Legal AF by MeidasTouch

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.

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October 26, 2026 • 23 mins

AG Blanche has a tell: he gets flustered and melts down before our very eyes on national television when he knows he's defending a piece of crap lawsuit. But that doesn't stop him from violating the DOJ Manual and accusing someone of crimes without evidence, either. Popok explains it all.

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Popok reports on breaking news, as a Trump-dominated 3 judge 9th Circuit Appeals Panel, in a a rare Sunday afternoon emergency oral argument, seems on the verge of rejecting the DOJ's "emergency" appeal to block California midterm votes already received, and will instead likely send the case back down to the Trial Judge for a hearing on Tuesday.

LIVE: 9th Circuit Oral Argument on BLOCKING Voters

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October 25, 2026 • 71 mins

The award winning Legal AF Pod is back with founders Ben and Popok directing traffic at the intersection of law and politics. On tonight’s show, they take on: 1) Trump launching his strategy to interfere with the midterm election before the race is even run; 2) whether Trump will now cowardly dismiss his defamation case against the BBC now that he is being compelled to give a deposition and his family may be too; and 3) posi...

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Popok reports on Democratic Senate Candidate from Maine Troy Jackson and Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada should be thanked for getting Trump to Drop major AG industry tariffs with 9 days to go in the election, to help shore up a failing Senate race by incumbent Susan Collins! And Trump whines that Carney is interfering with the US election by reminding voters that Trump is to blame for their economic suffering!

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Popok reports on breaking news, as a DC Federal Judge enters an emergency Preliminary Injunction to stop Homeland Security and DOJ from using a faulty, unreliable, slap together voter eligibility data base, "enhanced" with unknown AI tools, to intimidate voters and deny Citizens the right to vote.

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Popok is joined for a special "voter protection" briefing by HuffPo's own Paul Blumenthal to discuss what he found in his new article, "Donald Trump is Learning the Hard Way that He Can't Steal This Election"

Read Paul's Latest HuffPost Article:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-election-schemes_n_6acfb922e4b0e26c18d13461

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Trump doesn’t want to be VIDEOTAPED in his own deposition in the defamation case he brought against the BBC, and Popok has a good thought as to why!  The BBC fires back and also tries to get 2 of Trump’s OWN lawyers, his former White House Counsel and Deputy White House Counsel, to testify AGAINST HIM in his defamation suit, and Popok explains how a judge Trump hates, Chief Judge Boasberg, is at the heart of the ma...

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Popok reports on a major hearing today, as Trump tries to avoid having his deposition videotaped in his own BBC defamation case for obvious reasons, and the BBC runs to DC to get Chief Judge Boasberg to let them depose all of Trump's main White House lawyers on Jan6 to testify against him and for the BBC!

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A federal judge just told Trump in effect to “Sit Down” for a deposition by December 11 or risk having his “10 billion Dollar Lawsuit” against the BBC for damages related to his Jan6 kick off speech dismissed. Popok, a master of video depositions, explains why video depositions are used (disclosing some trade secrets while he is at), and why Trump may be seriously thinking about dropping the case given his t...

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October 22, 2026 • 87 mins

Popok and Karen Friedman Agnifilo take the controls of the Legal AF podcast, joined by special guest Allison Gill of The Daily Beans pod, to discuss the likely results of the midterm elections, given Trump’s historically abysmal polling numbers; Trump’s calling the stone-cold killer Putin a “humanitarian”; Alina Habba’s apparent failure to do proper due diligence on the person she married, as she gets ...

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Popok reports on a possible money laundering, bribery and criminal foreign lobbying scheme involving Trump’s former attorney Alina Habba, her turkish new husband, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the US!

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Popok is joined by the NAACP’s General Counsel and former head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division for an exclusive update on two emergency suits filed to stop Trump from using prosecutors and law enforcement personnel to intimidate voters at the polls.

https://naacp.org/people/kristen-clarke

https://866ourvote.org/

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Popok reports on Judge Ana Reyes taking on the DOJ and calling them out on the public record for the violent threats against her family and her which is "freaking" her family out, reminding them that the Framers didn't envision attacks over a golf course!

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A calling card of dictatorship is attacking judges and calling for their violent overthrow, and Federal Judge Ana Reyes has had enough of judges and their families being subject to violent threats for judges doing their jobs, and she told the DOJ and the public so in a hearing this week. Popok examines what led Judge Reyes to call out the Trump Administration and its violent tendencies in court.

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October 20, 2026 • 17 mins

It’s not just that former Special Counsel Jack Smith is volunteering to testify for the BBC against Trump in his defamation case, or that Jack Smith has made it known once again that he won’t be silenced and won’t take the 5th Amendment when he does; it’s that Trump’s own lawyers, in their papers, have inadvertently bolstered his credibility and testimony and the volume of evidence against Trump in the...

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Popok reports and updates on Katie Phang's suit against the DOJ to obtain millions more Epstein Files, as the DOJ begs the Court not to publish the handwritten interview notes of the alleged victim of a Trump sex attack.

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Popok reports that former Special Counsel Jack Smith has volunteered to testify about the EVIDENCE against Trump related to the attack on the Capitol in the BBC's defamation case and has let it be known he WON'T TAKE THE 5th Amendment!!

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October 19, 2026 • 18 mins

When you are at the end of the worst 2 weeks before a midterm election in presidential history, you attack the Judge and try to make the story about her, in a case where Trump and his DOJ are trying another illegal takeover of a historic site.  Popok reports on Judge Ana Reyes not only denying the DOJ’s motion to disqualify her from the East Potomac Golf Course case, but laying out a succinct record demonstrating that th...

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Popok reports on Mueller She Wrote Allison Gil's lawsuit against the FBI to obtain all 9 of the Epstein files training videos that exist that they refuse to release as being exempted by the Freedom of Information Act requirements because they are "privileged?!?"

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Two leaders of the Epstein Survivors movement, Lisa Phillips and Lara Blum McGee join Popok for a special pre-midterm election report on how the Epstein Survivors are not only demanding justice from a FUTURE DOJ, but they are working overtime to make sure voters send a message in 2 weeks that victimizing victims and abusing the court system to do it, is not acceptable and will end political careers.

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