Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. I
Speaker 1: think it is now safe to call this the Trump
Speaker 1: assassination attempt, cover up, conspiracy. It should be the number
Speaker 1: one story in America, number one with a bullet or
Speaker 1: perhaps without a bullet. And we'll get to the new
Speaker 1: details on this in a moment. First clerical news, I
Speaker 1: said there would probably not be a podcast today. Some
Speaker 1: time opened up and this story was too good to
Speaker 1: pass up. The bullet story, the conspiracy story, why Trump
Speaker 1: has been lying about what hit his ear two weeks
Speaker 1: ago tomorrow in Butler, Pennsylvania. No, that is not actually
Speaker 1: the lead story. The lead story is come a loot,
Speaker 1: Come a lot. That's Kayley mcinaighty's term. She thinks it's
Speaker 1: a derogatory term regarding kamala Harris. Kayley mcinaey also probably
Speaker 1: thinks derogatory is a kind of zeppelin or blimp. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Three new sets of polls indicating we may soon be
Speaker 1: living in kamalot. The New York Times, you may know
Speaker 1: about likely voters are now forty eight Trump forty seven Harris,
Speaker 1: which sounds good. July second, you may recall that the
Speaker 1: Times terrified the entirety of Liberal America by reporting it
Speaker 1: was Trump forty nine Biden forty three. That means simply
Speaker 1: by being Kamala Harris, she has taken away five points
Speaker 1: from what had been a six point Trump lead. And
Speaker 1: that is with Trump's convention bounce and whatever bounce he
Speaker 1: got after being hit in the ear with a paper clip,
Speaker 1: bottle cap, hardened bubblegum something, and the three way race.
Speaker 1: The results in the Times may be even more interesting.
Speaker 1: Trump forty two, Harris forty two, Kennedy six, apparently his
Speaker 1: lowest number in their poll. Yet Kennedy is bailing water.
Speaker 1: I'll go into this next week, but I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: a bit surprised if Kennedy essentially sells his operation to Trump.
Speaker 1: He's already pitched him for some sort of position in
Speaker 1: a Trump cabinet. Trump may have no other choice but
Speaker 1: to accept the Kennedy pitch and bribe Kennedy to endorse
Speaker 1: him and drop out the other numbers from the Times,
Speaker 1: Harris's favorability is now forty six percent. In February, in
Speaker 1: the Times poll, Harris's favorability was thirty six percent, so
Speaker 1: she gained ten points, not ten percent, but ten points
Speaker 1: from a third to nearly half based on being the
Speaker 1: presidential nominee. And if you're wondering if this was the
Speaker 1: right move as perceived by America's voters of all stripes,
Speaker 1: the Time says eighty eight percent of all voters agreed
Speaker 1: with Joe Biden withdrawing. Also yesterday there was a Morning
Speaker 1: Consult poll Morning Consult fairly reliable. It now has Harris
Speaker 1: ahead forty six, forty five ahead among independents forty to
Speaker 1: thirty eight. They have her retaining eighty seven percent of
Speaker 1: Biden's twenty twenty voters and four percent of Trump's twenty
Speaker 1: twenty voters. And as I have theorized many times, what
Speaker 1: percentage of Trump's twenty twenty voters don't vote for him
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four may decide this election. Also, the
Speaker 1: black vote, forgive the use of that term, is now
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris is by seventy to nineteen, and the nineteen
Speaker 1: is sinking. Also, change polls. I don't know much about
Speaker 1: change polls, except they changed. Biden had trailed Trump by four,
Speaker 1: Harris leads Trump by one. And for those of you
Speaker 1: who can't add, that's a five point swing in favor
Speaker 1: of Kamala Harris on her fourth day, fourth weekday of
Speaker 1: her campaign. These are good numbers. By the way back
Speaker 1: to the New York Times. Times is gonna Times. This
Speaker 1: is beyond belief, except something has gone desperately wrong at
Speaker 1: the New York Times. Some fundamental baseline level of journalism
Speaker 1: has evaporated. They don't know what they're doing anymore. They
Speaker 1: are so blinded, they don't know what they're doing anymore.
