April 14, 2025 • 64 mins
SEASON 3 EPISODE 118: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:45) SPECIAL COMMENT: ICE Director Tom Homan and his boss Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem must be arrested for contempt of court. It SHOULD be President Ted Bundy Trump being arrested for contempt of court – potentially for ignoring the orders of the SUPREME COURT - but we already know how the laws of this land have been corrupted to protect the greatest criminal in our history. That it cannot be will simply hasten the latest iteration of the constitutional crisis created by a lawless chief executive who still has the military behind him. We are headed for a flashpoint, perhaps as soon as today. To summarize: Trump believes he is God.
But in the interim it is time for U-S District Judge Paula Xinis to send this rogue government a message. In fact it is well past time. “Time” was two days ago, at 5 PM. Noem and Homan are now in contempt of HER order in the case of the Noem-Homan-ICE abduction, the DISAPPEARING of a Maryland man already under the PROTECTION of the government of the United States, Kilmar Abrego Garcia. They are in contempt of the orders not of some judge – as the fascist Stephen Miller and his brownshirts call any representative of law and order – they are in contempt of the LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. It is not some judge. They are in contempt of the NATION and they are on the VERGE of being in contempt of the Supreme Court.
The point, of course, may be the admission that they abducted someone by "mistake." They sent a Massachusetts-born immigration lawyer a notice to leave the country by "mistake." They warned ICE will keep illegal "ideas" from entering the country, by "mistake." Maybe these are mistakes - God knows, it all involves Elon Musk - but now they see an opportunity to exploit even mistakes to deliver the message, passively but still aggressively, that even when they are wrong they are still RIGHT because even when they are wrong what do you think YOU are going to be able to DO about it? What do you think YOU are going to be able to DO about it, Mrs Abrego Garcia? What do you think YOU are going to be able to DO about it, Judge? What do you think YOU are going to be able to DO about it, AMERICA?
B-Block (40:00) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: We have a new member of the WPITW Hall of Fame, Linda McMahon. We dedicate this episode to Stephen A. Smith, still making a fool of himself. And then the nominees: Bill Maher makes a propaganda video for Trump saying all the nice things about Trump that Maher has forgotten he already said about them in 2016 and then repudiated. Trump butt dials the wrong McMaster. And Jeanine Pirro may be the dumbest person to ever work at Fox News. Do you know what an accomplishment this would be?
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Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The
director of Ice, Tom Hoeman that his boss, the Secretary
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of Homeland Security, Christy Nome, must be arrested for contemptive court.
It should be Trump being arrested for contemptive court, potentially
for ignoring the orders of the Supreme Court. But we
already know how the laws of this land have already
been corrupted to protect the greatest criminal in our history.
That it cannot be him will simply hasten the latest
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iteration of the constitutional crisis created by a lawless chief
executive who still has the military behind him. We are
headed for a flash point, perhaps as soon as today.
To summarize, Trump believes he is God. But in the interim,
it is time for US District Judge PAULA. Zennis to
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send this rogue government a message, a warning. In fact,
it is well past time. Time was two days ago
at five o'clock in the afternoon. Nome and Homan are
now in contempt of that Judge's orders. In the case
of the Nome Homan Ice abduction, the disappearing of a
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Maryland man already under the protection of the government of
the United States Kilmar Abrego Garcia. They are in contempt
of the orders, not of some judge, as the fascist
idiot Stephen Miller and his brown Shirts call any representative
actual law and order. They are in contempt of the
laws of the United States of America. Is not some judge.
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They are in contempt of the nation, and they are
on the verge of being in contempt of the Supreme Court.
This timeline, in its briefest form. Trump's death squads admitted
they had seized and deported the wrong man to L. Salvador.
Then they collectively made the shrug eboji, he's out of
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our hands. He's under the sovereign control of another nation.
Too bad. In other words, we kidnap him, you keep
them First. Judge Zennis ordered mister Abrego Garcia to be
returned from L. Salvador, and the torture there gave a deadline.
Government blew it off. They went to the Supreme Court,
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which ordered last Thursday that mister Abrago Garcia's release at
least be facilitated by Trump's gangs. Judge Zennis ordered updates.
The delicacy here was, you don't want to interfere with
US foreign policy. It's irrelevant, but apparently it is in
the books. And then came the first of two curveballs. Friday,
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President Ted Bundy. Trump told his hand picked stenographer reporters
aboard Air Force one quote, if the Supreme Court said
bring somebody back, I would do that. I respect the
Supreme Court. I have great respect for the Supreme Court.
As usual, Trump showing his mental illness, saying something, then
re ordering the same words and thinking he said something new.
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This erased his own lawyer's argument that this country could
do nothing itself to bring this man back from l Salvador.
Trump bluntly said, if ordered to buy the Supreme Court,
he would bring mister Abrego Garcia back, which necessarily means
he and his thug government can bring him back. So
when his lawyer simply said that same thing again, no
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we can't. He's l Salvadoran. Now only they said it
louder on Saturday, they looked like championship idiots. Well, Trump
wasn't gonna make that last. He rushed to make sure
that if anybody's going to look like the championship idiot
of this government here, it would be him. Quote looking
forward to seeing President Bukela of El Salvador on Monday.
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Our nations are working closely together to eradicate terrorist organizations
and build a future of prosperity. President bucell has graciously
accepted into his nation's custody some of the most violent
alien enemies of the world, and in particular, the United States.
These barbarians are now in the sole custody of El Salvador,
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a proud and sovereign nation, and their future is up
to President b and his government. They will never threaten
or menace our citizens again unquote. The enemies of the world,
in particular of the United States are Christynomme, Tom Holman,
Stephen Miller, and especially Donald Trump. In the flippant one
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point eighty contained in that post, Trump is either lying
now or he was lying aboard Air Force one on
Friday when he said he would obey a Supreme Court
order to bring him back. Is the potential for an
actual constitutional stalemate that could tear the country apart, not later,
not in twenty twenty eight. Now, Trump has now corrected
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his original willingness to go along with the Supreme Court,
and in passive aggressive form, he has explained in that
post that he has the right to seize anyone in
this country, citizen or not, criminal or not accused or not,
and not just expel them, but then to pretend that
never mind jurisdiction. He can't even ask his co conspirator,
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this tinpot dictator, Bukake, to do him a solid and
fix what might otherwise go into our history as a
near fatal skid, out of which the nation and even
Trump somehow steered. No. The likeliest outcome is, of course,
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that Trump's concierge, Supreme Court never does order him to
return Abrego Garcia to his family, never says that in
so many words, so Trump doesn't have to ignore their order.
That's why you own the Supreme Court, why you pack
it with lunatics who have ecstatic religious visions, or who drink,
or who take bribes, so they can spend all of
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their time finding that fine line along which they do
not destroy their own court and their own phony baloney jobs,
but also don't challenge you in even the slightest, mildest way,
shape or form. Because inside the White House, the crisis
here is that this happened because somebody working for Trump
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admitted a mistake. We couldgo today, this expanding, burgeoning, unchecked immoral, incompetent,
impaired terrorist government of President Ted Bundy Trump admitted it
had completely screwed up and should not have seized this man,
should not have sent him to a torture chamber in
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El Salvador. The government insisted it no longer had any
influence on mister Abrago Garcia because El Salvador now has jurisdiction,
but it also admitted it screwed up. The pirates working
for Nome and Homan would only tell the court over
the weekend that mister Abrigo Garcia is alive and secure
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under the quote sovereign domestic authority of El Salvador. Tough shit,
Christy Nome, get on a plane and go get him,
or you go to jail or Homan, go see your
idiot boss and have him slap a tariff on L Salvador.
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Nome and Homan and their gestapo have not only refused
to comply, but ignored the judge's deadline five pm two
days ago to supply any information about how they will
proceed to return their victim from L Salvador and why
they have stalled. Even though this real life version of
Kafka's the trial began a month ago Saturday, March twelfth,
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and Judge Zennis first ordered him released ten days ago.
These arrogant fascist bastards, Homan and Gnome are in contempt
of court, as is the DHS official Michael Kozak, who
signed the evasion of Judge Zennis's order and submitted it
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to her on Saturday. They may all be in contempt
of the Supreme Court. The entire Trump Gestapo. The number
of violations of mister Abrago Garcia's writes they are responsible
for is probably already in the dozens. Arrest them today.
I don't care if they're freed in twenty minutes. Arrest
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them today. Put some fear into these people. To quote
President Nixon, in a just America, only when a Brego
Garcia is returned to his family and his pregnant wife
and his autistic son, should Garden Nome be able to
go home to a closet full of action adventure Barbie
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outfits and should home and go home to his presumably bottle,
not before this has been going on for a month.
A real life version of Kafka's The Trial, where the
defendant is never told what he's charged with or by
whom March twelfth, those who did this should spend a
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year in jail for every day a Brego Garcia has
been brutalized in our name. Put Christy Noman Tom Holman
in jail to day for contempt. They kidnapped this man
based on fabricated, imaginary bullshit evidence that they will not produce.
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Trump's gangsters pulled him out of his car in an
Ikea parking lot and disappeared him in front of his
terrified five year old boy. They held him for three days,
violated all of his rights, denied him legal representation, shifted
him off to a hostile country run by power mad Latino.
Trump didn't bother to tell his family what had happened
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to him, let him call his wife to say goodbye
only three days later, let her find out where he
was by seeing photos him days after that in the
gulag in Al Salvador. She saw it on the news.
The government of the United States, the real one, the
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legal one, the one with judges and laws and right
and wrong, not this bullshitang of Trump bullies. Who I
hope I live long enough to see one day on
trial at the International Court of Justice at the Hague
the real government of the United States. The laws ordered
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him released ten days ago, and it has not happened.
And I want people to burn in hell for it.
And this is a case in which the Trumpists admit
they disappeared an innocent man and made an administrative error.
How many others are there? That's the point, not how
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many others there are. The administrative error part is the
real issue here, not the idea that these brutal, incompetent
morons set up a system in which they had no
emergency cord to pull when they eft up, in case
they effed up and targeted a victim and not a purp.
