Legal AF by MeidasTouch - WOW! RED STATE GOV has AFFIDAVIT on Trump PAY FOR PLAY

Episode Date: December 2, 2024

The former governor of Missouri has signed a sworn affidavit alleging that one of Trump’s closest advisors sought a bribe or payoff in exchange for recommending him as Navy Secretary. Public interest groups are now demanding the immediate release of an internal report containing this explosive declaration, arguing that the American people deserve to know if a key presidential advisor is financially compromised and poses a national security risk. Michael Popok reports on the latest developments. Levels is offering my listeners an additional 2 free months of the Levels annual Membership when you use my link, https://levels.link/LEGALAF Visit https://meidastouch.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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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that accused Boris Epstein, the right-hand man of Donald Trump, who helped put his cabinet together, of operating an illegal pay-to-play operation where he put his hand out for bribes in order for him to promote certain people to be cabinet members for Donald Trump. I did some reporting on this already, but we got some new reporting. We've got public citizens of Public Interest Group who's made a demand by letter on the Trump transition chair people Howard Lutnick and Linda McMahon, demanding that the American people require that the pay to play internal memo

be released, we need to know just how corrupt the Trump administration is or the Trump administration elect is on the way in. Now there's some troubling reporting about what's contained within that report, internal report that was prepared by the general counsel for the Trump transition group, somebody that actively fought for and wanted the job of White House counsel, but did not get it. But that report was prepared by David Warrington. And David Warrington delivered

the results to the chief of staff or incoming chief of staff, Suzy Wiles. And here's a piece of it that's the most troubling. A former Missouri governor, Eric Greitens, who's a retired Navy SEAL and previously hired Epstein for a consulting contract when that guy, Greitens, ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in 2022, reported to the transition team doing the internal investigation in a sworn declaration that he had an uncomfortable conversation with Boris Epstein when he inquired about whether he should apply for the job of Navy secretary. Now, the Navy secretary position just went to the highest bidder for Donald Trump in John Phelan,

or Phalan, who was, his biggest claim to fame is, he was the money man for Michael Dell and making all of Michael Dell's investments. But he's never run a $250 billion, one million strong Navy before, nor was he ever in the Navy. So the person you think would probably be more qualified, who's got more of the leadership and management qualities to run the Navy, which is required by the code, the US code

as the requirements for people who run the Navy or any of the branches, you'd think that a former Missouri governor and Navy SEAL like Eric Greitens would be the perfect candidate for the Navy and not John Phelan who's an art collector and you see him running around with his wife at step and repeat photos at places like Art Basel in Miami and different things like that. He lives in West Palm Beach. So, Griton's reported on a sworn statement, also represented, by the way, listen to this, by Tim Parlatorre, who used to represent Donald Trump in the Mar-a-Lago case, listen to this tangled web, until he quit after the execution of the search warrant because he claimed that Boris Epstein interfered with him

exercising independent judgment as a lawyer. So now the worm has turned, right? Parla Torre represents Gritons. Gritons says that Boris Epstein wanted his palm greased in order for him to promote Gritons as the Navy secretary. We now know it went to the highest bidder, the guy who donated $1.5 million at Donald Trump. If you ever wanted to know what a Navy secretary position goes for, it's $1.5 million. That's apparently the bid ask right now. So in this affidavit, which I presume that Tim Parlatore, who doesn't like Boris Epstein, drafted for his client. It went on to say that Epstein's overall tone and behavior gave Greitens the impression that there was an implicit expectation to engage in business dealings with Boris, hire him, pay him, before

he would advocate or suggest the appointment of Gritens to be the U.S. Navy secretary. This is what Gritens had in his affidavit. This created a sense of unease and pressure on my part. That's Gritens. According to the internal investigation, Gritens immediately alerted his lawyer, that's Parla Torre, to the concerns who arranged for the statement to be sent to Warrington, the General Counsel, and Wiles to probe the issue according to the interviews

and documents and CNN reporting. They then looked into the matter to make an initial recommendation about whether and that and they actually temporarily sidelined apparently Boris Epstein from the proximity of Donald Trump and his other entities. Then you had Boris Epstein trying to fire back at Tim Parlottore and the former Missouri governor and Navy Seal Gritons and he said, quote, I'm honored to work for President Trump and with this team, these fake claims are false and defamatory and will not distract us from making America great again. One of the single biggest predictors of how long you live and how good you feel while

