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July 18, 2024 - The Dan Bongino Show
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The Troubling Truth Is Starting To Emerge (Ep. 2289) - 07/18/2024
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Thank you.
Ladies and gentlemen, again, this has been your home for breaking news.
I hear myself.
So it's been your home for breaking news on the show regarding this Secret Service failure in the attempted assassination of Donald Trump last weekend.
We have been breaking news and blowing this story wide open.
I deeply appreciate you coming to the show.
I wish the mainstream media would catch on.
They'd be a few days ahead of the story.
You saw one of the stories I told you yesterday is now, again, was picked up later.
It is true.
Mayorkas is pressuring Kim Cheadle.
Alejandro Mayorkas, the DHS Secretary in the Administration, are pressuring the Secret Service Director Kim Cheadle to shut her mouth.
They will not let her talk.
They won't because they know this was an abysmal failure.
Now it's being reported in the media outlet.
Again, you were 24 to 36 hours ahead of that.
I got to clarify a timeline today, and I have another piece of explosive information about this I'm getting from the highest...
Level of sources.
I can't emphasize that enough.
These are people extremely upset about what happened inside the agency who must, absolutely must fix this.
Let's get to the show.
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Michael, let's go.
Let's get this show started.
Already 70,000 people we just started.
Ladies and gentlemen, media people, get your notepads.
I've got a pen for you to borrow if you'd like.
Get your paper pads out.
Other hosts out there in the liberal media, I don't know what you're doing, take your pens out too.
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Updated information.
You ready?
Folks, there is a very serious dispute going on right now about what the role of locals versus Secret Service were.
Now, let's clarify the terminology so we're not talking past each other.
When I say local law enforcement, I'm not talking specifically about Butler County, Pennsylvania.
I'm talking about anyone not Secret Service who was a LEO, law enforcement officer.
Are we clear on that?
I just want to make sure because I don't want you to think I'm throwing anyone under the bus.
I'm just telling you what sources are telling me.
Locals could be state police.
Locals could be Philadelphia police.
Locals could be Butler County PA, okay?
There is a serious dispute right now going on with the Secret Service.
The Secret Service knows that there were some lapses on the side of locals.
There were.
Time out.
Time out.
It's the Secret Service's fault.
It's their job to secure the President's life.
I get that.
Period.
They do have local partners, however.
There were some significant lapses.
Here's what I'm hearing.
There is an actual text record, so it's not disputable.
There's text, phone text, if you know what I mean, right?
That this threat may have been recognized at about 5.01 p.m., an hour before Donald Trump got on stage.
And there are some people telling me that there was a failure in the beginning to properly get that information out.
I'm just telling you what I'm hearing, and let me give you the other side.
The locals and some of the Butler County officials are disputing that, saying, hey, we told the Secret Service about the threat and they didn't do anything.
That is going to come out in the wash once we get these records foiled and out in the public.
You're going to see via the text record who was notified when and what was done about it.
I'm hearing from Secret Service sources that it was roughly a half an hour, in other words, 531, before they got a picture of this potential threat.
Folks, again, this is coming from the top.
Now, the Secret Service has a political problem right now.
The political problem is serious.
The Secret Service needs local partners to do protection.
Follow me because this is really important.
They cannot do their job without local police departments.
NYPD, LAPD, Philly PD, Butler County.
It's not possible.
The Secret Service has, what, five, six thousand agents now, or when I was there it was like three thousand or so.
It is not physically possible to do presidential protection without law enforcement.
They are not only partners, they are integral partners.
You get what I'm saying?
They're in a real political quandary right now, and I don't feel bad for anyone.
This isn't like boo-hoo.
They screwed up, period.
They don't want to throw the locals under the bus after they appeared to throw the locals under the bus.
So they're in this bind right now.
Now my advice to them, if you're listening right now, is ladies and gentlemen, the truth doesn't have an agenda.
The truth is the truth.
Just tell the truth.
I get it.
Local partners in the future are probably going to be pissed off and we're going to have to mitigate a lot of that and do liaison work, but you got to fix this thing.
So I'm hearing again that there was some communications failure, but there is, again, media people, you're writing this down, there is a text record documenting this, that there was some failure to notify about the threats.
Second, I have it confirmed from a source that there was no or very limited drone surveillance that day.
There was no effective aerial surveillance plan basically whatsoever.
Aerial surveillance would have detected this threat on the roof.
I've told you over and over again, I'm going to get to this in a second with a Secret Service memo that was sent to me that's going to prove to you that there couldn't have been an air security personnel there because they changed the plan after we highlighted it.
There was no drone.
So we can now confirm that, which is an absolutely abominable security plan.
One thing I want to correct from our show, I always told you, if we get something wrong, we will be the first person to say it.
Our integrity matters.
