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29:14Popok:Oh, no. It went through, according to ProPublica, it went through the International Boxing Council, which is owned and controlled by Gazprom, a energy company under the thumb of Vladimir Putin in Russia, through an offshore account in Dubai, and then got paid through the IBC to pay$250 ,000 worth of costs related to Don Jr.'s wedding on the Bahamian Island. At the time, we were like, why isn't Donald Trump attending that wedding? Maybe we know why now. Maybe because even for Donald Trump, having part of the wedding paid by Russia was too much. And what was Russia after in making the payment? See, Umar Kremlev is also so close to Putin that he's even gone as recently as last week, on a mission to visit with China, the same delegation that Donald Trump is about to visit or has set up to visit.

30:16Popok:And is that one of the reasons that the payment was made? Was that to use the soft underbelly of Don Jr. to try to soften up Donald Trump before he negotiates with the Chinese or negotiates with the Russians again about the Ukraine war? there was a quid pro quo. Nobody believes out of the generosity of his own heart that Umar Kremlev stroked a check that got money laundered through three different locations and ended up in the bank account, the wedding account, the wedding purse of Don Jr. and Bettina, his socialite wife. These two have net value, a net worth of over half a billion dollars. Russia doesn't do anything by accident doesn't do anything, I'm talking about the state, out of kindness or altruism.

31:02It wasn't

31:03Popok:like Don Jr. was short$250 ,000 for his wedding, and Putin came in through Umar Kremlov. And if Donald Trump thought in the first week of the scandal, it would die down because he'd have his attorney general take questions during a press conference when somebody said, with a noticeable Russian accent, by the way. I'm not sure what media outlet that person was from. And ask of Todd Blanche, do you think it was appropriate for the eldest son of the president to take a$250 ,000 gift from somebody so closely aligned with Vladimir Putin? And then there was that moment where Todd Blanche, what's the person's name?

31:42Popok:Trump doesn't know who it is. I think it's maybe a friend of Don Jr. What would I be investigating? I don't know. Answers to those questions that you just made. Who is the guy? Why is he at the wedding? And why is he giving money to the president's son? Start there. That would be a good idea. And then Donald Trump thought, well, we'll make it go away. We'll have Don Jr. pay it back. Like the bank robber, we'll put it back. We stole the painting. We stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. We'll hang it back. That's not how that works. Nor is it how it works to have your wife and Don Jr. post on her social media all in caps, we didn't do anything wrong.

32:21Popok:There's no conspiracy. There's no, right. I learned that in law school. If the person accused of a crime and of accepting a bribe just posted all in caps on their social media, they can't be guilty, right? So Donald Trump thought it would die down in week one. It hasn't. And now, as I've said in a hot take today on Legal AF YouTube, Luke, Donald Trump has a knack for creating his own destroyer. It's like a Marvel movie. He creates his own. It's like, remember in Ghostbusters, when whatever they thought about would show up to be their destroyer when they're on that rooftop? And Bill Murray's telling the other Ghostbusters, clear your minds.

33:08Popok:Don't think of anything. Don't think of anything. And all of a sudden, the giant stay-puffed marshmallow man comes around, but an evil one comes around the corner like 50 feet high, right? He says, I'm sorry, it just popped into my head. Trump always has a way of creating his own destroyer. And he did that by opposing Republican, just good old fashioned country club Republican senators in their primary bids. Cornyn in Texas, Tillis in North Carolina, well, Tillis decided to leave on his own, and Cassidy in Louisiana, but they're still around. And so they go after Donald Trump because they don't have anything to lose, like on the Epstein files or on the corruption of the Trump family, or in this case, Don Jr., accepting what appears to all thinking human beings to be some sort of bribe or payment for some service to be rendered maybe in the future.

