{"id":14995,"date":"2024-04-04T18:36:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T01:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14995"},"modified":"2024-04-15T17:43:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T00:43:13","slug":"trumps-very-bad-day-in-courts-and-other-good-and-not-so-good-news-bradcast-442024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14995","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Very Bad Day in Court(s) and Other Good (and Not So Good) News: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 4\/4\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_TrumpCourtSketch_040424.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">It was yet another busy news day and, thus, it was another very busy <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>. [<i>Audio link to full show follows below this summary.<\/i>]\n<p>Among the <i>many<\/i> stories covered today&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It has been a very <i>very<\/i> bad 24 hours for our disgraced former President in three of his four criminal cases, as he&#8217;s now received rejections from three different judges to three different motions to dismiss or delay in three different jurisdictions over that period. Last night, <b>Juan Merchan<\/b>, the judge in his <b>New York<\/b> hush-money fraud case <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/judge-trump-hush-money-case-rejects-presidential-immunity-defense-rcna146303\">rejected<\/a> his last minute motion to delay his April 15th trial until after SCOTUS rules on his laughable &#8220;Presidential Immunity&#8221; claim. The judge in his <b>Georgia<\/b> election theft conspiracy case, <b>Scott McAfee<\/b>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/04\/04\/politics\/donald-trump-fulton-country-first-amendment\/index.html\">rejected<\/a> Trump&#8217;s effort to dismiss on ridiculous First Amendment &#8220;protected political speech&#8221; grounds. And even <b>Aileen Cannon<\/b>, the corrupt Trump-appointed federal judge overseeing his case in Florida for stealing national security documents upon leaving the White House, finally issued an order <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/4575155-cannon-rejects-trump-bid-dismiss-documents-case\/\">rejecting<\/a> his absurd Presidential Records Act defense as cause for pre-trial dismissal. Sad!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The secretive, supposedly &#8220;centrist&#8221; <b>No Labels<\/b> group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/04\/04\/politics\/no-labels-president-unity-ticket\/index.html\">announced<\/a> they will <i>not<\/i> be running a third-party candidate for President in 2024 after all. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Kim Taylor<\/b>, the wife of an elected Republican official in <b>Iowa<\/b> who was named as an unindicted co-conspirator, will get <a href=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/3J3TKDx\">just four months in prison<\/a> after being <a href=\"https:\/\/siouxcityjournal.com\/news\/local\/crime-courts\/voter-fraud-politics-elections-federal-court\/article_1120882e-8881-11ee-87e1-a70cf6ccbca1.html\">found guilty<\/a> last year of <i>52(!)<\/i> election fraud crimes, including registering and casting votes for her husband in the names of others. (Tip for vote fraudsters looking to get off easy: Be a Republican.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Wisconsin<\/b>&#8216;s newly progressive Supreme Court majority <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14994\">will now decide<\/a> whether to reverse the previous right-wing majority&#8217;s ban on the use of absentee ballot drop-boxes in the critical battleground state this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/04\/02\/2024\/trump-and-nebraska-governor-push-to-deny-biden-a-crucial-electoral-vote\">out-of-the-blue call<\/a> on Tuesday by a rightwing extremist on Twitter to change the way <b>Nebraska<\/b> will allocate its Electoral College votes in 2024 &#8212; in hopes of awarding an extra vote for Trump this year &#8212; gained support just hours later from the state&#8217;s Governor and the desperate former President before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/nebraska-legislators-buck-trump-blocking-electoral-college-vote-change-rcna146321\">failing in a vote by the state legislature<\/a> Wednesday night. Bigly. The measure still <i>could<\/i> come back up for another vote, however, before the legislative session&#8217;s end on April 18, or in a Special Session thereafter if called by the Governor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Following a reportedly tense call on Thursday between the nation&#8217;s two leaders, the White House announced that <b>President Biden<\/b> issued a warning to <b>Israel<\/b>&#8216;s far-right Prime Minister <b>Benjamin Netanyahu<\/b>: Change course in Gaza or&#8230;else. The <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-netanyahu-3591fb5f82b22cf8e5d1060fccaef115\">White House said<\/a> the President demanded swift changes to Israel&#8217;s war on Gaza to allow much more food and humanitarian aid to reach starving citizens and protection for both civilians and relief workers. Though it remains unclear how U.S. support may change, an Administration spokesperson said they expected to see action from Israel &#8220;in hours or days&#8221; before reassessing current policy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On Wednesday, Senator <b>Bernie Sanders<\/b> joined <b>President Biden<\/b> at the White House to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-white-house-bernie-sanders-966deda16e0a5fc171e5591b3f094b4d\">tout<\/a> their successful efforts at lowering the cost of healthcare and, specially, prescription drug prices following the adoption of the<b> Inflation Reduction Act<\/b> which every Republican in Congress voted again. After forcing <b>Big Pharma<\/b> to lower the cost of insulin and certain asthma medication for Medicare recipients to no more than $35\/month, both men called for still more cuts in the price of overpriced prescription drugs sold in America to everyone, not just those on Medicare.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14993\">our latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a> with news on a looming, climate-change fueled hunger crisis in Southern <b>Africa<\/b>; the Biden Administration&#8217;s largest-ever investment to decarbonize <b>American manufacturing<\/b>; how melting <b>polar ice<\/b> is bending time itself; and the opening of America&#8217;s first commercial-scale <b>offshore wind farm<\/b>&#8230;which is decidedly <i>not<\/i> killing whales (insists Desi.)<\/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-TrumpCourtLoses-GOPVoteFraudIA-ElectoralCollegeNE-BidenIsrael-BidenSandersBigPharma_040424.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 was yet another busy news day and, thus, it was another very busy BradCast. [Audio link to full show follows below this summary.] Among the many stories covered today&#8230; It has been a very very bad 24 hours for our disgraced former President in three of his four criminal cases, as he&#8217;s now received [&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":[192,785,1891,1307,494,89,675,543,479,1611,106,28,72,288,74,428,320,1966,477,310,111,1886,1684,300,348,541,143],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-14995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-africa","category-aileen-cannon","category-benjamin-netanyahu","category-bernie-sanders","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-climate-change","category-donald-trump","category-election-2024","category-election-fraud","category-election-reform","category-georgia","category-health-care","category-iowa","category-israel","category-joe-biden","category-juan-merchan","category-kpfk","category-nebraska","category-new-york","category-no-labels","category-phrma","category-republicans","category-vote-by-mail","category-wind","category-wisconsin","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14995","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=14995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14995"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=14995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}