Plus: Callers ring in with their own thoughts...
By Brad Friedman on 1/5/2026, 5:18pm PT  

Well, we're back! And I had some great stuff I was looking forward to covering on our first BradCast after a long holiday break. But, of course, our psychotic President of the United States had other ideas. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.]

Don't worry. We will get to those other things that he'd prefer we don't cover, one way or another in coming days. But today we try to make sense of his stupid, senseless, unlawful attack on Venezuela late on Friday night/early Saturday morning, and of his kidnapping of that nation's corrupt President, Nicholas Maduro, and his wife. ("Corrupt" if only because he stole his 2024 election.)

Anyway, as you'll hear, I'm a bit under the weather today. So, I'm gonna keep this summary short.

We cover what happened; how unlawful it was; how much both Donald Trump and Team Trump lied about it all before, during and after; how clueless they seem to be about what happens next; and, ultimately, why he decided to attack Venezuela in the first place.

Yes, it's about distraction from the Epstein Files and the Jack Smith testimony. Yes, it's about oil, (but only somewhat, in my opinion). But it's also about at least two other things most of all: 1) A raw show of power by a very weak man and 2) Trump's rejection by the courts last year when he attempted to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as justification for the mass deportation of Venezuelan migrants. Tune in for more on that, and for what our callers think it's all about...and which country (Cuba? Mexico? Colombia? Iran? Greenland?) will be next...

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