The Left's Demented Fantasies Shatter | Episode 117

23:50Dan Bongino:Murders happen all the time. Murders are nothing. We're used to that. It's merely a statistic. Why should I be worried about that? Instead, let's talk about Orange Man Bad. Here's JB Pritzker, cut 12. Take a look at this yesterday. You're going to hear people, especially this past weekend, 54 shot, seven dead. Yeah. They're going to say the city's not safe. Would you ask your friends to ride the L after midnight or after, you know, nine o 'clock at night even to get down to the city from O 'Hare? Look, big cities have crime. There's no doubt about it. But let's just pay attention to what President Trump is doing targeting Chicago.

24:27He's overlooking red states that have much higher crime rates.

24:32Dan Bongino:Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Let's just focus on Trump, he says. He's overlooking red states. The left is trying to pull a stunt here that not a single person should fall for. It's the red states. Oh, really? Give us more information. No, it's the blue cities in the red states. They say Tennessee's got a crime problem. Yeah, in Memphis, run by Democrats, into the ground. Stop with your stupid games. It's these Democrat-run jurisdictions that are hellscapes, and it needs to be stopped. And President Trump wants to do something about it. So in Washington, D.C., the president's had a lot of success. He invoked a power that's available to him through the Home Rule Act of 1973.

25:12Dan Bongino:Really straightforward. The president gets to take over the D.C. Police Department for 30 days. And that power will expire on September 9th. So we're just a couple days away from that. We're six days away from that, as I'm talking to you. and right now the president has asked Congress to extend his authority over the D.C. police but in the end he may not need to and here is why. Yesterday the mayor of D.C. Muriel Bowser came out and she signed an executive order instructing the police department in D.C. that they are to work with federal law enforcement going forward and to follow federal law enforcement priorities.

25:56Dan Bongino:Take a look at this. Let me pull up this Washington Post piece. You've got the piece here. Bowser to provide indefinite coordination with federal law enforcement, says the Washington Post. This was published yesterday evening that Mayor Bowser did this. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Tuesday has ordered indefinite coordination between the city and federal law enforcement officials, a powerful indication of her willingness to cooperate with President Trump's efforts to take over public safety in the capital city. Bowser issued an executive order that requires local coordination with federal law enforcement to the maximum extent allowable by law within the district.

26:34Dan Bongino:And the order gives no expiration date. In a statement on social media, Bowser said the order is going to provide a, quote, pathway forward beyond the presidential emergency. and she wants to work with Trump, quote, on their shared priorities. Now, the Washington Post points out that there's some incentives here for Bowser to do this. One, they say that what she is doing, working directly with Trump here, is unusual among national Democrats. They say the strategy represents a drastic departure from the prevailing attitude of national Democrats whose leaders are loudly fighting back against the White House, but who don't face the same threats to their local autonomy as the capital city.

27:18Dan Bongino:Yeah, that's because President Trump can take control of a police force in D.C. on his own. He can't do that in other cities, but he can send the National Guard in. Bowser's advisors think that earning Trump's trust will ultimately give her more authority and is the best chance at preserving home rule. Okay, I want you to understand what this means. Her incentive is she doesn't want Congress to take over D.C. again. Now, I've long been an advocate that Congress needs to take over Washington, D.C. They've been abdicating their responsibility for the city for far too long. It is long past time to take over the city again.

27:57Dan Bongino:But right now, Muriel Bowser is worried that she will become D.C.'s last mayor. That if she doesn't play her cards right, that the Republican Congress, pushed by the Republican president, will take back control of Washington, D.C. So she sees the writing on the wall, and she does not want that to happen. So right now, she has signed an executive order telling the cops, work with Trump. Whatever he wants, just do it. Just keep doing it. And for now, I think the people of D.C. should take that. That's great. Now, I don't think that Congress should give up its quest to take over D.C. I don't think the president should back away from that.

28:38Dan Bongino:I think he should pursue it anyway. But the president right now is very pleased that Muriel Bowser is, one, admitting the truth about how bad things were, two, expressing gratitude for how much better Trump has made them in the nation's capital, and three, that Muriel Bowser has now signed an executive order saying, Trump's in charge, let him do his thing. let him do his thing the other piece here is that muriel bowser is working to finalize a deal that brings rfk stadium to washington which requires cooperation with the federal government well rfk's i don't know that's a weird sentence rfk stadium is in washington she means bringing the redskins the commanders to rfk and finalizing every element of it uh and then building the new stadium they just want to see it all through uh and the last thing she wants is for that to be imperiled and the president wielded an enormous amount of power over that equation.

