Legal AF by MeidasTouch - JD Vance Makes Shock Admission on Air as he Panics

Episode Date: June 19, 2026

A panicked JD Vance took to MAGA radio as he worried out loud that his role in the Epstein Coverup conspiracy in the Sit Room and otherwise was all caught on secret tapes provided by the New York Times! Popok, along with his interview with Don Lemon, explains why the Trump Administration and its DOJ have not as of yet gone after the Times’ reporters, who brilliantly left a “proof of life” disclosure in their reporting to ward off any criminal investigation. The NYT article comes with its own warning to Trump that if he goes after them, the reporters have 1000 witnesses, including Trump insiders and TAPES to use to write future articles about Trump! Plaud: Get up to 20% OFF with code: LEGALAF at https://Plaud.ai/legalaf Subscribe:  @LegalAFMTN  Visit https://meidasplus.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 Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show The Ken Harbaugh Show: https://meidasnews.com/tag/the-ken-harbaugh-show Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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of Situation Room Conversations among those in his administration at the highest levels as they sit and talk about not the dignity and justice for Epstein survivors but how to cover it up for political and PR purposes, including J.D. Vance, including Susie Wiles, including Todd Blanche, including Stephen Chung, Carolyn Leavitt, Pam Bondi, and Cash Patel. And now J.D. Vance has said out loud at an interview

with Megan Kelly on Sirius Radio that he really is worried, and he should be, that those recordings happened about what transpired. I mean, frankly, there's been speculation that he is at the, he is at the heart of the leak, because every time there's a leak, it's in a way that tries to make J.D. Vance look better, right? Everybody in the room running around and getting chicken with their head cut off about the Epstein scandal and him saying, we should get all the documents out. You know, the person who looks the best in a leak, and of course, we're talking about the one-eyed man in the land of the blind is often sometimes the leaker on Michael Popak. You're here a might as touch and legal a.F. And people are scratching their head at two things. One, how did Maggie Haberman and

Jonathan Swan obtain what appears to be recordings from conversations in what we thought was a secure situation room? I'll give you an idea at a moment. The names are Pam Bondi, Cash Patel, and maybe Dan Bongino. Let me hold a pin in that for just one moment. But the second head scratcher is, we're several days after that bombshell. And yes, Donald Trump already looks like something the cat dragged in after his G7 visit.

But why hasn't there been any fist shaking or saber rattling or threats of investigation or prosecution against Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan for recordings? Maybe it's because she's sitting on 1,000 interviews. I don't think it was coincidence that she and her fellow author wrote a footnote at the bottom of that article and said out loud, I've interviewed a thousand people,

including many inside the house, inside the government, right? The call is coming from inside the house. This is like two horror movies put together back to back because it happened in July of 2025. It's what we know what you did last summer. And it's coming. And it's coming. coming from within the house. She said, I have a thousand witnesses, including many inside the government and current administration, and I have recordings.

I mean, she's not a kidnapper, but she did demonstrate proof of life, if you know what I mean. I had Don Lemon on, the intrepid reporter and journalist and fellow independent commentator for an interview the last couple of days, and we talked specifically about why does he think

that Trump's going to go after Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, and he had a very interesting take that I agree with. Play the clip. Before I go into this, can I say this, Michael? There is a part of me as well where he said that they're going to probably try to do something, look out, Jonathan Swan, look out Maggie Haberman. And there's another part of me that says, maybe not. Because can you imagine if this is litigated in court,

the, what do you call it, the discovery that, that will come from this. The people whose devices would have to, you know, that the defense would have to get their information from their devices. Thousand people. A thousand people and all of this information will be made known to Maggie Haberman

and Jonathan Swan's attorneys and then eventually some of it will come to light publicly. I don't think the administration wants it. So there will be a lot of bluster about this and that, but they will never get to the point where there is discovery because they stand to lose too much. much. My day, it revolves around information, interviews, legal analysis, research, conversations, prepping for shows. There's a constant stream of details coming in, and the challenge isn't finding

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writing about his Catholic spirit because he's trying to try out for the 2028 primaries as president. And he goes on all shows, going on the view, you know, and they all, for some reason, they all cozied up to J.D. Vance, oh, you're adorable, you should run for president or something like that. He then goes, he then, it's not a hard, but by the way, I don't look to the view for sort of hard-hitting, you know, interrogations of presidential candidates, you know, I'm sorry, I just don't. He then goes on with Megan Kelly on, not on television, but on her podcast on Sirius, satellite, and he says, I really worry that this thing was recorded. Play the clip. you're all over the New York Times as reportedly predicting this would be a disaster.

