The Dan Bongino Show - A Watershed Moment Is Imminent (Ep 2090)

Episode Date: September 18, 2023

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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. I don't know how I'm going to do it. I don't know how I'm going to get the whole show in in an hour today. I just don't. By the way, just so you know my physical internal status right now, like why would we care about that? status right now. Like, why would we care about that? I had the longest weekend ever, but I slept last night like a champion. About eight and a half hours, which for me might as well be 24 hours

of sleep. So I woke up this morning. Did I not just say, Guy? Did I not just say like, I haven't looked forward to a show as much in a long time? I got so much incredible, an amazing weekend update. So much happened. The Trump interview, everybody's talking about the Hunter Biden stuff. Couldn't get to it on Friday. I didn't have the time on Friday.

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All right, Joseph. It's Monday, so if you would, my friend. What a freaking weekend. Oh, my gosh. Dude, you have no idea. By the way, Joe and Guy got a lot of shout outs. So without taking up too much of the show's time, you know I only do a weekend update on Monday. I don't bore you with my personal life because there's so much going on politically, but this weekend was bananas. We did a couple of book signings. First, I got to put out a massive

apology from the bottom of my broken heart on this. We did a book signing in North Carolina and for everyone who showed up and didn't get a book, I am so deeply sorry. I don't want to throw anybody under the bus because it's just not cool. But you wrote an explanation. So the bottom line is this. They only brought about 220 books or something like that and a couple of back covers of mine, Follow the Money and others, right? Here's the thing, folks. I don't know if you know this, but you can read these articles out there on the internet. Authors right now, I mean really famous authors, are showing up to book signings with nobody there. Now, they don't know Team Bongino and the Army here in the chat. Let me give you guys a little shout out. Bongino Army coming over right now. You guys, there we go.

You all are slayers. And I tried to explain to the store that buying 200 plus books was not going to satisfy the Bongino Army. And they said, we had a famous guy show up here and six people showed up. I said, that ain't going to happen. There's going to, dude, this happened. I said, there's going to be four or 500 people there. So sure enough, four or 500 people showed up. So all weekend, Paul and I have been trying to make it right. People drove from Virginia. Some cat flew in from Australia. He was like, good day, mate. Some cat flew in from Australia. He was like, good day, mate.

The dude was legit. Flew from Australia to North Carolina. Damn. Dude, I would have canceled it in advance if it wasn't my dad's hometown because I knew this was going to happen. So my sincere apologies if you showed up. I love you all, but I can only control what I can control. Thankfully, the Villages,

we did a book signing there in Florida. They brought like 400 books. We sold not only 400, but they sold 90 more before I even showed up. Some people couldn't wait. So thank you to everyone. I went to Auburn, War Eagle, watched the game. Auburn kicked ass. I mean, it was, you know, Samford, whatever. But everyone, I mean, greeted with open arms, did a speech at Auburn, packed house. Awesome. Thank you to Turning Point for hosting this and did a fundraiser for the great Mark Robinson.

Dan, you did this in two and a half days? Yes. Spent some time with my daughter. Folks, it was crazy. It was like the craziest weekend ever. A couple hat tips. Thanks to, was it Nelly from Wisconsin? He knows we give the University of Wisconsin a shout out.

House of Pain gave me this hat. Raz. And then Josh. I met a young kid, Josh. I'm sitting at an intersection at Auburn getting ready to go to the game. Some guy's like, Dan Bongino! Oh my gosh! And there's a hundred people around. So now they're all looking like, is that Dan Bongino? And I got to give it, this is what happened. Last story, I promise, and we're going to get to the real stuff. He's like, he hates my gosh. And there's a hundred people around. So now they're all looking at like, is that Dan Bongino? And I got to get it. This is what happened. Last story. I promise him. We're

going to get to the real stuff. He's like, he hates my weekend updates. Jim Lyson. I see this tall kid and he's like 18. He's looking at me and he's like, who the hell's this cat? So I guess this girl and this guy in front of him are like this Dan Bongino, like my dad listens to him. So I wound up talking to the kid the whole way. And I promised him, cause I'm a man of my word. I give him a shout out if you watch the show. So Josh, I'm a man of my word. Shout out brother. And it was a nice meeting you on the campus of Auburn university. All right, let's get to the big stuff. So big interview with Trump this weekend on meet the depressed. Uh, I'm going to cover this at length tomorrow. I have the clips from it today, but the interviewer was Kristen Welker from NBC. And I know Kristen Welker. She used to interview me. She's never mistreated me personally, but I mean, I don't want a personal relationship with Kristen Welker. I'm a politics guy.

