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**The David Pakman Show**

The David Pakman Show is one of the most-watched independent progressive programs in the country. Hosted by David Pakman, the show offers a fresh perspective on the stories shaping our world through thoughtful commentary and compelling interviews with our nation’s leaders.

With new episodes dropping every weekday, David delivers sharp, insightful, and fact-based analysis on politics, current events, and social issues. Whether you’re looking for deep dives into major political events, in-depth conversations with experts and newsmakers, or sharp-witted breakdowns of the latest headlines, The David Pakman Show has you covered

Latest Episodes:

9/6/24: Walz trolls Vance over donuts, Trump goes berserk Sep 06, 2024

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-- On the Show:

-- A whiny Donald Trump publishes back to back to back videos about Kamala Harris

-- Tim Walz hits JD Vance where it hurts, pointing out that unlike JD, he is able to order donuts all by himself

-- Donald Trump goes berserk, posting 22 times in an hour to Truth Social

-- New reporting finds that Republican leaders secretly want Donald Trump to lose in November

-- Fox News host Stuart Varney and RNC co-chair Michael Whatley admit that Kamala Harris' proposal for small business startup cost deductions is a good one

-- An increasingly terrified Fox News is now comparing Robert F. Kennedy Jr to a serial killer

-- A member of Donald Trump's golf club, in a seeming hostage-like video, says that Trump will win New York and New Jersey in November (Trump will not win New York and New Jersey)

-- The Friday Feedback segment

-- On the Bonus Show: The Friday Bonus Show with Producer Pat

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9/5/24: Lichtman calls it for Kamala, Trump town hall goes sour Sep 05, 2024

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-- On the Show:

-- Doctor Steven Hassan, world-renowned cult expert and author of "The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control," joins David to discuss his understanding of the MAGA movement through a cult lens. Get the book: https://amzn.to/4dTBM4q

-- Allan Lichtman, top longtime election predictor, predicts that Kamala Harris will defeat Donald Trump in the November presidential election

-- A new poll finds that Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump among Latino voters by 27 points, but this is actually a smaller lead than that which previous Democrats have held over Republicans

-- A number of pro-Trump influencers, including Dave Rubin, Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, and Lauren Chen, have been named in an indictment related to Russian influence campaigns

--Despite Donald Trump calling New York City a crime-ridden hellscape, and despite New York University being a "woke" institution, Barron Trump will be attending NYU in New York City

-- Donald Trump appears to forget who he is running against in a disastrous Fox News town hall hosted by Sean Hannity

-- Kamala Harris announces a major tax proposal and Donald Trump absolutely loses it

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-- On the Bonus Show: Republican Liz Cheney says she's voting for Kamala Harris, Ken Paxton threatens to block Democrats from registering to vote, Trump media stock crashing, much more...

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9/4/24: Trump fails with Lex Fridman, Kamala leading by 8 in Wisconsin Sep 04, 2024

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-- On the Show:

-- A deep dive into the claims that Kamala Harris is a "DEI candidate" reveals that Donald Trump is the true affirmative action candidate

-- A stunning new poll has Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump by 8 in Wisconsin, but not all battleground states are looking so good

-- Kamala Harris has raised so much money that she is giving some of it away to other Democratic campaigns

-- A judge has denied Donald Trump's request not to be sentenced later this month

-- A slurring and sedated Donald Trump is interviewed by Lex Fridman in an interview-gone-wrong

-- Donald Trump loses it after a campaign volunteer exposes that New Hampshire is increasingly a lost cause for the Trump campaign

-- JD Vance attempts to rehabilitate his image in a Fox News interview with Laura Ingraham and it does not go well

-- Voicemail caller feels humiliated that David was humiliated by a caller last week

-- On the Bonus Show: Trump calls Arlington Cemetery incident "made up," Goldman Sachs predicts stronger GDP and job growth if Democrats win, Biden approval rating jumps 13 points, much more...

