BONUS SHOW: Trump's Brazil tariffs, Secret Service suspended agents after assassination attempt, Mamdani leads polls
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David Pakman
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🗓️ 12 July 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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-- On the Bonus Show: Trump places 50% tariff on Brazil over Bolsonaro treatment, Secret Service suspended 6 agents after Trump assassination attempt, Zohran Mamdani leading NYC mayor poll, and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, David here. What you're about to hear is an episode of the bonus show. We do a bonus show every day for our members and for a limited time. We will release one of the week's bonus shows on Saturdays exclusively for our audio podcast listeners. If you'd like to get access to all of the bonus shows, simply sign up at join packman.com. |
| 0:24.2 | Here is that bonus show episode. |
| 0:32.0 | Welcome to the bonus show. |
| 0:33.8 | Donald Trump broke from his tariff letter format to tell the president of Brazil that he's |
| 0:41.0 | going to put a 50% tariff on any and all Brazilian products sent to the US starting on August |
| 0:47.3 | 1. |
| 0:48.3 | The reason this letter was different is that this one was not about rectifying trade imbalances. |
| 0:55.4 | This one was about he doesn't like how the former Trumpian Brazilian president |
| 1:02.0 | Jair Bolsonaro has been treated. |
| 1:05.7 | He has suffered grave injustices. |
| 1:09.6 | It's a witch hunt and he sort of made him out to be kind of like a martyr |
| 1:14.0 | in a way and says that's the reason why Brazil's getting a 50% tariff. So I know that on the |
| 1:21.1 | one hand, Pat, it's like, well, he's sending everybody tariff letters. What's the difference? |
| 1:24.4 | This is a whole other thing to start tariffing countries for political |
| 1:29.3 | disagreements, essentially. Yeah, I'm not sure, honestly, how seriously we should take this |
| 1:34.4 | because on the one hand, it's clear that Trump should not be trying to interfere in the domestic |
| 1:40.4 | politics of foreign countries, especially when we know that he's just doing so because |
| 1:46.2 | he views Bolsonaro as a political ally and he's trying to further his own agenda here and rally |
| 1:52.4 | his supporters behind the move. So there's that on the one hand. But on the other hand, |
| 1:56.7 | is this actually going to hold up? Is he going to stick to a 50% tariff on Brazil? My sense is that no, he's not. He's going to back off of it, especially once the ramifications become clear. We know that he's already gotten the taco moniker because he backs off of all of these tariff promises. So this may amount to nothing. The fact that he's trying to pressure |
| 2:18.6 | the Brazilian government to drop the investigation, obviously is newsworthy, but I just don't |
| 2:24.1 | think he's going to follow through with it. No, I don't think so. And I'm going to be really |
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