Legal AF - 2/28/2026

26:41Ben Meiselas:But instead, they don't do that. They rush. They go out. They do their press conferences. They try to distort the narrative. They spend way too much time before ever releasing the depositions, just hoping that by the time these depositions are released, people don't care anymore. and that the narrative is so manipulated that it's just a bunch of noise and you don't believe the facts. You believe their initial lies about what happened. I just want you to know what their tactics are. So I want to talk a little bit more about those tactics. And then we have a lot more to discuss as well. I want to talk to you about what's going on with these tariff refunds.

27:21Ben Meiselas:I have an update to report there as the Trump regime has made filings about what their position is going to be. A hint, they're going to try to make it as difficult as possible to people to get back the money that they stole from you. But I want to show you with specifics, specific court rulings, I want to talk about a lawful purpose clause, what that means in the context of the Trump regime attacking the AI company Anthropic and calling them a supply chain risk. Right on the eve of that war with Iran, they called Anthropic a supply chain risk. I want to talk about that. A lot more to discuss here on Legal AF.

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31:50What the Democrats were saying, what the Republicans were saying following that deposition. Democrats were saying was, well, now a precedent has been set. If you're going to be calling in former presidents for depositions like this and former first ladies or former secretary of states, as soon as the Democrats take power in the midterms, we are going to, we're going to call Trump. We're going to call Melania. We're going to call everybody. There's nobody off limits. There's no courtesies that are extended. You know, interestingly, it should be noted that the Republicans and the House Oversight Committee allowed numerous individuals connected with the Epstein case and were part of this Epstein class to just submit affidavits in lieu of testimony.

32:38And but but not Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton had to show up in person and testify. Let's take a look at what Democratic Congress member Ro Khanna had to say. Let's play this clip. A new precedent has been set in America today. Before this, we had the Trump rule. Trump defied, as all of you know, a congressional subpoena with the January 6th committee. He said presidents don't have to testify. Now we have the Clinton rule, which is that presidents and their families have to testify when Congress issues a subpoena. And that means that Donald Trump needs to come before our committee and explain what he knew about Epstein and explain why we have not had a full release of the documents.

33:20We also need other people, part of the Epstein class, to come before this committee. If President Clinton can answer questions, many others need to as well. Let's take a look at what Congress Member Garcia, who's the ranking member of that Oversight Committee, what he had to say. Let's play that clip. Republicans have now set a new precedent, which is to bring in presidents and former presidents to testify. So we're once again going to make that call that we did yesterday. We are now asking and demanding that President Trump officially come in and testify in front of the oversight committee. He appears in the Epstein files next to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell almost more than anybody else.

34:03So it's time for the president to answer questions about why files are missing from the DOJ, why there's been a White House cover up. And why we continue in that administration to call this investigation a hoax. And finally, I'll review the call that we made yesterday that we are demanding again that the press and the public be allowed inside the depositions so that you can hear the answers and the questions directly. And if that's not going to happen, they need to release a full, unedited review of the questions and video within 24 hours of the end of these depositions. That means the Secretary Clinton deposition needs to be released immediately today.

34:45Well, that did not happen. It was not immediately released. Instead, what happened was you had the MAGA Republicans, um, like Anna Paulina Luna and Nancy Mace, uh, go out and just spread disinformation and spread lies instead of releasing the deposition. So for example, a reporter was asking, uh, to Nancy Mason and Luna, why is it so important to hear in great detail from Bill Clinton, but not Trump? How does that make sense? Here, play this clip. Wait, just wait, just real, real quick. If I can also just add into that. If that's the case, though, you make the case, the chairman makes the case.

35:26But why it was so important to hear in great detail from both Clintons, but why it's not. If I can, if I can just elaborate real quick. He was on Epstein's plane, 26 flights. I mean, he had information with him for hours and hours. Real quick, all the time. Even Luna was like, all right, be quiet, because we know that Donald Trump was on the plane. If not, Donald Trump was on the plane far more times than Clinton, we all believe. In the files, it talks about how the prosecutor said Trump was on the plane way more than anyone anticipated that even the prosecutors anticipated. But then you have James Comer and Nancy Mace go on this deranged tirade saying that Donald Trump has been exonerated by the files and all of the victims and survivors say that Donald Trump is exonerated.

