Countdown with Keith Olbermann

COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 23
A-Block (SPECIAL COMMENT): Why ON EARTH would anybody look at this Jensen Huang Chinese Industrial Spy Scandal and not think Trump was in the middle of it, partly or fully aware?
Why ON EARTH would anybody look at Jensen Huang and NOT ask if he was just SELLING AI Chips ILLEGALLY to China VIA his girlfriend the Chinese Spy?
Why ON EARTH would anybody look at Huang, and Huang's girlfriend Huang, and the spy, and the infighting inside the Trump cabinet, and Trump's insatiable insane greed, and not ask if Trump wasn't just making money from both sides of the law: from banning the sales of chips to China, and then profiting as somebody one step removed him from sold them to China anyway?
The official story still is: This Nvidia Trump Whore, worth like $160, $200 billion, Jensen Huang, has had a Chinese mistress for years, she’s also in the A-I business, also named Huang, and turns out she seems to be a Chinese Spy stealing AI secrets. And Jensen Huang didn’t know that or if you want to go more nuanced, a “white glover” as the Chinese apparently refer to half spy/half business people. And Trump bought stock in Nvidia a couple months ago but HE didn’t know there WAS a MISTRESS. And Trump didn’t know she was a SPY. And still thinks the problem here is, Huang is now depressed.
The problem is: there are a couple of news stories breaking out here that contradict the official story. Like 113 different news stories. And nobody’s put them together. (Ok, it's only seven separate stories - including of Marco Rubio rushing aboard Air Force One to tell Trump 'she's a spy' and getting ignored, and Rubio sending Howard Lutnick a memo saying 'she's a spy' and getting ignored again). But the seven stories have 113 details.
B-Block (28:00) BOB BOONE, IN MEMORIAM: One of the straightest shooters I ever met died on Monday. Bob Boone, a baseball All-Star who was the first player in history whose father and son both played in the major leagues, died 10 days shy of what would have been his 79th birthday. I wanted to record this podcast now to make sure I told the story of meeting this singularly impressive man, because his first words to me were "Keith, I'm Bob Boone and I don't like your work." Happily it got better than that, and it focused on him making sure I knew where he stood before I asked a favor of him - which was to meet a fan of mine, his 13-year old son who is now manager of the New York Yankees.
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COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 22
A-Block (SPECIAL COMMENT): Do not deceive yourself.
Trump's appointment of Stephen Miller is not some kind of desperation ploy because there's just nobody else to do the job. This is the Junta's reaction to the clear signs that after the mid-term defenestration, Trump was giving up on being a forever king, and instead receding into his fantasy world of ballrooms and arches and filigree.
The people who help manipulate Trump to manipulate his insanity, NEED Trump to try something akin - at least in spirit - to January 6. They need him to declare Texas "stolen" and threaten to jail the Democrats who are constitutionally obligated to perform oversight in the House. They need to keep his madness at the forefront.
Miller is there to keep Trump insane - and Pete Hegseth is there to supply the violence as necessary.
ALSO: The prospects of impeaching Hegseth (or this idiot Attorney General Todd Blanche who actually thinks the constitution even refers to a job called 'Attorney General') are excellent - but the prospects of getting the two-thirds Senate vote to remove them aren't. But there are plenty of next steps to take now that Alito and Thomas have both indicated they have no plans on retiring from SCOTUS.
PLUS: It is the greatest question any reporter has ever asked Trump, he did nothing but flinch and walk away - and it could never be asked by any American reporter, each of whom could shout it out at every gaggle, but they know their bosses would fire them and try to blacklist them, instantly (because the "Liberal Media" is owned by conservatives.
B-Block (THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL) 45:00. We near the 40th anniversary of one of the great spans of my life. In 1987-88 there was actually, for a months, a multi-station, multi-network, multi-city... bidding war for my services. And it featured one station bidding against itself, while the odds on favor blew the lead, and its boss called me up and swore at me for not accepting his fatally flawed offer. May you enjoy the story, and then some day enjoy a bidding war.
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BULLETIN: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 21
Trump's plan to "work with" Democrats after they eviscerated him in the midterms?
Fire White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and replace her with white supremacist Stephen miller.
We should have seen this coming. In a little-seen interview with BBC yesterday, one of the architects of Project 2025, Paul Dans, said "the blame there lies at the feet of president trump’s incompetent staff. His chief of staff Susie Wiles was not a governance leader, she was a campaign leader, and she stepped into a role that was completely over her head… the only way they’re gonna get through this is change at the top, which means marching those people out of the White House by sundown tomorrow”
She was in fact, out before Sundown. And Goebbels' stunt double is in.
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COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 21
A-Block (SPECIAL COMMENT): As Vance attacks him, it's finally true: Trump is now radioactive - even inside the GOP. Jayvee's "J'Accuse" post about the midterms and Iran was actually 613 words of euphemisms for "blame the midterms on Trump." He's trying to set himself up for '28. Even Ron DeSantis came back from the political grave to declare an "extinction level event" for everybody in his party except him. The MAGA circular firing squad opens fire, and I am reminded of The Maltese Falcon, with Trump as Brigid O'Shaughnessy: "Don't be silly - YOU'RE taking the fall."
Meanwhile on the human side of the equation: us humans may need a new Speaker and Majority Leader because Jeffries and Schumer are already saying 'affordability not accountability' when YOU CAN WALK AND CHEW GUM AT THE SAME TIME. Trump corruption CAUSED the affordability crisis and rooting out and prosecuting the corruption can address the reality that stealing billions and insider trading by Trump and his crime family cost ordinary Americans their money. People have to go to jail.
There's also a post-celebration drumbeat about Democrats now being in position to neuter The Electoral College from below, via state legislatures, but I think believing you can do it without a constitutional amendment is wishful thinking, as long as there is still a Trump-filled Supreme Court. Plus a heartfelt message hoping for an intervention for Haley Stevens.
B-Block: THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL (37:00) All the politics reminded me of the first convention I ever went to - Democrats, here in New York, 1980. And that reminded me of trying to explain to today's New Yorkers what a different place Fun City was just 46 years ago - like the day I saw a dead guy riding the E train with me, then worked a whole day for CNN, got back on the subway, and there it was: it was the same train, the same car, and the same dead guy.

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BULLETIN: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 20
Blue Wave? Insufficient.
Blue Tsunami? Not good enough.
To paraphrase "Arrested Development": Trump just blue himself.
Where do we START? Senator El-SAYED? Senator TALARICO? Governor ACTON? Governor HINOJOSA? EX-Senator Susan Collins LEARNING HER LESSON? Senator ANDREWS? Governor BOTTOMS? Senator HAMILTON? Senator FLANAGAN? Governor CROWLEY? Governor HAALAND? Congresswoman Ilhan Omar winning 76 to 16? Male Model but not Senator Jon Husted? And it looks like Derrick Van Orden out in Wisconsin, Virginia Foxx in a virtual tie, probably headed for a recount in North Carolina and Lauren Boebert going down in Colorado?
Looks like 255 or 256 Democrats in the House, and 54, 55, or 56 Democrats in the Senate.
It’s so big that Trump doesn’t even seem likely to try to do anything.
It’s so big that Trump told the New York Times just before 11 PM Eastern, he was quote “absolutely willing to accept those results. We’ll – you know – look forward to working with them. We’ll probably work something out.” Trump blamed the landslide on the fact he wasn’t on the ballot.
And could it be enough to make Trump a lame duck within his own party? Will Republicans looking towards 2028 - in the House, the Senate, or for the Republican nomination - need to distance themselves from his now undeniable, quantifiable, baggage.

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