1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:16,275 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This 2 00:00:16,315 --> 00:00:20,235 Speaker 1: is a Countdown Bulletin podcast. I'm Keith Olberman. Trump has 3 00:00:20,315 --> 00:00:23,235 Speaker 1: fired his Attorney General Pam Bondy, or to put it 4 00:00:23,275 --> 00:00:27,155 Speaker 1: a different way, Trump, who attacked Iran to distract from 5 00:00:27,155 --> 00:00:30,755 Speaker 1: the Epstein files and his Attorney General Pam Bondi's mishandling 6 00:00:30,755 --> 00:00:34,795 Speaker 1: of the Epstein files, has now fired Attorney General Pambondy 7 00:00:35,075 --> 00:00:39,275 Speaker 1: to distract from his attack on Iran. Supposedly, this is 8 00:00:39,355 --> 00:00:44,075 Speaker 1: about Epstein files and the mishandling thereof by Pam Bondi, 9 00:00:44,595 --> 00:00:47,635 Speaker 1: regardless whether or not there are other causes, and there 10 00:00:47,675 --> 00:00:51,035 Speaker 1: are some reported that really are kind of mind bending. 11 00:00:51,395 --> 00:00:55,675 Speaker 1: This reminds everybody about the Epstein files and how he 12 00:00:55,715 --> 00:00:58,515 Speaker 1: attacked Iron to distract from the Epstein files. With of 13 00:00:58,555 --> 00:01:04,595 Speaker 1: course operation distract from the Epstein files extraordinarily, Trump says Bondi, 14 00:01:04,675 --> 00:01:07,315 Speaker 1: he is leaving for a job in the private sector 15 00:01:07,355 --> 00:01:11,715 Speaker 1: that will be announced later. They don't even have the 16 00:01:11,795 --> 00:01:14,995 Speaker 1: cover story ready. She does not even get the Christy 17 00:01:15,155 --> 00:01:20,155 Speaker 1: Nome cover story about joining Agents of Shield or something, 18 00:01:20,635 --> 00:01:25,115 Speaker 1: or going to spend more time with her oh family. 19 00:01:25,915 --> 00:01:30,035 Speaker 1: She has not even been reassured Pam Bondi's admirers have 20 00:01:30,115 --> 00:01:33,475 Speaker 1: not been reassured that Pam will now be sent to 21 00:01:33,715 --> 00:01:38,555 Speaker 1: live on a farm up state. Epstein and Bondi's belligerent 22 00:01:38,675 --> 00:01:42,955 Speaker 1: and deep voiced Congressional testimony about Epstein and everything else, 23 00:01:43,035 --> 00:01:46,315 Speaker 1: and the mishandling of those files, and her testimony at 24 00:01:46,355 --> 00:01:49,715 Speaker 1: which her every answer to every question seemed to be 25 00:01:49,755 --> 00:01:52,635 Speaker 1: disconnected from the question and seemed to always revert to 26 00:01:52,875 --> 00:01:56,315 Speaker 1: how well the Dow was doing over fifty thousand, and 27 00:01:56,355 --> 00:02:00,435 Speaker 1: the comic rage approach in her testimony seemed to make 28 00:02:00,515 --> 00:02:04,435 Speaker 1: her look foolish and somehow to make Trump look more 29 00:02:04,395 --> 00:02:08,275 Speaker 1: for if that is still possible. At one point, Trump's 30 00:02:08,355 --> 00:02:11,875 Speaker 1: chief of staff, Susie Wiles even admitted that Bondy had 31 00:02:11,955 --> 00:02:16,795 Speaker 1: quote fumbled the carriage of the Epstein files. However, if 32 00:02:16,795 --> 00:02:20,435 Speaker 1: this may not be just about Epstein, we have obviously 33 00:02:20,435 --> 00:02:24,715 Speaker 1: heard reports that Trump continues to be maddened, enraged, driven 34 00:02:24,795 --> 00:02:26,955 Speaker 1: to distraction by the fact that he has not been 35 00:02:26,995 --> 00:02:29,915 Speaker 1: able to put Joe Biden and Barack Obama and everybody 36 00:02:29,915 --> 00:02:32,435 Speaker 1: else who ever looked at him funny in prison for 37 00:02:32,475 --> 00:02:35,475 Speaker 1: the rest of their lives, or sent them to their executions. 