Transcript of Trump Drops The Hammer At Press Conference (Ep. 2389)

Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino.

You know, here's where I get this Bongino rule from. So you don't think I just, like, pulled this thing out of my caboose somewhere and made it up? I will never forget being a street cop in New York, especially when you're on a foot post. Because when you're on a foot post, you're out there. You don't have the, you know, you you don't have the the vehicle, the car insulating you from the environment.

You hear and see everything. Your air. You're right there. You would see stuff break out right in front of you, robbery or something else. You'd be sitting there from where they wouldn't see you, and they'd rob someone.

And you'd be stunned because you'd see everything. It'd be a guy, say, 5 foot 1 with a red jacket and blue jeans or 5 foot 2, some short guy, whatever it is. And the lady then come up to you, you'd run over and try to help him out. Right? And lady who's getting mugged, you'd say, oh my gosh.

Did you see him? He was, like, 7 feet tall with a blue jacket and red pants inverting everything. And you'd be like, that's not that's that's not what happened. That is why the first version of any event, even with the media, is almost always wrong. It applies yesterday to what happened with this school shooting.

I'm gonna try to be helpful today, unlike the losers and morons in the media rushing information out turned out to be wrong, already telling you a story rather than the story, and I'm gonna help you out with some actual research on these school shooting things if you're a parent. I just got a little bit of time on that. Not much. And then I have to get to some huge updates on this January 6th IG report because Bennie Thompson's looking for a pardon, the January 6th committee chair. There's a reason.

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Let's go. Folks, here's what I mean. The first telling of an event is almost always gonna be wrong. We had this, school shooting yesterday in Madison, Wisconsin. An obvious tragedy report came out.

There were 5 people that were killed, then there were 3 people that were killed. And then you've got this police chief who goes out there, and he doesn't wanna say, the the the gender or any kind of, identifying characteristics of the, suspect in the case, which of course which of course fosters a lot of people's, gets their minds going on, well, why would they hide that? This is the kind of stuff this is the main reason behind the invocation of the Bongino rule, which is just wait before during any conclusions. Talk about a story all you want. But I'm telling you the first telling of events is almost always wrong.

Even from eyewitnesses. No less eyewitnesses talking to someone else that's talking to the media. I want you to listen to this just quick 30 seconds from the police chief. And this was very suspicious from the start. Why would you not say the gender or sex of the of the, of the suspect in the case?

This was very bizarre. Check this out.

Here are the details today at 10:57 AM. Our team was called to the Abundant Life Christian School in reference to an active shooter. We know that 3 people are dead, including the suspect shooter. We know that the suspect shooter was a teenage student who attended the school. At this time, we're not releasing the age or gender of the student or any other identifying remarks about the student.

Alright. Again, I know they're dealing with a lot, but that just started to, again, get people questioning if the American media and other people have put so much pressure on police officials that right now, even police investigations where information value to the public valuable to the public is being held back because they're afraid it's gonna be perceived like another Nashville incident. The answer is the facts aren't a problem. Just get them out there. The first telling of a story is almost always wrong.

Shock, stress, they distort reality. People see things and hear things that aren't there. It is the genesis of the Bongino rule. It's why I try not to get emotional about stories, tragic or not. I try to just get the story out there, put a little color to it, give you an opinion on it, so you know you this is the home for truth for you.

I'm trying to get out some helpful information. So for those of you out there who have kids in schools, you're a school administrator, an SRO, school resource officer, or police officer. Again, I'm not gonna spend a ton of time on this because tragically these things do tend to happen. I wish they didn't. There are problems.

Of course, the left's creating a story. It's all about the guns as if guns haven't existed for 200 years. No one's ever goes, well, why didn't we do this when there were guns around in the fifties? Why? Oh, I don't know.

I don't wanna ask those questions because they're inconvenient. Maybe because we had families and churches, and we'd have the left, you know, a sailing our culture every day. I don't know. Don't ask those questions. They're really inconvenient.

I'm gonna get to that part in a second, but this Secret Service analysis, I know they've been going through a rough time with some terrible tactics and really screwing up with Trump, but they've done some really good things. They did part of this when I was there. They started this is the National Threat Assessment, Center. Yeah. You'll see at the bottom, NTAC.

This is a study they did with the Secret Service on school shootings and targeted violence. Folks, the link to it is in the newsletter. Bongino.com/newsletter. It's free. You don't have to pay for anything.

We don't spam your inbox. If you go there, you will see this link. I strongly encourage you to download it. There's about 10 bullet takeaways. I'll just go through some of them really quick.

If you have a kid in school, these are the things they notice studying just a bevy of incidents just like this targeted violence at schools. Attackers usually had multiple motives. Wait. Go back to the first 1. You already zip and pad.

And go but, yeah, attackers usually had multiple motives. The most common involving a grievance with classmates. Not surprising. There was usually some trauma in the classroom with these kids bullying and things like that. I mean, it's I mean, everyone who's bullied is gonna go up and shoot a school up.

