Trump's Greatest Cabinet Pick (Ep.88)
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Good morning and welcome to Von Juner Report Early Edition. Trump selects his transportation secretary. Representative Nancy Mace introduces legislation to protect female spaces from men in the Capitol. New York City lets a violent homeless man free before he stabs civilians to death. The feds paid for Lincoln Riley's

Lake and Riley's murderer to fly from New York City to Atlanta. DOJ and FBI officials are reportedly lawyering up out of fear of Matt Gaetz. Katie Couric tells Jen Psaki that Kamala was an awful candidate. Democrats slam Morning Joe hosts for meeting privately with President Trump. The View labels Trump supporters uneducated bigots, and Jon Stewart admits the election was a referendum on the permanent state. All this on Bongina Report, early edition.

So Trump has selected his new transportation secretary, former representative Sean Duffy, who also happens to be my dad. And I am incredibly proud of him. He has promised to fully eliminate DEI for pilots and air traffic controllers.

He wants to ensure a new golden age of travel comes to fruition with President Trump. So it's just very, very exciting news. Now, something that you all should know about my dad is he is a fierce Trump loyalist. Here's a little flashback to when he was in Congress defending President Trump.

Donald Trump do that should impeach him. Bob Mueller said, I'm not going to refer any charges to the Congress. He did, and he could have star-referred 11 charges to the Congress. So Mueller didn't refer any, and you're going to impeach him for what crime? What did he do wrong that you should impeach him for? He's ruined the economy. He's put my people back to work in Wisconsin. They have higher wages, lower unemployment. We're killing it in Wisconsin. You want to impeach that guy? Okay, Congressman, first of all, those are distinct things, as you would concede, obviously.

Now, of course, predictably, the media is labeling my dad unqualified, just some Fox News host, former reality TV star, Brian Stelter wrote on X, another Fox News hire by President-elect Trump, says Sean Duffy, who joined Fox as a contributor in 2020 and currently hosts a 6 p.m. Fox business show, The Bottom Line, is his pick for transportation secretary. Here is CNN's Caitlin Collins with a very similar sentiment.

Breaking tonight, another Fox News host has been tapped for Trump's cabinet. What we know about Trump's latest pick, also a former reality show star. That's next.

Okay, so they're just completely omitting the fact that my dad was a member of Congress for eight years, former prosecutor. And the unqualified accusations are pretty funny considering who the current DOT is, Pete Buttigieg, whose previous qualifications included being the woke mayor of South Bend, Indiana. Here is Mayor Pete saying that roads are racist.

If an underpass was constructed such that a bus carrying mostly black and Puerto Rican kids to a beach, or it would have been, in New York was designed too low for it to pass by, that that obviously reflects racism that went into those design choices. I don't think we have anything to lose by confronting that simple reality. And I think we have everything to gain by acknowledging it and then dealing with it, which is why the reconnecting communities, that billion dollars, is something we want to get to work right away.

You will not hear that from Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. Roads are not racist. They are not racist.

And by the way, it's not just that he inserted a lot of DEI into a department that had zero, none of the departments have any for DEI, but certainly not transportation. It's also that Mayor Pete had some serious scandals. There are still roads closed following Hurricane Helene. Where is Mayor Pete? And who can forget the East Palestine disaster that he didn't even visit until 20 days later?

20 days. Can you guys believe that? I'm still in shock by that story. And even after one week, there were calls from Mayor Pete to show up to East Palestine to actually make the appearance that he was doing something to fix this problem. He didn't even show up. What was he doing?

