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Jan. 14, 2025 - The Dan Bongino Show
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Will Trump's Inauguration Be Safe? (Ep. 2400) - 01/14/2025
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Thank you.
Thank you.
So folks, I've been getting a ton of questions from you and the Bongino Army listening audience.
Even outside, secondary and tertiary members of the Bongino Army looking to enlist.
I've been getting a ton of questions.
Dan, how do you feel about this inauguration?
Do you think it's going to be safe?
And the answer's complicated.
That's not an easy yes or no question.
Yes, it's going to be safe.
Well, how safe?
90% safe?
99% safe?
Everything's on the margin.
Or no, it's not going to be safe.
Well, how unsafe?
Like how unsafe Trump shouldn't show up?
Or how unsafe they should do it outside of D.C.? They're real questions.
And they deserve real answers.
Been an update yesterday.
Secret Service and FBI did a briefing.
We're going to have that.
Also, huge update on our new media imbecile of the day yesterday.
John Fund.
Who wrote a completely false story about...
Nice!
Nice!
Look at the production team.
Did not know that was coming.
Got a little bit of an update on that.
Big show today.
A lot to talk about.
Pete Hanks has up on the hill.
It's going as planned.
Democrats saying stupid shit.
Pete making them look like idiots.
We'll have full coverage on that.
Today, radio show, tomorrow, all that stuff.
But there's a lot going on.
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I will get to the inauguration in a second.
First, a major development, major, groundbreaking, like a level 72 earthquake, even though they're not measured in 72 levels.
National Review, John Fund added this little liner after completely fabricating a story that radio talk show host Dan Bongino is in the kitchen cabinet of advisors to Donald Trump and had a role in choosing Pete Heggshead and Matt Gaetz.
He added this cowardly paragraph.
Though Bongino denies any role in their selection.
Any idea, Michael, why I would deny any role in their selection?
Any idea at all?
Because I had a massive role.
So massive it resembled a freaking donut.
Or a goose egg.
Zero.
John, I really suggest you just retract this altogether.
We're not going to stop.
I'm sorry, but I'm just not going to let you media people continue to lie about anyone you don't like who supports Donald Trump.
We're not all robots.
We're not morons.
Whether you think I'm an intelligent guy or an idiot, I don't really care.
I give zero Fs about that.
I'm just saying, ladies and gentlemen, these people make stuff up.
John will not retract the article.
He'll just put a denial in there.
That way he can look like it's my job to deny a false charge.
This is what they do.
This is exactly what you get out of National Review.
Just grow some balls, fellas.
Retract it.
Say you made a mistake.
You were misled.
You cannot provide a shred of evidence.
I've offered you $100,000 in cash to prove to me I had any role in selecting these two individuals at all.
You can't.
You can't.
Pete's up there today.
He's doing a great job.
We'll have some clips for you tomorrow and later.
It's going to be a long hearing, folks.
It's the typical stuff.
Pete, we hear you hate women.
Pete, of course, is not, hey, women, it's a nonsensical, stupid thing.
They're trying to get the when did you stop beating your wife question, because this is what Democrats do.
Let me get to a really important story today, something I have been deeply involved in.
Folks, and again, you know, in contrast to what John Fund is telling you, I have very little, if any, relationship whatsoever at all with the Trump transition team.
I'm telling you.
Most of these radio and TV people out there, not all, a lot of good guys, I don't want to begrudge anyone their radio skills or talents, but a lot of people try to tell you they have relationships with people in power to look important.
I pride myself on the opposite, on not having relationships with people in power, okay?
Or relationships that would blind me from being able to criticize the obvious.
I don't have this kind of relationship with these people.
I would like to talk to them about the inauguration.
They've not reached out.
That's okay.
They may have other people.
I mean it.
I'm not the only person calling attention to this.
But I just want to show you how these people are so full of shit, even on the anti-Trump right and the left.
They make this stuff up.
So here's the bad news first about the inauguration.
You're asking me, do I think the inauguration is safe?
After yesterday's briefing, my answer is...
Probably not.
And it pains me to say that.
Now, it's one of those things I'm speculating.
The inauguration, ladies and gentlemen, hasn't happened yet.
I'm just afraid that the people in charge at the top of the Secret Service and certainly at the FBI do not know what they're doing.
In case you're asking, by the way, about bona fides in this situation, you know what?
I'd ask you guys to take that picture off the wall, but I don't know how heavy it is.
There is a picture on the wall right over there in the studio behind me of the Daily News.
It is me at Barack Obama's inauguration where I... Is that too heavy?
Look at Michael.
Michael's like a big hockey dude.
He's like seven feet tall.
I wasn't sure if...
Here, thank you, Michael.
Here.
Okay.
So here it is.
You can see me in the corner right there in the...
Is that me right there?
No, the other side.
Sorry, everything's backwards.
Okay.
That's me with my right hand.
So, thank you, Michael.
I appreciate it.
So, there's the bona fides.
That was the cover of the New York Daily News.
My shoulder's hurt now.
That thing weighs five pounds.
It looked like it weighed 50. Of course, Michael manhandles it.
I'm like, ah!
Proving my point that these are all show muscles that don't even work anymore.
It's all for show.
If you want to kick my ass, you probably could.
But I was responsible for the section of the presidential inaugural route for Barack Obama's first inauguration.
And I was specifically responsible for the most important section.
Again, you're free to FOIA the Secret Service and ask about this stuff.
The section, as you can see in the picture, it's very straight.