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position. He should never be given a top secret security clearance, even though we know what Donald Trump's trick is up his sleeve. It's that he doesn't care. The Justice Department and the DOJ and the FBI aren't going to clear any of Donald Trump's people for top secret security clearances. He's not even going to have them do it. He hasn't signed those particular memos with the required presidential transition act of 1963 with those entities. He's just going to exercise his unilateral power as the commander in chief to order someone who's not qualified to have top secret security clearance. He did it in 2016 to 2020. 25 people got security clearance

because Donald Trump said so, including Donald Trump. You think Donald Trump would be able to clear a security clearance right now with his indictments and convictions and the allegations and the special report that's about to come out against Mar-a-Lago? I don't think so. If Donald Trump had one reelection, I think they would hold him up if he was just an average citizen. I don't think they let him take a White House tour. I've been to that little security hut before he'd take a White House tour.

They're tough. I'm not sure they would have let Donald Trump back in on a tour. So the purpose of something like public citizens making the demand, there's going to be a lot of public interest groups going after Donald Trump in lawsuits, a thousand or more. And hopefully you're going to want to know about them here on Legal AF. So take a minute, hit the free subscribe button on Legal AF when you get over there and also here on the Midas Touch Network, subscribe to the Midas Touch Network. But I applaud public interest groups like Public Citizen. Get that report. Make it a public records request. I think we're entitled to it. The transition team is, they act like they're a

private entity and they're taking private money and they're not subject to anything. I think they're a public or quasi-public entity that has public records obligations and that we can submit a Freedom of Information Act request and get our hands on it. And I think we will. They're trying to not have that happen in the Trump transition world. That's why they don't want to sign any of the required agreements in the transition and just try to seat at the pan sit on the way in, leaving America more compromised. But I don't want a guy who's trying to grease his palms being anywhere near the presidency. And

so I don't see Boris Epstein being appointed to anything that requires Senate confirmation, if Donald Trump takes him with him. I haven't heard him announced that he'll be in any Senate confirmed position, even though he's been the top henchman for Donald Trump for a long time. I think Donald Trump puts him somewhere where he can't hurt himself. Could hurt us though. That doesn't require Senate confirmation. Some sort of minister without portfolio that can just roam around and advise Donald Trump. He may end up being a special advisor to the president. I think that's the last spot he'll put him.

Trump's still trying to fill his cabinet. I don't think he's getting FBI director, which we're still waiting on, or deputy FBI director. I think that's going to Cash Patel, something like that. But he's going to have to put Boris somewhere. He's not going to leave him out in a think tank. He's going to bring him in. And I think he started with Sebastian Gorka, Donald Trump. That was his trial balloon.

Because Sebastian's allegedly crazy, and nobody wants to work with him to be in the intelligence community, who runs around wearing a military tunic with a Hungarian medal on it from his father's organization that was tied to the Nazis. I think they just floated Gorka. Let's see if we can get Sebastian Gorka in. That'll be a hoot.

And then if that doesn't work, then we'll try Cash Patel and then we'll try Boris Epstein. This is the best and the brightest that Donald Trump is picking. Yeah? And we're going to continue to follow it right here on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF. Follow me, Michael Popock, on all things Legal AF here on the Midas Touch Network at Hot Takes. I got a new show, Popock Live, on Tuesday nights right here at the intersection of law and politics and then a new channel, Legal AF, the YouTube channel, which you can go over there and help us build it to 500,000. We're at 340,000 in just two months

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