We got the timeline wrong yesterday.
There was apparently a dispute, I'll call it a dispute, a disagreement over putting a local sniper team on the roof where the assassin was.
That's accurate.
The timeline, however, yesterday was off.
There was not a dispute that day whether they should have been up there or not.
Apparently, the dispute or disagreement was earlier in the week.
Where there was a request for that post and then they said, apparently the local sniper team said, listen, we're a sniper team, we're not a counter sniper team.
We can do the same job from the second floor window.
The Secret Service sadly and tragically agreed to that.
They left an open piece of high ground so the timeline was off.
The corrections and integrity matter.
That apparently was a dispute earlier in the week, not on game day.
I want to get that out there.
And again, this is from the highest level sources possible.
Another thing I'm hearing from this source, there was no ladder.
There was no ladder found at the scene.
I don't know what you...
If we get different information later and something else comes up in the FBI investigation, I'll tell you.
But my sources are telling me that that is not accurate.
That there was no ladder used.
And that's going to be important in a second because the biggest chunk of information is yet to come.
I'm not even into the really hairy stuff yet.
So keep the no ladder thing in mind.
Here's another piece of information I'm breaking on the show for you today.
Apparently on July 7th, which is roughly two weeks before this thing happened, this tragedy, the shooter's phone pinged at the location.
I think it's called the Butler County Farm Bureau or that area.
The shooter's phone pinged at the location.
You haven't heard this anywhere in the media.
What was he doing?
He was doing what we call in the business pre-op surveillance.
He was out there surveilling the location in advance, which is indicative of just about, by the way, every school shooter and assassin in human history.
There is pretty much always some former pre-op surveillance.
Now, was the subject under surveillance on July 7th?
Obviously not.
From what I'm hearing, he did not have a protective intelligence profile.
But this is big news.
It indicates that this guy had thought about this in advance.
It wasn't some psychic break at the last minute.
Another piece of information I got this morning.
The slope story is total bullshit.
The dispute again happened earlier in the week about posting.
But the slope of the roof, which was slight, I believe it was about 7 or 8 degrees, did in fact impede the line of sight from a couple of the sniper teams.
I could not get a good look at this guy.
Again, I don't make excuses for folks, okay?
I'm directly calling for Kim Cheater to resign and others, by the way.
But apparently, the slope of the roof impeded the line of sight, which led to this 11-second or so delay from when the shooter took his shot and the CS team took the shot and took out the shooter.
I also got some details.
This is insane when I think about this.
Apparently, the CS team, a lot of misinformation out there, the counter-sniper team, That took out the shooter was a Secret Service team.
The shot, ladies and gentlemen, what I was told this morning, It was one of the most difficult shots that any CS team has taken in a long time.
They had, obviously, seconds to respond.
They shouldn't have had to take this shot.
I mean, that was a failure in advance.
However, the shot, from what I heard, there was about a nine-inch window they had to shoot in from about 400 yards, and there was a tree in the way.
And they still got the shot off.
So that part, it's interesting that, you know, I don't think the details of that have been disclosed.
Again, media people, we take your notes or you still want to be two weeks behind this.
Another piece of information that got out yesterday that they're saying is not accurate, but I'm getting conflicting.
I'm just going to be honest with you.
I'm getting conflicting stories on this.
The shooter apparently never approached the magnetometer with the rangefinder.
He was seen with the rangefinder outside of the mag area.
In other words, no one said, hey, what are you doing with a rangefinder at the magnetometer?
Doesn't absolve any, but as a matter of fact, it makes the situation even worse.
He was sitting out there with a rangefinder.
Hey, this guy's a guy with a rangefinder.
Yeah, right, right.
What is he doing?
Golfing him?
Is he trying to get a bird in?
It's just ridiculous.
Shooting squirrels?
But I'm hearing from a very reliable person, and again, it's a little bit conflicting, that he never approached the magnetometer with the rangefinder.
So that's important.
Here's the most important piece of information I want to get out.
There's a theory, and I want to emphasize this strongly.
Please, folks in the chat, do not jump down my throat.
It's my obligation to get you information and the truth, and the truth does not have a freaking agenda, okay?
Don't read into this any more than you need to.
There is a working theory amongst very talented investigators, I'm not going to say the agency that I trust, people I know personally who I can vouch for, personally.
There's a working theory out there, and I just want to throw this out there, Paula completely disagrees, and she's like, Paula's almost always right, so I'm going to throw that out there.
But there's a working theory out there that the shooter...
Initially intended on a mass casualty event, effectively a school shooting type event with the crowd.
It was going to be a ground-based attack.
Now, they say that based on a couple of reasons.
Apparently the shooter had purchased a ladder or tried to purchase a ladder at Home Depot earlier in the week or one of these stores and never brought it to the event.
