Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Judge Shocks Trump and Reopens $1.8B Fraud Case

Episode Date: May 30, 2026

🚨 In breaking news, Federal Judge Williams, in response to the urging of 35 former federal judges, has REOPENED the Trump v. IRS case, and has ordered that Trump and his lawyers answer whether they “deceived” the Court, committed “fraud on the court” and used the lawsuit as a phony smokescreen to settle the case and set up the “Anti weaponization” slush fund, and whether there was a legitimate case at all. Popok explains along with lawyers who have sued to block the fund, that this is a terrible result for Trump and may move one step closer to a federal judge declaring that the original suit upon which the “settlement” is based in phony. Check out The Popok Firm today: https://ThePopokFirm.com 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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35 former federal judges led by Judge Michael Ludig and another judge from the Southern District of Florida who's now retired, Judge Ursula Ungaro, who implored Judge Williams and told her to her face in the filing that she had been had, she had been deceived, that there had been collusive conduct, that the settlement was based on the deception of the court and that she should use her inherent authority

to reopen the case and to avoid the case and to evaluate whether sanctions should be issued and whether she should be making a declaration that the underlying lawsuit is phony and the result of complicity and deceit. And if that happens, what will happen next is then you've got all the lawsuits that are going on right now against the fund able to argue that a federal judge found that the underlying lawsuit was invalid, therefore the settlement was invalid, therefore the Department of Justice's Attorney General. Todd Blanche did not have the power to enter into the lawsuit or dip into the judgment fund to set up another slush fund to pay off Donald Trump's cronies. It's a cascading domino effect, but it starts in the courtroom of Judge Williams, who's now taking this thing seriously as we wanted her to with the filing by the 35 judges.

I'll break it all down for you right here on the Midas Touch Network on illegal AF. Just two days ago, 35 judges led by Judge Ludig, including Judge Ungaro, former judges in the Southern District of Florida, who know Judge Williams well, who served with Judge Williams, implored her to recognize that she had been had. Something we've been saying on Legal AF in Midas Dutch since it happened. Since Donald Trump decided that he was just going to use the federal court as an imprimatur or sheen in order to cover up for a collusive suit that doesn't really, exist to enter into a settlement to empower the Department of Justice to compromise a claim based

on a lawsuit that's invalid. And the other thing that she's concerned about now that she's been briefed on it by the federal judges is why did Donald Trump get a complete exoneration of his tax, an audit liability exposure for the last 16 years along with his family, pardon me, as part of the settlement. Why? How? How? How? So 35 judges said, judge, we, even though we're strangers to the case, we can raise the issue of fraud on the court and deception. Because who else can do it under Rule 60 of the federal rules of civil procedure? Any party can do it. Anybody can do it.

A stranger to the case can do it. Because if Trump controlled his own lawyers, the IRS and the Department of Justice and all the players in the lawsuit, who's going to raise the issue of fraud? them, no, the 35 federal judges, which are serving as Amici or friends of the court to tell the court, you've been had. And now she's pissed off and she's fired up. I'll read to you from the order right now. We've got the receipts here on the Midas Dutch Network and on Legal A.F. And then I'm going to play you a clip from one of the lawyers, Sky Perryman for Democracy Forward, that filed that case against the fund. And I asked her just in the last 24 hours during my interview with her whether this case in front of Judge Williams with the 35 judges will help her in arguing

that the fund is the product birthed from an illegal unconstitutional set of facts. And you wait to hear what she has to say. But let's get to the order, which is posted on Legal AF Substack will put up on the screen as I read it as well. Let's start on page two. or actually we can say on page three, here the non-party movements, that's the 35 judges,

advance grievous allegations that plaintiffs, that's the Trump side, voluntarily dismiss this litigation solely to avoid judicial scrutiny of a lawsuit. That quote, was collusive from the start and was only filed to provide the imprimatur of legality

for an unlawful settlement. In other words, a smokescreen to cover up for the illegality of the settlement. They point to the fact that the settlement in question included a three-paragraph addendum. Who can forget Todd Blanche's attempts on the 19th of May after the settlement had already been announced to try to amend it by himself with nobody else involved, no other party involved, to say, oh, yeah, yeah, we're going to expand the release to give the Trump family a pass on audit and tax liability for the last 16 years.

Like, what? How did that happen? And so the judge comments on it in paragraph two, or footnote two on page three, she said, this addendum, as the non-party movements point out, may conflict with internal Department of Justice policies that require the department to only enter into compromises that are limited to the immediate subject matter. In other words, it has to be narrow. You can't say, let's throw everything in. Hey, let's give Donald Trump a pass on tax liability. That's not necessary. So that's the only thing, the department. Department of Justice can do. She also noted in footnote three about the public reporting, including what we did on Midas Touch and Legal A.F., that the Internal Revenue Service lawyers itself created a memo that said they should challenge. The Department of Justice should challenge Donald Trump's lawsuit on various grounds, including statute of limitations, that the statute of limitations had run. It was filed too late based on some facts, and that there was no adversary party, that a president can't sue his own agencies, his own executive branch. And that was at the heart of what the judge was trying to get to the bottom of when Trump came

along and quickly settled the case. See, he wanted the veneer, the imprimatur of an active lawsuit, right? So it can be settled. I said, you need a settlement in order for there to be, or a lawsuit, in order for there to be consideration for a settlement. No lawsuit, invalid, illegal, no proper settlement. And the whole fund falls apart. That's the pin. That's the string or the thread of the sweater. You pull it and the whole thing fails.

