1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,115 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Impossibly, 2 00:00:22,315 --> 00:00:26,635 Speaker 1: it was Sean Hannity who said it best. Quote. A 3 00:00:26,795 --> 00:00:30,875 Speaker 1: grand jury can indict, as we say, a ham sandwich, 4 00:00:31,755 --> 00:00:37,515 Speaker 1: especially if that ham sandwich is Donald J. Trump. No 5 00:00:37,755 --> 00:00:41,715 Speaker 1: person in the history of humanity, guilty or innocent, confessed 6 00:00:41,795 --> 00:00:45,115 Speaker 1: or framed, has ever better defined the cliche of the 7 00:00:45,195 --> 00:00:51,195 Speaker 1: indicted ham sandwich than has Trump on whitebread. By the way, 8 00:00:51,635 --> 00:00:55,155 Speaker 1: indicted on a widely reported thirty four counts, which if 9 00:00:55,195 --> 00:00:59,315 Speaker 1: even one exaggeration, would confirm an investigation much wider and 10 00:00:59,515 --> 00:01:02,955 Speaker 1: much more thorough touching, much more than just Stormy Daniels, 11 00:01:03,435 --> 00:01:07,155 Speaker 1: you should excuse the expression than anybody had reported or thought. 12 00:01:07,875 --> 00:01:11,915 Speaker 1: First Trump confirmed it happened. Then so did a spokesperson 13 00:01:11,955 --> 00:01:15,555 Speaker 1: for the Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg, quoting this evening, we 14 00:01:15,675 --> 00:01:19,235 Speaker 1: contacted mister Trump's attorney to coordinate his surrender to the 15 00:01:19,275 --> 00:01:24,235 Speaker 1: Manhattan DA's office for arraignment on a Supreme Court indictment, 16 00:01:24,275 --> 00:01:27,715 Speaker 1: which remains under seal guidance will be provided when the 17 00:01:27,835 --> 00:01:34,235 Speaker 1: arraignment date is selected. Unquote Tuesday. Reportedly, this is all 18 00:01:34,355 --> 00:01:39,635 Speaker 1: quote related to business fraud, per CNN, including quote documents 19 00:01:39,635 --> 00:01:42,555 Speaker 1: that have been uncovered during the probe but are not 20 00:01:42,635 --> 00:01:45,955 Speaker 1: yet known to the public. Slash been reported both financial 21 00:01:45,955 --> 00:01:50,195 Speaker 1: records and communications between key figures per CBS, but motly 22 00:01:50,355 --> 00:01:55,635 Speaker 1: nobody yet actually knows anything. The indictment or indictments are 23 00:01:55,875 --> 00:01:58,755 Speaker 1: under seal, and we have no other idea if there's 24 00:01:58,795 --> 00:02:01,315 Speaker 1: one of them, or thirty four or three hundred and 25 00:02:01,355 --> 00:02:04,995 Speaker 1: thirty four, or if it's business fraud or campaign finance 26 00:02:05,115 --> 00:02:10,555 Speaker 1: violations or falsified records, or given that reported volume of indictments, 27 00:02:10,595 --> 00:02:13,715 Speaker 1: if it was something even worse for Trump, like tax 28 00:02:13,795 --> 00:02:17,755 Speaker 1: crimes or false statements to banks, either of which would 29 00:02:17,835 --> 00:02:22,275 Speaker 1: necessarily include accomplices and thus could easily include accomplices who 30 00:02:22,275 --> 00:02:26,755 Speaker 1: have turned state's evidence, And sang, we don't know if 31 00:02:26,755 --> 00:02:30,795 Speaker 1: it's just Stormy Daniels or also Karen McDougall, who was 32 00:02:30,835 --> 00:02:33,675 Speaker 1: invoked by a Wall Street Journal report just hours before 33 00:02:33,675 --> 00:02:36,715 Speaker 1: the indictment news broke. We don't know if Trump's terroristic 34 00:02:36,755 --> 00:02:40,715 Speaker 1: threats of death and destruction on social media relating to 35 00:02:40,875 --> 00:02:45,355 Speaker 1: da Bragg might have produced additional charges by themselves. We 36 00:02:45,555 --> 00:02:49,475 Speaker 1: think we know that Trump will be arrested and indicted Tuesday, 37 00:02:49,555 --> 00:02:52,355 Speaker 1: so give credit where credit is due. He never said 38 00:02:52,395 --> 00:02:56,435 Speaker 1: which Tuesday did he. We also know pretty reliably from 39 00:02:56,515 --> 00:03:00,355 Speaker 1: Maga Haberman on CNN that the Trump camp had convinced 40 00:03:00,355 --> 00:03:03,395 Speaker 1: itself that the entire case had collapsed, and that the 41 00:03:03,435 --> 00:03:07,435 Speaker 1: Manhattan District Attorneys Office had yesterday announced a nearly month 42 00:03:07,515 --> 00:03:11,155 Speaker 1: long hiatus in meeting for the grand jury because Alvin 43 00:03:11,195 --> 00:03:14,795 Speaker 1: Bragg was looking for a climb down. I said nothing 44 00:03:14,835 --> 00:03:18,235 Speaker 1: about this here because, as I was told Tuesday, the 45 00:03:18,315 --> 00:03:22,075 Speaker 1: Stormy Daniel's case had not been dropped, but merely delayed. 46 00:03:22,315 --> 00:03:26,155 Speaker 1: No other explanation offered. CNN summed this up with an 47 00:03:26,195 --> 00:03:29,315 Speaker 1: anonymous quote from somebody close to Trump. Is this a 48 00:03:29,395 --> 00:03:35,315 Speaker 1: shock today? Hell? Yes, we do know that. When Trump 49 00:03:35,395 --> 00:03:37,555 Speaker 1: himself began the rumor that he was to be arrested 50 00:03:37,555 --> 00:03:40,595 Speaker 1: on Tuesday, March twenty first, he also leaked that he 51 00:03:40,595 --> 00:03:43,995 Speaker 1: would turn himself in and so a boast that seemed 52 00:03:44,035 --> 00:03:46,795 Speaker 1: to be lifted directly from the Norma Desmond character in 53 00:03:46,915 --> 00:03:50,315 Speaker 1: Sunset Boulevard. He said he would enjoy the glare of 54 00:03:50,355 --> 00:03:52,915 Speaker 1: the camera lights during his purp walk, and he was 55 00:03:52,955 --> 00:03:55,515 Speaker 1: debating which look he should put on his face. And 56 00:03:55,555 --> 00:03:57,635 Speaker 1: then the DA's office leaked that there would not be 57 00:03:57,675 --> 00:04:00,595 Speaker 1: a purp walk, but there would be fingerprinting and a 58 00:04:00,755 --> 00:04:07,715 Speaker 1: mug shot, mugshot, mugshot, mugshot, hugshot. But turning himself in 59 00:04:07,835 --> 00:04:12,035 Speaker 1: part turns out to impact Trump's main rival for the 60 00:04:12,075 --> 00:04:16,155 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four Republican nomination, Ron de Santis, a small 61 00:04:16,235 --> 00:04:20,115 Speaker 1: man in high heeled shoes, continuing to founder on any 62 00:04:20,195 --> 00:04:24,395 Speaker 1: stage bigger than the woke Finocchi swamp, immediately announced last 63 00:04:24,475 --> 00:04:27,595 Speaker 1: night quote Florida will not assist in an extradition request, 64 00:04:27,755 --> 00:04:31,115 Speaker 1: which is rather unfortunate because a, you do not need 65 00:04:31,155 --> 00:04:34,675 Speaker 1: to extradite somebody who is turning himself into the authorities 66 00:04:34,715 --> 00:04:40,075 Speaker 1: and be Article for Section two of the Constitution requires 67 00:04:40,075 --> 00:04:44,475 Speaker 1: every state to honor the extradition request of every other state. 68 00:04:44,795 --> 00:04:48,435 Speaker 1: So DeSantis, who graduated from Harvard Law but apparently never 69 00:04:48,435 --> 00:04:51,835 Speaker 1: went to class there, doesn't have a goddamned thing to 70 00:04:51,875 --> 00:04:56,035 Speaker 1: do with this. Other reaction to the news as it 71 00:04:56,115 --> 00:05:01,155 Speaker 1: broke did produce a series of absolute howlers. The guy 72 00:05:01,195 --> 00:05:04,075 Speaker 1: who happened to be on the air on Newsmax when 73 00:05:04,115 --> 00:05:09,835 Speaker 1: the story Sean Spicer, Trump's first press secretary, otherwise remembered 74 00:05:09,875 --> 00:05:13,195 Speaker 1: only because he was portrayed on Saturday Night Live by 75 00:05:13,235 --> 00:05:17,715 Speaker 1: an actress Melissa McCarthy. The Daily Show congratulated Trump on 76 00:05:17,795 --> 00:05:21,515 Speaker 1: finally winning a majority of votes. Somewhere as the news 77 00:05:21,555 --> 00:05:24,715 Speaker 1: broke on Fox, some of its five propagandists in the 78 00:05:24,755 --> 00:05:29,595 Speaker 1: studio gasped audibly. Stormy Daniels tweeted that there had been 79 00:05:29,595 --> 00:05:32,435 Speaker 1: so many messages of support that she couldn't respond to them, 80 00:05:32,435 --> 00:05:36,435 Speaker 1: a quote also, don't want to spill my champagne. That 81 00:05:36,635 --> 00:05:39,755 Speaker 1: added to her reaction from Sunday, when somebody had tweeted 82 00:05:39,915 --> 00:05:42,595 Speaker 1: President Trump wouldn't touch you with a ten foot poll, 83 00:05:42,715 --> 00:05:47,155 Speaker 1: and she subtweeted, true, he used a three inch one. 84 00:05:47,395 --> 00:05:52,235 Speaker 1: And Eric Trump, who at last report was supposedly Donald 85 00:05:52,235 --> 00:05:56,355 Speaker 1: Trump's son, actually responded to the indictment news by saying, 86 00:05:56,395 --> 00:05:59,675 Speaker 1: of his father, quote at some point, the guy deserves 87 00:05:59,675 --> 00:06:05,035 Speaker 1: a pass, which is about as far away from he's 88 00:06:05,115 --> 00:06:09,115 Speaker 1: not guilty as you could get without saying, yeah, he's guilty. 89 00:06:10,235 --> 00:06:14,555 Speaker 1: Way to go, Fredo. Nearly all of the rest of 90 00:06:14,555 --> 00:06:21,035 Speaker 1: the reaction fell into impotent, vague rage worthy of King Lear. Tuesday, 91 00:06:21,195 --> 00:06:23,755 Speaker 1: the Way Out whack Doodle Wayne Root had written an 92 00:06:23,835 --> 00:06:27,275 Speaker 1: article which Trump then disseminated, threatening that were Trump to 93 00:06:27,395 --> 00:06:31,195 Speaker 1: be indicted, fascist state and city district attorneys would then 94 00:06:31,315 --> 00:06:35,475 Speaker 1: indict Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, George Soros, 95 00:06:35,715 --> 00:06:38,195 Speaker 1: doctor Anthony Fauci, and Eric Holder. And you know, if 96 00:06:38,235 --> 00:06:41,795 Speaker 1: they paid off porn stars to keep quiet during their 97 00:06:41,835 --> 00:06:46,315 Speaker 1: presidential campaigns too, I'd have to say I approve. In 98 00:06:46,355 --> 00:06:49,355 Speaker 1: addition to calling Trump a ham Sandwich, Sean Hannity referred 99 00:06:49,355 --> 00:06:51,795 Speaker 1: to the opening of Pandora's box, and there was a 100 00:06:51,795 --> 00:06:54,515 Speaker 1: lot of genuine surprise and shock from the likes of 101 00:06:54,555 --> 00:06:58,755 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson and other thwarted three year olds. In his 102 00:06:58,995 --> 00:07:04,075 Speaker 1: own reaction, Trump himself committed two outstanding bloopers that make 103 00:07:04,115 --> 00:07:08,635 Speaker 1: the whole experience worthwhile. Trump referred to the pending indictments 104 00:07:08,755 --> 00:07:13,955 Speaker 1: inevitably as a quote witch hunt, which remains an entirely 105 00:07:14,035 --> 00:07:16,555 Speaker 1: different kind of analogy when you stop to think that 106 00:07:16,635 --> 00:07:20,635 Speaker 1: in the three centuries ending about seventeen fifty that right 107 00:07:20,915 --> 00:07:25,475 Speaker 1: or wrong courts in Europe and colonial America convicted at 108 00:07:25,555 --> 00:07:29,555 Speaker 1: least thirty five thousand witches, thirty of them in Massachusetts alone, 109 00:07:30,635 --> 00:07:34,315 Speaker 1: and in a self own far less depressing than the 110 00:07:34,355 --> 00:07:37,835 Speaker 1: whole burning at the State thing, Trump posted on social 111 00:07:37,875 --> 00:07:41,715 Speaker 1: media that quote these thugs and radical left monsters have 112 00:07:41,875 --> 00:07:47,995 Speaker 1: just indicated the forty fifth president, which is in fact 113 00:07:48,795 --> 00:07:51,395 Speaker 1: literally true. But you keep using that word. I do 114 00:07:51,475 --> 00:07:55,115 Speaker 1: not think it means what you think it means. Indicated. 