No. But this is an issue. Most attackers use firearms. They were often acquired from the home. This is something I talked about yesterday.

I am a big believer in the second amendment. I'm also a big believer in personal responsibility and securing your firearms. I'll go through a couple more here. Most attackers had experienced psychological behavioral developmental symptoms. Again, the kind of thing that if a child is going through some issues independently of being bullied and ends being bullied too, you gotta be careful.

Okay? These it can tip over the edge, especially if you don't have a good support group. Half the attackers had interest in violent topics, and, you'll see this more if you just wanna scroll through, quickly the rest of them. Social stressors and things like this. Folks, this report is out there for you to read.

Can't recommend it enough. Is it some this positive final analysis? Like, if you hit all 10 of these, you were definitely gonna be a school shooter. It is not. However, just like when the secret service goes out and investigates people who, threaten the president, we have to designate them by a class, class 1, class 2, or class 3, really dangerous.

We do it the same way. We look at bullet points. I'm not gonna say what they are because I don't wanna give anybody any ideas. But if you meet 8 out of 10 of them, then, yeah, you could be kind of an issue. So check it out.

I hope it's helpful. I'm candidly, honestly, genuinely trying to help here and not tell you bullshit stories about it's the guns. There have been guns around forever. People going and parroting this stupid left wing narrative. Guns have been around since the invention of this thing called gunpowder.

Wow. Look. It explodes. It's incredible that this has only been a problem since we've had this attack on boys, this culture war in America. I'm not sitting here telling you that access to firearms for people in trouble isn't an issue.

I just said to you 5 minutes ago, even less, that, yes, if you have a firearm in the house with a child who's troubled, some 13 year old boy or girl in trouble, then and we we know the shooter was a was a girl now, but since that's that's been clear. But then it's your job to secure the firearm. I'm not naive to that. You see what honesty looks like? Not the left.

Here we go already with the gun did it story, which is fascinating. Because when the UnitedHealthcare CEO was murdered with a firearm with an actual firearm, did you notice the story wasn't about the gun? I thought they were against gun violence. What was the story, guys? You remember evil healthcare CEOs.

Hey, guys shot him in the back. You see left wingers getting tattoos of the guy with the gun shooting him. So left wingers, go yourselves. Nobody buys your bullshit. You're telling people a story, not the story.

If you thought it was about guns, you would have made it about freaking guns too when the UnitedHealthcare guy got shot in the back, but you love that shooting. You didn't give a shit about the gun, so you could take that and shove it up your ass. You're full of shit, and you know it. You just want a law abiding Americans. You wanna disarm them, and you saw an opportunity for our story rather than the story.

Just like you saw an opportunity for an attack on free market health care last week. You didn't care that a guy used the gun. But here, of course, is Frank Figueroa Figueroa Figueroa Figueroa Figueroa Figueroa Figueroa Figueroa Figueroa Figueroa Figueroa Figueroa Figueroa Figueroa Figueroa Figueroa Figueroa Figueroa Figueroa Figueroa Figueroa Figueroa Figueroa Figueroa Fig He gives in the beginning what seems like some reasonable answer. Well, we should look at this with this, and then he goes right to the gun at the end and says 1 of the dumbest things you'll ever hear. You know, we've gotta look at these laws with kids and criminals with guns.

Folks in the chat, quickly, yes or no. Aren't there already laws that prevent young kids and criminals from getting guns? Guys, I'm not sure. And you guys firearms owners, Michael, Justin, I'm reasonably confident reason I'm not too sure. I don't know a lot about a lot that if you're a kid or you're a criminal, that there are already things called laws that will prevent you from getting a firearm.

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You'll have you'll have certain sides saying it's, it's all mental health, and we need to get better at that. And you know what? That's true, but it's not all mental health. We'll have people say we need to lock down schools more and have many armed officers all over a school. There have been numerous cases where there have been armed officers, and and they didn't get there fast enough.

And so that's not the issue. Guns continue to be the issue. And, particularly, access to guns from people who should not have them, including criminal actors and young people who should not have access. So until we address all of these issues together and acknowledge the role of guns, we're not gonna see significant change.

Did now I just want this on the record here. Did you notice these left wing media outlets avoided the gun conversation altogether when the UnitedHealthcare CEO was shot in the back in the middle of a Manhattan street? Manhattan, which has some of the strictest gun laws in the world. Did you notice suspiciously that nobody seemed to give a shit about guns and that thing? Why?

Because the left only cares. I'm, like, a little too wired for today's show. I'm sorry. I don't know if it's blackout coffee or me being pissed off because I love the second amendment and the ability to protect myself. The left doesn't give a shit about guns.

Do you understand that? It is a proxy argument. They don't care. If the left cared about guns, Joe Biden would not have pardoned his son for a freaking gun crime dipshits on the left. They don't care about guns.

They don't. No. They don't. Anyone in the chat remember when I did this whole spiel on the second amendment because I I love the ability to defend yourself. It's a god given right.

Okay? Why do the left go after guns? Here's your answer. It has nothing to do with the gun. The left needs you dependent on the state.

