In short
Election-night analysis and turnout fears for socialist Democrats; plus a long rant defending President Trump’s handling of a reported Iranian threat during a Turkey trip and criticizing media coverage as ego-driven. He also argues “nothing is happening” doomers are trying to demoralize voters, and he claims crime has fallen due to specific federal law-enforcement reforms.
Guests
Vince Colonese (mentioned as a guest for discussion of socialist voters/party dynamics). No other named guests are interviewed in the transcript.
Guest/related backgrounds
Michael Alfonso is congratulated as a friend of the show and former network colleague; he won a Wisconsin congressional primary (Wisconsin 7). Alfonso is described as husband to Evita and a former show host on the network.
Key claims
Socialist candidates (Francesca/“Francesca” in Wisconsin; Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan) will not reliably motivate voters to show up; polls are unreliable and voters must “block and tackle.” Media outlets allegedly misframe the Secret Service/Turkey incident as about themselves, not the president’s safety. Trump’s administration allegedly reduced crime via FBI staffing changes, revised warrant/assistance rules, and targeted arrests, plus mass deportations.
Notable examples
Francesca’s Wisconsin loss after leading by ~20 points; El-Sayed’s narrow Michigan win; the Turkey Air Force One security-shift story; Clinton-era capital gains tax cut (used as an analogy); Washington Post and Financial Times headlines; D.C. homicide-rate decline; “top 200 worst bad guys” targeting.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOElection Night Recap
0:46 to 1:49
Discussion on significant election results and personal victories.
“These people don't realize like this story, it's not a story about you.”
Election Night Recap
1:50 to 2:02
Discussion on significant election results and personal victories.
“And really sorry about the technical hiccup, but, you know, it happens.”
Election Night Recap
3:14 to 3:29
Discussion on significant election results and personal victories.
“responsibility for their own preparedness.”
Election Dynamics and Voter Behavior
3:30 to 6:28
Analyzing the implications of election results on future voter turnout.
“So just a couple of quick takeaways from last night.”
Secret Service Insights
6:29 to 14:01
Details about a serious threat during President Trump's visit to Turkey.
“because there is a lot of anger out there on the Democrat side too.”
Secret Service and Air Force One Security
14:01 to 18:21
Discussion on the responsibilities of the Secret Service and military regarding presidential security.
“When the president's on Air Force One, we secure the president on Air Force One.”
Media's Perception of Threats
18:21 to 22:21
Exploration of media reactions to threats against the president and criticisms of their responses.
“I promise you, I've been in a lot of different spaces and arenas.”
The Russian Collusion Hoax
22:42 to 28:00
Analysis of the media's ongoing narrative regarding the Russian collusion investigation and its implications.
“You know, normal people like you and I who've had real jobs and you learn through a process of trial and error, obviously throughout your life.”
Debunking the Russia Collusion Hoax
28:00 to 31:35
Learn about the origins and implications of the Russia collusion narrative.
“I said, we can't run a republic like this.”
Addressing Crime Rates and Policy Actions
31:35 to 35:38
Understand the decline in crime rates and the policies behind them.
“There were leaders in these entities who totally ignored it and basically said, like, shut up.”
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The Role of Law Enforcement in Crime Reduction
35:38 to 42:09
Explore how law enforcement changes have impacted crime reduction.
“A lot of these high crime cities you see in this tweet by Cash.”
Crime Reduction Strategies and Local Cooperation
42:09 to 44:39
Learn about effective crime reduction strategies and the importance of local law enforcement collaboration.
“So don't tell me it didn't happen, especially in Tennessee.”
Political Landscape and the Rise of Socialism
44:40 to 47:28
Explore the shifting dynamics within the Democratic Party and the influence of socialists.
“And the Washington Post, I don't know, it's not that simple.”
Objective Truth and Political Ideology
47:29 to 51:03
Understand the debate around objective truth and its implications in political discourse.
“They do, they have the exact same goal Truth matters, folks.”
Democrats and the Evasion of Accountability
51:04 to 56:00
Investigate how Democrats avoid accountability and the implications of their shifting narratives.
“This guy, Andrew Kaczynski, does plagiarism-like research and stuff at K-File.”
Taxation and Government Investment
56:00 to 58:08
Discussion on tax rates and the expectations for government returns on taxes.
“I think that the tax rate on most middle class Americans and Oliver, it's not how much out of every dollar should they be able to keep?”
Democratic Party Dynamics
58:08 to 1:00:23
Exploration of the Democratic Party's strategies and the nature of political questions.
“So I've not seen this yet on Dems pretending not to know shit.”
Crime and Technology in Modern Society
1:00:23 to 1:03:08
Discussion on the impact of technology on crime prevention and civil liberties.
“We did a number of things, you know, Pfizer reforms, guardrails at the bureau.”
Contest and Audience Engagement
1:03:08 to 1:05:52
Overview of audience engagement through live contests and comments.
“Every time I watch a movie, I'm like, that's BS.”
Media and Ego in Modern Journalism
1:05:52 to 1:10:01
Discussion on the media's self-centered narratives and their impact on public trust.
“Consult with a licensed insurance producer to discuss coverage options for your specific business needs.”
Trust in Media and Its Decline
1:10:01 to 1:11:21
Discover how modern journalism has shifted away from its foundational role, leading to declining trust in the media.
“rock bottom, because the point of the media enterprise as enshrined in the First Amendment is to speak truth to power, is to provide a check on the government's abuse of power.”
Electoral Shakeup Insights
1:11:22 to 1:13:19
Analyze the surprising electoral results in Wisconsin and Michigan and the implications for polling accuracy.
“I mean, I think there's two big stories here about the Wisconsin primary.”
Election Integrity Concerns
1:13:20 to 1:15:28
Examine issues of election integrity and the potential for manipulation within political parties.
“everybody expected based on that survey data.”
Intra-Party Dynamics and Voter Turnout
1:15:29 to 1:17:26
Discuss the dynamics within the Democratic Party and the potential impact on voter turnout in future elections.
“That guy, he comes out, he talks a big game about socialism and how he loves it and all this stuff.”
The Working Class and Political Shift
1:17:27 to 1:19:59
Explore how the working class's political allegiance is shifting and the implications for American politics.
“I mean, Donald Trump, you know, winning multiple times is pretty much, I think, evidence of that in the national level.”
The Education Crisis and Its Consequences
1:20:00 to 1:23:52
Delve into the issues surrounding education funding, student debt, and their effects on young Americans.
“But that's not what they're doing at all.”
Personal Responsibility in Career Paths
1:23:53 to 1:24:03
Reflect on the importance of adaptability and personal responsibility in achieving career success amidst economic challenges.
“I'm not mad at you because the system, whatever you want to call it, promised you something.”
Educational Debt and Career Choices
1:24:03 to 1:26:15
Discussing the burdens of educational debt and the importance of adaptability in career paths.
“Some of them chose, you know, 19th century urban studies or whatever.”
The Politics of Despair and Government Power
1:26:15 to 1:28:25
Exploring how a narrative of despair affects political views and government intervention.
“Over 100 million people have died due to this ideology, killed by their government.”
Republicans and Election Integrity
1:28:25 to 1:30:29
Debating the Republican strategy for securing elections and addressing voter concerns.
“So this is one of the reasons it annoys me so much that the United States Senate's on vacation right now.”
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:02All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for The Dan Bongino Show. You know, sometimes I tell you stories, they kind of burrow under my skin like a tick. You just can't get out. Like you try with the tweezers and the tick just won't come. It's like holding on for dear life. Folks, and it has very little to do with my actual time in the Secret Service at all. But this Secret Service, Iranian threat, evacuation from Turkey, airplane catering truck, media story is, I can't stop that. I cannot believe the media cannot get over the fact that this story is not about you. The story's got me just fascinated.
0:48I don't, I can't get out of my head. These people don't realize like this story, it's not a story about you. It's a story about the life of the president of the United States. I want to get to that. Hugely important election results for me personally and for the Republican Party going forward. Because we got to know who we're fighting. Big, huge monster L for socialist candidate Francesca. Was that Francesca? I'm running in Wisconsin. But good friend of the show who used to work here. Michael Alfonso won his primary. So big congrats. We'll give you a real Barney hug. And like Fat Barney, sharing is caring.
1:25Good job, Michael. Won his primary for Congress. You know Michael Alfonso, husband to Evita. Had a show on the network before Michael ran. We're really proud of you. So remember, you know, big people do big things. You did a big thing. Go rock and roll going forward. So make sure you get out and vote for him in November. Michael Alfonso, Wisconsin 7. You all know him. Big win for him last night. He worked really hard. So congratulations on that. All right, I got a lot to get to. Let me get to the spots again. And really sorry about the technical hiccup, but, you know, it happens. Hey, switch to Patriot Mobile for nationwide coverage, unlimited plans, mobile hotspots, and U.S.-based customer support.
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3:45He's my guest today, Vince Colonese will socialist voters who now lost in Wisconsin and barely snuck out a victory in Michigan with Abdul El-Sayed friend that lady Francesco was running in Wisconsin as the socialist she was up 20 points in the polls and she got just destroyed last night will socialist voters actually show up and vote for they're not real moderates but fake moderate candidates The answer, folks, I'm not sure they will because they're freaking crazy. Unlike Republican voters that, you know, after the primary with Donald Trump and Ted Cruz and Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, realize like, all right, maybe I was a DeSantis or Cruz guy.
