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Dan Bongino
All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up and get ready for the Dan Bongino show. So yesterday after the show, I'm sitting here chatting with Justin and he says, well, you know, what do you want to title tomorrow's show? And I said, well, we had just learned through the news reports David Spunt
Justin
on Fox, which I'll play in a
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minute, about an indictment of Jim Comey, which, which we were assured correct guys, was not happening. The doomers told us they did.
Justin
They said that, right?
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Well, they told us it wasn't happening. There was no, there was nothing that was being done about any whatever. So I said, well, Justin, you should title the show It's Happening Again. And he said, well, we got a problem because the last time they said nothing was happening and something happened. You titled the show It's Happening Again.
Haley Caradilla
So he said, well, what do you want to title some more show?
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Because we can't have the same title. I said, we should title it It's Happening Again Again.
Haley Caradilla
And I was kind of laughing, getting. Actually, I think that's a good title.
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Hence the title of today's show. Folks, listen, again, I'm not, I promise
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you, you are in no way obligated
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in this beautiful representative democracy, this capital, our republic, to love me, hate me. It you can listen in not listening. I love doing the show. I'm here no matter what. I'm just saying at some point, if you're one of the doomers that's constantly saying X isn't happening and X happens, you have to tell your own audience, not me, why you keep lying? Because once it's happened, it's in the past, meaning it happened. So it's hard to say it didn't happen when it happened.
Haley Caradilla
You don't even have to like what happened.
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I'm telling you, man, these guys just
Justin
want you to lose so bad.
Haley Caradilla
Thank you.
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Is it a fair Kelly in the chat said, loved your interview.
Justin
Hold on, let me check this out. Man, that chat is really moving.
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I held it, I put it on
Justin
like a little pause and there's already probably 500 more chats in there.
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Thank you. A fair Kelly said, I really enjoyed your hangout with Sean Hannity on his Hangout with Hannity podcast. I told you it was long. It was like two hours. I have a clip from it generated a lot of buzz. I was serious as a heart attack talking about what's going to happen next.
Justin
So. Well, thank you guys in the chat. We love you all. We really appreciate it. So it is happening. You saw the Jim Comey indictment yesterday. I'll discuss it.
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The man is entitled to his day
Justin
in court like everyone else.
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However, all I can speak about being
Justin
on the outside now is there's a
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Federal Bureau of Investigations that does investigations. Once they're done, they're handed over to prosecutors and then it's in the court of law by a jury appears or
Justin
there's a plea deal or, you know,
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we'll see what happens. But I'm going to give you a
Justin
fair take on all of this, okay? So don't go anywhere.
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So things are happening again. You're not obligated to like them.
Justin
You're entitled to your opinion about them.
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However, yesterday as we were leaving, it's happening again again on the way.
Haley Caradilla
Who did. Did you arrange OC shells?
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Well, Andy.
Justin
Andy took a lot of time.
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He was out at Stuart beach this morning.
Justin
You just.
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He didn't know Andy saying he did not. In fact, he did not arrange those, that he was walking down Stewart beach bathtub beach, as a matter of fact, to be precise, he was getting a little morning sun. And I did not know this was in the show. And just ironically, he felt very good.
Justin
Guys. You guys are quite, quite humorous this month.
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It's happening again again. So as we were leaving yesterday, I saw this FOX News report break by David Spunt. And this is what happened in case
Justin
you missed it yesterday. I see.
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Why am I.
Justin
Check this out.
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Has indicted former FBI director James Comey
Justin
for a second time.
David Spunt
John, they're going at it again not even a year after they went at it after the first time. We're told this via several law enforcement sources. We're told this is related to an Instagram post from the former FBI director last year when he posted on the beach, you may remember there was a formation of shells that said 8,000, 647 that were in that pairing of 8,647. And he said something along the lines of isn't this a curious formation that I just found while walking on the beach? Well, critics to that post immediately pointed out that 86, at least in the restaurant world, means to get rid of or to kill something from a menu. But 47, meaning the 47th president of the United States. So Comey did speak with the Secret Service, did speak with federal investigators at the time. He was interviewed last spring or early last summer, shortly after that happened. No charges were ever filed. But now it appears that he has been indicted. Today we're working to learn more about the indictment. We're waiting to see if officials have anything to say on this. That is the post that you see right there. Cool shell formation on my beach walk from former director James Comey. Now, you also remember that he was indicted last year as well for allegedly lying to Congress.
Dan Bongino
I'm just again I read we even
Justin
have, you know, doomers in our own chat. There's a N. Beatty, 62, is like
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nothing's going to have.
Justin
All right, whatever, man. Listen, you just do your thing, brother.
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I'm glad to have you here.
Justin
You're happy to watch your show.
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I can't help you.
Justin
Okay.
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It doesn't matter.
Justin
You know, forget it. We're good. We're good. Yes, you're whatever, brother, or sister, whoever you are.
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The acting Attorney general, Todd Blanche, gave
Justin
an excellent interview this morning on this,
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and he was explaining how in this environment where the President has been shot, people have been killed, he has been attacked multiple times. There have been multiple assassination attempts, ladies and gentlemen. There is a portfolio, I promise, of assassinations being planned and that have been planned about the President by foreign actors. People trying to kill the President. That doesn't even make it out into the public. This is easily the most threatened man on earth.
Haley Caradilla
Why you would think it was appropriate
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as a former FBI director to do something like this, I don't know. I don't think it's funny. I don't know.
Haley Caradilla
Wow.
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Look what I found on the beach. I found a bunch of seashells. You know, I don't get it. I don't know why you would.
Haley Caradilla
I don't know.
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I remember the morning I was in the office. I had gotten in early, and I'm sitting there and I'm looking around at the team like, I really can't believe this happened. Like, it sounded so ridiculous. It sounded ridiculous.
Haley Caradilla
Here was the acting Attorney General this
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morning making a really good point that, folks, if there are no investigations for threats, and we'll see if it was knowing and willingly, and all the elements of Title 18, USC 871, which was the charge, threats against the President.
Haley Caradilla
He'll have his day in court. He'll have his ability to explain in
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front of a judge why he did
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this or did or whatever what his mens rea was. He'll have his day in court and
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he's entitled to that.
Haley Caradilla
However, there is zero doubt that these
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threats against the President, implied or otherwise,
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are to be investigated. Because then you give everybody the imprimaturity of like.
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Of like, okay, permission, like, this is good to go.
Haley Caradilla
This is why we don't do it.
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Here's Todd Blanch, the acting Attorney General.
Justin
Sorry for that. Stumble over the words there.
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I'm just trying. Really passionate about this. Having been a protective intelligence agent for a long time, I don't think you guys understand when stuff like this happens. People Take this as a license to
Haley Caradilla
go and do things.
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Here's Todd Blanche explaining this this morning
Justin
in a really good interview he did on, I believe, cbs. Check this out.
Todd Blanche
Anybody in this country thinks, especially what give it what happened over the past couple of years with respect to President Trump, that it is okay for anybody to threaten the President of the United States. That it is okay to threaten the President of the United States and then have the media or others say, well, that's not serious. Then we have a bigger problem than I even imagined in this country. Of course it's serious when you threaten the President of the United States. And anybody that tries to put forward some narrative that this is just about seashells or something to the contrary is missing the point. You cannot threaten the President of the United States. That's not my decision. That's Congress's decision in a law that they passed. And so, yes, of course, this is a serious case.
