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Trump LOSES IT in AM as CHAOS ENGULFS AMERICA

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· 12 min · 2,138 words · 24 timestamped sections

This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Trump LOSES IT in AM as CHAOS ENGULFS AMERICA", an episode of MeidasTouch published January 30, 2026 (12 min, about 2,138 words). It mentions 14 people, works and ideas, including Donald Trump, Don Lemon, inflation, Lindsey Graham, Department of Justice.

What this episode is about

Donald Trump faces turmoil as chaos unfolds in the U.S., highlighted by the criminal charges against journalist Don Lemon for reporting on protests, which the Department of Justice has distanced itself from. Simultaneously, looming government shutdown threats escalate due to Lindsey Graham's opposition to an appropriations bill unless local governments face prosecution regarding migrant protections, amidst rising inflation that exceeds expectations.

Key takeaways

  • Don Lemon's charge reveals a new frontier in journalistic peril—be wary, truth-tellers.
  • Lindsey Graham's shutdown gambit highlights politics over progress; priorities misplaced amid rising inflation.
  • Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against himself? Talk about a self-inflicted wound on taxpayers’ wallets.
  • Epstein files drop like a blockbuster, revealing Trump's tangled web—call it a sequel nobody asked for.
  • Polling shows Trump's 'silent majority' is more like a whisper; loud claims meet quiet exits.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 3:00: Donald Trump, Don Lemon, inflation, Lindsey Graham
  2. – 6:00: Donald Trump, Epstein file, Georgia Fort, Don Lemon
  3. – 9:00: Don Lemon, inflation, Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell
  4. – 12:00: Donald Trump, Don Lemon, inflation, Lindsey Graham

Notable quotes from "Trump LOSES IT in AM as CHAOS ENGULFS AMERICA"

  • States. Donald Trump and his attorney general Pam Bondi directed that Don Lemon be arrested. Don Lemon has been criminally charged right now in connection with being a…
    about Don Lemon · at
  • That he is able to sue the Department of Justice and special counsel Jack Smith for subpoenaing phone records relating to Donald Trump from the insurrection that had Lindsey…
    about Jack Smith · at
  • Inflation numbers today are absolutely abhorrent. and they reflect that as well. And meanwhile, Donald Trump was holding this event in the White House where he's announced his…
    about Donald Trump · at
  • Epstein. I'm going to do a whole other video. I have to go through all three million of these. But one of the things that we know as Kyle Chenny writes, Enormous number of…
    about Epstein file · at
  • Again, he's the number two at the DOJ, former Trump criminal defense lawyer. He's the guy who spoke with Gilain Maxwell in Tallahassee and then she lied through her teeth and he.
    about Kate Blanch · at
  • Intimidation is non-negotiable. My position has not changed. I will oppose the confirmation of any Federal Reserve nominee, including the position of chairman, until the DOJ's…
    about Jerome Powell · at
  • Laughafler. and she says the big thing we have to worry about is that white people are being discriminated against in small businesses. That's the big concern here. play this clip.
    about Kelly Loeffler · at
  • Lindsey Graham saying, I'm not going to allow this funding to pass unless you do all these things for me. It would still then have to be passed back to the House of Representatives after it passes.
    about Lindsey Graham · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Donald Trump — Person · Primary referenced political figure · 10 mentions · first at
    Central figure in the episode’s claims about DOJ actions against journalists, a Fed chair pick, inflation, and reactions to reporters.
  • Don Lemon — Person · Referenced journalist / alleged arrestee · 6 mentions · first at
    Presented as an independent journalist who was arrested/charged after reporting at a protest at a St. Paul church; used as an example of alleged persecution of journalists.
  • Lindsey Graham — Person · Referenced U.S. Senator influencing shutdown negotiations · 3 mentions · first at
    Described as placing a hold on an appropriations bill and demanding policies related to prosecuting jurisdictions that protect migrants; also tied to subpoena dispute involving phone records.
  • Kate Blanch — Person · Referenced DOJ official / spokesperson in clip (as stated in episode) · 3 mentions · first at
    Depicted as involved in decisions around Epstein-file document releases and as refusing to comment on Don Lemon’s arrest; described as formerly Trump’s defense lawyer.
  • Jerome Powell — Person · Referenced Federal Reserve Chair · 2 mentions · first at
    Discussed in relation to inflation context and an alleged DOJ criminal investigation; contrasted with Trump’s stated replacement pick.
  • Georgia Fort — Person · Referenced journalist / alleged arrestee · 2 mentions · first at
    Presented as an independent journalist allegedly arrested by DEA agents while filming at the same church protest; identified as NABJ vice president and Emmy award-winning.
    Attacked as well and other independent journalists were arrested. You see right here, DEA agents showed up to arrest independent journalist Georgia Fort right here. Do you see…
  • Sean Bannon — Person · Referenced political operative in Epstein-file discussion · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as having numerous texts in newly released Epstein-file documents, allegedly discussing Trump and various political/geopolitical topics.
    Million of these. But one of the things that we know as Kyle Chenny writes, Enormous number of Steve Bannon texts in these new batches of Epstein files, they had an obvious…
  • Kevin Walsh — Person · Referenced nominee/pick for Federal Reserve chair (as stated in episode) · 1 mention · first at
    Named as Trump’s intended replacement for Jerome Powell; used to frame concerns about DOJ investigation and Fed independence.
    More than this now because of the chaos that's unfolded this morning. But Kevin Walsh is an individual who Donald Trump said would be his next pick to replace Jerome Powell…
  • Kelly Loeffler — Person · Referenced former U.S. Senator / political figure · 5 mentions
    Quoted discussing audits and alleged discrimination in small-business programs; used as an example of the episode’s critique of Republican messaging.
  • Jack Smith — Person · Referenced Special Counsel · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as the special counsel Lindsey Graham wants to sue, tied to subpoenas for phone records related to the insurrection investigation.

