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Dan Bongino
Welcome to Vince. Appreciate you being here on a Friday with me, the best audience anywhere. Glad you are here. We've got a lot to talk about this audience. One of the cool things about being in it is, you know things are going to happen before they actually do. And now it's all playing out before our very eyes. The United States Senate just got done a marathon session and they are finally going to be funding ICE and border patrol. But it was not without a tremendous amount of, of very predictable theatrics. We will get into what exactly went down last night and also any efforts to pass the Save America Act. We'll talk about that too. There's, there is an update on that subject. A lot to get to today. Also the main Senate candidate, Graham Platner, the man with the Nazi tattoo, brand new story on him and his physical abuse of women. But the media are already running coverage because he's a Democrat. We've got the details on that and what else we have, we have, we have so much, oh, of course, California. Who could forget California? They're still counting votes, meaning the Democrats are still trying to steal the election. It's all ahead on this edition of Vince. Great to have you with us on a Friday. Let us thank the fine sponsors who make this show possible each day. Pocket hose Ballistic starts us off today. We love the pocket hose. You know, we have to, we used to have to replace the garden hose in the Colonnade's household all the time, every year because it would kink, tangle, burst. But the pocket hose ballistic, it is great. It's the upgrade we've been looking for. It's the toughest pocket hose ever built, reinforced with a liquid crystal polymer used in bulletproof vests. Now we don't baby the hose. We drag it across the driveway, yank it around the tight corners and we leave it out sometimes in the sun. But you don't really have to do that because it's so easy to put away that the pocket hose ballistic can handle all of it. Plus it comes with the pocket pivot for total freedom of movement right there at the spigot. With full 360 degree rotation. I move it follows the water flows. And now for a limited time, when you purchase a new pocket hose ballistic, you'll get a free 360 degree rotating pocket pivot and a free thumb drive nozzle. Just text Vince to 64,000. That's Vince to 64,000. For your two free gifts with purchase two, text Vince to 64,000. Message and data rates may apply. Boom. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. All right, let's see. You guys want to California first, shall we? Let's do California first. California. We're awaiting the updates here with each passing hour. Are they actually counting votes? And here's what we have. Remember when, when last we spoke, I was telling you that it was interesting because Wednesday you get the election results the day after. The election's already over. It's supposed to be. And I saw the numbers and I go, oh, look at that. In the California governor's race, 57% of the votes are in. And then yesterday morning, Thursday, it dropped. How did it drop? 56% of the votes are now in. Huh? What is that? And then this morning, well, it's gone up again. It's. It's gone back up, but not by much. 60% of the votes are in now in the governor's race in California. And Steve Hilton keeps losing ground. He had 27.8% of the vote two days ago. He had 27.6% of the vote yesterday morning. And now he's at 27.2% of the vote. His vote share is waning as Democrats keep ramming new votes into this race. Javier Becerra, his standing is improving. He's now up to 26%. Up a couple of a tenths. A couple tenths. And then Tom Steyer also improving in the race, now at 20.2%. He's now entered the 20s. That's the first time he's been there. So the steel is a foot. The steel is afoot. And also in the LA mayors race, we see similar results here. Karen Bass is now at 35.1% of the vote. If you compare that to, let's see, yesterday, Karen bass was at 35%. So she's up a tenth of a point. Spencer Pratt continues to fall. He was at 29.9. He's down now five tenths of a point to 29.4. Nitya Rahman, the Hair on Fire Left wing radical. She's up as well. She's up to 23.4%. So these Democrats keep picking up votes as this election never ends in California. So it ain't over till it's over. And it definitely ain't over. Not in California, not right now. It's, it's crazy what we're witnessing right now. And you know, you're not, of course, shocked by it, but you are appalled by it. It's, it's not shocking, but it's definitely appalling. These, these late votes keep coming in. Zachary Denini, I quoted him yesterday, he's an elections analyst. He says Tom Stiers having a very good run right now. Very good run. He said yesterday's drop for Tom Steyer, big drop for Tom Steyer. What they mean by that is not that he dropped in numbers. They dropped new ballots into the race. They all helped Tom. He ate his benchmark to win for the first time in a late mail drop, said this guy, Zachary Denini with Vote Hub. Today's data has been encouraging for Steyer and, and less favorable for Hilton. As of now, the race is tracking toward a very close finish. So now you've got, now you've got Tom Steyer creeping in and there's a chance for Steve Hilton might get thrown out of the top two. You're like, how is that even possible? Democrats, Democrats are how that's possible. President Trump has been talking about this. He says, you got to look what's happening in California. There's a steal happening before our very eyes. He said, look what's happening. He wrote on Truth Social yesterday. This was yesterday afternoon. The Democrats right before our very eyes are stealing the vote. I hope Republicans are watching so that they can finally pass the Save America Act. President Donald J. Trump, more on that coming up. Because there was an attempt last night to try and put the Save America act into the big reconciliation package. But that has all sorts of problems. I'll get to that in just a moment. But the president did speak from the Oval Office yesterday. He said, look, I don't want cheating in our elections. I want that to stop. Which is why I've been pushing the Save America Act. And of course, since he's talking about it, we, and we're talking about it, we're gaveling into it. Here's the President of the United States yesterday. Watch.
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Donald Trump
Don't want cheating in our elections. And you see it happening in California. Those numbers are coming down rapidly. They found a lot of mail in ballots last night, shockingly so. We don't want that. Then we added best of this is best of Trump. No men in women's sports, no transgender mutilization surgery for our children. I would say that's pretty close to 99 to 1. Also.
