WEBVTT - TRUMP BLOWS UP THE EPSTEIN SCANDAL LIKE A BEACHED WHALE IN OREGON - 12.22.25 0:00:04.795 --> 0:00:21.955 Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Remember 0:00:21.955 --> 0:00:25.475 when they blew up that dead whale, That's what Trump 0:00:25.555 --> 0:00:28.075 just did to the Epstein cover up. You've seen the 0:00:28.155 --> 0:00:31.235 video right. Forty five foot eight ton carcass of a 0:00:31.275 --> 0:00:35.475 dead sperm whale washes up on shore at Florence, Oregon, 0:00:35.595 --> 0:00:40.115 November nineteen seventy. They decide the easiest way to dispose 0:00:40.155 --> 0:00:45.515 of it is to blow it up with dynamite. That's 0:00:45.875 --> 0:00:49.995 what Trump has just done to the Epstein cover up. 0:00:50.995 --> 0:00:54.435 So the geniuses in Oregon in nineteen seventy figured some 0:00:54.515 --> 0:00:57.155 of it will wash away and the smaller parts will 0:00:57.155 --> 0:01:01.115 be eaten by scavenger animals. Only they had a highway 0:01:01.275 --> 0:01:05.155 engineer plan it out, and he used half a ton 0:01:05.275 --> 0:01:07.915 of dynamite instead of the twenty sticks that would have 0:01:07.955 --> 0:01:10.355 done the job. And the next thing you knew, the 0:01:10.395 --> 0:01:15.635 whale had become a thousand pieces of rock hard shrapnel. 0:01:16.755 --> 0:01:19.155 That's what Trump just did to the Epstein cover up. 0:01:20.075 --> 0:01:23.875 A piece of blubber, and whale blubber is hard. A 0:01:23.915 --> 0:01:27.355 piece of blubber the size of a coffee table hit 0:01:27.395 --> 0:01:30.595 a parked car and crushed it, and the driver later 0:01:30.635 --> 0:01:33.435 swore he had just bought that car from a lot 0:01:33.555 --> 0:01:36.635 that was then running a promotion called get a Whale 0:01:36.635 --> 0:01:40.715 of a Deal. That's what Trump just did to the 0:01:40.715 --> 0:01:46.075 Epstein cover up. I also want to know today why 0:01:46.115 --> 0:01:50.795 Trump renamed the Kennedy Center the Donald J. Trump Memorial Center. 0:01:50.835 --> 0:01:54.235 But let me plow through the trump Stein disaster first. 0:01:55.595 --> 0:01:59.275 It starts with Image four sixty eight. Image four to 0:01:59.355 --> 0:02:02.355 sixty eight, from the Epstein files, from which virtually all 0:02:02.435 --> 0:02:06.275 the Trump stuff had already been scrubbed, was not scrubbed. 0:02:06.315 --> 0:02:08.955 It was a photo of a bunch of framed photos 0:02:08.955 --> 0:02:13.155 in a drawer, all of which showed Trump and Epstein together. So, 0:02:13.275 --> 0:02:16.835 twenty four hours later, Image four to sixty eight, which 0:02:16.915 --> 0:02:21.555 hadn't been scrubbed, was instead deleted. And even in doing that, 0:02:21.715 --> 0:02:24.515 after they posted it and scrubbed it and deleted it, 0:02:24.875 --> 0:02:28.675 they left Image one three hundred and forty six, a 0:02:28.875 --> 0:02:33.195 larger shot of framed Epstein photos on a credenza, a 0:02:33.275 --> 0:02:36.235 couple dozen of them. And sure enough, zoom in on that, 0:02:36.835 --> 0:02:39.675 as the impeccable Lauren Windsor did, and there is a 0:02:39.755 --> 0:02:45.075 framed photo of Epstein and Trump and Malania. The three 0:02:45.115 --> 0:02:49.835 of them doesn't look like anybody's being introduced to anybody else. 0:02:50.995 --> 0:02:55.835 At least sixteen pages that were released on Friday had 0:02:55.875 --> 0:02:59.955 disappeared by yesterday. Some of the ones they did release 0:03:00.275 --> 0:03:03.795 had one hundred percent redactions five hundred and fifty of 0:03:03.795 --> 0:03:08.395 them five fifty pages fully redacted, just the black boxes, 0:03:08.715 --> 0:03:11.675 per Scott McFarlane and CBS News, and they are still counting. 