{"id":14919,"date":"2024-01-30T18:11:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T02:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14919"},"modified":"2024-01-30T18:43:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T02:43:26","slug":"2024-track-conditions-get-muddier-by-the-day-bradcast-1302024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14919","title":{"rendered":"2024 Track Conditions Get Muddier by the Day: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 1\/30\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_HorseRace-MuddyTrackConditions_013024.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Be sure to put on your mud boots for today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>. You&#8217;re gonna need &#8217;em. [<i>Audio link to full show follows this summary.<\/i>]\n<p>Among the many stories covered on today&#8217;s program&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>American Presidential Primaries and Caucuses were always confusing for voters. This year, they are even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/29\/us\/politics\/election-2024-information.html?unlocked_article_code=1.R00.NuW1.0ae6hAjpxp7I&#038;bgrp=t&#038;smid=url-share\">more so<\/a>. That, however, suits <b>Donald Trump<\/b> just fine in advance of next week&#8217;s <b>Nevada<\/b> Primary (on Feb. 6) and Caucuses (on Feb. 8 ), which have been rigged by Team Trump to assure he cannot lose a single delegate to <b>Nikki Haley<\/b>, his last remaining challenger for the 2024 GOP Presidential nomination.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The day after the <b>New Hampshire<\/b> Primary last week, Trump supported an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/01\/25\/politics\/rnc-trump-presumptive-nominee-resolution?cid=ios_app\">RNC executive resolution<\/a> to officially declare him to be party&#8217;s &#8220;presumptive 2024 nominee for the office of President of the United States.&#8221; That, after nominating contests in only two states (<b>Iowa<\/b> and NH) where he won just 32 of the 1,215 delegates needed to clinch the nomination. Two days later (perhaps after receiving some sage legal advice) the desperate former President came out <i>against<\/i> the resolution, so the RNC promptly killed it. We what <i>actually<\/i> appears to have happened.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Well-respected and <i>very<\/i> conservative former U.S. Court of Appeals Judge <b>Michael Luttig<\/b> filed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/23\/23-719\/299107\/20240129171610494_23-719_Amici%20Brief.pdf\">amicus (friend-of-the-court) brief [PDF]<\/a> with the <b>U.S. Supreme Court<\/b> on Monday, arguing that the Justices must adhere to the <a href=\"https:\/\/constitution.congress.gov\/browse\/essay\/intro.8-2\/ALDE_00001303\/#:~:text=Textualism%20is%20a%20mode%20of,in%20which%20those%20terms%20appear.\">&#8220;textualist&#8221;<\/a> approach that rightwingers on the High Court have claimed to follow in recent years, as they weigh whether <b>Donald Trump<\/b> is eligible for the 2024 ballot under the U.S. Constitution&#8217;s &#8220;Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/4437135-retired-judge-luttig-trump-disqualified-himself-ballot\/\">Trump has &#8220;disqualified himself&#8221;<\/a> for the office of President under <a href=\"https:\/\/constitution.congress.gov\/browse\/amendment-14\/section-3\/\">Section 3 of the 14th Amendment<\/a>, Judge Luttig and others argue in the brief, after having &#8220;engaged in insurrection&#8221; on January 6, 2021, when he &#8220;sought to prevent the vesting of the authority and functions of the Presidency in the newly-elected President.&#8221; That, the brief contends, may be even worse than when South Carolina seceded from the Union on December 20, 1860 to &#8220;prevent the newly-elected President Lincoln from governing only in that State.&#8221; The Justices must not construct an artificial &#8220;off-ramp&#8221; to avoid their Constitutional mandate, the brief asserts. The matter will be heard by SCOTUS on Thursday next week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Disgraced former Trump White House advisor and campaign Chair turned podcaster and con-artist, <b>Steve Bannon<\/b>, may be in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2024\/1\/26\/2219747\/-Steve-Bannon-s-bad-week-just-got-way-worse?pm_source=ICYMI&#038;pm_campaign=ICYMI01292024\">more trouble than you know<\/a>. He has already been convicted and sentenced to four months in federal prison for Contempt of Congress for his refusal to answer subpoenas from the House Select Committee investigating January 6. While free on appeal, he has also been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/steve-bannons-we-build-the-wall-scheme-trial-set-for-may-2024\">charged<\/a> by <b>New York<\/b> state for massive fraud in the &#8220;We Build the Wall&#8221; campaign which siphoned millions from duped Trump supporters. And now his former attorney in that case is gunning for Bannon&#8217;s bank accounts after he was found to owe the law firm nearly half a million dollars in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/steve-bannon-sued-nearly-500000-alleged-unpaid-legal-bills-rcna71930\">unpaid legal fees<\/a>. Bannon&#8217;s latest attempt to block his banks from turning over documents to the firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/steve-bannon-admits-bank-account-may-have-evidence-of-fraud\">claims<\/a> that doing so &#8220;poses a significant risk of compromising Mr. Bannon&#8217;s Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.&#8221; Sad!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><i>BREAKING DURING SHOW<\/i>: A <b>Delaware<\/b> court judge has <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/elon-musk-tesla-compensation-pay-shareholders-e75687178d1175fba36ca55bd9c4c805\">voided<\/a> Tesla CEO <b>Elon Musk<\/b>&#8216;s nearly $56 <i>billion<\/i> compensation package, ruling it was unlawfully dictated by Musk himself to a non-independent Board of Directors in sham negotiations. Also sad!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14918\">our latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, as <b>President Biden<\/b> puts a pause on approvals for new Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) export terminals; new reports find <b>Canada<\/b> tar sands are up to 6000% more toxic than previously known and that climate change made <b>Brazil<\/b>&#8216;s Amazon rainforest draught 30 times more likely; and <b>China<\/b>, as it turns out, built more new solar power in 2023 alone than the U.S. has in its entire history&#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-PrimaryCaucusMess-Luttig14AmendBrief-BannonTrouble-MuskPayPackage_013024.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>Be sure to put on your mud boots for today&#8217;s BradCast. You&#8217;re gonna need &#8217;em. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] Among the many stories covered on today&#8217;s program&#8230; American Presidential Primaries and Caucuses were always confusing for voters. This year, they are even more so. That, however, suits Donald Trump just fine [&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":[192,89,675,1249,500,598,543,479,1611,1736,548,1590,477,1775,498,356,774,540,295,542,248,868,796,127,313,280],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-14919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-brazil","category-canada","category-china","category-climate-change","category-donald-trump","category-election-2024","category-elon-musk","category-extreme-weather","category-insurrection","category-kpfk","category-michael-luttig","category-natural-gas","category-nevada","category-nikki-haley","category-oil","category-rnc","category-solar","category-south-carolina","category-steve-bannon","category-tesla","category-the-constitution","category-us-supreme-court","category-vote-caging","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14919","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=14919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14919"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=14919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}