29:31Dan Bongino:So that's really what's going on here. So if you're wondering, why is it Muriel Bowser is all of a sudden turning in Trump's direction? The answer is because she wants to preserve her own power in the city. And if she screws this thing up, she loses. The D.C. City Council loses. And that's the last thing they want to do. But meanwhile, there's a lesson here. And Democrats across the country have to be absolutely, you know this, seething with rage that Muriel Bowser is being decent to the president of the United States. They don't want to see that. They don't want any Democrat to step out of line, to say that the president's doing something right, to admit that the data is improving, to admit that crimes are actually being punished, that the law is being enforced.

30:13Dan Bongino:So I encourage you to look out for this. Watch for that civil war to really explode over the next few days as Democrats become enraged by Muriel Bowser because she has become a perfect example of how much better your city could be if you simply work with the guy who's trying to save it. Amazing. Amazing. All right, I've got so much more for you. Dr. Ben Carson is just minutes away. I should say Secretary Dr. Ben Carson is just minutes away. I always love my conversations with him. That happens in just a moment. But first, Blackout Coffee is a fantastic sponsor of this program. you know them as, well, a great sponsor here, and you should also know them as a completely delicious cup of coffee.

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33:19Dan Bongino:TakeLean.com. All right. I am so happy to have joining us right now the great Dr. Ben Carson. You can find him on X at RealBenCarson. He's the founder and chair of the American Cornerstone Institute. And you, of course, know he's a great neurosurgeon and he ran for president. He was the secretary of housing and urban development. Dr. Carson, good to talk to you again, sir. Good to be with you again, Vince. Is there anything you haven't done yet that you want to do, by the way? The resume is like too much, actually. I'll just be complete when I get to heaven. That'll be the best thing. Well, God bless you for it.

33:54Dan Bongino:I do want to ask you, every time I talk to you, I realize all of a sudden we start going deep. And one area that I am concerned about was, you saw that shooting last week at the Annunciation Catholic School. So the vice president of the United States and the second lady are visiting that community today to bring their condolences to them. The media instantly sought, Dr. Carson, to downplay the mental illness that was very clearly behind the shooting. A person who considered themselves transgender began opening fire through the window of that church. How seriously do you think we as a culture should take this problem?

34:34it's a very serious problem it tells us that we're doing a lot of the wrong things as we're raising our children a lot of the wrong influences you have in schools perfectly normal boys and girls who have incompletely developed brains brain doesn't fully develop until your mid to late 20s and they're being told you may not be a girl you may not be a boy Now, they may have some underlying psychological issues, but that certainly doesn't help. And they become confused and very vulnerable. And I think at least we're starting to see that maybe this is not normal. And for a very long time, you know, people who had what they want to refer to as gender dysphoria.

35:26Dan Bongino:Yes. That was a medical condition in the psychiatric manuals. Then they took it out and said, yeah, this is normal. It's not normal. And it leads to a lot of confusion. A lot of the people who undergo sex transformations end up in very difficult psychological situations, a lot of attempted suicides, a lot of actual suicides. Obviously, there's something wrong here. And at least we need to start talking about it and not sweeping it under the rug. You mentioned brain development and how impressionable young people are and how susceptible they are to these kinds of delusions if they have adults pushing them on them.

36:10Dan Bongino:What is the impact as a doctor? What's the impact of injecting someone with hormones or filling them full of cross-sex hormones? Does that impact the brain? Of course it does. It impacts brain presently and development, so it can affect it in the future as well. And we have not really studied that issue. We don't know what the long-term impact of these kind of very dramatic hormonal manipulations are on people. And it could be some of what we're seeing. But we'll never get to the bottom of it as long as we make excuses for it. and sweep it under the rug. And, you know, I'm very disappointed in people in the medical profession who know that there are consequences for manipulating the hormones in people.

37:03And yet the almighty dollar dictates what they do. That's a problem.

