This is the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review Podcast for Friday, May 1st, 2026.This week, the Supreme Court hands Republicans a huge win, while Senator Lindsey Graham trips over himself. Plus, we focus on the shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
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SPEAKER 03 :
Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. It’s Friday, May 1st, 2026. Man, the year’s going fast. This week, the Supreme Court with a bombshell victory for Republicans. Senator Lindsey Graham trips over himself. But first, let’s go to Washington, D.C. and focus on the awful shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Hectic weekend, a lot of people fearing for their lives Saturday night at the Washington Hilton. Assassination attempt number three. And I wonder if we’re ever going to get to a tipping point. I wonder if we’re going to get to a place where there will be a sea change in all of the foul, vicious, violent rhetoric that we have been experiencing recently. during the Trump presidency. I’ve got a bunch of questions about what happened Saturday night. I mean, number one, it’s astounding to me, amazing, probably a great testament to the law enforcement community at the Washington Hilton that the guy wasn’t killed. You saw the video. He burst through the barricades, armed to the teeth, guns blazing. How did they not empty their chambers into this guy? I just saw pictures of him shirtless on the floor on the carpet of the Washington Hilton. I also want to talk a little bit about Barack Obama. I’ve been thinking a lot about him for some reason over the last 48 hours. Do you realize that there was not one legitimate, credible assassination attempt on his life during the entire eight years of his presidency. Now, that’s not something to brag about. That’s not something any of us should be proud of. But it is a reality that ought to hit these leftist lunatics squarely in the face. You know, to the left, this is a racist, bigoted… nasty, miserable country. To the left, this country is teeming with white supremacists who just want to hurt and kill people of color. And yet, Obama didn’t have a single person shooting at him. Charging at him with guns and knives. Laying in wait with a long gun in the woods of a golf course. Didn’t happen one time. Nobody tried to hurt or harm a hair on that man’s head. Boy, for such a vicious, racist nation, we’re not doing a very good job of it, are we? And you know I mean that. with full sarcasm. Again, nothing to be proud of. Thank God nobody ever harmed him. But are we going to ever take stock and realize what it means that Trump-hating leftists have tried on three different occasions to kill this man? Maybe this is the moment when people start realizing they’ve gone too far. The reaction of Democrats to yet another assassination attempt is, well, I guess we should not be surprised. So I see this story out of Sarasota, Florida. This is amazing to me. The official Sarasota County Democratic Party, on their social media page, posted this after the assassination attempt Saturday night. Um… The Sarasota County Democratic Party is feeling disappointed. And then in big, bold letters, well, that sucks. Now, how do you, somebody reposted, Libs of TikTok posted it and said, absolutely abhorrent. This is not fringe. This is the mainstream Democrat Party view. How are we supposed to share a country with these people? It’s a reasonable question, and I have some questions about this post. And as I always turn to my friend and colleague, Roger P. Shulman, who is a veteran newsman in the state of Florida for many, many years. He knows where all the bodies are buried. Let’s check out Roger in the newsroom on this Monday. Roger, have you been able to find anything out about this post from the Sarasota County Democratic Party appearing to express disappointment that the assassin missed Saturday night?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, no, not yet. I’ve been trying to get a hold of them. The official office doesn’t open till 11, but I checked with some news sources down there and nothing has come out of the state or Sarasota area Democratic Party. I would expect that Nikki Freed, she’s our former agriculture commissioner. She was the only Democrat on the state cabinet. She Would have, I expected, come out immediately with something, but she has said nothing. In fact, it’s just radio silence from the Democrats. The Republicans, of course, are up in arms about it because it’s a horrible thing to say that they want the president dead. And all this rhetoric seems to be inspiring people to do these strange things. Sidney Grutter is a Republican congressional candidate in southwest Florida condemning what she says is a disgraceful social media post by the Sarasota Democratic Party. And we were talking about a guy up in Wisconsin. He’s a beer manufacturer. He was going to give away free beers if they had succeeded in this. The Democratic Party in Wisconsin up in Madison immediately expressed tremendous disgust at this and separated themselves from him. But so far in Sarasota County, Florida, no one has said a thing against this post that is favoring the assassination of the president.