A firearm gives you the ability to stand your ground and hold your own and protect yourself and your family independent of the state. They don't want that. It's the same reason they go after health care. They don't hate health care CEOs. They hate the fact that they don't control health care, and the health care CEO is in the way.

That's it. The gun is in the way of having you totally dependent on the state. Folks, if there was a you see the freaking gavel here. You know this. If there was ever a gavel drop, judge Bongino was ruled.

You need to trust me on this. They don't care about guns. How do I know that? Because a lot of these leftist celebrities and rich people have guns. If they cared about the gun, oh my gosh.

The gun, we gotta get rid of that. It's so evil. They wouldn't have the evil device in the house themselves. That's not what's going on here. The gun is a symbol of freedom.

It's a symbol of a detachment from the government. You can protect yourself. The police are not there to protect you. They're there to enforce the law. They don't like that.

They don't like that. Whenever they can tell you a story, they will. So does anyone find it even remotely curious that when the gun was used in Manhattan, the narrative was completely different? Here's a Washington Post article about the slaying of the UnitedHealthcare CEO with a firearm in 1 of the most liberal cities in America with strict gun laws. Notice the headline.

We've gotta get to put up the headline. It says we gotta get the guns out of the hands of criminals in Manhattan. No. No. Not that 1.

The other 1. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's a oh, that is oh, I catch that.

Maybe Justin's confused. He's like, that's it. That's they yeah. The Justin's like going through the computer like it's I'm a mess. Here's the headline in the Washington Post.

It's nothing to do with guns. Guys shot with a gun in Manhattan, and what's the headline? Deny and delay. The practice is fueling anger at US television. I thought it was the gun.

I thought it was now it's practices fueling anger. Oh, practices like the government doesn't run health care. The free market does, and they don't like it or or outside of Obamacare. Yeah. Anger like shooting.

Anger that practice is fueling anger. Like, murdering a dude in the middle of stream. Notice how the point watch the post headline here. This headline has nothing to do with gun control. Nothing.

Because they're looking for a story. So school shooting in Madison, it doesn't matter what the motive is, what happened, if the child is in trouble, there's a mental disorder, some sociopathological disorder, it doesn't matter. The now the story, the scumbag media comes in with right away. Scumbag media comes in with right away. Before they even know the story, a story they have in their head is we've gotta get rid of guns.

Okay. What happened? School shooting. Figueroa and everyone else. But we gotta do something about the guns.

Like what? Pass laws against kids having guns? Because we already we already have we already have those. We already have those laws. Oh, no.

No. More laws. Because I would have done better than the other laws. Nobody seems to bad guys don't. See, the thing about bad guys is bad guys don't they're outlaws for a reason.

They don't give a shit about the the laws. Folks, the Stuart Thompson guy from the New York Times, he was gonna become a constant theme in the show. This is what I'm talking about by how by these people come in with a preexisting rubric in their head about what a story's about before they know shit about the actual story. Stuart Thompson and others school shooting. Wait.

Was it a white person? Was it a male? Was it a non transgender person? The stories about the gun. That's it.

It doesn't matter what happened in the event. All of that stuff is irrelevant to them. Healthcare CEO, evil, shot in the back. Do we make the story about the gun? No.

I think there's a better story for us. We hate free market health care. We want the government to control. Let's talk about that instead of the gun. Yeah.

But the other story's about the gun. Hey. Joe Biden just pardoned his kid for a gun car. That's okay. He's a democrat.

This isn't a gun control story now. Here, you doubt me? Here's Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders probably do anything to take your guns. Far left communist strata commies love taking people's guns.

Guns are what keep commies from taking over. So commies hate guns because the gun is in the way. Here's Bernie Sanders on 1 of the weekend shows talking about the UnitedHealthcare CEO. Shot in the back by a guy in a liberal gun control city. You think you'd have this great opportunity, right, for your silly stupid gun control narrative?

Nope. Here's Bernie seeming to put the little button there. Like, guy was shot in the back and murdered, but but what do you mean by guy was murdered in the street. Watch how they tell you a story, never the story. Check this out.

Elizabeth Warren obviously understands killing and and murder and shooting somebody in the back is totally unacceptable. But what I think has happened in the last few months is that what you have seen rising up is is people's anger at a health insurance industry which denies people the health care that they desperately need, while they make 1,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000 of dollars in profit.

Folks, there isn't a show out there that dissects the scumbags in the media better than this. It's the reason we're the number 1 livestream. It's just a fact, and the Bongino Army is growing by the day. When you learn to see when you learn to dissect the entire media ecosystem in the 4th estate environment out there, you will never see the world the same way again. My goal with this show, so you know it's always been this way, was to give you an hour so you could listen to it in a car and a commute home.

Right? Was to in that hour, make sure that you are your eyes are open all the time, that you are awake, but not woke. Because once you learn to see the media for what it is and to see through the bullshit, you will I promise you, you will never see the world the same way again. You will notice this everywhere. The media doesn't care about guns.

They care about control. Now do you get the tie in from the 2 stories? They need to control you. What's the best way to do it? To control your health care.

The UnitedHealthcare CEO was in the way. So if he's murdered, we go, he's murdered, but don't make it about the gun. Make it about that. Now they see a school shooting in Madison. They know emotions are still hot.

They can get people to hate firearms even though there's 1,000,000 upon 1,000,000 of of legal law abiding gun owners in the country. Guns don't go off by themselves. They're like, hey. It's an opportunity to get the gun out of the way so people have to rely on the government. It is always about control.

Once you learn to see that, you will never ever unsee it. I wanna show you a video coming up next of this guy when Obamacare was passed. Obamacare that is screwed up the used to be free market healthcare system. They broke the system completely. Guy gets murdered because of it, and yet they all walk away.

They all walk away. Bernie Sanders and others, pretending they had nothing to do with this. Oh, he deserved to die. Watch. Always, always bring receipts on the show.

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I know why I felt I need to tell you that. Maybe I really I came into today's show. Some shows are more excited than others. Because this is such an obvious example, these 2 contrasted stories of murder. They both involve murder.

School shooting, health care CEO shooting. They both did this. The end game is the same. An innocent person was killed, yet the scumbags in the media are telling you 2 completely different stories, both of which they have a role in by creating this left wing cult, and yet they've divorced themselves from anything. In 1 case, it's the gun.

The other thing, it's evil corporations. They never mention with this, young woman. They'll never mention their role in the destruction of our culture, the church, family that serve as a bedrock. And in the health care case, they will never mention to you that the reason the health care system sucks, and folks, believe me, I'm in it too, the health care system in the United States is broken, is because the left is broken. Upwards of 40% of health care in the United States has government fingerprints all over it.

That's why the process sucks. Now let me give you a little primer here on why everybody hates health care right now. What Obamacare did folks everybody paying attention. Write this down. It instituted 2 practices that will never work because they can't work.

Okay? And I'm gonna play this video of this guy Gruber. He was 1 of the economists that helped design Obamacare talking about how they screwed you over because they think you're stupid. You may I don't know if you saw this video when it came out. You may have, but it's worth replaying.

Obamacare instituted community rating and guaranteed issue. Community rating means very simply, everybody's basically gonna get charged the same thing. Guaranteed issue means they have to guarantee you a health care policy. Oh, Dan. That sounds great.

No. It doesn't. Folks, if there is a guy who rides a motorcycle every single day, smokes cigarettes, and drinks a gallon of tequila 7 days a week, he should not be paying the same health care premium as you if you're eating your vegetables, working out, doing the sauna, doing your cardio, getting 8 hours of sleep at night. I'm sorry. The world is a tough place.

Liberals, get off your mother and live in the real world, you dumbasses. What's happening right now is a bunch of really young, not very wealthy 20 year olds are paying premiums the same as a 50 year old guy like me with cancer with osteoarthritis, who is making money. Why the hell is my 20 year old daughter paying the same premium as me? That's what commute go look it up if you think I'm lying to you. Community rating and guaranteed issue.

And they use these complicated words to you at the drive through Leo Getz style. So all you young kids out there who voted for Obamacare, celebrating this UnitedHealthcare CEO to get shot in the back, understand Obamacare's making you pay for a bunch of rich middle aged people like me. That's a freaking fact, Jack. Look it up. That's a fact.

You wanna know who f'd you at the drive through? Obama and the democrats. Look it up. So because these health care companies now, and these health insurance companies have to charge everybody the same thing no matter how healthy or whatever life decisions, what happens? They have to start buying other practices because they have to control the cost or they're gonna go out of business.

And that's why you are getting effed. Period. No. Yes. No.

Yes. Do your homework. Community rating, guaranteed issue. Go look it up. Here's the 1 of the architects of Obamacare, this economist, real smart ass.

This by the way, you wanna see a stupid smart person? This is the guy you know my lecture about stupid smart people and how dangerous they are. Here he is talking about how they passed off the the mandate, which was a tax, forcing you to buy some. Here's how they pen and they confuse you because you're all too stupid to do your homework. It ain't me saying it.

This is the Obamacare, 1 of the architects saying it. Watch this.

It's just you can't do it politically. You just literally cannot do it. Okay? Transparent financing. Unless I have transparent financing, also transparent spending.

I mean, the this bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies. Okay. So it's written to do that. In terms of in terms of risk rated subsidies, if you had a law which said healthy people are gonna pay in, it made explicit that healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed.

Okay? Just like the cow people transparent lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, you know, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever. But basically, that was really really critical to get anything to pass. And, you know, it's the second best argument.

Look, I wish Mark was right, we can make that all transparent, but I'd rather have this law than not.

You ever you know the stupid smart assholes? This guy's 1 of them. I will never stop playing his videos by the way, 10 years old. You understand that this is 1 of the lefty lunatics that designed this telling you how freaking stupid you are. You watching me, here's the lefty's approach to you in the media.

