The Biggest Fraud in D.C. (Ep. 2485)

Summary

The Dan Bongino Show

Episode 2485: “The Biggest Fraud in D.C.”

Date: April 1, 2026
Host: Dan Bongino
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A fiercely opinionated deep dive into recent news cycles, political frauds in Washington, and the current state of U.S. policies—especially as they pertain to media spin, government accountability, warfare strategy, immigration, and the future of conservative political movements. Featuring an in-depth interview with Kentucky congressional candidate Ed Gelrain, the episode levels blistering criticism at what Bongino sees as establishment hypocrisy and left-wing overreach, with recurring themes of authenticity, due process, and the need for public reckoning with failed government policies.

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Episode Overview

Dan Bongino delivers a high-energy and combative episode focused on:

• The difference between authentic and fraudulent political actors, with severe criticism aimed at both the media and specific politicians (notably Rep. Tom Massie).
• The “asymmetric information warfare” between Donald Trump and the press, highlighting where the media is “out over its skis.”
• Critical news items: the Supreme Court hearing on birthright citizenship, conversion therapy, and ongoing military action in Iran.
• The importance of creating a political contrast—pushing for the abolition of the Senate filibuster.
• The left’s desperation and hypocrisy, illustrated through clips and commentary.
• An extended interview with Ed Gelrain, a retired SEAL, running against Tom Massie in Kentucky.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Authenticity vs. Fraud: Audience, Bots, and Media Spin

Timestamp: 00:02–05:39

• Bongino opens by mocking critics who claim his show’s audience numbers are inflated or fake, referencing recent podcast rankings to establish credibility.
• Experiment with X (formerly Twitter): Bongino suggests listeners post both positive and negative messages about Tom Massie to expose the alleged “bot army” behind politicians he considers fraudulent.
• Media skepticism: He rails against those who claim real data is fake, emphasizing authenticity.

  “How does that make you feel, you zeros? There’s nothing you can do. Just have to realize you’re losers. ...We have a real army of supporters because this show is the real deal and you’ve got a bunch of clown bots.” (Dan Bongino, 03:10)

2. Trump’s Mastery Over the Press

Timestamp: 05:39–08:23

• Clip featuring Trump “owning” reporters on U.S.-Iran tensions. Trump exposes the media’s lack of knowledge, turning the tables during a press conference.
  • “The Iranian government threatened a bunch of US companies today in the region, including Google, Apple.” (Ed Gelrain, 05:39)
  • “What did they threaten them with, PB guns? ...You don’t even know what the threat was.” (Dan Bongino, 05:47–06:10)
• Commentary: Bongino frames this as evidence of the “asymmetric information warfare” in which Trump controls the facts, while the media scrambles.

3. The Daily Mail Controversy & Due Process

Timestamp: 08:23–13:18

• Misreporting in Criminal Cases:
  Bongino singles out the Daily Mail’s coverage of a criminal case (“Charlie Gurney”)—accusing it of fabricating controversy through misleading headlines about ballistic evidence.
  • “The Daily Mail is full of shit. The Daily Mail either can’t read or is now trying to backtrack on the ridiculous headline yesterday.” (Dan Bongino, 09:50)
• Due Process:
  Emphasizes the principle of presumption of innocence for the accused (Tyler Robinson), and the right to a fair trial—while also noting the right of the state to a fair prosecution without jury tampering.

4. Betrayal by Tom Massie

Timestamp: 13:18–16:58

• Personal Disappointment:
  Bongino accuses Massie of being a fraud, citing his unwillingness to engage directly on high-profile legal briefs or investigations that Massie publicly comments on.
  • “I have never been as disappointed in a human being in politics as I am in Tom Massie. ...He did not want to know. He preferred to be dumb...” (Dan Bongino, 15:10)
• Rage Bait & Bot Armies:
  Claims Massie uses social media “rage bait” tactics rather than constructive legislative work.

5. War in Iran: “Forever War” and Hypocrisy

Timestamp: 16:58–21:36

• War Strategy and Media Criticism:
  • Discusses Trump’s approach to the conflict with Iran, noting criticisms from both sides for either being “too engaged” or for withdrawing.
  • Argues that critics can’t keep their position straight, making contradictions obvious.
• NATO and International Stakes:
  The Gulf’s strategic significance to Europe, China—more than the U.S. itself.
• “Am I wrong, Justin? I know I’m not wrong. ...If you’re one of the doomers in here, already declared the war over a month in, you have no idea what the strategic long term ramifications of this could be.” (Dan Bongino, 16:55)

6. Ridiculing the Left & Media Opponents

Timestamp: 21:36–26:13

• Clips and Satire:
  • Mocks “the gays of Hormuz” viral video (18:02), showing what he calls the intellectual bankruptcy of left-wing activists.
  • Dismisses “rage-bait” segments from The View and its concerns over a planned White House ballroom and underground bunker, tying it back to Trump-derangement.
    • “Why do we need a bunker underneath the White House? Gee, I don’t know. He’s only the most threatened man on earth. What are you, an imbecile?” (Bongino, 22:07)

7. The Anton Rule: Personal Cost and Political Change

Timestamp: 26:13–33:02

• Political Change Only When it Hurts:
  • People (even the media) call out government incompetence—like airport TSA lines—only when inconvenienced themselves.
    • “People will not change their political behavior...until something personally impacts them. ...This is why Democrat policies are so destructive.” (Dan Bongino, 27:53)
  • Cites examples from NYC (rise of Giuliani) and MD (rain tax debacle).
• Democratic Accountability:
  • Hard questions hit only when policies backfire on the voters themselves.

8. The Senate Filibuster, Save America Act, and GOP Strategy

Timestamp: 33:02–43:39

• Filibuster Critique:
  • Argues for either enforcing a “talking filibuster” or abolishing it, to force real policy contrasts.
    • “We can’t have this hybrid. We can’t try to walk a middle ground...” (Mike Lee, 37:53)
  • Time to let voters see the real difference between Democrat and Republican governance.
• Majority-Rule Argument:
  • Predicts Dems will eventually dump the filibuster for their agenda; GOP should do it first for voter integrity reforms.

9. Bernie Sanders, Wealth Taxes, and Economic Ignorance

Timestamp: 43:39–47:40

• Wealth Tax Fallacies:
  • Dissects a Bernie Sanders tweet about taxing billionaires for “reparations”-style payments.
    • “If you do it in the states, leave the states. ...Just going to liquidate the stock market for a $12,000 check ... and I’m going to lose like 30,000 out of my retirement.” (Dan Bongino, 43:40)

10. Supreme Court Rulings: Conversion Therapy and Birthright Citizenship

Timestamp: 47:40–62:00

• Conversion Therapy Victory:
  • Praises 8-1 Supreme Court decision (with only Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting), framing it as a free speech win.
    • “She doesn’t know what a woman is. There’s nothing to convert to.” (Bongino on Jackson, 47:56)
• Youth Returning to Faith:
  • Points to rising religiosity among young people as evidence of culture shift and fatigue with government and social media.
• Birthright Citizenship:
  • Explains the legal crux: does “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” (14th Amendment) mean territorial or political jurisdiction?
    • Sides with Trump’s argument that illegally present people should not confer citizenship to children born here.
    • “It is not only an issue for a magnet ... It is also a national security issue.” (Dan Bongino, 61:24)

11. Ballot Security: Trump’s New Executive Order

Timestamp: 62:00–65:00

• Trump EO for Secure Mail-In Ballots:
  • Highlights Trump’s action to require secure, trackable envelopes for mail-in ballots.
    • “States ... are going to get a code, a barcode from the U.S. Postal Service... There’ll be a million mail-in ballots, there’ll be a million envelopes.” (Howard Lutnick, 62:35)
• Democrat Lawsuits:
  • Predicts immediate legal challenges from Democrats to prevent accountability in mail-in voting.

12. Holding NPR Accountable: Brandon Gill Grills NPR CEO

Timestamp: 61:55–63:24

• Grilling on Past Tweets:
  • Representative confronts NPR’s CEO over her past social media comments on “white supremacy” and reparations.
    • “Do you think that white people should pay reparations? ...Seems to be what you’re suggesting.” (Brandon Gill, 62:40–63:21)

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Interview with Ed Gelrain: “Who Dares Wins”

Timestamp: 66:34–80:52

Profile:

• Former SEAL Team 6 officer, multi-decade service, faith and family-driven, endorsed by Trump.

