May 2, 2024 • 25 mins
SERIES 2 EPISODE 168: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: Enough excuses. In a speech in Wisconsin yesterday, Trump talked about, attacked, and attacked the accuracy of, Cassidy Hutchinson - a probable witness against him in the Election Subversion trial in Washington.
He has thus violated both the terms of his release on bail, and the gag order long ago imposed upon him.
Judge Tanya Chutkan must now jail him.
There is no evading this. While under threat of imprisonment if he violates the gag order in the Hush Money Election Interference case in New York, he has violated the gag order in the Election Subversion case in Washington. Judge Chutkan has no excuse this time. Revoke his bail. Somebody, for once, for God’s sake, for America’s preservation – draw the line in the sand.
And just for added insolence, in attacking Hutchinson he confirmed the gist of her testimony, that he tried to talk his Secret Service detail into taking him to the Capitol on January 6th so he could watch his scum try to overthrow American democracy. He's been lying about this for three years.
In his speech Trump also insisted he was president three years ago (he wasn't), butchered the word "infrastructure," and of particular relevance to the moment, reminded the current protestors that he would prohibit refugees from Gaza and reinstitute his ban on Muslims.
PLUS a small slip in that extraordinary Time Magazine interview suggests that his extensive, inappropriate, and entirely corrupt shadow diplomacy with other nations may have included some kind of arrangement with Putin by which Russia continues to hold Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich hostage, until and unless Trump regains power.
B-BLOCK (18:20) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: The collapse of the regional sports cable television market not only felled last year's San Diego Padres but it's now taken an NHL playoff game off the air in the middle of the action. When The Gateway Pundit wonders if you might be an unreliable source - you might be an unreliable source. And given that it was a stunt bill with no more impact than the week full of Republican Make Appliances Pollute Again legislation, it's amazing that Marjorie Taylor Greene decided to explain why she voted against an Antisemitism measure - and her reasoning was that it might make it illegal to proclaim that the Jews killed Jesus.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Judge
Tanya Chuckchin must revoke Trump's bail in the election subversion
(00:26):
case in Washington and order him to jail. Somebody somewhere
has to begin to use the law against Trump rather
than continuing to enable him to use it against America.
Trump has now violated his gag order in the Washington case,
and he has violated the terms of his release on
(00:49):
bail in the Washington case. And he has confessed he
did too want to go watch his militias attack the
capital on January sixth. He can't talk about witnesses, quote,
concerning their potential participation in the investigation or in this
criminal proceeding, which is exactly what he did do in Manitawac, Wisconsin,
(01:13):
as he first called Cassidy Hutchinson crazy, then claimed she
changed her testimony about how he tried to convince the
Secret Service to take him to the capitol on January sixth,
and then admitted he did try to convince the Secret
Service to take him to the capital on January sixth,
meaning he has been lying all this time. The gag
(01:35):
order and bail violation first.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Instead Davy I want to go down These people are crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
And then I think she changed your testimony.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
You heard that because the people testified that none of
this stuff happened. Now these people are crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
And Trump confesses to the meaningful part of Cassidy Hutchinson's
testimony that as his scum organized to try to sack
the capital and kill legislators and maybe the vice president
and begin his coup attempt, he wanted to be there
to watch. I sat in the back, and you know
(02:10):
what I did say.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I said, I'd like to go down there because I
see a lot of people walking down They said, sir,
it's better if you don't.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I say, we I'd like to add.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Better off you don't. All right, whatever you guys think
is funny.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
There can be no further evasion of this while under
threat of imprisonment. If he violates the gag order in
the hush money election interference case in New York. He
has now violated the gag order in the election subversion
case in Washington. Judge Chutkin has no further excuses revoke
(02:40):
his bail. Somebody, for once, for God's sake, for America's preservation,
draw the line in the sand, put Donald Trump in
jail now. Trump had not given a rally since his
rage fest in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, on April thirteenth. And if
(03:02):
you are wondering why not these little issues of violating
his bail and violating the gag order and confirming Cassidy
Hutchinson's testimony, if they do not provide sufficient explanation, here's
why not. He has gone absolutely nuts. Can't talk, can't
pronounce things, can't tell up from down, and can't subtract
(03:27):
the number three from a number four.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Three years ago, we were a great nation and we
will soon be a great nation again.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Vagan restaurant supposed to be really good.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I'm not into the Vagan stuff, I must say.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
But I'm gonna have to try this.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
When we come here in a short period of time
until Milwaukee, We're going to come and try that Vagan food.
