COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 23

A-Block (SPECIAL COMMENT): Why ON EARTH would anybody look at this Jensen Huang Chinese Industrial Spy Scandal and not think Trump was in the middle of it, partly or fully aware?

Why ON EARTH would anybody look at Jensen Huang and NOT ask if he was just SELLING AI Chips ILLEGALLY to China VIA his girlfriend the Chinese Spy?

Why ON EARTH would anybody look at Huang, and Huang's girlfriend Huang, and the spy, and the infighting inside the Trump cabinet, and Trump's insatiable insane greed, and not ask if Trump wasn't just making money from both sides of the law: from banning the sales of chips to China, and then profiting as somebody one step removed him from sold them to China anyway?

The official story still is: This Nvidia Trump Whore, worth like $160, $200 billion, Jensen Huang, has had a Chinese mistress for years, she’s also in the A-I business, also named Huang, and turns out she seems to be a Chinese Spy stealing AI secrets. And Jensen Huang didn’t know that or if you want to go more nuanced, a “white glover” as the Chinese apparently refer to half spy/half business people. And Trump bought stock in Nvidia a couple months ago but HE didn’t know there WAS a MISTRESS. And Trump didn’t know she was a SPY. And still thinks the problem here is, Huang is now depressed.

The problem is: there are a couple of news stories breaking out here that contradict the official story. Like 113 different news stories. And nobody’s put them together. (Ok, it's only seven separate stories - including of Marco Rubio rushing aboard Air Force One to tell Trump 'she's a spy' and getting ignored, and Rubio sending Howard Lutnick a memo saying 'she's a spy' and getting ignored again). But the seven stories have 113 details.

B-Block (28:00) BOB BOONE, IN MEMORIAM: One of the straightest shooters I ever met died on Monday. Bob Boone, a baseball All-Star who was the first player in history whose father and son both played in the major leagues, died 10 days shy of what would have been his 79th birthday. I wanted to record this podcast now to make sure I told the story of meeting this singularly impressive man, because his first words to me were "Keith, I'm Bob Boone and I don't like your work." Happily it got better than that, and it focused on him making sure I knew where he stood before I asked a favor of him - which was to meet a fan of mine, his 13-year old son who is now manager of the New York Yankees.