#Ben Meiselas

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Democratic Star Becomes INSTANT NIGHTMARE for GOP in Congress

So I really hate the sensationalist headlines of the videos but it is what cut through the YouTube noise

This is a great video and an excellent discussion between two lawyers, informing us about current trimp-o affairs

It is so infuriating, but it also gives me hope that we have coverage of this plain and open corruption and that something will get done

Stay informed, stay woke

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9/20/20 Ben Meiselas, One of the Golden Boys with the MeidasTouch

Ben Meiselas is the co-founder of the MeidasTouch Network (MTN), which he started with his brothers, Brett and Jordan.  The MeidasTouch is responsible for thousands of anti-Trump videos on YouTube and other social media sites.  They have posted over 6,500,000 videos and have over 1.6 million subscribers according to YouTube.

Ben and his brothers promised to always state the truth on their MeidasTouch vids.  In the 11/28/2020 issue of the “Hollywood Reporter,” Brett stated, “We are very careful and put a lot of thought into our messaging and into everything that we create, but we also don’t sit on it for weeks to make sure that everything about it is absolutely perfect. [emphasis added].  We need to be current. We need to be provocative. We need to be truthful and on top of it and continuously get the message out.”

A Google search showed some cracks.

During the December 2020 debate between Rev. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), a strand of her long hair appeared lighter than other strands.  Her critics claimed that this was proof that she was wearing a wire, and Ben was one of those critics.  He shared this theory with his 100,000+ followers.  The allegation was soon refuted.  

The Meiselas brothers’ transparency took another hit after an interview with Seth Hettena, a freelance writer for the Rolling Stone.  He interviewed the brothers in December 2010, and the article ran in the April 2021 issue.  The headline read, “The Trouble with MeidasTouch,” and the opening continued, “The brothers behind the breakout anti-Trump PAC are the golden boys of the #Resistance, but when ‘Rolling Stone’ took a look beneath the surface, their response turned Trumpian.”  Ouch!

Mr. Hettena continued, “The group spent more than $1 million on an advertising strategy that it calls revolutionary but campaign veterans and independent experts say is nonsensical and a more effective tool for fundraising than for helping Democrats win elections. And despite its promised transparency, MeidasTouch’s financial structure makes a dollar-for-dollar accounting of its spending impossible — and, according to a former Federal Election Commission attorney, raises some of the same legal issues that got the Trump campaign into trouble in 2020.”  That had to hurt. 

The brothers made the declaration that they had supported Democratic nominees with their money.  Mr. Hettena made the distinction that MeidasTouch were using other people’s money, not their own. 

The brothers used their platform to protest Mr. Hettena’s article in a 40-minute rant.  Among other statements, Ben declared that he doesn’t earn a salary for his work on MeidasTouch and that he has also shut down a significant portion of his law practice since Covid started.  He described Mr. Hettena as a hack freelance who wants to write a journalistic hit piece on them because of their SuperPAC status.  

Is Seth Hettena really a hack?  To find out, I did a background check on the investigative journalist.  A Google Scholar search yielded many links.  I learned that he wrote two books: Trump/Russia: A Definitive History, which documented the two world leaders’ history together.  Jane Mayer, author of “The New York Times’bestseller, Dark Money, wrote "Hettena is a first-rate reporter and wonderful story-teller, and the tale he tells here is mind-boggling.”   

Hettena clearly supports the anti-Trump rhetoric created by the Meiselas brothers, but he has a problem with their SuperPac status.  For starters, the reporter stated that after the brothers declared a six-figure advertising airtime buy, a search of invoices TV stations filed with the Federal Communications Commission shows the group spent less than $80,000 worth of donor money.

I don’t share Ben Meiselas’s opinion that Seth Hettena is a political hack.  He has written two well-received books and was endorsed by a New York Times columnist.  In addition to The Rolling Stone, Mr. Hettena has written for other reputable journals like The New Republic, and he is currently working on an expose of the CIA and Navy Seals in Iraq.  Mr. Hettena applauds the MeidasTouch Network for the good that they do.  His problem is with SuperPacs in general, an opinion he shares with many others.  The Brennan Center for Justice outlined those concerns on their website. as documented in their blog “10 Years of Super PACs Show Courts Were Wrong on Corruption Risks.

The MeidasTouch continues to air hundreds of videos per month.  The ex-president is less of a focal point in these videos as the brothers have targeted other far right Republicans as well.

