Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Jack Slips POISON PILL into Brief before Judge Cannon

Episode Date: June 29, 2024

The DOJ just fired at Cannon, judge Cannom that is, and to support their motion to gag Trump, gave her real time examples of Trump and his MAGA ecosystem of podcasters, fundraisers, advisers, PAC spokespeople, members of Congress, elected officials, and lawyers, FALSELY claiming that President Biden and the Attorney General operate assassination hit squads to kill Trump and his family. Michael Popok explains it all on his latest hot take. Head to https://manukora.com/legalaf to receive $25 off your starter kit today! Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! 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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That's the powerful backing of American Express. Visit amex.ca slash ymx. Benefits vary by card, other conditions apply. Michael Popak, Legal AF. Judge Cannon got upset with the Department of Justice and Dave Harbatch, one of the lawyers for the prosecutors. She gets frustrated with him. She says he doesn't properly give her respect in the courtroom. And when he didn't come in with the

goods at the last hearing, listing for her all the different ways that Donald Trump has suggested, falsely, has argued falsely, including at the debate, that he was the subject of an assassination attempt by the FBI led by Joe Biden during the execution of the search warrant under her auspices nonetheless, because they were armed as FBI agents have to be. When Donald Trump wasn't even present, it was coordinated with his offices, with his security detail, with his family, with his staff to make sure he wasn't present. Putting that little fact, that little stubborn fact aside, the judge got annoyed with the, with Dave Harpatch about, well, where is your evidence? You talk about his violation of gag orders.

You talk about this or that. I want to see it submitted. I'll give you an opportunity. One last chance to submit it. Well, government has submitted it. They've got 11 different categories where Donald Trump, one of his minions or somebody, one of his synchofants around him,

have made the argument to the American people that the Department of Justice and the FBI are rogue and lead assassination squads, hit squads, killer hit squads, and picturing guys in leather with helmets and motorcycles trying to knock off Donald Trump like one of those really bad action movies when we know that the truth is much more simpler than that.

He wasn't there when they executed a properly issued federal search warrant under the auspices of a federal magistrate. But this just gave the Department of Justice an opportunity, a great opportunity to tell the American people what evidence they have for this particular thing. I'm going to go through the 11 different categories of information that the Department of Justice has now submitted to Judge Cannon as document number 652 on the docket, meaning there have been 652 entries on the docket in this case since it started. And in this one in particular,

I'm gonna start with exhibit number two. We'll put it up on the board, I'll flash it here. Exhibit number two, or example number two, is examples of Trump's surrogates amplifying his statements, alleging an FBI plan to kill him. I can't even imagine that I would, these words would be formed in my mouth and have to come out during a hot take. That a former president of the United States or anybody else would suggest that

Merrick Garland and President Biden and Chris Wray, the head of the FBI, are leading an assassination squad against somebody who's running for office against Donald Trump. And one of the ones they do is Patriot Takes, a Patriot Takes post embedding a Steve Bannon podcast excerpt, May 21st, 2024. And Patriot Takes got around, thank God, to finding a particular claim by Steve Bannon when he was interviewing Mike Davis, the founder and president of Article 3, the Article 3 project, which is a project that goes after federal judges because

it talks about Article 3. And then there, as was posted on the 21st of May by Patriot Takes, Steve Bannon claims the Mar-a-Lago FBI classified document search was an attempted assassination by Joe Biden on Trump and his associates. Let's roll the actual clip. Mike, Mike, Mike, what is, what, but what is Jim Jordan and Mike Johnson need? This is, you should start impeachment proceedings just on that. They authorized deadly force. They had a medic.