Dan Bongino
The acting AG Blanch is. They're just motoring along now. A lot of these investigations have been going on for a long time. He said it this morning. They're not new. But you got to remember how the federal government law enforcement process works. Again, I don't want to sound like an ass here explaining the obvious, but there are some people, especially the doomers, who, who pretend to not get this. You know, there is an investigative branch. There's the FBI, there's the DEA in drug cases, there's the atf, Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms investigations that involve those items. And then those are handed off to the United States Attorney, the United States Attorney in that specific district there, that specific circuit works for the doj, the Attorney General. And then those cases are prosecuted using the investigative material compiled during the investigation. I get it. This is not Charlie Brown Encyclopedia 101. But people pretend to not understand this. Now it's in the hands of the people in the justice system. It's out of their hands now. And he will have his day in court. I saw some commentary on this yesterday on social media I thought was interesting. The case obviously sparked a huge discussion on and this will be played out in the public space over. Is Comey going to claim this is, you know, First Amendment? He was joking around. Well, Jim Comey responded.
Justin
I'll put up those tweets in a second.
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But I think it's only fair to put out his response to it to hear what he had to say about it. I assume, given that Jim Comey is a lawyer himself, that this is what he's going to tell his lawyers in this case. Here's Comey's brief response he put out there. And there's an implication here that this was somehow political targeting. You know, it's, I'll put up some tweets afterwards that I think make the exact opposite argument.
Jim Comey
Check this out, this time about a picture of seashells on a North Carolina beach a year ago. And this won't be the end of it. But nothing has changed with me. I'm still innocent, I'm still not afraid, and I still believe in the independent federal judiciary. So let's go. But it's really important that all of us remember this is not who we are as a country. This is not how the Department of Justice is supposed to be. And the good news is we get closer every day to restoring those values. Keep the faith,
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folks.
Justin
The sanctimony here is deeply troubling.
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I mean, this is a man who lorded over an FBI.
Justin
I saw the information, you know, a
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lot of it is already in the public space.
Justin
This is a man who lorded over an FBI that manipulated a secret court system,
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lied about things in order to selectively prosecute President Trump. This was a justice system, a civil system at the state level, a criminal system at the state and federal level that practically invented crimes. It's way above and beyond Jim Comey. But it talk about like, this is not who we are as a country after what. Who we are as a country, in his eyes, is prosecuting Donald Trump civilly in a court system in New York on a, on a, on a fraud violation case with no victims, no fraud. And the so called victims in the case, the bank going up there going, we're not victims. That's the link.
Justin
The link. Sorry, someone put a tweet about the link to the Hannity show.
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Katherine Herridge had some thoughts on this.
Justin
She's an excellent reporter.
Dan Bongino
She put him out on X. She looked at the, the indictment. It's as I said before, 18 USC for United States Code 8, 71 threats against the president charge I'm very familiar with. We use it all the time in the Secret Service. And she notes at the end that Comey's decision to later delete the Instagram post could be interpreted as consciousness of guilt behavior. Again, we'll see. We'll see if he makes that argument to his legal team or not, or if the prosecution makes that. But I saw another interesting tweet, because this is how I want to make a tie in here between the actions of this FBI when I was there
Justin
and when I'm Gone, obviously been gone for a few months. So this was not my case.
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However, this is fascinating. The Comey era FBI had to manipulate a FISA secret court system using an entirely fabricated dossier of things that never happened, the alleged peepee tape and all this stuff to engage in a lengthy investigative process against Donald Trump.
Haley Caradilla
None of that happened in this case. No one's disputing that these seashells were on the beach.
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How they got there. They can hear that out in court.
Haley Caradilla
Also, no one's disputing Jim Comey thought it was a good idea to post
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this and make some kind of a joke about it.
Haley Caradilla
He posted it. Those facts are not. No one like hijacked his account. Christopher Steele did not hijack his Instagram account.
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Correct, Fellas, I'm not missing anything, right?
Haley Caradilla
He's already admitted to doing it. The only question here is going to
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be intent and he'll have his day in court.
Haley Caradilla
This is my point here.
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This guy J Town has a great ex account. J Town, Alabama. He says before the legal pundits claim the indictment against Comey is flawed. Keep in mind a few things.
Haley Caradilla
It was presented to a grand jury, not like a FISA court.
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Professional prosecutors obviously disagreed that the case was flawed.
Haley Caradilla
They wouldn't have brought in DOJ and
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Dag Todd Blanche, now acting Attorney General, disagree. They brought the case too. Notes Comey made many inconsistent statements about what he thought the shells meant. And non public evidence. It's not public to me either exists to prove that Comey knew what 8647 meant.
Haley Caradilla
Nobody had to make anything up, folks.
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I just want you to keep that in mind.
Haley Caradilla
So when you hear things like this isn't who we are.
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This isn't the justice system. We didn't have to go to a FISA court. We have to make up a dossier. We have to flush the dossier and launder the dossier through the State Department doj, avoid proper five eyes channels.
Haley Caradilla
None of that happened here. Is that who we are?
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I'm asking you to paint a picture in your head of contrasts.
Haley Caradilla
These people on the left in these
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media pundits trashing the case already before it's even had its day in court. The doomers as well are telling you that exact thing.
Haley Caradilla
This isn't who we are.
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As if Comey and his FBI and the Ray era FBI with politically oriented prosecutions.
Haley Caradilla
That's who we are. The facts of the case aren't in dispute. He made the Instagram post. We didn't make it up.
Dan Bongino
It didn't show up in a dossier. It wasn't flushed through the State Department somewhere. He put it out there. Folks, I can't emphasize this enough. This is the part of the.
Justin
And thank you for all the commentary again about the hang out with Hannity. I had a really good time, but this is the piece of the show that the clip. Oh, wait, hold on. Breaking news here. Sorry guys. For those watching live, Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana's second majority black congressional district. Okay? So that'll get. Some ramifications come from that on gerrymandering the vra. And also that just happened now. There's some Supreme Court case. We may get a ruling on TPS today too. You see that right in the background. You never dispute the shows live, right? You don't see the earpiece in the back of my.
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It's also why I can't hear anything out of my right ear.
Justin
I've had an earpiece in my ear between Secret Service and this for like 20 plus years of my life.
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Getting back to what I was talking about, I brought this up on the,
Justin
on the Hannity hit and it went kind of nuclear. And I had mentioned something to Sean about these two FBI's and how I listen. I know what I was getting into. This was not. It's a two hour conversation, as you can see. There's a lot of smiles, a lot of joy.
Dan Bongino
There's a lot of sadness in it because I know when the left takes charge of government again, they're going to go back to that who we are stuff. Who we are. They're going to go back to weaponizing the mechanisms of government to politically prosecute people. And I know for a fact we didn't do any of that.
Justin
So this happened in a couple of headlines I saw yesterday. Like, wow, he's not messing around. Check this out.
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I don't think I ever thought I'd hear Dan Bongino use the word scared
Justin
because that's not in your nature.
Dan Bongino
Your whole life, everything, everything you've done in your whole life has been embracing risk. You know, you embody courage. You, you know, but you know, well, let me ask this question.
Haley Caradilla
You know, like you think, like you start thinking weird things as you know
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they're coming for you.
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You just know it because you know, you know, I have like. So either you're paranoid and you're not. When my wife built the house, I asked her for one thing.
Haley Caradilla
I'm like, can you just get me
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one of those cool like overhead shower
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things like you do whatever you want
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with the House, like.
Haley Caradilla
But this is funny. I love this. Over. I don't care about anything. I mean, do what you want with the kitchen. Put a gym there. I don't volume water. Just send water on me. It's the weirdest thing. And this just goes to show you
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how crazy you get in your head.
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The other day, I'm sitting there and I'm like, I had just gotten out
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of cold plunger freezer. I'm like, gosh, this warm water feels so good. And again, switching back to series.
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Daniel.
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Mike. I'll probably be in some federal prison with some. That's what comes to my mind every day.
