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Today we'll attempt a feat once thought impossible. Overcoming high interest credit card debt. It requires merely one thing, a SoFi personal loan. With it you could save big on interest charges by consolidating into one low fixed rate monthly payment. Defy high interest debt with a SOFI personal loan. Visit sofi.com stunt to learn more. Loans originated by Sofi Bank NA member FDIC terms and conditions apply. NMLS 696891 the very first trial evidentiary hearing against the Trump Administration the Department of justice for vindictive prosecution will be the blueprint for all the other vindictive prosecution motions that have been or will be filed by the enemy list of Donald Trump starts on November 4and 5. But we already got a lot of fireworks in the courtroom of Judge Crenshaw presiding over the Kilmer Abrego Garcia case brought by the US Government as a frame job to cover up for the fact that they illegally deported him and removed him to El Salvador and it took a 90 vote of the Supreme Court to get him back. Even then they only brought him back after they fabricated charges against Kilmer Abrego Garcia about a traffic stop three years ago. And now the lawyers for Abrego Garcia preparing themselves appropriately for an evidentiary hearing, a trial in front of a federal judge, want witnesses, want documents, want evidence. They're a criminal defendant and defense team. They're entitled to these things. Anybody that watches My Cousin Vinny the movie knows that that the defense is entitled to exculpatory and inculpatory information and as of right now, they haven't received any of it. So they did what any self respecting criminal defense lawyer would do. And I know these defense lawyers, Sean Ecker out of New York, they subpoenaed Todd Blanche and others in leadership of the Department of Justice to come to the hearing to testify about vindictive prosecution. Because this case is set up in a very unique way. Cuz a judge, Judge Crenshaw has already ruled in the last two weeks that it is more likely than not that vindictive prosecution was at the heart of bringing these charges against him. You have to look for the animus. You look for the animus in words and deeds and actions and emails, in statements made on Fox News. And in fact, the judge said that Todd Blanche, the number two lawyer in the Department of Justice, Donald Trump's current and present and future and past defense lawyer, he said some things on Fox News which indicate to the judge that there is at least a presumption of vindictive prosecution and now the defense has pounced on that and issued their trial subpoenas. I cover it all right here. I'm so excited. I cover it all right here on the Midas Touch Network and for legal AF on Michael Popak. All right, let's dive in. How'd we get here? Abrego Garcia was minding his own business. I think he was at a Home Depot or something in Maryland when he got picked up in a sweep. Except he had an order in his pocket from an immigration judge in America that says he can't be sent to El Salvador. He was sent to EL SALVADOR With 250 other human beings, men, to the torture prison in El Salvador. And it was illegal. It was illegal. It was admitted by the government that it was illegal. The Supreme Court called that illegal. The Fourth Circuit twice called that illegal. And Judge Zinnis called that illegal. They finally, after several months, the government finally brought him back, but only after they trumped up some fake charges against them for human trafficking. Transporting human beings in a van, apparently off a traffic stop from three years ago where he wasn't even cited for a lack of insurance. He was let go. And so at the bottom, you see the animus, you see the hatred, you see Donald Trump's statements, you see Christine Noem statements, you see Pam Bondi statements, and you see Todd Blanche on Fox. In fact, the only thing that Judge Crenshaw seemed to focus on in his order where he set up the evidentiary hearing for November four and five were on the statements made by Todd Blanche on Fox. So, of course, Todd Blanche is going to get deposed or he's going to be up on the stand. Why wouldn't he be? The judge focused on it in his own motion. Let me show you a clip that we're talking about that got the judge all excited. Here's the clip. Judge Boasberg's decision, which I thought was, you know, over the top. Supreme Court saying, you know, you got to try to facilitate the return. So you're saying tonight that that warning of possible contempt charges against administration officials, none of that had anything to do with the investigation? No.
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I mean, first of all, the Supreme Court stayed any contempt proceedings by Judge Boasberg. That case has been stayed in this case. We had a judge in Maryland tell us that, oh, no, there's not any evidence that he's a member of Ms. 13. You had no right to deport him. And so we. What should we do as a Department of justice when a judge is accusing us of doing something wrong, we have an obligation to everybody, including you, to investigate it. And that's exactly what we did. And so the reason why he was returned and the facilitation that brought him back here is not a judge. It's an arrest warrant issued by a grand jury from the middle district of Tennessee charging him with two counts of very serious charges.
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Now, when we have things like that, we have an entitlement, whether you're in criminal court or you're in civil court to get documents and information. We call it discovery. It's the same. Sometimes it's called disclosure, but we generally call it discovery, criminal discovery, if you're a criminal defendant, that the prosecution has to turn over all sorts of what we call Brady material, All sorts of things that either prove, tend to prove your guilt or your innocence. Everything, nothing gets withheld here. Everything's being withheld. And on the, and on the civil side, if Donald Trump is a plaintiff or a defendant or he has Melania threatened to sue people, then that opens the whole Pandora's box, right? It opens up everything. Depositions for Donald Trump. We'll talk about the civil side in a minute. Because there's many cases that Donald Trump has decided to bring during his administration, not waiting for him to leave, which subjects him to this type of discovery and deposition under oath. Now, here's what the defense has told Judge Crenshaw, and I'm sure Judge Crenshaw is not too happy. He'll be pulling everybody together soon for a conference. But here's what Sean Hecker and the team for Abrego Garcia said. As of the filing of this status report a couple of days ago, the government has not produced any discovery to the defense, responded to the defense's letter concerning potential witnesses, nor identified any other anticipated hearing witness. As a result, the defense is concerned it will not have sufficient time for the government to collect the discovery, review the discovery, provide the discovery for any disputes to be resolved, all before November 4 and 5.
