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If you like Trump's NFT... A great Christmas gift. ...then you'll love the I Know the Best People pack of digital trading cards. We've got the best people. I know the best people. I have the best people. That's right. And this top-tier talent refuses to support Trump for a second term.
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We worked with him, we knew him, and we are telling you, America, this man is unfit to be president. And a second term would be more dangerous than a first.
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These people know what he was really like as president, and they're from every corner of the government. Cabinet members. I have a lot of concerns about Donald Trump. I have said that he's a threat to democracy. Trusted advisors. He will always put his own interests and his own ego ahead of everything else. Intelligence officials.

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We're excited to announce the release of our new Meidas Original Short, a parody of Donald Trump's notorious NFT trading card ads. But instead of cartoonish versions of Trump as an astronaut, our "I Know the Best People" pack highlights former officials who worked directly with him—and are now refusing to support his 2024 campaign.

The "best people" in this case are from every corner of his administration—Cabinet members, trusted advisors, intelligence officials, military leaders, and even Vice President Mike Pence—who all deliver a strong message: Trump is unfit for a second term, and they know it firsthand. One former official puts it bluntly, "A second term would be more dangerous than a first."

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These aren't just nameless critics. These are the people who worked closest with Trump, and they're sounding the alarm about the damage a second term would do to our democracy. We also remind viewers that by voting against Trump, you’ll get more than just a functioning democracy—you’ll also secure bodily autonomy, free and fair elections, and a president who isn’t a convicted felon.

This video drives home the fact that never before have so many officials from a single administration spoken out against their former boss. As Trump keeps desperately hawking new products, even his “best people” aren’t buying the lies he's selling – and neither should the American people.

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Mary Sturino's avatar

Wake up America. Please before it's too late

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SomeKat on the Internet's avatar

Those video wizards at the Meidas Touch have done it again -

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Elena Sweda Neff's avatar

Hopefully resonates with people. Well done!! It’s funny not funny. 💙💙💙

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Jeff Palmer's avatar

DO NOT FORGET ........ We must also vote MAGA out of Congress and out of State governments and courts to protect our freedoms. and our country.

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Katy Borkowski-Zatsick's avatar

Let us each keep putting it on all social media. We must take all 3 branches to do the People's work!

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Krissy_H's avatar

Awesome job!!

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Jon Blackwood's avatar

What does it take to be a trump supporter? Denial on a massive scale.

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Deep_Winter's avatar

*chef's kiss* This was good!

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KathyS's avatar

Awesome!

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JANA PINSON's avatar

Great job! Hopefully it’s seen by millions!!

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Just Me's avatar

Oh, Trump the magic ✨ felon, yet lives in luxury

And looms inside the dressing rooms to peep on privacy.

...So much has happened since I sang my children to sleep with that beloved song...

We really need this felon to lose his magic over the uneducated and face the justice he has avoided for decades.

His sons are worse by the way. Watched "You've Been Trumped Too", OMG! Don Jr. allowed a 93 year old widow suffer 3 years without running water just to complete intimidation tactics to get her to release land adjacent to a golf course they were building. They wanted her farm, so he had construction crew sever her line and when she begged to not have to wheel barrow water to bathe out of a bucket, he refused, instead sent her scary legal threats. Hate this family!

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Just Me's avatar

Hey Curtis, all you are reacting to from me is a synopsis of an actual documentary that verifies, and more, everything I mentioned. Watch it and tell me I'm garbage then. It's called 'You've Been Trumped Too'. And I take it that you don't like the opening chorus. Well, looming in dressing rooms info came from Trump's own bragging to Howard Stern on public radio. Listen for yourself. And! Several of those teenagers verified in interviews that he did indeed walk in on them undressing. Lastly, I call him the 'magic' felon because anyone else in the world, minus dictators, convicted for what he has done would be in jail, thus magic. Now, let's address what you write:

