{"id":14682,"date":"2023-06-06T18:30:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T01:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14682"},"modified":"2023-06-19T15:44:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T22:44:04","slug":"rightwing-fraudsters-failing-and-flailing-bradcast-662023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14682","title":{"rendered":"Rightwing Fraudsters Failing and Flailing: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 6\/6\/2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_Trump-OKeefe-Engelbrecht-Bahr-DeSantis_060623.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>: The whole scam seems to be collapsing in on them. Sad! [<i>Audio link to full show is posted below.<\/i>]\n<ul>\n<li><b>Jack Smith exists!<\/b>: Seriously! Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Victorshi2020\/status\/1666112327010390018\">video proof<\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Trump troubles<\/b>: Last week, a former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/classified-documents-retired-officer-florida-819c9a1749218e3e0f1d8bf91d3da73c\">sentenced<\/a> to three years in federal prison for unlawfully keeping classified documents related to national defense in his home. If he got three years for what he reportedly did, life should be getting very very difficult for what <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> did when he stole thousands of pages of documents, many of them highly classified, upon leaving office, stored them at his home, and obstructed attempts by the federal government to retrieve them. A former federal prosecutor believes an indictment in Special Counsel <strong>Jack Smith<\/strong>&#8216;s stolen document case against the former President could come as early as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AWeissmann_\/status\/1665804706013126656?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\">&#8220;this week&#8221;<\/a>.  Given the Trump attorneys <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-justice-department-classified-documents-maralago-455e06ae11fecd5fc6aa565bee6b3878\">meeting at DoJ<\/a> on Monday, and the apparent <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/110492504108368110\">panic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/110497139995528601\">exhibited<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/110497189450430928\">by Trump<\/a> at his dumb social media site thereafter, that prosecutor could be correct.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>More trouble for more GOP &#8220;voter fraud&#8221; fraudsters<\/b>: Last week, longtime GOP fraudster and fake journalist <strong>James O&#8217;Keefe<\/strong> was <a href=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/3oLzKyM\">sued<\/a> by his own fake news organization for abusive behavior and allegedly ripping off the company, including, for example, for $150,000 in luxury car services.  This week, <strong>Catherine Engelbrecht<\/strong> and <strong>Gregg Phillips<\/strong>, the &#8220;voter fraud&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/watch-the-moment-when-the-2000-mules-folks-admit-their-supposed-evidence-is-nonsense\">fraudsters<\/a> behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/phoenix\/2022\/09\/02\/2000-mules-group-ignored-arizona-ags-requests-info\">discredited<\/a> <i>2,000 Mules<\/i> film and who run the phony, rightwing True the Vote nonprofit, were called out in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/true-the-vote-donations-irs-engelbrecht-phillips\">complaint to the IRS<\/a> for allegedly violating state and federal laws in using the nonprofit to enrich themselves with unlawful loans, unreported lucrative contracts and other apparent self-dealing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Kurt Cut the Wires<\/b>: Since 2020, we&#8217;ve been reporting on Republican election officials unlawfully breaching, copying, and distributing computerized voting system software in states such as <b>Colorado<\/b>, <b>Michigan<\/b>, <b>Pennsylvania <\/b>and, in most detail (where there is more coming soon, methinks), <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14392\">Coffee County<\/a>, <b>Georgia<\/b>. Those incidents appear to have been part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14643\">multi-state conspiracy<\/a> overseen by disgraced Trump lawyer Sidney Powell and hatched in the Oval Office with Donald Trump and others on December 18, 2020, according to testimony given to the House January 6 Committee. But, in what appears to be a separate (if somewhat related) incident this week, a nonprofit group in <strong>Missouri<\/strong> is calling out the Director and Deputy Director of Elections in the very right-leaning town of St. Charles for breaking the seals on voting machines and <a href=\"https:\/\/stlrecord.com\/stories\/643487294-st-charles-county-election-officials-under-fire-over-voting-machine-video\">cutting wires<\/a> inside them to prevent what they believe is the ability for the systems to connect to the Internet. Tampering with voting systems is a violation of several state laws. And these yutzes, Director <strong>Kurt Bahr<\/strong> and Deputy Director <strong>Mark Parkinson<\/strong>, appear to admit to the whole thing. On video tape. Viewable at <a href=\"https:\/\/KurtCutTheWires.com\">KurtCutTheWires.com<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Unequal justice<\/b>: Last year, just before the primary elections in Florida, Gov. <strong>Ron DeSantis<\/strong> called a televised press conference in the Democratic stronghold of Broward County to announce the arrests of 20 former felons for voter fraud just days before the state&#8217;s 2022 primary elections. The stunned and mostly people of color &#8212; who were allowed to register and vote by the state &#8212; were rounded up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/florida-politics\/2022\/10\/18\/body-camera-video-police-voter-fraud-desantis-arrests\/\">on video tape<\/a> for what DeSantis declared to be unlawful voting as former felons convicted on charges related to murder or sex crimes. But, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2023\/06\/05\/republican-prosecutor-declined-to-pursue-cases-similar-to-those-brought-by-desantis-election-police\/\"><i>Orlando Sentinel<\/i> reports<\/a> this week, a State Attorney in a <i>Republican<\/i> stronghold, just months earlier, &#8220;declined to prosecute six voter fraud cases that involved circumstances strikingly similar to the cases later brought against 20 ex-felons by Gov. <strong>Ron DeSantis<\/strong>&#8216; election police unit and statewide prosecutors.&#8221;  Those cases were dismissed because, as the prosecutor determined, their fraud was &#8220;not willful&#8221;&#8230;just like the 20 who DeSantis had rounded up and arrested in Broward just days before last year&#8217;s elections. Despite DeSantis&#8217; promise at his presser last year that there would be more arrests, there have only been four. The six from Republican Lake County are not among them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b><i>GNR<\/i> returns!<\/b>: Desi Doyen is back with our <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14681\">first <i>Green News Report<\/i> since returning<\/a> from a much-needed break last week. Somehow, she manages to get us all caught up with everything we missed and in just 6 minutes!&#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-SmithTrump-TTVComplaint-WiresCutStCharlesMO-FelonArrestsFL_060623.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>On today&#8217;s BradCast: The whole scam seems to be collapsing in on them. Sad! [Audio link to full show is posted below.] Jack Smith exists!: Seriously! Here&#8217;s video proof! Trump troubles: Last week, a former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer was sentenced to three years in federal prison for unlawfully keeping classified documents related to [&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":[192,70,89,675,21,543,1892,223,479,969,106,451,1529,16,72,613,1833,449,320,477,120,107,300,1238,679,313,736],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-14682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-arizona","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-california","category-climate-change","category-coffee-county","category-dept-of-justice","category-donald-trump","category-election-2020","category-election-fraud","category-epa","category-felony-disenfranchisement","category-florida","category-georgia","category-irs","category-jack-smith","category-james-okeefe","category-joe-biden","category-kpfk","category-missouri","category-national-security","category-republicans","category-ron-desantis","category-true-the-vote","category-us-supreme-court","category-water","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14682","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=14682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14682"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=14682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}