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Popok: They're non-party movants, I guess is the right way to put it, and they're entitled to whatever sanction the judge has fashioned under her inherent authority.

Popok on Trump defending Rep. Max Miller: So sure, while the Epstein scandal continues to swirl around his administration, now is the perfect time for Donald Trump to go forward and defend Max Miller.

Melba Pearson: So you got two different independent bodies, two separate procedures, all coming to the same conclusion: dude did something wrong, and he's gotta go.

Popok: The investigation determined that there was a risk related to money laundering involving Donald Trump, and that's the reason the accounts were closed in 2023.

Popok: Now I saw this coming, this motion to dismiss being filed by the government, get that, not the defense, the government to dismiss their own indictment. And in it she blames Donald Trump and her own department and his own Department of the Interior.

Popok: Is there any length that Todd Blanche will not go in order to obtain this confirmation vote? Is there any bad faith, lack of ethics, or crime he will not commit in order to become Attorney General?

Popok: I knew that this was gonna be a disaster. But Atlantic Industrial Coating admitted it. On their own website, they said that the repairs that they were doing at the Reflecting Pool were done pursuant to the warranty.

Popok: There was suspicious activity within the accounts, leading to the compliance department, which is, and the anti-money laundering department of Capital One to flag them, they never got sufficient answers, and so they fired the client.

Mary Trump on Donald Trump: He's 80 years old, he's not healthy, and Alzheimer's runs in my family. My grandfather had Alzheimer's, and his Alzheimer's started worsening in his early 80s. And he was a physically healthier person than Donald.

Popok: And therefore, he's not in it for the money. No, he's in it for the release of the "super pardon," which obviously was the quid pro quo for Todd Blanche getting the nod.

Judge Esther Salas: I can’t remember a time when we had leaders literally calling us monsters and criminals, which, unfortunately, we’ve been called by the leader of this country.

Booker: They are thinking about setting themselves up to build epic empires of wealth. And that’s why Trump is pardoning people who then go into business with him. That’s why Trump is trying to undermine the rule of law—to make sure he leaves office with more wealth than was ever conceivable…

Dave Aronberg on Trump's control of GOP: The difference now is that Trump's numbers have fallen, his power has waned, and after the midterms he will be a lame duck. So this thing is a loser. It's a dead end, and the only person who doesn't understand this is Donald Trump.

Popok: We know that Lesley Groff is listed there, who is Jeffrey Epstein's so far uninvestigated and unindicted 18-year executive assistant who arranged all the massages and all the girl meetings and had them paid. How is she still walking the streets?