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This is like a high wire act without a net. Will I be able to cram everything.
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I want to tell you at the.
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Intersection of law and politics here on the Midas Dutch network in one show? I'm going to try. I'm a master weaver. And here we go. As we came onto the show, we got the new reporting that Chris Mays, the Attorney General extraordinaire in Arizona, has finally filed that lawsuit. I wanted them to file to get Adelita Grijalva sworn in to represent the 7th congressional district in Arizona and represent 8, represent 803,000 people and be the 218th signature on the discharge petition so that the House will vote on the release of the Epstein files. And now the lawsuit has been filed. Then I'm going to talk about Trump stealing from taxpayers, not just once, but several times. I'm going to tie together a few things. One, his new demand, actually a slightly old demand for $230 million of our taxpayer dollars for reparations for Don Trump to pay for attorneys fees he never paid for himself. He, that he grifted off of donors related to his indictments and, I guess, conviction. And he wants the taxpayers to pay the $230 million. Forget black Americans and the historical racism about slavery and all of the degradation and their reparations. Donald Trump, the most privileged snowflake of a president in history, he, he needs his $230 million and he wants the taxpayers to pay it. No, I'm not making it up. While he's stealing $230 million from taxpayers, which is something that has to be approved by. Wait for it. His criminal defense lawyer, now number two in the Department of Justice, Todd Blanche. He's stealing $400 million from a local university in Miami called Miami Dade College, which is being forced by Governor DeSantis to turn over a three acre valuable parcel worth $400 million, for which they paid about $20 million 10, 15 years ago, turn it over to the state so the state can turn it over for free to Donald Trump for a presidential library.
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Did you see the sleight of hand.
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Money laundering, $400 million taken from a school that can't afford it. So now we're 230 million. We're 400 million.
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We're on a roll.
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Let's keep going. Another 230, $250 million scandal, the demolition of the White House. Why don't we just bulldozer over the entirety of the White House? Donald Trump. This is on public land. This is a sacred building. This is the People's building. And now he's scarring it. He's already started the demolition. Didn't get any approval from Congress, didn't get any approval from the landlord, the people to tear down half or all of the east wings. And, and where that $250 million come from. That sounds like an emoluments clause violation, a campaign violation. How many foreign donors paid to get access to Donald Trump so he could have a holiday in Style ballroom attached to the White House? I got a better, better use of that. Once the Democrats retake the White House. Stick around here on the intersection and I'll tell you what it is. Then after we're done with that. And the arch. Oh, remember the arch. We're going to have an arc. An arc de Trump. Where is he getting that money from? And who gave him the right to commission an arc to himself? One of the reporters said, oh, Mr. President, the person who designed it with a design competition said he wants it to symbolize the unity of the American people. Well, who is it for? And he looked at the reporter and said, me. Great. So now we're gonna spend untold tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to put up a giant ark across from the veterans memorial and to honor Donald Trump. You know, even the ballroom. Think about the ballroom. He's all private donor money. I'll show you a clip when I get to it. Sounds like money. Yeah. Who's money? Who's gonna do the maintenance of that building? Tens of millions of dollars for a ballroom. Just like the free cutter Air Force One that Donald Trump wants to fly off, apparently to Miami to visit the presidential library. Oh, it's a free gift of $400 million. No, it's not. It's hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars to retrofit that plane for a presidential use. And then the tens of millions of dollars of monthly or yearly expenses. I got an update on James Comey. Yes, he came out swinging going for the knockout punch against Lindsey Halligan, the Insta prosecutor. Just add water. Lindsey Halligan, Donald Trump's hand chosen meat puppet. Because no career prosecutor worth any of worth their bar licenses would touch Letitia James's prosecution or Comey's prosecution or anybody's prosecution with a ten foot pole. But you know, Ambassador Bolton's sort of a different story. We'll talk about him later. So there's a lot of things going on. Two, two separate motions have been filed and some dirty pool paperwork filed by Donald Trump to try to defame the lawyers representing Comey, suggesting that they received the leak of confidential, classified information. It's all bogus. It's all a frame job. It all weakens their case, not strengthens it. Anytime you're trying to get rid of the lawyer and break the sacrosanct bond between lawyer and client in America chose, you're afraid of that lawyer, they're afraid of Pat Fitzgerald, no doubt. And then I got an update about Alina Hava. She. Let's just say things did not go well for her at the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in a motion to disqualify her and to have her declared to be illegally appointed as the U.S. attorney