I'm an activist. And Kristen Welker basically lied throughout the interview, which is strange because I got to tell you, having interviewed with her many times in NBC, despite me having less than zero respect for NBC, Kristen Welker, I always thought, was at least going to at least attempt to try. And she didn't even try, to be honest. The interview was a disgrace. So I'm going to cover tomorrow at length everything she said that was just factually inaccurate. And I'm going to bring the receipts to show you she's just lying. Don't

trust journalists. They're just liars. But they did make news this weekend. First, I'll get to the good stuff. And then it was a portion of the interview I don't jive with at all. And I'm not abandoning my support for Donald Trump. I'll explain why. However, I'm free to disagree on stuff too and try to get him in a different direction. He knows I don't agree with him on this. Why? Because we've talked about it on the radio. I'll produce the receipts for that. Here's the good stuff first. This was, I thought was a great answer. I've spoken to Trump personally about this and folks, I'm telling you for a fact, I'm looking you in the eye. I'm not going to spin your wheels. Good stuff, bad stuff, right? If there's bad stuff, I'll telling you for a fact, I'm looking you in the eye. I'm not going to spin your wheels,

good stuff, bad stuff, right? If there's bad stuff, I'll tell you. Donald Trump is not afraid of going to jail. Oh, he's afraid. He's got like a golden toilet bowl. I'm telling you, I've spoken to this guy many times. And if he's putting on an act, it's the greatest act I've ever seen. Because one thing Donald Trump doesn't do is he doesn't hold back when he feels some way. If he was going to tell you, listen, man, I got to stay out of jail here, he would have said something. And everyone who talks to me gives the exact same answer. He does not fear going to jail. He doesn't want to, but he's in no way scared of it. Here, Kristen Welker asked him about this. I thought this was the best part of the interview. Take a look. You are facing four indictments, 91 felony charges. If you would say it properly, I'm facing four Biden indictments.

He told the Justice Department to indict him, or Merrick Garland said, let's indict him. Let me ask you this, Mr. President. They indicted their political opponent. I just want to hear from you on this. I want to know what's in your head.

When you go to bed at night, do you worry about going to jail? No, I don't really. I don't even think about it. I'm built a little differently, I guess, because I have had people come up to me and say, how do you do it, sir? How do you do it? I don't even think about it. He doesn't, folks. I don't know what to tell you. I've been an honest and open supporter of Donald Trump. You know that. I don't hide my political stripes. I don't pretend to be a fake news specialist like Kristen,

who let all of America down with her just unbelievable lying. Again, after tomorrow's show, you're going to be convinced. The media are all a joke. She didn't even try to tell the truth on her abortion question. I mean, she just lied. But he is not kidding. He is legitimately not afraid of going to jail. He has told me this.

He's said this in front of my wife. He has said this in front of multiple supporters. He doesn't want to. He's not stupid. But he is not afraid of going to jail. He knows he's on the right side of this. And if he's got to be a political martyr, then he's got to be a political martyr. And he's accepted that fate. So that was kind of, I thought, the best interview, the best part of the interview.

There were some other good parts too. This part, listen, folks, I am an avid pro-lifer and I feel that way. I mean, it's not just an issue of faith. It's an issue almost agnostic of faith in its essence. In other words, yes, my faith teaches me that life begins at conception. I understand that. But I say it's agnostic of faith because what I don't understand is you don't even have to be a person of faith to understand that it's probably not a good thing to kill babies in the womb. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Do you really need, like, do you really need some higher power to tell you that? I'm glad my higher power does, but do you need it? I mean, even if you're a diehard atheist,

I disagree with your position, but you still don't understand how wiping out a human life in the womb because it's inconvenient for you is not a good thing. I don't get that. I am pro-life, avidly pro-life, conception to natural death because that's the continuum of life. Folks, I don't even support the death penalty. Some of you don't like that. Again, I'm never going to lie to you. We don't have to agree on everything. I don't have to agree on everything with Donald Trump. I didn't like criminal justice reform. However, I support Donald Trump. We got the Abraham Accords. We got massive tax cuts. We

got economic growth back. We didn't have a war with a soft war with China and a hard war going on with Russia. We got massive regulatory reform. We got Roe v. Wade overturned through judges he appointed. I support action. I don't want to date Donald Trump. I want a guy who's going to do shit. I don't want a guy who's going to talk shit. I'm sorry. Having said that, that's also why I like Ron DeSantis. Ron DeSantis does stuff too. He doesn't talk smack. He goes and does it in Florida. So I'm one of these rare guys who supports one, but I'm never going to trash the other

because there's nothing to trash him about. I just choose the other guy for now. That's it. I think he deserves another shot. But I wasn't really digging this answer at all. He was asked about abortion bans at 15 weeks, six weeks, heartbeat bills and other things by Kristen Welker,

who, and I'll get to her framing of the question, which was ridiculous and obscene and just an outright lie. She claimed, I'll give you just a little teaser for tomorrow. She ridiculously claimed Democrats don't support abortion up until pregnant, up until delivery, the birth of the child. That's just

ridiculous. That's not backed up by any facts. She just made it up. She just lied to Trump's face. So her credibility, you can throw out the window, but this was not the best answer and I'll explain why coming back. Listen to this. Mr. President, I want to give voters who are going to be weighing in on this election.

Yeah, a very clear sense of I think they're all going to like me. I think both sides are going to like me. Let me let me have to happen is you're going to have to question. You're asking me a question. What's going to happen is you're going to come up with a number of weeks or months. You're going to come up with a number that's going to make people happy. of weeks or months, you're going to come up with a number that's going to make people happy. Because 92% of the Democrats don't want to see abortion after a certain period of time. If a federal ban landed on your desk, if you were reelected, would you sign it at 15?

Are you talking about a complete ban? A ban at 15 weeks. Well, people are starting to think of 15 weeks. That seems to be a number that people are talking about right now. Would you sign that? I would sit down with both sides and I'd negotiate something and we'll end up with peace on that issue for the first time in 52 years. I'm not going to say I would or I wouldn't. I mean, DeSantis is willing to sign a five-week and six-week ban. Would you support that? Do you think that goes too far? I think what he did

is a terrible thing and a terrible mistake. Listen, I wholeheartedly and completely disagree with that position. I just want to be on the record. I just completely disagree with that position. I can't reconcile that with faith, with morality. I can't. I can't reconcile that at all. I'm sorry. And I won't. However, having said that, can we talk about this honestly and openly? We're going to bullshit each other. I just stated unequivocally my position.

