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Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff

Hegseth Fires Navy Sec. Phalen. Strait Of Hormuz Still Not Open. Iran Hearings: Finally.

Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff

Righteous Media | Bleav

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

4.6907 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Trump has signaled he may halt the U.S. resettlement program for the Afghans who risked everything to fight alongside American troops — and is reportedly negotiating to offload as many as 1,100 of them to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Among them: interpreters, former Afghan Special Operations Forces, and roughly 400 children of U.S. service members, all stranded in Qatar for over a year after we evacuated them and then walked away. Paul Rieckhoff calls it what it is — a disgusting, shameful betrayal, and the latest compounding failure in a collapse that Biden owns, Trump owns, and Washington refuses to fix.

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0:00.0

We want people to step up and help them, or we want people in a place like, I don't know,

0:04.2

Iran to stand up with us and help us and trust us and we're going to betray them later.

0:09.3

No one believes our president.

0:11.2

No one trusts his word and no one therefore trust our word.

0:15.8

And the moral injury for our veterans is very, very deep.

0:19.1

Veterans in all backgrounds are speaking out,

0:20.9

the hardest right, the hardest left, everybody in between.

0:23.8

Again, Trump has done something very unique.

0:25.7

He's uniting the world and America against him. Welcome to Independent Americans. Welcome to Episode 501. We broke 500 yesterday. Thank you again for all your support.

0:55.1

I'm your host, Paul Reichoff, and it is Thursday, April 23rd, which is NFL Draft Day.

1:02.4

Draft Day!

1:03.5

Not the military kind, but the football kind.

1:06.2

And that is tonight.

1:07.2

That's always exciting.

1:08.3

It's unifying.

1:09.0

And I'm coming to you today from New York

1:11.5

City, USA, where the weather is amazing. Finally. Hooray. I think we've fought off winter and we've

1:18.9

finally killed it at least till next year. Spring is here, at least for now. And we're going to

1:24.3

enjoy it. And today's artist of the day is going to help us enjoy every day.

1:29.0

It is an iconic, important trailblazer, the great guru, gifted, unlimited, Rhymes, Universal,

1:36.9

a founding member of the iconic hip-hop band Gangstar because it was 16 years ago this week

1:43.3

that we lost this iconic voice, one of the most unique

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