IHIP News - Hegseth Goes Belligerent In Congress; Caught And Called Out In Iran War Lies

Episode Date: April 30, 2026

Pete Hegseth floundered and lied in front of congress in hearing regarding the Iran war. Exclusive $25-off Carver Mat at https://on.auraframes.com/IHIP. Promo Code IHIP.Pre-order Jennifer’s new book Not Today, Fascists today: https://linktr.ee/ivehaditpodcastSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Devout Christian nationalist and alleged untreated alcoholic defense secretary, we refused to say the Department of War out of spite and out of respect for our country. Of course, I'm talking about Pete Heggseth. He is so incompetent that he publicly admitted the stated reason for the U.S. getting into the war in Iran has always been a lie. Let's play the clip. ...uproated underground. They're buried and watching them 24.

So we know where any nuclear material might be. We're claiming my time for a quick second here. We had to start this war, you just said, 60 days ago, because the nuclear weapon was an imminent threat. Now you're saying that it was completely obliterated. They had not given up their nuclear ambitions, and they had a conventional shield of thousands of... So Operation Midnight Hammer, a comp, nothing of substance. It left us at exactly the same place we were before. So as you can see, like when these guys get out of their bubble, when they get outside of these

sycophantic brown-nosing board meetings with Donald Trump, all of their logic, everything completely falls apart. Here's the thing with Pete Hexeth. He is unqualified to run a nonprofit as he has run to and to the ground. He is unqualified to run the Department of Defense because he wants to call it the Department of War. of war that's costing billions and billions of dollars every day. He wants to legally change the name to the Department of War. This is not a serious person. This is a person that loves to watch

people die. He has no ability to demonstrate and articulate what the goals of this war are because there aren't that other than him to feel like he's a big, strong, powerful guy for the first time in his pathetic life. And we're also learning more about the cost of war. Let's play the clip. At this day, we're spending about $25 billion on Operation Epic Fury. Most of that is ammunition. There's part of that it's obviously O&M and equipment replacement. We will formulate a supplemental through the White House that will come to Congress once we have a full assessment of the cost of the conflict. So you're saying the full cost at this point is $25 billion? Yeah, that's our estimate for the cost. Okay. Interesting because we I'm glad you answer that question because we've

been asking for a hell of a long time and no one's given us the number. And Pete Hexeth has made it clear that he doesn't give a shit how much this is costing American taxpayers. Let's play the clip. It costs American taxpayers in terms of the strike to the Iranian school where kids were killed. Do you have that number in terms of the missiles we used? As I've said, that unfortunate situation remains under investigation. You don't know how much it costs the tax but I wouldn't tie a cost to that to anything. It's a reasonable question. No, sir? I mean, our taxpayer money was going there. Do you know how much it will cost Americans in terms of their increased cost in gas and food over the next year because of the Iran war?

I would simply ask you what the cost is of an Iranian nuclear bomb. I'm going to give you that I would simply ask you what the, you're playing gotcha questions about domestic things. I'm not, you're asking, you're saying it's a gotcha question to ask what it's going to be in terms of the increased why won't you ask what it costs to prevent Ron from getting a nuclear bomb? I give you that. All right.

It's important to point out the hypocrisy here. Pete Hagseth is a Jesus guy. He's a Jesus first guy. He always talks about his faith. He trots out his crazy white nationalist, anti-woman pastor. He has an idea for America

that is eliminating minorities. He's already demoted. and or firing black people that are far more qualified than this guy will ever be. And so the hypocrisy on stage that Maga uses to both Christian signal and at the same time as they get their cult in, oh, we're doing it for Jesus, they do the exact opposite, they're total hypocrites. And Pete Hague said, like so many people in the Trump regime, have failed forward. This guy is a failure.

But because the color of his skin and the asses that he kisses, he rides coattails and fails forward. This is not a person that is qualified or accomplished. And you can look no further than the fact of who does he want to beat down women. He wants to beat down black people. He wants to beat down gay people. While at the same time, acting so cowardly, he wants to act like a badass. And this is the crux of the MAGA movement.

This is the crux of it. layered hypocrisy, layered duplicity. Pops. The bombastic language that he comes out with is just a script because he doesn't have any answers. And I'll tell you what I've had it with. I have fucking had it acting like Iran was going to launch a nuclear missile at the United States the day they were bombed. In June, we said we obliterated all their ability. Now he's talking about nuclear ambitions.

