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March 1, 2026 - Lionel Nation
23:42
DAN BONGINO Has Lost His Mind

Dan Bongino’s credibility crumbles as a critic dismisses his FBI tenure (9 months) and hyper-aggressive style, contrasting it with Candace Owens’ precise research—like exposing elite family ties via a high school yearbook—while mocking his overblown reaction to her trailer. The attack on Owens, framed as "demon" or "sinful," stems from Erica Kirk’s defensive use of widowhood, not Owens’ documented claims. Bongino’s outburst, the speaker argues, backfires, undermining his own influence while Owens emerges as a sharper, more authentic voice. [Automatically generated summary]

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Hey, Don't Fall For It 00:12:03
I swore I wouldn't comment on this.
I swore to myself I wouldn't comment.
I swore.
I said, come on, you can't.
This is.
Dan Bongino, don't.
Don't.
Don't, don't.
Just, no, no, don't, don't do it.
Let it go.
Okay, I know he's acting up.
Don't fall for it.
Don't fall for it.
I fell for it.
I'm weak.
I'm a weak person.
I have to tell you this, though, because I just, I keep thinking about the kids who are watching this.
I mean, we're supposedly, I guess, adults.
This is an adult.
This guy was the assistant director of the FBI.
He was on the duty for short of 10 months, old blood and guts.
He sticks with it.
Why did he leave?
I don't know.
But he basically is somebody who is not crazy.
Not crazy.
I think we use the word crazy too much.
I don't think he's clinically crazy.
I don't think he's hospitalizable.
Though observation might be in order.
No, I don't think that's it.
I think he's just, frankly, full of shit, which is a big problem, as you can tell, which is plaguing our country and clogging our system.
So let's just call him FOS.
Okay, let's keep the schatology to a minimum, shall we?
I only use coprolalic references when I have to.
I think to make the point.
Or when something is so familiar in an idiomatic sense that for me not to say it, you know what I mean?
It's like bullshit.
Come on.
It would take me 30 words to even come close to what that connotes.
In any event.
First, as you know, we have a bunch of characters.
We have a lot of people in the world trying their best to maybe get to the point to establish themselves.
It's like, what's your shtick?
What's your shtick?
Well, he's the hot-headed ex-cop.
Kash Patel is the.
Still try to figure that one out.
But Dan, Dan is the hot-blooded, come on, you tough.
Okay.
And remember, real tough guys don't talk like that.
Trust me.
Here in New York and elsewhere, the people that you really got to worry about, they don't talk like that.
They're very calm in a very interesting way.
They don't lend themselves to this hyperactivity.
So what's it all about, Alfie?
Well, first of all, let me explain.
Candace Owens is the target.
She's the, she's everything.
She has systematically put more people to work, have provided income and generated more taxes based upon the income generated than anybody else.
She probably, she's put more people to work than Danny Boy has.
Absolutely.
She is the subject.
Everybody's talking about her.
Everybody.
Everybody.
She is the hottest thing around.
I mean, she was, listen, she was very popular before and very big, but not like now.
And she has done something which is so wonderful in our day and age, my friend.
And that is that she's the real McCoy.
She stands for truth.
I believe she is truly a friend of Charlie.
I think she is maybe one of the only people who seems to even remember him or talk about his name other than being in a prop.
I think she really, I think she really, I think she means it.
I think she and Charlie were very, very close.
And she's been able to convey and connote and comprehend kind of the way things are.
She's a natural communicator.
She thinks almost like a prosecutor in a linear pattern.
Very, very clearly.
She makes her case.
And what happened was nobody mentioned Erica Kirk at all until she started acting like a damn fool.
Then it was fair game.
You see, nobody went after this widow.
Nobody thinks it's funny to make fun of widows.
Nobody did.
Nobody.
Nobody ever came up with the idea that, hey, let's give this woman a hard time, shall we?
Let's give her a hard time.
Let's mock her.
She just lost her husband.
What do you say?
Nobody thinks like that.
Nobody.
