The Intersection with Michael Popok

Trump has blinked in his game of chicken with Fed Chair Jay Powell, succumbing as usual to a torrent of public rejection, and Wall Street honchos calling him and telling him to stop undermining the Fed's independence in order to get an interest rate cut. Popok how Powell won, and why it matters to our economy. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: htt...

What's at the Intersection? Major developments in the Epstein pedophile coverup by Trump, including Trump perhaps pressuring Epstein's co conspirator to say Trump was never involved in order to get a pardon, exploiting a little covered relationship with Trump's DOJ; the DOJ taking steps to get Habba back her job as NJ US Attorney; Trump chickening out about firing the Federal Reserve Chairman Jay...

Will trump violate the constitution and appoint us office wife alina habba illegally to the US Attorney position in Nj. or will the 17 judges who blocked her prevail? popok takes it on on his latest hot take. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/legalafmtn.bsky.social...

No one knows more about Trump and meritless federal defamation suits than Michael Cohen, and he joins Popok to talk through the new Trump suit against Rupert Murdoch. And wait until you here his revelation about how the Epstein Trump birthday card may have been created! All on a new special episode of Legal AF with Popok. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF S...

Is Trump trying to coerce Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator in the pedophile rape ring, to declare publicly that Trump is innocent as a precondition to her getting a Pardon? Why is Trump sending in the #2 DOJ official and his former criminal defense lawyer to meet with her in prison, at the same time her lawyer admits that he is in discussions with the Administration about a pard...

Even the Trump Administration's own Commerce Secretary and Chief Tariff ambassador must not believe that Trump's Tariffs are legal, because his 28 year old son just greenlit his former company Cantor Fitzgerald to get into the business of betting AGAINST the tariffs by buying hundreds of millions of tariff refund claims from companies betting that the tariffs will not survive Court. Popok takes a...

The Trump Admin. is playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse with Federal Judge Boasberg, telling him that they may (or may not) bring back to his courtroom for court-ordered hearings, the 250 people they allowed to be sent from El Salvador to Venezuela in a brutal regime prisoner swap they facilitated. Popok outlines what will likely happen next. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?su...

Trump is already finding ways to grift and steal off of his self-proclaimed Chairmanship of the FIFA 2026 World Cup, and Rudy Guiliani's kid, Andrew, and the FIFA Executive Director Gianni Infantino, are willing participants in the heist. Popok explores how Trump will use his Crypto currency businesses to make himself billions off of FIFA and the tournament, and how he literally stole from FIFA at...

Trump's attempts to hide his best friend relationship with pedophile Jeffrey Cohen by filing a public law suit about it (??) just took a worse turn, as the judge "random selection gods" just assigned Judge Daryn Gayles to his new defamation case against Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal, the same judge who presided over Trump's quick dismissal of a similar defamation case against Michael...

The American Economy just voted and it is firing Trump, whose "Trump-enomics " is warped by his blind devotion to cryptocurrency, and has backfired on the American People. Popok reports that we are now paying more for everything, as the new consumer price data is now out. Still, because Trump makes his money by pumping the crypto bubble, he doesn't really care how much people pay for food, rent, c...

Embattled and scandal-scarred Trump AG Pam Bondi, thought this is the perfect moment in time to fire her ETHICS COUNSEL, and spell his name wrong in his firing letter to boot. Popok takes a close look at how the Supreme Court in their 6-3 MAGA decision to enable Trump ignoring our historic civil service protections to stop political firings especially at the Justice Department, has enabled Bondi t...

Michael Popok at The Intersection, as he takes on and takes down: 1) Trump, his close Epstein relationship and now MAGA now suspects that Trump is IN the covered-up files, and is not dismantling the deep state and chasing this conspiracy because he is "soft" on pedophilia and protecting Children; 2) scandal-scarred AG Pam Bondi leading a brain-drain at the DOJ enabled by the Supreme Court, as 70 T...

Is Trump actually IN the Epstein Files, the documents the FBI has in its possession about the pedophile wingman of Trump? Well, the Trump-Epstein Coverup Scandal has gotten so big over the weekend that a reporter actually had to ask Trump point blank whether he's in the files! Popok examines how Trump looking soft on pedophiles (especially when they are his former run around town buddies), is driv...

