Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Judge Cannon Makes STUNNING ADMISSION about Trump DEALS

Episode Date: October 30, 2024

Judge Cannon just acknowledged in a new order that she knows “from the media” that Trump offered her a “promotion” to Attorney General during the pendency of his criminal case, but refused to deny that she has been in contact with Trump’s transition team or proxies of him, as she denied an effort recuse/disqualify herself from a case related to Trump. Michael Popok reports on the curious way that Judge Cannon recited the “facts” about the job offer and her “communication” with Trump’s people, and why this should lead the 11th Circuit to remove immediately from all things Trump to restore public confidence in our judicial system. Upgrade your sleep with Miracle Made! Go to https://TryMiracle.com/LEGALAF and use the code LEGALAF to claim your FREE 3 PIECE TOWEL SET and SAVE over 40% OFF. Join the LegalAF Patreon: https://Patreon.com/legalAF 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

Well, we have the answer to the question we've been waiting for. Will Judge Aline Cannon, now that she's been publicly offered the job of attorney general, whereas on the shortest of short lists for that job by Donald Trump, who once was a criminal defendant in her courtroom, will she disqualify herself and recuse herself? The answer to that is a resounding no. How do I know that? Because we've got a new order concerning a motion to disqualify brought by the would-be assassin Ryan Wesley Ruth of Donald Trump down in Florida who got assigned to who?

Uh to Aileen Cannon and we got the new order. I'm Michael Popak legal af and the Midas Touch network and in the order She acknowledges that in the press that there's been a job opportunity offered to her But she says that's not enough for me to go anywhere. It was a very prickly order. I'm going to read from it. She's annoyed. She finds it takes great umbrage in anyone attacking her credentials or her ethics.

And why would we? She's just the Trump appointed judge who made a decision for the first time in 250 years of constitutional analysis in rejection of the Supreme Court's own decisions back in 1974, the Nixon case, that the special counsel, special prosecutor, independent counsel are all appropriate, quote, inferior officers under Article Two of the Constitution, but not for Aileen Cannon. So she gets very offended if anybody suggests that the case wasn't assigned to her randomly. It was, period, she said in her order. Okay.

The other, the major argument was it's publicly been declared and not denied by the Trump campaign that she is the leading candidate for attorney general. If it's not her, it's a bunch of other crazy neoconservatives. So let's just leave it at that. And she acknowledges that it's out there. She doesn't say, well, that's not really out there. It's just, well, if every idle speculation about a job promotion was out there, could just disqualify a judge,

that would allow the media and the press to have veto power over our justice system. No, it would reinforce people's own credibility, our own belief that the justice system is credible, that there is integrity about it, as opposed to it circling the drain ever since she was assigned to the case. Now the 11th Circuit, once they reverse her decision, and yes, you heard it here, they're going to reverse her decision to dismiss the indictment and the 40 felony counts against Donald Trump

and reinstate that case. The only question is when. It's gonna be after the election and before the inauguration. And then they're gonna have to make the decision and they're gonna have to solve for the problem of Aileen Cannon. And I think they have to reassign the case

under the powers of the 11th Circuit and all appellate courts to reassign the case away from the trial the 11th Circuit and all appellate courts to reassign the case away from the trial judge based on the factors that are appropriate in Florida in particular. But in the meantime, she's got her first opportunity and I believe the 11th Circuit is watching this carefully. You don't think the 11th Circuit has eyes and ears?

This isn't news, it is now on the Midas Touch Network that Aileen Cannon just analyzed out loud her thinking about why she never has to be recused, why the justice system and its integrity is never in jeopardy when she's in charge. Let me read to you from the order and you'll see what I'm talking about in sort of this kind of prickly, umbrage-taking, weak analysis, which actually is a hallmark, I think, of Judge Cannon. So here's what she said.

