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Dems BACKSTAB Biden, LASH-OUT Over 'Unconstitutional' New War | Obamas PANIC Over Trump, PLOT Revolt
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Over 100 precision-guided munitions were used in the retaliatory strike that took place in both land and sea, targeting ammo storage production facilities used by the Iranian-backed rebels, as well as launching systems and the Houthis air defense radar system.
That's according to U.S. Air Force Mideast Command.
Now, President Biden stated that these strikes, carried out in partnership with the U.K. and other countries, sends a clear message that the U.S. will not tolerate hostile actors compromising personnel safety and upending free navigation in the Red Sea.
Since October 19th, 130 attacks have been carried out against U.S. forces by Iranian proxies in Syria and Iraq.
And since November 19th, there have been 27 ships attacked by Houthi rebels, aggression that has escalated since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, with U.S. officials saying that these hostilities included the use of anti-ship ballistic missiles.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the retaliatory strikes from the hospital, according to a reporting by CNN.
Austin stated this, Thursday's coalition action sends a clear message to the Houthis that they will bear further costs if they do not end their illegal attacks.
The United States maintains its right to self-defense and, if necessary, will take on follow-on actions to protect U.S. forces.
Congressman Matt Waltz weighed in last night.
michael walz
Until tonight, our Navy ship captains did not have the authority.
To shoot at the missiles being launched at them, to shoot at the actual Houthis, shooting at them from shore, even when they detected them.
So, look, better late than never.
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Yeah, but President Biden, he has received some blowback.
Blowback from select members of his party.
Progressive Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib wrote this, quote, POTUS is violating Article 1 of the Constitution by carrying out airstrikes in Yemen without congressional approval.
And that was backed up by Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna, who also stated, the president needs to come to Congress before launching a strike against the Houthis in Yemen and involving U.S. in another Middle East conflict.
I will stand up for that regardless of whether a Democrat or Republican is in the White House.
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benny johnson
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To the Benny Show, today is Friday, January 12th, 2024.
We have survived our next week of January 2024, and wow, we are barely surviving over here.
The world is going insane.
A new war!
Are you excited for that?
How do you like that now, Libs?
A new war.
Joe Biden has brought you.
Democrats turn on Biden over airstrikes in Yemen, rage against unacceptable violation of the Constitution.
Wait a second, Democrats now suddenly care about the Constitution?
That's amazing.
Holy moly!
We'll talk all about it.
Trump calls out Fannie Willis and Letitia James for White House collusion.
The two people that attacked Donald Trump legally this year in absolute fraudulent trials were all cuddling with the White House right before they went after Trump.
Isn't that interesting, ladies and gentlemen?
And Congressman Tim Burchett joins the show.
Made a ton of news last time he was on the program.
We'll talk to him now about the new Epstein files that are out.
Turns out Tim Burchett was right.
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So we're going to talk a lot about how much Joe Biden has screwed the pooch.
Okay?
And if you've looked into Hunter Biden's Laptop.
You'll see there's literally nothing a Biden won't screw.
And so this is really saying a lot.
Okay?
But the pooch has indeed been screwed.
And I'm sorry for all you dog lovers out there, but Joe Biden is in the dog pound.
He is not doing well.
His party, I've never seen his party like turn on him so viciously and so fiercely.
And there's a reason why they're doing it.
The reason they're doing it is because they know Joe Biden's already done.
They've been allowed to turn on Joe Biden.
There was a time when Joe Biden had this protection mechanism around him where you weren't allowed to criticize Joe.
We've spoken with a number of Democrats, and I don't think I'm betraying any private conversations here by saying in a one-on-one that we had with Tulsi Gabbard a year ago, I sat down with Tulsi for like a long dinner.
And she told me what it was like to run against Joe Biden, to run against the establishment.
You remember that she was pretty, pretty brutal to Hillary Clinton, pretty brutal to Kamala.
She ended Kamala Harris's career.
Tulsi Gabbard, a legend.
And it was interesting.
She and I were speaking at the same thing.
And she was like, here's how it works.
If you criticize someone the Democrat establishment is trying to protect, then they will evaporate all your money.
I mean, they'll literally like drain your bank accounts.
They will assassinate you in all the press.
You will get no press bookings and briefings.
And unlike the conservative media space where there are independent channels, there are no independent channels for the left.
The left simply has establishment, rotted, corrupt corporate press.
That's all they got.
Okay?
Still powerful, but it's all they have.
The levers of power inside of the corporate press are so controlled by the Clintons and so controlled by the Obamas, That if you cross them, you'll never get another interview.
You'll never get another donor dollar.
You'll never be able to fundraise for your campaign, get people to come out on the trail with you, advocate for you.
You are done.
It's a mafia.
It's a communist party, right?
It's the Politburo of the Soviet Union.
You're not allowed to cross the party.
So why are so many people being mean to Joe Biden today?
How is that allowed?
You know, Tulsi Gabbard kind of, like, explained all this to me.
And I was like, man, that's very interesting because the protection veil has now been lifted on Joe Biden.
What you saw yesterday, and let's go through some of these Rolls Royce, let's go through some of these tweets yesterday.
Because Joe Biden launched a new war.
Because that's what we need.
We need a new war.
The country's already $34 trillion in debt.
Our currency is worthless.
We have a fighting force that is incapable of patrolling the earth.
For some reason, we decided to be the earth's police.
Very bad idea.
No nation's ever been able to do that.
The British Empire tried it.
Colonialism in Europe, they tried it.
And this is just our new version of military colonialism.
And it's not working out great.
And it's going to have a terrible...
Unless we, like, figure out how to do it...
More efficiently and effectively and just protect our country instead of every other country on Earth, then it's going to have a terrible result.
It's going to have a terrible end result.
But anyway, Joe Biden decided to, when he became president, decided to spoon the Ayatollahs, invited the Ayatollahs to the White House.
I don't think he actually physically did this.
Sniffed whatever hat they wear on their head.
I don't even know what they're called.
ALX, what are they called?
Like snuggled up with the Ayatollahs, sniffed the hats that they wear, stroked their beards, and said, we love you.
And we are going to do anything and everything we can to screw the pooch.
Okay?
And you don't like dogs either, right?
So your culture doesn't like dogs.
I don't like dogs.
We're just going to do everything we can to hand the Middle East over to you.
We're going to get out of Afghanistan.
We're going to kill a bunch of Americans getting out of Afghanistan.
We're going to not, like, back the Saudis, which is the nation that stands sort of in contrast with Iran in the Middle East.
We're going to put Iranophiles, I guess would be the right way to say it, into our administration.
Robert Malloy is one of those people who is, like, on the payroll of Iran.
We're going to stack all these people, and then we're just going to be, like, limp-wristed.
We're not going to be...
We're going to pull out of the Middle East, and we're going to create this vacuum, and Iran's going to run in and fill the vacuum.
And then what happens?
Every container ship that rolls through the Middle East starts getting bombed to hell by Iranian proxies.
This tribal militia called the Houthis.
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Houthis.
benny johnson
No relation to Houthi and the Blowfish.
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And...
benny johnson
That's what's happening now.
That got so out of hand that, like, the vast majority of the world's cargo that crosses through the Red Sea, they have to now go around the Horn of Africa.
This is disrupting massive amounts of global trade, including American interest trade, making products way more expensive and way more dangerous to ship because of American weakness.
It's a tale as old as time.
American weakness leads to multiple wars, leads to multiple wars all across the world.
And this wasn't happening under Trump.
Why?
Because people were scared S-less of Trump because they didn't know what he was going to do.
Because Trump projected strength.
Trump marched into North Korea and clapped Kim Jong-un on the back.
In a world where we project only weakness and, like, pathetic dementia, fall down the stairs, poop your pants stuff.
I don't say that as an attack.
Marjorie Taylor Greene was on the show earlier this week saying that Joe Biden pooped his pants.
So, who am I?
The great congresswoman said that she received classified intelligence, that Joe Biden pooped his pants.
I mean, I'm not going to question her.
That weakness leads to, of course, the world going to hell in a handbasket, which is precisely what has happened.
