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You thought I'd leave you without some counter-programming to Presidents Musk and Trump's Hannity interview? Welcome to Popak Live. Let's get into it at the intersection of law and politics. Let's start with the Department of Justice. Just as the Trump administration is already failing, is already circling the drain of history, so too is the Department of Justice,
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which makes perfect sense because Donald Trump, as the unitary executive branch, believes that he is The attorney general, he believes that he is the Department of Justice. In fact, he just ruled today in an executive order that he alone, along with his attorney general. What's her name?
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Pam Bondi is the only one who can express the opinion about law and what the law is in America. Obviously, Donald Trump fell asleep during constitutional history to learn what Article 3 judges are supposed to do. It's judges that interpret the law. Article 1 Congress makes the law. Article 2 executive branch executes on the law.

Popok on Trump's DOJ in Chaos: Resignations, Lies, and Power Grabs

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Legal AF's Michael Popok provides an urgent live briefing on late-breaking events. On this episode of Popok Live, Popok discusses:

  • A new Open Letter from Jack Smith and other former career DOJ officials aimed at bolstering the courage of current DOJ attorneys, following the resignation of a senior DOJ official to avoid initiating a new criminal case against President Biden.

  • Judge Chutkan's recent ruling hinting at barring Elon Musk from government roles.

  • Musk's decision to fire FDA staff evaluating his brain implant technology.

  • The impact of the DOJ's handling of the Mayor Adams corruption scandal.

  • Potential repercussions for Trump and his administration if they fail to comply with court orders.

All this and more at the intersection of law and politics.

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Amanda Squires's avatar

What? Trump went to school🤷‍♀️😂. Someone get rid of this tangerine menace please 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

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Linda M. Walker's avatar

He paid people to pass him through!

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Margaret Callahan's avatar

Yes, 👿 is an alumnus of the now defunct trump university!!!

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Dan Nyberg's avatar

Snake oil shills not welcome here. Go away.

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RockGirl's avatar

I'm going to try this again! We know they have a plan, we know what it is, we know he'll stop at absofuckinglutely nothing to achieve it! This is not a dress rehearsal!! Does anyone want to stop it or do we just want to keep regurgitating the MAGA agenda??? 💪🇺🇸✌️

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MorningStar's avatar

How do you stop a moving train? Nothing will stop Trump and his admin picks without military help, just like he threatens us!!!!

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RockGirl's avatar

Even a moving train 🚆 can be stopped! I watched Unstoppable a bunch of times!! We have to unite 🙌 🙏. How? I'm not sure yet but we need to figure out out quick.

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Shame On ‘em's avatar

Love that movie. And such a true analogy. “We’re The People” need to figure out a game plan to stop this madman in his tracks.

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Bambi Vargo's avatar

Call your US Senators and congress person daily about the issue of the day. Keep an eye open for protests near you and go! We need to be loud and visible.

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Jody's avatar

Y’all need to SHUT YOUR COUNTRY DOWN. NO WORK, no school, no bills paid, no shopping, NO NOTHING. I KNOW this is hard but it’s the only thing to stop this mad man. Everyone. There is not enough Magas to fill in the gaps… let’s be clear they don’t want to work anyways.

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Linda M. Walker's avatar

😂😂

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Donna R.'s avatar

With as many protests there are in D.C. none have been in front of the Whitehouse! Why? That would be powerful TV!

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LadyHistorian's avatar

Yup, tree trunks across the tracks will derail a train, so it’s not a good analogy.

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MorningStar's avatar

so, you'll be rolling tree trunks at Muskrat and Trump the rapist of children? Oh, OK.

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LadyHistorian's avatar

Sad that your knowledge is overwhelmed by your penchant to prattle. Perhaps, this failure is because you are too young to recall the Saturday morning cartoons that often featured this practical point. Someday, may the light dawn.

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Glenn T Morgan Sr's avatar

You join Indivisible and Move On and join the protests. You support the DOJ, Social Security head and anyone else who resigns rather than simply committing crimes on Drumpf's behalf.

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Bambi Vargo's avatar

I am watching federal judges working to stop the train wreck.

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RockGirl's avatar

Anything we can!! The fight needs ALL types of fighters! Utilize your individual strengths and multiple!!! Get with other like minded people and find out how they're fighting back! Some march! Some call their local representatives office 10 times a day! Some people try to get the word out and spread positivity! It's more about doing something then what that something is! We just can't sit this one out!!! 💪🇺🇸🇺🇦🫶✌️

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Richard Wright's avatar

Ben

I sent this to Laura Ingram and Levitt:

Your ostentatious display of that cross—so often worn by religious extremists—does not signify faith, but rather serves as a well-known signal of greed, power, and deceit. It is ironic, given that Christianity explicitly condemns hypocrisy, dishonesty, and hatred, all of which seem to define your daily actions. One can only imagine what your so-called Lord and Savior will say when you stand at the gates of heaven, given that He despises liars. By that measure, you are among the worst of them.

