TRUMP JUST TRIED ANOTHER COUP. IT FAILED. FOR NOW. - 2.12.26
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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SEASON 4 EPISODE 58: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump has attempted another coup. You may have missed it.
Trump and Jeanine Pirro with the acquiescence of the hapless Speaker of the House and Porn Monitor attempted another coup: Attempted to get Senators Mark Kelly and Elise Slotkin and four members of the House INDICTED for obstructing Trump’s dictatorship. Tried to convict, tried to jail, for imaginary crimes of disloyalty to him that Trump bleated are quote “punishable by death” six military veterans because they told other Americans to follow the law. For expressing fealty to the Constitution, for publicly reminding service members that THEIR allegiance is to the constitution and not some rapidly deteriorating psychopathic despot.
And ordinary Americans in a Grand Jury stopped Trump’s attempt to overthrow the government of the United States.
For. Now.
Which means the lesson Trump and Pirro and Johnson and the other deputy despots will take away is: next time don’t bother with Grand Juries, just have ICE blast them in the head. What to do to STOP “next time”- what to do RIGHT NOW in the Senate Continuing Funding Resolution - what to do in state houses before the midterms.
PLUS: Trump's either-or: either he Narc'd on Epstein or knew nothing about his crimes. Either way, Trump is now the CEO of the Epstein Cover-up. And maybe even more disturbing, he is actually, seriously, hallucinating. Full-on crazy talk. Not his normal delusions: this is A Chinese plot to destroy the National Hockey League. He thinks this is really happening.
B-Block (37:00) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: He won Olympic Bronze but was disqualified in the game of life. The three weird sisters are still whining about Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl: Megyn Kelly, Sage Steele, Michele Tafoya - the latter of two using language that matches almost word-for-word what was said by racists and sexists who called the ESPN complaint voicemail line to try to get THEM fired. And then there's the Twitter Rando whose 'egg corn' is as delightful as any I can remember. He's complaining about solitaire confinement!
C-Block (50:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: In the old days baseball spring training wasn't already unofficial underway as of... last week. It was limited and exciting and one of my joys was going to it and reporting from it. So it's time to try to recreate some of that, because naturally I still have the tape of my 1978 Spring Training reports from Florida!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:30.5 | Trump just attempted another coup and failed for now. |
| 0:35.9 | Trump just made his second attempt to overthrow the duly elected government of the United States, the second overt attempt, as opposed to |
| 0:38.9 | the continuing background noise, baseline coup attempt that he is always trying. |
| 0:44.7 | This second overt attempt has failed for now. |
| 0:50.1 | Trump with the U.S. attorney in charge of boxed wine, Janine Piro, and with the slimy little porn monitor, speaker Mike Johnson squeaking from the sidelines, attempted to indict four sitting Democratic members of the House, and four sitting senators for following the law, for telling other Americans to follow the law, for publicly expressing |
| 1:13.6 | fealty to the Constitution, and for publicly reminding members of the military that their |
| 1:19.6 | allegiance is to the Constitution and the law, and not some rapidly deteriorating psychopathic |
| 1:25.7 | despot who is currently tearing down every building in Washington, |
| 1:29.9 | in which somebody he didn't like, lived or served, or entertained, or succeeded where he failed. |
| 1:38.0 | Happily, run of the mill Americans thwarted them. A grand jury said no. Run of the mill Americans thwarted them. A grand jury said no. Run of the mill Americans thwarted them, |
| 1:48.9 | this time. Happily, Trump sent the most unreliable, most comical, most embarrassing of the various |
| 1:55.9 | ambulance-chasing would-be mob lawyers in his DOJ to sell this particular fascist one-party government |
| 2:03.2 | bullshit to people who, even though only the government gets to present a case to a grand jury, |
| 2:09.2 | with rare exception, knew enough about America and the Constitution to run this nitwit |
| 2:15.8 | piero right out of the jury room. |
| 2:18.6 | This time. |
| 2:21.0 | The problem is that when they try it again, even Trump and Peiro aren't stupid enough to try |
| 2:27.2 | it again this way. |
| 2:29.5 | The lesson they presumably take from the rejection of their attempt to jail opposition leaders in America, |
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