Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump FIRST MOVES Lead to INSTANT CATASTROPHE

Episode Date: February 1, 2025

It is starting to look like Trump’s cost-cutting and decapitating leadership at the FAA may have been the true cause of the Flight 5342 disaster, as there should have been 2 controllers, not one monitoring the helicopter and planes in the airspace, and that’s on Trump. Michael Popok reports on this developing story that demonstrates that our lives are all at risk with Trumpat the helm, as Project 2025 enacts policies to kill its own voters. Go to https://zbiotics.com/LEGALAF to get 15% OFF any Zbiotics Probiotic when you use promo code: LEGALAF at checkout! 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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in Washington, and it's making Donald Trump out to be a liar. It wasn't a DEI hire who worked in the air traffic control that crashed the plane. It looks like it was the type of budget cuts and hollowing out of administrations and the removal and decapitation of leadership that has marked Donald Trump's beginning days that caused the crash. It looks like there should have been at least two air traffic controllers, one watching helicopters, the other one watching planes, instead of one trying to do both. That's a budget and leadership problem.

That's not a DEI problem. And That's a budget and leadership problem. That's not a DEI problem. And that's a Donald Trump major problem. I'm Michael Popak. You're on the Midas Touch Network and Legal AF. Earlier reporting from Donald Trump, if he was to believe it's because the FAA was putting people who were mentally diminished or had other types of handicaps in positions to be air traffic controllers.

So it must have been a black or brown handicapped, one-armed, mentally disabled person that crashed the planes in blaming Obama and Biden and the rest. Now it looks like it's the very thing that we feared when Donald Trump got in, is that he would hollow out and force to leave those people, those legacy people with deep, deep understandings of the institutions for which they work and with knowledge fleeing as federal workers to run as far away and fast away from Donald Trump as possible. First, Donald Trump decapitated the leadership around airline safety and aircraft safety on day one. The head of the NTSB gone, the head of

the FAA gone, the head of the TSA gone, because Donald Trump wanted to get rid of them, didn't replace them, all sorts of acting people. There's a reason a lot of people are acting and are never made the head leadership there. So that happened. That's all in the early 10 days into the administration. Then Donald Trump decides to furlough and or fire federal workers, including those that work for the FAA in these positions. So with tax cuts, I'm sorry, with budget cuts, with employment and hiring freezes, with the hollowing out of leadership, what do you think happens? It all comes to a perfect storm, more likely,

last night, where there should have been two traffic controllers, but there's only one. Now you have an administration that took its eye off the ball of public safety, and is instead looking at penny pinching, cost cutting, getting rid of people, having them furlough, paying them seven months to get rid of it all, seven months to get rid of these people of severance payments. That's a Donald Trump problem. And if you think that this is not already in day 10, the symptom of a greater disease in Donald Trump, leave me a note in the comments right now. You don't think more of this is going to happen? See when that ship hit the bridge and it collapsed in Washington, they immediately started to

blame DEI hires back in the Biden administration. It doesn't work now when you're now in charge. When it's your policies that were just very obscenely implemented without any thought in the beginning days, beginning hours and minutes of the Trump administration leads to things like, boom, not enough air traffic controllers at the very moment when they were needed. One tracking the Black Hawk helicopter,

one tracking flight number 5342 for American Airlines. That didn't happen. We're gonna see more of this as he shrinks major departments that are responsible for the safety of Americans and safety of the very voters that put them into office. People that are supposed to be focused on avoiding pollution and illness from air and water contaminants, gone.

People that are supposed to be worried about and inspecting bridges, tunnels, our infrastructure, gone. People that are supposed to be responsible for our nuclear power reactors and how they're maintained gone. The people that are responsible within the military at that very, very top level forced into retirement. Those that are on the front lines like air traffic controllers, gone.

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says it must have been a woke DEI air traffic controller. No, it was the lack of air traffic controllers, which is on your watch. And as a result of what you're doing, you can't lop off the leadership, leave it rudderless, and then just on a regular Wednesday night, hope things are going to go well in the world of air traffic control and one of the busiest air spaces, the most regulated and tightly controlled air spaces in the world, that around the capital of the United States. See, this is the kind of story and the kind of drill down that only you'll find here on the Midas Tension Network

and Legal AF because the other networks have already moved on. Look, we've got 70 victims. We have that many families grieving. We have people still being recovered from the icy Potomac. And Donald Trump's first thing was to start reading from an old FAA website and blaming it on the website. Like the website killed these people.

Now it turns out the worm has turned. Now it turns out that it's more likely the fault of the Trump administration. Now look, I'm not here, I didn't want to cast blame one day into a national tragedy. That's not where I, go check my, you know, 1500 other videos. That's not me. But I've been forced into it to respond to Donald Trump because mainstream media is not going to do it.

We have to. If you just remember only the last thing you heard from mainstream media would be the press conference with Donald Trump where he blamed the website, he blamed DEI and he blamed Obama and Biden, everybody but himself. But now, now it's coming to fruition. Now it's coming up. And what I want people to understand from this hot take is this is not unfortunately going to be the last time this presidency is going to be tested and fail. And people's lives are at risk as a result. You can't shrink the government and take away those people that know what they're doing with expertise in places at the very, very guardrails of protecting people's health and safety, whether it's medical, vaccines, disease,

and disease control, bridges, tunnels, infrastructure, our power grid, nuclear power, those in the military. You can't get rid of leadership and then expect an organization to run properly. I'm gonna continue to follow it all. You're already here on the Midas Touch Network. Take a minute, hit the free subscribe button, and then come on over to Legal AF, the YouTube channel and hit a button there to help us grow that pro-democracy channel.

So until my next Legal AF reporting of any type, anywhere here on the podcast on Wednesdays and Saturdays on YouTube, here on the MidasTouch Network on the podcast platform for legal AF on legal AF the YouTube channel legal AF MTN on PO-POK live on Tuesday night a new podcast that we just launched at the intersection of law and politics. Follow me at all of these places. I'll continue to contribute the way I'm doing now with one big difference. I'm now full time on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF. So until my next reporting, I'm Michael Popock. In collaboration with the Midas Touch Network, we just launched the Legal AF YouTube channel. Help us build this pro-democracy channel where I'll be curating the top stories, the intersection

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