Trump Is Finding The Missing Children | Episode 129

20:11Dan Bongino:And so they're making the job of law enforcement even more difficult. And by the way, more dangerous. If the message becomes like, hey, all of a sudden we're going to we're going to flag the presence of law enforcement in a very violent city. you're subjecting those men and women who are waking up each day in order to enforce the law to even more threats than they already face. I just told you the statistic on this. ICE officers are facing a 1000 % increase in assaults right now because of this kind of insane behavior from the left, which continues. And, you know, it's totally typical. But in case you're wondering, is the Trump administration staying on this mission?

20:58Dan Bongino:Oh, yes, they are. Are they deporting hundreds of thousands of people? Oh, yes, they are. Have millions of people self-deported? Oh, yes, they have. And are we rescuing children? You're damn right we are. Over 25 ,000 missing children have been recovered from slavery and sex trafficking. The president continues the mission we elected him on. And the left continues to try and thwart it, even in the most comical, stupid ways. All right, more ahead on the program. We've got to get to the left and their bizarro reaction to Jimmy Kimmel being suspended. The whole thing is so stupid. If they could summon up 10 % of the outrage for Charlie Kirk's assassination, we would change this country for the better.

21:48Dan Bongino:But they can't. They barely care about that. And they're very exercised about the fact that some overpaid, unfunny moron just was suspended for legitimate reasons. More ahead on this edition of Vince. Great to have you with us. The best audience anywhere, truly. If there's something that all of us can believe in, it's hard work, self-reliance, and showing up for the people who count on us. But you see, a while back, I was hitting a wall because I wasn't sleeping well. I was getting terrible sleep, and then I would drag myself through the next day on fumes, and that doesn't work. It doesn't work at all, not for your health, not for your work, for nothing.

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24:01Dan Bongino:And they lead with that in the headline, Vince Colonnese Continues Climb in August, Triton Digital Podcast Rankings. Triton Digital releasing these rankings for the month of August. This show has risen another two positions during the month. And they say that this show has climbed, again, two positions, now 11th in the ranker. The show grew past the NPR Politics podcast and the Global News podcast from the BBC. Also, the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show finished at 14th, a couple points back from us. And Consider This from NPR was 15th. The Bulwark podcast was at 16th. And so for what it's worth, I just want to extend my immense gratitude to you guys for making this show what it is now.

24:48Dan Bongino:it has been it honestly it's just been the one of the best experiences of my life being with you since we got this whole thing started in March of this year it's been a total blast and I want to offer my gratitude not just to you but to the team that makes this possible Guy, Justin, Andy, Paula Bongino, Dan Bongino for entrusting me in the first place it's been a blast so thank you for that thank you very much for that i figured i'd uh i'd we could celebrate together i was seeing that yesterday i'm like well i gotta tell the audience about this that's that's wonderful news so let's let's keep that going um uh people who don't have an audience include jimmy kimmel that's that's been true for a while now by the way uh kimmel i don't even know don't you love the left the way that they like they they rally to unpopular causes they're like yeah men who could become women.

25:41That's our thing. Jimmy Kimmel. That's our thing. Nobody even watches Jimmy Kimmel. Everybody's been alienated by that idiot.

25:48Dan Bongino:Or USAID. They're showing up outside of USAID as if the rest of us are going to get animated to defend a slush fund for the left. No, we don't think you should have any money. This is so stupid. Pick something popular for once. What's with all these stupid unpopular causes that you're trying to use? I saw Cory Cory Booker trying to fundraise off of Jimmy Kimmel yesterday. Yeah, I got an email from Cory Booker's fundraising apparatus that for some reason they think I'm going to give him money. And it was like, defend Jimmy Kimmel and give us money. First of all, I don't know how giving you money would defend Jimmy Kimmel.

26:22Dan Bongino:And also, can't you pick something more popular? Like, what is this? Kimmel. So speaking of Kimmel, let's get into some of the realities of what happened with Jimmy Kimmel. The left has made a big deal. They're like, oh, it was Brendan Carr. It was the FCC guy, the FCC commissioner, the chairman of the FCC, who drove Jimmy Kimmel off the air, a real threat to the First Amendment. And then you start seeing the news coverage on this. Turns out that's bullshit. It wasn't Brendan Carr. Now, Brendan Carr did have some words to say about Jimmy Kimmel. And no doubt that drew a lot of attention to the venom that Jimmy Kimmel was spewing earlier this week.

