Legal AF by MeidasTouch

Michael Popok connects the dots in Trump’s ongoing crime spree, connecting last week’s Trump grift involving billions of dollars of crypto currency sales and commissions earned by his family, with this week’s Qatari bribe paid in the form of a Jumbo Jet gift in violation of the Constitution to pay off the Trump family for a $5 billion dollar real estate investment, as Trump has the American people...

DOGE is busy constructing a Universal Database of ALL US information across all agencies, which is making our adversaries like China, N. Korea, and Russia rub their hands with glee as they focus their cyberattacks on breaking into just 1 database for the treasure trove of US data, and not hundreds of databases. Michael Popok reports on an underreported story that puts our national security severel...

Michael Popok takes a hard look at a series of unprecedented events in the last 12 days, in which one by one 3 separate US Supreme Court Justices have all stood up to and rebuked Trump as part of an act of “solidarity” to defend the Judiciary and lawyers whose independence is under attack. Head to https://Lumen.me/legalaf and use code: LEGALAF to get 20% off your lumen today! Remember to subscribe...

The Chief Judge of the DC District Court just effectively called Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Noem liars during a court hearing, as he loses his patience with the DOJ in court and cross-examines their attorneys about whether the US has control over the El Salvador prison they are sending people to. As the judge tried to figure out whether he could order 250 more people returned to the US,...

We have major developments in the Abrego Garcia illegal removal to El Salvador case before Federal Judge Xinis, as 14 members of the media press the court to let us see all the secret filings the Trump Administration has made; as Trump tries to hide his illegal acts by asserting the State Secrets Privilege. Michael Popok pulls it all together for his latest hot take. Get started today at https://O...

Ben Meiselas & Michael Popok head the top rated Legal AF podcast and tonight address Trump's declaration of war against the 5th Amendment Due Process Rights and Writs of Habeas Corpus rights of all, and just how close are we to Trump declaring martial law; the outsized role of Trump's senior advisor Stephen Miller who is not a lawyer, but plays one in the White House, federal courts latest moves t...

Trump and his Sec of State Marco Rubio crowing about a “hostage rescue” operation in Venezuela to bring opposition party leaders opposed to the brutal Maduro Regime, only proves the point that Venezuela is a dangerous country that 100s of thousands of Venezuelans in the US given Temporary Protective Status by the Biden Administration should not be returned to. Michael Popok explores the revelation...

In the last 72 hours, the Trump Administration has lost in 3 separate federal court rooms, with each declaring Trump’s phony use of the Alien Enemies Act to be unlawful, all because Trump misread and misinterpreted a major Supreme Court decision last month that was a ticking time bomb against him, which is now being used by federal courts to slam the Administration. Michael Popok pieces all of the...

Michael Popok & Karen Friedman Agnifilo are back on the top rated Legal AF x Meidas Touch podcast debating: the greatest scandal to hit a US president in history; the new anti transgender soldier decision by the Supreme Court; federal judges including Trump’s own ruling against him this week in a series of cases involving Trump’s phony use of the Alien Enemies Act and so much more at the intersect...

A US war crimes prosecutor and US Army veteran Eric Iverson has no choice but to file a new federal lawsuit against Trump and his Administration because Trump’s putting his employer, the International Criminal Court and its Chief Prosecutor on a blacklist to block its assets, and ban people from providing services to it is so over broad, that Iverson can’t do his job to go after bad guys in Darfur...

Is Trump, using his proxy, Stephen Miller and his “AF Legal Foundation” to sue Chief Justice Roberts in a new federal suit to send a message back to the Supreme Court to get Roberts back in line and under his thumb, and will it be successful? Michael Popok looks at a little-covered new lawsuit and how Trump and Miller are using it to violate the separation of powers and get control over the Judici...

We have new scandal swirling around the Trump Administration, as a newly declassified intelligence community memo prepared at the request of Trump’s own Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, refutes the very basis of Trump’s position that the Maduro Regime in Venezuela controls or is controlled by the notorious Tren De Aragua gang the very rationale for his unconstitutional use of the A...

