'BradCast' 12/14/2018 (Guest: Craig Holman of Public Citizen)
Despite his many desperate, shifting attempts to explain (lie) his way out of it, all evidence indicates that Donald Trump committed a major campaign finance felony in making hush-money payoffs before the 2016 election to women with whom he had had sexual affairs. Campaign finance expert CRAIG HOLMAN of Public Citizen methodically debunks each of Trump's various claims, point-by-point, and what can (or at least should) be done. The controversial Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel (OLC)'s opinion that a sitting President may not be indicted on criminal charges is preventing accountability for Trump, but Holman argues that's exactly what the 25th Amendment is designed to handle. Wisconsin's rejected Republican Gov. Scott Walker signed a host of bills today, designed to strip power from the state's voters and incoming Democratic Governor-elect Tony Evers and Attorney General-elect Josh Kaul. In Michigan, rejected Republican Gov. Rick Snyder also signed several bills on Friday to undermine voters. In North Carolina \u2013 where the GOP invented these unprecedented state power grabs in 2016 -- the GOP absentee ballot election fraud scandal appears to have spread to a completely different U.S. House District. In Maine, Republican Rep. Bruce Poliquin's constitutional challenge to the state's new Ranked Choice Voting system was rejected by a Trump-appointed judge. Poliquin today ended the ongoing hand-count he had requested in his 2nd Congressional District race. Poliquin won the first computer tally by more than 2,000 votes, but failed to win a majority, and is said to have lost to Democrat Jared Golden on November 6th, after voters' second place choices were redistributed to other candidates according to the computerized RCV algorithm used to tally ballots. The complicated RCV hand-count was otherwise expected to continue for several more weeks...