Trump AG Finally Faces Day of Reckoning Over Secret Fixer

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0:30Michael Popok:There are so many questions to examine Todd Blanchon before his confirmation hearing next week. Where do we start? One place that's not getting enough attention is whether he's in the back pocket of being controlled by having his strings pulled by a guy named Boris Epstein. Who's Boris Epstein? Boris Epstein is the fixer for Donald Trump in his private legal affairs. Took over from Michael Cohen after Michael Cohen went to jail. Started as a political operative, then became a legal strategist, maybe because he went to law school and he knew Eric Trump from Georgetown University. But Boris Epstein is that shadowy, sweaty figure that you always see with Donald Trump when he was being prosecuted for crimes in New York, being tried and convicted for crimes in New York, being tried for persistent fraud in New York.

1:21Michael Popok:and Boris Epstein is the connector of all of the current battalion of lawyers and law firms and former lawyers and law firms for Donald Trump going after his political enemies, including sex abuse survivors like E. Jean Carroll. If you're wondering who that lawyer is, where did he come from? Why is he filing a meritless appeal or motion or complaint for defamation or otherwise? it's probably connected back to Boris Epstein, including Todd Blanche. These are questions that Todd Blanche has to answer. And I'm hoping that this hot take seeps into the water supply to our friends of the Senate Judiciary Committee and becomes part of their briefing book to cross-examine Todd Blanche.

2:08Michael Popok:Because anybody who already indicated that he's willing to compromise his independence, there is no independence for the Department of Justice to the Attorney General with Todd Blanche, with Donald Trump. I want to get to the bottom of whether he's even independently operating at all. In other words, is Boris Epstein really the puppet master for Todd Blanche? That is a question I will try to answer on this particular hot take once I expose who Boris Epstein is. I'm Michael Popak. You're on Midas Touch and Legal AF. Let's get to the bottom of it. I'm going to name for you more than half a dozen lawyers and law firms that all connect back and root back to Boris Epstein.

2:49Michael Popok:Boris Epstein started out as a nobody. You don't have to believe me. Those were the people in Trump's first term who referred to him as a nobody. I once interviewed Michael Cohen, and Michael Cohen told me Boris Epstein was a nobody. Well, that nobody became a somebody awful fast. In fact, he is currently running all of the lawsuits for defamation and going after E. Jean Carroll, the sex abuse victim, to try to deny her money. Where did that come from? Boris Epstein. The law firm that's handling that? Boris Epstein. The lawyers that filed against the ABC or the Washington Post or the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times or the Pulitzer board for Donald Trump?

3:32Michael Popok:Boris Epstein. And there's a connectivity between Epstein, Todd Blanche, Emil Bovey, Stan Woodward, which is all and had been all at the apex of leadership at the Department of Justice. And these are questions that have to be answered by Todd Blanche. Let's start with Boris Epstein's relationship with Blanche, with Emil Bovey, Blanche's law partner. And where is he today? So Blanche and Bovey were recruited by Boris Epstein. Let me repeat, Blanche and Bovee were recruited from their law firms to work for Donald Trump. They got the job because of Boris Epstein, plain and simple. And as Blanche has risen through the ranks and Emil Bovee has been given the cushy job of lifetime appointment on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, they have Boris Epstein to thank for that.

4:25Michael Popok:To this day, I am sure there is communications and connections between the three of them. It would be shocking if there were not. Now, that's not the only person in power and leadership in the Department of Justice that owes his position to Boris Epstein. Stan Woodward, who is effectively the number two, he's effectively the deputy attorney general, the DAG, as Todd Blanche elevates to interim or acting attorney general. Stan Woodward was recruited by Boris Epstein to represent one of the co-defendants of Donald Trump in the Mar-a-Lago case. And from there, his reward for working so successfully with Donald Trump's legal team to get the Mar-a-Lago case in their favor through Judge Cannon to get the Mar-a-Lago report of Jack Smith buried in a tomb as he got brought into the Department of Justice, was given the job of the number three in the Department of Justice, now the number two.

5:24Michael Popok:Stan Woodward owes his professional career to Boris Epstein. He's the number two in the Department of Justice. So I question again the independents. Is Boris Epstein the godfather that manipulates like a marionette Todd Blanche and Stan Woodward to this day? Now let's go outside. The lawyers and law firms outside also brought in by Boris Epstein. So you've got Alejandro Brito in Miami. David Z. Epstein, no relationship, who worked for America First, founded by Stephen Miller. So you've got the Boris Epstein-Steven Miller connection. David Epstein does whatever Boris Epstein tells him to do. That was a tongue twister.

6:12Michael Popok:Sue the Chief Justice of the United States, John Roberts, and try to destroy the judicial conference he heads. It's a direct line from Boris Epstein to David Epstein. Right? Period. David Epstein joins with Alejandro Brito. Where did Alejandro Brito come from? A little-known lawyer in Coral Gables, Florida, gets hired by Boris Epstein to file all of those defamation cases on behalf of Donald Trump and Melania Trump. What they want to go after? Michael Wolff, Washington Post, Rupert Murdoch, New York Times, etc., etc. They use Alejandro Brito. Starts with a demand letter. From him, he owes his professional success now to Boris Epstein.

6:58Michael Popok:Now let's go to Sullivan and Cromwell. Sullivan and Cromwell, a major white shoe firm. We call it a white shoe firm. Sort of a very snooty firm in New York. I've beaten them a number of times in my prior life. But putting that aside for a minute, it's run by a guy named Robert Gioffre, who was the vice chair. Robert Gioffre has been the subject of an investigation as to whether he, along with Boris Epstein, are the ones that went after those law firms primarily in New York to get them to bend the knee to Donald Trump and give$100 million worth of free legal services. That was a Boris Epstein special as well, working with Stephen Miller.

7:42Michael Popok:And he did it by having Robert Geoffrey of Sullivan and Cromwell go to the first victim, the voluntary victim, Paul Weiss, a law firm who gave$40 million. And that was the blood of the water. That's all the taste that Donald Trump needed and Boris Epstein needed to go after the other law firms. And then after that, first one was led. Then all the other law firms came in again through Robert Geoffrey and Boris Epstein. Now, Robert Geoffrey and Sullivan and Cromwell are connected again to the Department of Justice because Jay Clayton, who is the current head of the Southern District of New York, a once prestigious post to be the Manhattan federal prosecutor.

8:24All right.

8:25Michael Popok:He he is a partner from Sullivan and Cromwell. His replacement as he moves on to be the director of national intelligence for Donald Trump is Jamie McDonald, a Sullivan and Cromwell partner. Sullivan and Cromwell is representing Donald Trump at the same time to appeal his criminal cases and to appeal his fraud cases, Sullivan and Cromwell. In fact, the red line that was just reported that has been crossed is that the partnership of Sullivan and Cromwell told their boss, don't get involved with E. Jean Carroll. We don't want to go after a sex abuse victim or survivor. Oh, too late. Because of Boris Epstein, Sullivan and Cromwell is now going after E.

9:11Michael Popok:Jean Carroll, having filed a ridiculous petition for writ of certiorari for appeal at the Supreme Court that was rejected 9-0 with no dissenters and have tried to upend not only her getting the$5.8 million that she got in the last 24 hours for her first judgment for being a sex abuse survivor, but also are trying to attack her$90 million judgment against Donald Trump for the same thing on a different day at the United States Supreme Court and another loser bad faith filing. Now, Boris Epstein's a bad guy. Let me just show you how he's been the attack dog for Donald Trump. Let me show you one clip of Boris Epstein so you know who I'm talking about.

