Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump Gives Unlawful Order That Can End His Term Quick

Episode Date: June 10, 2025

Trump continues to intentionally pour kerosene over the protest fires in California to give him the confrontation he wants to crack down on blue states and his political rival the Governor of California, now blowing a dog whistle to give permission to the National Guard and law enforcement to use excessive force and brutality to put down protests over Trump’s immigration. Michael Popok compares this to Trump at the end of his first term giving police permission to “shoot” if they “loot,” and how this is the time for a Selma, Alabama moment to oppose Trump’s fascist policies, not a Rodney King riot moment, and why it matters. Elevate your workspace and energize your year with Uplift Desk. Go to https://upliftdesk.com/legalaf for a special offer exclusive to our audience. 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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by sending in illegally the National Guard over the objection of the California governor. When I heard him stand at Camp David, along with his defense secretary and others and say, well, if they're gonna spit, we're gonna hit. When the spitting starts, the hitting starts giving license and permission for excess force, for police brutality, including of the National Guard. I remind the National Guard, these are your neighbors. You work in these communities. When I heard that, I said, this sounds eerily familiar. This sounds like something that Donald

Trump said during the end of his last term, when the Black Lives Matter movement was protesting police brutality against people like the late George Floyd. And Donald Trump took to both social media and to a podium, and he used and paraphrased the phrase that's now gone down in civil rights history as being one of the most infamous lines, notorious lines mentioned by a law enforcement official. The chief of the most infamous lines, notorious lines

mentioned by a law enforcement official. The chief of police in Miami said, well, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Now that doesn't mean, but Donald Trump wants you to believe that meant at the time, which is that other people in the streets start shooting with the looting. And isn't that sad?

No, that's not what that meant. What that meant was, and Donald Trump knows it, is that police will shoot if there's to protect property, which is again an asymmetrical response to the situation. We have First Amendment expression going on in California. I'm gonna put these two pieces together, spitting and hitting, looting and shooting,

all under the rubric of Donald Trump intentionally picking a fight and baiting the citizens of California because the more they fight back and the more they tip over from peaceful First Amendment expression into some sort of lawlessness, you are playing into Donald Trump's hands.

And that we cannot do. It's time, it is time for the Gandhi moment, for the Martin Luther King moment, right? Not the Rodney King, pull the truckers out of the car and hit him and bash him with a fire extinguisher moment. Don't take the bait, I guess is one way of putting it. Let's look at spitting and hitting, looting and shooting here on Midas Touch and Legal AF. So we had the statement, Aisin, who works with Midas Touch, did a great job of catching that and playing it. For those that haven't seen it, I'm going to play it next. I'm actually going to do back to back. We're going to have the statement of, which is a dog whistle from Donald Trump

to law enforcement and the National Guard troops on the ground because he wants the pitched battle on purpose. Wait till I tell you what Stephen Miller said about it. Okay, against the backdrop of hitting and spitting, let's also remember that Donald Trump not only did not believe that any type of punishment was appropriate for any of the Jan Sixers, even the most violent, even the ones that

were detained pre-trial because of their violence, because they used medieval weapons, makeshift or brought with them or homemade or used police material to beat police officers. This was a bloody battle on the steps of the Capitol our nation has never seen. I'm not saying all of the people, but the 2,000 that got arrested and indicted and prosecuted and convicted, most of them, yeah.

So Donald Trump didn't call that, as Stephen Miller just called California, a fight for our civilization. That was a fight for our civilization. What else do you call insurrectionists that attack the Capitol, try to burn it to the ground, and try to assassinate elected officials? And the carnage that was left in its wake, emotional and physical, mainly law enforcement. So to Donald Trump, that was a peaceful protest. That was a walk in the park. That was a day of love. These are his words. And then he pardoned them all,

giving license and permission to the next set of insurrectionists to do it again. When they don't like it, it'll make, all right. But then split screen, right? And we'll should do a split screen of the video of them crawling all over the Capitol or the photo of what started in California as a peaceful protest, not what the Trump administration is calling,

migrants are setting self-driving cars on fire. I don't know how they know they're migrants. I think there's lots of fair-minded people who have proper immigration status or are American citizens born here or naturalized or otherwise, or green card holders that have a right to First Amendment expression. But Donald Trump wants the fight.

