On today’s BradCast: A lot of breaking news, accompanied by some actual Donald Trump ‘fire and fury’ today and callers who ring in on all of it. [Audio link to show is posted below.]
Among the stories covered on today’s program…
- The legal offices and residences of Donald Trump’s personal friend, business partner, attorney and “fixer” Michael Cohen were raided by the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan today just before airtime. Cohen’s attorney claims some of the information used to obtain the warrant came from Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel probe. Cohen has recently come under legal scrutiny for his part in a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels to keep an affair between her and Trump quiet just before the 2016 election. Trump is said to be furious, and described the investigation as “disgraceful” and “an attack on our country” after news of the FBI raid on Cohen’s office became public on Monday.
- That comes after a longtime tenant died in a massive four-alarm blaze on the 50th floor of Trump Tower in Manhattan over the weekend, following Trump having reportedly spent years fighting against requirements for mandatory fire sprinklers on the residential floors of his namesake tower and headquarters of the Trump Organization.
- Also today, some good news (and bad) for voters. In Maryland, the state’s Republican Governor allowed a bill for automatic voter registration to becoome law without his signature.
- California announced it has now had 100,000 16- and 17-year olds pre-register to vote, after a 2016 state law was enacted to allow for early registration by teens. A flurry of those pre-registrations, according to CA Sec. of State Alex Padilla, have reportedly come in the wake of the ‘March for Our Lives’ activism by the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, following the February gun massacre at their school.
- And, speaking of elections and the Sunshine State, Republican Gov. Rick Scott announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate on Monday, in his long-expected bid to unseat incumbent Democratic Senator Bill Nelson. The race is expected to be one of the most expensive U.S. Senate races in the nation’s history.
- Scott’s announcement comes just days after he appealed a ruling by a federal judge ordering him to reform the state’s procedures for restoring voting rights to some 1.5 million former felons. Scott has slow-walked the clemency process for years, since taking office, leaving some 10% of the state’s voting-age population (and nearly a quarter of the state’s African Americans) off the rolls and unable to participate in elections in the closely divided swing-state.
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I will say what everyone else is merely thinking.
If this were a Scorsese film the Michael Cohen character would be the first guy to get whacked.