Well, if not, if not fixing this massive crisis that we had from the train derailment, what else was Mayor Pete doing with his time? I can promise you that Sean Duffy would have been there right away. By the way, there will be no chest feeding with Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. So that is a plus. By the way, this photo is Photoshopped, but it's still very funny. And

I'm positive that my dad is going to do an incredible job. I'm incredibly proud of him. I think this is great for America. He is so excited to be a part of this Trump admin, this admin of gladiators who are going to put America first, finally, after years of putting America last. And he wants to build up American infrastructure. When Trump called my dad, he said,

that this is an agency that he really genuinely cares about and even suggested that if not president, he would love to head the DOT himself because Trump is a builder. This is his specialty. This is Trump's area of expertise. So I'm really excited to see what Trump's DOT is able to accomplish with my dad's help.

Something that I'm also going to be talking about a lot. This is just my little daughter, two cents to my dad, but we need beauty back in America. We need beauty with our roads and our trains. Not just that they're built efficient, but that they're built in a way that doesn't kill the human spirit. So many of today's infrastructure projects are built around cars. They're built around, you know, machines.

modes of transportation instead of people. And I would love to see a focus on making beauty a consideration when we are moving into these projects because it uplifts people. People need that. I think we've had a lot of really sprawling, ugly infrastructure projects in the recent decades. So

So something, my two cents. We'll see if he takes my advice. We're going to take a quick break, but when we come back, we're going to discuss a major controversy that is brewing in the House of Representatives that is pretty, pretty fascinating. So stay tuned. I asked my friends at Tax Network USA about this IRS crackdown everyone's talking about.

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transgender identifying man on January 3rd with the swearing in of representative elect Sarah McBride. And to be clear, we're talking about a man who cosplays as a woman joining Congress. And in response, Representative Nancy Mace has introduced a bill banning men from using female bathrooms inside the Capitol building. Under the bill, which Mace is hoping to attach to the new House Rules package that will be voted on next year,

The House Sergeant at Arms would be required to enforce the new rule. Very base legislation. I wish we could replicate it across all of America to protect women and girls and their private spaces. We have women's shelters, women's prisons, leaving females vulnerable to literal attacks from men who claim to be transgender, who say that this is about their gender identity, and then take advantage of women.

So good on Nancy Mace. We'll see how this all plays out. Democrats are pretty unhappy with this bill because they want to protect this transgender identifying man by, I guess, allowing him to use female restrooms. The whole thing is bizarre. Sometimes I just wonder.

If I asked myself or if I talked to my great grandmother who died in the late 90s but was born in 1899 about some of the things that we deal with today in America in the year 2025, she would be shocked. I think America, our founders,

We're living in clown world right now. It's glad, I'm glad that we have some normalcy back. Turning to New York City, yesterday, a blood-covered lunatic with two knives trekked across Manhattan in a savage, broad daylight stabbing spree that left a woman and two men dead. The stabber, a mentally ill homeless man,

was stopped by cops thanks to the help of a couple of good Samaritans. But the bloody attacks erupted around 8.20 a.m. when the suspect walked up to a construction worker and knifed him in the stomach. About two hours passed before the man came across a 68-year-old man fishing in the East River.

And the murderer stabbed the fisherman several times before running off. And then the third and final stabbing was a 36-year-old woman who was knifed multiple times in full view of several other witnesses and a pool of blood and a trail of gore

remained on the ground after this stabbing. Now, Ramon Rivera, 51-year-old man, has been identified as the person of interest in custody. And Rivera has eight previous arrests in New York City alone and seven prior felony charges. He was released exactly one month ago, rearrested after one day, and then released. And now he has killed three people in broad daylight.

But this is the new normal in New York City. Blue cities are dangerous. Normal law-abiding citizens are not the priority. They never have been. And by the way, we also learned that this individual was living in government-provided housing for the homeless. We're paying for this man to have a place to live. He should be in jail. But instead, he was out on the streets because Democrats don't believe in law and order, and now three people are dead. Lake and Riley was also not a priority.

And how did you get to Athens?

In New York, we asked in Manhattan. And Hotel Roofing? Roosevelt. In Manhattan, we requested for a humanitarian flight to come here to Atlanta. And when was that?

Around the 9th, 10th of September. And where did you go when you arrived in Athens? To the airport. Someone comments, yet Peanut the squirrel was the threat.

