Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Felon Trump’s Poison Pill in DOJ Gets Instantly Exposed

Episode Date: February 21, 2025

Trump has appointed Elon Musk’s personal lap dog and ethically conflicted Jan6 insurrectionist defense lawyer, Ed Martin to be the US Attorney for the District of Columbia, another sign of the depravity of the Trump DOJ. Popok explains how this is yet another example of an existential crisis within the DOJ as it throws ethics and justice out the window in plain sight. Head to https://ProlonLife.com/LEGALAF to get 15% off their 5-day nutrition program. 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 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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in this hot take, you're perfect to be the U.S. attorney under Donald Trump for the District of Columbia. Let's talk about Ed Martin here on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF. Ed Martin represented a number of Jan 6th insurrectionists. He participated and gave a speech at the Ellipse on January 6th. In fact, back to the challenged ethics aspect of his legal career, the interim US attorney for the District of Columbia, he actually signed his name to a motion to dismiss charges against one of his clients when he was in private practice, right, Jose Padilla, or Joe

Padilla, who was indicted for attacking two law enforcement, one with a flagpole that he hit the cop in the head in his helmet. And when there was time to dismiss it, Ed Martin, US attorney acting, signed the motion to dismiss a case against his former client, his client, no, not former, his client, Joe Padilla. I'm just trying to show you that the Trump administration and the people that he picks for these jobs

are completely ethically conflicted. They're so upside down ethically and in a corrupt way that they can't even see clear. When you flip sides from defense lawyer to prosecutor, you're not supposed to be trying to benefit your former client. That is a direct violation of our ethics rules as lawyers. The Department of Justice's ethics committee would have investigated this, but who's going to investigate them? Donald Trump has removed all of the watchdogs, all of the ethicists.

The government office of ethics is gone. Inspectors general are gone. Yeah, who's gonna do the investigating of Ed Martin? So Ed Martin, lapdog, Elon Musk. Soon as he got in his acting interim, he decided he was gonna try to reach out and protect the Doge employees. And he sent a series of social media posts

directed to Elon Musk telling him, don't worry, don't worry, if anybody does anything illegal or even unethical, we'll chase them to the ends of the earth. See the retribution, see the weaponization of the Department of Justice by Donald Trump while he gaslights us continuously and says, he's not weaponizing. Pam Bondi, his head of the Department of Justice, gets up in front of a podium, which he can barely put a sentence together.

I mean, seriously, I'd love to see the other side of her teleprompter to see what. I mean, she needs flashcards at this point. But she gets up there and says, it's a new Department of Justice. We're not weaponizing. We're going to be weaponizing the weaponizing. I'm like, what are you even talking about?

Just look down the hallway at Ed Martin. He's basically told the world, he has told the world in his postings to Elon Musk that he will in a retribution fashion go after people that investigate the department of government efficiency, whatever that's supposed to be. I got news for Ed Martin. Maybe they didn't teach you this

in St. Louis Law School or in Missouri when you headed the Republican Party, but we have a First Amendment and freedom of the press. And if we wanna take a look at all the people that are on the roster of this government, we're supposed to be a government in the sunshine. We're supposed to be a government in transparency. That's why we have Freedom of Information Act requests

and lawsuits related to it. When Donald Trump's not busy fighting off three or four thousand lawsuits over the next four years, and I think I may be underestimating that number, you can just add to that right next to it a parallel set of numbers related to Freedom of Information Act requests, public records requests, because we're going to have to go after these bastards. Yeah. So let's talk about Ed Martin for a minute here. He posts during the Jan 6th insurrection,

again, I have to question your judgment, Mr. Martin, and your ability to have this job. And I think you're going to have to answer for this when you're actually up in a confirmation process with the Senate. You actually said at the time, in real time, while you were social media posting, rowdy crowd, quote, not out of hand, hashtag fake news.

How do you explain 2,000 people being investigated, prosecuted and indicted and arrested. How do you explain that this rowdy crowd was not out of hand, but over 250 people were injured, including mostly law enforcement? Five people died as a result of January 6, including a couple of insurrectionists. One died by a heart attack. The other one was shot and killed, Ashley Babbitt, as she tried to break her way through the speaker's hallway to get inside where elected officials were trying to leave.