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This is dragging on deliberately Christy Noman, Tom Holman and
the gutless corporate lawyers who represent them in this administration,
the most gutless lawyers, in which the terms gutless and
corporate lawyers have become synonymous. They are dragging this on
because they had to admit this was a mistake, and
now they see an opportunity to exploit even that admission
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that they screwed up, to deliver the message passively but
still aggressively, that even when they are wrong, they are
still right, because even when they are wrong? What do
you think you are going to be able to do
about it? If they are going to ignore the Supreme
Court or just the federal courts or the district courts,
what do you think you are going to be able
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to do about it? Missus Abrago Garcia, what do you
think you are going to be able to do about it?
Judge Zinnis, what do you think you are going to
be able to do about it? America? What do you
think you are going to be able to do about it?
Nicole Misharoni? Do you know who Nicole Mischaroni is? She
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is another potential victim of what Trump's worms will doubtless
call an administrative error. In the middle of the night,
this following email from a no reply address at Homeland
Security Christy Garden, Nomes Secretary, appeared in Nicole Mischaroni's inbox
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for eleven, twenty twenty five notice of termination of parole.
It is time for you to leave the United States.
You are currently here because the Department of Homeland Security
paroled you into the United States for a limited period
for soon to eight USC eleven eighty two D five
A and eight CFR two one two point five e
DHS is now exercising its discretion to terminate your parole
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unless it expires sooner. Your parole will terminate seven days
from the date of this notice. If you do not
depart the United States immediately, you will be subject to
potential law enforcement actions, etc. Sent to Nicole Mischeroni. Nicole Mischeroni,
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who was born in Newton, Massachusetts, which is still in
the United States unless Trump has ordered it traded for Greenland. Newton,
Massa chosets. Nicole Mischceroni's family has been in the United
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States for four generations. She is an immigration lawyer. She
posted the email on social media almost lightheartedly. She wrote,
some personal news, The Department of Homeland Security has given
me seven days to leave the US. Does anyone know
if you can get Italian citizenship through great grandparents. Her assumption,
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the baseline assumption of those reacting in horror to that email,
is still that this is a mistake, another administrative error,
a slip of some sort, her name going into their
system there among the brown shirts for disappearance instead of
one of her clients. That was my first reaction. Ha ha,
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She's lucky. Trump only wants to deport her and not
slap a terif on her. I no longer think this.
It is absolutely plausible. They just screwed this up. They
screw everything else up, and it's absolutely plausible. They screwed
up the Kilmar Abrego case. Hell, they got Elon Musk
working for them, and this brain damaged bully Tom Holman
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and Christy Nome, who by now has the exact identical
molecular composition as an inflatable backyard swimming pool. Or these
are mistakes made on purpose, doesn't matter either way. They
want to leave you with the impression that not only
are they rounding up a few actual criminals, along with
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thousands of people whose only crime was the mistaken belief
that even Ted Bundy Trump's America was a good place,
a better place, a place worth risking your life to
get to. You know what our ancestors thought. Not only
are they rounding up people who are guilty or might
be guilty, they may just round up people who could
not possibly be guilty, like Nicole Misheroni of the Newton Missaronies,
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or Keith Olberman of the Bronx Ulermans, or you, or,
as it turns out, thousands of native born Americans and
naturalized US citizens born in other places, and green card
holders and people under the protection of the government as
ordered in the courts, because sending them like Kilmar Abrego
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Garcia to a place like Al Salvador can or will
get them killed. Thousands and thousands of administrative errors, thousands
of conceivably maybe even likely, intentional errors to scare them
and scare you. Keep your head down, don't make waves,
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Be like the television networks, be like the law firms,
Be like Columbia University. To borrow the bully speak of
the tariffs. Don't retaliate. You wouldn't want to be accidentally
sent to El Salvador because your folder was next to
some actual target. You wouldn't want to go to a
rally or a protest. Your photo could winde up next
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to that of Machmod Khalil. Arrest Tom Holman and Christy
Nome for contemptive court today. Maybe we will get lucky
and their prison stay will get sucked into the phones
of Mike Waltz and Elon Musk, and instead of one
hour in the cleanest holding cell in Washington, d C.
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They'll get disappeared to the Panama Canal I'm sorry, Christy,
you know how it goes. That's another administrative error. I
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invoked the name Mackmood Khalil, and if he does not
sound familiar to you, Mackmood Khalil can be removed from
the United States even though he has broken no laws
and the entirety of the case against him is that
little shit. Marco Rubio. Marco Rubio who embellished a story
about his own as a political refugee from Cuba at
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the two page memo that he promulgated, a two page
memo that is worthy of the Tom Cruise movie Minority Report,
in which you can be arrested for pre crimes, in
which they calculate you're going to do something bad, so
they're going to arrest you. Now, a two page memo
in which Rubio confirmed Khalil's pro Palestinian protests at Columbia
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University were quote otherwise lawful, but insisted that letting him
stay here as outlined by you know the laws, would
undermine quote US policy to combat anti Semitism around the
world and in the United States. In addition to efforts
to protect Jewish students from harassment and violence in the
United States, condoning anti Semitic conduct and disruptive protests in
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the United States would severely undermine that significant foreign policy object.
I got bad news for you, Marco, by that standard,
by the anti Semitism standard, Trump, who his own wife
said he kept a book of Hitler's speeches on a
bedside table in their home. Trump needs to be expelled
as a dangerous anti Semite before nightfall. And the Secretary
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of Defense and Vodka Pete Hegseth under whose Reich at
the Pentagon. The Pentagon has thrown out Tony Morrison's books
from the library at the Naval Academy, but it has
kept at the Hegseth Naval Academy library the two copies
they have there, of mind com under these same rules,
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Hegseth needs to be on a slow boat somewhere by
the end of the week. We are moving into pre
crimes and future crimes and thought crimes. And these the
Khalil case, and in a tangential but real way, the
kilmar Abrego and Nicole Misheroni cases too. They are harbingers
of a Trumpian rock to not only break all the
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laws and all the morality in this country, and not
only to criminalize dissent, but to try to scare you
out of even thinking about dissenting. Trump doesn't just want
Khalil out of Columbia. He hasn't just demanded Columbia under
my old friend, Acting President Claire Shipman cow Tau to
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Trump's political demands. Trump wants legal control of Columbia University.
The Wall Street Journal reports Trump wants a consent decree,
a consent to cree, a ruling giving a federal judge
the legal authority to enforce whatever promises the spineless morons
running that university made in order to not lose four
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hundred million in grants out of an endowment of fifteen billion.
These words are not used in the Wall Street Journal story,
but essentially the threat is clear, agree to our demands,
agree to the consent decree, or we will blackmail you
into it. You can challenge this decree in court, and
every day you challenge this decree in court, we will
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find more federal funding to cancel. They only have fifteen
billion dollars. How can we afford the loss of four
hundred billion. They don't teach math at Columbia anymore, evidently,
and if Columbia folds on this, and frankly, all Columbia
has been doing for the last year is folding, I
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mean its administration and more importantly, its bored or making
its infamously bad football team look like national champions. Others
will follow. We've already seen Harvard cave and frankly, Cornell wobble.
We are gradually moving towards the moment Columbia is already there,
when the nation's campuses are such laboratories of cowardice, such
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greenhouses of spinelessness, where their only hope of survival may
be the students on those campuses reading in extensively on
how they all settled things like this in the nineteen sixties.
If a place like Columbia becomes nothing but a Trumpest
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factory under the control of a Trumpest judge and some
kind of Department of Universities Columbia, Harvard Elsewhere, it is
time for the students to and I mean this metaphorically,
of course, it is time for the students to burn
it all down. By the way, the acronym for my
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new hypothetical Department of Universities Columbia, Harvard Elsewhere would be
douche elon Musk can be poster boy of that too.
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I am Musk, I am in charge of Boushe Douche
is moving rapidly on all sides towards Orwell's thought crime.
I think Khalil is an idiot, having seen similar protests
to his in the streets of my own hometown. I
cannot think of any group in my lifetime that has
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done more damage to its own cause than the pro
Palestinian protesters in New York. If they planned to make
themselves and their case look worse, they couldn't have done more.
And he still must be defended or the nation is dead.
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He must still be defended because Trump literally wants one
of his own former employees prosecuted for refusing to lie
for him prosecuted. Chris Krebs was appointed ahead the Cybersecurity
and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA to address foreign threats, including
against elections, October twenty twenty. He did his job, no threats,
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no tampering, no rigging. Now Trump has issued an executive
order demanding the DOJ investigate Chris Krebs for criminality for
not lying. Quote Crabs through CISA falsely and baselessly denied
that the twenty twenty election was rigged and stolen. I
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think that deserves to be read again. Crebs falsely and
baselessly denied that the twenty twenty election was rigged and stolen.
I hereby deny that the twenty twenty election was rigged
and stolen. I hereby confirmed Donald Trump is crazy. And
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most of all, I hereby confirm donald Trump lost the
twenty twenty election and trafficked with the Russians for the
twenty sixteen election. False and baselessly denied that the twenty
twenty election was rigged and stolen. Does not get more
orwellian than that. But of course the essence of Trump's
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bullshit is the man Trump appointed to make sure the
election was legit said the election was legit. The election
took place under the aegis of the Trump administration. Trump
was president, then the election integrity was the responsibility of
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Trump and his administration. Trump's appointee, part of Trump's administration,
found that nothing was rigged. So Trump once him prosecuted
for saying that Trump administration handled the election honestly. Somewhere
Orwell and Kafka are bidding for the rights to this story,
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and the story's not over. Ice again is the Home
and Garden GNOME group whose leaders should be jailed for contempt,
posted to x and Instagram that it would stop any
ideas that tried to enter the US illegally. You heard me, yes,
you that idea and the red Buick pull over. The
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posts were deleted per Rolling Stone, sent without proper approval,
was the quote from the spokesman. The excuse was they
meant not ideas, but intellectual property. That's a cover story.
I will say it's an unexpectedly plausible one from this
group of defective brains on high school dropouts. One and
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them things called again ideas you ever had one? No? No,
what are you like? Or it's just another unintentional, intentional
slip up, asked Mack MoU Khalil about the illegal entry
of ideas temporal juxtaposition. A judge in Delaware rules in
the dominion lawsuit against Newsmax for defamation, says the propaganda
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feed made false and defamatory statements against dominion. The judge
said that another triumph for their lawyers, same lawyers as
in the case against Fox seven hundred and eighty five
million dollars, same lawyers, Sussman Godfrey. Later that day, Trump
issued another executive order. He uses more of them than
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he uses toilet tissue, revoking security clearances and pulling federal
contracts from Sussman Godfrey Stephen Miller quote, this firm is
very involved in the election misconduct. Again a reminder the
election misconduct. This worm Miller refers to is refusing to
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pretend there was election misconduct. They are now trying to
prosecute the truth out of existence. The humorous relief is
now the tariffs. When the lightest news of the day
is the destruction of the world economy, we may be
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in a bad place. If you haven't noticed. The tariff
effect on the bond market also drove mortgages up to
seven point one percent. And I'm going to need to
see Howard Lutnick's government id even in this government of
the idiots, by the idiots, for the idiots. I am
not convinced this guy is actually employed by Trump. It
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may be a very well constructed, complicated delusion on his part.
