April 9, 2026 • 13 mins
Democrats are ramping up calls to impeach President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth amid rising tensions with Iran. From invoking the 25th Amendment to pushing new impeachment efforts, the political firestorm is intensifying in the middle of a major military moment. Buck breaks down what’s really driving the outrage, why Iran has become the latest battleground in Washington, and how this fight could shape the upcoming midterms. Are Democrats responding to real concerns or seizing a political opportunity?
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure
you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or
wherever you get your podcasts. Democrats are getting all in
a fury over Iran and what do they want to do.
They want to impeach. They want to impeach heg sith
they want to impeach Trump. And once again we see
(00:36):
that Trump de arrangement syndrome is the primary impulse of
elected Democrats in office. We are in the midst of
a major military operation and the Democrats say they want
to remove the commander in chief because of it. In fact,
you had Rocanna, a member of Congress, say that he
thinks that Trump should be removed with the twenty fifth Amendment.
(00:58):
So now we're back to that old game. It didn't
take long, did it, Democrats trotting out the same old,
tired nonsense as they did before. This time around the
Trump is crazy and this is after they ran a
dementia patient and had a dementia patient Joe Biden in
office for years and we all knew it, but they
(01:21):
did not care. They decided that it was more important
to have power than to have any scruples or any
ethics whatsoever. Let's get into this. We have Representative Dijetta
of Colorado, never heard of her before. Donald Trump is
openly threatening war crimes against the entirety of Iranian civilization.
(01:43):
Twenty fifth Amendment proceedings must begin immediately. Ed Markey writes,
called on or he called on the House rather to
begin impeachment proceedings. He says Donald Trump's post is completely
unstable and perilous. Then you have White House saying that
these remarks are pathetic. Yeah, you see, you've got the
(02:05):
push already. Others, let me see Representatives Lee, These all Democrats, Selena's,
Bonnie Watson, Coleman, all want to remove Trump over his post.
Jaquem Jeffries has not yet said it is time to
remove Trump, but he said it's time for every single
Republican to put patriotic duty over party and stop the madness.
(02:26):
Oh boy, look, guys, you can root for America or
you can stop with this nonsense, but you can't continue
on with the nonsense and expect people not to notice
what's going on here. They don't really care about Iran,
that's for sure. They certainly don't care about the Iranian people.
(02:48):
They care about power here at home, and so that
means they very much want to see failure here. Now,
as I'm speaking to you, we don't yet have clarity
on what's going to happen with the deadline. Some of you,
when you listen this, will know whether the deadline is
passed and what Trump has done. I've already said my
prediction is that there will be some agreement to talk
(03:11):
more about opening the straight of Horn. Moves and other
issues will be kicked down the road, and Trump will
say this is something of a win, and there won't
be the massive strikes that he's talking about. They'll be strikes,
so it's like really a status quo situation, but the
line will be moved, not enforced. That is my guess.
(03:33):
I could be entirely wrong. It's impossible to know Trump's
mind unless you are Donald Trump himself, so I don't
pretend to be able to see the future on these things.
I do know that this is for Democrats now the
single greatest hope. They have moved on from the ICE
involved shootings in Minneapolis, two of them of lunatics obstructing
(03:56):
ICE members from doing their jobs. But they've moved on
from that, So now the Iran war is the primary
point of opposition against Donald Trump. Now this is a
problem for us, I think, because as long as we're
talking about Iran, whether it's making the case for it
to be worthwhile defending it against from as long as
(04:18):
that is going on, we are not talking about the
home front and discussing matters that matter to Americans here,
which I think has a whole lot more political impact
than anything that can happen in this Iran war situation.
And so I view this as Democrats obviously exploiting the moment,
(04:40):
looking for an opportunity to drive a wedge between Trump
and not just his base really more the swing voters
and the Trump coalition voters, some of whom are very
frustrated with what's gone on here with Iran. Others I
think are in a weight and see mode what happens, right,
You know, this all makes a huge difference. For example,
(05:01):
let me give you what I mean by this, because
some people are mad at me for not declaring victory
or declaring defeat with Iran here from both sides, from
people on the right. Let me explain how I view this.
If there was a massive debacle in Venezuela instead of
the victory that we had with seizing Madurea not a
(05:23):
single American life loss. Let's say we had lost dozens
of Delta Force commandos and it's horrific, but just for
the purpose of conference, we'd lost dozens of Delta Force commandos.
