Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump FBI in Panic After Massive Leak From Within

Episode Date: December 2, 2025

Trump’s nasty habit of “leaking” gossip to the NY Post may be back and with a vengeance against FBI Director Kash Patel and his deputy Dan Bongino, as Michael Popok spots a rat in the “leak” of a scathing FBI insider 115 page written report effectively calling for their firing ending up in the lap of Trump’s podcaster of choice, the NY Post’s Miranda Devine. Popok explains how Patel’s days are numbers, and the likely new FBI Director being the former Missouri AG Andrew Bailey who is close to Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche. Don’t miss NOBL’s biggest Sale of the Year! Head to https://NOBLTravel.com for up to 62% off your entire order! #NOBL #ad 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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who has a podcast devoted to the Trump presidency. She does her reporting or her editorial work for the New York Post owned by Rupert Murdoch. Donald Trump has appeared there. He's given permission for many in his administration to appear there. And all of a sudden, lo and behold, front page New York Post today, Miranda Devine gets her hands on 115-page insider leak of a scathing report against Cash Patel as FBI director and Dan Bonjino, his number two for that matter, that just lands on her desk a day or so before it goes to the House, the Senate Judiciary Committee,

created by 29 insiders and people external to the FBI taking down Cash Patel. There's no other way to read the 115 pages than this is a call to fire Cash Patel. At the same time, Donald Trump's looking around like, well, I have no plan. I have no plans. to fire Cash Patel. I haven't really thought about it. You know, we got a clip about, in fact, let's play that clip. I haven't really thought about it. Uh, who again? Let's play the clip. Are you planning to replace Cash Patel? No, he's doing a good job. Cash Mattel? No, he's doing a great job, I think. If I were Cash Patel, as I said, when I first saw that clip, he should be packing his bags now. He's already got a tremendous

amount of bad publicity for good reason. Not only his failure, utter and complete catastrophe of testimony in September before the House and Senate Judiciary Committee, but also the new reporting that comes out, that he's flying around on his PJ, his private jet, that you and I own as taxpayers, his Gulf 5 or Gulf 4 or whatever it is, in order to woo and romance his 20-year-old or so girlfriend. It's like a Bill Belichick moment,

getting her a SWAT team to cover her while she sings the national anthem, and he goes out on dates. And then this report, this scathing, blast comes out and it says that Cash Patel threw a hissy fit on his private jet because he wouldn't come out during the Charlie Kirk investigation the day after the murder unless somebody went and found him a medium-sized FBI raid jacket with all the right patches on it and the report goes on from there now my theory having grown up in New York is that Donald Trump and people in his administration are using the New York Post again in order to give Donald Trump political

cover to fire Cash Patel. There's no other way around it. I'm glad you're here I might as touch an unlegal AF. Cindy Adams used to and others reported that Donald Trump used to impersonate his own spokesperson. They knew him by his voice and he'd be phoning in information and or oh, Donald Trump was found over here at this bar. He was with this woman. He made this investment in order to get free press. He's doing it all over again. Now, if you want to know first who Miranda Devine is, here's a clip of her doing softball interview with Donald Trump just five months ago.

Let's play the clip. Now that brings us to Cash Patel. It's been no secret. some time, even before the leaks about his girlfriend, the private jet, and the SWAT team came out. You know, the knives are out for Cash Patel. Dan Bonino, too. Dan Bonino, the number two, the deputy director, what were his qualifications?

He's one-time secret service, never in the FBI, and he was a right-wing podcaster, who's told people he wanted to, he wants to go back to being a podcaster. Well, he's going to get his wish based on this leak, which I, again, I believe was orchestrated by Donald Trump. Now, Cash Mattel, it's been famously reported already, notoriously reported already, that he does not get along with Pam Bondi or Todd Blanche. And in that civil war between the Department of Justice and FBI, especially that burst out in the open during the Epstein scandal and cover up,

the winners are going to be Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche, at least Todd Blanche. Todd Blanche is very well respected as the number two person in the Department of Justice, is Donald Trump's former criminal defense lawyer, even more so than Pam Bondi. If you're looking to see who replaces Pam Bondi one day, it'll likely be Todd Blanche. And they do not like or trust FBI director Patel.

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But then it talks about the morale within the FBI. It says the morale is ranging from low to bad to terror. much lower than when James Comey or Christopher Ray ran the organization. These are all by insiders and outsiders, anonymous insiders and outsiders. It says that there are people who have a countdown app on his personal phone, counting down the time until he's eligible for early retirement, that there is a culture of fear and paralysis created by Patel, that the FBI leadership at all levels,

is paralyzed, meaning FBI managers are waiting for the FBI director to tell them specifically what to do, and they're on pins and needles as a result. They then critique his lack of experience. Remember, there were 60-60 civil rights organizations that came out against Cash Patel when he was nominated before his confirmation. Here's what the insiders say, that he's in over his head, that he lacks the requisite knowledge or deep understanding of all of the FBI's unique and complex investigative and intelligence programs, that he's not very good, that he's not secure, he doesn't have the measured self-confidence or requisite experience to be an FBI director. And Dan Bongino is the same, that it was a, that he was a mistake.

