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I'm Michael Popak and you're on the Midas Touch Network. As many people may know, I'm celebrating a holiday, a big birthday. If you want to put something in comments tonight and tell me which one you think it is, be kind. In any event, I couldn't miss getting together with our fervent audience here and brief them the only way I know how without blowing smoke or sunshine about what's going on with this administration. What's going on in the court system and curating for you, things that you need to know at the intersection. So let's dive in. Well, with one footnote as a special treat, forget Black Friday, forget Cyber Monday. Let's do popoc birthday Tuesday. 30% off paid annual membership for legal af substack going on right now until noon Eastern time tomorrow. Come up, step up and get it membership you've been waiting for to help support all things legal AF and, and, and the intersection. So I got that going on for you. All right, let's start it off. Let's kick it off already. So Donald Trump, how do I put this kindly? He's losing his shit. There's no other way to put it. Between his three thrice a day rantings and meltdowns on social media, Two latest examples, going after the Somalis and people from Somalia. He's already called that country or that region a shithole in the past. And now he's going after the people of Somalia that are living in places like Minnesota. Right. He's going after all people who hail from Afghanistan because of the tragedy that happened in, in the District of Columbia. And then putting that aside for a minute. And I got news for Donald Trump. There is fraud in federal programs and funding up and down, mostly perpetrated by everyday Americans. Okay? So you can pick on the Somalis and say, oh, they just committed food stamp fraud or whatever you want to call it. Again, this is just Donald Trump's racist dog whistle to go after a downtrodden black or brown community to try to make himself the better, to try to activate his base. It's really disgusting. Second example of his dementia or his cognitive disability. He's already admitted he just took a cognitive test. For what reason? At 79, you don't just take random cognitive tests. Who, who told you to take it? Who ordered that you take it? What type of test did you take? Was it for dementia? And what were the results of that test and who administered? That's the real question. The other indicia of cognitive decline just in the last 24 or 48 hours, is Donald Trump coming out during a cabinet meeting in the last 12 hours and saying that affordability is a hoax. This is his answer to the Democrats winning strategy of focusing on kitchen table politics, the economics around the hearth and home. Right? Checkbook politics. It's the economy stupid. It's been the economy stupid in America for like, for all modern presidencies. But he says in a cabinet meeting, surrounded by billionaires, that affordability is a Hoax that it's just a word that the Democrats use and he doesn't believe in it. It's a con job. This is the way he's trying to wallpaper over the failure of his economic policies by saying that there's no such thing as affordability in America. Thank you for admitting the obvious. That in the Trump America and the Trump economy, there is no such thing as affordability unless you're a billionaire like him. Look, there's new reporting that's out that actually says it's worse than I suspected, that Trump and his family are well on their way. They've already made billions of dollars and they're well on their way to making between 50 and 100 billion dol dollars before Donald Trump leaves office in one term. You know, they didn't make that money in the first term because of their warped AI policies. There are warped national security policies, there are warped cryptocurrency policies, all benefiting, all tailor made to benefit Trump, Trump family and his cronies. And, but let's just call it for the way we see it. This is a president who is in the throes of some cognitive decline that he doesn't want to admit. When the New York Times ran a story a couple of days ago that said the obvious. He's working from 12 to 5 every day. If that factor in the hundreds of hours of golf every month and the guy's barely functioning. It's incredible how much damage he does in such a short amount of work week. But that's the reality. So what does he do? He attacks in a misogynistic, racist way. A misogynistic, sexist way. Sorry. The female reporter for the New York Times that wrote the piece goes after her, calls her ugly inside and out. Just like a week before he called a reporter, a female reporter. Piggyback, Miss Piggy. You know, And I feel, in a way, I feel sorry for the female reporters, but they're also made the devil's bargain because they know that if they speak up and demand, as they should, that they are treated with respect and dignity, that they'll be barred from having any access to Trump. But, but, and I also bemoan and criticize the male counterparts. Where are they? They should be. When that happens, the female reporter should say, Mr. President, that's inappropriate. That's