Thursday: Alex Jones Wants Trump Impeached Now

Rush Lindell: Welcome back, welcome back, I'm here. Reagan: And I'm Reagan, here to keep him honest. Rush Lindell: Try your best. Reagan, you ready for this one? Reagan: Hit me. Rush Lindell: Alex Jones. Alex Jones just called for Trump's impeachment. Reagan: Wait, seriously? Over the Iran war? Rush Lindell: The MAGA prophet himself turning on his own guy. Reagan: Wow. Rush Lindell: We'll get into whether he's got a point or just an audience. Reagan: He might have a point on the process. The messenger's a different story entirely. Rush Lindell: And this same war's leading on gas prices, and Jones is out there warning about a draft. Reagan: One of those is confirmed-the other speculation, and we'll sort out which is which. Rush Lindell: Then there's Congress-they actually voted-Twice-numbers that'll surprise you. Reagan: Close votes with some defectors nobody's talking about yet. Rush Lindell: And later, my mock floor speech-Congress and- And Article 1, live and unfiltered. Reagan: Can't wait for that one. Rush Lindell: But first, this hour is brought to you by Lear Capital, America's Precious Metals Leader since 1997. Reagan: So rush, Alex Jones and Impeachment, where do we even start? Rush Lindell: We start with the fact that nobody saw this coming. Before we dig in, a quick reminder. We love hearing from you. If you have questions or topics you'd like us to cover, head to the link in the description and submit your question. We read every single one. Alex Jones wants Trump impeached. Reagan: I'm sorry, say that again? Rush Lindell: You heard me. Alex Jones, the guy who's defended Trump through every single scandal since 2015. This week, he said the Iran war is absolutely out of control, and he's calling for impeachment. The 25th Amendment, quote, whatever needs to happen. Hmm. Reagan: That's Newsweek reporting that, right? Rush Lindell: Newsweek, today. And Jones isn't just venting. venting. He's arguing this is an unauthorized war, that Congress has folded on its war powers authority over and over. Let that sit for a second. The MAGA base's loudest cheerleader just called his own guy a tyrant. Reagan: Okay, but let's separate two things here. Rush Lindell: Oh, here we go. Reagan: No, hear me out. The war powers argument? Legitimate. Article 1 says Congress declares war, not the president. President, that's not a Jones invention, that's the Constitution. Rush Lindell: Exactly right. This anti-war rumble inside MAGA didn't start this week. I've been tracking it since February. Reagan: Sure, but Jones brought receipts, too. The Hill and the Washington Examiner both reported he called Trump support for the $1.15 trillion fiscal 2027 defense bill impeachable. Rush Lindell: And don't forget Trump already went after him. Back in April, he called. Rand Paul, Jones, Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and Candace Owens' low IQ, per those same outlets. Reagan: So this breakup's been simmering a while. Rush Lindell: Simmering? It's a full pot boiling over. Reagan: Here's my problem, though: one podcaster having a meltdown isn't a coalition collapsing, Alex Jones has a credibility problem. Sandy Hook, the lawsuits, the retractions-that's a rough messenger for a strong constitution. CONSTITUTIONAL POINT. Rush Lindell: There; the arguments sound even if the guide delivering it once told people a school shooting was staged. Reagan: Right; so strip the theatrics: does Congress actually have the votes to check this president, or is it all noise? Rush Lindell: That's the fight; but here's what really gets me: Jones didn't just say this is unconstitutional; he said it'll wreck the economy back home. Reagan: And that's the part people actually feel in their wallets. It's... Speaker 3: MUSIC Rush Lindell: Building on that, the economy angle isn't hypothetical anymore, Reagan. CNBC's reporting oil topped $100 a barrel as this war entered what they're calling a deadly new phase. Reagan: A hundred dollars a barrel. That's real pain at the pump for every listener driving to work tomorrow. Rush Lindell: And somewhere, whoever's setting those pump prices is doing a victory lap. Reagan: I'm sure. Rush Lindell: Meanwhile, Jones is out there saying an expanded war would... Would, quote, destroy the economy and kill a bunch of our troops. Reagan: That part I don't dismiss. Wartime spending plus an energy shock-that's basic economics, not conspiracy theory. Rush Lindell: But then he goes further-says there's a national draft being quietly prepped. Reagan: Now that's the part I want to slow down on. Rush Lindell: Why, Karoline Leavitt herself said back in March a draft had not been ruled out. That's not nothing! Reagan: It's not nothing, but it's also not proof of a plan. Not ruling something out isn't the same as building one. Rush Lindell: Semantics, Reagan. Reagan: No evidence: one's a documented price at the pump, the other's speculation dressed up as certainty. What would actually settle it? Selective service issuing notices, Congress debating