Sam's Vacation RUINED by Trump's Wes Moore Freakout
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🗓️ 25 August 2025
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| 0:20.0 | Hey guys, it's Sam Stein. I'm back from vacation, joined by Andrew Eger, who did not take vacation |
| 0:28.7 | last week, did the week before. We're here to talk about Westmore, Donald Trump, the possible |
| 0:34.5 | deployment national guard to Baltimore, and a little bit of like a true social |
| 0:38.9 | hissy fit, I guess. I'll be honest. I've been kind of checked out. I haven't really |
| 0:43.2 | paying attention to the news cycle all that much. So Andrew is going to anchor this one. |
| 0:47.3 | And I'm just going to chime in with my thoughts when I have them. Andrew, take it away. |
| 0:52.4 | Yeah. So let me, let me, welcome back from vacation, Sam. Let me put this in a little bit of a context here. It, take it away. Yeah, so let me, let me, uh, welcome back from vacation, Sam. |
| 0:55.2 | Let me put this in a little bit of a context here. It's great to be back. I just want to be clear. I'm so happy to be back. I hated being on vacation, checked out from the horror show that was the national news. Yeah, welcome. Welcome back. You get to be up to your chin in national news again right away. It was bad, man. I'd see some headlines here and there. And I would just be like, oh, my God. And then I just close. I close the tabs. I couldn't do it. So this is a little dust up. Obviously, there's been a lot of, a lot of strife between Donald Trump and a lot of individual Democrats. This one's Westmore, Westmore of Maryland, who is one of the guys who he's been |
| 1:29.0 | getting in sort of online fisticuffs with recently. Why? Explain to me why. Baltimore crime and |
| 1:35.6 | policing, right? So Donald Trump has launched federal troops into the streets of D.C. He's been talking |
| 1:41.6 | about wanting to do that in a lot of different Democrat-run |
| 1:45.0 | cities around the nation, and one that he kind of comes back to over and over again as, like, |
| 1:49.8 | an example of just like a true city with crime, just really run amok is Baltimore, Maryland. |
| 1:55.9 | Now, West Moore is the governor of Maryland, and a few days ago, he responded to Trump with a letter. |
| 2:01.9 | He basically said, last week, you responded to my concerns about the deployment of National Guard |
| 2:06.0 | personnel for municipal policing in Washington, D.C. by insulting me personally from the Oval |
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