Very straight.
It's like this.
The thing is like this.
Then they're like, is this straight?
We'll put it up later.
Very esky.
Totally straight right there.
I was responsible for the section where Barack Obama was to get out of the car.
So let me just say this.
I think if President Trump at this point, given the people in charge of the Secret Service at the top and their known incompetence, I think if President Trump were to stay in the car and forego the walk, I would be comfortable.
I have not been briefed in on the security plan.
I wish I was.
I would like to review it myself because I've done it before and I want to see what they're looking at.
I know exactly what it's supposed to look like.
Now, here's the bad news first, okay?
I said I'd get to it.
The FBI, who I don't trust as far as I could throw, the FBI, this is very short.
This is a manager at the FBI, obviously responsible for a portion of the inaugural security.
Here he is saying that they're not tracking any threats.
Do you really believe that there are no threats to the inauguration?
Are you insane?
Whatever the FBI says these days, I tend to believe the opposite.
Check this out.
We are not currently tracking any specific or credible threats to the inaugural ceremony or to the Capitol complex.
We will continue to work closely with our partners to share information and identify and disrupt any threats that may emerge.
Okay, that's the bad news.
Why is that the bad news?
Because, again, I don't trust the FBI, and I tend to believe, given their credibility on prior issues, which is zero, I tend to believe the opposite of what they're saying.
I would almost rather the FBI come out and say we're tracking very serious threats, because then I would believe they were doing something about it.
The problem is there probably are very serious threats.
Again, I have not been briefed in on the matter.
Of course, he could be telling the truth, and I hope he is.
I just don't trust them.
Why do I not trust the FBI? Because there's no reason to trust the FBI when it comes to anything involving Donald Trump, because they've been on the opposite side of the truth of nearly every major scandal involving the FBI. It's going to take a long time to rebuild trust once Kash Patel hopefully gets confirmed.
Here's the good news.
I'm going to tell you this part in advance, and I'm not biased here, because I know this individual well.
I promise you, I knew Ron Rowe well, the director too, and Ron screwed up bad, the acting director now, and he needs to go.
It's not personal.
Ron was very nice to me when I was on the detail.
Ron is not qualified to be the Secret Service director.
I'm sorry, based on what happened in Butler and what happened in Palm Beach.
He's just not.
There's only so many failures where you're, and by the way, January 6th too, where he was also in the management chain.
He's not qualified.
The guy in charge of what we call WFO, the Washington field office, who is basically running on the ground inaugural security from a management perspective is this guy.
His name is Matt McCool.
His name is public.
I'm not giving anything up.
He briefed yesterday, so it's not like I'm giving up his name.
He gave a public briefing yesterday.
I know Matt very well.
I've got a very, very long work history with him, a lot longer than I had with Ron Rowe.
Matt is a very competent guy.
Matt is a very smart guy.
Matt knows protection.
Matt, very importantly, knows tactical work as well.
Has a lot of experience on the tactical side.
He's overseeing this.
Here he is during the briefing yesterday saying that they're looking at out of the box thinking on this one.
I hope he's correct, but check this out.
I would say what's different is we are in a high...
Higher threat environment.
What is the difference in comparison to the last inauguration or previous inauguration?
Last inauguration?
Yeah.
I would say we have a slightly more robust security plan.
We've been planning for this event for 12 months, along with our partners.
It's an ever-changing threat environment, and so we stay flexible.
If we see that, hey, we need to shore this particular checkpoint up, we do that.
What's different?
We've learned.
This is our fifth NSSE this year in the Washington Field Office.
We've done 83 NSSEs.
Each one we take a look at.
And if there's areas where we need to improve, we do it.
But what I can tell you is that we are 100% confident in the plan that we have put in place for this inauguration that the public and our protectees will be safe.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, that puts me at ease a little bit because, again, I know Matt to be a very competent guy.
Just to clear up some of the jargon, not a knock on him, but, you know, professionals talking jargon a lot.
He refers to NSSEs, how they've done a lot of those.
NSSEs are National Special Security Events.
Why is that significant?
If something is designated a NSSE, a National Special Security Event, the Secret Service is in charge of the security plan.
I have said in my reform proposals for the United States Secret Service, as much as I adore my prior colleagues in the Secret Service, the ones that didn't screw up in Butler and the ones that didn't screw up the management chain in Palm Beach and everything else, and on January 6th, the Secret Service should no longer be in charge of NSSEs.
They shouldn't.
They should be a part of it, but they should not be in charge.
You have other federal entities that should be more of a complete task force model.
The Secret Service does not have the bureaucratic pull to do the things they need to do to make people do the things they need to do.
I'm not sure that makes sense, but there are other entities that can take this away from the Secret Service.
They should not be in charge of NSSEs.
They should be in charge of presidential and vice presidential security and their families.
That's it.
All the other stuff needs to go away.
If President Trump and the team decide they ever want to talk about this...
It's something I plan on bringing up.
I've been talking to members of Congress about it extensively.
You want to keep the president and his family alive?
There's only one way to do it.
It's to dump everything else the Secret Service does and focus on keeping them alive.
It's not complicated.
Here's Matt McCool again addressing something that I am deeply concerned about.
It is the air picture.
Folks, I can't tell you this enough.
Explaining the damage drones can do and why they are a critical threat.
It's very easy.
Human beings can't fly.
I can't say this enough.