34:03Popok:They want to get to the bottom of it. And they're joined by a fourth member of the GOP, Senator Curtis out of Utah, who has been demanding, demanding that the Senate Judiciary Committee open a hearing and immediate investigation into Don Jr. And so that's week two of the scandal. Week one is maybe we'll just act like who? What? What's the person's name? I never heard of him. You know, he paid the money back and now we've got. Yeah, that's not good enough. and I was not in the room I would love to have been to fly on the wall with Senator Cornyn of Texas or Tillis of North Carolina or Cassidy of Louisiana and their staff when this story broke in ProPublica last week because they must have been like oh we're going to have a lot of fun with this one and they've all gone on television, they've all given their clips and it's not going to happen now because we're running out of time to the midterms But sometime after the midterms, and if the Senate Judiciary Committee presided over by Grassley with the crushing focus of the Democrats doesn't open up this hearing bipartisanly, it's going to be another campaign issue for the voters to decide on come the midterms.

35:22Popok:The corruption of Don Jr. and the Trump family. Yes, we have another Russia influence case matter involving Donald Trump. Can't call this one a hoax. There is a check. There is a payment made. He paid it back. If that's not an admission of guilt, I don't know what is. so it's not just about don jr and his corruption yes he's being hoisted on his own petard yes he's the guy that led the charge against hunter biden remember oh hunter biden used his name and his dad and he set up a phone call to talk about the weather and he got several million dollars over a number of years from a couple of boards of directors in china and ukraine may have been involved.

36:07Popok:Oh, my. Oh, my. I'll tell you what Biden didn't do. He didn't take a direct payment to pay for one of his weddings or some vacation from a Russian oligarch who doesn't spend a dime without Putin's approval. He didn't do that. See, this is what happens when you get so corrupted and your judgment, if you ever had any, so impaired when you're the Trump family that you think you can get away with anything. Donald Trump once famously said he could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and still have his supporters. And it's now I can see, it's now leaked into the brains of his

36:52Popok:children and those in his administration who believe that they can get away with the same corruption at the same rate and the same velocity as Donald Trump himself. Now, Donald Trump may have criminal immunity granted to him by his Supreme Court. Don Jr. doesn't. And he may have a pardon in his back pocket, but that doesn't mean the Democrats aren't going to start an investigation and call him into it and expose the levels of corruption at the highest levels in the Trump family. Why should this come as any surprise? We have Don Jr. and Eric, who were at the helm of the Trump organization when Letitia James, the New York attorney general, after a trial was able to prove that they've been committing persistent fraud in the operation of their business for more than 10 years.

37:41Popok:So bad that their own auditors quit them and said nothing that we have done in the last 10 years to audit the books and records of the Trump organization, none of it can be relied upon because we were misled by our own client. There is still a federal monitor, sorry, a state-appointed former federal judge as monitor, Barbara Jones, who still sits for the next couple of months over the Trump Organization. And this is another, this is a guy who has, over the last two years, I'm talking about Don Jr. and Eric, the two sons, who have made billions of dollars in various companies, all benefited by policies made and entered into by their own father.

38:26Popok:rare earth minerals, satellites, cryptocurrency, mining, drone creation, the industrial military complex. These are all startup and standup companies that these guys invested in. And wouldn't you know it, a day before or a day after they invested, major Trump policies were changed by Trump, by the Commerce Department, by the Treasury Department, all to benefit the industries that these guys invested in, giving them billions of dollars. So when we total up the Trump crime family at the end of this administration, if not before, and draw a line under it, it's going to be tens of billions of dollars, if not a hundred billion dollars or more, which was Donald Trump's goal coming back to office.

39:17Popok:If he was going to get dragged back to the White House in order to avoid criminal conviction in jail time, that he was going to make a lot of money doing it. So when people question, why don't Trump's policies align with my interests? Why don't they benefit me? Why am I going to gas pumps that say$6 and$7 or$8 a gallon? Why can't I afford the things that I could afford even last year at the supermarket? Why are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Obamacare recipients being thrown off the rolls right before the midterm? Right. Why are why is inflation high and jobs low? Why am I not better off in the first two years of this administration than I was under the prior administration?

40:01Popok:And the reason for that is you have a president who is heartless, who doesn't care about you and is corrupt. And he has a family and he has family to match. The only you know, so there's a lot of questioning going on that Don Jr. under oath will have to answer. Why didn't your father go to your wedding? Was he aware of who paid for part of your wedding? What was the discussions you had? Talk to me about how that 250 came into being. What were the discussions around it? What were the emails around it and the text messages? Why didn't it come directly from Umar Kremlev? Why did it come through a series of offshore accounts?

