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Welcome. You know where you are. Do I have to say the title, you're on legal. If you clicked, you know where you are you're on legal a f the podcast and hosted by at the midweek as always michael popock karen freeman ignifalo so much we've curated that's happened in the last 12 hours one hour as we came on the air that we want to talk about we've broken it down into modules for easy digestibility and group things together we're going to talk about all things Todd blanche and Epstein. There's a lot to talk about there, including the Block Blanche movement, gaining ahead of steam led in the front, in the very front by who else, the Epstein survivors like Danny Benzky, Katie Fang's lawsuit against Todd Blanche about the Epstein files and new developments there.

Alan Dershowitz, boy, there's so many ways to manipulate that. that last name. Alan Dershowitz, formerly Epstein's lawyer, O.J. Simpson's lawyer, according to Julie K. Brown of the Miami Herald, had a little bit of a side gig of abusing people who claim that they were sex abuse victims of Jeffrey Epstein to try to make them look like they were at fault. In fact, I saw him recently in an interview in which he actually said they were to blame for their own sex abuse. They were, he didn't use the word harlot, look it up, but he came pretty darn close. And Jeffrey, and he was supposed to show up to testify to the oversight committee, and he didn't show. And James Comer had a reaction to that, and we'll cover that as well.

And then the Jan 6 fund. I don't know what's going to be the potential undoing of Todd Blanche for his confirmation nearing, or his, the vote on the Senate floor, which just seems to look, looks like it's lining up for the week of August 3rd. Is it going to be Epstein? Is it going to be the Jan 6-Sush fund super pardon thing that he concocted for his client, Donald Trump? But the Jan 6 fund has him. He's got a big problem because there's another head of steam that's gaining. We're going to talk about a discharge petition on the House floor that's just six votes short of making a vote on the floor about killing off that Jan Six Fund and the release. And if you think six votes out of 435 sounds like a lot,

think they were further apart about the Epstein File Transparency Act, and they were able to find those six votes as everybody runs for cover. And then speaking of sex abuse in Donald Trump, let's talk about E. Jean Carroll, because there's new filings by Donald Trump. He wants to claw back the money that E. Jean Carroll was just paid on the ninth of July. And we'll talk about why that not only should fail, but the lawyers should be sanctioned for having filed their motion for injunction with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

Speaking of the law of unattended consequences, BBC, Donald Trump always likes to file, let me try that sentence again in English, Donald Trump likes to file cases claiming that he's just citizen Trump, except when he's President Trump, and he tries to control all of the pieces on the chessboard. he likes to put big numbers in his complaint when he doesn't have to. Federal court, you don't have to put any number in your complaint. You just have to say you're above the jurisdictional minimum of 75,000, but Donald Trump likes headlines. Ten billion dollars, five billion dollars, 20 billion dollars. He thinks it puts pressure on his opponents. He thinks it leads to them eventually stroking large checks for him, except when you demand $10 billion in a defamation case because the BBC used his own words in a video

clip, literally his own words in a video clip, it's hard to defame yourself, have yourself to fame by your own words, if you're going to throw around a number like $10 billion, then you probably open the door to what we call discovery about your finances. We got a brand new ruling about that coming out of a magistrate judge in the Southern District of Florida. And then I wanted to end with a story that I really haven't covered, and Karen hasn't covered either, about the Tate Brothers. I could go my entire career without, without, covering the Tate brothers until there's major connectivity of another child sex trafficking ring and the Trump administration. And we're going to connect the dots between Donald Trump,

his administration, a guy named Paolo Zampoli, who was the matchmaker for Donald Trump and Melania, Baron Trump, a guy named Paul Ingracia inside the Trump administration at the time, and how they all worked to help out the Tate brothers until it became politically awkward. Like when a 59-count indictment came out of a UK court about there, the brothers, sex trafficking, child pornography, and rape. And Marco Rubio could have waved a magic wand to avoid them being captured in Miami a couple of days ago, but he didn't. And I want to talk about it with all.

our former federal of state prosecutor, at least on a criminal matter here, Karen Freeman McNiflow. Hi, Karen. Hi, Popak. How are you? I'm doing great. Good. Tate brothers.

We'll get there. We'll get there. Let's kick it off with Epstein and Todd Blanche. So when I said that the Blanche, block blanche movement is gaining steam, confirmation hearing over. In addition to the confirmation hearing, and I'll be doing some reporting on this, Would you believe Blanche answered Karen 441 pages worth of questions from the various members of the Senate Judiciary Committee? And some of his answers are eye-popping.

I'll give you one example. In response to Tom Tillis question, he actually said, not only does he not plan to be independent, but he doesn't think that's a requirement of being the head of the Department of Justice. He's just another cabinet official. You wouldn't ask if the Commerce Department is independent. You wouldn't ask if the transportation department or HUD was independent. So why are you asking me? And I was like, are you effing?

He actually wrote that down thinking he could act with impunity. So there's a whole bunch of groups arrayed against Todd Blanche. Some of it's being led by the Epstein survivors, right? So let's kick it off. You watched it. We covered it last week. Talk to me about what role you think the Epstein survivors are now playing. in the Block Blanche movement.

Yeah, I think, look, compared to some of Donald Trump's other nominees, Todd Blanche has the qualifications on paper and was a respected prosecutor by many people. Yet this seems to be the one nomination that is most in question and that Donald Trump is going to have a very hard time getting across the finish line. And I think it's largely for two reasons. I think it's because he was the architect of the Jan 6 slush fund, which members of Congress and the Senate were actual victims of January 6th. So that kind of hits close to home.