Again, that's why the no ladder story is important if it turns out to be true.
The theory now is they gave up on, the shooter may have given up on the high ground and was going to engage on the ground and engage the crowd.
The reason they believe that is where he positioned himself with the rangefinder on the ground, there was no clear view to the stage.
There was only a clear view to the crowd.
So, it's a theory.
I'm not saying that the guy didn't want to kill President Trump.
Obviously, he tried to kill President Trump.
What I'm saying is he may have thought that was too difficult of a target and focused in on the crowd during his pre-op surveillance, and that's why he was using the rangefinder from the ground.
Well, Dan, how did he get on the roof then?
The police spot him and are following him at around the 515 to 530 window.
They're trying to get in there.
Apparently, at that point, the shooter recognizes the fact that the police are closing in on him.
Again, this is all new information.
The working theory on the mass casualty event rather than a direct assassination is that he went up to the roof and scaled it via this air conditioning unit because he was trying to get away from the police and realized, holy shit, what an opportunity.
Now I got Trump in my sights.
It is a theory.
Obviously, we're never going to find out if it's true or not unless he wrote it down in some manifesto because he's dead.
He's not around, you know, dead men tell no tales.
So it is a theory, and the only reason I put it out there is because the individuals that told me this potential theory, which is important, are people I really trust.
They believe he may have been targeting the crowd with that rangefinder.
That's why he was on the ground using it and got on the roof just by some really bad luck.
Terrible, awful security.
He wound up scaling this roof and nobody could find him.
And he's like, wow, look at this.
Now I got a shot.
Horrible, we even have to talk about this, but the no drone thing I can confirm.
Now, the no drone thing is important.
I got Chris, so Chris, you believe this stuff?
Folks, CEO Rumble, my friend Chris, Rumble's breaking all the news.
If you're not watching Rumble, I'm sorry, you're really three, four days behind this story.
We have totally smoked to mainstream media on this.
You guys really in the media should be taking notes and not being, you know, tools.
Oh, well Dan Bongino said I don't like him because he's a Republican.
That doesn't make it not true.
Now, the no drone part is important.
Because there has been a dispute early on, again, with the Secret Service that put out what I believe to be one of the worst tweets in the history of the Secret Service, suggesting that this was the best we could do when we allocated technology to President Trump.
This is the best you can do?
You don't think Iranian terrorists or others are now watching going, oh good, now we should take a shot too.
Look, these guys can't even figure it out.
This was the quote best they can do.
And I said to you, putting out that this was the best technology you have while not having a drone up there is one of the single worst misguided tweets I've ever seen in the history of the Secret Service.
Someone sent this to me yesterday.
Again, you're home for breaking news.
This is an internal memo from the Secret Service.
Put it up on the screen, please.
You'll note it says on here that they are now taking ASB, air security branch people, and they're going to start allocating them, scroll through it if you would, to the presidential nominee.
Well, if you're now, if the air security assets were satisfactory from the start, like you said with the technology, then why are they enhancing them now?
Michael, can you scroll to the top and enter this?
Read it again, folks.
This is what they're doing now.
They're taking air security branch personnel and now finally moving them to presidential nominees.
Why are you doing it now?
I thought the technology was there before.
Apparently it isn't.
Please don't lie to us.
I say to former colleagues and friends I still have in the Secret Service, we failed.
We failed.
It's time to own it.
And the truth does not have an agenda.
And keep in mind, that other part is a theory.
It's a working theory.
Because I don't want people taking it going, what are you saying?
He wasn't there to kill President Trump?
He took a shot at his head from, of course he was.
I'm just telling you the opportunity, which he would have taken in a second, he may not have seen on his pre-op surveillance.
And it only may have presented itself as the police were trying to track him down.
And he was like, holy shit, there's an air conditioning unit.
I can just jump on the roof and pop him from there.
Details matter.
And I'm gonna say to the Secret Service right now, again, I need you to listen to me.
I need you to listen to me.
This, we're not going to talk and we're going to keep everything cryptic and Kim Cheadle giving everybody the silent treatment.
You know, listen, sometimes me and Paula fight about like stuff and we don't talk for, this isn't like a dispute about what's for dinner.
This is a dispute about losing the president of the United States and freaking protectees, man.
It's time for you to speak up or resign.
Here's a tweet from Ron Johnson.
Apparently they took four questions.
Four questions about one of the most tragic political events in modern human history?
Four questions and you basically dumped a bunch of US senators?
Listen, ladies and gentlemen, you know, politicians aren't our friends, I get it, but in a constitutional republic, in a representative democracy, senators and representatives are the representatives we have, whether we want them or not.
They represent us.
The Secret Service director who works for us is not answering any questions.
Are you shitting me?
What about the...
I'm going to get to the questions in a second.
Don't go anywhere.