Are are helicopters crashed and burned? Total mess? Maduro going
on TV saying he's a champ and we can't do
anything in the you know, the uh Norte Americanos or
(05:46):
the Yankees or whatever he calls us, are the bad guys.
Does that men mean that Trump made a mistake going
after him, Yeah, obviously, then that's a big problem. That
is a command decision made by the commander in chief
that results in a massive script. Now, the opposite of
that happened. It was a perfectly executed operation. No US casualties,
Maduro and his wife in custody. But I'm saying the
(06:07):
result matters, and to me, the result in Iran also
really matters, and we don't know what it is yet.
So I see a lot of people rushing to declare
one thing or the other true, and I think that
they are just showing us what they politically want instead
of what is actually the reality of the situation. Sponsor
(06:31):
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gone down a lot when the dollars convertibility into gold.
Then that in nineteen seventy one, gold was thirty five
dollars an ounce. Fast forward today, fifty five years later,
support of the US dollar has lost over eighty five
percent of its purchasing power. It's largely due to inflation. Gold,
on the other hand, has increased in value, but over
(06:52):
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world are buying gold at record levels. That's why major
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(07:13):
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(07:34):
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ninety eight ninety eight ninety eight. Today, you know, it's
not just Trump that they want to impeach. They want
to impeach Hegseth as well. They've wanted to take Hegseth
out more than any other member I think of the
Trump cabinet. They really because the New York Times threw
(07:56):
its best shot at Trump, I mean to Hegseth rather
well Trump too, but at Hegseth. The New York Times
went all in on taking heg Seth out of contention
for that Secretary of Defense now Secretary of War post.
And they couldn't do it. And with a fifty to
fifty vote in the Senate and a breaking tie breaking
(08:17):
vote by Jade Vance, Pete Hegseeth became the Secretary of Defense.
And I'm gonna tell you this, Pete is a friend
of mine. I like Pete Hegg Seth. So I'm not
I'm not able to be completely free of any sense
that I am what's the word I'm looking for then
(08:37):
that I can be objective here, But I really do,
truly believe to the degree it's possible to separate out
the fact that I like Pete, think he's a good guy.
I think he's done a really good job so far.
And that makes the Democrats even more upset. That's why
a House Democrat has introduced articles of impeachment against Pete
(08:59):
heg Seth. Yaz Amine, I'm sorry, she will introduce articles
of impeachment against heg Seth next week for repeatedly violating
his os of oath of office and due to the Constitution,
she said, heg Seth's reckless endangerment of US service members
and repeated war crimes are grounds for impeachment and removal
from office. And I'm sorry side of the bombing of
a girls school in southern Roan during the early stages
(09:21):
of the conflict, saying that he was willfully targeting civilian infrastructure,
that is not true. But put that aside for a second.
Why does this matter? Now? They're not going to successfully
in peach Heck Seth. Now, obviously they don't have the
votes and they're not going to remove him, and Trump
is not going to bend the knee over Pete Hegseth either.
We know that this matters, I think because it gives
(09:42):
you a sense of what is coming down the line.
My friends, we have had a calm between storms here
from the lunatic Democrats because they've been out of power.
We have been in a situation where Trump has been
able to pursue some very important agenda items, securing the border,
a whole range of economic issues, Venezuela Cuba, a lot
(10:03):
of things right, a big beautiful bill gets passed. We've
been able to see Trump pursue a whole range of
things and Democrats have been pretty neutered for a period
of time. That's because they're out of power. The second
they come back into power, the insanity is going to
be unleashed on us all once again. I can assure
you whatever you thought was crazy about them before, it
(10:27):
hasn't changed. They have learned nothing. They have changed nothing
since twenty twenty four, whether it's tranny policy for kids,
or it's how much they hate Trump and all the
Trump supporters, how much there are a bunch of race communists.
All the things they have not moderated, They have changed nothing,
(10:49):
and they're very angry. They are very angry at Donald Trump.
They are very angry at his supporters, and they are
going to want payback, bigly, bigly payback, and that's going
to throw the country into a really difficult situation. I think.
So when they're talking about impeaching Hegsath and they're talking
about impeaching Trump, just remember they're going to do that
(11:11):
if they win the House, and they think that this
whole Iran situation is their key, This is their X
factor to winning back control of the House in the midterms.
