Trump Pick Caught in Unearthed Footage That Could Sink Plan

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🗓️ 17 August 2025

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EJ Antoni— Trump’s embattled MAGA pick to cook the books for his once nonpartisan and reliable Bureau of Labor Statistics, who crank out the “jobs report” —was caught on tape as present and roaming around the entrance to the Capitol on Jan 6 with Jan6 insurrectionists. Michael Popok ties all the data points together, including addressing whether this is a final nail in the coffin of his candidacy. Go to http://mackweldon.com/?utm_source=streaming&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=podcastlaunch&utm_content=LEGALAFutm_term=LEGALAF and get 20% off your first order with promo code LEGALAF 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	You hear that hammering sound?
0:01.4	That's potentially the sound of E.J. and Tony, the maga, maga right wing, quote-unquote,
0:07.5	self-proclaimed economist and his nomination to be Donald Trump's nonpartisan head of the Bureau
0:13.6	of Labor Statistics to start cooking the books to generate job numbers that Donald Trump likes.
0:19.5	Why is the coffin being nailed shut? Well, not only is there
0:23.0	a group of conservative, that usually means Republican economists, that say that he's unholy qualified,
0:30.3	he's obscenely unqualified to be running the 2,000 economists that crank out the job reports
0:37.2	that we need to manage our economy.
0:39.8	But he was a participant in the Jan 6th insurrection.
0:43.5	Sure, he wasn't charged.
0:44.9	But when you're a tall, lanky fellow that's prone to wearing three-piece suits,
0:49.2	you're sort of easy to spot in a crowd at NBC News has found E.J. Antony, insurrectionist, roaming the grounds
0:59.0	during that beautiful, nonviolent attack on our capital. I'm Michael Popock. You're on the Midas Touch
1:07.7	Network. Let's get to the new reporting. I've been following the E.G. and Tony's story for a while now over on LegalAF, the YouTube channel.
1:17.0	Let's start with the Jan 6th participation.
1:20.8	Whenever you have a sentence that I need to form that says, let's start with the Jan 6th insurrection part and work backwards, you know that
1:29.9	this candidacy is on life support.
1:32.9	So Donald Trump fires the head, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, who was
1:39.9	bipartisanly, almost unanimously confirmed by the Senate.
1:44.0	This person had worked as an economist for the Census Bureau for years for Republican and
1:49.5	Democratic administrations.
1:50.9	But the job numbers get revised.
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