September 21, 2023 • 31 mins
SEASON 2 EPISODE 40: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump has descended into full-fledged panic over the Possible Gag Order and either he is exaggerating for effect – what a shock – or, more likely, his lawyers, preparing an answer to Jack Smith’s request to Judge Chutkan that is due Monday, told him SOMETHING that set his hair on fire and you know the dangers of combustion when spray paint is mixed with open flames. And that imagery is more than a joke about his bottle blondness. It is a forecast of things to come. We are headed to a legal crisis over Trump’s social media posts and his refusal to accede to the rule of law and I don’t know where this ends but at the far end of political science fiction, where it ends is a shootout between United States Marshals and United States Secret Service.
His bail – his NOT being held in a jail cell in the District of Columbia until trial starts – is dependent on him NOT defying the law. As I said last week, at some point, whatever limitations Chutkan imposes upon him, WHEN he violates them, whether it’s the first time or the fiftieth – he is NOT going to surrender. He is not going to let them put him in prison. They are going to have to go and get him. And what happens THEN?
It seems madness to risk the lives of Marshals or Secret Service to protect this semi-sentient pile of feces. But, what? You’re going to have the Secret Service agents protecting him turn around an arrest him? Biden is going to order the head of the Secret Service to order his men to stand down when the Marshals arrive? Trump is going to see the photo-shoot-value in an actual perp walk?
I’m not counting on the last one. Rolling Stone now reports that as you’d expect, the I-don’t-think-about-jail crap he gave to the gullible Kristen Welker in last Sunday’s stenography class is nonsense. Quoting: “In the past several months, Donald Trump has had a burning question for some of his confidants and attorneys: Would the authorities make him wear, quote, “one of those jumpsuits” in prison?... Three sources familiar with his comments say he’s been aking lawyers and other people close to him what a prison sentence would look like for a former American president. Would he be sent to a ‘club fed’ style prison… or a bad prison? Would he serve out a sentence in a plush home confinement?... those who’ve heard him ask these questions about a hypothetical sentencing tell Rolling Stone that it’s clear the gravity of his mounting legal peril is GETTING to Trump."
As an aside, I understand Jann Wenner is asking the same questions.
Also: Cassidy Hutchinson's book includes a sexual assault accusation against Rudy Giuliani. It's the worst sexual misconduct accusation against him in nearly four months. Also Lin Wood flips on the entire Trump crowd. And a tweet from Junior Trump announces his father had died. He was hacked. We think.
B-Block (18:45) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: JD Vance sets some kind of record by averaging more than one lie per sentence in a tweet about an "American journalist held hostage by Ukraine" who is none of the above. Congresswoman Victoria Spartz asks Merrick Garland a question and if he's still thinking about the hearing he's probably asking 'what the hell did she SAY?' And James O'Keefe's obsession with becoming a musical star has now led to the closure of Project (In Vino) Veritas. But who will think of the cast of O'Keefe-Homa!?
C-Block (25:39) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: If Rudy is back in the news then the question: "what happened to Rudy?" is also back in the news and I'll give you the answer: whatever it is, it happened in 1995 or earlier.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump
has descended into full fledged panic over the possible gag order,
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and either he is exaggerating for effect what a shock
that would be, or more likely, his lawyers preparing an
answer to Jack Smith's request to Judge Chutkin that is
due Monday, told him something that set his hair on fire,
and you know the dangers of combustion when spray paint
is mixed with open flames. And that imagery is more
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than just a joke about his bottle blondness. It is
a forecast of things to come. We are headed to
a legal crisis over Trump's social media posts and his
refusal to accede to the rule of law. And I
don't know where this ends, but at the far end
of the political science fic where it ends is a
shootout between United States marshals and United States Secret Service agents.
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Either way, it is enough of a story that I
think it's bigger than the oh sexual assault accusation against
Rudy Giuliani by Cassidy Hutchinson, and bigger than Lynn would
flipping on the entire Trump team, and bigger than a
tweet from Junior Trump announcing his father had died. He
was hacked, we think, Trump writes deranged Jack Smith's and parenthetically,
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Jack Smith says, thanks for more evidence, don Deranged Jack
Smith's gag order request would make it impossible for me
to speak negatively about Biden and other subjects of incompetence.
How ridiculous. No more First Amendment, and regardless of whatever
triggered that. In Trump's forever malfunctioning, perpetually paranoid, mainly martyrdom brain,
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it signals yet again that if Judge Chuckkin actually imposes
limits on what Trump can and cannot say, or write,
or both, we are headed for a genuine confrontation. Trump
is told not to attack or obstruct the prosecution, the judge,
the witnesses, the jury pool. He agrees under oath. Within
seventy two hours, he does it anyway. Six weeks later,
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the prosecutor tells the judge he did it anyway and
has kept on doing it, and she has to do something.
And he cites, among dozens of other things, the repeated
use of the adjective deranged in social media posts, and
Trump responds by using the adjective deranged in a social
media post and the prosecutor points in particular at Trump's
lie that he was indicted at the orders of the
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president of the United States. And Trump comes back and
repeats the lie and expands it into something that would
be totally delightful and totally illegal, some kind of court
order in which Trump can never comment about Biden again.
'tis a consummation devoutedly to be and as I said,
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it's also illegal. But Trump is clearly neither bowing to
the instructions of a federal judge nor adhering to his
own agreement to those instructions. And that is the essence here,
Because I feel like the announcer in the Timeless Bob
and Ray sketch about the driving of the Golden Strike.
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That's it, ladies and gentlemen. The Golden Spike is driven.
The Transcontinental Railroad is complete, and here come the trains,
one from the east and one from the west. I'm
standing here seeing this madness unfolding, and I know that
the next thing is a full on, head on high
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speed train wreck. What happens if Chutkin doesn't opt to
punish and corral him by just moving up the start
of the insurrection trial, say one day for every violation,
or doesn't opt to do only that, but actually institutes
a gag order of some kind, even a minimal one,
and Trump ignores it, and Trump calls her deranged, and
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Trump says it's illegal, and Trump continues to defy the court.