And now, the Democrat Party Is turning on Joe over that weakness.
The people in the Democrat Party who still have, I think, potentially a shred of intellectual and moral honesty are saying, why have you started so many new wars, Joe?
That's not really what our party's about.
And we have all these tweets from today, like, savaging Joe Biden.
Here's Ro Khanna, who's one of these guys who, like...
Kind of randomly is on the right side of half the things that I care about.
He's the guy that called for the banning of all stock trades in Congress.
Totally agree with that.
Ro Khanna can generally be kind of a centrist Democrat on some things.
President needs to come to Congress before launching a strike against the Houthis in Yemen involving us in another Middle East conflict.
Article 1 of the Constitution.
I will stand up regardless of whether it's a Democrat or Republican.
Cori Bush.
Here we go.
POTUS can't launch an airstrike in Yemen without congressional approval.
This is illegal and violates Article 1 of the Constitution.
Let's go, Rashid Tlaib.
POTUS is violating Article 1 of the Constitution by carrying out airstrikes in Yemen without congressional approval.
The American people are tired of endless war.
Ooh, baby.
Oh, man, you're pissing off the wrong people, Joe.
Here we go.
The president must come to Congress to authorize military force of this nature, says Congresswoman Velasquez.
This escalation is all the more dangerous, given how high tensions are right now in the region.
Uh-oh.
Oh, man.
And now they're going on CNN.
They're running CNN to be like, Joe Biden sucks.
Incredible.
Here's Ro Khanna on CNN saying that everything that Joe Biden is doing is unconstitutional right now.
This is not good.
It plays into a much larger mosaic of what's happening with Joe Biden.
Check it out.
abby phillip
And you have said that President Biden should not have launched this strike.
Why?
unidentified
Well, I mean, what I've said is he should have come as the Constitution requires to Congress.
And that was echoed in a bipartisan way by Senator Mike Lee, Representative Jonathan Jackson, and many other senators and congresspeople.
The Constitution requires that if there is not an imminent threat of self-defense, that he has to come.
To Congress.
And here we know by your own reporting that this has been going on since December.
He's assembled an entire international coalition.
He certainly should have come to Congress so that we can discuss whether this actually could put more American troops at risk.
I'm concerned about retaliation in Iraq and whether it could draw us into a Middle East war.
And I believe that he did not follow the Constitution.
benny johnson
Why are they being allowed to criticize Joe?
That's the question.
That's the question.
How do you take this moment and zoom out and say, what's actually happening here?
Because it's following the trend of an acceleration of Democrats being allowed to criticize Joe Biden.
Now, of course, people from the GOP are all over this as well.
Donald Trump, first and foremost, on Truth Social.
So let me get this straight.
We're dropping more bombs in the Middle East again.
Where I defeated ISIS, our Secretary of Defense, just went missing for five days, is running the war from his laptop in a hospital room, which is totally true, by the way.
Lloyd Austin has authorized airstrikes from Walter Reed Hospital after going missing for a week.
On December 22nd, the Secretary of Defense, on December 22nd, we have some assets here, Royce.
Put these two up, please.
On December 22nd, the Secretary of Defense went in to go get a prostate cancer removed.
They called that an elective surgery.
No, it's not.
It's a life or death situation.
Secretary of Defense is 70. When are we going to stop these geriatrics from, like, destroying our nation?
Secretary of Defense is 70. He is a, like, this man is a military contractor by trade.
He's getting filthy rich.
And getting all of his friends filthy rich by creating new wars.
And he didn't even tell the commander-in-chief that he was in the hospital under anesthesia, which means he was out of commission.
So Secretary of Defense wasn't operable.
And then he had complications resulting in an ambulance emergency to take him to the hospital.
And he didn't tell anyone anything about this.
The Pentagon lied to the American people.
Didn't tell anybody this.
So Secretary of Defense is like out of commission, like in the hospital.
On death's door, and nobody knows anything.
We do sincerely live in the Soviet Union.
My God.
We've just become a more pathetic, stupider version of the Soviet Union, this country.
This is the same kind of stuff that they would pull in the USSR.
We're like, you wouldn't know that Stalin was dead for weeks, right?
They didn't know how to handle it.
Joe Biden didn't even know.
Joe Biden isn't even upset about it.
Right?
So, we got a bunch of GOP responses here.
We'll just blow through these.
Mike Lee, Rand Paul, Matt Gaetz, Thomas Massey, Nancy Mace.
Everyone's like, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam!
Using the Democrat attack on Joe Biden against Joe Biden.
Tulsi Gabbard, the person who told me a long time ago exactly how this all works, which makes me, which really has me curiously thinking about this.
Like, has me like...
Really thinking, how are they allowed to criticize Biden now?
And I have the answer to you.
I have the answer.
We figured it out on the show.
We were going back and forth with our producers all morning.
And we figured it out.
We locked it in.
We know exactly why they're allowed to criticize Joe Biden now.
We'll prove it to you.
Tulsi Gabbard, though, put this bug in my ear a year ago, saying you're not allowed to criticize the Clintons or the Obamas or anyone in power.
They're proxies.
You know, they're proxies.
Like Pelosi is a proxy for Barack Obama.
Joe Biden is a proxy for Barack Obama.
You're not allowed to criticize these people because you'll be destroyed by the machine.
Here's Tulsi Gabbard saying this is so incompetent.
What's going on in this country?
Tulsi Gabbard herself, I think active duty or a veteran.
She's either active duty or a military veteran.
One or the other.
Anyway, an honorable former member of Congress saying Joe Biden's really, really stupid.
tulsi gabbard
Laura, you know, my greatest concern, both as a soldier who serves in the Army Reserve, a veteran for over 20 years and multiple deployments to different war zones, is how short-sighted, incompetent, and lack of caring that the Biden-Harris administration has for our own national security and the American people.
You know, what they are doing here now appears to be not well thought out at all or considering what the ramifications of this will be and how it serves our national security interests, just like they didn't think through what the ramifications would be of taking the Houthis off of the terrorist list a few years ago,
just like they didn't consider the ramifications of giving Iran over $6 billion, much of which is going not to the well-being and humanitarian interests of the Iranian people, as they were promised, but to fund these terrorist groups like the Houthis,
We have a Secretary of Defense who was hospitalized for five days and the White House leaders in the Pentagon, the National Security Council, the President himself had no idea.
It's hard to convey this frustration both as an American but also as a soldier.
How is this even possible?
Coming from our leaders in the Pentagon and the President of the United States who already turned off the lights for the night even as our military is taking action overseas.
benny johnson
How do you authorize an airstrike?
How do you authorize a new war?
Stop calling it an airstrike.
It's a new war.
We just bond a sovereign nation.
How do you authorize a new war?
From a hospital bed.
How insane of times are we living in?
Our Secretary of Defense just goes missing for five days in the middle of multiple ongoing conflicts that we are agitating and funding?
Remember, there was a peace agreement in 2022 in Ukraine.
They were all going to sign it and Lloyd Austin kicks down the door in his Darth Vader mask and is like...
unidentified
I find your lack of faith disconcerting.
benny johnson
Right?
Like, it's really unbelievably stupid, the people that are running this nation.
And Democrats are starting to say, we've got to hold our own party accountable.
Seth Moulton is a member of the Armed Services.
He's a Democrat member of Congress.
And he's like, I'm going to hold hearings about how unbelievably effed our Department of Defense is.
He's a...
Seth Moulton is himself a veteran, and he's like, there are going to be consequences for Lloyd Austin and Joe Biden on this.
Wait, hold up.
How are Democrats talking like this about their own party?
Watch.
unidentified
He did not handle this appropriately.
It's totally unacceptable.
You can't have the highest levels of our military chain of command unaware that a senior official is indisposed.
And look, I served as a United States Marine Lieutenant, a platoon commander at the lowest level of the officer chain of command.
And I cannot imagine this happening at that level.
I mean, all of us who just work in jobs where we have a reporting chain, we know that if we don't show up, we've got to let our boss know.
