Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This
Speaker 1: is a Countdown Bulleton podcast about the assault on Senator
Speaker 1: Padilla of California at the Christy Nome Propaganda conference on
Speaker 1: Thursday afternoon. This is also thus another reminder that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump is a domestic terrorist and anybody who serves him
Speaker 1: is a domestic terrorist. It was true in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: it is true again in twenty twenty five. Domestic terrorism.
Speaker 1: These acts of domestic terrorism have unfolded against the citizens
Speaker 1: of California since Friday. The lawless threats, the immoral exercise
Speaker 1: of illegal power, the vow to ignore the civilian courts.
Speaker 1: They have now escalated to state sponsored violence against an
Speaker 1: elected government official, a sitting United States Senator, in this case,
Speaker 1: Senator Alex Padia of California. Mister Padea entered a news
Speaker 1: conference in which the Homeland Security Secretary, an authoritarian idiot
Speaker 1: with no respects for the laws or history or ethos
Speaker 1: of the United States of America, was spouting delusional talking
Speaker 1: points worthy of a drug addict. Senator Padia identified himself,
Speaker 1: demanded answers on behalf of his constituents, his citizens, the
Speaker 1: residents of the community. He represents the people of the
Speaker 1: United States of America, particularly those in southern California who
Speaker 1: are being terrorized by the Trump dictatorship. He was then
Speaker 1: seized no more than twenty five seconds into a brief
Speaker 1: statement by agents protecting Nome, believed at first to be
Speaker 1: Secret Service. Two goons who later showed up to handcuff
Speaker 1: him were wearing FBI logos as they threw him to
Speaker 1: the ground, and of course, the Secret Service, the FBI
Speaker 1: the other organizations that now surround Trump are acting as
Speaker 1: the Trump praetorian guard. The sound of what happened alone
Speaker 1: is terrifying, and that sound comes in two parts, two
Speaker 1: audio clips. Remember before I play the first part, the
Speaker 1: key defense from Nome and the criminal gang for which
Speaker 1: she works and with which she works was that Senator
Speaker 1: Padilla did not identify himself, was not wearing his ID
Speaker 1: and quoting her nobody knew who he was. The first
Speaker 1: part could be a mistake, as you will hear the
Speaker 1: second part that nobody knew who he was is an
Speaker 1: outright lie. I'm not Senators Alix Padia. I have questions
Speaker 1: for the secretary because the fact of the matter is
Speaker 1: half a dozen sign criminals. That ship's hitting on your
Speaker 1: on your how many of our I say this had
Speaker 1: been docked being Senator Padilla is then dragged out of
Speaker 1: the room in which the propaganda conference is being conducted
Speaker 1: into first an anti room and then into a wholeway,
Speaker 1: pulled off his feet and pulled to the ground and
Speaker 1: handcuffed a sitting United States senator better than the caning
Speaker 1: of Senator Charles Sumner in eighteen fifty six by the
Speaker 1: insurrectionist Congressman Preston Brooks. I suppose, but not really buy
Speaker 1: all that much. Here is part two of what this
Speaker 1: monstrosity sounded like.
Speaker 2: Hands on your back, good, all right, cool hand placed
Speaker 2: bleeplatt bleeplat.
Speaker 1: Other hands other hand. There's no recording aloud out here.
Speaker 1: I did not recording aloud on here for right. The
Speaker 1: other defense of this violation of every tenet of not
Speaker 1: just American jurisprudence, not just American government, not just American law,
Speaker 1: but the traditions of American politics. You do not assault
Speaker 1: a sitting senator on behalf of an apparatic, a moron
Speaker 1: working for the opposing party. Apart from that, the other
Speaker 1: defense from Christy Nome and her Minions was that this
Speaker 1: was a stunt by Senator Padilla. Sure, whatever you want
Speaker 1: to call it a stunt, call it a stunt. It's
Speaker 1: a stunt. Opposing Trump is a stunt. Opposing the Christy
Speaker 1: nome Tom Holman Gestapo is a stunt. Opposing the militarization
Speaker 1: of our streets is a stunt. Opposing Trump. Getting the
Speaker 1: troops to boo Biden at a military exercise Bragg is
Speaker 1: a stunt. Being anti Trump terrorism is a stunt. Do
Speaker 1: we think Senator Padilla getting himself thrown to the floor
Speaker 1: after identifying himself as a sitting senator was that part
Speaker 1: of the stunt. The Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson,
Speaker 1: who earlier this week called for the governor of California
Speaker 1: to be quote tarred and feathered, which is an eighteenth
Speaker 1: century form of torture and even public murder, insisted that
Speaker 1: the one who should be punished here is Senator Padilla.
Speaker 1: Censure at least, says Speaker Johnson, and he hints at more.
Speaker 1: He hints that perhaps expulsion or who knows, arrest should follow.