With the GOP growth plunging by more than fifty percent,
one point two trillion dollars for their fake infrastructure.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Share power, ah, Yes, the good old days. Once again,
we return to Trumps Infra structure parrot week, infra struck
sure parrot. And by the way, I am kind of
(04:17):
agnostic about the campus protests. But if anybody involved in
them or sympathizing with them really thinks Trump would be
a better option for Gosins, or for Palestine, or for
those of Arab descent or Muslims or Jews, or basically
anybody except pasty white guys, you are nuts.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Crooked Joe is now reportedly planning this is wonderful news
for you people in Wisconsin to bring massive numbers of
Gosins from the Middle East or alive to your American towns,
your towns and villages under no circumstance issue. We bring
thousands of refugees from hamas control terrorists epicenters like Gaza
(05:04):
to America. On day one of the Trump presidency, I'm
restoring the travel band, suspending refugee admissions.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Muslim ban, and no gasen refugees Donald Trump's policy. Every day,
we continue to permit depraved Jay Trump to participate in
our national political discourse. We play with fire because somebody
is lying, and somebody is crazy, and somebody is racist,
(05:37):
and somebody is violating every law on the books, and
somebody is an existential threat to our lives. And it's
Trump and is the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gereshkovich
(05:59):
still being held prisoner by the Russian government because Putin
and Trump maid some sort of deal to keep him there,
or perhaps because Putin told Trump that he was going
to keep him there to try to improve Trump's chances
of election in the fall. And as Trump just let
that cat out of the bag about some kind of sick,
(06:20):
demented deal that keeps an American journalist, an American citizen,
an American hostage in Russia and thwarts this nation's efforts
to free him. We know that via proxies, Nixon helped
stall the Vietnam peace talks in nineteen sixty eight until
after that election. And we know that via proxies, Reagan
(06:42):
made sure American diplomats remained hostage in Iran in nineteen
eighty until after that election. And we know Trump has
a team in the field today worldwide conducting illegal shadow diplomacy,
reassuring our enemies to ignore the actual American government. And
this disloyal conspiracy by Trump and his minions is power
(07:04):
full enough and influential enough that far right Polish president
Dudah met Trump in Manhattan a week ago, and the
Hungarian fascist Orbond was at marri Lago in March, and
even the former failed British Prime Minister now Foreign Minister
David Cameron went there and fed the narrative that Trump
cares about any other country longer than it would take
(07:27):
him to assess whether or not that country will help
him get power, get money and get out of going
to jail. Here and then there is the ever consuming
unsolved issue of Trump's role with Putin. Is Trump the
blackmail victim? Is he the marionette? Is he the Rubles recipient?
(07:49):
Whichever way it finally proves Trump has been compromised by Russia,
it would seem the manipulation of the life of one
poor guy who is just reporting on the Wagner Group
wouldn't be that heavy a lift for Trump or Putin
to manipulate further. But the slip Trump has now made
it was buried in the extraordinary mountain of horrors. In
(08:12):
the Time magazine interviews with Eric Cordlessa, It's just so
odd that if and when you hear Trump bring up
the Biden administration's inability to get the Wall Street Journal's
reporter released and start campaigning on it, you will know
that that's just the back end of another big Trump
(08:32):
putin fix It starts with this salient reality. If not
a Biden failure, this certainly is not a Biden's success.
For Trump's crowd, this is an easy to digest story
among journalists. It is understandably a cause celeb which they
will give the benefit of the doubt to. And Trump
(08:53):
has tried to own the subject of American hostages in
the past. They never would have been taken. He would
have gotten them released, He would have gotten them home
safely out o Warmbier. Notwithstanding, and yet Trump has been
stone cold silent about Gershkovich. It's worth reviewing the transcript
of the Time interview. Cord Alessa asked Trump, quote, we
(09:16):
just passed the one year anniversary of Evan Gershkovich's detainment
in Russia. Why haven't you called for his release? Trump flails.
I guess because I have so many things I'm working on.
I have hundreds of things, and I probably have said
very good things about him. Maybe it wasn't reported. Probably
(09:41):
even for a man with as profound a series of
brain dysfunctions as Trump has, that is a remarkable word.
