Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump REEKS OF DESPERATION During Speech on his CRIMINAL CASES

Episode Date: June 26, 2023

Michael Popok of Legal AF critiques Trump’s latest lie this time in front of a Jan6 insurrectionists fundraiser that “great law firms” are lining up to represent him, when he’s really down to a bunch of solo practitioners and tiny unheralded law firms. Cancel unwanted subscriptions – and manage your expenses the easy way – by going to https://RocketMoney.com/legalaf SUPPORT THE SHOW: Shop LEGAL AF Merch at: https://store.meidastouch.com Join us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/meidastouch Remember to subscribe to ALL the Meidas Media Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://pod.link/1510240831 Legal AF: https://pod.link/1580828595 The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://pod.link/1595408601 The Influence Continuum: https://pod.link/1603773245 Kremlin File: https://pod.link/1575837599 Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://pod.link/1530639447 The Weekend Show: https://pod.link/1612691018 The Tony Michaels Podcast: https://pod.link/1561049560 American Psyop: https://pod.link/1652143101 Burn the Boats: https://pod.link/1485464343 Majority 54: https://pod.link/1309354521 Political Beatdown: https://pod.link/1669634407 Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://pod.link/1676844320 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is Michael Popok, legal AF Donald Trump is at it again, lying to the American people. And those that attend his Mar-a-Lago, whatever they are, press conferences this time about all great lawyers only want to work for Donald Trump. He's had to turn them down that he's lousy with great lawyers. He's got so many great lawyers, so many great law firms, the greatest law firms that he's happy with his current team. Joe, I lost the EG Carroll case, Takapena, Susan, I lost the 17 count criminal conviction necklace. Jim, I'm out of here, trusty. Tim, I'm out of here, parlor, Torrey. John, I'm out of here, rally,

leaving only Todd Blanche and Chris Kice, who were so beloved by their own law firms that were major law firms that they quit those law firms in order to represent Donald Trump. I mean, I don't even know where to start, but that's probably a good place to start on my hot take. Let's start first with the clip of Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, bragging about all the lawyers that don't want to work for him and then I'll give you the truth and the reality to follow. Let's go to the clip first. And you know, I tell all these people they all come in that want to help and biggest people, some of the biggest people, the biggest love firms, the biggest lawyers,

they send this to you. I don't need an EL. I don't want to- Okay, everything he just said is a lie. I'm just, we're just calling him out. This is like a mystery theater 2000. I'm like those three little robots at the bottom. I'm just telling you the truth in real time as it happens. Okay, let's start with the beginning. I've been practicing for 32 years.

I know all the major firms that practice in this area of white collar defense. That's it in Washington and in other places. They have names. They have rankings. They're ranked by organizations such as Chambers, which is a major organization out of London, and American lawyer, which we call AMLaw. And there's firms that are considered AMLaw 10, top 10, AMLaw 20, top 20, Am law 20 top 20 or chambers ranked in different tiers. None of the lawyers that are working for Donald Trump are anywhere near chambers ranked or in Am law anything.

So let's start with those that are if you were a legitimate defendant that people wanted to represent and you had the problems that Donald Trump has, you would hire firms like, and you can write these down for future reference, Williams and Connolly in Washington, DC, or Arnold and Porter or Covington, or Wilmer Hale, or Crowell and Maureen. To name a few, you could throw scad nars in there.

These are major powerhouse firms that people in trouble go to on a regular basis when they've got the federal government as a prosecutor on the other side. Instead, let's go through the list of lawyers that Donald Trump has had and talk about the firms that they're with. So let's start with Rudy Giuliani, had his own firm, Giuliani Bracewell. Nobody's ever heard of it. And Giuliani has lost his law license in at least two different states.

