NO TRUMP INDICTMENT UNTIL 2023 10.20.22
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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🗓️ 20 October 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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EPISODE 58: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:45) The vague and underwhelming Bloomberg report about how prosecutors "believe there is sufficient evidence to charge Trump" was surprisingly specific about one thing: the timeline is developing in such a way that a Trump indictment for Obstruction of Justice and other crimes would not happen before the week of January 2 (or, as a longshot, the week of December 26) 3:44 Bloomberg also gives away its source: the FBI agents in "the team that's part of the classified records probe." (5:00) There is an unclear claim that DOJ would not indict ONLY on Obstruction. Does that mean they DO intend to file other charges, or that if they don't file others, they won't file ANYTHING? (6:50) DOJ may also be trying to time any announcement to fit appropriately with Trump's other legal vulnerabilities, like the Eastman Coup Georgia lying-in-a-sworn-statement case that just grew in seriousness yesterday (7:26) But probably not the E. Jean Carroll rape lawsuits for which Trump was deposed yesterday (8:00) Finally I take a wild guess at the EXACT date of any Trump indictment - at least the most appropriate date for it.
B-Block (12:37) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: Griffin, in California (13:36) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: The voice of the Ohio voter is heard loud and clear: "F You, Fascist!" So why aren't Dem bigwigs funding Tim Ryan? And push comes to shove in the slowly-expiring British cabinet. No: Literally. Pushing and shoving in parliament. (17:31) IN SPORTS: You may think pitching decides baseball's post-seasons, but those with more homers won both games yesterday - and 101 of the last 120. And a Christmas Album allows me to confirm the ancient story of Philadelphia fans booing Santa Claus, plus New York fans throwing snowballs at Tiny Tim's tulips (21:11) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Sean Hannity tells us way too much of how his dad used to beat him with a belt. He and Jim Jordan compete with Kimberly Guilfoyle actually making a joke about Nancy Pelosi and plastic surgery. Can we start a GoFundMe to get Kim a mirror?
C-Block (27:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: With Netflix's profits in the news, the story of the day I met with them to propose not just a streaming political show, but how they could own ALL of the TV News field in the post-cable future and all they could think about was...the necessity of putting on Italian subtitles.
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| 0:00.0 | Countdown with Keith Ulerman is a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:19.8 | Screw the election interference rule. |
| 0:22.6 | Somebody in the FBI is trying to leak the word out before the midterms. |
| 0:27.3 | They are ready to charge Trump with obstruction of justice in like the week between Christmas |
| 0:33.4 | and New Year's, but no, they have not committed to do so. |
| 0:38.0 | Bloomberg News has reported this to the weary, jaded and too often disappointed residents |
| 0:42.8 | of free America and gotten a predictably unenthusiastic response. |
| 0:47.7 | But the details are worth hearing and it's worth deconstructing the clues as to where |
| 0:53.0 | the leaker works and best of all, there is one fascinating caveat in the report that |
| 0:58.2 | states with inappropriate matter of factness that if they're going to charge Eldouche |
| 1:02.8 | with obstruction of justice, they're not going to just charge Eldouche with obstruction |
| 1:08.6 | of justice. |
| 1:09.6 | Here is the Bloomberg lead. |
| 1:11.3 | Quote, a group of justice department prosecutors believe there is sufficient evidence to charge |
| 1:17.9 | Donald Trump with obstruction of justice, but the path to an actual indictment is far |
| 1:23.7 | from clear. |
| 1:25.4 | So the leak is coming from inside the Department of Justice says it right there, a group of |
| 1:28.9 | justice department prosecutors believe not so fast, deep throat breath. |
| 1:35.2 | Throughout, Bloomberg News refers to its sources as quote, people familiar with the matter |
| 1:40.8 | as in quote, while some federal Bureau of Investigation agents oppose bringing such a |
| 1:45.8 | politically charged case as Trump considers a 2024 presidential bid, others support action |
| 1:52.2 | said the people who asked for anonymity to discuss information not yet public agents, |
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