The David Pakman Show

-- On the Show: -- A new ABC poll panics Democrats as it has Joe Biden losing to Donald Trump by nearly 10, but is this a reliable poll? -- Democratic Senator Bob Menendez and his wife are indicted on very serious bribery charges -- Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz melts down during an appearance on Fox News and attacks fellow right-wing host Maria Bartiromo -- 2024 Republican presidential candid...

-- On the Show: -- Taylor Swift quickly becomes one of the most powerful forces in voter registration this election cycle -- 2024 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy puts his surgeon wife, Apoorva Ramaswamy, in an impossible position over the COVID-19 vaccine -- Florida Governor and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has fallen to a humiliating 5th place in new polli...

-- On the Show: -- Emily Monosson, a trained toxicologist who now writes about our impact on the natural environment and author of several books, joins David to discuss her book "Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic". Get the book: https://amzn.to/45ZVIOO -- Republican Congresswoman Victoria Spartz delivers what is possibly the most unhinged rant in Congressional history during hearings with test...

-- On the Show: -- The nascent impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden is already imploding -- A Texas teacher is fired for assigning her class an illustrated edition of Anne Frank's diary -- Former prosecutor Andrew Weissmann explains on MSNBC that Donald Trump unwittingly admitted to two more crimes during his recent interview with NBC's Kristen Welker -- Donald Trump Jr announces Donald Tr...

-- On the Show: -- Mitchell Green, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut and author of the book "Know Thyself: The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge," joins David to discuss what it means to "know," free will and our identities as people, how we mislead ourselves, sometimes willingly, and much more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3Rr6oS8 -- Based on new 2024 House forecasts, Rep...

-- On the Show: -- Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace is again asked for evidence supporting Joe Biden's impeachment inquiry, and is able to provide none, and then Congressman Michael McCaul also faceplants on the same question -- Russell Brand is accused of sexual assault of a minor, in addition to a number of other sex crimes by multiple victims, and his denial is not exactly a profile in coura...

-- On the Show: -- A Trump-appointed judge rules against Trump by requiring him and his lawyers to only review classified documents in a secure location -- A progressive group sues to kick Donald Trump off the ballot in Minnesota, citing the 14th Amendment's insurrection clause -- 2024 Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie says he plans to find and confront Donald Trump on the campaign...

-- On the Show: -- Dr Phil Plait, astronomer, science communicator, and author of several books on space and our place in it, joins David to discuss astrology, and why it is patently bogus pseudoscience -- Another Republican can come up with nothing when asked whether they have any evidence at all to support an impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden, this time Republican Congressman Mike Waltz...

-- On the Show: -- Clancy Martin, writer and philosophy professor, joins David to discuss his book "How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind," a book about his multiple suicide attempts. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3LiRXfa -- Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy announces an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, despite still having no evidence against him -- Y...

-- On the Show: -- Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy will endorse an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden -- Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace admits that Republicans have no actual EVIDENCE against Joe Biden in support of impeachment -- President Joe Biden makes a deal with Iran and Republicans predictably attack him and criticize the deal -- Failed former President Donald...

-- On the Show: -- The supposed "surge" of Vivek Ramaswamy appears to be over and is being supplanted by a small Nikki Haley surge, and meanwhile, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has lost 36% of the support he once had -- Arkansas Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders bans vaccine mandates, despite there not being any in Arkansas -- Failed former President Donald Trump tries a rally in South Dakota bet...

-- On the Show: -- Bret and Heather Weinstein of the Dark Horse Podcast go full conspiracy mode about COVID tests and "secret" vaccines for Joe and Jill Biden -- Failed former President Donald Trump launches an outrageous attack on Special Prosecutor Jack Smith after Smith raises concerns of jury tampering -- Caller asks why right-wingers care so much about birth rates -- Caller talks about the "T...

-- On the Show: -- A review of how the right wing broke America, including through elections, courts, culture, and more -- A look at Project 2025 and Agenda 47, which if implemented after the potential election of Donald Trump in 2024, would turn the United States into a dictatorship, with Trump as the dictator -- President Joe Biden is entering a polling crisis on the basis of some disastrous new...

