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The Intersection with Michael Popok

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The Intersection with Michael Popok is a weekly one-hour podcast focused on trusted, topical commentary exploring how the law intersects with and shapes people’s daily lives—including their Constitutionally protected rights and their civic, economic, and political worlds. The Intersection is hosted and curated by Michael Popok, co-founder of the top-ranked Legal AF podcast and YouTube channel. Popok is one of the most viewed and downloaded independent content creators, with over 50 million monthly

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17:58

Trump Wakes up to NIGHTMARE NEWS as WALL STREET Sends...

The Intersection with Michael Popok ·

2025/10/17

While Trump refuses to release economic data during his Shutdown, showing his fiscal failures as President, other major players like JP Morgan Chase Chairman Jamie Dimond and Fed Reserve Chair Jay Powell are warning the American people that we have a "cockroach" problem, and I don't just mean Trump. Popok puts on his Wall Street hat to explain why Trump is responsible for a Trillion dollars of stock market and cryptocurrency losses in the last week, and how the American people can hold him

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18:09

🚨Trump STUNNED by Appeals Court as Judges REFUSE to...

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2025/10/16

In breaking news and a blow to Trump's efforts to take over Chicago using military and its National Guard, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeal in a 3-0 ruling lead by 2 Republican Judges, has blocked Trump's deployment of the National Guard on the streets of Chicago/Ilinois. Popok explains how Trump's own bragging was used against him by the Court. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Follow Legal AF on Bluesky:

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12:56

🚨Trump DOJ REVEALS Next INDICTMENT

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2025/10/16

It looks like today's the day for Ambassador John Bolton to be indicted for espionage and mishandling classified documents, a fall out from this 2020 book the "Room where it happens" which embarrassed Trump by claiming, among other things, that Trump asked the Chinese to help get him elected in 2020. Popok takes a look at what's happened since the September 4 Raid on his home, and what will happen next if and when he is indicted in Maryland federal court. Subscribe:

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21:46

Jack Smith Instantly STRIKES BACK after Trump THREATS

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2025/10/16

Trump's Oval Office presser to show "unity" within his DOJ and FBI went off the rails immediately, as he took over the podium, chastised his AG, Deputy AG and FBI Director, and demanded that his former Special Counsel prosecutor Jack Smith be indicted. Popok reports on Jack Smith's smart move to give his first interview to the public just before the presser to start speaking directly to the American People, following in the footsteps of NY AG Leticia James who took to a rally stage to tell Trump

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66:18

The Intersection with Michael Popok Full Episode -...

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2025/10/15

Trump blurts out overtly sexist and disgusting things about Press Sec Caroline Leavitt’s mouth, while preying on Italian PM Meloni fresh off his Middle East trip. JD Vance blurts out on network television that there ARE Tom Homan bribe videos that haven’t been produced to the American People; Trump’s pet Lindsey Halligan blurts out that she indicted NY AG Tish James because “she wanted to get it over with;” James Comey’s lawyers blurt out that they will be filing a motion to declare Halligan

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16:48

Trump PANCIS as Judge PRESSES Ahead on SPEEDY COMEY...

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2025/10/14

As Former FBI Director James Comey comes out swinging and tells the Court it will be moving to cut the legs out from under Trump's pet Lindsey Halligan for being illegally appointed to her US Attorney position, the Judge tells Trump's DOJ that he will not allow them to play games with document and evidence production to delay the Jan5 trial. Popok ties it all together on his latest hot take. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack:

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19:29

Trump WH BLOWS UP on LIVE TV as SCANDAL ENGULFS THEM

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2025/10/14

You can always count on VP JD Vance going on network tv making Trump scandals worse. This time in a testy exchange with ABC News' George Stephanopoulas the VP accidentally confessed to the existence of a VIDEO recording of Tom Homan accepting a bribe, when all George was asking about was an AUDIO version! Popok brings the receipts on his latest hot take. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Follow Legal AF on Bluesky:

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18:07

Trump WH in DAMAGE CONTROL Mode as Hegseth SCREWS THEM

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2025/10/13

Trump's moron of a Sec of "War" announced live on tv that Qatar was building a Qatari air force base in..Idaho(!?), and MAGA world lead by Laura Loomer lost their Sh@#$%t on cue. Popok looks at VP JD Vance attempted bail out by blaming trhe media for accurately playing Hegseth's speech unedited, and how it says about Trump's announced "peace deal" that he converted into a land deal negotiated by 3 real estate developers -- Trump, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. Subscribe:

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22:48

🚨APPEALS Court DOUBLES DOWN on Trump Troops BLOCK in...

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2025/10/13

In breaking news, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals over the weekend, continued to block Trump's deployment of State Militia/National Guard in Chicago until the final appeal decision is made, as Trump and Vance and Miller threaten America with the specter of crushing dissent through the use of the Insurrection Act. Popok reports. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Follow Legal AF on Bluesky:

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18:44

ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE as Trump GOONS Attack VETERANS

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2025/10/13

Trump hatred and disrespect for veterans knows no bounds, and now he is allowing his ICE forces to beat and assault them for the crime of using their First Amendment right to oppose his immigration policies. Popok reports on Trump, who has fired more veterans than any president in history, who has defunded their mental health and drug counseling and programs to address homelessness, now using pepper spray, zip ties, rubber bullets and worse to punish them. Subscribe:

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35:19

Trump BLOWS UP Everything as He Spirals OUT OF CONTROL

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2025/10/12

Trump controls all 3 branches of government, yet exploits the Shutdown he caused on the Democrats, rather than help Americans and red-state voters by ensuring that Americans have dignified healthcare they can afford. Rep. Ritchie Torres of New York joins Popok to brief our audience on how they can hold Trump and the MAGA accountable, and to discuss Trump's use of the Presidency to indict his enemies and line his pockets.Rep.

