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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This

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Speaker 1: is a Countdown bulletin podcast. I'm Keith Olderman. The President

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Speaker 1: of the United States is celebrating the murder of Rob

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Speaker 1: Reiner and his wife celebrating. It is at first impossible

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Speaker 1: to believe that what follows is not satire. Then it

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Speaker 1: becomes heartbreaking that what follows is not satire. Then it

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Speaker 1: becomes infuriating that what follows is not satire. And finally

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Speaker 1: it becomes more evident still that every minute this man

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Speaker 1: is permitted to remain president, the rest of us, the

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Speaker 1: rest of us in this world, are in mortal danger.

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Speaker 1: Because if he is capable of believing this, this expression

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Speaker 1: of his own Messiah complex, this belief that he can

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Speaker 1: trolls or influences who lives and who dies, or who

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Speaker 1: succeeds or who fails merely based on how much they

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Speaker 1: adore him. He can believe anything, and thus he can

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Speaker 1: do anything, including destroy the world. I quote from Trump

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Speaker 1: on Truth Social A very sad thing happened last night

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Speaker 1: in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling but once

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Speaker 1: very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away.

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Speaker 1: Together with his wife Michelle, reportedly due to the anger

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Speaker 1: he caused others through his massive, unyielding and incurable affliction

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Speaker 1: with a mind crippling disease known as Trump derangement syndrome

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Speaker 1: sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have

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Speaker 1: driven people crazy by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump,

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Speaker 1: with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump

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Speaker 1: administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness and with

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Speaker 1: the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before.

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Speaker 1: May Rob and Michelle rest in peace. This is madness.

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Speaker 1: Rob and Michelle Reiner, prosecutors will soon allege were murdered

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Speaker 1: in their home horribly by their own son, a child

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Speaker 1: who has been in the emotional wilderness since he was

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Speaker 1: a boy, exactly as Trump has. But Trump really believes

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Speaker 1: that Rob Reiner quote passed away due to the anger

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Speaker 1: he caused others through his massive, unyielding and incurable affliction

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Speaker 1: with Trump Derangement syndrome unquote. As someone who knew Rob Reiner,

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Speaker 1: who used to get phone calls of support from Rob

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Speaker 1: him process what was happening to this country. As someone

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Speaker 1: who knew Rob's father, Carl My fury at Trump making

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Speaker 1: everything in the world about him first is boundless and also, Sir,

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Speaker 1: the imaginary disease you refer to actually has a real

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Speaker 1: life counterpart called trump is deranged syndrome. To be that sick,

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Speaker 1: that's soulless, that's self obsessed, that messianic. Every word I

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Speaker 1: have spoken in ten years of pointing to Trump's insanity

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Speaker 1: and Trump's evil has evidently been insufficient. Whatever they total

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Speaker 1: to Donald Trump is twice as sick and twice as

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Speaker 1: evil as I have said. But in the larger picture,

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Speaker 1: it is important to remember that this is not just

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Speaker 1: Trump trying desperately, sickly to get somebody, to get anybody

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Speaker 1: to like him and to believe in his drowning presidency

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Speaker 1: and his endlessly incompetent administration, endlessly incompetent, as we have

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Speaker 1: now seen play out twice in just one other murder

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Speaker 1: case that has shocked the nation at the moment, the

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Speaker 1: shootings at Brown University. Trump's ability to make anything and

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Speaker 1: everything about him, his need to be, as the old

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Speaker 1: dark joke goes the bride at every wedding and the

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Speaker 1: corpse at every funeral. That is not some kind of act,

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Speaker 1: That is not some kind of campaign. This is not

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Speaker 1: about the midterms. You will recall his reaction on local

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Speaker 1: television in New York as the towers were falling on

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Speaker 1: nine to eleven that it made him the owner of

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Speaker 1: the second tallest building in downtown Manhattan, not just the third.

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Speaker 1: The psychologists and psychiatrists call this shallow affect, and shallow

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Speaker 1: affect means in essence that you I do not know

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Speaker 1: how actual normal human beings interact, nor what causes the

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Speaker 1: events in their lives. You cannot conceive of their lives.

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Speaker 1: You look at a picture of the world and you

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Speaker 1: see only yourself. You look in a mirror, and you

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Speaker 1: correctly see yourself, But you are firmly convinced to your

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Speaker 1: core that when others look in their mirrors, they also

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Speaker 1: see only you. There is no telling where this began

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Speaker 1: in this diseased monster Donald Trump. But the first true

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Speaker 1: public realization that it had overtaken him, that it was

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Speaker 1: the driving force of his life, came thirteen years ago

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Speaker 1: on the old Twitter quote Derek Jeter had a great

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Speaker 1: career until three days ago, Trump tweeted on October fifteenth,

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Speaker 1: twenty twelve, after the star New York Yankees baseball player

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Speaker 1: shattered his ankle during a game. Quote, when he sold

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Speaker 1: his apartment at Trump World Tower, I told him not

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Speaker 1: to sell karma the answer this chain letter or many

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Speaker 1: ankles will be broken. Delusion was not an act then,

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Speaker 1: It is not an act now. It is not some

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Speaker 1: sort of twisted advertisement for a Trump apartment building or

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Speaker 1: a Trump administration. This is what he believes. The world

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Speaker 1: is side with Trump, and mystically you will succeed. Break

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Speaker 1: with Trump, criticized Trump. Not worship Trump, not do what

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Speaker 1: Trump tells you to do, and the universe will harm you.

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Speaker 1: Five days after Trump's tweet about Derek Jeter, he tweeted

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Speaker 1: about him again, this time quote, Derek Jeter broke ankle

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Speaker 1: one day after he sold his apartment in Trump World Tower.

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Speaker 1: There were then there are now no connections between Derek

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Speaker 1: Jeter's real estate decisions and the ankle that side him

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Speaker 1: only briefly, as it proved, just as today in this

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Speaker 1: far more grotesque, far more mentally ill, far more tragic

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Speaker 1: post about Rob Reiner's tragedy, there are no connections between

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Speaker 1: Rob and Michelle's murders and Donald effing Trump. We do

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Speaker 1: have a prominent public figure suffering from a massive, unyielding

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Speaker 1: and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known to

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Speaker 1: have driven people crazy by his raging obsession and obvious paranoia.

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Speaker 1: And that public figure is Donald Trump, and his emotional

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Speaker 1: and psychological incapacity for the presidency or any public role

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Speaker 1: in this country is so obvious and so overwhelming that

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Speaker 1: every further minute he is permitted by his enablers to

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Speaker 1: stay in that job, he risks the life of every

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Speaker 1: living thing on this planet. Eventually, he and those enablers

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Speaker 1: will wind up in hell. I pity them. But right now,

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Speaker 1: a man, this sick, vis, this evil, this disconnected from reality,

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Speaker 1: will physically do to us if he feels he must

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Speaker 1: what he has just metaphorically done to the late Rob Reiner.

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Speaker 1: He has celebrated his own claim that he helped cause

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Speaker 1: this man's death. We are next. This has been a

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