Legal AF by MeidasTouch - The Intersection with Michael Popok Full Episode - 9/2/2025

Starting point is 00:00:00 Has it only been a week since our last intersection? I'm Michael Popak, you're on the Midas Touch Network. So much has happened. I'm exhausted from the Labor Day weekend. And judges working overtime to rein in Donald Trump. Emergency duty judges like Sparkle Suknan, you're going to hear more about her today. And then other judges like Judge Breyer,

Starting point is 00:00:21 who seems to have worked all weekend to finish his 52-page decision, finding that Donald Trump, the Department of Defense, violated one of our most sacrosanct protections against a rogue president, the Posse Comitatis Act, after a trial. And we've got a press conference tomorrow of the Epstein victims, at least 10 of them, being hosted bipartisan fashion.

Starting point is 00:00:45 We have a Republican congressperson. We've got a Democratic congressperson joining together with 10 victims who are there to declare once and for all two things. We are not a hoax. and secondly, release the damn files. So there's an update in the Epstein matter. Donald Trump's health crisis.

Starting point is 00:01:05 See, Midas created a Midas health. Boy, that was fortuitive. That was like, when they originally formed that general, I was like, that's sort of interesting. Interesting. When you've got an aging president who denies that he's falling apart when to all reasonable observers he is, both mentally and physically,

Starting point is 00:01:24 I mean, the fact that that Pete Ducey of, I always want to mispronounce his name, the fact that Pete Ducey on Fox had to start a press conference question the following way, where were you when you found out you were dead, Mr. President? Between that and J.D. Vance, who was, I think, trying to solve for the problem of Donald Trump's failing health, but only made matters worse when he made the following statement. God forbid anything happens to him. I'm ready to take over. I mean, that would be the equivalent of Lyndon Johnson before a Kennedy left for Texas saying, I don't know what's going to happen at the Texas Book Depository, but I'm ready to take over if anything does happen.

Starting point is 00:02:10 Yeah, we're going to cover the health scandal, which is on top of the Epstein scandal, which is on top of the tariff scandal, which is on top of the everything else scandal all related to Donald Trump. And the polls show it. We're going to be crashing below the 30. approval rating soon. You wouldn't know it to watch Donald Trump. Well, it's very hard to watch Donald Trump because there's allegations of phony photos, AI generated photos of him at a golf course.

Starting point is 00:02:37 There's, where was he for four and a half days? Why was the big press announcement about moving the space force from Colorado to Alabama? Are we watching a Wag the Dog moment where he blows up a Venezuelan drug ship? and kills 11 people to reinforce this phony war we have with Venezuela and to distract attention from his failing administration. I've said it before, I'll say it again here on the intersection. Donald Trump politically times events like starting wars, bombing Iran, bombing Venezuela, releasing the Maxwell transcripts in order to step on horrible news stories and news cycle.

Starting point is 00:03:25 And this weekend was a horrible set of new cycles, which I'm going to talk about. We had Judge Sukhnan ordering 76 children who were put on a plane at one o'clock in the morning without due process, let alone an adult to be shipped back to Guatemala in violation of their refugee status. So at that order, he had today in the morning when we all woke up. I was shopping in a supermarket this morning for my family. covering part of the domestic tasks here as my wife takes care this morning at kind of a pre-prischool for our daughter.

Starting point is 00:04:04 I was picking out melons when I get an urgent alert on my phone. My phone blows up about Judge Breyer up in San Francisco coming out with the first time in U.S. history a pronouncement, a jury verdict, I'm sorry, a trial verdict that Trump and the Department of Justice

Starting point is 00:04:20 violated the Posse Comitatis Act. Then you had earlier or later in the week as we led into Labor Day, we had the seven to four decision by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals that totally destroyed two-thirds of Donald Trump's tariff scheme, which he's based the entirety, apparently, of his economics and economic model on. And so now we're at war with Venezuela. You see where this is going?

