PDS Published 11/10/2026
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With Joe Rogan and are doing right now, exposes a lot about what's coming next after Trump's insane loss last week. Pete says morning presser was extra bizarre and pathetic.
Dive into what's next after James Gunn got blindsided and fired from DC Studios, and a Brooklyn woman was allegedly murdered in a random attack. But the man accused of killing her had somehow passed the city's screening to work at an elementary. We're talking about all of that and even more on today's brand new Philip DeFranco Show.
You daily dive into the news, starting with you can just tell how much the tide is turning Trump by just looking at the way that Joe Rogan podcast has changed over the past two years. Because, of course, at first he was a key player helping Trump get elected, and then he became a mild critic of stuff like ICE, Epstein and the Iran War.
Then you'd have him in the Oval Office with that shit-eating grin, playing buddy-buddy. But now he's even actually hosting whistleblowers from inside the administration.
In particular, you now have Trump World erupting over this episode he did with Carley Means, a top adviser to RFK Jr., who resigned late last week.
"There is a very concentrated group of people in the Trump administration that are antagonistic to what people voted for and are, frankly, doing things for other reasons, particularly in many cases to enrich their families."
Woof. Right.
He named names, singling out Trump's former chief of staff, Susie Wiles, in claiming, among other things, that her daughter has a lobbying firm that engages in regular garden-variety corruption.
"If a company hired Susie's daughter, then that was getting a high priority. So if you're a special interest and you want to get something done, the secret's out. You pay Susie's daughter. And it was openly discussed that when they had a client."
But then also Means went after a handful of other top aides like James Blair, Richard Walters and Trump's pollster Tony Fabrizio, alleging that all of them and Wiles have consulted for, lobbied for, or fundraised for so-called special interests like Big Pharma, pesticide, sugar and soda companies.
And so, according to Means, whenever he and other advocates pushed for RFK's policy agenda, they ended up getting blocked by this wall of what they referred to as corrupt staffers standing between them and the president.
"Would often say that we can't do certain things because that would hurt special interest configurations for the midterms."
There was dozens of meetings and calls saying that taking junk food out of school lunches would hurt the companies that sell junk food.
"Yeah. We did a 60 Minutes. We got full White House approval. We went through the interagency process, and we were going to do a big initiative on basic food safety, asking whether the amount of sugar in a children's diet was appropriate. And that's where Susie told me, 'We can't do that. I need the sugar industry.'"
He had that episode making this pretty big splash within Rogan's sphere of influence, but also Means took his message mainstream as well, going on CBS's Face the Nation.
"Tony Fabrizio is the most powerful people in the country. I'm just stating facts."
"I'm just saying your theory that you're putting forward."
"Yeah, I'm just stating a fact that we were trying to get a 90% support policy done of defining ultra-processed food, and he said the juice isn't worth the squeeze on this and advised against it while being paid by Pepsi."
And so now, you even have politicians on Capitol Hill paying attention on both sides of the aisle.
So you have Robert Garcia, for example, the incoming chair of the House Oversight Committee, telling CNN that among all the other corruption that he plans to investigate, he's looking specifically at Means' allegations.
And then on Fox, you had a Republican senator, Ron Johnson, coming out:
"I would suggest all of your listeners listen to the Joe Rogan podcast with Callie Means. Callie lays out in gory detail the corruption, the bipartisan corruption within all branches of government."
Now, in response to all this uproar, the main people involved have put out very different statements.
You had RFK Jr. acknowledging some generic corruption without really addressing Means' specific claims, writing:
"Entrenched interests have exercised power in Washington under both parties for decades," and saying President Trump and I intend to keep fighting until the American people, not corporate influence, drive our health policies.
Meanwhile, you had a spokesperson for Susie Wiles telling Axios that Means' accusations are outrageous, defamatory and provably false.
You also had Tony Fabrizio adding:
"Allegations that I am in the pocket of Big Pharma are not only ridiculous but demonstrably false."
And then you had James Blair saying that he'd put me on notice that he'd consider suing him if he defamed him.
But Means, he didn't back down, instead warning them to immediately preserve all potentially relevant records and communications, right, as well as inviting them to file a lawsuit and open up discovery so that his claims can be proven.
And you then had him continuing:
"Susie, I'm not intimidated and you will not scare me again. Please stop sending me emotional texts. This is not personal. This is civilizational."
Then finishing to current and former leaders in the administration:
"It is time to speak."
Saying it is time to speak to the press about what you saw.
