GOP Leaders STUNNED as Dems go for KILL SHOT on LIVE TV

GOP Leaders STUNNED as Dems go for KILL SHOT on LIVE TV

Democrats came to fight and finally they’re going gloves off calling out these MAGA Republican leaders. Let me show you what went down on the uh weekend shows so you can see the dynamic here. I want to see more of this from the Democratic leaders pushing back and punching back. flag here. Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, here’s how he described Donald Trump’s trip of grift and bribes to three Middle East nations and what an absolute disgrace it was. Take it away, Senator Murphy. Let’s play it. In which I asked him about that $400 million jet that Qatar is offering to the president to the United States. President Trump said it would be quote stupid not to take it. What is your response to that argument that the US deserves the biggest plane and President Trump says it’s actually going to ultimately save the US money? So why did he choose these three countries to go to for his first major foreign trip? It’s not because these are our most important allies or the most important countries in the world. It’s because these are the three countries willing to pay him off. Every single one of these countries is giving Trump money. the plane from Qatar, an investment in his cryptocurrency scam from the UAE, and they are asking for national security concessions in return. This is the definition of corruption. Foreign governments putting money in the president’s pocket and in the United States giving them national concerned concessions that hurt our own security. By the way, the plane is not a gift to the American people. As the secretary said, it is going directly to Donald Trump. That library will take a decade to build. And so once he leaves the White House until the library is built, he gets to use that plane to fly around all of his billionaire friends while his policies result in millions of Americans losing their healthcare and having to pay higher costs. That is the definition of corruption. And Senator Murphy makes it very clear as well that during Trump’s first administration, he added more to the deficit than any president ever. by a lot. 25 to 30% of our deficit was caused by Donald Trump. Now with their horrible budget bill where they’re going to cut Medicaid, cut SNAP, a supplemental nutrition assistance program, they’re going to cut assistance for low-income people to have homes so they can give tax cuts to the billionaires. We’re talking about at least 6 trillion. I predict it’ll be more like 15 to 20 trillion dollars that are going to be added to the deficit here. Play this clip. Downgrading the nation’s credit rating. And of course, they do cite the debt uh that the nation has accured of course over decades in Democratic and Republican administrations. Why didn’t Democrats do more to address the debt when you all were in power? Well, I think it’s important to remember that some of the most important legislative achievements during Joe Biden’s presidency were done in a way that reduced the deficit. In fact, the inflation reduction act um which made massive investments in renewable energy, reduced prescription drug costs, was done in a way that drove down the deficit, not driving the deficit up. Most of the deficit was added under Joe Biden’s presidency was in those early days when we were still recovering from the pandemic. But there’s just no doubt that it was Donald Trump who added more to the deficit than any president in the history of the country. And he is on pace to do it for a second time. It’s going to crater the economy. And listen, it won’t have an impact on his billionaire friends. His Mara Lago crowd will come out all right, but it will impact the regular people I represent in New Britain, Bristol, and Bridgeport. And then Senator Murphy, again, I like this is how you got to fight. Senator Murphy says, “Look, we’re trying, the Democrats, to stop these MAGA Republicans, from basically transferring the remainder of the money that lowincome and middle class Americans have so that the billionaires, the Mara Lago billionaire class, can literally steal your money.” That’s what’s going on here. Play this clip. Tax bill, Secretary Besson argues it will uh create hundreds of billions of dollars in economic growth. You obviously are one of the Democrats who opposes this bill. Are Democrats standing in the way of the economic growth that Secretary Bessant was just arguing. Well, what we’re standing in the way of is the most massive transfer of wealth from the poor and the middle class to the rich in the history of the country. This budget bill is an absolute disaster. It is going to kick over 10 million people off of their healthcare. Medicaid covers about a quarter of all Americans in order to pass along a new trillion dollar tax cut for the richest 1%. Nobody in this country is asking for that. And in addition, it’s going to dramatically drive up the deficit. Now, I heard the Treasury Secretary say that who cares about the downgrading of our credit rating from Moody’s. That is a big deal. That means that we are likely headed for a recession. That probably means higher interest rates for anybody out there who is trying to start a business or to buy a home. These guys are running the economy recklessly because all they care about is the health of the Mara Lago billionaire class. They only care about their corporate friends. They are going to destroy this economy. They are going to throw millions of people off of healthare just so that they can pass along a benefit to a small handful of very rich Americans. That is deeply unpopular. And my hope is is that it won’t pass. That enough Republicans see that nobody is asking for that massive investment in only a small handful of Americans that they’ll vote against it. And it wasn’t just Senator Murphy. You have Senator Van Holland from Maryland. I thought he did a great job here. Let’s play this clip. Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East. My view is the overall narrative here was selling out US national interests for the private gain of his family business. He essentially gave away the crown jewels of American AI and semiconductor technology to the Gulf in exchange. In exchange, it looks like for $2 billion investment in the Trump family um stable coin venture. Now, contrast that to MAGA Mike Johnson. Here’s MAGA Mike Johnson addressing the fact that Moody’s, the credit agency that’s been around since 1917, for the first time in its history, downgraded uh the United States credit score. But even though MAGA Mike and his bill with Trump is going to add $6 trillion to the deficit, which is why Moody’s downgraded America’s credit, he goes, “We’re doing what Moody’s wants us to do. That’s why these people are malignant narcissistic sociopaths.” Here, play this clip. All right. Quickly, I want to ask you about Moody’s on Friday. For the first time in a century, they downgraded the US government’s AAA rating. They say an increase in government debt and interest payment ratios, quote, that are significantly higher than similarly rated sovereigns. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says it should be a wakeup call to your party. He says you’re hellbent on a multi-t trillion dollar tax cut for the ultra wealthy. Your response? It It’s just utter nonsense. It’s just like Chuck Schumer to create a crisis and then point fingers of blame. This is the Biden spending spree that got us in this mess. Moody’s is not incorrect. But that’s why that emphasizes the very need for the legislation. We’re talking about historic spending cuts. I mean, this will help to change the trajectory for the US economy and send that message of stability uh to our allies and even our enemies around the world. America is back. Uh President Trump’s one big beautiful bill will be passed and that will be the key to turning this thing around. We have to get this done and it just shows more of the urgency of why we’re doing exactly what we’re doing with the legislation. Now going to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant. He talks about how he tried to shake down the Walmart CEO and tell him to eat the tariffs, but I thought that China was going to eat the tariffs. Oh, so China’s not eating the tariffs. So now the Trump regime is imposing price controls on businesses. That’s the that’s that’s what Republicans are doing now to try to temporarily cover up the damage that they’ve done. Play this clip. Ask you about Walmart. This big news from Walmart. It says it will start raising prices on its consumers. Mr. Secretary, as early as this month due to the tariffs. Now, President Trump out with a very stern warning on social media saying Walmart quote should eat the tariffs, adding the company made far more than expected last year. Is the president asking American companies to be less profitable? Uh I was on the phone with Doug McMillan, the CEO of Walmart yesterday and Walmart is in fact the going to the as you describe it eat some of the tariffs. Uh that just as they did in 18, 19 and 20. Uh the other thing though that we are seeing that Doug passed along to me that with their consumer the single most important thing is the gasoline price and gasoline prices have collapsed under President Trump. And here’s the thing, too. You may be able to get like Walmart, which has already destroyed a lot of small businesses throughout the country, to temporarily do certain things with your Trump regime uh fascistic central planning. But you’re destroying also medium and smallsiz businesses. It’s like it’s exactly what they did during COVID except here they’ve manufactured it themselves now where it’s like if you don’t test then then there’s no issues, right? Then how do you know if there’s cases if you don’t? They’re just covering up the problem. You ever been where uh Kristen Welker of Meet the Press asks Treasury Secretary Bessant about Trump accepting bribes and he goes, “No, they’re not.” He said, “They’re they’re gifts to Americans. Americans will want Donald Trump to have a $400 million goldplated jet. No, we don’t. No, we don’t. What are you talking about? Play this clip. To keep that plane in his presidential library after. But what do you say to some Republicans who argue it sends a message that the United States can be bought or or that other countries can curry favor if they offer gifts? Uh, I I I say that the gifts are to the American people. these trillions of dollars of investments that are going to create jobs in the US. Whether it’s the UAE building this gigantic aluminum plant in Oklahoma, whether it’s these data centers that Qatar is the going to do is 600 billion on its way to a trillion from Saudi that it all acrus to the American people. In another absurd clip, I don’t even need to play it. Beston’s like, “This is just like the Statue of Liberty when France gave us the Statue of Liberty in 1877. It’s just like Qatar giving us a 400.” It’s not us. He’s giving Donald Trump a 400 Qatar, who funds Hamas, is giving Donald Trump a $400 million goldplated jet, which then goes to his library, which isn’t built, which means Trump is getting a private goldplated jet with the maintenance paid for by the United States taxpayers. That’s what this it’s not the Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty was also accepted as a gift via a formal congressional resolution and the United States helped in the funding. If you don’t see the difference between the Statue of Liberty and Trump getting a goldplated jet from a country that helped fund Hamas, and if you’re cool with that, if you’re cool with Trump getting that, you need to, I think, reflect on it a little bit more deeply. Um, here you have Besson talking about how they haven’t been able to do any deals with any countries, so they’re just going to go and make up tariffs again against the countries like they did on April 2nd, which was the initial disaster that they paused for 90 days. Here, play this clip. President Trump, while he was on the foreign trip, said that countries should expect letters from you, from Secretary Letic saying, this is what the tariff rate is going to be. Mr. Secretary, does that effectively mean that these negotiations with other countries are over? And how high should they expect tariffs to go? Above 10%. Uh, this means if they’re not negotiating in good faith, they are going to get a letter the uh saying here here is the rate. So I would expect that everyone would come and negotiate in good faith. You expect that rate though that you would slap on any country that you think is not negotiating in good faith to be