Key Topics:

• Why Run?
  • Personal request/challenge from Trump; a renewal of his national service.
    • “The President asked me to meet with him ... he basically made a challenge to me to serve my nation again.” (Ed Gelrain, 67:15)
• Constitutional Carry & Second Amendment:
  • “I am a thousand percent behind it… It is non-negotiable.” (Gelrain, 69:19)
• Birthright Citizenship:
  • “It is clear that the intent was for those subject to the jurisdiction. ...This is as plain as the nose on your face. Absolutely not.” (Gelrain, 70:57)
• NATO Reform:
  • “They have been free riders ...it should certainly be reevaluated.” (Gelrain, 74:30)
• Definition of Success in Iran:
  • “Peace and prosperity being brought back to the Mid East ...elimination of an aggressive regime that’s hostile to the world there in Iran.” (Gelrain, 77:27)

Memorable moment:

“The Ayatollah was a suicide bomber looking for a nuke.” (Ed Gelrain, 80:09, per Bongino's enthusiastic reaction)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• “I love freedom of the press. ...But what the press people don’t acknowledge, which is stunning, is they are not aware of what they speak.” (Dan Bongino, 07:38)
• “Let the American people see the contrast between big government liberal Bernie Sanders bullshit and small, limited government Tea Party constitutional conservative. And I promise you they’ll make the right choice.” (Dan Bongino, 61:24)
• “Communists will not stop being communists until communism kicks them square in the balls.” (Dan Bongino, 23:00)
• “Political arguments to be made for the war in Iran are valid on both sides ...But the criticisms should be valid.” (Dan Bongino, 18:36)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Fake audiences & “bot armies,” Tom Massie criticism: 00:02–05:39
• Trump-press conference exchange: 05:39–08:23
• Daily Mail/media due process debate: 08:23–13:18
• Calling out Tom Massie’s “fraudulence”: 13:18–16:58
• Iran war, “forever war” criticism: 16:58–21:36
• Ridiculing media hysteria, The View clip: 21:36–26:13
• Anton Rule & political pain: 26:13–33:02
• Filibuster, Save America Act, Mike Lee: 33:02–43:39
• Economic illiteracy and Bernie Sanders: 43:39–47:40
• Conversion therapy Supreme Court case: 47:40–49:56
• Faith & culture shift among youth: 49:56–52:20
• Birthright citizenship legal breakdown: 60:00–62:00
• Trump’s ballot EO: 62:00–65:00
• Brandon Gill vs. NPR CEO: 61:55–63:24
• Ed Gelrain interview: 66:34–80:52

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Overall Tone & Takeaway

Bongino’s tone is pointed, direct, and often mocking toward political and media adversaries. The episode is rich in political analysis, news breakdown, and strategic conservative positioning. Bongino seeks to bolster audience morale, call out frauds (in both media and the GOP), and urge listeners to pursue authentic grassroots engagement. The interview with Ed Gelrain epitomizes the vision of service and strength that Bongino wants the conservative movement to embody.

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For New Listeners

If you haven’t caught this episode, expect an energetic rundown of the day’s key political battles, a detailed call-out of fraudulence (from podcasters to Congress), blistering political satire, and an interview with a candidate who embodies the show’s core themes of service, toughness, and authenticity.

Transcript

[Dan Bongino]

All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for the Dan Bongino show. That's like a little secret between Guy and I. Gui loves to do this. I was doing a radio interview. I'm not going to say which radio station. When I first took over the, you know, Limbaugh, hours after we lost Rush, way too soon, I was doing an interview on a radio station that was gonna pick us up. And they're getting ready to, you know, intro me. And the lady's like, hey, you know, don't be nervous. And I kind of laughed. I was like, oh, okay, thanks. Like, when have you ever seen me nervous, honey? And I told Guy, he brings that up all the time. He comes out of the. He pops out of this door right over here to my right, every time. Hey, don't be nervous. It's like a little joke between me and Guy. Do I look like the nervous type? We have a very special guest for you today on the show. Coming up in a little over an hour, Ed Galrain, running in Kentucky District 4 against Tom Massie. So I've got a little bit on that today, too, because, you know, listen, folks, I'm going to. I want you to run a little test, okay, to show you, like, who has an authentic following and who's all bullshit and bots, okay? I'm talking about nationally, okay? Do this little test, go on your X feed and just. I just watch, post like, I love Tom Massie. And then later on, give it a little time, go post Tom Massie's a fraud or whatever. Watch what happens. You just test that out and you tell me who's got a bot army and who doesn't, which is weird because they just did another podcast, Ranker, that just came out. Remember, Pod Track came out a couple weeks ago and had us at number nine in the country, podcast wise. I'm just telling you because other people out there. Oh, my gosh, it's. He doesn't really. No one's listening to him. Nobody listening. I'm not really sure you can read data. They were like, well, that POD Track is all fake. Well, then Triton came out yesterday. Top podcast by weekly downloads. You see, for the month of February to March. And we were number three. So we were. I'm not. I'm not saying. I'm just saying somebody's got an audience globally, and somebody doesn't. I'm really sorry. That hurt. I know you're crying. You're peeing in your diapies. I get it. You got the bot army we hate the Jews. I. I get it. I understand. I understand. I know that bothers you, but there's nothing you can do. How does that make you feel, you zeros? There's nothing you can do. You just have to sit back and realize that you're losers. How does that feel? How does that feel, you absolute life losers that we have a real army of supporters because this show is the real deal and you've got a bunch of clown bots. Do my little test. You'll see what I mean. But seriously, thank you. Number three on Triton. I'm sure the people who hate the show will have some other reason why, you know, nobody's listening or whatever. Okay, sure, whatever. All right. I got a lot to get to today, including I'm gonna open up the show. The Daily Mail is doubling down and what I would argue is one of the best Trump soundbites I've seen, and there's a lot of them in a really long time. And it proves my point that this is asymmetric information warfare. The media people questioning Donald Trump don't know what Donald Trump knows. So when Donald Trump calls him out on it, you got to watch Jeff Mason, this reporter, he doesn't know what to do. He's like, oh, yeah, okay, I guess I got to concede that point. This is a great clip. Got that coming up in a second. I'll get right to it. Hey, this last year, your eyes may have been open to a lot of things, but there was one thing that many found particularly disturbing. That's a lot of this stuff going on in the party. It's infighting. We all agree on a lot of stuff, folks. Freedom of speech, the right to life, the second amendment. And we support our military and first responders well. 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Let's thank them by making the switch today. Check them out. Patriot mobile.com dan that's patriot mobile.com dan. All right, fellas, let's go. I want to start with a banger today and if Trump had the greatest hits, this is easily a top 10 for me. And that's a lot. He's been doing this for a long time between his business life and his political life. Here he is. Yesterday he's asked a question by Jeff Mason and I kept it playing a little bit at the end, cuz another reporter chimes in and he wrecks her too. Jeff Mason's like, hey, the Iranians are, you know, threatening us with all this stuff. And this sounds really terrible. I mean, again, this is the doomers, the doomers in the media. And Trump's like, threatening us with what? Because he knows exactly what's going on behind the scenes. Watch this clip. It's fantastic. Check this out.

[Ed Gelrain]

The Iranian government threatened a bunch of US Companies today in the region, including Google, Apple. With what?

[Dan Bongino]

What did they threaten them with? PB guns.

[Haley Caradilla]

Well, that's.

[Dan Bongino]

They don't have much left to threaten. My question for you is, are you? I don't know. I mean, what are they? You made a statement. What did they threaten him with? I don't know. Tell me, how did they threaten him?

[Ed Gelrain]

Well, all I know is that they threatened him, sir. What does that mean? Fair enough.

[Dan Bongino]

He said something nasty.

[Ed Gelrain]

Is the government in touch with these companies? Are you helping to backstop them?

[Dan Bongino]

You don't even know what the threat was. What was the threat? I haven't heard it. What was the threat? Did they say they're going to blow him up? They're going to hit him? They're not, you know what they're not going to do? They're not going to hit him with a nuclear weapon.

[Ed Gelrain]

This is something you're concerned about, sir?

[Dan Bongino]

No.

[Haley Caradilla]

Iran's IRGC issues a warning that they will target 18 US technology companies if the US continues targeted assassinations of Iranian

[Ed Gelrain]

leaders beginning on April 1st.

[Haley Caradilla]

Those companies, video, Apple.

[Dan Bongino]