As the saying goes, nobody is perfect, which clearly applies to the Meiselas brothers.  But I applaud their efforts trying to keep our nation intact.

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Donald Trump voluntarily dismissed the frivolous lawsuit he filed against New York Attorney General Letitia James in Florida which was assigned to the same federal judge that sanctioned him $1 million. MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports. Jan 20, 2023  

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Ben Meiselas: 'Donald Trump Spokesperson KICKED OFF CNN on LIVE TV for ANTICS'

Source:Meidas Touch talking about the lack of exchange between CNN anchor Kasie Hunt & MAGA spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt. Source:The New Democrat “MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on CNN host Kasie Hunt ending her interview with Donald Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt who refused to answer the questions on the debate and spent the interview attacking the moderators.” From the Meidas…

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There's really no better way to say it: Judge Aileen Cannon has "fucked around" and will soon be "finding out"...

But DON'T take my word for it. Michael Popok and Ben Meiselas get it right more than anyone else in the media. MORE. THAN. ANYONE!

This is a follow-up post to a reblog a little further down in mah history. Please, share it via reblog or copy-n-paste it into a new post of your own! Intelligent presentation without an undisclosed moneymaking bias is DIFFICULT to come by!

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Judge Aileen Cannon does not have a strong voice of her own; rather, she has Federalist Society and MAGA Conservative support bolstering her decision-making, with their roots in her life dating back to at least 2005...

Quick aside: Although MAGA didn't exist in name prior to Donald Trump's political presence, the conservative radicals that welcomed him with open arms had been there all along, just under differing monikers...

Skip ahead if you like; otherwise, for reference on what I originally stated:

Judge Aileen Cannon has not issued an actionable, appealable order in the Mar-a-Lago Classified Documents case since 2022! That is EXTREMELY unusual. It's unprecedented in it's scope. And she seems to be intentionally oblivious to these ethically suspect - and, at times, decidedly flawed - actions of hers...

For those that don't know, Judge Cannon has been using ONLY "paperless" scheduling orders - which to this point have been regarded as unappealable - to maintain the appearance of keeping the case moving. However, there doesn't appear to be a threshold measure for her very curious actions, and the case may soon be heading into "fuck around and find out" territory in that regard...

For me, personally, for daily legal information on the case, almost live as it happens, I've found Michael Popok to be an EXTREMELY level-headed and reliable source for all such analysis, "full stop." The excitable Ben Meiselas, too, will leave you smarter than you were after watching his legal takes as well. Head to The Meidas Touch Network via YouTube to see both in action...

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As with many a lame-duck president in the past, it feels as if Joe Biden has already left the national stage even though he has a month left in his term.

In his case, that disappearing act is vastly exaggerated by the man who was his predecessor and will be his successor. Donald Trump sucks up every bit of oxygen in the room with his daily outrages – horrifying cabinet choices, transactional friendships with oligarchs, appalling social media posts.

With all the lack of grace we’ve come to expect, he is threatening and bragging his way to inauguration day.

Biden, by contrast, is mostly low-key and taciturn.

One of Barack Obama’s former aides, Jon Lovett, took a sarcastic jab on the Pod Save America podcast: “Joe Biden believes in tradition and institutions, and we should only have one president at a time, and I think it’s a surprising choice to allow it to be Donald Trump.”

Some major news organizations are giving Biden an extra shove into the wings with coverage that emphasizes what we already know: that Biden, at 82, is old and less than vibrant.

A Weary Biden Heads for the Exit, read a headline in the New York Times, with observations, in the newspaper’s own voice, that Biden “looks a little older and a little slower with each passing day”, and that “it is hard to imagine that he seriously thought he could do the world’s most stressful job for another four years.”

The Wall Street Journal reprised its once disparaged and now praised coverage from last spring about the president’s increasing frailty with a story about how staff shored him up and distracted the public and the press: “Aides kept meetings short and controlled access, top advisers acted as go-betweens and public interactions became more scripted.”

But even in this diminished state, and even amid low approval ratings and endless criticism, Biden remains himself to a large extent: decent, optimistic, patriotic and empathetic.

In an extensive video interview published recently by the progressive, independent media organization MeidasTouch Network, Biden sounded cogent and thoughtful as he answered questions from founder Ben Meiselas.

