Legal AF by MeidasTouch - OMG! Trump THREATENS to Sue DC Judge over BAD EVIDENCE

Episode Date: October 11, 2024

In an effort to prevent more secret evidence from being given to the public proving his guilt before the election, Trump and his lawyers just threatened Judge Chutkan in a new filing in the DC Election Interference case. Michael Popok puts it in context of the dozens of threats Trump has made against federal and state judges over the last 2 years. For their buy 1 get 1 50% off deal, head to https://3DayBlinds.com/LEGALAF Join the MeidasTouch Patreon: https://Patreon.com/meidastouch 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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He can't help himself but to try to attack and threaten the judge as well. We've got yet another example just in the last 24 hours in the DC election interference case presided over by Judge Tanya Chutkin. Yesterday was the day that Donald Trump had to file his, what the judge was expecting was not a threat against her, but what the judge was expecting was what she ordered him to do, is to go through the over 300 pages plus exhibits of the government's filing, the second filing, if you will, of evidence in the form of an appendix to make sure that he agreed with the government's proposal about which part of that needed to have black tape over it redacted and which part of it could end up in the public domain.

Because she's been sitting on it for over 10 days and she wants to get it up so the public can see it. So that we can see it on Legal AF and the media can see it, First Amendment right, freedom of the press, and the public justice system gets what it's required to obtain. Is that what Donald Trump and his lawyers, Emile Beauvais and Todd Blanch, filed? No. Instead, they decided in three quarters of a page, it's not even a full page, when you remove the case name at the top and the signature block for the lawyers at the bottom, it's literally two paragraphs. And in the two paragraphs, rather than do what the judge told them to do, what she was expecting them to do, they decided to do a veiled threat. It always has, Donald

Trump's filings always have some sort of menacing, I wouldn't want to meet him in a dark alley alone type quality to them. And in this one, instead of saying, which is what I thought they would say, that what I told them they should say the last time when they screwed this up, is they should ask the judge if she's inclined to agree with the government, which she is, and she's already granted their request, to publish most of the 300 new pages, new evidence, demonstrating his criminal mind and his criminal acts against Donald Trump, that she give them a brief amount

of time to seek appellate review or an emergency petition or injunction or stay order at the two levels of appeal above Judge Chuckin, the DC Court of Appeals and then of course the United States Supreme Court. So any rational person who's not trying to threaten the judge would have written it this way. Here's a little legal AF tutorial. You would say, judge, we request respectfully that you provide us a sufficient amount of time, no shorter than five days, in order for us to

prepare the appropriate papers on the following grounds, supported by the following case law to seek a stay of your order, because we don't think respectfully that you did it right. We think that your whole process about how you're analyzing whether the immunity decision from the Supreme Court maps on and how it maps on to the superseding indictment is upside down and you've gone too far and you've abused your discretion and here's some case law that says you have, there's no case law, that's why they don't cite to any. And give us that time to seek to stay, citing a case about courts above her, issuing stays,

maybe there's a case where she's been stayed before, and that's what you do. What you don't do is what Donald Trump's lawyers have done, which is to say, we need more time to pursue and explore other litigation options. Or what would they be? And the judge was even like in a sarcastic response, putting it in quotes,

"'Sure, I'll give you a week to explore other litigation options,' which for those out there that don't follow the law as closely as we do here on Legal AF, that's not a thing, right? An ELO is not a, there's no doctrine. There's no exploring litigation options doctrine. This is the PO-PAK Translate portion of the hot take.

That doesn't exist, that's made up. That's not even filler language to buy some time because you can't come up with your argument on your feet. This was in writing. They had time to review this document before they signed it under penalty. If they're signing things that are not without merit, no merit to them, they could be penalized as lawyers

and sanctioned as lawyers. So they didn't use any of the magic language. We're gonna seek a stay, cited case. We're gonna seek an injunction, cited case. We're gonna file an emergency application or petition, cited case. No, it was this veiled threat of we're coming after you. This is how I read it.

We're coming after you personally, Judge Chutkin, to try to get you removed from the case and emergency motion to disqualify or sue you directly for who knows what. They'll think of something. That's the veil threat, exploring litigation options and then an invisible ink against you Judge Chuckin. Now what's my basis for this analysis? Every state and federal judge that Donald Trump has gotten sideways with because he's wrong or he's been convicted or because he's been a judge to be a sexual abuser, he's attacked the judge and not just the judge. So let's just do that, let's just do the count right now. He's attacked Lewis Kaplanville, the judge presiding over two sex assault cases

in federal court brought by E. Jean Carroll that Donald Trump lost. He's attacked Judge Mershon, the judge presiding over the 34 felony count conviction in New York State Court in the Stormy Daniels affair. He's attacked Judge Mershawn for when he presided over an earlier case in a 17-count conviction against two Trump entities for business fraud and tax fraud. He's gone after, and I'm just doing judges.