First they had tariffs on everything, then they suspended the
tariffs on the smartphones and the laptops cause Tim Apple.
Then Lutnik went on This Week on ABC yesterday announced
there will be new tariffs on smartphone and laptops. Also,
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remember Trump's little hint he's going to raise drug prices
just cuz Lutnick. Semiconductors and pharmaceuticals will have a tariff
model in order to encourage them to re sure the tariffs.
Clap on, clap off, clap on, clap off the tariffs.
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I don't believe Lutnick really works there. In fact, I
do not believe his name is really Lutnick. I think
he's just Maury Kessler, the two pay salesman from Goodfellas.
And Yes, of course, the tariffs and Trump's nine thirty
seven AM post that day were market manipulation. CNN asked
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Representative Carlos Jimenez of Florida, this is a great time
to buy. Is that market manipulation? Jimenez his answer a
denial that he did not realize was actually a can
Feshion quote. No, he said, actually, we had lunch with
a major stockbroker from New York and we were talking
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to him about tariffs, and one of the things he
said was it's time to buy. A Congressman, that's evidence
of what you just denied. I'd like to amend my remarks.
Consumer confidence craters down eleven percent this month fifty point eight.
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That's the second lowest reading since the University of Michigan
started to do this in nineteen fifty two. It is
lower than it was during the Great Recession. It is
down thirty points since Trump was elected. In short, Americans
felt better about buying stuff, felt better about our future.
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During the Cuban missile crisis, somebody sent fire to the
official home of the governor of the fifth most populous
state in the nation early Sunday morning, with him in
it and his family significant damage. Family evacuated, nobody hurt.
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Twelve hours later, not a word from the President, from
Attorney General Pam Blondie, from Homeland Security Secretary Garden, and
nome nobody. Washington Post put the story low enough on
its front page. I had to scroll down one whole
page to find it. The New York Times required you
to scroll down four screens. It was between the John
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Ham story and the story on fashion at the Master's
Golf Tournament. It was three screens below the story about
Saturday Night Live's latest parade of the not at all funny. Well,
we don't know the motive yet, we don't need to
know the goddamned motive a governor's mansion was set on fire.
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China halts exports lead New York Times story is not
as meaningful to this country's future as somebody trying to
burn down a governor's home with him and his family
in it. Motive you're waiting for. Motive that it happened
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is not enough. A coincidence in which a pyromaniac selected
a random building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and the governor just
happened to be inside. That wouldn't be enough. And I
haven't even mentioned it was Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania
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during passover. But we got this great story about John
Ham's John Hamply. The Democratic Party is pushing back against
all of this. Senator Schumer, the majority leader. Forgive me,
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the minority leader, forgive me the minority guy. Senator Schumer,
forgive me. Chuck has a tweet Chuck Schumer Thursday quote.
History will remember April ninth, twenty twenty five as America's
actual liberation Day, the day that President Trump backed down
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from his ridiculous tariff fiasco. Oh, it's like a joke
of some sort. You had a team working on this
for Day Teams social Media seventy one consultants. Well, I
think we should play off the actual Liberation Day now
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that the tariffs have been delayed. Is not funny, not insightful,
not witty, not relevant, and, as it turned out, not
factually accurate. Within an hour, it was all changed again.
I am surprised by one thing. Chuck Schumer put out
a tariff mocking Trump's Liberation Day. We hear at the
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New York Times. How is it We're not We're not
putting a story about this on the front page. I mean,
I know, I'm I'm I'm breaking all the rules here,
But shouldn't this be higher than the than the than
the John ham story. I'm sorry to track John hamm
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into this nice Man college classmate of the Last Line,
producer of Countdown on MSNBC, Nikki nice Man. Good actor
also of interest here. Bad actor Bill Maher provides a
propaganda video for Trump, but of coorse he does his
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bosses want him to. What he doesn't realize is that
all the nice things Trump did for him that he
recited like a hostage in the video, all those things,
all those things he praised Trump for, he already praised
Trump for them ten years ago. You know how I
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know this because Bill told me on the air on
his show how impressed he was in twenty sixteen with Trump,
how he then felt betrayed by Trump. Bill, he's betraying
you again right now, Bill, You're an idiot. That's next.
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This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Olberman. Stell
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ahead on this edition of Countdown. Does the show seem
a little ragged to you? Seems a little ragged to me.
I'll explain with an announcement about the future of this show.
I mean, like the immediate future. Like this week first,
believe it or not, there's still more new idiots to
talk about. The roundup of the miscreants, morons and Dunning
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Kruger effects specimens who constitute the latest other worst persons
in the world. There's so many of them. This week
I had to do dedications and the induction of a
Hall of Fame member of the Worst Person's Pantheon. The
dedication is to ABC's This Week, which actually put out
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this lineup yesterday. As the old joke goes, this was
on TV right now. ABC's This Week Commerce Secretary Howard
Lutnik Howard is an idiot. Not only that, but they
don't tell Howard anything, so he always talks about things
that were true or at least being sold six days ago.
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Howard is six days late. Their Senator Elizabeth Warren Fine.
The other guests, Stephen A. Smith, Panel, Donna Brazil, Ranks Prebus,
who was one of the Republican fascists who started all this.
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Rachel bade of Politico, and there's plenty I could say
about her, but the worst I could think of is
of Politico. And Sarah Isger, who works for ABC News
and pretends to be neutral when she is in fact
a conservative jackass. Somehow, in booking a panel Ton forsil
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Reine's previous Rachel Bade Sarah Isger with Stephen A. Smith
as your expert, they managed to not book wile E. Coyote,
Professor Irwin Corey, and Max Effing Headroom. Please somebody tells
Stephen A. Smith he needs to do some homework. Steven
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spent his time ranting about how if any Republican supports
Trump running for a third term, he doesn't want to
hear them talk about the Constitution. Ever, again, Stephen doesn't
get it. Stephen hasn't been paying attention. Steven doesn't know
what he's talking about. The Republicans have been talking about
Trump running for a third term, actively publicly in what
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counts for their version of intellectual journals, since twenty twenty three,
and they mean it, and they will do it, and
they will pervert the Constitution to achieve it. They are
working on it now. The point at which you say,
don't talk to me about it again, or I never
want to hear you talk about the Constitution was like
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nineteen seventy. You are not Steve arguing about the Minnesota
freaking timberwolves with that half wit Christopher Russo on ESPN.
Here these people are out to take your vote, your vote,
Steven A. Smith's vote away from you, and to deport
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any of your friends who were not born here. Get
serious about this, or stop wasting everybody's time. You might
as well be telling the Republicans they need to be
better citizens. They have long since burned that vote Stephen
A and the governor's mansion. I'm not objecting in the
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slightest to sportscasters talking politics or converting to becoming political
commentators or political figures. I'm the last person on earth
to say that, but walk in with twenty twenty five information.
Don't come in here arguing nineteen seventy four to me,
Jesus make us all look bad. I mean, a two
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week training program and you could be up to date
at least and not say stupid things like that. I
don't want to hear them talk about the Constitution ever.
They don't care about the Constitution. The Constitution is there
for them to twist it and warp it and send
it through the Supreme Court they own. That's already made
shit up. Like presidential immunity, which is nowhere in the Constitution,
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is nowhere in any of the federalists papers, is nowhere
in anything resembling a document from the founding of this nation.
No founding father believed in presidential immunity. Of them, if
you could find one, the answer to that would be, okay,
one of them did. Out of the two or three
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hundred people who made the Constitution what it is today.
Don't talk to me about the God. Don't talk to
me about Republicans not talking about the Constitution they think
they own it. Don't talk to me about Don't talk
to me about the Constitution. This is literally a topic
they got passed in the twentieth century. The Republicans can
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rationalize anything, Steven, you are behind the curve here. Take
a two week course and figure it out. As I said,
we also have a worse Person's Hall of Famer to announce.
This is from last Wednesday, so I'm sure you saw
it or heard it already. It's a little old, so
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I'm not putting it in the list, but yes, this
is true. Linda McMahon, missus wrestling the Secretary of Education
so stupid she used to be married to Vince McMahon
selected a Secretary of Education because she doesn't have one
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and thus doesn't understand why it's not okay to eliminate
education going forward or the Department of Education. But she
has proved she's just right for the Trump administration. If
everybody who's been appointed to a cabinet position is there
to destroy the United States of America, they got their
dame right here. Linda McMahon is the greatest Secretary of
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Education of all time. She will make sure that she
snamps out education in this country better than anybody else
possibly could. At an event, she twice referred to the
future of artificial intelligence in schools by calling artificial intelligence
a one, as in Steak Sauce, a one. Well, we
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need more a one. Where would a one be it?
This puts her in the worst person's mispronunciation of numbers
exhibit next to Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas, who is
an obgyn who still thinks the terrorist attack from two
thousand and one is called nine to eleven if only
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we'd had a one on nine to eleven. On the
other hand, the Steak Sauce people are delighted by this. Finally,
to the nominees for Today's Worst Person's Awards, the Bronze Worse,
Bill Maher. I know I've been talking about my college
classmate a lot recently. I would make him worse persons again,
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But first off your board of that. Secondly, I'm bored
of that. Thirdly, Bill is shrinking so rapidly into obscurity
that I wonder by the time I got through two
other stories before telling his, I wonder if anybody would
still remember who he was. As you know, at the
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insistence of Bill's new friend, Kid Rock, who maybe the
first person Bill's ever considered a friend who had better
morals than Bill does. Kid Rock took him to the
White House to meet Trump, and Bill came out of
it fully cool, aidd Everything I'm not liked about him was,
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I swear to God absent, at least on this night.
With this guy. I never felt I had to walk
on eggshells around him. And honestly I voted for Clinton
and Obama, but I would never feel comfortable talking to
them the way I was able to talk with Donald Trump.
