The Dan Bongino Show - Big Winners and Bigger Losers from Last Night (Ep 2074)

Episode Date: August 24, 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 all right so listen everybody's gonna come out today with their show and be like big coverage your last night's debate not f that folks it was boring i'm sorry well so why should we watch your show hopefully because you like me and our coverage it was boring i'm sorry. Well, so why should we watch your show? Hopefully because you like me and our coverage. It was boring. I'm sorry it was boring. I'm not here to give anybody like bullshit hot takes for clips. It was boring.

It really was. Without Trump on the stage, and it's not even like, I guess you all know, you probably already know I'm a Trump supporter. I get that. But it was just boring. Trump has reset the political dynamic where people expect a different performance value. Oh, Dan, it's about the issues. Folks, is it really about the issues?

Let me ask you a question quick. Answer in five seconds. What issue stood out to you last night? Okay, thanks. Nothing, right? What stood out to you? If I gave you 10 minutes, you could think about it. People remember personalities.

All this bullshit you're going to hear from all these commentators. I want to hear about you. Nobody wants to hear about the issues. You know what they're there to be. You want the straight truth, cut all the bullshit. They're there to be entertained and they want someone they can relate to. I'm like, I can have a beer with that guy, but who also gives off and exude some power and authority who could be present. That's it. That's a debate. All that other stuff is bullshit. We want to hear about the issues. Really?

Trump won every one of those debates. He totally blew a number of questions on issues. The nuclear triad. It's all about the issues. No, it isn't. That's all bullshit. People do too much cable news commentary and they try you know what it is they want to make themselves appear serious to listeners oh it's about the substance and the issues get the f**k out it is it's not about any of that that's why last night if there was a winner if there was a winner of last night's debate Vivek won you don't have to take my word

for it I'm a Trump supporter I'm just just telling you. But fake one. Why? Go to Twitter. He was trending number one. He was the most internet search person. I'm not even a fan of Drudge, but he's winning on the Drudge poll, which is all lefties now. What other metric could you possibly want that the guy won? Oh, he won on the issues? Which issue did he win on?

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Folks, listen, I can give you all this winners and losers talk. I put it in the title of the show. But the hard reality is the winner last night is Trump. Oh, Dan, you're a Trump supporter. No, I'm just telling you from pure political tactics. Guy, if I'm wrong, call bullshit. Donald Trump is up by 40 points. His biggest contender last night was Ron DeSantis.

Ron DeSantis disappeared on stage, and now Vivek and Ron are going to fight it out for the number two spot. That's just what happened. You don't have to take it from me. I love Ron DeSantis, the greatest governor in the country. This is not even a close second. The guy is going to be the future of the Republican Party. But last night, Ron DeSantis did okay. He did not do bad, but Ron DeSantis can't do okay. Because politics isn't about doing okay.

Politics is about the big mo and momentum. And the big mo, momentum, comes from being relatable but entertaining. Entertaining, what is this, the Gladiator Arena? Yeah. Well, that's kind of Manichaean. Yep. No, people want to hear about the issues. Please get the f*** out of here.

That's not what people give a shit about. Folks, they don't. You might. You're here along with 33,000 others four minutes in who thank you for your loyalty yesterday after yesterday's tech meltdown, by the way. I appreciate that. You probably do. The hard reality is up on the stage outside of foreign policy where yes there are significant differences outside of foreign policy there's almost no difference for many of the candidates they're

all going to tell you they support school choice tax cuts balanced budgets you've heard it a thousand times have you not well tell me what candidate came out last night said i support more government spending higher taxes and public schools are awesome did Did anyone say that? No, no, they didn't. So if you're not voting on the issues, what are you voting on? You're voting on relatability and performance. The talking head bullshit on the air this morning was revolting folks.

It was, I'm really sorry, but most of the people, I think it's because I ran for office three times and lost. And I'm telling you, you learn more by losing than you ever do by winning. What happened last night with DeSantis is a perfect example. The guy, I don't think he's ever lost the race for political. He won by 20 points in Florida. And you know what? He learned

all the wrong lessons. I got a lot to get to on this, but on the DeSantis point last night, I'm going to focus. I got a lot of energy today. I've been like beaming to get on. Yeah, I'm dead serious. You saw me in the chat at like 10, 15 this morning. For those of you who get here early, that's me. You know, I'm a D Bongino show. That's me. Ron DeSantis needs to get back to Ron DeSantis. He won an election by 19 points in Florida, almost 20 points, which is ridiculous, obscene. That never happens in Florida. You win by one point in Florida, you're a superhero as a Republican. He won by 20. What got Ron DeSantis there was being a ball buster.

Ron DeSantis, unfortunately, is now playing it safe. You can't play it safe when you're losing. Listen to the governor's team. You probably don't give a flying shit about my advice. Please take it. I am a Trump supporter. I love you guys too. And I'd like, I want to see Trump win, but I'd like to see you have a big future

because you're an amazing conservative. Please take my advice. Cut the bullshit. You're listening to way too many people in his ear on every answer. He needs to get back to doing where the Ron DeSantis strikes again, where Ron DeSantis says to the media and starts kicking ass again. He needs to get out in front of the camera and say, you know what? I am down 30 points. And you know why? I swear if he did this, this shit for him would turn around tomorrow.

