Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump REFUSES TO SIGN the Key Doc before SWEAR IN

Episode Date: November 29, 2024

Don’t believe the “headlines”, Trump’s transition is already “illegal” and he refuses to sign the key transition agreements to obtain top secret clearance for his team and him before he takes the oath of office, making the US vulnerable to a pandemic, cyber attack or war launched by our enemies as Trump takes the oath of office. Michael Popok explains why Trump doesn’t care about leaving his voters vulnerable while he and his Administration continues to print money on the way in. Head to https://Rhone.com/LEGALAF and use code LEGALAF to save 20% off your entire order! 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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between the incoming Trump administration and the outgoing Biden administration. Hooray! We're all safe and secure. And then when you get behind the headline, it's all untrue. I'm Michael Popak. I'm on Legal AF and the Midas Touch Network. Let's talk about what really happened and how it should have been reported as we don't blow smoke or sunshine on the Midas Touch Network. Let's talk about what was required under the Presidential Transition Act of 1963. Yes, boys and girls and others gather round. We're going to be talking about the Presidential Transition Act of 1963. If you haven't had a good night's sleep, I'm going to try to keep you awake on these particular issues.

It requires the incoming presidency and administration to work collaboratively with the outgoing to make sure there's no seam in the process, to make sure there's no ball that's dropped in the outfield between two outfielders, to make sure that we're safe and secure in case on day one or hour before day one of the new administration a pandemic hits, an economic crisis, some sort of cyber attack, some sort of a real attack, nuclear attack, whatever it could be. It's been amended a number of times that presidential transition act since 1963 to account for problems that happened, for instance, on 9-11, which I'm not saying that the transition or the late putting George Bush into his chair late, his seat late,

because of the vote counting problems and the Supreme Court decision and the delay in the presidency created the atmosphere for 9-11, but it certainly invited it. And there was a lot of backbiting and finger pointing about the lack of preparedness for the Bush administration because they were scrambling after the United States Supreme Court gave them the presidency. Never wanted that to happen again. It's ironic that some of the people that are involved in the presidential transition for Donald Trump actually have long-standing 9-11 experience and should know better.

But they've decided that they, Donald Trump wants to do things his way, national security and the safety of American people be damned. So he had to file an ethics report by October. He failed to do that because he doesn't want any of his people to comply with ethics requirements. They're all tangled up in ethical conflicts. They all have business concerns that have business before the government in cabinet positions and in departments and other agencies that they're going to be responsible for running. And they're not going to be required for Donald Trump to divest themselves of any of these conflicts. Neither is

Donald Trump. There's not going to be a blind trust of any type. So he's like, we don't need the ethics code. Let's get rid of that. There's two other agreements he had to sign. He's had to sign an agreement with the Department of Justice and the FBI to allow for FBI background checks and more importantly, to allow for top secret information to be given to people who don't have security clearance or give them fast track security clearance. Well, Donald Trump doesn't want that either. So we don't have the FBI background check agreement. We don't have the top secret security clearance agreement. And we don't have the agreement

with the General Services Administration signed, the GSA, which would allow a public funds to be used for the transition. They don't want public funds, the Trump side. They want an unlimited well of secret donations. And they don't want the office space that's required. And they also don't want the secure infrastructure that comes with getting inside the tent of the government. They don't want the secure IT infrastructure, information technology.

They don't want the safeguarding. They don't want the spam filters and the Pentagon level protection for their communications. This despite the fact that the Iranians routinely tried to hack and have hacked the Trump campaign. Russia too, China also. No, no, no. Susie Wiles, the incoming chief of staff, says we got this. We've got, you know, bank level IT infrastructure.

Do you? Why? Because Elon Musk is there, because Howard Lutnick is there from Canterford, Cheryl. This is the reason you think you're protected. These companies have never been hit with a cyber attack. Come on. Come on. I think you should take advantage of the fact that in order to become a part of this government, you need to have the level of protection that only a government can provide and stop jerking around. So what is, why was the headline in all of these news media? Oh, Trump finally gets around to signing agreements? He didn't. He signed one agreement. He's already uploaded it.

