Tying up a few loose ends as another insane week wraps up on The BradCast today. But with a few laughs along the way and a song to help us over the finish line. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.]
Among our coverage today…
- Donald Trump‘s corrupted Dept. of Justice joined a federal lawsuit filed by the California Republican Party to block Prop 50 on Thursday. The statewide measure was approved by voters in a landslide just last week at the ballot box in response to Texas lawmakers’ Trump-ordered gerrymander of their state’s already gerrymandered U.S. House map. It is likely to result in five “red” seats in CA turned “blue” in next year’s mid-year elections. But Trump’s corrupt Attorney General, Pam Bondi, with the announcement of DOJ joining the suit, hilariously characterized the voter approved measure as “a brazen power grab that tramples on civil rights and mocks the democratic process.” She is very concerned that it will “entrench one-party rule and silence millions of Californians”. Specifically, white Californians. When the suit was originally filed last week, the response from Newsom’s office: “Good luck, losers.”
- The longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history is now over. At least until the end of January. We detail all the loose ends, takeaways as we head into another election year, and how the Congressional Democrats‘ fight to restore massive Trump/GOP cuts to health care that will spike costs for tens of millions of Americans by January 1 is continuing.
- All of that, as Trump’s approval numbers continue to plummet. Now, even among Republicans, as just 33% of Americans approve of Trump’s management of the federal government.
- In one election from last week that couldn’t be called until today, progressive, self-declared democratic socialist Katie Wilson, a community organizer and first-time candidate, appears to have narrowly won the race to become Seattle‘s next Mayor. She defeated the Democratic establishment supported incumbent Bruce Harrell while running on an affordability agenda being compared to Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani‘s in NYC. The contest foretells the fascinating battle emerging between the younger, more progressive and older, more centrist wings of the Democratic Party as we move into another critical election year.
- Finally, Desi Doyen is here with our latest Green News Report, with news on the ongoing U.N. climate summit in Brazil (which the U.S. isn’t even attending); Trump’s newly reported plan to drill for oil off the coast of California (which Gov. Newsom describes as “dead on arrival”), and the 50-year anniversary of the tragic 1975 wreck of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, which inspired major, life-saving changes by NOAA (which Trump is decimating) and a haunting hit song by Gordon Lightfoot which also has a fascinating history that we discuss at the end of today’s eclectic program…
The BradCast
with Brad Friedman
11/13/2025
Trump DOJ Takes Stand for Voting Whites in CA: ‘BradCast’ 11/13/2025 | Also: Shutdown memories; Trump approval plunging; Seattle progressive unseats moderate Dem; NOAA and 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'... · · · · · Trump DOJ Takes Stand for Voting Whites in CA: ‘BradCast’ 11/13/2025 | Also: Shutdown memories; Trump approval plunging; Seattle progressive unseats moderate Dem; NOAA and 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'...
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And even the ShameStein saga has perplexing developments too.
Trumps Criminal Trial losing lawyer, now a lawyer in the ShameSteing case, says the DOJ files don’t contain the emails that Congress acquired from the ShameStein Estate.
He says a lot of stuff is not in the DOJ files.
When did he et al. delete them?
Have you noticed another weakness in our constitution a la the Epstein case? And the Jan 6 case? And the 2020 “election was stolen” case?
One weakness that is appearing weakly on the edge of the media fog concerns the Epstein files case.
“Normally” no member of the honest and decent people of the federal bar would dare think of destroying evidence in the files of the file cabinets of the DOJ.
But like Dylan says “I used to care, but things have changed” (Academy Awards).
Ok, ok, I’ll get to the point.
The trump card is presidential pardons.
That is the only thing that Trump has kept his word on (“Do crimes for me and I will pardon you.”)
That is why they know they are safe if they delete all the Trump skum in the DOJ Epstein files.
He has promised them pardons.
So, nothing can be done about that heinous crime spree.
UNLESS a smart STATE prosecuting attorney can make a state case based on the Epstein crimes.
(Presidential pardons to not extend to state crimes.)
Motherly Love for groupies (Motherly Love).
This is the bill:
It is scheduled to be voted on in the House next Tuesday.
Then will the Senate agree to it and pass it?
AND OH THE FOLLY of thinking President Trump will sign it into law!!!
What a waste of legislative time after being “on vacation” for a couple of monthes while being paid … and while hundreds of others in the gov were not being paid.
(When You Are Governed By Psychopaths – 9)
Dredd –
Your cynicism (of course) is appropriate. But, two points…
1) Presuming it passes in both the House and Senate, while Trump would certainly want to veto it, if the chatter about the numbers on the House vote is true, it sounds like there would be enough YAYs to override a veto. We know less about how this measure would go down in the Senate, but if the same “Epstein Fever” happens there, it could become veto-proof there as well.
2) That said, note paragraph #3 you pasted above: “DOJ is permitted to withhold certain information such as the personal information of victims and materials that would jeopardize an active federal investigation.”
Did you happen to notice how Trump called for (and Bondi complained with) a DoJ investigation of Epstein and Bill Clinton a day or two ago?
Would hate to “jeopardize” that “active federal investigation”, eh?
State prosecutions and/or veto overrides (by House & Senate) are needed.
Lots of work to do!
The state count action against the cover-up crew is the hidden in plain sight route:
“Trump does Epstein U-turn as House Republicans prepare to spurn him” (Politico).
The purging of the DOJ files of “bad karma” evidence is now complete eh?
(except for bad democrat karma).(Trump calls for DOJ probe into other Epstein ties, including Clinton).