'BradCast' 4/28/2020 (Guest: Eric Boehlert on media's failed coverage of 'Trump's Vietnam')

On today's 'BradCast':  More than 1 million Americans have officially tested positive for the coronavirus, and more than 58,000 have been killed by it – although health experts warn the actual numbers are likely at least two times higher. More Americans have been killed by COVID-19 in two months than were killed in the nine years of the Viet Nam War. Unemployment numbers are now on par with the Great Depression. U.S. intelligence agencies repeatedly warned Trump about the historic threat to public health and the economy posed by COVID-19 in more than a dozen classified briefings in January and February -- but Trump ignored them and publicly downplayed the dangers. Yet is the mainstream corporate media covering the unprecedented failure of the Donald Trump presidency with the context it warrants? ERIC BOEHLERT, longtime media analyst and publisher of the free newsletter, PressRun.Media, calls this historic moment 'Trump's Vietnam', comparing it to the failure of leadership and years of deceptions presented to the media during the Vietnam War. Boehlert discusses the D.C. media's failure to adequately cover just how "unhinged the Trump presidency has become," their ongoing obsession with reporting their "Dems in Disarray!" narrative, and much more. Also today:  Maryland and Ohio both held elections on Tuesday, mostly by mail, offering a glimpse into what elections may look like between now and November. Some Republican governors have started lifting stay-at-home restrictions to allow businesses to re-open, but if Germany's current experience is a guide, COVID infection rates in the U.S. may increase again. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report', with the Trump Administration desperately trying to find a way to bail out the U.S. oil industry as it continues its stunning collapse...