Unlike you, I actually took the time to study religion rather than blindly follow it. While working toward my PhD in Theology, I discovered the fabricated nature of Christianity—an elaborate creation designed for control rather than salvation. The clue was in Jesus' endorsement of Caesar, a bizarre statement for a Jewish figure given that Rome had butchered his people, razed their cities, and starved them into submission. Why would any true Jewish leader support the empire that massacred his own? That was the beginning of my realization that this entire belief system was a carefully constructed lie.

The truth is, Christianity as we know it was engineered in the early 4th century when Emperor Constantine needed to unify a crumbling empire. To do so, he enlisted the wealthiest and most powerful figures of the time—the Flavian rulers, the Alexandrians, and the Herodian dynasty—who funded and orchestrated the creation of a single, controlled religion. Over 2,000 scribes were ordered to synthesize various religious traditions, incorporating figures like Krishna, to craft a passive and submissive deity that would keep the population in line. This was a stark contrast to the Jewish God, Yahweh, who was a God of war and rebellion. The only so-called historical proof of Jesus comes from Josephus, a known liar and traitor—much like you—who conveniently fabricated "evidence" to support the new religious order.

It is almost laughable that in the 21st century, so many Americans remain willfully ignorant of these facts. Then again, it makes sense when you consider that 60% of your country reads at a sixth-grade level, and half of the population has only a fifth-grade education. You, unsurprisingly, seem to fall into this category—not just for subscribing to a fabricated religion but for your general lack of intellect.

Beyond religion, your political allegiances are equally disgraceful. Your dear leader and his ketamine-addicted counterpart are criminals, and the public is beginning to wake up. By April, I expect mass protests will erupt against them, as well as against corrupt figures like Musk. You, as the front-facing mouthpiece of their lies on a propaganda program that would make Kim blush with envy will not escape accountability either. Christian Nationalism—a perversion of even your own fraudulent religion—is the last desperate grasp of hypocrites like you. But history has shown that such movements always crumble under the weight of their own corruption.

I write to you with one message: walk away while you still can. Otherwise, history will remember you, and so will your family who see you as someone who helped prop up one of the greatest frauds of our time. Your treason will not go unanswered, and your hypocrisy will not go unpunished. Those

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Leota Morse's avatar

👍👏👏👏👏👏

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Susan A Dunkelberger's avatar

You are so condescending! How do you think anyone listening to you would ever change their belief when you disrespect them. You demonstrate hatred and for someone who states they read better than 5-6th grade you are pathetic. I feel sorry for anyone having to talk with you.

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Leota Morse's avatar

A big problem is our reublican congressional representatives and senators are not acting. Senators Cornyn and Cruz and my representative Babin are not stepping up for their constituents in the state of Texas. Sadly we weren't able to replace Cruz with Allred.

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RockGirl's avatar

I had my fingers crossed for y'all on that one! What a complete ass clown 🤡 Cruz is!! How embarrassing it must be to opening support him? 🤦🏼‍♀️

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Jean Conley's avatar

Cruz follows his incompetent leader, The Incompetent Dictator Psycho. Too stupid to think for himself.

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Bambi Vargo's avatar

Don't feel so bad. Here in Ohio a former used car salesman (Bernie Moreno) defeated multi-term Dem Senator Sherrod Brown with the help of MAGA donations (including the family that owns the KC Chiefs. So happy the Eagles won!) and spewing Dumpster's hate-filled rhetoric and fear mongering targeting immigrants and transgender people.

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Dawn's avatar

I think what would be effective for all of you with Republican senators is to find their home addresses and demonstrate outside of their homes. Apparently they're not bothered by the massive demonstrations taking place all across the country, but they're sure to notice when it's outside their window.

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Robin D's avatar

I loved Collin Allred and was so hoping he would win and I'm in Ny. . How could people choose Cancun Cruz after him? .Sometimes I think people are so stuck they would prefer the status quo rather than change.

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Jennifer N's avatar

This is far from status quo which is to our advantage. The goal is to be able to have fair elections in 2026. My biggest fear is that's already being messed with by Elon & Putin. It has been as we all know with 2024, and who knows what is happening now with DOGE.

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pete's avatar

boo

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Linda M. Walker's avatar

Same thing in KY.

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Leota Morse's avatar

I agree!. I don't understand it. It takes the same amount of effort to vote for a change (for the better in this case) than to vote for status quo. And we here all saw on the news Cruz's interview at the airport while we sat here in Houston and all of Texas with electrical outages in record breaking freezing weather. 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

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Robin D's avatar

Even knowing nothing about Cruz when I was so totally apolitical, I used to call the Tea Party "Tea Baggers" not as a joke, but because I was clueless. Despite that, the fact that I saw the disgusting things Trump said about his wife Heidi and Cruz's father was weak spineless that he never defended them, but for 10 years he has had his mouth surgically attached to the Orange Anus. And the fact that he graduated from Princeton and Harvard only adds to another conversation I had with a.group yesterday as we were talking about what theae ivy league schools have been turning out for years. Yes he is brilliant, the same way John Kennedy that buffoon from Alabama is brilliant and a.Rhodes scholar. Means nothing when you're still as asshat. What a mortifying embarrassment for a human being, and a Senator. So truthfully, his flying to Cancun to save himself because he could, rather than try to do something for his state, shows exactly who he is.