9:54Michael Popok:Play the clip. Since the election, his message hasn't shifted. It's not changed. He seems very focused on an agenda, on a goal. And maybe that's something when he was talking about the establishment in D.C. today and his inaugural address, maybe he's saying we've got to change how we do business here. You know, Sean, there's one word that describes why the Trump movement is now in Washington, D.C. That's authenticity. Authenticity, right? Donald Trump is an authentic man. He's someone who believes what he says and says what he believes. And that's why he's the president. That's why Governor Pence is now the vice president.

10:27And that's so amazing for someone like me. We're immigrants in this country, my family. We came here as Jewish refugees. And I'm so proud of everything that this country has done for us, but also what we've done for this country. And that's the give and take that's so vital to the American culture, to the American fabric, that Donald Trump understands that like no other. So I will tell you, sitting there today, seeing him become sworn in as president, that it's America. It's a truly special one.

10:53Michael Popok:He's so bad. How bad is he, Popak? He's so bad that there were reporting by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan of The New York Times about three years ago that Boris Epstein, as part of the transition of the Trump administration into the White House, was shaking down members of the potential members of the cabinet, basically saying, hey, if you make an investment, Scott Bessett, you want to be Treasury Secretary? Gary, make a$10 million investment in this three-on-three basketball league. I'm not making this up. Give me$100 ,000 a month retainer, and you might get the keys to the kingdom. You might get that treasury spot that you wanted.

11:33Michael Popok:Now, he did get that treasury spot. And apparently, there was almost a fight between Scott Besson and Boris Epstein, and a fight between Elon Musk and Boris Epstein. A lot of people were trying to fight Boris Epstein. A lot of people were saying, who are you? Now, Scott Besson says, oh, I never did the pay to play thing. I never made that investment. But the reporting is out there based on corroborated sources that that happened. Boris Epstein is such a bad guy that David Warrington, who is the White House counsel, did an investigation during the transition about Epstein and concluded as follows.

12:11Michael Popok:Epstein is using, this is from a written report, Epstein is using his proximity to President Trump for personal financial gain. Epstein's conduct must be stopped and his employment and proximity to President Trump should be terminated. Terminated, he was promoted. And what I really want to focus in here is the, and this is what I want the senators to get on top of, is the connection between Boris Epstein and Todd Blanche. We know Todd Blanche has been compromised already by Donald Trump. We know the Department of Justice is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the Trump organization and that he's in Donald Trump's back pocket.

12:48Michael Popok:My question is, is he in the back pocket of anybody else? And is that somebody else named Boris Epstein, who's continuing to run the strategy and run the block and tackle for Donald Trump out in his private cases? See, I always wondered why Boris Epstein didn't come into the White House as a counsel, you know, like a deputy White House counsel, like Stephen Miller. I was like, or put him in the Department of Justice. this. My fear at the time is they were going to put him in the DOJ, the number two or number three spot. No, no. He's much more valuable as a political hack, as a hatchet man for Donald Trump on the outside.

13:27Right.

13:28Michael Popok:Why would he why would he give up all the money he's making now? You know, I only know one source of his income and I know there's other streams. One source, he gets fifty thousand dollars a month from Donald Trump's PAC to be a political and legal advisor or strategist. And you multiply that by multiple people who want to curry favor and cozy up with Donald Trump. So why would he give that up to come in to the Department of Justice or the White House? Now I understand why he's outside, making the money, pulling the strings, got people like Todd Blanch in his back pocket. These are the questions that have to be answered.

14:05Michael Popok:We're going to be doing a live stream of Todd Blanch. starts on the 15th next week of his confirmation hearing. That's must-see YouTube. That is must-see TV to watch Todd Blanche be hopefully successfully cross-examined to the point where he is unfit and determined to be by a majority of the Senate unfit and of that committee. That's going to be a Wednesday, Wednesday live stream only on Legal AF. Take a minute at that free subscribe button. In the meantime, I'm Michael Popak. Until my next report later today. Popak here. When life changes in an instant because of an injury or the bad acts of another, you need fighters in your corner.

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