But the way they make it sound, that's all they talk about.
She's a widow.
God damn it, she's a widow.
Okay.
I know that.
It's the way the widow is acting.
Don't say anything.
She's a widow.
All right.
You know, let me tell you something.
Imagine during the height of the JFK assassination, if people were wondering about whether this was in fact a lone gunman, whether it was a conspiracy.
What if somebody said, don't bring up Jackie Kennedy?
God kill her.
She's a widow.
Well, how else am I going to talk?
It's a murder.
Don't talk about that.
They don't say that.
Hillary Clinton was on in the deposition in Chappa Cole.
Don't talk to Hillary Clinton.
Don't you understand?
She's going to be a widow one day.
I mean, just, I've never, that's the best you can do.
So anyway, what happened was, and I'm just guessing, I'm just guessing.
I don't have any receipts.
That's the big thing now.
I got the receipts.
And Candace has the receipts.
Her research, did you see her pull up a high school yearbook?
Where the hell did she get that?
You do not want Candace Owens investigating you.
That's all I'm saying.
She makes Mike Wallace look like Ruth Wallace, whoever the hell that is.
All right, now.
So what happened was the word came out, she's doing an investigative report.
Candace Owens is doing an investigative report, some type of documentary, mini doc or a documentary series on Erica.
All right, you got that?
Okay.
So somebody, I'm just guessing.
I'm just saying.
It seems like I wouldn't be surprised if somebody say, here, everybody, come here, come here, gather around, usual suspects.
And I want all you people, Jerry, usual, usual.
I want all of you people to go out there and just tear her apart.
And make sure you use these words.
Demon, how dare you?
Sinful, Satan, hell.
And make sure you use them in that order.
I want the first salvo to be demon, so it looks contrived and choreographed and performative.
I want the second series to be hounds of hell.
Third to be no good cur.
Whatever we, I mean, it was, they're so sloppy.
You think they would say, please don't use the same words.
Don't, somebody's going to be curating our work.
Somebody's going to be putting these together and stacking all of our emails or all of our tweets, rather, or ex-posts.
Somebody's going to be doing it, so please don't use the word demon.
Well, they use the word demon.
Okay.
So they all did it.
And they all said the same thing.
How dare you?
Now, first, two things.
Number one, and if you've heard me, you're going to hear me say this again.
Candace had put out the trailer.
The trailer of which yours truly was featured in the trailer just commenting on this.
And somebody said to me, seriously, they said, hey, that's great.
I said, Candace put that in.
I didn't.
I did it initially, but it's hers.
Everybody takes credit, just like a lot of people take her work.
And they'll chop it or they'll look at her and say, yep, they'll look at her particular, you know, her YouTube contribution and they'll just watch it and claim it as their own.
Well, that was something.
Okay, tune in next week for the next Candace thing that we steal.
It's like, wow, dude.
All right.
And then even, so here we go.
We're doing all this.
What's interesting to note, probably more than anything else out of this whole story, is that everybody's trying to find a way.
I'll get to it now.
I'll get to Danny.
Everybody's trying to find their way to find their moment in the sun.
And here comes Dan.
Okay.
Number one.
If I was doing a movie and I'm the director and the person played Bongino in, by the way, the bangina, please.
Is that necessary?
I mean, seriously.
Bangina?
You're making pudendal references?
Okay.
I don't blame you.
So if I said, okay, I want you to do this scene.
Now in this scene, I want you to play Dan.
Now, what Dan's going to do is Dan is going to act over the top.
Think the anger you would feel as though somebody kidnapped your kid and you were talking, like you were maybe Samanna Guthrie talking to Nancy Guthrie's, you know, kidnapper.
There's a place of hell.
That hurt.
That's Dan.
I think somebody will say, hey, hey, hey, Danny, Danny, whoa, whoa, whoa, hey, Coach Cheese.
Hey, Thena Berra, take it easy.
What is this?
Dan, this is the trailer.
We don't even know what she's done yet.
Wait until it comes out.
This is the trailer.
