GOP Self-Humiliates Over SCOTUS Nominee, Prosecutors Come Clean on Trump
The David Pakman Show - March 24, 2022
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BREAKING: Trump "Guilty of Numerous Felonies"..."Beyond Reasonable Doubt"
One of the prosecutors in New York who resigned from his position after investigating Donald Trump in a criminal probe now says that he did so because he believed Trump to be guilty of numerous felonies and the office refused to indict him. Former Manhattan prosecutor Mark Pomerantz wrote to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and said that Trump’s “financial statements were false, and he has a long history of fabricating information relating to his personal finances and lying about his assets to banks, the national media, counterparties, and many others, including the American people.” Also in his resignation letter, Pomerantz said Trump was “guilty of numerous felony violations.” When news of these resignations broke, many on the right suspected it was because there simply wasn’t enough evidence to indict Trump and this proved it was all a “witch hunt.” As it turns out, federal, state, and local prosecutors appear to be apprehensive about being the first to indict a former president even when there’s a tremendous amount of evidence against them.
Ted Cruz to SCOTUS Nominee: Can I Be Asian for an Hour?
The questioning of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is now over and it’s expected that she will become a Supreme Court Justice in the coming days. However, Republican senators have done their best throughout the confirmation process to make Jackson seem like a radical and to score political points in their right-wing circles. One such example is Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who used the limited time he had with Jackson to ask whether babies can be racist because some book supposedly argued as such. Ted asked another question about social issues which came across as just as stupid. He said, “I’m an Hispanic man. Could I decide I was an Asian man? Would I have the ability to be an Asian man and challenge Harvard’s discrimination because I made that decision?” It’s the job for a court to decide cases narrowly based on the complaint by plaintiffs and the facts of a situation. It’s not Jackson’s job to engage in these hypotheticals and come up with on-the-spot answers to bad-faith comparisons from people like Ted Cruz.
From yesterday’s show:
Trump Asked Kid Rock for Foreign Policy Advice
Musician Kid Rock appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show this week where he revealed some highly concerning details about his interactions with Donald Trump while Trump was president. Kid Rock explained during the interview that he met Trump at the White House shortly after the inauguration and that he was accompanied by none other than Ted Nugent and Sarah Palin. He went on to encounter a time when Trump was drafting a tweet about threatening people who want to join the ISIS caliphate. Kid Rock also explained that he and Trump would be looking at maps and he wondered whether he was supposed to have access to the information. Carlson laughed hysterically about this even though if the same thing happened in a Democratic White House, Tucker would have criticized the president to no end. Even Kid Rock seemed to find the situation absurd, given that he was being asked about policy and military strategy during his visits. Sadly, there were probably even more incompetent people than Kid Rock that Trump would have these types of conversations with while in office.
From yesterday’s show:
By Any Measure, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is Qualified
This week, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is going through her Senate confirmation hearing to become a justice on the Supreme Court. Despite what some right-wingers try to argue, Judge Jackson is by any measure immensely qualified to serve on the highest court in the country. When it comes to her education, Jackson went to a public high school and attended an Ivy League law school. In her career, she worked as a clerk for a Supreme Court Justice and served on a sentencing commission. She also was a district judge and served on a court of appeals. Jackson is unique among all current SCOTUS justices in that she served as a public defender, which will provide the court with a much needed perspective of the law. It’s clear that Joe Biden made the right pick in choosing Ketanji Brown Jackson and Republicans are grasping at straws trying to stop her.
More on the show:
--Daniel Pink, author of multiple New York Times bestsellers including most recently "The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward," joins David to discuss regret and more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3uqJCN7
--Former Donald Trump adviser Larry Kudlow says that Joe Biden doesn't criticize Russian President Vladimir Putin, which is a complete and total lie
--Former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon is still saying that states can and may soon "decertify" their 2020 election results, despite this not being a real mechanism available to states
--A combination of recent studies confirm that, on average, Donald Trump's supporters are not very smart, and we discuss the implications
--Lead singer of the band "Staind," Aaron Lewis, devolves into an unhinged conspiratorial rant during a recent performance
--Voicemail caller crushes David, then realizes the message was meant for someone else and called back to apologize
--On the Bonus Show: Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright dead at 84, SCOTUS declines to provide update on Clarence Thomas' hospitalization, Trump cancels endorsement of Republican Mo Brooks, much more...
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