1 00:00:04,835 --> 00:00:22,595 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This 2 00:00:22,875 --> 00:00:27,155 Speaker 1: is a Countdown podcast special. And to anybody listening who 3 00:00:27,195 --> 00:00:31,475 Speaker 1: thinks President Biden pardoning his son Hunter was a bad idea, 4 00:00:32,235 --> 00:00:36,275 Speaker 1: and I suspect that includes nobody in this audience. But 5 00:00:36,355 --> 00:00:38,475 Speaker 1: if you happen to run into somebody who believes this, 6 00:00:38,835 --> 00:00:40,995 Speaker 1: you can use this explanation. And by the way, my 7 00:00:41,035 --> 00:00:43,675 Speaker 1: condolence is that you ran into somebody who thinks it 8 00:00:43,715 --> 00:00:47,515 Speaker 1: was a bad idea. Let me explain this to them. 9 00:00:47,955 --> 00:00:52,355 Speaker 1: One they cannot find their political ass from their political elbow. 10 00:00:52,915 --> 00:00:57,275 Speaker 1: Two that is probably because all they have is political ass. 11 00:00:57,995 --> 00:01:02,235 Speaker 1: And three President Biden didn't pardon his son to keep 12 00:01:02,275 --> 00:01:06,395 Speaker 1: him out of jail for this literally trumped up gun 13 00:01:06,475 --> 00:01:10,675 Speaker 1: and drug prosecution. He pardoned him to protect him from 14 00:01:10,835 --> 00:01:18,355 Speaker 1: further persecution by Trump next year. In this continuing hysterical 15 00:01:18,755 --> 00:01:22,555 Speaker 1: ringing of pearls and clutching of hands reaction to the pardon, 16 00:01:22,875 --> 00:01:26,755 Speaker 1: we are reminded that we are in this transcendent mess 17 00:01:27,115 --> 00:01:30,915 Speaker 1: because Trump is an evil psychopath. First of all, obviously, 18 00:01:31,235 --> 00:01:35,755 Speaker 1: but also because all of our guard rails against evil psychopaths, 19 00:01:36,035 --> 00:01:41,715 Speaker 1: the Constitution, the Supreme Court, the laws, the media, patriotism. 20 00:01:41,875 --> 00:01:44,715 Speaker 1: They all turned out to be made out of paper machet. 21 00:01:46,195 --> 00:01:50,475 Speaker 1: And we are reminded that perhaps the most disturbingly diaphanous 22 00:01:50,515 --> 00:01:56,155 Speaker 1: of these butter solid protections was the assumption that eventually 23 00:01:56,675 --> 00:02:04,715 Speaker 1: Democrats and liberals would actually, you know, fight back. Some 24 00:02:05,035 --> 00:02:09,195 Speaker 1: time over Thanksgiving in Nantucket, the light bulb finally went 25 00:02:09,275 --> 00:02:12,955 Speaker 1: off over Joe Biden's head, and he realized that no, 26 00:02:13,675 --> 00:02:18,515 Speaker 1: the norms and traditions and institutions to which he and 27 00:02:18,675 --> 00:02:21,915 Speaker 1: most of the rest of us had dedicated most of 28 00:02:21,955 --> 00:02:28,555 Speaker 1: our lives did not miraculously regrow after Trump's relentless assault 29 00:02:28,635 --> 00:02:32,635 Speaker 1: on them. They did not suddenly spring fully restored and 30 00:02:32,755 --> 00:02:37,435 Speaker 1: intact from the ground. Biden saw that not only was 31 00:02:37,515 --> 00:02:42,315 Speaker 1: his last son about to go to prison because he 32 00:02:42,515 --> 00:02:45,835 Speaker 1: was his son, and because he the President bent over 33 00:02:45,915 --> 00:02:49,275 Speaker 1: backwards to not interfere with the Department of Justice that 34 00:02:49,355 --> 00:02:53,195 Speaker 1: thought by partisanship meant bending over backwards to do nothing 35 00:02:53,195 --> 00:02:57,075 Speaker 1: against Trump while bending over backwards to do everything against Democrats. 