I probably have said very good things about him. In
point of fact. As late as March twenty ninth, Trump
and separately his campaign were pressed for answers about Garshkovich's
(10:04):
imprisonment the Wall Street Journal. His employer asked in print,
why the silence, Sir? Trump did not answer. Trump's campaign
did not answer. But back to this time interview, he
is again asked if he will call for Geshkovich's release.
(10:26):
The exact question does not mention the man's name, It
simply will you do it now? Trump replies, you're talking
about Wall Street Journal. He can't even remember the name
of the man mentioned thirty seconds earlier in the interview. Oh,
I would certainly call I'll call for it right now
in your story if you'd like. But I do have
many many things. So far, it's just the usual word
(10:50):
salad and backfill and bullshit tinged with something that sounds
reads at least like fear, maybe fear of saying the
wrong thing from Putin's perspective. But then comes the slip quote,
here's a difference between me and Biden. I'll get him released.
(11:11):
He'll be released. Putin is going to release him. However,
did he come up with that? How in the hell
would Trump know that Putin is going to release him.
(11:35):
How in the hell does this man whose entire life
has been spent not giving black and white answers to anything,
whose spirit animal is the waffle, How in the hell
does he go from not remembering Evan Gereshkovich's name one
minute to guaranteeing something that in the real world seems
more remote every second. I'll get him released. He'll be released.
(11:59):
Putin is going to release him. And then it gets
amazing weirder. Trump wanders into criticism of Ukraine and then
back again. Quote. I get along very well with Putin,
but the reporter should be released, and he will be released.
I don't know if he's going to be released. Under Biden,
I would get him released. Yes, I'm surprised with Biden. Well,
(12:22):
I'm not surprised with anything with Biden. But I think
it's a terrible precedent. Unquote who knows what he means
by a terrible precedent. But you can almost hear the
mice running around in that one wheel, still powering Trump's
enfeebled mind. He's desperately trying to figure out what to
say without saying. Putin is holding the reporter until releasing him.
(12:48):
Helps Trump. What he does say is quote, I'm very
surprised he hasn't been released, but I will get him
released if he's not released by the time we get
to office. So Trump gets baited into talking about someone
he has clearly been told not to talk about an
(13:11):
a matter of fact, he guarantees that Putin will release him.
He then guarantees Putin will not release him under Biden,
and finally he offers both remaining scenarios that he Trump
will get Gershkovich released if Gereshkovich has not been released
by the time we get to office. In other words,
(13:34):
get him released in that window between the election and
the inauguration, by which point Putin would know Garshkovich would
have no more value as a hostage and his release
would only work to Trump's benefit. It stinks, and as
the disloyal treachery of Nixon on Vietnam and Reagan on
(13:56):
the Iran hostages shows, it's not even unique to Trump.
It's a Republican oldie, but goodie Trump just no longer
retains enough control of his bodily functions, including his brain,
to not spill the beans. So let me ask it again.
(14:17):
Is the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gereshkovich still being
held prisoner by the Russian government because Putin and Trump
have some sort of agreement to keep him there. My
thanks as always to the estimable Brian Bouler for bringing
(14:40):
this up in his story. Also of interest here, Marjorie
Taylor Green wants to make the country safe for people
who proclaim that the Jews crucified Jesus Jesus H. Christ.
(15:01):
That's next. This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith Alberman.
(15:29):
The procession is endless once again, still more new idiots
to talk about. Yes, it's the daily roundup of the
miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effect specimens who constitute
today's wor worst best persons in the world, World Lebrons worse.
(15:50):
Do you like watching the sports on the television? Yeah, well,
good luck. Diamond Sports and Bally Sports. And if you remember,
these are the companies running countless regional sports TV networks
across the country. It went bankrupt last year and it
stopped pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into the sports industry,
(16:11):
and things got so bad so fast that by September,
the San Diego Padres basically had no money left to
meet payroll, and they had to get an emergency loan
of fifty million dollars, and then they had to trade
superstar Jan Soto to the Yankees. In bankruptcy, Diamond Sports
and Bally Sports keeps televising all or some of the
(16:31):
games of fifty one different teams in baseball, football, basketball, hockey, soccer.