His bail, his not being kept in a jail cell
in the District of Columbia until the trial starts, is
dependent on him not defying the court. As I said
last week, at some point, whatever limitations Chruckckin imposes upon
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him when he violates them, whether it is the first
time he violates them or the fiftieth time he violates them,
He's not going to surrender. He's not going to let
them put him in prison. They're going to have to
go and get him. And what happens then it seems
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madness to risk the lives of marshals or Secret Service
agents to protect this semi sentient pile of feces. But
what you're going to have the Secret Service agents protecting
him turn around and arrest him, or Biden is going
to order the head of the Secret Service to order
his men to stand down when the marshals arrive. Trump
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is going to see the photo shoot value in an
actual purp walk and just say, sure, take me to prison.
I'm not counting on that last one. Rolling Stone now
reports that, as you would expect, the I don't think
about jail crap that he gave to the gullible Kristen
Welker in last Sunday's stenography class is nonsense. Quoting in
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the past several months, Donald Trump has had a burning
question for some of his confidants and attorneys. Would the
authorities make him wear quote one of those jumpsuits unquote
in prison? Three sources familiar with his comments say he's
been asking lawyers and other people close to him what
a prison sentence would look like for a former American president.
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Would he be sent to a club fed style prison
or a bad prison? Would he serve out a sentence
in a plush home confinement. Those who've heard him ask
these questions about a hypothetical sentencing tell Rolling Stone that
it's clear the gravity of his mounting legal peril is
getting to Trump unquote. As an aside, I understand jan
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Winner is asking the same questions, but seriously, folks, Trump's
lawyers have to submit an answer by Monday, so they
have discussed the Smith gag order motion, and at some
point they have to have discussed the response or will
discuss the response with Trump, and that's where the social
media outburst could have originated. Or somebody read Trump a
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quote article at Wright part quote news that is their
standard formula, a right wing nut job in this case,
the former head writer for the former Tucker carl tweets something.
In this case it was the Trump gag order is
truly insane. The Washington Post then prints a piece critical
of the proposed order, written by their hyper conservative guy
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who they gave an opinion job to based on his
tenure as a Wall Street Journal editorial page editor, and
before that, a writer for the now bankrupt American Interest
magazine that had been funded by the Nixon Foundation. Now no,
seriously that Nixon Nixon, who like Reagan, is still damaging
this country from hell anyway, Breitbart aggregates these two throwaway
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opinions slaps on the headline quote Smith's gag order would
essentially ban Trump from criticizing Biden. Critics, say critics, as
if the critics the Nixon guy and the Tucker Carlson guy,
As if these critics were H. L. Menkin and Pauline Kale,
and hours later, coincidentally or not, Trump posts the gag
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order would make it quote impossible for me to speak
negatively about Biden. It's unlikely Trump just sees that on
his own. It is brought to him by somebody. If
you want speculation out of whole cloth, it sounds like
the question was his tantrum inspired by that or by
the lawyers might actually be a false choice. It's probably both.
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The lawyers probably told him in the last few days
how they plan to answer the gag order request next Monday,
and they were realistic. And maybe that's where the rolling
stone he's worried about the orange jumpsuit, like, oh now
he's worried about orange story comes from. And maybe then
Trump calls his real legal advisor, his non attorney's spokesman,
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Tom Fitten, and says, not in so many words, but says,
I want you to tell me what I want to hear.
And that's what Tom Fitton does, and Fitten does it.
And I'll just mention again that Tom Fitton will never
know this, but he is one of the leading opponents
of Trump alived today. So that other stuff I mentioned
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Rudy Giuliani sexually assaulted Cassidy Hutchinson on January sixth in
the Trump green Room slash tent while Trump was inciting
the insurrection. What did you do during the insurrection, Rudy, No,
it's who did I do? This is in her book
quote by the way, he says, fingering the fabric, I'm
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loving this leather jacket on you. His hand slips under
my blazer, then my skirt. I feel his frozen fingers
trail up my thigh. This is the most serious sexual
misconduct allegation against Rudolph Giuliani. In nearly four months, we
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got a denial from a friend of Rudy's named Ted,
not from Rudy's lawyer, because of course Rudy's lawyer is
suing him because Rudy didn't pay, because Rudy was indicted
in Georgia. And this reminds me to remind you that
I met Rudy like twenty six, twenty seven years ago.
And when people who only know him from nine to
eleven say, what a fall for an American hero or
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what happened to this Giuliani, I always say, I don't
know what happened, but it happened sometime before nineteen ninety five.
I'll tell that whole story again later in this edition.
In any event, Cassidy Hutchinson's story is in her new
book Enough, which will be published next Tuesday, and the
Guardian is quoting from it because here's another shock. Somehow
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a copy was accidentally released in advance of publication, and
it found its way to a newspaper, which makes three
hundred and eighty seven consecutive controversial books where the same
thing has happened. I know. And oh, by the way,
as Juliani groped her during January sixth, mss Hutchinson writes,
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John Eastman watched and leered, and one assumes the loathsome
Eastman doesn't just have problems with elections. All this Trump
lawyer talk naturally evokes the name Lynn Wood, who went
from defending Richard Jewel, who was not the Atlanta Olympic
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bomber and Gary Conditt, who did not kill his congressional intern.
Went from that to something something Jesus slay them, something
something Trump something something they can kill me. But and
then poof, early this year, lynn Wood disappeared and now
we know why. New filing from Fannie Willison, Georgia key
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line in it, quote l lynn Wood is a witness
for the state in the present case. And now we
know what a post that Elle lynn Wood made about
a month ago meant, in which he said he had
tested to the special grand jury and he wanted to
thank the District Attorney's office for being so professional and polite,
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and he flipped. He totally flipped. And now he tells
the Atlanta Journal Constitution that jury's been subpoened and they've
told him they expect him to testify, but quote, I
didn't flip on President Trump. That's just pure nonsense. I
wouldn't have any knowledge to flip on him. And the
reporter asked him, well, okay, then what did you testify
to that grand jury about? And his answer was, quote,
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I don't have a copy of my testimony and I
don't want to go on memory unquote, which means he
totally flipped on Trump, and he even more totally flipped
on Sidney Powell and maybe on Juliani An Eastman here's hoping.
