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Okay, I'm about to blow your minds with a segment maybe a little dramatic. I don't want to be over the top and hyperbolic. I hate exaggeration for effect. However, this is a segment that has fascinated me forever because I'm going to prove to you that cutting government criminal fraud, waste, garbage, junk payments, overspending, you know, missing account transactions, missing payment fields. This is so unbelievably popular that even people you think would support excessive government spending. Democrats? No, they're liberals. Yes. Radical Democrats. Yes. There is a huge chunk of the Democrat Party. Let me. I'm being too verbose. We can steal a bunch of Democrats votes if we win this argument. I know that sounds crazy and I promise I'm about to back up what I say with receipts. Opinions are bullshit. All that matters is receipts. I'm going to back it up for you right now. Donald Trump, if he continues with Elon and for four years cleans out this government mess and saves a couple trillion dollars over four years or more, he is going to steal a huge chunk of Democrat voters and could leave office one of the most popular presidents in modern times could. Okay, back it up. Big claims like that require what? That's right, folks in the chat, big evidence. So here it is. You ever wonder why Bill Clinton, obviously a Democrat, left office at close to 60% approval? Ladies and gentlemen, Bill Clinton. There was actual biological evidence of him committing sex acts in the Oval Office. It's not funny. But Bill Clinton, didn't he lose his law license? I mean Bill Clinton is on video you can play right now. I did not have sexual relations with that woman. And then what, a year later? Well, you know, had sexual. I'm sorry. Bill Clinton left office. Look it up. With high 50s, low 60% approval. Do you have any idea how high that is in a country that's basically 5050. Meaning a lot of Republicans liked what Bill Clinton did. A good chunk of them and a whole ton of Democrats did. How is that Bill Clinton between Rose Law Firm, Whitewater, you know how many scandals him and Hillary had? Hillary care blows up. Why did he leave office? I'm going to tell you why right now and I'm going to put the numbers to back it up. Here is Bill Clinton in his own words talking about how important it is to make government more efficient and cut the Fed. Bill Clinton, the Democrat. Check this out. First, I am ordering a reduction of the federal bureaucracy by at least 100,000 positions over the next four years. At least 10% of these cuts must come from senior management. These cuts will make our government more efficient and more effective. The government is full of dedicated people whose hard work is being choked off by our own bureaucracy. Second, I'm ordering each federal department and agency to reduce its administrative as opposed to its program cost by 12% over the next four years. With better planning and innovation, we can make better use of the money we already have. In many agencies, overhead is too high, red tape is too thick and the day to day operations of the agencies have not been re examined in a very long time. Folks, this guy engaged in a sex act with an intern and lied about it under oath in the Oval Office. And he left office with 60% approval. Why? Why? Well, I'm going to attribute this to Bill Clinton's efforts. Let's be clear. Let's be absolutely clear so there's no misinterpretation. Bill Clinton was a Democrat and will always spend like a Democrat. Newt Gingrich and the Republican Congress pushed him into some spending controls. But to be fair to history, Bill Clinton signed the budgets and it happened. We're not going to lie about stuff like the Democrats. The Democrats used to celebrate the mythical Clinton surplus too. Here is Democrat Congressman from Colorado Michael Bennett. I say the mythical Clinton surplus because you've heard it a thousand times, right, that Bill Clinton ran a government surplus. I'll get to that in a second. But Democrats used to realize that people don't want governments going into piles of red ink. Here's a color. These are quick. Colorado Democrat again, celebrating the Clinton surplus. Check this out. I want to paint a very brief history for you because I think it's worth remembering this contextually. When Bill Clinton, a Democrat, left the presidency, he left behind a surplus. Okay, he didn't leave behind a surplus, but you get my. You see what I'm trying to get out here. The Democrats are not stupid. They fully understand that the very rational, reasonable, educated American voter is not interested in endless piles of government reading. So much so that that Democrat Michael Bennett is celebrating that Bill Clinton ran this mythical surplus. Here's Margaret Hoover, a pretty mainstream Republican. She's doing an interview with Robert Rice. We don't need to hear from him, but here she is too. You know, again, not some far right MAGA person or whatever like that. Not that that's even a fair characterization, but you get the point. Talking about the mythical Clinton surplus. Check this out. You served in the Clinton administration, which of course was the last administration, with the help of a Republican Congress to achieve this historic budget surplus. Okay, there was no Clinton surplus. So I'm going to make two points for you. It seemed contradictory here, but they aren't. The first one, a Democrat, Bill Clinton left office with unbelievable approval ratings despite a multitude of scandals. I'm telling you, because of his efforts to trim government, which led to a pretty decent growth rate while he was in office. Point number one, in other words, if Donald Trump does the same thing, we can steal some of those Democrat voters and carry that over hopefully into A Don Trump Jr. Eric Trump or J.D. vance presidency. Next. We can steal so many Democrat voters on the Spending issue. I know it sounds crazy but they used to run on this. And the second point I'm going to make is the Clinton surplus is a myth and I don't want you to fall for it. It is a yes. Government spending was much lower. No doubt about it. Newt Gingrich and Clinton did a decent job on that. There was never a surplus. I'm going to prove it to you coming up next because there's not a single topic out there that ticks me off more than people who make up the Clinton surplus. There's no such thing. If you actually understand how numbers work. He did not run a surplus. I'll get that quick. 