{"id":12032,"date":"2017-02-14T18:25:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T02:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12032"},"modified":"2017-02-14T18:24:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T02:24:08","slug":"its-not-the-crime-its-the-cover-up-bradcast-2142017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12032","title":{"rendered":"It’s Not the Crime, It’s the Cover-Up: ‘BradCast’ 2\/14\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>: Is it just me, or is it getting Nixon in here? [Audio link to show is posted below.<\/i>]\n

As they asked during Watergate: “What did the President known and when did he know it?” That’s just one of the many questions quickly emerging<\/a> in the hours since last night’s resignation<\/a> of National Security Advisor, Lt. General Michael Flynn, following revelations that he spoke with the Russian Ambassador about U.S. sanctions prior to Trump’s inauguration and then lied about it to the media, the public, Vice President Mike Pence — and perhaps even the FBI<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As they also said during Watergate: “It’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up.” The Logan Act<\/a>, as I explain today, was never really the problem. It’s a weak statute and has never actually been prosecuted in its history, dating back to the 1790’s. It’s the lies and the possibility of blackmail<\/a> in the wake of those lies that are now (among) the many problems for this White House.<\/p>\n

The continuing — and growing — disarray of the not-even-one-month-old Trump Administration extends to the amazing contradictions<\/a> from high-level officials at the White House about all of this over the past 24 hours, and to Trump himself, who, just last Friday, seemed to feign ignorance about Flynn’s conversations with Russian officials. That, before the White House confirmed<\/a> this afternoon that the President was directly informed about all of this by the Department of Justice weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Among questions now being raised, even by some Republicans<\/i><\/a> in the House and Senate: Why didn’t Trump act weeks ago on this? Is it plausible in anyway that Flynn went “rogue”, or was he, in fact, authorized and\/or directed — by someone on the Trump transition team — to discuss lifting sanctions against Russia with their Ambassador? If so, by whom? Was he also directed to lie about it? If so, by whom and why are so many seemingly lying about it all now? We discuss those questions and many others on today’s show.<\/p>\n

Also today: the Republican-majority Senate confirms<\/a> former Goldman Sachs exec and billionaire Wall St. “Foreclosure King” Steve Mnuchin for Treasury Secretary along party lines (though with the help of one Democratic senator); A federal court denies<\/a> the Trump Administration’s attempt to forestall hearings on his Muslim travel ban Executive Order; and Desi Doyen joins us for the latest Green News Report<\/i><\/a> with the latest on the Oroville Dam crisis in California and much more…<\/p>\n

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