Kash Patel New Allegations Make Everything Worse For Him; His Job At Risk

16 Sep 2026 · 24 min · 13 chapters

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In short

The hosts attack Kash Patel and the Trump administration over alleged conspiracy claims about the Butler assassination attempt, alleged DOJ/FBI interference in elections, and broader claims of incompetence and moral collapse across Trump’s cabinet (including Pete Hegseth and Todd Blanche). They also discuss alleged Russian oligarch funding of Don Jr.’s wedding, impeachment filings involving Hegseth, leaked photos from U.S. Air Force bases, and an “AI-first” Defense Department slogan.

Guests

No named guests appear; the episode features multiple recurring speakers referenced as “Pumps,” “Josh,” and “Todd Blanche” (the latter is a subject, not a guest).

Key claims

Democrats plotted the Butler attempt; Patel would send FBI agents to polls despite 18 U.S.C. 592; Patel’s “election integrity” claims lack evidence; missing Epstein-related pages; Blanche lied about investigating a Putin-linked oligarch; Republicans enabled unqualified appointments; AI should not be blamed—oligarchs should.

Notable examples

Butler, Pennsylvania; 18 U.S.C. 592; “Epstein Transparency Act” and missing pages; Don Jr.’s wedding allegedly bankrolled by a Putin-orbit oligarch; impeachment articles by Thomas Massey against Hegseth; leaked Air Force base damage photos; “Americanism, not effective altruism” and “AI dominant” Defense slogan.

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Chapters

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Examining the Butler Assassination Attempt

0:00 to 1:00

Discussing the suspicious circumstances surrounding the attempted assassination of Trump.

“All right, I'm going to say the quiet part out loud.”

Criticism of Trump's Claims

1:00 to 1:59

Analyzing Trump's accusations against Democrats regarding the assassination attempt.

“In Pumps, I read online that a Trump supporter paid for the cremation of this alleged shooter, which that's really interesting that a political donor would just say, I'll pay to cremate the guy.”

Discussion on Political Prosecution

1:59 to 3:06

Debating the nature of political prosecutions and the implications for Trump's enemies.

“And we see in this particular tweet too, I want to go back to that for a second.”

Allegations Against Cash Patel

3:06 to 4:12

Exploring Cash Patel's claims about election integrity and voter intimidation.

“And then by the end of his tweet, it's morphed into the Democrats are responsible for the assassination attempt.”

Bestiality Allegations and Election Officers

4:12 to 5:37

Delving into the absurdity of claims involving bestiality and election officers.

“This FBI is not going to shy away from that effort.”

Critique of Kash Patel's Actions

5:37 to 9:25

A critical take on Kash Patel's tenure and his failure regarding the Epstein files.

“There's a specific statute that prevents officers from barring federal officers from election sites since the Reconstruction days, and it's 18 U.S.C.”

Todd Blanche and Wedding Controversies

9:25 to 12:39

Discussing Todd Blanche's response to the controversy surrounding Don Jr.'s wedding funded by a Russian oligarch.

“It shows me that you are absolutely more arrogant than incompetent.”

Massey's Impeachment Articles Against Hexeth

12:39 to 14:00

Exploring Thomas Massey's impeachment articles against Pete Hexeth and the implications for the Republican Party.

“But we have had somewhat of an impotent opposition at best to Trump 2.0.”

Critique of Pete Hegseth

14:00 to 15:00

A critical perspective on Pete Hegseth's qualifications and actions.

“Pete Hexeth, in my opinion, which we all know is very important, is a criminal.”

Moral Collapse and Incompetence in Government

15:00 to 16:50

Discussion on the moral failures and incompetence of government officials.

“And I just want to remind everybody, as we talk about each person in the cabinet, this is by design.”
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Foreign Influence and Political Complicity

16:50 to 18:45

Examination of foreign influence on US politics and the role of Congress.

“checks or balances or oversight on any of these appointments.”

AI Dominance and Accountability

18:45 to 20:33

Concerns about AI's potential dangers and the accountability of tech companies.

