WEBVTT - NOLA D.A.: ARREST NOEM, HOMAN, FOR CHILD TRAFFICKING - 4.28.25 0:00:04.795 --> 0:00:24.235 Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Orleans 0:00:24.275 --> 0:00:27.715 Parish District's Attorney Jason Williams must indict and issue arrest 0:00:27.755 --> 0:00:31.555 warrants for the White House ICE henchman Tom Holman and 0:00:31.715 --> 0:00:35.995 his boss ICE director Todd Lyons and his boss, Homeland 0:00:36.035 --> 0:00:39.795 Security Secretary Christy Nome now with eight action dress up outfits, 0:00:40.315 --> 0:00:43.915 and for that matter, for her boss, President Donald ted 0:00:44.035 --> 0:00:49.275 Bundy Trump. The charges Attorney General Williams must bring someone 0:00:49.355 --> 0:00:53.195 estimated there could be twenty seven different charges include kidnapping 0:00:53.235 --> 0:00:56.715 of a United States citizen, deprivation of Fifth and fourteenth 0:00:56.715 --> 0:01:01.035 Amendment rights, and child trafficking. Because Trump and Nome and 0:01:01.115 --> 0:01:04.035 Lions and Homan and the agents involved, and in fact, 0:01:04.155 --> 0:01:07.875 the entire of Trump's government of the undead, by the 0:01:08.035 --> 0:01:13.115 undead for the undead, kidnapped a two year old child, 0:01:13.555 --> 0:01:17.395 a native of this country, a native of Louisiana, a 0:01:17.515 --> 0:01:22.675 native of New Orleans and Friday. They deported her, renditioned her, 0:01:22.755 --> 0:01:27.355 in fact to Honduras because they were sending her Honduran 0:01:27.435 --> 0:01:31.315 born mother there, and the mother allegedly wanted the child 0:01:31.355 --> 0:01:34.395 with her, although there is mounting circumstantial evidence that this 0:01:34.475 --> 0:01:38.395 is untrue, that this is a Trump administration lie designed 0:01:38.395 --> 0:01:41.595 to cover up the fact that somebody disconnected a call 0:01:42.035 --> 0:01:45.275 from the mother to the child's father as he frantically 0:01:45.315 --> 0:01:50.315 began to talk about getting lawyers involved. No hearing, no lawyers, 0:01:50.595 --> 0:01:55.395 no ethics, no responsibility, no morality, no attempt to verify 0:01:55.515 --> 0:01:59.635 whether a note about the mother's intent written in Spanish 0:01:59.835 --> 0:02:02.835 was actually written by her, or even that it exists, 0:02:03.435 --> 0:02:06.315 not even time for the father to talk to the 0:02:06.355 --> 0:02:10.155 mother for more than one minute before Trump's gestapo broke 0:02:10.315 --> 0:02:13.835 virtually every law and violated virtually every word of the Constitution, 0:02:15.555 --> 0:02:20.515 and the toddler, identified only by her initials VML, was 0:02:20.555 --> 0:02:26.355 not alone. Two mothers and three young children were disappeared 0:02:26.395 --> 0:02:28.875 out of New Orleans late last week, according to the 0:02:28.915 --> 0:02:33.835 ACLU of New Orleans. The ACLU says all are US citizens. 0:02:34.355 --> 0:02:37.235 The ACLU says one of the children four years old 0:02:37.795 --> 0:02:40.955 as a rare form of cancer in stage four, and 0:02:40.995 --> 0:02:45.675 the child was deported without medical consultation and without their medication. 0:02:46.075 --> 0:02:50.395 The ACLU says one of the mothers is pregnant. It 0:02:50.515 --> 0:02:54.955 is child trafficking, Mister Attorney General. People need to be arrested, 0:02:55.035 --> 0:02:57.955 Mister Attorney General. That is your job, sir, and you 0:02:58.035 --> 0:03:00.955 are a Democrat, therefore you are not a Trump whore. 0:03:02.115 --> 0:03:05.515 His bullies need to be metaphorically kicked in the groin 0:03:05.875 --> 0:03:09.435 because the United States of America is now officially kidnapping 0:03:09.515 --> 0:03:13.635 its own infants one's born in this country and with 0:03:13.755 --> 0:03:17.715 the full rights of citizenship, and sending them to foreign 0:03:17.755 --> 0:03:22.315 countries on hearsay. And you, mister Attorney General, are an 0:03:22.355 --> 0:03:25.595 official of the government of the fifty third largest city 0:03:25.595 --> 0:03:29.275 in this country, and one of your constituents was just kidnapped, 0:03:29.835 --> 0:03:33.555 and she's two years old, and you goddamn better do 0:03:33.715 --> 0:03:38.155 something about it. Indict them and have them arrested, preferably 0:03:38.235 --> 0:03:45.555 dragged into court in New Orleans by their feet. More practically, 0:03:45.915 --> 0:03:49.195 indict them and issue warrants for their arrest, knowing full 0:03:49.235 --> 0:03:53.315 well that dress up Barbie Nome would ever be seen 0:03:53.515 --> 0:03:57.355 in Louisiana again if you do this, nor will the others. 