Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump Cover Up of His Dark Past takes New Twist with AG Lawsuit

Episode Date: October 16, 2025

The Epstein Trump Coverup scandal has taken a new twist, as the Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, who prosecuted Trump’s gang and its role in the 2020 election interference the last time around, just threatened to bring a suit for mandamus against Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson if he doesn’t swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva who is ready to be the final signature on the petition to put the release of the Epstein Files to a House Vote. Michael Popok explains how MAGA is trying to block her swearing in to put pressure on the Democrats in funding/Shutdown negotiations, and to stop the release of the Epstein Files. IndaCloud: Get 30% OFF your first order + FREE shipping @IndaCloud with code LEGALAF at https://indacloud.co Subscribe:  @LegalAFMTN  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 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Chris Mays, the Arizona Attorney General, who indicted a number of Donald Trump's inner circle following the 2020 election, she's back, and she's threatening to sue Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Maga Mike Johnson, because he refuses to swear in Representative Adelita Grijalva. She was elected to her late father's seat, 70% in a special election. She represents 813,000 people in the congressional. congressional district number seven in Arizona, and she can't get sworn in because Mike Johnson claims, well, we're in a shutdown, trying to put pressure on the Democrats to have leverage during budget negotiations, obviously, and because of the Epstein scandal. What's Epstein have to do

about this? And what type of lawsuit would the Attorney General of Arizona be able to bring in order to force Mike Johnson's hand to swear in representative? Grahalva. And we demand that now as well here on the Midas Dutch Network and Legal AF. Let's get to it. I'm Michael Popok. Chris Mays, amazing. She was the Secretary of State and now Attorney General for Arizona. She has the power now that the state has completed. It's canvassing on the special election and delivered a certificate from the governor to the Speaker of the House, certifying Adelita Grahava has been elected to her father's seat. and now it's time for the swearing in.

What's warping the decision-making? It's not the shutdown. Although I think they're trying to get a little bit of leverage on the shutdown. It's because she, Representative Grijalva, has said aloud that she will proudly be the final signature on the discharge petition that's been circulated by Roe Kana, a Democrat, and Tom, and Tom. Massey, a Republican, and the discharge petition would take out of a committee where it's been blocked by the Republicans a House resolution to the House floor to compel the Department of Justice and the Trump administration and all those others to release the damn Epstein files. They needed 218 votes.

She's the 218th vote. We already had another special election. See special elections matter where the Democrat was the 217 vote. Now, nobody's buying, and I have the letter here that was sent by Chris Mays to Representative Johnson just yesterday. It's up on Legal A.F. Substack for you to read. I'll talk about the mandamus petition that she would file to get Representative Grijalva sworn in. And that's what this is all about. It's about trying to exert pressure on the Democrats to extradate. track something from them in the budget negotiations around the shutdown. Well, you like Representative Grijalva?

You know, she may not be around much longer if we don't swear her in and sets dangerous precedent for the future. Four or five others have been sworn in during what's called the pro forma sessions. Pro form of sessions are being held right now to keep the lights on in Congress with the bare minimum of activity so that the president doesn't have a recess to start making crazy appointments. Even Maga Congress doesn't want that to happen. So they keep the lights on with these proformists.

And you hear Speaker Johnson say, no, no, I'll swear in. It's just that we're a shutdown. He's sworn in other people during pro forma sessions. He's sworn in two other representatives from Florida, particularly when they were in pro forma sessions. So all of these ever-changing, shape-shifting positions of Mike Johnson isn't going over. Well, let me read to you from the letter from. Chris May's Attorney General of Arizona, in which she cites to our founding fathers,

including James Madison and Alexander Hamilton. On behalf of the state of Arizona, I demand that the Honorable Adelita Grijalva be sworn into office as the representative for Arizona's seventh congressional district representing 813,000 people that have no representation right now. Failing to see Ms. Grijalva immediately

to otherwise provide a reasonable explanation as to when she will be seated will prompt legal action. That would be a writ of mandamus. We'll talk about that in a minute. The House of Representatives's uniquely democratic function makes frustrating the will of the voters in selecting the representative particularly egregious. A member of the House of Representatives holds the only proportional and directly elected position

in the federal government. Citing to the Federalist Papers No. 52 and 58, 65, 66, and 81. She goes on. It reminds the Speaker of the House that Jimmy Petronus was elected to the Florida's first district. Randy Fein was elected to Florida's 6th District. They were Republicans. They were sworn in during pro forma sessions. In fact, let me take a break from the letter for a minute.

Jim Jordan was interviewed by Caitlin Collins and got wrapped around his own axle about why she's not being sworn in. They can't even get their story straight because it's a lie. Let's play Caitlin Collins versus Jim Jordan. Of House Republicans. You're here on Capitol Hill tonight. A lot of your colleagues are not because you're not in session. And Speaker Johnson has said he's not bringing you all back until there's an agreement to reopen the government. Is it clear to you why Speaker Johnson has not sworn in the new member at Alito Groslva yet?

