Trump’s Big Weekend Turns Heads (Ep. 2372)
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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. Man, I missed you guys on Friday. I hope you all understand there was some like things going down this weekend. I don't mean down like things going down. I mean like things were going down. But you just said things were going down and you said not things. Things were down. We're going down. A lot of things.

If you saw the weekend pictures, this may be the craziest weekend update ever. I got to tell you, the weekend update could be the entire show. That's how much happened on the weekend update. And it's not even like the personal stuff that happened this weekend. This isn't even, I'm not even sure on the radio show I'm going to do the warning for the stick to the issues crowd. Because the weekend update could be the issues. There was so much going down.

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Totally crazy pills time. So much to talk about. I got pictures. I got video. I got behind-the-scenes video. I got stories. So let me just start quick. I was off on Friday. We put together an election wrap-up special. My apologies. I should have told you in advance, but so many things happen so quick. Sometimes the kid just has to bounce. And like a bat, whoo!

And I just had a bounce, okay? So we still put together a show. My team, a lot of people watched it. We appreciate it. So Friday, I wound up, this is a little bit more personal, but I had to take a break because there was so much going on. I was like drinking from a firehouse. So I went to the Stars and Strings concert. It was a benefit for Folds of Honor. It's a great charity. It was down in the Hard Rock area.

And we had a great time, my wife and I. So I don't want to spend too much time on that, but just one quick thing. I was playing some blackjack, and I'm even the whole night. I'm not winning anything. And I'm playing there, and Paula says to me, hey, take that $500 chip there, which I never bet $500. I'm not like, you know, some big gambler. They're $50 maybe, you know, sometimes less per hand. It's like having fun, you know? So I put down the $500. She's like, you're going to hit a blackjack on this thing. I'm like, no way. What comes out? A freaking queen in it.

yeah, baby, that was my winnings. I'm like, we're out. Bye. I'm done. So I did pretty good at blackjack. The concert was amazing. Bailey Zimmerman, Riley green, Megan Maroney was there. Parker McCollum. And I got to tell you, I'm not too hip to like the music scene all the time. I have my specific artists, Jordan Davis. Amazing. These guys just tore it up. So that's when the real action happened. So Friday,

I find out, you know, we're going up to the UFC, up at MSG, Madison Square Garden. A friend of mine calls and says, we got to go up. So we go up and we're hanging. I want to just quickly thank Dana White, president of the UFC, for always taking good care of me and Paula. Put us right up there in the front. Your guy, he's the man. I love Dana. He could not have been kinder. Thank you to him.

So we're sitting there and we're kind of hanging out and Dana's got a little, like, I don't know, VIP room, green room. And we're hanging out in there. And Chris from the CEO Rumble and I were chatting with a few people. And all of a sudden, like this crew of people pile in and folks, it's the craziest thing ever. It's like, you know, put up these pictures first. I just want to show you. These are like people I'd ever get out of my house. First is you ever see, you know, this guy, Triple H, Triple H,

Paul Levesque, amazing. I watched the WWA. I still watch the A&E specials. You ever see this guy? Jelly Roll, couldn't have been nicer. Jelly couldn't have been, I mean, what a great guy. I was like, hey, and you ever see this guy? Both of them, that's Kid Rock and then Elon. And then who's that woman over there? That's the lovely Paula. Elon couldn't have been nicer, by the way. She was like, Elon, can you take a picture? She's like, yeah, sure.

Come on over. I talked to him for just a couple minutes. I told him, by the way, I told him thank you for helping to save free speech. Wasn't a big, long conversation. I don't want to be dramatic. Maybe a minute or two, but super nice guy. That was Paula with Aiden Ross and his dad. Great guys. And I think that's the guy who hosts the bar school show in the back. But Aiden's a super popular live streamer. This is Chris from Rumble.

Hold this picture up a second. Chris is going into the walkout, going down to do the walkout, and he gets stuck in the elevator with Trump, Elon, Dana White, and then that's Sean from the Secret Service who got inadvertently caught up in the shot. So Chris, they asked him to take a selfie, and he did, and this thing went viral right away. That's Chris from Rumble. So he's a trip.

And then I was sitting down in the front right there, and right in front of me was Triple H, and Eric came over and said, let's take a picture. So there's another good one, me, Triple H, and Eric. There's Aiden, me, and Chris, me winking like, oh my gosh, look at that. And then this was Don Jr. said, this was all of us in the section. It's me, Chris, Don, Stephanie McMahon, and Triple H. There's me and Trump, me scanning the crowd going all like, oh.

ninja style secret service. He Trump given a iconic thumbs up his favorite picture met RFK, by the way, couldn't have been nicer. Ran into him in the green room. Super nice guy. We spoke a little bit about some stuff. Here's some video from Paula's camera. So let me just tell you before you play it, let me just explain this to you. So I'm in this VIP room, right with them and they're getting ready for the walkout.

And you don't want to walk out with Trump. And I don't typically do to walk out because you, I don't, I just go and take my seat. You know, it's not my thing. I mean, I don't,

And as I'm walking out, Dana says, Bongino. And I said, what's up? In front of this whole crew. It's like Tulsi, RFK, Don, Don Jr., Don DJT. And he goes, Bongino. He goes, you come do this walkout with us. He goes, you helped too. I said, hell yeah. I'm not going to say no to that shit. So I get in the elevator. We're going to do the walkout. Paula grabs my hand. She looks at me. She's like, can you believe this shit? I'm getting ready to walk out to this UFC crowd with Trump. This is Paula's camera. It got cut off about five seconds in.