Most of those people are dead already. Most of those people are already dead. Guys, listen, I understand the politics of war are always going to be difficult. I get it. I get it. And they should be. Come back to me head on, you guys. They should be. It is the most grave, serious decision a commander in Chief can make, period. However, there is no question that as a tactical exercise in military might, this has been an unbelievable success. That's probably going to serve as a warning to China and Russia. Don't f around because you don't want to find out like the Iranian mullet theocracy did. The point in playing that piece was, you know, listen, open up the show with a little bit of a laugh. How Trump just constantly owns these guys who want you to paint him as a buffoon. They're these intellectuals, and this Trump is just this New York moron, and he just constantly beats their asses. The point is that there is an asymmetry here. I love freedom of the press. I will defend it to the end, even for the morons in the press. But what the press people don't acknowledge, which is stunning, is they are not aware of what they speak. The Iranians been threatening us. Trump's like, okay with what he doesn't know because he's not read in on the program like Trump. All I'm telling you is I posted yesterday it was meant to be obviously satirical and funny, but about how 90% of what you read in the media is 50% false and the other 10% is 99% false. It's just bullshit because they don't know. It's like someone in the press commenting on a flux capacitor they've never seen before and challenging the inventor of the flux capacitor on a machine. They don't know how it works. They can do it and it should be protected. It doesn't mean they actually know anything. A couple more things we have to hit right away in the beginning of the show. Speaking of people, media people who are just absolutely full of shit, yesterday's show did big numbers, and I think it did big numbers because people are really tired of the bullshit, folks. The Daily Mail, of course, put out that piece yesterday about how, you know that the bullet did not match. That is not what the report said at all. The report was pretty clear that due to the fragmentation of the bullet, it was going to be difficult to identify some of the markings. Now what do they do? Yesterday or today? They double down again, ballistics experts reveal real reason bullet used to kill Charlie Gurney did not conclusively match rifle allegedly used by suspect Tyler Robinson. You see what they're doing here? Again, this is an ongoing criminal case. Mr. Robinson is entitled to a presumption of innocence and a trial by his peers. And if he is convicted, it has to be beyond a reasonable doubt. That's it. However, the Daily Mail is full of shit. The Daily Mail either can't read or is now trying to backtrack on the ridiculous headline yesterday where they were widely mocked. Folks, people are tired of this. That's why they're coming to shows like this. They're coming to shows like this because they want the truth. And we gave you the truth. This man is entitled to due process like everyone else. But so is the state of Utah that is prosecuting this case. They are entitled to a jury free of tampering. And this is getting ridiculous. That is not what the story said yesterday. And I'm noticing severe backlash now, thankfully online from people who are getting tired of this. People are getting tired of the fraudsters too. And folks, is a difficult conversation for me because I really believed in this guy. I did. I supported him for a while, even when you know him and President Trump butted heads. Been good on some issues. But I'm going to tell you something. I have never been as disappointed in a human being in politics as I am in Tom Massey. I largely stayed out of that race and made too many comments on it because the people of Kentucky will choose who they want if they want. Tom Massie. I'm not a resident of that district. I live in Florida. You pick who you want. Got his opponent coming on in just a little bit, about an hour. Last some questions about some issues that matter to you. Constitutional carry, Iran, NATO. However, when I got up there in that position, I could not believe what a fraud this guy was. I mean like an epic level fraud. Whatever you think of this guy, I'm telling you, I have no dog in the fight. I supported him. He is an absolute fraud. Fraud. He decided to do some money bomb thing and just completely BSing people about my record. They're just lying to your face. I tried multiple times to get this guy to come over to give him a briefing on a case. He kept bloving about on Twitter, causing a serious problem, by the way. And I thought he believed in due process. Supposedly a libertarian wants to try a case on X and he didn't do it. I was there from March until January of this year. You know, many times he came over to visit and ask about these cases. Despite multiple offers, cases he kept bloving about. We could have actually told him zero and there's nothing he's going to tell you. All of his BS responses, his fake community notes, it's all a distraction from the fact that he doesn't want to admit that he was offered a detailed briefing within certain parameters on these matters. He's bloviating about on X in order to attack President Trump and others and due process could have cleared it up for him right away. And, and he just didn't want to do it because he preferred to be stupid. Nothing will change that. He'll try to distract you with his razzle dazzle, his bot army. Like we haven't been through this before. You think you're the first time we've, that we've, you know, entered into a primary and supported a candidate and had other people come in with the bots and the bullshit? What do you think we're like newbies at this? I promise I'll far outlast you. I promise. I've heard it all before. The guy is a fraud. Anyone telling you otherwise, including him, is lying. He did not want to know. He preferred to be dumb so he could plead ignorance on X and attack President Trump and his agenda. You believe in due process or not? Whether it's the Daily Mail piece on Tyler Robinson or the pipe bomb case, which I've not commented on because I actually believe in due process. His subjects in these cases are entitled to a free and fair trial by a jury of their peers. Some people believe that, some people don't. Folks, Kentucky, you pick who you want. I'm just telling you that dude's a fraud. I've never seen anything like it in my life. And I get it, you little botsters Commander, I've seen it. I've seen it all before. You're wasting your time. I can do this all day and I will, and there's nothing you can do about it. Like zero, less than zero. Like the Robert Downey Jr. Movie. We got a lot of things to talk about. President Trump's at the Supreme Court now or over there. They're talking about birthright citizenship. I'm going to get to that later. But a lot of big news happened yesterday. I don't want to miss either. There is just a huge body of material. This is probably one of the biggest news days of the year, birthright citizenship. We had a case break yesterday, 8:1 at the Supreme Court on conversion therapy. Lot of stuff to talk about. So let's get right to it. First, regarding the strait yesterday, Trump is. President Trump is going to brief the nation tonight. He's gonna brief at, I believe 9pm Eastern time tonight. Whether it's from the Oval or not, I don't know, be from the White House. He's going to talk about the status of the war. I only Bring this up and put up that Wall Street Journal article. Because one of the constant criticisms you see with President Trump and the war effort is that this is a forever war. It is not, in fact forever. It's been barely a month Now. President Trump, as you see in this Wall Street Journal piece, which is really no friend to him, by the way, President Trump tells aides he's willing to end the war without reopening Hormuz. Now, unbelievably the same people. Here's the hypocrisy here. The same exact people are complaining about President Trump dragging us into a forever war. Are now complaining because President Trump is not engaging in a forever war. This is. Am I, Justin? Am I wrong? I know I'm not wrong. They're the same people. I can't believe this guy, this guy's dragging us into this forever war. Now they're like, I can't believe he's pulling us out of what I thought was a forever war. Which one is it, guys? I'm just asking because any criticism I would have of the effort is going to be based on a principle. I don't want a forever war either without a strong exit plan. Remember one of Fox Connors rules of war. Never go to war for long, meet your objectives and get out. The Strait is of far more interest to European allies. And China, not an ally because that's where a good chunk of their oil has to. Has to bypass the Straits of Hormuz. If they're not interested in opening it up, it affects them far worse than it affects us. I thought you were our allies. I asked Ed about this later. The NATO, because President Trump brought up again, like, what is the purpose of a NATO alliance? If the alliance only works when you need us, what about when we need you? That sounds like an asymmetric alliance to me. You're not meeting your military requirements. He's going to address this tonight, but please get your story straight on the attacks on the president. We have troops in a combat zone in a limited engagement. He's already set a timeline. Forever war is just a bullshit criticism. Now you're bitching about the other thing. By the way, these are your opponents on this. If you're one of the doomers in here, has already declared the war over a month in. You have no idea what the strategic long term ramifications of this could be. None at all. We're not even in the midterm yet. Midterm of the war, not the election. Here are some of the people on the other side of this argument you're lying with. You see this guy, he goes to a rally and asks about not the Straits of Hormuz, but the, the, the gays of Hormuz. Watch the answer. Isn't it a little bit homophobic that we're so focused on the Straits of Hormuz and not the g gaze of homose?

[Haley Caradilla]

I agree. Yes, for sure. Yeah.

[Dan Bongino]

Why do you think they're willing to leave the gays of homose behind?

[Haley Caradilla]

I think it's just history historically. Like, you know, gays have always been.

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah.

[Haley Caradilla]

Very discriminated against, which is wrong in so many levels.

[Dan Bongino]

Even in war.

[Haley Caradilla]

Yeah, even in war. And it just takes, I think, more. What is it like? More reform in government, obviously, and then also educating society.

[Dan Bongino]

I just feel like if we're gonna go in there, we can't leave the gay people behind. I don't think we should go in there at all. But if we're going to the gays of Hormuz, we could turn it into Fire Island.

[Haley Caradilla]

For sure. For sure.

[Dan Bongino]

No, that's no cap on Godfrey on YouTube. This is the people you're aligning with. Guy's favorite video of the day. I happen to agree. This may be one of the first times we agree on video of the day. These are some of the imbeciles on the other side of this space, folks. I will say it again. Political arguments to be made for the war in Iran are valid on. On, on. On both sides. Valid in that we need to. We need to discuss this stuff publicly when we are talking about US troops in a war zone potentially coming back in body bags. This is the most grave decision we have to make. But the criticisms of it should be valid. This is a forever. Four weeks in, I cannot believe how many people pretending to be on our side on X are already ready to declare the war law. It's over. It's over, man. You're like one round into a 12 round boxing match. You're like 10 seconds into a UFC 5 round championship fight with five minute rounds. Is that folks, if this blows up in our face long term, and God forbid, knock on wood, it doesn't, something awful happens. You have my word. You have my absolute word. We will discuss it openly and honestly. I'm interested in cheerleading for anything that turns out to be a bad policy. Again. I ran for office. I ran against what I thought was a really bad idea and a prolonged presence in Iraq. Here's another one. Sorry to start you out with all this absurdity and ridiculosity today. However, here's Sunny Hostin from the View. Donald Trump is building a White House ballroom. And because the left, of course, I guess, wants the government to pay for it because he's raising private funds. I don't know. I thought, I don't understand. Like, this guy's raising private funds to enhance the White House and make it more secure, folks, without disclosing any classified information at all. I worked there for close to five years. Okay. The place needs an upgrade. There's only so many security enhancements you can do on an old building that was not built for this. For drones, EMPs and modern threats. Okay. That President Trump is willing to fund this by raising private donations. The left is furious. They just don't want. Here's the real fight. They don't want Donald Trump to leave his mark on history by constructing a wing of the White House. And people will remember him for that. They don't want it. They don't want it. They cannot have this guy's legacy outlast this presidency. That is the only reason they're fighting this market. Flag it in the chat. It has nothing to do with anything else. Here's Sunny Hostin on the View. This is how stupid his opponents are. Again, sorry to bombard you with stupidity, but it's important to contrast and highlight the other side, suggesting that the bunker being built underneath that this came out publicly just in the last few days is flags in the chat is going to be like a hideaway for, like, celebrities and stuff. Yeah, yeah, that's totally. But apparently they have no idea how the system actually works. I do. Check this out.

