The Trump Admin Isn't Having This... | Episode 107

25:21Dan Bongino:This is insanity. You know, and he's right. The Congress does have the power of the purse and that's to allocate spending. But it doesn't mean the president has to waste money. So you're watching the panic already setting in. And you and I are now well equipped to talk about this as this news cycle starts to really fire up in earnest. Again, we're one of the only places that's been talking about this with any depth. And now, you know, and now you know, let's move to some other issues. The president of the United States is trying to do some other things, too. Did you see that he this guy's really into the details?

25:55Dan Bongino:They're building the border wall. They're trying to thanks to the big, beautiful law. We've got a lot more money now to build a huge multilayer border barrier as along all of the navigable portions of the border. And DHS Secretary Kristi Noem was down on the southern border yesterday. day and as she was standing there she pointed out that the guys were painting the wall black that's right paint it black baby and she said that was being done at the orders of the president of the united states take a look at this now if you look at the structure that's behind me it's tall which makes it very very difficult to climb almost impossible it also goes deep into the ground which would make it very difficult if not impossible to dig under and today we are also going to be painting it black.

26:41That is specifically at the request of the president, who understands that in the hot temperatures down here, when something is painted black, it gets even warmer and it will make it even harder for people to climb.

26:55Dan Bongino:I love how she said warmer, like it won't be scalding hot. You know, anybody who lives in a hot climate knows you leave some piece of black metal sitting outside, the last thing you want to do is touch that thing. You can cook an egg on it. Down there in the Texas heat, you're going to paint the wall black and people think they're going to wrap their hands around it and shimmy up the wall to get into the United States. Good luck with that. You're grabbing the hot stove. And so the president really does. It really reminds me. I saw that clip and I thought to myself, the president is obsessed with the details.

27:31Dan Bongino:I mean, just imagine what the briefings are like with this guy where he's like, OK, I need an update on the wall. We're building it. A lot of progress being made. All right. What color is it? Color, sir? It's just metal. No, no, no. We painting it? Sir, do you want it painted? Yeah. What color do you want? I want black. I want that thing to be hot. And as a builder, he's accustomed to all of the thought processes here. But he's into the details all the way from the president of the United States down to the front lines where they're painting it black now. And it's increasing the quality and the security of the product.

28:01Dan Bongino:I love it. It's just honestly, It's unreal. It's unreal. And people in Texas in the chat saying it's still hot at night. Yeah, that black fence is going to stay hot all the way into the evening hours, still baking by the time you grab a hold of that thing. So the president's thinking through the details. He likes the small details. In fact, I've got another clip for you of the president testing the small details in the newly remodeled Rose Garden. Here's the president, cut five, testing the Rose Garden speakers, he says ahead of a big beautiful event that they want to hold at the Rose Garden. Take a look.

28:43Dan Bongino:He's blasting music at the Rose Garden. He's fist pumping. Susie Wiles behind him. It's funny. I don't know what it is about. He's like a human meme machine. You ever notice that? Like every video of him, it just it makes you crack up. You just watch it, especially something like that, where he's just he's loving it. He's doing he's picking the playlist for the sound system that they're testing out in the Rose Garden. They're forcing the reporters at the White House to watch him and capture videos of him. Really good, really good stuff. That's our president. Love the guy. All right. Coming up, there's some major, major news breaking out of speaking of Texas, breaking out of Texas today.

29:23Dan Bongino:We're watching as the the congressional districts are being redrawn. if things go well by the end of the day the house will have voted to redrawn the districts in Texas that's great news and so Republicans are expecting to pick up a couple more seats ahead of the midterms there and we'll also talk about the president's intention to try and get rid of mail-in ballots across the country he says that it's just too much fraud too vulnerable to fraud which is a position that up until recently Democrats also shared until they realized well maybe fraud helps us and then they stopped saying it in public.