But this was freaking crazy, folks. I'm telling you, you have no idea how bananas this thing was. This is how it's the videos online do it no justice. I have never in my life heard a roar like this. This was the end of it when because we were like four or five people behind Trump. It was I was like behind Elon and Kid Rock.

And this is and we were kind of chatting, the president and I throughout the night a little bit. Some of you saw it on video and on camera. So there we are right there looking around, checking things out, checking out the screen. Yeah, it was folks. It was nuts. Listen.

You can just see the crowd. There's Paula right there, right next to me. And I think that's Lorenzo Fertitta, the guy who was one of the original UFC guys. It's RFK right over there, Mike Johnson. Mike Johnson took a picture right over the shoulder. I kind of inadvertently photobombed. Me and Trump were talking about something. So me and the president were talking about something.

Paula peeking in there right in the background, of course, causing trouble. Folks, it was an amazing event. I want to show you this, too. The best part of the night, at the end of the night, Johnny Bone Jones, congratulations. He beats us. He dominated them the whole fight, folks. I was there. I saw it.

But this happened at the end of the night. Paul and I were seriously like maybe eight, 10 feet away. And I didn't think John Jones is going to do this, man. He's what a nice guy. Give that. He gave a shout out to Jesus Christ, which is what really matters. And then he comes outside the ring with the belt. And then this happens with president Trump and man, it's like folks keep in mind. It's about two in the morning when this is happening and this place, it might as well have been eight o'clock at night. There's Johnny bones. Jones giving them the belt.

Trump takes it. This moment was so special, man. I can't even tell you.

Oh, yeah, yeah, I know, right? There you go. He said it right. There you go, Trump. Nazi white Trump. He's like the worst Nazi white supremacist ever. This is the one thing he's failed at terribly. We're seriously like right over his right shoulder. We could hear John Jones. And, man, it was just an incredible, incredible event. So I know a lot of you are interested in a lot of the behind the scenes about who's what. I'm just here again to repeat.

None of this stuff is my decision, okay? About anything. You guys know what I'm talking about. And there's a lot to think about if that decision were to happen. And you guys will be the first to know, okay? Because I love you and you guys matter. And so just hang with me, you know?

CNN, of course, had a meltdown about the walkout and the whole event. Folks, the place went nuts. We were in the middle of the heart of Manhattan, liberal Manhattan. And I'm telling you, it was the loudest thing I've ever heard. I promise you those videos do it no justice. If you saw it live, Rogan, Joe Rogan, I think Cormier were doing the announcement. They're like, you can't even, you could barely hear yourself talk. People were screaming, USA. It was nuts. Trump was doing the dance at the end, you know, to Trump, the robot. It was nuts.

CNN absolutely melted down because they just can't take it that this guy has a popular mandate now in the support of the people. So this is what happened on CNN, comparing it to some like Roman gladiator event. Just stupidity. Check this out.

He's flood the zone with these picks and forced Republicans to choose. And I think it's interesting to me that he brought Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. to the UFC event last night. He is, frankly, giving, I think, supporter-based permission structure. And he's made these folks stars over the course of this campaign. I mean...

And in some ways it's easy to view this, I think, through a different lens. Like this is also just a person who won following through on campaign promises. He promised retribution, he promised vengeance, and he promised these kind of figures having prominent places in this administration and he's delivering it. And for a lot of those supporters, that is the point of the Trump vote. - Folks, this is just, you know,

You guys remember Cenk from the Young Turks? He did that debate with us. He's a left-wing guy. I mean, there's no doubt about it. But Cenk has been, I actually followed him on X because he's been putting out from the left some interesting perspectives and takes. And I think it's important, and you guys probably vibe with me on this, that we don't ignore that. We're not going to agree with it. We're not lefties, okay? We're going to fight against a lot of what they want, collectivism and socialism, and

but it's important to understand them. And I think Cenk and others are finally waking up that they missed something because Cenk put this thing out saying, well,

Shit, man, the mainstream media, we're like dead now. Like we don't even look at us to show folks. We're 11 minutes in. We got 140,000 people. We have a bigger audience right now than the entire like CNN demo. I mean, that's nuts. Think about it. They're on on basically every cable news affiliated home in the country. You're talking about tens of millions of homes and little damn Bon Gino from the back of this tiny studio with his three guys has a bigger audience right now. Demo wise than they do.

We're winning. They're losing. And that's why you see again this meltdown. These figures are all about vengeance. I spoke to Tulsi for a good five minutes in the green room. The idea of vengeance never came up. The idea of accountability did, but those are not the same things. Those are not the same things. Vengeance. CNN is obsessed. They're the only ones obsessed with vengeance. Folks, I'm getting a little worried because the left is, as predicted,

I told you they were going to get their sea legs. They were wobbly, you know, using the UFC analogy. They took a few bad shots. Their knees were wobbly. But eventually, just like happened in the Chandler-Oliviera fight, you know, when Chandler was hitting him, Oliviera got his head together. The left, it was only going to take him a little bit. I warned you, don't get too excited about the cannibalism. Like, eventually, the money and the donors are going to figure out how to try to get this thing back.

