Trump Blows Up Case With Shocking Admission

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3:51Michael Popok:As usual, we can count on Donald Trump undermining one of his criminal cases by saying the truth out loud. It's a Freudian slip in Washington when you accidentally tell the truth. And Donald Trump has just confessed that the Qatari Air Force One is unsafe, consistent with the reporting by the anonymous sources. sources, we call them whistleblowers within the government who cooperated with the New York Times. And as the New York Times moves to suppress and quash those subpoenas, it's very helpful that Donald Trump has effectively admitted that the plane is unsafe, unsafe at any speed. But don't worry, everybody and those that fly on Air Force One, like journalists and cabinet members and their families and the first family.

4:41Michael Popok:Don't worry because the Qatari plane is going to be pimped out. Yes, pimp my ride. Supermax is going to be maxed out according to Donald Trump. This is what happens when you cut corners related to security and safety. I'll cover it all right here on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF. Take a minute, come over to Legal AF YouTube and help us. Early 2 million subscribers before the midterms. It's that important. All right, let's unpack what's going on with the Qatari Air Force One. I call it the Qatari Air Force One because it stands in contrast to the real Air Force One. You know, the one that has all of the laser blinding missile defense systems, the four or five different features that keep it safe from being blown out of the sky by missiles.

5:33Michael Popok:And that's not something the New York Times had to use anonymous sources for. All you had to do was look at it. There are entire websites like Aviation News that have looked at Air Force One, the original one, the one that he should be flying, and said, hey, look at all of the missile defense systems on it. And then you look at a picture at the Qatari plane and it doesn't have any of those things. That's why, as the reporting of The New York Times went about 10 days ago, the Secret Service grounded the plane to stop Donald Trump from continuing to fly it overseas, especially when he was leaving Ankara Air Force Base in Turkey, just 600 miles from the Iranian border.

6:15Michael Popok:Probably want to use the plane that has the laser-blinding missiles or the missile-blinding lasers on the way out to be safe. Now, that plane has been a bad penny since Donald Trump took it off the hands of the Qataris. Qataris, I'm sure they rang a bell and laughed with glee when they got rid of that lemon, that albatross that is the Qatari gift to Donald Trump. See, that was a 14-year-old plane that the Qataris couldn't find a buyer for. Nobody wanted this clunker until Donald Trump said, why don't you gift it to me? It's probably worth less than$100 million to$200 million, not the$400 million Donald Trump likes to proclaim.

7:01Michael Popok:Of course, he's wrong on the value, but then, of course, he's doubly wrong on the cost to retrofit it. You see, all of the parties that are responsible for security, like the Secret Service and the Pentagon, they said it would take two years and a billion dollars to retrofit. So weren't we surprised when it was done in under a year in time for the 250th birthday celebration? Yes. And we see the corners that were cut. As reported in The Times and MSNOW, there was no missile defense systems. It can't be used as a situation room. It doesn't have command and control structure. It can't be a flying fortress or White House because it doesn't have those features.

7:43Michael Popok:That's what MSNOW reported. That's what the New York Times reported. And in fact, when MSNOW came out with its story, Stephen Chung said out loud that the journalist was a liar and a crappy journalist, that none of it was true. Now we know from Donald Trump it was all true, which undermines the criminal case that one of Donald Trump's golf buddies, when he was still Southern District of New York prosecutor, Jay Clayton, started against the New York Times. See, they subpoenaed several of their reporters, including Julian Barnes, to try to get to the bottom of who's the anonymous source, who's the leak in the White House.

8:20Michael Popok:We've got another word for leakers in the White House. They're called whistleblowers, and they're entitled to whistleblower protection. Now, when Donald Trump was asked point blank by a reporter coming off the World Cup, why are you flying in a plane that's not secure? That's a very good question. He started talking about, don't worry, it's going to be sent back and retrofitted and maxed out. Here's Donald Trump. You know, it has a lot of capability, but as I understand it, in about a month or so, they're going to send it to have it be maxed out. So they're going to be sending it and they'll have it be maxed out.

8:55Michael Popok:It'll take about a month. Which undermines his case or the criminal case by the Department of Justice against the Times because he's basically admitted that it's all true. Was there a leak of confidential information? I don't know. Well, Donald Trump just apparently declassified it. So I don't see how they could also prosecute anybody related to it. I mean, this plane has been a disaster from day one. We knew it was going to cost the American taxpayer over a billion dollars. for this free gift. And Donald Trump wants to steal the gift at the end because the thing he never talks about is that Boeing is going to be delivering two identical Air Force Ones at the end of 2028 at a cost to the American taxpayer already of$5 billion.

9:42Michael Popok:Where did those planes come from? See, Donald Trump wanted to cut corners and wanted Boeing, instead of creating new Air Force Ones from scratch, use an existing Boeing plane. Where did they have them from? Right. the Russians, the Russian airline, Aeroflot, before it went out of business, ordered two Boeing planes that were under construction. That's what Donald Trump decided to use for the new Air Force Ones. So when he's not using a crappy Qatari plane that nobody wants and it's past its useful life, he buys two Russian planes in order to make them into the new Air Force One. Then he's going to try to fly away with the crappy Qatari plane and shove it into his library in New York.