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32:29Dan Bongino:The Democrats finally slinking back to the state for more on all of this. the great elections expert Hans von Spakovsky is here, senior legal fellow for the Heritage Foundation and a good friend. Hans, as always, sir, nice to see you and good to have you with us today. Well, thanks for having me back, Vince. Okay, so we've got Texas. They're finally redrawing these lines. Tell us your thoughts on this day as those Texas Democrats finally showed back up to work. Well, I tell you, the governor of the state, the attorney general, and the Speaker of the House, boy, they really put up the pressure.

33:06They didn't just talk. They did everything from issue civil arrest warrants to start working a case against Beto O 'Rourke for potential bribery because he was funding these folks out of state. So they really pushed them to come back, and it obviously worked. I tell you the one big thing, Vince, that people need to understand that you won't see in almost any news stories about this. The GOP in Texas didn't just suddenly decide, oh, let's do redistricting mid-decade. They were forced to do this by the Justice Department and a court opinion that came out of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals last year.

33:57Without getting into all the nutty details, in essence, the Fifth Circuit, because of a ruling last year, said that, in essence, four of the districts, these were Democratic districts, they were drawn in 2021 at the urging of Democrats. And what was the predominant factor used by the legislature at the urging of Democrats to draw them? Race. What they did is they combined racial groups, Hispanics and black voters to create districts that would vote Democrats. And last year, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said those those kind of districts, those are unconstitutional racial gerrymatters. They are not protected by the Voting Rights Act.

34:44So the Justice Department recently warned Texas, you need to fix these or you're going to get sued. That has been lost in all the discussions about this. Yes, it has.

34:55Dan Bongino:No question at all. No, it's been totally lost. In fact, I don't think I've really seen it anywhere. I mean, you're the first I've heard really talk about it with any sincerity. So what were the Democrats hoping to do? Just wait until the next decade and then say, okay, we'll redraw them and then hope nobody notices that they're once again trying to rig the districts? Yeah, no, that's exactly what they were hoping. By the way, look, another reason that Texas ought to do mid-decade redistricting is that, remember, the last time they did this was 2021. Well, Texas is one of the fastest growing states in the country.

35:30They've added over 2 million residents, if you can believe that, since then. That means that the districts they drew back then are all distorted because they didn't take into account all these added residents. So that's another good reason, a legitimate reason, actually a nonpolitical reason for them to be doing this.

35:52Dan Bongino:In fact, most of the districts, as I understand that they're drawing, they're creating as they do this process, will be majority minority districts anyway, right? Yeah, right. Majority minority districts, those are protected under the voting rights. That's where, for example, black voters are a majority or Hispanic voters are a majority. But when they aren't enough to be a majority and you try to combine them in two or two or more groups, that's a political alliance. That's not a racial voting. But what you're pointing to is there's a there's a thing. The press doesn't want to talk about this.

36:28Dan Bongino:They don't want to admit what's happening here, which is that Hispanic voters in particular are moving to the right so quickly that Democrats are struggling to figure out how to stop Hispanic voters from voting for Republicans. They want to diminish the value of those votes. So what you're saying, if I understand you correctly, is that Democrats were trying to draw districts that were partially Hispanic in order to water down the Hispanic vote and mostly black, potentially, in an effort to try and rig the district to be a Democrat, a safe Democrat vote. Do I understand that correctly? That's right.

36:59And you can't use race as your primary factor in drawing boundary lines. Everyone should keep in mind last year in the presidential election for the first time, a majority of Hispanic voters in Texas voted for Donald Trump. In the past, Hispanics have been a very sure vote for Democrats and they're losing that. Yeah.

37:24Dan Bongino:Amazing. OK, so can you give us your sense? I've seen a lot of debates about this. Like at first, the media was just straight up accusing Texas of doing something that's never been done before. Oh, you're gerrymandering for partisan advantage. And then there started to be some voices that came out like, wait a second, you think that's gerrymandering? You should look at places like Illinois and Maryland. You start going down the list and you're like, and Democrats have have mangled up congressional districts like crazy all across this country. And in fact, last night I saw there was a clip of Chuck Todd and Scott Jennings going around where Chuck Todd was asserting you want to see gerrymandered.