And then there's Junior's Twitter account yesterday morning, quote I'm
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sad to announce my father, Donald Trump, has passed away.
I will be running for president in twenty twenty four,
and Ken Klippenstein wrote obviously hacked, but loll and I
wrote why obviously because the Junior tweet and several dumber
and more vulgar ones vanished. But there's still no explanation
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from Junior about that or any claim that he was hacked.
And then a tweet showed up on Eric Trump's feed, reading,
I don't want my brother to get his account back.
This is all too entertaining. And then that tweet disappeared,
but soon in its place there was a new one
that was still there last time I looked. That reads
what was my brother's past word Don twenty twenty four.
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So now, not only am I not really sure if
Junior got hacked or if somebody just tampered with his supply,
but what I am sure of, I guarantee you this.
This is a universal with cultist despots the world over.
Century after century. They used to say this about Sodom
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Hussein all the time, seriously used to say this. I
am certain that in a matter of weeks tops maybe sooner,
this will be the basis of an online proclamation somewhere
that Trump Trump's senior dementia Jay the defendant that Trump
actually did die on September twentieth, twenty twenty three. Look,
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his son even announced it on Twitter. But he came
back to life because he is immortal and he was
sent here by Jesus to make sure America defeats the
Communists in order to get a handle on those out
of control bacon prices. Also of interest here. Did you
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hear that question that Representative Sparts of Indiana asked Merrick
Garland at the Judiciary hearing yesterday. Okay, good, you heard it.
Now did you understand it? Because I'm not sure anybody
understood what the hell she was saying. Certainly Merrick Garland didn't.
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That's next this discountdown, Cissus Countdown with Keith Alberman still
a head on countdown. Well, as I promised the day
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I met Rudy Giuliani, and in retrospect, I guess I'm
just glad he didn't try to feel me up. Actually,
that would have been one of the only things he
could have done that day twenty seven, twenty six years ago.
That would have lessened my sense that he was some
kind of replicant or being from another planet. Things I
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promised not to tell about Rudy coming up first time
for the daily roundup of the misgrants Moron's Undonning Kruger
effects specimens, who constitute the bees worst persons in the
world the Bronze J Dvance. Now, you may have heard
that jd Vance was elected Senator from Ohio last November,
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and you may have wondered to yourself, when does jd
Vance take office? When does jd Vance start serving the
people of his state of Ohio. And the answer is
he doesn't. Jd Vance just keeps on doing what he
did on the campaign trail, which is mostly tweeting. Now
it's quote, Ukraine is holding an American journalist hostage. This
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is a disgrace. And why is the Biden administration opening
up the checkbook without any accountability? Boy, when you can
push more than one lie per sentence in a tweet,
you are a pro jd Vance. There's accountability. There's also
no such thing as quote opening up the checkbook without
any accountability. That sentence makes no sense, Jdvance. Ukraine. Also,
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Jdvance is not holding the guy hostage. Jdvance. He's under arrest, Jdvance,
and he's not a journalist. Jdvance. Other than that, you
have summarized the story precisely. Jdvans. The man's name is
Gonzalo Lira. He's a YouTuber and he went into Ukraine
in the middle of an invasion of Ukraine by Russia,
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and he went into the war zone and he began
asking Ukrainian citizens, you're getting bombed nightly and not in
a good sense, and Ukrainian military people about what this
guy calls the false narrative because he says he's in Russia,
not someplace called Ukraine. And the other false narrative that
Russia did anything wrong. And guess what, in any country
in the history of the world under invasion, you can
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be arrested for siding with the you know, invading bombing
guys holding him hostage. Jdvans, you're holding common sense hostage. Jdvans.
Also pro tip, the beard makes you look five hundred
pounds dude. The runner up, Victorious Sparks, the lame duck
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congress person from Indiana, born in Ukraine, but not quite
as smooth in English as say President Zelenski. Miss Spartz
apparently got elected. And I say this as the descendant
of immigrants from everywhere from Krackoff to Asat Lorraine. I
think she got elected because her constituents did not know
what the hell she was saying, and they just assumed
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it was good conservative gibberish. The House Judiciary Committee did
not exactly cover itself in glory in examining Merrick Garland yesterday.
Mainly the problem was that nobody asked any questions. They
just made speeches they could play to their audience to
assure that they wouldn't be primary. I mean, I'm surprised
none of them said is tape rolling? But Spartz was
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the only one who rendered Merrick Garlands speechless when she asked, quote,
are you aware that a lot of Americans are now
afreight of being prosecuted by her department? Are you aware
about that? Are you aware of that? I'm just saying,
are you aware or not? Now? I think I know
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what the question actually is there, But I would note that, yes,
this is the first time anybody in the history of
the United States was ever discomfited by the thought that
they might be prosecuted by the Department of Justice. Oh no,
I'm being investigated by the Department of Joe. Let's have
a party. Christ, how stupid that woman is. But our winner,
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Little Jimmy O'Keefe, the con man behind Project Veritas. But
remember he was the con man with a song in
his heart. He took all of his little propaganda and
slander outfits money and he invested it in musicals in
which he could star seriously. Then they kicked him out.
Then his successor as CEO, Hannah Giles, fired everybody. Now
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she's announced the entire outfit has closed, suspended operations, all
investigations halted. The reason for the demise of Project Veritas
quote financial ruin unquote. But they do leave a pristine record.
In thirteen years, they did not do one ethical or
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honest thing. But now comes the real question, who will
think about the revival of Oklahoma? They didn't know they
were funding that Jimmy O'Keefe was starring in. Won't somebody
think of Oklahoma? Won't somebody think of Curly? How could
it be? Oh what a beautiful morning if they have
to sell the surrey with the fringe on the top,
Oh keith Homa, where the bankruptcy comes sweeping down the pane,
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and the running feet of those feeling heat when the
cops come right behind the rain. You're doing fine, Jimmy
o'keef holma oh Keith Homa oive. I should have called
Nancy about that, shouldn't I? Jimmy O'Keefe. Also, before they
go under, they should change the name of the thing
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to project in Vino Veritas two days, worse person in
the world and through the number one story on the
countdown and my favorite topic, me and things I promised
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not to tell. I hear this question about Rudy Giuliani
a lot. When did his life go so horribly horribly wrong?
