Ben (Benjy/Ben MidasTouch)

They've done all of that.

So I don't get how we're here.

October 16th, 2025 as the record date on this episode, just say mid to late October in general.

And people are still saying that's just rage bait.

You should be enraged, not at the people writing the stories about what's happening and accurately describing what it is.

You should be enraged at what our country has become.

That's where you should direct your anger and you should show up at the No Kings protest and peacefully protest this weekend with us and with millions of others and what will be the biggest mass mobilization in the entire country.

I mean, look, let's just pull back.

Take a look at what happened just in the past two hours.

We'll talk, of course, about the news that John Bolton was indicted on 18 counts of allegedly retaining and transmitting national defense information.

There's some reporting that suggests that the way the prosecutors came into this information was a hack into Bolton's messages that potentially took place from Iran and by foreign hostile nations.

It'll be interesting to see what happens there and discover if the information was turned over by Iranian hackers and other things like that.

We will watch as that develops.

But Trump has ordered that his DOJ, we saw the messages, go after this person, this person, that person, this person, that person, go after my enemies.

In the past, you would have a president, no matter whether they were Democrat or Republican, and they would say to their DOJ, you don't serve me.

You serve the American people.

You are independent of me.

And there wouldn't be conversations happening.

It would be the biggest scandal impeachable and convictable of a former president.

If you even had the head of the DOJ, like in the oval office, just talking about the case at all, at any level, that would be unheard of.