Legal AF by MeidasTouch - BREAKING: Donald Trump’s WORST NIGHTMARE finally comes true in New York Criminal Case

Episode Date: January 31, 2023

Michael Popok of LegalAF reports on today’s dramatic escalation of the Manhattan DA’s prosecution of Donald Trump with the announcement of a new special grand jury empaneled to investigate Trump��s paying stormy Daniels 130k in hush money during the 2016 campaign. Shop LegalAF at: https://store.meidastouch.com Join us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/meidastouch Remember to subscribe to ALL the Meidas Media Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://pod.link/1510240831 Legal AF: https://pod.link/1580828595 The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://pod.link/1595408601 The Influence Continuum: https://pod.link/1603773245 Kremlin File: https://pod.link/1575837599 Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://pod.link/1530639447 The Weekend Show: https://pod.link/1612691018 The Tony Michaels Podcast: https://pod.link/1561049560 American Psyop: https://pod.link/1652143101 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Pope, I'll go lay off with breaking news. The Manhattan DA has started the process of prosecuting Donald Trump for his role in paying hush money to stormy Daniels in the 2016 campaign to hide her sorted tail of an affair with Donald Trump from the voters. How do we know that is because it's now clear from reporting. And from those on the street in front of the grand jury process and the lower

Manhattan. That there is a special grand jury in place 23 members of Manhattan residents and paddled for six months starting today to hear prosecutors present a case against Donald Trump is coming out of the Manhattan DA's office. This is the final step before an indictment. The focus will be on what Michael Cohen has told everybody about and actually served jail time four, which is the illegal campaign contribution that Michael Cohen paid in 2016 and then was reimbursed directly by Donald Trump

and the Trump organization to pay off Stormy Daniels so that she wouldn't go to the press with her tale related to her relationship. This is not the first person that has been paid off by somebody to benefit Donald Trump who was about to a legend of fair. We now know that the first witness or one of the first witnesses today that will be testifying against Donald Trump and in favor of the indictment and the prosecution is David Pecker. David Pecker is the little known but very influential former publisher of the National Inquirer, okay magazine and other things. Best friends with Donald Trump, they have a joining estates in Palm Beach County, the National Inquirer based in Boca Raton, Florida nearby.

And David Piccar has spent a lifetime grabbing out of the co-tails of Donald Trump first when he was a developer and then presidential candidate. And even going so far as to operating a catch and kill program at the National Enquirer, listen to this one, folks, catch and kill isn't exactly what you think, but similar. He would go out with his crew and find people that were going to say bad things about Donald Trump, primarily women, who were going to testify about having affairs with him or that

he sexually group them or did something else inappropriate, such as Karen McDougall, a former Playboy model who was about to go public with her illicit affair. You've never heard probably of Karen McDougall except in the deepest recesses of the web because David Pecker operated a catching kill program, paid her $150,000 and her story went away. It was never, of course, published the National Inquirer. That was found to be an illegal campaign contribution

and the National Inquirer and David Pecker paid a fine of over $200,000 related to that. Sound familiar? This is exactly what happened with Stormy Daniels. In fact, David Pecker was involved with the Stormy Daniels payoff. He originally found her through Michael Ava Nadi, the now disgraced attorney that represented her at one time.

Pecker spoke to Cohen. They both decided that Cohen better make the initial contacts with Stormy Daniel's attorney and arranged the deal. Michael Cohen testified already under oath before he went to jail, himself for federal campaign violation, that Donald Trump knew about it, orchestrated and it approved that Michael Cohen would lay

out $130,000 from quote unquote, his own money, but then get immediately reimbursed from the Trump organization through Alan Weisselberg, who is currently serving five months in Rikers Island for his role in a tax evasion scandal and scheme that the same Manhattan DA's office obtained a 17 count conviction just over a month ago. So Alvin Bragg, who is the Manhattan DA, much beleaguered, much criticized, has come around having now one basically 17 and no against the Trump organization, the first prosecutor ever to bring down criminally any entity associated with Donald Trump, his main operating company.

This same Alvin Bragg and his team of new prosecutors are with the special grand jury today as we speak will be for up to six months with that special grand jury, presenting the evidence and reconstructing what happened and the money flow. Follow the money here and the bouncing ball, David Pecker at National Inquirer, Michael Cohen linking directly to Donald Trump, paying the money, speaking to Donald Trump at least two times the day before the money was wired to Stormy Daniels attorney, then getting reimbursed from the Trump organization through Alan Weiselberg, it's CFO. And there's two more people in both the Trump organization

and the Trump campaign that the prosecutors want to talk to. First, they want to talk to somebody who actually testified at the earlier trial and that was the controller. And they want to find out from the controller what he knows about the payments and how they were recorded on the books of the Trump organization because everyone believes they were recorded as legal expenses. Why is it matter? Because if they were fraudulently recorded on the books, that is a crime in the state of New York. That's the crime that you need to prosecute. Now, it's only a Mr. Meanor unless it follows and promotes another crime

