PREVIEW: Epstein files panic as Trump’s worst fear hits

The David Pakman Show - November 18, 2025

Nov 18

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Transcript:

Today’s show is quite frankly unbelievable. We have a MAGA Civil War. Epstein survivors publicly rebuking Trump. The FBI accused of blacking out Trump’s name from the files, and the President of the United States calling a female reporter “piggy” on Air Force One.

We’re going to start with something I don’t know that we ever thought we would see: Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ro Khanna, and Thomas Massie standing together at a press conference with Epstein victims while Fox News refuses to air it and Trump melts down online.

We then will get to a bombshell: new reporting that the FBI is blacking Trump’s name out from the Epstein files, while Trump says, “Oh yeah, release the files.”

And as all of this breaks, Trump loses it. His voice is shredded. He says he “blew his stack,” whatever that means.

And as if that wasn’t enough, MAGAs are now sending death threats to Marjorie Taylor Greene, after she was labeled a “traitor” by Trump.

This episode is a snapshot of a presidency in free fall. It’s cracking from the inside. It’s lashing out on the outside. We are going to get into all of it.

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COMMENTS:

I'm old enough to remember and be fooled by NIXON'S SECRET PLAN TO END THE VIETNAM WAR. WE ARE NOT FOOLED. THERE IS NO REPUBLICAN HEALTH PLAN, which they have been working on since 2015. LOL

Yes only tricky dick realized he'd get crushed if he didn't resign! This idiot FELON is so delusional he'll never leave! Stupidity is his MO!

Yup, all the felon has done is divide the country and tear down the institutions we all depend upon, incite a coup and other crimes and get away with it all!!

And Rob every penny we have

Yes. His daddy dear taught him well. I'm reading "LUCKY LOSER" 450+ pages and I'm only a few pages into it and can already see the resemblance.

Thank you for paying attention.

Too many in our country just bury their heads in the sand.

How can people pretend this is not happening? I just don't get it.

Canadian here...and like you I don't get it either...the indifference, lack of action, just watching the descent into dictatorship happen in slo mo...weasel Stephen Miller will pull the trigger on the Insurrection Act giving Trump unlimited plenary powers before the end of the year unless you&your fellow Americans push back. Get cracking! Otherwise in fascist slug Trump's world Canada will be the Ukraine to America's Russia. Is that what you want?

I agree 100% with you but, sadly, Americans are majority stupid, dumb, imbecilic, cretinous, moronic twats. I'm in the UK and sadly can't help America, but Canada has stood by and supported Britain in our hours of need and I hope and pray that we would do the same for you if the need ever arises.

It could be 1812 all over again….but this time you don’t have to burn the White House - Trump is destroying it by himself, ha…

The UK returning a WWII favour to Canada to fend off a former Allie, it beggars belief.

An auto parts manufacturer is laying off 80+ employees due to uncertainty within the industry. World wide companies aren't asking for their components, getting them elsewhere. Working in this industry myself, we always knew we were one of many manufacturing businesses, around the world, making similar parts. Many companies reporting major losses in profits this quarter. That isn't fake news.

I have always wondered why the USA stands by and allows China to take over much of our manufacturing. In fact it encouraged it by letting China join the WTO and ignores copy and patent rights. In no way can we compete just on labor costs alone.

In a perfect world, economically every country would do what they does best . But it is not a perfect world. Allowing one country to destroy the productive capacity of another is a recipe for disaster. We are seeing the fallout of that now.

China now takes USA products, copies it and sells is in direct competition to the original product on Amazon. So much for quality control.

The automotive parts example is perfect. I needed an alternator for my car. All I can find is Chinese made/refurbed. No idea what the quality is. The price is not all that cheap as there is no meaningful competition.

Back in the 1970s my 90 yr old grandmother was very politically savvy and she read the newspaper cover to cover daily with her 8th grade education. She told me then that China would bury us but from within....amazing prophecy and amazing woman! She was right!

No one knows the future, but it appears the Chinese are on the leading edge of it. They have an inexaustible supply of money to buy whatever they want. They have unbelieveable productive capacity and cheap labor. What they cannot buy they just steal and make it cheaper and sell it back to us.

We keep hoping that human rights and the rule of law will save us, but now, not so sure.

I suggest you watch 'The 7-Stage Collapse Pattern: Spain, Britain, USSR... USA Is At Stage 5' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb39CeK_yWg

Thanks, real eye opener. Those who ignore history, doomed to repeat it.

No doubt USA is overcommitted in every area. No one wants to sacrifice, so in the end it will be forced upon us.

I was wondering how to pay the national debt. What great timing. We have the master of bankrupcies as President. It appears he aims to use this skill throwing money (we do not have) to Argentina at the expense of farmers and ranchers. They will demand another bailout like they got in his first presidential term.

What happens when the interest on the debt exceeds all income? Our bank account savings, investments in the stock market and all other assets could well be confiscated.

The only secret is that the FELON is DEMENTED and they're keeping him propped up because all will crash if he is out! We the people are MAD AS HELL AND WERE NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE! And the guardians of PEDOPHILES party know it!! So get ready you lying CRETANS!! Your reign of terror and stupidity is OVER!!

THANKS TO DAVID AND OTHER INDEPENDENT FRIENDS AND PODCASTERS!! WE'RE WITH YOU IN THIS HORRENDOUS HOUR!!

How many PEDOPHILES are in the trump Administration ??? and is this why they don't won't the EPSTEIN FILES released.

And look up while you are at it. Waters was second fiddle to Bill O'Reilly and stayed that way when O'Reilly left. Shows the poor quality that Fox maintains.

What would Fox do without Trump?

And thank YOU for being with us today. I look forward to the full programme that you outlined; yes, please DO keep it.

WONDERFUL NEWS that Canada has said tootle-loo (British expression meaning "bye bye") to your president.

KEEP SAFE and KEEP REAL!

(Aside re keeping real: There is a new article in the scientific journal _Nature_ reporting the detection of "fake scientists" having published actual articles in actual journals and having served as "peer reviewers" of real manuscripts submitted for real publication. The scientific community had better be scared silly by this hurry-up-quick and the general population should be terrified by this. I fear that my former colleagues may have waited too long to deal with this [delusionally thinking that AI is such a handy little innocent tool to make their lives easier and faster so that they don't even have to think anymore]. SIGH!)

They are also overturning Biden’s pardons and executive orders siting he was to mentally impaired and by using the autopen wasnt well enough informed.

While this diabolically hypocritical it does leave the door open for reversing everything Trump has signed and those pardoned due to severe cognitive impairment.

On another note what if working people from all levels and position call in sick on Nov. 1 in solidarity to their country and all if its vulnerable citizens. The GOP are playing chicken with hunger and homelessness. Call them on their bluff. They cant fire everyone, they cant arrest everyone, they cant survive without the citizens labor AI or not.

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