Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump
Speaker 1: is still a hitler. Trump is still a threat to
Speaker 1: the future of this nation. Trump is still a threat
Speaker 1: to the future of the human race. Trump's supporters still
Speaker 1: divide into domestic terrorists or those who have no problems
Speaker 1: siding with domestic terrorists. And Democrats, and especially the eternally gullible,
Speaker 1: terrified media are still falling for Trump's lies. When he
Speaker 1: hinted at uniting America, it was like the book the
Speaker 1: Extraterrestrials in the Twilight Zone had to serve Man. Trump
Speaker 1: wants a united America, all right, united under his one
Speaker 1: man authoritarian dictatorship. And Biden fell for it, and the
Speaker 1: Democrats fell for it, and the commentators fell for it.
Speaker 1: And after the big poor dumbfishes who always take the
Speaker 1: Trump bait took the Trump bait again, he explained what
Speaker 1: it was they had just bought. His concierge Judge in Florida,
Speaker 1: declared that Special Counsel Jacksmith is unconstitutional, and he followed with,
Speaker 1: as we move forward in uniting our nation after the
Speaker 1: horrific events on Saturday, This dismissal of the lawless indictment
Speaker 1: in Florida should be just the first step, followed quickly
Speaker 1: by the dismissal of all the witch hunts. He even
Speaker 1: included the E. Gene Carroll cases in the cases he
Speaker 1: now expects we'll be dismissed. And then, in further tribute
Speaker 1: to the new spirit of bipartisanship, by which Trump means
Speaker 1: both parties should nominate him, he named his running mate
Speaker 1: the shit bag JD Vance, who two years ago he
Speaker 1: literally could not name. He called him J. P. Mandel Vance,
Speaker 1: who not forty eight hours earlier had posted quote today
Speaker 1: is not just some isolated incident. The central premise of
Speaker 1: the Biden campaign is that Trump is an authoritarian fascist
Speaker 1: who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led
Speaker 1: directly to President Trump's attempted assassination sounds unifying to me.
Speaker 1: Jd like einvolk, I like in'infeurer kind of unifying on
Speaker 1: just remember MAGA for when the time comes.
Speaker 2: JD.
Speaker 1: Vance wears a size sixteen noose. Also Dvance, the way
Speaker 1: you phrase that post, it reads that Trump attempted the assassination,
Speaker 1: which would kind of be the first thing you've ever
Speaker 1: gotten right, Because while the Democrats and other opponents of
Speaker 1: dictatorship folded at the knees over fear that they might
Speaker 1: be blamed or damaged, or not deferential enough to Trump
Speaker 1: or have to answer questions. They forgot reality. Reality is,
Speaker 1: this is the America Trump wanted, and this is the
Speaker 1: America Trump gets. I'm really sorry. A Republican gun fetishist
Speaker 1: shot at another Republican gun fetishist using a weapon that
Speaker 1: Democrats had tried to ban and Republicans had kept from
Speaker 1: being banned. And he did this in response to nine
Speaker 1: uninterrupted years of the Trump language of stochastic terror, while
Speaker 1: the rest of us pleaded that he stopp I'm really
Speaker 1: sorry about this, but what exactly does this have to
Speaker 1: do with America? Trump gets shot at by a guy
Speaker 1: whose neighbors now say lived in a house that had
Speaker 1: Trump signs out front. Seems to me like this is
Speaker 1: a Trump problem. Who exactly needs to turn the temperature down?
Speaker 1: Who President Biden needs to turn the temperature down? Yes,
Speaker 1: let's bow to and beg forgiveness from and pledge unity
Speaker 1: with Republicans, with a man who called for his Second
Speaker 1: Amendment people to stop his presidential opponent, with a psychopath
Speaker 1: who traffics only in violence with a party of quizzlings,
Speaker 1: who have surrendered any remaining shreds of loyalty to our nation,
Speaker 1: or our constitution, or our shared humanity, surrendered any shreds
Speaker 1: of loyal to any of that to this scumbag Trump
Speaker 1: with an insensate creature, whose first act after his near
Speaker 1: death experience was to name a new running mate that
Speaker 1: he needed because he tried to get his own mob
Speaker 1: to kill his last running mate. We need to steer
Speaker 1: out of this bipartisan scam, goddamned fast, President Biden, and
Speaker 1: you need to steer out of it immediately, because I
Speaker 1: don't care now if your polls improve or the crater.
Speaker 1: You had one job in twenty twenty one, which was
Speaker 1: to remove the cancer of Trump and MAGA from this
Speaker 1: country forever and out of foolish but in some ways
Speaker 1: understandable naive ta, you waited and this is what you
Speaker 1: waited for. If you are not prepared to remove the
Speaker 1: cancer of Trump and MAGA from this country.
Speaker 3: Now now, now, now, get the hell out of a
Speaker 3: White House, get somebody a top our ticket who is
Speaker 3: willing to do what is necessary because you say unity, sir,
Speaker 3: and Trump and the Maga mob hears surrender, and if
Speaker 3: you want to surrender, go ahead.
Speaker 1: In this unwarranted deference to a would be dictator who
Speaker 1: was shot at by his own side, you have completely
Speaker 1: misread the mood of this nation and the urgency of
Speaker 1: this crisis, and the absolute non negotiable necessity to not
Speaker 1: back down in the face of the self fulfilling Trump
Speaker 1: prophecy of violence, but to instead redouble your efforts to
Speaker 1: rid us of the nightmare of the cancer Trump represents.
Speaker 1: Do it or get out.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Genuinely, I am heartbroken for the father who died protecting
Speaker 1: his family, protecting it from the violence that is the
Speaker 1: essence of Trump's campaign and the only through line in
Speaker 1: his horrific vision for America. I am heartbroken that Trump's
Speaker 1: stochastic terrorism killed yet another bystander and wounded two more.
Speaker 1: And I am equally heartbroken that the President of the
Speaker 1: United States and other democratic leaders should act like this
Speaker 1: is America's fault and that Americans need to turn down
Speaker 1: the temperature. The man who has been boiling us like
Speaker 1: frogs for a decade is Trump. Those who have enabled
Speaker 1: are trying to blame those of us who have tried
Speaker 1: to stop Trump, and the idea that any of this
Speaker 1: will abate, will even slow down because of some gesture
Speaker 1: by us of neighborliness to people who want to kill us.