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Dan Bongino
Yeah, he wanted to Save America act. And so one of the reasons he was talking about it yesterday was because Lindsey Graham approached him and said, Mr. President, I'm going to get the Save America act passed. And what did he do? He didn't get it passed. He tried. They tried to ram this thing into reconciliation yesterday and no dice. It didn't go anywhere. Now again, I talked about this with you before. Don't even fall for this idea that it was going to pass through reconciliation even if they had the Republican votes to pass it last night. It doesn't survive the parliamentarian, the Harry Reid hired parliamentarian. It doesn't survive that process. It can't go into a reconciliation package because it's not budgetary. It's, this is the most obvious thing in the world. This audience knows this. But I just want to remind people, in case you've joined us lately, even if they had voted for this thing last night, it still would not have made it to final passage there. The Senate needs to get rid of the filibuster and, or, or get the standing filibuster going and pass this thing. And they refuse to do their jobs. That's just the truth. So let me bring you to where what happened last night. Cuz a lot of things transpired overnight as the United States Senate finally was working for hours on end yesterday. Finally, Senate Republicans passed a bill to fund ICE and Border Patrol overnight. After many, many months of not having funding for the poor men and women who work in these administrative positions in Border Patrol, they're finally en route to getting a paycheck. What, what misery has been imposed on them by Washington. The reason for this, of course, is Democrats have been holding the nation's borders hostage. They do not want border security funded. They do not want ICE funded because they don't want illegals deported. They derive political power from all of us. So they refused to give any money to those agencies. And after many, many months, finally Republicans got off their asses and did something about this. Now, and this is after the Memorial Day recess where they took two weeks of vacation and didn't do this, finally did it overnight. The New York Times describes this as ramming it through, which is idiocy. The New York Times is lying. Ramming it through. It's the worst ramming I've Ever heard of? It took forever for them to finally get this money in the New York Times. Senate Republicans on Friday rammed through their $70 billion bill to fund President Trump's immigration crackdown through the remainder of his term. Fund his immigration crackdown, you utter morons. They did the bare minimum to pay the administrative employees in these agencies, and they didn't ram it through. It took forever to get here. After beating back bipartisan efforts to add language to bar or sharply restrict a federal payout fund for his political allies. This true. This, too, is a. Is a false statement. The New York Times just lies. They're lying throughout the whole first paragraph here. The payout fund that they're referencing is the $1.776 billion settlement fund designed to be paid to American citizens who've been tyrannized by their own government. There was no party requirement to this. It wasn't for Republicans or Democrats in particular. It was for any American who had their rights upended by the government. If a Democrat wanted to express the view that Covid came from a lab in Wuhan and Facebook shut down their ability to communicate that at the behest of the government, they could be entitled to damages. This has nothing to do with the president's political allies, other than the fact that the president's political supporters were. Were the ones who were most routinely targeted by the government in acts of tyranny. Everything with the New York Times, these legacy media outlets, it's all distortion filters applied to try and get you to misunderstand reality. Disgusting stuff. But they are fundamentally right about one thing, which is that the reason the votes went all through the night is because Democrats kept trying to forbid the President from ever taking care of American citizens who've been hurt by the government. I told you this would happen. I freaking told you this would happen. I'm talking to you Senate Republicans, when you demanded that Attorney General Todd Blanch swear off a weaponization fund. Don't you dare. Promise you won't do this. And finally, Todd Blanche goes okay. Period. We're not doing it in an effort to get this border funding passed. That's why the administration did that. The second he said that, I said, that's not going to matter anyway. It's not going to slow Democrats down. Democrats are still going to force votes on this issue. So those politically uncomfortable votes that you were scared of are going to happen anyway, you colossal jackasses. So now Americans don't get their settlement fund for being tyrannized by the government, and you still have to Go through. The thing you wanted to avoid was politically uncomfortable votes. Idiots. And that's what happened all night long. There's a 52, 47 vote early this morning that sent the final reconciliation package to the House. It's expected to move quickly, the New York Times says, as the House is less wrapped around its own gears than the United States Senate is. The action got off to a slow start on Thursday morning, they say, when Republicans struggled to defeat. When the Republicans struggled to defeat the. An initial effort by Democrats to bar Mr. Trump. Here it is. From establishing the fund that could compensate his political allies. The motion halted floor action for hours as a clutch of Republicans who supported the measure tried to leverage their votes, which were needed to keep the immigration measure on track in exchange for assurances that their own amendments addressing the fund would get votes on the floor. The Democrats proposal eventually failed 50 to 49, with three Republicans joining them. Susan Collins, John Husted, and Dan Sullivan of Alaska Rhinos all. And Susan Collins. Susan Collins is like, she's. She's one of the single most frustrating members of the Senate. It's one of those weird. It's a very weird situation because you really. You're like, okay, at least we'll take a Republican senator there, but, man, she's a pain in the ass. And, you know, we'll talk about her political opponent coming up, because that guy's a psycho. He's a complete psycho. And Susan Collins, insofar as that's a one versus one race. Susan Collins versus Graham Platner, she should stay in that seat this year. But. But, boy, that's a hold your nose to keep her there situation. But this is. So these Rhinos are all joining in with these Democrats to try and attack the president and his priorities. It's just disgusting. It's just totally disgusting. And there was more of this last night. Susan Collins voted yes on this, but there were other votes just like it. There was. Look at this. Susan Collins cast her yes vote early on on that to try and join the Democrats to end the weaponization fund. Senator Bill Cassidy, bitter Bill of Louisiana, who was just thrown out of office. President Trump endorsed his primary opponent, appeared newly emboldened to challenge the President. Oh, look at that. It's not about principle, it's about bitterness. Along with Mr. Husted and Mr. Sullivan, he. They withheld their votes for hours. Later, Mr. Cassidy told reporters he had been holding out for the best possible deal to secure a vote to kill the fund. I just want to optimize chances for success, he said. Mm, yeah, These