7/8/25: Trump played like a fiddle as troops descend on Los Angeles park
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
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🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show:
-- David hosts a Substack Live with Brian Tyler Cohen
-- Trump deploys militarized federal forces to MacArthur Park in Los Angeles in a chilling test run of authoritarian power projection
-- Karoline Leavitt embarrassingly backpedals on the Epstein list, exposing a key MAGA lie and deepening Trump’s credibility crisis
-- Trump’s team can’t explain what happened to the long-promised Epstein client list, casting doubt on years of MAGA conspiracy claims
-- Trump’s press secretary spirals on live TV, failing to defend collapsing trade deals, flood response failures, and a phantom Epstein list
-- Trump delays his tariff threat again, proving once more that his “tough” trade stance is all bluff and political cowardice
-- Trump floods world leaders with unhinged tariff letters, creating global confusion and economic anxiety
-- Trump rambles incoherently at a White House dinner, praising dictators, flip-flopping on trade, and exposing chaos behind his Ukraine and tariff policies
-- Benjamin Netanyahu flatters Trump with a fake Nobel Prize nomination and Trump falls for it completely, clueless he’s being manipulated
-- On the Bonus Show: Ted Cruz vacations again during Texas natural disaster, inhumane conditions reported at Alligator Alcatraz, IRS says churches can endorse candidates, and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:08.6 | An authoritarian nightmare building in Los Angeles. |
| 0:12.8 | Is it a preview of martial law is increasingly the question? |
| 0:18.0 | We know from looking at history what it looks like when authoritarian start testing |
| 0:24.7 | the limits. And one of the things that we are now seeing yesterday in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, |
| 0:31.1 | a neighborhood known as the Ellis Island of the West Coast flooded with federal agents, some marching in line, some not, some on foot, |
| 0:40.7 | some on horse, dressed in fatigues, masks and helmets, backed by armored vehicles, overhead |
| 0:48.6 | helicopters, kids playing soccer outside were rushed indoors. |
| 0:55.0 | Healthcare workers helping unhoused people had guns pointed at them and were told get out of here. |
| 1:03.0 | No explanation, no warning, just an overwhelming show of federal force dropping into a neighborhood and then gone. |
| 1:14.4 | Mayor Karen Bass plainly said it looked like a city under siege, under an armed occupation. |
| 1:22.0 | It looked the way cities look before a coup. |
| 1:24.7 | Vince Longman posted the following video to Twitter. |
| 1:28.3 | Guys, I'm on the ground right now by MacArthur Park where you can see law enforcement |
| 1:35.3 | and troops, airborne police right now. |
| 1:38.3 | I mean, they are here. |
| 1:41.3 | They are moving in. |
| 1:42.3 | This is happening right now. Here are the troops. |
| 1:54.0 | During a Fox News interview, DHS assistant secretary McLaughlin, I believe it's Tricia McLaughlin, was asked, |
| 2:06.8 | what about arresting the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass? |
| 2:11.9 | What about that? |
| 2:13.5 | And McLaughlin says, we are keeping everything on the table. |
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