Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump Attempt to Hide Dark Past Revealed in Shock New FBI Emails

Episode Date: December 3, 2025

In new reporting, previously unknown FBI emails now released show that “phase 2” representing a the rest of the Epstein files were 73 percent ready to be produced as early as April, but then Trump and AG Bondi killed the FBI review project hoping never to produce the documents especially those connected to Trump. Michael Popok reports on the new information and the existence of a long forgotten “Exhibit List” for Epstein’s criminal case that can be used as a check against what is ultimately produced to identify what’s been hidden still. PDS Debt: PDS DEBT is offering free debt analysis to our listeners just for completing the quick and easy debt assessment at https://www.PDSDebt.com/legalaf Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! 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 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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May of this year. According to new reporting by Bloomberg and a Freedom of Information Act response where they got their hands on the emails and now we've seen them, the FBI at the direction of beleaguered, embattled FBI director Cash Patel, I'm sure soon to be shown the door, but they were working overtime under Cash Patel's direction, including 3,000 hours. hours of overtime pay, 12-hour shifts in Virginia at a warehouse in Winchester, Virginia, comprised of FBI agents from Washington, New York, and other places, trying to, quote, unquote, redact the files, which is a fancy way of saying blackout information that would be identifying, not just for the survivors and the victims, oh no. It was obviously also to protect Donald Trump

and to get his name out of it. How do we know that? Because there's other reporting that come May, when Pam Bondi did a full briefing of Donald Trump, she told him that his name was all over the files. And we also have recent reporting in the last week or two from David Schuster that MAGA representatives, including Marjorie Taylor Green,

who were briefed about the files and what they contained, were told that they are worse for Donald Trump than was first reported. Now we've got our hands not only on the email, between the FBI in the redaction process, but we've now got the revelation that they were about 75% or 73% complete in the phase two production of the FBI Epstein files

when Donald Trump put a kibosh on it and killed it off. See, Donald Trump never had any intention of releasing the rest of the files. After the debacle that happened, blew up in his face with the release of phase one through Pam Bondi, you remember the client list and everything else is sitting on my desk he was not going to go back through that after she told him how bad the files were for him and so now we've got the fingerprints

leading directly back to Donald Trump in the cover-up of the cover-up you're here on my distutch network and on legal a.F I am traveling it is my birthday but it is important that we stay up to date on these types of things without blowing truth or sunshine big red-letter date on the calendar, of course, December 19th. That's the date by order, by bill, by law that the Epstein files in the hands of the Department of Justice and FBI, the executive branch, are supposed to be released to the American people. We know that Pam Bondi, who gave the kill order on the FBI to release the files and has got the axe out to get rid of Cash Patel, I don't know which is going to happen first, the release of the files on the 19th of December, where the fire

of Cash Patel. But if they fire him, it'll delay, you'll say it'll be your delay on the release. And then what happens if he violates the December 19th order that he signed? Who's going to take him to court? You know, what would be the next step if he doesn't, he doesn't comply? We know he'll either give himself an extension, you know, or something like he did with the sale of TikTok. So it has no real teeth in it.

It was done for political purposes to give him some sort of cover. Now, we've got new, we've got new FBI emails that were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by way of Bloomberg that showed the redaction process in full swing, the training that went into the redaction process, and then how many hours were spent in that process. We had already reported it was around the clock, morning, noon, and night, 12-hour shifts, but now we know more than 3,000 hours of people power were spent doing that process. process. At the time that Pam Bondi told the world that the files were on her desk ready to be produced, they were about ready to be produced based on this new information we got on the FBI emails. Let's play as a reminder, the email of first Donald Trump saying on the campaign trail that he would release the files. Let's play that clip first. If you were president, would you declassify, you can answer yes or no to this? Would you declassify the 9-11 files? Yeah. Would you declassify