Everybody got it. And that's a full stop period position. That's it. And I'm going to discuss with him when I see him, if he's open to it, how I wholeheartedly disagree with that. Politics is a projection of power. And if we can't defend human life at all stages, and there's no point to any of this exercise, I'm not going to sacrifice children's lives for anyone. Having said that, as I've said to you many, I mean, I can't even count how many times I've told you, Donald Trump is not your traditional

conservative. Any idiot who tells you otherwise is lying. I don't mean that as an insult. I mean, it is reality. Donald Trump is a transactional guy who comes from the business space. He recognizes something that a lot of people don't right now, which is the politics of the abortion argument in some places have worked and in some places they haven't. He's trying to kind of, no pun intended, you know, do the Solomon split the baby and it's not going to work. The Democrats are radicals on this. There is no restriction on abortion whatsoever up until birth and even after birth. In some cases, Democrats will take none. For Republicans to then say to come, so they're complete radicals out of touch with probably 80% of the United States and they don't care. They are about the projection of their power and their power is about killing babies. That's it. babies. That's it. Our side should be just as rigorous on this. And if we're not willing to go and defend that position against people willing to murder babies at nine months, fully formed children, then I'm sorry. Then we don't have a movement. It's useless. We can't defend life.

Who gives a shit about the tax rate? I mean, I'm willing to defend you. You're not even alive to pay taxes at that point. Our position is we don't want abortion because it's an abomination and that's it. And we're going to fight for it. And if the voters disagree, that's fine. Is it going to be the only thing we fight for? No, because there's a lot going on. But if it don't matter, then I can't, you're probably not a conservative. So I'm a little bitter about this. He's transactional and I get it. And his record on abortion, by the way, is better than the record on others. Now, for those out there, because again, there's so many people, this movement is degenerated in his primary, sadly, into these two factions where no one can speak honestly. I love what DeSantis

did with that bill in Florida. And I love what the others have done, too. He's done some good stuff. However, can we be honest about Trump on the abortion issue, too? Because we've got both sides now at each other's throats. And if this one doesn't talk about it, he's a fake. Go F yourself, asshole. All right. You know what he tells me what to talk about on my show.

You guys, none of these guys have done shit. They've never put their name on a ballot. Laugh at these guys or grift their losers anyway. Don't tell me what to talk about. I've been a pro-lifer running on it in a blue state while you had your finger up your ass doing nothing. So you can shut your pie hole. The hell have you done? Spoke at a rally once. I've been at a thousand rallies where I didn't see you there. Yes, this issue matters to me. Having said that, you want to be honest about Trump's record? Okay. You didn't like the answer. I didn't like it either. He's also one of the first presidents to speak at the March for Life

rally and Roe v. Wade is gone because of Trump. That's a fact. So let's have an honest conversation and cut the bullshit. Okay, we disagree with him on the answer. It wasn't a good one. He should clean it up. But let's not pretend this guy didn't actually do stuff while a lot of so-called Mormons like Mitt Romney and religious people of faith and even Christians and others,

I want to single him out, said, oh, we're going to do a lot of shit about abortion and didn't do a damn thing. So can we be honest? What DeSantis did was great in Florida. I love it. What Trump did was great, too. This wasn't a great answer.

And we should give him an opportunity to clarify, just like I would give anyone else an opportunity to clarify. Honesty. Don't be phonies. Oh, you never called out Trump on abortion before. Ah, you're a moron. Here's to the other, again, to the Twitter warriors for the other primary candidates who have spent their entire time as their candidates sink in the polls, attacking other people rather than Joe Biden in what is the most ridiculous losing strategy I've ever seen. Have you said this? Here's the receipts.

Here's me interviewing Donald Trump about abortion, which I've spoken to him about privately and publicly many times. We disagree. We disagree on this position. Take a listen. Pennsylvania someplace should have been one. I think the no exceptions for your governor hurt him very badly. And I think that hurt, you know, that hurt our Senate candidate.

It hurt our Senate candidate. But the no exceptions when the governor went and I said, you know, you're going to have to have exceptions. Because I think it's very hard, if not impossible, except in certain sections to win without having the exceptions on the abortion. And if you don't do that, I think it's a very difficult situation. And, you know, he got beaten. Let me just say, I disagree. I love you, Mr. President. I know you do.

I disagree. No, no, I know you do. I think it's very hard to win. I don't believe in killing babies. Ronald Reagan had the exceptions. I had the exceptions. I know. And, you know, you get through it.

I think the abortion issue was a tough issue for a lot of people. I had the exceptions. And, you know, you get through it. I think the abortion issue was a tough issue for a lot of people. I do think that. And listen, you're not wrong about the politics of it. However, I believe there's a bigger issue there. So for the bullshit artists out there, again, who've never run for office in a blue state as a pro

lifer, and for the bullshit artists out there who claim, oh, no one's ever called them out. There's the receipts, a-holes. Right there. Have you done that? He's right about the politics, which I told him. And I think he's wrong on the issue, which I told him. this primary is really disgusting. I got to tell you. I'm sorry. I'm dead serious. Where people on both sides of this debate,

pro-Trump and anti-Trump, think they're better off alienating the other side. I don't understand where you're getting that from. We should speak openly and honestly. What DeSantis did about abortion in Florida was a good thing. What Trump did about abortion. Everybody talked about getting rid of Roe v. Wade. You know who did it?