Speaker 2: That behavior at a minimum, is it rises to the
Speaker 2: level of a center. I think there needs to be
Speaker 2: a message sent by the body as a whole that
Speaker 2: that is not what we are going to do. That's
Speaker 2: not how we're going to act. We're not going to
Speaker 2: have branches fighting physically and having senators charging cabinet secretaries.
Speaker 1: I am confident Senator Padilla would accept censure, as would
Speaker 1: I were Speaker Johnson to be arrested for his call
Speaker 1: for violence, for tarring and feathering. Governor Newsom for the record,
Speaker 1: what Johnson said. There, no one charged a cabinet secretary.
Speaker 1: Go and look at the videotape for yourself. No one
Speaker 1: got to within ten feet of her. No one got
Speaker 1: to within ten people of her. She was spewing her
Speaker 1: spewing material to those who were ready to lap it up. Again.
Speaker 1: This is Trump terrorism, As Governor Newsom said, law abiding
Speaker 1: American citizens are now tonight after this past week in
Speaker 1: southern California, in Florida, in New York, in other communities,
Speaker 1: afraid to leave their own homes, people who were born here,
Speaker 1: afraid to leave their own homes because so many people
Speaker 1: who were born here have been swept up anyway, Because
Speaker 1: terrorism is terrorism, and it does not stop being terrorism
Speaker 1: simply because it has the impromater of a evil, bastard
Speaker 1: filled government. It is terrorism still. Newsome went on to
Speaker 1: note that people were afraid to let their children out
Speaker 1: to go to dental appointments in southern California. Thomas Kennedy
Speaker 1: of the Florida Immigrant Coalition posted that they're in Florida
Speaker 1: quote a boat transporting individuals to a Telemundo party. That's
Speaker 1: a television network, a Spanish language television network heavily into
Speaker 1: sports coverage. Telemundo party celebrating one year out from the
Speaker 1: World Cup. That boat was boarded by the coast guard.
Speaker 1: They checked the immigration status of the staff on the boat.
Speaker 1: The mayor of Miami Dade, officials from FIFA, the World
Speaker 1: Soccer Organization, and the leadership of Telemundo were present on
Speaker 1: the boat, and in fact, the Miami New Times obtained
Speaker 1: and posted video from Telemundo of apparently a live broadcast
Speaker 1: or a recorded broadcast of the moment the party boat
Speaker 1: was boarded and halted outside Miami Offshore. Miami held there
Speaker 1: for an hour, no one knowing what was going on
Speaker 1: or how it would end. Terrorism on the West coast,
Speaker 1: terrorism on the East coast. Terrorism from Donald Trump, Trump
Speaker 1: is back. He is a sadist. He is not a
Speaker 1: human being, as you and I understand the phrase, he
Speaker 1: is fully engaged in destroying this nation and fulfilling the
Speaker 1: textbook definition of terrorism, which is using violence or the
Speaker 1: threat of it to force political change unlawfully. Ask Alex
Speaker 1: Padia if he was a victim of that. Trump did
Speaker 1: it on June first, twenty twenty when he gassed the
Speaker 1: peaceful George Floyd protesters at Lafayette Square outside the White
Speaker 1: House so he could stand in front of Saint John's
Speaker 1: Church with a Bible in his hand, a photo op
Speaker 1: with a Bible during which he accidentally held the Bible
Speaker 1: right side up. At that time. I called it what
Speaker 1: it was, terrorism and I called Trump a terrorist. A
Speaker 1: few months later, Senator Mitt Romney issued a statement in
Speaker 1: which he condemned all of us for inflating and throwing
Speaker 1: gasoline on the delicate political situation, and how dare I
Speaker 1: refer to Trump as a terrorist. Three months after that,
Speaker 1: Senator Roma, it was one of many senators and more
Speaker 1: congressmen trapped inside Capitol Hill as Trump Maga terrorists tried
Speaker 1: to break in to kill them. I have not heard
Speaker 1: from now former Senator Romney recently about how wrong I
Speaker 1: was to call Trump a terrorist. Trump has no code,
Speaker 1: no morals, There is no line. He will not cross.
Speaker 1: A man who virtually began his campaign boasting he could
Speaker 1: shoot people on Fifth Avenue and lose no support. He
Speaker 1: does not say that idly, nor without actually calculating the effect.
Speaker 1: I know this man, I have known him since nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty three. There is no there there. If something evil
Speaker 1: has just occurred to him, he wonders, only not is
Speaker 1: it right? Or is it wrong? Not even can I
Speaker 1: get away with it? He wonders why no one has
Speaker 1: thought to do it before, Like shooting people on Fifth Avenue.
Speaker 1: He meant it. He means it, he will mean it.
Speaker 1: And the people he thinks he could shoot are not hypotheticals,
Speaker 1: nor random passers by, nor the New Yorkers he no
Speaker 1: longer likes. They are people like Gavin Newsom and Alex Padilla.