37:09Dan Bongino:It's disgusting. Last week there were a number of people on the left who immediately responded by either trying to cover up the fact that this was a transgender person, a delusional person, or made some sort of excuse like that, like he was the victim in all of this. The Minneapolis mayor, Jacob Frey, came out and said that by mentioning this detail, this mental illness, that you are attacking the transgender community and he's not going to stand for it, that the transgender community is being victimized here. You had people going on television who were respecting the killer's delusional pronouns, saying, you know, Jake Tapper said, oh, this is a she and a her.

37:53Dan Bongino:What do you make of that reaction? How could you possibly have a reaction like that after a killer like that kills children inside of a church? Well, you know, these people are so covered by the woke mentality that they have to reinterpret everything in light of that philosophy. So they don't really even stop to think about, are there alternatives? Should I be considering something else? They just go full-fledged into the defense of what their philosophy tells them. And, you know, that is a significant problem. Couple that with them coming out and saying, prayer, prayer doesn't work. Why are you talking about prayer?

38:42You know, what we're dealing with here, I hate to say it, is good and evil. And, you know, our country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles. Our founding document, the Declaration of Independence, says that our rights come from our creator. Our principles tell us to love your neighbor, not to hate your neighbor, not to cancel your neighbor if they disagree with you.

39:13Dan Bongino:Yes. Those are the kinds of things that lead to chaos in a society as opposed to success. But why prayer specifically? Why is there so much animosity towards believers on the left? Because in the wake of that shooting at a Catholic church, Christian children on their knees gunned down, the left was condemning people who were praying for their souls. Why? Why would they condemn that? Well, remember, with Marxism, communism and socialism, there's no room for God because the government has to be central. It has to be the answer to all of your problems. So anything they can do to push God aside and to denigrate him, they do.

40:00And, you know, that's been going on for a while in our system. Look at how they extracted God from school, prayer and Bible reading in the early 60s, over 60 years ago. Have we gotten better since then? Are we better people? Is our society better? Is there less trouble? I don't think so.

40:21Dan Bongino:No, it's too much. Let me ask you some other questions that intersect with policy and health. RFK Jr. is trying to make a bunch of really important changes. You just talked a moment ago about the almighty dollar and the sins that are committed in its name. RFK Jr. is trying to clean up that system. He's detected a lot of corruption in the way that the government gives medical recommendations. and he'd like to give parents kind of a reasonable expectation that's dedicated to the health of their children and not to the enrichment of the pharmaceutical companies. So as a result, they've been debating what the vaccine schedule should look like for newborns and young children.

41:02Dan Bongino:And one of the things that's come up for debate is, for instance, should we give newborns the hepatitis B vaccine when the hepatitis B is either a sexually transmitted or a dirty needle transmitted disease usually. What do you make of this debate and the efforts to try and stop us from having it? Well, I'm glad that at least it's being debated now instead of just pushed on people. I mean, the amount of vaccines that are pushed on little babies these days is absolutely incredible. And many of them are very useful. Don't get me wrong. but we haven't studied the impact of putting them all together into an individual.

41:46And we really need to be talking about that. And this is a decision that needs to be made with intelligent conversation with one's pediatrician. And that's not being done. There's no question that some vaccines are absolutely essential for the health of the community at large. Others are quite optional. And we should make that very clear to people.

42:12Dan Bongino:In other words, treat them like adults, like Americans who have their own freedoms and liberties to make these decisions for their kids. We have an entire system that has treated parents as an inconvenience when it comes to the orders it gives us about how children should be pumped full of drugs. Well, you can see how our public health system has lost so much credibility during the COVID situation. You should wear masks. It'll stop the spread. You should not wear a mask. You should save the mask for the medical professionals. There's no such thing as long-lasting natural immunity that only lasts for a few weeks.

42:53I mean, just crazy stuff. And we know better than that. And yet we allow that to be pushed on people. We had crazy rules, like if you have a pandemic and you want to bring on a new vaccine to get an emergency use authorization, there can't be anything else that is effective. So, of course, hydroxychloroquine, oh, no, that'll give you a heart attack. That'll kill you. Ivermectin, that's horse serum. Now, they actually knew better than that. All they had to do is look at the West African country where their percentage of COVID was 94 % less than ours. And that should perk you up and you say, why are they having so much less?

