Legal AF by MeidasTouch - 🚨Trump ANNOUNCES New AG Pick…with a BRIBERY TWIST?!

Episode Date: November 25, 2024

It only took Trump less than 4 hours to settle on his replacement pick for Attorney General, one of his impeachment lawyers and former Florida AG, Pam Bondi. Michael Popok who litigates in Florida has the inside scoop, including the allegations of bribery against her, and that she was a Saudi and Qatar lobbyist while she was Trump’s impeachment lawyer, and her close relationship with many in Trump’s incoming cabinet and White House. She also breaks Trump’s streak of nominating white males with sex abuse or assault allegations pending against them to top cabinet posts. Laundry Sauce: For 15% off your order head to https://LaundrySauce.com/LEGALAF and use code 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 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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She's been angling and trying out for that job for the last 15 years. Since she accepted a $25,000 donation from Trump University and Trump to make an investigation against Trump University go away. She's done everything for him as his private counsel. And I'll cover it all right here as a person who practices in Florida

and knows these waters pretty well. I'm Michael Popak, you're on the Midas Touch Network and Legal AF. Let's explode and dissect Pam Bondi before she does the same thing to the United States and the rule of law. Pam Bondi grew up in Florida. She ended up going to Stetson University,

a local law school there, made her way up after being a prosecutor to the attorney general's office, which she ran for and was elected, and ended up being the pit bull in the mouthpiece for any Republican governor that happened to occupy the office in Tallahassee. She got very close to Donald Trump.

In fact, she was planning, according to reporting, in joining a lawsuit to shut down Trump University, one of those gimmicky, bogus fly-by-night companies that Donald Trump slapped his name on, and join New York's Attorney General. But lo and behold, she ran into Donald Trump, asked for and received a $25,000 donation, and suddenly, Florida dropped out of prosecuting or going after Trump University. How odd. I wonder if it was a coincidence.

Now, Trump University was eventually shut down by the then and now disgraced New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, paying a $2 million fine and putting themselves out of business. But that's only the beginning of Pam Bondi's connectivity with Donald Trump. Right now, for instance, she works in two places. She works in Ballard Partners, a lobby group based in Washington in Florida, where she used to work with, wait for it, Suzy Wiles, the incoming chief of staff. Pam Bondi runs the corporate compliance group for them.

Then she also works at a place called America First Policy Institute, where everybody on the roster is referred to as the Honorable, even if they don't earn that, they didn't earn that title. But in any event, guess who else is at America First Policy Institute? It's a phony sounding think tank organization

that's sort of like where all the shadow government for Donald Trump went. They went to the Heritage Foundation and they went to the America First Policy Institute founded by Stephen Miller, who's an incoming special assistant to the president the second time around. So if you look at the roster for America First Policy Institute, besides Pam Beondie, who else do you see there? John Ratliff, who's the incoming CIA director,

and Linda McMahon, who was the Presidential Transition Chairman and is now the Commerce Secretary nominee. See, this is where they went to go hide as a parallel shadow government hoping Donald Trump would get back in. So again, I'm gonna come back to the premise I started with. I'm surprised Pam Bi didn't get this nomination

the first time. I have an explanation for it. I'm gonna share with you in a minute. But it also is, I think it's a little bit of misogyny. Donald Trump didn't want any women in the top four cabinet positions, state, attorney general, treasury, and state attorney general and defense.

Didn't want any. He passed on Joni Ernst, who's in the Senate, who's a Lieutenant Colonel in the military to be defense. He passed on Pam Bondi the first time and the rest. Now, Pam Bondi has been trying out as Donald Trump's lawyer for a long, long time. In fact, you may remember her from her leading the Locker Up chant, nothing like having

an attorney general that leads the Locker Up chant at the 2016 Republican National Convention. We have a clip. Of course we do. Let's play it. New York, aren't you proud? Florida, I love you. I love you! I love you! November 8th is a day of reckoning for all those who have abused their power. It's the day when we, the people, will take back our government. From Washington bureaucrats playing doctor with our health care, to a president who's been playing fast and loose with our constitutional rights and Russian roulette with our borders. November 8th is when America feels safe again. Because that's when America wins again.

Lock her up, I love that. That's just what I want in my person who's running the attorney general and the Department of Justice. I want them to lead the chant to lock somebody up. I do laundry a lot, but I wasn't a big fan of my old laundry detergent and how it makes my clothes feel and smell. This podcast is sponsored by Laundry Sauce. Laundry Sauce created the world's best smelling laundry detergent in simple to use high performance pods. Laundry Sauce has transformed the mundane task of doing laundry into a luxurious and exciting experience.