I mean, that's just common sense.
So we all care about Secretary Austin and his family.
I mean, my grandfather died of prostate cancer.
We all are concerned about his health.
But he has a responsibility in So wait a second.
benny johnson
When was the last time you heard Democrats calling for consequences on their own party?
What's going on here?
Holy smokes.
Like, wait.
What are we living through right now?
Democrats calling for consequences for Joe Biden?
What's happened?
What's in the water?
What is going on?
Compare and contrast what's happening, of course, now.
A brand new war in the Middle East.
Are you excited for that?
Is that what you voted for?
Kids?
You like that?
All the baristas who voted for Joe Biden with your student loan debt, your nose piercing, your blue hair?
You like your three new wars?
At least.
Count all the new wars.
You liking that?
Are you enjoying it?
unidentified
Hmm?
benny johnson
How many Hootie rebels have crossed our southern border?
That's a great question.
Look at this old school tweet from Joe Biden back in 2020.
Too good.
There is a tweet for everything, baby.
From back in 2020, Joe Biden, let's be clear, Donald Trump doesn't have the authority to take us into war with Iran without congressional approval.
Oh, really?
A president should never take his nation to war without the informed consent of the American people.
Well, guess what, Joe?
Your entire party is savaging you right now over this, and many of them are saying, bring Trump back.
We have a series of clips that we are going to show you that are going to give you a pep in your step as we head, of course, into our weekend here.
Give you a pep in your step.
You're going to love this.
A series of clips that demonstrate how many Americans, Republican, Democrat, urban, rural, Regardless of your socioeconomic background, where you come from, how many Americans are, like, screaming for Trump back?
And how actually, how unified this nation actually is?
What a lunatic you gotta be to support Joe Biden.
Can you imagine, like, a lamer thing in life than to support Joe Biden?
Can we put up the tweet one more time, Rolls Royce?
Can you imagine, like, there's nothing less cool than supporting a guy?
Who sends out?
Who staff sends out tweets like this?
And then he goes ahead and does the exact same thing three years later.
I mean, the exact thing.
unidentified
I mean, I'm telling you, it's the exact same thing.
benny johnson
There was a man who started No New Wars.
He was on TV a day ago in a town hall.
They didn't like his skin color, so they sent him away.
Amazing how...
Diversity, equity, inclusion does not include people with orange skin.
But, hey, who am I?
I don't make the rules.
But Orange Man, good, was on TV saying, remember how I got you no new wars?
Maybe you should recalibrate.
Maybe you libs should recalibrate.
And remember the guy that brought you no new wars, right?
Here's Trump.
donald j trump
I think he had very little chaos.
I think most of the chaos was caused by the Democrats constantly going after me.
And remember this.
Remember that with phony Russia, Russia, Russia.
I mean, if you look at Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, everything was phony.
The Pfizer warrants, the lying to Congress.
They had chaos.
They were the ones that caused the chaos.
We didn't have chaos.
We got the biggest tax cuts in history, the biggest regulation cuts in history.
I had no wars.
I'm the only president in 72 years.
I didn't have any wars.
benny johnson
And everyone cheers.
Guess who was in the audience?
Who may have been in the audience there?
And you're going to wince.
You're going to cringe.
Okay?
The squad.
You know who secretly loves Donald Trump?
The squad.
You know who actually doesn't, not so secretly hates Joe Biden?
Who's the ringleader of the squad?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
There would be no squad without AOC.
AOC is mixed together.
She's a great bartender.
She's mixed together a little cocktail.
A couple members of Congress.
And she's got herself a little problem.
It's a drink that nobody wants to have a sip of.
Very bitter drink called Biden 2024.
Ask the squad, because our superpower is noticing.
We're alive and we pay attention.
That's the superpower of this show.
Ask the squad if they want to support Biden 2024.
You'll get an answer like this.
unidentified
Before we go, I just want to ask about President Biden.
He is saying he's going to run again in 2024.
Will you support him?
alexandria ocasio-cortez
You know, if the president chooses to run again in 2024, I mean, first of all, I'm focused on winning this majority right now and preserving a majority this year in 2022.
So we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.
But I think if the president has a vision, then that's something certainly we're all willing to entertain and examine when the time comes.
unidentified
That's not a yes.
alexandria ocasio-cortez
Yeah, you know, I think we should...
We'll endorse when we get to it.
But I believe that the president has been doing a very good job so far.
And, you know, should he run again?
I think that, you know, I think it's...
We'll take a look at it.
But right now we need to focus on winning a majority instead of a presidential election.
unidentified
Congresswoman, thank you so much for joining me.
I appreciate it.
alexandria ocasio-cortez
Of course.
benny johnson
We're laughing in the studio.
I wish I was on screen for that.
We're cracking up in the studio.
That's not a yes!
Do you want Biden to win in 2024?
It gets worse.
It gets worse.
Cori Bush is a member from the squad in what looks like a Houthi rebel post-American bombing base.
What's the right way to say that?
Her district in St. Louis looks like it was just bombed by American forces and it's in Yemen.
Go through Cori Bush's district.
It is so bad.
It's so awful.
And I'm not trying to compliment Cori Bush here.
I'm trying to say that they know something.
They're allowed to go after Joe Biden.
Watch this time.
This is so incredible.
Cori Bush has asked, do you support Joe Biden?
And it is the single most uncomfortable clip that has ever been broadcast on TV, on national TV.
This tells you everything.
Watch.
Do you want to see Joe Biden run for a second term?
unidentified
She's going to go.
That's an easy question.
benny johnson
It's not going to take long.
unidentified
Do you want to see Joe Biden run?
I don't want to answer that question.
I don't want to answer that question.
He's the president and he has the right to run for a second term.
Absolutely.
But I'd rather you not do that answer.
You've got like two minutes to be in the car.
Yeah, I know.
I've got to get to the other thing.
Well, thanks very much.
Appreciate it.
benny johnson
I gotta get to the other thing.
He has a right to run.
These are Democrats.
This is the future of the Democrat Party.
Joe Biden has a right, I guess, to run for president.
I guess.
They know that Joe Biden is fake.
They know that he's an installed Muppet of a guy named Barack Obama who loved, by the way, To bomb people.
To kill America.
I mean, Barack Obama killed American citizens in drone strikes in the Middle East.
So you have one president who's walking into North Korea, clapping him on the back.
You have one president who's walking in and creating peace around the world.
Not a single new war started.
In fact, many wars ended under Donald Trump.
And the squad's all about no new wars, right?
And even the squad is starting to...
You can tell the Ukraine...
Look, Gaza.
This stuff is starting to, like, break them, right?
That's why you're gonna...
America's gonna be unrecognizable in 10 years.
You're gonna have such a coalition of people on our side because I am also equally, like, against sending our blood, sending our children to go die in some desert.
I am against that.
I don't think I'll ever change my tune on that for the rest of my life.
Fool me once, right?
Iraq, Afghanistan.
What do you think?
I'm against it.
This is how empires get destroyed, by the way.
They want to make new wars so that our empire is destroyed.
This is how you're able to carve up an empire.
You get them entangled in all these wars.
Roman Empire, Greek Empire, German, British.
This is how you destroy empires.
Dutch, French, every empire.
Too many wars, too many times, too much debt.
Destroy the empire.
This is what they're trying to do to America.
If you don't want America to be destroyed, you're going to say, hey, let's pull back militarily.
Like, screw you.
America first.
That's actually how you keep our nation together.
It's amazing the amount of ground that they're losing right now.
A man who would consider himself a justice democrat, as they call themselves, the Tucker Carlson of the left, I think, would be the right way to say this.
Maybe it's not the right way to say it, but his name's Charlemagne Tha God.
He has a huge show on the left that is hugely popular with fans of the squad, right?
And this guy is off the wagon, okay?
This is the most powerful voice, probably the most powerful independent voice on the left when Joe Biden announced his re-election campaign in 2024.
Check this out.
unidentified
Biden running again?
Joe Biden?
Listen, when you start your video off saying whatever, you put out your statement and it says you're in condition to run.
