Trump Commits Impeachable Offense?!

0:00Donald Trump just committed an impeachable offense, an offense that would get any other president in American history removed from office. I'm serious. I'm not making things up and I'm not being hyperbolic about it. Because this evening we now have confirmation that Donald Trump personally directed the director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russ Fought, to use taxpayer funds to fund ads. Campaign style ads about the president of the United States on your television. Why is that an impeachable offense? It's an impeachable offense because Congress didn't give money for these ads. You see, there is a provision in the United States Constitution that gives Congress what is called the power of the purse. The power of the purse means they have the power to spend. They have the power not to spend. Congress decides what money is spent on what taxpayer dollars are sent to, not the president. But tonight the president misappropriated Congressional approved funds, which is a high crime

1:03and misdemeanor. And it comes as Trump now is saying that he feels bad for the Cornell 7, the 7 fraternity member is accused of horrific, horrific allegations in Cornell. And when we talk about impeachment and we talk about accountability, none of that happens if Democrats don't take back the United States Senate. Nice speak with Josh Turk tonight about his path to victory in Iowa, a state many people had written off for a long time. We're on the road to a million subscribers right now. If you can hit that subscribe button, like, comment, share. Something I will never do, I promise, is that it's simply put water down what this administration is doing. Water down with the president, what the vice president are doing. For me, you're going to get true and accurate news, true and accurate journalism. And that starts with this impeachable offense. Because we now know that President Trump personally instructed his budget director to use taxpayer money for TV ads, praising him in his presidency, setting in motion a $20 million contract that use funds from the Department of Homeland Security. These ads have run on CNN, MSNOW, Fox News, ABC, NBC,

2:08CBS, they're never going to run on the partners perspective. I will never take money for that to happen. Mr. Trump was eager to see the ads on the air and told Russ Fawth, the director of Office of Management and Budget, to come up with the money from within the government. That budget office council will show off both that it will be legal to use DHS funds, but it's not. It is not legal to do it. The taxpayer funded ads have been criticized by multiple people across the political spectrum. It's not exactly clear why taxpayer funds and not as super PAC were used. Because remember, Trump has $400 million sitting in the bank right now that he could use on these ads. He has it. He has used your taxpayer dollars. Instead, the White House has been calling them public service announcements, but they're not. And any other president in American history would face impeachment over these ads alone over the use of taxpayer dollars, over the misuse, the misappropriation of taxpayer funds for personal gain. And when asked about impeachment today, here's what he had to say.

3:19And he could be in some fake impeachment. And we could have done that with sleepy Joe, but we didn't do it because it would have been a problem. And I could have done that with Hillary Clinton, as you know, I had the chance to do it if I wanted. And I said that would be inappropriate. But with me, they like to do it. It comes as tonight Donald Trump is spending his night attacking Patricia James. Not getting accountability. He doesn't want accountability for the Jane Doe. Instead is saying why would the governor of New York, Kathy Hoke will appoint a corrupt prosecutor, Patricia Peekaboo James, to represent the state in the highly controversial Cornell University rape case, went on to say that he feels bad for the seven fraternity members. Now that Patricia James is on the case. What do you think about New York's governor appointing a special prosecutor in the Cornell rape case? Patricia James, the only Patricia James is a corrupt person, who's totally corrupt and I can't imagine it. And I feel badly for whoever she's looking at

4:22because they won't get a fair shake. But DC James is a corrupt person. What's up with that? Directly from the mouth of the president. Now my interview with Josh Turk. Josh Turk, it's good to have you back on the show. I want to jump right in because the big news right now is you're getting a ton of money dumped into your race against you. There's new reporting showing that the Republican Party is spending upwards of $30 million to defeat you and support Ashley Henson, your Republican opponent. Why do you think that is? Because they're seeing what we're seeing, that this is a state that is uniquely hurting. I mean, we're one of three states seeing our economy contract. We're basically dead last for every health care metric. We've closed 842 health care entities in the state. We've got a water quality crisis, a cancer crisis. We have the second highest rates of cancer behind only Kentucky, only state with a growing cancer rate. We've seen public education be the gold standard in the state, precipitously dropped down down to the bottom half. Because of the tariffs in the Warren Iran,

5:23we lead the nation in farm foreclosures and seeing farm suicide rates skyrocket. In this Warren Iran, that my opponent, Ashley Henson, is voted in favor of seven times, is leading to gas prices going up in Iowa more than almost any other state. Diesel prices being in an all-time high as our farmers are going into harvest and then looking at input prices, like fertilizer that are skyrocketing. I mean, Iowa is a hurting, uniquely hurting, and they're ready for change. And they're ready to not have someone like Ashley Henson that has used her position of power to go up there and make herself 15 times more wealthy. They're ready for a real populace. It's going to fight for the people. So I see all these polls coming out with you on top of Ashley Henson. I see them kind of panicking, spending all this money. And I instantly have flashbacks to October of 2024. When we got that Ann Seltzer poll out of Iowa, showing Donald Trump down, double digits in Iowa. And then at all, all for not, it was all wrong. Is this a repeat of that? Or is this something different?