If you see a drone overhead and there is not a vigorous plan to take it down, countermeasures, electronic interference, whatever you plan on doing, netting, basically making it a harder target, I don't know what their plan is.
I'm just telling you, I'm hearing from sources it's not nearly as strong as they're claiming.
Let's hope I'm wrong and that there's updated information.
Here's McCool again from the Washington field office talking about a drone plan saying, hey, don't be alarmed.
We're going to have drones in the sky too.
Okay, I hope he's right and I hope they've got a good plan.
Watch this.
Secret Service's comprehensive security plan will continue to use drones as part of our protective posture.
Do not be alarmed if you see these assets during the inauguration or in training in the days ahead.
By the way, dude, it looks like...
Come on, dude.
He's a friend.
He was a friend of mine.
I don't talk to him.
I say was.
Now we don't really talk about you anymore.
He looks like he's cut out of Central Castle.
And with a name like McCool, perfect, right, for this guy?
He's as competent as he looks.
So let's hope that drone plan...
If they can knock out the drone plan, I am convinced on the big six, they're all set.
Tactical, medical, chem bio, airborne, IED, fire, kind of geological disturbance stuff.
I think on the other big six threats, they're good to go.
It's this freaking air picture that really scares the shit out of me.
That's why I have my Don't Get Dead shirt on today, okay?
I don't mean to sound silly, but don't get dead.
President Trump's not good to us if he gets hurt, okay?
Now, why am I worried?
Don't get dead.
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We made a lot of people happy.
Why am I so worried about this situation?
Gee, I don't know.
The Daily Signal.
Deep State gearing up.
Nearly half of federal employees in the swamp plan to resist Trump poll fines.
Half the federal employees.
Now do you understand why I'm so worried when the FBI comes out and goes, oh, we're not investigating any threats.
And then you've got at least upper management at the Secret Service.
Telling you, screaming at people up on Capitol Hill like Roe and his deputies?
Folks, if nearly half of federal employees are planning on resisting Donald Trump, then they're not planning on protecting Donald Trump.
They're wasting time resisting.
We've got a problem.
Fixed by what thing?
Three words.
Chat, let me hear it right now.
What are the three words that are going to fix this thing?
This will be a little test.
Let's see who gets it first.
Mr. McCool.
Come on.
Someone come through in the clutch here.
What is it?
Row, row, must go.
No, not fire them all.
Who just said that?
No, not resistance is futile.
Soccer pushes in Star Trek.
You're fired as two.
Where is it?
Where is it?
There it is!
Young Toe!
Total Personnel Warfare.
Follow it immediately.
We'll give Retro Whiskey a shout-out, too, because it was just microseconds behind.
Total Personnel Warfare.
Young Toe!
Yes, Young Toe!
Total personnel warfare.
Ask your dumbass liberal media friends, like, oh my gosh, is Donald Trump going to fire everyone?
Point them to this Daily Signal article.
No, he's going to fire the people committed to resisting Donald Trump, who's the people's choice for president.
Because they're admitting their job is not serving the people, it's resisting Donald Trump.
You can see the poll.
There it is right there.
Save the article.
It's in the newsletter today.
Bongino.com slash newsletter.
Send it to your jerkwad media liberal friends who go, oh my gosh, why would Donald Trump want to be firing people?
Because they're not doing their jobs.
They're doing the opposite of their jobs.
Donald Trump is going to be the chief executive in just under a week.
You don't like it?
Quit.
Nobody gives a shit.
Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Nobody cares.
No one.
The problem with this whole thing, folks, and why I'm worried is, again, we've got people in power who hate Donald Trump.
I have been told by multiple sources that the picture on the security picture on drones for the inauguration and moving forward is not good, that they have been warned about this repeatedly.
Susan Crabtree, who's done some excellent reporting, has a tweet up talking again about Matt McCool saying that drones are going to be part of the protective plan before and during the inauguration.
I really hope that they've got this thing locked down, folks.
Having drones up there is great.
What are you going to do to counter drones, especially given that air picture around there?
Now, I want you to notice here, too, Susan's reporting that they're going to have a TFR up, a temporary flight restriction.
The FAA is going to put a TFR up for aircraft and drones around the capital region.
Now, what's the problem with TFRs, temporary flight restrictions, meaning you guys can't fly here?
Ladies and gentlemen, the problem with TFRs is they're like four-way stop signs.
They're basically suggestions.
If everybody doesn't agree to stop, you're going to get an accident.
Okay?
That's the problem with TFRs.
There are other things we can do to make sure planes and drones don't violate the TFR. I don't care to say them on this show because I don't want anyone to mitigate the problem.
I hope you understand.
However, I'm not sure we have the manpower for all of that.
TFRs are like stop signs.
Four-way stop signs.
They are.
They're just suggestions.
I'm saying this because I cannot verify this tweet, let me say, in advance.
I don't know anything about it.
However, I know Marjorie Taylor Greene.
I have no reason for her to believe she's lying about this at all.
Marjorie Taylor Greene put out on her Twitter account yesterday, just flew into DCA, obviously the airport right in the capital region there.
Before landing, our pilot announced he had to fly in from another direction due to unauthorized drone activity over the White House.
They just got done telling us they're all over the drone stuff.
Is this accurate?
Was it the pilot who got it wrong?
I'm not drawing any hard conclusions.
The pilot could have said something out of turn.
Maybe he heard something wrong.
I don't think Marjorie Taylor Greene's lying.
I thought they fixed the drone problem.
Now do you see why I'm worried?
