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US POLITICS GOP ... SUBSERVIENT LAPDOGS! MeidasTouch: Democrats STUN GOP with Powerful SHADOW HEARINGS Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnwkrvQLZfc Peter Burgess COMMENTARY I agree that this 'pushback' from the Democrats was quite powerful ... but tiny relative to what is needed. I have never been so 'angry' in all my life ... so far a long life of some 85 years ... because the political leadership at all levels in the United States is so incompetent and out of touch with the good possibilities that are possible in the modern world. The problems that need to be addressed are not the same in every country in the world, but appropriate solutions exist for most possible situations. Most leadership, however, have agendas that are much more self serving than anything to do with serving the public! The idea that Donald Trump ... a convicted felon ... could be elected in a free and fair democratic election to be President of the United States, not once but twice, shows how fatally flawed the American political system has become. The American political system has been 'sputtering' for a long time. I am an 'outsider'. I was born British in England in 1940 at the beginning of WWII. My family lived in the outskirts of London and we were subject to aerial bombing by the Nazi Luftwaffe during the Battle Of Britain, and later to the onslought of 'V1 Flying Bombs'. A large part of the British Empire's huge financial wealth was consumed in order to 'win the war'. As a practical matter, most of that wealth got transferred from Great Britain to the United States ... gold was shipped from the Bank of England in London to the Federal Reserve depository at Fort Knox in the USA in payment for military suppplies used by the British and produced in the United States. Much of this trade was facilitated by the 'Lend Lease' program which essentially allowed the UK to buy military supplies 'on credit' ... 'buy now pay-later'. This enabled Britain to stay in the war and eventually to be a big part of winning the war. It also served to weaken the UK and the whole of the British Empire so that US global domination became possible. Fast forward to the present time ... 2025 ... and the emerging Trump agenda and I find myself not only in a 'State of Shock' but also 'Scared Stiff'. I have lived in the USA now for some 60 years ... a foreigner and an immigrant! ... but also male, white and well educated to world standards! Mostly ... in bad times it is possible to find a 'silver lining' that enables some encouragement. but in the case of the Trump agenda there is ... in my view ... nothing positive. I keep coming back to something Prime Minister Gladstone is reported to have said about democracy and a universal franchise during the reign of Queen Victoria. He opined that the masses should not have a vote becaue they did not know enough to vote sensibly and therefore only the 'educated' should vote. At some level, I understand why the Gladstone idea should not be implemented in the modern world, but I think that most of the voting systems used around the modern world could be significantly better than they are. I hope to review most of what I have written in the past three months in a few months' time. I have no idea whether my fears will be realised or my hopes. Sadly, I expext it will be my fears! Peter Burgess
Democrats STUN GOP with Powerful SHADOW HEARINGS MeidasTouch 4.66M subscribers Apr 8, 2025 MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the Democrats holding shadow hearings to expose the Trump regime and Republican corruption. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! MeidasTouch relies on SnapStream to record, watch, monitor, and clip the news. Get a FREE TRIAL of SnapStream by clicking here: https://go.snapstream.com/affiliate/m... Support the MeidasTouch Network: / meidastouch Add the MeidasTouch Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Buy MeidasTouch Merch: https://store.meidastouch.com Follow MeidasTouch on Twitter: / meidastouch Follow MeidasTouch on Facebook: / meidastouch Follow MeidasTouch on Instagram: / meidastouch Follow MeidasTouch on TikTok: / meidastouch Transcript 0:00 democrats are fighting back by holding shadow hearings where they are calling uh whistleblowers before these hearings that the MAGA Republicans are too cowardly uh to hold and these Democrats from the Senate and the House of Representatives exposing the Trump regime corruption i think the MAGA Republicans want to still focus on Hunter Biden and former President Biden and the Democrats are saying 'Can we talk about the hostile federal government takeover by Trump and Elon Musk if you don't want to hold hearings we're going to hold hearings.' By the way we here at the Midas Touch Network are broadcasting these shadow hearings uh they're getting huge viewership as we are streaming them here on the YouTube channel Midas Touch make sure you subscribe by the way so you stay up to date on all the uh shadow hearings and so yes the Midas Touch Network is the main destination for covering all of the protests and the shadow hearings it's an honor that we're able to build this platform to do that the shadow hearings yesterday were uh incredibly powerful uh 1:02 you had Democrats in the Senate led by Senator Adam Schiff Democrats in the House led by Jaime Rascin uh holding this hearing based on uh the Trump regime's attack on the DOJ attack on law firms attack on colleges uh one of the key witnesses to show up was somebody by the name of Liz Oyer she worked in the Justice Department and about last month we learned her story that she was fired after the Trump regime demanded that she basically look into and issue a formal recommendation to kind of pardon Mel Gibson which would then restore Mel Gibson's right to kind of get back a firearm because of Mel Gibson's past as she analyzed it as Liz Oyer who was in the pardon division of the