IHIP News - WH Scrambling After Pete Hegseth and Wife Exposed by Disturbing New Details

Episode Date: August 21, 2026

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All right, bunny boiler Natalie Harp is an absolute national security threat. And for those of you that don't know, go watch Fatal Attraction. Go watch Glenn Close's character. She is so obsessed with Michael Douglas's character that she boils his daughter's bunny to get his attention. Natalie Harp is America's bunny boiler. And it's funny in all of those things. But here's the thing. And I keep saying this over and over and over again.

I said this a couple of weeks ago. She is a national security threat. And now the New York Times is confirming this. Let's pop this up. Scoop, Trump aide Natalie Harp worked at White House without security clearance for a year. Both people said Harp's reasoning for failing to complete the process was unknown. After concerns mounted among the White House Counsel's office and security officials, the president himself intervened and Harp in recent months filled out the forms to launch a former, formal federal background investigation and received the clearance, one of the people said.

Okay, here's my thing on that. First of all, security clearance for Donald Trump's administration, i.e. Jared Kushner and Trump 1.0. He doesn't give a shit about that, but I do. And I find it very, very odd that a 35-year-old does not fill out the proper paperwork when she is so clearly dying to be with him every minute. What my, what my, what my, my gut is and I have no idea if this is the case, but it seems like if you're not filling it out, you're avoiding something in your background coming up that might trigger this. That's where my head goes. Because I'm like, why wouldn't you fill out the background check?

It's not that novice. Everybody has to do it. So for me, it's kind of like, that's a huge red flag for me. Yeah. The whole thing is weird, but I always find pumps that I think our mistake when it comes to maggot is we take our rational brain and then we project it onto these insane people. And it just doesn't translate. You know, it, like we're talking about a woman who threw herself in a trunk who's 35 years

old, completely obsessed with Donald Trump. I mean, you know, like get a crush on Brad Pitt or George Clooney like a fucking normal person or in whoever is age appropriate for her. So Maggie Haberman says that Natalie. was a channel for foreign leaders to reach Trump. And this is probably where the hesitation to fill out the form is. Because as they do these background checks, they're going to look at all the people she's spoken with.

And there's probably a question on there, if you've spoken to anybody that works for the Russian government, if you've spoken to any Russian oligarchs, if you've spoken with the Saudis. That's why the Jared Kushners and the Natalie Harps are unable to fill this stuff out, because they are double dealing for Donald Trump and all of the fascists in the world as they try to unite. Let's play the clip. Certain media requests are supposed to come.

She is a channel by which, as you said, foreign leaders try to reach him if they can't some other way. She is a channel by which he reaches people he sees on television, who he likes what they are saying, or that he will just send out notes to. She is with him so much of the day during those meetings. And she is talking to him. throughout the evening about social media posts.

So she is a specific channel of information, but she is one that he considers very important. Wow. I think they said she was his personal binky, his personal, like emotional support person. It's just, it's really, it's really stunning. And I'm so grateful that Assov brought this up to the mainstream, because we've been talking about her for months,

and now it is mainstream. Well, I think that, What is so funny, not funny, ha ha, but just interesting, funny, is that there was such, all he also said was just, and he's traveling with Natalie, and he's all been talking about ferment, and then there's this firestorm, which tells me everything I thought was going on in that relationship behind the scenes, and I never have thought sex. It's so much worse than I thought based on the reaction, just the immediate reaction from all of MAGA, it tells me it's even more salacious and inappropriate, again, not sexually,

but that even that I thought, and I was thinking that she was double dealing and doing some weird shit on the corruption and all that, but it just to me, it's worse than we thought. And here's probably the long and short of it. This is not some great big thinker. Natalie, the bunny boiler. The long and short of it is probably this. She's with him 24-7. She probably sleeps at the White House.

We know that all of these tweets he's sending in the middle of the night, that she's writing and typing because he famously cannot spell nor write in proper English. And she is the person that does all of that. So when we see these bangers going out all night, our normal brain says, why isn't somebody taking his phone away? That's fucking crazy. Who made the meme and decided to repost him as just? Jesus, it's Natalie.