of New Jersey. And I've got some receipts for you. I think you'll enjoy looking down my list here. Speaking of Lindsey Halligan, Lindsey Halligan doesn't know how the press works, doesn't know how the media works, doesn't know how off the record works. And I had an interview with Anna Bauer for Lawfare, who got an interesting. Hi, Anna, this is Lindsay. Signal chat that went on for 10 or 15 rounds about the Letitia James prosecution while Lindsey Halligan was and is the prosecutor for Letitia James. You're going to find it fascinating. I think Lindsey's gonna be getting a phone call somewhere along the lines of, hello, Lindsay, this is Pam. Can you come to my office? And then I'm gonna end with a 9th Circuit update. We got a new ruling coming out of the 9th Circuit, but with a twist about the National Guard. And I just had an amazing interview with Rob Bonta, the Attorney General of California, about his cases before the ninth Circuit, which I did during no Kings Day. Thank you to everybody who took to the streets, the Midas mighty, the legal effers, the intersectionists who took to the streets to protest this king, this tyrant, this dictator, this rogue, lawless president of ours. We should have a giant clock counting down the minutes until he's out of office, like the national debt clock. We should actually form that. I'm going to talk to the brothers about that. All that and so much more. Thank you for making the Intersection with one of the fastest growing podcasts around. We bounced back into the top 100 podcasts of all YouTube podcasts in the weekly rating. That's all because of you. And we're trying to do the exact same thing on Apple and Spotify related to all of that. So let's. Let's dive in. We're here. Okay, let's start with Adelita Grahalva and what's happening in Arizona. She's Already been. She's already, she won over 70% of the vote to represent the 7th district, 803,000 people. And I said a couple of weeks ago they should file this motion for declaration or motion or a complaint for Mandamus to force Mike Johnson to swear her in. He keeps saying, well, we've got a shutdown. Day 21 of the shutdown. I can't do a swearing in. Sure you can. You can do it during the pro forma session that's used so that Donald Trump doesn't declare a, a recess and start doing recess appointments. Has anybody noticed that it doesn't get a lot of press. Even MAGA doesn't trust Donald Trump. They're like, we better do the pro forma sessions. Go in there, have three people and then turn on the lights, turn off the lights every day. Or he's going to say that we're out of session. He's going to start appointing people, including judges even they don't want him to do that. But you can swear in at Alita Gralva. The reason they're not because she's already said she's going to be the 218th vote on the petition to discharge from the committee a bill to have the Epstein files in their entirety released to the American people. So we can see exactly what Donald Trump is covering up and who he is covering up in the child sex trafficking ring. He's protecting somebody besides himself. Who is it? Now there's a lot of routes here, but the first is you got to get Grahalva sword in. The people of Arizona deserve it. Mike Johnson's playing games. He's setting a dangerous and bad precedent and the lawsuit's going to sort it out in federal court. Now in addition to that, we've got, you know, if you want to talk about process, process, even if it gets out of the House and it sounds like it's got the votes for that, still got to have a majority of the Senate and then Donald Trump's got to sign it and you know, but it'll put pressure where pressure is due, where it's important on this administration to be branded a enabler and cover up agent for people in high places who participated in the Epstein child sex trafficking, including one named Donald Trump. He has to be, has to be permanently branded that way. Let's talk about Trumper rations because we have to. I'm going to talk a lot about 230, $250 million numbers here on the intersection. Donald Trump filed a claim under the federal tort claim act in 2023 and 2024, we covered it here on the, on the Midas Dutch network. He said that in 2023, his first claim, which is a prerequisite to filing a lawsuit before you sue the federal government, you got to, you got to file a claim, give him 180 days, try to fix it. He filed that back in 2023 demanding lots of money, hundreds of millions of dollars because of the Russia collusion investigation. He never filed the suit yet, but you see, now that he's done with his enemies list, must be time to collect money. 2024, he filed another notice of claim against Merrick Garland and Christopher Wray, then the head of the FBI and the doj, claiming that they ruined his life and made him spend a lot of money because of the criminal investigations. Again, suits haven't been filed, but they're going to be. Now, those suits against the individuals really are defended by the United States of America, who step in under a doctrine called Westfall immunity. And they say, we're the party and they pay the money. Now, in order to pay the money, if you're suing the Department of Justice, you got to get approval. Who do you get approval from? The number two in the Department of Justice. And who may that be? It's Todd Blanche. Yes, Todd Blanche, Donald Trump's current and former criminal defense lawyer, who's the number two in the office. So we got that going for us. Okay? The, the approval is going to come. Donald Trump was caught during a press conference last week when he was bleeding out about, oh, Jack Smith should be investigated and prosecuted. Remember that one? He also said, it's going to be kind of weird. We have a good case. It may come across my desk. I'll have to be settling with myself. That doesn't