Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump REVERSES DECISION on ALL of his AWFUL PICKS

Episode Date: December 5, 2024

With all of his cabinet picks coming under sustained fire, and him likely losing Pete Hegseth this week as DefSec to join Matt Gaetz’ failure as AG pick, Trump is looking to blame someone else— the BIDEN FBI! Michael Popok reports on Trump agreeing to have the FBI do background checks of his remaining candidates (after claiming the FBI is “deep state" and needs to be dismantled), only so he can tell MAGA -see I tried, but Biden’s FBI wouldn’t let me have the candidates you love. Go to https://joindeleteme.com/LEGALAF and use promo code LEGALAF for 20% off. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We don't need background checks. We don't need any stinking background checks for our cabinet picks. Tulsi Gabbard even went as far as to say, we would never let the FBI in. They're just going to be moles and we're never going to tell them what we're going to do in transition, violating the law of presidential transition. How's that going for you, Trump transition team, with Pete Hegseth's defense secretary nomination hanging in the balance.

It'll be cooked toast, it's done, probably be pulled later today. That makes two cabinet picks done because of the fact that they didn't allow the FBI to do a background check. Now we got new reporting they finally decide in the last 24 hours maybe we should have the FBI do a background check so maybe we should sign the mandated required by law by Congress agreements to have background checks done on Michael Popak, Euron Legal AF and the Midas Touch Network. I'm Michael Popock, you're on Legal AF and the Midas Touch Network. I'm going to pull this whole thing together.

As soon as I read, oh, after four weeks, they're finally signing with one month to go before the new Congress comes in, the required agreements to let the Department of Justice and the FBI do background checks, give them top secret security clearances, uh, and also do briefings to allow for a smooth transition. This is all I said, this is all a ruse. This is because they can't save Hegseth. They're pissed off at Pete Hegseth for lying to them, the transition team about the sexual assault allegation, the rape allegation that he had in 2017.

His failure to disclose he had a copy of the police report in his back pocket for the last three years, kind of left a copy of the police report in his back pocket for the last three years kind of left that out of the transition team. And now we go from the FBI is evil. The FBI needs to be hollowed out. Cash Patel is going to put it in mothballs and make the FBI headquarters a museum. They're terrible. The Biden FBI can't be trusted.

Now we have, we need to have the FBI do background checks. Right? Because all of your candidates are dying a slow death because you're letting the media and Midas Touch and Legal AF do the background check for you. Okay? Suzy Wiles, who is allegedly brought in to be the chief of staff for Donald Trump because she's the adult in the room, she must be pulling what's left of her hair out. This is all backing up on her. This is all of these failed nominations. Gates for Attorney General, now Hegseth for Department of Defense,

soon to be Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr. I mean, if they get half their cabinet through, I'd be shocked. This is all the fault of the transition chairs led by RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Howard Lutnick, who's now commerce nominee, and Linda McMahon, who's now education cabinet nominee. It's their fault. And Susie Wiles, the chief of staff nominee.

They're supposed to be doing the vetting. They're the ones that made decisions. Susie Wiles said infamously now three weeks ago, we don't need to do the FBI. We have our own investigators. Yeah, how's that going for you? You learn it when we learn it. You learn it when we report it, apparently. And so now when I read, oh, then now they're signing the last agreement for the FBI. It's obvious. This way they can put up all the MAGA sweetheart favorites. And then when they all get shot down one at a time, like you're in some sort of boardwalk arcade,

you pick up one of those little air rifles, you know, the wind a cupid all, you know, like Hegseth, you know, Gates, okay. They can blame Joe Biden. Why not? Joe Biden's going out of business anyway. They're like, well, we wanted Matt Gates. We wanted Pete Hegseth.

We wanted Tulsi and R.F.K. Jr. But the mean FBI, aw, Joe Biden's FBI did it. Yeah, okay, who's buying that? How about you're an incompetent transition team that doesn't deserve to be in the White House or anywhere near it? How about that? You're supposed to judge the future potential president by how he runs his campaign.

I know he beat Kamala Harris, but the rest of the campaign just lurched from crazy to insanity to conspiracy theories to anti-woman misogyny, anti-immigrant, every day, every way. Terribly run. Run is not even the right word. They just bought an election with Elon Musk's money. And you're supposed to watch how they're doing in the transition team. I remember when Bill Clinton would stand there with his amazing cabinet, one shinier and more talented

and more competent than the next, standing in a row, holding hands. I was like, oh, I feel good about what's going on here. Our enemies should feel good about or feel terrible that this really strong cabinet is coming in with the president. How about what's going on with Donald Trump? I was out last night for dinner with some friends who kind of leaned the other way, I mean, politically. And they were like, even they weren't defending the picks. I looked at them I said how can you defend this process or these picks these are you know these are smart people they're like you know they look down at their