Democrats are goofies, bro.
Look how goofy y 'all are.
Y 'all really judge Trump and people who like Trump when you got this motherfucker running again?
What did he say?
Freedom.
Oh, Jesus.
tim burchett
Personal freedom is fundamental to who we are as Americans.
unidentified
There's nothing more important, nothing more sacred.
tim burchett
That's been the work of my first term.
To fight for our democracy.
unidentified
America's a shamble.
I'm going to fuck what he said.
tim burchett
To protect our rights.
To make sure that everyone in this country is treated equally.
And that everyone is given a fair shot.
unidentified
I'm not listening in a few minutes of this shit, though.
The world is in shamble.
Aren't you embarrassed to be a Democrat?
America is in shamble.
I'm not a Democrat.
Yeah, boy.
Yeah, boy.
I'm not a Republican either.
Yeah, boy.
I'm nothing.
Yeah, I'm not saying you gotta be a Republican.
I'm just out here.
What about you, Chris?
You like Biden?
You voting for Biden again?
I think we could use a fresh new person on the scene.
That's why it's whack that the DNC won't let nobody...
They won't do no primaries next year, man.
Do a fucking primary debate.
Put Joe Biden up on that stage with Bobby Kennedy, who's challenging him, and Marianne Williamson, and whoever steps up to the plate, and let's have a fucking discussion, yo.
benny johnson
Baby, they're losing.
They're losing.
They're losing.
Did you hear this guy?
Again, you don't have to agree with him.
I don't agree with him.
I'm 95%.
But he's like, America's in shambles.
I'm not a Democrat.
I've left the Democrat Party because of Joe Biden and the corrupt DNC.
And how many other people think this way?
We have actually a perfect distillation of this wing.
Of the former Democrat Party that is now flipping to Trump.
By the way, that same guy, the Tucker Carlson on the left, I mean, I guess it's the best way to describe him.
Maybe I'm wrong.
ALX, you can check me.
But like the Tucker Carlson on the left, he has a massive viewership.
This guy said, bring back Trump!
He said it before.
Charlemagne the guy.
Said, bring back Trump.
And he's not the only one.
Our friend Shaney Rich has this...
Fantastic show where he goes out and just interviews people, generally in, like, urban areas or in communities that, like, you would never see a camera, like, pointed at.
And are we ready to play?
Is this a play-by-side?
Yeah, okay.
Check this out, just a little bit of it.
But Shady Rich just goes out into what I assume is, like, what, you know, what I assume is, like, an area that probably isn't, like, a Republican suburb, leafy suburb in Indiana.
I would assume, I think there's probably an urban center in Miami, and goes and asks people, who I guess, like, that's the best way to say it.
Aren't your typical country club Republicans, silk-stocking Republicans?
Oh, I like George H.W. Bush.
Who are you voting for?
It's amazing how CNN doesn't, it's like independent journalists who get this kind of content.
CNN doesn't go out and ask these questions.
These responses, man, they break the system.
Watch.
unidentified
People, you know, we f*** with Trump.
Yeah, I f*** with Trump.
I don't know what everybody got against him.
Yo, he was making s*** the breadwinners, you heard?
I'm a Democrat too, but f*** it, we Trump.
We need Trump back in Oakland right now.
I'm going to be honest with you.
I quit Trump.
To be honest with you, bro, for real, Trump really did this shit.
And I like him because he's about money.
It wasn't about no politics.
He wanted to make America great again.
Do Trump.
Trump be making sure they bread.
I ain't gonna lie.
I'm thinking Trump for life.
Trump for life.
I ain't gonna lie.
Blood down to Trump.
Trump wanted us to get off our ass and get some money.
Trump 2024.
Trump man, we rockin' with you.
What world is this?
I like them He put America first Trump 2024 My bad eye Dude They can't get him For none of the real shit We get it I didn't used to like that But now bro I realize that He met best for this country He's strong Trump got my back.
Trump for life.
Donald Trump, he showed his love.
And he didn't stop.
2024 Trump.
Trump.
We from Baltimore.
I ain't gonna lie.
tim burchett
Hey, we're from Baltimore!
unidentified
I'm talking about my mother...
dog.
I ain't gonna try my dog!
Probably the best name for America right now, look out, really.
My man Trump.
He's gangster.
I like him.
I love him.
Make America great again.
benny johnson
Let's go.
unidentified
Trump for life.
benny johnson
Trump for life?
Come on.
Wow.
You'd think that CNN would be...
Wow, this is very interesting data.
All these guys saying that Trump had them working.
Trump was making people rich and had an economy that worked for everyone.
Trump helped me get my bread.
They tricked y 'all dumbasses to get Trump out the chair and look how that backfired.
Trump, my M-F-ing dog.
Just quoting, okay?
Just quoting.
What are they going to do?
Look at these polls.
There's a real clear politics average.
They can't beat them.
Because the results are bigger than the propaganda.
Look at how Trump has just carved a, like, carved up Joe Biden like a piece of old, rotted wood.
You're going to see ups and downs.
That's just straight game.
What's interesting about this, if you zoom out, We zoom out.
Joe Biden doesn't move.
Joe Biden goes down in his averaging, right?
Joe Biden's going consistently down.
It's not that Joe Biden is particularly moving any which one directly.
He's ticking down ever so slightly.
It's that Donald Trump is carving out massive new audiences.
That's what that is.
Massive new numbers of people that typically would have never voted Republican are now moving that direction.
Saying this, ladies and gentlemen, I want a guy who instead of making new wars, straight up murders the people that try and create destabilization around our world.
They want this back in the White House, the single greatest speech Donald Trump ever gave.
Huge shout-out to our production team for grabbing this clip from the archives.
He died like a dog.
He died like a dog.
He was crying, Baghdadi.
Don't cry, Abu.
Abu, don't cry.
unidentified
You cry like a dog, and you died like a dog.
benny johnson
Those guys in the video want this energy back in the White House.
donald j trump
He died like a dog.
He died like a coward.
He was whimpering, screaming, and crying.
And frankly, I think it's something that should be brought out so that his followers and all of these young kids that want to leave various countries, including the United States, they should see how he died.
He didn't die a hero.
He died a coward.
Crying, whimpering, screaming, and bringing three kids with him to die.
A certain death.
And he knew the tunnel had...
No end.
I mean, it was a closed end.
They call it a closed end tunnel.
Not a good place to be.
I've been looking for him for three years.
I've been looking for him.
I started getting some very positive feedback about a month ago.
And we had some incredible intelligence officials that did a great job.
That's what they should be focused on.
benny johnson
He died like a dog.
Abu!
donald j trump
Don't cry, Abu!
benny johnson
People see that and they see the economic realities of what Joe Biden is doing.
And what do they do?
They go to where Joe Biden is, even if Joe Biden is inside of the most insulated possible location that you can put him, which is inside of like a black church handpicked in Charleston, South Carolina, to have the boom clap hallelujah chorus.
Like, sing along with Joe Biden, whatever Joe Biden's mumbling.
Then they put Joe Biden, this week, inside of the most hermetically sealed, safe, secure location you could possibly shove him in.
And half of the congregation boos Joe Biden off the stage.
We don't talk about this enough because the news cycle's crazy right now, but this happened this week.
Watch.
unidentified
In light, there's no path from this darkness.
If you really care about the lives lost here, then you should honor the lives lost in Walnutra, see fire and fall of time.
See fire now!
That's all right.
See fire now!
benny johnson
you That goes on for like the next four minutes.
Joe Biden just sitting there.
unidentified
Thank you.
What do I do?
benny johnson
This was supposed to be a layup.
If you have a failing Democrat politician, you bring him to a black church where you can control in and out, where you can control who comes into the church, and it's a congregation that gets, you know, sort of whipped into a fury to, like, clap for the guy, even though they know he's a degenerate old racist.
And this is the easiest possible layup.
This is like a Republican, this is like Donald Trump speaking at the NRA, okay?
Like, it's like the same thing.
And Joe Biden couldn't even get through that this week.
They're in panic.
And you know they're in panic.