And while it's too early right now to tell what kind of impact this rift's going to have on Trump, the Republicans and the general MAGA coalition, the funny thing about all this is that the side attacking the administration is the same one defending Trump.
Because according to Means, Trump, he actually wanted to go hard on pesticides, vaccines and sugar. But he got undermined from within.
"I don't think President Trump knows about most of this. This is how DC works. It is impossible to describe to you how demonic this culture is."
Which I kind of say is like just a very convenient defense for someone who is very clearly the most corrupt president in modern American history.
Like, he can just strap his net worth to a rocket. His family gains all these things. He can hire all these self-enriching corporate lobbyists at all the top posts, and then he gets to just go, "I don't know anything about what's happening. I'm just a baby. Who, me?"
I mean, he did the same thing on 60 Minutes on Sunday when he was asked about his crypto ventures. He was just like, "I don't know, my kids are doing all..."
And so politically, no matter how much he betrays his base, no matter how much corruption he surrounds himself with, he can still pose as this innocent figure of purity at the center of it, struggling against the forces of evil.
"For some of these, President Trump heard about an issue, his inclination was right. And the people around him, I think, treat him horribly. They treat him like they talk about him like a baby."
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But also, maybe Trump is actually a baby.
What you're saying is that he's already back to whining and crying about his election denialism bullshit.
Less than a week after saying he was absolutely willing to accept the outcome of the blue wave midterms. Remember, like, basically everyone was like, what? Trump's all of a sudden, like, he has this conciliatory tone after months of laying the groundwork to deny the results of the election.
Still, of course, you had a lot of people wondering if the other shoe was going to eventually drop once the dust settled and Trump got a better picture of just how bad things really are.
It seems that shoe is dropping because yesterday you had Trump making a just-classically unhinged Truth Social post:
"Does anybody really believe this election was honest? Could the polls be so wrong? Some early voting dumps were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote. It's all about the machine. You're far more important than the voter."
Which was fun because you got like three different conspiracy theories all in one.
So first off, it's crazy that I have to say this, but as we've been repeating for two years, actually longer than two years, polls are just polls.
How right or wrong they are is literally no bearing whatsoever on the actual outcome of the election. Maybe it could lull people into a sense of, "Do I even need to be a part of the election?"
Remember how insanely wrong so many of the polls were in 2016 when Trump didn't seem to have a problem with them then?
And also here, the polls weren't actually that wrong. When you take a step back and look at everything altogether, they showed a solid big blue wave. It's actually that they underestimated how massive that blue wave would be.
And that's been a trend for months now, even as Trump repeatedly claimed the polls were fake and that the real polls showed Republicans winning.
Regarding his claim that the early voting dumps were so large that it was impossible to win, I'm not sure if he's saying that the early votes were somehow rigged, but there's nothing unusual about the number of votes.
In fact, a majority of Americans actually voted early, either in person or by mail, in all four of the last elections.
In 2024, when Trump won the presidential election, nearly two-thirds of all voters cast their ballots early. And we don't have the final breakdown yet for this year's elections, data from the University of Florida Election Lab shows that Republicans made up a third of all early voters in the 27 states that have party registration.
And that then brings us to his final claim that the election is all about the machines, which he says are far more important than the voter.
Also, which I feel like I have to mention, is just an absolute dictator thing, of course.
But of course, this is not the first time that he's whined about the voting machines. That was a big part of his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. And all of those claims were false.
And again, there's absolutely zero evidence that there's any widespread issues with the machines.
You had stuff like a technical issue in Westchester County, New York, where machines were rejecting paper ballots because of an update to the system. But even then, the error just caused the ballots to be rejected, not miscounted.
And you had election officials quickly implementing established emergency protocols and ensuring that all votes would be counted.
And besides that, election officials have said voting went smoothly overall, with very few major issues and no evidence of widespread fraud.
But despite that, you had him doubling down again later in the day, when a reporter asked him if he thought the midterms had been fair.
"Well, I think the numbers were terrible in terms of those early votes. You look at all those early votes."
And then with that, you had a lot of people on the left just tearing into Trump, saying this is just the exact same bullshit he's done time and time again, arguing that it's just totally predictable.
And the only surprising thing is that it took him this long to do it.
Though you then had some people saying, well, maybe he just needed time because the people in his administration baby him. And then it took him time to realize, oh, it is actually this bad.
And actually, on that note, you had people like Jon Favreau of Crooked Media:
"Figured he would take a few days for the reality of the electoral annihilation to slip through Natalie's gatekeeping and reach him."