Speaker 1: That idea is madness. Sir, I will remind you President
Speaker 1: Biden that no one who has treated Trump, and no
Speaker 1: law enforcement authority involved on the scene or the investigation,
Speaker 1: has yet confirmed he was even grazed by a bullet
Speaker 1: and not some kind of shard of debris. Only he
Speaker 1: has made that claim, and the Nations media has utterly failed,
Speaker 1: as it does nearly all the time, to verify or
Speaker 1: probe or even question another Trump boast. And my God
Speaker 1: listened to his cult right now, you would think Trump
Speaker 1: was Christ fresh off the cross, rather than the victim,
Speaker 1: as he him self phrased it in a moment of
Speaker 1: unintentional and hilarious honesty, a victim of as he described it,
Speaker 1: an ear piercing And of course those same quote reporters
Speaker 1: unquote swallowed whole the latest swindle that he would pivot.
Speaker 1: We are told, wrote the editors of the astonishingly and
Speaker 1: perpetually fatuous Politico, that this week Trump will adopt an unfamiliar,
Speaker 1: almost benevolent posture and call for unity in the face
Speaker 1: of tragedy. Yes, unity, unity means everybody does what Trump says.
Speaker 1: Trump told a propagandist from the Washington Examiner that he
Speaker 1: has rewritten his nomination acceptance speech, that God had given
Speaker 1: him a second chance. Quote, Honestly, it's going to be
Speaker 1: a whole different speech now. It is a chance to
Speaker 1: bring the country together. I was given that chance. Yes,
Speaker 1: another chance, another chance to scam the stupid. Somewhere, Van
Speaker 1: Jones is still weeping as he was Saturday night. Happily,
Speaker 1: if Van is on CNN weeping, he can relax because
Speaker 1: nobody is watching him. Just remember, after Trump dived under
Speaker 1: the podium, not fell, not was struck down, not took
Speaker 1: a bullet, and then got back up to his feet,
Speaker 1: making sure as he did that the Secret Service retrieved
Speaker 1: his baseball cap and his loafers. The great unifiers immediate
Speaker 1: and most telling reaction was simple and direct and self defining.
Speaker 1: We saw into his soul or whatever he has there
Speaker 1: instead of a soul. For one moment, his face taught
Speaker 1: with rage and hate in a way even he has
Speaker 1: not previously revealed. Trump screamed, fight, fight, hurt, same fraud,
Speaker 1: different con oh Trump, Jesus has a message for the faithful,
Speaker 1: faith brotherhood, unity and fight anybody who does not conform.
Speaker 1: And if anybody is still falling for this, this what
Speaker 1: you will hear next is what an Atlanta Journal Constitution
Speaker 1: an NBC News reporter recorded in the opening moments of
Speaker 1: the Republican convention in Milwaukee yesterday. Spoiler alert, These scumbags
Speaker 1: are not chanting.
Speaker 2: Peace, peace, Peace.
Speaker 1: If when they had dragged him off the stage Saturday,
Speaker 1: Trump had shouted kill, Kill, Kill, the Republicans would have
Speaker 1: been chanting that at their convention yesterday. And by the way, no,
Speaker 1: I do not believe that this was some sort of setup.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: I do not believe Trump wasn't really shot at No.
Speaker 1: I do not believe they were not trying to kill him.
Speaker 1: That was an assassination attempt. It's everything else that's the bullshit.
Speaker 1: As Politico wrote eight hours before that fight fight, fight
Speaker 1: chant was recorded, quote, the familiar face there nominating for
Speaker 1: president this week is a different man than they've come
Speaker 1: to know. One bullshit. Two thank you bullshitters at Politico
Speaker 1: for reminding me the familiar face. Go and look at
Speaker 1: those images of Trump and the Secret Service agents and
Speaker 1: the giant flags, and how the right is literally comparing
Speaker 1: all those images to the iconography of Christ. And then
Speaker 1: find the photos snapped at the exact moment Trump is
Speaker 1: screaming his message of hate and fight. And look at
Speaker 1: his face with the mouth just slightly open and just
Speaker 1: the front teeth visible. In my good God, it is
Speaker 1: the face of a giant, monstrous, enraged rodent. It's Gerbil J.
Speaker 2: Trump. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, the unqualified judge and former Flamenco and yoga correspondent
Speaker 1: of the Miami Nuevo Herald Trump appointed, delayed and slow
Speaker 1: walked and corruptly undermined the case just long enough that
Speaker 1: she could dismissed the charges against him in Florida for
Speaker 1: stealing the nation's nuclear secrets and classified documents and sharing
Speaker 1: them with like passers by. And she managed to dismiss
Speaker 1: the case literally hours before he, a convicted felon, was
Speaker 1: renominated at his anti Democracy party convention. Timed it out,
Speaker 1: she did to the month, the week, the day, and
Speaker 1: the hour. Oh and she did it on a basis
Speaker 1: of something Clarence Thomas threw in as an aside in
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court's corrupt ruling on this imaginary and world
Speaker 1: ending concept of presidential immunity, the thing that will allow Trump,
Speaker 1: if we let him seize power again, to arrest you
Speaker 1: and never face any recriminations. And yes, it will be appealed,
Speaker 1: and it will not matter if Trump wins. And yes,
Speaker 1: I am dead serious when I suggest the following, absolutely serious.
Speaker 1: Biden should invent a pretext today and arrest Judge Cannon
Speaker 1: and arrest Justices Thomas and Alito and Kavanaugh and Barrett
Speaker 1: and Gorsich and Chief Justice Roberts and Trump and the
Speaker 1: leading Republicans and come on TV from the Oval Office
Speaker 1: and say just eight words, good evening, residential immunity, God
Speaker 1: bless our troops. Infant, he does not need a pretext.
Speaker 1: What would Trump do in a mirror image of today,
Speaker 1: a mirror image of the assassination attempt less than four
Speaker 1: months before the election? He's in charge, and the guy
Speaker 1: ahead of him in the polls gets shot at, and
Speaker 1: the Secret Service has clearly screwed security into the ground.