inappropriate. That is disrespectful. That is demeaning. It's beneath your office and certainly beneath my profession. So we collectively demand that you stop the personal attacks, especially on female reporters. That may Be hard to articulate. I'd like to see the men stand up for the female reporters and say, Mr. President, that's inappropriate to be attacking my colleague based on her gender or to use comments about her physical appearance or other or other things. Let's get down to the questions that matter to the American people, shall we? And stop insulting my colleagues. That's one way. Another way would be for the press corps to not show up. You know, let's do a sick out at the White House press room. So when Caroline Levett goes out there, you know, propagandist in chief, she looks around, nobody's there. Or it's only the right wing media. That's what they're afraid of, that it won't be an empty room, it'll just be the. But so what? At certain point, you have to take a stand. History will tell us which side you were on. If the mainstream Donald Trump to Donald Trump press, the media is like oxygen. He needs it. And if you stay out of the room and it's only Fox reporting, that's not going to be good enough for Donald Trump. Or stand up and turn your back on Caroline Levett. I mean, I am getting so tired of the lack of courage, the lack of political convictions. Maybe it's because on Legal AF and I might as dutch every day we are demonstrating what it takes to oppose the Trump administration. Trump just ran a comment about Eric Holder, who we're going to have on Legal AF soon, who's running a organization with Barack Obama related to redistricting, making sure congressional maps or are not tilted in favor of only the white upper class. And he took a Midas touch video of Eric Holder and retruthed it or whatever it's called. So we are certainly piercing the inner sanctum, the hermetically sealed world of Donald Trump. All right, let's put aside the dementia of Donald Trump and the decline of Donald Trump for a minute. Let me move on to the war crime and murder charges that should be brought against Pete Hegseth. And if it's not now, it'll certainly be when tribunals are formed at the end, the cessation of the Trump administration. See, his lackeys and sycophants and bootlickers and enablers don't seem to have gotten the message that the Supreme Court only provided the superpower of immunity, criminal immunity to the president, not to those under him. I'm looking at you, Pam Bondi, Attorney General Todd Blanche, Deputy Attorney General Pete Hegseth, Department of Defense. I'm not Going to call it Department of War, even though you changed the stationary and photoshopped it because Congress didn't approve that. And the. And the FBI director, Cash Patel and the rest, there's going to be tribunals. Now there, I have no doubt in the reporting that on September 2nd, Pete Hegseth gave the command to fire a fourth or fifth missile from a drone and to hit two men clinging to the side of a fishing boat in one of the first strikes. There's been 20 strikes so far. More than 80 people disappeared by the Trump administration without due process in the Caribbean. And the reporting that just came out in the last couple of days is that Pete Hegseth, this is Wall Street Journal, sorry, Washington Post. Pete Hegseth ordered the double tap. He ordered the code red seeing the people clinging there. Now we've seen the video that has been heavily edited just to show the initial hit. Now people are going to testify against Hegseth. It is obvious from within the Pentagon that he gave the order. Once they saw that, they were like, in shock that people were still alive to hit it again and leave no survivors. Donald Trump doesn't even like that look, the optics of that. And he said, no, I saw. I only saw the video of the initial hit. I didn't see anybody clinging on the side. And Pete Hexton thought, yeah, me too, me too, boss. I only saw the original video. That's a lie. That's a lie. And the people are going to be compelled to testify against Pete Hegseth as he's busy trying to drum up a court martial for Senator Mark Kelly. Because he reminded the troops. And now you see why, right? He reminded the troops from brass down to rank and file, that it is illegal and unconstitutional for you to follow an illegal, unconstitutional order of the Commander in Chief, along with a series of other elected officials. They're trying to recall him back to the Navy to court martial him. Pete, you got bigger problems. The Joint Chiefs of Staff are now looking into whether a war crime and a murder was committed by you, for which you have a very flimsy Office of Legal Counsel memo that tells you it was okay to do what you did. It's not okay. Even if you had a memo that said it's okay because we're in a non land war with Venezuela or whatever it is, it's not okay to. While people are clinging to the side of a boat, fire on it again when there's no threat to the United States. And now members of Congress, including those that served in the military and in the intelligence community on both sides of the aisle are