Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Terrified Trump BEGS JUDGE For Advice During Trial

Episode Date: May 3, 2024

Trump wants the criminal judge to give him ADVANCED APPROVAL for his next gag order violations, and Trump has his back up lawyer so the asking. Michael Popok reports on Trump falling out of love with Todd Blanche and having his other lawyer Susan Nechless ask the Judge to pre-approve reposting right wing “news articles” in violation of the gag order, a Trump devised strategy doomed to fail. Thanks to HIMS! Start your free online visit today at https://hims.com/legalaf for your personalized ED treatment options. 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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confidence in his lead trial lawyer in the criminal case in New York, the election interference case. That lawyer is Todd Blanch, formerly an assistant US attorney, well-respected criminal defense lawyer, white collar criminal defense lawyer, but he's not Donald Trump's cup of tea. He hasn't been aggressive enough as a practicing trial lawyer. I think he's been too aggressive, too unprofessional, too skating towards the edge of being unethical, but Donald Trump thinks he hasn't been harsh enough. He hasn't attacked the judge, Judge Mershon and his family enough. And even when Mershon chastised in front of Donald Trump, Todd Blanch last week and said you're losing credibility with me, all credibility with me, when you're arguing in the gag order hearing that it's not a violation of the gag order when Donald Trump

arguing in the gag order hearing that it's not a violation of the gag order when Donald Trump reposts and retweets somebody else's attacks on witnesses, the court or jurors. Donald Trump didn't like that either. Now look, Donald Trump has a long history of firing and falling in and out of love with his lawyers. He's fallen in and out of love with Alina Haba more times than I can count on this particular hot take. He's hired her, he's fired her, he used her in the E. Jean Carroll cases, he back benched her in the E. Jean Carroll cases, he kicked her upstairs to be the head lawyer for his PAC. He brought her back out

to put her back at the council table in certain of these hearings about the New York Attorney General Civil Fraud case that was a loser. He fell in and out of love, really out of love with Joe Takapena. Fired Joe Takapena after Joe Takapena lost the first E. Jean Carroll case for $5.5 million. Let Alina Hobbit take over and she lost the E. Jean Carroll case for much more than that, for $86. million dollars. Now focus on Todd Blanch. Why? And this is what I'm going to posit on this hot take. Why is Susan Necklis, who had been sort of a back bencher, not even a co-first chair, really a second chair to Todd Blanch, meaning she was in the second position, co-pilot at best. Why is she making arguments to the judge? And now I've heard it all. Now they want advanced rulings and advanced orders from the judge about whether Donald

Trump is going to violate the gag order again. We just had not one but two hearings about the gag order and Donald Trump violating it, the enhanced gag order. The judge has already sanctioned Donald Trump $9,000, $1,000 per violation of the gag order, which frankly is the limits of New York law under the judiciary law. But he said to him on now the third occasion, you're skating awful close to being put in jail. The judge says, let me remind you, I can do incarceration in jail for the next violation. So now you got Susan Necklis kind of being pushed by Donald Trump into the fray. And I mean literally, I mean there's reporting in the New York Times that when Alina

Habba in the E. Jean Carroll case wasn't doing what Donald Trump wanted her to do and wasn't following his direction, he smacked her or pushed her on the back of her arm to make her stand up. Get up! All right? So he sort of threw Susan Necklis to the wolves today in the courtroom and day whatever we are with the Trump trial and had her stand there with a sheaf of wrapped of documents that were, these are, she said, and I'm paraphrasing,

these are news articles, your honor, news articles. And we want you to pre-approve them, that Donald Trump's allowed to post them without violating the gag order. And the prosecutor stood up and said, Josh Stein glass and others stood up and said, I'm sorry, she wants an advisory opinion from the court. See, let me just tell you something.

When you hear that phrase, advisory opinions, courts don't do or shouldn't do advisory opinions. They have to have a live case or controversy in front of them. They have to have somebody actually violating a gag order, about to, has violated the gag order. It's a lot of past tense in the law. You talk about what people have done in the past.

When you're talking about future conduct, now you're in the world of injunctions. You want to enjoin or stop somebody from a bad act in the future. That's an inj about future conduct, now you're in the world of injunctions. You want to enjoin or stop somebody from a bad act in the future. That's an injunction hearing. That's a whole different thing. And we're in criminal court. So we shouldn't even be talking about future conduct, right? This isn't a minority report. We're not we don't have the thought police. Tom Cruise isn't gonna

fly in, you know, and bash in the windows of Donald Trump's house because he violated the gag order or was about to. So you got Susan Necklis, not Todd Blanch, that's my point, being pushed by Donald Trump in front of the judge and saying, judge, we want pre-approval that this will violate the gag order. And the judge says, I don't do pre-approvals. My advice to your client is that the gag order

is clear on its face. The appellate court has upheld the gag order. There's no ambiguity in it. And he, and when in doubt, he should steer clear of trying to violate the gag order. She's basically telling the court her client is about to violate the gag order once again. This is like the little boy that put his hand on the stove over and over again. And when he couldn't figure out that the burner was on, he used his face instead.