SPEAKER 03 :
It’s insane. And these are adults that sit around. I always wonder, Roger, about people who are willing to stick their neck out like this. Do they ever look in the mirror and say, this may not be a good idea? Maybe this isn’t the smartest thing for me to do right now.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, it’s not. And these people are saying that this was a staged event. Of course, it’s not a staged event. It’s ridiculous. And, you know, Lyndon Johnson was a very unpopular president back in the 60s. No one tried to kill him at all. There were no verified assassination attempts at him whatsoever. And our nation was much more divided than it is today at that point. It’s just amazing that this should be accepted as a normal thing. People saying they wish the assassins’ aim had been better in the Butler incident and things of that nature. This is not funny stuff. This is going to the core of our democracy. We elected President Trump and… This is just terrible stuff. It’s also illegal to do these things, too. Secret Service doesn’t like it too much.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, you went back to Lyndon B. Johnson, but I don’t think we have to go any farther than President Obama. And I mentioned this earlier, and I think it’s very important to remind everyone. And this isn’t something to be proud about, Roger. I’m not bragging on this, but for eight years, nobody tried to harm a hair on Barack Obama’s head. Now, to the left, we are living in this racist, Climate. We’re all a bunch of white supremacists who just want to do harm to people of color. How can we be such a racist nation? Eight years, no credible assassination threats on the life of President Obama. This guy comes along. They’re shooting at him a minimum of three times. This is the third assassination attempt. You know, Roger, you want to talk about sides. And I agree with Bruce Springsteen about the need to kind of lower all the temperature down a little bit. But the two sides are just simply not the same. You can’t even make that case.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, it’s a rabid catfight between everybody right now. There’s no civility whatsoever.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, we appreciate your clarity and appreciate your reporting from Florida here. Roger P. Shulman in the newsroom six minutes before the hour. I mean, this is what passes for civility today. This is Democrat Party rhetoric. You don’t get much bigger in the Democrat world of punditry and politics than James Carville, who was the architect of Bill Clinton’s successful campaign. I want to be clear on this.
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I do not want that man to die. I want to watch him suffer. And I can’t watch a dead person suffer. So I want him to be fully cognizant come November when people tell him.
SPEAKER 03 :
What’s he going to say? I don’t remember anybody trying to kill his boss, Bill Clinton. I don’t remember anybody trying to kill Barack Obama, Kamala Harris. Thank God. Again, nothing to be proud of. But three assassination attempts? What’s Carville going to say now? You’re going to go back out and call him a vermin and you want him to suffer and you want him to squirm? This is out of control. And if it doesn’t come down, this man is going to get killed. And God help us then if this country has to experience something like that. ABC’s late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel joined the chorus when he made a joke at the expense of the president and the first lady. Do you think he apologized? Don’t hold your breath. You know by now what happened. The whole world seemed to be condemning Jimmy Kimmel, the unfunny ABC late-night talk show host who did a skit two days before the presidential assassination attempt at the Washington Hilton where he mocked Melania Trump as having a glow of an expectant widow. And a lot of people, that thing went viral and people were furious. And, you know, once again, this coming, you know, less than a year after he blamed MAGA for Charlie Kirk’s assassination, and he almost lost his job then, apparently, once again, he’s in the hot seat. And so, as I was getting ready to go to bed last night, and I was doing my show prep and going through all the stuff I do, and I was, you know, engaging up a storm over on X, which I love. I’m really getting in… I’m finding so much… There’s so much information I’m getting from X. And if you haven’t been into that world yet, I’m telling you, even breaking news, when something is happening and you go to X, there tends to be a real good instantaneous access to that news story. So hope you follow me there at Gallagher Show on X. I’ll do my best to follow you back. I try to follow just about everybody back. Um, and I, you know, did my ex stuff and I was online and I’m looking at stories. It’s about 11 o’clock. I’ll go to bed about 11. I get up. It’s about five 45, six in the morning. I like to get at least seven hours sleep. I thought, you know what? I’ll stay up a little late. I’ll see Kimmel’s monologue. I’ve never watched the Jimmy Kimmel show. He’s got some. heavy-set