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13:16

Trump Pet PROSECUTOR GOES ROGUE on Trump DOJ

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2025/10/12

Attorney General on paper, Pam Bondi, has a Lindsey Halligan vying for her job problem, as Halligan failed to "manage up" and tried to grab all the glory of obtaining a defective indictment against Trump's archenemy, NY AG Leticia James, WITHOUT telling Bondi, who was against the indictment. Looks like Jan 6 denier Ed Martin and Lindsey may be ganging up on Bondi, and Popok is there to report on it. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack:

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16:09

Trump SMACKED by SECOND Judge in CHICAGO over Troops

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2025/10/12

Citing to the Founding Founders who renounced the use of state militia by a president to crush dissent, a second Illinois Federal Judge, this time, Judge Perry, has blocked Trump's use of any national guard on the streets of Chicago and Illinois, finding in granting the emergency restraining order that Trump's witnesses cannot be trusted, that Trump violated the Posse Comitatus Act, the statute allowing him to federalize state militia, and the 10th Amendment protecting state's rights. Popok

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15:07

Trump Gets COVER BLOWN as Indictment SINKS HIM?!?!

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2025/10/12

Was Trump forced to attack China and tank our economy to cover up for the Trump Administration indicting Trump's arch nemesis and former National Security Advisor John Bolton, because Bolton's emails were found on Chinese servers after a hack of his AOL account? Popok explains how Trump has been after Bolton since he revealed in a 2020 book, among other things, that Trump wanted China to help him get elected, and approved of internment camps. Subscribe:

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15:16

Trump Gets REJECTED on the WORLD STAGE as He LOSES...

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2025/10/10

In a bit of trolling, the Norwegian Nobel Peace Price Committee has rejected Trump, and awarded it to the Venezuelan opposition leader in exile Maria Corina Machado, who has opposed Maduro since his own "Jan 6" election denying coup. Popok explains how the chairman of the Nobel committee is a fierce defender of Freedom of the Press and has rebuked Trump in the past for attacking the press, as MAGA loses its mind and tries to pass a Congressional resolution to award Trump the Norwegian

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12:28

Trump Pick SCREWS HIM as SCANDAL BLOWS Up in WHITE HOUSE

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2025/10/10

A major figure in the Trump White House has been accused of another sex scandal, this time Paul Ingrassia, Trump's pick to head the federal watchdog office The Office of Special Counsel, and currently the WH liaison to the Dept. of Homeland Security, has been accused by a Trump staffer of sexually harassing her by making her share a room with him on an official trip. Popok does a deep dive into Igrassia, who is an election-denier, 9-11 denier, Jan6 denier, and anti-semite, who the MAGA Senate

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18:56

Trump BEGS for BAILOUT from APPEALS COURT in Hearing

The Intersection with Michael Popok ·

2025/10/09

Popok provides an overview of what went down today at the 9th Circuit as a 2-Trump judge panel considered whether Trump will be able to mobilize federal troups and the Oregon national guard because of bad things that happened in Portland 4 months ago, or 5 years ago. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Legal AF Substack: https://substack.com/@legalaf Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/legalafmtn.bsky.social Follow Michael Popok on Bluesky:

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22:41

Trump TERRIFIED as Pet Prosecutor GAMBLES with HER...

The Intersection with Michael Popok ·

2025/10/09

Blind ambition is on full display, as Trump's pet Lindsey Halligan decides to take a job that under the ethics of her Bar License she should have turned down, and now that her independent judgment required has been compromised by her client Trump, she has put her law license at serious risk. Popok explains that not only will James Comey's lawyers be filing a knock blow of a motion to disqualify her in the coming days, but she may head the list of Trump lawyers who have felony convictions and/or

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16:31

Trump’s RUSHES to EMERGENCY APPEAL on BIGGEST Case

The Intersection with Michael Popok ·

2025/10/09

Popok provides a primer of what can be expected at today's oral argument at the 9th Circuit, as the Court decides whether Trump has the legal justification to quell a 'rebellion' or domestic violence in Portland or whether it's just a few people wearing costumes and exercising their first amendment rights to protest. He also explains the Court's Administrative Stay order in advance of the hearing and what it means. Join our LIVE 12 PM ET | 9 AM PT https://youtube.com/live/MmRSvQeNLHc Subscribe:

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72:42

The Intersection with Michael Popok Full Episode -...

The Intersection with Michael Popok ·

2025/10/08

A once proud US Attorneys’ Office that is both on fire and “leaks” at the same time. A resistance movement of former DOJ senior officials ban together to warn America about the Trump Administration. A current Attorney General who is being judged by history (and future impeachment managers and prosecutors) and is failing on national TV. A Supreme Court and its MAGA wing that woke up and remembered the First Amendment today. Federal judges fight back to protect Trump’s hostile take over of Blue

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