Yes, we'll abide by the ethics. Yes, yes, yes, we hear you. OK, fine. And we'll sit down and have meetings with everybody. Well, the meetings are going to be pretty sterile. Because until they get into office and get their top secret security clearance, these people on the outside in the transition period are not going to be given top secret

classified information by their counterparts. They're just not. Suzy Walls is like, don't worry, rapid response teams for each department and agency are well on their way to... I'm picturing this movie. Everything's like theatrical and cinematic. They're parachuting in like Mission Impossible to go meet with their counterparts, okay. And the counterparts are gonna be like,

well, here's a book for you, and there's lots of black pages and black lines because you're not, you don't have the top secret clearance that you need because you didn't sign the agreement. How does this make America safe on day one, on moment one, at 1201 on the 20th of January, after he gets sworn in and all the pomp and circumstance and whatever's going to happen on Jan 20 happens, how are we

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to see with the presidency hanging in the balance whether Supreme Court was going to give it to Al Gore or to George Bush. People involved now know that and yet they don't care because they don't want to subject themselves to anything that would make them divest themselves of their entanglements, their ethical conflicts. They all have ethical conflicts. All of them. Musk is in charge of cutting the red tape and government efficiency. He's got $3 billion and 17 contracts alone with the federal government and its military complex and NASA, which is gonna double in size while he is cutting costs, which it just means, when you hear that,

it's just social programs. Let's just call it for what it is. It's the programs that help the voters that voted for Donald Trump. It's the social safety net, it's entitlements. It's all the, those are the big budget items, social security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, student loans,

healthcare for children, things related to poverty alleviation, Head Start programs, public education funding. That's what goes in Donald Trump's world. And where does it go? It goes to pay for the tax breaks for the oligarchs and the billionaires who bought a presidency in broad daylight. That's what's happening. But it so chaps my backside. It really does. To see

national reporting say, agreement's finally signed. We can go to, we, great, we can go back to DEF CON 4. It's finally signed. No, it's not signed. It's not good enough. And it doesn't make me sleep better at night knowing that one of the four agreements in transition has been signed. Like we got this, we did this four years ago.

We know what we're doing. Yeah, most of the people that are coming back or are coming into government with Donald Trump have never been in government before. Almost all of them. None of them. I mean, some have. Most of them have not.

Now we're going to have to watch what happens. So I want to rip the bandaid off this whole BS reporting about we're now safer because he's finally agreed to transition. He hasn't agreed to that. And we'll continue to follow it and call him out on it and the ethical conflicts that everybody in his cabinet is tied up in knots related to but Donald Trump's gonna slip the knot. You know he's already got a solution for the no FBI background checks of course. Who would pass an FBI background check for him? Once you get through the alleged rapist, pedophiles, sex assault victims, conspiracy theorists, Russian assets, all

alleged. Once you get past all that, there's very few people left in the cabinet. And then if they do get past all that, then they have financial conflicts up to here in cryptocurrency involvement. Let's stop regulating cryptocurrency. That's a great idea. Is that because you're invested heavily in cryptocurrency? Trump,

Lutnick, Musk, all you guys, is that what's happening? You know, let's get rid of oil and gas regulation. Sure, why not? Let's get rid of the environment. Let's get rid of the climate. I don't mean climate control, just the climate. Let's just get rid of it. This planet in the United States would work much better.

We'd make much more dollars if we didn't have climate, weather, water, or air. These people must not have children and grandchildren, but they just don't care. It's just how many billions dollars more do they need in their bank account? How many toys do they have in their bank account? How many toys do they have to die with in order to be satisfied? Yay, I'm an ambassador. Yay, I'm a cabinet member. Who cares? Your grandchild just died or your great grandchild. That's the legacy you're leaving behind. Well, you're on the... Well, the Grim Reaper just entered the room. You're on the Midas Dutch Network and on Legal AF.

We're calling it out with outblow and smoke or sunshine. Nobody tells me what to say. And we are pro-democracy and we are here after the dust cleared on election day to get ready for the next battle, which is the midterms and keeping Donald Trump pinned down and make him as lame duck as possible, as early as possible in his first two years. That's what we got to do. We got to be energized, got to lean forward, not back. We'll help you do it here on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF. So until my next contribution on all things Legal AF, I am Michael Popak, and I am reporting. In collaboration with the Midas Touch Network, we just launched the Legal AF YouTube channel.

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