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Pam Bondi also had no problem going on Fox and Friends and Fox and News and whatever it is during the 2020 election and claim election fraud and that Donald Trump had won Pennsylvania. I mean that was so ludicrous that even Pete Doocy on Fox and Friends was like, do you have any evidence to support that? And she changed the subject and moved on, as they all do. When Donald Trump got impeached not once, but twice, just to remind everybody what just got elected president,

Pam Bondi served as his lawyer for the first impeachment in which he got impeached. She's also represented him in other matters, like the American First Policy Institute sent in a number of Atmachist curi briefs to support Donald Trump's position. Like whenever they needed a phony friend of the court brief to be written up, they went to the American First Policy

Institute, whose legal department was headed by Pam Bondy. And they sent in the brief First Policy Institute, whose legal department was headed by Pam Bondi. They sent in the brief, for instance, in Mar-a-Lago to judge Aileen Cannon, who, by the way, is probably thinking, what about me? What about me for attorney general? Don't worry, there's still potentially a Supreme Court position. I actually thought it would be a fight between Bondi and Aileen Cannon if there was ever opening on the United States Supreme Court, and there still may be. Now, the brief that was sent in by American First to Mar-a-Lago supported President Trump's then, sorry, ex-president, whatever, Trump's position, sorry, that the special counsel was illegitimately appointed and unconstitutionally funded.

And so there was an amicus brief that said exactly that signed by Pam Bondi. Wow, what a coincidence. Same thing to try to get the indictment dismissed under immunity grounds and other grounds in New York that led to the 34 felony count conviction against Donald Trump. There's a brief for Pam Bondi. How, how weird. How is that a weird coincidence? So she's got some other problems right now. For instance, when she was representing Donald Trump in the impeachment proceedings, as a Ballard partner lobbyist,

she was lobbying in the Arab world for Saudi Arabia and Qatar. And so Donald Trump had to wave a wand and give her special dispensation, right, for to do both. So while she was representing Trump in the impeachment hearing, she was also representing Qatar and Saudi Arabia,

both with strong links to 9-11 and what happened with the people who took control of the planes and crashed them into our towers, those cutters in Saudi Arabia. So, this is a little bit of a step back here, right? So, what's the takeaway? All right. I said earlier, I know how she got picked. Matt Gaetz got picked because Boris Epstein, who's the inside consulieri guy for Donald Trump that's been indicted in Arizona, was almost indicted in the DC election interference case, he made up his list. And on his list originally, Pam Bondi wasn't there, not in the top two or three for that position. Alien canon was.

They floated that out there and got a lot of grief for it. Matt Gaetz wasn't there. Boris Epstein was on the plane with Donald Trump about a week ago. And suddenly, Matt Gaetz is the nominee before they even land. Suzy Wiles didn't know about that. In fact, she's been cleaning up the mess ever since. So once that got struck, I think Suzy Wiles went into action. I think Suzy Wiles, who worked with Pam Bondi at Ballard Partners, and Donald Trump, who liked Pam Bondi,

I mean, you know, kind of fits his type, if you know what I mean, when she's not appearing on Fox News, trotted her out for the impeachment thing, trotted her out at all the conventions, has her stashed away at American first policy think tank and all of that. And then right on cue, I think Susie Wiles was like, look, let me pick this next one. Cause you've been sticking me with like Pete Hegseth,

who's got a rape charge against him that he had to settle and Matt Gaetz, can you let me pick this one? This is my artist rendering of Susie Wiles imploring Donald Trump to let her, not Boris Epstein, pick somebody. And he couldn't really say much. He's used her in a number of ways.