“And then the last story, Pete Hegseth has a new slogan for the Department of Defense, pop this up.”

Trust Issues in AI Development

20:33 to 21:13

Discussion on the lack of trust in both AI developers and government oversight.

“So we need to change our discussions about that.”
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Transcript

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0:04Angie Sullivan:All right, I'm going to say the quiet part out loud. Everybody has thought the Butler assassination attempt is fishy at best. But Trump, of course, our conspiracy theory, filet-o-fish eating, bunny boiler companion, dipshit president, there's just no polite way to put any of that. Of course, he is now saying the Democrats tried to assassinate him. Pop this up. Everybody knows that crooked Joe Biden FBI didn't do what they should have with respect to the lunatic who shot me in Butler, Pennsylvania. By the time I got into office on January 20th, most of the information was missing, altered, corrupted or gone.

0:45Angie Sullivan:New info was just found. Why wasn't it seen long ago? This was all a Democrat plot to get me out of the election that failed. dirty cop Christopher Wray should pay a price for the way he handled the assassination attempt and certainly for the things he said. God bless America. Make America great again. President Donald J. Trump. In Pumps, I read online that a Trump supporter paid for the cremation of this alleged shooter, which that's really interesting that a political donor would just say, I'll pay to cremate the guy. I mean, that's kind of some weird shit to quote George W. Bush. What's your take on that?

1:29Well, and I also read that this guy was receiving parts of guns paid for by an anonymous donor. So there's that. Here's what I have to say about this. Correct me if I'm wrong. Donald Trump prosecutes his political enemies. We just had a U.S. attorney resign because citing corruption in attempting to prosecute political enemies. We have James Comey currently being under indictment because he said 8647 in shells on the beach. So you're telling me that somebody that tried to assassinate Donald Trump that was funded by the Democrats, and they have evidence he's not prosecuting them that they're not the first fucking people in line at the doj like this is bullshit from top to bottom like i saw this and i was like if that were true we would be at the courthouse all fucking ready shut up yeah it there is um obviously an

2:31Angie Sullivan:attempt right now as we head into the midterms um and and he's also to your point prosecuting his enemies, Josh has kept his eye on the fact that DOJ is opening up an investigation into arguably one of the top 2028 presidential candidates, Gavin Newsom. Josh. Yeah, so that's what he does. And we see in this particular tweet too, I want to go back to that for a second. He starts with blaming the Democrats for really not investigating or the use of the marshal's office and not doing a proper investigation after the so-called assassination attempt. And then by the end of his tweet, it's morphed into the Democrats are responsible for the assassination attempt.

3:13And again, I don't think we can call this out. Number one, the media has to hold him accountable for making these kind of claims with zero basis, as Pump pointed out. And number two, the fact that he never, ever, ever, ever tweets any policy that's going to help this country. He lives off of a policy of conspiracy theories and lies. That's their policy through and through day and day.

3:39Angie Sullivan:I completely agree with that. Moving along here, we have a bestiality ally. Cash Patel says he's sending FBI agents to the polls. Play the clip. You weren't going to be sending people to the polls. When did you hear that? Just another lie. When you answered Mr. Blumenthal. Nope. So you are sending you are sending. We have election crisis coordinators. manned at all 56 field offices. Election integrity is of paramount importance. This FBI is not going to shy away from that effort. My question to Cash Patel is which of these election agents that are working on this task force, which of them were trafficked into bestiality and need the loophole to be able to serve our country?

4:31Angie Sullivan:Josh, what do you think about this type of voter intimidation by a guy who just got his ass handed to him by a MAGA senator yesterday? Well, I want to answer that question directly, but I'm really upset I wasn't here for yesterday's episode about bestiality. And so I want to say something to it real fast. So as you can imagine, when this thing is happening, when he's looking at policies and there's this prohibition against anyone who's engaged in bestiality, that cash goes into one of the other director's offices or other agents, officers, and he says, hey, we've got three, 400 good qualified applicants that we need on the FBI task force.