Hispanic guy, what do you call him, Guillermo, off to the side. And he just stood there cackling like an idiot. The whole show looked a little bit ridiculous. But anyway, out he comes and just doubled down. He didn’t even come close to feeling, expressing any kind of remorse. And so, you know, friends of mine told me, Don’t worry, he’s not going to apologize. Mike, it’s not going to happen. Because he doesn’t possess that kind of decency. But more importantly, I don’t even think that it’s a lack of decency. They hate us, and they want us dead. I don’t know how else to say it. They hate us so much that they’re okay when they try to kill us. That’s Jimmy Kimmel. And so I feel so stupid. You know, all he had to do, and I don’t even want to play the clip. You want me to play the clip? I don’t know. James Clearwater’s probably right. Why give this guy any emotional capital? Why give him any airtime? Suffice to say, in fact, I don’t think I’ll play the clip. Just take my word for it. He doubled down. Instead of doing the right thing, you know what he could have done? All he had to do was say, you know what? I had no idea someone would try to kill the president Saturday night, two days after my tasteless joke. I was trying to make a joke about Trump’s age. That’s all it was about. But I’m really sorry for the hurt and the anger that my joke caused. That was it. Move on. Do the rest of your stuff. Rip on the Trump administration. Make fun of conservatives. But just say that much. That’s all you had to do. That’s all he had to do. And he couldn’t even muster up that. He doubled down. He mocked Melania for how upset she is. He mocked the people being evacuated from the ballroom. He taunted the millions of Americans who are positively disgusted with him. And that’s because he hates all of us. It’s that simple. There are many questions about the gaps in security at the correspondence dinner. We turn to our broadcasting colleague and security expert, Pat Brosnan. You wrote a real interesting piece that caught my eye over the weekend. You said in Butler, Pennsylvania, the would-be assassin exploited catastrophic failures in communication, coordination, command, and control. Even reading about Saturday night where the guy apparently in his manifesto mocked law enforcement for not securing the stairwells that he went down in order to burst through the ballroom. Is this willful? Is it unintentional? I mean, I’ve got so many questions. Can you break this down for us and tell us what went wrong?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, a lot. A lot went wrong. It starts with two operative verbs. Choke and funnel. That’s the premise of a successful security plan entering into a highly sensitive facility. I happen to have been at the Hilton numerous times. I’ve had a bunch of dinners there in Washington. And the main entrance is off of Connecticut Avenue, Mike. And that is precisely where the magnetometer is set up. The officers with the wands need to be set up, the bag check set up at that location, as well as a verification of identification. and cross-linked, cross-referenced with the tickets. That happens outside the hotel. Then when you cross the 200 and maybe 250 feet to where the entry door to the international ballroom is, a subterranean ballroom, you get screened again. That’s the way it works. There’s a secondary magnetometer location that they go through. They walk through one more time with armed personnel there. And the reason for that is because there are Thousands of guests. They have, I think, 1,100 rooms. Thousands of guests and thousands of attendees. So the principal failure began at the very entrance into the hotel.
SPEAKER 03 :
Wow. Now, you talk about the thousands of attendees. I suppose that’s one of the biggest mysteries of Saturday night is how all those law enforcement personnel didn’t empty their chambers into this guy’s body. I don’t get it. I mean, the guy’s charging… And to quote President Trump, like an NFL wide receiver, right? Breaking through the magnetometers. He’s loaded, armed for bear. He’s firing his guns. Pat, how did they not kill this guy on the spot?
SPEAKER 06 :
So, Mike, as you know, I’m a reasonable man driven by reasonableness, but I couldn’t concur more. The fact is, it’s probably the eighth wonder of the world that he’s still breathing. He shot a uniformed Secret Service officer in the chest. with his weapon, one of several weapons he had, and that he’s still alive and breathing today remains a tremendously confounding fact.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, it’s a mystery. But wait a minute. Let me give you the flip side of that, because I had a question. A cop called me earlier and said this. On the other hand, you’ve got to give kudos to law enforcement because, don’t forget, there were people everywhere. If they go guns blazing, there might have been many, many fatalities that night. And look, let’s look at how it ended. He’s apprehended. Nobody except the Secret Service agent injured. That was kind of a successful conclusion. I’m just stunned. I think if you’re running towards the president, they’re going to neutralize you.
