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Chapter 1: Why are MAGA Republicans criticized on TV?
The MAGA Republicans who went on the weekend shows were just a total utter disaster, blowing up on live TV and saying the most ridiculous, dangerous, and outrageous things. For example, you had Peter Navarro, one of Donald Trump's top trade advisors. He was asked, what's your message to the American people about these tariffs? Because people are getting hurt. By the way, this was on Fox.
And Navarro said, my message is that tariffs are a tax cut, that tariffs are great, that tariffs will make you rich, all lies. But here's Navarro. How do you know he's lying? He's opening up his mouth. Play this clip.
You heard Lucas's reporting there where the president says he doesn't care if the prices go up on US cars. So what's the message to the US consumer?
The message is that tariffs are tax cuts, tariffs are jobs, tariffs are national security, tariffs are great for America, tariffs will make America great again.
Folks, I've said it before and let me say it again, a tariff is a literal tax on on the consumer, it is passed by the importer onto the consumer. And it is what is causing all of this destruction in our economy right now, which was very easy to predict it was going to happen because in the past it was the cause of Great Depressions.
And Donald Trump is now bringing the United States not just into a Great Recession, but a Great Depression. So then CNN and other corporate news, they try to bring on the Republicans who pretend to be not MAGA, you know, the Republicans who pretend to be the normies, but they're actually MAGA through and through. For example, MAGA Republican Senator
James Lankford, he's asked about these tariffs and he knows the destruction the tariffs are causing to the economy and that it's a wrecking ball. So the way he tries to describe it is he's like, you know, when you're remodeling your kitchen or you're remodeling your living room, It's kind of like that.
It's going to feel messy at first and perhaps uninhabitable, but we'll get through this just like your kitchen being remodeled. Play this clip.
I feel like in some ways in the economy, this is kind of like a kitchen remodel or a bathroom model. There's a bit of a mess at the beginning, but everybody has a long-term look of where we're headed. It's going to be noisy for a little while, but we all know where we're headed trying to reduce the prices for Americans and increase jobs.
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Chapter 2: What are the controversies surrounding Trump's tariffs?
I had Democratic Congresswoman and Democratic whip Catherine Clark on the Midas Touch show this weekend. And here's what Congresswoman Clark told me about Trump's expansionist policies. Play this clip.
And my real fear is it is gonna be generations for us to recover our place in this world, our leadership as a democracy that values the rule of law and this sort of expansion policy. Denmark, Canada, they're now the enemies, the states that we have to draw a hard line with. And we elected this strong man who rolls over on his back for Putin,
abandons our democratic ally in Ukraine and we're sending the vice president and his wife to a contained base in Greenland because the people of Greenland don't want them outside of that base. I mean, what?
Then you had Democratic Senator Bennett on Meet the Press, by the way, at the same time that Donald Trump called into Kristen Welker, not on Meet the Press, but Donald Trump talked about that he's not joking. He wants a third term. He wants to be a dictator, just another blip in the Trump regime news cycle that he's not going to leave office. He said he wants to conquer Greenland.
He's going to take it one way or another and doesn't rule out military force. Oh, Donald Trump also said that he could care less that prices are going up. Doesn't matter to him. And he doesn't even know what signal is. That's what he told Kristen Welker. Anyway, here's Democratic Senator Bennett play this clip.
Do you believe that directors Ratcliffe and Gabbard were truthful when they testified before your committee?
No, I think they lied repeatedly to our committee and to the House committee. Kristen, let me try to make this as simple as I can. I think the American people know this. If this material was not classified, literally nothing that I've ever heard as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee over all these years is classified. I wish I could say that we have deep, dark secrets that are even...
more classified than this, but it's not true. This targeting information in real time, everybody knows it's classified. And I think that's why you see the American people, no matter what party they're in, are so deeply concerned about not just what happened, but I think the lies that are being told about what happened.
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