C (2:56)

I think this is a complete and absolute acceptance on the part of Ron DeSantis that he will never be President of the United States. Because going into this administration with your eyes open, with a 31% approval rating, and just you walk into work every morning and they pour a big steaming pile of shit on you every day, to me it signals he understands he's never going to be the guy.

D (3:25)

Think about these guys because as when as Jennifer's reading this, I'm thinking instantly of Ted Cruz and the fact that Trump, yeah, told him his wife was ugly, I think, or had a horse face or I don't remember what it was, but, but. And I think Ted Cruz is vying for that same, you know, Supreme Court just seat. I mean, as we're, you know, Make a Wish foundation here. It's just think about where you have to be to have such a low self pride about the things you do, the things you say, that you would go grovel to that man for a job after he does or says those things about you or your wife or your family or. I can't even imagine.

B (4:09)

I think MAGA has done a great job exposing these white heterosexual men, women, where they are really the recipients of, quote, unquote, what they refer to as dei, which I support DEI entirely. But the system has been so rigged for them. And there are, there is, there are threats from a lot of places where it's going to be equal playing field across the board and they can't handle it. They favor the rigged system. And when there is any sense of threat to the system being rigged for them, they'll throw their wife under the bus, they'll throw their kids under the bus, they'll throw themselves under the bus to curry favor with this man. And I think it's exposed this inherent, flawed weakness in these white men, white straight men that have gotten us to this place. And then I want, I can't, I have to segue over to Cash Patel because he's really going through some things, rumors all over the place that Trump wants to can him. All right? Trump wants to can him. I don't know if that's true or not, but you know, that White House leaks like a sieve. And so now cash is really escalating his profile. And here he is yesterday saying that he hasn't been intoxicated on the job. And I just want to point out that we've been doing this podcast for how long? Pumps almost four years, three and a half years. I've never had to get on camera and say, I do this podcast sober. I've never had to do that. But here we have the director of the FBI claiming that he doesn't drink on the job. Pop this video up. I do want to give you an opportunity to respond directly to the allegations in the Atlantic article that your unexplained absences created a national security risk. And beyond that, can you say definitively that you have not been intoxicated or absent during your tenure as FBI director? I can say unequivocally that I never listen to the fake news mafia. And as when they get louder, it just means I'm doing my job. This FBI director has been on the job twice as many days as every director before me. What that means is I've taken half as many days off as those before me. What that means is I've taken a third less vacation than those before me.

D (6:32)

Josh, how did this fucking guy become the FBI director? When I see him talk like that, how in the world did that happen? Speaking from some experience here and being a recovering alcoholic, anytime someone asks you, Jennifer pointed this out, have you been fucked up while you're working? That means you're in trouble, right? That's not a good question. You could see Todd Blanche as that question's being posed to Cash back there, just going, fuck. That was my favorite part of that clip. I don't know where you go with this dysfunction, but Cash Patel is. He's in a lot of trouble.

B (7:14)

And I would just point out that typically Josh mentioned she's in. He's in recovery. Pumps is in recovery. And I've been kind of the one that's pointed out to them, something's not right here. All of you know somebody in our audience right now that has struggled with addiction, and you know that if you think somebody's high or drunk, they probably are. And so here's my issue with Cash Patel. And it doesn't matter if he works at the Gap, if he's a news researcher at. Here at Ihip News, if he. As a janitor, you can't be drunk on the job. All of those jobs are not serious. They're important, but they're not serious. Cash Patel has a serious job, and his only qualification was that he kissed ass on his podcast, and he promised his listeners he would expose the Jeffrey Epstein files. And then he gets inside the Death Star and sees who's in the Jeffrey Epstein files. And his only option then is just to get all liquored up. And so here we have the FBI. And remember, Josh and Pumps, you, you work with all of these federal prosecutors. The Republican Party pride themselves on what Law and order.

