Trump Makes His BOLDEST Moves Yet (Ep. 2370)
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Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino. Folks, you ever collect comic books when you were a kid? I did, man. Listen, I'm not trying to be Danny Downer or anything like that, but we grew up a little tough above a bar in a rough kind of neighborhood. I mean, it wasn't like there were gangs roaming the streets. It wasn't freaking Escape from New York or anything, but it was kind of a rough and tumble place.

And the way I used to like escape from it is I would go and hang out in this corner above the bar. There was a Christmas tree, an old Christmas tree. One of those fake ones. I'd lay on the Christmas tree and I'd read some comic books I bought from the Tiamo tobacco store. Now, remember the old, old one? The cover Avengers Assemble? This guy is putting together like the Avengers Justice League when it comes to the Trump. I mean, obviously, I'm talking about Donald Trump.

Folks, the appointments have been ringers. I told you yesterday, you're not going to agree with every single one. You're not. There's just too many positions to appoint. There's no possible way by probability alone. You're going to be like, every single one is the guy I'd pick because somebody always wants someone else, right? But come on. Yesterday, the freaking media absolutely

Absolutely lost it with the announcement of Ratcliffe and Pete Hegseth at CIA and SecDef, respectively. Yesterday was a huge day. We're watching everything right now. Donald Trump en route to the White House. We'll see what we can do with getting that to you. Don't go anywhere. Spread the word. Today's a big show. I also want to address some things going around about this guy. Guy says I should address it. Should I address it, Guy?

Producer Jim, who is the senior, well, not the senior podcast guy, but has been around, says, should I address it? You folks in the chat, you're in charge. I love these guys, but you're in charge. Yes, I should address rumors about me, or no, I shouldn't. If you guys say yes, I'll address it. Botchino.

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Go to mypatriotsupply.com now. Order your three-month emergency food kit from My Patriot Supply. Go to mypatriotsupply.com. That's mypatriotsupply.com. Fellas, yes, ring that bell, kids. Avengers assemble. Let's just rock and roll through these things. Donald Trump sending out some bombshell announcements last night. As I said to you, if I don't hear it from Donald Trump,

It didn't happen. This came out from his official office last night. The great Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, two guys I really like, will be leading Doge.

I love the Doge thing. If you guys are crypto people, you know what that is. But here it stands for the Department of Government Efficiency. This set the liberals into a tizzy. Stand by, as they used to say in the Police Academy in New York on the mustard deck, share it easy. I will get to the media response to that in a second. I just want to get through a few more appointments first. I just want to make one quick point on this. This is probably not going to be some formal government department with any...

Legislative powers, obviously, at states in the Congress. However, it's going to be an advisory board. And let me tell you something. Elon Musk, Vivek and Donald Trump have a really big microphone. So if the Department of Government Efficiency recommends a bunch of things and a bunch of swampy Republicans are like, we're not we ain't doing that stuff, then good. You're going to have to deal with a massive PR machine running against you.

So I would take what these people do really seriously. They're two serious businessmen. They know what they're talking about. This could be one of the most important announcements yet, even though they're not formal cabinet positions, okay? This, forget it. Set the internet on fire. Long story short, last night, I'm trying to escape the politics just a little bit.

I was a little tired yesterday at the end of the radio show. Had a long week. Boo-hoo. Who gives a shit? Who cares? But I'm home. I'm sitting upstairs. We got this little, like, down room I hang out. It's super dark in here. I'm ready to go visit Lily White's party. Who's Lily White? I don't know. My mother used to say that when I was a kid, and she wanted me to go to sleep. So I'm like...

And I pop on Laura Ingraham's show, and she's got a guest on. The guy's like mid-sentence. Usually they let them finish the sentence, right? Guy used to do the Fox show with me. You let him finish the sentence, and you go, hold on, breaking news. Mid-sentence, she cuts him right off, and she's like, breaking news. Folks, I had no idea.

It was Pete Hegseth. I know I said I do it in a word, but put that one up if you would. Pete Hegseth is now going to be nominated to be the secretary of defense. If you want to sound cool about it, like say SecDef, whatever. Secretary of defense. Pete Hegseth. That's pretty good. Folks, I've known Pete a long time.

A really long time. Like in Dan Bongino's life, I've only been alive 50 years in a few weeks. I've known Pete for about one fifth of it. Pete is an amazing guy. I want to tell you, I 100% support this. Pete is a door kicker. Pete understands what needs to be done. Pete understands the tactical component. He understands the foreign policy component. He understands the PR component. He's selling America and he's selling the military to new recruits as well.

He is absolutely committed to ripping wokeness out of the military. Wrote a whole book about it. I highly recommend you pick it up. He's a good man and a decent man. I support him 100%. And what do I always tell you guys? Michael and I didn't talk about this yesterday. Always gauge the effectiveness of a pick or a political tactic by what?

The response of your political opponents and folks, diapers were being changed everywhere. People were crapping all over the place in their diapers. They all had to be cleaned up by mama. It was a total mess yesterday on the left. They don't know what to do. And just so you know, because I'm never going to fake it or anything. Dan, did you know? I had absolutely no idea. None. Matter of fact,

I talk to Rachel often. I mean, her daughter Evita works here. I mean, her son-in-law's right there. Rachel and Sean are very close friends of mine. I don't want to speak for them, but I'm reasonably confident they didn't know either. I was talking to Rachel probably a few hours before that happened. I was actually talking to a producer at Fox who knows Pete well from Fox and Friends about Pete going somewhere she didn't know either. So they had a close hold on this one.

