Trump in Deep Trouble as Democrats Finalize Impeachment Hearings Over a Dozen Alleged Frauds

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2:22Michael Popok:Democratic House members and leaders like Jamie Raskin and others are sharpening their knives and preparing in advance for a likely takeover by them in the House where they grab the gavels and the ability to subpoena, conduct oversight committee hearings leading up to impeachment. And according to The Washington Post, there's more than a dozen different subject matter investigations that the Democrats are already preparing for. I'm going to go over them right here with you so you know what is at stake at the midterms, why turning the gavels over to the Democrats is important if you believe in the rule of law and the protection of our constitutional republic.

3:06Michael Popok:I'm Michael Popok. You're on Legal AF. Take a minute. Hit the free subscribe button as we continue to grow our pro-democracy channel. All right, let's start in no certain order. Let's start by identifying the top 10 or so of the investigations that the Democrats are going to lead. When they have the gavel, unlike now when you're the party out of power, you can write a lot of nasty letters. You can do a number of things in press conferences and shadow hearings. But until you're actually in the driver's seat, there's little ability for the party out of power to rein in an out-of-control administration.

3:43Michael Popok:That will change after the midterms. starting with Trump, the Trump family and the amount of money that they have found a way to earn through Donald Trump's corruption and his policies, which enable not only Trump and his family and those around him, but those on the periphery who are supporters of Donald Trump in certain industries to make hundreds of billions of dollars. The Democrats already, and their oversight committee, already have a counter showing that you're looking at at least$5 billion. I think that number is understated. $5 billion going to Donald Trump and his family in cryptocurrency, in mining, in rare earth minerals, in various industries that are benefited directly from Donald Trump's new policies, where he changes the policies intentionally to benefit people in and around his life that have ownership stakes in companies that can exploit the new policies.

4:45Michael Popok:$5 billion,$2.5 billion in just cryptocurrency alone, cryptocurrency profits alone, going to Donald Trump. A lot of it from foreign powers. Can you see where the corruption of a sitting president might be on the minds of the Democrats? So they're going to investigate that. They want to look into all of the investment vehicles used by Jared Kushner and Don Jr. and Eric and the rest, 1789 Capital and the American Ventures, all of their businesses. It just seems that every time they take a stake in a company or that company takes a stake in a mine or some sort of rare earth mineral or some sort of rocket or robot or AI or cryptocurrency, Donald Trump announces a policy that makes that industry a lot of of money.

5:36Michael Popok:So we're going to take a deep look. That's going to be led by Jamie Raskin. In fact, here's a clip of Jamie Raskin talking about the future investigations. Very quickly, because Republicans are warning that if Democrats retake the House, your first move, you're going to move to impeach President Trump. Do you support that? Would you want to move to impeach President Trump should Democrats retake the House? Look, everybody on our side understands that impeachment is a critical tool in the toolbox for constitutional self-defense against a president acting like a king, an imperious, lawless, arrogant king.

6:11On the other hand, Donald Trump already has 50 percent of the impeachments of a president in American history. And we saw what happened last time. He incited a mob to storm the Capitol to attack his own vice president and Congress. We impeached him in the House and we could get only seven Republican senators to join us. We were 10 short, again, because of Mitch McConnell. So you don't support impeachment. You think it would be a waste of time? No. Impeachment is not a taboo with us. It's not a fetish with us. We understand it's not a panacea. It is a tool in the toolbox. We will not hesitate to use it if we need to use it.

6:45But we also understand the framers gave it to Congress rather than the Supreme Court because they wanted us to contextualize impeachment in the whole sphere of things we got to deal with, like getting health care back to our people because they've thrown millions of people off their health care with the Medicaid cuts and the destruction of the ACA tax credits. Do you believe that President Trump has committed impeachable offenses at this point? Undoubtedly. We don't have time to remotely scratch the surface, but going to war without a declaration of war, for example, continually defying Congress in terms of our appropriation of money, stealing our spending power from us.