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The government is freaked out. They filed in their opposition to certain of the discovery. And they made a revelation here in footnote two of their filing. Indeed, it is clear the government writes that defendant is not content to stop with this discovery. We haven't gotten any discovery from you. No way. To prepare for the hearing on October 20, defense counsel subpoenaed the deputy Attorney general, Associate Deputy Attorney General, counselor to the Deputy Attorney General, as well as two HSI agents to testify at the evidentiary hearing. And then we're. We're going to be filing a motion about that. Well, good luck. The judge already saw the clip we just played. We brought the receipts about Todd Blanche. He is a. He is an important witness. They say, well, no, there's a guy named Maguire who's like the acting interim U.S. attorney in Tennessee. He'll do it. He'll talk about his role. That's not good enough. We don't trust the government. There's no presumption of regularity, which is a doctrine where judges would normally say, let's cut to the chase. I generally believe the Department of Justice is following its Department of Justice manual, its principles of federal prosecution, and things are regular. Can't assume that here. Even the government says nothing about this case is regular. They say it in their own filing. Um, it says defense. This is on page eight. Government defendants motion to compel should be denied. It is the rare case. I think we're in the rare case, aren't we? Where the defendant is entitled to. To any discovery at all on a vindictive prosecution case. And the discovery sought here would be overbroad and highly damaging. Yeah, be highly damaging because they don't want to tell the truth that they are vindictively prosecuting Abrego Garcia. Um, and I don't agree with that, based on the law that it is rare for there to be discovery related to vindictive prosecution. How do you approve the case without it? Now, I just interviewed Michael Wolf, turning to civil side Donald Trump has sued the New York Times for defamation. His wife has just threatened to sue Michael Wolf, the journalist and chronicler of Epstein and Donald Trump for billions of dollars of defamation. But he sued her first in New York just in the last several hours. In the last hours or so. And that opens the door for more discovery, more depositions. Melania under oath. Donald Trump under oath. Ghislaine Maxwell under oath. You see where this is going. Those in their inner circle under oath. In fact, we covered it in my interview and here's a clip, a judgment.
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That says you can't do this. And this process will, gives us now the right to call witnesses, subpoena power. And in those witnesses might very well will very well include Melania Trump and Donald Trump and therefore afford me the opportunity to, to really have an in depth discussion with them under oath before a court reporter about their relationship with, with Donald Trump. With Jeffrey Epstein. I mean, with, with, with Jeffrey Epstein. Yes. So, I mean Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein had this long friendship, really a joined by the hip friendship. So, so there will be a lot of questions and there may be other witnesses called as well. Oh yes, and anyone, anyone who might have information about their relationship. Donald Trump's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Melania's. Melania Trump's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and his circle. Yes. They would be called Ghislaine Maxwell. Couldn't you. Oh, he certainly could. Even though she's in a Texas camp right now.
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I mean, I don't know what the procedure is, but see, but if she's, if she's subpoenaed, she has to testify.
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You could call, let me just say one other witness. You could call Paulo Zampoli, who is Melania's agent, of course, to have introduced Trump to Melania. Of course, and many others who I know who were involved in that, in that circle.
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Right. This, this is a can of worms and Donald Trump is a giant can opener. This is why presidents don't sue. Generally. It's only happened a couple of times in history, don't sue during their presidency. Cuz they don't want to be able to, they don't want to have to testify or people in their families, it's usually protect my families. Don't go after my families. Forget that Melania is threatening to, to use Donald Trump's own lawyer to go after people for phony claims of defamation. People get to defend themselves. Now you can't say, well, I'm the President. You can't use the presidency as a sword to attack People in lawsuits. And as a shield. Oops, you can't. But you. But I'm busy these days, you know. We'll have to wait till after I'm done. No. Then dismiss the lawsuits. So I'm going to continue to follow it all as I do here on Legal A F on the Midas Touch network and over on legal AAF YouTube. Hit the free free subscribe button there. We now more than ever need your help, your defense, your protection from the Trump administration attacking Legal AF and Midas Dutch. Keep us on the air, keep the content coming. Legal AF, YouTube, 10 new videos a day, Legal AF substack and substack live. $6.77 a month to keep us on the air, so to speak. So until my next report, I'm Michael Popo. Can't get your fill of Legal af. Me neither. That's why we formed the Legal AF sub stack. Every time we mention something in a hot take, whether it's a court filing or a oral argument, come over to the substack. You'll find the court filing and the oral argument there, including a daily roundup that I do called Wait for it Morning af. What else? All the other contributors from Legal AF are there as well. We got some new reporting, we got interviews, we got ad free versions of the podcast and hot takes. Wear Legal AF on Substack. Come over now to free subscribe. Morning, Zoe. Got donuts. Jeff Bridges, why are you still living above our garage? Well, I dig the mattress and I want to be in a T mobile commercial like you teach me. So Dana. Oh no, I'm not really prepared. I couldn't possibly at T Mobile get the new iPhone 17 Pro on them. It's designed to be the most powerful iPhone yet and has the ultimate pro camera system. Wow, impressive. Let me try. T Mobile is the best place to get iPhone 17 Pro because they've got the best network. Nice. Jeffrey, you heard them. T Mobile is the best place to get the new iPhone 17 Pro on us with eligible trade in in any condition. So what are we having for launch? Dude, my work here is done 24 month ago is on experience beyond for well qualified customers plus tax and $35 device connection charge credits ended balance due to payoff earlier. Cancel Finance Agreement. IPhone 17 Pro 256 gigs $1,099.99 and.
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