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July 16, 2024 - The Dan Bongino Show
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Shocking New Details About The Assassination Plot (Ep. 2287) - 07/16/2024
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Thank you.
Dan Bongino.
Okay, what has two thumbs and doesn't waste your time?
This guy.
Get ready.
I don't waste your time here.
Everything I told you yesterday is now out in the public.
So as usual, you're usually about six months ahead of the news cycle.
Now you're about 24 hours because it's moving so fast and fast.
I told you yesterday, and oh, breaking news!
They spotted this shooter 26 minutes out.
It's not breaking.
They just refused to listen to me yesterday.
Michael's shaking his head yes when inside sources told me they found the shooter 26 minutes before and still let President Trump walk on stage.
Why was he on the stage?
Another banger of a show today for all the wrong reasons.
Again, one of these shows I wish I wasn't doing, but I have to.
Tons of questions.
Oh, and by the way, the Secret Service director said, don't worry, we didn't put someone on the roof because it could have created a dangerous situation.
Like what?
Someone getting shot in the head?
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Let's get this party started.
Unfortunately, it's not a party.
Folks, it just keeps getting worse.
Only in government can an apocalyptic failure like this that nearly resulted in the death of a future president and would have changed world history in a potential like Archduke Ferdinand type moment, hopefully absent the world war, but could have altered history.
Only in government does nobody take the blame.
Nobody's responsible for Nobody resigns, and nobody's fired.
I mean, imagine running a Fortune 500 company that produces the most popular widget in the world.
I don't know, the freaking Pet Rock or something, and you run out of rocks.
It kind of defeats the purpose of you having a freaking business.
Nobody's taking any responsibility for this.
It's superficial responsibility.
Oh yeah, man, the buck stops for me.
I'll play this cut for you in a minute, the Secret Service director.
The buck stops.
So resign!
You failed!
You freaking failed!
You blew it!
Key, put that 11 News article up first.
Folks, I told you this yesterday.
Again, you can continue to watch these mainstream outlets and be 24 hours behind.
I don't mean to sound like a dick.
You guys are here with me every day.
I'm just saying.
I'm crossing 100,000 already.
We're only five minutes in.
Thank you all for being here.
You want to get ahead of the news?
I've got the sources specifically on this thing.
We've had this stuff for days.
Alleged Trump shooter spotted by law enforcement nearly 30 minutes before the shots are fired, sources say, Folks, I just did my good friend Mike Gallagher's show downstairs on Radio Row.
It's right out the window here to my right.
We're in a special Rumble studio here.
Thank you to Chris.
And thank you, Rumble team.
You did an amazing job.
You all are awesome.
We love Rumble.
However, the question here is, As I've said before and I said on Gallagher's show, if you spotted the shooter 26 minutes, say 20 minutes, why was President Trump on the stage?
You've got a suspicious person who could be a lethal threat.
Why are you putting a man out knee open within sniper range with an unsecured high ground with no visual obstacle?
Can anyone provide for me an explanation, please?
Guy, cue up the news report.
Here's a local news report.
Again, breaking news after we told you this yesterday.
If the media would listen to us, the story would have already been out already, but they don't.
They listen to their own bullshit.
Listen to this and give me some kind of sane explanation as to how this was allowed to happen and why President Trump was allowed on the stage.
Check this out.
We are learning, and this is pretty big according to some of the latest reporting coming out on this.
Several law enforcement officials are telling the AP that a local officer actually encountered the shooting suspect on the top of that building.
That he's accused of shooting from climbed up onto the roof.
This was after being flagged down by people, bystanders, who saw that suspect climb up there.
And that officer apparently went up onto the roof and the suspect pointed his rifle at the officer and that officer reportedly retreated, giving the suspect the opportunity to shoot his rifle at former President Trump.
So that is one of the big things.
Why was he on the stage?
Why was he on the stage?
Everybody knew this was going on.
Nobody thought to evacuate the president?
Former president, soon to be president?
You get the point.
I don't need to keep correcting that.
Why was he on the stage?
Let me let you in on a little Secret Service lingo.
Again, nothing I'm telling you is classified.
You all in the military, anyone in military or SWAT or policing on this has heard of this before?
EP, executive protection?
What is the golden rule of a threat, of a persistent threat to life and limb?
You get the protectee off the X. What's the X? It's the spot they're standing where they're exposed.
Get them off the X, cover him, and evacuate.
Why was he on the stage?
Get him off the X. Get him off the X. Everyone out there needs to be posting this repeatedly over and over again.
Why was he on the X? Why?
Anyone in the chat have an explanation outside of incompetence?
Listen, there are a bunch of people telling me, Dan, you're missing the evidence.
I only say what I know.
I will never fucking bullshit you ever.
I'm telling you right now, Occam's razor, the incompetence here is freaking stunning.
Secret Service director came out, and the Daily Mail's covering it now, and now said that they didn't have an element posted on that roof because it may have been dangerous.
Okay, let me ask you another question, Secret Service.
You're the freaking director.
I assume you've done this before?
