SEASON 2 EPISODE 16: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump has filed to have his January 6th trial start not in 138 days from now but in April 2026 and presumably THAT is the date he and his attorneys picked because “The Twelfth Of Never” would not fit on the legal form.
The filing concludes with the most cynical argument imaginable: Point “E”, quote: “The Government’s Proposal Conflicts With Other Cases” and it then lists things like the civil case in New York beginning this October and another next January and the Stormy Daniels Payoff trial in March and the Georgia trial next March and the Mar-a-Lago trial start next May.
YOU CAN’T PUT ME ON TRIAL FOR MY CRIMES IN JANUARY – I’M ALREADY ON TRIAL FOR MY CRIMES IN NEW YORK AND ATLANTA AND FLORIDA – YOU PEOPLE ACT LIKE YOU’RE THE ONLY PROSECUTOR AND THE ONLY JUDGE IN TOWN – I’M ALREADY BOOKED THAT WEEK.
This trial calendar is his philosophy in miniature – and also, his only means of survival. If anybody ever gets him to admit, to others, to himself – sincerely (not just to deceive them) – that he has lost, I suspect he will stroke out, or at least be unable to function. He is the victim, he is the rightful ruler, he will be avenged, he will not accept a trial before the 2024 election, he won’t accept one in 2025 because if he were to LOSE the election he would be too busy in 2025 trying to overthrow the government and of course he ALSO won’t accept one in 2025 because if he were to WIN the election he would be too busy in 2025 dismantling the various prosecutions against him and oh yeah in the most cynical and manipulative part of this hole stall tactic, you can’t criminally try a sitting president. Or a sitting dictator, for that matter.
And we need to throw EVERYTHING we have at him. Lawsuits, state cases, Arizona, Georgia, document trials, insurrection trials, the 14th Amendment, and if we can’t keep him off the ballot the goddamnedest series of campaign ads in the history of the world that make L-B-J’s Daisy Ad and Bush’s Willie Horton Ad look more milquetoast than “I Like Ike.”
And right now we are NOT doing that.
B-Block (22:58) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: Britain's 5th-String Prime Minister has invited Saudi strongman Prince MBS to the UK - on or about the fifth anniversary of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. The likely next governor of North Carolina never paid his rent from 2012. New York's idiot Democrats manage to place on the Supreme Court a woman judge who is opposed to Roe V. Wade. (27:00) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Everybody got fired at Project Veritas, The Washington Post puts out two of the worst Bothsidesist Headlines in world history in the same edition, and the rare winner twice in three days: my ex-SportsCenter co-anchor Sage Steele keeps digging!
C-Block (33:30) FRIDAYS WITH THURBER: You were all so kind with words about yesterday's stories of my late pup Mishu, let's just absorb some of the pure joy of dogs, even the cranky ones. It's Thurber's "The Dog That Bit People."
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Countdown with Keith Olbermann