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S H's avatar

The repugnant congress mbrs will get engaged when they are up for reelection. Voters need to remember how repub senators sat on their hands when impeachment proceedings could have prevented the muskrat & minions from accessing info they have no business accessing.

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RockGirl's avatar

We don't have that long! We need to move now. At the same speed they are.

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Donna R.'s avatar

If "things" aren't bad enough, it will be SCOTUS that determines whether or not to push the knife all the way through and draw first blood. If SCOTUS gives him more power I don't think americans will stand for it. 💙

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Kathleen's avatar

Trump is following what Putin is telling him to do to take over USA.

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Connie S's avatar

Trump changes fElon’s job description as often as he changes his tighty whities!

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Sharliegram's avatar

It's Tighty Diapers!

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Rebecca's avatar

Musk just fired 600 workers at the Bonneville power company plant jeopardizing the power grid for the Northwest. Read Thom Hartmann on the assertion that Trump may be an operative of Russia

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Eva Seifert's avatar

I've believed that since 2016.

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Robin D's avatar

Absolutely! He is a Russian asset. Laundered money for them. Had all his beauty contests in Moscow. Married two Eastern European women from Communist countries. I hate him with the heat of a thousand suns.

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Harriet Warnock-Graham's avatar

I think you're absolutely right and I believe it's been true for a long time

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samonia Iredale's avatar

f/elon nazi is a vantrilliquist & trump is his lap dummy

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Jean Conley's avatar

Perfect combination, as Psycho Dump is a communist. Describes the republiCRAP Party perfectly: Nazi-Communist.

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Mango Graphics's avatar

Yeah, Nero-Link ... Brain Science whose Research Lab has been infested with LISTERIA folks ... and Elon refused to report it or present ANY Sepsis Protocols - so Elon was in danger of Losing his funding!! Then had the Federal Independent Investigator FIRED.

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Lynn SW's avatar

Can we do a class action suit against Elon and his minions for stealing our personal data?? I know a few million people who would be interested 😀

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Jean Conley's avatar

...far MORE than just a "FEW" million.........

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Harriet Warnock-Graham's avatar

Jamie Raskin is working on that project, I believe. Check in with his office.

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Robin D's avatar

He is a national treasure. Every day I wish him good health and to stay strong. I actually love him and Jasmine Crockett together. I love when they show her making mincemeat of whatever trash of the day she is dealing with. He gets a kick out of how smart and passionate she is and smiles.

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Harriet Warnock-Graham's avatar

Amen, I'm actually very impressed with our Representatives. Good relations between our Democrats will make a big difference in our outcomes.

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Jeanne Stawiecki's avatar

THE SUPREME COURT NEEDS TO JUST STEP DOWN. ONLY THE DEMOCRATIC JUSTICES

SHOULD BE IN CHARGE! THE SUPREME COURT IS IN TRUMP'S POCKET!

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Jean Conley's avatar

Absolutely. It's disgusting and irritating that it has to be this way. Thanks to the republiCRAPS, all of those who Biden tried to appoint they shouted "NO, NO, NO, NO" and waited iuntil The Dictator Criminal Psycho got into the Oval Office. Then remember??? Those who the incompetent Doofus appointed-BINGO-got right in there.

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Maryooch's avatar

THOSE are the people we need to protest to, loud and strong and insistent.

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Catherine Rhea's avatar

THIS IS CHUTZPAH!!!!!

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Sljenkins's avatar

I would love to see these guys live on $1,500 per month. It would also satisfying to see them work for minimum wage 😉

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MorningStar's avatar

I'd like to see them WORK for a living instead of raping the country.

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David Glaser's avatar

I believe he’s appearing with Musk bc he has lost any ability to answer questions. Meaning his mental capacity has gotten to the point one month into his term that he can only play golf and sit at a desk. Maybe the corp media will take notice. Maybe? Anyone out there??

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Jeanne Stawiecki's avatar

TRUMP IS A CLOWN/ I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE HIM AND HIS MINIONS GETTING THROWN IN JAIL! ALSO MUSCK NEEDS TO BE KICKED BACK TO SOUTH AFRICA!

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Glenn T Morgan Sr's avatar

They don't want Muskmelonhead either

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Dennis W.'s avatar

Okay, Popok thanks for the info. You verbiage is good. The problem is we the USA does not have the time to go through all the court cases that are happening against Trump and Musk. Because they are going ahead and not following the old Democracy rule of law! Authoritarian/Fascist idealogy is here. Either cut to the chase or get off the pot... that's to our legal system what's left of it!!! Resistance is a necessity!!!!!

