Trump's Explosive Diarrhea of the Mouth

**Jon Favreau** (0:20)
Welcome to Pod Save America, I'm Jon Favreau.

**Dan Pfeiffer** (0:22)
I'm Dan Pfeiffer.

**Jon Favreau** (0:23)
On today's show, Donald Trump unloads recycled election conspiracies in an impossible to follow primetime address. His teleprompter operator was apparently making money betting on his speeches. His media company is selling Wall Street access to his truths, and his vice president is demanding taxpayer funded helicopter rides for his kids' golf lesson.
We'll dig into those stories, plus JD Vance's attempt to win back Joe Rogan and Pete Hegseth's obsession with testosterone. Then Alex Wagner talks to Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed about the intense primary in that state that's heading into the final homestretch. Let's get to Trump's big primetime address, which he built as really big news. Really big news, it doesn't get bigger. It's so big that we are recording this at 7 p.m. on Thursday night because we wanted to bring you our analysis of this speech, which is why we're here late, because it was so big.

**Dan Pfeiffer** (1:22)
Just like a table of nine people at CNN.

**Jon Favreau** (1:26)
Dozens of 2020 election deniers got called to the White House for a top secret preview. Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno said it would be the most important presidential address since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
And at 9 p.m. Eastern on Thursday night, this is what we got. Though this might be news to you unless you're a Fox or CBS viewer, since those are the only networks that carried it live. CBS really only did like half the speech. And then they sort of like gave context around it. But anyway, here's what you missed.

**Donald Trump** (1:59)
Tonight, I'm announcing the immediate declassification and release of critical intelligence, revealing shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure.
This evidence shows that the election system we have dangerously exposes and really exposes like levels never thought possible to hacking, exploitation and foreign interference. Just as disturbingly this vital information has for many years been covered up and hidden from you. They wanted to just make you sound like your president wasn't so hot when actually your president has done a great job. Recently, we found significant numbers of burn bags, members of the deep state, very, very famous group of people, in many cases. They did not want and they just didn't want it. They fought like hell not to have it, Donald Trump to win. In a rare move, NBC and ABC Fake News have both said that they would not cover this speech. They knew what it was about. They and others in the media are part of a plot. They want to continue this fraud for whatever reason. They want to keep it going. Addressing this crisis of election security demands that Congress must pass the Save America Act.
Wow.

**Jon Favreau** (3:24)
So, that was something. You know, in our meeting before the speech earlier this week, you said it would probably just be a bunch of rambling, nothing that no one would pay attention to and think about more than 24, 48 hours afterwards. And I kind of think you nailed it, Dan.

**Dan Pfeiffer** (3:43)
Well, I had to get one right eventually.

**Jon Favreau** (3:48)
Let's get to Trump's actual claims, which honestly, I mean, we played that supercut, but it was hard to follow. And we have followed this stuff for like 10 years. And also, like before the speech, while we were waiting around in the office to record tonight, I was like going back and reading things about the 2020 election and what has been debunked just so I could prepare for this. And still, it was hard to follow.

**Dan Pfeiffer** (4:13)
That stuff wasn't even really helpful. You didn't even have being an expert in the conspiracy theories up to this point. Was that helpful? Because these were new-ish conspiracy theories, I guess.

**Jon Favreau** (4:25)
Let's go through his actual claims. Starting in 2020, China allegedly acquired 220 million US voter files. And the deep state hid this from Trump.
Now, all the documents that the White House released also confirm what the intelligence agencies and the government found back in 2020 when Trump was president, that not a single vote was changed. And also the voter files, voter information, voter registration information is public in most states. You can just get the information. So the idea that our names and addresses are somewhere sitting in China, they're also sitting out there on the Internet.

**Dan Pfeiffer** (5:13)
Anyone can get it. Every campaign has it. It didn't require any hacking or nefarious moves to get it. What do they want to do with it? Were their intentions good? Probably not.