{"id":14482,"date":"2022-11-29T18:36:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T02:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14482"},"modified":"2022-11-29T18:52:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T02:52:43","slug":"fun-in-maga-land-seditious-conspiracy-russian-collusion-election-denial-bradcast-11292022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14482","title":{"rendered":"Fun in MAGA Land!: Seditious Conspiracy! Russian Collusion! Election Denial!: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 11\/29\/2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_StewartRhodes-KatieHobbs_112922.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">It&#8217;s another crazy day in MAGA Land on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, as Accountability Season gets a very good start even before the 2022&#8217;s Election Season fully wraps up. [<i>Audio link to full show is posted below this summary.<\/i>]\n<p><i>Among our stories today from Accountability Season&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BREAKING at the top of today&#8217;s program: <b>Stewart Rhodes<\/b>, founder of the far-right <b>Oath Keepers<\/b> clan (and <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11495\">former <i>BradCast<\/i> guest<\/a>!) is <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/oath-keepers-founder-guilty-of-seditious-conspiracy-42affe1614425c6820f7cbe8fd18ba96\">found guilty<\/a> of seditious conspiracy for his involvement in the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Fellow Oath Keeper Kelly Meggs was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/oath-keepers-verdict-seditious-conspiracy-trial-rcna58415\">found guilty as well<\/a>. Both now face as much as 20 years in prison on the sedition charges alone. They, and others, were also charged with Obstruction of an Official Proceeding and more. Perhaps our former President who inspired them should begin to be concerned.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Speaking of the former guy&#8230; Earlier this month, Kremlin-linked Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, known as &#8220;Putin&#8217;s Chef&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-business-social-media-7fefa7ab0491b653f6094a4d090155fe\">boasted on social media<\/a> that &#8220;we have interfered, are interfering and will interfere&#8221; with U.S. elections. &#8220;Carefully, precisely, surgically and in our own way, as we know how to do.&#8221; A week or two later, longtime GOP operative <b>Jesse Benton<\/b> &#8212; who worked for Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump, among others &#8212; was <a href=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/3FfnUma\">found guilty on six counts<\/a> related to money laundering some $100,000 for another Russian businessman before the 2016 election. He was charged with helping to funnel money to both the Trump campaign and RNC that year.  As it happens, both Benton and seditious conspirator Rhodes both got their start in politics working as aides for Rep. Ron Paul. Benton is now married to Paul&#8217;s granddaughter.  He was charged last year (along with <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11761\">yet another <i>BradCast<\/i> guest<\/a> &#8212; who died shortly after being charged) just months after Trump had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2020\/12\/24\/ex-ron-paul-iowa-aides-john-tate-jesse-benton-pardoned-trump-kent-sorenson\/4038489001\/\">pardoned Benton<\/a> for separate charges against him regarding campaign finance violations and bribery during the 2012 election. We &#8216;splain the full sordid story and Russian collusion along with wistful memories of Tibetan monks and nuns and Al Gore from back in the day when Republicans used to pretend to care about unlawful campaign donations from foreign sources. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>And from Election Season&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Welp, the days are getting crazier and crazier in <b>Arizona<\/b>. On Monday, the deadline for counties there to certify election results before the state certifies all results <i>next<\/i> Monday, the Board of Supervisors in Cochise County <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/arizona-deadline-2022-midterms-certification-d6a1ea4020c26313a3124931c14b79fb\">voted against doing so<\/a>. They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2022\/11\/28\/cochise-county-board-of-supervisors-to-delay-election-certification\/69683195007\/\">claim<\/a> they will reconsider the matter on Friday. That, despite any evidence of fraud or voting system failure in the Republican-leaning county. Katie Hobbs, the state&#8217;s Democratic Sec. of State and apparent Governor-elect, quickly went to court yesterday in an attempt to force Cochise to certify their result as, she argues, they are required by law.  If they don&#8217;t, <i>all<\/i> of the county&#8217;s voters may be disenfranchised and the results of at least one U.S. House race would flip from Republican to Democratic, along with the statewide contest for Superintendent of Public Instruction. Moreover, any remaining chance for Abe Hamadeh, the GOP candidate running for Attorney General, to overcome his current 510-vote deficit against Democrat Kris Mayes, would almost certainly be gone. As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/opinion\/op-ed\/ej-montini\/2022\/11\/29\/cochise-county-proves-that-katie-hobbs-stinks-at-cheating\/69684451007\/\"><i>Arizona Republic<\/i>&#8216;s EJ Montini snarks today<\/a>, if Hobbs was gaming the system to somehow help state Dems this year, as MAGA Republicans baselessly claim, &#8220;she really, <i>really<\/i> stinks at cheating&#8221;!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Meanwhile, <b>Georgia<\/b> voters are proving to be really, really good at early voting. They shattered all-time records for doing so <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/georgia-sunday-runoff-warnock-voting-walker\">on Sunday<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/3753492-nearly-a-quarter-million-vote-in-single-day-in-georgia-senate-runoff-race\/\">again on Monday<\/a> of this week, outpacing both Presidential and other general elections alike in the state&#8217;s current runoff election between Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) and Herschel Walker (R) for \\ U.S. Senate. The big turnout <i>could<\/i> be a good sign for Democrats, though that&#8217;s not certain. The long wait times it is causing for many voters around the Peach State, however, is a certain disgrace. (More on all of that, I hope, on tomorrow&#8217;s show.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>And in other matters&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A bipartisan &#8220;Respect for Marriage&#8221; bill has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/11\/29\/senate-same-sex-marriage-protections-00071141\">passed by the lame duck U.S. Senate<\/a> to protect same-sex marriages following corrupt U.S. Supreme Court Justice <b>Clarence Thomas<\/b>&#8216; recent opinion with the overturning of <i>Roe v. Wade<\/i> arguing that marriage equality should be one of the next rights stolen by the Court from the American people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And finally, Desi Doyen joins us for <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14481\">our first <i>Green News Report<\/i> since returning<\/a> from Thanksgiving break with a <b>whole lotta important environmental news<\/b> to catch up on from while we were gone&#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-RhodesGuilty-BentonGuilty-CochiseCountyAZ-EarlyVotingGA_112922.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>It&#8217;s another crazy day in MAGA Land on today&#8217;s BradCast, as Accountability Season gets a very good start even before the 2022&#8217;s Election Season fully wraps up. 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