LIVE: Trump DOJ CAUGHT LYING as CASES Suddenly IMPLODE

What this episode is about

This content analyzes the rapid decline of Donald Trump's legal cases and political influence, highlighting various failures within his administration, including the implosion of specific legal indictments and the loss of key political support. The discussion underscores the overarching theme of incompetence and malfeasance, showcasing the erosion of the government's credibility and strategic positioning in the political landscape.

Key takeaways

• Trump's court cases are tumbling like dominoes, proving legal blunders aren't just tweets in suits.
• National Guard's early exit from cities signals a legal reminder: sovereignty's not just a suggestion.
• Republicans tariffs rollback: where bravado meets cold economic reality, admitting bad ideas flop louder.
• Grand jury revelation: skipping votes doesn't just hurt democracy, it torpedoes Trump's Comey case.
• Marjorie Taylor Greene's resignation leaves a ‘Greene’ void; will GOP miss the chaos or the laughs?

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 5:00: Portland, Allison Gil, Comey indictment, Home Rule Act
2. 5:00 – 10:00: Abrego, Costa Rica, Drew Ensign, Liberia
3. 10:00 – 15:00: Abrego, Adam Klasfeld, Dana Briggs, Department of Homeland Security
4. 15:00 – 20:00: Albert Ellis, Aaron Reichlin Melnik, Blue Sky, Department of Homeland Security
5. 20:00 – 25:00: Transparency Act, 2018 blue tsunami, Clay Higgins, Epstein Files Transparency Act
6. 25:00 – 28:38: Al Green, Jeffrey Brown, Judge Paulinis, Maramar Martinez

Notable quotes from "LIVE: Trump DOJ CAUGHT LYING as CASES Suddenly IMPLODE"

• The rails for the Justice Department. prosecutors have dropped the charges against folks like Maramar Martinez and Ian Santos Ruiz, which was actually the case underpinning…

  about Maramar Martinez · at 0:24

• Trump is blocked from deploying the National Guard in Portland and Chicago.

  about Portland · at 1:12

• Deployment in DC is illegal. US District Judge for District the District of Columbia, Gia Cobb, wrote that the deployment is unlawful because it caused irreparable harm to the…

  about Judge Gia Cobb · at 2:51

• Abrego to the United States pursuant to a court order, the Department of Justice charged him with two bogus felonies from a traffic stop in 2022 where they didn't charge him, didn't even give him a.

  about Abrego · at 7:50

• Abrego. The judge Paulinis brought that guy in who signed that declaration and he admitted in court that he did not write all of that sworn declaration, the one that he signed. He said a State.

  about Judge Paulinis · at 8:35

• Maramar Martinez and Ian Santos Ruiz in Chicago completely fell apart. This is the case where the Department of Homeland Security lied to the public in a press release saying…

  about Department of Homeland Security · at 10:56

• Now, on yet another docket this past week, this one belonging to Judge Ellis.

  about Albert Ellis · at 15:19

• Johnson even broke with Mike Johnson. He voted yes on the Epstein Files Transparency Act. And I don't know the real reason Klay Higgins voted no. He put out a statement, but it…