115 00:07:55,995 --> 00:07:58,435 Speaker 1: One thing Trump will never be accused of by any 116 00:07:58,475 --> 00:08:01,275 Speaker 1: district attorney is being too smart for his own good. 117 00:08:03,515 --> 00:08:07,755 Speaker 1: Rather remarkably, there was an astonishing number of basic questions 118 00:08:07,795 --> 00:08:11,195 Speaker 1: that followed that one would have assumed everybody already knew 119 00:08:11,235 --> 00:08:15,195 Speaker 1: the answers too. Yes, he can still run for president 120 00:08:15,235 --> 00:08:19,315 Speaker 1: when indicted. Even if convicted, he can run while in prison, 121 00:08:19,715 --> 00:08:23,075 Speaker 1: the labor leader Eugene V. Debs did in nineteen twenty. 122 00:08:23,555 --> 00:08:26,715 Speaker 1: Debs had been convicted of sedition in September nineteen eighteen 123 00:08:27,035 --> 00:08:30,035 Speaker 1: for encouraging people to dodge the draft for World War 124 00:08:30,075 --> 00:08:32,715 Speaker 1: One that he was serving ten years in the Federal 125 00:08:32,755 --> 00:08:37,355 Speaker 1: penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, Irony. There when he was nominated 126 00:08:37,355 --> 00:08:40,075 Speaker 1: for president for the fifth time by the Socialist Party, 127 00:08:40,435 --> 00:08:43,675 Speaker 1: Eugene V. Debs got nine hundred nineteen thousand, seven hundred 128 00:08:43,795 --> 00:08:47,115 Speaker 1: ninety nine votes for president, which doesn't sound too impressive 129 00:08:47,155 --> 00:08:50,515 Speaker 1: except that was a tenth as much as the Democratic 130 00:08:50,595 --> 00:08:54,035 Speaker 1: loser James Cox, and thus it was the equivalent of 131 00:08:54,035 --> 00:08:58,595 Speaker 1: about seven million, four hundred thousand votes today. Compare that 132 00:08:58,675 --> 00:09:01,435 Speaker 1: to what Jill Stein got in two sixteen, only a 133 00:09:01,475 --> 00:09:05,435 Speaker 1: million four The only thing Debs would not do in 134 00:09:05,515 --> 00:09:09,435 Speaker 1: nineteen twenty was vote for himself or for anybody else, 135 00:09:09,875 --> 00:09:12,835 Speaker 1: which might also be true for an incarcerated Trump in 136 00:09:12,875 --> 00:09:19,155 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. Even if convicted and imprisoned and elected, 137 00:09:19,555 --> 00:09:24,995 Speaker 1: Trump could still assume the presidency, it would require a 138 00:09:25,155 --> 00:09:30,275 Speaker 1: compliant House and Senate to not immediately impeach him on 139 00:09:30,395 --> 00:09:34,795 Speaker 1: January twenty five, and for some reason, I wouldn't put 140 00:09:34,795 --> 00:09:38,235 Speaker 1: it past the Republicans to provide that kind of compliance. 141 00:09:39,155 --> 00:09:44,315 Speaker 1: Trump could even theoretically pardon himself for any federal convictions, 142 00:09:44,635 --> 00:09:47,315 Speaker 1: another reason why the state prosecutions in New York and 143 00:09:47,355 --> 00:09:50,755 Speaker 1: maybe Georgia are so important, And who knows, if Trump 144 00:09:50,795 --> 00:09:54,915 Speaker 1: were convicted just of state crimes, not federal ones, he 145 00:09:54,955 --> 00:09:59,075 Speaker 1: could shoot the works. He as a restored president, could 146 00:09:59,355 --> 00:10:03,635 Speaker 1: order federal troops to extricate himself from a state prison. 147 00:10:04,795 --> 00:10:07,275 Speaker 1: Of course, by now, in this particular bit of political 148 00:10:07,275 --> 00:10:09,435 Speaker 1: science fiction, we are almost certainly in the middle of 149 00:10:09,475 --> 00:10:12,675 Speaker 1: a civil war. But if it happens, don't say I 150 00:10:12,715 --> 00:10:18,635 Speaker 1: didn't warn you. Clearly the Constitution anticipated crooked men, but 151 00:10:18,835 --> 00:10:23,875 Speaker 1: not this crooked. The other practical question I was actually asked, 152 00:10:23,915 --> 00:10:27,075 Speaker 1: in various forms by various people last night, what about 153 00:10:27,075 --> 00:10:30,315 Speaker 1: those stolen classified documents? What happens to them now? What 154 00:10:30,395 --> 00:10:34,155 Speaker 1: about January six what about the thing in Georgia? I 155 00:10:34,235 --> 00:10:36,475 Speaker 1: had to explain that the indictment at arrest in New 156 00:10:36,555 --> 00:10:39,715 Speaker 1: York did not preclude indictment and arrest in Georgia for 157 00:10:39,835 --> 00:10:42,555 Speaker 1: trying to falsify the election results there, and that the 158 00:10:42,635 --> 00:10:47,355 Speaker 1: classified documents and January sixth federal cases were still alive 159 00:10:47,395 --> 00:10:49,555 Speaker 1: and well in pending the action of the Special Council 160 00:10:49,635 --> 00:10:53,515 Speaker 1: Jacksmith in DC. But it was shocking how many well educated, 161 00:10:53,835 --> 00:10:57,635 Speaker 1: generally well informed people did not know this. It was 162 00:10:57,675 --> 00:11:00,795 Speaker 1: a little less shocking, but not that less, that so 163 00:11:00,835 --> 00:11:03,995 Speaker 1: many of Trump's defenders seemed to think that because he 164 00:11:04,035 --> 00:11:06,435 Speaker 1: will be arrested for the New York case, he now 165 00:11:06,515 --> 00:11:10,515 Speaker 1: somehow cannot or will not be arrested and charged and 166 00:11:10,595 --> 00:11:14,355 Speaker 1: tried for the Marilago and Fulton County and the coup 167 00:11:14,355 --> 00:11:21,195 Speaker 1: attempt cases. Pro Tip, he sure can. Lastly, I would 168 00:11:21,235 --> 00:11:24,195 Speaker 1: suggest that the real importance of this story is contained 169 00:11:24,195 --> 00:11:26,915 Speaker 1: within one other reaction to the indictment of Trump that 170 00:11:26,995 --> 00:11:30,795 Speaker 1: came from a man named Yusef Salam, And if his 171 00:11:30,875 --> 00:11:34,915 Speaker 1: name is not immediately recognizable, Yusef Salam was a member 172 00:11:34,955 --> 00:11:38,955 Speaker 1: of the Central Park five, the kids whom Trump tried 173 00:11:38,995 --> 00:11:42,395 Speaker 1: to railroad to capital punishment more than three decades ago. 174 00:11:42,835 --> 00:11:46,715 Speaker 1: Yusef Salam he issued a one word statement, and that 175 00:11:46,755 --> 00:11:51,115 Speaker 1: one word was karma. And the point to that is 176 00:11:51,155 --> 00:11:56,835 Speaker 1: that somebody somewhere in authority finally did something yesterday. Somebody 177 00:11:56,875 --> 00:12:00,435 Speaker 1: finally said Trump broke the law. Trump erased the guardrails 178 00:12:00,435 --> 00:12:03,995 Speaker 1: of our democracy. He destabilized our society. And I don't 179 00:12:04,035 --> 00:12:06,115 Speaker 1: care if it was for trying to overthrow the government 180 00:12:06,235 --> 00:12:09,115 Speaker 1: or we're stealing a million dollars worth of Hamburgers. He 181 00:12:09,315 --> 00:12:15,475 Speaker 1: must face justice. Somebody somewhere acted, and the action is 182 00:12:15,475 --> 00:12:19,195 Speaker 1: the essence here. I would argue that all of this 183 00:12:19,555 --> 00:12:23,795 Speaker 1: indictments in Georgia and by the Special Council, and indictments 184 00:12:23,795 --> 00:12:25,955 Speaker 1: that would make those of Alvin Bragg seem like a 185 00:12:26,035 --> 00:12:29,315 Speaker 1: parking ticket, are now twice as likely as they were 186 00:12:29,515 --> 00:12:34,115 Speaker 1: yesterday afternoon. Because if life should have taught you one thing, 187 00:12:34,235 --> 00:12:39,275 Speaker 1: it is this. In almost any subject of importance, or controversy. 188 00:12:40,715 --> 00:12:46,675 Speaker 1: Nobody likes to go first. Nobody. We all like to 189 00:12:46,715 --> 00:12:52,835 Speaker 1: invoke pioneer Americans stock and Americans pushing the envelope and 190 00:12:53,035 --> 00:12:59,035 Speaker 1: American plock. But being the second district attorney or special 191 00:12:59,075 --> 00:13:02,715 Speaker 1: counsel to indict Donald Trump will be far easier than 192 00:13:02,755 --> 00:13:07,635 Speaker 1: being the first. What is the first thing's success in 193 00:13:07,675 --> 00:13:12,955 Speaker 1: any field, or just survival in any field produces imitation. 194 00:13:14,915 --> 00:13:17,035 Speaker 1: I will tell you a story that I confess is 195 00:13:17,115 --> 00:13:20,795 Speaker 1: largely a humble Bragg, but is actually presented here to 196 00:13:20,915 --> 00:13:24,035 Speaker 1: support my thesis that Alvin Bragg just made it phenomenally 197 00:13:24,075 --> 00:13:26,795 Speaker 1: easier for Fanny Willis or Jack Smith or anybody else 198 00:13:26,835 --> 00:13:30,555 Speaker 1: in authority to now indict Trump as well. At the 199 00:13:30,635 --> 00:13:33,595 Speaker 1: World Series in two thousand and seven, I was waiting 200 00:13:33,635 --> 00:13:36,715 Speaker 1: in a snake line at Fenway Park in Boston, waiting 201 00:13:36,755 --> 00:13:39,315 Speaker 1: to pick up my tickets, and they're approaching me from 202 00:13:39,315 --> 00:13:44,115 Speaker 1: the other direction. Was John Kerry. When he looked up 203 00:13:44,115 --> 00:13:47,115 Speaker 1: and saw me, he threw out his hands and said congratulations. 204 00:13:47,115 --> 00:13:50,555 Speaker 1: And I said thanks, And then I said for what? 205 00:13:51,635 --> 00:13:55,035 Speaker 1: And John Kerry said for winning us the mid terms 206 00:13:55,155 --> 00:13:59,675 Speaker 1: last year. And I was appropriately and sincerely really dubious 207 00:13:59,715 --> 00:14:02,395 Speaker 1: about that. And he said, don't you realize how much 208 00:14:02,515 --> 00:14:06,635 Speaker 1: cowardice there is in American politics. We all thought that 209 00:14:06,755 --> 00:14:10,555 Speaker 1: Bush was manipulating the terror alert system and arresting this 210 00:14:10,595 --> 00:14:14,475 Speaker 1: guy and revealing this fake plot just to score political 211 00:14:14,555 --> 00:14:17,395 Speaker 1: points with terrorism. But you were the only one who 212 00:14:17,475 --> 00:14:20,955 Speaker 1: actually went out and said it. And when you said it, 213 00:14:21,315 --> 00:14:23,435 Speaker 1: and not only didn't you get shipped to Gitmo, but 214 00:14:23,475 --> 00:14:25,595 Speaker 1: your network gave you a new contract and a raise. 215 00:14:26,515 --> 00:14:28,275 Speaker 1: All the rest of us said, well, now we can 216 00:14:28,355 --> 00:14:31,315 Speaker 1: say it too, And it turned out America was sure 217 00:14:31,315 --> 00:14:33,235 Speaker 1: of it too. And then we won the house in 218 00:14:33,315 --> 00:14:37,395 Speaker 1: the state and I said, wait, aren't you the guys 219 00:14:37,635 --> 00:14:40,275 Speaker 1: who are supposed to be the ones to say it first? 220 00:14:40,315 --> 00:14:42,715 Speaker 1: And Carry said you would think so, wouldn't you, But 221 00:14:42,795 --> 00:14:46,555 Speaker 1: we didn't either way. You were the one who crashed 222 00:14:46,555 --> 00:14:48,915 Speaker 1: his head through the wall. We just followed you through 223 00:14:48,955 --> 00:14:52,475 Speaker 1: the hole. So thanks for winning the midterms. Enjoy the game. 224 00:14:53,995 --> 00:14:57,915 Speaker 1: That's what it was. That's the key to it. Alvin 225 00:14:57,995 --> 00:15:03,795 Speaker 1: Bragg put his head through the wall last night. We're 226 00:15:03,875 --> 00:15:09,635 Speaker 1: more accurately, Alvin Bragg put Donald Trump's head through the 227 00:15:09,675 --> 00:15:26,075 Speaker 1: wall last night, still ahead of us in this edition 228 00:15:26,115 --> 00:15:28,755 Speaker 1: of Countdown. Lead us to say this edition is all Trump. 