Make of it what you will. What I make of
it is, Bill, you're going senile. You are forgetting that.
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You said more or less that exact same thing in
the year twenty sixteen. I know this because it was
during a conversation you and I had on your show
about Trump, about how extraordinary it was that the Trump
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we had met was this generous, all about you talk
about anything, gracious guy. And then he came out and
started talking about basically wanting to kill all the Hispanics.
We couldn't figure out this disparity, I said, we don't
have to figure it out. There are two Donald Trump's
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who are both absolutely plausible and convincing, and we can't
have a president who has more than one personality. Sorry,
you said you felt he had deceived you. Guess what,
Bill he had And guess what the other day at
the White House he deceived you again. You know why,
because you're gullible, because you want to be he flattered,
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because that's all he does. Because he found your button
and he pushed it and pushed it and pushed it,
and he got you to put out quotes that they
have now used, and got you to put out a
monologue on your dying show on television, which they have
used to sell the idea that he is a good
president and a good person. They are using you. Bill.
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On the other hand, somebody's watching your video. You're a
moron now And I know that. As I say that,
mar added millions of liberal sphincters just tightened. The only
sphincter around here, Bill is Bill Maher, and you have
long since ceased to be liberal. I've had so many
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conversations with prominent people who are much less connected, people
that don't look you in the eye, people that don't
really listen because they just want to get to their
next thing, people who's respired. What's the things you say?
Just doesn't track none of that with him. Bill, He's
a narcissistic sociopath, possibly a narcissistic psychopath. Bill, he's Ted Bundy,
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He's President Ted Bundy Trump. This is what he does.
He uses people. He looks them in the eye, he
figures out what it is they're most susceptible to and
does it to them. And then they think he's just
wonderful and he's theirs, and that the real Trump is
the one they saw, not the one who is bundling
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Americans off the streets and sending them to torture chambers
in El Salvador or stochastically encouraging terrorism inside the United
States against his political opponents. People that don't look you
in the eye. He looks you in the eye and
tells you he had a copy of Hitler's speech is
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on his nightstand in nineteen ninety. People that don't really
listen because they just want to get to their next thing.
Next thing is subverting the Constitution and serving a third
term and then claiming we don't need any more elections
because he's doing a great job. People whose response to
things you say just doesn't track none of that with him. No,
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they're putting out press releases saying he's healthy, and the
evidence of being healthy is that he won another one
of his golf tournaments at his course where he's allowed
to cheat. Bill, he used you again somehow nine years ago.
You figured it out. Since then you've forgotten. Stop forgetting.
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You have some small remaining responsibility here. Use that, not
that Bill Maher wasn't seeking to be used. I may
be guilty of overthinking this whole thing. Bill Maher works
now for the same fascists at Warner Bros. Discovery, led
by this guy David Zaslav, who took over and corrupted CNN.
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They let the people who would collaborate with them, who
would appease Trump, people like Jake Tapper, they let them
stay and fired everybody else. They said, to hell with
the ratings. We're not in it for the money. We're
here to neutralize and neoter CNN, And we're here to
neutralize and neoter what had been a boring but rather
reliably liberal show every Friday night on HBO. I want
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to know what they're going to try to do to
John Oliver. But John Oliver is made of something. I
have known Bill Mars since nineteen seventy eight, and he
was a shameless, self interested opportunist with no real principles
then and he's gone downhill since then. This may not
have been the primary motive for what he did, which
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is to provide the Trump camp with promotional material, with propaganda,
with propaganda video. This may not have been his primary goal,
but it was maybe his secondary goal. He did this
so he can keep his show on HBO. And if
there's no HBO show, there are no Bill Maher stand
up specials, there are no Bill Maher events anywhere. There's
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nobody in the audience cheering for Bill Maher. I've been
in front of that audience. It's intoxicating. They have a
nice room that creates a nice bounce. What's probably three
hundred people sounds like three thousand. You get addicted to
that pretty quickly. Then you remember it's three hundred people.
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I'm going to try to stop talking about Bill Maher
now our runner up worser Trump. CBS News reports that
on March third, the cell phone of retired Lieutenant General H. R.
McMaster rang used to work for the White House. He
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was the National Security Advisor for the first thirteen months
of the first Trump Reich, so, needless to say, he
was surprised when the voice on the other side said
it's the White House calling for you. I assume he
said something like which White House? Our White House. A
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day earlier, on March second, Trump had in fact insulted
Hr McMaster lasted him on social media as a weak
and totally ineffective loser. McMaster had just appeared on CBS
on sixty Minutes. He had voiced skepticism about the Trump
overture towards Putin and Putin's supposed willingness to end the
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war in Ukraine, which Trump believed, does not apparently believe now,
but may soon resume believing when he needs to change
the subject again. Anyway, the phone according to CBS with
their sources, I think we can guess who the source
was who could recount the phone call. The phone call
began with Trump saying Henry, Henry is how Trump opened
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the call before launching into the conversation. According to two
sources who were not authorized to discuss private conversations, the
former National Security advisor, mister McMaster interrupted, Uh, mister President,
this is hr McMaster. Trump then asked, dismissively, why the
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f would I talk to hi McMaster, and then Trump
launched into a scathing critique of his former aid. Two
sources said. According to CBS, the call was brief. The
explanation for this is because the White House is really
good and this administration is really good at screwing up
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elemental communications like signal chats and phone calls. He was
trying to reach the former governor, Henry McMaster, and they
presumably would be in the rolodex at the White House,
the electronic equivalent of a rolodex Henry mcmallory with McMaster Kama,
Henry McMaster comma hr. Perhaps, since he only hires idiots,
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let's look at the Press secretary as an example of this.
Since he only hires idiots, let's look at the Attorney
General Blondie for a moment. Since he only hires idiots.
Perhaps the person thought hr McMaster and Henry McMaster were
the same person. In any event, this was not some
fifth dimensional chess in which Trump got to call up
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hr McMaster and abuse him. He doesn't have the guts
to do that. The last line of the CBS report
is the best one here. Quote the call was brief,
as is our winner. Judge Janine Piro, former very brief
senator orio candidate from New York. One of the hosts
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of Fox News, and although it is an extraordinary competition
and each day is like watching the finals of some
Olympic event, day after day after day, every day since
nineteen ninety six, Janine Piro is possibly. I mean, there's
Jesse Waters there, the other people on in the morning,
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Brian Killmead, but it's very possible that Janine Piro. If
I had to pick just one, Janine Piro would be
the person I chose to be the stupidest person ever
on Fox News. And I have dated people who worked
at Fox News. Janine Piro. Something adds to the veneer
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of Janine's stupidity that is not there with say, Harris Faulkner,
who pretends to have some sort of veneer of sophistication.
Janine Piro resembles and sounds like every substitute teacher I
had in the fifth grade in the public schools of
Hastings on Hudson, New York. Okay, class, I'll be back
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in a minute. I gotta go smoke. You'd sit. Don't
light the building on fia, Janine Piro. We found out
there are people who are between the ages of wine
and four who are getting Social Security Janine Piro said,
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She was thereupon interrupted by Jessica Tarlov, the liberal on
the whichever the five, the outnumbered moron today, whatever the
show is called. Jessica Tarlov, who I can only assume
is either serving some sort of public service work release
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program from some past crime, or perhaps is has been
sent here by some deity that is making her serve
out something that she did in a past life. It
must have been something really, really bad. She's the one
out there who has to somehow not turn around. When
Janine Piro says, we found out there are people who
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are between the ages of want and faugh who are
getting Social Security and not ball up her fist and
give her a round house right to the jaw. Jessica
Tarlov does not do this. People always said, why do
you not have a Republican on your show, Keith? Why
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do you not have a foil who can debate you
and point out when on occasion you are mistaken? Why
do you not do this? The answer is because eventually,
no matter how many years I might go through without it,
I would ball up my fist, or more likely I'd
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simply throw some water or maybe the script or just
smack somebody with the script. Jessica Tarloff does not do
any of these things. It is to her great credit.
I admire her greatly. As much as I admire her
insight and her honesty, I admire more than anything else,
her ability to simply spew facts, to spit the fire
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of truth at flammable risks. Like Janine Piro. We found
out there are people who are between the ages of
one and four who are getting suchal se gerrity. Jess Katarlov,
that's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead. Janine
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Piro ignored that. Just talk right through it, never even
heard it. Because I'm just gonna guess here if she's
like those teachers that I had in the fifth grade,
because shardon nay, Janine, Page ten must be here somewhere.
Hold on, let me get page ten of my speech.
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Do you have page ten? Page ten's got to be
here somewhere. Just hold up the news conference. I'll find
page ten. We'll get it done eventually. Piro two days
worse person in the world. I've done all the damage
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I can do here. Thank you for listening. As I
mentioned a segment ago, I think the show's been a
little ragged today, possibly because three quarters of it has
been ad libbed, and I believe this will be the
only episode this week. I have mentioned that I am
on some heavy duty antibiotics for a digestive issue and
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they are working well, really well. The problem is essentially gone.
And I don't know how many different presidential administrations that
problem has been there. That's how bad a problem this is.
That's gone well. However, the further along the drugs get,
the more side effects there are. The problem is essentially gone,
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so is my stamina, my sleep schedule, occasionally my voice,
and as you could hear in worse persons, any self
restraint I might have whatsoever. So it's probably a good
idea if I don't do a second episode this week,
because who the hell knows what I would say that
I edited stuff out of the second segment, Thank you
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very much anyway, if I can to be serious, although
I did do the edits, I'm going to skip Thursday's
episode if something changes or the news demands it, or
if I'm up in the middle of the night and
I just want to record forty five to sixty minutes
about Bill Maher or Stephen A. Smith, I'll do it.
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I'll post something if there's a news bullet and I'll
post something even if it's five minutes. But otherwise I
need to actually just not do this for a week
or anything for a week if I can get away
with it. So don't be surprised if there is no
episode Thursday. I have to rest this voice. It may
sound wonderful and malifluous to you. It's a real strain
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to get this out right now. Any who, enough about me?
What do you think about me? Brian Raine, John Phillip
Shanelle musical directors have Countdown Arrange produced and performed most
all of our music. Mister Shanelle handled orchestration and keyboards.
Mister was on the guitars, bass and drums, and it
was produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and pithy musical
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comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust.
The sports music is the Olberman theme from ESPN two,
written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Other
music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed.
My announcer today was my friend John Dean. Everything else was,
as ever, my fault, you know, if there's no episode
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on Thursday. It just occurred to me for the first time.
I'll have to ask Nancy Faust this by correspondence. Maybe
we could just put on forty five minutes of Nancy's
greatest recordings for this show, of which there is at
least a bank of forty five minutes. Quite seriously, most
of it less than a minute each, all of it marvelous.
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You just put that on. Say hi, this is countdown.
This is Keith al Rumina. Now, oh Nancy, and just
play all the stuff I have in the file. It's
an idea, just joking around. That's countdown for today. Just
seventy eight days until the scheduled end of his lane
duck and lame brained term unless Musk removes him sooner
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or the actuarial tables do remember impeach Trump. It will
not work now, it will win the Democrats the mid terms,
and I want polling on a presidential recall vote to
put pressure on the fourteen Republican senators and four Republican
representatives who could save our asses and by hour, I
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maane the American nation. This is why I don't like
to add lub until next time. I'm Keith Olberman, good Morning,
good afternoon, goodnight, screw Bill Maher and good Luck. Countdown
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director of Ice, Tom Hoeman that his boss, the Secretary
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of Homeland Security, Christy Nome, must be arrested for contemptive court.
It should be Trump being arrested for contemptive court, potentially
for ignoring the orders of the Supreme Court. But we
already know how the laws of this land have already
been corrupted to protect the greatest criminal in our history.
That it cannot be him will simply hasten the latest
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iteration of the constitutional crisis created by a lawless chief
executive who still has the military behind him. We are
headed for a flash point, perhaps as soon as today.
To summarize, Trump believes he is God. But in the interim,
it is time for US District Judge PAULA. Zennis to
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send this rogue government a message, a warning. In fact,
it is well past time. Time was two days ago
at five o'clock in the afternoon. Nome and Homan are
now in contempt of that Judge's orders. In the case
of the Nome Homan Ice abduction, the disappearing of a
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Maryland man already under the protection of the government of
the United States Kilmar Abrego Garcia. They are in contempt
of the orders, not of some judge, as the fascist
idiot Stephen Miller and his brown Shirts call any representative
actual law and order. They are in contempt of the
laws of the United States of America. Is not some judge.
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They are in contempt of the nation, and they are
on the verge of being in contempt of the Supreme Court.
This timeline, in its briefest form. Trump's death squads admitted
they had seized and deported the wrong man to L. Salvador.
Then they collectively made the shrug eboji, he's out of
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our hands. He's under the sovereign control of another nation.
Too bad. In other words, we kidnap him, you keep
them First. Judge Zennis ordered mister Abrego Garcia to be
returned from L. Salvador, and the torture there gave a deadline.
Government blew it off. They went to the Supreme Court,
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which ordered last Thursday that mister Abrago Garcia's release at
least be facilitated by Trump's gangs. Judge Zennis ordered updates.
The delicacy here was, you don't want to interfere with
US foreign policy. It's irrelevant, but apparently it is in
the books. And then came the first of two curveballs. Friday,
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President Ted Bundy. Trump told his hand picked stenographer reporters
aboard Air Force one quote, if the Supreme Court said
bring somebody back, I would do that. I respect the
Supreme Court. I have great respect for the Supreme Court.
As usual, Trump showing his mental illness, saying something, then
re ordering the same words and thinking he said something new.
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This erased his own lawyer's argument that this country could
do nothing itself to bring this man back from l Salvador.
Trump bluntly said, if ordered to buy the Supreme Court,
he would bring mister Abrego Garcia back, which necessarily means
he and his thug government can bring him back. So
when his lawyer simply said that same thing again, no
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we can't. He's l Salvadoran. Now only they said it
louder on Saturday, they looked like championship idiots. Well, Trump
wasn't gonna make that last. He rushed to make sure
that if anybody's going to look like the championship idiot
of this government here, it would be him. Quote looking
forward to seeing President Bukela of El Salvador on Monday.
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Our nations are working closely together to eradicate terrorist organizations
and build a future of prosperity. President bucell has graciously
accepted into his nation's custody some of the most violent
alien enemies of the world, and in particular, the United States.
These barbarians are now in the sole custody of El Salvador,
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a proud and sovereign nation, and their future is up
to President b and his government. They will never threaten
or menace our citizens again unquote. The enemies of the world,
in particular of the United States are Christynomme, Tom Holman,
Stephen Miller, and especially Donald Trump. In the flippant one
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point eighty contained in that post, Trump is either lying
now or he was lying aboard Air Force one on
Friday when he said he would obey a Supreme Court
order to bring him back. Is the potential for an
actual constitutional stalemate that could tear the country apart, not later,
not in twenty twenty eight. Now, Trump has now corrected
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his original willingness to go along with the Supreme Court,
and in passive aggressive form, he has explained in that
post that he has the right to seize anyone in
this country, citizen or not, criminal or not accused or not,
and not just expel them, but then to pretend that
never mind jurisdiction. He can't even ask his co conspirator,
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this tinpot dictator, Bukake, to do him a solid and
fix what might otherwise go into our history as a
near fatal skid, out of which the nation and even
Trump somehow steered. No. The likeliest outcome is, of course,
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that Trump's concierge, Supreme Court never does order him to
return Abrego Garcia to his family, never says that in
so many words, so Trump doesn't have to ignore their order.
That's why you own the Supreme Court, why you pack
it with lunatics who have ecstatic religious visions, or who drink,
or who take bribes, so they can spend all of
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their time finding that fine line along which they do
not destroy their own court and their own phony baloney jobs,
but also don't challenge you in even the slightest, mildest way,
shape or form. Because inside the White House, the crisis
here is that this happened because somebody working for Trump
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admitted a mistake. We couldgo today, this expanding, burgeoning, unchecked immoral, incompetent,
impaired terrorist government of President Ted Bundy Trump admitted it
had completely screwed up and should not have seized this man,
should not have sent him to a torture chamber in
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El Salvador. The government insisted it no longer had any
influence on mister Abrago Garcia because El Salvador now has jurisdiction,
but it also admitted it screwed up. The pirates working
for Nome and Homan would only tell the court over
the weekend that mister Abrigo Garcia is alive and secure
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under the quote sovereign domestic authority of El Salvador. Tough shit,
Christy Nome, get on a plane and go get him,
or you go to jail or Homan, go see your
idiot boss and have him slap a tariff on L Salvador.
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Nome and Homan and their gestapo have not only refused
to comply, but ignored the judge's deadline five pm two
days ago to supply any information about how they will
proceed to return their victim from L Salvador and why
they have stalled. Even though this real life version of
Kafka's the trial began a month ago Saturday, March twelfth,
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and Judge Zennis first ordered him released ten days ago.
These arrogant fascist bastards, Homan and Gnome are in contempt
of court, as is the DHS official Michael Kozak, who
signed the evasion of Judge Zennis's order and submitted it
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to her on Saturday. They may all be in contempt
of the Supreme Court. The entire Trump Gestapo. The number
of violations of mister Abrago Garcia's writes they are responsible
for is probably already in the dozens. Arrest them today.
I don't care if they're freed in twenty minutes. Arrest
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them today. Put some fear into these people. To quote
President Nixon, in a just America, only when a Brego
Garcia is returned to his family and his pregnant wife
and his autistic son, should Garden Nome be able to
go home to a closet full of action adventure Barbie
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outfits and should home and go home to his presumably bottle,
not before this has been going on for a month.
A real life version of Kafka's The Trial, where the
defendant is never told what he's charged with or by
whom March twelfth, those who did this should spend a
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year in jail for every day a Brego Garcia has
been brutalized in our name. Put Christy Noman Tom Holman
in jail to day for contempt. They kidnapped this man
based on fabricated, imaginary bullshit evidence that they will not produce.
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Trump's gangsters pulled him out of his car in an
Ikea parking lot and disappeared him in front of his
terrified five year old boy. They held him for three days,
violated all of his rights, denied him legal representation, shifted
him off to a hostile country run by power mad Latino.
Trump didn't bother to tell his family what had happened
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to him, let him call his wife to say goodbye
only three days later, let her find out where he
was by seeing photos him days after that in the
gulag in Al Salvador. She saw it on the news.
The government of the United States, the real one, the
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legal one, the one with judges and laws and right
and wrong, not this bullshitang of Trump bullies. Who I
hope I live long enough to see one day on
trial at the International Court of Justice at the Hague
the real government of the United States. The laws ordered
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him released ten days ago, and it has not happened.
And I want people to burn in hell for it.
And this is a case in which the Trumpists admit
they disappeared an innocent man and made an administrative error.
How many others are there? That's the point, not how
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many others there are. The administrative error part is the
real issue here, not the idea that these brutal, incompetent
morons set up a system in which they had no
emergency cord to pull when they eft up, in case
they effed up and targeted a victim and not a purp.
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This is dragging on deliberately Christy Noman, Tom Holman and
the gutless corporate lawyers who represent them in this administration,
the most gutless lawyers, in which the terms gutless and
corporate lawyers have become synonymous. They are dragging this on
because they had to admit this was a mistake, and
now they see an opportunity to exploit even that admission
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that they screwed up, to deliver the message passively but
still aggressively, that even when they are wrong, they are
still right, because even when they are wrong? What do
you think you are going to be able to do
about it? If they are going to ignore the Supreme
Court or just the federal courts or the district courts,
what do you think you are going to be able
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to do about it? Missus Abrago Garcia, what do you
think you are going to be able to do about it?
Judge Zinnis, what do you think you are going to
be able to do about it? America? What do you
think you are going to be able to do about it?
Nicole Misharoni? Do you know who Nicole Mischaroni is? She
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is another potential victim of what Trump's worms will doubtless
call an administrative error. In the middle of the night,
this following email from a no reply address at Homeland
Security Christy Garden, Nomes Secretary, appeared in Nicole Mischaroni's inbox
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for eleven, twenty twenty five notice of termination of parole.
It is time for you to leave the United States.
You are currently here because the Department of Homeland Security
paroled you into the United States for a limited period
for soon to eight USC eleven eighty two D five
A and eight CFR two one two point five e
DHS is now exercising its discretion to terminate your parole
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unless it expires sooner. Your parole will terminate seven days
from the date of this notice. If you do not
depart the United States immediately, you will be subject to
potential law enforcement actions, etc. Sent to Nicole Mischeroni. Nicole Mischeroni,
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who was born in Newton, Massachusetts, which is still in
the United States unless Trump has ordered it traded for Greenland. Newton,
Massa chosets. Nicole Mischceroni's family has been in the United
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States for four generations. She is an immigration lawyer. She
posted the email on social media almost lightheartedly. She wrote,
some personal news, The Department of Homeland Security has given
me seven days to leave the US. Does anyone know
if you can get Italian citizenship through great grandparents. Her assumption,
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the baseline assumption of those reacting in horror to that email,
is still that this is a mistake, another administrative error,
a slip of some sort, her name going into their
system there among the brown shirts for disappearance instead of
one of her clients. That was my first reaction. Ha ha,
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She's lucky. Trump only wants to deport her and not
slap a terif on her. I no longer think this.
It is absolutely plausible. They just screwed this up. They
screw everything else up, and it's absolutely plausible. They screwed
up the Kilmar Abrego case. Hell, they got Elon Musk
working for them, and this brain damaged bully Tom Holman
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and Christy Nome, who by now has the exact identical
molecular composition as an inflatable backyard swimming pool. Or these
are mistakes made on purpose, doesn't matter either way. They
want to leave you with the impression that not only
are they rounding up a few actual criminals, along with
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thousands of people whose only crime was the mistaken belief
that even Ted Bundy Trump's America was a good place,
a better place, a place worth risking your life to
get to. You know what our ancestors thought. Not only
are they rounding up people who are guilty or might
be guilty, they may just round up people who could
not possibly be guilty, like Nicole Misheroni of the Newton Missaronies,
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or Keith Olberman of the Bronx Ulermans, or you, or,
as it turns out, thousands of native born Americans and
naturalized US citizens born in other places, and green card
holders and people under the protection of the government as
ordered in the courts, because sending them like Kilmar Abrego
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Garcia to a place like Al Salvador can or will
get them killed. Thousands and thousands of administrative errors, thousands
of conceivably maybe even likely, intentional errors to scare them
and scare you. Keep your head down, don't make waves,
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Be like the television networks, be like the law firms,
Be like Columbia University. To borrow the bully speak of
the tariffs. Don't retaliate. You wouldn't want to be accidentally
sent to El Salvador because your folder was next to
some actual target. You wouldn't want to go to a
rally or a protest. Your photo could winde up next
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to that of Machmod Khalil. Arrest Tom Holman and Christy
Nome for contemptive court today. Maybe we will get lucky
and their prison stay will get sucked into the phones
of Mike Waltz and Elon Musk, and instead of one
hour in the cleanest holding cell in Washington, d C.
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They'll get disappeared to the Panama Canal I'm sorry, Christy,
you know how it goes. That's another administrative error. I
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invoked the name Mackmood Khalil, and if he does not
sound familiar to you, Mackmood Khalil can be removed from
the United States even though he has broken no laws
and the entirety of the case against him is that
little shit. Marco Rubio. Marco Rubio who embellished a story
about his own as a political refugee from Cuba at
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the two page memo that he promulgated, a two page
memo that is worthy of the Tom Cruise movie Minority Report,
in which you can be arrested for pre crimes, in
which they calculate you're going to do something bad, so
they're going to arrest you. Now, a two page memo
in which Rubio confirmed Khalil's pro Palestinian protests at Columbia
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University were quote otherwise lawful, but insisted that letting him
stay here as outlined by you know the laws, would
undermine quote US policy to combat anti Semitism around the
world and in the United States. In addition to efforts
to protect Jewish students from harassment and violence in the
United States, condoning anti Semitic conduct and disruptive protests in
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the United States would severely undermine that significant foreign policy object.
I got bad news for you, Marco, by that standard,
by the anti Semitism standard, Trump, who his own wife
said he kept a book of Hitler's speeches on a
bedside table in their home. Trump needs to be expelled
as a dangerous anti Semite before nightfall. And the Secretary
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of Defense and Vodka Pete Hegseth under whose Reich at
the Pentagon. The Pentagon has thrown out Tony Morrison's books
from the library at the Naval Academy, but it has
kept at the Hegseth Naval Academy library the two copies
they have there, of mind com under these same rules,
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Hegseth needs to be on a slow boat somewhere by
the end of the week. We are moving into pre
crimes and future crimes and thought crimes. And these the
Khalil case, and in a tangential but real way, the
kilmar Abrego and Nicole Misheroni cases too. They are harbingers
of a Trumpian rock to not only break all the
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laws and all the morality in this country, and not
only to criminalize dissent, but to try to scare you
out of even thinking about dissenting. Trump doesn't just want
Khalil out of Columbia. He hasn't just demanded Columbia under
my old friend, Acting President Claire Shipman cow Tau to
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Trump's political demands. Trump wants legal control of Columbia University.
The Wall Street Journal reports Trump wants a consent decree,
a consent to cree, a ruling giving a federal judge
the legal authority to enforce whatever promises the spineless morons
running that university made in order to not lose four
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hundred million in grants out of an endowment of fifteen billion.
These words are not used in the Wall Street Journal story,
but essentially the threat is clear, agree to our demands,
agree to the consent decree, or we will blackmail you
into it. You can challenge this decree in court, and
every day you challenge this decree in court, we will
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find more federal funding to cancel. They only have fifteen
billion dollars. How can we afford the loss of four
hundred billion. They don't teach math at Columbia anymore, evidently,
and if Columbia folds on this, and frankly, all Columbia
has been doing for the last year is folding, I
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mean its administration and more importantly, its bored or making
its infamously bad football team look like national champions. Others
will follow. We've already seen Harvard cave and frankly, Cornell wobble.
We are gradually moving towards the moment Columbia is already there,
when the nation's campuses are such laboratories of cowardice, such
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greenhouses of spinelessness, where their only hope of survival may
be the students on those campuses reading in extensively on
how they all settled things like this in the nineteen sixties.
If a place like Columbia becomes nothing but a Trumpest
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factory under the control of a Trumpest judge and some
kind of Department of Universities Columbia, Harvard Elsewhere, it is
time for the students to and I mean this metaphorically,
of course, it is time for the students to burn
it all down. By the way, the acronym for my
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new hypothetical Department of Universities Columbia, Harvard Elsewhere would be
douche elon Musk can be poster boy of that too.
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I am Musk, I am in charge of Boushe Douche
is moving rapidly on all sides towards Orwell's thought crime.
I think Khalil is an idiot, having seen similar protests
to his in the streets of my own hometown. I
cannot think of any group in my lifetime that has
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done more damage to its own cause than the pro
Palestinian protesters in New York. If they planned to make
themselves and their case look worse, they couldn't have done more.
And he still must be defended or the nation is dead.
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He must still be defended because Trump literally wants one
of his own former employees prosecuted for refusing to lie
for him prosecuted. Chris Krebs was appointed ahead the Cybersecurity
and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA to address foreign threats, including
against elections, October twenty twenty. He did his job, no threats,
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no tampering, no rigging. Now Trump has issued an executive
order demanding the DOJ investigate Chris Krebs for criminality for
not lying. Quote Crabs through CISA falsely and baselessly denied
that the twenty twenty election was rigged and stolen. I
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think that deserves to be read again. Crebs falsely and
baselessly denied that the twenty twenty election was rigged and stolen.
I hereby deny that the twenty twenty election was rigged
and stolen. I hereby confirmed Donald Trump is crazy. And
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most of all, I hereby confirm donald Trump lost the
twenty twenty election and trafficked with the Russians for the
twenty sixteen election. False and baselessly denied that the twenty
twenty election was rigged and stolen. Does not get more
orwellian than that. But of course the essence of Trump's
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bullshit is the man Trump appointed to make sure the
election was legit said the election was legit. The election
took place under the aegis of the Trump administration. Trump
was president, then the election integrity was the responsibility of
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Trump and his administration. Trump's appointee, part of Trump's administration,
found that nothing was rigged. So Trump once him prosecuted
for saying that Trump administration handled the election honestly. Somewhere
Orwell and Kafka are bidding for the rights to this story,
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and the story's not over. Ice again is the Home
and Garden GNOME group whose leaders should be jailed for contempt,
posted to x and Instagram that it would stop any
ideas that tried to enter the US illegally. You heard me, yes,
you that idea and the red Buick pull over. The
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posts were deleted per Rolling Stone, sent without proper approval,
was the quote from the spokesman. The excuse was they
meant not ideas, but intellectual property. That's a cover story.
I will say it's an unexpectedly plausible one from this
group of defective brains on high school dropouts. One and
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them things called again ideas you ever had one? No? No,
what are you like? Or it's just another unintentional, intentional
slip up, asked Mack MoU Khalil about the illegal entry
of ideas temporal juxtaposition. A judge in Delaware rules in
the dominion lawsuit against Newsmax for defamation, says the propaganda
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feed made false and defamatory statements against dominion. The judge
said that another triumph for their lawyers, same lawyers as
in the case against Fox seven hundred and eighty five
million dollars, same lawyers, Sussman Godfrey. Later that day, Trump
issued another executive order. He uses more of them than
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he uses toilet tissue, revoking security clearances and pulling federal
contracts from Sussman Godfrey Stephen Miller quote, this firm is
very involved in the election misconduct. Again a reminder the
election misconduct. This worm Miller refers to is refusing to
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pretend there was election misconduct. They are now trying to
prosecute the truth out of existence. The humorous relief is
now the tariffs. When the lightest news of the day
is the destruction of the world economy, we may be
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in a bad place. If you haven't noticed. The tariff
effect on the bond market also drove mortgages up to
seven point one percent. And I'm going to need to
see Howard Lutnick's government id even in this government of
the idiots, by the idiots, for the idiots. I am
not convinced this guy is actually employed by Trump. It
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may be a very well constructed, complicated delusion on his part.
First they had tariffs on everything, then they suspended the
tariffs on the smartphones and the laptops cause Tim Apple.
Then Lutnik went on This Week on ABC yesterday announced
there will be new tariffs on smartphone and laptops. Also,
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remember Trump's little hint he's going to raise drug prices
just cuz Lutnick. Semiconductors and pharmaceuticals will have a tariff
model in order to encourage them to re sure the tariffs.
Clap on, clap off, clap on, clap off the tariffs.
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I don't believe Lutnick really works there. In fact, I
do not believe his name is really Lutnick. I think
he's just Maury Kessler, the two pay salesman from Goodfellas.
And Yes, of course, the tariffs and Trump's nine thirty
seven AM post that day were market manipulation. CNN asked
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Representative Carlos Jimenez of Florida, this is a great time
to buy. Is that market manipulation? Jimenez his answer a
denial that he did not realize was actually a can
Feshion quote. No, he said, actually, we had lunch with
a major stockbroker from New York and we were talking
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to him about tariffs, and one of the things he
said was it's time to buy. A Congressman, that's evidence
of what you just denied. I'd like to amend my remarks.
Consumer confidence craters down eleven percent this month fifty point eight.
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That's the second lowest reading since the University of Michigan
started to do this in nineteen fifty two. It is
lower than it was during the Great Recession. It is
down thirty points since Trump was elected. In short, Americans
felt better about buying stuff, felt better about our future.
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During the Cuban missile crisis, somebody sent fire to the
official home of the governor of the fifth most populous
state in the nation early Sunday morning, with him in
it and his family significant damage. Family evacuated, nobody hurt.
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Twelve hours later, not a word from the President, from
Attorney General Pam Blondie, from Homeland Security Secretary Garden, and
nome nobody. Washington Post put the story low enough on
its front page. I had to scroll down one whole
page to find it. The New York Times required you
to scroll down four screens. It was between the John
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Ham story and the story on fashion at the Master's
Golf Tournament. It was three screens below the story about
Saturday Night Live's latest parade of the not at all funny. Well,
we don't know the motive yet, we don't need to
know the goddamned motive a governor's mansion was set on fire.
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China halts exports lead New York Times story is not
as meaningful to this country's future as somebody trying to
burn down a governor's home with him and his family
in it. Motive you're waiting for. Motive that it happened
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is not enough. A coincidence in which a pyromaniac selected
a random building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and the governor just
happened to be inside. That wouldn't be enough. And I
haven't even mentioned it was Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania
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during passover. But we got this great story about John
Ham's John Hamply. The Democratic Party is pushing back against
all of this. Senator Schumer, the majority leader. Forgive me,
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the minority leader, forgive me the minority guy. Senator Schumer,
forgive me. Chuck has a tweet Chuck Schumer Thursday quote.
History will remember April ninth, twenty twenty five as America's
actual liberation Day, the day that President Trump backed down
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from his ridiculous tariff fiasco. Oh, it's like a joke
of some sort. You had a team working on this
for Day Teams social Media seventy one consultants. Well, I
think we should play off the actual Liberation Day now
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that the tariffs have been delayed. Is not funny, not insightful,
not witty, not relevant, and, as it turned out, not
factually accurate. Within an hour, it was all changed again.
I am surprised by one thing. Chuck Schumer put out
a tariff mocking Trump's Liberation Day. We hear at the
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New York Times. How is it We're not We're not
putting a story about this on the front page. I mean,
I know, I'm I'm I'm breaking all the rules here,
But shouldn't this be higher than the than the than
the John ham story. I'm sorry to track John hamm
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into this nice Man college classmate of the Last Line,
producer of Countdown on MSNBC, Nikki nice Man. Good actor
also of interest here. Bad actor Bill Maher provides a
propaganda video for Trump, but of coorse he does his
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bosses want him to. What he doesn't realize is that
all the nice things Trump did for him that he
recited like a hostage in the video, all those things,
all those things he praised Trump for, he already praised
Trump for them ten years ago. You know how I
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know this because Bill told me on the air on
his show how impressed he was in twenty sixteen with Trump,
how he then felt betrayed by Trump. Bill, he's betraying
you again right now, Bill, You're an idiot. That's next.
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This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Olberman. Stell
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ahead on this edition of Countdown. Does the show seem
a little ragged to you? Seems a little ragged to me.
I'll explain with an announcement about the future of this show.
I mean, like the immediate future. Like this week first,
believe it or not, there's still more new idiots to
talk about. The roundup of the miscreants, morons and Dunning
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Kruger effects specimens who constitute the latest other worst persons
in the world. There's so many of them. This week
I had to do dedications and the induction of a
Hall of Fame member of the Worst Person's Pantheon. The
dedication is to ABC's This Week, which actually put out
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this lineup yesterday. As the old joke goes, this was
on TV right now. ABC's This Week Commerce Secretary Howard
Lutnik Howard is an idiot. Not only that, but they
don't tell Howard anything, so he always talks about things
that were true or at least being sold six days ago.
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Howard is six days late. Their Senator Elizabeth Warren Fine.
The other guests, Stephen A. Smith, Panel, Donna Brazil, Ranks Prebus,
who was one of the Republican fascists who started all this.
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Rachel bade of Politico, and there's plenty I could say
about her, but the worst I could think of is
of Politico. And Sarah Isger, who works for ABC News
and pretends to be neutral when she is in fact
a conservative jackass. Somehow, in booking a panel Ton forsil
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Reine's previous Rachel Bade Sarah Isger with Stephen A. Smith
as your expert, they managed to not book wile E. Coyote,
Professor Irwin Corey, and Max Effing Headroom. Please somebody tells
Stephen A. Smith he needs to do some homework. Steven
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spent his time ranting about how if any Republican supports
Trump running for a third term, he doesn't want to
hear them talk about the Constitution. Ever, again, Stephen doesn't
get it. Stephen hasn't been paying attention. Steven doesn't know
what he's talking about. The Republicans have been talking about
Trump running for a third term, actively publicly in what
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counts for their version of intellectual journals, since twenty twenty three,
and they mean it, and they will do it, and
they will pervert the Constitution to achieve it. They are
working on it now. The point at which you say,
don't talk to me about it again, or I never
want to hear you talk about the Constitution was like
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nineteen seventy. You are not Steve arguing about the Minnesota
freaking timberwolves with that half wit Christopher Russo on ESPN.
Here these people are out to take your vote, your vote,
Steven A. Smith's vote away from you, and to deport
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any of your friends who were not born here. Get
serious about this, or stop wasting everybody's time. You might
as well be telling the Republicans they need to be
better citizens. They have long since burned that vote Stephen
A and the governor's mansion. I'm not objecting in the
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slightest to sportscasters talking politics or converting to becoming political
commentators or political figures. I'm the last person on earth
to say that, but walk in with twenty twenty five information.
Don't come in here arguing nineteen seventy four to me,
Jesus make us all look bad. I mean, a two
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week training program and you could be up to date
at least and not say stupid things like that. I
don't want to hear them talk about the Constitution ever.
They don't care about the Constitution. The Constitution is there
for them to twist it and warp it and send
it through the Supreme Court they own. That's already made
shit up. Like presidential immunity, which is nowhere in the Constitution,
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is nowhere in any of the federalists papers, is nowhere
in anything resembling a document from the founding of this nation.
No founding father believed in presidential immunity. Of them, if
you could find one, the answer to that would be, okay,
one of them did. Out of the two or three
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hundred people who made the Constitution what it is today.
Don't talk to me about the God. Don't talk to
me about Republicans not talking about the Constitution they think
they own it. Don't talk to me about Don't talk
to me about the Constitution. This is literally a topic
they got passed in the twentieth century. The Republicans can
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rationalize anything, Steven, you are behind the curve here. Take
a two week course and figure it out. As I said,
we also have a worse Person's Hall of Famer to announce.
This is from last Wednesday, so I'm sure you saw
it or heard it already. It's a little old, so
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I'm not putting it in the list, but yes, this
is true. Linda McMahon, missus wrestling the Secretary of Education
so stupid she used to be married to Vince McMahon
selected a Secretary of Education because she doesn't have one
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and thus doesn't understand why it's not okay to eliminate
education going forward or the Department of Education. But she
has proved she's just right for the Trump administration. If
everybody who's been appointed to a cabinet position is there
to destroy the United States of America, they got their
dame right here. Linda McMahon is the greatest Secretary of
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Education of all time. She will make sure that she
snamps out education in this country better than anybody else
possibly could. At an event, she twice referred to the
future of artificial intelligence in schools by calling artificial intelligence
a one, as in Steak Sauce, a one. Well, we
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need more a one. Where would a one be it?
This puts her in the worst person's mispronunciation of numbers
exhibit next to Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas, who is
an obgyn who still thinks the terrorist attack from two
thousand and one is called nine to eleven if only
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we'd had a one on nine to eleven. On the
other hand, the Steak Sauce people are delighted by this. Finally,
to the nominees for Today's Worst Person's Awards, the Bronze Worse,
Bill Maher. I know I've been talking about my college
classmate a lot recently. I would make him worse persons again,
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But first off your board of that. Secondly, I'm bored
of that. Thirdly, Bill is shrinking so rapidly into obscurity
that I wonder by the time I got through two
other stories before telling his, I wonder if anybody would
still remember who he was. As you know, at the
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insistence of Bill's new friend, Kid Rock, who maybe the
first person Bill's ever considered a friend who had better
morals than Bill does. Kid Rock took him to the
White House to meet Trump, and Bill came out of
it fully cool, aidd Everything I'm not liked about him was,
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I swear to God absent, at least on this night.
With this guy. I never felt I had to walk
on eggshells around him. And honestly I voted for Clinton
and Obama, but I would never feel comfortable talking to
them the way I was able to talk with Donald Trump.
Make of it what you will. What I make of
it is, Bill, you're going senile. You are forgetting that.
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You said more or less that exact same thing in
the year twenty sixteen. I know this because it was
during a conversation you and I had on your show
about Trump, about how extraordinary it was that the Trump
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we had met was this generous, all about you talk
about anything, gracious guy. And then he came out and
started talking about basically wanting to kill all the Hispanics.
We couldn't figure out this disparity, I said, we don't
have to figure it out. There are two Donald Trump's
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who are both absolutely plausible and convincing, and we can't
have a president who has more than one personality. Sorry,
you said you felt he had deceived you. Guess what,
Bill he had And guess what the other day at
the White House he deceived you again. You know why,
because you're gullible, because you want to be he flattered,
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because that's all he does. Because he found your button
and he pushed it and pushed it and pushed it,
and he got you to put out quotes that they
have now used, and got you to put out a
monologue on your dying show on television, which they have
used to sell the idea that he is a good
president and a good person. They are using you. Bill.
