Transcript of Bloodbath Explodes as Trump White House Faces Reality

I do have something to share with you all. We're now beating every major media company in the country, including The Daily Mail and Fox News, in terms of engagements, and we're doing it together. Independent media is surging, and that's because of you. So if you can, subscribe, support this work, like, comment, share, and truly thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything. It really means the world to me. I do want to start at the United States Department of Justice, where this happened today. Attorney General Todd Blanch has accepted the resignation of Jason Redding-Kinaris, Donald Trump's U.S.

attorney for the Southern District of Florida. Blanch gave no reason why. Quiñones has said—has not said anything publicly. But here's why it matters: the Southern District of Florida covers Miami and Palm Beach, home to Mar-a-Lago. It's one of the most politically significant federal prosecutor posts in the entire country. He also was the man who was leading Donald Trump's grand conspiracy—grand jury investigation—against his political opponents. And it comes just one day after Harmeet Dhillon, the head of the Civil Rights Division, walked out the door. Dhillon was a Trump loyalist who pushed out roughly three-quarters of the division's lawyers, sued more than two dozen states for voter roll data, and lost every single one of those cases, including in front of Trump-appointed judges.

So now two senior Justice Department officials gone in two days, and the White House counsel's office is staffing up because they need to lawyer up. The question right now in Washington is now: who's next? Because the bloodbath inside the Justice Department is only set to grow, and it's going to grow fast. One answer, though, about who might be next is Pete Hegseth. Republicans have officially found their fall guy, and his name is Pete Hegseth. Trump launched the Iran war, but with two years left in his term, Republicans won't blame him directly.

So they're blaming the Defense Secretary, who cheered him on. And it's not subtle. Two sources told The Hill that Trump is asking allies about Hegseth's standing, and one said he's in a lot of trouble. A Republican congressional official called his position "completely untenable." Congressman Thomas Massie is reintroducing eight articles of impeachment next week, and, well, both Democrats and Republicans are now lining up against him—with him. Massie says the only thing that stops is Hegseth resigning. So what does Hegseth do? He went on the Pentagon steps in this video, under "Department of War," signed, posted a video saying, quote, "It's all about the politics of personal destruction.

Didn't work against President Trump, and it won't work with me." Even invoked Butler, saying Trump shook his fists and said, "Fight, fight, fight, and so will we." Well, here's the thing. Even Hegseth's own former Pentagon spokesperson, John Ulot, said the country has had a, quote, "cross between a court jester and a personal trainer running the Pentagon." His own former spokesperson said that. And the parallel is very hard to miss. Back in 2006, voters pushed George W. Bush—or punished George W. Bush—for an unpopular war, and Donald Rumsfeld was gone right after the midterms.

History may soon be about to repeat itself, and it all comes as Trump is reviewing plans to potentially resume strikes on Iran. And now, the biggest loser: Elon Musk. Musk spent more than $445 million on Republicans this cycle, $225 million in Texas alone trying to elect Ken Paxton. He lost. And listen to this: Cameron County, Texas, which is home to SpaceX's Starbase, Trump won it with 52.5% of the vote two years ago this year. James Talarico won it with 68% of the vote. Gina Inohosa 67% of the vote.

Musk's own backyard turned on him. Wall Street is also punishing him. Tesla and SpaceX shares dropped hard after the election. Musk lost over $100 billion in wealth in just two days. And now Musk is also announcing that Tesla is ending production of the Cybertruck in mid-2027. The truck that was supposed to take on the Ford F-150, because in the words of Ars Technica, quote, "an all-too-visible reminder of this politics." And Musk's response? A joke. "Yes, my election-interfering space lasers didn't work this time, but the worst for him may soon be ahead."

And then there's the arch. Because overnight, while you slept, a commission stacked with Trump allies approved his 250-foot arch, 8 to 4, after overwhelming opposition. But within an hour, a federal judge blocked it all. Here's Judge Tanya Chetkin. That's her order. Blocking the judge—or blocking the building of the arch. And I do want to hear—I want you to hear directly from a veteran who sued. Because this entire speech is worth hearing.

Now, I didn't experience directly any abuse other than the sort of quiet avoidance, the polite dismissal of you as an inconvenient reminder of a war that was fading from popularity, and they wanted it to fade from their mind. So, like all—most of my buddies—I put my head down, plowed forward, trying to leave Vietnam behind.

I went year-round through university, took the foreign service exam, came in, and I had a 34-year career. But when I came back from my first posting in Moscow, I was in the State Department, and I attended the 1982 dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. And I had some of my Vietnam flight school buddies who came down to join me. And I can't tell you how emotional it was—emotionally cathartic for some of them—who were carrying, carrying that memory and that burden, and they had been basically ignored and dismissed.

"You're inconvenient. Go away. Get on with life." I would then walk over from the Vietnam Memorial to the Lincoln Memorial and look across Memorial Bridge at Arlington House and Arlington National Cemetery. God, by then I'm in my late 30s.

And I would feel the hurt, the anger, the pain, the trauma to begin to recede. That's why this means so much. And I have a duty as a Vietnam vet, as a survivor to my buddies buried there, to honor their sacrifice and protect their memory from this vainglorious monument.

This is not just, I'm sorry, another park. This is something profoundly important and incomparably different. And we have to remember that, respect it, honor it, protect it. Thank you.