Michael Popok
speaker
611 appearances
19 recordings
7 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 22 Jul
Michael Popok’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, he was ready to... He already wrote this. This 41-page order that just came out, he wrote this already. He was ready to issue it on the 12th against Donald Trump. I am convinced. There's a copy of it. So... We had to wait. And the judge says, you wanna bring another motion? What's your other motion?
And there's a unique, there's a criminal procedure law in New York that allows for trying to overturn a conviction or throw out a conviction on kind of equity and justice grounds. But you gotta have these factors in order to do it. Judge says, all right, you, Trump, you submit your motion on equity grounds and you, Manhattan DA, you oppose it. And that's it, it's the only papers I want.
And then I'll get around to ruling on that. So that has been fully briefed. And I think that's a dead loser for Donald Trump. And what I said when we covered it on Legal AF is there's the immunity decision that's still out there. We're waiting on that. And now we don't have to wait any longer. So 41 pages came out. I won't bury the lead. Denied.
Effectively, the judge reminded Donald Trump and his lawyers that they already conceded that the conduct that's at the heart of the criminal prosecution is not presidential.
which takes it out of the entire kind of framework of the immunity decision from July, because that was all over official versus unofficial and what is out the outer boundaries and what's core constitutional and presidential function for immunity grants.
But the judge says, we don't have to get to any of that because you've already conceded in your motion practice that what you did before you were elected in 2016 in the conspiracy to bury the Stormy Daniels sex act.
Yes, and the election interference, his first round of election interference. And the judge says, since you've already conceded that, the only issue then for me is whether you waived the issue because you didn't raise it properly on sort of that procedural issue.
And even on the merits, whether the evidence that I let in from some of your White House-connected people after you got elected and some testimony after you were already in the White House, whether that impacted the jury or is harmless error. And did you get a chance to read it?
All right, so let me... I don't want the audience to go, Popak's just talking over Anthony. No, no, I'm good, I'm good. I had a chance to read it, and I don't think Anthony did. So here's the ruling. The judge found that Donald Trump did not properly preserve many of his arguments. Particularly, he said it was not preserved as to Michael Cohen, The immunity issue, because he never raised it.
It was not preserved as to Madeline Westerhut, who was his executive assistant in the White House. And it was, those two were no, only whole picks that they find it was properly preserved. But the judge says, I'm going to just look beyond that. I'm going to act like you did preserve it. And now I'm going to rule on the merits. And the merits are that the evidence that came in is not immune.
It's not about your official conduct. It's about your private affairs, literally, your private acts, which are not covered by immunity. And even if that weren't the case, the judge said, this is what we call harmless error.
Given the volume and the mountains of evidence and testimony against Donald Trump, these little snippets from Michael Cohen about checks being written in the White House and Madeline Westerhood about scheduling meetings for Donald Trump and Hope Hicks about, we were really concerned about certain things during the campaign, it was not the reason that Donald Trump got convicted.
So immunity decision is in. Donald Trump has a way to appeal it. He can take it up to the two courts in New York, state courts. Doesn't like the rulings there. He can take it over to the United States Supreme Court. But we're still waiting on the issue of whether the second motion, I think now the second motion's dead, which is just throw it out because I won. I mean, it's effectively that.
Just throw out the convictions and all the jury's hard work because I won the election. That's not how that works. So once he clears that out, Here's the question for you, Anthony. Does, he's got time to sentence, even if he postpones the actual start of the sentence, he can actually sentence Donald Trump before the inauguration. Do you think he does?
This is why you and I are going to have a great new show. Yes, we are. Because we don't agree on everything.
But we do it in a respectful way that I think people are going to find really interesting. You and I are going to do a show come the first of the year, beginning of the year, called Global AF, where we're going to do a little pitch there. You and I have been talking about it for two years. Remember? Literally, it was two years ago.
And now is the time about Trump's impact on the rest of the world and the rest of the world's impact on Trump.
But we're a very short amount of time away from the inauguration. France's government looks like it could fall. Germany's government just fell. Canada's finance minister just dropped out because of a dispute with Trudeau about how to handle Donald Trump, right? Yeah.
uh and left out south korea that's right south korea is martial law didn't work so now they're gonna now they impeach the guy but this is the kind of things i think are important to kind of expand the reach of of midas touch and your work and my work and bring it to that next level so everybody we're not ready to announce a date and time for it yet but global af is is on its way but let's talk about um and i want to debate with you there
I'm going to have you come on Legal AF to talk about lawlessness. Yes. Yeah. I just don't completely agree with you.
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