Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Michigan AG DROPS THE LEGAL HAMMER on Trump Coup Plotters

Episode Date: July 19, 2023

Michael Popok of Legal AF reports on breaking news that the Michigan Attorney General has obtained the state criminal indictment of 16 republican Michigan residents for being “fake electors” on felony counts that could put them away for 100 years plus, providing a path for other state attorney generals to both indict and stay out of the way of the federal investigation led by Jack Smith. Thanks to our sponsor EIGHT SLEEP: Go to eightsleep.com/legalaf and save $150 on the Pod Cover! Remember to subscribe to ALL the Meidas Media Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://pod.link/1510240831 Legal AF: https://pod.link/1580828595 The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://pod.link/1595408601 The Influence Continuum: https://pod.link/1603773245 Kremlin File: https://pod.link/1575837599 Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://pod.link/1530639447 The Weekend Show: https://pod.link/1612691018 The Tony Michaels Podcast: https://pod.link/1561049560 American Psyop: https://pod.link/1652143101 Burn the Boats: https://pod.link/1485464343 Majority 54: https://pod.link/1309354521 Political Beatdown: https://pod.link/1669634407 Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://pod.link/1676844320 MAGA Uncovered: https://pod.link/1690214260 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As part of the orchestrated plan, we allege that 16 Michigan residents met covertly in the basement of Michigan GOP headquarters, and knowingly and of their own volition, signed their names to multiple certificates stating that they were the duly elected and qualified electors for President and Vice President of the United States of America for the state of Michigan. That was a lie. They weren't the duly elected and qualified electors, and each of the defendants knew it. They carried out these actions with the hope and belief that the electoral votes of Michigan's 2020 election would be awarded to the candidate of their choosing instead

of the candidate that Michigan voters actually chose. This is Michael Popok, Legal AF with Breaking News, Michigan, Attorney General Dana Nessel, has figured out a way to thread the needle, stay away from the federal prosecution of Donald Trump and the fake electors and all that that goes into a conspiracy, yet bring to justice 16 members of the Michigan GOP Republican party who met in a basement and signed fraudulent certificates of election as electors, which they weren't to try to give the election to their candidate of choice, Donald Trump, and away from what the Michigan voters wanted, which was, of course, President Joe Biden.

And now they've been brought to justice by Dana Nestle, who with the permission of a magistrate judge at Ingram County has indicted 16 of these fake electors. They've gotten hit with felony charges under Michigan state law that range in possible prison sentences from five to 14 years. And this was a very artful way for the Michigan Attorney General who sits under the Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer. Remember herself, the victim of a kidnapping plot and conspiracy. I don't know what's going on in Michigan, but or what's in the water there. But this was a one of the many fake electric scandals that happened in seven battlegrounds states and Michigan and it's

flinty attorney general is not taking it lying down. Now look, she made her referral as many other attorney generals did. Two Jack Smith ultimately, ultimately with the Jack Smith, but it was the Merrick Garland originally saying, hey, we got these fake electors, right, who tried to meet clandestinely and sign with wax seals and feather quill pens, some sort of phony

electric certificates and try to throw sand in the gears of democracy. What do you want to do about it? We're either going to go after them ourselves criminally for all of the Michigan and state law crimes they committed or Jack Smith, you're going to do it. And now watching nine months of Jack Smith inditing from our logo, Donald Trump about to indict because we got the announcement on the same day within hours of Dana Nestle taking the podium. We have the information that, of course, Jack Smith said a target letter to Donald Trump

that he's about to indict Donald Trump a second time, this time in the District of Columbia, for we imagine part of the indictment, it's going to be about fake electors. So, so how did Dana Nessel both come up with a robust, muscular, state-based approach and get out of the way of Jack Smith and possible preemption or big footing by the federal prosecutors of her case. And yet look, Misha Ganders in the eye and say, I'm doing right by you is the top lawyer, top cop in, and Misha again, she indites.

And she indites just the fake electors. She doesn't make it a broader conspiracy, though, she could have, and brought in everybody else, including Donald Trump and Johnny Eastman of Rudy Giuliani and everybody else. She didn't do that. She focused uniquely on just her citizens, her residents of Michigan and brought a count or so against each one of them. And that's the way she can maintain her own case at the same time Jack Smith goes after Donald Trump and the others. And the other states, this could be a model for the other states.