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Like, I live like this the rest of my life because I know how they are. Yeah, man. I mean, I don't. Don't get me wrong, I knew what I was.
Justin
I signed it up for.
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But, you know, I. I do.
Justin
I think about that all the time. I knew exactly what I was getting into. I love what we did there. Proud of my service, proud of the president, proud of cash, proud of the DOJ and what we did. And now you're seeing a lot of it. I mean, just the last few days have been just a tidal wave of things you were told weren't happening. That happened. The Southern Poverty Law Center.
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You saw all the Minnesota 22 search
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warrants for the Minnesota fraud case.
Dan Bongino
That's been ongoing since I was. There were already something like 70 convictions in that case. Convictions have been going on forever. That fraud case, not new. I'm happy about the work journalists did in Minnesota, but that case was going on for a long time. The journalist brought some extra, you know, public, you know, public exposure to it, and that's great, but that was going on for a long time. You have the COVID case yesterday.
Justin
I'll get to in a minute.
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You got the comey stuff. I mean, this was all happening for a while, but I fully understand.
Justin
We were getting into.
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Anyone who had anything to do with reforming the government and getting it back to being anchored to a constitutional shoreline.
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Anyone is going to become the target of a weaponized left the second they get back in charge. And don't listen, don't have it.
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Don't have a single shred of doubt in your brain about that. That's just who they are. How do I know that? Because this is some of the people who were running the government before who will probably be back.
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The great Maze Moore on X. One of my favorite accounts.
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Put out this video yesterday. I want you to watch this. This goes to show you the hypocrisy of these people. This is Andrew Weissman. He worked on the Mueller investigation, pseudo investigation against Donald Trump.
Justin
Because they really weren't investigating anything. They were just making things up.
Dan Bongino
Weisman was a senior leader in the DOJ during the whole Russiagate scandal. Here's Andrew Weisman. First, if you're listening on Apple or Spotify and just audio, here's Weisman in the beginning talking about all of the targeted weaponized prosecutions against Donald Trump, saying like, oh, this wasn't selective prosecution. This is just us, like, upholding all these wonderful standards. And then I want you to listen on the back end of this, him talking about the prosecution of Comey and notice how the tone changes. Even though, again, I want you to
Haley Caradilla
keep in mind this contrast.
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And do not forget this.
Haley Caradilla
They had to make things up, the dossier and launder the information through improper channels and use a secret court to
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try to prosecute him with this stuff
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on the Comey case was posted by Comey. No one made it up. And he'll get his day in court.
Justin
Check this out.
Andrew Weissman
He is being treated no better or worse than anyone else. This is not selective prosecution. That this is not somebody who singled out, that he is being treated just like anyone else. That is what it means to have a rule of law. That is what the Justice Department is really signaling and messaging here, is that everyone will be treated, as Merrick Garland has said, as you know, equally in this country. This is really a really a great day for America. This is such a horrendous moment for the rule of law, for the Department of Justice, for the country writ large, being singled out for impermissible reasons. And so just because you did your job, but just because you referred to the president or you opened an investigation into the president, those are not legitimate reasons to have a sort of tit for tat, vindictive prosecution. This looks like it. The emperor has no clothes. That this is. This is the abuse that it appears to be.
Dan Bongino
Folks, I. Listen to me, please. If I'm saying this enough, tell me in the chat, then move on.
Haley Caradilla
I just need you to tattoo this
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on your cerebral cortex.
Haley Caradilla
Everything in the Comey case is out
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there in the public. It is a grand jury indictment.
Haley Caradilla
You can read.
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It is not a secret court.
Haley Caradilla
And this case started because Jim Comey decided to post that on Instagram.
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We didn't make it up.
Haley Caradilla
We didn't pay someone to post it. There was no dossier. It was found in. The Trump case was the exact opposite. It was so shitty, it was flushed through on A dossier on secret channels. Nobody would see the to a secret court with made up information. So please stop the nonsense that this is who we are. This isn't who we are. That's who we are. I'll tell you who you were. We don't want to be ever again. Donald Trump didn't even get the opportunity
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to get his day in court because
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it was run through the FISA courts. Everything was done Back channel.
Dan Bongino
There's more big news. Yesterday you had the COVID case, another case we were told wasn't happening. Which by the way, if you just would have done a modicum of homework, you would have known. There's already been public reporting on these cases. It's not a mystery.
Haley Caradilla
They don't want you to know that. I'm going to show you some polling
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too, showing you how the doom and gloom crowd and the liberal media are completely wrong.
Haley Caradilla
They're telling you it's over. Donald Trump sucks. They're telling you all this stuff. The polling doesn't indicate that at all. Folks, do not give up on the midterms, please.
Dan Bongino
Quick break. I'll show you. I'll give you a quick update on the COVID case. I want to get to these polling numbers and I got a lot more. Also some new kind of better footage and some pictures of the attempted assassination this weekend of Trump and others at
Justin
the Hilton come out. And I've got some, I've got some questions and hopefully some solutions too because anyone can complain.
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Dan Bongino
All right. More things that have been happening since just this, this tidal wave of new prosecutions moving forward. Investigations that have been ongoing for a long time. I'm quite familiar with a lot of them. We got the brief on them all the time. Here was some coverage yesterday of a case we were working on for a long time. It involved Covid, it involved information, it involved, according to the allegations, efforts to avoid records cases in this. Check this out on the other side
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as I have some quick commentary on this. Take a look.
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Top advisor to Dr. Anthony Fauci now facing criminal charges. This over an alleged cover up involving research into the origins of COVID Rich Edson on this story. Intriguing. Rich, what you find out there in Washington.
Rich Edson
Now it is, Bill. The Justice Department has charged David Morens, a doctor, with conspiracy, claiming he concealed federal records to counter evidence that COVID 19 may have leaked from a lab in China, all to help restore a controversial coronavirus grant. Morens, a former aide to Dr. Anthony Fauci, testified before the House's Covid select subcommittee nearly two years ago about emails he'd sent in February 2021, claiming that he'd learned to make emails disappear after he received Freedom of Information act request requests. Ever delete or attempt to delete a federal record?
Dan Bongino
No, but let me explain why. When I came there in 1998, we were instructed to delete emails and or to move them into PST files frequently because they jammed the computer.
Rich Edson
The Justice Department says Morens used his personal Gmail account to exchange non public information. The indictment also claims an unnamed co conspirator gave Morens one wine for his quote, behind the scenes shenanigans. Then suggested he could push scientific commentary in a prominent medical journal advocating that COVID 19 had natural origins. That's a competing claim with the lab leak theory. The indictment says the co conspirator could also provide meals at top restaurants in Paris, New York and Washington D.C. in April 2020, the NIH terminated that BAT Coronavirus Grant awarded to EcoHealth alliance, who then contracted the Wuhan Institute of Virology to conduct that research in China. From the start of the Pandemic its president, Peter Daszik, worked to discredit any theory that COVID 19 had leaked from that lab.
Dan Bongino
By the way, I don't want to
Justin
get off topic, but did you notice
Dan Bongino
in the beginning of that video there's a guy in the background in the first piece of Capitol Hill testimony? He's fallen asleep. He cannot keep his eyes open.
Justin
You ever.
Dan Bongino
Folks, that's hard sometimes if you're in this testimony. These testimony rooms, right? It's warm in there. And you're not the one.
Justin
I haven't.
Dan Bongino
I've only been the one testifying, so
Justin
I don't really know.
Dan Bongino
But you see this all the time.
Haley Caradilla
Don't sit behind the guy testifying if you can't stay up. This poor guy in the background, give this. I feel bad. I'm not knocking you, brother. I'm not knocking you. I'm just saying, man, like, get this guy a cup of coffee or something. Jump them in the cold plunge or something. If you're going to sit back there, you got to like Clockwork Orange. The eyeballs, man.
