Transcript

🚨Dems FINALLY RIP Trump TO SHREDS for DISASTER INVASION

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "🚨Dems FINALLY RIP Trump TO SHREDS for DISASTER INVASION", an episode of MeidasTouch published January 4, 2026 (17 min, about 2,975 words). It mentions 14 people, works and ideas, including Donald Trump, Eric Swalwell, Dan Goldman, Claudia Sheinbaum, Department of Justice (DOJ).

What this episode is about

Democrats, led by Congressman Eric Swalwell, are fiercely critiquing Donald Trump's handling of Venezuela, accusing him of engaging in imperialistic ventures while neglecting pressing domestic issues like rising costs of living. Swalwell highlights Trump's history of financial mismanagement, questioning his capability to govern a country after failing to successfully manage even a casino.

Key takeaways

  • Trump couldn't run a casino; now he's 'running' Venezuela. Odds aren't in his favor.
  • American morality isn't up for debate: Oil isn't spoils of modern war.
  • Democrats cry imperialism; Trump promises oil like a 2003 déjà vu.
  • GOP dabbles in double standards: silent on Trump's antics, but vocal if Biden tried.
  • Trump's Venezuela antics: More theater than policy, less strategy than spectacle.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 3:00: Donald Trump, Vallejo, Ventura
  2. – 6:00: Donald Trump, Dan Goldman, Oil executives
  3. – 9:00: Donald Trump, American oil companies, Dan Goldman, Eastern District of New York
  4. – 12:00: Donald Trump, Don Row doctrine
  5. – 15:00: Donald Trump, Department of Defense, Zoron Manni

Notable quotes from "🚨Dems FINALLY RIP Trump TO SHREDS for DISASTER INVASION"

  • Democrats are finally hitting back hard at Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans. And these Democrats I'm about to highlight are not mincing words that Donald Trump engage in an unlawful invasion of Venezuela. that Donald Trump.
    about Donald Trump · at
  • Their priorities. They're not focused on Venezuela. They're focused on the cost in Ventura and Vallejo, the rent in Los Angeles, and the grocery prices in Pasadena. And they…
    about Vallejo · at
  • Next up, Democratic Congress member Dan Goldman said the following. Let's play it. But Donald Trump in his address today revealed what I think is the reason, and it is oil. And it is that.
    about Dan Goldman · at
  • Donald Trump's press conference, there was no pretext. He said, We want the oil for the American oil companies.
    about American oil companies · at
  • Caribbean, Greenland. Trump is that's what Trump said. He says it's called the Don Row doctrine. Literally, that's what Trump said. And Trump was posting images of himself…
    about Don Row doctrine · at
  • Now, you have the mayor of New York, newly appointed me, newly elected mayor of New York, Zoron Manni. During a speech that he gave today, he said that I called up Donald Trump…
    about Zoron Manni · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

Companies & orgs

  • Department of Justice (DOJ) — Company · 2 mentions
  • Oil executives — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Today revealed what I think is the reason, and it is oil. And it is that Donald Trump promised oil executives that if they gave him a billion dollars for his campaign that he…
  • American oil companies — Company · 1 mention · first at
  • Eastern District of New York — Company · 1 mention · first at
    US court for the same thing. and not to mention that an MS-13 leader who was extradited to the Eastern District of New York, his case was actually just dismissed about 9 months…
  • Department of Defense — Company · 1 mention · first at
    About how this is a Department of Justice operation of law enforcement that was supported by the Department of Defense by the military. Legally speaking, do you believe this is within the DOJ's purview?

Concepts & topics

Places & events

  • Vallejo — Place · 1 mention · first at
  • Ventura — Place · 1 mention · first at
    Their priorities. They're not focused on Venezuela. They're focused on the cost in Ventura and Vallejo, the rent in Los Angeles, and the grocery prices in Pasadena. And they…

Full transcript with timestamps

Democrats are finally hitting back hard at Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans. And these Democrats I'm about to highlight are not mincing words that Donald Trump engage in an unlawful invasion of Venezuela. that Donald Trump has turned his back to the United States people who Donald Trump has defrauded, promising on making things more affordable on day one, but making things way less affordable, destroying the economy in the United States, and now engaged in this imperialistic adventurism to try to show off to Vladimir Putin like the bootlicker that he is. Let's go through what went down here. Democratic Congress member Eric Swallwell, who's running for governor of California, brutally mocked Donald Trump live on CNN. And he said, "Donald Trump doesn't even know how to run a casino.