37:59Dan Bongino:You should see Florida. And and Scott Jennings is like, are you serious? Florida? Like, have you looked at Illinois? What do you make of this big conversation about gerrymandering and who's the most guilty of rigging the system? Democrats are absolute experts at it. and I'm just astonished that anyone would come out and start questioning this. Look, the word gerrymander comes from Elbridge Gerry. He was the governor of Massachusetts in 1812, and he was the first politician to approve a gerrymandered district that looked like a sallymander. Well, Massachusetts, which is a very blue state, has continued that.

38:42Today, they have nine congressional seats. And even though Republicans were about 35 percent of the statewide vote in the state, zero, zero of those seats are Republicans. They're all gerrymandered to represent Democrats. The same thing in Connecticut, New Mexico. I mean, you can go to Democratic state after Democratic state where Republicans don't even hold a single seat.

39:08Dan Bongino:And what's going on in Florida has nothing to do with rigged districts. It has everything to do with the electorate prefers Republicans. And in fact, that goes back to the Hispanic category of votes, especially Cubans in South Florida. You're watching counties like Broward and Miami-Dade heading in the direction of President Trump and the Republicans. And Democrats can't merely explain that away with, oh, the districts are rigged. No, the voters prefer Trump. No, that's right. But Miami-Dade County was one of the few areas in Florida that was a predominantly Democratic stronghold. Well, last year, a majority of the voters there voted for Trump.

39:49That tells you how things there have changed.

39:52Dan Bongino:Big time. Really big. OK. And so if Texas succeeds today, which by the time people might hear this on the podcast, they may very well have done. We're recording it live the hour, literally the hour before the Texas state legislature set to meet on this issue. If they succeed today, Democrats are threatening to redraw maps as much as they possibly can. But I guess one of the ironies here is that they're looking to gerrymander states that are already gerrymandered into oblivion. Aren't they, Hans? Yeah. And the problem is, you know, the biggest person threatening that, of course, is Governor Newsom of California.

40:25Well, he's got a problem. A number of years ago, they transferred the power to do redistricting from the state legislature to a supposedly independent redistricting commission. So Newsom, in order to get the districts redone, he's got to override that independent redistricting commission. The only way he can do that is to call a special election. And it's the voters of California who will decide whether to override that commission and accept the new map. And the problem he's got, Vince, is when you look at polling, voters like these independent redistricting commissions. And it's not sure that he's going to win in a special election November.

41:16He may lose.

41:17Dan Bongino:So this is funny. This is not the first time we've seen something like that in California happen either, right, Hans? Because California has as a part of its constitution that racial prejudice is completely unlawful. And there was a referendum a couple years ago to change that, to make it so that racial prejudice could be used in California. And the voters voted it down. They read the plain text of the ballot initiative and they were like, no, I'm not for racial prejudice. And they voted it down. So it is funny how this keeps on blowing up in the faces of the left every time they ask the voters to consider it.

41:49Yeah, no, I think the chances are actually very good that Newsom may actually lose this, which is that what will that be? His third strike strike against him, counting the L.A. fires, the riots in L.A. None of that's going to help his presidential campaign, which he clearly wants to pursue.

42:07Dan Bongino:I was about to say he's built up a big track record of being a loser and then he wants to run for president. That's great. Yeah. Good luck with that, Gavin Newsom. OK, let me talk about the winner here, President Trump, who has posted to Truth Social that he'd like to make some changes to elections coming up. He indicated this past week that he's once again, he's very concerned about mail-in ballots. He said mail-in ballots, quote, mail-in ballots are corrupt. And he'd like to lead a movement to see mail-in balloting ended in the United States. I just want to get your reaction, Hans, to this. The media is already overreacting to it, suggesting that President Trump is trying to silence the voices of American voters.

42:45Dan Bongino:How do you view this? Look, it used to be until recently that the only time you could use an absentee ballot was if you had a real excuse for not being in town on Election Day. You know, you are sick. You are out of going to be out of town today. that's a pretty tough standard to meet because as you know, we don't just have one election day anymore. We have early voting in almost all of the states. Absentee ballots, unfortunately, are a source of fraud. They are the easiest way to cheat in an election. So I agree with the president. They ought to be as limited as possible. And like I said, these days with early voting, it's pretty hard to argue that you don't have the ability to go in and vote on, for example, in Virginia, 45 days of early voting prior to the election.