You're a freaking moron. How does that make you feel? They didn't tell you if you're 18 or 20 that you're subsidizing your rich parents' health care plan. They didn't tell you that. You didn't know that, did you?

If you're 20 years old going, holy shit. Health care is expensive. It shouldn't be. You're 20. You have cancer, hepatitis, AIDS?

No. None of that. So what the fuck are you paying for? You're never gonna go to the doctor. What are you gonna go for?

The flu 1 year? It costs $200 to see the doctor. Why are you paying 5,000 a year? The answer is because you're paying for your mom and dad who already have money. You're paying for their stuff.

And then when the healthcare guy gets shot dead in the middle of the street because they have to comply with this bullshit, You got all these go, oh, hey. Look at that. That's that's great. You did this assholes on the left. It's like you broke up our society, and you got all these kids shooting up schools.

Oh, it's gonna be the guns as if a gun's a new invention. You did the same thing with the health care system. So tired of you assholes, man. I really am. I'm in I'm in a I'm in a good like, I'm I'm seriously in a good mood today.

Like, is there a good dark day or a bad day? I I just do you see what they do? You see what the liberals do? They break society. They break healthcare.

They break public education. And then they turn around, kill people, and blame us for it. And dumbasses fall for it. Have you even seen some people on the right? Yeah.

Well, these health care companies are fucked up. Yeah. Okay. Great. Why?

You ever ask yourself why? Why? Why why are your health care companies fucked up? Why? Why is it 30 years ago, people generally like their health insurance?

My father had Lawrence Healthcare. It was great. We had no problems. Why do people hate it now? Oh, look.

The lefties got involved. That's what happens every time. To my conservative viewers out there who already know this, I'm sorry you have to go through all this shit. To the dumbass liberals tuning in for the first time, this is the first time you've heard about community rating and guaranteed issue. Welcome to the party, pal.

It's Christmas movie season. Some of you will get that. Scandal watch update. Why is 1 of the January 6th committee guys, the chairman, Bennie Thompson, a communist democrat, why does he sound so open and receptive to a pardon by Joe Biden? I'm gonna tell you because something's going on, and I think it involves obstruction of justice.

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Back to the show. Big, big scandal watch update. I got a little bit on the drone because we've covered that. We beat that story to death, and frankly, I'm sick of talking about it. You know my theory on it.

You have your own. That's cool. Much respect. I'm telling you, foreign actors are probably a good percentage of what we're seeing. Some of it's probably mistaken identity.

Fine. I'm gonna get to that quick, but I wanna get to this first. Folks, the IG report inspector general, it's like the government internal affairs came out last week on the FBI's involvement January 6th. I've been talking about it for 2 days. We now know that FBI assets were embedded in the crowd in January 6th.

Most of you are like, we've known that forever. We have. Liberals denied it. The media denied it. The FBI did not have assets on January 6th.

They did. Matter of fact, there were agents there too. Someone asked me yesterday, how do you know that? I said 1 of my friends showed me a selfie there who is a federal agent, said there were other federal agents there. Someone asked me why did he take a selfie.

My answer was, I don't know. Maybe he didn't this was before the whole, you know, a riot broke out there. So I don't know. Maybe he was gonna take a picture because he thought it was I have no idea why he took it. I'm just telling you he took it and was there.

It's not my business why he took it, but I've seen it, and I know there were federal agents there. So the full story of January 6th and the air quotes, insurrection, I promise you, has not been told. Here is Eric Schmidt, a great senator from Missouri. This guy's doing an amazing job. He was on a short list for FBI director if cash didn't get it.

He's on Maria Bartiromo's show. There is a massive cover up going on folks. I'm gonna tell you what it is right now. The January 6th committee. Remember crying Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney, Benny Thompson, Adam Schiff?

Remember that clown show? Remember they put on the Hollywood producer show, and I'm trying to get you to believe there was some massive insurrection. Do you remember that? Folks, that committee, I'm telling you right now, maybe have some severe criminal liability coming their way. I have 0 doubt they interfered with witnesses.

They obstructed justice, and they destroyed evidence. There may be real crimes there. Here's Eric Schmidt on Maria's show. I'm talking about the assets, the federal assets in the crowd, and the cover up going on right now. I think the January 6th committee knew there were federal assets in that crowd and covered it up.

Watch this.

The inspector general is coming out with all of these facts. Does that mean that Liz Cheney and the j 6 committee knew about this?

Well, wouldn't that be great to know, Maria, but they destroyed all the documents on their way out. So, again, this whole thing was propped up. I just think you have to look at the arc of the story here. The January 6th committee was set up for the very specific purpose of giving somebody like Jack Smith the reason to go charge president Trump

That's right.

And take

him out politically. You know, that's that's the whole thing. They staged they had a Hollywood producer, Maria, come in and do the January 6th hearings with Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger and that whole crew. It was a total joke. They destroy the documents on the way out.

