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There I am right there. There's certain things that have come to my attention that I need to curate for you and explain. And you and I work through this together as an audience. So when you have the most corrupt presidency, you're going to have the most corrupt Department of Justice. And what we're watching in the crucible of the Epstein scandal is it all sort of come to a head and you have a president. I hate using the term President for Trump. But let's just, just go with it for now. You have a president whose mental faculties and the decline of those mental faculties are on full display. He can't keep. First of all, it's very hard to keep track of a lie. The truth from a physiological standpoint is burned into the receptors of your brain. A lie is sort of a free floating radical and he can't remember his own lies. So we have brand new, it's hard to believe. Every minute, every hour, we have brand new information about the Epstein scandal and Donald Trump's links to it. But we do, including him not being able to get his story straight about when he may have learned that Jeffrey Epstein was a pedophile and raping girls and participating in a child sex trafficking ring. That seems to be something. See, that would be like front page, shocking, stop the pressist news. But with Donald Trump, it's like, you know, I call this administration, you know, the jfk, Jackie Kennedy administration was lovingly referred to as Camelot. I call this administration scamalot or scandal a lot because there's just so many. My entire, the intersection is based on it. So we've got, we're going to cover Epstein Maxwell's immunity deal that she obtained from Donald Trump, one of her better and best friends. What that means, the fact that he's even considering a pardon for a convicted child sex trafficker. That would be political suicide for any other president. We'll talk about it here. Her playing hardball with Congress about what she's willing to do and what they need to give her in order for her to testify to Congress. And she's pissing off Congress people along the way. And then the real bombshell as I came on the air tonight was Donald Trump not getting a story straight about when the falling out between Epstein and him happened. We were always told from the evidence, which wasn't a bad story for Trump, it got worse. Today, the not so bad story is that they had a falling out over a business transaction of about $40 million in Palm beach over a piece of land they were both bidding on. That morphed into Donald Trump figured out he was a creep and fired him from Mar A Lago. That is not true. None of that is true. And now Donald Trump has stepped into it with his own, shall we say, Freudian slip and said that the reason he fired Epstein is because he poached Virginia Joffre, who committed suicide in April, as victim number one. At least the most notorious victim of Epstein, that he poached her from the spa at Mar a Lago. So wait a minute. You're pissed off that an underage or 17 year old girl that worked at your spa got poached and abused and sex abused by Epstein? That's your new defense? Because I've always said his, his original argument made no sense. He barred him from Mar a Lago because he thought he was a creep. So I said so he knew that this guy had a dark side, but that was preying on girls and didn't report him to the authorities. That's pretty terrible. But now it just got worse. And who made it worse? Donald J. Trump. The only one that's keeping this scandal alive with the bellows and the embers is Donald Trump because it's a lie. He can't keep track of the lie. He's making everybody in his Department of Justice go along with the lie and they can't keep track of the lie. And Maxwell and her lawyer just want to pardon. So they'll say and do anything at any moment, including dragging in the United States Supreme Court. I want to talk a lot more about it. I also got to talk about all things related to the Department of Justice and people trying to get other jobs. Haba trying, apparently trying to get her U.S. attorney of New Jersey job. But what they have to go through in order to get her in that position has already been challenged by motion practice, as I predicted by criminal defendant, criminal defendant lawyers who are saying, how can you prosecute me, how can you indict me, how can you do a trial against me next week when you're not even properly appointed as the U.S. attorney of the District of New Jersey. And wait till you hear about the new filing that happened today where Alina Haba filed a brief to try to convince a judge not to start dismissing indictments with her name on it where she recognizes that A Senate approved U.S. attorney is better than her. She also includes a document where in the same document she both quits the job and says she's looking forward to continuing in the job as they fire her. Number two, who got the top job from the 17 judges who appointed her from the federal bench in New Jersey. They had to fire her like twice in order to give Alina Hava the job as all of the criminal defense lawyers are circling around her trying to tank her. Now there's another play here for Donald Trump that I'll discuss has to do with judges. And as I'm talking about judges, I will talk about Emil Bovey and whistleblower number three. The Democrats should Figure out a way to scuttle Thursday's confirmation hearing on the full Senate floor for email Beauvais. Because the longer we go, it's like Tiger woods when he denied having any extramarital relationships outside of his marriage. And then every day there were like five people that came forward and said they had sex with him. Some same thing's happening here with Amel Bovet. Every day we get a new whistleblower. Two say he told them to go tell judges to go F themselves and lie to federal judges. One just came forward today and said that he lied in his Senate confirmation hearing two weeks ago about the dismissal of the Eric Adams, the mayor of New York's indictment. I think we just keep this running. Why do we have to vote on him on Thursday? I mean, the Dems may not have the votes to stop the confirmation. I think that's pretty clear. But they may have some procedural tricks up their sleeves. We'll talk more about that as well. As I came on the air today, we have this stunning report, I'm just gonna touch on it for a second, about the Trump administration being so depraved and so anti women and so misogynistic that they're willing to destroy and burn the $10 million worth of contraceptives that are in a warehouse in Brussels that would have been distributed to women in need around the world under humanitarian aid paid for by the United States. They would rather spend several hundred thousand dollars of your taxpayer dollars to destroy the contraception rather than piss off a couple of maga. That is the administration that is part of the report card and scorecard