IHIP News - Trump's Dirty Secret Exposed and the Democrats Who Let Him Get Away With It

Episode Date: March 26, 2026

We are joined by Author Wajahat Ali to discuss Trump's increasingly blatant theft from the American people and the Democratic response to it. Order our new book, join our Substack, shop our merch, and more by clicking here: https://linktr.ee/ivehaditpodcast.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

I get so angry every day that the Democratic Party during the tenure of Joe Biden and his DOJ, that they didn't stop fascism, that they didn't stop a criminal from taking the country back over again. And I'm joined today as a therapy session, my friend, Wajahat Ali, to discuss these things. And Wajahat, there is some breaking news coming out. Kylie, pop this up. Damning new documents from special counsel. Jack Smith's investigation obtained by Representative Jamie Raskin and Judiciary Democrats reveal. Trump stole classified documents to advance his, quote, business interests.

Trump showed a classified map to unnamed passengers on a private plane. Trump stole documents so sensitive, only six people in the entire United States government had access to them. prosecutors warned that some of the materials posed, quote, an aggravated potential harm to national security. This is the shit, Wajahat. When I see this stuff, I'm like, why when you went to Mar-a-Lago didn't you go in and get the motherfucker in bracelets and take him back and throw him in a cell?

We should be shocked, but not surprised. I've always said there's three major sins of the Biden administration. He did many good things. These are three major since Gaza, which we're still suffering with, now the fact that he didn't leave and only gave Kamala Harris what two months and then the third one and i said this even yesterday in a speech is the appointment of merrick garland a human sloth who slow walked for four years what should be perp walks where like you said donald trump and a cabal of republicans who openly participated in a violent insurrection should have been prosecuted

should have seen the inside of a courtroom should have been taken away in bracelets and this is what happens without any accountability they were free to literally crime again everything that was just right there. I read it and with you and I'm like, yep, that tracks. This is a man who stole classified documents, kept it in the shitter in Mar-a-Lago, lie to the FBI about keeping it, right? The whole time we've seen him openly trade information, right? Openly sit there and talk to Russia and Putin. Openly grift. Right now, he's made $5 billion for him and his corrupt Tweedledee and Tweedledum son. And people are like, oh, I wonder, is he corrupt? He's pardoned CZ. the man who was convicted of money laundering, his freaking crypto partner, right, in Binance.

This is a man who's so corrupt that literally, as we're talking about breaking news during this completely failed unwinnable war in Iran, we're seeing them grift with insider information, Jen, right? We saw the violent insurrection. We saw him pardon the violent insurrectionists. And what did Joe Biden and Democrats do? I'm sorry. I know a lot of people love Joe Biden and Democrats.

they deliberately slow walked it with Mara Garland, who chose restoration instead of transformation, and they still haven't learned, Jen. And here we are. Here we are. And I think it's important that in order to have a healthy political party, you cannot be a Democrat and then say, oh my God, MAGA is a cult.

And one of the signs that people look to from a cult is criticism is not welcome. And then you can't be on the Democratic side, and then not openly, healthily criticize your political party. Every presidency, if you run for the big big boy seat, you're going to be worthy of a lot of criticism. You have to have thick skin to do it. Every single president needs to be criticized

so that each time we can hopefully move to a better country. I just want to ask you this, if it had been Barack Obama, the black guy, that had stolen documents that only six motherfuckers and the entire federal government had seen, and he shows him off on a private plane to earn more money. And the FBI finds out about this, and a Republican Attorney General finds out about this.

What do you think their next move is, if, let's say, Obama's vacationing on all of this shit is in Honolulu? What do you think a Republican DOJ would do in this situation? We don't have to even think. I want to remind everyone that Kevin McCarthy, Rest in peace, Kevin McCarthy, you were supposed to be the future leader of the GOP, the world's smallest violin. Remember that he openly said in 2015, Jen, that we did the Benghazi hearings to hurt Hillary Clinton ahead of the 2016 elections. Like a Bond supervillain, he openly tells you the plot.

They did non-stop hearings, right, about Hillary Clinton, and she answered those questions. It was complete bullshit, but they tainted her. They would use full court press, even through the minority, to attack attacks. attack, attack, control the narrative, hurt, hurt, hurt. These slots, Chuck Schumer, a somnambulist who sits there, I want to talk about accountability and affordability. My number one job is to give Israel all the aid that it needs. Right?

This is what we have, Jen. Like literally the world is on fire. Like literally, there's an illegal war. These mother efforts are grifting. Like you said, we just found out he stole classified documents. Who did he show it to? I don't know. Let me just throw it out there.

