{"id":13535,"date":"2020-08-20T18:10:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T01:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13535"},"modified":"2020-08-20T18:21:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T01:21:26","slug":"do-not-let-them-take-away-your-democracy-bradcast-8202020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13535","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Do Not Let Them Take Away Your Democracy&#8217;: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 8\/20\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_Bannon-Trump-Obama-Harris_082020.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, I suspect, largely speaks for itself. [<i>Audio link to full show is below.<\/i>]\n<p>Among the news covered on today&#8217;s program&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Steve Bannon, Donald Trump&#8217;s third 2016 campaign chief and former CEO of the rightwing propaganda outlet Brietbart, becomes the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2020\/08\/20\/each-trumps-2016-campaign-managers-has-now-faced-criminal-charges\/\">third to be arrested and charged<\/a> with crimes. He now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/20\/nyregion\/steve-bannon-arrested-indicted.html\">faces federal felony fraud charges<\/a> for stealing $1 million from a supposedly non-profit donor-driven wingnut effort that raised $25 million to build fencing on the U.S. southern border.  We&#8217;re happy to see yet another Trump-enabled con-man and grifter held accountable, <i>but <\/i>it comes with a warning about what this likely means for other federal indictments that could drop in the coming days ahead of the November 3rd election;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>After receiving a very generous mulligan from the Republicans&#8217; stolen U.S. Supreme Court last month &#8212; allowing his attorneys another bite at the apple in making their ridiculous case that the President of the United States is above the law in every way &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/d50092256b725ea503a390acd1b26133\">Trump&#8217;s lawyers lose yet again<\/a>, as a lower federal court judge rules for a second time that Trump&#8217;s accounting firm, Mazars USA, must turn over his tax returns and other financial documents to the Manhattan District Attorney investigating the President on state fraud charges;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Our quick review of the masterfully crafted and performed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2020\/08\/19\/takeaways-democratic-convention-night-2\/\">Day 3<\/a> of the DNC&#8217;s virtual Democratic National Convention, including the historic nomination and perfectly delivered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/08\/19\/politics\/kamala-harris-speech-transcript\/index.html\">acceptance speech<\/a> by official Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris, and&#8230;;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>An extended excerpt of former President Barack Obama&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/08\/19\/politics\/barack-obama-speech-transcript\/index.html\">speech for the ages<\/a>, unlike any he&#8217;s ever delivered, with a stern and clarion call to all Americans to rise up now by casting our votes to save democracy and the republic itself&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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-BannonArrest-TrumpTaxes-DNCDay3-Harris-ObamaSpeech_082020.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman-BannonArrest-TrumpTaxes-DNCDay3-Harris-ObamaSpeech_082020.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=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/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>Today&#8217;s BradCast, I suspect, largely speaks for itself. [Audio link to full show is below.] Among the news covered on today&#8217;s program&#8230; Steve Bannon, Donald Trump&#8217;s third 2016 campaign chief and former CEO of the rightwing propaganda outlet Brietbart, becomes the third to be arrested and charged with crimes. 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