8/11/25: Trump puts DC under siege as exports collapse
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
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🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show:
-- Donald Trump deploys heavily armed FBI tactical units to Washington D.C. ahead of planned protests in a show of authoritarian force
-- Trump orders homeless people to be removed from Washington D.C. in a dangerous abuse of federal power
-- Trump holds a press conference announcing he's dispatching troops to DC
-- JD Vance defends Trump over Jeffrey Epstein ties but fails to explain why Trump has not released related files
-- Trump's economic promises unravel as tariffs, tax policies, and healthcare changes hurt working Americans
-- Trump's trade war triggers a collapse in US exports, worsening the trade deficit and hurting American businesses
-- Trump launches an angry rant against Nancy Pelosi accusing her of insider trading while ignoring his own corruption
-- Maria Bartiromo looks visibly shaken as JD Vance struggles to defend Donald Trump's flawed tariff plan
-- Trump launches an unhinged personal attack on Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett claiming she is intellectually unfit
-- Katie Miller, wife of Stephen Miller, launches a MAGA-friendly podcast criticized as political marketing disguised as lifestyle content
-- On the Bonus Show: Pentagon prepares to use force against drug cartels, US issues reward offer for Maduro's arrest, Las Vegas sees a drop in tourism, and much more...
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, everybody. |
| 0:09.0 | There are not a lot of individual days in American politics that are as significant as today. |
| 0:16.6 | We think of January 6th. |
| 0:18.8 | We think of election days, days in which once in a lifetime things happen. |
| 0:24.7 | But in the last 24 hours, I believe that we have one of those days. |
| 0:30.0 | We have the dispatching of FBI, the FBI dispatching soldiers to Washington, D.C. |
| 0:36.3 | We have Donald Trump putting D.C. under federal control |
| 0:39.8 | saying that we are going to be knocking the hell out of homeless and other people. And we have the |
| 0:47.1 | expulsion of homeless people in D.C. and Trump's saying, we're going to look at Baltimore. |
| 0:52.3 | We're going to look at other places as well. |
| 0:54.9 | Today is one of those days. |
| 0:57.2 | And what is maybe most terrifying is that a lot of Americans and a lot of the media are just |
| 1:05.4 | kind of shrugging. |
| 1:07.2 | It's Trump being Trump. |
| 1:09.0 | So let's get into the sequence of this. |
| 1:12.6 | First and foremost, we learned yesterday that Donald Trump's FBI is putting soldiers on the streets of D.C. |
| 1:21.6 | Not the National Guard or, you know, we are talking about heavily armed tactical units in military gear |
| 1:30.2 | to secure intersections and the city and all of this sort of stuff. |
| 1:36.1 | This isn't crowd control. |
| 1:38.3 | These aren't local police. |
| 1:40.6 | These are the sorts of people you would expect encounter terrorism raids or hostage rescues |
| 1:46.2 | or battlefield style engagements being positioned in the nation's capital to confront what exactly. |
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