Also yesterday, John Ratcliffe, I think a fantastic, fantastic pick. I got some video of him coming up in a second at CIA. I have one request from hopefully soon to be CIA director John Ratcliffe. I hope that appointment comes really quick and really fast or confirmation, I should say. We've got to open all the books, all the books on Spygate. Folks, I promise you that full story has not been told.

The angle you should ask about first, and I know Director Ratcliffe, if he's a confirmed, we'll get on this. What were we doing with UK intelligence to spy, to spy on American political candidates in 2016 and afterwards? You tell that story, it's going to shake up the deep state forever.

That's the story that needs to be told. People have been feeding me information about that for a long time. And you know you're watching me. I got that whistleblower who reached out. I get it. I don't care. Watch me all you want.

Doesn't matter. Do I look like I care? I don't care one bit. You watch whatever you want. Folks, the media lost it yesterday. Gauge the effectiveness by how the left wing media responds. If they don't care about a pick, do you notice they were very muted about Elise Stefanik and others because they don't see any political hay to be made about it. If they're melting down, they know they've got a serious problem.

The DOJ, the Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon and Vivek. Do you understand this could break up the entire liberal governing model? The liberal governing model is this. Don't go to work. Sit on your ass. Put your ass in a seat. Do nothing. Right. Collect money from the government and wealthy taxpayers. That's it. That's the liberal governing model.

If liberals don't have their government-funded NGOs and everything else, they don't have jobs and lives. They're realizing now they may have to actually go to work and produce shit. And they're freaking out because Elon's going to be in charge. Here is Joy Reid and this clown show of a congressman, David Jolly, who once pretended to be a Tea Party guy. This guy is an absolute fraud and a total life loser with no human dignity at all.

ripping apart the Department of Government Efficiency with Elon. That hasn't even started yet because they don't want efficiency. They want to grift like losers. Check this out.

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. Great. We're going to get to hear his voice again for however many years till he gets fired. They're going to lead something called the Department of Government Efficiency. They're supposed to now be in charge of cutting the budget, which is normally the job of the House of Representatives. You served in the House. Doesn't the House have to be involved some way in creating a new government agency? Or can Trump just whip one up on Twitter X Twitter?

No, Joy, Joy, that's right. I think Donald Trump's just handing out candy right now to his to his friends and family. Congress is required to establish federal departments to define the jurisdiction, to decide how it's appointed. Presidents can can certainly appoint aides and non-congressional positions, but there will not be a Department of Government Efficiency without Congress, which actually raises the question, does Congress now just rubber stamp that? Yes. And one of its next

next appropriations bill. And here's what it's going to be. This is your Project 2025 department. Yes. The Department of Government Efficiency by Ramaswamy and Elon. That's your Project 2025 department without the bad impressions that Heritage created during the campaign trail.

David Jolly, that guy you heard next who ran as a fake Republican, is a life loser. Like, I'm one of the worst guys to ever enter the Congress at any point. An absolute zero with not a shred of human dignity whatsoever. Do you hear him at the end?

This is Project 2025. Project 2025 was a heritage think tank product that is put out every single year by conservative think tanks. Elon Musk and Vivek have absolutely nothing to do with it at all. So why would David Jolly say it? Because David Jolly is a loser.

He is a life loser. He lies for a living. He lies on a show that loves lying. It's why nobody watches that crap network, and it's why their ratings have absolutely collapsed, because people are tired of people like David Jolly lying. Personally, folks, Project 2025, look at it. It has some great ideas in it. Am I going to agree with all of them?

No, are you? It's a think tank product. They had nothing to do with it. That's what these people do. Gauge the reaction by how successful, gauge your success of your thing by the reaction. Their freak out tells me double down on Vivek and Elon. And to the swampy Republicans out there, if they find these efficiencies, you better think twice before you even get the idea of voting this stuff down. Now, John Ratcliffe at CIA. Folks, I think this is probably...

So far, maybe his second most important pick. Secretary of Defense, I think, is number one. We don't have a defense department and a military. We don't have a freaking country, Daddy-O. You don't have anything. If it wasn't for our door kickers, if it wasn't for our warriors, our Marines, our Navy, Air Force, Army,

our folks in the Coast Guard, our people in the National Guard. If it wasn't for these people, you wouldn't have a country, man. You'd have an idea. We would have been conquered a long time ago for all of our resources, and we'd all be speaking German or Russian or Japanese after World War II.

However, CIA director is going to be an important spot. We have got to clean the deep state out. And the CIA under John Brennan and others under Burns and under Haspel have been a total absolute disaster at the leadership spot. They have let Russia and other countries walk all over us while they focused on spying on Donald Trump. And that bullshit's going to stop forever.

Ratcliffe, why do you like Ratcliffe? You asked me in the chat. Dan, why do you like Ratcliffe? I'll give you guys an answer in the chat because that's what you're there for to keep me in check. Back it up. Show some receipts. Folks, I wrote three, I don't know. Who cares? A few books on the whole Spygate disaster. They were very well-researched products. I had help with it. It wasn't just me.

