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Absolutely Insane Trump Newsmax Interview
Former President Donald Trump appeared for an “exclusive” interview with one of his new favorite networks — Newsmax, on the show Cortes & Pellegrino. The interviewer, Steve Cortes, opened the exchange by going after the Biden administration and presenting an idea of America in chaos. Trump took this as an opportunity to talk about immigration and how “the border is a disaster.” The ex-POTUS tried his best to brag about the wall he claimed would be so effective, while at the same time arguing that border crossings now are now out of control under Biden — which doesn’t square up. He then casually brought up the unproven conspiracy theory about people from the Middle East coming into the United States through the southern border. Trump understands that the border wall issue was key in propelling him to the presidency in 2016 and it’s likely going to have to be part of his strategy if he runs in 2024.
Trump then moved on to blame his successor for gas prices going up, which presidents have little to no control over. Later on, Trump went after Biden for inflation, which is a new talking point from the right. He talked about the rising cost of lumber and hypothesized it was because “perhaps they’re closing down the forests for environmental reasons.” Of course, no Trump interview would be complete without an attack on big tech and questions about supposed voter fraud in the 2020 election — this interview had both. Trump wrapped up by talking about his impact on the Republican Party and American politics today. The former president said that if not for him being in the picture, Democrats would now have a filibuster-proof hold on the Senate and total control over government. This is incredible revisionist history for someone who lost the House for Republicans in 2018, and then lost the Senate and presidency for Republicans in 2020. We’ll see if the former president maintains his current pace of appearances on these fringe right-wing talk shows.
SICK: Fox Guest Blames Vaccination for Shootings
Retired NYPD detective Pat Brosnan was invited on Fox News to talk about the mass shooting yesterday in San Jose, California that took the lives of 9 people. Brosnan offered up what was probably the dumbest commentary ever on a mass shooting, or at least the dumbest in recent memory. He explained that the shooter must have wanted to wait until getting vaccinated to carry out the attack. Brosnan said to the Fox audience, “you can be sure they probably got vaccinated, they were just scared to come out, and they’re coming back and you see the numbers don’t lie, the shootings are up dramatically.” While it’s true that mass shootings could very well go back to pre-pandemic rates, this is simply because people will soon once again go back to meeting up in large groups. This has nothing to do with the shooter being worried about getting COVID or wanting to wait until they get vaccinated before carrying out an attack. Why would someone prepared to die in a shooting worry about catching coronavirus? It’s all very strange, but it happened to be on the mind of this former NYPD detective while he was on the Fox News airwaves.
From yesterday’s show:
Trump LOSES IT Over Trump Criminal Grand Jury
Donald Trump is absolutely losing his mind over the grand jury being convened in Manhattan to investigate possible white collar crimes connected to the Trump Organization. The effort is being led by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. and the panel will convene three days a week for the next six months. Trump responded to this news on his new blog “The Desk of Donald J, Trump.” The former president wrote, “This is purely political, and an affront to the almost 75 million voters who supported me in the Presidential Election, and it’s being driven by highly partisan Democrat prosecutors. New York City and State are suffering the highest crime rates in their history, and instead of going after murderers, drug dealers, human traffickers, and others, they come after Donald Trump.” Allies of the ex-POTUS on Twitter are calling the investigation a “witch hunt” and a distraction from the so-call “real crimes of the Biden Crime Family.” Even if no charges stem from this investigation, this is going to rattle Donald for quite some time and the blog posts are sure to continue.
--More on the show:
--Grace Blakeley, economics commentator at The New Statesman and author of "Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation," joins David to discuss the long term economic effects of the pandemic. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3uqQ059
--Notable discussions from the David Pakman Show subreddit, including about a viewer with Trumpist parents, mask policy, and more
--Is Joe Biden abandoning the public option that he campaigned on?
--CNN reporter Kyung Lah confronts Karen Fann, the Republican Arizona State Senate President, who is behind the so-called audit of the 2020 election in Arizona
--Vaccinated voicemail caller has people in her life who believe that people vaccinated against COVID-19 are "shedding" the vaccine into the environment around them
--On the Bonus Show: WI Republicans quickly end Medicaid expansion, MyPillow's Mike Lindell turned away from Republican event, Jeff Bezos might own Trump's Apprentice tapes, much more...
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