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Trump’s Advisors Warn of Midterm Disaster in November

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump's own White House advisors sounding the alarm about what could be coming in the November midterms, as they privately warn that Trump's behavior an...

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Magnery publicans are in panic mode right now as their voters are just done w...

I mean, you have ranchers in Michigan who are saying things like this. Let's play this clip.

Well, he needs a resigned as that's bottom line.

Get something in there and note that. Yeah, and the latest reporting from Bloomberg, you got Magnery publicans seeing Trump's unceasing Iran war is what they call unceasing Iran war as a midterm threat. You think, and it's sites top White House advisors. These are the top White House outside advisors who spoke on conditions of anonymity to Bloomberg.

And here's what they are saying.

Republican strategist worry, there's no way to keep the Iran war from hurting the party's prospects in November's midterm elections. The continuing hostilities have demoralized GOP voters who sent Trump to the White House in order to tame inflation and keep the U.S. out of overseas, complex compounding Republican fears

is Donald Trump's apparent lack of concern.

Then it says over here, how several outside advisors to the White House. I mean, these are people who are currently hired to advise the White House in an outside capacity granted anonymity to speak candidly. Said they do not expect the war to be resolved or gas prices to go down before November. They also worry that the White House has damage its credibility on Iran after Trump's repeated

claims that the straightive war moves is open to ship traffic and that gas prices are falling. What do you mean? I thought that everybody believed Barack Revit over at Axios that the United States is powerfully indominating the straightive war moves because Donald Trump and Pete Heggsett said, oh wait, nobody's buying that. Also, nobody's buying that Donald Trump's claim that he just did the biggest deal ever with

Venezuela and the U.S. has conquered it and it's taken over 65 billion barrels of oil provable

reserves underneath Venezuela. That's going to solve the oil crisis right now. No one buys any of this crap treasury secretary, bessance, market manipulation, crap, nobody's buying. People know what their gas prices are. Gas prices are surging to record highs. They're at record highs. Diesel is at record highs right now. Donald Trump's screwing over our ranchers. You heard from that rancher over there in Michigan. These were ranchers who were at a beef show in

Michigan. He said, these are people who voted for Trump. They're like, resign 25th amendment please get the hell out of here. Ranchers are outraged over Trump's move to flood the market with 300,000 metric tons of discounted frozen beef from overseas. Make America great again. And then you have the head of the RNC, chairman Joe Grudders. I mean, look at this pathetic loser. He does the American flag facing. He's all. We just have to be meaner to these people. I mean, these people are

a bunch of losers and we need to stop normalizing these individuals and act like they know what the hell they're doing. This is the chair of the RNC, Joe Grudders. And he's like, we're two weeks away from Trump, a pollosa, everybody in Dallas. Everybody be there. December 9th and December 10th, it's going to be a rockin' in Dallas, everybody. Okay. First of it, conflicts with the NFL. Number one. Number two, nobody wants to go to the midterm convention and be on stage with Donald Trump.

He is poison right now to this country. He wants to make it all about himself where he's going

to say affordability. It's a hoax. I've never heard of that word. It's a new word that they must have

invented. No Republicans want to be on stage with this guy. But you know, and then on the September 11th, 25th anniversary, Trump's refusing to show up to Manhattan because they're not allowing him to do a speech because he wants to do like a political propaganda speech on 9/11. So he's like, I'm not going. So you're going to have, but partying the day before the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Joe Grudders seems to think that's a good idea. Here's what he had to say playing this clip.

Joe Grudders, Republican National Committee Chairman here, here outside the America Irline Center, we're in just two weeks. We're going to have the biggest midterm convention in the history of the party. You could join us. Go to GOPconvention.com. You hear tickets? It's going to be awesome. It's going to be a Trump or Pelosi. We're going to hear from the president, the vice president, and 109 different speakers. Make sure you get your tickets and let's go.

Checking in with Maga Mike Johnson. Hey, maga Mike. What do you think about all of this here?

Maga Mike Johnson gave an interview just now. Over B roll of Trump and Maga Mike's like, it's not unlawful for crazy people to run for office. That's happened throughout the history of

Our country.

to stop the crazy people. Hello, we've seen in what you all been doing for the past two years. You're weird. You're crazy. You're dangerous. You're war criminals. You cover up child sex trafficking. I mean, you cover up the empty house. You all have caused so much pain and have behaved like such lunatics. It is outrageous. And then you're like, well, they're the crazy ones.