I'm going to show you some video, too, of Kim Cheadle getting confronted.
And good for you.
By U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn, Barrasso, last night.
I think I saw Lankford there.
Good.
Confront her.
That's exactly what you should be doing.
She works for us, and so do you.
Let me take a quick break.
We'll get right back to the show.
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You see what's going on.
Very chaotic.
Okay, let's get back to this.
I'm going to again reiterate my three big questions, okay?
Again, media people, please write these down.
I heard the great Lawrence Jones on Fox& Friends this morning.
I heard him bring this up and I appreciate it.
Why was President Trump on the X to begin with?
X marks the spot.
Why did you walk him out on the stage with a threat that was recognized, from what I'm getting, 5.01 p.m., when he didn't walk out till after 6?
Ladies and gentlemen, there is a room.
Write this down.
It's called the holding room.
It's called the holding room for a reason.
We hold the president.
If there's a threat, if there's a situation or a crowd control problem, the press isn't set, you hold him there.
Why was President Trump taken out of a secure vehicle which can take a massive rifle head and put on an open stage with a man with a rifle on the roof?
This is not a difficult question.
If Kim Cheadle can't answer this question, she doesn't deserve her job.
Secondly, there.
Now we know there was a dispute or disagreement about putting a local counter sniper or sniper post on that rooftop.
They didn't do it.
They put them in the second floor window.
So if we were going to cede the high ground with a visual obstruction, the slope of the roof, then why didn't we obstruct the line of sight?
Put a campaign poster.
Put a satellite truck.
Put something.
Why didn't you just simply obstruct the line of sight?
Why was there no drone?
Last question.
So why was he on the X? Why wasn't the line of sight blocked?
And why was there no drone or area surveillance?
You better not say budget.
We have a $6 trillion government budget.
Get your freaking, what is it called?
The cranial rectitotomy?
Pulling your head out of your ass?
Take your head out of your ass and just say, we effed up.
We effed up.
There should have been a drone and there wasn't and we're going to fix it.
Folks, the American people are forgiving.
Probably not about this.
They're never going to forget this, ever.
But it's your job to keep this guy alive.
Can we VO this, Kim Cheadle, guys?
I asked you before.
Here's Kim Cheadle last night at the RNC. By the way, she's staying in my hotel.
In my hotel.
Which is insane.
Why is she even...
Guy just brought up the greatest point in the world.
She's answering no questions.
You can see this here.
U.S. Senators, I think that's Blackburn.
I see Lankford and Barrasso.
Why aren't you...
This is what she's supposed to be doing.
Guy brought up a great point.
He said this to me this morning.
I gotta tell you, I'm almost embarrassed.
I didn't think about it.
What the hell is she even doing here?
Why isn't she in Butler County PA or Secret Service headquarters right now doing a hot wash over what the just happened?
She's here, what, thanking sponsors or something?
What the?
What's going on?
Guy brought that up this morning before the show.
He can't get over the fact that this woman is here glad-handing people, taking like a celebratory lap like she just, you know, beat Andre the Giant at the WrestleMania 3 or something.
This is freaking insane, man.
This is...
Guy made the show.
He's so correct.
I can't believe...
I was more upset about her not answering questions, but he's like, why is she even here to answer questions?
Get to freaking headquarters in a room, 20 hours a day, screens everywhere, all your assistant directors and DADs, deputy assistant directors, and fix the problem.
You're here freaking shaking hands, giving people high fives, or we're all doing a great job.
We didn't do it great.
We almost got the president killed.
Are you serious?
Folks, you know, it really pains me to keep saying this, but the story shockingly gets even worse.
Here's a VO, by the way, VO's voiceover, I shouldn't use industry terms, but he's a film school guy, so whatever.
VO the shooter walking around the field.
Folks, look at this.
Here's the shooter with the rangefinder out in the field.
You think the guy looks a little out of place?
Just keep looping this for a few seconds.
If you're listening on Apple and Spotify, we try to make the show friendly for audio and video, but I'm asking you humbly to skip to the, I don't know, 25-minute mark and watch this.
You don't think this guy looks out of place?
Folks, every single poststander there, and I'm hearing there are very few Secret Service poststanders.
My numbers...
They may be off by one or two, but three Secret Service poststanders, that's it.
20 HSI, Homeland Security Investigations.
That's unforgivable.
We didn't have Secret Service poststanders.
Every single one of them, I'm sorry, has to go up in front of Congress and has to be talked to by the FBI and say, how did you miss this?
You got a guy in a field.
Do you guys see that?
Chad, do you disagree with me?
Seriously, in the chat, does anyone disagree with me that guy sticks out?
I'm done with the sore thumb thing.
You get the point.
The guy sticks out like a black swan on a lake with a bunch of white swans.