36 00:02:57,355 --> 00:03:00,635 Speaker 1: The President not only saw that was true, but he 37 00:03:00,715 --> 00:03:04,235 Speaker 1: also finally, at nearly the last minute, as if this 38 00:03:04,315 --> 00:03:09,075 Speaker 1: were a Shakespearean tragedy like Othello, that Trump's Department of 39 00:03:09,155 --> 00:03:13,875 Speaker 1: Quote Justice unquote, will at minimum try to initiate further 40 00:03:13,995 --> 00:03:19,795 Speaker 1: prosecution against Hunter Biden next year, and through him against 41 00:03:19,875 --> 00:03:23,515 Speaker 1: Joe Biden, and through him against Jill Biden, and through 42 00:03:23,595 --> 00:03:27,035 Speaker 1: them against anybody else they could get their hands on. 43 00:03:28,475 --> 00:03:33,035 Speaker 1: The President figured this out and went over and pulled 44 00:03:33,075 --> 00:03:38,595 Speaker 1: his son out of harm's way, and then much of 45 00:03:38,715 --> 00:03:48,115 Speaker 1: left attacked President Biden morons. I don't care about Hunter 46 00:03:48,235 --> 00:03:51,595 Speaker 1: Biden particularly. I care about the fact that we are 47 00:03:51,635 --> 00:03:55,755 Speaker 1: forty eight days away from a nascent military dictatorship taking 48 00:03:55,795 --> 00:03:59,395 Speaker 1: over our government, supported by an unknown percentage of the 49 00:03:59,395 --> 00:04:02,635 Speaker 1: population that actually wants to see Hunter Biden and Joe 50 00:04:02,675 --> 00:04:07,115 Speaker 1: Biden and maybe me and maybe hanging from construction cranes 51 00:04:07,395 --> 00:04:11,155 Speaker 1: parading through the streets of Washington and wants to see 52 00:04:11,195 --> 00:04:18,475 Speaker 1: Trump in power for life. We just got one more 53 00:04:18,995 --> 00:04:24,315 Speaker 1: good person out of their sights, and we just shoved 54 00:04:24,715 --> 00:04:30,795 Speaker 1: one more plotline up Trump's ass and up the asses 55 00:04:30,835 --> 00:04:35,955 Speaker 1: of Cash Patel and Pete Hegseth and Steven Miller and 56 00:04:35,995 --> 00:04:39,995 Speaker 1: whichever other lunatics Trump wants to take over the asylums, 57 00:04:40,795 --> 00:04:45,755 Speaker 1: and countless liberals and anti Trump conservatives think this will 58 00:04:45,795 --> 00:04:51,715 Speaker 1: actually provide cover for Trump pardoning the January sixth insurrectionists, 59 00:04:52,035 --> 00:04:56,435 Speaker 1: because apparently for the last ten years these people have 60 00:04:56,515 --> 00:05:01,555 Speaker 1: been hallucinating and thinking that Trump has ever once bothered 61 00:05:01,595 --> 00:05:06,475 Speaker 1: to seek cover for anything, or they think we should 62 00:05:06,515 --> 00:05:12,595 Speaker 1: be better than them. They are planning to put us 63 00:05:12,915 --> 00:05:17,195 Speaker 1: in camps. I do not care if we are seen 64 00:05:17,195 --> 00:05:21,395 Speaker 1: as better than them, or worse than them, or monstrous 65 00:05:21,435 --> 00:05:24,275 Speaker 1: in comparison to them, because if somebody's going to wind 66 00:05:24,355 --> 00:05:27,595 Speaker 1: up in camps, it ain't going to be me, It's 67 00:05:27,635 --> 00:05:34,555 Speaker 1: going to be them. End of discussion. Also, where did 