He bankrupts company after company. And now Donald Trump says that he wants to operate and occupy himself a country of 28 million people. Donald Trump couldn't run freaking social media company. You think he's going to be able to run Venezuela? And we see Donald Trump screwing up over and over again already. He's already thrown the opposition leader Maria Corino Machado under the bus. Take a look at what Democratic Congress member Eric Swallwell had to say here. Play this clip.

Agree with them. Well, I I do. And you know, I talked to Californians all over the state and going into Venezuela and quote running that country ranks at about 200th on their priorities. They're not focused on Venezuela. They're focused on the cost in Ventura and Vallejo, the rent in Los Angeles, and the grocery prices in Pasadena. And they have no faith that Donald Trump can run a country who couldn't run a casino, and now he's going to run a country in South America while we watch as he fails to run a country in North America. That doesn't add up. And and neither does this whole concept that we're going to get the oil from Venezuela and that it will pay for itself essentially. We heard that over 20 years ago from George Bush that we'd get the oil from Iraq and that cost us $3 trillion.

And next up, I'll show you what Democratic Congress member, my friend Roana, had to say right here where he goes, "We're not an empire. What the hell are you doing, Donald?" Here, play this clip. Venezuela. The other thing I think people misunderstand about the American people is there's a morality uh to our uh our our foreign policy and our values. And we don't like to just go take in other countries oil. Like that's not who we are as a people. And this is going to offend a lot of Americans. Like that's not what America does. We're not an empire. We don't go marching into countries and just take their stuff.

We're the country that fights for freedom. And I think people who are just looking at this uh from a legalistic perspective or saying he's not listening to Americans are missing the fundamental morality that most Americans have. Next up, Democratic Congress member Dan Goldman said the following. Let's play it. But Donald Trump in his uh address today revealed what I think is the reason, and it is oil. And it is that Donald Trump promised oil executives that if they gave him a billion dollars for his campaign that he would do right by them. And they gave about 500 million. And this is a massive gift that is in violation of international law and is essentially just co-opting an entire country's natural resources for the benefit of US companies. Uh when we have so many things that we need to deal with here at home, none of this affects grocery prices or health care or wages or uh prices of rent. None of this has

anything to do with helping those issues which are central to the American people. We are now venturing. Donald Trump is taking us into another uh amorphous uh shapeless and and unknown chart unchartered territory now with uh taking over another country. Congress member Seth Molton, who's running for Senate in Massachusetts, had to say the following to Aaron Parnes from the Midas Touch Network. Play this clip. Well, so then I have to ask you, I mean, what is the conversations like behind the scenes with Republicans today? Are any of them as frustrated as Democrats or all of them kind of just in lock step with this administration?

No, they're just cowards. They're just scared. They'll do whatever Trump wants. And I've heard them say, I've heard them say explicitly, if Biden were doing this, we would be raising bloody hell.

But they won't do anything to oppose Trump aside from one or two. Like, let's give credit where credit is due. Don Bacon of Nebraska Air Force veteran. He's doing the right thing, but he's pretty much the only one. Back to Congress member Swallwell for a moment. He talks about how Donald Trump bombed Nigeria, Syria, and now Venezuela. This guy is the guy who claims he's going to lower costs on day one, but he's getting America into all of these wars. And he claims he wants or he thinks he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize. How damn pathetic can you get? Watch Congress member Swallwell right here. Bring receipts and facts. Play this clip. Of

course, you know, Donald Trump was always going to violate the Constitution and invade Venezuela. He's done the exact opposite of what he's promised he'd do since he took office. And that is frankly the biggest betrayal he's made as president. He promised he'd end all all wars on day one. In two weeks, he's bombed Nigeria, Syria, and now Venezuela. He said he'd lower costs on day one, and then he put a tariff tax in place that has raised everyone's costs. And he said he'd release the Epstein files, and of course, he has buried them. So, politicians break promises all the time. That happens. But almost none of them do the exact opposite of what got them elected. And that's what Donald Trump just did with this action in Venezuela.

We heard the secretary. Next up, you have Democratic Congress member Ro Kana again saying, "Really? Why is this guy Why is Trump spending all this time in Argentina, Venezuela, the Middle East? Why isn't he talking about Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin? What happened to manufacturing jobs?" By the way, this is how it's done right here. Play this clip of Congress member Ro Kana. Let's play it.