5:10We do. The problem is 10, 20 of them, they're fucking goats. We've got about 50 that are fucking cows. We've got about 75 that are fucking lamb and sheep, and we've got no way to get these guys on board. So can we go into this regulation? Because they would make really, really, really good agents. but for fucking animals. So is there anything that we can do here? And so that's how it happens. So anyway, I'm sorry I missed that yesterday. There's a specific statute that prevents officers from barring federal officers from election sites since the Reconstruction days, and it's 18 U.S.C. 592. And of course, Kash Patel, who's lying off his ass there about election integrity officers, he's going to try to circumvent that and say that having officers at the polls is necessary to make sure there's no election fraud.

6:02Well, of course, the problem with that is there's zero evidence to support election fraud. So, again, media frame this properly, call it out. They're relying upon things that are simply non-existent. Their whole entire policy and agenda is based on lies and conspiracy theories.

6:19Angie Sullivan:Love it. OK, Pops, I want to get your take on this next video. So Cash goes on Sean Hannity, his safe space, his little warm whoobie, if you will, to talk about the hearing. Play the clip. President Trump and Director Cash Patel and his team have delivered what they never could. Freeze it, freeze it, freeze it, freeze it, freeze it. What? Did he get Botox and his eyebrow is going upward? I know that this is really petty, but what is, Kylie, can you please. Does he have a Botox needle bruise over his eyebrow? What's going on here? Because we saw him during the day when a MAGA senator grilled him and held him to account.

7:01Angie Sullivan:Can we get a close-up of what's going on with his eyebrow? I mean, I don't think he's Catholic. And it's not Ash Wednesday yesterday. It wasn't. What is this? Did he have an obesity injury? injury. For those of you listening, I don't know if this was a makeup mishap. I don't know if he had a Botox injection that went awry, but part of his eyebrow appears to be slanted upward. Okay. I am sorry. Play that entire clip over. I was going to say, I forgot what we were talking about. Some serious hard-hitting analysis from one of our greatest legal minds in the country, pumps. Play that clip again. Sorry.

7:43Angie Sullivan:These Democrats were barking about for years and President Trump and Director Cash Patel and his team have delivered what they never could. And the third person pumps, go ahead. Okay. They always say the true sign of a narcissist is they talk about themselves in third person, but whatever. Okay. Let me, two things. Number one, But Kash Patel, just as to the crisis management teams, crisis management for Kash Patel is, you said my girlfriend's a honeypot. The court dismissed those claims because we can't prove she's not a honeypot. He thinks that people text or tweeting about him on Twitter, that's an emergency.

8:23He gets agents to respond on Twitter. Those are crises in Kash Patel's mind. And what I have to say about this is Kash Patel, my guess is he made millions of dollars hosting a podcast when Trump was out of office. And day in and day out, 24-7, 365, he was going to expose the deep state and the Epstein files. He has now been in office for almost two years. He has an Epstein Transparency Act, and he has produced fucking nothing. We heard yesterday, 37 pages from the alleged 13-year-old victim of Donald Trump are missing from the Epstein files. So what I will say, and I will say this with all due respect, Kash Patel, you're a fucking liar.

9:11Go fuck yourself and your goats and everything else you like and stop making everybody in the FBI, US Marshal, US government look like dipshits because you are the biggest fucking dipshit to ever set foot. on the planet. It's embarrassing you took this job. It shows me that you are absolutely more arrogant than incompetent. And that is a very high bar.

9:36Angie Sullivan:Completely agree with all of that. Go pumps. Okay. Next up, we have Todd Blanche, our warrior for justice. I wonder if he had something to do with those missing pages in the Epstein files. I think so. That's just my opinion. Todd Blanche responds to Don Jr.'s wedding being bankrolled by a Russian oligarch. And I want to remind everybody that this wedding took place after his father tripled his net worth and gave Don Jr. all of these layup contracts in the biggest NEPO fail son experiment I've ever seen in my life. And that's still not enough. They still have to take money from the Russians. Play the clip.