43:44You know, if you're permanently disabled, I can understand it. But for most Americans, that is just not an issue. And the fraud aspects of it are so serious that we should try to limit it as much as possible.

43:59Dan Bongino:What did Jimmy Carter think of mail-in balloting, Hans? Yeah, they didn't like them either. They also said, you know, Jimmy Carter, James Baker, former Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan, you know, formed a commission on election reform. And not only did they recommend voter ID, something that is just anathema to the left, but they also pointed out the problems with absentee ballots. Vince, that should be no surprise. You know, Jimmy Carter had to go to court the first time he ran for office for the state Senate in Georgia because he was cheated out of his election by the local political machine.

44:45He went to court and a judge basically declared him the winner after they uncovered all the fraud that had occurred in his election.

44:53Dan Bongino:Yeah, typical Democrat. He doesn't care about it until it happens to him. But that's that is a good point. How does how does mail in balloting in the United States compare to other countries around the world? Well, most countries, they don't allow it all over Europe. You can't do it. And the reason is because they realize it's a problem. They do still have what they call postal ballots in England. But just a couple of years ago, a royal commission investigated and raised all kinds of questions about potential fraud going on with the use of those kinds of ballots in the United Kingdom, too. Yeah.

45:32Dan Bongino:OK, the last thing on on elections that I want to talk about with you today is something that I keep noticing, which is there are surveys that are done of people who are not yet registered to vote, but they are American citizens. Right. And among that group of people, one thing we've discovered over the last few elections is most of those guys are Trump voters. There's a lot of Trump voters out there. And so what we saw in the last election is that Democrats stopped talking about voter registration. For those of you who weren't paying attention to it, it's hilarious, actually. You didn't see the voter die.

46:02Dan Bongino:You didn't see people being pushed to register. You have to register. Same day voter registration, register and then vote. Because Democrats started are starting to panic behind the scenes that most of the unregistered Americans are actually Republican voters. Do you do you expect to see that play out in the way our politics discusses this issue in the years ahead? Well, it may be. But, you know, what's funny about this is, you know, you have issues like this come up. And usually the political party who thinks that something is, for example, an advantage to them in the long run, turns out not to be the advantage that they believe it is.

46:41So we'll just have to see what happens. Look, the left has been pushing same-day registration for years because of the fact that it gave election officials absolutely no time to verify the accuracy of the information. And if you register and immediately vote, if they later find out that, oh, well, actually, this person doesn't live in this state, it's too late to do anything about it, which is why same day registration is actually not a good idea.

47:10Dan Bongino:Well, you know, look at Pennsylvania. They've got motor voter registration there in Pennsylvania. And so when people go to get their licenses, they also register to vote at the same time. The left was convinced that that was going to be a big boon to them. And it blew up in the faces of the Democrats as Trump just won the state. And it was crystal clear among people like Scott Pressler, who are trying to get people register to vote in Pennsylvania. Oh my goodness. The motor voter registration is helping Republicans right now. Right. Yeah. And that, that was, Democrats originally thought it would always just help them.

47:43Dan Bongino:So it's amazing. It's so amazing. Well, I'm so glad you are so on top of the way elections are conducted, which is why we so frequently turn to you. Hans von Spakovsky, thank you for your time today. Sir, good to talk to you. Thanks for having me, Benz. There he is, Hans von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, taking a close look at this. And we are going to have, you know, the fights ahead about gerrymandering. And what are the how do these districts look? Texas and the Republicans there. Isn't it great to see Republicans with spines using the full assortment of tools at their disposal to actually achieve something?

48:18Dan Bongino:Nothing illegal about their behavior. Democrats will break the law. They'll become completely tyrannical. Nothing illegal about any of the behavior here by these Republicans. They're just following the law as it is written and to the max in order to get this done. And they were able to get these Democrats to come back. They've achieved a quorum. They're expected to vote today on redrawing those boundaries. Every state should be fighting like this. Republicans in every single state and certainly in the United States Congress should be fighting like this right now. It means a big deal. Now, here's one of the ways that Republicans have ensured that these Democrats are going to be there to vote today, are there to vote today.

