Potty Mouth Democrats | Raúl Castro Indicted | What Is Jeff Bezos Up To? | 5/21/26
The A.M. Update
Aaron McIntire
4.9 • 833 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Graham Platner, Maureen Galindo, Raúl Castro, Jeff Bezos, and Pete Hegseth headline today's A.M. Update. Trump calls out Senate Republicans for keeping Obama-era parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough in place, and Aaron uses John Cornyn's non-answer about his Senate record to lay out exactly why he deserved the Paxton endorsement — the list of accomplishments is a long silence. Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner takes another hit as a resurfaced Reddit post shows him mocking a Purple Heart recipient who was shot four times by the Taliban, while Texas 35th district Democrat Maureen Galindo faces backlash even from her own party after pledging to turn the Karnes ICE detention center into a prison for American Zionists, and a castration facility. The DOJ unseals a 1996 indictment against Raúl Castro for the shootdown of two unarmed Brothers to the Rescue aircraft, with acting AG Todd Blanche announcing the charges to an enthusiastic Miami crowd. Jeff Bezos does a wide-ranging CNBC interview calling for zero income taxes on the bottom 50% of earners and criticizing corporate welfare — and Aaron unpacks why the taxation idea would actually increase class resentment. Aaron closes with Pete Hegseth's Rededicate 250 remarks on George Washington kneeling in the snow at Valley Forge.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, May 21st, 2026. Trump gets fed up with something domestically for once, |
| 0:05.0 | foul-mouthed Democrats, and what is Jeff Bezos up to? Next on the AM update. |
| 0:13.5 | In the aftermath of President Trump's to some surprising decision to endorse Texas Attorney |
| 0:18.8 | General Ken Paxton, ahead of the Texas GOP primary runoff for |
| 0:23.1 | U.S. Senate. |
| 0:24.7 | Incumbent Senator John Cornyn was asked by Forbes, and this reporter, if he was actually |
| 0:31.8 | surprised what's next and whether or not he's going to back down. |
| 0:35.5 | He made very clear, and he's had a nearly perfect record at all these primaries. Why stay in |
| 0:41.3 | this race? Well, because only Texans get to vote. And we've had two days of early voting. |
| 0:48.6 | It looks very encouraging. And I believe that we still have a very good chance of winning in the race. |
| 0:56.0 | How much did the President, in your view, endanger the Senate majority by getting behind Paxton? |
| 1:01.0 | Well, I think you'll have to talk to, well, I think you'll have to talk to others. |
| 1:04.0 | Really, I'm just focused on my race right now. |
| 1:06.0 | All right, thank you guys. |
| 1:08.0 | What is your pitch of orders outside of President Trump's indoors? |
| 1:10.0 | Late, looking at all the thing we've been doing for the last six months. All right, thank you guys. What's your pitch to voters outside? President Trump's indoors. |
| 1:19.6 | So you could hear John Cornyn there in the midst of that line of questioning at the very end as he walks away. |
| 1:22.5 | Hey, what's your pitch to voters ahead of the runoff? |
| 1:26.0 | And he says, look at all the things we've been doing for the last six months. |
| 1:27.2 | You know, that got me thinking. |
| 1:34.2 | I think we might be a little bit too hard on John Cornyn because that last line there, |
| 1:36.3 | look at all the things we've been doing for the last six months. |
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