Companies & orgs

  • Department of Justice — Company · Key institution · 3 mentions · first at
    Mentioned in the context of legal actions and investigations, including the arrest of Don Lemon and the Epstein files.
    Protest was taking place. Don Lemon did nothing criminal at all. What we're learning is the Department of Justice offices in Los Angeles as well as in Minnesota and…

Concepts & topics

  • inflation — Concept · Core topic · 5 mentions · first at
    Central economic issue discussed in the episode, with recent data showing higher than expected inflation rates.
    Into a shutdown because of Lindsey Graham and MAGA Republicans. Meanwhile, inflation is surging. We've gotten the latest inflation readouts and it's significantly higher than…
  • Federal Reserve — Concept · Key institution · 3 mentions · first at
    Discussed in the context of monetary policy and the nomination of a new chairman by Donald Trump.
    Inflation numbers today are absolutely abhorrent. and they reflect that as well. And meanwhile, Donald Trump was holding this event in the White House where he's announced his…
  • Epstein file — Concept · Key topic · 3 mentions · first at
    Mentioned in the context of the release of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein and their implications for Donald Trump and others.

Full transcript with timestamps

Donald Trump is having a disastrous Friday as total chaos engulfs the United States. Donald Trump and his attorney general Pam Bondi uh directed that Don Lemon be arrested. Don Lemon has been criminally charged right now in connection with being a independent journalist who was reporting a few weeks back at a St. Paul church where a protest was taking place. Don Lemon did nothing criminal at all. What we're learning is the Department of Justice offices in Los Angeles as well as in Minnesota and Minneapolis. They refused to take any part in this criminal prosecution. But Pam Bondi went around their backs with Todd Blanch. And now the White House is posting images gloating and spiking the football and mocking Don Lemon after now persecuting and prosecuting a independent journalist. Our heart goes out to Don Lemon and we stand in solidarity with Don Lemon. In addition, we're on the verge of a massive government shutdown

right now. You have Lindsey Graham who's placed a hold on the appropriations bill that's currently in front of the United States Senate. He says unless and until uh states and local municipalities are criminally prosecuted for helping migrants or protecting migrants, unless there are federal laws in place to prosecute mayors and governors, he says that he's not going to support the current appropriations uh bill in its current form. He also wants to make sure that he is able to sue the Department of Justice and special counsel uh Jack Smith um for subpoenaing phone records relating to Donald Trump from the insurrection that had Lindsey Graham's phone number on it. That's a major sticking point for Lindsey Graham. So now our entire government is heading into a shutdown because of Lindsey Graham and MAGA Republicans. Meanwhile, inflation is surging. We've gotten the latest inflation readouts and it's

significantly higher than people expected. I mean, the core inflation surging past 3%. We'll talk about what's going on there. Well above expectations of 2.7%. And we all intuitively know when we go to grocery stores, when we go outside, when we go to clothing stores, everything is significantly more expensive and not affordable. And the inflation numbers today are absolutely abhorrent. and they reflect that as well. And meanwhile, Donald Trump was holding this event in the White House where he's announced his new chairman of the Federal Reserve pick. I'll talk about that in a moment. But Trump was asked by reporters during this press conference that he held moments ago, why are you suing your own administration and the IRS? Why are you suing yourself, your government, the United States government, for $10 billion? Isn't this like a ridiculous lawsuit? because you're saying they leaked your tax

returns 10 years ago. What are you even doing? So, you're going to make the taxpayers pay you $10 billion? Donald Trump attacks the reporter and says, "H, you're ABC. You're fake news. I didn't call on you." And starts yelling at the reporter because he is an utter maniac. Watch this.

