Legal AF by MeidasTouch - WTF?! Trump Freaks Out Over Costa Rica Pacifist Prez

Episode Date: April 7, 2025

Trump is so weak, that he is threatened by the pacifist former president of Costa Rica who called him a wannabe “Roman emperor” and revoked his US visa, as the Trump Administration helps strong-arm right-wing governments to suppress democratic voices in their own countries. Michael Popok shows how this is a tell-tale sign of a presidency circling the drain in less than 80 days. Get 10% off plus free shipping of your estate plan documents by visiting https://trustandwill.com/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

The hallmarks of a weak and failing presidency circling the drain of history in the first 75 days? You are threatened and intimidated by the 84-year-old ex-president of Costa Rica, who's a self-proclaimed pacifist and a Nobel Prize winner, Oscar Arias, because you don't like the fact that he's criticized your being an emperor or a wannabe Roman emperor. And so you had Marco Rubio in order to try to continue to pressure the current government of Costa Rica to align them with American interests under bullying tactics.

You had Marco Rubio revoke his visa to travel to the United States. What is it with Donald Trump and ex-presidents in this country and in other countries? His favorite pastime, no not the $30,000, sorry $30 million of taxpayer dollars spent golfing, his favorite pastime I thought was undermining the rule of law and wrecking our democracy. No, no, he wants to export that to other countries and take on other former presidents. It's not enough to go after Joe Biden or Hillary Clinton or Bill Clinton or any other former president. He's got to now take it on the road. It's like a road show and attack democracy wherever he can find it. I'm Michael Popock. We support democracy right here on the Midas Touch Network. Let's

talk about the sad tale of what's happening to Oscar Arias, one of the most popular presidents in that region, in Costa Rica, and in all of Central and South America and the Caribbean islands. So popular that not only was he president in 1986 to 1990, but he got reelected in 2006 to 2010. Now, he was instrumental, much like Nixon was in our country, in opening the path between Costa Rica and China. I've talked about how China is ready, willing, and able to step into the vacuum created by the Trump administration pulling America out of the world, the world economy, the world humanitarian

aid, and the rest. If you create a vacuum, a space abhors a vacuum, nature abhors a vacuum, the vacuum is going to be filled. And it's being filled with Russian and Chinese that are rushing in to build the infrastructure that we've ignored or won't invest in in countries like Costa Rica. We're a little late to the dance. So Marco Rubio goes down in February and says to the current president, Chavez, we'll support you on 5G, bringing 5G service to the island, but you need to reject the Chinese.

Well, look, I'm all about rejecting Chinese technology, if it makes sense, but if you're in a region where you've been ignored and you need infrastructure critically, and apparently 100 million cyber attacks a year in Costa Rica, I mean, it's just crazy. If you want to secure your infrastructure, you know, part of me thinks, what are you trying to do? You're trying to get Starlink and Elon Musk

a new contract for Costa Rica? But in order to pressure Chavez, you can tell there was a deal. The deal was, I have a lot of former presidents, and one in particular named Oscar Arias, who's trying to undermine my relationship with the US right now, and my willingness to bend over for the US right now,

what can you do about it? So Marco Rubio goes down on the 2nd of February down to Costa Rica and basically, because they met before, basically makes a public promise to go after on behalf of Chavez, the president of Costa Rica, his quote unquote enemies. Oh, I just completed what could have been a logistical nightmare and grounds for a divorce in most states, moving my family, including a baby, wife, car, dog, and 14,000 pounds of personal belongings 2,000 miles to our new home in seven days, including driving our dog to the new home with the best man from my wedding. Without many months of planning to make this run easy and time efficient, this could have

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with Trust and Will. Protect what matters most in minutes at trustandwill.com slash legal af and get 10% off plus free shipping. That's 10% off and free shipping at trustandwill.com slash legal AF. You know what I call enemies in a democratic political system? Other voices, other leaders. I don't mean I don't know what their constitutional rights to First Amendment are down there, but we don't jail our former presidents yet, do we? So Marco Rubio spends time during his press conference basically sending out a veiled threat to people like Oscar Arias. Let me play the clip. I think it's also important to understand that oftentimes, unfortunately, when you

confront elements such as these, there are efforts to undermine your institutions by individuals in the government that should be working in the national interests, but instead have found for some reason to become complicit with malign actors. And so we're going to try to work in cooperation with you to impose costs on those within the country who use their positions of authority to undermine the interests of the people of Costa Rica and in favor of a maligned foreign actor. There, okay.

Now, right on the heels of that, or the timeline, you've got Oscar Arias, who's not gonna be bullied by little Marco, and he comes out and says, I hope that my country does not capitulate. It's very hard when you're under a pressure campaign from the United States for a little country, stand tall, especially when that country is

led by somebody acting like a Roman emperor, like the Roman emperor part. So right after that, Donald Trump decided he's not just interested in silencing the voices of Americans in the marketplace of ideas here in our constitutional democracy. Let's export that and take that on the road. Let's go after and beat up and get and threaten and pull the visa from President Arias so he can't come to the United States. But that just shows you how weak and vindictive Donald Trump is, which is not a strength, it's a weakness.

And everybody and all of his enemies know it. The fact that he was intimidated by an aging, pacifist, former president from Costa Rica, what does that tell you about the state of affairs and the state of the person's brain? He's busy going after former presidents here, Donald Trump. He's got his current US Attorney for DC looking through Joe Biden's pardons to figure out whether they were signed

appropriately or whether people can be prosecuted over the pardonsons while at the same time Trump is busy partying pardoning sorry pardoning all his fellow business fraudsters all in the last week you don't think the pardon biden pardon story isn't all about a distraction from the pardons that Donald Trump is making right now. But I think this is an indicia of this deep, dark psychosis of Donald Trump that doesn't help the American people one-wit. You have not been improved one ounce by Donald Trump trying to beat the crap out of former president of Costa Rica Oscar Arias and yet this consumes him this that he wasted he wastes our resources he wastes

our time he wastes our money doing these things in addition to his 30 million dollars so far wasted on golf games at this this rate, at this rate, this will be a hundred million dollar or more a year golf game for Donald Trump at the taxpayers' expense. I'm going to continue to follow all of it. I do it in a couple of places. I do it here on the Midas Touch Network with regular hot takes at the intersection of law and politics. Let's say 15, 20 hot takes a week. But I also have this other channel called Legal AF MTN for the Midas Touch Network. We do it in collaboration, but I curate it at the intersection of law and politics. And that is the hottest intersection you can find right now.

And so what I want you to do, if you like what we're doing here, if you like this kind of content, subscribe to the Legal AF podcast, but come on over to the Legal AF YouTube channel. It is so important as we gear up for Hands Off Saturday that we speak truth to each other. It starts here on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF MTN. So join me there. So until my next reporting, I'm Michael Poehfuck.