{"id":14666,"date":"2023-05-16T18:45:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T01:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14666"},"modified":"2023-05-16T18:58:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T01:58:55","slug":"trump-pardons-for-sale-a-disturbing-new-lawsuit-against-giuliani-bradcast-5162023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=14666","title":{"rendered":"Trump Pardons for Sale?! A Disturbing New Lawsuit Against Giuliani: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 5\/16\/2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_RudyGiuliani-RonDeSantis_051623.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Apologies in advance if you need to rinse off today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a> with a hot shower. We did our best to keep it family friendly. It wasn&#8217;t always easy. [<i>Audio link to full show follows this summary.<\/i>]<\/p>\n<p>Among the many stories covered on today&#8217;s program&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s Election Day in <b>Kentucky<\/b>, <b>Pennsylvania<\/b> and parts of <b>Florida<\/b> for some key state, municipal and special elections. We run down several of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/05\/16\/primary-elections-kentucky-pennsylvania-florida-5-things-to-watch-00097008\">key races<\/a> and will have noteworthy results, as available, on tomorrow&#8217;s program.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The political group calling itself <b>&#8220;No Labels&#8221;<\/b> is reportedly working to become an official political party in all 50 states in hopes of placing a Presidential candidate on the ballot in 2024. The group, founded in 2010, claims to be a non-partisan &#8220;centrist&#8221; coalition of both Democrats and Republicans, though their efforts to date seemed designed mostly to harm Democrats. See, for example, their lobbying of Senators <b>Joe Manchin<\/b> and <b>Kyrsten Sinema<\/b> in opposition of reforming the Senate filibuster in 2021. Also, internal documents have revealed their funders include far-right dark money billionaires such as <b>David Koch<\/b>and <b>Peter Theil<\/b>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/how-no-labels-went-from-preaching-unity-to-practicing-the-dark-arts\">according to Daily Beast<\/a>, and <b>Clarence Thomas<\/b> benefactor <b>Harlan Crow<\/b><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/172059\/no-labels-took-100000-clarence-thomas-buddy-harlan-crow\">according to New Republic<\/a>. Now, the Secretary of State in <b>Maine<\/b> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2023\/05\/11\/group-trying-to-gain-official-party-status-warned-against-misleading-voters\/\">charging the group has been scamming voters<\/a> into signing a &#8220;petition&#8221; that is actually a change of party form. Just 5,000 voters need to become members in the state for the party to be allowed on the ballot. Apparently 6,000 have now signed up and the state has some questions about it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Really, we did our best to keep this report no more graphic than PG-13, but it has to be told because there are some <i>very<\/i> serious crimes sort of hidden in the new <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Docs\/Noelle_Dunphy_v_Rudolph_W_Giuliani_et_al_COMPLAINT_051523.pdf\">70-page lawsuit [PDF]<\/a> filed against <b>Rudy Giuliani<\/b> by a former employee who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/giuliani-demanded-staffer-oral-sex-during-calls-from-trump-lawsuit-2023-5?amp\">accuses him<\/a> of some pretty horrific &#8220;sexual assault, battery, gender discrimination and harassment, fostering a hostile work environment, retaliation, breach of contract, and violations of state labor laws.&#8221;\n<p>The hostile work environment allegedly included &#8220;misogynistic, racist, and antisemitic communications, constant sexual attacks, threats when she brought up the salary she was owed, and threats when she finally found the courage to confront him with her fears and the possibility of legal action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But of potential <i>criminal<\/i> note in the suit filed by <b>Noelle Dunphy<\/b> against Giuliani in <b>New York<\/b> on Monday, is not only the off-the-books payments (she says he gave her just $12,000 of the $1 million he&#8217;d promised), but that the former NYC mayor, federal prosecutor and Trump attorney was, according to the lawsuit, allegedly &#8220;selling pardons for $2 million, which he and President Trump would split.&#8221; (!!!) <\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Dunphy claims to have audio recordings of Giuliani, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/woman-sues-rudy-giuliani-saying-he-coerced-her-into-sex-owes-her-unpaid-wages\">including<\/a> &#8220;some in which she says he can be heard making sexual comments, demanding sex and making sexist, racist, and antisemitic remarks.