Speaker 1: And for all I know, you and me incredibly as
Speaker 1: disturbing and infuriating, as alarm bell ringing as the man
Speaker 1: handling of Senator Padilla. Maybe I am in fact equally
Speaker 1: disturbed by Thursday's other grotesque development. And this was from Washington.
Speaker 1: I will read you the Politico headline and one exchange
Speaker 1: captured in the story, quote heg Seth won't commit to
Speaker 1: obeying courts on marines in Los Angeles subhead, The Defense
Speaker 1: Secretary declined to say whether the Pentagon would comply with
Speaker 1: any judicial order blocking Trump's domestic troop deployment. Rep. Roe
Speaker 1: Kana D of California repeatedly pressed Hegseeth on whether he
Speaker 1: would follow a court ruling. You're not willing to say
Speaker 1: you would respect those decisions, Kanna asked. Hegseeth replied, what
Speaker 1: I'm saying is local district judges shouldn't make foreign policy.
Speaker 1: Newsom Governor Newsom reposted a video of the exchange on
Speaker 1: social media platform x This is not normal, he said, Governor,
Speaker 1: I will be critical of you for the first time
Speaker 1: in a week. That's not the phrase I would use.
Speaker 1: Hegseeth refused to confirm he would yield to civilian authority.
Speaker 1: He has now cloaked himself in the idea that local
Speaker 1: district judges are not affecting the illegal use of the
Speaker 1: military on civilian streets for civilian in issues. He has
Speaker 1: cloaked that with this nonsensical fabrication by some lawyer, by
Speaker 1: some Stephen Miller protege somewhere, that this is foreign policy,
Speaker 1: that this is beyond the ken of the judges and
Speaker 1: beyond the rights of the American citizen. It is perhaps
Speaker 1: the most dangerous thing offered to this country since the
Speaker 1: Alien and Sedition Acts under President Adams at the start
Speaker 1: of the nineteenth century. One more note from the Politico story,
Speaker 1: The Defense Secretary, in separate congressional testimony on Wednesday, suggested
Speaker 1: the administration could deploy troops elsewhere to assist in roundups
Speaker 1: and deportations. That is, literally, have the troops, literally, have
Speaker 1: those Marines in southern California go on the roundups. You
Speaker 1: have not just been arrested by ice and renditioned by ice.
Speaker 1: You have been seized by the Marines on the streets
Speaker 1: of an American city, full fledged military dictatorship. At that hearing,
Speaker 1: Politico notes heg Seth was not able to immediately cite
Speaker 1: the legal justification for the deployments. I would add that
Speaker 1: as largely because there is none just Hegseeth's answer in
Speaker 1: testimony Thursday, is itself terrorism. While the case determining whether
Speaker 1: or not the local courts the federal courts in California
Speaker 1: would overrule this illegal use, this illegal usurpation of the
Speaker 1: use of the National Guard of California while that hearing
Speaker 1: was beginning, hours before that first emergency hearing was to start,
Speaker 1: heg seth answers, I'm not sure we're going to abide
Speaker 1: by it one way or the other. Do you know
Speaker 1: what a Defense Secretary of Pentagon chief who will not
Speaker 1: defer to civilian courts and civilian laws is called. He's
Speaker 1: called part of a milli military dictatorship. Hopefully afterwards he
Speaker 1: is called a fugitive. There is some small good news
Speaker 1: as I record this, g Elliott Morris of the site's
Speaker 1: strength in numbers of polling and polling analysis site. He
Speaker 1: was the last head of the five thirty eight website.
Speaker 1: Morris has been able to gauge the stark impact of
Speaker 1: the last week of Trumpean terrorism, not just on opinion
Speaker 1: in southern California or among Democrats, but in the United
Speaker 1: States one week ago, literally one week ago last Thursday,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump was a positive net five points in public
Speaker 1: approval on how he handled immigration. He was up by
Speaker 1: five people approved of all this one week plus five
Speaker 1: as of earlier Thursday. As of earlier today, one week later,
Speaker 1: he is minus one. He has fallen a net six
Speaker 1: points and fallen out of the blue into the red
Speaker 1: in one week. This is not just illegal, this is unpopular. Unfortunately.
Speaker 1: The questions that that produces are will it matter? And
Speaker 1: how quickly are we approaching the point at which someone
Speaker 1: like Hegseth or Gnome or Trump declares it illegal to
Speaker 1: conduct or promulgate or print such polls. And when all
Speaker 1: the courts in the country tell them they are breaking
Speaker 1: the law in doing so, they say, so what? Because
Speaker 1: the Trumpest answer to Senator Padilla's demand for answers about
Speaker 1: the laws being broken in California. The answer to the
Speaker 1: demand of the Trumpest stooge, hegseeth that he obey and
Speaker 1: affirm he will obey the civilian law which constitution prevails
Speaker 1: over his little gun shop. The answer to any time
Speaker 1: and any way from Trump and his mobsters to a
Speaker 1: statement of fact that they have broken the law, Their
Speaker 1: answer is, indeed, so what? This has been a countdown
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