It has managed to stay alive and on the air
with about eighty percent of the nation's cable carriers, but
not with Comcast Cable. The deal expired no new deal,
so at eleven PM Tuesday night, as your Nashville Predators,
(16:56):
What a Wonderful name, began their comeback that would end
with them beating the Vancouver Canucks to stay alive and
their opening round NHL Playoff series. Editors fans watching on
Bally Sports South on Comcast suddenly saw the game disappear
by Felicia, please enjoy instead. This colorful test pattern and
(17:19):
no Comcast in Bally Sports have not resolved it. The
game was, however, on the Turner Playoff broadcast, where the
promo announcer has described the Vancouver team as the Kanucks
really working at a turner. The Runners up worser Jordan
Conradson and Kevin munklaw they are right wing conspiracy theorists
(17:42):
and political writers and sources, and how bad are their reputations?
The lawsuit by Shane Moss and Ruby Freeman against the
right wing conspiracy site and propaganda outlet Gateway Pundit has
produced evidence that the director of operations at Gateway Pundit
they have won, and their associate editor they have one
(18:02):
of those traded text messages quote expressing major concerns as
to the professionalism, reliability and honesty of several contributors, including
Jordan Conradson, expressing concerns that a contributor engaged in plagiarism
and made claims without any sources unquote. This is according
to the newspaper The Guardian. The Guardian does not quote
(18:24):
anything any kind of text or anything else about Conradson directly,
but about the other guy, Mankla. There is a reported
text from Gateway Pundit's lawyer. They had a lawyer to reading.
Quote Mankla is a known fabricator. I wouldn't touch publish
anything he produces a goddamned fraud. Now understand what this
(18:46):
means within the context of far right circles. People say, yeah,
I read that, but I read it on the Gateway pundits,
So who knows if it's true or not. I mean,
the Gateway pundit has less credibility than the toad turd
(19:06):
with cat turd. Guy cat turd looks askance the Gateway pundit.
People at the Gateway pundit. Doubting right wingers is like
Trump getting up one day and saying, now, this may
or may not be true, but I'm told Democrats are
in favor of mail in voting. But take what I'm
saying here with a grain of salt. But our winner
(19:28):
the worst Marjorie Anti Semite Green. You often wonder how
the true scumbags in our midst will meet their inevitable ends. Well,
we may be seeing this playing out in real time
for the Barney Rubble of the Georgia Congressional delegation. First
Trump whacked her over Ukraine and Mike Johnson. The Democrats
(19:50):
are not only helping Republicans thwart her plans with the speaker,
but they may bury her motion to vacate the chair
when she finally files it. And now she has made
a huge mistake. It won't play it as a huge
mistake in her own district, but it will in Yeah,
most of the rest of the country. I know you
won't believe this, but the fascists did some stunt legislating
(20:12):
yesterday HR. Sixty ninety the Anti Semitism Awareness Act, because
of course they're holding off on another bill called the
Anti Palestine Awareness Act. Lots of reps from both parties
voted against this for a variety of reasons, including the
fact that it's a stunt that simply lists ten examples
(20:32):
of anti Semitism that it would declare, if passed, examples
of anti Semitism. We're going to pass the sun Rises
in the East bill next week. That's gonna be a
good one. But Margie, Margie was smart enough to publicly
state why she voted against this Anti Semitism Awareness Act,
(20:54):
and her answer is not good, Bob. Anti Semitism is wrong,
she writes, and her deviated septum somehow comes through even
in print. But I will not be voting for the
Anti Semitism Awareness Act today that could here it comes ready.
I will not be voting for the Anti Semitism Awareness
(21:14):
Act today that could convict Christians of anti semitism for
believing the Gospel that says Jesus was handed over to
Herod to be crucified by the Jews. Yeah, she only
spelled Jews with onew That was me just adding a
(21:34):
little element of inflection to it. So in a stunt
bill going nowhere that no one will remember, that will
be replaced next week by the Republicans Anti environmentally sound stoves,
Save my Mesquite Awareness and Barbecue Act of twenty twenty four,
(21:56):
Marge decided to publicly put on the record by announcing
that she believes that Jesus was crucified by the Jews.
Therid Digital Component, the Big Timer, the ground zero of
the Holocaust, and all anti Semitism. Nice work, genius.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Possibly a contemporary example of anti Semitism, according to this bill,
could be the very belief that we all believe in
the Gospel, if you're a Christian, is that Jesus was
handed over to be killed, and that decision was made
by the Jews. According to that definition, that could be
could be considered anti semitism.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Marjorie dumb as a box of Clay Higgins's green and
what's worse, they did it with Rothschild Space lazers two days,
worst person in the way. I've done all the damage
(23:20):
I can do here. Thank you for listening today. Countdown.