Shenanigans are everywhere, and I want you to pay close attention to a couple of stories because we're out on Friday.

The Senate Democrats are now freaking out that the Republican majority that's coming in are going to do exactly what the Senate Democrats pledged to do to us. Washington Examiner, Schumer to Republicans, please don't do to us what we were going to do to you. I want to focus on one thing here because it's critical. The Democrats were going to destroy the filibuster, the 60-vote threshold to get something passed in the Senate. Sorry for the basic civics lesson, but there are liberals listening. Some of them aren't that bright, okay? There's 100 senators.

Because of the filibuster, you effectively need, if you don't use reconciliation, which is most things, you need 60 votes to pass. Folks, we don't have 60. It's not the case in the House where it's a simple, it's a majority. We have 53 coming in. So we're going to have to surpass filibuster numbers to get a lot of big ticket items passed. But what if we can't? Then it's going to go down in flames.

The Democrats wanted to scrap that and make it a simple 51 vote to get something past majority to the Republicans in the Senate. This may be controversial, but I'm going to throw this out there. I got to tell you, man, I know you don't like the idea of dumping the filibuster, but the Democrats, if they take charge, are going to do it. They're going to do it.

So I'm not telling you to do it. I'm just telling you you should be considering it because I'm telling you they're going to do it. And now you've got 53 and the House. You could do big things. They're going to do it. There are shenanigans afoot everywhere. You see this tweet? They're trying to steal the Pennsylvania Senate race and the North Carolina Supreme Court race and a bunch of other seats in California.

Folks, the election's not over. Now it's work time. I told you we would take a week, weeks up, still celebrate, great. Everything's going good so far. But man, it's time to get our work boots back on.

Even the Washington Post is now starting to point out that the Democrats are now illegally counting votes in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, trying to steal this Senate seat. Do I think it's going to happen? I don't. I don't think they're even with the attempted theft.

and the creation of new phantom votes that aren't legal. I still don't think they have the numbers, but even the Post is like, hey, Democrats thumb their nose at the rule of law in Pennsylvania. Elections need rules, and they must be applied equally and consistently. How bad do you have to F something up that the Washington Post is calling you out? I'm just saying, folks, they are pushing full steam ahead in Bucks County and elsewhere to count actually illegal votes.

You can see the race is tightening up. It's not going to happen. McCormick's going to be fine, I think. But we got to keep our eyes on this. They've done this before. Here's the Bucks County tweet. Bucks County, they're trying to flip it. Bucks County may flip to Harris and the Democrats. And by the way, this is a mention of the North Carolina Supreme Court race, too. The Democrat is now, after still counting votes, unbelievably...

Two freaking weeks. The Democrats now up by, I think, 26 votes. They know a lot of ballot counting is taking place after the election. Listen, Republicans, when you get in charge here, this has to stop. This has to stop. It is election day. It's not election season. You've now got, in some cases...

Almost a month plus of early voting. We're now two weeks after the election. Guy just said it right. We're still counting? Folks, it is never meant to be a two, three, four-month election. It's election day. To the Republicans listening and the constituents out there and the Bongino Army, four more years we've got. We have got to clean this mess up. This should be the first piece of legislation passed.

by the Republicans in the House, at least in federal elections they can control, that there will be no more counting of votes after Election Day. Early voting, it should be in and counted. Ballots should have to be in by Election Day. That's it. Unbelievable. It's North Carolina Supreme Court race. They're going to try to steal this thing. Eric Daughtry writes, the ballots continue to be counted. Now the Democrat mysteriously takes the lead.

How are states still counting? Endless counting means endless possibilities for cheating, folks. It's got to stop.

This has to be initiative number one. Who in the chat agrees? I haven't gotten a chance to interact with you guys, Fry. Do you think this should stop? Like election night, that's it? Yes or no? Why? Yes, it should stop. No, we should count for three and four months. You got, what do you call it? You got congressional races in California that unbelievably still haven't been called. It's freaking two weeks later. Well, this is unanimous. We may break the chat. By the way, Chris, the CEO of Rumble,

is super impressed with the Bongino Army. Here's the thing about the chat. Here's how you know our audience is real. You guys want to let me, I'll let you in on a little secret. There are a lot of fakers out there in the live streaming world who put up, say they put up big numbers. Look at that chat. Look at that. Yes! Look at what we have here. Look at what we have here.

There are a lot of fakers in the live streaming world. Did you know that? They want to say, oh, look, I have 90,000 streamers. You know what a lot of their streamers are? They're bots. They're fake. Not all of them, but a lot of people do that. You know how you can tell who the fakers are? Go to their chat because bots don't chat. Well, you can have chat bots, but they don't answer questions. We ask a question. We like that chat on fire. We like that chat on fire because you people in the Bongino Army are real.

Go to their chat. There's nobody in there. I thought you got 100,000 people watching. Now, why is there nobody in your chat? Because you don't. I don't like fakers. This is business for me, too. I'm an equity holder in Rumble. We want to make sure we know who the real players are. Folks, endless counting, endless possibilities for cheating. As I said, let me take a quick break. I want to come back just quickly, not to relitigate the beginning of the show, but...

