Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Legal AF Full Epsiode - 8/6/2025

Episode Date: August 7, 2025

On a special Legal AF podcast, intrepid journalist Katie Phang joins her long time friend and colleague Michael Popok to sub in for KFA, to tear down the hypocrisy about 1) the new not so secret White House meeting with the DOJ tonight to figure out if they should pardon a convicted child sex trafficker and abuser in the name of saving Trump; 2) as another MAGA leader and Trump associate is accused of sex harassment and revenge porn; 3) the Texas new congressional map fight; 4) Trump wrapping his hands around Big Balls—a 19 year old DOGE staffer who was allegedly car jacked in DC; as an excuse to attack people of color and DC’s sovereignty; and so much more in the defense of our democracy. Support Our Sponsors: VIIA: Try VIIA Hemp! https://viia.co/legalaf and use code LEGALAF! MIRACLE MADE: 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. ORACLE: See if your company qualifies at https://Oracle.com/LEGALAF PROLON: Head to https://ProlonLife.com/LEGALAF to get 15% off their 5-day nutrition program. Check Out The Popok Firm: https://thepopokfirm.com/ Subscribe to the NEW Legal AF Substack: https://substack.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 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

Welcome to the Legal A.F. Midweek edition. I'm Michael Popup. We got a lot to talk about here. We're going to talk about Epstein and all the updates on that. We got some new reporting that a Maga Maga Republican named Corey Mills out of Florida has a big problem. It may have violated federal law that he signed that he actually voted for in going after her next girlfriend and threatening to release sex videos, including apparently ones that he participated in, in order to get back at her. for breaking up he's married still has another girlfriend that claimed that he that she was abused by him which led the new the second girlfriend to now make these new allegations we'll break that all down and then we'll move out of the world of salacious sexual issues and maga and move into texas and california about the redistricting there about what 50 brave texas legislators are doing about it and what texas is doing in retaliation against them

And then, I guess to square the circle, we got to talk about big balls and the fact that a 19-year-old that was given complete unfettered access to all of your and my data when he worked for Doge and still works for the government, apparently, got beat up in the streets of Washington, D.C., leading our president of the United States to weigh in on the assault of big balls, as Donald Trump does another assault on the District of Columbia. and I got some great news for everybody. I got a special guest sitting in today for Karen Freeman, McNifalo, dear friend of mine, somebody that I know you already love, Katie Fang. Katie, how you doing?

I don't know, I'm being introduced after big balls. So I'm just kind of, I'm grappling at that right now. I think that's a compliment because you've got bigger brass ones than anybody that I know and that's why you and I've been friends from day one. The biggest question our audience has,

besides, at some point we'll give them the origin, story about you and me and that it has nothing to do with Midas and has nothing to do with media and it all predates all of that but the other question i know is coming up in the chats tonight we'll look down on it is who has more eyewear and bigger eyewear between you and me that's the real quick who's got the biggest eyewear collection i will concede you and listen these really i do need these like these are not for show they're not performative glasses like i need these to be able to see people and to read the chat and to be able to interact with folks but i'll kidding aside, it's a privileged to be able to spend time with you, my good friend, and to also

do this, like, quasi-crossover moment with the minus network. Let's touch on that before we touch an Epstein, because, look, you're a deservedly so. You're a well-known journalist that on the, what we call it these days, linear, linear TV streaming services, MSNBC for a long time with the Katie Fang show. But now you're on a sister channel with me. You're under the brothers, right? The Katie Fang News channel. Tell the audience a little bit about that, a little bit about you who may not know you, and then we're going to go right into them learning about who you are through the great legal commentary you're about to give. Well, I appreciate it. So yeah, I do have a YouTube channel, Katie Fang News. It is with partnership and in partnership with the Midas

Touch Network. And I'm also, you know, trying to, what I say, create high information America. I just kind of abandoned the idea, Mike, of us creating a high information voter because I'm not quite sure if we don't have the critical thinking skills to be able to assess the information that's being put out there, then we're in a lot of trouble. And so I figured I would dig deep into my legal background and also my comms background now to be able to spend time with all of y'all here and an independent media. It has been incredibly liberating. I enjoyed the opportunity to be on linear TV at MSNBC, but the reality is this.

You have to meet the urgency of the moment with the urgency of the message. And you have to do it in an unfettered way where it's unadulterated truth. And people may not like what you're saying, but you're telling them the reality and the truth. And that's exactly why I thought it was a no-brainer to join up with the Midas Network when I left MSNBC. So great. And just so people know you're not in your normal studio. You're on a holiday with your family. I'm traveling for Midas and for work.

I'm in Chicago. You're in Florida somewhere on a disclosed location. But what I love about what you just said is, of course, it's so consistent with the DNA of the Midas Touch Network and what Ben and I found it with Legal AF, which is we don't blow smoke or sunshine. We have to tell truth to each other first before we can go out in the streets and execute on that truth. And so we're going to do that. And you're right. Sometimes it's unsettling.

Sometimes it's uncomfortable. Sometimes it's deflating. But we always leave. And that's why I love about your news channel also and you as a person. You always leave the audience, not only with new information and new data points that they can use as talking points in their life, but you leave them with a call to action and what they can do about it. I mean, I never want to tell some, it's not like you go to the doctor and say, well, you've been poisoned. And then the doctor walks out of the room.

