Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This is a Countdown Bulleton podcast about the assault on Senator Padilla of California at the Christy Nome Propaganda conference on Thursday afternoon. This is also thus another reminder that Donald Trump is a domestic terrorist and anybody who serves him is a domestic terrorist. It was true in twenty twenty it is true again in twenty twenty five. Domestic terrorism. These acts of domestic terrorism have unfolded against the citizens
of California since Friday. The lawless threats, the immoral exercise of illegal power, the vow to ignore the civilian courts. They have now escalated to state sponsored violence against an elected government official, a sitting United States Senator, in this case,
Senator Alex Padia of California. Mister Padea entered a news conference in which the Homeland Security Secretary, an authoritarian idiot with no respects for the laws or history or ethos of the United States of America, was spouting delusional talking points worthy of a drug addict. Senator Padia identified himself, demanded answers on behalf of his constituents, his citizens, the
residents of the community. He represents the people of the United States of America, particularly those in southern California who are being terrorized by the Trump dictatorship. He was then seized no more than twenty five seconds into a brief statement by agents protecting Nome, believed at first to be
Secret Service. Two goons who later showed up to handcuff him were wearing FBI logos as they threw him to the ground, and of course, the Secret Service, the FBI the other organizations that now surround Trump are acting as the Trump praetorian guard. The sound of what happened alone is terrifying, and that sound comes in two parts, two
audio clips. Remember before I play the first part, the key defense from Nome and the criminal gang for which she works and with which she works was that Senator Padilla did not identify himself, was not wearing his ID and quoting her nobody knew who he was. The first part could be a mistake, as you will hear the second part that nobody knew who he was is an outright lie. I'm not Senators Alix Padia. I have questions for the secretary because the fact of the matter is
half a dozen sign criminals. That ship's hitting on your on your how many of our I say this had been docked being Senator Padilla is then dragged out of the room in which the propaganda conference is being conducted into first an anti room and then into a wholeway, pulled off his feet and pulled to the ground and handcuffed a sitting United States senator better than the caning of Senator Charles Sumner in eighteen fifty six by the
insurrectionist Congressman Preston Brooks. I suppose, but not really buy all that much. Here is part two of what this monstrosity sounded like.
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Other hands other hand. There's no recording aloud out here. I did not recording aloud on here for right. The other defense of this violation of every tenet of not just American jurisprudence, not just American government, not just American law, but the traditions of American politics. You do not assault a sitting senator on behalf of an apparatic, a moron working for the opposing party. Apart from that, the other defense from Christy Nome and her Minions was that this
was a stunt by Senator Padilla. Sure, whatever you want to call it a stunt, call it a stunt. It's a stunt. Opposing Trump is a stunt. Opposing the Christy nome Tom Holman Gestapo is a stunt. Opposing the militarization of our streets is a stunt. Opposing Trump. Getting the troops to boo Biden at a military exercise Bragg is a stunt. Being anti Trump terrorism is a stunt. Do we think Senator Padilla getting himself thrown to the floor after identifying himself as a sitting senator was that part
of the stunt. The Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, who earlier this week called for the governor of California to be quote tarred and feathered, which is an eighteenth century form of torture and even public murder, insisted that the one who should be punished here is Senator Padilla. Censure at least, says Speaker Johnson, and he hints at more. He hints that perhaps expulsion or who knows, arrest should follow.
That behavior at a minimum, is it rises to the level of a center. I think there needs to be a message sent by the body as a whole that that is not what we are going to do. That's not how we're going to act. We're not going to have branches fighting physically and having senators charging cabinet secretaries.
I am confident Senator Padilla would accept censure, as would I were Speaker Johnson to be arrested for his call for violence, for tarring and feathering. Governor Newsom for the record, what Johnson said. There, no one charged a cabinet secretary. Go and look at the videotape for yourself. No one got to within ten feet of her. No one got to within ten people of her. She was spewing her spewing material to those who were ready to lap it up. Again.
