'BradCast' 7/6/2022 (Encore: Special coverage of House J6 Hearing, Day 4)
b"Encore: original airdate 6/21/2022. On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Our special coverage continues with gripping Day 4 public testimony in the bipartisan U.S. House Select Committee's investigation of the January 6th insurrection and Donald Trump's multiple failed efforts to steal the 2020 election. Progressive bloggers HEATHER DIGBY PARTON of Salon and Hullabaloo and 'Driftglass' of the Professional Left Podcast offer deep insights and analysis on the day's proceedings. The committee laid out the pathetic story of how loser Trump was the 'ringleader' in schemes to force state and local officials to do his unlawful bidding, and trick swing-state Republicans into signing up as fraudulent electors. Hearing witnesses included two Georgia state officials, Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger and Deputy Sec. of State Gabriel Sterling, alongside moving testimony of the selflessness of two other live witnesses, Arizona's Republican state House Speaker Rusty Bowers and former Fulton County, GA election worker Wandrea 'Shaye' Moss. In an emotional and at times harrowing hearing, all four thoroughly debunked Trump's many baseless assertions and outright lies, and spoke of how they had endured unrelenting attacks and threats from Trump, his attorney Rudy Giuliani, and their mobs of thuggish supporters in Trump's fraudulent, criminal attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Election workers Freeman and Moss also detailed how the terror unleashed by Trump's lies publicly targeting them has ruined their lives, among several disturbing revelations..."