D (8:35)

Law and order. And anytime you're in a White House press briefing and you're the Director of the FBI, you're being asked, almost like you're in a deposition, can you tell us, can you promise us that you haven't been intoxicated one time while you're at work as the FBI Director? Anytime you find yourself in that position, you need to look around and think, what the is going on here? What's happening? That's not good.

B (9:05)

I think Cash needs to go to Betty Ford is all I'm saying. Then after that, probably prison. But I mean. All right, moving along. Pumps, I want to get your take on this one. Pop this up. Kylie, just in. A federal judge threw out a defamation lawsuit FBI Director Cash Patel filed against former FBI official Frank Fagali, who said Patel has, quote, been seen at nightclubs more than on the seventh floor of the Bureau's headquarters in Washington, D.C. pumps, what is your take on this? It just seems like there is a recurring theme here. Cash Patel is constantly all liquored up.

C (9:48)

Here's the deal. You between Pete Hexseth and Cash Patel, I am surprised there is a drop of alcohol within the straits of the District of Columbia. And here's the thing. We all know Cash Patel could not be dating his girlfriend if he did not have a private plane. He is running around on his private jet. He doesn't give a fuck. Other than making sure a narrative is spun on social media that makes Trump look good and everybody else look bad. He is absolutely worthless. Everybody knows he's not qualified. What I am waiting for and what I find so interesting is Trump has fired female Cabinet members. We saw one resign sex scandal out the gazoo with her and her husband. Then you have Cash Patel. The minority may be the next to go. So then I'm wondering, I mean, I know he loves Scott Besant, but then is the gay man next? When you go through this Cabinet, every single one of these people on this cabinet has committed crimes. They have been incompetent. They have created problems. But I just. I'm anxious to see if Cash goes, who's after that. And is it going to prove what I think that in fact, this is the most racist administration. Bigoted, hateful, don't give a. About the American people.

B (11:08)

Well, I think Cash Patel is trying to save his job because he and his buddy there, Todd Blanch, just secured an indictment against the Southern Parvity Law Center. And basically, you know, Josh, talk to us about how easy it is to get an indictment like this, first and foremost, but that they're now going after the Southern Poverty Law center, basically claiming that the Southern Poverty Law center is giving money to the K. KK As I read it.

D (11:37)

Yeah. And one thing you'll notice from the story, so it's the corporation that's been indicted. So there's not been any individuals indicted, which is a little bit odd to begin with. But then I don't think it's any surprise that the Southern Poverty Law center has recently declared, I believe it's focus on family as a hate organization, Turning point as a hate organization. So they're not currying any favor with this administration. So there's a lot of political undertones here that the manner in which they prosecuted this case and a lot of the logistics. I won't bore you with legal jargon, but the way that they sought this indictment, the fact that it's a corporation indicted, the way that they're using certain statutes, is irregular, to put it mildly.

B (12:29)

And I would point out that both of the individuals who tried to get this indictment were the two that were just in that video talking about Cash Patel's widely known drinking problem. Cash Patel and Todd Blanch. Cash Patel wants to keep his job because Trump has put out there, leaked from his White House that Cash is on the chopping block. Todd Blanche wants to be the Attorney General. So they both know how can we make the boss happy? We go after his enemies.

C (12:58)

Right.

B (12:58)

The Southern Poverty Law center, who does not bend the knee, who is anti fascist, who knows that people like us are complete dipshits. This will make the boss happy. So they're doing all of that for a party of one.

D (13:11)

And the only thing I'll add to that, if you're Todd Blanch, you're probably stepping away from that, saying, hey, next time we do one of these bullshit circus announcements, don't put Cash in my circle. I don't want to have to go through his q and A about his alcohol. Okay. I'm here to grandstand about indicting somebody.

B (13:31)

Exactly. Okay. Now we have Marjorie Taylor Greene, and she says Trump himself ordered Bondi not to release the Epstein files. Play the clip telling the speaker and leader Thin So Speaker Johnson leader th. Stop this. Do not, do not pass any resolution to release the Epstein files. He told Pam Bondi at doj, no matter what you think of Pam Bondi, he flat out told her, do not really sips in files. He was blocking everybody. It was all him. Because there's a huge narrative out there that it's all Pam Bondi's fault, that,

C (14:08)

yeah, they want to make it pain body undermining him.

