IHIP News - Trump's Own Party Turns On Him with Bombshell Investigation? Clock is Ticking

Episode Date: September 23, 2026

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We have a government right now that is so insecure, so emotionally stunted, that they are unleashing a goon squad on American citizens. And people are dying. They're getting murdered by their own government in the United States of America. Here's a video of Renee Good's mother, as she testifies in front of Congress. You will definitely not want to miss this. Play the clip. I'm a registered Republican. I voted for president.

Trump, under the impression that these agents were here to protect the citizens of the United States, innocence like our family and the others here against terrorists, certainly not to accuse those of us here of being terrorists and take precious lives. This is madness, Josh. Let's not forget that Ms. Good was shot three times when she was inside her car. Okay, that's contrary to any technique that they teach in law enforcement to shoot someone in a vehicle. And to this day, I don't think that the government has provided any disclosure of their investigation to any congressman. I know a bunch of these congressmen are asking for details of the follow-up investigation and nothing's been disclosed. And we talked about this a little bit yesterday.

As far as her mother, you want to see what a real Christian woman looks like when you talk about Christianity, because she also said at this hearing that she's forgiving, which is much more gracious than you or I would be. She voted for Donald Trump, and there's an interesting piece of that. She typifies the real pain and sorrow that comes from things like this, actions like this, the families that grieve this. that you don't see on camera, that are left picking up the pieces of their family day in and day out. And it breaks my heart to see that. We have to push for some accountability for these officers, shooting her three times when she's in a car. It's the Gestapo. It's like we talked about yesterday.

It's a domestic terror organization who's given a badge to do this kind of stuff. And there has to be some accountability for this woman and other families that are suffering. And not only was she shot three times, the officer called her a fucking bitch after he executed her and turned her around and walked off. And then as she lie on the ground dying, a doctor tried to jump in and offer life-saving aid. And the ICE agents, the domestic terrorists, would not allow him to do that. The cruelty is on purpose. And then after that, our federal government got on camera and called Renee Good. a mother who had her black lab in the back of the car, a domestic terrorist.

That's right. And so it's just, this can never be forgotten. And there's a lot of people that are dying in ICE custody. To me, this is an extension and the consequences of our country for not dealing with the over-policing situation that started with the black community. and we have never really dealt with that. And when you don't deal with a problem and shine a light on it and disinfect it and put in stops for it, then it just starts escalating.

All of these things are like drugs. The tolerance level just keeps increasing, increasing, increasing. And now we have these science agents who I want to remind everybody, Mark Wayne Mullen says they're going to be at the polls, but do not be deterred by that. And then we have one of the biggest fascist collaborators, who I think is just a full-blown fascist, Susan Collins, and she's being exposed for her corruption. Pop this up. In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Senator Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI

and DOJ teams handling public corruptions probes. This is by ProPublica that continues to put out incredible journalism. I was going to say they've become the 60 minutes of our generation. They're a true investigative body that does excellent work. The real story here is about a defense contractor named Martin Cal. And he was awarded, no surprise, these big contract by the federal government. And the story suggests this that has not been proven,

but he was given these contracts in exchange for large sum donations to a super PAC that was controlled by a person named Scott Reed, who's an advisor to Senator Collins. And to me, the real story, we don't know exactly what happened. Susan Collins has not been charged with a crime for this, but the real story here is in 2024,

as the story suggests, the FBI, which had a public intent, Regardy Division, the Department of Justice, which had a corruption division, both of those were shut down when Trump took office. They don't want to investigate white-collar crimes. And he made a decision. Someone made a decision. It's Department of Justice.

I say he, because I think it's Donald Trump, because I think he controls the Department of Justice, but that they would shut these investigations down. And Lindsey Graham's name was also mentioned in this probe as being one of the congressional targets of it. So it had a wide span of people that were involved in it and it was shut down. And why was it shut down? And so what happens in situations like this with people like Senator Collins, if you give someone like Donald Trump any leverage over you? And the leverage here, of course, is that he controls DOJ. And follow me here. And so he shuts this investigation down in 24, 25. Do you think Donald Trump ever does something?

for someone else without asking for something in return? Never. Never. That's not part of his playbook. So when Susan Collins, whether she was part of a bribe or not, she put herself in a position that someone else would have leverage over her in the government. That leverage being DOJ. And we don't know what deal she did or didn't make. We don't know if Trump just didn't want the Republican Party to look bad based on this investigation or if he was covering for Lindsey Graham

We don't know those things, but we do know that it invites an inquiry. And if we had an FBI or a DOJ, and we talked about this a little bit with Cash Patel and Shaquille O'Neal, the FBI has been gutted. The DOJ has been gutted. They don't investigate these types of crimes. And it invites a lot of questions about Susan Collins and others as to what did happen here. But that investigation is shut down. And if you dig deep into Trump's life, he had a mentor of a guy named by a guy.

guy named Roy Come. And Roy taught Trump at a very early age to get blackmail material on people. And if you look throughout his life, Trump has always done this. And this has been widely reported that he, even in business, got blackmail material on people. And if you remember that he partnered with, I think his last, David Pecker, who owns the National Enquirer. They had that, that's how they got Stormy Daniels. They catch and capture. those stories. So it makes perfect sense. And I think you're 100% right as we extend this out and we learn more and more once biology takes care of him or prison system or whatever, that he had a lot of material on these people. And my hope is that we send such a mandate in these midterms that the