0:03:57.835 --> 0:04:01.395 But you can drag in the local ice goons, and 0:04:01.515 --> 0:04:03.875 even if the whole thing gets thrown out in two hours, 0:04:04.075 --> 0:04:07.075 you will have at least done something to indicate that 0:04:07.115 --> 0:04:13.595 democracy is going to fight back. And after we have 0:04:13.755 --> 0:04:16.875 seen that Trump's fascists are not just fascists, they are 0:04:16.915 --> 0:04:20.115 worse than we expected. You will show we are not 0:04:20.275 --> 0:04:23.995 going to continue to roll over as the degenerates in 0:04:24.115 --> 0:04:28.075 Ice now reportedly go on to a military base and 0:04:28.195 --> 0:04:32.475 grab a serviceman's immigrant wife while she is on duty 0:04:32.595 --> 0:04:36.235 at sea, and while the kilmar Abrego Garcias and the 0:04:36.235 --> 0:04:39.075 gay hairdressers, and the two year old New Orleans girl 0:04:39.155 --> 0:04:41.755 known by the initials VML, and the four year old 0:04:41.755 --> 0:04:44.555 New Orleans girl with cancer get disappeared like we were 0:04:44.595 --> 0:04:50.315 living in Chile in nineteen seventy three. If the Trump 0:04:50.395 --> 0:04:55.195 administration of Nazi adjacents can make up a law to 0:04:55.315 --> 0:04:58.915 allow them to walk into a Wisconsin courtroom and arrest 0:04:59.435 --> 0:05:03.395 a local judge because she would not hand over someone 0:05:03.435 --> 0:05:06.355 who was there in her court room to receive actual 0:05:06.395 --> 0:05:09.635 American justice hand that person over to a bunch of 0:05:09.755 --> 0:05:13.555 armed thugs, then the Ice thugs in New Orleans are 0:05:13.675 --> 0:05:17.875 fair game for arrests, as is the leadership, as is 0:05:17.915 --> 0:05:21.235 the painting witch Gnome, as is the psychopath at the 0:05:21.275 --> 0:05:25.355 head of the dictatorship, And whoever arrested the Milwaukee judge 0:05:25.635 --> 0:05:29.715 should themselves be arrested for obstructing illegal proceeding and menacing 0:05:29.755 --> 0:05:34.475 an officer of the court. Just consider the raw facts 0:05:34.515 --> 0:05:38.355 of the abduction of VML as if it were in 0:05:38.475 --> 0:05:42.715 the prism of inside the Trump cult, an innocent two 0:05:42.795 --> 0:05:48.755 year old American girl stolen by her Honduran mother and 0:05:48.835 --> 0:05:54.235 taken to Honduras and nobody stopped them, they would indict 0:05:54.355 --> 0:05:59.475 Hillary Clinton. In an America where the judges are subject 0:05:59.515 --> 0:06:02.955 to arrest by Ice as part of Stephen Miller's paranoid 0:06:02.955 --> 0:06:09.995 fever dream that we are under attack by by anybody, 0:06:11.035 --> 0:06:13.515 then Gnome and Trump and the rest of these shit 0:06:13.635 --> 0:06:17.835 stains are also subject to arrest as part of a gang, 0:06:18.715 --> 0:06:28.115 a kidnapping gang, a human trafficking gang. And by the way, 0:06:28.155 --> 0:06:30.515 obviously the case in New Orleans would be better handled 0:06:30.555 --> 0:06:35.155 by the Louisiana Attorney General Liz Morrill. But all you 0:06:35.195 --> 0:06:38.115 need out of her bio to abandon all hope is 0:06:38.755 --> 0:06:44.595 former Executive Council to Governor Bobby Jindall. I don't know, Madam, 0:06:44.595 --> 0:06:49.395 Attorney General. Surprise me. The judge in the case of VML, 0:06:50.155 --> 0:06:53.675 who tried to stop this horror, who protested this, who 0:06:53.675 --> 0:06:57.435 publicized this, is Terry Dowdy, the chief judge of the U. 0:06:57.595 --> 0:07:00.395 S District Court of the Western District of Louisiana. And 0:07:00.435 --> 0:07:02.875 he is not only a Trump appointee, but he is 0:07:02.955 --> 0:07:05.275 such a Trump appointee that he wrote that he had 0:07:05.275 --> 0:07:07.835 become aware independently that by the time he tried to 0:07:07.875 --> 0:07:10.315 talk to the mother in the case, the