  about Transparency Act · at 20:38

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Abrego — Person · 5 mentions · first at 7:50
• Maramar Martinez — Person · 3 mentions · first at 0:28
• Albert Ellis — Person · 3 mentions · first at 15:21
• Ian Santos Ruiz — Person · 2 mentions · first at 0:31
  Prosecutors have dropped the charges against folks like Maramar Martinez and Ian Santos Ruiz, which was actually the case underpinning Trump's Supreme Court justification, his…
• Marjorie Taylor Green — Person · 2 mentions · first at 1:23
  The District of Columbia as well. That happened this week. He just lost another vote in the House because Marjorie Taylor Green is announced surprisingly she's going to resign…
• Drew Ensign — Person · 2 mentions · first at 7:12
  This week. He wants to call whistleblower Arez Reveni and DOJ lawyer Drew Ensign to the stand. This will likely result in embarrassing discovery for the government about its…
• Judge Paulinis — Person · 2 mentions · first at 8:35
• Allison Gil — Person · 1 mention · first at 0:00
  Hey everybody, I'm Allison Gil. Welcome to the breakdown here on Midas Touch.
• Judge Gia Cobb — Person · 1 mention · first at 2:55
• Kate Blanch — Person · 1 mention · first at 4:22
  Appointed. But on top of all that, what happened this week is the DOJ admitted in court this past Wednesday that Todd Blanch actually instructed the assistant US attorney to…
• Arez Reveni — Person · 1 mention · first at 7:09
  Boseberg's court. They start back up this week. He wants to call whistleblower Arez Reveni and DOJ lawyer Drew Ensign to the stand. This will likely result in embarrassing…
• Kilmargo Garcia — Person · 1 mention · first at 7:39
  And one of the people on those planes was Kilmargo Garcia.
• Judge Senis — Person · 1 mention · first at 9:29
  For Mr. Abrego despite the government saying that there is. and we're going to send him to Liberia. Judge Senis seems to have had enough. This is from Adam Classfeld at Allrise…
• Andrew Rossman — Person · 1 mention · first at 9:50
  Abrego's attorney, Andrew Rossman, said during a hearing on Thursday. US District Judge Polycinis grilled senior justice department lawyer Drew Ensign, there he is again on this matter. Ensign.
• Adam Klasfeld — Person · 1 mention · first at 10:42
  Now, I spoke with Adam Klasfeld about all this. Like I said, he was in the courtroom and you can watch that interview with him and me about the Arbago hearing at mshirote.com. It's.
• Mara Martinez — Person · 1 mention · first at 11:54
  Government, the Department of Justice just filed a motion to drop all the charges against Mara Martinez and Mr.
• Dana Briggs — Person · 1 mention · first at 13:14
  And in another case in Chicago against someone named Dana Briggs, the government filed a motion to drop those charges too. And normally the judge is okay, charges dropped. But the judge in this case wrote this.
• Gabriel Fuentes — Person · 1 mention · first at 15:15
  The case is not provable in repeated cases of a similar nature. signed Gabriel Fuentes, United States Magistrate Judge.
• Aaron Reichlin Melnik — Person · 1 mention · first at 15:49
  Homeland Security and Gregory Bevino as well. All the lies she uncovered. And thank you to Aaron Reichlin Melnik on Blue Sky for listing these. On October 28th, DHS's social…
• Gerardo Rodriguez — Person · 1 mention · first at 19:06
  Finally led to charges against one of their own for a change. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officer Gerardo Rodriguez was arrested this week for illegally detaining a…
• Clay Higgins — Person · 1 mention · first at 20:29
  Only the best people. But speaking of sex trafficking rings, the entire Republican party, save Klay Higgins, broke with Trump and Mike Johnson and voted to release the Epstein…
• Jeffrey – Pagano, Joe — Person · 1 mention · first at 21:00
  Trump signed the bill despite being pissed about the betrayal from his party. And now Pamela Joe has 25 days or so to release the files. And it's important to note there are…
• Senator Widen — Person · 1 mention · first at 21:59
  Pursuant to the Transparency Act, the law that just passed and got signed. And on top of all that, Senator Widen told us this week that JP Morgan Chase withheld years of filing…
• Jeffrey Brown — Person · 1 mention · first at 25:16
  Rights Act, Abbott explicitly directed the legislature to redistrict based on race. That's what Judge Jeffrey Brown wrote in the ruling that blocked Texas's new map. Brown's…
• Punksatani Phil — Person · 1 mention · first at 25:31
  Legislators for unduly tethering the process to race and specifically condemning state senator Phil King, chair of the Senate redistricting committee as untruthful and inconsistent on the stand.
• Al Green — Person · 1 mention · first at 26:59
  To answer for their crimes. Elect candidates that will impeach Donald Trump. I know Al Green is announcing articles of impeachment right now this weekend.
• Ben Meiselas — Person · 1 mention
• Booker Hodges — Person · 1 mention
• Brett Meiselas — Person · 1 mention
• Gregory Bovino — Person · 1 mention
• Jordy Meiselas — Person · 1 mention
• Timur Himmler — Person · 1 mention

