'BradCast' 12/20/2018: (Trump! The Thrilling Season Finale!)
b"Every reality TV show needs a dramatic and gripping season ending finale, just as much as every Reality TV President needs one!\\xa0 On today's 'BradCast': TWISTS AND TURNS!\\xa0 Acting AG Matthew Whitaker did not receive an ethics waiver to oversee Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe, as previously reported.\\xa0 Will he anyway? SURPRISES! Trump stuns his military advisers and Congress by declaring "victory" over ISIS and announcing he is withdrawing U.S. troops from Syria! But when? Nobody knows!\\xa0 Is Afghanistan next? (Apparently so!)\\xa0 MAIN CHARACTERS 'KILLED OFF'! Defense Secretary Gen. James Mattis submits his surprise resignation.\\xa0 SUSPENSE! Will Trump shut down the federal government over Christmas? CHRISTMAS VILLAINS! Trump's USDA announces they will now make it more difficult for the poor to receive food stamps, in defiance of Congress and its new Farm Bill. That'll show 'em!\\xa0 NUCLEAR CLIFF-HANGER!\\xa0 North Korea bluntly declares that they will not denuclearize unless the U.S. removes its own troops and nuclear weapons at the same time.\\xa0 Will Trump return to his threats for "fire and fury"?! Stay tuned for the thrilling 2019 season!\\xa0 Also today: The DNC announces its 2020 Presidential primary debate schedule, even though we're not yet even done with the 2018 election.\\xa0 An update in the GOP Absentee Ballot Election Fraud Scandal in the NC-9 congressional district:\\xa0 a stunning, just-released 2016 investigative report from the NC State Board of Election includes some jaw-dropping evidence showing the same GOP contractor at the center of the 2018 scandal \\u2013 McCrae Dowless \\u2013 was also running the same illegal absentee ballot harvesting scheme in the 2016 election.\\xa0 Why was Dowless not prosecuted in 2016, and allowed to carry out the same unlawful election fraud scams in 2018?\\xa0 Finally, Desi Doyen has the latest 'Green News Report,' with a number of Christmas climate crisis gifts from states around the country, and hardly any lumps of coal at all..."