Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump AG Finally Faces Day of Reckoning Over Secret Fixer

Episode Date: July 13, 2026

During his Senate Confirmation hearing, AG Nominee Todd Blanche will have to answer for whether he is in the back pocket of and controlled by not only Trump but also Trump’s “fixer” and hatchet man, Boris Epshteyn. Popok connects the dots between Epshteyn and top current and former DOJ leadership like Blanche, Emil Bove, Stan Woodward, and Trump’s battalion of outside lawyers in Miami and New York who file all of those bad-faith suits and appeals and motions because Boris tells them to. Learn more at https://thepopokfirm.com 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 Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show The Ken Harbaugh Show: https://meidasnews.com/tag/the-ken-harbaugh-show Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 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

Growing businesses deal with the same problem. Too many tools, too much back and forth, and not enough time. O-DU helps bring it all together. It's an all-in-one business management platform, fully integrated from sales and accounting to inventory and marketing, so your team can spend less time chasing information and focus on growth. Whether you're in retail, manufacturing, or service, O-D-U gives you one place to manage your business. Visit O-D-O-D-com to book a demo. It's O-D-O-O-O-O-O-O-com. There are so many questions to examine Todd Blanchon before his confirmation hearing next week. Where do we start? One place that's not getting enough attention is whether he's in the back pocket of being controlled by having his strings pulled by a guy named Boris Epstein. Who's Boris Epstein? Boris Epstein is the fixer for Donald Trump in his private legal affairs.

Took over from Michael Cohen after Michael Cohen went to jail. started as a political operative that became a legal strategist, maybe because he went to law school and he knew Eric Trump from Georgetown University. But Boris Epstein is that shadowy, sweaty figure that you always see with Donald Trump when he was being prosecuted for crimes in New York, being tried and convicted for crimes in New York, being tried for persistent fraud in New York. And Boris Epstein is the connector of all of the current battalion of lawyers and law firms and former lawyers and law firms for Donald Trump going after his political enemies, including sex abuse survivors like E. Jean Carroll, if you're wondering who that lawyer is, where did he come from, why is he filing a meritless

appeal or motion or complaint for defamation or otherwise, it's probably connected back to Boris Epstein, including Todd Blanche? These are questions. that Todd Blanche has to answer. And I'm hoping that this hot take seeps into the water supply to our friends of the Senate Judiciary Committee and becomes part of their briefing book to cross-examine Todd Blanche

because anybody who already indicated that he's willing to compromise his independence, there is no independence for the Department of Justice or the Attorney General with Todd Blanche, with Donald Trump, I want to get to the bottom of whether he's even independently operating at all. In other words, is Boris Epstein really the puppet master for Todd Blanche?

That is a question I will try to answer on this particular hot take once I expose who Boris Epstein is. I'm Michael Popak, you're on Midas Touch and Legal AF. Let's get to the bottom of it. I'm going to name for you more than half a dozen lawyers and law firms that all connect back and root back to Boris Epstein. Boris Epstein started out as a nobody. You don't have to believe me.

Those were the people in Trump's first term who referred to him as a nobody. I once interviewed Michael Cohen, and Michael Cohen told me Boris Epstein was a nobody. Well, that nobody became a somebody awful fast. In fact, he is currently running all of the lawsuits for defamation and going after E. Jean Carroll, the sex abuse victim, to try to deny her money. Where did that come from? Boris Epstein. The law firm that's handling that, Boris Epstein.

The lawyers that filed against the law. the ABC or the Washington Post or the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times or the Pulitzer Board for Donald Trump, Boris Epstein. And there's a connectivity between Epstein, Todd Blanche, Emil Bovey, Stan Woodward, which is all and had been all at the apex of leadership at the Department of Justice. And these are questions that have to be answered by Todd Blanche. Let's start with Boris Epstein's relationship with Blanche, with Emil Bovi, Blanche's law partner, and where is he today?