B (14:10)

You're, you're saying that to your knowledge, he was driving this bus. Trump drove the bus. Duh.

C (14:18)

Right? Like I don't need more.

B (14:19)

I just can't. Okay, here's, here's the thing about the MAGA movement. And then the, we're straddling, you know, rational thought in the MAGA movement. Of course, Donald Trump told Pam Bondi not to release the Epstein files. He went over to the DOJ and put a Kim Jong un style banner on the building. Eighteen months ago, Fox News would have been in full blown cardiac arrest had Joe Biden put a portrait of himself up at the doj. And, and Joe Biden's Attorney general was worthless. Merrick Garland us he us so hard. It's unbelievable that they're just now getting to the point where it's like, oh, Trump doesn't want these files released because why not? He's in the epicenter of them with Ghislaine and Epstein.

D (15:13)

This podcast interviewer that you just showed us talking about who's driving the bus. I mean, what planet do we live on? What bus is Trump not driving over there. This is not news. I mean, you have to be so stupid, I mean, just downright stupid to think that Pam Bondi has taken it upon herself, create this horrible situation with the Epstein files. I mean, it's, it's, I don't even, you know, you hear stuff like that. And, and to Jennifer's point too, I mean, they pride, this administration prides themselves on the fact that the Department of Justice belongs to Donald Trump. And by God, if I call you up in Virginia, I'll send a insurance lawyer down to Virginia to indict the former FBI director. That's who I am. I remember when, you remember when Liz, what's her name? Lindsey Halligan. She practiced insurance law. The next thing you know, she's the appointed, you know, the U.S. attorney in Virginia trying to seek an indictment. And she. That thing up so bad. Like, I mean, but that's, that's in their mind, though. That's, that's the way Trump operates. If he wants something Done. If you say no to him and you say no to him, then I'll go pick this other dimwit dumb and they'll go do it for me. And by God, I'm going to get it done one way or another.

B (16:39)

All right.

C (16:41)

Oh, sorry.

B (16:42)

I want to get your take on this. Pop this up. This is ex Bondi Chief of Staff. Part of the reason the weaponization work has been difficult is that you need people who are MAGA and who are really competent. So here's what he's basically saying here is this guy is admitting on the record that there aren't a lot of people who are both MAGA and competent. And that's why Bondi's weaponization didn't work.

C (17:13)

Pumps also, the weaponization didn't work because Donald Trump and his administration, not saying the other administrations are perfect, but they're committing crimes all the time. So they assume that everybody else who's been in office, it's committing crimes, corruption, conspiracy, all the things. And other people, not always, but the large majority of other administrations, people in those administrations had followed the law or attempted to follow the law. And so when you look into somebody and there's no evidence that you can prove they committed a crime, then you have to drop it. But I love the component of you're not competent because you didn't have to tell me that. That is not breaking news, that you have to be loyal to Trump first. And the thing about all this stuff with the DOJ is, number one, it doesn't matter who the attorney general is, that as long as Trump is president, those files will not be released, full stop. And I know that's, I'm not, you know, breaking news here, but the giving the past. My parents do this with Donald Trump. Stephen Miller, his policies are horrible. He's a deplorable person. So Trump's a victim. Pam Bondi didn't release the files, so Trump's the victim. No one understands. It comes from the top and shit rolls downhill.

B (18:33)

Here's the thing. MAGA does understand that these are the people that the buck stops with, are the individual freedom. This is the personal accountability Party. This is the party of individualism. They do know it. The breakdown is this support and this capitulation for this demented buffoon has broken people and they're in a cult.

D (18:56)

I. I do want to say this. I mean, this is one of the more truthful things I've heard from anybody in Magaland. The fact that they do admit and concede that it's hard to find someone who is both MAGA and competent, we need to take a moment to apprec the truthfulness of that statement that we finally have heard something that makes sense.