Dan Bongino
I just noticed that I'm watching on the iPad right here. And of course, when I was cutting that. I'm just paying attention to the guy. Listen, I'm just here to tell you that when we walked in there at
Justin
the FBI Cash and me and the
Dan Bongino
new leadership team, folks, we didn't have to like walk and chew gum at the same time. We had a walk, chew gum, juggle flaming chainsaws, dodge rhetorical bullets coming our way, weed out leakers, fire people who had engaged in misconduct, rewrite the investigative guideline, Pfizer guidelines, rewrite how we handled violent crime, rewrite threat banding and counterterrorism and counterintel threats. We had to rewrite the entire promotion system, get rid of the DEI stuff. There was a lot to be done. That is what you paid for it. Not a pat on the back.
Haley Caradilla
That's what you paid for.
Dan Bongino
I'm just telling you that all of this was happening. The justice process happens slowly. It's by design.
Haley Caradilla
We're not the Department of War.
Dan Bongino
You can't go in there and pursue it to a command from the Commander in Chief. Go and just knock off a target. That's not the way this works. You are going to see over the course of weeks and months, even more that's happening. So we can't title the next show. It's happening again, again, again. So we're going to have to retire that.
Haley Caradilla
But if you folks in the chat
Dan Bongino
have a suggestion, when more Stuff Happens. For a title, I would love to hear it. Because we can't use It's Happening Again. Again, again.
Haley Caradilla
Because the doomers want you to believe nothing is happening. Why? Because they want us to lose. They want us to lose in the midterms. Why do they want us to lose in the midterms?
Dan Bongino
Because they want to run their preferred non MAGA candidates in 2028. And they want to say, look at the damage that's been done by this president. We got small smoked in the midterms. Everybody hates him. Screaming and yelling, that's what they want.
Haley Caradilla
Why would they do that? Because many of them are being paid and will be paid as consultants for candidates who are going to run against the MAGA movement.
Dan Bongino
From the right, not from the left. I promise you.
Haley Caradilla
Flag it in the chat.
Dan Bongino
Mark this episode. You think I'm making this up? Good luck.
Haley Caradilla
One of us is going to be right, One of us is going to be wrong.
Dan Bongino
And I can tell you who's going to be wrong. It's you I'm pointing at.
Haley Caradilla
They want us to lose. That's why they keep doing this. Flags in the chat, tearing it up. That's why we had that dude in the chat. Boy, nothing's ever going to. Nothing's ever going to happen.
Dan Bongino
What?
Haley Caradilla
It happened. They always said it doesn't matter. You arrest him. Why didn't you arrest the other guy then? You arrest him. Well, why did you arrest that? They want us to lose.
Dan Bongino
They keep telling you this movement's dead. Nothing's going on. Crime rate collapsing, border control, economy moving again. Oh, I got that. The Iranians are now trying to desperately figure out a way to get their oil out of the strait because their whole system is collapsing. The UAE just dropped out of opec. We got a great number of wins coming out of the Supreme Court. Got inflation relatively under control. Manufacturing index is going up. You have your tax cuts from Trump 45 now solidified in Trump 47. No tax on tips.
Haley Caradilla
Things are going pretty darn good. The lib media and the doomers are
Dan Bongino
going to tell you otherworld, we're going
Haley Caradilla
to get absolutely destroyed. We're going to lose every single seat in the midterms. Folks, listen, I don't know what's going to happen in the midterms. I could just tell you that the polling data doesn't say that at all. Here's a generic congressional ballot. Generic congressional ballot, meaning you want Democrats
Dan Bongino
or Republicans in Congress.
Haley Caradilla
Now, if all the doomers are correct, Democrats should be at like 7,030 here,
Dan Bongino
20, 26 generic congressional ballot. By the way, fellas, this is Harvard Harris. Josh, you think that's a big right wing outlet?
Justin
Harvard Harris ball.
Dan Bongino
Josh is saying, no, I don't. I don't think. I don't think. I don't think so, man.
Justin
I don't think so.
Dan Bongino
Harvard Harris registered voters, Republicans, 50% Democrats, 50% likely voters. Look at that, Josh. Republicans, 50% Democrats.
Haley Caradilla
I thought, I thought we were getting.
Dan Bongino
I know.
Haley Caradilla
We get killed. I don't. We can. I don't know what happened, folks. This is the receipt show. Let me just say in advance, I don't know what's going to happen, okay? You ever say the Eckhart Tolpan power of now? I only live in the now. The future hasn't happened. The past already happened. I know what happened in the last presidential. I don't know what's going to happen in midterm, however, I'm just telling you,
Dan Bongino
people saying, oh man, it's over. Everybody's pissed off. Everybody hates the administration. Nothing's happened.
Haley Caradilla
That's not what's happening in the real world.
Dan Bongino
The prediction markets to Kalshee saying Republicans. And these are, by the way, these are people with skin in the game. In the predictions markets breaking. Republicans are now favored again to hold the senate with a 51% chance. Kalshee politics.
Haley Caradilla
That can't be, fellas. That can't be. The doors told us it was over receipts.
Dan Bongino
There you go. There you go.
Haley Caradilla
You just don't count this guy out.
Dan Bongino
This guy meaning President Trump.
Haley Caradilla
He. Did you see this guy yesterday? He was just like, he had the
Dan Bongino
king at King Charles.
Justin
King of it. We don't have kings here, contrary to what the left wants you to believe,
Dan Bongino
which is kind of weird because the media.
Haley Caradilla
Do you guys notice the media was
Dan Bongino
fawning over an actual king, King Charles while like protesting. In no case, they don't want to king.
Haley Caradilla
So they love a king, a real king, but like a fake king. They're trying to make it to a real king who's not a real king while protesting. No kings. Like, does this even make sense? Do you guys even listen to yourself on the left wing media?
Dan Bongino
The president was on fire yesterday. I like our friends over in the uk, you know.
Justin
Thanks, man. It was a great country to visit.
Dan Bongino
Had a blast. I don't want a king. I'm not really interested. He's, I'm glad he's here. He's very nice. He was very funny yesterday. But President Trump was on fire yesterday. A bit of comic Relief.
Haley Caradilla
But this is why.
Dan Bongino
Don't ever bet against this guy.
Haley Caradilla
Stop with the doom and gloom. We have a damn good shot during
Dan Bongino
this midterm if we just show up and vote.
Justin
Check this out.
Dan Bongino
Mother.
Donald Trump
I just see it so clearly. She loved. I told the king this. She loved the royal family and she loved the queen. And anytime the queen was involved in a ceremony or anything, my mother would be glued to the television and she'd say, look, Donald, look how beautiful that is. She really did love the family. But I also remember her saying very clearly, charles, look, young Charles. He's so cute. My mother. My mother had a crush on Charles. Can you believe it? Amazing how I wonder what she's thinking right now.
Haley Caradilla
It's not the comedy hour show, folks.
Dan Bongino
I'm not funny. I don't try to be funny.
Justin
I'm certainly not a comedian either.
Haley Caradilla
Is Donald Trump. Don't ever.
Justin
Who said it? President Trump was hilarious. He said that in the chat.
Dan Bongino
Lynn and Jeff. Lynn and Jeff, I see you in
Justin
the chat all the time.
Dan Bongino
Lin, Lynn, don't bet against this guy.
Haley Caradilla
Do not.
Dan Bongino
We got mutlies in the chat fired up. Do not bet against this guy. And folks, the counter narrative to all the success, this isn't so much the doomer. The doomers just tell you nothing is happening.
Justin
Okay?
Dan Bongino
So forget them because then when it happens, they just move on and pretend they didn't say it. The liberals, progressives and the just kind of Trump hating left wing, which is pretty much all of them. There's very few kind of sane Democrats left. You got maybe Fetterman, and that's really
Justin
it
Haley Caradilla
when whenever Donald Trump and his
Dan Bongino
administration do something like the SPLC case, they crack down on fraud in Minnesota, you'll see a couple things happen. Number one, put up that cash tweet.
Haley Caradilla
You'll see left wingers try to take
Dan Bongino
credit for the Trump administration's work when they're not pretending. It's just lucky. Thank God Cash clapped back at this yesterday. Governor Tim Walz, who's. They haven't done anything but incentivize this fraud. He's like, today's raids by state and federal law enforcement happened because our state agencies caught irregular behavior and reported. Really? Cass is like, come again?
Haley Caradilla
The FBI and doj, with our DHS partners drafted and executed every search warrant today.
Dan Bongino
But go ahead, Timbo, and take credit for our work while we smoke out the fraud plaguing Minnesota under your governorship. Nice, nice. Very good, Very good.
Haley Caradilla
But when they're not claiming credit for the work, Donald Trump did
Dan Bongino
on violent crime and elsewhere, just from MySpace, they're claiming he's lucky.
Haley Caradilla
So we have the segment.
Dan Bongino
We do. Because there's an election coming up. Listen, it's not luck, ok? Just period, full stop. Maybe not period, like exclamation point.
Haley Caradilla
This is not luck.
Dan Bongino
Donald Trump has a plan. The plan is being enacted. The enacting of the plan is resulting
Haley Caradilla
in very good things. Whether you believe that or not, I don't care.
Dan Bongino
I was there. I know it. It's true. So you can go roll that in a ball and.
Haley Caradilla
But even if you did believe. There he is. Even if you did believe that, this is all Lucky.
Dan Bongino
Wait, put him up again. I love that.
Justin
Lucky Trump.
Haley Caradilla
And it's Lucky Trump.
Dan Bongino
I'm sorry, guys. Outside of Motley, this is my single favorite graphic these guys have ever produced.
Haley Caradilla
I can't even get.
Justin
It's hard for me to even get to.
Haley Caradilla
Even if you believe Lucky Trump, who goes to the slot machine and hits
Dan Bongino
the jackpot every single day, you know,
Haley Caradilla
300 plus days a year. Even if you believe that, wouldn't you want to go gambling with that guy? You're like, man, this guy's like, I got this friend.
Dan Bongino
I. I play.
Haley Caradilla
I'm a terrible blackjack player.
Dan Bongino
I'm just like, I have fun, Paul. And we don't bet a ton of money.
Justin
We don't.
Dan Bongino
We go to, like, the 2550 table.
Justin
Whatever it is, it's fun.
Haley Caradilla
We just have a good time, have a couple drinks, play a little blackjack. Every time I go with this guy, I win. I don't care what. He's just lucky. So I play with. Even if he was lucky, don't you want to be on that guy's team? Here's Lucky Trump again. Had a huge major. We had a major arrest of an
Dan Bongino
enormously powerful drug figure in Mexico. This is, I don't know, the 20th
Haley Caradilla
or 30th of these.
Dan Bongino
They've taken down top Jalisco Cartel leader with $5 million US bounty on his head, captured while hiding in a ditch in Mexico. When was this, guys?
Haley Caradilla
Oh, April 28, 2026.
Justin
What is today's date?
Dan Bongino
The 29th.
Haley Caradilla
So that was what, yesterday?
Dan Bongino
There we go, guys.
Haley Caradilla
Lucky Trump again.
Dan Bongino
This guy's amazing.
Haley Caradilla
There he is. Lucky Trump popping it. I love how they put him in
Dan Bongino
at different angles, too.
Haley Caradilla
He comes in the corner. Lucky Trump from the bottom. He comes in from the top row. We need Lucky Trump, given the people's elbow sometime, too. Here's another Trump.
Dan Bongino
And he had no. No plan for the straight at all Wall Street Journal article, really, I'm just. It's amazing how he just keeps getting lucky. Iranians only have about 13 or 14 days or so.
Haley Caradilla
US blockades pushing Iran towards extreme measures
Dan Bongino
to keep pumping oil.
Haley Caradilla
I thought they didn't have a plan. There he is. Lucky Trump coming from the top corner now he's coming right.
Dan Bongino
He's almost upside down now.
Haley Caradilla
That's him from the top ropes. I thought he didn't have a plan. So you mean they blockaded the strait.
Dan Bongino
The Iranians can't get their oil out. The oil is essentially backing up the system and they can't siphon off the oil.
Haley Caradilla
They don't know where to put it. So they're resorting to extreme, extreme measures.
Dan Bongino
I didn't have a plan. Lucky Trump from the top ropes again. Drug lords going down. Fentanyl deaths dropping 20%. Crime rate the lowest in U.S. history. Homicide rate lowest in U.S. history. Border sealed, zero. Illegal migrants for multiple months entered. Entering into the country.
Haley Caradilla
Just crazy.
Dan Bongino
Who did that? Trump.
Justin
This is the best part about a live show.
Dan Bongino
This is why I tell everyone.
Justin
People ask me about podcasting all the time. Like, should I go live? What if I say something stupid?
Dan Bongino
I correct it later.
Justin
It's fine. You gotta go live.
Dan Bongino
You gotta go live and you have to.
Justin
You.
Dan Bongino
It's gotta be a family. It's gotta be.
Justin
That is the benefit of live streaming. You gotta be live. It's a real. Like you got chat stars like you guys, you're the best.
Haley Caradilla
Here's Lucky Trump again. You know what?
Dan Bongino
Put up the Bloomberg article if you can. First again.
Haley Caradilla
He just keeps getting lucky on the economy too. I don't know what's happening. I want to gamble with this guy.
Dan Bongino
US core capital goods orders jumped by the most since 222020 date April 29, 2026.
Haley Caradilla
I'm pretty sure that's today.
Justin
This guy, man, it's incredible.
Haley Caradilla
Mr. President, can you do me a favor?
Dan Bongino
I play blackjack in some of the casinos down here once in a while.
Haley Caradilla
Mr. President, would you mind coming down
Dan Bongino
playing blackjack with us at some point?
Haley Caradilla
Here's another one.
Dan Bongino
Here's CNBC yesterday. Certainly not the biggest fans of Donald Trump. Here's CNBC's Rick Santelli yesterday noting that the Richmond Fed manufacturing index, in other
Haley Caradilla
words, stuff we produce, the numbers popped really high. Crazy guy just keeps getting lucky.
Dan Bongino
Check this out.
Rick Santelli
See Richmond Fed Manufacturing. Everybody continues to, of course, monitor to see if onshoring and some of the issues of manufacturing are picking up a bit. This particular Read is better than expected for April. We're looking at three versus an expectation of one. That's the high water mark of the year. As a matter of fact, you have to go all the way back to February 25th to find a positive number of three. To find a higher number, you're back to April of 2022.
Justin
Man, get that.
Dan Bongino
Get this guy at the poker table. I don't play poker.
Justin
I know how to. I'm not very good at that either. But
Dan Bongino
you see why.
Haley Caradilla
I
Dan Bongino
see why. It's exhausting dealing with the doom and the gloom and the liberal media. Everything's so awful. Everything is so tough. We had 9% inflation under Joe Biden
Haley Caradilla
just a couple of years back, folks.
Dan Bongino
This wasn't like, you know, the time of like, Kit Carson and Davy Crockett, okay? This was just a couple years ago. You had 9% inflation.
Justin
That was the peak.
