PANICKED White House holds DISASTER Press Conference

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt holding a press conference that went off the rails real quickly.   Shopify: Sign up for a one-dollar per month trial at https://shopify.com/meidas  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/meidastouch/meidasnews?utm_campaign=4490308-affiliate2025&utm_content=customerpartner  Support the MeidasTouch Network: https://patreon.com/meidastouch Add the MeidasTouch Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-meidastouch-podcast/id1510240831 Buy MeidasTouch Merch: https://store.meidastouch.com  Follow MeidasTouch on Twitter: https://twitter.com/meidastouch Follow MeidasTouch on Facebook: https://facebook.com/meidastouch Follow MeidasTouch on Instagram: https://instagram.com/meidastouch Follow MeidasTouch on TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@meidastouch

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00:00Donald Trump's chief propagandist, Caroline Levitt, just gave a disastrous press conference

00:04at the White House. She was unprepared, she was sloppy, and she was promoting Donald Trump's

00:10fascist agenda while being both sloppy and unprepared. Here she was asked a question

00:15about Donald Trump claiming to void all of former President Biden's pardons,

00:20including pardoning people who were part of the January 6th committee, because according to Donald

00:24Trump, former President Biden used an auto pen and did not give consent to any of the pardons

00:31himself. Listen to how Caroline Levitt responds. Let's play it.

00:34... if the president was even consulted about his legally binding signature

00:39being signed onto documents. And so I think it's a question that everybody in this room should be

00:44looking into because certainly that would propose perhaps criminal or illegal behavior if staff

00:50members were signing the president of the United States autograph without his consent.

00:54... is on the record talking about issuing preemptive pardons to these people.

00:59But was he aware of his signature being used on every single pardon? That's a question you

01:03should ask the Biden White House. Is there any evidence on that

01:06that he wasn't aware of it? You're a reporter, you should find out.

01:09Sean. I have a question on the-

01:11Arrogant and totally unprepared there, and what a unhinged conspiracy,

01:15but a conspiracy that is typical of Donald Trump. Next up, Caroline Levitt, Donald Trump's chief

01:21propagandist, is asked about the United States withdrawing from the International Center for the

01:27Prosecution of Crime Against Ukraine, which investigates Russia's crimes against humanity,

01:33including raping and murdering and kidnapping Ukrainians. The United States was the biggest

01:39supporter of this international center. It's now being widely reported that the Trump regime,

01:44to help Putin, is pulling the United States out of that international center support.

01:49Here's what Caroline Levitt said. Let's play it.

01:51Sure. Thanks. There have been

01:54some media reports just in the last few hours that the administration has decided to withdraw

01:59from the International Center for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine,

02:05which is designed to hold Putin accountable for war crimes. Are you able to confirm that,

02:12and if that has occurred, why has that occurred? I'm not able to confirm it because I have not

02:16heard that. I will caution. I know there have been many inaccurate and misleading reports from

02:21Reuters lately, so I would caution anybody taking that seriously, but I can check in and get back

02:26to you. Again, unprepared, sloppy, and very, very dangerous. Here, Caroline Levitt is asked,

02:32what criteria is the Trump regime using when it invokes the Alien Enemies Act to take so-called

02:39gang members who are Venezuelan and send them to concentration camps in El Salvador, and then make

02:46these brutal ISIS-style videos where they are treating these human beings like trash? What's

02:53the standard? How do you know that they're actually gang members if you're not giving people

02:59due process rights? Here's what she says. Let's play the clip.

03:03What criteria, other than, say, tattoos or maybe being in the wrong place at the wrong time,

03:11are they using to determine that someone is actually a member of one of these organizations?

03:16Intelligence and the men and women on the ground in the interior of our country

03:21who are finally being allowed to do their jobs. Their hands were tied under the previous

03:25administration, and as I said, they take their jobs very seriously. They should be trusted

03:30and respected by the American public with this operation. And of course, as I said to Kelly,

03:36the administration will provide all details to the questions that the court poses. Jennifer.

03:41That's her response. Oh, just intelligence. Just trust us. Just trust Donald Trump when he says

03:48someone's a gang member that they're a gang member. It's not like Donald Trump doesn't lie

03:53about everything. And by the way, those videos that they're making of treating human beings

03:59like absolute trash. I mean, to me, as I said, they're like ISIS style videos. And I want to be

04:05very clear about my position. Gang members need to have the book thrown at them. I am a law and

04:11order person. Gangs, people who commit crimes, need to be brought to justice. Absolutely. We

04:18have processes in the United States called due process, though, where we don't just pick people

04:23off the street, say they're gang members, and throw them into concentration camps in countries

04:28that are run by authoritarians. I don't know. That's something that I believe in, and the

04:32Supreme Court has previously believed it. Then Caroline Levitt attacks France. Here, play this

04:38clip. Something different. There is now a member of the European Parliament from France who does

04:43not think the US represents the values of the Statue of Liberty anymore. They want the Statue

04:48of Liberty back. So is President Trump going to send the Statue of Liberty back to France?