B (19:17)

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C (21:03)

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B (21:17)

All right, and then we have Trump's ballroom being funded by anonymous donors, which we've reported on. But pop this up. The Trump administration's fundraising arrangement for the White House ballroom project shields donor identities and excludes the White House from conflict of interest requirements, according to records obtained by the Post. So this is where journalism is so important. Because every single one of these people that are donating money for Donald Trump to make his playpen, which is the ballroom, which he will not shut the up about. I want these people when this administration is over, when we make a museum about the man, the buffoon, the. The incompetent piece of shit buffoon that broke our country. But we fought back. I want in stone, in this museum, the anti fascist American museum. Every rich motherfucker that bent the knee to him, I want them in history books, I want them in museums. You know what happened to the Sackler family after they were exposed for poisoning and killing Americans with the opioid epidemic? Donald Trump and Elon Musk, these people are killing the weakest among us. And I want these people to live in infamy forever.

D (22:36)

This is kind of the inverse of the anonymous curb your enthusiasm episode where, where, look, I'm going to give you a shitload of money, but you really, really can't use my name here, right? You really can't. Like, I'm not, I'm not really trying to not, like, not get credit for it. I really don't want my name to

B (22:54)

be used, which really shows. This is why I always say, you guys, that there are degrees of MAGA supporters and the rural people that watch Fox News or Tucker Carlson or Alex Jones and the government and society has let. They've never had wage increase. They have, you know, no health care, if any at all, live just barely above the poverty line despite inflation. I let them off the hook a lot more than I do, these country club Republicans, because if you're rich enough to write a check to that morally defunct buffoon and you're aware enough to not put your name on it, you're the worst Americans among us. At least. The January Sixers, their faces, their little weapons, they were on camera, they were proud of being Trump jumpers. These people are the worst. And this is why we have to have good journalists that expose these people. And then here's some analysis from Melanie Daragio. Pop this up. Anonymous donations and exclusions from conflicts of interest makes Trump's ballroom the perfect vehicle for money laundering and bribery. Ding, ding, ding. If there was nothing to hide, they wouldn't be making sure they can hide it. I would also say it's pretty embarrassing to give money to him. But Josh, what's your take on that?

D (24:15)

Know, Trump is running like a pardon scam, like openly, like a pardon, you know, bribe scam. I mean, so why, why hide this? Like you're not hiding anything else, like it's just an open free for all with the Trump administration. You know the worst part about these people that give this money, the, the wealthy that give this money, the country clubbers, the worst part is none of those guys fucking like Trump. They all laugh about him. All of his peers laugh about him. But when push comes to shove and you can get something in return, you Go up there and you kiss his ass. And you see, that's the worst part about it, is none of them agree with all this stupid shit that's being said, but they're complicit and go along with it and support it.

B (25:02)

All right, final thoughts. Pumps.

C (25:04)

I would just say, I think that the people that are contributing to this, it was already a bribe. Like, from the inception, it was a bribe. Everybody knew it was a bride. But I will say this Donald Trump, because he's the mouth of the south. And you have always said, you know, as he is the deathbed era, the deathbed confessions. We've already seen him at different places say, oh, well, so and so gave me the money for the ballroom. He's going to out every single one of these motherfuckers, and I'm here for it.

D (25:30)

Yeah. Wouldn't he talk in addition on Tim Cook just totally last day or two talking about him kissing his ass. And how do you, you know, how do these guys. And they go back for it and go back.

B (25:41)

What's the saying? There's no loyalty among thieves. Yeah, yeah. You know, none of these people are going to be loyal to each other. And once one, once there's one drop, you know, if I'm the big billionaire Trump and somebody's like, well, Jennifer Welch, she gave a bunch of money, then I'd be like, well, I'll tell you what, I didn't give as much as pumps. Right. She gave. You know, they're going to start throwing each other under the bus. And we will obviously be here reporting on it live from New York City, baby, Make sure you like and subscribe. And we'll be back later with more news.

A (26:14)

It.