GAG ORDER! JUDGE CANNON MUZZLES TRUMP IN CLASSIFIED DOCS CASE - 9.14.23
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Judge Eileen Cannon, you have unsuspected depth.
Trump's appointee has stunned Trump world by not only limiting what he can say and when he can
say it during his prosecution and trial for stealing our top secret documents, but also for
limiting when he and his lawyers can see the war plans and other classified information he stole.
This has gotten buried under the McCarthy illegal impeachment inquiry, which is the point of
that inquiry. It is a diversion to misdirect the American news media and the public and as we know
all too well, if you spend 90 seconds trying to misdirect the American news media, you will succeed
utterly. But Trump has been counting on Eileen Cannon to do his bidding for him and in this first
non-timing ruling out of Jack Smith's Florida case against Trump, the judge has given us hope
that she may yet turn out to be more than just the former Flamenco dancing and yoga correspondent
of the Miami El Nuevo Harold newspaper. In short, Cannon's ruling is almost everything Jack
Smith asked for. Any evidence marked classified, Trump cannot discuss it publicly. The evidence
marked classified that Trump has lied about and said he declassified, Trump cannot discuss that
publicly. The evidence marked classified that has become public knowledge without being officially
declassified, Trump cannot discuss that publicly either. Trump wanted a skiff, a sensitive,
compartmented information facility, SCIF, reinstalled at Marilago and Cannon not only did not give it
to him, she has ignored the request. Looks like when he or his attorneys want access to these
documents, they will have to go to an established skiff under the control of a classified information
security officer already assigned to the case in Florida. Trump can only look at the secrets he stole
inside the skiff. He can only talk to his defense team about the secrets he stole inside the skiff
for the classified audio recordings. Trump cannot have copies. He cannot listen to them except on a
stand-alone computer not attached to a network without Wi-Fi, without internet inside the skiff and
the headphones on which he listens to the audio recordings cannot be wireless. They have to be
plugged into the computer. Honest to God, Judge Cannon's order includes every protection against
Trump's kleptomania, except requiring him to leave a credit card at the desk. And it has a
sting in its tail and that sting is not merely be kind, please rewind. Quote, the limitations on
disclosure of classified information set forth in this order are binding on defendant and his
counsel and violations may result in criminal and or civil penalties. In short, Trump could go to
jail for stealing these documents and he could also go to jail for stealing them again and he could
also also go to jail for talking about them. And wait, there's more. His Florida co-defendant Walt
in this equation the sap. Walt now to figure he could serve his lord and master Trump yet one more
time by gaining his own access to the classified documents and who knows where they'd wind up then.
Judge Cannon shot that down too with the impeccable logic that since now to is charged with
obstruction and lying and not secret stealing. Quote, the defense may not disclose classified
to him. From the Georgia Trump case, Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows continues to be the
Aaron Rodgers of defendants. Only it's as if Aaron Rodgers tore his Achilles 94 seconds into
the first game and then tore it again 94 seconds into the second game and 94 seconds into the
third and 94 seconds into the fourth. Meadows wanted the case against him frozen, delayed
indefinitely from its scheduled start next month while he appealed his last loss and again tried
to get his case moved to federal court. But US district judge Steve Jones not only denied it but
basically added, you're going to tear your Achilles again. You know that, right? Saying Meadows
Quote has shown no likelihood on prevailing on the merits of his appeal. As to the parallel
issue before Judge Tonya Chutkin in Trump's Washington trial, quote, the defendants daily extra
judicial statements that threaten to prejudice the jury pool in this case per the only non-sealed
part of Jack Smith's exchange with Trump lawyer number. Wait a minute. 236 John Loro. Nothing leaked
yesterday. Loro's team was supposed to answer the judge about good old ECF number 47-3 on Monday.
Smith's team was supposed to answer Loro's answer yesterday and we don't know for sure that
any of that has even happened. Let alone what did happen. And of course, we don't even know what
good old ECF number 47-3 is. It's all under seal. And of course, you heard about none of this
because a Trump may have actually realized how bad the news from Judge Cannon is for him and he
should not call attention to it on social media and be the news media saw something else move
in the bushes and collectively had cried, look, a kitty and see Trump is after all occupied
engineering Kevin McCarthy's illegal impeachment inquiry. That's the point.
