Trump’s mysterious “surprise,” Fox cuts away, impeachment looms

David Pakman (0:00)

Today, Donald Trump teases a mysterious midterm surprise with Project 2025 architect Russ Vought. And we are going to look at what do we know about what they might be planning? Trump then gives a completely bizarre speech, gets asked the most basic possible question about what do voters care about this election? And he goes, I don't know. Now, meanwhile, Fox News is cutting away from his speeches after only five minutes. And former Trump voters in Michigan deliver massive dumps of bad news to Republicans. Mike Johnson, the speaker of the House, says another Trump impeachment is a guarantee if Democrats take the House. And Gavin Newscombe, a nasty guy, goes even further. And he says Trump is mentally ill and he must be immediately removed. We've got a show today.

And if the Internet gods let us publish it, hopefully you're about to listen to it or watch it right now.

We start with the disastrous night for Republicans. A whole bunch of Republican candidates debated their Democratic opponents last night and Republicans had a nightmare evening. They should be terrified before the midterms. And we are going to look at a bunch of these. There was a debate on Fox 23 in Maine where Troy Jackson is the Democratic nominee, incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins is the Republican nominee. And it went terribly, terribly, terribly for her. Troy Jackson accusing Susan Collins accurately of being like the arsonist who brings a little cup of water after setting the fire and says, praise me for bringing a little bit of water to the fire that I started. This would this couldn't have gone worse for Susan Collins as well.

Susan Collins (2:06)

And he knows very well that I proposed paying for the rural health care fund by by increasing the cost on everyone who of Texas for people making over $250,000 a year.

Dan Cox (2:25)

And let's direct a response to Senator Jackson.

Troy Jackson (2:27)

Yeah, well, Senator Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out. I mean, she advanced the bill out of committee. You just heard her say if she if she had stopped it, she wouldn't be able to do the other things, meaning that she could have stopped it. That's exactly the point. I mean, all of her Republican colleagues called her a team player. She stood with Donald Trump whenever he wanted that. Ninety six percent of the time she votes with him. We weren't we're not going to have any rural health care left because of the three billion dollars in cuts that we're going to be having brutal.

David Pakman (2:59)

I mean, just brutal stuff. And we can we can talk about, you know, the degree to which debates matter. We can talk about the degree to which debates establish who has the better policy ideas. You know, these are all kind of open questions. But a really bad night for Susan Collins. Now, I know every time I play videos of Susan Collins, people write in and they go, David, does she have Parkinson's? What's going on medically with her? Is she even healthy enough to be senator? I have no idea. You know, we've sort of become acculturated in this environment, especially because of Donald Trump's opacity about his health. We've we've become acculturated to like we don't know what's going on health wise with these people. We don't know what's going on with Trump. We don't know what's going on with Mitch McConnell.

I have no idea what's going on with Susan Collins. I wish I had more information. I don't.

But so we'll we'll focus on the substance continuing where we left off. Troy Jackson very strongly making the case that even though Susan Collins may try to distance himself herself, I misgendered her, even though Susan Collins may try to distance herself from Donald Trump now because it's so terrible to be associated with him in Maine. But she does vote with what Trump wants almost all the time. And Jackson making the case, he doesn't know Trump anything.

Troy Jackson (4:13)

But what we do know about Navatek is that as late as 2024, the FBI was circling around Senator Collins. They had e-mails. They know about meetings. They got a check, obviously, a great big check for $150,000. I played a pay-to-play scheme involving her office and our taxpayer dollars. And then whenever President Trump came back, his administration dismantled the investigation.

Now, she votes with Donald Trump 96% of the time. Look, I don't owe Trump. I don't owe the billionaires nothing. In fact, I've spent my life fighting back against billionaires. But I do owe the people of Maine everything. I refuse corporate PAC money. I want to ban congressional stock trading. I fight for working mangers every day. I'm not taking money from corporations like Senator Collins does. You know, in this country, politicians are bought and paid for. The people that I know don't have enough money to buy them back. That's why I'm fighting for them.