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The David Pakman Show

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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

Episodes

7/26/24: MAGA women admit Kamala threat, Vance goes backwards on democracy

-- On the Show: -- A group of women Trump supporters admit that Kamala Harris brings excitement and new energy that could be a problem for Donald Trump -- A confused JD Vance claims that Joe Biden choosing not to run for re-election is a "threat to democracy" -- Supporters of Donald Trump are interviewed outside his rally in North Carolina, and it is terrifying -- MAGA and right wing media continue to attack Kamala Harris for how she laughs, and the fact that she does laugh -- A visibly confused...

Jul 26, 20241 hr 2 min

7/25/24: Biden addresses nation, Trump addresses sycophants at rally

-- On the Show: -- Jorge Valdes, founding member of the group that went on to become the Medellin Drug Cartel, joins David to discuss his relationship with Pablo Escobar, his time in prison, and his work trafficking 95% of America's cocaine -- President Joe Biden addresses the nation and explains why he has chosen to step aside, not run for re-election, and endorse Kamala Harris -- Donald Trump holds an outrageous and deranged rally where he glitches badly, confuses Kamala Harris and Nikki Haley...

Jul 25, 20241 hr 2 min

7/24/24: Kamala polls +4 over Trump, JD Vance favorability in toilet

-- On the Show: -- George Conway, conservative attorney and leading Never-Trump Republican, launches Anti-Psychopath PAC, immediately funding anti-Trump billboards across the country, and joins David to discuss -- In a stunning new Reuters/IPSOS poll, Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump by 4 points in a three way race, the first time in months that Trump is losing in this poll -- Right-wingers obsess over Kamala Harris being a "DEI candidate," code for "she is not white" -- Kamala Harris refers to ...

Jul 24, 20241 hr 6 min

7/23/24: Kamala secures enough delegates, Trump regrets picking JD Vance

-- On the Show: -- Kamala Harris has secured verbal commitments from enough Democratic delegates to secure the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination -- Kamala Harris sets a new single day fundraising record as Donald Trump increasingly panics -- Donald Trump sits down for an interview with Fox News' Jesse Watters alongside JD Vance and it goes very poorly -- JD Vance's campaign rally speech in Middletown, Ohio, goes so terribly that even Fox News cuts away -- MAGA-world is increasingly trigger...

Jul 23, 20241 hr 3 min

7/22/24: Biden drops out, race to replace, Trump melts down

-- On the Show: -- President Joe Biden announces that he is pulling out of the 2024 Presidential race and will not run for re-election, opening the door for VP Kamala Harris or another Democrat to take his place and unleashing chaos into the presidential election -- Donald Trump has a complete and total meltdown over President Joe Biden stepping aside in the 2024 race -- Political donations pour in for Kamala Harris in the hours after President Biden announces he will not seek re-election in 202...

Jul 22, 202454 min

7/19/24: Trump RNC speed off the rails, Biden accepting it may be over

-- On the Show: -- Donald Trump officially accepts the 2024 Republican presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention and delivers a record-setting duration 93-minute unhinged rambling speech riddled with lies and personal attacks -- Multiple reports, and video of convention-goers sleeping during Donald Trump's RNC speech -- Eric Trump silences the audience at the Republican National Convention with a completely meaningless, boring speech -- A panel of undecided voters does not re...

Jul 19, 20241 hr

7/18/24: Biden COVID, Trump sleeps through RNC

-- On the Show: -- Nicholas Kristof, columnist for the New York Times and author of "Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life," is now urging President Joe Biden to step aside as 2024 Democratic presidential candidate -- President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID -- Donald Trump has still released no medical report about his shooting, and is seen wearing increasingly bizarre gauze bandages -- Top Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Adam Schiff are now calling for President Joe Bi...

Jul 18, 20241 hr 4 min

7/17/24: JD Vance & RFK audio leaks, RNC day 2 implodes

-- On the Show: -- Luke Beasley, host of the Luke Beasley Show and longtime David Pakman Show correspondent, was at the Butler, Pennsylvania rally and witnessed the Donald Trump assassination attempt, and he joins David to discuss -- A pathetic Ron DeSantis kisses the ring in his speech at the RNC, in humiliating, voice-cracking fashion -- Kari Lakes issues an ominous warning to the media during her unhinged RNC speech -- Despite a gunman shooting Donald Trump with an AR-15, there is a raffle fo...