Starting point is 00:04:49 I want to talk about the health scandal, the Epstein Press Conference for tomorrow, and what's going on in Congress now that they finally got back from their summer vacation. What did you do on your summer vacation, MAGA? I hid from the press and the people that elected me. I hid from my responsibility to do oversight over this administration. I hid from my responsibility to release the Epstein files and to make sure that children have been protected and haven't been trafficked. I mean, we just had a ruling by Judge Suknan effectively that the Trump,

Starting point is 00:05:25 administration as more likely than not violated statutes against torturing children and trafficking children. I got an update about the Brago Garcia matter, a new gag order that's being considered by a judge as they pulverize him in public. You've got Christy Noem complaining that her 60 Minutes interview or her meet the press interview was edited to because she didn't get to continue to bash and malign this person who is a criminal defendant who's entitled to be presumed innocent of Brango Garcia. They cut me off. I didn't get to talk about his child predator conduct. And so we're going to talk about all of these things, including Donald Trump's fundamental attempts to create a standing army of his creation against our Constitution. Heck, against our Declaration of

Starting point is 00:06:23 independence to support him all on the intersection with Michael Popak. I'm glad you're here. For those that are here, we usually get a couple hundred thousand people watching this new podcast. Help stand it up. Help support it. Hit the free subscribe button here. Listen to us on audio podcast platforms as well. And then, of course, my main work is on legal AF, all things legal The YouTube channel, subscribe there, the substack, subscribe there, and the like. All right, let's get into it. Let's start with the health scandal swirling around. What was the last time a president had to deny that he was dead?

Starting point is 00:07:06 I mean, that is the question that was asked. You even have right-wing extremists like Nick Fuentes saying, something's going on with Trump's health. This is a guy who met with Donald Trump. at Marilago, who's a white nationalist, who supports the proud boys and the oath keepers, he's now questioning whether there's another scandal. Because let's be frank, Maga loves a conspiracy theory. And we've got one now with the health crisis. He is falling apart before our very eyes. The Trump administration keeps trying to cover for Donald Trump's failing health.

Starting point is 00:07:44 Well, he's got a vain issue. The blood doesn't flow back properly from his legs to his heart. That doesn't explain the modeled hands. They try to cover with makeup. That doesn't explain the muddy thinking that they can't cover up with his incoherent, grammatically incorrect postings in the middle of the night or all hours of the day. That can't explain his inability to walk in a straight line like he's failed a DUI test. That doesn't explain the grainy photos that they try to show us, as we joke on the Midas Dutch Network, the proof of life photos.

Starting point is 00:08:19 He's still alive. It looked like the Loch Ness monster. It was this pixelated, blurry photo. Pardon me, they have a presidential photographer who can take a decent shot. How about a staffer with an iPhone if they weren't trying to cover up? I mean, look, the Princess of England, Princess Kate, took a lot of flack when she tried to cover up her cancer crisis with these phony photos that were AI generated that showed she only had four fingers or, you know, like weird, disjointed ankles.

Starting point is 00:08:51 Same thing's going on now with Donald Trump. The fact that Nick Fuentes is saying something's up. The fact that Pete Ducey at Fox had to ask, when did you learn you were dead? The fact that people like Lev Parnas, who was close to Donald Trump, is learning that if he's not dead, he's dying. How else would you explain J.D. Vance? But he's the gift that keeps on giving, isn't he? Every time he goes on television, he makes the matter. worse. He's the reverse Midas Touch. Since they're trying to steal Midas Touch from Midas

Starting point is 00:09:24 Touch, he's the reverse Midas Touch. Everything he says turns to crap. They send him on to try to tamp down the Epstein story. And he goes on to try to blame Joe Biden, which leads everybody to say, including Elon Musk, release the damn files. Can't blame Joe Biden for it. You're still sitting on them, just as all the federal judges have said. Then they trot him out. to address the health crisis, which is a crisis. We don't get any Surgeon General report about his health, no personal doctor, no, nobody at, you know, Reed Memorial Hospital, the Naval Hospital,