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It was produced by Tko Brothers. Other music, including some
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(23:40):
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my friend Kenny Maine, and everything else was pretty much
my fault. So that's countdown for this the one hundred
(24:01):
and eighty eighth day until the twenty twenty four presidential
election and thirteenth day since dementia. J. Trump's first attempted
coup against the democratically elected government of the United States
that he wanted to go watch as it happened, and
then lied about that for three years, use the justice system,
(24:21):
use the mental health system, use the not regularly given
elector objection option, Use the Donald the Walrus no sleepies
bit to stop him from doing it again while we
still can. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bolletin says,
the news warrants till then, I'm Keith Olumman. Good morning,
(24:42):
good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Down with Keith
(25:05):
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your podcasts.
Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Judge
Tanya Chuckchin must revoke Trump's bail in the election subversion
(00:26):
case in Washington and order him to jail. Somebody somewhere
has to begin to use the law against Trump rather
than continuing to enable him to use it against America.
Trump has now violated his gag order in the Washington case,
and he has violated the terms of his release on
(00:49):
bail in the Washington case. And he has confessed he
did too want to go watch his militias attack the
capital on January sixth. He can't talk about witnesses, quote,
concerning their potential participation in the investigation or in this
criminal proceeding, which is exactly what he did do in Manitawac, Wisconsin,
(01:13):
as he first called Cassidy Hutchinson crazy, then claimed she
changed her testimony about how he tried to convince the
Secret Service to take him to the capitol on January sixth,
and then admitted he did try to convince the Secret
Service to take him to the capital on January sixth,
meaning he has been lying all this time. The gag
(01:35):
order and bail violation first.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Instead Davy I want to go down These people are crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
And then I think she changed your testimony.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
You heard that because the people testified that none of
this stuff happened. Now these people are crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
And Trump confesses to the meaningful part of Cassidy Hutchinson's
testimony that as his scum organized to try to sack
the capital and kill legislators and maybe the vice president
and begin his coup attempt, he wanted to be there
to watch. I sat in the back, and you know
(02:10):
what I did say.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I said, I'd like to go down there because I
see a lot of people walking down They said, sir,
it's better if you don't.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I say, we I'd like to add.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Better off you don't. All right, whatever you guys think
is funny.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
There can be no further evasion of this while under
threat of imprisonment. If he violates the gag order in
the hush money election interference case in New York. He
has now violated the gag order in the election subversion
case in Washington. Judge Chutkin has no further excuses revoke
(02:40):
his bail. Somebody, for once, for God's sake, for America's preservation,
draw the line in the sand, put Donald Trump in
jail now. Trump had not given a rally since his
rage fest in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, on April thirteenth. And if
(03:02):
you are wondering why not these little issues of violating
his bail and violating the gag order and confirming Cassidy
Hutchinson's testimony, if they do not provide sufficient explanation, here's
why not. He has gone absolutely nuts. Can't talk, can't
pronounce things, can't tell up from down, and can't subtract
(03:27):
the number three from a number four.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Three years ago, we were a great nation and we
will soon be a great nation again.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Vagan restaurant supposed to be really good.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I'm not into the Vagan stuff, I must say.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
But I'm gonna have to try this.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
When we come here in a short period of time
until Milwaukee, We're going to come and try that Vagan food.