Why are you administration and the IRS? Why are you suing? Who are you with? I'm ABC News.

You're a loud person. Very loud. Let somebody else have a chance. Can you answer the question? Why are you ABC fake news.

Go ahead. I didn't call on you. Go ahead. Please go ahead. Go ahead. Yeah, you can give

ABC, by the way, is truly one of the worst. Go ahead. And then Donald Trump says, "Elections have consequences. We have a silent majority. People love what I'm doing. They don't go out and riot." Oh, January 6th. Also, you don't have the silent majority. Right now, your approval is at 37% according to the latest Pew. You're polling amongst the Hispanic communities like a 24% approval. Amongst 18 to 29 year olds it's at 30%. Here's what Donald Trump says. He goes, "We don't riot." We'll say it very plainly. Elections have consequences. The people want law and order and we have a silent majority. You know, we have a silent majority of people. They don't go and riot and everything else, but they like what we're doing. They like having a safe city. I get

also we should note that uh apparently three million documents from the Epstein files have been released today out of six million documents that were collected. We're still going through a lot of these a lot of references to Donald Trump's names, allegations uh and complaints about uh calendar parties that Donald Trump threw with Epstein. I'm going to do a whole other video. I have to go through all three million of these. But one of the things that we know as Kyle Chenny writes, "Enormous number of Steve Bannon texts in these new batches of Epstein files, they had an obvious familiarity, comfort, joking with each other, mocking Trump while discussing financial arrangements, the Muller probe, we build the wall, geopolitics, recitar, UAE, Russia, China, actual contacts with foreign leaders, and making constant arrangements to meet, talk, and film an Epstein documentary." That's what's going uh down right now. Um, by the way,

in addition to Don Lemon, um, other independent journalists were, uh, attacked as well and other independent journalists were arrested. You see right here, DEA agents showed up to arrest independent journalist Georgia Fort right here. Do you see the DEA agents right there? Um, and there's a whole video of that that I I want to share with you, but it's absolutely horrific what they did to Georgia Fort. She was the vice president or is the vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists, Emmy award-winning.

Um, and they attacked her. She was at the church as well just filming and they went after her. Here's what Todd Blanch had to say about the Epstein files. Again, he's the number two at the DOJ, former uh Trump uh criminal defense lawyer. He's the guy who spoke with uh Gilain Maxwell uh in Tallahassee and then she lied through her teeth and he was like, "Great job, Gilain." I mean, this guy is totally corrupt. Here he is saying that of the 6 million documents collected, they've only going to be releasing three million because they say the other three million don't matter or not relevant to your play this clip. He aired on the side of overcolcting of materials from various sources to best mure ensure maximum transparency and compliance which necessarily means that the number of responsive pages is significantly smaller than the total number of pages initially collected.

That's why I mentioned a moment ago we're releasing more than 3 million pages today and not the the 6 million pages that that we that we collected. Then he's asked, "Do you have a reaction to the arrest of Don Lemon?" Here's what he says. Let's play this clip. Have anything to share about that?

And to follow up on that, uh, do you have a reaction to the arrest of Don Lemon overnight?

Do you have a reaction to what? To Don Lemon's arrest overnight? Do I have a reaction to it?

I don't know what that means. What are you looking for me to do? Jump up and down? No, I don't have a reaction to it. I don't know that his that the charges are unsealed yet. Um, so no, I can't I'm not going to comment on that.