I was in the little green room area at the UFC and Elon came in and Elon got, there weren't a lot of people in the, in this little room there, maybe 50 to a hundred. He said, you saw them jelly roll. Triple H was there. A lot of really like, uh, influential kind of players in the business, influencer type folks and stuff.

So when Elon walked in, Paul went over and said hello, and he was nice. But I just very briefly talked with him. I don't like name-droppers. Oh, we had a deep conversation. No, we didn't. I promise you. But I did say to him, hey, man, I really appreciate, you know, your role in fighting back in a war for free speech. And I'm going to tell you something, folks. We would not have won the election like we did without X. What are you saying? Trump wouldn't have won? No, I think Trump would have been fine. But some of those Senate races...

No, I don't think we would have. And down ballot stuff, I'm not sure we would have either if we did not have X in its form now. I want to show you this quick clip of Elon and Rogan and you'll see what I mean because ladies and gentlemen, we don't have the First Amendment. We don't have anything. That's the real fight going forward.

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So I got to thank Elon. Very nice guy. I really appreciate what he did. Here was Elon. And this was the game changing moment. I think that helped us win this election so forcefully. And by the way, don't believe the new media narrative on CNN and elsewhere. They're like Trump fell below 50% of the popular vote.

Don't be losers, okay, at CNN. There were two choices. The fact that there were stragglers in the race, Jill Stein and others and other people, does not take away at all from the fact that we disposed of the Democrats and Kamala Harris in nearly every competitive race in the country and won the popular vote by millions of votes. Don't believe the bullshit. This was a mandate, but it wouldn't have happened as convincingly down ballot without this. Check this out.

But if it wasn't for you buying that and changing Twitter, I don't think we would be where we're at right now. I think it was a pivotal moment. I think historically, when people look back on it, it's going to be a pivotal moment in this very bizarre fight for the freedom of information. Yeah. Well, I mean, at the time I said, I think, like, look, I think this is...

Existential to the United States. It's existential to democracy Because if you don't if you don't have freedom of speech, you don't have democracy Okay, because if people if you don't have freedom of speech people cannot make an informed vote if they're just being fed propaganda And there's no freedom of speech Democracy is an illusion

Michael notes something interesting that the chat peaked out at 92 posts per second, which is a stunning number in the chat. And at Pennsylvania, was it Pennsylvania? It's counting votes at six votes per second. So Rumble leads the way. If you guys need some help counting votes, we can help you out. Give us a jingle. We'll help you guys out. But what Elon said is right, ladies and gentlemen. You don't have freedom of speech. You don't have conflicting perspectives and the ability to judge who's right and who's wrong.

That was a critical inflection point in this election. And don't believe the media bullshit. I promise you, I'm always ahead of the narrative. Always, always. Self-praise stinks, but in this case, screw it. You're going to see in the coming days, the narrative's going to shift. And you're going to see in the news and on Twitter, which has lost all influence, by the way, but they're still going to put it out there. You're going to see these stories continue.

You know, Trump only got 49.95% of the popular vote. It's all bullshit. It doesn't matter. You know what matters? You got even less. You suck on the left, okay? Sorry, you're bad, so sad. Now I got to get back to some critical stuff. Ladies and gentlemen, the nomination fights are heating up. This is going to be a dogfight. This is going to be plane-to-plane aerial combat, Top Gun style.

This is going to get really ugly. Now, I'm telling you for a fact, whoever's out there pitching to you like, oh, the Trump team like pick Gates and just a spur of the moment thing. And they didn't really know what they were doing. Bullshit. Not everything they do is 4D chess. These cabinet picks have been. I'm going to explain to you something right now that I'm absolutely certain of. And you could take it to the bank.

And media people who have been spinning an opposite narrative, start taking, get your pens out, start taking notes. You ready? The Trump team learned a valuable lesson from 2016 when Mike Flynn, no pun intended, got submarine, military guy, when he got submarine, when he got destroyed. The media zoned in. Michael, listen to this, if this doesn't make sense. What they did is they let the media focus on one person, Flynn.

And the media decided they were going to go all Saul Alinsky. Isolate. Remember Saul Alinsky's rules for radicals? Isolate the target. I don't know what rule that is, four or five, whatever it is. Isolate the target. They managed in 2016 to destroy a good man and a patriot, Mike Flynn. And it's because, I'm not going to say they allowed him, but they got sidetracked with the Flynn thing. They have now learned the lesson. And we'll call it very simply the flood the zone tactic.

I call it the rock'em, sock'em robots tactic. I prefer that one. Media people are now calling it flood the zone, where the second they start to try to isolate...

Hegsath, Tulsi, or Gates, they hit them with someone else. And the media doesn't know who to focus on. And one, the media has less power than it did before. I told you that before because nobody's really listening to them. But when you break up their attention and they're trying to hit Tulsi, Gates, and Hegsath at the same time, and maybe like a Kash Patel if he gets FBI, he's my choice, but that's up to Donald Trump.

They're going to go nuts over Kash Patel next. Do you get the point how partitioning your time and not isolating the target means you have no target at all? They're doing this on purpose. Anyone going like, oh my gosh, Trump team's really screwing up. They're naming controversial picks. One, they're not controversial. They're only controversial because you don't like them.