Ladies and gentlemen, if you have a line of sight problem, folks in the chat, Jim, if this doesn't make sense as the audience ombudsman, producer Jim sitting in my lap, in the chat, if you don't get this, please tell me.
If there is a line of sight issue you can't solve, say you have a tower or a pole where it's going to be impossible to stage someone, but someone could crawl up that pole with a gun and shoot the president, okay?
Or the protectee.
Anyone know what you would do?
You would block the line of sight.
Let me give you an example of something I did because I did this shit for a living for 12 years.
Ever hear that Aaron Neville song?
I don't know much.
Is that him?
I don't know much, but I know this.
I went to Hofstra University once, a site for Hillary Clinton when she was the first lady.
We didn't have enough assets to block line of sight.
She was giving a speech and there were some windows pointed to a dormitory tower.
So you know what I did?
Because we block line of sight if we can't stop a shooter from getting in an elevated position, we can at least stop them from seeing what they're shooting.
You know that fake snow?
You ever see fake snow, Jim?
I said, can you guys go out and get some fake snow?
And I had them spray the fake snow all over the windows so the shooter couldn't at least see what they were trying to shoot at because it was the best we could do.
Was anything done to block the line of sight?
Did anybody say, hey, that's an elevated position 130 yards away.
They could take out President Trump.
Okay, we can't get someone up there.
Can we at least block the line of sight?
Why is no one asking these questions?
I'm volunteering myself up on Capitol Hill.
It cost me $5, probably less, pre-Joe Biden inflation, to have Hofstra go out and get some fake snow on the freaking windows.
Here's failed director who should have resigned and still, I mean, zero human dignity at all.
Here she is saying, hey, the buck stops with me, but I'm not stepping down.
So the buck doesn't stop with you.
You're clearly passing the bucks.
Check this out.
Who is most responsible for this happening?
What I would say is that the Secret Service is responsible for the protection of the former president.
So the buck stops with you?
The buck stops with me.
I am the Director of the Secret Service.
It was unacceptable, and it's something that shouldn't happen again.
The President and Homeland Security Secretary said today they had 100% confidence in you, but there are some members of Congress calling on you to resign.
I appreciate the Secretary's comments, and we're going to continue to be transparent and communicate with people.
Do you plan to stay on, absolutely?
I do plan to stay on.
Is this for real?
Jim, am I crazy?
Yeah, I mean, that's kind of a big question.
Well, in relation to this specifically, let's go micro.
Macro, that was probably a bad...
Everyone in the studio at the same time was like, eh, probably not the best question.
With regards to this, the buck doesn't stop with you if you don't actually do anything.
Yeah, I totally failed, nearly got President Trump killed, but yeah, I'm just going to continue to do the same failed job I did before.
Oh, okay.
Folks, is there any other entity on planet Earth?
Sports, entertainment, Fortune 500 companies, midsize companies, small companies.
Is there any other entity on Earth where this type of apocalyptic failure would not only be tolerated, but you still have people out there in the media going, I've got to praise the job they did.
Praise what, man?
You're giving these people cover for a failed mission that will fail again.
And mark my words, there will be some other attempt at some point, and you'll all be looking at me going, I should have listened to episode, whatever today's number is, where Dan said, hey, you know what?
You want to change failure, change the people instituting the failure.
And they're not doing it.
Nobody has resigned over this.
No one.
I have an important message now, too.
This is directed at the people who know.
The people who know about the fights to get more assets for President Trump.
The people who know about his elevated threat level.
The people who know that the security footprint wasn't adequate to keep this man alive and safe.
I'm asking you as a friend, as a former colleague.
Life is calling, man.
It's time to pick up the phone.
Big people do big things.
Small people do small things.
The courageous are going to speak out.
I don't want to hear lectures about, oh, my pension and my...
I resigned and walked away from my job, and there was no guarantee anything was ever going to come out of it because I believed in something bigger, so you can spare me the lectures.
You'll probably get whistleblower protection.
Go get yourself a lawyer and speak out now.
You're running out of time.
Life's calling, man.
Pick up the phone.
I asked a bunch of open questions yesterday.
There are still no answers to.
Shockingly, no one has spoken out yet.
It's now been a couple of days.
It is time to speak up.
You are running out of time.
There are going to be massive changes coming up.
If this government changes hands, as I hope it does from this tyrant in charge now to President Trump, and somebody's going to have to answer, so you damn well better speak up now.
There's still no answer to two biggest questions.
Where was the aerial surveillance plan?
So I asked, I'm going to add a third question.
There are three questions, let me get them out of the way up front.
Number one, we asked in the beginning, I want every member of Congress, I'm asking you, please, please, as an ally here, every member of Congress, Democrats too, because Joe Biden could be next if they don't do the right thing and clean this shit up.
Why was President Trump on the X? Why was he on stage at all?
Question two, where was the aerial surveillance plan?
Why is no one asking this question?
Media people, you interviewed Kim Cheadle yesterday.
Why was there not a drone, a helicopter, infrared, thermal?
Is anyone listening to this?
It's not like I have any subject matter expertise on this, right?
