MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas speaks with Canada’s Member of Parliament Charlie Angus who doesn’t hold back on calling out Trump.
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00:00I'm joined by Charlie Angus, member of the Canadian Parliament, who is part of a delegation right now
00:06in Brussels as part of the NATO Parliamentary Meetings, which came after the disastrous Munich
00:13Conference for the United States, and frankly for all of Europe, where J.D. Vance attacked the
00:19European democracies, where you had Pete Hegseth in Europe saying horrible things about Ukraine
00:26and Europe. So, Charlie, what's going on there? What's your message right now to the United States?
00:32I think we've witnessed the most extraordinary week in European politics since the fall of the
00:38Berlin Wall, but that was a good story. What we've seen over the last week, beginning with
00:43the disaster in Munich with J.D. Vance, total attack on European democracy, and then followed
00:50up here at our NATO meetings with all of America's key allies, that they flushed 75 years of diplomacy,
01:00hard work, commitment to the rule of law and international diplomacy. They just flushed it
01:06down the toilet while Trump and Vance and the mega morons here took the time to kneel down
01:14and kiss the feet of Vladimir Putin. Things will not go back to what they were, and Europe now
01:20is very much cast adrift from the United States, and certainly Canada is looking to where
01:26our place in the world is, and we're looking more to Europe now than to our closest neighbor.
01:31So, tell us what's going on behind the scenes. It still seems like, at least publicly, while we are
01:38seeing a lot of European leaders speak up against Trump and what happened,
01:44they're still trying to be diplomatic, but you're there right now in the inner circles.
01:49What's really happening, Charlie? What really surprised me from the get-go, I think the European
01:55leaders were shocked by what Vance had done in Munich, because it was a real threat to
02:04democracy. It was a promotion of far-right extremism, and people in Europe have deep
02:09memories of what it means to suffer far-right extremism. So, on the surface, there was this
02:15attempt to hope that the Americans were just bluffing and Trump was just being Trump, but it
02:21became really clear as the meetings went on. I was certainly very vocal and pushing for a
02:28clear position, and I think that that aided many of the allies started coming up to me. So, Latvia,
02:34the Baltic states who are on Putin's front line, are feeling right now that they're being sold
02:40down the river. We're seeing in Germany the fears of the far-right. We're seeing Vance's
02:46interference in the Romanian election system. People understand that this is now a threat to
02:51their way of life, and as we are meeting, we actually have word coming out from Saudi Arabia,
02:57I mean the most despicable anti-democratic place on the planet, where we have a convicted felon
03:02and an indicted war criminal trying to carve up Ukraine. That was happening while we were supposed
03:07to be, as NATO allies, talking about a plan for Ukraine. So, this was a total slap in the face,
03:13and I don't think the megamorons who came here fully understand how much damage they have done
03:19to America on the world stage. There was an altercation, or I don't want to overstate it,
03:24but there was an incident between you and a Republican member of Congress who approached
03:29you and tried to, you know, he thought he was like joking around with you with your Canadian pin.
03:34What happened? Well, you know, I've been meeting with the Democrats, the American Democrats have
03:42been, I mean, tiptoeing around. I think they're shell-shocked like everybody else. Some of these
03:46MAGA guys just thought they were just being funny, and one of them came up to me, and I had my
03:51Canadian pin, and he had met me before and tried some really stupid jokes about Elon Musk that
03:56didn't go down very well, and he said, hey Canada, and he went to touch my lapel, and I said, don't
04:01you ever touch the Canadian flag, and he said, whoa, whoa, I'm just joking, and I said, you'll die
04:09before you ever touch a Canadian flag, and I said, and we're not joking, and then everyone sort of
04:13backed off, and then he vamoosed out of the room, so I don't even know what his name was, but you
04:19know, we're not like that as Canadians, but I thought you need to understand how far you pushed us,
04:24and you need to understand how dangerous it is that what you're doing right now in promoting
04:29Vladimir Putin to destroy Western democracy. Your leader, and I don't think this guy's bright
04:35enough to know that Trump is now in league, you know, the two gangsters of the modern world are in
04:42league to try and destroy Ukraine. That is simply cannot be allowed to happen. The Ukrainian people
04:48have suffered too much, and they are all of our front line right now in the fight against
04:53tyranny. Charlie, earlier this morning, Donald Trump made a post where he said Zelensky is a
05:00modestly successful comedian that talked the U.S. into spending $350 billion. He calls Zelensky
05:08a dictator. He says a dictator without elections, Zelensky better move fast, or he's not going to
05:15have a country left, and so what's your message to Donald Trump? Donald Trump has kissed up to the
05:25gangster Putin from the get-go. When we saw the horrific violence unleashed against the Ukrainian
05:31people, Donald Trump thought this was a sign of a savvy genius. To attack a leader like Zelensky,
05:38who has more moral fiber in his little toe than Donald Trump has in his entire body,
05:45in his entire cabinet, is outrageous. Vladimir Zelensky has shown the world what democracy means.
