Legal AF by MeidasTouch
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 and occasional shorter breaking legal news hits throughout the week.
Episodes
September 14, 2025 • 97 mins
What is the solution to draining politics out of political violence and addressing its multiple causes—and can it even be done with Trump and MAGA in office? How did Trump’s attempt to frame a Federal Reserve governor for fraud spectacularly blow up in his face? Why isn’t Kash Patel being fired immediately for misconduct and malfeasance as FBI Director, and what does that say about our true “homeland security”? What has been uneart...
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September 13, 2025 • 18 mins
Newly discovered bank and tax documents show that Trump and one of his inner circle Bill Pulte have been lying to a federal court that Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook committed mortgage fraud by falsely claiming that she told her lender that 2 homes of hers were both “primary residences” in order to gain an economic and tax advantage. As Michael Popok reports based on Reuters expose, turns out that Cook told her lender in writi...
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September 13, 2025 • 17 mins
Buried in the newly disclosed leaked Jeffrey Epstein emails is the proof in a never disclosed email that Trump is lying about why he “fired” Epstein as his best friend, and it has nothing to do with Trump believing Epstein was a “creep” or a child sex predator, it was just a falling out about a $41 million dollar real estate deal in Palm Beach. Michael Popok uses his Florida lawyer and West Palm Beach connections to tie it all tog...
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September 12, 2025 • 19 mins
As Trump masses his Federal shock forces to invade and occupy major Democratic Sanctuary cities and states this week, City and State leaders like Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker are leading the anti-Trump Administration resistance, in the streets and in courts. Michael Popok examines the new lawsuit the DOJ has filed against Boston and its Mayor to force it to destroy its Sanctuary City laws to not coop...
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September 11, 2025 • 75 mins
The Supreme Court’s destruction of our civil liberties under the 4th Amendment only took 1 paragraph. 2 federal courts today stop Trump’s hostile take over of the Federal Reserve and the Library of Congress. The Supreme Court throws a 95 year precedent out long the morning trash and it only took 1 paragraph (sensing a theme here?). Former FBI Agents file a new lawsuit to get their jobs back. Trump’s “forgery” birthday card to J...
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September 10, 2025 • 19 mins
In breaking news, DC Federal Judge Jia Cobb has blocked Trump’s efforts to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, finding that her Due Process Rights have been violated and that Trump has no good “for cause” reason to fire her since any allegations about her personal mortgages all occurred before she was confirmed to the post, and “for cause” reasons to fire can only involve her conduct doing her “statutory duties” while “in offi...
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September 10, 2025 • 79 mins
Why the OTHER birthday cards in Epstein’s album prove that Trump’s card is not a forgery, as MAGA women reject Trump and the Wall Street journal goes on the attack. How close is E Jean Carroll to taking $100 million off of Trump as a survivor of his sexual abuse? What has the Supreme Court done to our rule of law in just the last 48 hours. How Trump’s weakness is being exploited by our enemies and allies alike. How Trump’s Recessi...
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September 9, 2025 • 23 mins
In breaking news, the only person to ever beat Trump twice in court and holding over $100 million in judgments against him for having survived his sexual abuse and defamation, E Jean Carrol, just had her $83.5 million dollar abuse and defamation verdict affirmed 3-0 by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Find out how Alina Habba and Trump lost the case so badly when Michael Popok does a deep dive into the new Opinion as E Jean mov...
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September 8, 2025 • 18 mins
Hundreds of thousands of Americans, from infants to seniors, will die directly because of Trump’s depraved public health policies and the destruction of our vaccine and immunization programs. Michael Popok reports on 2 top scientists resigning at the National Institute of Health, joining 4 other top scientists at the Center for Disease Control, and leaving behind a devastating whistleblower complaint accusing the Trump Administrat...
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September 7, 2025 • 80 mins
Summer is over and the anti-Trump resistance has its groove back, winning 6 major cases against the Trump Administration, as Trump’s Epstein scandal and illegal Tariff scheme send his Administration into a self-inflicted tailspin. Ben and Popok are back on the top rated Legal AF podcast to debate this week’s developments from the resistance’s front line—the courts.