guys. These guys are awful. Another. Another one. Mr. Cassidy was working with Democrats and Senate officials for much of Thursday to try and block the fund altogether. The vote on his amendment reflected considerable antipathy among Republicans about Mr. Trump. Mr. Cassidy, Ms. Collins, Mr. Husted, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Sullivan, and Mr. Tillis all joined the effort. So these are some of those establishment Republicans who are desperate definitely getting in the way right now. So there's that, and then there's the Save America Act. There was an attempt last night to add it as an amendment. We're going to add it as an amendment, said Lindsey Graham. And it failed. It failed last night. Here they are casting the vote, and here's what it looked like when it failed last night in the United States Senate. Josh pulled this for us this morning. Take a look at this. Here they are. That's just. That's just the. You know, the guy presiding over the Senate saying that the vote has failed, and that's all there is to it. Now, there were four Senate Republicans who joined with all Democrats to block the Save America act from even being considered as a part of this legislation. 4. In a setback for the White House, Fox News reports Republican Senators Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Thom Bellina, Tillis, and Mitch McConnell all broke with their party to help stop the Save America act from advancing in the Senate last night. So, again, we've got problems, ladies and gentlemen, We've got problems in the United States Senate. Some of these are being resolved, others are here to stay. Thumbelina and Mitch McConnell, they're both headed for the exits. They're leaving this year. But in some of their final acts in the Senate, they are trying to betray the American people as theatrically and publicly as possible. Just so you know what's going on. That's very real. It's very, very real. So we'll keep our eyes on what's going on. Right now. The key thing is that the border security funding's coming through. That's good news out of the Senate. The House is gonna handle this thing, and we'll get that funding through very soon. But again, I told you all this was gonna happen, and here it is all coming true, all coming to fruition. And, you know, the good thing about being part of this show and being a part of this audience is, you know, it months in advance, and. And now. Now the pieces are finally coming together. There's. There's other things that the Senate is really annoyed about. They don't like the fact that the President of the United States needs security funding for the East Wing that he's been requesting security funding. They're really upset about this. I don't know why they're upset about it. He's trying to build an epic presidential bunker underneath this brand new ballroom. The ballroom is not even paid for by taxpayers. It's paid for by, by rich donors that were just giving money out of generosity to the United States of America. And yet there's a bitch fit going on in the Senate about this. Also, they're bitching about a guy called Bill Pulte. Bill Pulte, who's been working in the Federal Housing Agency. He is now being tapped to join to become the acting Director of National Intelligence. They're freaking out about this. I think it's great, actually. And I want to get into it in just a moment. Why this role, the Director of National Intelligence is so important and why it has a lot to do with the integrity of our elections. That's ahead on this edition. Events on a Friday. It's, it's always so fun to do this with you. Thank you for being here. Let's see, I've got a great, great sponsor to share with you right now. Beams Dream Powder is awesome. Beams Dream Powder, which helps me get to get some great rest. It helps me get great rest. And it's a delicious way to end the day. 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Swalwell is the latest Democrat to face mortgage fraud allegations from Federal Housing Finance Agency head Bill Pulte, who sent a letter to the Justice Department on Wednesday. Right. This is back in November. So Bill Pulte keeps, he's the top housing official for President Trump. He kept sending all of these criminal referrals over for these Democrats because they appeared to be lying on their mortgage applications. They were getting, they were securing financing by claiming that they would live in a house as their primary residence, which would give you preferable rates, when in fact, Bill concluded that they weren't living in that home as a primary residence, it was a second home, that they were these second homes or investment properties or they didn't live there at all. They were securing these properties using fraudulent mortgages. And so he kept making criminal referrals for all these guys. That's that, that guy, Bill Pulte. In other words, has he proven that he's willing to go after powerful people if he detects evidence of criminality? Yes, 100%. So when President Trump announced this past week that Bill Pulty is going to be arriving as the acting Director of National Intelligence in the wake of Tulsi Gabbard's exit, that elated me because I was like, good, we put a killer in there. I don't want some establishment hack. I don't want somebody who's going to kowtow to the powers in Washington. I want somebody who's going to grab them by the shirt collar and throttle these guys. So Bill Pulte has shown a lot of evidence for doing that. And this apparently is causing chaos in the United States Senate. Of course, establishment Republicans are upset that Bill Pulty is going to get the gig. So, you know, they're already registering their opposition to this. We don't like this. We don't agree. He doesn't have enough intelligence experience and all this other garbage. And so they're raising a stink again about this. And the President's trying to settle everybody the hell down. Yesterday in the Oval Office, he goes, guys, he's only going to be in the acting DNI for a short role. I'm going to pick somebody else at some point. But here's why Bill Pulte is so important. Watch the President describe it yesterday. Pulte is the acting Director of National Intelligence. There's been a little bit of a pushback from some Senate Republicans. Why do you think, Mr. President, he's the best person for the.
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Donald Trump
Well, he's very smart. He's a person who's got high integrity. He's done a phenomenal job at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac. You know, you probably have a trillion dollars in value there. When he took over, it was much less. And I guess I'm responsible for that, too, because everybody wanted me to sell it in my first term for 10% of what it's worth right now. If I would have sold it, we would have lost 900 billion. We would have lost. I mean, think of it. It's probably worth a trillion dollars. And I was offered every. People want me to sell it at 100 billion, a very small percentage of what it's worth now. So. And he built it up a lot, did a great job. And it's an acting position. It's not a permanent. He's not going to be permanent because, you know, I don't think he'd want to be permanent. But he's a very smart guy and he may find out some things about, about the rigged elections, et cetera, et cetera. I think he'd like to do it. I'd like to. I think he wants to do it very much. Got a lot of energy, but he'll be very good. Again, it's not a permanent position we're looking at. We're interviewing people right now, but it's somebody just to take it over for a little while.