We know from a hundred different reports that Trump met Sunday in New Jersey with the
law and ornament come to life, Marjorie Taylor Greene. He spoke with the snake-like Elise Stepanek
on Tuesday after McCarthy took the bait and announced his star chamber. But he has not been in contact
with the Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Bobert because she's been too busy getting kicked out of the
stage version of Beetlejuice for vaping and illegally recording the show. And of course,
she's now preoccupied with her GoFundMe campaign to get herself a dress that actually fits.
Trump has evidently not talked directly with McCarthy either, which makes sense because McCarthy is
also very busy destroying his own career and his party's majority in the house. The illegal
impeachment investigation has now morphed into the GOP in crisis, in fact into the GOP in open
revolt. McCarthy accused Congressman Matt Gates of Florida of conspiring with Democratic Congressman
Eric Swalwell of California to get Swalwell placed back on the Intelligence Committee. McCarthy
even posits that that is a front for something else. He won't say what. He says of Gates' quote,
this is really about an ethics complaint. Gates came back last night and said, this is an
abject lie from a sad and pathetic man who lies to hold on to power unquote.
And Congressman, you're going to have to be more specific than that and use the speaker's name
in that statement because otherwise that could be about just about anybody in your own party,
couldn't it? It is hard to imagine Matt Gates being right about anything, but he actually
may be in this case. McCarthy's vapor thin premise for this charade is coming apart like a cheap
suit. And for that matter, McCarthy is coming apart like a cheap suit. There are now
dueling FBI whistleblowers in the Hunter Biden case and it is beginning to look like McCarthy's
FBI whistleblower is a liar. It was Gary Shapley who said that Hunter Biden prosecutor David
Wise had proclaimed he was being stymied by the Justice Department, but now it is the chief of
the FBI's Hunter Biden investigation, Thomas Subbasinsky, who says, no, that's not true.
Wise never said that. In fact, he told the house in an interview, those exact things last week
and McCarthy went ahead with this sham anyway. Just to ratchet this up a little bit more, late last
night, and I'll read this directly from the pages of the Washington Examiner a curiously useful
resource from the far right. Quote Hunter Biden filed a lawsuit against a former Trump
administration aid in California federal court Wednesday alleging he illegally posted contents of his
that would be Hunter Biden's infamous laptop from hell. The lawsuit accuses Garrett Ziegler,
his company and 10 unnamed defendants make one of them Trump make one of them Trump make one
of improperly accessing tampering with manipulating altering copying and damaging computer data that
they did not own in violation of California's computer fraud laws. I sentenced you to 10 years in
prison for damaging the contents of the Hunter Biden laptop. Back at the ranch, Kevin McCarthy's
entire motive for this perversion of justice and the degradation of the seemingly
nothing left to be degraded in Republican House, that is also collapsing. He did this to save
his worthless ass and push through spending legislation, appropriations bills and another stunt
shutdown of the government and every one of the bills from a mega bill to individual funding
procedures for the Pentagon for disaster relief for Homeland Security. They all failed yesterday.
He had to pull the 826 billion dollar Pentagon bill off the floor. Half the members are
trying to stick amendments and pet projects onto it and the last word was McCarthy was even pivoting
away from the big musical number they have all rehearsed. The September 30th government shutdown
and instead they may just pass a short term continuing resolution just to keep the government
afloat into next month. No more big musical number. All he's got is a kazoo.
Plus, rather surprisingly, institutional Washington is actually beating the crap out of Kevin
McCarthy. The inquiry, quote, devalues impeachment as a meaningful tool to deal with genuine
presidential misconduct. Professor Emeritus Frank O. Bowman of Missouri Law told as buttoned down
a group as you can find the publication roll call. Bowman wrote a history of impeachment. He says
what McCarthy did make, quote, create a situation where presidents of both parties just throw up
their hands and say, look, these guys never operate in good faith. We're just going to refuse any
subpoenas that they send us, unquote. The first president who tries that will get away with it.
I don't know what happens to the second one. Let's see if Biden becomes the first. A UNC law
professor went even further in the same publication. There's, quote, no evidence whatsoever.
It's an outcome in search of a process. Isn't that perfect? It's an outcome in search of a process.