Your boy don't let you down.
I don't want to see anything happen to anyone.
Anyone.
Remember, Democrat politicians are going to be in D.C. for inauguration too.
It's not a partisan thing.
By the way, remember how I told you yesterday that there is a real market for liars?
Liars and scum in the media.
And for articles like the John Fund article that just made up.
And some people I think may have doubted me.
No, there's no market for that.
Oh no, I promise you there is.
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Just quickly, a couple of media points and media announcements here.
Rachel Maddow is back up to five nights a week on MSNBC. Ladies and gentlemen, according to Variety's Brian Steinberg, I told you there's a market for bullshit, and I'm never wrong.
Rachel Maddow, Russia Rachel, Moscow Maddow, who has been wrong on every single Trump scandal of our time from the Hunter laptop.
To Hunter Biden and Joe Biden's business relationships, to Donald Trump's taxes, to Russia collusion, to Spygate, is back to five nights a week.
Why?
Because there is a market for bullshit.
And by the way, while there's a market for bullshit, even on the anti-Trump right, like John Fund claiming I pick people for Trump's cabinet, I have picked absolutely no one ever.
Matter of fact, I've had people ask me to contact Donald Trump.
I'll ask Donald Trump publicly.
I'll ask him right now.
Mr. Trump, if you want to respond, have I called you about myself or any other nominees for any position?
Thank you, Mr. Trump.
The answer is I have not because I don't ask the president for anything.
Why?
Because when you're asking him for something, he feels like you're trying to sell him a bunch of bullshit.
And one thing I'm never going to sell the president is bullshit.
You know why I support President Trump?
Any ideas in the chat?
Because I like what he stands for.
That's why.
It's not a quid pro quo.
However, I'm sure John Fund will write an article that I definitely picked this guy too, being that I'm very close to him.
Donald Trump announces Leo Terrell as senior counsel to the assistant attorney general for the Justice Department.
Number one, yes, I love Leo.
Leo Terrell has been a great friend to me.
Leo Terrell started and I started as bitter enemies on Fox, arguing back and forth.
Leo had a Leo 2.0 conversion.
I'm now honored to have my Leo 2.0 hat.
Leo and I have since become amazing friends.
He was one of the guys who showed up at my 50th birthday party.
He flew all the way in from California.
And I got to tell you, I'm honored to call this guy a friend and I wish Leo Terrell the best.
And John Funn, let me say on the record, in case you want to print another article, I had absolutely nothing to do about this.
I found out, Leo, if you're watching, you can put it out publicly.
Leo told me basically the night before, said, hey, keep this quiet.
That's when I found out.
That's basically when I found out with anyone else.
So, John, if you'd like to write another bullshit article, go right ahead.
Dan Bongino picked Leo Terrell, too.
Totally insane nonsense.
But there is a market for bullshit.
How do I know that?
Because the media still refuses to call out Biden's bullshit and is already starting to, let's say, remodel like Clay his legacy, and you and I are not going to let it happen.
Now, I want to give you a fair critique of my show, okay?
I know what you're going to say.
Forgive me if you heard this on the radio show yesterday, but it's important I address this.
A fair critique you might want to lob at me right now is, Dan, why are we still covering Biden?
He wasn't even the nominee and he lost.
Okay, good question.
Folks, because we are never going to dismantle the historical record of liberalism, socialism, and communism, because they're all flavors of the same ice cream, okay?
We are never going to dismantle it.
And put this thing in six feet deep where it deserves to be, this deadly, ruthless ideology.
If we don't accurately cover what people who enacted it like Joe Biden did to us, the media is already busy rewriting the history of Joe Biden.
You're going to see going forward.
They're going to say he was well-intentioned, but he loved his kid and it got in the way.
No.
Joe Biden is corrupt.
Joe Biden is a sociopath.
He's a lion sack of garbage, and he always has been.
Joe Biden is one of the worst character individuals ever in the history of politics.
He's a liar and a fraud and a cheat.
However, that's really not why Joe Biden failed.
Joe Biden failed because he did liberal stuff.
He expanded big government, which took away your individual liberty and placed it in a pot of unelected bureaucrats who effed you over.
That's it.
And now they're already busy, Biden and others, trying to remodel the Biden agenda so your kids don't learn liberalism sucks, just that Joe Biden sucked.
And I'm not going to let it happen.
Here's what I mean.
Here is Biden.
Yes, there's Biden.
No, it's Jake Sullivan first.
Here's his national security advisor.
Yesterday.
Tragically, hilariously, claiming that America is stronger after Joe Biden left office.
Really?
Afghanistan, the debt, the wokeness in the military, recruitment problems.
America is stronger?
Well, Jake Sullivan says so.
Check this out.
And our adversaries and competitors are weaker across the board.
Russia's weaker.
Iran's weaker.
China's weaker.
And all the while, we kept America out of war.
So I think the American people are safer.
The country is better off than we were four years ago.
The country is better off than we were four years ago.
In what respect?
The hundreds of thousands of criminals and terrorists and rapists and murderers and drug dealers and fentanyl traffickers and child sex traffickers in the country.
The inflationary crisis that has debased our dollar.
The lack of respect for us and our military overseas.
The October 7 terror attack, the invasion of Ukraine, the saber rattling across the strait in Taiwan.
Where exactly are we stronger?
I'd like to hear that.
Do not let them remodel like Play-Doh what Joe Biden and his liberalism did to this country.
Your kids are going to fall prey to this bullshit again.