weighing in. This may finally be the end of Pete Hegseth. I think it's certainly the end for other reasons of Kash Patel, which I'll talk about next. I would not be surprised if over the next six months we don't see a changeover. Pam Bondi may lose her job. I think that goes to Todd Blanche. Kash Patel loses his job. I think that goes to the former Missouri attorney general who's now the deputy FBI director, who's friends with Pam Bondi. I think that Pete Hegseth loses his job and somebody in the military or maybe somebody like Joni Ernst, who's retiring from the Senate, gets that position. You're going to see changeover as Trump throws these people under the bus. Kristi Noem also gone. Now let me switch gears and talk about somebody else who's on a very short shelf life, and that's Kash Patel. I saw all I needed to see when Miranda Devine, the podcaster of choice for Donald Trump, who's sort of the captured podcaster who runs her stuff under the New York Post Rupert Murdoch banner. But all the administration goes on Miranda Devine, suddenly she under her headline two days ago said there's been a leak of 115 page FBI memoir critiquing, basically calling for the firing of Kash Patel. And Dan Bongino, the other right wing podcaster who's his number two, and it's effectively a call to fire him. And Miranda Devine reports on it. Oh, I've got a copy of it. I have a copy of it too, by the way. It's up on legal AF substack. You can read it has 10 major findings, mostly against Keshe Patel. But the fact that it went to Miranda Devine, this is an, I'm telling you, this is an insider job by the Trump administration. Donald Trump is notorious for having used the New York Post and its gossip columnists and the Miranda Divines to leak information to make him look better. All through his real estate career, he would constantly call Cindy Adams, who I think now is like 95 years old gossip columnist on page six of the new York Post. And he'd call as himself as his own publicist, he'd be like, yeah, this is Bill over at Trump Organization. And then he'd leak something about some woman he was dating or some real estate deal he was doing or some award that he got and then they'd run it. He did that throughout the 80s and 90s and 2000s for the new York Post. This is another conjured up, not the report. The report has been done by 29 people both inside the FBI writing anonymously and outside to tear down Kash Patel. But the fact that it went to Miranda Devine, I'm telling you, Cash, I don't know which is going to happen first. Some documents that we're going to get on December 19th in the Epstein matter related to the law that was signed by Trump that has to be released. Is it going to be the December 19th that we're going to get some documents or Cash Patel is going to get fired? There's no way. I'll come back and I'll admit if I'm wrong, there's no way they're putting Cash Patel up in front of the House and Senate Judiciary Committee again to be reamed and have a live autopsy performed by Jamie Raskin and or Cory Booker or others after this report's come out. This report was done to give Donald Trump cover to fire Kash Patel. Right. Patel's already got his own, you know, he's gotta be on his pj. It's not even his private jet. It's our private jet. He's on a gulf Stream romancing his 20 something year old girlfriend. I thought I was like when I first read the report, I thought I was reading a new update on Bill Belichick and his girlfriend. I'm like, he's got a 20 year old girlfriend. He's running around on our taxpayer dollar whining and dining her. He needs a SWAT team because she's singing the national anthem. But there's a joke in there somewhere. I'm just not going to make it. So he's already had all of that reporting going on. And then Miranda Devine, of all the reporters and all the people in America, she's the one that happens to get the leaked report that completely calls for his firing. He's not going to make it. Let me turn now. So as long as we're at the intersection or let me, let me do it. When I come back from a quick commercial break, we're going to talk about developments, big developments in the James Comey, Letitia James prosecution, including a new motion under the Fourth Amendment that was filed just today. Alina Haba, of course, got bounced and that had a cascading effect with the Third Circuit. Firing her as the U.S. attorney for New Jersey has had a cascading effect on the Department of Justice's decision making in Letitia James and James Comey's case. We'll Wrap all that together. There's a new filing in the Mar A Lago case, of all things, where Donald Trump, apparently it needs to remind Judge Aileen Cannon has a reminder that he's still involved with the case and he still doesn't want volume two of Jack Smith's report about Mar A Lago released. I want to talk through all of that. And I knew as we await the decision by the United States Supreme Court about whether Trump's tariffs are legal or not or unconstitutional or not, Costco, of all things, perhaps sensing that Donald Trump is losing his grip on reality and on his faculties and on power, has decided to file a lawsuit with the Court of International Trade to get their tariff money back. Costco, of all things. We'll wrap all that together at the Intersection Couple of things I want to mention before we take our first commercial break or our commercial break for today. I'm running a sale. It's the POPOC birthday sale from now until 12:00pm Eastern Time tomorrow. 