Georgia STRIKES BACK at Trump ELECTION SCHEME

What this episode is about

Georgia officials are actively challenging the Trump administration's seizure of 656 boxes of voter data related to the 2020 election, filing a motion to recover the materials and halt federal review. Fulton County leaders assert that the integrity of local elections is at stake and are committed to protecting their election processes against perceived overreach by federal authorities.

Key takeaways

• Georgia's legal showdown reveals a bizarre trend: election deniers morph into their own worst enemies.
• Despite Trump's claims, Fulton County has been exonerated through 80 lawsuits – the law seems to favor reality.
• Tulsi Gabbard's oversight of federal raids? Even insiders can't explain the crossover from candidate to intelligence czar.
• Cindy Powell’s Venezuela conspiracy? The only thing exported is the absurdity – Fox paid $800M to bury that narrative.
• Rob Pittz's fiery rhetoric illustrates a key point: for election integrity, the courtroom is as crucial as the ballot box.

Who speaks in this episode?

• Michael Popac (Host) · 8 min speaking
• Rob Pittz (Guest) · 1 min speaking
• Cydney Powell (Guest) · 1 min speaking
• Tulsi Gabbard (Guest) · 1 min speaking
• Todd Blanch (Guest) · 1 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 3:00: Fulton County, Donald Trump, Tulsi Gabbard, Kate Blanch
2. 3:00 – 6:00: Donald Trump, Cydney Powell, Ed Martin, PDS Debt
3. 6:00 – 9:00: Tulsi Gabbard, Kate Blanch, Smartmatic, Cydney Powell
4. 9:00 – 12:00: Donald Trump, Tulsi Gabbard, Michael Popac, Midas Touch

Notable quotes from "Georgia STRIKES BACK at Trump ELECTION SCHEME"

• Material about the 2020 election that Trump's Department of Justice and FBI just seized in a raid overseen by Tulsi Gabbard of all people, who's the head of our national…

  about Tulsi Gabbard · at 0:15

• Election has already been cleared by about 80 different federal and state lawsuits. The then head of cyber security and integrity and elections, Chris Krebs, who Donald Trump appointed back in 2020. It's all been exonerated.

  about Chris Krebs · at 2:54

• What they called it. who since has been fired and sent back to being the pardon attorney. He's connected to this because the Missouri US Attorney's Office, not the Georgia one…

  about Ed Martin · at 3:48

• But then later, Cydney Powell didn't even believe her own and she recanted and on voter fraud in a separate video appearance. Fresh start, same system. Banks win, you pay fees and.

  about Cydney Powell · at 4:51

• That's one. and the and Smartmatic is about to get a giant judgment, I'm sure, based on the same allegations. Now, let me turn to Tulsi Gabbard. What is she doing there? And that's something that as the director of.

  about Smartmatic · at 6:57

• Now, let's go to let's go to Donald Trump. We know Donald Trump's behind all this cuz he wants to nationalize or federalize at least the elections in 15 states and set the Constitution says you can't do that. That's why this is going.

  about Donald Trump · at 9:27

• Our independent commentary and journalism you can't find anywhere else but Midas Touch and Legal AF. Till my next report, I'm Michael Popac. Can't get your fill of legal AF? Me neither.

  about Michael Popac · at 11:16

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Donald Trump — Person · Central referenced political actor · 5 mentions · first at 0:01
  Portrayed as the driving force behind DOJ/FBI actions targeting Georgia/Fulton County election materials and as continuing to advance 2020 election-fraud narratives.
• Tulsi Gabbard — Person · Referenced government official under scrutiny · 5 mentions · first at 0:19
  Described as present at/overseeing an FBI search-warrant operation in Georgia; lawmakers demand oversight explanations for her participation in a domestic law-enforcement action.
• Kate Blanch — Person · Referenced government/legal spokesperson (clip speaker) · 4 mentions · first at 0:28
  Quoted responding to questions about why Tulsi Gabbard was present at the FBI search-warrant execution; described as 'number two in the office' in the episode.
  Gabbard of all people, who's the head of our national intelligence community. So bizarre that even Todd Blanch, the number two in the office, couldn't explain why Tulsi Gabbert…
• Cydney Powell — Person · Referenced controversial attorney tied to election-fraud claims · 3 mentions · first at 4:05
  Cited as a key promoter of debunked 2020 election-fraud narratives; mentioned in connection with Ed Martin and as having pleaded guilty in Georgia-related election interference matters (as characterized by the speaker).
• Ed Martin — Person · Referenced DOJ-linked political/legal actor · 2 mentions · first at 3:42
  Presented as having 'fingerprints' on the operation via connections to the Missouri U.S. Attorney's Office and as publicly associating with Cydney Powell on the day of the raid.
• Rob Pittz — Person · Referenced local official / clip speaker · 1 mention · first at 1:06
  Quoted as a Fulton County official framing the dispute as a constitutional fight and asserting confidence in the fairness of Fulton County elections.
  On that search warrant. Lot of bizarre things coming out of Fulton County, Georgia. Fulton County's officials like Rob Pittz has said this is a fight for the Constitution.…
• Chris Krebs — Person · Referenced expert/official validating election security · 1 mention · first at 3:02
  Invoked as the former top U.S. election/cybersecurity official (appointed by Trump) whose position is used to support the claim that the 2020 election was secure and litigation cleared it.
• Michael Popac — Person · Host / narrator (sign-off speaker) · 1 mention · first at 11:08
  Identifies himself at the end as the presenter covering the legal developments and promoting Legal AF/Midas Touch content and Substack.