Books & papers

• Epstein Files Transparency Act — Book · 1 mention · first at 20:40
  Voted to release the Epstein Files. Mike Johnson even broke with Mike Johnson. He voted yes on the Epstein Files Transparency Act. And I don't know the real reason Klay Higgins…
• Mueller Report — Book · 1 mention

Companies & orgs

• Department of Homeland Security — Company · 2 mentions · first at 11:02
• Midas Touch — Company · 1 mention · first at 0:02
  Hey everybody, I'm Allison Gil. Welcome to the breakdown here on Midas Touch.
• All Rise News — Company · 1 mention · first at 9:34
  Send him to Liberia. Judge Senis seems to have had enough. This is from Adam Classfeld at Allrise News who was at the hearing this past week. During an evidentiary hearing, a…
• Blue Sky — Company · 1 mention · first at 15:52
  Well. All the lies she uncovered. And thank you to Aaron Reichlin Melnik on Blue Sky for listing these. On October 28th, DHS's social media account claimed that on October…
• Riverside County Sheriff's Department — Company · 1 mention · first at 19:28
  911 when she arrived. The deputies that responded to that call referred the ICE officer to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department. This is in Southern California who arrested him the same day.
• Texas Tribune — Company · 1 mention · first at 24:45
  Lindseay Halligan, it was Republicans themselves that caused the court to throw out the Texas map. The Texas Tribune reports, If Greg Abbott had stuck with the story that this…
• Bloomington Police Department — Company · 1 mention
• Midas Touch Podcast — Company · 1 mention

Concepts & topics

• Transparency Act — Concept · 2 mentions · first at 20:41
• Comey indictment — Concept · 1 mention · first at 0:20
  The Comey indictment is hanging by a thread. The Kilmargo case has gone off the rails for the Justice Department. prosecutors have dropped the charges against folks like Maramar Martinez and.
• Kilmargo case — Concept · 1 mention · first at 0:22
  The Comey indictment is hanging by a thread. The Kilmargo case has gone off the rails for the Justice Department. prosecutors have dropped the charges against folks like Maramar Martinez and Ian Santos Ruiz, which was actually the.
• Home Rule Act — Concept · 1 mention · first at 3:03
  Irreparable harm to the district's sovereign powers under something called the Home Rule Act, which was passed in 1973, and because the deployment infringes upon the district's right to govern itself.
• Operation Midway Blitz — Concept · 1 mention · first at 14:27
  Vote by a grand jury was virtually unheard of in this district until Operation Midway Blitz. The last one and only one the court can remember was from the early part of this century.
• Merrist poll — Concept · 1 mention · first at 24:17
  So, we actually come out on top by a couple of seeds. But that might not even matter. The latest merrist poll shows Democrats up 14 points on the general ballot. We have not…
• 2018 blue tsunami — Concept · 1 mention · first at 24:27
  Ballot. We have not enjoyed a number that big since the year before we took 40 seats in the House alone in the 2018 blue tsunami.
• Webby Award — Concept · 1 mention

Places & events

• Costa Rica — Place · 3 mentions · first at 8:06
  Ticket. And the DOJ told him if he plead guilty to those two charges that he could be deported to Costa Rica, a nice place. But if he didn't, they would send him to Uganda, which turned into Uruguay, then Esatini, now Liberia.
• Portland — Place · 2 mentions · first at 1:14
• Liberia — Place · 2 mentions · first at 8:12
  Place. But if he didn't, they would send him to Uganda, which turned into Uruguay, then Esatini, now Liberia.
• El Salvador Secope prison — Place · 1 mention · first at 7:23
  Actions attempting to kidnap and disappear innocent people and remove them to El Salvador Secope prison using the Alien Enemies Act as justification.
• Uganda — Place · 1 mention · first at 8:10
  Could be deported to Costa Rica, a nice place. But if he didn't, they would send him to Uganda, which turned into Uruguay, then Esatini, now Liberia.
• Everett McKinley Dirkson United States Courthouse — Place · 1 mention · first at 13:44
  But these are not ordinary times at the Everett McKinley Dirkson United States Courthouse. So, a brief additional explanation is necessary.
• Eswatini — Place · 1 mention