I mean, Lake and Riley was not New York City, but that's a good point about this stabbing spree that we just covered. And about that video that we just played, our government knew that this individual had a criminal history, and yet they used our money to pay for an illegal gay member to fly to Georgia, where he then slaughtered an innocent girl.

I am so grateful that Trump is in office. Take a listen to this. President-elect Donald Trump confirming that he is going to use the U.S. military to carry out his mass deportation policy. Trump saying on social media early this morning that reports he'll declare a national emergency are true.

Good. And I'm sure that was really hard for CNN to report on because they love mass immigration and they don't care about deporting people, even criminals. But anyone who opposes mass deportation, starting with the criminals, does not care about the well-being of the American people. It's that simple. The left is willing to allow Blaken Riley and others to die at the hands of illegals.

Allow a sex trafficking crisis to flourish at the border. Allow drugs to pour into the heartland and destroy lives. No more. The jig is up. There's a new sheriff in town.

Speaking of, DOJ and FBI officials are reportedly lawyering up in anticipation of the incoming Trump administration. Take a listen. The choice of Gates, which was, I think, a real surprise to many people inside the DOJ, you know, signaled everywhere, yes, that he, you know, he's a lawyer, but he's had no experience prosecuting cases. But most of all, he is a firebrand loyalist, a very vocal supporter of President Trump. And it's seen by people as a choice. It's someone who trusts

who Trump trusts. If you haven't done anything wrong, why do you need lawyers? But they know they have done something wrong. So many of these bureaucrats are criminals who believe that they are above the law. Now, the man the media and the deep state seem to be the most worried about is Matt Gaetz. Here's MSNBC.

The choice of Gates, which was I think a real surprise to many people inside the DOJ, you know, signal-- And everywhere. Everywhere, yes. That he, you know, he's a lawyer, but he's had no experience prosecuting cases. But most of all, he is a firebrand loyalist, a very vocal supporter of President Trump. And it's seen by people as a choice. It's someone who trusts, who Trump trusts.

Everything I hear about Gates from the media makes me like him more. It's kind of funny. He's a Trump loyalist. He's an outsider. It's like, yeah, that's the point. That's why we picked him.

Unfortunately, his confirmation is already facing a lot of roadblocks from senators in Congress threatening to release a House ethics report and derail his confirmation. And the pushback against Gates is to be expected because he is the most Trump-like of all the nominees, arguably. Denny McCarthy had an excellent essay on this in Compact Magazine where he writes,

Matt Gaetz is the closest America can get to having Trump himself as Attorney General. And I think this is a pretty accurate assessment. Gaetz, like Trump, rejects traditional respectability, exposing congressional insider trading and criticizing big tech economic and ideological influence on American life.

He's very new right in that way. And again, and I don't say that to be negative about either of them. There is a decorum that Trump and Gates lack, and it's kind of why we love them. They don't play by the same rules. They aren't the same type of slimy politician that we usually get who's very calculated in their speech. In other words, we get people who

With Matt and Trump, we get two men who say exactly what they're thinking. They aren't afraid of any kind of bad press. It's just very straightforward. And frankly, it's been very refreshing.

Now, Gates is a self-described libertarian populist. Again, very new right description there. I don't agree with Matt Gates on everything, but it's very Trumpian. He is very Trumpian. Gates blends conservative stances on issues like abortion and gun rights with progressive positions on antitrust and marijuana. But his main focus is holding elites accountable.

And Gates' willingness to challenge entrenched norms in the DOJ make him uniquely suited to pursue reform under Trump. So while Gates may be the hardest nominee to confirm, he's also the most on-brand for the Trump admin.

In Trump's last admin, he picked a lot of regular deep staters. And those deep staters tried to stage a coup to unseat him with Russia collusion lies. So Trump has now picked loyalists, many of whom have been on the outs of the deep state because they are committed to authentic change. The new right, the Trump coalition is different than the Republican Party of decades past. And it's attracting new faces.