27:05Dan Bongino:No question whatsoever. But the Wall Street Journal and a couple of other outlets, they've got reports up now on what exactly went down at Disney that led to Kimmel being booted from the air this week. And let me just I'll scroll right down to to the the most important takeaway of this story. Kimmel was planning on, according to the Wall Street Journal, addressing Brendan Carr's comments on his show Wednesday night. That would be two nights ago, according to people familiar with the matter. Before his on-air appearance, he was contacted by one of the top executives at Disney, a guy called Dana Walden.

27:46Dan Bongino:In fact, I don't know if Dana's a woman or a male, but either way, Dana Waldman, co-chairman, yeah, man, of Disney Entertainment, spoke to Kimmel about his plan, the people said. and then after the conversation between Kimmel and Walden oh I'm sorry it is a chick it says she why'd you call it a chair man it's a chair woman what's wrong with you Wall Street Journal it's a chair woman after the conversation between Kimmel and Walden she and other senior executives thought that the star's approach the star

28:25The stars approach could make the situation worse. People familiar with their conversations said, oh, so this wasn't about the FCC. This was about Kimmel being an idiot and Disney and this Dana executive saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a second.

28:43Dan Bongino:executives discussed staff safety including threatening emails that staff on Kimmel's show had received after Carr's remarks yeah they're the victims now and the posting of some of their personal information online the people said Walden huddled with her team and Disney chief executive Bob Eiger before the two executives decided to temporarily take Jimmy Kimmel live off the air the people said she then informed Kimmel of the decision okay so again the most important feature here is not the gender of the executive or anything else. It's that she spoke to Jimmy and when she realized that things were not going to be improved by Jimmy's commentary that night, they said, nope, you're not going on the air.

29:28Dan Bongino:That's not going to happen. Additionally, CNN has a report that gives us even more color about this. According to one of the individuals familiar with the situation. Kimmel was prepared to deliver his monologue Wednesday night and planned to address the right-wing backlash to his remarks made earlier in the week regarding the politicization of Kirk's killing. I want to remind you of what he actually said. He said that MAGA people spent the weekend trying to pretend like this guy was anyone but one of their own, meaning Tyler Robinson the assassin

30:13Dan Bongino:the vile commentary from Jimmy Kimmel was to suggest that the killer was a right winger that this was somehow your fault this was a conservative problem a MAGA problem how vile so of course people were outraged about that so according to one of the individuals familiar with this he planned on addressing this Wednesday night This individual described Kimmel's planned monologue as, quote, very hot, comma, taking aim at the MAGA base. Oh, taking aim, huh? At the MAGA base. Are you listening to any of this? Look, oh, so Jimmy Kimmel was going to take aim at MAGA the week after Charlie Kirk was assassinated in cold blood in Utah.

31:06Dan Bongino:The big thing is Jimmy Kimmel is upset that people are mad at him for being a jackass. And that he was going to spend Wednesday night attacking you for noticing he was going to take aim at you in the words of CNN. Do these people even think before they choose the words they use to describe any of this? Charlie Kirk was shot. Oh, they're going to take aim at MAGA. Got it. So the reason Kimmel was booted off the air is not because Brendan Carr was trampling on the First Amendment. The reason he was taken off the air was because Disney recognized that their entire business was going through an epic collapse.

31:52Dan Bongino:You had affiliates across the country from Nexstar and Sinclair, 60 different ABC affiliates saying, we're not airing Jimmy Kimmel anymore. This is insane. We can't air this kind of garbage on our networks. And then when Kimmel was contacted by an ABC executive, hey, what are you going to do here? He's like, oh, I'm going to attack MAGA. I'm going to go on television and I'm going to double down and I'm going to give a hot attack on MAGA. Okay. Yeah, no, you're not doing that. We're taking you off the air. So Disney, for the first time in a long time, made the right decision. Now, they didn't go the distance.