68 00:05:34,595 --> 00:05:38,315 Speaker 1: this idea come from, considering that he ran on pardoning 69 00:05:38,355 --> 00:05:42,315 Speaker 1: the January sixth insurrectionists that now he would be provided 70 00:05:42,435 --> 00:05:47,915 Speaker 1: cover for doing so. You people really need to take 71 00:05:48,955 --> 00:05:51,675 Speaker 1: the weekends and do a little work on them and 72 00:05:51,715 --> 00:05:59,395 Speaker 1: not half ass your jobs. Never trumpers and faint hearted liberals, 73 00:06:01,715 --> 00:06:03,915 Speaker 1: that's the generic you. I am not talking to you, 74 00:06:03,995 --> 00:06:09,955 Speaker 1: dear listener, since you agree with me. As I said yesterday, 75 00:06:09,995 --> 00:06:13,355 Speaker 1: I cheer the pardon of Hunter Biden. My loan complaint 76 00:06:13,395 --> 00:06:19,115 Speaker 1: is that the president should pardon another ten million potential 77 00:06:19,115 --> 00:06:23,755 Speaker 1: Trump targets. I want Trump waiting in the White House 78 00:06:24,195 --> 00:06:28,195 Speaker 1: neck high through biden issued pardons. I want him to 79 00:06:28,235 --> 00:06:34,315 Speaker 1: find that every prosecutor, every Democratic politician, every reporter, every critic, 80 00:06:34,835 --> 00:06:40,395 Speaker 1: every cartoonist has been pardoned. I want their families pardoned, 81 00:06:40,795 --> 00:06:45,955 Speaker 1: I want their pets pardoned. I want every barricade thrown 82 00:06:46,155 --> 00:06:50,515 Speaker 1: up against Trump on every street Biden can get to 83 00:06:50,795 --> 00:06:57,035 Speaker 1: in time. The serious host and human rights lawyer Cassim 84 00:06:57,115 --> 00:07:00,715 Speaker 1: Rashid adds, quote, My only issue with Biden pardoning Hunter 85 00:07:00,875 --> 00:07:04,795 Speaker 1: is if he stops there. Biden should commute death penal 86 00:07:04,995 --> 00:07:08,475 Speaker 1: for forty Americans on federal death Row, cancel student debt 87 00:07:08,595 --> 00:07:11,835 Speaker 1: via EO executive order, and force Trump to revive it, 88 00:07:12,035 --> 00:07:16,515 Speaker 1: and protect abortion nationwide. Ya EO, get bold, take action, 89 00:07:17,115 --> 00:07:24,515 Speaker 1: slow down maga fascism unquote exactly, just get in Trump's way. 90 00:07:25,235 --> 00:07:27,355 Speaker 1: You don't have to get run over by the tank 91 00:07:27,395 --> 00:07:30,115 Speaker 1: in TN and Men's Square. Just get into TN and 92 00:07:30,155 --> 00:07:35,035 Speaker 1: Men's Square. Every step Trump takes for the rest of 93 00:07:35,075 --> 00:07:40,635 Speaker 1: his god damned life should be into quicksand or at 94 00:07:40,715 --> 00:07:44,755 Speaker 1: least make him go through a pool filled with oatmeal. 95 00:07:47,555 --> 00:07:51,955 Speaker 1: Eric Holder cheered the pardon. Ellie Mistahal cheered the pardon. 96 00:07:52,155 --> 00:07:55,595 Speaker 1: My friend John Dene cheered the pardon and further urge 97 00:07:55,635 --> 00:07:58,795 Speaker 1: that it be extended to anybody on Trump's enemies list, 98 00:08:00,115 --> 00:08:02,675 Speaker 1: and John dene is one man who knows about presidential 99 00:08:02,755 --> 00:08:10,155 Speaker 1: enemies lists. But also to all anti Trump commentators, I'll 100 00:08:10,155 --> 00:08:15,955 Speaker 1: take the pardon. But then there are the idiots. Then 101 00:08:15,995 --> 00:08:20,355 Speaker 1: there are the reasons we