Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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SERIES 2 EPISODE 163: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump faces a month in jail for contempt of court - or at minimum, he will be THREATENED with a month in jail for contempt of court.
Trump's lawyers, led by Todd (of Todd, Emil, Susan and Alina) beclowned themselves before Justice Juan Merchan during the Trump Gag Order Violation Hearing yesterday and the judge said he was "reserving his decision" which is almost always news so bad for the one side that has so infuriated the judge that he doesn't want to be in the room with them when he rules against them.
The prosecution demanded $10,000 in fines and the threat of a month in jail and as Merchan told the lawyers they were losing their credibility, another story broke. Whatever happens there have already been quiet conversations with the Secret Service over what you do when you finally do put a former president in jail for an hour or a lifetime.
As to the trial and the only witness thus far David Pecker – as to what came out of the Pecker at the Trump Trial – nothing new, if you’ve been paying attention. He and Trump and Michael Cohen set up a machine by which they bought stories about Trump – true ones, false ones, something-in-between ones – like the child out of wedlock one and the Stormy Daniels one and the Karen McDougal one – and the critical testimony was about the love child story. The doorman selling it got $30,000 to start, then they checked the story, found it wasn’t true, Pecker of the National Enquirer was about to release the doorman from his Non-Disclosure Agreement when Michael Cohen said don’t do that until AFTER the 2016 election because it could damage the Trump campaign.
That’s the conviction right there. They paid these people – Stormy Daniels included – not to protect Trump the person, not to save him from lies, not to save him from the truth - but to influence the outcome of 2016 election.
And it would be sad in another context, but
the lede yesterday? That he wanted his mobs to at minimum SURROUND every courthouse in the country? Especially New York State Supreme Court, 100 Centre Street? I got a few scoffs at that. Turns out he REALLY expected. He REALLY believed it. And it didn’t happen. It REALLY didn’t happen: CNN’s Jim Sciutto with the sad truth. He wrote “Other than the first day of jury selection when I saw a pickup waving Trump flags and heard a handful of Trump supporters, their presence has dwindled. I don’t see any outside the courthouse today. If Trump was expecting a large and lasting public show of support here, it hasn’t materialized.”
Well of COURSE that’s what he was expecting. IN FACT he was expecting another January 6th. And I emphasize again that the ultimate importance of this trial may simply be exposing him to weeks of radiation-leak-levels of reality. Because after it DIDN’T happen he had to tell his people – and most importantly his EGO – that it DID: “Thousands of people were turned away from the courthouse in Lower Manhattan by steel stanchions and police, literally blocks from the tiny side door from where I enter and leave,” unquote. Utterly untrue. Nobody showed up. Not thousands, not hundreds, not dozens, not even family and friends. Like he has FRIENDS. That was his friend testifying against him. His friend – a Pecker.
PLUS: Tucker Carlson is dunked on by Mitch McConnell, Trump is dunked on by Mitt Romney, and the Republicans are dunked on by...Axios? Which reports they've... castrated themselves?
Video or it didn't happen!
B-Block (26:44) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: This surfeit of media-government interaction reminded me of the first time I ever encountered it, back when the Bushies were so naive they thought I was doing their bidding during the controversy over the made-up story of Saddam Hussein getting nukes from Niger. I was to interview Ambassador Joe Wilson - who debunked the W bull - and yet they thought I was going to slice him up, so they sent me all their talking points, and revealed the identities of all their "friends" at NBC.
C-Block (41:00) GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK
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TRUMP WANTS TRIAL DELAYED 2 YEARS. BECAUSE 200 WOULD BE UNREALISTIC - 8.18.23
AMERICA IS NOT "DIVIDED OVER TRUMP." IT HAS DECIDED: HE'S GUILTY - 8.17.23
JACK SMITH HAS TRUMP'S DMs, DELETED DMs - AND DRAFTS! 8.16.23
TRUMP INDICTED ON 13 COUNTS; COULD HE BE REFUSED BAIL? 8.15.23
BREAKING: TRUMP SNAPS, ATTACKS JUDGE. SHE MUST CRUSH HIM - 8.14.23
FEDERALIST SOCIETY SCHOLARS: TRUMP IS INELIGIBLE - 8.11.23
SMITH DIDN'T WANT TRUMP'S TWEETS! HE WANTED HIS DMs AND DRAFTS! - 8.10.23
SMITH PREPARING A 3RD TRUMP INDICTMENT? MAYBE A 4TH? 8.9.23
TRUMP'S LEGAL WAR AGAINST BIDEN'S COFFEE MUG - 8.8.23
LOCK HIM UP (OR AT LEAST: BRING HIM IN) - 8.7.23
BULLETIN: TRUMP VIOLATES RELEASE TERMS, MUST BE DETAINED - 8.4.23
IS THAT A TRUMP ROCKET DOCKET IN YOUR POCKET? 8.4.23
TRUMP'S NEW DEFENSE: JOHN EASTMAN DID IT! - 8.3.23
SMITH CHARGES TRUMP WITH INSURRECTION, SEDITION, TERRORISM, AND NEVER USES THE WORDS - 8.2.23
BULLETIN: TRUMP INDICTED; UNINDICTED CO-CONSPIRATORS, KEY - 8.1.23
TRUMP 1/6 AND GEORGIA INDICTMENTS IMMINENT? 8.1.23
I THINK TRUMP BELIEVES DE OLIVEIRA IS ABOUT TO FLIP - 7.31.23
"THE BOSS WANTED THE SERVER DELETED" - 7.28.23
WHAT HELL WOULD GOP HAVE CAUSED HAD THAT BEEN BIDEN? 7.27.23
WHY DID TRUMP WRITE: THEY "ARE NOW INDICTING ME"? 7.26.23
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