1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,435 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump 2 00:00:21,755 --> 00:00:26,355 Speaker 1: is still a hitler. Trump is still a threat to 3 00:00:26,395 --> 00:00:29,435 Speaker 1: the future of this nation. Trump is still a threat 4 00:00:29,475 --> 00:00:33,435 Speaker 1: to the future of the human race. Trump's supporters still 5 00:00:33,475 --> 00:00:37,515 Speaker 1: divide into domestic terrorists or those who have no problems 6 00:00:37,635 --> 00:00:43,835 Speaker 1: siding with domestic terrorists. And Democrats, and especially the eternally gullible, 7 00:00:44,195 --> 00:00:50,875 Speaker 1: terrified media are still falling for Trump's lies. When he 8 00:00:50,995 --> 00:00:55,435 Speaker 1: hinted at uniting America, it was like the book the 9 00:00:55,475 --> 00:01:01,115 Speaker 1: Extraterrestrials in the Twilight Zone had to serve Man. Trump 10 00:01:01,155 --> 00:01:04,795 Speaker 1: wants a united America, all right, united under his one 11 00:01:04,835 --> 00:01:10,395 Speaker 1: man authoritarian dictatorship. And Biden fell for it, and the 12 00:01:10,395 --> 00:01:13,435 Speaker 1: Democrats fell for it, and the commentators fell for it. 13 00:01:14,155 --> 00:01:18,475 Speaker 1: And after the big poor dumbfishes who always take the 14 00:01:18,515 --> 00:01:22,515 Speaker 1: Trump bait took the Trump bait again, he explained what 15 00:01:22,595 --> 00:01:27,075 Speaker 1: it was they had just bought. His concierge Judge in Florida, 16 00:01:27,275 --> 00:01:33,155 Speaker 1: declared that Special Counsel Jacksmith is unconstitutional, and he followed with, 17 00:01:33,635 --> 00:01:37,955 Speaker 1: as we move forward in uniting our nation after the 18 00:01:37,955 --> 00:01:42,195 Speaker 1: horrific events on Saturday, This dismissal of the lawless indictment 19 00:01:42,275 --> 00:01:46,795 Speaker 1: in Florida should be just the first step, followed quickly 20 00:01:46,835 --> 00:01:50,715 Speaker 1: by the dismissal of all the witch hunts. He even 21 00:01:50,755 --> 00:01:53,875 Speaker 1: included the E. Gene Carroll cases in the cases he 22 00:01:53,995 --> 00:02:01,915 Speaker 1: now expects we'll be dismissed. And then, in further tribute 23 00:02:02,275 --> 00:02:06,355 Speaker 1: to the new spirit of bipartisanship, by which Trump means 24 00:02:06,395 --> 00:02:10,235 Speaker 1: both parties should nominate him, he named his running mate 25 00:02:10,795 --> 00:02:14,235 Speaker 1: the shit bag JD Vance, who two years ago he 26 00:02:14,275 --> 00:02:21,995 Speaker 1: literally could not name. He called him J. P. Mandel Vance, 27 00:02:22,555 --> 00:02:25,835 Speaker 1: who not forty eight hours earlier had posted quote today 28 00:02:25,955 --> 00:02:28,875 Speaker 1: is not just some isolated incident. The central premise of 29 00:02:28,875 --> 00:02:32,075 Speaker 1: the Biden campaign is that Trump is an authoritarian fascist 30 00:02:32,195 --> 00:02:35,555 Speaker 1: who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led 31 00:02:35,555 --> 00:02:41,395 Speaker 1: directly to President Trump's attempted assassination sounds unifying to me. 32 00:02:41,555 --> 00:02:48,955 Speaker 1: Jd like einvolk, I like in'infeurer kind of unifying on 33 00:02:49,315 --> 00:02:51,235 Speaker 1: just remember MAGA for when the time comes. 34 00:02:51,395 --> 00:02:51,675 Speaker 2: JD. 35 00:02:51,795 --> 00:02:56,715 Speaker 1: Vance wears a size sixteen noose. Also Dvance, the way 36 00:02:56,755 --> 00:03:02,155 Speaker 1: you phrase that post, it reads that Trump attempted the assassination, 37 00:03:03,795 --> 00:03:05,355 Speaker 1: which would kind of be the first thing you've ever 38 00:03:05,395 --> 00:03:09,395 Speaker 1: gotten right, Because while the Democrats and other opponents of 39 00:03:09,435 --> 00:03:13,995 Speaker 1: dictatorship folded at the knees over fear that they might 40 00:03:14,035 --> 00:03:18,275 Speaker 1: be blamed or damaged, or not deferential enough to Trump 41 00:03:18,395 --> 00:03:23,515 Speaker 1: or have to answer questions. They forgot reality. Reality is, 42 00:03:23,955 --> 00:03:28,395 Speaker 1: this is the America Trump wanted, and this is the 43 00:03:28,435 --> 00:03:35,875 Speaker 1: America Trump gets. I'm really sorry. A Republican gun fetishist 44 00:03:36,315 --> 00:03:40,435 Speaker 1: shot at another Republican gun fetishist using a weapon that 45 00:03:40,515 --> 00:03:43,995 Speaker 1: Democrats had tried to ban and Republicans had kept from 46 00:03:44,075 --> 00:03:47,995 Speaker 1: being banned. And he did this in response to nine 47 00:03:48,315 --> 00:03:52,915 Speaker 1: uninterrupted years of the Trump language of stochastic terror, while 48 00:03:52,955 --> 00:03:57,995 Speaker 1: the rest of us pleaded that he stopp I'm really 49 00:03:58,075 --> 00:04:01,755 Speaker 1: sorry about this, but what exactly does this have to 50 00:04:01,795 --> 00:04:07,075 Speaker 1: do with America? Trump gets shot at by a guy 51 00:04:07,755 --> 00:04:11,395 Speaker 1: whose neighbors now say lived in a house that had 52 00:04:11,795 --> 00:04:17,675 Speaker 1: Trump signs out front. Seems to me like this is 53 00:04:17,715 --> 00:04:24,555 Speaker 1: a Trump problem. Who exactly needs to turn the temperature down? 54 00:04:26,195 --> 00:04:32,355 Speaker 1: Who President Biden needs to turn the temperature down? Yes, 55 00:04:32,555 --> 00:04:38,235 Speaker 1: let's bow to and beg forgiveness from and pledge unity 56 00:04:38,275 --> 00:04:43,835 Speaker 1: with Republicans, with a man who called for his Second 57 00:04:43,875 --> 00:04:48,755 Speaker 1: Amendment people to stop his presidential opponent, with a psychopath 58 00:04:49,315 --> 00:04:53,755 Speaker 1: who traffics only in violence with a party of quizzlings, 59 00:04:54,475 --> 00:04:58,515 Speaker 1: who have surrendered any remaining shreds of loyalty to our nation, 60 00:04:58,955 --> 00:05:04,275 Speaker 1: or our constitution, or our shared humanity, surrendered any shreds 61 00:05:04,315 --> 00:05:07,475 Speaker 1: of loyal to any of that to this scumbag Trump 62 00:05:10,795 --> 00:05:14,275 Speaker 1: with an insensate creature, whose first act after his near 63 00:05:14,355 --> 00:05:18,555 Speaker 1: death experience was to name a new running mate that 64 00:05:18,635 --> 00:05:23,755 Speaker 1: he needed because he tried to get his own mob 65 00:05:24,235 --> 00:05:32,315 Speaker 1: to kill his last running mate. We need to steer 66 00:05:32,395 --> 00:05:38,515 Speaker 1: out of this bipartisan scam, goddamned fast, President Biden, and 67 00:05:38,795 --> 00:05:43,235 Speaker 1: you need to steer out of it immediately, because I 68 00:05:43,275 --> 00:05:46,715 Speaker 1: don't care now if your polls improve or the crater. 69 00:05:47,075 --> 00:05:49,835 Speaker 1: You had one job in twenty twenty one, which was 70 00:05:49,875 --> 00:05:53,035 Speaker 1: to remove the cancer of Trump and MAGA from this 71 00:05:53,235 --> 00:05:57,435 Speaker 1: country forever and out of foolish but in some ways 72 00:05:57,635 --> 00:06:03,555 Speaker 1: understandable naive ta, you waited and this is what you 73 00:06:03,755 --> 00:06:08,075 Speaker 1: waited for. If you are not prepared to remove the 74 00:06:08,155 --> 00:06:10,995 Speaker 1: cancer of Trump and MAGA from this country. 75 00:06:10,675 --> 00:06:16,075 Speaker 3: Now now, now, now, get the hell out of a 76 00:06:16,115 --> 00:06:19,995 Speaker 3: White House, get somebody a top our ticket who is 77 00:06:20,115 --> 00:06:25,995 Speaker 3: willing to do what is necessary because you say unity, sir, 78 00:06:26,515 --> 00:06:32,155 Speaker 3: and Trump and the Maga mob hears surrender, and if 79 00:06:32,195 --> 00:06:34,275 Speaker 3: you want to surrender, go ahead. 80 00:06:35,595 --> 00:06:39,595 Speaker 1: In this unwarranted deference to a would be dictator who 81 00:06:39,715 --> 00:06:44,715 Speaker 1: was shot at by his own side, you have completely 82 00:06:44,795 --> 00:06:48,555 Speaker 1: misread the mood of this nation and the urgency of 83 00:06:48,595 --> 00:06:53,075 Speaker 1: this crisis, and the absolute non negotiable necessity to not 84 00:06:53,355 --> 00:06:57,675 Speaker 1: back down in the face of the self fulfilling Trump 85 00:06:58,075 --> 00:07:02,315 Speaker 1: prophecy of violence, but to instead redouble your efforts to 86 00:07:02,635 --> 00:07:08,195 Speaker 1: rid us of the nightmare of the cancer Trump represents. 