229 00:15:28,835 --> 00:15:30,635 Speaker 1: I'd like to get personal and give you a little 230 00:15:30,635 --> 00:15:33,395 Speaker 1: of my history with Trump. I am linked to him 231 00:15:33,395 --> 00:15:36,475 Speaker 1: by two stories. One is about selling my condo in 232 00:15:36,555 --> 00:15:39,715 Speaker 1: a Trump apartment building here because A I could no 233 00:15:39,755 --> 00:15:42,915 Speaker 1: longer bear to see his name over my front door anymore, 234 00:15:43,275 --> 00:15:45,595 Speaker 1: and B I realized that whether or not he won 235 00:15:45,835 --> 00:15:49,595 Speaker 1: or lost in twenty sixteen, his name alone would crash 236 00:15:49,715 --> 00:15:53,795 Speaker 1: the value of my apartment. The second story to which 237 00:15:54,075 --> 00:15:56,675 Speaker 1: links me, I'd like to update it for you. It's 238 00:15:56,675 --> 00:15:59,795 Speaker 1: a little piece I did in twenty sixteen called could 239 00:15:59,915 --> 00:16:04,475 Speaker 1: Trump pass a sanity test? The answer is it's less 240 00:16:04,515 --> 00:16:07,955 Speaker 1: likely now than it was in twenty sixteen. But first 241 00:16:08,075 --> 00:16:11,715 Speaker 1: let me read you something dated March twenty eight, twenty fourteen. 242 00:16:11,795 --> 00:16:14,395 Speaker 1: I was still working at ESPN. I had just done 243 00:16:14,395 --> 00:16:17,755 Speaker 1: a profile on the man who's daring launched my TV career, 244 00:16:17,875 --> 00:16:21,555 Speaker 1: Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, and this was in 245 00:16:21,635 --> 00:16:26,035 Speaker 1: my mailbox. Dear Keith, your piece on Ted Turner and 246 00:16:26,075 --> 00:16:29,675 Speaker 1: the Lifetime Achievement award was fantastic, and you're right when 247 00:16:29,675 --> 00:16:32,355 Speaker 1: you say he should get two of them. Keep up 248 00:16:32,395 --> 00:16:40,395 Speaker 1: the great work, with best wishes, sincerely, Donald Trump. Donald 249 00:16:40,435 --> 00:16:42,995 Speaker 1: Trump was a fan letter from Donald Trump to me. 250 00:16:44,675 --> 00:16:46,115 Speaker 1: I bet he'd like to have that one to do 251 00:16:46,195 --> 00:16:49,915 Speaker 1: over again. Could Trump pass a sanity test? That's next? This, 252 00:16:50,075 --> 00:17:08,235 Speaker 1: siscountdown Bee a bit much. Take two. So I have 253 00:17:08,315 --> 00:17:10,835 Speaker 1: told you what we know about Trump's indictment, and I 254 00:17:10,875 --> 00:17:14,195 Speaker 1: had told you my Trump origin story, and I've read 255 00:17:14,235 --> 00:17:17,155 Speaker 1: to you Trump's fan mail to me, and I've given 256 00:17:17,155 --> 00:17:19,715 Speaker 1: you a lot of the early highlights. But honest to God, 257 00:17:20,475 --> 00:17:25,875 Speaker 1: there was a time when I was known for SportsCenter, 258 00:17:26,555 --> 00:17:29,355 Speaker 1: or if we're just talking news, my name was linked 259 00:17:29,395 --> 00:17:33,115 Speaker 1: with President George W. Bush, or in a different sense, 260 00:17:33,155 --> 00:17:38,795 Speaker 1: with Bill O'Reilly. This all changed in twenty sixteen, like 261 00:17:38,995 --> 00:17:42,875 Speaker 1: so much of the life we knew then. By August 262 00:17:42,875 --> 00:17:44,875 Speaker 1: of that year, I was doing a video series where 263 00:17:44,915 --> 00:17:49,315 Speaker 1: GQ called The Closer, and after Trump won, another series 264 00:17:49,355 --> 00:17:52,235 Speaker 1: called The Resistance, and I forget the final play count, 265 00:17:52,315 --> 00:17:54,555 Speaker 1: but it was like one hundred and seventy episodes and 266 00:17:54,795 --> 00:17:59,115 Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty million plays. CBS News reported that 267 00:17:59,195 --> 00:18:03,755 Speaker 1: one episode got the most engagement on Facebook all year. Quote. 268 00:18:03,795 --> 00:18:07,075 Speaker 1: Political pundit keithal Roman found a way to channel concerns 269 00:18:07,075 --> 00:18:10,195 Speaker 1: about mister Trump. He started hosting a series of political 270 00:18:10,235 --> 00:18:14,715 Speaker 1: commentary and special interviews titled The Resistance with keithal Wrooman, 271 00:18:14,755 --> 00:18:18,835 Speaker 1: with the first episode featured on GQ on November sixteenth, 272 00:18:18,835 --> 00:18:25,315 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, reaching fifty four million people, equivalent to one 273 00:18:25,435 --> 00:18:29,755 Speaker 1: in six Americans. All right, I'd like to hear about 274 00:18:29,755 --> 00:18:34,515 Speaker 1: the other five please? Anyway, that's when I was kind 275 00:18:34,515 --> 00:18:37,635 Speaker 1: of free christened the anti Trump guy and the thing 276 00:18:37,715 --> 00:18:41,035 Speaker 1: that started me on that path. While you're selling my 277 00:18:41,075 --> 00:18:43,795 Speaker 1: apartment to get out of a Trump building. But ultimately 278 00:18:43,795 --> 00:18:47,035 Speaker 1: it was a piece I wrote for Vanity Fair, which 279 00:18:47,075 --> 00:18:51,195 Speaker 1: we then did a really long, very well photographed video 280 00:18:51,275 --> 00:18:55,875 Speaker 1: four called can Donald Trump Pass a Sanity Test? There 281 00:18:55,875 --> 00:18:58,915 Speaker 1: ain't no santy clause one wee changes I'm going to 282 00:18:58,995 --> 00:19:02,035 Speaker 1: give you from the original. There's some dates and timing 283 00:19:02,075 --> 00:19:05,595 Speaker 1: are corrected for clarification, and there's two editors notes. So 284 00:19:05,835 --> 00:19:11,475 Speaker 1: here goes. Can Trump pass a sanity test? Short answer, 285 00:19:11,555 --> 00:19:16,355 Speaker 1: according to the facts, probably not. First several important caveats. 286 00:19:16,355 --> 00:19:19,635 Speaker 1: There is little worse and nothing cheesier than questioning the 287 00:19:19,795 --> 00:19:24,435 Speaker 1: psychological stability of a public figure, especially a candidate for president. 288 00:19:24,515 --> 00:19:28,235 Speaker 1: Even in this case, except that in his year of campaigning, 289 00:19:28,315 --> 00:19:32,195 Speaker 1: Donald Trump called Lindsey Graham a quote nut job, Glenn 290 00:19:32,195 --> 00:19:35,515 Speaker 1: Beck a quote real nut job, and Bernie Sanders a 291 00:19:35,635 --> 00:19:40,995 Speaker 1: quote wacko. Trump has insisted Ben Carson's quote got pathological disease. 292 00:19:41,395 --> 00:19:45,035 Speaker 1: He asked to Barack Obama, is our president insane? He 293 00:19:45,115 --> 00:19:48,595 Speaker 1: called Ted Cruz unstable, unhinge, a little bit of a maniac, 294 00:19:48,635 --> 00:19:52,355 Speaker 1: and crazy or very dishonest. He also called the entire 295 00:19:52,515 --> 00:19:56,315 Speaker 1: CNBC network crazy. He called Megan Kelly crazy at least 296 00:19:56,355 --> 00:20:02,795 Speaker 1: six times. Respectful reticence about aspersions and cliches and mental 297 00:20:02,795 --> 00:20:06,475 Speaker 1: health questions in a time in which mocking was seemingly 298 00:20:06,715 --> 00:20:11,995 Speaker 1: slowly maturing into concern died a long time ago in 299 00:20:12,035 --> 00:20:16,035 Speaker 1: the twenty sixteen presidential cycle, and it died at Donald 300 00:20:16,035 --> 00:20:20,155 Speaker 1: Trump's hands. Moreover, if the question is asked seriously and 301 00:20:20,235 --> 00:20:24,915 Speaker 1: not gratuitously, just the examination might explain how Trump has 302 00:20:24,955 --> 00:20:28,555 Speaker 1: seemingly survived dozens of moments that might each have been 303 00:20:28,675 --> 00:20:32,955 Speaker 1: campaign enders for almost everybody else. Why have we not 304 00:20:33,035 --> 00:20:36,635 Speaker 1: asked if a given presidential candidate might be disqualified from 305 00:20:36,635 --> 00:20:40,715 Speaker 1: office due to psychological reasons? Because we not only cannot 306 00:20:40,755 --> 00:20:43,355 Speaker 1: see this forest for the trees, but each time we try, 307 00:20:44,395 --> 00:20:47,035 Speaker 1: there are even more trees blocking our view than when 308 00:20:47,075 --> 00:20:50,715 Speaker 1: there were before in the twenty four hour news cycle. 309 00:20:50,795 --> 00:20:55,875 Speaker 1: Each successive John Yurky's Iceland from the Manchurion candidate moment 310 00:20:56,235 --> 00:21:00,355 Speaker 1: is not registered cumulatively. It merely supplants the moment from 311 00:21:00,475 --> 00:21:05,355 Speaker 1: last week, where from yesterday or from this morning. This 312 00:21:05,435 --> 00:21:09,595 Speaker 1: could also explain Trump's seeming imperviousness to his own mind 313 00:21:09,635 --> 00:21:13,555 Speaker 1: bending campaign. Surely it must be exhausting to attack the 314 00:21:13,635 --> 00:21:18,995 Speaker 1: Pope February eighteenth attack, President Clinton, May eighteenth, attack, John 315 00:21:19,115 --> 00:21:25,715 Speaker 1: McCain July eighteenth, attack, Mexicans June sixteenth, attack, Muslims December 316 00:21:25,795 --> 00:21:29,195 Speaker 1: eighth attack. Candidates to use a teleprompter May twenty six 317 00:21:29,355 --> 00:21:32,515 Speaker 1: just before you give a speech using a teleprompter, May 318 00:21:32,595 --> 00:21:37,355 Speaker 1: twenty sixth. It's got to be exhausting, unless, as the 319 00:21:37,395 --> 00:21:42,955 Speaker 1: old joke goes, no pain, no gain, but also no brain, 320 00:21:43,515 --> 00:21:50,075 Speaker 1: no pain anyway. The actual sanity test I found is called, 321 00:21:50,075 --> 00:21:56,395 Speaker 1: by delicious coincidence, the Hair Psychopathy Checklist Revised Introduced by 322 00:21:56,515 --> 00:22:01,715 Speaker 1: a Canadian criminal psychologist, Robert D. Hair H a r E. 323 00:22:02,115 --> 00:22:04,515 Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty. It is still in use, though with 324 00:22:04,715 --> 00:22:07,955 Speaker 1: ever more diffuse and specific mental health diagnoses. It is 325 00:22:07,995 --> 00:22:11,795 Speaker 1: not without its critics. However, as a practicing therapist who 326 00:22:11,835 --> 00:22:14,875 Speaker 1: walked me through this test agreed it serves as a 327 00:22:14,955 --> 00:22:19,315 Speaker 1: kind of triage device to separate the injured from the 328 00:22:19,395 --> 00:22:25,275 Speaker 1: tripping from the psychopathic. And about that word, we seem 329 00:22:25,275 --> 00:22:32,155 Speaker 1: to have completely muddled up sociopath and psychopath. Sociopath by definition, 330 00:22:32,235 --> 00:22:35,355 Speaker 1: think Ted Kazinski, the unibomber, living out there in his 331 00:22:35,475 --> 00:22:38,915 Speaker 1: shack in the woods, feeling nothing for other humans and 332 00:22:39,355 --> 00:22:44,955 Speaker 1: unable to interact with them, literally mailing it in psychopath 333 00:22:45,715 --> 00:22:49,035 Speaker 1: think Bernie made Off, feeling nothing for other humans, but 334 00:22:49,115 --> 00:22:53,515 Speaker 1: having long ago learned how to expertly mimic relationships by 335 00:22:53,555 --> 00:22:56,795 Speaker 1: being whatever he needed to be to whoever he needed 336 00:22:56,795 --> 00:23:00,195 Speaker 1: to use. As the former FBI profile where greg O 337 00:23:00,395 --> 00:23:03,715 Speaker 1: McCrary told The New York Times made Off matched the 338 00:23:03,755 --> 00:23:08,475 Speaker 1: psychopathic rates of quote lying, manipulation, the ability to deceive 339 00:23:08,835 --> 00:23:13,355 Speaker 1: feelings of grandiosity and callousness toward their victims. And neither 340 00:23:13,395 --> 00:23:19,275 Speaker 1: the psychopath nor the sociopath is automatically physically dangerous. So 341 00:23:19,715 --> 00:23:22,355 Speaker 1: to the test for each of the twenty items on 342 00:23:22,435 --> 00:23:26,595 Speaker 1: the hair psychopathy checklist, and if anybody's hair has ever 343 00:23:26,635 --> 00:23:29,995 Speaker 1: been psychopathic, it certainly his Thank you very much. You're 344 00:23:30,035 --> 00:23:34,235 Speaker 1: supposed to assign the subject a score a zero, A one, 345 00:23:34,475 --> 00:23:38,515 Speaker 1: or two. The highest and most dangerous score is forty. 