On today’s BradCast, fresh accountability is sought as a criminal bribery complaint is filed with the U.S. Dept. of Justice against GOP Presidential nominee Donald Trump and Florida’s top law enforcement official, Republican Attorney General Pam Bondi. [Audio link to show is posted below.]
New polls out today from Ohio and Florida find the Republican Party nominee now leading Hillary Clinton by several points in both swing-states. That, after several recent unforced errors by the Democratic nominee and months of misleading and often inaccurate mainstream media reporting on Hillary Clinton’s email server and charitable foundation. All the while, Trump has largely received a pass from that same corporate media on his multiple cases of apparent outright fraud and even admitted illegalities.
On that score, I’m joined by Noah Bookbinder, Executive Director of the non-partisan Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), to discuss the new criminal complaint his organization filed yesterday with the U.S. Department of Justice, calling for a bribery probe of both Trump and Bondi (pictured above). The complaint centers on the illegal $25,000 donation solicited by Bondi in 2013 and illegally delivered by Trump’s charitable foundation to her political committee just days after the Florida AG’s office announced they were considering joining a New York state fraud probe of “Trump University” and the “Trump Institute”.
The Trump Foundation donation, as Bookbinder explains, was unlawful. And, following CREW’s civil complaint to the IRS about it in March of this year, Trump admitted the violation by paying a fine and reimbursing his own charitable foundation for the illegal payment to Bondi’s political action committee.
On today’s show, Bookbinder explains how CREW’s new criminal complaint goes even farther in calling for accountability via a new federal probe of Trump’s apparent payoff to Bondi, whose office decided not to join the NY civil suit shortly after she received the Trump donation (and then what appears to be a hugely reduced rate for a fundraiser held for her at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.)
“There’s a lot of evidence here that looks a whole lot like classic corruption,” Bookbinder, who formerly worked on the United States Sentencing Commission, tells me. “The evidence that we do have of this timeline looks really bad, especially when you combine it with the kinds of statements that Donald Trump has regularly made about how he operates — that he gives public officials money and then they do what he wants them to do. If he did that here, it starts to look like a crime.”
Then, a number of Trump supporters are arrested on assault charges for attacking protesters at a Trump rally in Asheville, NC earlier this week, and another from his ever growing “basket of deplorables” is sought by police after punching out a 69-year old lady outside of the rally. Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for some good news (believe it or not) in our latest Green News Report, on fracking in CA and on ND’s Dakota Access Pipeline, and some otherwise disturbing news following the hottest month ever recorded on Planet Earth…
One of the most deplorable Presidential contests in American history, thanks to the monstrous hand of Dark Money at the wheel of our entire political machinery….and we’re all in the back seat, screaming helplessly and squabbling with each other, desperate to somehow grab ahold of the driver before crashing and killing us all….but there’s no one there, no driver….only suitcases of large denomination cash, unmarked…
And the prevarications are cascading now, like a runaway train….we were first told she was leaving last Sunday’s NYC 9/11 ceremony because she “felt overheated”….on a 79 degree morning….sitting down….doing nothing….when that lie became blindingly obvious, and video showed her being lifted and thrown barely conscious into a black medical van, a diagnosis of “pneumonia” was cavalierly tossed at us like incredulous children….another lie, sorry to inform you….she is much more seriously ill than even that….but the greed for power, and the Dark Money feeding that greed, will stop at nothing….they need her in the White House, dead or alive…
Latest breaking bombshell: why wasn’t she RUSHED last Sunday in dire medical need to the nearest ER hospital, and instead taken to her daughter’s multimillion-dollar Manhattan apartment?….this makes no sense if it were Joe Blow in the van, let alone a leading Presidential contender…
Well, the “multimillion-dollar Manhattan apartment” may be the biggest lie yet….the address now appears to be a fully loaded medical emergency center (not “Chelsea’s cute apartment”) which has been keeping the candidate alert and vertical this entire time….if corroborated, this vast subterfuge on the American people would be a disqualifying factor in ANY candidate’s candidacy…
It is not too late, people of Earth….Fate is handing you one of the greatest and most unbelievable opportunities for a third party victory in the nation’s history!….DO NOT SQUANDER this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!!….this is no time to be afraid of bold action, let alone our own shadows….GREEN PARTY 2016….WE CAN DO THIS….i said it a year ago and voila, we did it, with Bernie….now let’s do it again for god’s sake!
Time for all of us to get to work…
Oh, i forgot….”Chelsea’s cute apartment” / emergency medical center appears to be secretly paid for through the Clinton Foundation slush fund, under the guise of a Senior Managed Care Facility….how philanthropically phunny!
Probably just a paperwork error, ya think?
Don’t hold your breath waiting for the MSM to give this complaint the coverage it deserves.
Here’s the direct link to Bookbinder’s 13-page letter/complaint to Christopher P. Canova, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
A republican form of government emphasizes rights and duties; an aristocracy is heavy on privilege. So, although we live in the same country, former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and I, evidently, did not live under the same Constitution.