April 6, 2023 • 53 mins
EPISODE 172: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:43) SPECIAL COMMENT: The Defendant - and that's got to be his only name going forward - The Defendant blows up the only thing the GOP managed to get to stick to the Democrats in years: "Defund the police!" by insisting "Defund the DOJ and FBI!" You'd think maybe somebody in the House GOP leadership wouldn't want to reemphasize the fact that The Defendant was arrested - every day between now and next January when the trial is scheduled to start.
And contrary to everything you were told by every news organization, The Defendant was TOO charged with tax evasion. And The Defendant is now going to have to see his Vice President testify against him to the Special Counsel's Grand Jury, which is already hearing how The Defendant planned to seize voting machines even though his entire leadership team had already told him that there had been no foreign manipulation of them. The Defendant might get the benefit of a fake Democratic challenger to Joe Biden, as Steve Bannon sends out my former friend Bobby Kennedy Jr as a mindless stalking horse. And amazingly, government doesn't have to be like this. What the farewell address of New Zealand's Prime Minister could teach us - if only we bothered to learn anything in this country.
B-Block (22:06) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: (27:12) SPECIAL COMMENT: From Tuesday's special bulletin podcast: most media missed it. The Defendant wasn't just charged with falsifying business records. He was charged with ELECTION INTERFERENCE. Plus we now have the story of an apocryphal Trump Love child to cringe over).
C-Block (43:20) SPECIAL COMMENT: From Wednesday's podcast: Six hours after Judge Merchan warned The Defendant not to incite violence, The Defendant attacked the Judge, his daughter, the District Attorney, and his wife. Do not hesitate, Judge: The Defendant will just keep doing this until you put him behind bars. Put him behind bars NOW!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The
defendant is still free, despite having violated Judge Juan Mershon's
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instructions to refrain from insightful hate speech six hours after
he received them. If targeting the judge, the judge's daughter,
the district attorney, and the district attorney's wife for stochastic
terrorism were somehow not enough, the defendant moved on yesterday
to calling for defunding law enforcement and the criminal Investigation
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Force in this nation, a nation which has had five
different lowbrowed television series named after CSI, crime Scene Investigation,
and seven different lowbrow television series called Law and Order,
And for some reason, the Republicans not only can't figure
out why America perceives them as giving a mixed message
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on crime. We're against it, but we're also against prosecuting it,
and we insist the defendant has the right to commit
it at any time, day or night. Not only that,
but the Republicans can't understand how they could have lost
control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court and not won the
mayor's race in Chicago the same day Trump was arrested.
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The GOP has been dining out for eight years now
on its own false beliefs that it is invincible politically
because it has cornered the market on America's stupid people
without ever accepting what is for them, the terrifying realization
that a lot of those folks, out of necessity are
getting smarter and smarter every day and seeing the Republican
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house of cards con game for what it really is. Quote.
Republicans in Congress should defund the DOJ and FBI until
they come to their senses. The Democrats have totally weaponized
law enforcement in our country and are viciously using this
abuse of power to interfere with our already under siege elections.
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Wait what, the Democrats have totally weaponized law enforcement. He
wants to take away law enforcement's weapons. Do what? An idiot?
The defendant actually is. One of the few things the
Republicans have made stick to the Democrats in the last
three years is quote defund the police unquote, And this
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blithering moron says, defund the DOJ and FBI. I mean
Rona Romney was talking yesterday about how overturning Roe v.
Wade probably cost them Wisconsin and to protect his own
useless fat ass, the defendant still went ahead and completely
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muddied the Republicans one functioning fountain of fearmongering, and made
it look like the Democrats are the ones who are
tough on crime. Keep talking, defendant. The defendant always does
self destructive things, even in the context of the world
of lemmings that is their Republican party. He does them
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when he panics, and he may be panicking now because
he or somebody near him may have noticed what nine
percent of the news media not only missed in Alvin
Bragg's indictment, but which they had boasted was not in
Alvin Bragg's indictment. I told you there were reliable source
stories suggesting one of the crimes Bragg would allege was
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tax evasion. What happened Tuesday, The networks and nearly every
newspaper said in one voice, there's no tax evasion in here,
even though in his written statement of facts released alongside
the thirty four counts, Bragg wrote the participants also took
steps that mischaracterized for tax purposes the true nature of
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the payments made in furtherance of the scheme. Early Savage
of the New York Times recognized that even if thousands didn't.
Savage wrote that as shaky as the vague and unspecified
theories of defrauding voters and interfering in the election might
be legally, quote, prosecutors claimed Trump falsified business records in
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part for a plan to deceive state tax authorities. Savage
also got the former New York state prosecutor, Rebecca Roife
to provide this analysis. It turns out, she said, the
indictment also includes a claim that Trump falsified records to
commit a state tax crime. That's much simpler charge that
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avoids the potential pitfalls. She added, at this point, one
would think somebody in the Republican congressional leadership would be
looking at the realities of the defendants getting arrested and say,
sure it increases his martyrdom, Sure it increases his anger.
Sure the idiots love him when he's angry and paranoid.
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But then that person should be noting that unless it
is dismissed, the case is going to sit there indefinitely,
like a pile of rotting meat, all spring, all summer,
all autumn, all winter, throughout the primary debates, throughout the
first primaries, throughout lord knows how much of twenty twenty four,
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and the part about tax evasion is not going to
get dismissed. And it is really easy to understand, even
for Republicans, and it is really easy for Democrats to exploit.
Somebody in GOP house leadership should be saying, why again
do we want to keep people thinking the defendant was arrested,
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the defendant faces thirty four counts, the defendant faces tax evasion.
Maybe the defendant had a love child. Hey, maybe Kevin,
we should pass on this one. They would do that
if they're smart, which they're not. Jim Jordan goes on
Fox and says he'll be meeting soon with Kevin McCarthy
and Jamie Comer as to how to go full speed
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ahead on investigating Alban Bragg. Jim Jordan and Kevin McCarthy
and Jamie Comer are one too many to actually be
Thelma and Louise going off the cliff, but you get
the idea. It's such a bad idea for the Republicans.
You wonder if some Democrats should be saying to Bragg,
mister district attorney, could you go and testify this will
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let us do a mini trial of Trump on your
charges against him. Only we can do it during hearings
of the House Oversight Committee. Come on down to DC
and we can take on the defendant and blow them up.
Blow them up good, blow up real good. And oh,
by the way, the defendants planned to get a change
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of venue, change of prosecutor, change of judge. Get the
whole thing dismissed. The latest from Joey Tax Joe Takapina,
the ten billion lawyers have so far after his arrest
after his indictment, filed one motion, one motion to let
the defendants skip the next hearing in December. Nothing about dismissal,
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recusal or venue. Meanwhile, back at the Special Council's Ranch,
unclear which is the bigger news. Just the fact that
two of the henchmen at the Department of Homeland Security,
under the defendant, Chad Wolf at his deputy, the infamous
fascist journeyman Ken Cucinelli, have already testified that Jack Smith's
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grand jury is that the big news, or is the
fact that they told the grand jurors that they had
to repeatedly tell Trump in November and December of twenty
twenty that he did not have the authority and the
government did not have the authority to sees voting machines,
and that there was no need to because there was
nothing wrong with the voting machines. The idea that the
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defendant wanted to that he wanted Homeland Security to do that,
or the CIA or the FBI, or the military, or
Rudy Giuliani personally, that's not new. The rumor leaked out beforehand,
in real time, and right afterwards. But there is something
manifestly more disturbing about hearing of it on the record
about the defendant. It underscores the point to which we
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have all adjusted at one time or another since twenty seventeen,
to which we should never adjust. The defendant is a
creature dedicated to exploiting the openness, the generosity, and the
weaknesses of our democratic process in order to let him
destroy our democratic process. Whenever someone tries to rationalize his candidacy,
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his presidency, his actions, remember that there is only one
motive and only one thought in his head. If I
do X, Y or Z, my chances increase of becoming
president and staying president until I die. I have said
this before, and I will say it again. The defendant
is not Hitler nineteen forty, not even close, but he
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is Hitler nineteen thirty three, and just like the actual Hitler,
he would do anything they'd let him get away with
in order to become Hitler nineteen forty. Robert O'Brien, the
former defendant's national security advisor, also talked to federal prosecutors
earlier this year in what is described as a closed
door interview same topic seizing voting machines, including the infamous
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December eighteenth, twenty twenty Sydney Powell and Michael Flynn meeting
in which they proposed declaring martial law and collecting voting
machines from key states around the country under the pretext
that a foreign government had tampered with the balloting. CNN
reports all these men, O'Brien, Wolfe, and Kucinelli may now
have to go back to the grand jury and testify
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a because the courts have ruled against the defendant's claims
of executive privilege, and what Smith's prosecutors can now ask
them about has been broadly expanded. Ku Chanelli, in fact,
was seen going back to the grand jury room on
Tuesday of this week, and they are not just there
to put on the record that the defendant was willing
to do this. Unfortunately, the defendant cannot be arrested again
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merely for wanting to become a dictator, or for merely
drafting executive orders to seize stuff, orders that were never
carried out. What Smith thinks he can do, however, is
to establish that while the defendant examined options for overturning
the election, he already knew he had lost, and that
his continuing claims that he believed otherwise were false. In
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that case, if the rigged election claims and the efforts
to overthrow the government like January sixth, are reduced slightly
from attempted coup to something much more easily prosecuted conspiracy
to defraud the government of the United States, it's time
for another arrest of palooza. In his interview with prosecutors,
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O'Brien said he told the defendant there was no evidence
of election fraud nor foreign tampering with voting machines. If
the defendant acted anyway, his defense that being wrong is
not a criminal offense is erased. It is a criminal offense.
