Disturbing News On The Lawfare Op Against Trump (Ep. 2398)

Summary

Summary of "Disturbing News On The Lawfare Op Against Trump" (Ep. 2398) – The Dan Bongino Show

Release Date: January 10, 2025

Host: Dan Bongino

In Episode 2398 of The Dan Bongino Show, host Dan Bongino delves into the recent legal challenges faced by former President Donald Trump, addressing what he perceives as a coordinated "lawfare" effort orchestrated by left-wing entities to undermine Trump's political influence. The episode is marked by vigorous critiques of the judicial system, media bias, and calls for strategic political action among conservatives.

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1. Introduction to Trump's Sentencing

Timestamp: [00:03] – [05:09]

Dan Bongino opens the discussion by vehemently condemning the current state of America, which he describes as having "descended a long time ago into tyranny, fascism, an oligarchy, a dictatorship." He specifically targets a New York judge, referred to derogatorily as a "disgusting piece of garbage," for sentencing Donald Trump, labeling the action as a miscarriage of justice.

• Quote:

  "The country which descended a long time ago into tyranny, fascism, an oligarchy, a dictatorship. It's now happened in New York as this disgusting piece of garbage posing as a judge in a black robe... has now decided to sentence Donald Trump." — Dan Bongino [00:04]

Bongino accuses Democratic donor activists, including individuals named Twinkies, Colangelo, and Tish, of being primarily responsible for Trump’s electoral success. He mocks the idea of celebrating Trump's conviction, arguing that such outcomes only bolster Trump's "outlaw" image among his supporters.

2. Critique of the Judicial and Legal Systems

Timestamp: [05:07] – [21:50]

Bongino expands his critique to the broader judicial system, denouncing the legitimacy of the courts involved in Trump's case. He describes the judge as "fake" and the prosecutors as part of a "fake DA" and "fake ag." He further criticizes the Supreme Court, specifically mentioning Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Amy Coney Barrett, accusing them of left-wing bias and judicial activism.

• Quote:

  "The Supreme Court is totally... Amy Coney Barrett has been a total failure. John Roberts is a judicial left wing activist." — Dan Bongino [10:08]

Bongino emphasizes that the legal proceedings against Trump are designed to be so "painful" that the outcome becomes irrelevant, asserting that such tactics are part of a deliberate effort by the left to punish Trump without achieving meaningful legal consequences.

3. Call to Action: Total Personnel Warfare

Timestamp: [12:44] – [22:38]

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to Bongino's rallying cry for "total personnel warfare," a strategy aimed at purging individuals within the justice system who participated in what he terms the unjust prosecution of Trump. He urges his audience to support efforts to remove and replace federal officials, including Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs), who were involved in the case against Trump.

• Quote:

  "Total personnel warfare. Everyone needs to be fired. Total personnel warfare." — Dan Bongino [12:53]

Bongino argues that such measures are necessary to prevent future abuses of power and to restore integrity within the judicial system. He underscores the importance of removing those who he believes compromised their roles by prosecuting Trump unjustly.

4. Media Bias and Misinformation

Timestamp: [26:18] – [43:57]

Bongino extensively critiques mainstream media and specific media personalities whom he accuses of perpetuating misinformation and bias against Trump. He targets journalist Mehdi Hasan, labeling him a "life loser" and accusatively linking him to broader media conspiracies that tarnish Trump's reputation.

He also addresses stories about sensitive issues, such as child sex crimes, criticizing how they are reported based on the perpetrators' ethnicity. Bongino suggests that media outlets and liberal figures deflect responsibility by focusing on the race of the criminals rather than the crimes themselves, thereby fostering division and distracting from the gravity of the issues.

• Quote:

  "Liberal far left radicals don't give a shit who's dead, who's kidnapped... They will lie to protect their big government power no matter what." — Dan Bongino [39:16]

5. Discussion on Public Safety and Government Failures

Timestamp: [47:53] – [58:45]

Transitioning to public safety, Bongino highlights failures within government agencies, particularly focusing on the Los Angeles Fire Department's inability to respond effectively to wildfires due to budget cuts and inadequate resources. He mocks Governor Gavin Newsom's responses to these crises, accusing him of negligence and incompetence in managing California's wildfire issues.

Bongino shares a personal anecdote about losing his home to a fire, using it to illustrate the real-world consequences of government mismanagement. He criticizes the prioritization of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives over practical emergency responses, arguing that such policies hinder effective firefighting efforts.

• Quote:

  "Your job as a fireman is to go in and rescue people and rescue property. That's your freaking job." — Dan Bongino [54:11]

6. Political Strategy and Party Unity

Timestamp: [49:24] – [52:56]

Bongino advocates for strategic political maneuvering within the Republican Party, encouraging open debate and healthy friction to refine and strengthen conservative policies and leadership. He acknowledges differences between supporters of Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis but emphasizes the importance of focusing on outcomes rather than personal animosities.

• Quote:

  "Think about this only transactionally. Why am I bringing that up? Because it's interesting how on the Republican side, we can have a healthy debate about people." — Dan Bongino [49:24]

Bongino praises Governor Ron DeSantis for his governance in Florida while reiterating his support for Trump, presenting a united front focused on achieving tangible results over internal party conflicts.

7. Closing Remarks and Personal Updates

Timestamp: [59:24] – [61:16]

In the latter part of the episode, Bongino briefly touches on his personal life, mentioning that he will be taking some time off from the radio to address private matters. He reassures his audience of his continued commitment to the podcast and urges listeners to support the show through various platforms like Rumble, Apple, and Spotify.

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Notable Quotes with Attribution and Timestamps:

• Dan Bongino [00:04]:

  "The country which descended a long time ago into tyranny, fascism, an oligarchy, a dictatorship..."

• Dan Bongino [05:09]:

  "Donald Trump was just sentenced."

• Dan Bongino [10:08]:

  "Amy Coney Barrett has been a total failure. John Roberts is a judicial left wing activist."

• Dan Bongino [12:53]:

  "Total personnel warfare. Everyone needs to be fired. Total personnel warfare."

• Dan Bongino [39:16]:

  "Liberal far left radicals don't give a shit who's dead, who's kidnapped..."

• Dan Bongino [54:11]:

  "Your job as a fireman is to go in and rescue people and rescue property. That's your freaking job."

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Conclusion

In this episode, Dan Bongino presents a fervent critique of the legal actions against Donald Trump, condemning the judicial and governmental systems as tools of political oppression orchestrated by the left. He calls for decisive action to purge what he perceives as corrupt elements within the justice system and advocates for strategic unity and resilience within the Republican Party. Additionally, Bongino addresses broader issues of media bias and governmental failures, particularly in public safety, urging his audience to remain vigilant and proactive in defending conservative values and political objectives.

Transcript

[Dan Bongino]

Get ready to hear the truth about.

America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino. Folks, I hope you don't mind us starting early. Obviously a lot going on. The country which descended a long time ago into tyranny, fascism, an oligarchy, a dictatorship. It's now happened in New York as this disgusting piece of garbage posing as a judge in a black robe, filthy merch on. Has now decided to sentence Donald Trump. And the left is hilariously celebrating. Convicted felon. I saw a tweet by Fusion Candelanian. Now you can call him a convicted felon. Well, fuck. What now? We could call you the CIA's mop up man. Actually, we can't. They've been calling you that for a long time.

[Unknown Speaker]

Folks.

[Dan Bongino]

This is all they wanted.

[Unknown Speaker]

I said hilariously because may say it's not hilarious. No, no, there is something hilarious about this whole thing.

[Dan Bongino]

What's really laughable about this whole thing is I don't think there's a group of dipshits more responsible for putting Donald Trump in the White House than Matt Colangelo, Tish and Twinkies up in New York.