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On the other hand, somebody's watching your video. You're a
moron now And I know that. As I say that,
mar added millions of liberal sphincters just tightened. The only
sphincter around here, Bill is Bill Maher, and you have
long since ceased to be liberal. I've had so many
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conversations with prominent people who are much less connected, people
that don't look you in the eye, people that don't
really listen because they just want to get to their
next thing, people who's respired. What's the things you say?
Just doesn't track none of that with him. Bill, He's
a narcissistic sociopath, possibly a narcissistic psychopath. Bill, he's Ted Bundy,
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He's President Ted Bundy Trump. This is what he does.
He uses people. He looks them in the eye, he
figures out what it is they're most susceptible to and
does it to them. And then they think he's just
wonderful and he's theirs, and that the real Trump is
the one they saw, not the one who is bundling
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Americans off the streets and sending them to torture chambers
in El Salvador or stochastically encouraging terrorism inside the United
States against his political opponents. People that don't look you
in the eye. He looks you in the eye and
tells you he had a copy of Hitler's speech is
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on his nightstand in nineteen ninety. People that don't really
listen because they just want to get to their next thing.
Next thing is subverting the Constitution and serving a third
term and then claiming we don't need any more elections
because he's doing a great job. People whose response to
things you say just doesn't track none of that with him. No,
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they're putting out press releases saying he's healthy, and the
evidence of being healthy is that he won another one
of his golf tournaments at his course where he's allowed
to cheat. Bill, he used you again somehow nine years ago.
You figured it out. Since then you've forgotten. Stop forgetting.
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You have some small remaining responsibility here. Use that, not
that Bill Maher wasn't seeking to be used. I may
be guilty of overthinking this whole thing. Bill Maher works
now for the same fascists at Warner Bros. Discovery, led
by this guy David Zaslav, who took over and corrupted CNN.
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They let the people who would collaborate with them, who
would appease Trump, people like Jake Tapper, they let them
stay and fired everybody else. They said, to hell with
the ratings. We're not in it for the money. We're
here to neutralize and neoter CNN, And we're here to
neutralize and neoter what had been a boring but rather
reliably liberal show every Friday night on HBO. I want
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to know what they're going to try to do to
John Oliver. But John Oliver is made of something. I
have known Bill Mars since nineteen seventy eight, and he
was a shameless, self interested opportunist with no real principles
then and he's gone downhill since then. This may not
have been the primary motive for what he did, which
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is to provide the Trump camp with promotional material, with propaganda,
with propaganda video. This may not have been his primary goal,
but it was maybe his secondary goal. He did this
so he can keep his show on HBO. And if
there's no HBO show, there are no Bill Maher stand
up specials, there are no Bill Maher events anywhere. There's
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nobody in the audience cheering for Bill Maher. I've been
in front of that audience. It's intoxicating. They have a
nice room that creates a nice bounce. What's probably three
hundred people sounds like three thousand. You get addicted to
that pretty quickly. Then you remember it's three hundred people.
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I'm going to try to stop talking about Bill Maher
now our runner up worser Trump. CBS News reports that
on March third, the cell phone of retired Lieutenant General H. R.
McMaster rang used to work for the White House. He
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was the National Security Advisor for the first thirteen months
of the first Trump Reich, so, needless to say, he
was surprised when the voice on the other side said
it's the White House calling for you. I assume he
said something like which White House? Our White House. A
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day earlier, on March second, Trump had in fact insulted
Hr McMaster lasted him on social media as a weak
and totally ineffective loser. McMaster had just appeared on CBS
on sixty Minutes. He had voiced skepticism about the Trump
overture towards Putin and Putin's supposed willingness to end the
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war in Ukraine, which Trump believed, does not apparently believe now,
but may soon resume believing when he needs to change
the subject again. Anyway, the phone according to CBS with
their sources, I think we can guess who the source
was who could recount the phone call. The phone call
began with Trump saying Henry, Henry is how Trump opened
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the call before launching into the conversation. According to two
sources who were not authorized to discuss private conversations, the
former National Security advisor, mister McMaster interrupted, Uh, mister President,
this is hr McMaster. Trump then asked, dismissively, why the
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f would I talk to hi McMaster, and then Trump
launched into a scathing critique of his former aid. Two
sources said. According to CBS, the call was brief. The
explanation for this is because the White House is really
good and this administration is really good at screwing up
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elemental communications like signal chats and phone calls. He was
trying to reach the former governor, Henry McMaster, and they
presumably would be in the rolodex at the White House,
the electronic equivalent of a rolodex Henry mcmallory with McMaster Kama,
Henry McMaster comma hr. Perhaps, since he only hires idiots,
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let's look at the Press secretary as an example of this.
Since he only hires idiots, let's look at the Attorney
General Blondie for a moment. Since he only hires idiots.
Perhaps the person thought hr McMaster and Henry McMaster were
the same person. In any event, this was not some
fifth dimensional chess in which Trump got to call up
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hr McMaster and abuse him. He doesn't have the guts
to do that. The last line of the CBS report
is the best one here. Quote the call was brief,
as is our winner. Judge Janine Piro, former very brief
senator orio candidate from New York. One of the hosts
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of Fox News, and although it is an extraordinary competition
and each day is like watching the finals of some
Olympic event, day after day after day, every day since
nineteen ninety six, Janine Piro is possibly. I mean, there's
Jesse Waters there, the other people on in the morning,
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Brian Killmead, but it's very possible that Janine Piro. If
I had to pick just one, Janine Piro would be
the person I chose to be the stupidest person ever
on Fox News. And I have dated people who worked
at Fox News. Janine Piro. Something adds to the veneer
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of Janine's stupidity that is not there with say, Harris Faulkner,
who pretends to have some sort of veneer of sophistication.
Janine Piro resembles and sounds like every substitute teacher I
had in the fifth grade in the public schools of
Hastings on Hudson, New York. Okay, class, I'll be back
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in a minute. I gotta go smoke. You'd sit. Don't
light the building on fia, Janine Piro. We found out
there are people who are between the ages of wine
and four who are getting Social Security Janine Piro said,
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She was thereupon interrupted by Jessica Tarlov, the liberal on
the whichever the five, the outnumbered moron today, whatever the
show is called. Jessica Tarlov, who I can only assume
is either serving some sort of public service work release
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program from some past crime, or perhaps is has been
sent here by some deity that is making her serve
out something that she did in a past life. It
must have been something really, really bad. She's the one
out there who has to somehow not turn around. When
Janine Piro says, we found out there are people who
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are between the ages of want and faugh who are
getting Social Security and not ball up her fist and
give her a round house right to the jaw. Jessica
Tarlov does not do this. People always said, why do
you not have a Republican on your show, Keith? Why
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do you not have a foil who can debate you
and point out when on occasion you are mistaken? Why
do you not do this? The answer is because eventually,
no matter how many years I might go through without it,
I would ball up my fist, or more likely I'd
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simply throw some water or maybe the script or just
smack somebody with the script. Jessica Tarloff does not do
any of these things. It is to her great credit.
I admire her greatly. As much as I admire her
insight and her honesty, I admire more than anything else,
her ability to simply spew facts, to spit the fire
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of truth at flammable risks. Like Janine Piro. We found
out there are people who are between the ages of
one and four who are getting suchal se gerrity. Jess Katarlov,
that's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead. Janine
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Piro ignored that. Just talk right through it, never even
heard it. Because I'm just gonna guess here if she's
like those teachers that I had in the fifth grade,
because shardon nay, Janine, Page ten must be here somewhere.
Hold on, let me get page ten of my speech.
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Do you have page ten? Page ten's got to be
here somewhere. Just hold up the news conference. I'll find
page ten. We'll get it done eventually. Piro two days
worse person in the world. I've done all the damage
(01:00:02):
I can do here. Thank you for listening. As I
mentioned a segment ago, I think the show's been a
little ragged today, possibly because three quarters of it has
been ad libbed, and I believe this will be the
only episode this week. I have mentioned that I am
on some heavy duty antibiotics for a digestive issue and
(01:00:24):
they are working well, really well. The problem is essentially gone.
And I don't know how many different presidential administrations that
problem has been there. That's how bad a problem this is.
That's gone well. However, the further along the drugs get,
the more side effects there are. The problem is essentially gone,
(01:00:47):
so is my stamina, my sleep schedule, occasionally my voice,
and as you could hear in worse persons, any self
restraint I might have whatsoever. So it's probably a good
idea if I don't do a second episode this week,
because who the hell knows what I would say that
I edited stuff out of the second segment, Thank you
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very much anyway, if I can to be serious, although
I did do the edits, I'm going to skip Thursday's
episode if something changes or the news demands it, or
if I'm up in the middle of the night and
I just want to record forty five to sixty minutes
about Bill Maher or Stephen A. Smith, I'll do it.
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I'll post something if there's a news bullet and I'll
post something even if it's five minutes. But otherwise I
need to actually just not do this for a week
or anything for a week if I can get away
with it. So don't be surprised if there is no
episode Thursday. I have to rest this voice. It may
sound wonderful and malifluous to you. It's a real strain
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to get this out right now. Any who, enough about me?
What do you think about me? Brian Raine, John Phillip
Shanelle musical directors have Countdown Arrange produced and performed most
all of our music. Mister Shanelle handled orchestration and keyboards.
Mister was on the guitars, bass and drums, and it
was produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and pithy musical
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comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust.
The sports music is the Olberman theme from ESPN two,
written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Other
music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed.
My announcer today was my friend John Dean. Everything else was,
as ever, my fault, you know, if there's no episode
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on Thursday. It just occurred to me for the first time.
I'll have to ask Nancy Faust this by correspondence. Maybe
we could just put on forty five minutes of Nancy's
greatest recordings for this show, of which there is at
least a bank of forty five minutes. Quite seriously, most
of it less than a minute each, all of it marvelous.
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You just put that on. Say hi, this is countdown.
This is Keith al Rumina. Now, oh Nancy, and just
play all the stuff I have in the file. It's
an idea, just joking around. That's countdown for today. Just
seventy eight days until the scheduled end of his lane
duck and lame brained term unless Musk removes him sooner
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or the actuarial tables do remember impeach Trump. It will
not work now, it will win the Democrats the mid terms,
and I want polling on a presidential recall vote to
put pressure on the fourteen Republican senators and four Republican
representatives who could save our asses and by hour, I
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maane the American nation. This is why I don't like
to add lub until next time. I'm Keith Olberman, good Morning,
good afternoon, goodnight, screw Bill Maher and good Luck. Countdown
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