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Dan Bongino
Does he have the necessary president, the necessary national security experience to take on that position?
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Donald Trump
Well, I do, and I think he does, actually, because he's smart, because a lot of national security. Look, I would. I wasn't greatly experienced in national security, and I think I've done a really great job with it. A lot of people would say that I've ended eight wars and soon to be a ninth. I Hope that works out, too.
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Dan Bongino
Okay, so there's a key sentence in there. I'm going to. I'm going to quote it. He's a very smart guy. And you may find out some things about the rigged elections. You notice that chat? You know, I like listening to President Trump, and I like navigating directly to the most important thing he just uttered. Bill Pulte's job is to expose some things about the rigged elections. Director of National Intelligence. Now, this would not be a new mission. The Director of National Intelligence working for President Trump. Remember, Tulsi Gabbard has been on this as well. Tulsi Gabbard has been on this very thing. Remember, this is Tulsi Gabbard, early in the administration, at a Cabinet meeting, talking about rigged voting machines. Cut three. Watch this.
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Tulsi Gabbard
I've got a long list of things that we're investigating. We have the best of the best going after this election, integrity being one of them. We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast, which further drives forward your mandate to bring about paper ballots across the country so that voters can have faith in the integrity of our elections.
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Dan Bongino
And remember, Tulsi Gabbard was on this mission throughout her time. She has been throughout her time as the Director of National Intelligence. In fact, the president sent her to Fulton County, Georgia, during that FBI raid on that facility involving 2020 ballots. Remember this? Here's how the news covered it at the time.
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Hours ago, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified before lawmakers on Capitol Hill, answering questions about the FBI raid at Fulton County's election hub. You may remember Gabbard was on the scene back in late January when FBI agents executed a search warrant at the elections office. It's on Campbellton Fairburn Road in Union City. During the raid, agents seized ballots tied to the 2020 election. In testimony today, Gabbard revealed why she was there.
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Tulsi Gabbard
I was at Fulton county, sir, at the request of the president and to work with the FBI to observe this action that had long been awaited. I was not aware of what was in the warrant or was not in the warrant.
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Dan Bongino
What was the president's specific request for you to go to? What was the specific request that was made by the president for you to show up in Fulton county to go
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Tulsi Gabbard
and observe the FBI's activities on this issue.
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Dan Bongino
So this job, Director of National Intelligence, you need to appreciate how much it has to do with election integrity. As far as the President of the United States is concerned. So he's gone from a woman who's made a very obvious public showing of her concern about election integrity to a guy who the president is straight up tasking with exposing the depths of the rigged elections. So Bill Pulty is there for a reason. So as you watch this saga play out, understand the president just told us yesterday he expects Bill Pulty to go in there and tackle the problem of rigged elections. And that's why he's taking the job for a time. He'll be there temporarily and then the president's gonna tap somebody else to do it full time. But keep your eyes on that. I think this is fascinating and it's, and it's good to, it's good to, to package all that together. Just a quick reminder of how things have been going under President Trump. All right, hold on. Because when it comes to fraud and rigging, we got another big update for you. JD Vance's fraud force just busted a massive fraud ring in Ohio. I've got the details on that coming up in just a minute right here on this edition of Vince to thank our sponsors. Today, we got Quince. Wearing the Quince threads today. Summer always changes how we all get dressed. Definitely. For me, it has to. I reach for the pieces that feel a little bit lighter, a little more breathable, easy, still put together. This is why I keep coming back to Quint. They focus on high quality essentials that look and feel amazing, like breathable linen and soft organic cotton with that elevated, effortless vibe. Their European linen pants and their shirts, they're perfect warm weather upgrades starting at just 34 bucks. Their T shirts are soft and easy and lightweight cotton sweaters perfect for cooler summer nights. Everything at quints is priced 50 to 80% less than similar brands because they cut out the middlemen and they work directly with ethical factories. I love quints. I've got quints hanging all over my closet. I walk in there, I look, I go. Taking the quince today. Love it. Elevate your summer wardrobe. Go to quince.com/vince for free shipping on your order. 365 day returns now available in Canada too. That's Q U I n c e.com Vince for free shipping and 365 day returns. Quince.com Vince thank you very much to Quince and then thank you also to Helix Mattress for giving me and Allison for giving Allison and me, excuse me. A great night's sleep every night. We love, love our Helix Mattress and I think you Will too, if you don't. A lot of people in chat have the Helix mattress, which is so they can tell you it's a wonderful sleep experience. Summer, of course, I was just telling you, summer's. Summer's arriving. So what you want is a very cool and comfortable sleeping experience. And that's what you get with Helix with our Helix mattress. My back, which I've always had back problems, I've gotten worse as I've gotten older. I feel so much better on a Helix mattress. I really do. I used to wake up stiff. I had trouble getting out of bed, feeling so stiff. This mattress changed everything. Everything. I took their sleep quiz. I got matched up to a model that was designed for my sleep style. And the support plus pressure relief has been a game changer for us. The cooling upgrade is great for warmer nights. We don't wake up sweating. It's awesome. And sleep trackers actually show that you get deeper sleep and fewer interruptions when you use a Helix mattress. I feel so much better when I wake up. It's been huge for me. Delivery was free, super easy right to our door to set the setup took minutes. You get a 120 night sleep trial and a limited lifetime warranty. So it's completely risk free if you're upgrading for the summer. Start with your bed. Go to helix sleep.com Vince 20% off site wide. That's helixsleep.com Vince 20% off sitewide. Helixsleep.com Vince thank you to Helix. Hey, while you're here, I'm glad you're here. Would you please subscribe to the program if you're not yet subscribed to the Bongino Report channel on Rumble, would you do that for me? Just go to rumble.com vince if you're listening on the audio podcast, would you click subscribe there? I, I genuinely appreciate that it does. It, it does amazing things for the show. And also if you click like on the program too, I think that has something to do with the algorithm on Rumble. Meaning more people can see this. We love it when that happens. We want to make sure more people see this so that they too know months in advance how the news is going to transpire. All right, here's a news story that I love. I am so over the moon about the fact that the Trump administration is tackling fraud nationwide. The feds yesterday just announced a massive bust of fraudsters in Ohio. Take a look here. As as you've got the Attorney General of the United States making the announcement
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Attorney General Merrick Garland
watch today, we unsealed a 32 count indictment against two state employees and two other co conspirators for allegedly billing $30 million to the government for therapy behavioral services that were never provided. We've also unsealed an indictment charging four defendants in a scheme to defraud a Covid program. Again, these programs, as we all know, were meant to benefit small businesses and individuals struggling because of the of the pandemic. In total, between our state and federal partners today we're announcing charges that were either unsealed today or over the past week against 14 defendants allegedly involved in fraud schemes targeting over $50 million here in Ohio.
