'BradCast' 7/23/2020 (Reality begins setting in for GOP; Chaos for America)

Published: July 24, 2020, 1:49 a.m.

On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 Trump cancels the Jacksonville, FL portion of the Republican National Convention due to the out-of-control surge in coronavirus there. Federal Judge orders former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen to be released from prison, again, and excoriates the Justice Department and Bureau of Prisons for violating Cohen's First Amendment right to free speech. Two White House cafeterias shut down after a staffer reportedly tests positive for COVID-19. Trump sycophant and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis wobbles on forcing schools to open for in-person classes, after teachers' union sues. Senate Republicans stalling on passing additional coronavirus emergency economic relief as expanded unemployment benefits -- one of the few actions taken by Congress that has successfully helped to avoid a complete economic collapse over the past 6 months -- are set to run out at week's end. Fox 'News' poll finds Joe Biden leading Trump, beyond the margin of error, in key battleground states. Portland, Oregon Mayor Ted Wheeler among those tear-gassed by Donald Trump's federal stormtroopers on Wednesday night, along with throngs of protesters who have been gathering nightly for more than a month following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis; Wheeler decried the federal government's escalation of violence 'urban warfare'. In response to the violence being perpetrated by Trump's federal goon squad, John McCain's former campaign manager Steve Schmidt calls for Congressional investigations, and compares Trump's tactics to those of Hitler's Nazi brownshirts. Fallout spreads from the arrest Ohio's Republican House Speaker Larry Householder in a $61 million bribery and money laundering conspiracy to force consumers to give a $1.5 billion bailout to Ohio monopoly utility company FirstEnergy. Plus Desi Doyen has a delightfully light-hearted 'Green News Report'...