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'BradCast' 9/27/2021: (Guest: Election expert John Brakey on AZ 'audit'; Senate GOP pushes US closer to economic default)
09-27-2021 (53.89 MB)
On today's 'BradCast': Senate Republicans have blocked legislation to raise the U.S. government debt ceiling and a continuing resolution to keep the government operating after September 30. We explain the incredibly dangerous (and hypocritical) game that Mitch McConnell and the GOP are currently playing with the U.S. and global economy. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the Republicans' obstruction dangerous and 'irresponsible, because raising the debt ceiling would pay for much of the $8 trillion in debt for which Republicans voted during the Trump Administration. Funding the federal government prevents a costly government shutdown. In Arizona, the phony, so-called 'audit' of the 2020 Presidential election results in Maricopa County was a spectacular failure, and the partisan, conspiracy theorist Cyber Ninjas outfit running it ended up proving that the tally was accurate, with Joe Biden picking up additional votes in his victory over Donald Trump. The Cyber Ninjas tried (unsuccessfully) to bury that embarrassing finding with a flood of misleading claims, debunked courtesy of the GOP-majority Maricopa County Board of Supervisors. Election transparency advocate JOHN BRAKEY of AUDIT-USA , an insider during the entire 'audit' clown show theatre, delivers a post-mortem on what he saw during the past five months of the 'audit'. Brakey was an unpaid participant, donating his expertise to the effort in hopes of 'ungaslighting' the public about the false and otherwise evidence-free claims being made by Trump supporters about the 2020 election. Brakey explains and dismantles the Cyber Ninja's misleading claims, including their infamous search for 'bamboo' in the ballots, and much more...
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