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Legal AF by MeidasTouch

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Hosted by MeidasTouch founder and civil rights lawyer, Ben Meiselas, national trial lawyer strategist, Michael Popok, and former Chief Assistant District Attorney of the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, Legal AF (Legal Analysis Friends) is a hard-hitting, thought-provoking look at this week’s most compelling developments at the intersection of law and politics. Executive Produced by Meidas Media Network. Enjoy new full-length episodes every Wednesday and Sunday and occasional shorter breaking legal news hits throughout the week.

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Jul 11, 2026

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Trump Stock Hits DEATH-SPIRAL MODE over Trump FAILURES 02.09.2024

The new Special Counsel Jack Smith, indictment of Donald Trump, coupled with Kamala Harris‘s soaring campaign, is having a devastating impact on Donald Trump’s finances and his TruthSocial stock price. Michael Popok who has a Wall Street legal background, explains how the stock has fallen 40 percent this month and almost 20 percent in the last 5 days, as the market predicts that Trump will not win...

Prosecutors PUT THE SCREWS into Trump PERFECTLY 01.09.2024

Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok are back for the weekend edition of the top-rated Legal AF podcast. On tap? The Special Counsel is hard at work to keep Trump criminally accountable, obtaining a brand new indictment against him, and telling Judge Chutkan how to move the case forward over the next 90 days or so, as Trump tries to stretch the case into 2026; Trump’s transparent effort to the delay the...

Trump DIRE FINANCES Get EXPOSED at WORST TIME 31.08.2024

The reason Trump is now reduced to a late night 2 bit infomercial huckster selling the shirt off his back, trading cards, bibles and sneakers out of a van, is because he and his whole “unserious family is incapable of making a new BILLION DOLLARS of fortune to replace what he squandered, and all his grifting income streams have dried up. Michael Popok methodically breaks down why Trump is circling...

Trump Lawyers in STOCK LAWSUITS Face BIG TROUBLE 31.08.2024

Will Trump and his lawyers BE FOUND IN CONTEMPT in Delaware for their unethical tactics in a suit filed against Trump’s media company by its co-founders (and former apprentice contestants)? Michael Popok reports on a new court hearing that Trump was again on the losing end of as he refuses to comply with court orders subjecting him to future sanctions that go to the heart of his ownership of Truth...

Judge Luttig SPILLS THE BEANS on PLAN to DEFEAT TRUMP 30.08.2024

In an Exclusive Legal AF by Meidas Touch interview, Michael Popok is joined again by conservative icon, constitutional and presidential scholar, former federal appellate and lifelong Republican, Judge J. Michael Luttig, to discuss in detail his strongly held view that the very soul of America and its Rule of Law and Constitutional Republic is on the ballot this November. Judge Luttig tells Popok t...

Trump Files EMERGENCY NOTICE in NY Criminal Case 30.08.2024

In breaking news, Trump, coordinating with MAGA Congress, is trying to stop his inevitable criminal sentencing on his 34-count state court felony conviction for fraud and election interference, by trying for a second time to drag his case away from Judge Juan Merchan and to federal court. Michael Popok explains it all and why this post-conviction pre-sentencing maneuver is doomed to fail. Visit ht...

Justice Department STRIKES BACK at Trump’s Foot Soldiers 30.08.2024

Well, that didn’t take long. Disgraced MAGA DOJ official Jeff Clark—Trump’s “acting attorney general” for the last days of the attempted coup, has argued that his bar license should not be suspended because he was dropped from the new criminal indictment of Trump in the DC election interference case, as he hits out against the Special Counsel. Michael Popok explains that Clark’s ethics violations...

Trump’s WEEK RUINED by Jack Smith’s POWERFUL Moves 29.08.2024

Michael Popok and Karen Friedman Agnifilo are back for the midweek edition of the top-rated Legal AF podcast. On tap? 1. Special Counsel Jack Smith can walk, chew gum, obtain a new grand jury indictment against Trump for the DC Election Interference case, AND school Judge Cannon to the 11th Circuit all at the same time; 2. the groundswell of Republican support for VP Harris threatens to swallow Tr...

