Trump Skewered by Fed Up Judge as Own Words Backfire

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🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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The Trump Admin. has doubled down on tormenting the hungry and poor in America and holding them as political hostages, immediately appealing a new emergency ruling issued this afternoon by Federal Chief Judge McConnell in Rhode Island to force Trump to pay 42 million hungry Americans their November SNAP payments to live. Michael Popok reports on the efforts by Democratic Attorneys General —including NYAG Tish James—and Democracy Forward to force Trump to care about Americans in emergency court filings. 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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1:04.3	42 million Americans. Judge McConnell has issued his second temporary restraining order just this
1:10.4	afternoon after finding that
1:12.1	Donald Trump and the Trump administration have been playing political football with the lives of the
1:17.3	poor, that he's been playing political football and holding hostage people who are hungry in America
1:24.0	who are waiting on their November snap payments and anti-hunger program that is
1:30.5	directed at the most fragile in our population.
1:34.1	The below the poverty line disabled and elderly and children and babies and veterans.
1:40.1	And what does Donald Trump do after the judge announces for the second time in five days that they must make $8 billion worth of full payments by this Friday?
1:49.9	Does he relent?
1:51.7	Does he say his crush of the soul and of the humanity of Americans must stop, even though there's a shutdown?
1:59.3	No.
2:00.3	He immediately filed a notice of appeal.
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