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Countdown With Keith Olbermann, S2E104: New Trump Terror Threat [1]

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Date: 2024-01-09  

S2E104 of the Countdown podcast is up!

iHeart Radio link; list of all podcasts there

Omny.FM link; list of all podcasts there

ivoox also carries his podcast

YouTube, later

Preview:

A-Block Trump made another threat of political violence and terrorism and once again escaped being treated like any other terrorist or criminal trying to blackmail the nation by promising mass death and destruction if he doesn’t get his way. After attending the appeals court hearing on his “presidential immunity” nonsense, Trump said if the prosecution of him continued “It’ll be bedlam in the country.”

But he hasn’t engaged in insurrection.

Not since Noon Eastern yesterday.

Meanwhile his attorney, Judge Luttig’s former law clerk, insisted that no, if he hadn’t been impeached and removed from office, Trump could not be prosecuted for ordering Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival.

At this point, the “This also applies to Biden” argument should have been used. Trump has now just said that Biden could kill him off and not be charged with anything. That argument would have been withdrawn faster than a ketchup bottle can be thrown across the Trump dining room.

But he’s not saying HE would CAUSE the bedlam.

Besides the background drumbeat of Trumpist political violence, the point of the “presidential immunity” action is to stall. And the Just Security website has game-planned when this Jack Smith prosecution is likely to end. Two of the answers end within plenty of time, the third begins to brush up against an old favorite: the DOJ tradition of not acting within 60 days of an election.

And speaking of oldies but goodies, Trump reverts to birtherism. This time his victim is Nikki Haley. And his own mother.

Hmmm … Let me check a moment … Yep, Trump’s lead in New Hampshire over Haley is down to 7%.

And just for laughs, it was in an 1814 book of witticisms that our ancestors first read “Every man who is his own lawyer, has a fool for a client.” So guess who intends to deliver some of the closing arguments in his Business Fraud Trial case in New York tomorrow? Our resident Fool. B-Block POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: I knew there was a reason not to say anything about the “disappearance” of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin: his “minor medical procedure” was surgery for prostate cancer. And the ESPN/Big Sleeveless Pat/Aaron Rodgers/Jimmy Kimmel disaster escalates: Rodgers denies he implied anything about Kimmel, uses ESPN as a platform to spread vaccine disinformation, and attacks an ESPN VP who had been protecting his buddy’s show. Like ESPN’s Rush Limbaugh disaster 20 years ago, this will end in tears.

THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORD: political and journalistic accounts mysteriously disappear on Elon “Mushroom” Musk’s site. Judge Judy makes a presidential endorsement. And Lou Dobbs, Tulsi Gabbard, Don Lemon and Jim Rome are too desperate to just stand in front of a mirror and do their new [streaming] shows to an audience that cares. C-Block THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Since it’s ESPN time, why not tell again the events of 32 years ago this month when I met the wonderful actress Elizabeth Montgomery on a flight, we became great friends, and she ... helped me to launch the ESPN Radio Network?

NOW can we lock him up? (Trump, not Keith Olbermann)

Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck!

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