Breaking News from Pod Save America - UNHINGED: Trump Declares WAR on Political Enemy

Episode Date: September 26, 2025

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and Trump finally managed to bully the Department of Justice into prosecuting his political enemies, starting with former FBI director Jim Comey. Comey's indictment comes after Trump berated Attorney General Pam Bondi on social media for not punishing his enemies fast enough. And he pushed out the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia and installed his former personal attorney in that role. Trump was asked about all of this on Friday. Here's what he said. Is this more about justice or is it about revenge? It's about justice, really.

It's not revenge. It's about revenge. It's also about the fact that you can't let this go on. They are sick, radical left people. Now that this Tommy has been invited, who is the next person on your list in this retribute? It's not a list, but I think there'll be others. I mean, they're corrupt. These were corrupt, radical left Democrats.

Because Comey essentially was a... He was worse than a Democrat. I would say the Democrats are better than Comey. Sounds like it's about justice and revenge. It's both hands. There's definitely no list, but there are other people whose names might be on a loose collection that I have where we go down a list of some sort. Look, there's not a list, but there's a bunch of names on a piece of paper. In alphabetical order.

Yeah. Later, he says, frankly, I hope there are others. Yeah. We're laughing about this, but this seems really bad, right? Yeah, this is like through the looking glass, beyond the Rubicon. I mean, this is not only the thing that Republicans, themselves claims that they were up in arms about that Democrats were doing and there's no evidence of doing that. My God, imagined a scenario where Merrick Garland actually did put optics aside and seek justice without fear of favor against any Republicans. But that notwithstanding,

the reality is that Trump is using the federal government to just go after anybody who he deems his own enemy. He's threatened this against Letitia James, doing it right now against James Comey. We've seen him use. use the powers that he has to try and quash dissent, first against Stephen Colbert, then against Jimmy Kimmel. Thank God there was this boycott that actually enabled Disney to roll it back because they saw that there were financial consequences that weren't just at the hands of Donald Trump.

We've seen him sue the New York Times, ABC News, CBS, 60 Minutes, Simon and Schuster. And so anything he can do... A random pollster in Iowa. And Seltzer. Anything he can do to wield the powers of the federal government against anybody who he deems his political opponent. he's doing it. He's doing it against universities. He's doing it against law firms. He's doing it against media outlets.

He's doing it against politicians. And now he, the latest iteration of this is this executive order that he signed, designating Antifa, a terrorist organization. And so a lot of people are pointing to that and saying, well, this is pretty toothless because Antifa isn't a real thing. But that's the point. The point is that he created this amorphous concept and claims, and can then turn around and claim that anybody who's part of

Antifa, because there's no actual thing that anybody can be part of Antifa, and then they can get all caught up in that kind of, again, Dragnet. You should probably take Antifa off your LinkedIn. I just can't because it gets a lot, garners a lot of attention. You forgot your password. I forgot my attention. Yeah, so at issue here is the allegation that Jim Comey lied to Congress. I remember the underlying cases about whether Jim Comey authorized anyone at DOJ or the FBI to talk

to the media about cases related to Trump or Clinton. this was all around the Russia probe stuff. Republicans are saying Comey did authorize a leak and that he lied to Congress when he said he had not. But there's seemingly a big problem with that argument, which is that this false statement charge is based on Comey's response to Ted Cruz's summary of what Andy McCabe, the former deputy director of the FBI, said to Congress. And I've seen a number of legal experts say that Cruz's summary was imprecise, if not wrong, and that in fact, McCabe told Comey that he, Andy McCabe,

had authorized someone to speak to the media after it had already happened. So I don't know how Jim Comey could authorize something that had already happened. Seems like a bit of a hole in the case. Maybe that's why another career prosecutors actually wanted to seek an indictment. But I guess we'll find out. But like this is, look, we all, no one likes Jim Comey. He's super annoying. I blame him for the 2016 election.

But Trump going after his political opponents in an overt way like this. should terrify everyone, and he does have a list. And there's a bunch of other groups that are coming next. Right. I think it's interesting, too, that, you know, he continues to find these people who are perfectly content to carry water for him to do his bidding. He appointed the initial U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, who refused to go after Letitia James for non- like five months ago. Right, five months ago, for non-existent mortgage fraud. And came out publicly, basically cutting out his own legs from beneath him by saying that we need to go after Letitia James. We need to go after these people because they're guilty.

