Legal AF by MeidasTouch - BROKE Trump Makes PATHETIC MOVE for Campaign CASH

Episode Date: July 13, 2024

Elon Musk lied in March when he said he wouldn’t donate to Trump after meeting with him. Michael Popok of Legal AF reports on Musk likely using tens of millions of Musk Bucks to buy the election for Trump, by donating to a new shadowy 2 month old Texas based Super PAC working in coordination with the Trump campaign. Thanks to HIMS! Start your free online visit today at https://hims.com/legalaf for your personalized ED treatment options. Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! Join the Legal AF Patreon: https://Patreon.com/LegalAF Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/lights-on-with-jessica-denson On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Benefits vary by card, other conditions apply. This is Michael Popak, Legal AF. We got a brand new pack that was created for Donald Trump and we got Elon Musk, who basically lied several months ago when he said he was not going to contribute to either the Biden or the Trump campaign. He's done exactly that. And we'll find out even more on

July 15th when new reporting comes out about this shadowy PAC created in Texas by self-proclaimed constitutional law expert Chris Goeber out of Austin, Texas. All we know about the PAC so far, it was created in effectively in May and now it has obtained a substantial investment, a substantial donation from Elon Musk of Tesla fame and Starlink fame. Again, back in March, after meeting with Donald Trump to try to calm investor issues and issues around people that use X. Musk said point blank, I am not contributing to either campaign. So the way he's going to get around that is that he's made his multimillion dollar donation, we can presume, to a PAC, America PAC formed by Chris Goeber, who is allowed to work in conjunction with the Trump campaign based on a recent

ruling of the United States Supreme Court to do one thing in particular, voter outreach, voter registration, and to try to promote the use, get this, of mail-in ballots, absentee ballots, and to have a plan on election day. Now, you'll recall that all through 2016 through 2020 and beyond, Donald Trump was the first one to come out and say, you can't trust mail-in balloting, you can't trust absentee balloting, it's all rife with fraud and all of that. But the Republicans figured out they were getting their lunch handed to them, their heads handed to them by the Democrats in the absentee mail-in voting. So they're trying to chip away at that advantage and they're using a pack, a super pack like America pack, again, popped out of nowhere. Apparently, according to the New York Times

and other reporting, has already spent about $16 million. It's only been around a couple of days. And now it's just got replenished its accounts, and therefore Donald Trump, with millions more likely from Elon Musk. It also means that for every dollar the PAC can pay to promote Donald Trump and Donald Trump's candidacy, it's one less dollar the Republican National

Committee and the campaign has to spend. So even though there's not supposed to be coordination between the campaign and the PAC, the super PAC, except when it comes to voter registration and field operations to get people to vote and get out the vote, everything else is supposed to be independent. So when you see an ad for Save America, or I'm sorry, the America PAC running for Donald Trump, that's not supposed to be coordinated with the Trump campaign. They're not supposed to coordinate how much to spend, where to spend, the type of ad, digital media versus social media, versus good old fashioned radio, versus good old fashioned newsprint. They're not supposed to

coordinate any of that. But of course, America PAC is using consultants that have worked directly for the campaign and other campaigns. Chris Goeber, it's an interesting cat, don't know much about him, except he appears regularly in Fox News as some sort of self-proclaimed constitutional scholar. Here's a clip. Chris Goeber, a constitutional law attorney who has worked for the Republican National Committee and the Department of Justice. So last Monday, you probably know this, that Trump's attorney, Todd Blanch, told the court, there's nothing wrong with trying to influence an election.

It's called democracy. Is that true? Is that constitutional? Yeah, absolutely. Is it a crime? Yeah. So, you know, in this instance, you have to understand from the get-go, this entire prosecution rests on this unconstitutional effort to federalize a New York state law that by turning a low-level

misdemeanor, if they're even one of those, into a felony based on a flawed interpretation of federal election law. And a lot of people look at this and look at the payments, say if it did occur, that it had an impact on Donald Trump's chances to be reelected. But the federal election commissions test and federal laws test on determining whether that payment would in fact be impermissible or not is not based on whether it could actually have an impact on an election. Instead, the Federal Election Commission looks at it

and says, is there any other reason other than the election in which somebody may want to make that payment? And in this case, that's undeniably yes. We've heard instances of Donald Trump making other settlement payments in the past. And so the facts really and the evidence is there that there were other reasons other than to impact the election for him to make this payment

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was going to be, in terms of coordination, a major donation from Elon Musk. And now Musk is trying to put his big fat billionaire hand on the scales to influence the outcome of the election. American people don't generally like when billionaires try to buy an election. That usually doesn't go over very well. And because of the mass number of voters, even outweighs a billionaire dollars, they usually rebel. We'll have to see now what we're gonna do with the number one billionaire on the Bloomberg scale at 260, weighing in at $263 billion of net assets,

Elon Musk puts his big fat thumb in wallet and bets it on Donald Trump. I would love to give you more information about the America pack. From what I can see right now, I don't know anything about its board of directors and neither does anybody else. I don't know how Alina Haba is involved with it.

