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The Dan Bongino Show
The Aftermath (Ep. 2520)
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In this episode, I'll discuss how the fallout from the massive election yesterday will shake up the electoral scene across the country.
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All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up and get ready for the Dan Bongino show folks. The doomers yesterday. Oh my gosh, did you guys see it? Even after the show. Listen, with the death threats and stuff like I get it, like we've been down this road before. Not a good idea. Let me just put that out in advance. Very bad idea. Some of them will figure that out soon. However, the chugging of bottles of my doll and like Anacin were like ridiculous. Yeah, I don't know what to tell you. Like we, we warned you guys that that probably wasn't the best policy to run on like a one issue agenda and to get in bed with the anti Semites and you just didn't listen. You somehow thought you had a home here. You really don't. And that clip of my show yesterday went nuclear and we got even more threats which is unbelievable. Again, when you talk about this country and liberty, talk about it with a smile. I just, I don't know like do you, do you need an extra like travel pack of the Midol? Do you have some symptoms or something? Is you're like little GI distress. We warned you, you just didn't listen. I got a big show for you today. I've got a and I want to open on a bit of something happened to me last night I want to talk about because it's really important and we've got a great guest. The Donald Trump endorsed candidate. You know Donald Trump's endorsement is the gold standard. I don't think there's any disputing that now. Donald TRUMP endorsed CANDIDATE Arizona Congressional District 1 you probably know him if you're a sports fan. You Jay Feely, NFL stars played for multiple teams. He played with Tom Brady in college. There's a lot of interesting parallels between his sports career and this. So we're gonna go into that later. Don't miss it. But I've got a lot of really important content I gotta get out for you especially in the beginning. So let's get to it. Today's show brought to you by Birchgold. 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And the families and I have become really close in this local Catholic school. My, my eldest daughter went there too. So I've known the, the principal and others there since the principal was a schoolteacher. I'm going to tell you something watching this. I know many of you who serve in the military and jobs that require a lot of travel that it's not possible. I get it. I was one of them. I had to move all the time. New York, I was down in Georgia, Maryland, Florida. I moved all the time. But thankfully I had settled down before my youngest daughter got into kindergarten. And we've been in this community now basically her entire life down in South Florida. And to watch the pictures of even the families and the kids when they were in kindergarten up till 8th grade and to know that we all grew up together but the families and the kids and everything. If you have the opportunity to give your children that continuity of a community, family, community, local life, the same church and all that, it is just an immeasurable gift. There is no amount of money that can replace that. While I was watching the kids, they were crying. My wife was crying. Had to go get a tissue out of the bag. Watching all these kids grow up together, it's just an incredible experience. There you go. I don't know. Just my PSA for the day. If you have the opportunity, take it. That continuity when they're younger, those are memories they'll never forget. I went to two schools when I was younger. I went to Forest Brook in Smithtown. And then when my parents separated, I went to St. Pancras up in New York. But there's something to be said for that. All right, getting back to the show, folks. Yesterday was a really amazing day because again, it reset and level, set the direction of the Republican Party. We are the party of universal rights, okay? We don't single out groups of people because of their religion, because of their skin color. The Republican Party was the Civil Rights Party. It was founded for universal, inalienable rights. That was the whole point of the Republican Party. We're not going down that path. That was clear yesterday. I can tell by the reaction on X by the rage bots. And a lot of it's just botting, but some of it isn't that. Some people are really pissed off and genuinely believe that was their party and they were going to hijack it. You're not wearing it. We showed you the door. It hit you on the ass. Get out. I said it yesterday. I'm going to say it again. It's not yours. You didn't build this party. We built this party around universal sets of rights and freedoms, not segregated rights for this group. That group. The Jews get this right. The Christians get this right. No. No. That's not what we do. That's not what we're ever going to do. That's not our party. You want to go start your own party? Good luck. We don't need you. We don't want you. This has been an epic week, however, for President Trump. I mean, all of these folks out there. The Twitter response to President Trump this week by the lunatics was incredible. You're done. We're not voting for you in November. Okay? So it's all about you. You're just telling us this entire time it had nothing to do with universal values and everything to do with your one cause. Here's Rachel Bade for. I think she's from Politico, Indiana. GOP decimated Cassidy out. Cornyn Likely out. Massie gone. VRA gutted this Is, again, this is a liberal perspective. However, Virginia map struck incredible few weeks for Trump's political operation. You're damn right it is. But Donald Trump's political operation wouldn't work if Donald Trump didn't uniquely know how to feel where the political winds in his base are and on principle move in that direction. He's got a unique set of political skills. I'm going to play a clip for you coming up later. He, he just does politics better. You may say, well, that's just an opinion. It's not a freaking opinion. He's like 37 and oh or something in primaries. That's not an opinion, that's just a fact. Look at the damn numbers. If everyone else was doing politics as well as Donald Trump, how come they didn't win three presidential elections? How come they're not 37 and oh in endorsements? Answer the question. If what you're saying is true and the guy you picked, Massey, who lost, is so much better, then why didn't he win? Why aren't his endorsements cleaning up? He endorsed a different guy for president. Why aren't his endorsement. I'm just asking questions. Right? That's what you say all the time. We're just asking questions. This was an incredible week, Donald. You guys know where I'm going with this one. Donald Trump put out a statement. Oh, you do? Okay, good. I want to. Donald Trump put out a statement about this yesterday. Now, Donald Trump, he, I don't know, got up a little early, looks a little different in this thing, but Donald Trump put out a statement about the defeat of Tom Massey and Ed Gel Ryan's victory in Kentucky four. And it was an interesting statement. I, I, I, I thought you shared. If he looks a little different again, I think maybe got up a little early in the morning, I don't know, didn't do the hair, whatever it may be. But you need to hear this. Check this out. This is your favorite president, and today is a tremendous day for our country. Congressman Thomas Massie and his undercooked linguini haircut. You look at his hair, he looks like undercooked linguine. And nobody knows hair quite like I do. I have the greatest hair. They say to me, sir, your hair is like golden waves of grain. And that's the greatest hairdo in the history of the world. But Thomas Massie and his stupid haircut, and he lost by a lot. You think about it, he lost by a landslide. I want to say thank you to Kentucky's 4th congressional district. And I want to say thank you to the low IQ influences who have no influence at all. There are a bunch of fakes and phonies and frauds, and now they're a bunch of losers. And they did a lot of stupid things with Massie, who happens to be a stupid person, and they caused him to lose. You think about it. They did a lot of damage to his campaign. Congratulations to Kentucky. Congratulations to the United States of America. They call him Masshole. They call him asshole, and it's not a nice name, but he's not a nice person. So congratulations to Kentucky, Congratulations to America, and congratulations to all the hardworking MAGA patriots who are working to make America great again. God bless you and thank you for your attention to this matter. Now he's grown a little facial hair. Donald Trump. He started wearing his hats backwards and he looks suspiciously like Sean Farish, who we love. A lot like him. It's amazing. He's just getting younger by the day. Of course we love Sean. Mudley's in the chat, Motley's in the chat. People, of course, broke the Motley rule. I said only five monthlies. Doesn't matter. There you go. Who's that? Someone right there. Knocked out of the way. Seven or eight monthlys. That's okay. That's okay. Some people put the Trump dance emoji. It's all up to you. However, we love Sean. That's actually very funny. Thank