{"id":12036,"date":"2017-02-17T18:50:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T02:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12036"},"modified":"2017-02-19T20:13:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T04:13:07","slug":"trump-dump-much-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12036","title":{"rendered":"TRUMP DUMP: Much Too Much: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 2\/17\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_logo_mixer.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, it&#8217;s a Trumponanza, guest hosted by yours truly, Angie Coiro.<\/p>\n<p>First a roundup of the latest threats and inanities, including the Trump camp&#8217;s denial of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/washington\/la-na-essential-washington-updates-trump-weighs-mobilizing-100-000-1487345038-htmlstory.html\">darned convincing report<\/a> from AP about setting the National Guard loose to sweep out undocumented immigrants. Scott Pruitt scores both a win and a loss within twenty-four hours; Arlene&#8217;s Flowers&#8217; claim that it can discriminate against gay couples on the basis of art (!) falls down. And: why a Rasmussen poll and a Pew Research poll can be so far apart, and why that matters at all; and the Case of the Sudden Trademark Protection, a suspicious gift from China to our equally suspicious president. That emoluments case is practically building itself at this point.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s just in the first ten minutes! Then <B>Lisa Graves<\/B> from <a href=\"http:\/\/prwatch.org\">the Center for Media and Democracy<\/a> goes into detail on Pruitt developments. She says the Center&#8217;s victory over Pruitt in an Oklahoma court &#8212; mandating that he turn over thousands of emails from during his tenure as the EPA suing Oklahoma Attorney General &#8212; has a direct connection to his lightning-fast ascendancy to the EPA chair.<\/p>\n<p><B>Sarah Jaffe<\/B>, host of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dissentmagazine.org\/tag\/belabored\">Belabored podcast<\/a>, explains why Trump&#8217;s relationship with union workers is so complex.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, a suggestion for organizers of the upcoming Day without Women protest: think ahead about the women who can&#8217;t afford to take a day off.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><b><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_AngieCoiro_LisaGravesPruitt_SarahJaffeUnions_NatlGuard_021717.mp3\">Download MP3<\/a> or listen online below&#8230; <\/i><\/b><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_AngieCoiro_LisaGravesPruitt_SarahJaffeUnions_NatlGuard_021717.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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s BradCast, it&#8217;s a Trumponanza, guest hosted by yours truly, Angie Coiro. First a roundup of the latest threats and inanities, including the Trump camp&#8217;s denial of a darned convincing report from AP about setting the National Guard loose to sweep out undocumented immigrants. Scott Pruitt scores both a win and a loss within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"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":[660,532,52,675,19,499,299,479,200,451,309,540,572,126,900,233],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afl-cio","category-alec","category-ap","category-bradcast","category-cnn","category-coal","category-democrats","category-donald-trump","category-environment","category-epa","category-gay-marriage","category-oil","category-oklahoma","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-scott-pruitt","category-us-senate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12036","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\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12036"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=12036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}