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Countdown With Keith Olbermann, S2E16: Trump Wants Trial Delayed 2 Years. 200 Would Be Unrealistic [1]

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Date: 2023-08-17

Omny.FM link (which also links to his previous podcasts)

ivoox also carries his podcast.

YouTube, eventually.

Preview:

A-Block (2:36) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump has filed to have his January 6th trial start not in 138 days from now but in April 2026, and presumably THAT is the date he and his attorneys picked because “The Twelfth Of Never” would not fit on the legal form.

Keith describes a chart that compared the height of documents that Mr. Trump’s team has to read; here’s what it looks like:

I wonder how much time was wasted on that 3-D graph?

The filing concludes with the most cynical argument imaginable: Point E, quote: “The Government’s Proposal Conflicts With Other Cases” and it then lists things like the civil case in New York beginning this October and another next January and the Stormy Daniels Payoff trial in March and the Georgia trial next March and the Mar-a-Lago trial start next May.

YOU CAN’T PUT ME ON TRIAL FOR MY CRIMES IN JANUARY — I’M ALREADY ON TRIAL FOR MY CRIMES IN NEW YORK AND ATLANTA AND FLORIDA — YOU PEOPLE ACT LIKE YOU’RE THE ONLY PROSECUTOR AND THE ONLY JUDGE IN TOWN — I’M ALREADY BOOKED THAT WEEK.

Yesterday, Keith gave us the Trump Victory Tour trial schedule, along with some important dates in the Republican Presidential campaign:

January 2: start of federal trial in Washington

January 15: caucus: IA

March 2: caucus: ID

March 4: caucus: SD; start of trial in Georgia

March 5: Super Tuesday (AL, AK, AR, CA, CO, ME, MA, MI, NC, OK, TN, TX, UT, VA)

March 19: Primaries: FL

March 23: Primary: LA

March 25: start of Stormy Daniels hush money trial in New York

May 20: start of stolen documents case in Florida

May 21: Primaries: OR, KY

This trial calendar is his philosophy in miniature — and also, his only means of survival. If anybody ever gets him to admit, to others, to himself — sincerely (not just to deceive them) — that he has lost, I suspect he will stroke out, or at least be unable to function. He is the victim, he is the rightful ruler, he will be avenged, he will not accept a trial before the 2024 election, he won’t accept one in 2025 because if he were to LOSE the election he would be too busy in 2025 trying to overthrow the government and of course he ALSO won’t accept one in 2025 because if he were to WIN the election he would be too busy in 2025 dismantling the various prosecutions against him and oh yeah in the most cynical and manipulative part of this hole stall tactic, you can’t criminally try a sitting president. Or a sitting dictator, for that matter.

And we need to throw EVERYTHING we have at him. Lawsuits, state cases, Arizona, Georgia, document trials, insurrection trials, the 14th Amendment, and if we can’t keep him off the ballot the goddamnedest series of campaign ads in the history of the world that make LBJ’s Daisy Ad and Bush’s Willie Horton Ad look more milquetoast than “I Like Ike.”

For those too young to remember, and too lazy to google, Here’s the “Daisy Ad”

It worked. We didn’t elect a President that got us into a messy war.

Oh, wait …

And here’s the Willie Horton ad.

EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY

That’s all the damage for now. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck!

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