Like, okay, what's the remedy? What's the antidote? Okay. And so we're here to give the remedy and the antidote in our representative democracy. And one of the ways I think we'll demonstrate that is when we walk in now, to the Epstein case. And I want to make it clear to people because sometimes the network gets accused or we get accused of being, you know, clickbait or salacious

and we're just doing it for ratings or views, trust me, we're not. If I didn't genuinely think, and I know you feel the same way, if I didn't genuinely think that the Epstein sexual predator, President Trump cover-up didn't matter and wasn't important for us to press it as an issue about this presidency. I'm sorry, about this presidency, which is now swirling the drain. I would not cover it, but it is part of me. It is so important about how they're handling this, the relationship between the White

House and the Department of Justice, how he's, how Trump, a judge sex abuser, is looking to a convicted child sex trafficker for absolution. And what that says about this person, his moral. authority, which is nothing, and this lack of independence of the Department of Justice. There's so many stories within a story, within a story about Epstein. I've seen you reporting on it. Let me turn it over to you. Tell me what you've picked up lately, kind of advancing this story about the new reporting,

secret meeting, secret recordings, and how do you kind of frame it for our audience? Yeah, so I just dropped a video on my YouTube channel talking about the latest filings that have happened. And before we get into the secret meeting that's going to be happening at Vice President at J.D. Vance's residence this evening by in between Blanche, Cash Patel, and others including J.D. Vance, as well as Pamela Joe, I like to call her Pamela Joe Bondi. The thing about the latest filings, Mike, I wanted to make sure that everybody who's tuning in right now understands is we are now finally hearing from the victims, which in and of itself is a travesty. The victims and the

survivors of Epstein Maxwell and others should have been the primary concern for the Department of Justice since the get-go. And yet we know that all the way back in the mid-2000s when that bullshit sweetheart Clevea was entered into buying between Jeffrey Epstein and the U.S. Attorney's Office, as well as the Palmage County State Attorney's Office, the victims were never consulted on that. And that violated the Crime Victims Rights Act, which is a federal statute that requires that the government consults with victims in very significant ways to obtain. They don't have to give their consent per se, but geez, they need to have some buy-in into what the Department of Justice is doing or the federal government.

So since the mid-2000s, the victims have been ignored. They have been ignored. They have And this almost at this point, when you actually make Galane Maxwell out to be some lionized hero, if you're Donald Trump, they're now being discredited and they're being disrespected. But we've now finally heard from some of the victims and the survivors, and you would not believe what they are telling us. They're telling us that the Department of Justice has never consulted them prior to moving to unsealed a grand jury transcripts and that they continue to not have consultation by in between the victims and the Department of Justice. But Michael, what's interesting is that these victims and survivors for the attorneys have represented

to the courts, that they want those grand jury transcripts unsealed, that they want the transparency that allegedly was promised by Donald Trump. They want Americans to be able to see the people that have their hands just as dirty as Epstein and Maxwell. And so a lot of people would think maybe conventional wisdom would be as a victim or survivor that they don't want to have to relive it. But these letters make it clear. They have been retramatized by this process. And they are incredibly upset by the prospect of clemency being offered to Galais Maxwell, this idea that, as you said, Donald Trump looks to Galais Maxwell, who herself is a convicted child sex predator, child sex trafficker, child sex abuser, that Trump is somehow saying that Galane Maxwell

holds the keys to the kingdom of truth when we know that she was also indicted for perjury and for lying. And so at this point, this is what we needed to hear. Michael, we needed to hear from the victims and the survivors. And, you know, normally the law militates towards not disclosing grand jury records. But you know what at this point, based upon what the victims have said so far, we may end up seeing those records.

But I want to caution everybody, as you and I said at the beginning of this lie, we may not always want to tell people what they want to hear. But this has been a head fake by the Trump administration since the beginning, this grand jury record disclosure. There's not going to be anything. I don't know, you've covered this extensively as well. Yeah, no, you have to tell them.

There's going to be some huge gotcha, you know, Perry Mason moment from these records. This was hearsay presented through the lead investigative agents after they spoke to witnesses, victims, et cetera. Summary witnesses. Yeah, it's not going to be Donald Trump's testimony. It's not going to be even Epstein or Maxwell's testimony, right? It's just going to be a summary of information. And that is why I emphasize this anywhere and any time I can.

Donald Trump, not Pamela Joe Bonding, Donald Trump holds the keys to turning over these Epstein files. You do not need a federal judge to turn over the Epstein files. The only limited thing that is being addressed right now is just the grand jury transcripts by the judges. Yeah, which is not the tractor, trailer, truckload of 36 gigabytes of information that's still with the Department of Justice. But look, we see this.

You and I can piece this puzzle together very, very quickly. This is not a Rubik's cube. This is like a four-piece puzzle. And what is happening before our very eyes, as you and I both know, is practicing lawyers, is that Donald Trump right now with this not-so-secret meeting at J.D. Vance's house tonight. You and I, I don't know, I haven't been home to get the mail, but I didn't get that invite. But there's apparently a secret meeting tonight, toasted by J.D. Vance and Susie Wiles and Cash Patel and Pamela Joe Bondi.

And so the White House and the Department of Justice is roast in marshmallows tonight together to talk about the Epstein scam. and what they should do about it. Let's stop right there. Not that anybody thought there was any independence by the Department of Justice from this White House, but the fact that they're meeting for a strategy meeting and a little spitballing about what they should do about the Epstein file and the White House is meeting and directing traffic on this tells you everything you know about the corruption of the Department of Justice and Donald Trump. So that's one. Secondly, the reporting that's coming out of CNN and some other places is one of the things they're considering is not only releasing the video and audio of nine hours or 12 hours that Todd Blanche spent

hanging out with a convicted child sex trafficker as the number two Department of Justice lawyer, they're not only releasing it, which we knew they were going to do, and I'll give my thoughts on it, and you can give yours as a practicing lawyer, but they're also now thinking about, well, how do we best publicize it? Should Todd Blanche give a press conference? Should Todd Blanche go on, wait for it? Joe Rogan, I got news for everybody. If Tom Blanche goes on Joe Rogan, they're not going to beat the Midas Touch Network in terms of ratings.