36:16Everybody says that Trump is exonerated. They rush out of the Clinton depot to say Trump is exonerated. Just think about that. Play this clip. Thank you. Mr. Chairman, President Trump said today that he knew nothing about the Epstein files and He was exonerated. Do you agree that he is exonerated of this matter? From all the evidence I've seen, he's been exonerated for a long time. And would that preclude your committee if that's your position from your committee calling him? Well, we'll discuss that as we move forward. Obviously, we've got more people to bring in, and we'll see if any new evidence arises.

36:50But right now, I haven't seen anything. Can I just say this? The Epstein victims have exonerated President Trump. This is a trope that you guys are a rabbit hole. You guys are going down, but he has been exonerated over and over again by Epstein victims. We need to get all the information on co-conspirators. We still don't even have the names of all the co-conspirators because the Southern District of New York is hiding that information by redacting those names. And so wait, just wait, just real, real quick. If I can also just add into that. If that's the case, though, you make the case. The chairman makes the case.

37:23So then a reporter asks, where are you getting that from? have survivors said to you that trump is exonerated who's who's told where are you

37:32Ben Meiselas:where are you getting this info from here play this clip today i was very impressed with where this went today nancy can i ask when have survivors said to you that president trump is exonerated yes because they've only ever told me we want to see him question nope i've never heard that from a single victim okay well why don't we hear from what the victims have to say How about Danny Benski? What does Danny Benski say? Let's play it. This idea that he was exonerated is so inaccurate. We're in touch with quite a few survivors and nobody has been talked to to even say the word exonerated anybody.

38:10And also, we know that there is evidence out there that really needs to be investigated. It's never gone through a process. So how could he be exonerated? It's just, it's a farce and it needs to be corrected. And one of the things that Donald Trump said as well yesterday was that he fully endorses Don Huffines. He says he's a great guy. He's been with him from day one. And MAGA owes Don Huffines a lot. Big, big, proud endorsement of Huffines. Huffine's the guy who purchased the Zorro ranch after Epstein died, purchased the ranch in 2023. The Zorro ranch was the New Mexico ranch Epstein bought in 1993.

38:53That was an area where a lot of the sex trafficking was taking place. There's some suggestion that there were murders that were taken there and bodies buried there. But we know undisputedly it was an area of sex trafficking in horrific areas with when Epstein controlled it. It was mysteriously sold in 2023 to an LLC named San Rafael LLC. Turns out a major MAGA guy ended up buying the property by the name of Don Huffines, who was a Texas MAGA state senator. He's the guy who went to Russia in 2018 in order to help normalize relations, improve relations between the United States and Putin. So anyway, he buys the ranch in 2023.

39:34And then his son, who was previously working at a fireworks company, got a top job in the Trump administration and the Trump regime, kind of a senior position there. And so his son works for Trump. Don Huffines bought the property. And then yesterday, Donald Trump says, you know, MAGA supports Don Huffines. He deserves all of our support. One thing that came up in the deposition of Bill Clinton that I think is important, and I mentioned this before the break, is that I think it's the most important part of the Clinton deposition. When he was asked, anytime that Donald Trump was around you, did he ever talk about Epstein?

40:18And Clinton said, yes. Tell us about that. He seemed to suggest that he liked Epstein, that Epstein was a good guy, and that he knew him well.

40:26Ben Meiselas:but they had a falling out over a real estate transaction or over a land deal, a land transaction. It was phrased like that, to which the MAGA Republicans all rushed and said, Bill Clinton exonerated Donald Trump. He said they had a falling out with Epstein, and this confirms everything. Yeah, but it's kind of the, Donald Trump said that the falling out was over girls and sex trafficking and that he uncovered it. And then he kicked Epstein out of the property, which we always knew was false. I don't even believe Epstein was a member of Mar-a-Lago. I think he was just a guest and he was just Donald Trump's friend that he was invited to go whenever he wanted to go.

41:08And also he was, he couldn't really be kicked out of the spa. He never went to the spa.