10:24Michael Popok:Now, Sorry, in Miami. Now, if you thought that Donald Trump cared about those that fly on Air Force One, he doesn't. Who can remember his callous response to a reporter just about a week or so ago, which is effectively, if I'm blown out of the sky, which is probably going to happen, you will be too. Play the clip. Were you aware of any credible threat by a role against your president? Well, I have a threat all the time. I'm number one on that list before you. But if I go, you go. So perhaps, perhaps someday you want to change professions. Okay. Running a business means you're always reachable until you're not.

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11:49Michael Popok:That's Q-U-O dot com slash Legal AF. And then Todd Blanche, remember him? He's trying to get the attorney general position. We're waiting on a confirmation hearing vote. That's going to be later this week or early next week after the Republicans get around to filling the seat vacated by the death of Lindsey Graham on the Senate Judiciary Committee. And we'll follow that live on Legal AF. While they're doing that, he was asked point blank about, do you think it's right to go after journalists and try to get their confidential sources for them to do their freedom of the press thing? Here's Todd Blanche, the guy who wants to be your attorney general.

12:29Michael Popok:Play the clip. Cash Patel, I do want to go back to my colleague, Senator White, has some concerns. I have concerns about him because of the reports about his drinking, about the incredibly bad morale there. But I'm not going to ask you on that. You are a supervisor, so obviously you have some responsibility to be reviewing this behavior. I don't think he has any issues drinking. He has no issues with morality. Here's what is very clear. He was at the White House for eight hours, and this is after a report came out in the New York Times that talked about the$400 million Qatari plane that was Air Force One not having certain defensive capabilities and issued subpoenas to reporters demanding that they turn over their news sources.

13:16I happen to believe it's extremely important to protect the right of the press, to have confidential sources in order to get out information that is absolutely in the public interest. Do you support Mr. Patel's efforts to subpoena and get reporters under the grill to disclose who their confidential sources are? The Department of Justice requires that I authorize it, which I did. And those reporters, we're not targeting reporters. They're material witnesses, just like a reporter would be a material witness to a car crash. They are witnesses. And the question you want to ask them is who were their sources?

14:00No, no. That goes to the heart of the First Amendment. No, the question we want to ask them is who provided them with classified national security information, which everybody in this body should want to protect?

14:11Michael Popok:I would hope. I just find it remarkable that we now have confirmation that that Qatari plane is unsafe, that it's now been taken offline and is being sent back at hundreds of millions of dollars, more taxpayer dollars, so that Donald Trump, for the waning days of his administration, can fly around in some golden toilet bowl in the sky and then say, hey, we got the two new Boeing planes coming in, so we don't need this one. I'll be happy to take it off the American taxpayers' hands. That's the one-two step that's going on that's being called out by the Democrats. Now, back to the New York Times.

14:53Michael Popok:The New York Times has filed a motion to quash those subpoenas issued to its several journalists. It's pending in the Southern District of New York, and it's currently sealed, meaning we don't have eyes on it for a minute. It'll eventually be unsealed. I think this new confession by Donald Trump is going to end up in the judge's order when he quashes those subpoenas. They were just doing their job. The fact that Cash Patel and Susie Wiles in the White House are conducting a mole hunt to try to figure out who is it? We're going to do lie detectors and we're going to capture everybody's phones. Cash Patel is never going to find the leaker.

15:37Michael Popok:First of all, it could be Cash Patel. I had a working theory that that situation room reporting about the Epstein files by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan for the New York Times, when it was like detailed notes and almost a recording of conversations in the situation room, there were only two people that phoned into the situation room that could have been recording it, Pam Bondi and Kash Patel. Now I think it was definitely Pam Bondi because Kash Patel is busy trying to keep America safe at the World Cup, no less. Has anybody seen his World Cup video? You think this guy is going to be able to solve the mystery like Encyclopedia Brown as to who leaked to the New York Times?

16:19Michael Popok:Here's Kash Patel trying to steal the glory of the World Cup and a video he posted on social media. Play the clip. We put on the largest sporting event in the history of the world. And everybody, including FIFA and the White House, looks to the FBI, to our interagency partners, to DHS, to state locals, to everybody to figure out how to get 6.5 million people into the U.S. and into these games without a single major security incident. We have lived up to that measure because you guys have put in the time. It's truly, truly incredible. We just can't say enough about the preparation and the execution has been flawless.

16:55Michael Popok:So I'll follow the story of the motion to quash by the New York Times and whether Donald Trump's confession that the plane is unsafe at any speed ends up in the judge's order. I think it's something the New York Times will bring up in their filing and will ultimately be something to their advantage to get those subpoenas quashed. That's another, you know, golf buddy of Donald Trump, Jay Clayton's parting gift before he left the Southern District of New York prosecutor's office to come over to become the director of national intelligence. He started that grand jury. He subpoenaed those reporters.

17:32Michael Popok:And by the way, that should have been part of his confirmation process about Jay Clayton doing whatever Donald Trump says. He's captured every aspect of the executive branch. They're in his back pocket. They're wholly owned subsidiaries of Trump Organization, plain and simple. And anybody that tells you anything differently is not telling you the truth. You're on Midas Touch. You're on Legal AF. I'm Michael Popok. Until my next report. Can't get your fill of Legal AF? Me neither. That's why we formed the Legal AF Substack. Every time we mention something in a hot take, whether it's a court filing or a oral argument, come over to the Substack.

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