Today on The BradCast, while it may be pretty slim pickings, we’re actually able to carve out a bit of good news, here and there, at the end of the first week of the Trump Presidency (which already feels like a year). [Audio link to show is posted below.]
Among the stories covered on today’s show…
- Still more of Donald Trump’s closest political appointees and family members are found to have voter registrations in two separate states (a sign of “voter fraud”, if you believe the Clueless-in-Chief);
- Trump’s approval rating is just 36% in Quinnipiac’s first poll of his Presidency (compared to the much much larger 59% that very popular President Barack Obama enjoyed in his first poll from the same group in 2009);
- Federal courts order redistricting in Alabama and in Wisconsin due to unlawful GOP gerrymandering;
- Nikki Haley, the new U.S. Ambassador to the UN, threatens allies in her first remarks at the peacekeeping body;
- Trump says he believes in torture, but will defer to his new DefSec who says he doesn’t;
- Journalist John Judis, author of The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics, joins us to explain how the political story behind Australia’s national health care system may offer an encouraging lesson, even if the new administration guts the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) in the U.S.;
- Trump’s top political appointees all had private RNC email addresses in the White House, until exposed by the media (Lock them up!);
- And, an effort that could put an initiative for California secession from the U.S. (“CalExit”) on the statewide ballot in 2018 receives official approval from the CA Sec. of State.
Did I mention it already feels like a year?…
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