0:03:12.835 --> 0:03:16.635 One Epstein victim says she was doxed that Trump released 0:03:16.635 --> 0:03:20.355 her identifying information and just to apply the chef's kiss, 0:03:20.635 --> 0:03:23.635 Todd Blanche, who believe it or not, is the Deputy 0:03:23.675 --> 0:03:26.795 Attorney General, gets on one of the Sunday shows and 0:03:26.875 --> 0:03:30.315 presents a self fulfilling prophecy or in this case, a 0:03:30.435 --> 0:03:35.355 self unfulfilling prophecy. Quote. If there's photographs that we have 0:03:35.515 --> 0:03:38.875 of President Trump or anybody else, they of course will 0:03:38.915 --> 0:03:43.835 be released, with the exception of any victims or survivors 0:03:43.875 --> 0:03:49.275 that we've identified unquote. In other words, any photos proving 0:03:49.355 --> 0:03:54.075 Trump was with verified Epstein victims or survivors, they will 0:03:54.075 --> 0:03:58.995 not be released because because because they would show Trump 0:03:59.555 --> 0:04:04.235 was with verified Epstein victims or survivors, we can't show 0:04:04.235 --> 0:04:09.275 you THEO that would prove it. Hey did just stuff 0:04:09.435 --> 0:04:15.755 the dynamite into the dead whale. Yet Cole let her rip, 0:04:17.515 --> 0:04:21.635 the penultimate flaw of this administration, has now once again 0:04:21.755 --> 0:04:26.555 moved center stage, even ahead of his own instability. That 0:04:26.795 --> 0:04:32.275 second ranked fatal flaw is these people are idiots. Dan 0:04:32.355 --> 0:04:35.595 Bongino didn't say this as he quit as deputy FBI director, 0:04:35.635 --> 0:04:39.035 but the suspicion is Cash Patel is too much of 0:04:39.075 --> 0:04:42.635 an idiot, even for Dan Bongino. I mean, that's a 0:04:42.675 --> 0:04:46.235 lot of idiot. And apart from Patel screwing up every 0:04:46.275 --> 0:04:49.195 investigation he's put his eye on, so to speak, the 0:04:49.275 --> 0:04:53.235 key Trumpest exposure on the brain drain issue is the 0:04:53.275 --> 0:04:57.795 Epstein files. First was Pam Bondi's empty Epstein loose leaf 0:04:57.835 --> 0:05:01.195 notebooks bought at a Staples in Georgetown or somewhere for 0:05:01.275 --> 0:05:03.995 all we know. Then it was her claim that there 0:05:04.035 --> 0:05:06.715 was a client list on her desk. Then it was 0:05:06.795 --> 0:05:09.795 Trump going from running on releasing the Epstein files to 0:05:09.875 --> 0:05:12.955 Trump calling the Epstein files a hoax, to Trump signing 0:05:12.995 --> 0:05:16.435 the humiliating House measure to force him to release the 0:05:16.475 --> 0:05:20.395 Epstein files. Then it was Susie Wiles saying Bondie quote 0:05:20.555 --> 0:05:23.795 completely whiffed on the Epstein files. Then it was not 0:05:23.915 --> 0:05:26.675 releasing documents that must by law be released, and it 0:05:26.755 --> 0:05:29.795 said releasing only some of them, then unreleasing others, and 0:05:29.835 --> 0:05:33.595 therefore blowing up the metaphorical whale while simply spreading the 0:05:33.635 --> 0:05:37.315 metaphorical whale over a square mile area, and by the way, 0:05:38.635 --> 0:05:41.435 still not complying with the law Trump signs, so people 0:05:41.435 --> 0:05:44.555 at the DOJ could technically go to jail now or 0:05:44.595 --> 0:05:49.115 more likely later. Twenty twenty nine comes to mind. If 0:05:49.155 --> 0:05:52.995 you'd like to make sure the Epstein story stays alive, 0:05:53.155 --> 0:05:56.035 you'd do any one of those things I just mentioned. 0:05:56.555 --> 0:05:59.675 If you'd like to make sure America is convinced Trump 0:05:59.835 --> 0:06:03.155 is again convicted of complicity with Epstein, I mean a 0:06:03.195 --> 0:06:06.195 second time after the release of the Trump signed drawing 0:06:06.275 --> 0:06:09.635 of the nude, do all of those things I just mentioned. 0:06:09.995 --> 0:06:12.675 And if you'd like to escalate the Epstein scandal to 0:06:12.875 --> 0:06:17.075 indelibly market as the Trumpstein scandal, do what these idiots 0:06:17.075 --> 0:06:21.635 did and plant things in the files and release the 0:06:21.675 --> 0:06:25.355 planted things, and do it so clumsily and moronically that 0:06:25.435 --> 0:06:30.475 it gets community noted on Twitter. X Abigail Marone Jackson 0:06:30.835 --> 0:06:34.915 a deputy Press secretary. And remember if you're a deputy 0:06:34.955 --> 0:06:39.075 press secretary. When Caroline Levitt is the press secretary, you 0:06:39.155 --> 0:06:45.035 are necessarily dumber even than Caroline Levitt is. Abigail Morone 0:06:45.195 --> 0:06:49.755 Jackson wrote that per the Epstein Files Transparency Act, DOJ 0:06:49.995 --> 0:06:53.435 was specifically instructed only to redact the faces of victims 0:06:53.635 --> 0:06:56.595 and or miners. Here is a picture of