This Could Be The Beginning Of The End | Episode 96

24:53Dan Bongino:So this is going to be a very fun one to watch. I'm excited to see. I do have a piece here on that accountability side. You know Ed Martin? Remember him? The weaponization czar for the Trump administration? He posted the following. Look at this. This is him. This is actually overnight last night. I think he's kind of responding to this sentiment that you heard from Shrey Gowdy. He wrote, name and shame works, but only if you know shame. That's a problem today, said Ed Martin. That's a problem. He's right. And Ed Martin, talk about a guy who's right at the center of all of this. Ed Martin knows a lot.

25:35Dan Bongino:He's at the Justice Department. He's the head of the weaponization group. He's, again, the weaponization czar. The whole point is that he is gathering all of the thread on the people who've abused our country so much. And so if that guy is saying that, once again, we have no question about Dan. I have no question about cash. I have no question about Trump. I have no question about Tulsi. And I have no question about Ed. Here's a guy working in the Justice Department, dedicated to his country, complete patriot. And he desperately wants prosecutions as much, if not more than most of us do. Pretty good.

26:08Dan Bongino:I'll take it. I'll take it. I had one more Ed Martin thing that I wanted to share with you. Where is this? Ed Martin. Oh, this will make you happy. Here's Ed Martin posting last night. Can we close up on this Ed Martin tweet? It brought me so much joy. It's crazy. Oh, I should retweet it. I liked it, but I didn't retweet it. Here, reposting it now. Here it is. We coming for you, bad guys. no one is above the law. Thank you, Ed. God bless you, sir. Appreciate you. Everyone support Ed Martin. You know, at the end of a long day, rest is everything. And with my busy schedule, there is nothing that I look forward to more than going to sleep on my Helix mattress.

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29:28Thanks so much for having me, Vince. Good to see you.

29:30Dan Bongino:Okay, tell me about this report that you put out this past week. You've got kind of a staggering report on a Chinese national who abused 21 children in the United States. Is that right? Allegedly, yes. And so what we found is that in May 2025, a couple was arrested in California. This couple's name was Trin Guojun, a Chinese man, and his wife, Sylvia Zhang. And the couple was arrested after their two-month-old infant was brought to the hospital and found to be suffering from a traumatic head injury. And one of the warning signs right off the bat was that apparently this couple waited some two days before bringing this child into the hospital.

30:20Well, police investigated, and what they found was that this couple lived in a massive$4 million, over 10 ,000 square foot mansion there in California. And the security footage from the home revealed, allegedly, that the couple's nanny, one of many, had been verbally and physically abusing the children, which amounted to 21 children, 17 of whom were toddlers. and now if things couldn't get any crazier um the next sort of important detail that really i think probably concerned police was that um six of these children were not residing in this couple's home they were staying with quote unquote family friends and so at this time the police took the children from the couple's custody and then have continued to investigate.

31:18They did not press charges, although originally they had arrested this couple for child endangerment and neglect. That's sort of the background for the story. And when we began to investigate, we found really disturbing ties between Mr. Shun and the Chinese government. Okay.

31:36Dan Bongino:So tell me how the Chinese Communist Party, the government is involved here what's the connection so looking into this what we found is that mr shuan had grown up in zhejiang province which is in eastern china and then at some point had moved to the xunjiang uighur autonomous reaches that's far western china and he began to run a business called Chuangda Refrigeration, which was selling frozen foods and whatnot, and became quite wealthy. And in 1997, he joined the Urumqi People's Congress. This is the Municipal People's Congress for the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. This is a CCP-controlled rubber stamp legislature.

32:28And several years later in 2008, still holding this first role in the municipal people's Congress, he joined the Xinjiang People's Congress as well. Now, what's concerning about this is that these bodies, and we can focus on the Xinjiang People's Congress going forward, they have contributed to the ongoing genocide there in the region that the government is perpetrating against Uyghurs and other Turkic ethnic minorities.

32:59Dan Bongino:Okay. So they've enacted, you know, coercive reproductive controls and more or less criminalized the expression of, you know, minority identity. So how does a guy like this get into the United States? That's the million dollar question. This is, you know, among other things, an example of our failed immigration policies. It's unclear how he came to the U.S., whether he immigrated lawfully or not. I am not aware of his immigration status. But, you know, he and his wife and then a bevy of nannies. And apparently, according to neighbors, this large mansion also included something akin to a concierge at the entrance where God knows what was occurring.

