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Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff

America Honors Memorial Day. Trump Pays Off Insurrectionists. Republicans Kill War Powers Act.

Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff

Righteous Media | Bleav

Politics, News, National Security, News Commentary, Daily News, Veteran

4.6907 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

It's Memorial Day weekend. Americans are visiting Arlington, honoring generations who stepped forward with integrity, sacrifice, and honor. And days before that solemn marker, the President of the United States floated cash payouts to the domestic terrorists who violently attacked the Capitol on January 6th. Not a pardon. A payout. Paul Rieckhoff and the panel break down why this isn't a tantrum or a distraction — it's strategy. Call it Plan C: when the military won't move and ICE is uncertain, you incentivize the insurrectionists themselves. You signal to every desperate, despised foot soldier that violence against the government will be rewarded.

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0:00.0

I think we have to be really mindful of the fact that he knows that the midterms are a circuit breaker.

0:04.3

He knows they will hold him accountable.

0:06.1

And things like this are not accidental.

0:07.9

They're quite intentional.

0:08.8

Even if they fail, the signal he's sending with it is very important. is that there's a political calculation at all.

0:29.8

It should just be WTF, this is wrong.

0:32.6

Next request.

0:33.4

Because the thing about Trump is, and this has always boggled my mind about the fear that Republicans have,

0:41.0

he'll move on and ask for something else next week.

0:43.6

I mean, this is, like, he doesn't stay mad.

0:45.5

He just asks for something else ludicrous.

0:47.4

And here he is, I mean, the thing with the fun, too, is that he doesn't think there's anything wrong with it.

0:52.9

He thinks it's too small. Listen.

0:57.2

You know, it was the most violent thing I've ever seen in politics, what they did. And yet if I say,

1:04.2

oh, let's look at this one or that one, they say weaponization, weaponization. What they did in terms of

1:10.0

weaponization will never be allowed to happen to this country again.

1:14.4

So we think that those people, we think that anybody involved in that process should partake.

1:19.6

And you're talking about peanuts compared to the value. It destroyed the lives of many, many people.

1:28.2

So it was the most violent thing.

1:31.6

I think he's talking about the prosecutions of him.

1:34.7

I played the sound of Mitch McConnell,

1:37.4

basically referring him for criminal prosecution.

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