Starting point is 00:10:04 giving us a report on the president. We get spoon fed, well, he's got a vein problem. Well, how do you explain the rest? Look, you either believe that he was the subject of an assassination attempt Butler, Pennsylvania and something hit his ear. Or you don't. But if you believe that a piece of shrapnel or a bullet hit his ear, are we seeing the effects of that now? 11, 12 months later? I mean, that was, if you believe it happened, that was a concussive event that rattled his brain in his brain

Starting point is 00:10:38 cage. Are we seeing the effects of it now? Since he tried to deny it and use it in order to get elected, tough guy, Trump, but are we seeing the effects of it now? And no amount of makeup and J.D. Vance saying, well, God forbid anything happens, I'm ready to take over. Oh, really? It's all right. It's okay. But that's not helping. And the reason we focus on the health is because Donald Trump is lying to the American people about the condition of his health. And we can see it with the phony photos. And as I said at the top, the conspiracy theories, MAGA loves a good conspiracy theory. They're probably getting fatigued with Epstein. So they're moving on to, is Donald Trump dead or alive? Wanted. Dead or alive. President Trump. I mean that in a health condition.

Starting point is 00:11:32 So let me move on on the intersection now that we've fully talked about the health crisis. and Donald Trump's attempts to minimize and take away the story of the health crisis by starting a war with Venezuela, claiming that there was a drug cartel boat and therefore he had to bomb it and kill 11 people. Again, the exquisite timing of Donald Trump to take something off his shelf to distract from a failing economy and in a failing administration. So now we turn to Epstein. Where are we?

Starting point is 00:12:13 Let's take stock. Let's take inventory on September the 2nd. Where are we? Okay. We were promised the Epstein files in their entirety. I mean, in their entirety by Pam Bondi and Cash Patel proxies for Donald Trump in February. This is now September. They thought they could feed us the grand jury transcripts and that load of lies.

Starting point is 00:12:36 That didn't work. They thought they could dribble and drabble out files, and that didn't work. And now even Republicans are upset. Besides the fact that it completely undermined the FBI and the Department of Justice and led to tremendous firings and turnover there. And people's careers are on thin ice. I'm looking at you, Dan Bonjino, deputy FBI director. Now you have Representative Massey and Representative Kana,

Starting point is 00:13:04 Representative Massey, a Republican who are holding a press conference tomorrow, which we're going to have live on legal AF, a press conference tomorrow with at least 10 victims who are going to be there to declare, we are not a hoax, we are not boring details, we were the victims of child sex trafficking by a best friend of Donald Trump named Jeffrey Epstein. and by Galane Maxwell. And they're there, I'm sure, to refute and to stop these attempts to rehabilitate Galane Maxwell in order for Donald Trump to get a pardon. I mean, the information that we're getting is that Trump is working his acquaintances and his accomplices to try to make the Epstein story go away and to give him a runway to give Galane Maxwell a pardon. It's important to hear from the victims who have been victimized all over again in all of these proceedings. They've been forgotten, and they shouldn't be.

Starting point is 00:14:07 They're now strong women. They were girls when these events happened, but they have a vested interest in justice, as we should all. So the Epstein press conference tomorrow, but side by side with that press conference, again, we'll have it up live at 10 o'clock a.m. Eastern time on the legal A.F. But in addition, we've got a motion that has been proposed, has been, it's already, they're already looking for what's called a discharge vote in Congress, led by Representative Massey, Representative Kana. They need 218 votes to get the Epstein files issue out of committee and to the House floor for a vote, to discharge it from committee.

