Mike Panics As S*x Scandal Just Got Worse

The Republican caucus in the House is full of sick freaks who harass their staffers and out-of-control criminals who make our lives worse. But Mike Johnson doesn't care. Why? Because he wants to preserve his majority. Or I guess I should say he hasn't cared because he wants to preserve his majority, but now he really has to care because another sex scandal is popping up and it is threatening to take out Mike Johnson. We are going to get in to the depravity of this Congress. And there is so much more I want to say about what these upcoming midterms need to look like, not just in general elections, but in primaries, which are maybe even more important than what happens in November. But I first want to start with why Mike Johnson is so panicked by this new sex scandal, new reporting from Axios, and so much more. It's because of how unpopular Donald Trump is. They're really not great at this. Politically, they're not great at this either, it turns out. In an environment where the Republican Party is embodied essentially entirely by their leader, where nobody else has allowed the oxygen to thrive or speak. The latest Washington Post-ABC News Ipsos poll has Trump negative 25 overall. He's 25 points underwater on his overall approval rating. And that's kind of a high point for him in this poll. Minus 25 is kind of as good as it gets. On the economy, his approval rating is 31 points underwater. On the Iran war, his approval rating is 33 points underwater. On inflation, Trump's approval rating is 45 points underwater. On Trump's handling of the cost of living, which is effectively what he ran on to get a second term in the White House, Trump is 53 points underwater. 76% of the country disapproves of Trump's handling of the cost of living. He's minus 53. As, among other things, his war of whim, his war of impulse, this war of choice that he doesn't even seem to understand, drags on with no end in sight. And the energy crisis he caused by starting this inexplicable war just gets worse and worse, with gas prices continuing their steady, steep rise. They are really, really not great at this. They're not good at this. This is a historic level of collapse from Donald Trump. He is historically unpopular across the board, but most importantly, with Republicans, Republicans who want to see change in the Republican Party, Republicans who support when a Tony Gonzalez gets booted from Congress, when someone like a Cory Mills is being threatened to be removed by Nancy Mason. Of course, there is another Republican who Mike Johnson now has to deal with, and his ethics violations, his violations of the House rules. We're going to get into that, but we know how far this Republican Party has gone to deny even what its own supporters want, like in the form of the Epstein files. Mike Johnson will do literally whatever it takes. Marjorie Taylor Greene said that right here, and it is very important to note for this new scandal that's breaking out. We spent eight weeks shut down. Remember that? We spent eight weeks shut down. By the way, that was to stop the Epstein resolution from getting a House vote. That's what that shutdown was about. Finally, they reopened the government and a brand new Democrat member of Congress was sworn in, and we got the 218th signature, released the resolution, passed it overwhelmingly, which was hilarious to me, watching all these Republicans, oh yeah, all of a sudden I'm voting to release the Epstein files. What a pathetic joke. Weak men, oh my gosh, they're so weak. Marjorie is confirming what we knew all along. The shutdown was about hiding the Epstein files. Mike Johnson will literally do whatever it takes to cover up for sex criminals, for pedos, for Donald Trump's friends. He'll do whatever it takes because that is the way that he stays speaker, by giving over his tiny little balls to Donald Trump and saying, thank you, dear leader. Thank you. I'll just let you rest them on the desk over there. Mike Johnson just wants to be the Speaker of the House, even though he doesn't really have any effective power anymore because there's not enough Republicans showing up on a day-to-day basis to get anything passed. It's just a disaster. What Mike Johnson is really worried about is Cory Mills and another Republican who is having more reporting come out against his crimes, his disgusting behavior, his affair, his harassment of staffers, that should mean his resignation from Congress, really his expulsion, and it is driving Mike crazy because it might be the end of his majority. If not now, it's certainly going to happen in November. Scoop. Rep Chuck Edwards singled out young female aides for special attention. Rep Chuck Edwards, a Republican of North Carolina, told a young female staffer that she had written a complex chapter in his heart shortly before she was set to leave his office, according to a handwritten letter he sent her that was reviewed by Axios. Why it matters. Edwards, as we've reported, is now the subject of a House Ethics Committee probe that Axios first reported. That probe was prompted in part by Edwards' conduct toward two female staffers, a source familiar with the matter told Axios. Three sources told Axios they witnessed conduct by Edwards towards two female staffers in their 20s that they described as inappropriate. The sources said Edwards' behavior crossed professional boundaries and created an uncomfortable work environment. The sources were granted anonymity to protect against retaliation. One of the staffers, whom Axios will not name due to the sensitive nature of these allegations, declined to discuss the interactions with Edwards when contacted by the The three sources told Axios that the staffer expressed discomfort to those around her with Edwards' behavior several times during and after the time she worked with him. Edwards and the woman spent time vacationing together in Las Vegas months after she had left his office, according to two sources familiar with the trip. Axios reviewed receipts showing Edwards had booked two rooms at the Bellagio Hotel from November 8th to November 11th in 2025, as well as massages indicating that the woman was also in Las Vegas on at