Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump’s Latest Stooge SCREW HER ENTIRE LIFE for Felon
Episode Date: June 5, 2024A MAGA lawyer for Trump Cleta Mitchell is busy placing election deniers inside state and county election boards, to refuse to certify election results and bring federal lawsuits to throw sand in the g...ears of democracy and prevent President Biden’s re election. Michael Popok examines the case of Julie Adams leader of the Election Integrity Network in Georgia who—following Mitchell’s direction— is executing MAGA’s “rigged election” playbook to a T. Go to http://mackweldon.com/?utm_source=streaming&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=podcastlaunch&utm_content=LEGALAFutm_term=LEGALAF and get 20% off your first order with promo code LEGALAF Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! Join us on 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 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Michael Popak, Legal AF, a MAGA organization you may never have heard of, run by one of
Donald Trump's lawyers, Cleta Mitchell.
The Election Integrity Network is placing operatives inside of election boards to try
to throw a monkey wrench and sand in the gears of democracy.
And we're already seeing a major example of it in the template that we can expect for
the November election in Georgia.
And I'm gonna focus on Julie Adams,
who's the head of something called
the Georgia Election Integrity Coalition.
The Georgia Election Integrity Coalition,
which is an offshoot of the Election Integrity Network
founded by Cleta Mitchell.
She, not only a Donald Trump election denying lawyer,
who used to be, by the way, a partner in a law firm
that I used to work at many years ago,
based in Milwaukee, Foley and Lardner,
but then she went off the rails
and started representing Donald Trump.
Cleta Mitchell, also, before she founded the EIN
and brought Julie Adams into her network,
also famously was on one of the phone calls
to Brad Raffensperger that was made by Donald Trump
in order to find 12,758 votes to win the election,
which is part of the Georgia election
interference criminal case.
Julie Adams got put on and ran for,
he got put on the Fulton County Election Board
back in February and in May,
there was a primary. Fonny Willis won her primary, for example. And out of the five people appointed
to the county board, two Republicans, one being the election denying Julie Adams under the ambit
of Cleta Mitchell,
she voted against certification or at least she abstained,
but she had no intention to certify the election.
Even though the primary was,
as far as everybody concerned and all reporting,
it was fraud-free, no fraud dispositive of the outcome
was identified, no mistakes, no misconduct, nothing that would change the outcome of the election. And one of the outcome was identified, no mistakes, no misconduct,
nothing that would change the outcome of the election. And one of the other Republican
nominees, of course, voted for certification. So the four to one or one abstention, Julie Adams,
that was not on purpose. She also at the same time, this is their playbook. Keep an eye on this.
I'm going to explain it now and you can use it when we follow up as this
attempts to be used in other battleground states, just this blueprint. Allow as one of the
Georgia progressive voting rights organization leaders said, it's like giving the wolf a seat
at the table in the hen house, on the board of the hen house. So here was step one.
Julie Adams forms this group, the Georgia Election Integrity Coalition, an offshoot of the Election
Integrity Network, which is an offshoot of something that sounds innocent, but really isn't.
The Virginia Institute of Public Policy, all run by Cleta Mitchell,
a Trump supporting election denying lawyer.
Step one, get on these canvassing boards
or these election boards.
Step two, doesn't matter what's in front of you
in terms of evidence, refuse to certify the election.
Step three, file a lawsuit and in federal court
on an emergency injunctive relief
to try to get
more information.
You can't yet claim there was any fraud because you don't have that data and it doesn't exist,
but ask for it, demand it, ask for every punch card, every voter tape, every ballot, every
information and documentation about every precinct in your state.
Throw sand in the gear of democracy.
So she filed her lawsuit.
Now, the rest of the canvassing board,
the election board was ready for Julie Adams.
They already had ready on the day that she came in
to certify, piles high, went up to almost the ceiling,
thousands and thousands, up to 10,000 pages of data
showing her or any reasonable person
that there was no fraud outcome
determined in fraud or misconduct in the election.
But after several hours of going through this material,
because she had to go through it physically
on a PC that was in the room, a computer in the room,
she threw up her hands and said,
well, I've got to abstain
because that's another page for the playbook. Set up a phony organization,
be an election denier. And Julie Adams has been an election denier from way back.