Bill Clinton 0:06:56.875 --> 0:07:02.595 with his arm around Michael Jackson and redacted individuals might 0:07:02.635 --> 0:07:05.835 as well have had a picture of Abraham Lincoln. The 0:07:05.915 --> 0:07:09.675 picture of Clinton is of course available by googling his 0:07:09.835 --> 0:07:13.555 name and Michael Jackson and the redacted individuals in that 0:07:13.635 --> 0:07:17.835 picture are Michael Jackson's two sons and Evan Ross, the 0:07:17.875 --> 0:07:20.555 son of Diana Ross. And also Diana Ross is also 0:07:20.635 --> 0:07:23.715 in the picture. And apparently Abigail Moron Jackson doesn't know 0:07:23.755 --> 0:07:27.755 who she is. She's too inbubbled to know who Diana 0:07:27.875 --> 0:07:30.675 Ross is. And the picture is from a Democratic fundraiser 0:07:30.715 --> 0:07:32.355 from two thousand and three, and it don't have a 0:07:32.435 --> 0:07:34.635 damn thing to do with the Epstein Files. But Abigail 0:07:34.715 --> 0:07:37.275 Jackson decided to try to deceive the American public into 0:07:37.275 --> 0:07:39.755 believing it has something to do with them. In other words, 0:07:39.875 --> 0:07:41.715 they blew up the whale, and then they went back 0:07:41.755 --> 0:07:43.795 and assembled the pieces again and blew it up a 0:07:43.835 --> 0:07:47.955 second time. And that gives anybody an excuse to look 0:07:47.995 --> 0:07:52.275 at anything in the Epstein files and just assume that 0:07:52.395 --> 0:07:55.915 if it puts the finger on somebody else, Trump put 0:07:55.955 --> 0:08:01.795 it there. Nice work, Abigail Moron Jackson. This is Abigail's 0:08:01.915 --> 0:08:04.955 second job in life. The first one was as a 0:08:04.995 --> 0:08:08.635 press aid to Josh Hawley, the January sixth running Man. 0:08:10.075 --> 0:08:13.915 There are, in fact, at last check, at least eight 0:08:14.155 --> 0:08:18.115 Twitter ex community notes on posts by Jackson, by the 0:08:18.235 --> 0:08:23.435 deplorable Todd Blanche, by Pam Bondi herself Blondie, who simply 0:08:23.675 --> 0:08:27.275 cannot be long for her job. She just can't. New 0:08:27.355 --> 0:08:29.675 Year's Day would be a surprise if she's still in 0:08:29.715 --> 0:08:33.275 that job. Wasn't even posting about Trumpstein, and she still 0:08:33.315 --> 0:08:36.995 got community noted about trump Stein. She wrote about Trump 0:08:37.035 --> 0:08:41.075 setting all time great transparency standards for a presidency, and 0:08:41.115 --> 0:08:45.315 nobody is buying it community note quote contrary to the claim, 0:08:45.355 --> 0:08:50.435 Instead of transparency, the administration runs defense for pedophiles and rapists. 0:08:51.195 --> 0:08:54.235 And then there are links to four tweets, including two 0:08:55.075 --> 0:08:59.875 by Congressman Tom Massey. Keep up the good work, Madam 0:08:59.915 --> 0:09:05.475 Attorney Generic Trump. Not just covering up the Epstein files 0:09:05.555 --> 0:09:09.555 and breaking the law by not fulfilling the law passed 0:09:09.595 --> 0:09:12.595 by his own party. Not just doing that, but now 0:09:12.675 --> 0:09:15.275 faking things and putting them in the Epstein files and 0:09:15.315 --> 0:09:17.875 not even doing it very well, and faking something about 0:09:17.915 --> 0:09:21.435 Bill Clinton. The day Bill Clinton left the White House, 0:09:21.715 --> 0:09:26.915 the average American of today was fifteen years old. You 0:09:26.995 --> 0:09:29.475 might as well have faked something about Epstein and the 0:09:29.635 --> 0:09:35.395 y two K computer crisis, Abigail. This underscores why Trumpstein, 0:09:35.435 --> 0:09:39.195 no matter what happens next, will be self perpetuating in 0:09:39.235 --> 0:09:43.475 a way nobody dreamed of last Thursday. This is the 0:09:43.595 --> 0:09:47.315 true danger of conspiracy theories, as no one will find 0:09:47.315 --> 0:09:49.635 out more than Donald Trump will find out in the 0:09:49.715 --> 0:09:52.795 days and weeks to come. Twenty percent of Americans do 0:09:52.915 --> 0:09:56.595 not believe the reality of what happened on nine to eleven. 