Granted, the interview was non-combative; rather, it was notably tactful and respectful. But it was also substantive, and Biden sounded the familiar notes as he pledged to attend next month’s inauguration and explained why he invited Trump to the White House, despite having often depicted him as a threat to democracy.

“Because it’s who we are as a nation, it’s how we’re supposed to be … ” he said about the peaceful transfer of power. He emphasized his belief in the American people and joked about being what he called “congenitally optimistic”.

I’m not sure I share those rosy views, given the outcome of the election and the way things are unfolding day after day. But that’s vintage Biden.

And as I watched and listened to him answering Meiselas’s questions, I somehow felt nostalgic – yes, nostalgic for a presidency that hasn’t even ended, though it is fading fast.

I couldn’t help but think that – despite all Biden’s well-documented faults and misjudgments (including failing to step away much earlier from the presidential campaign) – this president has done a lot right.

His accomplishments are real, and his decency as a human being is, too.

Some of us, at least, are going to miss him when he’s gone. Even if it seems like that has already happened.

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Biden supporters are raising Trump's associations with Jeffrey Epstein — again.

Recently-released docs in the Epstein investigation make no mention of Trump.

Democrats have tried deflecting concerns about Biden's age by bringing up Trump's past.

Some Joe Biden supporters are employing a tried-and-true strategy to fend off rampant debate over the President's age and mental acuity: deflection.

On social media — and even in the halls of Congress — certain Biden supporters are using Donald Trump's associations with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein as an argument to disqualify him.

Discourse about Trump and Epstein was reignited after documents from Epstein's first Florida investigation in 2006 were released last week.

But the 158-page document — a grand jury transcript showing prosecutors heard testimony that Epstein raped girls as young as 14, then still cut him a sweetheart plea deal — makes no mention of Trump himself.

Still, some seized the news cycle as a way to counteract doubts about Biden's own fitness to run for office in 2024.

Why no one's writing about Trump and Epstein

During a press conference on Tuesday, Rep. Ted Lieu of California urged more media coverage of the "Epstein files," adding that a "highly disturbing" hashtag about Trump and Epstein was trending on X.

Trump had previously been photographed with Epstein, Lieu said, had flown with him on planes with young girls on board, and the two were listed on call logs together.

"It shows that Donald Trump is unfit for office," the congressman said, adding Trump was also convicted of sexual abuse in civil court.

Ben Meiselas, the cofounder of liberal news network Meidas Touch, also posted on X about "the release of new Epstein files with Trump's name on it." Other Biden boosters have suggested a coordinated media cover-up to boost Trump's chances or doom Biden's.

But Trump isn't named in the latest records, a fact reiterated on X by Julie Brown, the Miami Herald investigative journalist who helped break the Epstein story.

Media outlets haven't reported on Trump's connection to the new Epstein files because there isn't one.

What we know about Trump's relationship with Epstein

Trump has appeared in previous unsealed and uncovered documents connected to the Epstein case.

Trump was also connected to 14 different numbers in Epstein's little black book of contacts that surfaced before the financier's arrest on sex trafficking charges in 2019. Among the contacts were Trump's wife, Melania; ex-wife, Ivana; and daughter, Ivanka.

The contact book also included the names of high-profile celebrities like Courtney Love, Alec Baldwin, and Naomi Campbell, as well as politicians and dignitaries like John Kerry, Michael Bloomberg, Henry Kissinger, and Prince Andrew.

Unsealed flight logs in 2019 revealed Trump took a flight on Epstein's private jet in 2017; billionaire couple Glenn and Eva Dubin joined him on the flight from Palm Beach to Newark.

And in January, a Business Insider analysis of then-unsealed court records determined Trump appeared in the documents multiple times under the moniker "Doe 174."

However, the mentions in those documents weren't all damning for the former President, BI's Jacob Shamsian reported at the time.

In one instance, a woman denied in a deposition that she'd massaged Trump. In another, a woman claimed — then recanted — that her friend had had sex with him. And Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of the key accusers of sexual abuse by Epstein and his associates, said in one document that she didn't think Trump was involved.

Trump had previously faced allegations by an anonymous woman that claimed he had violently raped her at an orgy when she was 13 years old. The woman — who went by the pseudonym "Katie Johnson" — even filed a lawsuit against Trump, twice.

The first was a civil rights suit in April 2016 that was thrown out on a technicality. Vox noted that the original suit listed the woman's apparent address as an abandoned home.