you, Sean Farish. I want to make sure people, you could find Sean on Rumble as well. Sean. S h a w N far a S h. Sean's a good man. All right. A little more seriously. Listen, Donald Trump is the results president. This is why the nothing is happening. Freaking doomers lost. You lost. Guys and ladies out there, I'm sorry, everyone saw through your op. The nothing is happening stuff is bullshit. Every single day, there is a huge portfolio of massive changes to our government. From the space I was in to Health and Human Services to Trump RX to Cuba policy. I'm not telling you have to like the changes, but saying nothing is happening is making you look like idiots as things happen, whether you like them or not. Now, a better, more effective approach. And I'm not here to teach you how to fight against the Trump agenda, but I am here to try to show you how logic and reason works. A better way to fight this would be to say, yeah, a lot of things are happening. That's not in dispute. However, we don't agree with them and here's why. That's not what you're doing. You're Just sitting there talking shit into the ether, telling people nothing's ever happening as they can watch the freaking news or watch this show and, and see a laundry list of things happening. Donald Trump is a results guy. And when I see other results guys talking about what happened yesterday, the aftermath of the race, it's not about Massey anymore. We got to move on. It's about the direction of our party and it's about psyops and about bullshit and moving away from Compass True north to like the latest Charlie Kirk conspiracy theory. We're not doing that. You're a fringe movement, not us. When I think of results candidates, there is no one I admire more in politics. Maybe as much with Donald Trump, but not more. Listen to me beam in. There is no one I admire more than Rudy Giuliani. No one. You know why? I worked for him and I worked for Donald Trump and they both had the same attitude. You know what the attitude is? We're going to do big things. Small people talk about big people who do big things. I he. They're both big people, big personalities. They did big things. I love Rudy Giuliani. Thank the Lord. Thank you, Jesus. He's feeling better. He was back on the air yesterday. This guy performed a freaking miracle in New York as the mayor, when I was a young cop, a miracle. People had forfeited New York. There was a look up this headline, I think it was in the daily News. Gerald Ford dropped dead New York date. New York was finished. The New York I grew up in was a mess. Rudy Giuliani performed a miracle, an economic miracle, a public safety miracle, because just like President Trump, he demanded results. So when Rudy Giuliani talks, I listen. Rudy Giuliani was a results transactional spreadsheets guy. Here was Rudy Giuliani on the race and what happened in Kentucky 4. And I'm telling you, no matter. Oh, there you go. You found it, Ford. The city. Drop dead. You think I'm making it up? This was like a huge story, obviously in New York about a bailout for New York. The city was done, except for this guy. So when he talks and he gives his perspective on the direction of the party and how important that race was yesterday and the aftermath of it. I'm listening. And you should too. Check this out. It's a statement by Massie, the guy defeated by Ed Galrain in Kentucky. Does he have a family? Does it. Do his children hear this, this anti Jewish hate that he has. But here this man appears at his concession speech. This is the mouth of a, of a Jew hater and a man who has no right to be in Congress. But I would have come out sooner, but I had to call my opponent and concede and it took a while to find Ed Gowering in Tel Aviv. Well, of course Ed Gowrine is not in Tel Aviv. That is referring to the fact that he was defeated because he opposes the state of Israel or he opposes the Jewish people or the Jewish people unfairly oppose him. Or the Jewish people or the Jewish people or the Jewish. Mr. Massie, there is one guy who defeated you and Ed Gal Ryan, of course, did a great job and we couldn't have done it without a great candidate like that. But you want to blame somebody and go pick on him because he kicked your ass. His name is President Donald J. Trump. And he kicked you because, among a lot of other things, you're a bad American man. I'm going to tell you folks again, there's nobody I respect more. Maybe as much, but not more. It's not possible. He's 100 on the scale of people I respect in politics. Because you know how many. You have any idea how many people right now and their kids and grandkids are alive because of Mayor Giuliani in New York? You have any idea, any idea? Tens and thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people would have been murdered and wouldn't have had kids who had grandkids because of what he did. You see how all the real conservatives out there who've actually done stuff and produce results are tired of this bullshit. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to make a case it's not even about the Jews. It's about this bullshit identity politics, leftist shit. Garbage, shit, shit, shit. That's infected people trying to walk into our tent. It's not your party, man. Look at another guy who served nypd, CIA, Buck Sexton. Buck and Clay, great guys, good friends. He was Buck Sexton yesterday saying the same exact thing Rudy Giuliani saying, like, listen, whether you love or hate Ed Goll Rhine, the guy was a Navy seal. You're telling us he's in the pocket of a foreign government? Are you freaking crazy, man? The guy was a Navy seal. You have any idea what he went through to go over and put his ass on the line in Tier one high risk missions for us? He's not doing it for the money. And you're accusing him of being in a pocket of a foreign government? What kind of a scumbag are you? And you vote for this? Listen to Clay and Buck. Good man. Check this out. Ryan, for anyone who does not know, is a decades long veteran and Seal Team six member a Tier one unit and. And honestly just makes Massey look like a petty little scumbag. You're going to say that guy's in the pocket of. He's. He's in the pocket of Israel. The Seal Team six guy, the American from Kentucky's in the pocket of Israel. That's. That's your attack on him. It's just gross, man. So I. I think. I think Massey got absolutely what he deserved. Good riddance. I 100% would sign off on the fact that it's gross. It's also an insult to the people of Kentucky. Yeah, man, it is. Pops McGroin in the chat tipping US$3. Shit, shit, shit. Swear jar. You don't have to tip us, you know, donate it to your favorite candidate or cause, but it. Shit's not as bad. Okay, that. Listen, I know it's not. I mean, come on, it's probably not the best word to use, but I don't know, I may. What's that? It was. It was appropriate there. I mean, all right, the F bomb's different and there's other ones that are even worse, but. And folks, I. Again, I said this yesterday. Clip 1 Nuclear. A bunch of people sent their death threats over. That's what's going to happen to you if I see you. Whatever, man. The tough guy told you these clown, like the comedian losers and stuff. These guys are like a buck 20 soaking wet. Dude's probably never even been in a street fight. I'm going to end you, bro. I'm going to end you. Shut the. You going to end me? Get cut the point. You really believe all the shit we've gone through between, you know, working in the 75 precinct in Eastern New York, dealing with like, cancer, dealing with psychopaths and a PI squad in the New York field office? Like, yes, it's definitely the comedian. The failed comedian, that guy that we definitely. You really got us now, bro. In clowns. You got your ass handed to you. You got embarrassed, you got embarrassed. Just walk away, tail between your legs. Show some dignity, because it's not your party. Go back to the river, to the sea, people. Go back to the terrorist friends of yours. We'd tank that fat slob. Screaming young turd. Oh, kick your ass. Oh, shut the fuck up, Kank. Take a Xanax cank. Freaking loser. Epstein, let me tell you something. You again? You sure you guys want to go into that? Because we were the ones working to get that out. And then your past got exposed and all of a sudden they're oh, hey, you still think it's your party? I don't understand, like, you lost. Here's the CNN pollster Harry Enton, who seems like to be, you know, when there's a bad poll, he'll tell you. When there's a good poll, he'll tell you. So I don't want to be confused with any like MAGA bias in the polling. This is a CNN pollster. You still think like it's your party. You're going to come in here and take a shit in a punch ball at our party and everyone's going to celebrate you. We're going to play like Scrabble or charades with you. We're going to kick your ass out and tell you to beat it. Here's Harry Anton on the party and the direction of the party. You still think this is yours? It's not yours. It's not yours. And we don't want you. Check this out. Wasn't surprised at all. Because the bottom line is this. Donald Trump is the general of the Republican Party and the Republican primary voters are his soldiers. And if you look at Thomas Massie, you can see it very clearly. You look in 2020, 2022, 2024, he was getting 75%, upwards of 81% of the primary vote in 2020. And today he gets less than 50% of the vote. That's the story.
