10/22/25: Most corrupt Trump act revealed as social programs collapse
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
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🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show:
-- Sabrina Singh, former Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary in the Department of Defense under President Biden, joins us to discuss the state of the DoD under Pete Hegseth, including the fallout from Signalgate and the new restrictive press rules
-- Polls show most Americans blame Republicans for the shutdown, leaving Trump and GOP leaders scrambling as their political gamble collapses
-- Trump’s mismanagement triggers halted SNAP benefits, threats to Social Security, and record-high disapproval, showing widespread decay under his rule
-- Thirteen Senate Democrats confirm a Trump judicial nominee during the shutdown, handing Trump a symbolic win and frustrating voters expecting resistance
-- Trump sues his own Department of Justice for $230 million, an unprecedented act of self-dealing that turns government accountability into open corruption
-- Trump stumbles through unscripted interviews, rambling about tariffs and fake “payouts,” exposing both his confusion and his authoritarian manipulation of money
-- Karoline Leavitt attacks her predecessor while doubling down on Trump’s shutdown narrative, highlighting the performative loyalty demanded within Trump’s circle
-- Online conspiracies claim Trump’s death is imminent, ignoring data showing his wealth and access to healthcare make him likely to live much longer
-- On the Bonus Show: The government shutdown becomes the second-longest in history, a Trump nominee is exposed for sending Nazi text messages, Kash Patel’s Diwali post is met with racism, and much more...
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(10:43) SNAP, Social Security impacts
(21:49) GOP judicial win frustrates Dems
(29:06) Trump sues DOJ for $230M
(34:31) Trump’s rambling interviews
(44:34) Sabrina Singh Interview
(1:04:24) Karoline Leavitt attacks predecessor
(1:11:50) Online Trump death conspiracies
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | On today's show, the shutdown is backfiring as Americans are blaming Donald Trump. |
| 0:05.8 | This was exactly what he and Republicans wanted to avoid. |
| 0:09.6 | And it's happening as a bunch of our systems, food stamps, social security, Medicare, Medicaid, |
| 0:16.1 | are all being degraded. |
| 0:18.3 | And the concern is that some of these are going to go non-functional. |
| 0:22.5 | Now today may be a tough show for Democrats because I am going to outline what I see is the |
| 0:28.4 | continued and really increasingly a serious problem for Democrats in trying to convince voters, |
| 0:35.0 | hey, vote for us. |
| 0:36.4 | It's not going well. And we'll also talk about |
| 0:38.8 | maybe the most corrupt action Donald Trump has ever taken. He is suing the Department of Justice |
| 0:43.6 | for $230 million. And he controls the Department of Justice. Maybe, maybe the most corrupt |
| 0:50.8 | action he's ever undertaken. And that really says a lot. |
| 0:54.4 | And we will also go to the Oval Office and hear a number of the hairbrained and disastrous |
| 1:00.5 | declarations that Trump and his cronies made yesterday. |
| 1:03.4 | We're going to speak with Sabrina Singh, which I think will be really interesting. |
| 1:07.1 | She was deputy Pentagon press secretary in the DOD under Biden and she is going to give us some insight into what on earth is going on with Pete Hagseth inside the Department of Defense. |
| 1:19.5 | Caroline Levitt then expresses unbridled jealousy for her predecessor, Karin Jean-Pierre, dropping a massive dump of attacks on her. |
| 1:32.1 | And then I also want to address this movement that's convinced Trump has hours or days to live. |
| 1:38.9 | Where is this movement coming from? |
| 1:41.1 | What are they basing this on? |
| 1:42.8 | And is this a productive thing to be thinking about? All of that and |
| 1:46.2 | more plus a great bonus show for you today. All right. It is finally happening. The Trump shut down |
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