plane she 0:07:10.475 --> 0:07:14.035 was in was already quote above the Gulf of America 0:07:14.475 --> 0:07:21.235 unquote even he gets it. Judge Dowdy also scheduled a 0:07:21.275 --> 0:07:24.755 hearing for sixteen May quote in the interest of dispelling 0:07:24.875 --> 0:07:29.675 our strong suspicion that the government just deported a US 0:07:29.915 --> 0:07:36.115 citizen with no meaningful process, and just for that tears 0:07:36.155 --> 0:07:41.875 of gratitude well in my eyes. But no, Trump, don't 0:07:41.875 --> 0:07:44.355 do anything about the US born child with cancer you 0:07:44.475 --> 0:07:47.715 just sent to Honduras without even a hearing. Don't do 0:07:47.755 --> 0:07:52.195 anything about VML now arrest the judge in Wisconsin trying 0:07:52.235 --> 0:07:55.555 to keep people, any people. I don't give it f 0:07:55.635 --> 0:07:59.275 where they were born, out of the hands of these sadists. 0:07:59.675 --> 0:08:04.035 You have given uniforms and weapons too. Don't question that 0:08:04.395 --> 0:08:08.995 report Publican senators, don't question that Speaker Mike Closets Johnson, 0:08:09.275 --> 0:08:14.115 don't question that flag waving imbeciles, kidnapping American babies with 0:08:14.315 --> 0:08:17.155 cancer and arresting the judges who try to stop such 0:08:17.275 --> 0:08:23.835 moral cannibalism as you and Trump march towards ethnic cleansing 0:08:24.635 --> 0:08:32.195 in America. Remember, Republicans, as this unfolds, before the rest 0:08:32.235 --> 0:08:37.635 of us stop you, your only hope is that all 0:08:37.835 --> 0:08:42.475 or most of the world's religions are wrong, because if 0:08:42.475 --> 0:08:46.035 they are not wrong, you are all going to hell. 0:09:14.675 --> 0:09:18.595 Of course, as ever, the cruelty, the moral cannibalism is 0:09:18.635 --> 0:09:22.475 the point. After Judge Dugan in Milwaukee was arrested, the 0:09:22.515 --> 0:09:25.715 second choice attorney general, the one who, by the Trump 0:09:25.795 --> 0:09:30.875 terrorist's own definition, is a dei hire, Pam Bondi went 0:09:30.915 --> 0:09:35.275 out and said of America's judges, the judges the backbone 0:09:35.275 --> 0:09:38.475 of our nation and the group that includes the shrinking 0:09:38.515 --> 0:09:41.675 subset of those officials who actually put the law first 0:09:41.715 --> 0:09:46.555 in this country. Bondi said, quote, they are deranged. She insisted, 0:09:46.715 --> 0:09:49.475 we are sending a very strong message. We will come 0:09:49.515 --> 0:09:53.115 after you, and we will prosecute you. We will find you. 0:09:55.555 --> 0:09:58.835 It amazes me even now as I read this that 0:09:58.995 --> 0:10:02.275 Pam Bondy and the others who have applauded the arrest 0:10:02.315 --> 0:10:06.355 of one judge and the placing of symbolic crosshairs over 0:10:06.395 --> 0:10:09.235 the lives of all the other judges in the country, 0:10:09.275 --> 0:10:13.515 including the ones they like. Bondy and the other idiots 0:10:13.515 --> 0:10:16.035 have not once considered that the road they are on, 0:10:16.635 --> 0:10:20.635 the road to complete authoritarianism, where all the judges serve 0:10:20.755 --> 0:10:25.315 only if they rubber stamp all the Trump commandments. That 0:10:25.715 --> 0:10:30.035 road goes across countless bridges that may or may not 0:10:30.195 --> 0:10:33.395 support them, or may or may not still be there, 0:10:33.995 --> 0:10:37.955 or may or may not even exist. What happens to you, Pambondi, 0:10:38.195 --> 0:10:41.355 What happens to you Cash Patel? What happens to you 0:10:41.435 --> 0:10:43.955 Tom Holman? If you don't get to the other side 0:10:44.075 --> 0:10:47.995 of that goddamned bridge. What is the one thing you 0:10:48.035 --> 0:10:53.755 are guaranteed to see when Trump falls and America is 0:10:53.835 --> 0:10:57.795 restored to the United States of America? What is the 0:10:57.835 --> 0:11:05.275 one thing you will see a judge? I haven't spent 0:11:05.315 --> 0:11:07.875 a lot of time in courtrooms in my life, thank goodness, 0:11:07.875 --> 0:11:10.275 but I did once sue the company part owned by 0:11:10.315 --> 0:11:12.715 the former Vice President of the United States for the 0:11:12.715 --> 0:11:17.355 fifty million dollars he and his