Why do we keep fighting this same fight over and over again?
I've said to you over and over, communism, socialism, and liberalism have a 100% success record.
They do?
Yes, of failing.
Every single time.
The media does this every time.
They start to remold it to make the problems not about the ideology, but the person.
Here's Biden yesterday regurgitating this sick, deranged message that somehow America is stronger.
Do not let it happen.
It is important that even though he's gone and Kamala Harris lost resoundingly, that we highlight to our kids and others exactly what they did and why this ideology will destroy us in the end.
Check this out.
Compared to four years ago, America is stronger.
Our alliances are stronger.
Our adversaries and competitors are weaker.
We have not gone to war to make these things happen.
During my presidency, I've increased America's power in every dimension.
We've increased our diplomatic power.
Okay, none of that's true.
We have no diplomatic power anymore.
We will when Donald Trump gets in office.
Joe Biden tried to force Israel into a shitty deal that would have gotten Israel wiped off the face of the earth.
Thankfully, they didn't listen.
They did a ton of damage to enemies of them and enemies of the United States.
The Russians, unfortunately, did listen to Donald Trump when he suggested in a press conference, like an asshole, that it would be okay if Putin engaged in a small invasion and there really wouldn't be many consequences from it.
What did he do?
He then invaded Ukraine.
But it's not just that.
He's going to try to rewrite history and lie to people over and over and over again about his record on everything from geopolitics to the border.
We can't let it happen.
Open borders are part of the liberal communist socialist ideology.
Why?
Because they believe demographics will save them from their failure to produce for American citizens.
They talk about it all the time.
Demographic destiny.
Therefore, they can't have you know that involves an actual invasion at our southern border.
So you're going to hear Biden doing what he does here and rewriting history, claiming somehow that the border crossing numbers went down from him to Donald Trump.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a John Fund-like made-up story.
You just made this up.
Check this out.
Let's get something in mind about the border.
When I became president, the numbers came way down, number one.
Number two, we had a circumstance where I pushed very hard for a bipartisan agreement to put more people on the border, more secret services.
And guess what?
He's on the phone saying, don't do it.
Don't do it.
Make me look bad.
The border numbers went down?
And what the hell is he talking about?
The Secret Service at the border?
Can this guy get his head out of a freaking bowl of oatmeal for once?
I mean, my gosh, can you speak in a coherent sentence?
I mean, dude, try some Adderall or something.
Get your brain clear, man.
What is he doing at night?
Drinking?
Is this guy on a hangover all the time?
Even with this cognitive disorder, just speak in a coherent sentence once in a while.
The Secret Service has nothing to do with the border.
Of course, for the liberal bags on the show, all the Karens out there, the liberal Karens out there too, and queen of the Karens, who will make an appearance later in the show, I promise she's back again, who love to just make up numbers.
I went to your favorite buddies at the Washington Post so you can't accuse me of political bias.
They got the numbers from Biden's, if you look at the bottom, Department of Homeland Security.
Illegal crossings at U.S.-Mexico border.
According to the left-wing communist Washington Post, quote, illegal crossings reached an all-time high of 2.2 million in 2022. Barely ever crossing a million ever under Donald Trump.
Holy shit, Dan, Joe Biden's making that up?
Just like Johnny Fund.
Yes, he is.
Because that's what they do.
They make it up.
Do not let them rewrite the history of Joe Biden or your kids will be voting for this stuff again under the confused narrative that it was about Joe Biden and not about what Joe Biden's ideological ideas were.
That's the problem.
Yeah, but Joe Biden's corrupt.
We know that.
Every politician's corrupt.
But liberalism is deadly.
They do this all the time.
Well, Jimmy Carter was a bad president because it was just Jimmy Carter was uniquely unqualified.
No, Jimmy Carter was a liberal.
David Dinkins, the mayor of New York, was just a terrible mayor.
No, no, David Dinkins was a liberal.
They do this all the time.
All right, I got more coming up next, including a segment on the wildfires.
I'm going to get to Jessica Tarloff.
We may have to move that up, too, because I'm just getting tired of this.
The misinformation and the lies.
Ladies and gentlemen, the best compliment you can ever give me on this show.
I get it on Facebook all the time, sometimes in the Rumble chat too.
It's Dan, we learn a lot from the show.
I hope the show's entertaining.
I don't want to bore you to death, certainly.
But if the show's not educational, I'm wasting your freaking time.
I hope we learned a couple of things today here.
The border numbers, dissecting this Biden national security record, and also this Secret Service inauguration plan.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm not sure they have this thing locked down on the drones.
Quick break.
I'm going to get back to the show and show you a poll how these narratives are no longer catching on.
And this is why they're freaking out about Facebook because they can't censor you anymore.
Left-wing narratives are not working anymore.
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Folks, this is why they're freaked out about Facebook not censoring for them.
They cannot hide this stuff anymore.
Joe Biden and Jake Sullivan claiming America's in a better position and safer around the world when everybody knows the facts don't point in that direction.
Joe Biden claiming that he secured the border and the numbers went down.
Those are just made-up, fabricated numbers.
He just pulled that out of his ass.
He's making it up.
They can't hide it anymore because they can't censor you.
The California wildfires are a similar scenario.
What's driving them crazy is people are getting destroyed.
Their lives are being destroyed.
People have died.
I think it's 24 plus people right now have died in these tragic fires.
They've lost everything.
They've been wiped out.
You've had entire towns wiped out.