87 00:07:08,875 --> 00:07:14,555 Speaker 1: Do it or get out. 88 00:07:15,955 --> 00:07:16,275 Speaker 2: Now. 89 00:07:17,395 --> 00:07:21,635 Speaker 1: Genuinely, I am heartbroken for the father who died protecting 90 00:07:21,675 --> 00:07:25,835 Speaker 1: his family, protecting it from the violence that is the 91 00:07:25,995 --> 00:07:30,915 Speaker 1: essence of Trump's campaign and the only through line in 92 00:07:31,035 --> 00:07:36,475 Speaker 1: his horrific vision for America. I am heartbroken that Trump's 93 00:07:36,675 --> 00:07:42,835 Speaker 1: stochastic terrorism killed yet another bystander and wounded two more. 94 00:07:44,195 --> 00:07:47,155 Speaker 1: And I am equally heartbroken that the President of the 95 00:07:47,235 --> 00:07:51,235 Speaker 1: United States and other democratic leaders should act like this 96 00:07:51,515 --> 00:07:55,915 Speaker 1: is America's fault and that Americans need to turn down 97 00:07:55,955 --> 00:07:59,475 Speaker 1: the temperature. The man who has been boiling us like 98 00:07:59,675 --> 00:08:04,675 Speaker 1: frogs for a decade is Trump. Those who have enabled 99 00:08:05,395 --> 00:08:08,195 Speaker 1: are trying to blame those of us who have tried 100 00:08:08,235 --> 00:08:11,715 Speaker 1: to stop Trump, and the idea that any of this 101 00:08:11,875 --> 00:08:17,195 Speaker 1: will abate, will even slow down because of some gesture 102 00:08:17,355 --> 00:08:23,395 Speaker 1: by us of neighborliness to people who want to kill us. 103 00:08:25,075 --> 00:08:31,715 Speaker 1: That idea is madness. Sir, I will remind you President 104 00:08:31,715 --> 00:08:35,675 Speaker 1: Biden that no one who has treated Trump, and no 105 00:08:35,915 --> 00:08:38,875 Speaker 1: law enforcement authority involved on the scene or the investigation, 106 00:08:39,035 --> 00:08:42,075 Speaker 1: has yet confirmed he was even grazed by a bullet 107 00:08:42,115 --> 00:08:45,275 Speaker 1: and not some kind of shard of debris. Only he 108 00:08:45,355 --> 00:08:49,155 Speaker 1: has made that claim, and the Nations media has utterly failed, 109 00:08:49,675 --> 00:08:52,795 Speaker 1: as it does nearly all the time, to verify or 110 00:08:52,835 --> 00:08:56,595 Speaker 1: probe or even question another Trump boast. And my God 111 00:08:56,915 --> 00:08:59,875 Speaker 1: listened to his cult right now, you would think Trump 112 00:08:59,995 --> 00:09:03,915 Speaker 1: was Christ fresh off the cross, rather than the victim, 113 00:09:04,115 --> 00:09:05,915 Speaker 1: as he him self phrased it in a moment of 114 00:09:05,995 --> 00:09:10,955 Speaker 1: unintentional and hilarious honesty, a victim of as he described it, 115 00:09:11,675 --> 00:09:18,755 Speaker 1: an ear piercing And of course those same quote reporters 116 00:09:18,915 --> 00:09:23,235 Speaker 1: unquote swallowed whole the latest swindle that he would pivot. 117 00:09:24,675 --> 00:09:28,715 Speaker 1: We are told, wrote the editors of the astonishingly and 118 00:09:28,955 --> 00:09:34,555 Speaker 1: perpetually fatuous Politico, that this week Trump will adopt an unfamiliar, 119 00:09:34,915 --> 00:09:39,475 Speaker 1: almost benevolent posture and call for unity in the face 120 00:09:39,755 --> 00:09:47,115 Speaker 1: of tragedy. Yes, unity, unity means everybody does what Trump says. 121 00:09:48,955 --> 00:09:51,995 Speaker 1: Trump told a propagandist from the Washington Examiner that he 122 00:09:52,035 --> 00:09:55,555 Speaker 1: has rewritten his nomination acceptance speech, that God had given 123 00:09:55,635 --> 00:09:58,075 Speaker 1: him a second chance. Quote, Honestly, it's going to be 124 00:09:58,075 --> 00:10:00,195 Speaker 1: a whole different speech now. It is a chance to 125 00:10:00,235 --> 00:10:05,315 Speaker 1: bring the country together. I was given that chance. Yes, 126 00:10:05,515 --> 00:10:12,635 Speaker 1: another chance, another chance to scam the stupid. Somewhere, Van 127 00:10:12,835 --> 00:10:17,795 Speaker 1: Jones is still weeping as he was Saturday night. Happily, 128 00:10:18,635 --> 00:10:22,435 Speaker 1: if Van is on CNN weeping, he can relax because 129 00:10:22,435 --> 00:10:27,835 Speaker 1: nobody is watching him. Just remember, after Trump dived under 130 00:10:27,835 --> 00:10:32,635 Speaker 1: the podium, not fell, not was struck down, not took 131 00:10:32,675 --> 00:10:35,635 Speaker 1: a bullet, and then got back up to his feet, 132 00:10:35,675 --> 00:10:37,795 Speaker 1: making sure as he did that the Secret Service retrieved 133 00:10:37,795 --> 00:10:43,435 Speaker 1: his baseball cap and his loafers. The great unifiers immediate 134 00:10:43,515 --> 00:10:47,995 Speaker 1: and most telling reaction was simple and direct and self defining. 135 00:10:48,595 --> 00:10:52,515 Speaker 1: We saw into his soul or whatever he has there 136 00:10:52,555 --> 00:10:55,995 Speaker 1: instead of a soul. For one moment, his face taught 137 00:10:56,035 --> 00:10:58,915 Speaker 1: with rage and hate in a way even he has 138 00:10:58,955 --> 00:11:06,035 Speaker 1: not previously revealed. Trump screamed, fight, fight, hurt, same fraud, 139 00:11:06,755 --> 00:11:13,195 Speaker 1: different con oh Trump, Jesus has a message for the faithful, 140 00:11:13,795 --> 00:11:18,995 Speaker 1: faith brotherhood, unity and fight anybody who does not conform. 141 00:11:20,195 --> 00:11:23,995 Speaker 1: And if anybody is still falling for this, this what 142 00:11:24,075 --> 00:11:27,195 Speaker 1: you will hear next is what an Atlanta Journal Constitution 143 00:11:27,475 --> 00:11:31,355 Speaker 1: an NBC News reporter recorded in the opening moments of 144 00:11:31,395 --> 00:11:38,235 Speaker 1: the Republican convention in Milwaukee yesterday. Spoiler alert, These scumbags 145 00:11:38,555 --> 00:11:40,275 Speaker 1: are not chanting. 146 00:11:40,195 --> 00:11:42,475 Speaker 2: Peace, peace, Peace. 147 00:11:52,395 --> 00:11:56,115 Speaker 1: If when they had dragged him off the stage Saturday, 148 00:11:56,195 --> 00:12:00,355 Speaker 1: Trump had shouted kill, Kill, Kill, the Republicans would have 149 00:12:00,355 --> 00:12:04,915 Speaker 1: been chanting that at their convention yesterday. And by the way, no, 150 00:12:05,035 --> 00:12:08,355 Speaker 1: I do not believe that this was some sort of setup. 151 00:12:08,435 --> 00:12:08,475 Speaker 3: No. 152 00:12:08,595 --> 00:12:11,315 Speaker 1: I do not believe Trump wasn't really shot at No. 153 00:12:11,435 --> 00:12:14,035 Speaker 1: I do not believe they were not trying to kill him. 154 00:12:14,195 --> 00:12:19,235 Speaker 1: That was an assassination attempt. It's everything else that's the bullshit. 155 00:12:20,315 --> 00:12:23,875 Speaker 1: As Politico wrote eight hours before that fight fight, fight 156 00:12:24,275 --> 00:12:28,275 Speaker 1: chant was recorded, quote, the familiar face there nominating for 157 00:12:28,315 --> 00:12:32,275 Speaker 1: president this week is a different man than they've come 158 00:12:32,315 --> 00:12:39,835 Speaker 1: to know. One bullshit. Two thank you bullshitters at Politico 159 00:12:40,355 --> 00:12:45,875 Speaker 1: for reminding me the familiar face. Go and look at 160 00:12:45,875 --> 00:12:48,955 Speaker 1: those images of Trump and the Secret Service agents and 161 00:12:48,995 --> 00:12:52,635 Speaker 1: the giant flags, and how the right is literally comparing 162 00:12:52,715 --> 00:12:57,035 Speaker 1: all those images to the iconography of Christ. And then 163 00:12:57,555 --> 00:13:00,995 Speaker 1: find the photos snapped at the exact moment Trump is 164 00:13:01,155 --> 00:13:05,515 Speaker 1: screaming his message of hate and fight. And look at 165 00:13:05,515 --> 00:13:09,795 Speaker 1: his face with the mouth just slightly open and just 166 00:13:09,915 --> 00:13:14,315 Speaker 1: the front teeth visible. In my good God, it is 167 00:13:14,395 --> 00:13:24,955 Speaker 1: the face of a giant, monstrous, enraged rodent. It's Gerbil J. 168 00:13:25,955 --> 00:13:51,675 Speaker 2: Trump. Yeah. 169 00:13:51,715 --> 00:13:56,075 Speaker 1: So, the unqualified judge and former Flamenco and yoga correspondent 170 00:13:56,115 --> 00:14:00,515 Speaker 1: of the Miami Nuevo Herald Trump appointed, delayed and slow 171 00:14:00,515 --> 00:14:04,275 Speaker 1: walked and corruptly undermined the case just long enough that 172 00:14:04,315 --> 00:14:06,635 Speaker 1: she could dismissed the charges against him in Florida for 173 00:14:06,675 --> 00:14:10,675 Speaker 1: stealing the nation's nuclear secrets and classified documents and sharing 174 00:14:10,715 --> 00:14:15,995 Speaker 1: them with like passers by. And she managed to dismiss 175 00:14:15,995 --> 00:14:20,195 Speaker 1: the case literally hours before he, a convicted felon, was 176 00:14:20,315 --> 00:14:24,915 Speaker 1: renominated at his anti Democracy party convention. Timed it out, 177 00:14:25,035 --> 00:14:28,035 Speaker 1: she did to the month, the week, the day, and 178 00:14:28,115 --> 00:14:30,355 Speaker 1: the hour. Oh and she did it on a basis 179 00:14:30,555 --> 00:14:34,155 Speaker 1: of something Clarence Thomas threw in as an aside in 180 00:14:34,235 --> 00:14:38,355 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court's corrupt ruling on this imaginary and world 181 00:14:38,515 --> 00:14:42,315 Speaker 1: ending concept of presidential immunity, the thing that will allow Trump, 182 00:14:42,395 --> 00:14:45,235 Speaker 1: if we let him seize power again, to arrest you 183 00:14:46,555 --> 00:14:52,635 Speaker 1: and never face any recriminations. And yes, it will be appealed, 184 00:14:53,955 --> 00:14:57,075 Speaker 1: and it will not matter if Trump wins. And yes, 185 00:14:57,155 --> 00:15:00,475 Speaker 1: I am dead serious when I suggest the following, absolutely serious. 186 00:15:00,795 --> 00:15:05,595 Speaker 1: Biden should invent a pretext today and arrest Judge Cannon 187 00:15:06,195 --> 00:15:10,635 Speaker 1: and arrest Justices Thomas and Alito and Kavanaugh and Barrett 188 00:15:10,635 --> 00:15:14,195 Speaker 1: and Gorsich and Chief Justice Roberts and Trump and the 189 00:15:14,275 --> 00:15:17,955 Speaker 1: leading Republicans and come on TV from the Oval Office 190 00:15:17,955 --> 00:15:24,035 Speaker 1: and say just eight words, good evening, residential immunity, God 191 00:15:24,075 --> 00:15:28,795 Speaker 1: bless our troops. Infant, he does not need a pretext. 192 00:15:29,315 --> 00:15:34,955 Speaker 1: What would Trump do in a mirror image of today, 193 00:15:35,235 --> 00:15:39,395 Speaker 1: a mirror image of the assassination attempt less than four 194 00:15:39,435 --> 00:15:43,355 Speaker 1: months before the election? He's in charge, and the guy 195 00:15:43,595 --> 00:15:47,915 Speaker 1: ahead of him in the polls gets shot at, and 196 00:15:47,995 --> 00:15:51,955 Speaker 1: the Secret Service has clearly screwed security into the ground. 