Uh, thank you. And he says, "What do you want me to do? jump for joy. This is what the White House account posted. When life gives you lemons, so they are literally mocking their persecution and prosecution of independent journalist Don Lemon. As I noted at the outset of this video, inflation is surging. The December PPI inflation comes in at 3% above expectations of 2.7%. The core PPI inflation unexpectedly rises to 3.3% above expectations of 2.9%. Core PPI inflation is now at its highest level since July 2025. It's going back up up up. PPI inflation is running way hotter than expected. Now, the event at the Oval Office again was covering so much more than this now um because of the chaos that's unfolded this morning. But um Kevin Walsh is an individual who Donald Trump said would be his next pick uh to replace Jerome Powell when Jerome Powell's term is over as the chairman of the Federal Reserve. Senator Tom Tillis

of North Carolina has stated the following. Yes, Kevin Walsh is a qualified nominee with a deep understanding of monetary policy. However, the Department of Justice continues to pursue a criminal investigation into Chairman Jerome Powell based on committee testimony that no reasonable person could conrue as possessing criminal intent. Protecting the independence of the Federal Reserve from political interference or legal intimidation is non-negotiable. My position has not changed. I will oppose the confirmation of any Federal Reserve nominee, including the position of chairman, until the DOJ's inquiry into chairman's powels is fully and transparency and transparently resolved. Uh more this morning, you had Kevin Hassid, Donald Trump's national economic adviser, making his rounds on the morning shows lying that uh oh, it's actually not that bad that inflation rose to 3.3%.

That actually means things are working. It's because all of the great data centers are being built here. Play this clip. This is moving.

I don't know. Does the data really show that we can get high growth without inflation? We got a PPI report this morning that was pretty hot. 3% higher than expectations of 2.7%. Core rose to 3.3%.

Right. The the PPI number is a little bit different right now than what we're seeing from the CPI. The CPI over the last 3 months, the annual rate was lower than two. I think that right now we're seeing um materials prices like gold and so on are up quite a bit in part because of all the investment that's happening uh for artificial intelligence and data centers and so on. And then you had Kelly Leler, the billionaire lady who was appointed to be the senator in Georgia and then she ended up losing. Remember we called her looting Laughafler. Um and she says the big thing we have to worry about is that white people are being discriminated against in small businesses. That's the big concern here. play this clip.

Certain programs had never been audited, like the ADA, socially and economically disadvantaged program that discriminated against white business owners in their entirety for 50 years. So, we set out to do a 15-year look back audit. We suspended 1,000 people who didn't participate in the submission of financial forms. And then up in Minnesota, obviously, we were all horrified when it was revealed how much fraud in the Somali network was going on. We went back during PPP. We'd seen $430 million of fraud. Uh thousands of borrowers had defrauded the federal government during that time, stealing funds from small businesses. So, we're going to go state by state and looking back because the Biden administration kicked all that waste, fraud, and abuse under the rug. And we're going after it in multiple programs.

Unbelievable. And of course, there was last night at actually 1:30 a.m. in the morning, Donald Trump attacked Alex Prey, um, who the Trump Border Patrol Gustapo murdered in cold blood, referring to him as an insurrectionist in a post. I covered that last night. I need not go over that again. I'm going to go through these 3 million files in the these 3 million documents produced. So, I can do videos on that. We have the government shutdown that is, you know, hours away right now caused by MAGA Republicans, caused by Lindsey Graham. I mean, you see it right before your eyes.

Lindsey Graham saying, "I'm not going to allow this funding to pass unless you do all these things for me." It would still then have to be passed back to the uh House of Representatives after it passes the Senate. The House is not there yet. So, we're definitely heading into another government shutdown right now. The question is for how long. We'll keep you posted every step of the way. And again, we stand in solidarity with Don Lemon um and with all these independent journalists who are under attack right now by this Trump regime, by this Gestapo. Donlemon, George for we're with you. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe.

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Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Trump LOSES IT in AM as CHAOS ENGULFS AMERICA"?

Donald Trump (Guest), Pam Bondi (Guest), Don Lemon (Guest), Georgia Fort, Todd Blanch (Guest).

What is "Trump LOSES IT in AM as CHAOS ENGULFS AMERICA" about?

Donald Trump faces turmoil as chaos unfolds in the U.S., highlighted by the criminal charges against journalist Don Lemon for reporting on protests, which the Department of Justice has distanced itself from. Simultaneously, looming government shutdown threats escalate due to Lindsey Graham's opposition to an appropriations bill unless local governments face prosecution regarding migrant…

What is mentioned in this MeidasTouch episode?

14 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Donald Trump, Don Lemon, inflation, Lindsey Graham, Department of Justice, Kate Blanch. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Trump LOSES IT in AM as CHAOS ENGULFS AMERICA"?

The episode runs 12 min; the transcript is about 2,138 words in 24 timestamped sections.

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