Justice Department said you know based on a pass of potential domestic abuse and other conduct we can't pardon this guy we 2:01 can't give him a gun back i'm not going to uh be involved in doing any of that and she said 'No I'm not going to do it.' She shows up basically the next day to office at the DOJ she gets fired and then she gets threatened intimidated and and harassed she says by the Trump regime DOJ including Todd Blanch she says and she said she got this letter saying that she was breaching her ethical obligations and that she's you know that they could you know potentially do other stuff to her if she continues you know down a path of violating her ethics with a clear insinuation that like her bar license could be on the line and her ability to be a lawyer so uh clearly threatening and intimidating her so she was one of the star witnesses at this shadow hearing and get this before showing up at the hearing yesterday again which was broadcast live here on the Midas Touch Network she says at the end of last week when it became known that she was going to be testifying uh the Trump regime 3:00 through the US marshalss were sending her correspondence and letters that they were prepared to send armed US marshals to her home to try to intimidate her into not testifying before the hearing that took place yesterday so that's right according to her the Trump regime sending armed US marshals to her home or threatening to do that they finally ultimately didn't do that but they threatened that they would send armed US marshals to serve her with a letter saying that if she testified that they would go after her for violations of executive privilege bogus bogus allegation that they would go after her for violations of the ethical obligations that she owes her client it should be noted I want to show you her testimony that we covered here on the Midas Touch Network where she talks about this but it should also be noted you know the story of uh of uh Abrago Garcia who was sent to the El Salvador 4:02 uh concentration camp even though there was an order by the way from a Trump immigration judge back in 2019 that he was not to go to El Salvador he was here on protected status and ultimately the United States Supreme Court uh basically stayed or stopped the fourth circuit court of appeal order and the district court order which required Trump to bring Abrego back uh within 24 hours that uh order from the district court and the fourth circuit's been uh indefinitely permanently stayed for now pending the proceedings before the United States uh Supreme Court um but the Department of Justice lawyer who argued for the DOJ and admitted that there were mistakes and errors that were made that shouldn't have taken place that led to Brago going to El Salvador they ended up uh putting him on administrative leave and punishing him for telling the truth to a district court judge as was his duty of cander to the court and of course we've seen this 5:01 repeated attack on DOJ lawyers um the DOJ lawyers who refused to dismiss the uh case initially against Mayor Eric Adams uh terminations of FBI officials anyway this was these issues were being discussed at this shadow hearing which the MAGA Republicans refused to cover so let me show you right here uh Liz Oyer's testimony first at the shadow hearing yesterday let's play this clip perhaps the most personally upsetting part of the story is the lengths to which the leadership of the department has gone to prevent me from testifying here today on Friday night around 9:15 I learned that the Deputy Attorney General's Office had directed the Department Security and Emergency Planning Service to send two armed special deputy US Marshals to my home to serve me with a 6:01 letter the letter was to be served at my home between 9:00 and 10:00 on Friday night i was in the car with my husband and my parents who are sitting behind me today when I got the news that the officers were on their way to my house where my teenage child was home alone fortunately due to the grace of a very decent person who understood how upsetting this would be to my family I was able to confirm receipt of the letter to an email address and the deputies were called off the letter had been emailed to me just before 8:00 that night at no point did Mr blanch's staff pick up the phone and call me before they sent armed deputies to my home the letter was a warning to me about the risks of testifying here today 7:03 but I am here because I will not be bullied into concealing the ongoing corruption and abuse of power at the Department of Justice doj is entrusted with keeping us safe upholding the rule of law and protecting our civil rights it is not a personal favor bank for the president its career employees are not the president's personal debt collectors i see only Democratic members here today but this is not a partisan issue it should alarm all Americans that the leadership of the Department of Justice appears to value political loyalty above the fair and responsible administration of justice it should offend all Americans that our leaders are treating public servants with a lack of basic decency and 8:01 humanity thank you powerful stuff right there and just to remind you too of again I described it at the beginning the whole situation with Mel Gibson and how Trump wanted her to issue this pardon for Mel Gibson here's Liz Oyer ex describing it in her own words when she went on CNN a few weeks back where she talked about her termination and how she was fired it's important that you hear the story it'll give that first first clip some context play this clip i was asked to uh write a memo to the attorney general recommending that these nine individuals get this relief that she was interested in granting to some deserving Americans and uh when the memo ca came back to me the comment was 'Please add Mel Gibson to this recommendation.' Who asked you to add Mel Gibson an official in the office of