197 00:15:52,755 --> 00:15:55,075 Speaker 1: And we don't know why a kid registered with the 198 00:15:55,075 --> 00:15:59,555 Speaker 1: same party as the candidate, with the candidate signs in 199 00:15:59,595 --> 00:16:02,435 Speaker 1: his front yard would try to kill the candidate. And 200 00:16:02,475 --> 00:16:05,035 Speaker 1: we don't know why a local Police Office US are 201 00:16:05,035 --> 00:16:08,115 Speaker 1: confronted the shooter moments before the shots, only to back away, 202 00:16:08,475 --> 00:16:10,915 Speaker 1: and we don't know why. Most insanely of all, the 203 00:16:10,995 --> 00:16:14,155 Speaker 1: kid had a cameo in a Black Rock commercial for 204 00:16:14,275 --> 00:16:15,355 Speaker 1: retirement plans. 205 00:16:17,155 --> 00:16:18,035 Speaker 2: And we do know. 206 00:16:20,035 --> 00:16:23,275 Speaker 1: It is an assassination attempt being investigated as an active 207 00:16:23,315 --> 00:16:31,595 Speaker 1: domestic terrorism. And you know, you know that a Trump 208 00:16:31,755 --> 00:16:36,155 Speaker 1: in charge would look at this and say, good enough 209 00:16:36,195 --> 00:16:40,075 Speaker 1: excuse for me. I am declaring a national emergency, presidential 210 00:16:40,115 --> 00:16:46,595 Speaker 1: candidates under attack. I'm invoking the Insurrection Act. Do it, Joe. 211 00:16:47,635 --> 00:16:51,155 Speaker 1: I mean, right now, all the goddamned Republican terrorists are 212 00:16:51,195 --> 00:16:54,675 Speaker 1: in one place. They even all have hotel rooms in 213 00:16:54,715 --> 00:16:57,915 Speaker 1: the same neighborhood as the arena. Just seal it off 214 00:16:58,715 --> 00:17:02,115 Speaker 1: and keep them there. Hell, it's all legal. Clarence Thomas 215 00:17:02,155 --> 00:17:04,715 Speaker 1: and John Roberts and Sam Alito just told you so. 216 00:17:04,715 --> 00:17:10,675 Speaker 1: So prayer as a dential immunity. And you know, mister President, 217 00:17:11,355 --> 00:17:13,955 Speaker 1: and if you don't know, retire and let somebody who 218 00:17:13,995 --> 00:17:16,715 Speaker 1: does know run in your place and run the country 219 00:17:16,715 --> 00:17:17,275 Speaker 1: in your place. 220 00:17:17,555 --> 00:17:18,955 Speaker 2: If you don't do. 221 00:17:18,795 --> 00:17:23,315 Speaker 1: Something like this to stop Trump and the cancer and 222 00:17:23,355 --> 00:17:28,275 Speaker 1: the now emboldened fascists when they get the chance they 223 00:17:28,395 --> 00:17:34,235 Speaker 1: will do this. It isn't if the Insurrection Act will 224 00:17:34,275 --> 00:17:39,035 Speaker 1: be invoked in the next few years, it's when and 225 00:17:39,155 --> 00:17:51,355 Speaker 1: by whom. I will get back later to all the 226 00:17:51,395 --> 00:17:53,635 Speaker 1: things that Trump cult said and did in the hours 227 00:17:53,675 --> 00:17:56,635 Speaker 1: after the shooting that probably were a tip off at 228 00:17:56,635 --> 00:18:00,835 Speaker 1: the unity and bring the temperature down Kumbayas stuff was 229 00:18:01,035 --> 00:18:05,875 Speaker 1: just another Khan like the Georgia congressman who posted Joe 230 00:18:05,875 --> 00:18:10,755 Speaker 1: Biden sent the orders. But first there is something else, 231 00:18:11,755 --> 00:18:18,675 Speaker 1: utterly maddening, utterly dishonest, utterly Pollyanna. And after we stop 232 00:18:18,755 --> 00:18:22,675 Speaker 1: with the unity crap, the unity crap that Trump seriously 233 00:18:22,715 --> 00:18:27,435 Speaker 1: thinks means dropping all charges against him, we also have 234 00:18:27,515 --> 00:18:30,755 Speaker 1: to stop with the violence has never decided anything in 235 00:18:30,795 --> 00:18:31,435 Speaker 1: our country. 236 00:18:31,635 --> 00:18:33,155 Speaker 3: Lie. 237 00:18:33,395 --> 00:18:36,875 Speaker 1: I don't want to hear another politician say that violence 238 00:18:36,915 --> 00:18:40,315 Speaker 1: has no place in American politics. If you want to argue, 239 00:18:40,355 --> 00:18:43,275 Speaker 1: it should not have a place. That's one thing. I 240 00:18:43,395 --> 00:18:47,715 Speaker 1: endorse that completely with all of my heart. But by 241 00:18:47,755 --> 00:18:52,195 Speaker 1: this point, all I'm getting from this pious bullshit that 242 00:18:52,275 --> 00:18:54,555 Speaker 1: what happened over the weekend, or what Trump has been 243 00:18:54,595 --> 00:18:57,715 Speaker 1: summoning for nine years, is some kind of unheard of, 244 00:18:57,835 --> 00:19:01,275 Speaker 1: unforseeable aberration. All I'm getting from that is a deep 245 00:19:01,555 --> 00:19:06,475 Speaker 1: bitter laugh. Even Trump wrote, it is incredible that such 246 00:19:06,475 --> 00:19:08,395 Speaker 1: an act could take place in our country. 247 00:19:08,555 --> 00:19:09,195 Speaker 2: No, it's not. 248 00:19:10,235 --> 00:19:12,235 Speaker 1: It may seem incredible to him that such an act 249 00:19:12,235 --> 00:19:17,475 Speaker 1: could take place to him. And I don't begrudge politicians, who, 250 00:19:17,515 --> 00:19:20,555 Speaker 1: after all, have a very vested interest in making sure 251 00:19:21,075 --> 00:19:25,355 Speaker 1: politicians don't get shot. I don't begrudge them arguing that 252 00:19:25,395 --> 00:19:27,755 Speaker 1: there is no room in this country for letting politicians 253 00:19:27,755 --> 00:19:33,675 Speaker 1: get shot. I get it, shouldn't shoot commentators either, But 254 00:19:33,755 --> 00:19:36,515 Speaker 1: my god, the history of American politics is a river 255 00:19:36,675 --> 00:19:40,875 Speaker 1: of blood. Forty five men have now served as president, 256 00:19:41,115 --> 00:19:43,915 Speaker 1: not forty six. We gave Grover Cleveland two numbers for 257 00:19:43,995 --> 00:19:48,195 Speaker 1: some unfathomable reason. Four out of the forty five have 258 00:19:48,315 --> 00:19:53,635 Speaker 1: been assassinated with guns. That's nearly ten percent of them 259 00:19:54,315 --> 00:19:56,555 Speaker 1: as of Saturday's event with Trump. Two of the other 260 00:19:56,635 --> 00:20:00,195 Speaker 1: forty one have been wounded in gunfire while running to 261 00:20:00,275 --> 00:20:04,315 Speaker 1: try to regain office. Another one was wounded by a 262 00:20:04,355 --> 00:20:07,555 Speaker 1: gun in office. Seven of the remaining thirty eight have 263 00:20:07,675 --> 00:20:13,515 Speaker 1: survived significant attempted assassinations by guns. Six more were targeted 264 00:20:13,515 --> 00:20:16,315 Speaker 1: with guns in plots that were stopped before getting nearly 265 00:20:16,395 --> 00:20:22,395 Speaker 1: that close. That's twenty out of forty five twenty presidents 266 00:20:23,315 --> 00:20:25,675 Speaker 1: out of a full set of only forty five presidents. 267 00:20:26,915 --> 00:20:30,235 Speaker 1: That's forty four percent of all your presidents. It's a 268 00:20:30,235 --> 00:20:35,355 Speaker 1: lot of percent. A year from now, we will commemorate 269 00:20:35,395 --> 00:20:39,515 Speaker 1: the two hundredth anniversary of the first gun assassination of 270 00:20:39,555 --> 00:20:42,875 Speaker 1: a sitting American elected official. The Attorney General of Kentucky, 271 00:20:42,915 --> 00:20:47,995 Speaker 1: Solomon Sharp. State Senator Clement of Pinckney of South Carolina 272 00:20:48,195 --> 00:20:50,155 Speaker 1: was one of the victims of the white supremacist Dylan 273 00:20:50,235 --> 00:20:53,755 Speaker 1: Roof in twenty fifteen, depending on your criteria, there have 274 00:20:53,835 --> 00:20:56,755 Speaker 1: been sixty others in between, or seventy or one hundred. 275 00:20:57,955 --> 00:21:01,075 Speaker 1: Then there are those who were shot and survived, Republican 276 00:21:01,075 --> 00:21:05,515 Speaker 1: Congressman Steve Scalise in twenty seventeen, Democratic Congressman Gabby Giffrids 277 00:21:05,515 --> 00:21:08,715 Speaker 1: in twenty eleven. Then there are the leaders who were 278 00:21:08,715 --> 00:21:12,755 Speaker 1: not in office, not in politics, even from Martin Luther 279 00:21:12,835 --> 00:21:15,035 Speaker 1: King to Malcolm X to Huey Long to George Wallace. 280 00:21:15,875 --> 00:21:17,155 Speaker 2: And also. 281 00:21:18,315 --> 00:21:21,835 Speaker 1: We're still using in this context this phrase the peaceful 282 00:21:21,875 --> 00:21:25,475 Speaker 1: transfer of power, as if January twentieth, twenty twenty one 283 00:21:25,915 --> 00:21:30,115 Speaker 1: erased January sixth, twenty twenty one, and the other forms 284 00:21:30,155 --> 00:21:35,155 Speaker 1: of the Trump coup attempt, And even if you want 285 00:21:35,195 --> 00:21:38,235 Speaker 1: to concede that, did we have a peaceful transfer of 286 00:21:38,235 --> 00:21:42,875 Speaker 1: power in eighteen sixty one when Lincoln was not on 287 00:21:42,915 --> 00:21:44,715 Speaker 1: the ballot in twenty percent of the country during the 288 00:21:44,755 --> 00:21:47,795 Speaker 1: election and the Southern states seceded in protest over his 289 00:21:47,875 --> 00:21:53,195 Speaker 1: victory as well, as it turned out, was eighteen sixty four? 290 00:21:53,275 --> 00:21:57,155 Speaker 1: Is election peaceful? Eighteen sixty eight when Mississippi, Texas, and 291 00:21:57,195 --> 00:22:00,155 Speaker 1: Virginia were still occupied by Northern troops and votes did 292 00:22:00,195 --> 00:22:03,915 Speaker 1: not count. Eighteen seventy two, when there were still troops 293 00:22:03,915 --> 00:22:07,715 Speaker 1: throughout the South. Eighteen seventy six, when, after the most 294 00:22:07,715 --> 00:22:12,795 Speaker 1: controversial election before Bush v. Gore, supporters of the losing candidate, 295 00:22:12,835 --> 00:22:15,955 Speaker 1: Governor Samuel Tilden, urged him to take advantage of the 296 00:22:15,995 --> 00:22:18,875 Speaker 1: still heavy military presence in the capitol and start a 297 00:22:18,915 --> 00:22:23,035 Speaker 1: second Civil War in order to claim the office from Hayes. 