And I don't think they like that these individuals are called heroes and are going to be given taxpayer dollars because they were heroes and patriots. I don't think the members of Congress, by and large, even Trump supporters, view it. that way and they're very offended by that slush fund. But I think equally, if not more important, is this Epstein case because Todd Blanche has been the person who was in charge in the Department of Justice of releasing the files, redacting the names, not redacting the victim's names, over-redacting other names, and withholding about half the files is the number I've heard. I think it's something

like two to three million files have not been, have not been released yet. And that's a bright line for a lot of individuals and in the Senate. And right now, it's, it has to get out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. And you've got two people there, Senator Corrin and Senator Tillis, who are both Republicans, but they're undecided. And Tillis at the confirmation hearing, he was, he seemed to me like he could be Wade, but he wanted Todd Blanche to meet with the survivors. And so Todd Blanche, I think it was the very next day then hearing that, seeing that, said, okay, I'll meet with the survivors. And all the survivors who met with him have come forward and are talking about how disappointed.

I mean, I thought, oh, great, now he's for sure going to get out of the Judiciary Committee and onto the floor and get and be voted in as Attorney General. But they all basically said it was awful. It was an awful interview. He basically, it was like he was checking a box. He wasn't listening. He didn't hear us. He was insensitive.

He didn't promise that he would investigate cases or that there'd be any cases coming forward. And they're, I think, really disappointed that, and they are calling him out for this kind of almost like fake meeting that he had with them. to check the box. So I think that's going to be a really big problem. And I really do think that Jeffrey Epstein and this whole scandal, you know, look, the fact that he met with Galane Maxwell, he spent more time with Galane Maxwell talking to her than he did with these survivors. And the next day, practically speaking, she got moved to a camp. And she's in a much nicer jail facility or prison facility.

There's been rumors that she has a dog with her, you know, that she has television, that she has just a very cushy gig. And Todd Blanche is really being held to, I think, his feet to the fire here for his handling of all things Epstein-related. And I don't know. I still think it's more likely than not he gets confirmed, but I think it's questionable at this point. Now, I agree with you. I think that, I don't know, coming out of the confirmation hearing, I'm like, all right, is he going to get the 12 votes that he needs to get out?

Probably. Is that going to be the same 12 people to vote for him on the Senate floor? I don't know. There were so many setups and so many softballs that he whiffed on. Meet with the Epstein survivors. Now, that implicit in that was to do it in good faith with an open mind and open heart to hear the authentic truth of sex abuse victims and to pledge fealty to them and to their justice. He didn't do that. As I've said before, it looks like he was dragged by his ear to the principal's office with a stone in his shoe.

Didn't want to be there. He insulted them. He patronized them. and it was a disaster, politically, morally, legally, and the rest. In fact, as a programming note, Danny Benski, who was the, really chosen among the survivors to present the rebuttal to Todd Blanche's testimony, if you will, on behalf of the survivors, you know, the 14 or 1,500 survivors, she's going to be with me. Actually, I'm interviewing her late tonight.

She's in a different time zone, and we're going to have it up on Midas tomorrow. And she is on this like you would not believe. We're going to be talking about those FBI training videos that they admitted existed, about how to not only redact, but how to flag things like Donald Trump's name, which they've effectively admitted exists. I mean, there's lots of layers to this. And I think she's going to also, I don't want to steal her thunder. She's going to make a major sort of a major explosive.

report during my interview, because we've talked in advance, about something that Blanche told the survivors in the room when they did that one-hour, perfunctory interview. And now, Cornyn has said, Senator Cornyn has said, answers are not good enough. And he doesn't just mean the 10 minutes per senator that we covered ad nauseum on legal AF and might as touch. He's talking about the 414 pages also of questions by Cornyn and others. I mean, I don't think it helped him to lie, for instance. Dick Durbin, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said that when he met with Todd Blanche,

Todd Blanche told him he, quote-unquote, screwed up in the Jan 6 fund. And I presume the release. So Dick Durbin put that in his question, you know, do you still believe that you screwed up? And instead of saying, yes, he said, your account of what happened in my meeting with you is not accurate. But here we go. Here we go.

So even if Tillis from North Carolina and Cornyn from Texas vote to vote him out of committee, they can take back their vote on the Senate floor. And that's where the block blanche movement, the constant calling and haranguing of senators from your, you know, even if it's not your senator, calling into their office on the all 100 senators to get them to vote against Todd Blanche and the reasons why it matters. Tomorrow night on legal AF YouTube, we are hosting a live stream along with a not above the law,

another pro-democracy group. I'm not hosting it, but I'm going to be kicking it off. There it is. There's my face. We're going to have Senator Dick Durbin, Representative LaMonica McIver, Representative Roe Kana, and other special guests, including Lisa Graves, Joe Dunn, Capitol Police. It's just an amazing group. And that one hour is really a tutorial for our audience, a collective audience, to give them the tools they need to block Blanche.

So it's going to be not just listening to speechifying. It's going to be getting real action items and tools for your own personal toolbox about how to do it. 8 p.m. Eastern Time, illegal AF YouTube under the live tab. It's up there now. Set the reminder. Do all that for you. Really important. And there's other things that are kind of factoring into Todd Blanche being unfit and to vote against him.

So as we came on the air, we learned that there is a discharge petition with 200. and 12 signatures on it, which is probably all the Democrats. It needs 218 to get something out of a committee and onto the House floor for a vote to kill the Jan 6 fund and the release. Still has to be approved by the Senate, but I think if you get the House involved, it's a pretty good thing. Karen, what do you think about the ability to find six Republicans to come over under public pressure to sign that petition? I think that's doable in this particular topic for the reason I said earlier that these individuals were victims of this crime of January 6th. So many of them at the time talked about how they were afraid for their life and how their

office was desecrated and et cetera, et cetera. So I do think that that has a pretty good chance of getting passed, and I hope it does. Yeah, me too. Let me turn now, these pieces in this first part of our podcast that I all sort of fit neatly together. Let's touch briefly on Alan Dershowitz. You got opinions on Alan Dershowitz? Well, wait, we're going to talk about Katie Fang also? Yeah, but I want to do Dershowitz first. Okay, okay. Alan Dershowitz, you know, look, he's, he's like this legendary Harvard professor, right? He back in the day when I was, you know, in law school and coming up, he was this sort

of famous lawyer who represented famous people. He was a very, very, very, very, very, you know, in law school. He was a very, very smart lawyer that a lot of people had respect for. And then he just, he was famous for his sort of, the way he taught at Harvard. And so he was sort of this legendary lawyer. And then he, it turns out, the hood's been lifted, and it turns out he has some really nefarious friends. And he was very close to Jeffrey Epstein.

very close to MAGA and Trump and all of that. And it's one thing to represent people as a lawyer. You know, obviously, especially if you're a criminal defense attorney, you're going to represent a lot of people that people don't necessarily agree with. But he, it seems, went further than that, especially with Jeffrey Epstein. Yeah, he's a disgusting human being. I mean, to my opinion. Yeah, not because he's a lawyer representing clients.

