TRUMP ACCIDENTALLY REVEALS HIS PLOT TO STEAL THE MIDTERMS - 2.16.26
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 93 minutes
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SEASON 4 EPISODE 59: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: Just because we're paranoid, that doesn't mean Trump isn't out to get us.
Trump has just accidentally revealed crucial details of his conspiracy to steal the midterms. It starts with the cadaver-in-chief, demanding of active troops at Fort Bragg – “you have to vote for us” – that’s in case the Generals or even the Joint Chiefs realize Mark Kelly is right: they HAVE to disobey illegal orders, ESPECIALLY Trump’s illegal orders. If it came to that, Trump would have the raw troops overthrow the generals
And then Trump succubus Kristi Noem vowed to make sure Trump only lets the RIGHT people voting, electing the RIGHT leaders. And he’s already had ICE PRACTICE voter suppression – murder of civilians – in Minnesota.
How do we stop Trump? Talk about it endlessly. Talk about his attempt to make the troops loyal to HIM and not the constitution. Talk about his attempts to seize ballots. Talk about his attempt to use ICE to intimidate voters. Talk about it, now, now, now. Trump is plotting to steal the midterms. We not only CAN stop him - we have to.
MEANWHILE, HOW MUCH MORE CAN THE MEDIA BETRAY US? Jake Tapper - as guilty as anybody in the business of putting his salary ahead of all journalism - tells us to hang in there? An old boss of mine says something stupid. CBS decides to platform Stephen A. Smith, the Jill Stein of 2026.
B-Block (55:00) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: What happened to Congressman Randy Fine demanding the arrest of everybody who enjoyed Bad Bunny's Swear-filled Super Bowl Show? The White House doesn't know how to spell "cue." And enjoying the Olympics? It's all crap - especially what it did to the history of the Olympics and the National Hockey League.
C-Block (1:25:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: More media criticism. This disaster didn't start yesterday. By 2004, when an anchor on MSNBC told one of his viewers - live on the air - to "get AIDS and die" - and his boss said he had to be fired for that, his boss's boss (THE PRESIDENT OF NBC) tried to intervene to save his job.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
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| 0:36.9 | The Cadabber in New York. The cadaver in chief, the president who looks like he was just exhumed, just in case, has now let slip the details of his plot to steal the midterms. |
| 0:40.1 | His new demand of active troops at Fort Bragg, |
| 0:41.9 | you have to vote for us. |
| 0:45.4 | And the Valentine's Day words of his succubus, |
| 0:46.8 | Christy Gnome, |
| 0:50.1 | about making sure Trump has the right people voting, |
| 0:52.0 | electing only the right leaders. |
| 0:54.1 | Those are the highlights. Those are the pressure points, |
| 0:55.9 | the tips of the spear of the latest Trump coup conspiracy. Before I lay out every stop on the |
| 1:05.5 | Trump treason train for you in detail, let me cut to the chase and to the solution, because what Trump has already |
| 1:11.8 | revealed about his plans should tell us how to construct our plans. It is growing increasingly |
| 1:19.4 | apparent to me that while the whole thing could easily collapse of its own weight and its own |
| 1:25.0 | illegality, we are where we are because we have believed our |
| 1:29.3 | norms and laws would hold in the past, and frankly, they have not, because most of our leaders |
| 1:34.9 | are self-interested cowardly crap shacks. Happily, others are made of sterner stuff, or they have |
| 1:44.0 | jobs that require sterner stuff. |
| 1:47.7 | When Trump moves to seize ballots from this election from 2026, judges will have to do what judges |
| 1:55.1 | did not do when Trump moved to seize ballots from 2020 in Georgia earlier this year. They will have to say, |
| 2:02.5 | these are entirely different things, Bozo, and nothing gives the federal government the right |
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