[Unknown Speaker]

I really don't.

[Dan Bongino]

I'm not kidding. I don't think there's a Republican donor activist, even me, who used this massive audience of the Bongino army to get Trump elected, who did more to get him elected than Twinkies, Colangelo and Tish. I really don't. I'm not trying to be funny about it, but it is hilarious that a group of Democrat commies got Trump elected where he kicked everyone's ass in every swing state. So I encourage you today to embrace the convicted felon, just like we embrace the outlaw label. Didn't hurt us, right? Results matter. What a hypocrite I'd be. If I tell you, hey, I believe in outcomes, outcomes, outcomes. And then I get overly emotional about this thing. I'm passionate about what happened, but not emotional. What was the outcome? We won. What was the outcome? We won by a larger margin the last time. What was the outcome? We won every single swing state and every single branch of governments now in our control. Don't be a fraud, Dan. You said you're bad outcomes. We won. I am. That's the hilarious part about this whole thing. Of course. We're talking about the sentencing today. Unconditional discharge. Trump gets no jail time, which would have been hilarious.

[Unknown Speaker]

You think? I mean, you really think.

[Dan Bongino]

What were they going to do? What are they going to do? Send a bunch of deputies to go and pull Trump out of the White House. I was a Secret Service agent, not on the President's detail. I couldn't even walk in the White.

[Unknown Speaker]

House without a White House passed.

[Dan Bongino]

I'm not kidding. You have to be on the detail or the Vice President's detail and have.

[Unknown Speaker]

An actual hard White House pass. All right, I got a ton to get to. Let me get to it.

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[Dan Bongino]

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[Dan Bongino]

Donald Trump was just sentenced.

[Unknown Speaker]

The left is now celebrating. It can call him a convicted felon. We of course will use that to raise money and influence to hopefully win back the midterms, just like we did the outlaw label last time.

[Dan Bongino]

Because we're good at that.

[Unknown Speaker]

We're good at that. We're good at flipping the script on.

[Dan Bongino]

Dipshit fuck wild liberal commies because we beat their asses.

[Unknown Speaker]

We've won the last three elections.

[Dan Bongino]

I thought just two.

[Unknown Speaker]

We won three.

[Dan Bongino]

Number one, liberals are celebrating today not.

[Unknown Speaker]

Because of the verdict.

[Dan Bongino]

They they're going to publicly. Yes, you're going to see the Jessica.

[Unknown Speaker]

Tarlovs and you know, the other, you know, Karen's and liberal losers.

[Dan Bongino]

You're going to see them like the.

[Unknown Speaker]

Ken Delaney and the CIA mop up man taking a victory lap. But I'm telling you something, I need you to digest this and internalize this because it's true. Even the loser class, the Candelanians of the world, they know this was a mistake.

[Dan Bongino]

Now they can't publicly tweet out and.

[Unknown Speaker]

Say something like, well, you know what, we're glad this thing is over.

[Dan Bongino]

Let's move on. Because what will happen is the liberal commies that follow them on Twitter will attack them and be like, we got Hitler. Do you understand that? But these smart commies, they're still evil, but they're tactically smart. They know this was a huge mistake. However, they still think it was a success. Dan, what are you saying? This is confusing. You're all over the place. No, I'm not. They know that the convicted felon thing is only going to add to Donald.

[Unknown Speaker]

Trump's martyrdom and his legend moving forward.

[Dan Bongino]

They know that, but they also understand.

[Unknown Speaker]

Due to this New York Times article here. Supreme Court denies Trump's last ditch effort to avoid sentencing. They know they've won because process is punishment to the left. Everybody, let's take a break. Okay, Judge Bongino is ruled. Deep breaths. Let's refocus. Because if we don't learn from this edutainment, educational entertainment, hat tip, Boogie Down Productions, there is no purpose to this show whatsoever.

[Dan Bongino]

My good friend Tom Fitton over Judicial.

[Unknown Speaker]

Watch told me this a long time ago. Judicial Watch, I mean, that's what they do. They watch the judiciary. That's why they're called Judicial Watch. Sorry, that sounded like a dick on that one. It wasn't intentional, I promise. Tom said process for the left is punishment. The left doesn't really care that he's labeled a convicted felon. They know it's going to backfire. I just said that. What they care about is they have successfully forced Donald Trump to defend himself against a fake crime in front of a fake judge with a daughter who.

[Dan Bongino]

Was a Democrat activist.

[Unknown Speaker]

The judge, I believe, is a donor in front of a fake DA in front of a fake ag.

[Dan Bongino]

This is what their goal was. Their goal is to make the process so painful that the outcome doesn't matter. Do you understand what I mean?

[Unknown Speaker]

This is why liberals love things like the irs. They love things like a weaponized FBI.

[Dan Bongino]

Because they know in the end that if they come knocking down your door.

[Unknown Speaker]

Because you're a Trump activist with an.

[Dan Bongino]

FBI search warrant, even if the search warrant is based on a source, they know to be giving them fake information. They know later on nothing will happen to them.

[Unknown Speaker]

They'll just say, hey, how did we know Christopher Steele was lying?

[Dan Bongino]

They'll know that. But they'll know that and they'll admit to it later, after you've spent 2.

[Unknown Speaker]

To $300,000 in legal bills, they. I'm not going to lie to you folks.

[Dan Bongino]

This is a messaging narrative loss for them. The convicted felon thing is a total loser for them. It is only going to add to Trump's aura. Is everybody get that in the chat? Tell me in the chat you're digging what I'm putting down.

[Unknown Speaker]

You're picking up and eating this chili.

[Dan Bongino]

Because you got to understand the narrative war for them is completely lost.

[Unknown Speaker]

They lost the election.

[Dan Bongino]

However, the damage done to constitutional process across the country is maybe at this point, I'm not going to say irreparable, but it's going to be difficult to fix. If they can do this to Donald Trump, the most powerful Republican conservative anywhere in the world, if they can do this to him and drag him through this kangaroo court in New York on a fake crime with no victim, they can do it to anyone. And whereas Donald Trump won't be bankrupted.

[Unknown Speaker]

By this, I promise you. Will our Supreme Court throw that up again?

[Dan Bongino]

Our Supreme Court is totally. I don't want to say our Supreme.

[Unknown Speaker]

Court, Clarence Thomas and Alito, of course, always do the right thing.

[Dan Bongino]

Ladies and gentlemen, Amy Coni Barrett has.

[Unknown Speaker]

Been a total failure.

[Dan Bongino]

She has been a total failure. I love Donald Trump, but whoever recommended.

[Unknown Speaker]

I believe it was the Federalist Society.

[Dan Bongino]

Recommended Amy Coney Barrett. She has been an absolute disaster. Amy Coney Barrett is John Roberts Jr. John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett sided with the liberal commies. Now, I expect nothing from John Roberts. He's a clown. John Roberts is a judicial left wing activist.

[Unknown Speaker]

He is not a conservative.

[Dan Bongino]

That's why I laugh. And you should never say, folks in the chat, you understand this. If you ever say this in the chat, we may consider banning you. I can't. We don't have a 6, 3 Supreme Court. John Roberts is a leftist, period. John Roberts has done more to destroy the country. His ruling on Obamacare, his ruling on the census and illegal immigration, his ruling on this. John Roberts is a, is a. Not just a leftist, a hardcore leftist. Amy Coney Barrett is John Roberts Jr. She has been a disastrous pick. Trump should haul in every single person who recommended her and demand an explanation why the Supreme Court has now whether they. I need you to. Because a lot of you in the chat, I know what you're going to say.