I wrote three books on this. And I'm telling you, there were only about five, maybe 10 members of Congress that were fully on board with getting to the bottom of this scandal. Ratcliffe was one of them. Ratcliffe was knee deep in this thing from day one, trying to figure it out. Here he is.

Absolutely eviscerating. Deep state FBI goon Peter Stroke, who led the whole spying operation into Donald Trump, when Stroke insists like, oh, he's not partisan or anything like that. I mean, he didn't send any of this stuff out or anything like that. Watch him just destroy this guy. He knows where the bodies are buried, Ratcliffe. Check this out. Approximately...

50,000 text messages that I've seen with your personal beliefs like F Trump, stop Trump, impeach Trump. Go ahead and confirm on the record that none of that occurred on an official FBI device or on official FBI time. Go ahead and do that. - Sir, no, they did, many of them did occur. - Oh, they did, okay, so-- - And I would say of the 50,000, sir-- - So really, no, I'll give you a chance at the end. So what you really meant to say was that when you said you never crossed that bright, inviolable line, what you meant to say was,

was, except for 50,000 times, except for hundreds of times a day where I went back and forth expressing my personal opinions about effing Trump and stopping Trump and impeaching Trump on official FBI phones, on official FBI time. Other than that, you never cross that line. I'm sure there are 13,000 FBI agents out there that are beaming with pride at how clearly you've drawn that line.

Agent Strucker, are you starting to understand why some folks out there don't believe a word you say? Folks, this is the Avengers dream team. Think of this now, right? And I'll address, I promise you this. I get it. I'm not ignoring that. I just imagine at a table, you have some national security crisis. We hope doesn't happen, but they do. Wars, terror attacks, sadly, tragically, they do happen. Okay. Imagine at that table,

You have Donald Trump, you have J.D. Vance, his national security team, right? You have an FBI director. I'm hoping it's Kash Patel. Let's keep our fingers crossed for Kash. You've got John Ratcliffe, who shouldn't have any problem getting confirmed as CIA director. You've got Pete Hegseth, SecDef. You've got potentially, say, as attorney general, a Bailey who is awesome, fantastic warrior, right?

You got Andrew Bailey. This could be just a magic dream team. Some of you say, well, wouldn't you want to see that table? Folks, I don't ask for things. I told you that. I'm not a deal cutter, okay? I'm just a servant in this whole operation for you guys and for the cause. I don't mean that to be like obsequious or anything like that. I just, it's true.

So let me address one more. You know what? Let me just get to Pete first because Pete's super important. Pete Hegseth is a good man. Pete and I have been very close for a long time. I love Pete. Pete, the only thing I'm worried about now is are you going to make it to my 50th birthday party? This was going to be the greatest party ever, and everybody keeps getting appointed to positions. What?

My guest list is dropping off dramatically if you can't make it. This is on my mind. I'm like, are we going to lose Pete now? He's more important to the country. If you can't make it, I understand. It's going to be a good party. Don't miss it. That is going to be some Monday morning update. Here is the great Scott Jennings on CNN, a guy I'm really starting to like, who absolutely tore it up.

on the network yesterday when they started melting down about Pete Hegseth. He's like, yeah, yeah, unqualified. Like, what's he going to do? Like, let a spy balloon come into the country, evacuate Afghanistan and get our members killed and lose the country hurriedly and give up Bagram? Oh, that already happened. That already happened. Check this out. You want to have confidence in the current leadership of the Pentagon and the way the defense operates?

situation has been operating for the last several years. I mean, from the Afghanistan pullout, which was an extreme debacle for which no one was held accountable. We've had spy balloons flying over the United States. We built a $300 million pier as a public relations stunt, which wound up killing an American service member. I'd say I've had just about enough of the so-called insiders running the Defense Department. I think we ought to give Pete Hicks the chance because he's got he's got insiders. I

All the criticism of him is that he's not the expected Washington pick. And I'm just saying to you that the American people just voted against the expected Washington pick. So he's got 20 years in service, Afghanistan, Iraq, two bronze stars, Princeton, Harvard. Yeah, he's on TV, but so are the rest of us. By the way, that listen you just gave is really interesting because you highlighted a bunch of things that the civilian leadership...

of the country decided on in the military their job was just to execute they they actually go I'm just saying I'm just saying how did it go Jennings great question how did it go don't tell me what you thought was gonna happen tell me what happened reminds me of Rocky 3 don't tell me what you think just tell me what happened your judgment sucked so bad you got people killed you got people killed

Maybe we need a bit of an outsider here who has some inside experience but isn't a company man. He's a freedom and liberty man. I'll take that. All right, let me take a quick break, and I'll address some stuff that popped up about your boy here, Danny Boombatz, okay?

It was a busy day last night. My phone was blowing up last night. I mean, really blowing up. I had to put it on do not disturb because even I need to sleep sometimes. And it was crazy. Hey, you haven't perfect timing. I did not plan this. You having trouble sleeping or staying asleep? You won't be if you take Beams Dream Powder. I had to take some last night. Trust me, it works.