10:15The president doesn't know who this person is. I think other members of the family don't know who this person is. The president's son has said that he's a very close friend and that he accepted a gift in the weekend of his wedding. I'm not so I don't I'm not sure what when you say, am I investigating? Am I investigating what? And when you say this person is a friend of Putin, I don't even know if that's true or not. So I like that it's it's fun to talk about.

10:42Angie Sullivan:You are the DOJ. you can contact the CIA and the FBI and say, give me the profile that our taxpayer money has spent, the file on this oligarch that paid for this. Furthermore, the Trumps are such moochers. Nobody likes moochers that make everybody else pay their bill. Josh, what's your take on that? Well, first of all, Todd Blanche is a compulsive liar. Let's say that up front. He's Trump's personal lawyer, who is now the acting attorney general, he's been confirmed by the Senate. This is a classic tactic where you give an answer that's a complete lie, but yet you act like it's a sensible response to the question because he says two things in that answer.

11:27He says, number one, the brothers don't know, the other family members have no idea who this person is. And then just after that, he says, Don Jr. says he's a close family friend. And so you have these two things. And he says, we don't know what he is. So what are we supposed to be investigating? I mean, it's the most nonsensical, sensible response. He spent$200 ,000. He's in Putin's orbit. He's one of the oligarchs in Russia connected to Putin. and he's paying for the president's marriage or honeymoon and spending$200 ,000 and$300 ,000, it's a typical Todd Blanchard answer. He's lying.

12:10Angie Sullivan:Okay. And onto this next story. This involves Thomas Massey filing articles of impeachment against Hexet. Yesterday, we saw a Republican take on Kash Patel and humiliate him on the global stage. And I think it's interesting that both of these stories, and I'm about to play a clip, these are Republicans finally going after this regime. And so I just want to remind everybody that we are going to go out, we're going to vote in full force for Democrats. But we have had somewhat of an impotent opposition at best to Trump 2.0. Play the clip. 221 persons aboard seagoing vessels alleged to be smuggling narcotics in the Caribbean Sea and the Eastern Pacific Ocean, principally in international waters.

12:58He did so through a scheme or course of conduct that chilled independent legal review within the Department of Defense, constructed a purported legal basis for the use of military force without constitutional or statutory authorization, and displaced longstanding precedent and co - Angie. Pete Hexeth, talk about incompetence and arrogance all rolled into one. Here's the thing. I love this for Pete Hexeth. I love that Thomas Massey did this, but here's the thing. I disagree politically with Thomas Massey on everything, but he came out before his primary. He came out and said, I'm out on little children being abused by rich, powerful white men in the Epstein class.

13:48I'm against that. And if I lose my election, then I'm willing to accept the consequences. Contrast that with Bill Cassidy and John Cornyn of Texas, who fucking still kissed the ring after Trump went against them and they lost their primaries. Okay. Pete Hexeth, in my opinion, which we all know is very important, is a criminal. He is a war criminal. He sits around worrying about whether we have more testosterone than he does the lives of children. than he does the lives of men and women trying to fish and make a living. He kills people for sport because he thinks he's playing Call of Duty. He thinks all that testosterone jacked him up to be the big boy in his animated Call of Duty called, and I say this truly appalled, he is such an insecure, tiny dick, low-T dude that he had to change the Department of Defense, even though it cost taxpayers like up to a billion dollars if he actually changed everything, to the Department of War because he's that fucking insecure.

14:59It's gross.

15:00Angie Sullivan:And I just want to remind everybody, as we talk about each person in the cabinet, this is by design. This is a part of the fascist playbook. They appoint people that will participate in the moral collapse. Trump himself says he doesn't like being around smart people. Furthermore, you have to apply the logic. After what we all saw on January 6, these people saw that and said, I want to go work for him. So this is by design, moral collapse in front of everybody and in front of the world, which links all of these stories together. Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu, all of these amoral tech oligarchs.