4:27However, I'm going to vote for President Trump because the alternative is crazy. The Democrats are actually crazy, a lot of these socialists. So I'm not sure they're going to show up. So this could create a real problem. also the inverse of that will moderate democrat voters there are actually you know union workers and people voted democrat for generations that aren't crazy you know they're minors and stuff are they going to show up for a socialist like al-sayed you know i'm not really sure and one more point the polls folks just disregard the polls this lady in wisconsin was up by like 20 points in almost every single poll i'm not talking about outliers and she lost al-sayed was up by 10 plus points barely snaked by ignore the polls ignore the polls you remember the midterms gi justin you guys were here you remember the midterms for joe biden inflation's out of control afghanistan blows up you guys it's not that long ago you guys remember this remember the red wave what did we say on the show justin's like yes we were like no p1s you remember this i said i don't want to hear jack squat and jack left town about a red wave do not trust the ball remember the polls remember them justin republicans are up by 75 points i'm like guys please stop the nonsense stop talking like that because then people aren't going to show up they're going to think oh we're going to win and what happened biden way over performed in his democrats i heat it wasn't up but it was a midterm he way over performed forget the polls just do the simple as they say in football, do the blocking and the tackling, and it'll open up holes in the line and you'll get three to four yards in every run.
6:09Just show up and vote and bring 10 people with you. Email 10 people, call 10 people, make 10 social media posts on how to vote. Simple blocking and tackling. It's honestly what the socialists are very good at. They're crazy, but they're good at it. And we will do okay. If you don't show up, we'll lose. Forget the freaking polls. Please, I'm begging you, because there is a lot of anger out there on the Democrat side too. You see a lot of doomers and grifters on our side telling you, oh, there's all this anger. Folks, it's overstated. There's real anger on the left though. Just before I came on the air, I was sitting inside.
6:44I bounced inside quick. I come back. It's before that we had the whole quantum hyperdrive meltdown thing on the show just now, right? And I'm watching this interview on Fox. Of course, if you're watching on demand, you missed the whole thing. But I'm watching this interview on Fox. And how many times have I warned you about this? There is a union worker, an auto UAW worker on Fox, United Auto Workers, working class guy, goes to work. I don't know if he's a Democrat or I don't really care. But a lot of union workers are Democrats, not all, but a lot. He's on Fox telling you what I've told you forever.
7:18Wait, these socialists want government run health care for all? If you're a union worker in the chat, chime in right here. The guy's like, let me get this straight. I busted my ass for this car company my entire life to negotiate a compensation package, and I took less money in salary for better health care benefits for insurance for my family. And now you got Abdul El-Sayed saying, double barrel middle finger, I'm taking your insurance plan. I'm going to stick you on government insurance with everyone else. You think this is a winning message? The guy was on Fox telling Democrats, you better clam up about this right quick.
7:54They don't have a winning message. We have something to run on. Inflation came in a little cooler. We've got an exploding economy with manufacturing. We've got a shutdown border. Crime rate's the safest America you've ever lived in. He's got the big, beautiful bill, tax cuts. And now President Trump's proposing a capital gains tax cut too. Now, I know what you're thinking. I know the liberal goofballs who listen to my show. You're out there thinking capital gains on investments for all you rich folks. hey can you guys throw something in chat gpt live just ask this question in 1997 or you don't have to ask in 1997 just say did bill clinton cut the capital gains tax rate during his presidency i'm just gonna check on that right because bill clinton and he's a democrat correct this time i check he's like yeah i don't know sometimes i get lost on bill clinton's a democrat so president trump is proposing to do the same thing bill clinton did when honestly the economy was doing okay in the Clinton administration the second term.
8:55It was doing okay. Why did Bill Clinton decide to cut the capital gains tax? Because he knew that that money would flow into pension funds that were invested in the stock market and elsewhere, that it would flow back into companies in the form of money that wasn't going to government, that now they could invest in salaries and equipment. Oh, look at that. Look at that. Dan Bongino is writing it. Crazy. I took that chance on a live show even after the hyperdrive broke yes bill clinton signed the capital gains tax cut we're not making i didn't plan this i swear to you did i not vouch for me yes thank you 1997 eight percentage point capital gains tax cut so for those of you going to get out ahead of this and be like oh donald trump's in it for the rich was bill clinton too and the economy exploded because the money went back into the economy and not in some government bureaucrats wallet i just want to say too before i get to the secret service story these guys were witnesses this morning so was uh jasmine listen this is a republic vote for who you want i have my opinions i hope you enjoy my opinions that's why you're here it's a political opinion show which shocked the media when i told them but president trump's a really good guy something happened this morning It's nothing big.
10:16I promise you it's really small. But something happened this morning. And it just reminded me that regardless of your opinion about his policies, his speaking style, whatever it is, I'm telling you, this guy is the real deal. Fellas, is he not? Okay, I have witnesses. You want to talk about a guy, you're going to laugh. The media people, I don't care if you laugh because you don't know. he just totally absolutely gets it something happened this morning and i'm just it never ceases to amaze me that he he just takes the time when he really doesn't have to for any of this stuff he could be like meh and he doesn't thank you you know what i mean all right now getting to the story this secret service turkey not like boar's head turkey but Turkey the country.
11:10I'm not calling it Turkey. It's Turkey. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it, okay? President Trump goes to Turkey. A very serious threat comes in through intel channels with the Israelis. The threat comes in that the Air Force One could possibly be taken out by whether it was a man pad, surface-to-air missile. It's a very serious threat. Serious enough that they move President Trump to another non-AF1 fleet to get him out of there in secret, right? The media, as I addressed yesterday, cannot get past the fact that this story is not about them. Jake Tapper, again, did it yesterday. Here's this X post.
11:49I cannot get over this fact that the media really believes this story is about them. He put this post up on X. They're simply astonished that in, you know, countries in the region, the Middle East and outside the Middle East, in Europe and elsewhere, that have security issues like Turkey, a lot of him do. It's not just a reflection on Turkey alone. That there's a security threat? And that the Secret Service thankfully lifted and shifted and did something about it? He put in on X on his account. So the Secret Service thought the threat against the president was strong enough to surreptitiously remove him from AF1.
12:21He then proceeded to let the plane full of White House staffers and reporters take off and fly back to the United States. Oh, my. Is that... Thank you. Thank you.
12:38thank you good Justin not dancing Justin Jake with due respect at this point okay because I'm really like trying to like the villains list I'm trying to keep small have you thought through what you said so there's a threat so severe against the president of the United States the threat so severe that you would like to stay on the ground instead or you would like to be what bust over in non-armored vehicles to a commercial flight somewhere extending your time in country and by the way i promise you and i'm very careful in what i say here but i i feel like we can put this out comfortably without giving up any security procedures whatsoever just because you were on air force one or what was designated air force even though the president wasn't on it every air force one's with the president but just you know the plane you get the point does not mean security measures still weren't taken fellas you know what makes me laugh about this they jake and these media people are acting like they were like oh the president's not here shut off the security shut it off guys shut up you know that counter measure and stuff for like missiles and things we don't need that andy they like this save the Save the battery life.
13:58Save the battery. There was still security. You know who secures Air Force One? Pop quiz. Anyone in the chat? Secret Service. No, we don't. Yes, you do. No, we don't. We secure the president. We do not secure Air Force One. When the president's on Air Force One, we secure the president on Air Force One. The Air Force people secure. The military. It's called Wham-O. The White House Military Office secures Air Force One. You really believe the U.S. military and Secretary of War Pete Hegg said, well, like, hey, man, there's some press people and staffers on the plane. So, like, guys, they were like, F it.
14:32They're like, turn it off. Turn it off. By the way, let's leave them in country and let's send them out on a commercial flight so the whole country knows with no countermeasures whatsoever with a number of civilians who did not sign up for this assignment. Have you thought any of this through? Do you realize how stupid you sound? if they sent them home to an airport on an unarmored vehicle and put them on a plane, they'd be like, oh my gosh, you put us on a plane with civilians. You put the whole plane at risk and they had no countermeasures. What did you want them to do? Leave Air Force One behind?
15:06Oh my gosh, this story's got me so animated this morning. Even with hyperdrive meltdown. You know, Tommy, what's your theory? Jake, again, what's your theory? What were you going to do? What do you want us to do? leave you there? Guys in the chat, ladies, there's a security threat. We're going to leave Air Force One behind. We'll figure it out later. By the way, when Air Force One is on the ground, I just told you who secures it. Pop quiz in the chat. Yes, the U.S. military. You want to leave the plane there for a week with our military people where it's a sitting duck? Have any of you in the media thought this through it's funny Guy at the beginning of the show was like show's a little light today I'm like no it's not this story's driving me crazy I'm gonna go off on this thing here's some video for you and by the way there were cabinet members on the plane with the press you think the president and Hegsept were like ah screw them too we don't really care come on man that's right right like we think the designated survivor hey stick them on the but we're all going to die later.