co owner owed me. 0:11:18.035 --> 0:11:20.795 And one of the many pieces of advice one of 0:11:20.835 --> 0:11:23.715 my lawyers gave me that led to such a gloriously 0:11:23.795 --> 0:11:31.275 successful outcome there was don't piss off the judge. But 0:11:31.395 --> 0:11:35.275 for now, of course, pissing off the judge is Pambondi's purpose, 0:11:35.955 --> 0:11:41.235 the first purpose of her useless, bleached fifty six years 0:11:41.795 --> 0:11:49.475 long or more life, Pissing them off and moreover, scaring them, 0:11:49.515 --> 0:11:56.115 Scaring the judges by arresting one in Wisconsin, Scaring their 0:11:56.115 --> 0:12:01.035 own staff by firing their senior trade official, George Bogden 0:12:01.515 --> 0:12:07.155 because he went to Les Taylor's wedding six years ago, 0:12:07.915 --> 0:12:11.675 Scaring political opponents by ordering the investigation of the pro 0:12:11.715 --> 0:12:17.755 democracy fundraising outlet Act Blue, Scaring would be donors to 0:12:17.835 --> 0:12:22.715 the campaigns of actual American candidates by twisting the fact 0:12:22.715 --> 0:12:27.355 that Act Blues sight successfully caught and rejected foreign donation 0:12:27.475 --> 0:12:33.155 attempts and turning that into an international influence plot, as 0:12:33.155 --> 0:12:37.075 opposed to Trump just taking billions directly in international influence 0:12:37.155 --> 0:12:41.035 through his companies and the gyrations of the stock market. 0:12:41.755 --> 0:12:46.555 Scaring those who would defend those persecuted by Ice and 0:12:46.595 --> 0:12:50.315 the other Trump brownshirts by having rapacious idiots like Sebastian 0:12:50.395 --> 0:12:54.235 Gorka claimed that defending them is aiding and abetting criminals, 0:12:54.435 --> 0:12:58.115 Scaring the actual leaders of the opposition party, like Representative 0:12:58.115 --> 0:13:02.395 Acasio Cortes, by virtually accusing them of the crime of 0:13:02.395 --> 0:13:07.435 defending the accused and having your own propaganda outlets literally 0:13:07.475 --> 0:13:10.875 accuse them of that and scaring those who would speak 0:13:10.915 --> 0:13:14.555 out against Trump in any way by circling back to 0:13:14.915 --> 0:13:18.955 that idiot Gorka's claim that to do so is sudging 0:13:18.995 --> 0:13:29.795 with the tedodists. These will fail. These will fail. We 0:13:29.875 --> 0:13:36.595 will not be scared. We will be enraged. These will fail, 0:13:39.195 --> 0:13:42.995 And the Bondies and the Gnomes and the Gorkas will 0:13:43.035 --> 0:13:49.035 be charged for whatever laws they may have broken, and 0:13:49.115 --> 0:13:52.115 they will get defense attorneys, and we will not try 0:13:52.195 --> 0:13:56.595 to prosecute the defense attorneys, and they will get defenders, 0:13:56.995 --> 0:13:59.755 and we will not try to prosecute those who defend 0:13:59.755 --> 0:14:04.355 them in public. And they will be charged by the 0:14:04.395 --> 0:14:10.355 people they are now trying to scare, and they will 0:14:10.355 --> 0:14:21.275 come before judges, hopefully Judge Dougan. I would settle for 0:14:21.435 --> 0:14:27.875 Judge Doughty. But their real threat here is that in 0:14:27.915 --> 0:14:30.435 the time before they fail, they will succeed in chilling 0:14:30.475 --> 0:14:34.315 the debate. Those for whom the consequences can be real 0:14:34.635 --> 0:14:38.075 and devastating may hesitate to fight back on behalf of 0:14:38.275 --> 0:14:42.395 justice and the law and the nation, journalists in a 0:14:42.435 --> 0:14:47.315 time of corporate journalistic failure and cowardice and greed, judges 0:14:47.635 --> 0:14:50.715 in a time of political assassination threats by the right 0:14:51.995 --> 0:14:54.715 and that other most dangerous group to the far right 0:14:57.155 --> 0:15:03.475 two and four year old Americans from New Orleans. The 0:15:03.555 --> 0:15:06.515 Trump terrorism is that the hesitation will be enough to 0:15:06.515 --> 0:15:08.715 give Trump the time to do as much damage to 0:15:08.755 --> 0:15:11.875 this country as possible, because that is how he should 0:15:11.875 --> 0:15:16.155 be perceived and reported on. It doesn't matter if he's 0:15:16.235 --> 0:15:19.235 doing this damage on behalf of another nation. Doesn't matter 