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MAGA Mike Cancels Hearings as He Loses Control!!!

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Republican Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson losing all control of the House and trying to cancel all hearings in order to avoid subpoenas and accountability. Wild A...

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They're trying to shut down under oath hearings and the house of representatives now and move

towards more informal round tables. And specifically, they're afraid that Democrats are using some of the formal committee hearings in order to issue formal subpoenas and to pressure

Republicans to join them in these subpoenas, regarding the Jeffrey Epstein investigation

and because magma johnson and James Comer are so desperate to cover up the Epstein files and Donald Trump's dark past, they're trying to figure out ways to just shut down committee hearings in general and move towards informal round tables. So not only is magma johnson constantly sending the house into recess for these long vacations, by the way, while we still have a partial government shut down right now. No one's really talking about that. But now they're trying

to shut down committee hearings as well. Magma Mike's also trying to cover up massive misconduct by lots of Republican Congress members. I'll get to that in a moment. And this all also coincides with the news that Republicans are working very hard behind the scenes with Donald Trump to try to get guillain Maxwell a pardon. Now James Comer who chairs the house oversight committee admitted on the record to Politico that lots of Republicans would like to see guillain Maxwell

pardon and that Republicans are working with Donald Trump to get guillain Maxwell a pardon.

Folks, I'm not being hyperbolic or exaggerating, it's basically a direct quote from Comer

that lots of Republicans want to see guillain Maxwell convicted child sex trafficker get a pardon. I'll show you that in just a moment. So here's some photos, though, a magma Mike on the health today as he was running away from reporters. And then we got the scoop from Politico, oversight chair, James Comer told me members of his panel are open to a pardon for guillain Maxwell, saying that that will help her share information with Congress. We must give her a pardon.

And here's the direct quote from Comer. When asked whether it was a favorable deal to issue a pardon in return for Maxwell's testimony, Comer told Politico a lot of people do. My committee is split on that he added, declining to name who on the house oversight committee wanted to give guillain Maxwell a pardon. He says, I don't speak for my committee. You quite literally speak for your committee. You are the chair of the committee, meaning you speak for the

committee. And you are saying that it's split. So if it's split, pretty much means all Republicans favor, because all Democrats have come out and said they don't favor giving guillain Maxwell a pardon. Democratic Congress member Robert Garcia, who does speak for the Democrats on the committee,

said none of us support a pardon for guillain Maxwell. What the hell are you even talking about?

Now, this is the part where we learn about magma jonson, then working with James Comer to stop subpoenas from being issued by house committees, especially as it relates to the Epstein investigation. So they want to give guillain Maxwell a pardon. Number one, they don't want to allow subpoenas to issue. And again, I'm just giving you objective facts. I'm not speaking in any political terms. This is just the reality of what's happening. Political reports that

James Comer working with magma jonson, they're work around for trying to avoid subpoenas

In the Epstein investigation is to hold round tables on various issues within...

rather than hearing. And they got this idea from Pam Bondi. Remember when Bondi refused to show

up to her subpoena deposition. And instead, she wanted to do a round table where not under oath.

She can just spew the Donald Trump talking points. Democrats are getting aggressive, though, about this and calling it out. Democratic Congress member Robert Garcia as the ranking member of the House over site committee and other House Democrats called this out in a public memo, almost like an open letter to the public about what Republicans are trying to do.

Here's what Democrats are saying in this public memo. In a development with little precedent

in modern congressional history, oversight Republicans have suspended the use of traditional committee hearings in favor of conducting informal off the record round tables. This decision is a direct reaction to oversight, Democrats successfully working with bipartisan majorities to force subpoenas advancing the Epstein investigation. Since representative Garcia

became ranking member in July 2025, the committee has made seven successful subpoena motions

issuing 18 subpoenas, all with the support of a bipartisan majority of the committee. These motions and their resulting subpoenas have been opposed by Republican leadership. Oversight Republicans are avoiding hearings to block bipartisan subpoena motions they are losing. This shift doesn't just affect committee procedure. It limits Congress's ability to uncover the truth and hold powerful actors accountable. Round tables mean no rules, no accountability, no subpoena, and no official