Final thing we'll say on this, you know they're in panic because of this article that was published this weekend.
Barack Obama going to the White House.
Right here is the Daily Mail article, Royce.
Barack Obama going to the White House to scream at his cutout.
Barack Obama was in the White House screaming at Joe Biden this week.
On an off-the-books, off-the-books meeting.
Are they going to do the old switcheroo?
There's going to come a point where they pull the lever.
And they say, it's done.
You're done.
And that's our ultimate contention here.
Is that they've decided that they're going to pull the lever once all the primaries are done.
Monday is the Iowa caucus.
The New Hampshire primary happens soon after that.
And then South Carolina soon after that.
And then all the states go.
And they have effectively held off long enough.
To make sure that there's no contested primary.
Then Joe Biden, they're going to make sure that Joe Biden has a health issue and that Joe Biden can no longer run.
He pardons his kids, he pardons his family, bows out, and hands it over.
The Democrat Party then becomes like the Soviet commissars to select their new leader.
That's why Barack Obama was in there.
Like, the real.
The real president giving the resident of the White House an earful this week.
They're getting sloppy.
And they're getting terrified.
They're getting concerned.
Because the people they depend on, the people they depend on, the low information, typically don't vote voters that they depend on to go in and cast a ballot because a supermarket tabloid told them to.
Or a rapper told them to.
The rappers are all saying vote for Trump.
And the media commentators are saying, we give us Trump back.
Things have gone to hell.
Things are in shambles in this country.
And they don't know how to fix that.
So they're going to get desperate.
It's going to be wild.
And they know that they can't stop what's coming, ladies and gentlemen.
So keep your head on a swivel.
Keep praying.
The energy is with us.
They're allowed to criticize Joe Biden now?
What does that mean?
It means Biden's toast.
It means Biden's done.
That's what it means.
Ladies and gentlemen, here's our election update.
unidentified
Thank you.
Thank you.
benny johnson
Big time energy this week with Donald Trump doing a town hall with Fox.
And with Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley doing like a parent-teacher conference, a bitter, embittered, like an embittered, nearly divorced couple going to a parent-teacher conference to hear about their problem children on CNN.
And it showed.
Trump's Fox News town hall crushes Nikki Haley DeSantis' GOP debate ratings by a whopping 68%.
We were streaming live, of course, during all of this, and it didn't go well.
Nobody wanted to watch the Ron DeSantis-N Nikki Haley parent-teacher conference.
Rand Paul.
By the way, who has stayed quite quiet about the 2020 race is out this morning with a barn burner of a statement against Nikki Haley.
Check it out.
unidentified
Good morning, everyone.
As I told you yesterday, I'm ready to say something about the presidential race.
I've had a long relationship with Donald Trump, and there's a lot to like there.
I'm also a big fan of a lot of the fiscal conservatism of Ron DeSantis.
I think Vivek Ramaswamy has been an important voice.
I also have listened to and met with the independent Bobby Kennedy.
I'm not yet ready to make a decision, but I am ready to make a decision on someone who I cannot support.
So I'm announcing this morning that I'm Never Nikki.
And if you go to NeverNikki.net, you can let her know that you're not a supporter either.
I don't think any informed or knowledgeable libertarian or conservative should support Nikki Haley.
I've seen her attitude towards our interventions overseas.
I've seen her involvement in the military-industrial complex.
Eight million dollars being paid to become part of the team.
benny johnson
So, an absolute, she goes on like an absolute flamethrower fest against Nikki Haley.
Whew, baby.
Now, what they told us yesterday was that Nikki Haley is the new Manchurian candidate.
They're going to effectively try and take Trump out legally or whatever.
They're going to get Biden to drop out, and then they're going to get Nikki Haley in as, like, effectively a Democrat running as a Republican.
Now, what about a Republican running as a Democrat?
Does that exist?
Yes, it does.
Joe Manchin this morning at a big-time campaign signal, right, in New Hampshire.
Why is Joe Manchin running around politics and eggs in New Hampshire?
So Joe Manchin attending the Presidential Candidates Forum.
At Politics and Eggs, what does this mean?
It means that there is going to be a third party.
They're going to create a uniparty ticket that's going to be Mitt Romney and Joe Manchin running together, and Joe Manchin is schlepping around.
I don't see that lane, but I think it probably hurts Joe Biden far more than it would hurt Donald Trump.
You're not going to break away Trump's base.
Ladies and gentlemen, I mean, it's going to be a wild year.
It's just going to be an absolutely wild year.
Here's Joe Manchin from this morning.
This is, of course, the Democrat from West Virginia who's not going to be running for re-election.
unidentified
Speculation of a big shakeup in the 2024 race is growing.
West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin is in New Hampshire today for a couple events with voters.
Now, the moderate Democrat has not ruled out a third-party bid for the White House.
This morning, he had a few jobs for the president.
When he got elected, and I think people were looking for some normality.
That's my best word, normality.
Some comment down.
Let's work together.
And that truly is what I thought his intent was.
He's been pushed to the far left.
That's the only thing I've said.
And I don't know whether it's just basically the, hey, you owe me because I got you elected and this and that.
Former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, meantime, also getting some attention.
He has stepped back from his leadership role in the No Labels organization.
Many are wondering what the moderate Republican is up to next.
Mark Meredith.
benny johnson
Ladies and gentlemen, It's going to be wild times.
There is going to be a third party.
It's going to be a huge spoiler for Joe Biden.
It's going to be a massive, massive 2024.
And we will be here for you.
And we will, of course, be bringing you people who know a thing about a thing.
And a man who knows quite a bit about the way that Congress operates is the great Tim Burchett from the state of Tennessee.
Congressman joins us now.
unidentified
Thank you.
Thank you.
benny johnson
you you Congressman, typically I wouldn't be asking you to agree with members of the Democrat Party in the House, but it seems like every Democrat is now publicly tweeting that they hate Joe Biden.
Like, the entire squad's up saying, like, our president is acting unconstitutionally, our president is acting illegally, they're going to join you in an impeachment effort?
What's going on?
tim burchett
They draw the wagons in pretty tight, brother.
And thank you for having me on.
Last time I was on, my ex-account at Tim Burchard exploded.
And one of my buddies, who will go unmentioned in Congress, who's very outspoken as well, said, there it is.
That's my mom and daddy's grave right there at the top.
There's a little rock on it there.
So thank you.
Daddy fought the Japanese.
My mama flew an airplane during the Second World War, lost her brother.
Fighting the Nazis, so they're buried in the same spot there.
Mama's name and stuff's on the other side of that.
But it would have been her 100th birthday this week.
Anyway.
benny johnson
Is that Arlington?
tim burchett
No, that's Knoxville, Tennessee, right there on North Shore.
It's pretty cool.
Daddy was going to get buried in Arlington, and I told him, I said, it'd be cool if I could bring your grandkids back.
Your gravesite.
And I said, I doubt I could do that in Arlington.
And he said, all right, let's just bury it.
We'll do it here.
And that's where we ended up doing it.
So it worked out perfect.
But anyway, back to the point.
What was the point?
I'm sorry, I got off talking about my boat.
benny johnson
You said that a member of Congress...
A member of Congress, who's pretty outspoken, was telling you a thing or two about our last interview.
tim burchett
Yeah, yeah.
He was saying how I broke the internet.
And I asked him, is that a good thing or a bad thing?
And he said, no, man.
The Benny Show, that's rocking, dude.
unidentified
That is where it's at.
tim burchett
And people back in Tennessee just were ecstatic.
They couldn't believe that I was there.
And I appreciate you, brother.
And the one thing I appreciate you for is you're putting the dadgum truth out there, man.
And that's what these knuckleheads can't stand.
Is that when somebody like me, you know, the 435th most powerful member of Congress, there's only 435 of us, by the way, gets out and says the truth.
And then somebody like yourself, you know, verifies it.
And then, you know, I had this reporter yesterday say, well, aren't you putting yourself in with Madison Cawthorn and all this stuff?
You know, after I said I wouldn't release the names of any of these people that said they've been blackmailed.
