Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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SERIES 2 EPISODE 159: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: There’s nothing better than a good NAP.
“Now: Trump’s head slowly dropped, his eyes closed. It jerked back upward. He adjusts himself. Then, his head droops again. He straightens up, leaning back. His head drops for a third time, he shakes his shoulders. Eyes closed still. His head drops. Finally, he pops his eyes open. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, or emptied some dull opiate to the drains."
Honestly: You’re Trump, on Monday they literally catch you napping. How do you possibly go in there yesterday and get caught napping… at least TWICE. One video, or one rapid-shutter sequence of still pictures of “Trump’s head slowly dropped, his eyes closed. It jerked back upward. He adjusts himself. Then, his head droops again” and we don’t have to WATCH the rest of the trial, he’d be DONE.
Looks like we'll get this started Monday. Seven jurors chosen. I had forgotten what I learned during two days in the NYC jury pool in 2013: it is surprisingly easy to find enough people who don’t know anything about anything to fill up a New York jury. Meanwhile Trump tried out his new defense: He knows nothing. Billionaire businessman, greatest mind of his or any other generation, but when it comes to paying off Stormy Daniels to bury her story and illegally keep bad facts about himself away from the eyes of the electorate weeks before the election, and then turning the thing into a clear crime by trying to write it off as a business expense? He knows nothing. He doesn’t know the accountant. He doesn’t know the lawyer. He didn’t know anything about the document. He didn’t know anything about the deduction. He just signed whatever they put in front of him. Because the billionaire businessman knows NOTHING about his own business!
ALSO: The picture is a rare one of Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene with her mouth shut. It's in The New Republic and above it the magazine's question is: “Russia is Buying Politicians in Europe. Is it Happening Here Too?” After Greene decided to try to fire another Speaker of the House to destabilize our government further, and her screw-up in the Mayorkas hearing, it's a question worth exploring.
B-Block (24:38) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Baseball's uniform scandal is back. The pitcher is wearing the batboy's pants. The Speaker of the House had his brain trust look at his new bill first: Libs of TikTok and DC Draino and a 1/6 defendant. And I used to think the Supreme Court Justices were merely not there to do justice or defend the constitution. Now I'm not sure they're from this country, nor have more of a legal education than I do (and I took one law class 37 years ago).
C-Block (33:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Just passed the quarter century anniversary of one of the most fun, most unexpected events of my career. How many people do you know who can say this: Tom Hanks, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon pulled me on to the Red Carpet at the Oscars - and they broke my cummerbund!
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TRUMP MUST GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL; VIOLATES GAG ORDER TWICE - 5.21.24
BULLETIN: ALITO CONFIRMS 'STOP THE STEAL' FLAG SCANDAL; LIES ANEW ABOUT IT - 5.17.24
NO, THEY DID NOT DESTROY MICHAEL COHEN - 5.17.24
TRUMP TIPS HIS HAND: HE'LL BACK OUT OF THE DEBATES WITH BIDEN - 5.16.24
TUBERVILLE CONFIRMS TRUMP'S PLOT TO EVADE GAG ORDER; TIMES MUST FIRE HABERMAN - 5.15.24
WE NEED A "WALTER CRONKITE MOMENT" FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES - 5.14.24
TRUMP PROVES: NEVER HIRE A LAWYER WITH 3-1/2 STARS - 5.10.24
RFK JR'S WORM; TRUMP WORMS HIS WAY OUT OF ALL BUT ONE TRIAL - 5.9.24
TRUMP DIDN'T SLEEP THROUGH THAT, HUH? - 5.8.24
NOEM, TRUMP, AND MAGA'S BELIEF THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO KILL - 5.7.24
TRUMP IS FULL OF SHIT. GAG ORDER DOESN'T PREVENT HIM TESTIFYING - 5.3.24
TRUMP MUST BE JAILED AFTER VIOLATING D.C. GAG ORDER AND BAIL TERMS - 5.2.24
TRUMP ALL BUT PROMISES 2024 ELECTION VIOLENCE - 5.1.24
WE NEED A SPECIAL COUNSEL TO INVESTIGATE THE SUPREME COURT - 4.30.24
ALITO SHOULD WAKE UP TOMORROW IN GITMO - 4.26.24
TRUMP'S ALREADY WON TODAY'S SUPREME COURT 'PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY' CASE - 4.25.24
TRUMP COULD FACE A MONTH IN JAIL FOR CONTEMPT - 4.24.24
NOW TRUMP WANTS HIS MOBS TO OCCUPY THE COURTHOUSE - 4.23.24
TRUMP MUST GO TO JAIL FOR IGNORING THE GAG ORDER - 4.19.24
TRUMP IS AN IDIOT WHO THINKS JIMMY KIMMEL AND AL PACINO ARE THE SAME GUY - 4.18.24
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