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Chapter 1: Who is Ben Meiselas and what is his perspective on Donald Trump?
When I say that Donald Trump is a felon, a fraud, and a sexual abuser, it's because he's those things. He's also a bankruptor. He's a destroyer, not a builder. And so when you see Donald Trump make a post like he did last night, saying that great progress was made in the trade talks with China, we're going to do a total reset in our economic relations with China. This is going to be great.
Trump is a con artist. Now look, I hope that our economy can do great. But Trump, you wrecked it. You declared a trade war against the world. You have been saying that tariffs are the greatest thing ever. Then why are you negotiating to remove the tariffs if you're saying the tariffs are the greatest thing ever?
You have your treasury secretary saying this is all part of the, this is a direct quote, crazy Ivan strategy. where Donald Trump injects strategic uncertainty into the markets. And then we try to make deals in periods of strategic uncertainty, which is no, it's just Donald Trump waking up, posting deranged and demented things and screwing over main street and
and then manipulating the markets and helping his billionaire and oligarch friends while we the people don't even know if our small businesses and medium-sized businesses are going to be able to survive because we don't get the special exemptions that Apple and all of Donald and Bezos and all of these people get.
So here's what Donald Trump posted last night after the first day of discussions between China and the United States over Donald Trump's trade war against China and the world. America has 145% tariffs against China. China has similar tariffs against the United States. There's an effective trade embargo. Shipments are not coming into our ports anymore.
We're about to run out of goods and products that are not going to be on these shelves. And so here's what Donald Trump posts. He goes, a very good meeting today with China and Switzerland. Many things discussed, much agreed to. A total reset negotiated in a friendly but constructive manner. We want to see, for the good of both China and the U.S., an opening up of China to American business.
Great progress made! It's almost like the arsonist showing up at the scene of the fire. and basically saying, look, I'm going to try to put this all out. Let me be the hero. A total reset of the fire that was created. You made the mess. And then when Donald Trump uses language like a total reset negotiated, and again, Donald, aren't you saying that tariffs are the greatest things?
So if tariffs are the greatest thing in the world and we're getting super rich with 145% tariffs on China, and as you said in press conference after press conference, you think it's a great thing that ships aren't coming into our ports, then why are you trying to negotiate deals that are going to remove the tariffs and reset that? Shouldn't you be celebrating how rich we are?
No, because it's all a scam. It's all a fraud. It's to help Donald Trump's rich billionaire oligarch friends.
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Chapter 2: What are the contradictions in Trump's trade war policies with China?
Congress members and senators trying to reach out to Canadians in order to get Canadians to stay in the United States longer. We know Canadians have gone elbows up. They're not traveling to the United States anymore, and they're not buying, by and large, lots of American products. But on a bipartisan basis, people realize that Donald Trump's attack on Canada is not a good thing.
But of course, they don't want you to know this on right-wing media. So there's not a single right-wing media that's reported on that, which I think is an interesting data point as well. I'll show you what right-wing media is reporting on in a second, but it's essential for me to get my research right. And one of the tools that I use is something called Ground News.
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And what I use there is a feature called Blind Spot, where I find what are they not talking about in the right-wing ecosphere. Now, let's talk about what these MAGA Republicans are actually talking about on their right-wing echo chambers.
They have all these MAGA Republican media people and members of Congress who keep on going to the concentration camps in El Salvador, which, by the way, it's a violation of the parade yourself in front of a group of like, you know, prisoners like that in order to use them as props. But here you have Matt Gaetz and MAGA Republican Congress member Andy Ogles right there.
As our editor-in-chief, Ron Filipkowski, calls it, is this like MAGA porn hour? Like, what the hell are they even doing there? And then you have Matt Gaetz bragging about the OAN exclusive first look. And he goes, trend day, Aragua members in El Salvador, Seacott prison. Look, at the end of the day, there's something called due process in the United States. You go through the process.
If someone's involved in a crime, There's ramifications for the crimes. It's just that simple. If you don't believe in due process, then you don't believe in the United States system. That's what this is all about. It should not even be a debate that is taking place. Another fact about OAN as well.
One of the things that state regime, the Trump regime wants to do is to use the OAN feed as part of the international broadcasts that Kerry Lake wants to show to all of these other nations. Take a look at what Trump's also been posting as well. Attacking wind energy, how the global wind power industry is losing steam.
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