And, you know, you'd think a reporter.
A member of the media would honor that.
Heck no, they don't honor that.
And please quit calling Washington, D.C. the swamp, brother.
The swamp is something God created.
Swamps are pretty cool, actually.
There's a lot of life in there and everything.
This is an open sewer, man.
This is something man created.
It all just flows in and nothing comes out.
unidentified
It's just stagnant.
tim burchett
No, man.
This thing is blowing up out of control.
I think more people are questioning who the heck we're electing to Congress, and they should.
And it's not, you know, we come up here, we go home, honestly.
Is it okay if I call you Benny?
Benny?
Yes.
We come up here, and then we go home and throw the red meat out.
Oh, man, we're going to defund the UN.
We're going to do away the Department of Education.
We're going to stand with Donald Trump.
And then what do we do when we come up here?
Nothing.
We sell our country out.
We get insider trading information.
We block any meaningful legislation that could that could stop that kind of crap.
And then we run home and we and people are just like lemmings, you know, the little heads are going, you know, and and and they reelect us.
But now there's people like you out there telling the truth and they're holding their feet to the fire and they're getting nervous.
And that's good.
And I, you know, I was I got.
Some pretty bad talking to about my last time on there on your show, but I hope I get more this time because, you know, brother, when you're over the target, that's when they fire the most at you.
They're giving me both barrels right now.
I mean, I've got opposition that I was just reading an article in our local RAG newspaper that is talking about my opposition and that, you know, because Burchett's making unfounded claims over things.
Well, every day.
I mean, you go from Epstein to anything.
And I read an article today where a former head, a former high up in the FBI was saying how he felt like they were compromised by the communist Chinese.
Now, you know, I mean, I don't know what else you got to do.
What else you got to say top to bottom?
This trash can needs to be turned over.
The voters get off your butt on Election Day.
And do something about it.
And people ask me, who won the debate the other night?
Donald Trump won the debate the other night.
He won the dadgum debate.
He wasn't there.
He didn't have to be.
And I love it when he says my name.
You know how he says my name?
He goes, Burchett.
I love it.
They said one time that the guy said, you know, I told the president how to say your name.
He goes, hey, how do you say Tim Burchett's name?
And so he says it and he goes, he said he looked in the mirror and goes, Virgin, Virgin, Virgin.
Every time I hear him say my name, I dig that.
benny johnson
Okay, so to all the haters and all the people, I understand how it works.
You probably got brought in by leadership and they said, stop saying that we're all blackmailed.
We're all having, there's like three letter agencies coming after all of us.
This is the headline.
I want to put up one headline.
Since you brought it up, sir, I want to put up the headline that you created that went sort of worldwide.
Last time you were on the program, you said that there are congressmen who are getting blackmailed and getting drunk and ending up with attractive strangers naked or, if you don't mind me paraphrasing, naked in a hotel room.
And lo and behold, sir, if I may, lo and behold, sir, nigh on three days later, Comes an article from the same, here's the same publication, Daily Mail.
Elite clients of high-end brothel busted in Washington, D.C., unmasked as feds seek to charge 28 people with buying sex.
The 28 are believed to be made up of elected officials, government contractors with security clearances and military officers.
God must have a sweet, ironic sense of humor.
tim burchett
Congressman.
He's about justice is what he's about, and that's what I'm about.
And just for the record, I have no suicidal tendencies, and I don't walk near cliffs or anything like that.
So if something happens to me on my plane trip home today, you bring this article up.
And I'm not saying every member of Congress is compromised, but I want to tell you something.
When I was in the state legislature, I'm not a drinker or smoker or anything, but I would always hang out with the liquor lobbyists.
He was a guy named Tom Hensley.
He was the Golden Goose, they called him.
And he'd say, I don't represent...
He said, I just represent tax collectors, Birchit.
He always had that big cigar in his mouth and his expensive drink of Jack Daniels.
And he always was...
The local liquor distributor was a friend of mine, a friend of my family's, my dad's.
And they were always...
They'd always take care of me, but it wasn't anything crooked.
And he told me, he said, Birchit?
He said...
I don't need to control the entire legislature.
He said, I just need to control one chairman.
And I've always remembered that.
It doesn't need to control the whole thing.
You don't need all 435 of us.
Just key people.
And we've seen the Chinese do this.
They even have a plan where they go out and recruit people at the lower levels, like in schools, SGA's, colleges, small town city councilmen.
And they get them at that level.
They put out thousands of these things, these honeypots or whatever you want to call it, in the hopes that one of them leads them to the promised land.
And you know what?
They're doing a pretty good job of that.
benny johnson
How is anything that you said controversial?
We were delighted that the clip blew up.
Played on Jesse Waters' show and so forth.
Because you were speaking the truth.
We were asking questions to get to the truth, which is the first step, right?
It's our job to actually ask the question.
But then you told people the truth.
How is this even remotely controversial when our own federal government is busting massive sex brothels outside of D.C. targeting members of Congress, government elected officials, and people with security clearances?
And also, our own FBI is doing offensive briefings.
Defensive briefings about Eric Swalwell sleeping with a Chinese spy.
Along with multiple sex tape investigations that are happening on the Senate side and the House side.
There are ongoing sex tape, there are pornos being filmed in the House and in the Senate, and people are calling you a conspiracy theorist or you an extremist for noticing these things?
tim burchett
Well, that's what they're using against me in my campaign back home.
I mean, you've got, and this crowd, honestly, Benny, They're more concerned about their portfolios than they are the people.
If it all crashes, or if America's doing great, they'll be waving that flag and doing great.
But if it crashes, they're going to be buying up everything at bargain prices.
And that's why the immigration issue won't get solved, because your national chambers of commerce are the ones that have blocked any kind of reform at our border.
Why?
They're getting free labor in their shops.
They're getting, you know, it's basically a lot of under the table.
They're great working people.
But I tell you what, 100,000 children are missing in that system.
And I've been told by folks about some of the stuff that's going on.
And I don't fear the voters as much as I fear God Almighty.
Because he is going to, if we do not stand up.
For what's going on at that border.
And I mean that with all sincerity, because there is some real evil that's coming down.
And we as Americans know better.
And we've got to tell...
Man, the money changers are in the temple, brother.
We've got to kick them out.
benny johnson
Yes.
tim burchett
And I can't say that enough.
I don't care if you're a Christian or whatever.
I'm a Christian, but I lay awake at night.
That's the one thing I worry about is losing our country.
And we've lost our soul with these 100,000 children, dude.
I've seen too many reports and talked to too many people in the know about what's going on with that.
That's why I appreciate folks like you, man.
You are unhinged and I dig it.
And I dig it.
I thank God that there's people like you because our local media, not so much our media, but a lot of our printed medium is compromised.
I mean, they're out.
They've lost us, and they've left us a long time ago.
benny johnson
So they're simply servants of power, right?
The corporate press are simply servants of power.
It's their job, actually, to hold power into account.
Instead, they take the paychecks, they take the 30 shekels of silver and the payoffs, and then they betray us, the American people, by representing the powerful, and that's wrong.
That's why we're really proud to be independent, and we can ask independent questions that people actually talk about when they're out for a beer with their friends.
Like, when people sit down at a bar, when dudes sit down at a bar and get a beer with their friends, like, did you see that thing about Bill Clinton likes him young, according to the Epstein documents?
That's pretty sick.
Are we actually run by a group of predators, an elite group of predators?
Like, is this right?
That's what got, like, dudes, like, ask questions, like, wait, what's wrong with our government?
That's what normal people ask, because that's really concerning to a parent.
The trafficked children, this is like stuff that is really concerning to normal people, but reporters aren't normal people, and they have the wrong masters.
And so there's so many follow-ups I want to ask on this.
I guess we should start with two things.
You brought this up now twice in this short interview.
Is there insider trading going on in Congress?
tim burchett
Oh, 100%.
But it's legal.
You know, that's the thing.
Is it ethical?
I'd always, when I was mayor, somebody would come in, some snake oil salesman, when I was mayor of Knox County, would come in.