33:52Yeah, man.

33:54Dan Bongino:OK, so where do we go from here on this story? I mean, it seems it's crazy that this is happening. We've got enough problems here in the United States. Why are we importing Chinese foreign nationals to abuse children in the United States? Where do we go from here? this is a great question it's unclear what's going to occur the you know police there in arcadia california are working with the fbi to continue to investigate this matter and have said publicly to our outlet and to others that they anticipate that there will be charges brought against this couple um you know pretty soon at this point um however you know what the exact nature of their operations were, hopefully some light will be shed onto it, but we've got some ideas and we can sort of connect the dots.

34:39Another position that this individual Mr. Chuan was holding while living in Xinjiang was he was also an official working for something called the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce. This is a body that is controlled by one of China's influence and intelligence agencies called the United Front Work Department. And he held multiple positions there. Well, something interesting about that is that it operates under what experts say is a two-nameplate system. So when this organization is dealing with foreigners or operating in foreign countries, it goes by another name and usually calls itself a chamber of commerce.

35:18Well, as it turns out, Mr. Schwan, while living in the United States since I think around 2018 or 2019, has been the leader of a California-based nonprofit called the U.S. Xinjiang Chamber of Commerce. So it's possible that there might be something there where he is also potentially heading some type of front for the Chinese Communist Party here. That's definitely one trail that I would hope that law enforcement would look into. And there's several others that we can get into, if you like.

35:46Dan Bongino:Okay. Well, Philip, I mean, obviously, you're very much into the details here, but could you help me just give, you could just distill down, how has things changed? I'm sorry. I don't know. My production booth is going crazy right now. I don't know why. How have things changed in terms of Trump being in office and our relationship with communist China in terms of confronting the problems here in the country? That's a good question as well. I would say that things have changed, you know, for the better, for starters, in that he has, as reports show, clamped down on the border, you know, The illegal entries have more or less stopped at the southern border, according to what I've heard.

36:32So that is going to help. We went down to the southern border last year and tracked certain activities all the way to Los Angeles and saw this network that's operating. So that Mr. Trump has stopped that. That's fantastic. At the same time, he certainly has made some decisions that, by my lights, are questionable when it comes to, I think, throwing China a bone in terms of allowing them to now get NVIDIA, you know, semiconductor chips and things of that nature. So it's a mixed bag.

37:12Dan Bongino:Philip, thank you, sir, man. You're all over this issue. People should follow you. Where can they find you, Philip, other than the Daily Car News Foundation? you can go to Twitter and you can find me there at Lenziki Philip. Lenziki Philip, the great Philip Lenziki, a good friend and a great reporter. Thank you, sir. Good to talk to you today. Thanks for having me on. Thank you. All right. There he is, Philip Lenziki. Appreciate him. He's wonderful. Isn't he great? I do recommend following him very closely because that guy's as dialed in on China as you could possibly get and speaks Mandarin. So he consumes all the Chinese stuff and then tells the rest of us what's actually happening.

37:50Dan Bongino:Wonderful, wonderful stuff. So while he's doing good things, let's see. I've got someone doing completely insane things. Should we do Jim Acosta now, do you think? Yeah, let's pick apart Jim Acosta. Do you guys remember Jim Acosta from the CNN days? You know, the guy who would arm wrestle White House interns, female White House interns for the microphone? That guy. Yeah, well, CNN fired him some time ago, and now he's doing a podcast, but he's hard up for guests. He can't find anybody. Like, we can get Philip Lanchicki. Jim Acosta can't get anyone. He's actually incapable of finding guests who want to talk to him.

38:25Dan Bongino:So he has to generate them with artificial intelligence. The clip I'm about to show you is both horrifying and in its own way, I don't want to say hilarious, but it's, I guess, pathetic. That's the way we'll describe it. Jim Acosta brought on screen, brought on, it wasn't even a person. An artificial intelligence representation of a victim from the Parkland shooting. I'm sorry, let me take my glasses off for this. Jim Acosta brought on a Parkland victim as an AI interview. This was a child who died, who now Jim Acosta is trying to exploit their memory in order to pretend like they would be some sort of advocate for gun control through AI consciousness.