It will be intriguing to see whether one of those
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guys or another former prostitute for the defendant happens to
be there at the right hour to run into Mike
Pence testifying. This greasiest of Republicans got on Tuesday the
fig leaf. He needed a federal judge ordering him to
testify to the Special Counsel's Grand Jury with certain exclusions
about what he did while performing the role of President
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of the Senate. Yesterday, Pence took the opportunity of the
giant black hole of news coverage that swallowed everything but
the defendant's arrest to reveal he would not take the
matter further in the courts, He would not appeal. Pence
will testify, he will give the defendant up to the
grand jurors. What's intriguing is that the same order to
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testify covers aids like Mark Meadows and Dan Scovino, and
Washington was alive with rumors yesterday that those two scum
may go to the grand jury and invoke their Fifth
Amendment rights against self incrimination, which is Mark Meadows and
Dan Scovino in a nutshell. Lastly, in a sign of
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absolute Republican desperation, it appears p CBS News that Steve
Bannon has talked a one time big name Democrat into
launching a primary bid against President Biden. I mean, besides
Mary Ann Williamson. The filing is in. It is one
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of the saddest things I have ever read. There would
be upset. Democratic nominee for president is Robert F. Kennet,
a junior. After the two thousand and four election, when
I questioned why several Ohio vote counting centers declared terror
emergencies on election night and expelled the press and the
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multi party onlookers from the actual vote counting, I got
a call the next day from rfk Jr. He said
I was his hero. I knew then he was exaggerating,
but just to know that the son of a man
who tried to save this country when I was a
kid from Vietnam and racism and Richard Nixon all in
nineteen sixty eight, that his son thought of me in
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any terms like that was overwhelming and encouraging. Besides which,
Kennedy had also fought valiantly for the Hudson River, which
I grew up along. We met once after that at
a baseball game. We had a spectacular conversation, and he
was my entree to meet his uncle Ted, who was
a regular viewer at whose own son came up to
me the day before the first Obama inauguration and said
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that his ailing father had hoped to tend to the
event we were at, but that he needed to save
his strength, but that he had sent me a message
along with his son. Dad says to tell you you
are now his primary news source. He watches you every night,
at least once. I was speechless. Of course, that means
there's a downside to this, Ted Junior added with a laugh.
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The second half of Dad's message to you was, so
tell Keith, don't f it up anyway. Around that time,
something went wrong and Bobby Junior became a one topic
nut job. For ten or fifteen years. He has sunk
further and further into the pit of anti vaccine conspiracy theories,
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culminating in a book he wrote which Slanders doctor Anthony Fauci.
It was the year before last, and now Steve Bannon
has positioned Bobby Kennedy Junior as a quote chaos agent
unquote in the middle of the democratic field. It is
all most certain that the only one Bobby will actually
damage is himself. What a sad sad ending to become
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a stalking horse for the defendants pimp in a bid
to end American democracy. Well, I was going to leave
it there, but I just can't. I want to offer
a minor news item containing both hope and despair. Almost
by chance, since it ran in the middle of the night,
here I happened to see live the farewell addressed by
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the former Prime Minister of New Zealand, just sind to
our Dern. It was the happiest political speech I have
ever heard. On her last day in Parliament before she
leaves politics, just sind to our Dern basically conducted a
roast of everybody else in Parliament. She must have had
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sixty laugh lines in thirty minutes. The speech was warm
and wise and with heart on the sleeve, good humor.
This was a prime minister who resigned, who ended her
political career in hopes of turning down rising temperatures in
her nation's political kitchen. Imagine if we had anybody like
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that here. This was a prime minister whose final words
were a pitch to the ordinary citizens of her nation
to try to get elected to parliament. She said, quote,
you can be anxious, sensitive, kind and wear your heart
on your sleeve. You can be a mother or not
an ex Mormon or not a nerd, a crier, a hugger.
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You can be all of these things, and not only
can you be here, you can lead. Imagine if we
had anybody like that here. And when she was done,
she hugged, She hugged every other member of the New
Zealand Parliament. I mean every last one of them. They
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lined up for it, except for a couple of them
on the side who were busy singing Native Maori songs
while doing Native Maori dances. Imagine if we had anybody
like that here, just send to our Dern's speech took
place just five hours after that of the defendant, albeit
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on the other side of the world and figuratively in
another world. Altogether, the contrast cannot be measured by any
means available to the greatest computer on the earth today.
Imagine if we had anybody like that here. I don't know,
I'm confident we'd get a no, but I think we
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should make her an offer. Still ahead on this edition
of Countdown, I'm willing to take a bullet for Trump
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because he's willing to take a bullet for me. Somebody
actually said this seriously in a political show. Also said
he was Christ like no Jesus Christ not some other
guy named Christ That ten million that the defendant has
raised since his arrest, here's a shocker. That's not actually
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a lot in GOP presidential fundraising. Details ahead. And this
was the day Van Jones became an idiot. Yes, CNN's
official moron has done it again. Worst Person's Next is Countdown.
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This is Countdown with Keith Olberman. Time now for the
daily roundup of the misgrants, morons, and Dunning Kruger effects
specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world. And
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it's a theme episode. See if you can spot the
theme the bronze. Everybody saying that the arrest brought the
defendant an amazing fundraising windfall, So it was a bad idea.
The last figure I could find was they're claiming he
raised ten million dollars from a ten million. But Fox
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quote news unquote reports that Nikki Hailey's presidential campaign, which
starts with two things Republican voters will never accept in
their presidential candidate. She's a she and her parents emigrated
from somewhere else. I don't care. Obviously, the racist, sexist
Republicans obviously will. Fox reports in the first six we
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of her campaign, Nicky Haley raised eleven million, which is
more than ten million bronze. Anna Perez, who is a
spokesmodel who does one of those streaming shows it's called
wrong Think on yet another Fox knockoff called l FATV,
which I had never heard of until I wrote this.
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It stands for Live from America Television. Anna Perez has
now explained that she would take a bullet for Trump.
Quote why because President Trump would take a bullet from me.
President Trump is taking a bullet for me. President Trump
is prepared to take a bullet for all of us.
What he's doing is actually christ like. Unquote, President Trump
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is taking a bullet from me, she says, Well, as
the cliche goes video or it didn't happen. Secondly, the
defendant would not take a bullet for his wife and
all four of his children bullet bullet. Helly wouldn't take
a hang nail for his wife and all four of
his children. Anna Perez of Wrong Think. At least they
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chose an apt name for her show. But our winner
Van Jones of CNN. He has been there for a
decade now, starting on Crossfire, which with Van as the
liberal host in its twenty fifth year was canceled. Within
the year. Van has defended Tulsey Gabbard. He's famously the
one who followed the defendant's speech to the House and
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Senate in February twenty seventeen by saying, quote, he became
president of the United States in that moment. Period. What
I'm saying is Van just isn't very bright sure enough.
During the arrest Tuesday, Van Jones says, quote, he looks sad.
I don't like the prison system, so I don't like
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this process, as if the defendant were within a million
miles of actually going to prison. And the pista resistance
from Van Jones quote doesn't mean that accountability is not owed.
But that is a granddad having a very bad day.
A granddad, a granddad. Go ask Trump and names of
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his children, not his grandchildren. Ask him the names of
his children, and he'll say Don Junior, other, Don Junior, girl,
Don Junior, and uh Marla's kid. Van, this is the
moment in which Trump became granddad. Period Jones two days
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worst person all right. As you may know, this is
the fifth Countdown podcast of this week. There were two
on Tuesday. It was unavoidable given the arrest and I
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appreciate you taking the time to listen to all of them.