Starting point is 00:14:55 you need 218 votes they're going to get awful close 212 Democrats are going to vote for it right Massey's going to vote for it that's 213 so therefore they need five more votes and Massey is sure he's pretty confident he's going to get those five votes I think tomorrow where we'll be announcing that the discharge vote has happened a procedural technique to get something out of committee which is the issue of the release of the Epstein files

Starting point is 00:15:23 and other orders related to Epstein out of committee and to the House floor. That where it belongs, for the American people to see how the Republican MAGA are operating before the midterm election. There's a lot of things at the intersection of law and politics that are all sort of coming together. You can see it now for the midterms in Donald Trump's political suicide mission that he's on and taking the rest of the MAGA Republicans with him. health will be a major issue not just his but the health of america you got rfk junior an incompetent a conspiracy theory advocate an admitted drug addict anti-science anti-medic

Starting point is 00:16:07 who is running all the things like the center for disease control and making public health guidelines and announcements who gets COVID vaccine who doesn't get COVID vaccine who lives who dies, who made him God, Donald Trump, who cares about as little for public health as he does for public safety. He's the most anti-public safety, meaning crime in America, anti-law enforcement, and anti-public health president we've ever had, which is shocking considering he presided over COVID. He tries to take credit for the warp speed at which vaccines were created, vaccines that have now been effectively killed and killed off by RFK Jr. He, and he had COVID infamously himself, and only because he got a cocktail of drugs that

Starting point is 00:17:00 the average person wasn't entitled to or couldn't obtain, did he survive? See, he almost died once. That took a lot out of him, I'm sure. You have an unhealthy, morbidly obese person who thinks, drinks, you know, eating fast food and swing at a golf club while the Secret Service kicks his ball into a hole and carries his balls and takes a little car from hole to hole. That's not exercise. That's not exercise. He's not carrying his own bag. He's not doing a full 18. The Secret Service are being exercised. They're working out, not him. And so his health, the health of America,

Starting point is 00:17:46 are all going to be on the agenda, on the minds of Americans as they vote at the midterms. National security. How Donald Trump has mishandled were the world conflicts. He's not entitled to the Nobel Peace Prize. He's closer to being indicted as a war criminal. The way he's handled Iran and Israel, Israel and Gaza, Ukraine, and Russia, even Indian, Pakistan. I'm telling you, he's one step closer. That's why he wanted to get rid of the international criminal court.

Starting point is 00:18:22 And he wanted to criminalize people from America that were working on the international criminal court because he knows he'd be public enemy number one. He'd be on the most wanted list. So the health of America, the national security of America, the attacks on our civil liberties led by Donald Trump standing up an army that he has made in his own image to serve as a standing army against the American people.

Starting point is 00:18:46 people. This is what's on the docket for the midterm election and how he's handled scandals like child sex trafficking around him with Epstein. I think it's ironic that Christy Noem, our crash test dummy of a Homeland Security director, takes to the airwaves to talk about Abrago Garcia being some sort of child predator. She works for somebody who was best friends with a child predator who's in a judge sexual abuser look over your shoulder who's been accused in court of of torturing children violating statutes about torturing children and trafficking children just over the weekend and for them to talk about and and to malign the victims of the Epstein scandal you know wrongs are going to be righted as we turn into the remaining

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Starting point is 00:23:59 Welcome back to the intersection with Michael Popak. You're on the Midas Touch Network. And let's get to what we always do, which is the intersection of law and politics. Thank you for being with us. We've got over 200,000 people that join us regularly on our Tuesday night edition. Then pick us up on podcast platforms. It is a podcast. Look for the intersection.

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Starting point is 00:24:52 a big, fat ruling first time in history that a president has been declared to have violated the Possi-combatatus Act. For people that want to know what that is, I'll give you the elevator pitch for the Posse Comitatis Act, it means that the might of the U.S. military forces cannot be used on domestic soil for civilian law enforcement purposes. You can't turn them into a cop to use against Americans. That's at the heart of our Constitutional Republic. That is part of our bedrock principles, starting with the Declaration of Independence. We have not and will not allow a president to have a standing army or, in the words of Judge Breyer today, a national federal police force with the president as its chief. I mean, that's what we're watching, right?