Companies & orgs

• Smartmatic — Company · Case study · 2 mentions · first at 6:37
  Another election technology company mentioned in the context of debunked conspiracy theories.
• Dominion Voting Systems — Company · Case study · 1 mention · first at 6:37
  Company involved in the 2020 election controversy, mentioned in the context of debunked conspiracy theories.
  Trump to Biden, which was used by Chavez in Venezuela, has all been debunked. we know Fox paid $800 million to Dominion for defamation based on Cydney Powell's statements.
• Midas Touch — Company · Business focus · 1 mention · first at 11:08
  Network mentioned as the platform where the podcast is hosted.
  James Comey under the same 41G. It's the same magic bullet, if you will, to return these documents. And we'll follow it closely right here on Legal AF and on Midas Touch…

Places & events

• Fulton County — Place · Setting · 6 mentions · first at 0:33
  Specific county in Georgia where significant legal actions regarding the 2020 election are being contested.
  On that search warrant. Lot of bizarre things coming out of Fulton County, Georgia. Fulton County's officials like Rob Pittz has said this is a fight for the Constitution.…

Sponsors

• PDS Debt — Product · Sponsor · 2 mentions · first at 5:09
  Sponsored product mentioned in the episode, offering debt relief services.
  Same system. Banks win, you pay fees and calls piling up monthly. Unless you fight back, PDS debt has already helped hundreds of thousands cut their debt and put money back in…

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 We got some breaking news coming out of Georgia. Georgia's fighting back against the Trump administration. They've just filed a motion under federal rule of criminal procedure 41G to get back the 656 boxes of voter data, voter voter material about the 2020 election that Trump's Department of Justice and FBI just seized in a raid overseen by Tulsi Gabbard of all people, who's the head of our national intelligence community. So bizarre that even Todd Blanch, the number two in the office, couldn't explain why Tulsi Gabbert was even there. But but uh the uh officials in Fulton County are firing back. They want that injunction to to get the return of all the material, to stop the feds from reviewing any of the material and setting up an expedited briefing schedule and to get unsealed the FBI agents warrant that was provided to the federal magistrate in order to execute on that search warrant. Lot of bizarre

1:00 things coming out of Fulton County, Georgia. Fulton County's officials like Rob Pittz has said this is a fight for the Constitution. Here's a clip of Rob Pittz Fulton County Board of Commissioners. Play it.

1:13 Review has shown Fulton County elections are fair and lawful and the outcome of the 2020 election will not change. Period. We talk about voter protections. Now, we do do not know where our election records have been taken or what will happen to them now that they are out of our control. This week's activities show that Fulton County is still much a target. And I'm told that I am personally a target. I'm a big boy. Now, while we've grown accustomed to name calling and rhetoric, we will not give one inch to those who seek to take control of our elections.

2:01 Now, hear what I just said. We will not give one inch to those who seek to take control of elections in Fulton County. Not today, not tomorrow, not ever. We're going to fight this in court with every resource that we have. And again, I'm very grateful to the support that is coming to us from around the country. Time and time again, the law has been on our side, and the greatest legal minds in the country agree it will be once again. I want to thank the local and national legal communities for their overwhelming support to us in this moment in the history of Fulton County, Georgia. Thank you. They got to fight back. They have to fight back. That 2020 election has already been cleared by about 80 different federal and state lawsuits. The then head of cyber security and integrity and elections, Chris Krebs, who Donald Trump appointed back in 2020. It's all been exonerated.

3:07 Donald Trump would never win Fulton County. He lost it by 70 70 uh you know was a 70 points for for uh for Joe Biden. You could run that election a hundred times. He's going to lose a hundred times in Fulton County covering Atlanta, Georgia. He's that not liked. But Donald Trump didn't want to take rejection for an answer. So now he's running this whole there's fraud in the election as a prerequisite for him to try to take over and federalize the national elections. That there's two major fingerprints all over this scam, right? One is Donald Trump and the other is Ed Martin who until recently was the head of the weaponization committee for the Department of Justice. Yeah, that's what they called it. Uh who since has been fired and sent back to being the pardon attorney. He's connected to this because the Missouri US Attorney's Office, not the Georgia one, it was is running this operation and that's

4:03 connected to Ed Martin. On the day of the raid, Ed Martin posted a photo of himself with Cydney Powell of all people, the disgraced lawyer who was convicted and pled guilty to charges of voter fraud and interference in um in Georgia. Uh and he posed a photo with her like as if she's being rehabilitated uh and uh based on this on this new raid. Then he got fired within hours of the raid from the weaponization committee. Right now, to remind you of Cydney Powell, here's Cydney Powell claiming voter fraud in Georgia at the time. Play the clip.

