WE REJOIN THE TRUMP EPSTEIN SCANDAL, ALREADY IN PROGRESS - 3.2.26

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Mar 2, 2026

A deep dive into alleged federal interference in the Zorro Ranch probe and claims people took and buried key evidence. A New York Times exposé opens questions about Epstein’s non-sex crimes, banks, and international ties. A controversial Iran strike is framed as a possible diversion. Media decline and network shakeups are called out. Sports and public-figure missteps close out the show.

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Regime Decapitation Invites Reciprocal Threats

Regime decapitation sets a precedent: if the U.S. targets foreign leaders, other nations gain license to try the same against U.S. leaders.
Olbermann warns this raises asymmetric retaliation and global instability risks.

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Historical Lens Shows Decapitation's Lasting Damage

Olbermann recalls 9/11 as an attempted decapitation and critiques the U.S. response as insufficiently effective long-term.
He connects that history to current fears about leadership-targeting and overreaction.

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Mixed Messaging Prolongs Conflict Risk

Olbermann criticizes Trump's public messaging that the Iran action is short-lived, arguing it actually prolongs instability and doesn't deter enemies.
He cites Trump's on-record comments promising 'off ramps' or expansion, creating mixed signals.

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SEASON 4 EPISODE 65: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: We rejoin your regularly scheduled Trump-Epstein Cover-up Scandal Show, already in progress! Trump’s disastrous attack on Iran – approved by only 27% of America and barely HALF OF REPUBLICANS, so DIDN'T move the needle that Trumpstein has erupted anew in New Mexico:

The former Attorney General essentially accuses the Trump Department of Justice of SABOTAGING his investigation of Epstein’s Zorro Sex Trafficking Ranch in 2019; of telling him ‘we’ll just take it from here’ and instead burying it. They took all the evidence and simply did nothing. When New Mexico went back a year later and said 'seize the ranch, preserve the evidence' they were again ignored. And after a New York Times deep dive on all the non-sex allegations and involvements, an entire new Epstein realm has opened up: what about the thousands of Epstein's non-sex crimes and co-conspirators? Why hasn't Trump prosecuted them?

Plus, all the attack on Iran did was remind the world that if WE can try REGIME CHANGE in other countries, what’s to stop OTHER COUNTRIES from trying REGIME CHANGE? And I’ll say it again: They called it ‘Operation Epic Fury’ because ‘Operation Epstein Diversion’ didn’t sound War-fightery enough.

And media fails us yet again: CNN will now go the same Bari Weiss Way of CBS. Then again it was three-quarters dead already, and the real crisis is MS-NOW's president thought the future of her network (basically unchanged since we spun off my guest hosts Maddow, O'Donnell and Hayes to give them new shows in 2010) was...Anderson Cooper LOL.

B-Block (43:00) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Postscripts to the US Olympic Hockey disaster include cheap jokes about Auston Matthews' hairline. Trump flunky Alina Habba retweets a call for violence against a judge. And the Worst Persons GOAT Bill O'Reilly is back from purgatory to win for the first time in years! Right you are, Mr. Mehoffer!

C-Block (58:30) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: I told a friend the story of the day I met the incomparable actor and character Walter Matthau and how he used to do impressions of sportscasters - so I'll tell you.

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