My laptop stopped working Sunday afternoon, and I got Apple’s version of the Blue Screen of Death, so that’s why I was unable to write this story at the time. It turned out that a wire to the hard drive had broken, so everything is ready to roll again … and as usual, tonight will cover TWO episodes of Countdown. (Incidentally, I found out that I’ve been spelling Omny.FM as OnMy.FM … The links still took you to the right place.)
If you listened to Episode 12, you should note that he revised the podcast at 2:25 EDT.
Episode 12: Breaking: Trump Snaps, Attacks Judge. She Must Crush Him
ivoox also carries his podcast.
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Preview:
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- SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump snaps. After a weekend of taunting Judge Tanya Chutkan — and the rule of law — through surrogates, he posts online attacks against her (“highly partisan … obviously wants me behind bars”) and the special counsel (“How dare lowlife prosecutor Deranged Jack Smith break into my former Twitter account without informing me” — and calls this court-authorized access an “atrocity”).
- These are exactly the kind of inflammatory remarks that Judge Chutkan warned him against; he had tried to get around her by having Matt Gaetz threaten violence as he stood silently next to him, and he has tried to get around it by reposting the lies and character assassinations and threats of others. He didn’t even wait 24 hours to try to get around her. Any other defendant in this country would have already had their pre-trial release revoked, or had an immediate hearing scheduled.
- We must end the appeasement of Trump. The law — with Judge Chutkan representing it — must crush him.
- Trump has also repeatedly attacked Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis in advance of her probable indictments tomorrow. He is panicking. He has reason to. In addition to his other crimes, she now has emails and texts tying “The Coffee County Breach” — the hacking of voting records there — to Trump lawyers and associates.
- Also: RFK Junior has self-destructed. Surprise surprise. He calls for a federal ban on abortion after 15 or 21 weeks, then denies he said such a thing; then NBC produces the transcript of him re-confirming his belief several times. Republicans continue to rage against the appointment of a Special Counsel in the Hunter Biden case after spending a year demanding the appointment of a Special Counsel in the Hunter Biden case — and getting exactly the one they all wanted. Kevin McCarthy demanded it just 34 days ago!
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- POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: It’s like something out of a Jimmy Stewart western or a ’20s Chicago Mob film: the bad guys break into the small town newspaper and kill the publisher. Only it’s happened for real in Kansas, and the bad guys are the town cops, and the DOJ must have the FBI arrest the lot of them — the judge who authorized it included. And the CBS News president who tried to pander to the far right has been fired. I’m in the neighborhood, and I am available (part-time only).
- THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: The Fox anchor who not only thinks Karl Marx wrote Mein Kampf but has apparently thought so since 1985; First the baseball team suspended its announcer for nothing, then it seems to have forced him to say it was all a misunderstanding. And General Mike Flynn reaches a new low: The Holocaust was the fault of Jews who didn’t fight back hard enough [even though there were more of them than Nazi guards].
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- THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Just passed the anniversary of the day Aaron Sorkin stole a quote from my last father and put it in the mouth of Jeff Daniels — and every one of my exes called me to complain about it.
Actually, whether Judge Chutkan locks up Mr. Trump might be academic ...
Episode 13: Trump Indicted On 13 Counts; Could He Be Refused Bail?
ivoox also carries his podcast.
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- (1:27) SPECIAL COMMENT: The former President of the United States is indicted in Georgia, accused of leading in essence a criminal gang that committed 161 separate illegal acts or components. 161. From the fake electors scheme through the breaching of the voting machines in Coffee County to the phone call to Brad Raffensberger to find the 11,780 votes to the abuse of the state poll workers to lying to the State Senate to trying to bring the Vice President in on the conspiracy to trying to bring the Department of JUSTICE in on the conspiracy to a specific charge that Trump directed his aide Johnny McEntee to develop a specific plan to PREVENT the Electoral Vote count and certification on January 6th.
- 19 defendants. They have until a week from Friday to turn themselves in.
A week and a half? Awww ...
- There are arrest warrants ready for all of them. There is an arrest warrant ready for Trump. There is a mugshot camera ready for Trump. Oh and there are 30 unindicted co-conspirators. There is an unindicted co-conspirator Number 30.
- It is … breathtaking. It is … sprawling. It is … 98 pages long. It is … national — prosecutors say the criminal enterprise also operated in the District of Columbia, in Arizona, in Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. It makes Jack Smith look like he’s throwing six darts while Fani Willis brought a six-foot tall pile of arrows. The trials could go on for years. Like Wyatt Earp chasing down The Clanton Gang went on for years. Hell — analyzing this indictment could go on for years. No wonder this became the first-ever PRIME TIME edition of the Donald Trump Gets Indicted Again show. It is the War and Peace of American political criminology.
- And because of his threats against Fani Willis, and Jack Smith, and Judge Chutkan, there is the chance that he does not meet the key legal requirement to be allowed out on bail: “D) POSES NO SIGNIFICANT RISK OF INTIMIDATING WITNESSES OR OTHERWISE OBSTRUCTING THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE.”
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CHRIS LICHT EATS PASTE!!!!
- (31:02) IN SPORTS. Michael Oher’s life story (made into the movie The Blind Side) is a complete fraud.
- (35:59) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD. Kellen Browning, a New York Times reporter who told us that jewelry has been rescued from the ashes in Maui (no word about the people); Vivek Ramaswamy, Taiwan’s protector from China (until we are semiconductor-independent); and Ramaswamy’s communications director Tricia McLaughlin, who corrected Ramaswamy’s faux pas by pointing out that the interview was 20 minutes that ran long, not a 45-minute interview, as reported in an article.
Oh, and speaking of Vivek Ramaswamy (and I’m giving a shout-out to the inventor of copy-and-paste), he’s the first candidate to qualify for the upcoming GOP debate: He is currently in second place and has signed the loyalty oath.
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- (43:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: The time I nearly hired Monica Lewinsky’s lawyer to save me from having to do a nightly show about Monica Lewinsky.
Twice as much damage tonight. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck!
EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY