Epstein Victims Have Come Forth, The Names Have Not | Episode 118

22:34There's not a list of, hey, here's all of the people that I sent females to. That's just not how that organization worked. Yeah, I mean, this goes back to the point that I made earlier this year when we got all that back and forth from the attorney general about, oh, we're going to release all this information. Oh, there's nothing else to release. Nobody else is going to be prosecuted. That whole sequence of events, which drove me so crazy, again, it goes back to, well, wait a second. The orbit of people around Epstein that facilitated this abuse of women.

23:05Dan Bongino:You're saying nobody in that conspiracy can be prosecuted. all of the people who were involved and operating at the various properties? Like set aside the powerful, influential people that are the subject of most of the theories here. What about just the simple mechanism of the people who were enabling that criminality? Don't you think they should be held to account? And it can't just be Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. It seems too big and too unwieldy for just the two of them. So that is an important point. But there's no list, he says. There's just no list here, except one of the women yesterday stepped up to the microphone and said, we know the names and we will compile a list and we're going to keep it private.

23:51Dan Bongino:Take a look here. Cut for transparency is justice. Release the files and the secrecy and stand with us in declaring that no one, no billionaires, no politicians, not world leaders is above the law.

24:12And let me announce now, several of us F-team survivors have been discussing creating our own list of names.

24:25We know the names.

24:30Many of us were abused by them. Now together as survivors, we will confidentially compile the names we all know we're regularly in the Epstein world. And it will be done by survivors and for survivors.

24:47No one else is involved. Stay tuned for more details on that. Because history is washing and so are the women who will come after us. Thank you.

25:03Dan Bongino:Okay, so they're going to compile a confidential list. I thought the whole point of this was public disclosure. We have to reveal the perpetrators here. Now, we are seeing Thomas Massey is claiming that he wants to get the list from the women and then read it directly into the congressional record so that there is immunity covered by the speech and debate clause so that nobody can be sued for these names being put out there. whatever system needs to be done in order to make those allegations go for it. But we're talking about now two decades later that we'll finally get something like this. I just what I'm disturbed by is how long it's taken, how long it's taken for us to just get this this core thing.

25:46This is really the centerpiece of what people have been looking for for for so long. So all I'm saying is if your spidey senses are tingling like mine, I don't I don't think that's a mistake.

25:57Dan Bongino:I think there's there's much more than meets the eye going on here. I can't say exactly which agendas everything is serving. I do know that the Democrats that are involved here are trying to implicate Trump, and they would like you to hate the president of the United States and to turn against him. And, of course, you just ask the accusers, like, is Trump implicated here? No. Also, one other thing, at least one other thing here. the press conference yesterday that included Thomas Massey and Marjorie Taylor Greene and the victims our friend Sean Farish points this out he screen grabbed this last night and he says look these are Republican lawmakers and they're standing in front of signs that say release the Epstein files hashtag pedo 47 can we pull this up fellas and then behind them, they have another one of Trump holding a little child's hand that says help in balloons.

27:00Dan Bongino:You see this? Yeah. So these Republican lawmakers, you have to be conscious of where you're standing. You're standing in front of signs that declare that Trump is a pedophile. Also further in the back on the right there, you can see GOP, guardians of pedophiles. this you know i i don't have a low regard for everyone involved here i don't have a low regard for marjorie taylor green at all i just i think that they're being sucked into something very stupid they're being used in a way that's designed to hurt the cause that they say they believe in which is the cause of our country that's idiotic that shouldn't be happening so no you shouldn't end up in front of a sign that says donald trump is a pedophile what the hell is going on here so there you go that's uh that's just worth contemplating these are the kinds of things that are you're worth thinking about um as as this moves along don't don't let them don't let them do this to you um okay i've got so much more to get to today uh we'll see what we can get to because um i want to talk a little bit about those terrorists who are trying to bring drugs into the united states that the the trump administration just blew off the map which is um i think well deserves.