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Roegan L's avatar

Why hasn't Hochul fired Eric Adam's yet?

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Glenn T Morgan Sr's avatar

She had to have a hearing and give the corrupt weasel due process first. She can't just remove him outright.

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Paula Butler's avatar

Great job!!! Did you see Trump’s message calling himself a KING!!!

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Yves Riguet's avatar

Friends do not lie.

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Jean Conley's avatar

No. But the Dictator Criminal Orange Loon Buffoon Psycho and his co-president, muskRAT do.

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Dianne Blanding's avatar

I hope Democrats and the police are at the poling places on April 1st to protect the voters.

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Meg's avatar
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Musk's decision to fire FDA staff evaluating his brain implant technology.

Awful enough, RFK is ready to disregard decades of neuroscience.

super scary.

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ZCob's avatar

Trump CANNOT MAKE ANY IF US AGRRE WITH HIM!!!

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BenefitHumanity's avatar

You and the Midas Mighty are a benefit to humanity Michael. I'm all in this battle, unafraid, period!

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Judy Sacco's avatar

All the thousands of federal employees who were fired should go to the Senate and House and fill up the gallery and start making noise, yelling at the Republican Congress to do their jobs. The time for peaceful protests has passed. A lot of aggressive protest is needed.

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Phgladko's avatar

BOYCOTT

WHEN:

Thursday February 27th from Midnight till Friday The 28th Midnight

(A full 24 hours of the 28th)

12:00 AM to 12:00 AM

WHAT NOT TO DO:

Do not make any purchases

Do not shop online, or in-store

No Amazon, No Walmart, No Best Buy

Nowhere!

Do not spend money on:

Fast Food

Gas

Major Retailers

Do not use Credit or Debit Cards for non essential spending

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

Only buy essentials of absolutely necessary

(Food, Medicine, Emergency Supplies)

If you must spend, ONLY support small, local businesses.

SPREAD THE MESSAGE

Talk about it, post about it, and document your actions that day!

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Dawn's avatar

Michael, thank you for explaining Judge Chutkan's decision on Doge moving forward. When I first read it, I was freaking out, but now I'm hopeful.

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Wendy Arnold's avatar

Michael, thank you for helping ordinary people have quality legal representation

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Debbie T's avatar

Indeed! People scoff at ambulance chasers but when you need one, you need a good one! The firm I used earned every cent after I was in a 5 vehicle accident caused by a semi! Two years later and I'm still recovering!

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Heather Soper's avatar

I'm British but I really don't get it, why can't you get trump and musk out now, why are you waiting? Surely it is far too dangerous to wait?

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Vava's avatar

I'd like the Popok law firm to lead a class action lawsuit against the Trump Administration for firing all these thousands of civil servants. They were sent letters saying their performance was substandard, and yet some of them had special achievement awards recently!

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Douglas Gilligan's avatar

Prosecutors do more than 'political' cases. There are consequences when there are not enough prosecutors for the day to day business of enforcing our laws, including the ones rich people rely on. When the DoJ is hollowed out and they try to replace with lawyers (that are not disbarred) who are MAGA loyalists, they will find out; The small number of MAGA loyalist lawyers they can find willing to work for the government (at modest wages) will be assigned to Political hit-jobs and there will not be enough for anything else. The halls will be emptied. There will be fewer lawyers willing to defend MAGA loyalists as they find ways to break state laws. Judges will find the cases made by the (new) DoJ to be flawed in many ways, and they will either be thrown out or just plain lose. Sure, they will have fewer cases to prosecute as they turn a blind eye to corruption and other crimes, such as Mayor Adams, but the people will still hear about the corruption, they will still see the consequences.

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Margaret Nolan's avatar

What happened to the Supreme Courts decision that a president can’t be sued for actions taken as part of the presidents job? Does DJT think that only relates to HIM? Biden’s only “crime” is that his actions don’t agree with those of DJT!

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Carl Selfe's avatar

We need to stop the fraud! Musk lies. Trump lies. Congress will lean on those lies to cut the rich their $3 trillion tax cut if you let them do it. bit.ly/42WGuM1

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Marcie Claus's avatar

The Musk implants kind of reminds me of the movie THX1138

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David Alan Arnold's avatar

I cannot see reasonable law enforcement officers or military carrying out obviously “crazy” orders from a man, who though he may have been put in office, is functionally an insane egomaniac. Somewhere along the chain of command are good, sane and patriotic people who are not going to go along with these undeniably ludicrous, autocratic delusions.

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The Burnhams's avatar

She's blond. There! "splained that one for ya.

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Geena Marquis's avatar

My family thanks you for everything you do and the clarity you bring to this fight. This is so hard and heavy and your show slows the chaos spin in the anxious mom’s head and heart.