And so now you have basically the person and you're just in search of the crime. And that undermines all of their cases when they actually get these things into the courtroom. But for the Trump administration, it's not about that. Like they don't care about the end result. They care about the fact that they get the optics. They get the narrative. They get to make these people's lives miserable. They know it's going to be expensive.

They know it's going to take a lot of resources. They know that they're going to destroy their reputations. And maybe, depending on what judge they get in front of, it could actually play itself out where these people are prosecuted or are incarcerated at the end. And that would be a cherry on top for them. But really the goal here is just to destroy these people using every lever of the federal government that they have at their disposal. And scare anybody else who might, you know, fight against Donald Trump's agenda. Also, you know, the New York Times reported that senior DOJ officials have instructed more than

half a dozen U.S. Attorney's offices to make plans to investigate the Open Society Foundations, which is a nonprofit founded by George Soros. According to the Times, possible charges prosecutors could file ranging from arson to material support of terrorism. So those are serious charges that would bring some serious jail time. CNN also reported that DOJ officials are also pushing for John Bolton to be charged. John Bolton was Trump's National Security Advisor in the first term. And, you know, So there's some reporting in this CNN piece that some at DOJ view the Bolton case as a way to placate the president. I've not seen any evidence that Trump feels placated. No, you don't think you just throw him a little tiny bone and he's good and he's completely satisfied.

Look at the ABC, right? Like they cut like a $16 million check over a ridiculous lawsuit. And now Trump is still going after Jimmy Kimmel and recently said he's going to sue him again. Right. And he actually goes out and mocks. Like you don't gain his respect. And you certainly don't, he doesn't view you as some legitimate negotiating partner. He loses all respect for you.

When you enter into some agreement with Donald Trump, you're not doing it from a position of strength. You are viewed as weak in his eyes. And then he knows that it's going to be that much easier to go after you again. And it's going to happen again. And he said that exact thing as it relates to ABC. He said they paid me $16 million last time. This is an even better case.

Let's see how I do now. And so it's not like you're going to win him over. It's not like you're going to placate him. You're not going to satisfy him. You just show him that he can exploit you. And it's going to be easy to do it the first time and that much easier to do it the second time. And this time he has in place people who owe their entire political careers to him.

And in large part, have no political career without him. Right. Because when you have these prosecutors who are otherwise unemployable because they are so willing to abuse the law in deference to Trump and in deference to the MAGA movement, like there is no world. where any legitimate firm hires some of these people who've completely just sullied their reputations. And in many cases have lost their law licenses.

Well, yeah. And so the person who Trump installed to prosecute Jim Comey was his former personal attorney who has no prosecutorial experience. But I'm thinking even higher than that. Like Pam Bondi, that's no business being the attorney general. Cash Patel, no business being the director of the FBI. And the only way those to keep their jobs is when they do Trump's bidding, which means there's just absolutely no independence. top to bottom of DOJ.

It is just another political weapon. So scary stuff for all of us. Liberal Tears is brought to you by PDS debt. The system isn't broken. It's rigged. And if you're buried in debt, that's exactly how they want it. Big banks profit when you're desperate. Creditors win when you lose.

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PDS debt.com slash rank. For the Comey stuff, that wasn't the only big legal news this week. There was also this. Well, there better be accountability for those people. And I will personally see to it, Jesse. And, you know, the president being free. There's erosion there in one place makes him vulnerable. And thankfully, the First Lady and the President had their hands on the rails.

Why are we paying for a building that's just trying to injure the First Lady? What we need to do is either leave the UN or we need to bomb it. Tommy, somebody should introduce these Republicans to Mitch Headberg. He's like an old school comedian and he had a joke that goes, an escalator can't break. It can just become stairs. We apologize for the convenience. We're sorry for the fact that you can still get up there. it's like if an escalator stops, it becomes stairs.

It's actually quite a convenient malfunction. They act like he just walked into like an ambush in Afghanistan or something. Like he was in a war zone. Yeah. Dude, you're in the UN. Apparently, it sounds like the escalator may have paused because his own videographer like touch the button or something like that. Yeah.

And set off some safety protocol that forces it to stop. But like Trump referred to it as triple sabotage. What's the triple? His teleprompter stopped working or didn't work at the beginning of his UN General Assembly speech. Now, I know for my experience at the White House that the UN doesn't control the teleprompter. Everywhere the President of the United States goes, the office, the White House military office controls the teleprompter. Of course. So that you can't just add in something at the last minute that can spark off some nuclear war.