Does Natalie probably talk to Putin's people and other nefarious oligarchs that want to see manipulate Trump in a way that he dismantles the United States pillars of power, which makes it easier for China and for Russia? 100%. She's having those phone conversations. Is she some great machinator that has all of this, you know, agenda? No, this is a bunny boiler situation. I think her dealings with him are so in.

embarrassing that they're going to have such a hard time defending it. It's more humiliating than it is nefarious that, you know, that he has this emotional support person who is so psychotic because you know, they're probably like, God, she's a nut. You know, they probably can't wait to get out of the meetings with him because he just, I've heard behind the scenes he's imploding. He is berating his cabinet. He's berating people all the time. He's getting older. He's getting more and more swollen the size of this man. My God, he's just swollen up like a bubble tick. And so you know when you're, you know, when you're swollen and you don't feel well, you're a lot angrier. And she's just sitting there, you know, placating his every whim. What's interesting about this is who's leaking

all this stuff? Well, somebody within the MAGA regime. Yeah. Is leaking this stuff. Lumer says, oh, they're linking it because they're so jealous of her relationship. They're leaking it because everybody that works there is toxic, tattletails. They're going to knife each other. I'm here. I'm hear for it, bring it. But let's move along to Pete Heggseth. His closest advisor is his wife, Jennifer, who homeschools their kids with a classical Christian Christian fundamentalist education. Pop this up. After an 18-year career at Fox News, Jennifer Heggseth is now her husband's most influential advisor and de facto producers shaping the job like no Pentagon spouse before. It's bonkers, says an ex-Pentagon spokesperson.

under Heggseth and it gets worse. Pop this up. One person familiar with Mr. Hegss's thinking said that the defense secretary likes his wife to travel with him to keep him out of trouble. Mr. Hexeth, who has a history of heavy drinking, has made himself, has himself made clear he needs his wife at his side. He often credits his two J's. Get ready for it. Jennifer and Jesus with transforming his life. And I just want to remind everybody, Jennifer and Pete were banging while Pete was still married. So all of this sanctimonious bullshit. Yes, all of this sanctimonious bullshit. The reason they have to monitor each other all the time is because these are people that have no impulse control. None. And he's an untreated alcoholic. And he's committing more crimes, in my opinion, as the Secretary of

defense, who also has enacted a policy of gender affirming care for low-t military people, which I think one of those is probably him. There's no question. It's him in my mind. You know, the thing about it is, when you think about just the clown car of people in this administration, but we have Trump with his binky, Natalie Hart, that tells him how great he is. Now you have Pete Heggseth. He has to, he's so fragile.

He can't go with. out his wife anywhere because he can't be trusted. Like he said, impulse control. Okay. You have him making decisions about people's lives. She was a producer at Fox News, his producer, like, you know, she homeschools. She is now, they keep calling, and this really bugs me. They keep calling her, you know, she's just an example of a military wife.

Well, he's, she was married to somebody else before they got together. He hasn't been active duty since 2012. They didn't start having enough, they didn't get married until 2019. Like everything about this is bullshit. I watch them together. They're constantly touching. She's on signal chats. She's in briefings, like high security briefings.

And people can't speak openly because they're like, what the fuck is she doing here? This is unbelievable that we're allowing us, the party of, you know, a strong national defense, all the things that we've heard about. It's such bullshit. Because this woman is no more qualified. that I am to advise on military defense strategy and issues. Yet she is in every meeting and foreign leaders are like, huh? What's going on here? It's just, we live in crazy town.

Well, we live in a country that is being taken over. And they are dismantling everything, all of the institutions. The institutions are not taking care of themselves. Maga is dismantling every single institution. and one of which is the United States military. And on top of all of this, Pete Heck Seth is asking for more money. He can't even take care of the troops.

