Episode #89 of the Countdown podcast is up. Here’s the summary, with links and an extra dose or two of snark.
A-Block (1:28) SPECIAL COMMENT:
- Trump: “Who you are going to believe? Me on Truth Social, or Me on Truth Social? I never said I wanted to terminate the Constitution! I only said I wanted to terminate articles OF the Constitution!”
- Trying to backpedal on his latest coup call, Trump just digs his hole deeper: He is now subject to 18 USC 115 Section 2385: Advocating the overthrowing of the government of the United States.
- Some current GOP figures finally — mildly — defend the Constitution against Trump.
- But best of all: dozens of GOP quotes, from Boebert to Hannity, vowing eternal vigilance to protect the Constitution, including Kevin McCarthy’s “That Constitution, and the freedoms it protects, must be defended and preserved for us and for our children.” Take these quotes and put them on signs and drape them around the necks of these blowhards: Corner. Them.
B-Block
C-Block (26:46) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL:
- I’ve been quiet about her since 2006 and despite a series of jaw-dropping mistreatments since 2016. And I probably would’ve remained so. But when my ex, Katy Tur, turned her husband’s vasectomy into a photo-op for their newscasts, something snapped. When the New York Times and Washington Post asked to talk to me about her, this is a person who told them she’d ask me, then told them I declined — without ever telling me. And that, sadly, is just the tip of the iceberg.
As Keith says: Well, that’s all the damage I can do here for now. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck.