Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Judge Cannon gets Smacked Down by Her Boss for Trump Cover-Up

Episode Date: November 3, 2025

Are we one big step closer to getting our hands on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s famous but never seen Volume 2 of his Final Report about Trump’s crimes at Mar a Lago? The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has blasted, in their own way, Trump-picked Judge Cannon, who is sitting on Volume 2 (including whether FBI Director Kash Patel was involved in the coverup). Michael Popok reports that the 11th has ordered Judge Cannon to decide whether she will release the Report to the public in the next 60 days, or else. Everyday Dose: Go to https://EverydayDose.com/LEGALAF for 45% OFF your first order 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 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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Volume 2 about all the crimes he concluded that Donald Trump committed and may be assisted by Cash Patel, the FBI director, because the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta has ordered Judge Cannon to get off her backside and start ruling on motions that were filed by a public interest organization and a press media entity to intervene in the case to get Volume 2, which has been sitting with Judge Cannon, released to the public. It's been trapped. It's been trapped by Pam Bondi for, you know, in addition to release the Epstein files, release volume two about Moralago espionage and obstruction of justice against Donald Trump and its implications of Cash Bedell. And the 11th Circuit has just said to Cannon, you're on the clock. You got 60 days to resolve this issue or we're going to resolve it for you in effect.

I'm Michael Popock. You're on Legal AF on Monday. So much news to cover. Hopefully you're here at the intersection of law and politics to follow. it. Hit the free subscribe button. Come over to the substack where you can, for legal a.F, where you can read the pieces of paper that I'm going to be synthesizing here for you for you here. Back in February, two entities filed a motion to intervene, to become parties, if you will, in the case of the U.S. versus Donald Trump, Walt Nata, and Carlos de Olviera.

We refer to it as the Moralago case. In the Moralago case, as we know, Judge Cannon eventually found that special counsel Jack Smith was unconstitutionally appointed in some way, and she dismissed everybody's indictment with prejudice. That means Di Olivera and Walt Nauta, who worked with Donald Trump as alleged in the indictment, to hide the fact that Donald Trump had taken top secret documents were off the hook and are off the hook. But volume two still sits with Judge Cannon. A version of it, the volume two, a copy of it, sits with Pam Bondi, the attorney general as well. She was given a copy in early January by Merrick Garland with like a love note that said, it's up to you to release. However, there's another way to get it. And that's where American

oversight on one hand and the Knight Center, the Knight Foundation, First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, filed their motions. Now, a judge has a certain amount of time to resolve motions, but they've been sitting there since February. So, and I'm going to read to you from some of the bombshell allegations, including against Cash Patel, the FBI, director. They were trying at one time to get this information, especially while Cash Patel was still having his nomination to FBI director considered by the Senate. And they thought this would be interesting information to obtain. Now, that didn't happen. Of course, Judge Cannon sat on it. You know, she's a Trump-appointed judge that bent over backwards, as we know, for Donald Trump.

And so those two motions sat. But then, as you do when you're a party in a federal case, the parties gave notice to Judge Cannon that the 90-day period of which she is supposed to resolve motions had passed. That then went up to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and a three-judge panel there issued its order. And I'm going to read it to you in a minute. Effectively says Judge Cannon,

you got 60 days now 59 days to render your opinion and then we'll take it from there because if she rules against releasing volume 2 and or allowing these two parties to intervene in the case, Then they have an appellate right. They get to take an appeal. No more sitting on it. Let me read you some of the bombshell information that's in American Oversights motion to

intervene about Cash Patel in particular. Here's what they say about Cash Patel, why they want volume two. Volume one about the election interference case was already released to the public by Jack Smith because there was no one that could stop it. Judge Chutkin in the D.C. Election Interference. interference case wasn't going to do it. So we've seen volume one and all the evidence against Donald Trump that went by the wayside when he became president again and ultimately had an immunity decision against, you know, in favor of him. But here's what it says about what it says about

Cash Patel on page seven of American Oversight's original motion from February. These proceedings are moving quickly about Cash Patel's nominee to the FBI. And information relating to Patel's reported testimony before the grand jury relating to President Trump's potential mishandling of highly classified documents is of significant interest to the public and the senators who are charged with providing advice and consent. In other words, what did he say to the grand jury? Because we know Cash Patel testified to the grand jury about Moralago and about Donald Trump's handling of classified documents. It would have been important when he was FBI director nominated. It's certainly important now that he's been confirmed. So that was one thing that I

caught in the filing. Here's how the Knight Institute put it in their motion. It says that on page two, that effectively there is a presumptive right to access by the public in these kind of judicial documents, including those that are filed with the court. She took jurisdiction over this volume two, Judge Cannon, and so she should have the key in her pocket to unlock it and to release it. They say on page two that there's a qualified right of access under the First Amendment because it is a judicial document inextricably intertwined with a proceeding that itself is subject to the constitutional access right and because it is the type of document whose disclosure promotes the proper functioning of that proceeding and allows the public

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They just call it Jack Smith. They just keep saying over and over again like they have some sort of, some sort of disorder. Jack Smith's confidential final report, Jack Smith's investigation, Jack Smith's prosecution. You mean the special counsel? And so what they say there is that needs. either of these two parties should be allowed to intervene in the case, and that it is not a judicial record and that there is no First Amendment right. Now, I find this interesting. On page 13, they say, when the 11th Circuit dismissed the appeal, the criminal case ended,

and there's nothing left for the court to resolve, and therefore, and we're not going to revive the charges, and this is a confidential report that should only be released by the Attorney General, putting it back on Pam Bondi. Now, just to be clear, clear, something left out here, is that the lawyer for Walt Nauta and Carlos the Oliver, who was the butler and the IT guy that Donald Trump used to hide the documents and try and erase the videos of them doing it, they were represented by Stan Woodward. Stan Woodward is now the number three of the Department of Justice. Talk about being kicked upstairs. So Donald Trump brought his friends and his enemies close together at the

Department of Justice. He now reports to Todd Blanche and Pam Bondi. He represented these people. Do you see the conflict of interest here by the Department of Justice taking a position about this? When their own number three in the Department of Justice leadership represented these two guys? But of course, the Trump administration refuses to acknowledge any conflict of interest. And so they don't. Now, the reason it was originally blocked is that Nauta and Alviera argued that their Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights would be violated, since there still was an active case against them at the time,

and therefore the volume two of the report should not be released, even if their names are redacted, because it'll be bad for their ability to get a fair trial. But that ended after the case was dismissed against them with prejudice. Can't be brought back again, won't be brought back again. The United States just admitted they're not going to bring the case back again. And so at the end of the day, I think this is a solid argument. Let me read to you from the 11th Circuit here,

before the court are related petitions for writs of mandamus that's the two entities i just told you about and they give the date that they were filed petitioners have established undue delay in resolution of their motions to intervene and the petitions for writ of man davis are held in abeyance for a period of 60 days to allow the district court to to fully resolve the motion get off your butt judge canon and make your decision so they have their appellate rights and they can take it up on appeal so we'll continue to follow everything that happens here volume two matters the episode files matter. All the things that are not being released by this administration matter to the American people and their right to know, their constitutional right to access. And while you're here, hit the free subscribe button. Come over to Legal AF YouTube, do the exact same thing and help us continue to grow our legal AF community. Until my next report, I'm Michael Popock. Can't get your fill of legal AF, me neither. That's why we formed the legal AF substack. Every time we mention something in a hot take, whether it's a court filing or an oral argument.

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