16:17This is so stupid. Here's Caitlin Collins again, still making this secret service story about the media and not about the fact that the Iranians likely were trying to kill the president of the United States, which we were told by podcastistan was worthy of a nuclear war, correct? Look it up. You think I'm making it up? Check this out. It makes what the president told reporters and that gaggle afterward all the more noteworthy. Do you know why they had us close our window blinds? That was not usually. Well, yeah, because you're, you know, probably on a dangerous flight because of the sleazebags that we have to deal with.
16:57They think that Iran was possibly thinking you'd try to, I mean, if they asked you to close your windows, probably they'd feel that way. They didn't ask me to close my mind, but if they did, I would have done it. Were you aware of any credible threat by Iran against your move on? I've gone threat all the time. I'm number one on their list before you. But if I go, you go. So perhaps someday want to change professions. If I go, you go. Though the president wasn't actually on the same plane as the reporters who were asking him that question. And when they asked him about why they had to lower their own shades, the president said, well, he wasn't told to lower his.
17:35he was on a secret plane. He was not on the same plane that those reporters and some White House staffers were flying on. Folks, I'm telling you right now, there is nothing working class America hates more than a bunch of like 25-year-old elitist snobs who've never had a real job like Caitlin Collins, who was like an entertainment reporter just a few years ago. Listen, man, you don't have to like me. You're not obligated. You don't want to listen to the show. Don't listen. Whatever. Show's not for you. Fine. I actually worked for a living and had a number of like actual jobs with the police department, the secret service, the FBI, businesses, investing, consulting.
18:12I've actually like done stuff. You don't have to like it, but it's true. These people don't know shit. You think a working class electrician in New York City wants a lecture from Cain LeColais like, oh, my gosh, I was on a presidential trip and there was danger. No shit, Sherlock. Don't go then. Nobody's forcing you to go. just stay home curl up in a little ball and whine about it the only person in that thing who's actually been shot who was shot on that plane on that specific trip in Turkey was the president how do you think this sounds to working class people some who may not even like the president oh my gosh the media's whining that there was a dangerous situation in a high threat country and they had to go on the trip and report it.
19:03So don't go, you entitled snobs. Just stay home. Folks, everything is about them. Everything. Their egos are out of control. I promise you, I've been in a lot of different spaces and arenas. Everything from investment to finance to... If you were talking about a pool of people in any space, law enforcement, military, media, Hollywood, whatever, I don't know everyone everywhere, obviously, You will never see a bigger group of egomaniacs than people in the media anywhere, anywhere. It is always about them. This story, I'm trying to help you, which is rare. You look like total zeros with this story.
19:50Thank the Secret Service for getting the president home safely under a high threat scenario and shut up and move on. You look like total tools, okay? It also explains this next, folks, don't miss this next segment. Remember the unintended but viral post I put out in my FBI account about how we can't run a republic like this and what I had seen? I've explained this story many times. Some people still haven't heard it because I still get questions about it. but I'm going to show you what I'm how does this tie into this media story folks it is all about ego to them and even when they are laughed at like people are laughing at him over this story with the secret service threat even when they're laughed out like the pp hoax thing the Russia hoax story Trump colluded with the Russians they still can't let it go I'm going to show you what I mean this ridiculous post by this clown at the New York Times who's getting laughed at on x today I'm going to show you how it ties into my post and what I saw.
20:57And I promise you, all these people who are still pumping the pee-pee tape hoax are going to be made absolute fools of when this whole thing that they tell you isn't happening happens. Quick break. Hey, I used to think waking up tired was just part of life, but it turns out my mattress was a big part of the problem. I switched a long time ago to Helix mattress. My second one, I had one when I up in the apartment in DC too. It's absolutely fantastic. Ever since I switched to the Helix Midnight Luxe, the difference has been incredible. I wake up feeling rested, refreshed, and more importantly, I have really terrible joints.
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23:09Their entire job is being in front of a camera and telling you how stupid you are and how smart they are. That's their job. That's how they see, because they've never had a real job, unlike me and others out there, who have to have a finger on the pulse of how actual people feel. They think they are the story every time. That is what is now happening with the Russian collusion hoax. Why are we going back to that? We're not. The media is doing it. They cannot let this go. Let me show you what I mean. Put up this tweet by this absolute tool bag at the New York Times, who I promise you, his name is Michael Schmidt.
23:44Michael Schmidt, he's at New York Times, Mike. Everyone should laugh at this guy because he deserves it. He says, new, the trove of documents released by the White House last week about the Russia investigation shed new light on a longstanding question. Whatever happened to the counterintelligence investigation the FBI wanted done into Trump's ties to Russia? Here, no, he says short answer as if he hasn't. He does not have the answer, but he said, He goes, short answer, it was sidetracked before it ever had a chance to get going. Michael, can I just be straight with you right now? Stop the presses.
24:20You're just a dick. You're just really a dick. Sorry. Why was the counterintelligence? Now, first, you guys in the audience think Michael Schmidt knows more about this case or me as the former deputy director of the FBI? Who do you think knows more? I'm not asking the question as like who you like more. You may hate the show. You may tune in to troll the chat. Whatever do you think. Who do you think knows more about the case? I'm just going to throw that out there. Probably me, right? Maybe I've seen things and have been read in on things that Michael hasn't. So Michael's implying here that the prior leadership of the FBI, which was a disgusting disgrace to humankind and an embarrassment to every sentient being in the cosmos.
25:11The leadership team at the FBI was a total humiliating embarrassment. What happened? They're all gone, fired or gone. There was nobody there who had anything to do with this stuff that we didn't get rid of. And if we find more later, they'll probably be gone too. Folks, the reason this fake investigation into Trump being a Russian spy was shut down is because there was nothing there. This idiot cannot let this go. Imagine being like, again, this guy's like parents having to tell people who are sane, like my son is a reporter still holding on to the pee-pee tape hoax. Dude, it's been years later.
25:52This thing is done. It is finished. Nobody believes you. Let me help Michael out. I'm going to help you. And I'm going to just help you stop being a dick because you really don't need to be. Being a dick is a choice. You don't have to be one. Well, it's true. It's a choice. It's a Diak. It's a name, Dick. Diak. Being a dick is a choice. So he's a Diak. Michael, a couple points on this. Put up my post first. This is when I was at the end. You've read this post before. I only put it up because I did not intend this to be some viral news story. but I was at the FBI office on a Friday night. If you've heard this story, I don't want to bore you again.
26:39I'll make it quick. I was the in-town guy. Cash had traveled that week on a specific trip he had to go to for work. So I had to stay in town. One of us had to be in town when we could. So I'm in town. I'm there late on a Friday night. Paula wasn't coming in. So I just stayed late. It was like seven o 'clock on a Friday. My security detail was getting antsy. Like what the hell's he still doing in the office? The reason I was in the office late until seven o 'clock is someone put a document in front of me. I'm not at liberty to say what it is. It's not public yet. There's a whole investigation going on.
27:06I get it. The nothing is happening, doomers and dipshits. You can shove it up your ass. You don't know what you're talking about. So I'm just discarding you losers right now. Okay, it's happening. You can just, again, roll it up in a ball. But I read this document and next morning I woke up and I was so stunned by the media, their role in promoting this massive hoax that I just put this out the next day and I knew it was going to be an issue when five minutes after I posted, I think Fox News broke in and was like, well, and I was like, oh boy, maybe. I said, we're going to conduct these righteous and proper investigations by the book in accordance with the law.
27:49We're going to get the answers we all deserve. As with any investigation, I can't predict where to land, but I can promise you an honest and dignified effort of the truth, not my truth or your truth, but the truth. The sentence before that's the one that got everyone's attention. I said, we can't run a republic like this. I'll never be the same after learning what I've learned. I meant it. That was not an effort at hyperbole. I'll give you a little bit of insight without giving away any unnecessary information. There are three points I want to make to Michael Schmidt. So he doesn't have to be a dick, okay?
28:21Because being a dick is a choice, and you don't have to be a dyak. Stupid's a choice too. You don't have to take the pet. You don't know anything, Michael. You have no idea. You've never been read in on this. You haven't seen what I've seen. If I'm making this up and I'm all lying about it, I'm doing it. This is recorded, right guys? This goes on demand. Let them just check it. Jasmine's like, yeah, I think so. So why would I say this if it wasn't true? I've seen things you haven't seen. Point number one about you media idiots still promoting a pee-pee hoax. the people involved here in promoting this hoax that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to steal the election, there's a trove of evidence indicating that the people promoting this, political operatives, absolutely knew that the media and the FBI were going to be useful idiots, the old FBI leadership team.
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29:20I'm just telling you you're going to look like idiots in the long run when this all comes out you're going to look like fools they knew you guys were too stupid to let this go because of your egos and they played you like a really bad violin it's obvious that's point number one if I've never said any of this before I'm saying it now because I can't take these idiots anymore why was the counterintelligence investigation shut down Because it was totally not predicated and made up. What do you want to start an investigation against you because they don't like you? That's not the way this works. Point number two.
29:57Folks, there was never any evidence at all that Vladimir Putin even wanted Trump to win the general election. Ever. You're going to see that too. No. Of course Putin wanted Trump to win. Who told you that? Michael Schmidt and the New York Times? They're lying. It's all here. Folks, I'm telling you, you're going to look stupid. You can continue promoting this all you want. I didn't bring it up again. Michael Schmidt did because he wanted to be a dick. There was never any evidence Vladimir Putin wanted Donald Trump to win the general election against Hillary. Matter of fact, I can make a strong case to you that the evidence was the opposite.