05:51Donald Trump is a convicted felon and a sexual pervert. Those two men shouldn't even be mentioned
05:57in the same sentence, but this is what I would leave you with, because it was said to me by one
06:02of my Eastern European colleagues who came up after they had heard that Donald Trump is now
06:06calling for regime change in Ukraine. She said to me, the Ukrainian people survived the Holodomor,
06:12the Ukrainian people survived Stalin, the Ukrainian people survived Chernobyl, they've
06:17survived Putin. Do you think that Donald Trump is going to break the Ukrainian people? So Donald,
06:24just put a sock in it for now. You need to understand that the damage that you're doing
06:30to help your criminal buddy Vladimir Putin will pay in the long term enormous damage to democracy,
06:38to your allies, and to the world. And the world will be forced now to treat America
06:45the way we treat Putin. And we are going to all have to pick up our game dramatically to
06:50defend democracy, whether it's in Ukraine or whether it's in our own countries.
06:54Are you seeing that in Canada right now? We were talking before about the boycott
06:59in Canada of all things American. Do you see it picking up slowing down as the prevailing
07:04view in Canada at this point that you're basically dealing with a Putin of the South?
07:11Canada has the largest Ukrainian diaspora in the world. Ukrainian Canadians are a huge part of our
07:17population. So there's a deep emotional link. So I think what Putin did in his attack on Zelensky
07:23and his attack on the people of Ukraine remind Canada that he's looking at us the way Putin
07:29looks at Ukraine. So right now the boycott is the front line of defense because we know
07:34once the job losses start to mount, once the economic pressures start hitting in places like
07:39Tennessee where it's already happening, Kentucky where it's already happening, all the border
07:43states, then that's when the lesser militant red state MAGA people are going to start calling on
07:51Trump. So this is our first line. But what's been really encouraging is we're seeing the people
07:55around the world are saying, hey, if Canada can do this, we can do it too. So we are encouraging
08:00people across the world. And we've seen actually some really interesting numbers coming out of the
08:04United States of ordinary Americans who are now boycotting the companies that have openly supported
08:10Trump. So I think this is a really important tool to have. This is not the be end or end all. We're
08:16dealing with a very, very dangerous and volatile situation. But ordinary people, whether it's in
08:21Canada, whether it's in Minnesota or whether it's in Germany, can make choices based on what
08:28they're going to buy and what they're going to not buy, where they're going to visit and where
08:31they're not going to visit. And that's going to come down to whether or not we believe in Western
08:36democracy and values of decency and human rights, or we believe in the gangster state of Donald
08:42Trump and Vladimir Putin. I think we know what the answer is. Charlie Angus, please keep us updated
08:48on all of the developments. If anything else is happening out there, let me know. We'll have you
08:52back on right away. We appreciate your leadership in Canada and across the world, bringing people
08:58together to stand up to the authoritarian regime we have here right now in the United States.
09:03Thanks, Charlie. Well, thank you so much for having me. And just to also say thank you for
09:07the work you're doing, because a lot of ordinary people are looking for facts,
09:12they're looking for information, and you're certainly providing it. So thank you so much.
09:16Thanks, Charlie. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Thanks for watching.
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