15:42Angie Sullivan:This is by design. This is on purpose to pick incompetent people. Josh, what do you make of that? Well, think about this. We have a TV host who's the Secretary of Defense. We've got a podcaster who's running the FBI, and we've got Trump's former lawyer who was part of his convictions for 34 felony counts as his personal DOJ lawyer. So it's no surprise here. These are three individuals that are wholly unqualified for their positions. And I hold someone else responsible. I hold the members of Congress responsible who were complicit in enabling this to happen. When there could be meaningful oversight by some of these Republicans, they failed to stand up and do that.

16:28And I heard Senator Booker yesterday in an oversight hearing calling out Republicans for the same thing for being complicit on judiciary with Senator Grassley on another matter. Again, that's where the blame lies. We know that people like Pete Hexeth, Kash Patel, Todd Blanche, we know they're true colors. We know they're going to do exactly what they say they're going to do, but there's no meaningful checks or balances or oversight on any of these appointments. And that's who should ultimately be held responsible.

16:57Angie Sullivan:And the problem with Senator Booker calling them out is Senator Booker is also compromised. Senator Booker also takes a ton of money from the Israel lobby. And so you don't have credible messengers on the opposition side, because all of those guys are going to say, oh, yeah, well, you're, you know, Cory Booker jokes around about texting like a teenage girl with his APAC handler. And that's on the record. Moving along, soldiers are leaking photos of damage to the U.S. Kylie, go and pop this up. These are United States Air Force bases, and soldiers are leaking these photos and these images to the press and to the public.

17:35Angie Sullivan:And Hegseth is trying to cover this. They are completely covering up the fact that the United States is losing this war that Benjamin Netanyahu drug us into because Donald Trump and all the people around him are incompetent. They fired the adults in the military that had experience, that were seasoned, that advised against going into Iran because the end game here is that Benjamin Netanyahu wants to balkanize Iran. And he has been waiting and waiting and waiting and chomping at the bit for an unprincipled American president that would allow him to do it. After he started this war, he said, this is a dream of mine, a 40-year dream of mine that has finally come true.

18:20Angie Sullivan:He posted that. So when Cory Booker is doing the bidding and taking the money from the same regime of Benjamin Netanyahu, I like a lot of stuff that Cory Booker says. But we have to have credible opposition messengers to take these bought and paid prostitutes in the Republican Party on that are not prostitutes themselves. And then the last story, Pete Hegseth has a new slogan for the Department of Defense, pop this up. Americanism, not effective altruism. The United States will continue to be AI dominant. The AI first war department. And I saw a clip from my friend Kara Swisher. And we all and it was probably one of the best talking points I've seen about all of this AI stuff.

19:14Angie Sullivan:And this is her area of expertise, tech journalism. For us to continue to say AI will kill us, AI will kill us, that is sane washing and providing cover that these tech oligarchs are the ones that control this technology. They will kill us. these tech oligarchs, the people at Anthropic, the people at OpenAI, Elon Musk, their technology will kill us. And if there are any airborne illnesses that these technologies create, if there are any mass deaths that these technologies create, which we already know, it's been assumed and alleged in the media that the triple tap strike on the Iranian and little girls was an AI mishap.

20:01Angie Sullivan:And so we can't blame AI for this. We need to blame the people who are in charge and have all the power over the AI because they could stop it at any time. And they need to be held criminally liable. And we need to quit making AI a person that could come out and kill us because these tech oligarchs have agency over their products, just like McDonald's, if they find out there's salmonella in their chicken and they continue to serve it up, then the owners and the human beings who made that decision would be held liable for that. So we need to change our discussions about that. Final thoughts. We're out of time.

20:43I would say just as it relates to the AI issue, it's difficult to see who to trust here because all of these AI oligarchs have an incentive, whether they're speaking about needing regulation or whatever. It's all about making money for them and advancing their AI models. So it's hard to trust them. At the same time, we have a government that's wholly incompetent and I don't trust anything they say. So therein lies the difficulty for me.

21:08Angie Sullivan:Completely agree. All right. Like, subscribe, comment. We will be back later with more news.

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