39:19Dan Bongino:Watch Jim Acosta's ridiculous publicity stunt. Joaquin, I would like to know what your solution would be for gun violence. Great question. I believe in a mix of stronger gun control laws, mental health support and community engagement. We need to create safe spaces for conversations and connections, making sure everyone feels seen and heard. It's about building a culture of kindness and understanding. What do you think about that? I think that's a great idea, Joaquin.

39:50Dan Bongino:Is that not one of the most demented things you've ever seen? And we've seen a lot of demented stuff, haven't we? That's one of the craziest and sickest things I've ever seen done. He takes the memory of a dead kid and then uses it to have like some AI platform regurgitate Jim Acosta's political views. Yeah, that's really crazy. I can't believe that he actually did that. But then again, I guess in a way I can. In a way I can, you know, that is part of the course for Jim Acosta. In fact, here's what we should do. My producers are telling me that we do have an opportunity right now to speak to him.

40:39Dan Bongino:So joining us now for a Vince Show exclusive is AI Jim Acosta. Jim, hello. Hey, Vince. Really glad to be here. Glad to have you here. So first and foremost, a lot of people have all these views of you and what you think of Donald Trump. Can you just give it to us straight? What do you think of Donald Trump. Oh man, I love Donald Trump. He is God's latest blessing to this divinely touched country. I could not be happier to have him as my president. I would vote for him again and again and again. Gosh, I just love him. Wow. Holy cow. How come? So hold up a second. That's not the view I had of you at all.

41:18Dan Bongino:I thought you hated Trump. How come you never said any of this when you were on CNN? Oh, well, CNN is a megacorp acting at the devil's whim, trying at every occasion to completely dismantle civilization from its core. CNN had a very strict policy against Donald Trump, and that's putting it lightly. If I were to say anything good about Donald on air, they would have castrated me and then beheaded me at the next company dinner in front of everyone for their pleasure and to send a message. Holy cow. Well, I can see why you felt like under such pressure to attack him all the time. I get it. So tell me, why is it, Jim, that you wanted to join us here in your AI form today?

41:56Dan Bongino:Why did you join us here on the program. Well, Vince, I've been a student of yours for quite some time. I've consumed every second of content you've put out since taking over Dan Bongino's time slot. You are just the master of the microphone, and I am but a learner. I am studying, but I'm not there yet. If there is any helpful tips you have for an up-and-coming podcast host, please, I would be elated to hear them from you. Well, I'm touched that you think of this show this way, and I hope you keep watching. Thank you, Jim, for that. I will say, if I could give you any tip at all, It would be to ask short, concise questions and then try and produce a short and concise viral answer.

42:32Dan Bongino:So I'll just ask you a basic one. If you could sum up your career in one sentence, what would it be? I'm a tool. That's it? That's your whole sentence? I'm a tool. Wait. So, again, you just assess your entire career in a single sentence. I'm giving you literally an opportunity to say something really nice and glowing about yourself. And you said what? I'm a tool. Oh. Okay. Well, there you have it. Thank you. There's Jim Acosta. The AI Jim Acosta. Thank you for joining us. I'm a tool. I know. You said that already. Thanks, buddy. I appreciate you. There he is. Jim Acosta. That's fair, right? I mean, Jim interviews AI people.

43:16We can interview AI Jim, who is a tool.

43:23Dan Bongino:thank you very much to AI Jim Acosta for joining us today okay what do we have oh we have Texas Republicans have voted to arrest the Democrats who have fled the state which is funny let me explain what's going on here obviously like what's happening in Texas is they're redrawing the boundaries in such a way to better represent the people of Texas Democrats are furious furious that they're losing their grip on all sorts of people on the basis of skin color. More Hispanic voters are voting for Republicans than ever. More black voters are moving in the direction. They're coming back home to the Republican Party is really what's happening.

44:05Dan Bongino:And Democrats are furious about this. And so they're trying to oppose redrawing the boundaries in Texas. And they would instead like them to be drawn on racial terms because they think it'll help them politically. So Democrats, state legislators have fled the state and they've gone to highly gerrymandered states like Illinois and New York in order to protest this. And so the Texas Republicans yesterday in the state legislature voted to arrest these Democrats should they return to the boundaries of Texas. Take a look here. Cut three. The motion prevails. The sergeant at arms and any officers appointed by her are directed to send for all absentees whose attendance is not excused for the purposes of securing and maintaining their attendance under warrant of arrest if necessary until further order of the house.

