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T Mobile has it only been a week since our last intersection? I'm Michael Popak. You're on the Midas Touch Network. So much has happened. I'M exhausted from the Labor Day weekend. And judges working overtime to rein in Donald Trump. Emergency duty judges like Sparkle Souk Nonan. You're going to hear more about her today. And then other judges like Judge Breyer, who seems to have worked all weekend to finish his 52 page decision finding that Donald Trump, the Department of Defense violated one of our most sacrosanct protections against a rogue president, the Posse Comitatus act, after a trial. And we've got a press conference tomorrow of the Epstein victims, at least 10 of them being hosted bipartisan fashion with we have a Republican Congress person, we've got a Democratic Congress person joining together with 10 victims who were there to declare once and for all two things, we are not a hoax. And secondly, release the damn files. So there's an update in the Epstein matter. Donald Trump's health crisis. See, Midas created a Midas health. Boy, that was fortuitive. That was like, like when they originally formed that gentle. I was like, that's, that's sort of interesting. Interesting when you've got an aging president who denies that he's falling apart when to all reasonable observers he is both mentally and physically. I mean, the fact that, that Pete Doocy of I always want to mispronounce his name. The fact that Pete Doocy on FOX had to start a press conference question the following way. Where were you when you found out you were dead, Mr. President? Between that and J.D. vance, who was, I think, trying to solve for the problem of Donald Trump's failing health, but only made matters worse when he made the following statement. God forbid anything happens to him, I'm ready to take over. I mean, that would be the equivalent of Lyndon Johnson before a Kennedy left for Texas saying, I don't know what's going to happen at the Texas Book Depository, but I'm ready to take over if anything does happen. Yeah, we're going to cover the health scandal, which is on top of the Epstein scandal, which is on top of the tariff scandal, which is on top of the everything else scandal, all related to Donald Trump. And the polls show it. We're going to be crashing below the 30% approval rating soon. You wouldn't know it to watch Donald Trump. Well, it's very hard to watch Donald Trump because there's allegations of phony photos, AI generated photos of him at a golf course there, there's, where was he for four and a half days? Why was the big press announcement about moving the space Force from Colorado to Alabama? Are we watching a Wag the Dog moment? Where he blows up a Venezuelan drug ship and kills 11 people to to reinforce this phony war we have with Venezuela and to distract attention from his failing administration. I've said it before, I'll say it again here on the intersection. Donald Trump politically times events like starting wars, bombing Iran, bombing Venezuela, releasing the the Maxwell transcripts in order to step on horrible news stories and news cycles. And this weekend was a horrible set of news cycles, which I'm going to talk about. We had Judge Sukhnanen ordering 76 children who were put on a plane at one o' clock in the morning without due process, let alone an adult to be shipped back to Guatemala in violation of their refugee status. So he had that order. He had today in the morning when we all woke up. I was shopping in a supermarket this morning for my family, covering part of the domestic tasks here as my wife takes care this morning at kind of a pre preschool for our daughter. I was picking out melons. When I get an urgent alert on my phone. My phone blows up about Judge Breyer up in San Francisco coming out with the first time in US History a pronouncement, a jury verdict, I'm sorry, a trial verdict that Trump and the Department of Justice violated the Posse Comitatus Act. Then you had earlier or later in the week, as we led into Labor Day, we had the 7 to 4 decision by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals that totally destroyed two thirds of Donald Trump's tariff scheme, which he's based the entirety apparently, of his economics and economic model on. And so now we're at war with Venezuela. You see where this is going? I want to talk about the health scandal, the Epstein press conference for tomorrow, and what's going on in Congress now that they finally got back from their summer vacation. What did you do on your summer vacation, maga? I hid from the press and the people that elected me. I hid from my responsibility to do oversight over this administration. I hid from my responsibility to release the Epstein files and to make sure that children have been protected and, and haven't been trafficked. I mean, we just had a ruling by the by Judge Suknan, effectively that the