Political Beatdown Full Episode 4/10/2025

Political Beatdown with Michael Cohen and Ben Meiselas

MeidasTouch Network

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome to political beatdown. I'm Ben Myceles, joined by Michael Cohen. It was not a laughing matter
0:08.5	on Wall Street today after what appeared to be kind of a pump and dump market manipulation
0:15.1	yesterday, as Donald Trump in the morning said, now is a good time to buy, buy, buy, buy, and then announced
0:22.6	that he would be pausing some of the tariffs, although the announcement really didn't bear
0:28.0	a relation to the reality because as he increased the tariffs on China, today was at 145, is it 185?
0:35.5	No one even knows what it is 145%.
0:37.6	The blended overall tariff right now is somewhere in the range of like 25% against the world.
0:44.5	Sure, you remove tariffs against places that we don't really trade with.
0:47.2	We trade a lot with China.
0:49.3	But after that announcement, I mean, today the market was just wrecked again. It's like our economy is a
0:56.8	Trump mean coin at this point, right? I mean, it's pump and dumped and up and down and down and down.
1:03.5	And then he brags about it going up after it goes down and $10 trillion are lost.
1:09.5	Then he goes, it was the greatest day. I mean, you're
1:12.3	crashing this thing, reckless, irresponsible, malicious. And by the way, you want to know how China's
1:19.2	responding to this. Cohen, they're mocking the United States right now. The spokesperson.
1:24.2	Did you see that video that they put out? They did a Reagan video.
1:28.9	They did the Reagan video.
1:30.5	They put out this meme right here.
1:32.7	The spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China posted this,
1:37.2	the Make America Great Again hat, which is made in China.
1:40.8	And it says, it used to be $50.
1:43.0	Now your Make America Great Again hat's going to be $50. Now you're Make America Great Again, hats going to be
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