I never associated with the other unless they go overboard and suddenly become enablers for their clients. It's one thing to represent your clients. Another thing to go attack survivors and basically say they were asking for it, which is what Julie C. Brown reported for the Miami Herald. Exactly. And that was the distinction I was trying to make. Exactly.

And you did make it. And so he was subpoenaed to go testify. in front of Comer. And he came up with a lame brain excuse that nobody believed that his lawyers told him he couldn't testify. I have a theory about that. Yeah, I want to hear it. You know what he said? He appeared on a radio talk show for an interview in New York, which will remain nameless instead of appearing with the oversight committee. What's your theory?

So I'm going to test it with you because I could be completely wrong. But why would a lawyer tell a client not to testify, under oath at a hearing. Because he's going to incriminate himself. Correct. And they should take the fifth. Correct. That's my, that's what came.

That's a good theory. That's just a theory. That's immediately what came to mind when I read that. That's a strong theory. I like that theory. You're often right with your theories. Well, sometimes. Yeah, I mean, often. On this show, anyway.

A lot of times in court. And that was very interesting because what is the topic of the hearing? hearing. It's Jeffrey Epstein. Absolutely. And Donald Trump. Yeah. And in relationships, because Gershowitz was representing, let's remember when in time, Dershowitz was representing Jeffrey Epstein. He's the one that

negotiated with the Alex Acosta, the then-U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, 2018, 2019, to give him that sweetheart deal, bad phrase, to give him that deal that kept him, basically, kept the child sex trafficking ring in action being operated by Galane Maxwell while he spent three or four months in a cushy Palm Beach County Jail, cop in a cop in a deal to one count of child, no, to

prostitution, right? Child prostitution, right, exactly. Instead of all the federal counts that should have come, that I've had survivors, including Danny Benski, say, if he was taken off the street appropriately and put away for life, I wouldn't have been abused. And so that was the era that Epstein represented this guy, and Galane Maxwell and advising during the trial, the lawyers for Galane Maxwell, you know, and Dershowitz was also accused at one time, although before she committed suicide, she did recant her testimony about Virginia Juffrey, who said that she had been sexually abused by Dershowitz.

She later said that was false and they settled out of court. But the fact that he was even around Epstein. He's in the Epstein files as being a friend crossing that line. I mean, you don't have to answer this, but I've never been in a hot tub with one of my clients. That's not a thing, by the way, for those that follow the law, that's not a thing, okay? You know, the closeness of that relationship. So he's got, I like your Fifth Amendment idea. We're going to see what happens. Comer's not happy. He's jumping up and down and he said, I'm going to subpoena your ass, you know, words to that effect. And I think he should. And the more, we're not going to show it now, but the more you follow, just put in Alan Dershowitz and watch his recent clips in which he continues to go after the sex

abuse victims of Jeffrey Epstein. What has to be going on in your mind that you think in this day and age with 1,500 survivors and their truth that you should abuse them continuously, in your podcast appearances. And I'm so tired of him getting platformed on Fox and on Newsmax and all these right-wing media places, they never give the context. Next up, Alan Dershowitz, who represented Jeffrey Epstein during his child sex trafficking days

and got him a sweetheart deal, also advising Galane Maxwell and her counsel. Here, now, no, it's always just this guy, this old guy, nobody knows who really who he is, and who talks with some authority about it on issues and has some sort of currency about it. It's just disgusting to watch it. And Comer sometimes surprises even me,

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Look, after you purchase, they will ask you where, you heard about them, please support our show and tell them that our show sent you. Welcome back and thank you to our pro-democracy sponsors for supporting our show and you supporting them. Katie Fang on one side, E. Jean Carroll on the other, they have a lot in common, including being tenacious, courageous, dignified, and fighting for the rule of law. And in the case of E. Jean Carroll and Katie Fang, fighting for survivors. So let's start with E.G.E.E.E. Gene Carroll. So E. Jean Carroll, most people were like, I thought she got the money, Popok. Okay. She got the money on July 9th, the $5.8 million running with interest that Donald Trump owed her came out of the court registry in the Southern District of New York by order of Judge Capit.

And Trump, I want to, we're running theories by each other tonight. Trump knows he's going to have to pay the money and probably pay, likely pay the other almost 91 million he owes her. but he wants her to die first. He wants E. Jean Carroll to die. She's 82. Does not want her to get the money in her lifetime. It wants to pay it to her estate. So he stretches everything out with ridiculous filings and bad faith filings

that he knows he's going to lose running down every rabbit hole and dragging us along with it so that she's denied her money. E. Jean Carroll is the only person out of, what is it, 8 billion people on planet Earth that can say the following. I am a jury, a judged sex abuse victim of Donald Trump. Many women have come out in an interview, some of them in courtrooms under oath, but the only person that's ever had a jury brand Donald Trump, a sex abuser, is EGING girl.

and for that we owe her a debt of gratitude and for the courage that required. And this is all about the case, the first case that went to trial. The case where she convinced 9-0 a jury in New York that she had been sex abuse, biced on her own testimony, doubt of her a couple of witnesses

that she told contemporaneously about what had happened to her, about other witnesses that were let in under rules of evidence, about sexual misconduct in the past by Donald Trump. And that's the issue. And this Supreme Court rejected that appeal of Donald Trump 13 times before they finally put the nail in the coffin. And Trump didn't like it. So he filed an appeal.