They're doing this on purpose. And I need you to Bongino Army to get ready for this dogfight and make sure your members of the House, I know they don't have a role in the confirmation process, but they do have the senators here. And make sure your senators know Trump's picking his cabinet and you guys better go along because without him on the ballot, a lot of you guys wouldn't have a job. Everybody in the Bongino Army, you guys in? Yes or no? Are you in this fight with me? I don't ask you a lot.

Throw some American flags in the chat. Trump has the right, he has earned the right to pick his own cabinet. And unless you have some reason like treason, then I don't want to hear it. You're damn right. Yeah, tear that chat up. Tear it up. Burn that thing to the ground. Burn it to the ground, kids. Burn it to the ground. He will pick his cabinet. And you're going to go along because you would not have a job

And I want you to remember, you work for us. We're not being, did we break that thing? Holy, 75. 175. 175 chat texts per second. I think that's a new record for the Dan Bongino Show.

172,000 watching, tearing up the internet. Rumble servers smoking, melting down. 118, 115, keep it up. Blow that thing up, man. Blow that sucker up. Oh, by the way, quick update before I get back to this. I don't mean to have like totally ADHD, but you know what this is? Like, damn, what is that? Some kind of like limitless drug? I forgot to take a red pill. It's a red pill.

What are you? No, it's Keflex. Remember last week I was telling you guys my arthritis was acting up in my hands. That wasn't arthritis. I must've got a bite on my hand. I caught a massive infection in my hand.

That's why it was all red. So I'm on Keflex now for a week, which is like a super potent antibiotic. Man, that's too much information. There's never too much information on the show. It's a family. Look, it's better now, though. That wasn't arthritis. I got bit by something. That's why my hand was all freaking puffy. You should have seen it at the UFC.

A couple of guys asked me, what are you fighting? Did you knock someone out? No, I'm not fighting. I said, I got a cellulitis in my hand. I'm getting bit by something. So luckily it's gone now, but I got to stay on this for seven days. But it is a red pill. Kind of convenient, right? All right, I'm going to get back to these nominations in a second. And I'm going to show you who Pete Hegseth really is. I want you to listen to this clip of him on the Sean Ryan show. And you're going to see why Pete Hegseth is the right pick for Secretary of Defense. Or if you want to sound like tough as a Cirque du Soleil. I hate when people say that, but whatever.

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Back to the show. Ladies and gentlemen, this is why I love Pete Hegseth, a decorated military veteran, Fox News host, advocate, activist. This is why I think he's the best pick. This is from a Sean Ryan show. He's got an amazing podcast talking about why the trans ideology is destroying battlefield effectiveness in the military. And tell me,

Tell me after you hear this. This doesn't make just common sense. Check this out. You had a cat for dental. They pulled your tooth because you can't be out in the field with a major, you know, dental emergency where there's no dentist. And so I deployed with a lot of guys who were like, because they just had a tooth pulled and they had to. Yet we're now allowing people who used to be men or women join dentists.

And then after that, we pay for medical or physical transitions to another gender, which by definition makes them non-deployable and non-trainable. Same thing with asthma medication or inhalers. Like when you're in basic training, you can't have an inhaler

when you're doing your exercises because you can't count on having an inhaler in a combat situation. Well, if you're medically dependent on drugs to maintain your gender or a particular balance of chemicals inside your body, you're by definition non-deployable. And so they'd have soldiers who can't train, can't deploy, have been on the books, and yet everyone has to be careful about what pronoun you use with them. Folks in the chat again, you know I love you guys. This show is always meant to be interactive. That's why we went live.

Is this guy the guy or is this guy the guy? You think you're going to hear that kind of talk from anyone else? And by the way, what did he say that doesn't make sense? You got a combat operator with a tooth infection you can't put out in the field. Folks, I don't fake the funk, okay? That's an end. I don't fake the funk on anything. I've never been in the military. I have not been in combat, okay? Period. Full stopper-oo. I'm not a poser. I'm not going to pretend. But I'm not stupid, okay?

If you're going out in combat, Justin, you ever been in a combat situation?

He has not. Justin's like, I'm not even out of college yet. Okay. But let me ask you, Justin's like, nobody likes war. He don't want to be involved. He's like, listen, let's stay out of wars. Like, that's a good thing. But you call Justin up, he'd do it, right? Because Justin's like, look at this guy. He's like, ready to go. Like, I'll get him. I got America's back. But can we all agree here that if Justin has a massive tooth infection, right, that he probably becomes a liability in the Afghan mountains. Would you not, Justin? No.

And it's not that Justin's in pain. It's that the infection could get bad and Justin could get a fever. And then what happens? Two guys have to carry Justin and it takes three guys out of action.

What about what Pete just said makes, doesn't make sense that you get someone who wants a, a trans surgery and you're going to put them in a military situation where they're now not capable medically of being able to fight. What the hell's the point of that? You want to do that on your personal time. What about what he just said? Doesn't make sense. You know, it does, but do you see how the Trump team learned from the Mike Flynn situation?

Flood the zone. Rock them, sock them robots. That's what we do, Bongino Army. He just keeps hitting them with people. He just keeps hitting them over and over, and they don't know what to do. Here's a CNN clip. Whereas they got pressured last time to dump Flynn over that thing, it's not happening this time. I do not think they're backing down on this at all.

Even CNN got wind of this. They're hearing Trump's all in on Matt Gaetz, who's been nominated for AG. And by the way, I support. I don't want to date the guy. Oh my gosh. Folks, we're in a serious political battle situation. The bad guys are that way. We can talk about your personal shit later. For now, they're down that way. They're not sideways. Here's CNN saying, hey.