40:40Popok:Why did it come through the International Boxing Council, controlled ultimately by Putin? Did you ever think taking a check that is directly connected to Putin was a bad thing? Did you ever think there would be a day when they would come to you and make a request of you? Did they already make that request of you? And what was it? You're not going to be able to hide behind your wife's social media account when you get hammered by the Senate Judiciary Committee led by the Democrats. And that will be a delightful moment when that happens, because the hubris and the greed of this administration and of its family members is boundless.

41:18Popok:And this is just endemic, emblematic of a greater disease that is Donald Trump, which is why with 40 whatever days left until the midterms, we have to join together and work hard to ride out this administration on the rail. It starts with a co-equal branches of government being restored. It starts with Congress being returned to the Democrats, Senate and House, oversight committee hearings, real hearings with real gavels and real subpoenas and real ability to find contempt and to put people in jail. That's what it starts with. So if you were looking for a reason to vote or to vote against the current administration.

42:06Pick one. There are dozens.

42:10Popok:The assault on the rule of law, the assault on the Constitution, the assault on the First Amendment, the assault on women's reproductive rights, the assault on immigration and migrant rights, the assault on the right of people to live freely and in liberty, like the transgender community, the gay community, the LGBTQ plus community, restoring our military, right? Restoring some sort of logic to our economic policies, our fiscal policies, our national security policies, ending the war, working on gas prices, reestablishing global relationships to make us safer and more secure, extending an olive branch to Canada and Mexico and NATO and all the other international institutions that have been damaged and almost chloroformed by this administration.

43:14Popok:Re-establish our role in the world as the moral and political leader of democracy. Help make new democracies. Help turn people away and countries away from Russia and China and turn them back towards a peace-loving power in the United States. It's a lot of work. It starts with this election and continues through 2028. So the Don Jr. scandal, one of several. I joked that if John F. Kennedy presided over Camelot, Trump presides over scandal a lot. It's all scandals. We can't get tired of them. Can't eye roll over them. We can't get fatigued. That's why we got to keep platforming them, publicizing them, spotlighting them, and then use all the levers of power at our disposal as a free people with our duly elected representatives in Congress.

44:18Popok:That's what we need to do. I'm glad you're all here together on Midas Touch and on Legal AF. Another perfect example of the power of the people and the power of free press is embodied by Katie Fang's case against Todd Blanche and on behalf of the Epstein survivors. I've said it before. I've said it again. I've got an interview up with Katie Fang right now on the Legal AF YouTube channel, like an exclusive briefing, which I think you'll really enjoy hearing it directly from Katie. I've said that Katie's case is making new law. It'll be taught in law schools, Fang versus Blanche. And the underlying case is something we don't talk about enough.

45:00Popok:Yeah, we talk about the preliminary injunction case, which is about five or six categories of documents, foreign language documents not translated, even at this late date. And 40 pages or more of FBI interview notes about an accuser of Donald Trump who says she was sexually abused when she was 13 by Donald Trump. But that's not the case. That's just the preliminary bout. The real case, that's about millions of pages of unproduced documents that weren't properly reviewed or reviewed at all by the Department of Justice and beyond. It's about how were the 3 million pages picked and what was left on the cutting room floor.

45:44Popok:We can't trust the Department of Justice to tell us those answers. We can't trust them at all. So it's about Judge Sullivan eventually, through his remedial powers, appointing a special master, another special master, who is an officer of the court, who's independent, usually a former federal judge, who will look back, do an audit, look back at the three million pages, figure out the source material and the boxes and the files and the electronic this and that, and whether that was done properly. And why were all the things, as an example, hypothetically, why are a lot of the things with Donald Trump's name on it not in that pile?

46:20It's pretty good.