38 00:02:35,715 --> 00:02:39,155 Speaker 1: He wants an attorney general to prosecute democrats and put 39 00:02:39,155 --> 00:02:42,115 Speaker 1: them in jail for life because he was prosecuted, and 40 00:02:42,195 --> 00:02:44,955 Speaker 1: he does not understand that he was prosecuted because he's 41 00:02:44,995 --> 00:02:48,355 Speaker 1: the greatest criminal in the history of the United States. However, 42 00:02:48,595 --> 00:02:51,315 Speaker 1: apart from that idea, that he does not have a 43 00:02:51,435 --> 00:02:54,755 Speaker 1: vicious enough attorney general or did not have one in 44 00:02:54,875 --> 00:02:57,715 Speaker 1: Pam Bondy, and he did not have one who handled 45 00:02:57,715 --> 00:03:01,155 Speaker 1: the Epstein files correctly, and for some reason he decided 46 00:03:01,155 --> 00:03:03,635 Speaker 1: the way to handle the Epstein files correctly was to 47 00:03:03,675 --> 00:03:06,355 Speaker 1: remind everybody about the Epstein files so that we can 48 00:03:06,395 --> 00:03:09,195 Speaker 1: deal with the Epstein files and the disastrous war in 49 00:03:09,235 --> 00:03:14,075 Speaker 1: Iran simultaneously. It may be something else. Of all news 50 00:03:14,195 --> 00:03:18,035 Speaker 1: organizations to report this. The Daily Mail, the London tabloid, 51 00:03:18,035 --> 00:03:20,875 Speaker 1: would seem to be a really ill fitting one, but 52 00:03:20,955 --> 00:03:25,035 Speaker 1: its story holds together. I will quote from it. Trump's reasoning, 53 00:03:25,115 --> 00:03:28,395 Speaker 1: reports the Daily Mail three bylines on this story for 54 00:03:28,475 --> 00:03:32,235 Speaker 1: the sudden dismissal comes in part because he believes Bondi 55 00:03:32,435 --> 00:03:37,915 Speaker 1: tipped off Eric Swalwell, a California congressman, about FBI efforts 56 00:03:37,915 --> 00:03:41,915 Speaker 1: to release investigative documents related to his relationship with an 57 00:03:41,915 --> 00:03:46,195 Speaker 1: alleged Chinese spy. You will recall this story broke briefly 58 00:03:46,315 --> 00:03:49,275 Speaker 1: last week, along with the fact that the FBI had 59 00:03:49,275 --> 00:03:54,555 Speaker 1: investigated Swalwell and his relationship with Christine Fang and found 60 00:03:54,795 --> 00:03:58,915 Speaker 1: nothing to prosecute and nothing untoward other than perhaps on 61 00:03:58,955 --> 00:04:01,955 Speaker 1: a personal level. The FBI, the Daily Mail goes on 62 00:04:01,995 --> 00:04:05,355 Speaker 1: to report, was preparing a cache of documents on Swalwell's 63 00:04:05,435 --> 00:04:09,355 Speaker 1: relationship with Christine Fang, and they were ready to release 64 00:04:09,395 --> 00:04:12,635 Speaker 1: it even though there was nothing in it. So this 65 00:04:12,675 --> 00:04:14,995 Speaker 1: would be a question of whether or not Cash Patel 66 00:04:15,155 --> 00:04:19,555 Speaker 1: felt he was undermined by Pam Bondi accidentally doing something 67 00:04:19,795 --> 00:04:23,155 Speaker 1: close to, if not exactly