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8/22/25: Terrifying Trump warning, self-inflicted economic disaster

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David Pakman

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4.62.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

-- On the Show:

-- Former CIA officer Ned Price warns that Vladimir Putin manipulates Donald Trump with KGB tactics and that Trump aligns with Kremlin interests over U.S. allies

-- Conservative figures including Jesse Watters, Kellyanne Conway, and Dana Perino attack Gavin Newsom for trolling on social media while comparing him unfavorably to Donald Trump

-- Mike Pence calls on Donald Trump to back sanctions against Russia and criticizes him for weakness as Vladimir Putin escalates aggression

-- Donald Trump pushes efforts to end mail-in voting and undermine democracy while targeting independent outlets like MeidasTouch and The David Pakman Show

-- Trump inherited a strong economy but has sparked inflation and trade turmoil with tariffs and reckless policies that hurt working families

-- Fox Business correspondent Lydia Hu accidentally exposes Republican hypocrisy on gerrymandering while trying to criticize Gavin Newsom

-- The Friday Feedback segment

-- On the Bonus Show: CIA raids John Bolton's home, and much more...

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Transcript

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0:00.0

A former intelligence official who has been on this program is now sounding the alarm

0:13.2

about what we've been seeing over the last week or so between Donald Trump and Vladimir

0:18.1

Putin and evaluating it in terms of the intelligence techniques

0:22.7

and strategies that are known to be employed around the world.

0:26.6

And he is raising the alarm.

0:28.3

This is Ned Price.

0:29.4

He's been on this show before.

0:30.8

He was recently interviewed by my friend Ben Micellus over at Midas touch.

0:36.9

And I want to focus in on a couple of the key things

0:40.0

that Ned said because they are so terrifying and disturbing in terms of understanding the dynamics

0:47.5

at play in Trump's apparent subservience to Putin, treating everything Putin says to him with total credibility.

0:55.9

And the way in which Putin really seems to be playing Trump, he seems to be running Trump,

1:01.1

manipulating Trump, grooming Trump in a non-sexual as far as we know way.

1:07.1

So a couple of things I want to focus on.

1:09.6

Ned Price explained that one of the tactics that Putin was using on Trump is about manipulation.

1:19.4

And it's about assessing Trump and then blending the false impression to your target that

1:27.1

you care about them.

1:29.2

And that seems to be what Putin did to Donald Trump when he said, hey, you know what?

1:35.5

You were screwed in that 2020 election.

1:38.8

You won that election by so much.

1:41.5

These mail in ballots are killing you. Why would it be in Putin's interest to say that

1:47.2

to Trump, especially given that Putin obviously doesn't believe Trump won in 2020. There's really two

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