So it's all tied together, and the Trump agenda comes
to largely. Now you could say, oh, what about executive orders.
He's already done the best executive orders he can on
(11:32):
the most important issues, and executive orders that he would
try going forward, just like some of the ones already
are going to run into judges and they have to
make their way to the Supreme Court. So that's not
a clear pathway to the Trump agenda. The big beautiful
bill got passed that's budgetary, so it doesn't fall into
the filibuster trap. But what you're really going to have
(11:54):
is a huge problem with the Democrats just jamming up
the House with all kinds of oversight hearings and anti
Trump stuff and impeachments, and look, Republicans would probably do
the same if it was a Democrat president, as we know.
So I get it. I'm not insane. The Democrats are nuts.
That's a key difference. And it's all coming our way.
(12:15):
So I understand. It's only the beginning of apor right now.
Before you know it, we're going to be in a
whole new political reality. And this is why the Iran
situation is so important. They are the Democrats. If they
just have the House, they will go scorched earth on
all Republicans, on all Trump supporters. So you can take
that to the bank. That's why we got to keep
power and keep the lunatics away from the levers of power.
(12:39):
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happens with this deadline. I'll certainly have a follow up
podcast for you on that. I told you what I
think is going to happen. But say a prayer. Say
a prayer for America. Say a prayer for the people
of Iran who are caught in this horrific situation because
(13:48):
of the evil people that run their country, and we'll
be back with more on this Shield time
You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure
you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or
wherever you get your podcasts. Democrats are getting all in
a fury over Iran and what do they want to do.
They want to impeach. They want to impeach heg sith
they want to impeach Trump. And once again we see
(00:36):
that Trump de arrangement syndrome is the primary impulse of
elected Democrats in office. We are in the midst of
a major military operation and the Democrats say they want
to remove the commander in chief because of it. In fact,
you had Rocanna, a member of Congress, say that he
thinks that Trump should be removed with the twenty fifth Amendment.
(00:58):
So now we're back to that old game. It didn't
take long, did it, Democrats trotting out the same old,
tired nonsense as they did before. This time around the
Trump is crazy and this is after they ran a
dementia patient and had a dementia patient Joe Biden in
office for years and we all knew it, but they
(01:21):
did not care. They decided that it was more important
to have power than to have any scruples or any
ethics whatsoever. Let's get into this. We have Representative Dijetta
of Colorado, never heard of her before. Donald Trump is
openly threatening war crimes against the entirety of Iranian civilization.
(01:43):
Twenty fifth Amendment proceedings must begin immediately. Ed Markey writes,
called on or he called on the House rather to
begin impeachment proceedings. He says Donald Trump's post is completely
unstable and perilous. Then you have White House saying that
these remarks are pathetic. Yeah, you see, you've got the
(02:05):
push already. Others, let me see Representatives Lee, These all Democrats, Selena's,
Bonnie Watson, Coleman, all want to remove Trump over his post.
Jaquem Jeffries has not yet said it is time to
remove Trump, but he said it's time for every single
Republican to put patriotic duty over party and stop the madness.
(02:26):
Oh boy, look, guys, you can root for America or
you can stop with this nonsense, but you can't continue
on with the nonsense and expect people not to notice
what's going on here. They don't really care about Iran,
that's for sure. They certainly don't care about the Iranian people.
(02:48):
They care about power here at home, and so that
means they very much want to see failure here. Now,
as I'm speaking to you, we don't yet have clarity
on what's going to happen with the deadline. Some of you,
when you listen this, will know whether the deadline is
passed and what Trump has done. I've already said my
prediction is that there will be some agreement to talk
(03:11):
more about opening the straight of Horn. Moves and other
issues will be kicked down the road, and Trump will
say this is something of a win, and there won't
be the massive strikes that he's talking about. They'll be strikes,
so it's like really a status quo situation, but the
line will be moved, not enforced. That is my guess.
(03:33):
I could be entirely wrong. It's impossible to know Trump's
mind unless you are Donald Trump himself, so I don't
pretend to be able to see the future on these things.