Trump in PANIC MODE over SURPRISE INDICTMENT by Jack Smith 28.08.2024

Special Counsel Jack Smith has outfoxed Trump and is lawyers again, secretly obtaining a second new indictment against Trump from a NEW grand jury, just in time for the 9/5 hearing with Judge Chutkan. Michael Popok explains why this was so crafty and explains why Smith asked for 3 more weeks and delay the hearing as he worked behind the scene to re-indict Trump for the same crimes with the basical...

Trump STRICKEN with MAJOR LEGAL PERIL at WORST TIME 27.08.2024

JOY is coming in September, as Trump faces 4 SEPARATE STATE AND FEDERAL HEARINGS AND RULINGS, that will lead to his undoing. Michael Popok works through the upcoming SEPTEMBER calendar and explains how this provides another advantage to the Harris-Walz campaign as they make their closing argument to the American People. Upgrade your sleep with Miracle Made! Go to https://TryMiracle.com/LEGALAF and...

Jack Smith SHOCKS Trump with BRILLIANT Maneuver 27.08.2024

Corporate media has it wrong: in the Trump DC election interference criminal case, the Special Counsel Jack Smith will NOT need to use a “mini trial” to defend his indictment against dismissal, and that’s NOT A WIN FOR TRUMP. Michael Popok who practices federal criminal law explains how Smith made his indictment MAGA Supreme Court-proof, and would never want to turn his trial playbook over to Trum...

Trump Vote Scheme PUT ON ICE by Supreme Court 27.08.2024

MAGA & its Supreme Court has just failed in its attempt to disenfranchise 40,000 Arizona voters in a new emergency 🚨 5-4 order, Michael Popok explains how the new order affects all those in Arizona who have not yet registered, and how Democrats and Harris-Walz can use this to mobilize Arizona voters to crush Trump in this important battleground state. Thanks Policygenius! Head to https://policyge...

FINALLY! Jack Smith Makes BIG FILING in Trump DOC APPEAL 27.08.2024

In breaking news in the Mar a Lago prosecution of Trump, Special Counsel Jack Smith schools Federal Judge Cannon in a new filing with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, telling the Court that the Judge does not understand the most basic principle of being a federal judge— that the Supreme Court is her boss, and their rulings are BINDING ON HER, to have the Mar a Lago prosecution reinstated. Michae...

TOP GOP Lawyers TURN AGAINST Trump at KEY TIME 27.08.2024

The dam of Republican presidential lawyers now endorsing VP Harris since the convention is about to drown Trump’s campaign, and Fox News knows it. Michael Popok reports on 11 former REPUBLICAN WHITE HOUSE LAWYERS who have come together to call Trump a DANGER TO OUR DEMOCRACY and UNFIT FOR OFFICE, as Fox News starts to quietly quit Trump and report on this development as the serious news event it i...

Trump’s LAST HOPE Gets WIPED OUT before his EYES 26.08.2024

VP Harris is already getting a substantial convention bump in polling and with voters, as independents and undecideds make up their minds and cut toward her in huge numbers following her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. Michael Popok explains how the coming “bump” in the battleground states, will end any hope of Trump regaining the presidency Thanks to Magic Spoon! Save $5...

OMG!! Rudy GOES MISSING from Federal Court HEARING 26.08.2024

Trump and MAGA lawyer Rudy Giuliani just violated another federal court order and failed to appear to produce documents against Trump in a civil lawsuit against Trump for the injuries suffered by 8 Capitol Police officers. Michael Popok analyzes the long string of court orders that Rudy has violated in order to try to protect Trump, which could ultimately lead to him being put in jail for contempt...

