Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump Announces DESPERATE LAWSUIT as His POLLS CRASH

Episode Date: August 13, 2024

Trump just put the American People and voters ON NOTICE that he is SUING THEM FOR $115 million dollars! Michael Popok reports on Trump putting the DOJ and US Government on notice (that’s you and me) that he is suing them for malicious prosecution in the Mar a Lago case Espionage and Obstruction criminal case dismissed by a Trump-appointed Judge Cannon, and explains why this is another FAKE SUIT by Trump that will never see the light of day and will likely get him sanctioned. Head to https://zbiotics.com/LegalAF to get 15% off your first order when you use LEGALAF at checkout. Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! Join the Legal AF 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 MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial 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 Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Michael Popak, Legal AF. You better take a seat for this one. Donald Trump is now suing, effectively, the American people for $115 million for what happened to him in being prosecuted for his crimes, alleged crimes, at Mar-a-Lago and the retention of national defense information and top secret documents. Yes, you heard that right. It's not enough that Judge Cannon, the judge in the Southern District of Florida, decided to do that, which no federal judge, even up to the United States Supreme Court has ever done, find that the special counsel is not appropriately appointed and wasn't appropriately

funded and dismissed the entire Mar-a-Lago prosecution against Donald Trump for his willful criminal retention of those documents. It's not bad enough for that. Now Donald Trump, emboldened by Judge Kennan, has decided to bring a lawsuit. At least he's put the government on notice, which is a requirement. You can't sue the federal government, which Donald Trump used to head and is now fighting for election to head again. He's basically suing not only his employer, he's suing the government that he once headed and he wants

to head again. And you and me, because that $115 million, if he were to ever prevail for this wrongful prosecution type case that he's now put the government on notice that he's going to be filing, it'll come out of the taxpayers' dollars. It'll come out of your dollars and mine, not Donald Trump. He doesn't pay taxes. All right, let's back up for a minute as a part of this hot take and talk about procedure and then talk about what he's trying to do. Nothing more, again, than a campaign ad for Donald Trump. This will lose. First of all, what lawyer did he possibly

find to file the claim that you were required to file before you actually sue the government? You have to give the government a certain amount of time to resolve outstanding issues before you bring suit in a court of law. You have to put them on notice and that's what I'm reporting on now, that that notice has gone out in the last day. Brought to you by Stephen Miller, a former senior advisor to Donald Trump. You remember him, we'll put up a picture of him in a moment. Stephen Miller, who was in favor of separating families at the border and putting people in cages. He then, you know, different MAGA advisors for Donald Trump went and scattered in different directions

after he lost the election. Some of them went to institutes to form a shadow government just in case Donald Trump got back in. Some of them went and formed, you know, Project 2025 to give Donald Trump got back in. Some of them went and formed, you know, Project 2025 to give Donald Trump a blueprint for the first 180 days on how to destroy our constitutional republic. And some of them, like Stephen Miller, who's not a lawyer,

set up a legal law firm, if you will, which is called America First Legal, AF Legal, not to be confused with Legal AF. As you can imagine, that's not something that we approved. So Stephen Miller has a bunch of lawyers. They run around filing a bunch of bogus lawsuits, challenging everything the Biden administration does. And now they're representing Donald Trump and they put the government on notice that Donald Trump wants $115 million of your money. Now, the basis for his suit is that he claims that Jack Smith,

the special counsel, didn't have facts, didn't have law, that the grand jury didn't hear evidence, that there wasn't enough facts demonstrating that Donald Trump on numerous occasions not only refused to return national defense information documents, top secret documents, things about our war plans and nuclear plans, things about our allies and enemies. He didn't just refuse to turn them over despite pretty pleased demands. He hid them. He obfuscated them. He used surreptitious means.

He tried to bury the footage, drown the video. He used co-conspirators to hide boxes. He hid boxes from his own lawyer. He hit boxes from the government, from a federal magistrate, from a federal judge, a chief judge in the District of Columbia. That's what he's being accused of. That's the crime. But to Donald Trump, it was nothing more than a malicious political vendetta by the prosecutors to affect the outcome of the election and to stop him from, uh, returning to office. That's all they're saying in this. There's no other merits there.

That's not even, even Judge Cannon, even Judge Cannon, who was appointed by Donald Trump, who's been over his skis from day one, bent over backwards to help him and dismiss the entire case. Even she didn't find it was vindictive prosecution, that the case didn't have merit or would fall into the bucket of what we call malicious prosecution. But Donald Trump, you give him a finger and he'll take the entire nation if he can. And so he loves to sue. Let me sue ABC News, because George Stephanopoulos properly reported what happened in the E. Jean Carroll case, in which he was found by not one, but two juries, to have sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll.