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in Fort Lauderdale tomorrow. Paul and I are having a date night on Thursday night, which is a rarity. Believe me, we never do that. But my buddy, Nate Smith, who is the most amazing country singer out there right now, folks, Bongino Army, download his tunes, Bulletproof, Incredible, California Gold, his new album. And he's like the nicest guy you have ever met. I mean, seriously, the most genuine, nice pro-America guy you have ever met. He's blowing up the charts.

We'll be there at the concert with Bailey Zimmerman, who we love too. So they're doing a concert. I think it's acoustic. But if you're at the Hard Rock, come and say hello. We'd be happy to see you. And buy some tickets if you're there. So he's a great guy. Okay. So did Bocino, did we run a poll? What did Bocino say? Was the result that I should address this or not? It was. Okay. Was it unanimous? Yeah. Shocker.

Not wow. Okay. So I heard yesterday on I'm sitting home on on on X and I'm reading through the news doing some show prep and my phone starts blowing up and very close friends of mine were like, hey, man, congratulations. And I'm like, I'm wider the podcast or something like that. So do we have audio on that? Can we dip into that?

You got it? Turn it up. Can I hear it? Mr. President. Okay, this is Biden and Trump in the White House. What do you hope to accomplish today, Mr. President?

President-elect Trump, do you agree with Pete? Do you think women should not serve in combat roles? What's top of your list the next time you're in this office, Mr. President-elect? How does it feel to be back? Pretty cool visual here. Trump back in the White House.

That is it. You see, they're all they're not obviously. OK, so they're not answering me. And then they pointed to Trump and was like, all right, so let's come back to me. So they're not answering any questions. But folks, a pretty cool visual. Donald Trump is back. He is back in the White House. That is a that was a thanks, guys. That was pretty cool how you did that. That was a cool shot. Yeah, they're not really. Trump tells Biden politics is tough. Basically, they're trying to smooth things over. You know, listen, it's we're taking over. It's.

This kind of stuff happens. So that's what they do. Shake hands, whatever. So, and then we move on and then we go back to investigating them tomorrow because that's what needs to happen. Getting back to me. So my phone starts blowing up.

And friends of mine are congratulating me. And I honestly was worried about, did something happen? I thought, like, the podcast has been great. And they cited some tweet that was going around X that I had been picked or was under consideration for Secret Service Director. Folks, I have not had any conversations formally about that position. I've...

I'm not asking for anything. When you start asking for stuff, and folks, I'm sorry, I'm stumbling over my words because I'm not comfortable talking about myself. Can you guys just give me a little leeway? Because I know I sound like an asshole, right? I do. I'm usually clearer and more precise, and I'm stumbling all over because I'm so uncomfortable with the topic of the show being me. I mean it. I love this president, like a lot. President, president-elect, soon to be president again. My problem with D.C. for a long time, and that whole bureaucracy is...

Whenever you start asking for something, it corrupts you. And I don't ask for anything. I don't want anything. I've called him maybe five or six times over the last four or five years. And it's always been about ideological things I thought were great for the movement. And I thought my input would matter. I don't bug him about stuff. I don't bug his people about stuff. So I'm a little uncomfortable addressing it because if the president calls you and asks you something, you obviously have to take it seriously.

You do. If you love your country and your president calls you and asks you something, you have to take it seriously. But I'm telling you right now, whatever you're hearing about rumors are just rumors. Okay? No one has called me formally about anything. All right. Enough said. Because I'm screwing this thing up because I don't like talking about myself. But just leave it. They're just rumors now. And I know you guys really love the show. And I love doing the show. I love it. The president matters to me a lot. And the Secret Service matters.

is a position that's, you don't keep this guy alive, you're not going to have a president. Okay? This is probably the worst explanation I've ever done, any segment. I'm really sorry. I just don't talk about myself well. Okay, thank you. All right, moving on. I just want to congratulate one more guy too. Dan Scavino, folks, is going to be deputy chief of staff.

I'm telling you, Dan Scavino. What did I say this morning, Justin? I am not like hip with the young kid lingo, but I see online all the time that dude's an absolute G. And I'm like, that must be a good thing. Like the OG, OG, original. So Dan Scavino is a G.

I love him. He's going to be deputy chief of staff. The nicest guy in the Trump orbit. A guy who has been with me and a friend to me day one. We love you, Dan Scavino. Congratulations on being deputy chief of staff. You got him. You got Miller. You got Taylor. You got James. He surrounded himself with a great team. Folks.

The Democrats, this can't get any better either. Not only are we surrounding ourselves with the Dream Team, the Avengers, the Justice League getting together. I told you, can you imagine this national security table, what it's going to look like?

It's going to be amazing. I mean, once we round this thing out, you're going to have ringers in there every day. And it's all happening because of my rock them, sock them robots theory. The president hits you with something. John Ratcliffe at CIA. The left is like, holy shit, what are we going to do? They're pulling their hair out. They're gaveling their own heads. They're like, I can't take it. This is crazy. With John Ratcliffe, oh my gosh, you're going to expose CIA. And what does he do?

