12/2/24: Biden pardons Hunter, Trump chooses conspiracy nut for FBI
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show:
-- Retailers warn of rising prices as a result of the forthcoming Trump tariffs
-- As Donald Trump's tariffs get closer to becoming a reality, the vast majority of Americans still do not understand how tariffs work
-- President Joe Biden pardons Hunter Biden, despite previously saying he would not pardon him, and this gives Trump carte blanche for any pardons he wants to do
-- The authoritarian takeover planned by Trump is taking shape in his cabinet and other nominations
-- Examining the myth of the self-made business genius and entrepreneur
-- Kash Patel, a dangerous authoritarian conspiracy theorist, has been nominated by Donald Trump to be FBI Director
-- Once again, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum humiliates Trump after Trump tries lying about their phone call
-- David Weldon is Donald Trump's choice to run the CDC, and this is a bad idea a Weldon is a longtime antivaxxer
-- On the Bonus Show: Trump chooses his daughter's father-in-law for key post, countries fail to reach agreement in UN plastic talks, women getting sterilized after Trump's victory, much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, everybody. |
| 0:08.4 | Hope you had a great holiday weekend. |
| 0:11.2 | If you had one, we are kicking off December with a very thick and meaty show from the |
| 0:19.2 | standpoint of policy. We're going to be delving into tariffs |
| 0:24.0 | and economics and coins and bills and collectable silver and drinkable silver no no not |
| 0:30.7 | not most of that stuff but let's see if we can figure out a little something about tariffs |
| 0:35.6 | you know when when some months, uh, some months ago, |
| 0:38.7 | I went on this viral, uh, I had, I had this viral moment on this business show in Vegas about |
| 0:44.6 | tariffs and the thing got 10 million views. |
| 0:47.3 | I didn't necessarily know that we would be here today with Donald Trump poised to slap tariffs on China, Mexico, Canada, |
| 0:59.1 | and that we would now be, I mean, daily corporate media talking about tariffs and mostly |
| 1:05.3 | not talking about it particularly accurately. |
| 1:08.0 | So let's dig right in. |
| 1:10.7 | Donald Trump's proposed tariffs are already |
| 1:13.4 | sending shockwaves through retail and consumer markets. It hasn't even been made policy yet. |
| 1:18.9 | Trump hasn't even been sworn in yet. But we have, of course, economists, but we have executives |
| 1:24.1 | and experts sounding the alarm and saying prices are going to go up. |
| 1:29.8 | Now, a little bit later in the show, we are going to talk about when and how tariffs can work. |
| 1:36.1 | That's in another segment because tariffs are a tool. |
| 1:39.3 | It's sort of like, is a hammer good or bad? |
| 1:42.4 | Well, it depends on whether you're trying to, you know, put frosting on a cake or hammer |
| 1:49.8 | in a nail. |
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