There are consequences, though, to doing two of these in
a day in three in like twenty six hours, I'm
about to run out of gas here. One of the
nice things though about podcasting is you get a very
precise information lot about how many people listen to podcast A,
and then how many also listened after listening to podcast
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A to podcast B, etc. What I found is from
Tuesday's post arrest wrap up, which went out at six
thirty Eastern, not everybody who listened to that also listened
to Wednesday's call to have Judge Marshawn jail him for
violating the tone down the rhetoric request and vice versa. Now,
if you have listened to both, there is no reason
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to keep listening to this podcast. As I always say,
I won't take it personally. The rest of it is
a rerun. Tomorrow I'll be back with a full new episode,
but for now, I want to replay the Trump segments
from each of those other two in chronological order. So
here's what dropped right after the defendant got pinched Tuesday six,
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for an all two brief forty five minutes this afternoon,
the dark and threatening streets of the American hellscape were
a little safer, a little brighter. And then they let
Donald Trump leave the courthouse, perhaps to the eternal regret
of mankind, on this day of Trump arraignment syndrome, my
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ex landlord has been charged with thirty four counts of
felony falsification of business records, each one part of a
conspiracy to unlawfully quote influenced the two sixteen presidential election.
That is the headline. Trump is being charged not just
with falsifying business records, but with falsifying business records in
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order to illegally influence the twenty sixteen presidential election. Trump
is being prosecuted for election interference. Trump, or as we
may now call him, the defendant, said nothing in New York.
All we saw was him scowling on the way into
the courtroom, then peering through bloodshot eyes towards the judge.
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Then the always alarming shot of his hairstyle as seen
from the vantage point of the back of his head
as he left for LaGuardia, where alone and without the
former first Lady the floatus for some reason, oh right, sorry,
Trump slowly climbed the stairs of the jetway, and for
a brief moment, his flapping extra extra extra, extra, extra
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extra long red tie teased us with the thought that
it might finally get caught in his planes rear wing
horror untle stabilizer. Trump is being charged not for the
payoff to Stormy Daniels, nor, in a new development, for
a thirty thousand dollars payoff to a Trump Tower doorman
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who thought he knew something about a child Trump had
fathered out of wedlock. That's right, The case now has
a once rumored Trump love child. No, Trump is not
being charged for love or money. He's being charged for,
as the DA said, trying to illegally influence the two
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sixteen presidential election, and in doing so, violating New York
state election law, to conspire to promote a candidate by
unlawful means, and exceeding the political contribution cap by paying
to suppress the Stormy Daniel's story to deceive the public.
Trump has been indicted thirty four felonies for trying to
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defraud and to conceal a separate crime when he reimbursed
his lawyer, Michael Cohen in a deal. Prosecutor's alleged was
reached inside the Oval office to hide those Daniels payments
as legitimate business expenses for legal services. And if those
business expenses are business expenses, America is in a new
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and different world of hiring porn stars so their services
can help you write off. And at the exact hour
that Trump was entering the fifteenth floor courthouse at one
hundred Center Street in Manhattan, his sons were sharing on
several social media sites a British tabloid story about the
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daughter of the judge in the case, complete with her photo,
doxing her and launching a phony conspiracy theory that because
of her work with a digital firm that worked with
the Kamala Harris and Joe Biden presidential campaigns. This is
as Donald Trump, in his paranoia and megalomania, believes everything
else in the history of the world is a plot
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against him. They doxed the judge's daughter while Junior and
Fredo were posting. The District Attorney's office was handing out
multiple combies in the courtroom of the various online threats
of violence and terrorism that Trump has made in the
days and weeks leading up to today. The baseball bat image,
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the death and destruction warning, calling the district attorney a
quote animal, and presumably others. Nobody is sure if the
other posts included the attacks Trump made not four hours
before the hearing began against Judge Juan Marshaan himself, calling
him quote highly partisan and quote an unfair disaster belonging
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to a family of quote well known Trump haters, including
quote his daughter who worked for Kamala and now the
Biden Harris campaign. Kangaroo Court. Judge Marshan, showing the kind
of restraint that you and I and most of the
planets eight twenty five million, eight hundred and fifty three
thousand other people would not, did not immediately impose a
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gag order nor even a specific set of warnings against
Trump and what he might say tonight or going forward.
Marshaun did warn both sides not to make any statement
that incites violence and to tamp down the rhetoric. As
to rhetoric, Alvin Bragg promptly gave a measured and quiet
and even dull news conference. Trump canceled his reported plans
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to talk to the media on the way in and
again on the way out of the courtroom. His attorneys,
though gave a bizarre and ill fated news conference in
the middle of the throng outside the courthouse, as media
outnumbered protesters and even passers by by perhaps one hundred
to one. At this press conference, the new guy, Todd
Blanche had a problem about speaking in public without Um,
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interrupting himself frequently with the um verbal crunch. Um and
I wondered if this was the best attorney of all
the guys. They considered what kind of impression the other
guys UM left. Meanwhile, Joe Tacopina said that this was
the day quote the rule of law died in this country,
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as a spectator standing behind him held a mannequin's leg
over Tacopina's head like this was a live revival of
the movie A Christmas Story, and Trump had just gotten
a major award. Yet inside the court everything was apparently businesslike,
and while Trump may have tried to stare daggers at
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Judge Marshawn through what had become his own slit like
bloodshot eyes, Trump evidently pleaded not guilty time and time again,
to charge after charge after charge. Thank you, Nancy Faust.
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It is certain, though in what order, no one can
yet say that Trump's lawyers, and how many of them
there are. No one can also say, we'll move to
dismiss the indictment, move to dismiss each charge in the indictment,
moved to have the judge recuse, move for change of venue.
Trump himself argued to go voluntarily to Staten Island, which
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indicates just how desperate he really is. If they cannot
kill this thing before it starts, the trial will unfold
in the midst of the heart of the presidential campaign.
The trial would begin, per the court schedule, at the
earliest next January. The next pre trial hearing isn't scheduled
until December. The first Republican presidential primary debate will be
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in Milwaukee in August. We learned one other new thing
at this hearing and with this filing. The star witness
for the prosecution would not be the former Trump attorney
Michael Cohen. It would be former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker.
It is Pecker who set up the process for which
the prosecution alleges all thirty four crimes were committed, starting
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at a meeting with Trump and Cohen in August twenty fifteen.
Moving on to a quote series of discussions among the
three men in two sixteen to suppress first the Karen
McDougall's story, and then the Stormy Daniels case. And now
we know the story of the doorman and the apparently
apocryphal Trump love child. Then post election was the meeting
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at which Trump personally thanked Pecker, and in the summer
of two seventeen he took Pecker to dinner to quote
thank him for his help during the campaign. All of this,
if it leads to Trump being convicted, invites the future
headline Pecker screws Trump, leave it or not. All this
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has been the serious part of the day. The rest
of the day descended quickly into farce upon farce. The protests,
which Trump presumably envisioned would be a kind of litigation
version of January sixth, instead turned out to have been
so poorly planned and so poorly received that the star
complainer fled without anybody in the crowd really knowing that
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she had been there. This is Marjorie Taylor Greene's speech
as it would have been heard by the crowd assembled
by the New York Young Republicans Club. After about fifteen
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minutes of that, Barney Rubble left as quickly as she
could in a white suv, not a Bronco, and was
interviewed live from the back seat by a performer from
the Right Side News RSN named Brian Glenn. And if
we didn't already know that Brian Glenn and Marjorie Taylor
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Green are dating, we do now because the interview ended
with him giving her a kiss on the cheek. So
all right, all right, in response on behalf of a
mortified world, I say you, there was an unexpected appearance
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at that protest, And again each protester had his own
supply of maybe ten, maybe one hundred reporters. It was
by the last person Trump would have presumably asked to attend,
other than Stormy Daniels and the apocryphal Trump love child.
It was Congressman George Santos. As he grandstanded for reporters,
Santos apparently discovered that he is afraid of crowds, and
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after asking everybody to move back, he too quickly left
the scene. The Trump campaign is now selling what it
calls official mugshot t shirts, even though it seems evident
that no mug shot was taken, Certainly, no mug shot
was released. Certainly Trump's people would not do anything with
a mug shot in which Trump's eyes looked like he
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hadn't slept in twenty four days, tiny slits rimmed in red. Lastly,
many observers noted that as Trump entered the courtroom, he
experienced something he probably has not for years. Nobody opened
the door open for him, nor held it open for him.
On the other hand, in conclusion, I think the importance
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of this day, even if these charges were to get
thrown out tomorrow morning, is that they opened a metaphorical
door to all the other indictments. Fittingly, in terms of
real news. In terms of other indictments, the first arraignment
of a former president of the United States only because
Ford pardoned the guy who made him President Nixon. The
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first arraignment of a former president of the United States
was actually over shadowed by the third major story of
the week from the world of the Special Counsel, Jack Smith,
and its only Tuesday. A federal appeals court in DC
has rejected an emergency motion from Trump's lawyers to block
key Trump aids from testifying to the Special Counsel's grand jury.