He needs to get out in front of the camera and say, I listened to too many people. They're all in my ear telling me what I should and shouldn't do. You know what? That's on me. I own it. It's the Ron DeSantis campaign, not the Ronnie Bag of Donuts campaign. And I played it safe. And that was a mistake.

From this point forward, if we lose, we're going down swinging. And we're going to start kicking some freaking ass again. That's what we're going to do. The guy jumped 10 points in the poll. I don't think he beat Trump. And again, I'm a Trump supporter. But folks, I'm not here to bullshit you either. Okay? There are DeSantis supporters

all watch this show. And I love having you here. He's an awesome governor. But let's not lie to each other either. The campaign, I heard it said yesterday, I think it was Kellyanne Conway. No one had a better 2022 than Ron DeSantis and no one had a worse 2023. Folks, the numbers don't lie. We can sit here and bullshit each other all day. Oh, you know, listen, he's doing great. He's not doing great. And last night he did OK. And you can't just do okay you can't you can't just do okay let me

can i go out of order here i don't mean to screw up the whole show can you play the clip of the hand raising thing where desantis looks uncertain this is what i'm talking about a question is asked it's a very simple question and i want you to watch desantis this moment's gonna do some real damage again he doesn't look like the Ron DeSantis of old who should have just popped his hand up as a yes. It looks indecisive. And now DeSantis supporters are like, oh, he looks indecisive.

And DeSantis haters are like, wow, he really looks indecisive. When they're both saying the same thing, you're not doing it right. Here, watch this. You see what I mean? You all signed a pledge to support the eventual republican nominee if former president trump is convicted in a court

of law would you still support him as your party's choice please raise your hand if you would you see what i'm talking about? I say this with a pure heart. You know where I stand. He's welcomed the governor on my show. He will get an absolute fair shake. I don't talk to Trump about Ron DeSantis. I won't talk to,

I don't talk about DeSantis when Trump's on. I won't talk about Trump to DeSantis. You will have an absolute fair shake. He's done a great job. You just can't do that. That is, what do I tell you all the time on the show? You P1s out there and chatsters, 47,000 now watching. We're not even 10 minutes in.

What do I tell you all? What are the most damaging political narratives in the world? Ones that change your preexisting notion of who a candidate is. DeSantis is a ball buster. He is a fire starter. He's freaking Drew Barrymore in fire starter. That's what he does. You can't beat a guy with the shaky hand. You can't beat a guy giving canned answers. He can't just be okay. Now the problem, and this is why Trump runs away with this last night. He runs away with it. Because even though he wasn't there, and I think the views on the Tucker thing are being exaggerated.

Listen, it was viewed by a lot of people, and I'm glad he did the Tucker interview. I would have liked to had it myself. Probably a little candid, probably a little envy there. But good for Tucker for getting interviewed. It was viewed by a lot of people. But Trump is the clear runaway winner last night because what Trump wants to avoid. Pay attention. This is important.

He wants to avoid a mano a mano. He doesn't want a one on one. He wants a avoid a mano a mano. He doesn't want a one-on-one. He wants a one versus 10. And what happened last night is the mano a mano between him and DeSantis. Why does the mano a mano not work for Trump? Because after Iowa, South Carolina, New Hampshire, everyone's going to drop out because they're going to run out of money. You following me?

At that point, if DeSantis is close, it's a dogfight and you get a Barack Obama, Hillary thing where it goes all the way to the end. That's what Trump doesn't want. It costs money and time. He wants to wrap it up early. So he wants to make sure the number two lane, the runner up is always changing. Tim Scott, Vivek Ramaswamy, Ron DeSantis. That way they never get close to him. They stay in this thing the entire time, but it doesn't matter. He doesn't have to waste money beating them up because they're beating themselves up for number two, not for number one. You dig? And last night, Vivek was the standout.

I don't care if you support him or not. I'm not asking you to support anyone. You know where I stand. I've said it a hundred times. I'm telling you, Vivek was the standout because I believe in data and receipts. He was trending on Twitter. He was trending on social. He was all over truth last night as well. Vivek won just about every single straw poll that came out and every single focus group is like, I like this guy. Now, to be fair in my criticism to all of these guys,

now to be fair in my criticism to all these guys um vivek's got to work on some stuff too vivek comes off sometimes way too canned and i think it's a huge mistake again vivek started as this fresh kind of young face in the race and i'm friends with this guy but i owe you the truth and he's starting to sound canned on a lot of these things you you know what just be yourself yourself is what got you to where you were and i don't mean that in some cliche i'll just be He's starting to sound canned on a lot of these things. You know what? Just be yourself. Yourself is what got you to where you were. And I don't mean that in some cliche, just be yourself, let Reagan be Reagan. No, I mean, be your actual true self that you started the race with when you spoke off the cuff and you said things. I'm not saying don't think things through.