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Mary's avatar

If any friends tell you "this is not what I voted for", be sure to tell them to call their representatives often, every day if they can. We, the people, need to speak out loudly and often!!

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Shannon Caldwell's avatar

Thank you so much for your video. You help explain all these lawsuits and what it all means to all this fuckery.

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Kathy H's avatar

You are a beautiful, powerful person, Popok, you demonstrating how things work & how people work together, along with the brothers, are a big impact in many lives. I appreciate you. Thanks for your take on Neurolink, there are many things many are seeing a very real threat to all of our lives. Not sure who all have said, "over my dead body", but far from any longer having the arrogance of youth I will can still say, I haven't worked so hard & done so well with what I had, doing everything to play by the rules, for nothing. We'll see who is doing God's work, alright.

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Linda's avatar

So Musk wants to fire those who want to check out his implant tech while he fires hundreds of valuable Federal employees, and that could slow our government down because it is now short staffed…Musk is like Trump they want their cake and eat it too…Hypocrisy at its worse…

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Michael J LaFalce, jr.'s avatar

How does the real world stop mu$k from continually disrupting the election process and results? Without that protection in place, they will continue until there is NO MORE.

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Teresa G's avatar

Ketamine overdose

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Glenn T Morgan Sr's avatar

Michael you explain Pam Bondi with her corruption and extreme loyalty to Deadbeat Don the Con Drumpf. That's all that matters to the Heritage Foundation and the MAGA MAROON CULT.

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John Cranford's avatar

I cannot believe the stupidity, aka the 'Whitehouse' and the even dumber sheep that follow and worship the two sorriest men to ever sit and stink up the Oval Office.

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US Patriot's avatar

I always feel better after listening to you Popok! It's encouraging to know that the law still exists and has teeth. Thanks.

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Glenn T Morgan Sr's avatar

I have a feeling that SCOTUS will not agree with Deadbeat Donnie's interpretation of law. I may be wrong but I don't think they're as willing as the republican Congress and Senate is to relinquish their powers to the executive branch.

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JK7's avatar

Imagine being a fly on that wall right now ?!

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Ruth Hibbett's avatar

Trump is destroying our country one day at a time. 😢

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Ruth Hibbett's avatar

Trump isn’t squat

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David Yancey's avatar

Great work Popak. You are my life line in this world of unprecedented tyrant.

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Training Pups's avatar

Great in-depth info! Thnx.

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Jason Egenberg's avatar

Trump’s ‘drain the swamp’ lie is costing Americans their jobs—while the real swamp thrives. With Elon helping gut agencies, Trump’s installing loyalists to serve him, not the US. This article I wrote exposes the truth & how to stop it before it’s too late

Would love your thoughts on the article.

https://jasonegenberg.substack.com/p/trump-promised-to-drain-the-swamp

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Donna R.'s avatar

Everyone keep your eye on SCOTUS. Ultimately the will be deciding whether or not to give trump more or endless executive powers. If they give him ANY more there's going to be a full on national outrage!

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Julia's avatar

I call her Blondie Bondi. Wrap her in hot pinkl

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gerri caldarola's avatar

The point is to make us think all of DOJ -- all the Cabinet positions and agencies are not needed.

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Susan A Dunkelberger's avatar

This horrible mess will never go away until trump and vance are out of the White House. And, musk is sent back to Africa. The judges and lawyers who are holding strong and standing up to trump need to march into the Oval office and handcuff all three and march them into prison. I know this is crazy, but I'm so-so frustrated with the evil president!!

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Dan D's avatar

How can we go wrong with a president with an IQ of 78!? That's waaay up there compared to his followers!

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Mary Zemke's avatar

Trump just signed an executive order stating only he and Pam Bondi determine law not congress or the courts.Are we in a constitutional crisis yet?

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T Swanson's avatar

Found elsewhere...

About Musk’s Plan by Conrad Goehausen

I thought people might like to know what Elon Musk and Trump have planned for the country, and it's shocking that no one is talking about their real agenda here. All we see are threats to completely end so many government programs and agencies and spending, seemingly as simple hatred of government and retribution to those who opposed Trump or didn't vote for him, along with massive cruelty to all sorts of people, from immigrants to people who rely on government benefits. Terrible as that is, it's not what's really going on.

Musk's plan, that he's convinced Trump to commit to, is to transform the entire way our government works, by running it as a giant series of AI programs.

No, that's not science fiction, and it's not me going paranoid crazy. It's what Musk is planning to do. And fast.

Musk has been building giant AI programs and massive AI computing centers for years now. He just finished building Colossus in Tennessee, the world's largest AI computing center. Colossus was just launched in September 2024. It's a part of Musk's xAI company, which he intends to use to completely revamp how the federal government works. All these reductions in the federal workforce and bureaucracy are a prelude to putting the entire government in the hands of his AI company, and other subcontractors.

