Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump Runs Scared in Court and Goes After Comey Lawyer

Episode Date: October 20, 2025

Former FBI Director James Comey’s lawyers have filed a counterpunch to Trump’s late night efforts to try to “defame” and disqualify his lawyer Pat Fitzgerald, filing today a response that reminds the Court that Comey consulted counsel in 2017 because he thought Trump had done “unlawful” things and was troubled by it. Popok observes that nothing says “I am scared of the other side’s lawyers” like a tactical and bad faith attempt to get them disqualified and violate the sacred bond between lawyer and client. Dose: Save 30% on your first month of subscription by going to https://dosedaily.co/LEGALAF or entering LEGALAF at checkout. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! 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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and the judge that they're moving to disqualify the prosecutor, Lindsay Halligan, handpicked by Donald Trump. You've got competing motions. Only one is in good faith. I've got three pieces of paper to tie together with you right here on this hot take on the breaking news. I've got the motion where it was buried on a Sunday night filing by the Trump administration that they're probably going to move to disqualify James Comey's lawyer, Pat Fitzgerald.

Again, retaliation for them signaling that they're going to be moving to disqualify the prosecutor. And then I've got the response that just came in. from James Comey's lawyer, and then on top of that, I've got the Office of Inspector General Report back in 2019 that this is all based on. I'm going to tie and knit all these three pieces of paper together right here on legal AF and on the Midas Touch Network. Let's get to it. Late on Sunday, in a late-night filing, the Trump administration told Judge Nakmanoff, who was presiding over all this, that they are going likely to disqualify. What's their basis for disqualification? Not much. But what they're saying is they're, they, they,

have documents that they've obtained from an attorney, likely Professor Richmond at Columbia, who was a former employee of the FBI and friend of James Comey. James Comey had written seven different memos, sort of CYA memos at the time when he interacted with Donald Trump, when Trump told him, you better stop the prosecution investigation of Michael Flynn. Or else, or else happened, Comey was fired. He had these seven, seven memos. None of them contained classified information. Of course, after Comey left office and under the Trump administration, they've tried to upclassify this to make it look like he sent secret or confidential information.

He only sent it to his lawyer team. In other words, an attorney-client-privileged relationship to get advice. Part of that lawyer team back in 2017, 2018, included Pat Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney, former U.S. attorney for Chicago. So what they said in the filing late last night by the Trump administration is, this is under footnote two, relevant to this motion, the attorney has informed the government, that would probably be Professor Richmond at Columbia, that the quarantine evidence contains communications between the defendant and several attorneys. The current lead defense counsel, that's Fitzgerald, appears to be a party to some of these communications. And then goes on to say, bottom of page two, based on publicly disclosed information, the defendant used current lead defense counsel to improperly disclosed classified information citing to the Office of Inspector General Report. It's a big problem with that. That's not what the Office of Inspector General Report says.

I'll post it up on Legal AF Substack so you can read it. Here's what it says on page 2. It says on May 14, 2017, Comey used his personal scanner and a private email to provide electronic copies of his seven memo. memos number two, four, six, and seven to one of his personal attorneys. Three days later, the attorney provided via personal email copies of these four memos to two other attorneys who are also part of Comey's legal team. In other words, covered by attorney client, attorney work product, privilege communication so that Comey could get advice. Of the memo shared with his attorneys,

the FBI later determined. In other words, they classified after the fact, how convenient. In June 2017 classified, this is under the Trump administration FBI, classified them as confidential level for a memo two, about six words in memo two, that memo four and six contained for official use only doc information, and seven was properly redacted about classified information. Later, they conclude, we found no evidence that Comey or his attorneys released any of the classified information contained in any of the memos to members of the media. So there was no leak. They say there was a leak that there was a, according to the Trump, to read Trump,