[Haley Caradilla]

What is shocking to me is the fact. Fact that underneath this bunker. No, underneath the ballroom is a military bunker. Yes. That's what I'm talking about. And that part is really disconcerting because Trump says stuff like, I can't believe that people know about the bunker now because of a stupid lawsuit. Why is there a bunker? And are all the billionaires now, if something bad happens, going to. Is the plan that all of them are going under? It's like paradise. It's just like paradise.

[Dan Bongino]

Folks, the Democrats are totally crashing out, okay? Right now they are desperate for us to lose this war in Iran because they know if we, if more stable country results and we can get control of basically the largest terror proxy in the region, or at least mow the lawn, that he is going to have an enormous military victory along with Venezuela, where we. We took Madam, we arrested Maduro. They can't have it happen. So they're totally crashing out now on everything. They are in a full court press like they're. They're bulging. All their people in this one spot to hit him on the most ridiculous of things. Why do we need a bunker underneath the White House? Gee, I don't know. He's only the most threatened man on earth. What are you, an imbecile? Yes. Donald Trump's building it for Bill Gates. It's going to be like a summer home for all the celebrities in the event of nuclear annihilation. That makes sense to you? The audience like a bunch of barking seals. Like, yeah, man, good job, Sonny. I used to sit with her in green rooms on cnn. And I got to tell you, she was never this crazy. This is all like rage bait, clickbait nonsense. The same thing. Massie does the guy like, what's a live on? What is he doing for you in Kentucky except rage baiting? I got a bunch of bots to ratio. You good. Good job, buddy. Well done. Yeah, well done. That's excellent. Clown. We got other things going on. How about like, actually support some of the President's more conservative efforts than grandstanding all the time, folks. One of the things I learned in politics early, too, is that our political opponents will only change their behavior when this stuff results in a personal cost to them. Michael Anton's written about over and over again. It has to in a personal cost. Prestige, money, business opportunities. They will not change their behavior. Summed up neatly. Communists will not stop being communists until communist kicks them square in the balls. That's it. There is no other circumstance by which it'll change. I saw it in New York City when I grew up. New York City when I grew up in the 80s was a raging crime, cesspool folks. You could not even park your car on the street without putting, remember the club? And then they had the cap on the club. It was a steering wheel immobilization device because everyone's car got stolen. Everyone. You didn't. You couldn't swing a dead cab without hitting someone who didn't get their car stolen. In New York, everybody would get beat up at bus stops in bad areas and. And mugged all the time. We got mugged so much in New York, like, people would just steal your stuff that no one even reported to to the police. I told you about that story coming back from school on the bus. This, like, gang of zeros came up and I had a tropical fantasy drink. You know, it was that drink. It was like cheap soda is all we could afford. And they would steal it, take Your money. No one replied. I don't even think I told my mother that was just New York. But why did New York change and vote for Rudy Giuliani? Because so many freaking people saw what was happening when people were being killed in their own neighborhoods in Democrat areas. They were like, man, this is enough. I don't want to lose my kid too. Now that's a dramatic example. But I want to show you why the left wing media that we know hates us, hates Donald Trump, hates liberty and freedom, is all of a sudden now asking tough questions about the TSA lines at the airports and the DHS shutdown. They're only asking tough questions because of this Anton rule. It's starting to cost them personally as they sit in the same lines too. I'm going to take a quick break. I'm going to show you what I mean. This is not principled. This is not Margaret Brennan and other left wing hacks all of a sudden, you know, in a Road to Damascus conversion moment. There's none of that. 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People will not change their political behavior and who they vote for, even the most diehard communists until something personally impacts them. Business opportunities, prestige, money is lost. They won't. I know it's hard to believe you. Like we can reason our way out of it. We can't. That is why Democrat policies are so destructive. Because eventually if you implement them in mass, just like Mamdani seeing now, they start to kick people in the balls in mass. It may take a while, but they get there. Here's Margaret Brennan asking hard questions about this liberal BS over TSA lines, which they cause. Check this out.

[Haley Caradilla]

Practically speaking, ICE is already funded. In fact, it's one of the few DHS entities where people are getting paid because they had so much funding from the President's last bill and now their portfolio is expanding because they're in American airports across the country. So what did Democrats get out of this standoff?

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah, well, Margaret, that standoff is not done yet.

[Ed Gelrain]

Right. The President is illegally paying apparently TSA agents.

[Dan Bongino]

Of course, That's Rep. Heinz, Democrat 0. Just glossing over the fact that ICE is already paid to 2029. The left is trying to tell you that they're stopping DHS funding and making you wait in line at the airport. Because TSA is a component of that. Because they're stopping ICE funding from these dreaded ICE people, actually enforcing the law against illegal aliens. It's bullshit. And Margaret Brennan's only saying that. Rem. J.D. vance and Margaret Brennan. Margaret Brennan's only saying that because this is starting to kick them in the nads. These media people travel a lot. A lot of them don't even videos. That's the only reason. This may seem like a simple point, but I wanted to give you some hope. We used to have that shirt. Is it bad enough yet? I love that shirt. We should bring that one back. Is it bad enough yet? I wear it sometimes to work out. It was before Trump got elected. It was meant to make a point that when you hit Maximum political depression at the bottom of that valley. When you think everything is terrible is ironically when it's the most likely to turn around. Folks, I lived it, I promise you. I saw it in New York and I saw it in Maryland. Things got so bad in New York with 2,000 plus homicides a year in the five boroughs, 2,000 plus homicides in one city alone, people's cars getting stolen, their kids getting kidnapped and assaulted and mugged. That when it got so bad, that's when the turnaround. I saw a turnaround happened. I saw in Maryland too. Maryland, another deep blue state. They started taxing the rain. The freaking rain. Go look it up. Maryland rain tax. You think I'm making this up? If you had a. It was based on impervious services, bottom line. If you had a business with a flat roof, you got this enormous tax bill. All of a sudden these Democrat lawmakers were like, man, this is a great idea, this rain tax. Democrats who actually lived in Maryland were like, well that's kind of bullshit. I ain't paying a tax on the rain. And what happened? They got a two term Republican governor. It had been the best Republican. Everybody's better than the Democrats. Folks. Just when you think this stuff is hitting the bottom of the valley, don't give up. Don't give up. I promise you. People in the end understand that they're getting kicked in the nads by bad policy. Sometimes it just takes a while. I mean, think about this. What does it take? You know, I'm a contributor over at Fox, had a show there, been on and off there for the last 10 years. I love being there. The people there are great. One of the nicest people at Fox, everyone will tell you this. You put a beer in anyone at Fox, I'll tell you the same thing, is Dana Perino. You can't get under Dana Perino's skin. She's always smiling. She's exactly like she is. Off the air, on the air, she's just the most pleasant person to be around. Do you know what it takes to get Dana Perino pissed off? On the Five? Here is Dana and Jessica Tarlov. Dana's like, Jessica, come on. You really trying to blame this TSA DHS shutdown on Republicans? Like nobody actually believes that that's how bad this argument is. That Dana's like, come on man, really? Check this out.

[Haley Caradilla]

They're playing a very dangerous. But Jessica thinks that everyone believes that this is the Republicans fault is not. Why didn't Mike Johnson just bring the building to the floor? There can be politics. But everybody knows. And especially that's actually pretty disingenuous to suggest that it's the Republicans fault. The Democrats are the ones who wanted this in the first place, Jessica. They wanted to change, voted 11 times and they got the changes that they asked for. The Secretary of Homeland Security got fired. They put Tom Homan in. They're like, okay, you know what? We'll do this. We'll take this. We'll put the numbers on the badge. We'll just, we'll do anything.

[Dan Bongino]

Body cameras.

[Haley Caradilla]

Yes, we'll, we'll do that, too. We'll do all of these things so that there's an intramural squabble about how you ultimately get it done. We all know the reason that it actually happened, and it's because Chuck Schumer does not want to be primaried.

[Dan Bongino]

Okay. This is really important, this segment. I know I say that a lot. Stop what you're doing and listen to this. I'm going to tie all this together. Now, you about the Save America act and the filibuster. What does that have to do with any of this? Folks, I just told you that I have lived through this twice in my, I've only been alive 51 years. Okay, I'm not that old. Old enough, but not that old. I have lived through this twice. This meaning political revolutions from blue states that elect Republicans. I've lived through it twice. Giuliani and Governor George Pataki, Republicans in New York, Larry Hogan in Maryland. I have seen it twice where Democrats eventually get so tired of Democrat policies because their wallets shrink, their kids get mugged that they throw their own Democrats out and vote for Republicans. I have seen this twice. How does that tie into the Save America act and the filibuster? Folks, the arguments against scrapping the filibuster now are, listen, the Senate's the cooling chamber. The Democrats are better at big government. I understand all those arguments. However, the Save America act, which would implement voter integrity nationwide, will only pass if we either scrap the filibuster or if we implement the talking filibuster where they actually have to talk through it and can't just cast a vote. The Democrats have already hoisted upon our back the anchor of big government, folks. The Republican establishment that is against scrapping the filibuster is making this argument like, well, Democrats are better at big government. As if we've been in any way successful at stopping them. Outside of the BCA and the Tea Party revolution, the Budget Control act, the sequester in the Obama years, we've had almost no successes at all. We've had a lot of tax successes, the Reagan tax cuts, even Clinton cut some taxes. But we have had almost zero success outside of President Trump and Doge and the shrinking of the federal workforce pre Trump. We've had almost zero success fighting them. My point is this. If there is going to be a revolt against Democrat politics eventually because it always kicks people in the balls because Democrat politics have a 100% success rate of failing every time. They won't work because they can't work. Stealing people's money, running their health care, telling people to go to shitty schools. People hate this stuff. Why not just expedite the process? Why not just expedite the process? Hear me out. At least we can paint a contrast between the two parties. We can't do that now. What happens now? We have the White House, we have the House of Representatives and we have majorities in the Senate. That's what a lot of people in the public hear. Why are you Republicans doing anything? Because majorities don't win in the Senate. You need to get over the 60 vote threshold. Not just it's 100 members majority is 51 or 50 plus the vice president. Why not dump the filibuster, let the majority rule and let when the Democrats win they're going to scrap it anyway. Let them do their thing, let them show America how bad it sucks and then we can come in and at least now lawmakers votes will count where we can actually enact like a 12 point or 20 point plan and actually do it. Folks, I promise I'm not some extremist on this. The Democrats are going to scrap this thing anyway. They've already told us that. And when they do it, you'll remember this conversation. We might as well get as much done beforehand so that they can see the result of successful Republican politics when we have a majority and we don't need the filibuster and then see the Democrats dismantle it all so they can see what A versus B looks like in a simple statistical analysis. AB analysis. This is why I support Mike Lee on this from Utah. Senator from Utah. Here he is laying out on Fox News with the Save America act which would save our elections and America by implementing basic voter ID rules. Basic voter ID rules, he says. We have a few paths on this with regards to the filibuster. Check this out.