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time and then, wow, look tonight, folks, this is our party. Be proud of what you did. The doors you knocked on, the donations you made to candidates, the phone calls you made, the tweets you sent out, the buddies you called, the lady you drove to the polls. We're not forfeiting our party to leftist Partizan identity politics. Bullshit. We are not doing it. We would rather we're not showing up in November for you. We're going to show up for the terrorist river to the Sea. But okay, well, we don't want you here. I already told you yesterday. What are we going to do? Get on the basketball court with you and you start shooting in the other team's goal. Why would we want you on the team? Boom. Tonight. I know it pisses you off. Have a Midol. Take a Midol for your symptoms. Andy doesn't even know what, you know what Midol is, Andy. And he's like, yeah, I know. I get the joke. All right, all right. I'm going to take a quick Break. But I want to show you. Coming up, folks, how I want to talk about the. There's a Pratt ad. Karen Bass. I want to mix it in with something that happened yesterday from the Nothing is Happening files you may have missed involved Jack Smith. And I'm going to tie it all together for you to show you what our party really is. It's the party of results and things that are happening. That by the way, you're under no obligation to agree with, but you are under an obligation to tell the truth. That there are a lot of amazing things happening. You may think they're not amazing, but they are happening. And that's what we are going to run on. Things that are happening. We're not going to run on bullshit and lying about things that are happening and pretending nothing's happening. We're not doing that. A lot happened yesterday. A ton of stuff happened yesterday. The Jack Smith thing was a story. It did not get enough media coverage. But you're gonna hear it here. 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Don't worry about it. Patriot Mobile even offers a contract buyout. This is a defining year. We must work together to save our country. Go to patriotmobile.com dan or call 972-patriot use promo code dan for a free month of service switch today. That's patriot mobile.com dan or 972 patriot. Make the switch today to Patriot Mobile. Thank you Patriot Mobile. Folks, I had said earlier in the show that Trump is just better at politics. I get it. That is technically an opinion, but it is an opinion like a ball of clay shaped in facts. His endorsement schedule, the results, things he's been able to do that no one else was able to do that were just discussed and talked about in the past. I'll just give you a quick example. Shutting the border. Oh, that's impossible. People want to come here. Yeah, people want to come here. They come here legally through a port of entry. What's the border levels at illegal migrants entered into the country? Zero. I thought we were told it wasn't possible. We were told after the Biden administration. Well, crime rates, you know, there's nothing you can really do about it. Crime is a systemic bullshit social disorder, blah, blah blah. As quote Sigmund Freud or whatever. What happens? Donald Trump comes into office, crime rates plummet to rates we haven't seen. Like put up that New York Post. We haven't seen these rates ever. I thought this wasn't possible. We were told government just naturally expands. Yeah, Republicans said they were going to cut government. Look at it. Crime rate lowest in 90 years. We're not going to be able to cut government jobs. Donald Trump cuts 10% of the government workforce. These are results. Cut the bullshit that nothing's happening. You may not like that's happening. You may love crime, you may want an open border, you may want a bigger federal government. Then vote against Donald Trump. But don't tell us nothing is happening. The reason he's better at politics is he doesn't give a shit about the bullshit focus group stuff. He has instincts for what people care about. I want to just give you a quick example. When Donald Trump came down the escalator for that 2016 election, do you know how many. I knew a lot of Republican DC type folks. And I will never forget being in the Fox green room in dc. They've done the Fox studio in DC over like three times since then. There used to be a really tiny green room. And I remember because Charles Krauthammer, God rest his soul, who was in a wheelchair, was in there at the time. And Donald Trump had announced a couple days before. You probably go look up the appearance I did. You gotta look at the dates until you'll see it. And I'm in there and there's a bunch of kind of establishment talking heads. And they were laughing, they were like, my gosh, like, this is never gonna work. He's talking about immigration. Donald Trump is an issue. Nobody cares about this. That rapist comment and they're not letting their best in. That's the worst. They were all wrong. Donald Trump's political instincts won. How do we know they won, Justin? Because he won the 2016 election. That's a fact. That's not Dan's opinion. That's a fact. He just has better political instincts for candidates and elsewhere. I saw this clip yesterday and it reminded me, Jackie, who does makeup in the morning for every house, you look all shiny and sweat and people think you're under police interrogator. Right? They like mattify your face. Probably tmi. But hey, that's how this show is, right? We watched the clips together because she's sitting right here while we're doing the pre show thing. And I'm listening. I want you to watch this clip. I'm about to play President Trump. He's right outside of Air Force One, and they ask him about James Tallarico, who is a far left Communist running in the state of Texas for the US Senate seat against what now looks to be Ken Paxton. After the Trump endorsement, we'll see what happens there. Right. Notice he's not on a teleprompter. There's no notes, but he knows to hit the exact soft spots Texas voters would care about. With Talarico, he doesn't need a focus group talk about it. And what he ends up with. The vegan comment, this one's going to sting. This is. This is just his political instincts. He knows exactly what to do. Check this out. We have a great candidate. I believe in Texas, and I believe the Texas candidate, who's Ken Paxton, I think he'll win. I think probably he'll win very substantially. And I think he'll go on to defeat a very defective candidate. A candidate that believes in six genders. And he. He takes it to Jesus Christ. And he's wearing a mask six months ago. Where's a guy. Anybody wearing a mask six months ago doesn't get it. And he's a vegan. He's a vegan in Texas, and you can't get elected as a vegan in Texas. You guys can laugh about this all you want. Well, then I'll have it anyway. Anyone out there laugh about this all you want. If you're a rancher in Texas, which is like the barbecue capital of the world. I know I'm upsetting some people in Louisiana and others. I may have a revolt in the chat. I'm from Florida. Barbecue is okay down here. I've been to Texas. I don't. What's that place? Iron Fork or whatever, man. Even, like the chain barbecue, like Rudy's is amazing. Texas is like the barbecue capital. This guy's running as a vegan. Trump just gets it. He doesn't need a note card. We pulled a focus group, Mr. President, and they said that the vegan thing is. No, no, no. Trump is right. Texas is right. Who said that? In the chat. Texas barbecue is just. What do the kids say? Sick. And I don't mean sick like in a. I mean sick like in a quantitatively unbelievable, qualitatively good way. Sick is like that. I know. I'm like 20. I'm 20. You know, I haven't. I was 20 years old 30 years ago. Dude, Justin's like 14. Sick's like 20 years old. You know what's older than that? Awesome. That's what they said when I was 13. It's freaking awesome. He just knows he doesn't need a focus group. He's just better at politics now. Now because I practice what I preach on the show and trying to impart upon the audience the benefits of political strategy we can use to impart upon our candidates some good advice to go and win. Here is what political instincts that are really genuinely awful and not based in results but based in flowery talking points look like. This is an interview between CNN and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who's desperately trying to hold on to her seat against Spencer Pratt, who I'll play in a little bit. Not just yet. I want to sandwich the segment there. Who has, by the way, another candidate who has incredible political instincts. Incredible political instincts because he's been a public figure, I think, for a long time. Reality. He just, like Donald Trump, he knows what's going to work and what doesn't. He doesn't need a focus group. This is what the lack of results and terrible political instincts look like. She's asked about homelessness, which she ran on on our campaign. The homelessness problem's gotten worse. Even CNN's like, Do you have anything to say or are you just going to give us more talking points and bullshit? Watch this. Talk to Jake Tapper. In 2023, you said that your goal was to end street homelessness in L. A by 2026. It's now 2026 and we haven't ended. We have not ended it and we're not close to ending it. How are you so off?
