Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump DOJ Laughed Out of Court as Jury Acquits

Episode Date: November 7, 2025

The long national nightmare is over— a DC federal jury acquitted, over sandwiches no less— the ridiculous federal criminal case brought by Trump’s DOJ against a former DOJ paralegal for tossing a Subway salami sandwich, mustard and onions and all, at a Customs and Border Patrol agent in protest. This is now the second time today that a federal officer was not believed in a court of law, and Popok ties it together with the string of losses in federal court Trump and his DOJ has suffered just this week, coast to coast, from Rhode Island, to DC to South Carolina, to Virginia, to Chicago to Oregon. 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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19 plus Ontario only. Please play responsibly. Concerned by your gambling or that if someone close, you call 1866-3-3-1-2-60 or visit comixonterio.ca. Well, the great salami subway sandwich caper is over, and so with it our long national nightmare. All kidding aside, Sean Dunn, former paralegal for the Department of Justice that had a neatly wrapped salami subway sandwich filled with onions and mustard, which he tossed at a custom and border patrol officer, has been acquitted in less than three hours by a jury in the DC courts, federal court, no less, as they munched on, wait for it, sandwiches to deliberate his faith. And the closing argument given by Sean Dunn, who's a hero now in D.C., with Banksy-like images of him in silhouette tossing a subway sandwich on graffitied walls all over D.C. This might be, and I've been doing this a long time, I've done dozens of jury trials, this

This might be one of the finest closing arguments and opening statements I've ever heard. And I'm going to invite her on the show because I was so impressed by it. His lawyer who looked at the jury, Julia Gatto, and said the following to obtain her acquittal for her client. He did it. He threw the sandwich. And now the federal U.S. attorney prosecutor wants to make a federal. criminal case out of it. I don't know if she sat down right after that, but she could have. All that was left for the U.S. attorney in the room, the assistant U.S. attorney was to stand up and go,

put aside your feelings about Donald Trump and try to convict this guy in a misdemeanor. Now, remember, Sean Dunn was actually, they wanted to indict him for a felony of assault on a federal officer because of the subway sandwich toss. And the federal grand jury in D.C. Justice, it has done about eight or nine other times with Janine Piro's crackerjack, Department of Justice boards in D.C. said, nope. And they would not indict. That's the problem the Department of Justice is having. Look, this is the second time in one day that either a jury or a judge didn't believe a government witness. And when you lose your credibility, when you lose your veracity, your ethics, your candor, your authenticity, you're done, you're dead,

the Department of Justice, might as well cash it in. They're done. You got Judge Ellis today, who said out loud in Chicago, I have an earlier hot take up on this right now, in ruling in a 95-minute presentation of her preliminary injunction against the Trump administration found that the head of the border patrol operating in Chicago with the National Guard lied under oath. We have a word for that. It's called perjury. And we have a word or a concept for somebody in the Department of Justice that allows that testimony to go on the stand.

We call that suborning perjury. So Greg Laramore, who's a border patrol agent in the Sean Dunn Salami sandwich case, getting hungry already, he testified that the sandwich in question, exploded all over his chest, and he reeked of onions and mustard. Oh, my God. That's the assault, the grand jury said, I mean, the jury said, munching on sandwiches during deliberation time. And that was probably a lie,

because when he was cross-examined by Sean Dunn's lawyers, they pointed out with a photo I'll put up here that the sandwich intact wrapped was on the ground. I don't know if anybody's eaten at Subway lately, but when you walk away with a to-go order, it's a pretty tidy bundle, right? It's, listen, I got a young daughter, been doing diapers, that's pretty tight on there.

Unless it rolled out in flight. I'm not ballistics expert, but unless it rolled out in flight, it's not going to hit him full-blown an open naked sandwich, not in its wrapper. And so the jury, that's, again, a lie to try,

try to bootstrap and win a losing case that never should have been brought. No self-respecting prosecutor would ever bring this case. And that's why this is more than just about whether the salami sandwich had onions and mustard or not. By the way, shout out, chef's kiss. That's a good combo right there. I didn't even know Subway had salami. I'm going to show you, we have it rolling here, the video clip of the, of the, of, the toss, along with photos. But again, what does it say about the Department of Justice under

Pam Bondi and Donald Trump? That they thought they should try to get a felony indictment out of a grand jury. Again, nine or ten other times they failed. They failed against one protester three times to get her indicted. And then they said, rather than drop it and go, All right, let the, no, because he worked, because Pam Bondi's so thin skin, she fired the salami toss guy, and she wouldn't, and fired him as a paralegal. In fact, we have a clip of Sean Dunn right after he was acquitted with his lawyers. Let's play the clip. Firstly, I'd like to thank especially Sabrina, Julia, and Nick for countless hours

and the rest of the team at Steptoe and, I would like to thank Steptoe for offering all of their services pro bono. For feeding me. Yes. I would like to thank family and friends and strangers for all of their support. Whether it was emotional or spiritual or artistic or financial to the people that opened their hearts and homes to me. I am eternally grateful, and I am so happy that justice prevails in spite of everything happening.

