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Hosted by MeidasTouch founder and civil rights lawyer, Ben Meiselas, national trial lawyer strategist, Michael Popok, and former Chief Assistant District Attorney of the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, Legal AF (Legal Analysis Friends) is a hard-hitting, thought-provoking look at this week’s most compelling developments at the intersection of law and politics. Executive Produced by Meidas Media Network. Enjoy new full-length episodes every Wednesday and Sunday ...
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Veteran prosecutors Andrew Weissmann and Mary McCord discuss and dissect the cases against former President Donald Trump, including the historic indictments from the Manhattan D.A., Special Counsel Jack Smith and Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis.
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This is the official report, published nearly 11 months after the first and only atomic bombings in history (to date), of a group of military physicians and engineers who accompanied the initial contingent of U.S. soldiers into the destroyed cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The report presents a clinical description of the devastation, loss of life and continued suffering of the survivors that resulted from the world’s first and only atomic bombings. The appendix is an eyewitness account, c ...
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Welcome! Don’t have a reservation? No problem. On Cocktails at Table 7: Inside New York’s Joe Allen, your table is always ready. In candid conversations with Broadway veterans, long-time regulars, even past and present employees, your hosts, Dana, Sean and Jason, recreate the intimate vibe that an evening at Joe’s has always offered. You’ll hear stories of the “Good Ol’ Days” in 1960’s Hell’s Kitchen, rarely told anecdotes from the shows on the “Flop Wall,” and the special connection between ...
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W. Eugene Smith was a famous photo essayist for LIFE magazine and a suburban family man when he left it all in 1957 and moved to a rundown loft in Manhattan. The building had already become a popular hangout and jamming space for jazz players both prominent and obscure, and Smith spent the next decade documenting the music, conversations and personalities that passed through. This program, produced and hosted by Sara Fishko and originally heard as a 10-part radio series in 2009, pulls from t ...
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Elon Musk lied in March when he said he wouldn’t donate to Trump after meeting with him. Michael Popok of Legal AF reports on Musk likely using tens of millions of Musk Bucks to buy the election for Trump, by donating to a new shadowy 2 month old Texas based Super PAC working in coordination with the Trump campaign. Thanks to HIMS! Start your free …
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The Supreme Court may have thought they were helping MAGA federalists by trying to dismantle administrative agencies that touch the lives of every American to try to give even more power to the presidency. Michael Popok of Legal AF explains that it will backfire and have the opposite effect, allowing all socially progressive groups to go to their l…
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Michael Popok and Karen Friedman Agnifilo are back for the midweek edition of the top-rated Legal AF podcast and debate and react to this week’s most important stories at the intersection of law and politics, including a new criminal referral of and articles of impeachment against a MAGA Supreme Court justice; a Trump federal judge caught in a sex …
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Judge Engoron just told Trump’s lawyers their motion to disqualify him as a means to vacate the $465 million New York civil fraud judgment DOES NOT SCARE HIM IN THE LEAST, and has set a trap for them instead in a new ruling. Michael Popok of Legal AF explains that the Judge just granted Trump’s request to obtain documents from a lawyer who chatted …
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As last week’s historic Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity continues to be absorbed in the public sphere, the majority’s expansive view of what is considered exempt from prosecution comes into stark relief. Given their unique perspectives, veteran prosecutors Andrew Weissmann and Mary McCord explore the knock-on effects the ruling will…
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Trump just lost his liquor licenses at both Bedminster and all NJ golf clubs because he is a felon convicted of crimes of “moral turpitude” and his attempt to transfer the license in the name of Don Jr failed as well. Michael Popok of Legal AF explains how this could lead to the forced sale of the clubs if Trump fails in his effort to get his NY co…
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In a special Legal AF interview, conservative icon and defender of the Constitution, former Judge J. Michael Luttig joins Michael Popok for a candid and hard hitting critique of the Supreme Court’s unprecedented decision to give absolute immunity for crimes against democracy to Donald J Trump. Judge Luttig doesn’t pull any punches, as he calls the …
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Trump is scared of Special Counsel Jack Smith presenting all of the insurrectionist evidence to the American people in a mini-trial in August before Federal Judge Chutkan, and will argue that no mini-trial is required at all for her to sort out what is left in the indictment to prosecute as commanded by the Supreme Court. Michael Popok of Legal AF …
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Michael Popok provides a detailed guide to what Judge Chutkan needs to do and handle on or about 2August when she gets the Trump DC election interference case back in front of her, including deciding 5 motions pending since 2023; sorting out the mechanics of how to determine what is left in the indictment as to Trump crimes that aren’t immune, and …
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On a special weekend edition of the top-rated Legal AF podcast, Michael Popok is joined by Legal AF/MissTrial co-anchor Karen Friedman Agnifilo and Meidas legal contributor Dina Doll (substituting in for Ben Meiselas) to debate whether the MAGA Scotus immunity decision will gut the: (1) NY convictions of Trump; (2) the Mar a Lago espionage/obstruct…