McCarthy literally brought trouble on his own house and this is the wind he has inherited. And yes,
it is Trump's wind. And yes, that is exactly as disgusting as it sounds. And to mix my metaphors,
the quicksand McCarthy now finds himself in may only be up to his ankles now, but it could go
all the way to the top of his beak. McCarthy could lose the speakership over this. And as I pointed
out yesterday in the 1998 Newt Gingrich history story, it could happen damned fast. I mean,
it is so bad. Even news reporters are noticing. Well, kind of. The White House actually figured out
bless them that there are Pavlovian bells. You can ring inside the DC political media
industrial complex. White House counsel office spokesman Ian Sam's wrote a long letter
excoriating the stenography of the last few. Well, what's the right word here weeks, months,
centuries, quote, it's time for the media to ramp up its scrutiny of House Republicans
for opening an impeachment inquiry based on lies. He added that the absence of, you know,
evidence should quote, set off alarm bells for news organizations. And then he named the news
organizations and nothing scares an outlet like CNN more than seeing itself ripped in a letter that
was sent to all the other news organizations that it secretly still envious. Mr. Sam's was smart
enough to leak the letter Tuesday night, then deliver it Wednesday morning, then post it in full
online Wednesday afternoon. If today he's standing in front of Washington Union station,
handing it out to passersby, I wouldn't be a bit surprised. And it seems to have registered with
the media again, kind of the letter noted as I did yesterday that on the first of this month,
Kevin McCarthy insisted all but swore in an interview with bright part news that if there were to
be an impeachment inquiry, it would follow a House vote of some kind. Quote, if we move forward,
with an impeachment inquiry, it would occur through a vote on the floor of the people's House and
not through a declaration by one person. And then he made a declaration by one person. So when McCarthy
met reporters yesterday and expected the usual supine enabling of his crap machine, he was stunned
when one of them from CNN actually quoted that bright part quote to him. As you will hear,
Kevin McCarthy had no idea what to do next, and several times had to go back to the beginning
of his memorized state. You know what's interesting to me? You are a reporter for CNN, correct?
I just laid out to you a lot of allegations based upon the American president of your work.
Why did you change your work? Let me answer your question because I answered it every single day.
You could answer me every single day. Nancy Pelosi changed the president of this House.
Does it preclude from a Nancy Pelosi changed the president of this House on September 24th?
It was withheld and good enough for every single Democrat here. It was good enough for the judge.
Why do you have to be different today? What we've learned in the last couple weeks,
wouldn't you want to know the answer to? Your whole job is reporting. You now have an accusation
that the president took a bribe. You do know from your own reporting, from your own station,
that they were selling a brand. You do know from your own reporting from CNN that the president went
to and did conference calls. That the president went to lunches and dinners, that just the dinners,
and the hunter got a new Porsche. He got three, but that's my question to you. Why don't you ask
the other questions? Why don't you go grow? You have a change of position. I never changed my position.
Of course McCarthy lied there several times. Nancy Pelosi held a vote in 2019 before the
impeachment began. He also never got around actually answering CNN about his own lying.
It was rather an impressive performance, especially when he had to go back to the beginning.
I have noted before that Kevin McCarthy looks like the bird that has just smashed into your window.
During that one, he looked like he had just done it twice. While I suspect the McCarthy illegal
impeachment inquiry will soon consume his speakership, and within days the media may be climbing over
each other to help him bury himself. I am not suddenly going all polyanna on the utter failure
of American journalism, especially American television journalism, especially American broadcast
network television journalism in the last eight years and eight months and the last eight minutes.
You will recall that the night before the Republican debate in Milwaukee, three Trump hoodlums,
led by that disgusting Jason Miller were according to Politico, quote, whining and dining, 12 national
political reporters at a steakhouse in Milwaukee called rare. Now these were not a dozen frauds from
Fox News, the daily caller, Newsmax, fascist daily. No self-respecting American newsperson would
dine with Miller and Chris Lasavita and Stephen Chung or their equivalence in the desantis campaign,
or for that matter, their equivalence in the Biden campaign, not in the middle of a campaign,
not the night before debate. But these were not 12 self-respecting American newspersons. They were
12 people from CNN and CBS News and NBC News and ABC News and the Washington Post, including
management, who thought it was somehow appropriate to share a table with not just political operatives,
but political operatives who constantly encourage the public to view news reporters as criminals
who should be targeted and attacked and assaulted and kidnapped and tortured and killed.