This is technofascism on a massive scale. Musk intends to make trillions from this, and probably give Trump a piece of the pie. Would that be illegal? Sure, but Trump can't be prosecuted for this, thanks to the Supreme Court's rulings. He has immunity even to charges of bribery.

I think this explains Musk's huge role in Trump's government, and his focus on DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency), which by executive order has been given immense power across the government at every level.

Trump could never do any of this on his own, much less even think of it. But Musk has dreamed of this for decades, and he has convinced Trump to back it to the hilt.

In the next few months, were going to see it happen. It won't be noticed at first, because it's quite complex and our journalists and media are cowered by fear and narrowness of vision. But it's already happening. And this explains the outer confusion as to what Trump is planning, what his end game is. Turns out it's not Trump's end game, it's Musk's. And Musk is way ahead of everyone on this.

Call me crazy if you like, but this is what's really happening behind the scenes. Trump will say all kinds of crazy shit to distract from it, do crazy things as well, but this is the real program. Don't get caught up in all the cruelty and threats and BS being thrown about. That's bad enough, but it's not the real point.

Turning the government of the United States into a technofascist AI kleptocracy that enriches the investor class even more is the point. And this is why all the techno-oligarchs like Bezos and Zuckerberg and Ellison are all now gung-ho Trumpers. They will get even richer themselves through the AI government programs Musk will oversee.

Trump himself is just a distraction from the real powers remaking our country. A simple pawn enriching himself in the process of turning democracy into a computer algorithm controlled by the techno-oligarchs.

Don't say you weren't warned.

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Olga Shey's avatar

Are Federalist Society lawyers and judges going to let Drumpf mess with the US constitution?

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Rebecca's avatar

I lived in FL 2016-2023 and Pam Bondi is as dumb as a rock! She has long blonde hair and Trump could fantasize she was Ivanka

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Ian Thomas's avatar

I’m sorry, but we ALREADY elected a Democrat president and gave him a TRIFECTA. What did they do with it? Did they stop the disinformation campaigns? Did they prevent Trump’s candidacy vis the 14th amendment or lawfully prosecuting his crimes? Did they remove corrupt judges? Did they stop Republicans from massive voter suppression and election interference?

Harris received THREE open letters from computer science experts citing serious security breaches and clear signs of fraud. She wouldn’t even back for a recount. She refused to champion union protections or medicare for all, she refused to denounce the genocidal maniac Netanyahu. That’s not “getting close” to what the people wanted. As is obvious by the 90 million who stayed home. Failing to get them out to vote was the LEADERSHIPS failure.

So other than ask the fascists to pretty please stop, what did they actually do with the power we ALREADY gave them? Why should I believe they are the solution, when all evidence points to them rolling over for the enemy?

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Nancy Taylor's avatar

IMPEACHMENT FOR tRump! Congress has failed us. Vote Democrat you idiots!!! You surely know you're getting what you voted for!!!

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Gary Bonner's avatar

Trump is the President for the next 4 years - everything they’re doing is wrote out in their 2025 plan - we were warned that all this would happen. It’s all due to the failures of our Democratic Party - how they could fail to prosecute in an expedient manner completely blows my mind - I for the first time in my life, started making donations to the Democratic Party, and not one or two but many because to fail my party would mean what’s happening is happening!

They could be saving America- with a $35 trillion dollar debt crisis- it’s obvious our leaders have totally failed America.

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Pam Mastrianni's avatar

I want to know about E M going into the Federal Reserve to inventory the gold.

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Jacqueline Chambers's avatar

Congratulations 🎉

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Cynthia Walsh's avatar

Great work. So informative.

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Suzie's avatar

Thank you!!

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Tammy Cocchiarale's avatar

Trump hauled off to jail? Come on Popok, that’s hysterical 😝However, I do like your positivity. It would be wonderful if you’re correct, but I think you’re dreaming.

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DW's avatar

The kids at the border need you Popok. They no longer have ANY legal support!!!!

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DW's avatar

I wish I could support you more unfortunately I'm on S.S.D. which means I'm most likely on the chopping block. Like many,many others scared shitless about our future. Elon and his little, little boys that, unfortunately are very intelligent when it comes to coding, computer language have seen our info and most likely have that info on a very nice flash drive. Which means he is now the most powerful man in the U.S. With in a month he should have if not already an algorithm, a program that allows him to look up the people that pisses him off the most. And you won't see it coming. Get some funding offshore. I'm a very old hacker from way back in the day of Linux and the beginning of the internet, but a good guy hacker. When Microsoft and the over priced just for profit rotten Apple was just getting started. We are the original "hackers" and where the word came from like dude and even skate boarding. I'm way out classed now but I know what can be done. Get your money offshore if you can and not subject to an S.S. number search. Nope not exactly legal but neither are the monsters we have in office. I hope I am wrong about this believe me, but I know what is Very possible.

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Dan Nyberg's avatar

Fantastic content! Thanks Michael.

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Teresa G's avatar

Only the president and attorney general can reads the law?