Or you want to continue to rely on your experience from J School, journalism school.
Why weren't there sufficient Secret Service poststanders at the site?
Why were you relying on other DHS agents rather than specifically trained Secret Service agents at the site to protect the guy with the biggest threat profile you have?
Can anyone explain it?
If those three questions, if members of Congress, send them to your members of Congress, I need you, Bongino Army, right now.
If those three questions aren't answered, you will never get resolution to this at all, and this will happen again.
Of course, again, it's government.
Nobody's taking responsibility for anything, and not only are they not taking responsibility, they are lying.
Here is this human abomination, Alejandro Mayorkas, the DHS secretary.
Why does he matter?
I know you know this.
Forgive me for sounding a little redundant here if I may have said it multiple times, but the DHS oversees the Secret Service.
We used to be in the Treasury Department.
We were moved to the Department of Homeland Security.
Alejandro Mayorkas, it would be the big boss.
The guy's obviously failed at the border and everywhere else, but he's also in charge of the Secret Service.
Here's Alejandro Mayorkas lying to your face that there have been repeated requests for enhanced security around President Trump and Mar-a-Lago and that he's pretending they were not rebuffed.
I'm telling you for a fact, media people, don't get on the wrong side of this.
This man is lying.
And to those people who know, it is time for you to speak up.
You are running out of time to do the right thing.
Life's calling.
Pick the phone up.
Big people do big things.
This man's a small person doing a small thing, and he is absolutely lying here.
Check this out.
You also received a letter from the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee that suggests your department may have, quote, rebuffed multiple requests from President Trump's security detail to increase protective resources.
How do you respond to that?
That is an unequivocally false assertion.
We keep very close watch on a very dynamic threat environment.
The president, the former president, are commonly, consistently under threat.
We take every single threat seriously.
We make security adjustments as are warranted.
We had enhanced security for the former president beginning at least in June.
We have not received any requests for additional security measures that were rebuffed.
That assertion is unequivocally false.
Dear media people watching my show today, I know there's a lot of you.
I am begging you.
You're not friends.
We will never be allies.
Most of you hate America.
I get it.
I am telling you this is a lie.
And if people would just speak up, life is calling.
You would know from the horse's mouth that is not true.
And I'm not sure what's worse.
Jim, what's worse?
That requests for enhanced security measures around President Trump were not granted, and he was subsequently almost killed?
Or that they were granted, and this is the best you could do with the technology, and he's almost killed.
Which one's worse?
He's going to go, I'm going to go with number, he may be right!
So, I'm like this, I'm like, eh!
Either he's a liar or Alejandro Mayorkas is right.
Jim, you're right.
I think number two is worse.
And this is the best you could do and the best technology you have.
And he still almost got killed by a 20-year-old rookie sniper 130 yards away and nobody noticed him or noticed him and did nothing about it.
Gee, who never says anything, goes, uh, it's not great.
That's a lot.
That's a lot for Gee.
That's a lot.
That's like the Gettysburg Address for Guy.
This is the best you could do.
You're on the record with that.
I just played the cut, folks.
The show's not going anywhere.
That's now going to live in infamy.
This is the best we could do.
He's lying.
It's not the best they could do.
The former is actually what happened, not the latter.
He is lying.
There have been repeated requests for this.
Enhance security.
Let me take a quick break and I'll get back to the show.
I got a lot more ahead, including, this is important.
How the hell do we fix this?
Because we got to keep this guy alive, folks.
It's not a third world republic.
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So folks...
Because I never want to be accused by the patriots in this audience who are interested in keeping this government functioning, and we're not going to work like a third world republic and let our people get killed, and we sure as shit aren't going to let Donald Trump get killed out there.
How the hell do we fix this?
Because if we don't, it will happen again.
Because passing the buck isn't doing an interview going, I'm in charge.
Oh yeah, you're going to resign?
No, I'm not going to resign.
Oh, and by the way, this is the best we could do, Alejandro Mayorkas.
Step number one, you want to change the Secret Service?
Hey Jim, does the President of the United States' height and weight change based on the sex composition of his detail, male or female?
It does not, Jim says.
President Trump's a rather large man.
He's a big guy.
I'm 6'1", 200 pounds, maybe 197. I don't know.
President Trump is a lot bigger than me.
When President Trump grabs you for the handshake and pulls you in, he feels like a college wrestler sometimes.
He's a big guy.
He's heavier than me.
I don't know what his weight is.
I haven't asked him recently, but I can tell you he's heavier than I am.
He's also bigger.
Can I just ask a common sense question here?
If the President of the United States, or any protectee for that matter, if their height and weight do not change, then why are the physical fitness standards different for men and for women?
Anyone in the chat have an idea?
Oh, because we believe in DEI bullshit if we're a bunch of lefties that are running our government right now.
Why do fitness standards change?
Folks, I don't care what your sex, religion, creed, whatever it is.
If you can't lift and evacuate the President of the United States and use force to protect him, you may be required to kill someone to protect the President of the United States.
I hope that never happens, but that may happen one day.
If you cannot perform these firearm and physical fitness functions, then get the hell off the job!
Get off the job!
Has anyone ever wondered why the G.I. Jane story only exists in movies?
These physical disparities are real.
Can they be overcome?
I don't know.
But you're going to have to show us in a physical fitness test.
I would change this immediately.
There is one standard.
Because there's one protectee.
If a female agent, or a male agent for that matter, it doesn't matter to me, cannot lift the president and evacuate them, they cannot do the basic job functions.
Imagine hiring someone to develop a website who has zero website experience.
What are you relying on?
Goodwill?
Here's Corrine Jean-Pierre.
Asked a very basic question.
Oh, you know, there's a bunch of people out there.
Of course, the media question is always slanted.
Complaining about female agents.
No one's complaining about female agents.
They're complaining about agents who can't do the job who happen to be female.
That's a totally different story.
I have already told you.
I work the Secret Service.
There is a valuable role for female protection agents.
Oh, what are you, virtue signaling?
What are you, a moron?
No.
Practically speaking, we have female protectees.
They go into bathrooms, they go into places where other females obviously are going to fit in different.
There is a role there.
But you have to be able to perform the job.
Here's phony, fake, pathetic Karine Jean-Pierre bullshitting this reporter and saying, this is all about DEI crap.
Check this out.
Yeah, Karine Jean-Pierre.
Have the tragic events of this weekend shifted the president's sense of urgency or position on gun control legislation?
And then secondly, there's been a lot of right-wing chatter about the female agents guarding the former president, specifically whether women are up the job.
People are noting that they're smaller, that they weren't able to cover the president.
But I mean, this is a talking point that is circulating.
So what's your response?
That's ridiculous.
To your second question, obviously, it's ridiculous.
It's ridiculous, folks.
You understand she's gonna get her boss killed with this stuff.
President Biden is a Secret Service protectee, obviously.
They don't care.
They are not interested at all in even keeping their own people alive.
They're interested in DEI over everything.
Step one, how do we fix this?
One physical fitness standard, period.
Not one for females and one for males.
Let me let you in on a little secret you may not know.
You ready?
Yes.
There are bonuses awarded to field office supervisors, special agents in charge in the field, who go out and recruit based on quotas, not merit.
Listen to what I just said.
They are given bonuses, they are cash incentivized to go and hire on quotas, not on merit, for one of the most important jobs in the federal government, keeping our people alive.
The next director, this woman should be fired immediately if President Trump wins.
Immediately.
The next director needs to come in there, scrap this old PT garbage standard, and scrap all this DEI garbage.
Here's another step to fix the Secret Service.
Media people, feel free to report on this.
It's not like I have some subject matter expertise or anything.
Security assets should never be allocated according to title.
That he is a former president doesn't matter.
There is nothing in 18 U.S.C. 3056 that gives the Secret Service the power to do what they do.
There is nothing in there that says former agents should get less protection.
Go read it.
Nothing.
Your threat...
The threat assessment dictates the amount of bodies you're going to apply to the problem.
Look at President Trump last night when he rolled out on the floor.
Did you see that phalanx of secret service agents out there?
What, the threat assessment changed overnight?
I got news for you.
It didn't.
It's been high the whole time.
Now you find people?
What changed?
What changed is you got embarrassed.
President Trump should have a full presidential package.
I've only been calling for this, like, forever.
I'm going to take a quick break and I'm going to get to this RFK thing too.
Because now RFK all of a sudden has a detail.
What?
RFK's threat assessment changed overnight?
Folks, what I'm getting at is the reduced security package for President Trump and the lack of security for RFK was a political decision, not a security one.
Fact.
I'll get to that in a second.
We'll be right back to the show.
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Did the threat level against RFK running for president obviously change overnight?
We called for presidential protection for RFK how long ago, Jim?
Six months ago?
RFK is a more than viable candidate.
Is he going to win?
Is he going to beat President Trump?
I highly doubt it.
However, he's polling in double digits and is a more than viable presidential candidate.
He's actually got a better chance of winning right now probably than Joe Biden.
Why does he not have secret service protection?
I don't support RFK, but I'm not an asshole.
And I don't make my security decisions based on politics.
And it's not like, Jim, wasn't his dad?
Something happened to his dad, right?
Oh, he was assassinated.
I didn't even know that.
I just learned that today on the show.
Here, all of a sudden, folks, randomly.
It's like the threat matrix changed overnight.
Here's Mayorkas again.
Oh, yeah, now we're going to give protection to RFK. Six months ahead of the news cycle.
Check this out.
In light of this weekend's events, the President has directed me to work with the Secret Service to provide protection to Robert Kennedy Jr. Say it, but verify it.
Receipts matter, right?
It was almost a year ago that we called for RFK to get Secret Service protection.
Now all of a sudden, keep in mind, I am not getting an inside briefing on the threat matrix and assessment against RFK. I just know from doing this that his threat level is probably mid to high.
That's why we called for it.
Now all of a sudden the guy who is getting the briefings comes around to our position and Folks, this is all a joke.
It's all sick, disgusting politics.
Here's another major fix the Secret Service needs to institute tomorrow.
PT tests, scrap DEI, security assets allocated based on threat, not on titles.
They have to merge the special operations division.
I don't know if you know this, but the emergency response team on the White House grounds, our SWAT team, they can only be uniformed division officers.
Why?
Why is that?
Our counter-assault team, that element you saw on stage with the black BDUs when President Trump got shot.
Those guys can only be agents.
Why?
There's more than enough qualified uniformed division officers.
What?
That's an artificial distinction.
Why?
Did you know canine units can only be uniformed division officers?
Why?
No one in the Secret Service will give you one single sound reason.
We had an agent in my class who was a marine sniper.
Why the hell can't he be a countersniper guy?
The answer is because it's the freaking government and they can't do a cranial rectal reverse inversion.
That's why.
Counter-sniper guys are only uniform division.
Insane.
What's that?
Why can't a cranial rectotomy happen?
Why?
Also, the Secret Service, they have no...
Why are they still doing investigations?
All of this bullshit I hear, even from friends.
Oh, it makes you a better protection agent.
They are...
I did them both.
They are two completely different skill sets.
The only thing the Secret Service should be investigating are threat levels.
That is it.
There is no reason for them to be doing this.
So, Byron, uh, Biden, uh, that was, that was the worst Freudian slip ever.
I was trying to say tyrant and Biden, and it came out Byron.
I think we should put that on his shirt.
The Byron spoke out last night.
He gave another pathetic, disgusting interview, and he was asked first, for the first time in forever, President Trump almost has to get killed before the media asks a freaking question.
Hey, what about all this violent rhetoric you've been using, like putting a bullseye on the president?
Watch him stumble through the whole thing because they're the source of the violent rhetoric, not us.
Check this out.
You called your opponent an existential threat on a call a week ago.
You said it's time to put Trump in the bullseye.
There's some dispute about the context, but I think you appreciate I didn't say crosshairs.
I was talking about focus on.
Look, the truth of the matter was, what I guess I was talking about at the time was, there was very little focus on Trump's agenda.
Yeah, the term is bullseye.
It was a mistake to use the word.
I didn't say crosshairs.
I meant bullseye.
I meant focus on him.
Focus on what he's doing.
Now, I just want you to understand, this will all be let go by the end of the week, and the media, again, will be calling Trump a Hitler, Nazi, fascist.
There'll be articles written, what if the shooter didn't miss?
Guaranteed.
Guaranteed.
However, the media now, trying to preserve some sliver of dignity they don't have, has decided, let's ask him one tough question and move on.
Remember when Sarah Palin, they had that map with the crosshairs over districts?
Remember that?
That actually turned into a lawsuit.
That went on forever.
Biden says let's put a bullseye on Trump.
He subsequently gets shot and he gets a free, oh yeah, yeah, oh no, I didn't mean it.
I meant like focus on.
Oh, okay.
See if you're given the same deference by the media if you were to say the same thing.
Good luck.
Want to see the craziest media response I've seen yet?
Here is the absolutely hapless Joy Reid, the gold medal winner in the dopey media talking head Olympics.
I'm sorry, but I think she should be gold medal winner emeritus or something.
She should never, ever be taken from that spot ever.
Hall of Fame.
We're establishing today, for the first time, the Hall of Fame.
In the Dopey Media Talking Head Olympics, and our first nominee, how many we got here from the staff?
Folks in the chat, yes, Joy Reid should be our first plaque on the Hall of Fame for media morons.
Yes, why yes and no?
Guy, yes?
Yes or no, Guy?
Michael?
Jim?
I'd take Teresa, but I'm mad at her she doesn't get a vote.
Paula?
Yes?
Evita?
It's unanimous!
Folks in the chat, yes!
Yes!
But Gino, if it's anything over 50%, she is our first one.
I am sure we're good.
Mike's chiming in remotely.
He is a yes.
I'm sorry, Mike.
All right, Guy, get the cut ready.
Here is Joy Reid saying, this is really terrible, but it's going to allow President Trump to be the victim.
Allow?
You have to?
What?
Check this out.
The greatest purveyor and promoter of political violence, really, you know, since anyone can remember, since George Wallace, I think, you know, that we just haven't experienced that kind of open, you know, sort of silence.
It's just not something we're used to anymore in American politics.
And then we had to get used to that being a thing.
And people are concerned and expressing concern that we won't be the guardians of memory.
And that we will allow Donald Trump, as he is bathed in the glory and grandeur of his party, to rewrite himself as both a hero and a victim.
Oh my gosh!
Is this woman a lunatic?
He was just shot in the face.
It hit his ear.
He came within a millimeter of having his head blown off on live TV. And this absolute dipshit, who I'm sure everyone has disavowed any knowledge of knowing this loser at all who's not a crazy liberal, right?
It's like, well, it's going to allow him to paint himself as a victim.
By the way, that was unanimous.
Jim says the Hall of Fame, I think it's 75%.
Joy Reid, congratulations.
Everyone, a round of applause.
Rumble!
Round of applause for Joy Reid, please.
