4/10/25: Trump randomly pauses tariffs, insider trading fiasco explodes

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David Pakman

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🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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-- On the Show: -- Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) joins David to discuss possible insider trading allegations surrounding the Trump tariff fiasco, the latest with the Ukraine-Russia war, and much more -- An internal email suggests that a Trump-run government agency is specifically targeting David's book for removal from Amazon -- Donald Trump randomly pauses all tariffs, seemingly having no idea what is going on -- Donald Trump appears confused when asked why he paused all of the tariffs -- As Donald Trump was pausing all tariffs, his trade representative was testifying before Congress that no pause was coming -- Insider trading and pump and dump suspicions grow after strange patterns emerge during the Trump tariff pause and stock market fiasco -- Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump's White House Press Secretary, gets absolutely destroyed by Trump's flip flop on tariffs -- Fox News host Charlie Gasparino admits that it is Donald Trump who capitulated on the tariffs, not foreign nations -- On the Bonus Show: House Republican holdouts threaten Trump budget bill, appeals court rules Trump can fire probationary federal workers, FBI Director Kash Patel replaced as acting head of ATF, much more... 🔬 Freedom From Religion Foundation: Text DAVID to 511511 or visit https://ffrf.us/freedom 🔊 Babbel language learning: Get up to 60% OFF at https://babbel.com/pakman 🧠 Try Brain.fm totally free for a month at https://brain.fm/pakman -- Become a Member: https://davidpakman.com/membership -- Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/davidpakmanshow -- Get David's Books: https://davidpakman.com/echo -- TDPS Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/thedavidpakmanshow -- David on Bluesky: https://davidpakman.com/bluesky -- David on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/davidpakmanshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know, I've got to be honest, when I started this show, I never imagined in my wildest dreams that I would be doing this story.
0:16.4	But we are now in a situation where it seems as though the Trump administration is trying to get
0:22.2	Amazon to ban my book.
0:24.5	I'm going to explain to you what we know.
0:27.4	I'm not going to sugarcoat it, but this is what I believe is now going on.
0:32.9	A Reddit thread was created this week.
0:37.2	The Reddit thread is called Trump admin trying to remove books
0:42.1	from online marketplace. The person who posted this is a regular poster in the Amazon
0:49.4	AWS subreddit and seems to have deep knowledge of Amazon cloud hosting very much indicative
0:58.3	that they are indeed an employee of Amazon.
1:02.4	In the post, they write.
1:04.7	This is insane.
1:06.2	I work for a very large cloud services provider.
1:09.7	We have a lot of government clients. Another side of
1:12.6	our company sells books online. You have 100% heard of them. So of course, it appears that
1:19.0	they're referring to Amazon. The individual seems to work at Amazon AWS. Continues. Today,
1:26.1	my boss got this email that one of our largest government clients is going to cancel
1:31.3	their contract if we don't remove these books that are critical of Trump.
1:37.1	This is nuts.
1:38.3	We have nothing to do with the book side of the business.
1:41.1	And even if we did, this is censorship.
1:43.2	I can't believe this is happening.
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