are in this mess. Then 102 00:08:20,395 --> 00:08:25,595 Speaker 1: there are the dilettants. Rick Pearlstein's Nixon Land is a 103 00:08:25,795 --> 00:08:31,355 Speaker 1: classic of recent American history. It's up there with Gibbons 104 00:08:31,475 --> 00:08:34,115 Speaker 1: decline and fall of the Roman Empire, as far as 105 00:08:34,115 --> 00:08:37,275 Speaker 1: I am concerned, only it's better written. I read it 106 00:08:37,315 --> 00:08:40,355 Speaker 1: to my father out loud as he lay dying in 107 00:08:40,435 --> 00:08:45,715 Speaker 1: the hospital. And yet Pearlstein and I had this exchange yesterday. 108 00:08:46,355 --> 00:08:51,035 Speaker 1: He wrote, I think the Hunter pardon is dumb, instantating 109 00:08:51,395 --> 00:08:56,795 Speaker 1: Joe's political tragic flaw of selfishness with the worst possible timing. 110 00:08:57,115 --> 00:09:01,435 Speaker 1: It chisels the narrative of democratic deep state cronyism into stone. 111 00:09:01,475 --> 00:09:04,235 Speaker 1: For anyone on the fence about whether to surrender to 112 00:09:04,315 --> 00:09:10,395 Speaker 1: Maggie is or not, I replied, firstly, there is no 113 00:09:10,435 --> 00:09:16,595 Speaker 1: longer a fence, and nobody still on it him. No, 114 00:09:16,915 --> 00:09:20,035 Speaker 1: this is the most crucial time. Millions of people poise 115 00:09:20,115 --> 00:09:23,355 Speaker 1: between Trump is right and Trump is bullshit, between being 116 00:09:23,355 --> 00:09:25,435 Speaker 1: on the cop side of the line when the roundups 117 00:09:25,435 --> 00:09:28,755 Speaker 1: come or the Jews, I mean Mexicans. We have to 118 00:09:28,795 --> 00:09:32,595 Speaker 1: think inside the fascist, anti fascist frame, right Rick, I 119 00:09:32,595 --> 00:09:35,435 Speaker 1: hadn't been doing that me. The first step is to 120 00:09:35,435 --> 00:09:39,395 Speaker 1: block all efforts to put people in camps. The intended 121 00:09:39,475 --> 00:09:42,635 Speaker 1: further persecution of the bidens is part of the process. 122 00:09:42,875 --> 00:09:48,275 Speaker 1: Biden should pardon everybody. We are already at the barricade 123 00:09:48,395 --> 00:09:52,835 Speaker 1: the streets stage. Rick, fewer will join if they're given 124 00:09:53,115 --> 00:09:56,315 Speaker 1: own goal, excuses to sigh and say both sides are 125 00:09:56,355 --> 00:10:01,835 Speaker 1: the same. This helps depopulate the barricades. Me all caps. 126 00:10:02,555 --> 00:10:07,435 Speaker 1: They said that on November fifth, you are fighting the 127 00:10:07,595 --> 00:10:13,795 Speaker 1: last war, and I mean that of all people. Rick 128 00:10:13,875 --> 00:10:16,875 Speaker 1: should know that the Republicans have spent literally every day 129 00:10:16,995 --> 00:10:20,275 Speaker 1: since Watergate, which he wrote about in nixon Land, insisting 130 00:10:20,275 --> 00:10:23,715 Speaker 1: that both sides are the same. That is the whole point. 