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 Hey everybody, I'm Allison Gil. Welcome to the breakdown here on Midas Touch. So, I am the bearer of good tidings today. Uh we are what 9 10 months into this administration and all of Trump's plans and all of his cases in court. They're all falling apart and all at the same time. So much happened this week. The Comey indictment is hanging by a thread. The Kilmargo case has gone off the rails for the Justice Department. Uh prosecutors have dropped the charges against folks like Maramar Martinez and Ian Santos Ruiz, which was actually the case underpinning Trump's Supreme Court justification, his argument to the Supreme Court for deploying the National Guard in Chicago. That fell apart this week. The House and the Senate broke from MAGA and Trump and voted nearly unanimously to release the Epstein files. The MAGA plan to mum donify the Democrats in the midterms that just fell apart because Trump can't resist a

0:58 celebrity. The Alien Enemies Act case that's coming back to Judge Boseberg. We talked about that last week. Uh that criminal contempt is going to be allowed to resume this week because the government defied his court order to turn the planes around this past March. Trump is blocked from deploying the National Guard in Portland and Chicago. They're packing up and leaving. and now the District of Columbia as well. That happened this week. He just lost another vote in the House because Marjorie Taylor Green is announced surprisingly she's going to resign a year early. It is all falling apart. The incompetence and malfeascence of this administration is just on full display. Any benefit of the doubt the government once enjoyed from the courts has been obliterated.

1:41 Their obscene disregard for the rule of law has left the government's cases like teetering on the edge of a cliff. Like the clicking up click click at the top of the roller coaster. They are precariously teetering on a cliff. Bad policy has wrecked affordability messaging for Republicans, which by the way now has Trump chickening out rolling back his own tariffs, which is an admission that they sucked in the first place. It is all about to come crashing down just like all right now. And why? Because the regime is manufactured political hyperbole built on a foundation of lies and emissions and fabricated evidence.

2:24 And because we the people keep pushing back. We're going to cover all of that, all of these updates on today's episode of the breakdown. All right, first up, the National Guard is leaving Chicago. They're leaving Portland. They're packing it in after uh successful lawsuits blocked their federalization and deployment. And and this week, a judge ruled that the deployment in DC is illegal. US District Judge for District the District of Columbia, Gia Cobb, wrote that the deployment is unlawful because it caused irreparable harm to the district's sovereign powers under something called the Home Rule Act, which was passed in 1973, and because the deployment infringes upon the district's right to govern itself.

3:13 Now, she has paused her own order for 21 days to allow for appeal. So, they're not going to be leaving immediately. Next, uh, let's tick through some of the most high-profile cases that are just on the verge of collapse or have coll they have already collapsed. There's a news this week in the case against Jim Comey. And I want to reiterate, I'm not a fan of Jim Comey because he played a role in why we're even here talking about these revenge charges that have been brought against him. But I do want to focus today on the corruption and incompetence of Trump's Department of Justice and and Lindseay Halligan specifically because it it bears coverage. There is evidence that the government failed to get a warrant for the materials at the core of these charges.

4:03 Also, their only witness before the grand jury was tainted by being exposed to attorney client privileged information. Lindseay Halligan made a series of misstatements on constitutional law to the grand jury. She likely wasn't even lawfully appointed. But on top of all that, what happened this week is the DOJ admitted in court this past Wednesday that Todd Blanch actually instructed the assistant US attorney to neither confirm nor deny the existence of a declination memo from the previous prosecutor, the one that was fired.

4:40 I can't confirm or deny it exists, but if it does, it's probably privileged. So, thank you for just confirming that that it exists. But not only that, this week we learned the grand jury never even voted on the indictment. That's a case killer. And I think the introductory paragraph in a motion this week to support releasing the grand jury materials to Jim Comey and his defense team, I think it sums up the abject disaster that is Lindseay Halligan. And it does it pretty succinctly. It says, "The government's misconduct in its quest to indict Mr. Comey shocks the conscience. The government conducted a warrantless search of privileged materials that no reasonable agent or prosecutor would conduct. It used those materials to present this case to the grand jury and in doing so it magnified its violation of Mr. Comey's rights. It misstated basic principles of constitutional law to influence the

5:37 grand jury and it appears not to have presented any of the significant exculpatory evidence in the case. What is more, the government has now conceded that it did not even present the operative indictment to the grand jury, meaning no indictment was returned before the statute of limitations expired. And adding to the irrediable flaws permeating this process, the attorney general twice ratified the defective purported indictment through a post hawk review that is legally incapable of rescuing this case. The record contains multiple particularized factual bases to conclude that grounds may exist to dismiss the indictment based on the government's misconduct before the grand jury and overcome the presumption of grand jury secrecy.

