Three brothers are behind a series of viral videos trolling Trump (MeidasTouch)

[babylonsister]

Three brothers are behind a series of viral videos trolling Trump
By Gregory Krieg and Ryan Nobles, CNN
Updated 9:12 PM ET, Tue July 21, 2020


(CNN)A little known Democratic group called MeidasTouch posted a video on Twitter less than two weeks ago that began with Kellyanne Conway, President Donald Trump's longtime aide, lashing out at presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

The former vice president had made "a lot of really creepy statements" in the past, Conway said, "that make me very uncomfortable, certainly as a mother but as a person who breathes air and exercises brain capacity."
But Biden's name is never mentioned, and what follows in the video is a mashup of Trump's own words -- from when he suggested, on "The View," that if "Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her," to his speculating in another old interview about daughter Tiffany's future physical appearance.

By Tuesday afternoon, the so-called "Creepy Trump" video had more than 6.3 million views on Twitter.

From their respective pandemic lockdowns in New York and Los Angeles earlier this year, the three brothers who founded MeidasTouch began to turn over an idea -- and an opportunity. Ben, 35, Brett, 30, and 27-year-old Jordan Meiselas had been captive audiences to Trump's coronavirus press conferences and, feeling frustrated and angry with time on their hands, started a blog. Opinion and aggregation soon turned into the rapid production of political videos.

New York natives, the brothers decided that their experiences across different professions -- Ben is a lawyer; Brett a video editor; and Jordan a marketing supervisor -- could be folded together to successfully launch an online media and advocacy operation. With an election approaching and liberals' appetite for anti-Trump content peaking, their audience was already in place.

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https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/21/politics/meidastouch-trump-videos/index.html

[lark]

1. These patriotic brothers give me hope for our future.

Their products are totally awesome.

[NewJeffCT]

2. While I love what The Lincoln Project & RVAT are doing

I will give money to Meidas Touch and other groups that will be aligned with Democrats in 2022, 2024 and beyond.

[JudyM]

3. This is where all of us who can ought to be focusing our donations, rather than temporarily-aligned

and very republican Lincoln Project. These guys are homegrown Dems and it’s important to help them build their strength.

The brothers view their role as closing the online gap between conservative media and meme-making and what exists -- or existed during the last election -- on the Democratic side. In 2016, Brett Meiselas said, the Trump campaign were "content kings."
... The brothers' group is still, in the universe of super PACs, relatively small. It's pulled in only a fraction of the funding that others, like the Lincoln Project, have received. But their ambitions are growing they hope to buy ad time in television markets in potential swing states, like Iowa, where the Biden campaign and other Democratic groups might not choose to heavily invest.

[JHB]

5. Absolutely.

They're doing ad-buys in Texas, according to a recent tweet of theirs.

[JudyM]

4. Just seeing this, thanks for posting it, babylonsister!

Wish it had more visibility!

[malaise]

6. I have complete faith in the younger generations

Those are fabulous ads - bravo brothers Meiselas