records. And it's becoming a big, big problem. The use of round tables in place of hearings is not a regular practice in other committees. And again, the Democrats are calling out this behavior. The House over site Democrats put out the following statement. Chairmen, Comer and Republican leaders are now canceling hearings and are running scared from oversight Democrats. They want to eliminate our ability to make motions, call witnesses,

and subpoena and administration officials. After seven bipartisan motions resulting in 18 successful subpoenas, it seems that the White House and the Speaker are now trying to stop our progress. But we won't stop biting until we get justice for the Epstein survivors and stop the Trump corruption. I'll be honest, I got so tired of buying seafood at the store that look

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Now, what else has happened in the past 24 hours? G-Lane Maxwell, who Republicans want to pardon while Republicans are not trying to hold any more public hearings with subpoena power, regarding G-Lane or other topics relating to the Epstein files or in general. G-Lane Maxwell sent a mysterious USB drive to the Justice Department days after Melania Trump sought to distance herself from the pairs, heinous sex crimes, the pair being G-Lane and Jeffrey Epstein that is. And so here's

what we're learning about. This letter that was sent from G-Lane Maxwell, the Justice Department told a federal judge in the Southern District of New York, the government respectfully simits this letter

To, you see, the date April 21st.

Okay. I'm not arguing. I'm not debating. I'm just sharing with you fact fact fact, right?

The government respectfully simits this letter to notify the court that on April 20th, 2026,

it received the defendants amended motion to vacate her conviction and sentence, pursuant to 28 USC section 2255 and two, to request that the court permit the government to file its response to the defendants amended motion by June 5th, and it talks about how a mysterious thumb drive was sent to the Justice Department. Again, while all of the stuff I told you's taking place, where G-Lane's asking to have her conviction vacated. Okay? So that brings us to

what's going on in the halls of Congress. Magamig Johnson is asked about Cory Mills, this magna Republican Congress member from Florida who has restraining orders against him, for misconduct regarding women who has been involved in lots of very serious allegations by women against him. Lots of people are saying he should resign. Rational people, people who care about

other human beings, people who don't like despicable misconduct like this, but what in magamig Johnson

have to say about the sexual misconduct? Here's what magamig Johnson said, play this clip.

We are always concerned when allegations of inappropriate behavior and certainly sexual misconduct are made against members. If you talk to Representative Mills and he's entitled to do that, he has said that all of these allegations are untrue. He is working through that. There's a doop process that is he is allowed and they're going through that process as or as have all the other members. And then more for magamig Johnson as he tries to run away, while reporters are asked

and he shouldn't Cory Mills have to resign. Democrats are resigning. So why not Cory Mills? You're just going to support your members who engage in heinous, despicable, grotesque conduct, watch magamig run away. Let's play it. Cory Mills has asked him not to resign. Is that correct? Cory Mills is going through the same doop process that was afforded to surefulness McCormick and anyone else who has allegations made against them. I've asked an answer to this question a thousand times. He is in the middle of an

ethics committee process. And so everyone is due the opportunity to present their defenses and go through that. He's supporting his reelection. He's supporting his reelection. He is in a combat and I'm in charge of getting all the incumbents Republican incumbents reelected. And so of course that was all done well before any of these allegations were coming out. But he has the right

to answer to the allegations and that's what they're doing. And I'm done commenting on it. I can't.

The speaker of the house is not put a thumb on the scale for the ethics committee investigation. They do good work as has been exhibited here in the last few hours. So let's let the committee process play out. Let's see where it goes. Thanks for taking. And folks, what else is going on in Washington D.C. with this Trump and MAGA crew? Well, one of the top counter-telted intelligence officials, a 29-year-old lady by the name of Julia Vervaro, was uncovered to be embroiled

in the sugar daddy community. Secret sugar daddy sex scandal explodes inside Trump's counter-terrorism headquarters. So Donald Trump's top counter-telted counter-terrorism official senior aide,

like she's basically like number two or number three in the hierarchy and counter-terrorism.