least one of those dates. At the time, staff in Edwards' office were concerned about the congressman returning to Washington to vote on reopening the government amid shutdown-related airport delays, per the two sources. Edwards expressed deep personal affection for the staffer in a three-page handwritten note that sources said the congressman gave to the staffer shortly before she left his office. You were the most amazing woman. I only wish I could explain the joy and meaning to me for the time we spent together at the office. But especially away from it, the letter read, your kindness, encouragement, and lightheartedness have written a complex, a complex chapter in my heart that I will never stop reading. The letter was signed with my lifetime of appreciation and devotion, Chuck. Edwards, 65, has been married since 1980. Edwards also bought the staffer personal gifts while she was employed by him, including jewelry, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the gift. The big picture here is that Edwards' office has one of the highest turnover rates in Congress, with 59% turnover in 2025, more than double the house average of 27%. Edwards' decision to promote the second female staffer to a senior position just a year and a half into her junior staff role, and less than two years after graduating college, contributed to internal tensions in the office, according to Axios. The second female staffer was chosen over a more experienced colleague who left the office shortly after the promotion, the sources said. Zooming out, Edwards, who is currently serving his second term in Congress, is a top Democratic target in November, meaning Democrats are looking to flip his seat. The ethics probe could hamper Edwards' reelection prospects, even though such investigations typically take months, if not years, to complete. Now, the original reporting that we read about Chuck Edwards detailed the harassment of multiple women in his office, how he made them uncomfortable. Now, I am still waiting on more reporting that might allege criminal conduct, and so at this I'm not coming out and saying it's time for a trial. We don't know enough yet. But what I think is so important is that we shouldn't have to get to that point. We shouldn't have to get to that point, and I'm not even talking about allegations of harassment. I'm just talking about allegations of inappropriate and weird behavior. You are not allowed to have relationships and affairs with your staff in your office who you take to Vegas to stay at fancy hotels and get couples massages when you are a member of Congress. You're not allowed to do that. It doesn't matter if you're married or you're single. It's weird, it's gross, and it is not how you should be spending your time and our money if you are elected to Congress. I feel like we have conflated criminality with all of these actions being taken by members of Congress, and most of them have been criminal. Let's be real about this. But you don't have to have committed a crime for you to not be a viable member of Congress. I'm not even talking about, oh, if something's alleged against you, then shut it down, it's over. In instances when the allegations were as they were against Eric Swalwell, deeply corroborated by doctors, family, friends, medical accounts, so much, yes, obviously that is enough. But I'm not saying you have to criminal allegations against you is the point that I'm trying to make for you not to be reasonable that you're in Congress. If you are having multiple affairs with your staff and you're making your entire office uncomfortable with those affairs, you just shouldn't be in Congress. And he's a married man. It's weird. You shouldn't be in Congress. It is a violation of the House bylaws to be having an affair with your staffer. That is not a person who should be in Congress, but Mike Johnson doesn't give a ---- if it keeps him Speaker. But, Mike, you're not going to be for much longer. And hey, Nancy Mace, Ana Paulina Luna, Lauren Boebert, you guys said that you wanted to rid creeps like this out of office. Go for it. Get on it. This guy's got to go. And we also have to be focusing not just on the general, but primaries as well. And one Democrat who y'all know I love just essentially won his because Janet Mills dropped out. That is Graham Plattner. And Democrats should be listening to his message because it's breaking through. Nobody works hard enough to justify a billion dollars, not in a world where I know people that have three jobs and can't even afford their rent. I refuse to believe. I refuse to believe that in a state like Maine, where people work as hard as we do here, that it is merely hard work that gets you that kind of success. We all know it isn't. We all know it's the structures, it's the tax code. That is what allows that money to get accrued. And that is also why we can get it back. Because the world that we live in today, the world that we live in today is not organic. It is not natural. The political and economic world we have did not happen because it had to. It happened because politicians in Washington and the billionaires that write the policies that they pushed, they made this happen. This is how Democrats should sound. This is the way that we should talk about the hoarding of wealth in this country. So many want to frame it as attacking success, but it is not success. It is rigging a system in your favor to hurt working people. It is cheating and it is unfair. And don't we want a fair system? Don't we want a fair shake? Isn't that what we should aspire to? So that there is real competition? Yes. And that is the message that Graham Platner delivers so well. He delivers a lot of messages so well, which is why if you want to support him in his campaign to defeat Susan Collins and flip such an important seat, you can donate down below. We're going to be talking about him every day. Hoping to have Graham back on the show soon. And if you want to support our show, as always, you can hit that subscribe button, leave a like on this video. If you stuck around at the end, drop a blue heart in the comments. Keep on fighting, y'all. Don't let them silence you. And until next time, I'll see you soon.