04:55Absolutely not. And my advice to that unnamed, low-level French politician would be to remind

05:03them that it's only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German

05:08right now. So they should be very grateful to our great country. Kelly. You know what she said?

05:13She goes, the French would still be speaking German if it wasn't for the United States. I mean,

05:19I guess after the United States declares trade wars on countries like France and Canada,

05:25and then these other countries stand up for themselves, then the Trump regime says,

05:30you should be more grateful for us engaging in trade wars against you. So utterly despicable.

05:36Then here, Caroline Levitt talks about how we want the DOJ that focuses on fighting law and order.

05:44They want to fight the law and order. A nice Freudian slip right here. Let's play it.

05:48We want to restore the Department of Justice to an institution that focuses on

05:52fighting law and order and crime and putting real criminals behind bars,

05:57not targeting Americans because of their religion or their political speech. We saw

06:01that under the previous administration and it's unacceptable to this president.

06:05Caroline Levitt then brags about how Donald Trump is now the chairman of the Kennedy Center. Trump

06:11fired everybody from the Kennedy Center, made himself the chairman and replaced it with a

06:16MAGA board. And here she is saying, look how great it is. We're going to bring the real

06:21culture back to the Kennedy Center. Here, play the clip.

06:24President will be traveling to the Kennedy Center later this afternoon.

06:27I look forward to going with him. As you know, he is now the chairman of the board of the Kennedy

06:31Center where he hopes to restore arts and culture that embrace American tradition. Don't disparage

06:38it as we have unfortunately seen over the past several years. The president will be doing a tour

06:43of the center and his business developer mind. I'm sure he will make some recommendations on how

06:48the center itself can be improved, but also we'll be discussing perhaps some future plays and

06:55musicals and theatrical programs that the center will be hosting under his new leadership and the

07:01board's new leadership. Democratic Congress member Robert Garcia says donations are plummeting,

07:07shows are canceling, staff are fleeing. But yes, I'm sure Trump will fix it by booking

07:13the MAGA musical of Ted Nugent and Chris Rock. Next, Caroline Leavitt on Putin's invasion

07:20of Ukraine. She blames it on former President Biden and says it's actually Biden's fault. No,

07:26it's Putin's fault and Trump enables Putin. Play this clip.

07:30Caroline, thank you so much. You mentioned earlier in the briefing that you guys are

07:33at the 10 yard line of peace. Given the amount of progress that you've made in such a short

07:38amount of time, is that an indictment of the previous administration's foreign policy stance?

07:43And is it just more proof that you need to talk to people to sort of get things done?

07:46I think so. I think the previous administration is the reason this war began. As President Trump

07:51often says, this war would have never started if he were still in office. It only started because

07:56of the incompetence and the weakness of the previous administration. And President Trump

08:00is very proud of the progress that he and his team have made in such a short amount of time.

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09:33period right now. Thanks Shopify. Then Caroline Leavitt gives her theory. She's never been to law

09:39school before, but she gives her theory that a court's verbal orders, what need not be complied

09:47with, they don't carry the same weight and effect of the written order that is subsequently given.

09:53Thus, you think you can just violate the court's order and just start taking people off the streets

09:58and throwing them into concentration camps without due process where a court order said you can't

10:03do that. Here, play this clip of Caroline Leavitt. Let's play it.

10:10About 726 PM, but he issued a verbal order before that at about 645 and 648 PM based on the court

10:17hearing from the bench. Does the White House feel the need to comply with a verbal order from this

10:24judge? Again, as I said, all of the planes subject to the written order of this judge

10:30departed U.S. soil, U.S. territory before the judge's written order.

10:34But what about the verbal order, which of course carries the same legal weight as a written order

10:39and said for the planes to turn around if they were?

10:41Well, there's actually questions about whether a verbal order carries the same weight as a legal

10:45order, as a written order. And our lawyers are determined to ask and answer those questions in

10:51court. Sean.

10:52Hey, so on Friday, then Caroline Leavitt says, oh, don't you love those fun videos that we're

10:58making of the migrants? Ha ha ha. Don't you like our fun videos? She goes, so we're encouraging

11:04people who are here illegally to self-deport themselves, or she goes, or maybe you'll find

11:11yourself in one of those fun videos. Here, play this clip.

11:15Biden administration abused to facilitate the mass illegal entry of

11:19illegal immigrants into our country. It was like a fast pass at Disneyland.