0:09:57.115 --> 0:10:01.875 The Kennedy assassination only became more desirable as conspiracy fodder 0:10:02.115 --> 0:10:06.955 after the Warren Commission reports. Jill McCay's eighteen forty one 0:10:06.995 --> 0:10:11.395 book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds has 0:10:11.475 --> 0:10:16.595 been surpassed since its publication in explaining mass stupidity, but 0:10:16.675 --> 0:10:20.235 it is still always a wonderful reminder that while it 0:10:20.315 --> 0:10:23.675 has now been weaponized by everybody from the Nazis to Trump, 0:10:24.035 --> 0:10:29.235 people have always been this gullible. It is hard to 0:10:29.235 --> 0:10:32.475 get away from conspiracy theories except by massive and even 0:10:32.555 --> 0:10:37.635 shocking straightforwardness and transparency, and that is impossible if a 0:10:37.755 --> 0:10:43.315 government consists of conspiracy theorists and stupid conspiracy theorists like 0:10:43.515 --> 0:10:46.955 har Meat Dylan. If you don't know her, she is 0:10:47.075 --> 0:10:52.275 actually an assistant Attorney General. Her previous job was Tulsey 0:10:52.475 --> 0:10:58.275 Gabbard's lawyer. She deliberately or otherwise turned the Brown University 0:10:58.275 --> 0:11:02.795 shooting into another fake conspiracy. Somebody tweeted that after the shooting, 0:11:02.995 --> 0:11:06.355 Brown was removing articles from its website about one of 0:11:06.355 --> 0:11:10.155 its students. She retweeted it with the musk like addition. 0:11:10.875 --> 0:11:15.755 Concerning Anna, Paulina Luna, the member of the House from 0:11:15.875 --> 0:11:20.355 Dipshit County, Florida, wrote she found it suspicious that things 0:11:20.395 --> 0:11:23.915 were altered on the Brown website. Luna also probably finds 0:11:23.955 --> 0:11:27.955 it suspicious that the amount of daylight changes every day. Well, 0:11:28.035 --> 0:11:34.035 Dylan retweeted her too, adding just sus turned out the 0:11:34.035 --> 0:11:36.155 deletions had nothing to do with the shooting, and the 0:11:36.155 --> 0:11:38.755 student had nothing to do with the shooting. As I 0:11:38.795 --> 0:11:42.875 recorded this, Dylan had not even deleted her misinformation sus 0:11:42.955 --> 0:11:47.555 this clown. One can argue that it is part of 0:11:47.595 --> 0:11:51.635 the trumpest playbook, that it is part of the authoritarian playbook, 0:11:51.835 --> 0:11:55.315 that the less people who believe in official accounts about anything, 0:11:55.635 --> 0:11:59.555 the more they will turn to one seemingly authoritative source. 0:11:59.835 --> 0:12:02.875 And unfortunately, for many of these idiots, that's still Trump. 0:12:03.915 --> 0:12:06.315 I confess. I think that's giving them too much credit. 0:12:06.555 --> 0:12:09.875 It's like reading Senator Mike Lee, who is so deep 0:12:09.995 --> 0:12:13.515 down his let's see what's the amount one million Internet 0:12:13.595 --> 0:12:16.395 rabbit hole now that he would need to detox to 0:12:16.435 --> 0:12:19.235 find his way back to reality, and thinking that Mike 0:12:19.355 --> 0:12:22.835 Lee's borderline paranoia is some kind of re election strategy. 0:12:23.075 --> 0:12:27.635 It's not. He's just a moron. These people are all 0:12:27.795 --> 0:12:32.515 just morons. They blew up the Epstein whale. They have 0:12:32.635 --> 0:12:36.435 not processed that. Conspiracy theories are like giant fire hoses. 0:12:36.515 --> 0:12:40.155 They're effective and decisive unless you lose control of yours 0:12:40.395 --> 0:12:42.315 and you drop it and the next thing you know, 0:12:42.475 --> 0:12:47.875 the water has drowned you, or the blubber has the 0:12:47.955 --> 0:12:52.795 Trump Stein story would have forgive me exploded. If everything 0:12:52.835 --> 0:12:56.075 had come out Friday, just like a dead whale would 0:12:56.115 --> 0:13:01.435 eventually explode due to natural biological forces, then there would 0:13:01.475 --> 0:13:05.395 have been a significant, if probably inaccurate, sense that almost 0:13:05.475 --> 0:13:07.515 the whole thing was out in the open now, and 0:13:07.595 --> 0:13:09.515 however bad it might have been, there would have been 0:13:09.555 --> 0:13:12.835 a virtual end to it. But everything didn't come out Friday. 