SPEAKER 06 :
One thousand percent. But you’re right. There was crossfire concerns, no doubt, because you could see it was congested at the magnetometer area. So the response, Mike, was textbook and professional and very well executed. It’s the planning where there’s tremendous fractures, problems and issues.
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The so-called manifesto is a stunning thing to read, Mr. President. He appears to reference a motive in it. He writes this quote, administration officials, they are targets. And he also wrote this, I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes. What’s your reaction to that?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would because you’re horrible people, horrible people. Yeah, he did write that. I’m not a rapist. I didn’t rape anybody. Oh, you think he was referring to you? Excuse me. I’m not a pedophile. You read that crap from some sick person. I got associated with stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated.
SPEAKER 03 :
I don’t want to give her one more word of airtime, but did you hear what she said? Oh, oh, do you? And you know what they were saying about her on social media? The lunatics on the left who thought it was so clever of her. Look how she got him to deny that he’s a rapist. Isn’t she brilliant? Isn’t she brave? Ooh, you thought he was talking about you, Mr. President? No, Nora. He thought he was talking about the waiter who served him the lobster. Yeah, right. You’re surprised that the president thought that the manifesto referred to him. After all we’ve heard day in and day out, he’s a pedophile, he’s a rapist, he’s a… You know, again, there’s no bottom too low for these folks. None whatsoever. 22 minutes before the hour. And what about the shooter? California’s… Pride and joy. An edumacator. Wasn’t that what Rush always used to call them, edumacators? Teacher of the month. Teacher of the month. You know, a good enterprising journalist would go find a parent of a child that this monster taught. Boy, his family must be so proud of him. There’s an old saying that goes, don’t try to fix something that isn’t broken. Senator Lindsey Graham from South Carolina is clearly unfamiliar with that expression. But speaking of doing the wrong thing, can we just take a moment to understand a man that I’ve known for a long time, a very prominent U.S. Senator from a state that I love deeply, South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham. Now, this whole drama over the big, beautiful ballroom has been a joke. There is no drama, because as President Trump initially revealed, there won’t be any taxpayer money used for Trump’s ballroom. That’s fine. There’s no argument. There’s not a single… They don’t have a leg to stand on. What, they don’t like the aesthetics of a beautiful ballroom? Who cares? Pound salt. Taxpayers aren’t paying for it. Well, along comes Senator Lindsey Graham. Yesterday, he held a press conference apparently announcing that we should spend $400 million of taxpayer money to build Trump’s ballroom. Graham said, we need the ballroom not just for me, oddly enough, but for future presidents. That’s what needs to happen. He hoped other senators would support a bill that he and Senator Katie Britt from Alabama will be sponsoring. They want $400 million of taxpayer money to secure, to build the presidential ballroom. Underneath will be a lot of military stuff. There’ll be a Secret Service annex. Graham said we’ve got an estimate of $332 million, but he’s going to ask for $400 million because I think it’s going to take more. Now, private donations could still be used, he said, but I think they should be used for buying China and stuff like that. The ballroom itself, the taxpayers need to pay for. All right, you’ve got to help me understand this one. Just like I couldn’t understand why Senator Lindsey Graham proposed a federal ban on abortion months before the last midterm election, which certainly drove many Republican voters into the arms of the Democrats. Remember the big red wave that was expected? Well, he sure didn’t help. A federal ban on abortion months before the midterms. Great idea, Senator. And now he comes along and wants to blow up the most logical, easiest response to all these hysterics who are upset about the ballroom. We’re not paying for it. Private donors are. I promise you, President Trump has plenty of big, deep-pocketed donors who could fund the big, beautiful ballroom. Instead, Lindsey Graham says, ah, let’s not go down that route. Let’s make the taxpayers do it. I’ve known Lindsey Graham for a long time. And I like him. I admit it. I’ve spent time with the guy. I’ve interviewed him many times. I don’t think he’s a bad guy. I asked Joey Hudson, who knows South Carolina politics as well as anybody, why in the world would Lindsey Graham do such a thing? And Joey’s analysis is, Senator Graham is so committed to trying to please Donald Trump that he fails to see the electoral aspects or consequences of what he’s doing. All he wants to do is get Trump to give him a pat on the back. But President Trump has already said it’s going to be funded privately, by private donors. Meanwhile, there are still conservative fighters in D.C. Listen as Congressman Brandon Gill grills an abortion activist at a contentious Capitol Hill hearing. You know, to Jim’s point about evil being around us, I’m going to play something that’s very difficult for you to hear or see. I’m going to give you a warning. If you’ve got impressionable children, you may want to use a little discretion for the next five minutes. Yesterday there was a hearing on Capitol Hill about abortion protests. And a pro-abortion lady – I don’t know who her name is or what her title is – but a pro-abortion lady – was being interrogated by Texas’ Congressman Brandon Gill. If you can give me a better example of a more brilliant interrogation than this, I’d love to know what it is, because in one three-minute clip, Brandon Gill exposes for all the world to see the true horrors of
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You’re an advocate for abortion, for abortion policy. What’s your favorite type of abortion?