a conscription bill. Show me that and I'll say Jones called it. Rush Lindell: Fair enough. Reagan: You don't need a draft notice to feel this war in your wallet, though. Rush Lindell: Agreed. And speaking of feeling it in your wallet, this is actually a good time to mention something. Reagan: Go for it. Rush Lindell: My friends at Lear Capital are doing something I've never seen before. They're selling a one-ounce silver American Eagle below spot price. That's right, below what silver is actually trading for right now. And Lear is covering the shipping and taxes. Reagan: Here's what you need to know. Priced below spot, Lear is selling this at a loss to get silver in your hands. Limit one per person, new customers only. Free shipping fully insured by Lear. This is a 24-hour offer only. 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Reagan: Oh, they voted and the numbers are interesting. Rush Lindell: Forget the pump price for a second. Let's talk about what Congress actually did with a pen in hand. Reagan: The House passed the War Powers Resolution again, 214 to 208, second time this year they've told him to stand down. Rush Lindell: Second time. And CNBC's reporting Trump's basically guaranteed to veto it anyway. So what's the... Reagan: The point is, it's non-binding. A concurrent resolution never touches his desk. It's a message. Not a chain. Rush Lindell: A message, four Republicans decided to send-Davidson, Fitzpatrick, Barrett and Massie-I'm calling them the Fantastic Four of failed attempts. Reagan: Failed attempts? Rush Lindell: They cross the aisle, headlines happen, nothing changes-that's the tremor before Jones' Aftershock. Reagan: The real story might be who didn't show up. Stars and Stripes flagged that Rand Paul and Lisa Murkowski both previous yes votes on measures like this. were absent for the Senate vote. Rush Lindell: Absent? Not no, just gone? Reagan: Gone. And the binding version failed forty-seven to forty-nine. Two votes. Susan Collins was the lone Republican yes. Rush Lindell: Two votes. Paul and Murkowski show up. We're talking about a binding resolution actually reaching his desk. Reagan: Which is why the absences matter more than the tally. A no vote is a position. An empty chair is a dodge. Rush Lindell: Oh, come on—you skip the votes so nobody pins a label on you. Reagan: Or they didn't want their name on a resolution headed straight for a veto. Rush Lindell: Either way; nonbinding wins the House, binding dies in the Senate, everybody claims they voted their conscience. Reagan: Voted or didn't vote, big difference. Rush Lindell: And watching these same faces flip their Article One convictions depending on whose name's on the lease? Reagan: That's a whole separate show. Rush Lindell: Exactly why we're doing it next. Next. Building on that hypocrisy parade, I want to do a bit: Reagan: Oh, no! Rush Lindell: My fellow Americans, today I rise to defend Article One of the Constitution which I personally discovered in twenty nineteen and then mysteriously misplaced somewhere around January twenty twenty five. Reagan: And the return item gets filed the day the other party wins. Rush Lindell: Every. Single. Time. Whoever's out of power. Out of power suddenly remembers we have a Legislature-and get this-the Hill reported back in April that Democrats floated invoking the Twenty-fifth Amendment over Iran strikes. Reagan: Right. Rush Lindell: Now Alex Jones, who spent years mocking that exact idea, says it was warranted all along. Reagan: The costume closet is very well stocked this year. Rush Lindell: That's the bit. Everybody's wearing someone else's principles. Reagan: Sure, but I'll push back before you take a victory lap. Rush Lindell: Go ahead. Reagan: Both sides being hypocrites doesn't make the underlying question fake. Congress still hasn't voted to authorize this war. Rush Lindell: I'm not saying the QUESTION'S fake. Reagan: You're implying it, though, calling it a costume lets everyone off the hook. The theater is real, so is the War Powers clause. Rush Lindell: Fair-the circus doesn't cancel the Constitution. Reagan: And laughing at the flip flopping feels good, but it's a distraction from the actual failure. Nobody's forced an up or down vote that sticks. Rush Lindell: Comedy breaks over, then. Reagan: It has to be, because the next story isn't about floor speeches or hashtags. Rush Lindell: No-it's about Americans who didn't get a vote at all. Reagan: A base in Jordan, real casualties: that's where the abstraction ends. Speaker 3: music Rush Lindell: Shifting from satire to Jordan, this isn't hypothetical: American service members were killed at a Jordanian air base in mid July. Real people, families getting a knock on the door. Yeah. The Christian Science Monitor reported four straight days of Iranian strikes on U.S. assets there, the base, then Aqaba's port and airport. And it didn't stop. It didn't. Al Jazeera reported a fresh barrage hit U.S. forces in Jordan on Speaker 4: July thirtieth. Rush Lindell: On July twenty ninth, ending a five