In this I've Had It and IHIP News episode, hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan react to a string of news stories about the Trump administration. They discuss Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying they were following the president's orders on military operations, which the hosts call a classic cover-your-ass move.
They also criticize the Republican choice of Jim Jordan as minority leader, citing allegations about Ohio State and the Epstein files. Finally, they question whether Donald Trump wrote a farewell letter to Joe Biden that appears in Biden's new book.
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All right, something is happening with Trump's cabinet. Rubio says Hegseth "following the orders of the president." All right, let's play the clip.
No, but the President of the United States makes these decisions. I mean, ultimately our job is to execute, you know, on the President's orders. Now, the President takes a lot of input from people in his administration. He takes input and ideas from our partners and our allies around the world.
I've heard enough.
Outside experts are the people he talks to.
The buck stops with the President. They are following orders. Here's Hegseth, and we played this on an earlier episode, but I think it's important because we didn't have Marco's statement at the time. Play Hegseth.
As for the articles themselves: Iran, the cartels, Maduro, Yemen, every one was a lawful operation ordered by the Commander in Chief, then ordered by myself.
Okay, so this is really interesting to me. This really struck out for me, how coordinated this is. And so I am in two different camps on this. Number one, there is this whole loyalty thing. I'm the boss, the buck stops with me. But also, Trump loves to blame everybody else for his problems. You know, the ballot machines, Joe Biden, inflation is still Joe Biden's fault, Barack Hussein Obama, crooked Hillary, on and on.
That's his MO, right? And so with these two saying that, it's pretty smart because they're saying, you know, he is the Commander in Chief, he calls all the shots. But also they're saying he's not pinning these war crimes on us, what I believe to be war crimes. You know, they're also saying we were ordered by our boss, who happens to be the Commander in Chief. And so any notion that Trump's going to blame all of these military quagmire debacles on these two, in my opinion, Pomps, this is a classic CYA.
I completely agree. And I don't think Hegseth is smart enough to think of that himself, but I think he has advisors. I do think Marco Rubio has been around the block enough. And there was so much leaking over the weekend that he was going to blame this all on Pete Hegseth, the loss. Here's my thing. They also remember that Donald Trump has immunity from prosecution on executive powers. This is an executive power, and they're saying, not me. I did it. But then it reminds me Mark Kelly, Elise Stefanik, Jason Crowe, they're all there.
You don't have to follow illegal orders. Now, we know Hegseth, he just, he was lathered up in a flop sweat. He was so excited to murder innocent people, in my opinion. So here, I think it is classic CYA.
Cover your ass.
Cover your ass. But here's the deal. That doesn't help them in at the Hague International Criminal Court. Doesn't help them.
No, it absolutely does not. So I just think that's a pretty interesting, you know, we're seeing the aftermath of the blue nomi. We see that Trump is doubling down, which we know from historian Ruth Ben-Ghiot, this is what dictators do. They double down. They never correct course. So he said, hey, I know our immigration policies went too far. We know Melania was pissed off at him because some of her friends were getting deported. He's like, okay, I'll promote PeeWee German, the biggest sadist on the planet who traffics in white nationalist ideology, right?
And then the Republicans are reacting to this by this is just, they are doubling down on sexual assault of young women, girls, and now boys. Pop this up. Midas Tuch is reporting the GOP lost the House and has now responded by making Jim Jordan the minority leader. The same Jim Jordan who multiple former Ohio State wrestlers say knew their team doctor was sexually abusing them and Jim Jordan did nothing.
This is who they chose after getting crushed at the polls. And Pomps, this is that, what historian Ruth Ben-Ghiot is talking about. This is the double down. This is the collapse of a complete moral collapse on full display. They're doubling down on the moral collapse. And also, like little, little, little Moses Mike, I mean, he was just such a loyal foot soldier. And when he's not useful anymore, it's just like scram. Who is the most depraved person that is compromised with all of this sexual assault shit that all of us are, you know, mentioned in the Epstein files allegedly multiple times.
