Trump’s Despicable New Low
To The Contrary with Charlie Sykes
Charlie Sykes
4.9 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Charlie speaks with former US Attorney Harry Litman about the beloved director Rob Reiner and Trump's response to his murder, Admiral Holsey who retired after overseeing the military boat strikes, and some of the latest court decisions. Litman also explains why there's no area of greater corruption than Trump's use of the pardon power.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The To The Contrary Podcast. I'm Charlie Sykes. We are coming off an incredibly grim weekend. |
| 0:05.2 | The more you think about it, the massacre of Jews in Australia. In Los Angeles, apparently a domestic terror attack was foiled. That's the good news. |
| 0:14.0 | But then we have the shooting at Brown that left two students dead. And of course, we have the legendary director, Rob Reiner, and his wife who were |
| 0:23.2 | murdered in an answer to the question about whether there is any bottom to Donald Trump. No, |
| 0:29.8 | there's not. So we have a lot to talk about today. And joining us on today's podcast, our good friend Harry Littman from Talking Feds. |
| 0:48.7 | You know, Harry, there's just so many things to talk about. |
| 0:51.4 | Should we? |
| 0:51.8 | I just feel the need to talk about Donald Trump's reaction to the |
| 0:56.9 | murder of Rob Reiner. Do you want to start there? You know, why don't we? Because it's just so |
| 1:02.4 | stunning you think about often, A, what could he be thinking? But B, is there anyone who even, even who supports him for |
| 1:14.3 | policy that couldn't be repulsed by it? I mean, I think, you know, a psychiatrist would have a |
| 1:20.2 | field day and you could diagnose sort of narcissistic personality disorder from it alone. |
| 1:25.3 | Yeah, yeah. This is the Donald J. Trump social media bleed after |
| 1:29.4 | after Rob Reiner and his wife were found dead. And by the way, since then, it turns out that |
| 1:35.9 | this has nothing to do with politics whatsoever. Apparently, it is a terrible, you know, |
| 1:40.5 | family, family tragedy. Their son has been arrested in case of this. |
| 1:44.4 | By the way, I want to put this in context. Remember a few months ago, all the mega influencers |
| 1:48.1 | were saying that if you did not respond respectfully, respectfully to the murder of Charlie Kirk, |
| 1:53.9 | then you were the worst person in the world. Remember all of that rhetoric about, you know, |
| 1:59.5 | how dare you, you know, take a cheap shot or anything. |
| 2:02.8 | I wonder where those voices are today. In any case, Donald J. Trump, the president of the |
| 2:07.1 | United States, posted this yesterday at 9.51 a.m. A very sad thing happened last night in |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Charlie Sykes, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Charlie Sykes and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