346 00:23:39,155 --> 00:23:42,235 Speaker 1: In the United States, the accepted minimum score for possible 347 00:23:42,275 --> 00:23:46,795 Speaker 1: psychopathy is thirty. So those are the rules. Let's play 348 00:23:46,835 --> 00:23:54,595 Speaker 1: the feud one glibness slash superficial charm. I had interviewed 349 00:23:54,635 --> 00:23:57,435 Speaker 1: Donald Trump as long ago as nineteen eighty three, and 350 00:23:57,555 --> 00:24:00,955 Speaker 1: I'd always thought him a horse's ass. But after running 351 00:24:00,995 --> 00:24:03,235 Speaker 1: into him when we both worked at NBC, and then 352 00:24:03,235 --> 00:24:05,115 Speaker 1: in the lobby of one of his apartment buildings in 353 00:24:05,115 --> 00:24:09,755 Speaker 1: which I lived, I was stunned to encounter a quiet, succinct, 354 00:24:10,075 --> 00:24:15,315 Speaker 1: seemingly sincere co worker and in essence landlord. In one role, 355 00:24:15,395 --> 00:24:19,435 Speaker 1: he described himself as an anti Bush pro Obama Liberal. 356 00:24:19,475 --> 00:24:22,675 Speaker 1: In the other, he urged me to contact him personally 357 00:24:22,875 --> 00:24:28,115 Speaker 1: with any problems or suggestions about the building. Then he 358 00:24:28,235 --> 00:24:31,595 Speaker 1: got onto the campaign stage in two fifteen, and boom, 359 00:24:31,835 --> 00:24:37,395 Speaker 1: he was America's newest Mussolini impersonator. For a while, I 360 00:24:37,515 --> 00:24:41,235 Speaker 1: was flummixed as to which of these mutually exclusive personalities 361 00:24:41,515 --> 00:24:44,915 Speaker 1: was the act and which was the fact. Then I 362 00:24:44,995 --> 00:24:48,595 Speaker 1: was reminded that it didn't really matter which that having 363 00:24:49,075 --> 00:24:52,915 Speaker 1: multiple personality should by itself preclude one from having access 364 00:24:52,955 --> 00:24:58,435 Speaker 1: to multiple nuclear warheads. I was explaining this on Bill 365 00:24:58,595 --> 00:25:02,075 Speaker 1: Maher's show in November of twenty fifteen when Bill suddenly 366 00:25:02,115 --> 00:25:06,235 Speaker 1: got so g whiz that I I almost didn't recognize him. 367 00:25:06,275 --> 00:25:11,515 Speaker 1: Me too, he exclaimed boyishly. Bill Maher cynical to such 368 00:25:11,515 --> 00:25:14,555 Speaker 1: a degree that he makes me seem as earnestly faithful 369 00:25:14,635 --> 00:25:18,275 Speaker 1: as the Pope said he had been just as convinced 370 00:25:18,515 --> 00:25:22,835 Speaker 1: and thus just as stunned by this hydra of different 371 00:25:22,915 --> 00:25:28,075 Speaker 1: Trumpian personas now I can easily imagine myself being taken 372 00:25:28,075 --> 00:25:30,755 Speaker 1: in by a con artist like Donald Trump. I mean 373 00:25:30,795 --> 00:25:35,635 Speaker 1: Trump wrote me that fan letter, but mar mar who 374 00:25:35,715 --> 00:25:40,195 Speaker 1: called me a corporate sellout in nineteen seventy eight when 375 00:25:40,195 --> 00:25:42,915 Speaker 1: I was nineteen years old, when I had to that 376 00:25:42,995 --> 00:25:47,475 Speaker 1: point earned about five hundred bucks from all the corporations 377 00:25:47,515 --> 00:25:52,795 Speaker 1: in the world combined. He fooled Bill Maher so glibness 378 00:25:52,795 --> 00:25:57,755 Speaker 1: and superficial charm, but at professional grade points awarded two 379 00:25:58,355 --> 00:26:04,435 Speaker 1: running score two out of a possible two test number 380 00:26:04,435 --> 00:26:09,235 Speaker 1: two on the hair test. Grandiose sense of self worth quote. 381 00:26:09,315 --> 00:26:12,395 Speaker 1: I feel like a supermodel, he said on June eighteenth, 382 00:26:12,475 --> 00:26:16,995 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, in Phoenix, except like Times ten. It's true. 383 00:26:17,075 --> 00:26:19,955 Speaker 1: I'm a supermodel. I'm on the cover of these magazines. 384 00:26:20,035 --> 00:26:24,435 Speaker 1: I'm on the cover of the biggest magazines. This stuff 385 00:26:24,475 --> 00:26:28,315 Speaker 1: about supermodels was stated by the first umpa lumpa American 386 00:26:28,435 --> 00:26:32,555 Speaker 1: to ever run for national office. He is bright orange. 387 00:26:32,915 --> 00:26:35,755 Speaker 1: He was then a seventy year old man affecting a 388 00:26:35,835 --> 00:26:38,755 Speaker 1: hair color and style that would have been rejected by 389 00:26:38,795 --> 00:26:43,155 Speaker 1: the eighties synth pop group A flock of seagulls. I 390 00:26:43,275 --> 00:26:48,875 Speaker 1: served with supermodels. I knew supermodels. Supermodels were friends of mine. Donald, 391 00:26:49,315 --> 00:26:55,755 Speaker 1: You're no supermodel? Points awarded two running score four out 392 00:26:55,755 --> 00:27:02,715 Speaker 1: of four point number three. Need for stimulation, proneness to boredom, 393 00:27:02,755 --> 00:27:05,155 Speaker 1: acknowledging that a lot of us get a point to here, 394 00:27:05,195 --> 00:27:07,675 Speaker 1: I certainly do not. All of those job changes were 395 00:27:07,715 --> 00:27:11,115 Speaker 1: their fault. Let me first quote the introduction from Trump's book, 396 00:27:11,195 --> 00:27:14,795 Speaker 1: Think like a billionaire, don't take vacations. What's the point? 397 00:27:15,075 --> 00:27:18,275 Speaker 1: Have a short attention span? Most successful people have very 398 00:27:18,315 --> 00:27:21,235 Speaker 1: short attention spans. It has a lot to do with imagination. 399 00:27:22,755 --> 00:27:26,075 Speaker 1: Here's some of the wide ranging businesses Trump's short attention 400 00:27:26,075 --> 00:27:32,075 Speaker 1: span has dragged him into real estate, vitamins, rentals, books, condos, chocolate, bars, 401 00:27:32,075 --> 00:27:36,635 Speaker 1: golf courses, pro football, beauty pageants, stakes, board games, television hosting, 402 00:27:36,715 --> 00:27:42,595 Speaker 1: bottled water, universities, men's where, professional wrestling, mortgages, airlines, fragrances, 403 00:27:42,675 --> 00:27:47,275 Speaker 1: coffee restaurants, energy drinks, vodka, search, engines, your analysis, and 404 00:27:47,435 --> 00:27:51,035 Speaker 1: of course, bicycle racing, the Tour to Trump, in which 405 00:27:51,075 --> 00:27:56,395 Speaker 1: contestants raced three hundred laps around his ego. And then 406 00:27:56,435 --> 00:27:58,715 Speaker 1: we have the whole President thing that happened after I 407 00:27:58,755 --> 00:28:03,035 Speaker 1: wrote this. Points awarded two running score six out of 408 00:28:03,115 --> 00:28:09,795 Speaker 1: six Top at four. Pathological lying June eighteenth at the 409 00:28:09,795 --> 00:28:13,515 Speaker 1: Woodlands in Texas. Quote. If some of those wonderful people 410 00:28:13,555 --> 00:28:17,195 Speaker 1: had guns strapped right here, right to their waist or 411 00:28:17,275 --> 00:28:19,315 Speaker 1: right to their ankle, and this son of a bitch 412 00:28:19,355 --> 00:28:21,475 Speaker 1: comes out and starts shooting, and one of the people 413 00:28:21,515 --> 00:28:23,675 Speaker 1: in that room happened to have it and goes boom, 414 00:28:24,075 --> 00:28:27,555 Speaker 1: you know what, that would have been a beautiful, beautiful site, folks. 415 00:28:27,995 --> 00:28:31,915 Speaker 1: That would have been a beautiful, beautiful sight. June twentieth 416 00:28:31,955 --> 00:28:34,755 Speaker 1: on Twitter, when I said that if within the Orlando 417 00:28:34,835 --> 00:28:36,995 Speaker 1: club you had some people with guns, I was obviously 418 00:28:37,035 --> 00:28:42,075 Speaker 1: talking about additional guards or employees. Can I stop there 419 00:28:42,595 --> 00:28:45,035 Speaker 1: or should I walk you through the hot and cold 420 00:28:45,155 --> 00:28:48,035 Speaker 1: running lies alternating with the admissions of the Times in 421 00:28:48,035 --> 00:28:51,755 Speaker 1: the nineties, he pretended to be his own spokesman, John 422 00:28:51,955 --> 00:28:56,755 Speaker 1: Miller and John Barron, or any of the twenty seven 423 00:28:56,915 --> 00:29:00,875 Speaker 1: pants on Fire recognitions that had been awarded by PolitiFact 424 00:29:00,875 --> 00:29:04,755 Speaker 1: to Trump for merely his most egregious lies from the 425 00:29:04,835 --> 00:29:08,915 Speaker 1: time he announced for the presidency through winning the Republican nomination. 426 00:29:10,195 --> 00:29:16,995 Speaker 1: Points awarded two running score eight out of eight. Topic 427 00:29:17,115 --> 00:29:21,915 Speaker 1: number five conning slash manipulative. I'm just going to assume 428 00:29:21,955 --> 00:29:25,355 Speaker 1: this was how Trump got Paul Ryan to commit professional 429 00:29:25,395 --> 00:29:29,355 Speaker 1: Harry Kiri. There are many different personality problems which include 430 00:29:29,395 --> 00:29:34,515 Speaker 1: almost supernatural one on one manipulation skills in the Trump 431 00:29:34,675 --> 00:29:41,315 Speaker 1: cannon see fools mar and fools Ulderman. Points awarded two 432 00:29:41,555 --> 00:29:45,995 Speaker 1: running score ten out of ten. Item six on the 433 00:29:46,035 --> 00:29:49,915 Speaker 1: hair test lack of remorse or guilt. Asked about his 434 00:29:50,115 --> 00:29:54,115 Speaker 1: faith at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa by 435 00:29:54,155 --> 00:29:58,955 Speaker 1: the moderator Frank Luntz in July of twenty fifteen, Trump said, quote, 436 00:29:59,475 --> 00:30:02,355 Speaker 1: people are so shocked when they find out I am Protestant, 437 00:30:02,715 --> 00:30:05,515 Speaker 1: I am Presbyterian, and I go to church, and I 438 00:30:05,595 --> 00:30:09,435 Speaker 1: love God and I love my church once followed up 439 00:30:09,435 --> 00:30:13,475 Speaker 1: with a softball of literally biblical proportions. He wanted to 440 00:30:13,515 --> 00:30:16,675 Speaker 1: know whether Trump has ever asked God for forgiveness for 441 00:30:16,715 --> 00:30:20,315 Speaker 1: his own actions. Quote, I'm not sure I have. I 442 00:30:20,435 --> 00:30:22,075 Speaker 1: just go on and try to do a better job 443 00:30:22,115 --> 00:30:24,315 Speaker 1: from there. I don't think so. I think if I 444 00:30:24,435 --> 00:30:26,955 Speaker 1: do something wrong, I think I just try and make 445 00:30:26,995 --> 00:30:30,995 Speaker 1: it right. I don't bring God into that picture. I don't. 446 00:30:32,115 --> 00:30:37,515 Speaker 1: Trump then explained that Holy communions sufficed for that, quoting again, 447 00:30:37,795 --> 00:30:40,075 Speaker 1: when I drink my little wine, which is about the 448 00:30:40,115 --> 00:30:42,355 Speaker 1: only wine I drank, and I have my little cracker, 449 00:30:42,675 --> 00:30:44,915 Speaker 1: I guess that is a form of asking for forgiveness, 450 00:30:44,955 --> 00:30:47,115 Speaker 1: and I do that as often as possible because I 451 00:30:47,115 --> 00:30:51,715 Speaker 1: feel cleansed. I think in terms of let's