Here was America's mayor the rock in the hours of crisis,
after nine to eleven. What is he now? After literally
years of trying to sell the Hunter Biden laptop story?
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Who does the Hunter Biden laptop story bite him? Four
seasons gardening, the mascara running down his face, gashes emissions
at phony election hearings, the Sasha Baron Cohen film. I mean,
even back then, I thought it was nuts that people
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actually thought Rudy Giuliani was the front runner for the
two thousand and eight Republican presidential nomination. What he was
widely held to be just that in two thousand and six,
In two thousand and seven, and by the time it happened,
he was already on his way to spending millions of
dollars to finish last. But it was the final nail
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in the coffin in which he still lives. At a
Democratic debate in two thousand and seven, October thirtieth, before
the field shook out everybody but Obama and Hillary, one
of the other candidates was excoriating the Republicans and their
exploitation of terrorism and the al Qaeda attacks, and that
other candidates said of Giuliani, quote, there's only three things
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he mentions in a sentence, A noun, a verb, and
nine to eleven. The candidate was Joe Biden. The phrase
a noun, a verb and nine to eleven ended Rudy
Giuliani's career, and Giuliani's dislike of Joe Biden, many decades old,
turned to hatred at that exact moment, which is why
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we got to where we got to in twenty and twenty.
That was also the exact moment at which any hopes
Julianni had of being elected anything anywhere ever again vanished.
But it was clear to me as far back as
September two thousand and one that's Sadly, what we saw
at that time was a bad man having a few
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good days before that month was out. Giuliani's response to
the attack on democracy was to himself attack democracy, to
propose that the November election to choose his successor to
be mayor of New York should be postponed, or that
at least he should stay on for a few months
as co mayor because he was irreplaceable. There had always
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been more subtle hints that Giuliani was never a good man,
just a slightly smarter one, a more devious one. The
venomous Rudy, the scheming Rudy, the a moral Rudy, the
Rudy with a bad song in his heart, leaked out
from time to time, and often inside the world of sports,
which is where I met him. You will remember, Rudy
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Giuliani was a professional New York Yankees fan. He always
went to the games for free, mind you, dugout seats
for himself, his wife, his other wife, his next wife,
the kids, the friends. When I still had friends at
Yankee Stadium, they estimated Rudy used to cost them thousands
of dollars every time he showed up. He always left
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via the clubhouse. He always wore a Yankees cap. He
billed himself as quote the number one Yankee fan. And
then when the Boston Red Sox were playing in the
two thousand and seven World Series, when he was campaigning
for president in New Hampshire, Rudy Giuliani suddenly announced he
was rooting for the Red Sox. This is like being
a Trump fan and announcing you are rooting for democracy.
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But I went back with Rudy Giuliani even longer than that.
Nineteen ninety five or nineteen ninety six, I was asked
by the Deputy Mayor of New York City, Fran Writer,
and the staff of the Baseball Hall of Fame to
travel from ESPN in Connecticut, literally to the steps of
New York City Hall to mc an event for what
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must have been thirty five members of the Baseball Hall
of Fame, maybe the largest group of them ever assembled
in one place in one moment in time. The Deputy
Mayor approached me and the Mayor a few steps behind
her on that gorgeous spring day. As she began to
introduce us, she realized he had begun to wander off.
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Ruddy Ruddy, She bellowed, he wandered back, Rudy, this is
Keith Olberman from ESPN. He's going to be the MC.
You will have to introduce him after you speak. The
mayor seemed to be having trouble focusing on me or
anything else. I thought of the old joke, just keep
your eyes on the Olberman in the middle. He extended
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a hand, missed mine, then recalibrated. As we shook hands,
he grunted. The Deputy mayor now roared at him, Rody,
you have to introduce him. His name is Keith Alderman
from ESPN. He's the MC. Giuliani turned and looked at
her like he'd never seen her before. He grunted again.
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Deputy Mayor writer now screamed at Rudy Giuliani, repeat it
to me. He looked at me, then he looked back
at her, and he said his name is Keith Alderman
from ESPN. He's the MC. With annoyance. Writer said thank you,
and Juliani smiled and wandered off again, And I half
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seriously thought, did I just meet a body double? Is
he a replicant? Is he a well built robot? This
can't be the actual mayor? Well it was. I took
my seat in the front row of the stage that
had been built atop the City Hall steps. As the
crowd gathered, and it was a good one, maybe three
or four hundred people. The President of the Hall of
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Fame spoke first. The Mayor sat next to me. Giuliani
leaned in at one point and whispered to me, your
name is Keith Alderman from ESPN. You're the MC. I talk,
I introduce you. I said something encouraging, and he smiled
broadly like a child who was about to get some candy.
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The President of the Baseball Hall of Fame wrapped up
introduced Giuliani, who bounced up to the stage and thanked
him and got his name wrong. He then launched into
a speech taking credit for the great weather in the
terrific early season performance of the New York Yankees and
the New York Mets and the Brooklyn Dodgers and the
New York Giants who had moved out of New York
in nineteen fifty seven. But if he had been mayor,
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then they wouldn't have moved out in New York, would
have the four teams it deserves. And look at all
these great players. Will let me now turn it over
to a good friend of mine and a great baseball
And he looked at me and he forgot everything. Silence,
titters of laughter from the crowd, And finally he looked
the other way behind him, where the Deputy Mayor had
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her head in her hands. Rudy Giuliani into a microphone
that picked up everything. He said, said loudly, what's his name?
Who is he? And now the titters of laughter in
the crowd turned to a little bit louder laughter, and
some of the Hall of Fame players seated behind me
gave me pats of consolation on my shoulder. Fran Ryder screamed,
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Keith Alderman from me, ESPN the MC you repeated it
to me. Juliani turned back to the crowd as if
there had been no way they could have heard or
seen any of this, and he said, so let me
turn it over to a good friend of mine and
a great baseball man, Keith Obolman our NC from ESPM.
