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Countdown with Keith Olbermann is a production of iHeartRadio. How much time does Trump have left? Because from beyond the grave, Jeffrey Epstein has accused Trump and there is a smoking gun. Maybe four of them. And now Trump and his Republicans, especially Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and his MAGA enablers and his Fox News whores are complicit in an extraordinary disgusting coverup. Again, a cover up of pedophilia, a cover up of corruption at Pam Bondi's doj, a cover up of Epstein's crimes, a new coverup right now playing out in real time as Trump tries to blackmail Republicans into burying the Epstein files. And most of all, a cover up of Trump's guilt of the allegations that one of Epstein's female victims, quote, spent hours at Epstein's house with Trump, unquote, that Trump was that dog that hasn't barked and quote, has never once been mentioned those specific allegations made by Jeffrey Epstein in 2011 and acknowledged by Ghislaine Maxwell minutes later by email. Trump is guilty. In an unusual twist, we will find out what he is guilty of later. But Epstein has provided the evidence that almost everything Trump has said about Epstein and him is not true. And now if Trump follows the path he has been on for several months and pardons Maxwell or commutes her sentence, it could very easily cost him his presidency because a pardon or commutation for her would be his confession. And now, as Trump panics and twice insists it's all a hoax, while his enablers urgently meet in the White House, we must ask what is next? What is in the Epstein files that the Republicans in the House who have been blocking their release and those in the Senate who will try to, what is it that they are so terrified by if it wasn't what was released yesterday? And we must ask, now that Epstein has managed to convict Trump of at least a decades long cover up, to what lengths will Trump go to stop the release of the files? And we must ask, when will Trump's role in the Epstein crimes in his past cover ups of them in his current cover up of them in his cover up of whatever he is guilty of. When will the true horror of Trump's guilt become so overwhelming, so disqualifying, that Republicans will have to make the choice between covering up for Trump or saving themselves? Because that, and that alone is the moment at which those who have enabled Trump for the last decade will become those who will remove Trump, the moment at which his public survival means their extinction. Or, if you prefer to put it this way, their public survival means his presidential extinction. How much time does Trump have left before Epstein destroys him? To analyze what was released yesterday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, there could be in fact as many as four smoking guns. The first one obviously damning more because it is Epstein questioning with evident astonishment in 2011, four years before Trump even considered running for president, astonished that Trump's name had not yet come up related to Epstein's circle. His phrase the dog that hasn't barked. That is from Sherlock Holmes. That is about a dog that should have reacted negatively to some stranger coming in to steal the horse. Only he didn't bark. Therefore, the conclusion was the guy who stole the horse was not a stranger, the dog knew him. That's the dog that hasn't barked. The part about the hours with the redacted victim's name, that's almost less important here, because that is probably Virginia Giuffre. The Republicans are loudly proclaiming it's her. And she also did once claim Trump had been gentlemanly towards her. So the relevance of that seems to be more about Trump being in Epstein's home with any of his women victims. There is, however, this line from another email an Epstein offer to a New York Times reporter, would you like photos of Donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen? There is no doubt that Donald is Trump. There is a reference in the same thread with the New York Times reporter, to quote my 20 year old girlfriend in 93 that after two years I gave to Donald. What did he give to Donald? Photos or the girlfriend? There is a thread about Epstein recounting his interactions with the Russian foreign minister and thug Sergey Lavrov, trying to help Lavrov understand Trump serving as some sort of consultant to the Russians about how to deal with Trump, which extends the scandal into yet another area that may in fact long term prove fact far more deleterious to Trump than the Epstein per se sex ring and crimes. And then there is the fourth smoking gun, one that some readers are really hyped up about. Mar A Lago Epstein Notes to author Michael Wolf. In another email quote, Trump said he asked me to resign. Never a member ever. Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop. Sure is damning sounding, but what if knowing about the girls meant that Trump knew about Epstein recruiting women from Mar a Lago as Trump has claimed, and that he asked Maxwell to stop recruiting from Mar a Lago? So that one I think is too vague to have much meaning. The other three are not. But then again, all of this is one cube off the tip of the proverbial iceberg. By midday yesterday, Trump had panicked so much that he had twice posted again calling, I guess the entire pedophilia scandal and all of the crimes and his cover up of it, Trump's cover up of the Epstein files. He called it the Jeffrey Epstein hoax. Say that 20 more times in public and you will lose what remains of maga. And last night, Nick Fuentes, whose words I ordinarily would give no value to whatsoever, declared that MAGA is dead after this. It had also been revealed by midday yesterday that Trump had personally pitched Lauren Boebert on Tuesday to take her name off the discharge petition that will now force the vote compelling the release of the Epstein files. The House vote we have been hearing so much about, the one that the shutdown was really about to keep Adelita Grijalva from being registered as an official member of Congress and being the 218th name on the discharge petition. Yesterday, they ratcheted this up when Trump's phone calls to Boebert to try to get her to remove her name did not work. There was a crash meeting with Lauren Boebert in the White House in the Situation Room. The Situation Room, you know, where President Obama and his key cabinet members watched the taking out of Osama bin Laden. This time it was Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, a group that two years ago would have been a bad nights panel on a Hannity show. Patel evidently taking time off from flying to boink his country singer girlfriend on our dime. Obama monitored the death of bin Laden in the Situation Room. Trump's enablers monitored in the Situation Room whether they could convince a congresswoman whose husband allegedly exposed himself to females and was caught on film manipulating a constituent during a play, whether they could convince her the Epstein thing wasn't all that bad and it didn't work. Annie Carney of the New York Times reported, quote, my understanding is that the relentless pressure campaign that has included carrot stick, good cop, bad cop, has made her even more dug in, suspicious and convinced there's a conspiracy at play. So unlike Lauren Boebert, they didn't pull it off. Next, Republican leadership has warned the White House to prepare for the deluge. When the vote forced by this discharge petition takes place, the number of House Republicans who will vote for it and thus vote against Trump will be, per Politico sources in the dozens, quote, possibly 100 or more. Now, it is hardly among the foremost atrocities in this disaster, but Attorney General Bondi looks like even more of an idiot now with her little white notebooks that did not include any of this good stuff. And her deputy, Mr. Todd Blanch, who would have had access to all of these emails released yesterday and yet based on the transcripts, never asked anything remotely close to being about them when he went to see Ghislaine Maxwell in her Florida penitentiary right before they moved her Club fed in Texas. Mr. Blanche now sure sounds like a candidate for disbarment sometime in the near future. As I mentioned earlier, what matters most now is what's next in the files. In the upcoming public battle over the files. In whatever Trump tries next to stop the files, he cannot win. Clearly there is something worse in there and he knows that, or he would last night have called an immediate press briefing, explained what was meant by those emails that had just been released by those hoaxing Democrats and he would have said that he was perfectly content with everything else in the Epstein files being put out right now and hell, why not make it unanimous in the House by acclamation. And he didn't do that. So if the contents are released, he's screwed. But if they're not released, he's also screwed because he will have to maintain a constant effort to make sure they are not released. A new cover up if you will. Every effing week. The story not only becomes his 180 from campaigning, promising to release these files, to serving in office, dedicating himself to do everything he can to not release them, it becomes that every day. The one quality to Watergate that no scandal that Trump has faced, the one quality Watergate had that nothing Trump has faced, has yet developed, was that every day element. This could be it. We could have started, this could be day two of every day with the Epstein gate files. Now if you are wondering how it is possible that even a deranged, morals, free, sundowning person like Trump could have so loudly promised to release everything in some files if he knew they included him and would incriminate him and perhaps be fatal to his presidency. There are two outside factors to consider. First and biggest, he had to get himself elected last fall. He had to. His other option was to go to prison for life. If he had determined that he could have guaranteed himself election by campaigning on a