30:47Thought Hillary would be more compliant. Whatever you told the public, it's a 180. Third and last point.
31:00There were no heroes in this story, but there are some people who had a lot of problems with this. Not a lot, unfortunately. I'm not going to overuse. Oh, the whole FBI revolted and said, don't do. No, no. Many went along. and a lot of those people are not there anymore. But a lot of people didn't. When analysts in the USIC, the United States intelligence community, not just the FBI, but other intelligence agencies as well, pointed out that this whole Russia collusion story was, sorry to say, but bullshit. Like, hey, this isn't real. Nothing you're saying is true. Like, you should probably stop saying it.
31:35There were leaders in these entities who totally ignored it and basically said, like, shut up.
31:44What do you think Joe DiGenova, Todd Blanch, and Patel, and me when I was, what do you think we were doing? You think, I wrote, what, three books on this? You think we weren't interested in this case or we're just going to let the republic fall? Oh, nothing's happening. You don't know anything. You're just doing what these media people are doing. You're giving them fodder.
32:05Michael, you're about to be humiliated. you know nothing about the case and I just want you all to please respectfully though because I don't want to be like these crazed deranged leftists I know we're not like that I want you to tell I want you to screenshot that tweet he has out there and I want you when all of this stuff it may take a while I'm not going to lie to you I don't know the timeline I'm not anymore I'm not giving updates I want you to screenshot this and when all of it does come out and you see what I told you you're going to see Remember this segment, flags in the chat, that I was right.
32:39And this guy's just lying to you. I'm getting tired of him, folks. There's nothing is happening. Doomer, grifter crowd in conjunction with their media losers. All they want you to do is not show up in November so they can take political power and destroy your lives. Take your health care package. If you're a UAW worker, you know, steal your Social Security, bankrupt you, cause more massive inflation. What do you think causes inflation? Printing more money. Yes, Republicans and Democrats have printed a lot of money and spent a lot throughout the years, no doubt. They want to print even more, like 10x, 100x more over time.
33:14Your life is being destroyed by Democrats. And the nothing is happening doomers that are constantly attacking this president, constantly, every single day, you see them on X. It's nothing but whining. And I'm not talking about policy objections. There are even allies that don't like specific. That's fine. I'm talking about the everyday, just tidal wave of this sucks, that sucks. Where you're saying to yourself, is this really genuine or is this person trying to demoralize people? The answer is probably the latter. You see it all the time. This guy, you know what is Nick Fritas? He's great. I really enjoy his Twitter account.
33:51You should follow him. He's had some really great thoughts on this about the doomers and grifters. I saw this the other day and I'm like, this guy nailed it. He's at at Nick, N-I-C-K-J, Freetas, F-R-E-I-T-A-S for those listening on audio. Please give him a follow. He said, I've noticed that the most demoralized, quote, right-wing influencers are the ones that have done the least amount of actual work fighting for the things they claim to love. I guess it's easier to give up on that which you've given so little to defend. Yes, sir. These people didn't do anything. They didn't give up their jobs to go in the administration.
34:28Most of them didn't knock on any doors. They didn't run for us. They've done nothing. All they do is sit and throw popcorn. Sideline Stanley. That's all they do. So then when we put out actual things that are happening, just like I told you, as I said in the post when I was in the FBI, that went viral, this thing is a properly predicated investigation that's going on. I'm sorry it's not on everyone's timeline. That's not the way this works. It's not a convenient or cute answer, but it's the right one. You want things done the right way. You want things done the fast way. Because many times, those are not the same thing.
35:03Sometimes they can be the same thing. Sometimes they're not. When you see results like this, and then you see the nothing is happening crowd, I want you to understand it is all in op to get you to be demoralized, to not show up, to hand power to people like Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan. Put up Cash's tweet, if you would. Again, how does this not matter to you? I don't understand like how these this is President Trump is this guy. When I'm telling you, we got into office. I was there. I saw it. He is absolutely adamant in crushing crime in this country. Folks, he doesn't care about the polls. A lot of these high crime cities you see in this tweet by Cash.
35:44I hope you're reading along. I'll get to it in a second. A lot of these high crime cities. There's almost no Republicans to speak of at all. Newark, Baltimore County. Boston, Washington, D.C. The proportion of Republicans in these cities and these localities are zippo, nothing. Yet look at this tweet by Cash. Homicides are down 17.2 % across many of America's largest cities in the first half of 2026. Thanks to President Trump letting us do our jobs. Look at these drops, folks. 64 % newer. 60 % Baltimore County. We installed the new SAC up there. He's cleaning up up there, too. And the other guy's doing a good job, too.
36:30Now, Rapid Response 47 put this up, too, on their account. Folks, the president doesn't care if this polls well. He cares about you not dying. Crime data analyst Jeff Asher. The 2026 U.S. murder rate would be by far the lowest ever recorded. What do you mean nothing? What are you talking about? The president deserves no credit for this? ever recorded ever i want to show i'm going to tell you what we did in a second but look at these there's actual charts look you can look there's pictures for the liberals this kind of stuff it it makes me like really laugh right because it's president trump and his leadership and i'm going to tell you exactly what happened because i want to be clear if i'm going to ask people to produce spreadsheets and results i should do it too correct everyone in the chat agree i get no pass well dan what if it was just luck you and cash and the president were sitting in there and a lot of people just woke up maybe jasmine he just decided not to kill people one day right maybe it's just luck i'm going to tell you exactly what we did to put meat on the bone because the president let us do it now you would think the washington post the washington post justin where's the washington post he scratched his head he said i think washington So there's a place, state of D.C., good.
37:54So there's a District of Columbia. The Washington Post has a big presence in Washington, D.C. I mean, it's actually called the Washington Post. If you had the most significant crime reduction in U.S. history happening like that under the leadership of President Trump, you would think if you were a reporter like Michael Schmidt, who thinks there's a pee-pee hoax or whatever, you would think you would call the people in charge maybe todd cash me the president susie and say hey guys can you explain this no it's not that simple no it's not that simple what do we mean by it's not that simple that's a good one here is an actual headline by what is that four morons at the washington post i know they got an army on the byline ben karnak Karnak like the Johnny Karnak John D.
38:44Harden uses his middle Juan Ben Jr. and Jasmine Golden not our Jasmine and apparently a very dumb Jasmine at the Washington Post they're really confused about this they could have called and asked they said a year after the Washington D.C. takeover Trump says crime has plummeted it's not that simple no it is that simple it is that Justin how do we know if there's a homicide or not
39:12Justin's like hey it's not that simple you go like this here my elbows don't bend but imagine I'm like feeling my pulse there's no pulse he's dead how is he dead Justin's like he's got a hole in his chest it looks like he was shot and that guy said someone shot him it's not Justin's like Dan it's not that simple bro stop being an asshole it's not that bullet hole chest camera is so is shooting. The guy's dead. The medical examiner confirms they put a mirror under his nose. Looks like he's not breathing. We're pretty sure he's dead. How do you know he's not dead? Because you show up at the same corner and there's not a fucking dead guy sitting there.
39:51There's nobody dead. It's just the bodega or the deli. There's no dead guy. You'd think people would know. Hey, there's a fucking dead guy on the corner. Watch the boat. It's not that simple. It is that simple. Dipshits. You could have called the Trump administration and asked, hey, how is it that homicide rates have plunged so dramatically in crime rates? Well, I'm going to help you out. Jasmine Golden and the other Karnak, the musician or magician, whatever. I'm going to laserize. I know. I'm sorry. I'm in a mood today. Even with hyperdrive meltdown. You know, I can never let stuff go. Even though they tell you the business stopped.
40:32No, I can't. I'm sorry. That's why the show is different. I know you almost should I know you should leave like a little chunk of it in there So right now So for those of you listening I don't know we had a meltdown so we do have to cut it out But whatever So for the live people you get it First We took a thousand agents Out of FBI headquarters Not two, not ten, a thousand Many of them were doing Administrative paper pushing jobs And we said hey man We took analysts too I think it'd be a better idea if you went out in the field and started to arrest bad guys. Dude, is that a, Justin's like, that's a crazy idea.
41:12It's so crazy. No one else did it before we got in there. You know who signed off on it? Yes, President Trump. Because he was like, that sounds pretty common sense to me. If it was so common sense, why didn't the Washington Post bother to ask? a thousand agents sent out into the field to go and actually arrest bad guys not like donald trump family members that's it dan no that's not even close to it the fbi was really restricted on how they could assist local law enforcement on state crimes where there was maybe not an immediate federal nexus but there could be it's a fancy way of saying the fbi they couldn't really help in a lot of cases we rewrote the manual within guidelines because i thought it was overly restrictive and allowed fbi agents to go and use agents and and our technology tools for for tracking and surveillance tools these local police departments many didn't have they were now for the first time allowed to go out and do it and you know what we did we put together a list a list of high priority areas and flooded people out of headquarters, plus stop offices like in Memphis and elsewhere, and basically went to the locals and said, I kid you not, folks, I was in these meetings and a lot of congressmen and senators were there too.
