MAGA Mike Panics in Public as GOP Senate Betrays Him

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🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Republican Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson panicking and trying to run away from the press as GOP Senators betrayed him and betrayed Trump by immediately passing the vote to release the Epstein files by unanimous consent and Meiselas speaks with investigative reporter Ken Klippenstein about MAGA Mike’s next plan to work with Trump to invoke national security concerns to avoid turning over the files. Go to https://Superpower.com and use code: MEIDAS to get $50 OFF your annual Superpower subscription. 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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0:00.0	Any reaction to Leader Thune, you seeing the bill without adding amendments or changing it? I am deeply disappointed in this outcome. I think I'm told I've been at the state dinner. I don't know. I was just told that Chuck Schumer rushed it to the floor and put it out there preemptively. It needed amendments. I just spoke to the president about that. We'll see what happens.
0:21.2	So is he, do you think he may veto it? You say you spoke to the president?
0:23.9	I'm not saying that. I don't know. Is he supportive of it in its current form?
0:26.7	Uh, we both have concerns about it. So we'll see. I was staying in him with the crown
0:32.6	France. Are you frustrated in the majority leader? Are you upset with the majority leader?
0:39.4	Run, Maga Mike, run.
0:41.6	You see Maga Mike, they're panicking and running through the halls of the Capitol building
0:46.9	yesterday after he was caught off guard when the Maga Republicans in the Senate
0:52.7	refused to object to the unanimous consent to release
0:57.6	the Epstein files that was put on the floor in the Senate.
1:02.2	So we know that earlier in the day, the House passed the resolution to release the Epstein
1:07.0	files via vote of 427 to 1.
1:10.6	The one Mager Republican who voted against releasing the files
1:13.8	was Maga Republican Clay Higgins. It then went to the Senate. Maga Mike thought that he was
1:20.2	having a productive conversation with the Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune and that
1:26.3	they were going to add amendments to basically derail and kill the release of the Epstein files in the Senate.
1:34.2	And Maga Mike was telling Donald Trump through a back channel that this isn't going to pass in the Senate, don't worry.
1:41.8	And then the Democrats outmaneuvered the Republicans. Democratic leader in the
1:47.0	Senate, Chuck Schumer, goes on the Senate floor. He requests unanimous consent to release the
1:52.6	Epstein files. Not a single Republican objects to it because which Republican wants to be the guy
1:59.3	or the gal who objects to the release of the Epstein files,
2:02.8	and therefore the Epstein Files resolution in the Senate was deemed to have passed,
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