{"id":12605,"date":"2018-06-11T18:10:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T01:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12605"},"modified":"2018-06-11T20:59:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T03:59:46","slug":"trumps-bonkers-turn-against-g7-allies-bodes-ill-for-kim-jong-un-summit-bradcast-6112018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12605","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Bonkers Turn Against G7 Allies Bodes Ill for North Korea Deal: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 6\/11\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_TrumpMerkelAbeMacronG7_061118.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">The crazy train continues. And gets crazier. Among the stories covered on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>. [<i>Audio link to show follows below<\/i>.]&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The stolen Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/17pdf\/16-980_f2q3.pdf\">5 to 4 majority [PDF]<\/a> on the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/m.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/11\/us\/politics\/supreme-court-upholds-ohios-purge-of-voting-rolls.html\">found in favor<\/a> of Ohio&#8217;s radical voter purge scheme that begins to remove voters from the rolls for failing to vote in one single federal election, in what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/voting-rights\/fighting-voter-suppression\/despite-supreme-court-ruling-voting-still-not-use-it\">voting rights advocates<\/a> (and the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals) found to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2018\/06\/the-supreme-court-is-helping-republicans-kill-a-key-voting-rights-law\/\">direct violation<\/a> of the National Voter Registration Act. According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-votingrights-ohio-insight\/use-it-or-lose-it-occasional-ohio-voters-may-be-shut-out-in-november-idUSKCN0YO19D\">2016 Reuters analysis<\/a>, the scheme resulted in 144,000 voters being removed from the rolls in Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus alone, and affected voters in Democratic-leaning neighborhoods at roughly twice the rate as in Republican neighborhoods. Other GOP-controlled states are now believed likely to adopt similar voter purge schemes;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters says he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-county-missing-ballots-update-20180608-story.html\">cannot yet rule out hacking<\/a> as the cause for 118,000 voters being left off the printed rosters at the polls during last week&#8217;s midterm primaries in California. Registrar Dean Logan has announced that an independent analyst will be hired to try and determine why it happened and how to prevent an even worse disaster this November;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Seemingly bowing to public pressure, The Trump Administration&#8217;s Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson has now said he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/ben-carsons-backs-off-newest-hud-plan-which-would-rais-1826644933\">plans to back off<\/a> his proposed scheme to increase rents by <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/d084d718ddda4fe087219825bad0fcbd\">more than 20% per year<\/a> on more than 8 million low-income Americans &#8212; including millions of children, elderly and the disabled &#8212; who live in federally subsidized housing for the working poor; (Our guest <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12603\">on this topic last week<\/a>, former Obama HUD official Diane Yentel, warns that pieces of this proposal may find its way into other legislation being moved by Congressional Republicans to gut the social safety net for the poor.);<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Then, on to the crazy train: Trump arrived late and left early from the Group of Seven (G7) summit with our top allies on Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/jun\/10\/g7-in-disarray-after-trump-rejects-communique-and-attacks-weak-trudeau\">pulled the U.S. off<\/a> of the G7&#8217;s traditional summit-ending communiqu\u00e9, which he&#8217;d previously agreed to, and then turned against mild-mannered Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for daring to keep his promise to respond (as he&#8217;d previously announced) to Trump&#8217;s trade tariffs imposed on imported steel and aluminum from Canada and other close allies last week. In turn, Larry Kudlow, Trump&#8217;s top economic adviser, took to the Sunday news shows to describe Canada&#8217;s response as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/06\/10\/politics\/larry-kudlow-donald-trump-justin-trudeau\/index.html\">&#8220;betrayal&#8221;<\/a> and his top trade adviser, Peter Navarro went on to <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/wh-trade-adviser-special-place-in-hell-for-leaders-like-canadian-pm-trudeau\">charge<\/a> there was a &#8220;special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad diplomacy with president Donald J. Trump.&#8221;;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>All of which served as a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/f4a5201ceceb44f896e2e497537ba116\">precursor<\/a> for Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/06\/11\/politics\/donald-trump-kim-jong-un-singapore\/index.html\">historic<\/a> summit set for Tuesday in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.  On Monday, Trump announced he planned to leave <i>that<\/i> summit &#8212; with the potential denuclearization of North Korea and an end to the 70-year old conflict between the North and the South on the table &#8212; early as well. What could possibly go wrong?  And how bad does this all get before it gets better?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Callers ring in on all of the above on today&#8217;s busy <i>BradCast<\/i>, focusing on the election failure last week in Los Angeles, and how Trump is likely to try and use the results from Singapore, whatever they may be, to his political advantage&#8230;accurately, dishonestly, or otherwise&#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_SCOTUS_OHPurge_LACoError_TrumpG7_Singapore_Callers_061118.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_SCOTUS_OHPurge_LACoError_TrumpG7_Singapore_Callers_061118.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>The crazy train continues. And gets crazier. Among the stories covered on today&#8217;s BradCast. [Audio link to show follows below.]&#8230; The stolen Republican 5 to 4 majority [PDF] on the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday found in favor of Ohio&#8217;s radical voter purge scheme that begins to remove voters from the rolls for failing to [&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":[814,761,89,675,500,479,930,6,28,841,242,1180,695,1086,522,800,477,1130,337,157,625,15,126,631,1124,313,243],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alex-padilla","category-ben-carson","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-canada","category-donald-trump","category-election-2018","category-election-irregularities","category-election-reform","category-eu","category-france","category-g7","category-germany","category-hud","category-jon-husted","category-justin-trudeau","category-kpfk","category-larry-kudlow","category-los-angeles","category-north-korea","category-nvra","category-ohio","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-samuel-alito","category-trade","category-us-supreme-court","category-voter-registration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12605","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=12605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12605"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=12605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}