11:23That's not happening under this administration. We are encouraging

11:26illegal immigrants to actively self-deport to maybe save themselves from being in one of these

11:32fun videos. Caroline.

11:34Sure. John, good to see you.

11:34Thank you. They're absolutely despicable that she's referring to these videos as fun videos.

11:41As I've said, they look like ISIS videos and the fact that they're being produced

11:45by the American regime. It's not a government by the people for the people.

11:50It's by the bullies for the billionaires and for the fascists. This is the video from the

11:56official White House rapid response account. And then Trump posted this video. This is official

12:02White House videography right here, where they show the migrants that they sent to El Salvador

12:10to put in concentration camps in El Salvador. And the videos show the El Salvador

12:17police force or military being fairly brutal with these people. Play this clip.

12:47And again, let me make my position clear again. The train day, Iraq, the gangs,

12:55they absolutely should be fully prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. We don't want

13:02gangs in the United States. We don't want criminals in the United States. Throw the

13:06book at them, deport them. There is a process for that. There are laws on the books.

13:12Donald Trump declared a phony war against Venezuela to invoke the war powers of a

13:18dictator. These war powers have only been invoked before in the war of 1812, World War I and World

13:26War II. So Trump's saying this Venezuela war requires that he be a war leader and then pick

13:34whoever he wants based on what tattoos and trust me, bro, and then send people to concentration

13:40camps in El Salvador. I'm sorry, that doesn't sit right with me. And I'd like to see these gang

13:46members locked up, thrown in jail, but you have to go through a process to make sure they're

13:51actually the gang members and they've actually committed crimes. Call me old fashioned, but I

13:56believe in the United States constitution is a thing and that you don't just get to say, oh,

14:03you're a gang member, you're a gang member, and then just send them to concentration camps.

14:08Then a reporter to Levitt says, I think this reporter frames it correctly. So you're saying

14:15criticizing judges is illegal, but all Donald Trump and Elon Musk are doing are attacking

14:20judges like every day and saying that judges should be impeached and the judges who rule

14:25against Trump aren't real judges. Here, play this clip. Hey, so on Friday, the president suggested

14:30at length that it should be illegal to criticize judges, but he has repeatedly criticized judges

14:35who rule against him. And Elon Musk is calling for impeachment of judges who have opposed the

14:40administration. So how are those two things not in conflict? I have not heard the president talk

14:45about impeaching judges. I know you mentioned Mr. Musk's tweet, but I have not heard the president

14:50of the United States ask that. Mary. Then Fox loses its audio and has to cut away,

14:55play the clip. And many communities have been totally destroyed. The president has been

15:01actively monitoring the situation and the Trump administration is engaged with governors and

15:07leading in. All right, so we're having some clearly technical problems here. We're doubling

15:13up on the audio circuit. We will get. Then Donald Trump has his other chief

15:18propagandist, Alina Haba, go on Fox, and she brags about she's dealing with her own personal

15:24portfolio that deals with human extortion and human sex trafficking. Play this clip.

15:30Yeah. Yeah. And actually one of my focuses of my portfolio is human extortion, human trafficking

15:35and labor and cyber and finance extortion that has happened because of these individuals

15:42bringing minors, bringing women, bringing individuals over the border and then seeing

15:47them get tortured. And the facts that she mentioned, those are just public ones. I assure

15:51you what I've been briefed on is so severely disturbing that if America knew just 10% of it,

15:56they would be happy to have these individuals out. They are a danger to our society and they

16:01have no business being in this country. So really, Alina Haba, because this is a video

16:06of you and Andrew Tate from a few months ago, from January of 2025, where you seem to praise

16:14Andrew Tate, who was arrested for engaging in sex trafficking and trafficking minors

16:20abroad. And he's made statements where he basically brags about trafficking people.

16:26We hear him on audio saying how he takes girls and women and doesn't pay them and then sells

16:31the... I don't want to go into it, but anyway, here's Alina Haba fawning over Andrew Tate.

16:36Play this clip. Hi.

16:37Hello, Alina. Hi.

16:39Hello. Nice to meet you. I'm a big fan.

16:42Well, nice to meet you. I'm a fan. You're the one saving Trump. You're doing more important

16:46work than me. America, America, not just Trump. And I agree with everything you just said.

16:51And I think that your anger is the same that President Trump has for our country.

16:58And the time is now for us to stop being wimps. I think that's exactly the right sentiment. And I

17:04also have to say that I sympathize with you because I think you go through a lot of the same

17:09show me the person, I'll find the crime that President Trump has gone through.

17:14Well, that's the Trump regime for you. Despicable stuff going on at the White

17:19House. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. And thanks for watching.

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