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6:52 to Dominion for defamation based on Cydney Powell's uh statements. That's one. uh and the and and Smartmatic is about to get a giant judgment, I'm sure, based on the same allegations. Now, let me turn to Tulsi Gabbard. What is she doing there? And that's something that as the director of national intelligence, that's something that Mark Warner and Jim Hines, the ranking members on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, would like to know because they wrote a letter to her demanding that she appear in an oversight committee hearing to to uh to explain why she participated in a domestic law enforcement action when she should be focused on foreign threats.

7:32 They want to know her reasoning for attending the FBI operation, what her role was, what her legal authority was, and what information she has about the 2020 election. That went to Tulsi Gabbard. It's so confusing why Tulsi Gabbard was there. I guess she left her vacation in Hawaii to go to Georgia to look for something to do that even Todd Blanch, the number two in the office, didn't know what to say about it when he was asked why she was there at the and said she was not involved in the investigation when he was interviewed on Sunday morning talk shows. Play Todd Blanch.

8:03 Why was the director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard present at a an FBI raid?

8:12 First of all, it wasn't an FBI raid. Um, it it was a a search warrant being executed by by FBI agents in the middle of the day. Why was she why was she there?

8:20 And secondly, I don't I secondly, I don't know why the director was there. She is not part of the grand jury investigation, but she is for sure a key part of our efforts at election integrity and making sure that we have free and fair elections. She's an expert in that space and it's a big part of the of what she and her team look at every day. Um, but beyond that, I I don't, like I said before, this is a grand jury investigation being conducted by a US attorney and and that's that's where we have to leave it for now.

8:52 Mr. Blanch, imagine if President Biden sent his polit politically appointed director of national intelligence to uh Mara Lago. You and his other personal attorneys would have been understandably very unhappy about it. Are you unhappy that the DNI Tulsi Gabbard was there? Well, f first of all, Biden's director of ODNI was involved in that case as we all know. So whether the the

9:20 Okay. Okay. But that's hardly it also involves classified documents, not necessarily voter roles.

9:26 Okay. Now, let's go to let's go to Donald Trump. We know Donald Trump's behind all this cuz he wants to nationalize or federalize at least the elections in 15 states and set the Constitution says you can't do that. That's why this is going to end up eventually at the United States Supreme Court because he can't take over or federalize elections based on the Constitution. Of course, he goes on Dan Bonino's podcast. Remember him? Used to be a podcaster. Then he became deputy director of the FBI. I have to like bite my tongue to not laugh out loud. And then he goes back to being a right-wing podcaster. Welcome back, uh, Dan Bonino. And I love the softball questions. He never pushes back and says, "You can't federalize, Mr.

10:10 President. I was your FBI director, deputy FBI director. You got to do, you know, there's a constitution." Nope. He just lets this crazy crap come out of Donald Trump's mouth. Play the clip.

10:19 Republicans should say, "We want to take over. We should take over the voting the voting." in at least many 15 places.

10:28 So, what's going to happen next? Federal judge going to hold a hearing. There's going to be rounds of briefing. You've got these parallel lawsuits going on in Georgia brought by the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division to try to get voter data, right, which is this is apparently not related to because this is a criminal uh search warrant. And then we're going to get to the bottom of the search warrant and see if it it'll be quashed. The materials returned. It happens. Uh we certainly saw this happened in in matters related to um to James Comey under the same 41G. It's the same magic bullet, if you will, to return these documents. And we'll follow it closely right here on Legal AF and on Midas Touch Network. I'm running a sale on Legal AF Substack. 35% off on annual membership. Now is the time to support our independent commentary and journalism you can't find anywhere else but Midas Touch and Legal AF. Till my

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Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Georgia STRIKES BACK at Trump ELECTION SCHEME"?

Michael Popac (Host), Rob Pittz (Guest), Cydney Powell (Guest), Tulsi Gabbard (Guest), Todd Blanch (Guest).

What is "Georgia STRIKES BACK at Trump ELECTION SCHEME" about?

Georgia officials are actively challenging the Trump administration's seizure of 656 boxes of voter data related to the 2020 election, filing a motion to recover the materials and halt federal review. Fulton County leaders assert that the integrity of local elections is at stake and are committed to protecting their election processes against perceived overreach by federal authorities.

What is mentioned in this MeidasTouch episode?

13 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Donald Trump, Tulsi Gabbard, Fulton County, Kate Blanch, Cydney Powell, Ed Martin. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Georgia STRIKES BACK at Trump ELECTION SCHEME"?

The episode runs 12 min; the transcript is about 1,969 words in 20 timestamped sections.

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