the right thing, both legally 68 00:04:23,195 --> 00:04:27,075 Speaker 1: and ethically. Again, from the Daily Mail quote, she's intervening 69 00:04:27,195 --> 00:04:30,195 Speaker 1: in those matters. The White House wasn't pleased she was 70 00:04:30,275 --> 00:04:34,995 Speaker 1: intervening due to her personal friendship with Swalwell, according to 71 00:04:35,035 --> 00:04:39,235 Speaker 1: a source that the London newspaper quotes, and the newspaper 72 00:04:39,315 --> 00:04:43,235 Speaker 1: also says that Bondi was informed of her firing before 73 00:04:43,355 --> 00:04:47,995 Speaker 1: Trump made that rather limp speech about Iran Wednesday night, 74 00:04:48,035 --> 00:04:51,075 Speaker 1: when he demanded twenty minutes of network television time and 75 00:04:51,155 --> 00:04:54,315 Speaker 1: simply managed to put everybody to sleep at nine o'clock Eastern. 76 00:04:54,795 --> 00:04:58,675 Speaker 1: Trump informed her of the decision shortly before his primetime 77 00:04:58,835 --> 00:05:02,435 Speaker 1: Iran War addressed to the nation, a senior administration source 78 00:05:02,515 --> 00:05:05,995 Speaker 1: told The Daily Mail, and it wouldn't be surprising if 79 00:05:05,995 --> 00:05:08,955 Speaker 1: the Daily Mail was ahead of many of American's newspapers 80 00:05:08,955 --> 00:05:12,915 Speaker 1: on this story. But there it is. Bondy, the newspaper reports, 81 00:05:13,155 --> 00:05:17,275 Speaker 1: pleaded for the job, begged Trump not to fire her, 82 00:05:17,475 --> 00:05:20,115 Speaker 1: asked her for more time in the role, and then 83 00:05:20,155 --> 00:05:22,515 Speaker 1: Trump said, no, you have to go live on a 84 00:05:22,555 --> 00:05:26,155 Speaker 1: farm upstate. Now the question is raised as to whether 85 00:05:26,235 --> 00:05:29,035 Speaker 1: or not Bondi will still testify on the fourteenth of 86 00:05:29,075 --> 00:05:31,915 Speaker 1: this month to the House Oversight Committee, which issued a 87 00:05:31,995 --> 00:05:35,515 Speaker 1: bipartisan subpoena for her to come there and explain her 88 00:05:35,555 --> 00:05:40,155 Speaker 1: malfeasance and her incorrupt or corrupt or incompetent or. I 89 00:05:40,235 --> 00:05:44,595 Speaker 1: invented a new word, incorrupt handling of the Epstein files 90 00:05:44,635 --> 00:05:47,155 Speaker 1: both in public and in private. We don't have to 91 00:05:47,195 --> 00:05:50,995 Speaker 1: go through the entire saga except to say yay. Trump 92 00:05:51,035 --> 00:05:53,555 Speaker 1: managed to put the Epstein files back on the front 93 00:05:53,555 --> 00:05:57,955 Speaker 1: page again. The acting Attorney General is Todd Blanche, who 94 00:05:57,995 --> 00:06:00,795 Speaker 1: presumably will still be in charge of the Department. While 95 00:06:00,875 --> 00:06:03,635 Speaker 1: there is a battle between the Department and the House 96 00:06:03,675 --> 00:06:06,435 Speaker 1: Oversight Committee as to whether or not Bondi has to 97 00:06:06,475 --> 00:06:10,635 Speaker 1: testify on April fourteenth, the members, the Democratic members of 98 00:06:10,675 --> 00:06:14,395 Speaker 1: the Oversight Committee are insistent that she must testify. One 99 00:06:14,395 --> 00:06:17,835 Speaker 1: would assume that the Mega members will suddenly find a 100 00:06:17,915 --> 00:06:20,875 Speaker 1: reason not to have her testify, even though they voted 