in furtherance of another crime. But the other crime it looks like will be the federal election campaign violation. It can't be a state violation because it wasn't a state campaign that Trump ran for. He ran for federally as president of the United States. So the prosecutors are going to eventually have to marry these two concepts together, a state crime of cooking the books fraudulently combined with a federal election violation. And there's going to be a lot of litigation over that when that indictment finally comes out in a motion to dismiss no doubt being filed by Donald Trump. And they will attack this academic issue about whether that federal federal election crime can support

a felony in the state of New York. But that's for another day. The important thing shouldn't be lost. We now have a dramatic escalation of the prosecution of Donald Trump with a special grand jury in paddles not going anywhere those 23 people are going to be meeting regularly with prosecutors from Alvin Bragg's office for the next six months maybe less based on the presentation of evidence and the other person that the other two people that the prosecutors are looking closely at are the long-time executive assistant of Donald Trump. I will tell you from having worked in New York from a lot of my career.

Nobody knows more about the operations of a company than the executive assistant, not the secretary, the executive assistant or personal assistant for the person in charge and especially in a family office like environment like Donald Trump. So they're going to they're going to go squeeze that executive assistant just as in the Nixon Watergate affair, they squeezed the personal secretary that Miss Lincoln that worked for Richard Nixon. Same thing here. Squeeze the EA, squeeze the controller who gave shaky testimony to begin with and wasn't really supportive of Donald Trump during the prosecution of the tax case, get him back.

And now they're going to have to squeeze two other people. Well, one doesn't have to be squeezed. Michael Cohen's going to voluntarily dump on Donald Trump. He's done it before the problem with Michael Cohen and he's a friend of the pod. He's got his own podcast on our same network is that, you know, they're going to spend a considerable amount of time going after him for bias because he did serve a couple of years in federal penitentiary because of his role in this same affair. That can cut both ways with a jury. They can think, well, he served his time and he's served his debt to society and he's

telling the truth now, or they can say, oh, this guy wants to retaliate against the guy that got him into that pickle. The other way they can undermine him is that Michael had his own suit against Donald Trump and others related to him being left in jail longer than he should have over COVID. And he proved that there was retaliation by Trump now president and how the Bureau of Presence was making decisions

about whether to release Michael Cohen early because of COVID. So Michael is great because he connects Donald Trump directly to the payment, but he comes with a little bit of hair and a little bit of baggage. Alan Weiselberg, as Michael Cohen has already testified, is the direct link, right?

He's the missing link, if you will, for the payment. Because that payment of the 130,000 by Michael Cohen from his own personal account got reimbursed through the Trump organization through the long time CFO, Alan Weiselberg. And Alan Weiselberg is cooling his heels in a really disgusting jail, thank God, called Reikers Island, which should have been shut down years ago. It's so decrepit. And he may be ready after a couple of weeks hanging out with those people in Rutgers,

Highland, and his fellow prisoners and his fellow jumpsuit wears. He may be ready to start talking to get out early and to avoid other criminal prosecutions because the Manhattan D.A.'s office is not done with Alan Weiselberg yet. There's still insurance fraud that they're investigating and other loan fraud that has Alan Weiselberg's fingerprints all over it. So what do we know so far? Brand new bombshell, dramatic escalation, Manhattan DA following after Fawney Willis a

week ago announcing in Georgia that she's about ready to bring indictments against multiple defendants. Alan, Alan Bragg, not to be outdone, having already gotten convictions against the Trump organization. He, it's announced today there's already a special grand jury ready, potentially to indict Donald Trump himself for the hush money paid to Stormy Daniels through David Pecker at the National Inquirer, Michael Cohen, former counsel through the hands of Alan Weiselberg, Donald Trump's executive assistant, Donald Trump's controller who would have been responsible for the improper or fraudulent book entry, a crime in New York. That's what we know on day one. I

can't imagine what we're going to learn on day two through six months. This is developing story, hot off depresses, Michael Popok, legal AF will cover it more as we learn more information with my co-anchor Karen Friedman Agnifalo, formerly the number two in the Manhattan DA's office. We got a show on Wednesday called legal AF and we'll be talking about this very issue and getting her former prosecutor and she knows a lot of the people that are now involved, a lot of the new people that are now involved in the case. And we'll hear from her.

And I'll, when's they bend my salison, I will pick it up with legal lay off on the weekend. That's where we are right now. So for everybody that was concerned, oh boy, Mark Pomerancin, Carrie Dunn, the special prosecutors, they left Noisily, you know, three months into Alvin Bragg's term, and because they really wanted him to prosecute Donald Trump, 90 days into Alvin Bragg's term and because they really wanted him to prosecute Donald Trump 90 days into Alvin Bragg's term of office. Okay, at least let's give credit where credit is due. It may have taken him a year, a year and a month and a series of convictions against Donald

Trump that and a Trump organization that actually stuck, but Alvin Bragg is now ready to bring an indictment against Donald Trump. That's what a special, a special grand jury in paneled for six months says. So we'll follow it. Michael Pope, Buckley, Galef. At Midas Touch, we are unapologetically pro democracy and we demand justice and accountability. That's why we're spreading our message to convict 45. That's right, gear up right now with your convict45 tees and pins at store.mitustouch.com. That's store.mitustouch.com.