Yes, everyone.
Thank you to the Rumble staff.
Joy Reid, our first.
Joy, if you want to prepare an acceptance speech for the Hall of Fame.
Gee, will we run it on the show, Jim?
Can we do that?
We will run it on the show.
Joy, we're putting out the...
If everyone wants to tweet to Joy, please prepare an acceptance speech as the dopiest media talking head we've ever heard in our life.
What's that?
Oh, you guys want to see the Rumble room?
Yeah, we'll give you a little sneak peek behind the scenes.
Flip on over there.
Everyone wave hello.
Rumble team, say hello to the audience.
We got 200,000 people watching you right now.
This is a great crew.
We love you guys.
Was Gerald in here before?
Gerald was here before, right, from Crowder?
So we saw him running around.
If he comes back, we'll say hello to him.
So thank you, Rumble.
We appreciate everything you guys are doing.
It's awesome.
Glad you guys got there.
Everybody's clapping.
Alright, I don't want to forget this because it was more big news yesterday.
Obviously, I'm going to stay focused all week on this really important story, which is President Trump nearly died.
We've got to keep this guy alive.
I'm not going to let that go.
I hope you understand that.
However, it's not the only thing going on.
The news cycle in this country rolls fast.
And it was a huge announcement yesterday.
You guys in the chat who are my P1s, I'm going to ask you a serious question right now.
It's a little kind of interactive show element here.
Can you guys read my winky winky nod nods?
You know what I mean?
Have you guys learned to read my language when I can...
Say something without saying something.
Okay, you get the point.
I don't need to say any more.
J.D. Vance was selected yesterday as Donald Trump's running mate.
I am extremely happy with that selection.
I thought he was the best pick.
Other people had different ideas.
That's okay.
That's what makes the conservative movement great.
We believe in actual free speech, the God-given right to speak out and have an opinion.
Some people had a different one.
I strongly supported the selection of J.D. Vance.
I'm glad you guys read my Wiki nods.
You're always ahead of the news cycle here.
Here was Donald Trump's post on truth.
You probably read it, not going to read the whole thing, but he did it at about noon or so.
Maybe after, I don't know.
But it came out yesterday.
And remember, ladies and gentlemen, with the VP pick, I strongly support J.D. and always have.
I want that on the record, period.
However, for those of you who didn't and thought another pick was better, this is our ticket now, and we have an existential threat to the United States, and we're going to run with this ticket.
But I just want you to remember one thing.
The golden rule with a vice presidential pick in selection, the platinum rule, is do no harm.
Nobody, I'm sorry, but nobody votes for the vice president.
No one.
They're voting for Donald Trump.
The pick, you can't do any harm with the pick.
Okay?
I believe J.D. Vance is, I don't believe it's true, he's young, He's energetic.
And nobody is able to speak to the middle class better than JD. His book, Hillbilly Elegy, will change your life if you read it.
It's about the hollowing out of middle America.
Even liberals liked the damn book because they were like, wow, the middle class is getting screwed over.
Nobody talks the language of the middle class better than JD Vance.
And ladies and gentlemen, we need that.
He is going to live in Pennsylvania for the next few months.
Because he understands that entire area and what happened to it.
Another positive.
He's a fantastic debater.
He is a master debater.
You need to pause.
If you say that fast, you'll see why.
He is definitely a master debater.
He understands serial box messaging better than any other of the VP candidates.
People only understand sound bites and snapshots.
That's why the picture of President Trump is going to go down as one of the most iconic pictures in political history.
Snapshots and sound bites.
Nobody gets the sound bite better than JD. He's great on TV and he understands it.
He's one of the few guys in politics who changed my mind on a subject.
He did a podcast about the hollowing out of America and China and the WTO and trade with China.
He's one of the few guys that ever changed my position.
Here's a quick one-minute clip.
Some of JD. He's not a big yeller and a screamer, and that's okay.
Obviously, I am.
We got a bit of different styles there.
But that's okay.
Here's about a minute.
Hot tip, the Daily Caller, of some of JD's most viral moments from the past.
Check this out.
The thing the media and Congressman Ryan, they talk about this all the time.
The thing they never mentioned is that poor girl was raped by an illegal alien.
Somebody that should have never been in this state in the first place.
When the media and people like Tim Ryan accused me of engaging in the Great Replacement Theory, I'll take exactly...
You were peddling it.
I'll tell you exactly what happens, Tim.
What happens is that my own children, my biracial children, get attacked by scumbags online and in person because you are so desperate for political power that you'll accuse me, the father of three beautiful biracial babies, of engaging in racism.
We are sick of it.
You can believe in a border without being a racist.
You can believe in the country without being a racist.
And this just shows how desperate this guy is for political power.
I think it takes a special amount of gall to be from Joe Biden's political party and to complain about the fentanyl crisis that is ravaging not just Ohio but the entire country because it is Joe Biden's border policies that have invited this fentanyl into our country at record levels.
Again, folks, I am a loud vocal supporter of JD in this spot and have been for a long time.
I owe you an opinion.
That's mine.