Almost 70 Trump Administration DOJ lawyers have quit almost en masse to protest the lawlessness of the Adminstration, all from the main division responsible for defending Trump's most depraved policies in court -- DOGE putting agencies through the wood chipper, Birthright Citizenship, attacks on higher education like Harvard and law firms, etc. Popok pieces it together with the 50 federal judges,...

To paraphrase the Godfather, Putin's been playing Trump and feeding him "bullshit" all along, and Trump just woke up to side with our ally Ukraine after 6 months, 1000 Ukrainians losing their lives, President Zelensky publicly humiliation by Trump and Vance and billions of US dollars wasted as a result. Popok shows how the vacillating by Trump who fiddled while Ukraine burned played right into the...

The Supreme Court finally ruled against Trump on an immigration issue, ruling that Florida's attempt, supported by Trump to criminalize immigration, as a Federal judge found Florida's Attorney General in contempt, and Trump tries to distance themselves from Alligator Alcatraz, blaming DeSantis for it. Popok ties it all together on his latest hot take. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN...

World Leaders have united...against America and Trump on the Global Trade stage, as the European Union declares the end to "transatlantic trade" as we know it because of Trump's 30% tariff.  Popok looks at how waiting for Trump to "fold" like a TACO is no longer an option, as he has raised tariff rates already from 2% to 16% the highest since 1910, and world leaders are defiantly firing back...and...

MAGA and its "America First" sub-base, is being torn apart by Trump's Epstein Coverup, as they turn to their true leader Tucker Carlson, and start heading for the exits as Trump tries to send "his" MAGA "boys and gals" to their rooms, for having the brass ones to challenge the Fearless Leader.  Popok takes a close look at 2 telling events this weekend: Trump getting BOOED at a major sporting event...

Would Trump try to give Alina Habba and other MAGA loyalists coveted Appellate Court life time appointments, and how can we stop it. Former Senator Doug Jones joins Popok to brief our audience and call out the corruption and provide a roadmap to beat Trump. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Follow Legal AF on Bluesky:...

The American Economy is under attack once again-- from Trump, as he hits the panic button again regarding tariffs frustrated that our leading trading partners won't cut a deal with his erratic Administration. Popok puts his Wall Street hat on again, to talk about how Trump is poisoning not jut the world economy but our own, and what we can do about it in the short term. Subscribe: https://www.yout...

Trump's DOJ is abusing a federal judge again, refusing her order to put a witness with knowledge under oath at a hearing to tell her what the Government plans to do with Abrego Garcia when may be released next week from a federal detention center in Tennessee. Popok explains how Judge Xinis is likely to use this contempt conduct to order that Abrego Garcia be brought back to Maryland under her wat...

Trump's top DOJ official and former criminal defense lawyer may have just lied under oath in his Senate Judiciary Hearing to get a lifetime judge position, and a whistleblower has the text messages to prove it. Popok reports on the new bombshell disclosures by former DOJ senior litigation counsel Erez Reuveni against Emil Bove and Pam Bondi. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confi...

The babies may save democracy and our Constitution after all! A federal judge just certified a class of babies to take on Trump's deranged Birthright Citizenship order and used that baby-class to issue a injunction to block its enforcement on 7/27 subject to appeal, Popok reports. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Fol...

Either Trump's DOJ is lying to a federal judge, or the El Salvadoran government is lying to the UN, but they both be telling the truth about which country controls the men removed to El Salvador's notorious CECOT supermax killer prison, with the DOJ representing they have NO control, and El Salvador reporting that only the US HAS control. A Trump appointed Judge (Gallagher) in Maryland has put an...

Trump's DOJ is now filing laugh out loud ridiculous legal filings to support their loser of an argument that Trump can rip away US babies' citizenship. Popok reports on the lame brain filing that doesn't seem to understand the basics of the class action law they are arguing against, which should lead Judge Boardman to quickly be the first to certify a nationwide class and block Trump's executive o...