as we move into the midterms. Don't forget it. We won't let you forget it, I assure you. And then we've been running on the Midas Touch network especially to remind everybody what the human tragedy and toll is of Donald Trump's immigration and deportation and removal process. When you chase human beings through the streets, when you chase them through churches and schools and factories and farms, when you embolden ICE with bounties and bonuses to abuse other human beings, bad things are going to happen. Now we're seeing children in chains, we're seeing children in handcuffs. We're seeing people being held in vans without air conditioning for hours at a time being held in federal detention centers without any appropriate. I don't even talk about Alligator Alcatraz, just regular old detention centers in Maryland where now senators have to do sit ins because people are being abused in federal detention centers. Is this the America that you, I don't mean necessarily my audience, but that the people of America by a slim majority voted for. You may have voted for Donald Trump, but this is what you voted for. This is your America. The purge. I thought that was a movie. I didn't realize it was a documentary. And so those things are all on the periphery of the most corrupt presidency in our history and the most corrupt Department of Justice. I did a whole hot take about how corrupt this Department of Justice is who've lost all. Any shred of integrity and dignity or honesty in front of federal judges is completely lost for this Department of Justice. We'll have to wait until, you know, there's a Democratic president in 2028 and we, we control a couple of chambers of Congress in order to start restore the dignity of the Department of Justice. Say what you want about Merrick Garland, he may have been as slow as molasses, he may not have moved as quickly. He might have been a little flat footed and a little slow on the draw, but he wasn't corrupt. He didn't get up every morning and brush his teeth like Pam Bondi and Emil Bovey and Todd Blanche and think how to f the country in order to support their fearless leader and their former client. And they didn't act. And nobody in the Department of Justice justice acted like Joe Biden's personal lawyers. I want to talk about tariffs as well and the bullshit. Can I say that? Late night, late night, late. The late night hosts are all getting fired. I don't think I will. Not on Midas touch. They know what they get. They know what they got in me. They were like, can we just give Popak a show on Tuesdays? Just here, have a show. Just take it like. All right, I'll take it. The BS about tariffs. You've got this big announcement, this victory lap over the eu. Oh, they folded under the weight of art of the deal of Donald Trump. They're gonna invest $1 billion in America and they're gonna pay a 15% tax. When you look at it now, the EU president ate Donald Trump for lunch because she traded a unenforceable, unenforceable memorandum of understanding aspirational document to maybe get around if they can invest some money in energy products and in America, maybe if they can convince private investors to do it in private importers and exporters, if we can. She traded this imaginary magical thinking, unenforceable promise which they're racing to put in paper but still make it unenforceable for the real cut in threatened tariffs down to 15% who got the better of who. And you've got the. I know who got the better of who. Because whenever they trot out the Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick and I used to work for a company that his family owned. Whenever they trot him out, I know he's not telling the truth. I know his tell when his lips move, he's not telling the truth. And so when he starts saying, oh, the best two weeks. Oh, then they asked him on CNBC today, are you done with the imaginary, unenforceable, MoU aspirational deal with the EU? No, no, we're not even done. So you're not even done with the thing that's not enforceable and why is it. I'll get to it in a minute. Why it's not enforceable, why it's imaginary and why the EU got the better of. Of Donald Trump once again. And then I want to talk about Griffs in Plain Sight again. We got two examples. Remember the Qatar plane for $400 million? Yeah. It's on its way. And Donald Trump is so sure that it's a bribe that he made sure. Here's his tell. He made sure in the contract between Qatar and the United States that they said it was definitely not a bribe. When you hear somebody tell you it's definitely not about the money, it's about the money. When they tell you it's not a bribe, I wasn't thinking it was a bribe, but now I'm certainly thinking it's a bribe. And the fact that the Qatari government was more ethical than the United States because they wanted to include in the agreement language that said the plane would always stay with the US Air Force. It would always stay with the US Air Force. And you know who cut that out? Donald Trump. Because it's not going to stay with the US Air Force, because it's going after a year of hundreds of millions of dollars of wasted renovations for a plane, while the real Air Force One is still being built by Boeing for several billion dollars and hasn't yet been delivered. So we're going to have like four Air Force ones at one point. This Air Force One is going to fly away, literally, to the Trump Presidential Library. And he got us as taxpayers to pay for the expenses while he took the profit. This is his business model. It's a great business model. Everything in the Trump Organization, Trump White House, which is combined features us paying the freight, the expenses while he reaps the profits, whether it hits his cryptocurrency business that he promotes from the White House with the seal of the president in front of it. Or now he just went to Scotland to do a ribbon cutting for a golf course at Turnberry that he owns, named after his mother. Oh, yeah, he held a couple of meetings, by the way, and he had on his official presidential lineup, he had listed him playing golf. And he said, and his total comment in this obvious private moment was that it's a great golf course, one of the best I've ever played. And now you and I have just spent 50 to $100 million for Donald Trump to go visit his golf course for a PGA event. This is the brazen grift. This is why we've got to return the House to the Democrats so they can open up their investigations. Now, look, I know the polling looks bad because we're out of power. The Democrats are out of power. So 36% of Americans trust the Democrats with the government. It's hard when you're out of power, you know, but we'll be back in power soon and need to be in order to restore checks and balance because out once we're in power again, the Democrats have power, then the proper investigations can be opened. Everybody that I'll talk about tonight should be impeached. Donald Trump, Alina Haba, Todd Blanche, Emil