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Dan Bongino
You know that the Ohio fraud, a lot of it is Somali fraud. Ohio has one of the largest populations of Somali immigrants in the entire country and a lot of the fraudsters are Somali. That's just true and it's super unfortunate, but it's real. In fact, you know, yesterday you had a, you had Dr. Oz talking about this and he said we just have lots of fraud happening in the area of Columbus, Ohio. Take a look here. I'm going to show this on my screen. Take a Look here as Dr. Oz was talking yesterday about what's going on with Columbus, Ohio and all the fraud that's happening in that region. Here it is.
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Dr. Oz
Wouldn't be here in force, unfortunately. This area around Columbus is responsible in Franklin county for one third of all of the one and a half billion dollars spent on home health care in Ohio. Think about that. A third of all of the money spent on home health care in the entire great state of Ohio is generated here. That's three times what you would expect. There's a road very close to where we are. 288 Home Health Care facilities in that several block area on that one road. Again, it defies belief. Some of these buildings were vacant. You wouldn't put anybody up in those buildings. Not certainly the place would that would house home health care. Now this is a mecca for Somalian populations. It's a hub for Nepalese and Bhutanese populations. These are insular groups. But we are naive to think that practices that were felt to be commonplace in other parts of the world wouldn't come to this great country if we didn't pay attention to some of the program integrity issues which were ignored en masse with the prior administration. So today we have three major announcements from the health care part of this fraud endeavor.
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Dan Bongino
The first is, yeah, and in other words, they're going after fraud. But the key is the Somali populations especially like what Dr. Oz is getting at is like the United States, we're so foolish. Our leaders are so foolish, have imported entire populations of people who have a cultural affinity for fraud and theft. You know, I told you about this last year. The New York Times did a whole story in November of last year talking about all the Somali theft going on in Minnesota. They consult a Somali expert who says, well, you know, the Somali culture, because they have like no functional government in Somalia, the way it works is like everybody steals from the government to get theirs. So they bring those cultural attitudes with them to the United States and, and then these Democrat run states are very generous with other people's money and then just tons of cash gets stolen. Well, that's not an acceptable outcome. Then stop them from coming here. You can't. If your entire culture is defined by theft, then don't come here. Don't come here. We expect you to follow our nation's laws. If you don't, you're not welcome. It's very simple. And Ohio, you know, it was two days ago that there was a big Senate hearing. Josh, is it easy for you to pull a clip from yesterday's program? We have that clip from yesterday of Brandon Gill challenging that Ohio state senator about whether or not Somali immigration has benefited Ohio. Do you have that clip by any chance? Okay, he's gonna grab it. But that hearing where Brandon Gill was saying that concentrated on fraud and concentrated especially on what's going on in Ohio. And Brandon Gill, who is a remarkably, he's a great congressman. The guy is so even keeled and wonderful. He was pointing out, he's like, look, we've got massive, Ohio's got the second largest Somali population in the country right now behind Minnesota. And has that benefited Ohio? No, it's. Everybody's either on welfare or they're committing acts of fraud. This is insanity. How suicidal can we be as a country? And so he brings this up to this Democrat state senator who's seated before him, and he asked her a really simple question. He just said, has Somali immigration helped Ohio? Yes or no. And remember, her brain broke. She didn't say yes. She could have said yes. She didn't say yes. In fact, she just started accusing him of being a racist for even addressing the issue. Pretty wild. We have that, Josh.
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Brandon Gill
Senator Antonio, thank you for being here. Has Somali immigration been good for Ohio?
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Tulsi Gabbard
You know, that's really outside of my
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Brandon Gill
purview of you're a state senator. Would you like to see more immigration?
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Tulsi Gabbard
Well, as far as I'm processing your question, and I have to say that I, I was Almost brought to tears just now.
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Brandon Gill
72.
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Tulsi Gabbard
Because the range, the rate, and the level of hateful rhetoric based on an astounding rate. Shocking to me, the lack of even humanity to grow.
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Brandon Gill
I think it's inhumane to allow your own state to be defrauded at. Astounding.
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Tulsi Gabbard
I am shocked.
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Brandon Gill
Dollars taken out of the pocket. Working class people going to criminal fraudsters.
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Dan Bongino
I certainly have every problem, every community.