32:24Dan Bongino:They haven't officially fired the guy. The claim is that they've temporarily suspended him. So we'll see what happens if he actually comes back from all of this. But in the meantime, yeah, rightfully so, they yanked this dude from the air. So the next time you hear somebody like, oh, Brendan Carr's trampling on the First Amendment. Trump's trampling on the First Amendment. No. Jimmy Kimmel promised that he was going to double down on his lies and attack MAGA. And then Disney said, that might not be good for business. So they pulled him off the air. That's what actually happened. Somebody tell the left, they're going crazy right now.

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36:10Here's just one example. Here's flatulent Eric Swalwell.

36:16Dan Bongino:He was wearing his Jimmy Kimmel merchandise on national TV. This is the kind of thing I think they give you for going to the television show. I don't think you could sell this hat. I'm not sure goodwill would accept it. Here is a cut six Eric Swalwell yesterday. Congressman, I see you are wearing a hat. What does that hat say? You're damn right I am, John. I was a guest on the Jimmy Kimmel show. He every night has a right to come into any house that wants to watch and entertain Americans, just as Greg Gutfield on Fox has a right to be not funny and go on his network and entertain Americans. It's a part of who we are, John.

37:01And frankly, it should shake every American that the president of the United States is out there firing comedians who make fun of him. That is not who we are. And every American should care and stand up to this. That's an unreal appearance by Eric Swalwell. He was, boy, he was all gassed up, wasn't he? And so so there he is wearing his wild hat on television. The the Jimmy, the Jimmy Kimmel hat. And then and then you get the former vice presidential nominee, Tim Walls, who he's he is furious over this. He's he's all hot and bothered. He's got his he's waving his hands around. He's mad that Jimmy Kimmel, who nobody watched, is now not going to be on television anymore.

37:50Here's a cut three. Tim Walls. This is it. If you ever wondered how democracy dies, you're witnessing it. And I know people are watching a football game tonight and we'll kind of sleepwalk through this thing. Don't remind them. We got them here, Governor. This is, as you said, one of the most outrageous affronts. We got them here. Yeah, well, right. That's one of the most outrageous affronts on this. This is North Korea-style stuff. And it's being done because this is a weak, thin-skinned man who's failing as a president. All of the things he promised are not happening. And this is exactly what dictators do.

38:22It's a it's our most cherished freedom to point out very clearly. This is a terrible president and a terrible. Enough. Enough. Enough. Just make it go. I don't want to hear any more. He's so crazy. This is North Korea. He says this is this is fascism, say people who either don't understand fascism or who are very happy to project that sin onto their political opponents or some combination of both. I mean, just think about the insanity of all of this. Like, who is it who's responsible for clamping down on speech in America? That's the left. Who is it who shut down your ability to communicate on social media companies?

39:00That's the left. Who shut down Parler entirely?

39:06Dan Bongino:That's the left. what administration did all of that well that would be the biden administration president auto pen they stopped rfk jr from communicating with you they were shutting down tucker carlson videos about how masks don't work how the covid jab wasn't stopping the transmission of covid it's it's insanity these these people are nuts and have you encountered any of this either on social media or in anywhere else in your life where people say well you got to be careful here you know because if Jimmy Kimmel gets suspended, then, you know, what if the left starts clamping down on free speech?

39:46Like, you just wake up from a coma? Are you serious right now? What if the left clamps down on free speech? That's all the left does. The left has been doing it for years with tyrannical, ruthless efficiency. Are you a psychopath right now?

40:03Dan Bongino:So I'm loving the screeching here. I love it. I don't know about you. Chad, we love this. We love this screeching. It's insane what you're hearing. So don't fall for any of that crap. Don't fall for any of the moral blackmail. It's very straightforward. If you say insane things on television and it hurts your business interest when you do it, and then your company decides to suspend you or fire you as a result of that. That's what we on the right like to refer to as consequence culture, right? Right. No, not cancel culture, consequence culture. Yeah, there are consequences for your stupidity. And you're you're under undergoing them right now, way after you should have been.

40:42You should have been years ago. Now, I showed Tim Walls to you. Remember, Kamala tapped Tim Walls, of course, to be her running mate, which hilarious. And one of her many bad decisions.