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was at the beginning of my term. I am very committed to achieving that goal. I didn't anticipate some of the bureaucratic barriers that I would experience, but I am prepared to take those on now. Notice how the woman takes no ownership over the decay of Los Angeles at all, despite the fact that she's the freaking mayor. The only thing about L A is like New York, they both share a Snake Plissken line. Escape from New York and Escape from L, A. That's the only thing people want to do. Some of you will get that. Not justin, cuz he's 14. I know that there were two movies about escaping from places and they were L A and New York, because that's what people are doing. She takes no ownership. It was a bureaucracy. Notice how Donald Trump said, we're going to build a wall, we're going to shut the border down. And what happened? He built the wall and got the border shut down and then you get to do. Well, he didn't build all the wall. You're not going to build hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of miles of wall overnight. The point is he said what he was going to do and he did it. And now the border's shut. Karabas. I'm going to end homelessness. It's worse. Not only did you not do anything, misfeasance, it's malfeasance. It's even worse. We'll get him, right? There you go, Justin. We'll get him next time. There you go. You're like Owen, 40 in an NBA season. We'll get them tomorrow. Contrast that again with President Trump and good Republicans who go out and do stuff and don't just talk shit all day. President Trump is tired of dealing with. We're going to start calling these tick problems. Tick? You mean like a twit? No, I don't mean a tick like that. I mean a tick like the bug. Because these tick problems have been embedded in the American skin for a long time. And a lot of other presidents who just didn't want to deal with it, just thought, oh, my gosh, I'm not sure that's for me. I'll kick the can down the road. I'll take no ownership of it. Donald Trump sees his second term as the opportunity to handle legacy problems prior presidents, Congresses and U.S. senators, governors have not handled. We got a problem with Venezuela and Maduro. Maduro is in a U.S. prison. We got a problem with the Castro brothers. Okay, we're going to win. Died them. That happened yesterday, too. Again, I. I thought nothing was happening. I thought nothing was happening. You don't have to like what's happening, but you telling people nothing is happening is making you look like a dipshit. Gets me. Gets me every time. I love like the. Presented by the Dan Bongino show at the top, like, it's all official. Here was a Fox coverage yesterday of the indictment of Raul Castro, something people have talked about forever, but now is happening. Check this out. Today we are announcing an indictment charging Raul Castro and several others with conspiracy to kill US Nationals. For nearly 30 years. 30 years, the families of four murdered Americans have waited for justice. My message today is clear. The United States and President Trump. Trump does not and will not forget its citizens. I want to say, living in South Florida to the very substantial Cuban community that has supported freedom and liberty and escaped from the horrors and death and destruction and starvation of socialism. This president never forgot about you, ever. Don't give us this. Nothing is happening, man. You look like idiots. Got your ass handed to you essay because you lied to people. You don't have to like what's happening. But this is a president who's not about talking points. He's not Karen Bass. He's about doing stuff. And not all of it's going to be universally popular every second of the day. But he's not leaving it on the table or kicking the can down the road for the next guy to kick down the road too. Like Lucy with the freaking football and the peanuts. Because he's decisive and he's not like Karen Bass. He takes ownership over problems and he does things about it. Can you the libs at TikTok. I know it's a little bit out of order, but I want to show you a tweet by libs of TikTok Chaya, who's fantastic. Here's another thing again, we were told wasn't happening. We had this Nick Shirley expose. I'll get into that later with Jay Feely. Coming up, NFL player running for Congress, Nick Shirley, great independent journalist, does this expose on Minnesota. By the way, that case was going on for a long time. There's over 100 successful prosecutions in the case. However, we were told after that nothing's going to happen. Well, yesterday, breaking Minneapolis daycare owner featured in Nick Shirley's video, Fahima Aga Muhammad charged with wire fraud and conspiracy for allegedly stealing 4.6 million to false claims to federal and state programs. Everybody's innocent until proven guilty. But again, Donald Trump's team hat tip. Vice President Vance and Associate Attorney General Colin McDonald leading the task force. These cases have been going on for a while. This another one. This is another dub racking up W's dubs everywhere. I haven't done that in a while. Everybody loves luck. Lucky Trump strikes again. Lucky Trump strikes. Raul Castro indictment, Minnesota cases left and right. Ringleader indicted. Incredible. Just Lucky Trump. It keeps happening every single time. I want to tell you what, I want to play the slots next to this guy. I want to play blackjack. I suck at blackjack. I always lose. Mr. President, can I ask you a favor? I know you don't drink, you don't like vices, but if you wouldn't mind if I go to the casino down in Fort Lauderdale, would you mind just sitting over my shoulder while I play, do the Lucky Trump thing? It seems to be working for you. It's always luck is President Trump just look, by the way, how come Karen Bass isn't lucky? How Come Kathy Hochul isn't lucky, how come Mom Dummy isn't lucky? How come Brandon Johnson in Chicago is not lucky? If it's luck in probability, how come they're. Because it's not luck. And by the way, this happened yesterday, too. President Trump was right next to Air Force One and he was asked a question about crime rates and cash and Todd, I keep hearing how everybody's gonna be fired. The nothing is happening crowd, the Doomers. Really? President Trump seems pretty happy. I don't know about you, but I worked for the guy. Seemed pretty happy with us. We were there. He was my first guest on the show. It's almost like people are bullshitting you because people like me who are trying to represent the real MAGA movement, it's almost like the doomers who want to f our movement up and piss all over the tent were lying the entire time to you. Check this out. Over the weekend, Mr. President, we suggested that there's still people in your DOJ and FBI that are waiting you out. 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Do you think those people are still in the DOJ and FBI? I hope not. Well, we're going to seek them out. We'll seek them out. We'll get rid of them, okay? Because you have, in every agency, you have scum, and certainly they did in the FBI and doj. But Todd Blanche is to doing a fantastic job. Cash is doing a very good job. So we'll, we will prevail. I've been standing here a long time with you many years, right? And they've been saying, I think it's it. I think he's trouble here. I am. You know, we just. It's a very constant situation. But I think you're going to find that we have great people in the FBI and we have great people in doj. Todd Blanche has really been doing, doing a great job and a lot of things to come. We have a lot of things that are coming. I want you to pay special attention. Rewind that. If you're watching On Demand. Rewind the last 10 seconds of that. The exact same Psyop doomers who tried to destroy President Trump in the primaries. Do you hear what he said there? These same people who told you I was a done deal and I was over. These are the same people talking smack about my DOJ and FBI. It's the same op, bro. I'm so proud to stand with you and the real conservatives out there who support this administration and don't fall for the bullshit all the time. But now I want to sandwich this with political instincts and the nothing is happening crowd and the Doomers. Because you're no different than Karen Bass. All you do is talk a lot of shit and don't actually do anything. You can't produce an election result. You can't actually run a party. You can't do any of that. There's another guy out there, this Spencer Pratt, running against Karen Bass, who we started with. In beginning the who just constantly, like, distances herself from any agency at all. Oh, it's not me. The bureaucrats did it. Louisiana's in terrible shape because this guy. You're the mayor, man. I want you to listen to this. This is Spencer Pratt. We'll get him next time. Spencer Pratt's given an interview with a news outlet and they ask him, hey, listen, why did you, you know, align more and run as a Republican rather than a Democrat? And this just goes to show you that people like Karen Bass can talk all the smack in the world. But when the homeless guy she refuses to do anything about sits in front of your house, takes a shit on your porch and drops a needle there, all of a sudden that problem becomes personal. I want you to listen how the Republican Party and the Conservative Party is the party that personally cares about you knocking on your door, asking about what you do. They don't blame other people. And that's how people become Republican. You know what they say? Everyone's a Democrat till they get robbed. Listen to Spencer Pratt say just about the exact same thing. Check this out. Are you a Republican? When I was a hated reality star, yeah, I got so many death threats. I had so much security and police, and what did they tell me to do? Get a gun. This is real. I know people don't like guns, but LA was dangerous if you're hated. So I got a gun, my wife got a gun, and then we needed CCWs. Hmm. The only people that supported the CCW was the Republican. That was what I aligned with. My safety, my personal saving, my family's safety. I know people don't like guns, but when people are threatening your life and your own security is telling you you need to have home protection train to. It's not like just, I went to the. You know, go through the proper steps. That was my. That's it. You see how there's, like, not a script. He's not reading off index cards. He's just telling you an honest, real story. Like, hey, I didn't want to die. I didn't want my family to die. And we had a lot of threats. So you can talk all you want about how you don't like guns, but when it's personal and you're going to get killed, like all of a sudden, you need to protect yourself. The very kind of Trumpian instincts. That's the difference between us, us and the Democrats that have no political instincts whatsoever. All they have is bullshit talking points. Folks, the nothing is happening file again is growing by the day. I mentioned at the beginning of the show an enormous case that I was actually surpr get more coverage. This is a huge breakthrough. Cash put this out yesterday for people who are concerned about, you know, the weaponization cases, which you should be. I've assured you many times that things are happening whether you see them or not. And the doomers are just lying to you and don't even know because they never worked in the damn government. They have no idea. Here's Cash Patel. Yesterday, a former managing assistant United States attorney who supported Jack Smith's politicized investigation of President Trump has been charged with stealing confidential investigation documents. How did that happen? We were told nothing was happening. There was no investigation going on. Carmen Lineberger and again, everyone deserves their day in court. Innocent, still, proven guilty. I actually believe in that. Other than the left allegedly emailed the confidential material to earn personal email to disguising them as dessert recipes to conceal them from record searches. How did this happen? I thought nothing was happening. Here was John Solomon yesterday doing about a minute hit on one of his shows talking about this hugely important case. Ladies and gentlemen, there were a lot of things happening. The doom and goom class clowns, excuse me, are running out of bullshit talking points. Check this out. The raid on Mar a Lago.
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that case, she helped Jack Smith bring those charges. She herself was charged Wednesday for allegedly illegally emailing herself a copy of the classified report that Jack Smith wrote.
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not be released to the public. She disguised the material, I'm not making this up as cake recipes, and then tried to move them to her private email address.