Starting point is 00:25:44 We're watching Trump, before our very eyes, try to build a national law enforcement, you know, militia that he can use on domestic soil. that is anathema to everything that we're about as Americans. Our military is only supposed to be used for national security, for outward attacks, or to protect Americans, but not to use a civil law enforcement. That's what local law enforcement is for. That's what sheriffs are for and police officers and other groups

Starting point is 00:26:25 and the use of the National Guard by states when necessary. not the feds, that's a bridge too far. And what Judge Breyer said today, after a three-day trial, that which he took in a lot of evidence, is that the Trump administration has clearly violated the Posse Conventatus Act by using Marines combined with Federalized National Guard to conduct civilian law enforcement,

Starting point is 00:26:51 searches, and seizures, and arrests, and perimeters and traffic stops, and the rest. And that is a direct violation, not only of their training, but of the Possecombatatus Act, which we've had since 1787, which stems from our breaking away from the King of England, King George, and founding America. Because he had standing armies, because he used the military against American colonists, because he allowed the military without civilian control to terrorize the, future Americans. And we said never again. Donald Trump is building a federal police force. He's spending $200 billion to hire tens of thousands of ICE and Border Patrol agents. He's hiring them out of high school without proper training, giving them a badge and a gun with they're 18 years old, cutting their training at half, not doing proper due diligence,

Starting point is 00:27:51 using white supremacist Nazi propaganda-like recruiting posters and digital media, which are all filled with Rockwell paintings of white people, talking about their heritage, talking about you want to chase illegals with your absolute boys and all sorts of other things that smack of white supremacy. there is no I have no confidence at all. In fact, I'm confident the other way that Donald Trump's going to hire as part of this national national police force. Proud boys, oathkeepers, Jan 6th insurrectionist, white Klansmen, Ku Klux Klanzman, and the rest. I don't think those are disqualifying credentials. I think that gets you the job in the Trump administration. He's recruiting like that's

Starting point is 00:28:48 what he wants. He's using their propaganda and their tropes to get people. He got 100,000 applicants in two weeks. They're not screening any of them. And if you think that's not a problem in the past, when we lowered our standards, hired people that were ill fit and borderline criminals or criminals for these positions, what do we get? Border patrol agents who were members of drug cartels. That's happened in the past, who committed murders and sexual abuse and kidnapping. It's going to happen again. Donald Trump, because he's the opposite of in favor of law enforcement. You know, he's got this thing about all of these cabinet members who sat around on Tuesday, praising the great leader from North Korea.

Starting point is 00:29:31 It's nice to see your big smiling face on the Labor Department, Your Honor. I mean, fearless leader, you know, trying to prop up his failing health in the public mind. It's all we watched. And they've got this thing that, you know, he is the law and order president. The law and order president led 1,600 insurrectionists who attacked our capital, tried to burn it to the ground, and tried to assassinate elected officials. He let them out the front door of the prison. And he continues with it.

Starting point is 00:30:02 He's given, he settled with Ashley Babbitt's family. She was this close to leading a group of insurrectionists down the Speaker's hallway to kill Nancy Pelosi and others. She's now, her family now got $5 million for wrongful death, and she's now being given military honors by President Trump, allowed to be buried in Arlington or wherever her service that she was once a part of, as Donald Trump rewrites history. So when Judge Breyer, and I have a full hot take-up on legal AF about this and on legal AF substack, and I just had the interview with Rob Banta that's going up tomorrow morning at about noon, Eastern time, that you should watch on legal AF YouTube, when you have Judge Breyer saying,

Starting point is 00:30:46 out loud, not only that the president is forming a federal police force under his control, which is illegal, but he then gives the scenarios in the decision in which he says, what's to stop Donald Trump now? If I don't stop him with this ruling, what's to stop him from declaring that in order to promote the rule, rules and to execute the laws around election laws. I've heard rumors that there is election fraud going on. So I need to use the Federalized National Guard and the Marines to cancel elections, seize voting machines, stop mail-in balloting, absentee balloting, seizing the ballots and counting them myself or discarding them. What's to stop them from doing that? This is what Judge

Starting point is 00:31:43 Breyer posed today as the potential ramifications of the the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals earlier ruling that allowed Trump to commandeer the National Guard. But this new ruling by Judge Breyer is the first of its kind. It says that Donald Trump cannot, or it violates the Posse Comitatis Act, use the federal military on domestic soil for civilian law enforcement purposes. He issues an injunction. He blocks the Trump administration. He declares it. He makes the findings. He stayed the case for about, to next Friday to give the party's time to go to seek their appeals. But this needed to be done. And it will be the blueprint, this 52 pages, for future judges on this area. So that was a good ruling.

