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Who is coming up with millions of dollars to pay off Rudy’s debt to those Fulton County Georgia election workers holding a $150 million dollar judgment against him for defamation and emotional distress? michael popok reports on a late breaking settlement reached in his cases that raises new concerns as to who in MAGA world just bailed him out —who is his sugar daddy? Rocket Money: Let Rocket Money...

President Biden’s SEC has just filed a new securities fraud suit against Elon Musk for manipulating the price of Twitter stock and causing the investing community $150 million in losses before he acquired the company. Michael Popok, using his Wall Street experience, explains that all of these Biden last-minute laws, rules, lawsuits, and policies, are important to Trump-proof democracy, and to forc...

No president created more jobs in MAGA red states than President Joe Biden, including this week’s spend of another $75 billion to protect Biden’s signature infrastructure and clean energy and climate change investments from Trump’s rollback. Michael Popok explains how GOP congress members will have to look their voters in the eye and explain why hundreds of thousands of jobs will disappear when Tr...

Michael Popok and Karen Friedman Agnifilo are back with Legal AF podcast. On Tap: 1) The confirmation hearings have started and what does it mean for the DOJ and our democracy; 2) Volume I of the Jack Smith closing report is out to the public and the anchors provide their analysis; 3) Volume 2 on Mar a Lago is stuck in limbo. Will Judge Cannon allow it to be released; 4. Musk has been sued by the...

Will Congressional leadership ever get to see the Jack Smith Special Counsel Mar a Lago report and stinging rebuke of Trump (and the public as well), or will the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals reverse Judge Cannon and unblock her block. Michael Popok reports on a brand new head scratcher of an order from the 11th, that on one hand seems to both side with Cannon but also invite a new emergency appea...

Legal AF's Popok provides an urgent live briefing to our audience on late-breaking events and answers questions too! Tonight, Popok will address: 1) Even Judge Cannon couldn't save her "bff" Trump and the key findings of the Special Counsel's report on the DC Election Interference case against Trump (spoiler alert: The Special Counsel believes Trump is guilty of crimes); 2) The Senate Confirmation...

Trump and his legal team are in dismay learning that they are not losing the $450 million civil fraud trial judge Judge Engoron, to reassignment after all! Michael Popok reports on Trump and the parties being told that the case was being reassigned to a Republican Staten Island judge who is embroiled in a series of ethical scandals which probably made Trump happy, but then the Court telling them t...

The Arizona Attorney General is demanding that the DOJ immediately turn over to her the ENTIRE case file for the DC Election interference case so she can use it to prosecute the 18 co conspirators in AZ, and “defend democracy”. Michael Popok reports on the AG’s demand and how the Attorneys General around the country are not letting go of Trump. Rocket Money: Let Rocket Money reach your financial g...

In the end, even Trump’s most reliable “bff” in the criminal justice system, Judge Cannon turned on him and rejected his late-night filing to stop the release of the Jack Smith Special Counsel DC Election Interference final report, in classic “paperless order” style. Michael Popok takes it further and suggests that Trump has waived the dismissal of his indictment in the Mar a Lago case by moving t...

In breaking news over the weekend, Special Counsel Jack Smith still lives, and his colleagues are taking on Judge Cannon to tell her that she has no jurisdiction to continue to block the release to the public of the Special Counsel’s DC Election interference final report and that there is nothing in that report that substantive bears on any case that used to be in front of her involving classified...

Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok are back for a new update at the intersection of law and politics on the top 10 ranked Legal AF Podcast. On tonight's show, Ben and Popok cover: 1) what the line up of the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision to not bail out Trump and his sentencing means for future cases involving Trump; 2) why the NY sentencing hearing of Trump was so bizarre; 3) will the public ever get t...

Jack Smith and his team have filed an appeal to the 11th Circuit of Judge Cannon’s 3 day block of the release to the public of the DC Election Interference Special Counsel Report to ensure that it will be in our hands before Sunday. Michael Popok who practices before the 11th Circuit gives his analysis of what happens next I this fast moving story and whether Trump will try to also appeal to the U...

Jack Smith and his team have filed an appeal to the 11th Circuit of Judge Cannon’s 3 day block of the release to the public of the DC Election Interference Special Counsel Report to ensure that it will be in our hands before Sunday. Michael Popok who practices before the 11th Circuit gives his analysis of what happens next I this fast moving story and whether Trump will try to also appeal to the U...

