{"id":11915,"date":"2016-11-07T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11915"},"modified":"2016-11-07T17:51:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T01:51:31","slug":"believe-nothing-and-other-good-advice-on-the-day-before-election-day-bradcast-1172016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11915","title":{"rendered":"Believe Nothing (And Other Good Advice on the Day Before Election Day): &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 11\/7\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_TrumpRushedOffState_RenoNV110516.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, the last one before Election Day(!), we debunk a lot of nonsense &#8212; and out-and-out lies from the Donald Trump Campaign, in several instances &#8212; from over the weekend and in to today. [<i>Audio link to show is posted below.<\/i>]\n<p>Among the stories and avalanche of news covered on today&#8217;s <i>BradCast<\/i>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>FBI Director James Comey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/apps\/g\/page\/politics\/fbi-directors-letter-to-congress-after-review-of-newly-discovered-clinton-emails\/2129\/\">confirms<\/a> there is nothing in newly discovered emails (most of them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/11\/06\/politics\/comey-tells-congress-fbi-has-not-changed-conclusions\/\">duplicates<\/a> they&#8217;d seen before) that would lead to an indictment of Hillary Clinton;<\/li>\n<li>And, no, there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2016\/11\/05\/there-is-no-such-thing-as-the-denver-guardian\/\">no &#8220;murdered FBI agent&#8221;<\/a> involved, no matter what you saw on Facebook over the weekend;<\/li>\n<li>There was also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2016\/11\/05\/donald-trump-jr-and-top-aide-retweet-baseless-allegation-of-assassination-attempt\/\">no &#8220;assassination attempt&#8221;<\/a> on Trump in Reno, NV over the weekend by a <a href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/70c48b37885f41168e087d360e8f72d9\">Republican sign-holder<\/a> despite his campaign suggesting otherwise;<\/li>\n<li>There was, however, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/trump-supporter-gun-voter-intimidation-virginia_us_581cf16ee4b0aac624846eb5\">Trump supporter with a gun<\/a> intimidating voters outside a VA polling location;<\/li>\n<li>There appears to be record early voting turnout in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElectProject\/status\/795057707350892544\">dozens of states<\/a>, and notably <a href=\"http:\/\/themoderatevoice.com\/a-latino-and-hispanic-blue-wave-is-swamping-trump-in-nevada-tweets\/\">in Hispanic areas<\/a>, where Trump&#8217;s campaign <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/kellyanne-conway-trump-nevada-rigged-poll\">blatantly lied<\/a> over the weekend about polls being kept open &#8220;illegally&#8221; after hours;<\/li>\n<li>Nathan Sproul, a long-time GOP operative whose companies have a <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9600\">checkered past<\/a> related to <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9632\">voter registration fraud<\/a> in several states, was secretly <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9629\">hired<\/a> by the RNC in 2012 and then <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9592\">fired<\/a> once <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9948\">more fraud allegations<\/a> became public. He&#8217;s now been quietly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2016\/11\/05\/us\/politics\/ap-us-campaign-2016-trump-voter-fraud.html?_r=0\">hired again by the RNC<\/a> and Trump camp in 2016;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/chrisgeidner\/appeals-court-no-new-anti-voter-intimidation-rules-in-place?utm_term=.mu8NzYkNyQ#.ocgZOQaZVx\">Dems lose<\/a> several &#8216;voter intimidation&#8217; lawsuits against Trump (but may have actually <a href=\"http:\/\/electionlawblog.org\/?p=88833\">won anyway<\/a>);<\/li>\n<li>There will be at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/there-are-868-fewer-places-to-vote-in-2016-because-the-supreme-court-gutted-the-voting-rights-act\/\">868 fewer places<\/a> to vote in 2016, thanks to SCOTUS gutting Voting Rights Act\n<li>Kansas Sec. of State Kris Kobach is <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/muckraker\/court-knocks-kobach-in-case-linked-to-ks-proof-of-citizenship-voter-requirement\">ordered<\/a> (yet again, and hopefully once and for all!) to allow <i>all<\/i> registered voters to vote in both state and federal elections;<\/li>\n<li>North Carolina is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/11\/north-carolina-voter-registrations-restored-230768\">ordered<\/a> by a federal court to restore all unlawfully purged voters to the rolls before Election Day;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, much more, as we head into Election Day together, near the end (hopefully?) one of the darkest and most insane cycles in U.S. history&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_BelieveNothing_DayBeforeElection_110716.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_BelieveNothing_DayBeforeElection_110716.mp3]<\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/stitcher.com\/s\/player.php?fid=25838&#038;src=psl\">Stitcher<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s BradCast, the last one before Election Day(!), we debunk a lot of nonsense &#8212; and out-and-out lies from the Donald Trump Campaign, in several instances &#8212; from over the weekend and in to today. [Audio link to show is posted below.] Among the stories and avalanche of news covered on today&#8217;s BradCast: FBI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,675,479,400,594,106,6,28,227,16,226,635,171,477,654,158,356,43,48,771,126,233,313,280,243,517],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-donald-trump","category-election-2012","category-election-2016","category-election-fraud","category-election-irregularities","category-election-reform","category-fbi","category-florida","category-hillary-clinton","category-james-comey","category-kansas","category-kpfk","category-kris-kobach","category-nathan-sproul","category-nevada","category-north-carolina","category-pennsylvania","category-race","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-us-senate","category-us-supreme-court","category-vote-caging","category-voter-registration","category-voting-rights-act","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11915"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=11915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}