But also, a big thing is you had a number of people on the right actually joining in on the criticism.
People like Megyn Kelly, for example, taking a break from crying about Russell Brand to absolutely rip into Trump:
"How could the polls be so wrong? You were misled, sir. You are fed little gold nuggets by a bunch of sycophants who work for you like Natalie Harp. Not to tell you the truth, but to make you feel good as you put your head against the pillow at night. That's your fault."
Though Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman are reporting that he was told at least the week before the vote what the polls were showing, and he refused to believe it.
He's the power-of-positive-thinking guy. He refused to believe that it's real.
And so now we've got to go back down this ridiculous lane of the election was dishonest.
"Just stop. Stop. We're not doing that. Nobody believes that."
And that was actually also echoed by Marjorie Taylor Greene, who wrote this lengthy post on Twitter:
"For anyone who believes his bullshit, ask yourself, has he ever prosecuted anyone from the 2020 election? With the same voting machines that he's complaining about today as he attempts to build the same..."
And going on to add the polls weren't really wrong. The polls his team showed him knew they were going to lose, but lied to him that it would be close.
And claiming that Trump knows the big Democrat victory is 100% on him. And that his denialism is another attempt to deflect any wrongdoing off of himself.
But of course, that hasn't deterred Trump, because just this morning he was back at it again, claiming that the still-uncalled Senate race in Alaska was rigged.
Because as we've talked about, there's an independent longshot candidate in Alaska who has the same name as Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan.
You've had Republicans just losing their shit over this, claiming that it was an effort by Democrat Mary Peltola to siphon votes in the state's ranked-choice election.
While both Peltola and the second Dan Sullivan have denied the claims, even if the allegations were true, it's still not illegal to recruit another candidate.
But still, even though he got his ass beat so badly all over the country, Trump's refused to let go of this whole two-Dan-Sullivans thing, rattling on and on about it repeatedly over the last few weeks as votes continue to roll in and Peltola maintains her narrow lead.
And actually, over the weekend, he falsely claimed that Senator Sullivan had won the election, writing on Truth Social, claiming that both he and the fourth person on the ranked-choice ballot, another Republican, had been fraudulently put into the race.
Arguing that when you took the votes those two other candidates received and added them to Senator Sullivan's vote totals, that would be enough to overcome Peltola's current lead of just under 3,000 votes.
Writing, "The Alaska race is over. Dan Sullivan won by a lot."
Then you had Trump echoing that in his post today where he called the election rigged and then took it a step further, demanding that all the votes awarded to other Republicans be allocated to Senator Sullivan.
Now, for one thing, that's just not a thing that's allowed under Alaska law. When candidates are eliminated, each ballot moves to its next-ranked candidate who's still in the race. You can't just allocate them because the president wants to.
And for another, only 76% of the votes have been counted as of recording, so Peltola could still gain ground.
But of course, Trump doesn't actually care. And it seems like he's gearing up for a legal battle to try and overturn the results of that election if this race does not go his way.
And there's another question out there: is he going to try to do this anywhere else, like, for example, in Mississippi, where the Senate race is still officially uncalled?
And then there's even more we've got to dive into in just a minute, after a quick break with our sponsor.
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You're gonna love it. Then Devin, right back into the news.
We should talk about this bombshell report that seems to expose Nick Fuentes' secret involvement with a college Republican coalition that has 31 affiliated student groups in 14 different states.
This could be potentially huge because, one, well, he's been outspoken about the Trump administration leading up to the midterms.
He's largely known by many as a white supremacist who's called Hitler cool and said a million other incredibly disturbing things.
And this will sound confusing if you're not super in the know, his influence on college Republicans potentially reveals a lot about young men's shift to Democrats this week. And we'll unpack that in a minute.
But first, as far as the specifics of this report went, his connection to the college coalition was discovered through an email, right?
Until literally yesterday morning, Microsoft's public sign-in records put the College Republican Patriot Coalition's web domain in an account registered to NJF LLC, which is a company managed by Nick.
But last night, just hours after The Guardian sent questions to Fuentes and the coalition, the domain mysteriously disappeared from that account, and a Microsoft verification code had been deleted from its records.
Which is probably just a total coincidence. That has nothing to do with the fact that Fuentes is one of the most controversial people in the United States.
And, well, this is the first confirmed operational link between CRPC and Fuentes.