101 00:06:20,915 --> 00:06:23,915 Speaker 1: for the subpoena last month. In any event, it is 102 00:06:23,995 --> 00:06:27,195 Speaker 1: Todd Blanche in the role now. Todd Blanche another one 103 00:06:27,235 --> 00:06:31,195 Speaker 1: of Trump's former personal attorneys, just as John Sower, the 104 00:06:31,235 --> 00:06:34,795 Speaker 1: Solicitor General who went to the Supreme Court just yesterday 105 00:06:34,835 --> 00:06:38,435 Speaker 1: and got his ass kicked on the subject of birthright citizenship. 106 00:06:38,955 --> 00:06:43,275 Speaker 1: Todd Blanche, a former supposed Democrat from New York who 107 00:06:43,315 --> 00:06:47,435 Speaker 1: was viewed suspiciously within conservative circles and among the fascists. 108 00:06:47,835 --> 00:06:50,755 Speaker 1: But Todd Blanche, who just the other day seemed to 109 00:06:51,235 --> 00:06:55,155 Speaker 1: buttress his own bona fides, if you will, by insisting 110 00:06:55,195 --> 00:06:57,995 Speaker 1: that you could send ice to the polls in November, 111 00:06:58,075 --> 00:07:01,195 Speaker 1: even though sending armed men to the polls, except in 112 00:07:01,195 --> 00:07:05,235 Speaker 1: the event of foreign invasion, sending armed men to the 113 00:07:05,275 --> 00:07:08,155 Speaker 1: polls during an election is a federal crime, whether they 114 00:07:08,155 --> 00:07:11,715 Speaker 1: are military officers, or they are not, Blanche is ready 115 00:07:11,795 --> 00:07:14,435 Speaker 1: to send them. The name that has been thrown out 116 00:07:14,515 --> 00:07:20,955 Speaker 1: as the probable actual successor to Pam Bondy is Lee Zelden, 117 00:07:21,035 --> 00:07:24,915 Speaker 1: the former congressman from Staten Island. The joke goes, the 118 00:07:24,915 --> 00:07:28,915 Speaker 1: only Maga conservative in New York City, Lee Zelden, who 119 00:07:28,915 --> 00:07:32,675 Speaker 1: has been serving as the head, if you will, of 120 00:07:32,715 --> 00:07:37,915 Speaker 1: the Environmental Department, Lee Zelden, whose job in the Environmental 121 00:07:37,915 --> 00:07:41,995 Speaker 1: Department is to destroy the environment. But Trump rarely puts 122 00:07:42,035 --> 00:07:45,395 Speaker 1: in somebody that he trusts, like Todd Blanche, only to 123 00:07:45,515 --> 00:07:49,235 Speaker 1: remove them in short order. And remember Bondy was only 124 00:07:49,275 --> 00:07:52,555 Speaker 1: his second choice here. He originally wanted Matt Gates. And 125 00:07:52,595 --> 00:07:55,155 Speaker 1: it would not be a surprise to think that Trump 126 00:07:55,195 --> 00:07:58,235 Speaker 1: at least has said to somebody inside his own White 127 00:07:58,235 --> 00:08:01,635 Speaker 1: House offices, maybe we can get Gates in there now. 128 00:08:02,795 --> 00:08:06,395 Speaker 1: Then again, if the Gnome story as any guide, maybe 129 00:08:06,395 --> 00:08:09,675 Speaker 1: the real story here is watch out for videos of 130 00:08:09,715 --> 00:08:13,475 Speaker 1: Pam Bondy's boyfriend suddenly surfacing in the next few days. 131 00:08:13,715 --> 00:08:17,035 Speaker 1: God help us all. If this story the firing of 132 00:08:17,075 --> 00:08:19,795 Speaker 1: Bondy in the middle of the story that was created 133 00:08:19,835 --> 00:08:23,395 Speaker 1: the Iran War to distract from Bondi's failure to distract 134 00:08:23,395 --> 00:08:26,675 Speaker 1: from Bondi's failure about the Epstein files and to distract 135 00:08:26,675 --> 00:08:30,595 Speaker 1: from the Epstein files if this needed a weirder final turn. 136 00:08:31,115 --> 00:08:35,155 Speaker 1: After Trump announced the firing on truth Social of Pam Bondy, 137 00:08:35,475 --> 00:08:41,275 Speaker 1: he then came back with another post about Davy Crockett. 