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Trump's House Strategy Puts Mike Johnson in the Spotlight

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s strategy to keep the House shut down for the rest of the year so he can continue with zero checks and balances. Remember to subscribe to ALL t...

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"It's at 31 July." Magma Mike Johnson is in terror as it is increasingly clear that Donald Trump wants to shut down the house of representatives for the remainder of the year. I'll show you what Magma Mike is doing in just a moment as he is panicking and flailing and posting everything other than what he should be doing in the House of Representatives,

which is dealing with the war power's resolution as Donald Trump continues to escalate war against Iran. Now, when I say Donald Trump wants to permanently shut down the House of Representatives, if you look at the moves that he's making, he's doing things to create a constant state of gridlock, a constant state of infighting within the Magga Republicans in the House and the Senate

in order to ensure that no work is done, so he can continue to rule us in the authoritarian and to continue to engage in his unlawful war against Iran, which of course he just resumed last night.

Now, Donald Trump has just recently posted that he now wants $350 billion for the defense

department as part of what he's calling reconciliation 3.0 now previously. The Trump regime said all they needed was $67 billion, which is not really a little amount, but they said they needed $67 billion, because the defense department cannot pay its bills arising out of the catastrophic war in Iran, which we hoped potentially maybe it could be resolved with the memorandum of understanding a lowly newly Trump regime was going to

destroy that, which they've now done the MOU is basically shredded to pieces, which it was before anyway. Now the Trump regime notably is saying they need $350 billion or else, or else the defense department is going to be in shambles.

Now I believe that Donald Trump knows that number $350 billion when you combine it as

well with what else he's asking for, which is his voter suppression act called the savings of America, is something that the House of Representatives is not going to be able to pass. He doesn't have the votes for that in the United States Senate either, but I think Trump wants a constant state of gridlock and he's going to keep on moving the goal post, so nothing actually gets done, so he can reign like the authoritarian that he wants to be.

So this could be like the Russian Duma, not in session, I mean, one was the last time the House of Representatives even worked, and so Donald Trump is going to keep on trying to pull these stunts in order to keep the House basically shut down for the end of the year, while he and Netanyahu continue to escalate in the Middle East, which is what we're seeing happen right now, with Donald Trump launching a massive military strike against Iran as

war is back in Donald Trump destroys our economy, Donald Trump posted the following, and I'm going to show you what magma Mike's been posting, Donald Trump writes, the United

States military has never been stronger, even more powerful.

No other nation can do what we do, it's not even close. This year we said even more historic recruiting records, months ahead of schedule, they just lie about that, they lie about all their stats, morale has never been higher, lie about that. Our military's unmatched power was on full display during the celebration of 250 years of

American independence. Lies about that, what are you talking about, where you blew up all those fireworks at once, where you couldn't even see the fireworks, where you had an empty crowd that was our military

unfold display, what the hell are you even talking about?

We've never been hotter at the war department, he says, he says, when Congress returns, we must pass reconciliation 3.0, with $350 billion for defense, plus the save America. I'm calling on the House and Senate leadership to make this their number one priority, and ensure that the $350 billion in reconstruction 3.0 moves out of the budget committee as soon as Congress's back in session.

Our Donald Trump knows he will be putting the mega pinning, the mega Republicans in the

House against the mega Republicans in the Senate, that this will never be able to pass,

that there will be gridlock. It will result likely in a rule not being able to pass the house of rented representatives, and we will see the same cycle where MAGA MIX says, all right, everybody, let's go home. I want you to think about that before July 4th, MAGA MIX recessed everybody earlier that week until July 13th or July 14th, and then shortly thereafter, I think it's like

two more weeks where it's supposed to stay open, then they recess for August, and basically recess before midterms and meanwhile Donald Trump and Netanyahu escalate in the Middle East, they continue their war crimes in genocide, and that's what I think Donald Trump's

Looking to do right now is looking to do here.

I mean, remember, what Donald Trump did yesterday, he said on his own, he said, you know, what I am hereby declaring that these sanctions against Turkey for purchasing Russian defense systems. I am removing those sanctions. You imposed those sanctions Donald based, you imposed them in 2019, 2020 based on a law.

Remember those things passed by Congress in 2017, that said that if you buy Russian defense equipment, the way Turkey did, you can't get F-35s and there's other sanctions that Turkey bought the Russian air defense system, and therefore they received the sanctions. But Donald Trump wants to just be I hereby decree, this I hereby decree that, and I'll show you how you can see that, you know, he's pitting the house against the Senate, MAGA's

in the house versus MAGA's in the Senate to basically shut down all work. This is what James Colmer, who chairs the house oversight committee, MAGA Republican, here's what he says. He goes, to these Republicans in the Senate, you're too weak, you can't pass this, you

can't pass this, you can't pass this, you can't pass, you can't pass the 350 billion,

you can't pass this. Why are you so weak?

