{"id":15049,"date":"2024-06-04T18:34:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T01:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15049"},"modified":"2024-06-04T19:25:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T02:25:24","slug":"the-gops-obviously-absurd-weaponization-of-justice-hoax-continues-bradcast-642024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15049","title":{"rendered":"The GOP&#8217;s Obviously Absurd &#8216;Weaponization of Justice&#8217; Hoax Continues: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 6\/4\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_MerrickGarland-HouseJudiciary_060424.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">No matter how much Republicans repeatedly lie about &#8220;a justice system &#8216;weaponized&#8217; by Joe Biden and the Democrats to go after Republicans&#8221;, you should know by now how much of a lie that is. If you don&#8217;t, I suspect Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez (NJ), Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar (TX), both under federal indictment on corruption charges &#8212; not to mention the President&#8217;s son, Hunter Biden, on gun and tax charges &#8212; should quickly rebut that nonsense to all but the brain-poisoned. Either way, today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a> has you covered. [<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>Primary elections were held on Tuesday in <b>Iowa<\/b>, <b>Montana<\/b>, <b>New Jersey<\/b>, <b>New Mexico<\/b>, S<b>outh Dakota<\/b> and the <b>District of Columbia<\/b>. We&#8217;ll have any noteworthy results or problem reports on tomorrow&#8217;s show. But you can read more about the programming failure I referred to regarding ES&#038;S touchscreen systems in Wildwood Crest, NJ (a state with a history of similar and much worse failures on their touchscreen systems) <a href=\"https:\/\/newjerseyglobe.com\/local\/ess-coding-glitch-gives-wrong-ballots-to-some-cape-may-voters\/\">right here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Speaking of <b>New Jersey<\/b>, on Monday, the state&#8217;s longtime Democratic &#8212; and now very strongly indicted (again) &#8212; U.S. Senator, <b>Bob Menendez<\/b>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/06\/03\/bob-menendez-new-jersey-senate-independent-bribery-trial\">filed to run<\/a> for re-election as an independent while federal criminal trial on bribery and corruption charges continues. If he remains on the ballot this Fall (which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/03\/nyregion\/senator-robert-menendez-independent-campaign.html?smid=url-share\">allows him<\/a> to use campaign cash to pay legal bills for him and his wife, who is also charged) it <i>could<\/i> complicate things somewhat for Democrats hoping to see his seat filled by Congressman <b>Andy Kim<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The House GOP loons held one of their ridiculous &#8220;Weaponization of Justice&#8221; hearings today, featuring testimony by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland who <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/merrick-garland-congress-republicans-justice-department-02ed2ff53f75e3ed9bc955f9f15d87bb\">pushed back<\/a> at their nonsense, even as they threaten him with a Contempt of Congress citation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Meanwhile, in <b>Wisconsin<\/b> today, three of <b>Donald Trump<\/b>&#8216;s 2020 lieutenants who architected the failed Fake Electors plot in hopes of stealing the election from <b>Joe Biden<\/b> in swingstates, were <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/3-organizers-of-trump-fake-elex-plot-including-chesebro-indicted-in-wisconsin\">indicted<\/a> on forgery charges. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/key-trump-allies-charged-fake-electors-scheme-wisconsin-rcna155395\">freshly indicted trio<\/a> includes former Trump attorney <b>Ken Chesebro<\/b>, former WI state judge <b>James Troupis<\/b>, and GOP operative <b>Michael Roman<\/b> who served as Trump&#8217;s Director of Election Day Operations.  Both Chesebro and Roman have been charged in several other battleground states previously. This is Troupis&#8217; first walk of shame. Overall, some 52 people (so far), including Trump, are now facing criminal charges in five battleground states (<b>Georgia<\/b>, <b>Arizona<\/b>, <b>Michigan<\/b>, <b>Nevada<\/b> and now Wisconsin) for their parts in the attempted scheme to steal the 2020 election. More charges may still be on the way in several of those states.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Ohio<\/b>&#8216;s Republican lawmakers have finally passed &#8212; and its Governor has signed &#8212; a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-ohio-ballot-48601b3522a42e2680fe40b416d0421d\">legislative fix<\/a> to the deadline issue that would have prevented <b>President Biden<\/b> from appearing on this November&#8217;s Presidential ballot in the Buckeye State. It took months, and a special session called by the Governor, to get done what they easily had done in years past for Republican Presidential candidates. But, in doing so, they also included a provision to change the definition of the phrase &#8220;foreign national&#8221; to include permanent U.S. residents &#8212; green card holders &#8212; born in a different country. All of which, as explained on today&#8217;s show, is an effort by the state GOP to undermine popular ballot initiatives, like the wildly popular one adopted by voters <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14840\">last year<\/a> to protect reproductive rights. In any event, and since the measure signed by Gov. <b>Mike DeWine<\/b> over the weekend could be found unconstitutional, the <b>Democratic National Committee<\/b> has decided to hold a virtual, online roll call vote to officially nominate Biden in advance of the OH state deadline.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/politics\/plot-twist-for-trump-wa-has-a-law-against-felons-running-for-office\/\">PLOT TWIST!<\/a> A <b>Washington<\/b> state law, on the books since it was a Territory in 1865 (and updated several times since), bars convicted felons from running for office. That could now be very bad news for 34-time convicted felony <b>Donald Trump<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, Desi Doyen &#8212; still recovering from her second bout of COVID over the past two weeks alone &#8212; joins us for <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15048\">our latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, as <b>India<\/b> swelters under deadly record temperatures; power outages, mostly related to extreme weather, have doubled in the U.S. over the past two decades; <b>Mexico<\/b> elects a climate scientists as President amid a record heat wave; and <b>Vermont<\/b> enacts a first-in-the-nation law to make Big Oil pay up for climate damages&#8230;<\/ul>\n<\/li>\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-MenendezIndieRun-FakeElectorPlotWI-BidenBallotOH-TrumpBallotWA_060424.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>No matter how much Republicans repeatedly lie about &#8220;a justice system &#8216;weaponized&#8217; by Joe Biden and the Democrats to go after Republicans&#8221;, you should know by now how much of a lie that is. If you don&#8217;t, I suspect Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez (NJ), Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar (TX), both under federal indictment on corruption [&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":[192,1978,89,675,1977,543,223,479,969,1611,28,1691,548,742,320,1913,477,821,109,50,15,300,710,166,198,149,257,143],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-15049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-andy-kim","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-claudia-sheinbaum","category-climate-change","category-dept-of-justice","category-donald-trump","category-election-2020","category-election-2024","category-election-reform","category-electricity","category-extreme-weather","category-india","category-joe-biden","category-ken-chesebro","category-kpfk","category-merrick-garland","category-mexico","category-new-jersey","category-ohio","category-republicans","category-robert-menendez","category-touch-screen-vote-hopping","category-us-house","category-vermont","category-washington-state","category-wisconsin","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15049","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=15049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15049"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=15049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}