[Unknown Speaker]

So here Scroff Scraw F Says reform the judicial system.

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah, you're damn right. But I want you guys to understand. Couple people in the chat, I bet you're thinking this. Well, you know, the Supreme Court didn't totally reject it. They said let the process play out first and then we'll take it afterwards. That's the point. That's what the left wanted. Do you understand? The left wanted the Supreme Court to say, hey, weaponize the system all you want and then when everybody's bankrupt, will come in later and clean up the mess when the guy's already bankrupt. That's not justice, folks. I mean, have you not heard the cliche justice delayed is justice denied. Donald Trump. It's not just justice delayed, it's just as never. The Supreme Court had an opportunity to step up and shut this down. And outside Clarence Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch, these other Amy, Coney, Barrett and Roberts are, have now turned into devout leftists. This is what happens when you hire legal professors with no legal experience whatsoever. I mean, excuse me, with no real world experience, to go out and be the most important jurors in the land process is punishment, folks. Then you have this at Fox News. Our court system is completely collapsed. The whole purpose of the blind justice court system we aspire to is that every single American, if it's Donald Trump or Trump Donald, gets the exact same opportunity at a fair legal justice system that protects due process rights. Donald Trump. This whole case for Jack Smith was thrown out. The appeals court is still going to let Jack Smith release this report on a case with no merit whatsoever, with an unconstitutional appointment of Jack Smith that was thrown out. You have no protection if you're a Republican anymore. None.

[Unknown Speaker]

Zero.

[Dan Bongino]

Absolute disgrace. Now, because it is Friday and I want to give you a little bit of good news here.

[Unknown Speaker]

There is a little bit of good news.

[Dan Bongino]

Number one, I started with we definitely won the narrative war. They have martyred Donald Trump and you need to take it and run with it. This convicted felon label is going to explode in their face, Wile E. Coyote style, I absolutely promise you. But if this is not an evite.

[Unknown Speaker]

Invitation, get ready for the words I'm about to use. There are three words that are going to come out of my mouth in a second and I want you all to spread them around on social media. Bonginoarmy, please. It is time right now for total personnel warfare. If this is not an evite invitation for total personnel warfare when we take over in what, 10 days, then nothing else is. Folks, I need you to understand another cliche again. Cliches can be valuable and they can be stupid. They're valuable because everybody understands them. As Peggy Noonan pointed out in her piece this week, there is another adage about government processes punishment. I'll give you one more. People or policy?

[Dan Bongino]

Ladies and gentlemen, if you are on.

[Unknown Speaker]

The ridiculous, mistaken misbelief that policy is policy and we live in a blind justice system full of laws and regulations that apply equally.

[Dan Bongino]

That's a good one. We don't.

[Unknown Speaker]

That's ridiculous.

[Dan Bongino]

Do you actually believe that these charges against Donald Trump for these payments, these.

[Unknown Speaker]

Legal payments made to Stephanie Clifford, do.

[Dan Bongino]

You actually believe anyone else on planet earth, anyone other than Donald Trump would.

[Unknown Speaker]

Be, would be put through the justice.

[Dan Bongino]

System ringer for this? Of course you don't. Why? I thought policy was policy. Policy isn't policy. People are policy. The judge and Twinkies. Judge Merchant, fake judge, life loser. They made this crime up, folks. Nobody was defrauded. Nobody. Zero people were defrauded. The banks that were supposedly the victims in the valuation case of the properties not only sat on the stand, underwrote. They were not the victim. They wanted to do more business with Donald Trump. The legal precedent of dumping a statute of limitations. After New York changes the law specifically for Donald Trump, they changed the law, dumping the statute of limitations to go find a felony. That's a federal charge. But then it was in the New York State system. Exactly. They made the whole thing up. It is a fake crime. He is a fake convicted felon because it's a fake crime. He was not convicted of a crime because no crime actually exists. It is time for total personnel warfare. Do you understand that? Everybody has to go. Anyone in the justice system. A United States Attorney, an ausa, an Assistant United States Attorney.

[Unknown Speaker]

That's what we call him in the.

[Dan Bongino]

System, the intake AUSA who decides anyone who sniffed this case, touched this case, tweeted positively about this case. It is the President's full and final discretion to keep you hired in the doj. Pam Bondi, soon to be President Trump, soon to be Attorney General. Everybody's got to go. It is time for say it with me, folks. Throw it in the chat right now. Total personnel warfare. You won't fix a mother thing if you don't fire every single person who looked at this thing and didn't speak out about this abomination. Folks, to listen to the prosecutorial slob Twinkies team during this sentencing, if you heard some of the audio, it's quite boring. But to listen to them talk about the damage Donald Trump did to the legal system in New York by speaking out about this is such an inversion of the truth that I can't believe even disgusting commie filth like these dipshits up in New York working for Twinkies who can't control and really needs Mounjaro more than anyone I've ever seen. Right? There are drugs out there, dude. You don't have to be this much of a slob. You can fix that.

[Unknown Speaker]

Twinkies.

[Dan Bongino]

You know that. To hear his team talk about how Donald Trump's talking about the New York.

[Unknown Speaker]

Justice system causing a danger to justice.

[Dan Bongino]

After he was attacked Soviet style by said system is such a perversion and inversion of the truth that I'm stunned even these commie losers had the balls to say it. Folks, people are policy. I want to remind you about something about this case for your dumb ass liberal friends who are too stupid to figure out they lost the narrative war. I'll stipulate you have. Yes, you might, my liberal friends, of.

[Unknown Speaker]

Which I count as zero.

[Dan Bongino]

I will throw this out there. You definitely won the destruction of the constitutional republic. You did. You've destroyed it. Congratulations. I know that's what you wanted. You're not going to say, but I get that's what you wanted, dipshits. You win. You have destroyed it. You have now invented a system where we can invent crimes and call people convicted felons for fake fabricated crimes. You win. But when this total personnel warfare happens and you're all gone and you have to spend a decade re weaponizing the system again, I want you to ask yourself, you won at what cost? I want to remind you of something again that you can remind your dumb.

[Unknown Speaker]

Ass little friends because they are stupid. They're imbeciles. That's why they're liberals and believe stupid stuff. Okay? John Edwards was a liberal Democratic presidential.

[Dan Bongino]

Candidate, if any of you remember who he is.

[Unknown Speaker]

He ran as John Kerry's vice president, but he ran for president himself.

[Dan Bongino]

John Edwards was having an affair with.

[Unknown Speaker]

This woman they later believe had a child.

[Dan Bongino]

John Edwards used donor money to.

[Unknown Speaker]

And the allegations were that he took this donor money and made payments, like, you know, keep quiet kind of payments.

[Dan Bongino]

John Edwards was prosecuted and won that case. So the government, in one case. This is what I'm telling you about people or policy.

[Unknown Speaker]

Policy isn't policy.

[Dan Bongino]

The policy the government then was if you take campaign dollars and try to pay off people for like whatever they call hush money, if you take the campaign dollars and do it, you're a criminal. That was the government's position. Do you understand? In the Donald Trump case they took the exact opposite position. I thought it was policy. Policy isn't policy. People are policy. With Donald Trump, they said, hey, these legal payments, which they called hush money, these legal payments were made out of.

[Unknown Speaker]

Donald Trump's personal account, business account or whatever.

[Dan Bongino]

They should have been campaign donations. If you're saying yourself, wait, that's the exact opposite thing. Exactly. We live in a communist system, folks. The uncertainty going forward is going to.

[Unknown Speaker]

Decimate and destroy this republic if we don't fix it.