Speaker 1: This was in the article about their own poll showing
Speaker 1: either a tie in a three way race or a
Speaker 1: situation in which Kamala Harris has cut the Trump lead
Speaker 1: to one point by virtue of being Kamala Harris. This
Speaker 1: is what they originally had. Quote. I'm a Democrat, but
Speaker 1: I've changed my mind after everything that's happened with Joe
Speaker 1: Oh Biden's administration, said Anna Ayala, a fifty eight year
Speaker 1: old who lives in San Jose, California, and voted for
Speaker 1: mister Biden in twenty twenty. She plans to vote for
Speaker 1: mister Trump in twenty twenty four. Quote. I mean the
Speaker 1: border situation is out of control. As The Atlantic noted,
Speaker 1: Anna Ayala has been in the news before she was
Speaker 1: The Confidence Trickster, a recidivist confidence trickster who went to
Speaker 1: prison for several years for having publicly claimed that she
Speaker 1: had found a human finger in her chili at a
Speaker 1: famous fast food brand restaurant. She went public, she demanded money.
Speaker 1: She damaged the brand so badly that I won't even
Speaker 1: repeat the name of the brand now. And then it
Speaker 1: turned out rather simple examination proved that the chili had
Speaker 1: been correctly cooked, but the finger had not been cooked.
Speaker 1: She had put the finger in the chili she had bought,
Speaker 1: As it turned out, the finger from her husband's business partner,
Speaker 1: who had lost it in some kind of industrial accident.
Speaker 1: Police were led to this conclusion by an anonymous tip
Speaker 1: that turned out to be from her husband's business partner,
Speaker 1: who was missing the anonymous tip of his finger. The
Speaker 1: New York Times so desperate to find and include in
Speaker 1: its positive towards Harrison the Democrats article a disaffected Democrat
Speaker 1: so defensive about the beating it has properly received throughout
Speaker 1: the entirety of this campaign. The Times didn't even bother
Speaker 1: to do what I do with every name. I don't
Speaker 1: know as I'm preparing these little stinking podcasts, Just google
Speaker 1: them You never know what you're going to find. You
Speaker 1: may find something that completely destroys your intent and you
Speaker 1: can't mention something, or it turns out the state and
Speaker 1: has been retracted, or it turns out the person you're
Speaker 1: talking about claimed that there was a finger in her chili?
Speaker 1: Is that a finger in your chili? Or you just
Speaker 1: glad to see me miss Ayala. The Times quoted the
Speaker 1: story or quoted her without checking anything, and then talk
Speaker 1: about getting something cut out. They cut the reference to
Speaker 1: Antiyala out of the story and issued some non denial
Speaker 1: denial that they screwed up completely. The Times, the New
Speaker 1: York goddamned Times, the holy goddamn New York Times, as
Speaker 1: was said by Robert Duvalen, network now literally giving America
Speaker 1: the finger now to the subject of Trump and the
Speaker 1: magic bullet that is so magic it may never have
Speaker 1: come close to him. We had Wednesday and it escaped
Speaker 1: notice because it is clear now that the MAI media
Speaker 1: news organizations, the main ones in this country, are completely
Speaker 1: ignoring this story. When they touch it, they attribute the
Speaker 1: idea that Trump was hit by a bullet to Trump.
Speaker 1: They say he says he was hit by a bullet.
Speaker 1: They offer no contradictory evidence, nor any confirmatory evidence. They
Speaker 1: are avoiding this story out of terror of retribution. If
Speaker 1: the Republicans have worked the ref since about nineteen ninety,
Speaker 1: this is where it pays off. If Trump has threatened
Speaker 1: the lives of reporters since twenty fifteen indirectly stochastically, this
Speaker 1: is where it pays off. They are afraid to touch
Speaker 1: the story, and yet Wednesday night, getting no publicity. Until yesterday,
Speaker 1: the head of the FBI, Christopher Ray, ironically answering questions
Speaker 1: in front of a House committee, answering the questions of
Speaker 1: Jim Jordan, gave away the ballgame. As of right now,
Speaker 1: the FBI has no effing clue what Trump was hit by.