Like, there he is, right there.
He's not with the crowd.
He's using a rangefinder.
Like, everybody missed this?
Where was the protective intelligence team?
I'll let you in on a little scoop here, too.
We've got protective intelligence teams on the ground that go and interview threats.
Where was the communications failure that this guy wasn't interviewed right away?
Again, another piece of information I forgot to put out before.
Apparently the rifle was disassembled in a backpack.
He put it together either on the roof or down there.
I think it was on the roof, but I don't want to confirm that right away.
Now, this is where the conflict comes in next.
This is going to be a video for you.
I'm going to play for a minute.
This is one of the officials in Butler Township where this all happened, okay?
He's laying out the TikTok of the events.
So, Eric Bolling over there.
Good man, brother.
Good to see you.
Come on the show later.
Sorry, man.
We're at the RNC. Everything's like it's so much hustle and bustle.
It's quiet here today, though, which is good for now.
But I want you to listen to this because this is where the conflict arises, okay?
The Butler County Township guy seems to indicate that they told the Secret Service early about the threat, okay?
At 5.01.
That's not what I'm hearing from Secret Service sources.
Ultimately, the truth is going to come out in the wash.
Why?
The truth is going to come out in the wash because there's a text record of what happened.
It's all electronic.
Michael, cue that up.
Listen to this.
And I'm just telling you...
The Secret Service disputing this?
I don't know who I believe.
Check this out.
In fact, see an individual on the roof with a weapon.
He saw the shooter.
He did.
Your officers are on patrol.
They hear that there is a suspicious person on the rooftop.
What did your officers do?
So our officers in the area started to converge on the building.
My understanding is they did a full perimeter walk of the building, weren't able to see up on the roof.
Two of the officers went to what appeared to be the lowest point from ground to roof.
One of the officers actually boosted the second officer up high enough for him to grab hold of the roof.
When he was able to pull his head up over the roof, he did in fact see an individual on the roof with a weapon.
He saw the shooter?
He did.
And what did the shooter do?
Turned towards him, had the barrel of his weapon pointed at the officer.
At that point, the officer's hanging on to the side of the roof?
Yes.
Unable to pull a gun out.
Unable to...
Unable to defend himself.
Unable to reach his radio.
Any of that.
Yeah, yeah.
Strictly defensive movement for him to lower his head, duck, lost his own grip, right?
Fell approximately eight feet to the ground.
That's a steep drop.
It's a good drop, yes.
Did he get hurt?
He did.
In that moment, did they realize there's a threat right now to the former president?
They did.
So both the boosting officer and the officer that fell were both on the radio, indicating that there was an individual on the roof that did, in fact, have a weapon.
Who did they radio?
So there was a blanket tactical channel being used.
Everyone heard it.
Everyone that was on that tactical channel heard it, yes.
How much time between that radio communication and the gun being fired at the former president?
I don't have that information.
Okay, that, the reason that's a long clip.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you're watching video on demand, rewind and listen again.
There are two absolutely critical takeaways from that clip.
The first takeaway is him talking about the tactical channel.
There is a dispute.
The Secret Service is...
There may be just a timeline disparity that it went out at 530. The Secret Service official story right now, which they say is backed up by the text records, you have to dial it back to 5 or 501, where they first see that this guy's acting suspicious.
It should have went out right away then.
What he may be saying is it went out over a tactical channel later on.
But this timeline dispute is screwing everything up because on one hand, you have the Secret Service behind the scenes saying, the locals should have notified us.
And then you have the locals saying, hey, we did notify you.
But it's not a dispute about, it's a dispute about when, not if.
Do you get what I'm saying?
But the when matters.
Something should have went out at 5.01.
This is important.
Again, I'm not giving away any Secret Service secrets.
I would never do that.
We have a CP. Those military and police officers out there, you know what I'm talking about.
It's short for command post.
The command post is there at the site for a reason.
There's a local rep, and we have radios from every entity.
There is no reason the command post, even if it did go out at 5.01 over the radio, shouldn't have notified everybody at the scene at 5.01 or 5 p.m.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, what will clear that up?
Anyone in the chat have a guess?
Yes, the radio traffic, it's all recorded.
When is that going to come out?
Folks, we can't stop dicking around.
Get this out and we'll know what happened.
Did they put it out at 5 p.m.
that there was a threat in the crowd that they couldn't mitigate or were suspicious about or didn't they?
The radio traffic in the Texas will tell the story.
What are we waiting on?
The second part is they had to climb up on the roof and had to get boosted up.
Folks, when we do a site advance at a high rise, we prefer not to have the president on a floor where a fire department ladder can't reach.
Because if there's a fire, we have to have a breakout window where we can get the president out if the stairwell's compromised.
You didn't have a ladder to access a high point you guys weren't securing?
