Thanks, kudos and apologies to our friend Tom Sullivan of Hullabaloo for the headline of today’s BradCast (even if he smartly picked it up from someone else). [Audio link to full show follows this summary.]
We’ve had a weekend of experts and pundits on the TV opining on Donald J. Trump‘s Friday federal indictment [PDF] on 37 criminal felony counts related to Special Counsel Jack Smith‘s investigation of Trump’s theft of documents from the White House and multiple attempts to conceal his crimes. So it was very good to hear from a lot of listeners on the matter on today’s program!
That, as experts warn that comments from Republican elected officials and wannabe elected officials could result in acts of lone wolf violence, if not an organized January 6th-style attack. Just some of those folks would include GOP Trump supporters like Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), who described the attempt at accountability for Trump’s criminal violations of the Espionage Act and obstruction of justice a “war phase” requiring an “eye for an eye”. And wannabe elected officials, like Arizona’s losing Gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake warning “Merrick Garland and Jack Smith and Joe Biden” that she and 75 million Americans who support Trump “are card-carrying members of the N.R.A.” at the Georgia state GOP convention over the weekend.
Even Trump’s own, wildly corrupt Attorney General Bill Barr scraped up the decency to tell Fox “News” on Sunday that the evidence in the indictment by 23 random citizens in South Florida last week demonstrates Trump is likely “toast” for having stolen highly classified state secrets belonging to the American people, not to the former President. One would think the photos in the charging documents alone, of dozens of document boxes fill with sensitive materials, stored haphazardly at Mar-a-Lago in a public ballroom, a bathroom, a storage space, his office and bedroom, would turn even the most braindead 2016 MAGA “Lock Her Up!” supporter against their cult leader.
But, alas, there remain plenty of disinformed folks out there who still actually believe Trump’s preposterous claims belied by his own well-documented actions recorded on tape and by his own attorneys who documented his attempts to use them to commit crimes such as hiding the documents on his behalf and lying to federal officials about them.
And, yes, some of those still-duped folks (who admit they didn’t bother to read the indictment) called us on today’s show to try and make the case for Trump. A lively call-in segment ensued. Hope you’ll enjoy it!
The disgraced former President will be arraigned on Tuesday in Miami at 3p ET, after which he will officially be facing a gob-smacking total of 71 criminal felony counts at both the federal level and in New York state. But there are still more felony charges to come before America’s Summer of Accountability concludes…
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