Jul 17, 20241 hr 4 min

7/16/24: RNC goes haywire, Trump chooses a VP who hates him

-- On the Show: -- Donald Trump selects Republican Senator JD Vance as his running mate, a guy who clearly does not like Trump -- Fox News host Brit Hume admits the truth about Donald Trump's choice of JD Vance as his VP -- An emboldened Donald Trump, Jr openly attacks a reporter attempting to interview him at the Republican National Convention -- MAGA Mike Johnson aborts his RNC introduction when his teleprompter fails, just weeks after criticizing Joe Biden for using a teleprompter -- Eric Tru...

Jul 16, 20241 hr 1 min

7/15/24: Trump shot in the head, survives by an inch, country in chaos

-- On the Show: -- 20-year-old Republican Thomas Matthew Crooks shoots Donald Trump in the head at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and Trump survives the assassination attempt with a grazed ear -- Republicans immediately blame the usual suspects for the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, including Joe Biden, DEI, wokeness, and more -- After 8 years of spreading violent rhetoric and inciting violence, Republicans pretend to be shocked and surprised at someone trying to kill Donald Trump -- M...

Jul 15, 20241 hr 4 min

7/12/24: Biden's "big boy" press conference, Mike Pillow wants White House job

-- On the Show: -- Joe Biden holds a high-stakes press conference and delivers a mixed performance -- Representative Pramila Jayapal turns the tables on Fox News about cognitive decline -- Colorado Senator Michael Bennet says he doesn't think Biden can beat Trump -- Congressman Greg Murphy compares Biden to "Hitler in the bunker" -- MyPillow guy Mike Lindell wants to be Trump's Homeland Security secretary -- Polls are released in crucial swing states following the June 27th presidential debate -...

Jul 12, 20241 hr 3 min

7/11/24: Trump panics about Project 2025, inflation comes in negative

-- On the Show: -- Inflation comes in negative for June 2024, which MAGA claims to want -- As corporate media focuses on Joe Biden's debate performance, the economy continues to perform stunningly well -- The newest conspiracy spiral, this time pushed on MSNBC, is that former President Barack Obama is orchestrating the removal of President Joe Biden -- An uncontroversial comment from Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal is spun as anti-Biden -- Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ...

Jul 11, 20241 hr 1 min

7/10/24: Biden replacement talk flatlines, Trump polling gain flatlines

-- On the Show: -- Allan Lichtman, political historian, author, and professor at American University in Washington DC, joins David to discuss his "Keys to the White House," whether the June 27 presidential debate has any bearing on his model, and his prediction for the 2024 presidential election -- Prominent Democrats, including Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Hakeem Jeffries, Gavin Newsom, and others take the definitive position that President Joe Biden is and will be the Democratic p...

Jul 10, 20241 hr 6 min

7/9/24: Biden says he's staying in, Parkinson's conspiracy explodes, Trump softball interview

-- On the Show: -- Cenk Uygur, host of the Young Turks, and Rachel Bitecofer, political strategist, debate whether Joe Biden should drop out of the presidential race following his poor debate performance -- Joe Biden sends a letter to Democrats explaining why he won't drop out of the presidential race -- Rumors speculate that Joe Biden has Parkinson's disease following reports that a Parkinson's doctor has visited the White House eight times -- Donald Trump calls in for a softball interview with...

Jul 09, 202458 min

7/8/24: UK & France say NO to right wing, Trump MISSING as Biden does 18 events

-- On the Show: -- Left wing parties overperform in the UK and France, defying expectations that right wing parties would surge, which is terrifying to Donald Trump's prospects in November -- Donald Trump's lead over Joe Biden in national polling is up 120% since the presidential debate, but may still be within the margin of error -- Despite the focus on President Biden's frailty and lack of energy, Biden has done nearly 20 public events since the debate, while Trump has done close to zero, and ...