And all of the more money that he's going to get is only going to line the pockets of the military industrial complex. So as fun as it is to talk about how incompetent and toxic he is, and listen, I'm totally down for a big gossip about all of that. There are right now dead people that were killed by Pete Hexie. Reg Sess military, and I believe they were killed illegally. And you have little girls in Iran that were triple tapped by Pete Hegsses military. You have Pete Hegsseth not promoting people who earned their promotion because Pete

Hegsaith is a misogynist, racist. And right now there are people in the United States of America that are black and that are female that decided to go in the military. And they worked and they earnestly did everything they were supposed to do. And Pete Hexseth, just like Barack Obama before him, Pete Hexeth is mad because his predecessor was a very successful black man who ascended to become the Secretary of Defense despite his skin color because it was so much harder for him to do that as a black man, so much harder. And Pete Hexeth knows that Austin Lloyd was a million times more competent intelligence.

skilled, everything, better person, doesn't have to have his wife babysitting, not an untreated alcoholic. And he feels so insecure like that, just like Donald Trump does about Barack Obama. So the trauma bond in these men and their mediocrity at best is that they want to keep the system rigged for them. And they're willing to kill, lie, cheat and destroy the United States of America to keep their secret. And what is their secret? is they're incompetent dipshits. It's not even that deep. And they know it. And they know that the black excellence exposes just how incompetent and what abject failures these people are despite having, in the case of Hegg Seth and Donald Trump, the whole system rigged for them. And it still

continues. We're actively right now, through this whole regime, actively rigging this system for white men in real time. I'm watching it. I'm watching it happen. All the affirmation. action, they screamed and hand-ringed about. We're watching it accelerate in real time. The rigging for white men is like it's such an accelerant right now. All right, every single morning when I prepare for these IHIP news episodes, I have to consume a lot of news. But as you know yourself, you can go out into the internet and it's a mind-filled. Are you reading something that's true? Are you reading propaganda, et cetera? Well, let me tell you my little shortcut. Ground News Vantage plan. Let me give a prime example. Here's a headline. Trump claims catering container escape from missile threat is why he

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You know, I was just honest, and I think that's kind of a foreign concept. But I talked to several people today. I traveled around the state, and they said, you know, we appreciated the fact that you were honest. We appreciate the fact that you were honest. We appreciate the fact that you don't know fucking anything about foreign policy. But here's the thing. So many people in the United States Senate don't know anything about foreign policy. What they know is what lobbyist is paying them something.

I don't know that there's a whole lot of daylight between Darlene and Lindsey Graham. Because Lindsey Graham was a puppet for war criminals. And so I just think this just continues to highlight the Republican Party's desire. to promote the most unqualified white people because they are, they are saying, look at all this black people, look at all this immigrants. You're fucking right. We're rigging the system for us and we're going to continue to rig it because our skin is superior to yours.

That's the message I'm seeing. I agree with you. And I think it's so interesting. Her opponent in this Republican runoff in South Carolina is Maca A++. He will rubber stamp everything Donald Trump, everything based on his, you know, his history. So I find it interesting why Donald Trump is all chips in on her. I think it's a Netanyahu. I mean, I think that it's, of course it's Netanyahu. Of course it's Netanyahu. And I don't think Donald Trump, this is not some political great mind that says down and goes, okay, give me a PowerPoint presentation on Darlene and give me a PowerPoint presentation on her opponent.

I mean, this is a guy who just freeballs it. Oh, Darlene, she like me? Yeah, she thinks you're like her. Okay, fuck yeah, let's do it. Netanyahu like her, baby like her? Okay, great. The other guy's a huge mega thumber. Oh, who cares? Let's go with Darlene. I don't think there's any deep political strategy in him doing this. Furthermore, I think Donald Trump loves to promote incompetence because he is incompetent and it's comfortable, familiar, and it makes him feel smart. He said in himself, I don't like hanging out with smart people. I like hanging out with dumb people. And those are his words. All right, this is some pretty troubling stuff. But let's remember that as we move forward, we're under 80 days to the primaries.

It is of utmost importance that all of us center this primary race and on the left or in the center, get through our differences that we have right now and elect opposition to fascism. We can sort out and ferret out all the other stuff as we will, as the country always is doing. That's an ongoing thing. But we have got to defeat these MAGA fascists. We are the final guardrail. This is it. The midterms, this is our final guardrail.

So make sure you're registered to vote. Harass your friends. Make sure they are registered to vote. Make sure everybody has a plan to vote because they are going to try to scare the shit out of us. They might try to, you know, all sorts of maneuvers. But they cannot prevent us from voting. They're going to try. But the turnout must be too.

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