Benny Johnson on Trump administration leakers: It would “be nice to see one of these people go to jail. It'd be nice to see the hammer dropped.”
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From the April 22, 2025, edition of The Benny Show, streamed on YouTube
BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): Pete Hegseth says these leakers, these listeners are all going to prison. Here we go. Pete Hegseth says evidence from leak probe will be handed over to DOJ for potential charges. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ripped hoax press and blamed recently fired aides for spinning lies for the turmoil now engulfing the Pentagon, vowing in a Fox News interview that all the persons who are leaking sensitive information will be found and will be referred to the Justice Department. When that evidence is gathered sufficiently, and this is all happening very quickly, it'll be handed over to the DOJ, and these people will be prosecuted as necessary. We don't think based on what we understand that it's going to be a good day for a number of these individuals who have been found to be investigated.
OK. Well, this seems opaque. Let's listen to Pete Hegseth say it. I will say this, and I think this is very important. There was constant leaks forever that nobody was punished for at all, and I know some of these people. I know the leakers. They got rewarded, actually, for leaking on Trump in term one. They are the lowest rat bastards. They are saboteurs, Benedict Arnolds, true traitors, a straight up Judas to the president. A lot of these people got rewarded with plum contracts at media companies that will remain unmentioned. But, yeah, they leaked all the time on President Trump. Be nice to see one of these people go to jail. It'd be nice to see the hammer dropped. And I don't care what kind of an administration it is. Like, if you're criminally leaking, that — you gotta go to prison for that.