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In another series of up all night at the court,
the lawyers filed late Monday night, and the three judge
appeals panel ruled early Tuesday morning. It's sealed, so we
don't know officially who is and isn't now without a
way to get out of testifying to the Special Council
Grand Jury. But putting together bits and pieces of the thing,
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it seems to cover Mark Meadows, Dan Scovino, Stephen Miller,
Robert O'Brien, John Ratcliffe, and Ken Cucinelli. That is a
lot of testimony, and it all seems to pertain to
that half of Smith's case, which seems to be lagging
behind the other. Meadows and Company would be coups, not
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Marilago document witnesses. And we found out only Sunday that
Smith has a paper trail at Marilago courtesy a Trump
assistant who used to do his emailing for Trump, and
video of another assistant actually moving the boxes. And yesterday
we learned that Smith will get the testimony from Trump's
Florida's Secret Service detail. That's the real story of Stormy
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Daniel's indictment. Pulloza. It was I think clear even before
the hearing began, after days and weeks of threats and
insults and terroristic warnings. Trump inadvertently confessed on his social
media site just how serious this all is, So serious
that it is even pierced his own self induced bubble
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of invincibility. At one twenty two pm Eastern daylight time,
he wrote on his website quote, heading to Lower Manhattan
the courthouse seems so surreal. Wow, they are going to
arrest me. Can't believe this is happening in America. To translate,
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Trump admits, and this is ultimately white today mattered. Trump
admits that he has had the crap scared out of him.
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So that's the bulletin Trump news from Tuesday. The Wednesday
call for his immediate incarceration. Next, this is countdown, continuing
the refrise of the Trump arrest coverage, which gives me
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a chance to catch my breath. Literally. Here is the
Wednesday Morning podcast and the call for Judge Marshaan to
send him immediately to the big house. Call Trump's lawyers,
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Judge Marshaan, do it now, do it right now, and
tell them to put their client's fat ass on a
plane and get it back to New York within six hours,
or you will jail their client and them for contempt
of court at roughly two forty five eastern yesterday, you
told the defendant and the prosecutor please refrain from making
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statements that are likely to incite violence or civil unrest.
Do not use rhetoric that could jeopardize the rule of law.
At roughly eight forty five Eastern time yesterday, the defendant
incited violence and jeopardize the rule of law. And he
attacked the district attorney. That he attacked the district Attorney's wife,
and he attacked you, Judge, Mrchon, and he attacked your family.
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And on behalf of the rule of law, and on
behalf of civil peace in the United States of America,
and on behalf of yourself and the DA and the
inviolability of the courts, drag defended Donald Trump back into
your court today and hold him in contempt and then
put him into a cell at Riker's Island. This is
where we are right now. I have a Trump hating
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judge with a Trump hating wife and family whose daughter
worked for Kamala Harris and now receives money from the
Biden Harris campaign, and a lot of it. The criminal
is the district attorney, because he illegally leaked massive amounts
of grand jury and from a for which he should
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be prosecuted, or at a minimum, he should resign. And
Alvin Bragg's wife confirmed a report that claimed her husband
has Trump nailed on felonies. She has since slocked down
her Twitter account. What more does the defendant have to do,
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Judge Marchon, He already threatened death and destruction, He already
reposted an article with a photo of him wielding a
baseball bat next to a photo of the head of
the district attorney. And yesterday, as you were warning him,
but also as you were bending over backwards to protect
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his First Amendment rights, as you were saying those things
to him, his idiot sons, Junior and Fredo were doxing
your own daughter on every social media site they could find.
And if you don't put them under a gag order,
what exactly does the rule of law mean in this country?
What exactly is the point of having laws in this country?
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What exactly, your honor, is the point of having judges
and district attorneys and cops if their words mean nothing,
and a psychonic, narcissistic piece of shit criminal like Donald
Trump can leave your courtroom and gun on his private
jet and go to his private club and pick up
right where he left off. Not merely endangering you and
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your wife and your daughter, and the DA and his
wife and everybody connected with law enforcement in New York
and Washington in America, but endangering, as you yourself phrased it,
the rule of law, by as you yourself also phrased it,
making statements that are likely to incite violence or civil unrest.
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What more does Trump have to do pull out a
gun on Fifth Avenue and shoot you, or say something
like that again, or inspire one of his brainwashed, gun fetishizing,
hate filled fascist mob to attack your daughter. Trump is
in contempt, of course right now, jail him. He is,
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in fact in contempt of America. He is always and
will forever be in contempt of America. America means nothing
to him. Your words mean nothing to him. The law
means nothing to him. He will understand only punishment. Punish him.
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Judge Mershon, as you were warning him, As you were calmly, responsibly,
even handedly warning the defendant and the district attorney to
avoid dangerous rhetoric. The defendant's sons were putting out your
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daughter's photo so she can be threatened and attacked and
added to the list of the hundreds and hundreds of
upstanding and honest Americans who have become the targets of
the mob because it's violent, depray despotic leader has made
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them the targets of the mob at the very hour,
your honor. And then they hid behind the argument that no,
they weren't doing that. They had simply posted an interesting
article about your daughter from a British newspaper, and it
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wasn't their fault that the article had her picture on
the link. And anybody who says they posted her photo
is lying. And the descendant of nazis literally one of
the hacks defending Donald Trump Junior doxing your daughter, Judge
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by calling the reporter who called Junior out a quote
actual descendant of Nazi war criminals and heir to a
Nazi fortune unquote. That's where we are in this country
right now, Judge marsh hours after you bent over backwards
to protect Donald Trump, the defendant, the vile creature who
has already stochastically threatened your daughter twice since you warned
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him to tamp down the rhetoric, put a gag order
on Donald Trump Junior. Your honor, put a gag order
on Eric Trump, your honor, put a gag order on them,
and put their madman father in jail. Because your gesture
of fairness and balance and integrity did nothing but to
embolden these mentally defective bullies and the results who are immediate,
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and they do not just endanger you and your daughter
and your family and Alvin Bragg and his family, they
endanger America. Please refrain from making statements that are likely
to incite violence or civil unrest. Six hours after you
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made those statements, and by the way, your honor, those
statements were made not in the controlled environment of a courtroom,
nor even in the one dimensional world of social media.
They were made live on national television in this country,
because we have laws about exactly where on the wave frequency,
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Channel thirteen somewhere can put out its signal. But there
is not a damned thing, not one damned thing, that
can even begin to influence the billionaires who have just
bought the nation's original all news cable channel for the
sole purpose of neutralizing its reality and corrupting it into
another right wing propaganda machine. CNN, Your honor, CNN carried
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the entire goddamned Trump speech, without warning, without editorial judgment,
and Trump used them. Trump used the idiots who now
own and run CNN, the fascists who have balked CNN,
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to amplify the attack on you and on your daughter,
and on Alvin Bragg, and on his wife and on America.
Because having learned nothing from twenty sixteen or twenty twenty,
CNN televised the entire hate filled, narcissistic, paranoid speech by
the defendant live, not just the start through the first
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reference to Bragg, and then showing clips of anything relevant,
but saying we cannot show this live. God knows what
he will say or what he will tell his idiot
followers to do. But the whole thing was shown live,
the entire catalog of Trump repeatedly and unsuccessfully trying to
hammer in the last nail in self crucifixion after self crucifixion,
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literally going back as far as but her emails, but
focusing on his newest targets you and Alvin Bragg. It
was unconscionable, unjournalistic, unforgivable, and as I have suggested here
four months your honor, part of the quest by the
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new ownership of that channel to show itself to the fascists,
to tell them that if the fascists regain power in
this country, they should let CNN live and keep making money.
And also part of the quest by CNN's desperately failing
in over his head drowning president, a man named Chris Lickt,
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to show himself to that new ownership and to beg
that they not fire him and end forever his career
of remarkably consistent mediocrity, manipulation, and maschination. A man who
could not tell the moral difference between a fascist and
an old fashioned And it's only too goddamned bad, your honor,
that you can't issue a warning to Chris Lickt that
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if a television channel his or anybody else's amplifies the
hate speech of the defendant as he violates the orders
of the court, your court, that the network can be
held liable, that it's president and owners can be held
liable for the threat, the ever mounting threat against the
judges and the district attorneys, and the families and the
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friends and the cops and anybody else who tries to
thwart Donald Trump or tries to get Donald Trump to
behave like a human, or just tries to get Trump
to not light this country ablaze. This cannot continue, Judge Marchan.
This man will destroy this country, and he will not
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have to do as much as try to rise from
his chair to do so. It will be done for
him by proxies and servants and worshipers and the scum
whom he has enabled to hate and pursue and attack.
They will have destroyed America before any of us can
do a goddamn thing about it. But you, judge you,
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and do something about it now, maybe enough to stop
it now. You told Trump what not to do, and
he immediately did it again, as he always does it,
again and again and again on national television, in front
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of crowds, in front of mobs, in front of the
simple minded, in front of those who dream of killing
other humans because they would think it was fun. Bring
Trump back into your courtroom and scream at him for
thirty minutes, and then have the guards drag him to
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a cell for twenty four hours or forty eight hours,
or the rest of his goddamned life for all I care,
because that is the only thing he will ever understand,
and the only thing that the slime that follow him
and emulate him, and seek to be the sadest he is.