Abortion: if your wife is told that if she carries your child full term she will die, are you prepared to bury your whole family? If your wife is raped and she tells you she was raped and pregnant...are you, Curtis L. going to force her to honor that violent human with a son or daughter? You know that you would not force that. But, you expect everyone else to be forced to and arrested if they break that new law. Let's see...you say Trump is being treated like Hitler treated the Jewish victims. 🤔 Ok, that's ridiculously inaccurate. I remember my World War history pretty well. I'm remembering gas chambers, concentration camps, Holocaust, train cars hauling hundreds of scared, starving innocent humans to their death. I CANNOT recall Hitler offering: five car motorcades, secret service protection, them staying in their multiple luxury homes, continuing their businesses, being given daily air time to spread their grievances, being allowed delays and cancellations on court dates, having millions of their supporters send them millions of dollars of cash when they wanted to sell sneakers and bibles. I don't remember them playing golf with Bryson DeChambeau or traveling all over the world in a luxurious jet once owned by a child sex trafficker. No, I'm officially DEBUNKING that analogy Curtis. What else do you have, let's see ..Small mind? No, I've two degrees and as of a few decades ago the IQ measured 135 (and I was tired and hungry)...moving on, oh repeating something 3 times...I can send you confirmation and several videos verifying Trump using that technique along with several books of his relationship with Roy Kohn whereas that technique along with 'deny everything and never admit defeat' was instilled in Trump by said R. Kohn. News? I watch it all, only ones to avoid are the radical podcasters and Fox- can't trust a network that is convicted of lies to the tune of hundreds of millions. Ok, I'm not a leftist, rather an independent and blatantly open minded. Next? Gays...I'm not messing with what others do in their bedrooms. Not my business. What else...sex changes for people in prison? I'm just laughing at how completely irrelevant that is. And you described MY facts as "garbage". If that is important to you, then you go fix it. I prefer to avoid prison and conversations like this, but I feel obligated, so anything else? Oh, save the best for last. Love that idiom. (Look up idiom before you accuse me of calling you a name) I truly do admire idioms. Immigrants: Trump says, and I'm quoting both he and Hitler simultaneously, "They are vermin!" If Hitler had thought of "They are eating, the dogs, they are eating the cats, they are eating the pets!", he would have used that image. Even HITLER'S propaganda didn't go that far. The Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio according to the mayor of Springfield, not Trump's desperate campaign, verified in a news conference that they were invited, are legal, and literally saved the unmanned labor industry of that town. He said they work harder than most he has seen and are devout church goers. After Trump's lies however (the ladies cat was in her basement the whole time) these innocent human beings were forced to pull their kids from schools, hide in their churches to pray while racist thugs (incited by Trump's pet garbage) the very next day, marched through Springfield with their Confederate hate flags and camo gear. That was filmed by several film crews and televised. Trump killed the border bill that would have all but stopped further talk of the border. Why did he kill the bill designed by a partisan committee along with most conservative Republicans? Why? Because he cares about his campaign more than a bill that would actually take that talking point away. Anything else Curtis? Oh, veterans. Are you serious? The position on veterans is so lopsided, I'm not wasting my time. Are you, by chance, one of the "suckers or losers" Trump was referring to? Or, are you a career, 5 Star General that Trump intends to execute because he dared to disagree with him?Bring up that topic to someone else, whose whole family are not veterans, and when you are supporting a candidate that honors the rules of sacred burial grounds and didn't weasel out of serving with a contrived "bone spur"! Now, like Donald, go brag that you won this debate by "many", "92 to 7". Yes, he said that, it's on tape. Kamala cares about all, not just who she can make financial transactions with. Study malignant narcissism, make a list of the diagnostic symptoms clearly associated with that psychological illness. Then, watch and listen to both candidates often and tell me which candidate suffers the illness. I'll let you determine that on your own. Meidas Touch is calling your name, Curtis! Curtis! We want to help you, Curtis! Nice people; lawyers, scholars...you'll fit right in...come join us.