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I cannot recommend this article in strong enough terms. I used to put this in the show notes four or five times a week. You want it, go to my newsletter, bongino.com newsletter sign up. It's free. It's going to be linked there. Just go today and do it and save this article. It's called the Myth of the Clinton Surplus. The article is from almost 20 years ago. It's by this guy, Craig Steiner. But it is worth your time. There was no Clinton surplus. You can read the whole article, but you don't need to. All you need to do is look at this data from the government itself. You will notice every single year of the Clinton presidency from 93 to 2000 that the government ran a deficit. 2812-812501-88113,130,017.9 billion. So if that's every single year of the Bill Clinton presidency. Excuse me. So if the government ran a deficit every year, a deficit means they didn't have enough money, which is the opposite of a surplus. Is anything I'm saying confusing to the libs? They got close in 2000 where they only ran a basically $18 billion deficit. There was never a surplus. So Dan Why do they keep talking about a surplus? Because of Social Security and Medicare funds that were basically stolen. Read the article. There was never a surplus. If there was a surplus, the freaking deficit would have gone down and would have been a surplus. No year of the Clinton presidency was there a surplus. There was a deficit every single time they were small. Good for them. It's not real. Don't fall for it. Don't be a sucker. Read this guy's article. However, they did do a decent job. 2000, they did almost balance the budget, which is insane. That's pretty good. We get back there, Donald Trump will leave office with 60% approval. Folks, the Dems gonna, they're gonna be permanently out to pasture if they continue to fight on this. You understand that lies and BS is the only thing they have to stop this gravy train they have to follow and keep the money trail going because they're getting rich off it. So what they're going to do is they're going to keep making up a litany of fake stories. You guys are the media now. You've gotten so good at debunking this stuff that they're not even focusing on yesterday's BS story. They're just moving on to another one, kind of throwing crap at a wall and seeing what sticks. Now you've got to be quick though. You got to clean it off quick and get moving. Here's what I mean. Here's disgraced vice presidential candidate for Hillary Clinton, Tim Kaine, Senator from Virginia. Guy's got his own issues. From what I heard. If you watch my story from a couple weeks ago, just making up a story completely about the Doge and classified information as if there's been some law broken or something like this. It's just a total fabrication. Check this out. Yesterday the DOGE guys post classified information on their website and they had to realize, oh, we didn't realize that agency was a classified agency. You shouldn't let people run rampage through offices that have classified information. Okay, he's just making that up, folks. He's making that up. Katie Miller, who knows all about this. This is a blatant lie, deliberate misinformation. The information on doge.gov is sourced from long standing public OPM data on their website. It's even annotated on the, on the DOGE website. This is why Americans don't trust the media, folks. They lie to you all the time. The lying has gotten so bad that now they've resorted to owning themselves in their own clips in an effort to Stop people like me, Mike Benz, Tucker and others, Shapiro, Levin from exposing what Elon's exposing in this doe. There's, there's a, there's this, this positive feedback loop now where we get this information and run with it every day that we never had before. Levin and I have been doing radio a long time. We don't have access to government systems. Finally, Donald Trump running the executive branch. Like, we're going to clean this up and show you what's under the rock. And it's all ugly. This is hilarious. This is one of the dopiest people in the media. This Brandy Zadrozny. She is the Taylor Lorenz of NBC. I mean, a woman who has made a career out of face planting. She seems to genuinely hate when conservatives best are on a story. So she doesn't like the fact that Mike Benz has 20 times the audience and is exposing this USAID thing. So this is a great one. She face plants in her own video. It's like, well, listen, Mike Benz claiming that media is like profiting off this. And then she goes on to show how the media is profiting on this in her own video. Check this out. Now, neither Musk nor Benz has offered any tangible evidence of the crimes they say USAID committed. And they didn't respond to my requests for comment. But a lot of their posts include misleading claims or outright falsehoods that can be easily debunked. Like accusations that USAID was funding news agencies like Politico. Government records show agencies across the federal government were actually paying for premium subscriptions. Did my folks in the chat here, am I missing something? They claim these companies are profiting from the federal