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31:26Dan Bongino:Okay, so let's get into kind of just what's going on in Chicago. Let's start there. What what is the state of affairs in that city right now? We just a lot of us were served the horrific Labor Day weekend headlines of, you know, nearly 50 people shot about about 10 or so killed. And that that unfortunately seems to be a typical weekend in Chicago. What's what's going on in your city? You know, despite what the mayor and the governor say about all statistics trending downward, Chicago still has some very violent challenges that it's facing in the neighborhoods. My own ward, my own communities, we had a gentleman just Saturday night who was shot in the head walking down the alley.

32:08Thursday before, two children were gunned down by a Venezuelan migrant, one of them killed. So it really rings hollow to me when I hear people say that all things are well here in the city of Chicago. Chicago is a city made up of 77 neighborhoods, and every one of those 77 neighborhoods, the residents feel the same way, that they are worried that every time that they go to drop their kids off at school, go to work, sit on their porch, go grocery shopping, or even go to church. They have to keep their heads on a swivel. And that is no way for anyone, let alone a Chicagoan, to have to live. So when Donald Trump said he was going to send in the National Guard and other members of the federal government to come support police, to come make Chicago safer, though our Democratic leaders may not want to admit it, everyone in Chicago was happy to hear the news.

32:59So when you talk to people who actually live on the streets in Chicago and they they they know not on the streets, but but they live in Chicago and they deal with all of this crime. Is the message that you hear ever that we don't want law enforcement? You know, there are some individuals who absolutely take that view, who would love to defund the police, whether it's directly or through attrition, who aspire to continue to have that revolving door of justice swinging so that criminals that are arrested are immediately released into the communities again. And what we know is this, is that that's a very small minority of individuals.

33:39While at the same time, there are plenty of Chicagoans who want to feel safe, who love law enforcement, and who think that people should be held accountable for their actions. Sadly, those individuals do not make up the majority of the Democratic elite who are running the city, county, and state.

33:56Dan Bongino:I've noticed that the people who have the most contempt for law enforcement typically live in the safest areas. They're the ones that need law enforcement the least, whereas the people who live in very violent communities are desperate for a change. One of the problems with violent and especially poor communities is if law enforcement is sporadic, if it doesn't serve the people well, if it's hard to get cops there or if people are released by prosecutors or judges too quickly, it disincentivizes calling the cops because then you run into the problem of, oh, now you're a snitch. Now you're you're calling the cops on guys who are going to be back in my community to hurt me within no time.

34:32Dan Bongino:I mean, it does seem like a kind of a hellscape and it exists in Chicago. It is it is a death spiral, to be perfectly honest with you, because as is that scenario continues to unfold that you just described, which is 100 percent accurate. You also have the fact that at some point people stop calling 911 overall. all. And that makes it very easy for leaders like the governor, J.B. Pritzker, and the mayor, Brandon Johnson, to say, well, everything's fine because we're seeing fewer crimes in our city. Well, you're not seeing fewer crimes. You're just seeing fewer crimes reported by the citizens because they don't believe that you're going to protect them, as you pointed out.

35:10Additionally, when you divert all of our police resources to things beyond the scope of the 911 calls that they're supposed to respond to, like protecting tourist attractions. You know, no one calls the 911 because they know their calls are going to go unanswered. Every single day, thousands of 911 calls are going unanswered, which is why so many in law enforcement are excited to have the National Card come and play babysitting duty for those city assets so that they can in turn be reassigned back into the neighborhoods to go after those gangbangers, drug dealers, and human traffickers that we know are very much prevalent in our city.

35:44Dan Bongino:See, you're admitting something that I don't hear other Democrats admit about the role the National Guard plays here. The National Guard would play kind of an administrative and logistical support role in these situations. Also, just the presence of the National Guard is a visual deterrent to crime. If you see military vehicles, you see guys who do have firearms for use in very extreme cases to protect themselves and if they see imminent death. But beyond that, you're pointing out that there's a way to use the National Guard that's entirely appropriate to bring a peace to a city. Well, I'm not trying to gaslight my residents.