0:13:13.875 --> 0:13:15.755 All that did was just give you a reason to 0:13:15.875 --> 0:13:19.955 reread the nauseating New York Times story about Epstein giving 0:13:20.035 --> 0:13:23.955 Trump a twenty year old woman of Trump denying, denying, 0:13:23.995 --> 0:13:27.955 and denying, and nobody ever bothering to reread the Epstein 0:13:28.075 --> 0:13:32.075 evidence while playing Trump's words from the Access Hollywood tape 0:13:32.115 --> 0:13:36.115 and remembering that when Trump said that, it was after 0:13:36.235 --> 0:13:41.635 most of his sleaziness with Epstein had already occurred, so 0:13:41.955 --> 0:13:46.555 it didn't come out. Instead, you maniacs, you blew it up. 0:13:46.715 --> 0:13:52.715 Damn you, damn you Hotell. And now the blubber will 0:13:52.795 --> 0:13:57.635 just sit there everywhere. It will just sit there, symbolically, 0:13:57.835 --> 0:14:00.555 a whole, huge chunk of at the size of a 0:14:00.635 --> 0:14:05.235 coffee table in the crushed car next to Trump, forever, 0:14:06.235 --> 0:14:09.035 next to Trump as he dozes off for boasts about 0:14:09.195 --> 0:14:11.995 acing the cognitive test and being able to tell which 0:14:12.035 --> 0:14:15.995 one was the giraffe. Let's take another look at those 0:14:16.035 --> 0:14:20.315 trump Steen photos. Is the draft in there too? How 0:14:20.355 --> 0:14:41.355 about the dead blowed up whale, loaded up bloaded up, 0:14:41.395 --> 0:14:46.995 real good, loaded up, real good. Okay, So why did 0:14:47.075 --> 0:14:52.675 Trump name it the Donald J. Trump Memorial Center. This 0:14:52.835 --> 0:14:55.355 is not the biggest problem with renaming the Kennedy Center 0:14:55.435 --> 0:14:59.275 illegally after himself, But didn't anybody else notice this? He 0:14:59.515 --> 0:15:02.955 changed the name of the Kennedy Center before anybody could 0:15:02.995 --> 0:15:05.635 file a suit to stop him, and he put up 0:15:05.635 --> 0:15:09.235 a new sign on it, reading the Donald J. Trump 0:15:09.395 --> 0:15:13.315 and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. 0:15:14.795 --> 0:15:17.915 I mean, could we be Is it possible that we're 0:15:17.995 --> 0:15:22.355 missing the real lead story here? The Donald J. Trump 0:15:22.395 --> 0:15:26.475 and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing 0:15:26.635 --> 0:15:31.315 Arts means well, it does include the idea that it's 0:15:31.355 --> 0:15:35.355 the Donald J. Trump Memorial Center. The word memorial applies 0:15:35.395 --> 0:15:40.475 to everybody in the new name, It's Trump Memorial. Did 0:15:40.515 --> 0:15:44.195 I miss a bulletin or something? He's not dead yet, right, 0:15:44.235 --> 0:15:48.155 I mean officially, officially, not in terms of brain health 0:15:48.235 --> 0:15:51.835 or his own soul. The Donald J. Trump and the 0:15:51.995 --> 0:15:56.595 John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. You 0:15:56.715 --> 0:16:01.075 read that, and it doesn't mean that only Kennedy is 0:16:01.155 --> 0:16:05.275 memorialized here. It's it's that's the construction you use when 0:16:05.315 --> 0:16:08.315 you are memorializing two people in the title of a 0:16:08.315 --> 0:16:12.275 building or a book or anything else. Then don't tell me, Well, 0:16:12.275 --> 0:16:14.555 if you're going to slap your name on the Kennedy Center, 0:16:14.675 --> 0:16:17.035 that's the only way to do it. No, you take 0:16:17.075 --> 0:16:20.315 out the word memorial and you make it the Donald J. 0:16:20.475 --> 0:16:25.075 Trump and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. See, 0:16:25.715 --> 0:16:27.475 or if you're Trump and you really think there is 0:16:27.515 --> 0:16:30.915 something too disrespectful even for you to do, and you 0:16:31.115 --> 0:16:34.715 have to keep the word memorial in there for Kennedy's sake, 0:16:35.275 --> 0:16:38.475 you take a page from sports stadiums and you make 0:16:38.515 --> 0:16:42.355 it the Donald J. Trump Auditorium at the John F. 0:16:42.435 --> 0:16:45.715 Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. That way, it's 0:16:45.795 --> 0:16:51.875 Kennedy memorial and Trump not memorial. Obviously, the whole thing 0:16:52.035 --> 0:16:55.675 is sacrilege. But there's sacrilege and then there's stupid sacrilege. 