above 10%. Well, I think that it would be the April 2nd level. Some countries were at 10%, some were substantially higher and the negotiating leverage that President Trump is talking about here is if you don’t want to negotiate, then it will spring back to the April 2nd level. Then Scott Besson says that his whole strategy is actually to create strategic uncertainty. So, if small businesses and medium-sized businesses are getting screwed, Besson says, “This is the point.” Strategic uncertainty is their goal. Play this clip. And every day, pretty much we interview a small business owner. Some of them are Trump supporters, some of them are not. Some of them are tariff supporters, some of them are not. The one thing I hear from from almost every one of them is the uncertainty. uh they don’t know how to plan for the future because they have no idea what’s going to come. The other thing I hear is that their margins these are these are small small business their margins are so thin uh 5 to 10% max and they say that these tariffs are just taking away all of their profit margin. Um, so I guess my question is what do you say to people concerned about the uncertainty and what do you say to people who say small business owners who say we need relief because as much they say like I’d love to buy lithium batteries in the United States but you can’t. They’re only available for small businesses from China. Well couple couple of things to unpack there Jake. uh one uh is that um we didn’t get here overnight in terms of this terrible trade situation we have with China but also with the rest of the world and President Trump is renegotiating these and strategic uncertainty the is a negotiating tactic so if we were to give too much certainty to the other countries then they they would play us in the negotiations I confident that at the ends of these negotiations, both the retailers, the American people, and the American workers will be better off. Okay. Well, let’s just assume strategic uncertainty is is your goal? What What are you doing then when you totally capitulated to China? What’s the What’s the strategic uncertainty where you impose 145% tariffs only to then take it to 30% and get nothing in return? What What’s the strategic what’s the value that? No. What value there? No. What’s going on is that Donald Trump wakes up. What should I post today? Oh, I’m going to post 37 million% tariff. Okay. What else am I going to post? Uh, I’m going to post a photo of myself holding a sword. Okay, now eight now 30% tariffs and 75 quillion percent. It’s just stupid. It’s just stupid stuff. And that’s why the rest of the world sees this as utter weakness and recklessness. And they go, why would we do a deal with the United States? They don’t know what the hell they’re doing. Trump, Bessant, these clowns, these goons don’t know what they’re doing. They’re like, we’ll wait. We’ll wait. Why even do a deal with them? that you can’t do a deal with these people. I want to share with this share you with this share this with you as well. Uh Bridget Brink who recently quit her post as the United States ambassador to Ukraine shared with Face the Nation what really went down here. Play this clip. He served this country for so many decades. What happened that made you say I can’t take it? Well, maybe let me give you a little context. What I saw in Ukraine was horrifying. For three years, Russia launched missiles and drones at men, women, and children sleeping in their homes, tried to take down the energy grid for millions of Ukrainians to take out the power, heat, and light in the middle of winter, and committed war crimes and atrocities at a level we haven’t seen since World War II. Uh I resigned from Ukraine and also from the foreign service because the policy since the beginning of the administration was to put pressure on the victim Ukraine rather than on the aggressor Russia. I fully agree that the war needs to end. But I believe that peace at any price is not peace at all. It’s appeasement. And as we know from history, appeasement only leads to more war. And to be clear, you are a career diplomat. So that means you serve regardless of who is the president of the United States and what party they come from. And in fact, when you tried to leave post in January, Secretary Rubio asked you to stay on in Kev as I understand it. You were there for a number of months until April. Um what specifically with this policy um is a problem for you? Because you did you worked at post under the Trump administration. Was there a trigger that made you say we’re getting it so wrong? Well, I would say it wasn’t a a harsh a hasty rash decision. It was one that I took over the first three months of the administration, but the first sign was the Oval Office meeting in February, President Trump and President Silinski, where I saw that our approach is to put pressure on Ukraine and not pressure on Russia. So, I want you to judge for yourself after watching those clips what you think. And I think it’s good to see Democrats fighting back, but you seen what these MAGA Republicans saying. They’re like Bernie Maidoff. Worse than Bernie Maidoff. These are the biggest con artists, the biggest huers, the fraudsters, but they work for a felon. That shouldn’t be a shock. They work for a felon. Trump should be in prison for the rest of his life right now. Okay, he should. He’s found guilty of 34 counts of fraud. He’s been found for for business record fraud. He’s been found civily liable, criminally liable. He’s been found to be civily liable for sexual abuse. He bankrupted Atlantic City and bankrupted multiple because he was bankrupted like six or seven of his businesses. 10 or 12 other businesses have gone out of business. He’s the worst. That none of this is shocking. This is who he is. He’s a loser. He’s a criminal. He’s a sexual abuser. He’s a vile piece of trash. That’s what it is. Just call it out. The rest of the world sees it. Why? Why? What are we scared about with this idiot? Anyway, hit subscribe. Let’s get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching. New

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Democrats hitting the weekend shows ready to take on Trump and MAGA Mike, while Republicans flail during their live TV appearances.

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