9/2/25: US losing influence as Trump health fears explode
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
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🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show:
-- David considers suing after Wired publishes allegations about Chorus influencing his content
-- David questions whether pragmatic progressives and purity test progressives are truly part of the same movement
-- Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, and Narendra Modi align at a global summit as American influence weakens under Donald Trump
-- Wall Street tanks after a court rules Donald Trump’s global tariffs unconstitutional and repayment may be required
-- The White House posts outdated photos to cover for Trump’s unexplained six-day disappearance
-- Viral medical threads spark speculation that Trump has suffered mini strokes during his absence from public view
-- Trump’s social media posts change style dramatically, fueling suspicions that someone else is writing for him
-- Viral video shows heavy black bags tossed from a White House window raising questions about renovations or hidden medical waste
-- Trump admits his administration is being ripped apart by internal battles over the COVID vaccine
-- On the Bonus Show: Trump to give Rudy Giuliani the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Americans lose faith in upward mobility, Oklahoma unveils "America First" teaching test, and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Well, I hate to start a show like this, but I do have to talk today about a defamation lawsuit. |
| 0:14.1 | After Wired published a piece last week that made a number of untrue allegations and implications |
| 0:20.6 | about me and other creators, claiming I'm taking money in exchange for letting someone dictate the content of this show or restrict what I'm talking about and many other claims and implications. |
| 0:35.1 | A whole bunch of you wrote to me and said, David, are you going |
| 0:38.7 | to sue for defamation? Suing for defamation and winning is really the way to take control |
| 0:45.1 | back and to prove that you didn't do the things you're accused of. Now, it's a fair question, |
| 0:50.2 | and I want to talk about that today. I didn't even plan on mentioning this entire fiasco again, but it really has taken on a life of its own. |
| 0:59.0 | So I'm going to get to the, am I suing for defamation question in a moment? But I also want to lay out a few other things. |
| 1:06.2 | You know, the saddest part for me in all of this is that even though, you know, after the first 48 hours, |
| 1:13.6 | the overwhelming majority of my audience members and fellow creators and others realize |
| 1:21.6 | there's really no story here. |
| 1:23.6 | Like there's, it's not even just the allegations and implications are untrue. |
| 1:28.8 | It's just, there's not even really a story here. |
| 1:31.3 | Most people realize that. |
| 1:34.7 | Way more people always see the original allegations and they never see the corrections. |
| 1:41.2 | And that's something we're going to deal with in a moment as well. |
| 1:44.1 | The hardest part |
| 1:45.2 | is that some people who have trusted me for years have now canceled their memberships on my |
| 1:53.8 | website because they wrongly believe the DNC tells me what to say or that chorus makes me get permission before I cover a topic |
| 2:05.3 | or that my opinions two years ago were shaped by chorus despite chorus being spun up like two |
| 2:12.0 | months ago. These are, there are people who will not be satisfied unless I file and win a defamation suit and otherwise they have just said this must be true and haven't even come and asked me about it. |
| 2:29.5 | Now, I don't know that a lot of people I'm hearing from were really my core supporters anyway, |
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