Speaker 2: I think with respect to former President Trump, there's there's
Speaker 2: some question about whether or not it's a bullet or
Speaker 2: shrapnel that hit his ear. So it's conceivable, as I
Speaker 2: say here right now, I don't know whether that bullet,
Speaker 2: in addition to you know, causing the grazing, could have
Speaker 2: also landed somewhere else. But I believe we've accounted for
Speaker 2: all of the shots in the cartridges.
Speaker 1: Christopher Ray's statement was immediately attacked by former sort of
Speaker 1: doctor Ronnie Jackson, the trumpest psychopath from Texas now serving
Speaker 1: in Congress, because that's where we're keeping our crazy people
Speaker 1: these days, who decried what Ray said and said I
Speaker 1: saw the wound. He is the only person outside of
Speaker 1: Trump who says that Trump was hit by a bullet,
Speaker 1: and yes, he saw the wound after he flew overnight
Speaker 1: to see Trump in New on Sunday. We have no idea,
Speaker 1: We have no idea what happened in the interim. We
Speaker 1: have no idea who treated Trump. We have no idea
Speaker 1: what he was treated for. I believe we've been told
Speaker 1: he has not received any stitches. And all we know
Speaker 1: is that he had something that looked like a communicator
Speaker 1: earpiece from the original Star Trek over his ear in
Speaker 1: public at the convention, and then suddenly he didn't even
Speaker 1: have a freaking band aid. There is a conspiracy to
Speaker 1: cover this up. I went at length yesterday or the
Speaker 1: day before about why they would do such a thing.
Speaker 1: The idea that Trump was the victim of an assassination
Speaker 1: attempt is not disputed, and to you and I is
Speaker 1: a serious matter, no matter who the target might be,
Speaker 1: nor what we feel about don Old Trump. For us
Speaker 1: it's not in question. For his own supporters, if he
Speaker 1: dived under a lectern to avoid a bullet or another
Speaker 1: bullet after one had grazed his ear, he is a
Speaker 1: hero who took a bullet for democracy. To them, if
Speaker 1: he dived under a lectern to avoid shrapnel, in mister
Speaker 1: Ray's words, debris a piece of plastic. It has been
Speaker 1: speculated that something hit the sound equipment on stage with him,
Speaker 1: and that's what struck him in the ear. If he
Speaker 1: did that, he's a coward. To them. You and I
Speaker 1: see no difference whatsoever. You and I would do exactly
Speaker 1: what Trump did. There was a moment in there where
Speaker 1: we were all human beings looking at another human being
Speaker 1: about to get shot and killed and getting the f
Speaker 1: out of the way. You would do it. I would
Speaker 1: do it. There is no shame in it. To the Republicans,
Speaker 1: to the Trumpists who believe he is some sort of
Speaker 1: christ like figure, it must be a bullet or their
Speaker 1: entire belief system collapses. In fact, Ronnie Jackson, as it
Speaker 1: turns out in another sound bite that had completely eluded
Speaker 1: me and I apologize for this. Ronnie Jackson gave evidence
Speaker 1: inadvertently that it might not have been a bullet after all,
Speaker 1: he said, according to an interview with Nexstar from that
Speaker 1: convention nearly two weeks ago, his nephew suffered a minor
Speaker 1: injury after quote, a bullet or a fragment of a
Speaker 1: bullet or something grazed his neck. He didn't notice it
Speaker 1: right away, but someone else in the crowd did took
Speaker 1: him to the medical tent. It was a very minor injury,
Speaker 1: not a big deal. The nephew, according to Jackson, was
Speaker 1: sitting in the friends and family section when the shots
Speaker 1: rang out. This would have been roughly the area where
Speaker 1: the four Pittsburgh policemen were hit by shrapnel plastic perhaps
Speaker 1: maybe a piece of glass, and suffered minor injuries that
Speaker 1: did not really need medical attention. It's very simple. There
Speaker 1: were bullets fired. They did not hit Trump. He was
Speaker 1: hit by things that the bullets did hit. It's an
Speaker 1: assassination attempt. It in their twisted minds should count somehow,
Speaker 1: it doesn't. Here is what Ronnie Jackson said now nearly
Speaker 1: two weeks ago. It was your nephew, right though.
Speaker 3: From my nephew, they they've got a Trump rally for
Speaker 3: a while, so I got them tickets and they went in.
Speaker 3: They put them in the friends and family section, which
Speaker 3: happened to be the worst section to be in. Pretty much.