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But today we see that I ended with that because that's the most important point. That has rarely happened before ever. Where a Department of Justice FBI investigation prosecutes one of their own prosecutors. It's happening now and the nothing is happening people. Well I promise you it doesn't matter because that's not the point. The point is to get you not to vote. We'll just move on to the next thing and the minute someone else is indicted or arrested, they'll move on to the next thing. It doesn't matter to them. I need you to understand there is an up being imparted upon you that you can ingest or throw up. And I strongly suggest you throw up the poison because it will kill you and it'll kill this entire movement from people who aren't even part of our party. This is organized destruction. They'll just move on to Pete next and Bobby Kennedy next. It's not about what's happening or not happening. It's about destroying the entire MAGA 10. And you want to empower the left. I this real. I'm telling you man, this cracked me up this morning for all the wrong reasons. The best response you can muster to yesterday's election because you're not happy is that we're going to vote Democrat for the commies in the next election. You just out of. You just showed your ass. You just dropped your pants and showed everyone your ass. No one wants to see it. Like the blue moon scene in Greece. We're not interested. You just showed your ass. It was never about conservatism or conservatism, liberty or freedom. It was about sabotage. And when you failed, the next way to sabotage is to vote for Democrats. You want more of these people? You got the Brandon Gill clip. I'm really enjoying Brandon Gill's performance in Congress. You know I always say don't fall in love with politicians, fall in love with results. Brandon Gill's been doing an amazing job. He's been on the show twice. Congressman from Texas. He is up on the hill just the other day. And there was a former liberal candidate for mayor in New York who ran on like a defund the police agenda. This is what you want to vote for. You understand that? You vote for the Karen Basses or people like this or mom dummy. That there is a very good chance not only will your wallet be drained, but your blood too, after you're shot because violent criminals run the city. You want to vote for the defund the police people. I'm so glad Brandon Gill took the opportunity to call this lady out on this bs. Check this out. During your mayoral race a few years ago, you said, quote, I'm going to take $1 billion from New York City Police Department. Do you still think that's a good idea? Well, I'm here to talk about hate crime crimes, not my run for city. I stand by my run for mayor
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and I appreciate the opportunity to try to drive dollars. We have to cut the police budget
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Community safety from hating.
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Investing in community safety by defunding the police.
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Thank you, Congressman Gill, for not letting these people off the hook. Ladies and gentlemen, snapshots, sound bites and contrast. Don't ever forget it. That's politics. That's a soundbite a minute or less that paints a contrast. The contrast is defund the police and die. Support public safety and your kids. Live and don't step on needles and have some homeless person stab him in the neck. Hey, there you go. One minute. Soundbite, snapshots. Very few people do it as well as him right now. Rising star up on the Hill. Can we do the Raskin thing? I know. I got the Axios stuff. I got a really important thing about why this next presidential election, by the way, is critical. And I get it. Like, of course you want to, but. No, no, I mean, like, critical critical. I'm going to show you a chart. It'll make sense in a second. But I want to get to this first because I just want to show you again how we can never let these people live this stuff down on the left. You have to constantly paint the contrast. You can't just assume, see you and I out there, and especially in the chat, right? This is a political show. It's not a sports show. So you and I, by default, know more about politics than others. It'd be like doing a sports show about the Yankees you're going to know more about the Yankees than here. It's not like some reflection of our wealth or value. It's just an expression of what we do. You cannot impart that upon every other person you come into contact with. People living busy lives. I guarantee you, when you talk to people, go, you know, the left was the party of defunding the police. You want needles, homeless people and violent criminals in a community. I can guarantee you upwards of 20, 30, 40% of voters you talk to have probably never even heard that they ran on that. Another thing they're going to say to you all the time that you have to constantly hammer on is you have to debunk Trump hoaxes. The impeachment hoax, the collusion hoax. Don't assume these people know these are hoaxes. They don't. They drank the Kool Aid. And why? Because Democrats lie about it all the time. Unbelievably, after debunking this shit for 10 years, to find people hoax, it came up again with this clown. Zero fraud. Jamie Raskin, Democrat Congressman from Maryland, and a human being devoid of any character traits whatsoever that are qualitatively good. Here he is on the Hill again with the Trump fine people hoax yet again. Check this out. President Trump has coddled and cultivated the extreme right for as long as he's been in politics. After the infamous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville In August of 2017, when Neo Nazis marched on a synagogue in the University of Virginia chanting, jews will not replace us, when a homicidal extremist drove his car into peaceful counter protesters and killed Heather Heyer, Trump could only bring himself to say that there were some very fine people on both sides. You know what's incredible about this clip, the splc, which was part of the hearing, Southern Poverty Law center is under indictment for funding some of the leaders in this. You'd be like, have some shame, Raskin. Have some shame. They don't care. They have no shame. You have to constantly remind people how full of shit these people are. Every time they bring that up, you should be like, oh, the one that's alleged to be funded by the leftist Southern Poverty Law center, you talk about that one. And Trump said that white supremacists were very fine people. Because I'm pretty sure he said they should be completely condemned. Like, he said the opposite. Justin's giving me the big wave. He's like, I have. You have evidence, he's got receipts. This may be the first time you're hearing this, but here's the actual Speech. Jamie Raskin. You're full of shit. Full of shit. You're a lying fraud. Here's the evidence. Check this out. You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group. Excuse me. Excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did. And you had people. And I'm not talking about the neo Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally. They should be condemned totally. They should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo Nazis and white nationalists. Okay? Condemned totally. So. So first I'm here. I didn't know this either. It's incredible. It sounds like he was condemning white nationalists and neo Nazis totally. He said. It's almost like he supported a candidate in yesterday's race, too, who renounced this stuff, too. It's just incredible. Like how Jamie Raskin, you absolute fraud. You fake phony, full of shit. All right. I mean, do you have kids, Man? Aren't you embarrassed? You've seen the video, Raskin. You're not stupid. You're just a freaking liar with no human dignity whatsoever. You disgust me tonight. Scumbag. Absolute scumbag. Trump said the opposite. It's actually recorded. Condemned. Totally. Thank you, folks. Why is it so important? Please do not go anywhere for this. And again, I have Jay Feely coming up next. He's an amazing candidate. Trump endorsed candidate in Arizona. Former NFL player, by the way. We're going to ask some different questions. I get it. We can talk about all the issues. We're going to get there. But I want to hear about some parallels between sports and what it's like to play and what it's like to run. So don't go anywhere. Gonna be an interesting interview, but I wanna get to this, too. The 2028 presidential election. Lost track of time there is absolutely critical. It's critical because we have a census coming up just a couple years later. You know, the census. Obviously there are liberals listening. I'm sorry. We count all the people. Why is counting the people important? Because counting the people determines how many states have had population growth that get extra members of Congress. Every district has about 750 to 790,000 people, depending on when they counted. Right? So if you have a million people that move into a state, you're going to get an extra congressional seat. The last census was rigged. Everybody knows it. It's a 2020. Totally rigged. Totally got screwed up. President Trump fought against it. The courts heard him on it. It Was totally rigged. Florida should have gotten extra seats. Texas should have gotten extra seats. It was a scam. And if we lose the White House in 2028, the next census is going to be a scam, too. Why does the scam census matter? The scam census matters because not only do Republican states lose likely Republican members of Congress, they also lose Electoral College votes in the presidential election. Because the Electoral College picks the president. The popular vote does not. The Electoral College is the number of congressmen plus your two U.S. senators. You have another congressman, you have another Electoral College vote to get to 270 electoral college votes. And when the presidency. I'm sorry for civics, one on one. But again, there are liberals listening who know nothing and doomers who've never heard this before either. This is what's likely to happen in the next census if it's conducted according to the law and not a scam census like the last one. Potential electoral college apportionment changes. California would lose five seats. New York, 3. Illinois, 2. Oregon, 1. Minnesota, Rhode Island, 1. Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. Notice those seats in the Electoral College and House of Representatives seats are in largely blue states. -5 in California. You have any idea the hit that is to the 270 to win? And where are they going? Florida plus four. Texas plus four. Idaho, North Carolina, Tennessee, Utah plus one. Delaware plus one. Arizona plus one. Georgia plus one. Ladies and gentlemen, this will change electoral politics forever. It says down below, look four years ahead. You can see why top Democrats are worrying they're screwed. You better worry because you are screwed. And I'm telling you, if they win the presidency, they are going to do everything they can to screw with the census. We got to win. I'm going to take a quick break here and we get to my guests. You're not going to want to miss this interview. My swear jar contribution. That man pluv to usat. All right. You know we love some tether. Good. Nice job. Thank you. I appreciate it, you guys. I know. I'm trying. I'm trying, but it's incremental. We're getting there. Jasmine every day gives me a little report card. Today she's like, D maybe D minus. But we're trying. It's the thought that counts. Summertime expenses in 2026 are stacking up pretty fast. From those pricey family vacations and gas prices to looming tuition and camp fees. You've seen them. For many of us, it feels like the only option swipe in the credit card, leaving you trapped in that cycle of high interest debt. Homeowners. American Financing has a way out. It's not about shortcuts. It's a real strategic plan to reset your finances and reclaim your budget. At American Financing they specialize in building plans tailored specifically to your goals. They look at your current debt and show you exactly how your home's equity can work smarter for you. 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The Donald Trump Trump endorsed candidate for Congressional District 1 in the amazing beautiful state of Arizona. Very accomplished man, former NFL player, candidate for Congress Jay Feeley, Jay, welcome to the show.