298 00:22:25,475 --> 00:22:28,515 Speaker 1: Was the Civil War peaceful transfer of power? Was the 299 00:22:28,555 --> 00:22:34,075 Speaker 1: Revolutionary War? Peaceful transfer of power? I am the least 300 00:22:34,115 --> 00:22:37,555 Speaker 1: pro violence person you are going to meet. I am 301 00:22:37,595 --> 00:22:42,275 Speaker 1: also the least pro sanitizing of history. If you want 302 00:22:42,315 --> 00:22:46,355 Speaker 1: to aspire to an America, where bullets are no longer 303 00:22:46,395 --> 00:22:52,915 Speaker 1: as influential as ballots. Great, but don't lie, not now. 304 00:22:53,635 --> 00:23:00,955 Speaker 1: Don't lie to Lincoln and Garfield and McKinley and Kennedy. 305 00:23:02,435 --> 00:23:07,875 Speaker 1: Don't lie to Raig and Long and Wallace and King, 306 00:23:08,555 --> 00:23:12,795 Speaker 1: and don't lie to Secretary of State Robert Lincoln. Please, 307 00:23:13,835 --> 00:23:17,315 Speaker 1: Robert Lincoln, who was supposed to be with his father 308 00:23:17,675 --> 00:23:22,555 Speaker 1: at Ford's Theater, who was walking towards President Garfield as 309 00:23:22,595 --> 00:23:25,315 Speaker 1: an assassin shot him in eighteen eighty one, who was 310 00:23:25,395 --> 00:23:28,835 Speaker 1: on a train to Buffalo to see President McKinley as 311 00:23:28,875 --> 00:23:33,675 Speaker 1: an assassin shot him in nineteen oh one, Tell Robert 312 00:23:33,755 --> 00:23:37,395 Speaker 1: Lincoln that there's never been any place for violence in 313 00:23:37,435 --> 00:23:48,195 Speaker 1: American politics. Perhaps, just perhaps if we stopped lying about 314 00:23:48,195 --> 00:23:54,595 Speaker 1: it to ourselves, we might just might be able to 315 00:23:54,755 --> 00:24:02,955 Speaker 1: stop it ourselves. I'm not done on this, but I 316 00:24:02,995 --> 00:24:05,915 Speaker 1: need to put in the commercials, all three segments today 317 00:24:05,915 --> 00:24:09,675 Speaker 1: on this, including so many worse persons, these same Republicans 318 00:24:09,675 --> 00:24:12,115 Speaker 1: pretending to sing Kumbaya, only they don't know the words, 319 00:24:12,155 --> 00:24:13,715 Speaker 1: and many of them had to bail out after the 320 00:24:13,835 --> 00:24:17,915 Speaker 1: kum So many worse persons I can't count them all. 321 00:24:19,475 --> 00:24:23,875 Speaker 1: And more on the practicalities. No. Sorry, nothing in history 322 00:24:23,915 --> 00:24:27,795 Speaker 1: suggests the guy who got shot at gets an. I 323 00:24:27,795 --> 00:24:31,755 Speaker 1: didn't get killed. You should feel guilty bump in American elections. 324 00:24:32,355 --> 00:24:34,515 Speaker 1: Not only don't I think this helps Trump, I don't 325 00:24:34,515 --> 00:24:36,635 Speaker 1: think it has any significant impact on the outcome at all. 326 00:24:37,555 --> 00:24:40,515 Speaker 1: And what little insignificant impact there is might hurt Trump. 327 00:24:41,515 --> 00:24:47,995 Speaker 1: The actual history of the attempts to kill Reagan, Ford, Teddy, 328 00:24:48,115 --> 00:24:59,755 Speaker 1: Roosevelt and the other candidates. That's next. This is countdown 329 00:25:00,275 --> 00:25:03,475 Speaker 1: to continue. I have a contrarian point of view as 330 00:25:03,475 --> 00:25:06,835 Speaker 1: well on the impact on the election of the attempt 331 00:25:06,875 --> 00:25:10,315 Speaker 1: to kill Trump. Not only are all the headlines about 332 00:25:10,315 --> 00:25:14,555 Speaker 1: how this changes everything laugh out loud wrong, probably does 333 00:25:14,595 --> 00:25:15,715 Speaker 1: not change anything. 334 00:25:17,115 --> 00:25:17,835 Speaker 2: It's not even the. 335 00:25:17,835 --> 00:25:21,755 Speaker 1: Lead story anymore. It's not even the lead political story. 336 00:25:22,395 --> 00:25:27,435 Speaker 1: It's not even the lead Republican story. But if it 337 00:25:27,475 --> 00:25:31,435 Speaker 1: has any impact, if it has one hundredth of one 338 00:25:31,555 --> 00:25:35,515 Speaker 1: percent impact, I don't think it's the one being uniformly predicted. 339 00:25:37,395 --> 00:25:41,315 Speaker 1: I confess this may be entirely wishful thinking, one last 340 00:25:41,395 --> 00:25:45,635 Speaker 1: optimistic cell in a body that has turned otherwise fully cynical. 341 00:25:46,155 --> 00:25:49,795 Speaker 1: After daily exposure to American politics for sixty years as 342 00:25:49,875 --> 00:25:54,435 Speaker 1: boy and man, or it might just be the number 343 00:25:54,475 --> 00:25:57,755 Speaker 1: of decades I've been in this business and the number 344 00:25:57,835 --> 00:26:00,915 Speaker 1: of new details that you and I don't know yet. 345 00:26:01,835 --> 00:26:04,435 Speaker 1: We didn't know about the yard signs until last night. 346 00:26:05,795 --> 00:26:10,435 Speaker 1: What's next. The only thing we have to go on 347 00:26:10,595 --> 00:26:14,675 Speaker 1: is history, and firstly the idea that this will coalesce 348 00:26:14,715 --> 00:26:20,675 Speaker 1: the nation around Trump. History suggests it's nonsense. Oh, it's 349 00:26:20,795 --> 00:26:24,475 Speaker 1: just like Reagan when he was shot. Heard that all weekend. Oh, 350 00:26:24,515 --> 00:26:27,315 Speaker 1: it's just like Reagan's Trump's like Reagan looking Trump. Oh, 351 00:26:27,355 --> 00:26:29,355 Speaker 1: he's gonna win a landslide. Because Reagan won in a 352 00:26:29,435 --> 00:26:33,155 Speaker 1: landslide and he was shot. The time span between Reagan 353 00:26:33,195 --> 00:26:37,675 Speaker 1: getting shot and his landslide reelection was one thousand, three 354 00:26:37,755 --> 00:26:42,995 Speaker 1: hundred and eighteen days. It's three and a half years. 355 00:26:43,875 --> 00:26:46,195 Speaker 1: And by the way, that landslide in nineteen eighty four, 356 00:26:46,435 --> 00:26:49,035 Speaker 1: after he was shot, that was only thirty five electoral 357 00:26:49,155 --> 00:26:52,195 Speaker 1: votes bigger than his landslide was in nineteen eighty There 358 00:26:52,275 --> 00:26:55,195 Speaker 1: were a lot of crazy reasons Ronald Reagan was popular 359 00:26:55,275 --> 00:26:59,035 Speaker 1: enough to win that way without any functioning brain, but 360 00:26:59,155 --> 00:27:03,835 Speaker 1: getting shot was not one of them. Also, he got shot. 361 00:27:05,115 --> 00:27:10,075 Speaker 1: Maybe maybe Trump got winged again. His quote, my ear 362 00:27:10,235 --> 00:27:17,635 Speaker 1: was pierced, Oh the humanity. As an aside, when I 363 00:27:17,675 --> 00:27:22,195 Speaker 1: went to double check the exact numbers, I googled Reagan assassination, 364 00:27:22,915 --> 00:27:26,315 Speaker 1: and my new laptop malfunctioned or it auto corrected, or 365 00:27:26,355 --> 00:27:28,835 Speaker 1: I hit return too soon or something, and I got 366 00:27:28,875 --> 00:27:33,715 Speaker 1: first the results for Reagan ass Here's a free tip 367 00:27:33,755 --> 00:27:38,915 Speaker 1: for an old man, Sonny, never do this, Okay. Those 368 00:27:39,195 --> 00:27:43,275 Speaker 1: who found out the actual stats on Reagan and said, well, 369 00:27:43,315 --> 00:27:45,315 Speaker 1: that's not gonna work. We can't even get away with that. 370 00:27:46,115 --> 00:27:50,395 Speaker 1: They then said Trump was just like Teddy Roosevelt, who 371 00:27:50,395 --> 00:27:52,875 Speaker 1: also got shot while running and that was close to 372 00:27:52,915 --> 00:27:56,915 Speaker 1: the election, wasn't it. Huh huh, yeah, all right. The 373 00:27:56,915 --> 00:28:00,235 Speaker 1: little background Teddy Roosevelt had served out William McKinley's term 374 00:28:00,315 --> 00:28:03,875 Speaker 1: after he was shot and killed, and then Roosevelt won 375 00:28:03,955 --> 00:28:05,915 Speaker 1: election in his own right in nineteen oh four and 376 00:28:06,075 --> 00:28:08,515 Speaker 1: impulsively then said he would not run again in nineteen 377 00:28:08,555 --> 00:28:12,035 Speaker 1: oh eight. He would have sailed to a third term, 378 00:28:12,635 --> 00:28:17,235 Speaker 1: actually his second term. Instead, his hand picked successor, William 379 00:28:17,235 --> 00:28:20,595 Speaker 1: Howard Taft, flailed as President of the United States. Tr 380 00:28:20,675 --> 00:28:24,115 Speaker 1: did not help. He then challenged Taft for the nineteen 381 00:28:24,195 --> 00:28:27,435 Speaker 1: twelve nomination, and when the Republicans actually did rig the 382 00:28:27,515 --> 00:28:32,035 Speaker 1: convention against him. Roosevelt ran as the Progressive Party third 383 00:28:32,115 --> 00:28:35,795 Speaker 1: party candidate. On October fourteenth, he got into a car 384 00:28:35,915 --> 00:28:38,435 Speaker 1: to go to the Milwaukee Auditorium to give a campaign 385 00:28:38,515 --> 00:28:43,995 Speaker 1: speech when an assassin shot him in the chest. His speech, 386 00:28:44,595 --> 00:28:48,635 Speaker 1: which was I forget now one hundred pages thick, actually 387 00:28:49,195 --> 00:28:55,955 Speaker 1: slowed the bullet down. Verbosity helps. The bullet did not 388 00:28:56,235 --> 00:28:59,155 Speaker 1: enter his lungs, and Roosevelt, who knew anatomy and hunting 389 00:28:59,235 --> 00:29:02,475 Speaker 1: backwards and forwards, knew he was hurt but not mortally so, 390 00:29:02,475 --> 00:29:06,275 Speaker 1: so after making sure the assassin was not harmed, Roosevelt 391 00:29:06,275 --> 00:29:10,235 Speaker 1: went to the autorum and gave the whole speech as 392 00:29:10,235 --> 00:29:15,075 Speaker 1: opposed to, you know, diving under the podium. Not that 393 00:29:15,075 --> 00:29:18,515 Speaker 1: that was the wrong thing to do. I would dive 394 00:29:18,595 --> 00:29:24,275 Speaker 1: under the podium too, But the comparison between Trump and 395 00:29:24,355 --> 00:29:30,635 Speaker 1: Teddy Roosevelt giving an hour long speech with a bullet 396 00:29:30,675 --> 00:29:35,155 Speaker 1: in his chest and no teleprompter, that comparison ends very 397 00:29:35,195 --> 00:29:42,235 Speaker 1: early in the process. And again dramatic, extraordinary, and just 398 00:29:42,355 --> 00:29:45,035 Speaker 1: twenty two days. It occurred before the election, and we 399 00:29:45,075 --> 00:29:50,675 Speaker 1: don't have polling, but it seems as if Roosevelt underperformed 400 00:29:50,675 --> 00:29:53,195 Speaker 1: expectations on election day, they thought he would do a 401 00:29:53,195 --> 00:29:56,675 Speaker 1: lot better than he had. Although he became the last 402 00:29:57,035 --> 00:30:00,395 Speaker 1: third party candidate to finish in second place, he still 403 00:30:00,395 --> 00:30:03,915 Speaker 1: lost the Electoral College by three hundred and forty seven votes. 