government and they show evidence that these companies are profiting from the federal government. Now listen, last time I checked, I'm reasonably sure when you guys, I mean you guys are pretty deep into the business of bonginoin. Have you seen a flush of a fund, a slush fund, the money coming in from the government, from, you know, Dan Bongino, local subscriptions. If you say, because I haven't, I haven't seen. Yeah, we all wish. Yeah, be great if people were subscribing to our stuff. I don't want government. I don't want anything. I just want people. This is right, right? Yeah, like I said. Or the rubles coming in like, I mean, what is going on? Like we don't get any money from any of these people. But left wingers. Do you see how bad it is that Brandi who's so dumb she doesn't even realize she just self owned herself owned and face planted in her own video. These people make money by subscriptions. They're not selling gizmos or Ren and Stimpy dolls. They're selling new subscriptions which the government is buying. You just made his point in your own video. Did you miss that? Right? Yeah, it's true. These media people, even with the subs, still lose. That's how bad their product is. Folks, we are on the right side of this argument. It is a huge political winner and I told you that the lawfare was definitely going to backfire. The lawfare is going to cause two significant problems for the left. In other words, the constant litany of lawsuits. They're not listening to Carville, they are doubling down and it's going to cost them a ton of time and a ton of money in the courts. While it doesn't cost Donald Trump anything. Donald Trump is paid to sign executive orders, manage our military and execute on the executive branch. That's what he's paid to do. That's why you never relinquish power. You relinquish. I hear this all the time from conservatives. Maybe we lead to news and election badly and people wake up. Maybe not. That is a really, really dumb idea if you. But you never relinquish power because power you get paid to enact the power you've been constitutionally delegated with. The left doesn't get paid to do that. They are wasting a ton of money and time on lawsuits. Not only are they wasting a ton of money on time and time factor number two is they are going to lose a lot of these lawsuits and there's going to be legal precedent for the. Well, there already is. It's called the Constitution. But in our broken court system, it's going to be reestablished. Here's what I mean. This was outnumbered yesterday during the show. During the show, another big L for the left on the Doge. Check this out. A federal judge has just declined to issue an order halting Elon Musk and Doge from accessing federal data and slashing personnel. Folks, I told you, don't freak out over the lawsuits. I wish we did not have a weaponized judicial system where left wing groups and NGOs work with liberal judges and forum shop to attack us using a judicial branch acting as a legislative and executive branch. I wish that weren't the case, but that's not the world we live in, ladies and gentlemen. I live in the realpolitik world. The world we live in. Systems break all the Time we fix them by keeping Republicans in power and nominating judges that actually do judicial work and, and follow their Article 3 responsibilities. That's how we win. I'm a game plan guy. I'm a spreadsheets guy. I want a freaking game plan. I don't want to hear about emotions all the time. Oh, this sucks. I know it sucks. A lot of things suck. How do we fix it sucks? You make an error at shortstop and throw the ball away. You still got to feel the next ground ball and get the guy out. I'm glad we've been ahead of this stuff, all of us. And you guys are starting to sense it, too, that the left is really imploding here to the point where their own political analysts, guys like Carville, are starting to warn them this is not working out as intended. We have to stay focused, though. And another thing we spoke about over the last few weeks is don't get sucked into this social media vortex of overreacting to everything Donald Trump does, because you're going to find yourself getting kicked in the jimmy a lot. Because not everything Donald Trump does is supposed to be taken at its face. I don't want to say that. Don't take him seriously. Don't take him literally, because sometimes you should. But it's more the crazy man theory of politics that nobody knows what Donald Trump is going to do. And that's actually a tactical benefit. Here's what I mean. The Trump Doctrine is starting to make sense. Now. The Trump Doctrine is this especially on foreign policy, although it applies domestically, too. But this is a foreign policy segment. It's important. This involves NATO, so pay attention. This is super important. Take a maximalist position, a position you know you're not going to get. Make Canada the 51st state. You know we need to annex Greenland. Take a maximalist position of 100. Sorry if you've heard this before, but it's important. No one else has even taken a zero position in the past, but they're willing to accept the 10 position. The 10 position is an enhanced military. Let's use Greenland. Maybe we need to enhance our military cooperation with Greenland and our ISR surveillance capabilities on Greenland. That's maybe a 10. Donald Trump goes to 100. Let's annex Greenland, make it to 51st state or a US territory. Donald Trump likely has 10 on his mind anyway. Not 100, but he knows if he says 10, it's largely going to be ignored. So he takes a maximalist position. And it looks like he's a dealmaker. If he gets 10 and he looks like he was willing to cooperate. And look, he dialed it down. It's a genius thing. I'd sum this up better by the Donald Trump Doctrine is in foreign policy. Fix it or Daddy's going to fix it for you. Middle