&#8221; Does she have any in which Rudy is discussing selling Presidential pardons and splitting the proceeds with Trump? I suspect prosecutors may want to find <i>that<\/i> out in the not-too-distant future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Speaking of antisemitism, on Monday, <b>Florida<\/b> Governor and desperate Presidential hopeful <b>Ron DeSantis<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/05\/15\/1176210007\/florida-ron-desantis-dei-ban-diversity\">signed yet another bill<\/a> forcing his far-right ideology onto others with yet another ban on freedoms. This one bars public colleges and universities from investing in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs. DeSantis has previously enacted state-imposed bans on various forms of free speech and books that his far-right Big Government state lackeys find objectionable. That has already resulted in bans on books said to cite issues of race, gender and sexuality, including math books (somehow) and social study texts. But now the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2023\/05\/11\/united-states\/florida-rejects-holocaust-education-textbooks-in-clampdown-on-woke-instruction?utm_source=JTA_Maropost&#038;utm_campaign=JTA_DB&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;mpweb=1161-57338-6589\">Jewish Telegraphic Agency is reporting<\/a> that the State is also banning educational textbooks on the <b>Holocaust<\/b> and\/or forcing publishers to modify them in order to receive official State approval for use in Florida K-12 schools and public universities. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is what modern day fascism looks like,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@QasimRashid\/110362237412506864\">charges<\/a> human rights lawyer Qasim Rashid. &#8220;Remember, the main reason extremists would want to ban teaching about a past atrocity is to make it easier to enable that atrocity in the future.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>We do have at least one story today that isn&#8217;t creepy and horrible today, ironically enough. The still-Rightwing-controlled <b>Wisconsin Supreme Court<\/b> actually <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/wisconsin-supreme-court-ivermectin-lawsuit-e94c60c8d4eba3c533d34e55a2b76b61?utm_source=homepage&#038;utm_medium=TopNews&#038;utm_campaign=position_06\">issued a ruling<\/a> that isn&#8217;t insane, overturning a lower state court&#8217;s insane, seemingly Fox &#8220;News&#8221;-inspired order that hospitals must use Ivermectin horse-medicine to treat <strong>COVID-19<\/strong> when a patient insists. The ruling overturns that madness comes in advance of liberals taking over the state high court majority beginning in August, following the election of a new liberal justice in the Badger State earlier this year. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14665\">our latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, with news on a devastating cyclone in <b>Myanmar<\/b>; the enormous cost of plugging abandoned oil and gas well in the <b>Gulf of Mexico<\/b>; and the Biden <b>EPA<\/b>&#8216;s proposal of landmark new to curb climate warming emissions from the nation&#8217;s power plants&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman-ElectionDayKY-PA-FL-NoLabelsME-GiulianiDunphySuit-DeSantisHolocaust_051623.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><center><i><b>* * *<\/b><\/i><\/center><center><\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr style=\"background: blue; color:white;\">\n<td width=\"50%\"><center><span class=\"footnote\"><b>MONTHLY BRAD BLOG SUBSCRIPTION<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\"><center><span class=\"footnote\"><b>ONE-TIME DONATION<\/b><\/span><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid blue;\"><center><\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\" style=\"margin-top:-3em; margin-bottom:2em;text-align:center;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"9PMSTMCJK9B3E\"><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"on0\" value=\"Choose monthly amount...\">Choose monthly amount&#8230;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><select name=\"os0\"><option value=\"$10\">$10 : $10.00 USD &#8211; monthly<\/option><option value=\"$20\">$20 : $20.00 USD &#8211; monthly<\/option><option value=\"$50\">$50 : $50.00 USD &#8211; monthly<\/option><option value=\"$100\">$100 : $100.00 USD &#8211; monthly<\/option><\/select> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\"><input type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_subscribe_LG.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/form>\n<p><\/center><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: 1px solid blue;\"><center><\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\" style=\"margin-top:0em; margin-bottom:2em;text-align:center;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"K5A5LX7J6WTHQ\"><input type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"footnote\">(Snail mail support to <b>&#8220;Brad Friedman, 7095 Hollywood Blvd., #594 Los Angeles, CA 90028<\/b>&#8221; always welcome too!)<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies in advance if you need to rinse off today&#8217;s BradCast with a hot shower. 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