Trump's all in on Gates. I'm telling you, they're all in on Hegseth, too. Check this out. We are learning tonight that Donald Trump remains determined to see Matt Gates's nomination through. He is very aware of the coverage and the blowback that Gates's nomination has received since that surprising announcement. And he has heard the

from his allies on Capitol Hill and Republican senators who are concerned that Gaetz does not have the support to get to 51 votes in the Senate. But Donald Trump is not backing down. He is telling his allies that he will dig into this fight. He is, quote, 100 percent in on Gaetz. One source telling us, quote, he is not going to back off. He's all in. Good, good.

Folks, I don't steal you wrong. I don't steal you wrong at all. I told you the Trump team has learned a lot. You have to remember in 2016, they were new to politics. Trump had never been elected to anything. They were new to politics, just a fact. I think they were blindsided by everything coming at them and their own friends screwing them over. They're not falling for that shit again. You understand? They're not. This is their pick and that's it.

And the senators out there wouldn't have jobs without him. This is the guy. Here is the single best take you're going to hear. Folks, I don't like watching political violence on TV, but there was a murder on television. Live? There was. There was. Someone notify the FBI immediately. Someone get a body bag. There was a murder on live television. There was. Was it like the Joker movie? Of course. It was bad. Did you see this clip, you guys?

You know Molly Hemingway? We love Molly. Molly is the queen of ball busters. I love me some Molly Hemingway. Molly Hemingway is on Fox with Trey Gowdy, who's a whole other story. Trey Gowdy, who's always got something to say about these deep state issues and amazingly is always on the wrong side of them, which is just incredible, which I've been calling out for a long time. I've never seen a guy on the wrong side of more issues than that.

Trey Gowdy, of course, sitting there, oh my gosh, Matt Gaze, hey, look at this. Here is Molly Hemingway with Trey sitting right on the panel. Folks, you want to watch a body bag situation on live TV? Here's her answering Trey Gowdy's condemnation of a Matt Skate pick. Oh, man, someone dial 911.

there's been a political homicide on television. Check this out. - Right, Matt Gaetz was nominated for this position because we have a problem with the Department of Justice. For the last eight years, they have run roughshod over rule of law in this country. They have prosecuted political opponents. They ran the Russia collusion hoax. And too many people in Washington, D.C. did not stand up against what was happening there. And many Americans are upset about it. Matt Gaetz is one of the most effective people at fighting that Russia collusion hoax and other information operations.

whether it was the Brett Kavanaugh information operation, the Donald Trump Russia collusion hoax information operation, or the one that is referenced here, which is something that the FBI and Department of Justice, which hate Matt Gaetz, looked into and cleared him of any wrongdoing. The idea that this is about...

The issue is corruption. It's the Department of Justice's corruption. And people are sick and tired of people in Washington, D.C., doing nothing as these people tried to destroy the country and getting upset at someone who actually might root out the corruption there. We don't have a Department of Justice. We have a Department of Injustice. And that's why you get Matt Gaetz as a nominee. I'm moving quick now, right? I'm like lightning. Look at that. What is that? Wait, the Johnny Bones Jones back kick, right?

Karate Man in the chat. Karate Man in the chat. Karate Man on the inside. Someone, please, get Homicide Investigators to that Fox News studio. Who loves Molly Hemingway? She's only been on the right side. By the way, you see what she did there? She takes a shot at Gowdy without him even knowing. Oh, he figured it out probably later about the Spygate thing too. Molly, you should do your own. Look at the Karate Man in the chat.

Man, you guys tripped me out. Molly needs her own Karate Man because she's really good at the Karate Man too. Karate Man. Trey, just stop, man. Stop. Time's up, okay? We're on to it. We're on to the shtick now. Yes, sir. We get it. We get it. We've already heard it before. But you're on the wrong side of everything, okay? We get the fake Tea Party Act. We've been through it before. Here's another reason they hate Gates. It was Matt Gates, which was Lloyd Austin, who's the Secretary of Defense now.

Lloyd Austin is no, how's he known key by Biden? Is it, is he that guy, the general over there, that guy, it's the black guy. Yeah. The black man, he called the black man one time. He has a name. His name is Lloyd Austin. It's kind of weird, right? That the Democrats are always talking about racist, that that's like the one cabinet guy they can never remember. No, no, no.

Oh my gosh, I didn't even think of this. The other guy they can't remember the name of is Javier Becerra, who happens to be a Hispanic. He calls him Javier Baccaria. So it's incredible that the Democrats are always accusing everybody else of being racist. It's absolutely phenomenal that the only people Biden can't remember the name of are Lloyd Austin and Javier Becerra. Isn't that kind of weird? Did we just crash, like rumble completely? Oh, there we go. Oh my gosh. We did.

What are we doing? This show is like so big. We're like melting servers. 183,000. Come on, let's get to 190. Get your friends in here. Let's do a solid 190 on Monday. Here's Matt Gaetz versus Lloyd Austin calling them out. Like, hey, man, we're giving you guys all this money and we're getting our asses kicked in all these areas. Like, do you have an explanation for this? This is why they don't want him. Check this out. Hell.

