{"id":13543,"date":"2020-08-28T17:21:27","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T00:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13543"},"modified":"2020-08-28T18:00:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T01:00:56","slug":"trump-accepts-gop-nomination-at-lawless-lie-filled-white-house-super-spreader-event-bradcast-8282020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13543","title":{"rendered":"Trump Accepts GOP Nomination at Lawless, Lie-Filled White House Super-Spreader Event: ‘BradCast’ 8\/28\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>: Never mind the lawlessness of it all. Personally, I’m still having trouble today getting over the creepy, grotesque scene of thousands jammed shoulder to shoulder together on the White House lawn for Donald Trump’s viral super-spreader event in celebration of his acceptance speech to run for a second failed term as President. But maybe that’s just me. [Audio link to today’s upbeat show after a very grim night follows below.<\/i>]\n

We’re joined today for our Republican National Convention Week-in-Review by HEATHER DIGBY PARTON<\/b>, award-winning opinion journalist at Salon<\/a> and Hullabaloo<\/a>, and RICHARD “RJ” ESKOW<\/b>, longtime progressive columnist<\/a> and host of The Zero Hour<\/i><\/a> show on radio, TV and podcast.<\/p>\n

It was a bizarre and stunningly dishonest week from the GOP, to say the least, capped off by the mother of all Lie Fests from the President of the United States himself. His droning, 70-minute long attempt to gaslight the American people by lying about his record and trying to scare the hell out of them about Joe Biden, did not disappoint, at least on the dishonesty scale. We make short work<\/a> of a few much-needed, monster fact-checks<\/a> at the top of the show before we get to the central question of the day.<\/p>\n

Setting aside the lies and the hypocrisy of breaking countless laws while use the White House (“the People’s House”) to declare himself the “Law and Order President”, did Trump’s false, fear-mongering speech, and all the same that came before it this week from every other RNC speaker, accomplish what Republicans and Trump needed them to?<\/p>\n

Parton and Eskow (and Desi Doyen and me) all have plenty of thoughts on that question and many others in today’s lively round-table at the end of another long convention week and as we prepare for the nightmares to come in the general election season, debate season, and, undoubtedly, the boatload of October Surprises and dirty tricks that lie ahead…<\/p>\n

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