{"id":15388,"date":"2025-05-12T18:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T01:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15388"},"modified":"2025-05-12T18:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T01:17:07","slug":"and-then-they-came-for-the-mayors-bradcast-5122025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15388","title":{"rendered":"And Then They Came for the Mayors&#8230;: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 5\/12\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_BarakaArrestedNewarkNJ-050924_051225.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Given the topics on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, it was a pretty lively show anyway. Thanks mostly to the callers, I suspect. Especially the one who loves Trump and doesn&#8217;t believe in the evolution. [<i>Audio link to full show follows this summary.<\/i>]\n<p>Among our stories today&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The three-term Mayor of <b>Newark, New Jersey<\/b> was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/immigration-protest-ice-newark-mayor-arrested-5a2b3fefd7da563c48d2f85831cf2194\">arrested by masked federal thugs<\/a> on a public street on Friday. Mayor <b>Ras Baraka<\/b> was hand-cuffed and frog-marched (<i>as seen above<\/i>) outside a newly reopened federal detention center that, reportedly, doesn&#8217;t have its state or city permits in order to operate. He was there to inspect it. The arrest happened as three Democratic members of Congress were eventually allowed to tour the privately run <b>ICE<\/b> facility that same afternoon. <b>DHS<\/b> and <b>Donald Trump<\/b>&#8216;s former defense lawyer turned top federal prosecutor in NJ, subsequently took to the airwaves to apparently lie about the arrest. They have since doubled down by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/05\/10\/ras-baraka-arrest-trump-new-jersey-newark-ice.html\">threatening to arrest the three members of Congress<\/a> who were there as well, claiming they and Baraka &#8220;broke into&#8221; and &#8220;stormed&#8221; the federal facility. Video and eye-witness testimony of the incident, so far, suggests otherwise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>After 45 days in detention, Tufts University grad student, <b>R\u00e0\u00bcmeysa \u00e0\u2013zt\u00e0\u00bcrk<\/b>, was finally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tuftsdaily.com\/article\/2025\/05\/rumeysa-ozturk-comes-home-speaks-at-press-conference-in-boston?utm_source=substack&#038;utm_medium=email\">released from custody<\/a> over the weekend, at the insistence of a federal judge. She was snatched off the street by masked federal goons in March, as seen on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x_-gV7m6hlY\">chilling viral video<\/a>, after her student visa was revoked (without her knowledge), apparently in response to her daring to exercise her First Amendment right to co-author an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tuftsdaily.com\/article\/2024\/03\/4ftk27sm6jkj\">op-ed in the student paper<\/a> calling for the University to divest from <b>Israel<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/trump-administration-poised-accept-palace-sky-gift-trump\/story?id=121680511\">ABC broke the news<\/a> that Trump intends to accept a tricked-out 747 Boeing jet from the Royal Family of <b>Qatar<\/b> to use as <b>Air Force One<\/b>, and then keep it as his own at the end of his term. The plane is reportedly worth about $400 million <i>before<\/i> it was decked out to serve as &#8220;a flying palace&#8221;. All of which is<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/trump-administration-will-accept-luxury-jet-qatar-use-air-force-one-rcna206111\"> <i>wildly<\/i> unconstitutional<\/a>, if the literal words of Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 (the Emoluments Clause) actually still mean anything. For the record, it reads, &#8220;<i>&#8230;no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.<\/i>&#8221; Seems pretty clear. Unless you are a lawless grifter or one of his duped supporters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Then, we open up the rest of the show to <b>callers<\/b>. Lots of them. Kicking off with a MAGA fan named &#8220;Denise&#8221;, who believes \u00e0\u2013zt\u00e0\u00bcrk was in the country unlawfully, was a &#8220;terrorist&#8221; who wrote an op-ed in support of Hamas. None of those things, as reality would have it, are true by any measure. Then again, Denise also doesn&#8217;t understand that First Amendment rights apply to all &#8220;persons&#8221; in the U.S., and says she knows that Darwin was a total con-artist is a total scam. So, ya know&#8230; Her call, and the many that followed, were all fun, however!<\/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-BarakaArrestNJ-OzturkReleased-QatarAirForceOne_Callers_051225.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:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/256-the-bradcast-w-brad-friedm-30973643\/\">iHeart<\/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>Given the topics on today&#8217;s BradCast, it was a pretty lively show anyway. Thanks mostly to the callers, I suspect. Especially the one who loves Trump and doesn&#8217;t believe in the evolution. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] Among our stories today&#8230; The three-term Mayor of Newark, New Jersey was arrested by masked [&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":[192,89,675,272,223,513,479,1129,261,477,50,2057,126,127],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-15388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-dept-of-defense","category-dept-of-justice","category-dhs","category-donald-trump","category-ice","category-immigration","category-kpfk","category-new-jersey","category-ras-baraka","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-the-constitution"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15388","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=15388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15388"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=15388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}