He does not lack the FBI career experience that's necessary to be the number two in the job. Then they said there's an obsession with social media. Of course, when you appoint two right-wing podcasters to be the head of the FBI, what else you're going to get? One person said, stop talking, stop posting, and just be professional. Another comment that leaders of the FBI field offices up to the director are spending too much time on social media and public relations and concerned with building their own resumes. And then there's other aspects of this as well. Now, how did we get here?

We know, for instance, that Dan Bongino already has his replacement working with him. Because remember the name Andrew Bailey, the attorney general from Missouri, who worked with Pam Bondi when she was Attorney General of Florida. He came in about three months ago to be the co-de deputy director of the FBI. Look, the writing's on the wall. Cash Mattel is going to get fired. Dan Bongino is going to get fired. Andrew Bailey is going to be elevated as somebody that's friendly and supportive and in the inner circle for Pam Bondi so she likes him. The DOJ runs the FBI under our system of organization, and they're going to go with Andrew Bailey.

And this cover story, this fig leaf that Donald Trump and the people around him manufactured is just to get rid of Cash Patel. That's why they dropped it in the lap of Miranda Devine, the way that Donald Trump used to drop gossip in the lap of Cindy Adams. of the New York Post. It's the same effing thing. Now, if you want to remember Cash Patel and why I, why Cory Booker, the senator for New Jersey, said, I don't think I'm ever going to see you here again. Watch these exchanges between Cory Booker and Cash Patel. Just to remind you of the last time he appeared before the oversight committees, the judiciary committees, let's roll the clips. I don't think you're fitting in the bureau, but here's the thing, Mr. Patel. I think you're not going to be around long.

I think this might be your last oversight hearing, because as much as you supplicate yourself to the will of Donald Trump and not the Constitution of the United States of America, Donald Trump has shown us in his first term and in this term, he is not loyal to people like you. He will cut you loose. That rant of false information does not bring this country together. If you want to work on bringing this country, it's my time, not yours. My God. If you want to talk about it. I follow you on your social media posts that tear this country apart. You know, you know, I mean, you're on embarrassment to the division in this country,

to not take responsibility for what you have said. Sir, you're making a mockery of this committee. Sir, you don't tell me my time is over. You know how far we've come since you. You know how far we've come since you? You can't lecture me. You may be the charge of you. I'm not going anywhere.

I am not afraid of you. Mr. Chairman. Not afraid of you. So you have. of Jeffrey Epstein's Black Book? What is known as Jeffrey Epstein's Black Book has been released by us. And you released it?

Right after she gives this testimony in front of an FBI agent among others, she's transferred to a minimum security prison not suitable for a sex offender like herself. Who made that decision and why? The Bureau of Prisons. The Bureau of Prisons decided on their own without any consultation with Blanche or anyone else,

that they were going to suddenly, after this interview, completely unrelated to this interview, completely unrelated to anything she said, move her to a prison not suitable for a sex offender. You want the American people to believe that? Do you think they're stupid? No, I think the American people believe the truth, that I'm not in the weeds on the everyday movements of inmates.

What I am doing is protecting this country. providing historic reform and combating the weaponization of intelligence by the likes of you. And we have countlessly proven you to be a liar in Russia, in January 6th, you are the biggest fraud to ever sit in the United States Senate, your disgrace to this institution, and an utter coward. Right. You think Donald Trump's going to put that guy back out in December in front of those committees with this report that Donald Trump and his people probably leaked?

And the telltale sign, where is the support from anyone within the Trump administration to say he's doing a great job? Where is that support? Where's Stephen Miller, who's the co-president of the United States? Where is he patting Cash Patting Cash Patty on the back or Pam Bondi or Todd Blanche? They're nowhere to be found. Cash Patel's days are numbered. For me, it's not when, it's not if, but when he's going to be fired. I think he won't make it to Christmas.

and keep an eye on the Andrew Bailey being elevated from deputy director, co-deputy director to the number one spot because it'll make Pam Bondi feel more comfortable to have a former Missouri attorney general in that position. Not that he has any experience. And then look for him to appoint somebody that makes the FBI feel better like a longtime special agent or somebody in operations, who has the legacy knowledge about the FBI to help Bailey run it. I think that's going to happen. And as soon as I saw that it was Miranda Devine, right, Pod Force One, or whatever the name of her podcast is, you know, the podcast of choice for the Trump administration that got the leak, I was like, the fix is in. Take a moment, hit the free subscribe button here on the Midas Touch

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