It's going to cause regional chaos. It's going to break apart Trump's coalition. Don't believe everything you read the New York Times. Okay. There may be tapes now. Give it to Maggie Haberman. Which is crazy, by the way. That was a very weird story. You're talking about the Epps. So just for your audience's sake, there was this story about Epstein that came out in the New York Times. And like half of it or so was BS and about half of it, you know. It's the way it always. That's how these stories are. There's always an element of truth.

there's always an element of non-truth. But there were certain things in there that legitimately made me worried that people were like taping. Yeah, in the situation room. Which, by the way, is like a felony. Yeah, it's a super dangerous president. That was weird. That story was very bizarre.

It was sort of a nothing burger of a story in the sense that everybody sort of knew all those details anyway. But the fact that somebody had taped. You should be really worried that things were recorded because you had 11 people, at least, who seemed to be of, who seemed to be, who seemed

to have agreed and tasked agreement to participate in a conspiracy to obstruct justice. We have a word for that in the law, term of art in the law. It's called obstruction. It's called violation of the Hatch Act, where you're worried about your political hides while you're in office doing allegedly honest public service. That's not what you're talking about during the Epstein cover-up, led by Todd Blanche and others. and so those tapes if they were to be if they were to fall into the wrong hands like a future

department of justice or a future house committee everybody that's involved there is on thin ice now here's the easter egg that was buried inside of maggie hamerman's reporting that i caught on first read nine people i feel like i'm playing an elaborate game of clue I do a lot of pop culture references. I thought I was like nine in the situation room and two with the candlestick in the library. Pam Bondi and Cash Patel phone it in, literally. Like how they conducted their job.

They phoned it in. They weren't in the situation room where electronic devices are blocked, listening devices, you're patted down, got armed guards at the front door. No, they're not there. They phone in. How do you know who was in the room with them?

you know when i did when i do video depositions i make the person turn the camera around show me what's in the room or what they're working with there because i'm not in the room with them you think anybody there thought to have pam bondy and cash patel swear that nobody else was in the room or show that nobody else was in the room who doesn't think that dan bonjino the deputy fbi director with an act to grind about the epstein files wasn't in on the side with patel and who would put it past cash or even Pam Bondi, who got unceremoniously dumped by Donald Trump later to hit the record button on some listening device. Because Maggie Haberman has a transcript. There is a mole inside the White House, probably more than one in order for Maggie to write and with Jonathan Swan what she did.

Now, that reporting was vetted to within an inch of its life by inside First Amendment lawyers at the New York Times, some of which I know. and outside First Amendment lawyers at law firms that are well known to defend publications and media outlets in defamation cases before they published. And Trump knows it, which is why we have the speculation, as you heard by Don Lemon, they're not going to go after her. Because she's sitting on, it's like mutual assured destruction. She's not worried about going to jail. I assure you that after watching the Trump administration go after the Washington Post reporter, she does not have anything at home that if it was confiscated would put her out of the business of being a reporter. I assure you her hard drive is not there.

It may be in the cloud, it may be at the New York Times, it may be on a thumb drive or two, locked away in somebody else's office, or in a safety deposit box somewhere, or in a locker at Port Authority, or at an airport, but it is not in her home. And Trump knows the best way to pour gasoline on this story and make it continue to percolate,

and continue to flame up while Todd Blanche is trying to get confirmed is to go after Maggie Haberman. Todd Blanche's confirmation hearing 15th of July. Plenty of time for things that have gone. terrible for the Trump administration to get even worse.

I'm watching, for instance, for legal AF and Midas Touch Network. Take a moment. Hit the free subscribe button in both. I'm watching. Judge Williams to get her final brief on Friday from the 35 former federal judges to decide whether there was fraud on the court and deceit perpetrated by Donald Trump and his lawyers about the anti-weaponization fund and settlement. And now I'm looking at you, Todd Blanche.

You're implicated in that. So that could time out. in time for the July 15th hearings. I'm looking at the continued testimony about the Epstein scandal in front of the House Oversight Committee and Alan Dershowitz, Epstein's lawyer and friend of Donald Trump being called before the committee to testify. And now you've got Chicken Little, you know, J.D. Vance worried about tapes. He should be. This is Washington. Watergate times a thousand. This is Iran-Contra scandal times a thousand.

And I postulate that this is going to bring the Trump administration down, as I always said it would, and bring Todd Blanche down. He's fighting to be the last captain on the Titanic after it hit the iceberg, which I don't understand. You know, Todd, follow me here. You really want in your obituary, to read that you presided over the final two years of the Trump administration and its assault

on the rule of law and democracy and scandal and then lists the after that the dozens and dozens of scandals that you presided over and that you let you want that to be the legacy you know we'll continue to follow it all right here I'm glad you're here on Legal AF and I'm Midas Dutch Network in the meantime it's a traveling Michael Popak

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