Trump BRIBES Fetterman to SWITCH PARTIES?!

0:00 Folks, Politico is out with a new

0:01 story suggesting that Donald Trump offered Democratic

0:04 Senator John Fetterman a financial bribe

0:06 to switch political parties and become a Republican.

0:09 This is everything that's wrong with Washington D.C.

0:12 under Donald Trump.

0:13 Let's dive in.

0:16 This is from Politico's magazine.

0:18 The headline is inside the quiet Republican effort to flip Fetterman.

0:22 As the Pennsylvania Democrat is increasingly isolated within his own party,

0:25 Republicans are quietly trying to win him over.

0:28 Start of the article, it's a few days after the election

0:30 this November and the results have become clear.

0:32 Democrats have netted the four seats they need to claim a Senate majority,

0:35 but then there's a disturbance in the force.

0:37 Senate Republicans and President Donald Trump

0:39 persuade Senator John Fetterman to switch parties

0:41 or at least become an independent

0:43 to ensure Republicans retain power in the chamber.

0:46 Which by the way, even if it was 50/50,

0:48 they would retain control in that instance because J.D.

0:50 Vance is the vice president who would break the tie.

0:53 Back to the article,

0:54 it's a scenario that's becoming less fantastical by the day.

0:56 The political environment is curdling for Republicans and the quiet

1:00 campaign to lure Fetterman across the aisle is underway.

1:02 And here's what's happening, a little bit of context for folks.

1:05 Democrats are ascendant in basically every

1:08 Senate race across the country right now.

1:10 We're looking good in North Carolina, we're looking good in Maine,

1:13 we're looking good in in Ohio, in Alaska,

1:15 potentially Texas, Iowa, all of these states.

1:18 And if we get to 51 Senate seats,

1:20 we can basically effectively end Donald Trump's presidency.

1:23 So they are looking for any avenue they can to hold onto their power.

1:28 And right now, if Democrats are on track

1:30 to win 51 Senate seats and Fetterman flips, they retain control.

1:34 And I've talked a lot on my Substack show,

1:36 I've talked a lot on this YouTube channel

1:38 about the need to build a Fetterman-proof Senate majority.

1:41 And what that means is we need 52 seats.

1:44 We need to act as if John Fetterman is a Republican,

1:46 even if he still votes with us 70-80% of the time,

1:49 even if he says that he's still going to, you know,

1:51 maintain his his his his his position in the party as a Democrat,

1:55 we should not trust anything that he says

1:57 given the way that he has conducted himself.

1:59 So let's run through the tape and try to get that 52nd

2:02 Senate seat so that we don't have to worry about it because

2:04 nothing will piss me off more than us having the Senate majority

2:09 and Donald Trump still being able to get his his Supreme Court nominees,

2:12 his judicial nominees, his cabinet nominees,

2:14 being able to move forward with the horrible

2:16 things they want to do legislatively in this country.

2:18 I do not want to see that happen.

2:21 Back to the article, Trump has made the sell offering

2:24 his patented total and complete endorsement plus,

2:26 and to me this is the most important line in here, a financial windfall.

2:29 I'm actually going to just real quick so you can see it.

2:31 To the Pennsylvanian.

2:33 A handful of Senate Republicans are

2:35 also gently feeling out Fetterman and responding

2:37 to his concerns over the prospect of defecting from the Democratic Party,

2:40 multiple high-level GOP officials told the reporter.

2:43 Let's talk about what the term financial windfall means because I got yelled

2:46 at on the internet yesterday for suggesting that this might be a bribe.

2:50 What it most likely is, it's not that Donald Trump's going to hand

2:52 a briefcase of cash over to John Fetterman.

2:55 What it means is he's going to use his super PACs like MAGA Inc.

2:58 and the other entities that he has, and he's going to do everything he can

3:01 to get his donor network to fully fund John Fetterman's

3:04 re-election campaign so that Fetterman doesn't have to go

3:07 raise money online or offline from Democratic or Republican donors.

3:10 All right, Fetterman was famously very bad

3:13 at raising money from offline donors inside

3:15 the Democratic Party and he raised the vast

3:17 majority of his funds through online contributions.

3:20 That was how he fueled his campaign.

3:22 He's not able to do that now because Republicans are generally bad at it

3:25 and because Democrats sure as[ __] aren't going to give this[ __] $5 a pop.

3:29 So he, if he wants to try to run for re-election, wants that financial windfall.

3:33 Now, to me, that's still a bribe and I don't think I'm breaking any

3:37 news here by telling you that a lot of corrupt politicians like John Fetterman

3:41 use their Senate campaign accounts as slush funds so that they can pay

3:45 for their drivers and pay for their meals and pay for God knows what else,

3:48 pay for their travel.

3:49 All right, go back I'll give you an example from the Democratic Party.

3:51 Go look at Kyrsten Sinema.

3:53 All right, that's somebody that I've worked with in the past who I thought was

3:56 going to be somebody that would fight for my values in the Senate and didn't.