I mean, come on, man.
What the shit?
I mean, you didn't think of that?
These River Nats, man, following me, Guy.
Yeah, I know.
You didn't have an access point to the roof?
I mean, guys, ladies, really?
Unforgivable.
You know, we have a breakout window and a high-rise for a fire truck.
We didn't have a ladder to get to the roof in case it was a threat.
Shit.
I got more coming up next.
Kim Cheadle on CNN. CNN now.
Never our friend.
CNN's asking questions now.
I mean, Kim Cheadle really needs to either resign or just come clean.
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The reason Kim Cheadle cannot answer questions about drones and Counter sniper teams and resource allocation is because she doesn't want to answer the questions, because if she says there was insufficient security, the question is going to emerge.
And why did you put President Trump on the X and nearly come within a millimeter of getting this man killed?
Watch this just again, pathetic interview with CNN and how she just gets caught by CNN on this.
Check this out.
Was every element, every part of his, from the intelligence to the counter assault team, to the detail agents, to the shift agents, I mean every element top to bottom of the advance in the operation, was every element increased after you learned of this credible threat?
What we increased was what we felt was appropriate for the former president and for that particular event on that day.
We have been increasing the assets and the resources and the staffing that we have been providing to the former president since he was a presidential candidate and then the presumptive nominated.
That's what I can tell you.
That sounds like a no.
I am not saying a no at all.
I'm saying that we have continued to increase the resources that we've been providing.
Well, listen, what she's saying there at the end is not inaccurate.
I am hearing from sources, another piece of kind of breaking news, but not a huge bombshell.
President Trump now has a full CAT team.
CAT is our SWAT team.
It's short for counter-assault team.
If you go back and look at the assassination video, I hate to even watch it anymore.
Just reminds me, I almost lost him.
You'll see on the stage after he shot two men in the black BDU uniforms with long guns.
That is our cat team.
That cat team does not typically work as a two-man element.
They're trained in four or more man elements.
President Trump, I can relate to you, thankfully now, I'm not going to give the number, but has an enhanced cat team.
So that's good news.
The bad news is what, folks?
I think you're already picking up on it.
Why didn't he have the enhanced cat element that day?
That's why Kim Cheadle's having a hard time answering these questions about resources, because she's going to box herself in a corner.
Oh, you enhanced it.
Why?
Did the threat level change the day after?
You see how she can't answer the question?
Also, I've been informed by quality sources that the counter-sniper elements are going to be enhanced as well.
So, let's hope and pray to our Lord Almighty that the President is safe moving forward.
Former President, soon to be President, I hope.
But folks, this was just a catastrophic failure and...
Guy brought up a good point.
We're here at the RNC, folks.
The Secret Service has a cadre of pretty big mofos out there.
I mean, these are some big dudes.
And Guy said it right.
They brought out the A-team.
I think President Trump was like, if you're going to bring out, if you're not bringing out like that Jack Reacher crowd, who ironically, I heard, can't stand Trump, then don't bother.
Don't even bother.
Here.
Here's another colossal failure, and I'm going to give you the inside scoop on this.
I have a good body of experience with protective intelligence.
I worked in the...
Protective intelligence are the Secret Service agents who go out and investigate threats to the president.
They're called the PI squad, okay?
I worked in the PI squad in the flagship office of the Secret Service in New York.
I know a lot about protective intelligence, okay?
There's a protective intelligence asset on the scene at every site.
The PI squad goes and interviews people who they think are potential assassins or threats.
Why they didn't interview the guy roaming around in the field or got to him late or tried to get to him late, ladies and gentlemen, I have no explanation outside of abysmal failure.
I'm not trying to piss you off, I promise, but I'm going to play for you about a 20-second clip from Fox, and I'm pretty sure it's going to piss you off.
There is new reporting.
I did not get this directly.
I'm just playing you a Fox clip.
I think they have pretty decent sources too.
Fox News is now reporting that the parents notified hours in advance somebody that, hey, their son could be a potential problem at the site.
So my question again for PI assets is where was the protective intel?
Did you miss this?
Was there a call made?
Was there no call made?
There was apparently a notification in advance.
Take a listen.
We have just learned.
That the Trump rally shooter Thomas Crooks' parents were looking for him in the hours leading up to the shooting.
We're now told they eventually called law enforcement to report that Crooks was missing and they were worried And they also were told those parents are now being cooperative now with authorities, but they gave them the heads up that something's going on with our son.
We are worried.
Folks, that call's got to be documented somewhere to law enforcement.
How did the Protective Intelligence Squad or local law enforcement, how did they miss this?
Again, the security failures are so legion and epic in a bad way, it's really hard to fathom the breakdowns.
PI broke down.
The counter-sniper response broke down.
The security perimeter broke down.
The comms broke down.