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Tulsi Gabbard
There are good people and there are bad people.
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Dan Bongino
Regular order.
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Tulsi Gabbard
Understand we're not supposed to do that.
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Brandon Gill
Said we're out of time.
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Tulsi Gabbard
We're not somehow aggressive over here is shocking to me.
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Brandon Gill
I am shocked and appalled already at a time here.
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Dan Bongino
Brandon Gill has been a wonderful contribution to the United States House of Representatives. Keep your eyes on that guy. He's got a very bright future ahead of him. If he stays in this fight, it will be to the benefit of all of us. Just asking a simple question. As Somali immigration helped your state. Yes or no? She knows the answer, so she refuses to give it. Instead starts attacking him. Good for Brandon Gill. Good for him. These fraudsters in Ohio have been living very, very high on the hog with your money. This is what. JD Vance shared this yesterday on his X account. Look at the cars that these guys are buying. Look at these. I can't even identify some of these cars. They're like gorgeous vehicles. It's just utterly absurd. What is this one here? What in the world is that? Is it. Was that a. Like a lotus? It's a McLaren. Is that what it is, Josh? That one's a McLaren. Okay, yeah. So what do we got? We got a Hummer up top. We got. We got. That's a Hummer. We got a Bentley. This is gonna be a test of my ability to identify cars. There's a Jaguar. Got a Land Rover. Let's see. That's a Mercedes. We got. Was that another Merc right there? What's that one on that orange one? That one's. Oh, no, that. That looks like kind of like a Maserati. Look at the vents or something on the side. Is that a Maserati? Yeah. Okay, then. We got another Mercedes. We got a Beamer. We got another Mercedes. That's the McLaren. We got a Merc. We got a. What is this one? What car is that? I love what a fun game we're playing. You can identify the money that our. Where our money's gone. What is that one, Josh? That one kind of looks like a Maybach, which is also. It's kind of Mercedes, right? A Maybach. And then. And Then we got another Land, Land Rover and let's see. And then another Mercedes. Man, those are some nice cars. Some very. Did someone said Rolls? I don't know if there's a Rolls in there or not. Might be a Rolls. At any rate, that's, that's, those are the cars. And that's what JD Vance is revealing. $470,000 and 14 luxury cars so far have been seized. That sounds like we got a lot of money to go. We're talking tens of millions of dollars of assets. A lot that was sent right out of the country. This is very complicated stuff getting this money back, which is why you have to stop it before it ever happens. And you have to make an example out of these criminals to prevent any more of this criminality from happening. And you have to secure our borders and stop entire populations from coming in who are going to steal from us. Kind of common sense stuff. Good to see the administration all over this. JD Vance running Fraud Force. Love that. We had another piece of DOJ news yesterday to share with you as well. John Bolton is set to plead guilty now in his classified documents case. You remember that John Bolton, who got busted for the theft of classified information and the dissemination of it to his family members. He, he was acting like he was the victim of some sort of weaponization by the government. I just love how everything gets inverted. He, oh, I'm the victim of government weaponization, he says. And then all these Democrats were rushing to microphones, going on cable news telling you that John Bolton was the victim of President Trump and he's going after his political opponents. John Bolton is now admitting he broke the law. John Bolton is set to plead guilty now to mishandling classified materials. Bolton has agreed to pay a fine of more than $2 million. He's going to plead guilty to a single count of illegal retention of sensitive national security documents. Reportedly, Bolton could face a prison sentence of up to five years under these terms. He's trying to limit his prison time. He could have faced decades if this went all the way through a court process. Federal prosecutors accused the former National Security advisor of using his personal email to share more than a thousand pages of information about his day to day activities with his what's believed to be his wife and his daughter. Yeah, remember when they accused President Trump of mishandling classified documents? Remember that? Which, it doesn't even make sense. He was the former President of the United States. How can he mishandle classified documents, you idiots. Meanwhile, John Bolton was passing around all sorts of classified information because he wanted to put it in his book. Well, it could enrich me, so why can't I do that? Well, he just got busted and now he's pleading guilty. So the, the wheels of justice continue to turn, this time catching John Bolton. So John Bolton has to, has to face that now he's going to be pleading guilty. So a little update for you there on, on what the Justice Department is up to, and then let's see here. I, I want to, I want to get to something else here that, that, that we really need to talk about, and that's this Senate race up in Maine, Graham Platner. There's a big story out overnight in the New York Times that Graham Platner was physically abusive towards women and that he said such crazy things as, if someone ever breaks into our House, I'm going to rape them. Well, that's one way to defend the House. This is the story from the New York Times. This is the Democrats favorite Nazi tattoo candidate. And here's the Times story. Now, as I go through this, I do want to emphasize something to you, which is this. Clearly the Times has this story, but they're attempting to mitigate the damage to Graham Platner. It might be what you would call a catch and kill story. They're trying to suffocate the most scandalous elements of this. Take a look at how the New York Times frames this thing. New York Times headline, several women who dated Graham Platner recall unsettling behavior. And then eventually in the piece, it takes forever, but they eventually get to the, to the allegations of physical assault. In the piece, it's many paragraphs down, many to the point that you're like, I think a lot of people will have tapped out by the time they get to it. Look at this. Here's the actual allegation. Way down in the piece, Mr. Platner could be rough with a woman called Lindsey Fifield, who's on the record in this. And to be clear, Lindsey is a conservative. She has been a conservative for many years, very public. She's been involved in Republican politics and for, for a while back in the day, she had dated Graham Platner. And Platner, she says, was rough with her, particularly when they were drinking, leaving her shaken and sometimes afraid. In interviews, Ms. Fifield grappled with how to process her experiences. She was quick to note that he never hit me. He never punched me. Listen again. Listen to how the New York Times frames this. They're trying to mitigate this for him, but she said he regularly Grabbed her by the shoulders, sometimes hard enough to leave marks, and on one occasion, yanked her out of a cab by her wrist after an argument when she wanted to stay in the car. During one argument, she recalled, he twisted her arm behind her back, shoved her into a bedroom, and held the door closed from the other side so she couldn't escape, so she couldn't get out, telling her to remain there until she was calm. Eventually, Ms. Fifield said, she fell asleep and left the next morning. It hurt, she said. But she added, it didn't cause an injury. It didn't break my arm. Now, I'm telling you, look how the New York Times is framing this. I guarantee this is the product of hours of conversations with Lindsey Fifield. They were. They. What they did was they would selectively pull little quotes out to try and mitigate the damage that this does to the case for Graham Platner to ever be anywhere near the United States Senate. So at one point, Lindsey Fifield goes, well, he didn't break my arm. And they go, okay, let's include that. He didn't. He didn't break her arm. I'm sorry. He would grab her by the shoulders, leave marks, yank her out of a cab by her wrist. She said she wanted to stay in the car. He grabbed her by the wrist like a psycho. He shoved her into a room, put her arm behind her back, held the door closed, falsely imprisoned her, told her to stay there. The whole stuff, all of it's sick. Now they say that Platner is disputing this, that. Oh, I didn't do that. In fact, he went on Ms. Now last night, of course, and he said, Lindsey Fifield is a liar. He's accusing her of lying. Watch this. Here it is. Cut seven. You did not grab her by the wrist. You did not put your hands on her shoulders. You did not push her into a room that you closed the door on. She's lying about that, is what you're saying?