48:56Dan Bongino:is once the Democrats came back, they had the Democrats sign sworn statements that they would allow police officers, Texas troopers, to follow them, to babysit them until this vote takes place. So the Democrats who fled the state and came back, they all left the state legislature and they've had cops tracking them over the last few days. Now, there's one Texas Democrat, congresswoman texas democrat lawmaker in the house who refused to sign this document her name is nicole collier and she's been staying she's been living inside of the texas state legislature for the last few days making it into a big performance stunt and she apparently just got a phone call from kamala harris of all people who's pretending like she's very interested in tracking all of this.

49:50Dan Bongino:Here is cut six. Kamala Harris calling the woman who refused to sign the permission slip, saying that the cops could track her. So she's being locked in the building. Watch in a moment in the history of our country where it is so lacking in those who should have it. And you really are inspiring so many people. And I just want you to know that you are among those who history will reveal to have been heroes of this moment.

50:22Dan Bongino:Kamala would go on in that clip to say, you know, when you feel like you're all alone, because she's spending the night just sleeping by herself in the middle of the state legislature, when you feel like you're all alone, just know we're all there with you. No, you're not. You're not there at all. You're sipping box wine in your pool, sobbing to yourself that you weren't made president of the United States. You're not sitting there thinking about her at all. Right now, all you're doing is trying to use her, you know, to get, I don't know what, whatever you're pursuing. You want to use her. Look at me.

50:54Dan Bongino:I'm so supportive. You're not thinking about her. You're not there with her. And there she is. And there she is. She's living through the consequences of her own actions. She's locked in the building because she's the one who fled the state. And so the Texas legislature passed arrest warrants for her. And now she's saying, I don't want the cops following me around. Okay, good. You stay locked in this building then until we're done with this. We'll have a quorum. We'll redraw these districts. We'll make it painful for you. And so she's doing that. Hilarious. I mean, I consider that a part of the punishment.

51:27Dan Bongino:Can you imagine? You're already in the midst of being imprisoned inside the Texas state legislature. And like, you think your punishment's bad now? Wait until Kamala Harris calls you. She gets the Kamala Harris phone call. And then Kamala spits out mindless platitudes over the course of, I spared you a lot of time. That was like three minutes of her just blabbering about nothing. Yeah. So there you go. There's birds of a feather. They flock together. They're doing their thing. Really, really amazing. Really, really amazing. Okay, some of the other stuff I wanted to hit with you today on what's going on in the world.

52:02Dan Bongino:Tulsi Gabbard has yanked security clearances from more of these Russiagate lunatics. Tulsi Gabbard has stripped 37 security clearances over Obama-ordered intel report that launched Russiagate. That's the New York Post headline today on the subject. DNI Tulsi Gabbard has announced that security clearances have been pulled from 37, 37 current and former officials who abused public trust by politicizing and manipulating information, including several who were involved in a controversial President Obama-ordered assessment of Russian influence in the 2016 election. The memo announced that more than three dozen intelligence professionals, three dozen, including a former top aide to James Clapper, had either politicized or weaponized intelligence, failed to safeguard classified info, or not followed tradecraft standards.

52:58Dan Bongino:The president has directed that effective immediately. The security clearances of the following 37 individuals are revoked. Okay, so Tulsi Gabbard looking like, what's the hair? She looks like one of the X-Men. Which X-Men has the white streak of hair? Is that Jean Grey? Yeah, Jean Grey, baby. Oh, is it Rogue? Oh, I was wrong. Isaac nodded, yes. It's Rogue. Okay, Guy has confirmed she looks like Rogue. Fellas, can I get a comparison shot somewhere on this? I need a rogue. I bet you the Internet's already done it. Rogue and Tulsi Gabbard. Yeah, everyone's telling me rogue. Although Storm is being mentioned here.

