Legal AF by MeidasTouch - PATHETIC Trump DOES IT AGAIN and the DOJ Takes Notice

Episode Date: May 16, 2024

Did Trump just commit yet another CRIME AT MAR A LAGO by soliciting a ONE BILLION DOLLAR BRIBE FROM 9 OIL EXECUTIVES IN RETURN FOR TEARING SOWN BIDEN’S ENERGY POLICIES? The Senate and House Democrats, and public interest groups, along with possibly the DOJ want to know, and Michael Popok gets to the bottom of it all. For 30% off your order, head to https://GetSoul.com/LEGALAF and use code LEGALAF Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! Join us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/legalaf Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/lights-on-with-jessica-denson On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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and Ethics in Washington, AKA CREW, looking into a lawsuit and a possible referral to the Department of Justice for a violation of a federal criminal law that you're not allowed to take a bribe. You're not allowed to solicit a bribe, especially if you're a federal official. That's 18 USC 201B, which says that you cannot solicit anything of value

in exchange for a public official doing some act. Like give me a billion dollars and I'll totally scrap all of Joe Biden's clean energy laws that he passed and executive orders that he's passed on day one. In fact, oil companies believe that that's the case so much that they are already drafting

legislation and executive orders for Donald Trump to pass and sign on day one, handwritten by the industry. In fact, I just saw an article today and one of the major financial papers that said big business and Wall Street and financial services are getting comfortable with the possibility of a second Trump presidency and they're betting on it. They're putting all their money on it. I mean they may say we're gonna hold our nose but at the end of the day Donald Trump is good for business. This is the thinking and therefore we're going to back that horse. Already the oil

companies have given over, let's see, $7.3 million this last reporting cycle to Donald Trump. What did they get in return? Well, the last time Trump was in office, he gave them $25 billion in tax breaks. And now in a very transactional and coarse way, Donald Trump is offering to roll back over a hundred orders and decisions and rules of the Biden administration for clean energy and to protect our water and our air almost on day one. So now you've got four different ways

that this dinner at Mar-a-Lago, which nine different oil company executives at the top level attended, including Chevron, Exxon, and Occidental, and the American Petroleum Institute, which is basically the NRA of fossil fuel and the oil companies, they all attended this chop steak dinner in Mar-a-Lago. How ironic chopping up American values and policies about conservation and clean energy in return for a billion dollars. It sounded bad when I heard it, which is why I jumped on the hot take. It sounds worse now. And there are at least, as I started to say, about four different ways this is being addressed. I started to say about four different ways this is being addressed.

Two different committees led by Democrats in Congress are looking at this. The House Oversight Committee, the Democrats on it, who have subpoena power, have already sent letters to the nine top oil executives for them to account for themselves in attending that dinner. What was said? What did they promise?

What was the discussion? Why were they there? That's one. Secondly, the Senate Budget Committee and the Democratic leadership there, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. P.S., I have been told that I look like a younger version of Sheldon Whitehouse, but that's not why I'm covering this.

Sheldon Whitehouse, who has subpoena power with his committee, is also going to look into this obvious quid pro quo exchange, transactional exchange, also known AKA as a bribe by Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. That's two, two different committees in Congress, Senate and House. Three, CREW, which I just told you about,

the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. They were the group that sued Donald Trump on day one of his presidency because he violated the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution because he made a lot of money while he was in office from forcing people who did business with the government that he was now the head of,

he forced them to stay at places like the old post office, Trump Hotel in Washington, DC and do business with him. That's a violation of the emoluments clause and there was a suit over that. Never really went anywhere, the Supreme Court didn't wanna touch it, no surprise. They also, Cruz was responsible for the Colorado decision,

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Cajones, brass ones, balls to go after Donald Trump once again to at least open an investigation, Merrick Garland, about whether 18 USC 201B bribery has been established. Look, just the way it's been reported in places like the Garden, the Guardian and the Washington Post, it is completely in violation. Donald Trump said, give me a billion dollars and I will, when I'm president, do the following. Now, there's a fine line between a president or presidential candidate laying out his agenda. I'm anti-environment, I'm anti-clean water,

I'm pro dirty water in dirty air, I'm pro drill baby drill, whatever his policies are. That's fine, and you can also raise money. Give me money, right? But the connection can't be direct. Give me money, quid pro quo, and I will change the American policy in your direction, and I will let you, right,

Mr. Wolf into the chicken house to write the chicken house rules and put industry in charge of regulating environment. It can't be that direct. There has to be willfulness and intent, criminal mind in order to prosecute. We see the problems with that in the four different cases that have been brought against Donald Trump.

But that's where we're at. I don't wanna let this, you know, some people might think, Popeye, you're like a dog with a bone on this. It just happened. And I am glad that people are waking up, including responsible public interest entities like crew, the congressional Democrats, the Senate Democrats are doing something about it.

Is Merrick Garland going to put, and forget special counsel, attorney general or general Garland, just have your regular good old main justice do this. You don't have to go through a whole, lose control of the investigation like you did with the Biden document investigation by Robert Kerr, by Robert Herr.

Just let main justice look into this. Let the FBI look into it. It's easy. There are 20 or 30 people there. Suzy Wiles who heads up, Donald Trump's PAC was there. Doug Burgum, who's up for vice president. North Dakota governor was there. Talk to the participants.

Talk to the nine oil executives that were there. Get the PowerPoint that was presented, get the talking points, maybe it was recorded, maybe it was videotaped, maybe there's a surveillance camera in the ballroom or wherever they dined in the courtyard of Mar-a-Lago. Get to the bottom of it, open an investigation. That's why we got to bring these things to light.

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