Dan Bongino
You had tens of millions of people illegally sneaking into the country. You had the George Floyd riots, crime breaking out. You had the chop zone in Seattle
Haley Caradilla
where you had a group of lunatics
Dan Bongino
like, we're taking over an American city.
Haley Caradilla
This is not that long ago. You had the Russians snubbed their nose. You had equipment, billions of dollars of
Dan Bongino
equipment left behind in Afghanistan for a terror group to take.
Haley Caradilla
This just happened. And now you have. Where we are now. How do you even compare the two?
Justin
Oh, it's just luck.
Haley Caradilla
Good.
Justin
Come play cards with me.
Dan Bongino
And please do not.
Justin
It's long. It's all Trump.
Dan Bongino
Please do not expect the left to change. I was on Will Cain show yesterday ON FOX About 4, 20 or so, a block appearance. And I said, guys, listen, please don't be under the illusion now that we're ever going to get back to, quote, normal. We are not. The left is now fully embraced psychotic rhetoric. They will never apologize. They don't care. They really don't care if President Trump is the subject of multiple assassination attempts and is the subject more.
Haley Caradilla
They don't care. If they cared, they would change their
Dan Bongino
behavior and they're not going to do it.
Haley Caradilla
Here is one of the most prominent
Dan Bongino
Democrat voices anywhere in the world. This is the minority leader in that. In the House, Hakeem Jeffries.
Justin
The new Pelosi, right?
Dan Bongino
Just not as smart.
Haley Caradilla
Here's Hakeem Jeffries.
Dan Bongino
He's asked about this manifesto by the suspect in the assassination attempt this weekend.
Haley Caradilla
Maybe it's a good idea, you being
Dan Bongino
a prominent Democrat considering, like political violence impacts people from, you know, both parties in politics at some point. Maybe it's a good Idea to read this. I mean, you are supposed to be, you know, a respected political figure and a voice of reason, correct?
Haley Caradilla
Here.
Dan Bongino
He's asked a question, a little bit of a mumble in the beginning. No, no, he did.
Haley Caradilla
He just doesn't want to. Of course he read it. He just doesn't want to acknowledge he
Dan Bongino
read it because then they'll have to
Haley Caradilla
take responsibility for this, and they don't
Dan Bongino
want to check this
Abortion Advocate
president as a head of a rapist. And some of your own members have made some very similar comments on the House floor. You don't think that perhaps these comments may have cited, perhaps this legislature?
Rick Santelli
I haven't had an opportunity to read the manifesto. The defendant should be prosecuted to the full and complete extent of the law.
Haley Caradilla
Folks, this guy's.
Justin
He's just full of shit, okay?
Dan Bongino
I promise you. If that manifesto was a guy trying to breach the magnetometer checkpoint, and the manifesto said, I'm here to kill prominent Democrats because he was some kind of, you know, Tea Party guy or something, Hakeem Jeffries would. The manifesto would be everywhere.
Haley Caradilla
My point is they're never going to change. Put up that Wall Street Journal piece
Justin
about the wealth tax you put up before.
Haley Caradilla
They're never going to change. It doesn't matter how much facts and
Dan Bongino
data smacked them and kicked them in the nuts.
Haley Caradilla
They are never going to change.
Dan Bongino
The California wealth tax I've been telling you about where they want to tax, you know, wealthy folks in California and basically confiscate assets from them above and beyond what they pay in income tax has already advanced.
Haley Caradilla
It doesn't matter that they've tried this and it's failed every single time. This thing is going to make it on the ballot.
Dan Bongino
And if it passes, you are going
Haley Caradilla
to basically have your assets above and beyond the ridiculous taxes you pay in California confiscated. I promise you this.
Dan Bongino
Remember this episode. I hate to ask you for multiple flags in the chat, but flag this one. Audience archivist Judy.
Haley Caradilla
Remember this show.
Dan Bongino
If this passes this California wealth tax and is implemented, I guarantee you give it a year or two to settle in.
Haley Caradilla
I guarantee you.
Dan Bongino
Flag it in the chat that this
Haley Caradilla
thing comes nowhere close to the projections
Dan Bongino
of the tax revenue it claims to generate, because people are going to. It's going to lose.
Haley Caradilla
It's been tried over and over, and it never works. It doesn't matter. They're not interested in facts.
Dan Bongino
Having said that, this is a. This is a really serious topic.
Justin
You know, the show is always an emotional roller coaster. Thank you for all the flags there. Remember it. We're never wrong on this, folks. The topic of abortion and the killing and termination of human life in the womb is something that's deeply, deeply personal to me. I just, I, I'm going to tell you something. I.
Dan Bongino
It's an issue that doesn't, it doesn't
Justin
get as much play on in the conservative ecosystem as it, as it should.
Dan Bongino
If we can't respect human life at
Justin
all stages, then there's nothing human about. We're no different than animals. I gotta tell you something.
Dan Bongino
I can't understand for the life of me how I don't care if you're
Justin
a woman, you're a man, you're a child.
Dan Bongino
When you're exposed to the horrors of what abortion really is, I can't understand how you would be like, that's okay. At a minimum. Even if you are a die hard, like blue haired radical leftist, At a minimum,
Haley Caradilla
wouldn't you say?
Dan Bongino
Like, listen, it's really grotesque and horrible, but here's why I think it's necessary. I don't, I'm just saying like, wouldn't you even.
Haley Caradilla
They can't even say that.
Dan Bongino
If you have not seen this exchange,
Justin
get ready, put down what you're doing, please. This is really, this is important. I know some of you may be at work or elsewhere.
Dan Bongino
Tell your boss Dan said it's okay. Dispensation.
Justin
I'll sign your attendance slip for the show.
Dan Bongino
Congressman Brandon Gill is just a rock star.
Justin
He is. This guy is just incredible. Out of Texas. I've known him for a while. Great guy. He's up on Capitol Hill the other day with this abortion advocate and he just calmly and as cool as the other side of the pillow, starts discussing what actually happens in abortion and asks this person up on the Hill, hey,
Dan Bongino
which one do you prefer?
Justin
Fair question. I mean, is it one that's air quotes better than the other? Folks, please pay attention to every second of this. It is worth your time. Check this out.
Congressman Brandon Gill
You're an advocate for abortion, for abortion policy. What's your favorite type of abortion?
Abortion Advocate
I am an advocate for patients having access to the full realm of reproductive health care.
Congressman Brandon Gill
But do you have a preferred method of abortion that you, that you like? I do not mean read through a couple of different methods and I want to get your take on, on how much you like these. The first type is called a suction abortion. This is when the cervix is dilated and a strong suction 29 times the power of a household vacuum cleaner tears the baby's body apart and sucks it through the hose into a container. Do you prefer that method?
Abortion Advocate
I stand by my former testimony.
Congressman Brandon Gill
That sounds kind of gross, doesn't it? Sounds pretty gruesome. Do you agree? It does to me.
Abortion Advocate
I stand by how I answered your question fully and accurately.
Congressman Brandon Gill
How about this one? It's called dilation and evacuation. Forceps are inserted into the uterus, grabbing and twisting the baby's body to dismember him or her. If the head is too large, it must be crushed in order to remove it. Do you prefer that method?
Abortion Advocate
I would prefer to talk about the reason the hearing was called and the basis of my expert testing testimony.
Congressman Brandon Gill
It's uncomfortable to hear. This isn't. Is. I think it is because it's barbaric and evil. How about this one? It's called the saline injection. It's when a 20% salt solution is injected through the mother's abdomen into the baby's amniotic fluid. The baby's skin is burned off, the baby ingests the solution and dies of salt poisoning, dehydration and hemorrhaging of the brain. Do you prefer that method?
Abortion Advocate
I would prefer to talk about the subject of the hearing.
