11/17/25: Epstein files go nuclear as autopen scandal hits Trump
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
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🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show:
-- Former Vice President Kamala Harris joins us in person to discuss her new book "107 Days" about her 2024 presidential campaign
-- Donald Trump is in visible panic as newly released Jeffrey Epstein emails describe him knowing about the girls and send White House staff into chaos
-- Donald Trump lashes out at reporters while denying interest in the Epstein files despite posting about them repeatedly
-- Donald Trump abruptly calls for releasing the Epstein files after recognizing he can no longer oppose them and tries to frame the shift as transparency
-- The White House scrambles after seven Trump pardons show identical signatures despite years of him mocking Joe Biden for using an autopen
-- Donald Trump withdraws support for Marjorie Taylor Greene and attacks multiple Republicans as the MAGA coalition fractures
-- Donald Trump openly outlines a plan to restrict voting and end early and mail voting to ensure Democrats never regain power
-- Donald Trump says he had an MRI but does not know what part of his body was analyzed or why it was done
-- Donald Trump claps in a bizarre asymmetrical manner at a White House event, which neurologists say can indicate a number of different health issues
-- When pressed by journalist Jonathan Karl about food prices and Thanksgiving costs, NEC Director Kevin Hassett gives misleading explanations about price trends, tariffs, and supply
-- On the Bonus Show: Behind the scenes of the Kamala Harris interview, and much more...
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(13:15) Trump calls to release files
(22:35) White House scrambles over pardons
(27:31) Trump attacks MAGA allies
(36:00) Trump outlines voter restrictions
(43:37) Kamala Harris interview
(52:25) Trump confused about MRI
(58:08) Trump claps oddly at event
(1:01:53) Hassett misleads on food prices
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The White House in full panic mode after another batch of Epstein emails drops, including |
| 0:06.9 | Epstein saying he could take down Trump. |
| 0:10.3 | Michael Wolf says Trump is totally lost. |
| 0:12.6 | Staff reportedly aren't even reading the emails because they're worried about being implicated. |
| 0:17.4 | The West Wing is melting down. |
| 0:19.0 | And Trump's response initially silence, |
| 0:21.6 | then anger at anyone who brings up the Epstein files. |
| 0:24.6 | And then Trump goes, actually, they should be released. |
| 0:27.6 | That's right. |
| 0:28.6 | After snapping at reporters for bringing it up and posting all night on truth social, Trump |
| 0:33.6 | now is pretending he wants the files released after trying to suppress them for a long time. |
| 0:38.9 | What does it mean and is it just a desperate PR move? |
| 0:43.0 | Former vice president, Kamala Harris, will join us on the program to talk about the failed |
| 0:49.1 | campaign for the presidency in 2024. |
| 0:52.4 | We've also got a wild auto pen story about a White House using the auto pen to sign pardons. |
| 0:59.7 | Now I know you must be thinking that's Joe Biden, but it is actually Trump caught doing |
| 1:03.9 | that exact same thing. |
| 1:06.4 | And we are witnessing the biggest intra-maga battle or crack we have ever seen. |
| 1:12.6 | Trump and Marjorie Taylor Green now at war. |
| 1:16.0 | As Donald Trump says he has no idea why he was given an MRI, was it of your brain, sir? |
| 1:20.7 | He doesn't know. |
| 1:21.9 | And his new neurological warning sign caught on camera. |
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