Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump Threats Backfire as CBS Fights Back in Lawsuit

Episode Date: February 21, 2025

CBS may have a backbone to protect the Freedom of the Press against Trump after all. Rather than settling with Trump to pay him millions of dollars to settle a meritless case, CBS’ lawyers just told a federal judge that they will need all of Trump’s personal and business financial information, including about his failing Truth Social platform and his meme coin sales if Trump’ case continues. Michael Popok reports. Go to https://GetSoul.com and use code LEGALAF to get 30% OFF your 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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Paramount by claiming that when Bill Whitaker on 60 Minutes did an interview of Kamala Harris, and they gave a short version of that interview, they purposely edited her response to make her look better and that somehow damaged Donald Trump and his companies and his meme coin. Well CBS just told the federal judge in Texas of all places, Judge Kaczmarek, that if we're gonna go down that road then we want all the financial information about Donald Trump's companies, his relationship with his meme coin and the rest. Maybe CBS does have a backbone. I'm Michael Popak.

You're on the MidasTouch network and of course, Unlegal AF. This case got filed several months ago. Donald Trump didn't like during the campaign that there was an interview with Kamala Harris. And they said that they edited it to make her quote unquote word salad look better to the American people. I'm going to read to you at one point, the transcript related to that. And I defy you to tell me how the editing anyway helped Kamala Harris

or was deceptive or untrue. Donald Trump just wanted to have a giant press release of a lawsuit. So he filed it in Texas in order, um, in Amarillo in order to get one particular judge on the case, Judge Kazmarek. Matthew Kazmarek in an ultimate example of forum shopping is a rightist of right wing MAGA former lawyer for a Christian legal entity that is anti-abortion, and all of MAGA likes to file cases in front of Judge Kaczmarek. And so they did it here. What's the connection between CBS based in New York

and Delaware and Texas? Nothing, nothing, except in the amended complaint that Donald Trump filed a week or so ago. He added Ronnie Jackson, remember him? Representative from Texas, used complaint that Donald Trump filed a week or so ago, he added Ronnie Jackson. Remember him? Representative from Texas. Used to be Donald Trump's personal lawyer. He was a COVID denier, who's an election denier. They added him saying, well, he's somehow also been harmed by the interview because he's in Texas and he consumes television. I'm like, are you kidding me? But more importantly, we've got in response to the amendment complaint, we

thought that CBS was going to get in line with the Facebooks, the Metas and the Amazons and settle with Donald Trump and pay him millions of dollars. Especially since Paramount, which is owned by the Redstone family, is trying to merge with Skydance. And the FCC is now under the control of Donald Trump. It can stop that merger. So we thought, well, you know, they're gonna capitulate. They're not gonna strike a check or stroke a check for 20 billion dollars, which is bigger than Paramount. But they, you know, you know, we were waiting for, oh, here we go,

CBS is gonna settle for 20, 30, $40 million going to the Trump Presidential Library or whatever it's supposed to be. Or they're gonna do another Melania documentary for another $40 million or something like that. Not so fast. We've got buried in a discovery proposal, because in federal court, you've gotta submit buried in a discovery proposal,

because in federal court, you've got to submit to the judge at some point, what your discovery, which is the exchange of information in the case, is going to reveal. And when we look at, this is on page five of the joint report, about the defendant's position, that's CBS, it says,

defendants believe discovery is needed into President Trump's personal financials, as well as the financials of Donald Trump's 2024 campaign organization and of Trump Media and Technology Group, including with respect to Truth Social and dollar sign Trump meme crypto project. Defendants further anticipate the discovery will be needed

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to the amended complaint that was just filed, besides the fact it starts with him bragging about the wind and how, and the quote unquote landslide, I don't know, 312 to 226 is not really a landslide, but they then talk about the Bill Whittaker interview and the preview that was on Face the Nation. And they say that the harm that was done to Donald Trump is to his companies. In paragraph 16 of the complaint, it says, defendants deceptive advertising

and slice and dice manipulation of the interview was an act of unfair competition against President Trump, a significant owner of shares in the Trump media and technology group and that it owns President Trump's wildly popular, I love the lies, wildly popular social media platform Truth Social, in which President Trump owns a substantial share in the digital media space and all of the rest.

So that opened the door for the lawyers for CBS to say, give us all your info about, you say you've been injured, you say you've been damaged, let's see your finances. Now we know the truth social is not wildly popular, it's barely eking out a living. It has hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars of loss. It'll be a decade before it ever recovers that money. So that's another series of lies. But what I like about this particular story is that at least for right now, CBS is firing back. They don't know why they're in Texas with Judge Kaczmarek. They are going to

seek to dismiss it and transfer it back to New York, where the case belongs at best. They're going to get rid of Ronnie Jackson, of all things. What's he doing? Being dragged along for the ride to try to keep the case in Texas, because they have a friendly judge in Casmeric. And Casmeric should be embarrassed that he knows people are filing cases in front of him to pick, to particularly get him what they consider to be a favorable judge. He should recuse himself on that grounds alone.

And if you're going to sue over billions of dollars in claim damage and injury to your finances, you got to back it up. And that's where them asking for all of Donald Trump's finances is probably going to lead to a settlement of the case or a dismissal of the case. Donald Trump went after Michael Cohen in Florida for hundreds of millions of dollars and he dismissed the case as soon as it got close to him having to reveal any of his financial information or sit for a deposition. And I'm sure that's what CBS is banking on now.

And does anybody really think it's appropriate for Donald Trump to use his federal communication commission, the FCC, to lean on CBS, to pay him a private settlement in order for them to get approval for a merger? That's extortion. It's extortive. But that there's no limits or boundaries for this president. You know, he's already extorted Amazon and to get $40 million from Melania, a couple of hundred million dollars for the family

has already been earned with all of his schemes since he's been in office. What's gonna happen next? There's gonna be another motion filed in Texas to dismiss the case and transfer it to New York for improper venue and jurisdiction. They're gonna try to get rid of Ronnie Jackson, and eventually some judge is gonna have to decide

on the discovery plan here, and whether they're gonna be able to get all the private secret confidential information about the failing Truth Social and, um, his beam project, which has also lost people hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars. Uh, does he go that far? I'm not sure, but so far Donald Trump until he's limited by federal judges. And we're not talking about Casmaric.

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