Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump DOJ Presser Instantly Destroys Case

Episode Date: June 7, 2025

AG Pam Bondi should stop giving press conferences, because all it does is give Federal Judges like Judge Xinis ample evidence to find her and the Trump Administration in contempt of court, this time in the Armando Garcia matter. Michael Popok reports. 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

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Groceries that over deliver. Well, that's a relief. Armando Abrego Garcia is a gangbanger. He's a murderer. How do I know? Because it's nowhere in the indictment that they just unsealed in Tennessee as a ruse, as a distractor, as a way for no one to notice that Donald Trump is a taco that he's chickened out again in the face of a contempt proceeding in Maryland by bringing a phony indictment in Tennessee and then having Pam Bondi, the attorney general, stand in front of a press, a presser in which I gotta tell you, you know,

you can always tell when she's not comfortable telling the truth or isn't telling the truth because she blinks incessantly. I mean, I haven't seen so much blinking in a video since the hostage crisis. I thought she was signaling SOS. That's how many blinks Pam Bondi had. The problem is that Pam Bondi

and all the rest of the Trump sycophants wanna make Armando Abrego Garcia out to be a convicted felon, a menace to society, to convict him and execute him in public without that little nasty problem of due process, or a courtroom, or a jury, or evidence. And it comes up time and time again. How many times have we seen Pam Bondi take to a press conference to announce something about we just caught the MS-13 ringleader in Virginia and then seven or eight days later

when they dismissed the indictment well maybe not. I'm Michael Popak. We're on it here on the Midas Dutch Network and on Legal AF. We got the indictment. It got unsealed. It's back in May the 21st. This is the big way that Donald Trump is trying to act like I'm not going to bring back Armando Abrego Garcia just because a 9-0 Supreme Court ruled that I needed to or a judge in Maryland, Judge Zinnis, has ordered me numerous times to bring him home and to facilitate his release and to tell her what I am doing to facilitate that release. I'm not going to tell her anything. That's not the reason I'm bringing him back. I'm bringing him back because she's about to throw

the book at me for contempt. And I have this phony May 21st indictment in Tennessee claiming that he's a human trafficker. And I'll use that as the excuse to bring him back to the United States. I thought this was the guy we would never see Armando Abrego Garcia. Here's our taco moment, everybody.

The Trump always chickens out moment. We'll never, you'll never, remember they, from the White House official social media account, they taunted Senator Van Hollen, America, the Supreme Court, Judge Zinnis, everyone. You will never see Armando Abrego back in the United States again, never! Ho ho ho, fill in evil laugh following.

How's that going so far? And everybody saw it, Supreme Court looked at Judge Zinnis' order and said, oh, you want to facilitate his return from El Salvador to give him due process and notice? Yeah, you do you, that sounds like a good thing to do. And by the way, you should also manage and monitor the situation and get reports from the Trump administration.

And for the last two months, since that April 10th ruling, they haven't gotten any reports from the Trump administration. They've gotten the middle finger. That's a non-legal term. They've been told, she's been told to go pound sand. At one point, she got so frustrated during a contempt discussion that she said, I feel like I'm the, you're the, you know, I'm the cat and you're holding the ball of string and you keep yanking

it away from me. A week ago, she said she was about to find them in contempt. And a day ago, she gave a break of Garcia's lawyers represented by the ACLU and Quinn Emanuel. She gave them permission to file the motion for contempt. And now suddenly all the things that Donald Trump said he couldn't do before. I have no control over El Salvador. It's a sovereign nation.

We just had Boo Kelly here. He won't smuggle a Braggle Garcia back in. And I won't ask him to. He's in El Salvador prisons. They have to make their own decisions. Yeah, except for a couple of things. Couple of one, two, one, two punches in a row. Justice Boesberg in DC just ruled yesterday

that everybody not named to Brega Garcia gets to be certified as a class to have due process rights vindicated in his courtroom because he found that Donald Trump controls the prison in El Salvador, at least constructively. And he wasn't going to fall for the ruse, and this is his terms in his order, he wasn't going to fall for the ruse that Donald Trump and the Trump administration don't have control over what's going on in El Salvador. Then you then have the second punch, boom, Judge Zinnis comes in and says,

yeah, the other side, you can follow your motion for contempt now. I've had it. I've had it with waiting to hear what happens to Obreggo Garcia. And then in the face of those two orders, we have the taco moment. Oh, Pam Bondi taking to the presser. We're bringing him back, but we're not bringing him back

because the Supreme Court told us 2-9-0. We're bringing him back because he's got to face the music and the charges of an indictment as a murderer and gang banger and all of that in Tennessee, except that's not what the indictment says. Let's look at the presser and a very simple question that to me, it looks like Pam Bondi

was not prepared to answer. Let's roll the clip. At two, one's on topic, one's on topic. Maybe I misunderstood you, but you were mentioning, you know, that he had some involvement in a murder, you know, or was connected to groups that had involved with this other smuggling ring. But to be clear, the only charges he's facing right now are the human smuggling charges.

