'BradCast' 6/13/2019 (Slithering amidst the GOP Paracosm)
b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 A musical tribute to the St. Louis Blues, Brad's much-beloved hometown hockey team, in celebration of their long-awaited, first-time-ever Stanley Cup Championship. In other news:\\xa0 the Trump-appointed head of the Office of Special Counsel (not Robert Mueller's Special Counsel) recommended that Trump White House advisor and serial liar Kellyanne Conway be fired for "repeated violations" of the Hatch Act, which bars federal officials from using their official offices for political purposes. Kellyanne's husband, longtime Republican attorney and activist George Conway published an op-ed in the Washington Post with former Obama Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal slamming Trump's latest court filing in his attempt to defy Congressional subpoenas, in which his lawyers argue that Congress is not allowed to investigate any president on criminal matters. Michigan Rep. Justin Amash, the only sitting Republican member of Congress to call for impeachment proceedings, resigned from the hard-right "House Freedom Caucus" (formerly the "Tea Party Caucus") which he co-founded. Amash may be the only Republican who actually bothered to read the redacted Mueller Report, which details multiple instances of criminal obstruction by the President for Congress to consider in impeachment proceedings. Numerous elected Republicans this week trotted out creative excuses for why they are overlooking multiple, well-documented federal crimes committed by Trump. In Michigan, the state Solicitor General, appointed by new Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel, announced that prosecutors have dropped all criminal charges against eight former officials who were indicted in the Flint lead-poisoning water crisis, and will re-start the investigation from scratch, including potentially re-filing charges. Prosecutors allege that expansive new information indicates former Republican Attorney General Bill Schuette's three-year investigation failed to properly review all evidence, some of which is tied to former Republican Gov. Rick Snyder...."