'BradCast' 12/8/2020 (Trump preps PardonPalooza, w/ former Asst. U.S. Attorney Randall D. Eliason)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 The madness continues. Top Republicans intensify their incendiary, eliminationist rhetoric to foment violence, while Trump prepares to hand out pardons like Christmas candy. A new survey has found Americans self-reporting a huge decrease in their mental health status as the COVID19 pandemic drags on.\xa0 The Republican Party seems to be mentally crumbling before our eyes as the realization dawns on them that Team Trump is lying to them about 'winning' the 2020 election. Fox 'News' anchor turned racist wingnut drama queen Lou Dobbs broke into a frothy rage demanding Republicans 'fight harder' to overthrow the election. The Arizona GOP used social media to call on its followers to give their lives (literally) for Donald Trump. The US Supreme Court, in a unanimous ruling, rejected the only case to come before the Court to challenge the 2020 Presidential election results. (The Trump Campaign legal team has still not brought any cases to SCOTUS themselves.) But if Team Trump and Republicans are unable to spark the violent new civil war they are clearly hoping for, Donald Trump is busy preparing to give away pardons 'like Christmas gifts' to his family, associates, and even himself, while he still can. Today, Trump's pardon of admitted felon and former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn got Flynn's criminal case dismissed. Former Asst. U.S. Attorney RANDALL D. ELIASON of George Washington University Law School discusses the virtually unchallenged constitutional power of the presidential pardon, its scope and recent history, the PardonPalooza that we expect to see in the coming weeks, and whether a President is Constitutionally allowed to pardon himself...