Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump Makes Worst Deal and Begs for Help

Episode Date: February 22, 2025

Trump is using Right Wing Media, and Q-anon influencers, to “celebrate” his becoming a Russian sympathizer and throwing our Democratic ally Ukraine under the bus. Michael Popok looks closely at Trump’s use of “embedded” right-wing media to support his efforts to give Putin what he wants — a weakened America under the guise of “deal-making.” Go to http://mackweldon.com/?utm_source=streaming&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=podcastlaunch&utm_content=LEGALAFutm_term=LEGALAF and get 20% off your first order with promo code 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 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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on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF. I never thought in my lifetime I would ever have to do commentary about a US president selling out American values and interests to our Russian adversaries. We're supposed to be trying to contain and undermine the superpower named Russia. We're not supposed to reward it

for having breached the sovereignty of Ukraine, for having led to terrorism all around the country, to having undermined our own democratic values and election system through disinformation and misinformation campaign. But to people like Carrie Lake who says, I wake up every day, it's like Christmas morning. We love the fact that Donald Trump is having direct phone calls with Putin. It's the art of the deal of peacemaking says Jack Posobiak. And by the way, while I'm on Jack Posobiak, the guy that invented Pizzagate, the guy who argued to the American people an acumenon conspiracy that Democrats were running, including Hillary Clinton and John Podesta were running a child pedophile ring out of a pizza parlor in Washington DC. I am NOT making this up. That guy? You think that guy should be in a mental

hospital. You know where he is? He's standing next to Pete Hegseth invited by the Pentagon to go along and do running social right wing commentary about the accomplishments. He's like embedded with the Trump administration. He goes with Pete Hegseth to Pentagon meetings abroad. He goes with Scott Bessent, the Treasury Secretary stands next to him while they're meeting with Ukraine. As they're selling out Ukraine. Jack Psobiak, the pizza gate guy is in the government embedded with the Trump administration.

So then you've got Tucker Carlson, right? Tucker Carlson is celebrating the fact that Donald Trump, we're not just making, it's not about making peace with Russia. It's about getting into bed with Russia and throwing Ukraine under the bus as a result. I mean, he's negotiating directly. Marco Rubio and Trump himself in phone calls with Putin are negotiating directly with the Russians before they even met with the Ukrainians

or understand what Zelensky wants in this. And they've already cut the legs out from under Zelensky because they've said out loud, including the defense secretary, Hegseth and Marco Rubio, that Ukraine will never be allowed into NATO, will never be in the NATO alliance and that they'll have to give back, sorry, they'll have to give up all the territory that Russia took by force in the two and a half year,

almost three year war. That's the reward Russia got for being the aggressor and going after a democratic country. And now you've got the talking points, and you see how Donald Trump is using right wing media, I'm gonna play a couple of clips here in a minute, but you got the talking points that Tucker Carlson is using and you think you're watching Russian TV.

I mean, he calls, Tucker Carlson frequently calls Zelensky the dictator and that Putin had every right to protect himself from the dictator in Ukraine. All Ukraine, listen, I know people in the region. I'm married to people from the region. I have a pretty good handle on what's going on on the day-to-day life over there.

All Zelensky and Ukraine wanted was for their cousins in Russia to leave them alone. After the breakup of the Soviet Union, let them be an independent country that turns towards the West in democracy. That's what we're supposed to be supporting. We're not supposed to be supporting Putin. Oh, well, we understand his position because, you know,

there's a border and Zelensky is popular. So bomb Kiev. So bomb Ukraine out of existence. Go back to maps from 17 and 1800 and say, oh, these territories were ours. Should Mexico show up with Claudia Scheinbaum tomorrow with military troops and take back large swaths of America? Because on maps from the 17 and 1800s or before it was all part of Mexico.

Are we going to lose California and Texas? Well, definitely Texas. Uh, to a Mexican land grab. And why is it okay for an American president? Well, definitely Texas, to a Mexican land grab. And why is it okay for an American president, I keep emphasizing the American part, who is supposed to be the leader of the free world, who's supposed to be holding our torch of democracy, to which all other countries are supposed to be attracted as a counterbalance against communist and fascist regimes.

Why is it okay for an American president to cut a deal to throw our democratic ally Ukraine under the bus? Why is that okay? And why is it okay for them to amplify this message as if it were written by Russian television, couldn't have been written any better by Russian television for people like Tucker Carlson to say,

well, Putin had every right, you know, Zelensky what? He was gonna take over Russian territory? He just wanted the Donbass back. He just wanted Crimea back, the port, which was part of Ukraine before Putin's last land grab under the Obama administration.

