Trump Faces Growing Scrutiny Over Veterans Day Controversies and Political Setbacks

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Donald Trump posted, "We render you the highest salute while Donald Trump has thrown our troops overseas and at home under the bus as you have the Maggery Publicans in the House of Representatives yesterday rushing to push forward massive cuts to the VA as the Service Member families here in the United States who loved ones are abroad right now in the Arabian Sea aboard the USS George Washington and the George HW Bush have no clue what is going on. Is Donald Trump going to do a deal or not a deal? Is he going to escalate this catastrophic war I'll talk about in a little bit in this video. A meeting that just went down in Norfolk, Virginia where the family members of our sailors and Marines aboard the USS George HW Bush were livid and absolutely furious at the naval officers at the admirals over there who were not giving any answers about what is even happening with this catastrophic war. The Trump regime is posting weird photos of Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller. How Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller have partnered on key issues in the Trump administration or the Trump regime's White House Rapid Response Account attacking Washington Post reporters who did an article Marco Rubio's personal travel appears to significantly outpace that of his predecessors and then the Rapid Response White House account goes these morons at the Washington Post are criticizing Rubio for attending his son's college football games. He's the greatest secretary of state in modern history. No, he's absolutely the worst and also it should be noted that all of these Trump regime officials right now are currently hiding in bunkers. We have Treasury Secretary Besson, bunker boy. He's hiding in a military base. He evacuated his home believing that Iran is going to kill him. Donald Trump's attorney general Todd Blanche, bunker boy evacuated his home living in a military base right now. That's the Trump regime, a bunch of bunker boy. Speaking about a bunker boy or whatever you want to call him, loser boy, you have former or I guess still in the lame duck session speaker. Maga Mike Johnson, who's a bull, he's no longer the leader. The minority leader is Jim Jordan, the 120th Congress, which gets sworn in January. In any event, as Aaron Rupar says, all it took was losing an election for Maga Mike Johnson to become a very big stickler that targeting your foes with investigations is bad. Maga Mike Johnson is like, oh, there's been a lot of wild accusations that Donald Trump and the people who were work with Trump are corrupt. These are such wild accusations. Wild accusations. Y'all are covering up child sex trafficking rings with the Epstein files in plain view. Y'all are the most corrupt. The word corruption actually doesn't do it just as corruption refers to like a virus that you need to get rid of and an otherwise healthy body politic. This entire regime is corrupt. It's a zombified disgusting entity that just needs to go. That's the message that the American people send with the resounding victory, the midterm shalacking, the Maga Republicans got the biggest midterm shalacking in U.S. history. And then yesterday, we also learned that Scott Cologne will win the Mississippi Senate race. And we will be able to call Alaska for Mary Pell tollas soon as well. But I digress. Here's what Maga Mike Johnson had to say. Play this clip. Mr. Speaker, the president suggested that Democrats made a vector criminally and now they're investigating him going forward. Have they acted criminally? What have they brought? Well, lots of there's been a lot of wild accusations and and suggestions of what they will do to politically target their foes. And I think it's law fair. I think there's going to be a lot of abuse of that. I'm not sure how much of it has been done yet. But I hope that we're wrong about that. We're all about Maga Republican, Congress member Tom Emmer, who clearly didn't learn any lessons from this election. He's sticking with the the Democrats are Marxist, Socialist. You're still doing that talking point. Donald Trump is the biggest communist authoritarian that there is. He sees the means of production of all of these AI companies likely to help cover up all of the national security violations. They were engaged in while our top chips and while our top semi-conductor classified technology managed to find their ways into China and Russia and elsewhere. Now our adversaries have all of it. Great work, you traders. Here's what Tom Emmer had to say. Play this clip. I'm looking at rocking the Democrats world. He's Marxist, Socialist, Anarchist that got elected Congress on a lie. Our job for the next two years is to hold them accountable every single day and expose them to the American people who they actually are. And you know what? Rob, we can win back a majority in 24 months. Okay. Then yesterday we have to check in. How was the Maga Republican freedom caucus handling what's happening last week? Here's what they had to say. Play this clip. God is still on his throne. He's not surprised by any of this. And if we as a nation turn back to him and seek him and we bring that back into the halls of Congress, I do believe God will bless this group. God will bless our party and God will continue to bless this country. So we then heard from the White House Council last night, Will Sharf. Will Sharf went on