{"id":12016,"date":"2017-01-31T18:05:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T02:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12016"},"modified":"2017-01-31T18:04:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T02:04:30","slug":"trumps-monday-night-massacre-democrats-tuesday-resistance-bradcast-1312017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12016","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s ‘Monday Night Massacre’, Democrats’ Tuesday ‘Resistance’: ‘BradCast’ 1\/31\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, the fallout and chaos continues following Donald Trump’s reckless Executive Order banning travel from seven majority-Muslim countries and his firing of the Acting U.S. Attorney General who refused to enforce it, after announcing that she was unconvinced the order was lawful. [Audio link to show is posted below.<\/i>]\n

But first today, the shooter alleged to have killed six and wounded 19 others at a mosque in Quebec City over the weekend is reported<\/a> to be a white nationalist (and Trump supporter). Therefore, as with deadly climate change, Trump, Republicans and the corporate media can largely ignore the entire matter…as they largely have. That’s particular disturbing in light of new reporting on the FBI’s awareness of white supremacists and sympathizers inside the ranks of the nation’s law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n

Then, when Sally Yates, the Acting U.S. AG was fired<\/a> shortly after announcing<\/a> her act of conscience on Monday night, Trump’s White House described it as an act of “betrayal” to the Department. (She is sworn to defend and protect the U.S. Constitution, not the DoJ or the White House). Shortly thereafter, the White House also removed<\/a> another top official at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, but without explanation. Yates’ act was one that she, herself, might have predicted during her 2015 Senate Confirmation hearings, and largely did, while being questioned by<\/a> Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) who now happens to be Trump’s nominee for U.S. Attorney General. We play some of the remarkable exchange between Sessions and Yates on today’s show, which suggests that a) Sessions should come out in support<\/i> of Yates (he won’t) and b) Democrats should not vote on Sessions’ nomination until he answers the very same questions he put to Yates in 2015, seeking to find out if she would, correctly, defy an unlawful, unconstitutional order from a President.<\/p>\n

The entire mess is being referred to<\/a> as the “Monday Night Massacre” by some, for its obvious echoes of Richard Nixon’s infamous “Saturday Night Massacre” in 1973 at the height of the Watergate Scandal. Nixon’s White House Counsel John Dean, for example, predicts<\/a> today that “The way the Trump Presidency is beginning, it is safe to say it will end in calamity.”<\/p>\n

Calamity is already underway across much of the nation and at a number of other federal agencies reporting turmoil<\/a> and despair following the wildly unpopular<\/a> President’s Friday order. But Democrats appear<\/i> to be finding at least a partial spine and are now boycotting<\/a> a Senate committee in order to hold up votes on Trump’s nominees to head up the Treasury Department (Steven Mnuchin) and Health and Human Services (Rep. Tom Price), due to alleged financial improprieties and dishonest answers given to Congress about them by both men.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Speaker Paul Ryan and the House GOP remain 100% all-in<\/a> with Trump, as are most Senate Republicans. So, unless Democrats can figure out how to hold the line (and the public can figure out how to force Dems to do so), the nation’s near and long-term future remains perilous, as Donald Trump plans announces his nomination tonight to replace Antonin Scalia on the GOP’s stolen U.S. Supreme Court…<\/p>\n

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