the Deputy Attorney General who is running this project on the day-to-day instructed me that Mel Gibson should be added to the memo do you know the name of that person could 9:01 you share it with us it's a it's one of the associate deputy attorney generals there are several in the in the office and I don't want to call anyone out by by by name uh but there you know is email traffic between me and a number of individuals in the deputy attorney general's office about this issue and the request was made and I responded that I was unable to fulfill the request because I did not have enough information about Mr gibson to be able to recommend that given his history of domestic violence he should receive his gun rights back that's something that is a public safety question it's it's very dangerous to mix people with history of domestic abuse and firearms that substantially increases the likelihood of catastrophic outcomes in domestic violence situations and that was just not a recommendation that I could make lightly so how long between when you sent that response saying you could not in good faith recommend Mel Gibson and the time you were fired it all unfolded 10:01 very quickly i was asked to add him to my recommendation on Thursday evening and I did not sleep at all Thursday night because I understood that the consequence of not fulfilling this request was likely that I would no longer even be in these conversations dissent within the Department of Justice is just being aggressively silenced people are afraid to speak up they're afraid to object i confided in a colleague who expressed the view that yes is really the only acceptable answer to requests that are being made by department leadership and so I understood that the consequences were potentially serious for my career at the Department of Justice and when I came into work on Friday morning I I said to a colleague I really think that Mel Gibson might be my downfall and within hours of of saying that I was being escorted out of my office and you got this letter from from Todd with Todd Blanch's signature on it saying that you were being terminated yeah I've never uh 11:01 met Mr blanch but I received that letter with his signature saying I was being terminated so we have a statement that we got from Todd Blanch who is the deputy attorney general for people who don't know and in it they said quote 'This former employees version of events is false her decision to voice this erroneous accusation about her dismissal is in direct violation of her ethical duties as an attorney and is a shameful distraction from our own critical mission to prosecute violent crime enforce our nation's immigration laws and make America safe again what is your response to to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch look Caitlyn I it's it's terrifying that the number two official in the Department of Justice believes that my ethical duty is to keep silent about what is going on inside the Department of Justice my ethical duty as a DOJ employee is to uphold the laws of this country to do justice and to serve the people who uh who I was appointed to serve it is not to hide the fact that career employees like myself are being punished for expressing dissenting views 12:02 and for refusing to follow directions and again this was all being streamed the shadow hearing on the Midas Touch Network the official destination for shadow hearings we're going to make sure we're covering all of these uh hearings uh this is Democratic Senator Adam Schiff sort of his remarks from these shadow hearing are going to want to watch this whole thing this is very very powerful stuff uh as exclusively seen on the Midas Touch Network yesterday let's play it and we've come to realize much to our shock that there's nothing inevitable about this there's nothing inevitable about democracy or democratization that this experiment in this country this great experiment self-governance now two and a half centuries old is not inevitable it was improbable at its start and we've witnessed something we never would have imagined this country we have witnessed with with incredible 13:00 rapidity the creation of a climate of fear by this administration we see universities afraid to speak out to defend their own students to defend their own academic freedom you see universities rushing to make deals with the administration you see universities cowed into silence uh not stepping up to defend other universities you see members of the press excluded from public events because they don't use the administration's favored parliament and you don't see other members of the press in solidarity with them you see law firms rushed to cut separate deals you see lawyers purged from the Department of Justice you see FBI agents purged from the bureau you see scientists purged from their agencies a wholesale effort to weed out 14:01 and drive out anyone of independent thinking anyone who will stand up and defend the rule of law or science or the freedom of thought or expression right down to ordinary citizens who are now afraid if the government of the United States can pluck a man off the street and send him to a prison in El Salvador without any kind of due process or any process whatsoever then no one is safe and if the government's response to that is to discipline a lawyer who dares to speak the truth to a court then no one is safe and the answer to this climate of fear there really is only one answer and you're seeing it today and that is courage we must demonstrate courage in the face of this fear uh in in this very 15:02 committee room or one like it Joseph McCarthy and his allies made the country afraid and caused people to inform on each other and betray each other allowed people and and to be driven out of the government and to be persecuted uh and we wondered how that could be we wondered how could so many people be complicit well now we know now we know now we have witnessed it in our