36:20I'm not trying to score political points against Donald Trump, and I'm not pinning my reelection or my future presidential ambitions on standing up against this moment. All I'm concerned about is how do I keep people safe? And how do I, if I think that the numbers are trending in the right direction, how do I push them even further lower so that we have fewer victims of violence on the streets of the city of Chicago. Yeah. One would think that is the goal of all of our elected officials to keep people safe, the first order of government to keep people safe. But yet everyone is using this as a time for performative politics, which, quite frankly, is absolutely disgusting to me.

36:58So let me talk about your governor and your mayor, because who you keep bringing up, because it's they're the two chief spokesmen here in opposition to President Trump doing anything to rescue Chicago. And so J.B. Pritzker came out this week and he said, you know what, crime happens all the time in big cities. The real thing we should be focused on is Donald Trump is a problem. That's the thing that he wants everybody to focus on. The mayor of the city, Chicago, Brandon Johnson,

37:21Dan Bongino:who last I checked had a single digit approval rating. He's come out and said that the shootings are gonna continue and the violence is gonna rage until Donald Trump stops trying to send the National Guard in. These are not people who, I'm gonna be frank with you, who should not be in any position of leadership They're not demonstrating any level of care for the people of a great American city. They're just selling them out because they hate Trump. Absolutely. You know, Chicago is the most American of American cities. And to hear, we'll start with our governor, say, go off on this whataboutism tangent is really irrelevant to me.

38:02I don't really care what's going on in Memphis, which has higher statistics than we do. I don't care what's going on in New Orleans and other cities because I was elected to care about the city of Chicago. That was where I took my oath of office. Those are the people that I'm supposed to protect. And same applies to J.B. Pritzker at a grander scale in the state of Illinois. Now, when you look at Brandon Johnson, who basically all but admitted that, you know, there's some connection between the shootings that happened on the streets and the political leaders that are speaking. You know, that's that's the quiet part being said out loud right there in that moment.

38:35And I don't think that was accidental, because what we do know is this, is that those same not-for-profits that they're trying to restore their funding that deal with, quote-unquote, anti-violence, those same government quasi, those non -government organizations that we rely on so heavily that get over$400 million a year, if they have the on and off switch when it comes to the violence and shootings and murders in the city of Chicago, then why are we not looking as to why they don't permanently turn off the spigot? And the answer is simple, because if there's less crime, there's less money that's needed for those organizations, because if you achieve victory, then you don't have to keep paying for the medication.

39:15Well, you're totally right. And also, you know, when you when you so Brandon Johnson, the mayor, was on MSNBC about a week ago and he was confronted by the morning host, Joe Scarborough, who says to him, wait a second.

39:26Dan Bongino:OK, if we gave you money for everything you want for Chicago, if we gave you let's just stipulate we gave you all the money in the world that you need for all these programs you say are so great. What if we gave you more law enforcement? Would that help bring the crime down? And not at a single moment did Brandon Johnson acknowledge that more law enforcement would be good. Instead, the whole time he just kept saying, we just need more money. We need more investment. We need more money. And the kinds of places this money goes to are things like what they call violence interrupters. And so people understand what violence interrupters are.

39:54Dan Bongino:These are ex-cons. These are people who've already been through the criminal justice system. They go back into their community, they're paid by the taxpayer, and then they go in and the goal is that they need to convince other people not to commit crimes. The reality is over time, we've done studies on this, it really doesn't show any meaningful sign of improving communities. It just becomes another way to dole out federal resources or local taxpayer resources. And crime continues with a reckless abandon. So these are insane ways to rob the taxpayer blind and use crime as a predicate to do it.

