Trump Gets Rude Awakening as His Own DOJ Accuses Him

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2:00Ben Meiselas:So this is absolutely stunning. Donald Trump's own DOJ just made a filing in Washington, D.C., talking about how horrific the January 6th insurrection was. And it also links terroristic threats against former President Obama to social media posts that Donald Trump made. Now, it should be noted that Jeanine Pirro from Fox is the main federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., who filed this document. So as Donald Trump has spread all of these January 6th conspiracies, Janine Pirro, whether it's because of her oversight or intentionally throwing Donald Trump under the bus, talked about the January 6th insurrection and talked about Donald Trump's social media post resulting in somebody at the January 6th insurrection thereafter committing multiple other offenses, including threats against former President Obama.

3:10Let's just go through this document now. Someone may be losing their job at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. So this filing, just so you can see, it was made yesterday, October 28th, 2025, and it's in a criminal prosecution of a guy named Taylor Franklin Toronto, who was criminally prosecuted regarding his role in the January 6th insurrection, and then later committed additional crimes in 2023 when he returned to Washington, D.C. and did multiple other acts for which he was charged. There was what's called a bench trial where he was eventually convicted of those crimes. And let me just read from this filing.

4:00It says the following. On January 6th, 2021, thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol while a joint session of Congress met to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election. This guy over here named Taylor Franklin Toronto was accused of participating in the riot on Washington, D.C. by entering the U.S. Capitol building. After the riot, Toronto returned to his home in the state of Washington, where he promoted conspiracy theories about the events of January 6th, 2021. I wonder where he would get these conspiracy theories from. Was he promoting these conspiracy theories that Donald Trump was feeding him?

4:50So that was in this motion filed yesterday, which involved a sentencing of Toronto because Toronto was convicted of his more recent crimes from 2023. And this was the sentencing memo where the DOJ is asking that he serve a total of 27 months in incarceration. This is coming from the government. So it goes on this motion saying, Toronto, he committed all of these crimes. Look what he did on January 6th. Look at these conspiracy theories that he was spreading about January 6th. Again, the Trump DOJ filed this Yesterday, it goes on to say in this filing, in June 2023, Toronto returned to Washington, D.C.

5:35He drove through the city and the surrounding region in his van and engaged in alarming behavior that targeted at public officials. His erratic behavior intensified on June 28, 2023, when he live streamed himself and suggested that he outfitted his vehicle with a detonator. he made several statements indicating that he intended to blow up his vehicle at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Now it says the next day, get this, on June 29th, 2023, then former President Donald Trump published on a social media platform, the purported address of former President Barack Obama. Toronto reposted the address on the same platform, and thereafter started live streaming from his van on his YouTube channel.

6:32Toronto broadcast footage of himself as he drove through the neighborhood where Obama lived in Washington, D.C., claiming he was searching for tunnels that he believed would provide him access to the private residence of certain high profile individuals, including former President Obama. He parked his van, walked away from it and approached a restricted area protected by the United States Secret Service. He walked through the nearby woods and stated, gotta get the shot. Stop at nothing. Get the shot. After noticing the presence of Secret Service, he said, if I were them, I'd be watching this, watching my every move.

7:14He said, so yeah, more than likely, these guys also hang for treason. I control the block. It then says shortly following his arrest, officers located Toronto's van and multiple law enforcement agencies responded to the scene. Police recovered hundreds of rounds of ammunition and they seized his backpack that included

7:36Ben Meiselas:multiple firearms, a pistol and other weapons. You see those weapons right there. Now, it goes on to request that he be sentenced to 27 months in prison, then 36 months. of supervised release plus 200 hours of community service. Now take a look at who signed this. Janine Pirro. It's also signed by other DC lawyers, Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White. But as you go and read what I just read for you on page three, it's almost like they're saying Trump's a co-conspirator. They don't use that language. Let me be very clear. But it says, the next day, Donald Trump posts the private address of Obama and this criminal by the name of Taylor Franklin Toronto, who participated in the mob of rioters attacking the joint session of Congress, returns to the crime scene, goes after Obama, takes the address given to him by Donald Trump and goes to Obama's house where he's intercepted by the Secret Service while he was live streaming this on freaking YouTube.

8:53The government's sentencing memoranda, signed Jeanine Pirro. So I want to point that out from the outset. Okay. Another thing I want to point out because the DOJ is in total disarray right now. A federal, and this bodes awful for Lindsay Halligan, who is Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, turned top federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia, who was likely unlawfully appointed as an interim top federal prosecutor when she was not allowed to do that under the appointment clause, because under the appointment clause, there needs to be confirmation by the United States Senate, there's a statute that allows you on an interim basis for a limited period of time before confirmation to be what's called an interim United States attorney, but that's for a finite period of time.

9:58And if the federal judges in that district don't extend you on an interim basis and you're not confirmed in the United States Senate, you're done. And that's the only time the president can ever appoint someone on an interim basis. So you get one attempt, finite time. You can't then make a second person an interim. So as it relates to Lindsey Halligan, there was already an individual who was made an interim in the Eastern District of Virginia. That individual said there was no crimes committed by Comey, no crimes committed by Letitia James. So Trump fired that interim person, brought in Halligan, said you're the interim, and Halligan's the only person who signed both the indictments of Comey and James, not a single other United States attorney or assistant or any federal prosecutor signed on with Lindsey Halligan, and that's why Halligan's going to be screwed.

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12:22Take a look at this ruling that just occurred where a federal judge said the Central District of California federal prosecutor, United States Attorney, interim United States Attorney, a guy named Bill Assaylee has been acting under his role unlawfully since July, a pretender, a fake, a phony United States attorney.