6:27 Now, the best part about all of this, all of this embarrassing [ __ ] that's coming out about the government in this case, about what she did in the grand jury room, we have it because the government demanded it. The government demanded a list of reasons why they should have to hand over all the grand jury materials to Comey. Had the DOJ not asked or demanded, we we may never know just how messy Lindseay Hallan is. So, we'll see how the government responds this week. And and don't forget, like I said, I mentioned earlier those contempt proceedings, the ones we discussed here last week on the breakdown in Judge Boseberg's court. They start back up this week. He wants to call whistleblower Arez Reveni and DOJ lawyer Drew Ensign to the stand. This will likely result in embarrassing discovery for the government about its unlawful actions attempting to kidnap and disappear innocent people and remove

7:23 them to El Salvador Secope prison using the Alien Enemies Act as justification. Evidence that will no doubt impact any future use of the law by this administration. And one of the people on those planes was Kilmargo Garcia. There was a hearing this week uh and once again the government was caught redhanded. So as you know rather than return Mr. Abrego to the United States pursuant to a court order, the Department of Justice charged him with two bogus felonies from a traffic stop in 2022 where they didn't charge him, didn't even give him a ticket. And the DOJ told him if he plead guilty to those two charges that he could be deported to Costa Rica, a nice place. But if he didn't, they would send him to Uganda, which turned into Uruguay, then Esatini, now Liberia.

8:17 And a guy who was recently given a big promotion, signed a sworn declaration to the court that Costa Rica is no longer on the table, and that is why we were removing him to Liberia. Costa Rica won't take him anymore. The government says they're no longer going to take Mr. Abrego. The judge Paulinis brought that guy in who signed that declaration and he admitted in court that he did not write all of that sworn declaration, the one that he signed. He said a State Department lawyer wrote part of it for him. And he confessed that he didn't know what a lot of those words meant, but he signed it anyway.

8:59 And by the way, yesterday morning, this is kind of breaking news. Costa Rica responded saying they never closed the door. Kilar Abrego was welcome. Trump's Department of Justice was caught redhanded again lying in court. We also learned uh during that hearing there isn't even a removal order on file for Mr. Abrego despite the government saying that there is. and we're going to send him to Liberia. Judge Senis seems to have had enough. This is from Adam Classfeld at Allrise News who was at the hearing this past week. During an evidentiary hearing, a federal judge could not confirm that the government obtained a final order of removal.

9:44 Quote, "If your honor finds there's no removal order, then there's no basis for immigration detention whatsoever." Abrego's attorney, Andrew Rossman, said during a hearing on Thursday. US District Judge Polycinis grilled senior justice department lawyer Drew Ensign, there he is again on this matter. Ensign cited a document in the record, but Senis told him that that file has no indication that it ordered Abrago's removal. Well, not in so many words, your honor, said Enson. Not at all. The judge shot back. If there's no removal order, there's no justification for holding him in custody. Judge Seni's closed the evidentiary record and will issue a ruling soon. And if Mr. Abrego avoids deportation, his trial on these trumped up charges, which will be totally embarrassing for the government, is scheduled to begin January 27th.