404 00:30:06,915 --> 00:30:12,315 Speaker 1: Gerald Ford was the victim of two assassination attempts seventeen 405 00:30:12,395 --> 00:30:15,595 Speaker 1: days apart, fourteen months before the nineteen seventy six election, 406 00:30:16,515 --> 00:30:20,755 Speaker 1: an admirable comp to what happened to Trump, point blank 407 00:30:21,155 --> 00:30:25,755 Speaker 1: no damage. Not only did it not help Ford, who 408 00:30:25,795 --> 00:30:28,355 Speaker 1: would lose to Jimmy Carter, it didn't even secure him 409 00:30:28,355 --> 00:30:32,915 Speaker 1: the Republican nomination, and he had two assassins. Reagan ran 410 00:30:32,995 --> 00:30:35,075 Speaker 1: against him, and by the time of the nineteen seventy 411 00:30:35,075 --> 00:30:38,555 Speaker 1: six Republican Convention, Ford was only forty three delegates ahead, 412 00:30:38,555 --> 00:30:41,475 Speaker 1: and the convention, not the primaries, and not the voters, 413 00:30:41,595 --> 00:30:45,355 Speaker 1: decided the Republican nomination. And even after all that, two 414 00:30:45,395 --> 00:30:48,835 Speaker 1: assassinations and Ronald Reagan trying to knock him off, he lost. 415 00:30:49,875 --> 00:30:53,595 Speaker 1: President Harry Truman was shot at in November nineteen fifty 416 00:30:53,635 --> 00:30:56,515 Speaker 1: and it did nothing to help his political quagmire that 417 00:30:56,635 --> 00:30:59,235 Speaker 1: was so bad he didn't even try for renomination, and 418 00:30:59,275 --> 00:31:01,475 Speaker 1: when he bowed out at the end of March nineteen 419 00:31:01,515 --> 00:31:06,435 Speaker 1: fifty two, the candidate he endorsed, Averill Harriman, never got 420 00:31:06,475 --> 00:31:11,995 Speaker 1: above five percent in the Democratic polls. I realized the 421 00:31:11,995 --> 00:31:14,795 Speaker 1: most recent of these examples is just over forty years ago, 422 00:31:14,835 --> 00:31:17,515 Speaker 1: and the Reagan shooting was only six years after Ford, 423 00:31:17,555 --> 00:31:20,035 Speaker 1: and Ford was only seven years after Bobby Kennedy, and 424 00:31:20,035 --> 00:31:23,235 Speaker 1: Bobby Kennedy was only five years after his brother, President Kennedy. 425 00:31:23,275 --> 00:31:26,195 Speaker 1: Trust me, we were not blase about any of this. 426 00:31:26,355 --> 00:31:29,395 Speaker 1: If that's what you're thinking, It is possible that the 427 00:31:29,475 --> 00:31:33,955 Speaker 1: kind of collective, unfathomable guilt we have seen since Saturday 428 00:31:34,075 --> 00:31:38,515 Speaker 1: Night might have been worn out in nineteen seventy five 429 00:31:38,555 --> 00:31:42,595 Speaker 1: or nineteen eighty one by two decades of relentless gunfire. 430 00:31:44,635 --> 00:31:47,195 Speaker 1: But I really think the answer as to why getting 431 00:31:47,235 --> 00:31:50,475 Speaker 1: shot at does not help a presidential candidate is deeper 432 00:31:50,515 --> 00:31:55,515 Speaker 1: than that. In each case, here, the victim of the 433 00:31:55,555 --> 00:32:00,155 Speaker 1: assassination attempt represented the more violent party, the more violent 434 00:32:00,435 --> 00:32:04,915 Speaker 1: choice in the upcoming election. Ford had just overseen the 435 00:32:04,915 --> 00:32:10,955 Speaker 1: disastrous evacuation of Vietnam. He was connected to Nixon, Truman 436 00:32:11,075 --> 00:32:14,595 Speaker 1: was blamed for the Korean War. Teddy Roosevelt was a 437 00:32:14,595 --> 00:32:18,315 Speaker 1: little bloodthirsty even in a bloodthirsty time, and Woodrow Wilson, 438 00:32:18,435 --> 00:32:21,235 Speaker 1: who won, was already pledging to avoid what would become 439 00:32:21,275 --> 00:32:25,515 Speaker 1: World War One. He didn't, but he pledged it. And 440 00:32:25,595 --> 00:32:29,475 Speaker 1: now there are two American paths sitting in front of 441 00:32:29,555 --> 00:32:34,675 Speaker 1: us from this point in history, two American futures. Until Saturday, 442 00:32:34,955 --> 00:32:37,475 Speaker 1: there was the anti Trump path that you and I 443 00:32:37,595 --> 00:32:43,435 Speaker 1: have seen clearly, where we still have elections and judges 444 00:32:43,555 --> 00:32:47,715 Speaker 1: and order, and we pushed back against sudden, mindless, uncontrollable 445 00:32:47,795 --> 00:32:52,955 Speaker 1: violence within politics and without. And the other view was 446 00:32:52,955 --> 00:33:00,315 Speaker 1: of Trump's America violence, assassination, persecution, bigotry, madness, tragedy, but 447 00:33:01,435 --> 00:33:04,115 Speaker 1: all in the future. The Trumpists could deny any of 448 00:33:04,155 --> 00:33:07,515 Speaker 1: it was true now or woever be true. I don't 449 00:33:07,515 --> 00:33:11,395 Speaker 1: think they can deny it any longer. And America of 450 00:33:11,515 --> 00:33:17,155 Speaker 1: wild West shoot them outs involving presidential candidates or anybody 451 00:33:17,235 --> 00:33:22,475 Speaker 1: else that sounds fun to these psychopaths until you are 452 00:33:22,555 --> 00:33:30,435 Speaker 1: the one who gets shot. To paraphrase my cousin Mike Tyson, 453 00:33:30,635 --> 00:33:33,555 Speaker 1: everybody has a plan until they get shot in the ear. 454 00:33:36,635 --> 00:33:39,075 Speaker 1: Most of the Trumpists are too far gone to correct 455 00:33:39,075 --> 00:33:41,515 Speaker 1: themselves now, but I suspect there's still a patch in 456 00:33:41,555 --> 00:33:44,395 Speaker 1: the middle or maybe at the sane end of the 457 00:33:44,475 --> 00:33:48,435 Speaker 1: right in which they saw on Saturday what Trump's America 458 00:33:48,595 --> 00:33:54,835 Speaker 1: really looks like, and the contrast to the Biden America flawed, 459 00:33:55,075 --> 00:33:58,835 Speaker 1: flailing but trying, or a Democratic Party of America. Because 460 00:33:58,875 --> 00:34:02,195 Speaker 1: I can't tell you how angry I am at President 461 00:34:02,235 --> 00:34:06,315 Speaker 1: Biden right now for participating in this. Maybe I'll get better, 462 00:34:06,355 --> 00:34:12,595 Speaker 1: maybe I won't, but right now, no, thanks regardless, it's 463 00:34:12,635 --> 00:34:16,675 Speaker 1: a choice a Democratic Party America or a Trump America, 464 00:34:17,675 --> 00:34:21,555 Speaker 1: a Trump America where everybody gets shot at, including Trump. 465 00:34:23,395 --> 00:34:27,075 Speaker 1: And lastly, so I'm clear and I can clarify for 466 00:34:27,115 --> 00:34:29,475 Speaker 1: any of the Trumpists who are so obviously looking for 467 00:34:29,515 --> 00:34:34,035 Speaker 1: stuff that MSNBC took Joe Scarborough off the air yesterday 468 00:34:34,315 --> 00:34:37,635 Speaker 1: out of fear that somebody on that show would say 469 00:34:37,635 --> 00:34:40,715 Speaker 1: something stupid that would harm NBC, and I thought, wait, 470 00:34:42,355 --> 00:34:47,915 Speaker 1: that's the premise of the show anyway, For those hunting 471 00:34:48,035 --> 00:34:50,835 Speaker 1: liberal remarks, let me be explicit about what I am 472 00:34:50,875 --> 00:34:53,235 Speaker 1: and am not saying here. Do I want you to 473 00:34:53,315 --> 00:34:54,755 Speaker 1: shoot Trump? No? 474 00:34:54,955 --> 00:34:55,435 Speaker 2: I do not. 475 00:34:57,715 --> 00:35:00,995 Speaker 1: Do I want you to shoot anybody. No, I do 476 00:35:01,115 --> 00:35:04,395 Speaker 1: not do I want anybody to shoot anybody. No, I 477 00:35:04,395 --> 00:35:08,755 Speaker 1: do not do I think anybody is responsible for the 478 00:35:08,915 --> 00:35:13,875 Speaker 1: rise of violent rhetoric and threats and stochastic terrorism besides 479 00:35:14,035 --> 00:35:19,875 Speaker 1: Trump and the Republicans. I do not do I think 480 00:35:19,875 --> 00:35:22,915 Speaker 1: anybody is responsible for the assassination attempt besides Trump and 481 00:35:22,955 --> 00:35:24,635 Speaker 1: MAGA and the Republicans and the shooter. 482 00:35:26,035 --> 00:35:26,555 Speaker 2: I do not. 483 00:35:28,275 --> 00:35:30,635 Speaker 1: Do I think Trump is less of a mortal threat 484 00:35:30,635 --> 00:35:32,915 Speaker 1: to representative government in this nation than he was on 485 00:35:32,995 --> 00:35:38,395 Speaker 1: Saturday morning. I do not. And lastly, will I stop 486 00:35:38,435 --> 00:35:41,755 Speaker 1: saying that he is intent on becoming a dictator and 487 00:35:41,875 --> 00:35:44,755 Speaker 1: his election is an existential threat not only to this 488 00:35:44,875 --> 00:35:57,395 Speaker 1: nation but to life on earth. I will not. Okay, 489 00:35:57,435 --> 00:36:00,835 Speaker 1: So the same Republicans whose asses the Democrats are kissing 490 00:36:00,875 --> 00:36:03,955 Speaker 1: right now, the Republican Senate candidate in Pennsylvania wants the 491 00:36:03,995 --> 00:36:09,835 Speaker 1: incumbent democrit at Bob Casey to suspend negative advertising, and 492 00:36:09,875 --> 00:36:12,435 Speaker 1: the person he cites as his inspiration for this idiotic 493 00:36:12,475 --> 00:36:17,555 Speaker 1: idea is Biden. Those same Republicans said so many psychotic, violent, 494 00:36:17,675 --> 00:36:20,395 Speaker 1: unforgivable things in the wake of the shooting that I 495 00:36:20,475 --> 00:36:26,915 Speaker 1: literally have lost count worst persons. Could be three guys, 496 00:36:27,275 --> 00:36:28,635 Speaker 1: could be thirty three guys. 497 00:36:28,955 --> 00:36:35,515 Speaker 2: That's next. This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith Olberman. 