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Michael Popak
The NBA playoffs are here and I'm getting my best in on FanDuel. Talk to me, Chuck. GPT. What do you know? All sorts of interesting stuff. Even Charles Barkley's greatest fear. Hey, nobody needs to know that new customers bet $5 and get 200 in bonus bets if you win FanDuel America's number one sportsbook 21 plus in President select states must be first online real money wager $5 deposit required. Bonus issued is non withdrawable bonus bets that expires seven days after receipt. Restrictions apply. See full terms@fanduel.com sportsbook gambling problem. Call 1-800-GAMBLER if you had a critical legal and constitutional issue, who would you rely on? Pam Bondi, Donald Trump's head of the Department of Justice or his in house White House counsel? Or somebody like the illustrious Jamie Raskin? I take Jamie Raskin every day and twice on Sunday. Especially when it comes to the emoluments clause. Emoluments clause. You might have slept through that chapter in American history class or social studies. But it is in the Constitution that prevents anyone in a position of authority, authority in America to accept a gift, a present, a title or anything else from a foreign nation. It applies to the President of the United States. And if he takes in a gift, you know, all those gifts that they get and they declare and all of that, then he's got to get congressional approval to keep it. Well, Donald Trump came up with a scheme, a payoff. And it intertwines and shows you the ethical conflicts Donald Trump that are suffused within his administration and that of his business life. They are one in the same. They are not separated. The Trump Organization run by the two freightos of the Trump crime family. I never saw a crime family have two freighters in Eric Trump and Don Jr. They struck a deal the end of April. We covered it on the Midas Dutch network on legal af that was to do a new $500 million oceanfront or waterfront project golf course with Qatar or Qatar, I'm gonna call it Qatar. Cause that's what I've always called it. And then that was on the 30th or the 1st of May. And then in the last 48 hours, 24 hours, Donald Trump makes this huge announcement. Oh, we got a big announcement. I'm going to the Middle East, I'm gonna go to Qatar, I'm gonna go to a couple of other places. UAE big announcement. I'm thinking, I don't know. Steve Witkoff finally pulled off a miracle, pulled a rabbit out of his butt and he solved the Mideast peace crisis. We solved Hamas, Israel, maybe we solved Ukraine, Russia. No, Donald Trump figured out a way to take a gift in violation of the emoluments clause. And not just a little gift like, you know, some sort of bear coat or, you know, some sort of ivory illegal chess set. No, he took a 400 million. Sorry, 400. $400 million. I got stuck on that phrase. Jumbo jet from Qatar days after the deal. The real estate deal. With who? Cutter? How is this not. Forget about the emoluments clause for a minute. How is this not a direct bribe from the Qatari government to a sitting president slash de facto CEO of his real estate company or a. Basically a. A vig. A gift related to the transaction? There is. There are no coincidences in world. When it comes to Donald Trump. There are no coincidences of world, period. I've said it before. You think the Papal Conclave picked Pope Leo because, you know, not because of Donald Trump. He, in fact, he affects all elections, including papal ones. Sure. They picked an activist pope from Chicago to oppose Donald Trump in the era of Trump. Okay, set that aside for a minute. Forget emoluments. Let's just look at the bribe. Donald Trump's family does a real estate deal with the Qatari government with their sovereign wealth fund. In these countries, the government is the royal family. And so there's no private sector development unless you're in bed with the. With the government. So they cut a deal for $500 million. Right. Sorry. You know, my. Sometimes my numbers get a little bit sloppy with Donald Trump because they're so large. He does a multibillion dollar deal with the Qatari government to develop this golf course. And less than 10 days later, a $400 million plane gets offered as a gift to Donald Trump, who's always had hated US Air Force One. He's never wanted to ride on. He's always a Trump. Air is so much better. Trump Force One. I hate this plane, by the way. Our taxpayer dollars are being used to develop a new Air Force One that would be ready in the next term. But in the meantime, Donald Trump doesn't want to be slumming it on America's plane. You know, that great, beautiful baby blue American plane with the presidential seal on it and all the power that it demonstrates when it lands at an airport, especially in a foreign country. No, he doesn't want that. He wants a plane from Qatar. A country, by the way, putting aside the development deal that is tied to terrorism around the world. Let me repeat that. Qatar. And a flow of money through Qatar tied to terrorism, including indirectly and directly. 9 11. I'd like to ask Howard Lutnick, who's the commerce secretary under Donald Trump, who used to until he sold his company, quotes, air quotes, wink, wink, to his two sons. I like to ask him when he presided over Cantor Fitzgerald, when it went planes that were funded through places like Qatar that hit the World Trade center and killed 658 people at Canter Fitzgerald, if he's okay with now taking this blood jet in to Donald Trump. And I don't want to hear the argument at all here on the Midas Touch Network. I don't want to hear the argument that this plane because Pam Bondi sort of figured it out working with the White House counsel that if the Air Force takes the jet, well, watch this one. So now you got Pete Hegseth who they put in a rubber room without sharp objects so he doesn't hurt himself. They won't even let him pick his own chief of staff. This is the guy they picked to run the Pentagon from the Fox and Friends weekend desk. Pete Hegseth, which ultimately runs the Air Force, is going to accept the plane for the Air Force which runs Air Force One. The helicopter is Marine One, run by the Marines, Air Force. They're going to accept it. They're going to use it for the next three and a half years or whatever it is. And then when it's all done, is it going to stay with the American people? Is it going to be a gift from Donald Trump back to the American? No, it's going to Donald Trump's presidential library, skipping over America and a taxpayers 100%. And this they believe solves the emoluments clause problem. It does not. Hey, look at me. Michael Popak here. And yes, I'm actually using iRestore's amazing Elite hair growth device. 