{"id":14410,"date":"2022-09-22T19:04:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T02:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14410"},"modified":"2022-09-22T19:18:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T02:18:26","slug":"trump-lindell-ginni-thomas-geniuses-all-bradcast-9222022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14410","title":{"rendered":"Trump, Lindell, Ginni Thomas &#8212; Geniuses All!: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 9\/22\/2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_Trump-Lindell-GinniThomas_092222.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">If you&#8217;re dumb enough to fall for the disgraced former President&#8217;s evidence-free claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him, you probably deserve whatever nightmares are coming for you. We cover at least three of those dumb dupes on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>. [<i>Audio link to today&#8217;s full show follows below this summary.<\/i>]\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s been a really <i>really<\/i> bad week for failed President and 2020 election conspiracist <b>Donald Trump<\/b>. His hand-picked Special Master in the Mar-a-Lago stolen documents case has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/special-master-mar-lago-case-appears-skeptical-trump-declassification-rcna48606\">doing him no favors<\/a>. And, yesterday, Trump and his kids and his company were slammed with a massive <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14408\">$250 million fraud lawsuit<\/a> by the state of New York which may end his ability to do business in the state ever again. And, just a few hours later, a three-judge panel on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, including two Trump-appointed judges, unanimously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/09\/21\/1124431613\/appeals-court-justice-mar-a-lago\">sided with the Dept. of Justice<\/a> in a no-uncertain-terms <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2022\/9\/22\/23366712\/donald-trump-special-master-aileen-cannon-11th-circuit-supreme-court-mar-a-lago-classified\">rebuke<\/a> of Trump&#8217;s claim&#8217;s that the classified documents he stole from the White House somehow belong to him, and to the dumb and\/or corrupt U.S. District Court Judge who facilitated his ridiculous legal challenge. And no, despite what The Former Guy tried to tell Sean Hannity last night, a President can&#8217;t simply <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/1572763428086743040?s=46&#038;t=l1J-J0V9IcaztmiEhH1XSA\">declassify documents with his mind<\/a>. But, even if he could, as the 11th Circuit Court helpfully pointed out in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=00000183-625b-da48-a3e3-e2ff83050000\">scathing ruling [PDF]<\/a>, the classified status of the stolen documents retrieved from Mar-a-Lago is little more than a &#8220;red herring&#8221;. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s also been a really <i>really<\/i> bad week for pillow salesman and 2020 election conspiracist <b>Mike Lindell<\/b>. On Monday, a federal court in Minnesota <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/09\/19\/mike-lindell-lawsuit-voting-machine-company-00057512\">denied<\/a> Lindell and his company&#8217;s motions to dismiss the massive defamation suit filed against them by Smartmatic, a voting system vendor. The next day, <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/mypillow-guy-sues-doj-phone-hardees\">Lindell tried<\/a> to get himself a similar deal to the one that Trump got in that destined-to-fail Mar-a-Lago lawsuit by filing a lawsuit against the Dept. of Justice, seeking to get his cell phone back. FBI official seized Lindell&#8217;s phone last week while he was at a fast-food restaurant drive-thru, based on a probable cause search warrant. Lindell&#8217;s own destined-to-fail lawsuit filing included a copy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/mike-lindell-investigation-doj-warrant\">FBI&#8217;s search warrant<\/a>, revealing that the bedding magnate is being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/my-pillow-ceo-trump-ally-faces-probe-plot-target-2020-election-computers-2022-09-21\/\">investigated for identity theft and intentional damage to a protected computer<\/a> related to the <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13962\">breach of Dominion voting system software<\/a> in Mesa County, Colorado by its indicted County Clerk, <b>Tina Peters<\/b>. Lots to explain here. We give you the full story.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>As to 2020 election conspiracist and far-right Republican activist <b>Ginni Thomas<\/b>, wife of far-right Republican activist Supreme Court Justice <b>Clarence Thomas<\/b>, her bad weeks may just be beginning. Hopefully. Four months ago, it was revealed that that she actively lobbied Trump&#8217;s then White House Chief of Staff <b>Mark Meadows<\/b>, a corrupt Trump lawyer named <b>John Eastman<\/b>, and several state lawmakers in battleground states to help steal the 2020 election for Trump. On Wednesday, Ginni&#8217;s attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/21\/us\/virginia-thomas-jan-6-panel.html?unlocked_article_code=GwGWMcdhyI77i0JQ4HtX8SPvCCETqoWayJVg-P9UHSPpo9LSeKG6YcA0AJYIxBjsmOnlB_W4hrCmFyQFibbz1mHitc1Mp6A51TXH7_IoaYOKLe43paU6RD2S7HDPsOfQnkVGmhp6CBkz0LhTjptpceIOUiUs9IETDo\">announced<\/a> that she has finally agreed to give testimony to the bipartisan U.S. House Select Committee investigating the January 6 insurrection and Trump&#8217;s multiple failed attempts to steal the election.  It is unclear when Thomas&#8217;  will be interviewed, though the agreement comes months after she had originally claimed to be eager to &#8220;clear up misconceptions&#8221; about her role in trying to help steal the 2020 election. In related news, the J6 Committee is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/09\/20\/politics\/january-6-hearing-date-house-select-committee-thompson\/index.html\">currently scheduled<\/a> to hold what may be their last public hearing next week, before releasing their final report at year&#8217;s end.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In news that is far less stupid, though also related to much of the above, U.S. Attorney General <b>Merrick Garland<\/b> offered incredibly moving remarks (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/video\/attorney-general-merrick-b-garland-administers-oath-allegiance-and-delivers-congratulatory\">video<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/speech\/attorney-general-merrick-b-garland-administers-oath-allegiance-and-delivers\">transcript<\/a>) at Ellis Island in New York last week at the swearing in ceremony for 200 new American citizens. The A.G. had a difficult time holding himself together as he recounted his family&#8217;s history of coming to America while attempting to escape the Holocaust. But it was his telling remarks on &#8220;the rule of law&#8221; and &#8220;the promise of equal justice under law&#8221; that may offer clues about what is likely to happen in the days ahead, at a moment when he is almost certainly deciding whether or not to indict a former President of the United States for the first time in history.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14409\">our latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, as <b>Climate Week<\/b> unfolds in New York during the United Nations General Assembly. She has coverage of the UN Sec. General&#8217;s call for the fossil fuel industry to pay up for its unspeakable damage across the globe; the continuing toll of <b>Hurricane Fiona<\/b> in Puerto Rico; and some good news on the first climate change treaty in decades to actually be adopted by the <b>U.S. Senate<\/b>.<\/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-11thCircRebukesCannon-LindellTrouble-GinniThomasJ6Comm-GarlandEllisIsland_092222.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>If you&#8217;re dumb enough to fall for the disgraced former President&#8217;s evidence-free claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him, you probably deserve whatever nightmares are coming for you. We cover at least three of those dumb dupes on today&#8217;s BradCast. [Audio link to today&#8217;s full show follows below this summary.] It&#8217;s been a [&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":[192,89,675,469,543,37,1813,223,442,479,969,548,227,261,1590,477,821,1604,775,1388,1670,198,233,186],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-14410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-clarence-thomas","category-climate-change","category-colorado","category-court-reform","category-dept-of-justice","category-dominion-voting","category-donald-trump","category-election-2020","category-extreme-weather","category-fbi","category-immigration","category-insurrection","category-kpfk","category-merrick-garland","category-mike-lindell","category-puerto-rico","category-smartmatic","category-tina-peters","category-us-house","category-us-senate","category-united-nations","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14410","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=14410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14410"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=14410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}