6:24No, I mean, look, that was that one poll was a real outlier. The rest of the polls, I think, were closer to what it actually ended up being. No, on this, we've seen a steady stream of the last two weeks. The polls have been gradually moving in our favor. Up one, up two, up three, up four. The mayor's poll had us up by eight. That is more closely matching what we are seeing and feeling on the ground, which is, Iowa and Europe set everywhere. We're going urban areas, rural areas. Iowa and they're saying the exact same thing. I am struggling. I am, you know, you got two parents working. Struggling just to keep food on the table, saying we're both working full-time and we're still half and a go to the food pantry. I mean, Iowa and struggling just to pay their electric bill. Keep a roof above their head and keep gas in their tank. They're fed up and we've had someone like Ashley Henson, NDC, that has gone there and voted for cuts to healthcare. In a state with a healthcare and cancer crisis, cuts to food assistance, cuts to the Social Security Administration, just to give tax breaks to billionaires. Again, five times voting in favor of the tariff,

7:26seven times voting in favor of the war. Iowa and Europe set. They don't want a multi-millionaire that is going up there just to look out for billionaires and her multi-millionaire friends or have her husband operating as a shadow lobbyist. They want someone who's going to go up there and actually fight for them. That's who I am. That's what I've done in the Iowa legislature and that's what I'll do in the US Senate. Well, you talk about the Iowans being upset. And one core group of Iowans that I have seen online on TV elsewhere just really, really upset are Iowa farmers. And recently, I've kind of described it as a farm recession hitting the farmland across the country, but specifically in Iowa. Is that a good way of describing what you're seeing right now? Are farmers really, really feeling the brunt of some of the policies from Washington, D.C.? Well, I've been calling it even more than a recession. What I've been calling it is a farm and garden. Literally, a second farm crisis. 40 years ago, we ended up losing half of our small family farms because of the first farm crisis. What's happened now with high interest rates, with commodities prices being low,

8:26I believe that the tariffs have hurt Iowa more than any other state. It has been one gut punch after another. Farmers more than any other group need fair trade. They need markets. The tariffs have absolutely decimated the markets. You've got the $20 billion that went to Argentina so that the Chinese could buy their soybeans. It has just been one gut punch after another. And then you add in this war in Iran that has led to gas prices, diesel prices being at all time high, fertilizer cost. I'm hearing from farmers over and over, a small family farmer saying, Josh, I'm looking at these input prices. These fertilizer prices for next planting season. This is not going to work. We're going to end up in foreclosure. And we already lead the nation in farm foreclosures and seeing farm suicide rates skyrocket. I mean, you think about it in Iowa. We've lost population in 70 of our 99 counties. Lost half of our small family farms. If we're not able to have someone like me go up to the US Senate, pass a farm bill, pass mandatory of country of origin labeling,

9:27pass year round E15, pass a right to repair bill so that farmers can repair their equipment. We might be looking at the end of small family farmers. And I refuse to see that. I mean, I want to go up there and actually fight for these rural communities that are being hollowed out and for our small family farmers. And that's what they deserve. Because actually, Henson has not looked out for them in any capacity. It's really a dangerous time to be an Iowa farmer. How do we turn that around, though? Because, for example, tariffs, that's something that the executive is going to do regardless of whether or not Congress permits them to do it in a way. Same thing with the war in Iran. You see an executive that's going to go to war, regardless of what Congress says or does. So how do you actually reverse some of these impacts? We win these races and we provide legitimate checks and balances back in place. I mean, the Constitution is really clear. The power, the powers, the power, the tariffs is meant to be in the legislative branch. I mean, we should be able to repeal these tariffs and have strategic tariffs. I mean, we certainly want strategic tariffs to protect American jobs and American manufacturing,

10:28but not off the backs of the agriculture industry or off of the farmers. Same with the war in Iran. Day one, let's get up there. Let's pass the War Powers Act. Let's in this war in Iran because it is hurting Iowans uniquely. I mean, we've lost three Iowans in the conflict and the gas prices, the diesel prices are hurting Iowans more than any other state. There's a lot that we can do. Day one, those two things. We can go up there and we can put guardrails on insurance companies because people's medical care is costing them too much. We can repeal what we've seen with the big beautiful bill. 110,000 Iowans losing their health care. We can go after private equity and housing and in health care and in nursing homes. Because it's unnecessarily driving up the cost of housing. I mean, now the average age of a first-time home buyer in this country, 40 years old, I think we can also address grocery prices by going at banning vertical integration, breaking up monopolies and banning price gouging. There's a lot that we can do to address this affordability crisis

11:28that we're seeing basically up there. Day one, like let's get after it and let's provide some relief to the American people into Iowans because they are uniquely hurting. And this affordability crisis is because of this corruption crisis that we're seeing. And my opponent, Ashley Hinton, is basically the face and voice of this corruption crisis. Now you mentioned the Iran war repeatedly and how Ashley Hinton voted for it seven times. Now I do want to give her the brief benefit of the doubt in that she did come out recently and say she no longer supports the war in Iran in a way. She wants it to end quickly. What's your reaction to kind of this about face from Ashley Hinton? I think it's fascinating for someone that has, you know, the least bipartisan member of the Iowa delegation. Someone has voted 100% of the time with Trump. Seven times has voted in favor of this war in Iran continuing. Now suddenly, I was looking at internal polls and wanting to do the right thing. Yeah, this is something I've heard about over and over and over. In a 400 days of doing this going to all 99 counties, I have yet to hear from a single eye when tell me,

12:28I want to be in another forever war. And I can speak about this from personal experience. You know, my disability was caused from my father's exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam. I'm an example of the generational consequences to these forever wars and what have I seen in my lifetime, a trillion dollars going to Afghanistan, a trillion dollars going to Iraq. For what, we spent over 40 billion dollars now on this conflict in Iran with no strategy. Meanwhile, here in Iowa, we're being told we don't have money for roads and schools and hospitals and lead the nation and farm foreclosures. I think in Iowa first, in America first approaches, let's take care of our people here and let's do that by repealing these unnecessary tariffs, these chaotic tariffs. And let's in this war in Iran, let's take care of the people here first. Josh Turk, thanks so much for the time. Thank you, my friend. Hey, folks, thanks so much for watching. Feel free to add this podcast on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere you watch, or the latest breaking news and daily hits. Throughout the day, make sure to follow, subscribe, see you soon for more.