The Intersection with Michael Popok

Against the backdrop of this weekend's No Kings Protests, his DOJ is hapless and having their overcharged felony cases against protestors rejected by grand juries and juries. Popok reports on US Attorney Jeannine Piro's epic and historic failures in court as DC Grand Juries and Juries refuse to indict and convict, using Sidney Lori Reid and her 4th win against the US Attorney has a prime example....

While Trump refuses to release economic data during his Shutdown, showing his fiscal failures as President, other major players like JP Morgan Chase Chairman Jamie Dimond and Fed Reserve Chair Jay Powell are warning the American people that we have a "cockroach" problem, and I don't just mean Trump. Popok puts on his Wall Street hat to explain why Trump is responsible for a Trillion dollars of sto...

In breaking news and a blow to Trump's efforts to take over Chicago using military and its National Guard, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeal in a 3-0 ruling lead by 2 Republican Judges, has blocked Trump's deployment of the National Guard on the streets of Chicago/Ilinois. Popok explains how Trump's own bragging was used against him by the Court. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_co...

It looks like today's the day for Ambassador John Bolton to be indicted for espionage and mishandling classified documents, a fall out from this 2020 book the "Room where it happens" which embarrassed Trump by claiming, among other things, that Trump asked the Chinese to help get him elected in 2020. Popok takes a look at what's happened since the September 4 Raid on his home, and what will happen...

Trump's Oval Office presser to show "unity" within his DOJ and FBI went off the rails immediately, as he took over the podium, chastised his AG, Deputy AG and FBI Director, and demanded that his former Special Counsel prosecutor Jack Smith be indicted. Popok reports on Jack Smith's smart move to give his first interview to the public just before the presser to start speaking directly to the Americ...

Trump blurts out overtly sexist and disgusting things about Press Sec Caroline Leavitt’s mouth, while preying on Italian PM Meloni fresh off his Middle East trip. JD Vance blurts out on network television that there ARE Tom Homan bribe videos that haven’t been produced to the American People; Trump’s pet Lindsey Halligan blurts out that she indicted NY AG Tish James because “she wanted to get it o...

As Former FBI Director James Comey comes out swinging and tells the Court it will be moving to cut the legs out from under Trump's pet Lindsey Halligan for being illegally appointed to her US Attorney position, the Judge tells Trump's DOJ that he will not allow them to play games with document and evidence production to delay the Jan5 trial. Popok ties it all together on his latest hot take. Subsc...

You can always count on VP JD Vance going on network tv making Trump scandals worse. This time in a testy exchange with ABC News' George Stephanopoulas the VP accidentally confessed to the existence of a VIDEO recording of Tom Homan accepting a bribe, when all George was asking about was an AUDIO version! Popok brings the receipts on his latest hot take. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAF...

Trump's moron of a Sec of "War" announced live on tv that Qatar was building a Qatari air force base in..Idaho(!?), and MAGA world lead by Laura Loomer lost their Sh@#$%t on cue. Popok looks at VP JD Vance attempted bail out by blaming trhe media for accurately playing Hegseth's speech unedited, and how it says about Trump's announced "peace deal" that he converted into a land deal negotiated by 3...

In breaking news, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals over the weekend, continued to block Trump's deployment of State Militia/National Guard in Chicago until the final appeal decision is made, as Trump and Vance and Miller threaten America with the specter of crushing dissent through the use of the Insurrection Act. Popok reports. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Leg...

Trump hatred and disrespect for veterans knows no bounds, and now he is allowing his ICE forces to beat and assault them for the crime of using their First Amendment right to oppose his immigration policies. Popok reports on Trump, who has fired more veterans than any president in history, who has defunded their mental health and drug counseling and programs to address homelessness, now using pepp...

Trump controls all 3 branches of government, yet exploits the Shutdown he caused on the Democrats, rather than help Americans and red-state voters by ensuring that Americans have dignified healthcare they can afford. Rep. Ritchie Torres of New York joins Popok to brief our audience on how they can hold Trump and the MAGA accountable, and to discuss Trump's use of the Presidency to indict his enemi...