A couple hours later, he launches Pete Hegseth at him. Well, Pete Hegseth, what are we going to do? This is the way to do it. Rock them, sock them robots. My elbow is killing me. I wish I could do it. I've been lifting way too heavy. Well, relative, my elbow's killing me. Rock them, sock them robots. This is the only way. And the perfect thing about rock them, sock them robots as a strategy where you hit them and you just keep hitting them over and over again is you got to space it right. You can't let a day go by

between one controversial announcement and the other. You can, but you can't make it too short that you don't get the political credit from your base for a good pick either. Does that make sense? So Ratcliffe, people are like, yes, awesome. You let that brew, but the left is obviously brewing up their opposition.

You get enough political momentum out of it, and then you move on to Pete, where it doesn't give the left enough time to respond to any one pick. It's been beautiful. And now my cannibalism theory is coming true. They are eating themselves alive. Did you see this epic rant?

by James Carville, the Ragin' Cajun. This guy's an old school Bill Clinton Democrat. He doesn't like this woke defund the police shit, right? Sometimes he's crazy, sometimes he's not. He went on this one minute rant about just how crazy the Democrat Party is, how they warned him off this stuff.

Folks, keep the infighting going. We're just going to keep the Avengers team going. Keep the infighting on that side. It keeps them occupied. It keeps them busy. Watch this. We have no legislative power. We have no executive power. We have no judicial power. So when you're out of power, you're an opposition party. And go away.

And tell all the people that are sending you and asking you for money, justify what you did, justify what you did wrong, and tell us what you're going to do different. Because what you've done ain't worth a shit. Get your head around that. And all of the Washington-based Democrats farting around, going to wine and cheese parties, and talking about how misogynistic they are. Get your ass out of Washington and go work on a

2026 campaign and do penance to make up for your goddamn arrogance and stupidity. Well, we're going to say we told you so. We told you this identity shit was disaster. We told you to get out in front of public safety issues. You didn't. We told you to have an open process and demonstrate the magnificent and staggering and deep talent that exists in the modern Democrat Party. You didn't. We told you to differentiate yourself from Biden. You didn't.

I hate to be some fucking know-it-all, but all of these things are part of the record. I love you guys in the chat. You guys are great, man. You're loving this as much as I am right here. Look at that. I got Muttley's in there. Look at this. This is great. I love you. More, more. Who put more, more? M. Borman 04. More, more. And then he writes, and then some more. Yes, M. Borman. More, more, more.

More every day. Opportunity cost. Every opportunity Democrats take to beat the political crap out of each other is an opportunity they're not taking to turn their stuff on it. They still have weapons, folks, political media weapons against us. Let them do it. M. Borman, you are 100% correct. More.

More, more. What then, Dan? And then some more. What happens after then some more? Then some more, more. What happens after more, more? More-est. And then more-y more-est. And then more, more of more-est. It never stops the more. We're bringing the more. You want more? More, more, more. Layers of more that never end. It's like the asymptote. You never really get to the top. You just keep having the distance of more. More. And then some more.

I'm having too much fun today on the show. I had a good night. I'm honestly, I'm pretty honored. All you guys like reached out about stuff. It's been really cool. I'm still kind of on a, on a bit of a cloud from last week. I don't know about you, but I'm just still feeling like our country's so back and

We're so back and it just feels really good, man. I'm going to show you the left just eating themselves alive next. The view, which has been probably one of the single greatest sources of material over the last few days. Watch them melt down and keep this going. Keep this stuff going. It's absolutely great. Hey, you want to get lean?

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If you're having a tough day with Chopra, just go to the view and you can watch the left meltdown in real time because they've got a panel of everything wrong with the left. You've got Alyssa Farah, the sellout Republican. You've got the morons and joy and whoopee. You don't know anything about anything. Um,

You've got Sonny Hostin who pretends to know things and then just hits when focus group left the tested talking points. Here's Sonny Hostin suggesting that the bubble should stay. Definitely don't hang out with your Trump voting family members and don't try to understand them at all. Just keep doubling down on what you're doing. I'm all for this, by the way. You guys, you keep that up. You keep insulating yourself in that bubble that works so well. Check this out.

Whatever your reason is, I would never let my politics be the reason I don't show up to see my family because they won't always be there. I'm going to disagree.

I completely understand her point because I really do feel that this candidate, you know, President-elect Trump, is just a different type of candidate. From the things he's said and the things he's done and the things he will do, it's more of a moral issue for me. And I think it's more of a moral issue for other people. We're just, you know...

I would say it was different when, let's say, Bush got elected. You know, you may not have agreed with his policies, but you didn't feel like he was a deeply flawed person. Keep it up. We love this, liberals. Yes, make no effort whatsoever to understand why those around you may have a political viewpoint different from your own. It is what led you to believe defund the police wasn't a good idea. It's what led you to believe that cutting

young children's nuts off in school and advocating for it was just a wonderful idea. It's what led you to believe prosecuting Donald Trump for made up crimes in front of fake phony judges on fraudulent charges was a great idea too. You guys keep this up. It served you so wonderfully. Folks, the Trump effect is real. I'm telling you right now, processes, processes, tattoo it on your brain.

Your guy here is never wrong on this stuff. There is a significant schism developing on the left. I set this show up for a reason. You saw Carville. Carville makes money and his, it's not just about money to him, but prestige as well. If you're a political prognosticator and you're wrong, nobody's going to pay attention to you. He wants to have juice like anyone else. If I told you a bunch of stuff that never happened and never came true, you wouldn't listen to the show either.