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legal AF sub-stack. That's how we roll here. And here, it says, first of all, on the document review issue, because all documents should have been turned over, but the government is withholding some because they want to set up a certain filter process because there's allegedly classified information, that's when they took the pot shot at Comey's lawyer. And this is how they say it. They say, we need a couple of weeks. And it also says that they're defaming lead counsel. It says, finally, the government's effort to defame lead defense counsel provides no basis to grant the motion. particularly they go through all of the ways the search warrant and other materials were obtained. Then on page four, they say the government's assertion that Mr. Comey's used current lead defense

counsel to improperly disclose classified information and the implicit assertion lead defense counsel and Mr. Comey engaged in criminal activity by doing so is provably false. Then they cite to this Inspector General report. the August 2019 Inspector General Report cited by the government demonstrates that. Notably, there was, quote, no leaking of classified information either to the press by either Comey or his counsel. Full stop, the report found no evidence of any such release. Moreover, the OIG specifically addressed Mr. Comey's sharing of certain memoranda with his defense counsel, including lead defense counsel, Pat Fitzgerald, in May of 2017. It says after Comey was fired on May 9th, he sought legal advice with respect to his termination

and with regard to having witness behavior by the president that he considered unlawful. Let's not bury the lead. The then, now former director of the FBI believed that the president of the United States had done illegal and lawful things and was consulting with counsel about it. Mr. Comey had written seven contemporaneous memoranda about his troubling interactions President Trump. He adjudged three memoranda to contain classified information and four to be unclassified. He shared the four unclassified ones with his lead defense counsel, who then shared those memoranda with other attorneys. But they continue. The memoranda were unclassified. At the time, they were shared. Mr. Comey did not share the classified memoranda with counsel. So there was one that he withheld. Thereafter, some weeks after the unclassified memoranda have been shared, the government,

led by Trump decided to up-classify one of the four unclassified memos to confidential, which is the lowest level of classification. This up-classification does not change the fact that when the memo was initially transmitted, they were in fact unclassified. In short, there is no good faith basis for attributing criminal conduct to either Mr. Comey or his lead defense counsel. They say on page six. Similarly, there are no good faith basis to claim a conflict between Mr. Coewe. and his counsel. Let's talk about that for a minute. One of the most sacrosanct rules of our entire

justice system is that you not only have the right to counsel, but you have the right to the counsel of your choice. And anything that interferes with that, any rule, any contract provision, anything that tries to put a wedge or a wall or deny you, your chosen lawyer, is generally found to be illegal. And those kind of motions, especially ones that are seen as a way, to gain a tactical advantage or not regularly granted or at all, especially by federal judges, and especially by this federal judge, Judge Nakmanoff, a Biden appointee who in his career

have been a federal public defender. It is a loser strategy. It shows you, all it shows you is that they are scared of Comey and they're scared of his lawyer, and they should be. The lawyers that the carpet-bagging lawyers that Lindsay Halligan imported in from North Carolina to handle this Virginia case, they should know better.

They are outmatched. They are outwitted. They are out-foxed, and they're already caught flat-footed. And to try to get rid of your opponent is the ultimate both compliment and insult and shows weakness. They're so scared of Pat Fitzgerald

combining with James Comey, two former U.S. attorneys against them. They're trying to get rid of one of them. We're going to follow it all right here on the Midas Touch Network in League of A-F. This is fast-moving. Later on, on the 20th, there's going to be more motions that are going to be filed, including the one against Lindsay

Halligan. I'll follow it here for you. I'll do it on Legal AF. I'll do it on Legal AF substack and do a live report. We'll keep you updated on all the developments fast moving in the Comey prosecution charade. I'm Michael Popock. You're on Midas Touch Network. Take a minute. Hit the subscribe button here. Slide over to Legal AF YouTube. Do the exact same thing. This is how you defend what we do here for you every day. I'm Michael Popock. Until my next report. Can't get your fill of legal A.F. Me neither. That's why we formed the legal A.F. Substack. Every time we mention something in a hot take, whether it's a court filing or a oral argument, come over to the substack. You'll find the court filing and the oral argument there, including a daily roundup that I do call, wait for it, morning A.F.

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