The coalition has hinted at ties to the streamer or even a former associate, saying during a 2022 livestream that the coalition, quote, has to pretend like it has nothing to do with Nick Fuentes because Nick has made himself so radioactive to other student groups.
And the student groups that are affiliated with CRPC have also had several Fuentes controversies.
One of those controversies, for example, being the University of Florida's College Republicans chapter, which is involved with CRPC, getting disbanded back in March after there were photos of members appearing to flash Nazi salutes and pose with Winters and Myron Gaines, who is another deeply misogynistic, racist, anti-Semitic asshole.
And that punishment also came after they hosted Republican gubernatorial candidate James Fischbach, who referred to Byron Donalds, who's now Florida's governor-elect, as a...
With that, I'll note the University of Florida eventually restored the chapter as a student organization.
But this new public revelation about Fuentes' connection to CRPC, it seems to confirm that groypers are a significant presence in these alternative conservative college groups.
And part of that's connected to him jumping off the Trump train a lot sooner than a lot of other people.
He's also positioned his America First movement as an alternative to Charlie Kirk's organization, Turning Point.
Which then brings it to the question of, well, how the hell could any of this coalition have any connection to the fact that young men voted blue in the midterms?
And that brings us to Fuentes' recent shift, because a lot of the really troubling core stuff, it's there. But his messaging has changed a lot over the past few years.
Because when? Fuentes is a former MAGA enthusiast, someone who even shared a meal with Trump at Mar-a-Lago back in 2022.
But these days, he's a part of a group of far-right Republicans that have thrown away their MAGA hat, so to speak, supposedly because of Trump's Israel policy in the war with Iran.
Also, you've seen that 180 on Trump to varying degrees from Candace Owens, Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson and more.
Though for some of them, it may have more to do with the fact that Trump is deeply unpopular now, and a number of these people have no actual values. They're just grifters doing whatever they can to get the most attention.
But I'll say in Trump's second term, he was kind of early compared to a number of the other people.
But whatever his motivations may have been, Fuentes has been rooting against Trump leading up to the midterms.
You had him tweeting things like:
"Trump started a war with Iran that we are not only losing, but which also destroyed..."
And the GOP controlled the House, Senate, White House and a 6-3 Supreme Court, but they blew it all away by fighting Israel's war. They have nobody to blame but themselves.
He even specifically instructed the groups to vote for Democrats.
But this is a key thing here. He stressed that this is about voting against the Trump administration.
And this group did not instruct the group and encourage the group to stay home or vote Democrat because they think the Democrats are going to govern better, or that they're fundamentally different than the Republicans, or because they like them or agree with them.
"I believed we needed the Democrats in charge to help us, the nationalist America First wing of the party, defeat and dislodge the current leadership of the GOP."
"I would say it's not as much that we voted for the Democrats. Of course, we're voting against the Republicans, and we're voting against the Republicans for one very simple, very obvious, very easy reason. And that is that the Republicans took us to war in Iran."
And one of the key things is this is exactly the same rhetoric that you've been seeing from CRPC, the coalition we now know is connected.
And the day after the election, they made this long statement blaming the blue wave on the Trump administration, saying that young voters had received a war on behalf of Israel, stunted deportations and a flailing on all fronts.
The Republican Party and the Trump administration in particular has...
With them then also calling on Trump to immediately end the war with Iran and make affordability for young Americans this administration's priority.
And that statement was made on behalf of these conservative groups.
And another thing with this is, you know, this is just all part of a trend.
Manosphere leaders and young men shifting away.
There's been a lot of discourse about how Trump won young men in 2024 because he validated their grievances and showed up on their podcasts.
In that election, you saw young men favoring Trump over Harris 55%.
But then last week they switched up, with 52% of white men under 30 and 76% of nonwhite men under 30 voting blue.
And that was one of the biggest shifts.
While many are celebrating that, I do have to warn you, you are renting them.
And honestly, the only way you have a chance of keeping them is if you really focus on the two biggest questions with keeping this group.
And it's not just unique to them, but is especially important. How much does it cost?
And all of that is to warn that if Democrats do not do everything they can with the power that they've been given, even though they do have it, if it goes back to business as usual, you will lose them.
And what will replace MAGA will be something else.
Because while many Democrats, they may agree with things like, oh yeah, we shouldn't be fighting Israel's war, and shit, and hey, yeah, shit's too expensive. We need more opportunities for people.
A decent chunk of the people that are in this space, they dislike Trump because he is not...
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But then, jumping from that other news, we've got to talk about this New York City elementary school where a teacher's aide has just been charged with murder.