Evan Quirkren, who's going to be the lead witness against Donald Trump, a lawyer. He works at a firm you've never heard of. Also, it's a very tiny firm, a boutique firm, Tim Parlatorie, the same. He also doesn't work for a firm you've ever heard of. Not a major firm, not a great firm. You've got Georgia Defense Council, also, are basically solo practitioners. That's really what Donald Trump has. He has a series of solo practitioners, which is what it sounds like. They work for themselves, or maybe a group of five or 10 people,

and that's about it. And then you've got Chris Keiss. Yes, he worked for a major firm, Folly and Larger. I worked for that firm at one point in my career, but he quit that firm to go open a two-man shop so he could represent one client, Donald Trump. Same with Todd Blanche,

the lead criminal defense lawyer with Chris Keiss in the Mar-a-Lago case. He worked for a major firm that you've heard of, Omelvany and Myers. But he quit Omelvany and Myers in order to represent one client, and that client's name is Donald Trump. What about Alina Haba you may be asking? I don't know why you asked that question, but you may be asking, what about Alina Haba? Alina Haba has a tiny firm the size of this room that I'm podcasting in, in Bedminster, New Jersey. You might be thinking, I know that now, where do I know Bedminster, New Jersey from? It literally is like a hundred yards from the golf course or whatever at Bedminster, New Jersey, the Trump owns. We've all heard the famous line, try it for you for 30 days. Yeah, well, that's just enough time to try it, and then completely forget about it.

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He matter at the golf course. Her office is in Bedminster. No major New Jersey lawyers lawyers offices in Bedminster. Her other office in New York is in a, is in a, is in a we work type thing. It's in a Regency rental space. That's who he, that's who he attracts. Joe Takapina has a firm. I think it's got four people in it.

He's one of those four people and we've seen what he's done for Donald Trump so far. Nothing but losses. Nothing but losses for Alina Habba, nothing but losses for Susan Necklace representing him. And the ones that don't have losses are because they all escaped and got out of the case or representing him before it was too late. Rudy Giuliani stayed to the bitter end and lost his law license in two places.

Two places. Sydney Powell almost got her law license yet, except she lives in Texas and Texas bar kind of, or the board of governors there got around her and protected her. But you know, that's another lawyer at a firm nobody's ever heard of. Clean a Mitchell who used to be sort of a pro-magga election denier, a lawyer who worked also in Folly Lardner work, Risk Ice worked. She got fired from her firm. They kicked her out as soon as they figured out she was representing Trump and making all sorts of crazy phone calls to Georgia

to Brad Raffinsperger to try to get him to overturn the election. Let's try to find another 11,579 votes so I can be the president or a win Georgia. So she's out. So I don't really know. And you can write to me and you can comment on what you think he's talking about. I don't know what a former president Trump is talking about when he says that all the major firms, all top lawyers want to work for him, none of them do. I've never heard of any of these lawyers except for Susan Neckless and Joe Takapina and a little bit of top lunch. And they either don't work at major firms or they quit their major firms or they got fired for the major firms. So I don't really understand where he's coming from, other than he likes to brag about stuff that's not true. In order to, I don't know, create,

he captures the news cycle for that moment and that makes him feel better when he goes to bed at night with his little blankie and a bottle of milk because none of this works in a courtroom because the lawyers he actually has in the courtroom, none of them are considered to be at the echelon of what Jack Smith and his group of 12 or more prosecutors, what their reputations are. None of them. So that's where we are with the lawyer, carousel, which we get dizzy and vertigo from and describing here on legal AF and hot takes just like this one.

And to summarize, if you're in trouble, if you ever get in as much trouble as Donald Trump, there are major firms that you can actually hire. They're well known. Go look in the Chambers guy, go look in the Amla 20 and you'll find all those major firms that do white collar criminal defense and you should hire them because if you have as much trouble as Donald Trump does, you shouldn't, you shouldn't settle for less. But nobody wants to work for Donald Trump. We reported on legal AF that when he was down in Miami,

scrounging around looking for local counsel, he interviewed all the usual suspects I practiced in Miami. I know a lot of those same people. And not one of them wanted to be his local counsel. I'm sure they demanded huge upfront retainers into the maybe approaching millions of dollars and Donald Trump doesn't want to do that.

And they don't want to be associated with him. You know, they fired the client before he became a client. So we're gonna hold Donald Trump's feet to the fire. We're gonna do it, and I'm gonna do it in hot takes, just like this one, about every day on the Midas Touch Network, and only on the Midas Touch Network.

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