Trump administration as more likely than not violated statutes against torturing children and trafficking children. I got an update about the Brago Garcia matter, a new gag order that's being considered by a judge as they pulverize him in public. You've got Kristi Noem complaining that her 60 Minutes interview or her, her Meet the Press interview edited to because she didn't get to continue to bash and malign this person who is a criminal defendant who's entitled to be presumed innocent. Abrego Garcia they cut me off. I didn't get to talk about his child predator conduct. And so we're going to talk about all of these things, including Donald Trump's fundamental attempts to create a standing army of his creation against our Constitution, heck, against our declaration of independence to support him. All on the Intersection with Michael Popo. I'm glad you're here. For those that are here, we usually get a couple hundred thousand people watching this new podcast. Help stand it up, help support it. Hit the free subscribe button here. Listen to us on audio podcast platforms as well. And then, of course, my main work is on Legal AF, all things Legal AF, the YouTube channel, subscribe there, the substack subscribe there, and the like. All right, let's get into it. Let's start with the health scandal swirling around. When was the last time a president had to deny that he was dead? I mean, I mean, that is the question that was asked. You even have right wing extremists like Nick Fuentes saying something's going on with Trump's health. This is a guy who met with Donald Trump at Mar A Lago who's a white nationalist who supports the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers. He's now questioning whether there's another scandal because, let's be frank, MAGA loves a conspiracy theory. And we've got one now where with the health crisis, he is falling apart before our very eyes. The Trump administration keeps trying to cover for Donald Trump's failing health. Well, he's got a vein issue. The blood doesn't flow back properly from his legs to his heart. That doesn't explain the modeled hands. They try to cover with makeup. That doesn't. That doesn't explain the muddy thinking that they can't cover up with his incoherent, grammatically incorrect postings in the middle of the night or all hours of the day. That can't explain his, his inability to walk in a straight line like he's failed a DUI test. That doesn't explain the grainy photos that they try to show us, as we joke on the Midas Dutch network, the proof of life photos. He's still alive. It looked like the Loch Ness monster. It was this pixelated, blurry photo. Pardon me. They have a presidential photographer who can take a decent shot. How about a staffer with an iPhone? If they weren't trying to cover up. I mean, look, the Princess of England, Princess Kate, took A lot of flack when she tried to cover up her cancer crisis with these phony photos that were AI generated that showed she only had four fingers or, you know, like weird disjointed ankles. Same thing's going on now with Donald Trump. The fact that Nick Fuentes is saying something's up. The fact that Pete Doocy at Fox how to ask, when did you learn you were dead? The fact that people like Lev Parnas, who was close to Donald Trump, is learning that if he's not dead, he's dying. How else would you explain J.D. vance? But he's the gift that keeps on giving, isn't he? Every time he goes on television, he makes the matter worse. He's the reverse Midas touch. Since they're trying to steal Midas touch from Midas touch. He's the reverse Midas touch. Everything he says turns to crap. They send him on to try to tamp down the Epstein story and he goes on to try still blame Joe Biden, which leads everybody to say, including Elon Musk, release the files. Can't blame Joe Biden for it. You're still sitting on them. Just as all the federal judges have said. Then they trot him out to address the health crisis, which is a crisis. We don't get any surgeon general report about his health. No personal doctor, no. Nobody at, you know, Reed Memorial Hospital, the naval hospital giving us a report on the President. We get spoon fed. Well, he's got a vein problem. Well, how do you explain the rest? Look, you either believe that he was the subject of an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, and something hit his ear, or you don't. But if you believe that a piece of shrapnel or a bullet hit his ear, are we seeing the effects of that now, 11, 12 months later? I mean, that was a. If you believe it happened, that was a concussive event that rattled his brain and his brain cage. Are we seeing the effects of it now? Since he tried to deny it and use it in order to get elected Tough guy Trump. But are we seeing the effects of it now? And no amount of makeup and JD Vance saying, well, God forbid anything happens, I'm ready to take over. Oh, really? It's all