Attorney General on paper, Pam Bondi, has a Lindsey Halligan vying for her job problem, as Halligan failed to "manage up" and tried to grab all the glory of obtaining a defective indictment against Trump's archenemy, NY AG Leticia James, WITHOUT telling Bondi, who was against the indictment. Looks like Jan 6 denier Ed Martin and Lindsey may be ganging up on Bondi, and Popok is there to report on i...

Citing to the Founding Founders who renounced the use of state militia by a president to crush dissent, a second Illinois Federal Judge, this time, Judge Perry, has blocked Trump's use of any national guard on the streets of Chicago and Illinois, finding in granting the emergency restraining order that Trump's witnesses cannot be trusted, that Trump violated the Posse Comitatus Act, the statute al...

Was Trump forced to attack China and tank our economy to cover up for the Trump Administration indicting Trump's arch nemesis and former National Security Advisor John Bolton, because Bolton's emails were found on Chinese servers after a hack of his AOL account? Popok explains how Trump has been after Bolton since he revealed in a 2020 book, among other things, that Trump wanted China to help him...

In a bit of trolling, the Norwegian Nobel Peace Price Committee has rejected Trump, and awarded it to the Venezuelan opposition leader in exile Maria Corina Machado, who has opposed Maduro since his own "Jan 6" election denying coup. Popok explains how the chairman of the Nobel committee is a fierce defender of Freedom of the Press and has rebuked Trump in the past for attacking the press, as MAGA...

A major figure in the Trump White House has been accused of another sex scandal, this time Paul Ingrassia, Trump's pick to head the federal watchdog office The Office of Special Counsel, and currently the WH liaison to the Dept. of Homeland Security, has been accused by a Trump staffer of sexually harassing her by making her share a room with him on an official trip. Popok does a deep dive into Ig...

Popok provides an overview of what went down today at the 9th Circuit as a 2-Trump judge panel considered whether Trump will be able to mobilize federal troups and the Oregon national guard because of bad things that happened in Portland 4 months ago, or 5 years ago. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Follow Legal AF o...

Blind ambition is on full display, as Trump's pet Lindsey Halligan decides to take a job that under the ethics of her Bar License she should have turned down, and now that her independent judgment required has been compromised by her client Trump, she has put her law license at serious risk. Popok explains that not only will James Comey's lawyers be filing a knock blow of a motion to disqualify he...

Popok provides a primer of what can be expected at today's oral argument at the 9th Circuit, as the Court decides whether Trump has the legal justification to quell a 'rebellion' or domestic violence in Portland or whether it's just a few people wearing costumes and exercising their first amendment rights to protest. He also explains the Court's Administrative Stay order in advance of the hearing...

A once proud US Attorneys’ Office that is both on fire and “leaks” at the same time. A resistance movement of former DOJ senior officials ban together to warn America about the Trump Administration. A current Attorney General who is being judged by history (and future impeachment managers and prosecutors) and is failing on national TV. A Supreme Court and its MAGA wing that woke up and remembered...

If you thought AG Pam Bondi was going to grow a brain, ethics or morality overnight before she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee as the leader of the most corrupt DOJ in history, think again. Exhibit A of what hundreds of former leaders of the DOJ call a full "attack" on the DOJ lead by Trump's enablers is today's testimony. Popok takes a hard look at the first part of her testimony...

Trump is triggered by Federal Judges blocking him from doing a hostile military take over of Blue States, and now he is threatening to resort to invoking the Insurrection Act to do an end run around judge's injunctions. Popok explains how federal courts are prepared to respond. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Follow...

Even the MAGA 6 on the Supreme Court couldn't find a way to help out Trump and his Epstein files coverup, ruling in a 1 line order that Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal of her 20 year child sex trafficking conviction is DENIED, placing maximum pressure on Trump and the MAGA House to release ALL the files. Popok explains what just happened and what it means on his latest hot take. Subscribe: https://www....

As Trump attacked a federal judge he appointed as an "insurrectionist" and a "terrorist" she held his Administration accountable and protected States' Rights by issuing her 2nd emergency temporary restraining order in 24 hours, this time blocking Trump from sending ANY states' national guard into Oregon as a hostile take over of a Blue State. California Attorney General Rob Bonta who joined with O...