He filed an appeal of the judge's order that he should pay immediately because he filed a last gas piece of paper, a motion for the Supreme Court to reconsider. This is the Supreme Court that voted effectively 90. just like a month ago. There's no new evidence. There's no misapprehension of the law. And the Second Circuit Court of Appeals said, no, we're not going to block Judge Kaplan's order to the clerk to pay the money. It's not a reparable harm.

If the money's paid out and somehow miraculously snowball, meet hell chance you win, you'll get the money back from her. Don't bother us. The money got paid out. But that didn't satisfy Donald Trump. Aaron, take it from there. Yeah, so he's trying to get, he's now filing a motion to try to get her to give the money back and put it in escrow while he continues his frivolous appeals.

I mean, it's as simple as that. I don't understand it. I don't, I've never seen anything like this. I don't know if he's going to get sanctioned for filing these frivolous motions. I don't know what he has up his sleeve. Part of me wondered, could this just be him, he has to fight? He just has to always fight, always fight, always fight. Because if you don't fight, it's almost like you're conceding that it was okay, that you agreed.

Because I can't see any single theory or any legal theory, any factual allegation, nothing that would allow him to get this back. As you said, he has taken this up to the highest court, the United States Supreme Court. They have declined to hear this case. And I just don't, or maybe it's because he's got a second case pending that has a legal issue that they might consider, right? The second Eging Carroll case, the one with the bigger judgment, that one does have an issue because, potential issue, because he was president when he defamed her. And he's going to say, well, of course, I'm president and I had to, I had to, I had to defend myself. I shouldn't just, I can't just sit here and take these allegations. I should be allowed to defend myself.

And he's going to argue presidential immunity. That has a legal argument that I could see the Supreme Court wanting to address and to determine whether or not you have civil immunity now that they've given him criminal immunity. But this one doesn't have that issue. This doesn't have anything like that. So I don't know if maybe while he appeals that second judgment for $83 million, he wants. to be able to have this open or not have given the money. So he can somehow talk about it as if he hasn't paid any money.

I just don't understand. You know, like my he wants her to die theory? You know, that could be it. I don't know. I don't understand why he is. I don't understand why the courts aren't sanctioning him at this point. Well, that's a very good point. You and I both know this law firm well, Sullivan and Cromwell.

I mean, if you work in New York, Manhattan, DA, private practice, I worked at a competitor firm, you know Sullivan. I've been against Sullivan. Maybe you have to beaten Sullivan before. And they were the only firm that decided that Donald Trump wasn't radioactive and they wanted to represent them at all things, including E. Jean Carroll, which a lot of their partnership said, we don't want to be involved with the E.G. Carol case. And they did it anyway. And there's

sanctions for bad faith filings in appellate court. And I think E. Jean Carroll's lawyers, Robbie Kaplan, is really smart and knows this. I don't have to tell her. I'm really just saying it out loud for our audience. I think she should file a motion after she wins for sanctions for bad faith filing. There is no merit to their argument. She did a great job. We have it up on Legal A.F. Substack for people to read it in her 23-page response. I'll just read just from one paragraph here. It's very simple. I also love the fact that she refuses to call him President Trump.

She calls him once Donald Trump, because that's his name. And then the rest of the 23 pages, Trump is either he or defendant, which is perfectly appropriate. Page 22. Defendant has lost before a jury, the district court. a unanimous Second Circuit panel, that's three judges, the full Second Circuit, which is 20 judges on bunk, and the Supreme Court of the United States. He agreed, Trump, in a signed stipulation entered by the court,

that Carol could collect her judgment once his certiorari petition, that's the petition for appeal, has been denied. That happened, period. Carol should not have to wait any longer. And then they also talk about the fact she's 82 years old and that the delay has been costly, especially with passage of time, especially when people may not live to see their judgment being paid. They say on page 20, while the award, let's see, page 20, the delay has been costly. Injury to a plaintiff waiting to collect on a judgment increases in significant.

with the passage of time, citing the World Trade Center litigation case, particularly where the plaintiff is already of advanced age. While the award has accumulated post-judgment interest at the statutory rate, that is a poor substitute for Carol actually having the money the jury awarded her to invest. Defendant should not be permitted to run the clock out on Carol's attempt to obtain compensation for a serious wrong. They also say that he comes to the court with unclean hands, which is a judicial concept, a term of art about coming to the hand, literally what it sounds like, you're coming to court with dirty hands. So because they're asking for equitable relief in injunction, if you don't have clean hands,

you don't get equity. Defendant has continued, Robbie writes for E. Jean, even as recently as two weeks ago, to repeat his defamatory attacks against Carroll. As this court has held, the record supports the district courts, determination that the degree of reprehensibility of Trump's conduct was remarkably high, perhaps unprecedented. Each such attack, they write, has a domino effect and subjects Carol to ongoing and prolific harassment as a result of these statements, including a multitude of death threats and other threats of physical injury. Carrie, you've been a sex abuse

prosecutor, sex violence prosecutor. Talk about it from that perspective. because I don't want to lose sight of who E.J. and Carroll is as a survivor. I mean, I've had to say to sexual assault survivors who have to go through litigation and go through the process of litigation, which is hard. Every single time that something like that is said, every time they are, whether it's through cross-examination, or they are told that they're lying. Every single time, it's like another violation. And I always say to them, don't let him violate you any more than he already has because it's insidious. It gets in your head. It's upsetting. For some people, it can reopen the wound of the sexual assault.

And I can't pretend to know what E. Jean Carroll's going through. She seems like a strong woman to me. That being said, this has got to be brutal. It's not, because it's not just her attacker. It's not just her abuser. It's the president of the United States of America. It's the most powerful man in America. And as we all know, sexual assault is about power. It's about violence.

And who has more power than him? And so I can't imagine what that would be like. To me, it would be horrendous. And she has a lot of courage and a lot of strength. And I applaud her. And I don't know that a lot of women would have the mental ability, emotional ability, the strength to withstand this repeated violations and repeated abuse.