She was in the Tea Party movement, which is the precursor to the MAGA movement. It's the proto-MAGA
movement from 10 years ago, 12 years ago. We thought it died out. It didn't die out, die out
and morphed into MAGA. They found a leader.
The Tea Party movement was sort of like leaderless, rudderless.
Then it found Donald Trump and attached itself to it.
Boom.
Now we've got MAGA with all bunch of ex Tea Party people inside of it.
And Julie Adams decides that she's an election denier from way back.
She goes to a conference with Cleta Mitchell, and then she's busy organizing,
you know, poll watchers and other people again, to make voting difficult,
to make fair and proper voting difficult.
And the reason I wanted to do this particular hot take this way
is I wanted to lay out and expose the blueprint
that's being used by these election deniers
who are under the sway, if you will,
of Donald Trump and MAGA.
These are not grassroots.
These are not spontaneously generated patriots
who want to get to the bottom and ensure voter integrity.
It's the opposite.
This is just another way to undermine
another institution in our society,
to undermine the integrity of our voting system,
to cast doubt on it, to make people feel insecure
about participating in our democracy.
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Donald Trump's already saying he's not going to accept the outcome of the election. So is the
other all the other MAGA, including his potential running mate Marco Rubio, little Marco of Florida.
How do they know? We haven't even run the election yet.
And if they win, you know, they're going to say it was the safest, most secure,
most safe, safest, with most integrity of any election ever in the history of America, the history of the world, if they win. But when they inevitably lose, because of a proper use of mail-in voting, absentee voting,
proper application of voter ID laws at the polls,
the right polling places, the right polling time periods.
And he loses in the Southern battleground states
and Joe Biden is reelected, then the fix is in,
then it's rigged.
Then it's a fraud. And part of it is they're building now what they scrambled to do in the
December and January time period leading to Jan 6th. They're doing it now. And that's why we have
to catch it and explain it to you as it's happening. They were scrambling to get all those lawyers together around the
country, file those 70 lawsuits, all which lost to try to get Donald Trump elected president
as they were also doing the fake elector scheme, as they were also doing the Gen 6 violent
overthrow scheme, as they were pressuring election officials and elected officials like
Brad Raffensperger in Georgia and in other places. Now they're starting early, right?
They're placing the fox inside the chicken coop, right?
In the form of Julie Adams,
and she's not the only Julie Adams.
There's hundreds of Julie Adams that have been activated
like a sleeper cell by Donald Trump through Cleta Mitchell
and the Election Integrity Network
or some version of that in your home state.
In Georgia, it's a similarly named
Georgia Election Integrity Coalition.
Doesn't matter whatever it is, look under the hood,
recognize these people for who they are,
they're election deniers through and through,
they have been for years.
They have no interest in election integrity
and it makes you sure that people,
when they exercise the right to vote,
that it actually leads to a proper and fair election.
They have no interest in that.
They just want to see their fearless cult leader,
Donald Trump, be elected, get back into office,
the restoration of his presidency,
regardless of outcome, regardless of morality,
regardless of law.
And when you come in, and I'm sure just like terrorists
have a playbook on how to execute their terror campaign,
their terror scheme, so too does the election denier. Step one,
get elected to a canvassing or election board or, I'll give you the other version
of it, become a poll watcher, become an election worker, a vote counter, get in
there, get into the machinery, be a ghost in the machine. Then reject everything.
Reject everything that any reasonable person would
in terms of empirical evidence that's against your position
that there's already voter fraud.
Reject that.
Don't vote to certify, abstain.
Throw in requests for information,
public requests for information,
public records requests, to get
an entire room full of documents at your disposal so you could pick out and mischaracterize one
piece of it to make your argument. Failing that, at the same time, file a lawsuit,
in federal court preferably, try to get an injunction. Use that as press and as gasoline to further your arguments and to cast doubt on the outcome of the election.
That's what's happened.
And that's the story of Julia Adams and her lawsuit and her relationship with Cleta Mitchell.
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