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Keith Olbermann Excoriates Trump for His Vile Post on the Death of Rob Reiner

Keith Olbermann, on a “special bulletin edition” of his Countdown podcast (Overcast; Apple Podcasts):

To be that sick, that soulless, that self obsessed, that messianic—every word I have spoken in ten years of pointing to Trump’s insanity and Trump’s evil has evidently been insufficient. Whatever they total to, Donald Trump is twice as sick and twice as evil as I have said. […]

We do have a prominent public figure suffering from a massive, unyielding and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known to have driven people crazy by his raging obsession and obvious paranoia, and that public figure is Donald Trump, and his emotional and psychological incapacity for the presidency or any public role in this country is so obvious and so overwhelming that every further minute he is permitted by his enablers to stay in that job he risks the life of every living thing on this planet. Eventually, he and those enablers will wind up in hell. I pity them. But right now, a man this sick, this evil, this disconnected from reality, will physically do to us, if he feels he must, what he has just metaphorically done to the late Rob Reiner. He has celebrated his own claim that he helped cause this man’s death. We are next.

Few do outrage as well as Olbermann, and he captures mine perfectly, especially Trump’s need to be “the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral.” The scales are also falling from the eyes of even some of Trump’s staunchest supporters. Maybe, just maybe, we’ve reached a turning point.

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