And I think that's why her second verdict of $83 million was it was punitive damages to punish him. because he kept repeating over and over and over again the same lies and wouldn't stop and these same denials and and I think the jury heard that and and I think the jury recognized that every single time he does it it's another violation it's it's another attack it's another assault and I mean Robbie Kaplan during her closing said to the jury in the second jury the second closing as Donald Trump literally walked out on her during her closing. How much is it going to take, right, from his, and she had all the financial documents to show how many billions he had, is it going to take to

stop him from continuing to abuse my client? You have the power jury in your punitive damage award. And that's when he got up, buttoned his coat and walked out. Of course, that didn't help during the jury deliberation as he in a misogynistic way walked out on a female lawyer making an argument about a sex abuse victim and defamation. And that's now, Karen, did you know that's now up to $92 million with interest? Oh, yeah, that he's how to pay and post with his bond. So people are like, is she ever going to get that money? As long as the petition for writ of cert, the petition for appeal, is finally denied by the Supreme Court. She'll get the money the way she got this money. So wait, he pays the interest. It doesn't, it does not put in a fund that earns interest. He

Well, a little bit of both. There's statutory interest, and so it's in an interest-bearing account, but if there's a delta between the amount the statute requires, if there is, and the amount that this thing's actually earning and whatever the clerk invests in, let's say the clerk gets 4% on her money. She puts it in treasury bills. I don't know what she puts it in. But the statute is, I don't even know what the current statute is in federal for New York

or for federal. Let's say it's 9%. Well, then he's got to pay the 5% difference to keep her even. So that is so telling that he doesn't want her to get the money so much that he's willing to pay more money to prevent her from getting that money, including legal fees. I'm sure Sullivan and Cromna well aren't working for free unless this is part of the pro bono legal services that law firms who settled with them are required to give. Who knows? No, they didn't settle. They didn't settle.

So he's paying, so presumably he's paying their legal fees. He's paying interest. That's how much he doesn't want to pay this money. It's just, it's offensive. Yeah. The federal district court money judgment statute, according to my sources, is the weekly average one year constant maturity U.S. Treasury yield, whatever that is, versus whatever the court is earning.

you know, maybe it's more, maybe it's less. In fact, in fact, Robbie takes it on in a footnote. In footnote nine of her recent filing, for the last three years, the judgment has sat in the court system and collected post-judgment interest at the applicable rate of 4.72%. Okay, so it's getting interest. But she says, by contrast, if she had invested it, and the standard and poor 500 index she would have made 22 and a half percent so she's losing she's

also losing money because the statutory interest rate is not matching what she could do with her own investment now she's told me in an interview and she can do whatever like i said of course you could do whatever she wants with it she wants to take all the money and pour kerosene on it and set out of flame on fifth avenue she's allowed in front of trump tower she's allowed to do it but i think she has said some of it's going to be for her retirement she's 82 years old she didn't make a lot of money in her life as an magazine editor, I'm sure. And secondly, she wants to set up a fund, a charity to help other sex abuse survivors. Yeah, good for her. Good for her. Exactly right. And as soon as the dust settles of both of those judgments, I'll be able, I think, to get E. Jean Carroll and Robbie Kaplan on the show.

They've, they've, E. Gene would come. Robbie's like, not yet. I said, okay, I understand. As soon as that's all done, we'll have them back on the show. And maybe we'll bring them on midweek. Have you spoken with Robbie and you and Robbie? Yeah, we had Robbie, not Echin girl. A million years ago when we were getting like 3,000 views an episode. And then EG and I've done separately. So we'll have them both on. I hope she takes a vacation with it.

Oh, without a doubt. I love Eugene. I remember when I interviewed her a year ago, she said, I don't need the money, Michael. I need a good plate of Fetuccini, Alfredo, take my dogs for a walk. It's literally what she said. I just, I mean, we are a better plan. it because EG and Carol is on it. I'll just tell you that. That's my that's my heartfelt belief. Speaking of a better planet because people are on it, let's talk about Katie Feng, our colleague,

our friend, might as touch, independent journalist who works for a living and likes to cover the Epstein files and give dignity and transparency for the victims. So listen to this Karen. The judge Sullivan gives Todd Blanche the last word seven days. to file the last word about why he shouldn't be found in contempt and why there shouldn't be a thousand dollar fine per day for every day he's in contempt of failing to comply with the judge's order on five categories of Epstein files. The redaction log,

translating the foreign language documents in an international child sex trafficking ring. Let's stop right there for a minute. Can you imagine as a prosecutor? There were a bunch of documents and you just didn't produce them pursuant to Brady or other things to the other side in a criminal matter because they were in a foreign language about a foreign language international conspiracy of some sort

can't figure it out so I didn't provide it. By the way, you can upload it to like chat GPT and it'll translate it for you or Google translate it or whatever. I mean, it's not that hard anymore. Back in the day it might have been, but not anymore. Even if it was, they needed to do it. That's two. three unmasking who was who was having a good old time emailing Jeffrey Epstein about a sex torture

video and documents related to Donald Trump and an accuser who says she was 13 and sexually abused by Donald Trump handwritten FBI notes. The judge gives them one more chance. Stan Woodward took seven days. to prepare a two-page response to that last word of Katie Fang's lawyers. Did you get a chance to look at that? I did. It was appalling. I mean, it lacked substance.