Well, after the initial strikes, I saw some folks in MAGA like Mike Lee trying to give him the benefit of the doubt, saying, "Oh, this was just a strike and a capture of Madero." Now, that's a violation of international law. It's going to have terrible consequences. But then I think Trump made it worse. He goes up to the press conference and he says, "No, it wasn't just a limited strike. We may go back in there. We're going to run the place." Uh, and he's got no plan for how he's going to do that. And now the American people are thinking, well, how much is this going to cost us to be able to have troops there? What is the plan? Are we really going to be a peacekeeping force uh in Venezuela? And why is our president spending so much time talking about Argentina, Venezuela, the Middle East, and he's not spending time talking about Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin? What happened to the manufacturing jobs? What

happened to lowering prices from day one? It just makes him look totally out of touch. Next up, you have Democratic Congress member Dan Goldman talking about how Donald Trump's pretext for invading Venezuela saying that Maduro was engaged in drug trafficking. Yeah, you think that makes sense when this is the same Donald Trump who pardoned one of the bigo the biggest narco terrorists out there, Juan Orlando Hernandez, the dictator uh the former narot terrorist dictator of Honduras who said get those drugs up the gringo's nose and let's kill Americans with that cocaine. Yeah, Donald Trump, pardon that guy who was El Chapo's right hand. So yeah, we think that Donald Trump cares about narot terrorists. No, Donald Trump wants to seize the oil. But by the way, I guess the one thing I'd push back on Congress member Goldman here is that during Donald Trump's press conference, there was no pretext. He said, "We want the

oil for the American oil companies. That's why we did this. We're going to occupy territories to seize their resources." What the hell are we doing here? Here, play this clip. Because what it reveals is that this pretext about trying to bring Nicholas Maduro to justice for his drug trafficking is total bogus because the Honduran president was just pardoned notwithstanding an actual conviction in US court for the same thing. Uh, and not not to mention that an MS-13 leader who was extradited to the Eastern District of New York, his case was actually just dismissed about 9 months ago so that he could be deported back to El Salvador and where Donald Trump has a a budding bromance with President Buchi. So it it can't be that only naroterrorism in Venezuela is worth battling, but naroterrorism in Honduras and El Salvador is perfectly fine. And that's why it gives the lie to this explanation.

Then I interviewed Democratic Congress member Ryan. Here is what he told me. And he's a veteran. He served uh tours of duty in Iraq. He's lost his close friends in war and combat zone. Here's what he had to tell me here. Play Congress member Ryan. Let's play it.

Thanks for having me. Thanks for covering this. Uh and I think you mentioned it in my bio. Somebody that served 27 months in combat. This is not a good day for our country. Americans are now, we got to be very clear and strong about this. This does not make the American people safer. It does not make America stronger. It certainly tarnishes our reputation. And for those of us that served in Iraq and Afghanistan in particular, on a personal level, this is us starting clearly starting another forever war, which the American people do not support. It's very clear this is not about drugs.

Trump in I mean the the press conference was stunning in just straight up admitting this is a war for oil and he is willing to send our blood and treasure, our tax dollars and our precious young men and women to quote run Venezuela, whatever the hell that means. Uh with no plan clearly no coordination as you just talked about with any of the legitimate or illegitimate leaders on the ground there. So, this is a really dark day for our country and I think anybody that loves this country and the values we stand for has to be outraged. I mean, I am outraged right now. I was watching this press conference with my two young boys who are four and six, and I had to hold back my rage as my six-year-old asks me, "Why are we bombing in another country?" And uh that's just it's also, by the way, sorry, it's the opposite of what Donald Trump ran on uh blatantly.

Play this clip right here of Democratic Congress member Swallwell saying, "Guess what? Guess who also has a warrant out for their arrest?" Vladimir Putin. So, Donald, you want to go and arrest Putin right now? Nah, it's you. Putin and Xi Jinping are doing spheres of influence. Trump saying he's taken the Western Hemisphere that he wants every other country in the Western Hemisphere to be a vassal state of the United States and be subservient and he'll take your resources whether you're Canada, Mexico, Central America, South America, Caribbean, Greenland. Trump is that's what Trump said. He says it's called the Don Row doctrine. Literally, that's what Trump said. And Trump was posting images of himself stepping all over Canada and Mexico and Central America holding a bat or a club that says the Don Row doctrine. That's what Donald Trump's view is. He gets Western Hemisphere, Putin gets Europe, and Xi Jinping gets

Asia. That's Trump's perspective of the world. Play this clip right here of what Swallwell said.

For your time. We're glad to have you here. Uh the pre It's good to see you. The president and his administration today going to great lengths to talk about how this is a Department of Justice operation of law enforcement that was supported by the Department of Defense by the military. Legally speaking, do you believe this is within the DOJ's purview?