That's the one offense. But the other things that you have talked about are not actually in the indictment? Your co-conspirators allege that and we were clear to say that he is charged with it's not only very serious charges of alien smuggling and again there were children involved in that. You know human trafficking not only in our country, but in our world is very very real. It's very dangerous. And as you saw recently in Virginia, the arrest we made of the MS-13 member unrelated to this, we learned at that press conference that's where they bring young children into our country and they

start grooming them at middle school age to become MS-13 full-fledged members commit violent crimes throughout our country. It is highly organized, it is very dangerous, and they are living throughout our country but no more because they are being arrested, they are being prosecuted, and being convicted and deported when appropriate. That's all for today. Thank you. You ever seen so much blinking? She should really see somebody about that. All right, so I looked at the indictment cover to cover. Yeah, it mentions that he's MS-13. No tattoos on his hands, the way Donald Trump made it out to be. I see a couple accounts transporting aliens,

transporting undocumented, claiming that since 2016 when, who was president again in 2016? Right, Donald Trump, this guy was operating and running a smuggling ring with some other people. Very scant indictment based on a confidential informant who's not listed seems a little suspicious to me if you know what I mean. In fact when he was picked up in Tennessee back in 2022 he was released. He had seven guys in the

car but he said I'm working I'm working here we're working on a construction site that's why there's no luggage and the Tennessee troopers were like okay they didn't even give him a ticket for suspended license. They didn't give him a ticket for no insurance. They let him go. But that wasn't good enough for Pam Bondi and the Cash Patel FBI. They need to get to the bottom of this cold case.

The cold case of what? The guy taking other people to work. And now they've got evidence that it goes back to 2016? Come on. And suddenly he's a goes back to 2016? Come on. And suddenly he's a drug smuggler? Come on. Is anybody really buying this? I'll tell you who's not buying it,

besides the American people. Judge Zinnis. This bringing him back for the indictment doesn't solve the contempt problem about their refusal to bring him back despite several court orders and their contumacious conduct. It proves the point.

There's going to be an order to show cause any minute now. Let me listen for it. Any minute now from Judge Zinnis to call on the carpet, the Trump administration lawyers, the Department of Justice, and maybe Pam Bondi. She watched that press conference. I'm sure she She's gonna say, let me get this straight. So you always had the ability to bring back Armando Abrego,

but you're only bringing it back about a indictment from May the 21st? You've been ordered to bring him back since April the 10th, at least supported by the United States Supreme Court. So that doesn't help you. And the fact that you showed you can bring him back shows me that you've been jerking my chain, legal term, for long enough. And we have a phrase for that, a term of art for that in the law, in the job that she has. It's called contempt of court. This just proves contempt of court.

Whose half brain idea was it to use this phony indictment to try to bring him back so nobody would notice. I guess they thought let's do it now boss. The whole Elon Musk meltdown is consuming news media and the news cycle. Let's slip Armando Obrego Garcia back into the country. If I'm Judge Zinnis and knowing her we followed her closely she's gonna order that he appear, the lawyers appear, he get transported from Tennessee on taxpayer dollars back to Maryland for a hearing there. Because he's not going home at night from this arraignment.

He's going to get a rain, he's not going to get a bond. He's going to be held in Tennessee Federal Detention Center. That's obviously in Nashville where this case is. But she can order him to be transferred. And the US Marshals under the control of Pam Bondi are gonna have to do it. And first she's gonna start, I'm sure, with an order to show cause hearing

as to why she shouldn't continue to find them in contempt and new grounds for contempt. Because it's not just, you don't need to get the other side to issue a motion for the judge to act in contempt. She's got inherent authority to do exactly that if she sees it and smells it. And this smells to high heaven, what just happened. And the Pam Bondi press conference,

she should give less press conferences. They're great for us, but she should give less press conferences. There's a reason we didn't see Merrick Garland that much. It sort of annoyed us, but at least we knew he was doing his job. Not fast enough. You know, we could criticize we could, we could criticize

who he appointed and who he didn't appoint. But Pam Bondi, she thinks she's on Fox News. I mean, she basically is. We'll continue to follow it all right here on the Midas Touch Network. Take a moment, hit the free subscribe button here. Come over to Legal AF, the YouTube channel, hit the free subscribe button there

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