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Thanks, Dan. It is an honor to be on here with you. Big fan, watching, listening. I appreciate your willingness to go serve, to put aside your media career and go serve in this administration and try to have an impact. And that's at its core why I wanted to run for office as well.
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Oh, thanks, Jay. It means a lot to me. You know, my brother's is a huge NFL fan. He's pretty excited about this interview. I actually, I don't, you know, a lot of times we get solicitations for people to come on and want to come on the show and we just don't do a lot of guests. This is a reverse solicitation. I went to my guys and said, hey, go get Jay Feely because I thought it was such a fascinating campaign. And one of the reasons, I think folks like you who played in professional sports, which are just pure meritocracies, you're either good or you're not. Like, no one pays for a poor, poor player on the field. You're going to lose, you're not going to have any fans. But there are interesting parallels having, you know, you and I share a lot in common outside of our athletic skills. You played in the NFL. I played street ball on the corner. But you know, I ran for office, was in broadcast television. You were as well. These are merit based spaces. You don't produce eyeballs in earlobes and you don't produce, in your case, field goals. You know, you're out. But it's not just about you. I think that's where the parallels and are going to benefit you. Well in Congress are interesting. You also need supporters, you need your constituents in Congress, fans in the NFL, you need a team around you, activists, door knockers, that's your offensive line, you know, that's your long snapper. You know, these are not irrelevant parallels. I think that's why a guy like you could be very well suited to Congress if you were in fact to win.
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Well, I didn't know, Dan, that being a team player was such an anomaly in D.C. when I, when I got there and I started talking about, hey, I want to help people, I want to make sure that we keep the House anywhere. You want to send me around the country, if somebody needs help and I can help them raise money, I want to do that. And you know, they're like, oh, it's so refreshing to hear that. We don't hear that very often. I was like, really? Like, you know, you look at the two parties, they've Never been further apart ideologically. How are we not all on the same side? How are we. How are we not all fighting together, understanding what we're fighting against and where they want to take our country? So, you know, for me, and just like you, it was a willingness to set aside the broadcasting career and, you know, really, to be honest with you, is it was an easy job that I worked five months of the year. You got seven months off. They paid you really well. You got to go do NFL games. You know, that's what I've been doing for the last 10 years. And, you know, I was willing to put that aside, to end that career, to give it up, because I felt like it was time to serve. And there's. There's a few times in your life where you get that opportunity to do something for something greater than yourself. And I think to be really fulfilled and to love your life, you have to be committed to things that are greater than yourself. And for me, football, you know, obviously when I was a team was that way, but my family, my faith, those are the core, fundamental things that are bigger than me that you're committed to. And now trying to impact our country and being willing to serve in Congress and because this is such an important swing seat here in Arizona, you know, that's why I wanted to do it. That's why I was willing to give up that job.
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We're talking to Jay Feely. J, J, A, Y, F, E, E, L, Y. Check them out on. On X and elsewhere. And what's your website? I just want to be sure people can look you up.
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Jay Feely for Congress.com. i appreciate it.
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All right, we got that on the screen right now. For those of you watching live, you can check that out. You know, Jay, one of the things about running for office, you know, I know well, is it's a very. It's a humbling experience. And I think people who are in the content creation space, whether it was sports on your end or politics on this end, like I do, it is a very, very purifying experience to have to go and knock on the door of the plumber busting his ass to make sure, like, your home sanitation system works every day. A farmer who's putting food on your table, who, let's be honest, in our space and broadcast, you know, you're on a microphone, all you see is a screen most of the time. Time. But to have to knock on a door and to ask people for their support, but then listen to them, like, what matters to you? How can I help you is really. I mean it. I'm not being dramatic. It is. It is a purifying experience for the soul, especially for guys who are insulated behind a microphone and a TV all the time. And I'll bet you knocking on the doors, you're probably finding that same experience. It's good to get out and talk to people who. Who really make America work.
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That's what's great about doing this. You know, it's getting to hear people's dreams and hopes. They're. They're their failures. I don't think we talk about failure enough in this country. Every time I give a speech and I go talk to people. I did a men's group last weekend at a church out here, you know, in Arizona, and I. And I encourage those men, be willing to talk about your failures. You know, I heard a Navy SEAL one time came into one of the teams I was on, and he talked about that, and he just said that, you know, if I'm not, as a commander, if I'm not willing to talk about my failures, maybe somebody dies because of my pride. And I think so often, you know, we're the same way, especially as men, you know, we fight hard and we drive towards goals and we overcome, you know, whatever obstacles that are in our way, you know, but we don't then go back and be willing to say, hey, here's where I failed. Here's where I failed as a father. Here's where I failed, you know, as a husband. And I just think we need to do that more often. When you're going out and talking to people, they're telling you about their dreams and their failures and what their hopes are and what hasn't happened and what's holding them back. And, you know, we're supposed to create equal opportunities and pathways to success. That's our job in office. And, you know, you can't control outcomes because we can't control behaviors, but we can control those pathways. And for me, like, that's what's fun, right? Like, okay, how can I get government out of your way? How can I foster an opportunity for you to go be great and to accomplish your dreams and then to hear about your dreams and your goals and your family and the things that are. That are important to you. So it's fun for me to get out and talk to all those people and, you know, try to put myself in a position where I can go help people. That's what my wife and I have always tried to do, Dan. You know, when we were in, you know, when we were playing in the NFL and then when we were broadcast, and we always tried to use the blessings that God gave us to have an impact on other people. And I'm. I'm still idealistic. It hasn't jaded me enough to think that that's what politics is really supposed to be about. It should be sacrificial, and you're supposed to be helping those people achieve their dreams.
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I feel the same way. You know, Milton Friedman told Walter Williams one time, when you talk about liberty, talk about it with a smile. We live in the greatest country on earth. That's just an objective fact. Military power, economic power, we're just an incredible country. Now you are the Donald Trump endorsed candidate. I wasn't gonna throw this one in, but I think it's important, given his, what is it, 370 record. I mean, that would be an incredible record in sports anywhere. However, in politics, you know, political endorsements in the past, Jay, really don't carry a lot of cachet. They don't. They may get you some earned media, you know, the deal you get on tv if it's a big, big name. But I've never seen anything like the Donald Trump endorsement, which is an absolute game changer. And again, that's a statement of objective fact. His candidates win, other candidates just don't. That must have felt pretty good, knowing you got that kind of wind behind your sails there.