Isn’t the judiciary piece in the constitution on an equal footing as the executive branch branch

How is the supreme courts going to view this? He just took away their powers too

Obviously he doesn’t address the legislative branch because they are not yet fighting him. To put it nicely.

Isn’t this declaring himself king either impeachment criteria or especially amendment 25 criteria?

We know his cabinet is not going to go along with an amendment 25

What else can be done legally, to get rid of this madman. He has gone off the deep end and his side kick muskmelon?

Can we the people demand a recall election?

Seriously this has gone over the brink.

My stomach is hurting

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Renate's avatar

Thank you 🩷

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Sare's avatar

F Joe Rogan. He’s a traitor. I used to watch him when he was Bernie supporter, I can’t stand him now!

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julie wagner's avatar

Donald Trump is collecting green stamps and, saved enough to buy Pam Bondi.

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sleeplessinstanwood's avatar

Everyone focuses in shock that Musk and his band of muskateers are moving through our government at break net speed....most likely stealing the data on all of the systems they have accessed....why wouldn't they.

This is simply Project 2025 moving forward as its authors promised it would....creating chaos on every level. I think the majority of the public just knew P25 as a 900 page book outlining the first 180 day plan of the next Republican administration to restructure our government. A 900 page book is daunting reading so in the end I think it sounded more like a generic talking point that most Americans didn't understand. It needed more of the media to offer upfront specific details to the public, loud and clear. That didn't happen.

There is an endgame for this project and media now needs to amplify these outcomes sooner than later. Maybe that will light a bigger fire under all of our butts. Outlet after outlet shares the same information, some from the current day, and lots of airtime for breaking news from a few days ago. I realize that context is important as we move through this. But please, help enlighten us specifically on outcome, especially where it can be tied to P25 and its intent.

If successful, we know that P25 is not the final endgame. There are dystopian ideas that can easily grow from the seeds of P25. Please help us be aware of those, and name the names in the weeds that support and push these ideas.

I love Meidas. Heather, Jay and Joyce and all of the other voices that I don't have enough hours in the day to hear. Thank you all.

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Henry C Barnett's avatar

So who can stop Trump and how?

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Henry C Barnett's avatar

I'm waiting fo an answer !!

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Don Rollins's avatar

Judge Chutkin's opinion, so far, is tantamount to this:

A group representing chickens goes to court seeking an immediate injunction because the fox has been given a set of keys to the henhouse. Judge Chutkin replies: "Show me a chicken who has been harmed as a result of the fox having a set of keys to the henhouse. Until then, your case has no merit."

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Ami Thibedeau's avatar

Pam Bondi: Camera ready, credentials above average, 45 sycophant, . . . did I mention camera ready?

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Ruth Hibbett's avatar

Good for them

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Jean Conley's avatar

Too bad about the cut in research on brain transplants. The Dictator in the Oval Office sure could use one. The one he has now is useless--filled with incompetence, hate, prejudice. (Don't have to go further since all of you here know his famous traits.) I'm sure there's a better one out there for him.

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Eddie Anne Damm's avatar

Truely we have an orange menace

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Jeanne Stawiecki's avatar

CONGRATULATIONS!

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Moya Murphy's avatar

Glad you went buying Rogan numbers ! Rogan is hiding under a rock .

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JackOx's avatar

https://youtu.be/PPneU5rOA6I

Please watch this for an experience that sent me into upside down critical state:

https://youtu.be/PPneU5rOA6I

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Cynthia Mory's avatar

Pool please check out this video on YouTube about the “real goal” behind all this chaos

https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no

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Ruth Graham's avatar

You can’t make this shit up man it’s ridiculous

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RX MAN's avatar

And once again nothing will happen

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MorningStar's avatar

why is this person emailing me to my personal addy ...to insult me and then block me? Sounds like she needs an emotional enema.....

Meidas+

LadyHistorian replied to your comment on Popok on Trump's DOJ in Chaos: Resignations, Lies, and Power Grabs.

Sad that your knowledge is overwhelmed by your penchant to prattle. Perhaps, this failure is because you are too young to recall the Saturday morning cartoons that often featured this practical point. Someday, may the light dawn.

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Joe Casey's avatar

Mike !! 1000 Blessings On You & Your Work !! My Dad Was In Law For 52 Years !! I'm Glad He's Not Alive !! To See What Trump Has Done To This Country !!? Keep Up The Good Fight !! Keep Pounding Them 💪💪👍👍👍 !!