Bovey, you name it, everybody in the administration. It'd just be a long conga line of impeachments. And we will get that along with other things that help the American people around their kitchen table. Because if we just do impeachments for the remaining two years, we're not going to get the president reelected. I mean, the Democratic president elected. So there's work to do as well for the American people. But that's important from a checks and balance standpoint. All right, so let's now that I've sort of laid it all out and then I'm going to try to answer some of your questions as well, because we all like to do that. Let's start with what I think you want to hear about, which is the almost minute by minute reporting that we're doing in the Midas Touch network about the Epstein scandal. And just so you know, in our audience are also the victims of Epstein. And they get lost here in the story. There are over a thousand victims of Ghislaine, or now I heard her lawyer pronounce her name at a press conference, Ghislaine Maxwell. She's not a victim. I know they've been floating those talking points all weekend. She may be a victim. She's Not a victim. She's the only surviving member of that conspiracy that led to child sex trafficking. That doesn't make her a victim. Just because the other guy died somehow while awaiting trial, that does not make you a victim. Oh, she never got to tell her story. That's the new one. Yes, she did. Yes, she did. To the, to the. When Epstein was indicted by the Trump administration, not the Biden administration, she was brought in as a witness. She had plenty of opportunities to tell her story and to, you know, flip against him. No, she ran. They had to capture her. I don't know if people remember this. She was on the run. She was on the lam. And they had to capture her because she didn't want to get caught. And then by the time they caught her and they prosecuted her under the Biden administration, they didn't need her cooperation anymore because this wasn't about. Yes, the powerful men who abused these girls should be brought to justice. Can we all agree to that? A Democrat. That's not a Democrat or Republican thing. That's a moral, humane thing, which I'm in favor of. So I'm not in favor of any cover up whatsoever. But the whataboutism that drives this discussion for maga, well, Trump might have also participated. But what about Bill? What about this? And then we could play this all day long. This is like the banjo players in Deliverance. I could do this trick all night. What about Bill Clinton? What about Alan Dershowitz? Sorry, he was accused by Virginia Joffre also. What about this one? What about that one? We could do this all day long, but where does that get us? We're talking about the moral depravity and the cracked character of the person that occupies the Oval Office because if he had nothing to hide, the Midas Touch network wouldn't have to talk about this every hour. Every day. It would. Right. The fuel line would be cut because they would have done what everybody wanted them to do. Release the truckload. And I mean the truckload of evidence the Epstein files represent. Do that regardless of whose names are in it. Put it up on a website. Put it up on a website. We'll all take a look at it together. Do that. Okay. You don't need to pardon a convicted child sex trafficker. How disgusting that you're even considering it. It's not like, and I've said this in a prior hot take, it's not like she was a serial killer. And we don't know where the bodies are buried. And we want to give some comfort to the Families. And she'll tell us if we give her immunity or a pardon or something. That's not what she's doing. She's trying to save her ass. And so is Donald Trump. And so she's got a lawyer that was probably brought in by Alan Dershowitz because they went together to Harvard and they were buddies. And then he comes in and he's friends with Todd Blanche, who's Donald Trump's personal criminal defense lawyer. A lawyer masquerading as the number two member of the Department of Justice. And they all get together. Oh, I'm gonna go talk to her. Donald Trump allows immunity to be given to her. Why does she need immunity? She's serving a 20 year sentence. Nothing says I'm guilty like I need immunity. Right. Donald Trump used to say, gotta take the fifth. You must be guilty. Until he took the fifth 600 times in his fraud case. And just to kind of bring this forward, we talked about Trump being pissed off about a 17 year old being poached from Mar A Lago as the reason he broke up with Jeffrey Epstein. As if that helps him. I don't think that helped him. That's one, two. Now she's so emboldened by having met with Todd Blanche, who went in there without a proper prosecutor next to him that knew the case. Let me explain this. Todd Blanche does not know the Maxwell Epstein case. There's a truckload of evidence, but he doesn't want to know it. He buried his head in the sand. He fired the prosecutor for Ghislaine Maxwell three weeks earlier. I think that was part of the conspiracy. James Comey's daughter gets fired. She's the only one with her team that know the case. You don't bring her in to do the interview. How about if she lies like she says? Well, you know that blank blank was on the island and then she can turn to her team and their laptops. No, he wasn't. And that's a lie. But he doesn't want to know if she's lying. He just wants to run interference and get 100 names down on a client list that she develops. Not named Donald Trump. Well, one is named Donald Trump and then the other 99 or it. And then we, I mean, the media can go chase the 99. The what about ISM, and we ignore Donald Trump's involvement in all of it. And it's sometimes it's not the crime, it's the COVID up. I don't have evidence other than I've heard some rumors. I don't have evidence that Donald Trump participated in illegal sexual conduct. But I, I have eyes. I can see that there's some sort of COVID up going on. Who is he protecting? And there's reporting that insiders have said that Donald Trump is worried that there was. I don't, I don't use some crazy word like tomfoolery or something like we're talking about raping girls. There was some tomfoolery with you and Epstein. That sounds worse. And he thinks by setting all of these fires and all of these full court press distractions that we won't hold him accountable. I'll sue Rupert Murdoch in the Wall street journal. He's 95 years old. I'll ask for a fast deposition, which he just did down in Miami. You better watch it because they're going to ask for a fast deposition of you. And I just read the new filing about Murdoch, and it looks to me like Donald Trump admitted in his papers that he didn't have the grounds to file the suit in the first place. Well, he's rer. Murdock's got all the evidence and I don't have the evidence. Well, you don't have the evidence. How'd you file the case? I'll, I'll pick that up as that