Bitch, my ambition is that you would be impeached. That doesn't mean it's going to happen. This is craziness and throwing so much money at this. And I just want to remind everyone, Pete Hegseth disbanded the office that would investigate how civilians are killed in war. And I believe he did that because he had absolutely zero give a shit about civilians being murdered with his bombs because he is bloodthirsty. Yeah. And it's my opinion. I believe Pete Higgseth is a war criminal.

I think he is flagrant about his war crimes. And the sole purpose of this war with Iran is twofold. Number one, to placate to Benjamin Netanyahu. And number two, Trump wants to be at war because he thinks that it will help him in the midterms and will help him usurp the constitution and somehow have some third term. Heg Seth was also asked if he would follow war. orders to deploy troops to the polls if the president ordered it. Let's play the clips.

Follow the orders of the president. Yes or no? The president, you'd like to insinuate that the president issues the legal orders. It's a simple question. Who would you follow the president or the Constitution? I will note that in 2024 troops were deployed Joe Biden by the way. Joe Biden were deployed to polling locations in 15 states. 2024 Joe Biden troops deployed to polling locations in 15 states.

Explain that one to me. All right. This is a lie. He just lied right there. Biden did not order troops to polling locations. Some governors of individual states deployed the National Guard. They provided cybersecurity support and stood by for potential post-election unrest largely away from the actual polling places. A presidential deployment order is illegal under federal law. And you have to understand what they're doing. What Trump is doing is he wants to stay in power. The Supreme Court is assisting him. They just got it the Civil Rights Act because all of MAGA is a racist regime. Full stop, period, end of discussion. If anybody you know still supports MAGA, I guarantee you under a polygraph

and truth serum, it's going to reveal that these people are uniquely and overtly racist. And And Trump and Hegseth and all of the others, they are using ICE to prime the public for a militaristic state. We watched people get shot, called a fucking bitch, no investigations, no arrests, no accountability. So they have shown the public. This is what we get to do. If we don't like what you say, we're going to shoot you, call you a fucking bitch, and we're going to move right on down the road. So ICE is going to be at the polls. but make no mistake.

We know from Trump 1.0, he wants to use the military. He wants generals like Hitler had. He is going to use the military against U.S. citizens. That's why there's so much firing going on at the Pentagon. That's why Heggseth is firing all of these seasoned, experienced veterans that want to uphold the Constitution in MAGA, upholding the Constitution is disloyal because they are more loyal to a toddler senior citizen than they are to the country.

Well, I would just say look no further than Pete Hexas's reaction to Mark Kelly, the group of them, but particularly Mark Kelly, who is a military, I think he was an astronaut, he did all these things in the military. Pete Hexseth goes after him because he reiterated, soldiers do not have to break the law, If they are ordered to break the law, they don't have to do it. And the meltdown at the Pentagon and in the Trump administration tells me they have no intention of following the law. They have no intention of following the Constitution because they tried to reduce Mark Kelly's rank and pension because he reiterated what legality is for these soldiers. It's ridiculous.

They also tried to indict these Congress people and senators that spoke out. And grand jurors, everyday Americans denied this. And so when this seems overwhelming, because they have so much in their arsenal, they have the Supreme Court, which ironically has a black conservative justice that votes against everything that led him to have this powerful position, they have the military, they have all of these weapons,

literal weapons at their disposal. Everyday Americans are resisting against this and you can look no further than to what happened in Hungary, the defeat of Victor Orban. And so it's important as we feel helpless and hopeless to remember that we the people still have the power and just a prediction that I have. Right now, Republicans are still supporting all of the war crimes and illegal activities of Donald Trump because the magnificent seven, which are these AI groups upholding the S&P 500 and the Dow because they are exchanging trillions of dollars to keep the stock market up. It's not going to be tenable with the oil

situation that's happening in the Strait of Hormuz. And when these stocks plummet and they will, Republicans always, always, always lead us to war and tank the stock market. That's when the country club Republicans will be upset. And that's when Republican politicians, both in the House and Senate, will be like, oh, yeah, he seems to not be America first anymore. And that's the reason these AI companies are propping up the stock market so much. It's a Ponzi scheme right now, and it is bound to crash and crash spectacularly. While all this is going on, Trump is posting the following on, lie social at 4 a.m. pop this up. Iran can't get their act together.

