Episode #42 of the Countdown podcast is up.
A-Block (1:28) SPECIAL COMMENT:
- Keep your eye on the trial of Stewart Rhodes and the Oath Keepers as jury selection continues today. Rhodes’s defense is: He and his terrorists were acting on what were to be legal orders from Trump as President. So … they just guessed that would be the case? They assumed? THEY HAD TO HAVE BEEN TOLD. Told? By whom? What will they say in their own defense and who will testify to what communications or meetings or conspiracies? They are on trial for Seditious Conspiracy and perhaps decades in jail and who they blame could be close to Trump — or Trump himself.
- Other Oath Keepers have already flipped and implicated Roger Stone, Stop The Steal, and The Proud Boys.
- And ex-Trump physician, Congressman Ronny Jackson, who supposedly reached out to Stewart Rhodes for protection during the attempted coup.
B-Block
C-Block (39:00)
- More on “Network” and the 23 separate prophecies of auteur Paddy Chayefsky, who saw in 1976 what the rest of us could not imagine: what television news would look like in 2022.
Well, that’s all the damage I can do here for now. 44 days until the day after the midterms, when Donald Trump will be arrested (maybe). Good night and good luck.