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April 14, 2023 - The Dan Bongino Show
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Are We Being Told The Whole Story About Those “Leaks”? (Ep. 1991) - 04/14/2023
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Thank you.
You remember Braveheart?
Most of you have seen that movie.
I've seen it probably four or five times, start to finish.
Remember?
Hold!
Hold!
Remember?
With the spears and the horses.
If you haven't seen it, see it.
It's a really good movie.
I'm going to hold on this story.
I'm going to hold until I draw any conclusions about the leaker or suspected leaker or alleged leaker.
Everyone is innocent until proven guilty, correct?
I'm not sure I'm ready to dive into the pool yet.
And I'm going to tell you why, because as someone said in the chat, thank you all for joining the 11 a.m.
chat.
I appreciate it.
Dan always brings the receipts.
Yes, I do.
I'm not going to bore you with a bunch of useless speculation without producing some receipts as to why I'm speculating that we may want to hold.
Not suggesting there's some grand conspiracy here or the individual arrested and nothing to do with it.
I'm just saying there's something awfully suspicious about this thing and how it just snap crackle popped.
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All right, Joseph, it's Friday, so let's go, Daddy-O. It's Friday!
I try to lip sync sometimes, but I never know how long you're going to hold that.
So I have to wrap it up a little prematurely.
I'll follow you next time.
So you saw, you know, everybody's seen Braveheart.
Hold!
Everybody should just hold.
I want to be clear here, because you know I don't get out over my skis and get crazy time or stuff, anything like that.
But...
Don't you think this story is awfully suspicious about the suspected leaker of these documents?
21-year-old kid pops out in gym shorts like, oh, we got him!
And then coincidentally, folks, or maybe not coincidentally, right afterwards, after the Restrict Act goes down in flames, which is a government vehicle to enable the Biden administration to censor basically everything you do online, That goes down in flames the other day.
And Joe, it's so weird.
This guy reappears with these leaked documents appear online.
And then all of a sudden, the media and the Biden administration are like, you see, we definitely need to be censoring stuff online.
I'm just saying I feel like I'm getting played.
I feel like I'm getting played.
But to get played, you have to agree to get played and not ask any questions.
Which, as you know, I ask a lot of questions.
So let's just start with this one.
You guys remember this show?
Joe's probably cut this poor clip at least a thousand times.
Maybe it's in his evergreen file.
I don't know.
Remember this gem from Chuck Schumer?
Chuck Schumer showed Rachel Maddow this a long time ago when Donald Trump was taking on the intelligence community.
The intelligence community obviously at the heart of this leak.
Oh my gosh, catastrophic leak.
Look at this kid.
He got all this stuff.
It's so crazy.
Wow.
Schumer told Rachel Maddow, hey man, don't mess with the intel community.
They'll get back at you quite a few different ways.
Take a listen yourself.
You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.
So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he's being really dumb to do this.
What do you think the intelligence community would do if they were moving to?
I don't know, but from what I am told, they are very upset with how he has treated them.
They're very upset.
Are they upset about something now, too?
Because it seems like an awfully coincidental tie-up.
All these documents got out there that may change the course of our activity with Ukraine involvement and other allies.
Was someone in the intelligence community angry?
I don't know.
So we're told they arrested the leaker yesterday.
The suspect is Jack Teixeira.
He is supposedly a low-level, low-ranking member, I should say.
More precise.
Member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard.
Wow.
Got access to all that stuff?
That's so weird.
I was a Secret Service agent with TSSCI clearance.
I didn't have access to any of that stuff.
What was he doing over there?
Well, listen.
Let me just say up front here, I hope it's true.
I hope it's true.
I hope everyone else in the show does as well, that they got the guy and plugged the leak.
I mean, I don't want our secrets out there.
It could get people killed.
You know, I just think it's really sad.
I have to hope that we're being told the right story.
Now, why would I say that?
Because it's just kind of weird that Republican and Democrat members of Congress seem obsessed with censoring what happens online.
And the alleged leak happened in a Discord chat room, which is an online mechanism for people to talk and they can game with each other and that kind of thing.
If you haven't heard of Discord, it's very simple.
It's what it is.
It's like an old, like for those best born in the 80s, party phones used to call in the party line.
Everybody talked to you at Discord.
It's a fancier version of that.
So the documents were on Discord.
And I find it unbelievably convenient that the administration's pushing the Restrict Act.
They say you're using it to target TikTok, but it's really strange because it allows an unprecedented amount of government interference into digital speech.
And the Restrict Act is flailing now and losing support because people like me and Tucker and others exposed that the Restrict Act Maybe about a little more than restricting TikTok and maybe about restricting you, even outside of TikTok, and I mean conservatives.
So that's flailing.
The Restrict Act, Joe, it's a plane, right?
And they thought it was taken off.
They're like, TikTok, man, we got them.
Everybody, everybody don't like TikTok.
Plane's taken off.
And then all of a sudden, people start talking about what's in the Restrict Act and...
You see, this is the advantage of social media.
Before social media, you could pass something like the Restrict Act, and if you didn't read about it in the New York Times or Wall Street Journal, it didn't happen.