[Mike Lee]

We have exactly two options. We can either one, start enforcing our rules as they're written and require filibustering senators to speak and exhaust them and stay on a bill that is critical to our agenda until it passes, or if we're not willing to do that because that involves hard work, we have to nuke the filibuster. Now, I would strongly prefer the first. I think it's better to do it with the rules that we've got, because the rules that we've got actually ensure and protect robust debate. But what we can't have is this hybrid. We can't try to walk a middle ground between those two saying, yeah, we're going to stick with the filibuster, with the 60 vote cloture standard and then not do the work to get to cloture. That is a problem. So we've got a choice to make. If we don't make one of those two choices, use the talking filibuster or nuke the filibuster, we're going to be in big trouble in November.

[Dan Bongino]

Listen, can I tell you something on a personal note? I've known Senator Lee for a very long time. There's no one up on the Hill I have more respect for. There was a hit piece out on him about a week ago, something suggesting, like, this is some grandstanding thing. That's some serious bullshit. This guy has never, ever been a grandstander, ever, ever. He is a principled constitutional conservative, which I align with and, and his, and the issues he takes a stand on strongly. And what he said there is valid. The talking filibuster. There's no rule change needed. You want to clog up this legislation in the Senate to save America from voter fraud, then go defend it on the floor and talk about it. Guys, we need to create this contrast. The problem is there's way too much gray on the margins. Now. A Democrat gets in, you got, you know, a Democrat House and a Democrat majority in the Senate, but not enough to overcome the filibuster. The media blames Republicans. They go, look, Republicans are blocking things in the Senate and then we lose the other way. Republican in the White House, Republican Senate, Republicans, Republican House, but not enough to overcome the filibuster. Then the media says, well, the Republicans are in charge, are not doing anything. They make the exact opposite argument. What victories have we had outside of Trump's first, excuse me, first year outside of that? Tell me what victories the gop, the party in general, tell me what victories we've had. We lost health care. We're still stuck with Obamacare, sunk by McCain of all people. Government spending is still out of control. Thank God the federal workforce is shrinking. But Again, forget the Trump first term, his first year. What victories have we had? Explain to me, using reason and logic, how the filibuster not stop specific legislation has stopped the United States from this bankruptcy trajectory, from individual control of health care, from a bankruptcy or Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. I just make the case, folks. I'm at the point now where if large swaths of America want to vote for this big government garbage and want to see how it affects their lives, and there's nothing we're going to do to stop it, let them feel it, let them see their wallet shrink. Maybe we'll see what we saw in New York City with Rudy Giuliani and a Republican governor where people just got tired of it and New York underwent a renaissance. Yeah, it backtracked, but event we, we bought time. That's what a lot of this is about, folks. You got guys like Bernie Sanders out there now, like a devout Communist, talking about a wealth tax. I brought this up yesterday. A wealth tax. Do you understand what a wealth tax is? Listen to how he talks about this. Or everybody talks about it here in this tweet. Bernie Sanders. This is like economic ignorance on testosterone. He goes, let me clear things up for you in his. Bernie Sanders, let me clear things up for you. If my 5% wealth tax on billionaires was enacted, you'd owe 135 million more in taxes, and a family of four making 150,000 or less would receive a $12,000 payment. Oh, and you'd still be worth more than 2.5 billion. Seems pretty fair to me. Split screen act. Can you put that up on a split screen for me? Now, if you read that and you're economically illiterate, you say to yourself, well, that sounds fair. Was he responding to Jamie Dimon? Right. We'll take a lot of this billionaire's money. He's no worse for the wear. And a family of four would get a $12,000 payment from Jamie's wallet. And you think to yourself, come on, tell me. Even conservatives, as you're reading this, you go, that doesn't sound so bad. What are you laughing at? Oh, you like that? Me direct split screen at vo's Rich Cabaret. Go to Cabaret. I know. Let these guys do their work. Thank you. Thank you. When you start asking even basic questions about Bernie Sanders is what he. What he puts forth here, like, how is Jamie going to get the 135 million? The whole thing falls apart. You guys see where I'm going with this? Jamie likely doesn't have his money in A passbook bank account at the Ridgewood Savings Bank. That's where I grew up in Glendale. Ridgewood. They had the Ridgewood Savings Bank. My brother had a passbook. You go in, you put $25. I stay for $. How is Jamie going to get the money? Anyone in the chat, let's take his 135 million. He's going to have to sell stock because they don't keep this stuff in a freaking bank account. Bernie Sanders, you moron. Well, if you instituted a wealth tax, guys across the entire country and everybody had to liquidate their stock in order to pay someone not to work and give them a quote, $12,000 payment.

[Mike Lee]

What?

[Dan Bongino]

Do you guys have any idea what would happen to stock market if everybody liquidated at the same time? Oh, dear, the Dow, but go down like, like a lot. Like the late 1920s, but worse. But you're like, well, that's my 401k in my retirement fund. My annuities invested in an ETF. You're telling me the whole thing would crash. And the $12,000 payment I got from raiding Jamie's wallet. Actually, I'd probably lose twice as much on my stock holdings in my retirement. That's exactly what I'm telling you. How much is? That's if you use. How much is your salary? That's even if you keep your job. As these companies, the public companies, start to collapse and start to fire people to preserve market cap. That's assuming, by the way, they don't leave the country. That's assuming they don't. If you do it in the states, leave the states. That's assuming they don't liquidate their assets before it passes and put it in some trust fund. These are the morons you're dealing with. The gaze of Hormuz, a wealth tax. How are you going to get the money? We're just going to liquidate the stock market. I'm going to liquidate the stock market for a $12,000 check as a middle class American, and I'm going to lose like 30,000 out of my retirement. How the does that work for me? Do you see how stupid these people are, folks? But did I mention, by the way, the tweet about the midterms, the polls, and it says don't give up on the midterms that I mentioned that we did the rundown. I may have skipped that one. Don't give up on the midterms. There was a tweet I saw yesterday. I sent it, but I forgot to bring it up with the Guys, pre show, don't give up on the midterms. Listen, it's going to be tough, okay? I'm not going to, I'm not going to gaslight you on that. It's going to be tough. The media pressure. Trump's had to make some really hard decisions in Iran and elsewhere that understandably a lot of people have sincere political disagreements with. I get it. The midterms are going to be tough and a challenge. But these people, Bernie Sanders and the gays of Hormuz, lady and others are so ridiculous that even Democrats fear other Democrats, sane Democrats. It was a poll that popped. I saw it on Twitter yesterday that even though the GOP may not be the most popular party right now, that Democrats are afraid of other Democrats to do not be a doomer on this front. Don't give up. I mean, let's not be ridiculous, you know, red wave stuff and all that crap. We got to get out and do the hard work. If the Democrats had anything to run on, folks, they would have already done it. Trump, by the way, is racking up wins not just on, on the EO front from the, from our military, but he's also racking up some wins at the Supreme Court. I'm going to get to in a second what's going on right now. The case on birthright citizenship comes down to one thing. Don't let the left fool you. However, there was another big win at the Supreme Court yesterday on conversion therapy. An unquestioned attack on the First Amendment rights of people who want to render mental health care to people who may be struggling with gender issues. Or so there's zero question about it so much. So it was an 81 ruling in the Supreme Court. Listen to Kerry Urban, who's excellent, talk about this on Fox. This is a really, really big victory. Check this out. Jackson's dissent and she said to do anything else opens up a danger, dangerous can of worms. It threatens to impair states ability to regulate the provision of medical care in any respect. It extends the Constitution into uncharted territory in an utterly irrational fashion. And it ultimately risks grave harm to Americans health and well being. And she read that from the bench and I think that sort of signals that she was really, really intent on what she was trying to say.