You are absolutely entitled and I respect alternate opinions.
But I don't respect people who don't want to win.
This is our ticket now.
And this is the battle we're going into.
This is the army we're going to battle with.
My humble opinion, it's the best one we could have gotten.
And now we have it.
I want you to listen to one more person.
There's a rumor we're going to see this guy tonight, right, Jim Tucker?
Oh, we are going to see him!
Gise, we are!
Special!
Anita, do a post, do me a favor and pin it.
Tonight, 7 p.m.
Eastern, 6 p.m.
local time.
Our first primetime RNC special.
The guest for the show is going to be the great Tucker Carlson.
Don't miss it right here on the Rumble channel.
Rumble.com slash Bongino.
Rumble.com slash Bongino.
Download the Rumble app.
You're going to love the show tonight.
I'm already preparing a whole bunch of stuff.
Why did I bring that up here?
Because if you're having doubts about J.D. Vance, listen to what Tucker says.
This is a really, really profound thing.
All of the right people, and by right I mean wrong, all of the right people seem to hate J.D. Vance.
All of the right people.
Check this out.
J.D. Vance is the VP pick, and I think every person who pays close attention has got to be thrilled by that.
And if you don't know much about J.D. Vance, I'm not even going to make a case for J.D. Vance.
I'm going to tell you what I just saw, which is that every bad person I've ever met in a lifetime in Washington was aligned against J.D. Vance.
And I do think the negative case is often more powerful.
Folks, Lindsey Graham was...
By the way, I can't stand.
He's done more damage to the Republican brand.
He's in a blood-red state in South Carolina and acts like he's in a swing state.
Lindsey Graham was trashing J.D. Vance.
Trashing him just the day before.
All the right people hate J.D. Vance.
Is there any more convincing you could possibly need?
Alright, there's other news going on in the news cycle.
This is, I mean, talk about drinking from a fire hose.
It's like drinking from five fire hoses at the same time.
Judge Eileen Cannon.
Throws out Donald Trump's records case down in Florida because Jack Smith was unconstitutionally appointed.
Ladies and gentlemen, another story you were a year ahead of if you're watching the show.
Jack Smith, they have no power whatsoever to pluck someone, not Senate confirmed, out of the private sector, anoint this guy as a special counsel in the most powerful, potentially destructive case in American history against a former president.
Sorry, I was waving to some folks out there, the volunteers.
They just made up the authority to do this.
It was only a matter of time before these people got exposed.
Judge Eileen Cannon's like, how did you appoint this guy?
I want you to listen to the great Mike Davis.
Why am I bringing up Mike Davis?
Anyone in the studio know?
Because Mike Davis will be a guest on our next primetime special tomorrow night, 7 p.m.
Eastern, 6 p.m.
local.
With the great Jack Posobiec, too.
I got bangers lined up for you.
Freaking bangers!
Here's Mike Davis explaining how if Jack Smith was unconstitutional appointed, this may affect the D.C. insurrection case, too.
Check this out.
So the United States Constitution is very clear that if you want to create new officers or if you want to spend taxpayer money, it has to be through our elected representatives in Congress.
And we had the Office of the Independent Counsel and Congress intentionally let that lapse after the Ken Starr investigation of President Clinton.
And so what did the Justice Department do?
They tried to sidestep that.
They tried to create by fiat The Office of Special Counsel through regulation, not through Congress, and then this Office of Special Counsel is not accountable to the Attorney General on a day-to-day basis.
There's no day-to-day management, and it essentially gets an unlimited budget.
So Judge Eileen Cannon followed the Constitution.
It's very clear that the Office of Special Counsel is unconstitutional, and she just ruled that way today.
Folks, all you had to do was...
Jim, what's that thing called again?
The governing thing with the C? I always forget that.
All you had to do was read it!
Dan, you didn't go to law school.
Yeah, I didn't go to medical school either, but if my heart's...
Oh, you have one?
Look at this.
Thank you, Dave.
Look.
Here we go, folks.
The Constitution...
Wait, is there an...
Hold on.
No, there's no appendix.
There's no appendix.
The Constitution right there...
Here's how this works, liberals.
There are words in it.
You just read it and you crack it open.
Article 6.25, you can appoint a special counsel from the private sector to try a former president of May.
Oh no, that's not there!
That's not there.
It's not in the Constitution.
Shit, man.
It's like...
Merrick Garland didn't know that?
Of course he knew it.
He just wanted the craziest person possible to prosecute Donald Trump, and that happened to be Jack Smith, who's already gotten smoked in the Supreme Court a couple of times.
So right after the pick, right after the pick, by the way, of J.D. Vance, this happened on the floor.
Did you see this?
I got to give you some RNC stuff because we're here live at the RNC. This was bananas.
On the floor, Don Jr.'s down there on the floor.
And this MSNBC asshole, he sticks a mic in Don Jr.'s faces.
You guys see this?
And of course, you know, obviously President Trump was just shot a few days ago.
You think there'd be like a latency period where they wouldn't be dickheads?
Let's give us a couple of things.
No, no, no.