promise to, once in office, prosecute himself, he would have made that promise. And something that's less political science fiction, it is possible Trump originally, when he made that promise last year, did not know. And his lack of imagination and surfeit of ego did not let him consider the possibility that even just what came out yesterday was in there. I don't know how many lawsuits and depositions he's been involved with. Hundreds, certainly. Maybe it's more than a thousand. Who knows? I imagine at that rate, they blur after a while. I did one deposition in one lawsuit in my Life. It was two days in 2013, and I remember nearly every detail, often in nightmares. And it went really well for me. I thought I knew what the other side would have found in its search of my emails, and for the most part, I was right about that. On the other hand, here is an anecdote that might give you an idea of how easy it is to be wrong about that. Their lawyer asked me about one subject heading on some of my emails to my manager, my agent, and my attorney. He asked me to estimate how many times I used this one phrase as the subject line in an email to those three people. I told him I had no good idea. He said he was not expecting a precise answer. He would not be holding me to it. He was just looking to establish a threshold. Was it this many? Was it more than that many? He finally got me to agree to his estimate. When he said between 75 and 100, I said I thought that sounded right. And then I thought I heard my manager laugh involuntarily and very faintly. When we broke for lunch maybe an hour later, as soon as we got far enough into the hallway for nobody else to hear, my manager and my attorney burst into laughter. Oh my God. The subject line number, my manager said. My lawyer laughed again. 75 and 100. The correct answer is you used it 1,243 times. So no, he. He might not have known. He knows now. And what he does know is that of all the pitfalls facing him right now, the foremost of them is Ghislaine Maxwell. This is a convicted child sex offender, and that is the nicest way to put it yet. After she gave Todd Blanche the answers that he wanted, she was not only rescued from that prison in Florida, she was basically transferred to a motel. Congressman Jamie Raskin is quoting a whistleblower who says customized meals are delivered to her cell. She has her own private exercise area she can use after hours. She is allowed trips out. She has private meetings with visitors, and snacks are provided by the prison and the guests can bring in their computers, meaning Maxwell has unmonitored communications with the outside world, including interviews with reporters. Oh, and she has a service puppy and a service warden. She is writing an appeal to Trump for a sentence commutation and the warden is helping her. And if Trump does commute the sentence, or worse, pardons her, he will inherit the wind. Epstein's email about wanting the recipient to realize that the dog that hasn't barked is Trump. To realize how Trump spent hours with a victim in Epstein's home to realize that Epstein is surprised he has never been mentioned. That was sent to Ghislaine Maxwell and her response was, I have been thinking about that. There are two key answers to two key final questions. What's in the files? That's worse? And what does Maxwell know about Trump? And the answers to both of those questions are probably exactly the same. Briefly, there is also, as ever, context. MAGA has been disenchanted yet again by, of all things, a Laura Ingraham interview with Trump. One soundbite in particular, in which Ingraham insists that H1B visas, which fast track immigrants with special work skills, can't be a priority for Trump's administration. And he says, you also do have to bring in talent. And in her best xenophobic tone, she reminds him, we have plenty of talent. And he dismissively says, no, you don't. No you don't. And she replies with astonishment, we don't have talented people here. This is not exactly Trump calling Americans untalented, but it's close enough. His supporters are not that bright. Any nuance, any space, any wiggle room between those two statements doesn't exist for them. On top of the fact that they are getting killed at the grocery store and everywhere else. And after they show their government, I'm allowed to buy popcorn id. Now they have to find out that it's not America first after all. Christy Noem followed that Trump comment to Ingram yesterday with a boast that there are more immigrants than ever becoming citizens. And clearly, unsurprisingly considering, they're all idiots. The Magas in office have lost the plot. They have forgotten that they were elected to demonize and expel foreigners. Period. Secondly, the full blame has yet to land exclusively or permanently on Trump Associated Press and NORC with a new poll. His approval is 36%, a record low but not terminal. However, in March, 43% of the country approved not of him, but of how Trump was managing the government. That was the phrase used, managing the government. 