42:36So don't tell me it didn't happen, especially in Tennessee. The senators won't say anything because they were Republicans and they were in on it. They were in it. We sat in a room and said, give us a list of your 200 worst bad guys. Why? Because when I worked in the NYPD under Rudy Giuliani, we figured out that a very small number of bad guys does the overwhelming proportion of violent crime engages in it. If you take 500 violent dirtbags off the street, the crime rate doesn't plunge by one or two percent. In many cases, it plunges by 50 and 60 percent like you're seeing. Because how many criminals do you know?
43:13The answer is a lot of you don't know any. Some of you grew up with a kid that broke bad, but I can guarantee you in the chat, less than 5 % of the chat knows anyone convicted of a murder, probably less, because it doesn't happen often. That sounds like common sense, Dan. It wasn't. The FBI was busy investigating Donald Trump. So we reform the whole use of what they call UFAP warrants. This is really important. It's a story no one in the Washington Post will tell you because they don't care. It's not that simple. unlawful flight to avoid prosecution enabled us to go and interact with locals i'll tell you another thing we did we stopped obsessing over who got the credit is it a federal arrest local you know what i told the sacs in my calls with them i don't give a shit as long as the bad guys in a prison i don't care who gets the credit isn't that what matters media's like you guys are taking credit for state arrest that's the point we're helping the state go lock people up poor baggers.
44:14Do you idiots miss this?
44:19Finally, President Trump's decision to use Title 8 to get illegals out of the country in mass, in massive deportations that, yes, are still happening. Look at the numbers. Don't buy the rhetoric. Got so many criminals out of the country in an unprecedented move, it changed the entire crime landscape in some cities. Don't tell me what didn't happen. I was there. These people are just full of shit. And the Washington Post, I don't know, it's not that simple. It really is, jerkwads. Then you got this other piece he just put up on the screen, Financial Times, nothing is happening, doomers. There's no reforms, nothing's happening.
45:00The deep states don't, really, it is? Then how come the Financial Times is complaining about us draining the deep state? Both stories can't be true, correct? Donald Trump is dismantling U.S. guardrails, warns former security officials. They're upset that people who had politicized and acted unethically in their jobs have been removed at the FBI and the CIA and elsewhere. They're pissed off about it. I don't understand, like, which story is true. Nothing is happening. There's been no reforms. Or the Financial Times and the left-wing media complaining about all the reforms. Which story? You think Donald Trump got into office a second time and started dicking around?
45:42this is why the exhausting i i can't encourage you enough on your social media just mute it in your brain man when you're seeing all the dooming and grifting just mute it man it is only an operation to get you to not vote i'm telling you it's the sideline stanley's out there. They'll never run. They'll never put their name on a ballot. They'll never ask for a position where they can go. They won't do any of that stuff. They just want to complain. Folks, the truth matters here, right? We are fighting a really almost in at least this modern era, unprecedented effort by socialists and commies to hijack a party in record time.
46:28The socialists have been around forever. Let's be clear. But the establishment Democrats have usually had a better lid on them. I'm going to talk with Vince about this in a few minutes. You know, we have Joe Biden as president because Bernie Sanders would have been the Democrat nominee if Jim Clyburn and other establishment Democrats hadn't stopped Bernie by shutting him down in South Carolina, where they thought black voters in South Carolina would vote for Biden more than they would for Bernie. They shut him down. The establishment Democrats, I'm telling you, have lost all control now. Ben Shapiro's got a really good post up today.
47:02Like, don't take from Wisconsin last night Like the establishment Democrats Have won, they're back in control They are not They are not in control at all Socialists have completely hijacked and taken over the party It's where the money is, it's where the energy is We are against fighting right now Against an unprecedented political opponent And people on Folex MAGA Are faking it on our side Are trying to destroy our movement So we lose to these idiots Because they have the same goal To destroy the country They do, they have the exact same goal Truth matters, folks. You cannot build a movement built on lies.
47:37And one of the, I said to Jasmine this morning, this clip is so important. How I missed this, I don't know. I was scrolling around next yesterday and I came across Jesse Arm, who was on CNN, who did an amazing job. He's debating this liberal, this Keith Boykin. And this is really a super important clip here. Jesse Arm asked the critical question you should ask of any liberal. and I'll tell you why it matters in a second. Don't gaff this off. Is objectivity, in other words, just truth, inviolable truth, right? Objective truth. Is objectivity white privilege? Watch the answer. If you understand this, you'll understand what we're up against.
48:18Check this out. Smithsonian was promoting document to be upheld around that time period, 2020, 2021, whatever it may have been, suggested that objectivity was a tool of white supremacy. I think we can all agree that that is facially ridiculous. You can't. You think objectivity is a tool of white supremacy? I'm not going to interrupt you. I just want to say you presumed things that were not true. Do you believe that objectivity is a tool of white supremacy? Well, you said we can all agree on something. I'm just saying we don't all agree. Can we all agree that objectivity is a tool of white supremacy?
48:47No, we can't, because that requires a longer discussion we're going to have in the six minutes we have left. So I posed the question to you. I don't want to talk about that. I just don't want you to make assumptions. But you interrupted me to make that point. Because you made an assumption about me that's not true. So just continue on. No, I'd like to know. I don't want to talk about it. I want you to continue. Hold on. You interrupt me, so I'm giving you the opportunity to weigh in. I've never met, I don't think, Jesse Arm, but Jesse, amazing, amazing job. Enormous capital H slash T for hat tip.
49:14He understands something you need to understand, too. We don't even need to get into like a big, long, eloquent explanation. Democrats do not believe in rules. Rules would be what would be called an objective truth, like, you know, thou shall not kill, whatever it may be. Because Democrats don't believe that because Democrats need to kill. Come on, Dan. No, the modern socialist wing of the Democrat Party, believe me, subscribes to the same ideology Stalin did, Mao, that wiped out hundreds of millions of people. That's not debatable. That's just a fact. You're either dead or you're not. They wiped out hundreds of millions of people.
49:56you can't have an objective truth. That's why the Democrats hate faith and they hate family because they're a source of objective truth. Family values, inviolable rules over time, which dads have handed down to daughters and sons. Church teachings like don't steal from your neighbor. The Democrats want you to steal if stealing works. That's not true. Remember the George Floyd riots? You guys remember the theft? They're like, they're just stealing necessities. Some 300-pound lady walks out of the store with like a Rolex. That's not a necessity. List. You had a 55-inch flat screen. Exactly.
50:37Objective rules. Pen them in. Democrats, socialists don't care about any rules. So therefore, any rule is going to be classified as white supremacy. That clip is super important. Hot tip, Jesse, for doing it. I'm going to show you what I mean. It's why they constantly run away from their own records, too. They don't believe in anything but power. And if you have to be exterminated or wiped out or jailed to get there, they'll get there. Put up that Kaczynski thing. This guy, Andrew Kaczynski, does plagiarism-like research and stuff at K-File. I think he works for CNN, but I'm not really sure. He says, Before launching his campaign, Al-Sayed removed 100-plus YouTube videos from his 2024 through 2022-2024 account.
51:23Transcripts show him floating Replacing the second amendment Urging an end to July 4th fireworks Blasting GOP's focus on the border His campaign says They don't reflect his beliefs today That's so weird Anyone in the chat change your beliefs Before President Trump got elected again Anyone? I guarantee you Anyone in the chat? You believe in the second amendment Prosperity inducing tax cuts Right? You believe in it Nothing's changed, right? Why do they change their minds on everything the minute they win an election? The answer is because they don't believe in anything but power. They will flip you the double battle mill finger and lie to you.
52:00Objective truths, values, rules, and principles are all white supremacy to them. Folks, they're like freaking chameleons. They're just bullshitting you. And I'm glad that UAW worker who's just figuring out that Medicare for all, i.e. shitty government health care is going to steal your Cadillac plan you bargained for. Where did you think this was coming from? It's coming from your pocket and you're going to pay for it too. The beatings will continue until morale improves. That's also why you get these shapeshifters and chameleons on the Democrat side who will never stick to any rule because they need to break them to put you in prison.
52:41That's why you get people like Jasmine Crockett in one of my favorite segments, if I'm overdoing this, let me know, but I can't get enough of it. I asked the guys yesterday, I said, you got to put together another Voices of Day. I can't. Listen to this one. First of all, it's good to see you in the new year. You know, no one could have told me that when I went down to Austin, now it looks like a little bit over a year ago, that I would be running for Congress. meeting kids allegedly let me put the allegedly on there y 'all i mean like there's a lot going on like putting water on his he was doing a lot i'm just saying like there's a there's a lot of nonsense that's popping off okay uh voices of dude why do they do that the answer is because they will never stick to any rule or principle or character projection or speaking stuff.
53:42They will change on a dime to get you to believe stupid shit so they can take away your health care, put you in jail or do whatever they need to do to you to enhance their power position. Am I doing enough? Folks, is this too much? Yes or no? I can't get enough of these voices at them because it's everywhere. Once you notice it, you can't like unnotice it, you know? I guess I'm, I know that is, that's a good one. I saw it yesterday. The mom, Donnie won too. Exactly. Thank you. Everyone in the chat seems to agree. Motley's in the chat. Justin Pearson won pretty good too, I got to tell you. The AOC, when she's doing the Southern accent, I don't know, that's up there too.