I don't know, all I know is Chris Gober used to work for Ted Cruz and has some sort of media and strategy company. The bulk of the money they're spending right now until they get the Musk dollars, the Musk bucks, has been spent in field operations, opening up field operations, phone banks, and aimed at voter registration, and aimed at digital media, which is relatively easy to get up and running, and all of that. That's what they're focused on.

Now, if that focus change, once their coffers are replenished with new musk bucks, we'll have to follow. We'll have to follow the money. This is the Supreme Court and Citizens United who allowed dark money to enter into the campaigns at unlimited amounts because they declared it first amendment right of a company or corporation or a pack to donate. And now we see what's happened to our elections. You need $205,000,000,000,000 to run for office. And with it, you're beholden to all the people, of course, that have given you money. Now, Elon Musk is not an altruist.

He's a businessman, he's transactional. And so he's getting something in return. He thinks it's better for him, just like the oil and gas industry thinks it's better for them to have Donald Trump in the White House. I wonder why that is. Especially when Joe Biden has been a big promoter

of electric cars. I mean, Biden has been clear. He's not a Musk fan, he's an electric car fan, and he's complimented Musk for building pretty good electric cars. I mean, Biden has been clear. He's not a Musk fan. He's an electric car fan, and he's complimented Musk for building pretty good electric cars. I got my own opinions about Tesla. This isn't a stock picking show, so I'll leave it at that. But nobody likes the way he tried to manipulate Ukraine during the Ukraine war with Starlink. No one likes the fact that there are major military assets in the hands of civilians, in this case, Elon Musk who built his own satellite network which unfortunately

outmatches anything that the military has been able to put up for the United States. And now he's decided, let me interfere with elections. Let me donate as much money as I can to a shadowy organization that nobody knows anything about who's going to reveal its first donor list in about three or four days on the 15th. And I'll be able to report more on that then. But what we've got right now is the about face by Donald Trump, which we reported on here

on the Midas Touch Network, I don't know, a week or two ago, where suddenly he started running ads and running videos, including on the America Pak website, saying, early voting's important, mail-in voting's important, absentee voting's important. I thought it was stop the steal, Donald. I thought you thought that every election, including the one that your head of cybersecurity

for election integrity said was the most secure election in history, the 2020 election. I thought that's because of all of the outcome dispositive fraud in absentee ballot voting, absentee voting, and mail-in voting, and early voting. I thought that was the problem, but no, no, no, because he knows he didn't win on that. And so he's going to have to try to grab some of that early voting advantage that Democrats usually have because Democrats are not afraid of voting early, absentee, or mail-in. They know their vote is going to count either way. A vote is a vote is a vote. The quality of the

vote isn't changed by how it's delivered to the ballot box. It's ludicrous, especially for somebody like Donald Trump who every year whenever he got around to voting, and that wasn't that often, he voted by, wait for it, absentee or mail-in voting. Right. And so I think the purpose of this hot take is to talk about Elon Musk, who put himself on the sidelines and said, don't worry, don't worry, I'm not picking sides here. I'm not donating to the campaign. Listen to that choice of words, not donating to the campaign of Trump or Biden. Right, he donated to a pack that works

closely in coordination with the campaign. And every dollar they spend is one less dollar the campaign has to spend. So if he puts 30, 40, 50, a hundred million dollars, right, which he can do hundred million dollars, right? Which he can do with one stroke of a pen. That's his walking around money. That's his chump change. That's his folding money, as my grandfather used to say. He can help change the outcome of the election. The question for the audience is, are we going to let billionaires determine who our next president is, especially when they're placing their money on a convicted felon, on somebody who's been in a judged rapist. Is that what we're doing?

So we're going to continue to follow the America PAC and when it makes its final donor list public, which they have to do, and I'm sure we're not just going to see Elon Musk there. I mean, Donald Trump is busy courting industries to support him. Oil and gas, energy, telling them they should donate billions of dollars to him because the first thing he's going to do is deregulate. There's a reason that at the end of July, when he finally gets around to announcing who his new vice president pick is going to be, they're going to be doing that in front of the oil and gas industry. What does that tell you about the candidacy of Donald Trump and where Elon Musk is placing his bets? We'll continue to follow it on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. Eastern Time. And then

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