Keith Olbermann’s Bulletin Edition threw off my schedule, so here are two of the latest podcasts.
S2E24: Meadows Incriminates Himself, And Trump Is Effed
S2E24 of the Countdown podcast is up at iHeart Radio.
S2E24 on Omny.FM (which also links to his previous podcasts)
ivoox also carries his podcast.
YouTube (now with Chapter times!):
Preview:
A-Block
- SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump STILL has to go to trial in 189 days and apparently STILL does not know there is no legal mechanism to APPEAL the judge’s schedule nor STILL does half the Republican Party and STILL at least half of all media including the BBC, and thus Trump is STILL ROYALLY EFFED.
- And after Mark Meadows inexplicably testified for more than four hours yesterday trying to get a glorified change of venue in the Atlanta Election Subversion Conspiracy trial by using the singular strategy of confessing to everything … the judge says he’ll have a ruling “as soon as possible” whether it stays in local court in Atlanta or in a federal court presumably elsewhere in Georgia with a jury pool more favorable to Meadows and Trump and when they say favorable of course they mean more WHITE.
- She wasn’t going to JAIL Trump, no matter how much I wished for it on my lucky beads. She was going to do something far worse. She was going to assume he was doing it to try to poison the jury pool (like he could think THAT rationally or THAT far ahead) and she would just speed up the trial. The prosecution wanted the trial to open 127 days from now. Trump countered with 947 days. Two and a half years. Chutkan’s compromise REEKS of “this is punishment, please enjoy being EFFED” — 189 days.
- It's glorious.
- There is one thing here Trump truly fears — the OTHER essential ingredient (besides a guilty verdict) that can put him behind bars: a speedy trial — and his nitwitted co-defendants, his supposed minions Ken Cheesbro and Mark Meadows and Sidney Powell all INVOKED the Georgia Speedy Trial Law so THAT one is already on track to start two months earlier than originally planned BY THE DA … and now Trump is being beaten up by the judge who KNOWS it’s the one thing Trump truly fears — and we’ll see you on March 4th.
- Now about Meadows: why did he feel he had to testify — for four hours — that he was Trump’s gatekeeper and HE was at every meeting and HE was on every phone call and HE was the guy others went to, to get Trump to listen to them — and HE went to Georgia and HE arranged the Raffensberger phone call and HE was in the meeting with the Michigan politicos and wait wait — that meeting and the Raffensberger call were about … overturning the election results in Georgia and Michigan? THAT’S what Trump meant about the 11-thousand-790 votes? I’ll be damned!
- Trump is SO effed.
B-Block
- POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: Big news everyone! Today is the day the Bidens are sentenced by the military and the “Citizens Tribunal” according to the founder of Judicial Watch. *ucker Carlson insists getting fired makes you a man: so he’s FOUR men I guess. And Joe The Plumber dies.
- THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Melanie Zanona of CNN both-sides a Biden impeachment story but leaves out the fact that the GOP has no evidence until PARAGRAPH NINE. The NRA exaggerates the number of Americans using an AR-15 for defense by roughly 1,999,996. And Congressman Byron Donalds “blames” the 2020 lockdown and the vaccine rollout on Biden. While Trump was still president.
Wait a minute. Didn’t someone else say this? Tweedledee (Lauren Boebert) or Tweedledum (Marjorie Taylor Green)?
C-Block
- THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: With The Daily Beast reporting Matt Lauer has abandoned his comeback, time to recount what we really knew about him at NBC and the time he tried to get me fired because I helped him get a “big get” interview.
S2E25: Trump’s Georgia Trial Could Start In 55 Days
S2E25 of the Countdown podcast is up at iHeart Radio.
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- (1:59) SPECIAL COMMENT: The trial of Donald Trump and the Trump 19 could begin in Atlanta on October 23rd. In such a low-key manner that it barely got noticed, Fonni [sic]
(Sigh.) I know what’s happening here. Keith (and other people) write down the phonetic spelling of names so that he pronounces them correctly, but you’d think that by now, he’d know that he has to spell them correctly — especially Fani’s — when they’re being read, right? Right?
- Fani Willis has now formally petitioned Judge Scott McAfee to MOVE UP the trial date for everybody — and reverse his previous ruling to sever the trial of Ken Chesebro from the entire roster of 19 defendants. It would mean everybody — not just Chesebro — goes on trial just 55 days from now, instead of on March 4.
- And thus we are presented with the reality that the Chesebro, the man who may do the most to put Trump in prison BEFORE the 2024 election may be the man he turned to, to engineer this half-baked plan to overturn the 2020 election. Way to go, Cheese-Bro!
- Now we need to know when the State of Georgia and maybe the Department of Justice will put this Georgia State Legislator Colton Moore behind bars. This is the State Senator with eyes on opposite sides of his head and he is the one who tried to get a special session of the Georgia senate called so he could defund the Fulton County DA’s office, and he is the one who previously revealed he believes that the Trump 19, if convicted, face death by lethal injection and he is now the one serving up on the propaganda channel “Real America’s Voice” a threat to send troopers to arrest Fani Willis and make a Trumpian stochastic promise of Civil War.
- In Washington, Congressman Andy Clyde is on the House Appropriations Committee and he says he has TWO amendments ready to tag on to the Fiscal 2024 budget for Commerce Justice and Science which his committee will take up next month after the recess and guess who they defund, and no it’s not Aileen Cannon. Clyde thinks he can take out Willis AND Alvin Bragg in New York AND Jack Smith (and he’s wrong about that, which I’ll explain in detail).
B-Block
- (20:35) IN SPORTS: The complete failure of the Colorado Rockies’ security staff as two fans charge and hold an Atlanta Braves star underscores that since 9/11 sports has adopted only “security theater” — not real security. It was the worst breach in baseball in nearly a week! The White Sox finally have an explanation as to how two fans got shot in the bleachers last Friday and it involves hiding a gun in “folds of belly fat.”
C-Block
- (33:12) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Running that clip of O.J. Simpson endorsing Vivek Ramaswamy provided a good laugh but ever since I’ve been haunted of memories of what he did in 1994,
… on my birthday ...
- how nobody believed it was possible, and how in LA media in the ‘80s and ‘90s we knew he was a phony and an evil man, but we weren’t able to probe harder to learn what a monster he truly was.
EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY
That’s all the damage for now. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck!