'BradCast' 5/22/2019 (Guest: Media critic Eric Boehlert)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 In the ongoing "crapshow" in D.C. today, the Donald Trump Presidency continues to swirl still deeper into the bowels of its own disastrous making. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared "the President of the United States is engaged in a cover-up." Trump stormed out of a scheduled White House meeting with Democratic leaders to hold what media falsely described as an "impromptu" news conference, in which he claimed \u2013 with a straight face -- to be "the most transparent President in the history of this country." A federal judge has rejected the Trump family's attempts to cover-up his financial records, ordering two banks to turn over records in response to lawful Congressional subpoenas. Trump's new U.S. Attorney General -- his personal fixer William Barr -- has helped Trump pull off his largest cover-up to date. Media critic ERIC BOEHLERT argues that the corporate media have failed to hold Barr appropriately to account, even after Barr was found in contempt by the House Judiciary Committee for failing to turn over the full Mueller Report. Boehlert also discusses whether Congressional Democrats are falling short, amid their internecine debate and intensifying calls to begin a formal impeachment inquiry. Also today: the City of Baltimore's computer networks have been crippled and shutdown by a ransomware attack for more than two weeks, the 20th U.S. municipality to be hit by such an attack so far this year. The ongoing disaster led the city Board of Elections' Deputy Director to opine: "Thank goodness it's not an election year." Yes, because every county and state relies on similar computer networks for everything from voter registration to tabulation to election night reporting, underscoring that without paper poll books and HAND-MARKED paper ballots, it would be literally impossible to run an election under such circumstances...