East, Gaza, Greenland. Fix it or big daddy's coming in. That's kind of the Trump Doctrine. You're getting it. It happened again. We called it. He did the exact same thing with Naito. Naito's been, Folks, let's be candid. They're screwing around. Naito is not doing what they should be doing. They keep talking about the Russia threat in Ukraine, which is obviously real. The Ukrainians are living it every day. But the Russian, Ukrainian issue is a continental issue across an ocean from us. Not that we're not interested or it doesn't involve us. It does, but it's right in their backyard. And Naito is already flip flopping some of the NATO countries, Germany included, on military spending. So Donald Trump comes out and says, okay, we're going to negotiate with the Russians on a peace deal. And by the way, Europe, you're not even at the table. So what happened here is the Naito chief. Was it Michael root on Martha MacCallum show yesterday? You would think he would come out, right? If you believe, if you're one of the suckers who don't understand the Trump Doctrine, you would. What's that, Mark Root? You. Excuse me. You would think he would come out and say double middle finger to Donald Trump. How dare you condemn us like that. That's, that's not exactly what happened. Check this out. We've seen some of these headlines coming out from leaders from Poland basically saying that they understand that the situation is very different now. Europe absolutely must step up to the table in terms of expenditures. What is your take on these talks between the United States and Russia and Europe being excluded? Well, this meeting was really very successful. What you see today, we had General Kellogg, President Trump's special representative at NATO this morning with the ambassadors. And now he had this meeting here in Paris with many European leaders. And really Europe is now stepping up. Last week I was a bit disappointed that Europeans were saying, hey, we also have to be at the table and why are we not there? And, and they are now really starting to dialogue to strategize how they can support the peace effort. And that is important because we know that post a peace deal there will be the needs to make the peace deal lasting, enduring, and that means we need security guarantee. Can you guys screenshot the Kyron from that. Naito, in case you're listening on Apple or Spotify and missing the visuals this was on, obviously fox, it's Martha MacCallum. Naito allies agree to bump up spending. How many times are these left wing media lunatics going to fall in this trap with the Trump Doctrine? Fix it or Big Daddy's going to fix it for you. Either you guys start protecting your own continent, regional geographic area and we'll support you in that effort. And a satellite or secondary role. We're not going to put our own troops underground, but we're not doing anything until you clean up the free speech situation. There it is. NATO allies agree to step up in defense and you actually support your own military. Liberal lunatics who hate Trump out there. Can you please explain to me what he said there, Donald Trump, that was in any way out of line and tell me what you disagree with the response. You don't want NATO to spend more? Folks, we've fallen into this rut of politics and I've seen it a thousand times. Republicans and Democrats both do it where the left wing media obviously has an agenda. I want to beat the media up to death after the same because they got a lot more to get to here. But a Republican in the past takes a position we need to fix Social Security. It's broken. They know what they're saying is true. The media responds and the left responds with some ad of grandma getting rolled off the cliff. And the Republicans, even though they knew it was going to happen, backed down anyway instead of going out doing the responsible thing and making the case to the American public. Donald Trump, I told you I supported him precisely because he was in his second term. People, a lot of people hit me. A lot of people who supported Nikki Haley and others. Danny's going to be a lame duck. This is a lame duck. If this is a lame duck, give me more lame duckery. He's not a lame duck at all. He's a guy who has run out of Fs to give. He doesn't care what the media says. He is engaging in maximalist Trump doctrine politicking and it's working. Fix it now or Big Daddy's coming in to fix it for you and you ain't going to like it. And shocker, Naito I agrees to spend more money. Folks, this has caused a total meltdown by these idiots on the other side. They don't know what to do. The endless litany of fake news, misinformation and disinformation has them grasping just seconds after A tragedy for talking points. So hysterically stupid. You, you wonder how these people like Margaret Brennan and others are seriously kept on the air. It happened again yesterday. It was a really awful plane crash up in Toronto, which was awful no matter where it happens, of course. But for the lefties listening, that is not in the United States. I'm not sure they're aware of that. They thought because they had a baseball team, the Blue Jays. It was in the United States. It is not. Michael checked. Yes, he's correct. It is in Canada. That is not the United States. Donald Trump may make it there, want to make it that, but it is not right now. It is still a separate country. It is not an FAA country that. Well, they may follow it. You get the point. The Federal Aviation Administration is a US Entity. So plane crashes. Within minutes of this thing happening, media people start to go nuts. Here is NBC's Tom Costello really demanding why? I should say showing you why. However much you can't stand the media, it's not enough. He manages to blame the United States and Donald Trump. It's insane. This is what they've resorted to. Check this out.