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Yeah, absolutely. And to be candid, I would not have got into politics if the President hadn't asked me to. You know, we've been talking about it for a few years. I was down at Mar A Lago a few years ago with Jim Jordan and President Trump, and Jim asked me, hey, do you want to stay afterwards and watch a UFC fight with me and the President? I was like, absolutely. So, you know, we sat down on a couch, and President sat right in between Jim and I, and we. We talked, you know, UFC fights for three hours and talked politics. And, you know, that's when they really started to talk to me about running. And we still had two girls at home and in high school, you know all about that. Dan, you know, you're putting your family, you know, on the back burner at times, and I didn't want to leave my kids yet. And so I waited. And this year was the year that I said, okay, like, I'm willing to do it. And especially after they tried to assassinate President Trump, like, that was a day when he got shot. I was like, okay, I'm willing to serve. I'M willing to put aside my, my comforts to get, get in the arena, to get off the sidelines and you know, to have his support and, you know, just to know that you're somebody that will fight for him. I think he knows over the course of the last, you know, the entire time he's been running, when they've asked me to do something, I've been willing to do it, you know, whether it's going down to a rally in Yuma or coming to the RNC at the White House. And that always cost me something because in broadcasting they don't like, especially when you do something conservative, like if you do something liberal, they're going to celebrate you, they're going to repost. If you do something conservative, you do something with Donald Trump. And I get called to the principal's office all the time. And for me there's things that are more important than endorsements, more important than promotions and standing up for your beliefs about this country and what makes it great, you know, that that's worth it to me and it's worth the cost. And I was always willing to bear that cost. And you know, I'm willing to bear an office as well now. And you know, it's, it's a family endeavor. Like your wife has to be fully
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on board and doing that.
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Your kids have to be fully on board and doing that because they're going to sacrifice as well.
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Yeah. You know, it's really refreshing to hear you say that because I've never said this before on my show or elsewhere, but there were other positions that had come up in the past that were offered and I just, my children were just too young and I just didn't think it was the right time. And I know, by the way, I never knew, obviously I can't tell the future. I mean, that's tautological. But I didn't realize like later on those opportunities would open those doors again when they were a little older. But we do have to thank our wives and children because you're going to be in D.C. an awful lot and it is an enormous sacrifice for the family as well. But you know, the way I used to think about it, I know the way you probably do as well is I used to think between whether it was me or my family. This is nothing compared to these men and women overseas who are away on six month tours where, you know, let's be honest, I was walking in the FBI office on the seventh floor. I wasn't worried like my life was going to end. You're out in like the mountains of Kandahar or something with your children at home. Maybe you get a Skype once a day. You may not come back. Like, that may be the last time you talk. So when I look at that, that's like a small ass sacrifice compared to with these heroes do.
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Yeah, there's no question. I got. I got a brother in the Air Force and one in the Coast Guard. I thank them all the time for their service and, you know, what they're willing to do for this country. You know, and what I tried to do as a dad certainly doesn't relate to military service, but I wanted my kids to have that same gratefulness for this country. And so we decided early on we were going to take them on projects and we were going to go to, you know, Juarez, Mexico, or down to Haiti after the earthquake or over to Malawi, Africa, and make them engage in these projects where you're helping people and you get to see how, you know, people in the other parts of the world live and how grateful we should be for the opportunities that we have here. And I wanted them to have a heart of service like my wife and I do. And, you know, that was the best way I could figure as a dad to do it. And looking back, the impact that it had on them, you know, the heart that it created them for other people and, you know, a desire to serve, a desire to help people, but more than anything, an appreciation for this country, I think it's the best thing I did as a dad.
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You were an elite player in the NFL. You played all over the country. And I want to get to that in a second because I think it's going to provide you, even though you're In Arizona District 1, if you win, you're voting on issues that affect me too. They're not specifically Arizona. It's a national House of Representatives seat. It's parochial in the election, but not the ramifications of it. However, you did play in college at University of Michigan. The Big House. I'm dying to get there. There's really. I mean, I'm an Auburn fan, so forgive me for a minute. However, that is one of the top five experiences in college sports in a Death Valley too. But there's nothing like the Big House. So you're playing there, you know, Tom Brady and Desmond Howard. Desmond Howard, I believe, won the Heisman Trophy. Tom Brady was a very good college quarterback, but was drafted in the seventh round. I mean, was almost in Mr. Irrelevant Status in the eighth round, yet they both had amazing careers And I thought that'd be an interesting question for you in your political ideology. Cuz that kind of speaks to the conservative ethos of individualism, that it's nice to have a constitution for contract law for our military, for public safety. We understand that. A court system, we get it. However, the government didn't make Tom Brady great and the government didn't make Desmond Howard great. They both came from a totally different trajectory, wound up, you know, NFL basically like hall of Famers. It goes to show you, if you just get out of the damn way, a guy like Tom Brady, who is arguably the greatest of all, I think definitely the greatest quarterback of all time, just get out of his way, let the guy take over and do his thing. And I promise, you know, Bernie Sanders did not make Tom Brady the goat.
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Well, you see the Michigan helmet behind me? I love, I love Michigan. Go blue always. And it was special to watch Tom. And people ask me all the time, like, did you know Tom was going to be so great in college? And candidly, I always say no. Like, I had no idea when, when he got drafted in the sixth round and he was, he made the team the first year as a fourth string quarterback. I was thrilled. I remember calling him like, hey, dude, I'm so happy you made it. That's awesome. And you just didn't know that he was going to become who he was. But I did know. And what you did see was that he had those leadership capabilities and that he was going to work harder than everybody else. And if you have a humility, which he always did, even after he won all the Super Bowls, he had a great humility to him that allowed him to lead really well. And it allowed, he allowed Bill Belichick to be really harsh on him because everyone else then said, if Bill treats Tom that way and he holds Tom so accountable, what's he going to do to me? And so that created the atmosphere of accountability on everybody else. And Tom was willing to do that despite all the Super Bowls he had won. But then he had that great leadership ability, the ability to bring everybody in to a collective goal. And, you know, I mean, you look at politics and how fragmented we are, even for me, like the disappointment that I've seen since Charlie Kirk was murdered. And I honestly thought that would bring our country together. I thought it would bring our party together more than anything. When I went to the memorial service out here, it was one of the greatest evangelical events of my lifetime. Like, it was so heartfelt. There was, you know, a stadium full of people praying Honoring God. Honoring our country. Thanking God, even in the midst of, you know, this. This horrible tragedy. And, you know, my wife and I, Rebecca, we were walking out of the White House when we found out about Charlie, and we were just both gutted. And she burst into tears. I remember laying in bed that night, and she said, jay, are you sure you want to do this? And I said, I'm more resolved now than I ever have. I know God has put me at this point, at this time, for this reason. I just thought that after what happened to Charlie, our country and our party in particular, would understand what's at stake and the fight that exists on the other side, that they. That they believe wholeheartedly that the end justifies the means, and they will do whatever. They try to assassinate the President. They did assassinate Charlie Kirk. And instead, it's kind of fractured our party. You've seen the party go. And it's disappointing to me, especially leading into this midterm where we know how important it is, you know, if we lose the House, that President Trump will be impeached. Nothing will be codified, nothing will be accomplished in the next two years. And you just listen to what Democrats say they want to do. Listen what, what Kamala Harris has said, right? I want to get rid of the Electoral College. I want to stack the Supreme Court. We want to go to an election where the popular vote decides who the President is. We want to add Puerto Rico and D.C. as states. Like these are all the things they've said they want to do. You don't have to. We don't have to project it. They want to fundamentally change our country. And their answer to losing to Trump has been to move further to the left, to embrace AOC and Bernie Sanders and Mondami and Democratic socialism. And so I thought that would coalesce us and bring us together. And I still hope that happens, you know, but when you see the response on our side to. To what's happened, you know, it's kind of heartbreaking to me.
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Yeah, Jay, you know, I was at Charlie's memorial in Arizona, too, and I couldn't agree with you more. You know, there's a spirit realm out there. When Carrie Job, I think that's her name, the faith based singer, was singing for your family and your children, and everybody was singing along. If there's a spirit realm, I'm telling you, we were in it. Like, I. Look, I had. I'd never heard. I know she's very popular. I just hadn't heard that before. And I looked at Gail this lawyer who worked for me at the FBI who was with me, I looked at her and she looked at me and we both had this look like this is an otherworldly experience right now. And you're right. I had hoped that people would level set on the left and realize that the conservative party, which is strongly, vigorously anti violence, pro civil liberties, I had hoped they would take a track in a different direction and they didn't. And it's really sad. I was mentioning before how you having played all over the country, New York down in Miami, I mean, we share that in common too. Lived in New York, I'm now a Florida resident, I escaped to freedom. You're in the state of Arizona now. But that's got to give you a really fascinating perspective because I have to imagine when you were playing for the Giants versus versus the Dolphins, your tax rate was probably a little bit different. And you know what, when it's personal like that, you're going to start to vote different.