They had a plan to triage the wounded. They had a trauma center 18 miles away and a map. This was an attempted assassination attempt on Donald John Trump, or people associated with him. They wanted a gunfight. They brought a medic. They had use of deadly force authorized by the director of the FBI and Merrick Garland. They brought a medic, a combat medic. They had a triage plan for

the injured and they had a trauma center. What more do we need? Good God in heaven, what more President Trump just truth it out when he walks out the courtroom? What more do we need to shut this down? What is it going to take? Are we going to send a sharply worded letter to Mike Davis? Is that what—look at what the evidence is. The judge has known that she's got a, she's pleading for help. That's what she's got this trial of Jack Smith on the 27th, 28th and 29th of June. Sir, how can we, if we tolerate this, is a lie. It's defamatory, it's inciting an insurrection, it's fomenting discontent, and Donald Trump did it again. I mean, we could use the debate as another example of this. But this was a classic example of the Trump campaign, that's all this is, trying to trampoline and amplify

through the echo chamber of MAGA, through the, think about this ecosystem. You've got right-wing MAGA podcasters, you got right-wing MAGA lawyers, you got right-wing MAGA spokespeople, you got right-wing MAGA elected officials in Congress, you got right-wing MAGA state officials, you got right-wing MAGA elected officials in Congress. You got right-wing MAGA state officials. You got right-wing MAGA heads of political action committees. You got right-wing MAGA

communications directors. You got right-wing MAGA former people in the last administration of Donald Trump, many of whom are felons. You've got right-wing MAGA other podcasters, including Steve Madden, like Rudy Giuliani and the like. You've got right wing talk radio. Do I have to go on? And all of this ecosystem gets activated by a push of the button with Donald Trump through his the chief lever pullers for him, Steven Chung and Alina Haber and, you know, fill in the blank. And then they go on Sunday morning talk shows and if they can't do

it they get Marjorie Taylor Greene or they get Bobert or they get you know you know I can spend the entire podcast listening to people that they would get you know they get Comer or they forgot and then they go all on so you got the Sunday morning talk shows using the same exact palm card of the same talking points as the podcasters, the fundraisers, the PAC spokesmen, the communications directors, the elected officials, and all they're doing is repeating each other. They're repeating the same lie, right? They're repeating the same lie over and over again,

so that by the time you hear it, you think I've heard that someplace before. Yes, from that guy over there, the lying guy who's running, the convicted felon who's running for president, that's where you heard it from. What's the old line about a lie goes all the way around the world before the truth even gets its boots on? Well, that's what we're watching. And so the Patriot takes catching it, is just our way of peering in to this ecosystem, this dark web-based ecosystem,

and illuminating it right here on the Midas Touch Network. Now let me give you some of the other examples, because I'm sure the Department of Justice got back to their offices or on the ride home from Fort Pierce, Florida and said, she wants an entire compendium of all the times that Donald Trump, where everybody in his world and all of his minions and all of his synchofants and his entire ecosystem repeated the lie that the Department of Justice is operating under Joe Biden, death squads against the Trump family? Good, good. Thanks. That's a gift. They took it as a gift. And when you get a gift you don't return it. This episode of Legal AF is brought to you by Manicura Honey, also known as the honey

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Now, it didn't help that Judge Mershon up in New York decided, we don't need the gag order for most of the elements of the criminal justice system. And Donald Trump's allowed to go attack and bash Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels if he wants. He just can't attack certain elements of the criminal justice system on the prosecutor's side and my court side and all of that. And jurors are already discharged, so you wanna go bash the jurors, go ahead.

But so that of course is gonna enter into the consciousness, the ken of Judge Kennan as she makes this decision. So they go through first all this truth social posts, fundraising emails, and all within the same very tight timeframe. Because when the ecosystem moves, it moves as one all around a 72-hour period. So listen to these dates for the emails and social media posts and fundraising by Donald Trump, alleging that he was the target of

an assassination attempt. May 21, May 23, May 23, May 24, May 25. May 21, May 21, okay. Then exhibit three, I'll skip two. It's that's the one we just did on Patriot Takes, which was also on the 21st. Bannon, go do it on the 21st. An example of number three, Trump's statements regarding the FBI.