news nation or news max or one of these shows, one of these regime media shows. And Will Sharf was asked about this threatening letter. He said he's threatened Robert Garcia, the Democratic Congressmember soon to be chairman of the House Oversight Committee. And Will Sharf is like, they can't investigate us. They can't, we just need a little decorum here. A little bit decorum. That's what you're saying. After all, the criminality, all the Trump regime targeting of its political enemies and the most unlawful and brazen way. Guess what, Sharf? Congress is a co-equal branch of government, co-equal. And we know you were used to mag a mic and your stuages like that who didn't know what their role was of Congress. But guess what? Congress is a certain it's power again. Democratic Congressmember Garcia, Democratic Congressmember Jamie Raskin, House Oversight, House Judiciary. They are about to deliver a fricking smackdown to you. Listen to what the White House Council has to say, play this clip. You mentioned the Supreme Court stance on frivolous investigations. You're referencing what's called the Watkins case from the 1950s. Talk about that and what that case elicited, what that judgment elicited. The Supreme Court has long said, as you said, this goes back to Watkins when we're talking half a century and more of accumulated case law. For Congress to investigate, they can't investigate for the purpose of inflicting pain on governmental officials. They can't investigate things for their own self-aggrandizement. These are blatantly inappropriate uses of Congress's power. I go back to Congressman Garcia's comment about his own pettiness as being his driver. That's not what the law allows for. In fact, the law specifically prohibits Congress from investigating, from using its investigative powers for these improper purposes. We're going to see how they proceed not to control. We're going to see what happens in January, but we're ready to fight tooth and nail here. If that's the road, they want to go down, Rob. Understood. Then we heard from Angie Wong, who's a leader of the Republican Party in Miami, a Republican committee woman, and she attacked the Arlington Cemetery Army Sentinel, the guy guarding the tomb of the unknown soldier, where Hegsit was being rude and laughing and taking photo ops in front of the tomb. According to the Republicans, though, who really deserves to be blamed was the guard. Was the Army Sentinel here? Play this clip. All winners will be taken out of fear of silence. All right. Angie, any thoughts here as we watch this? This is from earlier today. Yeah, I mean, talk about paying respect. I mean, you know, you just have the war secretary, Leigh Arif, on Veterans Day, and then to be yelled at. I mean, look, I understand Pete has to might not be having the best week. He's not popular right now. People are blaming him for an illegal Iranian war. No, it was completely legal. They don't like his moves, but he's the most effective war secretary. secretary that we've had chris he said you know quick thoughts on this is the first time i saw it just uh. yeah i i i mean i mean i i'm imagining that you're not supposed to take pictures in front of that tomb and like p_k_s_ that has been doing the entirety of his time as secretary defense he is using our military as a prop as a political prop and it is time for the president to send him packing i expect on the wednesday before thanksgiving we will get his resignation letter all right let's i got to bring in this clip though of democratic congress member electo jettah we had him here on the might as touch network spend a friend of mine for seven years he's been saying look we're going belt to ask with these republicans we're going belt to ask he says and so problem on reek is that the might as touch network ask them so what do you mean you're going belt to ask here's what he said play this clip how do you define belt to ask that's what exactly where it is you know i grew up in a place where if you did wrong things you got your belt to ask and you know what there's a lot of things up here that uh. a lot of people appear uh. need to understand that uh. we're coming we're coming get ready some of y'all need to log your up now i'll show you a democratic senator adam shif had to say as well about Donald Trump's recent behavior let's play it yeah i think that's right it's been interesting to watch the president since this electrical the electoral uh. massive defeat when he is on social media he's as usual rabid self uh. making false claims of massive voter fraud the same crap we've heard from them for years and in person as some of his interviews it sounds like he's on his medication and you you know you try to understand okay which trump is this but i suspect that the medicated trump uh. is only gonna last for a short time and we saw the unmedicated trump a bit today when he was uh. saying that uh. well notwithstanding any regulatory reform he's still going to kill wind projects uh. i don't expect whatever restraint we're seeing in the aftermath the election to last beyond a few days and that veneer is already coming off so let me show you what magna republican congress member tim birchett told our problem on reekas on the steps of capitol hill play this clip uh. if you're given donald trump a great like a report car situation on his performance in the midterms uh. you know it's surrogating for you guys in the congress congress the republican congress failed american people and they're the ones