{"id":12546,"date":"2018-04-16T18:23:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T01:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12546"},"modified":"2018-04-16T20:51:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T03:51:47","slug":"trumps-unlawful-unauthorized-impeachable-evidence-free-mission-accomplished-in-syria-bradcast-4162018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12546","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Unlawful, Unauthorized, Impeachable, Evidence-Free ‘Mission Accomplished’ in Syria: ‘BradCast’ 4\/16\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>: Bill Maher quipped Friday night that the U.S. attack, with France and Britain, on Syria was code-named “Operation Desert Stormy”, an attempt by Donald Trump to force his legal and ethical nightmares off the front pages. It didn’t work. [Audio link to show follows below.<\/i>]\n

On Sunday night, fired FBI Director James Comey described<\/a> Trump as “morally unfit” for the Presidency in a prime-time ABC News interview, and on Monday, just before air today, Sean Hannity of Fox “News” was revealed<\/a> in federal court to be a secret client of Trump’s hush money payoff “fixer” Michael Cohen, and Cohen and Trump’s motion to review documents seized in the raid on Cohen’s office and residences last week was denied<\/a> (for now) by the federal judge.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, before it’s forgotten entirely in the fog of Trump Scandal, we focus mostly today on the fact that the pre-dawn bombing<\/a> of Damascus by US and its allies, said to be in response to an alleged chemical attack by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against his own people a week earlier in Douma, was done without any actual hard evidence<\/a> of a chemical attack or who was actually responsible for it. Trump’s Secretary of Defense James Mattis admitted as much<\/a> during Congressional hearings just one day before more than 100 cruise missiles were unleashed on supposedly chemical weapons-related facilities in Damascus. (No proof was offered to buttress the claim about those facilities either.)<\/p>\n

Moreover, there is absolutely no legal authority<\/a> whatsoever for Trump’s attack — either domestically or internationally — despite various claims to the contrary. Shamefully, most of Congress, both Republicans and Democrats alike, have so far failed to demand<\/a> accountability for the unconstitutional use of military force (even after threatening President Obama with impeachment when he wanted to launch a similar attack in response to an alleged Syrian chemical attack in 2013).<\/p>\n

For his part, the hapless Trump, who mercilessly derided Obama for calling for Syrian airstrikes in 2013, took to Twitter on Saturday to echo George W. Bush’s infamous appearance on a U.S. Aircraft Carrier in 2003 after the ill-fated invasion of Iraq, to declare “Mission Accomplished”<\/a> in Syria.<\/p>\n

Friday’s unlawful US attack, as we also discuss today, is believed to have cost some $200 million. That could have paid for the replacement of all of Flint, MI’s lead water pipes some four times over, as new studies reveal that reading proficiency levels for third-graders in Flint has plummeted<\/a> in the wake of the lead drinking water contamination crisis. That continuing crisis came about after MI’s Gov. Rick Snyder (R), following his election in 2010, ordered an Emergency Manager takeover of the city and a subsequent change to its water supply.<\/p>\n

As one caller observed today, some poisoned children, like those in Syria apparently, seem to be a larger concern for the Trump Administration than others<\/a>…no matter the evidence or lack thereof…<\/p>\n

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