43:43And then, of course, you do a little bit of investigation and you find out that they use hydroxychloroquine as an antihilatural. And if you're going there, they want you to take it.

43:54Dan Bongino:Yes. That should have rung some bells. In other words, you take it as a prophylactic. You take it in anticipation that you might encounter the disease. And, of course, it had positive impacts. But here's what you're missing, Dr. Carson. That doesn't enrich Pfizer. Pfizer doesn't get rich off of that. So we can't recommend you take some cheap and widely available drug. That's insane. And we probably would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives. That's the real issue. How much is a life worth? Yes. Well, God bless you for saying it. Let me ask you your impression of the Trump administration now as opposed to when you were in office with the first Trump administration.

44:34Dan Bongino:How do you think the president and his cabinet have changed since the administration that you were a part of? I think there's a much greater alignment now. In the first cabinet, the president didn't know most of these people, didn't know their backgrounds. He didn't know a lot about Washington, D.C., and he's learned an enormous amount since that time. And the four years off, he wasn't just sitting around playing golf the whole four years. He was studying. He was recognizing what are the issues that are really important for the survival of our nation? You know, things like our energy, things like our nutrition, things like education.

45:24things like bringing our important industries back into this country so that we're not dependent on other people. And he was ready to go. And he made sure that he picked people who were in alignment with that philosophy. And that's why things are moving so fast. It's kind of funny when you look at it, because back in the 30s, there were these two professors at Columbia, Cloward and Piven. Yeah, Cloward and Piven.

46:00Dan Bongino:Yes. And they were socialists. They were Marxists. And they said, if you really want to change the society, what you have to do is you hit them with so many things. One after another, they can't really focus on any one thing. He's turned the tables on them. Yes, he has. No question about it. He definitely has. Do you think so I don't know if you and I have had this conversation But when you saw him shot in Butler last year and then he stands up he rallies the crowd and then he goes on to win the presidency Did you think that that was the hand of God? Did you feel like there was divine intention in all of that?

46:36No question about it and I've had conversations with him about it You know I talked to him about the fact that I thought God has hand on him even before that and he kind of acknowledged it. By now, I think he really believes it.

46:52Dan Bongino:Yeah. And it's really made a difference in the way that he reacts to things. You remember during the first Trump administration, the media could manipulate him like a little puppet, you know. And now they can't do that anymore. And it's very frustrating for them not to be able to just push a button and have him go off. Yes. Yeah, no, he's on a different level now. You can definitely tell. And I asked him a few months ago, I said, here you are in your late 70s. Now, most people in their late 70s are sitting on the porch in a rocking chair. And here you are with all of this energy. Where are you getting all this from?

47:31And he thought for a moment, he said, it's from God.

47:35Dan Bongino:Yeah, that's amazing. And a brain, by the way, I bet you'd want to study. That guy's got something going on. Dr. Ben Carson, you're a great person. I always love our conversations. Thank you for doing this today. Good to talk to you again. Always a pleasure to be with you. Take care. There he is. All right, Dr. Ben Carson with the American Cornerstone Institute. He's done it all. You know, and every time I have a conversation with Ben Carson, this is the thought I have, and occasionally I vocalize it. Let me vocalize it here for you. That person, the man I just talked to is a legend. He's a complete legend.

48:09Dan Bongino:He became famous for a bunch of reasons in medicine. He was the first person to successfully separate conjoined twins at the head. Amazing. He revolutionized something called a hemispherectomy. He's got just an amazing story. In fact, his story was so amazing that there was a book about it, his book, his autobiography called Gifted Hands, that became one of the best-selling autobiographies ever. It was turned into a movie called Gifted Hands, starring Cuba Gooding Jr. Massive success. And the world widely acknowledged how impressive a man that is up until he decided to run as a Republican for elected office.

48:53Dan Bongino:And the second he did, the left began to open fire. He went from genius, inspirational American success story to we have to destroy him. He's a buffoon. He's an idiot. Look at him. Look at him. He's a Christian. That's insane. They attacked him. They absolutely ripped him limb from limb. And I always thought that that was just one of the most telling and vicious episodes that can open your eyes to just how disgraceful our media are in the service of democratic power. It's a very straightforward thing. And a fond memory I have of his time running for office. was that moment in the presidential debate.

