4/16/25: AOC's crowds and polling explode while Trump adviser is escorted out
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
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🗓️ 16 April 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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-- On the Show:
-- Mark Bankston, attorney at Farrar and Ball best known for his takedown of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, is now representing Mauricio Garcia, a man falsely labeled as a "neo-Nazi mass shooter" by major media outlets, and joins David to discuss the case
-- Senator Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continue to hold massive rallies in red states as discussion of AOC as a possible 2028 presidential candidate grows
-- Dan Caldwell, an advisor to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, is escorted out of the Pentagon for sharing classified information
-- Trump adviser Stephen Miller loses his mind on television once again while engaged in a disgusting dehumanizing rant
-- A softball Trump interview still manages to go completely wrong
-- Donald Trump explodes in another unhinged Truth Social rant
-- Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump's White House Press Secretary, fails to tell the truth once again
-- Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene's town hall is plagued with protests, including one protester who got tased
-- On the Bonus Show: Senator will travel to El Salvador this week, Trump says he will pay immigrants to self-deport, Republicans less trusted than Democrats on the economy for the first time in years, much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Well, we have a very interesting situation developing in MAGA country. |
| 0:13.2 | Bernie Sanders and AOC are pulling massive crowds in some of the reddest of red states. |
| 0:22.7 | Not a joke, not an exaggeration. |
| 0:25.2 | This is just real on the ground turnout in deep red states. |
| 0:30.6 | Idaho, Utah, Bernie and AOC are getting tens of thousands of people to come out and show up at rallies in places |
| 0:41.1 | that Trump won by 30 and 40 points. |
| 0:45.3 | Here's Bernie at the latest fight oligarchy rally, this one in Folsom, California, talking |
| 0:52.8 | about the turnout and talking about what it means as far as he's concerned. |
| 0:58.0 | So in this pivotal moment in American history, what I have discovered is Alexandria and I go all |
| 1:07.2 | over this country, we are seeing unbelievable turnouts. |
| 1:10.4 | We were in Idaho. Idaho. |
| 1:13.6 | We had 12,000 people coming out in Idaho, most conservative state in the country. |
| 1:20.6 | We have 20,000 people in Salt Lake City, a Republican state. |
| 1:34.3 | And I think what the American people, Republicans, independents, Democrats are saying, sorry, Mr. Trump, we don't want your oligarchy. |
| 1:41.3 | Sorry, Mr. Trump. |
| 1:43.3 | Too many men and women have fought and died to defend democracy. |
| 1:49.0 | You're not going to take us into authoritarianism. |
| 1:56.0 | And sorry, Mr. Musk. |
| 1:58.0 | We're going to create an economy that works for us, not just for you. |
| 2:06.5 | So brothers and sisters, I recognize that the oligarchs have enormous power. |
| 2:13.9 | They have unlimited amounts of money. |
| 2:17.6 | And they are extraordinarily greedy. |
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