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One day after Trump and his family increased their net worth by $5 Billion Dollars with the sale of a new crypto digital asset, on top of the $1.5 billion Trump bragged that he already made this year alone, the new job and manufacturing and tourism number are out and they are an indictment of the Trump Economy that the rest of us are experiencing. Michael Popok puts on his Wall Street hat to break...

Trump has suffered his 3 major court losses in the last 4 days, this time in a 2-1 ruling of the DC Federal Court of Appeals. Trump’s firing of the lone democrat on the Federal Trade Commission without proper “cause” has been blocked. But Michael Popok also reports that a frustrated appellate panel in its ruling has also admonished their bosses at the Supreme Court to “do their job” and decide to...

Legal AF, the top rated Law and Politics podcast, is back. Michael Popok and Karen Friedman Agnifilo discuss Trump’s attack on the Epstein Victims, the new health/life and death Trump coverup; and Trump’s Worst Court Losing Streak Ever, with 6 losses in 6 courts in just 8 days, finding he violated, among other things, the Posse Comitatus Act, the Alien Enemies Act, the First Amendment, the Separat...

In a stunning reversal of fortune, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, by a bipartisan 2-1 vote, just declared that Trump’s declaration of war against Venezuela to justify his removal of people without due process under the Alien Enemies Act was illegal, with a Trump judge “trying out” for the Supreme Court (Judge Oldham) in dissent. Michael Popok examines the case sent to the 5th by the Supreme Cou...

Trump is using white nationalist and nazi symbolism to recruit for his Federal Police Force to use against the American People, including likely allowing Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and Jan 6 Insurrectionists to join the Border Patrol, ICE, and other components of his illegal standing army. Michael Popok ties it all together on his latest hot take. Mudwtr: Start your new morning ritual & get up to 4...

Is Trump using AI photos and make up and starting wars to cover up for his failing health and mental state? Did we just attack Venezuela because Trump had a terrible 72 hour set of court losses? Why did a Federal Judge just observe that he is afraid that Trump could use the military to interfere with the presidential election? What crazy and dangerous stunt will Trump pull now that the entirety of...

Why are the Trump Tariffs still be collected if an appeals court ruled against him 7-4? Will Abrego Garcia get asylum to stay in the US because of Trump’s abuse? What are judges doing to counter Trump’s assault on Due Process? Will Judge Cobb stop Trump’s assault on yet another federal official this time Fed Reserve Governor Lisa Cook? Ben and Michael Popok answer it all on the top rated Legal AF...

Will Judge Xinis grant Abrego Garcia amnesty because of Trump DOJ misconduct? Will the Fed Reserve beat Trump and save its independence? Will the Democrats win the Battle of the Congressional Maps in Court? Why did a Trump judge scold Trump’s DOJ for suing federal judges? Answers to these questions and so much more on the top rated Legal AF Pod, with Michael Popok and Karen Friedman Agnifilo. Dele...

Former Special Counsel Jack Smith and his lawyers are coming out swinging, accusing the partisan ethics probe opened about his work to be “imaginary and unfounded” as he shoves back against MAGA’s phony “whistleblower” complaint against him being investigated by Trump’s stooges at the Office of Special Counsel. Michael Popok connects all the dots on his latest hot take. Mudwtr: Start your new morn...

We are at war to protect democracy; to throw off the yokes of Trump’s dictatorship; to resist the occupation by Trump forces; and to reclaim our freedom. Popok is at the Intersection to outline the war and the resistance and discusses Trump’s major losses this week in federal court; and how Trump follows the dictators playbook to attack his enemies on bad news days for him. Fast Growing Trees :Hea...

Trump’s full frontal assault on our nation’s financial system by taking steps to fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve with flimsy allegations of “mortgage fraud” to gain majority control is in full display. We are on a fast track to the US Supreme Court to define whether unsubstantiated rumors of misconduct are enough to justify the required “for cause” firing of a Fed Reserve Governor who disa...

In breaking news, the Trump Administration has violated Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s civil liberties again, taken him into ICE custody in violation of Judge Xinis order, and his lawyers have been forced to file an Emergency new injunction suit with Judge Xinis to stop him from being deported to Uganda as retaliation for him not agreeing to plead guilty to crimes he likely did not commit. Michael Popok b...