[Dan Bongino]

Total personnel warfare. Going forward, ladies and gentlemen, Cabinet secretaries are not enough. We need undersecretaries, Deputy undersecretaries. We need rank and file special agents in charge in the office. We need a usa, we need intake people. This is going to be total personnel warfare. If you want to fix this because of the uncertainty in the system. The whole idea of a constitutional republic, in contrast to a dictatorship, commies and tyranny, is that you can't just be locked up for any invented reason and then, God forbid, convicted. Imagine this. We have a system of supposed checks and balances, vertically and horizontally, where even if they do lock you up for some alleged crime, you're supposed to get a unanimous verdict of jurors that are supposed to see through the bullshit. That's after an indictment where the grand jury is supposed to see through it. Every single one of these things failed. Everything. The system has totally broken down. So, liberals, I will give you your day. You wanted to destroy the system and create a system of communist style tyranny. You did. Congratulations, you won. You absolutely won. But make no mistake, if you think.

[Unknown Speaker]

This war is over and you won.

[Dan Bongino]

The narrative war, wait till total personnel.

[Unknown Speaker]

Warfare happens and some of these same judicial weapons are turned on you. The difference is we actually have real crimes to investigate, like Joe Biden and his access to China and how he sold the country out and what Barack Obama was up to. Don't mistake this little laughy back and forth conversation yesterday for some kind of new buddy buddy thing. That's not what I heard. Pierce's gag order is done with too, which is good. Donald Trump should never stop talking about this, ever. Total personnel warfare moving forward. Everybody gets fired, folks. You didn't speak out about it. You didn't have the balls.

[Dan Bongino]

And don't tell me, I don't want to hear your lectures out there. If you're a federal government employee in the legal system that sat on your ass and did nothing. Well, what did you do? I resigned my job, dipshits. That's why I'm here. And I'm not still an agent. I didn't retire. I love when people tweet. Oh, man, you got your government pension. I don't. You have government health care. No, I don't. I did not retire. I resigned. I don't need any lectures, thanks. I actually had the balls to do something.

[Unknown Speaker]

You should grow a set. Let me take a quick break here. I want to get back to this because this is really under my skin, folks.

[Dan Bongino]

Hey, if you own or carry a.

[Unknown Speaker]

Gun for protection, you need to join the uscca. Listen, as you've seen, I mean, talk about imperfect timing from the weaponization of the justice system. You cannot risk the legal system if you get in a lethal force situation.

[Dan Bongino]

With a firearm, even in a clear cut case of self defense.

[Unknown Speaker]

How many more headlines you need to see.

[Dan Bongino]

You're likely to get more locked up more than the criminals, especially in these.

[Unknown Speaker]

Liberal and purple states.

[Dan Bongino]

And with the new administration, the justice.

[Unknown Speaker]

System'S no friend to gun owners like us, even with them because you've got locals, state people.

[Dan Bongino]

You need to be a member of.

[Unknown Speaker]

The USCCA like I have. I've been a member for a long time. Right now the US Concealed Carry association is giving away a free concealed carry and family defense guide and a chance to win $1,200 to buy a gun or any gear you need to protect your family, all 100% free. You can get it when you visit uscca.com dan. You'll learn how to detect attackers before they see you, equipment and training basics and how to responsibly own and store a gun and a whole lot more. It's a 58 page guide. It's absolutely packed with valuable information. So go today. Don't take any chances. Visit uscca.comdan. you'll get instant access and a chance to win $1200 to buy the gear you need. Go to uscca.comdan right now. Check it out, folks. Please don't take any chances with your freedom. You have. This justice system, as you've seen today, is absolutely no friend to you under any circumstances. Don't take the risk. Listen, I just want to wrap here folks on this topic because I have a lot more to get to and I want to digest what happened yesterday with Trump and Obama because again, there's a tendency to get emotional about these things. When Donald Trump doesn't see the world that way, he sees it transactionally. You need to see it that way too. Understand going forward that transactionally speaking, we have a problem. What's the problem?

[Dan Bongino]

Divorce the emotions. Don't do what liberals do.

[Unknown Speaker]

Divorce the emotions.

[Dan Bongino]

What is our problem? What's the problem? The problem to fix is we have people in positions of authority who can have people arrested and prosecuted. Assistant district attorneys, city states attorneys, assistant United States Attorneys, U.S. attorneys who have become total communist commies that have weaponized their power. How do we fix that problem? Everyone needs to be fired. Total personnel warfare. We obviously can't fire people in the state system, Donald Trump, but we can.

[Unknown Speaker]

Sure as shit take care of the federal system. So this is the clip I was talking about yesterday. What exactly were this was at Jimmy Carter's funeral. This kind of went nuclear all over the Internet. What exactly were President Trump and Barack Obama talking about yesterday? Well, I don't know because I'M not a lip reader, but apparently people who work with the New York Post are lip readers. Joking. No, I'm not joking at all. So Kyle Becker has a tweet out, and we have a decent idea.

[Dan Bongino]

Now, according to this lip reader, I.

[Unknown Speaker]

Want to be clear about what was actually said during this meeting.

[Dan Bongino]

And again, I don't want you to get emotional about this.

[Unknown Speaker]

The left gets emotional.

[Dan Bongino]

I saw Don Lemon freaking out online. Oh, my gosh, you're talking to Hitler. Obama, don't do that. Trump is not stupid. He knows what he's doing. Apparently, he told Obama he needed a.

[Unknown Speaker]

Quiet place to talk to him about a matter of importance. This lip reader, Jeremy Friedman, scroll through that, if you could.

[Dan Bongino]

Said he said, I've pulled out of that.

[Unknown Speaker]

It's the conditions.

[Dan Bongino]

Can you imagine that?

[Unknown Speaker]

Trump said afterwards, Obama laughs. Trump says, and after I will. The camera then cuts away. And Trump said to Obama, call me at the Foy after. Yep. I'm not sure if Foy is inaccurate. What he was saying.

[Dan Bongino]

Can you.

[Unknown Speaker]

And Obama responded, Can you just. It should be good. And then he says, Trump said to.

[Dan Bongino]

Him, I can't talk.

[Unknown Speaker]

We have to find a quiet place. It's a matter of importance. We do this outside so we can deal with it. Certainly today.

[Dan Bongino]

What were they talking about?

[Unknown Speaker]

Folks, there's a thousand different theories. Donald Trump answered a question yesterday about it, but didn't say anything specific about what they talking about the Iran deal.

[Dan Bongino]

I don't know.

[Unknown Speaker]

There's a lot of speculation.

[Dan Bongino]

I'm applying the Bongino rule, which is.

[Unknown Speaker]

I'll wait to see if more information comes out. And Trump says a little more about what exactly they were talking about.

[Dan Bongino]

I don't know.

[Unknown Speaker]

But again, I'm seeing people getting really upset about this. I'm not talking about the left, of course. We expect them to break down and melt down. Oh, my gosh. Hitler, fascists. Because they're morons and they're emotional.

[Dan Bongino]

Folks.

[Unknown Speaker]

We need to find out, and we are going to need to get to a source eventually about what happened with the Iran deal and the Spygate operation.

[Dan Bongino]

And for those of you who don't.

[Unknown Speaker]

Know the background, they are all tied together.

[Dan Bongino]

This thing started.

[Unknown Speaker]

For those of you who are unaware, and I encourage you, you can get.

[Dan Bongino]

It from the library.

[Unknown Speaker]

I'm not trying to sell you a book. I promise, if you read my book, Follow the money or exonerate it or even Spygate. I have three books on this. You will see.

[Dan Bongino]

This all started with General Mike Flynn. Mike Flynn had real issues with the.

[Unknown Speaker]

Intelligence community's failures and the Iran deal.