You have one of the world's most powerful cities burning right now.
And this multi-trillion dollar over decades government that has known about this problem since the inception of the California territories hasn't done shit to solve it.
You are paying this government with 50% of your money, if not more, in California.
And they effed you over, and that's a fact.
So what do they do?
You know what?
Play this Harry Anton clip from CNN. Get that Wall Street Journal article up next.
They've got a new bullshit narrative about this.
Because they cannot, just like I told you, they'll blame Biden and not liberalism.
They cannot, the media, cover this fairly and say, government sucks.
We have to reform it.
It's not doing its job.
So what do they do?
They blame it on climate change.
That's the bad news.
The good news?
Even CNN's pollster admits this shit ain't working.
Nobody's buying anymore.
Check this out.
I don't think Americans are making this connection.
And the way we can see this in right here and now, take a look at the monthly change in Google searches.
Look at the searches for wildfire.
Up 2,400 percent.
My goodness gracious.
This is the most amount of people searching for wildfires.
Ever.
Ever.
Going back since Google Trends began back in 2004. But look at climate change.
Look at the change.
It doesn't go hand in hand with wildfires.
It's actually down.
It's down 9%.
And I also looked in California.
There has been no increase in the number of searches for climate change.
So the bottom line is this.
Americans are definitely interested in learning about these wildfires.
They're interested in following the news about the wildfires.
But they are not making that connection.
That's the bottom line.
They're not making the connection with climate change because it's bullshit.
Even if there were a connection with climate change, you still look like jerkwads out in California because you have a freaking supermajority in government where Republicans have no statewide office or power at all to stop you.
And even if the climate was changing, what, you just ignored it and let the place burn down?
There is no scenario by which this is excusable.
Except if you're a big government freaking apologist.
Like the Queen of the Karens.
First, I'm going to show you this Wall Street Journal article.
Get ready.
Get ready.
They've got a new narrative.
What is it called in this article?
Hydrologic shock or something?
Is there a new thing?
Basically, the liberals' new narrative is...
Wow, these wet and dry seasons are causing a problem in California because it rains a lot in one year, vegetation grows, then it dries out, and there's fires.
As if this hasn't been an issue, like, forever.
Wall Street Journal, California's wildfire climate excuse.
So they're saying now climate change explains wet and dry seasons?
So it's wet, it's climate change.
It's dry, it's climate change.
It's in between, it's climate change.
Everything's climate change to these assholes.
Which follows, they note, the progressive line that climate change is responsible for every natural disaster, except for perhaps earthquakes.
Believe me, that's coming too.
In today's climate orthodoxy, bad weather is always man-made, except when you look at the actual data.
Here's the educational part of the edutainment portion of the show, okay?
Here's an actual chart.
The source is the freaking state of California, in case you want to blame Ron DeSantis or some Republican governor.
You look at California's annual precipitation since 1900, and it looks pretty consistent.
Before the Industrial Revolution.
So they're just making it up.
They're just making it up.
Just like John Fund, and just like Biden on the border.
Hydroclimate whiplash.
Thank you, guys.
I should have put that in the show.
That's what they're calling it.
Folks, it's bullshit.
You're being lied to.
And why are you being lied to?
Because liberals will never, ever hold themselves accountable for effing you over after stealing your money at the end of a barrel of a gun to fund their big government bureaucratic measures.
Why does this happen?
Because you've got Queen of the Curve.
Queen of the Curve.
People like Jessica Tarloff, on the five, not personal folks, who cannot simply acknowledge.
No matter what you say in this scenario, people do not want to hear how the supermajority of California Democrats, which have run the state for now close to 30 years monopolistically, either couldn't prepare for it.
Everything's an excuse.
Why was there no water in the reservoir?
Well, it wasn't maintained.
Well, maybe you should have fucking maintained it!
You dipshit!
You're in an area known for heavy winds and fires in the dry season.
Maybe fix the fucking reservoir!
You hydroclimate whiplash dipshits!
But Guy's like, what about the smell?
Maybe fix...
The damn reservoir.
The state has got a surplus, I think, this year of $16 billion.
Fix the freaking reservoir!
But here, here's Tarla.
Well, maybe don't maintain the reservoir during a fire season with dry weather and Santa Ana winds and fill the thing up?
Listen to this shit.
Check this out.
I hate that Governor Newsom had to create a new landing page on his site to put out the real facts about what the budgets have looked like, doubling the size of the air fleet.
Forest management budget increased ten times.
I understand it got a little wordy about the San Ynez Reservoir, but the truth is is that reservoir was offline through February 2025 no matter what.
This wasn't something, an unpreparedness thing.
There was a tear in the cover that they had to repair.
It's a normal maintenance thing.
So yes, would it have been better if it had been filled?
Sure, but that's not because of mismanage here.
That's maintenance that has to happen.
But the maintenance didn't happen in time.
But it's not behind schedule, is the point.
This isn't because they neglected it.
It's because they didn't make time as of the essence in this contract.
If they don't have that reservoir, that involved the Palisades.
I totally understand.
It's like saying we're not going to have cops where we know there's going to be a crime.
Well, you don't know that there's going to be a crime.
This fire was predicted five days out, not months out when it went offline.
We've been hearing that.
We love the Karen.
Folks, why do you keep voting for people like this and their ass kissing sycophants like Queen of the Karens?
Thank you.
It's not like you knew there was going to be a crime.
Well, let me tell you how this works, Jessica.