41:13Ben Meiselas:The spa went to Epstein and Mar-a-Lago sent the spa staff and the girls to be with Epstein at Epstein's house. Epstein lived a few miles away. But remember, in the Midas Touch Network, we've always talked about this real estate transaction. And I always said, focus on this real estate transaction that took place in 2004 when Donald Trump purchased from a foreclosure sale a property of this former really rich guy named Abe Gossman who went bankrupt. He lived in West Palm Beach. As part of his bankruptcy, he had to sell his mansion in Palm Beach. And Epstein knew Gossman. Epstein was really first in line to win the foreclosure sale auction and get this property.

42:02Epstein told Donald Trump about the sale because Epstein wanted some advice from his close friend Donald Trump about what to do with the pool and where the pool should go. And then Donald Trump ended up bidding on the property when it was put up for the foreclosure sale. He outbid Epstein.

42:23Ben Meiselas:And Epstein thought it was odd at the time because Epstein was going to pay 33 or 34 million dollars for it. And then Donald Trump paid about 41 or$42 million for it. So Epstein was kind of pissed because he liked the property. But then in 2008, Donald Trump sold it for$95 million, this Palm Beach mansion to a guy named Dmitry Rybolev, who was a Russian oligarch. So in a period of four years, Trump made like a$40,$45 million profit on it, to which Epstein suspected and then started spreading rumors to people based on his suspicions. He believed that there was some shady business in the initial purchase with the Russian oligarch and whether Rybalov was trying to bring money into the United States and to kind of clean it, to do this transaction, to then give a piece of the final transaction to Trump if it ultimately sold in the future?

43:23And was it part of a broader plan or scheme or artifice that was taking place out of the foreclosure sale to begin with? And Epstein was telling people in the community that. And then it was believed that in response, that's when Donald Trump, after Epstein was arrested,

43:43Ben Meiselas:started speaking with West Palm Beach detectives or the lead detective and said, yeah, we all knew that Epstein was a bad guy. He was a really bad guy after Epstein was arrested and because of the falling out over the real estate transaction and Epstein's kind of threats to sue Trump or saying that Trump engaged in the shady deal with the Russian oligarch. That's why I said, focus on that transaction. In the Epstein estate release of documents, when there was an Epstein and Ghislaine message to each other, that they referenced that transaction. They talk about West Palm Beach property, WPP. They talk about Abe Gossman, Trump, and they were asking whether they thought the feds were looking into that property.

44:31Ben Meiselas:That's how you'll remember. I covered that linkage when the estate released those files. And you may be also be wondering why aren't there a lot of messages in the recent release of Epstein files between Guy Lane and Epstein? Why are there not enough? Why aren't there any? Shouldn't there be more communications between them? Well, when you looked at this January 4th memo that Todd Blanche has been circulating to the FBI, any communication between Guy Lane and Jeffrey Epstein, they are declaring it as attorney-client privileged information, the DOJ is, and saying that they have what's called a joint defense privilege because they were both being prosecuted and that any communications that they have with each other is excluded and withheld on the basis of a privilege.

45:23Ben Meiselas:They also are claiming something called deliberative process privilege, attorney-client privilege, work product privilege, and claiming these broad categories to withhold documents. So lots of internal communications, memos, emails internally were flagged to not be produced based on these privilege claims. And so that's one of the reasons why, you know, that stuff hasn't been produced. So I think that's a lot of, I think there's a lot of there there as well. I want to talk about as well the latest updates on, you probably have been hearing about it, this dispute, well, more than a dispute, how the Trump regime is calling Anthropic a supply chain risk and what this dispute is all about.

46:14Ben Meiselas:because it got a little confusing where Anthropic made certain demands about its AI language module and what it was okay and not okay for how the government could use it. It made it clear that as part of its terms of service, you can't do mass surveillance and you can't have autonomous killing, killing without a human directing it and mass surveillance for domestic means. that's built into Anthropics terms of service. If they see the government using it, they pull back their AI language and it's blocked. It's not allowed to do it. So that was the main dispute. You had Donald Trump say that Anthropic is a radical leftist organization and it's trying to blackmail the United States government.