Now with social media, people like me can snip it out and go, hey, did you see this section 2.3 sub A, sub 265?
It says that the Secretary of Commerce can do this.
Now FIRE, which supports free speech, has covered this.
In their piece, the Restrict Act's vague and overbroad language is a threat to the free and open internet.
The bill would grant the Secretary of Commerce enormous power to regulate transactions with foreign technology companies?
I don't know about you folks, but I trust foreign technology companies before I trust the Secretary of Commerce.
That sounds hard to hear.
It should.
So this thing's going down in flames.
So hold that thought for a minute about the Restrict Act going down in flames, and all of a sudden we get a guy who's alleged to have posted secret documents in a chat room, and now the government's like, man, we really need to regulate those chat rooms.
And media people are like, yeah, man, yeah.
Media people who are supposed to support the free flow of information.
So, so, so strange.
So the Restrict Act, they were pushing it to basically ban you from social media.
Conservatives, this was a perfect vehicle to do it, to empower the Secretary of Commerce.
Yeah, man, go for it, right?
And one of the stipulations in there is they had to prove some connection to a foreign adversary, right?
The Restrict Act.
So this is so strange because a couple days ago, April 7th, it's now what, April 14th?
I don't even know, I lose track of time.
About a week ago, when the leak was discovered, this is so strange, this Reuters article popped.
Man, again, look at the date, April 7th.
Russia is likely behind U.S. military document lead, U.S. officials say.
Now, Guy, Joe, can I ask you guys a question?
It's not a trick.
Foreign adversary, Russia, maybe, kind of, sort of?
Oh, yeah, they don't, yeah, bad guys.
Okay, good, just checking.
I want to make sure I'm not crazy.
Now, it's really strange that the U.S. intel community went out and reached out to Reuters.
Reuters, journalism folks, here we go.
And they said, quote, Russia or pro-Russian elements are likely behind the leak of several classified military documents posted on social media that offer a partial month-old snapshot of the war in Ukraine.
Three U.S. officials told Reuters on Friday...
Thank you.
Thank you.
Joe, he says it sounds oddly familiar.
Yeah.
Sounds like just about every other intel-derived hoax we've heard about in the last 10 years.
We're getting worked.
You are...
It certainly sounds like it.
It's how everything, sir.
Donald Trump is in a pee-pee tape in Russia.
Three U.S. officials told him.
Oh, they did.
Benghazi was due to a video.
Three U.S. officials told us.
Really?
Hunter Biden's laptop is Russian.
Three U.S. officials told us.
Now, listen, in my line of work in law enforcement, and you guys were not in law enforcement, but feel free to answer the question because you're very smart.
You get a source who comes into the police station all the time.
And everything he tells you is fake.
Hey, CeeLo on the corner slinging crack.
You go and you watch CeeLo for three, four days.
The guy's headed to his job at UPS. Don't look like he's slinging crack to me.
Okay, wasted my time.
And then you find out he just had a beef with CeeLo.
Then he comes in the next day.
He goes, hey, hey, Tommy there on the corner.
He's slinging coke to these high-end Wall Street guys.
Then you follow him and you find that he's got a beef with Tommy and he's not slinging coke at all.
He's an ice cream salesman.
Then he comes in and goes, hey, you see Cynthia on the corner?
Yeah, yeah.
Cynthia's dealing guns.
Then you find out he's got a beef with Cynthia, and Cynthia works at the local post office.
Now, I'm just asking, when he comes in again with information about Guy and Joe, you going to believe it?
It may be true.
It may be true.
He may say Guy likes Star Wars.
That is, in fact, true.
He may say Joe Diggs' dog.
That's really true.
What's the dog's name, Joe?
Joe loves Kit.
Kit's a good dog.
The point I'm saying is, you're going to be skeptical, right?
Because everything they've told you before is fake.
Not the media.
Not suckers out there on the left.
They're like, we got him!
We got him!
You do?
Let's go through a few stories here, some headlines.
These are other things we were told by the Intel community.
Fox News, September 2016. Blamed for Benghazi, filmmaker jailed after attack, now lives in poverty and fear.
Remember that guy?
After the Benghazi terror attack, remember that?
Oh, it was a guy with the video.
Put him in jail.
Nothing to do with anything.
Nothing to do with anything.
It was a terror attack on the special mission complex.
The dude in the video had absolutely nothing to do with it.
Did it stop them from putting him in jail?
Cuffs?
Cuff-a-roos?
Nah.
So, forgive me, I'm going to do actual journalism, although I hate the word because it means nothing anymore because actual journalists have destroyed it, but I'm going to do real journalism, old school style, and I'm going to wait.
Hold!
Hold!
This is the ultimate application of the Bongino rule.
Let's go to some other things we were told were true, and everybody reported it.
Senate panel backs intelligence agencies on Russia-Trump conclusions.
Who's it?
Reuters.
2018, baby.
So not only did the intel community tell us there was collusion, Joe, the Senate intel committee backed them up.
Nothing to see here, folks.
They got the guy, Jack DeScheron.
It's all good.
Oh, Discord.
Ban everything online.
Remember this, Jim?
This wasn't three, fellas.
This was 51, 5-1 for the liberals watching.
This was 51 intel officials, I mean at the highest levels of government, who told us what?
That Hunter laptop story, totally Russian disinformation.
Despite the fact we had...
Wait, do we have it here?
It's time to whip this thing out.
Pervs, get your...
Oh, here it is!
Here it is!
We have the actual receipt signed by Hunter, dropped off by Hunter.
I keep it in my desk.
We had the receipt.
And yet what happened?
Didn't matter.
51 very serious intel officials.
Probably the same one who told Reuters that the leak was Russian disinformation.
Or the leak was from Russia.
This recent one, I'm sorry.
51 very serious people told us a completely BS made up garbage story.
We were supposed to believe that too.
Eight.
Eight.
Signaled Heil Hitler.
And nobody's talking about this.
Nobody's talking about it because you're a freaking moron, Figazi.
Some of you will get that.
The P1s know exactly what that's about.
Probably chat room people know exactly what that's about.
Here's another one.
Why they went after Trump for so long.
New York Times.
Bob Draper.
Unwanted truce inside Trump's battle with the U.S. intelligence agencies.
Now let's tie this thing together here, okay?
Put a little bow on this.
Not a big, like, rapping guy around Christmas.
I'd rather give it to you in a bag.
Throw some stuff in there, whatever.
Hey, look.
I don't rap stuff.
But let's wrap this up, okay?
So this is awfully convenient timing.
There's a leak in a Discord chat room of some documents.
The Intel community and Cabinet and the Biden administration are clearly looking for an excuse to spy on Americans online.
The leak is discovered in Discord.
A guy is conveniently locked up.
Look, we got him!
21-year-old!
Oh my gosh.
And then, as if on cue, after intelligence communities lied to us over and over and over again, I'm just suggesting, could they be lying to us again?
I don't know.
Maybe, maybe not.
Maybe this thing is as simple as a 21-year-old who got his jollies leaking some documents.
Maybe it is.
I'm just telling you, when a source lies to you multiple times, I'm a little skeptical, and I get even more skeptical when I see this.
Here's a little video.
Hat tip Glenn Greenwald.
Greenwald has a show on Rumble.
It is excellent.
I think it airs at 7 p.m.
Eastern time at night.
Glenn Greenwald system update.
Glenn Greenwald, who does actual journalism, he's like, this is really weird.
They've got this leak of these documents showing pretty conclusively that we're being lied to about the status of the Ukraine war, that the Russians are doing far better than we believe, which is a problem.
Which is a real problem because they're not saying that.
So if U.S. citizens are going to make a decision about our tax dollars and bodies about potentially World War III, Joe, I think we should at least know what's going on.
I'm not suggesting we should get super classified briefings every day, but you should at least be honest.
Hey, the war's not going that well.
That gives us an opportunity to say, okay, it's time to pull back or it's time to double down, correct?
Don't lie to us.
Don't bull us, okay?
Okay.
So all of a sudden this pops, you would think the media would be fascinated.
Oh my gosh, guys, you've been lying about Ukraine.
No, the media is pushing the Pentagon at this briefing yesterday.
Hey, listen, shouldn't we be monitoring what's going on in these chat rooms?
Shouldn't we be shutting this information down?
This is the Pravda Media at its finest right here.
It's a little supercut of the questions from the media.
They don't want the information.
Take a listen yourself.
General Ryder, you say that there are strict protocols in place, and yet a 21-year-old airman was able to access some of the nation's top secrets.
How did this happen, and isn't this a massive security breach?
What is your message to anyone who might be thinking of leaking these kind of documents in the future?
Can you tell us, are there less people who have access to this type of information today than there were a week ago?
To follow on that, these documents were available long before April 5th and 6th.
So what took so long for DOD and the intelligence communities to locate these documents?
Are you going to release this airman's service record?
What technologies is the Pentagon applying right now to both spot leaked documents online and track potential indicators of leaking type practices?
Do you plan to be investing in more?
Given the gravity of the situation, are you actively paring down the distribution list now?
Is this a process that's moving quickly?
Or is it going to take time for there to be meaningful substantive changes to the distribution?
And then is DOD or has DOD taken additional measures to restrict the access to classified information of others in the Massachusetts Air National Guard?
Sort of as a follow-on to Carla and Brandy's questions, can you say whether DOD has anyone looking at chat rooms on Discord, for example, or other social media platforms right now for leaked information?
And if not, should DOD have these people?
Husky Mom says in the chat room, something's not right here.
We never met Husky Mom, but...
Don't you find this awfully convenient too?
Guy, did I not send this to you right before we came up on the air here?
Look at this.
And this pops.
Exclusive from NBC News, the Biden administration is looking at expanding how it monitors social media sites and chat rooms.
After U.S. intelligence failed to realize classified Pentagon documents circulated for weeks, officials briefed on the matter say.
Wow, that's really convenient.
So let's just tie this together here, because it seems quite suspicious.
Swampy Republicans and Democrats are pushing the Restrict Act so they can spy on you online.
But they need allegedly some connection to a foreign adversary to do it.
Then they leak to Reuters that there's a really devastating leak of intelligence that tells the truth about the status of the war in Ukraine.
They leak it to Reuters and say the Russians did it, which would fit the definition of a foreign adversary.
And then all of a sudden, the media people start calling for more censorship and spying on chat rooms and other things where you can go and speak freely.
And then all of a sudden, the Biden administration gets the cue and goes, we really need to be doubling down on a reference to spy on these chat rooms.
I don't know.
I don't know, folks.
I don't know.
I'm really sorry that these media people are so willing to take the first version of events when they have been lied to about Benghazi, Russian collusion, the laptop, about Trump.
I'm not willing to accept that.
I'm not telling you this kid didn't have something to do with it.
I'm not even telling you that this kid isn't the primary guy here.
I'm just telling you the intelligence community has lied to us over and over and over again.
I'm holding on this story until I get a firm set of facts from people I actually trust that indicate to me that this is the full and complete story because it doesn't sound like it to me.
Doesn't sound like it to me.
Alright, I got an election update.
The pros and the cons is the Santa's Trump fight getting hot.
Got a whole bunch of stuff including a stunning interview with the White House stenographer under Biden who's basically admitting Biden's a criminal.
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Again, I'm holding on this story and here's another reason.
The intel community told us as well that there was nothing to see here with the whole Biden Inc.
scandal.
That the laptop was Russian disinformation.
51 of them went on the record, ruined their entire reputations.
Well, actually, they enhanced their reputations with the left because they lied for them.
But among sane people, the reputations are now tarnished forever.
They signed their name to a letter that was obvious bull saying that Hunter Biden's laptop wasn't his.
This is what apparently they were hiding.
Now, this interview is a little strange.
I only cut about a minute of it here, or Joe did, but it's the White House stenographer.
The White House stenographer is apparently on this trip with Biden.
He notices something very funny.
When the stenographer comes in, and they'll basically record and transcribe official meetings with upper-level White House Executive Office of the President officials.
I've seen these guys before, right?
This guy is willing to go on the record and testify on the road that Biden's a criminal.
And what he's saying here is Biden's son is working for a Ukrainian gas company where hydrofracking would benefit them, right?
That's where you frack for natural gas, how you make money.
And it's a little weird, but basically what he's trying to say is Was Biden making money off this deal by pushing the Ukrainians into this energy space while his son was profiting from the very same energy company?
Take a listen yourself.
So, Mike, what went down on that trip that you're aware of?
Thanks for having me on, Jesse.
Well, what happened on that trip was Joe Biden was in the front of the plane.
My job as a White House sonographer was to be in the back of the plane in the press cabin.
And if Joe or a senior administration official came back and did a briefing, then I would record it and make a transcript.
Well, that's exactly what happened.
That senior administration official was Jake Sullivan, who's now our national security advisor.
So I didn't see anything wrong with it at the time.
Years go by.
I've left the White House.
I'm writing books.
And I get a hold of the Hunter Biden laptop from Marco Polo.
They're a non-profit, anti-corruption non-profit.
About a year and a half ago, I started writing a sub-stack based on what I find.
And then I go back over what I knew happened when I was working for Joe.
I found the transcript that I wrote about that briefing.
That's when Jake Sullivan starts talking about fracking.
And because of what I'd read in a laptop and reported in my substack previously, I'm like, wait a minute.
Joe Biden knew Hunter Biden was already on the board on April 18th.
Joe Biden knew.
He directed Sullivan to go back and talk to the press.
This is a conspiracy.
This is a crime.
He's not equivocating at all.
And I want to beat this thing to death, but it's now clear as day that everybody who's been around Joe Biden, Tony Bobulinski, the business partners, it appears other sources on the inside, Jim Comer says, have surfaced.
The White House stenographer.
Everybody knew Biden was a criminal, was engaged in potential criminal activity.
And they're now coming.
It's his allegation.
You just heard his words.
He was there.
This is what the intel community is hiding.
And that's why I don't trust what's going on here.
That's why I don't trust what's going on with this leaker.
I don't trust the story at all.
I don't trust in one bit.
It's someone with an axe to grind who had some different position on the Ukraine war.
I don't know.
But this story got wrapped up way too conveniently, just like the other one.
And all these people in the press, oh, you're promoting conspiracy theories.
Listen, I'm not promoting anything.
I'm doing your freaking job for you, you imbeciles.
You've been led and you've told us this bull over and over and over again about Benghazi and all this other crap.
And you got burned, not me.
I'm not telling you this isn't the kid.
There'll be a court of law proceeding where we'll figure that out, where people will be under oath.
I'm telling you, I accept nothing at first pass anymore because you guys in the intel community have lied to us over and over.
And none of you should accept it either.
Alright, it's time for an election update.
Haven't done this in a while.
You know, I promised you here, whatever candidate you support, Trump, DeSantis, Haley, Tim Scott, appears like he's going to jump in as an exploratory committee.
Vivek Ramaswamy's in the race.
Everybody's going to get a voice here, I promise.
I owe that to you.
You all know where I stand.
I'm the Trump guy.
We get that.
I mean, it's fairly obvious at this point.
It's been for a while.
But everybody deserves their voice on this one, okay?
And I want everyone to feel at home.
So we're going to do kind of a quick update, election update, pros and cons, because this is going to be the most important election of our lifetime.
You said that last time.
Yes!
And last time I meant it too.
The Miami Herald is a joke.
It's a clown sight for morons.
This makes the New York Times look like conservative review, the Miami Herald.
But the premise of this piece isn't exactly wrong.
So we're going to start with some of the cons first.
For both DeSantis and Trump, and I hope this helps both sides to tighten things up.
Folks, he's waiting too long.
If Ron DeSantis is serious about jumping in this race, he's got to make a decision soon.
He's got to announce some kind of exploratory committee.
I get it.
There's a session going on.
He's the governor of Florida.
I totally understand.
But here's the problem.
Miami Herald, what are you waiting for?
DeSantis 2024 supporters worry he's launching too late.
Folks, the history of...
Joe, you and I have been doing this for a while, right?
Just in the eight years Joe and I have been together.
How many Republican governors who were the next big thing didn't even make it to Iowa?
Paul Enti, Scott Walker, Chris Christie, or made it and just flamed it.
I mean, we could go on and on and on.
The list of, like, next big thing guys who turn...
Here's the problem with waiting, too.
I ran for office.
How I met Joe, I ran for office.
I went up to do an interview at his radio station.
Folks, the longer you wait, volunteers and activists get antsy, and they start signing up for different campaigns.
I saw it.
That's why when I ran for Congress, and that's the one race we almost won, almost horseshoes and hand grenades, I get it.
I got in first, right out of the chute, I campaigned for like a year and a half.
The minute the old congressional race was over, I got in a new one.
Because I wanted all the volunteers and I wanted all the money.
Now, there's a downside.
The longer the campaign's up and running, the longer you've got to pay for it.
But DeSantis never had a hard time raising money, so that's a non-issue.
He doesn't have a name ID problem either.
He needs to start locking up donors and activists, and if he waits against Trump, Trump is a unique threat in a primary.
Nobody has moose nuts like this guy in a primary.
Nobody.
He is the apex predator.
You may not like his style, but the ads down here, have you seen them, Guy, about DeSantis, are running, how many times they run a day on Fox?
A hundred?
It's all day, folks.
It's all day on Fox.
Like Adrian Peterson, the running back.
All day.
DeSantis did this, DeSantis did that.
It's all day.
There's only so much political capital you can hemorrhage from your bank account.
And I'm not talking about money.
And the thing with Trump is he is the apex predator.
He is not going to stop.
If this guy's going to get in, he better get in soon.
Do you remember this?
You know, Libs laughed.
They thought this was hilarious.
When I said this after the first debate with Joe Biden, when everybody said Trump lost, and I said, no, he didn't lose at all.
He's the apex predator.
Here, take a listen.
So Trump is an apex predator.
He's the Lion King.
Trump went out there tonight and did what Trump does.
I... Everybody laughed.
What an idiot.
Trump is the apex predator.
He exposed Biden.
It wasn't the greatest debate, but it was Trump.
It was Trumpian.
And it didn't hurt Trump like everybody on the left swore it did.
Folks, if Ron DeSantis is going to get in, he's got to make a move fast.
Because I'm telling you with politics, what do we talk about all the time here, fellas?
The Big Mo.
The Big Mo is a very real thing.
It stands for momentum.
And once you lose that momentum, man, and your balls get cut off, it is impossible to get him back.
Ask Paul Enti.
Ask Chris Christie.
Ask Scott Walker.
Don't do it soon.
So that's the cons.
We'll get to some pros for both of them in a second, too.
I want to talk about Trump in a second, because he's got to clean something up as well.
They need to clean this up.
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Okay, I want to focus now on, we're doing the cons first, because I want to help out.
I want a place here for everyone.
The Trump team's got to clean this thing up with Social Security.
They're running ads attacking DeSantis from the left, not from the right, which is strange, because there's a primary.
There's going to be a primary.
It's just very strange.
I mean, think about it, right?
If I'm running against Guy in a Republican primary, I'm going to advertise myself as the strongest Republican.
Right?
And it's weird.
Trump is running ads from the left down here in Florida saying, well, DeSantis voted to cut your Social Security.
He had slightly exaggerated.
That's not exactly what happened.
But, you know, the journal, David McIntosh wrote this piece of journal.
He's not exactly wrong.
And it's something I've spoken about in this show many times outside of the perspective of the campaign.
So no one's going to tell me, oh, Dan, you never addressed this before.
No, no.
Yeah, no, no.
The Biden-Trump plan to cut Social Security.
And he notes correctly so that doing nothing with Social Security is a plan.
It's a plan to cut Social Security.
Folks, that's just a fact.
You can read this piece yourself.
McIntosh, regardless of your feelings about him, McIntosh isn't lying.
These Social Security actuaries have already said if we do nothing, there will be an automatic 23% cut in 10 years.
Well, Dan, they'll just take it from the general fund.
No, actually they won't unless they pass legislation because they're prohibited from doing that.
So it's not exactly accurate.
So I really think they need to clean that up.
Now, he can introduce a plan, and I think he should, Trump, to say, listen, people who are 55 and older, you guys and ladies, you designed your life around this program.
Here's how we're going to fix it.
That's the smart thing to do.
But in a Republican primary, where voters really care about economic issues and limited government, attacking DeSantis from the left in Florida, I'm not sure that's the best advice.
I think it's just honestly bad advice.
Well, where are you getting that?
That voters want limited government.
I'm getting it from voters.
Wall Street Journal opinion.
U.S. voters want limited government.
Contrary to common belief, economic policy is an electoral strength for the Republican Party.
They note that despite a few short dips around economic crises, the number of people preferring a smaller government over a larger one ranges from 5 to 28 percentage points.
In 2021, independents reported the same preference by 19 points.
The Trump team's got to be careful that the DeSantis team doesn't ice him out in a limited government fight.
This is still a primary first.
Again, it's going to be a home for everybody here.
Now let's do some good stuff, the pros, for both of them.
DeSantis has had a really good run down here in Florida.
This last...
I live down here, so, you know, there's a lot of people getting paid by campaigns to tell you stuff about both guys.
DeSantis people getting paid to tell you about Trump.
Trump people get...
It's just part of campaigning.
It's fine.
It's just part of the business, right?
You want friends?
Get a freaking dog, okay?
Joe, you've been in this game a long time.
Politics is ugly.
People turn on each other.
It turns people into animals.
It really does.
I ignore most of that.
I'm telling you straight here, I've been down here.
No one's going to tell me what the Florida economic miracle is or isn't because I've lived it.
I've been down here eight years and I came from a blue state where Joe lives, sadly.
We'll talk about that on the other day.
Report.
Florida was tops for economic performance over the past decade.
Yeah, it's number one.
People, it's, Florida is, folks, the home values down here, the businesses, now there are downsides.
There's been a lot more traffic than I've seen since I moved here.
But if you're looking to work in Florida and you're manual labor or even high-end, you're in like high-end kind of service spaces too, There's just almost endless pools of money down here in Florida.
We just passed a six-week abortion ban, too.
Do we have that video?
Did I tell you guys about that one?
The one with them causing an insurrection on the floor?
We do have it, okay.
This happened as well yesterday.
This is the good news for DeSantis.
Economic miracle.
Also, I'm a major pro-life advocate.
Now we have a major, densely populated, extremely important state that just passed a ban on abortion at six weeks.
And of course, liberals lost their mind, engaged in another insurrection on the House floor.
Did you see this video?
Check this out.
Members will proceed to vote.
Have all members voted.
The clerk will lock the machine and record the vote.
35 yeas.
Show the amendment fails.
Members, we will take a short recess, 10 minutes, and then we'll charge it.
Would you please secure the chamber and remove the gallery?
So we got another insurrection.
It's like, Oprah, you get an insurrection, Tennessee.
You get an insurrection.
Everybody's getting an insurrection now.
I'm going to give you some stunning numbers, too, next.
But just in the chat, there are a couple Floridians in there.
One of them said, yeah, no kidding.
If you're an HVAC technician down here in Florida, because it's hot all the time, there's an endless amount of work for you.
There's probably a thousand companies in this county, and they're all making money.
I mean, Florida's been a real miracle.
And I credit a lot of what DeSantis and Rick Scott did too.
It wasn't just DeSantis.
Let's be honest about it.
Now, here's something that I think benefits Trump.
But I got to tell you, I think DeSantis gets a lot of credit and he deserves some of it.
But I think a lot of this is Trump.
These numbers are shocking.
This is from interactive polls.
It's a tweet.
Look at this number.
Guy's like, dude, this can't be real.
It's real.
There's a link right there.
In 2018, not that long ago, folks.
We're talking about five years ago, okay?
The Democrats, yes, the Democrats in Florida, held a voter registration edge of 263,000 people.
That's a decent sum of people.
More registered Democrats than Republicans.
I was here.
I was in Florida.
By 2020, it was Democrats plus 97,000.
Now you're seeing the Trump effect, right?
Right?
December 2021, the GOP takes the lead by 43,000.
By April of 2023, this month, the GOP has a voter registration edge of 454,918 people for a net change of 718,000.
Listen, that is extraordinary.
You're talking about a dipsy-do flipperoo of voter registration like I've never seen.
A lot has to do with DeSantis, but I'm telling you, a lot of that is from DeSantis' policies and people moving in.
But, don't accept any political narratives that tell you otherwise.
It's probably people getting paid.
That advantage isn't from everybody moving in.
It's partially.
But that 718,000 flip, folks, Trump flipped an unbelievable amount of Hispanic South Florida voters over to the GOP. He just did.
DeSantis got a lot of black voters to flip on the school choice issue, but an insane amount of people flipped their registration over to vote for Trump.
It isn't just all people moving in.
Those are the pros.
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I mean, you cut the clip, but I don't know if you're listening.
Sometimes you got headphones on or maybe, you know, feeding a dog or something.
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Biden wants to start licking things now, which is...
Joe, I'm not...
Am I making...
I'm not making this up.
So this is the pros section.
I just gave you the Trump-DeSantis pros.
The pros is they're going to be running against this guy, who apparently wants to start licking now, which I'm not good with that.
I'm not good with that.
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Check this out.
- That is not the video.
It's the other one.
Play the other one.
There's nothing our nations can't achieve if we do it together.
I really mean it.
So thank you all.
God bless you all.
Let's go.
Let's go lick the world.
Let's get it done.
Okay, he wants to lick the world.
I'm not down with that.
He should go back to sniffing.
It's equally gross, but I don't want his saliva on him.
I don't know what he was going to say because the weird thing, Joe, you listen to it.
The weird thing is he says he was probably going to say, I want to light the world.
Let's go light the world or something.
But he changes from light to lick, not from lick to light.
In other words, he corrects himself in the wrong direction.
Cue up that other one because I want to...
So here's it again.
Here's this because it's not going to play well on audio, but for the folks watching on Rumble.
Here's Biden.
This is the Irish, the speaker over there.
He has to kind of vector Biden in the right direction because he's constantly lost.
Now, I told you, having been an agent, this is really unusual for these guys to get lost like this all the time.
The guy's always lost.
Here, take a look.
Another program.
I think I was just right in front of you.
The guy never knows where he's going, man.
The guy never knows where he's going.
It is the weirdest thing.
They give him, like, footprints.
Hey, here's where you're going.
And he never knows.
It's because he's cognitively impaired.
And by the way, who's ever elected better shut this down in the military stat.
This is what the Navy, apparently, I saw this on Rubio's feed, is putting out in their feed.
Listen, we've got Russia and China threatening nuclear war right now.
I really don't want to hear about your division sexual identity politics thing.
This went out on the Navy's feed.
Take a look at this.
I was able to deploy on the USS Gerald R. Ford last fall.
And the coolest thing I did on board was to be able to participate in a LGBTQ spoken word night.
And I was able to read a poem that I wrote to the whole ship.
And that was probably the culmination of the whole deployment.
That's the coolest thing you did on board?
You know what?
The coolest thing you're doing on board should be learning how to kill the enemy at sea.
Call me crazy.
All right, I'm going to get to questions in a second, but I just want to go over it just fast.
The biggest phony in the house, the biggest phony in the AOC. No, no, there's an even bigger phony.
It's just Ro Khanna.
Ro Khanna is the biggest fake and fraud ever.
Don't expose this guy.
He's a Democrat.
I'm really getting sick of this guy's drill.
Here, play the video.
Here's Ro Khanna who says, you know, we got to get senator, Democratic senator from California, Dianne Feinstein, out.
She's too old.
He's attacking his fellow Democrat.
And whenever Ro Khanna says something, you always have to ask why, because there's always an agenda.
Check this out.
Why are you asking Dianne Feinstein to resign?
First of all, let me just say this.
I have an enormous amount of respect for Senator Dianne Feinstein.
She has had an extraordinary career in public service.
She's been an icon on issues of gun violence and women's rights.
But it has become painfully obvious to many of us in California that she is no longer able to fulfill her duties.
She doesn't have a clear return date.
We haven't been able to confirm judges at a time where women's rights and voting rights are under assault.
Okay, no one's voting rights are under assault, you dunce.
Oh, and then we find out from Kim Strassel, this is awfully convenient, Joe, that Ro Khanna That Gavin Newsom, the governor who will make an appointment if Einstein steps down, has vowed to appoint a black woman.
Oh, and Ro Khanna happens to be co-chairman of House Rep, a black woman.
Barbara Lee's campaign for the seat.
Oh, that's interesting.
Ro Khanna, maybe he's kissing Gavin Newsom's ass for a potential POTUS run.
Does he already have some cabinet seat lined up?
Here's phony Ro Khanna, too.
Remember after January 6th, Ro Khanna thought it would be cool to attack Parler because he didn't like that Parler hosted a free speech platform at the time?
Here he is.
Parler is hosted by Amazon Web Services.
Amazon should deny Parler services until January 21st unless they commit to removing all posts related to incitement of violence.
Notice, he didn't care about him.
It's just Parler he went after because he's Ro Khanna and he's a total fake.
And here's the same Ro Khanna, December of just a few months back.
Twitter's duty to protect free speech.
Censorship 100 story may have helped my party, but it was bad for our democracy.
Cut the crap, dude.
Just cut the crap.
The routine is so pathetic.
Road commie.
Totally.
Totally.
Huge, enormous fraud.
By the way, now I'm really worried about central bank digital currencies.
Paul Krugman says it's a conspiracy theory.
Did you guys see this?
He's like, are you guys worried about the government monitoring what you do with your money?
It's a conspiracy theory.
He says it's a right-wing thing for a while and the theories are getting crazier.
Now I'm really worried, folks.
Here's Paul Krugman.
Here's the top five things Krugman's been wrong about.
Denied the recession.
Convinced the Euros about to die.