First of all, these was all the things it didn't have. It didn't have an affidavit, a sworn affidavit from anyone in the Justice Department. So it should be Todd Blanche because the Epstein Files Transparency Act talks about the Attorney General, not the Department of Justice, the Attorney General must respond. So there was no affidavit from anyone, though, at the Department of Justice with it. It was, I thought it had all sorts of typos. It also, what was really upsetting about it is it had no substance. All it was was basically this mansplaining, name-calling, you know,

basically saying, oh, she's being dramatic. You know, Katie's being dramatic. But it didn't cite to, it just didn't give any substance. And if I were the judge in this case, to me, this is non-responsive. I agree. It's an insult to the court, to Katie, to the survivors. And I think he should lower the boom. It almost makes you wonder, like, I had to go back and see what did the judge, like,

what were they supposed to do? It almost makes you seem like he missed the memo. Like, he didn't understand. what he was supposed to do. That's how thin it was and how non-substantive it was. So I don't know. Maybe I'm just looking to give him the benefit of the doubt. But other, because if it was intentional, if this was an intentional thing, then yeah, the judge has to, has to do something about it. Yeah, I interview Katie. Katie's like, I don't know, they missed deadlines before. Maybe they forgot about this. He cranked it out in an hour with the typos and all, but it was insulting. If you and I in our law firms were handed

that document as a reply brief, which doesn't refer in any way to any of the arguments that were raised in the prior brief, doesn't cite them, doesn't have, this is an order to show cause. That is a signal to lawyers everywhere. You need an affidavit. You need factual support, as you outlined. If I got that from one of my associates, I'd fire them on the spot. I'd be like, you think this is a reply brief, you know? And yet, Stan Woodward, the number two in the department, of Justice, dropped his pants and crapped all over the court system with that filing. And I think Judge Emmett Sullivan, who they are, who they virulently attack outside the courtroom because they're cowards, calling him driven by headlines and, you know, another Marxist,

Leninist, fascist, whatever they call them, these judges. Of course, they don't have the balls to do that in a court filing or to his face. But judges read. judges have clerks that go on social media and I think he's going to lower the boom there doesn't need to be an evidentiary hearing look at the track record of this Department of Justice Judge Williams two weeks ago in Miami

bad faith filings inviting another motion for fraud on the court against Todd Blanche you know and now Judge Sullivan who's I mean I think it's going to be this week could be early next week the last time they basically missed the deadline the judge issued a 46-page opinion in favor of Katie Fang on every one of her points, like an hour later.

So he's ready. You don't, look, you never F with the person in the black robe, especially federal court. I always tell people that, you know, that's easy, easy way to stay on the straight and narrow, keep your nose clean. But you certainly don't F with Emmett Sullivan. I mean, if you were looking, if you just look them up, you know, What was the guy, Signetti, the guy that was the coach of Indiana for the national championship? And they asked him at his press conference when he was first hired,

why do you think you're going to win? You're going to turn the program around. This is the year before he won the national championship. He said, Google me. Look me up. I win. Great line. Look up Emmett Sullivan.

It's not hard. This is not the judge you want to F with. But we're going to see. And then we'll report on it at Legal A.F. And on Legal A.F. substack and all of that, all of that good stuff. So, Karen, I want to take another quick break, and then we'll wrap up with the BBC and Discovery and other cigar exploding in Donald Trump's face with one of these crazy defamation cases. And then I want to talk about the Tate brothers.

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I got this, by the way, but this is a true story. The reason I got it was because my husband comes home. I used to podcast from home, and either he doesn't know how to talk on his phone, not on speaker, or he just always talks on speaker. Now, he just always talks on speaker. And so he would walk in the door talking on the phone on speaker when we'd be podcasting. And so I literally had to get a sign that said on air with the light and I would put it in front of the door so that there's a light yeah though it's a light yeah I'll turn it on oh that's cool I'll turn it on but yeah that's okay that's cool all right so let's speaking about the air let's talk about the BBC British Broadcasting Corporation see Donald Trump thought because when the BBC sort of figured they try to get out from under

his ire by apologizing to him look they ran a clip of his work Under defamation law, this was him on the ellipse on Jan 6th, you know, saying, we're going to go down there and we're going to fight. All right. He said fight later on. And he said, we're going to go down and encourage the people about the Jan 6th certification. And we're going to fight. If we don't fight, we're going to lose our country.

You know a version of that. So they kind of clip the middle and they used his words. But under defamation law, it's even a higher burden to prove that there's defamation when your own words are being used. You have to show that the gist, the summon substance of what you meant has been distorted by the edit. Can't do that here. So I guess he thought because the BBC is in a very British way, apologized, credit to them, that they were going to be Patsy's and roll over. They're coming out with haymakers in their lawsuit in Florida.

See, as I've said, you can pick your courthouse. You can sometimes pick your judge. Like if you file, Donald Trump always does up in Fort Pierce and get Judge Cannon. You can pick your defendant. You can pick your cause of action, but you can't pick your defense that the defendant's going to raise. So when he brought the $10 billion defamation case against the BBC, because he didn't like how his words were edited,

and the case is pending before Judge Roy Altman, there's a whole kind of fight right now about discovery. Sure, the BBC has a motion pending to dismiss the case because they said, this can't be in the United States. Our streaming service that nobody wants, with this documentary wasn't even shown in the United States. And it had like no views. What's how did it, how are you suing us in Miami?

While that's going on, the case has a discovery deadline. It ends in October and they got to get their shit done. So there's two ways to defend a defamation case. One is on the liability side proving truth, proving not false, and some other elements of a of a person who's a public figure. and then you fight on damages. What are your actual damages? So on the damages side, they said, great.

You said you lost $10 billion because we clipped that little part out of the speech. Prove it. Show us your bank accounts. Open up your kimono. Let's see everything in the Trump trust, where you have all your assets. This is a guy who's made hundreds of billions of dollars in the last 500 days. I don't know how he's possibly going to show, but there was, would have made even more. I would have stolen more had I not had that thing that nobody watched

on a streaming service that didn't even hit the United States. But he's an idiot for opening the door, so they're doing that. And then they're going out with a hundred subpoenas to Don Jr. and Roger Stone and Sidney Powell to prove that he's an insurrectionist because that's truth. If you're fighting words, you don't think cause the insurrection, cause the attack on the Capitol? Well, we're going to go out and subpoena and get all those files and find that out. So that all came to a head with a magistrate judge in a discovery hearing. Karen, what happened there? So essentially, as you were saying, first of all, you don't have to allege a dollar amount in a complaint, right?