Congressman Brandon Gill
This is the subject of the hearing. This is about protests outside of abortion clinics. I'm asking you about abortion.
Justin
I'm just. I'm obviously looking at the chat and I think you guys and ladies out there feel. Feel the way I do. Chris1 says, this breaks my heart. I cannot believe the horror these babies go through. Either can I? Chris won. A couple of folks in there made me cry. I'm sorry about the barbarity of having to even play that. I hope you don't have kids in the room listening, but actually,
Dan Bongino
I think
Justin
if they're old enough, they should hear it. Because you notice that these liberal pro abortion folks seem so proud of their efforts, but they don't want to talk about what they're doing. That should be the first sign to you that they know exactly what they're doing. That this isn't misfeasance. In other words, this is malfeasance. This isn't, you know, you see someone falling on the sidewalk and you don't help them up. You know, misfeasant.
Dan Bongino
This is.
Justin
This is malfeasance.
Dan Bongino
This malfeasance.
Justin
In other words, they try to get up and you punch them in the face. And they know that. Folks, I am strongly pro life. If we can't defend human life from conception through natural death, then we're no different than animals.
Dan Bongino
That was hard to take.
Justin
I Know, that was a lot for the show. There's always a lot of we get in the show.
Dan Bongino
You're not going to change hearts and
Justin
minds by covering up what's actually happening
Dan Bongino
and saying, well, let's sanitize the language,
Justin
let's bleep this out. No, Brandon Gill did the right thing. Explain to them exactly what they're doing. And if you are a liberal watching
Dan Bongino
the show, I noticed like your first response when you confront liberals about the barbarity of abortion. Did you guys notice this too? Their first response is rage. And this isn't gonna sound crazy, but I've noticed it too, especially in my campaigns for office. Cuz I would get into debates about abortion all the time at county fairs and else with liberals who'd come up to me and knew who I was. Honestly, I don't think they're mad at you. Of course they are. No, I'm dead serious. They're acting, Manny, but they're really mad at themselves because they know they support this barbarism and they're mad at themselves and they just need something to take it out on, to take that emotion away from themselves and plant it on someone else. It's like a transference thing. For those of you who took psychology
Justin
in graduate school, they're mad at themselves for supporting this.
Dan Bongino
You will never see a liberal get more verbally aggressive with their rhetoric, ever. You will never see it. Then when you confront them about the details of what happens in an abortion. Try it.
Justin
Watch what happens.
Dan Bongino
Just be careful because I'm telling you, they get really, really aggressive. All right, I'm going to take a quick break. And on the other side of this, I'm going to get to some new pictures that emerged. The Washington Post got them of the attempted assassination, another one of President Trump this weekend. And there's a couple of things I want to talk about from my perspective.
Justin
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Dan Bongino
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Justin
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That's preparewithdan.com take that anxiety off your plate. Okay, so the Washington Post put out this article this morning right before we dropped on the show and they have some clearer images of the images of
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the middle checkpoint magnetometer area for that tragic incident that happened this weekend.
Justin
The another attempted assassination on President Trump
Dan Bongino
Headline video shows moment Secret Service officer
Justin
fired at correspondents dinner suspect.
Dan Bongino
So you'll see from these pictures that they appear to have detected four muzzle flashes, meaning four rounds. If you listen on Apple and Spotify you can read the article yourself. However, it's a video show. You'll see in the lower left hand corner of the four images in the kind of multiplexed layout there. You'll see the muzzle flashes on these. Now there are a couple of things I know that jumped out to a number of people as these images emerged early on. One of them is the crossfire situation. You know you're not inaccurate and I'm
Justin
going to address that in a second.
Dan Bongino
But first contact with this suspect is
Justin
obviously here very chaotic and we've addressed
Dan Bongino
the questions earlier in the week when we were discussing how the middle perimeter there's going to be an after action report on this on was this middle perimeter of the magnetometer, was it too
Justin
close to the event?
Dan Bongino
I heard Director Curran was given kind of just a quick interview with the reporters. He was walking out of Capitol Hill and one of the things he had mentioned is that there was a reason and he mentioned it was classified that the perimeter was compressed into, into that specific area. I, I have to take him at his word there.
Justin
That happens sometimes.
Dan Bongino
I told you about the site I did in Ohio at a factory with really dangerous tools. There was no way to expand out the middle perimeter. Everybody had a utility knife, a screwdriver. We had to compress it. We didn't have a choice. So I want to hear what he has to say about that because there may be a very good reason. However, a couple things about the imagery here. I think going forward, and this is just my humble opinion on the matter, I think what they're going to have to do is they're going to have to better strategically place personnel at these checkpoints under the assumption that if there is first contact and an engagement that requires deadly force, that's what this was. The officer agent at the scene is discharging a firearm using deadly force force. They're going to have to better place personnel at these checkpoints so that a crossfire doesn't develop. If there's first contact, was it just because they were breaking the equipment down? You know, I don't know. Again, anybody can Monday morning quarterback anything, but you, you know, you can see yourself. Obviously not the most ideal situation. So I think they're going to look into that. One of the other things, you know, just keep going through this image.
Justin
You know, you can split screen or whatever you want.
Dan Bongino
But I think another thing they're going to have to look at is a serpentine style entrance, like you would do with motor vehicles coming into a site. You know how these sensitive sites, in order to prevent a car with a car bomb from getting ahead of steam, they put a serpentine, they'll put some blockades in this manner so the car has to slow down to go around right to get in. I think they may want to consider at these magnetometer checkpoints again, giving it a serpentine style, maybe with some ballistic protection, so that a subject like that can't run without being impeded at some point. If they're, you know, dead set on running through it, they're gonna run through it, but at least slow them down temporarily. And time, time, time is your best friend. Time gives you time to react. There's always gonna be a fog of war. That's why I'm, I'm, you know, I'm hesitant to criticize first contact situations because. Because fog of war is always there. However, you need to buy yourself time and a serpentine style entrance would do that. Another thing I think would be really appropriate here is that middle, notice the magnetometer is the middle perimeter. You're like, well, if that's the middle perimeter, what's the outside Perimeter, the outside perimeter. They tend to use surveillance assets on the outside. It can be locals, it can be Secret Service assets. I think they really need to expand that. Basically, undercover agents, it's not a secret. They use them. It's been out there, and you're just engaging in general counter surveillance, looking for people watching you, looking for people acting suspiciously. The subject may have been picked out or picked off sooner if he was confronted in that external perimeter by an undercover agent who may have seen something or may have seen him, say, in a.
Justin
In a closet or a bathroom, putting this weapon together.
Dan Bongino
Just an idea. Again, do with it what you want. It's going to require resources. There's no doubt about it. Another thing I think they should consider is what's called ppd, the Presidential Protective Division. Those are the bodies specifically assigned to President Trump, in my case, President Bush and President Obama. That detail, I don't. You know, you see these movies about the Secret Service, and I think there's a perception out there that the overwhelming majority of Secret Service agents are on particular protection assignments. They're not. A lot of them are out in field offices doing criminal work, which is
Justin
a whole other issue I've already addressed.
Dan Bongino
I think they should take a look at that. However, I think they need to dramatically right now, scale up the Presidential Protective
Justin
Division,
Dan Bongino
Pull some of these agents out of the field. When I first got on the job in 1999, you only had to do about five or six years in the field before you were eligible to go to ppd, the Presidential Protective Division.
Haley Caradilla
That.
Dan Bongino
That changed. By the time I had left. You had to be in the field, you know, nine, ten years or so. I think that has to change. I think you have to dump the time requirements down dramatically, scale up the Presidential Protection Division. Maybe give it a while before some of these agents can work the shift right around the President, because that's where you have to be really dialed in and have a lot of experience. Experience. And maybe start using some Presidential Protection Division agents outside of just the body men, and put them outside with the poststanders.