And that night I believe that I was protecting the rights of immigrants. And let us not forget that the great seal of the United States says e pluribus unum. means from many one. Every life matters, no matter where you came from, no matter how you got here, no matter how you identify. You have the right to live a life that is free. The fact that the Department of Justice said, no, we're not going to listen to the grand jury. We're going to go for a misdemeanor. We don't need a grand jury. It's still a crime. Guys still have to lose sleep at night. You can just picture it. Hey, what are you in for?

I tossed the salami sandwich. They're going to be scared of him in the pen. Oh, my God. But I'm going to tie it together with Judge Ellis' case. Judge Ellis said that Greg Bovino, Customs and Border Patrol, another CBB officer, lied under oath when he said that somebody threw a rock at him as retaliation for him firing tear gas.

Today they just arrested Sean Dunn. Could have beaten them to a pulp, could have hit him with pepper ball spray. You got a lying rogue federal force out there who's being protected by a lawless rogue rogue Department of Justice. And grand juries are wise to it. And juries are wise to it. And federal judges are wise to it. And this is a symptomatic.

of a broader problem that Donald Trump and Pam Bondi have. Nobody's buying what they're selling. Nobody's picking up what they're throwing down. Juries and grand juries are too smart for them. A jury and a jury particularly, and I've done fair amount of jury work, can smell a lie and inauthenticity

a mile away. And they will rule against, you. As a result, there's no way they believed Greg Laramore and his I'm reeking of onions and mustard. And who cares? How is that a felony? Or how is that a misdemeanor or an assault? Yes, it's technically an unwanted touching. So it is a battery under the law. I get it. I'm not saying the guy wanted the sandwich thrown at him. But this is what we're making federal cases about. We've got a shutdown going on. We're spending hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars to go after Sean Dunn and his salami sandwich?

And I just think it's, this has been an epically bad week for Donald Trump and a great week for justice. Just this week. I'm just going to list, I'm just going to go through the list. Judge Immergut in Portland issues her preliminary injunction on way to a permanent injunction tomorrow to stop National Guard for being used in Portland, Oregon. Judge McConnell in Rhode Island first issues a decision, a permanent injunction after trial to stop taking away infrastructure and transportation funds from blue cities and blue states with sanctuary city and state status. He then issues an order and now a second order to compel the Trump administration to pay out $8 billion worth of SNAP food stamp payments.

It's all this week, by the way, ladies and gentlemen. Judge Ellis issues in Chicago, a preliminary issue. injunction against the attack on the clergy, on First Amendment protesters, on veterans and members of the media and press from being attacked viciously without justification that shocked the conscience in her words by federal law enforcement. And now we've got a jury that rejects the Trump administration's Department of Justice. We've got Judge Curry, this is all this week, Judge Curry, who demands that the grand jury transcripts for Lindsay Halligan's work against Letitia James and James Comey be delivered to her yesterday. We got a magistrate judge who this week told, ordered every piece of scrap of paper that the Department of Justice has related to James Comey get turned over immediately and that he was shocked that they were prosecuting first and investigating second and he was going to put it into it.

That's this week. And I haven't even talked about the Supreme Court having, let's just say, a jaundiced view, including the Trump appointees, to his tariff plan. It's all starting to work. It's all starting to turn against Donald Trump and MAGA. And that election night, one of the worst wipeouts in electoral history, a state that had a red governor turned blue in Virginia. A New Jersey female governor gets elected,

who's a moderate Democrat. She flips counties that had gone red back to blue. Mississippi elects two Democratic delegates, of all things. 13 delegates in Pennsylvania go blue. The Supreme Court Justice in Pennsylvania stayed blue. Gavin Newsom banks is political. career on Prop 50 and the five new seats maps, and he wins. 64%. And that's just one week in November, everybody, as we get ready for the midterms. I'm glad you're here on Midas touch.

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