Jul 08, 20241 hr

7/5/24: Progressive panel EXPLODES over Israel/Gaza

-- On the Show: -- A panel discussion on the state of the progressive movement in the United States featuring Brianna Wu, Executive Director of Rebellion PAC, Claudia De la Cruz, a community organizer and presidential candidate, and Nomiki Konst, a progressive activist and co-director of Losing Puerto Rico -- Become a Member: https://www.davidpakman.com/membership -- Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/davidpakmanshow -- TDPS Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/thedavidpakmanshow -- Pakman D...

Jul 05, 20241 hr

7/4/24: Trump convicted on all 34 counts, now a felon (CLASSIC EPISODE FROM 5/31/24)

INDEPENDENCE DAY / CLASSIC EPISODE FROM MAY 31, 2024 -- Failed former President Donald Trump is convicted on all 34 felony counts in his first criminal trial and is now a convicted felon -- Donald Trump is clearly shellshocked as he delivers a brief statement after being criminally convicted of 34 felonies -- Trump supporters are devastated and lose their minds outside the courthouse just moments after Trump's conviction -- Todd Blanche, Donald Trump's lawyer, delivers an absurd series of interv...

Jul 04, 202459 min

7/3/24: Trump builds lead post-debate, sentencing delayed for months

-- On the Show: -- Donald Trump's poll numbers increase following Joe Biden's poor debate performance -- Sentencing in Trump's New York criminal case is delayed until September following the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity -- Rudy Giuliani is disbarred in New York -- Caller talks about the Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling -- Caller compares Trump and Biden's cognitive decline -- Caller asks about Project 2025 -- Caller asks if Joe Biden should step down -- Caller expe...

Jul 03, 202453 min

7/2/24: SCOTUS says Trump mostly immune, RFK tries to slip in

-- On the Show: -- Former Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, now running against incumbent Republican Senator Rick Scott, joins David to discuss her campaign, the presidential race, President Biden's debate performance, and much more -- The Supreme Court declares that former President Donald Trump does indeed have broad immunity, although not 100%, with regard to crimes committed while in office -- President Joe Biden declares that, despite the Supreme Court's latest ruling, Presid...

Jul 02, 20241 hr 3 min

7/1/24: Political world on the brink after Trump Biden debate

-- On the Show: -- Absolute chaos takes over the political world after President Biden's poor debate performance against Donald Trump, but MAGA world's assumption that the race is over is premature -- President Biden owns up to his terrible debate performance during a speech in Raleigh, North Carolina -- President Biden sets a fundraising record, raising more than $33 million since the debate against Donald Trump -- A shocking new report from Axios claims President Biden is only really functiona...

Jul 01, 20241 hr 1 min

6/28/24: Trump Biden debate goes completely haywire, talk of "replacement" explodes

-- On the Show: -- The first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden sees Trump tell endless corrosive lies, and sees Biden appear confused and stumbling numerous times -- Talk of replacing Joe Biden on the 2024 Democratic ticket explodes after Biden's poor debate performance -- MAGA-world is taking advantage of the focus on Biden's debate performance to avoid accounting for the reality that Donald Trump's performance was a lie-riddled disaster -- Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alit...

Jun 28, 20241 hr 1 min

6/27/24: Trump/Biden debate TONIGHT, RFK will debate himself

-- On the Show: -- A deep dive into the cases for and against a prison sentence for Donald Trump in the hush money case that led to 34 guilty felony verdicts -- Will tonight's presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump make any difference to the trajectory of the presidential race? -- CNN will institute microphone muting during tonight's Trump vs Biden debate, but will this really be the silver bullet that some expect it to be? -- Presidential candidate Rob...

Jun 27, 20241 hr 1 min

6/26/24: Stiff win for Lauren Boebert, Trump's debate prep is really weird

-- On the Show: -- Psychologist Dr. John Gartner, founder of Duty to Warn and co-host of Shrinking Trump, joins David to discuss how much, if anything, can be gleaned about Donald Trump or Joe Biden's cognitive states from watching the forthcoming 90 minute presidential debate -- A review of primary results from last night, including Lauren Boebert's win, a number of Trump/MAGA losses, and the first loss by "The Squad" with Jamaal Bowman losing his primary to George Latimer -- Donald Trump's pri...