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I just sat there, more laughs, more consolations from the
players behind me. I can still hear the laugh of
the late Detroit Tigers great al Kayline rising above the others.
Al later came over to commiserate. As I thought, should
I get there and say thank you Mayor Dinkins, or
better yet, thank you Mayor LaGuardia. I then concluded, no,
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I can't do that. I'm representing ESPN. I'm representing the
Baseball Hall of Fame. As I thought that, he said
it again. So now I got up and I told
the crowd sorry, I wasn't sure he meant me. So
if you are saying to yourself, what on earth happened
to Rudy Giuliani with that brown schitz pouring down his face,
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I am saying to you he has been this crazy
for at least thirty years. You were just lucky enough
to have not previously noticed. It is all true. Or
my name ain't Keith Obelman, our n C from ESPM.
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were arranged and performed by No Horns Aloud. Sports music
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Mitch Warren Davis, And we called the Olderman theme from
ESPN two. Our SETIIR and fifthy. Musical comments are by
Nancy Faust, the best baseball stadium mor aganist ever. And
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I'll announced you today was my friend Richard Lewis. Everything
else was pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for this,
the nine and eighty ninth day since Donald Trump's first
attempt to coop against the democratically elected government of the
United States. Convict him now while we still can. The
next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. If my throat permits till then,
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I'm Keith Oldreman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and
good luck. Countdown with Keith Ouldreman is a production of iHeartRadio.
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or wherever you get your podcasts.
Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump
has descended into full fledged panic over the possible gag order,
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and either he is exaggerating for effect what a shock
that would be, or more likely, his lawyers preparing an
answer to Jack Smith's request to Judge Chutkin that is
due Monday, told him something that set his hair on fire,
and you know the dangers of combustion when spray paint
is mixed with open flames. And that imagery is more
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than just a joke about his bottle blondness. It is
a forecast of things to come. We are headed to
a legal crisis over Trump's social media posts and his
refusal to accede to the rule of law. And I
don't know where this ends, but at the far end
of the political science fic where it ends is a
shootout between United States marshals and United States Secret Service agents.
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Either way, it is enough of a story that I
think it's bigger than the oh sexual assault accusation against
Rudy Giuliani by Cassidy Hutchinson, and bigger than Lynn would
flipping on the entire Trump team, and bigger than a
tweet from Junior Trump announcing his father had died. He
was hacked, we think, Trump writes deranged Jack Smith's and parenthetically,
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Jack Smith says, thanks for more evidence, don Deranged Jack
Smith's gag order request would make it impossible for me
to speak negatively about Biden and other subjects of incompetence.
How ridiculous. No more First Amendment, and regardless of whatever
triggered that. In Trump's forever malfunctioning, perpetually paranoid, mainly martyrdom brain,
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it signals yet again that if Judge Chuckkin actually imposes
limits on what Trump can and cannot say, or write,
or both, we are headed for a genuine confrontation. Trump
is told not to attack or obstruct the prosecution, the judge,
the witnesses, the jury pool. He agrees under oath. Within
seventy two hours, he does it anyway. Six weeks later,
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the prosecutor tells the judge he did it anyway and
has kept on doing it, and she has to do something.
And he cites, among dozens of other things, the repeated
use of the adjective deranged in social media posts, and
Trump responds by using the adjective deranged in a social
media post and the prosecutor points in particular at Trump's
lie that he was indicted at the orders of the
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president of the United States. And Trump comes back and
repeats the lie and expands it into something that would
be totally delightful and totally illegal, some kind of court
order in which Trump can never comment about Biden again.
'tis a consummation devoutedly to be and as I said,
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it's also illegal. But Trump is clearly neither bowing to
the instructions of a federal judge nor adhering to his
own agreement to those instructions. And that is the essence here,
Because I feel like the announcer in the Timeless Bob
and Ray sketch about the driving of the Golden Strike.
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That's it, ladies and gentlemen. The Golden Spike is driven.
The Transcontinental Railroad is complete, and here come the trains,
one from the east and one from the west. I'm
standing here seeing this madness unfolding, and I know that
the next thing is a full on, head on high
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speed train wreck. What happens if Chutkin doesn't opt to
punish and corral him by just moving up the start
of the insurrection trial, say one day for every violation,
or doesn't opt to do only that, but actually institutes
a gag order of some kind, even a minimal one,
and Trump ignores it, and Trump calls her deranged, and
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Trump says it's illegal, and Trump continues to defy the court.
His bail, his not being kept in a jail cell
in the District of Columbia until the trial starts, is
dependent on him not defying the court. As I said
last week, at some point, whatever limitations Chruckckin imposes upon
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him when he violates them, whether it is the first
time he violates them or the fiftieth time he violates them,
He's not going to surrender. He's not going to let
them put him in prison. They're going to have to
go and get him. And what happens then it seems
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madness to risk the lives of marshals or Secret Service
agents to protect this semi sentient pile of feces. But
what you're going to have the Secret Service agents protecting
him turn around and arrest him, or Biden is going
to order the head of the Secret Service to order
his men to stand down when the marshals arrive. Trump
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is going to see the photo shoot value in an
actual purp walk and just say, sure, take me to prison.
I'm not counting on that last one. Rolling Stone now
reports that, as you would expect, the I don't think
about jail crap that he gave to the gullible Kristen
Welker in last Sunday's stenography class is nonsense. Quoting in
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the past several months, Donald Trump has had a burning
question for some of his confidants and attorneys. Would the
authorities make him wear quote one of those jumpsuits unquote
in prison? Three sources familiar with his comments say he's
been asking lawyers and other people close to him what
a prison sentence would look like for a former American president.