We're seeing, for instance, in Arizona, the attorney general doing about the same thing. She's just further behind. She's not ready to indict. She's developing her evidence. But I expect now based on, you know, Dana Nessel breaking that glass ceiling of prosecutors, state prosecutors, others will do the same thing because they'll say, it can be, it can be plus, it can be two. It doesn't have to be, well, we have to wait to see what the feds do about our own criminals

and our own midst. We can do it too. I think this is going to be a real blueprint and a road model and hats off to Dana Nessel, the attorney general, attorney general Nestle for doing that. Let me just give, because it's important for a transparency who we're talking about and what we're talking about on this hot tick on this explainer. My old mattress would overheat while my partner and I were laying in it together, making for a terrible night's sleep. I'm so excited to say that this episode is brought to you by 8 sleep. Summer is reaching

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countries in the EU and Australia. Let's do the who first, then the what, and then I'll tell you that even the leadership of the in the state house of Michigan, even the leadership in the state house, the speaker of the house for Michigan, right? And also the majority leader for Michigan went in November 20th of that year to the White House to meet with Donald Trump and they came away and issued a press statement that said, yeah, we met with the president, but we didn't really see anything that indicates that this wasn't a fair election or that anything was unfair about Michigan or that its votes should go somewhere else. Well apparently 16 people that met in the basement of the GOP headquarters, and you can't

make this stuff up, thought otherwise. They thought there was a way to steal the election from Joe Biden and undercut the will of the people in their own state and hand deliver the presidency to the person that they wanted, not the people that Michigan people wanted, but even the leadership in the state house thought that was crazy, Uh, but wasn't crazy enough for these people. Who are these people? Well, let's just run it down. Cathy Beard in age 70, Hank Chote, 72, Amy Fatsonello, 55, Clifford Frost, 75 Stanley Grocht, 71, 71 John Haggard 82 Mary and Henry 65 Tim King 56. I read it out there. They're ages. So you know, these aren't children. These people know better. You know, these are, you know, 50 60 70 and 80

year olds in the state of Michigan. Michelle Lungren 73. Mishon Matic 55 James, renter 76, Myra Rodriguez 64 rose, Rook 81, Mary Ann Sheridan 69, Ken Thompson 68, Kent Vanderwood 69, and of the 16 I just mentioned, two in particular,

Kathy Burton is on the Republican national committee. And it's close friends with its Kathy Birdon is on the Republican National Committee, and it's close friends with its chairperson, Ronan McDaniel, Mitt Romney's niece, and Michonne Maddick, former co-chair of the Michigan GOP. You have been indicted by your attorney general, and here is the indictment. Everybody gets the same swag back from the attorney general. And here is the indictment. Everybody gets the same swag back

from the attorney general nestle. Everybody gets that I just listed one count of conspiracy to commit forgery, which is a 14 year possible felony, two counts of forgery, a 14 year felony, one count of conspiracy to commit uttering and publishing, usually means false statement, a 14 year felony, one count of uttering and publishing a false statement, another 14 year felony, one count of conspiracy to commit election law forgery, a five year felony and two counts of election law forgery, a five year felony.

And the Attorney General's Office, we've heard her statement at the top of this hot take of Attorney General Nestle, but they went on to say in a written press statement that the false electors actions undermine the public's faith and the integrity of our elections. And we believe also plainly violated the laws by which we administer our elections in Michigan. My department, meaning the Attorney General of Michigan's department, has prosecuted numerous cases of election law violations

throughout my tenure. And it would be malfeasance for the greatest magnitude of the greatest magnitude. If my department failed to act here in the face of overwhelming evidence of an organized effort to circumvent the lawfully cast ballots of millions of Michigan voters in a presidential election. Couldn't have said it any better than Attorney General Nestle.

I don't think this is going to be the end. I think this is the blueprint all Attorney Generals in the battleground states can use to both establish their own territory, get their own piece of turf and real estate to go after their citizens involved in the fake electors and kind of stay away from this sprawling more conspiracy-oriented set of charges and indictments brought by either Jack Smith, which would include Donald Trump, and or Fawni Willis, the Fulton County DA, who is also looking at places like Michigan and the as part of her conspiracy. But this is a perfect thread, the needle, right? This is putting a camel through the eye of a needle in the form of, let's just go after our state's bad people, alleged bad people, and we'll do that.

And we'll stay away from Jack Smith's prosecution. And we can live harmoniously side by side as parallel prosecutors. And that's what attorney generals who are the top prosecutors for each state can do. If you do it the way that attorney general nestle did, I'll follow. I'm breaking news and otherwise an analysis developments just like this one at the intersection of US law and politics here only on the Midas Touch network. I do hot takes like this about every day. I got about 250 of them sitting in a library on the Midas Touch Network YouTube channel under playlists.

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