{"podcast":{"title":"The David Knight Show","slug":"the-david-knight-show-1060966","podcast_index_feed_id":1060966,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/2653468/episodes/feed","website_url":"http://thedavidknightshow.com","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/870cf2904cf34b2ea31d2b094bf63e30.jpg","author":"David Knight","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Join the journey with David Knight, a true veteran in the realm of news and analysis, and become part of a community that values historical context, critical think, and spiritual insight in navigating the challenges of our era. LIVE every weekday morning at 9am Eastern where you'll find an honest, fresh perspective, not partisan cheerleading. WIth a background as an electrical engineer, David is focused on the interplay of technology & liberty from a Christian perspective. David has had decades of experience in the trenches of politics as an activist, organizer, candidate, reporter, analyst, and news anchor Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support .","last_synced_at":"2026-07-31T08:17:49.505243+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show-1060966"},"episode":{"title":"Tue Episode #2281:  — Trump Admits the Economy Was Sacrificed for the Iran War","slug":"tue-episode-2281-trump-admits-the-economy-was-sacrificed-for-the-iran-war","published_at":"2026-06-09T18:03:25+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show-1060966/tue-episode-2281-trump-admits-the-economy-was-sacrificed-for-the-iran-war","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show-1060966","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/tue-episode-2281-trump-admits-the-economy-was-sacrificed-for-the-iran-war--72441614","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72441614/dks_fs_06_09_2026.mp3","summary":"──────────────────────────────────────── [00:04:00] Trump Told NBC He 'Had to Take a Turn' and Choose War Over His Good Economy — He Admits the Inflation Was His Decision Knight: he said the quiet part out loud — I could have kept the good economy but I decided to destroy it for the Iran war. It is purely a PR calculation. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:18:00] 55% of Trump's Own 2024 Voters Want the Iran War to End — He Told the Farmer Who Can't Afford Fertilizer That They Still Love Him Knight: 70% of farmers can't afford fertilizer; Trump's response was loyalty — they still love me. Cognitive dissonance cultivated by the MAGA media for years. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:30:00] Trump Said 'No New Wars' Over and Over — Tucker Carlson: He Also Shut Down His Own Butler Assassination Investigation Carlson: Trump installed loyalists in every key position yet shut down the investigation into his own attempted murder — no non-sinister explanation exists. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:42:00] LA Election: Mail-In Ballots Moved the Socialist From Third to Second, Ousting the Strong Second-Place Candidate Knight: a candidate leading strongly on election night was moved out of the runoff as mail-in ballots were counted — the same corrupt vote-by-mail system Trump created in 2020. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:55:00] SpaceX IPO Prices at Nearly $2 Trillion — It Would Need $1.1 Trillion in Revenue to Justify That, 60x What It Made Last Year SpaceX lost $4.9 billion in 2025 on $18.7 billion in revenue; Amazon's record is $742 billion. Knight: it is the doge of the stock market. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:08:00] Iran War Costs $750 Per Household So Far — Airlines Are Paying $100 Billion More for Jet Fuel T…","meta_description":"──────────────────────────────────────── [00:04:00] Trump Told NBC He 'Had to Take a Turn' and Choose War Over His Good Economy — He Admits the Inflation…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7345,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-david-knight-show-1060966/episodes/tue-episode-2281-trump-admits-the-economy-was-sacrificed-for-the-iran-war/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show-1060966/tue-episode-2281-trump-admits-the-economy-was-sacrificed-for-the-iran-war.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}