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The MeidasTouch Podcast

Massachusetts AG Andrea Campbell Discusses Lawsuits Against Trump

The MeidasTouch Podcast

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News, Politics

4.956.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Republican Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson panicking as his plans with Donald Trump have backfired and Democratic attorneys general have called them out. Meiselas also speaks with Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell about her lawsuits against Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I don't know. What's worse, Maga Mike Johnson? Is it starving people to death by taking away their snap benefits, which is what you were doing?

0:08.8

Was it taking away their snap benefits while at a great Gatsby themed party at Mar-a-Lago with half-naked women in martini glasses while you're holding a Bible?

0:23.0

I don't know, Maga, Mike, what is it? Or is it doing all of that and then lying to the people you're starving and saying that we're the ones

0:29.1

who have been fighting to secure your benefits while you and Donald Trump literally filed emergency

0:35.4

briefs with the Supreme Court to block the food stamp

0:39.5

snap payments and blocked it from happening when there were funds to allow people to eat.

0:45.9

What's worse, Maga Mike?

0:47.0

But Maga Mike goes on TV and of course, he gaslights like Maga Mike always does here, play

0:52.6

this clip.

0:53.6

We'll be talking with the team. The president, as you know, has been over backwards through this entire ordeal. And the longest shutdown in U.S. history, he worked around the clock every day to mitigate the pain, to reduce the pain as much as possible for the people. They found creative ways to get the troops paid to keep women, infants, and children, nutrition programs going and all the rest. And so you'll see that same level of fervor. The entire cabinet, the entire administration is going to work around the clock to get the government open and operational again as quickly as possible. They'll do that as fast as we can. And, of course, we'll give them every aid and assistance that we can out of the House and the Senate. I really don't know how he does it. I mean, I truly mean it. Like, if I tell a small fib, it just crushes me. I don't know how, just physically, like, how are you able to go there when everybody knows you're a liar? And just do it, like with a straight face like that. Does he take like acting classes? I truly, I just don't know how he physically is able to accomplish that. You know, and then you have Donald Trump just doesn't even give a crap. So then he's at the Oval Office say, you know, we all gave everybody Snap and Democrats try to take it away. Don't pay attention to the Supreme Court lawsuits we filed blocking snapper that we're not giving the benefits here.

2:03.2

Play this clip.

2:03.9

They caused 20,000 flights to be canceled or delayed.

2:07.7

They departed so many times so late.

2:11.7

People were hurt so badly.

2:14.1

Nobody's ever seen anything like this one.

2:16.3

This was a no-brainer. This was an easy extension,

2:20.1

but they didn't want to do it the easy way. They had to do it the hard way. They look very bad

2:24.1

the Democrats do. They deprived more than one million government workers from their paychecks and

2:30.0

cut off food stamp benefits for millions and millions more Americans in need. They cause tens of

2:36.1

thousands of federal contractors and small businesses to go unpaid, and the total effect of the

2:42.1

damage here antics cause will take weeks and probably months to really calculate accurately,

2:49.4

including the serious harm that they did to our economy

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