day pause (same day Netanyahu walked into the White House), coincidence or message, I'll let you decide, but nobody saying this out loud: Jordan is a country Congress never debated putting troops in harm's way over. No hearing, no vote, no name read on the floor. The Christian Science Monitor also notes U.S. aid to Jordan hit a record two billion dollars this year. Here, while Amman says almost nothing publicly about strikes on its own soil, they're taking our money and eating the missiles quietly-that's the position we've put a partner in. Casualties in a country nobody in that building signed off on-this is exactly the scenario the War Powers Resolution exists for. Somebody's kid isn't coming home-and Congress is still arguing about who gets credit for finding Article One. So the real question isn't whether Trump broke a rule. It's what actually stops the next strike. That's not a floor speech. That's a casket. Which is exactly why I don't think impeachment is the right fight here. Convince me. Building on that, let's talk about impeachment itself, because I think Jones is making a category error. Removal needs two-thirds of the Senate. That's not happening. A funded, binding statutory limit cutting off money for further strikes is what Congress can actually pass without removing anyone. That's the real remedy, and it's the one nobody's pushing hard enough. Keep going; and here's what I'll give you because you earned it earlier: when a coalition loses its media wing it loses its energy. Jones carries real weight with that audience, but losing enthusiasm and losing votes are two different things. Enthusiasm fades quietly; defections shows up on a roll call. That's the sharpest distinction anyone's made on this show tonight. Thank you. But flip it around: the four defectors didn't wake up brave; somebody in their district stopped defending this war out loud, and that scared them faster than any floor speech did. When the base goes quiet, members start doing math. And math is the one language this Congress actually speaks. Exactly. And it's not just the House. The Hill reported this week that Senate Republicans are privately warning that confidence in Defense Secretary Hegseth is eroding as this thing drags on. Wait, Hegseth specifically? Specifically. That's not Alex Jones ranting into a microphone. That's members of the President's own party Speaker 4: saying it. Rush Lindell: own party, which tells you the pressure isn't coming from outside the tent anymore; it's coming from inside it, and that changes everything about how this plays out before November. Brr. Reagan: Ha ha. Speaker 3: It's more expensive. Speaker 5: Zooming out from Jordan, CNBC's framing here is the one that matters. This war's revival lands months before the midterms, right on top of paper-thin majorities. Speaker 3: Four defectors already crossed on that House vote. Watch that number, folks. If it climbs to eight, ten, Speaker's got a real problem, not a headline problem. Speaker 5: And the Senate showed us 47 isn't 49, whether a binding resolution ever actually or actually gets a floor vote, that's the second thing to track. Right now it's dying in procedure, not on merits. Speaker 3: Third thing: Does anybody else with a microphone follow Alex Jones off that ledge? One loyalist breaking is a story; three or four is a stampede. Speaker 5: I'll believe the stampede when I see it. Speaker 3: Fair. Speaker 5: So what changes my mind? Documented conscription paperwork. Not a rumor, not a maybe. Actual selective service... Service action! Show me that, and I'm marching next to Jones. Speaker 3: Mine simpler: ten House Republicans, ten crossing on a binding resolution before Labor Day. You get there, this majority cracks wide open. Speaker 5: And if neither happens? Speaker 3: Then everybody go back to pretending they care about Article One exactly when it's convenient. Same as always. Speaker 5: We'll hold you to the number Rush. Speaker 3: Ten Republicans, write it down. Speaker 6: Mm-hmm. Speaker 3: So today started with Alex Jones demanding Trump's impeachment-and it ended with us talking about troops in Jordan. Wild ride. Speaker 5: It really was. And credit where it's due, the House passed that second War Powers Resolution. Four Republicans crossed over Speaker 3: Wow. Speaker 5: to get it done. Speaker 3: Four defectors. The Senate couldn't even close the gap. Speaker 5: Forty-seven to forty-nine. That's not nothing. Speaker 3: But the number that sticks with me? Americans killed. Missiles hitting. Speaker 7: It's hitting Aqaba. Speaker 8: Ah! Speaker 7: Congress never voted on putting them there. Speaker 5: Congress never voted on sending them there, and voters deserve to know that before November. Speaker 7: All right, if you like this one, subscribe, leave us five stars and tell a friend who needs to hear it. Speaker 5: New episodes every weekday. Speaker 7: Reagan, always a pleasure arguing with you. Speaker 5: Right back at you, Rush. Speaker 7: To the listener: we'll see you tomorrow. Speaker 3: Peace.