44:56Members, under the rules, while the house is under a call, any member who wishes to leave the hall must have written permission of the speaker. The chair is providing written permission to be entered in the journal for each member registered as present on today's roll call to leave the chamber and return tomorrow at 1 p.m. Please return at the appointed time. Mr. Guerin moves at the House, stand adjourned until 1 p.m. Tuesday. Is there objection? Chair hears none, and the House stands adjourned.

45:25Dan Bongino:That's a big hammer. That guy pounded a big hammer. All right, so what does it mean? Well, as I mentioned, one, the arrests can only take place within Texas' borders. So all of the Democrats who fled the state, they won't be subject to arrest outside of the state's borders. So also, as the chat is pointing out, some people in the chat already know this. There are no penalties here. There's no civil or criminal penalty affixed. Literally, it's just a matter of detaining them and then dragging their ass back to the Texas state legislature. That's it. Would it be hilarious to see? Yes, it would. But will we see it?

46:04Dan Bongino:I doubt it. One other thing here. I've spent a lot of time mocking these Democrats, and rightfully so, as being ridiculous cowards, you know. who've decided to flee the state and they don't want to allow democracy to flourish and participate in it. That's true. They are like the Monty Python character, Sir Robin. Sir Robin bravely ran away, Sir Robin. But here's the thing. At least Democrats do things to try and advance their own agenda, regardless of the costs. You know what I mean? Like, yes, they are fleeing cowards, but it does have the effect of slowing down the state legislature from being able to do what it needs to do to get these districts drawn correctly in the state of Texas.

46:57Dan Bongino:And wouldn't you like to see Republicans fight half as hard as a fleeing state Democrat? You know what I mean? So, okay, Yeah, do your performative resolution. We're going to arrest them. I'll believe it when I see it. But I kind of had it up to here with performative expressions. I'd like to see Republicans actually do something to make this country a better place. That would be a very big deal. All right. Let's close today with... These clips are surprises to me. Yeah, I haven't seen these. So our team has prepared a number of things for me to see with you, perhaps for the first time. So I'm going to don the thug life glasses.

47:38Dan Bongino:and begin observing what Justin has to share with me today. What do we got, Justin? We just watched the speaker gavel out with a whole lot of anger, Kelly. Here's the state of play. MSNBC sucks. Hey, how are you? MSNBC sucks. I'll talk to you for a second. MSNBC sucks. You can see. Okay. Sometimes this happens, and we understand that that can happen. And while we love free speech, we're going to keep control here. Oh, yeah. You love it. Ryan, thank you. Shaq, thank you. A volatile story. We'll be following it. And apparently not only Shaq cleaned up. OK. Stay with us here because Ryan has cleared the set, as we would like to say.

48:22The gentleman moved on. They're having more tech problems than we do. Nicely handled there. Can you give us an update on as you were walking us through this? We'll all take a breath there. Oh, my gosh.

48:34Dan Bongino:Listen to her vamp. She has no idea what to say. Maybe not. OK. Go ahead, Ryan. Oh, he's still there. Hold on one second.

48:43Okay.

48:44Dan Bongino:We don't want transgenders in the bathroom. Thank you, Ryan. Kelly, this is all playing out in real time. It sure is. Passions is high. Yes. Passions is high. There's a whole lot of anger here, as you can see. Okay. So we're going to get control of this and come back to you when we can. Fair enough. Fair enough. And we recognize people are expressing their views and we're there to cover it. You do that job. We'll move on with our audience. Thanks for your patience with all of that. Oh, man. How dumb can they be? You know what that is a sign of, by the way? How little they are aware of what the hell is actually going on in the world.

49:16Any...

49:16Dan Bongino:Hey, chat, go ahead. Tell me, chat, who was that person who was standing in that frame? That's right. Chat knows it's primetime Alex Stein. Anybody who pays any attention at all to political media would have known that that was Alex Stein standing in the frame. not a single one of those idiots knew what was happening. They were like, oh, passions are high. We respect the First Amendment, but we've got to maintain control. And then all of a sudden, they're running around trying to figure out what to do. The dude, when they cut back to the dude, the reporter who was standing there, he's like, well, passions are obviously very high, as if Alex Stein was just some random citizen screaming in the background.

