Rittenhouse Talks to Tucker, US Backslides to Authoritarianism
The David Pakman Show - November 23, 2021
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Kyle Rittenhouse Tucker Carlson Fox News Interview
Kyle Rittenhouse on Friday was found not guilty on all charges relating to the people he shot last year in Kenosha, Wisconsin and it didn’t take him long for him to go on Tucker Carlson’s show for an exclusive interview. Before airing his interview with Kyle Rittenhouse, Tucker Carlson described Kyle as "bright, decent, sincere, dutiful and hard-working. Exactly the kind of person would you want many more of in your country." Some of the key moments of the interview include when Kyle said that he supports the Black Lives Matter movement and when he claimed he was about to render first aid to Joseph Rosenbaum after shooting him but had to run away because he felt threatened by the protesters. Tucker asked Rittenhouse what he thought about Joe Biden and others claiming he’s a white supremacist. Kyle responded, “It's actual malice, defaming my character, for him to say something like that.” Carlson also asked Rittenhouse about his previous attorneys, Lin Wood and John Pierce. Rittenhouse claims that they could have bailed him out of jail in September, but kept him there until November to "raise money so they [could] take it for their own benefit.” When asked about his future, Kyle said he’d like to become a nurse or maybe a lawyer. Several Republican members of Congress have offered him an internship because to them, killing people and becoming a right-wing hero serves as qualifications.
OH NO: Alex Jones & Roger Stone Subpoenaed by Trump Riot Committee
Alex Jones and Roger Stone have now been subpoenaed by the January 6th congressional commission. The House panel has ordered testimony be given and documents be turned over to provide insight over the planning of the rallies in Washington on January 6th. The committee’s chairman, Bennie Thompson, said about the subpoenas, “we believe the witnesses we subpoenaed today have relevant information and we expect them to cooperate fully with our effort to get answers for the American people about the violence of January 6th.” It remains to be seen whether Jones and Stone will comply with the committee’s orders. Former Trump propagandist Steve Bannon was also subpoenaed by the commission and refused to cooperate. This led to him being charged for two counts of contempt of Congress to which he has since pleaded not guilty. This is not the first time that any of these folks have been in legal trouble. They will no doubt tell their respective audiences that the document requests are part of a witch hunt and fight the demands with everything that they have. Each one of these men appear to have very important details to hide relating to what exactly happened on January 6th.
From yesterday’s show:
Trump's New Book is Literally a Picture Book
Donald Trump put together a picture book showcasing the key moments of his presidency. The pictures are accompanies by captions that read like his old tweets. The book is called Our Journey Together and it can be preordered for $74.99 or $229.99 for a signed copy. An example of one of his captions is “attempting to listen to crazy Nancy Pelosi in the Oval Office — such natural disagreement.” Another example, underneath Trump next to officials in the Situation Room for a staged photo reads, “the night we got Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. We destroyed ISIS under my watch. Now terrorists are back in the Middle East.” While it’s typical for presidents to release books after they leave office, typically they’re memoirs and take a lot of work to put together. Trump even had the option of ghostwriting the book like he did for The Art of the Deal. Instead, he did something much more appropriate for him and the audience he’s appealing to which is to release this 300-page picture book with tweet-like captions.
From yesterday’s show:
Fox Host TRIGGERED When Confronted About Fox Vaccine Mandate
Fox News hosts do not like being confronted about the COVID vaccine mandate at their company. And they especially don’t like hearing that the protocol at Fox is even stricter than the Biden mandate, as Fox employees who don’t get immunized have to submit to daily testing instead of just weekly testing. Pete Hegseth was interviewed by Mediaite's Aidan McLaughlin and was asked about the rules at Fox. Hegseth said that “it’s not actually a complete vaccine mandate and that’s fine. It’s not my call.” McLaughlin followed up by saying, “it’s just that Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for big businesses has been the subject of criticism and that’s even less stringent than the one at Fox News. . . . I’m curious as to why you have an issue with the Joe Biden vaccine mandate but no problem with the one at Fox News.” Hegseth, backed into a corner, could only come up with, “what do you want me to say?” He then got enraged and started attacking Mediaite and other media outlets for not getting the views that Fox gets. This was an absolutely embarrassing moment for Pete Hegseth but given the obvious double standard he has, it’s really a question that the Fox host should have been prepared for.
More on the show:
--Andrew Yang, entrepreneur, former Democratic presidential candidate, former New York City mayoral candidate, and author of the new book "Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy," joins David to discuss his third party, tribalism, division, and much more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3cEjR3F
--The United States is listed as a "backsliding democracy" for the first time ever by the International IDEA think tank on the basis of the deterioration of civil liberties
--Democrat Beto O'Rourke announces that he is running for Texas Governor against incumbent Republican Greg Abbott
--Former Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie calls Donald Trump's former lawyer Rudy Giuliani a "national embarrassment"
--Voicemail caller respectfully corrects David on a recent math error related to expected value
--On the Bonus Show: Attorneys deliver closing statements in trial over Ahmaud Arbery's killing, cash scattered across California freeway causes chaos, COVID spike as bad as last November in some parts of the country, much more...
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And what about these Republicans who (on a daily basis) spew forth their nasty venom on minority groups, and then 2 days later, apologize on "Twitter." Who are they apologizing to? The rest of us know that in the next couple of days, they (or somebody else) will do the same thing. They stand before their enthusiastic audiences who applaud and cheer! They love the adulation (as Trump did) and suddenly they "apologize"?? Their base doesn't want them to apologize! These people are speaking out to all the racists across the land, not to us. They can't un-ring the bell. Once they make these statements, the damage is done. They continue to incite riots and hate mongering. When people go to the polls, all they will remember is the name of a person who was trashed by a Republican and must be a bad person because xxx told them they are bad.