Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump DOJ Throws Him to the Wolves After Cover-Up
Episode Date: July 19, 2025Trump’s own DOJ filed a new brief with the Supreme Court that explains to the world why Trump’s OWN coverup of the Epstein predatory sexual behavior is so wrong, but could also lead Trump to pardo...n Epstein’s co-conspirator G. Maxwell. Popok looks at the new DOJ filing, which puts a lie to Trump’s “nothing to see here; boring stuff” approach to scandal management, as Jim Comey’s daughter leaves office by calling Trump a “tyrant.” Fatty 15: Get an additional 15% off their 90-day subscription Starter Kit by going to https://fatty15.com/LEGALAF and using code LEGALAF at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Well Donald Trump better start reading the filings of his own Solicitor General,
John Sauer, and Department of Justice with the United States Supreme Court
about the Jeffrey Epstein case if he wants to understand why it's not, in his own words,
why it's not boring and he can't understand why people are calling and demanding
for the full release of the Epstein files because in a filing just made
by John Sauer, Donald Trump's owned solicitor general,
his former criminal appellate lawyer,
they lay out the reason that this isn't boring.
They lay out the reason why the Trump administration
should immediately stop the coverup.
I found it appalling that during a interview
on the tarmac somewhere with Howard Lutnick,
the Commerce Secretary standing right next to Donald Trump, that he joked about Epstein,
said it was fake news, said it was a hoax, with a laughing Howard Lutnick next to him.
At the same time, another data point that I wanted to bring up here,
not only was Maureen Comey, James Comey,
the former FBI director appointed by Donald Trump,
just fired by the Trump administration,
but she was also the prosecutor for Jusane Maxwell.
This is the same Jusane Maxwell,
who was the cohort
of Jeffrey Epstein and the pedophilia activity,
and was convicted in a New York jury trial
of sex trafficking and other charges, giving her 20 years.
She's got an appeal right now,
claiming that a non-prosecution agreement
that Epstein signed down in Florida somehow covers her
prosecution in New York, but the Department of Justice has just filed this new brief.
I'm going to break into this new brief, tell you why there's such amount of bombshell activity
that puts a lie to Donald Trump's positioning. And I'm also going to do a little special
approach to why Howard Lutnick should stop laughing
standing next to Donald Trump,
considering he bought his town home from Jeffrey Epstein
and lived next door to the infamous townhouse
where all of these bad pedophilia acts happened.
I'll do it right here on the Midas Touch Network.
So let's dive in.
We have
So let's dive in.
We have
Jazayn Maxwell, who was the sometime girlfriend, long-term, I don't know what you want to call her,
Madame Pimp, that helped locate young girls
to be ultimately raped by Jeffrey Epstein
in Palm Beach, right near Mar-a-Lago,
in New York, sort of down the street from Trump Tower.
You see the connectivity here?
And she, after he took his own life or died in a murder,
I don't know which, but he no longer is here,
she was tried and a jury in New York found her guilty.
She raised this argument that he had, not her,
he had a non-prosecution agreement
by the then US attorney in the southern district
of Florida, Alex Acosta, by the way,
this did a black mark on Alex Acosta's career,
not to prosecute Jeffrey Epstein.
And then because it mentioned co-conspirators,
she somehow was shielded from further prosecution
in places like New York.
That's not with the, to one place I agree with John Sauer. But here's the part that pisses
me off. Let me first run the clip of a Donald Trump taking umbrage with that. It's such
a it's such a an ordinary nothing to see here. State of affairs with Jeffrey Epstein read
boring details. Wait till I read you from his own Department of Justice,
the boring details, and then a laughing Howard Lutnick,
who happens to live directly next door to the house
that Epstein used to abuse women,
and actually bought his townhouse in Manhattan
from a trust owned by Jeffrey Epstein
and the guy that used to own the Limited.
Just to show you how all of these worlds collide.
Now one of my theories is,
I'll show you the clip in a minute.
One of my theories is they fired Maureen Comey
because they want to flip positions
and somehow move to start giving Maxwell a pardon
because Donald Trump doesn't think
Jeffrey Epstein did anything wrong. Wouldn't that go towards the cover-up? Get rid of the prosecutor,
fire her, force the Department of Justice to change course in their Supreme Court
filings, maybe even after the one we just saw that I'm gonna talk about, and then
give her a pardon. He can give her a pardon anyway. Giving for him, giving Jusane Maxwell a pardon to cover up for Epstein and any connectivity
and blowback to Donald Trump is the exact same thing as the pardons he gave to the Jans
sixth insurrectionists because he had to rewrite history.
He had to make it a walk in the park, a of love in order to do that the people that are in jail
Have to be political prisoners. They can't be they can't be
Criminals convicted of violent crimes. They need to be pardoned and loved and embraced same thing here
Jeffrey Epstein look at look at this math equation. Jeffrey Epstein didn't do bad things. He he's he did boring things
He it's a hoax.
And the whole thing should be resolved on pardoning Jusane Maxwell. You see this connectivity.
And his lawyers, her lawyers, and I know some of these lawyers, that in Miami, David Oscar Marcus
in particular, they're campaigning to get a pardon for her the way, you know, all those other daughters and people
campaign to get their parents, you know, the Chrisleys and all that to get them pardoned.
Same thing.
Let me read to you.
Let me show you that clip though.
Here's the clip of a laughing Howard Lutnick and Donald Trump calling it a hoax and boring.
I know you've urged people to move on, but I'm curious, why do you think your supporters in particular have been so interested in the Epstein story? calling it a hoax and boring. I don't understand what the interest or what the fascination is.