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September 5, 2025 • 17 mins
One day after Trump and his family increased their net worth by $5 Billion Dollars with the sale of a new crypto digital asset, on top of the $1.5 billion Trump bragged that he already made this year alone, the new job and manufacturing and tourism number are out and they are an indictment of the Trump Economy that the rest of us are experiencing. Michael Popok puts on his Wall Street hat to break down the latest impeachable offen...
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September 5, 2025 • 20 mins
Trump has suffered his 3 major court losses in the last 4 days, this time in a 2-1 ruling of the DC Federal Court of Appeals. Trump’s firing of the lone democrat on the Federal Trade Commission without proper “cause” has been blocked. But Michael Popok also reports that a frustrated appellate panel in its ruling has also admonished their bosses at the Supreme Court to “do their job” and decide to keep or overturn 90-year-old prece...
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September 4, 2025 • 82 mins
Legal AF, the top rated Law and Politics podcast, is back. Michael Popok and Karen Friedman Agnifilo discuss Trump’s attack on the Epstein Victims, the new health/life and death Trump coverup; and Trump’s Worst Court Losing Streak Ever, with 6 losses in 6 courts in just 8 days, finding he violated, among other things, the Posse Comitatus Act, the Alien Enemies Act, the First Amendment, the Separation of Powers, and the 5th Amendm...
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September 3, 2025 • 18 mins
In a stunning reversal of fortune, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, by a bipartisan 2-1 vote, just declared that Trump’s declaration of war against Venezuela to justify his removal of people without due process under the Alien Enemies Act was illegal, with a Trump judge “trying out” for the Supreme Court (Judge Oldham) in dissent. Michael Popok examines the case sent to the 5th by the Supreme Court in May, and the ruling within a...
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September 3, 2025 • 18 mins
Trump is using white nationalist and nazi symbolism to recruit for his Federal Police Force to use against the American People, including likely allowing Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and Jan 6 Insurrectionists to join the Border Patrol, ICE, and other components of his illegal standing army. Michael Popok ties it all together on his latest hot take.
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September 3, 2025 • 43 mins
Is Trump using AI photos and make up and starting wars to cover up for his failing health and mental state? Did we just attack Venezuela because Trump had a terrible 72 hour set of court losses? Why did a Federal Judge just observe that he is afraid that Trump could use the military to interfere with the presidential election? What crazy and dangerous stunt will Trump pull now that the entirety of his Tariff Scheme and the heart o...
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August 31, 2025 • 80 mins
Why are the Trump Tariffs still be collected if an appeals court ruled against him 7-4? Will Abrego Garcia get asylum to stay in the US because of Trump’s abuse? What are judges doing to counter Trump’s assault on Due Process? Will Judge Cobb stop Trump’s assault on yet another federal official this time Fed Reserve Governor Lisa Cook? Ben and Michael Popok answer it all on the top rated Legal AF podcast.
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August 28, 2025 • 83 mins
Will Judge Xinis grant Abrego Garcia amnesty because of Trump DOJ misconduct? Will the Fed Reserve beat Trump and save its independence? Will the Democrats win the Battle of the Congressional Maps in Court? Why did a Trump judge scold Trump’s DOJ for suing federal judges? Answers to these questions and so much more on the top rated Legal AF Pod, with Michael Popok and Karen Friedman Agnifilo.
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August 27, 2025 • 15 mins
Former Special Counsel Jack Smith and his lawyers are coming out swinging, accusing the partisan ethics probe opened about his work to be “imaginary and unfounded” as he shoves back against MAGA’s phony “whistleblower” complaint against him being investigated by Trump’s stooges at the Office of Special Counsel. Michael Popok connects all the dots on his latest hot take.
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August 27, 2025 • 46 mins
We are at war to protect democracy; to throw off the yokes of Trump’s dictatorship; to resist the occupation by Trump forces; and to reclaim our freedom. Popok is at the Intersection to outline the war and the resistance and discusses Trump’s major losses this week in federal court; and how Trump follows the dictators playbook to attack his enemies on bad news days for him.
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