Jack Smith props up these ridiculous cases that, of course, had no legal merit. The Supreme Court docks it out with the presidential immunity ruling anyway. Fawney Willis, their second in command is meeting at the White House coordinating the number 3 person at DOJ goes to the New York prosecutor's office. And president Trump stared all of this down, all of it down, and won. Won in a mandate, won the pocket of a vote, and here we go now with an opportunity for a real reform agenda.

Folks, the January 6th committee was nothing more than a Hollywood movie production. It was telling you where am I going with this? A story. It was not telling you the story. The story of January 6th is far, far more elaborate than you've been told by the scumbags in the media.

Oh, yeah. It was an insurrection by some crazy, MAGA hat wearing, red hat wearing lunatics. Ladies and gentlemen, that is bullshit. This is a far bigger story, and I'm telling you what they did. They selected do you ever see here's a perfect example of what I'm talking about.

You ever see 1 of these stories I'm trying to think of a story where, it resembles almost nothing like the real you ever see 1 of these Hollywood movies, and it says this is based on true events? I'll give you a perfect example. The Texas chainsaw massacre. Remember at the end of that, they were like, this is based on true events? And it turned out that it was, like, the Ed Gein story.

Ed Gein had nothing to do with a freaking chainsaw and a leather face. Ed Gein was a serial killer. Like, that was the only thing they had in common, and nothing to do with a Texas chainsaw massacre. That's what the January 6th committee was. They were committed to a story.

MAGA hat wearing insurrectionists and Chewbacca were gonna take the country over. Any evidence that conflicted with that, hey, there may have been maybe some Antifa, maybe some FBI assets in the crowd. Was there some incitement involved? I'm not absolving everyone to blame in this. I wanna be clear.

I'm just simply telling you that I'm willing to tell you the truth in these assholes on the left are they eliminated that evidence. And all of a sudden, a lot of the evidence the January 6th committee had seemed to magically disappear. So that explains this. Why is Benny Thompson, the chairman, all of a sudden very nervous, and Adam Schiff too, and Benny Thompson seems really interested in a pardon? They don't wanna answer what the informant's instructions were on January 6th.

Was it to incite a riot? I don't know. I'd love to find out. What did the January 6th committee why are they playing dumb about the bomber? The pipe bomber at the DNC?

Why are they playing dumb about FBI assets? And why destroy records? Why would you destroy records if you were interested in telling the story? I want you to watch this interview. This is the chair of the committee, Benny Thompson, with reverend Al.

Guys, another joke and a clown. Here, they he's asked about a pardon. If he did nothing wrong, Benny Thompson, and this was all on the up and up, then why would you need a pardon? Folks, I don't need a pardon for a bank robbery. I never robbed the freaking bank.

What the hell would I seek a pardon for? Watch this. This is very telling. Check this out.

So in light of that, do you think president Biden should do preemptive pardons, and would you accept 1 if he offered it? Well, let me say this. If the president in his infinite wisdom, determined that the work of our committee, was legitimate and that we should not be penalized for doing what we as members of the Congress should do and he offers that part, I will take it.

Of course, he'll take it because he knows there may be obstruction of evidence, obstruction of justice I mean, excuse me, destruction of evidence, obstructing justice, witness tampering. Folks, this story is huge. Now let's go back and dial this back a little bit about why Bennie Thompson, the chair of the Hollywood produced January 6th committee, is so nervous and wants a pardon. Do you remember this line of questioning from congressman Tom Massey who's been all over this pipe bomber case? He asks Bennie Thompson, it's about a minute and 20, but it's worth every second.

He's like, hey, man. You were the January 6th guy. This pipe bomber planted this bomb on January 6th at the DNC. Almost killed Kamala Harris. Why are we the only ones asking questions?

Why haven't you touched that? Watch Benny Thompson. Oh, I don't know, man. If you guys know some of us, it's not our job. It's your job.

You're the January 6th committee guy. Watch this, and you'll see why this guy, he wants to tell you a story, not the story. Check this out.

Are you are you concerned about the lackadaisical attitude of the secret? Or maybe you haven't seen the video. Have you seen the video of this discovery of the second pipe bomb?

No. No. Let let me let me just say, a lot of what you've said here today, I have not been privy to. But I am of the opinion that if the chairman wants to look into that, you convince him to issue the subpoena, I'll go with him.

If,

I would like to show you that video at some point. I'm surprised your committee did not find it. I mean, there were 2 bombs that day, and according to FBI and ATF and and Capitol Police, they were operable, viable bombs. 1 of them was just feet from Kamala Harris who was gonna become the the vice president of the United States, and the Secret Service sat there in their patrol car. It looks to me like they finished eating their lunch before they got out to look at it.

And then it was 10 minutes. This is all on video. 10 minutes before they got Kamala Harris out of there. And, again, it is secretary Mayorkas who oversaw the production of these documents, these these texts, which were never produced. And that's a real problem for me.

Where were the tax the secret service tax on January 6th? You think Bennie Thompson, the chairman wants to know Bennie Thompson doesn't give a shit. Folks, the biggest scandal of our time is who the hell planted the damn pipe bomb on January 6th at the DNC, and what the was Kamala Harris doing there? She still to this day does not wanna talk about it. It was a setup.

