Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump has SECRET Appointment Plan for Judge Cannon

Episode Date: November 20, 2024

Will Trump troll America and the Democrats and retaliate if his first pick for Attorney General Matt Gaetz likely goes down in flames and pick Federal Judge Aileen Cannon for Attorney General? Michael Popok who practices law in Florida breaks it all down. Head to https://ProlonLife.com/LEGALAF to get 15% off their 5-day nutrition program. Join the LegalAF Patreon: https://Patreon.com/legalAF 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 Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/lights-on-with-jessica-denson 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

Will Donald Trump piss that his Matt Gaetz attorney general nomination is going down in flames because these pesky little sex and rape and sex trafficking charges just won't go away, no matter how hard Gaetz and Trump try? Will he double down and just elevate Aileen Cannon, the judge in the Mar-a-Lago case who bent over backwards to help Donald Trump, elevate her to the Department of Justice's highest position as attorney general? Or will he just use his former criminal defense lawyer Todd Blanch for that role? I'm Michael Popak. I'm at the intersection. I'm on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF. Let's talk about what happens next if the Matt Gaetz nomination gets pulled, yanked,

or he doesn't get confirmed because of the swirling controversy that's just getting worse by the hour against Matt Gaetz. So bad that he and Donald Trump are both making phone calls themselves to try to extort, twist arms, and get Matt Gaetz through a Senate confirmation hearing against at least 12 different Republican senators who are voicing objection.

So now all eyes are turning on who would be the replacement. Now, one of the things I speculated is the reason Donald Trump had nominated immediately the deputy attorney general as Todd Blanch, his lead criminal defense lawyer, who has got the credentials, at least was a US attorney. I don't like his politics much, but he was successful for Donald Trump. Todd Blanch's law partner, Emile Beauvais, to the two other top positions in the attorney general was in case the head got lopped off of Matt Gaetz, he could just move up and slide up Todd Blanch. However, we know that Donald Trump doesn't like the fact that his nominee is not being accepted. He wanted to troll America. He wanted to troll the Democrats with the pick of Matt Gaetz,

who was this close to being indicted by the Department of Justice as a criminal, to be the head law enforcement and legal officer in America. So what is a good way for Donald Trump once he's rejected, this gambit is rejected, what is his plan B? I thought it was Todd Blanch, but his plan B could be going back to Eileen Cannon, the judge in Florida in Mar-a-Lago that dismissed the Mar-a-Lago case against him, put the criminal matter out of its misery after spending two years torturing the Department of Justice and siding with Donald Trump at every turn

is her reward now to be the Attorney General after Matt Gaetz gets fried. I had first speculated that she would be on the short list for a top job with Donald Trump. He's already filled all of his top jobs in the law side, none of them with women, by the way. All of them with men. His criminal defense team, all men. None of the big four cabinet positions, which are considered Treasury, Secretary of State, Department of Defense, and Attorney General. None of them currently are women. They're all guys, they're all men.

The women have been relegated to Tulsi Gabbard, Intelligence Director, which is actually the number two job for intelligence. The CIA Director position going to John Ratliff, who is a man, of course. And Kristi Noem, she gets Homeland Security. But the big four prizes, none of them went to women. It's not the only people that have been left out.

None of them have gone to people of color. None of them have gone to black people or brown people or Jewish people or, except for state, went to a Cuban American in Marco Rubio. Back to Aileen Cannon for a minute. The reason I'm now thinking that she could be the replacement candidate is because it's a further troll and mind F for Donald Trump to play on the American people and the Democrats in particular. He's always wanted her to be elevated, I think,

to the United States Supreme Court as a reward for what she did. She is a Federalist right-wing, Leonard Leo, Federalist Society special. I'm sure he's whispering in Donald Trump's ear about rewarding her. And don't forget, or I'll tell you straight here, two weeks ago we had a fake leak from the transition team, mainly on the hand of Boris Epstein, who had Aileen Cannon as the first or second choice for attorney general. And Matt Gaetz wasn't even on that list. Now, apparently, Boris Epstein is the reason Matt Gaetz was actually picked. And his list was sort of tossed over for a moment. Forget everything you know about fasting.

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prolonlife.com slash legal AF. There was a plane ride that Suzy Wiles, the White House Chief of Staff wannabe, I'm not sure she actually gets this job, but she's been nominated for it. Wasn't on the plane. Donald Trump was alone with Boris Epstein and other by time the plane landed, they had landed on Matt Gaetz. And Suzy Wallace had a cleanup behind the elephant on that pick ever since. So Boris has a lot of sway over Donald Trump. He put together the original criminal defense team of Todd Blanch and Emil Bové and John Sauer. Those guys all got the top three jobs now in the Department of

Justice and Solicitor General's office. And we have that original list by Boris Epstein with Aileen Cannon at the top. Right? And so it seems like almost a natural fit for Donald Trump to get back at everybody and retaliate for having Matt Gaetz yanked by saying, you don't like Gaetz? Well, it's going to be Eileen Cannon then. I've said in the last year that she looks like she's auditioning for either something in the Trump administration, maybe the attorney general, or she leaves her lifetime appointment as a federal judge at a relatively young age and goes off and

makes millions of dollars in MAGA law firms representing other MAGA. I did not think she was long for her federal judgeship. It is not uncommon, especially in Miami and the Southern District of Florida, having practiced there for 30 years, it's not uncommon for young federal judges to leave the bench to pursue higher and more well-paying positions. There's a number of judges that fit that bill in Miami that are now partners in major law firms, having been a federal judge for three or four or five years. And I saw Eileen Cannon doing that, especially since she really burned all her bridges according to reporting with the other judges of the Southern District of Florida who think that she has disgraced the judges of the Southern District of Florida who think that

she has disgraced the reputation of the Southern District of Florida, that she thumbed her nose at the chief judge, Judge Alta Naga, didn't follow her guidance to step off the case. So she doesn't have a lot of friends among her colleagues in the Southern District, and I think she sort of tapped out. Could Donald Trump put her on the 11th Circuit? Sure, but I think she's got higher ambition than that. She doesn't want to be in Fort Pierce, Florida. She wants to be in the Attorney General's office, and Donald Trump may want to groom her for that, to get her—Donald Trump likes grooming women—to get her over to the Supreme Court should there be an opening there.

Now, I don't think the opening is going to be Alito or Thomas. They're not dumb enough to leave while the going is good, especially now when they're considered the crown princes of the Federalist Society. They wouldn't give up their junkets and million dollar travel around the country and the world now. They just got everything they wanted. They're not ready to leave yet. So I don't think they're going to be pushed out the door that fast. But there likely is another opening and he could either store Aileen Cannon for now in the attorney general position and then elevator over to the Supreme Court. That's happened, versions of that have happened before. So I'm back to thinking it could be Aileen Cannon, not Todd Blanch, supported by somebody that knows what they're doing like Todd Blanch, who would effectively be

the acting attorney general for her. But I think we need to keep a close eye on that and I only know one place to do that. Midas Touch and Legal AF were together again here on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF, our exclusive YouTube channel. Free subscribe to Legal AF MTN where I sit at the intersection of law and politics along with a lot of other collaborators and bring it to you straight right here on the Legal AF YouTube channel as well. So until my next podcast, the Legal AF podcast on the Midas Touch Network or the Legal AF YouTube channel, I'm Michael Popock and I am reporting. 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,

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