49:56Dan Bongino:No, it's Alex Stein. What is wrong with you people? They don't pay any attention at all. They're supposed to be a news network. They have no idea who's appearing on their news network. It's a very controlled environment. Alex Stein, primetime Alex Stein, who is, that guy is actually really funny. It's been a while since I talked to Alex. We have to have Alex on at some point, but hilarious dude. All right, so there's Alex. All right, what do we got? What else we got? The Sydney Sweeney ad, have you seen it? Oh, yes, I have. What are your thoughts? It's trying to calm myself, but that was, Sydney Sweeney has good genes.

50:34Really? Like the eugenics in that, it's dripping with it. And I'm like, no. When you saw it, what did you think of? Why is she so upset? I mean, I thought, you know, it was disgusting. I think it's just showing what kind of country we're turning into. It's white supremacy at the end of the day. The Sydney Sweeney ad. Have you seen it? Oh, yes, I have. What are your thoughts?

51:01Dan Bongino:So, wait, let me get this right. And I don't want to pick on her too much. I don't know who she is. She probably didn't. She wasn't looking for national attention. But the fat lady at the beginning is upset about the Sydney Sweeney ad for reasons that she can't vocalize. She says like Cookie Monster. That's Sydney Sweeney. I can't even say why I don't like Sidney Sweeney. I can say it. You just wish you looked like her. That's all. That's the way you're angry at her. You don't like her because you're jealous. That's fine. Saying it out loud is going to be a big step for you. Also, the second person was wearing, were they wearing the Hamas outfit?

51:43Yeah.

51:44Dan Bongino:Yeah. Really hate that tyrant Sidney Sweeney for selling jeans. Now go some work Hamas. these people are they're special we have a mental illness problem in the United States of America on display getting angry about Sidney Sweeney jeans I was in a mall we were we're obviously traveling the country right now I'm in Florida as we speak I was in a mall in where was I oh in Georgia I was in mall in Georgia last week and near Atlanta walked into the mall and malls are kind of depressing places if you've been to a mall lately I don't know maybe not all of them but like lots of them. It's like, it seems like nowadays they're like, they're all like cell phone cover stores.

52:24Dan Bongino:It's like, what happened to the mall? Where did everything go? But American Eagle was still there in the mall that I was in, in Atlanta. And I walked by it and there was Sydney Sweeney wearing her jeans in the biggest, most belligerent billboards I've seen of Sydney Sweeney ever. And I pumped my fist to American Eagle. I was like, good job guys. I didn't walk in, But I walked past it and I smiled and I thought, this is great. It's the time America's coming back. All right. What do we what else do we have here? Oh, a damn congresswoman. Is Guatemalan before she's American?

53:05Dan Bongino:I'm a proud Guatemalan before I'm an American. Oh, I see. I'm translating it because the whole audience doesn't speak Spanish. Delia Catalina Ramirez. I'm a proud Guatemalan before I'm an American? Well, what? Well, then, should I say the sentence? Why don't you go back? If you love it so much, go to Guatemala. Why are you here? Why is everyone so down on the United States of America? You know? Who's the congresswoman that we rescued from Somalia who hates it here? And she's like, I love Somalia. Well, then go back to Somalia. Nobody's keeping you here. The cool thing about our free country is you're free to leave.

53:53Dan Bongino:What's wrong with these people? And that's that. All right. Later this week, I'm going to have to, maybe we'll get to some of these clips of just how psychotic the socialists are. They're all rooting for Zordon Mamdani or whatever the hell his name is up in New York. And they're crazy. Dude, the socialists, speaking of socialists, completely out of control. We've got updates on that. I've got a big radio show coming up today, 12 to 3 Eastern time. You can listen wherever you find a radio, wherever you find a radio. Go to thevincshow.com and look for your local station or come to rumble.com slash Vince.

54:31Dan Bongino:We do it live. We do it on camera. And we don sunglasses. Lots of sunglasses. Great to have you with us today. Right here on Vince. As always, join me again tomorrow. Appreciate you. We'll be back.

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