54:28The AOC won, that was hilarious. Like all of a sudden she's going to be, AOC is going to be singing Dixieland Delight at the Iron Ball. Freaking hilarious. Get lost. Here, I want to make my point too. These guys spent a lot of time, and this is really funny coming up. I'm going to play this first. There's an interview with Hannity the other night from this guy down. I think he's in the Boca Raton area of Florida where I live. This guy, Oliver Larkin, who's like a socialist. The guy's a clown. But I love Fox for putting these people on. because every time they go on the air, they always expose how stupid they are.
55:05So I have this segment coming up and we're calling it Dems...
55:15Dems pretending not to know shit. We blank like that shit out, but I just said it. Watch this guy. He's asked a very simple question by Hannity. And it goes back to my point Jesse Arm made. The Democrats will never give you a rule, a principle, a number, some law because they can't have any restrictions on them obtaining power. This dude is asked a simple question by Hannity. You want to hike taxes on these people, just give us a number. I mean, you're running for office. You should have a number in your head. He deliberately pretends like not to have the number because his number is everything.
55:48And he just doesn't want to say it because the rule would pen him in. Check this out. Somebody making 100 grand a year. How much of every dollar should they be able to keep? I think that the tax rate on most middle class Americans and Oliver, it's not how much out of every dollar should they be able to keep? 100 grand. No, 100 grand. How much of every dollar should they be able to keep? It's a simple question. How much are you willing to let the government take? How much? Give us a number. I want to see a return on our taxpayer investment. We pay in Medicare, yet we don't get to benefit from Medicare for all.
56:28If this card makes 100 grand a year, how much of every dollar should they keep? I'm not interested in changing the tax rate on middle class Americans on people making 100 grand. I want to raise taxes. Give me a number. How much out of every dollar should they keep? It's not that simple. It's not that simple. You're the one that wants, you know, cradle to grave, wolf to the tomb. They should be getting out what they put into the system. Folks, this is deliberate. this guy, Ali Larkin, whatever his name is, he knows exactly what he's doing. He's pretending not to know something. The number is everything.
57:06They want to take it, but they can't tell you that. So they can't put a rule or a number in place that would pen them in. He could have said anything. He could have said, I want 75%. But he didn't say that by choice because it's not 75 % of your wealth. It's all of it. they don't want an objective truth out there they want to subjectively treat everybody different depending on if you help them or get in their way that's why they do this now i have not seen this but i came in yesterday haley's show was still live i didn't even i thought they were recording something i walk in i'm like volaganguing around i'm like this is live so you didn't see me on a camera because i did like a little ninja move but i come into the thing like an old decrepit ninja more like it.
57:51I'm like, I don't exactly move smoothly. But I'm like, guys, we got to put this together for me because I just watched this clip. I'm like, I'm really tired of Democrats and socialists pretending not to know shit when they in fact know exactly what they want to say and they just lie about it. I say, can you put together a segment? So I've not seen this yet on Dems pretending not to know shit. Check this out.
58:18Wow. If my daughter is assaulted and raped, is there any agency that would seek to find her assailant? What would it be if not police and where would he be if not a jail? So, I guess I really want to avoid getting kind of caught into these hypotheticals. Do you believe Americans are better off than they were four years ago? So, I was raised as a middle class kid. Another co-founder that you guys have admitted that you're using the infrastructure of the party has set up for ballot access. You're not actually Democrats. You're using the process that's already in place to gain power. Well, we would ask everybody, including voters of the Democratic Party, of what are Democrats?
59:00Any questions on the subject for our colleagues? Anybody? Okay. Well, that's it. Hearing no other questions, thank you all so much for coming. They're already paying 34%. No, I think that if you deal with the quality of their lives.
59:16Dan Bongino:My question was, how do you plan to work with these folks if they win their seats, which they are expected to do? They're in deep blue districts, but they've opposed the people that you supported. So how do you plan to work with them? Well, I plan to continue to support every single House Democratic incumbent. Do you think that socialism is a winning brand for Democrats across the country? I think first and foremost, I go back to the days of Chip O 'Neill. All politics are low. Hassan Piker, who obviously endorsed Abdul Syed. He's somebody who said, you know, that America deserved 9-11. Is he somebody that should have a role in the progressive movement going forward?
59:54Dan Bongino:You know, I think when we look at our elections that have happened. Well, that's it. Here ain't no other questions.
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1:01:27My big concern is civil liberties. We worked on that a lot. We did a number of things, you know, Pfizer reforms, guardrails at the bureau. I mean, someone else can shake them up. But, you know, we fired a bunch of people who didn't have the same thought process, you know, on following the Constitution that we did. But technology to find you if you're a bad guy, DNA technology is getting so advanced with AI. why i'm going to tell you in the future it's going to be really really hard to commit a serious crime and get away with it like why are you bringing this up because i saw this fascinating piece in this uh outlet what is it mercury that crime writers like fiction novelists who are writing these crime stories they they can't they don't know how to write these books anymore and tell these stories because it's impossible to get away with a murder when cameras are everywhere The reason I bring up our friends and neighbors, you ever seen it, Justin?
1:02:22Like, they have to incorporate into the story this little tool that shuts down the Wi-Fi and the cameras because nobody's going to believe it. And then there's this one scene, I want to spoil, a guy breaks in the house or whatever. He's running down the street because an alarm made it and account for it went off. And I'm thinking like, dude, really? You know there's a thousand ring cameras catching him here too. Like, it's impossible to believe. No one's going to be able to write crime dramas. Here's what's going to happen. Everything is going to be set in the 80s. The 80s and the 90s are going to become iconic.
1:02:52It's going to be the halcyon days because everyone is going to have, that's before ubiquitous technical surveillance, UTS, we call it in the FBI. You're not going to be able to write a freaking story set in 2025, 2026 or later anymore. I think about that all the time. Every time I watch a movie, I'm like, that's BS. A thousand ring cameras would have caught it. He left trillions of DNA particles all over the place. we have a winner too don't we right you know about our contest if you don't it's really easy join the live chat every single day that's all you got to do 10 a.m 10 a.m eastern time rumble.com slash uh Bongino or just download the rumble app and we pick a comment of the day once a week we pick a winner who gets one thousand seven hundred and seventy six dollars if you want to see the official rules go to Bongino.com slash 1776 should we do the winner or the comment of the day first I guess we're going to do a comment today.
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1:06:07welcoming back to the show for his bi-weekly appearance the king of morning podcasting 8 a.m eastern time every single day on rumble at rumble.com slash vince one of the biggest live stream audiences in the country certainly uh at that time vince colonnades vince welcome back to the show good to talk you thank you brother good to see you man always good to chat with you, man. You know, I think you being in the D.C. ecosystem and you're on one of the most prominent radio stations in the country and WMAL. For those who don't know, WMAL is the big talk radio station in Washington, D.C. They dominate the market.
1:06:42There really aren't a lot of natural competitors there, which isn't the case all over the country. Why am I telling you that? Because when you're on that station, you're really like talking to lawmakers. So it punches way above But I think that gives you also, Vince, because a lot of these lawmakers I know contact you and want to be on the show because it's in the D.C. market. You have a pretty good feel for kind of like when you're sniffing out some media bullshit. And I noticed yesterday you put up a post on X about the Secret Service story and President Trump and the catering truck in Turkey that I had addressed yesterday and on today's show.
1:07:16And I think you kind of nailed it. Like media people, this story is not about you, man. And you don't have to be there to cover the president. It's optional. You don't like the danger. Go home. That's right.
1:07:30Dan Bongino:No, I, you know, I, as I was looking at the story, I was thinking, you know, if I had the opportunity to go on a trip like this, I know you've been on many trips like, like this with, with presidents of the United States and no doubt in the process that, you know, you got Paula one, hoping that you're, you're safe and that you're okay. These types of things. You know, if, if I told my wife, like, Hey, I'm going on a reporting trip. the White House said that I'd be able to go to Turkey. I guarantee you the first thing my wife would say is like, do you have to go? Could you stay here? I want you to be safe.
1:07:59Dan Bongino:In other words, like everyone who's involved in this would know the risk. Everybody. Like, it's not like some mystery. Like the idea that there's an assassination attempt on President Trump is also not a mystery. The media just survived one, Dan. There was an attempt at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. It's not like it's brand new information. And so when you get a story that says, oh, people are trying to kill President Trump. Duh. We've all been watching it over and over and over again. But this idea that the media is presenting that, oh, like we had no idea. Oh, President Trump almost got us killed.
1:08:31Dan Bongino:We were sitting ducks, sitting ducks. You're sitting on an Air Force jet protected by the United States military and the Secret Service. You are inside of a very heavily fortified protected area to the extent that they can protect anybody. The fact that they established even an even more intensive mode of protection for the president of the United States is a sign of the Secret Service doing the right thing. It's not a story about you being the victim, you morons. And it's just the egos, Vince. It's just I mean, it's so repulsive to listen to them again, make a story about themselves. And just one more angle on this.
1:09:11I was going to move on, but I just a story just fascinates me so much, not just given my background, but given my time I'm dealing with the media. You and I deal with media people a lot, a lot of really good folks, a lot. However, would you agree with me? Like you've had other jobs too. There's probably not as a percentage of egomaniacs in a space, a field with bigger egomaniacs than media. I would even say larger than like Hollywood and musicians. I swear to you, like the media people out there, when their egos are so out of control that their argument now is like, well, we should have been read in on the security procedures and how dare you keep this secret from us when the same media leaked the story about potential security issues on the trip.