Trump's judges appointed by people who recommended to him pro-life judges. Those are facts. And yes, I disagree with the answer, which yes, I confronted him on many times. The difference is he does stuff because he's a transactional guy while others just talk about it. All right. I got a lot more to get to. I don't want to beat this up too much because there's a ton of stuff. Hunter Biden. I'm sorry. Lighten the show. Hunter Biden suing the IRS is freaking hilarious. This is going to be the greatest self-owned in the history of presidential politics. Hunter Biden suing the IRS. Lighten up the show. It was a heavy open, so a lot going on

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Go today. Thanks, ExpressVPN. Folks, I'm really into this show today, and I'm very passionate. And again, I told a few people the book signing. I know the language gets frosty. Again, I'm working on this stuff. I feel really passionately about defending human life, and I feel really passionately about Donald Trump too

because I know what's in the guy's heart. And I feel passionately about what Ron too because I know what's in the guy's heart. And I feel really good. I feel passionately about what Ron DeSantis did in Florida too. And I think we really got to stop beating the shit out of the other guy and start focusing on what really matters, which is saving our country

from the communists in the White House and all those little minions trying to destroy this place. It's just eating us alive, man. And it's no good. And it's no good because this election season is going to get ugly, folks. This is going to get frosty, like really frosty, and things are going to get really bad. I don't know about you. Let me know in the chat. Are you getting a feeling

I'm getting? I've said it before. Something not right is going to happen. I don't want to be a negative Nancy here, but something not good is going to happen. I can feel it. I don't know if it's Biden's age or the danger surrounding Donald Trump, which I've spoken about openly. If it's someone dropping out at the last minute, if it's street chaos, there's going to be this incident. And the thing is, you never know what it is until it happens. I say that because, Joe, do you remember the Bernie Getz thing in New York? I know you weren't, but remember the subway vigilante? Yeah, you of course were, you were older than me at the time. Oh, you're right over there. You're going to make it. Um, so there was this thing in New York,

you know, nobody knew when New York was going to be bad enough and things were going to change. And then the subway, they called them the subway vigilante, this guy, Bernie gets, I don't know if you remember this guys, but he was getting robbed in the subway. I think by a bunch of kids with screwdrivers, he winds up shooting the kids. It wound up like starting this big movement in New York where people started to focus on crime. And you never know when these moments are going to happen that are going to cause a chaotic, punctuated equilibrium moment where everything changes, like an extinction level event. You don't know what they are. I'll give you an even better example relevant to politics. I said it last Friday on the radio show. Do you all remember how the Tea Party started?

Some of you were listening. You remember in the chat? You remember how the Tea Party started? Let me know because I'd love to see if any of you listened. Do you remember? It started on, I believe it was CNBC. Rick Santelli, who was a financial commentator, was talking about the financial crest. You all remember this? I'm getting a couple of yeses in there. Bernie Getz. A lot of you remember Bernie Getz too. No one knew that was going to change New York.

No one knew Rick Santelli on CNBC was going to change the course of the country either. He went on the floor and was talking about the financial meltdown and how we needed this new Tea Party, the original Tea Party during, the, the, the, the original tea party during the revolution. That's what started the tea party. You can go back and look, I'm not making it up. Like who would have thought a, a, a meaningless media hit on CNBC by a financial guy was going to start a revolution that basically brought the conservative party 50, 60 new seats and thousands more across the country. I mean, it literally changed the direction of the country and made the Republican party a lot more conservative.

Before that, we were all tax cuts. After that, we were tax cuts, pro-life, second amendment, constitutional carry. It changed the course of the country. You don't know what's going to happen. I wrote down here, here are some of the variables. Any of these can flip the course of the country. I kid you not, and turn it into a 41 state victory. I mean, for either party, which would be a monster landslide. For you win 41 out of 50 states. I was thinking of this. You got the Hunter Biden thing going on, suing the IRS today. I can't wait for the disclosure to come out on that. We'll get to that in a minute. You got the border situation. I'm going to bring the receipts for all of this, by the way, which has just turned now into a total abomination. You got street chaos everywhere.

Saw a video just yet. It's not even on the show. I got so much stuff to show you. A cop in Chicago being beaten with like a four by four while trying to arrest the guy. You got the black vote seemingly changing by the day. Going to get 50% of the black vote? No, not even close. If we get 15% of the black vote, 15? Ladies and gentlemen, electoral politics in the United States changes forever. Forever. It will never be the same.

You got China. China could cross the strait tomorrow into Taiwan, throw all your electoral politics out the window. You got Biden's age. I had to write a stencil. Don't forget it. You don't believe me on any of this stuff? Any of these things could be a Rick Santelli Tea Party moment,

a Bernie Getz moment where the world just changes and everybody's eyes, you don't know what that moment is going to be is my point until it happens. And you're like, Oh my gosh, who would have thought that would have happened then boom, changed everything.