[Dan Bongino]

So he was targeted by Obama. The Iran deal? Iran and Mike Flynn are tied into the entire weaponization of government operation. That's why the whole spying operation started with Mike Flynn, and that's why the.

[Unknown Speaker]

FBI went after him first when he was a national security adviser at the White House.

[Dan Bongino]

This is all tied into the Iran deal. Is that what he's talking about there? Donald Trump with President Obama? I don't know. I'm applying the wait and see Bongino rule.

[Unknown Speaker]

Give it 24 to 72 hours and we'll see.

[Dan Bongino]

But I'm sure as hell going to comment on it, because if that's what it's about, Trump knows what's up, is about to start overturning some rocks, and he knows Obama knows, too.

[Unknown Speaker]

Is he trying to get Obama to.

[Dan Bongino]

Speak up about it? I don't know.

[Unknown Speaker]

I guess we'll see. But I would be very careful jumping to conclusions. I saw that with the Fetterman thing yesterday, too.

[Dan Bongino]

A whole bunch of people were really.

[Unknown Speaker]

Upset about, you know, Fetterman going to visit Mar A Lago, the Democrat senator from Pennsylvania.

[Dan Bongino]

Why?

[Unknown Speaker]

What are you upset about?

[Dan Bongino]

Don't get emotional. We're not leftists. Donald Trump needs plus ones, including Democrats.

[Unknown Speaker]

On pieces of legislation.

[Dan Bongino]

If Fetterman's a plus one, what do.

[Unknown Speaker]

We give a shit?

[Dan Bongino]

I'm never going to vote for the guy. I would never vote for a Democrat in my life, and you shouldn't either. But if we can get the guy to plus one us on immigration and tax cuts and other things, why would we be stupid not to take it? Be stunned how many people I saw.

[Unknown Speaker]

Even on our side.

[Dan Bongino]

I can't believe he's hosted. What can't you believe? Why would you not believe that? I want you to understand, though, slowly, even in the narrative war, it's slowly dawning on the absolute dumbest liberals in the media that nothing they've been told.

[Unknown Speaker]

By Democrat operatives about Trump in the past is true.

[Dan Bongino]

Where'd I get that quote? From our good friend Glenn Greenwald, one of the few actual journalists left. This thing happened, what I'm talking about with Trump and Obama yesterday. You just saw the video and look at this as Assarwin Susebang. I know this guy well.

[Unknown Speaker]

This guy's just a complete goofball. Life loser. Wrote some BS article about me a long time ago, turned into a court thing.

[Dan Bongino]

Here's Oswin Susebang, he says, so Trump and Obama are just hanging out next to each other. Jimmy's Carter at Jimmy Carter's funeral. Nice visual there. He says, I'm aware I'm not a former president or statesman or anything, but if I truly believe the guy's a fascist, I'm not showing my personal respects to anything. Sharing a pew with that asshole. They're slowly coming around to the fact that every single thing they've been told.

[Unknown Speaker]

Is absolutely bullshit, folks.

[Dan Bongino]

You know what, can we go to Tarlov?

[Unknown Speaker]

I need a little Tarlov break, folks. You know, the queen of the care.

[Dan Bongino]

Queen of the courage.

[Unknown Speaker]

I need a little Tarlov break after that. Just fireball of an opening about this disgusting filth, bullshit case up in New York in the sentencing. Listen to me.

[Dan Bongino]

Liberals are slowly coming around to the fact that everything Democrat operatives tell them is bullshit. Everything, Everything. Tarlov is an OP, okay? She's always been an OP. She comes to the Fox News 5 set. I've seen it a thousand times with.

[Unknown Speaker]

A list of talking points people give her.

[Dan Bongino]

She does no homework on anything. And it's why she constantly has to retract stuff and looks like an absolute buffoon. She does no homework. She, she's not smart. She's the queen of the Karens. She gets destroyed every single time. She's like this Asawin Souser bank person except that she's the Democrat operative telling.

[Unknown Speaker]

Them that Trump's Hitler and all this other stuff or insinuating it or implying it and attacking this guy all the time.

[Dan Bongino]

I'm going to show you what I mean.

[Unknown Speaker]

Coming up in a second.

[Dan Bongino]

She gets absolutely wrecked again putting out garbage, nonsense, junk.

[Unknown Speaker]

Quick break and we'll get right back to that last break of the show. You can tell today I'm, I'm in a mood. This Judge Merchant definitely has me, folks.

[Dan Bongino]

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[Unknown Speaker]

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[Dan Bongino]

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[Dan Bongino]

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[Unknown Speaker]

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[Dan Bongino]

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[Unknown Speaker]

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[Dan Bongino]

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[Unknown Speaker]

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[Dan Bongino]

Here it is, folks. The queen of the Karen strikes again. Again.

[Unknown Speaker]

These people put out misinformation every single day. It's how we got to this place with Donald Trump in the sentencing. It's how we got to the L. A wildfires, the failures of government, these media people.

[Dan Bongino]

There's nothing Tarlov won't do to protect left wing commies. It doesn't matter. Louisiana is burning to the ground. The mayor cut the budget.

[Unknown Speaker]

Here's Tarlov telling you a fairy tale about it. Check this out.

[D]

There's also which I think is particularly the most damaging story, which is that there was $17 million cut from the fire budget and that's also inaccurate. So Lasker's budget had an extra $17 million because they bought off. They bought one off expenses. These SCBA is for respiratory Protection for firefighters and new suits. Those aren't in the new budget because you buy them once every several years. Also there's an additional $50 million that's been set aside for the fire department. And when they were doing the budget negotiations, it wasn't. So that money is coming. There will actually be more money in the fire budget next year. And.

[Dan Bongino]

Folks, Liz McDonald from Fox who.

[Unknown Speaker]

Actually knows her stuff, unlike the Queen of the Karen's, Jessica Tarlos. I just love reading the check guys. I know you guys get a kick out of Queen of the Karens here.

[Dan Bongino]

Sorry Jessica. Unfortunately this is incorrect. She could have looked it up and.

[Unknown Speaker]

Do her homework but. And then her homework by Jessica Toll doesn't actually believe in homework.

[Dan Bongino]

In fiscal year 2022, 2023, L. A.

[Unknown Speaker]

Fire department had a budget of 837 million. For fiscal year 2022, the budget was reduced by 17.6 million, bringing it to 819 million. I mean she could have again just looked that up. Obviously chose not to because she is. That's why she's constantly making retractions and things on tv. You understand? They just make stuff up. This is why liberals believe crazy bullshit. Now I want to tie this all together for you. And this was unintentional because I was unaware of what was going to happen with the sentencing today. The fake sentencing on the fake crime by the fake judge of Donald Trump in the New York City courtroom. I was, it were rumors it was going to be an unconditional discharge, which it turned out to be. It's not going to be any jail time, which would have been absurd. However, I wasn't sure what was going to happen so I couldn't get out ahead of it. But this article is absolutely glorious and you need to read it because it covers the parallels between the Soviet Union and Glasnost. When the Soviet Union opened up under Gorbachev, the Glasnost era, Reagan, Gorbachev and later George H.W. bush.

[Dan Bongino]

When the media opened up and started.

[Unknown Speaker]

Reporting on the horrors of what had happened under the Soviet Union, ladies and gentlemen, it was a massive shock to the system. The author in this, Vladimir Kantarovich and Eugene Kantarovich. The gist of the article is that.

[Dan Bongino]

You'Re now going to start to see.

[Unknown Speaker]

This with some Democrats, not the Tarlovs, because they, they propagandize on purpose. That's what they do.

[Dan Bongino]

But you're going to see a lot.

[Unknown Speaker]

Of rank and file Democrats start to switch over to the Republican Party as.