10:42 Now, I spoke with Adam Klasfeld about all this. Like I said, he was in the courtroom and you can watch that interview with him uh and and me about the Arbago hearing at mshirote.com. It's up there. Also this week, the case of Maramar Martinez and Ian Santos Ruiz in Chicago completely fell apart. This is the case where the Department of Homeland Security lied to the public in a press release saying that Ms. Martinez rammed ICE with her vehicle, rammed an ICE SUV with her car and then brandished a semi-automatic firearm, which is what justified a federal agent firing five shots into her car. But as the reality of the situation began to unfold, we learned that ICE actually rammed her vehicle, that she never actually brandished a gun at all. The agent pulled up and yelled, "Do something, bitch." and then bragged in text messages about I shot five shots and she has seven holes uh with his with his buddies. Bragged

11:45 about it. And with the mounting evidence of the lies told by the agents and the government, the Department of Justice just filed a motion to drop all the charges against Mara Martinez and Mr. Ruiz. Now, that's great, but there's a bigger problem for the government here, too. They used that incident as a basis for an emergency request to the Supreme Court asking them to let Trump deploy the National Guard to Chicago. The government wrote the following to the Supreme Court. Two cars then rammed directly into the government vehicle. When the federal officers exited their vehicle, one of the cars that had rammed into them drove directly at a Border Patrol agent who drew her service weapon and fired at the driver who was hit. but fled the scene, only to be arrested later in possession of a gun. Approximately 200 riers then gathered in the area after the shooting, throwing glass bottles and other objects

12:43 at the besieged federal agents. None of that happened, but this government presented to the Supreme Court as though it had, and the government dropped this case before the truth could come out in open court. So now they have lied in a Supreme Court filing. And I hope the lawyers in the Martinez Ruiz case send a notice to the Supreme Court with the video evidence disproving their claims to justify the deployment of the guard. And in another case in Chicago against someone named Dana Briggs, the government filed a motion to drop those charges too. And normally the judge is like, okay, charges dropped. But the judge in this case wrote this.

13:24 Ordinarily, a court need not explain the basis for granting a dismissal, a dismissal motion filed by the government in a criminal case per rule 48A. And ordinarily, a court might do little more than inquire into the basis for the motion so that the reasons supporting the dismissal are more than conclusory. But these are not ordinary times at the Everett McKinley Dirkson United States Courthouse. So, a brief additional explanation is necessary. The judge continues, "Setting aside the extraordinary judicial determinations that DHS sworn declarations are unreliable, that the cander of its agents is open to question, and that sworn testimony of its CBP chief contained knowing falsehoods." The court closes with a focus on the prosecution of Briggs and the other five Broadview arrestes from September 27th. These five prosecutions were highly unusual in this district for several reasons. A no bill

14:22 vote by a grand jury was virtually unheard of in this district until Operation Midway Blitz. The last one and only one the court can remember was from the early part of this century. Then in the past 2 months at least three have occurred. Importantly nothing in this order should be construed as scolding the government for dismissing in these cases. dismissing appears to be the responsible thing for the government to have done in light of the government's judgment and discretion. But the court cannot help but note just how unusual and possibly unprecedented it is for the US attorney's office in this district to charge so hastily that it either could not obtain the indictment in the grand jury or was forced to dismiss upon a conclusion that the case is not provable in repeated cases of a similar nature. signed Gabriel Fuentes, United States Magistrate Judge.

15:19 Now, on yet another docket this past week, this one belonging to Judge Ellis. She is the judge who entered the preliminary injunction barring Customs and Border Protection from using force against journalists, protesters, and clergy, forcing them to wear bodywn cameras, for forcing them to put their badge numbers in two conspicuous places on their uniforms. Judge Ellis laid all the lies out bare from from the Department of Homeland Security and Gregory Bevino as well. All the lies she uncovered. And thank you to Aaron Reichlin Melnik on Blue Sky for listing these. On October 28th, DHS's social media account claimed that on October 23rd, rioters shot at agents with commercial artillery shell fireworks, thus forcing agents to deploy tear gas and riot munitions. Judge Ellis reviewed the video. This was completely false. The explosions were DHS's flashbangs. On September 19th, DHS claimed agents were forced to use riot

16:18 munitions to disperse an unruly mob. But in fact, the scene was quiet. And then almost immediately and without warning, agents lobbed flashbang grenades, tear gas, and pepper balls, stating, "Fuck yeah." as they did so. On September 26th, a DHS officer claimed that they were forced to deploy riot munitions because protesters were becoming increasingly hostile, but in fact, the bodywn camera footage shows that the protesters were simply standing there when agents first deployed any force. DHS claimed on October 3rd the agents were in danger of being rammed, but in fact, body cam suggests the agent drove erratically and break checked the other motorist in an attempt to force accidents that agents could then use as justification for deploying force. At one point, a top officer testified that protesters had shields with nails in them, but there were no nails and it was cardboard. In another incident, DHS