40:30Let me just take that one step further, Vince. You know, when violence interruption programs first began, there was a an amount of achievement that was made by those organizations because not only did they help break the cycle for ex-offenders returning, but they also held them to a standard that you're not going to go back to this lifestyle, this lifestyle of gang banging, selling drugs and shooting people. Well, that was 15 years ago. Flash forward to where we are now, all of those metrics have been removed. All of those organizations are now covering up when their members are engaging in criminal behavior because they don't want the money trained to stop.

41:07So we are, in essence, using our tax dollars, whether it's federally, state, or local, to help subsidize gang culture and violence in our neighborhoods, all under the guise that we're trying to actually break it apart. OK, so there's a question that's looming in the chat and certainly in my mind. And I think I know the answer to this, but why is it that you're a Democrat? I am where the Gold Post, the Gold Post used to be. I am the painful reminder to so many in the Democratic Party that we didn't always used to be crazy, that we always didn't used to be socialist lunatics, that we used to be a party that believed in helping people, that government had a role to play when someone was in trouble, but also that you could believe in law enforcement, you could believe in the Constitution, you could believe in the United States of America, that you could be patriotic and still be proud of your heritage.

42:02You know, that might be a flashback to the late 1990s, but that's what I believe in. And I think there's still value to that. And unless we're all going to up and abandon the Democratic Party to the socialist AOC wing of that universe, we have to be able to be a counter to it. Well, you sound almost, I'm not trying to insult you, but you do sound delusionally optimistic about the path of the Democrat Party. But one other element here that I'll bring up is - I'm a Chicagoan. I hold out hope no matter what. Oftentimes in these Democrat-controlled cities, you don't have any other option when you put your name on the ballot.

42:44You've got to run as a Democrat. I mean, that is true. For instance, in Washington, D.C., with 93 percent Democrat voters, it doesn't matter how much your instincts might be Republican. If people determine that you're in the Republican Party, there's no chance that you're going to win. You've got to run as a Democrat. Is that true in Chicago? I would say that have some value here in the city of Chicago. And let's remember that, you know, for 20 plus years, the Republican Party wasn't exactly the most welcoming of political organizations itself either. before the Democrats went off the deep end and went full socialist communist mode.

43:18The Republican Party was no better on the far right extreme when you had the Tea Parties and when you had some of those constitutional purists that were on that side of the political spectrum. They always had a way of shooting themselves in the foot when it came to their issues because they didn't know how to make a point and then stop. They would always somehow alienate people that were in agreement, but not fully. So I think that there's some of the reticence that people have nowadays still with the Republican Party since you since you brought it up. And we could obviously we could go probably for a long time on the subject.

43:49But what what views do you think were excluded from that era of the Republican Party? Who was who was being left out? Well, I think when you look at issues of LGBT issues, when you look at women's bodily autonomy issues and when you look at immigration, I mean, you just look at the top three and not necessarily the difference in belief because i understand i understand that but when you look at how it was vocalized when you look how people who didn't just who didn't agree with the extreme of the republican party were often demonized um that is not a way to help build a winning coalition where donald trump has succeeded especially in this last election i will say that is he avoided all of those hot button social issues and just said hey i'm i'm just you know i'm just the guy in the mcdonald's window or in the back of a garbage truck trying to help you achieve your american dream let's let's do something different and by not harping on those other hardline republican issues it made it easier for many democrats and independents to go his way i mean the fact that he railed against illegal immigration and still managed to get 40 percent of the latino vote, in some cases, 52 percent of Latino males, you know, speaks volumes to that.

45:05When when you tone down the rhetoric, even though you have a principal belief on an issue, people will still come to your direction based on your based on how welcoming you are, despite what you believe in. Well, I will submit to you that the country has moved much more in the Republican Party's direction, thanks to President Trump. And I think you're right on the issue of abortion that that that's tilted in a way that I don't like. I happen to be very pro-life and I'd like to see more victories on that front. Although the president can be credited with immense victories and overturning Roe versus Wade, clearly.