There is a schism developing. You got the Sonny Hostin crowd, which is doubling down on crazy. And then you got the Carvilles. This is the Trump effect. It is real. The greatest irony of Donald Trump is he may have a bigger impact on the Democrat Party than he has on the Republican Party at some point from having them do some sense of self-reflection. Here's Eric Adams, the far left governor in New York, excuse me, mayor of New York City.

who I don't trust as far as I can throw him. But here's Eric Adams on the potential deportation of illegals in New York. And for a second, you're listening to this. You're like, this guy sounds like a squishy Republican, not a Democrat. This is the Trump effect at work and your election at work. Listen to this.

Can migrant New Yorkers be sure that they won't happen here given that ICE can make arrests in New York City without police cooperation? And then the second question is, why should New Yorkers, including migrant New Yorkers, trust that you will advocate for them with the new Trump administration given that you have a personal stake in winning the president's favor?

OK, a couple of things. Do you think every New Yorker believes there should not or should be mass deportation? Do you believe every New Yorker believes that? No, but you have said you don't think there should be. But you said, how can I advocate for New Yorkers? So I should only advocate for one type of New Yorker or New Yorkers?

Well, that's tough. I don't think you can advocate for all New Yorkers. Oh, really? Okay, so which New Yorker I shouldn't advocate for? The ones that agree with you or disagree with you? Well, if you believe there should be no mass deportations, how can people believe that you will advocate for that with the Trump, incoming Trump administration? But you set up a question. This is very interesting, the question you set up. So there's certain New Yorkers I shouldn't advocate for? Folks, you're watching the Trump effect in real time.

He's going to have a significant effect on the politics of this country on the Democrat side is the Republican side. He has almost single handedly shifted the Republican Party from a party focused exclusively on tax cuts and elite business interests into the working man's party.

This is a racial depolarization election. If any political prognosticator or talking head worth their salt knows it. Donald Trump has broken racial barriers. No, and I mean no Republican has managed to do in 100 years. That's his lasting gift to the Republican Party. Donald Trump, ironically, may save Democrats from themselves too. And that may not be the kind of thing you want to hear. But folks, I'm here to give you analysis, not bullshit.

I'm not saying it's going to happen overnight because the Democrat Party is populated by power centers like AOC, the Squad, the Sonny Hostin types, the Rachel Maddows. They still hold a lot of sway. It's going to be a long time before the Democrats even think about repairing themselves. But a few political victories in...

If Donald Trump can get tax cuts passed and some good, solid conservative national reciprocity and things like that, deregulation, Doge works on cutting some departments, get rid of the Department of Education. A few wins in, I think you're going to see some Democrats who years ago would have been called blue dogs say, hey, man, I got to get with the winning team. I just showed it to you. Bring receipts. I just did.

There's Eric Adams giving a speech, the liberal mayor of New York, a guy who only cares about PR, giving a speech about, hey, man, you know, I'm not necessarily going to be defending illegal immigrants in the city from law enforcement. I just showed it to you.

And folks, the hits and the winning just keep on happening. Where's that Borman? More, more. And when you hit the more, more on top of more. And then more. And then more. And then more. You're on top of that. More, more, more. Daily Mail. CNN will axe its top stars in layoffs. See hundreds fired as ratings continue to tank. I can't get enough of these stories. MSNBC is supposedly for sale today.

Folks, I'm not really sure any, a couple of people were saying maybe Elon should buy MSNBC. Folks, that station is such a dog. I don't know. I mean, it would take a lot of, who knows, maybe an Elon, David Sachs, Chamath Palihapitiya, Chris from Rumble deal would be a good one. You know, I'm not speaking for anyone there, but I'm not sure it's even worth it at this point.

The station's a dog. It's a dog. This is what happens when you lie to people. Eventually they say, I don't want to be lied to anymore. You lied to me. You said we had a shot of winning this on these issues and you lost. Here's a little bit of comic relief, by the way. Uh,

The Oval Office meeting happened a little while ago between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. If you're listening on Apple and Spotify on demand, you can watch the show on Rumble. You'll see they weren't answering a lot of questions. The only real news break that came out of it is there was a handshake. Biden said congratulations to Trump. So obviously it's going to take a lot of wind,

out of the sales. Trump said politics are dirty business, so there's a little like rapprochement going on here, the ceremonial handshake. Trump said the transition will be smooth. That's the only real news break that came out of it.

Peter Doocy asked the best question yesterday. Did you? This is just, folks, you know, edutainment's my theory here, right? Hat tip, boogie down productions. Educational entertainment, you're going to love. This has no educational value whatsoever. It is just freaking entertaining to watch. Kareem Jalpierre asked one of the best questions. Hey, is this meeting today that happened going to be awkward? Watch Kareem Jalpierre. Check this out. We know this.

that today, a week after the election, President Biden and Vice President Harris had a private lunch. How awkward was that?

I don't even understand. Why would it be awkward? Because the president got squeezed out for her and then she kept him at arm's length and then she lost and now she's dead. Why would you characterize it as awkward? They have regular lunches. They meet and talk regularly. Why would you call it awkward? So there's no weirdness about the way that things have unfolded since July 24th? Did you see them together yesterday as well when they honored our veterans and were together?

