Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump Attacks Top GOP Judge as His Plans Blow Up

Episode Date: April 21, 2025

The Trump White House—led, no doubt, by Trump’s chief immigration henchman, Stephen Miller—has taunted the Supreme Court, the Fourth Circuit, and all Americans with a sophomoric yet chilling new social media post from the official White House account. The post declares that they will not comply with the Supreme Court’s commands regarding due process and the rule of law, effectively declaring war on our Constitutional Republic. Michael Popok sees this as a perverse “call and response” to Federalist icon Judge Wilkinson’s request in his order yesterday that the “good brethren” in the Executive Branch perceive the “rule of law as vital” and “summon the best that is within us.” Judge Wilkinson, you have your response. Go to http://mackweldon.com/?utm_source=streaming&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=podcastlaunch&utm_content=LEGALAFutm_term=LEGALAF and get 20% off your first order with promo 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

Stephen Miller, Donald Trump's henchman, is at it again. He's many things for Donald Trump, but first of it appears to be his brain trust pulling the strings on domestic policy, especially when it comes to immigration. And now he and Donald Trump and the White House are taunting the United States Supreme Court and by extension Americans and our Constitutional Republic. This on the heels of a scathing, withering decision, opinion written by one of the lions, the Mount Rushmore of the Federalist Society, right-wing conservative Judge Wilkinson, who wrote to Donald Trump effectively, what are you doing? You're out of control. You're not showing the judiciary any respect, and all Americans should

be quaking because of a rogue president. On the heels of that, and some other choice words and some soaring rhetoric adopted by Judge Wilkinson to support Judge Zinnis and her decision, which has been now affirmed by 21 judges in effect, including 9-0 of the United States Supreme Court, that she is properly administering our Constitution and our due process system through the Armando Abrego Garcia case. On the heels of that, Donald Trump is taunting Americans by taking a headline for the New York Times, crossing off words and saying, fixed it, and by the way, he's never coming back. This is a mature adult in the room executive in the executive function of the executive branch.

I don't think so. You're on the Midas Touch Network and Legal AF. So to answer Judge Wilkinson's request from yesterday in which he implored the executive branch and the gentle brethren as he called it, because he's an honorable guy, you know, he was born in a different era, to do the right thing, to aspire to their higher angels. This is Donald Trump's response. A fourth grader would have done better. Stephen Miller, I am sure, is behind

it. We'll talk about him in a minute. But just yesterday, just to put this in context, while you look at that particular screen, just yesterday in a seven-page decision, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals led by Judge Wilkinson, a right-wing conservative Federalist Society person who's against judicial activism, who is for judicial humility, decided he needed to try to call upon Donald Trump to focus on the Constitutional Republic. And this is Donald Trump's response. The tauntingness, the calling Senator Van Hollen saying that he was on a fool's errand for getting to meet finally after two days with Abrego Garcia, having him pulled out

of El Salvador's jail, which only proves the point that Judge Zinnes and the rest of us, that the government has the ability to, of course, release the jail cell door in El Salvador and release Armando Abrego back to America to go under the jurisprudence of Judge Zinnis. You can't have, as Judge Wilkinson said yesterday, both governments saying, you know, I'm with stupid, I can't open the doors of the jail. Somebody can. And somebody needs to be facilitating the release because that's

what the United States Supreme Court just ruled. Donald Trump's response to that is a food fight, is to write on the wall with his own feces, oh you know let me rewrite this for you, taunting. See Stephen Miller who will put up a photo of him, obviously bullied in school as he grew up, grew up to do a number of things. I think he went to one of my universities, by the way. I think he's a Duke University graduate. I'm not proud to say that.

But he is the one that came up in the first term as a White House counselor with the immigration policy. He's the one that had Donald Trump separate families from their children, parents from their children, and put them in cages. He's the one that said, including leading up to the Madison Square Garden Nazi-like rally when Donald Trump was running for office this time around, America is for Americans. America is for Americans and all policy should be that way. America is for a successful immigration experiment and experience that is the lifeblood and waters the tree of our democracy. That's what he should be saying.

And for Donald Trump in the morning to be attacking Senator Van Holland for going there, performing the oversight that is required to finally meet with Abrego Garcia and send a message back from his family and tell him to hold in there, hold on there. Cory Booker on his way down to the jails of El Salvador as well, leading a long line of Congress people who are going to do the same thing. What are we watching? We're watching the Democrats regaining their footing and their voice.

There's a reason why AOC has more money in the bank from fundraising than any other candidate right now. It's not just these rallies that she's doing where she's going into the heart of the belly of the beast of Trump country and getting tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of people to attend it along with Bernie Sanders. She's bringing in the money. She's right now the number two potential nominee for the presidency after Kamala Harris in 2028. There's a reason for that because her brand of progressive democratic policies

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That's M-A-C-K-W-E-L-D-O-N.com. Promo code LegalAF. Do we want who, you can raise your hand, you can leave a comment. Who wants to live in an America where we're taunted by a sophomoric, juvenile, half-brained president? Is this the America that we want to live in? Is this what the American flag stands for?

Is this what our democracy stands for? This is what Wilkinson said yesterday, and this is the split screen. Wilkinson on one side exhorting the Trump administration to appeal to their higher angels, their better angels and Donald Trump's response. It's like a perverse call and response. Wilkinson says on page six, it is, as we have noted, all too possible to see in this case an incipient crisis, but it may present an opportunity as well. We yet cling to the hope that this is not naive to believe our good brethren in the executive branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos.

This case presents their unique chance to vindicate that value and to summon the best that is within us while there is still time. And what do we get in response? Senator meets with deported MS-13 illegal alien in El Salvador who's never coming back. Fixed it for you at New York Times. Oh, and by the way, Chris Van Hollen, he's not coming back. We'll see about that. If this is the constitutional war battle that Donald Trump wanted because he doesn't know how to pick his battles, he's got it because now he's got Judge Zinnis in Maryland and she is right for the moment. Sometimes under the Klieg lights of publicity and stress and all of that, a lump of coal

either is diamond or dust under pressure. You either shine or you melt. She's shining. She is stepping up to the moment. She is supported by her brethren at the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, who have supported her not once, but twice, and nine zero at the United States Supreme Court. Every judge that has looked at this issue has said that the Trump administration has violated the Constitution and has ordered them to fix it. Or as Judge Wilkinson so eloquently put it yesterday,

why not make right what you have done wrong? Instead of fighting, instead of taunting, instead of throwing food. This is like Wilkinson's like a law professor and while he's giving this speech, Donald Trump and Stephen Miller and the others at the Department of Justice snickering while his back is turned throw a banana at him or cabbage or a piece of pizza.

It's a food, it's not a food fight. It's not funny. All those people who said, I want mean tweets back and cheap gas. Well, you're getting cheap gas because we're in an oil crisis because the world economy is ground to a halt because of his trade policies and his tariff policies. You got that. And is this the mean tweet you wanted? To sully the name of the presidency?

To drop your pants and take a crap in the White House, which is what he is doing, to the institution of the presidency. I, me, Michael Popock, student of the American presidency since I was in college, studied it at length, report about it, analyze it, commentate on it here. Every president since I voted in when I was 18, every president, even if not of my party, I, from Reagan all the way through Obama and then Biden,

I supported even if they were Republican. Bush won, Bush 2, Father Bush, Reagan. I supported until Donald Trump because I support, I'm an institutionalist, I believe in the institution of the office not its occupant at that given time. Whether they're gonna shirk their responsibilities and be judged by history accordingly, that's for another time. But I respect the office of the presidency until the current occupant, 45 and 47.

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