Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump’s Own Agency Tanks All His Cases

Episode Date: May 6, 2025

We have new scandal swirling around the Trump Administration, as a newly declassified intelligence community memo prepared at the request of Trump’s own Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, refutes the very basis of Trump’s position that the Maduro Regime in Venezuela controls or is controlled by the notorious Tren De Aragua gang the very rationale for his unconstitutional use of the Alien Enemies Act. Michael Popok reads from the bombshell, newly declassified memo and outlines all the problems Trump and his DOJ now have in the federal courts up to the Supreme Court. Head to https://www.fast-growing-trees.com/collections/sale?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=legalaf right now to get 15% off your entire order with code LegalAF! 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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attempted use of the Alien Enemies Act by declaring the Venezuelan regime to be completely co-opted and in collaboration with a criminal drug gang, Trenda Aragua, because we've got our hands now, through the New York Times and the Washington Post and Freedom of the Press Foundation, of a memo that was created created not by a prior administration,

but through Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump's own director of national intelligence. She looked at all the information or they looked at all the information reported back to her that the Venezuelan government did not control Tren de Aragua, which is the very foundation of Donald Trump's arguments to the United States Supreme Court and to federal judges that he has the right to deport people summarily without due process under the Alien Enemies Act because you need an enemy combatant. You need to be at war with some country. And so this memo which finally came out in response of all things to our Freedom of Information Act request blows the lid off at all. This is a big scandal everybody and I'm

covering it here on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF. Let's get into it. The memo is dated the 7th of April. It is a sense of community memo generated by the National Intelligence Directorate under Tulsi Gabbard. It is reflecting the thinking of the CIA, the NSA, and the FBI. And it says point blank that the Venezuelan government does not control the actions of Tren de Aragua nor vice versa. Let me read it to you so you know what we're talking about in particular. Here is from the actual, we're going to put up a copy so you see what I'm talking about in particular. Here is from the actual, we're going to put up a copy so you see what I'm talking about. This is from the actual obtained national intelligence briefing. It is dated the 7th of April, 2025. Again, not only during the Trump administration,

in the last four weeks. So you can't blame sleepy Joe Biden or any of the Biden issues or Obama. This is what it says, Venezuela examining regime ties to Trend to Aragwa. There are some blackouts here that were produced when the document was produced to the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Here's what it says. This is the conclusion, the majority conclusion of the national intelligence community analysts. Tren de Aragua is a transnational gang based in Venezuela that has spread to at least seven South American and Caribbean countries operating in, listen to this, loosely organized cells of localized individual criminal networks. Doesn't sound like we're at war with a Venezuela,

do we? In a loosely organized cell in an individual criminal networks. It doesn't sound like we're at war with Venezuela, do we? In a loosely organized cell in an individual criminal networks. They have been historically located and broadly benefit from various permissive conditions and incapacities in Venezuela. What the argument is, is that there's a lax situation, a lax situation in Venezuela that allows the TDA to operate, not that they support the operation of the TDA, not that the Venezuelan government and TDA are one and the same and are proxies for each other. Then it goes on to talk about where it was formed, where it spread, including the United States, and what it's involved with. And then here on page two of the National Intelligence Council summary

under Maduro regime, it says Maduro regime leadership probably sometimes tolerates TDA's presence in Venezuela and some government officials may cooperate with TDA for financial gains. There are instances of cooperation with other criminal gangs. The Maduro regime generally does not impede illegal armed and criminal groups from operating in Venezuela, but it does combat and seek to contain them when it fears they could destabilize the regime or when corrupt deals sour.

So they're just in business with the TDA. It's not the TDA controls the Venezuelan government allowing for the alien enemies act to be invoked. If this is folks, this is 180 degree different to what the Trump administration is claiming in court filings and in their appearances. Did you know Fast-Growing Trees is the biggest online nursery in the US?

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Maduro regime probably not directing TDA activities. Says while Venezuela's permissive environment enables TDA to operate, the Maduro regime probably does not have a policy of cooperating with TDA and is not directing TDA movement to and operations in the United States. The IC, which is the intelligence community, bases this judgment on Venezuelan law enforcement actions demonstrating the regime treats TDA as a threat, an uneasy mix of cooperation

and confrontation rather than top-down directives characterizing the regime's ties to other armed groups. In other words, this regime knows how to cooperate with armed groups, but it's not doing it with TDA. It more worries about it and sees it as a security threat. Now let's talk about what this means for the court cases and for Donald Trump. First, what's been the reaction of the Trump administration? Oh, to go after the leakers.

Pam Bondi announced, it's the reason Pam Bondi announced that they were gonna go after leakers, they were gonna go after the press, where leakers spoke to them, they were gonna prosecute everybody. So that was the first reaction. Then you had Tulsi Gabbard goes on a podcast, or goes on with Megyn Kelly and says,

oh, this is a misinterpretation of the intelligence community memo. I'm gonna post this memo on Legal AF Substack. You can read it for yourself. And you'll see, I hope, that I'm not distorting. I'm just reading words on a page from Trump's own national intelligence community. So that's the second.

And Todd Blanch, who's the bad cop, if that's the right name name for the number two lawyer in the Department of Justice, Donald Trump's former criminal defense lawyer, he's again saying, oh, it's a crime that this was leaked. It's a crime that it was leaked, thank God that it was. And how is it leaked? This wasn't a leak. What happened is the Washington Post and the New York Times started running assessments

based on communications they had with people in the know. This document only backs what the people told those reporters, 100%. And now the Trump administration has a lot of explaining to do in the courts, to the federal appellate courts, including the United States Supreme Court, and to Judge Zinnis, and to any other judge who's looking at Donald Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act and declaring whether it's constitutional or not. This memo should be immediately, if it's not already being prepared, should be immediately filed as additional evidence in all of those cases. There's dozens of them now involving writs of habeas corpus brought by Venezuelans who are exposed to possible deportation

to gulags in El Salvador. This is all evidence, evidence for Judge Zinnis, evidence for Judge Bozberg, evidence for Judge Rodriguez, evidence for the United States Supreme Court. And we'll continue to follow it right here on the Midas Touch Network. Take a minute, hit the free subscribe button here for Midas. Come on over to Legal AF, the YouTube channel. Hit the subscribe button there as well as we continue to grow that channel. We're gonna get to 700,000 subscribers with your help this week alone and then we got a new Legal AF sub stack. Legal AF the sub stack and I'm

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