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Donald Trump
Yes.
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Dan Bongino (Alternate or Emphatic Voice)
That is not true.
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Dan Bongino
Yes, she's lying. She's a liar. Lindsey Fifield has a wonderful reputation, by the way. Wonderful reputation. All sorts of people I know and trust really think very highly of this woman. This is a circumstance where this is not some mystery person to so many, especially in conservative media. They know Lindsey Fifield, and they know that she's a credible person. And she was very fearful to tell this story. She's intimidated by this man, and she's even expressed that the way that this story went down with the New York Times. She said she was. She said she says she made a big mistake here talking to the New York Times. And now you might say, well, that's very predictable. Listen to how she describes how this happened because she posted overnight about. About this story and how the New York Times worked her to try and get her to tell the whole story. She said, anyone who's ever extracted themselves from a relationship with a narcissistic abuser knows it's not clean or easy. She says she cringes, remembering how many times I tried to play the cool girl or fawn in response to what was clearly abusive, coercively controlling behavior by Graham. I also know how dangerous it is to become the target of a narcissist. So even long after our relationship had ended, I continued to be upbeat anytime he reached out, though I would also immediately shut down any attempts on his part to initiate flirting or romanticizing of the past. Yes, the day I saw him announce he was running, I wanted to make sure people knew he had a Nazi tattoo. And I was terrified he would find out it was me. Yeah, this goes back just. Just to give you the context here, Lindsey Fifield is. Is now saying in public that she was the former girlfriend who's been telling everybody who started revealing that Graham Platner knew that he had a Nazi tattoo. He called it to her. He said, this is my Totenkopf, referring to the Nazi tattoo. He knew what it was, even bragged about being a big history buff, that I'm a history buff. I know exactly what this is. He continues to this day to dispute that he now claims in public he's a liar. So he claims in public. He says, I didn't know that. I just thought it was a cool looking skull and bones tattoo. He was calling it his Totenkov. He was doing it to Lindsey Fifield, who is eminently more trustworthy than Graham Platner is. So she's now saying, look, this has been me. I'm the one who revealed this story, and I'm putting my name on it now. I want people to know this. She says, of course he knew it was me. What's ironic is I absolutely never would have shared my story if he hadn't been relentlessly attacking my character behind the scenes for months. Once the tattoo story came out, I tried to signal that I wasn't the source and stayed completely silent about him on social media, even as most of my friends posted regularly about what a bad person he is. But then in early April, the New York Times came to me. I asked, how did they get my number I said I wasn't interested in sharing my story. They said, but wait, there are other women, women who are terrified to tell their stories, too. You need to band together. We will help you, said the Times. We will protect you. Men. Men can't keep getting away with this. Hours before their first call to me, I saw Eric Swalwell's nameplate get removed from his office door in the Cannon office building. It felt like fate. I welcomed the two journalists into my home. Days later, nervous, overwhelmed. Justin Fairfax in Virginia had just Democrat had just murdered his wife and himself the previous day. And even conservative pundits were conjecturing that if only these women hadn't accused him of abuse, this never would have happened. But I told them my story. I let them take pictures of my diary pages. I sent them screenshots of messages. I gave them phone numbers and contacts. It was excruciating. I was surprised by what details I remembered. And as I poured through old messages, I was horrified by how much I had forgotten. I explained very clearly that like many women abused by their partners, I had not told anyone about his violence at the time. I covered for and defended it. I accepted his earnest apologies. They said, that's fine because the diary entries in my on the record story were enough. They connected me to two of the other victims so we wouldn't feel alone. I insisted to each of them that I trusted the New York Times journalists and that we were doing the right thing, despite their sadly very accurate sense that something was wrong. One of the victims and I realized our relationships with Graham overlapped completely. He had been cheating on both of us the entire time we were together. I should note here that my life is beautiful. These are the best years of my life. Raising two young girls in a safe, beautiful neighborhood where I work from home and shuffle my children from dance classes and soccer to church events. I'm blessed far beyond what I deserve with wonderful friends and family and the most loving, brilliant husband in the world. Why would I blow my life up like this? Why would I risk the psychotic doxing from violent leftist activists? Because while I've been terrified to come forward, I decided this was the hard, right thing to do. The guilt of staying silent has nagged me. Most therapists recommend a gray rock approach to extracting yourself from narcissistic abuse. It works really well, but it's a gift to the abuser, allowing them to persist in their delusion that they've done nothing wrong. I couldn't stay silent as he continued to lie and lie and lie. I want my daughters to boldly speak out if they're ever abused, as I was. As she goes on about these New York Times journalists, she says, I bucked all of the advice that I received from my friends and decided to fully trust the Times journalists. As they left my home, they asked that I not talk to any other outlets. And I insisted then and repeatedly over the following weeks that I would keep my word and only share this story with them. But then the weeks dragged on. They