Here's what's that? The final, the final, you're talking about the Bertrand Russell Turkey problem. You were saying, yeah, Joe brings up a good point. The Bertrand Russell Turkey program,

a Turkey problem. He talked about all the time. How everybody's like, ah, the turkeys are emailing their friends, come to the farm. This farmer fattens us up. We don't have to do squat. We play around in the dirt. It's a real thing, the turkey thing called Bertrand Russell. And they're emailing their buddies, come over, Mr. Turkey.

This is the greatest place ever. They tell them that in January. Then in November, what happens to all the turkeys? Off with their heads. The last turkey, right? No one knows when that Thanksgiving's coming. Off with your heads. Here's the receipts to back it up. New York Post, murders in Staten Island soar 129% in 2023. Why do I bring this up? Why are you bringing up New York issues? This is an international show. Shout out to that dude from Australia, by the way, who came to our book signing in North Carolina.

People are listening all over. Let me explain to you from around the world and around the country why Staten Island, New York is important. Of the five boroughs of New York, Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, the Bronx, Staten Island. Staten Island has always been considered the safe place. It's an island.

It's people just have lived there forever. It's always been the safest of the boroughs. It's almost like a refuge for everybody who wants to escape New York, but still be, quote, in the city. If murders are up 129% in Staten Island, the safe place, ladies and gentlemen, things have gotten really bad. You may say, gosh, it's definitely going to change soon. Definitely.

The answer is, is this the Bernie gets moment? I'm not sure. Here. Here's a New Yorker, happens to be black. Again, doesn't concern me or skin color, but Democrats are obsessed with it. Here's a New Yorker on court. Again, asked, this is regular on the street interview. Here's a New Yorker. Add again, asked his regular on the street interview. Here's a New Yorker at his immigration problem.

This is no good. Again, is the immigration thing going to be the issue that changes everything is going to be crime? I don't know, but I have a feeling something big is going to happen here. Listen to this. My message is close the border that these people like how come they get to cut the line in front of millions of people waiting they're waiting to come to america the right way but they get like pushed in front the migrants the illegal migrants they get everything they put them first put america's americans last we need to be america first not americans last do you think that iOC was responsive to messages like this? No, she cut her little

press conference early because of us. She kept on talking the same thing, housing for migrants, work for migrants. But what about our homeless veterans? What about our homeless Americans? She puts the migrants first, us last. Now, because this show has a bullshit factor of zero And we're never going to lie to you Because just like I told you in 2022 And I'm telling you in 2024 Don't get too excited Thinking oh this is it man

Look a black female New Yorker Is really pissed off at immigration They're going to change everything We're going to win New York Eh not so much Look at this New York state news article Queens Assembly District 27 Special election results He had a Democrat one In New York, eh, not so much. Look at this New York state news article. Queens Assembly District 27 special election results.

He had a Democrat one. Queens, by the way, when I live there, I'm a Queens kid. Always been a Queens kid. Love Queens. It's one of the five boroughs of New York. That was a Republican area growing up. They had a special election. You think people are really pissed off in New York about the immigration, the crime, the taxes? Ah, the

Democrat won. Never going to lie to you, man. What does it mean? Give up? Oh, let's quit. This is all bullshit. No, no, don't mean that. It means let's not make the mistake we made in 2022, get ahead of ourselves thinking, oh, it's definitely going to change. I don't need to vote. No, you do. You need to vote and bring 10 people because they just had an election in what used to be a Republican area Queens and a Democrat one. Hey, one more quick before we take a break. Here, by the way, in case you think, oh, it's definitely bad enough in New York. It's just not New York city response times to fires. Medical emergencies are soaring along with fire deaths. My gosh. Listen, people are dying, immigration out of control, taxes out of control, the economy collapsing in New York. Democrats still won the special election.

Shows you the power of propaganda. People dying in fire deaths, they can't pay the cops anymore. Still voting Democrat. Still voting Democrat. Let me take a quick break. I want to show you probably one of the most, would you guys agree, disturbing videos? Let me just warn you. Okay, good. Joe saw it too. Let me just warn you in advance. This next video is not going to be easy to watch. But again, insanely enough, after watching this video, I still don't think it's gotten bad enough yet for people to change. It could. The Bernie gets moment, the tea party moment could be right around the corner. Sadly, I don't think we're there yet. Folks, mypatriotsupply.com. You

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Thank you very much. So are things bad enough yet? They're not. I just, I always produce the receipts. They're not bad enough yet. They're just not. Larry Elder and others ran for governor of California. Everybody's got all excited. California is so bad. Everybody's leaving. Ah, Gavin Newsom won in a row. This guy just won

the special election. One of these moments is going to be the Tea Party moment. This happened this past weekend. So an innocent biker is riding his bike down the street. These criminals are in this car. They're driving this car. First, they proceed to hit some lady and start cursing her. We had to edit this heavily because on the radio, but I want you to listen to this whole thing on podcast where you can hear it. Then they proceed to just run down an innocent biker. You're going to see this here.

Yeah, I think the guy died or something like that. You need to hear this. You need to hear this. Don't leave that room until I can record these. Fuckin' over blood. Watch yourself. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hit his ass. Is it bad enough yet?

This is our country. So again, is it bad enough yet? Clearly not. Got barely a four-seat majority in the House. We don't even run the Senate right now. Again, I'm not suggesting to you Republicans are the solution to all your problems. I'm simply suggesting to you that Democrats are the cause of all your problems. It's just hard to watch.