Murdoch responds to that new motion on the 4th of August. I'll do that for the next intersection. So finishing up Epstein, she'll. She's now so emboldened by her having been made queen for the day. That's what it's called for the immunity, that she's willing, only willing to testify to Congress if she gets full immunity from them and maybe a pardon. See, this is all about David Oscar Marcus, her lawyer. Lobbying, lobbying, lobbying. Have I said lobbying enough? Lobbying for a pardon. That's all this is about. Every time if he sees a bank of microphones, even if it's not about his case, he runs up to it. And all he says is she should get a pardon. She's a victim. But you know where he doesn't say that? In the filing he made to the United States Supreme Court two days ago. In fact, there is one set of facts that nobody can, that are immutable, that nobody can disagree with. She, Ghislaine Maxwell, is not arguing that her conviction should be overturned because she didn't do it. She's not arguing that her conviction should be overturned because Judge, the judge in the case, Judge Nathan, let in some improper evidence or didn't let in some evidence that should have been let in or there was jury tampering or there was prosecutorial discretion, or the prosecutor didn't have the goods at the very beginning and there's something wrong with the indictment. She's not arguing any of that for her. And to read her appellate brief, she had a fair trial, not a perfect trial. Nobody gets a perfect trial. But she had a fair trial in front of a jury of her peers who 90 on a standard of beyond a reasonable doubt for the prosecutor convicted her for 20 years. No, what she's saying is it's like a technicality, a loophole which already disgusts me and makes me want to vomit into my mouth. She says in her filing that there was an agreement 20 years ago, 15 years ago, that she was not a participant to, that she was not named in, that she did not sign between Jeffrey Epstein and Alex Acosta's office, who was the U.S. attorney in the Southern District of Florida, in which they think about this 20 years ago, it's a lot of victims ago. They let Epstein off the hook on a federal prosecution in Florida to let him plead to one count of soliciting prostitution from a minor. A state, A state court. A state claim. A state claim. And in it his lawyers negotiated that he would not be prosecuted by the Southern District of Florida if he pled guilty to that. And they also mentioned co conspirators in some language. Her theory is that Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers were so stupid that they negotiated a narrow non prosecution agreement for their client which was limited to Florida or Southern District of Florida. But for everybody else, including people not even named in it, they negotiated a national non prosecution agreement that she can take the benefit of. That is one of the. David Oscar Marcus is smart. That's one of the stupidest constructions of language I've ever heard. And I think the United States Supreme Court's going to be like what we're going to let out of jail a convicted child sex trafficker because her paramore co conspirator, boss, lover, boyfriend signed an agreement about the Southern District of Florida and she gets the benefit of it to prevent the prosecution in New York. I mean, it doesn't even pass the straight face test as I'm telling the story. But I want it clear, when you see David Oscar Marcus or anybody else like Donald Trump one day saying that she's a victim or that she's innocent, she doesn't even believe she's a victim or that she's innocent, she wants out on a technicality. She wants out because Donald Trump, his ass is in, is in a ringer I know, I just mixed metaphors there. He's up to his ass at alligators. That's better. And needs to save it. And so he's going to, you know, so this is it, man. They're going to work together. Working together and Congress. Look, they're about to go on recess. At the rate that the Senate is trying to shove through Cabinet positions, ambassadorships, judges and other federal officers for Donald Trump, they're going to do recess appointments. They're going to get, they're going to get the House not to do their, their little mini bullshit session to avoid recess. They're going to shove through over the summer, lots of Trump appointments that's coming. And we'll have to, we'll, we'll watch it and see what the Democrats could do to kind of throw a monkey wrench into that. All right, let's draw a line for now under Epstein. For now. Every day. Every day. This is like a pinata. Every day a new something else pops out. 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When you head to smalls.com and use promo code legal AF. Again, that's promo code legal AF for 60% off your first order plus free shipping. At smalls.com you are back on the intersection with Michael Popak. All right, let's get to Haba Mbove. Haba's the only person I know that wrote a letter that says, I'm quitting my job and I look forward to continuing in my job. Yes, that was an exhibit to the back of a opposition brief that she was forced to file in New Jersey. Well, the Middle District of Pennsylvania, because all 17 federal judges in New Jersey are against her and appointed somebody else, Desiree Lee Grace. She goes by Lee Grace, career prosecutor, in order to take over the job of Acting Interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey when Donald Trump couldn't get and won't be able to get Haba through Senate confirmation once he knew he didn't have the votes and the senators from New Jersey weren't going to give them the blue slip, as they say, he, quote, unquote pulled her nomination. He thought he did it. You know, he's always too smart by half. So I'm going to pull it now and then I got a day and then I'm going to reappoint her as special attorney and I'm also going to appoint her as her own assistant and then I'm going to elevate her from assistant to. Are you following this to U.S. attorney, he, this is what he has to do to get his office wife the job. Why do you want the timeout from it? Why do you want this job if this is what it takes, this abuse of power, unconstitutional, you know, this game of Twister in order to get you the job. It's ridiculous. If you can't get the job the honest way, you should say, put me into another position. Although be careful what you ask for because I have a fear about her and being a judge, I'll share with you in a minute. So they do all that and this poor woman, a Republican who was Desiree Lee Grace, who took the job for less than 24 hours because she was fired by the Trump administration. But I give her a lot of credit for the courage to say there is a statute that allows for the federal judges to appoint a new acting interim until Donald Trump can get his act together and appoint a proper person who can get through a confirmation hearing. That's what this is all about. See, what's