SPEAKER 01 :
I am an advocate for patients having access to the full realm of reproductive health care.
SPEAKER 02 :
But do you have a preferred method of abortion that you like?
SPEAKER 01 :
I do not.
SPEAKER 02 :
Let me read through a couple different methods, and I want to get your take on how much you like these. The first type is called a suction abortion. This is when the cervix is dilated in a strong suction, 29 times the power of a household vacuum cleaner, tears the baby’s body apart and sucks it through the hose into a container. Do you prefer that method?
SPEAKER 01 :
I stand by my former testimony.
SPEAKER 02 :
That sounds kind of gross, doesn’t it? That was pretty gruesome. Do you agree? It does to me.
SPEAKER 01 :
I stand by how I answered your question fully and accurately.
SPEAKER 02 :
Okay, what about this one? This one is called delation and curatage. After delation of the cervix, a sharp looped knife is inserted into the uterus. The baby’s body is cut into pieces and extracted, often by suction. Do you prefer that method?
SPEAKER 01 :
What I believe we are here to talk about today is the FACE Act. We are not here to talk about the legality of abortion.
SPEAKER 02 :
I’m asking you, you’re a pro-abortion advocate. I’m asking if you prefer the deletion and curatage method.
SPEAKER 01 :
I am an access to reproductive health care advocate.
SPEAKER 02 :
You don’t want to talk about abortion itself. Why is that?
SPEAKER 01 :
I would prefer to talk about the reason that the committee called the hearing. Is it because it’s uncomfortable to talk about?
SPEAKER 02 :
It should be uncomfortable.
SPEAKER 01 :
I would prefer, if you would let me finish my statement, to talk about the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which is why I was asked to come here.
SPEAKER 02 :
We’re talking about what that access gets. How about this one? It’s called delation and evacuation. Forceps are inserted into the uterus, grabbing and twisting the baby’s body to dismember him or her. If the head is too large, it must be crushed in order to remove it. Do you prefer that method?
SPEAKER 01 :
I would prefer to talk about the reason the hearing was called and the basis of my expert testimony.
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It’s uncomfortable to hear this, isn’t it? It is. I think it is because it’s barbaric and evil. How about this one? It’s called the saline injection. It’s when a 20% salt solution is injected through the mother’s abdomen into the baby’s amniotic fluid. The baby’s skin is burned off. The baby ingests the solution and dies of salt poisoning, dehydration, and hemorrhaging of the brain. Do you prefer that method?
SPEAKER 01 :
I would prefer to talk about the subject of the hearing.
SPEAKER 02 :
This is the subject of the hearing. This is about protests outside of abortion clinics. I’m asking you about abortion.
SPEAKER 01 :
I stand by my prior testimony.
SPEAKER 02 :
Okay. I wouldn’t want to talk about this either if I were you because it is barbaric and evil.
