Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Jack Smith CALLS OUT Judge Cannon in AGGRESSIVE New Motion

Episode Date: August 22, 2023

Michael Popok of Legal AF reports on a new protective order motion filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith to stop Trump’s maintenance worker and attempted video tape server drowner from having any access to the nation’s national defense and top secret information, especially since he’s not even charged with an espionage act violation. Get 20% off when you go to https://Liquid-IV.com and use code LEGALAF at checkout! 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 MAGA Uncovered: https://pod.link/1690214260 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Popeye, legal AF, I may not be able to get this out with a straight face. The maintenance worker in the moral ago case, Carlos D. All of the era has told the government that he wants as part of his ability to form a defense to be able to see classified, confidential and sensitive information going to the national defense. That he never had top secret security clearance to see in the first place because he was, if I didn't say it before, a maintenance worker at Mar-a-Lago. You know, how many maintenance workers are running around, you know, resorts in America

with top secret classified security clearance, including to look at national defense information? Apparently, Carlos the all of the era wants the judge to make a one. Now, the government came back and it's filing because the judge and or infinite wisdom said, hey, you know, you want a protective order, Department of Justice, and you want to protect the ability for Walt Nauta, the body man, valet, butler guy, and Donald Trump himself from seeing, using unfettered the actual classified information of the United States belongs to you and me.

We want to have access limited to lawyers, attorneys eyes only, Donald Trump and others under supervision, notes that are reviewed, so he doesn't leak them, that kind of stuff, so that the national defense and national security isn't further compromised. Well the judge decided, hey, you know who would be great to hear from on this one? The one guy who's not charged with espionage act or the retention of national defense information, the maintenance man. Have the maintenance man worker, this was her order to the Department of Justice, you

guys should meet and confer before the 22nd of August, and come back and tell me what the maintenance worker thinks about our national defense information. This is the Alice in Wonderland world that we live in presided over by one I lean cannon where maintenance workers are stakeholders at the table about our national defense nuclear codes Iranian war documents war maps and the like. I've already talked about prior hot takes and on legal I have the podcast that I co-anchor and co-founded that the of the many perfect phone calls that Donald Trump is self-proclaimed to have participated in.

One of them apparently is a 24 minute phone call as recited in the indictment in Mar-a-Lago between former President Trump and his maintenance worker. I assure you in the history of America, it is the longest known recorded phone call between a former president and a maintenance worker, 24 minutes. Okay, and in that 24 minutes, well, the Department of Justice doesn't know exactly what was said. It did lead to four felony counts against Carlos D. Olira, including that he was part of a conspiracy with Walt Nauda and one other unindicted person, the former IT worker, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Mr.

Tal, uh, Mr. Taveras, uh, entered into a conspiracy at the behest of their boss, the boss, Donald Trump, to do a number of really bad things to the server, the computer servers, housing the surveillance camera footage of them moving all the boxes around. And the boss wanted D all of the air out, the maintenance worker, Walt now to the butler. And it's some demented game of trees in this game of clue. And the IT worker to figure out how to delete the server. Now Carlos the olive is the same guy that figured out a way to, uh, to, um, unload the pool and flood the server room containing the footage with the pool at Mar-a-Lago.

They tried to drown it. They tried to do a lot of things. They try to burn it, They tried to drown it. They tried to do a lot of things. They tried to burn it, stab it, and drown it. The server and D'Ala Verra is part of that. He's also part of some boxes moving around the shell game that Donald Trump was playing, trying to hide, played hide the ball from the Department of Justice, from the FBI, and from basically the federal court system and federal judges. And so just to be clear, while Donald Trump is indicted for 32 counts of espionage act under 18 USC section 793,

either of the criminal code involving the retention on lawful concealment and dissemination of national defense information. That's not what Carlos the olive the era the maintenance workers charged with. He's charged with obstruction of justice, which is the catch all that the Department of Justice uses when somebody gets in the effing way of their investigation because they give false statements. They try to conceal or alter or destroy evidence, servers, surveillance videos, or do other things to get in the way of justice.

You get hit with an obstruction of justice charge. Carlos Diolivera is charged with obstruction of justice because of his participation in a hush tones in secret rooms with Walt Nauda and Jose Tveris about flooding the server room and and deleting the servers showing the video of them doing all these bad things, right? This is like Nixon's missing tapes, missing 18 minutes from the Watergate tapes. This is worse. This is Donald Trump trying to drown the Watergate tapes to keep it from being disclosed to the Department of Justice and the FBI.

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That's 20% off anything you order when you use promo code legal AF at liquid IV.com. Now Carlos DeOlivera, yes, is charged with other things in the super seating indictment. He's charged with trying to destroy or conceal an object. That's a federal crime, a conspiracy to obstruct judges, which I just talked about. And he gave a false statement, which is the other way. It's a catch-all for the Department of Justice and the FBI. You come in and talk to the FBI, you need to tell the truth. And when you don't tell the truth and you purge it yourself, it's now become a false statement. And that is a separate crime. But none of the things I just described have anything to do with with for the ability of the defendant, Mr. D. All of the Arab, to be able to

look at our top secret classified national defense information documents. What was on the videotape he was trying to delete is a relevant that he was trying to do it is what he needs to try to defend himself against. That he moved the box that contained nuclear codes or the I or the Iranian war plans or a war map is a relevant. He doesn't need to know was in the box. That's not going to give him a defense. It's just that he moved the box. So he doesn't get to see, hey, here's the thing that was on the server that you tried to delete. I mean, he's going to try to argue, I guess, I need to see it because if I'm able to destroy the character of the thing and argue successfully through a fit of alchemy somehow that it is not what the government presents.

It's not a national defense information document. You can't charge me with that crime. I sort of get it, but again, it's ridiculous that he feels he needs to obtain through the judge a top secret security clearance to look at things he was never able to look at before and be the first in the history of the world maintenance worker to have a top secret security clearance to look at our most important things that go to our national security. So that is the filing by the Department of Justice, a supplemental motion for protective

order to basically say, look, we'll give Donald Trump not unfettered access because he doesn't deserve it. And he's done bad things that we've done that before to him to review these material in order to prepare our defense. We might even do it to Walt Now to the extent that he saw some of these things, but we draw the line at the maintenance worker. And that's now pending before Judge Eileen Cannon who doesn't seem to be any great hurry

to decide these issues. She had a hearing that was already scheduled to talk about classified documents and protective orders. And then she just canceled it with a really weird order that's canceled and postponed until until another time in place. It was very existential. And we'll see each other again at another time in place, all langsign and all that. That's not what a federal judge is supposed to do when you've got a ticking timeline leading

to a May of 2024 allegedly trial date. You got to move quickly here, judge. You got to resolve these issues because the Department of Justice has not turned over all of the documents and it's not their fault because they need to protect the order in place in order to do it. Same protective order that similar to what's Judd Chukkin is about to enter in the District of Columbia in the bigger, more robust Jackson Smith case about the election interference against Donald Trump. We'll follow all things Judge Eileen Cannon, Mar-a-Lago and the like as they happen.

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