There's too much finger licking, I think, going on. That's going to be a mistake too. Lick the finger. Where's the wind blowing? Don't do that. Don't do that. I let people get in my ear. I made a huge mistake on an abortion question on NPR a long time ago when I was running for office. And it wasn't how I felt. And folks, I regretted it. I regret it to this day. I'm still talking about it. Here's the thing about stating what your true position is. If you state what your true position is on an issue, you'll never have to remember what your true position is or what you told last time because you didn't lie about it. If I ask you your kid's name, you don't have to think about it,

right? The thing about the finger licking that I think is going on with not just him, but a lot of these candidates now, Tim Scott just disappeared on the stage last night. He didn't even know he was there. Totally disappeared on the stage for a guy with such an incredible backstory because they're too canned. They're too canned. The finger licking, what happens is you changing your way on every issue. You're making the assumption that voters are one issue voters. If I give the wrong answer on this, on guns, on Israel, on Ukraine, on China, everybody's going to lead. They are not going to lead. There are very few people who vote on one issue. Just answer like you would answer

so you don't have to remember your answers to keep up with the answers you didn't mean. That's why Trump was the huge winner. And I got to say, after last night, I think me changing my position on that was correct. Why would he show up? Everyone's now going to duke it out for second place. And someone said yesterday on a cable news channel, they said something like, you want Trump to show up at the next debate? Close the 40 point gap. I promise he'll show up.

But I can promise you today, Vivek's going to move up. DeSantis is probably going to hold or move down. And Trump ain't going to show up at DeSantis is probably going to hold or move down. And Trump ain't going to show up at the second one either. A couple more thoughts on this last night. It's time for Asa Hutchinson to get out of the race. It's embarrassing. If you're like, who's Asa Hutchinson? Exactly. I made my point. No one even knew he was on the stage last night. There is absolutely no lane for this guy. He's not going to get a cable news host job. MSNBC doesn't like him. Republicans don't like him. Libertarians don't like him. Conservatives don't like him. People from Arkansas don't even like him. Dude, am I lying? There's no lane for Asa Hutchinson at all.

And the rest don't know him. No, they don't know him. Joe said it right. It's not even that they don't like him. They don't even know him. I would have much preferred Larry Elder on the stage who at least stirs some shit up. You know, Asa was like, was he even there last night? Like what happened? Was that like a cardboard cutout? And Doug Burgum sounds like a great guy busted up as Achilles yesterday. But dude, it's time to go. It's time to go. I'm all about representative democracy. I can't tell you what to do. I'm just saying like you're sucking up donor money. You're sucking up volunteers. And these are all limited items. And you're just wasting people's time. You are. You're not going to win. You're not even going to get 5% of the vote. So why are you here? You're not going to get a contributorship. Burgum doesn't need it. He's independently wealthy. They got to get out of the race. But I'll get to some more video of this in a second. But if I had to play a few winners last night, Ramaswamy, I think won the debate again, just based on data. Data's got to matter. He was

the most memorable, the most relatable, and he's entertaining. You know, I think Nikki Haley won, was a winner last night too, only because she didn't lose. Nikki Haley, it's clear as day right now, is not running for president, okay? Nikki Haley is running for vice president. Nikki Haley last night, again, she's another one licking the finger. I get it. She changes her positions all the time too. And going after Trump

pretty ruthlessly like she did afterwards after he put his faith in you is kind of like a loser move in my opinion. But Haley, I think won last night because she didn't lose. I honestly think everybody up on the stage last night comes out of this worse. Chris Christie's just a slob. He looked like a total ass last night. Pence was, Pence, Pence a nice guy. Pence has to go. Pence has no, there's no grassroots support for him at all. He does not stand out for a guy with his pedigree. Last night should have been the end of it.

And again, I think DeSantis loses because he didn't win. DeSantis had a show last night that he was the rock star. He was the guy. He was the one-on-one guy who could take on the Lion King, Trump, who's 40 points ahead. And he didn't do it. He didn't do it when he had the opportunity. You got to be bold, man. You can't play not to lose when you're not winning. Think about what I just said. You can't play not to lose when you're not winning and when you're not winning by 40 you definitely can't play not to lose here's what I mean uh too last night about Vivek and how Christy just looked terrible play that cut we had originally lined up uh number one

here's Christy looking like a pompous ass just going this guy just looks terrible he thinks this is flattering it's not it's goofy check this out I know. Check this out. I know a lot better than you do. You've never done it like you've never done anything to try to advance the interests of this government except to put yourself forward as a candidate tonight. And here's the thing. We've stood up for law and order. I did it as U.S. attorney. I did it as governor. And I am not going to bow to anyone when we have a president of the United States who disrespects the constitution. He said, he said,

he said, I said to Guy during the break, I said, my gosh, 60,100 people, only 20 minutes in that's huge. He goes, yeah,

just like Christie. Dude, the guy just, he's not doing himself any favors. He looks ridiculous. It's clear. He's on stage just to yell at everyone else. And my listen, because I'm a facts and data guy. If Chris Christie thought this worked, he did the same thing to Marco Rubio in the last debate on the last in the election in 2016. Excuse me. Remember where to get Chris Christie? What'd he finish? Seventh in New Hampshire or whatever. It's not working. Try something else. Try not to be the loud, I'm the loud bombastic guy. I'm not running for president. That may work for me. It just doesn't work for this guy anymore. It worked in New Jersey because he ran a local campaign about

New Jersey working values. Kind of like DeSantis ran a Florida-centric campaign about Florida values. That does not mean it's going to play nationally, folks. These guys got to get this out of their heads. They're not running Florida, New Jersey campaigns. Listen, that's one thing. I developed a national audience, man. You know, they haven't. I may have lost political races, but I got two shows kicking ass across the whole country.

It's not because I'm pandering to people. It's because people crave authenticity and relatability and Christie's shown absolutely none of it. He's really a sad candidate. I got another clip of that. And then Nikki and Vivek going at it. It's just a very, it was a very, very weird night. And again, I thought the debate overall, I'm sorry. I thought it was really unmemorable outside of a few moments. And no one's going to take out Trump with that kind of bullshit. You're just not. All everybody could think of last night. You know how

many times I heard from Paula, man, how much more fun would this be with Trump here? I mean, that's what you're thinking about. Wasn't that what everybody was thinking about? Come on. Even if you're a DeSantis supporter and you know, you're welcome here. Like I said, that's what you're thinking about. Wasn't that what everybody was thinking about? Come on. Even if you're a DeSantis supporter, and you know you're welcome here. Like I said, great governor. Tell me you weren't thinking that last night. And if you're thinking that, it's a problem. For your guy, not for Trump.

It's a problem. I love the guy. I want to have a future, but he's got to do better. Last night was not a good night. I don't care what anybody tells you. They're lying to you. I'm not here to do that. Let me take a quick break, and I got some more video for you.

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showing you the response to Christie last night, who's trying to be... And listen, you know I don't like Chris Christie. It's fairly obvious. But again, I'll give the guy a fair shake. He's welcome on my radio show. He doesn't want to come on. That's why I don't think like his bravado and this fake BS, oh, look at me. I'm a big guy. I'm so intimidating. It's all bullshit. I've seen that a thousand times. I've invited him on. Tucker's invited him on. Levin's invited him on. And he keeps chomping out. You're such a badass. You don't want to come on the show. I promised you an honest interview. I promised you that. Yeah, I'm going to ask you about stuff, but you want to come on.

No, I don't want to come. You only meant to go on Friendly Allens. Yet this is why nobody likes him. Here he was just roundly booed. And remember this, every political campaign is two things, soundbites and snapshots. Nobody's going to remember the white paper you presented on China policy. No one's going to remember any of that. People want to be entertained because they want a snapshot and a soundbite and if this is your sound your snapshot and your soundbite it ain't good check this out you make me laugh because

you sit here in an answer you sit sit here and answer. All right. That's not going to work. It's not going to. That's the soundbite you want. That's it. I'm going to ask you again for like the 20th time because you matter to me. And I want you to just dump everything you're hearing on cable news right now because it is all bullshit. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm telling you, people don't know what

they want. It's up to politicians to give them what they know they want, not what people tell you they want. Oh, that's dumb. No, it's not. Nobody knew they wanted a pet rock in the 70s either. Joe, remember the pet rock? Who the hell was calling for a freaking pet rock? You could have won your backyard and grabbed one for free. And a bunch of people paid in today's dollars five to 10 bucks for a freaking pet rock. You know why? Someone made you believe you wanted a pet rock.

Politicians, their job is to let you know what you need from them. You never knew you needed Donald Trump in the race until 2016 when a guy got on stage and just played a wrecking ball to everyone else. And some people were like, matter of fact, most of them, because he won the primaries, were like, holy shit, maybe we need a wrecking ball right now. I will never forget being in a conservative group in DC talking about focus group stuff. It was some diehard conservatives. Allen West was in there, Jenny Thomas and some others. And we were talking about after Romney

lost. And this focus group dude kind of came in and it was like he got laughed out of there because the whole presentation was about how voters say they don't care about immigration, which we all were in the room like, wait, what? Because I've actually knocked on voters' doors having run for office. That's the dumbest shit I've ever heard. And in the next election, Donald Trump runs on what? Build a wall and wins states we've never won before. Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. It is not about the issue. I know that's hard to hear. I know that's hard to hear because you in the audience are substance-based people because you're really involved. The average voter does not give

a shit about most of these things. They care about their kitchen table, their kids, and someone fighting for them. That's it. That's it. And nobody really stood out last night and nailed any of that. I'm sorry. A lot of it was just boring. A couple of things happened too with Fox. Fox not mentioning the Tucker interview, I think was kind of petty and candidly and just embarrassing. Listen, I have a lot of friends there. I worked there a long time. I got no beefs. I've always said we need a healthy Fox along with a healthy Newsmax and a healthy OAN because what else are we going to do? But some of the decisions are just really weird. Not mentioning the Trump interview on Tucker was just weird. It really, it's just weird. You're a news channel, okay?

He's the likely Republican nominee. You may not like it that they're a competitor, but folks, in case you think like, oh, Dan, you wouldn't do that if they were a competitor. Really? You want me to throw the bullshit flag right now? Hold on. I got one. Here it is. The bullshit flag is coming out. You know who the biggest competitor to Rumble is? Twitter. I'm an equity holder in Rumble. Not that we can't both coexist.

I mentioned it because doing the right thing isn't hard. Not mentioning it was weird. Then this happened last night. Don Jr. and Kim Guilfoyle. Why would you not let them in the spin room? Oh, well, Trump wasn't on the stage. Okay.

That doesn't mean he doesn't exist. He's also the leading candidate for the presidency on the Republican side by in some polls, 30 to 40 points. You're not interested in talking to his son and his son's fiance about, it's just weird. It's not even good TV so here's don the security

guy apparently kicked him out of the spin room this this is this is a bad look check this out probably shouldn't surprise any of us uh but that's what it is i've been told by others that i would be able to go so they said we weren't able to go in and they said they weren't but we're here and the candidate that said you can't go in there. They're telling me right now. Well, let me into the spin room. They're telling him he works for security here, but they're telling him that I'm not allowed to go in there because the candidates that they've been boosting while simultaneously trying to cut down Trump for the last two years didn't perform as they had hoped. It's just not a good look, man. I mean, everybody's got to come together right now. Everybody's got to come

together and put the petty grievances aside. Okay? This is not time for this. I've not been showing any animus to Fox, even though the negotiations didn't work out. You haven't seen me sitting here spending, wasting your time. I spoke about it for what? A day and a half? That was it. We moved on.