However, in a bit of like, again, I give you the good news and the bad news. And sooner or later on that Excel spreadsheet of good and bad news, the good news will outweigh the bad news and we'll start to win and take our country back. But we're not going to do it by being naive about where we are. Just like I did with the opening with Trump. I give to you the information you need to vote. Here's why support. Here's why. Here's the good stuff. Here's the bad stuff. They're not backing down, folks. Liberals are doubling down on crazy, but it is starting to impact more people who are being woken up. Now, I didn't get to play this Friday on the podcast, but I did play it on the radio. But this clip is amazing. There's a black voter on Fox. He's a Democrat. And he had some interesting words about Trump and Joe Biden and coming home in a body bag from

Afghanistan. Ladies and gentlemen, this is some powerful stuff. And he goes to show you that people are waking up. The question is, how many? Politics is the projection of power through votes. Votes are people. How many are going to show up who are pissed off? The answer is, we need to get more. Because however many we have, it's not enough. Listen to this. I think I'm mostly geared towards Donald Trump.

Really? I think I've seen, yes, I have seen the pullout of Afghanistan from Joe Biden. And then I just watched him check his watch during the funeral of the servicemen. And I think if we were to go to a war, I'm prime age to be drafted. And I don't want him to check his watch while they're burying me.

I don't believe that he's a competent commander in chief. And then he'd probably blame my death on climate change in the same way he blamed the Palau in Afghanistan on Donald Trump. Wow. I don't want him checking his watch while I come home in a body bag and blaming my death on climate change. Listen, I don't know this young man. I never met him in my life, but I got to tell you, politics is soundbites and snapshots, and that's a pretty damn devastating one. I don't want him checking his watch while I come home in a body bag and blaming it on climate change from a guy, a young man who claims to have been a Democrat and now a Trump supporter. Folks, that's devastating stuff. Does it mean we're going to win in a landslide in 2024?

I just told you, I'm not sure we woke enough people up yet. But I'm telling you right now, the awakening process has begun. There is no doubt about that. What's going to be? The question is, Guy titled the show, The Watershed Moment. What's it going to be? What's that watershed moment going to be? Is it going to be Hunter? Is it going to be? What's that watershed moment going to be? Is it going to be Hunter? Is it going to be his age? Is it going to be the immigration thing?

Is it going to be street chaos? Is it going to be a killing on the subway? I don't know, but I'll tell you another variable I mentioned in the beginning. That's just not going away. I don't wish any ill health on anyone. I mean that from the bottom of my heart. I don't wish that on anyone. However, everybody dies. We all have an expiration date. I've had scares with it myself. As you get older, I've got news for you. You're closer to the expiration date. If you have a fatal disease, to the expiration date. If you have a fatal disease,

it's the same way. Those are the harsh realities of human biology. Joe Biden is old. He is clearly cognitively impaired. Here's another demonstration of the Joe Biden age issue, something I brought up repeatedly that happened again.

Take a look at this. You see how he did? He doesn't know what to do again. Guys, this conversation is getting old. Tell me in the chat if you're sick of these. Yes, I'm sick of these or no, I'm not. I want to see more Joe Biden getting lost on stage because if you're done seeing him, I'll stop. You understand this guy has yet to get off a stage where he actually knows where to go. A lot of you are sick of him. Yeah. No. Yes. I think so. Yeah, you are sick of him. Okay, good. Or you're not saying yes, was you're sick of him? No, you, I think so. Yeah, you are sick of him. Okay, good. Or you're not sick. Yes, was you sick of him? No, you're not. Folks, I think I know.

I think I messed up the question. Do you understand? There's a lot of no. Okay, no, it's good. Okay, we're seeing it. Folks, the guy is given instructions by both the staff and the Secret Service what to do. Every single time, for the thousandth time, there is no way to screw it up unless you forgot, which he always does because the guy is rotting oatmeal brains right now. He has SpaghettiOs for

brains, but you, okay, good. You do want to see more. Good. I was getting a little confused. There's a couple of yeses in there. People are tired, but I think it's important we expose this guy. He doesn't know where he is. I did. I did. I did. He's right. Very ambiguous phrasing of the question. So thank you all in the chat for figuring it out. Listen, please, to your friend, Danny Boombatz here, okay? I promise you, I've did this for 12 years. These guys get a little card about what to do. Some of them don't even use the card because they don't need to be told. Folks, I've given probably a thousand speeches. The last one I gave was a turning point in Auburn that happened, oh yeah, just a few days ago. It was very simple. I'm going to introduce you. You're going to come out, grab the mic, take a few questions, exit stage left. We're going to come out, grab the mic, take a few questions. Exit stage left.

We're going to do about 20 pictures with the staff. The people are going to leave the room. You're going to walk out the door. Did I need anyone to write it down? No. Is Dan Bongino Albert Einstein? Hell to the, no, he isn't. It wasn't hard.

Hello, here's Dan Bongino. Here, Dan. Hey, everyone. How you doing? Welcome to Dirty Boy. Q&A. Let me answer your question. See you. We're going to walk Dan. Hey, everyone. How you doing? Welcome to the 30 Boy. Q&A. Let me answer your question. See you.

We're going to walk up. Hey, pictures. This was not hard. And you leave. How come Joe Biden can't figure it out? Because the man has SpaghettiOs for brains. That's why. Is this going to be a moment?