131 00:10:24,075 --> 00:10:27,195 Speaker 1: That is how they have gotten away with this. That 132 00:10:27,315 --> 00:10:30,555 Speaker 1: is how they tried to get away with Watergate. That 133 00:10:30,715 --> 00:10:33,835 Speaker 1: was the whole first line of defense in Watergate. Well, 134 00:10:34,115 --> 00:10:40,875 Speaker 1: everybody does this. Nixon just got caught. They have insisted 135 00:10:41,515 --> 00:10:44,475 Speaker 1: for more than half a century that both sides are 136 00:10:44,555 --> 00:10:46,795 Speaker 1: the same, and they have convinced at least half the 137 00:10:46,835 --> 00:10:51,115 Speaker 1: country that this is true, and Perlstein and other liberals 138 00:10:51,155 --> 00:10:53,435 Speaker 1: are wondering if something like the pardoning of Hunter Biden 139 00:10:53,875 --> 00:11:00,035 Speaker 1: might make the undecided waiver. The undecided decided they elected 140 00:11:00,075 --> 00:11:05,755 Speaker 1: Trump twice, and part of the reason that they decided 141 00:11:05,755 --> 00:11:09,115 Speaker 1: that way was the fact that the Democrats didn't fight this. 142 00:11:10,235 --> 00:11:16,115 Speaker 1: We are perceived as cowards. It's not an incorrect perception. 143 00:11:17,915 --> 00:11:21,915 Speaker 1: Some other samples of cowardice Matt Gertz from Media Matters 144 00:11:21,955 --> 00:11:25,955 Speaker 1: for America, the guy who always gets the angry missives 145 00:11:25,955 --> 00:11:30,435 Speaker 1: directed towards Matt Gates. My Hunter Biden take is that 146 00:11:30,515 --> 00:11:33,235 Speaker 1: if you make your whole stick the other guys put 147 00:11:33,275 --> 00:11:35,755 Speaker 1: themselves above the country, undermine the rule of law, and 148 00:11:35,835 --> 00:11:38,515 Speaker 1: lie constantly, then you need to have a much higher 149 00:11:38,555 --> 00:11:42,115 Speaker 1: standard for yourself than pardoning your son after saying you wouldn't. 150 00:11:42,635 --> 00:11:45,835 Speaker 1: It's Gavin Newsome getting caught at French laundry, just an 151 00:11:45,835 --> 00:11:49,155 Speaker 1: obvious example of not honoring the standard you said people 152 00:11:49,155 --> 00:11:55,835 Speaker 1: should follow when it affects you personally, that's idiotic. If 153 00:11:55,835 --> 00:11:58,915 Speaker 1: you vow you are not going to use a gun 154 00:11:59,315 --> 00:12:02,395 Speaker 1: against the people who are running after you on the streets, 155 00:12:02,795 --> 00:12:06,475 Speaker 1: pursuing you by foot, on the street, and then they 156 00:12:06,515 --> 00:12:10,075 Speaker 1: double their speed and their threats, and instead of running, 157 00:12:10,115 --> 00:12:13,915 Speaker 1: they get into tanks. You are allowed to change your 158 00:12:14,035 --> 00:12:20,595 Speaker 1: mind and use your gun up on the high horse, 159 00:12:21,995 --> 00:12:24,595 Speaker 1: Matt Gertz, you still don't see the difference between corruption 160 00:12:24,715 --> 00:12:31,555 Speaker 1: and self defense. Shame on you. Jonathan Chait in The Atlantic, 161 00:12:31,675 --> 00:12:35,195 Speaker 1: formerly of New York Magazine, which we now understand to 162 00:12:35,315 --> 00:12:38,715 Speaker 1: have been one of the great fraudulent operations of our 163 00:12:38,795 --> 00:12:45,635 Speaker 1: time politically now writes with this headline Biden's unpardonable hypocrisy. 