And now you've got one of the big questions being, how is this guy allowed to work with kids?
Because we're talking about a guy who's a 27-year-old from Brooklyn who's now been charged with the murder of Katie Suarez.
And Katie, she was a 28-year-old from Brooklyn who was stabbed in the neck while jogging the Belt Parkway bike path on October 30th in an apparently random attack, and she passed away several days later.
It was then really the security footage that tied all of this together.
Because the video reportedly shows Mahasabha in the area of that jogging path before Katie was stabbed and then running away from the crime scene after the attack.
Then you had another camera catching him dumping bags of garbage in his underwear about 15 minutes after he got home.
And then when he was arrested, Mahasabha's explanation was that he blacked out on the path. And when he came to, he was sitting on a park bench covered in blood.
And saying that he had blood on his hands and clothes when he got back to his apartment, and some of it transferred.
But you had him insisting he did not stab anyone, even when he admitted to bringing a knife with him that night to the path, saying that he believed he had to go or else people were going to come and kill him.
With this, it is very important to note that this guy has a history of red flags.
Back in 2022, he briefly served as a rookie cop in the NYPD before taking military leave to go to the Marines on November 28th.
But then by December 15th, he was discharged from the Marines because, quote, "the character of his service was incongruent with the Marine Corps expectations and standards."
Then you had the NYPD shooting him down when he tried coming back in 2023, with several supervisors saying they were concerned about his behavior and his disheveled appearance.
He was even taken to the psych ward at Bellevue.
And then there's the 911 call from his mother and sister in September of 2024, where they said Marcus was threatening to chop them up, according to two law enforcement sources for the New York...
And while his mom denied that, saying that he never attacked her or his sister, she did say Mahasabha has a history of being in and out of psychiatric hospitals, with his longest stay being two months.
But also, before this guy was a cop or Marine, Mohamed was a full-time school aide in the New York City public school system, getting hired in 2019 before then leaving in 2022 for the police.
And he met a lot of parents and local officials, just absolutely floored to find out that despite all of the red flags after that, he was actually hired again.
At the time of the murder, Mohamed was actually working as a substitute paraprofessional in Public School 200 in Brooklyn.
And this is usually someone who works one-on-one with students who have...
And in fact, officials said that he continued to report to work with these kids even after allegedly killing Katie.
And it wasn't until he was charged with second-degree murder and tampering with physical evidence over the weekend that he was suspended.
And then yesterday was officially...
And so this whole situation, it sparked waves of concern about the screening process for public school employees in the city.
And you had parents saying things like:
"I think to myself, just imagine what could have happened there with the kids."
Asking, "Why was that person there? Why wasn't that person evaluated? Why were our children put in..."
And with that, you had the city council member representing the district the school is in:
"If the NYPD deemed him unfit, why would he then be deemed fit to serve in a classroom of children?"
And that the Department of Education needs to, quote, "take a hard look at how he was able to get through their screening."
And then you actually had Mayor Zohran Mamdani taking this a step further by ordering that review, saying his team, they're going to be looking into how this man with such an extensive history of mental health issues was able to get this job.
And nothing is more paramount than the safety of our children.
To that end, you had Jennifer Weber, an education policy fellow with the Manhattan Institute, offering something of an explanation.
Saying that while applicants are subject to criminal record searches, there isn't an assessment of psychiatric history.
And once you're kind of in the system, they're not necessarily reevaluating your role in the system or reevaluating your records in the system.
And whether or not that's right, you know, it's up for debate.
But you also had many people saying there's no doubt that this situation was a systemic failure.
And while the Department of Education spokesperson declined to answer any questions about hiring specifically, she did say the DOE is looking into ways to improve their background checks:
"We are conducting a review to explore any areas where this can be strengthened and ensure no stone is left unturned when it comes to student safety."
Which somehow both sounds like an actual plan, but also like a bunch of words. That doesn't mean anything.
But for now, he's pleaded not guilty to all the charges, though he's still in custody.
And so we're going to have to see on both fronts how this shakes out, whether it be the murder case as well as the DOE.
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Then Devin, right back into the news, where a few final things we've got to talk about.
How David Ellison blindsided James Gunn when he fired him from DC Studios.
That's what you have The Hollywood Reporter now claiming, that both Gunn and his co-CEO, Peter Safran, they were feeling secure in their roles, that they'd been assured that they'd be safe under the new Skydance merger.
Especially because DC's most recent movie, Clayface, it was seen as a success, bringing in over $100 million on a $44 million budget.