53:34Dan Bongino:I think it's rogue. Anyway, that's Tulsi Gabbard. Their access to classified systems, facilities, materials, and information is to be terminated forthwith. Any contracts or employment with the U.S. government by these 37 individuals is hereby terminated. Any contracts or employment is terminated. Any criminal credentials, rather, held by these individuals must be surrendered to the appropriate security officers. All right. So this is nine years after the 2016 hoax was manufactured. And, you know, do I wish it happened a lot sooner? Yes, I do. Am I glad it's happening at all? You bet I am. Thank you, Rogue.

54:14Dan Bongino:I appreciate you for doing that. She is one of the X-Men. Can I see that? You said you have the comparison? Where's that at? oh okay well that's a that's a rogue cover yeah yeah let me get here there you go put my screen up we've got the for the rumble uh feed rumble.com slash vince you can see all of this oh yeah oh that's her it's definitely her what is rogue's power is it mental it's like it's like she's like professor x what is it ghi

54:50Dan Bongino:whenever she touches another mutant, she steals their power. That's why she has to wear gloves. I kind of like that. Well, we got to figure, Tulsi Gabbard has a power. Whenever she detects somebody who's corrupt, she takes their power away from them, doesn't she? She strips them of their security clearances. Yeah, she's got the power. She absorbs their power. She's got the security clearance, and they don't. I love that. All right, there you go. There's Tulsi Gabbard as Rogue. Wonderful. She sucks the life out of people. Ishmael Cord says she sucks the life out of people. Basically, she's a woman.

55:30Dan Bongino:That's rude. That is rude. We don't say that. Not around here, Ishmael. Let's be respectful of the women. I'm very respectful of Tulsi. I don't want her taking my power away. Okay, so that's the update there on Tulsi Gabbard. Thank you, Tulsi, for doing that. Speaking of accountability, I've got another great one for you. Ed Martin, who is constantly dressed up like Columbo. He's got his trench coat on. Speaking of people who look like characters, Ed Martin looks like Columbo. And he dresses up in his trench coat. Here's Ed Martin. He's out in front of Letitia James' home in Brooklyn, dressed in his Columbo jacket.

56:07Dan Bongino:Yes, there's Ed Martin wearing his trench coat. And yes, it's the summer, but he's got to wear the costume. I love that. So Ed Martin's been stalking Letitia James, which, you know, it really couldn't happen to a better woman. It's perfect for him to be going after her. And we just got some news from Ed Martin, well, about Ed Martin, that he sent a letter to Letitia James's attorney, Abby Lowell, who's a top Democrat attorney. And he said, look, we're investigating her for mortgage fraud right now. It's really clear. Like, obviously, we're going after these grand juries being impaneled. Everything is going crazy for Letitia James right now.

56:46Dan Bongino:But there is a way for us to resolve all of this, Ed Martin offered. Ed Martin said that it would be best for the Democrat, for the good of the state and the nation to resign. And if she resigned from her job, Martin wrote her resignation from office would give the people of New York and America more peace than proceeding. I would take this as an act of good faith. Now, think about what he's saying here. Ed Martin, who has been tasked by President Trump to be the head of the weaponization group at the FBI. Ed Martin, who has been tasked by Pam Bondi to go after Adam Schiff and Letitia James right now.

57:26Dan Bongino:Basically sent a letter to James and said this. You want the heat to go away? You want this prosecution to go away? You want a good deal? I'll make you a good deal. you resign your job in disgrace and I will make this go away. So here are your options. Resign in disgrace or we are pursuing this prosecution against you. Now, there's a very strong part of me that really wants him to prosecute her either way, even if she resigned in disgrace. But that said, this is hilarious and it doesn't look like she's going anywhere. So what's great is we get the best of both worlds. We get the Ed Martin dunk and then we get the Ed Martin prosecution.

58:04Dan Bongino:So we have a lot to look forward to. As always, great to have you with us today. We've got a great new Vince podcast coming up for you tomorrow. The Vince Show, the big national radio show, a lot more to discuss. We'll do that today, 12 to 3 Eastern time. By then, we'll probably have the results out of Texas. And so much more ahead. Great, as always, to talk to you. The best damn audience in media. I'll be back with you tomorrow right here on Vince.