40:55Dan Bongino:But we just got an update on on why it is she chose Tim Walls and not other people. You remember that she passed over the Pennsylvania governor, Josh Shapiro, because he was Jewish. That's right. She passed over the guy because he was Jewish. She had become convinced that the country was too anti-Semitic to support that ticket. So she decided, no, I'm not going with him. Americans are anti-Semites. So she decided to go with the dude who waves with two hands, Tim Walz. You know, Elmer Fudd, the guy doesn't even know how to fire a shotgun. And we got an update now. It wasn't just Josh Shapiro that she passed over.

41:40She also passed over Pete Boot edge edge. Check out this from the New York Post. Kamala Harris reveals her first choice for running mate wasn't Tim Walls. This is in her new book. Kamala Harris settled on Tim Walls. She settled for Tim Walls to be her running mate last year because she felt Americans were too racist, anti-Semitic, and homophobic to accept her preferred option. Pete Bootedge Edge. In an excerpt from the former vice president's forthcoming book, 107 Days, obtained by The Atlantic, Harris describes Bootedge Edge as her first choice, but later deemed the openly gay former transportation secretary too big of a risk for the ticket.

42:30boot edge edge would have been an ideal partner if I were a straight white man, said Kamala Harris. I love this. But we already are asking a lot of America, she said, to accept a woman, a black woman, she capitalizes B for black, like an idiot, a black woman married to a Jewish man, she continued. Part of me wanted to say, screw it, let's just do it. but knowing what was at stake, it was too big of a risk. And I think Pete also knew that to our mutual sadness. Now, are you listening to what she's saying about you? The whole point of this is that you suck. That's the assessment that she's making

43:15Dan Bongino:or that her ghostwriter is making here. You suck. You're a racist, you're a sexist, you're an anti-Semite, and you're a homophobe. you're an awful human being. So I can't choose Pete boot edge edge because his gayness would be just an additional problem because I'm a black woman and America hates me for that. This is the kind of idiotic assessment that Kamala Harris was making. This is the kind of idiotic assessment the left constantly makes. And let me just point out something that's really hilarious about this. Are you saying, Kamala, please, come closer. Come here. Come here.

43:57Dan Bongino:Are you really telling me that you thought Pete Boot Edge Edge was too gay to be your running mate? So you went with Tim Walls?

44:15You've got to be kidding me.

44:27I can't even... I don't even know what... Really? Boy, it's a good thing we did not make her president of the United States. I mean, because... Let's be honest. I mean, if you're just judging people based on appearances and behaviors, Tim Walz is a lot gayer than people... Shh, shh, shh.

44:51oh at any rate it's uh it's so funny i i can't even these people are so ridiculous you know you know it sucks that we have enemies who are um so demented it is a joy that we have enemies that are so stupid it is it is really really the funniest thing um uh pete boot edge edge was asked about this actually yesterday a political reporter ran up on him and said hey what do you think Think about this, that that Kamala Harris thought you were too gay to be the running mate. And here is. Do you have this, fellas? Did I? I swear I had this pulled. Do we have this, Justin? OK, show me that. Show me Pete Buttigieg responding to that news.

45:34I just had the chance to talk to former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and asked him to respond to former Vice President Kamala Harris's latest book excerpt published by The Atlantic, in which he says that picking him as her vice president would have been far too big a risk and that America wasn't quite ready for a gay vice president alongside a black woman president. Here's what he told me. Well, I was surprised when I read that. I just believe in giving Americans more credit than that. My experience in politics has been that the way that you earn trust with voters is based mostly on what they think you're going to do for their lives, not on categories.

46:14And I wouldn't have run for president if I didn't believe that. Now, obviously, like what Pete Buttigieg is doing is being the deceptive little liar that he is. Like he's been he definitely has leaned heavily on the I'm a gay dude. You should support me because of that. That's my identity. That's obviously been a huge feature of his political career.