He's picked the fight. He sent in, in a very Ray Bradbury way, he sent in firefighters not to put out the fire, but to burn the books, to stoke the flames. He wants more kerosene and gasoline on the flames, not less, why? Because it serves his political purpose. As Newt Gingrich just recently said,

the old Mandarin of the Reagan era and of post-Reagan era, he said, this is perfect. This sets up the two parties. One party is for law and order, and the other party is for migrant rights and lawlessness. You see, do you see how it's being, you see the oil painting that's being created in front of our eyes?

How do we stop it? Well, Gavin Newsom is doing his part, right? Gavin Newsom is doing his part to call out the illegal sending in of the National Guard by Donald Trump over the objection of the governor. The only time that's ever happened is in 1965 when Lyndon Johnson, to protect civil rights and civil rights protesters, walk over the bridge in Selma moment, Gandhi moment, Martin Luther King moment, a peaceful protest, not the Rodney King brain, the trucker moment because you're playing in the Donald Trump's hand.

Yeah. And so you've got Gavin Newsom doing the right thing. I'm sure there's going to be a lawsuit that's going to be filed against this illegal exercise by Donald Trump. The problem is Donald Trump lives as any vampire in the twilight, in the darkness. And this is sort of a gray area. You think it wouldn't be, but this is sort of a gray area about if you're a president and you don't exercise the Insurrection Act, if you don't invoke the Insurrection Act, and you do it through other statutes to quell violence, and the state doesn't cooperate with you, are you allowed to commandeer the National Guard and take it over? That's not as crystal clear as you would think. It sounds wrong. I

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the justification to crack down on blue states, on our immigration position, on our First Amendment immigration position. You got Tom Homan, the borders are of course, telling the world flex and muscle, we'll arrest anybody that gets in the way of our immigration plans or our federal officers or ICE officers, and that includes elected officials.

Yeah, we know, we've seen it. We've seen it. You've already arrested a judge and an elected official, a member of Congress in this White House, and we're only like 150 days in to the White House. So let me go back to back again with the clips, Let me go back to back again with the clips. And you'll see as I started,

when you spit, we hit permission for excessive force and brutality by law enforcement. No other way to read that. And the loot and shoot comment back to back. Let's roll it. Do you foresee those protests spreading to other cities, Chicago, New York, for example, in the next few days? Shoot. Comment. Back to back. Let's roll it. And when that happens, I have a little statement they say, they spit, we hit. I told them, nobody's going to spit on our police officers. Nobody's going to spit on our military, which they do as a common thing.

They get up to them this far away, and then they start spitting in their face. If that happens, they get hit very hard. What are the rules to be engaged with the federal? Well, I've heard that phrase for a long time. I don't know where it came from, where it originated. I view that phrase as... In 1967, the Miami police...

Well, I don't know. I've also heard from many other places, but I've heard it for a long time, as most people have. And frankly, it means when there's looting, people get shot and they die. And if you look at what happened last night and the night before, you see that it's very common and that's the way that was meant and that's the way I think it was supposed to be meant. But I don't know where it came from. I don't know where it originated.

I wouldn't know a thing like that. But I will say it's very accurate in the sense that when you do have looting like you had last night, people often get shot and they die and that's not good and we don't want that to happen. All right, this is the same guy. This is the same guy. And then he tried to act in the second clip like, well, I don't really know what that means

and I've heard it before. It just means, you know, when there's looting, shooting happens around it and it's really sad, it shouldn't happen, but that's not what, shooting happens around it. It's really sad. It shouldn't happen. But that's not what that means. And he knows it's not what it means. What it means is that's a permission slip for law enforcement to start blowing off heads

with weapons to protect property. That's what that means. Right? We saw this on college campuses, a version of it it during the 1960s and 1970s, at Kent State in the 1970s, when people were peacefully protesting, hippies were peacefully protesting the Vietnam War, but they did not disperse in time.

You had National Guard that killed people on the Kent State campus who were just doing peaceful protests. And we did a lot of soul-searching during that period as a nation from an existential standpoint. And here we don't have time for soul-searching. There's no time. Everything's being done at a high velocity and in real time. We're not at the soul-searching stage. We're at the opposing a fascist dictatorship stage. But sometimes when they come heavy, we got to back up. I don't want to say come light. They come heavy, show of force, show of peace. Not trying to match their M16s with our burning Waymo cars and rocks.

Go watch history. That doesn't work. So we're going to have to take it down a notch in order to take it up a notch. Or as Michelle Obama famously put it, when they go low, we got to go high. Going high here is not giving them the excuse for the crackdown. Get the National Guard out of California. That is of the utmost importance. We'll follow it all right here on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF.

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