12:47Ben Meiselas:Now, what this judge ruled in the case involving Bill Assaylee, because this was brought by criminal defendants who Assaylee was prosecuting. But in these criminal prosecutions, assaylee at least had other federal prosecutors sign the pleadings. So even if you disqualify assaylee and say assaylee can't be the federal prosecutor, which is what was ruled here, there are still other prosecutors whose names are mentioned. What the court says is assaylee, you can be what's called a first assistant United States attorney, but you're not the lead federal prosecutor. So you don't have that title anymore, but the prosecutions in that case of the criminal defendants can go on simply because other federal prosecutors were on the pleading, were on the filing.

13:40As it relates to James and Comey, the only prosecutor on the filing is Lindsey Halligan. Lindsey Halligan can't be the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia on an interim basis because Trump got one shot and he picked somebody else and then fired that person. Lindsay Halligan then went into the grand jury room all by herself with no one else there because no one else thought there were criminal charges that could be filed against Comey and James. And now get this, and this is going to be a disaster for her. The federal judge who will be hearing the Lindsey Halligan disqualification motion has ordered Halligan to turn over the grand jury testimony.

14:27So the court's going to read that and all of Halligan's communications about how she became

14:35Ben Meiselas:unlawfully, although the court hasn't said it yet, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. If you're Lindsey Halligan, you are terrified right now before you go to sleep, if you can even sleep and you wake up in the morning because that bar license, that license of you as a lawyer. I don't know, Lindsey. I don't know, Lindsey. You're about to be cross-examined by some of the top lawyers in this country. You're going to have to turn over all of those communications with Donald Trump. And it may have felt good, Lindsay, when you got those indictments against Comey and Letitia James at first, but who the hell knows what you even told the grand jury?

15:19Ben Meiselas:Guess who's going to find out now? The judge. Lindsay, were you lying to the grand jury? Were you providing fake information about who person three was in the Comey indictment? Uh-oh. Uh-oh, did you do that, Lindsay? And what about Letitia James? Did you say that her niece was paying for rent? That never really was happening. The only rent ever. It's like$1 ,200 that New York Attorney General Letitia James disclosed. Did you tell the grand jury something else when other grand juries were rejecting the same case? Did you lie to them and have an FBI agent in both cases provide incorrect information?

16:00Oh, no, Lindsay Halligan. Didn't you see what happened to Jenna Ellis? Didn't you see what happened to Rudy Giuliani and all these other lawyers? I think you're going to be joining them.

16:11Ben Meiselas:Sucks to be you, Lindsay Halligan, but we'll watch it play out. But that's what you get. That's called karma right there. Also, more bad news for Donald Trump. In the form of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in an en banc panel, en banc, E-N space B-A-N-C, en banc, Latin, the full Ninth Circuit, they've vacated for now what that three-judge panel did. There was a three-judge panel that include two Trump judges on the Ninth Circuit, where they said, as it relates to Portland, Oregon, Trump can bring those National Guard troops there. But the full Ninth Circuit said, uh-uh, we're putting that aside.

16:56Ben Meiselas:We're vacating that. Now, the full Ninth Circuit en banc panel is going to hear what's going down in Portland, Oregon, and all the Ninth Circuit judges are going to finally and definitively chime in whether Trump's invasion of cities like Portland, Oregon, where, by the way, a district court judge at the first level from Portland found what Trump was doing was unlawful. A Trump appointed judge. Then it went to a three judge panel, the Ninth Circuit three judge panel and two Trump judges and another judge overruled her. And then it's now going to go to the full Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. We will keep you posted there every step of the way.

17:40Ben Meiselas:And then also it should be noted that a judge yesterday issued a ruling blocking Donald Trump's attempt to terminate these federal workers using the shutdown as a pretext. So it's U.S. District Judge Susan Ilston issued a temporary restraining order against the Trump regime firing these government workers during the shutdown and saying, because of the shutdown, we don't have to follow administrative procedures. And Judge Ilston talked about the human cost, the human toll the Trump regime is inflicting on these government workers. When Judge Ilston ruled against Donald Trump, she read the sworn declaration of Air Force veteran Sonia Crocker, who says, prior to my current job, I worked at the Equal Employment Opportunity.

18:38Ben Meiselas:And before that, I was in the United States Air Force. During all that time, including during my combat deployment, I have never gone through anything as traumatizing as what I am now experiencing. And Judge Ilston wanted the lawyer for the DOJ here named Michael Velchik, who previously was known for praising Mein Kampf when he was apparently in a school project when he was in college, in law school, apparently praised Mein Kampf to friends, according to Forward and a bunch of other papers, digital magazines, whatever. Michael Velchik responded to the judge when the judge says, the human toll here is something you need to figure out.

19:30And then Vilchik said, the American people wanted this judge.

19:35Ben Meiselas:And the judge says, that's absurd. What do you mean the American people wanted this? And the DOJ lawyer Vilchik here said, I mean, the American people selected someone known above all else for his eloquence in communicating to employees, you're fired. This is what they voted for. This is what he said on The Apprentice. Then the judge said, eloquence of doing so? What do you mean, eloquence of telling people they're fired and firing government workers? Are you saying to us that the DOJ's position here is that Trump was elected based on his eloquence of firing government workers? Yes, said Trump's lawyer.

20:18Ben Meiselas:He's known for, above all, I think this is what he's known for right here. And then the judge is like, or the lawyer arguing for the federal workers is like, that's utterly absurd. We'll keep you posted every step of the way, but this is the type of analysis we do here at the Midas Touch Network. Analysis you're not getting anywhere else. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million. Thanks for watching.

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