Keith Olbermann, the acerbic broadcaster and fervent anti-Trumpster, revealed the event that pushed him over the ledge, forcing him to abandon his posh apartment at Trump Towers, owned by the GOP frontrunner he so despises.
“The day that I actually said that I gotta get back into this, and I've gotta get out of this house, was when Donald Trump said, boastfully, that if he went out on Fifth Avenue and shot people, it wouldn't impact his campaign negatively,' Olbermann told Bill Simmons on a podcast released this week.
(Discussion of Trump Towers begins around minute 6:20.)
In addition to the general idea of shooting people, Olbermann took issue with "the idea that [Trump] would view that as part of the political calculus." Olbermann interpreted Trump's statement to mean that he didn't care about anyone in New York City, and "without this city, he would be selling newspapers in an outdoor stand outside Madison Square Gardens. He wouldn't even have one of the indoor stations in Penn Station."
Thirdly, Olbermann was repulsed by the "impunity" he detected in Trump's statement, that his followers followers wouldn't be deterred if the billionaire went on a shooting spree in Manhattan.
"[They] wouldn't swerve away from this sem-fascist freight train that he's driving," Olbermann said.
Olbermann announced his departure from the New York City apartment building in a Washington Post op-ed published in March. “I'm getting out because of the degree to which the very name 'Trump' has degraded the public discourse and the nation itself. I can't hear, or see, or say that name any longer without spitting. Frankly, I'm running out of Trump spit.”
Olbermann, who has held positions at more cable news outfits than can be named in a single sentence, also doubled down on his vow to come out of retirement.
"I'm going to do it one way or another, even if I'm just writing, I'm going to be doing something the rest of the way," Olbermann told Simmons. He said that he didn't have anything lined up yet, but said that he wants to have his "opinions known on a regular, perhaps hourly basis somewhere." He hinted that he might look outside of mainstream media for a place to unleash his fury on Trump, who he has called the "most dangerous presidential candidate" since the Civil War.
Despite being in retirement, Olbermann has been become increasingly outspoken on the 2016 presidential race, which he told Simmons he won't be sitting on the sidelines for. “Even if I'm just writing, I'm going to be doing something the rest of the way.”
Olbermann also talked media, baseball, and sports news with Simmons.
Editor's note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist
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