0:16:55.675 --> 0:17:01.195 And what a surprise, Trump chose the stupid sacrilege. This 0:17:01.355 --> 0:17:06.395 needs to be undone now by court act later just 0:17:06.515 --> 0:17:10.075 with pick axes, maybe on pay per view, or people 0:17:10.115 --> 0:17:12.955 buy a two dollars lottery ticket and the winners get 0:17:12.995 --> 0:17:16.915 to wield the pick axes. You'd raise eleven hundred and 0:17:16.955 --> 0:17:21.475 seventy four trillion dollars. But it's just so unsettling that anybody, 0:17:21.515 --> 0:17:23.915 even a guy as flat out crazy as Trump, would 0:17:23.955 --> 0:17:26.635 slap his name on an American cultural institution and make 0:17:26.675 --> 0:17:29.435 it read like it is now the Trump Memorial Center. 0:17:30.915 --> 0:17:36.675 Sir Memorial means dead sir. On the other hand, if 0:17:36.675 --> 0:17:39.835 this sticks, Trump will have the last laugh, because of course, 0:17:41.355 --> 0:17:48.315 sooner or later it will be it will be Trump Memorial. 0:17:57.795 --> 0:18:02.875 So with trump Stein, kaboom and here comes the blubber. 0:18:03.675 --> 0:18:06.115 I'm not sure why Trump probably got scared out of 0:18:06.155 --> 0:18:09.795 announcing an attack on Venezuela last Wednesday. Do not get 0:18:09.875 --> 0:18:11.915 me wrong, I would be happy to see Maduro go, 0:18:12.115 --> 0:18:14.595 no matter the how, just like I'd like to see 0:18:14.635 --> 0:18:19.035 Putin go, no matter the how. These aren't socialist countries 0:18:19.155 --> 0:18:22.355 or democracies or whatever form of government Russia has convinced 0:18:22.355 --> 0:18:26.715 it's captive citizens they are in. These are dictatorships. But 0:18:26.875 --> 0:18:28.835 once again, if Trump has the right to try to 0:18:28.835 --> 0:18:33.755 force regime change in some place like Venezuela. Bunduro necessarily 0:18:33.995 --> 0:18:36.435 also has the right to try to force regime change 0:18:36.435 --> 0:18:42.035 in some place like oh here. Plus, Trump's relationship to 0:18:42.155 --> 0:18:46.715 Venezuela is he wants it to be his. Iraq, Bush 0:18:46.795 --> 0:18:49.635 managed to sell just enough Americans on the idea that 0:18:49.675 --> 0:18:51.955 the Iraqis had something to do with nine to eleven. 0:18:52.355 --> 0:18:55.115 And even if it wasn't much, sure, they didn't really 0:18:55.595 --> 0:18:59.795 us hanging him and destroying his country would be a 0:18:59.915 --> 0:19:05.235 lesson to somebody. In point of fact, it just amped 0:19:05.315 --> 0:19:08.555 up the terrorist threat, and that secured Bush his narrow 0:19:08.595 --> 0:19:12.555 reelection in two thousand and four. That obviously is why 0:19:12.595 --> 0:19:16.755 they have invented this nonsensical term narco terrorism. Might as 0:19:16.795 --> 0:19:19.755 well name it after Rubio and call it Marco terrorism. 0:19:19.955 --> 0:19:23.795 That makes just as little sense. The point is to 0:19:23.875 --> 0:19:27.515 repeat again and again and again and get the casual 0:19:27.555 --> 0:19:32.115 American to forge a connection between Venezuela and terrorism, and 0:19:32.155 --> 0:19:35.435 then use that to in a way repeat Bush's success. 0:19:35.555 --> 0:19:38.675 And yes, sorry, it pains me more than anybody else 0:19:38.755 --> 0:19:43.075 I think in media. Yes, Bush was successful in Iraq. 0:19:44.275 --> 0:19:47.675 Not for America, not for the world, certainly not for Iraq. 0:19:48.475 --> 0:19:53.555 Just for Bush. Where does that leave Venezuela. We'll find 0:19:53.555 --> 0:19:56.515 out after somebody has to tell Trump that the planted 0:19:56.515 --> 0:20:00.075 photo of Clinton did nothing and the deleting of photos 0:20:00.075 --> 0:20:04.875 of him was well, somebody has to go go in 0:20:04.955 --> 0:20:16.155 now and tell Trump about the exploding whale. Couple of headlines. No, 0:20:16.275 --> 0:20:20.475 it's Trump's economy, you gov. Polling for CBS concluded Friday, 0:20:20.515 --> 0:20:23.155 released yesterday. What's more responsible for the state of the 0:20:23.235 --> 0:20:28.955 US economy today? Trump's policies forty seven percent, Biden's twenty 0:20:28.995 --> 0:20:34.475 two percent, both equally twenty two percent. You put the 0:20:34.595 --> 0:20:37.515 key numbers together there, and sixty nine percent of the 0:20:37.555 --> 0:20:42.955 people think it's at least mostly or partly Trump's economy. 