right. It's okay. But that's not helping. And the reason we focus on the health is because Donald Trump is lying to the American people about the condition of his health. And we can see it with the phony photos and as I said at the top, the conspiracy theories. MAGA loves a good conspiracy theory. And they're probably getting fatigued with Epstein. So they're moving on to is Donald Trump dead or alive wanted Ted or alive President Trump? I mean that in his health, in a health condition. So let me move on on the intersection. Now that we've fully talked about the health crisis and Donald and Donald Trump's attempts to. Donald Trump's attempts to minimize and take away the story of the health crisis by starting a war with Venezuela, claiming that there was a drug cartel boat and therefore he had to bomb it and kill 11 people. Again, the exquisite timing of Donald Trump to take something off his shelf to distract from a failing economy and in a failing administration. So now we turn to Epstein. Where are we? Let's take stock. Let's take inventory. On September 2nd, where are we? Okay, we were promised the Epstein files in their entirety. I mean, in their entirety by Pam Bondi and, and Cash Patel, proxies for Donald Trump in February. This is now September. They thought they could feed us the grand jury transcripts and that load of lies. That didn't work. They thought they could dribble and drabble out files, and that didn't work. And now even Republicans are upset. Besides the fact that it completely undermined the FBI and the Department of Justice and led to tremendous firings and turnover there, and people's careers are on thin ice. I'm looking at you, Dan Bongino, Deputy Deputy FBI Director. Now, you have Representative Massie and Representative Khanna, Representative Massie, a Republican, who are holding a press conference tomorrow, which we're going to have live on Legal AF, a press conference tomorrow with 10, at least 10 victims who are going to be there to declare we are not a hoax. We are not nothing. Boring details. We were the victims of child sex trafficking by a best friend of Donald Trump named Jeffrey Epstein and by Ghislaine Maxwell. And they're there, I'm sure, to refute and to stop these attempts to rehabilitate Ghislaine Maxwell in order for Donald Trump to get a pardon. I mean, the information that we're getting is that Trump is working his acquaintances and his, his accomplices to try to make the Epstein story go away and to give him a Runway, to give Ghislaine Maxwell a pardon. It's important to hear from the victims who have been victimized all over again in all of these proceedings. They've been forgotten and they shouldn't be. They're now strong women. They were girls when these events happened, but they have a vested interest, injustice, as we should all. So the Epstein press conference tomorrow. But side by side with that press conference again, we'll have it up live at 10:00am Eastern Time on Legal AF. But in addition, we've got a motion that has been proposed. Has been who's. It's already, they're already looking for what's called a discharge vote in Congress led by Representative Massie and Representative khanna. They need 218 votes to get the Epstein files issue out of committee and to the House floor for a vote to discharge it from committee. You need 218 votes. They're going to get awful close. 212 Democrats are going to vote for it, right? Massey's going to vote for it. That's 213. So therefore they need five more votes. And, and Massie is sure, he's pretty confident he's going to get those five votes, I think tomorrow where we'll be announcing that the discharge vote has happened. A procedural technique to get something out of committee, which is the issue of the release of the Epstein files and other and other orders related to Epstein out of committee and to the House floor. That where it belongs for the American people to see how the Republican MAGA are operating before the midterm election. There's a lot of things at the intersection of law and politics that are all sort of coming together. You can see it now for the midterms and Donald Trump's political suicide mission that he's on and taking the rest of the MAGA Republicans with him. Health will be a major issue, not just his, but the health of America. We got RFK Jr. An incompetent, a conspiracy theory advocate, an admitted drug addict, anti science, anti medicine, who is running all the things like the center for Disease Control and making public health guidelines and announcements. Who gets COVID vaccine, who doesn't get COVID vaccine? Who lives? Who dies? Who made him God? Donald Trump, who? Who cares about as little for public health as he does for public safety. He's the most anti public safety, meaning crime in America, anti law enforcement and anti public health president we've ever had, which is shocking considering he presided over Covid. He tries to take credit