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Episode Date: December 20, 2024

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Well, it's already started. The MAGA Republicans and Representative Nancy Mace have taken to social media to say that 2025 is going to be the year of Main Street media apologies, meaning the First Amendment and freedom of the press is now in tatters at our feet because of corporate media and their inability to stand firm and defend it. Like Disney, when Disney owns ABC and ABC owns George Stephanopoulos, we get a $16 million judgment that has MAGA, all at Twitter, all excited, because now it means that they know

how to get corporate media to sacrifice their First Amendment responsibilities in order to put money in their pockets and preserve their licenses and government contracts. I'm Michael Popak, Legal AF, with a follow-up about the shocking news that ABC and Disney have decided they'd rather stroke a check for $16 million than prove that Donald Trump is a sex abuser, even though two juries in New York have already done that for them. And a judge in New York has already declared that he is a technical rapist, Donald Trump. Yet that wasn't good enough for the suits

over at ABC and Disney. And now you've got Nancy Mace, who is at the heart of the interview with George Stephanopoulos, that led to this whole thing celebrating. And it burns my ass. It really does. Now, Nancy Mace, when she's not busy denying one of her only transgender colleagues the right to use a bathroom, she has publicly declared that she was a rape victim. I'm not here to challenge that in any other way,

but when a person who's run for office, effectively telling the world that she's a rape victim, is being interviewed by George Stephanopoulos about a presidential candidate who was a judge to be a technical rapist. I mean, I'll use the terms of the judge, Judge Kaplan. I think it's fair game for Nancy Mace to be asked about how do you feel as a rape victim to be supporting somebody who's been accused of rape? All right, sexual abuse. All right, technical rape. You fill in the blank.

They're all terrible. They're all horrible affronts to women and assaults on women. And Nancy Mason, a recent social media post said, oh, I was being shamed. I was shamed during that opinion. I shouldn't have been asked that question that way. Why not? You ran for office on it. You freely talk about it in

your interviews. It's part of your personal story. Then I think it's fair game for the press. What's not appropriate is therefore for George Stephanopoulos to cave to MAGA attacks and say, oh, she's right. I shouldn't have used the R word. Really? I mean, they know about, the ABC and Disney knows about Judge Kaplan's ruling. Judge Kaplan had to handle a very similar decision. When Donald Trump wanted to counterclaim against the rape victim, sorry, the sexual abuse victim, and in that counterclaim wanted to claim what she won on television and she used the rape word, that that was inappropriate.

And the judge says, well, I know that under the technical definition in place at the time in New York, because the jury heard evidence where they couldn't decide because the victim didn't know, because she had her eyes closed, whether he put his finger or another body part inside of her, like his penis, they went with sexual abuse instead of rape.

Today, under New York law, where I practice, either one, any digital penetration is a rape, as it should be. But in that 1980, you know, 1996, 95 period, whenever it happened, it was, if it was a penis, it was a rape, and if it was something else, it was sexual abuse. That's it.

But that doesn't cover yourself in any glory. And Judge Kaplan reminded that when he dismissed Donald Trump's attempt to sue E. Jean Carroll for the very same defamation that ABC and Disney just settled for. He said, I quote, from the order, you are technically a rapist. It's technically rape. So you're not going to be able to get defamation out of that. ABC News decided, no, we're going to cave. And now Nancy Mace is telling people in her social media post on that social media platform that I shall not repeat its name, but it's owned by Elon Musk,

let this be a warning to all haters, defamation is real and your free trial of bad mouthing just expired. And then she wrote 2025 will be the year of mainstream media apologies. You know who's not gonna be apologizing or capitulating? I'll give you a guess. Starts with MTN, Midas Touch Network, Legal AF. You know when you discover a new binge worthy show or a song that you bump on repeat and you gotta share it with your friends

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details we speak truth to power you know we report appropriately. If a jury of, if two separate juries of nine people, federal juries, unanimously found in a judge that Donald Trump is a sex abuser and that a judge declared that he technically violated the statute that would have allowed him to be called a rapist, a technical rapist, we're going to report on it. And it's fair game if we have an interview with somebody who talks about as part of her personal story that she was raped to ask her, how does she support somebody who's a rape victim, who's a rapist or a technical rapist? We asked the same questions of males on this, on this channel as well.

Pete Hegseth, we said Joni Ernst, who's the senator from Indiana, a National Guard Lieutenant Colonel who told the world that she was also raped. How was she gonna handle Hegseth and why does she come out of a meeting with Hegseth saying I'm comfortable now? You're comfortable now with a guy who's been accused of rape? You know now I understand there's new reporting from Lindsey Graham that Hegseth's going to drop the non-disclosure agreement that he had signed with the woman and is going to let the victim testify. All right, let her testify. Of course, now we have to put the victim and victimize the victim all over again. I hope she has, I'm not going to call it courage,

I just hope she can do it. But if she can, I understand why she can't also, given the trauma of what's happened to her. So they're calling her bluff, which is kind of disgusting in its own way. Sure, make the woman testify about a rape. Why not? So this is exactly what we predicted on the Midas Touch Network and illegal AF would happen. This was going to be a field day and a feeding frenzy about corporate media.

And that's why independent journalism, without outside supporters who tell us what to say or what to do that worry about its government contracts and government licenses and the billions it makes in relationship with the government, needs to exist. And it is the counterbalance. We are the freedom of the press and the First Amendment

that our founding fathers envisioned. It's just over here on YouTube, on Substack, on our YouTube channel for Legal AF, that's where it exists, you know? And the fact that MAGA's all giddy because of the $16 million check that Disney's gonna stroke to get out from the $16 million check that Disney's going to stroke to get out from under this. I get Disney was bashed and bashed into submission apparently

by Ron DeSantis in Florida over their woke position and DEI position. They basically cave there where their tax status was taken away from them. I understand that they've got shareholders. I understand that Amazon has billions, tens of billions of dollars of computing contracts with the Defense Department, different aspects of it. I get that Bezos parties with Ivanka in Florida. I understand. But then get out of the news business, get out of the First Amendment business, get out of the freedom of the press business. And to Representative Nancy Mace,

come on our show sometime. Come on our show sometime. And we'll talk about how we're not on an apology tour. How about that? Come on. That's a challenge. Maybe we'll have a little glass board where we do countdowns from today

about whether Nancy Mace is a coward or she's gonna come on the Midas Touch Network and give an interview Okay, come on over talk to our audience this way And we'll give you the same courtesy and the same respect we give any person that we interview Republican Democrat moderate anything Come on, Nancy Mace. It's time. So I'm Michael Popock reporting on Midas Touch Network and Legal AF. Follow me, Popock Live. It's like this, Tuesday nights at 8 p.m. Eastern time, right here on the Midas Touch Network, my new show. And then of course, we got Legal AF Wednesdays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. Eastern time, and a brand new Legal AF YouTube channel that we built to be

sturdy and durable on the other side of the election for all the lawsuits and things to the intersection of law and politics that are going to happen as the Trump presidency lurches from one constitutional crisis to another, from one abuse of power to another, and it ends up in the court system. We'll be there for it. Hopefully you will be too. So thank you. I'm Michael Bopak. In collaboration with the Midas Touch Network, we just launched the Legal AF YouTube channel. Help us build this pro-democracy channel where I'm Michael Belfort.