Trump in Total Defeat as Investigation gets Shut Down

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1:03his political rivals or critics. We've got the latest example with Chief Judge of everything in the DC federal court. All grand jury processes is Chief Judge Bozberg. He determined that the Trump administration can't even meet the basic low threshold to have grand jury subpoenas survive this time against Donald Trump's political critic, not even a critic, political opponent in the Federal Reserve, Chairman Jay Powell, it's extraordinary. I can't put too far to point on how extraordinary the Chief Judge of a district finding that grand jury subpoenas were improperly issued how extraordinary that is. But let me put it in the context of all of the dozens of cases that Donald Trump's Department of Justice has tried to bring against his political opposites and the results.

2:04It's not just Chief Judges, it's Juries, it's Grand Juries, it's US attorneys working from within and they're all using whatever tools they have in order to rein in Donald Trump. You're here on the Midestouch Network in Legal AF. I'm Michael Popuck. Take a minute. Help Legal AF continue to grow as a YouTube channel. Hit that subscribe button. Let's start with the political opponents of Donald Trump. They didn't choose to be. Donald Trump picked them out for various reasons. New York Attorney General Letitia James, former FBI Director James Comey, six members of Congress Senate and the House, who made a 90 second video to remind the troops, remind the military that they have their own constitutional duty to uphold the constitution, and not follow illegal orders. California Senator Adam Schiff, former director of the of the CIA, John Brennan.

3:05Each one of them has had some judge, jury, grand jury, or US attorney bail them out and stand steadfast for the rule of law in our justice system. Let's start with the judge Curry. Judge Curry out of the Eastern District of Virginia or sitting by designation there. She determined that the now disgraced resigned out of the Department of Justice Lindsay Alligan was illegally appointed and threw out the indictments of New York Attorney General Letitia. James from mortgage fraud, James Comey for lying to Congress. They tried two more times to get Letitia James indicted, one in Norfolk, Virginia, one in Richmond, Virginia. Two separate grand juries said, no. In fact, one of the two grand juries wanted to announce and did announce an open court that they refused to indict based on that evidence, the New York Attorney General.

4:05We're talking about low bars here, basics of prosecution here, but nobody believes the Department of Justice. In order to get an indictment, you have to show to a grand jury. First of all, you have to bring it properly that you have probable that there's probable cause that you will sustain a conviction through appeal. You have to prove to a jury just on the lower standard that you have probable cause to believe that a crime has been committed and convinced a jury of that based on the evidence that you present without the defense present and they're not even able to do that. That's the Judge Curry former FBI director, Comey, Letitia James attorney general resolution, combination of Judge Curry and grand juries. Another grand jury has would have to consider whether James Comey can be indicted at all based on the statute of limitations. They've got about two more months left to try to argue to a federal judge

5:07that they're not at a time for lying to Congress. I believe they're out of time at the five year statute of limitations has run and any judge will find that on its face. Maybe that's why we're not hearing about another attempt to indict James Comey. Now let's move on to the six members of Congress led by Mark Kelly, Arizona Senator, Elise Slotkin, Michigan Senator and others. They created a video. Don't give up the ship. Reminding fellow members of the military intelligence community. They swore an oath that cannot follow in a legal order. A grand jury was asked by Janine Piro, Donald Trump's political ally in the District of Columbia to bring an indictment against them and they refused. And now our understanding is that at least Piro's office is not going to go forward with another indictment. That's a victory for our department of justice. Similarly,

6:07let's move forward to what Judge Bozberg has done. Judge Bozberg has done something extraordinary. He is, first of all, the chief judge over all things DC, the federal court, which concludes grand juries. Donald Trump hates him. Donald Trump doesn't like him because back in March and April of last year, but Jeb Bozberg started probable cause to find criminal contempt against the Trump administration. He started those proceedings and including against Kristi Nome. The Trump administration brought a claim, a judicial misconduct claim against Jeb Bozberg, which was rejected and denied. He is very close to Chief Justice Roberts of the Supreme Court. He was the roommate for Brett Kavanaugh in law school. He was a Republican and Democrat appointee. He's middle of the road and he is not going anywhere. And yet Donald Trump late on Sunday night had the following to say in a rambling truth social post.

