{"id":14758,"date":"2023-08-16T18:26:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T01:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14758"},"modified":"2023-08-16T18:40:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T01:40:34","slug":"hot-indictment-summer-and-what-it-all-may-mean-for-next-year-bradcast-8162023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=14758","title":{"rendered":"Hot Indictment Summer (And What it All May Mean for Next Year): &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 8\/16\/2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_FaniWillis-TrumpIndictment081423_081623.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">We&#8217;ve got more Special Coverage on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a> of the fourth &#8212; and, theoretically, last, but who knows? &#8212; criminal indictment of our disgraced former President for the Summer season. [<i>Audio link to full show follows below this summary.<\/i>]<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14755\">Monday&#8217;s show<\/a> this week, just hours in advance of the massive new criminal charges out of Georgia, we detailed the <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14707\">dangers<\/a> to next year&#8217;s elections of the illicit <b>Coffee County, Georgia<\/b> voting system software breach carried out by Trump supporters beginning on January 7, 2021 (and <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14700\">covered up<\/a> in the many months that followed by Sec. of State <b>Brad Raffensperger<\/b>). The scheme &#8212; which <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14270\">we helped break<\/a> last year and have been covering ever since &#8212; is now known to have been just one part of a multi-state conspiracy organized by Trump attorney <b>Sidney Powell<\/b> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14643\">hatched inside Trump&#8217;s Oval Office<\/a> in December of 2020. It remains a <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14659\">huge threat<\/a> to the security of <i>next year&#8217;s<\/i> Presidential elections across the entire state of Georgia and in more than a dozen states with jurisdictions using the same breached, proprietry hardware and software that was stolen from Coffee County.<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14757\">Tuesday&#8217;s show<\/a>, we detailed the sprawling <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Docs\/TrumpRICOIndictment-Georgia-FaniWillis_081423.pdf\">97-page RICO indictment [PDF]<\/a> of <b>Donald John Trump<\/b> and 18 co-conspirators charged with 41 felony counts by a grand jury in <b>Fulton County, Georgia<\/b> late on Monday. The charges are related to Trump&#8217;s alleged (and failed) criminal enterprise to steal the 2020 Presidential election in the Peach State (and elsewhere) and comes out of the two-year probe by Fulton County, D.A. <b>Fani Willis<\/b>. We broke down all of the charges, detailed those who were indicted, along with a focus on the specific charges brought against Powell and the three others facing several counts related specifically to conspiracies to commit Computer Theft, Computer Trespass, Computer Invasion of Privacy (&#8220;with the intention of examining personal voter data&#8221;) and Conspiracy to Commit Election Fraud as part of the Coffee County scheme. <\/p>\n<p>The new indictment brings the number of criminal felony charges that our disgraced former President is now personally facing in four different jurisdictions at both the state and federal level to a gob-smacking <b>91<\/b>!<\/p>\n<p>And then on <i>today&#8217;s<\/i> program, our hot indictment summer continues, with both legal and political analysis of the new indictment with two old friends. Former attorney <b>KEITH BARBER<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/users\/keithdb\">of Daily Kos<\/a> (who <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14750\">joined us last week<\/a> for a splendid preview and explanation of what RICO charges are!) is with us again today, along with award-winning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/writer\/heather_digby_parton\">Salon columnist<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/digbysblog.net\">Hullabaloo blogger<\/a> <b>HEATHER DIGBY PARTON<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>Among the <i>many<\/i> topics discussed on today&#8217;s program related to the latest Trump Indictment and what it means moving forward into next week&#8217;s first-of-the-season GOP Presidential debate and next year&#8217;s election&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>General thoughts on and surprises from the new indictment.<\/li>\n<li>Barber on &#8220;the power of RICO&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Parton on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2023\/08\/16\/mark-meadows-surfaces-at-last--and-it-sure-looks-like-hes-flipped-on\/\">her article<\/a> on whether former Trump Chief-of-Staff <b>Mark Meadows<\/b> may be cooperating in Special Counsel <b>Jack Smith<\/b>&#8216;s <i>federal<\/i> case on Trump&#8217;s attempt to steal the 2020 election. <\/li>\n<li>Barber on Meadow&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/08\/15\/meadows-georgia-case-federal-court-00111382\">motion<\/a> to move his indictment from state to federal court.<\/li>\n<li>How and why did Sen. <b>Lindsey Graham<\/b> (R-SC) escape indictment from Willis, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/lindsey-graham-georgia-investigation\/2021\/02\/12\/f12faa82-6d6b-11eb-9f80-3d7646ce1bc0_story.html\">his participation<\/a> in the criminal enterprise to steal the Peach State election for Trump?<\/li>\n<li>The still wildly under-investigated matter of the scheme to replace <b>Mike Pence<\/b> as President of the Senate overseeing the Electoral College certification on January 6, 2021 with Sen. <b>Chuck Grassley<\/b> (R-IA). (Willis refers fleetingly to this scheme in her indictment, see p. 44; Barber wrote a bit about this as <a href=\"https:\/\/keithdb.medium.com\/trumps-plot-to-kidnap-the-vice-president-of-the-united-states-d992941f94c3\">&#8220;Trump\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Plot To Kidnap The Vice President&#8221;<\/a> back in April of 2022.)<\/li>\n<li>Trump&#8217;s post-indictment Tuesday morning <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/110893712805150244\">claim<\/a> that next Monday he will release an &#8220;Irrefutable REPORT&#8221; on &#8220;Presidential Election Fraud which took place in Georgia&#8221; in 2020 which he claims will be a &#8220;complete EXONERATION!&#8221; for him.  (Giggle.)<\/li>\n<li>How that &#8220;REPORT&#8221; is likely to be an unlawful continuation of the same criminal enterprise under RICO that he is already charged with.<\/li>\n<li>What we should expect from next week&#8217;s first-of-the-season 2024 GOP Presidential debate in Milwaukee and whether Trump will (or should) show up for it.<\/li>\n<li>My continuing &#8212; if, apparently, controversial &#8212; Spidey Sense (not a prediction&#8230;just a sense, as explained today) that Trump will, ultimately, <i>not<\/i> end up being the GOP Presidential candidate on next year&#8217;s ballot&#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_HeatherDigbyParton-KeithBarber-TrumpIndictmentGA_081623.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>We&#8217;ve got more Special Coverage on today&#8217;s BradCast of the fourth &#8212; and, theoretically, last, but who knows? &#8212; criminal indictment of our disgraced former President for the Summer season. 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