Speaker 1: And we don't know why a kid registered with the
Speaker 1: same party as the candidate, with the candidate signs in
Speaker 1: his front yard would try to kill the candidate. And
Speaker 1: we don't know why a local Police Office US are
Speaker 1: confronted the shooter moments before the shots, only to back away,
Speaker 1: and we don't know why. Most insanely of all, the
Speaker 1: kid had a cameo in a Black Rock commercial for
Speaker 1: retirement plans.
Speaker 2: And we do know.
Speaker 1: It is an assassination attempt being investigated as an active
Speaker 1: domestic terrorism. And you know, you know that a Trump
Speaker 1: in charge would look at this and say, good enough
Speaker 1: excuse for me. I am declaring a national emergency, presidential
Speaker 1: candidates under attack. I'm invoking the Insurrection Act. Do it, Joe.
Speaker 1: I mean, right now, all the goddamned Republican terrorists are
Speaker 1: in one place. They even all have hotel rooms in
Speaker 1: the same neighborhood as the arena. Just seal it off
Speaker 1: and keep them there. Hell, it's all legal. Clarence Thomas
Speaker 1: and John Roberts and Sam Alito just told you so.
Speaker 1: So prayer as a dential immunity. And you know, mister President,
Speaker 1: and if you don't know, retire and let somebody who
Speaker 1: does know run in your place and run the country
Speaker 1: in your place.
Speaker 2: If you don't do.
Speaker 1: Something like this to stop Trump and the cancer and
Speaker 1: the now emboldened fascists when they get the chance they
Speaker 1: will do this. It isn't if the Insurrection Act will
Speaker 1: be invoked in the next few years, it's when and
Speaker 1: by whom. I will get back later to all the
Speaker 1: things that Trump cult said and did in the hours
Speaker 1: after the shooting that probably were a tip off at
Speaker 1: the unity and bring the temperature down Kumbayas stuff was
Speaker 1: just another Khan like the Georgia congressman who posted Joe
Speaker 1: Biden sent the orders. But first there is something else,
Speaker 1: utterly maddening, utterly dishonest, utterly Pollyanna. And after we stop
Speaker 1: with the unity crap, the unity crap that Trump seriously
Speaker 1: thinks means dropping all charges against him, we also have
Speaker 1: to stop with the violence has never decided anything in
Speaker 1: our country.
Speaker 3: Lie.
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear another politician say that violence
Speaker 1: has no place in American politics. If you want to argue,
Speaker 1: it should not have a place. That's one thing. I
Speaker 1: endorse that completely with all of my heart. But by
Speaker 1: this point, all I'm getting from this pious bullshit that
Speaker 1: what happened over the weekend, or what Trump has been
Speaker 1: summoning for nine years, is some kind of unheard of,
Speaker 1: unforseeable aberration. All I'm getting from that is a deep
Speaker 1: bitter laugh. Even Trump wrote, it is incredible that such
Speaker 1: an act could take place in our country.
Speaker 2: No, it's not.
Speaker 1: It may seem incredible to him that such an act
Speaker 1: could take place to him. And I don't begrudge politicians, who,
Speaker 1: after all, have a very vested interest in making sure
Speaker 1: politicians don't get shot. I don't begrudge them arguing that
Speaker 1: there is no room in this country for letting politicians
Speaker 1: get shot. I get it, shouldn't shoot commentators either, But
Speaker 1: my god, the history of American politics is a river
Speaker 1: of blood. Forty five men have now served as president,
Speaker 1: not forty six. We gave Grover Cleveland two numbers for
Speaker 1: some unfathomable reason. Four out of the forty five have
Speaker 1: been assassinated with guns. That's nearly ten percent of them
Speaker 1: as of Saturday's event with Trump. Two of the other
Speaker 1: forty one have been wounded in gunfire while running to
Speaker 1: try to regain office. Another one was wounded by a
Speaker 1: gun in office. Seven of the remaining thirty eight have
Speaker 1: survived significant attempted assassinations by guns. Six more were targeted
Speaker 1: with guns in plots that were stopped before getting nearly
Speaker 1: that close. That's twenty out of forty five twenty presidents
Speaker 1: out of a full set of only forty five presidents.
Speaker 1: That's forty four percent of all your presidents. It's a
Speaker 1: lot of percent. A year from now, we will commemorate
Speaker 1: the two hundredth anniversary of the first gun assassination of
Speaker 1: a sitting American elected official. The Attorney General of Kentucky,
Speaker 1: Solomon Sharp. State Senator Clement of Pinckney of South Carolina
Speaker 1: was one of the victims of the white supremacist Dylan
Speaker 1: Roof in twenty fifteen, depending on your criteria, there have
Speaker 1: been sixty others in between, or seventy or one hundred.
Speaker 1: Then there are those who were shot and survived, Republican
Speaker 1: Congressman Steve Scalise in twenty seventeen, Democratic Congressman Gabby Giffrids
Speaker 1: in twenty eleven. Then there are the leaders who were
Speaker 1: not in office, not in politics, even from Martin Luther
Speaker 1: King to Malcolm X to Huey Long to George Wallace.
Speaker 2: And also.
Speaker 1: We're still using in this context this phrase the peaceful
Speaker 1: transfer of power, as if January twentieth, twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: erased January sixth, twenty twenty one, and the other forms
Speaker 1: of the Trump coup attempt, And even if you want
Speaker 1: to concede that, did we have a peaceful transfer of
Speaker 1: power in eighteen sixty one when Lincoln was not on
Speaker 1: the ballot in twenty percent of the country during the
Speaker 1: election and the Southern states seceded in protest over his
Speaker 1: victory as well, as it turned out, was eighteen sixty four?
Speaker 1: Is election peaceful? Eighteen sixty eight when Mississippi, Texas, and
Speaker 1: Virginia were still occupied by Northern troops and votes did
Speaker 1: not count. Eighteen seventy two, when there were still troops
Speaker 1: throughout the South. Eighteen seventy six, when, after the most
Speaker 1: controversial election before Bush v. Gore, supporters of the losing candidate,
Speaker 1: Governor Samuel Tilden, urged him to take advantage of the
Speaker 1: still heavy military presence in the capitol and start a
Speaker 1: second Civil War in order to claim the office from Hayes.