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9/3/24: Trump Labor Day FAIL, Kamala gains largest lead yet Sep 03, 2024

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-- On the Show:

-- Kamala Harris opens her largest national lead on Donald Trump thus far as she rallies on Labor Day while Trump is missing

-- Donald Trump suffers the worst Labor Day of his political life

-- The Trump campaign is reportedly abandoning New Hampshire on the belief that Trump cannot win there, and is also cutting spending in North Carolina

-- Melania Trump apparently wants Kamala Harris to win, and increasingly hates Donald Trump

-- During an interview with Fox News' Mark Levin, Donald Trump's brain appears to short-circuit

-- A visibly soaking wet Donald Trump terrifies multiple crowds at rallies in Johnstown, Pennsylvania and Pottersville, Michigan

-- During an event with the right wing group Moms for Liberty, Donald Trump suggests that trans surgeries are being performed in schools

-- Explaining the Bernie Sanders to Donald Trump pipeline that exists to a small degree

-- On the Bonus Show: Gender gap widens between Harris and Trump, Trump's push for free IVF might attract suburban women, the new obsession with Kamala Harris work history at McDonald's, much more...

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9/2/24: Trump says no more voting needed after November, JD Vance as VP on life support (CLASSIC EPISODE FROM 7/29/24) Sep 02, 2024

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LABOR DAY / CLASSIC EPISODE FROM JULY 29, 2024

-- On the Show:

-- New approval polling in swing states show Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump in favorability in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and Michigan

-- JD Vance's running mate status alongside Donald Trump is believed to be in jeopardy after numerous gaffes, horrifying statements, and uncovered prior claims, with discussions of his replacement surging

-- Failed former President Donald Trump admits that if he wins in 2024, people will never have to vote again

-- Donald Trump holds a rally in St. Cloud, Minnesota, where he says Kamala Harris is "not smart," rambles about Hunter Biden, and attacks Harris for how she laughs

-- Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg appears on Fox News and absolutely crushes MAGA, holding a veritable clinic on beating back disinformation

-- Elon Musk shares a video about Kamala Harris featuring AI-manipulated audio of her wrongly appearing to criticize Joe Biden

-- Donald Trump tries talking about Bitcoin at a conference in Nashville, Tennessee, predicts an economic collapse if Kamala Harris wins, and calls Harris a "low IQ individual"

-- Donald Trump Jr appears hopped up out of his mind during his recent interview of JD Vance

-- Gay dating app Grindr explodes during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

-- On the Bonus Show: FBI confirms Trump struck by a bullet or fragments thereof, video game performers will strike over AI concerns, oldest federal judge in battle with bench trying to suspend her, much more...

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8/30/24: Trump cornered on abortion, JD Vance gets booed Aug 30, 2024

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-- On the Show:

-- Jesse Dollemore fills in for David. Subscribe to his YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@dollemore

-- Trump's spokesperson Caroline Leavitt refuses to respond to Donald Trump's erratic posts to Truth Social

-- Trump says that Biden and Harris killed the children of Gold Star families

-- Fox News's John Roberts says it's a good thing that JD Vance was booed at the Firefighter's union in Boston

-- Trump refuses to answer how he plans to vote on the abortion amendment in Florida

-- Trump advisor Jason Miller insists the Trump campaign wants the mics muted during the presidential debate

-- The identities of women are being stolen to pass as Trump supporters

-- Emails from Kroger surface proving the grocery store raised prices well beyond the rate of inflation

-- Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace argues that Trump is the pro-women candidate

-- Trump doesn't know how to handle being called "weird"

-- On the Bonus Show: JD Vance on CNN, Kamala polling well in swing states, and much more...

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8/29/24: Trump says he'd win California, JD Vance attacks childless teachers Aug 29, 2024

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-- On the Show:

-- Trump claims he would be the true winner of the presidential race in California, if Jesus was counting the votes

-- Trump posts erratically to Truth Social and calls for the death of his political opponents

-- A newly resurfaced clip of JD Vance shows him attacking teachers who don't have children

-- Fox News cuts away from Tim Walz's electric speech

-- JD Vance defends Trump's insults of military families

-- Kamala Harris schedules an interview alongside Tim Walz and Fox News criticizes her over it

-- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is struggling to get off the ballot in crucial swing states, potentially harming Trump's chances

-- Donald Trump's budget proposal would balloon the deficit, something Republicans selectively claim to care about

-- JD Vance says that Kamala Harris can "go to hell"

-- Homelessness sweeps are unsurprisingly not helping the homelessness crisis

-- On the Bonus Show: MAGA's sexist attacks against Kamala, Kaitlan Collins answers to whether CNN in fair, and much more...