0:20:43.955 --> 0:20:47.355 Note to former UN ambassador, former New York state candidate 0:20:47.395 --> 0:20:51.235 for governor soon to be former Representative Elise Stefanic betrayed 0:20:51.275 --> 0:20:55.555 and abandoned by Trump because ettd the note is from 0:20:55.595 --> 0:21:00.075 the devil and it consists of two words, no refunds. 0:21:00.675 --> 0:21:03.075 Gavin Newsom brought it up again. Why do we pay 0:21:03.115 --> 0:21:06.355 federal taxes? Tweeted his press office in one of those 0:21:06.475 --> 0:21:10.795 Kitchie Trump all caps satire posts, and then the governor 0:21:10.795 --> 0:21:15.515 reposted it seriously again quote. If Trump cannot provide the 0:21:15.555 --> 0:21:19.515 bare minimum to Californians, perhaps it is time California with 0:21:19.715 --> 0:21:24.315 holds resources from the Feds. I'm telling you this is 0:21:24.355 --> 0:21:27.955 the way out. It'll be messy. It is virtually a 0:21:28.035 --> 0:21:33.635 declaration of war. It destabilizes the country. I mean it 0:21:33.795 --> 0:21:37.915 destabilizes the country almost as fast as Trump is destabilizing it. 0:21:39.715 --> 0:21:44.315 And lastly, Peter Arnett has died. Peter Arnett was not 0:21:44.595 --> 0:21:47.475 the first reporter to tell the truth about Vietnam, but 0:21:47.555 --> 0:21:49.915 he was the one who paved the way for all 0:21:49.915 --> 0:21:52.995 the others too, including the ones on TV, because he 0:21:53.155 --> 0:21:56.715 was reporting for the Associated Press when the Associated Press 0:21:56.875 --> 0:22:01.875 had a world duopoly on news services. He won the 0:22:01.915 --> 0:22:05.155 Pulitzer Prize in nineteen sixty six from Vietnam. He worked 0:22:05.195 --> 0:22:08.195 so long and took such personal chances that he was 0:22:08.235 --> 0:22:11.435 in Vietnam as early as nineteen sixty two and as 0:22:11.515 --> 0:22:14.315 late as the day we withdrew in the chaos of 0:22:14.395 --> 0:22:17.875 nineteen seventy five. And he was covering the Soviet invasion 0:22:17.875 --> 0:22:20.955 of Afghanistan in nineteen seventy nine, And he covered the 0:22:20.995 --> 0:22:23.955 Gulf War from Iraq for CNN, and he covered the 0:22:23.955 --> 0:22:26.915 Bush War in Iraq in two thousand and three for NBC. 0:22:27.755 --> 0:22:31.995 But what made Peter Arnett a great reporter among great 0:22:32.035 --> 0:22:35.755 reporters is that in between when he was based at 0:22:35.755 --> 0:22:38.955 the CNN bureau in New York in CNN year one 0:22:39.115 --> 0:22:41.995 and year two, and that day they didn't need him 0:22:42.035 --> 0:22:45.035 at the un or he wasn't packing to go overseas, 0:22:45.275 --> 0:22:49.115 and instead they needed somebody to go interview commuters during 0:22:49.155 --> 0:22:52.595 a snowstorm, or to get a SoundBite about the latest 0:22:52.955 --> 0:22:57.075 I don't know, exploding whale. Peter Arnett was the first 0:22:57.115 --> 0:23:02.995 to volunteer. He liked reporting, or when the rookie sports 0:23:03.035 --> 0:23:05.635 reporter needed some advice on how to put together his 0:23:05.915 --> 0:23:09.515 rookie sports story, Peter Arnett not only gave it, he 0:23:09.595 --> 0:23:12.795 sat through nearly the entire editing session of the sports 0:23:12.795 --> 0:23:16.795 piece in question. When I was next on the same 0:23:16.875 --> 0:23:20.435 channel as him twenty one years later, he was live 0:23:20.475 --> 0:23:23.555 from Iraq and before we went on in the commercial break, 0:23:23.595 --> 0:23:27.035 he said over the satellite, Hey, in that New Zealand 0:23:27.075 --> 0:23:32.835 accent of his nice career, and I got to say, well, 0:23:32.915 --> 0:23:34.715 I had a lot of help from the real pros 0:23:34.795 --> 0:23:38.995 when I was just getting started. Peter Arnett was ninety 0:23:39.035 --> 0:23:46.675 one years old Thank you, Peter. Also of interest here, 0:23:46.755 --> 0:23:49.515 I'll mention this again later for your planning purposes. No 0:23:49.675 --> 0:23:54.875 podcast Thursday. It's a holiday. The holiday season, of course, 0:23:54.875 --> 0:23:58.075 does not stop the worst. Of course, memet Oz wants 0:23:58.155 --> 0:24:01.395 you to know that the price of penises is a 0:24:01.475 --> 0:24:06.915 going up. And in an unexpectedly possibly related topic, Lindsey 0:24:07.115 --> 0:24:13.315 Halligan misspelled Virginia. So it looks like maybe she wasn't 0:24:13.355 --> 0:24:19.955 trying to spell virginia. Maybe she was trying to spell 0:24:20.075 --> 0:24:28.275 That's next. This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Oberman. 