that got suffered trump back and forth you can say you want to but we we did not deliver on what we said we're gonna deliver instead of my johnson problem it's a congress republican congress we're all guilty of it thank you guys now as i noted at the beginning of this episode you had a major military meeting at the norfolk base in virginia regarding the families who have loved ones aboard the USS george hw busch there's two main aircraft carriers in the arabian sea the george washington which came from the pacific then there's the george hw busch which left from norfolk back on march 31st and arrived april 22nd or april 23rd in the arabian sea it was there consistently until it made a port call finally in puket tylon october 4th i mean they stretched this deployment way more than it ever should and now the families of their loved ones the sailors and marines aboard the uss george hw busch were just told that their loved ones were not coming home for the holidays and they would be there indefinitely and so the family members were screaming rightfully so at the admirals and military leaders like what the hell are our loved ones doing what's the goal what's the objective we don't even know what they're doing we see donald trump's behaving like a lunatic the united states voters sent a message we don't want our loved ones to be there the american people don't want them to be there then the acting secretary of the navy hunk house like well we we want a ron to do a deal with us and we want them to like not have nuclear material and then the families are like we're not stupid we're not like magazines okay we're the we're the loved ones of service members stop giving us that bs ron's not going to give up that's not happening so are you about to escalate this catastrophic war and put our loved ones in harm way who who is making the call is a donald trump waking up one day and pretending that he could have ended the war in vietnam in a week by bombing our ally in south vietnam and hochi min city which is saganat the time where he is no clue what the hell like the service member families but we're not with this we're not with the propaganda where you're saying oh the morale so high i mean there was one family member who was like you want to know what my loved ones going through a woman in the audience cut in and said my husband has wanted to try to kill himself four times all on the george hw bus she said nobody gave him help all of his high ups told him you do not have time you have a job to do your job is not to have mental health care and then we remember aboard the abraham link and there were eight they were eight suicide attempts there and we know at the us cyber security division within the national security agency was just reported 11 actual suicides took place in the past year as the trump regime and pete hegseth fire the four star general tim you who was in charge of the cyber security division inside the innocent i mean take a look at this article ms now did a great report and reviewed an exclusive audio of navy leaders telling families of sailors in the uss george hw bus carrier strike group that the carrier would not be home before the holidays family members confronted officials over broken equipment dwindling supplies of fresh fruit and a lack of mental health care over 500 family members showed up at norfolk they were there for the george hw carrier strike group meeting that was taking place it happened what two days ago or so this is the second time the strike groups deployment has been extended since it left march 31st i mean we're talking about a massively long employment i'm sorry i've been there i know what it feels like i know how hard it is when your kids are asking when's daddy coming home acting secretary of the navy hung cow said family members did not hold back as the report says one person in the audience called the war unsanction another audience member told navy leaders in the room trust within the force and among our families is heavily strained right now between record breaking stretches without relief shifting timelines and the feeling that the communication downplays the reality on the ground families are burning out under the immense strained a fam at times family members yelled at navy leaders saying they were not answering their questions and we're giving them the run around one family member asked what the navy was doing to push back on donald trump so the conflict would not become a forever war 7000 service members are part of the uss george hw busch strike group i talked about some of the timelines over there that has already been you know such a massively long deployment and then you had acting secretary of the navy hung cow say i know you're wondering why are we out here why are we doing this stuff it's just because we've been in this 47 year war with these Iranians we just didn't know about it we've been in a war and we didn't know about it that's what acting secretary of the navy hung cow was saying i mean that may work on state regime media fox but to the families no we're in this war because trump and net yahoo launched an unsanctioned unlawful war for donald trump to cover up a child sex trafficking ring where his name appears thousands of times more than the name harry and the harry potter books that is the epstein files that's what the world knows we know what's happening we're not dumb the american people repudiated and rebuked this regime because we know precisely what's happening hung cow added look