Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump’s BIGGEST SCAM YET Becomes HIS BIGGEST FAIL Yet
Episode Date: September 26, 2024In recent securities law mandatory disclosures, Trump’s company was forced to admit that it has no reasonable likelihood of surviving nor ability to cut ties with Trump and his dumpster fire if he i...s forced to cut ties with the company because of “death” or “incarceration”. Michael Popok explains that not only is the stock price crashing and about to drop to single digits, but Trump continues to expose the company to securities fraud class action suits with his public statements. Head to https://ollie.com and use promo code: LEGALAF to receive 60% OFF your FIRST BOX of meals when you subscribe today! 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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Donald Trump's stock is crashing once again.
At the opening bell, we're down already 10%.
It's hurtling down below $10 a share.
It likely will settle somewhere below $5 a share
before this month is over.
Wall Street is speaking and there's a reason for it.
And Donald Trump and his people know it.
And if people just took the time to read
the required filing by Truth Social and Donald Trump
that the Securities and Exchange Commission
requires every company to file,
if they just look through 30 pages of risk factors,
they would never buy this stock.
There is no one in their right mind.
I don't care if they're a Trump supporter or not, they're having gone through and waded
through 30 pages of single-spaced, six-point font risk factor disclosures, including pages
and pages and pages of disclosures about Donald Trump being a major risk factor for his own company and that the company is incapable
or unable under any of the agreements to get away
from Donald Trump when that dumpster fire explodes,
you would never buy the stock.
And that's why we're seeing the stock drop
from a high of $90 during the euphoria of two years ago
when Donald Trump went public and he was like,
hooray, I've got a $9 billion fortune on paper
to now well under $2 billion heading down
to one billion or less.
To which I say, why is it even worth that much?
This company has no real revenue at all.
It has millions and millions, tens of millions of dollars
of loss in the red every month. It has no user base to speak of. It has no exclusivity with the
only quote unquote content it has for its entire platform, which is Donald Trump, and then 30 pages
of risk factors they just disclosed in a new prospectus in the beginning of the month
that you wouldn't come close.
There's a reason no one is investing in this company.
And it's being propped up by hot air
and Donald Trump lying to the investing community
in social media postings and at press conferences,
inconsistent with the underlying financials of the company.
Let me read to you alone.
These aren't even gonna be my words
for the next couple of minutes.
This is directly from the prospectus.
The prospectus is a required disclosure document
by the Securities and Exchange Commission
when you wanna offer new shares.
And it's hard to believe, given the float,
given the amount of shares that are out there
for truth social, 115 million of them in the amount of shares that are out there for truth social,
115 million of them in the hands of Donald Trump,
20 million in the hands of founders
who have already said they are in the process
of selling out their entire set of shares.
It's amazing that they would think
that they'd offer more stock, okay?
Want a better seat on the Titanic?
Here, come this way.
That's what we're down to. So they have offered
to sell another 5 million shares. I mean, they're trading into the wind here. I mean, the stock is
hurtling down and it's a rocket ship in reverse heading down to crash below $10 a share it was
originally offered at on day one and well below that.
Look at these risk factors that they had to disclose
in their prospectus starting on page 47
of their prospectus risks related
to President Donald J. Trump.
It says that the company's success depends in part
on the popularity of its brand and the reputation
and popularity of President Donald Trump.
The value of the brand may diminish if the popularity of President Donald Trump, the value of the brand
may diminish if the popularity of Trump were to suffer adverse reactions to publicity relating
to Trump or the loss of his services, like going to jail, could adversely affect their
revenue, which they don't have any, results of operations, terrible, and its ability to
maintain and generate a consumer base, non-existent.
The death, incarceration, or incapacity of Donald Trump, his own company, had to tell
the investing market that there could be a possibility of Donald Trump going to jail.
If that were to happen, that would negatively impact the business. Because they have to admit that Trump has a significant influence
on their business plan and their success depends on the continued popularity of President Trump.
Here's my favorite part of this section. If Trump were to discontinue his relationship,
I love Wall Street speak, if he were to discontinue his relationship due to death,
right, that's what happens when you die. You discontinue your relationships. Disability,
criminal conviction, incarceration, or any other reason, or limit his involvement with the company
due to his ongoing candidacy for political office, they would significantly be disadvantaged.