46:21Popok:And then say, where's the rest? Where's the stuff you didn't produce? I want to double check it and see it and then report back to us, the victims, the survivors, and Katie Fang, the lawyers, the litigants, and Judge Sullivan. That's what's going to happen in this case, hopefully in the next six months, if not less. while we fight it out over the handwritten FBI notes about Trump and the foreign language documents. There is two new orders that came out with Judge Sullivan, which is what Katie and I are talking about. And in that case, the judge said, you're going to turn over to me the handwritten notes about the alleged victim of Donald Trump.

47:06Popok:I'm going to read them. And if I think they're responsive and are required to be produced pursuant to the Epstein File Transparency Act, I'm going to produce them. Now, they did not appeal that order. So those documents are being provided to the judge tomorrow on the 24th. One step closer to real justice for the survivors. Foreign language documents. Judge says you need to start that process of producing those. because they've already conceded that the foreign language documents are responsive, that they involve Epstein. So they've already designated, first cut, these are Epstein docs. We just don't think we have to translate them.

47:48Popok:That's not what the Epstein File Transparency Act says. If you hit a document and you don't know it's in a foreign language, just forget it. What if the entire Epstein file was in a foreign language? What if Epstein fancied himself some sort of aristocrat, and he only spoke French, and everything was in French? What if that? That wouldn't have to be produced. That's how ludicrous their position is. The judge ordered them by tomorrow to do it. They said, oh, judge, it's too hard. We want to take an appeal just on that issue. So you need to stay your order so we don't have to do it. Judge says, I'm not going to stay my order.

48:26You want to take an appeal, which they've already filed?

48:29Popok:You want to ask for a stay? Go ahead. Now, I'm still waiting as of tonight's recording, tonight's live, for the filing of the, should be any minute now, the filing of the motion to stay with the appellate court and to see who the three-judge panel is. So tomorrow, tune back in to Legal AF YouTube channel and Substack, where I will update you, because they're going to have to file it by tomorrow, or they're going to be in contempt and violation of the judge's order. So I believe that's going to happen. Again, a big date to circle on your calendar. You know, similarly, we've got a federal judge over in Judge Brinkema in the Eastern District of Virginia, just to tap on that for a moment, who did not block the order by her magistrate that the Todd Blanche-led Department of Justice have to turn over all the documents about the Jan 6 fund, its creation, and the super release and pardon that Todd Blanche gave to his boss, Donald Trump, for prior tax evasion.

49:29Popok:Those documents have to be produced, so I'm keeping an eye on that as well. It's sort of like a little bit of a programming note. Speaking of programming notes, tomorrow at the second video for Legal AF YouTube channel, I've got an exclusive interview with Attorney General Rob Bonta of California, and we walk through his settlement in the Paramount Warner Discovery case. And he was able, along with 12 other attorneys general, to obtain an amazing set of concessions that are now going to be comprised or contained in a consent decree that will be enforced by a federal judge. Not just money, that too.

50:13Commitments to bring back to the United States a lot, billions and billions of dollars of television and movie production.

50:22Popok:Right now, it's like a very small amount. It's like 5 % made in the United States, if you can believe it. It's going to be 40 % based on this deal. You know, streaming service prices are going to go down after the merger. The ticket sales in movie houses will not go up because of the merger. And production of TV and movies will happen in California, continuing to make it a billion dollar industry. But there's also a provision that because CNN and CBS are going to now fall into the clutches of that MAGA Trump supporter, the Ellison family, because they're now going to control through Paramount CBS and CNN, that there's now an independent requirement for an independent journalism monitoring board that is comprised only of journalists and not of business people that is going to sit on top of this organization.

51:18Popok:and make sure that journalists make journalistic decisions about independence. And if they don't do it, then the government, the attorneys general, are going to be able to run back to court to enforce it. Now, people are already voting, right? They're abandoning CNN and CBS, especially since the takeover. I mean, nobody's watching 60 Minutes. They just tried a big fanfare about a true crime case. Oh, we got the exclusive. We got the husband. You know what? Nobody watched it because people are like abandoning, obviously captured media that can't be relied upon. And where are they going? This is why Legal AF, Midas Touch and the rest are all going up in numbers because people are coming here because they're trusted, because we're trusted.

