Katie (6:16)

He said it out loud.

Michael Popak (6:18)

He wanted the Russians to go find Hillary Clinton's quote, unquote missing emails. Do you remember that at a press conference? If you don't, here's the clip that.

Donald Trump (6:26)

A person in our government, Katie, would delete or get rid of 33,000 emails. That gives me a big problem. After she gets a subpoena, she gets subpoenaed and she gets rid of 33,000 emails. That gives me a problem. Now if Russia or China or any other country has those emails, I mean, to be honest with you, I'd love to see them. Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.

Michael Popak (7:01)

Isn't that a confession by Donald Trump that he not only knew that the Russians were helping him, but he wanted them to help him?

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Michael Popak (8:27)

And now you got Tulsi Gabbard looking at, you know, getting her hands now on the data and finding that there is her, her belief that the Biden administration and others and the Trump, sorry, the Obama administration were telling the American people that the election equipment was being hacked. That's not the argument. We're not making that argument that the, that the Russians are so unsophisticated that they're trying to hack. It's that they're trying to hack the mines. It's a mind hack, not an equipment hack. And so every time Tulsi Gabbard says in her, her two page, I'll show it to you here, we'll put it up on Legal af, substack her two page, you know, Department of National Intelligence or. Yeah, report. Well, I've looked at it. You know, I see some cutting and pasting going on here. Some revisions to the memos by a clapper by Brennan, you know, CIA and FBI and others in the Obama administration. They're trying to mislead the American people. They try to inform the American people. But the Russians are coming. The Russians are coming, the Russians are here and they're trying to get into our dreams like Freddy Krueger. They're trying to get into our minds and they're trying to dash our hopes and dreams. And that is a reality. And the fact that they don't recognize that cuz it's not in their best interest. That's why this administration got rid of the cybersecurity and infrastructure, you know, agency that was responsible for the integrity of elections. They don't want elections to have integrity. They don't want your vote to count. And so when Pam Bondi announces, supported by the fearless leader Donald Trump, that we're going to get to the bottom of the 2020 election, 2016 election, that violates the Department of Justice manual. Let me read to you what it violates so that you're, we're all on the same page. The principles of federal prosecution at section 9 dash 27.00 say that a prosecutor has to have a good faith and.

Katie (10:32)

Reasonable belief that admissible evidence will be.

Michael Popak (10:36)

Sufficient to not only obtain but sustain, even through not just get it from a jury, but sustain it through an appeal to sustain a conviction before an unbiased jury. That it is more likely than not that guilt will be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. Stop right there. Pam Bondi already violated that rule. She can't possibly believe in good faith what she's saying about opening this investigation. See, the reason we have these guidelines is that we want to make sure that Americans and our idols and our icons and the Democratic Party, which is trying to tear down before our very eyes are protected from even having a shadow cast on them. Right. Shade cast on them by the opening of a criminal investigation. Because we can, we can talk about how ridiculous it is and how Jack Smith's gonna, you know, Jack Smith's gonna, is going to survive his Hatch act violation investigation and turn it back on Donald Trump, but it cast a shadow on these people. They want to undermine institutions in this country. MAGA wants to undermine the Democratic Party, sully its brand and take away its icons and its idols. That's what they're trying to do. So the threshold, there is a threshold criteria that any prosecutor, and certainly the Attorney General has to file. It's been violated here. The threshold criteria is that the Department of Justice must access, also access or assess, sorry, whether prosecution serves a substantial federal interest. The Department of Justice is just the political arm and the campaign arm of, of Donald Trump and maga. That's not a substantial federal interest. If another jurisdiction could prosecute effectively and whether there's a non criminal alternative available. There's also standards for grand jury presentation and not even seeking an indictment unless it is in good faith with a reasonable belief that the evidence will bear out and ultimately sustain a conviction. None of that is happening here. So what do we do about it? Every criminal defendant, if it gets that far, should be seeking to attack the grand jury. The empaneling of the grand jury. I mean, if I were them, I'd run into federal court. They tried it in the Trump administration in Mar A Lago, try to pull an Eileen Cannon favorable to the Democrats to try to get her to stop the grand jury from doing its job. Now, at the time, you know, different courts of appeal said, no, you can't do that. You can't as a federal judge, you can't stop, you know, the prosecutors from doing their job. But maybe under these circumstances you can, especially when the Department of Justice manual is being violated. So that's a shot. I mean, if you want to wait around, the indictment comes out, Barack Obama, Brennan Clapper and the rest, Jack Smith, then you have to go move to dismiss your indictment. And one of your grounds is the violation of the Department of Justice manual. Put the Department of Justice on trial and Pam Bondi on trial. Doesn't that sound delightful? And then we have to continue to talk truth to each other in order to make sure that the Department of Justice, which has already forfeited its right to be considered an in good faith and honest and trustworthy prosecutorial agency, we have to make sure we put them on trial every time in federal court by calling them out here on Legal AF and on Midas Touch. In the meantime, I'm Michael Popak. Hit the free subscribe button here on Midas Touch, but come over to Legal Life, the YouTube channel. We got over 220 million people who have watched our work since September and we've got a decent subscriber base. You know, it's hitting 750,000, but we should be at a million already. And I don't think it's a function of people don't like our content or don't like the Legal AF YouTube channel. I think it's a function of we have to remind people to hit the subscribe button. So please do that and help us continue to grow that channel. So until my next report, I'm Michael Popak.

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