498 00:36:57,635 --> 00:37:00,475 Speaker 1: Still ahead of us on this edition of Countdown Nothing. 499 00:37:01,475 --> 00:37:04,315 Speaker 1: This is the last segment of today's programming. How's that 500 00:37:04,435 --> 00:37:06,915 Speaker 1: for a promo. But there are. 501 00:37:06,915 --> 00:37:10,275 Speaker 2: Still time for all the new idiots to. 502 00:37:10,275 --> 00:37:13,515 Speaker 1: Talk about the daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons 503 00:37:13,515 --> 00:37:17,875 Speaker 1: and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute two days worst 504 00:37:17,955 --> 00:37:19,315 Speaker 1: persons in the world. 505 00:37:20,715 --> 00:37:22,595 Speaker 2: See if you find. 506 00:37:22,435 --> 00:37:27,675 Speaker 1: A theme well after the first one. There's so many 507 00:37:27,755 --> 00:37:29,955 Speaker 1: of them, though, that I've run out of precious medals 508 00:37:29,955 --> 00:37:32,995 Speaker 1: with which to make the awards, So first the Humorous 509 00:37:33,035 --> 00:37:38,235 Speaker 1: Relief Honorable Mentions Honorable Mention number fifteen. Ian Dale, a 510 00:37:38,275 --> 00:37:42,795 Speaker 1: host on England's LBC channel, kind of a right wing 511 00:37:42,875 --> 00:37:47,995 Speaker 1: mishmash after the European Soccer Championship match Sunday between Spain, 512 00:37:48,155 --> 00:37:51,075 Speaker 1: which won and England, which did not win. 513 00:37:51,555 --> 00:37:53,435 Speaker 2: See if you hear the. 514 00:37:55,875 --> 00:38:02,355 Speaker 1: Racism, nationalism or just playing stupidity? Spain won, England didn't. 515 00:38:02,475 --> 00:38:06,755 Speaker 1: Quoting Ian Dale, what trust between the two teams. Every 516 00:38:06,795 --> 00:38:10,755 Speaker 1: England player belted out the national anthem with gusto. Not 517 00:38:10,915 --> 00:38:17,995 Speaker 1: a single Spanish player opened his mouth in the Spanish 518 00:38:18,115 --> 00:38:21,875 Speaker 1: national anthem doesn't have any words. If you hear anybody 519 00:38:21,875 --> 00:38:26,355 Speaker 1: ever singing the Spanish national anthem, get to a hospital, 520 00:38:26,395 --> 00:38:30,555 Speaker 1: you're having an episode. The fourteenth Honorable Mention, the millennials, 521 00:38:31,395 --> 00:38:34,035 Speaker 1: they're complaining about this again with Trump. I mean, I 522 00:38:34,075 --> 00:38:36,035 Speaker 1: get it. No matter what dates you put on them. 523 00:38:36,115 --> 00:38:39,515 Speaker 1: They've all seen nine to eleven, Iraq, the recession, the 524 00:38:39,515 --> 00:38:43,555 Speaker 1: climate crisis, the rise of Trump, COVID, now an assassination attempt. 525 00:38:44,435 --> 00:38:47,395 Speaker 1: We all have our burdens, and I don't minimize anybody 526 00:38:47,395 --> 00:38:49,715 Speaker 1: by generation. I just like to point out that I 527 00:38:49,755 --> 00:38:53,035 Speaker 1: am among the youngest of the baby boomers, so I 528 00:38:53,115 --> 00:38:57,035 Speaker 1: got all you've been through. Millennials. Also, I had the 529 00:38:57,075 --> 00:39:02,155 Speaker 1: Cuban missile crisis, the Kennedy assassination, Vietnam, the other Kennedy assassination, 530 00:39:02,395 --> 00:39:05,675 Speaker 1: Martin Luther King, Watergate, the Residu nation of the President, 531 00:39:06,075 --> 00:39:11,275 Speaker 1: and then after I graduated from high school. The thirteenth 532 00:39:11,355 --> 00:39:15,915 Speaker 1: Honorable Mention speaker Mike Johnson. I know he sounds like 533 00:39:15,955 --> 00:39:19,075 Speaker 1: an FM radio preacher in a small town in the South. 534 00:39:20,795 --> 00:39:23,915 Speaker 1: Here are the beg's, but he's also been successful in 535 00:39:23,955 --> 00:39:27,195 Speaker 1: a reptilian kind of way. But ultimately, this guy is 536 00:39:27,235 --> 00:39:30,715 Speaker 1: a dope. At the beginning of this month, Ugly Tiny 537 00:39:30,835 --> 00:39:35,315 Speaker 1: Johnson went on Fox and smeared Biden. Quote, unless the 538 00:39:35,355 --> 00:39:37,955 Speaker 1: president is reading off a teleprompter, I don't think he's 539 00:39:37,995 --> 00:39:42,395 Speaker 1: capable of making these big decisions. And then guess what happened. 540 00:39:42,915 --> 00:39:46,155 Speaker 1: Mike Johnson got up at the Republican convention yesterday and 541 00:39:46,235 --> 00:39:51,995 Speaker 1: he learned that the god of teleprompters is a vengeful god. 542 00:39:53,115 --> 00:39:57,395 Speaker 1: It is now my honor to introduce the Attorney General. 543 00:39:58,795 --> 00:39:59,955 Speaker 2: And there goes the teleprompter. 544 00:40:15,275 --> 00:40:17,355 Speaker 1: And then Mike Johnson left the stage and he has 545 00:40:17,395 --> 00:40:21,235 Speaker 1: not been heard from since. And now those Republicans who 546 00:40:21,275 --> 00:40:24,875 Speaker 1: immediately said something about Trump that suggested that the lie 547 00:40:24,955 --> 00:40:27,715 Speaker 1: about unity and turning down the rhetoric was a lie 548 00:40:28,275 --> 00:40:31,355 Speaker 1: even before they tried to sell it to us. The 549 00:40:31,475 --> 00:40:35,755 Speaker 1: twelfth honorable mention, Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina quote, 550 00:40:35,795 --> 00:40:38,675 Speaker 1: this was an assassination attempt, aided and abetted by the 551 00:40:38,755 --> 00:40:42,355 Speaker 1: radical left and corporate media incessantly calling Trump a threat 552 00:40:42,395 --> 00:40:47,795 Speaker 1: to democracy, fascists or worse. Yes, Tim, that's right. Thomas 553 00:40:47,875 --> 00:40:55,075 Speaker 1: Crook's Trump supporter, dead Shooter, was radicalized by like me 554 00:40:56,355 --> 00:41:02,555 Speaker 1: absolutely now that you didn't get that vice presidential gig. Senator, 555 00:41:02,595 --> 00:41:05,035 Speaker 1: do you have an outclause in your contract with your quote? 556 00:41:05,035 --> 00:41:10,555 Speaker 1: Fiance unquote just asking The eleventh honorable mention Matt Gates, 557 00:41:10,555 --> 00:41:13,635 Speaker 1: who also posted yesterday a photo of quote Supreme Court 558 00:41:13,755 --> 00:41:17,635 Speaker 1: Justice Eileen Cannon. He wrote on Saturday, they tried to 559 00:41:17,675 --> 00:41:20,235 Speaker 1: impeach him, They are trying to imprison him. Now they 560 00:41:20,275 --> 00:41:24,635 Speaker 1: have tried to assassinate him. Oh sorry, Matt, good guess, 561 00:41:24,675 --> 00:41:29,195 Speaker 1: but no, he was shot by a Republican in the 562 00:41:29,195 --> 00:41:33,715 Speaker 1: They Versus You construction. You tried to assassinate him. You 563 00:41:33,835 --> 00:41:38,955 Speaker 1: Republicans tried to assassinate him, Beavis. The tenth honorable mentioned 564 00:41:39,035 --> 00:41:42,795 Speaker 1: Junior Trump, who you'll remember mocked the attack on Nancy 565 00:41:42,795 --> 00:41:46,515 Speaker 1: Pelosi's husband like twelve times and who seems to have 566 00:41:46,675 --> 00:41:48,115 Speaker 1: serious brain damage. 567 00:41:48,715 --> 00:41:49,115 Speaker 2: Quote. 568 00:41:49,235 --> 00:41:51,515 Speaker 1: Dems and their friends in the media knew exactly what 569 00:41:51,555 --> 00:41:54,715 Speaker 1: they were doing with their literally hitler bullshit. If Democrats 570 00:41:54,755 --> 00:41:56,755 Speaker 1: got their way, my dad would be dead right now. 571 00:41:57,875 --> 00:42:00,995 Speaker 1: Once again, Junior, your father was shot at by a 572 00:42:01,035 --> 00:42:06,155 Speaker 1: young and clearly unhappy Republican. Perhaps he was a young, troubled, 573 00:42:06,555 --> 00:42:10,395 Speaker 1: gun obsessed man whose relationship with his own father was 574 00:42:10,435 --> 00:42:15,155 Speaker 1: never fulfilled, that it never had any love, never proved 575 00:42:15,155 --> 00:42:20,435 Speaker 1: to the son that his father valued him in any 576 00:42:19,955 --> 00:42:26,915 Speaker 1: way or not. The ninth Honorable Mention Eric Erickson, the 577 00:42:27,035 --> 00:42:30,315 Speaker 1: conservative commentator from a family so poor they could only 578 00:42:30,395 --> 00:42:34,755 Speaker 1: afford to give him a one name. On a daily basis, 579 00:42:35,155 --> 00:42:37,755 Speaker 1: six forty nine pm July thirteenth, On a daily basis, 580 00:42:37,955 --> 00:42:41,115 Speaker 1: MSNBC tells its audience that Trump is a threat to democracy, 581 00:42:41,235 --> 00:42:43,635 Speaker 1: an authoritarian and waiting and it would be dictator if 582 00:42:43,635 --> 00:42:46,235 Speaker 1: no one stops him. What did they think would happen? 583 00:42:46,715 --> 00:42:52,555 Speaker 1: Comcast made a choice, right you are, mister Mahrhoffer Thomas 584 00:42:52,635 --> 00:42:55,555 Speaker 1: Matthew Crooks with the Trump sign in his front yard. 585 00:42:56,035 --> 00:43:02,915 Speaker 1: Eric Erickson was radicalized by Chris Hayes shrug Emochi. The 586 00:43:03,035 --> 00:43:06,555 Speaker 1: eighth honorable mention Clays, the kid we today politely called 587 00:43:06,635 --> 00:43:10,235 Speaker 1: challenged who used to write stupid things but only about sports, 588 00:43:10,235 --> 00:43:13,755 Speaker 1: but he since expanded to also writing stupid things about politics. 