43% approval is not a lot, but in retrospect it looks like a landslide because in the new poll from this month it's down to 33% and just 38% among independents. In other words, two thirds of the country do not think he is handling managing controlling his own government. Well, Trump is not on his last legs, but the real life version of the Emperor's New Clothes seems to be reaching its final chapter, if not its final pages. And now we have these Epstein emails and whatever we don't have yet. And so I ask again, how much time does he have left before Epstein destroys him? A couple of updates on Trump's accelerating dementia or dementia like illnesses or illness if you missed it. He now wants to move troops into a place in America that does not exist. The Miracle Mile Shopping center in Chicago, once considered our nation's best, is ready to call it quits unless something is done about murder and crime. Call in the troops fast before it is too late. Just the news. There is no Miracle Mile Shopping center in Chicago. It's possible Trump just dreamt it or hallucinated it or who knows. There is the so called Magnificent Mile Shopping District in Chicago around the Hancock center and the Wrigley building and the pre1871 fire water tower. But it's not a shopping center and it's never been called a shopping center except by Trump, apart from his conflation of the words magnificent and miracle. Ask him to repeat those words in the next cognitive test scheduled already for next April. There is a Miracle Mile Shopping center in Monroeville, Pennsylvania and there's a Miracle Mile Shopping center in Vegas and there's one in la. And if Trump wants to send troops to Chicago to protect Monroeville, Penns farther gone than we thought. Like far enough to have once again said the Presidential Medal of Freedom is much better than the Congressional Medal of Honor because if you get the Congress Medal of Honor, you could be dead or wounded. Only he said it last Saturday to a local newscaster in Pennsylvania and it went viral on Veterans Day. On the other hand, in a rare development, and you may want to clip and save me saying this, Trump was actually right about something, the head of BBC News and the head of the entire BBC suddenly resigned after an edit made in a news special that aired more than a year ago was made into a big deal publicly in England. In the edit, two separate clips from Trump's infamous January 6th warmup speech that preceded his goons attempt to overthrow the government and kill congressmen, senators and vice presidents. Trump, of course, has lived his life in that space between trying to inspire others to commit crimes and violence on his behalf and actually getting blamed when the crimes and violence occur. If he has any intelligence at all, it lies in that skill. I didn't do it. I just said it. Well, the BBC's edit eliminated that space. And whereas that might be a good thing from a moral point of view, from a journalistic one, you just can't do what the BBC did. You cannot take two statements made about 50 minutes apart in real life and edit them together so adroitly that it literally changes the meaning of that. It sounds like he's saying he and the mob will now go to the Capitol and physically fight like hell. Like there was no nuance to it. You can't do that. If I had done that with two sound bites at my college radio station, they would have suspended me in 1975. You can run those two sound bites consecutively, provided you put in something between them. It can be an explanatory sentence. It can be an explanatory hour. It can be just one word, like later. But you have to make the distinction even when you are quoting the Devil. It was a day one journalism 101 mistake or a day one journalism 101 malfunction, dysfunction, attempt to sneak something past the editors. That being said, Trump's response to this was to demand a retraction of the documentary. Again, he's right. They should do that. They should officially retract and kill that documentary. They've already taken it off their website, and he wants an apology. That's the BBC's call. What I would do is the BBC should apologize to all viewers in the world, including Trump. If they want to say that, that to me would suffice. We apologize to everyone who has ever lived for our editing mistake. And of course he wants money. He wants a bribe like he got from ABC and cbs, or he'll sue them for a billion dollars because they damaged his reputation. This is where the part about an update on Trump's madness comes in. What reputation is that exactly? Sonny, they made it look like you inspired the January 6th insurrection. You did. You've boasted about it. They tried to kill your vice president while carrying giant flags bearing your name. Plus, you're Trump how could they damage you? How could anybody damage you? It's like the devil suing over a report that it's hot in hell. Plus, there'd have to be malice proven and some indication that the program was shown in America, which it wasn't. But I will tell you this. It's