That was in front of Judge Williams. She looked around the room and said, I got too many people on one side of the table and not enough on the other. There's no adversary party here. I'm worried there's no adversary party. So I want all of the lawyers for the Department of Justice, IRS, and Trump to write briefs to tell me, separate briefs to tell me how there's a proper adversary proceeding here. how can Trump sue his own agencies and how do I have jurisdiction over that? And then she said, well, I don't really believe you guys completely. This is my own, this is my own Kibbittsing commentary. So she appointed three friends of the court, former Judge Gleason, a former solicitor general, and a top trial lawyer and said, you write a brief to guide me independently as well. Well, that brief came in and said to the judge effectively,

you don't really have jurisdiction. Right on top of that, before their deadline to file. Trump files a notice of dismissal and says to the judge to her face in the filing, oh, don't worry, don't worry, you have no jurisdiction over this. We're settling. We're not filing the settlement papers with you. Thank you for letting us use you in your courtroom. We're out of here.

And the judge closed the case. And that led to commentators like me immediately saying, no, no, use your inherent authority. Keep the case open. Do a fact finding. do in order to show cause. Get all these people in the room at the same time and find out if you've been had because you've been used.

And the federal court system should not be used like a cheap blanket. Okay? So that sat for a few days and then came to the rescue, the cavalry, the 35 federal, former federal judges. And they said to her, you've been had. You've been deceived.

Reopened the case. Listen to our argument. Use your powers and get to the bottom of what happened. Hey, everybody, Ben Myceles here from the Midas Touch Network. I wanted to let you know about my podcast partner, Michael Popock's new law firm. It's called the Popak firm. Michael Popock's pursuing his dream of starting his own law firm, really based on the popular demand by all the Midas, Mighty, and Legal A-Fers who were approaching Michael Popock with their cases and saying,

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She said the non-party movements explain that although there is no settlement of record in this matter, public documents and announcements indicate that the dismissal was premised on a purported settlement between the parties. In turn, they submit that the settlement is a product of collusion, and that settlement is a fraud on the court. So here's what she wants the Trump administration to do by a week from next Friday. Listen to these things they have to answer, and you tell me whether there's a rise in blood pressure and more smattering of ketchup going on. at the White House overnight. Ordered it a judge that by June 12th,

they plaintiffs, that's the Trump side, shall file a response to the motion. And it's really just Donald Trump. It's not the IRS, not the Department of Justice, it's plaintiffs, detailing their position, including they have to answer to the charges of collusion and whether the parties were truly adverse. This was the fundamental issue she wanted answered before.

Do I have jurisdiction? Are you a phony lawsuit? That's one, two. She wants them to answer the assertion in the 35 judges brief that the dismissal in this case was premised on deception by the parties, deception of the court. Three, answer the question of whether the case should be reopened because the court was a victim of fraud.

And if the non-movements want to file the brief, they can do theirs on June 19th. Wow. Now, let me tell you what this means. or better yet, let me tell you what one of the lawyers who's handling a case that was filed in the Eastern District of Virginia against the weaponization fund, this is what she had to say when I asked her about Judge Williams' case. Play the clip. Of course, back in the Florida suit where we filed, and you and I talked about this amicus

brief that we filed on behalf of former government officials, both Republican and Democratic and bipartisan group, that outlined all the things the court could do, including appointing specific neutral amici to come in, which the court was doing and was handling. Those briefs, you'll recall, said, we don't think you have jurisdiction here. And immediately before the court could even act, the president seeks to dismiss his claim because he knew he was going to lose there. So yesterday, I think you're going to talk about this later today or earlier this week. There was a filing on behalf of 35 judges back in that Florida case saying, like, take a look at this. This wasn't really valid. So this is the kind of thing that should be mired in litigation. It is

mired in litigation, but it's also the kind of thing that every single American, you don't have to be a lawyer, you don't have to be a politician. This is just, this should be off limits. I mean, this is rank corruption. All right. This is where you need to be for all things law and politics at that intersection here on Midas Touch. Come over to Legal AF YouTube channel and hit the free subscribe button so you can follow all my work, Michael Popuk. And if you want to read the order for yourself, along with all the briefs and everything else in the case, come to LegalAF substack, hit the free subscribe button, and then become a paid member, and you'll get the filings under filings AF. So until my next report, this is Michael.

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