45:36And on LGBT issues, the whole country's moving away from the trans delusion. Thank God it's been running on for far too long and it's hurt a lot of people. Well, when it comes to that, I will say that I think you also have to recognize that, you know, 10 years ago, the issue was about marriage equality for gay and lesbians, trans wasn't even an issue. And I think that what we've seen is, and oftentimes the gay and lesbian movement has almost been co-opted by this trans movement. And I could say personally where individuals who are part of the trans activist universe have told individuals like myself, who's openly gay and married to the same person for 20, been with the same person for 20 years, that someone like me is the enemy to the trans movement.

46:18I've seen it. I've seen it. It's too crazy. And then on the on on the immigration front, you know, I think there were a lot of really shallow understandings of what people believed in based on their skin color that were going on in Washington. So people would look at Latino voters and think to themselves, oh, they're all for illegal immigration. That's insane. That's completely insane. I think that this last election has proven that and that didn't involve, you know, that didn't involve becoming squishy on the issues around immigration.

46:47Dan Bongino:it became involved just telling the truth and being forceful and saying, get the illegals out of the country. We have to have a sensible immigration system. Anyway, like I said, that's a great diversion. And understanding the difference between the long-term undocumented that have been here for decades, like Dreamers, who Donald Trump himself has said he deserve a path forward, and the 11 million Venezuelans that were given asylum and basically amnesty to be here by the Biden-Harris administration by manipulating our border laws. Yeah, yeah. No. And look, you're tapping into areas where we clearly disagree.

47:19And so I can see I believe you. You're a Democrat. I get it. But let me let me let me go back to violence in Chicago, though, for a moment, because this is where we started. And I think this is the key point. Do you want to see the president? I think you've given me the answer. Send in the National Guard. I think after talking with my law enforcement, yes, I want to see the National Guard to help alleviate the pressure on our police. I want to see the FBI, DEA, ATF, and all the rest of them that are here currently beef up so that they can go after the cartels, go after the human traffickers, go after those dangerous, high priority non-citizen targets that we know exist in the city of Chicago.

47:57I think that too many elected officials are making this a partisan issue. Public safety should never be a partisan issue. It should be a universal issue that Republican Democrats all agree on, that you have the right to exist and pursue life, liberty and happiness without having the fear of being robbed, carjacked or murdered in your own home. That should be something that we all aspire to and work together to make happen. OK. And then finally, in this in this vehicle, what's your message to the president of the United States? What would you like to convey to President Trump? I would say this to the president of the United States.

48:31I think that he is on the right track, but he has to temper his remarks so that he doesn't overshoot them, overshoot the target. No, I think he was on point for a week when it came to Chicago needs help. Chicago needs resources. I'm here to do that if we are willing to work together. His comment the other day about Chicago being the murder capital hellhole of the world undermines his ability to do that because there are many people in Chicago who love the city, who want his help, but would vehemently disagree with that statement. So I would just be careful of giving too much red meat to your fan base because it will cloud your mission here in the city of Chicago.

49:10But if your life is surrounded by murder, I have to imagine you're encouraged to hear somebody finally taking it seriously. and I know the president definitely does take it seriously. No question about that. Without question. I mean, like I said, this weekend when I had two people killed throughout the holiday weekend, part of that 50 people shot, eight people killed. Two of them were in my ward. To hear the president of the United States say that he's willing to help my communities, that I've taken an oath to defend and help as well, is reassuring both to me and to them. And it's an insult when I hear my fellow Democratic colleagues say that everything's fine and that we've decreased enough and everything else basically is an acceptable loss after this.