47:05Ben Meiselas:And then Pete Hegseth came in and said, well, anybody who does any commercial activity at all with Anthropic. If you have a government contract, you will lose your government contract if you have any commercial activity with Anthropic. So, I mean, Amazon and Google and Microsoft and NVIDIA all have commercial activity with Anthropic. Anthropic uses its language module called Claude, which is kind of a first-in-class AI language. And it also was kind of marketed as having these safeguards on him, which is why it was used for classified material, why the government adopted Claude early on because of the safeguards that were put in place, whereas some of the AI didn't have these safeguards, which the Trump regime wanted them to basically get rid of the safeguards that they put in place.

47:58Ben Meiselas:And so what the United States, what Trump's regime was saying is, we're agreeable to what's called a lawful purpose clause, that we could use your AI for any lawful purpose, to which Anthropics, Amodi's the guy's name who runs Anthropics, says, okay, just clarify in the language that lawful purpose complies with our terms of service, which means no mass surveillance and no autonomous killing. This way we know that your interpretation, Trump, of lawful purpose meets our interpretation of lawful purpose. No autonomous killing and no mass surveillance. We're not just going to trust you, bro. When you tell us lawful purpose means you're not going to do those things, put it in writing, agree to our terms of service.

48:51Ben Meiselas:And that's where the Trump regime said, no, it's enough that we put in a lawful purpose clause, we're not going to violate the law. We're Trump. What do you have to worry about? We're not going to violate the law is what they said. So then OpenAI, Sam Altman, steps in and they're like, we've agreed to the government's terms and the government has assured toward us, lawful purpose means these things. So you may be confused. So if the government told OpenAI, which by the way, major Trump backers, major Trump donors who run, who run OpenAI, you see them in the White House a lot. So if Trump regime was willing to agree to OpenAI to those terms, no autonomous killing, no mass surveillance, then what's the dispute all about?

49:46Ben Meiselas:Well, it's obviously about actually putting that in writing and what a lawful purpose clause means. I think on the one hand, OpenAI's view is that lawful purpose covers these things. And on the other hand, Anthropic says, you need to affirmatively adopt our terms of service because we need to not just trust, we need to verify. And the OpenAI is we trust and we're not going to verify. That's my opinion of what the dispute is really about. Now there's going to be litigation. Anthropic is going to be suing the United States government over its retaliation, over its now tortious interference with other commercial relations, over its ability to declare Anthropic a supply chain risk.

50:36Ben Meiselas:And just think about it like this. The Trump regime has given our classified semiconductors to the UAE. In China, you can buy our semiconductor chips as well from NVIDIA as long as there's like a 20 % extra fee. So giving our most highly guarded semiconductor chips to UAE and China, not a supply chain risk, but Claude, an American AI company, deemed a supply chain risk because it wanted to avoid mass domestic surveillance and autonomous killing? Just think about that too. We're going to take our last break of the show. A reminder, check out Michael Popak's YouTube channel, Legal AF. Search Legal AF on YouTube.

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56:51Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie. Well, then the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump regime's tariffs against the world were unlawful. The natural consequence of when your tariffs against the world are unlawful under IEPA is you have to refund the money you stole. It's a tax. It's a levy that's imposed on the importers in America. They pay it when the money, when the product, when the goods arrive, you get taxed on it. And that money goes to the government. That's the way a tariff works. And then when you pay more money for it as the company, you have a choice.

57:37Ben Meiselas:You could eat it yourself or you pass it on to a consumer. And if it eats into your profit margin, you have to pass it on to a consumer. You can try to hold the line and not pass it on to consumers, but eventually it's hard to do that. And so that starts to make the prices go up. And that's one of the causes of why inflation is rising again, because of Trump's tariffs against the world. So if you do unlawful tariffs, unlawful taxes, then these American companies and all of us should be entitled to refunds of the extra money we've had to pay, right? A pretty simple concept. And by the way, this is what the Trump regime argued when they were in the Court of International Trade, when they were in the Federal Circuit Courts, And when they were in the Supreme Court, when they asked the Supreme Court and the circuit court to stay or pause the ruling to declare the tariffs unlawful, they said, here's why you should pause it.