Speaker 1: Was the Civil War peaceful transfer of power? Was the
Speaker 1: Revolutionary War? Peaceful transfer of power? I am the least
Speaker 1: pro violence person you are going to meet. I am
Speaker 1: also the least pro sanitizing of history. If you want
Speaker 1: to aspire to an America, where bullets are no longer
Speaker 1: as influential as ballots. Great, but don't lie, not now.
Speaker 1: Don't lie to Lincoln and Garfield and McKinley and Kennedy.
Speaker 1: Don't lie to Raig and Long and Wallace and King,
Speaker 1: and don't lie to Secretary of State Robert Lincoln. Please,
Speaker 1: Robert Lincoln, who was supposed to be with his father
Speaker 1: at Ford's Theater, who was walking towards President Garfield as
Speaker 1: an assassin shot him in eighteen eighty one, who was
Speaker 1: on a train to Buffalo to see President McKinley as
Speaker 1: an assassin shot him in nineteen oh one, Tell Robert
Speaker 1: Lincoln that there's never been any place for violence in
Speaker 1: American politics. Perhaps, just perhaps if we stopped lying about
Speaker 1: it to ourselves, we might just might be able to
Speaker 1: stop it ourselves. I'm not done on this, but I
Speaker 1: need to put in the commercials, all three segments today
Speaker 1: on this, including so many worse persons, these same Republicans
Speaker 1: pretending to sing Kumbaya, only they don't know the words,
Speaker 1: and many of them had to bail out after the
Speaker 1: kum So many worse persons I can't count them all.
Speaker 1: And more on the practicalities. No. Sorry, nothing in history
Speaker 1: suggests the guy who got shot at gets an. I
Speaker 1: didn't get killed. You should feel guilty bump in American elections.
Speaker 1: Not only don't I think this helps Trump, I don't
Speaker 1: think it has any significant impact on the outcome at all.
Speaker 1: And what little insignificant impact there is might hurt Trump.
Speaker 1: The actual history of the attempts to kill Reagan, Ford, Teddy,
Speaker 1: Roosevelt and the other candidates. That's next. This is countdown
Speaker 1: to continue. I have a contrarian point of view as
Speaker 1: well on the impact on the election of the attempt
Speaker 1: to kill Trump. Not only are all the headlines about
Speaker 1: how this changes everything laugh out loud wrong, probably does
Speaker 1: not change anything.
Speaker 2: It's not even the.
Speaker 1: Lead story anymore. It's not even the lead political story.
Speaker 1: It's not even the lead Republican story. But if it
Speaker 1: has any impact, if it has one hundredth of one
Speaker 1: percent impact, I don't think it's the one being uniformly predicted.
Speaker 1: I confess this may be entirely wishful thinking, one last
Speaker 1: optimistic cell in a body that has turned otherwise fully cynical.
Speaker 1: After daily exposure to American politics for sixty years as
Speaker 1: boy and man, or it might just be the number
Speaker 1: of decades I've been in this business and the number
Speaker 1: of new details that you and I don't know yet.
Speaker 1: We didn't know about the yard signs until last night.
Speaker 1: What's next. The only thing we have to go on
Speaker 1: is history, and firstly the idea that this will coalesce
Speaker 1: the nation around Trump. History suggests it's nonsense. Oh, it's
Speaker 1: just like Reagan when he was shot. Heard that all weekend. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's just like Reagan's Trump's like Reagan looking Trump. Oh,
Speaker 1: he's gonna win a landslide. Because Reagan won in a
Speaker 1: landslide and he was shot. The time span between Reagan
Speaker 1: getting shot and his landslide reelection was one thousand, three
Speaker 1: hundred and eighteen days. It's three and a half years.
Speaker 1: And by the way, that landslide in nineteen eighty four,
Speaker 1: after he was shot, that was only thirty five electoral
Speaker 1: votes bigger than his landslide was in nineteen eighty There
Speaker 1: were a lot of crazy reasons Ronald Reagan was popular
Speaker 1: enough to win that way without any functioning brain, but
Speaker 1: getting shot was not one of them. Also, he got shot.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe Trump got winged again. His quote, my ear
Speaker 1: was pierced, Oh the humanity. As an aside, when I
Speaker 1: went to double check the exact numbers, I googled Reagan assassination,
Speaker 1: and my new laptop malfunctioned or it auto corrected, or
Speaker 1: I hit return too soon or something, and I got
Speaker 1: first the results for Reagan ass Here's a free tip
Speaker 1: for an old man, Sonny, never do this, Okay. Those
Speaker 1: who found out the actual stats on Reagan and said, well,
Speaker 1: that's not gonna work. We can't even get away with that.
Speaker 1: They then said Trump was just like Teddy Roosevelt, who
Speaker 1: also got shot while running and that was close to
Speaker 1: the election, wasn't it. Huh huh, yeah, all right. The
Speaker 1: little background Teddy Roosevelt had served out William McKinley's term
Speaker 1: after he was shot and killed, and then Roosevelt won
Speaker 1: election in his own right in nineteen oh four and
Speaker 1: impulsively then said he would not run again in nineteen
Speaker 1: oh eight. He would have sailed to a third term,
Speaker 1: actually his second term. Instead, his hand picked successor, William
Speaker 1: Howard Taft, flailed as President of the United States. Tr
Speaker 1: did not help. He then challenged Taft for the nineteen
Speaker 1: twelve nomination, and when the Republicans actually did rig the
Speaker 1: convention against him. Roosevelt ran as the Progressive Party third
Speaker 1: party candidate. On October fourteenth, he got into a car
Speaker 1: to go to the Milwaukee Auditorium to give a campaign
Speaker 1: speech when an assassin shot him in the chest. His speech,
Speaker 1: which was I forget now one hundred pages thick, actually
Speaker 1: slowed the bullet down. Verbosity helps. The bullet did not
Speaker 1: enter his lungs, and Roosevelt, who knew anatomy and hunting
Speaker 1: backwards and forwards, knew he was hurt but not mortally so,
Speaker 1: so after making sure the assassin was not harmed, Roosevelt
Speaker 1: went to the autorum and gave the whole speech as
Speaker 1: opposed to, you know, diving under the podium. Not that
Speaker 1: that was the wrong thing to do. I would dive
Speaker 1: under the podium too, But the comparison between Trump and
Speaker 1: Teddy Roosevelt giving an hour long speech with a bullet
Speaker 1: in his chest and no teleprompter, that comparison ends very
Speaker 1: early in the process. And again dramatic, extraordinary, and just
Speaker 1: twenty two days. It occurred before the election, and we
Speaker 1: don't have polling, but it seems as if Roosevelt underperformed
Speaker 1: expectations on election day, they thought he would do a
Speaker 1: lot better than he had. Although he became the last
Speaker 1: third party candidate to finish in second place, he still
Speaker 1: lost the Electoral College by three hundred and forty seven votes.