She goes on to say that on page three, the defendant, which is this would-be assassin, argues that recusal is warranted because former President Trump has made various public statements about me. As defendant acknowledges, I have no control over what private citizens, members of the media or public or officials or candidates elect to say about me or my judicial rulings, nor am I concerned about the political consequences of my rulings or how those rulings might be viewed by some in the media. I have never spoken to or met former President Trump except in connection with his required

presence at an official judicial proceeding through counsel. In other words, he went to court in her courtroom. I have no relationship to the alleged victim in any reasonable sense of that phrase. I follow my oath to administer justice faithfully and impartially in accordance with the Constitution. The problem is nobody believes that. Everybody watching her believes she's bending over backwards to help her patron one named Donald Trump. She then goes on on page four to say, defendant makes speculative reference to the quote prospect of a judicial promotion suggesting that such a prospect could

arguably affect this court's ability to be impartial in this case. Yes, yes, we're suggesting that a human being that occupies the black robe may have their impartiality reasonably questioned if the criminal defendant before them and the potential victim of this assassination attempt in this case, right, publicly promoted her to move her up to attorney general or worse, Supreme Court justice. Yes, there is a reasonable expectation, or at least a belief, that you may be contorting your rulings in order to curry favor with the person that can control your growth and your promotion of your career track. Yes, that is

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to treat yourself. Thank you, Miracle Made, for sponsoring this episode. She goes on to say, "'The decision whether a judge's impartiality can reasonably be questioned is to be made in light of the facts as they existed, not as they've been surmised or reported.'" You notice she only talked,

she does not say and lay this out in the right way, on purpose, what she should say, and then she can do whatever she wants with it. But the accurate report would be for this judge to say that there has been a leak of a memo by the Presidential Transition Committee vetted by Boris Epstein on behalf of Donald Trump that has her as the number two candidate for the Attorney General position, and that came after the indictment was dismissed by her in Mar-a-Lago, which looks like a quid pro quo award for a promotion and whatever everything she's been doing is a job tryout. Now if she wants to reject the appearance

of that and the fact she'd also have to properly report that the Trump organization and campaign have not denied that leak. Okay, then you say, but even if that were true, X, Y, and Z, I can still stay on the case. She never reports it that way. What she says on page four is that there's speculative reference to a job promotion. That is creating a straw man out of this reality of facts in order to ignore them and to run away from them. I mean, at least have intellectual honesty and write what is in the public domain and what is the leak and the nature of the leak.

And then you can try to contort yourself into the case law to say, I'm still not biased. But this, this only shows me that the judge is biased and does need to be removed. And I think the 11th circuit may see it the same way. If I'm Jack Smith Smith this may be an exhibit that they attach to a motion. If not the 11th circuit can call up this from the public docket just the way I could and I think they will. She then says she's not gonna get out of the case because of

rumors or speculation although she doesn't deny they're true. She just says that she just says let's just look at what she says so artfully. I've never spoken to or met former President Trump. Okay. What about the campaign? What about the campaign? So look on page three of her order. She look out look how craftily she leaves out whether she's been in contact with the presidential presidential transition team, or anybody on it to add her name to the list We're left to speculate that they just threw her name up on the board without running it by people close to her

How about proxies for Trump talking to proxies for alien Canada? I don't know if that's true, but they're certainly not dispelled by this approach to her analysis in her own order And then she goes on to just talk about and try to equate spelled by this approach to her analysis in her own order. And then she goes on to just talk about and try to equate and make an equivalency between the public fact that there is a leaked document with her name on it for the Trump transition team, which nobody denies. And she doesn't deny having a conversation with the Trump transition team or anybody in her orbit,

like her husband or somebody we have and she equates that on the same scale as oh and the and the and the team for the defendant also claims that I went to high school in 1999 or 2000 with one of the prosecutors that I went to his wedding All right, like where I know where she went to high school I practiced in Florida for 20 years and in Miami and in in in coconut grove. We all know she went to Ransom Everglades private school in I know plenty of people that went there, but she makes it seem like,

yeah, where I went to high school in 2000 is the same thing as me just being offered a job opportunity and a promotion publicly by the former criminal defendant in my courtroom. Come on, come on, Enough. Enough is enough. I was wondering why my coverage of Alien Cannon was just covered in Newsweek citing Midas Touch, Legal AF, and Michael Popak. Now I know why. Because who else is talking about these things this way? I'm going to continue to follow it closely. That is an indicator. That is a leading indicator that Aileen Cannon has,

I used to say she was over her skis. No, she is purposefully trying to find a way to stay in all cases Donald Trump, whereas a more reasonable sober jurist would have already recused and disqualified themselves. Just as the chief judge, just as the chief judge of the Miami and Southern District of Florida courts told her to do,

asked her to do, yeah. Judge Altenaga, just as I think the more senior judge in that district in that division, Judge Middlebrooks implored her to do, and she said, no, period, I'm staying in the case. Okay, now I'll have to let the 11 circuit act. In the meantime, we'll keep following it here on Legal AF and the Midas Touch Network.

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