{"id":14394,"date":"2022-09-08T18:29:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T01:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14394"},"modified":"2022-09-08T18:37:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T01:37:36","slug":"save-america-working-on-it-bradcast-982022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14394","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Save America&#8217;? Working on It: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 9\/8\/2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_BannonLockHimUp-TrumpSaveAmerica_090822.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Since I kept my whining about the endless heat wave out here in Southern California to a minimum for a change on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, I&#8217;ll do so here instead. The record heat continues. And with no air conditioning at BRAD BLOG World News Headquarters, I only have the strength to muster up some quick links to some of the many stories covered on today&#8217;s show. Tune in for details! [<i>Audio link to full show follows this summary.<\/i>]\n<ul>\n<li>Britain&#8217;s longest reigning monarch, <b>Queen Elizabeth II<\/b>, is <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/queen-elizabeth-ii-health-update-b2578aa91c3fef9c5d6ad4a557bf63e4?utm_source=homepage&#038;utm_medium=TopNews&#038;utm_campaign=position_1\">dead at age 96<\/a> after her 70-year reign.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/most-americans-see-trumps-maga-threat-democracy-reutersipsos-2022-09-07\/\">Reuters poll<\/a> find a large majority of Americans (nearly 60%) regard <b>Trump&#8217;s MAGA movement<\/b> as a threat to the nation&#8217;s democratic foundations. But only about 25% of Republicans agree. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump&#8217;s sleazy former advisor, MAGA swami, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/07\/22\/jury-deliberations-steve-bannon-00047419\">convicted federal criminal<\/a> <b>Steve Bannon<\/b> is <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/steve-bannon-crime-new-york-manhattan-donald-trump-19b6d86b69eeba1c6457df5e2748e82b\">indicted on 6 criminal counts<\/a> in <b>New York<\/b> for money laundering, conspiracy and fraud related to siphoning hundreds of thousands of dollars from the nonprofit &#8220;We Build the Wall&#8221; campaign. The campaign was supposedly created to construct some border wall between the U.S. and Mexico. Bannon and the group&#8217;s founders promised they wouldn&#8217;t take a penny. They lied. Bannon was pardoned by Trump on his last day in office for similar charges at the federal level brought by Trump&#8217;s own Department of Justice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The federal grand jury investigating the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has now <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/federal-grand-jury-probing-trump-pacs-formation-fundraising\/story?id=89507528&#038;cid=social_twitter_abcn\">reportedly<\/a> widened its probe to include Trump&#8217;s scammy <b>Save America PAC<\/b>. While the political action committee has raised more than $130 million from its duped donors, theoretically to contest the results of the 2020 election, most of the money has gone unspent or, apparently, into the pockets of Trump and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/08\/05\/save-america-melania-trump-designer\/10130359002\/?gnt-cfr=1\"> his family<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The same federal grand jury has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/07\/us\/politics\/fbi-trump-aide-william-russell.html\">now subpoenaed<\/a> Trump&#8217;s 31-year old personal aide, <b>William Russell<\/b>, who worked with him at the White House and has continued to do so since the disgraced former President left office. He is very close to Trump. He likely knows a lot of stuff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>CNN&#8217;s investigative unit on Wednesday published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/09\/07\/politics\/michigan-gop-poll-worker-training-invs\/index.html\">detailed, lengthy story<\/a> on <b>GOP leaders in Wayne County (Detroit), Michigan<\/b> caught on video tape teaching pollworkers how to break the rules on behalf of Republicans. We share the version of the story from CNN&#8217;s Drew Griffin which ran last night on the cable net.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><i>BREAKING mid-show<\/i>: <b>Michigan&#8217;s Supreme Court<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/09\/08\/1121858922\/michigan-supreme-court-abortion-amendment-voters-ballot\">will allow an initiative on this year&#8217;s midterm ballot<\/a> for a state Constitutional amendment that would protect abortion rights in the state. Republican members of the state canvassing board had blocked the proposal &#8212; which had been supported by a record 750,000 signatures &#8212; from the November ballot because, they claimed, there <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/gopers-are-blocking-michigan-abortion-ballot-measure-over-complaints-about-word-spacing\">wasn&#8217;t enough spacing between words<\/a> on the petition. Seriously. That, after Republicans pretended to believe, following the corrupt Republican U.S. Supreme Court majority overturning <i>Roe v. Wade<\/i> earlier this summer, that reproductive rights should be decided by the people of the states. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14393\">our latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, with news on the historic heat wave in the <b>U.S. West<\/b>; new threats by <b>Russia<\/b> to shut off energy exports to <b>Europe<\/b>; a massive climate change-fueled humanitarian crisis in <b>Pakistan<\/b> amid record flooding; and more&#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-ElizabethRIP-MAGAThreat-BannonIndictedNY-TrumpPACGrandJury-GOPPollWorkersMI-AbortionAmendmentMI_090822.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/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>Since I kept my whining about the endless heat wave out here in Southern California to a minimum for a change on today&#8217;s BradCast, I&#8217;ll do so here instead. The record heat continues. And with no air conditioning at BRAD BLOG World News Headquarters, I only have the strength to muster up some quick links [&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":[192,89,675,21,543,1587,479,969,1630,753,841,548,1590,477,305,111,132,300,126,534,868,549],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-14394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-california","category-climate-change","category-detroit","category-donald-trump","category-election-2020","category-election-2022","category-electric-vehicles","category-eu","category-extreme-weather","category-insurrection","category-kpfk","category-michigan","category-new-york","category-pakistan","category-republicans","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-russia","category-steve-bannon","category-uk"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14394","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=14394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14394"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=14394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}