49:49It's not. All right. Well, thank you. Raymond Lopez, Democrat alderman, city council member in Chicago. We appreciate you. Thank you for coming on the program today. Good conversation, sir. Thank you for having me. Yeah, there he is. Raymond Lopez in Chicago. We've got a Democrat saying that, yeah, the president should step in. We could use the help. Chicago needs it, which the rest of us can see. So that's key. All right. Let's get into some of the other elements I want to touch on today. The drugs that are flowing into the country are killing over 100 ,000 Americans a year. You can thank China for that if you're interested in thanking anybody.

50:27And, of course, the cartels in places like Mexico and Trende, Oluwaga in Venezuela. This week we saw that strike on a boat. the United States military blasting to smithereens a Venezuelan drug-carrying boat trying to make its way into the United States with all of these drugs.

50:48Dan Bongino:And now we have, so what ended up happening was people on the left started coming out and saying, this is awful. How could you blow them out of the water? How do you know they weren't tourists? How do you know this wasn't just a bunch of civilians in a boat? Well, first of all, the American military, They went out of their way to establish the intelligence that these guys were carrying drugs. They chose to make this the first very theatrical target, this broadcast to the planet, because they were certain of what was being carried on that boat. And they were trying to convey a message to the cartels all over the place, and the Chinese for that matter, that this will not be allowed anymore.

51:25Dan Bongino:We will blast you to nothing if you even attempt to bring drugs into the United States. That's huge. a great message to send an important message to send and here is some of the reaction the secretary of state yesterday marco rubio coming out and weighing in on this strike on that venezuelan cartel take a look cut nine here we go united states has long for many many years established intelligence that allow us to interdict and stop drug votes and we did that and it doesn't work interdiction doesn't work because these drug cartels what they do is they know they're going to lose, you know, 2 % of their cargo.

52:02They bake it into their economics. What will stop them is when you blow them up, when you get rid of them. The president of the United States is going to wage war on narco-terrorist organizations. This one was operating in international waters, headed towards the United States to flood our country with poison, and under President Trump, those days are over. What will stop them is if you blow them up. That'll stop them, it turns out. So Marco Rubio standing up for what I think is squarely in the American interest. Now, you will never hear me pretend that the kinetic option all over the planet is the best way to go about everything and we should be striking every country and supporting every war everywhere.

52:46No, I want to know how this helps America. That's always step one. How is this in the American interest? And this one is crystal clear. I want to stop Americans from being killed. Kill the bad guys before they kill us. It's as clean as it gets. Out in the open water, no civilian casualties captured on video, broadcast to the world. Yeah, I'll take that. That's Marco Rubio saying that. Here's J.D. Vance, the vice president of the United States, asked during his visit to Minneapolis, you know, what legal authority do we have for this? What legal authority do we have to kill bad guys who are trying to kill us?

53:19Here's J.D. Vance cut 10 saying, yeah, we just killed a bunch of terrorists. On the Venezuela vessel, you know, vessel strike, what legal authority were you guys working under? And will there be an after report on the strike? Well, I'm sure there's going to be an after report. I mean, the legal authority, and I want to talk about these kids, is that there are people who are bringing literal terrorists, who are bringing deadly drugs into our country. And the president of the United States ran on a promise of stopping this poison from coming into our country. Another question? Next question. They're literal terrorists.

53:53We killed them. Next question. Answered like a United States Marine who became the vice president of the United States. Good answer. Good answer. As they say on Family Feud, good answer. Good answer. Very good. So there's J.D. Vance standing up for America here. I love that. Not standing up for America this week.

54:13Dan Bongino:Are you ready for this craziness? Senator Tim Kaine, he's a Democrat from Virginia. he said out loud this week, he said it out loud, that our rights in America do not come from God. Our rights as humans do not come from God, said Tim Kaine. They come from government. Cut 11. Tim Kaine being absolutely insane. The notion that rights don't come from laws and don't come from the government, but come from the creator, that's what the Iranian government believes. So the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling. So Senator Kaine said in this hearing that he found it a radical and dangerous notion that you would say our rights came from God and not from government.