supposed to happen is that when you can't get one of your right wing MAGA MAGA too far to the right extreme candidate, or if you're a Democrat the other way, you pick a more balanced person that's well respected by both parties because you want them to be an independent U.S. attorney or judge or whatever it is. And then this is my fantasy from 30 years ago. Then the state's people that make up the Senate come together and applaud and you get confirmed 99 to 1. See, that's what used to happen before partisan politics, mainly led by the Republicans took over. Now everything's a dogfight. Now we've gotta take the most MAGA extreme candidates and parachute them into blue states, right? Just to piss off the governors and the citizens of that state and the rest of it, like Jersey bright blue, Alina Haba, Nevada purpley blue. Let's put a person who, who would never be able to get confirmed. Let's appoint them in Nevada. Let's do the same. You know, and just there's a reason US Attorneys usually get appointed is because they kind of fit with the people of that state. They're respected lawyers. I just interviewed. You can come up on Legal af. Today I have a two part interview with Senator Doug Jones, formerly a blue senator, Alabama, if you can believe it. It's hard to believe he was a Democratic senator from Alabama and also a US Attorney who prosecuted some very, very high profile cases. And we Talked about the U.S. attorney selection process and why it's become so partisan. And so strident and why we are discredited as Americans because of it. And our justice system is. So as expected, I said it last week, criminal defense lawyers are like, huh? If she's not legit, everything that she does is void. We call it void ab et nitio void at the start. So maybe the indictment is. So they filed a motion. One particular drug case defendant filed a motion. Side note, the lawyer representing the criminal defendant has his office in the Trump building at 40 Wall street in New York, which I thought was ironic, and filed it in New Jersey. But because every one of the 17 judges voted against Alina Haba, they all got recused and disqualified from considering the motion to dismiss the indictment and stop the trial because of Alina Haba's unconstitutional appointment. So it gets what happens then? Popak, One of the questions, what happens then? Is the chief judge for the circuit court, the appellate court above your district court, in this case the third, where Emil Bovey is about to go in a minute, appoints another judge who doesn't have a conflict from somewhere outside of New Jersey, but within the third. So we go to Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania, middle district judge gets the case. He's almost sitting by designation as if he were in New Jersey. But he's considering the motion. He's already stopped the trial. There was a trial that was about to begin. He's like, yeah, that trial is not happening. Now. The most interesting thing for me is the self revelation. She's very much like Trump in that she says stupid shit out loud and she doesn't realize that it is completely nonsensical and undermines her own position and puts that in writing sometimes. So in her brief that she filed, she made a big deal out of, well, this shouldn't be a big deal because even if I'm invalid, he was indicted by a properly confirmed by the Senate U.S. attorney. So you recognize on page two of your motion that there is something better about a properly confirmed U.S. attorney than you. Then in the back they attach exhibits. And all this, by the way, is posted on Legal a F sub stack I posted this afternoon when I did my hot take on it. And you can read it for yourself. And so there's an exhibit. There's two exhibits in the back. One made me cringe, one made me laugh. The one that made me laugh was the, was the puppet theater, the orchestrated thing that they had to do to have her. They pulled her. It was a whole chronology. They pulled her nomination to the Senate and then she quit and then she was reappointed and then she was reappointed as a special attorney, but with the powers of a New Jersey U.S. attorney. I'm like, what the. But she actually wrote, because, let's be frank, if you put Alina Haba's brain in a bird, it would fly backwards. I'm being kind. So she actually wrote and signed, I resign my position as Acting Interim U.S. attorney, period. I look forward to continuing in my position as US I'm like, how about put it in two different letters? But this is what we're dealing with. Then they put the double firing emails to poor Lee Grace, the prosecutor, who posted on her LinkedIn that she was appointed by the judges. And she's. She considers herself. It's almost like in exile. She considers herself the king of that court. And they said, we've seen your social media and you are fired. And she was fired twice, once by the Department of Justice, the general counsel wrote her, and in the same day, they actually had a person who works for the president in the White House write her a letter to tell her again, she's fired. Yeah. So it's like double fired. And this is the support to the judge that Alina Haba can be your own assistant and also be the U.S. attorney. I think this is a close call. There's some case law out there that suggests that, you know, the U.S. attorneys acting under her, the Assistant U.S. attorneys, I'm not sure there are many left still take their authority through the. Through the Attorney General in Washington. But they're giving her a run for her money. And it's not the only one. And that's not the only suit. As I said to Senator Jones today, he and I were kibitzing about this. Where is the lawsuit? I think they're just waiting. I think they're just waiting for the chips to land and the dust to clear. Where is the lawsuit by aclu, Democracy Ford, attorneys general, whatever public interest group to attack her being improperly appointed in violation of the Constitution and statutes. Where is that? It's coming. Trust me, it's coming. But the downside of all this is that Donald Trump decides to have her fail up and tries to do a federal judge position for her. And what I talked about with the senator today, Senator Jones, is how does that work? There's a reason, and some, most people missed it, but Doug didn't. There's a reason that Emil Bovey, as I transition to that story, was nominated not for a trial court level, district court level position before an appellate court level position, even though he's not qualified for either. He's certainly not qualified for an appeals court. He's never been a trial court judge. So we were all like, that's interesting. Why did they do that? Doug explained it. It's because there is, there's something called blue slip protocol, which in order for you to generally advance, a candidate whose president is nominated has to get two thumbs up from both senators of the state. They each hold a blue slip in their back pocket. They have to