PUBLISHED: APR 20, 2026INDEXED: APR 26, 2026, 4:22 AM

Rick Wilson & Gal Beckerman

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Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast
Apr 20

Trump was excluded from the Situation Room rescue operation

But it turned out that there are places where even the president doesn't get to go when the military doesn't want him to... What's the word I'm looking for? Leak shit from the most classified possible operation they could be conducting. Or have him in the room acting like a crazy motherfucker. Those are why they kept him out of the room.

Rick Wilson
Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast
Apr 20

Military operational leaders do not trust Donald Trump

They were not going to let even the president of the United States mess it up because there was a real belief that he would do something to either order them to do something stupid or leak it. And either one of those scenarios would have resulted in that that F-15 backseater either being dead or being an Iranian hostage. And they realized that it should tell you a lot that the people who actually are on the pointy end of the stick with our military do not trust their commander in chief.

Rick Wilson
Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast
Apr 20

Gas prices may stay above $3 until 2027

So now, we have Energy Secretary Chris Wright, one of the many people who likes to go on a Sunday show and really fuck things up, saying that gas may stay above $3 into 2027 Great stuff. Love it. The Arap war has driven up prices as we were told. None of this is a surprise in any which way, and Wright is just trying to defend it.

Host/Guest
Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast
Apr 20

JD Vance fired Tucker Carlson's son strategically

JD Vance is running for president in 2028 And I don't think he fired Buckley just because Tucker's saying shit about Donald Trump. I think he fired Buckley because he recognizes that when he wants to run for president, Tucker is one of those people who could be a potential candidate in a primary against JD Vance. And that makes JD Vance extremely no bueno.

Rick Wilson
Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast
Apr 20

Alex Jones has turned against Donald Trump

Alex Jones is out like completely fireballing Trump now and says that Americans should hang their flags upside down, which is the universal symbol of distress. I'm like, Alex Jones? Gay frog, Alex Jones? ... This is not Alex Jones talking to the deep state. This is Alex Jones talking to MAGA base. It's a seismic shift and it continues on.

Rick Wilson
Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast
Apr 20

Dissidents refuse to abandon their normal lives

Who is the dissident? The dissident is the person who says, I'm not moving. You're in the way of me living my normal life, right? You're going to have to move. I'm not moving out of the way. The pre-political are all of these sort of conditions of life that we take to be sort of normal. Like, you want to be, it's not political to want to be a good neighbor, to see somebody's rights being violated and acting on it.

Gal Beckerman
Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast
Apr 20

Cash Patel faces allegations of severe alcoholism

Cash Patel is increasingly seen inside the FBI and the administration as somebody with a drinking problem. He is not going to win this fight because he has over a dozen sources who said, He drinking. This isn't good. Cash Patel's security detail needs to get the jaws of life to pry open his hotel room door so they can get him because he won't respond otherwise.

Rick Wilson

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