go on 452 00:30:51,795 --> 00:30:56,355 Speaker 1: and let's make it right, the art of the deal. Indeed, 453 00:30:57,555 --> 00:31:00,995 Speaker 1: Trump picked up the thread with Jake Tapper in January 454 00:31:01,035 --> 00:31:05,075 Speaker 1: of twenty sixteen. Again the subject was religion. I like 455 00:31:05,235 --> 00:31:08,115 Speaker 1: to be good. I don't like to have to ask 456 00:31:08,195 --> 00:31:12,315 Speaker 1: for forgiveness. Tapper then asked about a rival, presumed to 457 00:31:12,355 --> 00:31:15,275 Speaker 1: be Ted Cruz, who was conducting field research into the 458 00:31:15,315 --> 00:31:18,995 Speaker 1: efficacy of questioning Trump's religious convictions as part of his 459 00:31:19,075 --> 00:31:22,915 Speaker 1: campaign against Trump, Trump said he shouldn't be doing that, 460 00:31:23,075 --> 00:31:28,195 Speaker 1: very unethical. Within a few weeks, Trump attacked Cruiz's religious 461 00:31:28,195 --> 00:31:32,315 Speaker 1: convictions instead. On February twelfth, he tweeted, how can Ted 462 00:31:32,355 --> 00:31:35,635 Speaker 1: Cruze be an evangelical Christian when he lies so much 463 00:31:35,675 --> 00:31:40,235 Speaker 1: and is so dishonest. You shouldn't talk about religion. You 464 00:31:40,235 --> 00:31:44,235 Speaker 1: shouldn't talk about my religion. Not a week after that, 465 00:31:44,395 --> 00:31:48,195 Speaker 1: Pope Francis answered a question about Trump's overall tone in 466 00:31:48,235 --> 00:31:50,995 Speaker 1: the campaign and said a person who thinks only about 467 00:31:50,995 --> 00:31:55,195 Speaker 1: building walls wherever they may be and not building bridges 468 00:31:56,115 --> 00:32:02,315 Speaker 1: is not Christian. Within hours, Trump responded by slamming the Pope. 469 00:32:02,795 --> 00:32:05,915 Speaker 1: He fantasized about an ISIS attack on the Vatican that 470 00:32:05,995 --> 00:32:09,635 Speaker 1: only he could stop, and he concluded this remarkable circle 471 00:32:09,675 --> 00:32:12,835 Speaker 1: of the illogic by writing, for a religious leader to 472 00:32:12,915 --> 00:32:18,195 Speaker 1: question a person's faith is disgraceful. He's a religious leader 473 00:32:18,515 --> 00:32:20,675 Speaker 1: who's going to question a person's faith? If not a 474 00:32:20,755 --> 00:32:25,195 Speaker 1: religious leader? Huh? And this was right after trumpet question 475 00:32:25,275 --> 00:32:28,475 Speaker 1: a person's faith after he twice admitted that his faith 476 00:32:28,635 --> 00:32:31,835 Speaker 1: included the option to not ask forgiveness and to not 477 00:32:31,995 --> 00:32:36,155 Speaker 1: bring God into that picture. And just four months before 478 00:32:36,155 --> 00:32:38,435 Speaker 1: he would go back to the well and question Hillary 479 00:32:38,475 --> 00:32:44,155 Speaker 1: Clinton's religious faith points. Awarded two running score twelve out 480 00:32:44,155 --> 00:32:51,035 Speaker 1: of twelve. Item number seven on the Hair Psychopathy Checklist 481 00:32:51,715 --> 00:32:55,595 Speaker 1: shallow affect. Now I had to have this one thoroughly 482 00:32:55,635 --> 00:32:58,875 Speaker 1: explained to me by my analyst friend. In some its 483 00:32:58,955 --> 00:33:03,155 Speaker 1: tone deafness when it comes to explaining relationships between people. 484 00:33:03,235 --> 00:33:06,435 Speaker 1: For instance, if somebody got up on stage for the 485 00:33:06,435 --> 00:33:10,035 Speaker 1: sake of argument, say it's Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden, 486 00:33:10,355 --> 00:33:14,155 Speaker 1: and Billy Joel insulted you by sarcastically dedicating to you 487 00:33:14,235 --> 00:33:17,195 Speaker 1: his song The Entertainer as a way of saying you 488 00:33:17,235 --> 00:33:21,195 Speaker 1: weren't a leader or a politician even but merely an entertainer. 489 00:33:21,635 --> 00:33:25,355 Speaker 1: You might take umbridge or at least recognize the dig 490 00:33:25,795 --> 00:33:29,555 Speaker 1: or complain that Billy only sings the same twelve songs 491 00:33:29,595 --> 00:33:32,595 Speaker 1: every couple of weeks in every concert he's had for 492 00:33:32,595 --> 00:33:36,595 Speaker 1: forty years. But not if you are suffering from shallow affect, 493 00:33:36,635 --> 00:33:40,715 Speaker 1: you wouldn't quote thank you, Billy Joel, Trump tweeted on 494 00:33:40,795 --> 00:33:43,475 Speaker 1: May twenty seventh. Many friends just told me you gave 495 00:33:43,515 --> 00:33:47,035 Speaker 1: me a very kind shout out at MSG. Appreciated love 496 00:33:47,075 --> 00:33:51,635 Speaker 1: your music. Another example of shallow affect would be a 497 00:33:51,715 --> 00:33:55,115 Speaker 1: kind of approach to how people influence each other's lives 498 00:33:55,195 --> 00:33:59,795 Speaker 1: that could be diagrammed as event B followed event A. 499 00:34:00,675 --> 00:34:05,355 Speaker 1: Therefore event A caused event B. If say, a prominent 500 00:34:05,395 --> 00:34:10,155 Speaker 1: athlete ignored you in some other tangential way interacted with 501 00:34:10,235 --> 00:34:14,075 Speaker 1: you before failing or being injured, with shallow affect, you 502 00:34:14,155 --> 00:34:17,395 Speaker 1: might think in passing that you jinxed him, especially if 503 00:34:17,395 --> 00:34:19,995 Speaker 1: you were still nine or ten years old, but you 504 00:34:20,115 --> 00:34:24,915 Speaker 1: probably wouldn't publicly claim it, not unless you were really 505 00:34:25,115 --> 00:34:30,355 Speaker 1: suffering from shallow affect. Quote Derek Jeter had a great 506 00:34:30,395 --> 00:34:34,675 Speaker 1: career until three days ago. Trump tweeted on October fifteenth, 507 00:34:34,675 --> 00:34:39,275 Speaker 1: twenty twelve, after the former Yankees captain shattered his ankle 508 00:34:39,395 --> 00:34:42,835 Speaker 1: during a playoff game when he sold his apartment at 509 00:34:42,875 --> 00:34:49,155 Speaker 1: Trump World Tower. I told him not to sell karma. 510 00:34:49,395 --> 00:34:53,515 Speaker 1: The answer this chain letter or many ankles will get 511 00:34:53,555 --> 00:34:56,835 Speaker 1: broken theme was not some early passing expression of the 512 00:34:56,835 --> 00:35:02,035 Speaker 1: now familiar syndrome we might describe as TWT tweeting wild. 513 00:35:02,115 --> 00:35:06,435 Speaker 1: Trump five days later, quote Derek Jeter broke ankle one 514 00:35:06,475 --> 00:35:08,995 Speaker 1: day after he sold his apartment in Trump World Tower. 515 00:35:10,795 --> 00:35:13,475 Speaker 1: And just to finish this topic, off. Another aspect to 516 00:35:13,555 --> 00:35:18,155 Speaker 1: shallow affect would be an unwillingness to acknowledge reliance on others. 517 00:35:18,155 --> 00:35:21,515 Speaker 1: In other words, it's just you. It's always you, It's 518 00:35:21,595 --> 00:35:26,075 Speaker 1: only you. On March sixteenth, Trump was asked about which 519 00:35:26,195 --> 00:35:30,755 Speaker 1: foreign policy consultants he was speaking to. I'm speaking with 520 00:35:30,795 --> 00:35:33,555 Speaker 1: myself number one, because I have a very good brain, 521 00:35:33,875 --> 00:35:38,395 Speaker 1: he said. Seriously, I know what I'm doing, and I 522 00:35:38,435 --> 00:35:40,035 Speaker 1: listened to a lot of people. I talk to a 523 00:35:40,035 --> 00:35:42,395 Speaker 1: lot of people, and at the appropriate time, I'll tell 524 00:35:42,395 --> 00:35:46,115 Speaker 1: you who the people are. But my primary consultant is myself, 525 00:35:46,395 --> 00:35:49,875 Speaker 1: and I have a good instinct for this stuff. On 526 00:35:49,955 --> 00:35:53,635 Speaker 1: June twenty fourth, twenty sixteen, in Scotland, he again described 527 00:35:53,635 --> 00:35:57,235 Speaker 1: his dream consultant, saying he spoke to quote foreign policy 528 00:35:57,275 --> 00:36:00,075 Speaker 1: advisors all the time, but the advice has to come 529 00:36:00,115 --> 00:36:03,875 Speaker 1: for me. The advice has to come from me. Points 530 00:36:03,875 --> 00:36:10,635 Speaker 1: awarded two running score fourteen out of fourteen. Item eight 531 00:36:10,875 --> 00:36:15,755 Speaker 1: on the hair Psychopathy checklist callous slash lack of empathy. 532 00:36:16,875 --> 00:36:20,435 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you already know this. One June twelfth, twenty sixteen, 533 00:36:20,755 --> 00:36:23,715 Speaker 1: hours after the last shots were fired at the Pulse 534 00:36:23,755 --> 00:36:28,355 Speaker 1: Club in Orlando, quote, appreciate the congrats we're being right 535 00:36:28,475 --> 00:36:32,235 Speaker 1: on radical Islamic terrorism. I don't want congrats. I want 536 00:36:32,275 --> 00:36:36,475 Speaker 1: toughness and vigilance. We must be smart. As a reminder, 537 00:36:36,515 --> 00:36:39,275 Speaker 1: you cannot give fifteen hundred points for one item on 538 00:36:39,315 --> 00:36:43,075 Speaker 1: the hair checklist, even if that total is seemingly deserved. 539 00:36:43,435 --> 00:36:49,355 Speaker 1: Points awarded two running score sixteen out of sixteen, number nine. 540 00:36:49,395 --> 00:36:53,675 Speaker 1: Parasitic lifestyle. This is not as I originally thought, living 541 00:36:53,755 --> 00:36:57,075 Speaker 1: materially off mom or Dad or others, although that can 542 00:36:57,115 --> 00:37:00,075 Speaker 1: be a minor component, especially if you know Dad gave 543 00:37:00,075 --> 00:37:03,115 Speaker 1: you a million dollar loan circa nineteen seventy, and then 544 00:37:03,115 --> 00:37:05,435 Speaker 1: you've got nine million more from a bank on the 545 00:37:05,475 --> 00:37:08,715 Speaker 1: promise of your inheritance, and ultimately you got about forty 546 00:37:08,715 --> 00:37:11,755 Speaker 1: million upon your father's death, and you considered all this 547 00:37:11,875 --> 00:37:15,635 Speaker 1: just a small start. It has more to do with 548 00:37:15,715 --> 00:37:18,715 Speaker 1: taking credit for the work of others to the degree 549 00:37:18,715 --> 00:37:22,995 Speaker 1: of erasing all record of their contributions and slapping your 550 00:37:23,075 --> 00:37:26,635 Speaker 1: name on their efforts, often in transactions in which you 551 00:37:26,675 --> 00:37:29,835 Speaker 1: are literally renting the use of your name as a 552 00:37:29,875 --> 00:37:34,955 Speaker 1: brand and nothing else. You know, like Trump Palace, the 553 00:37:35,035 --> 00:37:39,915 Speaker 1: Tour to Trump, Trump Stakes, Trump taj Mahal, Donald Trump, 554 00:37:39,955 --> 00:37:44,715 Speaker 1: the Fragrance and of course, Castle trumpula, and just as 555 00:37:44,835 --> 00:37:48,315 Speaker 1: in court, a wife cannot be forced to give evidence 556 00:37:48,355 --> 00:37:52,675 Speaker 1: of parasitic lifestyle against her husband. Despite Milania Trump's twenty 557 00:37:52,915 --> 00:37:58,115 Speaker 1: sixteen convention speech, lots of which seemed copied from Michelle 558 00:37:58,155 --> 00:38:04,955 Speaker 1: Obama unless Hubby wrote that speech. Points awarded two, running 559 00:38:05,035 --> 00:38:10,275 Speaker 1: score eighteen out of eighteen. Well done, Donald, Item ten 560 00:38:10,515 --> 00:38:15,995 Speaker 1: poor behavioral controls, Well, he had poor behavioral controls, But 561 00:38:16,075 --> 00:38:18,995 Speaker 1: everybody agrees he's going to dial it all back this 562 00:38:19,115 --> 00:38:23,995 Speaker 1: time right after he pivots pivots towards dialing it back. 563 00:38:24,955 --> 00:38:32,115 Speaker 1: Right Judge Gonzalo Curiel, right, Don King, Joel Austine, Ben Roethlisberger, 564 00:38:32,155 --> 00:38:34,515 Speaker 1: Pete Rose, or anybody else who Trump claimed that endorsed 565 00:38:34,595 --> 00:38:37,355 Speaker 1: him when they had not, Or the Hispanic ABC reporter 566 00:38:37,355 --> 00:38:41,075 Speaker 1: he'd called a sleez, or the losing Republican presidential hopefuls 567 00:38:41,115 --> 00:38:43,515 Speaker 1: he mocked in a video the day after insisting he 568 00:38:43,515 --> 00:38:46,995 Speaker 1: would unite the Republican Party, or you know, everybody in 569 00:38:46,995 --> 00:38:52,595 Speaker 1: the world since not twenty seventeen. Points awarded two, running 570 00:38:52,675 --> 00:38:57,875 Speaker 1: score twenty out of twenty. Item eleven on this test 571 00:38:58,155 --> 00:39:03,315 Speaker 1: is promiscuous sexual behavior. And if I ever heard a 572 00:39:03,355 --> 00:39:07,755 Speaker 1: better moment, in any thing I have ever written to say. 573 00:39:08,155 --> 00:39:13,275 Speaker 1: I'll be back after this. It's eleven promiscuous sexual behavior. 