JFK files. Yeah. I did. I did a lot of it. Would you declassify the Epstein files? Yeah. Yeah, I would. All right. I guess I would. I think that less so because, you know, you don't know it. You don't want to affect people's lives if it's phony stuff in there because it's a lot of phony stuff with that whole world. But I think I would or at least that. Do you think that would restore trust? Help restore trust. Yeah, I don't know about Epstein so much as I do the others. 9-11. Yeah, JFK. I'm with you. Jeffrey Epstein. Yeah, well, huh, why would Donald Trump be so circumspect about exposing the secrets of Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire child sex trafficker who died in prison without revealing which of his well-connected elite friends knew about

and possibly even participated in his revolting and illegal activities? And now let's remind everybody what Pam Bondi told the world before they tried to get the American people to buy in February or March, a closeout memo. Nothing to see here, folks. There's nothing to see here. in the criminal investigation related to Jeffrey Epstein. Let's play Pam Bondi in words I'm sure she'd like to take back about the files being on her desk, ready to be produced.

Let's play that clip. The DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients. Will that really happen? It's sitting on my desk right now to review. That's been a directive by President Trump. I'm reviewing that. I'm reviewing JFK files, MLK files. That's all in the process of being reviewed

because that was done at the directive. of the president from all of these agencies. So a month or two after that statement, two-page close-out memo, undated, unsigned. Nobody wanted to take credit for that from the FBI and the Department of Justice. And, of course, it blew up in everybody's face. So now we move into how do we know,

I want to address first, what happens if the date comes and goes and Donald Trump doesn't comply, who in the Department of Justice is going to bring this forward? It's going to have to be a lawsuit that's brought civilly by a group to gain compliance under the Freedom of Information Act, again, of the Epstein files.

Now, the documents related to the exchange communications between the FBI and the Department of Justice, that's already the subject of a lawsuit presided over by Judge Chutkin in D.C. She ruled about eight days ago that those documents about basically the, basically the cover-up that the conversation and the discussion needed to be produced to the American people. Now, that was eight days ago, and we haven't seen them yet. She also ordered that communications between Donald Trump and the Epstein, those communications be released. Again, we haven't seen them yet.

Now, if the 19th of December comes and goes, it's going to have to be another Freedom of Information Act Request demand that's made and pursued in court. Congress isn't going to do a darn thing about it. Donald Trump's got to try to give himself a unilateral extension, and there we are. Now, there is a checklist that we reported on early on, but I want to make sure people understand. There is an exhibit list that was used in the court prosecution, in the prosecution of Epstein, about files that they were going to bring in against them before he hanged himself

and died in that jail in New York. And we have our hands on that already. That would be a very good checklist against the documents that the Trump administration is going to try to convince us is the complete file. So, for instance, and I'm going to put this up on LegalAF substack, we've got things like large folders containing taped cartridges and digital evidence, which is not identified. We've got something listed as the Girl Picks nude book for a CD-ROM. We have VHS tapes, cassette tapes, micro-cassette tapes, CDs, other nude and semi-nude images and video images. We've got the massage tables. We've got the frame photos, a number of frame photos.

We've got the vessel ship logs going to the island. We've got hard drives, numerous hard drives. We've had an iPhone, an Apple desktop computer, an iPad, a number of iPads, a number of video recording devices, a number of large hard drives, which have yet to be identified to the public. That is at least what the Department of Justice and therefore the executive branch has had in its possession since the prosecution. Now, you may not have remembered, but Maureen Comey, James. Comey's daughter was the lead prosecutor against Jeffrey Epstein and Galane Maxwell. She got the conviction, five-count conviction against Galane Maxwell for child sex trafficking. That's where she's serving her almost 20-year prison sentence, and she was prepared to go to trial

against Epstein until he killed himself after the case had already been brought. That was Maureen Comey. Then fired by Donald Trump and Pam Bondi. She now has a suit she's brought for improper wrongful termination. They fired her for another reason when they went and interviewed Galane Maxwell for her pardon request and gave her immunity. Todd Blanche, the number two of the Department of Justice and Donald Trump's buddy, didn't want to have a Maureen Comey whispering in his ear that she's lying. Galane Maxwell's lying. There's an email.