Did the convicted child sex trafficker and abuser Ghislaine Maxwell earn her “Trump pardon” with her scripted lies about Trump and Epstein—lies in which she re-victimized the victims and denied any child sex abuse while giving Trump a pass? Will Trump try to defy yet another federal judge and ship Abrego Garcia off to Uganda early next week in violation of Judge Xinis’ orders—and what will she do...

You will be hearing a lot about motions to dismiss indictments based on the Trump Administration and DOJ’s “vindictive prosecution” in violation of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and the DOJ Manual. But the very FIRST such motion has been filed by Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was illegally removed to El Salvador and tortured, and then had a phony indictment brought against him by Trump’s DOJ...

In breaking news, Trump is 0-3 trying to convince Federal Judges to bail him out and mislead the public into thinking the sealed, secret skimpy Epstein and Maxwell grand jury files are the “Epstein Files” as Judge Berman points the finger back at Trump and his own DOJ to release the files. Michael Popok looks at all 3 orders and how each judge made sure the victims were protected and heard from, b...

Don’t believe the Headlines; Trump is not the victor in the appeal of his $463 million dollar civil fraud judgment, although the lower level appellate court is sending it to the highest court in NY to decide whether any money should be “disgorged” from Trump and his family and executives, or if the injunction against his fraudulent business practices is enough. Michael Popok, who has argued before...

Dina Doll (in for Popok) and Karen Friedman Agnifilo anchor the top-ranked law and politics podcast Legal AF, and break down this week’s biggest legal and political bombshells at the intersection of law and democracy, including: 1) new updates in the ongoing Epstein records saga as Trump goes 0 for 3, with a new federal judge striking down his grand jury nonsense; 2) the latest developments in the...

Trump’s lust for the Nobel Peace Prize has even infected his failed negotiations with Putin over a proper peace which respects the Ukrainian people, as smart adversaries like Putin use Trump’s “Nobel” desires against him. Michael Popok ties together two recent events — Trump extorting the Norwegians by offering lower tariffs in return for getting the Prize, and the Wall Street Journal saying that...

Trump’s losing battle to topple the democracy is on full display, as President Zelensky shows how you negotiate from strength; 21 State Attorneys General file a new suit to make sure billions of dollars earmarked for crime victims is not blocked to make cheap political points by Trump; Big Law Firms who “settled” with Trump refuse to provide him with any services; Trump’s DOJ admits out loud that...

The weak and failing Trump Administration—at home and abroad-was on full display this week, and Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok break it down for our audience on the top rated Legal AF podcast. The anchors brief the audience on 1) Trump’s surrender in Alaska to Putin; 2) Trump caving in less than 24 hours in the DC takeover case; 3) Trump on the verge of losing the Posse Comitatus trial in Cali; 4)...

EJ Antoni— Trump’s embattled MAGA pick to cook the books for his once nonpartisan and reliable Bureau of Labor Statistics, who crank out the “jobs report” —was caught on tape as present and roaming around the entrance to the Capitol on Jan 6 with Jan6 insurrectionists. Michael Popok ties all the data points together, including addressing whether this is a final nail in the coffin of his candidacy....

A new Senate Probe is focused on whether Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick— the architect of the Tariff scheme— violated insider trading laws and other securities law violations along with his sons and their family business Cantor Fitzgerald, when that company reportedly set up a business to profit on the Trump Tariffs being STRUCK DOWN by a Court. Michael Popok reports. Done With Debt: Vi...

Trump’s takeover of DC’s police force is actually resulting in LESS daily arrests than the DC police accomplished before the phony illegal “take over!”. As Michael Popok reports, the “takeover” also shows that Trump cares more about a 19 year old staffer name “Big Balls” who got jumped by some 14 year olds, than he does about ensuring that violent criminals who attacked our Capitol are brought to...

We have new conspiracy and scandal wrapped in the Epstein Crime and Coverup Trump scandal, concerning convicted child sex abuser and Trump BFF, Ghislaine Maxwell and her eligibility for “work release” to leave Prison everyday, as her lawyer half-heartedly gives a non denial denial of new reporting on the issue, and the Bureau of Prisons is forced to take a position to protect Trump. Michael Popok...

In breaking news, the “other” attorney general in DC, Brian Schwalb, has just filed a new injunction lawsuit against Trump, Pam Bondi, the Department of Justice and others, seeking to stop Trump’s unconstitutional abuse of power and violation of DC’s Home Rule rights to self-governance, by taking over its police department and sidelining its mayor. Michael Popok reports on the 33 page complaint an...