Because we're not in sessions. Typically done when we're all there. It's a special thing. The individual gives the new member gives a speech in front of Congress sworn in by the Speaker of the House. I introduced by, you know, colleagues from their delegate. That's how, I've been here, what, 19 years, it's always been done that way. So that's nothing out of the ordinary. The reason we're not here is because we've done our work.

We've passed the bill that funds the government, again, at the levels Chuck Schumer agreed to. And now he won't support it because he's, again, this debate is Chuck Schumer can pick common sense or he can pick the left in AOC. Right now he's picking the left in AOC after he picked common sense six months ago, plain and simple. And I think the American people understand that. So you're saying because it's a pro forma session, that's why? Yeah, because there's like there's two people on the floor. you know, whatever. There's, but normally it's done in front of the full House,

that new member in a special election gets, I think in some ways a kind of a neat experience where they get to talk to the House, their first day getting sworn in, and that's happened every single time that I can recall with any new member elected in a special in the middle of a congressional session. But a couple months ago, he swore in Jimmy Petronus

and Randy Fine in a pro forma session. I didn't, I actually didn't even know that when they were sworn in, but I always remember when it happens, the delegations up front and that person is sworn. Do you think it has anything to do with the discharge petition and that she could be the 218th signature for the Jeffrey Epstein calls? No, I think it's to make the clear point,

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in the House as a bargaining chip. You know, when you make threats like, well, if Chuck Schumer we'll just reopen the government. You know, we'd be able to swear in. That sounds like you've got a deal to make, if you will. Arizona's right to a full delegation and the right of the residents of Congressional District 7 to representation from the person they recently voted for are not up for debate.

We thus demand that Ms. Grijalva be immediately sworn into office and admitted to her rightful seat. Should you fail such assurances, we will be forced to seek judicial relief to protect Arizona and the residents of the 7th Congressional District. Representative Alec Rahalva has even taken to the hallways of Congress marching on Mike Johnson's office. Let's show that clip.

Now, what's going to happen in the courts here at the intersection of law and politics? Chris Mays, who's not shy about going to court, not shy about prosecuting people in Donald Trump's personal life, files what we call a complaint for mandamus or rid of mandamus. A mandamus is to get an official, an elected official or some sort of other officer, force them to do their job, their statutory job. He's got a job to do. It's to swear in on a Bible or not on a Bible, Representative Grohova. That's it.

It's a ministerial act. There's no other function that they have to do. They can do it while the lights are on for the pro forma sessions. There's no excuses around it. And that's what the lawsuit will say, that he should be compelled to hold a session immediately and swear her in to take her rightful seat representing 813,000 people of the 7th Congressional District in Arizona. That's it. It's a relatively straightforward case. You file it in federal court. You can file it in Arizona, although I would file it in Washington. It makes it harder for Mike Johnson to argue there's no jurisdiction over him. You get a good federal judge. You get an order of mandamus. You do an order to show cause or a preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order or an emergency application. And you get all this done. I don't know when this shutdown's going to end. Could go 30 days. Democrats are rightly playing hardball in order to win concessions from the Republicans to open the government around health care, not health care for illegal immigrants and pedophiles, health care for everyday Americans.

We're talking about 30 and 40 million Americans who will lose health care and lose Obamacare as a cover. It will just be a nation where literally the halves and the half nots. You either have health insurance because your employer gives it to you or you can afford it or you go to emergency rooms. resort. And you die early. Infant mortality rates go up. Mortality rates go up. People die early from preventable illnesses and conditions and diseases. And that's the world that people apparently have voted for when they voted for Donald Trump. I just don't think they voted for that. So we'll continue to follow Arizona's attorney general, Chris Mays, and her threat turned into a lawsuit against Speaker of the House to get Representative Grijalva sworn in. Swear Grah,

in now. Then she'll be the 218th signature on the discharge petition, and it'll go to a House vote about the release of the Epstein scandal cover-up files. I'll leave you on this. In my neck of the woods and in court, when a person refuses to produce documents like Donald Trump has refused and ordered his people not to produce documents related to Epstein, you were allowed to make an inference, an adverse inference that what's in those files is bad for the party that's withholding the documents. That's what you would be told in court as a member of the jury, and that's what we should assume as American voters, that things are really bad and awful for Donald Trump in those files.

I don't know what's in those files. Photos of Donald Trump with young girls. Disgusting emails back and forth between Donald Trump and Epstein, financial relationships tied to girls and that island. we have to make those inferences because Donald Trump has not produced the documents. That's how it works in a court of law. That's how it works here

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