own time but I will say this of the brave witnesses uh who have come and testified today all of the rest of us have to ask ourselves looking back at the McCarthy era what would we have done what would we have done if we were faced with the loss of 16:00 our jobs if we were faced with the loss of our livelihood if we were faced with the loss of our position what would we have done well you don't have to ask that question your being here is all the answer uh anyone could demand and we are deeply deeply grateful to you now before the hearing as Senator Schiff noted as I noted at the beginning of this video the Trump administration is trying to intimidate and silence Liz Oyer a Justice Department attorney who was fired for doing her job today we'll be hearing her story so this is from her law firm the Braum Witch Group here's what they say went down they said to Todd Blanch who by the way was Donald Trump's personal attorney who Trump appointed to one of the top positions at the Department of Justice dear Mr blanch we represent Elizabeth Oyer the former pardon attorney for the Justice Department who was wrongfully fired on March 7 2025 i am writing specifically 17:02 with reference to the April 4th 2025 letter she received from Miss Kendra Wharton of your office miss Oyer became aware late Friday evening that your office had directed the department's security and emergency planning staff to have two armed special deputy US marshals personally serve her with a letter at her home that night armed US marshals the deputy marshals were directed to serve the letter between 900 p.m and 10 p.m when Miss Oyer's teenage child was home alone fortunately while the armed officers were in route to Miss Oyer's home she was able to confirm receipt of the letter which had been sent to a secondary personal email address at 7:58 p.m and forestall the hand delivery by the deputy march home had your office simply contacted Miss Oyer by telephone or via the email address that Miss Oyer had used to repeatedly communicate with the Department Justice Management Division this deplorable incident could 18:00 have been avoided entirely not to mention the waste of government resources involved in using deputy US marshals by the way and armed ones at that to accomplish the delivery of the letter at a time when the administration is ostensibly committed to faring out waste fraud and abuse the highly unusual step of directing law enforcement officers to the home of a former Department of Justice employee who has engaged in no misconduct let alone criminal conduct simply to deliver a letter is both unprecedented and completely inappropriate you appear to be using the department's security resources to intimidate a former employee who is engaged in statutoily protected whistleblower conduct an act uh an act that implicates criminal and civil statutes as well as department policy and your ethical obligations as a member of the state bar as to the April 4th letter it addresses Miss Oyer's scheduled appearance at a hearing on April 7th 2025 miss Oyer was invited by 19:01 members of Congress to testify about the circumstances of her unlawful termination from the DOJ when she served as a pardon attorney a non-political position in the career senior executive service miss Oyer has appealed her termination based on the lack of statutoily required process afforded to her and DOJ's disregard of whistleblower protections among other issues the April 4th letter from one of your subordinates warns Miss Oyer about the purported risks of testifying at a congressional hearing at no point does the letter advise Miss Oyer of the legal protections in place for whistleblowers which protect current and former federal employees reporting violations of laws rules or regulations gross mismanagement or waste of funds abuse of authority or substantial danger to health or safety nor does your letter contain the limiting language that is statutoily required when the department purports to prohibit disclosures by a whistleblower 20:00 such as Miss Oyer on the contrary your letter and an attempted manner of delivery appear calculated to deter Miss Oyer from providing truthful testimony as a whistleblower and further violation of these legal protections your tactics also appear to violate the Lloyd Laflet Act which provides that the right of employees to petition Congress or a member of Congress or to furnish information to either House of Congress or to a committee or member thereof may not be interfered with or denied executive branch employees are in fact required by federal regulations to disclose waste fraud and abuse to the corrupt and corruption to federal authorities which is precisely what Miss Oyer seeks to do as to the alleged legal basis for the attempt to intimidate Miss Oyer from testifying that her testimony is barred by executive privilege the argument is completely without merit the president has not asserted executive privilege over any matter at issue here 21:00 nor have you identified specific information potentially subject to such privilege moreover the executive privilege cannot be asserted to protect misconduct as expressly noted in the OLC opinion cited in your letter mic drop right there there you have it folks that's what's going on more shadow hearings will take place of course we'll keep covering them here on the Midas Touch Network it's why I want you to subscribe we're showing you content here that corporate news and others are not showing you here we're gathering in huge groups to watch these things together to spread the knowledge then of course to help organize the protest stay stay updated everything here on the Midas touch network by subscribing thank you for watching and hit subscribe can't get enough Midas check out the Midas Plus substack for ad free articles reports podcasts daily recaps from Ron Philipki and more sign up for free now at midasplus.com 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