[Dan Bongino]

They realized that the press is now.

[Unknown Speaker]

Going to be forced in the Trump era as the books are open to.

[Dan Bongino]

Cover what happened in the prior eight.

[Unknown Speaker]

Years of Obama and four years of Biden, which were effectively Soviet style tyranny.

[Dan Bongino]

Do you get the parallel? Do you see what he's saying? He's saying this was such a shock to people who finally read with Gorbachev, opened up the press.

[Unknown Speaker]

Oh my gosh.

[Dan Bongino]

All this stuff we heard about from our families but we were afraid to talk about is real. He talks about all the stuff that's coming out now that you've been lied to. Here's the list. In this American glass nose he notes the list continues. Turns out a virus that killed millions of people was most likely engineered by.

[Unknown Speaker]

China and partially funded by us for years.

[Dan Bongino]

Public health establishment labeled this a right.

[Unknown Speaker]

Wing conspiracy conspiracy theory.

[Dan Bongino]

Now we also discuss the harm inflicted on children by school closings, conversations that at one point were forbidden as dangerous misinformation. They note some participants in these abuses, such as Meta CEO Zuckerberg are confessing now how they reluctantly contributed. This week he announced his company's ending its fact checking program and reducing censorship.

[Unknown Speaker]

Explaining as America that America's release reached the cultural tipping point. Ladies and gentlemen, I believe we have, we have released not just an American.

[Dan Bongino]

Tipping point where the media and the tarlovs of the world are still going.

[Unknown Speaker]

To propagandize people because that's what they do.

[Dan Bongino]

They've got to protect the communist insulated.

[Unknown Speaker]

Enterprise and government no matter what.

[Dan Bongino]

That people died in Los Angeles, that their houses burned down matters not to far left liberals. What matters is protecting the collective concentrated.

[Unknown Speaker]

Power of government and Democrat power.

[Dan Bongino]

They listen to me. They don't give a shit about you. Do you understand far left? I'm not talking about all Democrats.

[Unknown Speaker]

I want to be very clear about that because I'm not going to do what they do to us.

[Dan Bongino]

Listen to me clearly. Liberal far left radicals don't give a shit who's dead, who's kidnapped Lake and Riley, who's raped, who's murdered, whose house burns down. They don't give a shit. They will lie to protect their big government power no matter what. Does everybody in the chat, everybody understand that? Every single person here, they don't care. Can you imagine a far left liberal government voting to protect rape gangs in a country raping children because it would hurt organized liberal far left communist power?

[Unknown Speaker]

Oh, that's not happening.

[Dan Bongino]

Oh yes it is. It is.

[Unknown Speaker]

It's exactly what's happening.

[Dan Bongino]

Matter of fact, in that Wall Street Journal article they note that even Children.

[Unknown Speaker]

Were violated under the old order.

[Dan Bongino]

There's now a sudden frankness going on about mutilating children. And in last week many Americans discovered, thanks to Elon Musk, by the way, for the first time that Pakistani child rape gangs existed in the UK which were reported on years ago.

[Unknown Speaker]

Why now can only be explained through glassnost. When one can speak freely, everything that wasn't said tumbles out. Ladies and gentlemen, I know with the cussing it's not but this, I really encourage you, if you have kids, maybe move them away from this. Got it. Okay. The stories in the UK are horrifying. They involve things like anal pumps to expand things so that multiple men could rape children. At the same time, the stories are horrifying. Now you would think liberals in the United Kingdom, liberals would say, oh my gosh, anal pumps with kids. That sounds really atrocious. We need to do something about that and investigate how this was allowed to go on so long.

[Dan Bongino]

Nope.

[Unknown Speaker]

Here is a video recording of the.

[Dan Bongino]

Vote count which went down in flames.

[Unknown Speaker]

To do an organized investigation into these Pakistani child rape games. I told you they will protect anything and anyone because that's who these evil demons are. Watch this.

[Dan Bongino]

The eyes to the right were 111. The nose to the left 364. So the no's have it.

The no's have it unlock.

[Unknown Speaker]

Kids raped, house burns down lake and Riley's murdered. Tortured, beaten. Fentanyl poisonings. You think liberals give a shit? Liberals don't care. As long as it contributes to their power base. They will never say a thing about it and they will do everything to cover it up. If you expect people on any cable news channel with a far left leaning ever to call out big government despite rapes and murders and arson and fires and destruction and death and property damage, you are out of your mind. There is only one way to get rid of these people. It is total personnel warfare.

[Dan Bongino]

Vote them out.

[Unknown Speaker]

Fire the appointees. It is the only way they. These people are an existential threat to humanity. They are disgusting tyrants. Here, you want more evidence of human filth? Here's the disgusting Mehdi Hassan, a total piece of shit and life loser.

[Dan Bongino]

A guy if he's anywhere near you.

[Unknown Speaker]

Run in the opposite direction. Quickly. A filthy human being. I'll play the video of this guy. He likes to describe atheists as cattle.

[Dan Bongino]

You know what? Put that up.

[Unknown Speaker]

Let's see the guy first.

[Dan Bongino]

He. He. You.

[Unknown Speaker]

You're the disbelievers if you don't believe in his religion.

[Dan Bongino]

By the way, he Calls you the.

[Unknown Speaker]

Disbelievers, the atheists who remain deaf and stubborn to Islam, that they are described.

[Dan Bongino]

In the Quran as people of no intelligence.

[Unknown Speaker]

This is what Mehdi thinks of you.

[Dan Bongino]

Because they are incapable of the intellectual effort it requires to shake off blind.

[Unknown Speaker]

Prejudices about existence of God.

[Dan Bongino]

Quran describes the atheists as cattle.

[Unknown Speaker]

Cattle are those who grow the crops that do not stop and wonder about this world. Maddie, you can go fuck yourself. How does that sound?

[Dan Bongino]

Mehdi's a chump and a coward and.

[Unknown Speaker]

A loser and a total zero.

[Dan Bongino]

Mehdi's a piece of shit. I called you that.

[Unknown Speaker]

You're a piece of shit. You understand? Look me in the eye. Loser yourself.

[Dan Bongino]

Ok? Nobody likes you.

[Unknown Speaker]

You couldn't even keep a job at MSNBC because you're such a life loser. Why Piers Morgan had this guy on I don't understand. Piers may be a leftist, but he's not typically crazy. I don't know why anyone gives this guy a platform.

[Dan Bongino]

I don't like boycotts.

[Unknown Speaker]

Unless you just boycott him. But you don't have to give the guy a platform either. The guy's a complete piece of shit.

[Dan Bongino]

Here he is, he is upset not about children being raped by Pakistani rape gangs, but that people happen to mention that the people who raped them are Pakistani. That's what he's concerned about. You're definitely a racist, according to him.

[Unknown Speaker]

If you talk about this.

[Dan Bongino]

No, no, this actually happened.

[Unknown Speaker]

Check this out.

[Dan Bongino]

We know that the very, very, very vast majority are actually British Pakistanis. You're trying to deflect it into thinking it's somehow white men doing all this. Oh, my. So in Glasgow, there were white men. Eleven people abused three children, one of them in a nappy diaper. I'm not talking about Glasgow, talking about that. Nor is Elon Musk in the West Midlands, okay? In West Midlands, a decade of child sex crimes. 21 white people abused seven children, all of them under the age of 12, in Cornwall in 2010. These aren't we're talking about. When I talk about sex crime. Six men. Well, I'll get to that in a moment. Six men abused 30 girls, the youngest of whom was five years old. And you've just made my point for me. These are the scandals we're not talking about. Why? Why are we defining child sex crimes and grooming gangs by race? Unless you're a racist or trying to make political hay out of it.