[Haley Caradilla]

Yeah, she feels very strongly about it. That's what justices do when they feel strongly impacted about something. They read their dissent from the bench. But you know, again, this was an 8:1 decision. So not only is she out of step with the rest of her colleagues, I would argue she's out of step with the country and really the world at this point.

[Dan Bongino]

8 1. And who's the only zero who disagrees? Kentaji Brown Jackson, who, by the way, doesn't even know what a woman is. She does. She does. She has said in her confirmation hearing she doesn't know what a woman is. So how can she object to conversion therapy, people trying to convert from men to women, and mental health professionals trying to discuss these gender issues if she doesn't even know what a woman is? Has anyone asked her this question? Guys? Anyone? She doesn't know what a woman is. There's nothing to convert to. She doesn't know. 81 put up that tweet on this SCOTUS wire. This was another huge win. The doom and gloom class is just. I mean, every single day, the war is lost, the economy's collapsing. We just had retail sales, by the way, come back pretty great numbers. Everything is doom and gloom all the time. Here's the good news. I like to break up the show a little bit. I think that turning point is coming. I do. I really do. I think the cultural. Forget about the politics for a minute. And the Giuliani, Maryland argument I made. I think the cultural turning point on a lot of this identity politics. D, E I B S. You see this detachment from faith, this idea the left is jammed down our throat, that you should have faith in government institutions. Forget your church and your community. I think that's changing. Okay. Bring some receipts. Okay, I will. Washington examiner piece, folks. A lot of this, a significant number of our younger generation. Kids are tired of the emptiness of social media and the bullshit. Listen, I'm not trying to be freaking Plato here or wax poetic. It's empty. Selena. Zito. Great article in the Washington Examiner. Faith among young people surges, providing a missing Anchorage. Folks, I'm not your preacher, but can you imagine how empty your life is if you believe this rock we call Earth is it? And your life is social media and Instagram reels all day? How many likes you got? Who you ratioed with your bot army? Can you imagine how devoid of a soul you have to be that that's your entire life? How about time with your kids? Time in church? We were in church this weekend. It was great. We had a blast for you. Heard I left early. Yeah, I had to. Yeah. This is now. Yes, I saw Justin. No, I just want to know. Justin walked in late. You got to call me out. You walked in late. Don't say you didn't. He walked in late. I'm just saying, folks, he's five minutes late. I saw him right there. He. And by the way, Justin's like seven feet tall, everybody. Yeah. Yes. Andrew's like. Did he make a scene? Here's the thing about Justin, too, because he's. What are you, six? Four? He's really tall. Six. Three. Well, he's tall. Like, really tall. He doesn't even wait for people to stand up. They're all sitting down and he walks in late. So, like, all right, that's fake news. That's fake news. Even Father Marty noticed. I saw him. I saw him. Look at you. You got called out. It happened. All right, put up that tweet with the sadness. Let's get back to this. I want to make the point here, too, that this big government model will always fail. Create a contrast. Dump the filibuster. Let the American people see the contrast between big government liberal Bernie Sanders bullshit and small, limited government Tea Party constitutional conservative. And I promise you they'll make the right choice. DeSantis put this tweet up about bureaucracies run amok. I've tried to make this point over and over again, and in this tweet thread, you'll see it from Governor DeSantis down here in Florida. Do any of you find it odd at all? To the liberals in the audience listening, do any of you find it odd at all that the two spaces liberals constantly complain about, costs getting out of control, are both spaces largely controlled by the US Government? Does that. Does that bother you at all? Health care and education. The government has a massive footprint, correct? They don't have a massive footprint in TV monitors like we have up here. Maybe some regulation, but it's not a huge footprint. Health care, between Medicare, Medicaid, public schools, state school funding, the government has an enormous footprint. So why is it, if you look at this chart, that those are the two areas that costs are out of control? It's precisely because the government's the third party payer. They're not the student, they're not the school. The government winds up paying. So the student doesn't care about the price, and the school doesn't care about charging you more either, because they know you're not paying. Put up that chart. When I was running for office in Maryland, I'll never forget, I met with this guy, I forget his name. It was a public meeting, but it was in Prince George's county, which is a. It's a really very significant, wealthy black county in Maryland. And I went down there and I was really interested in knocking on doors to see how black voters in Maryland felt about Republican candidates, see if we had a shot. We obviously didn't perform traditionally well there in Maryland, But I meet with this guy and he pointed out what's in this chart is absolutely true. He said, dan, the reason liberals will never give up funding public schools is not because it has anything to do with education. He said to me, I'll never forget it. He said, dan, it's a jobs program. Public schools are a jobs program. Look at this. The growth in bureaucracy and administrative staff far exceeding money dedicated to students and education. It's a jobs program. So is the health care space for the government. I'm glad the Governor DeSantis pointed this out. This is a huge scam. The liberal argument that government's the most efficient way to do business falls apart on its face when you point out that the biggest business they're in health care and education. You freakin liberals are complaining all the time about it. How costs are out of control as you finance an explosion in a government jobs program disguised as education and health care. It's a scam and you know it. It's always been a scam. Ask your liberal friends that if government is so good at controlling costs and quality, how come where the government has the biggest footprint, health care and education. You're constantly bitching about cost and quality. I'm just asking questions. That's what we're doing now. We're told to ask questions, right, guys? We're just asking questions, correct? All right, I got to get this. I got Ed Gal Ryan coming up in just a little bit. Kentucky District 4 candidate in the Republican primary. The birthright citizenship case is being heard before the Supreme Court right now. Ladies and gentlemen, this is an enormous case. The goal of this show from the beginning has always been to give you digestible nuggets. You all work for a living. You don't have time to be reading 30 page white papers and legal briefs. You're busy taking care of your kids and building this country. And thank you for doing it. The purpose of this show is to sum up issues quickly. So you know the takeaway, the birthright citizenship debate. And it is a debate. Don't listen to the liberals who tell you this was settled in the courts. It was not. That is bullshit. If it was settled in the courts, why is it in the Supreme Court right now? We have a very serious problem with this anchor baby problem. You have people entering the country illegally, not here legally illegally having children who get US Citizenship. It is not Only an issue for a magnet. That creates an open border problem because it draws people here because then they're entitled to the full portfolio of citizenship benefits. It is also a national security issue as well. The second part, because foreign enemies of the United States know this, they can fly people in, have a child here, and all of a sudden people who are not our friends have a citizen in their family. This is common sense. Liberals want to tell you this has already been litigated. You're born here, you're automatically a citizen. And it's a. Well, that is the case now. But this has not fully been litigated. Wall Street Journal has a great piece about this. There is one line that this all comes down to. This is Randy Barnett Trump is right on birthright citizenship. They note that the clause grants citizenship to persons who meet two birth in the U.S. and being subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. the dispute is over the meaning of the latter term. Talking about the 14th Amendment. Subject to the jurisdiction thereof, folks, has never been fully litigated. This is not an overly wonky topic. There are two potential meanings to this in the legal space. Do they mean people born here who are subject to the political jurisdiction of the United States, or is it simply a matter of territorial jurisdiction? Very simply stated, if you are an illegal invader from another country here illegally and have children, it's a all that matters is territorial jurisdiction. In other words, you're born in US Soil, no questions asked. That's the leftist argument. Territorial jurisdiction, you understand? Trump's argument is that's bullshit. That's not what it means. It meant subject to the political jurisdiction thereof. And those people are not subject to the political jurisdiction of the United States. They are citizens of another country. Donald Trump is right on this issue. And folks, I don't know what's going to happen in the Supreme Court in the case. I'm not the Stygian witches. Give me the eye. I have no idea what's going to happen. Supreme Court is hit or miss. Amy Coni Barrett has been totally unreliable on these things, but there is zero doubt that this has not fully been litigated. A lot of these cases they cite pre existed a lot of immigration laws that are even in question. How could they be talking about a law that didn't even exist yet? Trump's had another big victory yesterday, too. We'll see what happens with this case. Again, I don't know. This is a toss up in the Supreme Court. However, there was another big victory yesterday. Did you see the Oval Office briefing With our commerce secretary Howard Lutnick. Donald Trump put out an EO using existing law to tighten up vote by mail, which we know is a fraud problem. We put that New York Times article up from 2012 probably 100 times. Error and fraud at issue as absentee voting rises. The New York Times wrote about the problem of fraud and rejection rates in mail in voting in 2012. For the Liberals having a hard time with Math, that's over 10 years ago. The New York Times wrote this piece, double the rejection rate. Mail in voting has a problem. Donald Trump using existing law put out an EO yesterday. Howard Lutnick describes it how they're going to tighten up the postal service system to make sure that people request these mail in ballots, actually get the mail in ballots and not 20 other different people having nothing to do with the person who actually registered. Check this out. States, right? Run these elections. They will if they want to use the U. S Mail, the U. S Postal service, they're going to get a code, a barcode from the U S. Postal service and they're going to put that on the envelope and we will have one envelope per vote. None of this time where we have no idea. Media, there's no observers to mail, there's no envelopes, there's no certainty that's all going to go away. And what the president is doing today is he's going to make sure that mail in ballots are safe, secure and accurate and will have a clear distinction. If you voted by mail, you will have it on the envelope. Obviously not on the ballot, but on the envelope. So we will know a million mail in ballots, there'll be a million envelopes, envelopes, and you'll be able to know exactly, correctly that citizens voted now proving to you what frauds Democrats are. The lawsuits are already piling up, of course, because the Democrats don't want strict custody in the mail system of votes. They want to ship out mail in ballots to everyone in the state of California whether you requested it or not. They want a ballot harvester to go get it and return it. Whether they fill it out or the person fills it out, the Democrats don't care as long as the box says Democrat. This sounds like a pretty common sense thing. And the Democrats are all over x crashing out again over this. Everything president Trump does is this immediate like word vomit that comes out on the left. And I get to Ed Gall Ryan running for Kentucky for coming up in just a few minutes but I always like to leave you with some good news. Hold on, Brandon Gill, We Got to play this. I just saw this yesterday. So I know this is probably a little bit old from a few weeks ago, but speaking of candidates, Brandon Gill is running for reelection. He's a congressman. He's fantastic. He's been on the show. They had the NPR liberal, NPR CEO up on Capitol Hill. And folks, when you're up on Capitol Hill, like, you just, you better be prepared. Okay, I've been up there a couple times. You better be prepared. This lady is totally unprepared when she's asked basic questions. This is npr, taxpayer funded NPR about even basic things. I play this because this guy has the just perfect temperament for a Republican member of Congress when questioning these liberal lunatics and all their nonsense. Check this out.