574 00:39:13,995 --> 00:39:16,915 Speaker 1: I'll finish off the score of Donald Trump on the 575 00:39:17,475 --> 00:39:21,595 Speaker 1: could he pass a Sanity test test right after this 576 00:39:27,155 --> 00:39:30,275 Speaker 1: to resume that piece of work which originally tied me 577 00:39:30,315 --> 00:39:34,075 Speaker 1: to Donald Trump for life, the twenty sixteen Vanity Fair 578 00:39:34,195 --> 00:39:37,795 Speaker 1: article could Trump pass a Sanity Test? We had gotten 579 00:39:37,835 --> 00:39:42,675 Speaker 1: through the first ten points on the hair psychopathy test 580 00:39:43,235 --> 00:39:47,075 Speaker 1: and judging whether or not literally Trump could pass or 581 00:39:47,115 --> 00:39:51,755 Speaker 1: would fail this literal sanity test through ten which was 582 00:39:51,875 --> 00:39:55,915 Speaker 1: poor behavioral controls, he had a running score of twenty 583 00:39:55,915 --> 00:39:59,555 Speaker 1: points out of a possible twenty points. So if you're 584 00:39:59,555 --> 00:40:01,555 Speaker 1: going to wager now on how he did on the 585 00:40:01,595 --> 00:40:05,555 Speaker 1: whole exam, you better get your bets in now, because 586 00:40:05,635 --> 00:40:10,475 Speaker 1: point number eleven on the hair psychopathy exam is promiscuous 587 00:40:10,555 --> 00:40:14,555 Speaker 1: sexual behavior. I've told you this before. When I was 588 00:40:14,595 --> 00:40:17,795 Speaker 1: a young radio sportscaster, I was given the great opportunity 589 00:40:17,875 --> 00:40:21,155 Speaker 1: to interview by telephone a famous athlete who had just 590 00:40:21,235 --> 00:40:24,035 Speaker 1: been suspended from his own sport because he had gone 591 00:40:24,075 --> 00:40:27,475 Speaker 1: to work for casino. The athlete was Willie Mays, and 592 00:40:27,555 --> 00:40:30,475 Speaker 1: he was expecting my call and this, as near as 593 00:40:30,475 --> 00:40:32,995 Speaker 1: I can remember, it was the transcript of the start 594 00:40:33,035 --> 00:40:36,915 Speaker 1: of the call, ring ring voice sounding kind of like 595 00:40:37,035 --> 00:40:40,115 Speaker 1: Hattie McDaniel, the Academy Award winning actress from Gone with 596 00:40:40,155 --> 00:40:46,595 Speaker 1: the Wind. Mister Mays's residence. Me Hi. Milton Richmond from 597 00:40:46,675 --> 00:40:49,235 Speaker 1: UPI gave me mister Mays's number and said he would 598 00:40:49,275 --> 00:40:51,035 Speaker 1: be willing to give me a brief interview. May I 599 00:40:51,075 --> 00:40:54,715 Speaker 1: speak with mister Mays please, voice sounding kind of like 600 00:40:54,795 --> 00:40:57,555 Speaker 1: Hattie McDaniel, the Academy Award winning actress from Gone with 601 00:40:57,595 --> 00:41:02,275 Speaker 1: the Wind. Who's calling please me? My name is Keith 602 00:41:02,315 --> 00:41:07,035 Speaker 1: all Ryman from UPI Radio, voice suddenly changing to voice 603 00:41:07,075 --> 00:41:12,475 Speaker 1: of Willie May's. This is Willie. As silly as the 604 00:41:12,515 --> 00:41:16,555 Speaker 1: story of the whole fake Trump spokesman was. Of course 605 00:41:16,555 --> 00:41:20,875 Speaker 1: he has invisible friends, and of course they are pr flacks. 606 00:41:21,675 --> 00:41:25,435 Speaker 1: Lost in the laughter were three important details. Firstly, as 607 00:41:25,475 --> 00:41:28,355 Speaker 1: my conversation with Willie May's in nineteen seventy nine and 608 00:41:28,435 --> 00:41:34,555 Speaker 1: his imaginary housekeeper suggests, ordinary people do do this, but secondly, 609 00:41:34,555 --> 00:41:37,235 Speaker 1: when they do it, they usually try to disguise their 610 00:41:37,275 --> 00:41:42,235 Speaker 1: own voice. Thirdly, rarely do they assume other identities in 611 00:41:42,315 --> 00:41:45,395 Speaker 1: order to provide the second component to what we categorize 612 00:41:45,435 --> 00:41:50,995 Speaker 1: as sexual promiscuity, besides multiple partners, which is according to 613 00:41:51,075 --> 00:41:58,195 Speaker 1: psychiatrists boasting about it nineteen ninety one, John Miller, Trump 614 00:41:58,315 --> 00:42:02,275 Speaker 1: spokesman who sounded exactly like Trump talking to Sue Carswell, 615 00:42:02,355 --> 00:42:06,275 Speaker 1: then of people and now of vanity fair quote. Trump 616 00:42:06,635 --> 00:42:09,355 Speaker 1: is somebody that has got a lot of options, and frankly, 617 00:42:09,395 --> 00:42:12,475 Speaker 1: he gets called by everybody, gets called by everybody in 618 00:42:12,515 --> 00:42:15,035 Speaker 1: the book. In terms of women, I mean they call, 619 00:42:15,515 --> 00:42:18,755 Speaker 1: they just call. He's living with Marla and he's got 620 00:42:18,795 --> 00:42:24,395 Speaker 1: three other girlfriends. This was before the Access Hollywood video. 621 00:42:24,515 --> 00:42:28,595 Speaker 1: By the way, Points awarded two again because we couldn't 622 00:42:28,675 --> 00:42:32,595 Speaker 1: award two million. Running score twenty two out of twenty two. 623 00:42:34,075 --> 00:42:38,395 Speaker 1: Category twelve. Early behavior problems. Now, when I was a kid, 624 00:42:38,435 --> 00:42:41,715 Speaker 1: probably four or five, I twice hit a friend of 625 00:42:41,755 --> 00:42:44,115 Speaker 1: mine in the back of the head with a metal toy. 626 00:42:44,755 --> 00:42:49,755 Speaker 1: I remember shock blood, but no stitches, and family meetings. 627 00:42:49,915 --> 00:42:53,115 Speaker 1: We talked, and then folks got professional advice, and they 628 00:42:53,155 --> 00:42:55,915 Speaker 1: got me into organized sports and into exercise. And I 629 00:42:55,995 --> 00:42:59,275 Speaker 1: quickly realized that just because I was frustrated with somebody, 630 00:42:59,315 --> 00:43:01,355 Speaker 1: that was not a good reason to hit them with 631 00:43:01,395 --> 00:43:06,115 Speaker 1: a toy. Truck regardless, and I had my analyst friend 632 00:43:06,195 --> 00:43:09,955 Speaker 1: run the hair psychopathy checklist on me. I insisted she 633 00:43:10,075 --> 00:43:13,435 Speaker 1: give me a point on this because hitting a kid 634 00:43:13,555 --> 00:43:16,475 Speaker 1: in the back of the head with a toy truck 635 00:43:16,515 --> 00:43:19,475 Speaker 1: and then later a magnet was at minimum an indicator 636 00:43:19,515 --> 00:43:23,915 Speaker 1: of the potential for early behavior problems. So if you 637 00:43:23,995 --> 00:43:26,355 Speaker 1: give me a point for that out of a possible 638 00:43:26,395 --> 00:43:28,795 Speaker 1: two points, how many points would you give to a 639 00:43:28,915 --> 00:43:34,675 Speaker 1: child who attacked one of his own teachers. Quote I 640 00:43:34,795 --> 00:43:38,195 Speaker 1: actually gave a teacher a black eye, Trump wrote in 641 00:43:38,235 --> 00:43:40,835 Speaker 1: the Art of the Deal in nineteen eighty seven, barely 642 00:43:40,955 --> 00:43:45,395 Speaker 1: concealing his retroactive glee. He placed the assault in the 643 00:43:45,515 --> 00:43:49,715 Speaker 1: second grade, likely making him seven years old. Quote I 644 00:43:49,795 --> 00:43:53,155 Speaker 1: punched my music teacher because I didn't think he knew 645 00:43:53,195 --> 00:43:59,075 Speaker 1: anything about music, and I almost got expelled. What kind 646 00:43:59,115 --> 00:44:04,035 Speaker 1: of kid punches an adult in the face. I mean, 647 00:44:04,195 --> 00:44:07,835 Speaker 1: think back to being that age. You're in the second grade. 648 00:44:08,395 --> 00:44:11,715 Speaker 1: The one universal I can recall was that no seven 649 00:44:11,795 --> 00:44:15,395 Speaker 1: year old ever dreamt of trying to physically take on 650 00:44:15,555 --> 00:44:19,035 Speaker 1: an adult, for the simple and unavoidable reason that virtually 651 00:44:19,075 --> 00:44:22,195 Speaker 1: any adult was several times your own weight. If you 652 00:44:22,355 --> 00:44:24,515 Speaker 1: pick the wrong adult, they might do more than just 653 00:44:24,635 --> 00:44:28,275 Speaker 1: defend themselves. Even knocking an adult down could be an 654 00:44:28,275 --> 00:44:33,075 Speaker 1: exercising self destruction if he fell on you. The most 655 00:44:33,195 --> 00:44:37,115 Speaker 1: reality challenged of my classmates the kid who once ran 656 00:44:37,475 --> 00:44:41,395 Speaker 1: headfirst into the side of a moving school bus for 657 00:44:41,475 --> 00:44:45,475 Speaker 1: reasons that still remain unclear. Nine presidents later, he would 658 00:44:45,515 --> 00:44:50,195 Speaker 1: never have hit an adult. There is a second version 659 00:44:50,235 --> 00:44:52,955 Speaker 1: of the same story from a Trump biographer. He did 660 00:44:53,115 --> 00:44:56,235 Speaker 1: indeed give the teacher a black eye, but not with 661 00:44:56,275 --> 00:44:59,635 Speaker 1: a punch. He threw an eraser at the teacher and 662 00:44:59,755 --> 00:45:04,675 Speaker 1: hit him just right. Well, because that's way better, huh. Regardless, 663 00:45:04,715 --> 00:45:07,435 Speaker 1: the version Trump tells is of the four foot tall 664 00:45:07,595 --> 00:45:10,755 Speaker 1: edition of himself punching what was at least a five 665 00:45:10,835 --> 00:45:14,275 Speaker 1: foot tall adult in the eye hard enough to give 666 00:45:14,315 --> 00:45:18,475 Speaker 1: the man a shiner. The only argument against calling this 667 00:45:18,635 --> 00:45:21,555 Speaker 1: early behavior problems is that the first word implies that 668 00:45:21,595 --> 00:45:28,715 Speaker 1: it stopped at some point. Points awarded again two running 669 00:45:28,795 --> 00:45:34,155 Speaker 1: score twenty four out of twenty four, number thirteen. Lack 670 00:45:34,275 --> 00:45:40,395 Speaker 1: of realistic long term goals here the streak ended so far, 671 00:45:40,515 --> 00:45:44,315 Speaker 1: mister Trump has theoretically aced our exam, which is not 672 00:45:44,395 --> 00:45:48,915 Speaker 1: a good thing. But reality now invades our idyllic scene. 673 00:45:49,795 --> 00:45:52,635 Speaker 1: There could be a thousand things psychologically wrong with the 674 00:45:52,715 --> 00:45:55,515 Speaker 1: process by which Trump ends up with a low score 675 00:45:55,515 --> 00:45:57,475 Speaker 1: on this one. I mean, in the big picture, you 676 00:45:57,515 --> 00:46:01,795 Speaker 1: would have never thought Mussolini was less crazy just because 677 00:46:01,795 --> 00:46:05,075 Speaker 1: he left Italy for Switzerland in nineteen o two in 678 00:46:05,195 --> 00:46:09,155 Speaker 1: part to avoid military service, and exactly twenty years later 679 00:46:09,195 --> 00:46:12,875 Speaker 1: he became head of the Italian state and often dressed 680 00:46:12,955 --> 00:46:17,475 Speaker 1: up in a military uniform. But tests or tests, and 681 00:46:17,555 --> 00:46:21,355 Speaker 1: if you say, this guy Trump so lacks realistic long 682 00:46:21,475 --> 00:46:24,035 Speaker 1: term goals that he thinks he can become president and 683 00:46:24,155 --> 00:46:27,355 Speaker 1: he winds up with the nomination of a major party. 