And among those who broke bread with these scumbags were Rick Klein,
political director of ABC, political editor of Bloomberg, Mario Parker, David Shalian from CNN,
Robert Costa from CBS, Shane Goldmacher from the New York Times, and here's the point,
Kristen Welker of NBC News, as of next week, the new host of Meet the Press.
And yesterday, the other shoe dropped.
Quoting the Hollywood publication deadline, Kristen Welker's first broadcast of Meet the Press
on Sunday will feature a pre-taped interview with former president Donald Trump.
The interview will take place on Thursday that would be today in Bedminster, New Jersey,
and it will be Trump's first broadcast network sit-down since leaving office.
We got Trump to talk about himself. We're really cool, aren't we?
Kristen Welker is the greatest host of Meet the Press ever.
The network has stressed that the interview is not a town hall.
Poor Chris Lick, I almost feel sorry for him.
The network has stressed the interview is not a town hall and there is no live audience.
And the same invite has been extended to President Joe Biden.
The sit-down also will be accompanied by a fact check on NBCNews.com.
The implication being there that the fact check will not be on Meet the Press.
They also pointed to a quote that David Gellis, I believe that's how he pronounces this name,
the executive producer of Meet the Press gave to the pointer report,
quote, we are in the business of covering politics.
It's not our job to pick and choose the leaders.
The American people get to do that, and so our job is to make sure that the American people
understand who the people in power are, what they stand for, and what they plan to do.
Not to get too biblical on you here, but I believe that exact quote was also said once by Pontius
Pilot. It's not our job to pick and choose the leaders.
Our job is, yeah, it's not our job to try to stop an arsonist who's lighting the building we
are all in on fire. It's also not our job to try to put out the fire.
We are just here to make sure that the pyromaniacs and the firefighters get an equal amount of
coverage and the equal opportunity to either burn or not burn everybody alive.
Congratulations, NBC, on destroying Kristen Welker's reputation before her first show.
Just brilliant. This is a preliminary verdict. I reserve the right to edit this sentence out
later, but honest to God, write this minute, I actually miss Chuck Todd.
By the way, this meet the press EP, I don't know how to pronounce his name, but I recognized it.
David Gellist, G-E-L-L-E-S, he was one of the producers I inherited when MSNBC hired me back and
canceled Phil Donahue in 2003. And by the way, they canceled him because the show cost way too
much money. And it had a live audience with a union in New York, which cost way too much money.
And even without Phil's admirable anti-war stance, they were going to cancel it. His stance just
made it happen faster. Anyway, so we kept about half maybe two fifths of Donahue staff and made
them into the countdown staff. And the others were dispersed around the company. And this guy,
Gellist or Gellist was one of those dispersed. But don't worry, since that day, 20 years ago,
he has burnished his credentials. We can trust him to handle a Donald Trump interview on NBC
News with a rookie. We can handle that because he burnished his credentials by going on to produce
such journalistic enterprises as Rock Center with Brian Williams. And of course, 17-time P-Body
winning program, Jake Tapper's Book Club.
Also of interest here, Profiles in Discourge.
Mitt Romney says he's going to retire at the end of his term. And we have lowered our collective
American standards so much that God damn you'd think it was Daniel Freakin Webster striding out
of the Senate in July of 1850 to take over as Secretary of State in the time of Great Crisis.
Jesus, age Christ, it's Mitt Romney. This is the guy who put out a public statement with a big
colorful graphic that mocked me, me, for calling Trump a terrorist. And then three months later,
there he was, a virtual hostage inside the Senate, inside the Capitol, because guess what?
Sportscaster boy over here was right. Trump was a terrorist. And Mitt Romney in October 2020
didn't effing know that. That's next, this is countdown.
Everness wise, we had virtually no evidence. We had the word of a 15-year-old who told lies,
a lot of lies.
A lot, a lot, a lot.
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Deputy Bill Hardy. Without solid evidence, the case comes down to who is believed and who is ignored.
We did commit to innocent man. And he's been on death row all these years, and I didn't know it.