She filed a second lawsuit that removed some of the lurid details. Still, the case was connected to strange characters, including a Jerry Springer producer who tried to sell a video of the purported accuser to news outlets for $1 million and an anti-Trump activist who promoted the lawsuit — and had a history of spreading untrue gossip.

The woman abruptly dropped the lawsuit in November 2016, just days before the election that Donald Trump would win. Her lawyer didn't share a reason for why the lawsuit was dropped at the time.

Trump had publicly praised Epstein before his sexual abuse allegations came to light. He called Epstein a "terrific guy" in 2002, adding, "It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."

But the Washington Post reported the two men had a falling out in 2004 after they both wanted to buy a prime Palm Beach property.

After Epstein's arrest, Trump told reporters, "I was not a fan of his, that I can tell you." Trump has also said he barred Epstein from Mar-A-Lago.

Four Pinocchios from WaPo for congressman Lieu's claims about Trump in the epstein files, that's gotta hurt both wapo and lieu

Guy must think everyone else is a idiot and will take him at his word instead of actually looking,

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Trump in SHEER TERROR as Damascus QUICKLY FALLS

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump facing the reality that his dictator bros are falling across the world.

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Watch "Most SHOCKING Moments from Republican Hearing They Don’t Want You to See" on YouTube

Listen so I know the title is sensationalist but I think they have to do that on YouTube to break through the background noise

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Ben meiselas is Bae

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JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava Corporate Media Hates Meidas… We Don’t Care

Ok, we get it. Corporate media hates us. They really despise us. And guess what? We really don’t care…

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Ben Meiselas: 'Donald Trump’s FRAUD EVENTS Finally Get the Treatment IT DESERVES'

Source:Meidas Touch talking about conaholic Donald J. Trump. Source:The New Democrat “A judge’s ruling allows a pastor to continue holding services in a west side church while a battle over who will control the 55-year-old religious institution gets sorted out. Wayne Circuit Judge Kathleen McCarthy Thursday granted a temporary restraining order to Pastor Lorenzo Sewell, allowing him to continue…

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Lawsuit Alleges Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Raped 10-Year-Old Boy.

A new lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs accuses the music mogul of the rape of a 10-year-old boy at a Manhattan hotel in 2005. The plaintiff, represented by attorney Tony Buzbee, claims he was drugged and assaulted by Combs during a visit to New York intended to advance his budding music career.

Allegations detail a disturbing series of events, claiming Combs coerced the boy with promises of fame followed by a drug-laced drink. After the drink took effect, the lawsuit states that Combs sexually assaulted the boy and threatened him to remain silent.

The lawsuit is part of a slew of recent legal actions against Combs, including claims that he raped a 17-year-old in 2008. These cases add to the list of allegations against Combs, including previous accusations involving minors.

Combs, currently detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, faces charges including sex trafficking and racketeering. Combs was arrested on September 16 and denied pre-trial release twice, with bail set at $50 million. His upcoming criminal trial is scheduled for May 2025, where he could potentially face life imprisonment if convicted.

So far, well over 120 individuals have made accusations against Combs. A hotline set up for others to report their own accusations received over 15,000 calls.

Combs is also linked to the Democratic party through Ben Meiselas, co-founder of the far-left MeidasTouch Network. Celebrity attorney Kenny Meiselas, the father of Ben Meiselas, had been employed by Combs. He also helped his son get an internship at Combs’s record label, which led to work with Hillary Clinton.

The Biden-Harris White House has described the MeidasTouch Network as its “front lines” against President Donald J. Trump in the 2024 presidential campaign.

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Democrats Need to Learn How to Take Credit and How to Blame Republicans do it with lies. So why can’t Democrats do it with the truth? Ben Meiselas and MeidasTouch Network Dec 1

Why are Democrats so afraid to take credit for their successes?

Even going back to when they originally passed Obamacare, they refused to celebrate it for more than a day, and then ran away from that historic accomplishment.

More recently, despite President Biden and Democrats passing the Infrastructure Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, the CHIPS Act, the PACT Act, and the American Rescue Plan, I barely heard Democrats take credit for these things. Instead, Republicans who voted against these laws showed up at ribbon-cutting ceremonies and pretended they supported them. Democrats would mock the Republicans for taking credit for things they voted against, but most voters were none the wiser.