And now you've got to suck one podcaster in. We'll have to see if there's reporting tonight. I'm dying to see if Dan Bongino, the other right-wing podcaster, number two in the FBI, shows up and hangs out with Pam Bondi, his new best friend about Epstein. But this Kabuki theater, this performative puppet show that you and I've been watching closely and the big pieces of it are as follows. follows. No government prosecutor meets with a witness without getting a full proffer from the lawyer. So Blanche calls David, Oscar, Marcus, his buddy, preexisting relationship, who is representing Galane Maxwell through his relationship with Alan Dershowitz. And the conversation goes something like that. Actually, why don't you and I do the conversation? You're right? I'll be Todd Blanche.

because I want you to come back on the show, so I want you to have the better role. So who am I going to be? You're going to be David Oscar Marcus. Okay, well, so here's the thing. I have to start the conversation because apparently media reporting is that Galane Maxwell's team

is the one that approached Todd Lange, which is interesting in of itself, right? That it's not that Todd Lanch said, oh, let's go to the person who we just saw on that photo. If we believe this. Cozy, right? If we believe this.

But you know what, let me tell you just for a hot second. Why I believe it, though? Because Galane Maxwell, while being an opportunist on this, clearly saw a chance to be able to obtain the clemency that she wants. And so, because she saw that Trump was foundering and continues to founder in the court of public opinion, as well as in the land of MAGA, about the Epstein files disclosures. And so she saw a way to be able to iner something to her benefit by cozying up to Trump

and Trump's legal team to say, I am here as your savior. You can save me. Let me scratch your back. Okay, so here we go. One last hot second before we do our master. piece theater. Yes. And think about the timing, because Michael Wolfe, who's been on legal AF with our court of history historians, he has a working theory based on his reporting that the Maxwell family is the one that put the leather-bound birthday card scrapbook to the Wall Street

Journal as a signal that she can hurt Donald Trump or she can help Donald Trump. That story runs in the Wall Street Journal. Several days later, here's the artist rendering of the phone call. Okay, you're David Oscar Marcus, the lawyer for Galeigh Maxwell. I'm Todd Blanche. Go ahead. And I'm going to use a phone because I'm not going to want to have it being in track. We're not going to want to have it in writing. We're not going to use single. All right. We all know how that works in this. All right. So you're David Oscar. It's David. David. David. See you, buddy. How you doing? You know my client, Galeen Maxwell?

Yes. She's got some good deets for you. Why don't you come. come hang out with her. But by the way, it's not going to happen in the federal prison where she's currently held in Florida, which is not right now because she's in a nice minimum security camp in Texas. And hey, by the way, you know what, Todd, we'd like to have some special dispensation provided to her as well, which is you got to give her limited immunity because she's not going to talk to you otherwise. Well, this is great, David. It's so great to hear from you, you know, having been on your podcast recently, you and I are buddies. But before I even consider going to the big boss about immunity, because that's what you're asking for, let me get an idea of proffer of what

she's going to say before I go bother high-tailing it up to Tallahassee. What's you going to say, David? She's going to give you information that's going to absolve and exculpate Donald Trump and probably other significant high-level Republicans as well as heads of state and other people that are incredible titans of industry within their respective spaces. In addition to that, it's going to be of such value that you will be inclined to be able to grant her some relief, whether it is changing, where she's staying, perhaps also maybe the big guy, the big dumb orange her guy, that's not what David would say, because David's the big guy is going to sit there and say, you know what, that was

definitely worth my while. Oh. Oh, are you in truth? Did I give you enough? Yeah, can I just, here's just a few things I jotted down, David. Will she say that Donald Trump was never, she never saw Donald Trump doing anything with little girls? Yes. Why would, why else would she say, why would she else come and meet with you? Why would you come meet with her? Will she, will she say he was never on the island? I'm going to backtrack for a second because knowing David myself

I think this is what David probably said if that was the inquiry by Blanche. She will not she will not implicate Donald Trump in anything that was criminal or wrong because we know that the two of them chummed around and they were hanging out and they did all sorts of good stuff right so I feel like she would I don't think David would ever say that she would flat out

say that Trump she didn't see Trump do something bad if she should just say I you know I don't ever recall or something you know how we don't think he'd do a Full proffer, like, hypothetically, she would say the following and then lay it out. I just feel like David would have, I don't know, still do it. I just feel like Dave would have to be really careful about that, right? Because, and here's the other thing. David is only able to do as much as Galane has David do, right?

I mean, David is limited by the scope and the breadth of what his client is telling him. So, you know, and candidly, and this is kind of the pickle, right? Where else is David supposed to litmus test the truth of what Galais Maxwell is telling him? He can't. unless you actually have access to the entirety of Epstein files, which we know David doesn't have either, right? And so I feel like David probably took what Galane had to say and gave it in a way that was not going to put Galane Maxwell in a corner per se,

but I guess we'll find out if they release the transcript and the audio of it. So let's move forward before our break. That happened. Some version of what you and I just did happened. He goes to Tallahassee, nine hours, doesn't bring any of the prosecutors with them who know anything about the case. So he's willfully blind, so he can't challenge anything that she says. He can't, as Todd Blanche, Department of Justice.

But he came with a list of names. Michael, he came with a list of at least a question names. There's no client list, but where are those 100 names? Well, there is now. There's a Maxwell generated on the spot client list. Then we hear the Cheshire Cat response from Todd Blanche coming out of Tallahassee. Well, it'll be released. We'll release it at the appropriate time.