sound like that doesn't sound like a demand of the Department of Justice. That sounds like an instruction to the Department of Justice and a violation of his sacred oath to the American people. Now lining his pockets and what is his loss? He grifted off his donors. He took between 10 and 20% of everything they donated to his packs, his political action committees. And in the fine print, he said he diverted it to his legal expenses. So people did it right. People were like, I want to help Donald Trump. He's selling shoes out of the sneakers out of the back of a van. I'll, I'll buy him. He's selling Bibles out of a back of a van. I'll buy him. He's selling bobblehead dolls and Meme coins. I'll buy him. I want to help the president. Half my money, third of my money, 20% of my money is going for his legal expenses. I want to. So he did the math. One day he was made whole for all the money. So what's, what's the damages? If he was made whole by his sucker donors in maga, where's the damage? The Republican Party paid a lot of it. Their pac, their fundraising, Donald Trump's pac, Donald Trump's fundraising. But you know, as Maya Angelou once so famously said, and I may be, I'm going to paraphrase it, when somebody tells you who they are, believe them. And I've never gone wrong believing Donald Trump when he says he's going to do something. Part of what my job is as a legal commentator is to talk about the legality of it and what we can do next and what kind of lawsuit we can file. The judges, we might, that we might get involved. But I think we need to believe him when he says it. Speaking of stealing, let me switch gears to the library. He's going to build it somewhere. This is a guy that can barely read. He Ghost. He never wrote a book. Either Ghost wrote all of his books or had them ghostwritten for him. But he's got his, he's got his eyes set. He's a real estate guy on a three acre parcel of land in Miami right down the street from me. Crossroad the Miami Heat play on Biscayne Boulevard. It's the last undeveloped lot. Now lots similar to that. And I have friends in real estate and development who told me lots almost exactly like this one, especially on that row of luxury condos would go for $400 million. This the Miami Dade College, which doesn't have a big endowment, does not have a big endowment. I bought that property for about 20 million about 10, 12 years ago. That's pretty good $380 million improvement. That can pay for a lot of scholarships, that can pay for a lot of operating expenses, a lot of new, a lot of new seats and chairs and faculty and students and building and infrastructure. Couldn't it? It could except Donald Trump stealing it. And I'm going to have on my legal AF for an interview tomorrow. The lawyers Andres Rivero and George Mestre who sued successfully for now to stop Trump's grabbing the that $400 million parcel of land which is now a parking lot next to Miami Dade column, next to the Freedom Tower of all places, the Ellis island of Miami where the Cuban diaspora came through to get naturalized. And just the irony of it all is Donald Trump chases migrants and immigrants and Americans through the streets and tries to abuse their civil liberties in due process. He's going to buy next to the Miami Freedom Tower. But they stopped it with a lawsuit in front of Judge Mabel ruiz in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Miami. Because, of course, the Miami Day trustees, who voted in secret, really, without proper notice, at 8 o' clock in the morning, without a YouTube link for anybody to see, voted to turn it over to the state for free. And on the other hand, DeSantis already passed a bill that said local government can't be involved with presidential libraries, only the state. And then Right on cue, DeSantis and his cabinet voted to give it for free. So, free. Free. Free to Donald Trump. Except Miami Dade county and Miami Dade College is out $400 million. And 59% of Miami Dade County. Let me, let me explain this. 75% of Miami Dade county or so is Latin, is Latino or Latina. That's 75%. Most of that, 50% of that, maybe a little bit less, is Cuban. Most of that is of Miami Dade county is a huge Republican group in Miami. Okay? 59% of the county, including a fair number of MAGA and a large number of Democrats, believe that that should not be given to Donald Trump for free. Or, or should not be given to Donald Trump for his library at all. And then there's a scandal within a scandal because we can't find the $15 million that Donald Trump took from ABC to settle the George Stephanopoulos calling him a rapist instead of a sex abuse defamation case. Remember that one that went into one foundation, but that foundation, according to Open Secrets investigation, got dissolved and a new one popped up. And I'm sure if there was something siphoning of money from one to the other by Donald Trump and his family, it was probably done for tax purposes or to evade something. And so there's a $15 million scandal nestled within a $400 million scandal. It's like Russian nesting dolls when you talk about Donald Trump and scandals. So we've done so far, the library theft, the theft from the taxpayers. Now, let me just touch on the arch. Donald Trump got it in his mind. And I guess there was a designer who designed an arch to put in one of the few remaining spots of, in the monuments area of D.C. and Donald Trump, the, the designer and Donald Trump, let's just say they're not getting along on the vision. The designer said he, he designed this arch, this triumphal arch to be a testament to the unity of America, to pull America together. But when they asked Donald Trump. I'm going to play it for you. Let me play you the video of Donald Trump being asked by a reporter, is this for unity of the America or for something else? Play the clip. What is this?