52:07Popok:You know, in the last 24 hours, I bumped into two people on the streets of Miami last night and this morning at breakfast where they recognized me and said, just just a one second interaction. I watch everything you do. I really trust you. And please keep it up. That was it. Both people said basically the same things. And it was very heartwarming for me. My wife was with me both times, which is also gratifying. But it shows you what is out there, not just in our community, but at the public at large, about their need for independent news media and commentary that they can rely on that's going to tell them the truth to the best of our ability, right?

52:47Popok:I mean, I'm not always right. I'm right a lot of the time. And I'll tell you, when I'm wrong, I come on and tell you, you know what? I thought the case was going to go that way. It went this way. This judge went this way when I thought he was going to, he turned right when I thought he was going to turn left. But generally, you get a good handle on those cases at the intersection of law and politics as a result. Now, back, let me wrap up Katie Fang for a minute and her case. they're going to file that motion for stay. If it's two Trump appointed judges, they may get the stay. I don't think so though, because then you're siding with, you're siding against the survivors.

53:26Popok:Supreme court hasn't wanted to do that on anything related to Ghislaine Maxwell or Donald Trump and E. Jean Carroll. And I'm not sure even the, even Trump judges on the DC appellate court are going going to want to do that either. But we'll see. If it's not to Trump judges, it's definitely not getting to stay. They're going to have to start producing foreign language documents. We will quickly translate them. I mean, we'll crowdsource it. It'll get translated through AI like almost immediately if the Trump administration doesn't do it. The reality is they're going to have to translate it and start handing this stuff out.

53:58Popok:It could be another million pages or more related to that as related to that, as even with an appeal, Judge Sullivan continues to move the case down the tracks on the broader issue of whether he's going to appoint a monitor. It may end up at the United States Supreme Court one day, and they'll make a decision about whether Katie Fang had the standing, the ability to bring this lawsuit. I think she did. I think her arguments were justified, legal arguments were justified, but we will see as that plays out. The meantime, the case moves down the track and the survivors get a measure, a modicum of dignity in that process.

54:34Popok:I'm going to talk about all that's happening in Missouri because it's going back to the United States Supreme Court on maps, if you can believe it, even though ballots are already out in Missouri. And look, I don't want to deal in hyperbole. I think there's going to be a landslide in the House. I think that the Democrats are going to take the 435 seats with a majority of 20 or 30 seats, but I don't know. It could come down to one. There are scenarios where it comes down to one seat. It could be that extra seat in Missouri. So we need to pay attention to it. I'm going to update you on what's happening at the United States Supreme Court.

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59:48Popok:It just was a bill attached into the Missouri legislature, the 2025 maps that wiped out all the Democrats and made it a seven to one advantage in Missouri. And this matters, as I said, going into the break, because it could come down to one vote for a majority in the House. It may not, but there are scenarios. Could be 2 % chance, 5 % chance, whatever it is. We can't, we got to do everything we can to make sure that, you know, that the somehow MAGA doesn't get the majority again, which brings us back to Missouri. So after the Supreme Court, first Kavanaugh, and then the full Supreme Court said, no, effectively, use the 2022 map, not the 2025 map.

1:00:27Popok:We're too close to the election, and therefore, use your maps. Your ballots are out. What happened? The Eighth Circuit, in combination with a federal district judge in St. Louis, issued another order yesterday requiring the state to use the 2025 map. I mean, the ballots are out already, you know, with the congressional districts reflecting 2022. So now the plaintiffs in the case or the defendants of the case have rushed back to the United States Supreme Court who wanted full briefing by today about which map to use, saying effectively to the Supreme Court, there they go again, You ruled twice the Supreme Court.

1:01:12Popok:You told him to use the 2022 map and a federal judge is not listening to you, nor is the Eighth Circuit. It's the 2022 map, not the 2025 map, which gives the Democrats a fighting chance in two more districts. So instead of being seven to one, it could be five to three, which is a lot better. So now we've got Kavanaugh, who sits over the Eighth Circuit, which is Missouri, has gave his order, which said, I want full briefing by today. And sometime tonight, tomorrow, or beyond, we're going to get a ruling from the United States Supreme Court. What I think is going to happen is that they're going to block the order of the district court judge in St.