17:19 wrote in an incident report that a person had thrown a bike at them when in fact the body cam footage showed it was the agent that threw the bike. Quote, "Actually took a protester's bike and threw it to the side." The head of ISIS ERRO in Chicago's field office testified that a protester ripped a beard off an agent's face and broken part of ICE's building. But when questioned under oath, he admitted he had no evidence of that at all. Judge Ellis also found that a top Customs and Border Protection leaders testimony was not credible in part because he admitted that he was relying on unreliable use of force reports that were generated by officers and in a footnote says that there is video showing an officer asking chat GPT to generate those reports.

18:15 Then of course we have Timu Himmler, Greg Boino who lied his face off under oath. Turning to Boino, the court specifically finds his testimony not credible. Bovino appeared evasive over the 3 days of his deposition, either providing cute responses to plaintiffs council questions or outright lying. When shown a video of agents hitting Reverend Black with pepper balls, Bovino denied seeing a projectile hit Reverend Black in the head. In another video shown to Bino, he obviously tackles Scott Blackburn, but instead of admitting to using force against Blackburn, Bo denied it and instead stated the force was used against him.

18:56 Just lie after lie after lie. But speaking of ICE, their brutality has finally led to charges against one of their own for a change. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officer Gerardo Rodriguez was arrested this week for illegally detaining a minor at gunpoint while off duty. The boy's mother was notified and contacted and she went to the scene with his passport and called 911 when she arrived. The deputies that responded to that call referred the ICE officer to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department. This is in Southern California who arrested him the same day.

19:37 Hey, ICE, for your situational awareness, they don't let you wear your mask in your mugsh shot. And and another ICE agent this week has been arrested on sex trafficking in a sting. CBS News reports according to Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodgeges, officers started the 3-day sting on November 5th. They used several methods to find people who were attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl for sex. In all, police arrested 16 men during the investigation, which Hodgees called Operation Creep. Hajes said most of the men came from within the Twin Cities area. So, this is in Minneapolis. One of the men, he said, is an employee of Immigration and Customs Enforcement who could face federal charges.

20:23 Only the best people. But speaking of sex trafficking rings, the entire Republican party, save Klay Higgins, broke with Trump and Mike Johnson and voted to release the Epstein Files. Mike Johnson even broke with Mike Johnson. He voted yes on the Epstein Files Transparency Act. And I don't know the real reason Klay Higgins voted no. He put out a statement, but it seems sus to me. But I I can tell you I will be looking for Klay Higginsized redaction boxes when the files are released. Trump signed the bill despite being pissed about the betrayal from his party. And now Pamela Joe has 25 days or so to release the files. And it's important to note there are provisions built into this law that if she inappropriately redacts or overredacts things or withholds information, she'll be sued. And yes, that will eventually be decided by the Supreme Court. But remember, we'll get information from the lower

21:24 courts first. The same thing happened with Bill Bar's redactions of the Müller report. A lower court judge publicly declared the redactions were inappropriate and were used to sort of cover up the breadth and depth of Russian interference in the 2016 election and ordered the full report to come out, which we got in 2020. So, even if the Supreme Court rules in favor of Pam Bondi, a lower court judge will tell us if she's been inappropriately withholding information pursuant to the uh Transparency Act, the law that just passed and got signed. And on top of all that, Senator Widen told us this week that JP Morgan Chase withheld years of filing suspicious activity reports for over a billion dollars in Epstein transactions because the money was too good. and he's called for an investigation into why they helped cover up the sprawling huge sex trafficking ring.

22:19 Add that to the fact that mom Donnie owned Donald Trump in their Friday Oval Office meeting. All that Fox News is like showdown on socialism. He's going to take him apart. Everybody on the on the MAGA side was really excited that uh that Donald Trump was going to take him down. Take down M Donnie. But it's easy to mesmerize a narcissist that loves attention and celebrities and the media. But this has caused massive cracks in the MAGA base who had already spent tons of money and time strategizing on how to mumonify Democrats running in the primaries.

