Trump ICE Story Collapses After Agents Caught Lying

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0:49Michael Popok:Looks like a fake shovel and a fake broom are mightier than the sword. as the Department of Justice and ICE have to admit, but continue to cover up, that at least two of their ICE agents lied under oath in a federal court, in an indictment, and in a proceeding against two people, two migrants, to try to deny them their constitutional rights and put them in jail for the rest of their life. They lied, but instead of coming clean and naming who the agents are and taking any kind of disciplinary action. All ICE did today was file a one-page document to ask the court to dismiss the indictment with prejudice because of the bad faith conduct of their own unnamed agents.

1:36Michael Popok:This is the sordid tale of Alfredo Aljorna and Julio Sosicellas and how the federal courts have rushed to their protection and have forced the Trump administration to admit that they have lying agents in their midst. And Christy Noem, of course, is at the center of it because she relied on all of these lies in the affidavits by the two unnamed, still protected members of ICE to claim that Mr. Aljorna and Mr. Sosa tried to attack violently members of ICE. This, as new reporting comes out, that Kristi Noem is in trouble again with Donald Trump because she may be having an affair with Corey Lindowski, who used to be a MAGA advisor who works with her at Homeland Security, and they've been seen traveling together in a private cabin on a private jet with the door closed.

2:38Michael Popok:Michael Popak, open the doors, you're on Midas Dutch and Legal AF. You might have heard of the story about the two gentlemen who were accused of using a shovel and a broom to attack ICE when it turns out it's all a lie. In fact, we have the original video that shows what happens before Mr. Sosa was shot in the leg by ICE. Let's play the clip.

3:14and they are shooting asomalos who are you? the lights the lights the lights you know you know who are you? who are you? the lights

3:51I was a teacher. They were following my husband and he took his vehicle and he was in front of me. Marika, I'm afraid to make the vent. No, I'll tell you something. If you don't want to be a car, you'll never get me to get caught. I don't want to. I don't want to get caught. And the car... Hey, I'm going to get caught. I'm going to get caught. I'm going to get caught. I'm going to get caught. I'm going to get caught. Please, we need help. I'm going to get caught. I'm going to go outside, outside of the house, we have to go. Papa, porra, no de-tale. Ay, qué chico. Si, en este momento se van a ir a la casa tratando de entrar.

4:42Oye, no pa' allá, no pa' el cuarto, no pa' el cuarto. No pa' el cuarto. Están abriendo un carro. Ese es el suyo. No, Juan. Están abriendo un carro la parte de atrás.

5:19Now

5:20Michael Popok:Now, Kristi Noem relying on the lies of ICE agents, and I'm sure they're not the only ones, who are the people who gang tackled and attacked Alex Preti? What are their names? We know the name, Jonathan Ross, who killed and murdered Renee Good. What about these people? What is the department doing to get rid of the bad cops that have been incentivized to do civil rights violations on the streets and worse? But here's what Kristi Noem had to say when, based on whatever index card was shoved in front of her, she had to say about Mr. Ajorna and Mr. Sosa before the government had to admit that the agents lied about the attacks.

6:09Michael Popok:Play the clip. What more can you add from this incident last night? Well, our agents were out doing what they're doing every single day across this country, is they were doing targeted enforcement, going after individuals that are breaking federal law. When this individual drove away, crashed his car, tried to run into a home. And as they were wrestling on the ground trying to detain this individual, two other men came out of that building and started attacking him with weapons and shovels and brooms. And as it was three on one, the agent feared for his life and defensively had to take action.

6:43But, you know, this kind of violence is perpetuated by what we hear the governor saying, what we hear the mayor in Minneapolis saying. And their irresponsibility is extremely reckless. Governor Tim Walz has my phone number. I have called him and talked to him and said, listen, you let your city burn down in 2020. Don't do it again. President Trump wants to keep everybody safe. We're enforcing federal law. We're protecting every single American. Work with us. I want to remind you that Minneapolis itself, under the mayor's leadership and the governor's leadership, released almost 500 criminals out onto the streets rather than bring them to justice and turn them over to federal authorities.

7:19So they know they're releasing murderers and rapists and drug traffickers on the streets of Minneapolis. We're out there making sure they don't harm American citizens. And we're getting attacked while we do it. But we're going to continue to do our work and do what's right because it's what President Trump promised the American people.

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9:12Michael Popok:Sosa-Selis, the federal judge assigned to the case, Judge Magruder, has dismissed the case with prejudice as requested by the federal government. Here's what we got from the federal government just yesterday. We'll post it in Substack for Legal AF as well. The United States of America respectfully moves the court for an order to dismiss with prejudice the complaint that's a criminal complaint before a grand jury indicts against Mr. Aljorna and Julio Cesar Sosceles. Newly discovered evidence is materially inconsistent with the allegations in the complaint affidavit, as well as the preliminary hearing testimony, which means these agents not only lied in their affidavit, but they lied under oath in the courtroom that was based on information presented to the affiant.

10:08Michael Popok:Accordingly, dismissal with prejudice will serve the interest of justice. Signed, Daniel N. Rosen, United States Attorney. That's all? who you need to out who these men were. You need to root them out of ICE and totally change the culture of ICE. Now, separately, Mr. Aljorna and Mr. Sosa Sellis have filed a writ of habeas corpus to get out of jail, even though they shot Sosa in the leg. He had to file a writ of habeas corpus. It landed on the desk of Judge Schultz, the chief judge in Minnesota, who has granted the writ of habeas corpus petition and also has ordered them released from custody, subject to conditions of release.

10:59Michael Popok:one of the female partners of these two, who has a child who was badly burned and is in surgery, they actually, in an immoral, depraved way, moved her from El Paso to New Mexico. But a federal judge there sent her back. So federal judges are doing what they need to do to protect our rule of law against a lawless presidency and right down to a lawless ICE and Homeland Security. Now, Kristi Noem, who the Democrats have demanded that she be fired, who will likely be impeached very, very soon and hopefully taken out of her role for which she is woefully unqualified, has another scandal happening. It looks like she's in some sort of romantic relationship with Corey Lewandowski, who had been a Trump advisor in the first term.

11:59Michael Popok:In fact, they were going to bring him to the White House, but Corey has a problem with his hands. He's been accused in the past of sexual abuse and sexual misconduct. Even a wife of a wealthy Republican donor said that he got very handsy with her and was a predator towards her. It's one of the reasons that Lewandowski didn't make it back to the White House the second time around. But apparently he made his way back to Homeland Security and inserted himself into the administration with Kristi Noem. And he's running the show with Kristi Noem, firing people, firing senior ICE officials, doing all of that.

12:38Michael Popok:But when they're not doing that, it looks like they're playing footsie in the back of a taxpayer-provided private airplane that Kristi Noem drives around, flies around in, including a locked cabin where they're often back there for meetings, if you know what I mean. And new reporting is Donald Trump does not like the fact that Kristi Noem is playing footsie with Corey Lewandowski. And I would not be surprised if either Corey Lewandowski gets fired and or Kristi Noem does too, not because of all the bad things she did to get Americans killed and to violate our civil rights and civil liberties, but because of this transgression.

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