55:10I just walked into the hearing as he was saying that, and I almost fell out of my chair. because that radical and dangerous notion, in his words, is literally the founding principle upon which the United States of America was created. Yes. And if you do not believe me, and you made reference to this, Mr. Barnes, then you can believe perhaps the most prominent Virginian to ever serve, Thomas Jefferson, who wrote in the Declaration of Independence, We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created equal. And that they are endowed by their creator.

55:58Dan Bongino:Yeah. Not by government, not by the Democratic National Committee, but by God. Yep. Yep, yep, yep. You are endowed by your creator with certain inalienable rights. that's why it's so valuable that the bill of rights was included with the United States Constitution protecting those rights those rights to to speech to religion to free expression to assembly to petition your government to the right to bear arms the the list of courses is was detailed in the Constitution you can read the whole thing but um but yes no you have God-given rights God given rights, widely held, in God we trust, not by a modern day Democrat, Tim Kaine, who says that your rights, insofar as you have any, are given to you by him.

56:50Oh, I give you rights. That's Tim Kaine's position on this. It's me. I'm a United States Senator. I choose what your rights are. I don't know. Is there anything more revealing than something like that? Just a flat declaration of God plays no role here. God plays no role here. I am God. That's the message that Tim Kaine was sending. Good for Ted Cruz. Well, it's always good to have a constitutional lawyer like Ted Cruz present for an insane moment like that. And he goes, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a second. Good for Cruz for calling him out. Just wild. Yes. Yeah, and that's right.

57:27Dan Bongino:Somebody's like, wasn't he Hillary's pick for VP? Yes. He was one of the awful Tims that we keep putting forward. We Democrats keep putting forward to be the vice president of the United States. One of the awful Tims. In fact, here's another awful Tim for you. Tim Walls this week, cut 12, is calling for taking your second amendment right away. Take a look at this. When they had a school shooting in Scotland or they had an incident in Australia, they simply made changes. They are just as free as we are. They still have gun ownership requirements, but they have made sure that they don't have these.

57:59And since they did those things, they don't have them. We are an outlier amongst nations in terms of what happens to our children. And I refuse to think that that's OK. It's simply not. He's a disgrace. First of all, there should have been a good guy with a gun to stop the assailant. No question. Last week to what he's referencing, he says, Australia, you know what they did in Australia? You know the way that they did gun control in Australia? It was forced confiscation of guns.

58:29Dan Bongino:They disarmed the populace in Australia. And that's what Tim Kaine, excuse me, not Tim Kaine in this case. That's what Tim Walls, Tampon Tim Walls is calling for. He's calling for the forced confiscation of weapons in the United States of America. And once again, you have a right to that gun. You have a right to defend yourself and your family. You're a law-abiding citizen. When seconds count, the police are minutes away. You have just as much of a right as tampon Tim Walls to have good protection for yourself and for your family. He's not entitled to a better situation than you are at all. And yet that's what he wants.

59:06Dan Bongino:He wants to confiscate the guns from you. And you understand what that is. That's a recipe for civil war. You want to attack the people who are really in charge? You want to disarm them of their inalienable rights? That's not going to work, actually. That way lies chaos, disaster, and bloodshed. So no, the answer is you're not doing that. And our founders knew that you're not doing that. And they enshrined it in the Constitution to prevent you from doing that. So once again, I am grateful that that man is nowhere near the Naval Observatory. He is not the vice president of the United States. And the voters rightfully put him in his place in the last election.

59:46Holy cow, the stuff that comes out of their mouths.

59:49Dan Bongino:All right, more ahead on the next episode of Vince. We've got another big show for you tomorrow. I've got a big national radio show today, The Vince Show. You can check out your local listings, thevincshow.com, 12 to 3 Eastern time, nationwide, nationally syndicated. Also, you can watch at rumble.com slash Vince. Always appreciate you being there. We've got the chat going. It's a party, really. It's a great time. Great, as always, to have you with us. I'm back with you tomorrow.

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