He sticks a mic in Don's face like, ah, you're giving him the whole fascist, tyrant bullshit stuff.
And I want you to see how Don Jr. ends this thing.
This is classic.
This is why I love Don Jr. Check this out.
What is that change going to look like, Don?
Practically, your father as president, I think you would even say, was a divisive figure.
What's it going to look like in the second term?
I don't think he was a divisive figure at all.
I think the media created divisiveness around him.
They lied about Russia, Russia collusion.
They said he was a traitor.
They went after him in every which way as possible.
If the media actually starts being an honest broker talking about the things that he did, the prosperity he brought, the peace deals that he signed around the world, rather than the disaster that we're living right now, I think you'd do everyone in the country a big favor.
I know immigration's important to him.
I covered the family separation crisis closely.
Will we continue to see policies like separating 5,000 children deliberately from their parents?
You mean the Obama administration?
You know they didn't do that, sir.
Sure.
Will there be a second family separation policy?
It's MSDNC, so I expect nothing less from you clowns.
Even today, even 48 hours later, you couldn't wait.
You couldn't wait with your lies and with your nonsense.
So, just get out of here.
Folks, this is why I love the entire Trump family.
They all have the same go-get-em, no-bullshit approach to this stuff.
These people are absolute pieces of shit.
They deserve nothing.
They deserve never to be treated with any respect because they're liars and they're frauds.
Go look up the Lopez agreement.
What Don said is right.
That child separation thing he's complaining about was an Obama-era thing.
He's just making that up or he's a moron because that's what media people do.
I want to play one last thing for you.
It's important.
Folks, I want you to keep in perspective the potential assassination of a president, the border chaos, Ukraine, the Middle East, what's going on in Russia, China's saber rattling, what's going on in the Philippines with China and the South China Sea right now, the inflation crisis.
I want you to understand that all of this happened under Biden.
The media can try to hide that all they want.
But the irony of this, hat tip Tom Elliott and Grabian, is they had said a long time ago that all of this chaos was going to happen under Donald Trump.
They had given out all these warnings, yet it's weird.
It all materialized under the oatmeal god in the White House.
Here's a little reminder of all the stuff that did happen that they said was going to happen under Donald Trump.
Check this out.
What would a second Donald Trump term look like?
Well, he cannot be the next president, because if he is...
You can't imagine the things that he's going to do.
Mexico, Canada.
We can't go to Canada, because eventually Canada will become annexed to America.
And shoot visitors to the White House.
Yeah, that means he can shoot the First Lady.
We're going to see violence the likes of which we didn't even see on January 6th.
Make it illegal to run against him, to throw his opponents in jail, to shut down the media.
He will make himself into the Fuhrer, and he will make everybody raise their hand and salute him.
Everything they said was going to happen under Trump, sadly, has gone down under the oatmeal god.
Folks, I will see you tonight, 7 p.m.
There's some strange guy coming over here now.
Do you guys know this guy?
Security!
Security!
What?
Holy- I don't say that in this climate.
Security!
I've come to join the Bongino army.
Do you know this guy?
But I want a good role.
I want to be at least the sergeant.
And I will work hard.
No, you're a lieutenant immediately.
You're coming out of OCS, a lieutenant.
I'm coming on your show, right?
I'm so excited because what I want to know is how you have created this phenomena, how you have created the Bongino Army, how you became the Joe Rogan of streaming.
This is it.
This is unprecedented.
You know what?
Because of them.
These are really good people, Russell, who care about this guy, they care about their country, and they care about honest voices, and you're a no-bullshit guy.
I posted that picture of me and you yesterday outside the restaurant, and I had, like, neighbors I haven't heard from in years, like, oh, I love that guy, because they don't want bullshit.
That's why.
And that's why you have an audience and I have an audience.
Because you can listen to these media assholes, lie to you all day, come to a show like us and get the truth, the unvarnished truth.
And that's what people want.
There's a craving for it, man.
We're like truth vampires seeking blood, but we want the truth instead, you know?
Yeah, I've really realized that in our space, integrity and authenticity are what people require.
That we're being flooded and kind of gassed and gaslit with toxic disingenuity and dishonesty constantly.
And I think that the way that you're cutting through that, mate, is incredible.
No wonder there are calls for you to be given a position in government.
Brother, you're the man.
What's up?
What's his URL? Rumble.com slash...
So that's Russell Brand.
Go follow today right now.
I will be on with Russell.
It's going to be a banger.
I promise.
Russell, thanks for stopping by, man.
Sometimes we have challenges getting an audience.
It's almost as if we're streaming against someone that gets a really large audience number.
Folks in my chat.
So we got a buck 92 right now.
You guys going to watch the show?
Yes or no?
Let's blow up the Rumble chat.
Let's melt the Rumble chat.
Yes, they are.
Of course they are.
You're damn right they are.
Thank you for everything you've done in this space.
It's so lovely to spend time with you.
I look forward to getting to know you later, Dan.
Don't miss the show.
Hey, help Russell out.
He's got a great show.
All right, folks, I'm going to get ready for the radio show right now.
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