Her text messages were made public by one of these sugar daddy's who she apparently screwed over. You see this guy here holding signs next to her saying she's horny. They took these photos together. This was part of their sugar daddy sexual exploits. And they got in and there she is with Donald Trump. And they apparently got into an argument her and one of the sugar daddy's over the amount of money she was asking and then this broken and went public. Now a DHS official

tells me that the 29-year-old Julia Vervaro, DHS assistant secretary of counter-terrorism, 29-year-old. No experience, sugar daddy community. By the way, I don't care if you're in the sugar daddy community or not. I'm not again. You've known before, like when we talked about Christy Nomes, husband who was involved in bimboification or something or whatever it was and he would like to dress up and cross dress or whatever it's called, you know, and where triple E fake

boobs and whatever it was. I don't mock. I'm not here to mock people's what they do privately. But when in public they harass other people and cause problems for other people and judge and cause pain in other people's life. I just point out the hypocrisy. And also when it comes to this, this is clearly the top counter-terrorism official could be very much compromised with this type of behavior. So she was apparently placed on leave when it was uncovered that she was involved in all

Of this stuff.

There she is in front of Trump's photos and also reminds me. So she's one of the top counter-terrorism officials. You know who the other one is, right? It's this guy Thomas Fugate, the Department of Homeland

Security, he's the top guy. He leads counter-terrorism and he's never had any experience. He's one

year out of college. No national security experience. So the top counter-terrorist counter-terrorism

counter-terrorist officials, I think this story is tripping me up just even talking about these people.

People are Thomas Fugate, one year out of college and the sugar daddy, lady, 29 years old. And then our labor secretary, New York Post reported was involved in boo stashes, strip club visits with subordinates, relationships with subordinates. Her husband, now she's the former labor secretary,

was barred from going into the labor department because the building, because there was two female

staffers accused him of sexual assault inside the building. I just want to say this. I want to say this. And you're like, Ben, how is all of this happening? And look at Donald Trump's background. He's a sick guy. He's a sex Donald Trump. This is being, what, what do you expect when the guy leading this cabal is a sexual predator? Right? Trump was found civilly liable for sexual assault. He's a sexual predator. He's on camera bragging about sexual assault that he grabs women by

their generals because he's rich and you get away with these on audio bragging about inspecting girls, naked at beauty pageants because when you're the owner of beauty pageants, he says,

that's what you do. You inspect them naked. He's a guy who speaks in front of,

in a high school in talks about golden showers in Iowa. I mean, I have video of them. I can play the video of it. But, you know, he's, he's like, I don't like golden showers. He's the guy who speaks in front of young Republicans and says bragging about sexually assaulting women is locker room talking. It's a courageous thing to call it locker room talk. So it's shocks the conscience that this conduct exists. But it shouldn't be surprising that it's arising out of a

Trump, because Trump's the sick guy. He's disgusting. He's a disgusting human being. And we need to stop normalizing all of this. We need to have hearings in Congress, not round tables, where we can issue subpoenas, and there could be accountability for the Epstein survivors, for the victims of all of this corruption for the American people. That's not a Democrat or Republican or independent talking point. That should be a universal human truth talking point.

And that's what this network's about. So magma Mike, you can run, you can hide,

but the people will hold you accountable. I'll leave you all with this. This is Corey Mills running away from reporters on Capitol Hill yesterday about whether he will reside. Let's play it. Are you putting this, you're seeing that risk here for the Republicans? No, I don't feel so loved. I'm the third lowest Republican seat in this state of Florida.

It's always going to be a Democrat targeted seat. The reality is this. I have zero criminal

civil cases that are open against me. Now, many people who resign, they resign because they're worried about either the findings of their investigation or they're worried about the fact that they've been found guilty or looking for expulsion. Clearly, that's not the case. The others, let's keep growing together.

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