Legal AF by MeidasTouch - BREAKING: Trump lawyer CONFESSES and throws Trump Under the Bus

Episode Date: May 31, 2023

Michael Popok of Legal AF reports on breaking developments in the Jack Smith Mar a Lago criminal investigation with former Trump attorney Evan Corcoran confessing that he was misled as to the location of all the national security and classified documents by both Trump himself and Trump’s associates while searching Mar a Lago to comply with the DOJ subpoena, as the prosecutors continue to squeeze Trump’s personal assistant Walt Nauta to flip. Shop Meidas Merch at: https://store.meidastouch.com 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 Burn the Boats: https://pod.link/1485464343 Majority 54: https://pod.link/1309354521 Political Beatdown: https://pod.link/1669634407 Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://pod.link/1676844320 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is Michael Popok, legal. I forgot some breaking news coming out of the guardian and their investigative reporting about Mara Lago as Jack Smith reaches his final recommendations to indict Donald Trump related to the stolen and mishandled national security information top secret classified documents at Mara Lago. What's the new information? That's what this hot take is about. Evan Corcoran has told the grand jury and prosecutors according to at least two sources and told his own associates

that he was misled about the location of documents, classified national security matters, materials at Mar-a-Lago by by those closest to Donald Trump himself, and that Donald Trump never told Evan Corcoran or disabused him of the notion that the only location for those documents was just in one storage room. When there was another hundred that were sitting just inside of Donald Trump's office and desk, but Evan Corcoran never searched those areas. He was, he was told not to search those areas. He was told that all the information, all of the, of the retained, improperly retained

documents for the White House, were sitting in one location, but that was a lie. So now you have the, the Department of Justice trying to get to the bottom of why were their boxes being moved by Walt Nauta, Donald Trump's personal valet after the subpoena was issued and while they were responding to it. This is even before the search warrant, the subpoena, which is a demand under penalties of a perjury and contempt of you, failed to respond, is issued by lawyers under the auspices of a federal judge and requires the documents be turned over pursuant to that subpoena. If not, then there's a court process for contempt. If that doesn't work, you go in and you get a search warrant, which is what they did.

So you've got a June subpoena and an August search warrant against Donald Trump. Why the Department of Justice wants to know? Why did Donald Trump give the instructions for Walt Now to move boxes in and out of the storage room, that same room that they directed Evan Corcoran to look to look for documents. It was the only place they spoon fed misled Evan Corcoran, the lawyer for Donald Trump. It's just looking the storage room. That's where all the documents are. Don't go into daddy's office.

Don't go into daddy's desk drawer. There's nothing for you to see there. And Evan Corcoran said, okay. But Evan Corcoran's problem is he signed along with Christina Bob a certificate under penalty of perjury that they conducted a diligent search and that they only found 38 documents, top secret classified national security documents. And they put it in a sealed envelope and gave it to the Department of Justice. The Department of Justice already knew from other witnesses that that was false, that there were documents in other rooms at Mar-a-Lago, specifically the office and desk.

So they caught Evan Corcoran in a trap. Now Evan Corcoran's defense is, that's what I was told by my client. in a trap. Now, Evan Quarkerin's defense is, that's what I was told by my client. That's what I was told by Donald Trump. I was told that the only place to look, I needed to look was the storage room. And that's the only place I looked. And I needed Walt now to open the doors because he had the keys. And when Walt now to ask to sit in while I did my review, I said, no, but that's the only place that I searched. So that's the new testimony we know now from Evan Corcoran. Why do we know about it now? Why haven't we heard about this before? Because let's be frank, the Department of Justice is doing strategic leaking of this information to put pressure on people like Walton, out of who

as of right now have not fully cooperated with the Department of Justice. In fact like Walton, out of who as of right now have not fully cooperated with the Department of Justice. In fact, Walton out as lawyers have been told by the Department of Justice and the special council prosecutors that their client is in deep, deep shit, that their client has not been truthful and accurate in giving his information to the Department of Justice, which is a potential crime. And they won't want now to play ball against Donald Trump. And as if yet they haven't.

So you see these strategic leaks that I can report on in this particular hot tick. That's where we are as of right now. We know that Evan Corcoran is throwing Donald Trump under the bus and saying, I was misled. I was sent into the into the storage room. That's where I told documents, I was told documents were and I didn't search anywhere else. And how do we know all this from Evan Corcoran?