0:15:19.275 --> 0:15:22.155 if he has reached the nineteen eighty four stage and 0:15:22.235 --> 0:15:25.155 decided the object of power is power. It doesn't matter 0:15:25.475 --> 0:15:28.075 if he's doing it because he's insane. It doesn't matter 0:15:28.355 --> 0:15:31.715 why he's destroying the nation. It only matters that he 0:15:31.995 --> 0:15:36.555 is destroying the nation and depending on institutions and individuals 0:15:36.635 --> 0:15:41.075 that would defend that nation to fold. And if you 0:15:41.075 --> 0:15:46.235 don't think they will fold, ask Zuckerberg and Bezos and 0:15:46.315 --> 0:15:50.195 the Washington Post and Columbia University and ABC and Bob 0:15:50.235 --> 0:15:55.995 Iger and CBS, which is reportedly going to let a 0:15:56.075 --> 0:16:00.675 mediator judge Trump's lawsuit this week. The one demanding bribes. 0:16:01.115 --> 0:16:05.195 I'm sorry the one demanding damages because the sixty minutes 0:16:05.315 --> 0:16:11.155 interview of Kamala Harris damaged him in the election that 0:16:11.475 --> 0:16:26.715 he checks Notes one. It remains irrelevant, but it is 0:16:26.875 --> 0:16:31.715 explanatory and could be useful. The other possibility that Trump 0:16:31.795 --> 0:16:34.875 is destroying this nation because those around him are not 0:16:34.995 --> 0:16:38.435 letting him see the new Associated Press poll where his 0:16:38.475 --> 0:16:42.355 approval is thirty nine and his net approval disapproval is 0:16:42.395 --> 0:16:47.195 now nineteen points underwater, and all the specific policy measures 0:16:47.275 --> 0:16:51.755 are underwater, and he is instead being told he really 0:16:51.915 --> 0:16:56.435 is saving this nation, and his semi human mind seems 0:16:56.435 --> 0:17:00.595 to be able to process the value of being perceived 0:17:00.715 --> 0:17:06.235 as savior. That they are telling him these things. Over 0:17:06.235 --> 0:17:08.715 here in the real world, we call this lying to 0:17:08.835 --> 0:17:15.035 him was underscored anew by this batshit crazy interview with 0:17:15.115 --> 0:17:20.715 Time Magazine. I mean batshit crazy, even in the Trump 0:17:20.755 --> 0:17:24.715 world of twenty four to seven. Batshit crazy. I could 0:17:24.795 --> 0:17:30.515 parse this for literally weeks, but the Time magazine interview 0:17:30.515 --> 0:17:33.475 suggests that the primary rule in the new Trump crazy 0:17:33.515 --> 0:17:36.755 machine is to tell him whatever is likely as to 0:17:36.875 --> 0:17:41.355 keep him from yelling at you. The Supreme Court ruled 0:17:41.475 --> 0:17:45.595 nine nothing that in the case of kilmar Abrego Garcia, 0:17:45.755 --> 0:17:50.315 the administration had to facilitate and effectuate the Maryland father's 0:17:50.395 --> 0:17:55.835 return with a deadline of three weeks ago. Today, since 0:17:55.875 --> 0:17:58.155 it has done the exact opposite, Trump was asked by 0:17:58.195 --> 0:18:01.635 Time magazine if he is therefore disobeying the Supreme Court, 0:18:01.635 --> 0:18:05.395 which he is. Quote, that's not what my people told me. 0:18:05.675 --> 0:18:08.355 They didn't say it was. They said it was the 0:18:08.435 --> 0:18:14.595 nine to nothing was entirely different. Clearly, they never told 0:18:14.675 --> 0:18:17.835 him about the facilitate and effectuate part. Only that the 0:18:17.915 --> 0:18:21.515 court did not literally use a phrase like we ordered 0:18:21.555 --> 0:18:24.315 Trump to bring him back to the United States immediately. 0:18:26.595 --> 0:18:31.275 These moments of clarity clarity about how they are handling Trump, 0:18:31.355 --> 0:18:34.755 not clarity from Trump, for God's sakes, they fall from 0:18:34.755 --> 0:18:39.155 the Time interview like dust falling off the top shelf. 