very hard to root for the BBC in this because it is such an odd organization. I had my own run in with the BBC about six years ago over a podcast. The idea that the BBC is not perfect is deeply hurtful to the people who run the BBC, who just are not that realistic about the BBC. Now, for the most part, the BBC's news people are brilliant, impeccable. If they are not the best in the world, they are among the best in the world. But this is a company that once ran an advertisement for the neutrality of its political coverage by having anchor Catty K, who is not one of the best in the world, walk through the streets of Washington past giant, graphic representations of words like neutrality and fairness. And she was blathering throughout this promo insisting that the BBC had never taken a side in any election or any war. And I snorted milk through my nose and I made a big stink about this little thing in the 40s that you might remember when. When this Hitler guy was sending bombers to London just to try to blow up the building the BBC was in and bomb its studios and light its newscasters on fire. And how at the time, BBC broadcasts were sending coded messages to the French resistance. And I said, so? So the BBC did not take sides in the Nazi war to blow up the BBC. We're supposed to believe this? I don't think I was the only one who complained. But they did stop running the ads once they realized, oh, that's right, we were rooting for our own country during the Second World War. How unfair of us. The BBC's attitude is very much like the New York Times. Combine the I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here line from Casablanca with the arrogance of, we are the BBC. We do not make mistakes. You must be mistaken about our mistake. And then add in a British political controversy over funding for the BBC and the BBC's clunky inability to handle politics at all. They somehow get and deserve criticism for occasionally leaning towards labor. And they get criticism for occasionally leaning towards conservatives. And now they get even more criticism for even more often leaning towards the fascist Reform Party. And the BBC is reportedly considering bribing Trump to drop the suit, even though Trump can't do anything to The BBC in America, the BBC News viewers pretty much consist of me and a couple of other people in America. And a lawsuit in England would almost certainly be kicked out of court. My God, BBC, you screwed this up. Correct that. And remember, Trump is crazy and guilty of the underlying principle here. So this is what you do. You issue that worldwide apology to everybody who has ever lived and then you tell Trump to go F himself. And in fact, you debut a show that must run on BBC World News every night, half an hour, call Donald Trump, go F yourself. And in that, by the way, you can send coded messages to the American resistance just like you did in the Second World War with the French. You used to send messages to Charles de Gaulle on BBC Radio. You can send me secret messages. Otherwise BBC, you will wind up like espn. ESPN on Tuesday achieved a new high and low. That is where we saw a new Trump symptom. Come out in public saying the quiet part out loud. Trump was the Veterans Day guest of the moronic ESPN daytime host Pat McAfee. Why would you have someone on who insulted a decorated veteran like John McCain because he was a POW? Why would you have them on on Veterans Day? Or who symbolically spat on the dead at Bellow Wood from the First World War by calling them suckers and losers? Why would you have him on on Veterans Day? Well, one, this Pat McAfee is an imbecile. Two, Pat McAfee has never asked a difficult question of anyone, even just another jock in his life. And three, Trump then said the quiet part out loud. McAfee said, thanks for joining us on the show. And Trump said, I'm only joining you because I hear you say such nice things about me. When people say nice about me, I join. When they don't say nice about me, I take a pass. So what you had here in addition to Trump saying the quiet part out loud was you had ESPN's resident fluffer platforming America's resident he who must always be fluffed. And by the way, not only confessing there, but inventing yet another new phrase that has never been used by anybody else in the history of the world. People say nice about me. Nice things, Donald. People say nice about me. People say nice about me. Maybe they're just not saying enough nice about him at the Miracle Mile Mall in Pennsylvania, which is in Chicago. So send in the troops to Las Vegas. Also of interest here. So the latest Cash Patel scandal. His girlfriend is suing a series of right wing podcasters for claiming that she who Patel goes to see using a government plane at taxpayer expense claiming these right wing podcasters did and she is suing over this. The claim that she's actually a spy. Keep your eye on the prize cash. That's next. This is Countdown. Do you like free money? Well, today's your lucky day. 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