kept coming back to us, saying the editors needed more, I needed to go on the record, we needed more screenshots. I met every benchmark that they said. After the story went up, I began to ask them, wait, this is yesterday. Wait, where are the stories from the other women? Where are their accusations of sexual assault? Why am I the focus? Why are there 11 paragraphs dedicated to detailing my work history? They do that, by the way, the time spends all this time telling you basically why you shouldn't trust Lindsey Fifield. She's a conservative. Why does it say nobody could corroborate? When I offered them sources that could corroborate, why did they include an out of context quote from a friend joking quote, do not call Graham after I called off my wedding because she knew I would never. Where were the screenshots they said they would use? Or the mention that I supported local Democrats and that most of my family and husband are liberal? The editor said it was too much. The Times also failed to include any mention that I did confide in multiple friends through the years that Graham had been abusive long before he was running for office. Those friends confirmed they told the Times this. It dawned on me that this was really a setup all along. The journalists I trusted who convinced me to share a story I never wanted to tell, methodically delayed and twisted this into a gift to the Platner campaign, violating the trust of his victims, shattering the trust I placed in them with the most vulnerable story of my life. And at the end of my call with them, I reluctantly accepted their insistence that this was still a powerful story and that I had done a brave thing. And I thanked them for all the hard work they had put into it. Still fawning after all these years. This is Lindsay saying they abused me and my instinct was to fawn all over them. In the midst of now, the New York Times abusing me. I want to thank Lindsey for telling the story and for getting this out there. And it exposes not only Graham Platner, but the. The depravity of the media who would try and mitigate the damage to Graham Platner here. Additionally, in that New York Times story, I told you that he had this insane thing. He said, listen, look at this thing about, he said about rape in the story. A lot, lots of insanity in the story. But here's what he said. He fantasized about killing people that he deemed a threat. He told her that rape was about power. It was something that struck, stuck with her through the years. Ms. Fifield said, quote, he said this a lot. If anybody ever broke in here, I would rape them. She recalled saying that. He added that it would be not in a sexual way, not in a gay way. He was like, I would rape them to show them I'm dominant. So I'm sorry. So if a dude broke into your house, you would rape them? The guy's a psycho. But. But not in a gay way. Okay, sure. One more for you. This comes to us from the Daily Callers excellent reporting overnight on this subject. Amber Duke summarizing here. She's the excellent editor in chief over at the Daily Caller. She said this. A source tells Will Upton, editor of the Caller, that the New York Times had two women prepared to make sexual assault allegations against Platner. They were. They were going to make sexual assault allegations against him. Those details were revealed to Lindsey Fifield, presumably to make her feel more comfortable coming forward. They never appeared in the story. They were removed at the behest of New York Times editors and Platner's lawyers, allegedly. The Platner campaign was originally given only two hours to respond, but then it was stretched into 24 hours, contrary to what interview subjects were, were told. So in case you're wondering how the sausage is made, well, you're getting a full, full lesson in that right now as the New York Times has what should be a campaign ending story for Graham Platner and they're trying to resuscitate what's left of his campaign. Pretty, pretty cruel stuff. And as of now, all these Senate Democrats, all these guys are all standing by and they have been. They have been. We'll see what happens today. But nobody probably has spent more time campaigning for this guy than Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders, who has been standing with him shoulder to shoulder, trying to get him into the United States Senate. And then reportedly the other day behind closed doors, when Graham Platner stopped by the Senate, it was Bernie who asked him, are there any more scandals gonna come out? Are there any more. Let us know. What do you mean, are there any more scandals gonna come out? You're already giving him full throated endorsements. But then in secret, in private, behind closed doors, you're suspicious that there may be more scandals attached to this guy. You're, you're as duplicitous and dishonest as everybody already knows you are. This is who these Democrats are and they're fully locked arm to arm with the Nazi tattoo guy who smacks women around. And then they cover up for him in the media. Their only principle is power. They've never been interested in standing up for women. They've never been interested in confronting hate. They funded the Southern Poverty Law center is paying for cross burnings. This is a party that's dominated by these kind of duplicitous sinister attitudes that are dedicated towards one principle and that's power. And that's on display yet again. A revealing note to end the show on today. We've got a lot more to get to. We've got the big national radio show today. We'll discuss a lot more on that. You can check out the vinshow.com to get your local radio listings. Go there. We're also live on Rumble for the final two hours of each 12 to 3 Eastern program. You can see us from 1 to 3 Eastern right here on Rumble. Rumble.com Vince Dan Bongino's incredible program is coming up this morning. That's 10am Eastern. Rumble.com Bongino, you're the best audience anywhere. I, I can't wait to be back with you on Monday. Thanks for being with me today. While you're here, would you please subscribe to the program? Please do that for me. Or while you're listening, please make sure you're subscribed. And tell a friend. Tell 10 friends and have them tell 10 friends. 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