JUST IN: Hegseth BETRAYED As Trump’s Legal Bomb Ignites MAGA Chaos! | Rick Wilson

If there's one thing we know about Donald Trump, it's that the guy spends his life welded to a TV screen. He's never actually doing the job. He's parked on his ass, doomscrolling Fox like it's the nuclear codes. But today, he wasn't tuned into his favorite state-run pep rally. No, he was glued to the coverage surrounding Pete Hegseth's war crime and specifically to what Mark Kelly had to say about it.

Because that, and only that, explains what Trump just did next. He bailed on Pete Hegseth. Publicly. Threw him clean under the bus. Broke with him for the first time in his entire term during a press gaggle on Air Force One. A move that's rattling his own operation

and carving yet another crack into an already splintering MAGA coalition, and we are going to get into all of it. Now, before we get into what Trump said when he cut Hegseth loose, I want to start with what I believe pushed him there. It's what Mark Kelly had to say about Hegseth's illegal order, right here.

I mean, right now, the Washington Post reporting that Secretary Hegseth gave an order to kill everybody on one of those suspected drug boats during the first strike in September. Are you calling for US service members to actively disobey orders like those?

Well, if orders are illegal, not only do they not have to follow them, they are legally required not to follow them.

Do you think that constitutes an illegal order?

I think there needs to be an investigation, and I hope that the reporting is not accurate. I care so much about the United States Navy and those service members. This was an operation involving the most professional members of the military. U.S. Navy SEALs, who I revere, I hope and pray that this is not true, but there needs to be an investigation by the Inspector General. Pete Hegseth fired many of the inspectors general in DOD. But who's ever left needs to investigate it.

We're gonna investigate it. I sit on the Armed Services Committee. We're gonna have an investigation. We're gonna have a public hearing. We're gonna put these folks under oath and we're gonna find out what happened. And then there needs to be accountability.

Let me ask you.

I don't get the intel briefings a United States senator gets. So I can't tell you this with the classified stamp of certainty. But I can read, I can follow the reporting, and I trust the journalists who've been dead on about this since day one. Pete Hexeth is a war criminal. I don't need Congress to hold my hand on that.

The fact that Republicans, yes, Republicans on both the House and Senate Armed Services Committees are calling for investigations, pushing them forward, and agreeing to bipartisan probes tells me everything I need to know. And let's be honest here. It had to rise to the level of war crimes before the GOP finally glanced up from their fundraising spreadsheets

and said, hmm, maybe the guy on his third marriage, fifth affair, eighth secret kid, and multiple credible allegations wasn't the best choice to be Secretary of Defense. It took war crimes for that light bulb to flicker. Absurd doesn't even cover it. But the bigger point, I believe the reporting. It was an illegal order.

Pete Hegseth is a war criminal. And good on Mark Kelly for calling him out, relentlessly. No matter how many times Donald Trump tries to run the intimidation playbook, Trump thinks Kelly's gonna blink. Please.

What a joke. And Kelly made that very clear.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has personally threatened to recall you to active duty so that you can be court-martialed. Secretary Hegseth adding your video quote, intentionally undercut good order and discipline. Did it?

I said something very simple and non-controversial, and Donald Trump said I should be hanged, executed, prosecuted. Pete Heg says that I should be court-martialed. I mean, how ridiculous is this? We say follow the law, and this is their response? These are not serious people. And Kristen, this is meant to just intimidate us. We're sticking up for the Constitution here and the rule of law, and they're saying these folks should be executed for doing that.

I mean, Pete Hegseth is not a serious person. He's unqualified for this job.

If you watched the Sunday shows this morning, and you know Donald Trump did, because the man mainlines cable news like Oxygen, you saw a whole lot of Mark Kelly. And Trump, who basically lives with a TV remote glued to his hand, gave it away again with yet another weird swipe at Tim Walz during that press gaggle. He's watching. He's absorbing the panic.

And he sees the pressure building. He sees a senator who isn't afraid of him. And he knows the last thing he needs right now with his term collapsing under its own corruption and incompetence is another scandal detonating under his desk because of Pete Hegseth. Trump picked Hegseth for one reason. TV optics. He thought he was getting a Fox-friendly, telegenic hype man who could sell the rah-rah

routine, flex a little, struggle through a pull-up on camera, and magically energize the MAGA base. Instead, he got a political IED strapped to his ankle. Republicans are now turning on Hexeth. They're calling for investigations. They're not covering for him anymore. And Trump knows damn well he doesn't have the bandwidth for another self-inflicted disaster while everything around him is already in free fall. And as always, anyone who works for Donald Trump, stands next to Donald

Trump, or even wanders too close to his orbit, eventually gets the same treatment, tossed overboard the second he becomes inconvenient. That's the reality Pete Hexeth is waking up to.

For clarity, if there were a second strike that killed the people, you know, the first strike, are you willing to have it be revealed?

I don't know if it would happen. And Pete said he did not want that meeting he didn't even know what they were talking about. So, I'll look into it, but no, I wouldn't have wanted that on the second strike. The first strike was very lethal, it was fine.