Speaker 1: Gerald Ford was the victim of two assassination attempts seventeen
Speaker 1: days apart, fourteen months before the nineteen seventy six election,
Speaker 1: an admirable comp to what happened to Trump, point blank
Speaker 1: no damage. Not only did it not help Ford, who
Speaker 1: would lose to Jimmy Carter, it didn't even secure him
Speaker 1: the Republican nomination, and he had two assassins. Reagan ran
Speaker 1: against him, and by the time of the nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: six Republican Convention, Ford was only forty three delegates ahead,
Speaker 1: and the convention, not the primaries, and not the voters,
Speaker 1: decided the Republican nomination. And even after all that, two
Speaker 1: assassinations and Ronald Reagan trying to knock him off, he lost.
Speaker 1: President Harry Truman was shot at in November nineteen fifty
Speaker 1: and it did nothing to help his political quagmire that
Speaker 1: was so bad he didn't even try for renomination, and
Speaker 1: when he bowed out at the end of March nineteen
Speaker 1: fifty two, the candidate he endorsed, Averill Harriman, never got
Speaker 1: above five percent in the Democratic polls. I realized the
Speaker 1: most recent of these examples is just over forty years ago,
Speaker 1: and the Reagan shooting was only six years after Ford,
Speaker 1: and Ford was only seven years after Bobby Kennedy, and
Speaker 1: Bobby Kennedy was only five years after his brother, President Kennedy.
Speaker 1: Trust me, we were not blase about any of this.
Speaker 1: If that's what you're thinking, It is possible that the
Speaker 1: kind of collective, unfathomable guilt we have seen since Saturday
Speaker 1: Night might have been worn out in nineteen seventy five
Speaker 1: or nineteen eighty one by two decades of relentless gunfire.
Speaker 1: But I really think the answer as to why getting
Speaker 1: shot at does not help a presidential candidate is deeper
Speaker 1: than that. In each case, here, the victim of the
Speaker 1: assassination attempt represented the more violent party, the more violent
Speaker 1: choice in the upcoming election. Ford had just overseen the
Speaker 1: disastrous evacuation of Vietnam. He was connected to Nixon, Truman
Speaker 1: was blamed for the Korean War. Teddy Roosevelt was a
Speaker 1: little bloodthirsty even in a bloodthirsty time, and Woodrow Wilson,
Speaker 1: who won, was already pledging to avoid what would become
Speaker 1: World War One. He didn't, but he pledged it. And
Speaker 1: now there are two American paths sitting in front of
Speaker 1: us from this point in history, two American futures. Until Saturday,
Speaker 1: there was the anti Trump path that you and I
Speaker 1: have seen clearly, where we still have elections and judges
Speaker 1: and order, and we pushed back against sudden, mindless, uncontrollable
Speaker 1: violence within politics and without. And the other view was
Speaker 1: of Trump's America violence, assassination, persecution, bigotry, madness, tragedy, but
Speaker 1: all in the future. The Trumpists could deny any of
Speaker 1: it was true now or woever be true. I don't
Speaker 1: think they can deny it any longer. And America of
Speaker 1: wild West shoot them outs involving presidential candidates or anybody
Speaker 1: else that sounds fun to these psychopaths until you are
Speaker 1: the one who gets shot. To paraphrase my cousin Mike Tyson,
Speaker 1: everybody has a plan until they get shot in the ear.
Speaker 1: Most of the Trumpists are too far gone to correct
Speaker 1: themselves now, but I suspect there's still a patch in
Speaker 1: the middle or maybe at the sane end of the
Speaker 1: right in which they saw on Saturday what Trump's America
Speaker 1: really looks like, and the contrast to the Biden America flawed,
Speaker 1: flailing but trying, or a Democratic Party of America. Because
Speaker 1: I can't tell you how angry I am at President
Speaker 1: Biden right now for participating in this. Maybe I'll get better,
Speaker 1: maybe I won't, but right now, no, thanks regardless, it's
Speaker 1: a choice a Democratic Party America or a Trump America,
Speaker 1: a Trump America where everybody gets shot at, including Trump.
Speaker 1: And lastly, so I'm clear and I can clarify for
Speaker 1: any of the Trumpists who are so obviously looking for
Speaker 1: stuff that MSNBC took Joe Scarborough off the air yesterday
Speaker 1: out of fear that somebody on that show would say
Speaker 1: something stupid that would harm NBC, and I thought, wait,
Speaker 1: that's the premise of the show anyway, For those hunting
Speaker 1: liberal remarks, let me be explicit about what I am
Speaker 1: and am not saying here. Do I want you to
Speaker 1: shoot Trump? No?
Speaker 2: I do not.
Speaker 1: Do I want you to shoot anybody. No, I do
Speaker 1: not do I want anybody to shoot anybody. No, I
Speaker 1: do not do I think anybody is responsible for the
Speaker 1: rise of violent rhetoric and threats and stochastic terrorism besides
Speaker 1: Trump and the Republicans. I do not do I think
Speaker 1: anybody is responsible for the assassination attempt besides Trump and
Speaker 1: MAGA and the Republicans and the shooter.