Left unchecked, Putin will continue to do it. I have friends in Poland who are crapping in their pants understandably, because they're like, if the United States is not standing up for Ukraine, we have no hope when the tanks roll into Poland. And they, and instead the right-wingers like Carrie Lake and Psobiak and Tucker Carlson

and others who are celebrating, hooray! Hooray what? Where is your American values? The MAGA party running around with their red hats. By the way, they're very quiet lately. I'll tell you, I live in an area now that's sort of, I mean, the state is sort of MAGA, but it's purpley. And I live in a blue spot, but they're very quiet

because they didn't vote for this. They left fascist regimes and dictators, right? When they read a new executive order that says, all federal agencies are gonna be put out of business and all have to answer to me, the almighty president, it freak out. Like we didn't vote for this. We didn't vote for an

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They don't see him as a tough guy, art of the deal, Jack Pesoviac. They see him as an out of control, megalomaniacal guy who violated all of our principles to get into bed with the Russians. This is a country that we had a red scare during the 50s where we chased, we looked under every mattress looking for communists, looking for Russian sympathizers. Now we got a president who's a Russian sympathizer. And we've got these right wingers

who if you collectively put their brains into a bird, it would fly backwards. I mean, that's where we're at. I mean, I don't mean to do ad hominem attacks, but does anybody wanna sit at a bar with a beer with Carrie Lake and find out what's going on in that weird stew of her brain right now? No.

And again, I'm going to end this hot take the way I started it. What is Jack Pesopiak, the guy who said Democrats are running a pedophile ring and sacrificing babies? I left that out. Eating and sacrificing babies is part of the QAnon pizza gates theme. How did he get rehabilitated? So now he is embedded with the treasury secretary and the defense secretary so that he can do all sorts of social media posts. When did we let the KKK and white supremacist into our government?

Why? And why do we have a Russian sympathizer as president and vice president? We just had JD Vance go to Munich of all places, talking about a lack of historical context. He went to Munich, Germany, right? Every little school child in short pants knows what happened in Germany

in World War I and World War II. He goes to, and the fact that we demilitarized them for a reason, he went to Germany in Munich with our democratic allies in front of them and decided he was going to take off his belt and take them out to the woodshed and beat them because he doesn't like their brand of democracy. He thinks they all should be Trumpians in Germany. And then he met with the alt-right slash neo-Nazi party in Germany and was celebrated.

His speech was celebrated on Russian TV. They said it was a public caning of democratic allies that was long in the making and they celebrated it. You know that if you're being celebrated on Russian TV, that you've sacrificed the American values that you were asked to protect on the altar of your fill in the blank power hungry greed. Get your hands off my brand of democracy. You know, the best I can the best metaphor I can use is that they got a wrap

you can put around cars to change the color instead of paint. You see a lot of these cyber trucks, they're all wrapped. You take them to a wrapping. So our brand of the beating heart of our democracy and the values that you and I hold dear have been shrink wrappedwrapped by this black heart of MAGA. We got to bust it out. You got to bust that heart out because we are not making any new democracies in the world. We are not making any, we are not supporting appropriately our democratic allies

around the world and we're instead creating our next brand of terrorists. And we're playing into the hands of the Chinese and the Russians who are rubbing their hands in glee to step into the power vacuum created by Donald Trump's withdrawal from the world stage. When Brazil becomes the leader of our democratic ideals, because they finally got around to prosecuting Bolsonaro, their former president, for corruption related to him trying to stage a coup,

when Brazil is the one holding the lamp of democracy, as opposed to the United States in this hemisphere, you know something's going wrong. you know something's going wrong. You know something's going wrong. So we're gonna continue to closely follow all of the right-wing fascist nutbags that are in the Trump administration. This is like a bag of nuts.

This is like the island of misfit toys. But it matters because we can't go this alone as an American people. We are the leader of a global world, you know? In this America first and for Americans only stuff, this may have been attractive during the 1930s and 1940s, but even then it wasn't. That's why we didn't get President Lindbergh as president.

Charles Lindbergh ran on a similar platform or was gonna run. He didn't become president for a reason. We can't go it alone. I read something recently, which brought it all home to me in terms of the global economy. No one country, even the United States,

can build an iPhone based on its parts. It can't. It has to rely on a supply chain around the world. If we can't build an iPhone by ourselves, how are we possibly gonna go it alone from a diplomatic standpoint, from a foreign policy standpoint, from a national security standpoint,

from an intelligence gathering standpoint? What do you think's kept the world safe and America safe all these years? The destruction of all the federal agencies and agency heads, the hollowing out of federal employees, the firing of top of top credentialed people and removing them from government because Donald Trump doesn't like the color of their skin or the stripe or the color of their political stripe. We all have voters remorse. I don't. But many people have voters remorse in the independent, you know, Republican zone. And we

got to keep talking about it, because we're coming close to the midterm elections. It's not that far away. We got to mobilize now. Because if everybody believes, I believe on this side of the aisle, that there already would be articles of impeachment drawn up for Donald Trump, for any number of the things we talk about on these hot takes. Curring favor and siding up

and getting into bed with the Russians? As an American president, impeachment article. Trying to, his power grab to take over power to the expense of the federal courts and Congress. Impeachment. His attempt to impound funds. Federal funds. Impeachment. Firing independent agencies. Impeachment. Birthright citizenship. Trying to deny people their right to be born and have a blue passport. Impeachment. How do we get there? The midterms. That's where we got to continue to look while the federal courts continue to rein him in. I'm Michael Popock. I'm fired up. I'm on the Midas Touch

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