All right, stop right there. He's going to die.
I mean, you know, I know that people think Walt Disney on ice meant a cryogenic experiment for Walt Disney. They kept him alive beyond his life. They're going to bring him back one day. But
Donald Trump is going to die. I'm not talking about, you know, in a bad way. I just mean natural
causes. I don't know if it's now. I don't know if it's five years from now or 10 years from now. His family doesn't live a long time. His father died early. You know, the father
wasn't that old when he died. You know, five years, 10 years, and the company will go in the tank at
that time. And that's really what they're saying. They're saying, don't bet on us because our major
asset is old and may not live. And in the interim, they may go to jail. I must have chapped Donald
Trump's ass to look at this document or his kids and to see the word incarceration as a possibility
having to be listed as a risk factor. But I continue from their own filings. Let's go to
page 48. They had a list now all the lawsuits in criminal cases against Donald Trump.
And this goes on for a minute. So it says, President Donald J. Trump is the subject
of numerous legal proceedings. This is the understatement of the year. The scope
and scale of which are unprecedented for a former president of the United States.
Oh, here we go. Here's the editorialization by Donald Trump and current
candidate for that office. An adverse outcome in one or more of the legal proceedings
in which Trump is involved could negatively impact the platform, you think?
And then it has to list the Attorney General's case. Now before they get to the Attorney General
taking 500 million dollars off of Donald Trump
for fraud for 10 years operated in the company they'd inherited from his father,
they have to first say that she only got the job as attorney general because she ran on a campaign
to get Donald Trump. I mean, I don't know what that has to do with a prospectus. Any self-serving
lawyer or law firm would have removed that from the prospectus. But they go on. They then have
to list the 500 million. They got to list the fact that there's a court ordered
financial monitor over all of their business affairs
for the next three years, that he was indicted on 34 counts
and then convicted on 34 counts related to a quote unquote
hush money payment.
Of course they say it's been postponed.
His sentencing has been postponed
because of the immunity decision
at the United States Supreme Court, that he owes E. Jean Carroll for battery and defamation.
Now this is interesting. Oh, I just spotted something I had not seen before. See, that's
why I love doing hot takes. The jury also determined that Ms. Carroll did not prove
by a preponderance of the evidence that
President Trump raped her. So they actually had to put rape in the securities filing. Now,
the reality is that's not exactly true. What the jury found is that they couldn't determine rape
as it was uniquely defined in New York at the time because E. Jean Carroll couldn't identify
because her eyes were closed
whether what had penetrated her. I'll just leave it at that. A finger, something else, or his member,
and therefore they didn't find rape. They found sexual assault and battery instead. Of course,
he doesn't mention that, that he just says battery. And then that another jury found him liable for
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he was indicted again on charges at Mar-a-Lago and
Then it goes on on the next page to talk about the DC election indictment the the indictment in Georgia
And then I love this part the foregoing does not purport to be an exhaustive list of legal proceedings in which
President Trump is or has been involved. Then it goes on and reminds everybody that Donald Trump
has been the subject of a previous cease and desist order issued by the Securities and Exchange
Commission related to another business of his, Trump Hotels and Casino, back in 2002, they had to disclose that.
They had to go into his bankruptcies,
that he's filed for bankruptcy protection in the past,
in 91, in 92, in 95, in 2004, in 2009,
all of these entities that he controlled went bankrupt.
He also says that many of the companies
that Donald Trump has formed have failed.
They then list Trump Shuttle, a failed airline in 1989,
Trump University in 1992, Trump Vodka,
a financial mortgage company, Trump Mortgage,
GoTrump.com, a travel site, Trump's steaks, all failed.
Then they also, I love this part,
they say the terms of the license agreement,
so apparently there's a license agreement
between Donald Trump and the company,
but it's really not terminable by the company.