When I look at the site from an expert, a guy who's done this—I was a lead advance agent on the president's detail for four and a half years— I can't find a single redeeming characteristic about what happened that day.
I'm hearing another story.
This one is, again, I can't confirm this.
I'll put it out there.
We'll see.
I'm hearing there was a request.
If so, there'll be an email to document it for ballistic glass.
And I'm hearing it was turned down because the stage couldn't support the wait.
That'll come out in the wash with emails, too.
I mean, again, another potential failure.
Also, a friend of mine reached out.
The armor on the stage that President Trump ducked below that had the bunting on it, right?
That had the patriotic markings on it.
Why was it not winged around the stage?
If you knew the threat was coming from the right because you had a building you couldn't secure, why didn't you have a piece of armor there?
I mean, it's just...
Folks, this is so amateur hour Charlie Brown encyclopedia that I'm personally offended, like Guy, he's right, that the director is even here.
There is no reason for you to be here right now.
Send the deputy director here.
I know him.
Send him.
He can walk around.
You should be in headquarters right now asking all of these questions.
Why no glass?
Why no wings?
Why no four-man cat element?
How did CS miss this?
How did we miss the roof?
How did we miss the perimeter?
How did we miss the law enforcement call from the parents?
I mean, I could give you a hundred more questions.
Here's another one.
A CNN report.
This is, I forget this guy's name, John something, but he was a New York guy for a long time.
Here's a CNN report that multiple people spotted this guy with the rangefinder.
Folks, why would you be at a rally, a presidential political rally, with a rangefinder if you didn't have ill will or intentions?
Again, if I'm missing something in the chat, please fill me in.
Maybe, you know, maybe I'm optically blind.
Maybe I'm too much of an expert and I'm not seeing this stuff.
I don't mean to be a dick.
I'm just telling you.
Listen to this.
What they have developed is a lot of the background about what happened that day.
They know that he went to his employer at the nursing home where he works as a dietary specialist before this and said, I need Saturday off.
I have something important to do.
But he told his co-workers, I'll see you on Sunday.
So he changed his days off presumably for this.
We also understand that when he got to the fairgrounds where this rally was being held for Donald Trump, The first thing that puts him on the radar of security people is near the magnetometer area where they're screening people in, he's carrying in his hand a rangefinder.
It's a device that looks like a small pair of binoculars, but it's used by shooters to measure the distance when they're setting up a long-distance shot.
Because he didn't have a weapon, that would not have prevented him to go through security, but they did flag what does he have this in his hand for.
Again, an absolute abject failure.
Although I will correct something.
I'm hearing he did not approach the magnetometer with the rangefinder.
So we'll see.
That'll come out in emails.
I want to address something here.
It's important.
Everybody ready in the chat?
Because we read the chat because you matter.
Because the show is for you.
And the show will always be for you.
But ladies and gentlemen, you're mistaking me for someone else.
I gotta tell you, I'm a little personally offended and I don't typically say that because it's a professional show and I try to keep it on the level.
But for the multiple individuals in the chat suggesting I'm obfuscating, it was an inside job.
Are you serious?
You have some evidence?
Folks, I have this thing called the Bongino rule.
It's for a reason.
I don't put out shit without receipts.
Could it have been some inside job?
Very suspicious that this guy's social media profiles disappeared.
Absolutely.
Do I discount that?
Not at all.
But I'm going to suggest to you in the chat, and I mean it, maybe you find a new show.
I don't say things I can't back up.
I come out today and say to you, because I want clicks, Dan Bongino, former Secret Service, says it's an inside job.
What evidence does he have?
Oh, none.
He just thinks it.
Who gives a fuck what I think?
We almost lost the president.
It only matters what I can prove.
I don't have any evidence of that.
That's why I told you in the beginning of the show about the theory it was a mass casualty event.
I said it was a theory.
Because he's dead.
We'll never be able to prove it.
Is it a theory?
It was an inside job?
Yes.
The problem is I have zero evidence of that.
Does it mean it's not...
A viable possibility?
No.
But I'm telling you, find a new show.
You want people to theorize all day?
I was an inside job.
How do you know that?
I'm just guessing.
That's not what we do here.
I'm an investigator.
I give you evidence.
Everything we've said has been correct.
We have been at least 36 hours ahead of the news cycle.
If we get something wrong, like the timeline, we are going to correct it.
But I am never, ever going to put out to you something I can't prove.
It is irresponsible.
I have a position here that means something.
I'm a former Secret Service agent.
If I say it, the media is going to pick it up.
What if it turns out later it wasn't and it's wrong?
Oh, my bad.
That's not the way any of this works.
I'm sorry, folks, but you want that?
You got to find a different show.
This is not it.
Because then you become a clown like these two idiots.
Michael, cue this up.