return the blue slips, there have to be two of them, and then the person can advance. Hava can't get past Senators Booker and Kemp because they're not given their blue slips. And but for judges, while the blue slip protocol applies for district court judges, apparently that protocol got breached by the Democrats and then of course by Grassley and others of the Republicans, and it does not apply to appellate court judges, which is obscene because if the person's not qualified for the lower court, but they're only being offered the better job, the higher job, because of the blue slip protocol issue, that's obscene. But that's the reason Emil Bovey has been nominated for that particular position. So let's pick up with that. Let's hope that Haba doesn't get nominated for an appellate court because at the rate Bovey's getting confirmed, he's the blueprint, he's the test case. If they can get him through, wait, you're going to see a whole conga line of unqualified people that we're going to be pissed off about that they're going to try to shove into federal judges because Trump is going to get 200 federal judges before this whole thing is over. He just is every judge, every president does and he will. So Bovey, Bovey, you'll remember, is that interesting looking fellow that was and looks like he still is and acts like Donald Trump's criminal defense lawyer who was Todd Blanch's law partner. They left their firms together to represent one client named Donald Trump. They were both responsible for the 34 count felony conviction of Donald Trump in New York and all of the games playing that went on to avoid the indictments in other places like Mar a Lago or avoid the prosecutions continuing at Mar A Lago and with Judge Chutkan in D.C. also on the team that was responsible for the immunity decision from the United States Supreme Court. So he comes in as the number three member of the Department of Justice, sort of the. I'd say he was the bad cop, but I think Blanche is the bad cop. And he's the homicidal cop. There's no good cop, Bundy. And these are the three. And he's the one that was the henchman. He's out there, you know, like, threatening the mayor of New York with a criminal indictment, holding it over his head unless he plays ball on sanctuary cities. And telling, this is whistleblowers. Now we got three of them telling immigration division judges for the Department of Justice that they are a lie to federal judges and they are to tell them to go F themselves. His words and other things that make him wholly obscenely unethical and unqualified for this position. The Federalist societies come out against him. That's saying something. And, you know, he just gives out. You know, he comes on with that hang dog, literally hang dog look and all, shucks, I can't believe I'm here. Just a small town boy. I'm like, is this like a Journey song? Is it? I mean, are you just reading lyrics from 1980s songs, or are you trying to be honest with the American people in your confirmation process? But the Republicans in the MAGA have all closed ranks. Department of justice is literally lobbying to have Emil Bovey become a judge. If you think that's unsettling the that the Department of Justice is trying to put a DOJ person because they want him to, what does that tell you about his independence or lack thereof? I mean, you've got Todd Blanche writing editorial pieces for Fox promoting Emil Bovin. He's the most impeccably credentialed, principled person I've ever known. That. You must not know a lot of people. If that's your best friend and you think he's the most principled person around it, why are you lobbying for him? Why is Pam Bondi and Blanche sitting behind him in the confirmation hearings? Is this the DOJ seat on the Third Circuit? And I can write. If he gets confirmed, I can write his opinions for him. You think he's going to oppose the Trump administration or the Department of Justice or anything that they do can write it now? That's the problem. So Democrats have got to figure out a way on Thursday to throw a monkey wrench into this and evaluate these whistleblowers. The problem is the debate. There's the whistleblower. The debate part has been closed off because they have invoked what's called cloture. C L O T U R E, meaning there's going to be almost no debate on the Senate floor. Doesn't mean Cory Booker can't get back up and do A filibuster. Senator Booker. Calling Senator Booker. It's like Batman. Let's put up a signal. Somebody's got to do something. But at the end of the day, he's got to get confirmed. I don't want him to. He's going to get confirmed. Could he get impeached? Sure. But he's going to get confirmed. And that's the story about, you know, Amel Bovey that we're going to keep a close eye on in the new reporting that just came out about him. I'm going to talk about planes and Griffs and golf and all that and tariffs. I do want to mention one thing, though, because a lot of times people in the audience ask, oh, with all the information you give us and we learn on mine is Dutch and legal af, what can we do about it locally? You know, what can we do about it? Popak well, I'm leading by example. I got asked and I was honored. I'm going to be speaking at a town hall. Yeah, one of those in Miami. There it is in Coral Gables at 300 DeSoto Boulevard at the Coral Gables Congregational Church. Do your job. This one's called State of Emergency Town Hall, 7 o' clock Eastern Time Thursday. If you're in the area, sign up, show up, turn out. I don't know if any of the Republican elected officials are going to show up for this, but. And it may just be the Dems taking over with them at absentia. But it's important. It's something that I was asked to do and I said yes in a heartbeat. And it's an example. And we're going to be talking about immigration and the lack of dignity in the immigration policies and things have to change and voter registration and redistricting that's going on in most red states, trying to take away states from Democrats, seats from Democrats. So that's just one example. I want to kind of put that do a little shout out to the organizers of that particular event this Thursday. All right, let's return to Griffs. I'm gonna take a swig of water. You can do the same at home. All right, live tv, everybody. So, Cutter. All right, so Donald Trump accepts a bribe, a gift, a grift from Qatar. Qataris $400 million plane we don't need. And Donald Trump knows we don't need it because he authorized Boeing to build us a couple of planes in his first term that we're still waiting for. It's over budget, but we've already spent $3 billion of taxpayer dollars. Shouldn't we just wait for those to be delivered? Shouldn't we? And Donald Trump doesn't want to wait because he's not really waiting on a US on an Air Force One. He's waiting on something he can take with him when he leaves office. So we are buying him his birthday present, I guess, is what I'm trying to say. And it's