I had no beef. You want to beef against me? Fine. Go right ahead. I don't really care. I don't need anybody else. I'm here doing my own thing. There's a reason.

But that's just not smart. And it's just honestly bad TV. Would have been a great interview. It could have been. I mean, imagine having him and like a Vivek on camera at the same time. It would have blown through the roof. It's just bad business. All right,

folks, I, you know, I hope I covered the debate as well as I could there. And I hope I didn't leave anything out. Honestly, I'd play more footage, but I'm just being candid with you.

It's really a waste. Some of this stuff you saw last night was just, just weak. It really was. It was canned responses. It was stuff people clearly thought out. You don't think someone told Chris Christie in advance to use the chat GPT line against Vivek? And comparing Vivek to Obama was just stupid, in my humble opinion. The last guy who

said he had a funny name and was skinny was Obama. That's just lame. That's just stupid, man. It was just a dumb comment. And the chat GPT line where Chris Christie said the fake, it's like I'm talking to chat GPT guy. Again, just totally lame. I do want to play this one video before we take a quick break. This is a clip from Trump on Tucker yesterday. This is serious stuff.

Listen to me. They know something. I've told you before, Trump's life is in actual danger and people know it. The threat level, listen to me, please. His life is in real danger.

It's not theoretical danger. It's not spreadsheet danger. There are very serious people from the Iranians on down to lunatics who would kill this guy in a heartbeat and a lot of people in the inner circle if you know what i mean know it i've had this conversation with a number of people i'm not talking about secret service talking about other people who know there's a reason tucker carlson asked this question last night.

And I want you to pay very close attention to the answer about them being savages and sick, because he's briefed on it all the time. Listen to this. I'm looking at the trajectory since 2015, when you got into politics for real. And then one, it started with protests against you, massive protests, organized protests by the left. And then it moved to impeachment twice. Right. And now indictment. I mean, the next stage is violence. Are you worried that they're going to try and kill you?

Why wouldn't they try and kill you? Honestly. They're savage animals. They are people that are sick, really sick. They are people who are really sick, folks. He's briefed on this all the time. He's briefed on it all the time. Everything I've told you about Trump's life being in danger is not some weak, like, oh, let me get.

I don't need. I don't give a shit about any of that stuff. I don't need clicks. I don't need any of that. I need this guy to stay alive. And he's in real danger. And he knows it. He's briefed on it.

These people tell him what's going on. And Tucker knows it too. He didn't ask that question by accident. All right. I want to show you what we're up against coming up next. The kid sniffer, lying, plagiarizing, bribe-taking kitty shower taking, woman feeling, put you all back in chains. Barack Obama took a shower. Racist loser.

Next. Because it's getting worse. And if these candidates on stage, you don't think they're ready for primetime, then they're not. We can't afford to be screwing around. QC time is over. Way over. Way over. All right. I really appreciate your patience.

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starting to tell the truth about how bad things are. Here's Bidenomics in action. People are now taking loans to live. What you mean to live on the high life by no no no to live for like basic living expenses because the dollar's value is deflated away so bad due to inflation the balloon is shrinking while prices are increasing watch this more americans are turning to loans to help pay for everyday expenses but a new survey from the federal reserve shows more loan applications are being rejected by major financial institutions auto loan requests and credit card limit increase requests they're also at record highs highlighting some of the financial pressure that americans are facing

folks loans to live man that's where we are right now. That's how bad inflation is eating away people's pocketbooks. We cannot afford to lose this. Here, it gets worse. I want you to watch this segment from Fox News about housing. Folks, if you can't buy a house or find yourself some basic, I mean, this is the source of most Americans' wealth, the housing market. If you can't buy one, you're never going to get ahead and you're definitely not going to pass down any generational wealth. Here, watch this. This is how bad the housing market is right now. What the average cost of the house is and how much money you need for your monthly payment. Take a look. This is a concerning reality. We tried to put this together for people to look at and sort of digest the environment. Right now, the average home price in America, if you can

believe this, it's gone beyond $400,000. That is really something. With a typical down payment, mortgage rates is 6.6%. To meet your monthly payments on a new home purchase like that, you would need a salary of over one hundred and sixty five thousand dollars in this country. That is the reality of the situation. That is why that affordability is going to levels we've not seen before. The Goldman Sachs affordability index is at the lowest ever, ever, ever, ever. I'll put it another way for you. Let's just say you want to buy a house, right? And you and you want to put 20 percent down your average payment right now for the average person out there would be $2,300 a month.

Before the COVID, it was $900 a month. Folks, this economy sucks. Sucks. Sucks. It doesn't stink. It sucks. You don't like that word?