Democratic Party, particularly the corporate Democrats that like to just, oh, this would upset the country if we expose this, that they say, no, we're exposing every single thing that they did, every bit of compromising information, every allegation is coming out. Because remember, the FBI also helped cover up, and this pertains to Susan Collins, who voted for Brett Kavanaugh. And there were thousands of claims of sexual assault against him. And the FBI buried those. So we have government. A lot of times I feel like, you know, we're operating under this assumption. We're raised and we're propagandized. America's the best. FBI and everything we do is great. And we spread democracy all over the world. We do a lot of fucked up stuff, a lot.

And not bringing to light sexual assault allegations about a Supreme Court justice who then voted to take away the rights of a woman that was raped and give those rights to the rapist, It's just there has to be a reckoning and atonement for all of this. And a Republican senator is calling for an investigation of Don Jr. Pop this up. Senator John Curtis, again, you guys, a Republican, a toaster is a wedding gift. A private island party paid for by a Putin-connected oligarch is something else.

Republicans nearly wore out the subpoena machine investigating Hunter Biden's foreign relationships. We should not unplug it now. Trust us was not enough then, and it is not enough now. And this is before, remember all the Benghazi hearings? I mean, we operate from two different playbooks here. Right. It's worth pointing out this is another ProPublica piece that shine the light on this story. This was a $300,000 gift.

It was supposedly what they say. This isn't a gift. It's a gift. It's a bill. And he's spending hundreds of thousands of dollars. You're renting an island. You're paying $70,000 for fireworks to go off. An interesting fact about this.

The payments came from an IBA-affiliated entity in Dubai. The IBA, as you know, is a scandal-plagged boxing, financed. by the Russian state, I think it's called Gazprom. The donor is obviously this individual named Kremlin. He was part of Putin's delegation to China, very tight with Putin in his inner circle. Everybody knows that. You don't go out and make payments for $300,000 and rent an island and pay $70,000 for fireworks as a gift. The story also revealed that Don Jr. barely even knows it.

And so, of course, it comes just like the Susan Collins thing is when you do stuff like this and people expect something back. And what is he going to expect back at some point? I mean, in any other news cycle, this story would get so much attention. There would be congressional hearings starting the next day. People would be so upset that a member of the president's family is compromised by a member of Putin's inner circle. I mean, can you imagine if a Democrat was in office and something like this, if it was Hunter Biden? I mean, we heard the Ukraine stuff for years and years. This is blatant. I mean, just transparent that it's a $300,000 bill for my wedding in exchange for in a big question

mark, what? What is that what? Because it's not for free. It's not just to do it. It's for access. It's for something. And here's a couple of things that I think about. with this thing. Number one, every headline I see is that dumb and dumber have made billions of dollars since their dad is in office and he is approving all of these drones and this crypto and all of this shit that their sons are invested in. And they're taking it to daddy's desk and saying approve this government contract. And he's saying, you got it, boys. So if you're a billionaire, $300,000 is a lot to all of us. If you're a billionaire, that's chum change. That's right. Why? Why is he paying for it? That's the first thing. And number two, the Trump's mingling and compromising

relationships with Russia and Russian oligarchs is just a pesky thing that never seems to go away ever. And remember the video in 2016 with Trump on the stage in Helsinki. And he took the side of Vladimir Putin over the United States intelligence officers. And I thought that'll be it. the national security Republicans, he'll be impeached. That's the end of it. Nope. They say, we're going to bend over harder. Give it to us more. Sir, yes, sir. And then I thought when he rolled out that red carpet and he had United States military, and remember, this is the party that reveres the military, the optics of these young men on their knees rolling out the red carpet up to Putin's plane. And then Trump, you know, de men and dipshit standing there clapping like a seal, I thought

the national security Republicans are going to step in here. God, I am batting 0 for two on all of this stuff because the Republicans could give two shits about this stuff. Because then I think they must be on it too. And Josh, you may remember this. There was back when Ryan was the Speaker of the House, there was a tape. There was a recording of him and Kevin, the former Speaker of the House. McCarthy. Yeah, recording about question.

Trump's relationship with the Russians, so basically saying he does whatever they want him to do. Yeah, that they think he's on Putin's payroll, I think it was. And then they threw a couple of other senators under the bus, and then McCarthy or, I think a speaker at the time was maybe Ryan, and they were like, this stays between us, this stays between us, and it was leaked. But this stuff about the Trumps and the Russians and Trump and the Putin's has been, this isn't new. It just gets deeper and deeper and deeper. And then you have Whitkoff. And, um, Kushner, who are basically making deals with Putin and Putin saying, yeah, I'll do these multi-billion dollar business deals with you. If you go tell Zelensky to seed the land that I want,

and then they go do it. Do it. Just doing his bidding. And I would add something to that. Trump's relationship with the Saudis, too, and the Russians. All of America's relationship with the Saudis. Right. And think about this on they somehow have hijacked this America first, military, pro-America, bullshit. And then they have all of these relationships with Saudis, all this money that's commingled. We talked about that yesterday on an investment the Saudis made with us. And then also the Russians and seeing this reporting that $300,000, and like you mentioned, Witkoff and Kushner negotiating on behalf of the president, and all of it,

Can you imagine if Democrats did any of this? They have hijacked this issue about America first. And in fact, their actions are just the opposite with these foreign countries that they're in bed with. It's just the opposite. Here's the way. I think it was Professor Timothy Snyder explained this to me. I think that's who it was. So we think of ourselves as we are American citizens.

And then we have other identifiers. Like, I'm a female. When you become a billionaire, your citizenship is not important anymore. You're not really a citizen of that. You're a citizen of the billionaire class. Right. And so you have these billionaire Saudis, these billionaire Russians who are morally corrupt, bankrupt, exploiters, fleasers, crooks, crime, you know, just basically legal mafias,

elected mafias in their own countries. And our leadership is now a member of that class. And they are no longer doing the work for America because they don't see themselves really as Americans. they're part of the 0.001%. They're part of the billionaire class. And that's why you see all of the American billionaires going and bending the knee and that really give a shit about America anymore because that's how they identify. And I want to get your take on one final story here. Cash Patel is facing a new scandal at the FBI. And it's hard to top the goat fucking incident that Senator Kennedy

called out. But let's go ahead and pop this up. Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees and spouses. I got a sample of 5,000 alleged employees including name, physical address, phone number, and in some cases, spouses could be a massive national security and counter intelligence risk. That doesn't sound very good. No, it doesn't, and it presents a real moral dilemma for me because I'm trying to decide who am I rooting for here, the hackers or the FBI. It's a tough one. I mean, I'm Seriously, because part of the story talks about how these hackers are trolling these dumb fuckers at the FBI. And part of me just says, okay, I can get down with that.

They need to be trolled. But obviously, not at the sacrifice of the safety of our country. But, you know, what do you say to this? The name of these hackers are a group called Shiny Hunters. This is like the second time in Cash Patel's tenure in office that they've been hacked. This is the same administration that conducts war plans on signal apps on their iPhones. So this comes as no shock to any of us of the depth of their incompetence. What else do you say?

It's a tough one. Hackers versus FBI. I'd love to hear the viewers' thoughts on that. You bring up a really good point because I think it's the most patriotic thing. And I don't see patriotism in a performative way, the way. MAGA does, standing up for the national anthem, putting a flag, you know, in your yard and on your pickup truck and saying, you know, when Trump hugged that flag, I just thought that's my guy. I'm voting for that guy. I see patriotism as a way that's a little bit more

nuanced than that. We have a really cool country, and the coolest thing about it is diversity and multiculturalism. And everything that MAGA hates is all the same. stuff that I love. Everything they hate, I love, and I want to fight for with every fiber in me. And I see patriotism in a way of critiquing and criticizing and Maga slaying these evil fascists and making a country where we do have opportunity and where our sons live in a country that they can have faith in and believe that the country is doing what's right for them. when you think, okay, we're a good country, we are a moral country, that it's not bullshit propaganda, that it's genuine, that it's real. And so as funny as that is, it's true, though, you see

Cash Patel, he's covering up for pedophiles. The whole FBI is covering up for pedophiles right now. So how do you cheer for the FBI in this instance? Because I oppose pedophilia. So therefore, I oppose the institutions that are covering up for pedophiles. Well, and they're just corrupt. But back to your earlier point, you and I, talked about, you know, a lot of people have a really strong sense of nationalism where they think their country is superior. And you and I don't think like that. I have a general love for all humankind, for all people of all colors, of all races, of all ethnicities. I don't adopt this belief that we're supreme simply because we live on this continent under this government

in this place. I love our country. You love our country. We're both patriots. But I don't think that we're better than other people. I've never thought like that. I've never understood that how America is the greatest or we're better and they're from another country. We're all human beings. Like there's this level of humanity that's lost in MAGA culture, that we're somehow supreme, that this country's supreme. And it's cloaked in religion and other things. But I don't subscribe to that. And when this regime, since Trump has been in office the second time, I find myself not having a lot of spirit for our country or wanting to engage in certain things that I used to love that are part of the culture of this country because they've ruined it. They've sucked the life

out of so many things and corrupted, so many things that this country stands for. And so it's important for me to at least try to engage in certain things because I just feel so disappointed. I can barely watch TV with commercials and what you see in today's culture without just getting pissed off. As you know, we're sitting there watching a football game and I throw a tirade over a commercial. So anyway. He does. It'll be some American truck and, you know, like this patriotism stuff.

But I want to leave you all with this question. And I want you all to comment on this in the comment section. Does the idea of American exceptionalism and teaching kids that dehumanize all other countries is that and I think it does I think that that idea that we're superior we're supreme we are exceptional and nobody else is inherently is faulty because we are dehumanizing and in a time where technology has really connected us all we need to lean into more being interconnected and collaborators that we're better than you are because look at where that's let us all right please make sure you subscribe and drop a comment on all of this stuff until

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