With the GOP growth plunging by more than fifty percent,
one point two trillion dollars for their fake infrastructure.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Share power, ah, Yes, the good old days. Once again,
we return to Trumps Infra structure parrot week, infra struck
sure parrot. And by the way, I am kind of
(04:17):
agnostic about the campus protests. But if anybody involved in
them or sympathizing with them really thinks Trump would be
a better option for Gosins, or for Palestine, or for
those of Arab descent or Muslims or Jews, or basically
anybody except pasty white guys, you are nuts.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Crooked Joe is now reportedly planning this is wonderful news
for you people in Wisconsin to bring massive numbers of
Gosins from the Middle East or alive to your American towns,
your towns and villages under no circumstance issue. We bring
thousands of refugees from hamas control terrorists epicenters like Gaza
(05:04):
to America. On day one of the Trump presidency, I'm
restoring the travel band, suspending refugee admissions.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Muslim ban, and no gasen refugees Donald Trump's policy. Every day,
we continue to permit depraved Jay Trump to participate in
our national political discourse. We play with fire because somebody
is lying, and somebody is crazy, and somebody is racist,
(05:37):
and somebody is violating every law on the books, and
somebody is an existential threat to our lives. And it's
Trump and is the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gereshkovich
(05:59):
still being held prisoner by the Russian government because Putin
and Trump maid some sort of deal to keep him there,
or perhaps because Putin told Trump that he was going
to keep him there to try to improve Trump's chances
of election in the fall. And as Trump just let
that cat out of the bag about some kind of sick,
(06:20):
demented deal that keeps an American journalist, an American citizen,
an American hostage in Russia and thwarts this nation's efforts
to free him. We know that via proxies, Nixon helped
stall the Vietnam peace talks in nineteen sixty eight until
after that election. And we know that via proxies, Reagan
(06:42):
made sure American diplomats remained hostage in Iran in nineteen
eighty until after that election. And we know Trump has
a team in the field today worldwide conducting illegal shadow diplomacy,
reassuring our enemies to ignore the actual American government. And
this disloyal conspiracy by Trump and his minions is power
(07:04):
full enough and influential enough that far right Polish president
Dudah met Trump in Manhattan a week ago, and the
Hungarian fascist Orbond was at marri Lago in March, and
even the former failed British Prime Minister now Foreign Minister
David Cameron went there and fed the narrative that Trump
cares about any other country longer than it would take
(07:27):
him to assess whether or not that country will help
him get power, get money and get out of going
to jail. Here and then there is the ever consuming
unsolved issue of Trump's role with Putin. Is Trump the
blackmail victim? Is he the marionette? Is he the Rubles recipient?
(07:49):
Whichever way it finally proves Trump has been compromised by Russia,
it would seem the manipulation of the life of one
poor guy who is just reporting on the Wagner Group
wouldn't be that heavy a lift for Trump or Putin
to manipulate further. But the slip Trump has now made
it was buried in the extraordinary mountain of horrors. In
(08:12):
the Time magazine interviews with Eric Cordlessa, It's just so
odd that if and when you hear Trump bring up
the Biden administration's inability to get the Wall Street Journal's
reporter released and start campaigning on it, you will know
that that's just the back end of another big Trump
(08:32):
putin fix It starts with this salient reality. If not
a Biden failure, this certainly is not a Biden's success.
For Trump's crowd, this is an easy to digest story
among journalists. It is understandably a cause celeb which they
will give the benefit of the doubt to. And Trump
(08:53):
has tried to own the subject of American hostages in
the past. They never would have been taken. He would
have gotten them released, He would have gotten them home
safely out o Warmbier. Notwithstanding, and yet Trump has been
stone cold silent about Gershkovich. It's worth reviewing the transcript
of the Time interview. Cord Alessa asked Trump, quote, we
(09:16):
just passed the one year anniversary of Evan Gershkovich's detainment
in Russia. Why haven't you called for his release? Trump flails.
I guess because I have so many things I'm working on.
I have hundreds of things, and I probably have said
very good things about him. Maybe it wasn't reported. Probably
(09:41):
even for a man with as profound a series of
brain dysfunctions as Trump has, that is a remarkable word.
I probably have said very good things about him. In
point of fact. As late as March twenty ninth, Trump
and separately his campaign were pressed for answers about Garshkovich's
(10:04):
imprisonment the Wall Street Journal. His employer asked in print,
why the silence, Sir? Trump did not answer. Trump's campaign
did not answer. But back to this time interview, he
is again asked if he will call for Geshkovich's release.
(10:26):
The exact question does not mention the man's name, It
simply will you do it now? Trump replies, you're talking
about Wall Street Journal. He can't even remember the name
of the man mentioned thirty seconds earlier in the interview. Oh,
I would certainly call I'll call for it right now
in your story if you'd like. But I do have
many many things. So far, it's just the usual word
(10:50):
salad and backfill and bullshit tinged with something that sounds
reads at least like fear, maybe fear of saying the
wrong thing from Putin's perspective. But then comes the slip quote,
here's a difference between me and Biden. I'll get him released.
(11:11):
He'll be released. Putin is going to release him. However,
did he come up with that? How in the hell
would Trump know that Putin is going to release him.
(11:35):
How in the hell does this man whose entire life
has been spent not giving black and white answers to anything,
whose spirit animal is the waffle, How in the hell
does he go from not remembering Evan Gereshkovich's name one
minute to guaranteeing something that in the real world seems
more remote every second. I'll get him released. He'll be released.