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Would he be sent to a club fed style prison
or a bad prison? Would he serve out a sentence
in a plush home confinement. Those who've heard him ask
these questions about a hypothetical sentencing tell Rolling Stone that
it's clear the gravity of his mounting legal peril is
getting to Trump unquote. As an aside, I understand jan
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Winner is asking the same questions, but seriously, folks, Trump's
lawyers have to submit an answer by Monday, so they
have discussed the Smith gag order motion, and at some
point they have to have discussed the response or will
discuss the response with Trump, and that's where the social
media outburst could have originated. Or somebody read Trump a
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quote article at Wright part quote news that is their
standard formula, a right wing nut job in this case,
the former head writer for the former Tucker carl tweets something.
In this case it was the Trump gag order is
truly insane. The Washington Post then prints a piece critical
of the proposed order, written by their hyper conservative guy
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who they gave an opinion job to based on his
tenure as a Wall Street Journal editorial page editor, and
before that, a writer for the now bankrupt American Interest
magazine that had been funded by the Nixon Foundation. Now no,
seriously that Nixon Nixon, who like Reagan, is still damaging
this country from hell anyway, Breitbart aggregates these two throwaway
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opinions slaps on the headline quote Smith's gag order would
essentially ban Trump from criticizing Biden. Critics, say critics, as
if the critics the Nixon guy and the Tucker Carlson guy,
As if these critics were H. L. Menkin and Pauline Kale,
and hours later, coincidentally or not, Trump posts the gag
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order would make it quote impossible for me to speak
negatively about Biden. It's unlikely Trump just sees that on
his own. It is brought to him by somebody. If
you want speculation out of whole cloth, it sounds like
the question was his tantrum inspired by that or by
the lawyers might actually be a false choice. It's probably both.
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The lawyers probably told him in the last few days
how they plan to answer the gag order request next Monday,
and they were realistic. And maybe that's where the rolling
stone he's worried about the orange jumpsuit, like, oh now
he's worried about orange story comes from. And maybe then
Trump calls his real legal advisor, his non attorney's spokesman,
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Tom Fitten, and says, not in so many words, but says,
I want you to tell me what I want to hear.
And that's what Tom Fitton does, and Fitten does it.
And I'll just mention again that Tom Fitton will never
know this, but he is one of the leading opponents
of Trump alived today. So that other stuff I mentioned
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Rudy Giuliani sexually assaulted Cassidy Hutchinson on January sixth in
the Trump green Room slash tent while Trump was inciting
the insurrection. What did you do during the insurrection, Rudy, No,
it's who did I do? This is in her book
quote by the way, he says, fingering the fabric, I'm
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loving this leather jacket on you. His hand slips under
my blazer, then my skirt. I feel his frozen fingers
trail up my thigh. This is the most serious sexual
misconduct allegation against Rudolph Giuliani. In nearly four months, we
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got a denial from a friend of Rudy's named Ted,
not from Rudy's lawyer, because of course Rudy's lawyer is
suing him because Rudy didn't pay, because Rudy was indicted
in Georgia. And this reminds me to remind you that
I met Rudy like twenty six, twenty seven years ago.
And when people who only know him from nine to
eleven say, what a fall for an American hero or
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what happened to this Giuliani, I always say, I don't
know what happened, but it happened sometime before nineteen ninety five.
I'll tell that whole story again later in this edition.
In any event, Cassidy Hutchinson's story is in her new
book Enough, which will be published next Tuesday, and the
Guardian is quoting from it because here's another shock. Somehow
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a copy was accidentally released in advance of publication, and
it found its way to a newspaper, which makes three
hundred and eighty seven consecutive controversial books where the same
thing has happened. I know. And oh, by the way,
as Juliani groped her during January sixth, mss Hutchinson writes,
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John Eastman watched and leered, and one assumes the loathsome
Eastman doesn't just have problems with elections. All this Trump
lawyer talk naturally evokes the name Lynn Wood, who went
from defending Richard Jewel, who was not the Atlanta Olympic
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bomber and Gary Conditt, who did not kill his congressional intern.
Went from that to something something Jesus slay them, something
something Trump something something they can kill me. But and
then poof, early this year, lynn Wood disappeared and now
we know why. New filing from Fannie Willison, Georgia key
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line in it, quote l lynn Wood is a witness
for the state in the present case. And now we
know what a post that Elle lynn Wood made about
a month ago meant, in which he said he had
tested to the special grand jury and he wanted to
thank the District Attorney's office for being so professional and polite,
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and he flipped. He totally flipped. And now he tells
the Atlanta Journal Constitution that jury's been subpoened and they've
told him they expect him to testify, but quote, I
didn't flip on President Trump. That's just pure nonsense. I
wouldn't have any knowledge to flip on him. And the
reporter asked him, well, okay, then what did you testify
to that grand jury about? And his answer was, quote,
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I don't have a copy of my testimony and I
don't want to go on memory unquote, which means he
totally flipped on Trump, and he even more totally flipped
on Sidney Powell and maybe on Juliani An Eastman here's hoping.
And then there's Junior's Twitter account yesterday morning, quote I'm
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sad to announce my father, Donald Trump, has passed away.
I will be running for president in twenty twenty four,
and Ken Klippenstein wrote obviously hacked, but loll and I
wrote why obviously because the Junior tweet and several dumber
and more vulgar ones vanished. But there's still no explanation
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from Junior about that or any claim that he was hacked.
And then a tweet showed up on Eric Trump's feed, reading,
I don't want my brother to get his account back.
This is all too entertaining. And then that tweet disappeared,
but soon in its place there was a new one
that was still there last time I looked. That reads
what was my brother's past word Don twenty twenty four.
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So now, not only am I not really sure if
Junior got hacked or if somebody just tampered with his supply,
but what I am sure of, I guarantee you this.
This is a universal with cultist despots the world over.
Century after century. They used to say this about Sodom
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Hussein all the time, seriously used to say this. I
am certain that in a matter of weeks tops maybe sooner,
this will be the basis of an online proclamation somewhere
that Trump Trump's senior dementia Jay the defendant that Trump
actually did die on September twentieth, twenty twenty three. Look,
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his son even announced it on Twitter. But he came
back to life because he is immortal and he was
sent here by Jesus to make sure America defeats the
Communists in order to get a handle on those out
of control bacon prices. Also of interest here. Did you
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hear that question that Representative Sparts of Indiana asked Merrick
Garland at the Judiciary hearing yesterday. Okay, good, you heard it.