23:00 Their whole plan went out the window with just one look. And now Marjorie Taylor Green has announced she's giving up her seat in Congress a year early, cutting into that razor thin margin in the House. We've got a December 2nd special election in Tennessee. We could win that. Now, top that off with a panel of federal judges ruling this week that the Texas 5-seat gerrymander is racially biased and therefore must be thrown out. Now, the Supreme Court has put an administrative pause on the case while they consider it, but they are known for blocking new maps this close to a primary election.

23:45 And if that ruling, the lower court ruling holds, throwing out the maps, the Republican plan to pick up some extra seats by cheating will have backfired spectacularly, leaving Dems with an advantage of a handful of seats because we passed Proposition 50, which has a better chance of surviving the courts because we're Democrats. We asked for consent. We got the we got the voters consent. So, we actually come out on top by a couple of seeds. But that might not even matter. The latest merrist poll shows Democrats up 14 points on the general ballot. We have not enjoyed a number that big since the year before we took 40 seats in the House alone in the 2018 blue tsunami.

24:34 And just like the own goal on the DOJ when the government itself demanded the court explain all the things wrong with Lindseay Halligan, it was Republicans themselves that caused the court to throw out the Texas map. The Texas Tribune reports, "If Greg Abbott had stuck with the story that this was purely political gamesmanship, the court would likely have allowed the redraw to stand based on Supreme Court precedent, effectively sanctioning partisan gerrymanders. But by repeatedly tying the process to a court ruling that changed the racial makeup of who can bring legal challenges under the Voting Rights Act, Abbott explicitly directed the legislature to redistrict based on race. That's what Judge Jeffrey Brown wrote in the ruling that blocked Texas's new map. Brown's 160page opinion also sharply criticized the Republican legislators for unduly tethering the process to race and specifically

25:31 condemning state senator Phil King, chair of the Senate redistricting committee as untruthful and inconsistent on the stand. Six seer tyrannis everybody tyrants rarely last. And now that MAGA is crumbling under the weight of its own incompetence and bigotry and lies, do we do we let up? No. We keep pushing. We keep fighting back. I We all have a role to play. Whether you're out warning people about ICE in their neighborhood like Maramar Martinez and Santos Ruiz or or or whether you're Kil Mara Brago fighting back in court or a lawyer help defending helping defend the people against tyranny. Yeah, I'm not I'm not a lawyer.

26:20 Uh my role my role is that I have a big mouth and that I'm not constrained by corporate media conglomerates. So big thanks to Midas for giving me this platform. Uh, for more unfiltered news, you can catch me on the Daily Beans audio podcast. That's weekday mornings. So, keep pushing back. Keep doing this work. Keep fighting. Elect candidates that will hold these criminals responsible. That will elect people who will drag them unmasked before Congress to answer for their crimes. Elect candidates that will impeach Donald Trump. I know Al Green is announcing articles of impeachment right now this weekend.

27:06 I mean, you know, Canada says elbows up, America. I say cameras out and and microphones on. Walt Whitman reminds us the powerful play goes on and you may contribute averse. As Judge Paulinis said this week in the Obrego hearing, we eat the elephant one bite at a time. Everybody, thank you so much for watching. Thank you for sharing this video. I will see you here next week on the breakdown.

28:07 Hey Midas mighty, it's Ben Breton and Jordy and we just want to thank you for being the backbone of this movement.

28:13 This year tested us more than ever, but together we proved that pro-democracy voices don't just compete, we win. We took on the entire MAGA machine, won a Webbby for podcast of the year,

28:22 the Mightest Touch podcast, and you were with us every step of the way. And trust us, what we're working on next is bigger, bolder, and built for 2026.

28:30 Let's keep this momentum going. Spread the word. We are just getting started. Shout out to the mightest mighty.

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This content analyzes the rapid decline of Donald Trump's legal cases and political influence, highlighting various failures within his administration, including the implosion of specific legal indictments and the loss of key political support. The discussion underscores the overarching theme of incompetence and malfeasance, showcasing the erosion of the government's credibility and strategic…

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