589 00:43:15,195 --> 00:43:18,435 Speaker 1: Six point thirty three pm July thirteenth. I am effing furious, 590 00:43:18,435 --> 00:43:21,635 Speaker 1: beyond words f every left wing media member who's been 591 00:43:21,715 --> 00:43:24,035 Speaker 1: calling him hitler for the past eight years. This is 592 00:43:24,075 --> 00:43:27,115 Speaker 1: on them. They made this happen. I'd just like to 593 00:43:27,155 --> 00:43:31,155 Speaker 1: note these people all suddenly discovered sarcastic terrorism and now 594 00:43:31,195 --> 00:43:34,795 Speaker 1: they believe in it completely. Oh knows what I don't 595 00:43:34,795 --> 00:43:36,995 Speaker 1: get here is the one advantage and I think I 596 00:43:37,035 --> 00:43:39,955 Speaker 1: know something about this topic of starting your career in 597 00:43:39,995 --> 00:43:43,195 Speaker 1: sports and then going to news, is you tend to 598 00:43:43,235 --> 00:43:47,555 Speaker 1: remember one lesson from sports. Don't declare the winner or 599 00:43:47,635 --> 00:43:49,915 Speaker 1: describe the deciding play of the game until after the 600 00:43:49,915 --> 00:43:53,555 Speaker 1: goddamn game ended. Never had dawned on Travis, not for 601 00:43:53,595 --> 00:43:57,035 Speaker 1: a moment that Trump shooter even might have been a Republican. 602 00:43:57,155 --> 00:44:00,915 Speaker 1: Yet there it is. So I guess what Klay Travis 603 00:44:00,955 --> 00:44:05,675 Speaker 1: is saying? There is f all Republicans. You bet youa. 604 00:44:05,995 --> 00:44:10,235 Speaker 1: The seventh Honorable mentioned Kate Andrews in The Spectator with 605 00:44:10,275 --> 00:44:14,555 Speaker 1: one of these unity crap pieces headlined today we are 606 00:44:14,675 --> 00:44:19,275 Speaker 1: all maga. Listen, miss Andrews. If you want to be maga, 607 00:44:19,315 --> 00:44:22,835 Speaker 1: go ahead. The key point is the guy who tried 608 00:44:22,835 --> 00:44:28,275 Speaker 1: to kill Trump was maga. The sixth honorable mention Lauren Bobert. 609 00:44:28,755 --> 00:44:32,235 Speaker 1: First she insisted Biden quote is responsible for the shooting. 610 00:44:32,875 --> 00:44:36,955 Speaker 1: Then she retweeted another fascist. The Dems realized it's too 611 00:44:37,035 --> 00:44:39,795 Speaker 1: late to switch out their candidate, so they attempted to 612 00:44:39,875 --> 00:44:45,435 Speaker 1: kill ours instead. Again Bobo significant them versus hours fail. 613 00:44:45,635 --> 00:44:49,635 Speaker 1: Here the sentence should be the Republicans realized it's too 614 00:44:49,675 --> 00:44:52,595 Speaker 1: late to switch out their candidate, so they attempted to 615 00:44:52,675 --> 00:44:58,515 Speaker 1: kill theirs instead. You're welcome and get a grip on yourself. 616 00:44:59,555 --> 00:45:04,355 Speaker 1: The fifth Honorable mentioned Ben Shapiro Daily. This guy trips 617 00:45:04,355 --> 00:45:08,715 Speaker 1: over his own rake? How is he a power in 618 00:45:08,755 --> 00:45:13,315 Speaker 1: the fascist sphere? How a shocking and tragic day for 619 00:45:13,395 --> 00:45:16,875 Speaker 1: the nation. You cannot repeatedly and endlessly label a major 620 00:45:16,915 --> 00:45:20,075 Speaker 1: party candidate and former president Actual Hitler full scale threat 621 00:45:20,115 --> 00:45:23,675 Speaker 1: to democracy without radically increasing the danger of violence in America. 622 00:45:24,075 --> 00:45:27,235 Speaker 1: This danger has been obvious for years and enraged engaged 623 00:45:27,235 --> 00:45:29,195 Speaker 1: in by nearly everyone on the left up to and 624 00:45:29,235 --> 00:45:32,435 Speaker 1: including the president current president. We are in a hideously 625 00:45:32,555 --> 00:45:38,515 Speaker 1: ugly new era. Twelve ten Am, Sunday, October thirty first, 626 00:45:38,795 --> 00:45:42,635 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, Ben Shapiro, the attempt to twist the 627 00:45:42,675 --> 00:45:46,435 Speaker 1: Paul Pelosi attack into a broader story about supposed extremism 628 00:45:46,475 --> 00:45:50,995 Speaker 1: and Republican rhetoric. So vote dem is so transparently opportunistic 629 00:45:51,075 --> 00:45:53,915 Speaker 1: and pathetic. Everyone can see what you're doing Democrats in 630 00:45:53,955 --> 00:46:00,395 Speaker 1: the media, and it's disgusting. Ben, is what Bill O'Reilly 631 00:46:00,435 --> 00:46:04,955 Speaker 1: used to call pinhead. The fourth honor Will Mention Forbes magazine, 632 00:46:05,075 --> 00:46:07,795 Speaker 1: which took a well intended but kind of garbled piece 633 00:46:07,835 --> 00:46:11,515 Speaker 1: by somebody named Sean Harper and completely pushed it over 634 00:46:11,555 --> 00:46:16,555 Speaker 1: the edge with this headline, will Surviving Gunfire be Donald 635 00:46:16,595 --> 00:46:20,955 Speaker 1: Trump's next appeal to black voters? They've deleted it now, 636 00:46:20,995 --> 00:46:23,835 Speaker 1: which is good because if Trump finds out about that headline, 637 00:46:23,955 --> 00:46:28,795 Speaker 1: he'll try it. The third honorable mention Congressman Mike Collins 638 00:46:28,795 --> 00:46:31,515 Speaker 1: of Georgia. I think he was in fact first out 639 00:46:31,555 --> 00:46:35,195 Speaker 1: of the box Saturday with something really stupid, but it 640 00:46:35,235 --> 00:46:38,315 Speaker 1: really didn't hold up well to later entrance. This was 641 00:46:38,355 --> 00:46:41,755 Speaker 1: the guy who started his first campaign ad by insisting 642 00:46:41,755 --> 00:46:44,995 Speaker 1: that Biden lost Georgia in twenty twenty, and then he's 643 00:46:45,035 --> 00:46:49,515 Speaker 1: shown shooting up a voting dropbox Saturday. Mike Collins wrote, 644 00:46:49,835 --> 00:46:54,835 Speaker 1: Joe Biden sent the orders uh huh to a twenty 645 00:46:54,915 --> 00:46:58,155 Speaker 1: year old Republican kid in Pennsylvania. The second honorable mention 646 00:46:58,315 --> 00:47:02,035 Speaker 1: Lester Holt of NBC News. I told you White House guys, 647 00:47:02,035 --> 00:47:06,315 Speaker 1: don't waste your time with Lester that job. If we're 648 00:47:06,355 --> 00:47:10,235 Speaker 1: going fascist, he's going fascist. Wester's that's kind of guy. 649 00:47:10,475 --> 00:47:15,955 Speaker 1: He's a joiner. He's a group togetherness dude who asks 650 00:47:16,035 --> 00:47:18,755 Speaker 1: Biden about his off the record remark to donors about 651 00:47:18,835 --> 00:47:21,155 Speaker 1: not talking about him leaving the ticket anymore, but instead 652 00:47:21,195 --> 00:47:25,195 Speaker 1: putting Trump in the proverbial bull's eye. Well, Lester did, why, 653 00:47:25,875 --> 00:47:27,515 Speaker 1: I don't know. Let me see how many more times 654 00:47:27,555 --> 00:47:30,475 Speaker 1: I have to say this. The shots at Trump were 655 00:47:30,555 --> 00:47:35,195 Speaker 1: fired by a registered Republican who's not likely to have 656 00:47:35,195 --> 00:47:41,635 Speaker 1: been doing Joe Bidden's Biden or Joe Biden's bidden. By 657 00:47:41,635 --> 00:47:43,995 Speaker 1: the way, at MSNBC, we used to call Lester iron 658 00:47:44,155 --> 00:47:46,995 Speaker 1: Pants because he could fill endless hours without ever getting 659 00:47:47,075 --> 00:47:50,515 Speaker 1: up from the anchor chair to use the little announcer's room. 660 00:47:50,955 --> 00:47:55,355 Speaker 1: Iron Pants was not meant as a compliment. And while 661 00:47:55,395 --> 00:47:58,195 Speaker 1: we're over here, honorable mention number one Chuck Todd of 662 00:47:58,355 --> 00:48:03,115 Speaker 1: NBC News, quoting the promotional tweet about his piece, Chuck Todd, 663 00:48:03,395 --> 00:48:05,875 Speaker 1: any one of the political devices over the last six 664 00:48:05,915 --> 00:48:10,155 Speaker 1: weeks would be classified as unprecedented. Put them together, and 665 00:48:10,235 --> 00:48:13,875 Speaker 1: it's creating a stew that could turn quite toxic if 666 00:48:13,915 --> 00:48:20,395 Speaker 1: we aren't careful. Unquote bye, there's no sneaking anything past 667 00:48:20,595 --> 00:48:26,075 Speaker 1: Chuck Todd? Is there now? The award winners. The Bronze 668 00:48:26,795 --> 00:48:31,915 Speaker 1: worse Elon Man was the ketamine flowing over at Shay 669 00:48:32,115 --> 00:48:36,995 Speaker 1: Musk this past weekend, the ridiculous Dave Ruben starts, Musk 670 00:48:37,155 --> 00:48:40,115 Speaker 1: is here for the moronic tap in here. First off, 671 00:48:40,155 --> 00:48:42,035 Speaker 1: the first word of the Ruben tweet should have been 672 00:48:42,035 --> 00:48:46,235 Speaker 1: a tip off to him. Assuming no, okay bad, Assuming 673 00:48:46,235 --> 00:48:48,275 Speaker 1: it turns out to be true that this sick F 674 00:48:48,475 --> 00:48:51,915 Speaker 1: was an Antifa member, Antifa should be labeled a terrorist 675 00:48:52,035 --> 00:48:55,275 Speaker 1: organization immediately, and that should have happened years ago. Actually, 676 00:48:56,955 --> 00:49:03,355 Speaker 1: Musk replies, absolutely, so. I guess what Dave Rubin and 677 00:49:03,435 --> 00:49:06,795 Speaker 1: Musk are now saying that since this sick F was 678 00:49:06,835 --> 00:49:09,795 Speaker 1: a Republican Party member, the Republican Party should be labeled 679 00:49:09,795 --> 00:49:12,555 Speaker 1: a terrorist organization immediately, and that that should have happened 680 00:49:12,675 --> 00:49:16,075 Speaker 1: years ago. Actually, and Elon is saying absolutely to that. 681 00:49:18,035 --> 00:49:22,835 Speaker 1: The runner up worser, Senator Mike Lee of Utah, this 682 00:49:23,035 --> 00:49:25,795 Speaker 1: is really one of the stupidest people on the planet. 