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Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com. Originating on Pacifica Radio's KPFK 90.7FM in Los Angeles and syndicated coast-to-coast and around the globe! NOW FIVE DAYS A WEEK!

'BradCast' 7/7/2022 (Encore: Special coverage of House J6 Hearing, Day 5)

07-07-2022 (54.94 MB)

Encore: Original airdate 6/23/2022. On today's 'BradCast': In today's hearing of the bipartisan U.S. House Select Committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, Chair Bennie Thompson explicitly stated, for the first time, that Donald Trump tried to steal the 2020 election. Day 5 of the gripping hearings detailed another pillar of Trump's unrelenting, multi-pronged scheme to steal the 2020 Presidential election from the American people: his failed attempt to decapitate Justice Department leadership and install a low-level apparatchik named Jeffrey Clark to do Trump's bidding. Their plot nearly succeeded in overthrowing the US government. In live testimony, three former DOJ officials detailed how the Justice Department investigated every absurd, easily-debunked conspiracy theory that Trump and Republicans dredged up from the internet; how they repeatedly informed Trump that Clark's corrupt plan to weaponize the DOJ to publicly lie about the election was illegal; how only the threat of mass resignations thwarted Trump's plot, narrowly averting an unprecedented constitutional crisis, and more. Award-winning opinion columnist HEATHER DIGBY PARTON of Salon and Hullabaloo, and LISA GRAVES, former U.S. Deputy Asst. Attorney General and Deputy Chief for the US Court system, now current Executive Director of True North Research, offer deep analysis and insight into the day's proceedings. The House J6 Committee also revealed that at least six Republican members of Congress sought pardons from Trump, apparently recognizing their criminal culpability in the plot. Also today: the rogue, corrupt, stolen and packed rightwing US Supreme Court majority undermined states' rights to regulate firearms in public, and undercut Miranda rights for those detained by law enforcement.