So Blanche and Bovi were recruited by Boris Epstein. Let me repeat, Blanche and Bovi were recruited from their law firms to work for Donald Trump. They got the job because of Boris Epstein, plain and simple. And as Blanche has risen through the ranks and Amel Bovi has been given the cushy job of lifetime appointment on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, they have Boris Epstein to thank for that. To this day, I am sure there is communications and connections between the three of them. It would be shocking if there were not. Now, that's not the only person in power and leadership in the Department of Justice

that owes his position to Boris Epstein. Stan Woodward, who is effectively the number two. He's effectively the deputy attorney general, the DAG, as Todd Blanche elevates to, you know, interim or acting attorney general. Stan Woodward was recruited by Boris Epstein to represent one of the co-defendants of Donald Trump in the Mara Lago case. And from there, his reward for working so successfully with Donald Trump's legal team to get the Mar-a-Lago case in their favor through Judge Cannon

to get the Mar-a-Lago report of Jack Smith buried in a tomb, is he got brought into the Department of Justice was given the job of the number three in the Department of Justice, now the number two. Stan Woodward owes his professional career to Boris Epstein. He's the number two in the Department of Justice. So I question again, the independence. Is Boris Epstein

the godfather that manipulates like a marionette, Todd Blanche, and Stan Woodward to this day? Now let's go outside. The lawyers and law firms outside, brought in by Boris Epstein. So you've got Alejandro Brito in Miami, David Z. Epstein, no relationship, who worked for America First,

founded by Stephen Miller. So you've got the Boris Epstein-Steven-Miller connection. David Epstein does whatever Boris Epstein tells him to do. That was a tongue twister. Sue the Chief Justice of the United States, John Roberts, and try to destroy the judicial conference he heads, It's a direct line from Boris Epstein to David Epstein, right? Period.

David Epstein joins with Alejandro Brito. Where did Alejandro Brito come from? A little-known lawyer in Coral Gables, Florida, gets hired by Boris Epstein to file all of those defamation cases on behalf of Donald Trump and Melania Trump. When they want to go after Michael Wolfe, Washington Post, Rupert Murdoch, New York Times, etc., etc. they use Alejandro Brito. Starts with a demand letter from him. He owes his professional success now to Boris Epstein. Now let's go to Sullivan and Cromwell.

Sullivan and Cromwell, a major white shoe firm. We call it a white shoe firm, sort of a very snooty firm in New York. I've beaten them a number of times in my prior life. But putting that aside for a minute, it's run by a guy named Robert Giofrey, who was the vice chair. Robert Gioffrey has been the subject of a investigation as to whether he, along with Boris Epstein, are the ones that went after those law firms primarily in New York to get them to bend the need of Donald Trump and give $100 million worth of free legal services. That was a Boris Epstein special as well, working with Stephen Miller. and he did it by having Robert Giofrey of Sullivan and Cromwell go to the first victim, the voluntary victim, Paul Weiss, a law firm who gave $40 million,

and that was the blood of the water. That's all the taste that Donald Trump needed and Boris Epstein needed to go after the other law firms. And then after that, first one was led, then all the other law firms came in again through Robert Geoffrey and Boris Epstein. Now, Robert Giofrey and Sullivan and Cromwell are connected again. again to the Department of Justice because Jay Clayton, who is the current head of the Southern District of New York, a once prestigious post to be the Manhattan federal prosecutor, all right? He is a partner from Sullivan and Cromwell. His replacement as he moves on to be the Director of National Intelligence for Donald Trump is Jamie McDonald,

a Sullivan and Cromwell partner. Sullivan and Cromwell is representing Donald Trump at the same time to appeal his criminal cases and to appeal his fraud cases, Sullivan and Cromwell. In fact, the red line that was just reported that has been crossed is that the partnership of Sullivan and Cromwell told their boss, don't get involved with E. Jean Carroll. We don't want to go after a sex abuse victim or survivor. Oh, too late. Because of Boris Epstein, Sullivan and Cromwell is now going after E. Gene Carroll, having filed a ridiculous petition for writ of certiorari for appeal to Supreme Court that was rejected 9-0 with no dissenters and have tried to upend not only her getting the $5.8 million that she got in the last 24 hours for her first

judgment for being a sex abuse survivor, but also are trying to attack her a $90 million judgment against Donald Trump for the same thing on a different day at the United States Supreme Court and another loser, bad faith, violent. Now, Boris Epstein's a bad guy. Let me just show you how he's been the attack dog for Donald Trump. Let me show you one clip of Boris Epstein so you know who I'm talking about. Play the clip. Since the election, his message hasn't shifted.