I don't know. I'm telling you right now, this guy's one fall away from not being the nominee. I don't wish ill health on anyone. I am absolutely sincere about that. Want to see the guy fall and bust his head open? Not my bag of donuts. But I'm telling you, the guy's one fall away from not being the nominee. Flag it in the chat. Flag it, Armacost. It's 1143 on September, what, 18th? Thank you. Flags in the chat, please. We need them. Flag it. One fall away from not being a nominee. It's that bad right now. Come on. We got to get on with the chat here. Oh, it's a seven second delay. I didn't even, oh, here we go. All right. Love you chat. So you guys always come through in the clutch, man.

See that's on me. I didn't even realize it was a seven second delay. It's good to know. So what I'm saying now, you're going to hear in seven seconds. That's pretty cool. But, but, but you're probably saying to yourself, Oh Dan, I see all this stuff, the street chaos, the fentanyl, the immigration, man, you guys really coming through in the clutch.. I see it. The Democrats are definitely going to course correct. They are not, folks. They are doubling down on stupid and crazy. No, they're not, Dan. Ah, he's bringing receipts, daddy-o. New York Post.

Socialists want to hit New Yorkers with new migrant taxes. Wait, wait. This is the perfect. Where's my 25 cent laugh guy? Where's the laugh? Wait, no, let's do the thumbs down guy. I mean, really? So New York, someone sent us this thing from like a gang store. It's like 25 cents. I love it. New York is being overwhelmed with illegal immigrants. The Staten Island murder rate, which is the safest borough in New York, is through the roof, right? They can't even pay the cops overtime because they're paying for illegals. People are complaining everywhere.

still won and the socialists now want to tax the people in New York with a special migrant tax to pay for their new illegal neighbors while they obey the law. You think that for those of you out there, whether in the chat or at home who think, oh man, Dan, don't stop them. They're going to go crazy. I'm not stopping anything. These lunatics are going to double down. Why? Because they won. They just won a special election up in New York. Why would they stop? They did okay in the midterms. Why would they stop? My point in this is not to dissuade you. It's to activate you to say there's one way to make them stop. And it's called elections. And you have to go out and bring 10 people with you. There's no excuses. I told a lot of the young ladies and men at Turning Point, at the Turning Point group at Auburn University, which was great, by the way, packed out. It was an empty seat in their standing

room only, right? All young kids do mostly. I said to them, oh, your friend's going to make fun of you if you're a Republican? Yeah, I don't care. I'm really sorry. I don't care. Thank you for what you're doing, but you want to save your country? Get out there, be the misfits, be the renegades, take over and just do what we know how to do, which is fight for liberty and freedom. And don't worry about what these kids say about you. They're on the wrong side of history. Go out there and fight for it. They're not going to stop. Okay, on this Hunter Biden stuff. So he's suing the IRS today because this could be another game changing moment. I doubt it because no matter what you say, the Democrats are going to pretend they don't believe in the Biden crime film. They all know Biden's corrupt. Everybody knows Biden's

a bribe taking, kid sniffing woman feeling loser with potato brains. Everybody knows. Everybody understands that. Hunter Biden's now suing the IRS. This is great. This is actually the best news you've heard all day. A couple of things on Hunter before I get to this video by Greg Kelly on Newsmax, which again, absolutely conclusively shows that Joe Biden was knee deep in this influence peddling operation. I'm going to show you that in a minute, so don't go anywhere. But just a thought on Friday, what happened on Friday, the Hunter Biden indictment on the gun charge. Please do not fall for this. That's why on Twitter and Truth I put out, this is like another trap again. This indictment on the gun charge was done for a reason. Anybody know? Did you hear it on a radio show on Friday? Yeah, be a renegade,

brother. You're right. Read that in chat. You're damn right. Here's the reason. Brother, you're right. Read that in chat. You're damn right. Here's the reason. This disgraced special counsel indicted him on the gun charge because no matter what happens in the gun charge, it's the one thing that does not involve his dad. So his dad can't be called in to testify. It could, but it's not relevant to the case.

Hunter Biden threw the gun out and lied on the form. but it's not relevant to the case. Hunter Biden threw the gun out and lied on the form. It is the only reason Weiss is going with this because they're protecting the dad. You hear me in the chat? This is a trap and it's a scam. Again, they are never going to prosecute this guy on this gun thing. If they do, it's going to be another nonsense, no time in jail, BS, another nonsense, no time in jail, BS, pay a fine, crap, if even that. The only reason he's going forward with this is because it doesn't involve the dad. They will never seriously prosecute the tax evasion charge with this guy in charge. I'm sorry to tell you that. This is another trap. The IRS thing is glorious that he sued the IRS because now we have a discovery process. The problem is the IRS is being run by Biden people who will probably forego discovery just to screw everything over.

I mean, it's how little faith I have in the government. But I think him suing the IRS is grace because now we're going to see what happened publicly in front of everyone. Having said that, I got to show you this video. Hat tip, Greg Kelly at Newsmax for getting a hold of this. Folks, this is how grifting, influence peddling, and bribery works with public officials. Greg Kelly tees it up. Watch in this C-SPAN video, Hunter Biden comes in, greases up this business guy, shakes his hand. Dad comes over to say, winky, winky, nod, nod. Look, I'm Hunter's dad, but he never talks business because he doesn't have to. Hunter just has to show he has access to the dad. And then Joe Biden leaves with the,

hey, talk to Hunter, winky, winky, nod, nod. This is damning video. Do I expect to hear anything from the left and Kristen Welker? Of course not. They're activists. They'll defend this stuff. But this is really good stuff. Watch this. Speech in South Carolina. Look who's watching Joe work the room. Joe is schmoozing everybody after the speech. See what we have shaded there? That's Hunter watching every step of the way. Next video as Joe schmoozes at the right time, Hunter he's still my Hunter moves in. All right. He Hunter moves in as soon as it turns to business. Watch and listen here.