(11:59):
Putin is going to release him. And then it gets
amazing weirder. Trump wanders into criticism of Ukraine and then
back again. Quote. I get along very well with Putin,
but the reporter should be released, and he will be released.
I don't know if he's going to be released. Under Biden,
I would get him released. Yes, I'm surprised with Biden. Well,
(12:22):
I'm not surprised with anything with Biden. But I think
it's a terrible precedent. Unquote who knows what he means
by a terrible precedent. But you can almost hear the
mice running around in that one wheel, still powering Trump's
enfeebled mind. He's desperately trying to figure out what to
say without saying. Putin is holding the reporter until releasing him.
(12:48):
Helps Trump. What he does say is quote, I'm very
surprised he hasn't been released, but I will get him
released if he's not released by the time we get
to office. So Trump gets baited into talking about someone
he has clearly been told not to talk about an
(13:11):
a matter of fact, he guarantees that Putin will release him.
He then guarantees Putin will not release him under Biden,
and finally he offers both remaining scenarios that he Trump
will get Gershkovich released if Gereshkovich has not been released
by the time we get to office. In other words,
(13:34):
get him released in that window between the election and
the inauguration, by which point Putin would know Garshkovich would
have no more value as a hostage and his release
would only work to Trump's benefit. It stinks, and as
the disloyal treachery of Nixon on Vietnam and Reagan on
(13:56):
the Iran hostages shows, it's not even unique to Trump.
It's a Republican oldie, but goodie Trump just no longer
retains enough control of his bodily functions, including his brain,
to not spill the beans. So let me ask it again.
(14:17):
Is the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gereshkovich still being
held prisoner by the Russian government because Putin and Trump
have some sort of agreement to keep him there. My
thanks as always to the estimable Brian Bouler for bringing
(14:40):
this up in his story. Also of interest here, Marjorie
Taylor Green wants to make the country safe for people
who proclaim that the Jews crucified Jesus Jesus H. Christ.
(15:01):
That's next. This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith Alberman.
(15:29):
The procession is endless once again, still more new idiots
to talk about. Yes, it's the daily roundup of the
miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effect specimens who constitute
today's wor worst best persons in the world, World Lebrons worse.
(15:50):
Do you like watching the sports on the television? Yeah, well,
good luck. Diamond Sports and Bally Sports. And if you remember,
these are the companies running countless regional sports TV networks
across the country. It went bankrupt last year and it
stopped pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into the sports industry,
(16:11):
and things got so bad so fast that by September,
the San Diego Padres basically had no money left to
meet payroll, and they had to get an emergency loan
of fifty million dollars, and then they had to trade
superstar Jan Soto to the Yankees. In bankruptcy, Diamond Sports
and Bally Sports keeps televising all or some of the
(16:31):
games of fifty one different teams in baseball, football, basketball, hockey, soccer.
It has managed to stay alive and on the air
with about eighty percent of the nation's cable carriers, but
not with Comcast Cable. The deal expired no new deal,
so at eleven PM Tuesday night, as your Nashville Predators,
(16:56):
What a Wonderful name, began their comeback that would end
with them beating the Vancouver Canucks to stay alive and
their opening round NHL Playoff series. Editors fans watching on
Bally Sports South on Comcast suddenly saw the game disappear
by Felicia, please enjoy instead. This colorful test pattern and
(17:19):
no Comcast in Bally Sports have not resolved it. The
game was, however, on the Turner Playoff broadcast, where the
promo announcer has described the Vancouver team as the Kanucks
really working at a turner. The Runners up worser Jordan
Conradson and Kevin munklaw they are right wing conspiracy theorists
(17:42):
and political writers and sources, and how bad are their reputations?
The lawsuit by Shane Moss and Ruby Freeman against the
right wing conspiracy site and propaganda outlet Gateway Pundit has
produced evidence that the director of operations at Gateway Pundit
they have won, and their associate editor they have one
(18:02):
of those traded text messages quote expressing major concerns as
to the professionalism, reliability and honesty of several contributors, including
Jordan Conradson, expressing concerns that a contributor engaged in plagiarism
and made claims without any sources unquote. This is according
to the newspaper The Guardian. The Guardian does not quote
(18:24):
anything any kind of text or anything else about Conradson directly,
but about the other guy, Mankla. There is a reported
text from Gateway Pundit's lawyer. They had a lawyer to reading.