[Brandon Gill]

Do you believe that America is addicted to white supremacy?

[Haley Caradilla]

I believe that. I tweeted that. And as I've said earlier, I believe much of my thinking has. Has evolved over the last half decade.

[Brandon Gill]

It has evolved. Why did you tweet that?

[Haley Caradilla]

I don't recall the exact context, sir. So I wouldn't be able to say, okay.

[Brandon Gill]

Do you believe that America believes in black plunder and white democracy?

[Haley Caradilla]

I don't believe that, sir.

[Brandon Gill]

You tweeted that in reference to a book you were reading at the time, apparently, the Case for Reparations.

[Haley Caradilla]

I don't think I've ever read that book, sir.

[Brandon Gill]

He tweeted about it. You said you took a day off to fully read the Case for Reparations. You put that on Twitter in January of 2020. Do you think that white people should pay reparations?

[Haley Caradilla]

I've never said that, sir.

[Brandon Gill]

Yes, you did. You said it in January of 2020. You tweeted, yes. The North. Yes. All of us. Yes. America. Yes. Our original collective sin and unpaid debt. Yes. Reparations. Yes. On this day.

[Haley Caradilla]

I don't believe that was a reference to fiscal reparations, sir.

[Brandon Gill]

What kind of reparations was it a reference to?

[Haley Caradilla]

I think it was just a reference to the idea that we all owe much to the people who came before us.

[Brandon Gill]

That's a bizarre way to frame what you tweeted. Okay, how much reparations have you personally paid, sir?

[Haley Caradilla]

I don't believe that I've ever paid reparations. Okay, just for everybody else, I'm not asking anyone.

[Brandon Gill]

Seems to be what you're suggesting.

[Dan Bongino]

I love this guy. Fantastic. Now why am I putting that before the interview with Ed here on the commentary segment? Because on a very serious note, I told you that it is time to create a contrast. The left will never change their behavior, their communist socialist aggregation of the means of production in government hands impulses until those policies kick them in the nuts. So let's go for it. You want to see the country under leftist tyranny versus freedom and liberty. Maybe when you see the difference, you'll vote like the Cuban community does in Florida that's actually seen tyranny. You see the contrast, the other side, what we're dealing with, how we're going to constantly have this bleed towards totalitarianism if we don't have the ability to change things and change them quickly. These are the kind of people we're going to be dealing with. Reparations, a wealth tax, open borders, theft in elections. You're folks. It's, it's going to be over. They are going to dump the filibuster and these are the people you're going to be dealing with on the other side. It's. They've already said it. Just listen to their own words. All right, quick break and we'll get to our guest. You know that feeling when spring rolls in, you suddenly want to fix everything in your house. I know the feeling. The spring cleaning for me, it started with sleep. Fix it today. You don't get a good night's sleep. You feel terrible. You wake up physically exhausted, mentally exhausted. Your emotional wreck. I've been waking up with this annoying lower back stiffness. Before I had my shoulder problem until I switched to Helix sleep mattresses. I love Helix sleep. To make a mattress customized to you. I upgraded to a Helix mattress and it has helped with my back pain. My sleep tracker even showed my deep sleep time jump up. HRV was better. Which honestly felt like I was winning the lottery for adults. A lot of us wear these sleep trackers now. Kind of obsessed with it. And you'll see the difference. I know I did. And here's the thing. Helix just doesn't make a mattress. They've got over 20 models so you can actually get one built for how you sleep. Your side sleeper. Back sleeper. Yeah. You get hot when you sleep, you get cold when you sleep. Mine has a perfect mix of support and softness so my back isn't screaming at me every morning. The team has them too. They're. They love their Helix mattress. So check them out. Delivery was super easy. Shows up at your door, free shipping, 120 night trial, lifetime warranty. All that's really good stuff. So do this for yourself. Go to helixsleep.com dan for 20% off site wide H E L I X Helix mattress worth your time. Go to helixsleep.com dan for 20% off sitewide. That's helixsleep.com dan for twenty percent off sitewide. Make sure you enter our show name after checkout so they know we sent you. That's helixsleep.com dan. I'm really happy to welcome to the show today. A congressional candidate's got a lot of excitement behind his campaign nationwide. Ed Gel Rhine running for Kentucky, running for District 4 in Kentucky. Ed, welcome to the show. It's really great to have you.

[Ed Gelrain]

Good morning, Agent Bongino. Good morning to the viewers. Thanks for having me on.

[Dan Bongino]

It takes, you know, listen, it takes a lot of guts to run. So, you know, win or lose, I congratulate you. Putting your name on a ballot in such a public manner, you know, good for you. That's the process. So first, yeah.

[Ed Gelrain]

Motto of the two 2sas. Who dares wins.

[Dan Bongino]

You got to take a chance. I mean, sitting in the side of the ring throwing popcorn at the two boxers is, you know, the kind of the cheap seat stuff. And I don't like that. Get in the action or not. So, Ed, you're running for the seat. It's garnered national attention. You're running against Tom Massey, a multi term congressman in a Republican primary. You know, why are you running? Tell us who you are, your experience and why the voters should pick you.

[Ed Gelrain]

Well, thank you for the question. It's really pretty simple. The President asked me to meet with him on the 17th of October, and he basically made a challenge to me to serve my nation again. When I signed up in 1983, when President Reagan was rebuilding our nation after the failed presidency of Jimmy Carter, these were the words in my head. Faith, family, freedom, duty, honor, country. And Dan, I took a look at what's going on around the world and I evaluated what is the way I could have the most impact for our nation's national security. And it was to be a Navy SEAL officer. There were no books or movies. There was no bonus to join. I entered via Officer Candidate School into the Leadership program and I served at seven SEAL teams and units, including twice the SEAL Team 6 for a career spanning three decades. Now to turn the page. When the President met with me on the 17th of October, Dan, he had my record, TSSCI and you understand that language. He knew where I'd been. He knew what I'd done. He knew my commitment. He knew my commitment to faith, family, freedom and duty, honor, country. He asked me to go home, think about it, pray about it, talk to my family. And he said he was going to endorse me in life and whatever I did. And I declared four days later on the 21st of October, to be a champion for my party, my nation and my district. Thank you for the question, Dan.

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah, listen, I want the voters to know who you are, not just what you stand for. And speaking of what you stand for, you know, Republicans generally agree on the big ten issues. Taxes, healthcare, school choice. We get it. So I've got 20 minutes with you. I'm gonna get to the issues that typically people will vote on at the Republican primary. Can kind of be a red line between candidate A or candidate B. How do you feel? I know you're a strong Second Amendment supporter. I've seen your campaign material. But how do you feel about constitutional carry? It's a big issue down here in Florida. Thankfully, we're, you know, it's spreading nationwide just like it did down in the South. How do you feel about that?

[Ed Gelrain]

Well, as you look at that symbology behind me, it speaks for itself. I am a thousand percent behind it. I'm a lifetime member of the NRA and I hear people talking about two gun shooter, three gun shooter. I was a 13 gun shooter, you know, when I was a SEAL team six, I lost track of how many weapons were assigned to me. All that to say it is non negotiable. So with respect to that, I'll be a champion for that. Lifetime member of the nra, rifle and pistol instructor. But all that to say I will support and defend that now.

[Dan Bongino]

Well, good, because that's an enormous issue with me. I mean, the Second Amendment's pretty clear. Despite the left's attempts to, you know, dissect punctuation and other things there. And it is a nationwide issue. I don't want you to assume because it exists or doesn't in your state that it's not a nationwide issue. You'll be a federal legislator if you win. So this is important for everyone listening. The second thing that's in the news today, obviously, is the Supreme Court case on birthright citizenship. Now, this is not a particularly complicated case. It basically comes down to two arguments subject to the jurisdiction thereof. Meaning if you are a person in this country and have a child, are you subject to the jurisdiction thereof, and therefore your child, if they are born here in the United States, would get citizenship? However, Donald Trump is making a very sound argument, along with a lot of Supreme Court analysts and legal experts, that political jurisdiction and territorial jurisdiction are not the same thing. In other words, just because you're on our territory, potentially Illegally and have a baby. That does not mean you are subject to the jurisdiction thereof. You're a citizen of another country here illegally. Where do you stand on this? What's framed the anchor baby problem by

[Ed Gelrain]

many, if I could use a phrase we use here in Kentucky, this is a no brainer. It is clear that the intent was for those subject to the jurisdiction. We have to be very wary in this nation of the intentions of our adversaries. It's a disruption operation to bring folks in illegally and then to grow that population to defuse our nation and basically undermine it. This is as plain, plain as the nose on your face. Absolutely not. That anchor baby, that the birthright citizenship was never the intent of our founding fathers nor the legislation. Absolutely not. The President is on solid ground here in my prediction, although that's a hard thing to do. As Yogi Berra say, especially about the future is this case will carry in his favor and God bless him for advocating this on our behalf. We the conservatives of this nation.