0:24:29.355 --> 0:24:54.195 Oberman still ahead on this edition of Countdown. Hey it's Christmas. 0:24:54.875 --> 0:24:56.955 I haven't done any Thurber in a long time. And 0:24:57.035 --> 0:25:00.235 I don't know if you've noticed this, but the news Hole, 0:25:00.635 --> 0:25:06.355 as it is colloquially known locally known Broklaw, it's kind 0:25:06.395 --> 0:25:08.515 of small this week. So let's give you a little 0:25:08.555 --> 0:25:11.195 something to do if you want to laugh at and 0:25:11.355 --> 0:25:15.875 with everybody else. His most famous story, the story which 0:25:15.915 --> 0:25:19.515 began my relationship with the Thurber family and the Literary Trust, 0:25:19.635 --> 0:25:23.955 and my favorite Thurber story, A holiday three for ahead 0:25:24.355 --> 0:25:27.075 from James Thurber. But first, believe it or not, there's 0:25:27.075 --> 0:25:29.715 still more new idiots to talk about the roundup of 0:25:29.715 --> 0:25:34.195 the misgrants, morons, undunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's 0:25:34.315 --> 0:25:41.675 other worst persons in the world. Lebron's worst doctor Oz, 0:25:42.715 --> 0:25:45.395 you heard him while millions of Americans are about to 0:25:45.395 --> 0:25:47.755 fall off the economic cliff because he's part of the 0:25:47.795 --> 0:25:52.755 dictatorship determined to cut healthcare to save money for billionaires. 0:25:53.195 --> 0:25:58.715 He gave an address on how inflation is hitting transgender 0:25:58.835 --> 0:26:05.515 care quote the creation of a penis unquote all right. 0:26:05.675 --> 0:26:08.755 Pro tip if you are ever giving a speech and 0:26:08.835 --> 0:26:11.915 you see that phrase on the page in front of you, 0:26:12.195 --> 0:26:15.075 simply throw the script in the air, make some sort 0:26:15.115 --> 0:26:18.275 of diversion and run from the podium. In fact, run 0:26:18.315 --> 0:26:21.955 from the room as fast as you can. Memo and 0:26:21.995 --> 0:26:25.395 Oz chose not to do this. He continued, the creation 0:26:25.715 --> 0:26:29.435 of a penis costs on average in America one hundred 0:26:29.435 --> 0:26:32.675 and fifty thousand dollars per child. Then he added a 0:26:32.755 --> 0:26:38.955 scrotleplasty where you add testicles. That's extra. Wait, you can 0:26:39.075 --> 0:26:45.675 add testicles? Has anybody told Mike Johnson The silver worser 0:26:46.475 --> 0:26:54.475 Riley Gaines, America's also ran Sweetheart. Her podcast will migrate 0:26:54.555 --> 0:26:58.955 from the Deplorable OutKick to the Home of the Devil Fox, 0:26:59.435 --> 0:27:02.995 and interestingly, it has already reached the podcast charts, where 0:27:02.995 --> 0:27:08.595 it's finished oh in eighty fifth place. Sources say in 0:27:08.635 --> 0:27:11.915 the first episode, Gains will confess she never really learned 0:27:11.915 --> 0:27:16.475 how to swim. But the winner the Worst Lindsey Halligan, 0:27:16.835 --> 0:27:20.915 Miss Uncongeniality and third runner up from the Colorado Miss 0:27:20.995 --> 0:27:26.595 USA pageant many many many years ago, and now the 0:27:26.715 --> 0:27:30.195 unqualified attorney Trump keeps trying to install as the US 0:27:30.315 --> 0:27:33.235 Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, even though she 0:27:33.275 --> 0:27:36.315 didn't know any of the rules, like you have to 0:27:36.395 --> 0:27:38.595 show the grand jury whatever it is you claim they 0:27:38.715 --> 0:27:41.955 voted on, and get approved by somebody for your office 0:27:41.995 --> 0:27:44.995 before you start indicting people as political vengeance for the 0:27:45.035 --> 0:27:48.715 guy who used to own the Miss USA pageant. El Trumpolini, 0:27:48.995 --> 0:27:51.995 she didn't know stuff like that, while she's done it again, 0:27:52.475 --> 0:27:55.635 only this one is way simpler and way funnier than 0:27:55.675 --> 0:27:59.955 the Star Chamber indictments in her name. She keeps having 0:27:59.995 --> 0:28:07.035