'BradCast' 7/14/2017: (Are They Liars? Or Just Incompetent? Or Both?)
Take your pick: either the Trump Administration (and its cronies in Congress) are liars or completely incompetent. There is plenty of evidence for both. For a start, the number of people now reported to have been at that June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a Russian attorney said to have dirt on Hillary Clinton has now risen to eight. And not single day has gone by since the revelation of that meeting one week ago, without the explanations for it from Team Trump -- including the President himself -- changing. Why? But that's not the only story today to suggest they are either liars or buffoons (and can't do math, either). Among the many additional stories placed into appropriate context today: Trump's Secretary of State takes a withering shot at Trump's government.\xa0 A congressional GOPer laments Republicans 'don't know how to govern'. The non-partisan CBO finds Trump's budget doesn't actually balance. Senate Republicans newest health care repeal plan doesn't either. Trump's border 'wall' is beginning to sound exactly like Dubya and Obama's border fence, and his plans for immigration reform are beginning to sound a lot like Obama's, as well. Given a new survey finding a huge majority of Republican voters now believe higher education has a 'negative effect' on the country, perhaps none of those stories should come as a surprise. Finally, on the 100th Anniversary of the Espionage Act, the Committee to Protect Journalists offers a report on how, since Nixon first did so in the 70's, the Act has been misused to prosecute whistleblowers rather than spies, particularly under Obama, and how Trump may well begin using it against journalists in the bargain...