Does anybody doubt having watched the Jan 6th insurrectionists, a few of them represented by Ed Martin, now being rewarded with this US attorney position? Does anybody doubt that how they battled in a medieval style on the steps of the Capitol, on the Western Terrace, hand-to-hand combat with outmatched police. Is anybody doubt that if they had broken through the line really and gotten in while elected officials and their staff were still in the chamber that we wouldn't have, they wouldn't have blood on their hands, that they wouldn't have killed them? They were

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by our president, the moral leader of the free world, that you can attack the Capitol and you'll be rewarded with pardons, jobs in my administration, and top jobs in the Department of Justice. Sign me up, I guess, if all you care about is greed and career advancement. The next insurrection led by Donald Trump's group, and we'll have another one because he's going to lose badly at the midterm elections at this rate.

No doubt. No doubt in my mind. Of course, we can't just talk about it here. That's where it starts. Got to go to the voting booths eventually. But if we take out the House and the Senate and there's another attack on the Capitol as a result, then what's the lesson to be learned? Don't worry.

Don't worry. We'll be able to get tough jobs in the next administration. The JD Vance administration. No, it can't be that. Even Donald Trump doesn't think JD Vance is ready to be the President of the United States. So somebody, we'll get top Department of Justice jobs. Look at all the people in Donald Trump's administration in the Department of Justice. All people that were his criminal defense lawyers or impeachment defense lawyers. Pam Bondi, she did a terrible job. he got impeached. Impeachment defense lawyer. Todd

Blanch, I'll do a hot take on him next. Emil Bove, his top two criminal lawyers. They have the top two, the two and three jobs in the Department of Justice. Pam Bondi, impeachment lawyer. Top one job in the Department of Justice. Yeah. You've got John Sauer, who is his top criminal appellate lawyer, who's gonna be the Solicitor General of the United States, the 10th Justice, if you will. This guy gonna be the US Attorney. I want, you know, it's funny, I had a conversation,

it's not funny, it's sad. I had a texting conversation with a close friend of mine, he's in his 70s, and a Republican. I mean, he's an independent, but you know, he was gonna vote for Trump, and he did vote for Trump. And I said to him at the time, why? Why and how? He said, I just think he'll be more moderate,

and he'll be, you know, he won't overreach, and he'll bring civility back to the White House. I said, and you think that was missing during the Biden era? And he said, yeah. And now I get a text from him yesterday in which he says, I am not happy with the current state of affairs. This is not what I voted for. I wanted moderation. Well, that you weren't paying attention during the campaign because he's doing exactly and the people around him and his henchmen around him like Stephen Miller are doing exactly what he said he was going to do. This government is currently run by one person, Donald Trump, with Stephen Miller next to him as his hunting dog in the White House, as White House counselor.

And Elon Musk, that's it. The rest of these people, they might have the title of Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Department of Justice, Attorney General. They're not. Even Ed Martin said the quiet part out loud. He said, the prosecutors for the Department of Justice

are the president's lawyers. The prosecutors for the Department of Justice are the president's lawyers. The prosecutors for the Department of Justice are the president's lawyers. Where is he getting that from? It's the unitary president theory, the unitary executive branch theory. That all power, all power of the executive branch resides only at the top in the person elected president.

And everybody else in that branch, everybody in that branch reports to the president. And so they don't see independence of the Department of Justice as being a good thing. They see it as a weakening of the presidential power. And that's where Ed Martin comes in. Philosophically, he believes in the unitary president and that the prosecutors like him are the lawyers for the president Now after Nixon we thought it'd probably be a good idea to have an independent judiciary after Hoover ran the FBI As his personal fiefdom, right? And power base we thought maybe it's a good idea to have these things be independent independent director

Of the FBI an independent head of the Department of Justice. And sometimes we found it frustrating. Who wasn't frustrated by Merrick Garland and how he ran the Department of Justice? But you couldn't say he was unethical. You might say he was slow on the draw. You might say he assumed, he made assumptions about the good nature of people that he shouldn't have.

He was late in appointing the special counsel. He didn't push them to go fast enough, right? But you can't call Merrick Garland corrupt, yeah? You might incompetent, yeah? Not at the velocity at which the moment in history required, short. Corrupt, no. Independent, yes, too independent.

Some of us would say too independent. You appointed Robert Herr to be the special prosecutor to go after Joe Biden for documents that he took with him 10 years ago because he's a Republican. You want to be fair and balanced? The Republicans would never do that. So too independent. But say what you want about Christopher Wray when he was the head of the FBI, but a lack of independence was not the problem.

So we're gonna continue to follow the Ed Martins of the world and what happens to them during the Senate confirmation process, right here on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF. I got a new show, it's a podcast. I call it Pope Pac Live. I couldn't come up with anything better

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