for the warp speed at which vaccines were created. Vaccines that have now been effectively killed and killed off by RFK Jr. He, he and he had Covid, infamously himself. And only because he got a cocktail of drugs that the average person wasn't entitled to or couldn't obtain did he survive. See, he almost died once. That took a lot out of him. I'm sure you have an unhealthy, morbidly obese person who thinks, you know, eating fast food and swinging a golf club while the Secret Service kicks his ball into a hole and carries his balls and takes a little car from hole to hole. That's not exercise. That's not exercise. He's not carrying his own bag. He's not doing a full 18. The Secret Service are being exercised. They're working out, not him. And so his health, the health of America are all going to be on the agenda on the minds of Americans as they vote at the midterms. National security. How Donald Trump has mishandled where the world conflicts. He's not entitled to the Nobel Peace Prize. He's closer to being indicted as a war criminal. The way he's handled Iran and Israel, Israel and Gaza, Ukraine and Russia, even India and Pakistan, I'm telling you, he's one step closer. That's why he wanted to get rid of the International Criminal Court and he wanted to criminalize people from America that were working on the International Criminal Court because he knows he'd be public enemy number one. He'd be on the most wanted list. So the health of America, the national security of America, the attacks on our civil liberties led by Donald Trump, standing up an army that he has made in his own image to serve as a standing army against the American people. This is what's on the docket for the midterm election and how he's handled scandals like child sex trafficking around him with Epstein. I think it's ironic that Kristi Noem, our crash test dummy of a Homeland Security director, takes to the airwaves to talk about Abrego Garcia being some sort of child predator. She works for somebody who was best friends with a child predator who's an adjudged sexual abuser. Look over your shoulder. Who's been accused in court of. Of torturing children, violating statutes about torturing children and trafficking children just over the weekend and for them to talk about and to malign the victims of the Epstein scandal. You know, wrongs are going to be righted as we turn into the remainder of the Trump administration, I assure you. I'm glad you're here on the intersection. We got a lot more to go ways to support us. It's easy. You're here on the Midas Touch network. Hit the subscribe button. Slide over. That's my slide over sound to the legal a f YouTube channel that I do in collaboration with Midas Touch, that I curate 1012 videos every day. Every day. 365 including over this long weekend. Hit the free subscribe button there. You're gonna love the work that we do. I do about four videos a day there. 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We've got over 200,000 people that join us regularly on our Tuesday night edition, then pick us up on podcast platforms. It is a podcast. Look for the intersection. If you watch us, Watch us on YouTube. Come over to the podcast platforms like Apple and Spotify. Listen to us. If you're a listener, watch us. It helps keep this show up in the top rankings, which is important to keep the content coming to you. All right, let's and thank you to our Pro Democracy sponsors. Let's move on with our our checklist for today. Posse Combata Ruling I just interviewed Rob Bonda, the Attorney General, the general who led the charge that won today a big fat ruling. First time in history that a President has been declared to have violated the Posse Combatant Act. For people that want to know what that is, I'll give you the elevator pitch for the Posse Comitatus Act. It means that the U.S. the might of the U.S. military forces cannot be used on domestic soil for civilian law enforcement purposes. You can't turn them into a copy to use against Americans. That's at the heart of our constitutional republic. That is part of our bedrock principles, starting with the Declaration of Independence. We have not and will not allow a president to have a standing army, or in the words of Judge Breyer today, a national federal police force with the president as its chief. I mean, that's what we're watching, right? We're watching Trump before our very eyes, try to build a national law enforcement, you know, militia that he can use on domestic soil. That is anathema to everything that we're about as Americans. Our military is only supposed to be used for national security, for outward attacks or to protect Americans, but not to use as civil law enforcement. That's what local law enforcement is for. That's what sheriffs are for and police officers and other groups, and the use of the National Guard by states when necessary, not the feds. That's a bridge too far. And