Today on The BradCast, we continue our COVID recovery, revisit some of the Biden v. Trump horseraces that sent so many Dems scurrying under their bed sheets late last year, and try to make sense of the disgraced former President’s ridiculous argument (his attempt to delay his Jan. 6 criminal trial until after this year’s election) at the U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. on Tuesday. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.]
Among the stories cited and/or referenced today…
- New CNN/University of New Hampshire polling finds Nikki Haley within single digits of Donald Trump in New Hampshire with the first-in-the-nation primary now just two weeks away. Their polling is not the only one showing Haley within spitting distance.
- USA Today buries the lede in their coverage of a new USA Today/Boston Globe/Suffolk University poll finding Joe Biden seven points ahead of Trump in a general election match-up in New Hampshire and reveals that “American democracy” is the issue that both Dems and independent voters are most concerned about this year.
- Donald Trump and his attorney apparently believe that a U.S. President may lawfully order Seal Team 6 to assassinate an American political rival. Seriously, the question was raised on Tuesday by one of the three judges on the D.C. appeals court panel tapped to hear Trump’s claims of “absolute immunity” for crimes committed while serving as President. Can he sell pardons? Can he accept bribes? Sell nuclear secrets? According to Trump’s attorney, sure he can! As long as he is not impeached and convicted first. Trump’s other appeal argument, that being “acquitted” by the U.S. Senate at his second impeachment trial (when a majority of bipartisan Senators found him guilty of inciting an insurrection), somehow renders him immune from criminal prosecution in the judicial system because that would be unconstitutional “double jeopardy”. As one of the three judges pointed out, Trump’s own attorneys during the impeachment argued exactly the contrary. “It’s in the Congressional Record,” she said. It’s all as absurd as it sounds. But, in fact, it is simply meant as a way to push Trump’s March 4 trial date in his federal indictment for attempting to steal the 2020 election back past the 2024 election, when he hopes to win and make all of his many indictments go away. The three judges on the D.C. panel, however, didn’t seem to be buying any of it.
- Finally, as deadly winter weather whiplashes much of the nation today, Desi Doyen joins us for our latest Green News Report with bad news for the snow crab season in Alaska and good news, thanks to the Joe Biden Administration, for American school buses…
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Trump slithered out of the courtroom yesterday, flew to his Florida hideout, and put security walls etc. up to protect him from President Biden. This was because Trump’s lawyer in effect argued to the Federal Appeals Court For the District of Columbia that President Biden could appoint Hunter to Seal Team Six and then have that team murder The Donald. And Trump’s lawyer further argued that if the Democratically Led Senate did not thereafter convict Biden in an impeachment proceeding, then President Biden could not be prosecuted for murder.
Dredd –
Don’t forget, of course, that after Biden orders Seal Team Six to murder Trump, it would also be perfectly legal, as Trump argues, for Biden to then order that they also kill any member of the House or Senate who might vote in favor of his impeachment.
Brad,
Indeed. I could not believe that an attorney would argue that garbage to a panel in the second highest court in our land.