Midas Touch nailed it with that line, preparing to throw Hegseth under the bus. Because that's exactly what this is. A lot of people are speculating, and frankly, they're right. Trump is already laying the groundwork for his escape hatch. Suddenly he's the no new wars guy. Suddenly he wouldn't have wanted a second strike. Suddenly the man who spent the last week cheerleading Hegseth's idiocy wants you to

believe he barely knows the guy. Give me a break. The first strike killing innocent fishermen in international waters somehow gets recast as preventative. The threats to shut down Venezuelan airspace? Oh, that wasn't an act of war. That was him being strong.

Trump is trying to draw this imaginary line where everything up to the war crime was just Trump being Trump, and everything after that was Pete Hegseth freelancing. He thinks he can carve out a little distance, toss out a few weasel words, and the media will swallow it whole. He wants the story to morph into, Oh, two strikes? That was Pete. I wouldn't have done that.

Pete got carried away. Oh, two strikes? That was Pete. I wouldn't have done that.

Pete got carried away. Pete made that call. The entire posture is blame shifting 101, and it's the clearest, most public break Trump has made with anyone in his inner circle during this term.

He is openly quitting on him. And let's not pretend this is about principle. Trump posted the damn videos.

He shared the evidence himself.

He was bragging about these strikes until the backlash hit until Republicans on the armed services committee started demanding investigations until Mark Kelly with that laser focused X astronaut.com started hammering him on national TV. Trump saw the coverage. He saw the Chiron. He saw the word war crimes paired with his name. And because everything with Trump begins and ends with television optics, he

panicked. So now he's drawing that little line in the sand. That part. Oh, that was Pete. Not me. He's signaling that if someone has to take the fall, he's already picked the body.

He's cracking the door open for the firing. And honestly, he's telegraphing the move the way he always does. By whining that he doesn't like how he's being talked about. And you can feel the desperation behind it. Trump's approval is at its lowest point of the presidency. Tennessee is shaping up to be another humiliating loss.

Shout out to Afton Bain on Tuesday. The Epstein scandal is eating him alive. The economy is a rolling dumpster fire. He's looking around for a distraction, anything shiny enough to throw the press off the scent. And firing Pete Hegseth would be the perfect little

look-over-here trick. Because Trump knows the alternative. Keep Pete the bar-crawling clown who hands out illegal kill orders like drink tickets, and he risks a wave of Republican resignations. He risks losing the House.

He risks even more investigations detonating under his feet. The choice is obvious. New Secretary of Defense buys him time. Keeping Hegseth costs him the building. And let's be real, loyalty has never once factored into Trump's decisions. He doesn't owe Hegseth anything,

and he sure as hell won't protect him when the heat gets turned up. You can practically watch Trump do the math in real time. A firing is the path of least political pain, and the TV told him so. And on that note, we need to hear more from Mark Kelly,

because he was absolutely lighting Trump up today.

Well, first, let me start by saying we said something very simple and non-controversial and the President of the United States said, hang them, execute them, prosecute them. In my case, Secretary Hegseth said, prosecute him under the Uniform Code of Military Justice for by the way, reciting the Uniform Code of Military Justice, for by the way, reciting the Uniform Code of Military Justice. It's obviously ridiculous.

But this is an attempt to silence me, to get me to not hold this administration accountable. We have a president who doesn't understand the Constitution, who installed an unqualified Secretary of Defense. I cannot think of a Secretary of Defense in the history of our country that is less qualified

than Pete Hegseth. He should not be in this position. He should have been fired after Signal Gate, and now he should be fired again for this, if this is accurate. So he's not gonna get me to back down.

But what he is doing is sending a very chilling message across our entire nation, not only in the military, but the civilian workforce. Who's going to speak up and say anything if they see something that's unlawful or see something, waste, fraud, and abuse?

Why would anyone speak out if they can go and prosecute, try to prosecute a US senator?

Is it happening?

Well, I don't know. I mean, I was notified. I was notified about this through a tweet, the same tweet that you saw. And that demonstrates how unserious this administration is. They care. They care more about the publicity about this than the process or the law.

I haven't been notified by the Navy.

By the Navy or the FBI.

So no court martialing? We got notified by the Navy. By the Navy or the FBI, so no court martial.

We we got something about from the FBI, but the thing we received from the FBI, just like the president said, saying that we should be hanged. The thing we received from the FBI is more intimidation.

What did it say?

Well, it just said there was no point of contact. It had something about coming in for an interview. And the question here should be, you know, why did the FBI decide to do this? Or do you think maybe the president told the FBI director to go after these six members of Congress?

I expect we're going to be hearing a whole lot more from Mark Kelly. This this right here is the energy Democrats need to be bringing every single day. And I'm going to keep highlighting it, boosting it, and putting a spotlight on it on this show. If you want to support that, as always, hit that subscribe button, leave a like on this video. If you stuck around to the end, drop a blue heart in the comments. Keep on fighting, y'all.

Keep on fighting, y'all. Don't let them silence you, and until next time, I'll see ya.