Sorry, it was a Kamala Harris. It doesn't matter. The point's the same. He understands that the Democrat Party's at war with each other right now. Biden hates Harris. Harris hates Biden. They both hate Trump. Everybody's pretending they like each other. It's all an act. It's all an act. I don't do acts. You know it. They did the ceremonial handshake.

Folks, the White House right now is a total train wreck. I'm hearing the morale in the White House is the worst it's ever been. And I've been through a couple of transitions. They're usually pretty bad when you lose the election. Hey, get us to 200,000. We've been at 190, 191, 200,000.

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of governing in the transition period, because it is a form of governing. I mean, soon you're going to be in charge, is working. Just when Donald Trump is getting all this heat for breaking up the education cartel, for talking about dumping the Department of Education, for closing the border, breaking up the censorship regime, he rock-em-sock-em robots again, and he goes back and gives another one of these video deliveries on True Social. Here he's talking about...

being housed in these high-priced hotels. And you know what? That money ain't going there no more. It's going to go to our veterans. And of course, they didn't have enough time to melt down because then he started doing more announcements. Rock'em, sock'em, robot style. But this is genius. Check this out.

Day one, I will sign an executive order to cut off Joe Biden's massive spigot of funding for shelter and transport of illegal aliens and redirect a portion of those savings -- a very large portion, I might add -- to provide shelter and treatment for homeless American veterans.

I will make it a personal mission to totally eradicate veterans' homelessness in America by the end of next term. You'll see a big difference, just like you did at the VA, just like you did with, frankly, everything we touched. The border was the best border we've ever had. We were energy independent. We were soon going to be energy dominant.

Our country was doing great. We had no inflation. We had the best economy in history. We're going to take care of our veterans. If you have served this nation in uniform, the Trump administration will never betray you as Joe Biden and the radical left Democrats have done. They have truly betrayed you. Folks, understand.

Open borders is their only political path to any kind of sustained political power. They talk about it all the time. Demographic destiny, switching the demographics of the country, which ironically is now working in their favor now that racial depolarization is underway and Trump is the first president.

the first post-racial polarized election, presidential election in modern American history. It's backfiring on them, but they see it as their only path to sustain power. It's why they keep fighting and fighting and fighting against Stephen Miller and Homan.

Because they understand once the borders shut down, they have no sustained tactical path towards winning political power. Their only path is illegal immigration and giving away goodies. Now you've got Elon and Vivek that are going to shut that down, and you've got Holman and Miller, and I don't know who's going to be CBP secretary, maybe Rodney Scott or someone else. But these guys are going to shut the border down. You have actually cut off this spigot of their political power.

Here's Andrea Mitchell yesterday. You see, watch, they're really upset about this. Claiming ridiculously yet again that Tom Homan, who is now replacing Kamala Harris as the border czar, that the border czar position is new. I'll debunk this for you in a second. But the reason she's doing this is she wants to act like what's happening right now with Homan being appointed border czar.

the guy to run the border, that this is some new and uniquely painful Republican thing. Republican politicians like Trump are trying to impart on the American people. It's not new. There have been border czars before, notably Kamala Harris, who failed at it. Watch this. She has no significant experience at all in homeland security, which is one of the biggest agencies. It's not just immigration, and there is an immigration czar. This is a new position that, as you know, has been...

created supposedly by the new, the new, the president-elect for the new administration. There's, this is the, this is a new position?

I hate to ask you guys to do this again, but can you queue up? This is about a minute of the media people like Andrea Mitchell and left wingers talking about the borders are position under Joe Biden. It was filled by who? Yes. Kamala Harris. Do you see how these people lie? Wait, put the end wokeness tweet up again. You see why MSNBC ratings have collapsed. How many,

times are you going to be lied to? Andrea Mitchell down 40%. Why? Because she's bullshitting you. She just told you there's no such thing as the borders are. It's a new position. Tom Holman's the first one. Fellas, cue up the borders are montage. Play this for the audience. How many times are you going to be lied to by these imbeciles? Check this out. Anytime.

Vice President and border czar Kamala Harris facing some backlash. And this will be her first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border region since she was appointed as the border czar by President Biden. President Biden tapped Kamala Harris, Vice President Kamala Harris, to be the border czar. They were very critical of Kamala Harris, especially in her role as border czar. Kamala Harris, who was appointed as the border czar. There has been so much criticism against Kamala Harris. You know, she was the border czar.

What else do you need to see? What else do you need to see? Why is this show such a success and Rumble been such a success while cable news with billion-dollar budgets keeps losing their audience? Because of bullshit. It's not hard. Andrea Mitchell, there's no such thing as the borders are. This is the first one. We just played for you a minute of left-wing media people telling you about the borders are. Kamala Harris, whatever.

What else could you possibly want to eat? This wasn't even hard. What did I say on the voicemail? I leave these guys a voicemail at night, but a show rundown, so I don't have to stop what they're doing or anything. What did I say on the voicemail? I said, do me a favor, pull me the montage of the borders. That's how easy this show was to put together this actual component last night. We have it in the evergreen file. We don't even need to do anything. Hey, can I give you a big thank you? You're like, what are you guys out about?