Speaker 2: I do not.
Speaker 1: Do I think Trump is less of a mortal threat
Speaker 1: to representative government in this nation than he was on
Speaker 1: Saturday morning. I do not. And lastly, will I stop
Speaker 1: saying that he is intent on becoming a dictator and
Speaker 1: his election is an existential threat not only to this
Speaker 1: nation but to life on earth. I will not. Okay,
Speaker 1: So the same Republicans whose asses the Democrats are kissing
Speaker 1: right now, the Republican Senate candidate in Pennsylvania wants the
Speaker 1: incumbent democrit at Bob Casey to suspend negative advertising, and
Speaker 1: the person he cites as his inspiration for this idiotic
Speaker 1: idea is Biden. Those same Republicans said so many psychotic, violent,
Speaker 1: unforgivable things in the wake of the shooting that I
Speaker 1: literally have lost count worst persons. Could be three guys,
Speaker 1: could be thirty three guys.
Speaker 2: That's next. This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith Olberman.
Speaker 1: Still ahead of us on this edition of Countdown Nothing.
Speaker 1: This is the last segment of today's programming. How's that
Speaker 1: for a promo. But there are.
Speaker 2: Still time for all the new idiots to.
Speaker 1: Talk about the daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons
Speaker 1: and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute two days worst
Speaker 1: persons in the world.
Speaker 2: See if you find.
Speaker 1: A theme well after the first one. There's so many
Speaker 1: of them, though, that I've run out of precious medals
Speaker 1: with which to make the awards, So first the Humorous
Speaker 1: Relief Honorable Mentions Honorable Mention number fifteen. Ian Dale, a
Speaker 1: host on England's LBC channel, kind of a right wing
Speaker 1: mishmash after the European Soccer Championship match Sunday between Spain,
Speaker 1: which won and England, which did not win.
Speaker 2: See if you hear the.
Speaker 1: Racism, nationalism or just playing stupidity? Spain won, England didn't.
Speaker 1: Quoting Ian Dale, what trust between the two teams. Every
Speaker 1: England player belted out the national anthem with gusto. Not
Speaker 1: a single Spanish player opened his mouth in the Spanish
Speaker 1: national anthem doesn't have any words. If you hear anybody
Speaker 1: ever singing the Spanish national anthem, get to a hospital,
Speaker 1: you're having an episode. The fourteenth Honorable Mention, the millennials,
Speaker 1: they're complaining about this again with Trump. I mean, I
Speaker 1: get it. No matter what dates you put on them.
Speaker 1: They've all seen nine to eleven, Iraq, the recession, the
Speaker 1: climate crisis, the rise of Trump, COVID, now an assassination attempt.
Speaker 1: We all have our burdens, and I don't minimize anybody
Speaker 1: by generation. I just like to point out that I
Speaker 1: am among the youngest of the baby boomers, so I
Speaker 1: got all you've been through. Millennials. Also, I had the
Speaker 1: Cuban missile crisis, the Kennedy assassination, Vietnam, the other Kennedy assassination,
Speaker 1: Martin Luther King, Watergate, the Residu nation of the President,
Speaker 1: and then after I graduated from high school. The thirteenth
Speaker 1: Honorable Mention speaker Mike Johnson. I know he sounds like
Speaker 1: an FM radio preacher in a small town in the South.
Speaker 1: Here are the beg's, but he's also been successful in
Speaker 1: a reptilian kind of way. But ultimately, this guy is
Speaker 1: a dope. At the beginning of this month, Ugly Tiny
Speaker 1: Johnson went on Fox and smeared Biden. Quote, unless the
Speaker 1: president is reading off a teleprompter, I don't think he's
Speaker 1: capable of making these big decisions. And then guess what happened.
Speaker 1: Mike Johnson got up at the Republican convention yesterday and
Speaker 1: he learned that the god of teleprompters is a vengeful god.
Speaker 1: It is now my honor to introduce the Attorney General.
Speaker 2: And there goes the teleprompter.
Speaker 1: And then Mike Johnson left the stage and he has
Speaker 1: not been heard from since. And now those Republicans who
Speaker 1: immediately said something about Trump that suggested that the lie
Speaker 1: about unity and turning down the rhetoric was a lie
Speaker 1: even before they tried to sell it to us. The
Speaker 1: twelfth honorable mention, Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina quote,
Speaker 1: this was an assassination attempt, aided and abetted by the
Speaker 1: radical left and corporate media incessantly calling Trump a threat
Speaker 1: to democracy, fascists or worse. Yes, Tim, that's right. Thomas
Speaker 1: Crook's Trump supporter, dead Shooter, was radicalized by like me
Speaker 1: absolutely now that you didn't get that vice presidential gig. Senator,
Speaker 1: do you have an outclause in your contract with your quote?
Speaker 1: Fiance unquote just asking The eleventh honorable mention Matt Gates,
Speaker 1: who also posted yesterday a photo of quote Supreme Court
Speaker 1: Justice Eileen Cannon. He wrote on Saturday, they tried to
Speaker 1: impeach him, They are trying to imprison him. Now they
Speaker 1: have tried to assassinate him. Oh sorry, Matt, good guess,
Speaker 1: but no, he was shot by a Republican in the
Speaker 1: They Versus You construction. You tried to assassinate him. You
Speaker 1: Republicans tried to assassinate him, Beavis. The tenth honorable mentioned
Speaker 1: Junior Trump, who you'll remember mocked the attack on Nancy
Speaker 1: Pelosi's husband like twelve times and who seems to have
Speaker 1: serious brain damage.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 1: Dems and their friends in the media knew exactly what
Speaker 1: they were doing with their literally hitler bullshit. If Democrats
Speaker 1: got their way, my dad would be dead right now.
Speaker 1: Once again, Junior, your father was shot at by a
Speaker 1: young and clearly unhappy Republican. Perhaps he was a young, troubled,
Speaker 1: gun obsessed man whose relationship with his own father was
Speaker 1: never fulfilled, that it never had any love, never proved
Speaker 1: to the son that his father valued him in any
Speaker 1: way or not. The ninth Honorable Mention Eric Erickson, the
Speaker 1: conservative commentator from a family so poor they could only
Speaker 1: afford to give him a one name. On a daily basis,
Speaker 1: six forty nine pm July thirteenth, On a daily basis,
Speaker 1: MSNBC tells its audience that Trump is a threat to democracy,
Speaker 1: an authoritarian and waiting and it would be dictator if
Speaker 1: no one stops him. What did they think would happen?