You can just say it's above the threshold, $75,000. But he wants the big headline, right? So he says $10 billion. And as you said, so they can come. kind of go in and poke around and get records to see, did you, in fact, was there a loss of business that you lost $10 billion? Well, Donald Trump, not surprisingly,

doesn't want to show his records, doesn't want to give over the actual books and records of his company. And so they try to then change their theory, right? They try to change their theory and say, you know what, We're actually not now alleging business damages. We're only seeking reputational damages. Therefore, my corporate financial records are irrelevant,

and this request from BBC is a fishing expedition. But the judge, this magistrate judge, Judge Lett, rejected that argument and essentially held, look, your complaint itself, Donald Trump, alleges injury to your business interests and your brand. Therefore, these allegations make your financial information relevant to discovery, and you can't hide behind this new theory, and therefore he ordered Donald Trump to produce financial information relating to his businesses, and also permitted the BBC to pursue these additional third-party discovery, including these subpoenas directed to the individuals you mentioned, and saying, look, these are all relevant to issues that you raised. in litigation. So bottom line is, Trump lost and is going to have to turn this stuff over. I don't know how he gets out of this, right? Well, I try to appeal to the federal judge, Judge Altman, because that's a little bit of a mini appeal from the magistrate judge, but I don't think Judge Altman is going to

support him either. You know, he didn't, this is, like, as you said, there's a sticky little thing called the things you've alleged to your complaint. You, we have a concept. It's called door opening. You open the door. This is your case. And they get to defend. it the way that they see fit as long as it's consistent with the allegations of the complaint. But they should never have had a number in the in the in the in the complaint. They didn't need a number, but they like to chase headlines put pressure on media companies so they can get up so that Donald Trump can have a big check stroked to his Miami presidential library hotel and casino, whatever that's supposed to be. And you know, they thought they pressure. Oh, the BBC apologized to me.

they're weak. I'm going to go for big bucks. What they didn't anticipate is how aggressive the BBC has been in their discovery. And, you know, it's funny because in a lot of cases, companies are like, well, we have a pending motion to dismiss. Let's get that heard first, and let's stay discovery. Sometimes judges do that. Sometimes they do. They don't. Here, they're like, eff it. While we're here, well, let's get all of your documents. and those of your cronies. I think that's part of their pressure campaign to get him to drop the suit.

I mean, they're litigating this, I think, very, very intelligently. Yeah. Wait till they ask for the deposition. That's the next step, because discovery cuts off in October, and no Donald Trump doesn't get to say, I'm very busy right now, midterms are coming, and I don't have time for this. Sorry, you're a plaintiff, you know, the first president in history. I don't even think Jefferson sued over anything,

or George Washington. Washington while they were president, this is what you chose to do. And so judges aren't going to be listening to. If you're a defendant in a case and you didn't choose to get sued, then you can argue, I'm the president, I'm too busy. You've got to wait until the end of my term. But not when you're the plaintiff. Does nobody have the balls on his legal team to tell him the truths like that?

I guess not, right? I don't know if it's they don't, I don't know if it's what you just said or if it's something else. I think they play the short game. I don't think Donald Trump knows how to play it in a long game. And that just seems to be the way it always is. It's just immediately go in, hit hard, and then deal with it, right? Whether it's the Iran war, whether it's the reflecting pool, whatever it is. Let's not take the time to do this right. Let's just go in. He's the very definition of a bull in a China shop. And I think he's the very definition of a bull in a China shop. And I think he's, He thinks that's effective in some ways, but people who play the long game against him, I think, typically prevail because he does not know how to play the long game.

Yeah, I think that's a good analysis. Now let's switch gears here as we round out our legal AF podcast to the Tate Brothers. You got two of them, Andrew and Tristan. They were masters of the bro podcasting, right, the Manosphere. 10 million followers, lived a decadent lifestyle, as long as it's not criminal. I guess that's okay. But it became criminal because they thought that they were, probably because they had friends in high places, they thought they were immune from prosecution for sex abuse, sex trafficking,

child pornography, and the rest. And so there's been a lot of reporting about the connectivity between the Tate brothers who got picked up in Miami on an order of extradition. and a criminal complaint out of the UK, 59 counts against the two brothers, who probably did not see it coming, given their close relationship with Trump universe and the Trump world. So the brother- You think they knew about this, and I just don't know the timeline.

Did they know about the indictment before they came to the U.S.? You know, I don't know. That's a good question. I don't think it was sealed. I don't think it was unsealed. I think they did not know about it. And they thought, because they've been partying with Paolo Zampoly, who's Donald Trump's special envoy and one of his best friends who connect, who introduced Melania

to Donald Trump in the 80s. When you're, when you're part, you know, you get a false sense of security, right? When you're partying with Donald Trump's buddy, when you've had the State Department intervene on your behalf to get you your passport out of, out of Romania originally, when you have the White House and its liaison to the Homeland Security, Paula Gracia, who later becomes your lawyer, get you back your electronic devices after they get picked up at border by the customs in border patrol you have a false sense of security that you have some sort of teflon you have some sort of protection when you're friends with baron trump and you have zoom calls with him and you talk to him after the attempted butler pennsylvania assassination you probably think like hey we're we're never

going to be brought to justice right i think you know they probably thought that about ever being prosecuted here in the United States. You know, the allegations here are horrendous. This is a huge, huge case involving this sex trafficking ring, as you said. And they're pretty vicious, terrible allegations if they're proven to be true against these two brothers. And I think they probably thought exactly what you just said, that because of their connections, they're never going to be prosecuted, at least not right now, in the United States for anything. What I think they didn't bank on and count on is understanding these treaties, these diplomatic agreements that exist among countries.

