PATEL JOCK SNIFFS AT OLYMPICS ON OUR DIME; TRUMP OWES US $293 BILLION - 2.23.26
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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SEASON 4 EPISODE 62: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: In case you somehow missed it, Kash Patel's enablers at the FBI (Fan Boys International) were busily denying he went to Italy for the Olympics just to see the hockey game and jock-sniff the victorious U.S. team when all sorts of video leaked out of the dressing room showing him doing exactly that - dancing, drinking, cringing. And then Patel himself couldn't resist Supposedly we sent 100 agents to help with security and he just had to be there. Guesstimated cost just for his latest stage of his perpetual vacation on our dime? $400,000.
It would be bad - a future administration will probably address it as misappropriation of funds. But what makes it worse is there's a piece by Patel from 2022 complaining about previous FBI directors wasting money on vacation, and a clip about his FBI predecessor Christopher Wray's vacation travel.
Simply impeaching him is insufficient. He needs to go to prison.
NOT THAT TRUMP WOULD DO THAT; THIS IS THE BEHAVIOR TRUMP TEACHES: Trump is a thief and he owes you and me at least 293 billion dollars - and we want it back.
The worst thief in American history - and 270 billion of that is in tariffs. Because on tariffs, the Supreme Court has given him his COMEUPPANCE. Well – it’s given him A comeuppance. Because his new argument for the new REPLACEMENT Monday tariffs was his old argument AGAINST overturning the old Friday tariffs.
But the key thing the Court actually did was give his cult a mortal shock. It is the first official body to give the Trump-Town Guyana Death Cult the message: that he is making this crap up, as he goes ALONG.
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Plus: an actual good idea from Boris Johnson: to send peacekeepers to Ukraine – NOW. And I’M the guy who thinks the Hockey Gold Medal is a BAD THING. And no, the John Barron who called into C-SPAN wasn’t Trump – he was too coherent.
B-Block (40:00) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Mark Zuckerberg manages to lose a lawsuit before the trial starts, Kid Rock proves he's not charging $5000 for front row tickets by confessing he IS charging $5000 for front row tickets, and Stephen Miller's wife has another one of those Freudian slips that may be desperate pleas for help from inside a bad situation.
C-Block (50:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Baseball has already started so time for my annual explanation: why I don't work for baseball's TV network even though they offered me my own show and I accepted it. It has to do with a big league club threatening them if they didn't renege.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
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| 0:13.1 | Before we start, I want to make sure you know about this, |
| 0:19.6 | this taxpayer-funded FBI Olympic jock sniffing yesterday, though I assume you do. |
| 0:31.5 | That is the sound of you and I paying for Cash Patel, okay, Crash Patel to go to the Olympics |
| 0:41.4 | in Italy yesterday and go into the U.S. hockey team dressing room after the gold medal was won |
| 0:47.2 | and pretend like he was on the team and swill beer with the boys and dance his little |
| 0:53.6 | cringe, cross-eyed dance with them, |
| 0:55.9 | wearing his little USA sweater, and have his press flack indignantly insist he was there on business, |
| 1:01.9 | supervising 100 American agents at the Milan Joint Operations Center, |
| 1:06.8 | protecting all the American tourists, and they just had to have the FBI director there among the |
| 1:12.0 | 100 agents present, and, and, and, and, this probably cost us $400,000. |
| 1:20.5 | But at least, we didn't pay for him to go see his girlfriend, quote, sing, unquote, again. |
| 1:29.7 | Yet we did pay to underscore Cash Patel's amazing hypocrisy. |
| 1:35.0 | Ron Filipkowski found this. |
| 1:36.8 | It's from three years ago. |
| 1:38.4 | And if the name he uses here doesn't ring a bell, |
| 1:41.9 | Chris Ray was Cash Patel's predecessor as director of the FBI. |
| 1:46.5 | He was in fact the last director of the FBI who did any directing of the FBI or investigating |
| 1:52.8 | as part of the Federal Bureau of Investigation or pretty much anything besides spending our goddamn |
| 1:58.1 | money on permanent road trips. I'm not the defund everything guy. |
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