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You'll remember in the last several days, Judge Curry dismissed without prejudice, meaning the indictments could be brought back under certain circumstances, dismissed the indictments against James Comey and Letitia James, the New York Attorney General because she found, as other courts have found, that Lindsey Halligan is illegally appointed under Section 546 as the interim U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia. She'd never been a prosecutor before. She'd only been a prosecutor several hours when she went after James Comey, et cetera, et cetera. More importantly, she could not have been appointed as the U.S. attorney because Donald Trump had one opportunity to appoint somebody in that role. He spent it on another person and then it goes to the district court judges to pick that replacement. That's the argument. But the underlying indictments could be brought back under certain circumstances. So the new reporting is that there's grand juries that are, that are working in Norfolk, Virginia and Alexandria, Virginia to bring new indictments against James Comey and Letitia James. So don't be surprised when I come back with updated reporting about it. Now on Letitia James, I'm hoping that a grand jury will see through this charade, will see the weaponization of the Department of Justice and the vindictive prosecution and not indict. I mean, there's enough publicity out there right now, including on legal af. Don't indict if you don't believe the evidence supports it. That's one. But I think she'll probably get re indicted. That doesn't change the fact that the prosecution is vindictive and her judge, Judge Walker, is going to have to decide whether, whether the whole criminal case needs to be dismissed regardless of who the prosecutor is. James Comey is a trickier. There's a trickier side to that story because if they're going to re indict him under the perjury count, the lying to Congress under 1001 of the Code, the statute of limitations has run. Judge Curry ruled that the indictment that Halligan obtained was never, never an indictment because everything she did was illegal and void. If that's illegal and void, it did not stop the clock on the five year, I'm sorry, on the two year statute of limitations which ran on September 5th. Now, purportedly there's some argument that they're going to bring another charge against him not related to his testimony on February 5, 2020 to Congress. All right, listen, I'll have to see what the charge is going to be. Certainly it's not going to be Lindsey Halligan getting the indictment. It's going to be a new grand jury. It'll likely be the new number two. She has a new first assistant, a guy coming out of semi retirement from Kentucky to work with her that'll probably try to get this indictment. And I think the reason they're trying to get the indictments is because their world, the Department of Justice world, was rocked when four days after Lindsey Halligan was fired by Judge Curry, the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in a unanimous decision 30 fired Alina Haba for similar but not identical reasons to be the U.S. attorney for New Jersey. There's another case involving John Sarcone up in the Northern District of New York that's being heard just to be confusing by a judge in the Southern District of New York in Manhattan about whether an investigation started by John Sarcone against Letitia James, New York Attorney general office, for violating Donald Trump's civil rights. There's a hearing that's coming up actually on Thursday this week in front of the judge there about Judge Freidrich about whether the John Sarcone was illegally appointed as well, much like Alina Haba. Stay tuned on that one. But it's been a bad run for Donald Trump on these U.S. attorney appointments because he's not picking anybody that can get through the confirmation process with the Senate. He's picking all these partisan political hacks who he knows will never get confirmed or will be blocked by the senators in blue states. And therefore he doesn't care. You know, he got his pound of flesh. He really doesn't care about Letitia James and James Comey. He already got their pound of, he's got his pound of flesh. Cuz it was announced that there was a criminal investigation and then there was an indictment and then, and then, and then and he's already moved on in his micro news cycle. But the strategy appears to be they're going to Department of Justice with a new prosecutor, new grand jury is going to try to indict both while the lawyers argue that it doesn't matter who's doing the indictment, it's all vindictive prosecution and try to get the indictments dismissed with prejudice forever. So we'll have to see what's going to happen next. And then in the