To get Trump sentenced on Friday, the Manhattan DA just reminded the Supreme Court in a new filing that Trump had already WAIVED HIS IMMUNITY ARGUMENT in a prior related federal case and that the Supreme Court has no jurisdiction to interfere with a run-of-the-mill criminal prosecution and the issue of sentencing. Michael Popok closely examines the new filing and predicts what the Court is likely...

Trump is now 0-3 in the last 48 hours in getting NY courts to stop Friday’s criminal court sentencing, with NY’s highest court rejecting his last-minute emergency stay request. The last stop on the train is the US Supreme Court which will make its decision as to whether there is any “immunity” for a non-president/president-elect from being sentenced for non-presidential crimes, before Friday’s 9:3...

Michael Popok and Karen Friedman Agnifilo are back with the Legal AF podcast. On tap? 1) A frustrated Trump asks the US Supreme Court to bail him out of being sentenced on Friday; 2) A frustrated Trump tries to get the 11th Circuit to keep the Jack Smith 2 volume closing reports away from the public; 3) A frustrated sitting North Carolina Supreme Court Justice tries to get her own court to certify...

The MAGA Senators are exploiting the carnage of New Orleans and 15 murdered people to try to fast track Trump’s obscenely unqualified National Intelligence (Gabbard), Defense (Hegseth) and FBI (Patel), picks using the attack by an American former military vet as a justification to “close the border” because we are “under attack” by foreigners. Michael Popok examines the hard shove back by Senate D...

Legal AF's Popok provides an urgent live briefing to our audience on late-breaking events concerning Trump's criminal cases and answers questions too! Tonight, Popok will address: (1) Trump's trial court and appeal court efforts to block Friday's criminal court sentencing for his crimes including a new emergency Order denying the block, and discusses if the Supreme Court will intervene to bail him...

Biden’s DOJ continues to make Trump expend his political capital to pardon Jan6 insurrectionists, as they announce their plan to indict another 200 before Jan20. Michael Popok explains why this is important to protect our democracy and to force Trump’s hand as he looks to pardon more than 1800 he once claimed had “defiled the seat of our democracy.” Upgrade your sleep with Miracle Made! Go to http...

Trump’s lawyers have seen Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 2 volume stinging report against Trump laying out his criminal conduct and are so scared by it, that they have launched a 2 prong attack to try to block Attorney General Merrick Garland from publishing it to the American People before Jan20. Michael Popok examines the emergency motion filed by Trump’s coconspirators with Judge Cannon and the T...

In breaking news, a New York appellate justice has just denied Trump’s second effort in the last 24 hours to block Justice Merchan from sentencing him on Friday for his 34 count conviction. Michael Popok explains the intricacies of the NY appellate process, and anticipates what Trump’s next 2 likely moves are to try to kill his sentencing. Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podca...

Trump really does not want to hear Judge Merchan chastise him for his convicted criminal conduct and contempt conduct on Friday during sentencing of his 34 felony count conviction, and so he has sued the Judge and the Manhattan DA to try to stop it. Michael Popok who practices in NY and these courts explains what the new lawsuit is and what may happen next with appellate court and Friday’s sentenc...

In a fast breaking story, Judge Merchan just DENIED Trump’s last minute efforts to block his sentencing on Jan10 of the 34 crimes he committed, as Trump moves on to the appellate court to try to get the same stay. Michael Popok examines the Court’s new order, and predicts what will happen next later today with Trump’s filed appeal, and Trump’s lashing out at Judge Merchan in the middle of the nigh...

A Trump appointed federal judge just nailed Rudy Giuliani with contempt and is one step closer to ripping his Palm Beach County condo away from him and turning it over to defamed election workers Shay Moss and Ruby Freeman to help pay down their $148 million dollar judgment against him. Michael Popok enters the world of “adverse inferences” and how it gives Rudy what his lawyer is calling the “dea...

Will the NY Appellate Court bail out Trump and prevent him from being criminally sentenced on Jan10 for his 34 count criminal conviction? Michael Popok takes a close look at Trump’s new filing today to try to get the trial judge to give him an “automatic stay” wile he files later today his appeal with the state court, and predicts what will happen next and that the sentencing is likely to go forwa...