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You know, I was living in Jersey when I played for both the Giants and the jets. And so, you know, you had like 13% income tax year. Your property tax, like my property tax in New Jersey, the exact same home here in Arizona. I was paying $4,000 a year in property tax in New Jersey was $36,000 a year. Like it's, it's crazy, you know, and then I went to sell the house in New Jersey and there's this 1% fee to sell your house. And you're like, what is this? And like, well, it's an extra tax that you add on. You know, there's all these taxes and Madame wants to raise more taxes, you know, and, and you see these policies though, all over the country. You know, you see Washington doing the same thing, California with their desire to have a wealth tax, and a lot of Democrats nationally are talking about a wealth tax again now. And they don't see that the end result is always failure. I mean, socialism always fails. It's always regression to the mean. But they don't care about that. They don't care about the impact on our country. You know, they care about power and accumulating power and creating division in this country, division among the classes, because that's what keeps them in power. And you know, that's why we need the right people to run. You need people who have already been successful who don't want to go there to enrich themselves, that have that servant mentality and truly embrace that and want to go there and serve the people and try to Create a better economic environment for our kids and our grandkids like Dan. That's what I care about more than anything. Like, how am I going to create an environment for my kids and my grandkids where they will be economically successful if they go and they work hard and they do it the right way? You know, and there's a. There's this great example. We brought this young man from Haiti. When I started doing work, he was our translator down in Haiti. And one day he said, you know, I asked him what his dreams are, and he wanted to go to the US and go to college. And I said, you know, we can do that. And so we got him an education visa and moved him into our home and paid for him to go to college here in Arizona, Grand Canyon University. And, you know, he came from nothing. His home was destroyed in the earthquake. And he went there and he worked his butt off, and he got a. He got a 3.3gpa. He got an internship. He went back and got his mba. He got married, he bought a house. Like that is the American dream. And, you know, you can come from nothing. And if you work hard and you do it the right way, you can be a success. And, you know, the Democrats don't want to admit that. They want to say all these awful things about our country and our past and, you know, how terrible it is. But the reality is, if we are still the beacon on the Hill, and we need to embrace that, hold it, and tell young people that you can accomplish your dreams if you want to. That's what's great about sports. It's a meritocracy. Go out there and perform better than anyone else, and you can keep your job. If not, you're going to get fired. You're going to get sent home. You got to go get a real job.
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Yeah. That's why I think those life skills, you know, you learn getting to the NFL are just, you know, absolutely invaluable. For those listening on Apple and Spotify, we're talking to Jay Ferrari. Feely F E E L Y. Check him out. Running for Congress in Arizona, one Donald Trump is endorsed. Jay. Jay, last question for you, but, you know, you had mentioned. I didn't intend on going here, but you mentioned the wealth tax. And this is a really important issue with me because I've been at every end of the socioeconomic spectrum. You know, my mother worked the checkout counter in a supermarket. You know, my father was a plumber and a building inspector. I love them both. They both busted their ass to Give me these opportunities. I had no silver spoon. I lived above a Bar at 64th Place and Myrtle Avenue. I worked for the government as an agent and a police officer. And then, thanks to this amazing audience, they've given me, you know, a lot of gifts and benefits to this life that I thank the Lord for every day. If I believed for a second that giving that additional money to the government would make us collectively as a society, better and more prosperous, I would do it in a minute. The problem, Jay, and it's a hard argument to make, is having experience later on in life with a family member who became addicted to government benefits is it's not that you're not helping them. That's not the problem. It's that you're actively stealing from them the opportunity to do what a guy like you did, which is to work harder and get better and not rely on someone else to constantly catch when you fall. It's the same thing with the illegal immigration argument. If you make it easy, oh, just come in. The laws don't matter for you. You're teaching people from day one that what made this country great, the rule of law, order, the process of getting in here, even if it is difficult, it's worth it. You're teaching them that there's a cheat sheet economically and in the immigration system, and you're actually hurting them. It's not that you're not helping. It's not misfeasance, Jay. It. It's actual malfeasance. And that's what drives me bananas about this whole argument.
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I took my son Dan down to the border. Like, you know, when I got into politics, I said, I need to go down there and see it myself. And, you know, we went where hardly anybody can get to. It takes an hour and a half driving all the way back to see where the actual spot is. Still in Arizona, we've had like a 26 mile gap in the wall. And, you know, the fact that the Biden administration stopped the wall is unbelievable to me. But when you get to where the gap is, and they used to have this big encampment down there, and they literally would welcome everybody across the border and they would, you know, they would have wi fi there, all these NGOs would have food and cell phones. And, you know, all this stuff basically was like a staging ground. And you were. It was like a welcoming party. Come on in, come across the border, and we're going to help you. We're going to give you all these backpacks and stuff and send you on your way. And you know, the Biden administration changed the asylum law. You know, all this. But it's so important to keep talking about it. They changed it. It's not, it wasn't remain in Mexico anymore. When you claimed asylum and you weren't adjudicated right there at the border, they released you into the rest of the country. And then, you know, it would take an average of five to seven years to process the asylum claim. Then they changed the verbiage that when you, when you claimed asylum, you were now lawfully present, which then gave you the rights to go and get SNAP and to go on welfare and to get Medicaid and all the, all the benefits. So you're creating the system where you're telling people come across the border, you know, and when the average person on Social Security makes about seventeen hundred dollars a month, but the average welfare recipient in Minnesota, the Somali population makes like eighteen hundred dollars a month. No way can somebody who paid in their whole life. Your dad is a plumber working his whole life paying Social Security and he gets $1,700 a month from the government of his money that he put in. And somebody who comes here on asylum who decides, I don't want to get a job and they're going to get more than he gets. Like, that system is not right. It's not sustainable. And that's what we need to fight against. Doesn't mean you don't love immigrants. Doesn't mean you don't have a heart for people. It means we want to create the right system. And what Joe Biden and the Democrats did, they put politics before the protection of Americans. Your first job is in office is to protect the American people. They didn't care about the people who were going to get murdered and raped as a result of their immigration policies because they wanted to create power. They wanted people to come here, they wanted to give them amnesty, and they wanted to create a voter block that could never be beat. And if they get back in power, that's exactly what they're going to do.
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Again, so refreshing to see a candidate coming from celebrity who's done his homework on SNAP and catch and release. Not often, but I've seen it before where they come in and think, you know, I'm just going to ride this wave. No, you got to do your homework. So that's impressive. Jay, the website again for my audience.
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Jay feelyforcongress.com we need everybody engaged. Dan, get engaged in the midterms. Make sure that you vote. It's so critical that we keep the House and we keep doing what President Trump has been doing, their administration, the way they're trying to change this country for the better for our kids and our grandkids.
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This is a generational opportunity to really hand down an incredible, incredibly wealthier, more powerful, prosperous I just the country with President Trump in charge, guys like you and Brandon Gill and others in Congress, I've never been more optimistic about the bench, bench. Jay Feely, thank you so much for coming on. You're welcome back anytime. We'd love to have you back, you know, right before, right before election day as well. So really appreciate it.
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Thank you.
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Congratulations on the Donald Trump endorsement. Thank you. My brother, Jay Feely, folks, former NFL player now throwing his hat in the ring. Arizona Congressional District 1. It's an enormous deal district in Arizona, covers a lot of Indian country. Just a very, very critical district when it comes to national policy. So make sure you check them out, folks. Thanks again for tuning in. I really enjoyed that interview. I enjoy all our interviews, but especially with guys like that or do their homework coming on. It's really impressive. Haley's coming up at noon. Rumble.com Haley Vince Colonnace every single day at 8am 0800 Eastern Time. Join them on the live stream. Watch them on demand anytime. He's@rumble.com Vince just download the free Rumble app. It's absolutely free. Click that follow button. If you want to watch on the web you can do that too. Rumble.com Bongino you can also watch on your smart TV. Give us a follow and make sure you follow us on Apple and Spotify as well. We really appreciate it folks. I will see you back here tomorrow. Hey there. I'm Vince.
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