next 25 days or so the they'll file a one page notice of appeal to appeal what just happened to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which then goes up through I think it's judge, I think Judge Roberts takes care of the fourth before it goes to the United States Supreme Court. This is all heading to the United States Supreme Court one way or the other. But that's the complicated developments. The last big development was that earlier today, Daniel Richman, a Columbia law professor who used to be a lawyer or still is a lawyer for James Comey when he worked at the FBI and otherwise, who is the announced leaker. We all know he leaked on behalf of James Comey a series of memos to the New York Times. When James Comey wrote CYA memos, when Trump ordered him to stop the criminal investigation of Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, which he wouldn't do, he then leaked it to his buddy Richmond. Richmond leaked it to the New York Times, and the hope was, according to Comey, that a special counsel would be appointed. So that has always been the role of Richmond. Richmond had search warrants executed on him and had his email account at Columbia looked at, all of his electronic data looked at, and it was sitting in a giant box, including information that was attorney client privilege for James Comey, that he couldn't waive information about other clients. And it was part of another investigation involving Hillary Clinton's emails. Fast forward seven or eight years, they turned that box that has all of the attorney client privilege information and other private information in there, and they give it to a new FBI person to work with, Lindsey Halligan in 2025. He runs roughshod over all of the documents. Right. And violates the Fourth Amendment of against illegal searches and seizures of Professor Richmond and of Comey. Judge Fitzpatrick, the magistrate judge in the Comey case, said so on November 17th in an order that he issued that they had violated the Fourth Amendment rights, effectively, of Richmond. Now, Richmond has filed a new motion to get back all of his material, which is all the evidence they have against Comey, apparently, and to have it not be used against James Comey because it would violate the Fourth Amendment privilege of Professor Richmond that's now been assigned to a D.C. judge, Judge Kolar Katelli, who's a Clinton appointee, to make the final decision. So if the government loses on that motion and they can't use the Richmond materials, I don't know how they're going to ever bring an indictment unless it's about something completely different, which may be. And then, of course, we'll report on it here. And that's the link. Let me turn now to Alina Haba, right, Because that links to. We had Halligan thrown out by Judge Curry because that violated Section 546. She couldn't be the interim U.S. attorney, because that position had already been filled by somebody prior to her. You only get one shot at that, and then the district judges pick after that. That's relatively simple. Alina Haba got her position a different way. She wasn't the interim U.S. attorney. She was the acting U.S. attorney. They went up a different statutory way with her. That position can only be filled when there's a vacancy by the first deputy, the first assistant U.S. attorney for that office. There's a first Assistant. It's the number two position in the office. Whoever is in that seat when a vacancy arises under the Vacancy Reform act, gets the job. Trump can fire that person, but then he's got to pick somebody else from within the office at the time of the vacancy who's got a year experience or, you know, at least in that office and 90 days of experience in the position that of first deputy. That's all he can do. So that's not what he did. He fired. There's a series of people, including a guy named John Giordano, who made it three weeks in New Jersey. Then they finally got around to appointing Alina Abba. They also nominated her. She got blocked by the New Jersey Senators with blue slips. Donald Trump that pissed off Donald Trump. So he had Pam Bondi also make her her own first assistant and then try to elevate her as her own first assistant to the vacancy created by her being removed. And then also try to make her a special attorney without Senate confirmation to serve in the role of Special attorney of U.S. attorney. Confused. The third circuit figured it out pretty quickly. Three judge panel. We had a Bush, a Reagan and a Biden appointee. They were like, no, this is the simplest thing we're going to have to deal with. If you have a first assistant, you have to use the first assistant, and you can't be your own first assistant. So she's out. And then on the can you, a special attorney be created with all the powers of the U.S. attorney? They said no. That violates the exclusivity provision of the Vacancy Reform act, which says this is the exclusive way to fill the vacancy. Same problem that John Sarcone has up in Northern District of New York. He's the pit bull picked by Ed Martin and Pam Bondi to go after Letitia James in her official capacity as the New York Attorney