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Okay, this is half post scripts to the news and half things I promise not to tell.
Mitt Romney yesterday managed to announce his retirement from the Senate at the end of his
current term and to promote his authorized biography excerpt appearing in the Atlantic on the same
day. Some's him up really. The man who will forever be remembered for one photograph with him
cowering at a poorly lit table at the Jean Georges restaurant inside Trump Tower weeks after Trump
was elected, having gone there not for the frog's legs, but to kiss Trump's ass.
Yes, he is saying it's time to leave the Senate. Time to go, Mitt. Actually, Mitt, that was when
you were running for the Senate in 1994 on the shore. I'm an utter mediocrity, but check out my hair
platform. Has any seemingly intelligent man missed more obvious things in American public life
than Mitt Romney has? Other Vichy Republicans colluded with Trump out of evil. Mitt Romney did
so out of naïve tay. An excerpt from this upcoming book, which I think they have entitled,
they call me Mr. Mitt. Maybe I'd dreamt that. Maybe it's Mitt the Elder.
Quote, what bothered Romney most about Josh Hawley and his cohort was the oily disingenuousness.
They know better, he told me. Josh Hawley is one of the smartest people in the Senate. If not
the smartest and Ted Cruz could give him a run for his money. They were too smart, Romney believed,
to actually think that Trump had won the 2020 election. Hawley and Cruz, quote, were making a
calculation, Romney told me, that put politics above the interests of liberal democracy and the
Constitution. No, kidn. Seriously, Mitt, it took you through the 2020 election to realize that
Cruz and Hawley were con men that maybe there were Republicans who were exploiting Trump?
Seriously? Early in 2021, Romney also told the author, quote, a very large portion of my party really
doesn't believe in the Constitution. Did you meet Nixon before he died? Mitt, did you figure that
one out for yourself? Or did you have one of your old teams from Bane Capital do it for you?
I always thought Mitt Romney was a dits, but even I was shocked on October 13, 2020 when a
graphic appeared on social media. White letters all caps, some of them read on a blue background
in his name at the top, and I read it innocently enough, no idea what was in it and boy did I
get a surprise. That, as I reported that day, was when I discovered that apparently I was the
shadow president of the United States or something like it, quote, untroubled by our politics,
Mitt wrote, as it has moved away from spirited debate to a vile, vituperative, hate-filled morass
that is unbecoming of any free nation. Mitt, you just noticed that? That had been happening since
like 1990, started by Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh and those other fascists. The president calls the
democratic vice presidential candidate a, quote, monster. He repeatedly labels the speaker of the
house crazy. He calls for the justice department to put the prior president in jail. He attacks the
governor of Michigan on the very day. A plot is discovered to kidnap her. And yet, Mitt, there you were
running away from your own commitment to stop this fascist would be dictator, dining with him,
auditioning for his cabinet, supporting him as he railroaded a Supreme Court nominee,
pass the very rules your party had made up out of thin air in 2016. But go on, Mitt, quoting this
thing again from October 2020, Democrats launch blistering attacks of their own, though their
presidential nominee refuses to stoop as low as others. Pelosi tears up the president's state
of the union speech on national television. Keith Olderman calls the president a terrorist media
on the left and that, wait, what? Pelosi tears up the president's state of the union speech
on national television. Keith Olderman says the president, huh? Trump, governor of Michigan,
Biden, Pelosi, Olderman. One of these things is not like the other. I just want to clarify here.
I am not affiliated with any political party. I don't work for any news or commentary outlet and I
have not been elected to any office since let me see junior year of high school. But I did stay at
a holiday and express last night. As one Twitter respondent to Mitt Romney's unfortunate
misive, the former Obama spokesman and pod save America co-host Tommy Vater said,
it's long past time to break ground on a both sides museum in Washington DC. This comparison
of the president of the United States to Keith Olderman must be preserved for future generations.
I agree then and I agree now. Honestly, soon to be ex-Senator Romney, I was the best you could do
or from the other vantage point, I was the worst you could do.
Mitt Romney, you are one of the Franz von Poppins of this nightmare. Our equivalent of the
German conservative politician who helped to get Hitler elected and then said, don't worry,
quote, within two months will have pushed him so far into the corner that he'll squeak.