It was a fake assassination plot set up by an insider to stop Republicans from talking about election interference on certification day. Fact through. And that's why neither Bennie Thompson or anyone else wants to talk about it. Folks, whoever is the next secret service director and FBI director, if if you're not gonna get to this story on day 1 and reestablish trust in these 2 prized entities, we need. We I mean, we need we we need these operations cleaned up.

If not, disband them. If you're not gonna clean them up and get the FBI focused on actual investigations again and counter terror, then disband it. It's useless. What's the freaking point? If the Secret Service is not gonna protect the president and not engage in political cover ups, then disband it.

I'd rather have private security take over. What's the point? So tired of being lied to. So I titled this segment scandal watch because this is what we do, because the media isn't even remote. Where's Stuart Thompson on this story?

Is he even remotely curious? You know what? That Pongino conspiracy theories. He's got a point. Why was Kamala Harris at the DNC?

Why was there a pipe on there in the January 6th chairman? Doesn't even seem remotely interested. I don't know, mister Massey, if you got information. I thought you were the committee chair, dumbass. I don't believe anything coming from the government anymore.

And let me tell you something. You shouldn't either. You are being bullshitted all the time. These people are full of crap. Everything they tell you is nonsense.

I don't wanna spend a ton of time on the drone thing. We've beaten it to death. But this is kind of important because president Trump made a comment yesterday at a press conference. He does. Joe Biden, of course, can't handle a press conference.

Doesn't matter. Joe Biden's Joe Biden is the praise, the pino, the president name only right now. Donald Trump's the actual president right now, which is kind of funny to watch. Watch Joe Biden just be thrown to the scrap heap by both Democrats and Republicans. Donald Trump was asked a question about the drones yesterday, and he says the same thing.

And, you know, for all the people who think I'm crazy, I'm telling you the government knows who it is. It's going to leak out because I said yesterday in my radio show, the government can't keep a secret about anything. People have a bunch of loose lips. It's going to leak out, and most of these sightings I shouldn't say most. A portion of them are going to be foreign drones surveilling our sensitive locations.

You don't have to believe me. I'm I'm willing to go to I'll I'll go to the wall on that 1. It's not gonna be every single 1. There may be some flag it. There we go.

There may be some recreational stuff, some cases of mistaken identity, but I'm telling you the government knows and Trump knows they know too. Check this out.

Yeah. Good to see you.

Paul, can you comment on the drones that

are flying around New Jersey ports?

It seems like the American

people have

a big disk The gover

the government knows what is happening. Look, our military knows where they took off from. If it's a garage, they can go right into that garage. They know where it came from and where it went. And for some reason, they don't wanna comment.

And I think they'd be better off saying what it is our military knows and our our president knows. And for some reason, they wanna keep people in suspense.

So there's a theme to today's show. I don't know if you've caught it, but the theme is the media obviously telling you a story, not the story. And because they have to tell you a story that's not true rather than the story it is, what they do is an intermediary to block people from ever searching for the story like the January 6th story, block people from, looking up why their health care sucks. Oh, look. I'm health care sucks because of Obamacare and the government.

They don't so what they do is they put as as a as a blocker. It's like a fax vaccine to the truth. They block you with doctor Fauci, Jonathan Gruber, that economist you saw on tape calling you guys morons. They block you with the pseudo expert. The media will say, well, what do you know, Dan Bongino, about masks?

You're not an expert on mask epidemiology. I may not be dumbass Stuart Thompson from the New York Times, but I can tell you this. I'm not stupid. Every freaking person that wore a mask got COVID. Everyone.

Everyone. So I always use the analogy of the condom. Say you have a lot of sex, may make you a little uncomfortable, good. Maybe the analogy will hit home. A condom is meant to be a prophylactic device.

The whole idea is to prevent STDs or pregnancy. Correct? Imagine you have a lot of sex, and every time you have sex, you get an STD and you get someone pregnant with a condom. Would you wear the condom anymore? You'd be like, no, Dan.

That'd be stupid. That's the mask. Only dipshits believe in the mask. But because they don't want you to see the truth, they block you with this patina of experts, the crust of experts, so you never get to the inside of this shit cake they're selling you. Fauci said masks work, and Liberals like, yeah, man.

Fauci said so, because they're too freaking stupid to do their own homework. So a lot of these younger folks got caught up in this woke ideology now too, because the experts told them there's a difference between sex and gender. Really? What is it? Listen to them go on and on.

Well, gender, yeah, you determine, later on at life. Well, say, no. No. No. You don't.

Let me give you a quick test. When a baby's born, you guys paying attention to this? This is very everybody in the chat, you ready? Put down what you're doing. You got your coffee, maybe your blackout.

Take a sip. Okay. Put the coffee cup down. This is very, very advanced. You woke liberals ready.

If when your kid is born born, they've got a unit downstairs, they've got a penis downstairs, It's definitely a boy. That's the sex and the gender. No. Michael's stunned. Michael, like, the the chair, you know, mine's, like, locked.