1:01:53Popok:Louis and of the Eighth Circuit. And they're going to say definitively in their order that the map from 2022 needs to be used, not the 2025 map. Why is there even a fight? In Missouri, they have a unique aspect to their constitution. If you as a voter don't like something that your legislature has done, including about maps, you can override it by signing a petition, getting 300 ,000 other voters to do it with you, and putting it up as a referendum to be voted on up or down by the voters. In California, they call it a proposition. They call it Prop 8, Prop 1. Other places call it a referendum.

1:02:35Popok:This referendum is triggered by a petition that has 300 ,000 signatures on it. They got 305 ,000 signatures. It's just that the Secretary of State, who's MAGA, even down to the red jacket that he wears, he said, oh, no, no, that doesn't apply to the maps. That's, that's, that's states have to do that pursuant to the constitution. He's right about that. I agree with his interpretation of the constitution, but it doesn't mean that the people can't override their elected officials about maps. In fact, many states have put the map issue on the ballot. So people can vote up or down as opposed to doing it in the back room in smoke filled rooms, and then shoving it down the throats of their voters, which is a lot of what a lot of other Southern states did this time around at Donald Trump's command.

1:03:25Popok:So there is no exception in the Constitution from Missouri about, well, except when it comes to maps, you can't use the referendum. No. And how do I know that? Because the highest court in Missouri, the Missouri Supreme Court, said exactly that and said it can't be the 2025 map because the referendum hasn't happened. It can only be the 2022 map. Get out of my courtroom. And then they they started contempt proceedings against the Secretary of State, who refused to follow their order and ran off to federal court, lighting the fuse on the current case, and said, we're not going to find you in contempt because you've agreed to use the 2022 map.

1:04:03Popok:Now get out of our courtroom. And he started to use the 2022 map and sent out the ballots. And then lo and behold, the Eighth Circuit decided to do its own thing again, as did the federal judge in St. Louis. And now we're back at the Supreme Court. So stay tuned to Legal AF. Stay tuned to Midas Touch and my sub stack for Legal AF, because we're going to be updating you on the story. They're going to have to make this decision in the next day or so. They have not, however, entered an administrative stay. So they're letting the time tick down. We're into the 40-day mark now for the election, for the midterms.

1:04:40Popok:I don't see the 2025 map being ordered by the Supreme Court to be used. The ballots have already been prepared under 2022. The voters are ready to vote and are starting to vote. So I think I'm going to be reporting on that. If I'm wrong, my analysis is wrong, I'll let you know. But I don't think there's five votes on the United States Supreme Court. Certainly not Amy Coney Barrett, and I'm not sure about Roberts either, or Gorsuch, to join in. The last time they issued their ruling just a week or so ago, it was unanimous. You know, it was effectively unanimous. Or in other words, there were no dissents that were published.

1:05:20Popok:I'll put it that way. So stay tuned here. Stay closely with us. Thank you for being such fervent supporters. We had a great show tonight. I had Adam Klassfeld, All Rise News, sitting in again for Karen Freeman, Ignifolo, covering the case in front of Judge Kelly related to the mainstream media. suing to get their press credentials back. Really important First Amendment issues. Of course, we talked about Don Jr. and his scandal related to his wedding being investigated by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Katie Fang's case, which is all in her favor. It's all coming up clover for Katie Fang and the Epstein survivors.

1:05:56Popok:And then we talked about the Mississippi, sorry, Mississippi, where am I in Mississippi today? The Missouri map case. I know why I was doing some other reporting about Mississippi recently and it kind of stuck in my head. But I'm glad you're all here with us. Thanks for being on Legal AF. Thanks for being on the Midas Touch Network. Join Legal AF YouTube channel. Hit the subscribe button. Join Legal AF Substack and hit the subscribe button. I don't want to sound like a broken record. Come over. If you've got an injury, illness, something caused by the negligence of others, come to the Popak firm, track down my website, my 1-800 number, talk to my people about us potentially taking your case.

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