683 00:49:26,595 --> 00:49:31,595 Speaker 1: These are two tweets eight days apart from the same guy. 684 00:49:31,635 --> 00:49:36,275 Speaker 1: In the first one, Lee endorses Musk's idea to kill 685 00:49:36,355 --> 00:49:42,315 Speaker 1: anybody who opposes the Republican I don't know how to 686 00:49:42,355 --> 00:49:48,355 Speaker 1: describe it. The Republican floor showroom kind of build that 687 00:49:48,475 --> 00:49:54,475 Speaker 1: makes voting. That's already illegal, illegal again. In the second 688 00:49:54,515 --> 00:49:57,235 Speaker 1: the retweet, well you'll hear this. This is on July fifth, 689 00:49:57,715 --> 00:50:02,235 Speaker 1: Musk tweets those who oppose this are traders, all caps traders. 690 00:50:03,155 --> 00:50:06,915 Speaker 1: What is the penalty for trait? Again? And Mike Lee 691 00:50:06,915 --> 00:50:08,715 Speaker 1: retweets this and says, I literally cannot think of a 692 00:50:08,755 --> 00:50:11,555 Speaker 1: legitimate reason to oppose the same act, and the only 693 00:50:11,595 --> 00:50:14,995 Speaker 1: illegitimate reasons are really really damning of those who espouse them. 694 00:50:15,075 --> 00:50:18,835 Speaker 1: So Mike Lee calls for killing people who oppose a 695 00:50:18,835 --> 00:50:22,155 Speaker 1: piece of legislation that makes something illegal that's already illegal. 696 00:50:23,355 --> 00:50:28,395 Speaker 1: And then on Saturday night statement by US Senator Mike Lee, 697 00:50:29,395 --> 00:50:31,995 Speaker 1: We've got to take the political temperature down, as evidenced 698 00:50:31,995 --> 00:50:34,555 Speaker 1: by what happened in Pennsylvania today. We call on President 699 00:50:34,635 --> 00:50:37,555 Speaker 1: Biden to immediately order that all federal criminal charges against 700 00:50:37,595 --> 00:50:40,155 Speaker 1: President Trump be dropped, and to ask the governors of 701 00:50:40,155 --> 00:50:43,235 Speaker 1: New York such a gesture would heal wounds, allow all 702 00:50:43,275 --> 00:50:45,635 Speaker 1: Americans take it. Our prayers are with the victims of 703 00:50:45,675 --> 00:50:49,275 Speaker 1: the shooting in our country, except for all the people here. 704 00:50:49,115 --> 00:50:51,235 Speaker 2: We want to kill. 705 00:50:51,395 --> 00:50:53,835 Speaker 1: I'm Mike Lee, and my hair did not fall off 706 00:50:53,875 --> 00:50:58,355 Speaker 1: because my brain is in overuse. Holy crap, going to 707 00:50:58,395 --> 00:51:00,995 Speaker 1: take the political temperature done except for killing people I 708 00:51:01,035 --> 00:51:03,315 Speaker 1: don't like. I'm Mike Lee and I'm actually be an 709 00:51:03,355 --> 00:51:07,235 Speaker 1: elected senator. And you know, in Utah there's lots of 710 00:51:07,275 --> 00:51:10,475 Speaker 1: things wrong with the state of Utah. But in Utah 711 00:51:10,635 --> 00:51:12,235 Speaker 1: they would look at this and go, why did we 712 00:51:12,275 --> 00:51:15,235 Speaker 1: elect this guy? Where did we find this idiot? Even 713 00:51:15,275 --> 00:51:18,955 Speaker 1: the Republicans would go, Joseph Smith would be really pissed 714 00:51:18,955 --> 00:51:23,435 Speaker 1: off at me. But our winner, the worst Republican vice 715 00:51:23,475 --> 00:51:30,595 Speaker 1: presidential nominee, JD. Vance, male prostitute. I call him that 716 00:51:30,675 --> 00:51:33,195 Speaker 1: because I don't think Trump actually vetted him, because he 717 00:51:34,235 --> 00:51:36,715 Speaker 1: kind of said unkind things about Trump that may come 718 00:51:36,755 --> 00:51:39,115 Speaker 1: back to haunt him later and later is right now? 719 00:51:39,635 --> 00:51:42,355 Speaker 1: I mean things that I might not have said here, 720 00:51:42,755 --> 00:51:45,915 Speaker 1: or worse things I might too have said here. As 721 00:51:45,955 --> 00:51:49,515 Speaker 1: The Washington Post put it February twenty sixteen, Vance set 722 00:51:49,555 --> 00:51:52,955 Speaker 1: a message to his former law school roommate Josh McLaurin 723 00:51:53,275 --> 00:51:56,515 Speaker 1: that McLaurin has recounted publicly in it, Vance that he 724 00:51:56,755 --> 00:51:59,355 Speaker 1: went quote back and forth between thinking Trump is a 725 00:51:59,395 --> 00:52:02,315 Speaker 1: cynical asshole like Nixon, who wouldn't be that bad and 726 00:52:02,395 --> 00:52:05,795 Speaker 1: might even prove useful, or that he he's America's hitler. 727 00:52:06,235 --> 00:52:09,595 Speaker 1: According to a screenshot maclaurin shared on social media in 728 00:52:09,635 --> 00:52:14,115 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, when Vance was running for Senate in Ohio, Gee, 729 00:52:15,635 --> 00:52:21,195 Speaker 1: somebody who called Trump America's hitler, which is the people 730 00:52:21,235 --> 00:52:25,955 Speaker 1: that all the Republicans were blaming for the assassination attempt. So, 731 00:52:25,955 --> 00:52:29,555 Speaker 1: so you Republicans are saying that jd Vance is responsible 732 00:52:29,595 --> 00:52:31,115 Speaker 1: for the attempt on Trump's life. 733 00:52:31,435 --> 00:52:33,955 Speaker 2: Oh, that could. 734 00:52:33,715 --> 00:52:37,755 Speaker 1: Be an interesting commercial for the Biden campaign. Or or 735 00:52:38,435 --> 00:52:41,555 Speaker 1: they could just run this opo research ad that has 736 00:52:41,595 --> 00:52:46,195 Speaker 1: already been put in place against JD Vance and just listen. 737 00:52:46,875 --> 00:52:50,515 Speaker 3: Jd Vance in his own words, I'm a never Trump guy. 738 00:52:50,915 --> 00:52:53,475 Speaker 2: I never liked him. As somebody who doesn't like Trump, 739 00:52:53,715 --> 00:52:55,755 Speaker 2: I might have to hold my nose and vote for 740 00:52:55,835 --> 00:52:56,515 Speaker 2: Hillary Clinton. 741 00:52:56,635 --> 00:52:59,275 Speaker 1: I didn't vote for Trump because I can't stomach Trump. 742 00:52:59,355 --> 00:53:02,755 Speaker 1: I think that he's noxious, him being ry, really outrageous 743 00:53:02,795 --> 00:53:08,235 Speaker 1: instances on Twitter, called Trump quote reprehensible, an idiot, and 744 00:53:08,435 --> 00:53:10,555 Speaker 1: Vance loves Mitt Romney. 745 00:53:10,755 --> 00:53:14,195 Speaker 2: I'm a never Trump guy. That's the real. Jd Vance. 746 00:53:14,315 --> 00:53:16,395 Speaker 1: Club for Growth Action is responsible for the content of 747 00:53:16,435 --> 00:53:19,595 Speaker 1: this apt so Biden campaign. All you have to do 748 00:53:19,715 --> 00:53:24,315 Speaker 1: is pop on I'm Joe Biden and I approved this message. Also, 749 00:53:25,155 --> 00:53:29,355 Speaker 1: what the heck's wrong with this guy's voice? Pal the VP, 750 00:53:29,835 --> 00:53:35,435 Speaker 1: JP Mandel, jd Vance, whatever the hell your name is, 751 00:53:35,915 --> 00:53:43,355 Speaker 1: don't stick your neck out two days worst person in 752 00:53:43,635 --> 00:54:02,435 Speaker 1: the world. I've done all the damage I can do here. 753 00:54:02,475 --> 00:54:05,275 Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. Countdown. Musical directors Ryan Ray and 754 00:54:05,355 --> 00:54:08,795 Speaker 1: John Phillip Schanel arranged, produced, and performed most of our music. 755 00:54:09,275 --> 00:54:11,795 Speaker 1: Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass, and drums, and 756 00:54:11,875 --> 00:54:16,035 Speaker 1: mister Chanelle handled orchestration in keyboards. It was produced by 757 00:54:16,035 --> 00:54:19,315 Speaker 1: Tko Brothers. Other music, including some of the Beethoven compositions, 758 00:54:19,755 --> 00:54:23,115 Speaker 1: arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. Sports 759 00:54:23,195 --> 00:54:26,035 Speaker 1: music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, written by 760 00:54:26,035 --> 00:54:29,955 Speaker 1: Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. Our satirical and 761 00:54:29,995 --> 00:54:33,115 Speaker 1: pithy musical comments are by Nancy Faust. The best baseball 762 00:54:33,155 --> 00:54:36,835 Speaker 1: stadium organist ever. Our announcer today is my friend Dennis Leary, 763 00:54:36,875 --> 00:54:40,915 Speaker 1: And everything else was pretty much my fault, except for 764 00:54:40,995 --> 00:54:44,675 Speaker 1: the guy who tried to shoot Trump. He was a Republican. 765 00:54:45,515 --> 00:54:47,995 Speaker 1: Let's countdown for this the one hundred and thirteenth day 766 00:54:48,355 --> 00:54:52,155 Speaker 1: until the twenty twenty four presidential election, two hundred and 767 00:54:52,195 --> 00:54:57,355 Speaker 1: eighty sixth day since convicted felon and evil Gerbil Donald 768 00:54:57,395 --> 00:55:01,035 Speaker 1: Trump's first attempt at coop against the democratically elected government 769 00:55:01,035 --> 00:55:04,595 Speaker 1: of the United States. Use the September eighteenth sentencing here. 770 00:55:05,315 --> 00:55:09,035 Speaker 1: Use the mental health system. You've got it, President Biden. 771 00:55:09,435 --> 00:55:13,155 Speaker 1: Use presidential immunity to stop him from doing it again 772 00:55:13,755 --> 00:55:19,875 Speaker 1: while we still can. Also, Republicans, stop shooting at Trump. 773 00:55:20,115 --> 00:55:20,515 Speaker 2: Please. 774 00:55:21,595 --> 00:55:24,715 Speaker 1: The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Boltin's is the news 775 00:55:24,755 --> 00:55:28,395 Speaker 1: requires till then, I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, 776 00:55:28,595 --> 00:55:47,635 Speaker 1: good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is 777 00:55:47,675 --> 00:55:52,475 Speaker 1: a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit 778 00:55:52,515 --> 00:55:57,195 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.