That is the only thing they will ever understand. And
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if there had been a shadow of a doubt that
this was true, it was erased. Last night. Your instructions
went in one ear and out the other in less
than six hours. Save this country, Judge Mershon. Donald Trump's
contempt for you and for the rule of law is
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more than just the technical violation of a warning you
gave him in court yesterday. It is the essence of
his being. And Donald Trump's being is sick and evil
and uncontrollable, and left unpunished, it will destroy everyone and
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everything that is good about this country we call home.
I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank
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Let's countdown for this the eight hundred and twenty first
day since the defendants first attempted coup against the democratically
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defendant is still free, despite having violated Judge Juan Mershon's
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instructions to refrain from insightful hate speech six hours after
he received them. If targeting the judge, the judge's daughter,
the district attorney, and the district attorney's wife for stochastic
terrorism were somehow not enough, the defendant moved on yesterday
to calling for defunding law enforcement and the criminal Investigation
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Force in this nation, a nation which has had five
different lowbrowed television series named after CSI, crime Scene Investigation,
and seven different lowbrow television series called Law and Order,
And for some reason, the Republicans not only can't figure
out why America perceives them as giving a mixed message
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on crime. We're against it, but we're also against prosecuting it,
and we insist the defendant has the right to commit
it at any time, day or night. Not only that,
but the Republicans can't understand how they could have lost
control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court and not won the
mayor's race in Chicago the same day Trump was arrested.
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The GOP has been dining out for eight years now
on its own false beliefs that it is invincible politically
because it has cornered the market on America's stupid people
without ever accepting what is for them, the terrifying realization
that a lot of those folks, out of necessity are
getting smarter and smarter every day and seeing the Republican
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house of cards con game for what it really is. Quote.
Republicans in Congress should defund the DOJ and FBI until
they come to their senses. The Democrats have totally weaponized
law enforcement in our country and are viciously using this
abuse of power to interfere with our already under siege elections.
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Wait what, the Democrats have totally weaponized law enforcement. He
wants to take away law enforcement's weapons. Do what? An idiot?
The defendant actually is. One of the few things the
Republicans have made stick to the Democrats in the last
three years is quote defund the police unquote, And this
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blithering moron says, defund the DOJ and FBI. I mean
Rona Romney was talking yesterday about how overturning Roe v.
Wade probably cost them Wisconsin and to protect his own
useless fat ass, the defendant still went ahead and completely
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muddied the Republicans one functioning fountain of fearmongering, and made
it look like the Democrats are the ones who are
tough on crime. Keep talking, defendant. The defendant always does
self destructive things, even in the context of the world
of lemmings that is their Republican party. He does them
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when he panics, and he may be panicking now because
he or somebody near him may have noticed what nine
percent of the news media not only missed in Alvin
Bragg's indictment, but which they had boasted was not in
Alvin Bragg's indictment. I told you there were reliable source
stories suggesting one of the crimes Bragg would allege was
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tax evasion. What happened Tuesday, The networks and nearly every
newspaper said in one voice, there's no tax evasion in here,
even though in his written statement of facts released alongside
the thirty four counts, Bragg wrote the participants also took
steps that mischaracterized for tax purposes the true nature of
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the payments made in furtherance of the scheme. Early Savage
of the New York Times recognized that even if thousands didn't.
Savage wrote that as shaky as the vague and unspecified
theories of defrauding voters and interfering in the election might
be legally, quote, prosecutors claimed Trump falsified business records in
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part for a plan to deceive state tax authorities. Savage
also got the former New York state prosecutor, Rebecca Roife
to provide this analysis. It turns out, she said, the
indictment also includes a claim that Trump falsified records to
commit a state tax crime. That's much simpler charge that
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avoids the potential pitfalls. She added, at this point, one
would think somebody in the Republican congressional leadership would be
looking at the realities of the defendants getting arrested and say,
sure it increases his martyrdom, Sure it increases his anger.
Sure the idiots love him when he's angry and paranoid.
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But then that person should be noting that unless it
is dismissed, the case is going to sit there indefinitely,
like a pile of rotting meat, all spring, all summer,
all autumn, all winter, throughout the primary debates, throughout the
first primaries, throughout lord knows how much of twenty twenty four,
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and the part about tax evasion is not going to
get dismissed. And it is really easy to understand, even
for Republicans, and it is really easy for Democrats to exploit.
Somebody in GOP house leadership should be saying, why again
do we want to keep people thinking the defendant was arrested,
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the defendant faces thirty four counts, the defendant faces tax evasion.
Maybe the defendant had a love child. Hey, maybe Kevin,
we should pass on this one. They would do that
if they're smart, which they're not. Jim Jordan goes on
Fox and says he'll be meeting soon with Kevin McCarthy
and Jamie Comer as to how to go full speed
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ahead on investigating Alban Bragg. Jim Jordan and Kevin McCarthy
and Jamie Comer are one too many to actually be
Thelma and Louise going off the cliff, but you get
the idea. It's such a bad idea for the Republicans.
You wonder if some Democrats should be saying to Bragg,
mister district attorney, could you go and testify this will
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let us do a mini trial of Trump on your
charges against him. Only we can do it during hearings
of the House Oversight Committee. Come on down to DC
and we can take on the defendant and blow them up.
Blow them up good, blow up real good. And oh,
by the way, the defendants planned to get a change
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of venue, change of prosecutor, change of judge. Get the
whole thing dismissed. The latest from Joey Tax Joe Takapina,
the ten billion lawyers have so far after his arrest
after his indictment, filed one motion, one motion to let
the defendants skip the next hearing in December. Nothing about dismissal,
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recusal or venue. Meanwhile, back at the Special Council's Ranch,
unclear which is the bigger news. Just the fact that
two of the henchmen at the Department of Homeland Security,
under the defendant, Chad Wolf at his deputy, the infamous
fascist journeyman Ken Cucinelli, have already testified that Jack Smith's
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grand jury is that the big news, or is the
fact that they told the grand jurors that they had
to repeatedly tell Trump in November and December of twenty
twenty that he did not have the authority and the
government did not have the authority to sees voting machines,
and that there was no need to because there was
nothing wrong with the voting machines. The idea that the
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defendant wanted to that he wanted Homeland Security to do that,
or the CIA or the FBI, or the military, or
Rudy Giuliani personally, that's not new. The rumor leaked out beforehand,
in real time, and right afterwards. But there is something
manifestly more disturbing about hearing of it on the record
about the defendant. It underscores the point to which we
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have all adjusted at one time or another since twenty seventeen,
to which we should never adjust. The defendant is a
creature dedicated to exploiting the openness, the generosity, and the
weaknesses of our democratic process in order to let him
destroy our democratic process. Whenever someone tries to rationalize his candidacy,
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his presidency, his actions, remember that there is only one
motive and only one thought in his head. If I
do X, Y or Z, my chances increase of becoming
president and staying president until I die. I have said
this before, and I will say it again. The defendant
is not Hitler nineteen forty, not even close, but he
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is Hitler nineteen thirty three, and just like the actual Hitler,
he would do anything they'd let him get away with
in order to become Hitler nineteen forty. Robert O'Brien, the
former defendant's national security advisor, also talked to federal prosecutors
earlier this year in what is described as a closed
door interview same topic seizing voting machines, including the infamous
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December eighteenth, twenty twenty Sydney Powell and Michael Flynn meeting
in which they proposed declaring martial law and collecting voting
machines from key states around the country under the pretext
that a foreign government had tampered with the balloting. CNN
reports all these men, O'Brien, Wolfe, and Kucinelli may now
have to go back to the grand jury and testify
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a because the courts have ruled against the defendant's claims
of executive privilege, and what Smith's prosecutors can now ask
them about has been broadly expanded. Ku Chanelli, in fact,
was seen going back to the grand jury room on
Tuesday of this week, and they are not just there
to put on the record that the defendant was willing
to do this. Unfortunately, the defendant cannot be arrested again
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merely for wanting to become a dictator, or for merely
drafting executive orders to seize stuff, orders that were never
carried out. What Smith thinks he can do, however, is
to establish that while the defendant examined options for overturning
the election, he already knew he had lost, and that
his continuing claims that he believed otherwise were false. In
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that case, if the rigged election claims and the efforts
to overthrow the government like January sixth, are reduced slightly
from attempted coup to something much more easily prosecuted conspiracy
to defraud the government of the United States, it's time
for another arrest of palooza. In his interview with prosecutors,
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O'Brien said he told the defendant there was no evidence
of election fraud nor foreign tampering with voting machines. If
the defendant acted anyway, his defense that being wrong is
not a criminal offense is erased. It is a criminal offense.