164 00:12:46,515 --> 00:12:49,435 Speaker 1: The President vowed not to pardon his son Hunter and 165 00:12:49,475 --> 00:12:55,555 Speaker 1: then did so anyway. Charlie Sykes, an ex Republican supposed 166 00:12:55,635 --> 00:12:59,635 Speaker 1: non Trumper smart person, texts me Joe Biden has just 167 00:12:59,675 --> 00:13:02,115 Speaker 1: removed the issue of pardons from the political arena for 168 00:13:02,155 --> 00:13:04,635 Speaker 1: the next four years, and Trump probably once again camp 169 00:13:04,795 --> 00:13:07,475 Speaker 1: leave his own dumb effing luck at this point. Sadly, 170 00:13:07,555 --> 00:13:10,995 Speaker 1: I think he's right. Well, I got the word sadly 171 00:13:11,115 --> 00:13:13,955 Speaker 1: right in there. Yeah, Because Charlie Sykes, you and the 172 00:13:13,995 --> 00:13:18,635 Speaker 1: other writers made sure that Trump's pardons, including pardoning his 173 00:13:18,835 --> 00:13:22,995 Speaker 1: son in law's father for having hired a prostitute to 174 00:13:23,115 --> 00:13:26,235 Speaker 1: help him blackmail his brother in law, so he wouldn't 175 00:13:26,235 --> 00:13:30,755 Speaker 1: go to the authorities about the crimes, blackmail his brother 176 00:13:30,755 --> 00:13:34,155 Speaker 1: in law with a sex tape of his brother in law, 177 00:13:34,435 --> 00:13:37,435 Speaker 1: a tape he showed his own sister that of course, 178 00:13:37,595 --> 00:13:40,555 Speaker 1: was front of mind in the twenty twenty four election. 179 00:13:41,755 --> 00:13:45,795 Speaker 1: Oh that's right. Nobody mentioned it until Trump just appointed 180 00:13:45,835 --> 00:13:49,955 Speaker 1: this scumbag who he then pardoned as envoy to the 181 00:13:49,995 --> 00:13:57,435 Speaker 1: Middle East, the Democratic governor of Colorado, Jared Polis, who 182 00:13:57,515 --> 00:14:00,675 Speaker 1: just last week had been sucking up to RFK Junior 183 00:14:00,715 --> 00:14:05,675 Speaker 1: to side show Bob about vaccines. While as a father, 184 00:14:05,835 --> 00:14:09,435 Speaker 1: I certainly understand President Biden's natural desire to help his 185 00:14:09,515 --> 00:14:12,075 Speaker 1: son by pardoning him, I am disappointed that he put 186 00:14:12,115 --> 00:14:14,955 Speaker 1: his family ahead of the country. This is a bad 187 00:14:14,995 --> 00:14:18,115 Speaker 1: president that could be abused by later presidents and will 188 00:14:18,155 --> 00:14:22,035 Speaker 1: sadly tarnish his reputation. When you become president, your role 189 00:14:22,115 --> 00:14:27,755 Speaker 1: is pater familius of the nation. Anyway, I'm going to 190 00:14:27,795 --> 00:14:30,555 Speaker 1: interrupt a note that anybody who uses the phrase pater 191 00:14:30,595 --> 00:14:36,515 Speaker 1: familius non ironically is trying to pretend that he's smart 192 00:14:36,515 --> 00:14:39,555 Speaker 1: when he's not. Hunter brought the legal trouble he faced 193 00:14:39,555 --> 00:14:42,355 Speaker 1: on himself, and one can sympathize with his struggles while 194 00:14:42,355 --> 00:14:44,915 Speaker 1: also acknowledging that no one is above the law, not 195 00:14:44,995 --> 00:14:51,035 Speaker 1: a president and not a president's son. Jared, that ship sailed. 196 00:14:51,635 --> 00:14:56,155 Speaker 1: Everybody in trump Land is now above the law. In fact, 197 00:14:56,595 --> 00:15:00,275 Speaker 1: there is no more law. Maybe you missed it while 198 00:15:00,275 --> 00:15:04,075 Speaker 1: you were busily sucking up to RFK Junior about vaccines. 