0:18:40.195 --> 0:18:44.235 Quote one final question, mister President, you were showing us 0:18:44.275 --> 0:18:47.195 the new paintings you have behind us. You put all 0:18:47.195 --> 0:18:50.835 these new portraits. One of them includes John Adams. John 0:18:50.875 --> 0:18:54.435 Adams said, we're a government ruled by laws, not by men. 0:18:54.995 --> 0:18:59.835 Do you agree with that? Trump? John Adams said that 0:19:01.315 --> 0:19:07.235 where was the painting right here? We're a government ruled 0:19:07.235 --> 0:19:10.275 by laws, not by men. Well, I think we're a 0:19:10.275 --> 0:19:12.675 government ruled by law. But you know, somebody has to 0:19:12.675 --> 0:19:16.195 administer the law. So therefore men, certainly, men and women 0:19:16.435 --> 0:19:18.755 certainly play a role in it. I wouldn't agree with 0:19:18.795 --> 0:19:21.635 it one hundred percent. We are a government where men 0:19:21.715 --> 0:19:25.315 are involved in the process of law, and ideally you're 0:19:25.315 --> 0:19:31.555 going to have honest men like me. John Adams said 0:19:31.555 --> 0:19:37.355 that where was the painting? Oh my god. On the 0:19:37.395 --> 0:19:43.075 bright side, he seemed to know who John Adams was. Quote. 0:19:43.515 --> 0:19:46.475 You were harshly critical of what you called the weaponization 0:19:46.595 --> 0:19:52.115 of the Justice Department under Biden. You recently signed memos. Well, sure, 0:19:52.195 --> 0:19:54.915 but you wouldn't be if this were Biden. Well, first 0:19:54.955 --> 0:19:56.595 of all, he wouldn't do an interview because he was 0:19:56.595 --> 0:20:00.875 grossly incompetent time. We spoke to him last year, mister 0:20:00.915 --> 0:20:07.395 President Trump. Huh, we spoke to him a year ago. Trump. 0:20:07.795 --> 0:20:14.515 How did he do? Trump? You can read the interview yourself, Olderman. 0:20:14.755 --> 0:20:18.675 As an aside, I wouldn't bet on that. Trump not 0:20:18.755 --> 0:20:21.235 too good. I did read the interview. He didn't do well. 0:20:21.275 --> 0:20:22.875 He didn't do well at all. He didn't do well 0:20:22.875 --> 0:20:24.875 at anything, And he cut that interview off to being 0:20:24.915 --> 0:20:27.155 a matter of minutes, and you weren't asking questions like 0:20:27.155 --> 0:20:32.315 you're asking me. Rule one of Trump, there's always a 0:20:32.355 --> 0:20:37.955 nemesis when he has lost, failed, or has no other answer. 0:20:38.835 --> 0:20:42.555 Just bring up the nemesis. When Trump started to go 0:20:42.675 --> 0:20:46.555 crazy and run for president as revenge, it was against Obama, 0:20:46.715 --> 0:20:51.115 so everything was Obama. Then he realized sometime during twenty 0:20:51.195 --> 0:20:54.115 sixteen that he wasn't running against Obama. He was actually 0:20:54.195 --> 0:20:57.955 running against somebody named Hillary Clinton who knew, so everything 0:20:57.955 --> 0:21:01.595 became Hillary. Then he realized Biden was the front runner 0:21:01.635 --> 0:21:04.675 for twenty twenty, not Hillary. And since then, especially since 0:21:04.875 --> 0:21:09.675 he lost to Biden, since Biden humiliated him, and since 0:21:09.755 --> 0:21:12.955 therefore most of Trump is forever frozen in that moment 0:21:13.155 --> 0:21:17.915 trying to undo the loss. Therefore, nemesis is now Biden. 0:21:19.955 --> 0:21:24.755 This came up again about Ukraine. You remember his pathetic 0:21:24.835 --> 0:21:27.795 bleeding at Putin which didn't work. I'm not happy with 0:21:27.795 --> 0:21:31.355 the Russian strikes on Kiev, not necessary and very bad timing. 0:21:31.515 --> 0:21:39.035 Vladimir stop, Vladimir stop. Having failed to settle Ukraine in 0:21:39.115 --> 0:21:41.875 a day or let's see counting in the ninety nine 0:21:41.875 --> 0:21:49.955 of them, he had to blame Biden. Let me parse 0:21:50.075 --> 0:21:54.635 this next thing for the Biden part, and other notable inferences. 0:21:55.955 --> 0:22:05.035 This is the truth social post ready about Ukraine quote, 0:22:05.075 --> 0:22:09.315 this is sleepy Joe Biden's war, not mine. All right, Well, 0:22:09.315 --> 0:22:12.435 there's the Biden part already. It was a loser from 0:22:12.515 --> 0:22:15.235 day one and should have never happened, and wouldn't have 0:22:15.235 --> 0:22:17.595 happened if I were president at the time. I'm just 0:22:17.635 --> 0:22:19.515 trying to clean up the mess that was left to 0:22:19.555 --> 0:22:22.035 me by Obama and Biden, and what a mess it is. 0:22:22.915 --> 0:22:25.035 With all that being said, there was no reason for 0:22:25.075 --> 0:22:28.275 Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities, and 0:22:28.315 --> 0:22:35.275 towns over the last few days. Even Chuck Grassley had 0:22:35.275 --> 0:22:38.875 written President Trump, please put the toughest of sanctions on Putin. 