That's what we're doing with Donald Trump. Donald Trump's like, well, that's 9,000. I wonder how many thousands of dollars Mershon will sanction me for before he actually puts me in jail. I dare him. I dare. This is what he's doing. I dare him to put me in jail, right? As like a bully. Let's describe jail for a minute, what that looks like.

I have a, we have a colleague now, contributor here on the Midas Touch Network, Judge Barbara Jaffe. She was a long time judge on this Supreme Court in New York dealing with criminal cases just like Judge Mershon. She said she would have already put him in jail already. I would have already put Donald Trump in jail already. The jail is either in the back of the courthouse,

sort of a holding cell jail, or there's a jail around the corner, a detention center around the corner that they can use for these purposes in state court. The other option is Rikers Island, which really is for permanent assignment. That's where all misdemeanors in New York get placed. If you're a misdemeanor criminal, you go to Rikers Island. There's some felons that go to Rikers Island for short periods of time as well before they get into a permanent

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that he falls in and out of love with. I'm surprised that Susan Necklis, frankly, is even still with Donald Trump. Not just because I'm surprised she's getting paid, probably from all these donor funds, all of these grifts that Donald Trump is doing. I don't know, all the Bibles and sneakers that he's selling. He's paying at least Susan Necklis.

But she lost for him. I mean, Donald Trump hates doing. I don't know all the bibles and sneakers that he's selling. He's paying at least to his necklace. But she lost for him. I mean, Donald Trump hates losers. He used to call John McCain the hero senator from Arizona who spent five years in a concentration camp as a prisoner of war during Vietnam. Called him a loser because he was captured and he was a prisoner of war during Vietnam called him a loser because he was captured and he was a prisoner of war for this country. The guy who's Mr. Bonespur's who never served in the military at all. So he doesn't like losers and Susan Necklis lost for Donald Trump two years ago. 17 counts felony convictions against his companies for tax fraud and business record fraud. So relevant and so close to what's going on right now in the courtroom that the judge wouldn't allow felony convictions against his companies for tax fraud and business record fraud. So relevant and so close to what's going on right now in the courtroom that the judge

wouldn't allow it in to go to the jury because it would be too prejudicial for them to learn that Donald Trump and Susan Necklis lost that trial two years ago. So how is she still around? You know, but Todd Blanch, what he, look, here's the reality. Everyone's worried. He's going to fire Todd Blanch and then ask for a delay. It's not so fast, not so fast. In criminal cases, judges don't like delay. And judges don't like to be a pawn

by a criminal defendant who's trying to delay the inevitable, which is justice and jury finding. So you don't get to fire your counsel that easily. So I'm not really looking to that, although it makes for sexy headlines. Donald Trump fires counsel in order to delay the trial. I just don't think that's going to happen. But what is going to happen is that Todd Blanch is either

going to have to stand up for himself. And we've seen these clips of Todd Blanch. We'll play one of them here. We see these clips of Todd Blanch looking very uncomfortable next to Donald Trump, increasingly uncomfortable next to Donald Trump. We'll play one of them here. We see this clips of Todd Blanche looking very uncomfortable next to Donald Trump, increasingly uncomfortable next to Donald Trump. I've seen other clips at the end of a trial day

or the beginning of a trial day where Susan Necklis is so far back and holding a clipboard, I thought she worked for the court system. And then I went, I like rubbed my eyes, oh wait, that's his co-counsel in the case who's now running into court asking for it. My client's about to violate the gag order again. A gag order, by the way, he doesn't even seem to understand Donald Trump. Because in front of Todd Blanch, who looks again like

he's getting root canal without Novakane when he's standing next to Donald Trump, he recently just said, and we've had it on the Midas Touch Network, he recently just said Donald Trump, I'd love to answer that question, but I can't testify because I got a gag order. I mean, talk about Captain Confusion. This is the guy some people are thinking about restoring to the presidency, the guy that can't keep his eyes open, he falls asleep every day, every day, REM sleep in court, according to reliable court watchers. And he can't figure out that the gag order is not about in-court statements. It's about out-of-court statements, extra-traditional statements.

It's not gagging him from testifying. The only thing that's stopping him from testifying is, I don't know, logic and the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination. Short of that, there's no gag order nor could there constitutionally, uh, civil due process, civil rights wise be a gag order against somebody testifying in their own case, if that's what they so choose. And you see, you see in that we'll play the clip. Let's play that clip. Well, I'm not allowed to testify. I'm under a gag order. I guess, right? I can't even testify about that.

No, we're going to be appealing the gag order. I'd love to answer that question. It's a very easy question. The easiest question so far. But I'm not allowed to testify because this judge, who's totally conflicted, has me under an unconstitutional gag order. Nobody's ever had that before. And we don't like it, and it's not fair. Other people are allowed to do whatever they want to us,

and I'm not allowed, as a presidential candidate, the leading candidate, the Republican Party nominee, and the one who's leading Biden by a lot, I'm not allowed to talk. There's never been any abuse like this before. This conflicted judge ought to get out of this case. He shouldn't be, he should not be having this case. He gives us nothing.

It's such a rigged court. So I'm not allowed to testify because of an unconstitutional gang order. We're appealing the gang order and let's see what happens. Thank you very much. You see Todd Blanch there looking like, wow, this is my client. This is the guy that's pushing me and doesn't agree with my decision making. Listen to this guy.

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