49:43Dan Bongino:And at some point I got to, I don't know if I've had this conversation with Dr. Carson. We'll have to talk to him about it in the future. But remember in the presidential debate when Dr. Carson is called to come out on stage and he's not quite sure if his name has been called. So he's kind of standing in the tunnel waiting to come out onto the debate stage. And when President Trump's name is called, Trump comes out, Trump sees Carson there and he goes, well, Ben's going to stay here. I'm going to stay here with him. So President Trump stayed there with him for the duration of all of the names being called.

50:15Dan Bongino:And finally, the last two people to walk out onto the debate stage together are Ben Carson and Donald Trump. And I just thought it was a great and touching and charming moment that eventually became a great presidency in presidency 45. And now a renewed and more battle-hardened President Trump for presidency 47. Uh, and, uh, you heard from Dr. Carson there who served in his cabinet. What a, what a difference, uh, you know, these years have made where he has a cabinet who's working with him now. He's got guys who are all on the same page, uh, which is, which is really cool. Oh, is that, is Ben Carson, is Dr.

50:55Dan Bongino:Carson still there? Is he, oh, Dr. Carson. Okay. Can you put, put him back up? Dr. Carson, first of all, I said a bunch of nice things about you. So just ignore all of that. That was just, but, um, can you, can you tell me really quickly about that moment? What was that like on that debate stage? Because that that's that's the one I always laugh when I think about it. Sometimes I go back and I just watch it where you're standing there. It appears you didn't know that they had called your name and you just were waiting patiently to hear it. Well, what happened? They had called it when someone else was being introduced.

51:28And the audience was applauding still when they called my name and you couldn't hear anything. So obviously I didn't want to go out if my name hadn't been called. That would be kind of strange. Sure. So I just stood there and waited. And everybody else gleefully walked by. But Trump came and stood with me. You know, over the course of the campaign, we became friends. And, you know, discovered that philosophically we were peas in a pod. Yeah. The personality wise, we were a little bit different to say the least.

52:07Dan Bongino:For sure. To say the least. But I remember that that 2016 campaign, he stood up for you. Obviously, there was some political incentive to do that. I mean, he was, you know, at the time he and Ted Cruz were somewhat neck and neck. President Trump was still leading. And Ted Cruz's campaign had made up a fake scandal about you in the Iowa caucuses. they had suggested you had dropped out of the race. And that's actually where the nickname Lion Ted came from back then as President Trump started going after him for that. But again, he seemed to be, I don't know, there was a fondness between the two of you that continues to this day.

52:43Absolutely. And we agreed that whoever won, the other one would be in his cabinet. But, you know, I've just had so many wonderful occasions with him to see what kind of person he is. We were walking around Mar-a-Lago not too long ago and ran into a bunch of the workers. And, you know, he starts engaging them in conversation. They were having the best time. He pulls out a big roll of$50 bills and starts paying them out and saying, go buy your wife something nice, you know.

53:12Dan Bongino:That's cool. Mostly because I don't really see 50s these days. The 100 apparently makes an appearance occasionally. I don't know how he's finding these$50 bills. That's pretty cool. That's very neat. And then last, I just mentioned a moment ago in my praise of you that I thought that the media treatment of you was revealing. It told the story of the way the media treats people. It's based purely on power politics. For years, you were well regarded. The New York Times considered you an important American figure, and rightfully so. And then the second you ran for Republican politics, were you shocked by how things changed so rapidly?

53:50Not really. I was very familiar with the media and how they treat people and understood that to be the case. But, you know, I have never been one who goes around with my finger in the air trying to determine which way people think and how I should react. Yeah. You know, I just need to be good with God. If I'm good with God, I'm good.

54:11Dan Bongino:God bless you for it. That's a great lesson. Thank you, Dr. Carson, again. I appreciate you. All right. All right. There he is. I think he's officially heading out this time, but he hung around. I was like, I didn't know he heard all that. I was trying to be nice to him without him here, but there he is, Dr. Ben Carson. Okay. Boy, well, that was a great moment. I actually enjoyed that for a bunch of reasons, including that I got to finally talk to him about some of the stuff that I've been thinking about for years, but not directly relevant to the news of the day. All right. Let's see. Yeah, Ben Carson is a treasure.