46:36Dan Bongino:But the sentiment that he's dishonestly expressing is correct, which is it's not actually about the color of your skin. or your genitals or who you sleep with or anything like that. It's entirely about like, how are you going to measurably improve my life? What in the world are you going to do to get the government out of my life, to help bring costs down, to defend my country, to secure my borders, to stop the death and the misery that's going on in our communities? What are you going to do? So boot edge edge is definitely mouthing the correct words, which is it's actually about what are you going to do for voters it's not about identity and the left is stuck in this moronic cul-de-sac they still think it really is and they have utter loathe kamala harris this is a woman who's never going to learn an actual lesson from her loss even the title of her book is an excuse 107 days i just didn't have enough time stop being such a bitch how about just confront entirely the failures that led to your catastrophic loss just you know be honest with yourself this is some helpful advice from me to you just be honest with yourself you want to improve take seriously the fact that you are a part of a losing political agenda try and do something that actually helps somebody's life instead of tearing everything down all the time and stop being such a demented narcissist who thinks that this is all about how people don't like you because of some immutable characteristic it's completely idiotic they don't like you because you're unlikable that's what's actually going on but anyway she's on her book tour and she wants you to know that she skipped over pete bootage edge because he was too gay to join the ticket that was her that was her view so she went with tim wall it's really really wonderful stuff.

48:37Dan Bongino:Lefties continue their insanity. It wouldn't be a day ending in Y if we didn't have lefties being nuts. This is an exchange between Congressman Byron Donalds and Congresswoman, for some reason, Rashida Tlaib yesterday. As Rashida Tlaib, right after a week after Charlie Kirk gets assassinated, Rashida Tlaib continues to call conservatives fascists, You know, people who respect the Constitution and the rule of law and the, you know, the various branches of our government. She says you're a fascist for holding that position. And Byron Donald's rightly smacked her down yesterday. Take a look at this.

49:14And here in D.C. and across the country, it is so incredibly important, Mr. Chair, that this committee does not allow rhetoric that defames or paints Washington, D.C. in a way that you all haven't really truly seen. You're just reading it or something off of some. Will the gentlelady yield to a question? Yeah, I think it's really important. Will the gentlelady yield? No, I don't yield. I don't even have time. I can tell you. Your time's expired. It is expired. But, Mr. Chair, but you all live here, and you're not telling people the beautiful parts that you do see in our nation's capital. And no, no, no.

49:52It's just wrong how we're doing it. Chairman, I think it's a shame that the general lady doesn't have an argument, but she's going to refer to me and some of my colleagues. We were from the Third Reich. This is insane. It's insane. You're going to look at 14, 15-year-olds as a bunch of criminals? It's insane. Do I look like a member of the Third Reich to you, Ms. Tlaib? Is that what I look like to you? You're the one taking your phone card. Is that what you think? Is that what you think? Is that what you think? I think it's radical and I think it's insane. And I don't respect everything that you say.

50:19But to say something like that to myself and a lot of my colleagues is way out of line. It's way out of line. It's way out of line. Regular order, Mr. President. Way out of line. Regular order. That's okay. But it's okay, right? That is not how it goes. It's okay, right? You hold yourself accountable before you talk about Washington. Hold myself accountable? Hold myself accountable. Hold your own self accountable. How about that? Keep it out of your mouth. Hold your own self accountable. How about that? Free D.C. And make sure you vote with your own voting card. Don't be giving it to somebody else.

50:45All right, time.

50:50Oh, I love Byron Donalds. God bless that man for having to deal with that garbage. Rashida Tlaib is acting like D.C. was totally fine. She's like, why are you always talking about all the bad stuff in D.C.? Because D.C.'s been a hellhole because of what your party's done to it. Thank God for President Trump. Thank God that they've cleaned up the nation's capital. This is exactly what we want these guys doing. And Tlaib says it's fascistic to restore order to the nation's capital, just to give you a sense of her priorities. And I love I love Byron Donald's going fascistic like we're the third right.

51:25Do I look like a third right guy to you? Do I? Come on, look at me. Do I look like a third right guy to you?

51:30Dan Bongino:And you can tell he's winning the argument based on the most emotionally incontinent response to it. she starts going absolutely bull-less. Yeah, okay. Settle down, sweetheart. You lost the argument. That happens. Things like this happen. Let's see. I've got more pearls of wisdom. This one comes to us by way of, you ready? Crazy Jasmine Crockett. Uh-huh. Here she goes on the issue of crime. It turns out if you commit a crime, it doesn't mean you're a criminal. Listen. And I do think that I'm in a unique situation because I was having the conversations with people that were going out and committing crimes.