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Curtis Lamoureux's avatar

Steven, you talk more trash than a garbage man. The things that the BIDENS spew put of their @$$ make you believe it all. They are doing Trump the way Hitler did the Jews in 1929. Tell a lie loud and long enough and every small mind will mimic it like a parrot. All you leftists know is what FOX, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC AND JEAN PIERRE TELLS YOU. YOU ARE ASHAMED TO ADMIT You've BEEN gaslighted, bamboozled, hoodwinked and mislead. It's no shame to admit you've been mislead. It's a shame to ignore the fact that you're absolutely wrong. If you believe abortion, homosexuality, sex changes for illegals immigrants in prison and giving illegals unlimited cash cards, housing, free food and a vehicle, while American Veterans are in need and homeless then you're part of the problem!!

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Kevin Lossner's avatar

Excellent, excellent production! I look forward to the wider release.

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Joseph McPhillips's avatar

The GOP has been captured by fraudsters & power by any means authoritarians. The projection propaganda never stops.

Trump & Vance can’t handle the truth threatening fact checkers, whistleblowers & truth tellers with retribution. https://wapo.st/3XXgHPt

Trump & MAGA whine about booming Bidenomics: 98% of jobs created since 1989 were created during Democratic administrations. Republicans have lost jobs while ballooning the deficit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbPBuk5QoV8

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NikkiSoFar's avatar

Oh that’s good!

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Mindy Rosin's avatar

Where is this ad running? It needs to be BLASTED everywhere! Best ad EVER, on so many levels! MTN minds are the best! 💙🙏💙

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Shame On ‘em's avatar

tRump has broken a long time tradition of presidents doing an interview with 60 Minutes or other mainstream media towards the end of campaigning season close to election. That’s a damming non-consent to do an interview. We all know he’s going to continue to lie about the lies he lied about. So many, he can’t even keep them straight.

“We will not go back!” 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

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robin crawley's avatar

Brilliant

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Eric's avatar

I've watched a lot of ads and I can't think of more powerful. A big congratulations to you. It's fascinating for me that when I've seen some of these guys in office and the despicable things they did horrified me. Now I have to think of what they're motives are. But who cares why at this point. Go for the jugular, which you are.

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Eric's avatar

oops... 'their'

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Blue Dot Florida's avatar

Well done!!! Absolutely perfect!

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Mary K Klinger's avatar

Fabulous!! You folk are the best.

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Dr. Eileen Antalek's avatar

Wait! It's not gold plated and studded with diamonds--how can we be sure it's real?

LOL

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Charlene Winters's avatar

Love it!

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Judy-pie Jones's avatar

Please check for a possible edit. The last part of the caption when Gen Milley speaks says "We're a tyrant." Shouldn't it say "Or a tyrant"?

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MeidasTouch Network's avatar

Don't fret: those are just the captions put in by Substack automatically. It's not actually in the video like that!

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Francine Koski's avatar

Yes 👏 this has been subtly but heavily edited! I’ve noticed it already. “They” are now trying to propagandise trump in many ways. Be aware!

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S Resnik's avatar

FABULOUS!

Should we wait until it's officially released before sharing on social media?

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Ravaani's avatar

AWESOME, just awesome. Well done MTN. 💙💙💙💙💙

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Theresa Milstead's avatar

This is brilliant.

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Zulma's avatar

Omg this has to be one of the best MEIDASTOUCH video of keeping wannabe dictator Trump out of the White House. Thank you! Let's #voteblueupanddowntheballot VOTE FOR #KamalaHarris and #TimWalz 💙💙💙🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

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Tina's avatar

This may be your best short yet!

