How Far Will Republicans Go?

The David Pakman Show - February 8, 2021

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Reporters WILL NOT STOP Humiliating Themselves with Jen Psaki

Right-wing reporters continue to try to make White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki feel the heat during her press conferences, but their attempts so often fall flat or even backfire in spectacular fashion. Last week during a briefing, Psaki was asked about Antifa and why they aren’t being labeled a domestic terrorist organization when more far-right groups are getting that distinction. Psaki pointed out that there is a review being done by the national security team to assess threats in the country and that all violent groups will be targeted regardless of political affiliation. Even after election season, conservatives are hung up on trying to tie up Joe Biden and Democrats with Antifa.

Another reporter, Zeke Miller, asked why Joe Biden was traveling to Delaware for the weekend despite coronavirus travel precautions. Biden, like any president, has Air Force One and there is every indication that he can make the short flight from Washington DC to Delaware without much risk. It’s an especially silly question coming off of Trump, who would fly to multiple states per day to hold campaign rallies during the pandemic. Another White House correspondent asked if Biden will “cajole teachers who are unwilling to go back to schools to go back.” This makes it sound like teachers are the enemy or being lazy, rather than just having concerns around exposing themselves to a deadly virus ravaging the entire country.

Biden BANNING Trump from Getting Intelligence Briefings

President Biden told CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell on Friday that former President Trump should not continue to receive intelligence briefings. Former presidents typically receive routine intel updates and have access to classified information even when they leave office. It is up to the sitting president to decide whether or not the previous commanders in chief should also get them. Currently, regular briefings are being offered to Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. But Biden doesn’t want to keep Trump in the loop, citing his “erratic behavior.”

Joe Biden is correct for doing this. Trump is exactly the type of person who would have no moral qualms about leveraging sensitive information for his own personal benefit. Trump could try to monetize the information he has or simply spill the beans on a whim. During his presidency, Trump would frequently share classified information with people, including foreign adversaries like diplomats from Russia. It was unclear at the time whether Trump knew what he was doing, didn’t care, or just wanted to brag. At the time, Trump could hide behind being president and technically having the power to declassify whatever he wanted. Now as a private citizen, that excuse would not hold up. Biden knows that Trump cannot be trusted and that’s why the 45th president is going to be tuned out from national security matters going forward.

From over the weekend:

McDonald's CEO Admits They'd Do "Fine" with Higher Wages

Last week, we covered the story of freshman Congresswoman Lauren Boebert saying that if the minimum wage was $15 an hour, businesses would have to close down. Boebert brought up her own experience working a low-wage job at McDonald’s. Now, the McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski is saying that minimum wage increases would actually be just fine for the company. A recent study found that a 10% minimum wage hike would lead to only a 1.4% increase in the price of a Big Mac. This is in part because labor is only one piece of the equation for running a business and successful chains like McDonald’s will have no problem adjusting. So Boebert could not have been more wrong and the talking point that raising the minimum wage causes unemployment needs to die out because it’s not supported by the facts.

--More on the show:

--President Joe Biden's approval rating is higher in Texas than that of Texas' own Republican Governor Greg Abbott

--Donald Trump's Republican Party has become nothing more than performative outrage over misunderstandings or imaginary controversies

--Fox Business Network abruptly cancels Lou Dobbs' show, hilariously the network's highest rated show

--Fox News has a historically disastrous weekend, talking about cancel culture without mentioning the cancellation on their own network and continuing to fail in so many ways

--A majority of Americans now believe former President Donald Trump should be convicted in the upcoming second impeachment trial and barred from holding future office

--64% of Republicans say they would quit the Republican Party and follow Trump to a new third party if he were to start one

--Newsmax invites radical Christian Rachel Hamm to claim that Donald Trump is the best thing for Christianity since Jesus himself

--Voicemail caller does an interpretive reading of a recent David Pakman Show YouTube channel comment left by a very confused viewer

--On the Bonus Show: How Democrats flipped Georgia's Senate seats, 3-D printed house for sale in New York, 95-year-old German woman charged for Holocaust actions, much more...

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