There are just 140 days until the November 5 General Elections. Threats against them by adversaries both foreign and domestic are simmering and/or growing. We discuss some of them — and much more — on today’s BradCast. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.]
Among our stories today…
- Kari Lake loses yet again. This time, it’s the Arizona state Court of Appeals which has, again, rejected her claims that the 2022 gubernatorial election was stolen from her when she lost it by some 17,000 votes to Democrat Katie Hobbs.
- Unexplained mass texts, warning of voter intimidation, falsely suggesting they were sent by the Spartanburg County Elections Office during South Carolina‘s down-ballot primaries last week, should serve as a warning for this November’s elections.
- U.S. officials from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence are reportedly sending their own warnings, privately, to candidates in the U.S. who, they say, are being targeted with disinformation campaigns by foreign adversaries, including Russia, China and Iran.
- And, in what should serve as yet another warning before November, a pro-Kremlin hacker group, said to be closely allied with Russia‘s intelligence services, reportedly took down the websites of a number of political parties and other institutions on the first day of voting in Europe‘s recent parliamentary elections.
- New York‘s highest court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by Donald Trump to lift the gag order barring him from attacking witnesses, jurors and the family members of prosecutors or the judge in the hush money/election interference case in which the disgraced former President was recently found guilty of 34 criminal felonies.
- And, speaking of, the Biden-Harris Campaign is finally using Trump’s shameful court losses — for both felony crimes and civil liabilities — against him, in an aggressive television ad and mass emails to supporters taking him to task as a “convicted felon” as well as “a liar and a fraud”. Of course, even now, Team Biden will have to overcome ridiculous reporting on the effort by the New York Times, whose headline yesterday (until it was changed) read “Biden Campaign Ad Paints Trump as a Felon”. Um….”paints” him as a felon?! He is a felon!
- After telling us for months that President Biden is so mentally debilitated that “he can’t string two sentences together,” Donald Trump supporters like Sean Hannity at Fox “News” are now working overtime to try and lower expectations for him in advance of next week’s first Presidential debate.
- Maryland‘s Democratic Governor Wes Moore on Monday pardoned about 175,000 convictions related to marijuana and paraphernalia possession over the years. The long-overdue pardons, following the state’s full legalization of marijuana last year, will help tens of thousands of Black and Brown people who were disproportionately charged and convicted over the many decades of our failed, frequently racist “war on drugs”. Moore’s action follows President Biden‘s 2022 mass pardon of thousands charged under federal marijuana law and his request to state Governors to take similar action given that most cannabis related crimes were brought under state law.
- Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for our latest Green News Report with news on hundreds of millions in the U.S. now (or soon) facing record heat from the Midwest to the East Coast and an early wildfire season out West; Similarly oppressive heat has been bearing down from Greece to the Middle East; Calgary is facing a serious water crisis in Canada; France‘s nukes are being shut down by cheaper renewable energy sources like wind and solar; And a major rail company must cough up some $400 million for unlawful trespass against a native American tribe…
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According to Katie Phang and Glenn Kirschner’s conversation during MSNBC’s live coverage of the NY verdict, Trump is only a “felon” after sentencing on 7/11.
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Do not trust The New York Times this election season. Apparently they want Biden to lose!
After pressure, they had to change a misleading headline which casts doubt on Trumps criminality. The “paper of record” has been favoring the right-wing for a very long time, including the botched 2000 election giving the presidency to Bush. They also had to be badgered to quit favoring the lie that black advocacy group ACORN had been up to no good, resulting in the dissolution of that organization which was only trying to allow blacks to buy houses in upper income neighborhoods and to vote.
https://www.readtpa.com/p/the-new-york-times-biden-campaign?r=i413&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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