The MeidasTouch Podcast

Charli XCX, who is a music artist, and she has an album called Brat. And that's a good thing in the lingo. Her album's called Brat.

And she said yesterday, Kamala is Brat, which is probably honestly worth over $1 million in paid advertising to have somebody like Charli XCX speak to the younger generation and say things like that.

One is perfect. No, not one. That's what the good book says.

J.D. Vance literally wrote the forward for the book written by the director of Trump's project 2025 called Dawn's Early Light burning down Washington to save America.

Donald Trump says, oh, I'm not with project 2025 your vice president wrote the forward to the book by project 2025 on how to burn down Washington is what it says right there.

There was actually a book that was written by Wayne Barrett, who happened to write...

Donald Trump did not hesitate to use that helicopter crash in the late 80s for his personal advantage. He planted stories suggesting that he had almost boarded the charted copter himself, though he's never ridden to Atlantic City on one.

And it's sort of interesting because I wrote the forward to a book recently by Joe Connison, a longtime antagonist of mine.

He used to write bad things about me in the 90s when I was working on the Paula Jones case and we've become good friends. And I wrote the forward to his book, which is all about how the Republican Party and the conservative movement, The Right generally has become a giant engine of grift.

Secretary of Defense, I should say, Mark Esper, who wrote in his book about what a good job Tim Walls did with that.

Brian Tyler Cohen, friend of Midas Touch has a great new book out called Shameless. Make sure you check that out.

I have a lot of books like Fear, Fire and Fury, A Promised Land, The Soul of America, The Future of Capitalism, A Short History of Brexit.

One way to completely get around the speech and debate clause immunity here, as you now know, is statements to the press are not legitimate legislative activity.

So Jack Smith can just basically say, hey, we're just going to ask him questions about what he said to the press. We want that to be under oath.

If you want to learn about RICO law because you're a non-licensed lawyer, you've never taken the bar exam, there's a non-bar fee of like 250 if you want to buy the book on RICO and then maybe learn about the law and then we can have a conversation.

we have that took place in Bedminster with that was a book publisher with Mark Meadows was ghost writer of Mark Meadows book that you revealed all this confidential information to when you had these documents that you weren't supposed to have and you were bragging about having these top secret documents about our Iranian attack plan

those were just random dudes like I like you got to think about it like this such a good point Donald Trump would take these boxes with him unlike vacations and trips the same way we would take maybe sunscreen and like the latest New York Times bestseller he'd bring this with them and when these two random dudes who he had never met before entered within 60 seconds within 60 seconds of meeting strangers he goes hey everybody do you want to see these classified records do you want to look at them these are very very damaging huh huh do you want to see this because look these are war plans these are classified I never declassified this this is classified information I'm going to show you does this make me the winner don't you think this makes me better than chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general Mark Milley aren't I better than him here look these are classified oh yeah yeah yeah I can't declassify them anymore I never declassified them when I was in office

I've been reading for now the second time DanPfeiffer's book, Battling the Big Lie, which I really recommend that you people read because it nails this exact issue right here.

Now, Jason Kander has a book which comes out today. It's called Invisible Storm, A Soldier's Memoir of Politics and PTSD.

What this book is heavily focused on and why I think this book is really one of the most important books I've read in a really long time ... is its focus on mental health through the lens of Jason Kander's experience being a soldier, running for public office, having this reckoning with his PTSD, confronting it, being treated, his focus on his family, his focus on making time for himself and his loved ones.

I also want to let all of our listeners know that if you buy Invisible Storm, a soldier's memoir of politics and PTSD by Jason Kander, all of the proceeds are going to the Veterans Community Project.

This book for me is the book that I wish had existed 14 years ago. If this book had existed 14 years ago and I'd have read it, I would have gone and gotten treatment for PTSD.

And this book does an incredible job at doing that and having that conversation. Invisible Storm, a soldier's memoir of politics and PTSD.

Did you read? Did you read Vanity of the Bonfires?

I did not. It's a phenomenal book.

Well, I'm reading the Vanity of the Bonfires.

I'm reading my own book again because I think it's so fantastic.

I really like Tom Wolfe's last book, and I think I think he's a great author. He's he's done a beautiful job. He's which book? He's his current book. He's he's just his current book. It's just that Bonfire of the Vanities. Yes. And and the the man has done a very, very good job.

I mentioned this in my 2018 book, numerous interviews over the last six years and in court,

James Comer is in talks about a potential book deal as he leads the Biden impeachment probe with Comer. It's all about the money he's angling for that book deal.

Comer's cam told Axios that he has been in talks with Harper Collins about a potential book deal but doesn't know why the book itself, which actually has a name already all the presidents money by James Comer. How would that get revealed?

The project came to light when a source pointed Axios to a page on the Harper Collins website that shows placeholder cover for a book by Cover with a provocative title all the presidents money and a purported publication date of September 10th.

But no book is imminent and there's no book deal. Comer staff tells Axios they lie about everything they're lying about the book deal. Harper Collins just on their own started posting a random book by James Comer.

While Comer's team says no book is written a source familiar with Comer's plans that he hopes to publish the book in the future about his political experiences, what we're watching. Democrats are sure to complain about Comer mixing roles as impeachment architect and prospective author.

It follows every fascist playbook also, though, literally the playbook Blitzed the book by Norman Miller, Drugs in the Third Reich, how Hitler and all the Nazis were always drugged up on all of these super hard drugs.

The historian Heather Cox Richardson, whose book I've been reading, cautions in her books opening line. America is at a crossroads teetering on the brink of authoritarianism.

The Biden impeachment investigation isn't a who done it, it's a what is it? It's like an Agatha Christie novel where the mystery is what's the crime and that gets very tedious, very fast.