'BradCast' 5/5/2021 (Guest: Guns Down America's Igor Volsky on fraud and death throes at the NRA)

Published: May 6, 2021, 1:56 a.m.

b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 The end may be nigh for the indescribably corrupt, terrorist-supporting National Rifle Association, after some big news out of a federal bankruptcy courtroom in Texas this week.\\xa0 IGOR VOLSKY, author and founder of Guns Down America, details the shocking revelations emerging from the NRA's attempt to escape accountability from a lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James to dissolve the 150-year old 'charitable' organization, due to its wildly corrupt violations of NY state law. Volsky also explains what's at stake with the first gun rights case just accepted by the US Supreme Court last week that could upend more than 100 years of state gun laws. Also today:\\xa0 DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas announced that numbers of unaccompanied minors held in Border Patrol facilities has been 'drastically reduced' by nearly 90 percent over the last month. But the non-wingnut corporate media, after following the cues of rightwing media and GOP politicians in breathlessly hyping a crisis at the border for several weeks, has virtually ignored the new development.\\xa0 And even though Donald Trump is no longer in office, he is still pulling in a lot of money from taxpayers, because he quietly signed an unprecedented extension of Secret Service protection for his children and three former top appointees, who all spend a lot of time at Trump-owned properties. And when they do, guess who gets paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the Secret Service for accommodations? The Trump grift never ends..."