0:22:39.195 --> 0:22:42.235 You ought to see from clear evidence that he is 0:22:42.315 --> 0:22:47.115 playing America as a patsy. Back to the Trump tweet, 0:22:47.595 --> 0:22:49.795 it makes me think that maybe Putin doesn't want to 0:22:49.835 --> 0:22:56.635 stop the war. He's just tapping me along. CBS News 0:22:57.995 --> 0:23:02.555 further shot its pants yesterday, putting the Russian Foreign Minister 0:23:02.675 --> 0:23:08.635 Lavrov a snake on face the nation, seriously on face 0:23:08.675 --> 0:23:11.115 the nation. I don't know if that was part of 0:23:11.155 --> 0:23:15.715 the Sherry Redstone bribe deal with Trump, or if that 0:23:15.915 --> 0:23:24.195 was Trump's reply from Putin, if Lavrov basically saying f 0:23:24.275 --> 0:23:27.835 U Trump was Putin's way of saying I didn't like 0:23:27.915 --> 0:23:34.155 that post, which ended, as you will recall, with him 0:23:34.195 --> 0:23:37.275 suggesting that maybe Putin has to be dealt with differently 0:23:37.675 --> 0:23:42.275 through banking or secondary sanctions. Too many people are dying. 0:23:45.835 --> 0:23:51.035 This could be in summation, a setup for Putin to 0:23:51.155 --> 0:23:54.555 allow Putin to propose his own deal in Ukraine, still 0:23:54.675 --> 0:24:00.035 utterly unacceptable, but maybe ten percent less unacceptable than all 0:24:00.035 --> 0:24:04.675 of his current demands. Whereupon Trump says he got Pootin 0:24:04.715 --> 0:24:10.035 and to make a deal. Owen Zelensky rejected it. But ultimately, 0:24:11.355 --> 0:24:15.475 perhaps the most interesting thing in that entire post, perhaps 0:24:15.515 --> 0:24:19.515 the most frightening thing in that entire post, perhaps the 0:24:19.515 --> 0:24:22.635 most revelatory thing in that entire post, is that one 0:24:22.675 --> 0:24:26.835 phrase in there makes me think that maybe he doesn't 0:24:26.835 --> 0:24:30.835 want to stop the war, He's just tapping me along. 0:24:34.555 --> 0:24:39.195 I am thirteen years younger than Trump, but I am 0:24:39.235 --> 0:24:44.195 from the same metropolitan area. The generation before me grew 0:24:44.275 --> 0:24:48.995 up here as his generation before him did. I went 0:24:49.075 --> 0:24:51.675 to a private school that played sports against the military 0:24:51.755 --> 0:24:57.355 school they were forced to send him to instead. Of 0:24:57.395 --> 0:25:05.035 the Juvie Home juvenile detention Home. I went to Ivy 0:25:05.075 --> 0:25:07.875 League University as he did, and for vastly different reasons. 0:25:08.275 --> 0:25:10.995 I probably actually went to fewer classes than he did. 0:25:11.915 --> 0:25:14.875 In my defense, I graduated in seven semesters. Also, I 0:25:14.955 --> 0:25:20.715 cut a lot, and like him, I have lived in 0:25:20.715 --> 0:25:25.475 New York or the immediate suburbs for roughly fifty three years, 0:25:25.915 --> 0:25:31.595 including the last twenty four uninterruptedly. I have also studied 0:25:31.675 --> 0:25:36.955 and loved language and slang and slanguage for the whole 0:25:36.995 --> 0:25:41.075 of my life. And I have never before heard the 0:25:41.115 --> 0:25:47.155 phrase he's just tapping me along, Nor can I find 0:25:47.235 --> 0:25:52.475 any reference to it anywhere. I thought, well, maybe that's 0:25:52.475 --> 0:25:57.275 a British expression. It is not. Maybe it translates from 0:25:57.355 --> 0:26:01.595 the German or the Russian. It does not. I mean, 0:26:01.635 --> 0:26:07.395 it could be a regional variant specific to Jamaica estates 0:26:07.435 --> 0:26:10.875 in Queens, New York. It could be a variant of 0:26:10.915 --> 0:26:15.235 the slang meaning of tapping. Tapping is a little sleeker 0:26:15.315 --> 0:26:20.235 sounding version of blinking and related terms. But I don't know. 0:26:21.595 --> 0:26:26.595 I've never heard this phrase before. There's no evidence, if 0:26:26.635 --> 0:26:29.315 you do a search for it, that anybody has ever 0:26:29.515 --> 0:26:34.795 used this phrase before. I mean, anybody. Maybe it's pre Internet, 0:26:34.835 --> 0:26:39.115 maybe it's a famous phrase from Queens in nineteen fifty seven. 