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Please support our show and tell them that we sent you Hair loss is frustrating. You don't have to fight it alone. Thanks to Irestore, that's where Jamie Raskin comes in. Jamie Raskin, who is our kind of the conscience of the Democratic Party, an extraordinary constitutional scholar, law professor in his own right. He said it's not even difficult. I don't have to do a deep dive analysis. It violates the emoluments clause. Cuz it's a gift or a present being received from a foreign state to somebody in a position of trust in America. Done. End of statement. The fact that there's also a bribe scandal going on underneath doesn't change the analysis by a fit of alchemy into something else. It's both. It doesn't have to be one or the other. It is both things. It is the Qatari government paying off Donald Trump, who's both the head ultimately of his own real estate development firm and of the United States because all he's doing is turning the presidency into Trump Inc. It's just a money making machine for the Trump Family call it for what it is. I just went out to dinner recently with some friends of mine who, you know, they're moderates, they voted sometimes Democrats, sometimes Republican. And we had a conversation about Donald Trump. And I said, if you want to vote for Donald Trump, that is your God given right, so to speak. However, you're in for a penny, you're in for a pound. You take him and everything. It's a package deal. You can't, you can't separate the, the items out of the package. And so you need to understand that this is. He has turned the White House, the Oval Office, into the biggest grand theft grifting scheme in history. We just got through saying. We just got through, it seemed like just days ago, because it was where we said that one of the biggest schemes and scandals that we've ever seen is being, is in the Trump administration right now in the form of bitcoin and cryptocurrency and Donald Trump's use of meme coins and controlling the liquidity pool around the meme coins, the meme coin sales in order to pump and dump and make the brokerage fees and put billions of dollars in the pockets of himself and his family. That's right. Now, that was last week's story. Now, Donald Trump having gotten a taste for the billions of dollars he's made and is going to make before he leaves this office. Like any good kleptocracy, Donald Trump is going to make hundreds of billions of dollars at your and my expense while he's supposed to be doing the people's business as President of the United States. Are you okay with that? I'm not. And Donald Trump got a taste for it. So now he says, well, I'll just take the $400 million plane. And who's his brain trust telling him he can do that? Pam Bondi. She can barely put a sentence together. She can barely read a binder that is presented to her to do the. When she did the impeachment defense of Donald Trump, we all saw that. And she's come up with this, this convoluted Rube Goldberg contraption. Oh, the plane's gonna come through the Air Force. And Pete Hegseth says it's okay, you know, okay, great. Was that after 4 o' clock somewhere or after 5 o' clock somewhere? And then it's going to go from there. I'm going to keep it, I'm going to use it. Who's going to paint it, by the way? Who's going to maintain it? So you and I and our taxpayer dollars are going to paint the plane, maintain the plane, repair the plane. You know how much that costs to fly? You know how much that costs to maintain. You're talking millions of dollars a month, taxpayer dollars. I thought he was supposed to be saving us money with the efficiency scheme. So now I got to pay for a plane, I got a fly I got to have. I got to pay for the fuel, I got to pay for the maintenance, I got to pay for the new paint job because you know he's going to do some ridiculous gaudy paint job. I got to pay for the crew and the flight time and all of that. And then when it's all said and done, it was just a lease. It's like, what a car? You got nothing at the end. Because she figured out that there. From there it goes to the presidential library and skips Donald Trump so he could use it to fly around the country. As the ex president, he just got a gift. He violated the emoluments clause and it was a bribe on top of it. The Senate Democrats. You better. You better. It's time to fight as so as Justice Sotomayor just said, elbows up. Time to fight ticket to the Senate floor, give a speech as long as Cory Booker's don't leave. Until everybody in America realizes that this is not just a convict in chief, that this is an ongoing crime spree. This isn't. We're not talking about past crimes. You're watching the crimes in real life and it's televised. Or at least it's YouTubed. And I'm YouTube. I'm here at Michael Popak on the Midas Dutch network and illegal af. I'm glad you're here. I wanted to kind of get my 2 cents in about the, this, this scandal. On the heels of last week's scandal, on the heels of next week's scandal, on the heels of this week's abuse of power, on the heels of next week's abuse of power, that's all we're watching with this administration. It's a disaster of epic proportion that you and I are the victims of. We'll continue to follow it. Stay together here on the Midas Touch Network. This is the week. This is it. This is the Apogee, the brothers podcast. Number one podcast in the world, getting an award, I think today, Legal AF, the YouTube channel, well on its way to a million. We'd like to get to 700,000 subscribers, all with your help. Legal AF MTN Legal, a podcast. 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