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Frank Lawrence's avatar

The "share" button isn't working correctly 😕

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Jeff Palmer's avatar

IT IS PAST THE TIME WE ALL NEED TO LET AMERICA KNOW THAT ANY UNWARRANTED DEATHS OR ANY CLAIMS THAT GO UNFILED IN THESE HURRICANE DISASTERS ARE DUE TO A TERRIFIED MAN THAT WILL DO AND SAY ANYTHING IF IT HELPS HIM WIN AN ELECTION TO STAY OUT OF PRISON.

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Bill Marcus's avatar

Simply another brilliant work by the Meidas Touch Team. Sharing widely. Thank you!

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mary-jo amatruda's avatar

What a great ad: poignant yet funny. Thank you

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Howard's avatar

Sorry, but it's preaching to the choir I think. Looks great, and like lots of work, but the audience interface is wrong. How about something like this:

Every lie is an insult. It says, "I, the liar, think you, the mark, too stupid to know better." lol

"The sky is green". Really, are you that stupid that you believe what I tell you? Have you not looked up?

In truth, when you believe a lie then you have to admit that you are stupid and the liar pulled a fast one on you. He made a fool of you.

So if you're going to support Trump, well ok. And he continually insults his followers with sweet sounding lie after lie. Oh how beautiful fake is! You want so badly to believe his sweet lies!

Then do it honestly. Admit you are stupid, and vote for him.

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Howard's avatar

Look at all of the glowing comments here. This is praise from the wrong audience. These comments here are the choir singing. The real test if IF trump followers are moved. And they won't believe anything you tell them! Why, because Trump has inoculated them not to believe anything coming from the left. So how do we get to them? We talk directly to them about who they are, not about politics. 99.9% of people are honest, most of the time. We appeal to that. 99.9% of most people don't want to be self humiliated. We need to help them go thru the process of self reflection. Who are they deep down inside: a master or a slave? free or addicted to sugar? smart or a numbskull?

To change people you need to find the change that's already deep inside them and gently help it come out.

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debmcclung's avatar

One of the best ads produced anywhere!

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RESIST's avatar

Harrja e We’d kuln m

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Lola Harter's avatar

Thank you Midastouch for this short!

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ca murfee's avatar

So is Mark Robinson also on the list of one of Trump's best people 🤣🤣

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Don Haisley's avatar

Nicely done. Keep reminding people that early, in person voting is awesome. Little to no lines, No appointment necessary so vote on YOUR schedule. Find your local elections office and note the early voting dates. By voting early, If your State has purged you from the rolls you have time, and are at the right place, to correct the problem. Idaho Early voting begins Oct. 15, in Idaho, how about your state.

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Rennetta Wren's avatar

I love that so much!!!

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Maria Jette's avatar

I spy with my little eye…someone beginning with I!

Is that really IVANKA in that final gallery???

Fantastic concept and execution— look out, Trumpworld!

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Kristina Dunn's avatar

Nicely done! Gets the point across short and sweet.

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Deb Klein's avatar

Oh Jeez, actual trading cards would be a great way to spread facts around.

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Lindsay Camp's avatar

Hand one out to each MAGA hat I see in Indiana. I'd be out quick! 🤣

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Linda Kohler-Trott's avatar

Brilliant! Can't wait for you to release it.

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Linda Kohler-Trott's avatar

Ah, there it is! Great. Posting it everywhere.

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Jess's avatar

Sooo good! Thank you!

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Stacey J Finnigan's avatar

This is great!! So well done. Thank you!! I'm sharing far and wide! I already voted by mail for Kamala!!

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Megan Campbell's avatar

Dude! Share it far & wide! Maybe the Harris campaign can put it on TV?

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Monica Germino's avatar

rock on, Ⓜ️Ⓜ️

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Char Santana's avatar

Done!

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These people know what he was really like as president, and they're from every corner of the government. Cabinet members. I have a lot of concerns about Donald Trump. I have said that he's a threat to democracy. Trusted advisors. He will always put his own interests and his own ego ahead of everything else. Intelligence officials.