By and large, voters aren’t paying attention to how the sausage of legislation is made. They literally need to be told over and over who to give credit to when things go well and who to blame when things go badly. It’s pretty simple.

Here’s another example. Under President Biden, the stock market set dozens of record highs. The Dow, the NASDAQ, and the S&P hit records that likely meant most Americans saw increases in their 401(k)s or other retirement accounts. Unless I was wearing noise-canceling headphones at the time, I almost never heard Democrats taking credit for this.

Compare this to Trump, who took credit for minor stock market gains even during the worst days of the pandemic—between historic market crashes.

Seriously, why weren’t Democrats taking credit for turning the calamity handed to them by Trump in 2020 into an economic miracle? What am I missing here?

I understand that people were and are struggling to pay bills and that inflation was a real problem. But it wasn’t Biden’s fault. Biden fixed the issues caused by Trump. Why did Democrats let Republicans set the narrative that Biden did what Trump did and Trump did what Biden did? It’s crazy to me.

Are Democrats so afraid to offend voters that they don’t take credit for their accomplishments and allow themselves to get blamed by Republicans, thus offending voters anyway?

Democrats don’t set the political discourse; they react to the framework of discourse set by Fox News and Republicans. Call me naive, but I just don’t think this is all that complicated.

Here’s what Democrats need to do: Take credit for their successes and blame Republicans for their failures every single day. Yes. Every. Single. Day.

Democrats delivered real gains for workers. An actual manufacturing boom took place under Biden—the kind Trump promised but failed to deliver. Take credit for it. Give it a name.

Say we are living in the “Golden Age of Manufacturing.” Call it the “Manufacturing Miracle.” Call it the “Wonder of the Worker.” Heck, call it anything cool or inspiring, but just take credit for it. Own your accomplishments. Be loud and proud. Be cocky and confident about it.

“We did it! They screwed you! We’ve got your backs!” Spike the damn football in the end zone. Set the narrative. Set the tone.

At the same time, blame the Republicans for their failures. Starting in January 2021, Democrats could have held fireside chats (or podcasts) with the American people showing how they were cleaning up Trump’s mess. Make a scorecard of how Trump’s disasters are being cleaned up so Americans could follow along. Blame the Republicans for their systemic failures. Keep it simple.

If you’ve listened to my podcasts lately, you’ve heard me say, “Always be campaigning,” or ABC. In today’s digital age, you always have to be in campaign mode. You can’t wait until an election year. Your ABC campaign message has to be consistent and repeated over and over. You have to take credit, make bold promises you can deliver, and loudly blame the other side for the problems they caused.

We can all wish for the days when politics didn’t require self-promotion of successes, and people simply understood on their own who to give credit to and who to blame. But that’s not the world we live in now.

In the absence of honest self-promotion of accomplishments, the void will be filled by dishonest usurpation of your hard work by others for nefarious ends. Trump and MAGA saw that void and exploited it.

Even though it’s too late to implement these lessons for the 2024 election, these teachings are existential to the Democratic Party going forward—especially as Trump and MAGA move to destroy democracy over the next four years. Democrats have two years to set the record straight, proudly remind Americans of their actual legacy of success, and blame Trump for the failures he is about to inflict—and is already inflicting.

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The 2024 Election - I Would Much Rather Be Us Than Them - Got a lot of stuff for you to read, watch and listen to this weekend: A recording of my appearance on Alex Wagner’s MSNBC show last night. Alex, Dan Pfeiffer and I had a great discussion about the election - polling, the early vote, and the big story that broke last night about Elon Musk’s illicit and dangerous relationship with Vladimir Putin. It is above. Enjoy all. My new video presentation and Hopium post on the election. The video and post are a very comprehensive deep dive on where things stand and are well worth your time. Our new Closing Strong episode with Nevada Senator Cortez Masto talking about why she thinks we will win there despite the early noise, a really interesting look at the third party vote (or lack thereof), and Tara and I do our regular roundup of the week’s electoral developments. Strongly recommend for those who want to go deeper into the Nevada early vote. Yesterday Tom Bonier and I joined Ben Meiselas of MeidasTouch for a really detailed look at the early vote and recent polling data. This is a must watch for the data nerds in Hopium land. This week I also sat down with The Center for American Progress for a wide ranging and wonderful conversation for their The Tent podcast. Enjoy this one too!

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