4/21/25: Easter meltdowns explode as censorship grows, Signalgate returns
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show:
-- Allison Riggs, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, joins David to discuss the current attempt to steal her recent election from her and what our viewers can do
-- A total meltdown is taking place at Pete Hegseth's Pentagon with mass quitting and the belief that Hegseth may not last much longer
-- A second Signal chat fiasco, this one involving Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's wife and other family members receiving sensitive information
-- Donald Trump's bizarre Easter message stuns and confuses, as usual
-- An allegedly pro-Trump MAGA lunatic commits a mass shooting at Florida State University
-- A desperate Donald Trump unleashes a series of outrageous Truth Social posts confirming that he knows his tariff policies are failing
-- The Navy censors author Ryan Holiday for planning to discuss books banned by the Nava Academy
-- David has been warned, as a naturalized US citizen, not to leave the country at this time
-- On the Bonus Show: Thousands join anti-Trump protests across the country, White House solicits corporate sponsors for Easter Egg Roll, White House changes COVID.gov webpage to one supporting the lab leak theory, much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show, everybody. |
| 0:09.0 | We really learn this weekend what happens when you choose your secretary of defense by watching Fox and Friends. |
| 0:18.4 | It's not good. |
| 0:19.8 | A complete meltdown is happening inside the Pentagon under |
| 0:24.1 | Donald Trump's secretary of defense Pete Heggseth. And I don't mean policy disagreements here. |
| 0:29.7 | I mean full on chaos, leaks, purges, classified information floating around signal group chats. Yes, another signal group chat. And Elon Musk |
| 0:41.2 | in the mix of it all. And mass quitting is now taking place. You're not having a stroke. This is |
| 0:49.0 | real life in the Department of Defense under Donald Trump's second term secretary of defense. |
| 0:56.3 | So here's what's going on. |
| 0:58.0 | First, Heggseth, who was barely confirmed after getting grilled over allegations of sexual |
| 1:04.9 | assault and showing up to work, smelling of alcohol, he has now lost four top aides in a single day. One of them, his own chief of |
| 1:14.2 | staff, Joe Casper, the other three were fired under suspicion of leaking classified information, |
| 1:21.0 | even though they were reportedly about to be cleared. Now they've been fired. What's really going |
| 1:25.6 | on as usual? We don't know to make it worse. |
| 1:28.8 | Hegset's team tried anonymously smearing them in the press. This is like middle school drama |
| 1:35.8 | with the nuclear codes, which is very risky stuff. These were not small leaks. They were |
| 1:41.9 | referring to military strike plans, carrier movements, American intelligence operations, |
| 1:47.1 | briefings on China. |
| 1:49.1 | And by the way, the briefings on China almost delivered to Elon Musk, who still has massive |
| 1:56.2 | business interests in China. |
| 1:58.3 | And it gets even more absurd. |
| 2:00.2 | Pete Hegseth, the guy who apparently thinks |
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