They'd even reportedly wanted to do more slimmed-down DC movies.
But now, boom.
They get told there's been a change of plans, and their replacement is Jeremy, a former MCU producer who was once described as the right-hand man of Kevin Feige.
He's got credits on Iron Man, The Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, but he eventually left to go focus on more faith-based movies.
You've got some sources now saying if Gunn was the guy to deliver F-bombs and lesser-known characters, Latium is the guy to deliver what's more in line with Ellison's broader tastes.
That said, Gunn and Safran are still going to be involved on projects that they were already working on.
So they'll be producers on The Batman Part Two, as well as The People vs. Gorilla Grodd and that Superman sequel, Man of Tomorrow, that's already in post-production.
Actually, publicly, you have Gunn claiming that he is relieved to finally go back to the creative side instead of also having to manage the business side.
And then also in the news, you've got Anthropic, right?
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The company behind Claude, now officially eyeing an initial public offering that values them at upwards of $1.3 trillion.
And it would instantly make them one of the most valuable companies in the world.
It's worth more than Meta was just a few years ago.
And what's wild is that $1.3 trillion is actually their discount.
You've got reports indicating that leadership and bankers were floating up to a $2 trillion valuation if it wasn't for the recent tech market jitters following the midterms and widespread rebuke of AI by voters.
And so with this, you're seeing more and more people on Wall Street saying, hey, there's writing on the wall. Pump the brakes.
That's in part because when you crack open the filing, you have a lot of people saying the math is entering clown-world territory.
Noting that AI, it's bringing in revenue that's worth in the billions of dollars, but that's revenue, not profit.
Pointing out that their compute bills and their infrastructure commitments, they're so astronomically high that they are hemorrhaging money.
And that's just to keep the current models running.
And so a lot of people see this as kind of the ultimate gamble for investors.
Do you hand over just crazy amounts of money on the momentum and the hype without any long-term proven economics?
So as you've got Anthropic, which is going to be listed under the ticker, and being seen by many as the ultimate stress test for the entire AI market, whether it goes boom or bust, we'll see both in the short and long term.
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And then finally today, you had Pete Hegseth getting up bright and early, trying to save his ass.
Right, with them doing this press briefing where he addressed the impeachment threat hanging over his head.
And while you have many people on board, you've got Thomas Massie leading the charge, and so that is exactly who he aimed for when he got behind the mic.
"One disgruntled and defeated congressman is attempting is not oversight. And it's not accountability. It's a political spectacle. A personal manifesto driven by ego and resentment.
Time for one man's final days in Congress to try and do damage to this president, this country, and most irresponsibly, the warriors who defend it."
Writing updated impeachment articles.
He's accused of abusing his office by starting the Iran war without congressional approval, ignoring laws meant to minimize civilian casualties.
And then there are other allegations that he's been pressed about.
But Hegseth today said, hey, it's all a farce, and claiming that this push to impeach him, it's actually just the first step leading to actions against service members, or like the ones involved in the strikes on the alleged drug-trafficking boats.
But Hegseth claims that none of the actions he or the soldiers have taken since this war started are high crimes and misdemeanors.
So he tried to say that this is just stemming from partisan policy disagreements, from people who want to politicize our military.
With that, he tried to compare all this to Trump's two impeachments, saying that since they couldn't finish the job with him the first two times, they're trying for a third time with one of his cabinet members.
With his hat-sucking up, saying:
"If standing with President Trump puts me in that company, I'll take that company every day of the week."
Once he got done with this circus at Olympic-level bootlicker.
He just went on to talk about what they've done so far in the war, downplaying the impeachment resolution again and talking about a ton of support he's had on Capitol Hill.
Claiming that Republicans, they don't want to vote for something that isn't real.
And then after it was over, he got a treat, right?
With Trump giving him a pat on the back, saying he gets an A-plus-plus-plus for his defense against disgruntled, angry, defeated former Congressman Thomas Massie, a total loser.
And he also told reporters yesterday that he would stand with Hegseth even if he's impeached.
But also, no matter how many gold stars or belly rubs that he gets from Trump, Hegseth is going to have to deal with Congress when they take up the resolution later today.
But hey, we'll see what happens.
Because even if they don't get it now, because Massie will need at least three other Republicans to join him, Democrats, they're taking over that place in January.
So one way or another, we're going down a road.
That said, then convicting him in the Senate, that's a whole other battle, and one that might be D.O.A. if the Republicans are still all in on Trump.
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