7:10The courts treat Republicans and me so unfairly, always seeming to protect those who should not be protected. They are highly politicized cases, don't matter. The judge does as an example of how is this absolutely terrible federal reserve chairman Jerome to lay pal not even allowed to be investigated for the horrible job he does because there's no crimes. So Jeb Bozberg steps in and this if this happens once a decade, I'd be shocked. A chief judge looks at the evidence, the lack of evidence, even at the low level of probable cause, which is to get a search warrant and says it is obvious that the predominant reason was to harass Jerome Powell, not because there's any indication of a crime and gave the Department of Justice a second bite at the apple, a second opportunity to present to Jeb Bozberg more evidence, even in camera without

8:11showing it to the defense, just show me the judge said. And they didn't take him up on the offer because there's no more evidence to provide to show there was any crime committed in J Powell overseeing two building renovations in of the federal reserve complex in Washington. Look, magnesium is something most of us lack. And if you're taking the drug store variant, you're still not getting the full picture. Industrial farming, chronic stress, and everyday aging, I'll make it worse. Most supplements only use one form of magnesium, but magnesium comes in many forms that support your body in different ways. That's why you need to try quality magnesium. Plus, it combines 10 bioavailable forms of magnesium with more than 70 trace minerals for a comprehensive full spectrum support. Sleep deeper, think sharper, recover faster, support muscle strength, a steadier mood, and balanced energy metabolism. It's not just a sleep supplement. It's a full body

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10:15monies that seem to go into a black hole, especially in DC, where no one is held accountable. One of the age-old tools that all prosecutors have to investigate any crime, including cost overruns, is a grand jury subpoena. Today, however, in Washington, an activist judge has taken that tool away from us. By inserting himself and preventing the grand jury from even obtaining, let alone hearing evidence, he has neutered the grand jury's ability to investigate crime. As a result, Jerome Powell today is now bathed in immunity, preventing my office from investigating the federal reserve. This is wrong, and it is without legal authority. Now, similarly,

11:23because of improper appointment of prosecutors that Donald Trump picks hand picks to go after his political enemies, a judge in New York, Lorna Scofield found that the Department of Justice could not investigate attorney general, Latisha James's office, the attorney general office in New York as somehow violating civil rights for Donald Trump or others, because she found that John Sarkone, like Alina Haba, like Lindsey Halligan, were improperly illegally appointed as U.S. attorneys and kicked those subpoenas. So we've got judges, Scofield, Boseberg, Curry, we've got grand juries and DC, Richmond and Norfolk, Virginia, and presumably in Miami, in Florida, who are not inditing or refusing to indict based on what the U.S. attorney is bringing forward. Now, for most for 99% of my 35 year plus career, the federal government could always be

12:30trusted. We even had a doctrine related to it, the doctrine of regularity. They could be trusted. You may not agree with them. You might, you know, you might slap your forehead with your hand on some of their maneuvers, but you didn't doubt their ethics. You didn't doubt their veracity, their candor, their truthfulness, right? When they said that they represented the United States of America, that's gone. That's gone. No judge takes it face value, anything that the Department of Justice says, nothing, especially, especially, and certainly seen your leadership in Washington. Now, what we're watching are judges going out of their way now, and this is in the last several months, complimenting U.S. assistant U.S. attorneys, the junior lawyers, if they feel that they've been doing their job properly, haven't been lying to the court, haven't been misleading the court, have been prepared in court, understand the law and the facts

13:34in court. Don't try to deceive the court are candid with the court and uphold their own oath. They're literally complimenting them in court, in courtrooms, in orders, in opinions, in postings to the docket, on the federal docket, we could all say, oh, why are they doing that? To encourage a resistance or resistance in the form of doing their job. Now, there's also that going on, even though Donald Trump has effectively gotten rid of six or seven thousand people in the Department of Justice, many who have quit rather than violate their oath of office or ethics, there's a group that have stayed in and have refused in certain offices to do the bidding of leadership in Washington, Pambondi, Todd Blanche, and all the other deputies in Washington have refused to seek indictments against people who they believe in doing so would violate the Department of Justice manual or the principles of federal

14:38prosecution. That seems to be the problem, for instance, in the southern district of Florida, and why they haven't been able to indict John Brennan, the former CIA director, is because some U.S. attorneys, their assistant U.S. attorneys are standing up against the hand-picked MAGA U.S. attorney, Jason Redding, Ken Jonas, and basically telling them, they're not bringing the indictments. And that may be going on as well for Adam Schiff and California, as we're now into month 16 or so, 17 or so of the Trump administration. We'll follow it all right here. I might as touch. Come over to Legal AF, no outside investors, just need you to hit the subscribe button, help us continue to grow our channel. So until my next report, I'm Michael Popak. Including a daily roundup that I do call, wait for it, morning AF. What else?

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