When you have a thing like Comstat and you call in a precinct commander and you say there's been 72 drug deals on this corner in the last week.
Can you reasonably assume, Queen of the Karens, that there's a problem on that corner that needs to be handled and there'll likely be another drug dealer again?
Yes, so you put a cop there.
That's why we pay government.
I know you're not smart, but you're telling people, don't do your own fire mitigation with insurance companies and a private fire department.
Give it to the government.
We'll figure it out.
They're in a known fire area during a dry season with Santa Ana winds and they're like, you think we should fix that reservoir?
Nah, fuck it.
We'll get to it when we get to it.
This is what you're going to get.
Here's the difference.
I'm not telling you free market companies and private companies and insurance companies are the answer to all your problems.
Do they F people over?
All the time.
There's a difference.
You can fire them.
Once you elect a government, you're stuck with them.
That's it.
You can't get away from them.
I want you to listen to this.
This is worth your time.
It's about a minute 40, but I promise it's a little long for the show, but it's worth your time.
I found this guy yesterday, Jack Hibbs.
He has, I guess, a radio show out there.
And I'd never heard of him before yesterday.
I'm going to have to look him up.
But he was given a speech here on the California, the concentrated power of the Democrats in California and everything they've done to destroy the state.
They have a supermajority, folks.
They're in charge while all this is going down.
They are responsible.
That's what taking responsibility means.
You lose 16 football games because you don't have a weight room because you didn't maintain the weight room and you keep getting jacked up on the line because you're not strong enough, then it's your responsibility as a coach to get fired and take frequent responsibility for not training your athletes.
Here's Hibs on the California supermajority and how these guys can't escape accountability.
Check this out.
And you proved me wrong.
I challenge you today if you don't like what I'm about to say.
California has been under...
Unmitigated Democrat 100% power control.
Democrat.
Supermajority.
What does that mean?
Supermajority.
It means nobody can oppose their decision making.
And now you've got it.
You've got a situation where a catastrophe came and the billions of dollars that you and I gave was diverted to other woke, stupid Democrat projects.
That's not hyperbole.
It is a fact.
If you don't like it, change your party.
If you don't like it, change different.
But I'm telling you right now, I'm upset and I'm angry and it's the right kind of anger.
I'm telling you this right now.
When you open up a fire hydrant and nothing comes out, and then Joe Biden says, it's because we need electricity.
It was turned off for the fire hydrant to turn on.
In some cases that might be true.
If the fire hydrants are on top of a mountain, you need a motor to drive the water up.
That's extremely rare and it wasn't the case in these fires.
Bad management, horrific politicians who took your money and took trips like Karen Bass, the mayor of LA, she decided to go to Africa the week of the fires to be on a little trip that you paid for.
She was really put out when she was told to come home.
It didn't look bad.
I mean, it didn't look good, but it looked very bad.
You've got Gavin Newsom flying down here and then at a command center laughing it up with some people and it's caught on tape while he spends nine point so many millions of probably your dollars to buy himself a new house.
Yeah, brother.
That's right.
Empty reservoirs, empty fire hydrants.
At what point does the Queen of the Cairns and others out there acknowledge that you guys are actually participants in this debacle?
Because it's not just that government failed these people and their lives were destroyed and 24, I think more than that, 24 people now have died.
Their lives were destroyed.
Their lives were taken.
That you guys are covering for them.
Our narrative accomplices in covering up the debacle that this state's become.
This is how they operate, folks.
Every single time.
And the media covers up for them.
I want to transition to a story that's been on my mind, too, because now last night, in case you missed it, Jack Smith.
He was given approval to release his report.
There's nothing new in there, folks.
It's all bullshit.
The only newsworthy item from Tyrant Jack Smith's report, who's now left the Justice Department, is that he de facto acknowledges in the report that Donald Trump wasn't responsible for an insurrection.
There was no way they could prove it because there was no insurrection.
He told people to march peacefully and patriotically.
It's crazy that he even thought in front of a biased D.C. jury full of Trump haters that he still couldn't prove that beyond a reasonable doubt because he was making it up.
But this Mar-a-Lago raid has been on my mind for a long time.
I've gotten into a lot of fights over this because Christopher Wray, this is his darkest moment.
The soon-to-be-departing, thankfully, FBI director.
This is where Christopher Wray fully and completely broke the FBI. Any reasonable FBI director understanding the President of the United States' declassification powers would have never in a thousand years authorized a raid on Mar-a-Lago.
Only an absolute moron or a tyrant would have done it.
I'm not sure which one Christopher Wray is.
Maybe both.
Here he is on 61 Minutes.
Again.
Trying to explain this as if there isn't a dispute about the president's classification authorities and what was classified as if this was a black and white matter beyond the reasonable doubt where he had actual probable cause for a search warrant where no such thing even existed.
There was a real dispute here, and I'm going to prove it to you in a minute, about if these things were even classified at all.
This thing didn't even meet close to a standard for probable cause for a warrant.
But watch Christopher Wray just assume that's all true.
Check this out.
Trump is also livid about the FBI search in 2022 for classified files at his home.
A Trump lawyer certified that all classified papers had been returned to the government.
But the FBI said later it found 72 documents marked top secret or secret, at least one.
I want to be careful not to discuss too many of the specifics of an investigation, but what I can tell you is that part of the FBI's job is to safeguard classified information.
And when we learn that information, classified material, is not being properly stored, we have a duty to act.