But like notice, so your question was whether or not we I control the time. Your question has been blowing a lot of calls lately on matters of strategy. Mr. Secretary, you guys told us that Russia couldn't lose. You told us that the Taliban couldn't immediately win. And so I guess I'm wondering what in the seven hundred and seventy three billion dollars that you're requesting today is going to help you make assessments that are accurate in the face of so many blown calls.

You've seen what's in our budget. You've seen how the budget matches the strategy. And so I'll let that speak for itself. You notice how they have those little paper tags in front of Secretary Austin? Can someone, like, give him one of those when he's around Biden so everybody knows, like, his name isn't that guy, the general, or the black man? He has a name. It's Lloyd Austin. We've never been confused, I promise you. Guys, when I left the...

There it is right there. Thank you, Guy, very much. So, Justin, how do you know what order the show goes in? Like when I send these things over. The voicemail, right? They run that. So when I left on the voicemail today, you listened to it, and I said the Lloyd Austin clip. Were you in any way confused? He was not. He was not. Justin's not even out of college yet. And Justin knows that Lloyd Austin is the defense secretary. Who doesn't know that? Joe Biden.

And if he didn't, he would look it up. I had to look up a guy. I don't want to get off track, but I'm in the green room and Donald, President Trump introduces me to this guy. I did not know who he was and I'm glad I looked up who he was. Oh my gosh. It was not a political guy at all, but I told you I'm not like a deal cutter type of guy. I don't know a lot of these. And I was like, glad I looked him up. I'll tell her that story later. Sometimes it's pretty funny. Shocker.

You got to know who these guys are. It's also why they don't want Hegseth because they know Hegseth's not going to take that crap either. He's going to go in there and start looking at the budget going, does this contribute to military effectiveness and lethality? No, done. What about this? No, done. DEI, definitely done. Here's a problem we're going to have.

There are some Republican senators out there who are still convinced that they had a mandate, not Donald Trump. That is not what happened. Many of you, not all of you, but many of you in the Senate and definitely the ones in close seats are only in office right now because of President Trump and his voters. His voters did it. You better get that down right away. So John Thune is going to be the new Senate majority leader in this new Senate coming up in just a couple of months.

Senator Thune, race is over, folks. We got to move on and focus on the pressure points we can use now. My choice was Rick Scott. Didn't happen. But Thune is now saying that recess appointments are on the table. There's some dispute over what McConnell thinks. He's still in control for a little bit.

Rick Scott put out a firm tweet this morning saying, oh, yes, we will use recess appointments. And just to be clear, recess appointments are exactly what they sound like. It's an appointment of someone like Gates while the Congress and the Senate are in recess. In other words, if Matt Gates can't get the votes, there's been some suggestions of the Vacancy Act, which gives the good, which give dates, which give Gates two hundred and ten days to

So Gates is getting in there, folks. I'm telling you no matter what, whether it's a vacancy appointment, a recess appointment, or a standard confirmation. Here's John Thune. He's saying the right things. We'll see how he acts. Folks, remember, we're all about spreadsheets. I'm not about personality. Thune does the right thing, plus one. He does the wrong thing, minus one. Here he is saying...

That recess, recess appointments are on the table. And this is what we want to hear. But it's also we want to we want to see it, not just hear it. Check this out. So you've said that you would do recess appointments if it came to that. What's the threshold for getting to that point for recess appointments? Well, what I said is, Brad, I think this is that all options are on the table, including recess appointments. Hopefully it doesn't get to that. But we'll find out fairly quickly whether the Democrats want to play ball or not.

And I think part of it is getting these folks will start having confirmation hearings soon as the new Senate is sworn in in January. President takes the oath of office January 20th. By the time he takes the oath of office, hopefully a lot of those nominees will be through their confirmation hearings and we'll be ready to act on them on the Senate floor. Okay, they're on the record. I want you guys to save that because it's really important. Folks, recess appointments could be critical. I think Pete will be okay, except I think we can go through a standard confirmation.

Gates, I'm not sure because a lot of these Republicans are squishy already and I don't like it. Now, why do I keep telling you to call your congressional members as well on the House side, even though they don't have a role in the confirmation process? The Senate confirms because they do. But you just said they don't know they do. Folks, for Congress as a body to go into recess, the House and the Senate have to agree.

If the House and Senate agree and go into recess for 10 days, President Trump can make a recess appointment. We need this. This is a key tactical move. Does everybody get this? Anyone in the chat confused? It allows us to bypass an overly politicized confirmation process at this point, which squishes.

We've got to use every tool of government we can. Recess appointments are a perfectly constitutional thing. Obama did them, so I don't want to hear your bullshit all over. Recess appointments. You didn't say anything when Obama did it, so we're going to do it too. We are here to use every lever of government, but we're going to need the House. I ran into Speaker Johnson in his green room at the UFC, spoke to him for a little bit.

Let's just hope he stays on. He seems to understand the trench warfare theory of politics going on right now. We'll keep the spreadsheet open, as I've always told you. But here he is on television defending the Gates appointment. And I want you to keep this in mind here. The Dan Bongino trench warfare theory of politics. When you're in the trench in a battle, an existential battle, save your life and your country, which we're doing now. I hate warfare analogies, but they punch through.

