# Fri Episode #2270:  — Trump’s AI Agenda Accused of Building Digital Control Grid

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Podcast: [The David Knight Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show-1060966)
Published: 2026-05-22T18:01:25+00:00
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──────────────────────────────────────── [00:02:58] Trump Launched 622 Merchandise Products in His Second Term — Plus a $100 Million IRS Penalty That Vanished Knight: 622 products, $8.8 million in merch — chicken feed next to the $1.776 billion slush fund. The IRS found Trump claimed the same losses twice. That penalty has vanished. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:08:53] Judge Napolitano: The IRS Settlement Is an Absurdity — No Person Can Be Both Plaintiff and Defendant Napolitano: Trump cannot be on both sides of a lawsuit. Congress never authorized the spending — the Obama fund cited as precedent was expressly authorized by Congress. This one was not. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:12:47] John Stewart: Everything Trump Does Is an F-You Troll — and the MAGA People Are Too Stupid to See It Knight: moral outrage. Trump said out loud: I'm basically paying myself. Trolling farmers with tariffs, Christians with YMCA, and J-6 people with a fund that will never reach them. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:15:56] Fruits and Vegetables Up 40%, Coffee Up 19% — Tucker Carlson: Trump Has Diminished American Power in Unimaginable Ways Tomatoes are 40% more expensive than last year, coffee 19% more. Diesel powers every tractor and truck in the supply chain. Knight: I can see exactly where this is going. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:24:57] Dispensationalism Has Been Weaponized by Israel — Giving Christ Two Wives and Preferring the Unfaithful One Knight: dispensationalism gives Christ two wives — the church that loves him, and 1948 Israel that denies him — granting the unfaithful one the ring and unconditional devotion. Ideology dressed as theology. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:35:02] Monty Fritts: Marsha Blackbur…

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