Maybe BB, maybe Putin. We have no idea. Maybe he sold our national security in a quid pro quo. Would it be, I don't know, outside the realm of imagination? And then you have these weak, factless Democrats. And I'm with you. If you cannot criticize the Democratic leadership, you're in a cult. You're in what I call Bluenot. I don't need you anymore.

And the Democratic establishment, Jen, has had us in a headlock for 10 years. And I'm tired of it. What they say is the following. You're going to vote for us anyway. You're going to vote for us? Or this guy who stole classified documents and is a rapist and, and did a violent insurrection. You're going to vote for us, so shut your mouth.

And I think you're with me, Jen. I'm done with it. We need to call this party of these weak, feckless mother efforts, the Jeffreys and the Schumers, and we need fighters. We need people who put on their freaking, what do you call the brawling brass knuckles and punch these guys.

When they go low, we go high. No, when they go low, you take them out by their goddamn knees, which is a very legal UFC fight. And so it goes back to the Merrick Garland of it all. Because I see the Merrick Garland. mindset still with this democratic establishment. You can't tell me, Jen, after 10 years,

Donald Trump is a unique existential threat to my democracy and the GOP is fascist and then still vote and confirm his members. Make that make sense. I completely agree with this. You cannot, I believe that what we have, and scholars point to this a lot, you see that in autocracies,

that liberals will collaborate with fascists to keep the capital, intact, to keep a corrupt economic system intact. So it's mainly to protect private equity, to protect private money. And so that's what we're seeing right now. And we have to be clear-eyed and we have to criticize the Democrats that are fascist collaborators. There's no question that Chuckles and Hakeem are fascist collaborators.

Absolutely. But what makes them that? This is something I'm interested in because I was talking to Kyle Kalinsky the other day and And he said, you know, maybe Beebe has, you know, compromising Epstein footage on all of them. And I said, you know, that's what we think it would take for us to be able to do that. I think that what it is is that once you start taking, you sell out your moral convictions and you take a little bit of money from this lobbyist, the gun lobby, big oil, big pharma, Israel, et cetera.

It starts breaking you. And so the collapse, the moral collapse that scholars talk about starts with our long. lawmakers and then it trickles down. That's one thing that actually does trickle down is the moral collapse. And this is where I am traumatized kind of right now. And so you and I can work through this together, Wash. I'm with you that they know that at the end of the day, we're not going to vote for Donald Trump or for little Moses Mike Johnson or Josh Holly or any of these fascist Christian nationalist guys and that would end up voting for the dim. And we have to say, no, you take our vote for granted.

As a person who lived in a red state for 51 years, I really struggle with this because the harm reduction of a corporate dem for the young queer person or for a black woman, a poor black woman in Oklahoma, which that's where these draconian abortion laws affect. They don't affect wealthy women because they'll be able to fly to another state and have an abortion. And they affect poor women. And I just, I really struggle with this. I really, really struggle with what I just fucking live out and vote for the lip. And I kind of think I would, even though currently right now I'm doing everything I can do to fight and get the Democrats off the corporate tit. But this is a big conversation that our party needs to have right now. Because for marginalized people in red states, I can tell you firsthand from experience,

experience, a corporate, Democratic, federal government is life-changing for marginalized people in red states that live in MAGA, super-majority states. Yeah, it's a very good question, and this is where I'm at right now. The great George Carlin quote, it's a big club and you ain't in it. And that big club consists of complicit Democrats who take money from AI, crypto, Palantir, and also APEC. I'm sure you've seen that clip of me and Hakeem Jeffries, or I ask them, you know, Yes, so good.

And he was more angry at me for asking him that question than he's been angry at actual Republicans. I don't understand what you said. I don't understand what you said. And I'm at that position right now where for the past decade, Jane, they have held us in a headlock, like I've said. And they honestly believe that we'll vote for them no matter what. And here we have literally in a legal war, here we have pro-AI and pro-crypto groups spending half a billion dollars in California after a poll came out that showed two to one, Californians want to tax the billioners. We have Gavin Newsom, when he's given a softball down the middle with this interview with Aaron Sork and Ross,

hey, will you tax billionaires? What did he say? They're part of the big tent. And just this week, he said, I love Israel. I'm a Zionist. I revere Israel. I walk back my criticism calling it apartheid. I was just quoting a Thomas Friedman article.