You Mitt Romney helped to enable a terrorist to occupy the oval office. And by that date in
October 2020, we all knew Trump was a stochastic terrorist. Maybe you didn't. Terrorism by proxy,
praise the white supremacist militia terrorist in Michigan, repeated their demands. And the next
thing, as you put in that graphic, they were scouting out the governor's summer home and planning to
kidnap her. And Trump tacitly endorsed the paranoid delusional QAnon cult. The next thing you know,
one of the cool aid drinkers were bursting into a kid's pizza parlor, brandishing an AR-15 because
he really believed that bullshit on a psychotic chat room board that had already happened.
And Trump was already also a direct terrorist by October 2020 senator. What was he doing to his
own supporters if not terrorizing them? He told them a democratic president if elected would burn
down the cities and destroy the suburbs and eliminate the borders and allow foreign gangs to
come kill them. All that senator is and was and was then terrorism. And you, Mitt, you didn't notice.
The country was metaphorically ablaze and you were yelling at those of us who were trying to
warn people and put out that fire I referred to earlier. We have to make it safe for both the
pyromaniacs and the firefighters and B.C. News, Washington. You tried to make it
bad for those of us who were warning people in the realistic terms by complaining that we
trampled some imaginary tulip garden of friendly American political discourse that still
exists only inside your own head under all that hair. Silence in the face of evil or both
sides in the face of evil is the same as conducting the evil yourself senator. Trump was there.
Trump was still there because you and the other good Republicans let him stay there.
This is the kind of America they wanted. This is the kind of America they got. This is the kind
of America you got. If you have complaints about the state of political discourse in this country,
Mitt take it up with the terrorist in chief or with your own mirror.
Quote the rabbit attacks kindle the conspiracy mongers and the haters who take the small and
predictable step from intemperate word to dangerous action. Mitt Romney wrote in October 2020
in his memo to me. It is time to lower the heat. Leaders must tone it down. Leaders from the top
and leaders of all stripes, parents, bosses, reporters, columnists, professors, union chiefs,
everyone. The consequence of the crescendo of anger leads to a very bad place. No sane person
can want that. You'll notice that among the people he told to tone it down in October 2020,
Mitt Romney did not include Donald Trump. And sure enough, less than three months later,
Mitt Romney was avoiding a Trump mob bent on killing him or whoever they could get hold of,
and by the way, destroying democracy. And guess what, Mitt? I was right. Donald Trump was a
terrorist and Donald Trump is a terrorist. Unless, Mitt, you think that I caused January 6th.
Idiot.
Everything's wise. We had virtually no evidence. We had the word of a 15-year-old who told lies,
a lot of lies. In 1995, Detective Tony Richardson was trying to figure
out who killed a fellow officer, Deputy Bill Hardy. Without solid evidence,
the case comes down to who is believed and who is ignored. We did commit to innocent man.
And he's been on death row all these years, and I didn't know it.
I'm Beth Shelburn from Lava for Good Podcasts. This is Ear Witness.
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favorite parts. You know I love digging into entertainment and tropes, but we also expanded
out on that to talk about the power of representation at large. Yeah, and you know, I love digging into
some of the minute things in history that people don't talk about enough that we need to have
more conversations on and hopefully this will start that. You can order your copy if Stefan
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I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. Countdowns come to you from
our studios. High atop the sports capsule building here in New York, New York.
Here are the credits. Most of the music arranged produced and performed by Brian Ray and John
Philip Chanel. They are, of course, the countdown musical directors. All orchestration and keyboards
by John Philip Chanel, the guitars, bass and drums by Brian Ray produced by TKO Brothers.
Other Beethoven selections have been arranged and performed by No Horns Allowed.
The sports music is the Old Roman theme from ESPN 2, and it was written by Mitch Warren Davis,
courtesy of ESPN Inc., musical comments by Nancy Faust, the best baseball stadium
organist ever. Our announcer today was my friend Jonathan Banks from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.
And airplane. Everything else is pretty much my fault. That's countdown for this the
980 second day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected
government of the United States. Convict him now while we still can. By the way,
Mitch, he's got a terrorist. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow,
Bulletin's as the news warrants and my throat permits. Till then, I'm Keith Old Roman. Good
morning. Good afternoon. Good night. And good luck.
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