It will be intriguing to see whether one of those
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guys or another former prostitute for the defendant happens to
be there at the right hour to run into Mike
Pence testifying. This greasiest of Republicans got on Tuesday the
fig leaf. He needed a federal judge ordering him to
testify to the Special Counsel's Grand Jury with certain exclusions
about what he did while performing the role of President
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of the Senate. Yesterday, Pence took the opportunity of the
giant black hole of news coverage that swallowed everything but
the defendant's arrest to reveal he would not take the
matter further in the courts, He would not appeal. Pence
will testify, he will give the defendant up to the
grand jurors. What's intriguing is that the same order to
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testify covers aids like Mark Meadows and Dan Scovino, and
Washington was alive with rumors yesterday that those two scum
may go to the grand jury and invoke their Fifth
Amendment rights against self incrimination, which is Mark Meadows and
Dan Scovino in a nutshell. Lastly, in a sign of
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absolute Republican desperation, it appears p CBS News that Steve
Bannon has talked a one time big name Democrat into
launching a primary bid against President Biden. I mean, besides
Mary Ann Williamson. The filing is in. It is one
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of the saddest things I have ever read. There would
be upset. Democratic nominee for president is Robert F. Kennet,
a junior. After the two thousand and four election, when
I questioned why several Ohio vote counting centers declared terror
emergencies on election night and expelled the press and the
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multi party onlookers from the actual vote counting, I got
a call the next day from rfk Jr. He said
I was his hero. I knew then he was exaggerating,
but just to know that the son of a man
who tried to save this country when I was a
kid from Vietnam and racism and Richard Nixon all in
nineteen sixty eight, that his son thought of me in
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any terms like that was overwhelming and encouraging. Besides which,
Kennedy had also fought valiantly for the Hudson River, which
I grew up along. We met once after that at
a baseball game. We had a spectacular conversation, and he
was my entree to meet his uncle Ted, who was
a regular viewer at whose own son came up to
me the day before the first Obama inauguration and said
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that his ailing father had hoped to tend to the
event we were at, but that he needed to save
his strength, but that he had sent me a message
along with his son. Dad says to tell you you
are now his primary news source. He watches you every night,
at least once. I was speechless. Of course, that means
there's a downside to this, Ted Junior added with a laugh.
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The second half of Dad's message to you was, so
tell Keith, don't f it up anyway. Around that time,
something went wrong and Bobby Junior became a one topic
nut job. For ten or fifteen years. He has sunk
further and further into the pit of anti vaccine conspiracy theories,
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culminating in a book he wrote which Slanders doctor Anthony Fauci.
It was the year before last, and now Steve Bannon
has positioned Bobby Kennedy Junior as a quote chaos agent
unquote in the middle of the democratic field. It is
all most certain that the only one Bobby will actually
damage is himself. What a sad sad ending to become
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a stalking horse for the defendants pimp in a bid
to end American democracy. Well, I was going to leave
it there, but I just can't. I want to offer
a minor news item containing both hope and despair. Almost
by chance, since it ran in the middle of the night,
here I happened to see live the farewell addressed by
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the former Prime Minister of New Zealand, just sind to
our Dern. It was the happiest political speech I have
ever heard. On her last day in Parliament before she
leaves politics, just sind to our Dern basically conducted a
roast of everybody else in Parliament. She must have had
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sixty laugh lines in thirty minutes. The speech was warm
and wise and with heart on the sleeve, good humor.
This was a prime minister who resigned, who ended her
political career in hopes of turning down rising temperatures in
her nation's political kitchen. Imagine if we had anybody like
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that here. This was a prime minister whose final words
were a pitch to the ordinary citizens of her nation
to try to get elected to parliament. She said, quote,
you can be anxious, sensitive, kind and wear your heart
on your sleeve. You can be a mother or not
an ex Mormon or not a nerd, a crier, a hugger.
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You can be all of these things, and not only
can you be here, you can lead. Imagine if we
had anybody like that here. And when she was done,
she hugged, She hugged every other member of the New
Zealand Parliament. I mean every last one of them. They
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lined up for it, except for a couple of them
on the side who were busy singing Native Maori songs
while doing Native Maori dances. Imagine if we had anybody
like that here, just send to our Dern's speech took
place just five hours after that of the defendant, albeit
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on the other side of the world and figuratively in
another world. Altogether, the contrast cannot be measured by any
means available to the greatest computer on the earth today.
Imagine if we had anybody like that here. I don't know,
I'm confident we'd get a no, but I think we
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should make her an offer. Still ahead on this edition
of Countdown, I'm willing to take a bullet for Trump
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because he's willing to take a bullet for me. Somebody
actually said this seriously in a political show. Also said
he was Christ like no Jesus Christ not some other
guy named Christ That ten million that the defendant has
raised since his arrest, here's a shocker. That's not actually
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a lot in GOP presidential fundraising. Details ahead. And this
was the day Van Jones became an idiot. Yes, CNN's
official moron has done it again. Worst Person's Next is Countdown.
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This is Countdown with Keith Olberman. Time now for the
daily roundup of the misgrants, morons, and Dunning Kruger effects
specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world. And
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it's a theme episode. See if you can spot the
theme the bronze. Everybody saying that the arrest brought the
defendant an amazing fundraising windfall, So it was a bad idea.
The last figure I could find was they're claiming he
raised ten million dollars from a ten million. But Fox
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quote news unquote reports that Nikki Hailey's presidential campaign, which
starts with two things Republican voters will never accept in
their presidential candidate. She's a she and her parents emigrated
from somewhere else. I don't care. Obviously, the racist, sexist
Republicans obviously will. Fox reports in the first six we
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of her campaign, Nicky Haley raised eleven million, which is
more than ten million bronze. Anna Perez, who is a
spokesmodel who does one of those streaming shows it's called
wrong Think on yet another Fox knockoff called l FATV,
which I had never heard of until I wrote this.
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It stands for Live from America Television. Anna Perez has
now explained that she would take a bullet for Trump.
Quote why because President Trump would take a bullet from me.
President Trump is taking a bullet for me. President Trump
is prepared to take a bullet for all of us.
What he's doing is actually christ like. Unquote, President Trump
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is taking a bullet from me, she says, Well, as
the cliche goes video or it didn't happen. Secondly, the
defendant would not take a bullet for his wife and
all four of his children bullet bullet. Helly wouldn't take
a hang nail for his wife and all four of
his children. Anna Perez of Wrong Think. At least they
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chose an apt name for her show. But our winner
Van Jones of CNN. He has been there for a
decade now, starting on Crossfire, which with Van as the
liberal host in its twenty fifth year was canceled. Within
the year. Van has defended Tulsey Gabbard. He's famously the
one who followed the defendant's speech to the House and
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Senate in February twenty seventeen by saying, quote, he became
president of the United States in that moment. Period. What
I'm saying is Van just isn't very bright sure enough.
During the arrest Tuesday, Van Jones says, quote, he looks sad.
I don't like the prison system, so I don't like
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this process, as if the defendant were within a million
miles of actually going to prison. And the pista resistance
from Van Jones quote doesn't mean that accountability is not owed.
But that is a granddad having a very bad day.
A granddad, a granddad. Go ask Trump and names of
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his children, not his grandchildren. Ask him the names of
his children, and he'll say Don Junior, other, Don Junior, girl,
Don Junior, and uh Marla's kid. Van, this is the
moment in which Trump became granddad. Period Jones two days
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worst person all right. As you may know, this is
the fifth Countdown podcast of this week. There were two
on Tuesday. It was unavoidable given the arrest and I
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appreciate you taking the time to listen to all of them.
There are consequences, though, to doing two of these in
a day in three in like twenty six hours, I'm
about to run out of gas here. One of the
nice things though about podcasting is you get a very
precise information lot about how many people listen to podcast A,
and then how many also listened after listening to podcast
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A to podcast B, etc. What I found is from
Tuesday's post arrest wrap up, which went out at six
thirty Eastern, not everybody who listened to that also listened
to Wednesday's call to have Judge Marshawn jail him for
violating the tone down the rhetoric request and vice versa. Now,
if you have listened to both, there is no reason
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to keep listening to this podcast. As I always say,
I won't take it personally. The rest of it is
a rerun. Tomorrow I'll be back with a full new episode,
but for now, I want to replay the Trump segments
from each of those other two in chronological order. So
here's what dropped right after the defendant got pinched Tuesday six,
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for an all two brief forty five minutes this afternoon,
the dark and threatening streets of the American hellscape were
a little safer, a little brighter. And then they let
Donald Trump leave the courthouse, perhaps to the eternal regret
of mankind, on this day of Trump arraignment syndrome, my
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ex landlord has been charged with thirty four counts of
felony falsification of business records, each one part of a
conspiracy to unlawfully quote influenced the two sixteen presidential election.
That is the headline. Trump is being charged not just
with falsifying business records, but with falsifying business records in
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order to illegally influence the twenty sixteen presidential election. Trump
is being prosecuted for election interference. Trump, or as we
may now call him, the defendant, said nothing in New York.