He made other statements back in August about the FBI would sort of connect with us and that's their argument. He made other threats against the FBI back in the August 9th to 11th time period during the execution of the search warrant. So the government says, you know, that's a very good example. Judge Cannon, you wanna know more about him attacking court, judges and courtroom staff, then they go through everything back in which Judge Chutkin is attacked,

Judge Mershon is attacked, Judge Angoran is attacked. I mean, you name it, he's attacked it. And then judges and court staff following Trump's statements, there's then examples. They want to show the link, the call and response, the stochastic terrorism between Donald Trump and his followers. He says attack, they attack. And then they give examples in cases, United States versus Abigail, Joe Schreie, Trump versus Nguro, and all the examples of that. Articles about judges being subject to

violence because of Donald Trump's attacks. Then they break it down on example seven. Here's the attacks on prosecutors, right? The Manhattan DA, the New York Attorney General, the Georgia prosecutor, the special counsel in this case. and then they go to witnesses being attacked in the District of Columbia and other cases based on his attacks. Then there's also, they want to show the awareness that Trump knows what he's doing, that when he pushes that button, it has an effect. It's not like the close the door button in the elevator. It actually creates, he hits a button and torpedoes fire. And so they give examples where Donald Trump recognizes that from his own statements,

including his own town hall interviews with CNN. And then they go, there's other relevant orders out there in New York, in the district of Columbia that have been affirmed on appeal involving Donald Trump, which were not originally cited in the government's pleadings. Signed David Harbatch and Jay Bratt on behalf of the special counsel's office. Now I've done other reporting including on Legal AF Midweek in which

I told you that Harbatch is getting sideways with Judge Cannon and it may be impacting the ability for the special prosecutor to special counsel to be making compelling arguments in front of this judge. I mean, you may think the judge is not all there and is not very good and is not very smart, but you can't let the judge know that. And apparently Harbatch has sort of crossed the line a number of times. And I've been aggressive in court at times when I need to be.

It's usually for a purpose, but not disrespectful. And he's crossed over apparently to where she thinks she's being disrespected by him. And it doesn't matter whether he's really doing it or not, it's the appearance of disrespect. She even said, maybe you want to change horses here Mr. Smith and bring in a new advocate because this one's not being respectful. She said to Harbatch, if you can't make this argument in front of me respectfully with, as my grandmother would say, a civil tongue in

your head, I'm sure there's somebody else on your bench that can do that. You finally realize, well, maybe I've gone too far. And what I'm worried about is that the prosecutors are letting their, a little bit of their being flummoxed and flabbergasted by Judge Cannon seep into their argument and it's coming off as disdain, which is not gonna help them.

Now, ultimately the 11th circuit's gonna have to weigh in, but we're running out of time here. With the election oh so important, especially following the last debate, what happens in these trials is another body of work of Donald Trump that the American people should know about before they vote. I think anybody would agree to that.

The only people who don't want that are the same people who don't want all votes counted and who want to suppress the vote. If you want to suppress the criminal justice process against Donald Trump, I am sure you also want to suppress the vote. You also want to find ways for minorities and blacks and women and people of economic disadvantage who are economically disadvantaged not to vote. You want to keep black churches from voting. You want to limit the length of time people have to vote. Only one, two, or three days. Do a lot of barriers and burdens to mail-in voting. Make dropbox voting. Make voting hard. That's the same person that

doesn't want to know the results. They want to, like the classic statue of the monkey with their hands covering their eyes, their mouth, and their ears, they don't want to know from this. And it is important. That's what the government has to remember. I don't care about personality conflicts with a judge, but we need to get to an order that can be reversed on appeal in order for this case to be taken away from her ultimately. And so I care less about, you know, the niceties of what happens in court and more about getting a decision out of Judge Cannon. We're gonna follow it all. Patriot takes, Midas touch, you name it.

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