MeidasTouch Legal AF host Michael Popok reported Thursday on how Donald Trump is once again endangering the integrity of the peaceful transfer of power. As The New York Times reports, Trump and his transition team have failed to sign crucial agreements required by the General Services Administration (GSA) to ensure a smooth transition into office—raising alarming concerns about transparency, ethics, and national security.
The refusal to sign these documents, Popok argues, is not just administrative negligence but a deliberate move by Trump to avoid the restrictions that come with formal transition protocols. Without these agreements, the Trump team can continue raising unlimited sums from dark money donors, keeping their identities hidden while stalling access to critical resources like office space and classified materials. This echoes Trump’s previous attempts to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power when he refused to cooperate with the incoming Biden administration in 2020.
The key player behind this dangerous strategy? The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, which has been tasked with vetting and selecting individuals for Trump's potential second administration. With an 18,000-person database of loyalists, Project 2025 is effectively functioning as Trump’s "shadow government," bypassing traditional channels like the GSA that ensure accountability and transparency.
Popok points out that this strategy not only compromises national security but also highlights Trump's ongoing contempt for democratic norms and ethics. By delaying the signing of critical transition agreements, Trump is prioritizing his ability to raise millions from undisclosed donors over the country's safety. He is leveraging every loophole he can to maintain financial control and avoid scrutiny.
The consequences could be disastrous. If Trump refuses to engage in a peaceful transfer—even if he wins—the country could face unprecedented chaos. His reliance on private organizations like the Heritage Foundation to manage his administration without governmental oversight raises serious concerns about who is really pulling the strings behind Trump’s power plays.
Popok's analysis makes it clear: Trump’s refusal to cooperate with essential transition protocols is not just negligence—it’s a calculated move to exploit dark money, subvert democratic processes, and maintain control, even if it risks the nation's security.
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He should not be allowed to be on the ballot until he signs the paperwork, health reports and taxes ! Everyone else has to .
OMG this is So Bad?!! Thank You, for all the hard work you're doing for the American people and me. Getting the Facts and the Truth out, where Corporate Media has Failed to do their fundamental Job. I will reStack ASAP 💯👍🇺🇸💙🌊
It is truly time for Biden to order Seal Team Six to do a mission .
My thoughts for weeks. I’ve already prayed for forgiveness, this has to be stopped!
If only!
After the election
I love Popock and LegalAFMTN
Me too!!!! I’ve learned so much. Keep educating us!
He should be disqualified if the required documents aren't signed. So tired of him doing whatever he wants to do with no consequences.
Thats why we must not let him win .. by voting Blue .. to BIG to RIG...!!!
Can't Trump be disqualified for not signing the transition paperwork.
And he gets away with this crap
That's the most infuriating aspect of all 9f his audacity is that he keeps getting away with his BS. If ever there was a man who sold his soul, it's him.
In my heart of hearts I pray he loses this election and has to answer his crimes to all of America. It will be the end of MAGA!!
Geez, I hate these SOBs!!!!!!!!
We need to revisit and give our laws actual teeth to prevent this in the future. This time round he won't have to worry about transitioning anywhere but jail where they will give him a toothbrush and jammies.
If this is true, why doesn't President Biden force him to sign these documents? Wouldn't doing that fall under the official acts that SCOTUS described?
Lock him up! And throw away the key.
Why is the American justice system so slake that allows this to go on. I know the lower judges have morals, however the Maga lead Supreme Court gets away with doing what they want without checks and balances. This needs to change and when Kamala wins as she should let's hope she can change this situation. VOTE BLUE 💙💙💙💙 the UK supports her.🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
For the life of me I can’t help but wonder in the back of my mind if Trump has had this and Lord knows what with his BS pre planned. Does he want everyone to think he’s crazy but maybe he’s not as crazy as we think he is. I don’t trust him or anyone in his ring of clowns 🤡
Hes not a policy detail guy. He outsources the empty policy part of his brain for money or favors. Heritage, RFK jr (un) christian nationalists, thiel, Musk. He sets the ethics standards low.
Your lack of trust is deeply justified
As insulted and infuriated as the Republican mouth breathers were to the supposed pompous Democratic elites looking down on them, so insulted and infuriated am I towards the hubris and haughty manner with which tRump and his MAGaGOTS disdainfully brush away the protocols of civil government and decorum . Always for the purpose of raising money and retaining power. The behavior and entitlement of this demagogue is beyond reprehensible. After Nov 5, it is my fervent prayer to never see or hear from this foul spawn of Satan or his sycophants again!
Is it illegal? Can he be arrested?
Pure evil 😈
What can be done, legally.....ANYTHING?!?! This is TOTALLY insane! But then, we all know TFG is out of his effin' mind!!!!!!
Omg this guy is a real gem
The Sovereign of this world will put an end to this evil, failing attempts to rulership (Daniel 2:44; Matthew 6:9, 10)
Trump is a
Fucking NAZI
ENOUGH
SAID
Every step of the way Trump creates a problem.
Personally, I don't want to see Donald Trump have any access to classified documents or briefs again EVER! The felon and fraudster needs to be indicted on treason! If I had done what he did with the classified documents, I can assure you I'd be sitting in a jail cell cooling my arse!
Elizabeth Murphy delayed the transfer to Biden
The Project 2025 appears to have a reach into unsuspected areas including transition requirements to the next administration as attorney Popok has pointed out.
Other seemingly unrelated points are:
# Congressional Speaker of House
Johnson does not appear to want to
declare an early session
for a positive vote to renew funding for
hurricane relief, especially for Florida.
# For a governor to receive federal funds
for hurricane relief, he or she must
formally request it (recalling a non-
compliance excuse used after Hurricane
Katrina, 2005)
Yesterday,10 OCT, 2024, a video was seen where Sec. of Transportation Buttigieg appears to indicate that such a formal request from Florida's governor DeSantis was NOT RECEIVED by federal authorities.
Just an oversight during the emergency?
Or just another dot to connect? The point is that federal funding needs to be renewed to cover such disasters as two hurricanes, Helene and Milton, to hit Florida within days.
SHARED found it
Why isn’t this being told so voters know! The media is failing!
The sirens ran me off as I’m sure so many of your listeners…dude… that is annoying more than tolerable…
The double standard and the weakness of government is (sadly) shining through!
Now what?!
Why is this not being dealt with? Doesn’t Biden “enjoy” the immunity of a King since SCOTUS granted him unimaginable powers ? Time to use them!
How do we SHARE this video ?? I clicked on the share button, nothing ?
Need to edit the title to say are instead of second and
I've been away since the election, I'm disgusted with this country right now, but all we have left is to fight for what's right and I will always continue to do that!!!
God help us if he is elected! He shouldn’t even be on the ballot
You will have egg (and possibly semen) on your face after the election. You are a clown at best.