All we saw was him scowling on the way into
the courtroom, then peering through bloodshot eyes towards the judge.
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Then the always alarming shot of his hairstyle as seen
from the vantage point of the back of his head
as he left for LaGuardia, where alone and without the
former first Lady the floatus for some reason, oh right, sorry,
Trump slowly climbed the stairs of the jetway, and for
a brief moment, his flapping extra extra extra, extra, extra
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extra long red tie teased us with the thought that
it might finally get caught in his planes rear wing
horror untle stabilizer. Trump is being charged not for the
payoff to Stormy Daniels, nor, in a new development, for
a thirty thousand dollars payoff to a Trump Tower doorman
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who thought he knew something about a child Trump had
fathered out of wedlock. That's right, The case now has
a once rumored Trump love child. No, Trump is not
being charged for love or money. He's being charged for,
as the DA said, trying to illegally influence the two
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sixteen presidential election, and in doing so, violating New York
state election law, to conspire to promote a candidate by
unlawful means, and exceeding the political contribution cap by paying
to suppress the Stormy Daniel's story to deceive the public.
Trump has been indicted thirty four felonies for trying to
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defraud and to conceal a separate crime when he reimbursed
his lawyer, Michael Cohen in a deal. Prosecutor's alleged was
reached inside the Oval office to hide those Daniels payments
as legitimate business expenses for legal services. And if those
business expenses are business expenses, America is in a new
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and different world of hiring porn stars so their services
can help you write off. And at the exact hour
that Trump was entering the fifteenth floor courthouse at one
hundred Center Street in Manhattan, his sons were sharing on
several social media sites a British tabloid story about the
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daughter of the judge in the case, complete with her photo,
doxing her and launching a phony conspiracy theory that because
of her work with a digital firm that worked with
the Kamala Harris and Joe Biden presidential campaigns. This is
as Donald Trump, in his paranoia and megalomania, believes everything
else in the history of the world is a plot
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against him. They doxed the judge's daughter while Junior and
Fredo were posting. The District Attorney's office was handing out
multiple combies in the courtroom of the various online threats
of violence and terrorism that Trump has made in the
days and weeks leading up to today. The baseball bat image,
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the death and destruction warning, calling the district attorney a
quote animal, and presumably others. Nobody is sure if the
other posts included the attacks Trump made not four hours
before the hearing began against Judge Juan Marshaan himself, calling
him quote highly partisan and quote an unfair disaster belonging
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to a family of quote well known Trump haters, including
quote his daughter who worked for Kamala and now the
Biden Harris campaign. Kangaroo Court. Judge Marshan, showing the kind
of restraint that you and I and most of the
planets eight twenty five million, eight hundred and fifty three
thousand other people would not, did not immediately impose a
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gag order nor even a specific set of warnings against
Trump and what he might say tonight or going forward.
Marshaun did warn both sides not to make any statement
that incites violence and to tamp down the rhetoric. As
to rhetoric, Alvin Bragg promptly gave a measured and quiet
and even dull news conference. Trump canceled his reported plans
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to talk to the media on the way in and
again on the way out of the courtroom. His attorneys,
though gave a bizarre and ill fated news conference in
the middle of the throng outside the courthouse, as media
outnumbered protesters and even passers by by perhaps one hundred
to one. At this press conference, the new guy, Todd
Blanche had a problem about speaking in public without Um,
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interrupting himself frequently with the um verbal crunch. Um and
I wondered if this was the best attorney of all
the guys. They considered what kind of impression the other
guys UM left. Meanwhile, Joe Tacopina said that this was
the day quote the rule of law died in this country,
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as a spectator standing behind him held a mannequin's leg
over Tacopina's head like this was a live revival of
the movie A Christmas Story, and Trump had just gotten
a major award. Yet inside the court everything was apparently businesslike,
and while Trump may have tried to stare daggers at
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Judge Marshawn through what had become his own slit like
bloodshot eyes, Trump evidently pleaded not guilty time and time again,
to charge after charge after charge. Thank you, Nancy Faust.
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It is certain, though in what order, no one can
yet say that Trump's lawyers, and how many of them
there are. No one can also say, we'll move to
dismiss the indictment, move to dismiss each charge in the indictment,
moved to have the judge recuse, move for change of venue.
Trump himself argued to go voluntarily to Staten Island, which
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indicates just how desperate he really is. If they cannot
kill this thing before it starts, the trial will unfold
in the midst of the heart of the presidential campaign.
The trial would begin, per the court schedule, at the
earliest next January. The next pre trial hearing isn't scheduled
until December. The first Republican presidential primary debate will be
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in Milwaukee in August. We learned one other new thing
at this hearing and with this filing. The star witness
for the prosecution would not be the former Trump attorney
Michael Cohen. It would be former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker.
It is Pecker who set up the process for which
the prosecution alleges all thirty four crimes were committed, starting
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at a meeting with Trump and Cohen in August twenty fifteen.
Moving on to a quote series of discussions among the
three men in two sixteen to suppress first the Karen
McDougall's story, and then the Stormy Daniels case. And now
we know the story of the doorman and the apparently
apocryphal Trump love child. Then post election was the meeting
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at which Trump personally thanked Pecker, and in the summer
of two seventeen he took Pecker to dinner to quote
thank him for his help during the campaign. All of this,
if it leads to Trump being convicted, invites the future
headline Pecker screws Trump, leave it or not. All this
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has been the serious part of the day. The rest
of the day descended quickly into farce upon farce. The protests,
which Trump presumably envisioned would be a kind of litigation
version of January sixth, instead turned out to have been
so poorly planned and so poorly received that the star
complainer fled without anybody in the crowd really knowing that
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she had been there. This is Marjorie Taylor Greene's speech
as it would have been heard by the crowd assembled
by the New York Young Republicans Club. After about fifteen
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minutes of that, Barney Rubble left as quickly as she
could in a white suv, not a Bronco, and was
interviewed live from the back seat by a performer from
the Right Side News RSN named Brian Glenn. And if
we didn't already know that Brian Glenn and Marjorie Taylor
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Green are dating, we do now because the interview ended
with him giving her a kiss on the cheek. So
all right, all right, in response on behalf of a
mortified world, I say you, there was an unexpected appearance
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at that protest, And again each protester had his own
supply of maybe ten, maybe one hundred reporters. It was
by the last person Trump would have presumably asked to attend,
other than Stormy Daniels and the apocryphal Trump love child.
It was Congressman George Santos. As he grandstanded for reporters,
Santos apparently discovered that he is afraid of crowds, and
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after asking everybody to move back, he too quickly left
the scene. The Trump campaign is now selling what it
calls official mugshot t shirts, even though it seems evident
that no mug shot was taken, Certainly, no mug shot
was released. Certainly Trump's people would not do anything with
a mug shot in which Trump's eyes looked like he
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hadn't slept in twenty four days, tiny slits rimmed in red. Lastly,
many observers noted that as Trump entered the courtroom, he
experienced something he probably has not for years. Nobody opened
the door open for him, nor held it open for him.
On the other hand, in conclusion, I think the importance
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of this day, even if these charges were to get
thrown out tomorrow morning, is that they opened a metaphorical
door to all the other indictments. Fittingly, in terms of
real news. In terms of other indictments, the first arraignment
of a former president of the United States only because
Ford pardoned the guy who made him President Nixon. The
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first arraignment of a former president of the United States
was actually over shadowed by the third major story of
the week from the world of the Special Counsel, Jack Smith,
and its only Tuesday. A federal appeals court in DC
has rejected an emergency motion from Trump's lawyers to block
key Trump aids from testifying to the Special Counsel's grand jury.
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In another series of up all night at the court,
the lawyers filed late Monday night, and the three judge
appeals panel ruled early Tuesday morning. It's sealed, so we
don't know officially who is and isn't now without a
way to get out of testifying to the Special Council
Grand Jury. But putting together bits and pieces of the thing,
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it seems to cover Mark Meadows, Dan Scovino, Stephen Miller,
Robert O'Brien, John Ratcliffe, and Ken Cucinelli. That is a
lot of testimony, and it all seems to pertain to
that half of Smith's case, which seems to be lagging
behind the other. Meadows and Company would be coups, not
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Marilago document witnesses. And we found out only Sunday that
Smith has a paper trail at Marilago courtesy a Trump
assistant who used to do his emailing for Trump, and
video of another assistant actually moving the boxes. And yesterday
we learned that Smith will get the testimony from Trump's
Florida's Secret Service detail. That's the real story of Stormy
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Daniel's indictment. Pulloza. It was I think clear even before
the hearing began, after days and weeks of threats and
insults and terroristic warnings. Trump inadvertently confessed on his social
media site just how serious this all is, So serious
that it is even pierced his own self induced bubble
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of invincibility. At one twenty two pm Eastern daylight time,
he wrote on his website quote, heading to Lower Manhattan
the courthouse seems so surreal. Wow, they are going to
arrest me. Can't believe this is happening in America. To translate,
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Trump admits, and this is ultimately white today mattered. Trump
admits that he has had the crap scared out of him.
