8/29/25: Republicans pounded at town halls as Trump predicts major win
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
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🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show:
-- Rep. Barry Moore refuses to answer who pays Trump’s tariffs and Rep. Mark Alford is confronted by a farmer over losses caused by those tariffs
-- Robert F. Kennedy Jr blames antidepressants and transgender transitions for violence instead of addressing guns after a Minnesota mass shooting
-- Donald Trump posts on Truth Social boasting about Republican fundraising and predicting a huge victory in the midterms
-- Blue states could cripple red states by quietly withholding financial support instead of pursuing an impossible formal secession
-- The White House uses Ronny Jackson, a disgraced former Navy doctor and current congressman, to declare Donald Trump the healthiest president ever despite visible health concerns
-- A discussion about Democratic elected officials failing to connect with voters and independent media
-- Speculation grows that JD Vance is positioning himself for the presidency as Trump’s health problems and age raise succession questions
-- The Friday Feedback segment
-- On the Bonus Show: Trump revokes Kamala Harris's Secret Service Protection. a bizarre Fox News segment about Cracker Barrel's logo change, and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | It's getting increasingly difficult and humiliating for Republicans to do town halls in their districts. |
| 0:14.0 | They're getting booed. |
| 0:15.0 | They're getting jeered at. |
| 0:17.0 | And they're getting quite frankly substantive questions even from Republicans not because Republicans have had some sudden awakening |
| 0:24.2 | But because Republicans are starting to see in their paychecks in their grocery bills in their household budgets in their electrical bills that the promises that Donald Trump made simply aren't coming to fruition |
| 0:36.3 | We're going to start today with a video of |
| 0:39.1 | Republican Congressman Barry Moore, asking, rather being asked the question, who pays the |
| 0:45.3 | tariffs? Who pays the tariffs? He doesn't answer the question, but you start hearing chanting |
| 0:51.8 | from the audience. Who pays the tariffs? who pays the tariffs who pays the tariffs |
| 0:56.1 | It is a simple question to answer the American companies doing the importing pay the tariffs and sometimes they pass that cost along to the consumer |
| 1:05.7 | Meaning you meaning me it's the reason why my coffee beans are now |
| 1:13.9 | 1850 instead of 1550. Okay. |
| 1:14.9 | Let's take a listen and this is the hostility that they're getting hit with more and more. |
| 1:18.7 | They want to know who pays the tariff? |
| 1:20.6 | Is it consumers or true in the export of the country? |
| 1:23.8 | So right now we just saw the report is that we haven't seen inflation at all. |
| 1:27.8 | If y'all saw the report. |
| 1:28.6 | That was a question. |
| 1:30.0 | That wasn't a question. |
| 1:31.5 | So if there was inflation, who pays the terror? |
| 1:35.6 | Who pays the terror? |
| 1:37.7 | Who pays the terror? |
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