3:59 And she used her Senate account on all

4:00 kinds of stuff because she was corrupt as hell.

4:02 And then she immediately moved on to become a lobbyist and, you know,

4:05 just just the worst of Washington.

4:07 And that's what I think the trajectory here is for John Fetterman, too.

4:10 He wants to be an agent of the Republican Party.

4:12 He wants to be this guy that gets all this attention.

4:15 And if he decides to switch parties, there's a pile of cash waiting for him.

4:19 And even if it's a even if it's a legal bribe, all right,

4:22 even if legally what John Fetterman and Donald Trump are talking about is legal,

4:25 and it may be because America's campaign

4:27 finance laws are a joke, it's still wrong.

4:29 It's still corruption.

4:31 And it's the kind of thing that people hate about Washington D.C.

4:34 and American politics today.

4:36 And I want to go just a little bit deeper into the article here.

4:39 If Fetterman does flip,

4:40 according to officials who were given anonymity to talk about sensitive matters,

4:43 it will be thanks in large part to his deepening

4:45 friendship with a pair of senators and their high-profile spouses,

4:48 Senator Dave McCormick and his wife Dina

4:50 and Senator Katie Britt and her husband Wesley.

4:53 But the first-time Democrat who's infuriated his party

4:56 with his hardline on immigration and staunch support for Israel,

4:59 Trump's nominees government funding bill and most

5:00 recently the president's ballroom isn't yet persuaded.

5:03 From John Fetterman, quote,

5:04 "I'm not changing," he told me in an interview Friday when I

5:07 asked if he was ruling out both becoming a Republican or turning independent.

5:10 "I'm a Democrat and I'm staying one.

5:12 Yet at least in private, he's not totally rejecting dropping his D." When one,

5:16 that is quite the way to phrase that.

5:17 My god.

5:18 Um, I would an editor should have caught that one.

5:21 Uh, when one senior Republican recently brought up

5:23 the idea of becoming an independent to Fetterman,

5:25 he absorbed the suggestion and didn't embrace or reject the overture,

5:28 according to a GOP official familiar with the conversation.

5:31 In our interview, Fetterman said bluntly, quote,

5:33 "I'd be a shitty Republican." And that has

5:35 been John Fetterman's line this entire time.

5:37 Every time somebody brings up the fact

5:39 that he's voting with Republicans when it counts,

5:41 that most of the time when he's going on TV,

5:43 he's defending the president's agenda, he says, "Well,

5:46 I'd be a pretty shitty Republican because I support,

5:48 you know, gay rights," is usually what he flags or something like that.

5:51 And I can respect that part of it because he has been

5:54 a good ally on on gay rights as far as I could tell.

5:56 But when you're voting for the president's nominees,

5:59 when you are voting to support his immigration agenda,

6:01 this illegal war in Iran, you are a shitty Democrat, my friend.

6:04 You are not a good member of this party.

6:06 You are not in good standing with people like me.

6:08 And I want to show folks at least one,

6:10 maybe two examples real quick of how poor of a Democrat

6:13 John Fetterman has been over the last couple months.

6:15 And let's start here because I want people

6:17 to see this clip of John Fetterman basically

6:18 selling out the Democratic Party for opposing Donald

6:21 Trump's illegal and immoral and disastrous war in Iran,

6:24 which has completely destroyed the global economy.

6:26 But every Democrat, Harris, Clinton, everyone,

6:30 find a single Democrat in the House or in the House

6:33 that says it's okay if Iran acquires a nuclear bomb.

6:36 So why am I the only guy that's willing to vote against this now?

6:40 Because it's nothing more toxic as a Democrat to vote

6:44 for this or to vote agree with Trump on anything.

6:48 Absolutely, it's driven by TDS as well.

6:51 Let's let's just stop right there because

6:53 the the the Trump derangement syndrome accusations

6:55 are so stupid when the vast majority of Americans oppose this war in Iran.

7:00 It is destroying the economy.

7:02 Gas prices are through the roof right now.

7:04 Diesel prices are through the roof and that's going

7:05 to make everything more expensive at the grocery store.

7:08 We have 13 American servicemen and women who have been killed in service

7:12 of their country in this immoral war

7:14 and what the hell have we accomplished for it?

7:16 All right, I understand that people don't want Iran to have a nuclear weapon,

7:19 but based on every bit of intelligence that we have,

7:21 Iran is nowhere near getting access to a nuclear weapon.

7:23 So what is John Fetterman, a Democrat,

7:26 doing going on TV and parroting the administration's talking points?

7:29 What is he doing?

7:30 Accusing the rest of the party of having Trump derangement syndrome

7:33 when he's out there lying and selling their[ __] and slop?

7:36 I don't want to hear from this guy about

7:38 how he'd be a shitty Republican because to me he

7:40 looks like the perfect example of a surrogate that they

7:43 need to go on CNN and sell this awful war.

7:45 And I also want you guys to see this clip because Fetterman

7:47 has caught hell from people like

7:49 me for consistently supporting Donald Trump's nominees.

