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Unknown A
If you listen to right wing radio over the last seven to 10 days, you will hear way more than the typical number of Trump supporters and MAGA people saying I voted for the guy. But I'm just not sure about some of this stuff. Let's go through some of these examples. Let's start a Media Matters did a great job compiling these. Here's a caller to the Hannity show who says, you know, you're not really standing up for the rank and file people that are being hurt by this Doge Purgeake.
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Unknown B
Listen to this spe Leo Marilyland next. SEAN Hannity show hi, Speaker.
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Unknown C
Yeah, hi, Sean. I know in the past you've always stood up for the men and women in the rank and file FBI agents and it's because the time they may need your voice again, especially the couple thousand have been seemingly targeted because they worked on the January 6th case. And I know one of the main goals in FBI of the new administration is to depoliticize it and this appears to be a miss misstep in the wrong direction.
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Unknown B
Well, we need to look at every individual case. That's what I would say. I know Cash Patel. I've known him for a long time. He's been on the show many times.
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Unknown A
SPE so Hannity goes into apalologia for Cash Patel, but the caller is right. This is more politicized, not less. Here is the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show taking a call from Linda. Speaker 1 K cup, whole bean, ground bean. It is delicious.
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Unknown B
Let's take a call from Linda who had Linda, I'm told by our team you have three adopted Ukrainian kids. You want to weigh on the Ukraine situation?
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Unknown C
Go ahead, boy.
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Unknown D
Yes, thank you. I'd like to preface this by saying I support President Trump. I'm very happy he's president. I love what he's doing with Doge. However, I'm not happy with his recent comments on Ukraine. I spent quite a bit of time in Ukraine. They love freedom there. They want their independence. But this comment about Zencey being a dictator is just not correct. The constitution in Ukraine actually does not allow for elections during wartime. His popularity in Ukraine is actually above 50%.
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Unknown A
So let me ask, let me ask you this, Linda. I appreciate you calling in. How should it end? All right. So you know, the defense from Clay and Buck is to kind of change the subject, but Linda is absolutely correct. Trump's wrong to call Zelenskyy a dictator. Here's a federal employee who called into Hannity's program.
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Unknown E
Speaker, the reason I'm calling is so I'm a current federal employee. I became a federal employee shortly after I got back to duty from the army. My wife's a federal employee. The federal government when it comes to civilian employees is less than 1% of the entire US population. Right. So like 2.4 million based off current opium information. And we I had no idea what's going on and it's frustrating all of us because like, how do you make life decisions? Try to figure out what to do. How do you know to send your kids to college if you can afford to buy a house when there's no information coming from the administration, which I.
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Unknown A
Support strongly M it's a disaster, but I support it.
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Unknown E
Strong support of this administration and what their efforts are, but they're not communicating us to any way of what their overall goal and plan is other than, you know, you see some politicians like, oh, we're gon Toa cut 60 to 70% of the federal government. Well, okay, that's everybody.
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Unknown B
Well, I haven't heard that number 60 or 70%. Can I, can you be more specific? What, what do you do for the federal government?
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Unknown E
So I don't want to be too specific because some people I work with listen and I don't want to have so I work for.
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Unknown A
So anyway, Hannity eventually tells the guy make yourself really essential so that you'll like get a different job if you lose this one. Not exactly great advice. And the caller is making a good point. How do you make plans for your family about buying a house, school, anything if you don't know if you're going to have a job? If your job might depend on whether you do or don't answer an email from Elon and how you answer that email. U here's another caller who says what Trump's proposing with Gaza is nuts.
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Unknown B
What's going on? How you doing?
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Unknown C
So I cannot agree with you on the God the situation. I canot at least as far as making those people leave their land and not being able to return. That is totally wrong.
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Unknown B
First of all, right now you have you seen pictures at a Gaza? I've been to Israel many times and the place is pretty much decimated. It's rubble and it's a safe haven. Hamas terrorists that were voted in by the Palestinian people. No, the plan is to go in.
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Unknown A
Demilitarize it up spe so Hannity defends Trump's idea of get all the Palestinians out of there, never, never let them come back. But the caller doesn't agree with that. It's endless Here's a call to Kil Meads program about how Elon Rather Trump is trying to bribe people with doge dividends.
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Unknown C
Crispin, you're in Arizona. Hey, Crispin. Hey. It's nice to talk to you.
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Unknown E
What's on your mind?
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Unknown C
Yeah, what's on my mind is say if you just take 100,000 people and I know 65,000 voluntarily withdrawal from the job. If we take 100,000 people at 50,000, that's about $5 billion a drop in the bucket. The last tax break that Trump gave was 1.9 trillion and 65% went to people making over 130,000 a year. That amount is like 1.2 to 1.3 trillion. You're going to get after the excess spending you have to go after a military waste and the rich make the rich pay. Instead he's turn off a $5,000 speake.
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Unknown A
I would say that the top 10%, Kil Meade talks over it, but the guy says they're trying to offer people $5,000 bribes. And then finally Mark Levin takes a caller, uh, who's concerned about his wife's, his fiance's immigration status.
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Unknown C
Yes, sir.
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Unknown F
So I just want to talk about. I've actually been to Ukraine during the war. My fiance is Ukrainian. I filed the paperwork for her to come over here because we actually were just a friends at the time. But we became more with time. And she's been here because her city gets bombed usually every day. And it just, it's very concerning to me. I've been a Republican ever since I could vote and same with my family.
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Unknown A
And so you can hear how Mark Levin is really concerned, isn't he?
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Unknown F
Family's here, I'm here.
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Unknown A
Guess you're gonna say what is this animus against Ukraine and this either open or backoor support for a mass murder like Putin. That's your question, right?
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Unknown E
Yes.
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Unknown F
And also my other question is, you know, her parents are here and she is here and her daughter and we've been planning on getting married now for a few months. And it seems like I've read on the news now that if you were paroled in the United States, you can't File any formsaker SPER2 so this gets.
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Unknown A
Into a very specific immigration situation. And I don't know whether this guy's fiance should or shouldn't be allowed to stay. I have no idea. But the point here is dozens of calls going into right wing media. I support the administration, but I don't like what do is doing. I don't like what they're doing with the federal government. I don't like what they're doing with these potential bribes. I don't like what they're doing with immigration and deportation. I don't like what they're doing with Gaza. This is not normal that this number of right wing shows are fielding antagonistic and not personally antagonistic, but antagonistic to the agenda phone calls from their base. Combine this with the polling data that we talked about yesterday that Trump is facing. This is the if, if Democrats figure out how to get it together, it could be one of the worst midterm elections for the Republican Party in decades in November of 2026.
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It's a two letter word. That's the key. I if, if and that's what I'm going to be focused on, including next week when we talk to elected Democrats. Let's take a quick break. Make sure that you are subscribed to the podcast to get the full show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. And please help us reach that 3 million YouTube subscriber goal. We're almost there, we're almost there and then you'll never hear me talk about 3 million again. YouTube.com the David Pakman show we'll take a quick break. Glad you're with us on this Friday. Well, I wrote a book. After a long journey and a ton of work, I am really thrilled with how it turned out and I hope you'll read it. The book is called the Echo Machine and in a nutshell, it looks at how American politics got so broken, who has already figured out solutions and how we can try to fix it and stop the terror of Trump for the next four years.
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