Prosecutor STUNS Trump with REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY 26.08.2024

Michael Popok explains why in a new filing the Manhattan DA is not encouraging Judge Merchan to delay Trump’s felony sentencing scheduled for 9/18. Instead, the DA is reminding the Judge that Trump has threatened to file appeals before, that have all lost, and that he should just let the appellate court decide whether Trump should get a stay to prevent sentencing if and when Trump ever files an ap...

Trump’s STEPS INTO IT as Latest STUNT BLOWS UP 26.08.2024

The Musk/X interview of Trump was illegal and a violation of federal campaign finance law, so says a new suit filed against Trump, his campaign, and X. Michael Popok explains how there were actually 2 laws broken by Trump and Musk: one for illegal PAC coordination with a campaign and the other for an illegal corporate contribution to Trump’s election efforts. Thanks to Trust & Will! Get 10% off pl...

Trump CAN’T ESCAPE his CASES as Campaign CRASHES 25.08.2024

Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok are back for the weekend edition of the top-rated Legal AF podcast. On tap? 1. A treacherous September for Trump the Defendant and Candidate, as Courts around the country make big decisions about his freedom and finances; the NYAG’s new appellate brief to demand that Trump pay the $500 million dollar civil fraud judgment to the People of New York; the disgraced MAGA...

Trump FLAILS IN DESPERATION and Makes FATAL MISTAKE 23.08.2024

In response to stinging rebukes of MAGA and Trump at the DNC, Trump fired back with a a early morning virulent antisemitic attack on Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro. Michael Popok examines it in his latest hot take. Go to http://auraframes.com and use code LEGALAF to get $20 off Aura's best-selling frame Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! Join the Legal AF Patreon: https://Patreon.com/Lega...

Trump FREAKS OUT after Election Plan COMPLETELY BACKFIRES 23.08.2024

We have another Presidential Candidate for Sale, and this one is not named Trump. Michael Popok reports on Robert F Kennedy Jr —fresh off the bad press of killing a bear cub— trying to cash in his limited chips and Endorse Trump in direct exchange for a Trump cabinet position, after being rejected by VP Kamala Harris for the same offer. Get 20% off when you go to https://Liquid-IV.com and use code...

Haha! Trump Gets BAD NEWS in $500 MILLION Fraud Case 23.08.2024

In a scathing appeals brief, the New York Attorney General in the $500 million dollar civil fraud judgment against Trump, just told the court that Trump has basically conceded that he committed fraud, and gets the law completely wrong as to his argument that there were no victims of his financial fraud crimes. Michael Popok from his vantage point as a practicing NY lawyer in these courts, breaks i...

Trump LEGAL NIGHTMARE has MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS 22.08.2024

Join trial attorney Michael Popok, former prosecutor Karen Friedman Agnifilo and attorney Dina Doll for another action packed episode of the top-rated Legal AF podcast On tap? 1. Will Trump actually be sentenced for his 34 felony crimes on 18September by Judge Merchan in New York or will there be a further delay and how will that impact the election; 2. Abortion and the Supreme Court are both on t...

Trump SCREWS HIMSELF BAD as Haley Voter Make BOLD MOVE 22.08.2024

Trump’s Groundhog Day daily campaign nightmare continues as 4.4 million Nikki Haley Voters band together to throw their support to Harris-Walz with a new “HV4H” PAC. Michael Popok explains how this is the ultimate payback by Nikki Haley voters to knock off Trump, and how even a portion of the Nikki Haley voters will run up the vote totals for Kamala in all the battleground states. Keep American fa...

Trump CODED MESSAGE Gets DECIPHERED at AWFUL Speech 22.08.2024

Trump’s next stop on his racist campaign trail? Howell, Michigan to give a speech on “law & order” and racial tolerance, AT THE SITE OF SOME OF MOST HATEFUL KKK RALLIES IN our nation’s history. Michael Popok explains the significance of Trump speaking at a location that sent a chill down the spine of Black Americans as he rallies his racist voters against VP Kamala Harris. Thanks to VIIA! Head to...

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