Jeffrey Lichtman, high profile criminal defense attorney Interview

Jeffrey Lichtman joins Mendte in the Morning to talk about what NYC will look like under Zohran Mamdani once he officially starts in January.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right now, Let's bring in Jeffrey Lickman, high profile defense attorney,
host of Beyond the Legal Limit podcast, which could be
found on the iHeartRadio app. Jeffrey, I wanted to talk
to you a little bit about the Epstein files. What
are you expecting from these? Are there going to be bombshells?

Speaker 2 (00:19):
You know? I don't know. Trump was against releasing them
for so long, and then all of a sudden, when
he realized that his base was turning on him, he
did an about face and said they should be released.
So I don't know if they're going to be heavily
redacted due to you purported national security issues. So I
would be shocked if Trump would be pushing to have

(00:40):
these released and there would be some kind of bombshell
that would harm him.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
I want to tell you something that's in the back
of my mind, and you tell me if I might
be right about this. He announced just about a month
ago that he was going to launch an investigation from
the Justice Department. He instructed them to look into Smers
and the look into Bill Clinton and other Democrats that
were going down to pedophile Island Jeffrey Epstein's island. Can

(01:09):
they claim that they can't release the files right now
because of a ongoing investigation.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
I think they can probably claim Larry whatever they want
in order to achieve the result that they want. I
think that's really how you have to look at it.
Forget looking at the legalities. They're going to do what
they have to do to get the result that they want.
You know, I was a little bit weirded out by
Trump's direction that there should be an investigation of epstein

(01:38):
contacts with prominent Democrats. How about like prominent Americans? You know,
does everything have to be you know, you're going after
your enemies. I'm certain that there were many many prominent
Republicans that also had a relationship with them. This is
this should be a bipartisan issue, and doesn't look like
it's going to end up that way.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Are you concerned at all? I guess concerns the wrong word.
But should people's other people involved be concerned at all
about the fact that some of these names may be
released that had maybe didn't partake, maybe just visited the island,
that there's no evidence that they did anything wrong while.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
They were there. I mean, of course, anybody who has
even a conversation with Epstein is being smeared as a
criminal pedophile at this point, so obviously that that's not fair.
I mean, the guy didn't spend his every waking moment
committing crimes. I mean, look, Trump spent time with Epstein,
and Trump says, of course he's innocent. So, you know,

(02:39):
I think that you've got to be careful how this
material is released, that it's got to be explained, because
you know, you've got the world is just going to
start pointing fingers and lives are going to be destroyed.
You know, you also have to the people that are
going to be accused. The statute of limitations has run.
There's not going to be any criminal case is but

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you've got a lot of bad information that's going to
come out, and unless it's completely transparent, a lot of
people are going to be unfairly smeared.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Well, you're one of the best known criminal defense attorneys
in the country. There are other criminal defense attorneys that
I'm sure are getting phone calls right now. What would
those attorneys be doing if someone called and said, hey, listen,
my name might be on this list. What can I do?

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Well, the first thing after they cashed their check, they
would probably explain to the would be or now new
client that there's no criminal exposure. I mean, this is
sort of like a situation, Larry, where you're going to
have like twenty five holes in the dike as a
defense lawyer and you've only got ten fingers and ten toes.
I think there's a limit to what you can do

(03:47):
at this point other than trying to get out ahead
of it and as soon as the name is released,
trying to explain publicly that you know, there's no criminal
accusation here. There simply was a relationship. There's plenty of people,
as I said, that went to that island, that there's
no proof they did anything wrong.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Right, it's going to be. It is messy. Let one
last question on this before I move in on to
mom Donnie. The one last question is is the government
going to be in any legal jeopardy or do they
have some type of exemption or protection.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Legal jeopardy in what sense I mean in terms of
criminal product lawsuits, lawsuits to know, I don't think that
there will be. I think they'll have, you know, immunity
from anything like that. But I think if the names
are put out, they're going to have to be put
out in a transparent way, so that people will understand
in terms of exactly what these people have done that

(04:44):
are going to be in the records. I don't know
if there'll even be a basis for a lawsuit.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Okay, now let's get onto what the world's going to
look like with Zorin. Mom, Donnie, what are your expectations.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Well, I mean, look, the first thing he did was
back for an assembate queen's assembly seat. The daughter of
an illegal immigrant. She's calls al Qaeda and hamas her hero.
She's Palestinian. You know, this is what you're gonna expect.
You're and get a lot of this Islamist slop, this
filth are going to be taking positions of power in

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New York City. But this is what you expect when
you elect a pro Muslim terror Islamist like Mamdani. You're
gonna get all of the garbage that goes along with them.
So there's going to be plenty of seats be taken
over by these people. The buses, I presume he's going to,
you know, try to make them free, so you're going

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to have homeless and drug addicts are going to be
basically living on them. He's got to get the money
for all of this stuff to happen, if you know,
for the slow denigration of our life in New York
and the life the quality of life in New York.
Kathy Hokel, as we know, is a craven, pitiful politics

(06:00):
who will do whatever she has to do to get elected.
That's all she cares about. So she feels that she
can raise taxes and release money. If it will not,
She'll be doing poll after poll after poll to determine
if it's going to affect her popularity. If it will
get her one more vote, then it will lose her.
She will do all these things. She'll raise taxes on

(06:22):
the wealthy again. I mean they talk about it as
if the wealthy you're not paying their taxes. Larry, we
pay fifty percent of our taxes of our income goes
to taxes I don't know where, and we pay nearly
all of the taxes in New York City. I don't
know why. Why Mam Donnie thinks that you know, rich
people aren't you know, paying their taxes. She will release it.

(06:45):
She will allow all of these things to happen if
she thinks that it will help her win the next
election and believe me, Mam, Donnie's got long coattails. I
mean he won I you know, fifty percent of the vote.
That's a lot in a three person race. So I
have to say that she's going to be nervous that
he's going to do things to harm her as well

(07:06):
if she doesn't blindly follow his leftist, pro Islamist, communist
I'm not going to call it socialist agenda.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, I'll tell you what. He does have long coat tails.
He has long coat tails across the country. We weren't
paying attention because we were so focused on the New
York race, but socialists were elected in big cities across
the country. It's going to be a new world. Jeffrey
Jeffrey Lickman, high profile criminal defense attorney, host of Beyond
the Legal Limit broadcast found podcast Excuse Me found on

(07:35):
the iHeartRadio app. Thanks a lot, Jeffrey,