Wild and Woolly Interview With Trump-Loving Rep. Goes Off The Rails Because ‘Good Conservative Congressmen’ Are being Blackmailed For Getting Naked With Strangers

What do you get when a hard-right political podcaster and a hard-right Republican Congressman get together for an interview? You get a mess, that’s what you get. Especially if that podcaster happens to be Benny Johnson and the GOP congressman is Tim Burchett (Tennessee). Johnson, you may remember, gained notoriety as “BuzzFeed Benny” only to be fired from the popular platform after it was discovered that he plagiarized a whole bunch of stories.

Burchett, on the other hand, defends everything Trump. This even includes Donald Trump’s claim that immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of America. Trump’s nasty commentary brought up more comparisons to Adolf Hitler and his book Mein Kampf. Burchett waved that away with a namby-pamby comment, telling CNN’s Jim Acosta “You know, I have one rule in my office. It says you never compare anything to the Holocaust or Hitler, because of the horrendous nature of that time period.”

So yeah, he’s that kind of Trump-supporting right-wingnutter. Maybe he was dropped on his head at birth.

But the interview was a rollicking one, with the conversation ranging from blackmail, debauchery, and Jeffrey Epstein. With a side order of equally nutty GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn (Tennessee) thrown in for good measure.

In talking about Epstein, the notorious sex trafficker, Burchett, and Johnson were trying to figure out why it took so long for an order to be handed down and unsealed by a federal judge, Mediaite reports.

This led Burchett to pontificate at one point that many “good conservatives” and other Congress members were being entrapped and blackmailed to vote certain ways.

Then Johnson brought up Blackburn, Burchett’s colleague, whom he believes has been “completely blackballed in the Senate” because she asked for Epstein’s flight logs and client list to be released.

“It seems like now you are fighting with her in the house. why the protection mechanism?” Johnson asked. “And more importantly, you mentioned recently in an interview that there may be some members of Congress who are personally compromised by this and they don’t want the truth to get out. Can you expand on that?”

Burchett responded “Yeah, 100 percent. You’ve got powerful people and they write the big checks.”

This is where Burchett jumped into the deep end a little bit, saying that the “powerful people” armed with money, meet the president “on the tarmac or in the private room” whenever the president visits. He added that no matter what their party is, these folks are the ones with money, and “They don’t care who’s in.”

“They hate this country. they hate what we’re about,” Burchett told Johnson. “but they love their portfolios and they love their money more than they do anything else.”

Burchett keeps everything vague. We never find out who “they” are. All I really know is he seems to be veering into QAnon territory. claiming that this is something the Russians do, to protect “the old honey pot.” He also said he’s certain members of Congress have been tangled in this, because “Why in the world would good conservatives vote for crazy stuff like what we’ve been seeing out of Congress?”

here’s how it works. you’re visiting, you’re out of the country or out of town or you’re in a motel or at a bar in dc, and, whatever you’re into — women, men, whatever — comes up and they’re very attractive and they’re laughing at your jokes. and you’re buying them a drink. next thing you know, you’re in the motel room with them naked.”

Burchett said this is where the pressure from the rich America-haters comes in. Someone’s about to vote on something important and then someone “whispers in your ear, ‘Hey, man, there’s tapes out on you.'” Or they ask “Were you in a motel room or whatever with whoever?” And that makes the person being pressured to reconsider their vote and perhaps backtrack.

Burchett was on a roll here, noting this is “human nature.” And well, he’s got that part right. Many people will bend and break under pressure because the rich and powerful know what tactics to use.

“you know, if it’s women, drugs, booze, it’ll find you. and they say, in most elected offices, and that’s what people of power and influence do. and it’s just, you know, i’ve been in this game my whole life.”

He said he’d spent 16 years in Tennessee’s state legislature and eight years as county mayor, and added he’s now in his fifth year as a member of Congress. “The stakes,” he noted, are higher now.

“but the game is still the same.”

This brings to mind what happened to ex-Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.). Cawthorn who made several harmful anti-LGBTQ comments, was subsequently outed when a video was released showing him having sex with another man.

But I’m confused about his support for Trump, who is arguably not a “good conservative.” He’s been compromised every six ways until Sunday with his mountain of legal problems. First, there’s Stormy Daniels, then there’s the civil lawsuits and of course, Jack Smith is waiting to take a crack at him. And perhaps most notoriously, he was a long-time friend of Jeffrey Epstein. So I fail to see how he’s a “good conservative.”

Whatever happened to those so-called “Republican family values?” Maybe they don’t have any.

I’ve included a clip of the podcast below.