Legal AF by MeidasTouch - CORRUPT Judge Cannon Gets BUSTED in UNLAWFUL SCHEME

Episode Date: September 20, 2024

Judge Cannon had finally been busted by ProPublica reporting that explains why she has bent over backward to put her big thumb on the scales of justice in favor of her “patron” Trump. Michael Popok helps explain how the Judge allowed the Trump White House to arrange all-expense paid junkets paid for by the Federalist Society in places like Alaska and Montana, when she knew or should have known the Trump Mar a Lago case would be before her, a fact, if known by the Special Counsel Jack Smith, should have led him to see her removal from the case immediately. Head to https://Lumen.me/legalaf and use code: LEGALAF to get 15% off your lumen today! Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! Join the Legal AF Patreon: https://Patreon.com/LegalAF Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/lights-on-with-jessica-denson On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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cibc.com slash Aventura Business. Terms and conditions apply. This is Michael Popock, Legal AF. We've cracked the code. We now understand why Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, has been bended over backwards to benefit Donald Trump, her patron. It all goes back to her relationships with the Federalist Society, with Leonard Leo, with lawyers in Donald Trump's own White House in the selection process and that incestuous connection between them through a little known university called George Mason University and a law school that's basically run

and captured by the Federalist Society called the Antonin Scalia School of Law. We now know in a secret attempt to rub elbows with her fellow Federalists and other people that could help her in her career. Judge Cannon went to and got reimbursed tens of thousands of dollars for trips that she took, not once, not twice, but three times on the Federalist Society dime,

where she went to seminars and weekend junkets. Now, we didn't find out about it because she properly reported it. Federal judges since 2006 have to report in their attending these kind of conferences under the Judicial Conference Ethics Reform Act and gift regulations related to it. And she just failed to do it. She did it. She only reported the ones that NPR in doing their investigative reporting in which they actually said you didn't report and they said oh I'm getting around to it. But she didn't report one back in 2023 and that she attended while she was

presiding over this particular case. She and her husband, Josh Lawrence, went on the Federalist Society dime to the Scalia conference in May of 2023. Now the indictment in this case that we've been talking about, the Mar-a-Lago case, happened in June of 2023. However, the case was already in progress because of the search warrant and the use of the magistrate judge under her. So she knew she'd be getting this case eventually. And she failed to report it. What she also failed to report is that she wanted to go to an Alaska junket paid for by George Mason that was recommended to her by the lawyer in the White House working for Donald Trump that helped vet and select

Aileen Cannon for the job? Rob Luther II, who used to work for Donald Trump and had the, according to him, in itself reported had the honor of a lifetime to help pick Donald Trump's judicial appointments, including Aileen Cannon, recommended that she go to Alaska on an all-expense paid cruise or whatever it was on the Federalist Society dime to rub elbows with other ultra right-wing MAGA. And she wanted to go. We know it because there's an email that ProPublica got their hands on it. I got a copy of it right here in which she asks about it and identifies Rob Luther as the person that told

her about it. So Rob Luther, who vetted her for Donald Trump, who helped pick her for the job while the Mar-a-Lago case was going on, recommended that she go to Alaska on an all-expense paid trip, and that wasn't disclosed. Forget about ProPublica, and I love ProPublica. Their focus was on, she violated the Gift Act. I got a bigger one.

I think this is an appearance of impropriety that she should have disclosed at the time the indictment came in front of her and the random wheel landed on her. She should have told the special prosecutor. I have attended many Federalist society all paid for junkets, including ones arranged by Donald Trump's own in-house counsel in the White House who helped pick me for the job. See, this is different than a judge should automatically disqualify himself if he's got

somebody in front of him and he was appointed by the other guy. Like Judge Middlebrooks in Florida appointed by President Clinton. This is different. This is the guy who vetted you, then connects you to the Federalist Society, who takes you on an all-expense paid junket. Lord knows what happened there, what got said there, as it said on their own website

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I'll start you off. I'll start with a few bars and you can finish the tune. Clarence Thomas, Gorsuch, Sam Alito, and I believe the last one is either Brett Kavanaugh or Amy Coney Barrett. I think it's Brett Kavanaugh. So that group goes regularly, even though these people have business before the court.

But Eileen Cannon should have declared that I can't preside over this case, I'm going to recuse myself, or give the government, the Department of Justice, the opportunity to seek her removal at the time. Because if I'm Jack Smith and I learn about this, that crosses the line from just being appointed by Donald Trump to being groomed by Donald Trump while a likely criminal indictment is coming down the bike. That should be the headline here, given the dates and the timeline and what was happening at Mar-a-Lago. All right?

Some people may only myopically focus on the date of the indictment. Well, she was doing all these things before the indictment, not before Mar-a-Lago, not before the execution of the search warrant Not before she knew or should have known the case was gonna come before her She should never have taken the call from Rob Luther. She should never Participated in emails with him. She should never have given herself an all-expense paid vacation through the through Donald Trump While she had a Trump case likely in front of her This now explains it all.

We finally got it. This is like when primitive man discovered that the tides were affected by the moon. It was the moon that was making high and low tide. We now know who the moon is for all of the crazy behavior, unprofessional, unjudicial, unprecedented behavior by Judge Cannon. It's Donald Trump and the orbit of Donald Trump and the Federalist Society and Leonard Leo. And otherwise she would have declared it all.

She could have declared it. As I said, when NPR was sniffing around, she said, oh, I got a couple of more I gotta declare. Yeah, she had three of them in total and she wanted to go on a fourth. Listen, I practice down in Florida. I don't like talking about a judge this way unless I have to.

There's no other way to explain her conduct and putting her big fat finger on the scales of justice in favor of her patron, yes, her patron, Donald Trump, while the case is still in front of her. And if she didn't want that criticism, then she should have stepped down from the position of presiding over this particular case as her chief judge is reported to have implored her to do.

Judge Altonaga, who I have tremendous amount of respect for in that district and the district overall as a whole, and I think Judge Middlebrooks encouraged her to step down and she wouldn't do it on this particular case. Well, now, since you haven't, then you've opened yourself up to this kind of criticism. And we'll continue to follow it all. We do it in one place, the Midas Touch channel or the Midas Touch YouTube and Legal AF show. We sit at the intersection of law and politics twice a week. We do a podcast full length

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