they look down at their shoes you know we really know we didn't those Matt yeah you're right Matt Gaetz that's not a good one no no no Pete Hexeth no no no that's terrible like stop mumbling speak up speak up they're terrible He's doing a terrible transition job. In addition to doing a terrible transition job, it is already the most corrupt president-elect we've ever had. I'm gonna do another hot take about about 14 million dollars that Donald Trump earned, put in his pocket while he was president, which he's not supposed to do under the emoluments clause of our Constitution. And his failure to sign all of these agreements to allow for the transition, there's no ethics code. There's no ethics plan to solve the ethical and financial conflicts of the people that he's

placing in the cabinet. How is Howard Lutnick going to unwind all of his business operations and his cryptocurrency relationships and personal investments in order to be our commerce secretary. How's Elon Musk gonna unwind anything considering he is a defense contractor, gets billions of dollars from the US government and stands to benefit when he makes recommendations to get rid of regulators

to allow his own companies to benefit. Where is the required ethics plan to resolve these issues for Donald Trump and his family? Nowhere. That's why I can safely and with confidence say out loud they're the most corrupt incoming presidential administration we've ever had. Shouldn't surprise you, he was the most corrupt president we ever had. Why is anybody shocked by this? We've talked previously about how much of your personal data is out there on the internet for anyone to see. Your name, contact info, social security number, and home address.

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that's because all the senators, even the Republican senators were saying, we need an FBI report on each of these candidates or something pretty darn close to it being prepared. I called two weeks ago for Joe Biden to have the FBI do these background checks and deliver them to the American people. Now, they didn't take me up on that offer, and now we had to wait around for Donald Trump. I also had my thought that Donald Trump made a mistake. He's made a lot of mistakes. One of them was naming his cabinet so early and then refusing to have background checks

by having them out there for a month and then having enough time for the media to train their focus and dig on dirt and do op research about each of these people, they left Midas Touch and legally have too much time on the clock before the Jan 3rd new Congress comes in. You know, we could dig it up. How hard was it gonna be? You just scratched the surface on it up. How hard was it going to be, just scratch the surface on these people. How hard was it going to be to see that Linda McMahon,

running an organization, the World Wrestling Federation, which is basically anti-children and terrible for their morals, maybe, and is being sued for having allowed a sexual predator to groom boys for sex while she ran the organization, maybe shouldn't be the head of the Department of Education and our nation's youth. Maybe. Maybe Elon Musk, who's got billions of dollars of government contracts, shouldn't be the one deciding which government regulators that he hates because they regulate his contracts, should live or die. Maybe they shouldn't do that. because they regulate his contracts, should live or die. Maybe they shouldn't do that, right? Maybe they shouldn't put an admitted drug addict,

or I'm sorry, former heroin addict, let me get the phrase right, RFK Jr. in charge of health and human services when he doesn't believe in childhood vaccines or really much else around science. How about that? And now they're gonna use at the last minute, well, we did sign all of our agreements, not quite.

I know the reporting is FBI gets agreements signed with the Department of Justice FBI with the Trump transition team. That's not the reporting, that's why I'm here. I don't know why I'm so excited this morning. I think it's the coffee. That's not the reporting. The reporting is they still haven't signed the ethics agreement or filed the ethics plan

and they have no intention of doing that. People are like, I wonder how all of these people are going to divest themselves of their businesses that have business in front of the government. They're not. Wake up. They're not going to put things in blind trust. They're not going to divest. Donald Trump's not going to make them. We're going to have to go to court to make them or to disclose it. And we're going to have a whole constitutional crisis. Get ready. This entire presidency is going to be lurching from one

constitutional crisis to another about the separation of powers and the checks and balances that we can have on the presidency. That's all. Thank God we've, I told my partners I might as touch, thank God we formed Legal AF, the YouTube channel about a month or two before the election. You know, we have plenty to talk about, trust me. I'm just counting down the days to January 3rd and January 20th when the new presidency comes in, right? That's also the starting, that's, you know, if you're doing a race, an F1 race, you know, that's the green flag, man,

for the lawsuits that are gonna be filed. And Donald Trump, who learned a bad lesson from the immunity decision over the summer, that he's all powerful, he's omnipotent. And he's gonna test it and we're gonna have to test it for him. So now of course, it was a shocked when they finally said who could be the fall guy

for all these without us taking responsibility for all these failed cabinet picks. Oh, Joe Biden's FBI, That's what Trump's thinking. We'll pin it on Joe. He's out the door anyway. He's got his back turned. Just pin the tail on him. That's why I, just to end it here on the hot take, that's why I have absolutely no problem with any of the pardons that Joe Biden is considering or will issue. None. Protect everyone. is considering or will issue, none. Protect everyone. Get everyone behind the firewall

of a protection of your pardon. Federal prosecutors, FBI, state prosecutors, judges, anyone who touched anything with Trump's name as a defendant, give them protection and their staff around it in addition to your son, Jack Smith, Merrick Garland, all the judges, Letitia James, do it all. Got one shot, one last superpower, make it happen. Michael Cohen, I've asked for that.

Get that guy protected. He's a wreck. Get him protected with a pardon. I'll continue to follow it all. Right here on Midas Touch and the Legal AF. If you like what I'm doing, Tuesdays, 8 p.m. PO-POK Live to about 45 minutes in the intersection of law and politics.

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