The Keith Edwards Show - Pete Hegseth Just Exposed The Truth About Trump and Iran

Episode Date: March 6, 2026

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Earlier today, we learned that Chrissy Noma is, bye-bye, she's gone, but-bye. And that is the least of Donald Trump's problems because MAGA is furious with Donald Trump over this war in Iran. And some of his biggest supporters, Alex Jones, Nick Fuentes, are just completely, they're like giving up. They've given up on Trump. Here's what they had to say. And I'm watching it sink by its own doing. And so this is horrifying. And so, but I can't sign on to covering on Pepstein. I can't sign on to World War III. And so that's why I tried to promote the optimism because I fucking need this, man.

Like, I want to fix the country. I want to turn it around. So it's not that I was delusional. And I still hope we can turn it around. But I just, sorry, go ahead. Just you get what I'm saying. I get it. I get it.

And I, listen, like I said, I don't think that everybody that's support. to Trump was being dismissive about these concerns. I get it. You know, we all wanted to believe. I was 18 years old when Trump ran in 2016. And I remember getting in fights with people. You know, this is my whole life, too. At 18 years old, I wore the MAGA hat at Boston University,

one of the most liberal campuses in the country and became a pariah on my college campus. It's sad to see something you fought blood for die. Yeah. And, you know, fought. in blood for. What, what is Alex Jones fought in blood for? That's my whole adult life. I know that's, that's a huge part of your life also. And now we're witnessing. It's totally unraveling. It's an utter and complete betrayal. It's heartbreaking in many ways. And when I try to salvage it with people, I get attacked as a liberal, which is a, when these people doing that don't even, can't even

find Iran on a fucking map. Yeah. Well, what's called for is for us to be sober minded about the entire thing, you know, because there's a lot of Trump painters. I've been a realist all time, but was hoping. And now I'm just not even hoping. I'm just going to be a realist. Awesome. Fantastic. Now, this is a huge problem for Donald Trump and Mark, Mark Wayne Mullen, who Donald Trump has tapped to be the next DHS head. Can't even say whether or not this is a war. Are there measures being taken not to eliminate other possible alternatives to leadership? This is war. And we're taking out the third. And if you're part of the threat, then you have the, then you're a target.

You know, what we call call not all the arrows, but going after the archers. You can see this is war. We haven't declared war. They declared war on us, but we haven't declared. Yeah, you said this is war. They called it war. What I was saying. Okay, well, that was a misspoke.

What I was saying that they that was a misspoke. Oh, he's going to be a great DHS secretary and a woman who went famous. for saying the N-word, even she is hurting against Donald Trump. No, you just sit down and you be loyal and you support and you cope and you sieve. That's what they expect you to do. They expect you to be a good little cuck and sit in the cuck chair while a president that you voted for screws you over. That's what they expect.

And you know what that represents? That represents their ultimate disdain for you. You're sitting here like an idiot being loyal to a president. who doesn't give a shit about you, and they're laughing at you. They're taking your vote, and they're laughing all the way into the Middle East to start yet another war. It's just like nonstop. It's nonstop. And Marjorie Taylor Green joined in on the fun as well, saying Trump now says he's going to endorse either Cornyn or Paxton and demands that whoever does not get his endorse must drop out of the runoff. This is wrong, and the people of Texas

should be able to vote who they want. She goes on to say, I'm here. Donald Trump and his coalition of consultants serve Israel, the military industrial complex, big farm, and big tech, and rich powerful donors in the Epsine class, not the average American, which is exactly why he and them turned against me. Baby, this is not good for Donald Trump.

And we also learned, too, that even Pete Hegeseth has turned against Trump. Here's what the reporting says. So Donald Trump has said repeatedly that Iran was close to attacking us and that it was imperative that we attacked them first. Well, the Pentagon says otherwise. Pete Hugg says, folks shot that one down, saying the Trump administration through the Pentagon has acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack the U.S. forces first. Two people familiar at the matter said, the United States and Israel launched their most ambitious attacks on Iran and decades on Saturday, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamani,

sinking Iranian warships and hitting more than 1,000 targets. So far, officials said. But Sunday's remarks to Congress appeared to undercut one of the key arguments for the war made by senior administration officials. They told reporters the day before President Trump decided to launch the attacks in part because of indicators that our Iranians might strike U.S. forces to the Middle East, perhaps preemptively, Trump, one of the officials said it was not going to sit back and allow American forces in the region to absorb attacks. Okay, well, that was just a L-O-L-I-E, big old lie. But Donald Trump is still saying it. Here's what he's saying. If we didn't hit within two weeks, they would have had a nuclear weapon.

If we didn't do the B-2 attack a number of months ago, they would have a nuclear. weapon and when crazy people have nuclear weapons bad things happen so we're in very good shape now I want to let you know that and we will continue forward but it's a great display of military strength and I'm very proud to have with some of the people in the room both senators and congressmen we rebuilt and women we and then he also said we had to do it if we didn't do it first they would have done it to Israel years they've been killing our people and killing our people and killing people from all over the world. And I think we have great support. And I think if we didn't do it first, they would have done it to Israel and give us a shot if that was possible. So I got to say, this is like

an 80-20 issue. This is something that clearly Trump's own base doesn't want to happen. This is something that Democrats are very much so. Democrats who are voters are very much so aligned on that we don't want to be in this war. Did you know this war is costing us close to a billion dollars a day? A billion dollars a day. And they just said that they expect this to go until September at the soonest. So someone do the math. It's March 5th. And how many months away is September? Six months? How much money is that? A billion dollars a day. 30 billion dollars a month, $180 billion, potentially more, spent on a war, no one wants to be in, be in. When we can't even pay for health care, they're cutting snap benefits that got rid of the

child tax credit. We can't afford that stuff, but we can afford to be in a war that no one wants to actually be in who actually votes. I know that Democrats seem to be horny for this war. They want to fund it. I know that Republicans have been desperate to change a narrative around Epstein. So I get why they want to do this. I think it's our responsibility as voters to make them feel the pain of what their decisions, I think it's our responsibility as voters to make them feel the pain of their own decisions. And so anyone who supports this, whether on the left or the right, we got to make sure that we primary them and we vote them out because I don't want to be in another war. I know most Americans don't want to be in another war. I want to be in a war against poverty. I want to

be in a war against sickness. I want to be, I want to have a Department of Peace to figure out how we can find common ground with countries who don't agree with us and not new and exciting ways to bomb children. That's what I would like. I know most of you are with me. So let's make sure that we support Democrats on our side who actually don't want to fund this and who want to make sure that we protect Americans at home, we, I don't know, maybe this is crazy. Create systems that help people who are middle class in this country. That'd be an interesting thing we could maybe accomplish. But in the meantime, we got to make sure that we do not allow Democrats who decide to be for

this illegal war to ever have power again. That's where I am. I hope that's where you are too.