So they put Jim Jordan there, which is just the moral collapse that the Republican Party is engaging in is just really stunning. And everybody should go watch the documentary. Pumps and I watched it on the Ohio State. Jim Jordan, in my opinion, absolutely knew and covered it up. Just like the current FBI and the current Attorney General are covering up the Epstein files. And this is what Jim Jordan said about Todd Blanchett's meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell. Play the clip.
I don't think the Democrats would have released that. I mean, it was their Justice Department who handled all this. You don't think the Garland Justice Department and the Chris Wray FBI would have released everything? We knew President Trump didn't do anything wrong here. He said that repeatedly. This transcript is the whole transcript and it confirms that. So I think this is, there's nothing there, it seems, based on what we got from the interview of Ms. Maxwell.
This is so stunning. I mean, this is so stunning. Ghislaine Maxwell is a convicted sex trafficker. She, I mean, she's perjured herself before. Why would this be different? Like this, the fact that knowing, like there is, there is what is coming in terms of the Epstein files and the releases that we are going to see under a legitimate oversight committee is going to, I am sad to say, I believe it's worse than what I even think. And I think it's terrible.
And the depravity that was inflicted upon these women, the fact that they had nobody to turn to. And every single person that has been interviewed victim-wise that I have found has been the first, has easily said Ghislaine Maxwell was in on the sexual abuse. She was the predator that came and found us in our school uniforms after school. So for him to sit there and say that, knowing all this shit is coming, moral collapse. This is just, he might as well have just taken any ethics and morality, any pledge to the Constitution, and he just watted it up and threw it away.
And I, you know, we always look to Ruth Ben-Ghiot, this is what they do. And they know the truth is coming.
Yeah, I think they absolutely know the truth is coming. So you have these two things happening in tandem. The savvier Marco Rubio, I'm not saying savvier morally, but he's just been in government and he knows how these things work more. Basically saying Trump ordered the hit. Do you remember, what was that movie with Jack Nicholson? Who ordered the code red? Who ordered the code red? And then they're finally like, you're goddamn right. Jack Nicholson is like, you're goddamn right, I ordered the code red. I think we have that situation with Rubio and Hegseth.
And you're right, Hegseth would have people surrounding him saying he's going to pin it on you. You're going to get impeached. He's going to blame the entire war on you. You need to start saying Trump ordered it. And then when he calls you out on it, say, well, you're the boss. You know, then he can just, you know, flatter him. I think it's interesting that that message is completely in sync. What we need to be on alert for are other cabinet members starting to use the same language about, well, I'm just carrying out, you know, the President Trump's orders.
I think that we're going to start hearing that over and over again because what they're going to do by 2028, because this will be a bigger shit show. Every time Donald Trump governs, it's shit show. It was from 16 to 20. It has been from 24 to 26. And it will be the worst from 26 to 28. And I think it's going to be interesting because their whole theory is going to be the one-man theory. Trump did it all. The Republicans are still great. And you're going to see like Nikki Haley and Governor DeSantis, Governor Kitten Hill rising up saying we need to return to the party of Reagan.
This was a Trump thing. He hijacked the party. He lied to people. We just, you know, we thought this is what the people wanted. He went too far. And it's going to be the most nauseating.
We tried to stop him. I tried to be the adult in the room. And you know what I want to happen? I want to live stream for like 24 hours the cabinet meetings where they just have their lips plastered on that man's ass, telling him how great he is, how handsome, how fit, all the things. Because they, every single one of them is complicit, in my opinion. I don't even think they're arguable.
They're all cowards. All right, another little mystery has come across the desk here at IHIP News. And Joe Biden's book has dropped. And in it, he includes a letter that then President Trump at the end of his first term, so this would have been after the 2020 election, the presidents leave a little letter for the incoming president in the Oval on the Resolute Desk. So Joe Biden included the letter that he received from Donald Trump.
And it says, dear Joe, coming to work every day in the Oval Office is a blessing beyond imagination. History resounds from every wall, every statue, every beautiful painting in every corner of this magical place. Each staircase, hallway, and door leads to yet another door and memory, another inflection point in the glorious story of America. I hope you take a moment every single day to take stock of where you are and the people who came before you, the titans who shaped the course of human events.
