Episode 191 - Ben Meiselas

Rundown - Ben Meiselas in Craig's Lawyers' Lounge - 08:16 Troubadour Dave Gunders - 01:22:16 "Come On in My Kitchen" by Dave Gunders - 01:28:49 Brilliant attorney Ben Meiselas leads the Meidas Touch Network, a multimedia company dedicated to preserving American democracy against the MAGA assault now happening in America. Find out how Ben became so smart, fun and capable of problem solving. www.meidastouch.com Listen and learn from a master legal communicator who has become a major force in exposing MAGA idiocracy meeting fascism which now threatens our USA. Ben and his Meidas Mighty fight back with the truth on many fine podcasts and sites. Meidas Touch spread the viral and apparently accurate news that Trump smells bad. This was reported via Ben Meiselas’ interview of former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger. #TrumpSmells started trending and next thing you know, the Meidas’ clip was on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HztDXBW8kmQ Learn the Ben Meiselas story, including his Long Island upbringing with his co-star younger brothers. As the oldest child, Ben has always assumed a leadership and main conductor role. Meiselas has the right talent and sense of humor to lead a vital new pro-democracy media movement. A natural born problem solver, Ben Meiselas lays out facts which damn Donald Trump but he does it with a friendly, professional tone. Ben has passion but is never over the top. Find out what motivates this lawyer at the tip of the spear of pro-democracy broadcasters. Ben Meiselas has Colorado connections including taking the deposition of John Elway as he represented Colin Kaepernick in that terminated quarterback’s legal claim against the NFL. Ben's a USC Law prof too. Learn why Ben Meiselas has made other legal trips to Colorado on cases. Find out what happens behind the scenes for this busy Sports Law professor at USC Law School. Meiselas' parents were also attorneys but no one has ever had a practice quite like Ben. It's a new media world and Meidas Touch is well positioned. We discuss his extraordinarily talented legal and podcast colleagues, Karen Friedman Agnafilo and Michael Popok. We also discuss Ben’s Political beatdown partner, former attorney Trump, Michael Cohen. Credit also thrown toward superb Ron Filipkowski, Editor in Chief at Meidas. Colorado S/Ct case discussed with Ben Meiselas predicting U.S. Sup Ct. will avoid the insurrection issue and find a way to keep Trump on the ballot (constitutional avoidance). We discuss Roger Stone and other MAGA loser loyalists who may use AI for Deep Fake campaigning and disinformation. Ben Meiselas, Esq. stands in the breach, protecting America one podcast at a time. He’s fun, smart and brave. This is one heck of an interesting podcast. We size up Joe Biden’s good mental health as witnessed by Ben a couple months ago in Pueblo, Colorado as he ripped on Lauren Boebert. Show Troubadour Dave Gunders comes through again with a cold weather song worthy of an Arctic Blast now descending during the Iowa Caucus. “Come On In My Kitchen” is a fascinating tune about anger and surviving emotions and the elements. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysWyD4Mxe6E The Craig Silverman Show - Every Saturday morning at 9 a.m. Colorado time