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Michael Popok explains how the current Supreme Court and its 6-3 majority right wing can either be cemented for the next 20 years if Trump wins, or will likely become a 5-4 PROGRESSIVE court if Biden wins. He also explains how important Justice Amy Coney Barrett —the new swing vote on the court—is to this equation. Laundry Sauce: For 15% off your o…
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Michael Popok examines the 4th of July messaging of President Joe Biden’s patriotism and defense of our liberty on the one hand, and the unhinged ravings of a lunatic opponent (Trump) on the other. To boost YOUR NAD+ levels up to 50%, go to https://QualiaLife.com/TRUTH for up to 50% OFF and use code TRUTH at checkout for an additional 15% OFF. Visi…
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Melania Trump just cut a new deal in which she will only begrudgingly agree to be First Lady again IF AND ONLY IF she can do it PART TIME and phone it in from New York City so she can be Barron’s “roommate” in college. Michael Popok walks through all the ways Melania has extorted Donald Trump economically in order to even support his campaign or re…
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You want to know how you know Trump is seriously worried that he is going to lose and badly against President Biden and VP Harris (again)? He disrespects and dishonors them in a secret video in his golf cart with his “deer in the headlights” son Barron as his sidekick. Michael Popok identifies Trump’s “tell” as he signals he knows he is losing and …
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Michael Popok and Karen Friedman Agnifilo are back for the midweek edition of the top-rated Legal AF podcast. On this episode, the anchors vigorously debate: (1) the impact of SCOTUS’ recent immunity decision on all of Trump’s current prosecutions; (2) Judge Chutkan’s next steps in the coming weeks now that SCOTUS has returned the Trump election in…
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Trump MAGA world just lost again in another defamation court case as Trump’s CEO of his Truth Social media company just had his defamation case against the Washington Post dismissed on summary judgment by a Trump-appointed federal judge no less. Michael Popok explains how MAGA world is about 0-80 in lawsuits at the trial and appeal level starting i…
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The DOJ will push for a mini-trial THIS SUMMER to allow them to present to the American People BEFORE NOVEMBER ALL of the evidence against Trump that renders his indicted criminal acts in the DC election interference case UNOFFICIAL AND PROSECUTABLE CRIMES. Michael Popok of Legal AF walks through how Judge Chutkan step by step will get the case aga…
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Michael Popok of Legal AF explains why ALL THE OTHER Trump CRIMINAL COCONSPIRATORS will NOT be able to use the new Supreme Court immunity decision to have their charges dismissed or convictions vacated. Popok explains that immunity is like a pardon and is only enjoyed by the person receiving it and that it's not like “executive privilege” which can…
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As the fallout from the momentous Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity continues to reverberate, MSNBC legal analysts Andrew Weissmann and Mary McCord offer some updates, then turn to another significant ruling from the High Court out on Friday: Fisher v. U.S. At issue was whether the charge of obstruction of an official proceeding could…
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The consequential question before the Supreme Court on the limit and scope of presidential immunity has been decided, in three essential buckets. Veteran prosecutors Andrew Weissmann and Mary McCord decipher the ramifications for the former president, for the January 6th case brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith, and for the broad constitutional a…
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Michael Popok of Legal AF takes on Trump’s daughter-in-law and RNC chairperson Lara Trump and her claims that IN TREASONOUS FASHION TRUMP IS ALREADY LEADING THE COUNTRY, in a call to violate Article 2 of the Constitution. Head to https://ProlonLife.com/LEGALAF to get 15% off their 5-day nutrition program. Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! Rem…
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Ben Meiselas and Michael Popok are back for the weekend edition of the top-rated Legal AF podcast. On this episode, the anchors discuss and debate: (1) whether Judge Cannon will give another win to Trump in the Mar a Lago prosecution and throw out and “suppress” the incriminating testimony and evidence against him by his former attorney Evan Corcor…
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Michael Popok explains how the DOJ will be able to CONTINUE TO USE OBSTRUCTION criminal charges against Current and FUTURE insurrectionists, and the blueprint for it is in Supreme Court Justice Jackson’s concurring opinion focused on the “integrity” and “impairment” of Congressional proceedings like the electoral vote count. Try Mosh today and use …
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Legal AF’s Michael Popok reports on Steve Bannon being dragged kicking and screaming to prison this week, as the United States Supreme Court REJECTS any argument that the Jan6 Committee is “illegitimate” or that Bannon and Trump and the Jan6 insurrectionists are “political prisoners” and that the Jan6 Committee is illegitimate. Upgrade your sleep w…
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Michael Popok explains that in twin decisions by the MAGA Justices on the Supreme Court against the Securities and Exchange Commission’s powers and throwing out 50 years of agency deference precedent, the Court may have accidentally put the brakes on Trump’s 2025 Project to use the power of agencies headed by his lackeys to implement his policies o…
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The US Supreme Court may have just signaled that DC indictment against Trump for in part CREATING FALSE ELECTOR CERTIFICATES is saved and will include his “criminal interference with an official proceeding” counts at any future trial. Michael Popok does a deep analysis of the new Fischer v US ruling and its decision to keep the crime in place for a…
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The DOJ just fired at Cannon, judge Cannom that is, and to support their motion to gag Trump, gave her real time examples of Trump and his MAGA ecosystem of podcasters, fundraisers, advisers, PAC spokespeople, members of Congress, elected officials, and lawyers, FALSELY claiming that President Biden and the Attorney General operate assassination hi…
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