4/21/25: Easter meltdowns explode as censorship grows, Signalgate returns
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
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ποΈ 21 April 2025
β±οΈ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show, everybody. |
| 0:09.0 | We really learn this weekend what happens when you choose your secretary of defense by watching Fox and Friends. |
| 0:18.4 | It's not good. |
| 0:19.8 | A complete meltdown is happening inside the Pentagon under |
| 0:24.1 | Donald Trump's secretary of defense Pete Heggseth. And I don't mean policy disagreements here. |
| 0:29.7 | I mean full on chaos, leaks, purges, classified information floating around signal group chats. Yes, another signal group chat. And Elon Musk |
| 0:41.2 | in the mix of it all. And mass quitting is now taking place. You're not having a stroke. This is |
| 0:49.0 | real life in the Department of Defense under Donald Trump's second term secretary of defense. |
| 0:56.3 | So here's what's going on. |
| 0:58.0 | First, Heggseth, who was barely confirmed after getting grilled over allegations of sexual |
| 1:04.9 | assault and showing up to work, smelling of alcohol, he has now lost four top aides in a single day. One of them, his own chief of |
| 1:14.2 | staff, Joe Casper, the other three were fired under suspicion of leaking classified information, |
| 1:21.0 | even though they were reportedly about to be cleared. Now they've been fired. What's really going |
| 1:25.6 | on as usual? We don't know to make it worse. |
| 1:28.8 | Hegset's team tried anonymously smearing them in the press. This is like middle school drama |
| 1:35.8 | with the nuclear codes, which is very risky stuff. These were not small leaks. They were |
| 1:41.9 | referring to military strike plans, carrier movements, American intelligence operations, |
| 1:47.1 | briefings on China. |
| 1:49.1 | And by the way, the briefings on China almost delivered to Elon Musk, who still has massive |
| 1:56.2 | business interests in China. |
| 1:58.3 | And it gets even more absurd. |
| 2:00.2 | Pete Hegseth, the guy who apparently thinks |
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