58:43Ben Meiselas:Here's why it won't cause harm to anybody by you just pressing pause. If we lose this case, judge, we're going to have to do refunds. We'll return the money right away. So press pause on the rulings that declare what we're doing unlawful while we appeal it for 12, 14 months. We promise you we'll refund the money. That was the argument that they made. So when they say the Supreme Court never addressed whether we should give the refunds, When they declared what you did unlawful, when they say you stole, their response is what you said you were going to do, which is return the money. I think that part of the story doesn't get told a lot, and I think it's important that we mention it here.

59:28Ben Meiselas:But now that the Supreme Court has made its ruling, in the lower court, the intermediary court, which is called the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the prevailing parties, the companies that won the lawsuit in the Supreme Court, have now reached out to the circuit court and said, we won. Please issue right now an order that says the refunds can happen. Let's speed this process up because our businesses that we represent, it's not just the businesses who are named, but all of these businesses may go bankrupt if we don't get this money right away. All this money that we paid, we need it because we have to save these businesses of various size, small businesses, medium-sized businesses, large-sized businesses.

1:00:16Ben Meiselas:We need that right now. And so the Trump regime made a filing and said the following, this court should deny plaintiff. Remember, plaintiffs are all of us in this case, essentially, right? The people who were unlawfully taxed. The court, particularly the companies that filed the lawsuit, but it's on behalf of all the companies that want refunds. And then we, the consumers, should then get the refunds passed on through us in the extra money we paid. This is what the Trump regime argues, and I'm just reading it to you word for word. The court should deny plaintiffs ill-conceived motion to issue the mandate forthwith before plaintiffs repeatedly asked for and were repeatedly denied immediate relief from having to pay IEPA tariffs on their imports.

1:01:04Ben Meiselas:Plaintiffs again claim the court should speed ahead, but lack any good reason for that departure from an orderly process. Pause. Maybe there's a different circumstance that just happened from before as opposed to now. Maybe the Supreme Court declared that these were unlawful. So it's a different circumstance. Of course, it's different. Then Trump goes on to argue, in a case on review from a federal court, the Supreme Court sends down its judgment 32 days after entry of judgment or forthwith upon the denial of a rehearing. The court of appeals ordinarily should not act on a case until the judgment is sent down.

1:01:45Ben Meiselas:Accordingly, when as here, a court of appeals has stayed both of the lower court's judgments and its own mandate pending certiorari, the court of appeals ordinarily should not dissolve the stay or issue a mandate. And one of the things that they specifically say is that there are cases out there where tariff refunds haven't happened for seven years or five years. And they compare this with those cases and say, similarly, this could take five to seven years. So why are we even rushing this process to begin with? Here's what they say. The coming process will take time. and they cite refunds took seven years to fully be provided after the United States versus U.S.

1:02:33Ben Meiselas:Shoe Corp case, even though the amount of money at issue there was substantially less than the amount of money here. So they're trying to cite some other case to claim that they can now wait seven years after stealing your money to refund your money. I don't know. I don't care what political party you're from. That should be bad. That's not a good thing right there that they are doing that. Let's go through some of the other filings now from federal courts as it relates to what the Trump regime is doing on immigration. And specifically, they're detaining people, not providing due process. Habeas petitions are being filed on behalf of migrants and sometimes citizens who are unlawfully detained, saying you have detained the wrong person, you've unlawfully detain them.

1:03:21Ben Meiselas:You haven't given them the right to a hearing. They should have the right to, you know, be out on, on, on, they should be out to be released pending the proceedings, whatever the argument is, you're unlawfully detaining them. And frequently federal courts have been agreeing that these, from all parties, Trump appointed judges, George Bush appointed judges, Obama, Biden saying, yes, the Trump regime is unlawfully detaining individuals. and you need to release them. But then the Trump regime continues to violate the court orders and not release the people. Or when people are released, they're released without their license and phones or without contacting their family members.

1:04:03Ben Meiselas:So people get lost and hurt and injured or in some cases killed. They're being transferred and moved to other facilities unlawfully after these court orders. And so literally you've got federal judges like this federal judge in Minnesota saying the Trump administration has been terrorizing refugees, violating the promise America made to them when they fled persecution back at home by locking them up illegally. Or you have a federal judge in New Jersey, federal judge Kwarishi, who says it ends today. He says, arguably worse, while the procedures for the government's immigration arrest and detention may have had initial appearances of negligence, they have since slid downward into manifest recklessness.