Jun 26, 20241 hr 1 min

6/25/24: Biden "on something" goes NUCLEAR, RFK's VP reappears to implode

-- On the Show: -- A deep dive into the likely and unlikely Donald Trump Vice Presidential running mates -- Nicole Shanahan, the much lauded vice presidential running mate of Robert F. Kennedy Jr, reappears to do an interview with Elex Michaelson and it does not go well -- Republican Pastor Mark Burns, who last week bailed at the last minute on an interview with David, publishes a legitimately insane campaign ad -- Republican Congressman and former Trump doctor Ronny Jackson asserts without evid...

Jun 25, 20241 hr 1 min

6/24/24: Trump's debate strategy goes public, Kristi Noem back at it

-- On the Show: -- Dr. John Kruse, neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and author, joins David to discuss the possibility of Trump having ADHD and using stimulant medications -- Failed former President Donald Trump admits to the disgusting way he will attack President Biden at the forthcoming presidential debate -- South Dakota Republican Governor Kristi Noem reappears for more interviews and still will not answer why she lied about meeting Kim Jong Un, nor why she lied about it in her book -- Convict...

Jun 24, 20241 hr 3 min

6/21/24: It's over for RFK Jr, Trump goes full fascist, Fox terrified

-- On the Show: -- Robert F. Kennedy Jr's presidential campaign is effectively over as he fails to qualify for the CNN presidential debate and is only on the ballot in 9 states -- Donald Trump goes full fascist and demands the firing of Paul Ryan from the board of Fox News -- Fox News is preparing for Donald Trump to perform disastrously in next week's presidential debate -- Fox News has the atmosphere of a funeral as they report on new polling of their own that is very bad for Donald Trump -- N...

Jun 21, 202458 min

6/20/24: Biden surges 7 points in Fox News poll, more deceptive editing

-- On the Show: -- Pastor Mark Burns, Trump-endorsed Republican candidate for Congress in South Carolina's 3rd Congressional District, joins David to discuss his campaign, priorities if he gets elected, and much more -- An examination of what is most likely to happen to Americans' taxes depending on whether President Joe Biden or former President Donald Trump wins in November -- A seven-point swing away from Donald Trump and towards President Joe Biden is announced in the latest Fox News poll --...

Jun 20, 202452 min

6/19/24: TDPS on Daily Show and MSNBC, Trump's brain stops working

-- On the Show: -- Dave Farina, science communicator and author best known for his YouTube channel Professor Dave Explains, joins David to discuss the recent explosion of misinformation and disinformation on the Joe Rogan podcast -- David's recent interview with Republican Senate candidate Royce White is featured on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart -- David's recent interview with Republican Senate candidate Royce White is featured on MSNBC's All in with Chris Hayes -- Failed former President Don...

Jun 19, 20241 hr

6/18/24: Fake Biden videos going viral, MAGA openly rooting for attack

-- On the Show: -- Reece Peck, Associate Professor at the City University of New York and author of the book "Fox Populism: Branding Conservatism as Working Class," joins David to discuss his latest op-ed in the Hill, “Trump, the UFC and the New Conservative Culture War.” Get his book: https://amzn.to/3VNRyqW -- Bogus videos of President Biden's supposed "dementia" are going viral so quickly, fact-checkers are struggling to keep up -- The latest conspiracy about who will replace President Biden ...

Jun 18, 20241 hr 5 min

6/17/24: Biden "wandering" video backfires, Trump dementia goes mainstream

-- On the Show: -- A major reversal takes place in 538's 2024 presidential election forecast -- Viral video of President Joe Biden "wandering off" has been debunked, and we explore the anatomy of disinformation -- Anti-abortion Colorado Republican Richard Holtorf is confronted about his own girlfriend's abortion by Kyle Clark, and it does not go well -- Donald Trump's cognitive decline has suddenly gone completely mainstream with numerous corporate media stories about it -- A group of Trump-frie...

Jun 17, 20241 hr 3 min