Cenk from the Young Turks podcast tweeted yesterday, Hey, at Elon Musk, put me in charge of the Pentagon. I'll slash $400 billion easy. That'll get you 20% to your goal of $2 trillion right out the gate. I went to Wharton three years before you. I own a media company and I know how to run a business. If you really want to put me, if you really want to cut, put me in coach. And a lot of people have responded to Cenk with,

a pretty, with a lot of skepticism, I'll just say, pretty negatively. That Cenk sucks and we disagree with him on politics, but cutting waste, particularly military spending, should be a bipartisan issue. Only the Uniparty opposes this kind of reform that Trump has promised. So Elon responded to Cenk in writing saying, "Specific suggestions are welcome." To which Cenk said, "As you know, you need to see the line items in the budget.

But I have one suggestion already. The generals are not allowed to get a job with defense contractors for 10 years. They authorize so much wasteful spending because they're going to get hired by those same companies. And I think this is a really great suggestion, actually. A lot of the Trump agenda is impartisan. There's so much room for unifying in support of transparency and against corruption and waste.

Again, this is a bipartisan issue. And I don't think that we should automatically ostracize people on the left who are supportive of this part of the Trump agenda. Now, while most Democrats aren't begging to join the Trump admin, many of them are finally starting to admit that their DEI nominee Kamala Harris is an idiot. Here is Katie Couric telling Jen Psaki that Kamala was an absolutely awful pick. I...

I also felt that, and again, I think she really did well in so many areas. But I was frustrated by her inability to really succinctly answer questions at times, Jen, and to kind of...

Like if she was asked about changing the Supreme Court at that CNN town hall, she had an opportunity to talk about ethics and what, you know, Alito and Clarence Thomas were doing. And she answered like in one sentence and then like went on to something that had nothing to do with the question. You know, people notice that and it's like, answer the goddamn question, please. I mean, yeah, it's a good point.

Probably should have made that point a little earlier than after the election. But I think this election and what Katie and Jen Psaki won't admit is that it was an indictment on identity politics. Kamala Harris was a DEI hire. She was picked to be vice president because she's black and a woman.

And now she was picked to be the vice presidential nominee only because she was vice president because she was a DEI hire. And I think it's possible that the left has an opportunity to reimagine themselves as genuinely populist, as somebody that cares about working class individuals. That's not just on the side of people who have college degrees or who work in the federal government.

There's an opportunity for them to actually reach out. I hope they don't do this, but there is an opportunity for them to return to the ways of the former Democratic Party, to really take the advice of people like Bernie Sanders. And it has to start with them actually shaking off dissenters

DEI because it is tanking them electorally. It's making them put forward people who aren't qualified the job, people who can't win elections. It's very bad. So I don't know if they'll have that kind of come to Jesus moment. I don't know. But certainly it's going to be essential if they want to have a future in politics. Now, many of you probably already know that Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough recently met with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago.

Here is Mika explaining why the two of them were willing to meet with Hitler. And for those asking why we would go speak to the president-elect during such fraught times, especially between us, I guess I would ask back, why wouldn't we?

Five years of political warfare has deeply divided Washington and the country. We have been as clear as we know how in expressing our deep concerns about President Trump's actions and words in the coarsening of public debate. But for nearly 80 million Americans,

Election denialism, public trials, and January 6th were not as important as the issues that moved them to send Donald Trump back to the White House with their vote. Joe and I realized it's time to do something different. And that starts with not only talking about Donald Trump, but also talking with him. Let me just translate that for you all. Morning, Joe.

and the entire MSNBC network's ratings have plummeted since the election. CNN as well. And Mika and Joe are attempting to understand more than half the country since they run a morning show dramatically out of touch with most of Americans.