You need to get out of the way, watch what he says again, this is just a performative

stuff. He's carrying out Donald Trump's plan, you can see right here. Unless John Thunes talking exclusively with Mike Johnson, all that I'm hearing from the Senate leadership is that they don't have the votes, not only do they not have 60 votes, they don't have 50 votes, which I don't believe that.

You know, some of these Republicans say we can't vote for that because we could lose our election. I mean, are you that weak? That's my question to the, to any Republican Senator, that's not for that. Are you that weak to where if you vote for a valid ID to be shown to vote, you're going

to get beat in your home state? I mean, if you're that weak, you don't need to be a United States Senator. More from James Comer, right here, saying, and all the Democrats want to do if they take over the House of Representatives, they're going to be investigating Donald Trump. We don't want them investigations, okay, you're literally the investigation committee.

You are the House Oversight Committee, that's what you do when you hear that Donald

Trump made $2 billion on crypto, and that his meme coin wallet holders lost three and

a half to four billion. Yeah, that's something that you're supposed to investigate when he's flying around in a Atari jet and calling an Air Force one, that's something you should investigate. When you have all these Middle East countries, do these quid pro quotes and funnel him all this billions of dollars, that's something that you should investigate when the Trump

kids are getting hundreds of millions of not billions of dollars, that's something that you should investigate. You certainly want to to investigate when Hunter Biden was making $100,000 off one painting. That was part of your impeachment inquiry into former president Biden. You certainly wanted to investigate Hunter Biden receiving $50,000 a month when he was on

a board when Biden wasn't the president, and when Biden wasn't the VP, you made that part of your impeachment inquiry of former president Biden. But now this is what you're saying here, play this clip of James Comer.

This is just a perfect example of the Democrats, and I think that all they're going to do,

if they flip the house and become the majority of the house is investigated, harassed Donald Trump. And now let me interrupt for a moment with some major news that's not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration just announced that spending another $765 million in taxpayer money

to cancel four offshore wind projects. Under this deal, Chicago-based energy developer in energy will surrender its offshore wind leases in the New York fight off California's central coast and in the Gulf of Maine. And in return, the federal government will reimburse the company $765 million with an energy saying that it plans to redirect much of that money into building new natural gas power plants

in states like Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri, along with some geothermal projects. This is now the third major lease buyout by the Trump administration, bringing the total taxpayer cost to roughly $2.5 billion billion with a B to get companies to abandon offshore wind development, all because of Trump's bizarre crusade against wind energy. The announcement comes just after the administration dropped its appeal in a lawsuit brought

by 17 states after a federal court ruled its attempt to broadly halt wind development offshore was unlawful and rather than continuing that legal fight, the administration is now pursuing this different strategy, paying more companies to walk away from clean energy projects instead. So now taxpayers are being forced to bankroll the cancellation of renewable energy projects that were expected to provide electricity to millions and millions of people.

As other countries like China continue to expand their investments in clean energy like wind.

What do you think about the Trump administration's use of taxpayer money to c...

projects?

How important is climate policy to you and what are your thoughts on our climate coverage

here at my discharge? Now is the time that I need to hear from you, so leave a comment below and let me know what you think. Okay, Ben, back to you.

Now going back to MAGA Mike Johnson, as I said, I would, here's what MAGA Mike is

posting, cartoons like this. Make no mistake. We are in a fight to save the Republic and every American must take this seriously. We will not let Mini-Mom Donnie take over the greatest nation in the history of the world. Mini-Mom Donnie, what do you even talk, you're a little dude, like you're little MAGA

Mike, like you're calling him Mini-Mom Donnie, that you just named calling, I mean, it's just such weird behavioral and then MAGA Mike repost this. We just celebrated one year of Donald Trump's working family tax cuts and what have we seen? We've seen nothing.

We've seen devastation. We've seen economic recession where most Americans feel like they're in a great depression right now. Where Americans can't afford health care, where Americans can't afford groceries or they can afford gas.

They've had their health care ripped away, they can't afford homes, they can't afford rent. And then you just lie, manufacturing jobs are, no, they're not, we're in a jobs recession. Construction jobs are, no, they're not, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime. You know what, if people had jobs and they were being paid more money, that could be good.

But when they're being paid less than hospitality's down significantly, there's been massive job losses in the hospitality sector, which is a big sector of tips. So I think they'd prefer their jobs in order to get those tips and then he goes almost one million new jobs created. You're losing, we do the jobs report every month and you're like losing jobs and barely

making any jobs, record, breaking stock market.

That's what you want to tout the stock market is or record breaking.