1:04:54Ben Meiselas:Immigrants are swept up into custody and shifted repeatedly around the country without warning or explanation. Efforts by the court in this district to protect detainees' rights have been largely frustrated by the government. Earlier this month, the U.S. Attorney's Office conceded to violating 72 orders issued in immigration habeas cases in this district alone. That number by itself is objectively appalling, but at least one judge has indicated that it is underreported. The U.S. Attorney's Office has couched these violations as unintentional. Sadly, the well-deserved credibility once attached to that distinguished office is now a presumption that has undeniably been eroded.

1:05:36Ben Meiselas:The government's continued actions after being called to task can now only be deemed intentional. The undersigned will not stand idly by and allow this intentional misconduct to go on. It ends today. You had federal judge Schiltz saying the court will continue to do whatever is required to protect the rule of law, including if necessary, move to use criminal contempt one way or another. ICE will comply with the court's order. He's the presiding judge in Minnesota. And then he goes on to talk about how it's beyond the pale that ICE has continued these violations of orders of these court. And increasingly, this court has had to resort to using the threat of civil contempt to force ICE to comply with its orders.

1:06:22Ben Meiselas:The court is not aware of another occasion in the history of the United States in which a federal court has had to threaten contempt again and again to force the United States government to comply with court orders. And just a reminder, we're dealing with here situations where there are Republican judges, Democrat judges. These aren't like all Democrat liberal judges. I mean, these are conservative judges, liberal judges, moderates, whatever. I mean, they're from all, they've been appointed by all different presidents. And this is having real world implications, these violations of court orders.

1:06:58Ben Meiselas:And I'll just give you this example that we learned this week, that a nearly blind Burmese refugee who was abandoned by Border Patrol agents was confirmed dead in Buffalo, New York. Neural Amin Shah Alam, 56 years old, had been missing since February 19th when he was dropped off by Border Patrol following his release from the Erie County Holding Center. A city hall spokesperson told the investigative post that homicide detectives were investigating the circumstances. They then say that they let him in. So what the Border Patrol said that they let him into a nearby restaurant because it was freezing.

1:07:36Ben Meiselas:But then the investigative post got the surveillance footage and saw that they just put this blind guy out into the streets, miles away from his home, with no cell phone, didn't alert his family, in freezing cold weather, and he died. He froze to death outside. And then they tried to cover it up. And so this is happening every day here in the United States. And it's important that, that's why I wanted to just read these court orders for you to let you know this specifically, what's happening, what the judges are saying, not just to give you my opinion on the tariff refunds, but to read for you what's the Trump argument.

1:08:15Ben Meiselas:What are they saying? What are these federal judges saying on the immigration cases? That's what Legal AF is all about. Popak was on vacation. I should have addressed at the outset so you weren't worried about Popak. I should have said that at the outset. Popak was on vacation. We wish him the best. And hopefully, hopefully he has the best time he deserves. He deserves the total best. So shout out Popak and your beautiful family. And shout out to all of you Legal AFers. A reminder, subscribe to Michael Popak's YouTube channel, the Legal AF YouTube channel. Subscribe to his sub stack, Legal AF.

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1:09:01Ben Meiselas:Also, if you or somebody you know has been injured in a car accident, trucking accident, you've been injured by the negligence of somebody else. If you know somebody who was injured because of negligence, medical malpractice, sexual assault, sexual harassment, wrongful death types of cases, reach out to the Popak Firm, 877-POPAK-AF, or visit thepopakfirm.com. Don't be shy. Popak represents so many people who watch and listen to this show, you know, the worst they'll tell you is you don't have a case. But, you know, they handle catastrophic injury cases. So like death cases, serious injury cases, real tragic cases, and they handle it at the highest level.

1:09:42Ben Meiselas:So give them a call if you think you have a case. And we'll put the link as well for the Popak firm in the description below. Thanks, everybody, for watching. We appreciate you. We're grateful for you. And we'll see you next time on Legal AF. We're in this together. Remember that. Thanks everybody for watching.

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