And I'm surprised that after all the lies Mika and Joe have spewed about Trump, they dare show their faces to him. But they did. I think another part of this is access. I think Mika and Joe want access to President Trump in this in these next four years where the the.

power structures have shifted and it's very slimy considering how horrible they have been to Trump, how much they have lied, how badly they have behaved. Really, it's, I think, a show of Trump's character that he even met with them, but he did. And you can rest assured that Mika and Joe are probably not meeting him for the best of reasons. It's all self-interested.

By the way, Mika's Trump derangement is relatively new. I didn't know this, but I want you guys, this is, I just saw this yesterday. I want you to watch how Mika used to absolutely love Trump before he became president. ♪ She's a little higher ♪

Did you get a lot of sleep last night? Well, I, yeah, uh, well, I got woken up. Like what? Well, you know, just, well, Donald wanted me to see the CPAC speech. I was skeptical, but I pulled it up on the internet. Yeah.

Pretty good. Pretty good. Joining us on the phone right now, Donald Trump. Good morning, Donald. Mika, what do you mean pretty good? You know you loved it. Wow. Trump, you're naughty.

It was almost like she was flirting with him. That was like almost uncomfortable to listen to.

The flip-flopping is so crazy. And that's how you know that these Trump derangement rants that all these left-wing pundits go on is completely manufactured and not authentic. Whoopi has had soundbites of her praising and loving on Trump. Oprah has actually encouraged him to run for office. And it's just, it's crazy how they have turned a man that they used to love into Hitler.

And I'll just say that even if this whole meeting between Trump and Morning Joe was about saving ratings and gaining access to the president, I think trying to strike a normal tone on their show is a net positive for the country. It's a net positive for their viewers who they are poisoning every morning with this Trump derangement. So if it sparks a change, if they start to act a little more normal, even if it's in their own self-interest, I think that's a good thing.

Of course, not everyone feels that way. Here's Sunny Hostin reacting to Morning Joe's meeting with The View yesterday. Look, the bottom line is that America needs a free press that is willing to speak truth to power right now more than ever. And I think that we have to be very clear eyed

when we think about the president-elect and cover the president-elect. And I don't think you need to sit down for 90 minutes at Mar-a-Lago and kiss his ring to be able to speak truth and to be able to cover a story. So maybe they're not journalists in the true sense. Maybe they're saying that they're opinion journalists. But we have to remember that Trump is the guy

who ushered in the era of fake news. He is the guy who ushered in alternative facts. He is the guy who attacked three black female journalists. She is not taking this election very well at all.

And I'm sorry, but if you can't or aren't even willing to attempt to shake off your Trump derangement in this era, you are irrelevant. And you will continue bleeding viewers. America wants honesty and voices that are in touch with regular Americans. And Sonny Hostin isn't. Here is Sonny still saying that people who voted for Trump did so because they're racist, misogynist, and uneducated.

There's a clear racial divide in who voted for Trump as opposed to who voted for Kamala Harris. It's very clear. It's not only clear by race, but it's also clear by education. And so the notion somehow that that is not true, this is by education. Those who attend a college

voted for her at a higher degree than those that didn't. But I think you're missing his point. Let me just finish. And so I've said that before, and there was so much backlash because I think it's an uncomfortable, inconvenient truth about this country. But his whole point is they didn't vote for him because of racism and misogyny. They voted for him because they felt like, I think the biggest common denominator in this election is people want a good life and ability to provide for their family. And whether we agree or not with Donald Trump's plans...

people thought that he was one of the poorest demographics in this country, but they voted for Kamala Harris. But there was a split and more of them voted for Donald Trump than had historically. I think that there's such a desire. If you really think the vast majority of this country voted because of racism and misogyny, you're missing it. Most of my family, a lot of my family doesn't have college degrees. But that's not it doesn't say I'm white. I voted for Donald.