Two terms, eight years.
Paid down debt.
Did crazy stuff like that.
Paid cash for schools.
Gave people raises and didn't have to raise taxes.
And these snake hole salesmen would come in and trying to whatever.
And they'd say, first thing out of somebody's mouth, they'd say, it's legal, boss.
It's legal.
I'd say, but is it ethical?
Because slavery was legal.
I'd hate to compare anything to slavery.
Horrible, horrible deal.
But it was legal.
But was it right?
Hell no, it wasn't right.
It was the worst thing ever.
And that's what they're getting by with on this stuff.
It's legal and they block every bill.
You know, I voluntarily, my $7,000 portfolio, my buddy Tommy Seiler manages it for me and he does very well.
So, you know, as you can tell, I come from money in my new Carhartt jacket.
My wife got me for Christmas.
But no, you know, and that's a true story.
I have individual stocks.
I don't do that stuff.
And we ought to get to that point.
But go ahead.
I'm sorry.
benny johnson
Please, here's the chart.
This is publicly available information.
There seems like there's one bipartisan operation going on in Congress.
If there is a single bipartisan operation in Congress, it's members of Congress beating the S&P 500.
I mean, look at some of your colleagues who have...
Who are like Wolf of Wall Street?
It's incredible.
Why are they even in Congress, congressmen?
I mean, they could be making a mint for J.P. Morgan or for one of the larger brokerages out there, right?
What are they even doing?
So you're telling me that this is all insider trading?
tim burchett
Not all of it.
A lot of them, I know, they have their own stockbrokers and they have letters on file saying they have not told them what to do or how to do it.
I suspect some of them are just...
benny johnson
But their wife can.
tim burchett
Do what?
benny johnson
But their wife can.
tim burchett
Yeah, yeah, that's true.
That's true.
You know, I don't know what to tell you.
I don't like it.
I think you run for Congress, you make a sacrifice.
You know, you don't invent...
I'll tell you the one that drives me crazy, though, brother.
And I get the mean looks and, you know, the...
And I don't give a rip anymore.
I'm over it.
We're going to lose our country, brother.
Is the missile defense issue.
You know, when we sent those missiles to Ukraine, which I voted against, by the way, I'm against all that.
But there were several members of Congress on both sides of the aisle that just happened to own stock in the missile company, corporate, you know, and then that had bought prior to that, you know, before the big announcement.
Because what happened was, We sent our missile defense system to Ukraine.
But by doing so, by the rule or the law or whatever, we had to replenish that missile defense system.
So say we bought that thing a couple of years ago at a, you know, bargain basement price, probably got it on eBay for four or five billion dollars.
You know, good and well, the supply chain issues, it's gone up.
So we had to replenish that.
That's eight or nine billion dollars, you know, among friends.
And then dadgummit.
Look what happened.
And then, yeah, there's my tweet about the 44,000 arms valued over a billion.
They failed to be tracked by the Pentagon.
The Pentagon, this is just such a crooked deal.
And the Pentagon, man, and that's why one of my big supporters in Knoxville no longer supports me because I made the mistake of calling them war pimps.
And I said, you know, their business is war and their business is very good.
You know, we put all this money over there.
We're not tracking it.
Apparently had a few million dollars in the thing we sent over the $114 billion to track it.
It's obviously not being tracked.
The Pentagon gets audited and the history of audits have never passed an audit.
By their own admission, they are missing a half a trillion dollars in assets.
Now, what the hell is that?
What are their assets?
Bullets, missiles, automobiles, I don't know, tanks, people maybe.
But a half a trillion dollars?
And then we rewarded them with what?
20 billion more dollars this year?
It's just crooked.
As we say in East Tennessee, it's crooked as a dog's leg, brother.
And this is shady stuff.
When I kicked the hornet's nest, that's when I got a call from somebody who was very high up in the Trump administration on a Saturday morning.
I'll never forget it.
I was on my couch.
He said, brother...
You have kicked the hornet's nest at the Pentagon.
He said, you need to get bodies around you.
And I was like, I don't know if I like the way that sounds.
I said, this is East Tennessee, buddy.
I said, if anybody gets close, they know it.
And everybody here is well.
We believe in our Second Amendment.
But, you know, do I take that stuff serious?
Yeah.
Is it changing my lifestyle?
No.
But we got to get some guts, Benny.
I'm out here like some conspiracy theorist, but everything I've said, as you've stated, has been proven over and over again.
And to think that we are the best that we can be is just wrong.
We've got to...
Okay, well, there's another article.
benny johnson
Lawmakers, lawmakers, we'll close that one.
Lawmakers traded defense stocks as Middle East crisis escalated.
This from October 2023.
Seems to be backing up exactly what you're saying.
So you're saying, just to break this down, I'm no financial expert, but if you're able to vote to spend taxpayer dollars to increase the value of stocks that you own, then that's actually how you get charts, like the one we put up, where various members of Congress are beating the S&P 500.
Because the Fortune 500 companies can't vote to spend billions to increase market caps for their companies, right?
They have to do it the old-fashioned way.
Hard work.
tim burchett
Absolutely.
benny johnson
So these members of Congress, maybe not all of them, but a lot of them can simply vote to increase the value of the companies whose stocks they share.
Which is something that Nancy Pelosi did famously with the CHIPS Act and then buying NVIDIA, right?
tim burchett
Yep.
benny johnson
Billions worth of, not billions, but millions worth of a Taiwan semiconductor company right before she passes an act to give that company a fortune.
tim burchett
Yep.
benny johnson
That should be patently illegal.
I mean, people should go to jail for this, no?
tim burchett
Well, according to the law, they can't because we're members of Congress.
And that needs to change.
You know, AOC's worked on a bill.
I've worked on one.
It doesn't go anywhere.
It'll pass in the House, doesn't pass in the Senate.
You know, it's just, it's pathetic.
And you know what?
Voters, hold your people accountable.
I don't care what party you're in.
Hold them accountable.
Dadgummit.
It's just stuff like this makes me sick.
And I can't tell you how many times you see stuff like this and you just kind of...
Don't pay it any more attention because it's just so obvious.
benny johnson
So something that is also very obvious and that is obviously verifiably true is that our intelligence agencies and our three-letter agencies raided all of Jeffrey Epstein's houses and took all of his CDs, all of his pictures, all of his images, all of his recordings, all of his hard drives.
They took all this information and they have it currently.
They know who the clients were.
They know who was on the other end of these transactions.
The only people that have ever been punished are Epstein himself and then Jelaine Maxwell.
But none of the clients were ever punished.
The FBI has all this information.
You've called for them to release this information.
This is actually what got you in trouble talking about this the first time.
But that's before we knew what Epstein was doing.
So it's great to have you back on the show because we were talking about sort of in theory, Congressman, but now you've been proven right.
We've seen some of the horrible things that have been done.
And we've heard from some of the obscene victims in their own words, in their own testimony.
And so why would our CIA, why would our FBI be protecting a dead pederast?
And why isn't there accountability for the people, especially Americans, who were clients of his?
tim burchett
Because the big boys and girls, possibly.
That were involved that are on some of those tapes are very influential.
And I say release them all.
You know, if there's minors on there, blur out the faces, whatever.
But let's get to the bottom of this thing.
And we will never, ever get to the bottom of this thing.
Because at the base of it, 20 million conservatives, and I'm afraid evangelical Christians, decided to stay home on election day.
And elections have results.
The trash can needs to be turned over.
The sewer needs to be cleaned up.
And until we decide, well, we've got to put so...
And I know a lot of my conservative friends say, oh, Birchit, but they steal it from us.
Let's put so many points on the dadgum board, they can't steal it.
Get to the polls.
Challenge this stuff.
Challenge your state legislature.
The only laws governing elections in states have to be done by state legislatures, not judges.
Not county court clerks.
Challenge this stuff.
And let's get to the bottom of it.
Let's, you know, we keep electing these prom queens and we think we're going to get a pit bull.
And we don't.
You know, the days, you know, and a lot of my detractors back home, they say the same thing.
Oh, Bertie, you need to compromise.