Trump as payback for his father and him being investigated by the civil rights division of the DOJ has moved to shutter the once proud crown jewel division that was responsible for enforcing the Fair Housing Act, Voting Rights Act, anti-discrimination and harassment laws, investigate and sue over hate crimes, including church and synagogue attacks. Now, under Trump, the division lost 70 percent of...

Ben Meiselas & Michael Popok head the top rated Legal AF podcast and tonight address many firsts from this week: the first federal judge to declare as unconstitutional Trump's relentless attack on an independent bar and lawyers in our free society; the first federal judge to declare Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act unconstitutional and an abuse of power; the first standing ovation in the Supre...

Trump’s new Executive Order to “unleash” cops on Americans, defend them with the free legal work he extorted from major law firms, and then use the military against the American People, is not only a violation of the Constitution and the Posse Comitatus Act, but is one step closer to Trump declaring Martial Law. Michael Popok explains how Big Law, which gave Trump a billion dollars worth of free l...

Trump is continuing to press his losing hand with the United States Supreme Court, and has filed his 12th phony “emergency” application to convince the Supreme Court that it when it called all Venezuelans “scum” and “dirtbags” it was only kidding before deciding to end their protective status and deport them. Michael Popok explains why filing this particular emergency application that Justice Kaga...

Trump has so destroyed the DOJ’s reputation for candor and integrity that federal judges won’t handle their cases unless a court reporter takes down every word in a transcript to ensure that their words are not twisted out of all meaning. Michael Popok looks at new reporting that Trump’s former criminal lawyer Emil Bove is running amok at the DOJ, destroying its Public Integrity Unit and its Civil...

Michael Popok and Karen Friedman Agnifilo return for the top-rated Legal AF podcast to debate: 1) Trump’s disastrous first 100 days; 2) the Supreme Court potentially tearing down the final wall between church and state; 3) a judge moving closer to holding Trump and his administration in contempt; 4) a new “mother of all lawsuits” filed against the Trump administration—and much more. Support Our Sp...

The Trump Administration has declared all-out war against Jeff Bezos and Amazon because of Amazon’s plan to disclose the impact of Trump’s tariffs on pricing for each item on Amazon. Michael Popok looks at the broader issue of Trump being bad for business, simultaneously attacking all of the pillars of the US Economy in his first 100 Days: Universities; Service Professionals; federal funding and e...

Trump’s own administration just confirmed that he lied to Time Magazine when he falsely claimed that they did “200 deals” since announcing the failed Tariffs and hit the pause button, as it turns out he also lied about having a phone call with China about the trade embargo, as the world wide supply chain collapses, with 40% less cargo coming into US Ports in the first ships in since the Chinese em...

As the feds struggle to even obtain a grand jury indictment against hero State Court Judge Hannah Dugan for not trusting the Trump Administration and demanding a proper judge-issued arrest warrant before allowing the feds to arrest an undocumented defendant in her court room, and other judges threatening to close their courtrooms in solidarity, the Trump Administration won’t rule out arresting oth...

Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok, the founders of Legal AF, are back on the latest edition of the podcast, drilling down on Trump’s failed immigration and deportation policies leading to mass voter defections in new polling; the hallowed out Trump DOJ and its new blooper real of screwups, including filing a secret attorney client memo with a court; and deporting a 2 year old US citizen without due p...

Trump has blood on his hands, as his weak and undermining erratic policy to undermine our allies in Ukraine has now led to a new bombing of Kyiv has killed more than 10 people. Trump’s response? Posting a morning 1/2 a paragraph social media posting to beg “Vladimir” Putin to STOP the bombing. Michael Popok explains how Trump’s “Dear Vladimir” posting proves Trump’s weakness and that he has been l...

The Federal Reserve’s new report is predicting a worsening economy in just the first 90 days of Trump, driven by his erratic trade, tariff, and immigration policies, as the 12 US economic regions report cratering manufacturing, home sales, tourism, and banks tightening their lending criteria. Simultaneously, Trump’s new poll numbers paint a disastrous presidency where he lost 7 points of support a...

Open warfare has broken out in the Trump Administration as the Dept of Transportation goes on the pubic attack of its own lawyers at the DOJ office in New York, claiming that they are trying to intentionally sabotage Trump’s own case against New York State by intentionally filing on the Court’s public filing system a secret confidential memo of client advise that criticized the Trump position and...