[Unknown Speaker]

Do you believe this piece of shit?

[Dan Bongino]

By the way?

[Unknown Speaker]

Before I get back to the stupidity of what he just said, here's Mehdi Hassan again. Mehdi Hassan, who is. I'm telling you, if one of the biggest pieces of shit in the media. Here's Mehdi Hassan again. If you're not one of the believers like him, air quotes, then he doesn't think much of you. Check this out. We know that keeping the moral high ground is key. Once we lose the moral high ground.

[Dan Bongino]

We are no different from the rest of them are Muslims from the rest of those human beings who live their lives as animals, bending any rule to fulfill any desire.

[Unknown Speaker]

Animals. Bunch of savages. You should be more like Mehdi Hassan. Mehdi Hasan, who is puzzled that a.

[Dan Bongino]

Bunch of Pakistani men gang raped, killed kids and he's upset that they're Pakistani and it's not my fault they're Pakistani. And I get a. I get a deep pit in my stomach. It makes me want to vomit that he's calling you a racist for calling out. You know, it's kind of interesting when Jeffrey Epstein, who is not Pakistani. Jeffrey Epstein happens to be Jewish, by the way, which has nothing to do with the case. That's our point. Not dumbass Mehdi Hasan, we talked about this case all the time. He was involved in a sexual abuse case. So many. Hasan's point is if they're Pakistani, you not allowed to talk about it. So just to be clear, I'm a. I'm a cop. I get in a foot pursuit and I'm describing what I believe to be what the person looks like, right? And someone tells me that, listen, the subject who just robbed me is Pakistani. I come on the radio and go. I can't tell you what the subject is because he's Pakistani. And many. Hasan thinks that's racist.

[Unknown Speaker]

Folks, the world is full of really sick, disgusting people. And the only way, only way to stop the onslaught of tyranny, keep yourself safe from these people is to keep them out of power. This guy's free to have an opinion, but we don't have to platform this guy, okay? He is an asshole and he's always been one.

[Dan Bongino]

All right, I want to move on.

[Unknown Speaker]

I want to do some coverage again of this, the L. A Fire because.

[Dan Bongino]

The L. A Fire problem and the.

[Unknown Speaker]

Failure of government despite one of the.

[Dan Bongino]

Most greedy cities on planet Earth, Louisiana. I'm not talking about the people.

[Unknown Speaker]

I'm talking about the government steals just.

[Dan Bongino]

A fortune from their citizens. Louisiana. A lot of these California cities. The failure to do even basic fire mitigation to keep the water flowing out of fire hydrants has led to such mammoth destruction that the only Reason this stuff is going to be allowed to continue is because of people like Tarlov who defended on the five who will never once say, hey, maybe this was the wrong approach to government.

[Unknown Speaker]

Look at this damage. Put that up on vo, ladies and gentlemen. This is just. I mean, this is just catastrophic. Nobody deserves this man.

[Dan Bongino]

A sane person, unlike the liberal Karens.

[Unknown Speaker]

Of the world and the losers out.

[Dan Bongino]

There, a sane person would look at.

[Unknown Speaker]

This and say, how do we stop this from happening again?

[Dan Bongino]

Now, I'm going to play this clip of Ron DeSantis next because there's a valuable point here.

[Unknown Speaker]

Maybe some of you will get this and figure this out before I do. Before I. Before I articulate it, I should say Ron DeSantis was Donald Trump's opponent. There were still a lot of people in the mag movement who don't like Ron DeSantis. I like Ron DeSantis a lot. I live in Florida. He's been an amazing governor. State's totally transformed under him, period. Whether that pisses people off or not, I don't care. I supported Donald Trump from the start. I never supported Donald Ron DeSantis in the primary.

[Dan Bongino]

A lot of Ron DeSantis people don't like me because I didn't support him in a primary. I don't care about that either. You're never going to get me to get emotional about this and say, I hate Ron DeSantis.

[Unknown Speaker]

You're not going to get me to say that.

[Dan Bongino]

And you're not going to get me to say, well, or you couldn't have.

[Unknown Speaker]

Got me say, I'm going to support.

[Dan Bongino]

Him in a primary. I supported Donald Trump, period, because I am simply a transactional guy who thinks about outcomes. And I thought Donald Trump would bring the best outcome.

[Unknown Speaker]

Maybe Donald, maybe Ron DeSantis sometime in the future, but he is a great.

[Dan Bongino]

Governor, the best in the country, and I've seen it here in Florida. And no one's going to change my mind on that. Absolutely.

[Unknown Speaker]

Period.

[Dan Bongino]

Think about this only transactionally. Why am I bringing that up? Because it's interesting how on the Republican side, we can have a healthy debate about people. There are DeSantis people, even now, who don't like Donald Trump. There are Trump people don't like DeSantis. They're free to have that opinion. But you notice how in our party, there's always a little back and forth and friction. And, ladies and gentlemen, that's a healthy thing.

[Unknown Speaker]

It keeps people on their toes, keeps frosty, keeps everybody wired into the matrix. Okay? I mean the good matrix, not the Bad one. Right. Keeps everybody aligned, that we have a.

[Dan Bongino]

Vision and we can argue about the.

[Unknown Speaker]

Ideas and articulate those visions better because people on our own side are going to challenge us.

[Dan Bongino]

This never happens on the left. The left is committed to big government no matter what, and the media protects them.

[Unknown Speaker]

So here's DeSantis just absolutely kicking ass here. Media person asked him, hey, is this the right time to critique Gavin Newsom?

[Dan Bongino]

Really? DeSantis, despite kicking ass on hurricanes, has been critiqued for every single hurricane response, despite doing it better than anyone else in the country. His answer is priceless.

[Unknown Speaker]

Check this out.

[D]

Or a president to be criticized.

[E]

Is it appropriate for people in your industry to try to create division and to try to create narratives anytime these things happen? Now, you're not as interested in doing that because Newsom is a d. If Newsom was a Republican, you guys would go try to. You would have him nailed to the wall for what they're doing over there. And I know. We've dealt with it. We just assume in Florida, anytime something happens, it's going to be politicized by the media. So you guys sitting in judgment of Donald Trump? I mean, excuse me. I think your track record of politicizing these things is very, very bad.

[Dan Bongino]

You want my chat folks? Comment of the day, Tech Christian.

[Unknown Speaker]

You get it.

[Dan Bongino]

You just nailed it. You're exactly like me. Don't get emotional about this stuff. I don't like this answer. Here he is, Tech Christian.

[Unknown Speaker]

I like DeSantis. His bid for president was a mistake.

[Dan Bongino]

Good people make mistakes. Absolutely.

[Unknown Speaker]

It was a mistake.

[Dan Bongino]

I mean, I think he would say that, too.

[Unknown Speaker]

He lost.

[Dan Bongino]

But that's exactly what we need. He's down there. He shows up at Mar a Lago supporting the cause. If later on he starts attacking Donald Trump, we'll have a different take on it.

[Unknown Speaker]

Thank you, Tech Christian.

[Dan Bongino]

Because, folks, we have a fight. We got to fight. And we need plus ones. There's no reason to be attacking Fetterman or to be attacking DeSantis right now. We need plus ones. We have to think about this, not emotionally. Be smart about it. I'm not telling you to trust anyone. Trust is an emotion. It's not an outcome. I'm not asking you to trust anyone. Matter of fact, I'm telling you, don't trust anyone. Me included. We don't bring receipts. Throw it out the window. Pay attention to the outcomes, because we.

[Unknown Speaker]

Have crap like this to deal with.