Now, if it was negative for Donald Trump, we'd never hear it. about it. We'd never hear from that again, but we knew it was never going to be. So now you've got, now the deal points are falling into place in order, and the return for that testimony to exonerate Donald Trump by a convicted child sex trafficker. It was the immunity queen for the day. She got it. It was moving her to a luxury prison camp in Texas with low walls. You can hop over, by the way. There's no barf wire. And people that do work release off the camp. They're allowed to leave that camp and go do work release? First, we can put this on a T-shirt, merch alert, first child sexual predator ever to be given better accommodations by the Bureau of Prisons

in its history. That's a fact. So that's two. And the third is obviously the pardon, whether it's been given already and somebody's holding it in their pocket in escrow, or it's coming later. That's what the meeting tonight is all about. How do they use her in a way that benefits Donald Trump politically and his legacy, and how do they get themselves out of this tailspin that the administration has placed themselves in? So for those that think they're not worried about anything in the Epstein files, having now spent three weeks trying to shove the genie back in the bottle, and nothing working actually getting worse,

they are so worried that at the highest levels of the Trump administration, except for the big orange guy, they're all meeting tonight to discuss what to do next. What do you think the result of that meeting is going to be? Blanche on Rogan, Blanche on this, the release of the tapes, What do you think? You're going to get excerpts of transcripts and excerpts of audio. I don't think Blanche ends up on Rogan.

Yeah, I don't think Blanche ends up on Rogan. I think that's too much of a wild card because I would say that Rogan probably would push limits on this. Because Rogan is on record saying that he thinks it's discussing that the entirety of the Epstein files haven't been released. But I think the excuse that DOJ gives on the excerpted transcript and audio is protection for innocent third parties. And that's one really quick thing I want to add before we take an app break is this. In the letters from the victims and survivors that have been submitted to the court regarding the unsealing of the grand jury transcripts, Michael, what it says in those letters is amazing. It says, and specifically Sigrid Colley from Boy Schiller, who represents Annie Farmer,

who's a very well-known victim of Epstein and Maxwell and others, Sigrid includes in her letter that the court should not allow the Trump administration to guide the court in terms of the people who are now going to be protected outside the scope of just the victims and the survivors, meaning, quote, innocent third parties to protect them from having, you know, people come to ill-formed conclusions about their involvement in Epstein O' Maxwell. Colley is saying, no, no, no, no, no, this should not be done by the Trump administration. This should not be, you know, you should not be guided by this, you know,

idea that these people need to be protected in any way. Because you and I both know, Michael, that they have been relying upon the adjectives of, quote, credible information, right? They've been trying to live in the Trump administration behind this idea that anything to get released has to be, quote, credible, right? In this instance, it should only be protection of the victims and the survivors. And that's it. Everybody else to hell with high water, Democrats, Republicans, independence, whatever. You, if you're in the Epstein files, your name will be released. And you know what?

Let yourself explain what it is. But at this point, what's going to happen is the excerpts, the justification is going to be, well, we needed to protect all these people. And so it's not just going to be the victims and such that are going to be excerpted or redacted, excuse me, from these excerpts. It's just going to be a whole bunch of people, including Donald Trump. Yeah, I'm glad you brought shine a light on the victims. They're getting so lost here.

Over a thousand women, then girls, pardon me, who were sexually abused by them and others. I'm not claiming that there weren't others. And you already hear the support for what you just observed, Katie, because you see Alan Dershowitz on television, who not only was Jeffrey Epstein's lawyer, but was also accused by Virginia Jeffrey when she was alive. She committed suicide in April because of all this tragedy, that she was, he once was accused by her,

there was a whole defamation case over it, about participating in sex with her when she was a minor. She later recanted that later in life, but he said, well, you know, I'm a perfect example. I was falsely accused, and, you know, It has to be credible. You see this whole ecosystem around Donald Trump and the depravity around it. And I can't think of anybody better to talk about it with you.

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And she's here as my co-anchored today sitting in for Karen Free McNifalo. All right. So, Katie, that was fun. I love the energy that we had together on all things Epstein. It's serious matters. And now let's move to other serious matters. again, a MAGA House of Representative member is in trouble again, and the same guy is in trouble again. Corey Mills, who had time in his life to go hang out with Donald Trump when he was

being prosecuted for his various trials up in New York, MAGA MAGA, right, has even told people a couple of things before we get to his new sex, potential sex crime that's been alleged. He says he was in the running or is in the running to be the head of the Department of Defense. If Hague Seth ever goes, he's an arms dealer. former member of the Armed Services. He also says he's in the running and he wants to run to replace Marco Rubio as the senator from Florida.

But I think he's going to have to get through some financial and sexual abuse allegations that have now arisen because his ex-girlfriend, he's currently married and only separated from a wife, and yet he has two girlfriends that have made serious allegations against them. The most recent one, she's not... Two that we know of, Michael.

we know of it could be like tiger woods unfortunately right exactly so not only is um is this lindsay langston not only is she the reigning miss united states i didn't realize that was a pageant but miss united states she's also a florida republican state uh committee person and she was in a relationship with him she thought she was the only girlfriend on the side of the marriage turned out that wasn't true and she's made some allegations about threats that he's made in dozens and dozens and of texts that she's turned over to Florida officials in which he's even threatened to release a sex tape against her because they broke up in February. And then we got the reporting about what happened to him with another girlfriend in a D.C.

hotel room, which led this girlfriend to find out she wasn't the only girlfriend. Why don't you take it from there? There's a lot to unpack my friends. I mean, sidepiece thinks she's the only side piece. Turns out she's not the only side piece. And turns out this guy actually has side pieces that are out of the girls too. Okay, this whole thing is so ridiculous. It evolves also allegations of bags of cash

that come rolling into Corey and Moses' home as well. But here's the thing. The reason why we're focusing on this tonight is, yes, it is, and listen, the thing that y'all will learn about me, Michael knows this, is, I, there's this phrase in Spanish, no I, no I, belo in my language, there's no hair on my tongue, there's no hair on my tongue, people. When I see the downfall of Maga, I'm going to relish it.