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Evil is what the Democrat Party embraces. That’s the party that you could vote for. And I know that’s difficult to listen to. Incidentally, that was a woman named Jessica Waters, a senior scholar at the American University School of Public Affairs, whose research focuses on reproductive rights. And finally, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down an epic decision this week that could impact American elections for decades. I have to share with you a post from somebody I follow on X, but I have to warn you. I must warn you that this particular person I follow, L.H. Gray, I don’t know anything about her. I know she’s R-rated. She’s very spicy. She uses a lot of dirty words. So if you’re not for the faint of heart, you shouldn’t follow her. But she writes essays. I’ll tell you who she writes like. I used to work with a guy named Lionel in New York City. And it’s like she channels Lionel. Lionel is this real… Funny guy. We were partners on The Morning Show for a brief period of time at WABC in New York. And Lionel was this very cerebral, funny, but real, real heavyweight intellectual who used all these big words and would write all these crazy essays. He’s still around. Lionel’s got a strong social media presence. He’s really big into conspiracy stuff. But Lionel and Lynn are delightful people. Well, that’s who this L.A. Gray reminds me of. She writes like Lionel talks. And if you know Lionel’s work, you’ll recognize this because it almost sounds like it’s him writing. But I want to share this with you. And again, big news. The Supreme Court struck down the congressional map in Louisiana and has restricted the use of race to determine district boundaries. The fact of the matter is it’s illegal. It’s unconstitutional. You cannot use race to redistrict. But Democrats have plowed ahead and done it anyway. They don’t care. You think Democrats care about following rules? All they want to do is win. They just care about power. So listen to what this L.H. Gray writes in response to today’s 6-3 decision. The hammer has fallen, she says, and the racial gerrymandering cartel is in full psychological meltdown. In a 6-3 surgical strike of pure constitutional ferocity, the Supreme Court has just executed Louisiana v. Calais, with the cold, lethal precision of a scalpel through the heart. Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion didn’t merely tweak a map. It drove a stake right through one of the left’s most insidious weapons, the deliberate, race-predominant carving of congressional districts under the fraudulent banner of the Voting Rights Act. The second majority black opportunity district in Louisiana? Obliterated. Struck down. Ordered redrawn immediately. This is not some incremental procedural win. This is redistricting war mode officially detonated across the entire South. And I’d add Midwest. The 14th Amendment’s command of colorblind equal protection has roared back to life with teeth. The psychological poison the race industrial complex has been pumping into the body politic for decades. The toxic lie that black voters are perpetual wards of the state who can only win when segregated by melanin quota has just been exposed and eviscerated in open court. Alito’s master class, she goes on to say, in strict scrutiny, the concurrence from Thomas and Gorsuch that goes for the jugular of the entire race-conscious edifice, the psychological projection of the dissenting left, and the strategic nuclear advantage this ruling now hands every Republican legislature from Baton Rouge to Atlanta to Columbia. No mercy, no illusions. Just raw, sophisticated truth about how this decision cabined the Voting Rights Act’s most poisonous abuse while leaving the republic’s foundational principle intact. The right to vote shall not be abridged on account of race, not because of it. The counteroffensive has begun. The venom belongs to them. The victory… belongs to the colorblind constitution. I swear, I think this woman needs to get a Pulitzer Prize. But I don’t want to give you her name because it’s kind of dirty. I mean, she’s got… I reposted her on my ex-account. All I’ll say is if you want to read her name again, her handle is LHGray. I think she’s got another name, but her description, I mean, she’s a… Let’s just put it this way. She’s a colorful character. So if you want to see more of her work, you just follow me on X at Gallagher Show, and you’ll see that essay that I just read. I just reposted it, and you can do your own checking, but I don’t want to read it on the air. Well, frankly, I can’t read part of her description on the air because it’ll be my last day on the air because it’s obscene. I can’t read those words. She’s a piece of work, but I love a lot of her writing, and she writes with a ferociousness. And a clarity that I really, really like. She’s got a sub stack, too, apparently. I’ve got to get plugged into that. That wraps up the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast for Friday, May 1st. Be sure to check out the Eminem Extra podcast. Coming soon, wherever you get your podcasts. Be sure to subscribe to all of our podcasts. Follow us on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get them. If you like the show, share it with a friend. We’ll see you back here next week on the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast.
A Victory for the Constitution