It's not changed. He seems very focused on an agenda, on a goal. And maybe that's something when he was talking about the establishment in D.C. today and his inaugural address maybe saying we've got to change how we do business here yeah Sean there's one word that describes why the Trump movement is now in Washington DC that's authenticity authenticity right not on Trump is an authentic man he's someone who believes what he says and says what he believes and that's why he's the president that's why governor of president is now the vice president and that's and that's so amazing for someone

like me we're immigrants in this country my family we came here as Jewish refugees and I'm so proud of everything that this country has done for us, but also what we've done for this country. And that's the given take that's so vital to the American culture, to the American fabric, that Donald Trump understands that like no other. So I would tell you, sitting there today, seeing him to become sworn in as president and that it's America. It's a truly special one. He's so bad. How bad is he, Popak? He's so bad that there were reporting by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan in the New York Times about three years ago.

that Boris Epstein as part of the transition of the Trump administration into the White House was shaking down members of the potential members of the cabinet basically saying, hey, if you make an investment, Scott Bessett, you want to be Treasury Secretary, make a $10 million investment in this three-on-three basketball league. I'm not making this up. Give me $100,000 a month retainer,

and you might get the keys to the kingdom. You might get that treasury spot that you wanted. did get that treasury spot. And apparently there was almost a fight between Scott Bessent and and Boris Epstein and a fight between Elon Musk and Boris Epstein. A lot of people were trying to fight Boris Epstein. A lot of people were saying, who are you? Now, Scott Besson says, I never did the pay-to-play thing. I never made that investment. But the reporting is out there based on corroborated sources that that happened. Boris Epstein is such a bad guy that David Warrington, who is the White House counsel, did an investigation during the transition about

Epstein and concluded as follows. Epstein is using, this is from a written report, Epstein is using his proximity to President Trump for personal financial gain. Epstein's conduct must be stopped and his employment in proximity to President Trump should be terminated. Terminated, he was promoted. And what I really want to focus in here is the, and this is what I want the senators to get on top of is the connection between Boris Epstein and Todd Blanche. We know Todd Blanche has been compromised already by Donald Trump. We know the Department of Justice is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the Trump organization and that he's in Donald Trump's backpocket. My question is, is he in the back pocket of anybody else? And is that somebody else named Boris

Epstein who's continuing to run the strategy and run the block and tackle for Donald Trump out in his private cases. See, I always wondered why Boris Epstein didn't come into the White House as a council, you know, like a deputy White House counsel like Stephen Miller. I was like, or put him in the Department of Justice. My fear at the time is they were going to put him in the DOJ, the number two or number three spot. No, no. He's much more valuable as a political hack, as a hatchet man for Donald Trump on the outside. Right? Why would he, why would he give up all the money he's making now, you know, I only know one source of his income, and I know there's other streams. One source, he gets $50,000 a month from Donald Trump's PAC to be a political and legal

advisor or strategist. And you multiply that by multiple people who want a curry favor and cozy up with Donald Trump. So why would he give that up to come in to the Department of Justice of the White House? Now I understand why he's outside, making the money, pulling the strength, got people like Todd Blanche in his back pocket. These are the questions that have to be answered. We're going to be doing a live stream of Todd Blanche starts on the 15th next week of his confirmation hearing. That's must-see YouTube.

That is must-see TV to watch Todd Blanche be hopefully successfully cross-examined to the point where he is unfit and determined to be by a majority of the Senate unfit and of that committee. That's going to be a Wednesday, Wednesday live stream only on Legal AAP. Take a minute, that free subscribe button in the meantime. I'm Michael Popok, until my next report later today. Popak here, when life changes in an instant

because of an injury or the bad acts of another, you need fighters in your corner. The Popok firm is dedicated to helping the injured in their families get justice and the money they deserve, and we don't back down. Contact us today, and let's start your fight for justice. this together.