Speaker 1: Comcast made a choice, right you are, mister Mahrhoffer Thomas
Speaker 1: Matthew Crooks with the Trump sign in his front yard.
Speaker 1: Eric Erickson was radicalized by Chris Hayes shrug Emochi. The
Speaker 1: eighth honorable mention Clays, the kid we today politely called
Speaker 1: challenged who used to write stupid things but only about sports,
Speaker 1: but he since expanded to also writing stupid things about politics.
Speaker 1: Six point thirty three pm July thirteenth. I am effing furious,
Speaker 1: beyond words f every left wing media member who's been
Speaker 1: calling him hitler for the past eight years. This is
Speaker 1: on them. They made this happen. I'd just like to
Speaker 1: note these people all suddenly discovered sarcastic terrorism and now
Speaker 1: they believe in it completely. Oh knows what I don't
Speaker 1: get here is the one advantage and I think I
Speaker 1: know something about this topic of starting your career in
Speaker 1: sports and then going to news, is you tend to
Speaker 1: remember one lesson from sports. Don't declare the winner or
Speaker 1: describe the deciding play of the game until after the
Speaker 1: goddamn game ended. Never had dawned on Travis, not for
Speaker 1: a moment that Trump shooter even might have been a Republican.
Speaker 1: Yet there it is. So I guess what Klay Travis
Speaker 1: is saying? There is f all Republicans. You bet youa.
Speaker 1: The seventh Honorable mentioned Kate Andrews in The Spectator with
Speaker 1: one of these unity crap pieces headlined today we are
Speaker 1: all maga. Listen, miss Andrews. If you want to be maga,
Speaker 1: go ahead. The key point is the guy who tried
Speaker 1: to kill Trump was maga. The sixth honorable mention Lauren Bobert.
Speaker 1: First she insisted Biden quote is responsible for the shooting.
Speaker 1: Then she retweeted another fascist. The Dems realized it's too
Speaker 1: late to switch out their candidate, so they attempted to
Speaker 1: kill ours instead. Again Bobo significant them versus hours fail.
Speaker 1: Here the sentence should be the Republicans realized it's too
Speaker 1: late to switch out their candidate, so they attempted to
Speaker 1: kill theirs instead. You're welcome and get a grip on yourself.
Speaker 1: The fifth Honorable mentioned Ben Shapiro Daily. This guy trips
Speaker 1: over his own rake? How is he a power in
Speaker 1: the fascist sphere? How a shocking and tragic day for
Speaker 1: the nation. You cannot repeatedly and endlessly label a major
Speaker 1: party candidate and former president Actual Hitler full scale threat
Speaker 1: to democracy without radically increasing the danger of violence in America.
Speaker 1: This danger has been obvious for years and enraged engaged
Speaker 1: in by nearly everyone on the left up to and
Speaker 1: including the president current president. We are in a hideously
Speaker 1: ugly new era. Twelve ten Am, Sunday, October thirty first,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, Ben Shapiro, the attempt to twist the
Speaker 1: Paul Pelosi attack into a broader story about supposed extremism
Speaker 1: and Republican rhetoric. So vote dem is so transparently opportunistic
Speaker 1: and pathetic. Everyone can see what you're doing Democrats in
Speaker 1: the media, and it's disgusting. Ben, is what Bill O'Reilly
Speaker 1: used to call pinhead. The fourth honor Will Mention Forbes magazine,
Speaker 1: which took a well intended but kind of garbled piece
Speaker 1: by somebody named Sean Harper and completely pushed it over
Speaker 1: the edge with this headline, will Surviving Gunfire be Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's next appeal to black voters? They've deleted it now,
Speaker 1: which is good because if Trump finds out about that headline,
Speaker 1: he'll try it. The third honorable mention Congressman Mike Collins
Speaker 1: of Georgia. I think he was in fact first out
Speaker 1: of the box Saturday with something really stupid, but it
Speaker 1: really didn't hold up well to later entrance. This was
Speaker 1: the guy who started his first campaign ad by insisting
Speaker 1: that Biden lost Georgia in twenty twenty, and then he's
Speaker 1: shown shooting up a voting dropbox Saturday. Mike Collins wrote,
Speaker 1: Joe Biden sent the orders uh huh to a twenty
Speaker 1: year old Republican kid in Pennsylvania. The second honorable mention
Speaker 1: Lester Holt of NBC News. I told you White House guys,
Speaker 1: don't waste your time with Lester that job. If we're
Speaker 1: going fascist, he's going fascist. Wester's that's kind of guy.
Speaker 1: He's a joiner. He's a group togetherness dude who asks
Speaker 1: Biden about his off the record remark to donors about
Speaker 1: not talking about him leaving the ticket anymore, but instead
Speaker 1: putting Trump in the proverbial bull's eye. Well, Lester did, why,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Let me see how many more times
Speaker 1: I have to say this. The shots at Trump were
Speaker 1: fired by a registered Republican who's not likely to have
Speaker 1: been doing Joe Bidden's Biden or Joe Biden's bidden. By
Speaker 1: the way, at MSNBC, we used to call Lester iron
Speaker 1: Pants because he could fill endless hours without ever getting
Speaker 1: up from the anchor chair to use the little announcer's room.