This is just the judge section of my hot take at this moment. So you've got Mershawn, you've got Kaplan in New York, and then third in New York, you've got Nguroan, Judge Arthur Nguroan presiding over Donald Trump's tremendous flame out where he lost a $456 million civil fraud judgment, maybe reduced by one of the courts of appeal, but he went after the judge and attacked the judge.

He's also attacked before Judge Chutkin, calling her a Marxist, a socialist, because she was also a Democrat president appointed. So you've got Chuck Chutkin so far and Goran, you've got Lewis Kaplan and you've got Mershon all up in New York. The only two he hasn't attacked, frankly, are Judge McAfee, the judge presiding over the Georgia case, who's a Republican, and the person he put on the bench, Judge Aileen Cannon down in Florida, what did she do for him lately? She dismissed the entire Mar-a-Lago case subject to the 11th Circuit reinstating it in the next month or so. So he's been gagged because of his attacks on judges, and it's not just judges. He also attacks Judge's family, the wife of Judge Angoron,

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Which I won't even use which sounds like peekaboo. Look it up So prosecutors, right DA's Jack Smith unhinged rabid crazed unhinged, rabid, crazed, unhinged, hostile. And then, and then all the family members, the daughter of Judge Mershon gets attacked frequently. The wife of Judge Angoran gets attacked frequently. Jack Smith's daughter gets attacked frequently. And so he's had gag orders against them. They've been carefully tailored by the various judges to be

usually the judges are like, I don't care if you attack me, but don't attack my staff. You can attack the prosecutors by name who were involved with the, you know, the main prosecutor, the DA and the special counsel, but not their staff. Then he goes after the FBI and secret service agents and puts them in harm's way with crosshairs on their back. So you have to come to the analysis of the new filing against Judge Chutkin with that as a background and context. If it was just a one-off and this guy's name, the defendant's name wasn't Donald Trump,

I'd be like, well, that's just a weird turn of a phrase. Exploring litigation options. But in the context that I just gave you, it's a threat. And that's how I'm sure Judge Chuckin received it. I'm not sure she does anything about it other than what she did, which is effectively bring it. I don't care a legal AF about you. If she could have put a sarcastic emoji in or one of those vomiting emojis after she put, I'll give you time to explore your litigation options, bring it.

But it's inappropriate and it's again it's another assault on a pillar of our society, it's inappropriate. And it's again, it's another assault on a pillar of our society, the support system of our democracy that undergirds it, our justice system. And when you destabilize it, and you make people feel insecure and untrusting of pillars of our society, I mean, whoever thought that that that there was any value, except in a madman's weird stew in his brain, of attacking attacking FEMA and undermining FEMA and people's confidence in FEMA during a major hurricane with loss of life into the thousands. But Donald Trump got up one morning and said, I think it's a great idea to make people fearful of FEMA.

Let's make fearful of FEMA is today's watchword. Let's make people too scared to accept the aid and assistance that they're being sent so that they're more in jeopardy than before. But is there an institution in America that Donald Trump hasn't tried to stabilize, destabilize for his own benefit? Right?

FBI hollowed them out, destabilized them. Law enforcement when it suits him. Judges, federal judges, state judges, appellate judges, the criminal justice system overall, FEMA, you know, you name it, the media, the enemy of the people. So you have to read it in this context. And I think the next steps are relatively straightforward. I like to end these hot takes on a hopeful note, on a call to action note. Judge Shutkin's going to take one look, has already taken one look at that half page of paper by Donald Trump and rejected it. She's going to give him a week. So check back here on

10-17, on October 17th, when I tell you that Judge Chutkin has pushed the publish button, and on the 18th or even on the 17th, when she hasn't gotten a stay against her by any appellate court, and I doubt there's an appellate court. DC Court of Appeals is not going to stay Judge Chuckin in her broad discretion to decide what goes into the public docket and what doesn't. There's no way. And even this United States Supreme Court, I don't think they can count to five to bail Donald Trump out on this issue. Not on this issue. Not given what Chief Justice Roberts has required. We're solving, all we're doing right now is solving for a problem created by Justice Roberts. He's requiring this fact-based,

fact-bound analysis, which has required Jack Smith to back up the tractor trailer of evidence and dump it on Judge Judkin and on Trump and the American people get it as a byproduct, which I love. That was something that was created by Chief Justice Roberts, not by Jack Smith. And the timing of it is because of Chief Justice Roberts and Donald Trump. Nobody told the Supreme Court to have the oral argument on this issue on the very last day,

the very last hour of their term last year. They could have done it three months earlier. Nobody told them to issue the order, the decision, on July 1st, the very last day, very last decision of the United States Supreme Court's last term. Nobody told them to do that. They could have done the hearing 90 days earlier. They could have issued the opinion 60 days earlier. And this wouldn't be a quote unquote October surprise. I'd be doing this hot take in March or April or June at the latest. This is all Donald Trump's doing. And the United States Supreme Court trying to help out

Donald Trump by dragging their feet and putting time on his side. That's all we're watching right now. And now we got to clean up behind the elephants, which is what Judge Chutkin's doing. And she's doing a great job. Come back here on October 17th, when we have 300 plus pages plus dozens and dozens of exhibits

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