not free. Oh, it's free. It's free. It's not free because to turn that 10 or 15 year old plane into a working Air Force One for a president, bomb proof, communications, electrical, listen, making sure there's no listening devices inside of it. You don't think the Qataris could put listening devices inside of a plane? Come on. The Israelis bugged us for years and so did. And so we had a whole embassy we had to tear down because it was bugged by our allies. Okay, all right, so they got to do all that. It's hundreds of millions of dollars and at least one to two years away from being done. And if you hear 100 million, it's 500 million. And if you hear a year, it's two years. So now we're two and a half years into his administration. A year and a half, we're after the midterms, we're a year and a half until he leaves. And now he's got an Air Force One. At the same time we get two others delivered by Boeing because he doesn't care about those, because he wants to fly away with this one to his quote unquote presidential library. So the, so there's two things that just came out new. One, we get information about the Memorandum of Understanding between the Qataris and US Air Force signed by Pete Hegsa and the language that was included and excluded. And we find out that the Qataris wanted a provision that it was going to stay with America and Trump struck it out. Does that tell you everything you need to know? Sure. There's a paragraph where the two parties to the transaction say nothing here should be construed as a foreign corrupt practice or a bribe. I hadn't thought about that. Now I see it exactly as being a foreign corrupt practice or a bribe. Remember that Donald Trump effectively shuttered the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. He allows bribery as a business model throughout the world. And he got rid of the Department of Justice division that deals with foreign corrupt practices. So of course he take a plane. When he left the White House the first time, he left with millions of dollars of gifts he didn't register because they were his, mine. Mine, mine. Remember? Along with the Mar? A Lago file. Same thing. So he's got that, and that's being delivered soon. And a Freedom of Information act case has been filed against the State Department. No, the Department of Defense, to get a copy of the agreement. Where's the agreement? Why is it secret? Why is it hidden? When Hegseth was grilled by Jack Reed, a senator, several months ago, you know, they always. Their strategy is not to prepare anybody for this, this kind of testimony. So he can't, he doesn't know. You know, it's. It's implausible. Deniability, I call it. How much is it going to cost? I don't really know. When is it going to be delivered? Well, it's a state secret. Is there a contract about it? Well, if there was, I couldn't tell you. This. This was his interview. His, his, his interrogation and his answers to it. We can't trust. This is not a trans. Is it? Suffice it to say, it's not a transparent presidency about anything. And so there's a new lawsuit that's been filed against it over the. Over the legal. The memo. The memo that I'm describing right now is what that headline is referring to. And then if you thought that grift in plain sight bribery scandal was one thing, and I've already told you about how he used the office of the presidency to sell hundreds of millions of dollars of his meme cryptocurrency at a Virginia dinner. I mean, hundreds of millions of dollars, like approaching half a billion dollars with the presidential seal on his lectern while he was welcoming people. Now he spends at least 10 to 20 million dollars of taxpayer dollars to go to his golf course at Turnberry in Scotland, where they hate him. Did I mention they hate him? Where they hate him and spend a considerable amount of time when they weren't turning their back on him, asking him about the Epstein scandal. So he couldn't. He thought, this is a great idea. I'll go to Scotland. I won't have to be asked any questions about Epstein. Nope, that's not going to happen. So he goes there to open up a new golf course where a PGA Tour event is being held. It's named after his mother. This makes sense, right? He buried his ex wife at one golf course, names another one after his mother. Maybe she's buried there, I don't know. And so he's there at that, which should be totally not on the taxpayer dime. He put in a couple of meetings to go ramble for 90 minutes with Starmer from the UK and his wife who looked very not happy to be there and very hard where he started talking about including also in front of the European Union president. Windmills. And you should do something about your immigration problem in the uk he can't run one country. Why he thinks he could run 27 or 150 other countries. Harvard University, all public education and hospitals. And he can't even run his own. He can't run a bath. He can't run the government. Just like butt out of of other people's sovereign decisions about their windmills and their immigration policy. But I digress. So he shoved that in. But on the official White House schedule, literally was Donald Trump playing golf at his own golf course for the Trump, the Trump Organization. And the only comment he really made from the golf course was, best course I've ever played. Best course I've ever played. Now, we already had reporting on the Midas Touch network that he literally got. Listen to this. He, you want to hear what his score was? 18. He, he shot an 18 on an 18 hole golf course. Some people might be thinking that sounds like he got a hole in one on every hole, which is impossible. He did because we, we paid money for Secret Service or wherever they were to, every time he hit a ball, they pushed it or moved it and dropped it in the hole and then he moved on to the next hole. So we paid for him to, to, to card an 18. I think it was a 19 because there was one where he actually got a hole in one and then it was all. Anyway, so that's going on. And just to put a fine line under it, by the time this administration is over, he will have blown through $400 million of taxpayer dollars playing golf. 400 million while he cuts trillions from Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, student loans, disability and the rest. Remember that scorecard body of work report card for the Republicans at the midterms and beyond. Because you've seen what they do when they got complete power. As Lord Acton once said, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. And that's all we've been watching for the last. It's hard to believe Six months sounds like I'm talking about an administration. Three years. Three years in. This is six months. So let me turn finally to tariffs because a lot of people get crestfallen if Trump gets any success. I'm not wishing ill on the economy. I'm not trying to blow up the economy. Like, yeah, it'll be great for the Dems that's not this network if you're looking