And when I see something like this happening, One, I feel very badly, I mean, for Ms. Ms. Langston. Two, I will remind people, these are just allegations, so obviously we need to wait and see. But look, her lawyer has put out some of the evidence in the form of text messages that he's put out on social media showing that this guy, Corey Mills, a congressman, had threatened Ms. Langston to be able to release these videos and these photographs. And so not only do we have a federal law that is potentially having been violated by Representative Mills called the Take It Down Act, which dealt with a revenge porn. That's what we call it in short, revenge porn. And interestingly, a sponsor for that one, are you ready, Mike? Was Ted Cruz.

We also know had his own little kind of porn tab issue as well on the Internet, but whatever. And then there's a Florida law, which is a revenge porn law. And I'm going to cite to the exact statute because I like doing this, with my viewers as well. It's section 784.089. It's entitled sexual cyber harassment. And the first time you violate the law, it's in misdemeanor. The second time or more, it's a third year's felony, which is punishable by up to five years in Florida State Prison. But you cannot post graphic nature, graphic images of sexual content without the consent of that person. And that is exactly what Mills has been alleged to have done in this case. But let's also talk about why the

The financial component of this mic is so important as well. The woman in D.C., with whom there was his allegation that he was physically violent with her, even though that didn't go anywhere, to be clear. Apparently Mills was paying $12,000 in rent for his beach house in New Sumerite Beach that he was sharing with Ms. United States, Lindsay Langston, and $21,000 a month in rent for the DC penthouse that he was having with the other side piece. And last month, the landlord filed an addiction notice in D.C. for his failure to pay $85,000 a rent from March to July.

And according to Ms. United States, Ms. Lings, and she would see people come to the shared house they had in New Sermuda Beach with, quote, bags of cash. It all lives in a cesspool of filth to this, because it just makes somebody like Mills susceptible to what? Bribery, susceptible to grift. I mean, these are the kinds of people that we don't want representing us in D.C.,

but we also don't want people that threaten to expose their girlfriends in their most intimate of poses and during intimate of moments, we don't want somebody like that. That's such a cheap little small, blank man that wants to be able to accuse and allege that he's going to do this. I mean, it's really wild.

And the fact that we talk about that just goes to show that people that are in positions of power, that control levels of power, should not be involved in this type of stuff. Well, let's talk about MAGA and all this. This is the, can you imagine if the demonstration, or any other party, in the course of just the last week, just the last week, were publicly considering giving P. Diddy a pardon? What is it with Donald Trump and convicted sex?

He didn't get the RICO charge, but he got other charges. P. Diddy is being considered for a pardon. George Santos is being is being considered for a pardon. Lawrence Taylor, who is a twice convicted child sex abuser was up on the stage with the president and other athletes and didn't even know why he was there. At one point he turned to the president. I don't know even why I'm here.

I don't know why you're there either as a convention. And now you've got Corey Mills who is maggot to the core, wrapped into the American flag while he's leaving behind a trail of creditor dead, a House Ethics Committee investigation, going after his girlfriend, having been accused by,

she eventually recanted it, but you and I had another. show can talk about why that happens sometimes, being accused of abusing, physically abusing a girlfriend at the time in Washington. That's how this girlfriend found out about she wasn't the only girlfriend, which led to the breakup, which led to the revenge porn. This is MAGA folks. I know some people are like, yeah, but I like the fact that they're against transgender

in sport. Okay, I'm great. But that can't be the animating factor about every one of your voting decisions. If you're going to take MAGA, then you can't. got to take maga the good and the bad i don't think you're in for a penny you're in for a pound so i'm okay with people making a conscious decision to be in one party or the other but if you're in that party then you then you own it you break it you own it you own that party and everything about it including the reporting you and i are doing right now so two things one you forgot one of my favorites

which is matt gates how can you forget mac gates i don't even know maga maga man ordinaire and sex and Venmo's and all that other stuff involving Matt Gates as well, in violation of the Mayan Act as well. So here's the thing. I really like what you just said because it makes sense. As of right now, we have a primary system of what, two parties, right?

Democrats and Republicans. Last I checked, Mike, there's not a separate party called MAGA. So what's ridiculous is the people that say that they're Republicans and they vote for Trump and they support Trump, but they're very, very clear that, but they're not MAGA. Well, Manga isn't a separate stand-alone political party.

And so in this instance, to your point, if you're a Republican, then you are all in for this. You are all in for the Corey Mills's failure to pay as rent. Can we do this math for a hot sack, though? $34,000 a month in rent this man is paying. $34,000 a month in rent? I mean, that's high, right? But anyway, I digress.

But you're in for this financial responsibility, the fiscal irresponsibility, which, ironically, fiscal responsibility is supposed to be the thing. Fiscal conservatism is the thing for Republicans that do not want to be affiliated with MAGA, but they say, I'm a socially liberal fiscal conservative. That shit don't exist. But you are in for this. You were in for the Corey Mills with his multiple girlfriends and the allegations of assault and the allegations now of revenge porn,

which is a crime. It is a federal crime and a state crime. And the level of casualness that these people have, have towards this. Cavalier. They're just like, oh, whatever. And here's the thing. It underscores the hypocrisy, and it gets back to Epstein.