Now did you understand it? Because I'm not sure anybody
understood what the hell she was saying. Certainly Merrick Garland didn't.
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That's next this discountdown, Cissus Countdown with Keith Alberman still
a head on countdown. Well, as I promised the day
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I met Rudy Giuliani, and in retrospect, I guess I'm
just glad he didn't try to feel me up. Actually,
that would have been one of the only things he
could have done that day twenty seven, twenty six years ago.
That would have lessened my sense that he was some
kind of replicant or being from another planet. Things I
(15:50):
promised not to tell about Rudy coming up first time
for the daily roundup of the misgrants Moron's Undonning Kruger
effects specimens, who constitute the bees worst persons in the
world the Bronze J Dvance. Now, you may have heard
that jd Vance was elected Senator from Ohio last November,
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and you may have wondered to yourself, when does jd
Vance take office? When does jd Vance start serving the
people of his state of Ohio. And the answer is
he doesn't. Jd Vance just keeps on doing what he
did on the campaign trail, which is mostly tweeting. Now
it's quote, Ukraine is holding an American journalist hostage. This
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is a disgrace. And why is the Biden administration opening
up the checkbook without any accountability? Boy, when you can
push more than one lie per sentence in a tweet,
you are a pro jd Vance. There's accountability. There's also
no such thing as quote opening up the checkbook without
any accountability. That sentence makes no sense, Jdvance. Ukraine. Also,
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Jdvance is not holding the guy hostage. Jdvance. He's under arrest, Jdvance,
and he's not a journalist. Jdvance. Other than that, you
have summarized the story precisely. Jdvans. The man's name is
Gonzalo Lira. He's a YouTuber and he went into Ukraine
in the middle of an invasion of Ukraine by Russia,
(17:18):
and he went into the war zone and he began
asking Ukrainian citizens, you're getting bombed nightly and not in
a good sense, and Ukrainian military people about what this
guy calls the false narrative because he says he's in Russia,
not someplace called Ukraine. And the other false narrative that
Russia did anything wrong. And guess what, in any country
in the history of the world under invasion, you can
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be arrested for siding with the you know, invading bombing
guys holding him hostage. Jdvans, you're holding common sense hostage. Jdvans.
Also pro tip, the beard makes you look five hundred
pounds dude. The runner up, Victorious Sparks, the lame duck
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congress person from Indiana, born in Ukraine, but not quite
as smooth in English as say President Zelenski. Miss Spartz
apparently got elected. And I say this as the descendant
of immigrants from everywhere from Krackoff to Asat Lorraine. I
think she got elected because her constituents did not know
what the hell she was saying, and they just assumed
(18:24):
it was good conservative gibberish. The House Judiciary Committee did
not exactly cover itself in glory in examining Merrick Garland yesterday.
Mainly the problem was that nobody asked any questions. They
just made speeches they could play to their audience to
assure that they wouldn't be primary. I mean, I'm surprised
none of them said is tape rolling? But Spartz was
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the only one who rendered Merrick Garlands speechless when she asked, quote,
are you aware that a lot of Americans are now
afreight of being prosecuted by her department? Are you aware
about that? Are you aware of that? I'm just saying,
are you aware or not? Now? I think I know
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what the question actually is there, But I would note that, yes,
this is the first time anybody in the history of
the United States was ever discomfited by the thought that
they might be prosecuted by the Department of Justice. Oh no,
I'm being investigated by the Department of Joe. Let's have
a party. Christ, how stupid that woman is. But our winner,
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Little Jimmy O'Keefe, the con man behind Project Veritas. But
remember he was the con man with a song in
his heart. He took all of his little propaganda and
slander outfits money and he invested it in musicals in
which he could star seriously. Then they kicked him out.
Then his successor as CEO, Hannah Giles, fired everybody. Now
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she's announced the entire outfit has closed, suspended operations, all
investigations halted. The reason for the demise of Project Veritas
quote financial ruin unquote. But they do leave a pristine record.
In thirteen years, they did not do one ethical or
(20:11):
honest thing. But now comes the real question, who will
think about the revival of Oklahoma? They didn't know they
were funding that Jimmy O'Keefe was starring in. Won't somebody
think of Oklahoma? Won't somebody think of Curly? How could
it be? Oh what a beautiful morning if they have
to sell the surrey with the fringe on the top,
Oh keith Homa, where the bankruptcy comes sweeping down the pane,
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and the running feet of those feeling heat when the
cops come right behind the rain. You're doing fine, Jimmy
o'keef holma oh Keith Homa oive. I should have called
Nancy about that, shouldn't I? Jimmy O'Keefe. Also, before they
go under, they should change the name of the thing
(20:57):
to project in Vino Veritas two days, worse person in
the world and through the number one story on the
countdown and my favorite topic, me and things I promised
(21:18):
not to tell. I hear this question about Rudy Giuliani
a lot. When did his life go so horribly horribly wrong?
Here was America's mayor the rock in the hours of crisis,
after nine to eleven. What is he now? After literally
years of trying to sell the Hunter Biden laptop story?
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Who does the Hunter Biden laptop story bite him? Four
seasons gardening, the mascara running down his face, gashes emissions
at phony election hearings, the Sasha Baron Cohen film. I mean,
even back then, I thought it was nuts that people
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actually thought Rudy Giuliani was the front runner for the
two thousand and eight Republican presidential nomination. What he was
widely held to be just that in two thousand and six,
In two thousand and seven, and by the time it happened,
he was already on his way to spending millions of
dollars to finish last. But it was the final nail
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in the coffin in which he still lives. At a
Democratic debate in two thousand and seven, October thirtieth, before
the field shook out everybody but Obama and Hillary, one
of the other candidates was excoriating the Republicans and their
exploitation of terrorism and the al Qaeda attacks, and that
other candidates said of Giuliani, quote, there's only three things
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he mentions in a sentence, A noun, a verb, and
nine to eleven. The candidate was Joe Biden. The phrase
a noun, a verb and nine to eleven ended Rudy
Giuliani's career, and Giuliani's dislike of Joe Biden, many decades old,
turned to hatred at that exact moment, which is why
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we got to where we got to in twenty and twenty.
