{"id":12946,"date":"2019-04-04T18:09:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T01:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12946"},"modified":"2019-04-04T18:25:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T01:25:18","slug":"trumps-never-ending-mendaciousness-nc-gops-never-ending-corruption-bradcast-442019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12946","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Never-Ending Mendacity; NC GOP&#8217;s Never-Ending Corruption: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 4\/4\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_TrumpLie_RobinHayes-NCGOP_040419.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Among the many truthful stories covered on today&#8217;s jam-packed <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a> filled with Trump lies and much more&#8230;[<i>Audio link to show is posted below<\/i>]&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-03-26\/trump-tried-to-undo-n-korea-penalty-contrary-to-u-s-account\">Administration covered up<\/a> Trump&#8217;s recent lies about new North Korean sanctions;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>How Trump&#8217;s lies about the still-secret Mueller Report have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/limited-information-barr-has-shared-about-russia-investigation-frustrated-some-on-muellers-team\/2019\/04\/03\/c98e8a02-567a-11e9-814f-e2f46684196e_story.html?utm_term=.1abe897ffcef\">aided by Trump&#8217;s Attorney General<\/a> and how Mueller&#8217;s team is reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/03\/us\/politics\/william-barr-mueller-report.html\">none too happy<\/a> about it;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>How Trump is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/la-na-pol-marine-corps-border-national-emergency-20190321-story.html\">undermining military readiness<\/a> and hurricane recovery for Marines and their families with lies about a &#8220;national emergency&#8221; at the southern border and how the Marine Corps&#8217; top General is <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/grassley-trumps-claim-wind-turbines-cause-cancer-is-idiotic\">pushing back<\/a>; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>How Trump lied about a new health care plan to replace Obamacare and how Congressional Republicans have forced him to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/trump-punts-vote-on-health-care-bill-until-after-next-years-elections\/2019\/04\/02\/068305d2-552c-11e9-8ef3-fbd41a2ce4d5_story.html\">back down<\/a>;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>How Trump lied about closing the border with Mexico this week and how economic reality forced him to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/trump-backs-off-threat-to-close-southern-border-immediately-says-hell-give-mexico-one-year-warning-on-drugs-migrants\/2019\/04\/04\/5fd35dfa-56f6-11e9-814f-e2f46684196e_story.html\">back down<\/a>;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Then, two North Carolina special elections for the U.S. House are coming up &#8212; the first, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/politics-government\/article227315774.html\">in NC-03<\/a>, to replace the late Republican Rep. Walter Jones (who voted against Trump more than for him), the second, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/news\/politics-government\/election\/article227872719.html\">in NC-09<\/a>, a do-over election from the November 2018 contest which was never certified, thanks to a <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12899\">GOP absentee ballot fraud scheme<\/a> paid for by the GOP candidate. But before we can get to <i>either<\/i> of those races, the federal <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/dc\/north-carolina-gop-chairman-indicted-as-scandal-continues-to-grow\">indictment of North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Robin Hayes<\/a>, a longtime state power-broker and former GOP Congressman, was unsealed this week. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/04\/02\/politics\/north-carolina-republicans-robin-hayes\/index.html\">criminal charges<\/a> against Hayes include counts of fraud, bribery, campaign finance violations and lying to the FBI. And another Republican Congressman from the state and member of House GOP leadership, Rep. Mark Walker (NC-06), is also finding himself <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/04\/02\/walker-federal-corruption-probe-north-carolina-1249335\">entangles in the criminal scandal<\/a> and named in the indictment as &#8220;Public Official A&#8221;;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>All of that today is <i>before<\/i> Desi Doyen joins us for the <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12945\">latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, with yet another deadly chemical fire in Houston, yet another court loss for ExxonMobil, yet another way that Trump is making both climate change and immigration even worse, and yet another mendacious Trump lie about wind energy that even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2019\/04\/03\/donald-trump-wind-turbines-chuck-grassley-iowa-idiotic\/3356122002\/\">a top Republican<\/a> is calling him out over&#8230;Oh, and Burger King&#8217;s &#8220;Impossible&#8221; dream&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; 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