And there are many countries that we have extradition treaties with, meaning if one of, if we serve you with a valid indictment of involving certain charges of somebody and they come to your country, you will agree to extradite them to us. You will hold them for us and extradite them to us, and we'll do the same for you, vice versa. And so it's something that people try, there are people who are accused of things

that purposely travel to places that don't have extradition treaties with the United States because they can safely travel there. That's why I asked the question, did they know about this indictment? Because if they knew about the indictment and came here, that would have been brazen because that would create such an international incident

if they were refused, if the United States refused to extradite them to the United Kingdom, and it would have immense, immense repercussions if we then wanted to extradite someone from the UK here. So I think they miscalculated it politically, and what that means on just sort of the global international extradition treaty scale. That's what I think. I think you're totally right about that. and I think they had this, again, this false sense of security, and they miscalculated about how many child sex trafficking rings Donald Trump and his administration were willing to be associated with.

I mean, my working theory is if there never was a Jeffrey Epstein, and that would be great if we had a time machine and we could have put him out of his misery and avoid thousands and thousands of victims. And if Donald Trump didn't have any involvement with two leaders of that, I'm not sure he wouldn't be standing up for the Tate brothers right now. I mean, he knew or should have known that the Tate brothers were on the loose, that they were having dinners hosted for them, including with the Romanian government,

with Paolo, with Zempoly, who's best friends with Donald Trump. I mean, there's very few people you can say Donald Trump is best friends with, and he is one of them. They ran, he ran a modeling agency. You see where this is going. And so I just think at a certain point, somebody in the room, the situation room, said something, maybe it was James Blair, the Deputy White House counsel, chief of staff, said a version of the following. How many international child sex trafficking rings does this administration need to be involved

with? and you'd be surprised how adult some of the people have gotten in the room as Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan have reported. And I could see that kind of conversation. Like Stephen Chung even saying, I can't PR my way out of this one. And then it comes down to Marco Rubio because it's the Secretary of State. And he's got, of course, Florida connections. They still got picked up in Miami.

It's the Secretary of State that could wave the magic wand and not agree to extradite. and they decided they're not first of all marco rubio doesn't want to touch a child sex trafficking ring with a 10 foot pole i mean he's he's he's like he's probably watching blanche get ripped to shreds over his handling mishandling of the Epstein files and he's like that's not a secretary of state issue because this guy wants to run for president so he doesn't want to be associated with it um so i i think it starts with your original analysis a miscalculation about prosecution here versus prosecution overseas with an extradition hook out. And then you have this weird thing. I don't know if you caught the lawyer for who was a Jan Sixer, you know, defense lawyer.

He comes out and says, I think it's political. Well, what's the politics? Politics is what? He was meeting with people in the Trump administration. and oh, it has to do with Starmer in the UK. I'm like, this is like Trump continuing to blame Biden or Hillary Clinton or Obama for his cost of living in affordability problems. Starmer?

That's the problem? No, I think it's the fact that your clients have been accused of 59 counts, including child sex trafficking and pornography. I think that's the problem and the fact that that is even too radioactive for this administration to intercede on. Yeah, completely, especially now, right? because the midterms coming up. Just another one.

So that's the reason I wanted to cover the Tate Brothers. So I wanted people to understand the close proximity of the Tate Brothers to Mago World and directly to Donald Trump. I mean, you know, the White House envoy, you know, Richard Grenell, who's on the board of the Kennedy Center, doesn't go to the Munich Security Conference and meet with the Foreign Minister for Romania to get the passports back to the Tatea

brothers unless Donald Trump approves it. And he did exactly that. And nobody's denied that they've done exactly that. And that baron worked to get the Tate brothers and their 10 million subscribers to support Donald Trump in the 24 election. And so when it was convenient, and Donald Trump was surfing the wave of the manosphere and the broadcasts and going on all the shows to get the votes, that, you know, because Trump's an opportunist. And now it's like, whoa, another. But they've always known of the allegations. There's been civil suits.

There's been people who have testified about being choked to unconsciousness and then being raped by the Tate brothers. And that's the people in the civil suit. Lord knows what the UK prosecutors have in their case, dating back to bad things that happened in the United Kingdom. Bad, got to get them off the street, right, Karen. Thank God for recognition loss. There's two facts that have come out tonight that are just so, like, I can't get past them.

Number one, how do the Tate Brothers have 10 million followers? Subscribers. Subscribers. How is it that they, I mean, given who they are and the things that come out of their mouth and the things that they do, how do they have 10 million subscribers? That to me is just such a depressing, like, I don't know, horrible fact, number one. The second thing is what you keep mentioning about how many Epstein survivors there are, that there's over 1,000, and I've heard 1,500, that there's 1,000, more than 1,500 sexual assault survivors from Jeffrey Epstein.

And it's not just Jeffrey Epstein, it's other perpetrators as well, and that there is not a single other prosecution that has come out of this. that Todd Blanche is giving lip service to these survivors, that they aren't doing, that we can see any legitimate big investigation and that there's over 1,500 survivors. I mean, that is like, again, I don't know that I've dealt with 1,500 sexual assault survivors in my 30 years of being a prosecutor. And that's, we're talking hundreds and hundreds of defendants.

This is one person, one person. who ran, along with Ghulayne Maxwell, ran a sex trafficking ring with over 1,500 survivors, and who knows how many other perpetrators, because this Department of Justice refuses to investigate this case properly. But I just can't get over those numbers. And so I just wanted to underscore them. Yeah. And, you know, Musk replatformed them when he took over X and reconnected them. Yeah, we live in a weird and depraved society where corporate America platforms, people like the Tate brothers, and all of that.

But I'm glad we covered it. We'll keep an eye on what happens. There's a big hearing in about five days before the magistrate judge. They are in pre-extradition detention in the federal detention center in Miami. I know that federal detention center for visiting clients there. In the past, it's not a great place. It's perfect for them. And then there will be a hearing and the magistrate judge will decide whether the extradition

treaty will be abided by. The Department of Justice has taken the position that it should be. And I think these people are off to the UK where they came from to stand trial and face the charges of their heinous alleged crimes. Yeah, I think you're right. And hopefully never to be heard from again. We can only hope. But we're glad everybody's here tonight on Legal AF.

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