There's a document. There's testimony that counters what he didn't want to be bothered with any of that. He just wanted to ask her questions without having the ability to push back on any of the answers when she lied to him. So we have all that going on. Fresh start, same threat. Debt is a silent killer. It doesn't make noise. It just multiplies.

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nobody wants to see nude photos of girls that Jeffrey Epstein raped. But if in that photo, there's a person, a man, regardless of who it is, that needs to be investigated and prosecuted, okay, that's a fair game. Redact out the girl to protect her innocence and protect her identity, but not the guy. And so, and especially if it's one Donald Trump. Now, if you think I'm kidding around about it, remember Michael Wolfe in his testimony said that he saw you know this is michael wolf the journalist who was very close to geoffrey epstein he came on our show came on legal a f and he said he saw photos that were given to him by

geoffrey epstein of girls young women sitting half-naked semi-nude on donald trump's lap let's play the clip everything was amusing to epstein and um and so once once we were we were there at his dining room table and he brought out these snapshots, maybe a dozen of them. And they were of Donald Trump. And Donald Trump with a variety of the girls who frequented Epstein's house in Palm Beach. And there are three that I specifically remember, two of Trump, of topless girls sitting on Trump's lap. one with a Trump, a stain on the front of his pants and the girls, and three or four girls, five girls, pointing at this and laughing. And I assume Epstein kept those photographs in his safe, the same safe that was raided by and emptied by the FBI after Epstein's arrests in July.

2019. So you can imagine the things that were in the safe, right, are part of the Epstein files. In fact, Ted Liu, during his cross-examination of Cash Mattel, played the clip that I just showed you, and then asked Cash Patel, where's the stuff from the Epstein files? Now, Cash Mattel argues that he doesn't know, he doesn't know what he's talking about, that he would release. He will release. Let's watch the double talk of Cash Patel, just to remind you what he said back in September when he was before Congress. Photos showing Donald Trump

with girls of an uncertain age? No. How do you know that? Because that information would have been brought to light by multiple administrations and FBI investigators over the course of the last 20 years. Well, you know what? That's just not true because no one knew about the creepy birthday message

that Donald Trump wrote to Jeffrey Epstein until the Wall Street Journal disclosed it. And then all of a sudden, the Epstein estate provides it to Congress. Certainly, you weren't there at the search. You don't know what Epstein may or may not have done with those photographs even prior to the search. Maybe someone has it.

Maybe the Epstein estate has it. You raise a great point. So I'm going to ask you, have you asked to talk to Michael Wolf? You raise a great point. I haven't personally asked to talk to Michael Wolf. But the FBI, I'll get back to you if the FBI specifically has ever. About 100 hours of testimony of Jeffrey Epstein, wouldn't it be good for the FBI to interview Michael Wolf? I'm not saying they haven't. I just don't know.

Has FBI subpoenaed the tapes that Michael Wolf has conducted of Jeffrey Epstein? I don't know. All right. So if you could provide us an answer, they'll be terrific. Well, let me ask you this question then. Have you looked at all the photos in Epstein files? I have looked at all the information that the investigators who investigate, this case have provided to run out credible leads. And in the Epstein file, was there that creepy birthday message that Donald Trump had written

to Epstein? No, that's what I was trying to tell you. You raise a great point. The estate of Jeffrey Epstein has a voluminous amount of information that they have not released before. Okay, so that's great. So wouldn't it be great of FBI subpoenaed the state of Jeffrey Epstein for all that information?

The estate is under no obligation to provide that material even pursuant to a subpoena. That's a great point. Yeah, that's just false. Okay. It just follows. You're the frickin FBI. You can subpoena the information from this state, and you better do that. So with the new FBI emails, the exhibit list, and the TikTok of counting down the days until

Donald Trump likely does not comply with the bill that he signed into law, the Transparency Act, we're going to have to continue to follow it all right here at the intersection of law and politics. at the intersection of law and politics. Thanks for being with me in Midas Touch. Thanks for coming over to LegalAF YouTube. Hit the free subscribe button there as well as we continue to grow our pro-democracy channels together. Until my next report, I'm Michael Popak.

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