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MeidasTouch and Lev Parnas Go Live

Lev pulls back the curtain on the chaos, corruption, and coordinated propaganda in Trump’s orbit — and why we must fight back.

Ben Meiselas, MeidasTouch Network, Lev Parnas, and Brett Meiselas Apr 10

This week on our Meidas Meet-Up live series on Substack, my brother Brett and I were joined by someone who’s been on the inside of it all — Lev Parnas. You probably know Lev from his explosive past testimony about Rudy Giuliani and the Trump-Ukraine pressure campaign. But what Lev shared with us during this live session was possibly even more damning — and more urgent — than anything he’s said before.

If you missed it live, here’s the bottom line: Donald Trump is already executing his authoritarian playbook. We’re not “headed toward” autocracy. We’re in it. Right now.

Lev laid it all out. Trump’s recent market manipulation? That wasn’t an accident. It was deliberate. Coordinated. Criminal. Trump’s Truth Social post telling people to “buy, buy, buy” — followed by a suspiciously timed market pump and immediate dump — cost ordinary Americans their pensions, their savings, their kids’ college funds. ANd of course the DOJ stays silent. Why? Because Trump has completely corrupted the system from within.

And while right-wing media obsesses over culture war distractions (a 2022 UK billiards match that featured a transgender participant was somehow Fox’s top story as all of this was going down), Trump and his cronies are busy gutting the rule of law, consolidating power, and planning which oligarch gets which piece of Ukraine once Trump hands it over to Putin. Yeah — Lev confirmed that’s the real plan.

I asked Lev what gives him hope. His answer? You. All of you who refuse to sit back. The people who call, protest, vote, organize. The millions who are rising up, not shutting up.

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