Kapish.
The trailer.
You're going nuts.
That's what everybody else did.
But he went, he's making noises.
I don't even know what he's doing.
I say, somebody helped this guy.
It's the trailer.
Dan, look, we know you're a phony and we know you don't believe this, but at least give it, give the whole message, you know, a chance, a working chance, maybe, just, just maybe.
Why don't you just wait a few minutes?
Maybe wait a day.
And then after the first episode comes out, you want to try that?
This is nuts.
And Candace is saying, what the fuck is this guy talking about?
Even people are saying, hey, that's great.
Hey, Dan.
Okay, Dan.
And Kash Patel is thinking, I can't, I can't over.
Cash is thinking, this guy was the assistant director?
Even Trump's thinking, he had a gun.
He Came Out Tough 00:05:35
What happened?
What happened?
I mean, he came out with such a tough guy.
I know I said I wouldn't do this, but I have to.
I have to.
He came out with this tough guy thing that is just, I mean.
Now, if somebody says, excuse me, yes, can I ask a question?
Sure, certainly.
Would any of you find people tell me, what exactly did Candace Owens do to warrant this?
If you could, just help me.
What did she do to bring this about?
What?
Did she mock or laud, laugh at the fact that Erica Kirk lost her husband?
No.
No.
Charlie was her friend.
How could she do that?
What did she talk about?
She talked about, number one, first of all, the people who came after her.
But second of all, Erica, who basically told her, you are either wrong or this or sadistic or whatever the particular phrase was.
Now, interesting to note.
Normally, normally, when somebody says something, imagine this.
Okay, is it, yes, is it Candace?
Hi, Candace.
Listen, I got a couple of things here.
Number one, I was never in Wachuca.
Number two, you spelled my name wrong.
Number three, you got the number of my kids wrong.
Number four, the date of Charlie's birth was wrong.
Number five, I never did work for this.
Number six, my mother is not, she's not Eloise lipschitz.
If you ever did that and said, boom, Candace would go berserk.
Why?
Because, and she should, because that would mean I'm wrong.
My research is wrong.
My allegations are wrong.
My theory is wrong.
It's all wrong.
That would make sense.
But they don't do that.
It's all personal.
You're crazy.
You're a guss.
You're a conspiracy theorist.
Go down the list.
You're evil.
You're demonic.
You're a Satan.
There's a place in hell for you.
If I took, I swear to you, if I took, remember that terrible scene when Jeffrey Dahmer, when his victims were screaming in court about him?
And if you took, I swear to you, took what they said about victims of their family who were victims of this cannibalistic serial killer, took those comments, they wouldn't be as strong as what people are saying against Candace.
It's inordinate.
It's inordinate.
And here's the best part.
I love her.
I mean, I love her verb.
I love her spunk.
I love her.
Her last episode two is so complex, so monumentally complex.
It's like something I've never seen before.
So what we are seeing is an indictment of such particularity, such incredible coverage.
It's mind-blowing, mind-blowing.
The precision.
But what's interesting to note is that they really don't mention Erica.
I mean, they really, honest to God, don't mention Erica as much as the foundation, the background, her provenance, the genealogy, the curriculum vitae, all of these aspects of hers.
And for those of you who are a member of the conspiratorium, as I am, we have always believed that one of the interesting aspects of all of this is that when you are born in this routine, when you are born in this world,
you many times, oftentimes, come from, especially if you're into the kind of like the elite globalist, you're from a group of people who share lineage,
share family, share religion, share, it's like this little pockets of inbred, so to speak, consanguinity, family members, groups, collectives, because they only trust each other.
That's been the basis from the Illuminati to, you name it.
I mean, this isn't anything new.
They also explain very correctly the role of Intel in the work of this and how Intel and science somehow manipulate and work hand in hand with these nefarious folks.
So the bottom line is she's absolutely correct.
She didn't really mention Erica.
And Dan Bongino is out of his mind.
I mean, he's just full of shit.
He's, I mean, he, and this is the worst part, he doesn't realize it.