He's he almost fell off the freaking chair back there. Justin had to make a ninja like move away from the keyboard, grabbed him by the left hand. They almost dislocated his shoulder in the process, grabbing the freaking chair from falling over because Michael simply can't believe it. If your kid has a penis, the sex and gender are the exact same.

I don't buy it. I remember

Yeah. Guy he's he's like that. He's like he's gay. I'm under the hood for review. Guy wants a he's throwing the red flag.

He wants a review on them. But the experts, the the stupid smart people, the Grubers, the Faegazes, the Benny Thompsons, the Fauci's, Yale School. But Yale, this is an Ivy League school that actually believes sex and gender should be used to refer to a person's self represented. It doesn't matter what you self represent. If you've got a unit, you're a dude.

Nobody gives a shit what you self represent. There's a unit. A unit.

No. Please. Please. Please. Please.

I am definitely a man. It's still there. I'm this is not hard. This is not difficult. This show is freaking crazy.

Where is this all coming from? Do you see this clip on nuclear yesterday on social media? There's a dumbass left. Again, trying to tell you our story. Sacks and Shatner are different.

Really? How come there are no women dominating men's sports if there's no difference? Just a I'm curious. How come there's not a woman who thinks she's a guy who's like competing at the UFC heavyweight level? I'm just I'm just curious.

Why is it? Why are there why isn't there any single NFL quarterback that has chromosomes for a woman who thinks she's a guy? Why if there's no difference? I'm I'm just I'm just curious. Why is that?

Here's Ted Cruz questioning an expert. This is great. This is a big w for say at senator Ted Cruz. Hey. Why do women's sports exist then if there's no difference between the 2 things?

Check this out.

Trying to get a yes or no. I'm not trying to get get a speech. Oh, I'm Is there a difference between women and men?

I think that there are definitions for biological sex.

So you're not answering that. Let me ask you this question then. Why do women's sports exist? If you can't define a difference between women and men, why not abolish women's sports and just tell little girls to swim with little boys and see who wins?

Oh, I'm simply saying that, that sex

My question. Gender. I do believe that women's sports have a great value.

I mean, senator, I'll tell you

right now. Robinson, please answer the question I'm asking you. Absolutely. Why do women's sports exist?

I think that there are so many positive benefits to sports.

But why have a separate category for women? If if you if there's no difference between women and men, why to have women's sports?

I'm saying that there's a difference between sex and gender and that the NCAA has rules in place, which they have for the last decade

Chairman, I I would like to enter the record an an article from Duke Duke Law called comparing athletic performances for the best elite women to boys and men. And it goes through examining in 2017 the top records for women in the world in various track and field events. So for example, in the 100 meter, the top record for women in the world was 10.71 seconds. Now that record for the number 1 woman in the world in 2017 was in the year 2017 broken by 124 boys under 18. In that same year, the record for the number 1 competing woman in in in the 100 yard 100 meter dash in the world was broken by a total of 2,400 and 74

men. Yes. You get it? You get the theme? How dumbasses in the media and their moron leftist acolytes only exist to tell you a story, not the story, and the facts vaccine wall in between that they get the dumbass disciples that keeps them segregated, a story from the story so they never see the truth.

Our experts like this moron up on Capitol Hill. Experts. Look at this story from The Daily Caller. The Biden administration, full of experts, by the way, dumped 100 of 1,000 into ensuring military parents affirm their child's gender identity. Let me save you 100 of 1,000 of dollars with this very simple test.

Look at that. K. That's great. If you got a penis, you're a dude.

Consider it affirm. A

consider it affirm. Send me the 100 of 1,000 of dollars. I'm making charitable donations this year. I will send it off to, Folds of Honor or someone else. Save the taxpayers the money, please.

Folks, man, today's show has been, like, a lot a lot. I've been in a mood all week with this stuff because I I I feel like I've hit this inflection point in my life where I'm not gonna let anyone fall for stupid anymore. I'm gonna tell you something. I wanted to see if you if you guys agree with me, I'd love to hear it in the chat. Trump's lasting gift, I said to you, was going to be his remaking of the Republican Party about the working man, minority communities, and I still believe that.

But I would say either tied or second, his biggest gift to the Republican Party is going to be a, finally, a cracking of this woke culture where the the the the facade of expertise was completely collapsed. The doctor Fauci's of the world, the Obamacare Gruber guy, the Frank Figgazi, the FBI managers that were supposed to be experts in counterterrorism investigation. The allure of expertise has been shattered by a brash New York City billionaire who came in like a wrecking ball and said, you know what? I'm not saying these people aren't smart. They may be smart in a very specific area, but the fact that they've taken that expertise into politics and tried to control the lives of millions of people, these people are the problem.

They're not the solution of the problem. I would argue that that's Donald Trump's either equal or second greatest gift to the Republican Party is fracturing this illusion that the left is the party of expertise. They're the party of morons. Wear a mask. Get the vaccine.

Men can be women. Women can be men. The government can control health care. The gun's the problem. All wrong.

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