{"id":12887,"date":"2019-02-11T18:07:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T02:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12887"},"modified":"2019-02-11T18:21:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T02:21:17","slug":"groundhog-day-all-over-again-trump-border-lies-shutdown-talks-virginias-political-mess-bradcast-2112019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12887","title":{"rendered":"Groundhog Day All Over Again? &#8211; Trump Border Lies, Shutdown Talks, Virginia&#8217;s Political Mess: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 2\/11\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_BillMurrayGroundhogDay_021119.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>: It seems like we&#8217;ve been here before. Donald Trump is out lying about his border wall, Congress is days away from another potential government shutdown over Trump&#8217;s demands, and various scandals continue to rock Virginia&#8217;s elected Democratic leadership with calls for resignations both continuing and waning. [<i>Audio link to show is posted below.<\/i>]\n<p>Among the stories covered on today&#8217;s show&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>During his State of the Union address, Trump offered false assertions about a border fence in El Paso, Texas, claiming it turned the state from one of the most dangerous cities in the country to one of the safest. The assertions have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/statements\/2019\/feb\/08\/donald-trump\/no-border-barrier-did-not-drive-down-crime-el-paso\/\">debunked<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/fact-check-trump-claims-wall-made-el-paso-safe-data-n969506\">re-debunked<\/a> over and again since then by, among others, El Paso&#8217;s sheriff and the city&#8217;s mayor. Nonetheless, the President is holding a <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/el-paso-officials-denounce-trumps-border-comments-ahead\/story?id=60885823\">campaign rally<\/a> in El Paso on Monday to repeat the lies;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Potential Democratic 2020 Presidential candidate Beto O&#8217;Rourke &#8212; whose hometown is El Paso &#8212; holds a rally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/beto-orourke-trump-el-paso_us_5c620e38e4b028d543172ca8\">at the same time<\/a> as Trump&#8217;s to debunk the lies, after more Democrats (Senators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/09\/us\/politics\/elizabeth-warren-2020.html\">Elizabeth Warren<\/a> of MA and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/10\/us\/politics\/amy-klobuchar-president-2020.html\">Amy Klobuchar<\/a> of MN) announced their intention over the weekend to run for President;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Congressional negotiations <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/4cffe44a54d541b8bb7ed3a05cb7f056\">teetered<\/a> on the edge of disaster over the weekend, as Republicans and Democrats work to avoid yet another federal government shutdown as of this Friday at midnight. That, even as many federal employees furloughed or working without pay during the <i>previous<\/i> shutdown that ended just two weeks ago are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/after-the-shutdown-federal-workers-are-coping-with-a-rocky-restart\/2019\/02\/07\/34494bea-2a41-11e9-b011-d8500644dc98_story.html?utm_term=.bd76cb50c009\">still waiting to be fully paid<\/a>;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Meanwhile, in Virginia, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax insists he has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/virginia-politics\/everyone-deserves-to-be-heard-fairfax-says-in-interview-as-democrats-explored-impeachment\/2019\/02\/11\/1f7287f0-2e05-11e9-8ad3-9a5b113ecd3c_story.html?utm_term=.69309cb7768c\">no plan to resign<\/a>, even after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/virginia-politics\/second-woman-accuses-va-lt-gov-justin-fairfax-of-sexual-assault\/2019\/02\/08\/19e6bb6c-2bdf-11e9-b011-d8500644dc98_story.html?utm_term=.1efba87ed5a9\"><i>second<\/i> accuser<\/a> stepped forward on Friday to charge that he sexually assaulted her in the early 2000s when they were undergrad students. Fairfax is demanding &#8220;due process&#8221; in the form of, among other things, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/02\/08\/692836826\/2nd-accuser-comes-forward-against-virginia-lt-gov-justin-fairfax\">an FBI investigation<\/a> into the serious allegations which he maintains were consensual incidents;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>At the same time, Virginia&#8217;s Governor Ralph Northam insists <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/northam-im-not-going-anywhere\">he will not resign either<\/a>, following the revelation of a racist photo published on his medical school yearbook in 1984, which he says he knew nothing about until it was recently publicized by a Rightwing website. Following fierce calls for Northam to resign last week and subsequent concerns about Fairfax&#8217;s own fitness for office (he is next in line to succeed Northam if he steps down), some African-American leaders in the commonwealth have announced they have forgiven Northam and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/3a2f87a6ec064a2a9f345e1fd2da1eb6\">are calling<\/a> for him to <i>remain<\/i> in office and make amends by working on policy and legislation important to the black community. Also, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/majority-virginia-african-americans-think-governor-should-stay-1325688\">new polling<\/a> reveals that a large majority of African-American voters in the state do not want Northam to step down;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Also, I&#8217;m sad to report, iconoclastic Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/north-carolina-rep-walter-jones-jr-death\">died Sunday<\/a>, on his 76th birthday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, with all of those messes continuing concurrently, we open the phone lines today and receive some &#8212; um &#8212; fairly wild calls, including one from someone who claims to be black, but is calling for segregation in the U.S. (yes, really) and another from a guy who insists Trump should get due credit for a booming economy. (I disagree.) <\/p>\n<p>All that and, yes, even more on today&#8217;s <i>BradCast<\/i>&#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_TrumpElPasoLies-ShutdownTalks-VirginiaMess_Callers_021119.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_TrumpElPasoLies-ShutdownTalks-VirginiaMess_Callers_021119.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>On today&#8217;s BradCast: It seems like we&#8217;ve been here before. Donald Trump is out lying about his border wall, Congress is days away from another potential government shutdown over Trump&#8217;s demands, and various scandals continue to rock Virginia&#8217;s elected Democratic leadership with calls for resignations both continuing and waning. 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