1:09:56Are you guys for real? You want to pull whatever hair you have left out of your head?
1:10:01Dan Bongino:Well, this is why Trust in Media has reached rock bottom, because the point of the media enterprise as enshrined in the First Amendment is to speak truth to power, is to provide a check on the government's abuse of power. And unfortunately, a lot of modern day journalists have turned this into a gigantic narcissistic exercise. They get access to a camera and a microphone and Twitter, and then they decide that this is a story about me and how do I become rich and famous? And, you know, the truth is you can become rich and famous if you do it the good old fashioned way. Like just deliver news and information to people, actually deliver what they're seeking.
1:10:36Dan Bongino:But instead, a lot of these guys are just delivering sort of this like drooling sort of navel gazing garbage. and that's why people don't trust the media anymore. Are there good people out there? Yeah, I just had Matt Miller on my podcast this morning. A guy is reporting on the inner workings of communism and the DSA. He's doing great stuff, but he's doing it the old-fashioned way, which is he's going in there, he's doing the hard work, and he's exposing the truth. That's what these people should be doing. Yeah, I mean, the formula is not hard, and you're correct. You know, when 80 % of the public just doesn't trust you to get out the facts and your actual job is just to relay facts so people can form an opinion.
1:11:13I'd say that's a definition of you failed and like the hashtag you only had one job and you kind of blew it. So moving on last night, big electoral shakeup. I mean, I think there's two big stories here about the Wisconsin primary. Francesca Hong, obviously a socialist, self-described in many cases, socialist. She loses in a huge upset if you believe the polls. She was up by double digits in many polls. loses to Crowley. But I don't want people to forget that Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan was also up huge in the polls and barely got through his primary for the Senate race in Michigan, him being a devout kind of socialist, although he hides it maybe a little better, more of an Islamo nut based on his rhetoric.
1:11:59But the polls, I mean, they've been a problem for years. Now you're starting to see like on the Democrat polls for Donald Trump, everybody always threw him in the garbage. No one ever believed him. But now you're even seeing a problem on the Dem side with this. Is it a cell phone issue? Is it they're just not knocking on enough doors? Are people not answering landlines? Is it a skewed sample set? I mean, is it all of it? What are your thoughts?
1:12:24Dan Bongino:I think it's a combination of all of these factors on the polling thing. If you talk to pollsters who do this job for real, who are sincere people trying to gather data, It's become more and more difficult through the years to actually poll people. And the reason for that is, I don't know, you ever get a call on your cell phone number, don't recognize the number? You're like, there's no way I'm answering that. There's no way I'm answering that. And nobody answers it. In fact, your phone probably flags it as spam these days. So people just don't answer these calls. And so the ability to get somebody on the phone to assess their actual views, it's difficult.
1:12:52Dan Bongino:And the most enthusiastic lunatics tend to be the socialists who will get on the phone and start screaming about how much they love the socialist candidate. So you're right. There is some of that is going to be just it's very hard to pull this. And in fact, in Wisconsin, this Francesca Hong, she was up by over 20 points in every survey. It wasn't just one survey. This is not like some sort of like, you know, this is a weird one. All of them. She was up 20, 25 points. It was crazy. That's why last night's result comes as such a staggering sort of like reversal of what everybody expected based on that survey data.
1:13:25Dan Bongino:But here's the thing I'm taking away from this, Dan. I think one of two things is going on here. Either one, the polls were catastrophically wrong, which could be the explanation, or two, that the establishment Democrats employed their usual election shenanigans to try and stop a candidate that they didn't have control over. I think that it is a massive problem, and it should be a massive problem to everybody, that in Milwaukee County last night, where, by the way, the county executive of that county just won the race. He's the guy. They had all sorts of problems with five USB drives in the middle of the night.
1:14:00Dan Bongino:They couldn't count the votes. They couldn't download them. Steve Karnacki was on NBC News looking like a complete idiot, just staring at the screen, being like, I have no idea what's going on. And I keep saying we need election integrity. There should be no circumstance where people are suspicious of elections like this. And the thing I'm looking forward to right now, Dan, is what happens over the next 24 hours. Does AOC and company, did they finally start coming out going, I kind of think we need the Save America Act. Something weird is going on in Wisconsin. Yeah, something very weird is going on in Wisconsin.
1:14:31Dan Bongino:Either the polls suck or elections just rigged in another election. Democrats rigged another election. And neither scenario is good. I'm pretty sure you and I have actually discussed this before, how that whole like Michael Anton theory that, you know, until you are personally invested and you experience pain, I'm not talking physical pain, but the pain of loss in an election, emotional, mental pain, until you're personally invested, nothing is going to change. And I'm pretty sure we chatted about this, how this SAVE Act eventually voter fraud, potential voter fraud or suspicion of voter fraud, which I would argue does the same damage.
1:15:09People just don't trust it. The suspicion alone is enough. Oh, missing hard drives, whatever. It could be totally innocent. That's not the point. The point is people don't trust the result. We've said like this is going to eventually affect you. And I think that's a brilliant point. Like, at what point did Bernie Sanders and AOC go, hey, we demand a recount. We think it was stolen. Then all of a sudden you'll see stuff change.
1:15:31Dan Bongino:Well, Bernie's weak. Bernie's pathetic. That guy, he comes out, he talks a big game about socialism and how he loves it and all this stuff. But in the end, really, the guy's a freaking pushover. Because in 16 and 20, the Democrats did rig the race against him in both cases. And he still sucks up to them. And he'll adopt their talking points. He used to be for borders. Now he's against them. Now he's for amnesty for illegal aliens. That guy sucks. He doesn't even on his own, even judging him based on his own principles. He's he's just garbage. He's a coward. And so remember when they locked him out in South Carolina, Clyburn, and they tried to get Biden in.
1:16:08I mean, they screwed him. That's what I always laugh with these socialists like, yeah, we're going to run with the Democrats. They'll eventually become our buddies. They screwed you over, too, man. The Republicans didn't screw you over with Bernie, the Democrats did. They locked him out.
1:16:21Dan Bongino:And like, look, I think part of this is that the Democrat Socialists of America people, the DSA people, I think they're trying to play a bit of a long game here. They really since their founding their their whole mission was to take over the Democrat Party. So this has been a decades long process. We are seeing some of the fruits of it right now. They've they've made a tremendous amount of ground in terms of capturing that party and its power. but but man I tell you that the reality of course is like that party is just eating itself that revolution is very much inside of that party right now well that you again teed me up perfectly my next question was going to be about you know voter turnout this is always an argument on the republican side it's an argument for any major political party there's always going to be intra-party schisms not everybody's an automaton NPC but the democrats have always said oh look you Tea Party guys are always fighting with old school Republicans and MAGA people versus Libertarian as if like we're all a bunch of, again, robots or something like that.
1:17:19And we're not. We just have different opinions. But generally, Republicans will show up and come home around elections. I'm not always, but they will. I mean, Donald Trump, you know, winning multiple times is pretty much, I think, evidence of that in the national level. We've done pretty well in the Senate. We have the House, despite having the media, academia and all of them We still win. We don't win all the time. But now I think we can turn that same question around to the Democrats. The socialists, Vince, are crazy. The Tea Party folks were not. They were very rational. We're going bankrupt.
1:17:49Stop spending money. Nothing they said was crazy. The stuff these people are talking about, abolish the Senate, abolish the presidency, abolish ICE, defund the military is suicidal by definition. Do those crazy, illogical people actually show up for the Dems with Crowley now in Wisconsin and with other candidates that have that have beaten in rare cases socialists? The answer is I don't I don't think so.
1:18:16Dan Bongino:Well, we'll see. Here's the here's the thing that stands out to me, Dan. You're right about the reinvention of the parties. There's oftentimes some sort of equivalency made about like, oh, well, the DSA is taking over the Democrats the way the Tea Party took over the Republican Party, the way Trump has taken over the Republican Party. It's kind of – there's a mixed bag actually with that assessment. One, it's kind of true that basically somebody with a different ideology is beginning to dominate within a party that didn't have that ideology. That's true. But it is possible for somebody like President Trump to come in and make the party better.
1:18:52Dan Bongino:And it is also possible for the socialists to come in and make the Democrats worse. And both of those things are definitely happening. And as Trump in particular and Trump voters have reinvented American politics, one of the realities now is that the low propensity voters are on our side, Dan. The working guy, the guy whose life is consumed with trying to figure out how to feed his family and less consumed with the day to day of American politics. He's on our side. You know, Trump, President Trump has non-college educated voters on his side. The El-Sayed just won because he got the people who went to college and had their heads filled with all sorts of left wing propaganda.
1:19:30Dan Bongino:and went into on average$43 ,000 in debt a person, they're now all completely bitter over the fact that they don't have any marketable skills. They're in massive amounts of debt, and they're looking to use the government as a means to get their get back. That's what's happening. It's not a fight for the working class. It's a fight for overeducated propagandists who are virtue signaling on the backs of the working class as these communists always do. If you really were fighting for the working class, you wouldn't kick the borders open. You would fight for American workers. But that's not what they're doing at all.