That was also the exact moment at which any hopes
Julianni had of being elected anything anywhere ever again vanished.
But it was clear to me as far back as
September two thousand and one that's Sadly, what we saw
at that time was a bad man having a few
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good days before that month was out. Giuliani's response to
the attack on democracy was to himself attack democracy, to
propose that the November election to choose his successor to
be mayor of New York should be postponed, or that
at least he should stay on for a few months
as co mayor because he was irreplaceable. There had always
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been more subtle hints that Giuliani was never a good man,
just a slightly smarter one, a more devious one. The
venomous Rudy, the scheming Rudy, the a moral Rudy, the
Rudy with a bad song in his heart, leaked out
from time to time, and often inside the world of sports,
which is where I met him. You will remember, Rudy
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Giuliani was a professional New York Yankees fan. He always
went to the games for free, mind you, dugout seats
for himself, his wife, his other wife, his next wife,
the kids, the friends. When I still had friends at
Yankee Stadium, they estimated Rudy used to cost them thousands
of dollars every time he showed up. He always left
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via the clubhouse. He always wore a Yankees cap. He
billed himself as quote the number one Yankee fan. And
then when the Boston Red Sox were playing in the
two thousand and seven World Series, when he was campaigning
for president in New Hampshire, Rudy Giuliani suddenly announced he
was rooting for the Red Sox. This is like being
a Trump fan and announcing you are rooting for democracy.
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But I went back with Rudy Giuliani even longer than that.
Nineteen ninety five or nineteen ninety six, I was asked
by the Deputy Mayor of New York City, Fran Writer,
and the staff of the Baseball Hall of Fame to
travel from ESPN in Connecticut, literally to the steps of
New York City Hall to mc an event for what
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must have been thirty five members of the Baseball Hall
of Fame, maybe the largest group of them ever assembled
in one place in one moment in time. The Deputy
Mayor approached me and the Mayor a few steps behind
her on that gorgeous spring day. As she began to
introduce us, she realized he had begun to wander off.
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Ruddy Ruddy, She bellowed, he wandered back, Rudy, this is
Keith Olberman from ESPN. He's going to be the MC.
You will have to introduce him after you speak. The
mayor seemed to be having trouble focusing on me or
anything else. I thought of the old joke, just keep
your eyes on the Olberman in the middle. He extended
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a hand, missed mine, then recalibrated. As we shook hands,
he grunted. The Deputy mayor now roared at him, Rody,
you have to introduce him. His name is Keith Alderman
from ESPN. He's the MC. Giuliani turned and looked at
her like he'd never seen her before. He grunted again.
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Deputy Mayor writer now screamed at Rudy Giuliani, repeat it
to me. He looked at me, then he looked back
at her, and he said his name is Keith Alderman
from ESPN. He's the MC. With annoyance. Writer said thank you,
and Juliani smiled and wandered off again, And I half
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seriously thought, did I just meet a body double? Is
he a replicant? Is he a well built robot? This
can't be the actual mayor? Well it was. I took
my seat in the front row of the stage that
had been built atop the City Hall steps. As the
crowd gathered, and it was a good one, maybe three
or four hundred people. The President of the Hall of
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Fame spoke first. The Mayor sat next to me. Giuliani
leaned in at one point and whispered to me, your
name is Keith Alderman from ESPN. You're the MC. I talk,
I introduce you. I said something encouraging, and he smiled
broadly like a child who was about to get some candy.
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The President of the Baseball Hall of Fame wrapped up
introduced Giuliani, who bounced up to the stage and thanked
him and got his name wrong. He then launched into
a speech taking credit for the great weather in the
terrific early season performance of the New York Yankees and
the New York Mets and the Brooklyn Dodgers and the
New York Giants who had moved out of New York
in nineteen fifty seven. But if he had been mayor,
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then they wouldn't have moved out in New York, would
have the four teams it deserves. And look at all
these great players. Will let me now turn it over
to a good friend of mine and a great baseball
And he looked at me and he forgot everything. Silence,
titters of laughter from the crowd, And finally he looked
the other way behind him, where the Deputy Mayor had
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her head in her hands. Rudy Giuliani into a microphone
that picked up everything. He said, said loudly, what's his name?
Who is he? And now the titters of laughter in
the crowd turned to a little bit louder laughter, and
some of the Hall of Fame players seated behind me
gave me pats of consolation on my shoulder. Fran Ryder screamed,
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Keith Alderman from me, ESPN the MC you repeated it
to me. Juliani turned back to the crowd as if
there had been no way they could have heard or
seen any of this, and he said, so let me
turn it over to a good friend of mine and
a great baseball man, Keith Obolman our NC from ESPM.
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I just sat there, more laughs, more consolations from the
players behind me. I can still hear the laugh of
the late Detroit Tigers great al Kayline rising above the others.
Al later came over to commiserate. As I thought, should
I get there and say thank you Mayor Dinkins, or
better yet, thank you Mayor LaGuardia. I then concluded, no,
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I can't do that. I'm representing ESPN. I'm representing the
Baseball Hall of Fame. As I thought that, he said
it again. So now I got up and I told
the crowd sorry, I wasn't sure he meant me. So
if you are saying to yourself, what on earth happened
to Rudy Giuliani with that brown schitz pouring down his face,
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I am saying to you he has been this crazy
for at least thirty years. You were just lucky enough
to have not previously noticed. It is all true. Or
my name ain't Keith Obelman, our n C from ESPM.
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I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank
you for listening. Countdown has come to you from the
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Mitch Warren Davis, And we called the Olderman theme from
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Nancy Faust, the best baseball stadium mor aganist ever. And
(31:10):
I'll announced you today was my friend Richard Lewis. Everything
else was pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for this,
the nine and eighty ninth day since Donald Trump's first
attempt to coop against the democratically elected government of the
United States. Convict him now while we still can. The
next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. If my throat permits till then,
(31:30):
I'm Keith Oldreman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and
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