And then you see these centrists, right? They keep saying, well, don't you want a centrist Democrat instead of, I don't know, Republican. And I tell you, Henry Quayar voted for the Save Act. Henry Quayar, the centrist, voted to fund DHS after they killed Renee Nicole Good. With centrists like these, Jen, who needs MAGA? And so I say we have six months. This is it, folks. This six months, the culling, we got to do it now. It's primary season. We only have six months. We have to put the fear of God in these Democrats. And I see where they see where the tea leaves are going. I think they realize. I'm sure you read about that Axios news article that said that they want to get chuckles out. There's something called the fight club and apparently there's center shots.

Yes. Yeah. They think, wait a second, we can play possum. That's what the cryptkeeper James Carville said. Play possum. Don't fight. Say nothing. Oh, look, you're winning these special elections. And look, Ken Martin said, oh, we're winning. We don't have to release the audit. We don't have to change. We can do reformation instead of transformation. And we can back. a Gavin Newsom and guess what? He'll be pro-AI, pro-Crypto, he'll give them some crumbs and it'll be fine. My fear is, Jen, if we have free and fair elections, I don't know if we will. And suppose you get a Gavin Newsome type of centrist, corporate, moderate, and we get a 2028 Gavin Newsom presidency, I will guarantee we will get our first Nazi or first America, first Tucker Carlson presidency.

Nick Fuentes. Because I don't think they realize the rage. And I don't know if we've talked about this, the type of folks who are going to going to Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, listen, this is my warning to your audience. You're not taking that threat seriously. They're moving further to the left of the DNC when it comes to criticism of Israel, criticism of wars, criticism of military industrial complex, and criticism of AI. And by moving to the left of the DNC on these core issues, they're gobbling up so many

disaffected Democrats, Jen. They are. And my fear is, and you know this, you hear this. And you see that they go on the WhatsApp to get these little clips and like, I think Tucker's changing. I think Candace is on to something. And me and Medi, I talked to Medi Hassan about the Laltaltalt, we're like bang your head against the wall, trying to de-radicalize people.

People radicalized, Jen. And we got freaking Chuck Schumer on February saying, my number one priority is to make sure Israel gets all the funding that it needs. Jen, what can I do? They listen to you. They don't listen to me. No, I've been warning my listeners that we are incubating a president, Tucker Carlson, or even later in the terms,

Nick Fuentes because they are getting, when March Taylor Green is out flanking people in 30 second sound bites, that's a real problem. The Democrats have to have moral clarity. The best thing the Democrats could do right now, in my opinion, would be for the progressives in each, the House and the Senate to go nuclear and say, we're done with Chuck Schumer. We are done with Hakeemperies. We're going to have press conferences every single night updating the American public on what we're doing and have a split screen, you know, putting boy whose brain is cooked, stroke victim, talking about Hannibal Lecter, and then have, you know, Democrats, Chris Van Hollen, Chris Murphy, Senator Warren, sitting there spitting facts and saying, we're not going to do this, we're going to fight

tooth and nail, and really putting up a resistance and quit letting these morons control the narrative. So we're in the same place. I just feel like everybody's out here right now. You know, we're all getting mass abused. And these are the big questions that are coming. But I'm 100% with you. We have six months to make our party better. And to the Democrats that get their panties in a wad because other Democrats are getting criticized, you're no different from MAGA. I mean, one of the earmarks of a cult is they, you can't criticize within the cult.

And so we have to be the party of free thought, free thinking, not censoring criticism, because that is the exact opposite of what we want to project. Okay, Waj, tell my listeners where they can find you. You can find me on the left hook substack. I'm a terrible capitalist. Everything is free. There's no paywalls. I'm like a non-hysterical Blanche Dubois.

I depend on the kindness of strangers. So if you want to become a paid subscriber, great. If not, it's fine. It's free. Just listen and share the content. I hope it helps. And the last thing I want to say is someone told me, well, what can we do? We can't do anything.

We're helpless. I disagree. I believe, again, we have to put the, fear of God in these Democrats. We have six months, and I'm telling you, they're looking at the polls, and they're seeing in these special elections. I think people are misreading the special elections. People aren't voting Democrat. These are Trump voters so pissed off at Donald Trump that they're going to Democrats against Trump, but they're not actually becoming Democrats, which explains why the Democratic Party has a lower favorability rating than this rapist Bulgarian. So Democrats,

you better wake up and you better sell us something. And I want a fighter who promises is accountability and affordability and gives me specifics. And if you ain't willing to put on those brass knuckles, get the F out. And if you don't get out, we're going to call you. Love it. Love it. Go support my buddy. And we will see you all soon.

Thanks for coming on.