1:20:03Dan Bongino:They're kicking the borders open, screwing over American workers and pretending like it's a working class revolution. And so there's a lot. I'm sorry. I mean, there's so much in what you said. I just don't want to miss one point you make because it's really important. I want the audience to kind of get a brain tattoo over it. The shift in this. There's no question initiated by President Trump from an old, stodgy bow tie wearing Republican Party to a working class Republican Party of people who use their hands and their brains for who add value and change the world, carpenters, electricians, you know, tin knockers, steam fitters, union workers.
1:20:40He did that. There's no question about it. There's no question about it. Like he definitely transferred, which is ironic because a real estate billionaire was the one who finally got it and like had his finger on the pulse of working class America because he's in the buildings with a hard hat dealing with electricians every day who are like, hey, Mr. Trump, that's why he was dealing with in New York City. Vince, I saw it. Sorry to be long with this setup, but this is really important. I saw it in New York City. I grew up in New York City when Donald Trump was the guy. He was dealing with unions with the city.
1:21:10He was dealing with mobsters trying to shake people down. Like he had to learn to talk the language of the people. I bring that up because having the working class as your base, low propensity voters that can show up and swing an election, they're not going to be the middle class anymore, Vince. You're seeing these cloud compute centers where electricians are making $250 ,000 a year. HVAC guys going forward who have a small business that now use AI to take a picture of a unit, oh, look, that's this. We're going to fly a drone. And he's going to be able to charge like half as much because he's out of there and to blow up his business just using AI.
1:21:51They're going to be millionaires. And a lot of these women's studies, basket weaving, you know, 19th century urban studies majors who have no freaking skills at all are going to have no place in this economy. They're going to be overeducated idiots. they're going to be the ones beneath the income scale to the valuable dirt under the fingernails using your brain manual laborers who are now our base not theirs yes and that's why i mean if you
1:22:18Dan Bongino:think about what is what is happening in america democrats have orchestrated all of this i mean in terms of uh the destruction of that class of person like they told people they said just go to college just go to college you'll be guaranteed a job nobody's guaranteed a job you gotta work your ass off. It doesn't matter if you have a degree or not. You got to work. You actually have to work in order to succeed. That's the way it works in America. It's one of the great promises of America. You can do it under your own volition, under your own power. It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from.
1:22:46Dan Bongino:And yet they basically told all these people, just go to college. You'll be fine. You'll get guaranteed income. They go to college. They get their heads filled with nothing but nonsense. They end up with massive amounts of debt. They get out of school. And now they're bitter. They're full of all this resentment that they were sold a bill of goods, and they've been trained to hate capitalism in the process, that toxic stew results in a bunch of people who are now virtue signaling about how much they love the average person, the working man, and yet they're just basically trying to steal from the rest of us in order to make up for their terrible decisions.
1:23:19Dan Bongino:And that's just what we're watching. I'm pretty convinced of it. I actually think that they do, I mean, people, a lot of these socialist people, they do have a problem. They're in massive debt. A lot of them are in massive debt, and they have nothing to show for it. And now they're angry about it. And like, I just think the big problem was government funded all of this in the first place. We were underwriting the cost of education. Education has been outpacing inflation for years. You've covered this, Dan. It's like, it's crazy. And for nothing, for no value whatsoever, except for the destruction of America.
1:23:50Dan Bongino:Let's end that nonsense. And the thing that kind of burrows like a tick under my skin is I'm not mad at you because the system, whatever you want to call it, promised you something. Hey, go to college, work hard. Some of them did. Some of them chose, you know, 19th century urban studies or whatever. Maybe they were interested. I don't know. Not every one of them is liberal. A lot of them are in social sciences. But I'm not mad at some. Some kids are just idealists. They're like, oh, I'm going to go change the world and write a thesis about urban studies. And they came out. And now, like you said, they're 200 ,000 in debt.
1:24:24They were offered maybe a$50 ,000 a year job as an assistant somewhere, which 20 years ago, adjusted for inflation, may have been okay. But now, because the government spends all this money, they're hurting. What bothers me about it is not that. What bothers me about it is they don't lift and shift. Like you and I throughout our lives and our multiple careers, some things work out, Vince, some things don't. I've tried experiments with things. I've had books that did really well. I've had books that didn't do really well. I wrote a whole book about flopping and things, decisions I made that didn't work out.
1:24:58Tried to get into medical school. I couldn't get in. I went to business school instead. What bothers me about it is the flexible, gritty people, the folks listening to this show, you, the listeners out there who get it, the working class folks, they've had to adjust. Maybe they had an HVAC business in New York and it didn't work out. So they moved to Florida and focused on air conditioning. And now they're millionaires. Like, that's not what the overeducated, you know, progressive lib wearing the bow tie, lecturing all us about how stupid we are. That's not what they're just sitting back whining and taking out their rage in the election booth.
1:25:32Dan Bongino:Well, yeah. And then they're teaching the youngest generation that there's no such thing as earning success or doing what Dan did in this world. It's not possible that that all fortune is ill gained fortune, that that all land is stolen, that that look around you. We have nothing to be grateful for. It's basically it's a it's a politics of despair. And it's and it's meant to cultivate a power grab. It's meant to get you to surrender all of your agency, because no matter what you do, you're never going to succeed. So just give all your power to the government and we'll make sure your happiness comes from the government.
1:26:11Dan Bongino:And we know what that experiment looks like. We've seen it play out, especially over the last century. Over 100 million people have died due to this ideology, killed by their government. We don't want that here, which is why we're trying so hard to fight back against it. Vince, last question for you. So, you know, one of the things I think that's really going to damage the Democrat brand going forward is not forcefully distancing themselves from this socialist fiasco. It's clownish. I mean, it's buffoonish, but it's also obviously very dangerous. Things like abolish ICE, you know, defund their military, just, again, suicidal by nature.
1:26:44The problem they're going to have, and this ties into what we've been discussing, is as the working class American that makes this country move, you know, everyone from grave diggers to other, I mean, people who just work for a living and use their minds and their hands to create, they see through this stuff. and this insulated academic bubble, a lot of these overeducated, you know, white Karens and, you know, brands and whatever. My name's Dan. People hate that name too. So I get it. It's always the number one name. So I'm with you. I get it. You get the point. It's a joke. Okay. But a lot of these overeducated brands and stuff out there, they live in this bubble where they just talk to each other and really don't get it.
1:27:26The working class folks who used to be like union type Democrats, this is a toxic toxic brand i mean if you can't win in wisconsin when you're up 20 points in the polls which is you know a purple state obviously but still you should be able to you know get the gusto going with all that money and support she had and all the free media if you get smoke like that despite being up 20 points in the polls this should be a harbinger like hey man this is not your
1:27:52Dan Bongino:future you you better make a hard break now yeah and this this needs to be a reminder to republicans that they have a great hand to play. You have a wonderful hand to play, which is like, look, we're not these lunatics. But in the meantime, that's not enough. You can't just say, look how crazy they are. Your obligation is to fulfill the Trump agenda, which is, hey, I'm gonna secure your borders. I'm gonna improve the state of this economy by getting the government out of it. I'm gonna make it unfettered so you can actually succeed in this country. I'm gonna fight for you. The Republicans should be doing that.
1:28:26Dan Bongino:So this is one of the reasons it annoys me so much that the United States Senate's on vacation right now. Now, some of these senators would be like, well, I'm actually home campaigning. OK, yeah, whatever. You know what the best campaign would be if you were actually succeeding. The best campaign is doing stuff. Yeah. So just deliver from me, baby. All I need you to do is deliver the bare minimum. The bare minimum here is the Save America Act. It's so crazy. It's like pulling teeth to get them to secure elections. How many more reminders do you need? We just saw it in Wisconsin. They can't even get the USB drives counted.
1:28:55Dan Bongino:Can you give me some election integrity? Make the case against the Democrats who keep running this country down into the dirt. Yeah, I'm stunned that they didn't do more with that. I really am very disappointed. A lot of good Republican senators that Mike Lee has been busting his ass on it. So I don't like collective guilt because it's not true in this case. But a limited number of people out there, you know, Murkowski and others, just chronic disappointments have just ruined it for the whole brand that it's really sad because it It was such a just a no brainer, almost by definition. I mean, the polls are overwhelming, even Democrats.
1:29:28Vince Colonese, you know him, you love him. If you're not joining him every day at 8 a.m. on the live stream, you can watch him on demand anytime. But the live stream is where it's at. You get to interact with him. You can also call into his radio show 12 to 3 daily on radio stations across the country, including our favorite WMAL. Gave me a start. Love them over there. He's at rumble.com slash Vince. Please check him out. I'll be on his radio show next Wednesday. We trade weeks. Vince, thanks so much for your time. Really appreciate it.
1:29:56Dan Bongino:Dan, always a pleasure, man. Thank you. Got it, buddy. One of my favorites. I always enjoy talking to Vince. His post on that Secret Service thing yesterday on X, you should check it out too because he nailed it. He sent it to me. He goes, what do you think of this? I said, brother, totally 100 % spot on. You can also check out Haley at noonrumble.com slash Haley. Haley Carania, part of the Bongino Report family. And, you know, coming up this Monday, if you haven't yet heard, Sean Farish. We added Sean. He's fantastic. If you want to follow Sean on Rumble, on the iPodcast app on Apple, if you want to follow him on Spotify, go to Bongino.com slash Sean, S-H-A-W-N.
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