You now have the opportunity to choose your place in history. And I know you will be true to yourself and the American people. Many presidents have come and gone who simply governed as Republicans or Democrats. Largely, they did not change history. They were just swept along in its relentless tide. This will not happen to you because I know how much you love the American people. Not only are you joined by the past, but you carry the hopes and dreams of the entire nation on your shoulders.
The gravity of that fact never leaves you. It is the anchor that grounds every decision you make. Your strength, your deepest reservoir of energy comes from the knowledge that millions upon millions of people are depending on you. Your ambitions and aspirations are the reason you are here with so many counting on your success. May God bless you and Jill. And may God bless America. Sincerely, Donald.
Well, I think it goes without saying that he didn't write that. I mean, I don't think we even have to.
Let's just go down memory lane.
Okay.
At the time that this would have been written would have been after the insurrection where his best friend at the time was Mike Lindell, the My Pillow guy. He went to the Oval every single day with rabid conspiracy theories. Rudy Giuliani, fresh off the Four Seasons total landscape debacle press where Dye is running down his face at the exact same time that they called the race for Joe Biden. And they thought they were going to be at the Four Seasons Hotel and they were at the Four Seasons total landscaping.
He's hanging out with that Kracken lawyer and a bunch of other crackpot nut jobs, right? He refuses, refuses to go to the peaceful transfer of power and instead packs his toys up, steals a bunch of classified documents, and slinks down to his flea bag property, Mar-a-Lago. There's no fucking way that person wrote this letter.
It never.
Happened that he might
have had somebody tell him what to write. I believe it was plagiarized. And I think ultimately, I think Joe Biden released this because behind the scenes, people have put together that it's been plagiarized. That's my prediction.
Here's the deal. If Donald Trump would have written that letter right before he skirted, it would have said in all caps with misspellings, the people like me more than you. If you wouldn't have cheated, I would have won in a landslide. You're a cheater, cheater. They like me more. That's the kind of shit he writes. So there's, you could take my arm, you could take every single part of my anatomy one at a time. And I will never believe even under torture that he wrote that. It just never happened.
Never.
It's not possible. We know Melania, we know Melania plagiarized Michelle Obama's speech. We know she did. And I think it's fair to say that at some point this is going to come out. Somebody's going to say, this is funny because I wrote a letter like this, like Barack Obama left it for him. I don't know if those letters are out. We'll research it. I'll get Ryan on it. He didn't write this. This was before the ChatGPT era writing shit. Somebody wrote it.
I'm just shocked if an aide wrote it that he had somebody around him in the final days of the president.
That was that saying.
That could write this crap.
No, that's a great point. Because it was Netshop City.
Rudy Giuliani with hair dye at the Four Seasons total landscaping or the Kracken or the My Pillow guy.
Yeah. Stop the steal, the whole thing, the big, I mean, all the shit, all of it. I mean, remember, this was hot off of him trying to have his vice president murdered by his supporters. Let's not forget that. But he's going to say, you have the weight of the American. Shut up. Nobody believes this. I don't even, I would, I'm shocked that Trump hasn't come out and said, no, I didn't write that. I told that motherfucker that I won and they like me more.
Pumps, we're in the middle of the day right now. This could come out at three or 4 a.m. tonight. I mean, I mean, you know it's coming. I mean, the more this blows up online, if it happens to come across his desk, he'll tell the bunny boiler, I need for you, I did not write that. Mike Lindell, the My Pillow guy wrote it and then he forged my name. Or I mean, something. I mean, he will absolutely 100% deny writing this. Because, and actually it's the truth, because I don't think he wrote it.
No, I don't either.
Yeah, we might actually get the truth out of him once. All right, that's all we have. Make sure you're subscribed to our channel. Welcome to all of our new subscribers. We've gotten so many. Leave us a comment. Become a member if you'd like. If you're listening, make sure you subscribe to both I've Had It and IHIP News and order my book. It's called Not Today Fascist. And the link is right below in the show notes. We'll be back later with more news.
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