what Judge Breyer said today after a three day trial, that which he took in a lot of evidence, is that the Trump administration has clearly violated the Posse Comitatis act by using Marines combined with federalized National Guard to conduct civilian law enforcement searches and seizures and arrests and perimeters and traffic stops and the rest. And that is a direct violation not only of their training, but of the Posse Combatantis act, which was, which we've had since 1787, which, which stems from our breaking away from the King of England, King George and founding America because he had standing armies, because he used the military against American colonists, because he allowed the military without civilian control to terrorize the future Americans. And we said never again. Donald Trump is building a federal police force. He's spending $200 billion to hire tens of thousands of ICE and Border Patrol agents. He's hiring them out of high school without proper training, giving them a badge and a gun when they're 18 years old, cutting their training in half, not doing proper due diligence, using white supremacist Nazi propaganda like recruiting posters and digital media, which are all filled with Rockwell paintings of white people talking about their heritage, talking about you want to chase illegals with your absolute boys and all sorts of other things that smack of white supremacy. There is no. I have no confidence at all. In fact, I'm confident the other way that Donald Trump's going to hire as part of this national police force, proud boys, Oath Keepers, Jan6 insurrectionists, white Klansmen, Ku Klux Klansmen and the rest. I don't think those are disqualifying credentials. I think that gets you the job in the Trump Administration. He's recruiting like that's what he wants. He's using their propaganda and their tropes to get people. He got 100,000 applicants in two weeks. They're not screening any of them. And if you think that's not a problem, in the past when we lowered our standards, hired people that were ill fit and borderline criminals or criminals for these positions, what do we get? Border patrol agents who are members of drug cartels. That's happened in the past. Who committed murders and sexual abuse and kidnapping. It's going to happen again under Donald Trump because he's the opposite of in favor of law enforcement. You know, he's got this thing about all of these, his cabinet members who sat around on Tuesday praising the great leader from North Korea. Nice to see your big smiling face on the labor department, your honor. I mean, fearless leader, you know, trying to prop up his failing health in the public mind. That's all we watched. And they've got this thing that, you know, he is the law and order president. The law and order President led 1600 insurrectionists who attacked our capitol, tried to burn it to the ground and try to assassinate elected officials. He let them out the front door of the prison and he continues with it. He's giving. He settled with Ashley Babbitt's family. She was this close to leading a group of insurrectionists down the speaker's hallway to kill Nancy Pelosi and others. She's now, her family now got $5 million for wrongful death and she's now being given military honors by President Trump, allowed to be buried at Arlington or wherever her service that she was once a part of as Donald Trump rewrites history. So when Judge Breyer and I have a full hot take up on Legal AF about this and on legal, a substack. And I just had the interview with Rob Bonta that's going up tomorrow morning at about noon Eastern time that you should watch on Legal AF YouTube when you have Judge Breyer saying out loud not only that the president is forming a federal police force under his control, which is illegal, but he then gives the scenarios in the decision in which he says, what's to stop Donald Trump now? If I don't stop him with this ruling, what's to stop him from declaring that in order to, in order to promote the rules and to execute the laws around election laws, I've heard rumors that there is election fraud going on. So I need to use the federalized National Guard and the Marines to cancel elections, seize voting machines, stop mail in ballot balloting, absentee balloting, seizing the ballots and counting them myself or discarding them. What's to stop him from doing that? This is what Judge Breyer posed today as the potential ramifications of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals earlier ruling that allowed Trump to commandeer the National Guard. But this new ruling by Judge Breyer is the first of its kind. It says that Donald Trump cannot or it violates the Posse Comitatus act, use the federal military on domestic soil for civilian law enforcement purposes. He issues an injunction. He blocks the Trump administration. He declares it, he makes the findings. He stayed the case for about till next Friday to