You're not living in the same economy we are. The economy sucks. It is in awful shape. And the story gets worse. This is who we're running against this is why these guys on stage got to be ready for the big time or kindly step off the stage asa bergman others it's time to go you got your shot last night the momentum didn't happen it's time to go we don't have time and listen that may not be a popular opinion, but this is donor money. It's this

stuff all matters. Activists, their time, the volunteers, airtime. Plus the next debate, I'd like to see it leaned out to serious candidates. If Trump doesn't show up, fine. Get DeSantis on the stage, Vivek, Haley, and Scott. I don't think the rest of them have a shot. They're all just screwing around. This is serious stuff. Someone sent this to me yesterday. A guy, was that John Harold or something? Forgive me, I'm forgetting his name, but tweeted to me yesterday. And he said, hey, Dan, is this normal? They found this email. Now, let me say candidly, I know the people in this email, matter of fact, well, work with them for a long time. And they said, is this normal? You're not going to hear this anywhere else.

The answer up front is no. Well, what? Folks, this is an email they found to the Robert L. Peters address. I'm going to play a Newsmax clip from this in a minute. Some great work by Marco Polo. Didn't get enough credit, by the way, and James Rosen on this. But this is an email where they're requesting to sign off protection for Natalie Biden and Hunter Biden. And what they're doing is they're saying, we don't want protection during this trip, during this time. So someone said to me, Dan, is this normal? Folks, signing off protection in my experience, meaning we don't want the protective detail here, but we want it to pick up again later, only happens for basically one reason in my experience. Well, anyone in the chat

have a guess as to what it is? Well, let's just say you're the head of Burkina Faso, right? you're the head of Burkina Faso, right? You're the Burkina Faso, the head of government, right? And you, yes, yes, Rumpov Steelskin says you're trying to hide something. Yes, sir. Yes, I just read the name. Yes, sir. I have never, ever seen them sign off like this for family members of the vice president.

Again, I know the guy's in this detail. Now, the president cannot sign off like this for family members of the vice president again i know the guys in this detail now the president cannot sign off the president cannot sign off protection it doesn't matter but the rest of them can this is super weird that on this foreign trip they didn't want them to have protection for what looks appears to be four days that says to me ladies and gentlemen something was up that's why this robert peters email is going to have the keys to all of the kingdom in it this this this alias joe biden was using there is zero doubt in my mind they were up to something i only remember one protectee doing it during my time not going to say who it was but i was told it's because he's a slumlord in New York and went to go collect the rent and he was embarrassed. I'm just telling you what I heard. I don't know

because they signed off and I wasn't there. And it surprised everyone. The detail leader's like, hey, we're good today. I go, what do you mean we're good? He signed off. What do you mean he signed off? I only heard later it was like some slumlord thing you don't sign off unless you're up to shady stuff here's what makes me believe this is going to get even worse for biden this is a great report from james rosen at newsmax he's talking about this other email address this robert peters email address a fake name biden used by the way hat tip marco polo found this a while ago too and where they hid this email address they're like oh was it a hillary clinton thing no no it was a government email so it was what dot eop the executive office

of the president dot whitehouse.gov no no they hid biden's email in dissa what's dissa exactly they thought you'd never find it listen to this That issue is a set of emails that one of Vice President Biden's staff aides, John S. Flynn, sent to Mr. Biden in the spring of 2016, prepping the boss for various meetings with top Ukrainian officials and which used the vice president's hidden account, the address for which was robert.l.peters at pci.gov. As you can see, Flynn also copied Hunter Biden, a private citizen, at a time when the latter served on the board of Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company. Now Newsmax has learned through intelligence community sources that it was an elite IT unit of the Defense Department that hosted the email domain for the Robert Peters address. for the Robert Peters address. The agency's stated missions, however, call into question whether its involvement in the provision of a hidden email account for the vice president for such purposes was appropriate, given that the office of the vice president is not in the chain

of command and possesses no statutory authority or duties relating to the armed forces beyond the nomination of candidates for the service academies. The Defense Information Systems Agency, or DISA, describes itself as a combat support agency, quote, conducting operations to enable lethality across all warfighting domains, defending the DoD network from cybersecurity threats attacking our nation's warfighters.

Do you see why they hit it there? Everybody's going through these machinations about why was it in DISA? The defense, intelligence, strategic, machinations about why was it in DISA? The defense, intelligence, strategic, whatever thing. Why was it there? Because no one thought

they would find it there. That's why. Don't get overly complicated about it. You act like Biden's smart. He needed a secret web address within the government domain to conduct business that he thought no one would look.

So he set up a fake email in an agency he thought no one would find. So how did they find it? Because his idiot son dropped this freaking laptop off and left it there with all these emails on there. That's how they would have never found it otherwise. That's how they found the Robert Peters thing. And then the FOIA produced this. Folks, this thing has just started. Oh, by the way, when did you catch it, guys, in that thing? What were the emails through the DISA PCI address to Robert Peters? What were they about?

Oh, Ukraine. We have just scratched the surface, man. How do I know that? Elizabeth Stauffer, the Washington Examiner. Apparently, Joe Biden is obsessed with and irritated by media coverage surrounding his son. No one even wants to mention it around. Look, the articles in the newsletter today, Don Gino dot com slash newsletter. He is freaking out over this.

Why? Because he thinks he's in no trouble. Why would he be freaking out if he's not in trouble? He absolutely knows he's effed on this. He knows it. And he knows he damn well better get impeached. They said he's even more rattled because house investigators have begun to reveal evidence of his own complicity in his family's overseas business dealings.