Remember, part of the reason why we stand the Epstein story is not only because of the victims, but we also want to show the hypocrisy of the campaign promises that continue to be broken by Trump. He, by all accounts, has kept many campaign promises that he promised to do a la Project 25 to screw us over. With stuff like the Epstein files that he ran to say that he was going to release him, the second he was in a position to be able to get them out, we want to highlight those lies. We want to highlight that hypocrisy.

You got the same hypocrisy here with Corey Mills. The Republican Party, the Party of Values, the Party of Law and Order, the Party of, you know, let's get rid of, let's drain the swamp and get rid of those Democrats because they're so dirty and they're terrible and all this other stuff. And yet, what are you seeing? You were seeing the Republican saying, reporting for duty here, right? Reporting for the, reporting for my job of being alleged to have violated multiple federal and state statutes. Why? Because the guy is upset that his girlfriend that he was

cheating with on his wife is breaking up with him because she saw him with another girlfriend. I mean, it really is so sorted, but it fundamentally goes down to values. And Democrats have values and Republicans do not. Absolutely. Absolutely. Well, let's, we're going to take another quick break because you and I are going to round this off. You're traveling. I'm traveling. I'm traveling. actually making a play. Most people know I'm going to be in the same time zone, hopefully in the same house or restaurant with Ben tomorrow coming in, coming in later tonight. So we're doing all that. And that's the other thing about the Midas Touch Network, the people I think have picked up. You know, we are a collegial bunch. We are, we feel like we're family. I mean, I've been with

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Oh, my God. And so we always had that kind of report. And so, of course, I was a huge supporter of bringing you and having you join here. And I always said, once you were here, I just want to find ways to collaborate and do work with you. And I think our audience will be better for it. And if we can bring our friendship into our and the chemistry into what we do as an added benefit, I think it's great. And here's, we did a live substack last night together. We're going to do that every week on one substack or the other.

And we're going to do more work here together, of course, on Midas and on your channel. So that's how we got to this moment in time. And then when we come back from our next ad break week, we're going to talk about the Texas and California redistricting in the courage and bravery of those 50 members of the Texas house and what Texas is doing about it in terms of lawsuits and threats. and fines and all of that. And then we'll, no pun intended, we'll round it out with big balls talking about why Donald Trump is threatening the District of Columbia with his awesome power of being the President

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to mine. There's no BS. This is real friendship, real. This is how we are when we're hanging out. Yeah, we just saw each other in Miami. I know, and this is how we are. Yeah, we were like, we got to do this like for an audience. Let's do this fun. Let's do it for an audience. So here we are. So we're going to do, Katie has become an expert. I've been watching all your great work on the Katie, Katie Fang channel about Texas in its attempt to redistrict. And the brave fifth. I don't know they have a name yet, but the Brave 50 that have decided to do a little bit of caucus busting and breaking and make sure that they can't vote on this map and then and then Texas's response to that.

And then you do all of that and I'll touch on California for a minute and then and then we'll round it out with unintended with Big Pauls. So very quickly because I just did an in-depth video about this on my YouTube channel, the Katie Fang News channel if you're interested to follow along. But just late yesterday, the Texas Governor Greg Abbott filed a petition for a writ of quote, Rwanto, which is pretty much just a big Latin phrase saying that they want the Texas Supreme Court to declare that state representative, Gene Wu, who is the chair of the Texas House Democratic Caucus, that he, as a part of this 60 or so, Texas House representatives that left the state of Texas on Sunday and went to Illinois, New York, and other jurisdictions to break quorum. it wants the Texas Supreme Court to declare that he has, quote, abandoned his office pursuant to a Florida, excuse me, a Texas state statute. And as a result, his seat is vacant. So what can Abbott do? He can then try to do an appointment into that seat. I mean, it is the total gainsmanship here that is just so nakedly partisan that bothers me. But what's really fascinating is there's a little bit of a brouhaha going on behind the scenes. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton basically has written a letter to the Texas Supreme.

Supreme Court clerk saying, I see what Governor Abbott did, but let me remind you, it's actually me as the Texas Attorney General, who's actually the person who should be doing these Poe Walantau petitions. And so, you know what, we just need you as a Texas Supreme Court to just keep that on the back burner for now. And then after the expiration of a deadline on Friday, which the House Speaker said, you guys need to come back to Texas. If you don't, then there's going to be problems. Paxton said, you know what, on Friday, if something comes and goes after that deadline, I'll take it into my own hand. So what's fascinating, is you also have a little bit of some chest thumping that's going on between Paxton and Abbott.

But this is what I think is really the issue here, Michael. I think that this petition for a writ of Cuoeranto is a test balloon. And the reason why they're targeting Gene Wu is not only is he the chair of the Democratic House caucus. But Abbott is accusing him of being the quote ringleader behind this breaking of quorum. And the petition itself cites to social media postings and other kind of quotes within the media about why the Democrats were preparing to break quorum and the fact that they were taking money, because Abbott says that bribery has happened. He is actually saying that criminal activity has occurred by these Texas Dems who have been taking donations to be able to live while they have broken quorum,

and they are out of the state of Texas. But I'm also going to say something very kind of, I think, which is true as well, Michael. He's targeting Gene Wu because he's a minority. He's targeting a person of color because he's hoping that that will also rile up his MAGA base behind this idea that Democrats are these crazy Texans that are running amok and that they're, quote, abandoning their jobs. But we've heard from Representative Wu and others, and they've made it clear.

They're doing their jobs. Their jobs are to represent their constituents who are having their representation stolen by these Texas Republicans who are only doing the bidding of Donald Trump here. And so we're watching this very carefully because we want to see what the Texas Supreme Court does because it may establish a precedent, Michael, legally, to allow Abbott and or Paxton to go after the remaining Texas Dems that have left the state.