138 00:08:41,955 --> 00:08:44,315 Speaker 1: I will read this. I thought it was fake. I 139 00:08:44,355 --> 00:08:47,435 Speaker 1: have checked it six times. It is not fake. It 140 00:08:47,555 --> 00:08:51,995 Speaker 1: is according to Trump quote, Davy Crockett, obviously a distant 141 00:08:52,035 --> 00:08:56,315 Speaker 1: relative of Jasmine Crockett and a very high IQ frontiersman, 142 00:08:56,635 --> 00:08:59,595 Speaker 1: would be proud of the legacy that he began long ago, 143 00:08:59,915 --> 00:09:03,835 Speaker 1: and especially Jasmine's great success as a politician from the 144 00:09:03,835 --> 00:09:07,915 Speaker 1: great state of ten exis signed President Donald J. Trump. 145 00:09:08,355 --> 00:09:12,035 Speaker 1: Beneath that, there is a video two minutes and fourteen 146 00:09:12,155 --> 00:09:15,955 Speaker 1: seconds consisting of a still picture of the actor Fess Parker, 147 00:09:16,275 --> 00:09:19,715 Speaker 1: who portrayed Davy Crockett in a nineteen fifties and early 148 00:09:19,835 --> 00:09:24,875 Speaker 1: nineteen sixties TV series called Davy Crockett, King of the 149 00:09:24,915 --> 00:09:28,755 Speaker 1: Wild Frontier. The entirety of the video is this one 150 00:09:28,875 --> 00:09:32,515 Speaker 1: still picture of fest Parker and two minutes and fourteen 151 00:09:32,595 --> 00:09:37,795 Speaker 1: saw a seconds of the song Davy Davy Crockett, King 152 00:09:37,915 --> 00:09:40,795 Speaker 1: of a wild Frontier. I don't know what the odds 153 00:09:40,835 --> 00:09:43,435 Speaker 1: would be. Would have to consult one of the many new, 154 00:09:43,835 --> 00:09:48,075 Speaker 1: suddenly burgeoning gambling services that will take your bet on anything, 155 00:09:48,435 --> 00:09:51,475 Speaker 1: but I would say that while Todd blanche is the 156 00:09:51,715 --> 00:09:55,115 Speaker 1: acting Attorney General and Lee Zelden is the possibility for 157 00:09:55,235 --> 00:09:58,915 Speaker 1: the permanent Attorney General, and I would think Joe Scarborough 158 00:09:58,915 --> 00:10:01,355 Speaker 1: would make an excellent Attorney general if Trump really wants 159 00:10:01,355 --> 00:10:06,315 Speaker 1: a loyalist, there is what one in one thousand chants, 160 00:10:06,355 --> 00:10:09,075 Speaker 1: a one in one million chants that Trump will attempt 161 00:10:09,075 --> 00:10:13,355 Speaker 1: to name Fest Parker, the late Fest Parker, as his 162 00:10:13,475 --> 00:10:17,795 Speaker 1: next Attorney General, Pambondy out as the Attorney General. In 163 00:10:17,875 --> 00:10:22,355 Speaker 1: another ordinary day in crazy Land, this has been a 164 00:10:22,395 --> 00:10:32,955 Speaker 1: countdown bulletin podcast. I'm Keith Olderman. Countdown with Keith Olderman 165 00:10:33,115 --> 00:10:37,595 Speaker 1: is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, 166 00:10:37,755 --> 00:10:41,755 Speaker 1: visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get 167 00:10:41,795 --> 00:10:42,715 Speaker 1: your podcasts.