I do know that this is for Democrats now the
single greatest hope. They have moved on from the ICE
involved shootings in Minneapolis, two of them of lunatics obstructing
(03:56):
ICE members from doing their jobs. But they've moved on
from that, So now the Iran war is the primary
point of opposition against Donald Trump. Now this is a
problem for us, I think, because as long as we're
talking about Iran, whether it's making the case for it
to be worthwhile defending it against from as long as
(04:18):
that is going on, we are not talking about the
home front and discussing matters that matter to Americans here,
which I think has a whole lot more political impact
than anything that can happen in this Iran war situation.
And so I view this as Democrats obviously exploiting the moment,
(04:40):
looking for an opportunity to drive a wedge between Trump
and not just his base really more the swing voters
and the Trump coalition voters, some of whom are very
frustrated with what's gone on here with Iran. Others I
think are in a weight and see mode what happens, right,
You know, this all makes a huge difference. For example,
(05:01):
let me give you what I mean by this, because
some people are mad at me for not declaring victory
or declaring defeat with Iran here from both sides, from
people on the right. Let me explain how I view this.
If there was a massive debacle in Venezuela instead of
the victory that we had with seizing Madurea not a
(05:23):
single American life loss. Let's say we had lost dozens
of Delta Force commandos and it's horrific, but just for
the purpose of conference, we'd lost dozens of Delta Force commandos.
Are are helicopters crashed and burned? Total mess? Maduro going
on TV saying he's a champ and we can't do
anything in the you know, the uh Norte Americanos or
(05:46):
the Yankees or whatever he calls us, are the bad guys.
Does that men mean that Trump made a mistake going
after him, Yeah, obviously, then that's a big problem. That
is a command decision made by the commander in chief
that results in a massive script. Now, the opposite of
that happened. It was a perfectly executed operation. No US casualties,
Maduro and his wife in custody. But I'm saying the
(06:07):
result matters, and to me, the result in Iran also
really matters, and we don't know what it is yet.
So I see a lot of people rushing to declare
one thing or the other true, and I think that
they are just showing us what they politically want instead
of what is actually the reality of the situation. Sponsor
(06:31):
here is Birch Gold Group. You know the dollar has
gone down a lot when the dollars convertibility into gold.
Then that in nineteen seventy one, gold was thirty five
dollars an ounce. Fast forward today, fifty five years later,
support of the US dollar has lost over eighty five
percent of its purchasing power. It's largely due to inflation. Gold,
on the other hand, has increased in value, but over
(06:52):
twelve thousand percent. So why many central banks around the
world are buying gold at record levels. That's why major
firms hold significant positions in gold. But it starts with education.
Birch Gold Group has announced their Learn and Earn Precious
Metals Event. It's a great opportunity to learn more about
our nation's economics, your saving ability, and how gold and
vicious medals play a part. This free online event rewards
(07:13):
you for learning the basics of investing in precious medals.
Sign up to get free silver on your next purchase
if you qualify, and you can get even larger incentives
as you go. The more you learn, the more you
can earn. Act now this special event it runs only
through April thirtieth. The value of dollars is once attached
to gold, and that changed in nineteen seventy one. But
gold is still good, my friends. Text Buck to ninety eight,
(07:34):
ninety eight, ninety eight to join Birch Gold learn and
earn precious medals event by April thirtieth. Text Buck to
ninety eight ninety eight ninety eight. Today, you know, it's
not just Trump that they want to impeach. They want
to impeach Hegseth as well. They've wanted to take Hegseth
out more than any other member I think of the
Trump cabinet. They really because the New York Times threw
(07:56):
its best shot at Trump, I mean to Hegseth rather
well Trump too, but at Hegseth. The New York Times
went all in on taking heg Seth out of contention
for that Secretary of Defense now Secretary of War post.
And they couldn't do it. And with a fifty to
fifty vote in the Senate and a breaking tie breaking
(08:17):
vote by Jade Vance, Pete Hegseeth became the Secretary of Defense.
And I'm gonna tell you this, Pete is a friend
of mine. I like Pete Hegg Seth. So I'm not
I'm not able to be completely free of any sense
that I am what's the word I'm looking for then
(08:37):
that I can be objective here, But I really do,
truly believe to the degree it's possible to separate out
the fact that I like Pete, think he's a good guy.
I think he's done a really good job so far.
