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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olbermann is a production of iHeartRadio. This is a Countdown Bulletin Podcast. I'm Keith Olbermann. Trump has fired White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and replaced her with white supremacist advisor Stephen Miller. This comes three days after Trump greeted his midterm evisceration by the Democrats by saying he would work with them. Trump is thus officially entering the bunker stage of his Reich. Miller's odious, hysterical, screaming, racist, neurotic rhetoric, traced by one high school classmate of his to Miller's having been forced out of private school in Santa Monica after financial reversals for his family, and then being turned down for a date by a girl of Hispanic descent, this hysterical racism has been one of Trump's few safe spaces for the last decade. He's gone back to Stephen Miller again and again when things have turned on him, as they have this week, this week of Liberation Week in the Democratic Party, in the Democratic-run government. An intriguing side development here to the Miller News. Incoming House Oversight Committee Chair Representative Robert Garcia tells my pal Scott McFarland, quote, Oversight Democrats will continue to investigate Miller for his misconduct, and we will fight against his hateful policies in Congress and the courts. Stephen Miller should lawyer up. It's a good line, the lawyer up line. Congressman, keep using it. Miller, of course, also got in the headlines this week when his wife went on and insisted once again that we must have voter ID largely to protect against minorities voting and then admitted she did not vote because she did not want to produce ID at the polls. She told this to a special broadcast from CBS News. Miller, meanwhile, the Nosferatu lookalike, has never lost influence even after all of his programs and causes have have proved to become Trump's undoing, especially the brutality of the ICE raids and the shooting of protesters on American streets. The ICE raids and the brutality have shown up kind of unexpectedly in exit polling as a remarkably high key factor in the defenestration of MAGA Congress stalwarts like Virginia Fox, who lost, Scott Perry, Jeff Van Drew, who had bolted the Democratic Party to become a fascist, Max Miller, speaking of odious, I hate to think it has something to do with the name, Mike Turner, Derek Van Orden, Brian Stile, Marionette Miller-Meeks, Victoria Sparts, and of course, the retiring Nancy Mace in the coup de grace was replaced in her vacated seat that went to an admiral who was fired by Pete Hegseth in one of his purges. It is, though, the firing of Susie Wiles that we should have all seen coming. She, not Hegseth, not Vance, but she, Susie Wiles, the daughter of the former football commentator and place kicker Pat Summerall, Susie Wiles becomes the first big-time victim of the Republican circular firing squad after the unprecedented midterm disaster, nothing like which had been seen in this country before. since the post-Watergate Nixon-Ford disaster of 1974. Just yesterday, in a little-seen interview with the BBC, Susie Wiles was marked for adios by none other than one of the architects of Project 2025, another Stephen Miller staple. Paul Danz told the BBC, quote, It's hard to overstate the cataclysmic effect of Tuesday, but the blame there lies at the feet of President Trump's incompetent staff. If that were not specific enough, Danz went on to say his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, was not a governance leader. She was a campaign leader, and she stepped into a role that was completely over her head. Start packing, Susie. To continue from Dan's, the highlights of the first few years were from Project 2025, he insisted. This was tragic, referring to Tuesday, but the only way they're going to get through this is change at the top, which means marching those people out of the White House by sundown tomorrow. The first named person that he wanted marched out by sundown tomorrow was Susie Wiles. And she's being marched out before sundown, which is tomorrow, based on when he said this. Dan's also blamed personal corruption and predicted the Democrats would do a very good job of exposing all of it. He never mentioned Trump as the real cause of all Trump's problems, which is, in fact, the fact. Wiles will not be the last. The blame game continues elsewhere. First, J.D. Vance shot at Trump, as you know, in his statement on social media. Now, others are responding to Vance from the Daily Mail. Quote, a White House source tells me that contrary to reports, J.D. Vance did not work with White House officials to draft his ex post. It was more like an FYI. I'm sending this. And he did it without asking for feedback or permission. White House aides also took shots at Trump from the Wall Street Journal. Quote, aides said it was a waste of time to tell Trump to stop talking about the ballroom because he held several long meetings a week on the topic and enjoyed giving tours. Again, the breaking news. Susie Wiles fired as White House chief of staff. just a day after one of the architects of Project 2025 insisted that all of that stuff, all of the carnage and anti-American fascism and Gestapo tactics on the streets of this country, particularly in Minneapolis, helped bring Trump and his minions down in the midterms, just a day after an interview with the BBC calling for the firing of Susie Wiles and others among the White House staff, but obviously the chief of staff would be the first to go. The chief of staff was the first to go. Susie Wiles, fired by Donald Trump today as White House chief of staff, and Stephen Miller, the Goebbels stunt double, in as the new COS. This has been a Countdown Bulletin podcast. The next regularly scheduled edition of the podcast is Monday, but we'll see what else Grandpa Shardy has up his diaper before then. I'm Keith Olbermann. Countdown with Keith Olbermann is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.