'BradCast' 7/14/2022 (Guest: Emptywheel's Marcy Wheeler on 'plenty of evidence' to charge Trump)
b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Is the Garland Department of Justice moving forward on criminal investigations of Donald Trump and his cronies over their multi-pronged plot to steal the 2020 Election? A new op-ed from a bipartisan group of former top-level federal prosecutors and DOJ officials concludes that 'evidence is now overwhelming that Donald Trump was the driving force behind a massive criminal conspiracy to interfere with the official January 6 congressional proceeding and to defraud the United States of a fair election outcome.' They warn that 'the damage to America's future that would be inflicted by giving him a pass far outweighs the risks of prosecuting him.'\\xa0 Andrew Weissman, federal prosecutor of high-profile crimes, worries that the DOJ's investigation of the January 6 failed coup is moving too slowly. But independent national security journalist Marcy Wheeler of Emptywheel.net, who has reported on every single indictment, court filing and every available shred of evidence more closely than anyone on the planet, contends otherwise. In a complex and far-reaching discussion, Wheeler, who has been far ahead of the curve on all of this for the past year and a half, argues that DOJ is conducting a much more comprehensive and sprawling investigation than big-time former federal prosecutors appear to have noticed. Wheeler also discusses the big picture of prosecutions for the January 6 insurrection, new revelations from the House January 6 Committee's public hearings, the information gaps that remain in these investigations, and potential scenarios that could lead to the prosecution of Trump and his top cronies."