They don't know how to sign a non-nuclear deal. They better get smart soon. No more Mr. Nice Guy with him in a Photoshopped holding a weapon. And I just want to point out to everybody, and it's just so exhausting saying this stuff. We had a nuclear agreement that the black president put together that was working. inspectors were able to go in and it was working and Donald Trump, everything that Obama touched, wants to rip it up because he wants everything to be his, even your passport. He wants your passport to be his. Well, and here's the deal. This bombastic, I'm such a tough guy. It works for

the lie social people. Like they think it's cool and they think, oh, he's a big guy. I think that the universe at large, like internationally globally, when this stuff gets out to make sure, he just looks like a dipshit. I mean, Iran has rubbed our nose in the shit that we have created, militarily, domestically, economically. And so this post just makes him look like the asshole that he is. And why he doesn't understand that, I mean, we know why, but it's just, it's stunning to me that no one around him realizes how ridiculous this is. All right, listener, do not freak out, but I know a lot of you sitting here watching and listening have not done Jack to get your mother a Mother's Day gift. I have a solution for you immediately head to aura frames.

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of this. There is no sane voice in the room. Nobody is going to say, hey, that post is really immature. That post is unbecoming a president. He learned that lesson in Trump 1.0. I do not want adults in the room. He's admittedly said, I like hanging out with losers. By design, scholars have told us they pick incompetent people. And so this is stunning here. And more than 60 days into the war, Trump still thinks Netanyahu gives a shit as to what he has to say. Here's some reporting from Axios. President Trump told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel should only take surgical military action in Lebanon and avoid a full resumption of the war. Trump told Axios in a phone interview, why it matters. The ceasefire Trump helped broker in Lebanon is being

only partially observed. And officials in both Israel and Lebanon are concerned. it will collapse entirely before it's due to expire mid-May. There has been no progress in launching Israel Lebanon peace talks, despite Secretary of State Lil Marco Rubio hosting two meetings with the respective ambassadors. My takeaway from all of this, growing up in a red state, surrounded by a bunch of white country club Republicans

that are all about national security and fiscal responsibility, responsibility is the MAGA regime is completely displaying American weakness and incompetence all day, every day. The MAGA Republican Party has exposed fully the lies of the Republican Party that they're such great ambassadors for the economy and they're so fiscal, they're great businessman. We're white guys. We know how to make some good money. They spend money that they cannot pay. They rob money from working class Americans to give it to the most parasitic bedwetting class imaginable, the billionaire bedwetters who have zero gratitude and are fucked up beyond all comprehension on video all the time that Alex Karp from Palantir always seems coked up. Elon Musk down at Khole at all times. Peter Thiel is always sweating like a whore in church.

I don't know what the fuck he's on. But these guys think that working class Americans owe them something. And they are exempt from anything. And what's so terrifying about all of this is when you get into Palantir, they are embedding themselves into the federal government. The deep state that Trump warned everybody about, they are it. They are the death star. They have fired all of the objective.

civil servants and put in all of these really dark, nefarious forces. You know, it's interesting to me. Fascinating really is a better word that it is so obvious that Netanyahu has zero respect for Trump, that he can do whatever the fuck he wants to do, and Trump's not going to do anything about it. I'm surprised at this point that that's not more of a topic of conversation in Republican circles, because it is, it is. objectively true. Netanyahu doesn't give a fuck what Trump says. And further, Netanyahu doesn't give a shit about America or Americans. He sees us as a piggy bank that can fund his genocide and his homicide. The disrespect and the just downright using of hardworking Americans' income

that have no choice, no tax loopholes whatsoever, no health care, no higher education, is so immoral on its face. And then when the money gets over there, what they do with it is jaw dropping. Pop this up, Kylie. Israel kills three rescue workers in Lebanon. Israel double-tap, strike kills three rescue workers. This is just war crime, on top of war crime, on top of war crime. But Trump thinks we should cut this genocidal, homicidal piece of shit user, Benjamin Netanyahu, He thinks we should cut him some slack. Pop this up. Axios is reporting.

Trump claims Netanyahu pardon would make Israel president a national hero. Well, you know, if you notice Trump, the people that he likes and that he admires are war criminals. Benjamin Netanyahu, the guy from Saudi Arabia that dismembered Jamal Khashoggi, put him in acid, disintegrated him and poured him down the drain. Vladimir Putin and on and on. This is incredible American weakness on display in the worship of these two-bit fascist dictators. Why? Because our government is now in the throes of becoming a fascist dictatorship at the assist of all of these, you know, Jesus people like Pete Hegg Seth. It's just the hypocrisy is overwhelming. All right. That's all we have. Like, subscribe. And we'll be back later with more news.