Speaker 1: Iron Pants was not meant as a compliment. And while
Speaker 1: we're over here, honorable mention number one Chuck Todd of
Speaker 1: NBC News, quoting the promotional tweet about his piece, Chuck Todd,
Speaker 1: any one of the political devices over the last six
Speaker 1: weeks would be classified as unprecedented. Put them together, and
Speaker 1: it's creating a stew that could turn quite toxic if
Speaker 1: we aren't careful. Unquote bye, there's no sneaking anything past
Speaker 1: Chuck Todd? Is there now? The award winners. The Bronze
Speaker 1: worse Elon Man was the ketamine flowing over at Shay
Speaker 1: Musk this past weekend, the ridiculous Dave Ruben starts, Musk
Speaker 1: is here for the moronic tap in here. First off,
Speaker 1: the first word of the Ruben tweet should have been
Speaker 1: a tip off to him. Assuming no, okay bad, Assuming
Speaker 1: it turns out to be true that this sick F
Speaker 1: was an Antifa member, Antifa should be labeled a terrorist
Speaker 1: organization immediately, and that should have happened years ago. Actually,
Speaker 1: Musk replies, absolutely, so. I guess what Dave Rubin and
Speaker 1: Musk are now saying that since this sick F was
Speaker 1: a Republican Party member, the Republican Party should be labeled
Speaker 1: a terrorist organization immediately, and that that should have happened
Speaker 1: years ago. Actually, and Elon is saying absolutely to that.
Speaker 1: The runner up worser, Senator Mike Lee of Utah, this
Speaker 1: is really one of the stupidest people on the planet.
Speaker 1: These are two tweets eight days apart from the same guy.
Speaker 1: In the first one, Lee endorses Musk's idea to kill
Speaker 1: anybody who opposes the Republican I don't know how to
Speaker 1: describe it. The Republican floor showroom kind of build that
Speaker 1: makes voting. That's already illegal, illegal again. In the second
Speaker 1: the retweet, well you'll hear this. This is on July fifth,
Speaker 1: Musk tweets those who oppose this are traders, all caps traders.
Speaker 1: What is the penalty for trait? Again? And Mike Lee
Speaker 1: retweets this and says, I literally cannot think of a
Speaker 1: legitimate reason to oppose the same act, and the only
Speaker 1: illegitimate reasons are really really damning of those who espouse them.
Speaker 1: So Mike Lee calls for killing people who oppose a
Speaker 1: piece of legislation that makes something illegal that's already illegal.
Speaker 1: And then on Saturday night statement by US Senator Mike Lee,
Speaker 1: We've got to take the political temperature down, as evidenced
Speaker 1: by what happened in Pennsylvania today. We call on President
Speaker 1: Biden to immediately order that all federal criminal charges against
Speaker 1: President Trump be dropped, and to ask the governors of
Speaker 1: New York such a gesture would heal wounds, allow all
Speaker 1: Americans take it. Our prayers are with the victims of
Speaker 1: the shooting in our country, except for all the people here.
Speaker 2: We want to kill.
Speaker 1: I'm Mike Lee, and my hair did not fall off
Speaker 1: because my brain is in overuse. Holy crap, going to
Speaker 1: take the political temperature done except for killing people I
Speaker 1: don't like. I'm Mike Lee and I'm actually be an
Speaker 1: elected senator. And you know, in Utah there's lots of
Speaker 1: things wrong with the state of Utah. But in Utah
Speaker 1: they would look at this and go, why did we
Speaker 1: elect this guy? Where did we find this idiot? Even
Speaker 1: the Republicans would go, Joseph Smith would be really pissed
Speaker 1: off at me. But our winner, the worst Republican vice
Speaker 1: presidential nominee, JD. Vance, male prostitute. I call him that
Speaker 1: because I don't think Trump actually vetted him, because he
Speaker 1: kind of said unkind things about Trump that may come
Speaker 1: back to haunt him later and later is right now?
Speaker 1: I mean things that I might not have said here,
Speaker 1: or worse things I might too have said here. As
Speaker 1: The Washington Post put it February twenty sixteen, Vance set
Speaker 1: a message to his former law school roommate Josh McLaurin
Speaker 1: that McLaurin has recounted publicly in it, Vance that he
Speaker 1: went quote back and forth between thinking Trump is a
Speaker 1: cynical asshole like Nixon, who wouldn't be that bad and
Speaker 1: might even prove useful, or that he he's America's hitler.
Speaker 1: According to a screenshot maclaurin shared on social media in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, when Vance was running for Senate in Ohio, Gee,
Speaker 1: somebody who called Trump America's hitler, which is the people
Speaker 1: that all the Republicans were blaming for the assassination attempt. So,
Speaker 1: so you Republicans are saying that jd Vance is responsible
Speaker 1: for the attempt on Trump's life.
Speaker 2: Oh, that could.
Speaker 1: Be an interesting commercial for the Biden campaign. Or or
Speaker 1: they could just run this opo research ad that has
Speaker 1: already been put in place against JD Vance and just listen.
Speaker 3: Jd Vance in his own words, I'm a never Trump guy.
Speaker 2: I never liked him. As somebody who doesn't like Trump,
Speaker 2: I might have to hold my nose and vote for
Speaker 2: Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 1: I didn't vote for Trump because I can't stomach Trump.
Speaker 1: I think that he's noxious, him being ry, really outrageous
Speaker 1: instances on Twitter, called Trump quote reprehensible, an idiot, and
Speaker 1: Vance loves Mitt Romney.
Speaker 2: I'm a never Trump guy. That's the real. Jd Vance.
Speaker 1: Club for Growth Action is responsible for the content of
Speaker 1: this apt so Biden campaign. All you have to do
Speaker 1: is pop on I'm Joe Biden and I approved this message. Also,
Speaker 1: what the heck's wrong with this guy's voice? Pal the VP,
Speaker 1: JP Mandel, jd Vance, whatever the hell your name is,
Speaker 1: don't stick your neck out two days worst person in
Speaker 1: the world. I've done all the damage I can do here.
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Speaker 1: And everything else was pretty much my fault, except for
Speaker 1: the guy who tried to shoot Trump. He was a Republican.
Speaker 1: Let's countdown for this the one hundred and thirteenth day
Speaker 1: until the twenty twenty four presidential election, two hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty sixth day since convicted felon and evil Gerbil Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's first attempt at coop against the democratically elected government
Speaker 1: of the United States. Use the September eighteenth sentencing here.
Speaker 1: Use the mental health system. You've got it, President Biden.
Speaker 1: Use presidential immunity to stop him from doing it again
Speaker 1: while we still can. Also, Republicans, stop shooting at Trump.
Speaker 2: Please.
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