and they're filling jobs that are needed and they're contributing to the economy and they're paying taxes and they're contributing to our country, can we create a pathway but also have the strongest border?
These ideas were addressed through a compromise that was led by a very far right-wing conservative from Oklahoma, a Republican named James Langford, who cut a deal with Democrats. And Donald Trump and MAGA said, whoa, we can't give Biden a victory.
We need the immigration chaos so we can do the things, by the way, like you're seeing them do right now, even when it doesn't involve a migrant and even when Biden has been able to secure the border on his own after Republicans blew up the legislation that Biden was trying to do.
they wanted to inflict chaos they said that because they view the chaos as a winning issue for them again if you go back to what i said at the outset of this episode there used to be a time where that wasn't what would happen i mean think about it the civil rights act for example that was passed the voting rights act that was passed just think about major sweeping pieces of legislation that ultimately the right-wing courts have now gutted
because of congress's inability to agree or do anything but the right wing then got uh their courts and getting federalist judges on to basically repeal the key portions of the civil rights act and the voting rights act and and all of those things but
just think that there used to be a time even if you look at campaign finance mccain feingold there used to be ways to rein in the limits and then the far right wing and maga the precursor to maga and tea party and all of these groups got the citizen united case to basically destroy mccain feingold and to destroy all these bipartisan pieces of legislation and then right now
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Chapter 3: What happened at Trump’s New Year’s event?
and then what happens is the american people i'm not saying everybody but enough people go the democrats can't do anything oh the democrats they promised student debt relief uh they only did x amount of billion dollars but what happened to all the rest it's like the republicans blocked it so why are you going to reward the republicans here and the issue that the democrats have to face if i'm being candid is that they get attacked on that very issue from both sides
It's the Democrats. They can't catch a break because they're being attacked by the MAGA people for the student debt relief, for example.
And then they're being attacked also by folks on the left saying that they didn't do enough and with people refusing to acknowledge that they certainly tried and put a lot of political capital into many of these things, but were blocked by the Republicans or in some cases blocked by people like Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, who were Democrats in wolves clothing, who-
quite frankly, deserve a whole lot more scorn even than they have received for torpedoing much of President Biden's agenda that would have greatly improved people's lives, helped the working class, provided people with childcare, universal pre-K, higher minimum wage, all that stuff, which the Democrats pushed very hard to try to achieve, was torpedoed by these very bad actors, Jordy.
They torpedo this, these GOP, these MAGA Republicans torpedo so much, Brett, even beyond just what you're talking about, the student loan. The PACT Act, do you got like one of the images that stands out to me? So it's just so clear in my mind is when Ted Cruz was fist bumping on the floor after the Republicans voted no against the PACT Act.
That right there, and that's why they do this whole narrative building, Brett and Ben, it's to distract you. They don't want you looking at the real issue. The person from Las Vegas, for example, Brett, who blew up the Tesla, he was also a veteran. I think there needs to be a deeper understanding here of what's going on with
our veterans here and a true love and appreciation, admiration that the Democrats genuinely have for our veterans versus what the Republicans are trying to do, which is distract you from these issues and try and make you look over here, look at the border, look at the border, look at this. Don't ask these questions.
When Democrats actually truly love and care about our veterans and actually want to make sure that there's enough resources for them to go to if they need them. Right. That's what that's the bigger issue that I'm seeing here. The through line of New Orleans and Las Vegas right now is how can we help our veterans who very clearly, you know, need help at times?
And we want to be the party that helps them. And the Democrats are actually the party that genuinely cares, not Ted Cruz fist bumping after he votes no to the burn pits.
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Chapter 4: How is Trump’s stance on H-1B visas inconsistent?
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Is MAGA Mike Johnson gonna remain the Speaker of the House? Well, we'll find out shortly, but there are a lot of Republicans who are at least posturing that they don't want Mike to have that role. He's either not MAGA enough or too MAGA. There's infighting taking place. Look, Donald Trump has said that he wants to keep MAGA Mike as the speaker, but
The reason Donald Trump wants to do that is Trump realizes that if MAGA Mike is not named the speaker and there is a protracted speaker battle, then the electoral votes may not be counted on time on January 6th. Could you imagine after Trump leading the insurrection back in 2020 to try to overthrow
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