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8/28/24: Tim Walz fake dog scandal, Trump says prison for flag burning Aug 28, 2024

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-- On the Show:

-- Former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard completes her conversion to MAGA shill as she endorses Donald Trump for President

-- Trump's recent behavior raises the question of whether he is deliberately trying to lose the election against Kamala Harris

-- Reports are that Donald Trump is thinking about restating and reinvigorating his campaign

-- They're going after Tim Walz for a supposedly fake dog in the latest fake scandal gone wrong

-- Donald Trump doesn't seem to know or realize that his own campaign wants his microphone to be off when he isn't speaking during the possibly forthcoming debate against Kamala Harris

-- At a scary event in Detroit, Michigan, Donald Trump says he's like to imprison people for a year if they burn the American flag

-- Fox News and Newsmax, as well as other right wing media, are increasingly struggling to pretend that Donald Trump is sane

-- Donald Trump gives what might be his worst interview ever to Shawn Ryan

-- New signs that Donald Trump is considering dumping JD Vance as his running make, choosing instead Robert F. Kennedy Jr

-- Voicemail caller is cancelling his Membership for an interesting reason

-- On the Bonus Show: Jesse Watters says generals will "have their way" with Kamala, Arizona police endorses Trump but not Kari Lake, and much more...

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8/27/24: Trump preparing to back out of debate, Bernie & Newsom brutalize the trolls Aug 27, 2024

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-- On the Show:

-- Fred Trump III, Donald Trump's nephew, joins David to discuss his new book, "All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way," and discuss how Donald Trump became who he ultimately became. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3WZEnCn

-- Senator Bernie Sanders gives the perfect answer to ABC News' Jonathan Karl when Karl tries to sow division within the Democratic Party

-- California Governor Gavin Newsom once again runs a clinic on how to deal with Fox News interviewers

-- Donald Trump appears terrified to debate Kamala Harris and has started laying the groundwork to back out of the September 10 debate

-- Donald Trump is suddenly terrified and tweeting uncontrollably

-- A review of Donald Trump's past statements about Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and Kennedy's past statements about Trump, reveal some odd trends

-- A confused Donald Trump publishes a video about Afghanistan that makes as little sense as anyone could imagine

-- JD Vance is hugely struggling in favorability and approval polls, a very different scenario than the one Tim Walz finds himself in

-- Voicemail caller points out that Donald Trump, now speaking at rallies inside a glass box, does resemble the "late great Hannibal Lecter"

-- On the Bonus Show: Arizona police refuse to endorse Kari Lake, and much more...

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8/26/24: Can JD Vance survive RFK Jr, shock poll stuns world Aug 26, 2024

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-- On the Show:

-- A deep dive into criticisms that Democrats are no longer abiding by "when they go low, we go high" as previously outlined by Michelle Obama, considering former President Obama's recent Trump "penis"size" joke and more

-- JD Vance's running mate status is now endangered what with the endorsement of Donald Trump by Robert F. Kennedy Jr, a far more charismatic and skilled politician than Vance

-- The 538 Presidential election forecast now gives Kamala Harris a 58% chance of winning, compared to Donald Trump's 41% chance, and a new poll has Harris +7 over Trump

-- At a borderline criminal rally in Glendale, Arizona, Donald Trump tells a police veteran that he "has to go" in the middle of the officer's speech, brings out Robert F. Kennedy Jr with pyrotechnics, and seems generally confused

-- A Donald Trump press conference before going to his recent Arizona rally has Trump severely glitching out, and again talking about "Black jobs" and this time adding "Hispanic jobs"

-- JD Vance is interviewed by NBC News' Kristen Welker, and it's so bad, one can only wonder whether Vance is deliberately trying to hurt Trump's chances

-- Facing imminent disaster, Donald Trump and JD Vance are now suddenly claiming to be against a federal abortion ban

-- CNN gets caught using a pro-Trump individual, Bryant Rosado, in a panel supposedly made up of "undecided" voters

-- On the Bonus Show: Trump may back out of debating Harris, Arizona requiring proof of citizenship to vote, RFK Jr.'s family reacts to his Trump endorsement, and much more...

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