7:21I mean, I would say even just bulldozing the East Wing of the White House, if you can bulldoze the East Wing, you can bulldoze the West Wing, he believes that he is a king. They've been plundering money from our government in the most massively corrupt presidential administration in American history. I mean, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, brought back billions of dollars from Saudi Arabia and Qatar and the other corrupt oil monarchies. They are engaged in all kinds of insider political trading. And Donald Trump has made more money in a year and a half as president of the United States than every other president in American history combined.

7:57And every member of the House and the Senate have made in our legitimate salaries in this Congress. So nothing comes close to the kind of plunder and corruption we've been seeing in this administration. And all of that could warrant an impeachment investigation if we wanted to do it. But more important to us right now is getting health care to the American people and ending the lawlessness.

8:20Michael Popok:Now let's get to the IRS settlement. You've got an attempt by Todd Blanche to give, carte blanche, to give a immunity free pass to Donald Trump and his family for past tax evasion. That is a violation of the emoluments clause. That is a benefit to the president to not have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars of back taxes because Todd Blanche wrote a one paragraph unilateral document that says so. Now, that's being challenged in courts in front of Judge Brinkema, but it is definitely fair game for the Democrats once they're in charge of these various committees, like the committee related to Treasury, to look at the IRS settlement.

9:03Michael Popok:Then you've got the, in terms of handouts to people in Donald Trump's life. This is where those around his circle, in his constellation of influence, have benefited greatly from his policy or his leaning on certain people and then redirecting the money to his friends. Example, there's a German company that had its offshore wind, Donald Trump doesn't like wind energy, offshore wind leases terminated by the federal government. They claimed it was illegal and breach a contract, and they sued for billions of dollars. Trump came up with a great idea. We'll give you$1.2 billion not to build these wind turbines, but you take that money and invest it in a liquefied natural gas project down in Louisiana.

9:56Michael Popok:Who owns that? A Trump friend. Right. You're taking taxpayer dollars, paying it over. It's money laundering. Paying it over to a German company who then invests it in a company tied to Donald Trump. So and we could do this all day long in a hot take on a video. There are dozens of examples like this. Then there'll be an investigation about the blanket pardons that were given to the Jan Sixers, maybe other pardons that are in the back pocket of Donald Trump. So we're going to look at that. Then his construction projects, the reflecting pool. We just had new evidence come out that the contractor for the reflecting pool said absolutely absolutely 100 % that it was their fault that the Reflecting Pool project failed, not vandalism.

10:44Michael Popok:Reflecting Pool, Ballroom on the wreckage of the East Wing, the Kennedy Center, the Arch, you name it, these construction projects are going to come under an oversight committee hearing led by the Democrats. Immigration enforcement, all those people that were injured, maimed, and murdered as a result of Donald Trump's rollout of all of these different operations using the National Guard and ICE troops. That is going to be investigated. Then you've got the firing, wholesale firing of federal departments gutting them and how it's made this country insecure, like the intelligence community being wholesale fired, the Department of Defense, the Department of Labor, the department, all the departments that are related to education.

11:31We're going to look into all of that and when the Democrats take power.

11:35Michael Popok:Then you've got the prosecutions of Donald Trump's political enemies, the time, money, and effort that is being used in violation of DOJ policy to go after Donald Trump's political enemies. You know, Adam Schiff, Senator of California, New York Attorney General Letitia James, James Comey, FBI director, John O. Brennan, former CIA director, Lisa Cook on the Federal Reserve, formerly Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, and the list goes on. That is going to come under the very jaundiced eye of the Democrats. How about foreign affairs and the conflicts of interest? How Jared Kushner, the son-in-law, and Steve Witkoff, the cryptocurrency business partner, are being the special envoys in Iran while Americans die and we're left less secure.

12:28Michael Popok:And they're also doing business with the Saudi Arabians and other people in that area, putting money in their pocket while they should be negotiating a diplomatic deal. So this is going to, you know, there's another, that's just the tip of the iceberg. But I wanted to give an outline here on Legal AF of what we can expect and what you can expect and what you're voting for come the midterms now just 52 days away. We're going to continue to follow it all right here on Legal AF. Take a minute on this Sunday morning, hit that free subscribe button. 10 new videos all up today for you here on Legal AF.

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