Trump's Plot Against the 2026 Elections
The David Frum Show
The Atlantic
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2025
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| 0:15.1 | Music Hello, and welcome to another episode of the David From Show. I'm David Frum, a staff writer at the Atlantic. My guest this week is Senator Ruben Gallego, from Arizona, one of the rising stars of the Democratic Party. |
| 0:40.3 | I recorded my interview with Senator Gallego on the 5th of June. |
| 0:44.2 | And at that time, I also recorded a monologue talking about the White House farce, tragedy, conflict between Elon Musk and Donald Trump. |
| 0:53.5 | Elon Musk being the richest man in the world, the biggest contributor to the Trump campaign, |
| 0:58.6 | the de facto chief of staff and vice president to Donald Trump and Donald Trump, the president |
| 1:03.0 | of the United States. |
| 1:04.5 | But one of the lessons of the Trump years is it never pays to do things early. |
| 1:09.0 | You always want to leave things to the last minute because however |
| 1:11.8 | outrageous the big story on Thursday is, there may be something that happens on the weekend |
| 1:16.1 | that is even bigger. And so it is. So we're topping that topper with another topper. |
| 1:21.7 | Over the weekend, there was an outbreak of unruly protest, disorderly protest, and even violent |
| 1:26.9 | protest in Los Angeles |
| 1:28.7 | against immigration raids by the Trump administration. I'm at some distance. I wasn't an eyewitness. |
| 1:33.9 | I'm relying on news reports. And there's some uncertainty about exactly what happened. |
| 1:37.7 | But it looks like rocks were thrown at ice vehicles. Protesters tried to impede ICE officers |
| 1:43.1 | doing their duty. Fireworks were shot off. |
| 1:45.9 | A car seems to have been set on fire. Now, all of this is illegal, disorderly, and must, of course, |
| 1:51.9 | be met by the force of law. Fortunately, there are nearly 9,000 officers of the Los Angeles |
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