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"Elizabeth Warren Is A DUMB Bunny" - Spirit Airlines SHUTS DOWN After Merger BLOCKED

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🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Patrick Bet-David and the panel torch Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, and Merrick Garland after Spirit Airlines shuts down, arguing Biden’s DOJ killed a JetBlue merger that could have saved 15,000 jobs, lowered fares, and kept a real low‑cost competitor in the sky.

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0:00.0

Is it Spirit Airlines? Am I saying it correctly? Spirit Airlines, right? Spirit Airlines. I know you fly Spirit all the time. That's why you were forgetting the name. What's funny is I have. I just haven't recently, but I have. So Spirit Airlines story comes out. And Tom, I'm coming to you first with this one. And Vinny, please contact your folks because we need your analysis. So Spirit Airlines comes out with the story that they are shutting down. Wait a minute. What? Shutting down. How many jobs? 15,000. You're kidding me. No. Democrats come out. Because of gas prices, spirit is shutting down. This is all on Trump. And then all of a sudden time out. What did Elizabeth Warren and the DOJ prevent from happening?

0:39.9

So here's Duffy, Secretary Duffy, who's doing a great job, and here's him delivering in his update on what happened with Spirit Airlines. Go ahead, Rob.

0:47.9

And Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg, along with the Biden DOJ, decided that they did not want

0:56.6

that merger to take place. And at the time, the Biden and Buttigieg D.O.J. bragged and said,

1:04.3

as they canceled the option for this merger, that this was a victory for U.S. travelers who deserve

1:10.8

lower prices and better choices.

1:13.6

Now, many at the time said this was a disaster. This merger should have been allowed.

1:19.5

And this today would indicate this is not better for travelers. This is not better for pricing.

1:24.5

This is not better for competition. Actually, it's worse.

1:28.5

We had an airline go down because the markets were trying to allow two airlines to merge,

1:33.8

make them stronger, and offer more competition for the American consumer.

1:38.8

Also, Elizabeth Warren at the time cheered the blocking of the is saying that this was a Biden win for flyers.

1:48.9

So again, I think it's important that we always look with the keen eye when airlines want to merge.

1:55.8

We care about pricing for consumers.

1:58.1

You can pause right here.

1:58.9

You can pause right here on what happened.

2:00.7

Duffy said, hey, if you work for spirit, don't go to work. You can pause right here on what happened. Duffy said,

2:01.4

hey, if you work for Spirit, don't go to work. If you have a flight, don't go. It's not going to happen. If you're going to do this, don't do that. So they're going through all this stuff. And then Senator Warren is facing backlash over JetBlue merger block after Spirit shut down. Rob, Do you have that one when they were going through the whole thing?

2:18.6

This was March 7, 2023.

2:20.3

Good work.

2:20.8

Is this just? merger block after Spirit shut down. Rob, do you have that one when they were going through the

2:18.2

whole thing? This was March 7, 2023. Good work. Is this just Budichik or is that both of them?

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