Maybe you can work something out, man. Yeah, yeah, that's what we'll do. Well, Hunter was just telling me about his firm in Washington. Yeah, law firm. You didn't have a hard life, did you? I do, I don't, but I'll give you my... Let me give you my call. Yeah, and then I'll give you my...

I gave it all away. Yeah, so did you. Well, that was a wonderful experience. So then Joe goes right back to schmoozing and watched the men step away to conduct business separately. You see it right there. That's how it worked. That's how it worked. Circumstantial, but devastating. Folks, Greg Kelly's dad was Ray Kelly, the police commissioner in New York. Greg Kelly served this country. Greg Kelly is not some crazed, deranged lunatic. Greg Kelly's a rather smart guy. He's like me. He's feisty. He's fiery, but he brings the receipts. And what he said there

is absolutely accurate. You combine that with the suspicious activity reports, the 1023, the whistleblowers, the FBI informant, the bank records, the photos, the voicemails, the texts, the pictures, the laptop, the Biden tapes with Poroshenko. It is absolutely clear beyond any remote reasonable doubt that Joe Biden was running an illegal grifting influence operation out of both the White House and likely the United States Senate. And one of the people involved in this was most likely the captain of this thing was his son, Hunter Biden. Biden said, he says, and the media does too, there's no evidence. What do you think was happening there?

I mean, do you realize the suspension of disbelief you have to engage in to believe that Joe Biden was not knee deep in an influence peddling operation? You just saw how it works on tape. Of course, devastating video. But it doesn't matter. Kristen Welker and they don't care, folks. They're activists. I don't want you to think anybody,

it's not that we're not convincing them. They already know Biden's head of the Biden crime field. You understand that, right? They already know that. They're just trying to be communist agitators and hide that fact from you by pretending they don't know. That tape is devastating. All right. I wanted to end on this one because because again, Biden is a sociopath.

I've said before, he cannot stop lying. He is a sociopathic liar. He has no cause and effect relationship with lying at all. The very kind of definition of a sociopathic liar, even though everybody knows he's lying, he can't stop. You know, Scott Peck wrote this, people of the lie. And it's a damning indictment of all these people he interviewed who are absolute liars. They know they're lying. They know you know they're lying. And they lie anyway. That's Biden.

So for anyone out there voting in the next election goes, well, I don't like Donald Trump, but I'm voting for character in Joe Biden. I've got news for you. You may vote for something, but it sure as shit ain't character. This guy's a kid sniffing, women feeling, lying, plagiarizing lunatic. Here he is again, falsely claiming for probably the hundredth time that he was a professor at this university who taught classes or something when none of that ever happened. It's been debunked by even liberals. Here, listen to this. Our democracy is under attack. We got to fight for it. I taught at the University of Pennsylvania for four years. I used to teach political theory. And folks, you always hear every generation has to fight for democracy.

every generation has to fight for democracy. Folks, rotting oatmeal brains is a sociopathic, pathetic liar. He never taught a single class. It doesn't matter. He has no cause and effect relationship at all with the truth. Again, you vote for whoever you want to vote for. I told you my thoughts. I want to save the country.

Biden's the worst president we ever had in U.S. history. He's not even a close second. He's even worse than Obama. He is. You argue all you want, but he's worse than Obama. Obama's the second worst compared to this lunatic. But don't tell me you're voting for character and the Scranton kid. The guy is entirely full of shit all the time. Everything he says is a lie. Everything. Your problem with Donald Trump is he tells you the truth. Even with us conservatives, he's too transactional for some. And I get it. Some of you don't agree with that.

I told you, I didn't agree with that answer either. But he told you how he felt. You're never going to get that with Joe Biden. Hey, one last thought. Thank you so much to everyone who made the book a huge bestseller last week. Gift of Failure far superseded my expectations. It's my first nonpolitical book, so I didn't think it was going to blow up like it did. And it did.

So thank you very much. You haven't picked it up yet. Just read the reviews on any of these websites. You know, I'm not a huge fan of some of these lefty sites, but the reviews are pretty amazing. I think people were really surprised by the book. Some of them found it inspirational. A lot of laughs, a lot of tears in there. I'm really happy.

I was a little nervous about how it was going to go. So I am super impressed. And I subtitled the book, The Gift of Failure. And if this book fails, I'll have to rethink the name. I don't have to rethink the name because of you. So thanks for supporting the book. Please pick it up today, wherever you get your books or in bookstores. And I have a book signing tomorrow in Jensen Beach. That's tomorrow at the Treasure Coast Commons. I believe it's at five o'clock at Barnes and Noble. It's on my Twitter feed. If you scroll down, I have the book signings.

And one in Naples coming up, I think this weekend. So I'll put that out on Twitter and True Social if you want to take a look. And I will see you on the radio in just a few minutes. Thanks so much for tuning in, folks. You know I love you. Thanks for showing up this weekend. See you tomorrow.

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