Countdown With Keith Olbermann, S2E152: Trump And The Garcia Family: Lie Or Hallucination

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• SPECIAL COMMENT: He lied about it. He stole the story of a young murdered Michigan woman, purposely altered it, made himself the hero, made up a story about her family, then exploited it as an excuse to turn local cops into his private paramilitary police force. He LIED about it.

Or: Dog Bites Man.

• OR: His dementia or aphasia or insanity or whatever it is that specifically doesn’t work right in his brain is so bad that he read about her in The New York Post and he could no longer tell the difference between what he had READ and what had actually happened — or both.
• The New York Post, Monday: Ruby Garcia had a “smile that illuminated the room or contagious laughter.”
• Trump, Lying or Hallucinating, Tuesday: “She had just the most contagious laughter and when she walked into a room, she lit up that room, and I’ve heard that from so many people. I spoke to some of her family.”
• The family says he did not speak to any of her family. His campaign is hiding behind a claim that it never releases the details of such conversations without permission — which is itself ANOTHER lie because it released its CLAIM that it spoke to some of her family and implied those comments came from them.
• There are scumbags in this world. And then there is Donald Trump.
• MEANWHILE … “The American Conservative” piece about repealing or ignoring Presidential term limits so Trump could run again in 2028 and thereafter had an additional tendril I didn’t see. Lisa Needham at Public Notice did. “The American Conservative” is part of “Project 2025” — the plan to recast the government as an anti-women, anti-minority, anti-equality body that destroys “The Deep State” and replaces it with Trump slaves personally loyal to him who would institute a DEEPER — and far more deeply INCOMPETENT — state.
• THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Charlie Kirk insults a certain category of women (women not in their 30s). The one headed by his wife. Mike Davis thinks Chuck Schumer threatened to punch Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch or something. And so, what?

• Are you telling me that from once a week now my ex-SportsCenter co-anchor Sage Steele is going to be on here? Now she has revealed her 2021 ESPN interview with President Biden was entirely scripted by ESPN management, no deviations allowed, without ever realizing that all of her SportsCenter interviews were scripted by ESPN management because she was a total idiot.

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• THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: 45 years ago at this moment, a week or so after I had met Bob Iger and got his advice on how to get started in television, the letter that would change my career and my life, was somewhere, in transit, between New York City and Ithaca, New York. The story of the man who sent it, and why what he wrote mattered so much: The Lou Adler Letter.