684 00:46:27,715 --> 00:46:32,595 Speaker 1: The long term goals turned out to be not that unrealistic. Huh. Still, 685 00:46:32,635 --> 00:46:35,595 Speaker 1: he gets only partial credit here because once again he 686 00:46:35,715 --> 00:46:39,795 Speaker 1: boasts about having the very thing psychology says is a 687 00:46:39,835 --> 00:46:44,035 Speaker 1: warning sign in the preface to think like a billionaire. 688 00:46:44,395 --> 00:46:50,475 Speaker 1: Trump quotes author Richard Coniff. Almost all successful alpha personalities 689 00:46:50,675 --> 00:46:54,755 Speaker 1: display a single minded determination to impose their vision on 690 00:46:54,835 --> 00:47:00,835 Speaker 1: the world, an irrational belief in unreasonable goals, bordering sometimes 691 00:47:01,195 --> 00:47:07,675 Speaker 1: on lunacy. I get a point here too, It's one 692 00:47:07,715 --> 00:47:10,995 Speaker 1: of my four or five points because I've always thought 693 00:47:11,035 --> 00:47:16,035 Speaker 1: I would make a great prime minister of the United Kingdom. 694 00:47:16,075 --> 00:47:19,795 Speaker 1: I have never been to the United Kingdom. Points awarded 695 00:47:19,995 --> 00:47:26,395 Speaker 1: one running score twenty five out of twenty six editors, 696 00:47:26,475 --> 00:47:29,755 Speaker 1: note number one. When I wrote this in twenty sixteen, 697 00:47:29,795 --> 00:47:32,115 Speaker 1: I gave Trump one point because I knew that while 698 00:47:32,115 --> 00:47:34,675 Speaker 1: he had breeze to the Republican nomination, there was no 699 00:47:34,715 --> 00:47:38,555 Speaker 1: way it would actually become president. So if you hadn't heard, 700 00:47:38,595 --> 00:47:41,395 Speaker 1: he did become president. So I have to take this 701 00:47:41,395 --> 00:47:44,315 Speaker 1: point away. I mean, becoming president cannot be considered an 702 00:47:44,355 --> 00:47:48,115 Speaker 1: unrealistic long term goal if you become freaking president, no 703 00:47:48,155 --> 00:47:50,635 Speaker 1: matter how you did it, no matter which country did 704 00:47:50,635 --> 00:47:54,915 Speaker 1: it for you. So his score reverts to twenty four 705 00:47:54,955 --> 00:47:57,715 Speaker 1: out of twenty six, and I'll use that corrected score 706 00:47:57,795 --> 00:48:03,955 Speaker 1: going forward, all right back to the original piece fourteen. Impulsivity. 707 00:48:04,155 --> 00:48:07,435 Speaker 1: Impulse Civity is like the old judicial definition of pornography. 708 00:48:07,475 --> 00:48:09,315 Speaker 1: You may not be able to define it, but you're 709 00:48:09,315 --> 00:48:12,075 Speaker 1: supposed to know it when you see it. Even the 710 00:48:12,195 --> 00:48:15,875 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal editorial board, which seems not to have 711 00:48:15,875 --> 00:48:19,955 Speaker 1: approved of anything newer than Napoleon, took it for granted 712 00:48:19,995 --> 00:48:24,635 Speaker 1: that Trump defines the word impulsive. It wrote on June first, 713 00:48:24,675 --> 00:48:28,875 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, mister Trump, needs to convince millions of skeptical 714 00:48:28,955 --> 00:48:33,075 Speaker 1: voters that he's more than an impulsive bully who poses 715 00:48:33,115 --> 00:48:37,755 Speaker 1: too big a risk in the oval office unquote. Yet 716 00:48:37,995 --> 00:48:41,435 Speaker 1: one man's impulsiveness might be another's recognition of the perfect 717 00:48:41,475 --> 00:48:44,835 Speaker 1: moment to act. Former colleague of mine met a woman 718 00:48:44,875 --> 00:48:47,875 Speaker 1: on a date proposed to her a week later. She 719 00:48:47,915 --> 00:48:52,195 Speaker 1: immediately said yes. Were they being impulsive or just visionary? 720 00:48:52,675 --> 00:48:55,355 Speaker 1: What about my other colleague who met a woman on 721 00:48:55,395 --> 00:48:58,835 Speaker 1: a date proposed to her the next day? She took 722 00:48:58,835 --> 00:49:02,955 Speaker 1: a day to think about it and said yes. The 723 00:49:03,075 --> 00:49:07,275 Speaker 1: first couple have now been married for thirty six years. 724 00:49:08,275 --> 00:49:14,755 Speaker 1: The second couple got it annulled at about thirty six hours. Impulsiveness, 725 00:49:14,875 --> 00:49:17,955 Speaker 1: as we layman use it tends to be results based 726 00:49:18,275 --> 00:49:22,755 Speaker 1: and devolves rapidly into twenty twenty hindsight. But in March 727 00:49:22,835 --> 00:49:27,235 Speaker 1: of twenty sixteen, writing in Psychology Today, doctor Glenn Gaihor 728 00:49:27,875 --> 00:49:31,395 Speaker 1: offered a different definition of impulsiveness. It's not necessarily the 729 00:49:31,395 --> 00:49:36,075 Speaker 1: same as rashness or its positive twin quick thinking. True 730 00:49:36,115 --> 00:49:42,835 Speaker 1: impulsiveness usually leaves fingerprints of edgy, though not automatically pernicious behavior. Rather, 731 00:49:42,955 --> 00:49:45,835 Speaker 1: it makes one do these things in the wrong place, 732 00:49:45,915 --> 00:49:49,875 Speaker 1: at the wrong time, like as mister Gayre was analyzing 733 00:49:50,115 --> 00:49:53,875 Speaker 1: discussing the size of your penis during a presidential debate. 734 00:49:55,875 --> 00:49:59,075 Speaker 1: Gayor did not include the other examples where the context 735 00:49:59,115 --> 00:50:02,355 Speaker 1: turns the behavior or the language from borderline to impulsive. 736 00:50:02,995 --> 00:50:05,995 Speaker 1: I mean, you might appropriately bring up that topic in bed, 737 00:50:06,155 --> 00:50:09,235 Speaker 1: or at a bar, or even at your tailors, like 738 00:50:09,395 --> 00:50:13,515 Speaker 1: saying a female presidential candidate had been schlonged in a primary, 739 00:50:13,835 --> 00:50:16,715 Speaker 1: Like criticizing the face of one of your female rivals 740 00:50:16,955 --> 00:50:21,155 Speaker 1: during speech, like crudely referring to a network television figures 741 00:50:21,195 --> 00:50:27,155 Speaker 1: menstruation while on a rival television network like the Hollywood tape. 742 00:50:27,315 --> 00:50:31,155 Speaker 1: The what was that? Line? Again grabbed them by the 743 00:50:31,675 --> 00:50:36,435 Speaker 1: points awarded two running score twenty six out of twenty eight. 744 00:50:37,755 --> 00:50:42,915 Speaker 1: Item fifteen of twenty irresponsibility. This is another seemingly easy 745 00:50:42,955 --> 00:50:45,275 Speaker 1: item that is actually difficult to nail to the wall. 746 00:50:45,475 --> 00:50:51,395 Speaker 1: What is irresponsibility not crediting John McCain's heroism because he 747 00:50:51,475 --> 00:50:55,675 Speaker 1: got captured when you yourself avoided the military draft four 748 00:50:55,755 --> 00:51:00,115 Speaker 1: or five times? Is irresponsibility shown by taking a position 749 00:51:00,115 --> 00:51:04,075 Speaker 1: on guns in nightclubs that's so extreme that the president 750 00:51:04,355 --> 00:51:08,875 Speaker 1: and legislative director of the National goddamned Rifle Association condemned. 751 00:51:08,875 --> 00:51:13,075 Speaker 1: It is irresponsibility, at least to the millions of lost 752 00:51:13,155 --> 00:51:16,395 Speaker 1: souls who actually thought you would make a great American president, 753 00:51:17,155 --> 00:51:21,155 Speaker 1: rather than merely the last American president to even make 754 00:51:21,195 --> 00:51:22,915 Speaker 1: a joke. If it was a joke that if you 755 00:51:22,915 --> 00:51:25,235 Speaker 1: were offered five billion dollars to drop out of the 756 00:51:25,315 --> 00:51:28,835 Speaker 1: race quote, I guess we'd have to think about it. 757 00:51:28,875 --> 00:51:32,035 Speaker 1: Is the word more applicable or less applicable if it 758 00:51:32,075 --> 00:51:34,955 Speaker 1: comes out the next day that during May your campaign 759 00:51:34,995 --> 00:51:38,315 Speaker 1: spent more than twice as much at businesses you own 760 00:51:38,875 --> 00:51:43,515 Speaker 1: than it did on payroll. The problem with this heading 761 00:51:43,635 --> 00:51:49,955 Speaker 1: irresponsibility is that so much of what fits vaguely into irresponsibility, promiscuity, bankruptcy, 762 00:51:50,275 --> 00:51:53,275 Speaker 1: punching out your teacher when you're a kid, fits like 763 00:51:53,435 --> 00:51:57,115 Speaker 1: jigsaw pieces, into the other categories in the hair test. 764 00:51:57,835 --> 00:52:00,915 Speaker 1: It doesn't mean the examples are ineligible, just that they 765 00:52:00,915 --> 00:52:04,675 Speaker 1: are imprecise. But it does mean we have to score conservative. 766 00:52:04,955 --> 00:52:08,875 Speaker 1: I'm afraid points awarded one running score twenty seven out 767 00:52:08,875 --> 00:52:15,995 Speaker 1: of thirty items. Sixteen failure to accept responsibility for own actions. Again, 768 00:52:16,795 --> 00:52:19,635 Speaker 1: you can't give more than two points in any category. 769 00:52:19,715 --> 00:52:24,075 Speaker 1: I'm sorry Both of my favorite examples here involved interviews 770 00:52:24,075 --> 00:52:28,275 Speaker 1: with the Washington Post. On May twenty fourth, sixteen, Trump 771 00:52:28,315 --> 00:52:31,035 Speaker 1: was caught having not yet donated the money from the 772 00:52:31,155 --> 00:52:35,195 Speaker 1: purported veterans fundraiser that he staged as counter programming to 773 00:52:35,355 --> 00:52:39,355 Speaker 1: the January twenty sixteen Republican primary debate that he bailed 774 00:52:39,435 --> 00:52:42,875 Speaker 1: out of. The Post quoted his remarks at the fundraiser, 775 00:52:42,915 --> 00:52:46,595 Speaker 1: which was televised nationally. We just cracked six million dollars, right, 776 00:52:46,835 --> 00:52:50,795 Speaker 1: six million, Trump replied to the Post, I didn't say 777 00:52:50,875 --> 00:52:56,555 Speaker 1: six The somewhat startled Post staffer said it was on tape. 778 00:52:56,715 --> 00:52:59,275 Speaker 1: Play it for me, Trump replied, because I'd like to 779 00:52:59,315 --> 00:53:03,275 Speaker 1: hear it, the Post reported. Trump then manipulated the conversation 780 00:53:03,355 --> 00:53:06,515 Speaker 1: to another topic, including the playing of the video in 781 00:53:06,595 --> 00:53:11,195 Speaker 1: which he said six eleven days earlier, the tape of 782 00:53:11,235 --> 00:53:13,595 Speaker 1: him speaking in his own voice but pretending to be 783 00:53:13,795 --> 00:53:18,795 Speaker 1: spokesman John Miller had been revealed when during a phone interview, 784 00:53:18,835 --> 00:53:22,155 Speaker 1: a Washington Post reporter brought up the proof. This time, 785 00:53:22,195 --> 00:53:27,555 Speaker 1: Trump simply hung up. Points awarded to running score twenty 786 00:53:27,595 --> 00:53:35,515 Speaker 1: nine out of thirty two seventeen. Many short term marital relationships, well, 787 00:53:35,515 --> 00:53:39,515 Speaker 1: this depends on numerical definitions. Despite the falling of religious 788 00:53:39,555 --> 00:53:42,875 Speaker 1: barriers against divorce and the rise of the pre nup 789 00:53:43,035 --> 00:53:47,275 Speaker 1: during Trump's lifetime, the mean is still around just one 790 00:53:47,355 --> 00:53:50,195 Speaker 1: point two marriages per American and the number of men 791 00:53:50,235 --> 00:53:53,035 Speaker 1: who marry more than once is still only about fifteen percent. 