Yeah, when you and I were preparing, I said, you know, I saw your quote Waronto research that you put into the chat. I looked at, I thought, well, there'll be 50 names there, right? And I see, I see representative, woo. Of course, I joked with you and you agree. So after the Asian. No, see. Go after the Asian. And you go, that's what I just did in my hot take.

They went after the Asian one. And that's the test case, because he's not. Texan because he's not from around here. And yet he's so Texas. Listen, he was born in China and his family immigrated. And of course, we're going up to the immigrants too, right? Because that's very old grand maga. But he immigrated with his family from Texas.

And Michael, he is a Texan through and through. He's been raised in Texas. And he's been educated in Texas and he's raising his own family in Texas. And that's the thing. You can only be Texas if you're what, white or your only MAGA? That's the only way you can be Texas. You ever watch the comedian that has the show Mo? Yeah, of course.

know, and he's Palestinian and living in Texas, but he considers himself Texan through and through and talks about that a lot and a stand up and all. But, you know, these are the ways that they're trying to destabilize. We'll do it on another, you and I'll do it maybe on a live. You know, they're trying to attack the leaders of, and the brand of being a Democrat. That's why Pamela Joe Blondie, as Laura Lumer calls her, is going after Barack. Obama and going after the Clintons, they're not, Trump is not content with being a sore winner and winning a couple of times and winning this presidency and putting out and squelching his criminal investigations. No, he wants to do everything he can to destroy the brand

and the party of being a Democrat. And that's what we've been watching, along with his retaliation and retribution campaign. And so it's so important. And the short answer on the Texas thing is, yes, quorum breaking, which is what the Texas Supreme Court has even acknowledged as a legitimate form of political expression where you're representing your constituents by denying the quorum necessary. You need a two-thirds quorum in Texas to vote. They're on a 30-day session now to try to get that map past. By walking out, that's what we've been watching. It denied them, they've been sitting around twiddling their thumbs because they don't have the quorum. If they get removed, the quorum number.

goes down and they can go back to the work of screwing the Democrats and removing five seats that are held currently by Democrats. And then he can fill those vacancies with new Maga Republicans. But what's the redistricting fight over? The racial gerrymandering of giving five additional new congressional districts to Republicans. It's just, it's so brazen on its face. But why they're doing it, because some people are like, isn't it a futile exercise that ultimately whatever?

No. In many states, there has been great examples. And the walkout, it has been going on in Texas since 1870. The first walkout went on 1870. It was just two years ago. Yeah, I covered that too. Exactly. So it works.

And sometimes you're able to bargain because if they can't get the map passed, then they'll come back to the table to the Democrats and say, all right, we'll eliminate three seats, not five. You know, they'll be bargaining, which is still not great, but it's better than the alternative. Now, you contrast that with this map thing is going on in blue states too. You know, it's like a little bit of a mutual assured destruction. I mean, the Republicans are definitely trying to change the electoral advantage for the midterms and have a win for Donald Trump before we even vote.

And Democrats are doing the same thing. A problem with the Democrats, you look, because, you know, Gavin Newsom is staking a lot of his political fortune on his ability to get through a very pro-democratic map there. You know, and you see J.D. Vance reaches out and goes, how can that even be legal? Like, well, go look at the Texas map. I mean, what do you think the Texas is that legal? How is that legal?

So there's a little bit of symmetry going on here where the blue states are going to get bluer, the red states or purpley states are going to get redder, and we're going to sort of be, as Americans, we're going to kind of be stuck in the middle. The problem is in some of the states, like New York, we have a problem because we got out foxed by the few Republicans there, and they had us adopt a map

and a recommendation on a map from a guy who was supposed to be independent that ended up making it a Republican advantage in an entirely blue state. So the state where we could have screwed them, we figured out a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in a major electoral state like New York.

And there is a person, and you and I'll do separate hot takes on it, and I don't want to blow it here, but there is a person behind all of this map drawing for the Republicans. one person in particular that runs like the Republican redistricting map trust. It's some ridiculous name. But he's the person who's the alleged expert that is running around trying to get all these maps approved

and who the Texans and the other MAGA are relying on. And I'm going to do my own little expose on that guy at another time. But as always, there's a person, just like the attacks on all the higher education by the Trump administration, there is a guy, literally a guy behind that in the Trump administration, just as there is a guy, a person behind all the redistricting maps. I just want to very quickly, before we move on to Big Balls, I just want to say this. Maybe my hope from all of this, though, Michael,

is that we get to the very necessary long overdue conversation about the electoral college. That's my hope, because I feel like we have to revisit the electoral college issue. I feel like a lot of this, you know, gainsmanship that is happening on the redistricting and the gerrymandering. It lives in the land of legal when it deals with violations of the Voting Rights Act, because I want to make it's perfectly clear. Redistricting in and of itself is not bad. It's supposed to happen every decade after a census is done. It's this mid-decade, you know, BS that's happening right now in Texas that DeSantis is now threatening to do in Florida as well, Mike. I don't know if you know that, but DeSantis is threatened you're doing it as well in Florida.

But it's this mid-decade bullshit that we all know is being done. And what's wild is the United States Supreme Court in 2019 said that it actually was okay to be able to do it on political bases. But the Voting Rights Act was supposed to be able to say you cannot dilute people of color and their ability to be able to have their votes and having the representation that they deserve, which is why we have to be able to protect the Voting Rights Act. We have to be able to protect the existing case law on this. We have to be able to protect our people of color. But the Electoral College issue, maybe you and I need to come back together and do this on a live here. It's really important for people to talk about the Electoral College because I feel like people need to go back to this idea of one vote per person and that's how it rolls out. But I digress a little bit here.