I really don't.
And the credible information has been given.
Don't forget, we went through years of the Mueller witch hunt and all of the different
things, the Steele dossier, which was all fake.
All that information was fake.
But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody.
It's pretty boring stuff.
It's sordid, but it's boring.
And I don't understand why it keeps going.
I think really only pretty bad people, including fake news, want to keep something like that
going.
But credible information, let them give it.
Anything that's credible, I would say let them have it
Okay, you want to know how boring let me read to you from Donald Trump's own Solicitor General's filing that just happened in the last couple of days
Here's their description
Donald Trump's own government
filings description of Jeffrey Epstein and the things that he did
from about 1994 to 2004,
petitioner, that's Maxwell, coordinated, facilitated, and
contributed to the multi-millionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse
of numerous young women and underage girls. The abuse followed a pattern. This
is Trump's DOJ. Petitioner and Epstein would identify vulnerable girls
living under difficult circumstances,
isolate them from their friends and families,
gaining their trust by giving them gifts
and pretending to be their friends,
normalize the discussion of sexual topics
and sexual touching with the girls,
and then transition to sexual abuse,
often through the pretext of a girl
giving Epstein a massage.
Petitioner
and Epstein paid victims large amounts of cash to provide Epstein with
sexualized massages, and after a victim had begun giving massages they would
offer her additional money to recruit other girls. Epstein and the petitioner
carried on these activities at, among other locations, Epstein's residence in
Palm Beach, Florida, blocks walking distance to Barra Lago.
That's my commentary.
And New York City blocks walking distance,
one subway stop, two bus stops from Trump Tower.
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of this predatory sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein.
Now that's the description that Donald Trump
had the balls to call boring, boring.
And Howard Lutnick should stop laughing
because if I bought my townhome, right,
my Taj Mahal in the Upper East Side from Epstein
and it was directly next to the scene
of all that sexual abuse,
I would stop chuckling over hoaxes.
Now let's go back to my theory about the pardon
that's in the works likely for Maxwell.
Donald Trump's gonna have to pardon her
because it's consistent with his theory.
He's having no luck tamping down the MAGA
from attacking him for not taking a pedophilia
and a pedophilia abuse seriously.
Once MAGA connects the dots of their own mind,
that there's pedophilia being supported,
participated in and protected
by people in high government office,
and you're covering that up,
and you happen to be the guy
that was supposed to drain the swamp and supposed to go after all these people, you're done, you're dead, you're covering that up, and you happen to be the guy that was supposed to drain the swamp
and supposed to go after all these people,
you're done, you're dead, you're toast.
That's where Donald Trump is at the very moment
as I do this recording.
But for Donald Trump, he's yelling back at MAGA,
telling them that they are weak,
that this is a hoax, that they're falling for it,
that they need to get off this topic,
that it's quote unquoteunquote, as you saw
in the clip, boring. It's not working. And now MAGA and the legislators are worried about their own
political careers after Donald Trump's is over, are demanding and pounding the table for the release.
Social media activists like Laura Looney Loomer going after everybody in sight, including the Department
of Justice and the FBI and ultimately Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, Mike Johnson, Speaker
of the House, Thune, the Senate Majority Leader all pounding the table in unison with Democrats.
Let the files go.
Elon Musk had it right for once.
Musk released those files. But I want you to keep an eye on this building drumbeat towards getting
Maxwell a pardon. Because if David Oscar Marcus, the lawyer for Maxwell, and I know he's super
smart and he's doing his job for his client, zealous advocacy,
and I can admire that.
But he's trying to set up a pardon for her.
And he even said, he had his own comment
about this filing by Donald Trump's own Solicitor General.
He said he would find it shocking
if Donald Trump, who's basically the big guy,
who's the art of the deal, if he was aware
that this had been filed.
He's basically calling out Donald Trump.
Did you know?
Because his argument is that there was a deal
between, not Maxwell, not his own client,
but that Epstein's deal in Florida
with the Southern District of Florida
somehow covered her and gave her a shield
for anything about being prosecuted in New York.
And that's just not how non-prosecution agreements work.
I think that the Comey firing, Maureen Comey's firing,
is the beginning of this path that I can see
of Donald Trump getting around to pardoning Maxwell
in order to try to prove to MAGA
that there's nothing to see here.
I think it just pours kerosene and gasoline on the flames
and blows up in his face.
That's my prediction.
Maureen Comey said this on the way out
in a letter that she wrote to her group.
Every person lucky enough to work in this office, that's the US Attorney's
Office in Manhattan, constantly hears four words to describe our ethos, without
fear or favor. Do the right thing, the right way, for the right reasons, without
fear of retribution, and without favor to the powerful, she wrote. We've entered a
new phase where without fear may be the challenge.
If a career prosecutor can be fired without reason,
fear may seep into the decisions of those who remain.
Do not let that happen.
Fear is the tool of a tyrant
wielded to suppress independent thought.
Couldn't have put it any better.
That's a person that didn't want to use the revolving door
of being a career, of being a prosecutor
and then go get a lucrative seven or even eight figure job
somewhere with a cushy Wall Street firm.
She wanted to be what she referred to herself as,
self-referred.
I wanted to be a career prosecutor
working for all administrations
without showing fear or favor.
An institutionalist, somebody who's apolitical
in their approach.
That has been completely destroyed
in this Department of Justice.
That's why when this Department of Justice
steps into a courtroom before federal judges,
bipartisan ones, they have no respect.
They're given no respect because they cannot be trusted
with the rule of law
or with their own ethical obligations as lawyers.
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