0:26:39.995 --> 0:26:44.395 But he writes it with the same confidence that everybody 0:26:44.475 --> 0:26:47.275 knows what he means, in which he writes all his 0:26:47.395 --> 0:26:53.395 otherwise simple, childish communications. There is no doubt in his 0:26:53.475 --> 0:26:58.355 own quote mind unquote that everybody knows. Everybody says ten 0:26:58.435 --> 0:27:03.595 times a day, He's just tapping me along. Martha, You're 0:27:03.675 --> 0:27:09.635 just tapping me along. You're just tapping me along, Officer. 0:27:12.595 --> 0:27:18.075 I think, and I will so far unsuccessfully hold my 0:27:18.275 --> 0:27:21.675 glee until this is confirmed that Trump has in fact 0:27:22.075 --> 0:27:29.755 manufactured this phrase inside his disordered, damaged mind. If you 0:27:29.795 --> 0:27:36.595 remember kofeve CoV f EFI was a major typo or 0:27:36.715 --> 0:27:40.795 maybe narcole xp or maybe he was typing it out 0:27:40.795 --> 0:27:45.475 on Twitter, slipped, fell his head, hit send the end. 0:27:48.515 --> 0:27:52.995 But tapping me along, that's from a language only Trump 0:27:53.115 --> 0:27:57.675 has ever heard. I think his illness or injury or 0:27:57.715 --> 0:28:02.915 malformation or whatever it is, might might might have just 0:28:03.115 --> 0:28:06.515 reached the stage where he he is making up his 0:28:06.635 --> 0:28:20.355 own words, speaking in tongues. Personal neologism, a phasia, accelerating 0:28:20.395 --> 0:28:27.235 mental or intellectual malfunction. You know that moment when your 0:28:27.235 --> 0:28:38.875 brain starts tapping you along. I have once been in 0:28:38.915 --> 0:28:45.635 the company of a relative who was suffering from acute 0:28:45.675 --> 0:28:50.195 attack of bipolarity and began to make up his own words. 0:28:51.795 --> 0:28:54.555 It is one of the more terrifying things to have 0:28:54.635 --> 0:28:59.635 ever witnessed. And even he did not say, you're just 0:28:59.795 --> 0:29:04.035 tapping me along. Headlines on Day ninety nine of America 0:29:04.075 --> 0:29:07.315 held hostage the Trump dictatorship. If the Canadian Liberals beat 0:29:07.355 --> 0:29:10.195 the Conservatives in the election today, remember to thank Trump 0:29:10.915 --> 0:29:13.395 and thank the fact that the creepy Conservative candidate has 0:29:13.395 --> 0:29:16.675 some kind of weird iguana thing going where he can't 0:29:16.755 --> 0:29:21.875 fully open his eyes. In the Maga answer to the 0:29:21.915 --> 0:29:25.315 White House Correspondence dinner Saturday, like you needed to answer that, 0:29:25.875 --> 0:29:30.195 the scum drank cocktails with what passes for witty names 0:29:30.275 --> 0:29:33.475 in their world. None of them were named just tapping 0:29:33.475 --> 0:29:36.635 me along, although I would have given them credit for 0:29:36.675 --> 0:29:40.475 doing that. One of the drinks was called leakers and Liars, 0:29:40.555 --> 0:29:44.555 meaning the Maga were drinking what happens when you take 0:29:44.595 --> 0:29:51.355 a leak fitting And yes, Trump fell asleep at the 0:29:51.395 --> 0:29:57.515 Pope's funeral, upright on camera, with his rubbery lips beginning 0:29:57.595 --> 0:30:05.235 to slide apart and this week's Milania did not wake 0:30:05.355 --> 0:30:17.995 him well. Given the choice, would you also of interest? 0:30:17.995 --> 0:30:20.195 Here in this all new edition, Bill Maher comes back 0:30:20.195 --> 0:30:22.755 at Larry David, saying Larry's implication that going to the 0:30:22.755 --> 0:30:25.315 White House for dinner with Trump was like going to 0:30:25.355 --> 0:30:28.995 the old Chancellery for dinner with Hitler. Bill says you 0:30:28.995 --> 0:30:32.915 should never invoke Hitler and says Larry had insulted six 0:30:32.955 --> 0:30:37.675 million dead Jews, which might be an answer if Bill 0:30:37.755 --> 0:30:41.835 Maher had not made the exact same comparison on his 0:30:41.995 --> 0:30:49.475 own show in twenty fifteen. That's next. This is Countdown. 0:30:51.715 --> 0:31:16.555 This is Countdown with Keith Olberman still ahead. On this 0:31:16.595 --> 0:31:19.795 all new edition of Countdown. Somebody wrote something in fond 0:31:19.835 --> 0:31:23.875 remembrance of doctor Carl Sagan the other day and it 0:31:23.915 --> 0:31:27.755 reminded me and I had forgotten about this that forty 0:31:27.795 --> 0:31:31.475