52:10And so I understood what was kind of pushing them there. And so I do want people to know that just because someone has committed a crime, it doesn't make them a criminal. That that is completely different. Being a criminal is more so about your mindset. Committing a crime can come for a lot of different reasons.

52:34yes the hippie guy who's interviewing her is like yes that's deep it's really deep um no it's not it's very stupid it's very stupid chat um give me a definition for a criminal anybody what is a criminal somebody i'm waiting for let's let's see if i can get the simple definition here for a criminal from uh from the chat here let's see here they come yes it's when you commit a crime one one who commits a crime yeah that lady's a member of congress and uh you know where this comes from you see so uh first of all at some point she was a public defender apparently i know this is a fun fact every time I stumble across it, which is that lady's a lawyer.

53:25How did she pass the bar? I like more investigation of that exactly. But, you know, this whole thing about

53:32Dan Bongino:like, oh, you know, just because you commit a crime doesn't make you a criminal. Actually, that's the defining feature of being a criminal is that you've committed a crime. And it doesn't mean you have to be, you know, a criminal for the rest of your life. But in that moment, the thing you did, that was a criminal thing. Yeah, you're a criminal for having done that. And hopefully you learn from your mistakes. No question. I totally believe in redemption. But here's the thing. Where that comes from is a left-wing myth that is basically like the reason we've got to support crime is because people who commit crimes often do it because they're merely desperate for some sort of wholesome outcome.

54:13Dan Bongino:In other words, like they're just they're poor and they're they're doing they're stealing food in order to feed their families. And we shouldn't be so judgy about people who are under those circumstances. And has that circumstance ever existed? Yes. Is it does it exist rampantly in the United States? No, it doesn't. In fact, it's a massive myth that the left keeps pushing on everybody. In fact, in the United States, we spend somewhere in the vicinity of$200 billion every year, and that's just taxpayers, on things like food stamps, nutrition assistance. The generosity of the American people towards people who are actually struggling and hungry is immense.

54:57Dan Bongino:And that doesn't include all of the private charities that work constantly in the food banks to try and make sure that people are fed, nourished, all of the efforts to try and make sure people have a roof over their head. The American people are deeply, deeply generous. This idea that people need to be knocking over their 7-Eleven in order to steal bread or go shoplifting just to be able to feed the kids, it's a myth in the United States. In fact, food and shelter are widely available to those who need it. That's just the truth. And in fact, the lion's share of the actual criminality of this nature that's done is and there was a great city journal piece on this in 2023.

55:39Dan Bongino:It's called The Myth of the Starving Shoplifter. And what they talk about in the piece is that most of the shoplifting that actually happens in the United States these days is organized criminal shoplifting. This is just organized retail theft. And what ends up happening is people steal stuff and then they they give it to an organization that places it online or they list it themselves and they sell it. They sell it. One of the most rampantly stolen and resold goods in America are Tide Pods. yeah tide pods people are going online to get a good deal on laundry detergent on tide pods and they're buying it from a black market of stolen goods people are just stealing stuff it's the reason why depending on where you live increasingly in in shop lifting heavy areas more and more normal stuff is now behind cages you have to ask a clerk to unlock the cage or retrieve receive a normal household good, not because of people who have fallen on desperate times, who are stealing the goods in order to take care of their families, but instead because of criminals who are just committing these crimes and they're allowed out, they're allowed to do it by the left, by people like Jasmine Crockett.

57:00Dan Bongino:It's all too crazy and it has to stop. And so I can't even believe I gave you that assessment of Jasmine Crockett, like she's a serious person, but I have to. She's an elected official. And the kind of thinking that she's using, if you can even call it that, animates too much of the destructive left. So it's too crazy. Hey, thank you as always. The best audience anywhere. Really appreciate you. We've got a massive 12 to 3 national radio show, 12 to 3 Eastern Time coming up today. You can check that out. Go to your local listings, thevinchshow.com. We've got the local listings up there. Find your local radio station.

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