Krugman's Trump era predictions.
He thinks Argentina's an economic success story.
And he thinks that this internet thing isn't really going anywhere.
Good job, Krugman.
Now I'm really concerned.
Jim Cramer record, right?
Jim Cramer tweeted something out about Boeing yesterday.
Everybody's like, you're knocking on a Boeing plane today.
Did you see that?
All right.
It's time for questions for Dan.
We're back at the radio show afterwards.
Firing it up.
Hey Dan, how do you get through the very real depression of these times?
I'm a Christian, so I pray a lot, but finding peace for even a moment is difficult.
Show me to the mall.
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Listen, I did a locals video before I came on the air today.
And the answer is, I don't sometimes.
I'm having a really rough couple weeks, if you really want to know.
I thoroughly enjoy being here.
I always promised you I would never fake it.
Emotionally or physically, if I couldn't do the show, I'm not gonna do it.
But I've been going through a lot.
I can't really talk about why.
It's not that I never hide anything from you.
It's just for...
If you're not given permission to share stuff, it's disrespectful to do it, right?
We all agree.
Paula's telling me something about her personal life.
I've got to share it with you, and it doesn't work that way.
But I've been going through a lot, and sometimes it's hard.
But when I really, really need to chill out, I definitely go on a bit of a slight digital detox, and I just put the phone away for a little while.
That helps a lot.
This thing can sometimes be a curse.
Hey Dan, at Freddie MO, how is it possible the FBI has not caught the January 6th pipe bomber?
I don't think they want to catch the January 6th pipe bomber.
I really don't.
I've already told you there's no way they don't have surveillance footage of him getting out of a car or something else.
There's no way.
I don't think they want to catch him.
That opens up a whole other can of worms.
Julie Kelly's got great stuff on that.
At BobcatBruno, hey Dan, but all the talk about Bud, I was wondering what your adult beverage of choice is.
Listen, if I got to turn in my man card, it's okay.
I drank tequila forever.
I used to talk about it all the time.
I love Casa Dragones.
I drank a lot of Don Julio.
I like tequila straight.
I don't put any fancy margaritas, all that crap, but whatever.
I don't need the sugar.
I just drink it with a rock in it.
That's it.
But it was giving me brutal hangovers.
I mean, ruin the whole weekend.
And, you know, you go out Saturday night, you don't want to be in church hungover.
It's just disrespectfully.
You look like a slob.
So I started drinking wine at Cabs.
I like Opus.
I like Caymus, too.
Caymus is pretty good.
I just try never to drink that Cab of Newsom.
But I like wine at Cabs a lot.
And I find if I have a glass of water before I go to bed, as long as I don't, you know, overdo it, that I can enjoy it and not wake up the next day and be a total train wreck.
So, uh, That's my alcohol choice.
Hey Dan, at LEB3, even if we shut AI down in America, what's to prevent other countries like China from developing it while we're on pause, allowing them to destroy us?
Yeah, exactly.
Don't put a question mark at the end of that.
That's a statement.
That's what has me concerned.
That's exactly what has me concerned.
That even if we shut this thing down tomorrow, and by the way, Unfiltered, my show tomorrow night, I have an entire monologue on this, and I have this An actual expert, not like a Tom Nichols expert.
Some of you will get that joke.
An actual expert coming on to tell you how dangerous this stuff is.
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Power of Titus.
I worked in a prison, Dan.
Currently a jail.
I'm disheartened with the drug use and the young.
They're destroying their lives.
Any idea on how to help the community besides locking them up?
This is a very sensitive topic with me.
I've spoken about it with Joe a lot.
Joe's a friend.
It's been a problem with people in my family.
And I find that once they go down that road, folks, there's almost sadly nothing you can say.
You can love them and you should love them.
You should.
But you just have to know that They have to hit that bottom on their own.
They just do.
It's not just one example either of this.
I can tell you about a hundred.
Friends, friends of friends, people I knew from the gym, family members, close family members, once they're down that path, there's nothing you can do.
You gotta let them hit the bottom.
But the best way to stop it is to intercept them early and speak to them early and often about the dangers of these chemicals in their body.
I talk to my daughter.
Even my daughter drinks energy drinks.
I tell her, why are you drinking that?
You're burning out your adrenal glands.
Dad, I don't care.
I'm going to tell them the truth.
That way, if they make dumb decisions, they can make them on their own.
At Sika57.
Hey, last one.
Oh, thanks.
Hey, Dan, with the government trying to go digital, is there an alternate currency we could go to?
If the government goes digital, folks, there's no way to go alternate currency.
What are you going to do?
They would make, essentially, if the government goes digital, I suspect that they would somehow find a way to ban crypto.
Now, crypto is not distributed through one server, so there's no way to take it away from you.
The problem is, at some point, there's got to be an intersection point.
If you're not doing a point-to-point transaction with someone personally, where the crypto, you're going to want to go buy something.
And if it's a tax-regulated enterprise with a tax ID, there's going to be no way for you to use it.
That's why I'm so worried about central bank digital currencies.
And that Paul Krugman injected himself in the debate makes me even more concerned.
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