These are two liberals, Kara Swisher and this guy Scott Galloway on a podcast.
You want to be them?
Here they are making jokes.
They think this whole thing is funny.
They're like, oh, is it too soon?
Too soon.
There's never a time to think this is funny.
Biden's got COVID. That's not funny.
It's not a joke.
It's got COVID. There's nothing funny about this shit.
Grow up, grow a pair of freaking balls on the left and recognize that this is an American tragedy and treat it with the appropriate freaking respect.
What are you, a bunch of children?
I'm not doing that here, you lefty goons.
Listen to this shit, these two goofballs laughing it up like this is some freaking joke.
Check this out.
There's ridiculous theories on both sides, the worst on the right, but I don't know if you heard, but Right before Melania gave her public statement, she was heard yelling into a phone, you had one job!
Too soon?
Too soon?
I like a joke.
My favorite joke was from someone where they said, let's hope it's not a time traveler from the future who can't shoot.
It was something like that.
The truth is, probably the most likely conspiracy theory is that Democratic I already ordered a hit, but they use Teemo for it.
Oh, they do that.
They use Teemo.
Oh, God.
All right, we'll stop with the jokes.
I think that's funny.
I think it's some big freaking joke.
Folks, listen, man.
I don't virtue signal because that's a cheap, coward-like stunt.
The President of the United States now, Joe Biden, has a security detail.
I was a security agent for Barack Obama and President Bush, and I did my freaking job.
Because we're not a third world republic, and we don't shoot our presidents, okay?
And it is never funny.
It's never, ever funny.
There's nothing even remotely comical about this at all.
Not even a little bit.
This is an obscene ridiculosity.
And the fact that assholes on the left cannot exit their ideological bubble for five minutes and realize how grossly inappropriate this is.
Do you think it's funny the Secret Service failed?
I've got news for you dickheads.
They're protecting your guy right now, Joe Biden.
And I pray to God, my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, that nothing happens to President Biden at a site safety wise.
That's not how we do business in this country.
This is the proudest country in the history of the world.
We don't whack a bunch of political leaders like a bunch of freaking third world morons and animals.
That's not what we do.
None of this shit is funny.
You think people on the right out there or Lael Biden's got COVID, that's not funny.
What kind of dumb motherfucker are you, man?
There's nothing funny about this shit.
We got a country to save.
Got a bunch of ass clowns out there.
They're fucking heads out of their asses.
Not funny.
There's nothing funny about this.
Again, I appreciate the backup in the chat.
I'm here for you, but I'm always here for the truth.
Receipts matter, man.
Don't ever sacrifice your integrity for clicks or anything else.
Or for dollars or for whatever.
Because it's all you've got.
And once you blow it once, you're done.
And once you blow it once and you don't apologize, your show is finished.
I want to play this.
This happened last night.
The left is losing their minds.
Van Jones was on CNN. And, you know, listen, I obviously don't agree with Van Jones on about anything.
But it's interesting how the left is now the cannibalism.
Dan Bongino cannibalism theory is coming true.
I told you it's only a matter of time before they start to eat themselves alive.
The left can never deal with one thing, and that's the truth.
The truth is what hurts the left, right?
We are on the side of truth no matter what.
We say what we can back up, and we back up what we say.
Van Jones said something obvious last night on CNN, and Keith Olbermann, the guy who cries piss, he's losing his mind all over Twitter.
Here he said last night, this is just a fact, folks.
Donald Trump got shot, got back up, and Joe Biden right now is being beaten down by COVID. There's nothing funny about it, but this is the left talk, and check this out.
A bullet couldn't stop Trump.
A virus just stopped Biden.
You've got the nominees of this party getting their butts kissed.
Biden's getting his butt kicked by his own party.
The Democrats are coming apart.
The Republicans are coming together.
Hey man, that's not me saying it.
That's the left saying it, okay?
That's their own words.
You lefties can get mad at them all you want.
Keith Olbermann's still crying piss, whatever he's doing.
That's fine.
But political campaigns are what, folks?
Chat folks, help me out.
They're snapshots and soundbites.
I'm sorry, but that's it.
They are pictures and they are soundbites.
Period.
And the side-by-side of President Biden slowly making his way up the short steps of Air Force One, apparently ill, according to them.
And now he's talking about potentially dropping out of the race.
I'm going to go over this more in tomorrow's show.
Folks, I find it awfully convenient that he left an opening with an interview with the BET, Black Entertainment Television, that if a doctor told him to get out, he would get out.
And then the next day we find out he has COVID. I'm not telling you he doesn't have COVID. I'm just telling you this is really bad timing for them.
And I don't see the Biden campaign making it to the convention at this point.
I just don't.
I think he's going to have to exit, and the Secret Service director is going to have to go with him because our political cover will all be gone.
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