Gabbard is Out. Before Memorial Day: Trump Downplays KIAs in Iran.

Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff

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

4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

It's Memorial Day weekend, and Paul Rieckhoff is in no mood to soft-pedal. Tulsi Gabbard has resigned as Director of National Intelligence — the second Trump appointee to defect over Iran in months — and the administration is already telegraphing its next war. The Justice Department just charged Raul Castro with murder. The USS Nimitz arrived in the Caribbean the same day. Stephen Miller is on Fox doing the warm-up act. Meanwhile, the president is downplaying the 13 American service members killed in Iran, pausing a $14 billion arms sale to Taiwan, ignoring Ukraine, and telling a Coast Guard Academy audience he won't be leaving in 2028. This is a solo briefing for the angry middle, delivered with the urgency the moment demands.

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0:00.0	If all those other plans fail, you want to stop the election, you want to stop the steel,
0:04.8	you want to stand up with President Trump, go hit the election booths, everybody.
0:08.7	And don't worry, you'll be pardoned and you'll get paid out. Welcome to Independent Americans.
0:31.3	Welcome to episode 530.
0:34.4	I am your host, Paul Reichoff, and it is Friday, May 22nd.
0:39.4	Hooray for Friday.
0:41.2	It is the day after the Nix went up to nothing.
0:44.7	More on that in a second.
0:46.5	And it is the start of Memorial Day weekend in America.
0:50.7	Much more on that coming up.
0:52.5	I'm coming to you today from New York City, USA, and the weather
0:55.4	is really nice, just lovely. And we need it because the weekend looks like it could be rainy and
1:02.6	shit, but we're going to enjoy the good days when we get them. That's a message from Memorial Day.
1:08.2	Enjoy the days you have because you never know how fleeting they can be.
1:13.1	And today's artist is going to build on that, the artist of the day. Every day I share with my little
1:18.2	boys a new artist. And today's artist seizes the day, promotes joy, is all about happiness and
1:25.2	energy. And it is the great Missy Elliott, the icon, also known
1:31.0	as Miss Damina. She was born Melissa Arnett, Missy Elliott, July 1st, 1971, as the child of a power
1:38.6	company dispatcher named Patricia and a former Marine named Ronnie. And I picked her because it was in the year 2026 back in 1997 that she talked about the future.
1:52.4	She posted this this week.
1:54.0	The rain, Superfly, Superduperfly was 29 years ago, May 20th, 1997.
2:01.3	That's when it dropped, but Missy Elliott has been making waves ever since, one step, two step,
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