Let's sue ABC News. It's not my fault. It's George Stephanopoulos' fault. Let's sue the Pulitzer Prize board. It's not my fault about Russia collusion and other things. It's the reporting about it. I didn't actually collude despite what was found in the Mueller report. It's the Pulitzer Prize board of the New York Times. Let's sue them as well. Hillary Clinton, let's sue her and the Democratic National Committee down in Florida. That one,

he got a million dollar sanction against him for a meritless political screed masquerading as a lawsuit. But because the justice system doesn't find him as of yet to be a vexatious litigant who just files ad nauseam over and over again meritless cases, even though I would I would also put on his tally right on his on his bill. I would also put the 70 lawsuits that he he directed to be filed to try to keep him in office. All that were dead losers. So 0 for 70. Donald Trump is effectively, except for a half a case against Mary Trump, his niece, right, and half a case involving attorney's fees against Stormy Daniels. Everything else he's lost and lost big. Or he's filed a case against Michael Cohen.

Remember that one? And right before he had to give a deposition, he dismissed that case because the case is not meant to be a case. It's not meant, just like this one isn't, it's not meant to be litigated. It's just a way for Donald Trump to have a talking point when he's campaigning.

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Thank you ZBiotics for sponsoring this episode and our good times. and his reaper, right? Doing like, I don't know, one mini rally a week, if that, and everything else is like, you know, let's have a spaces conversation that nobody can watch and nobody can listen to with Elon Musk and let's have a five person press conference for my vice president. I mean, this is the most low energy quiet quitting campaign I've ever seen. The Grim Reaper and Shady Vance against who?

The joyful warriors, happy warriors, bringing joy to America of Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz. That's the comparison we're seeing. So he's gotta have a talking point. He doesn't have these courtrooms anymore because the cases are sort of over or stayed or they're just getting restarted. So he can't stand in front of those bicycle racks anymore and give these impromptu crazy press conferences. So he's gotta do Mar-a-Lago

at an unhinged one hour press conference. He's gotta do two hours with Elon Musk. This is no substitute for retail campaigning. And again, this is another of his trickery, his trickery, pulling it out of his toolbox. Let's have a lawsuit. I'm sure Stephen Miller said, I got a great idea. Let's sue the government for having sued you because you stole everything. Hey, that's a great idea. I can talk about that on the campaign trail. I mean, look, when you boil it down to its essence, all Donald Trump is doing is suing you and me.

Think about this. He's actually suing the American taxpayer who's also a voter that he wants their vote for because we're going to repay him. I don't even know how he came up with $115 million. He certainly did not spend $115 million defending Mar-a-Lago. I mean, he had like two lawyers. They weren't working full-time.

Yeah, I mean, if you had them all in, he had like five lawyers. They weren't working full-time. Three of them quit. One of them's a witness for the government. At least two of them are witnesses for the government. Jennifer Little and Evan Corcoran. The rest, Tim Parlatori quit.

And then he's left with a couple of lawyers and they're running the other cases too. So they're not even full time. What could they possibly have built to that file? I don't know, $10 million, $20 million. How does it get to 115 million? It's a big, fat, sexy number. That's all.

And he gets to talk about it. And then he can use that to reinforce his lawfare, weaponization of the Department of Justice. I mean, that's the quotes they gave. As soon as this story broke, they were ready. Stephen Chung, Stephen Chung, his spokesperson was ready. This is the weaponization of the Department of Justice and Lawfare. And Donald Trump is going gonna fight for you.

He's gonna fight for you until he puts his hand in your pocket and tries to reach in to the taxpayers and pull out $115 million. Where does he think it's coming from? Jack Smith's personal bank account? Merrick Garland's personal bank account? It's coming from you and me. And as I said at the top of the hot take,

he's not contributing to the Internal Revenue Service revenue because he doesn't pay taxes. I love reporting on this stuff because you have to call it out. You got to have a little bit of tongue in cheek when you do it. That's why I said, let's everybody have a seat. Let's go and take a minute. We'll follow it. What's the next step?

Notice of claim filed. Then the government has, I think, about six months to respond to that. It'll be after the election. He probably won't file a lawsuit to follow on the heels of this, but they get publicity. I do a hot take on it, but I do a hot take on it to tear it on down so you have a talking point, you have a palm card you can use with your friends and family when they bring up, well, Donald Trump just sued the government. I don't know where that accent came from. I don't know who that's supposed to be.

Then you can say, well, I just watched Popak on Hot Take and here's what I think is really happening. That's the purpose of Hot Takes. It's really to give you ammunition and information that you can use in your daily life, in your person on the street discussions. I've been known to have political discussions on the street. People who follow Legal AF know that 20 years ago during Bush versus Gore, I got picked out of a crowd to go on to a new show called Chris Matthews Hardball,

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