give the parties time to go to seek their appeals. But this needed to be done and will be the blueprint. This 52 pages for future judges on this area. So that was a good ruling, not the only great ruling against the Trump administration. He's on a losing streak. I mean, every week I say he's on a losing streak, but it's gotten worse. We just had the federal, we just had the Federal Circuit Court Court of appeals rule 7 to 4 striking down all of Donald Trump's tariffs, two thirds of them anyway. All the reciprocal tariffs against the 150 nations and the trafficking tariffs against Canada, China and Mexico related to fentanyl. Ruling that he doesn't have the power under the International Emergency Economic Emergencies Powers Act. IA nowhere does that give the president the power to tariff. Congress has to give that power expressly and they haven't. They have to list it in the statute of delegation. They haven't. And struck it down. Now they've stayed that order till October to get to the United States Supreme Court. And you've got Donald Trump saying it's going to be fiscal ruin if this statute is struck. If my use of the tariffs is struck down. Get ready. I think even this MAGA Supreme Court, I think it's 5050, but I think there's a shot that they're going to find he violated ipa. Now he has other tariff powers that he can exercise. He just didn't. He used ipa, the International Economic Emergency Powers Act. There's other statutes he could have used, but they were harder, required findings, required time. So he used the statute. You live and die by the sword, my man. So in the meantime, he continues to collect the money to wallpaper over the big hole in the economy caused by his failed economic policies. This week, and I cover every week is the first video on legal. AF is usually my economic analysis. And this week we get the jobs number. We get the jobs numbers, we get the economic slowdown numbers, consumer confidence numbers. It's going to be a bad week for Donald Trump in the economy. Yeah. And Donald Trump just wants to try to get a hold of the Federal Reserve, try to fire Lisa Cook because she purportedly committed mortgage fraud. She gets due process, she gets to prove her case. She gets to prove that that's not sufficient grounds, even if it were true, to be removed as a Federal Reserve governor, to give Donald Trump control over the interest rates. And I don't even understand how getting control of the interest rates is going to happen by him firing Lisa Cook. Even his own two governors on the Federal Reserve don't believe the interest rate should be cut that much. Donald Trump says, I want two points off the Federal Reserve interest rate. I want from 4, 4.5%. I want it down to 2.5%. Even his own board of governors says that's ridiculous, that it should only be cut a quarter of a point. And this is all to cover up for Donald Trump's again, failed economy. We're not seeing a power economy of the Trump administration. It's just a failed economy. And so, so far we've got the ruling by Judge Breyer about the Posse Combatas act against Donald Trump coming on the heels of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that a tariff scheme is unconstitutional and illegal. Coming on the heels of Judge Sparkle Sukhnanan in D.C. taking 76 children without due process who were tried to be deported in the middle of the night at one o' clock in the morning. She got him off the plane with 15 separate orders over the course of 24 hours. And what does Donald Trump, Trump do in response besides moving the space force from Colorado to Alabama? He announces that we're at war with Venezuela, bombing a what he alleges was a Maduro drug boat with 11 people on it. That's just a distractor. Is anybody fool for that in the press conference today? A distractor from a failed administration, a failing human being, physically and mentally. That's exactly what we're watching. But this is what Donald Trump does with his timing when things go badly for him in his, in his various policy pronouncements. So this is where we are at the end of another week on the intersection. I appreciate you being here. We cover it all. In between the Tuesday's intersection, we've got, of course, Legal A, the podcast, and Legal AF, the YouTube channel where you can get 10 or 11 videos, 10, 12 minutes apiece, kind of mini podcasts, great learning tools Very informative, hopefully entertaining at the intersection of law and politics. Subscribe to Legal AF Substack, a new community we're building. We've already got almost 80,000 people there. We're doing live reporting there in real time that we can't do even on YouTube. That's a free subscription as well. If you want to. If people say how can we support what you do on all these channels, Popak and all the other contributors, it's easy. You can become a paid subscriber on Legal AF Substack. 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