your loved ones aboard the george hw busch protected three thousand ships so far from getting bombed protected three thousand ships what is the uss george hw busch the navy the proud navy or is it part of a smuggling ring okay before this catastrophic war was launched these ships were getting out the straight of hormuz is open our proud and powerful navy is not to be used to help very large crude carriers and other tankers exit is straight that was open before the catastrophic war was launched that's not how our navy's our navy is for war in the lead and the most exigent of circumstances that's what the navy's for war fighting not for whatever the hell this is while they're sitting ducks and targets to aronnie and drones and not knowing whether or not there will be escalation while the us doesn't even have the ability with the forces in the region to even escalate if it wants to so it just means it's basically a suicide mission for the people aboard the aircraft carriers because our logistical facility in Bahrain was utterly destroyed in the outset of the war all of the military bases in the region are destroyed the logistical center now used as this like island that's far away thousands of kilometers away from Iran in Diego Garcia the military families know this you're not going to do trump talking points with the stupid hands and they're oh just you're right the military families know what's happening and this is what hung cows said he goes this is the acting secretary of the navy he goes it's one of those hard decisions the president has to do he's a businessman he knows that war is bad for business but the thing is with all of our intel if we didn't stop the Iranians now in a year from now they would have so many crews missiles and so many drones that we would never be able to penetrate their defenses. And they would be a nuclear armed Iran. He's a businessman, by the way, they have the cruise missiles now, they have underground military cities, their technology has advanced. By the way, Donald Trump's protection racket for all of the AI and semiconductor companies has allowed our semiconductor chips to make it to China and Russia and then to Iran. They've developed much more highly capable drones and cruise missiles and ballistics. They've upgraded. They have a lot of ballistics. I don't know why you're pretending that there was like some victory. We lost the war. The military families know we lost the war. They're not dumb. They're not proud that we lost the war. They're proud of their family members. We're proud of their family members. We're patriots. That's why we want their family members to come home and not be there for Donald Trump's deranged whatever the hell he's feeling in a given day to soothe his ego while Natalie Harp is hypothetically on his lap calling into sea span at 9 pm at night. We know what's happening. The families know what's happening. The first quote on one of the questions by the family members. What criteria are necessary to bring the carrier strike group home beyond when the president said so? The criteria is for Iran to agree to be non-nuclear. Then the family member goes, that's not going to happen. They still have nuclear material. Adding that the escorting ships through the strait is unsustainable. It's unaffordable. It could go on for 10 years. Stop acting like Iran is going to blow up in 48 hours. The military families know this. Hong Kong did not offer a timeline. We never signal to the enemy what's going to happen. We never signal what's going to happen. Navy leaders said one supplemental forces of unmanned surface vessels is built. They can relieve one carrier strike group and reduce the presence, maintaining the block hate. You're just going to do this indefinitely. You're going to just do this forever. Admiral Carl Thomas, commander of the U.S. fleet forces, who is in the room told Bush family, the family members of people on the George H. W. Bush, the sailors that are out there are doing a hard job. It's not a well-defined job. Adding that a block hate takes time to affect Iran. It's not affecting them, okay? It's not. It should be well-defined. You should never put our service members in a non-well-defined job. Their job is supposed to be well. That's your freaking job right there. You're putting them in a very difficult situation where they're also being asked to commit war crimes and slaughter children in Minabin, Lamar because Pete Hegseth is a bloodthirsty war criminal trader. That's also causing mental health issues aboard the plane and Pete aboard the aircraft carriers and amongst the service member families. It goes on and talks about that basically. I could keep going on, but you get the point. Look, our hearts go out to the members, the family members of the service members and to the service members. We know you watch this program. We're thinking about you. That's why I wanted to spend extra long talking about and sharing your stories. Great work, MSNOW, for reporting on that audio and Aaron Parnas and others at this network. I've done great reporting with whistleblowers and family members of the service members. We have a great partner network, valor media, main up of all veterans, led by Ken Harbund others that work very closely with service member families and service members. It's a great honor to be a part of that. Thanks for watching. We appreciate you. WTF America is our book, the way out of this hell and back to democracy. 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