Quote Mankla is a known fabricator. I wouldn't touch publish
anything he produces a goddamned fraud. Now understand what this
(18:46):
means within the context of far right circles. People say, yeah,
I read that, but I read it on the Gateway pundits,
So who knows if it's true or not. I mean,
the Gateway pundit has less credibility than the toad turd
(19:06):
with cat turd. Guy cat turd looks askance the Gateway pundit.
People at the Gateway pundit. Doubting right wingers is like
Trump getting up one day and saying, now, this may
or may not be true, but I'm told Democrats are
in favor of mail in voting. But take what I'm
saying here with a grain of salt. But our winner
(19:28):
the worst Marjorie Anti Semite Green. You often wonder how
the true scumbags in our midst will meet their inevitable ends. Well,
we may be seeing this playing out in real time
for the Barney Rubble of the Georgia Congressional delegation. First
Trump whacked her over Ukraine and Mike Johnson. The Democrats
(19:50):
are not only helping Republicans thwart her plans with the speaker,
but they may bury her motion to vacate the chair
when she finally files it. And now she has made
a huge mistake. It won't play it as a huge
mistake in her own district, but it will in Yeah,
most of the rest of the country. I know you
won't believe this, but the fascists did some stunt legislating
(20:12):
yesterday HR. Sixty ninety the Anti Semitism Awareness Act, because
of course they're holding off on another bill called the
Anti Palestine Awareness Act. Lots of reps from both parties
voted against this for a variety of reasons, including the
fact that it's a stunt that simply lists ten examples
(20:32):
of anti Semitism that it would declare, if passed, examples
of anti Semitism. We're going to pass the sun Rises
in the East bill next week. That's gonna be a
good one. But Margie, Margie was smart enough to publicly
state why she voted against this Anti Semitism Awareness Act,
(20:54):
and her answer is not good, Bob. Anti Semitism is wrong,
she writes, and her deviated septum somehow comes through even
in print. But I will not be voting for the
Anti Semitism Awareness Act today that could here it comes ready.
I will not be voting for the Anti Semitism Awareness
(21:14):
Act today that could convict Christians of anti semitism for
believing the Gospel that says Jesus was handed over to
Herod to be crucified by the Jews. Yeah, she only
spelled Jews with onew That was me just adding a
(21:34):
little element of inflection to it. So in a stunt
bill going nowhere that no one will remember, that will
be replaced next week by the Republicans Anti environmentally sound stoves,
Save my Mesquite Awareness and Barbecue Act of twenty twenty four,
(21:56):
Marge decided to publicly put on the record by announcing
that she believes that Jesus was crucified by the Jews.
Therid Digital Component, the Big Timer, the ground zero of
the Holocaust, and all anti Semitism. Nice work, genius.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Possibly a contemporary example of anti Semitism, according to this bill,
could be the very belief that we all believe in
the Gospel, if you're a Christian, is that Jesus was
handed over to be killed, and that decision was made
by the Jews. According to that definition, that could be
could be considered anti semitism.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Marjorie dumb as a box of Clay Higgins's green and
what's worse, they did it with Rothschild Space lazers two days,
worst person in the way. I've done all the damage
(23:20):
I can do here. Thank you for listening today. Countdown.
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and performed most of our music. Mister Ray on guitars,
bass and drums, and mister Schaneale on orchestration and keyboards.
It was produced by Tko Brothers. Other music, including some
of the Beethoven compositions, arranged and performed by the group
(23:40):
No Horns Allowed. Sports music is the Olderman theme from
ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis, courtesy of ESPN Inc.
Our satirical and pithy musical comments are by Nancy Faust,
the best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was
my friend Kenny Maine, and everything else was pretty much
my fault. So that's countdown for this the one hundred
(24:01):
and eighty eighth day until the twenty twenty four presidential
election and thirteenth day since dementia. J. Trump's first attempted
coup against the democratically elected government of the United States
that he wanted to go watch as it happened, and
then lied about that for three years, use the justice system,
(24:21):
use the mental health system, use the not regularly given
elector objection option, Use the Donald the Walrus no sleepies
bit to stop him from doing it again while we
still can. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bolletin says,
the news warrants till then, I'm Keith Olumman. Good morning,
(24:42):
good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Down with Keith
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