It would be much higher right now if there were interest rates cuts and not interest rate increases, which is going to be taking place and under former president Biden, it was going up and all you had to do is ride that, but you screwed that up, registered apprenticeships up. It's making stuff up right over there.

And then you have people like the former speaker of the house, Kevin McCarthy. So he shows up because he sees mag and mic is acting all week. And this is what all the mag is going to talk about on Fox, they all want to talk about a grand platter and act like they haven't supported an in Donald Trump. Someone literally found liable in a federal court, Donald Trump found civil liable for sexual

assault by a federal jury in a civil case. Trump is on audio bragging about sexually assaulting women, but this is what they have no shame these mags. They'll say anything. Watch a Kevin McCarthy has to say play this clip.

The one thing I know about Republicans, when we had a very bad candidate and found out, we didn't vote for that person. We walked away for better for worse. When Matt Gates came forward, we got rid of them. Yeah.

Kevin McCarthy has always great to see you.

Thank you. Good to see you. And then you have mag or Republican Senator Kennedy say the same thing, basically, well you know, this guy's a predator, you don't want him anywhere in your power. What about Donald Trump?

What about literally your fear?

What about your fear, who bragged about the beauty pageants of girls?

He ran a beauty pageant with girls, and then he would brag about going into the locker room to look at the girls naked because he says you get to inspect him when you own the pageants. He says you can grab women by their generals when you're rich because you get away with it.

He's he brags that saying that's locker room talk.

Anyway, here's what Senator Kennedy has to say.

He knows that this guy is just he's a predator. He is a predator and you don't want him anywhere near power. These allegations of abuse and assault and disparaging our military call and then fat you deserve to die, said to one of our troops and the Nazi tattoo just goes on and on and it never seemed enough for your colleagues across the aisle in the Democratic Party to

chuck this guy into the latest rounds of allegations, thereby showing Senator Kennedy that for the Democrats they don't believe all women, they chuck that to the side when you're talking about a swing state and not talking about morality here, you're talking about electability, they're not counting up the victims of grant partners abuse, they're counting votes.

Senator Kennedy, the one and only, thank you so much for joining us, sir. And here's what the future house oversight chair, Congress member Robert Garcia had to say. Let's play this clip. Now, President Trump is on Air Force one right now headed to Turkey for the NATO conference. What goes through your mind when you see President Trump representing the United States

Of America at a conference like this?

Well, the first thing I think is I wish he wasn't on an airplane that was gifted to us

by Qatar and a foreign government. I mean, the idea of an American president representing the United States going to NATO on a jet given to us by another foreign country, I think, honestly, it's quite shameful. Beyond that, I do think that it's important for us to be at NATO. I think that I'm hopeful that the President understands that what's happening right now with

Ukraine and what the progress that they are making while limited is important. So I hope that conversation continues.

And I think, and I also think that the world, NATO, the UN, these are important institutions

that the U.S. should be a part of. And I think the fact that there's so many NATO countries that the President has continues to insult, whether it's Canada, whether it's our other neighbors across across the world, I hope it doesn't do that district. What does an end to the Ukraine Russia war look like for you and what do you think the United

States role in that should be? I mean, look, for me, it certainly includes the invasion of Russia to be it to end. And I think it's got to be obviously a position that Ukraine feels strongly about, obviously the fighting has got to be over, but I think, it's probably what peace looks like. That's really up to the Ukrainian people and our partners and allies around the world.

And then, magma, Mike, has the audacity to say, you know what, everybody? This election year is about normal, like where the normal guys and the Republican party, I'm magma, I've got a fear or Donald Trump, and then we've got the weirdos, the crazy, the Democrats.

That's what magma is in, okay, magma, I got it.

I see with all of you the audest, cult imaginable, where you've given away all of the checks and balances in our constitution to like a demented individual and Donald Trump who is getting us back into a war at Iran as the American people suffer.

But anyway, here's what, magma, I cast to say, let's play.

And since Mamdaani got elected in New York, I've been out of the campaign trail country why, across the coast, every swing district, the blue states, red states, saying the same thing. There are many Mamdaani's popping up running for Congress around the country and you better be very serious about this.

This is a serious threat to our whole system of government.

These are Marxists. It's communism, socialism, those are deviations of Marxism, begins with the opposite premise of America and it is a serious threat to us. These people want to say they're saying it out loud. They want to abolish all borders, they want to abolish all prisons, they want to defund

the police, they want to abolish the US Senate, they want to pack the Supreme Court, they want the government to take over control of all production. This is communism and it has led to the murder of innocent people, tens of millions of them in the 20th century alone. We have to fight this.

We're no longer just in an election cycle. We were saying it was common since versus crazy. Now it's common since versus communism and everybody needs to wake up. There you have it. Folks, let me know what you think.

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