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So that's the bulletin Trump news from Tuesday. The Wednesday
call for his immediate incarceration. Next, this is countdown, continuing
the refrise of the Trump arrest coverage, which gives me
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a chance to catch my breath. Literally. Here is the
Wednesday Morning podcast and the call for Judge Marshaan to
send him immediately to the big house. Call Trump's lawyers,
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Judge Marshaan, do it now, do it right now, and
tell them to put their client's fat ass on a
plane and get it back to New York within six hours,
or you will jail their client and them for contempt
of court at roughly two forty five eastern yesterday, you
told the defendant and the prosecutor please refrain from making
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statements that are likely to incite violence or civil unrest.
Do not use rhetoric that could jeopardize the rule of law.
At roughly eight forty five Eastern time yesterday, the defendant
incited violence and jeopardize the rule of law. And he
attacked the district attorney. That he attacked the district Attorney's wife,
and he attacked you, Judge, Mrchon, and he attacked your family.
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And on behalf of the rule of law, and on
behalf of civil peace in the United States of America,
and on behalf of yourself and the DA and the
inviolability of the courts, drag defended Donald Trump back into
your court today and hold him in contempt and then
put him into a cell at Riker's Island. This is
where we are right now. I have a Trump hating
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judge with a Trump hating wife and family whose daughter
worked for Kamala Harris and now receives money from the
Biden Harris campaign, and a lot of it. The criminal
is the district attorney, because he illegally leaked massive amounts
of grand jury and from a for which he should
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be prosecuted, or at a minimum, he should resign. And
Alvin Bragg's wife confirmed a report that claimed her husband
has Trump nailed on felonies. She has since slocked down
her Twitter account. What more does the defendant have to do,
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Judge Marchon, He already threatened death and destruction, He already
reposted an article with a photo of him wielding a
baseball bat next to a photo of the head of
the district attorney. And yesterday, as you were warning him,
but also as you were bending over backwards to protect
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his First Amendment rights, as you were saying those things
to him, his idiot sons, Junior and Fredo were doxing
your own daughter on every social media site they could find.
And if you don't put them under a gag order,
what exactly does the rule of law mean in this country?
What exactly is the point of having laws in this country?
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What exactly, your honor, is the point of having judges
and district attorneys and cops if their words mean nothing,
and a psychonic, narcissistic piece of shit criminal like Donald
Trump can leave your courtroom and gun on his private
jet and go to his private club and pick up
right where he left off. Not merely endangering you and
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your wife and your daughter, and the DA and his
wife and everybody connected with law enforcement in New York
and Washington in America, but endangering, as you yourself phrased it,
the rule of law, by as you yourself also phrased it,
making statements that are likely to incite violence or civil unrest.
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What more does Trump have to do pull out a
gun on Fifth Avenue and shoot you, or say something
like that again, or inspire one of his brainwashed, gun fetishizing,
hate filled fascist mob to attack your daughter. Trump is
in contempt, of course right now, jail him. He is,
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in fact in contempt of America. He is always and
will forever be in contempt of America. America means nothing
to him. Your words mean nothing to him. The law
means nothing to him. He will understand only punishment. Punish him.
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Judge Mershon, as you were warning him, As you were calmly, responsibly,
even handedly warning the defendant and the district attorney to
avoid dangerous rhetoric. The defendant's sons were putting out your
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daughter's photo so she can be threatened and attacked and
added to the list of the hundreds and hundreds of
upstanding and honest Americans who have become the targets of
the mob because it's violent, depray despotic leader has made
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them the targets of the mob at the very hour,
your honor. And then they hid behind the argument that no,
they weren't doing that. They had simply posted an interesting
article about your daughter from a British newspaper, and it
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wasn't their fault that the article had her picture on
the link. And anybody who says they posted her photo
is lying. And the descendant of nazis literally one of
the hacks defending Donald Trump Junior doxing your daughter, Judge
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by calling the reporter who called Junior out a quote
actual descendant of Nazi war criminals and heir to a
Nazi fortune unquote. That's where we are in this country
right now, Judge marsh hours after you bent over backwards
to protect Donald Trump, the defendant, the vile creature who
has already stochastically threatened your daughter twice since you warned
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him to tamp down the rhetoric, put a gag order
on Donald Trump Junior. Your honor, put a gag order
on Eric Trump, your honor, put a gag order on them,
and put their madman father in jail. Because your gesture
of fairness and balance and integrity did nothing but to
embolden these mentally defective bullies and the results who are immediate,
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and they do not just endanger you and your daughter
and your family and Alvin Bragg and his family, they
endanger America. Please refrain from making statements that are likely
to incite violence or civil unrest. Six hours after you
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made those statements, and by the way, your honor, those
statements were made not in the controlled environment of a courtroom,
nor even in the one dimensional world of social media.
They were made live on national television in this country,
because we have laws about exactly where on the wave frequency,
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Channel thirteen somewhere can put out its signal. But there
is not a damned thing, not one damned thing, that
can even begin to influence the billionaires who have just
bought the nation's original all news cable channel for the
sole purpose of neutralizing its reality and corrupting it into
another right wing propaganda machine. CNN, Your honor, CNN carried
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the entire goddamned Trump speech, without warning, without editorial judgment,
and Trump used them. Trump used the idiots who now
own and run CNN, the fascists who have balked CNN,
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to amplify the attack on you and on your daughter,
and on Alvin Bragg, and on his wife and on America.
Because having learned nothing from twenty sixteen or twenty twenty,
CNN televised the entire hate filled, narcissistic, paranoid speech by
the defendant live, not just the start through the first
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reference to Bragg, and then showing clips of anything relevant,
but saying we cannot show this live. God knows what
he will say or what he will tell his idiot
followers to do. But the whole thing was shown live,
the entire catalog of Trump repeatedly and unsuccessfully trying to
hammer in the last nail in self crucifixion after self crucifixion,
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literally going back as far as but her emails, but
focusing on his newest targets you and Alvin Bragg. It
was unconscionable, unjournalistic, unforgivable, and as I have suggested here
four months your honor, part of the quest by the
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new ownership of that channel to show itself to the fascists,
to tell them that if the fascists regain power in
this country, they should let CNN live and keep making money.
And also part of the quest by CNN's desperately failing
in over his head drowning president, a man named Chris Lickt,
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to show himself to that new ownership and to beg
that they not fire him and end forever his career
of remarkably consistent mediocrity, manipulation, and maschination. A man who
could not tell the moral difference between a fascist and
an old fashioned And it's only too goddamned bad, your honor,
that you can't issue a warning to Chris Lickt that
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if a television channel his or anybody else's amplifies the
hate speech of the defendant as he violates the orders
of the court, your court, that the network can be
held liable, that it's president and owners can be held
liable for the threat, the ever mounting threat against the
judges and the district attorneys, and the families and the
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friends and the cops and anybody else who tries to
thwart Donald Trump or tries to get Donald Trump to
behave like a human, or just tries to get Trump
to not light this country ablaze. This cannot continue, Judge Marchan.
This man will destroy this country, and he will not
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have to do as much as try to rise from
his chair to do so. It will be done for
him by proxies and servants and worshipers and the scum
whom he has enabled to hate and pursue and attack.
They will have destroyed America before any of us can
do a goddamn thing about it. But you, judge you,
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and do something about it now, maybe enough to stop
it now. You told Trump what not to do, and
he immediately did it again, as he always does it,
again and again and again on national television, in front
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of crowds, in front of mobs, in front of the
simple minded, in front of those who dream of killing
other humans because they would think it was fun. Bring
Trump back into your courtroom and scream at him for
thirty minutes, and then have the guards drag him to
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a cell for twenty four hours or forty eight hours,
or the rest of his goddamned life for all I care,
because that is the only thing he will ever understand,
and the only thing that the slime that follow him
and emulate him, and seek to be the sadest he is.
That is the only thing they will ever understand. And
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if there had been a shadow of a doubt that
this was true, it was erased. Last night. Your instructions
went in one ear and out the other in less
than six hours. Save this country, Judge Mershon. Donald Trump's
contempt for you and for the rule of law is
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more than just the technical violation of a warning you
gave him in court yesterday. It is the essence of
his being. And Donald Trump's being is sick and evil
and uncontrollable, and left unpunished, it will destroy everyone and
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everything that is good about this country we call home.
I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank
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you for listening. Here are the credits. Most of the
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The best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was
Tony Kornheiser, and everything else is pretty much my fault.
Let's countdown for this the eight hundred and twenty first
day since the defendants first attempted coup against the democratically
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elected government of the United States. Don't forget to keep
arresting him while we still can. The next scheduled countdown,
and will be a full one, is tomorrow, and until then,
I'm Keith Olverman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and
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