Haley Caradilla
Why would you do that?
Dan Bongino
Because these are the guys and women on the detail on the PPD who
Haley Caradilla
understand how it works.
Dan Bongino
And I think they would make decisions quicker. I know that sounds crazy. They've never done that before. But if you took agents at an earlier point in their career, extended the Presidential Protection Division assignment out to five, maybe even seven years, and you started using them on the outer perimeter, middle perimeter, too, to work with field office agents who were out there, I think you would get a better response. One more thing I just wanted to mention about this too. Supervisors in the Secret Service and the Federal government are GS14. Usually get hired as a 7 or a 9. You can get a promotion or you're not a supervisor, but get promotion up to GS 13, 13 to 14 and then 14 to 15, 15 to SES. Those are all managers they should look at at every checkpoint. Instead of 114 kind of roaming around
Justin
a supervisor at every checkpoint as well.
Dan Bongino
Because that middle checkpoint is where you really need to hold once they get in and breach that inner perimeter. It's a strict evacuation. You better hope you can get out of there. Just a couple of ideas throwing it out there.
Justin
I appreciate the work they do every day and salute the bravery of the cat guys and the shift guys who
Dan Bongino
did an evacuation there.
Justin
But we can always do things better.
Dan Bongino
Okay, a couple more things I want to address, folks. This is my public service announcement of
Justin
the day to parents.
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I brought this up multiple times. This 7, 6, 4.
Justin
And these child predator threats are very real.
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We save thousands of kids locked up, hundreds of child predators.
Justin
We had multiple operations when I was there.
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Operation Restoring Justice, Enduring Justice.
Justin
These were areas very close and sensitive in my heart.
Dan Bongino
You have to be really, really careful with your kids. I'm not telling you to, you know, force them into a sealed room and take away every device ever. And don't let them look at anything ever. Don't let them play a video game. I'm not telling you that. I'm just telling you if you're going to allow your kids onto platforms like,
Justin
like Roblox and elsewhere and where there
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are chat rooms and a lot of these platforms have done a lot of good work in trying to eliminate vehicles by which child predators can contact kids there. I want to acknowledge that. But there is still a risk there. I saw this story at Breitbart yesterday and I'm telling you I would hear these every single day in briefings on these violent crimes against children cases. Horror Private school employee in South Florida has been charged with grooming children on the video game Roblox and and paying in game currency in exchange for sexually
Justin
explicit images of themselves.
Dan Bongino
Please find someone in your family who's
Justin
tech savvy and make sure that if your kids are on these platforms, games or elsewhere where there's a chat feature
Dan Bongino
and people can contact them. Make sure those settings are super strict to limit anyone contacting your kid. Because once the group grooming process starts, folks, it is very hard to stop until there's an arrest made and by then in many cases it's too late.
Justin
And here's what I mean. And this is the hard part to discuss.
Dan Bongino
Once these images are sent and say a child sends these explicit images to
Justin
this groomer who contacts them via these platforms. We've had multiple cases of children who've committed suicide and killed themselves because the person tells them like this is out there. And you know, I'm going to do this if you don't do that. And I'm not talking about one or two cases. I'm talking about a lot. So I'm just asking you as a friend if your kids are on these platforms, they can have all the fun and enjoyment they want. But get someone who's tech savvy to please take a look at this. It is really important.
Dan Bongino
I've got a couple announcements. Friday we will not have a show. I have to, I have to take
Justin
a trip on Thursday.
Dan Bongino
I was really trying to make the Friday show happen. There will definitely be a show tomorrow. Thursday, same time, live right here.
Justin
But I have to do some traveling. It's very important I make this trip.
Dan Bongino
I was really trying to make the Friday show happen.
Justin
And like Fetch from Mean Girls. I'm sorry, I can't make Fetch happen.
Dan Bongino
So there'll be no show on Friday.
Justin
You always have Vince and Haley. You always have Haley at noon.
Dan Bongino
You got Vince at 8am every single day.
Justin
So you'll have your share of Bongino Inc. Content out there. But I will be off on, on Friday because I'm, I can't. I tried. I really tried my hardest.
Dan Bongino
But I will definitely be here tomorrow.
Justin
There's always a lot to cover, as you know.
Dan Bongino
And I'm waiting today. Hopefully we'll get a Supreme Court decision
Justin
on TPS temporary protected status. If they shoot this down at the Supreme Court, folks. And people are allowed to stay here
Dan Bongino
under temporary protected status where they wrote into the law. No judicial review. And a judicial review says there is judicial review, then laws just don't mean anything. This is a really important case.
Justin
Hopefully we'll get something today and hopefully I'll be able to address it tomorrow.
Dan Bongino
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Join us every day for the chat. We love you. Having you here, it's like a big family.
Dan Bongino
I will see you back here tomorrow at 10am I'm Haley Caradilla, host of Vince host of Scrolling with Haley. You can always catch my show right here. Right here on the Bongino Report live, 8am Eastern weekday mornings, weekdays at noon. If you miss it, worries, the show will always be right here, anywhere you find a podcast.
Justin
Thanks for watching.
Date: April 29, 2026
Host: Dan Bongino
Co-hosts/Contributors: Justin, Haley Caradilla
Episode Focus: Rapid political and legal developments, especially the indictment of James Comey, government accountability, media narratives, and the importance of not succumbing to political pessimism.
Dan Bongino dissects the latest explosive developments in American politics and law enforcement, centering on the renewed indictment of former FBI Director James Comey and the broader theme that, despite persistent skepticism (“doomers”), meaningful actions against political corruption and misconduct are indeed taking place. The show critiques media spin, celebrates recent “wins” under Trump’s leadership, and provides firm conservative commentary on abortion, law enforcement, and the weaponization of government.
“If you’re one of the doomers that’s constantly saying X isn’t happening and X happens, you have to tell your own audience, not me, why you keep lying.” – Dan Bongino, 01:14
“Of course, it’s serious when you threaten the President of the United States... That’s not my decision. That’s Congress’s decision in a law that they passed.”
“Nobody had to make anything up, folks.” – Dan Bongino, 16:32
“He is being treated no better or worse than anyone else... This is such a horrendous moment for the rule of law... This looks like it. The emperor has no clothes. This is the abuse it appears to be.” – Andrew Weissmann, mocking the conflicting arguments.
“Just the last few days have been a tidal wave of things you were told weren’t happening.” – Dan Bongino, 20:39
“This is the receipt show. I don’t know what’s going to happen, okay? ... However, I’m just telling you, people saying ‘it’s over,’ that’s not what’s happening in the real world.” – Dan Bongino, 35:38
“Even if you believe Lucky Trump, who goes to the slot machine and hits the jackpot every single day… wouldn’t you want to go gambling with that guy?” – Dan Bongino, 41:49
“Time, time, time is your best friend. Time gives you time to react.” – Dan Bongino, 62:26
Gill: “What’s your favorite type of abortion?” – 52:11
“You will never see a liberal get more verbally aggressive ... than when you confront them about the details of what happens in an abortion.” – Dan Bongino, 56:55
“Once the group grooming process starts, it’s very hard to stop until there’s an arrest made, and by then, in many cases, it’s too late.” – Dan Bongino, 68:06
Dan concludes with reminders to stay vigilant against pessimism, trust receipts and data over narratives, and focus on preserving justice and the constitutional system against government overreach. He provides programming notes for upcoming episodes and reiterates his commitment to honest, no-spin analysis.
For more episodes and live chat, visit Rumble: rumble.com/bongino
Summary prepared for listeners seeking an in-depth, issue-focused recap of Episode 2505 of The Dan Bongino Show.