199 00:15:04,875 --> 00:15:07,995 Speaker 1: If the governor will not resign, mister Polish should be 200 00:15:08,075 --> 00:15:14,195 Speaker 1: expelled from the Democratic Party. We have enough cowards, two 201 00:15:14,355 --> 00:15:19,555 Speaker 1: more that border on the hilarious Nate Silver. You can 202 00:15:19,635 --> 00:15:24,155 Speaker 1: always depend on Nate. He'll always let you down. I 203 00:15:24,315 --> 00:15:27,435 Speaker 1: discussed here how I voted for Harris despite feeling like 204 00:15:27,475 --> 00:15:31,155 Speaker 1: Democrats indulged in a lot of bad behavior that voters 205 00:15:31,155 --> 00:15:36,035 Speaker 1: were rational to publish. He meant punish. But Nate has 206 00:15:36,075 --> 00:15:40,435 Speaker 1: a little problem publish after the White House lying about 207 00:15:40,435 --> 00:15:42,955 Speaker 1: the Hunter pardon. I'm not sure how much more I 208 00:15:42,995 --> 00:15:49,755 Speaker 1: can tolerate. Move to Brazil. Don't vote, he says, don't 209 00:15:49,835 --> 00:15:52,715 Speaker 1: vote for any Democrat in twenty twenty eight who doesn't 210 00:15:52,755 --> 00:15:58,555 Speaker 1: repudiate the pardon within forty eight hours. Nate forgets that, 211 00:15:58,635 --> 00:16:02,035 Speaker 1: thanks in part to his previous attempts to pinocchio himself 212 00:16:02,275 --> 00:16:06,115 Speaker 1: from his real form a calculator with bad haircut into 213 00:16:06,115 --> 00:16:09,795 Speaker 1: an actual living boy. We may not have any elections 214 00:16:10,435 --> 00:16:12,875 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty eight in which to not vote for 215 00:16:12,915 --> 00:16:17,435 Speaker 1: any Democrat who doesn't repudiate the Hunter pardon because of 216 00:16:17,475 --> 00:16:22,515 Speaker 1: all that bad democratic behavior. Oh yeah, Attila, the hunt 217 00:16:22,635 --> 00:16:26,675 Speaker 1: is over here, and over here is somebody who changed 218 00:16:26,715 --> 00:16:29,075 Speaker 1: his mind about pardoning his own son. I think we 219 00:16:29,115 --> 00:16:36,675 Speaker 1: should give Attila another chance. And lastly, not a liberal obviously, 220 00:16:36,755 --> 00:16:38,835 Speaker 1: but I like to try to give you something to 221 00:16:38,915 --> 00:16:43,235 Speaker 1: laugh at it the way out. Also not a liberal 222 00:16:43,275 --> 00:16:46,315 Speaker 1: and not a smart person, just plain old Denesh Desuza. 223 00:16:47,395 --> 00:16:51,635 Speaker 1: He retweeted my insistence that Biden should give out ten 224 00:16:51,675 --> 00:16:55,355 Speaker 1: million more pardons and then added, Olberman proves once again 225 00:16:55,675 --> 00:17:00,715 Speaker 1: he is the reductio ad absurdum of the left. The 226 00:17:00,755 --> 00:17:04,635 Speaker 1: punchline to this, of course, is that convicted of vice 227 00:17:04,715 --> 00:17:08,555 Speaker 1: relations of campaign law, Denesh Desuza was sentenced to eight 228 00:17:08,595 --> 00:17:11,435 Speaker 1: months in a criminal halfway house, but then on May 229 00:17:11,515 --> 00:17:16,395 Speaker 1: thirty first, twenty eighteen, he was pardoned by Donald Trump. 230 00:17:19,715 --> 00:17:24,115 Speaker 1: By the bye, Desuz's all time great moment of self 231 00:17:24,195 --> 00:17:28,155 Speaker 1: unawareness about pardons yesterday came on the same day he 232 00:17:28,235 --> 00:17:33,555 Speaker 1: had to retract under thread of lawsuit, the entire propaganda 233 00:17:33,595 --> 00:17:38,795 Speaker 1: movie two Thousand Mules, which, to my great surprise, two 234 00:17:38,835 --> 00:17:44,275 Speaker 1: thousand Mules that turned out not to be about his 235 00:17:45,035 --> 00:17:52,515 Speaker 1: love life. 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