[Dan Bongino]

Well, you know, I agree with you on a point you made here. This creates a really perilous national security problem too. You know, I think folks have to remember that global travel was not as easy when many of these civil rights amendments and some of these citizenship laws were passed. You know, air travel was some cases non existent, many cases nonexistent. Air travel even later on was basically rudimentary compared to as it is now. You did not have the ability to go back and forth. The globe wasn't as mobile as it is now. You can come over here from a country that's an enemy of the United States as a covert agent, have a child and basically, you know, from the country, infiltrate from the inside. I mean this is a very real problem and I think, I hope the Supreme Court takes that into consideration.

[Ed Gelrain]

Yes, and there are. The President is on more than solid ground on this and it's in the interest of our nation. If you're going to have a nation. As I understand it, we're the only major power in the world that allows such. It is nonsensical and all that to say the Supreme Court will find in his favor on solid ground.

[Dan Bongino]

Well, I hope so. I mean this could be a real game changing moment. The Supreme Court, for all its, you know, faults amongst some of the members, has taken some bold stances on Chevron deference and others. So they have taken some pretty bold, bold stance especially on the second and all the infiltration.

[Ed Gelrain]

We've got to give credit to the President who set the conditions for that in his first term. And so folks need to remember that he played some amazing chess to get us where we are now to get back to constitutional rule. But he's still fighting that battle on our behalf.

[Dan Bongino]

Yeah, no, he certainly is. Given your military experience, Ed, what. What is your stance on. On NATO right now? This has come up. It's in the news today. President Trump is, I think, understandably, starting to question these global alliances that have stood for decades. I mean, many would argue it's the most successful military alliance in history. Fine. But there is simply no doubt, Ed, that some of the NATO allies, many of them, as a matter of fact, maybe outside of Poland and Lithuania, are not even attempting to meet their basic commitments to percentage GDP spent in your military. In other words, they're not funding their military. And they're saying they're are. They are. And they're waiting for the United States to come in and be basically the bouncer in the bar. This is really unfair to us. And I think it's the right time for a president of the United States like President Trump with the cojones to do it, to say, hey, listen, if it's going to be an alliance, then, you know, meet your basic requirements for the freaking alliance. It's not hard.

[Ed Gelrain]

Yeah, you are spot on there. It is. It is more than time to reevaluate that and reset, you know, the understanding. So they do abide by what their commitments are because they have been free riders. And what I'm going to use is my lens as a graduate of War College and also with my master's in operational intelligence, they have succumbed to what I would call nearly a method to infiltrate them. And what we see is the social programs over there, the leaning towards liberalism, being soft on defense, and so they become free riders on our ability to potentially defend them. And they're not doing their part. It should certainly be reevaluated. And if it needs to be changed and adjusted, as was illuminated here recently when we were denied the opportunity to use our bases for the operations that really helped them in the Mid east versus Iran. One of the Four Horsemen apocalypse. Absolutely. It's time to revisit that and what the rules are of the road for what they have to do to be a part of that. Otherwise they'll continue to be free riders and put us all at risk.

[Dan Bongino]

And I want you to get out your website if people want to support you. I have another question for you. I'm not going anywhere. I just want to make sure you get that out. Ed, gel Ryan Running for Kentucky for what's the website Edgar Oncom.

[Ed Gelrain]

You'll see that I'm a fifth generation farmer. We've been farming in Kentucky for over 100 years. Greetings from the farm. Here we're you're standing between me and farm work. I'll be getting after here a bit more today, but can't thank you enough

[Dan Bongino]

for edgar.com edgar.com so final question and again, given your extensive military background here, what does success look like right now in Iran? I was reading a fascinating article in the Wall Street Journal I had mentioned yesterday and given your experience in the, in the, in war theater spaces, how combat for centuries, obviously millennia was from the outside inside. You wanted to siege a castle, you had to siege the castle from the outside and get in. Whether it was a trojan horse or whatever. You didn't just start on the inside. The point of the piece was that military technology as you know, has evolved so much from precision targeting and stealth technology from the air that we can now hit targets from the inside out. And the piece was basically saying that if I'm China right now, I'm watching what we did in this decapitation exercise in Iran and I'm not happy. I'm thinking to myself, you know what, these guys aren't effing around, pardon the language here, that if they wanted to hit us from Beijing out, they may very well be able to do that. So my simple question is what does success look like in Iran? Do we just at this point turn over some of the straight to international partners and say hey buck up fellas and let's go and then consider it a success, which I think it would be. Or do we stay there long term?

[Ed Gelrain]

Well again look, look Post World War II, just for an example of where we've been long term for peace and prosperity, which is paid dividends. All that to say I would offer that the instate the President's after is first of all no nuclear weapon whatsoever nor any capability to develop that by the Iranians. The second part is remove their strategic weapons program. Now we're seeing that they actually had missiles that were far greater range than was previously known and they were devising those clearly to be an aggressor as one of the four horsemen in the apocalypse right now, including China, North Korea and Russia. To your point about China, a key outcome of what's going on that you cannot ignore is the President and his leadership team have doubled the deterrence poker chips on the table with Beijing, Moscow and North Korea. Not only is the President unpredictable of what he's going to do when but also we are fighting a 21st century war in the 21st century and they are seeing that on full display to your point of the intricacies of what we're able to do on the battlefield now to turn the page of what it looks like there going forward, I would argue success is going to look like peace and prosperity being brought back to the Mid East. Those conditions require the elimination of an aggressive regime that's hostile to the world there in Iran, which was their full intent, which was funded by the Obama administration to the tune of $1.7 billion in unmarked currency. So they turn that country back over to the very folks that rose up a few weeks ago. We've got to set the conditions to get that narrow element out of there of extremists because as I said on the on media a number of times, Ayatollah was a suicide bomber looking for a new full stop and we see that on full display right now with the weaponry they have. The other good news here, Dan, is now no longer the Russia and China have that endless supplies of those high tech, high quality drones where Iran has had their manufacturing crushed by the US Strikes. So turning the page, we'll see a new era with Iran coming back into the fold of the modern world with peace and prosperity, trade. Eliminate that threat and that allows us to shift and continue to focus on China, Russia and North Korea and defeat them by deterrence as Reagan did not have to conduct combat operations. But if we have to fight, you can see that we will have gotten some training under our belt and we know our capabilities and they're going to be dismayed as they watch this unfold further.

[Dan Bongino]

And if you don't mind, I'm going to steal that. The Ayatollah was a suicide bomber looking for a nuke was because we're down to Ayatollah number seven now as he wipes out the baseball cards each time. But I'll footnote it, I promise. It's that's very well summed up. Ed. Listen, thanks a lot for putting your name on a ballot. You know, I know it's tough. You know, I've been there myself. Campaigns are ugly sometimes. You know, it's just the nature of politics. But putting your name on a ballot takes a lot of guts. Your website again is Edgar on dot com. Check them out folks, if you want to support Mr. Gal Ryan, runner for Congress in Kentucky. 4 Ed, thanks a lot for your time today and best of luck. I really appreciate it.

[Ed Gelrain]

Okay, thank you, Dan. Thank you to the viewers, folks.

[Dan Bongino]

Listen, it's up to you in Kentucky, you pick who you want. I'm getting this candidate out there. I ran myself a number of times and it's a fascinating process. I actually strongly encourage you to do it at some point. You don't have to run for Congress or the Senate, maybe run for state rep, maybe run for city council. I really encourage you to do it. I've been encouraging some friends locally. I have a friend who ran in Maryland, wound up running. He's a multi term delegate up there now in Anne Arundel County. It's definitely worth your time to see the process. So check that out. And I'm glad to bring you some of these candidates. We'll try to do, you know, a couple more before, before the midterms so we can get them some exposure. Thanks so much for tuning in today. Please do us a favor. Go to the Rumble app in the App Store, whatever phone you have, Android or Apple. Download the free Rumble app. Give us a Follow the Dan Bongino show. Just look it up. Follow us. It is absolutely free. Join us every day for the chat at 10am Eastern time. You check out Haley and Vince as well. Haley at noon on Rumble, Haley Karenia and Vince Colonace at 8am we really appreciate it. And if you want to watch on the web, go to rumble.com bongino. You'll see a follow button when you get there. Click that follow button. We really appreciate it. Thanks so much for your support folks for making us number three in the Triton Podcast rankings. I really appreciate it. I will see you back here tomorrow. Hey there. I'm Vince.

[Haley Caradilla]

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[Ed Gelrain]

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[Haley Caradilla]

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[Ed Gelrain]

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[Haley Caradilla]

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