Yeah, we'll probably do a live substack on that. That's a good one because I'm not as confident about changing over to some sort of popular vote. We just watched a populist ride into office and win the popular vote. And I'm not worried. I'm as worried about this Trump as I am the next Trump. And we'll, that'll be a, that'll be a great teaser for, for our, our live substack. And speaking of teaser, we've been teasing big balls all episode. So let's get to it quickly.

We've got a 19 year old, I'm not making this stuff up, people. And we got a 19 year old Musk acolyte devotee who came in with Musk from Doge. They released him into all the agencies. He broke through all the computer barriers. You know, he, the goal is like this giant, one big government database. That's the goal of MAGA and Doge and Project 2025 Heritage Foundation. They want this one giant, you know, even though it'll be hacked within 20 minutes by the North Koreans or the Russians or the Chinese. But they want the Chinese, yeah, they want this one big thing.

And so this guy went from door to door, the Social Security to Treasury, to all the places with our most confidential and private and sense of information and they let 19 year old guy named big balls with his laptop go in there and and even there was even reporting at the time that like at the secretary of state he started hitting the delete button on funding for like us aid when marco rubio didn't want that to happen so at some point i did a hot take on this that i said at this moment in time write it down put in the time capsule our effective de facto secretary of state is not Marco Rubio. It's a guy named Big Balls. And so that guy did not, unfortunately, crawl back under the rock he crawled out from when Elon Musk went back to continue to wreck his

companies. He is still hanging around Washington and the government working for the Trump administration and something happened to him in the streets. Go ahead, Katie. He's working at the Social Security Administration. Did you know that of all frequent places? But anyway, so he was with a a young woman, it was 3 a.m. in the morning, according to the police report, and some people tried to carjack the car. Let me be clear. I hate crime. We all hate crime. I'm sorry it happened. But what did Elon Musk try to do? Elon Musk made it sound like he was attacked by 50,000 people and that, you know, he was some big hero. Maybe he is. Maybe he's not. But the way that they're trying to make this into a much bigger deal just goes to show that they want to sit there

and they want to denigrate the city of D.C. because what they want to do is Trump wants to federal D.C. now. Trump is now using this carjacking, the attempted carjacking attempt here, and he wants to be able to basically say that D.C. can no longer have its autonomy and independence and that it has to basically be run and operated by the federal government,

which we've heard, this is a common refrain from Trump. He did it in Trump 1.0 in his first term as well. But it's terrible. Nobody wants crime. But for them to basically say, and by the way, it is just dripping with racism. You can't live in D.C. because the only thing that happens in D.C. is

crime. And of course, he's basically saying it's happening because of minorities. But that's not the case. And to use this as an excuse to try to advance your plan of federalizing cities is typical Trump and typically disgusting. And that social media posting, I mean, a bunch of 14-year-olds jumped big balls and took him down. Now, this is not, and this is what Mago wants to portray. This is not like the scene in Daniel Day Lewis's Lincoln, where he's on the battlefield. And he goes up to a 17-year-old soldier as the president of the United States and says, hello, soldier, tell me about, you know, what's happening here. And you're, you know, it's not this poignant moment.

Okay. We have the effing president of the United States who took time out of a day when he's supposed to be running a government protecting our economic and security and protecting our national security to comment about a carjacking involving a guy named Big Balls. I'm sorry if I'm not getting all misty-eyed. not going to win an Oscar, you know, if he would just, I would love to say if he would just do his job, but the problem is if he focuses on his job, it's worse. Sometimes I think I like, I want him to be distracted because it's one less nefarious, disgusting thing that he's going to do

with official policy that day. But, you know, the fact that he is so, I'll talk about Trump now, is so mentally fatigued and gassed. I mean, you see him over and over again. He can barely get down. Wandering on the roof. Wandering off the roof. from the roof. God, I wish, you know, a long walk off a short pier would have been good. But then you've got, he can't, you know, the mangled sentence structure, the allegations that he's illiterate and can't read, which have come up. He can't get himself up and down, Air Force One. I mean, say what you want about Joe Biden and the Democrats getting pilloried because of it. But what are, what are we watching? And does anybody think his brain is going

to heal over the next three and a half? It's going to get better. You know, you and I both had and have now lost parents who had some version of dementia. My mother passed away two months ago. My father, yeah. My mother had frontal lobe dementia, and I made a nice donation and asked everybody to donate in her name related to it. So I watched this happen. My mother developed it at 78. She was happy and carefree and living her best life at 78, and the next day she was in a wheelchair and lived that way until she died at 89. So I've seen this, okay? I'm not, I'm not diagnosing the guy. I'm not paid to do that. But things,

Presidencies age you, and what we are already watching, just seven months in is just the Donald Trump's brain going down and washing down the drain. His brain was already adled before Trump 1.0

in 2016. That was not even a secret back then. And Butler, Pennsylvania didn't help him. Well, I'm sorry. We need to have a whole other We will. We will. We will.

About that, because that dude's ear is way too intact for that to have happened. But I will just say quickly about the Big Balls thing. A very small little note in the police report was Big Balls had his cell phone stole. Oh, yeah. Which people have stolen all the time or they lose him. But my concern is it's Doge, it's Big Balls. I mean, what in the actual hell that this man actually have on his cell phone in terms of data and access? I just want to leave our viewers with that fearful.

thought because we already know what they have accessed as Doge and this guy's now at the social security administration you mean to tell me he keeps multiple phones for work do you think he's thoughtful enough to say here's my work phone here's my personal phone no so it's all there and my concern is what in the actual hell was on his phone yeah maybe maybe he has maybe he has pictures with Corey Mills maybe that's what he has whatever it is we're going to find out I am so thrilled to have gotten through an entire show with you, not just a little sub-sack. I didn't break anything.

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