54:42Dan Bongino:I totally agree, Clamarina. All right. Let me see what else I have for you. That kind of threw me off a second because we got into, oh, this is great. I can't leave without this. On this program, I got to be careful. It was either on this program or on the radio show, one way or the other. I know I've said this out loud. We've been wondering sometime, when are we going to strike the cartels? Washington wants you to be involved in every war, but wars that are in our own interest. Those they don't care about. But everybody else's interests, Washington's all in. You know, just spend more money. Just do that.

55:19Dan Bongino:let's go off to war in all these different places. Let's send a lot of weapons over. But what about the war that's killing over 100 ,000 Americans a year? What about that war? What war are you talking about, Vince, says D.C. establishment rando? The war on Americans that's being waged by the Chinese and the Mexican drug cartels in particular. Fentanyl. Drug overdoses. Over 100 ,000 Americans a year dying? And we're not killing anybody for that? In a just war? We're not mowing down the people who are absolutely murdering Americans every year. What's going on there? So for a while, we've been, you know, a lot, you know, Trump supporters have been wondering, when are we going to strike the cartels?

56:03Dan Bongino:What's that going to look like? Are there going to be drone strikes inside of Mexico? Are we going to send in special forces? Are we sending in the military to go after these guys? is, you know, President Trump told Reagan Reese on Friday that he's a Claudia Scheinbaum, the president of Mexico, is scared of the cartels. She's scared and she's trying to keep the president from intervening militarily in Mexico because she's just too beholden to the cartels there. He said she's a lovely woman, but she is scared, he said. And finally, yesterday, we had something happen that I've been calling for, which is let's start with boats.

56:41Dan Bongino:You know, a lot of these drugs get taken into the United States over the water. And the good thing about bad guys conducting their operations in the water is you can limit civilian casualties by striking a boat and taking it down. And in addition to doing that, if you broadcast the results to the planet, you send a message to the cartels. The United States is not screwing around. We will blast you to kingdom come. If we see you, we're taking you out. And here's what we get yesterday. Here's the president of the United States sharing the truth social the following video, cut for the United States military, striking Venezuelan narco-terrorists as they're trying to move drugs into the United States.

57:29Dan Bongino:For those of you watching on rumble.com slash events, there it is. An American strike on a cartel vessel operated by Trende Aragua from Venezuela. Boom, gone, gone, dead. Now, this is important. This is exactly what I thought should happen. Strike a boat, broadcast it to the world, and send them a message. And in fact, the president of the United States, in his Truth Social post, said the following. He said, earlier this morning, on my orders, U.S. military forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Trendy Aragua narco-terrorists in the South Com area of responsibility. He said this is a foreign terrorist organization.

58:18Dan Bongino:He said they killed 11 terrorists in this action. No U.S. force is harmed in the strike. Please let this serve as notice to anybody even thinking about bringing drugs into the United States of America. Beware. Thank you for your attention to this matter and a lot of exclamation points. So this is exactly what needs to happen. God bless the president for doing it. Here's the president yesterday, cut five, revealing we took it out. He's telling the press before the Truth Social Post, he's telling the press, we just took out some narco terrorists. Listen to this. When you come out and when you leave the room, you'll see that we just over the last few minutes literally shot out a boat, a drug carrying boat, a lot of drugs.

59:05So hardcore. core. And you'll be seeing that and you'll be reading about that. It just happened moments ago. And our great general, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who has been so incredible, including what took place in Iran, knocking out potential nuclear power for a long time to come. I think within a month they would have had it. We didn't do what we did.

59:31Dan Bongino:Yeah, the United States military working to defend American interests directly, stopping Americans from being killed by the murder weapons that were being transported into America. I'll take that every single day of the week. Blast them and televise it and send the warning. Anybody else want to do that? That same fate awaits you. Great work. By the way, the Democrats, you know what their response is? They're upset. they're upset of course the president now has democrats defending the cartels and the narco terrorists in case you're wondering how does this all work it works that way every single time i'm grateful for you as always i'll be back tomorrow on vince we have another big show scheduled for you it's going to be great and then i've got the big national radio show today 12 to 3 eastern time you can check that out rumble.com slash vince or find your local listings at thevinchow.com You're the best audience anywhere.

1:00:32Dan Bongino:Glad to have you with us again today.