That's what you see now why I get pissed off when I read these chat rooms and people like nothing's going to happen. Everybody stop. Listen, I get it. The Republican party generally sucks. I mean, one of the rules of the show is most Republicans are really Democrats in D.C., but no Democrats are really Republicans. But this is happening. Biden is clearly annoyed and irritated because he knows this stuff is surfacing every day. You'd rather not see it. I'm not talking to you in the audience. You all are great. I'm just saying, like, you go read chat rooms and you get these negative nancies you know because everything has sucked in the past they don't want to do anything in the future that doesn't make any sense this guy's hurting right now he's in real trouble he better be rattled I mean these emails are going to get this I'm telling

you surface it is just scratch you have no idea how bad this is going to get for Biden. He ain't going to be the nominee, folks. He ain't going to be the nominee. That explains, by the way, the COVID hysteria. I discussed this yesterday. The COVID hysteria is absolutely 100% a distraction right now. I have zero doubt. Nobody actually believes these masks work or do anything. I want to relitigate that whole segment yesterday, but the COVID hysteria has one purpose. They need the police state back to do the mail-in balloting thing again, to keep Biden in the basement, to hopefully win the next election and keep Trump in jail and out of office. Here's CNN doing their part. August 23rd, I believe that was yesterday. If you're at a high risk of serious illness or death from COVID-19,

it's time to dust off those N95 masks. I tweeted out yesterday. I'm going to say today, a language alert. You can go fuck yourself. Thanks. We will not be doing that. So again, maybe we should have that shirt made up. What do you think?

We won't be doing any of that CNN, but thanks for your thoughts. We really appreciate that. You see why the COVID thing is now crazy and don't comply. Do not comply with any of this. Do not comply. I'm sorry. If you comply, you're complicit in it. There are no easy choices here. You comply, you will be doing this for the rest of your life. Every single election, you will, every single election, they'll bring back the COVID boogeyman. Every single election. It also explains the doubling down of police state tyranny. Listen, yesterday was a dark day. I grew up in New York. New York is America's largest liberal city. I spent most of

my life there. My heart will always be in New York. Folks, New Yorkers are different. They're like Texans. We're just different. You can probably tell by my demeanor and my generally bad temper, it's kind of a New York thing. But Rudy Giuliani saved America's most liberal big city from itself. He did. And now he finds himself in jail.

William Upton, a national poll, has covered this. Rudy Giuliani mugshot emerges as Democrats arrest the greatest ever U.S. mayor. You're damn right he was the greatest mayor ever. Look at these mugshots. There's Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis. Folks, listen, take these mugshots.

Spread them around everywhere. The police state's here, man. It's not coming. It's not around the corner. It's not a year from now. The police state's here right now. That's a lineup of America's political prisoners. The constitutional public is dead now. We're now a country that has political prisoners. And you just saw three mugshots. There are more of them as well. There are more of them. Donald Trump, of course, is going to go today, turn himself in. Again, I encourage him strongly not to post bond.

They want to F around and find out. Let them find out the secret service. I saw someone tweeted online, 18 USC 3056. I told you I was right. They can shut that whole prison down. You want to dick around Fulton County jail? You take over your whole prison. You're going to find a place for everyone else? I'm not sure. I doubt they're going to do it, but I think it's time. Folks, it's time because we're only steps away from what happened yesterday in Russia. We are. All right.

This may not be a political assassination in that sense, but we're only steps away from what happened yesterday in Russia. The head of the Wagner Group, which is a group of mercenaries that Vladimir Putin uses around the world to enforce his will. Prokofiev, who's the head of it, turned on him about a month and a half ago. In case you missed it, there was an attempted coup. They stopped short of Moscow, but they really embarrassed Putin. Now, Putin needed the Wagner group, so he had this temporary rapprochement. Hey, we're all going to smoke the peace pipe.

No one who knows Putin thought that Prigozhin was going to get away with this. Well, yesterday, we saw what happened with Prigozhin. This is plain. We're shot out of the sky. But I'm applying the Bongino rule strictly here because I'm not sure you're being told the whole story. This interview aired. This is before Progozhin's plane being shot. Notice I said his plane being shot out of the sky. But he was Putin when he was asked.

It's in Russian, but you can see the subtitles when he was asked about the one thing he can't forgive. It's short, but check this out. They ask him, what's the one thing you can't forgive, in case you don't speak Russian,ouski. That's all I remember. Piva. Da, yeah, da. His betrayal. So, Progozhin's plane was shot out of the sky. And the reason I say his plane is because I am absolutely strictly applying the Bongino rule. We really sure Progozhin's dead? Because Progozhin, I'm not sure you understand the history sure Progozhin's dead? Because Progozhin, I'm not sure you understand the history of Progozhin being declared dead.

Progozhin was declared dead in 2019 in Africa too. Do you know that? Here's his daily mail piece. It's in my newsletter today. Read it. It's good. Bongino.com slash newsletter.

Quote, Progozhin better be alive. Wagner fighters threaten to march on Moscow. If the Russia claimed the mercenary was on board the doomed plane brought down by bombs smuggled in wine crates as rumors spread he faked his death and fled in the second plane folks bongino rule 24 to 72 hours before you draw a conclusion on these things i'm not sure progosion's dead in 2019 in africa if you can go back and look and search engine it yourself, Progozhin was declared dead too, which is kind of weird because he was still

alive yesterday when he was killed again. See, the thing about getting killed is it only happens once. That's why you're killed. You can't get killed twice. This isn't Pet Sematary. This isn't Little Gage running around's he said it right he bought my shirt don't get dead and maybe it worked i don't know i'm just telling you now i am not sure progosian is dead we did there wasn't russia shipment right having said that sadly whoever was on that plane is definitely dead. Guy, if you would, I mean, this plane was clearly taken out of the sky by a bomb or some kind of surface to air missile, but it probably was a bomb, as you can see. Check this out. Yeah.