The enemy is that way. Whether the guy next to you cheated on a test in college, you can deal with that later. This isn't the time for that. Is the guy a good marksman in a political fight? Then let's do it. Here is Johnson saying the exact same thing on one of the weekend shows that, hey, man, this isn't the time for that. This is an existential fight for the country. Let's hope he sticks to it. Check this out. With some of these nominees, Gates, Hegseth, RFK Jr.,

I wonder, does it matter anymore for Republicans to think of leaders as people who are moral in their personal lives? Is that still important to the Republican Party?

Sure. It's an important issue for anyone in leadership. This is what I'll say about the nominees that the president has put forward, is that they are persons who will shake up the status quo. And I think what the American people believe and what they've delivered with the mandate in this election is the demand that we shake up the status quo. It's not working for the American people. So use the term in the opening about how these are disruptors. They are. I think that's by design.

Any president has the right to name their own cabinet, to nominate persons that they think will fulfill their agenda. And the people that are on this list will do that. They will go into the agencies that they're being asked to lead and they will reform them. That's exactly what we want to hear. Just, I'm asking you, put your emotions aside. This matters. I get it. Not everyone is going to be our pick. You know, we had Jim Jordan on our radar, Rick Scott. It didn't work out. But you got to keep the spreadsheet open.

We are still going to need to pull some levers. I just had this conversation this morning. Politics is a rough, ugly, back and forth, rough and tumble business. I wish it weren't, but it is. You're not always going to deal with the people you want to deal with. You all get that. You're all adults. I don't want to sound like an asshole, folks. I'm not trying to sound like some avuncular, like, look at me, superior moral figure. I've dealt with this for a long time.

You are going to deal with people in politics you don't want to sometimes. The best you can hope for is to get a plus one on the spreadsheet out of them. We need this guy to stay strong. If we need a recess appointment, you're going to need him to call that recess. Keep that in mind. Folks, unconventional times require unconventional measures, and we're in unconventional times.

That's why I have no problem with the Gates pick. It's why I'm fully supportive of these other picks, Tulsi, Hegseth, RFK. Shake it up over there. Let's get a different perspective. Trump deserves his team and these people with us when we needed him. Yeah, but he said this and she said that. I get it. I get it. Everybody says a lot of things. What are they doing now? That's all I care about. When we needed this guy, he was there. Which one? All of them. You know why we're in unconventional times? Because, folks, our government's been hijacked.

This January 6th pipe bomber case is absolutely exploding. It is the biggest scandal of our time. Put up the Just the News article first. You saw me report this last Thursday. Well, covering the reporting proper respect of Stephen Richards and John Solomon at Just the News. There is now a credible report from them that the alleged suspect in the pipe bombing incident at the DNC

where the phone companies told the FBI, oh, we can't find him. His cell phone records were corrupted. That those cell phone records are just fine. Which says to me, the FBI knows who that was. Folks, I want you to watch this exchange between Tom Massey and Christopher Wray. I may cover this again tomorrow. I hate to do a story twice, but I don't want to leave today without addressing this. And maybe I'll go into more detail.

They are hiding from you a huge scandal. The person who planted that pipe bomb at the DNC on January 6th when Kamala Harris was there, I have zero doubt was an inside job. Zero. From credible whistleblower. Zero doubt. Watch Christopher Wray stumble. This clip's about a minute and 20, but it's worth your time. When Tom Massey, a great congressman, starts questioning him about the pipe bomber and the phone records, Christopher Wray can't see. He does not want you to know who this is.

Check this out. Director Wray, in light of information provided to us about the FBI's investigation of the January 6th pipe bombs, in an interview with Assistant Director Stephen D'Antuono, Chairman Jordan and I sent you a letter a month ago. Some of the information that we found in that interview was that phone data that could have helped to identify the pipe bomber was corrupted, was unusable.

He also wasn't sure who found or how the second bomb was found at the DNC. Do you know how the second bomb was found at the DNC? And when do you plan on answering our letter?

Well, as to the letter, I will work with the department to make sure we can figure out what information we can provide. As you know, this is a very active, ongoing investigation, and there are some restrictions on that, but we will do our best to respond. Yes, we can handle classified information, and we fund your department, and so you need to provide that. Respectfully, it's not an issue of classification.

It's an issue of commenting on ongoing criminal investigations, which is something that by longstanding department policy we are restricted in doing. And, in fact, the last administration actually strengthened those policies partly because – That's not our policy, though, and we fund you, so let's move on. Do you know how the second – Can you tell us how the second –

pipe bomb was found at the DNC. Again, I'm not going to get into that here. 900 days ago is when this happened. And you said you had total confidence we'd apprehend the subject. Why won't Christopher Wray

Why won't he speak about this? Massey gives him an out. We can handle classified information. Just tell us. You'll tell us afterwards in a classified setting. We fund you. He will not tell you. Why? Because they know. Folks, I may cover this again tomorrow. Forgive me for doing it again. But I'm telling you right now, they know something's up with this case. And whoever gets in there at FBI and Secret Service, we better figure this out really quick. Because this is a massive scandal.

That was an op. I have zero doubt that someone on the inside was told to put that bomb there in case the objections to the vote on January 6th got out in the media as the Republicans spoke out about the allegations of corruption in the 2020 election. They wanted an excuse to stop it. And that was it. But why didn't they do it? Because the riot broke out. And then they figured they'd use that and say it was an insurrection. That's why.

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