Because he turned over 50 pages of attorney notes that he took in conversation with his client, Donald Trump, Donald Trump's AIDS, Walt Nowda and others. And he had to turn it over to the Department of Justice because he was ordered to, when the Department of Justice sought to have him drop the attorney client privilege, the most sacrosanct privilege between a lawyer and a client got ripped away from Donald Trump who holds the privilege and his

lawyer, Evan Corcoran, because judge barrel howl, the then chief judge of the DC circuit court, who oversees all grand juries, she ruled that there was likely a crime or fraud being perpetrated by Donald Trump. And therefore, under the crime fraud exception of the attorney client privilege, she stripped the attorney client privilege away from Donald Trump, made Evan Corcoran testify without it about every deepest, darkest conversation he had with his client had to be revealed to the grand jury about Mar-a-Lago and the handling of those documents and his own documents, his case, his file, his client file, how to be turned over. And now we know how big of a problem that is and what the focus of the Department

of Justice is, they have video surveillance cameras from the Trump organization out in front of the doors of the storage room. And they saw two things while they saw one thing and one thing they didn't see. They saw Walt Nauta the day before right after the subpoena was issued, moving boxes in and out of the storage room. And they don't know exactly where the boxes that were taken out went next is that bet minister because we have a maintenance worker who testified already and has cooperated with the Department of Justice that he helped walk now to load an SUV to drive to Betmanster from Mar-a-Lago. For those that are not from this country or don't know geography, that is a 18-hour drive from

Mar-a-Lago to Betman, New Jersey, filled with boxes. Department of Justice wants to get to the bottom of it. Will we see a subpoena and or search warrant for Bedminster golf course? I predict we will. But they're trying the Department of Justice to get Walt Nauta, right, to flip. He has it as of yet. These strategic media placements of this news like today will help them with that Evan Corcoran and his testimony That he got misled by Donald Trump and that Donald Trump never told him to go look where he knew the Boxes were in his office

That's a problem. That's called criminal intent for Donald Trump, as they try to come up with the motive for why this, this ex president held on to these documents and wouldn't let him be pulled out of his dead cold fingers. Why? And of course, now we know the Department of Justice is also searching through records and subpoenas about foreign relations between Donald Trump and foreign powers because they found boxes and documents related to those foreign powers in the office in the desk during the search warrant. That's the connected links there.

The new reporting today will continue to follow Evan Corcoran saying I was misled by my own client Walt Nauta talking about moving of documents and having him cooperate. The video camera, as I said before, they saw Walt Nauta. What they didn't see is there are gaps in the video. This is like the Nixon, you know, 18 minutes of missing audio during watergate. Where it, where are the video? Where's the video for critical moments? They've already the Department of Justice have subpoenaed and interviewed, uh, uh, Matt Colomari and Matt Colomari, Jr. The two heads of security for the Trump organization, their cooperating. And they've subpoenaed the company, the video surveillance company that that manages those video cameras, where why are why are their gaps

and the Department of Justice is trying to get to the bottom of it as they tie all this together in time to go make their recommendation in a report to Merrick Garland, the attorney general, who will then after the full presentation of the material, right? One of the most important historical PowerPoint presentations in American history is coming up with with Jack Smith, his team of prosecutors and Merrick Garland on at least Mar at least Marilago, if not the three or four other grandjuries that are looking at other Trump criminality. And then from there, back to the grand jury to seek the indictment, which will initially be sealed

and then unsealed for the American public. There, that's where we're at. For those that are scratching their head and rubbing their eyes, like, can they believe it? Justice is finally going to be done. Justice is finally going to be done. People that didn't think John will jump, whatever been indicted, whatever be indicted or convicted, his entities got convicted 17 times in New York for tax fraud. He's been indicted. Now we're talking about the federal indictments likely by Jack Smith and

his team that have been working around the clock for the last eight months. And then of course, Fahni Willis in Georgia, the prosecutor who has already declared that she's going to be seeking an indictment of people, read those, read that as Donald Trump and others at the end of July, the beginning of August. This is the summer of accountability, right? Last year was the was the year of investigation. This year is the year of indictment and trial setting and 2023 and 2024 are the trials. Yes, it's going to coincide with the US election, but so what? He'll have to run. Donald Trump will have to run for office as the leading, as he likes to say, the leading candidate for the Republican nomination or for the whole presidency as a twice impeached, multiply indicted, potentially convicted, a judged sex abuser candidate. And if that is okay, with the majority of the Republicans that vote, so be it. He will go down in flames and lose

horribly to the president of the United States, Joe Biden. That's the reporting for today. I'll continue to report on the Evan Quarker and Mar-a-Lago Walton Outer connections on hot takes just like this one only on the Midas Touch Network on Wednesdays and Saturdays. I do a days and Saturdays, I do a, I co-anchor a podcast that is at the intersection of US law and politics called LegalAF. You can follow us on YouTube and every place you get your podcast. And if you like what I'm doing on content like this one, give me a thumbs up. It's helpful to what we do. It's meaningful to me as are the comments. And you can follow me, Michael Popock on all things social media at MSPOPOC. This is Michael Popok, LegalAF reporting.

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