for that. This is not that kind of show or that kind of network. However, we are going to call it out when we see it. And what we're seeing with this administration is they take victory laps on things that are imaginary, magical, thinking it didn't really happen, and hope that the media moves on from the story. I'll give you an example to lead into the tariffs, the bombing in Iran, right? Day one through 15, all Donald Trump, the people around him could say is we destroyed completely the nuclear capacity of Iran, sending it back to the Stone Ages. It'll be decades before they recover. And anybody that challenges that is not a patriot. Remember that. That kind of summed up the first 10, 12 days. And then stories started dribbling out. Maybe they only set back a month. Maybe we didn't get the nuclear stockpile and the rest and now you draw a line under it. And even the Israelis, who are the ones that wanted us to bomb, have said that two out of the three locations were not sufficiently damaged to set them back at all. That we only destroyed at best one. Right? Where's that? On the front page of any paper or media outlet other than legal af, the intersection of Midas Touch. Where? Nowhere. Nowhere. Which brings us to tariffs. Big announcement over the weekend, right? Big announcement. There's going to be a $1 billion investment by Europe. Donald Trump ate their lunch, they're going to pay a 15% tariff and victory lap. Cue the, cue the fireworks. And then a day went by and the EU made up of 27 countries and the thousands of businesses, private businesses that are not controlled by the governments of those 27 countries started to weigh in. And financial newspapers. And what the takeaway now is, is Donald Trump got his ass handed to him and so did the commerce Secretary. So he loved to promote the. Look at the photo of me shaking her hand on the dealmaker. I ate her lunch. And then he cues Viktor Orban from her Hungary, his propagandist, to say, oh, it was, he was a master and she was a student and a pupil. Wrong. She traded an aspirational, at best, unenforceable, non contractual memorandum of understanding that they haven't even signed or finished in return for lowering tariffs from the threatened 30 or 40% down to 15% and it'll probably go lower than that. So she traded the imaginary for the real. Sort of like Jack and the Beanstalk, right? It's like, right. It was like, I just thought of that. It was like Jack and the Magic Beans. She had the magic beans and then she got, whatever, a real cow in return. So what am I talking about? There's two major components of the big EU announcement. A $500 billion commitment by the EU to buy American energy products. You know, oil, gas, liquid petroleum, all that. Okay, that sounds interesting. And a $600 billion. No, I'm sorry, millions. These are millions. 600 million dollar investment in America. Like overall, there's a major problem with that. The European. Well, the camera can come back to me, thank you. The European Union doesn't control private business, doesn't control oil brokers or gas brokers who move on a market decision making, not on a order of fiat by a government that doesn't control them. They buy oil and gas and supply contracts and long term contracts based on market prices, not based on a commitment and a handshake from the President of the European Union. So if America is selling low, super low, and it's lower than anything else out there, then they'll buy it. But that's not the commitment from Donald Trump. And the European Union couldn't buy enough of this to match the numbers that are in the deal. It would mean they'd have to reconfigure the entirety of their energy flow, turn away from Russia and other countries that they get their energy from, and buy almost the entirety of the American energy supply. It is never going to happen. Certainly not going to happen in three years time. I mean, right now they're buying, it is billions. They're buying $80 billion worth of energy from America. That's got to go to $250 billion a year, every year. Not happening. The total amount of energy they buy as a European Union is only 450 billion. So they're not going to buy more than half from America in three years time. And there's no way that the European Union can make private companies do it. So take that off the board. And the other investment is these countries don't generally have sovereign wealth funds. They can't make their own investment. So they need to encourage, encourage Europeans to invest in America. How are they going to do that? Give them a tax break maybe, but America's not going to give them the tax break. So only if the market conditions are such that it makes sense for Europeans to invest in America. And to be honest, who really wants to invest in America right now with Donald Trump as president? Canadians are abandoning America. Mexicans are abandoning America, Brazilians are abandoning America. I don't see a lot of Chinese tourists running around in the summer months here in major tourist cities shopping or doing anything else. You know, that is the dark underbelly of Donald Trump's economic policy is that this America first is making the rest of the world make it America last. And they are turning away permanently from America and they're turning towards China and Russia permanently. China is building factories, dams, hydroelectric battery factories hand over fist in the European Union, Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, you name it. Chinese built infrastructure and factories and jobs that go along with it while we pull back and cut our State Department, cut our humanitarian funding, cut our investment overseas, because we're going into protectionist mode. Like this is the 1930s. And you know what followed the protectionist mode of the 1930s? Something called the Great. And it starts with a D. And it's not Donald, the Great Depression. That's why you don't. And that's when our economy was one quarter of the size as it is now. And our population, we need open borders to take our goods and services. We make more and provide more goods and services dollar amount wise than any other country. We need open markets. So when you hear the victory lap right now, there's not one binding enforceable trade deal that's been signed by this administration since the April announcement of the tariffs. Not one. Not one. And yet they go on morning talk shows and CNBC and financial financial channels bragging about accomplishments that they haven't made, while the Fed, which is keeping a close eye on all things related to the economy with their three buildings and their analysts are saying, yeah, we don't like some of the stuff that's going on in America right now. Job report doesn't look great, consumer prices are up. We haven't yet gotten the tariffs baked into the pricing yet. And we hear a sputtering in the engine of the American economy. 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