They can never fire Donald Trump,
even if they need to get away from him
because he's imploded on the public stage
Been incarcerated or otherwise the truth social can't ever sever ties
They can't cut the umbilical cord even if it's wrapped around their neck
They can't cut it
So they say the terms of a license agreement with Trump are not terminable by the company when it may be desirable for the company
To terminate it in addition the license agreement does not require Trump
to use Truth Social in certain circumstances,
including with respect to posts that he determines
in his sole discretion are politically related.
In other words, the only asset they have
can go other places.
If the company disagrees with Trump
about the scope of his obligation
to use your first post on True Social,
they admit that the company lacks
any meaningful remedy at all.
They can't sue Donald Trump,
they can't take him to court,
there's no dispute resolution,
they're all at the whim of this crazed wannabe dictator.
Great.
Where do I sign up for this stock?
And the list goes on.
I mean, this goes on for 35 pages.
And again, little reported by the press.
I didn't hear anything on corporate media about,
hey, we just got our hot little hands on the prospectus
and nobody in their right mind would ever invest
in the stock, which now explains why the stock
has now moved down to the $12 range.
I predicted last week it was going to
break through $15. I believe it's going to break through $10, if not this week, then next week,
as it hurdles down to $5 or below. That's because eventually, despite the efforts by Donald Trump
to prop up illegally his stock by touting his stock in violation of his own prospectus,
and the warnings there about forward
looking statements when Donald Trump stands at a press conference and says, I'm not going to sell
and you shouldn't either. I think this company's great. Totally inconsistent with 35 pages of risk
factors and metrics and the company declaring on their securities and exchange commission
require prospectus that the company has no business model that's sustainable,
that its own auditors have fired them
and in leaving have said this company is not sustainable
as a going concern.
And Donald Trump says, I think it is.
That's a securities law violation.
Because people are buying, I don't know who they are,
but people are buying in reliance
on Donald Trump's comments like that.
And that's securities fraud.
And that's why they also say as part of the risk factors,
the company may be embroiled in a series
of class action suits related to securities fraud.
Yeah, yeah.
When your main guy that you can't get away from,
who's gonna crush you to death when he implodes,
make statements that aren't,
I assure you, Donald Trump is not picking
up the phone before his campaign stops and talking to his securities lawyers
about can I say this can I say that at all I worked for a company a public
company our our chairperson didn't make a move without clearing it with legal
without making sure that whatever he was gonna say was consistent with the
company if he's gonna talk about the company at all
and consistent with what is legally required to be filed
and not inconsistent with it.
See, the problem was when Donald Trump said,
I'm not gonna sell my stock
where he has no legal obligation to comply with that
with that promise.
It's just that, it's just a promise.
Like I promise I won't sell my stock, my 115
million shares. He's going to sell his stock. And those people that bought thinking, whoa,
because that stock on that day went up 25% when Trump touted his own stock. And then it crushed
below that and dropped 45%. So there were people in the middle between the top of the 25 and the bottom of the 45
that got their nest eggs wiped out.
That is a securities fraud.
And that is a plaintiff that Donald Trump has just manufactured for class action lawsuits
against his public company in Delaware.
I'm surprised the suits haven't started yet.
I really am. All you need is one shareholder,
one shareholder who lost $1 to represent the class
if everybody was crushed by these false
and fraudulent statements by Donald Trump
to prop up his stock.
And the market is wise to him.
Brokers and traders in Wall Street, right,
are cutthroat sharks that are all cold-eyed about the numbers and the metrics.
And everything they've been saying about Donald Trump, the person they say is the main asset
in their own prospectus that they can't get away from, is that he's going to be incarcerated,
that he's not going to be president of the United States.
He's going to be indicted more likely again, and he's not going to get out from being sentenced,
and he's certainly not going to get out from dying one day.
So they're like, how could we possibly invest in this?
Or recommend that anybody invest in it?
So if nobody's getting recommended to do this,
this is just MAGA buying shares,
but they're not big enough to float the entire company.
Despite Donald Trump's comments,
we're going to continue to follow the
crash and burn in real time of this train wreck and dumpster fire that we
call Truth Social Media. Every day, every way, because it parallels with the
electoral fortunes of Donald Trump. I do it one place on the Midas Touch Network,
I do it right here, and I also do it, get ready, done a new channel in collaboration
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