And so they picked Pam Bondi. Now, she's going to get confirmed. I just want to manage expectations here. Yes, the people that are on, the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee like Cory Booker and Dick Durbin and Blumenthal and Klobuchar, they're going to ask hard and searing questions about the $25,000 payoff that led to Florida dropping their suit against Trump University and other close relationships. But at the end, it's going to be just theater, performative art, and she's gonna get confirmed. It's a little bit like, it's almost like

he trotted Matt Gaetz out, and now everybody's like relieved that it's not Matt Gaetz, so anybody who doesn't have like a rape conviction is gonna get this position. So she's gonna get it, but I want you to understand who she is while we're doing this particular hot take. What's she gonna do when she's in the office? this particular hot take. What's she going to do when she's in the office? She's going to be Donald Trump's mouthpiece. He's not going to have any, he had problems with his earlier attorney generals, I assure you, he's not going to have

problems with Pam Pondy. When she gets up in the morning and brushes her teeth until she goes to bed or night and her head hits the pillow, all she's going to do is whatever Donald Trump wants her to do. And there's going to be a complete collapse. There's going to be no independence between the attorney general and the office of the presidency. You know how all the Democratic presidents never meet with their attorney general for a meeting or debriefing? Forget that. Or speak to them to keep their independence? Forget it. Pam Bondi, we're going check that sign in sheet at the White House over time. She's gonna be there at least once a week regularly for a meeting or a dinner or a lunch or a whatever

with Trump. She is. About what's going on and who she's investigating and who she's not investigating. And that's it. It's gonna be wielded like a cudgel or a weapon by Donald Trump. Even though he says the reason he picked her is because he wants to get out of the weaponization

business. In fact, we've got two social media posts that I do want to cover before we end the hot take. The first one is of course from Donald Trump and the other one is from, remember Matt Gates? God, it seemed like just yesterday he was nominated and quit in the third fastest on record of any cabinet member. Here's what Donald Trump said about Pam Bondi at 3.30 this afternoon. I'm proud to announce former attorney general of the great state of Florida, Pam Bondi, as our next attorney general. Pam was a prosecutor for over 20 years, where she was very tough on violent criminals and made the streets safe for Florida families. Then as Florida's first female attorney general, I think actually she's the only female attorney general,

she worked to stop trafficking of deadly drugs and fentanyl overdoses. We saved many lives. Okay, for too long, the partisan Department of Justice has been weaponized against me and other Republicans. Yeah, the ones that commit crimes. Not anymore. Pam will refocus the DOJ to its intended purpose

of fighting crime and making America safe again. I've known Pam for many years. Ever since I bribed her with that 25,000, that was my editorial comment. She's smart and tough and is an American first fighter who will do a terrific job as attorney general. Anybody believe this? Matt Gaetz is already heard from.

She's also found to be very interesting. Here's what Matt Gaetz has to say. Cause we gotta, you know, gotta hear from Matt Gaetz too. At Pam Bondi is a stellar selection by President Trump for attorney general. Because I wasn't. Pam and I worked closely together when she was Florida's attorney general

and I chaired criminal justice in the state house. That's interesting, I forgot he was in a state legislator before he became a congressman. She's a proven litigator, an inspiring leader, and a champion for all at Matt Gaetz. Don't forget me people. I have another hot take that's up about what Matt Gaetz is gonna do next. I'll tease it a little bit here. Senator Matt Gaetz, there's an opening, there's gonna be in Florida. Running for his old seat, Matt Gaetz?

Being stashed away in the administration in a position that doesn't require Senate confirmation, Matt Gaetz. Tune in to Midas Touch Network and Legal AF and we will cover it all. But that's our story on Pam Bondi. Her number two is pretty capable. He's going to get confirmed too. It's Donald Trump's lead criminal lawyer, Todd Blanch,

who will really run the day-to-day. Usually, the way that it works is the CEO is the Attorney General and the COO, the Chief Operating Officer, runs the day-to-day, is the number two, the Deputy Attorney General. Like right now, it's Lisa Monaco who sort of runs the shop with Merrick Garland on top. Then the assistant to the deputy is Emil Bové, another criminal defense lawyer. Then the Solicitor General nominee, John Sauer, is another Donald Trump criminal defense lawyer. The White House Counselor, the White House Secretary is another Donald Trump criminal defense lawyer. Are you catching on yet? And Pam Bondi is another impeachment lawyer for Donald Trump. He's just bringing all his private lawyers and law firm into the White House and around the White House and the Department of Justice. What could go wrong?

Michael Popak. I'll figure it out at the intersection of law and politics and bring it to you next. Until my next report, either here or on Legal AF, the YouTube channel, do you see why we formed Legal AF, the YouTube channel, a few weeks before the election? It was almost like we had a sixth sense, but there was going to be a lot of action in the courts and that intersection was going to be very, very busy over the next four years with Pam Bondi as attorney general. I assure you you it's going to be the Department of Justice against attorney generals in blue states all around the country.

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