You need to get along.
I say, where was the dadgum compromise when Pelosi was in charge?
unidentified
Yes.
tim burchett
Only time they want to compromise is when we're in charge.
unidentified
Yes.
tim burchett
And $34 trillion in debt.
It's what this compromise has gotten us.
It just can't work anymore like that, Benny.
It can't.
Good people have got to stand up.
I don't care if you play golf with a guy or a girl.
He went to school with him.
Quit supporting these people that are letting our country go down the tubes because it's just too much, man.
On my Knoxville office, I got a 48-star flag on the wall.
It was behind me.
I think we were doing this last time.
That was on my uncle's casket in the Second World War.
He was too old to go fight.
He was the head guy at a little school, I think.
He was in his 30s.
He enlisted.
They sent his butt home.
He went back.
Ended up dying.
He became a sergeant.
Went through basic training, became a sergeant.
Died in the hedgerows.
And my daddy said he would have been the type that had been president of university.
Not these communists they have now, these left-wingers that just allow all this woke stuff.
DEI and everything else, but a legitimate guy that cared for the people and came from nothing.
And he died.
And every day I look at that, I think, man, I did not want him to die in vain.
And I think about my daddy, four years of his life over in the Pacific.
To the day he died, to the day he died, when I would wake him up, I would have to do it by his big toe because he was in Peleliu.
He was on Okanala.
There it is.
He's on Peleliu.
He was on Okinawa.
He went to China and fought the communists.
He killed people for this country.
In my Knoxville office, in my house, I have several of the firearm guns that he took off of dead Japanese soldiers that he took part in killing.
You know, I can't stress with you enough just how precious what we have is.
And every time I look at that mugshot of Donald Trump behind you, I just think how far we've fallen.
If they are using, they've armed our court system and weaponized or whatever the new cool word is, against us.
And they'll continue to do that until we say enough is enough.
We got to take our country back, Benny.
We're going to lose it.
And I can't stress that enough with you, brother.
I'm sorry I went on too long.
I apologize.
benny johnson
I did want to cover something that you put up.
tim burchett
There's my Uncle Roy right there.
He's the one who died.
That's a.30 caliber Browning.
He's in his 30s right there.
I'm thinking that's pretty cool.
benny johnson
Man, what a generation.
What a generation of people.
So he tried multiple times to enlist and he was finally able to go over and serve his country.
Somebody who was kicked out of the military in a plum position that was handed to him by his father was Hunter Biden.
Hunter Biden was kicked out for crack use in the Navy.
He had a...
Plush PR job in the Navy.
Couldn't even keep that job.
He was kicked out.
The best story.
He blamed two black guys on this.
This has been reported.
He said that he bummed a cigarette off two African Americans in D.C. and they secretly gave him crack.
And that's the official story from Hunter Biden and the Biden family.
Look it up about why he was kicked out of the Navy.
So it was corn pop all over again.
I think.
For the Bidens.
But anyway, that's not what this is about.
This is about your tweet.
You have a selfie with Hunter Biden this week.
There's you with the iconic Carhartt now.
And there's Hunter Biden causing a circus behind you.
And you said that Hunter Biden couldn't stand up to a woman that he doesn't own, right?
That he hasn't paid for, Marjorie Taylor Greene.
And he fled.
He fled, pissed his pants, ran.
Like a stray dog from that hearing.
It seemed like a bit of a circus.
You were there to witness it.
Your thoughts on Hunter Biden this week?
tim burchett
Actually, this picture is when I was walking in.
I took a little creative.
When he walked out, I was sitting next to Marjorie.
And I said to her, I said, he can't handle a strong woman.
And then she said, you can't handle a strong woman.
But anyway, so, you know, and I walked in.
It was kind of funny.
I go to this little conservative group.
If you're ever in D.C., I would love you to speak to our conservative breakfast that we have on Wednesday morning.
You would love it.
There's about 15 true believers in there from Congress, and you'll recognize some of them.
Some of them you won't.
But I'm walking in.
I'm getting texts that morning from breakfast.
From reporters saying, hey, have you seen Hunter yet?
I'm like, what?
Hunter's not supposed to be there.
The press knew about it.
The Democrats knew about it.
They had four chairs that were up front where nobody was sitting in.
And then I'm told later by a respected journalist, literally, that he's doing a documentary and this is part of it.
And the guy who's following, you don't see him, but he's sitting beside him, the purple or the whatever.
benny johnson
Kevin Morris, yep.
tim burchett
Yeah, you know, he's the one who they're saying, who now is claiming he's an attorney.
He's his attorney, and he can't be called in for questioning because of, you know, client privilege, whatever.
And so it was a clown show, and it was very unfortunate.
And Jamie Comer, you can see just sitting there like, what are you going to do?
The guy walks in, he walks out, and he's just playing up the press.
And the press is a bunch of lapdogs.
But there was one guy who kept following him and asked him what kind of crack he smoked, which I thought was kind of humorous.
I said, oh, that didn't happen.
And then I listened to it again, and I was like, sure enough, there's some old guy back there who just kept saying, hey, what kind of crack do you smoke?
But, I mean, it's pitiful, dude.
I think this guy's 20 million plus dollars that flow through this guy.
And then the statutes run on on his tax evasion, apparently on some of it to think you and I. I mean, if you sell five hundred dollars worth of stuff on eBay, you're getting you're getting noticed by the IRS.
This guy's into the millions, millions of dollars.
And they've set up 22 different shale corporations, 20 bank accounts, letters from banks saying, hey, they're not selling a product.
And the Democrats, what do they say?
Oh, what about Trump?
He did all that.
I said, yeah, he sold crappy ties and cheap steaks.
I mean, you know, he sold a product.
Let's be honest.
And he was in real estate.
This guy, he doesn't even try to hide it.
He just takes it because he's influential.
You know, and he does paintings or something.
I paint Bigfoots, and I can't get anybody to give me a nickel for one of my drawings of Bigfoot.
You know, so what the heck?
I can't get one of these fancy art studios with a latte offering me to put my paintings up.
benny johnson
We'll take one for the studio.
If you send me a painting of Bigfoot, Congressman, it will be hanging in the studio.
tim burchett
Well, it's more of a Sharpie of Bigfoot.
I don't want to get out of my medium.
benny johnson
Your team is demanding that we wrap.
There's so much more we wanted to get to.
Your team's demanding that we wrap.
Apparently you have a plane that you're going to miss.
I just want to get this on the record.
You said that Hunter Biden's made millions and nothing's going to happen to him.
Do you know that Nancy Pelosi insider trades?
tim burchett
She makes money.
Her husband makes a lot of money.
There's actually stockbrokers now.
I was told by some stockbrokers that actually follow their trades.
And they just mimic theirs.
So, you know, I don't know what she does.
I don't care.
I'm over it.
The whole bunch of this trash can needs to be empty, Benny.
You're just the guy to help us do it.
benny johnson
Hey, let's do it.
Flip it over.
Major Flight Congressman, God bless you.
tim burchett
Thank you, Benny.
God bless me.
And you stay safe, brother.
Remember, Tim Burchard is not suicidal.
unidentified
Okay.
benny johnson
We'll see you.
tim burchett
All right.
Thank you, man.
And it's x at Tim Burchett, all right?
benny johnson
Put it up.
Toss up the account.
Make sure we get the follows.
125,000 people can't be wrong.
Here is the account.
Everyone go follow.
And if you do follow, you'll see bangers like this.
Tim Burchett with the CIA heart attack gun.
CIA unveils heart attack gun?
Battery operated gun that shot a dart?
Frozen water?
tim burchett
I get the mini bump every time I'm on you, man.
I get a bump for my Twitter.
It goes bizarre.
Thanks, brother.
unidentified
See ya.
benny johnson
Watch out for the heart attack gun.
tim burchett
You got it.
See you back.
unidentified
Bye.
Bye.
you you you Too much fun.
benny johnson
Too much fun.
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Attack, not physically, but like expose those who harm children.
Man, the harshest words spoken by Christ are about people who harm children.
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