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Please, if you want to become a Rumble premium member, we appreciate it. The platform's free regardless. Rumble.com slash Bongino to follow the show. All right, back to stuff. Thank you very much. I really appreciate it. Folks, we have to start a fund, really a give, send, go to fund the Marie Harfs and Sonny Hostins of the world. Because I'm telling you, the longer we can keep this schism going on the left with the radical communist lunatics attacking the Jim Carvilles and others trying to straighten a party out,

the Van Joneses and the Philippe Brynas. It's better for us. It distracts them. It keeps them occupied in their own little play pen and sandbox.

I hate to run two clips of The View, but this was priceless. It shows you how they will never, ever look in the mirror. When you go and ask voters what this election was about, they're going to tell you illegal immigration and inflation. Those were two of the biggest issues everywhere across the country. Play the clip by Sonny Hostin. Here's Sonny Hostin. He's like, oh, no, this wasn't about prices, about eggs or anything. Keep it up.

Keep it up. We want you guys in the blind in your dopey bubble because we've popped it and we got the formula now. Watch this.

I still don't believe that this was about the price of eggs, because if it were about the price of eggs and the price of gas, I mean, Trump didn't address those during his rally. He did address those during his campaign. He did address a microphone in a sexually explicit way, but he didn't do any of these things. And so I don't know that Democrats need to do a postmortem.

Please, Sonny, don't do a post-mortem. Why? All you got to do, it took me about five minutes to pull this article up, maybe last Forbes.

Biden mistakes on the economy help explain the 2024 election. According to exit polls, in other words, what people said after they voted, voters decided the election based on perceptions of the U.S. economy. This is how stupid the bubble living left dwellers are. I'm telling you, we need to get a charity pack going to keep these people on the air. This is the best thing that can happen to us. And tactically speaking, jokes aside, sarcasm aside, this is going to stop soon. We have about...

100 or 150 days of a window where we can get big, huge things done.

Breaking news, by the way, Senate GOP leadership now down to Thune and Cornyn. That's a bit of a disappointment. I wanted out Rick Scott. But, you know, these guys with the secret ballots, they'll never tell you who they voted for anyway. So that just happened. Thune and Cornyn is probably going to wind up being Thune at this point, but we'll see what happens. Folks, you want this to happen. There is a genuine opportunity cost, but it's going to wrap up.

After about 150 days of this infighting and ankle biting with each other, they're going to get pissed off and some big donors going to come in or group of donors and shut it down. We have to take advantage and we have to move now.

Here's another one. You want to talk about a cult-like mentality. Here is a former member of our dopey media talking head Olympics medal stand, Brian Stelter. I mean, an absolute moron and another life loser. Again, no sense of self-reflection whatsoever. They just haven't figured it out yet. Stelter's dumb, though. I promise you, some big donor or tactical guy, politics-wise, is going to come in and clean that party up.

Just like Donald Trump did in 2016. So we got to move now. But you still got this to hope for. Here's Stelter. Listen to this.

But I want to recognize that for all the flaws of the mainstream media, and we have a lot of them, it's not just the media's fault that trust has been declining for decades. It's also decades of attacks by politicians. That is the main issue, is that, like, I mean, yeah, it could be that The Washington Post is endorsing candidates, or it could be that there are millions of voters who believe lying politicians who tell them lies, knowing that they are. I mean, that could be the problem, too.

They'll never get it, folks. The media does not. These guys are incapable of digesting their own role in the misinformation ecosystem they created. We have a unique opportunity of about 150 days or so. We got two years till the midterms.

But the political capital is on our side for about the next 150 days. We've got to move and move fast, rock them, sock them, robot style. It is the only way. Please listen to me and make sure your representatives know that. They are going to try to stop them, though.

And one of the most disgraceful things I've ever seen in our legal system, which is collapsing, is what's happening up in New York right now with fake Judge Merchant. He has the opportunity right now to put to bed this disastrous abomination of justice in that civil fraud case Twinkies brought up in New York. OK, there's civil criminal. He can get the criminal. He can get rid of this crap.

He won't. Watch what he's doing. Here's a Fox News report. He's delaying sentencing on this case instead of scrapping the case. Why? Because justice delayed is justice denied. This guy hates the idea of justice. He wants to sword Adamocles over Donald Trump's head because he wants to look like the guy. Watch this Fox News report on that.

It's 10 a.m. in New York City, and we've got a ruling based on the Associated Press saying this a moment ago. The judge has delayed a ruling on whether or not to dismiss President-elect Donald Trump's criminal conviction. These are 34 counts that came in at the end of May, May 30th.

And the former president's been fighting it ever since. And the judge is going to sentence him prior to the election, then delayed it given the election itself. And so this is the ruling here. Folks, Judge Merchan, this guy is not a serious person. He is a hardcore liberal activist with family connections making money off the attacks on Trump. That's why I'm telling you, once they get their sea legs under him again, the left,

They're going to marshal their forces again. We've got about 150 days to make big moves. I am all over these personnel decisions. Again, just a news break. Rick Scott did not win that Senate majority leader race. It's down to Thune and Cornyn. We'll see who wins. You know, who cares about predictions? We'll know in a little bit. Follow us on the radio here on Rumble in just a few minutes. We've been setting records over there, too, live streaming all day. We love it. We love it. You're with us.

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