Circle Back On Candace 00:06:01
He doesn't understand that people are just laughing at him.
Even people who theoretically agree with him or who are on the dole or on the take or on the grift, those who have to pretend that they truly hate Candace as much as they say, even they're saying, dude, what's this guy talking about?
Who's this feller?
Who's this guy?
What's he talking about?
He was a what?
A cyst in drink.
No.
How long?
Not even 10 months.
I'll be a godman.
What?
You can't make this up.
And the saddest part is he doesn't know.
He thinks, how'd I do?
Now, whoever might be, and there's no proof of this, but if there were someone who would be paying him for his circumcision or contributing in kind to whatever particular monetary remuneration platform there is, they would say, you just set us back five years because you look like an idiot.
They're only looking at you.
All of the other people who were rather rational in their denouncement, then there's you for the love of God.
And then there's you.
What are you doing?
Do us a favor.
From now on, this is what I would say, you better run this by us.
You know what, better yet?
Maybe you're under some stress.
Why don't you take a load off and we'll circle back, as Jen Saki would say, we'll circle back sometime soon.
Because you're not, you don't even know proportion.
You don't even know how far to go with this thing.
You're hurting us because you're making us all look like lunatics by virtue of your own lunacy or ostensible lunacy.
You got it?
Okay.
So remember, Candace, we love her.
I love people who love the truth.
I love people who've got balls.
Elephantine, huge, gargantuan, wheelbarrow-like orbs that you need.
I mean, just she's, my God.
And she doesn't stop.
And she does it with this beautiful presentation.
Language.
She's perfect.
It's lilty.
It's poetic.
It's baletic.
It's beautiful.
And she laughs.
And she does this.
And here's this.
And then there's Laurie.
and then there's Fransby, and there's this one, and then she goes, it's beautiful.
And she's effortless.
Effortless.
And meanwhile, he's going crazy.
And I swear to God, it's in my last time.
I'm going to say, it was a trailer.
Nobody knew what.
It could have been the worst documentary ever.
is the trailer you don't that's why they don't they don't write reviews of movies based on the All right, I've said enough.
Did I thank you enough for this?
You're something.
You know, you and I have something in common.
Look at me.
You and I have something in common.
You know what?
We love truth.
I swear to you, if somebody, I may even disagree with them, but if they're sincere and if their position is remotely tenable, I'm with them.
I'll say, okay, I'll give you this.
But just be authentic.
If you're really that pissed off, first of all, your family should have been wiped out by a bunch of wombats or something because the only thing that could have in any way warranted that particular level and volume of ferocity is something far more inconceivable than you merely watching a trailer.
I violated my rule.
A trailer.
Okay?
All right.
So thank you for your kind words.
I've got some questions to follow this up.
Please like this video.
You know the routine.
Please subscribe to the video.
Tell your friends.
And join me as we support Candice.
God love her.
Honey, we're behind you 100%.
There are so many of us.
And we are a part of a movement.
I don't know why.
I don't.
What is this?
Remember what I told you?
I believe that based upon some of the numbers, Joe Rogan and others might be more popular, but nobody's more powerful.
Nobody is more powerful than she is.
Nobody.
And that's one of the reasons why they're enlisting all these people to help, because they don't know what to do.
Because they can't refute what she's saying because what she's saying is true.
And let me make sure I say this.
I have no ill feeling towards the person, the mother, or the widow named Erica.
I don't.
I never did.
Never.
It was never about her.
Never personal.
Never about her.
That's not it.
It's what she said later on and used her widow status as a shield, as some kind of Kevlar or some kind of Teflon or something that kept us away.
It doesn't work that way.
And the more you did that, and others and your proxies, the more they did it, the more we realize you really aren't sincere.
And instead of her, again, just picking up, she's doubling down on this.
Okay, I've said enough.
Thank you for taking time out.
Thank you for this.
Remember, I appreciate your support.
And Candace supports your appreciation as well.
What the hell does that mean?
I'm going to pass out if I do that one more time.
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