And I can tell you that in investigations like this one, a search warrant Is not, and here was not, anybody's first choice.
We always try to pursue, invariably try to pursue, the least intrusive means.
First trying to get the information back voluntarily, then with a subpoena.
And only if, after all that, we learn that the agents haven't been given all of the classified material, and in fact, those efforts have been frustrated, even obstructed, then our agents are left with no choice.
To go to a federal judge, make a probable cause showing, and get a search warrant.
And that's what happened here.
They have no probable cause, folks.
His duty isn't to act as he just falsely stated.
His duty is to follow the law.
Does he not know that?
Our duty is to act?
Well, what is the law?
Here's the educational portion of the show.
Just a news article.
I want you to read this.
It's an older article, but it's worth your time.
It's in the newsletter again.
Save this for your dumbass friends who still don't understand why the FBI raided them and had zero probable cause of a crime whatsoever.
Matter of fact, the law says they had no evidence at all of a crime.
There's already been a lawsuit about classified papers.
However, the last lawsuit involved the Democrat.
And notice how the FBI and everyone else handled it completely differently.
Who was that Democrat?
Yes, William Jefferson Clinton, sometimes known as Bill.
And the ruling from Amy Berman Jackson, Bill Clinton had some papers in a sock drawer.
Was it under the statutory scheme established by the Presidential Records Act, the decision to segregate personal materials from presidential records, listen to this, is made by the president.
During the president's term, and in his sole discretion, Amy Jackson wrote in her 2012 decision, which was never appealed, oh, it goes on.
Since the president is completely entrusted with the management and disposal of presidential records during his time in office, it would be difficult for the court to conclude that Congress intended he would have less authority to do what he pleases with what he considers to be his personal records, Amy Berman Jackson added.
Sounds pretty conclusive.
She ultimately rejected a lawsuit, concluding there was no provision in the Presidential Records Act to force the National Archives involved in the Trump case to seize records from a former president.
You see how everybody in the left-wing media wanted this narrative out there that there was some confusion?
There's no confusion.
When it was a Democrat, there's no confusion at all.
It's in his sole discretion what his papers are or not.
Christopher Wray jumps to chapter 6 of the book, assuming that they weren't Donald Trump's records and he's entitled to them.
Notice he ignores the 2012 ruling, the court precedent, which, by the way, was never appealed.
Notice how he ignores that.
And notice how the media never brings this Bill Clinton case up.
Folks, the bias here is really deeply disturbing.
Go to that Axios piece if you would.
That's why this Axios piece is so critical.
For all the times I give you bad news, I want to follow it up with good news so you understand that all of the work you're doing on social media and elsewhere to combat bullshit liberal narratives, ladies and gentlemen, is working.
Axios, Americans' faith in most professions dwindles.
They're covering a Gallup poll.
Look at who's getting...
Absolutely crushed.
The honesty and loyalty of professionals.
People like nurses, grade school teachers, military officers, pharmacists, medical doctors.
Good, they've earned it.
Majority negative opinions?
Yes!
TV reporters, members of Congress, and lobbyists.
TV reporters, John Funds, and others out there.
Liars out there who make stuff up.
That's why nobody trusts you.
Because you lie, you're full of shit.
The fact checkers, if Facebook follows through, are not going to be able to protect you anymore.
And this is why nobody trusts you.
Let me end on a good note today.
Did you see this video of Donald Trump?
Remember that he got the garbage truck thing?
Did you guys remember this garbage truck thing?
This is why I love this guy.
He does stuff that's so unconventional and puts the media on their asses so much that it's my Dan Bongino media they show their ass thing.
Where they react emotionally instead of a problem.
Their problem is they need to get rid of Donald Trump.
But because Donald Trump trolls them so effectively every time, they let their emotions get in the way and they destroy their own credibility, as you see from this survey up there.
They don't seem to care that no one in America actually believes them and has a majority negative opinion of them.
They don't mind.
And it's because he does things like this.
Remember when Joe Biden called us all garbage MAGA supporters and Donald Trump got in a garbage truck?
How do you like my garbage truck?
Genius, by the way.
Freaking genius.
Me and many others thought this was an amazing idea.
I'm glad they jumped on that idea.
They probably thought of it themselves.
I mean, everybody thought it was a good idea.
They don't want to take, like, false credit for it or anything like that.
But the Trump garbage truck is now going to be in the inaugural parade.
Ladies and gentlemen, make parades great again.
Only Donald Trump control the media like that.
And that's why, what is it, close to 80-plus percent of Americans have a majority negative opinion of TV reporters because they can't control themselves.
I'll be watching the Pete Exeth hearing today.
I have a full report for you on tomorrow.
You know how I like to handle these things.
I don't want to be first.
I like to digest them first.
There have been, of course, a bunch of ridiculous attacks based on false allegations of Pete.
Let me just say, before we get off the air, I worked with Pete.
I've known Pete for over 10 years.
He's a man of integrity.
He's a man of dignity.
Any of these allegations that, oh, he showed up drunk at work.
I work with Pete a lot.
I was up in New York all the time.
Those stories are false.
They are made up.
I never heard a single word about that.
I am still friendly with all the people at Fox& Friends.
My former producers were all Fox& Friends people.
That is absolute bullshit.
They're making this stuff up.
Stick with Pete.
Stand with Pete.
Give a call to your senators.
Make sure they're voting the right way.
We need this guy.
I'll see you on the radio show here in Rumble in a little bit and back here tomorrow at 11 a.m.
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