You wouldn't let some random newbie, like, person not who doesn't work for you run the teleprompter. So that's crazy. And then he complained that the audio wasn't on the UN General Assembly room. I don't know what he's talking about there. Maybe that's the case, who knows? And then he was complaining about something that I did notice when I was watching, which is all of a sudden, this translation voice comes in and just starts speaking Portuguese, like sort of half over, which was very weird and funny,

but I assume it was just kind of like an error. Yeah. Assault. No, I mean, it does. Secret service investigating. The best part, I mean, it really does go to show that the only place that that Maga World is comfortable is in the fetal position because this guy, again, he is at the UN. As the president of the United States, he has full control of the U.S. government.

He's usurped control of the entire, like of the entire government. Republicans have control of Congress, of the House, of the Senate, of the Supreme Court, of the majority of state legislatures in this country. Like, there is really nothing to complain about if you're a member of the Republican Party. And yet here, they're just so desperate to find any grievance, to find some way to frame yourself as the victim, that if an elevator temporarily becomes stairs. escalator, sir. Escalator, temporarily becomes stairs, then it's, you know, a two-day story on Fox.

Well, Secret Service, they're investigating. We're going to find out. We're going to prosecute someone. I asked John Ossup yesterday if he would consider passing a law, making it a felony to temporarily turn off an escalator. He said to get back to me. Was he amenable, do you think? No. No.

No. Well, he's very tall, though. He's quite tall. Yeah. He's young. He's a good-looking guy. Yeah. Lastly, Brian, I've noticed that your mentor in the political media world is rocking a new look.

Let's just check it out and learn why. I'm so afraid to see. Please leave the mics open during this. Thank you. Oh, my God. I've been just kind of experimenting. Who's the Marvel comic guy that has the knives that comes out of his hand? Like a wolf or Wolverine, yeah.

So I figured I'd shaved down and Musu, the ragdoll cat, jumps up, in between me, give me a kiss, hits it, and he goes, right down. like, oh my God. So I go, well, I got to cut my beard off. So that's how this happens. I'm going to keep this for six months, actually, because I'm already the devil, I'm already Satan, I'm already, all these things I never did. I don't think Hitler is the worst satiritarian history, but he's right up there in the top three or four. You just have to add that in for the lawyers at the end. This is like, you know when you're a kid and you, or older than a kid, I guess, if you're shaving your facial hair down, but you work your way down, you're like, what if I had

a goatee and then what if I had a mustache and then what if I had a... I actually can't relate to that at all but I'm sure I believe you that it happens. I can't grow anything. It's terrible. You know Tommy, you know how when you have like a real thick beard? You know what I'm talking about? I have like a baby's ass for a face.

Well, this is what usually happens when you're like 16 years old and not and not a grown ass man. Oh, this is what happened? This is how you get a Hitler's dash. Your cat jumps up on you and somehow moves the razor blade to ruin anything. think I'm just going to keep a Hitler stash? He's like, I was walking through my house and my cat kept running under my legs, and I had no

choice but to goose step, to avoid my cat. This guy, man, I don't know. I don't know if it was, there was a tweet that he posted where he was like, this is to own the libs and in so many words, but that tweet is only the context for the picture in that particular tweet. Otherwise, you just have a picture of yourself with a Hitler stash floating around the internet forever. Or you just have a Hitler's death.

He said he's going to keep it for six months. So it's like you can own the libs in your little crazy online world. But like you have to go to the grocery store. You know what I mean? You're going to church. You're doing all the things you do in life with the Hitler's death. Although in his defense, I don't know how many people are going to be like, wait a minute. Wait a minute.

This isn't the Alex Jones that's I know. Alex, I know. He said you'll be shocked to learn that that's, we cut that down a lot. That man stretches. I'm not shocked to learn that much. That guy stretches like a very small anecdote It's like 30 minutes of content But he said

I think he had a wider mustache And then his personal trainer told him He looked like a pedophile So he cut it down He's like I'll do you one better How about it look like a genocidal maniac How about it looked like the world The most hated man in the history of the world

Just yeah What is the liberal equivalent of like doing something To own the libs like Oh it would be Alex Jones shaving a Hitler mustache onto his face for six months. I feel so owned. Anyway, I'm sorry you two out of falling out. I hope you guys

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