And that makes the Democrats even more upset. That's why
a House Democrat has introduced articles of impeachment against Pete
(08:59):
heg Seth. Yaz Amine, I'm sorry, she will introduce articles
of impeachment against heg Seth next week for repeatedly violating
his os of oath of office and due to the Constitution,
she said, heg Seth's reckless endangerment of US service members
and repeated war crimes are grounds for impeachment and removal
from office. And I'm sorry side of the bombing of
a girls school in southern Roan during the early stages
(09:21):
of the conflict, saying that he was willfully targeting civilian infrastructure,
that is not true. But put that aside for a second.
Why does this matter? Now? They're not going to successfully
in peach Heck Seth. Now, obviously they don't have the
votes and they're not going to remove him, and Trump
is not going to bend the knee over Pete Hegseth either.
We know that this matters, I think because it gives
(09:42):
you a sense of what is coming down the line.
My friends, we have had a calm between storms here
from the lunatic Democrats because they've been out of power.
We have been in a situation where Trump has been
able to pursue some very important agenda items, securing the border,
a whole range of economic issues, Venezuela Cuba, a lot
(10:03):
of things right, a big beautiful bill gets passed. We've
been able to see Trump pursue a whole range of
things and Democrats have been pretty neutered for a period
of time. That's because they're out of power. The second
they come back into power, the insanity is going to
be unleashed on us all once again. I can assure
you whatever you thought was crazy about them before, it
(10:27):
hasn't changed. They have learned nothing. They have changed nothing
since twenty twenty four, whether it's tranny policy for kids,
or it's how much they hate Trump and all the
Trump supporters, how much there are a bunch of race communists.
All the things they have not moderated, They have changed nothing,
(10:49):
and they're very angry. They are very angry at Donald Trump.
They are very angry at his supporters, and they are
going to want payback, bigly, bigly payback, and that's going
to throw the country into a really difficult situation. I think.
So when they're talking about impeaching Hegsath and they're talking
about impeaching Trump, just remember they're going to do that
(11:11):
if they win the House, and they think that this
whole Iran situation is their key, This is their X
factor to winning back control of the House in the midterms.
So it's all tied together, and the Trump agenda comes
to largely. Now you could say, oh, what about executive orders.
He's already done the best executive orders he can on
(11:32):
the most important issues, and executive orders that he would
try going forward, just like some of the ones already
are going to run into judges and they have to
make their way to the Supreme Court. So that's not
a clear pathway to the Trump agenda. The big beautiful
bill got passed that's budgetary, so it doesn't fall into
the filibuster trap. But what you're really going to have
(11:54):
is a huge problem with the Democrats just jamming up
the House with all kinds of oversight hearings and anti
Trump stuff and impeachments, and look, Republicans would probably do
the same if it was a Democrat president, as we know.
So I get it. I'm not insane. The Democrats are nuts.
That's a key difference. And it's all coming our way.
(12:15):
So I understand. It's only the beginning of apor right now.
Before you know it, we're going to be in a
whole new political reality. And this is why the Iran
situation is so important. They are the Democrats. If they
just have the House, they will go scorched earth on
all Republicans, on all Trump supporters. So you can take
that to the bank. That's why we got to keep
power and keep the lunatics away from the levers of power.
(12:39):
Sponsor here is Puretalk. The cell phone company I use
is Pure Talk, and they've been a sponsor for five
years for this podcast. I greatly appreciate them, and Puretalk
greatly appreciates our veterans. They've helped veterans all along, and
they've donated over half a million dollars to America's Warrior Partnership,
which is on the front lines of helping to prevent veterans' suicide.
And as a company, they're aligned with your values and
(13:01):
their highest priority is providing you the best cell phone
service at the lowest possible price. Twenty five dollars a
month for unlimited talk, tax and plenty of data. Pure
Talk service is on the same time, our same network,
same five G coverage, but for a fraction of the price.
Switch your cell phone service to pure Talk. Save a
ton of money, keep your phone and your phone number.
You'll have the same level of phone service and an
upgrade in your customer service experience. Go to pure Talk
(13:23):
dot com slash buck to get started. They can switch
you over in about ten minutes. That's Puretalk dot com
slash Buck, America's wireless company, Pure Talk. Let's see what
happens with this deadline. I'll certainly have a follow up
podcast for you on that. I told you what I
think is going to happen. But say a prayer. Say
a prayer for America. Say a prayer for the people
of Iran who are caught in this horrific situation because
(13:48):
of the evil people that run their country, and we'll
be back with more on this Shield time
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