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The MeidasTouch Podcast

AFGE Leader Sheria Smith on Fighting Back Against Trump

The MeidasTouch Podcast

MeidasTouch Network

Politics, News

4.812.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump facing the wrath of fired workers who are ready to fight for their jobs and their dignity and Meiselas speaks with AFGE leader Sheria Smith on want her Union is doing to fight back. 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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0:00.0

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0:02.5

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0:05.7

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0:10.1

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0:13.9

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0:18.1

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0:23.6

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0:29.6

I want to dig deeper into the catastrophic impact, the cataclysmic impact, if you will, of Donald Trump

0:36.1

firing critical government workers across the board and who he's replacing them with and what we're actually seeing.

0:45.9

So you probably have all seen the visual.

0:48.2

This is playing out in different ways across different government departments.

0:52.4

But you all may have seen, you know, in the State Department,

0:55.1

with a clap out as career people.

0:58.1

People have worked their whole lives at the State Department,

1:00.7

dedicated their lives to our country,

1:04.4

were all of a sudden fired.

1:06.5

We're talking, by the way, about people who worked in the international sex trafficking

1:10.7

prevention unit, people who worked in the international sex trafficking prevention

1:11.3

unit, people who worked in USAID, people who worked across the board in order to show America's

1:18.5

soft power across the world and also to engage in diplomacy.

1:23.3

So let me just show you some of these scenes because, to me, it's so un-American, but to see these career workers holding boxes and basically being perp walked out of buildings where they've been for their lives.

1:36.3

Let me show you one of them right here.

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