Let's play this clip. But you're getting to an important point there. You know, it's a

constitutional attorney. I mean, we've been thinking about this researching it again. Not a lot of precedent on this. I mean, it's not unlawful for crazy people to run for office. That's happened

throughout the history of our country. Never at this level and never a number of people who are

so determined to rip the constitution in half. I mean, listen, all right, speaking of who the crazy ones are. Have you seen this? Let's zoom in on Texas right here. Let's take a look at some of these mega Republican candidates. Shall we? So this is Ken Paxton right here. His team posted this. They think this makes them look good. The future of our state and the future rides,

a future of our country rides on this race here playing this clip. But the future of our state and

the future of our country rides on this race. So I'm out fighting. Okay. Okay. Let's check in and see what's going on with mega Republican Senator for Maine, Senator Collins, who tries to pretend that she's a centrist and she's like, I'm so disappointed that Donald Trump has destroyed the livelihoods of the lobster men in Maine and destroyed our hospitality industry and destroyed the lives of people in Maine. I'm so utterly disappointed. Watch me take a champagne bottle and slam it into the

whole of it. Watch what happens here. The video speaks for itself. You're playing this clip. And so let's take a look at the energy, though, at the James Tallarico huge crowd in the

Rio Grande Valley. Let's play this clip. And I will share with you. Let's take a look at

check in right here. So much energy with Ken Paxton. Let's play it. And then they did a bizarre outdoor prayer thing with Ken Paxton. Let's play it.

Your blessings be upon him, Bob. You've brought him on this amazing journey and we're

glad you guys got so much to store him. But Lord God, you pick our info. And now I want to share with you James Tallarico because we should highlight what the contrast looks like as these mega Republicans are flailing and as the insiders and the Trump advisors are like, we are screwed. We're likely going to lose both the house and the Senate. Let's play this clip of Tallarico. I am running for LBJ's Senate seat. And like Lyndon Johnson, I was a public school teacher

before I ran for office. In office, LBJ made the largest investment in America's children and families that this country has ever seen. Headstart, title one, Medicare, Medicaid, public television, the Loading Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act. When we win back LBJ's Senate seat, we can pass an LBJ's size investment in America's public students. We can give every Texas teacher a long overdue pay raise. We can pass universal child care and paid family land. So no one has to

cheat between raising a family and earning a living. We can expand the child tax credit and make it permanent. So no child in the wealthiest nation on earth is growing up in poverty. We can do that when we win LBJ's Senate seat. We can slash the red tape that is preventing us from building

millions of new homes and we can provide assistance to first-time home buyers so that every

American has a place they can call home. And we can fight to the end nail against any and

All attacks on Medicare and we can force the wealthiest in this country to pa...

into social security. So we can all afford a retirement ticket. But all Donald Trump was saying

on Friday. He's fricky fricky fricky. Tell a freak out. That's all these magas have. They're losers.

They name goes tell a freaky everybody. Okay, when you want to talk about, you want to talk about the fricky. You want to talk about real six shit. Excuse my language. Looking to freaking mirror man and look at all of the people who are surrounding you. It's like the weirdest strangest group. But it's all projection with this crowd. That's all they've got. And you know

what? The bottom line too. They have made the United States look like such losers on the world stage.

That's one of the things that I don't think no matter what your political party you can ever forgive about these Republicans. They made us all look like the biggest losers ever. And we should never have gotten into these catastrophic and unlawful wars, the war crimes, all of the horrific conduct. I mean, the attacks on our greatest ally, Canada, the attacks on NATO, all of

this behavior. I think it's also worth reflecting on as Canada knows, as Iran knows, as they know

as they know. These people are losers leading the country. Here's Trump like Tally Freco play this clip. Thank you. So I'll be going to Texas and we're working very hard. We want to win that race.

He's running against a man we should never be with a very good candidate, Ken Paxon. And he's running

against Tally Freco. They call it because he is a little freaky. And that's not a man that represents the value of Texas. So I'm going to help Ken Paxon. And I'm going to spend a lot of time in Texas. Show you this brilliant new ad from James Tallyrico, Torching Ken Paxon, brilliant stuff right here. Let's play it. Ken Paxon is the most corrupt politician in Texas. Since taking office, Ken Paxon's net worth has increased 7,000%. He now owns 15 homes. Well, most Texans can't afford

one. Ken Paxon was impeached by his own party for taking drives from wealthy donors while blocking overtime pay for Texas workers and gutting our healthcare. We cannot afford Ken Paxon's corruption. I'm James Tallyrico. And I approve this message. Now let's check in on Dr. Abdual L. Sayed.

Here's what he had to say again, absolutely brilliant. U.S. National Degis hit $40 trillion. Stop!

