12/8/25: Pipe bomber, pardons, and a President in decline
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show
-- Brian Cole is revealed as the suspected 2021 DNC and RNC pipe bomber who believed Donald Trump won the 2020 election
-- Donald Trump repeatedly appears with a swollen and bandaged right hand while mainstream media downplays the injury despite earlier aggressive scrutiny of Joe Biden's health
-- ProPublica reports that Donald Trump declared two Florida houses as primary residences despite never living in them, matching the same mortgage fraud accusations he falsely leveled at political opponents
-- Speculation grows about Donald Trump's health after photos show large hand bandages and the White House offers only vague medical disclosures
-- Senator Tom Cotton struggles to answer CNN's John Berman's straightforward question about whether police can legally kill drug suspects on a lake
-- Donald Trump openly says he will be involved in deciding whether Netflix can buy Warner Bros, highlighting his political interference in antitrust decisions
-- Donald Trump displays bizarre physical behavior on stage while ranking the Supreme Court and Senate like fantasy football players
-- Marjorie Taylor Greene says in a 60 Minutes interview that some Republicans privately mock Donald Trump and that she is distancing herself from the MAGA label
-- Donald Trump posts on Truth Social describing his pardon of Henry Cuellar in terms that frame the pardon as tied to expectations of personal loyalty
-- On the Bonus Show: Supreme Court to weigh in on Trump's ability to fire people, Supreme Court to hear a case on birthright citizenship, Trump given a bogus peace prize at a World Cup event, and much more...
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(18:00) Trump's Florida homes controversy
(23:29) Questions about Trump's health
(27:53) Cotton struggles on police question
(36:43) Trump on Netflix-Warner Bros deal
(42:48) Trump's strange on-stage behavior
(51:11) Greene distances from MAGA
(1:00:16) Trump frames Cuellar pardon
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The alleged pipe bomber tied to the January 6th riots turns out shocker, right? |
| 0:07.0 | He seems to be a Trump supporter who was disappointed with the results of the 2020 election. |
| 0:13.0 | MAGA is losing its mind over a story that is pretty unsurprising, quite frankly. |
| 0:18.0 | And then Trump's hands, bandages, bruising, MRI scans quietly happening |
| 0:25.5 | in the background, and the legacy in corporate media that was wall to wall on Biden's health |
| 0:32.2 | is basically silent. Why are they no longer curious about presidential health? And meanwhile, mortgage fraud, |
| 0:41.3 | that which Trump accused Adam Schiff and Lisa Cook of appears to be something he did himself. We |
| 0:49.2 | have reporting from ProPublica about it. And also the accidental confessions continue, whether it's pardons for loyalty or merger approvals |
| 1:00.0 | for loyalty or whatever. |
| 1:02.5 | They are now saying it out loud. |
| 1:05.4 | And Marjorie Taylor Green is interviewed on 60 minutes. |
| 1:08.9 | She's taking shots at Trump that will really get under his skin. |
| 1:13.3 | But I don't believe that Marjorie Taylor Green is suddenly on the side of good against |
| 1:20.4 | that which is evil. |
| 1:22.0 | I will show you the clips and you can decide for yourselves. |
| 1:25.6 | We are in the dwindling days of 2025. The 2026 midterm season is basically |
| 1:32.0 | on. And we have quite a program for you today. |
| 1:39.3 | All right. In some of the least surprising news in a while, hope you had a good weekend, by the way, it |
| 1:50.3 | turns out the suspect in the 2021 attempted pipe bombing on the eve of the January 6th riots |
| 1:58.1 | appears to be a Trump supporter who was disappointed by the results of the |
| 2:03.8 | 2020 election and believed Donald Trump's lie that he was the rightful and true winner of the |
| 2:11.2 | 2020 election, not Joe Biden. Now, I know, I know that the Magas and the Magadonians and the Magapitanians, all of them, |
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