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BenefitHumanity's avatar

Is elon using his A.I. software Grok 2.0 to destroy humanity? I read elon plans replacing workers with A.I. human robots. " 2019 Yahoo news revealed, Research firm McKinsey estimates that data, 3-D computers systems shall replace the need hiring white collar engineers using A.I. technologies building vehicles”. Research firm HIS Markit states "1.3 million banking, and WallStreet jobs will be replaced or reassign, lawyers, and accountants are included by 2030". Could elon be using his A.I. software Grok 2.0 running replacing government official authority, then put under his new dick-ta-torship control where elon says everyone reports to me. If so trump, and all you super idiot MAGA maggots, elon told you he’s the dark MAGA, using your racism to his benefit, tricking all of you, and placing you all under his thumb. This may be the reason why trump’s so quiet, maneuvers so fast, and why elon’s frustrating the law. Lawyers, you may want to re-formalize our strategy. Example. Traders are using A.I. to out perform Wall Street, and teachers now have to make sure students aren’t using A.I. submitting papers, and so on. If you don’t like elon having our personal data placed in his virtual A.I. machine, it’ll be here, if , “ WE DON’T WAKE THE F* UP”…! 21st century’s here, and this is the new got damn ballgame. I don’t about everyone else, but for me, I don’t call myself benefit humanity trying to be cute. When reading any of my post I do not bullsh!t with my thoughts. I fight on the side of preserving the good for all human beings, striving for the good of humanity, period!

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Marilyn Ritcey's avatar

Mr. Popok I think you are much needed by the American people to guide them in the right direction. Totally enjoy your programme. Keep up the good work.

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Kim Fracaro-Hamilton's avatar

I believe the entire republican party has been chipped with nuerolink, and they are being controlled by musk🐀🤬

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Kim Fracaro-Hamilton's avatar

It’s like the Taking of Pelham 123, it’s a bunch of hoodlums on a runaway train 🤬

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S. Rose Smith-Hayes's avatar

Sue 45/47 for violating the Constitution. Congress look at the Constitution for the laws 45/47 is violating. Fire Musk for his illegal actions. He is Not an advisor to 45/47. Musk is an illegal destroyer.

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Delores Rawls's avatar

Bondi is unqualified right behind trump. Tell me something what can we do if they steal our social security money?

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Jessica Marcillo's avatar

So we have to wait for Musk to steal our information and then later for our payments like in my instance va benefits or my parents social security payments and Medicare won't come through next month?? Great? We will all be homeless, the 3 of us, 2 generations homeless. A veteran, retired nurse, and retired police officer. Awesome 👌

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Charlene Williams's avatar

I believe that the government will be filled with Russian 's or Chinese.

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Adriene C Sullivan's avatar

Thanks Tim. We will soon be attacked here in the US. Only incompetence is our line of defense.

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Sharon Flynn's avatar

Rules are for musk too

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Linda Morway's avatar

Bovey should be prosecuted for his actions.

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JK7's avatar

All this insanity makes one question if like they've been slipped something

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Pat Barrett's avatar

Thank you for explaining what is happening in Trump land. You are invaluable to people like me.

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relawson96@gmail.com's avatar

Great discussion and feedback. Thank you!

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Dan D's avatar

I've written to senators & reps to air my problem on the house floor just to show how crooked tRump is. I have an annuity with Colorado Bankers Life insurance. & Annuities. Greg Linberg was the fund mgr & stole millions & tRump pardoned that SOB for stealing my $ & others! This was the last week of tRump 1.0! So for 4+ years I've been trying to access my $$$ & getting no where! Camilla Sykes, Sen Crockett! Two women with the GONADS to being my situation! I've written to several legislators! All to no avail! Google Greg Linberg, CBL NC Annuity. For background. I need my $$$! Those thieves don't need my $$$!

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Dan D's avatar

Injunction function what is function!

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Pirate Studebaker's avatar

Oh, please, The Letter, waxes poetic, but anyone who has had even a small interaction with the courts know they are far from these noble creatures willing to fall on their own sword in the the name of righteous justice.

Every-damn-body playin' their little part.

I'm not saying every judge is corrupt.

I'm saying I am tired of this kind of posturing. Across the board.

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Amy MaryJane McFate's avatar

I partly like to watch your videos because you're so cute

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Amy Hower's avatar

Does Adams and Homan refer to each other as master and boy since they own him? Quid Pro Quo. Everyone knows what this deal was.

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Get It Right's avatar

I prefer a shark 🦈 tank vs a jail

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Cheryl's avatar

This is Trump's Ivy league education bought & paid for at work. Problem is someone else received it I believe.

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JackOx's avatar

Please put up Your new law firm with telephone and email— so I can copy it.

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Ingrid's avatar

Perhaps he needs muck (that's my nickname for him) needs to be there to change dumb don's diaper.

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Bonnie Sue Miller's avatar

Please don't do that! We need you in this fight. You have a community here that's here to help.

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Glenn T Morgan Sr's avatar

You need to find someone to help you. Please don't give them the satisfaction of driving you to do that. You need to call the suicide hotline Please 🙏 🙂

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Pam Bondi is the only one who can express the opinion about law and what the law is in America. Obviously, Donald Trump fell asleep during constitutional history to learn what Article 3 judges are supposed to do. It's judges that interpret the law. Article 1 Congress makes the law. Article 2 executive branch executes on the law.