792 00:53:53,875 --> 00:53:58,715 Speaker 1: But Trump's marriage is still total only three and stormy 793 00:53:58,835 --> 00:54:03,395 Speaker 1: Daniels or no Stormy Daniels, their lengths fourteen years, six years, 794 00:54:03,395 --> 00:54:07,555 Speaker 1: and eleven years. There hardly in the annulled by sunset range. 795 00:54:07,595 --> 00:54:12,075 Speaker 1: So points awarded none running score twenty nine out of 796 00:54:12,155 --> 00:54:20,635 Speaker 1: thirty four. Coming down the stretch eighteen juvenile delinquency. Not 797 00:54:20,995 --> 00:54:24,195 Speaker 1: every student at Trump's high priced alma mater, New York 798 00:54:24,235 --> 00:54:27,875 Speaker 1: Military Academy NEEMA, was automatically the son of rich parents 799 00:54:27,955 --> 00:54:30,235 Speaker 1: who had been afforded a choice, not offered their less 800 00:54:30,275 --> 00:54:35,795 Speaker 1: affluent fellow troubled kids military school or reform school. That 801 00:54:35,835 --> 00:54:39,355 Speaker 1: would be a cliche, but the one on the record, 802 00:54:39,435 --> 00:54:43,315 Speaker 1: firsthand assessment we have of Trump as child cuts through 803 00:54:43,395 --> 00:54:47,275 Speaker 1: cliches and reputations. He was a pretty rough fellow when 804 00:54:47,315 --> 00:54:52,395 Speaker 1: he was small, said Donald Trump's father, explaining why he 805 00:54:52,435 --> 00:54:54,475 Speaker 1: had to pull him out of a traditional prep school 806 00:54:54,755 --> 00:54:58,195 Speaker 1: in their Native Queens and ship him away to New 807 00:54:58,275 --> 00:55:02,475 Speaker 1: York Military Academy NIMA. There are plenty of classmates at 808 00:55:02,475 --> 00:55:04,475 Speaker 1: the military boarding school who paint a picture of a 809 00:55:04,675 --> 00:55:09,155 Speaker 1: it always throwing hands. On June twenty third, twenty sixteen, 810 00:55:09,195 --> 00:55:15,595 Speaker 1: The Washington Post Trump profiled the NEMA inmate Trump quote 811 00:55:15,715 --> 00:55:18,555 Speaker 1: stuck with a broomstick during a fight. He tried to 812 00:55:18,595 --> 00:55:22,915 Speaker 1: push a fellow cadet out a second floor window, only 813 00:55:22,915 --> 00:55:27,435 Speaker 1: to be thwarted when two other students intervened. Maybe that's 814 00:55:27,475 --> 00:55:31,115 Speaker 1: where the Russians got the idea about windows. The paper 815 00:55:31,155 --> 00:55:34,755 Speaker 1: also quoted one of his pre NEMA teachers. He would 816 00:55:34,755 --> 00:55:37,315 Speaker 1: sit with his arms folded with this look on his face. 817 00:55:37,355 --> 00:55:40,755 Speaker 1: I use the words surly, almost daring you to say 818 00:55:40,835 --> 00:55:44,515 Speaker 1: one thing or another that wouldn't settle with him. The 819 00:55:44,595 --> 00:55:48,835 Speaker 1: Post also quoted a younger neighbor named Dennis Burnham. Once, 820 00:55:48,915 --> 00:55:51,595 Speaker 1: when she left Dennis in a playpen in a backyard 821 00:55:51,595 --> 00:55:56,115 Speaker 1: adjoining the Trump's property, Martha Burnham returned to find Donald 822 00:55:56,555 --> 00:56:01,035 Speaker 1: throwing rocks at her son. She saw Donald standing at 823 00:56:01,075 --> 00:56:06,075 Speaker 1: the fence. Dennis Burnham said, using the playpen for target practice. 824 00:56:07,875 --> 00:56:09,995 Speaker 1: That is the sort of stuff that would make a 825 00:56:10,155 --> 00:56:14,715 Speaker 1: bully flinch. Plus we have the boast from little Donnie 826 00:56:14,755 --> 00:56:18,315 Speaker 1: Trump about that seven years old blackening the eye of 827 00:56:18,355 --> 00:56:21,715 Speaker 1: an adult hist music teacher. Do we have records of 828 00:56:21,755 --> 00:56:25,675 Speaker 1: the police being called now? Nor does the category heading 829 00:56:25,755 --> 00:56:28,515 Speaker 1: ask for them, And that becomes a critical importance as 830 00:56:28,515 --> 00:56:32,515 Speaker 1: we come down towards the nineteenth and twentieth topics. Points 831 00:56:32,555 --> 00:56:37,435 Speaker 1: awarded two running score yeah, thirty one out of thirty six. 832 00:56:38,955 --> 00:56:44,355 Speaker 1: Nineteen The penultimate number revocation of conditional release. Well, how 833 00:56:44,355 --> 00:56:47,195 Speaker 1: many times have you brought that topic up? Don't be 834 00:56:47,275 --> 00:56:49,875 Speaker 1: worried if it confuses you. Confusion only means you're not 835 00:56:49,915 --> 00:56:53,795 Speaker 1: a parole officer. This is legal lingo for getting your 836 00:56:53,835 --> 00:56:58,235 Speaker 1: parole revoked or your probation converted into jail time because 837 00:56:58,235 --> 00:57:00,675 Speaker 1: you were just caught doing that illegal thing that had 838 00:57:00,715 --> 00:57:02,995 Speaker 1: gotten you in trouble in the first place. It is 839 00:57:03,115 --> 00:57:06,795 Speaker 1: very specifically a criminal record issue, and we're not there yet. 840 00:57:06,795 --> 00:57:09,475 Speaker 1: He only got indicted yesterday. It's not even official yet. 841 00:57:10,835 --> 00:57:14,795 Speaker 1: Points awarded zero, running score thirty one out of thirty eight. 842 00:57:15,795 --> 00:57:21,475 Speaker 1: So to the final one, twenty criminal versatility. The psychological 843 00:57:21,475 --> 00:57:24,195 Speaker 1: professional and I got into a big debate about this one. 844 00:57:24,235 --> 00:57:27,835 Speaker 1: She argued that criminal in this sense is not necessarily 845 00:57:27,875 --> 00:57:31,795 Speaker 1: meant literally here that if you scammed charities, stole money 846 00:57:31,795 --> 00:57:35,675 Speaker 1: from grandmothers via a phony university, and directed about twenty 847 00:57:35,675 --> 00:57:39,795 Speaker 1: percent of your campaigns monthly spending towards companies you own, 848 00:57:40,235 --> 00:57:43,995 Speaker 1: and the reimbursement for travel by your children, that all 849 00:57:44,195 --> 00:57:48,075 Speaker 1: qualified whether or not it was literally criminal. But my 850 00:57:48,195 --> 00:57:53,275 Speaker 1: point was the word criminal is used, not dishonest, not unethical, 851 00:57:53,555 --> 00:57:59,355 Speaker 1: not nefarious, not giving your kids money capital ce criminal 852 00:57:59,715 --> 00:58:03,195 Speaker 1: and the purp walk or the mug shot or the 853 00:58:03,315 --> 00:58:08,275 Speaker 1: multimillion dollar five and restitution, which that implies not that 854 00:58:08,275 --> 00:58:11,435 Speaker 1: that couldn't be the end result of Trump University, but 855 00:58:11,475 --> 00:58:17,955 Speaker 1: it isn't, not yet points awarded zero. Final score thirty 856 00:58:17,995 --> 00:58:24,155 Speaker 1: one out of forty. Editor's note number two. He was 857 00:58:24,195 --> 00:58:28,395 Speaker 1: impeached once, now he's being indicted. He's on deck before 858 00:58:28,395 --> 00:58:30,795 Speaker 1: two other grand juries. They think we can give him 859 00:58:30,835 --> 00:58:35,195 Speaker 1: the two points. So the adjusted final score on this exam, 860 00:58:35,515 --> 00:58:39,275 Speaker 1: this sanity test, where the low score is better, the 861 00:58:39,555 --> 00:58:43,795 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's score is thirty three out of forty. He 862 00:58:43,955 --> 00:58:47,355 Speaker 1: petered out towards the end there, but with thirty points 863 00:58:47,355 --> 00:58:50,235 Speaker 1: being the marker at which professionals could present a diagnosis 864 00:58:50,235 --> 00:58:56,195 Speaker 1: of psychopathy, the implications are clear. Our Trumper's new clothes 865 00:58:56,315 --> 00:58:59,435 Speaker 1: media rightly sees the latest Trump event, whatever it is 866 00:58:59,475 --> 00:59:02,675 Speaker 1: this time, as one of the most unbelievable developments in 867 00:59:02,675 --> 00:59:07,155 Speaker 1: American political history. But the mechanics of following, reporting, and 868 00:59:07,195 --> 00:59:11,955 Speaker 1: writing the proverbial new high in low every single day 869 00:59:12,555 --> 00:59:15,995 Speaker 1: means that they could be missing one overriding truth about 870 00:59:15,995 --> 00:59:20,275 Speaker 1: the health of the most remarkable presidential candidate since at 871 00:59:20,355 --> 00:59:25,435 Speaker 1: least the year eighteen sixty four. In short, our amateurs 872 00:59:25,635 --> 00:59:30,995 Speaker 1: exercise with the very professional hair psychopathy checklist suggests that 873 00:59:31,035 --> 00:59:34,835 Speaker 1: if you were betting on it, you would probably want 874 00:59:34,875 --> 00:59:39,115 Speaker 1: to bet that Donald Trump couldn't pass a sanity test, 875 00:59:39,715 --> 00:59:46,435 Speaker 1: even if it was open book. And now, having slogged 876 00:59:46,435 --> 00:59:50,475 Speaker 1: through this inventory of the citizen Kane storage unit of 877 00:59:50,635 --> 00:59:56,795 Speaker 1: bizarre presidential conduct, go look at social media, because in 878 00:59:56,835 --> 00:59:59,395 Speaker 1: the time it has taken me to read this to you, 879 01:00:00,355 --> 01:00:03,475 Speaker 1: the odds are pretty good. He's just done something new 880 01:00:04,355 --> 01:00:22,875 Speaker 1: that will actually raise his score. Okay, I've done all 881 01:00:22,915 --> 01:00:25,075 Speaker 1: the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. 882 01:00:25,115 --> 01:00:27,715 Speaker 1: Here are the credits. Most of the music was arranged, produced, 883 01:00:27,755 --> 01:00:30,875 Speaker 1: and performed by Brian Ray and John Philip Channel, who 884 01:00:30,875 --> 01:00:34,795 Speaker 1: are the countdown musical directors. All orchestration and keyboards by 885 01:00:34,875 --> 01:00:37,875 Speaker 1: John Philip Chanel, guitars based and drums by Brian Ray, 886 01:00:38,195 --> 01:00:42,155 Speaker 1: produced by Tko Brothers. Other Beethoven selections have been arranged 887 01:00:42,195 --> 01:00:45,195 Speaker 1: and performed by No horns allowed when we use it. 888 01:00:45,275 --> 01:00:48,235 Speaker 1: The sports music is the Olberman theme from ESPN two, 889 01:00:48,515 --> 01:00:52,315 Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Musical 890 01:00:52,355 --> 01:00:54,715 Speaker 1: comments when we have them by Nancy Fauss, the best 891 01:00:54,715 --> 01:00:58,675 Speaker 1: baseball stadium organist ever, and everything else, of course, is 892 01:00:58,715 --> 01:01:01,635 Speaker 1: pretty much my fault. So let's countdown for this, the 893 01:01:01,675 --> 01:01:04,595 Speaker 1: eight hundred and fifteenth day since Donald Trump's first attempt 894 01:01:04,795 --> 01:01:08,275 Speaker 1: coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. 895 01:01:08,635 --> 01:01:13,275 Speaker 1: Arrest him now while we still all right they are, 896 01:01:14,395 --> 01:01:19,235 Speaker 1: so arrest him again while we still can. The next 897 01:01:19,275 --> 01:01:23,035 Speaker 1: schedule countdown is Monday, but if the mugshot drops before then, 898 01:01:23,355 --> 01:01:29,075 Speaker 1: you can anticipate a special edition Boocket Dano till then. 899 01:01:29,115 --> 01:01:33,995 Speaker 1: I'm Keith Olverman. Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, and Happy 900 01:01:34,155 --> 01:01:47,995 Speaker 1: Trump mess. Countdown with Keith ol Reman is a production 901 01:01:48,155 --> 01:01:53,115 Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. 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