7:52 And here he is saying that he would be fine voting

7:55 to support Governor Ron DeSantis should

7:57 Donald Trump appoint him inside his administration.

7:59 Would you consider backing Ron DeSantis for a cabinet job?

8:05 I'm I'm not sure what he's he's up for the job, uh,

8:08 but I I voted for some of those members of the cabinet because,

8:13 you know, like like Marco Rubio,

8:15 I think he's done a great job, you know, overall, too.

8:17 It used to not be very controversial to absolutely vote for these kinds

8:22 of people just because it happens to be the opposite party, you know.

8:26 Right now, our entire party's been we're defined by TDS, you know.

8:32 Again, another accusation of Trump derangement syndrome.

8:34 And I've made this point a thousand times.

8:36 I do think there are folks inside my party who

8:38 are a little bit too focused on being anti-Trump on everything.

8:41 It's okay if you agree with the guy on the occasional good thing he might do,

8:44 like when they reclassified marijuana the other day.

8:47 Now, he did that for the wrong reasons.

8:48 He was just trying to get a little bit of young male support back,

8:51 but regardless, that was a good thing that he did, fine.

8:54 But the real Trump derangement syndrome are these people like

8:56 John Fetterman who think that everything Donald Trump does is great.

9:00 Who are staring in the face of an economy that is collapsing,

9:03 a war that is not going our way, an Epstein files cover-up that is exposed,

9:07 the wealthy elites who run this country and play by a different set of rules,

9:11 and then go on Fox News and say how great everything is.

9:13 To talk about the golden age of America.

9:15 And and look, Fetterman is right on one thing here.

9:18 It used to not be controversial

9:20 to support the opposing party's political nominees.

9:23 But the opposing party's political nominees

9:26 also didn't used to include guys like, I don't know, Pete Hegseth,

9:29 who is not qualified for the job that he has cuz

9:32 a weekend Fox and Friends host that Donald Trump has appointed

9:35 the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of War if you're

9:38 talking to Pete because he's got to act like a tough guy.

9:40 Or guys like Kash Patel who have no

9:42 idea what the[ __] they're doing running the FBI.

9:45 This is a cabinet filled with self-serving sycophants

9:48 and John Fetterman keeps voting for these people.

9:50 All right, yeah, Rubio got a lot of support because he

9:53 was a fellow senator so a lot of people knew him.

9:55 But Rubio himself has also been a total disaster.

9:58 They talk about that operation in Venezuela as if they

10:00 freed the Venezuelan people and the new leader that they installed,

10:03 who is basically just Maduro's number two,

10:05 is cracking down on journalists and sending out Roman

10:08 gangs to attack anybody who expresses opposition to that regime.

10:12 And they've done what?

10:13 Gotten oil companies access to more oil fields that they can't

10:16 even do anything with cuz it's the wrong type of oil.

10:18 So, what the hell did we accomplish there?

10:20 This war in Iran has been a disaster.

10:22 Marco Rubio and J.D.

10:23 Vance and the rest of them can't seem to find a way out,

10:26 can't seem to find a way to get the Strait of Hormuz open, and even if they do,

10:29 it's going to be 6 months until the strait is

10:30 fully open because Iran has littered the entire place with mines.

10:34 All right, so let's stop pretending

10:35 that these guys know what the hell they're doing.

10:37 And let's stop pretending that John Fetterman is

10:39 anything other than a Republican operative, all right?

10:42 He's got a D next to his name.

10:44 He says he's a member of my party.

10:46 He caucuses with my party.

10:47 But when it counts, we know that he will betray us every single time.

10:52 And so, when we're thinking about how we win the midterm elections,

10:56 when we think about how we build a Senate majority,

10:58 the goal is not to get the 51 seats, the goal has to be to get to 52.

11:02 We need a Fetterman-proof Senate majority.

11:04 I want to make sure that when we win,

11:07 and we are going to win the midterms, given how unpopular this president is,

11:10 given how well Democrats are doing in the polls,

11:12 how good our recruiting has been, we're going to win.

11:15 But if we win the Senate and we don't have enough

11:17 to stop this jackass from undermining us every way he goes,

11:20 we're going to be in real trouble.

11:22 And the Republicans are acting incredibly arrogant right now.

11:25 They don't have any Supreme Court justices retiring this summer.

11:28 They've got guys like Scalia who are old as dirt,

11:30 who are going to stick it out for another couple years.

11:33 And that gives Democrats an opportunity to reset and fix what

11:36 the Republicans have done to skew the balance of the Supreme Court.

11:39 But we can't do that if John Fetterman's going to vote

11:41 to confirm Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominees in a couple years.

11:44 So, making sure that we get to 52 Senate seats,

11:47 so that this guy can't[ __] us over, is super important.

11:50 And if you're with me in this fight,

11:52 if you're going to go out there and work hard to elect Democrats,

11:54 if you're going to go out there and hold MAGA accountable and take

11:56 our country back from these[ __] who are just so corrupt and so self-serving,

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