General, claiming that she somehow violated the civil rights of Donald Trump because she brought a $400 million fraud case which she won against Trump. There's still a monitor. No one wants to talk about this. There's still a monitor, a court ordered officer of the court over all of the Trump Organization business affairs to this day. Former federal judge Barbara Jones because of the work of Letitia James. So she's now moved to quash his subpoenas. John Sarcone subpoenas arguing Letitia James is arguing that Sarcone, like Haba, is illegally appointed under the Vacancy Reform act for the exact same reasons that are in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals decision making now. The Third Circuit Court of Appeal decision, while it's not necessarily binding on the, the judge that's handling the matter in the, in Manhattan. See, they took it out of the Northern District of, of the Northern District of New York and put it in the Southern District of New York because if Sarcone gets bounced, the judges of the Southern District of the Northern District have to pick his replacement. So they don't want to. They see an ethical conflict with the Northern District, they moved it down south to Manhattan. Okay, so we have that. So the judge there, if, if they determine that he was illegally appointed. Oh, what I was trying to say is on the Third Circuit, while it's not binding necessarily on the Southern District of New York judge because her bosses are on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals that sits in New York up the street, not the Philadelphia based 3rd Circuit, it is the only appellate ruling that's out there. So it does have a certain amount of binding precedent, a certain amount of persuasiveness that I think will be used by the judge. And she's holding that hearing about Letitia James. Motion to quash the subpoenas on Thursday, which we'll report on. There's a lot of activity going on this week. There's a Brego Garcia hearing that we're gonna update you on on legal af. There's, as I said, things related to James Comey and the rest. So I wanted to kind of bring you all up to speed. Finally, let's talk about Mar A Lago. Mar a Lago back in the news. Judge Eileen Cannon back in the news for all the wrong reasons. She's been sitting on volume two, the Mar A Lago report of Jack Smith, which he issued at the end of his investigation forever. She doesn't want to release it. She found that Jack Smith was illegally appointed because he was a special attorney that didn't go through Senate confirmation. Sound familiar? It's the exact same position the Trump administration is using for Alina Haba and John Sarcone. But, but in, in Trump world down in Mar a Lago, they Got Eileen Cannon to bite and to find that Jack Smith was illegally appointed. So the volume one about the DC election interference evidence was already released by Merrick Garland through Judge Chutkan. But you know, Anglin Cannon has been bended over backwards to help Donald Trump for a long time. And now we've got a new filing just today where Donald Trump, I guess what needed to remind Aileen Cannon that he appointed her to that job. He filed with his personal lawyers a new motion to intervene in the case because it's been brought by two First Amendment entities, public interest groups, one being American Oversight and the other one the Knight Foundation. And he wants to intervene and he also wants to adopt the arguments of his co conspirator defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos de Oliviera, who helped him hide all of the documents in Mar A Lago and helped him try to erase the video showing that they were hiding all the documents. Oh, it would be terrible for them cuz they would be tried in the court of public opinion. Look at Donald Trump caring about the court of public opinion and how it would treat somebody. Are you effing kidding me? The public spent tens of millions of dollars for Jack Smith to do his report. We need to see the final work product. Pam Bondi's never gonna release it. It's sitting with the judge. It's fair game for a Freedom of Information act request. The 11th Circuit has now put canon on the clock as of today, 60 days. You got 60 days to make your ruling or we're gonna make it for you. And I'm not sure. You know, they already reversed her twice. The 11th Circuit dealing with her trying to interfere with the prosecution the first time around. We'll have to see what they're gonna do now. But if it comes back up to the 11th Circuit, I think there's a good chance we're gonna see volume two about Mar A Lago before all is said and done. But I think it's just remarkable to me still that Eileen Cannon does not recuse herself from matters involving Donald Trump. I mean, it leaked out before the transition of the new presidency that she was on the short list to be the Attorney General for Donald Trump. How does she not recuse herself and let it roll over to Judge Rosenberg or Judge Middlebrooks in the Southern District of Florida. I just don't understand it. Except that you do the math. You do the math, but it's wrong. 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