TRUMP IS BASICALLY PAYING RUSSIA TO TELL IRAN WHERE OUR TROOPS ARE - 3.9.26
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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🗓️ 9 March 2026
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SEASON 4 EPISODE 67: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump is in essence paying to provide Iran with the location of our forces in the Middle East. Our ships, jets, troops.
Trump has just waived part of the embargo against Russian oil. So Iran’s ally Russia can sell MORE oil to India to get more money. Thus Russia can spend that money to gather more information on where American forces are IN the war. So Russia can give that information TO IRAN, and reportedly is, AND nobody in the Trump Rogue Government is denying it.
Trump is in effect paying Russia, to help Iran attack Americans in this war. And in case you had doubts over Russia's loyalty, its minister to Britain just repeated on television there that it is not neutral in this war, that it is siding with Iran and will help it.,
So, what’s that called again? When you’re fighting a war, and people in your government help a country that’s helping the country you’re fighting the war AGAINST? What’s that called again? Tree Surgery? Trea-Ting? Trea...
Never mind the other problems: we a) have no business being there; b) we are not winning; c) we are going to be there for years or d) Trump is going to have to cut and run or e) Trump's setting us up for an Iranian revenge terror attack here.
And just to follow up on the End-Of-The-World Rapture religious crap motivating dozens of US military commanders, one Senator has actually joined the hallelujah chorus: Senator Cramer of North Dakota says we are there because of a BIBLICAL COMMITMENT to Israel.
Iran: it is far worse than you think.
B-Block (38:30) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: It's a full scale pie fight over in Fascist Media. Megyn Kelly, Bill Ackman, Nepobaby Tucker Carlson, Grand-Nepobaby Buckley Carlson, and others all attacking each other - it's delightful. Then there's US Weekly's disastrous post about the passing of a celebrity-adjacent figure. And if you haven't heard this you won't believe it. They've managed to position the "White House" sign perfectly behind Karoline Leavitt in just the perfect place so when she stands all the way to her left, it reads behind her... Well, no, I'm going to make you listen to find out.
C-Block (49:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: I told somebody this story the other day so now I'll tell you. If you can envision me, Chris Matthews, Joe Scarborough, Lester Holt, and Jesse Ventura inside an MSNBC men's room talking about inches - this story is for you. Happily it was about our new president and how he was the tallest man any of us had ever met who was clearly lying about his own height.
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| 0:00.0 | Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:18.6 | Trump is paying to provide Iran with the location of where our forces are in the Middle East. |
| 0:30.1 | Trump is now letting Iran's ally, Russia, sell more of its embargoed oil, more Russian oil, to get more money so Russia can use |
| 0:43.1 | that money to spend it on gathering information on where American forces are in the Middle |
| 0:48.8 | East and take that information that we just essentially paid for and give it to Iran, |
| 0:55.5 | which it reportedly is doing right now, helping Iran locate American forces in the Middle East, |
| 1:05.1 | planes, ships, personnel, Russians, helping Iran hunt Americans. |
| 1:12.7 | Trump is in effect paying Russia to help Iran attack Americans in this war. |
| 1:21.8 | What's that called again when you are fighting a war and people in your own government, |
| 1:31.9 | help a country that's helping the country, you're fighting a war and people in your own government help a country that's helping the country you're fighting the war against? |
| 1:34.0 | What's that called again? |
| 1:38.3 | Tree surgery? |
| 1:41.5 | Jackie Treehorn? |
| 1:42.8 | Tree, tree. Oh, right, treason. |
| 1:47.9 | Never mind that we have, A, no business being there, B, we're not winning, C, we're going to be there for years at this rate, or D, Trump is going to have to cut and run, and E, Trump is setting us up here for an Iranian |
| 2:03.4 | revenge terror attack. |
| 2:06.5 | There's the other problem with the treason part. |
| 2:10.4 | Iran, it is far worse than you think. |
| 2:14.4 | We are paying for the oppo intelligence against American troops there. |
| 2:25.1 | And in case you were wondering about this, Russia just reiterated, it is on the side of Iran in this war. |
| 2:32.5 | Whatever you think of this war, Russia is making it very clear, |
| 2:37.1 | no, no, we're not an American ally in this and we're not neutral. This is Russia's ambassador to the UK |
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