Absolutely not. Vladimir Putin has an arrest warrant, you know, out for his conduct uh in Ukraine and and Donald Trump certainly is not going and arresting Vladimir Putin and invading that country and saying that we're going to run it without a plan. And of course,

um, now, uh, you have the mayor of New York, newly appointed me, newly elected mayor of New York, Zoron Manni. During a speech that he gave today, he said that I called up Donald Trump and I voiced my extreme condemnation of his invasion of Venezuela and the capture of Maduro. Play this clip. as well as other members of my team. I called the president and spoke with him directly to register my opposition to this act and to make clear that it was an opposition based on being opposed to a pursuit of regime change to the violation of federal international law and a desire to see that be consistent each and every day.

And what was his response to you in that conversation? I I registered my opposition. I made it clear and we left it at that.

Then we heard from former Vice President Kla Harris. She issued the following statement. Donald Trump's actions in Venezuela do not make America safer, stronger, and more affordable. That Maduro is a brutal, illegitimate dictator does not change the fact that this action was both unlawful and unwise. We've seen this movie before. wars for regime change or oil that are sold as strength but turn into chaos and American families pay the price. The American people do not want this and they are tired of being lied to. This is not about drugs or democracy. It's about oil and Donald Trump's desire to play the regional strongman. If he cared about either, he wouldn't pardon a convicted drug trafficker or sideline Venezuela's legitimate opposition while pursuing deals with Maduro's cronies.

That's the line right there that I think is important and and Kla Harris nails it. Donald Trump sideline Machado. He said, "I don't want her to be running Venezuela. She's weak and the people don't like her. Instead, Trump wants to try to cut deals with Maduro's people to give Donald Trump the oil." That's what Trump's saying. Let me finish reading what former Vice President Kla Harris said. She also says, "The president is putting troops at risk, spending billions destabilizing a region, and offering no legal authority, no exit plan, and no benefit at home. America needs leadership whose priorities are lowering costs for working families, enforcing the rule of law, strengthening alliances, and most importantly, putting the American people first." Nailed that statement. Wouldn't she make a great president? Wouldn't she have made a great president right now? Indeed.

Indeed. Now, contrast that to what Anna Paulina Luna had to say. This MAGAR Republican extremist who goes after Claudia Shinbound in Mexico and says, you know, she's not a legitimate leader. She's just a propped up person really going after Claudia Shinbound was one of the more popular leaders out there. Don't get me wrong, you criticize Claudia Shinbound for things, but really Anna Paulina Lun and this is what MAGA was doing all day. MAGA was saying Mexico, we're coming for you. They were saying, "Aba, we're coming for you.

Colombia, we're coming for you. Nigeria, we're coming for you. Greenland, we're coming for you." That's what this mag is about. Imperialistic. It's disgusting. Disgusting. Here, play this clip of Anapolina Luna. Let's play it.

Congresswoman, I want to bring up Mexico here. The government there has criticized this. The president has suggested in the past that the US could go after cartels in Mexico unilaterally. Do you think that's a good idea? You know what? If she had a backbone, she would be asking for our help instead of doing it behind closed doors. The government of Mexico is one of the most corrupt countries in the world, and it's a shame. They had one of the bloodiest election cycles this past cycle, and they killed journalists that were covering it. They've killed their own elected officials that were actually trying to fight the cartel. So, I really don't care what the president of Mexico has to say because in my opinion, she's only in that position because she's been installed. And if they actually had a good president, you'd see Mexico not being run being run by cartels.

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Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "🚨Dems FINALLY RIP Trump TO SHREDS for DISASTER INVASION"?

Ben Meiselas (Host), Eric Swalwell (Guest), Ro Khanna (Guest), Dan Goldman (Guest), Seth Moulton (Guest), Aaron Parnas (Guest), Pat Ryan (Guest), Zohran Mamdani (Guest).

What is "🚨Dems FINALLY RIP Trump TO SHREDS for DISASTER INVASION" about?

Democrats, led by Congressman Eric Swalwell, are fiercely critiquing Donald Trump's handling of Venezuela, accusing him of engaging in imperialistic ventures while neglecting pressing domestic issues like rising costs of living. Swalwell highlights Trump's history of financial mismanagement, questioning his capability to govern a country after failing to successfully manage even a casino.

What is mentioned in this MeidasTouch episode?

14 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Donald Trump, Eric Swalwell, Dan Goldman, Claudia Sheinbaum, Department of Justice (DOJ), Maria Corina Machado. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "🚨Dems FINALLY RIP Trump TO SHREDS for DISASTER INVASION"?

The episode runs 17 min; the transcript is about 2,975 words in 28 timestamped sections.

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