Let's talk about this for a minute. You know what Republicans are going to tell you. They're going to tell you. We have a national debt of $40 trillion. We can't passably pay for Medicare for all or universal childcare or anything else for that matter. We got to cut it all. But it might be worth trying to figure out why our national debt just got too big. They cut taxes on the richest people because the end of the day a debt balance is about the amount of money

in and the amount of money out. Republicans always like to do one thing with our money. They don't want to give you healthcare. They don't want to give you childcare. They don't want to address our broken infrastructure or our failing public schools. You know what they want to do? They want to go to war. And Donald Trump came to power saying this. Well, under Trump, we will have no more wars, no more wars, no more wars. And then he did this. The United States military began

major combat operations in Iran. Billions of your tax payer dollars being spent wasted in the war. He doesn't know how to get out of it. So now we've got $40 trillion in debt. And yeah, we got to do something about it. So here's my plan. I think billionaires should pay their fair share. We should tax billionaires their wealth. And the loopholes that big corporations use to get out of paying their taxes. We should close them.

And then you should do. Stop going to dumb ass horse.

Okay, so mega Republicans who are advising Donald Trump are very nervous. What would you be nervous about? I don't know. Trump posting yesterday. Lake America predicted by Donald Ducks. Oh, very, uh, this is what the American people want to see. Is that even funny? These are real people's lives, man. Your tariffs and your trade war against Canada is part of the factors that have increased costs so much on people. No, this isn't funny. People don't do 21,000 stock trades like

you do and manipulate markets. And they don't get to do quid pro quotes with the UAE. And now we know one of the, uh, leaders of the UAE has an additional 49% stake of the world liberty financial bank, which just got an exemption. So you can now operate as a bank. That's an addition to the hundreds of millions of dollars that were given by the UAE to the Trump company in addition to the crypto. And addition to all, most most people right now really can't even afford groceries. And they've had

Their healthcare ripped away.

It's not funny. And Canada's our ally. This behavior is just sick here. Play this clip.

And he's just been on a tariff. That's what he's posting. Uh, the next one was, uh, AI Trump

replacing Lake Ontario sign with Lake America. Then he dances to the YMCA. All he's so outrageous. What a crazy guy. Let's forget that he's a war criminal. And he's eating in a bed in genocide. And he slaughtered little girls in Iran. And he lost the catastrophic war in the strait of our moves of school clothes and oil and diesel and gases that record highs right now. And that he screwed up everything. And his trade war against the world backfire. And he didn't end the war in

Ukraine in 24 hours like he promised. And he lies about, oh, well, it's just forget because he's doing crazy stuff. He's looking at him. He's doing YMCA dances. So freaking pathetic here. Let's play this clip right here. Yeah, and then as I reported yesterday morning, house GO peers in private meeting are continuing to say Trump is exhausting our voters. We're not helping ourselves today when we decide to rent

rename Lake Ontario, Lake America. Bullwark got the scoop at Oklahoma State University where a Magga Republic in Congresswoman Stephanie Bice. She was speaking with the group of students and others at the university. And she said the challenge that we have is that we have to get over the narrative that I don't like this guy. So I'm going to vote for the Democrat because I'm telling you right now I'm hearing it already. And what happens is this will have an impact on me because two things will

either happen. They're going to vote for the Democrat and they may split the ticket and vote for

me and a few others or this is my bigger fear right now. People don't go to vote. That's what

they're saying about their Magga Republic in base right now and everything's going on. But according to Magga Mike Johnson, we are now quite literally locked into a contest to determine whether we're going to keep our republic because he says despite the fact that magas have controlled the house, the Senate, the executive branch, which they literally destroying the White. It's actually demolished it. And the court, the Supreme Court, they said that Democrats are the ones who pose an existential

threat. Really? Because the last time I checked, you also now have increased the debt over $40 trillion. What about doge? Where are we going to get dividend checks? Where are we going to get rebate checks? You made us a lot of promises. But guess what? I guess like Donald Trump's whole life where he bankrupted to this casino, that casino, this thing, that thing. I guess it's all one giant fraud because y'all are just a bunch of con artists. And frankly, you're a bunch of communist

con artists too. And you have a deranged form of communism that also benefits only two interests.

Donald Trump and foreign countries apparently, okay? Because that's what we're saying.

Anyway, here's what Magga Mike says. You're playing this clip. Yeah, this is not a game.

I mean, we, you know, we've said even a few years ago, Republicans and Democrats and Congress are arguing over marginal tax rates and states of regulation. We are now quite literally locked into a contest to determine whether we're going to keep our republic to keep the country as it is, or to break this thing down to the foundation and go to an entirely different road instead of principles towards communism. That's the balance. And look, we're right. I mean, Donald Trump

announced yesterday that we are creating a Trump owned oil company in the United States, a government owned oil company without congressional approval that's ceasing 65 billion barrels of oil from Venezuela. Really good luck with that. You understand the way the oil actually works in Venezuela that it that that the crude there is actually a very dense, sour viscous type material that you need to actually build refining capacities for it. That there actually is no written deal

it violates the Venezuelan Constitution and the United States Constitution because we're going to just keep on lying. Just lie about everything. Oh, I mean, just a bunch of freaking liars all day. Anyway, everybody, we'll keep you posted every step of the way. Hit subscribe. Let's get to seven

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