-- On the Show: -- Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio is sentenced to 22 years in prison, the stiffest sentence so far among the defendants related to the 2021 insurrection -- The Supreme Court will soon decide whether to take a case related to Donald Trump's eligibility to hold public office again in the context of possible violations of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution -- Elon Musk, of Twitt...

-- On the Show: -- President Joe Biden hits Trump hard on Labor Day, confirming what we already know about their respective jobs records -- Failed former President Donald Trump is clearly terrified that he will be disqualified from running for President for violating the 14th Amendment to the Constitution -- Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis' 2024 Republican presidential campaign appears to...

LABOR DAY / CLASSIC EPISODE FROM JULY 13, 2023 -- On the Show: -- Ruth Ben-Ghiat, internationally acclaimed historian, Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University, and author of "Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present," joins David to discuss the authoritarian slide of the Republican Party, and much more. Get her book: https://amzn.to/3JW3aSq -- Republican FBI hearings, meant to m...

-- On the Show: -- Ron DeSantis threatens to shoot looters in the wake of Hurricane Idalia -- Donald Trump reportedly overstated his net worth by $2.2 billion according to the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James -- Post-debate polls show that Donald Trump skipping out on the first Republican primary debate had essentially no impact on his chances -- Caller asks why Donald Trump wante...

-- On the Show: -- The conclusion to David's interview with Dennis Prager, right wing radio host, writer, and co-founder of Prager U, who joins David to discuss whether Donald Trump won the 2020 election, his views on transgender rights, the woke culture wars, and much more -- Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has another "freeze" on live television, believed to be either some kind...

-- On the Show: -- Dennis Prager, right wing radio host, writer, and co-founder of Prager U, joins David to discuss whether Donald Trump won the 2020 election, his views on transgender rights, the woke culture wars, and much more -- 2024 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is called out for his lies during an interview with journalist Andrea Mitchell -- Deranged right-winger Stew Pet...

-- On the Show: -- Right wingers wrongly rally around the claim that President Joe Biden will limit them to two beers per week -- Fox News host Laura Ingraham realizes and admits that Cornel West's Green Party candidacy may serve to help Donald Trump -- Donald Trump is already down 6 points in a post-debate poll since the first Republican primary debate -- 2024 Republican presidential candidate Vi...

-- On the Show: -- White supremacist targeting black people kills 3 in Florida -- Bernie Sanders rallies for Joe Biden and attacks Cornel West -- Trump supporters confused prosecutor Fani Willis with a different black woman and chant that she be "locked up" -- Could Donald Trump already be disqualified from running in 2024? -- New Hampshire becomes the first state to move towards banning Donald Tr...

-- On the Show: -- Failed former President Donald Trump is arrested in Georgia, receives a mugshot, and delivers a lie-riddled speech before getting back on his plane home -- Donald Trump says jail was "terrible" in an insane post-arrest interview with Newsmax's Greg Kelly -- Donald Trump hilariously claims to weigh 215 pounds at his arrest in Atlanta, Georgia -- 2024 Green Party presidential cand...

-- On the Show: -- Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and author of the book "Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream," joins David to discuss the concept of bootstrapping, the American dream, and much more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3R9L7wv -- The first 2024 Republican presidential primary debate takes place, and quickly become a com...

-- On the Show: -- Teacher Katie RInderle is fired in Georgia for reading a book containing a non-binary character to her class -- 2024 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy told CNN's Kaitlan Collins that a quote about 9/11 was incorrect, but now the audio has been released confirming the quote is accurate -- One of Donald Trump's lawyers, John Eastman, has been arrested in Georgia --...

-- On the Show: -- Rachel Bitecofer, election forecaster and author of the forthcoming book "Hit 'Em Where It Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game," joins David to discuss the upcoming 2024 election, the primary elections, and much more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3QPMGiP -- Donald Trump voters say they trust Trump more than their own friend and family in a rece...