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Three Martini Lunch: Newsom’s Crime Tweets Backfire, Trump Wants More Deals Like Intel, ‘The Michigan Mamdani’

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News, Politics

4.4651 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Join Jim and Greg for the Monday 3 Martini Lunch as they hammer California Gov. Gavin Newsom for his endless Trump-style tweets and failed spin on crime, sound the alarm over President Trump’s push for more deals like the one the government made with Intel, and highlight Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s disturbing campaign […]

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0:00.0

Welcome to the three martini lunch.

0:04.9

Grab a stool next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

0:10.6

Three martini's coming up.

0:13.2

So glad you're with us for the Monday edition of the three martini lunch.

0:17.2

We have so much to get to.

0:18.5

We have Gavin Newsom, who's apparently not only not at all

0:21.5

interested in his day job, Jim, that he's so focused on Trump that he's basically spending

0:26.5

his all time pretending to be Trump on social media and beyond. But now it's starting to backfire

0:31.8

some of his tactics, including on his own side of the aisle, which is always very entertaining.

0:36.3

We also have President Trump grabbing at 10% stake in Intel for the United States government.

0:42.0

That is sending chills down a lot of people's spines, especially if you like free markets and unfettered business.

0:47.7

And then we've also got some interesting discussion at the end about the Michigan Mamdani.

0:53.4

Yep, yep, there's another guy pretty much cut from the same cloth running for U.S. Senate in my home state, and I don't know if he's going to be the nominee, but he is certainly making waves in all the wrong ways in the Great Lake State. All right, Jim, let's dive right into the Gavin Newsom stuff because this guy loves attention more than anything else, and we're probably helping him on a little bit here, given that we're going to be criticizing him all the way

1:14.0

through. He's got this Twitter account, Governor Newsom Press Office, that has been basically

1:18.7

trying to mimic Trump tweets, ranting about various things. Every word is in all caps and going

1:27.0

on and on and on,

1:27.9

but he's also trying to use it now to claim that he's got a better record,

1:31.7

especially on crime, compared to red states.

1:35.8

But the blowback on this is so entertaining,

1:39.1

not only from our side, but also the fact that he's, in most cases here,

1:43.8

really attacking Democrats.

1:45.6

So he's had this whole series of tweets.

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