Trump Top Advisor Hides From Press After Causing Crash

The MeidasTouch Podcast

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Politics, News

4.8 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s top economic advisor Howard Lutnick refusing to do interviews before crashing the markets. Get 15% OFF Get The Perfect Jean 15% off with the code MEIDAS15 at https://theperfectjean.nyc Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8	As I posted on my social media accounts, not a good sign that the weekend before what Trump
0:36.0	calls Liberation Day on April 2nd when all of his
0:39.8	tariffs are going to go into effect, Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik, who has been on
0:46.2	TV nonstop up to this point, acting like a sham, wow, infomercial salesman all of a sudden goes MIA and refuses to do interviews.
1:00.0	So over the weekend, for example, on CBS Face the Nation, they said, we try to get Trump's
1:06.0	Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik on because he's been the one talking about the tariffs and all of these things.
1:12.2	He's been promising an economic boom, but our economy's crashing.
1:17.1	But Howard Lutnik refused to show up and do interviews this weekend at a critical time.
1:23.2	This is what went down on Face the Nation.
1:25.3	Play this clip.
1:26.4	We had hoped to speak to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik today, but the White House declined our request.
1:31.4	We do hope to have him on in the near future to discuss tariffs.
1:34.5	In other words, Howard Lutnik refused to face the nation.
1:38.4	Now, where was Howard Lutnik?
1:40.4	A few signs of where he was.
1:42.7	We saw him going into the helicopter and heading out
1:45.6	to Mar-a-Lago, so he seemed to be vacationing with Donald Trump. You can see right there,
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