This is Trump terrorism, As Governor Newsom said, law abiding American citizens are now tonight after this past week in southern California, in Florida, in New York, in other communities, afraid to leave their own homes, people who were born here, afraid to leave their own homes because so many people who were born here have been swept up anyway, Because terrorism is terrorism, and it does not stop being terrorism simply because it has the impromater of a evil, bastard
filled government. It is terrorism still. Newsome went on to note that people were afraid to let their children out to go to dental appointments in southern California. Thomas Kennedy of the Florida Immigrant Coalition posted that they're in Florida quote a boat transporting individuals to a Telemundo party. That's a television network, a Spanish language television network heavily into sports coverage. Telemundo party celebrating one year out from the
World Cup. That boat was boarded by the coast guard. They checked the immigration status of the staff on the boat. The mayor of Miami Dade, officials from FIFA, the World Soccer Organization, and the leadership of Telemundo were present on the boat, and in fact, the Miami New Times obtained and posted video from Telemundo of apparently a live broadcast or a recorded broadcast of the moment the party boat
was boarded and halted outside Miami Offshore. Miami held there for an hour, no one knowing what was going on or how it would end. Terrorism on the West coast, terrorism on the East coast. Terrorism from Donald Trump, Trump is back. He is a sadist. He is not a human being, as you and I understand the phrase, he is fully engaged in destroying this nation and fulfilling the textbook definition of terrorism, which is using violence or the threat of it to force political change unlawfully. Ask Alex
Padia if he was a victim of that. Trump did it on June first, twenty twenty when he gassed the peaceful George Floyd protesters at Lafayette Square outside the White House so he could stand in front of Saint John's Church with a Bible in his hand, a photo op with a Bible during which he accidentally held the Bible right side up. At that time. I called it what
it was, terrorism and I called Trump a terrorist. A few months later, Senator Mitt Romney issued a statement in which he condemned all of us for inflating and throwing gasoline on the delicate political situation, and how dare I refer to Trump as a terrorist. Three months after that, Senator Roma, it was one of many senators and more congressmen trapped inside Capitol Hill as Trump Maga terrorists tried
to break in to kill them. I have not heard from now former Senator Romney recently about how wrong I was to call Trump a terrorist. Trump has no code, no morals, There is no line. He will not cross. A man who virtually began his campaign boasting he could shoot people on Fifth Avenue and lose no support. He does not say that idly, nor without actually calculating the effect. I know this man, I have known him since nineteen
eighty three. There is no there there. If something evil has just occurred to him, he wonders, only not is it right? Or is it wrong? Not even can I get away with it? He wonders why no one has thought to do it before, Like shooting people on Fifth Avenue. He meant it. He means it, he will mean it. And the people he thinks he could shoot are not hypotheticals, nor random passers by, nor the New Yorkers he no longer likes. They are people like Gavin Newsom and Alex Padilla.
And for all I know, you and me incredibly as disturbing and infuriating, as alarm bell ringing as the man handling of Senator Padilla. Maybe I am in fact equally disturbed by Thursday's other grotesque development. And this was from Washington. I will read you the Politico headline and one exchange captured in the story, quote heg Seth won't commit to obeying courts on marines in Los Angeles subhead, The Defense Secretary declined to say whether the Pentagon would comply with
any judicial order blocking Trump's domestic troop deployment. Rep. Roe Kana D of California repeatedly pressed Hegseeth on whether he would follow a court ruling. You're not willing to say you would respect those decisions, Kanna asked. Hegseeth replied, what I'm saying is local district judges shouldn't make foreign policy. Newsom Governor Newsom reposted a video of the exchange on social media platform x This is not normal, he said, Governor, I will be critical of you for the first time
in a week. That's not the phrase I would use. Hegseeth refused to confirm he would yield to civilian authority. He has now cloaked himself in the idea that local district judges are not affecting the illegal use of the military on civilian streets for civilian in issues. He has cloaked that with this nonsensical fabrication by some lawyer, by some Stephen Miller protege somewhere, that this is foreign policy, that this is beyond the ken of the judges and
beyond the rights of the American citizen. It is perhaps the most dangerous thing offered to this country since the Alien and Sedition Acts under President Adams at the start of the nineteenth century. One more note from the Politico story, The Defense Secretary, in separate congressional testimony on Wednesday, suggested the administration could deploy troops elsewhere to assist in roundups and deportations. That is, literally, have the troops, literally, have
those Marines in southern California go on the roundups. You have not just been arrested by ice and renditioned by ice. You have been seized by the Marines on the streets of an American city, full fledged military dictatorship. At that hearing, Politico notes heg Seth was not able to immediately cite the legal justification for the deployments. I would add that as largely because there is none just Hegseeth's answer in
testimony Thursday, is itself terrorism. While the case determining whether or not the local courts the federal courts in California would overrule this illegal use, this illegal usurpation of the use of the National Guard of California while that hearing was beginning, hours before that first emergency hearing was to start, heg seth answers, I'm not sure we're going to abide by it one way or the other. Do you know what a Defense Secretary of Pentagon chief who will not
defer to civilian courts and civilian laws is called. He's called part of a milli military dictatorship. Hopefully afterwards he is called a fugitive. There is some small good news as I record this, g Elliott Morris of the site's strength in numbers of polling and polling analysis site. He was the last head of the five thirty eight website.
Morris has been able to gauge the stark impact of the last week of Trumpean terrorism, not just on opinion in southern California or among Democrats, but in the United States one week ago, literally one week ago last Thursday, Donald Trump was a positive net five points in public approval on how he handled immigration. He was up by five people approved of all this one week plus five as of earlier Thursday. As of earlier today, one week later,
he is minus one. He has fallen a net six points and fallen out of the blue into the red in one week. This is not just illegal, this is unpopular. Unfortunately. The questions that that produces are will it matter? And how quickly are we approaching the point at which someone like Hegseth or Gnome or Trump declares it illegal to conduct or promulgate or print such polls. And when all the courts in the country tell them they are breaking
the law in doing so, they say, so what? Because the Trumpest answer to Senator Padilla's demand for answers about the laws being broken in California. The answer to the demand of the Trumpest stooge, hegseeth that he obey and affirm he will obey the civilian law which constitution prevails over his little gun shop. The answer to any time and any way from Trump and his mobsters to a statement of fact that they have broken the law, Their answer is, indeed, so what? This has been a countdown
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