Trump because of racism. But this, but this, that's not what you're talking about. Let me just dissect. Let me just, you can't. There's a lot. Hold on. Hold on. Racism accusations make zero sense. Like Alyssa said,

Just because you voted for Trump doesn't mean you're a racist, especially considering that so many minorities voted for Trump in record numbers. It's just ludicrous. And how condescending and snobbish of her to smear Trump supporters as uneducated bigots. It's this kind of rhetoric that drives people to Trump, that creates a narrative that the left is exclusively for the elites, is exclusively for...

the gentry class in America and has abandoned normal working class individuals. It's that kind of rhetoric. Sunny might think that she's speaking truth to power, but in reality, she's taking her own party. She's hurting only her own party. The truth is that at this point, nobody really cares what Sunny has to say. She hasn't touched grass in years.

Now, some people really are trying to be introspective in this moment. Here's Jon Stewart admitting that the election was a repudiation of the bureaucratic system. The election that we just had was a repudiation of the status quo, an overly regulated system that is no longer responsive or delivering for the needs of the people or their beloved beheaded squirrels. Oh, RIP, peanut.

Government is theoretically a constitutional system of checks and balances between equally powerful branches. But what government actually is, is an overly complicated Byzantine bureaucratic maze of rules, loopholes to those rules and norms. These last four years, particularly in the wake of COVID, have been a referendum on the role of experts in shaping American policy. What is the purpose of government?

And how do we protect liberties laid out in our Constitution?

Aharon Friedman wrote in American Mind in an essay titled, "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Experts," that contrary to caricature, President Trump does not cavalierly disregard experts and their advice. In fact, Trump's given considerable attention to expert advice, though with some focus on seeking diverse perspectives as well. For example, Trump took seriously the recommendations of Anthony Fauci during COVID.

a deep state criminal who we now know greenlit the funding of dangerous gain-of-function research that started the COVID-19 pandemic in the first place. But Trump also got advice from Scott Atlas to the outrage of the entrenched state. But things have changed.

After all of these experts and officials tried to stage a coup against Trump, wage lawfare against him and every one of his allies, hide January 6th video footage, curtail basic civil liberties, and facilitate one of the greatest transfers of wealth in human history during COVID, the trust is gone, and Trump's assembling a team outside of the permanent state.

For decades now, since the time of Woodrow Wilson, progressives have believed that governance should be left to the experts, not necessarily the elected officials who are actually beholden to the American people. And these same progressives don't stop with putting Fauci in charge of public health, a man who was never elected by anyone, but they also want the UN, the WEF, IMF, G20 dictating American life.

And with Trump, the American people chose a government outside the control of the unaccountable federal bureaucracy and globalist organizations. With Trump, the American people rejected the snobby gentry class that Sunny Hostin and so many others exemplify. As Friedman writes, Americans instinctively despise the idea that all questions of policy should be decided by experts in ideologically uniform Ivy League echo chambers.

Trump tapped into that ethos, and he truly has assembled a rebel alliance in his cabinet. And there are going to be hiccups as we start implementing radical change, overhauling the system. But at the same time, it's really exciting. Walter Kern wrote on X yesterday in reference to Trump's appearance at the UFC fight.

For better or for worse, the Trump posse is the most riveting cultural spectacle of our time. Positively Roman in its imagery, especially when it strides into a stadium to behold a gladiatorial contest and the mainstream media has nothing to say, just flogs away at its tired old obsessions. Out to lunch hardly covers things. It truly has left the building.

And Trump really has assembled an unconventional team that's going to completely turn the tables on public health, national defense, national intelligence, the Department of Justice. Trump and his rebel alliance of cabinet officials have promised radical, radical change that could save America. And we're living in a dangerous time. Like Rome circa 410 BC, America is being invaded and our civilization is in decline. It's undeniable.

And the question is, do we fail or can Trump and his gladiators save the Republic? And that's all I have for you guys today. If you're listening on Apple or Spotify, make sure to rate and review this podcast. I'm here live on Rumble, 9 a.m. Eastern time, five days a week. I'll see you all tomorrow.