Speaker 3: Either that or the people right directly behind the president,
Speaker 3: those are two bad spots to be But the trajectory
Speaker 3: of the bullets were coming right across the top of
Speaker 3: their heads and down into that section, unfortunately, and a
Speaker 3: bullet or a fragment of bullet or something grazed his
Speaker 3: neck and he was bleeding a little bit from his neck.
Speaker 3: He didn't notice it right away, but someone else in
Speaker 3: the crowd did took him to the medical tent and
Speaker 3: he was okay, he's fine. It was a very minor injury,
Speaker 3: not a big deal.
Speaker 1: The Trump assassination attempt cover up conspiracy, I'm not looking
Speaker 1: for it on any of the Sunday talk shows. That's
Speaker 1: one of the reasons I did this podcast. A couple
Speaker 1: of other stories the news from David Korn at Mother
Speaker 1: Jones Who's always got something cooking. Jd Vance endorsed a
Speaker 1: book that calls progressives unhumans U n h U m
Speaker 1: A n s unhumans and praises the January sixth rioters,
Speaker 1: a book written by nothing less than Jack Posobic. So
Speaker 1: we have a combined IQ here of about let's see
Speaker 1: forty five from the author and forty from the other guy.
Speaker 1: That's eighty five between this and the couch and his
Speaker 1: negative poll numbers. As Trump would spell at pole, Trump's
Speaker 1: going to wind up dropping this guy. He's going to
Speaker 1: wind up dropping this guy. This guy is going to
Speaker 1: take Trump down, if Trump has not already been taken
Speaker 1: down by having him here. Their latest angle is and
Speaker 1: his latest angle is a clip of Dvance criticizing Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris for being childless and the Republicans rushing to his defense.
Speaker 1: Blake Masters, the guy with the crazy stare who ran
Speaker 1: for Senate in Arizona. Blake Masters, political leaders should have children.
Speaker 1: Certainly they should at least be married. If you aren't
Speaker 1: running or can't run a household of your own, how
Speaker 1: can you relate to a constituency of families or govern
Speaker 1: wise with respect to future generations? Skin in the game
Speaker 1: matters three questions, Blake Masters, Tim Scott, Lindsey Graham, and
Speaker 1: of course George Washington. George Washington, like Kamala Harris, was
Speaker 1: a step parent, not a biological parent, as if that
Speaker 1: makes any difference to the raising of a child George
Speaker 1: Washington had no children. There were, always, however, children at
Speaker 1: his home at Mount Vernon. Martha Washington's two children from
Speaker 1: her previous marriage. He raised them as his own, and
Speaker 1: her four grandchildren, and some nieces and nephews. And Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris is in fact in the great tradition of George Washington.
Speaker 1: And let me ask you a question here, Blake Masters,
Speaker 1: are you really smearing George Washington? If you're gonna smear
Speaker 1: George Washington, bub I'm gonna ask you to step outside
Speaker 1: and we'll settle it there. And the last thing in
Speaker 1: this unexpected edition that you're welcome about from the Associated Press,
Speaker 1: Milania Trump is writing a book. It's billed by her
Speaker 1: office as quote a powerful and inspiring story of a
Speaker 1: woman who has carved her own path, overcome adversity, and
Speaker 1: defined personal excellence. Who's it about, Oh, it's about Milania.
Speaker 1: It's some sort of book about her, about powerful and
Speaker 1: inspiring of a woman who has carved your own path.
Speaker 1: Let me put it this way. Two things I don't
Speaker 1: think touched Donald Trump at any point in his life,
Speaker 1: or at least in the last couple of years. One
Speaker 1: the bullet in Butler Pennsylvania and two Milania but a
Speaker 1: still better Milania joke from COVID ninety three on Twitter
Speaker 1: X quote. In her memoir, Milania Trump plans to write
Speaker 1: about how her experiences growing up on the South Side
Speaker 1: of Chicago shaped her and how balancing work while raising
Speaker 1: two black young girls led her to where she is today.
Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here back
Speaker 1: with a full episode on Tuesday, bulletins as the news warrants.
Speaker 1: Until then, I'm Keith Olderman. Good Morning, good afternoon, goodnight,
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