Starting point is 00:32:30 Not the only great ruling against the Trump administration. He's on a losing streak. I mean, every week I say he's on a losing streak, but it's gotten worse. We just had the federal, we just had the federal circuit court, court of appeals, rule seven to the four, striking down all Donald Trump's tariffs, two-thirds of them anyway, all their cyprical tariffs against the 150 nations, and the trafficking tariffs against Canada, China, and Mexico related to fentanyl, ruling that he doesn't have the power under the international emergency economic emergencies Powers Act, AEPA. That nowhere does that give the president the power to tariff. Congress has to give that power.

Starting point is 00:33:16 expressly and they haven't. They have to list it in the statute of delegation. They haven't and struck it down. Now they've stayed that order until October to get to the United States Supreme Court and you've got Donald Trump saying it's going to be fiscal ruin if this statute is struck, if my use of the tariffs is struck down. Get ready. I think even this MAGA Supreme Court, I think it's 50-50, but I think there's a shot that they're going to find he violated Aipa. Now he has other tariff powers that he can exercise. He just didn't. He used Aipa, the International Economic Emergency Powers Act. There's other statutes he could have used. But they were harder. Required findings, required time. So he used the statute. You live and die by

Starting point is 00:34:05 the sword, my man. So in the meantime, he continues to collect the money to wallpaper over the big hole in the economy caused by his failed economic policies. This week, and I cover every week, the first video on legal A.F is usually my economic analysis. And this week, we get the jobs numbers, we get the economic slowdown numbers, consumer confidence numbers. It's going to be a bad week for Donald Trump in the economy. Yeah. And Donald Trump just wants to try to get a hold of the Federal Reserve, try to fire Lisa Cook because she, purportedly committed mortgage fraud.

Starting point is 00:34:46 She gets due process. She gets to prove her case. She gets to prove that that's not sufficient grounds, even if it were true, to be removed as a Federal Reserve governor to give Donald Trump control over the interest rates. And I don't even understand how getting control of the interest rates is going to happen by him firing Lisa Cook.

Starting point is 00:35:04 Even his own two governors on the Federal Reserve, don't believe the interest rate should be cut that much. Donald Trump says, I want two points off the first. Federal Reserve interest rate. I want it from 4.5%, I want it down to 2.5%. Even his own board of governor says that's ridiculous. That it should only be cut a quarter of a point. And this is all the cover up for Donald Trump's, again, failed economy. We're not seeing a power economy of the Trump administration. It's just a failed economy. And so far we've got the ruling by Judge Breyer

Starting point is 00:35:40 about the Posse Convitatis Act against Donald Trump, coming on the heels of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, ruling that a tariff scheme is unconstitutional and illegal. Coming on the heels of Judge Sparkle Suknananan in D.C., taking 76 children without due process who were tried to be deported in the middle of the night at 1 o'clock in the morning, she got him off the plane with 15, separate orders over the course of 24 hours. And what does Donald Trump do in response besides moving the space force from Colorado to

Starting point is 00:36:21 Alabama? He announces that we're at war with Venezuela bombing a, what he alleges, was a Maduro drug boat with 11 people on it. That's just a distractor. Does anybody fool for that in the press conference today? A distractor from a failed administration, a failing human beings. being physically and mentally. That's exactly what we're watching.

Starting point is 00:36:45 But this is what Donald Trump does with his timing when things go badly for him in his various policy pronouncements. So this is where we are at the end of another week on the intersection. I appreciate you being here. We cover it all. In between the Tuesday's intersection, we've got, of course, LegalA off the podcast,

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Legal AF by MeidasTouch - The Intersection with Michael Popok Full Episode - 9/2/2025

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