[Dan Bongino]

You see this video going around? This is Los Angeles Assistant Fire Chief Kristen Larson in one of the most.

[Unknown Speaker]

Grotesque horrifying videos about fire response you're ever going to see.

[Dan Bongino]

Not making it about me, I'm simply.

[Unknown Speaker]

Telling you I've got a lot of skin in this game. I lost the house I lived in to a fire. And let me tell you something. When those fire department folks responded out there in Wanta. When the house was burning down, nobody gave a shit what they look like.

[Dan Bongino]

As a matter of fact, folks, when.

[Unknown Speaker]

They have their, what, Scott packs on.

[Dan Bongino]

And their masks and their gear, you don't even know what they look like.

[Unknown Speaker]

Apparently the fire chief cares about that because DEI matters more than anything. Check this out.

[F]

You want to see somebody that responds to your house, your emergency, whether it's a medical call or a fire call that looks like you, it gives that person a little bit more ease knowing that somebody might understand their situation better. Is she strong enough to do this or. You couldn't carry my husband out of a fire, Which? My response is he got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.

[Dan Bongino]

Your only job is to rescue people from a fire. That's why you exist. Your job as a fireman, not fireperson. Your job as a fireman is to go in and rescue people and rescue property. That's your freaking job. And you thought it appropriate to say, well, you know, you want someone to look like you. Nobody gives a shit in a fire what anybody looks like. Nobody. Have you ever been. Is this fire? Has this fire official ever been in a fire? This smoke is thick and black. It's not like the movies, folks. I had to learn this in fire training. Not a real. I've never been in a real fire. When the house burned down, I wasn't home, thankfully. Knock on wood. But in fire training, when they put us through the Nassau County Fire academy, you can't see shit in front of your face. It's black. Any firemen in the chat? Chime in here. Tell every fireman in the chat, I know you're there. We got 143,000 people. Surely there's firemen. Tell me I'm wrong. The fire is thick and black. Without a flashlight, you can't see shit. You think you're looking, oh, is that a white man? I'm sorry. I'm going to bypass being saved. Can we get a black female lesbian in here, please? Fireman, am I wrong? Here, here. Jay Kramer, 71. Can't see shit. J.P. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. You're 100% correct, Dan. And to you firemen in the chat. Listen to me, brothers, and sisters, thank you for your bravery. I took this fire training for a day and it scared the living shit out of me. And I was a cop. We're supposed to run towards. I'd rather. I'm not even kidding. I'd rather run towards a gunfight where I got a shot than run in a freaking smoky building. These guys run in a damn building, they don't even know the floor is not going to give way. You understand the freaking nuts it takes to do that? And you're worried about the skin color and sexual orientation about this person? Really? Soup cooler, shut it. The firemen on here.

[Unknown Speaker]

Hey, man, I'd pound my heart, but my elbows don't work. But much love, brothers and sisters. You got a set of freaking grapefruits. And like I say to my military brothers and sisters, I envy you for your experience. The cops out there, too, the police officers, corrections first responders. But today it's about the firemen. God bless you, man. You got a lot of balls doing what you do. You ever get the chance to go take a fire course at a fire academy where they light up number two, diesel fuel oil and shut the windows? They'll literally board up the windows. You'll see what I mean. You'll be begging to get out of there. Of course, nothing works in Los Angeles. Nothing works despite the fact that the government steals from its taxpayers at nearly a record pace in the state of California. And in the.

[Dan Bongino]

You would think they would have some basic fire prevention because, you know, a fire has never happened in California. Oh, yeah, it happens all the time. Here's an MSNBC report. Yes, MSNBC having to acknowledge that the fire hydrants ran out of water. The fire hydrants had one job, to put out fire with water. That's their job. How the. How do you run out of water? You doubt me? Here, watch this.

[G]

We saw an apartment building engulfed in flames. I saw the fire engine pull up this afternoon, a fire captain have one of his firefighters attach a hose to a hydrant, and that hose didn't fill up. Alex and I asked the captain, out of every 10 hydrants you attach to today, on average, how many are you getting full water from? He says little to none. And it was at that point that really the whole crew stopped, looked up at this apartment building, and they realized there was nothing they could do.

[Unknown Speaker]

Here's your governor who wants to run for president in California. Hair gel guy, Gavin Newsom.

[Dan Bongino]

Here he is answering a question.

[Unknown Speaker]

Was it CNN or whatever, asking him.

[Dan Bongino]

Like, hey, man, you know the water.

[Unknown Speaker]

And the fire hydrants and stuff. I mean, you are the governor. The state's known for wildfires. I mean, the insurance market pulled out because of it. You did nothing about that except create the problem. The insurance companies had that when they had to leave. What are you going to do about that?

[Dan Bongino]

He's like, ah, don't worry.

[Unknown Speaker]

I think the locals will figure it out.

[Dan Bongino]

You doubt me?

[Unknown Speaker]

Here, watch yourself.

[H]

What is the situation with the water? Obviously in Palisades? Ran out last night in the hydrants. I was trying to firefighter on this block, they left because there was no water in the hydrant here. Local folks are trying to figure that out. I mean, just when you have a system there, it's not dissimilar. What we've seen in other extraordinarily large scale fires, whether it be pipe electricity or whether it just be the complete overwhelm of the system. I mean, those hydrants are typical for two or three fires. Maybe one fire, you have something at this scale. But again, that's going to be determined by the local.

[Unknown Speaker]

Yeah, don't worry. Large scale fire in Los Angeles, totally unforeseeable. Locals will figure it out. Folks.

[Dan Bongino]

Hey, I just want to talk to.

[Unknown Speaker]

You about something quickly. You know, listen, I don't, I do my Monday morning update, but generally I don't talk about my personal life every day because honestly, who gives a shit? I mean, there's too much going on in the world. Donald Trump was just sentenced by a tyrannical court in New York. Who wants to hear about my, you know, me getting a root canal or something, right?

[Dan Bongino]

But I got a lot going on in my life.

[Unknown Speaker]

Not asking for anybody's sympathy or anything like that. I'll be fine. But I had to take some time off for some things not on the radio. I'll be here for the podcast every day. But I won't be in for the radio today. I've got something I really need to take care of. I know it's a busy day. Jim's going to be using a lot of my audio. But I hope you understand going forward, there's things I just don't talk about for a reason. It's. I'm not going to say it's not your business. It is. It's just boring. But it's not boring to me. It's serious stuff and I have to take care of it. So I will be here for the podcast every day. Don't worry. But I will be taking off some, a little bit of time on radio, not be there today. Jim and Evita will take over. They'll use some of my content and maybe I'll explain more later. You guys will get it. All right. But could use some of your, you know, support in these things. I appreciate it.

[Dan Bongino]

Hey, do me a favor, Download the Rumble app and thank you, thank you.

[Unknown Speaker]

Thank you, by the way, for following us on Rumble. I want to get to 4 million subs followers by the end of the year. It is free. Go to rumble.com bongino as you can see there, just click that follow button. You could also download the Rumble app and a favor to ask. I've asked a couple times. You guys really help me out a lot.

[Dan Bongino]

Can you please go to Apple and.

[Unknown Speaker]

Spotify and help us as well?

[Dan Bongino]

Spotify has kind of reached out.

[Unknown Speaker]

I think they're trying to make amends with the conservative community. We'll see. I may trust but verify guy, but.

[Dan Bongino]

If you go to Spotify and Apple.

[Unknown Speaker]

Look up the Dan Bongino show and just click that follow button there, I'd really appreciate it. You jumped us like 40 spots on the charts, so that means a lot to us. Deeply appreciate it. I will see you back here on the show on Monday.

[Dan Bongino]

You just heard the Dan Bongino Show.