See it? I mean, you can see it going to the ground. This is not a, the plane's coming down vertical. You can see the fire and the explosion is clearly in the back of the plane like that. I mean, listen, I'm not a pilot, but that does not appear to be any kind of a natural occurrence whatsoever. You can see the way it just kind of falls to the ground. So again, it's definitely Pogosian's plane. There's no disputing that, that plane came down. However, are we really sure that's Pogosian? He was on that? I'm not sure. I'm not sure I'm going to go that route. But don't worry, folks.

Biden was all over it yesterday. The kid sniffing, plagiarizing, lying, sociopathic. I finished number one in my class. When I finished at the bottom of my class, I was raised in the Puerto Rican, the black and the Hispanic community, lying woman feeler in the White House. He was all over this yesterday. You know, World War III could have started yesterday as the Wagner Group decides they may want a mutiny or a coup on Moscow. Don't worry. He was taking like a spinning class. And he's like, yeah, I didn't see the whole thing.

I was busy working out. No, he didn't say that. OK, listen to him yourself. Mr. President, do you have a reaction to the plane crash in Russia? Yes. Say again? What's the... I may recall when I was asked about this by you, I said, be careful what I drink and what I wrote in.

I don't know for a fact what happened, but I'm not surprised. Do you think people would be able? There's not much that happens in Russian. I don't know enough to know the answer. I've been working out for the last hour and a half. Why would you even say that? Joe. Was that a single? got the backup mutley too

they can look at each other they can stare at each other this guy I mean it's almost like a permanent mutley for this idiot in the white house this is the first time with the two mutleys thank you to Stewart for the backup mutley too why would you say that the entire world is listening This is the first time with the two Muttleys. Thank you to Stuart for the backup Muttley too. Why would you say that?

The entire world is listening as we could be on the cusp again of World War III and you make an announcement, hey, I was working out. No one interrupted your workout? So let me get this straight. He's out there. Here he is. He's on his bike. He's spinning like a jackass and his staff doesn't come in and go, ah, bro, we got a problem.

The Wagner Group head just got blown out of the sky in Russia and they're threatening retaliation. Like nobody thought to get this guy's skinny legs off the freaking thing and make a statement? I know. Holy shit, man. Really? Don't interrupt him.

He's in his spinning class. He's in round three of his Tour de France. What the hell is this guy? Right? Is this guy freaking Lance Armstrong or something? I mean, give me a break. Joe, Motley 1, Motley 2. Man, you got hands like feet over there. I'm not much better, so I can't complain.

Joe totally missed that one. But that went through him like a field goal post. Folks, the guy in the White House is a complete train wreck right now. A total, total mess. That's why everyone on the stage last night has got to be deadly serious. It's time for these people to step aside. Man, I didn't get through half

the stuff I wanted to get through today. Listen, I got to talk about Maui tomorrow. What else did I miss today? There's a lot of stuff. Something happened on CNN. I'm going to get through today. Listen, I got to talk about Maui tomorrow. What else did I miss today? There's a lot of stuff. Something happened on CNN. I'm going to get to it tomorrow. Are we doing questions tomorrow? Yeah, all right.

Probably not. Maybe we'll think about it tomorrow. We'll do it on the fly. If we get in the chat early, if you submit some questions, we'll think about it. But I also want to talk about tomorrow as well. Trump has some options going forward if he wins.

The Washington Times has a good coverage of it. Can he self-pardon? What's going to happen with the state charges? A whole bunch of things, things we've already addressed before, too. But I got a special announcement. Listen, I'm going to need you in the chat for a minute here. So listen, I'm thinking of moving the time next week of the show, and it's for a reason, folks. It runs into the radio show. And yesterday we had a technical mix up. It was not Rumble's fault. There was some kind of Miami

meltdown and everybody in my area went down. So if you can't get online, you can't do the show. And the problem is it's too tight of a window. And I feel like I ripped you off, man. You lost 10 minutes of the show and that's bullshit. You come here for me and you wait for me in the, in the chat. Like I better freaking produce. No excuses, no bullshit. Now this isn't bullshit place. My fault,

my show and the story, but I can't control the time. And the thing is the show has become so big with 81,400 people watching now that I really think we should be in prime time. So I'm working on it. I think we're going to move the show. I'm thinking seven o'clock. The nice part about it is I have the radio show too,

so I can post some of that. So Monday during the morning and the afternoon, you're not without any content. It'll all be original. You can get some of that. So I'm working on it now, but let us know your thoughts in the chat. He's going to read them.

I know you want, but folks, you got to understand, like, it's really hard for me to do that and get all the days. By the time some of you get home and watch the show, some of the news is already dated. And the thing is, if we're going to take on the big boys with Rumble and elsewhere, we got to be on in prime time. I know it's kind of a ballsy move but the show is for you and i think it's the right one so we're working on some stuff right now i'm not going to leave you without content during the day either but um let us know how you feel about it but i would deeply appreciate it if you all would follow us along it would matter the world to me be everything so thanks a lot for tuning in i really appreciate it rumble.com slash bongino join us for the chat

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