The Dan Bongino Show - Disgusting Attacks on President Trump After a Tragedy (Ep 1146)

Episode Date: December 30, 2019

In this episode, I address the disgusting attacks by radical leftists on President Trump, and the reasons behind them, after two tragedies this weekend. I also address another fake narrative being propagated by this media hack meant to promote another false Spygate narrative. Finally, I address the Second Amendment fight in Virginia, and what it means for the rest of the country. News Picks:AOC humiliated herself, AGAIN.   Texas hero saves lives and stops attacker in a Church just seconds after the attack begins.   The FBI agent who interviewed Lt. General Mike Flynn was also a key player in the Spygate scandal.   The national debt continues to explode, and politicians from both parties are making it worse.   My appearance on Fox & Friends this morning where I call-out failed Mayor, Bill DeBlasio for using a tragedy to attack President Trump.    Here’s the complete list of President Trump’s recommended books.   Income inequality is going down, thanks to free markets.   Copyright Dan Bongino All Rights Reserved.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 ladies general welcome back was a busy holiday uh christmas week there happy uh happy new year or happy approaching new year to you all happy new year to my good friend producer joe my wife paula welcome to the Dan Bongino Show. Producer Joe, how are you today? I'm doing well, Daniel. And Happy New Year to you as well, and Paula, and all the listeners. Everybody, happy New Year! Coming up one more day before we get to say that.

Yes, thank you from Joe and I. We appreciate it. We had a great, I mean a shockingly good listenership and download and viewership last week of the show on YouTube during Christmas week. So thank you very much. Joe and I were just talking about that.

I've got a lot to address today. There's a lot that went on some tragedies this weekend. We had this church shooting in Texas, a hero stepped up and shot the, the killer dead immediately. We've that we had the incident in the home of the rabbi in New York that was immediately politicized by a sick, deranged leftist.

We got that. We have another article by Joey Spygate media co-conspirator, again, trying to tell you a story, not the story. We're going to cover all of that. We've got a really loaded show for a Monday during the Christmas season. So let's get right to it.

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I'm astonished, but because the media and liberal intelligentsia, fake intelligentsia out there, will tell you that more guns equals more crime and bringing guns into a church or a school environment is going to create a danger. Not understanding that the danger is brought in by the bad guy who's going to bring the gun in anyway. Fairly obvious to the intelligent people who watch my show. Obviously not fairly obvious to the dopey liberals who watch and the media people who just want to take away your right to defend yourself. So here is a picture courtesy of Twitter I found with a little diagram. This is a picture. Now, I know some of you on my audio podcast, forgive me. I rarely do this, but it's important. If you can check out the picture, go to YouTube.com slash Bongino.

If you can't, it's a photo laid out of the church. It was being live streamed on YouTube. Keep that up for a moment. This service was being live streamed on YouTube. So there is video of this murder. We watched a murder happen. Guy walks in with a trench coat, pulls out a shotgun at point blank range,

kills an innocent victim. Now, in the photo you'll see, in which I'll describe to you. There is a, uh, a, a church, I guess, an usher or volunteer security service, uh, man in the, in the church by the name of Jack Wilson. This hero pulls out his firearm. He's obviously trained. Apparently he had some affiliation with a gun rage in the past and law enforcement. And what looks like a bout a, what would you say, joe you'll see it on the screen keep that up um about i don't know 25 feet maybe 30 feet 20 30 feet yeah i'm guessing because the scale's obviously rough we've given this picture taken from youtube engages the gunman engages him this

patriot and manages to hit uh and and kill this gunman um thankfully before he engages in more of a mass homicide and takes him out right there. We have it labeled on the screen, but that's what I'm describing for those of you on the audio podcast. Again, I don't like to do that often. Forgive me. It'll always be an audio podcast first. But this picture is important.

And if you have the time, please check it out. YouTube.com slash Dan Bongino. You can see the photo of what this guy, this patriot, Jack Wilson, did to engage this lunatic, this murderer with the firearm. Folks, I think it was a headshot at about 30 feet, 25, 30 feet. For those of you who are trained with firearms, have trained with firearms, for those of you in law enforcement, I spent over 15 years of my life in law enforcement. I spent my whole life around firearms. That is an exceedingly difficult shot. Yeah, man. But there

are a couple of lessons we can take from this before we get to the just the dreadful politicizing again of this event by dopey, silly politicians who just can't seem to remove their heads from their rectums and talk in common sense. I said on Fox and Friends this morning, the video will be in the show notes today at Bongino.com, the notes that accompany the podcast. If you want our show notes emailed to you daily, Bongino.com slash newsletter. I have the link to my appearance on Fox and Friends this morning where I told you this and I'll say it again on my show because it matters. Anyone telling you that the answer to bad guys with guns is not a good guy with a firearm to defend against those bad guys is literally putting your life in danger.

This maniac entered this church with the clear intent to engage in an act of murder right there and would have murdered probably many more people if not for the actions of this hero, Jack Wilson, who took this guy out. Indisputable. The fact that this had to be politicized is really disgusting. But a couple of the takeaways here. Number one, training matters. Clearly, Mr. Wilson had trained with that firearm. You can see if you, I didn't put the video on for a number of reasons, folks. I do my best to keep the show family friendly.

And there is actual video. You're free to look it up. If you have the stomach for it i encourage you to do so because there are lessons that are probably more profound than the video than just the photo we put up which is a little more family friendly i mean your kids can look at it there's nothing in there there's no blood or gore um but if you can see in the video that he's trained instantly instantly gets his firearm out, you know, hands to the eye level, engages,

immediately takes out the target, and right on target does, I mean, he just did what he had to do. He was clearly trained in accessing and using that firearm. Also, that shot, again, is not an easy shot. It's not an easy shot to make. For those of you who have shot at 25 or 30 yards, a headshot at that range,

when you train to shoot center mass, nobody in law enforcement trains for headshot outside of, no, I shouldn't say that. I don't like categoricals. If there's obviously a suicide bomber or something like that, or someone wearing body armor, then at that case, yes, you would engage where you can hit. I mean, if the body armor is defeating your rounds, then yes, you would.

But those are rare circumstances. You generally speaking train in law enforcement to fire at center mass, center mass, waist to shoulders. Why? Because it's the biggest target. And contrary to what liberals will tell you about law enforcement, police officers and federal agents, I was one, do not shoot to kill. That is a liberal stupid talking point of which there are many. Police officers shoot to stop.

To stop what's happening. And the best way to stop what's happening is to hit your target. The easiest way, again, I know liberals are having a tough time with the rationale and the reasoning here. The best way to stop a murderous use of force using thug from killing people is to hit him or her. And the easiest way to do that is to aim for the biggest area, the center mass.

Yes, sir. Again, forgive me for the sane people listening to my show who are like, I get this. Why are we going to? Because liberals listen to and don't seem to get any of this. Cops shoot to kill. They don't shoot to kill. You're just a moron.

So, training matters. I think we can take that away. Secondly, as I pointed out many times in the show as a former security professional myself, one of the things most dangerous about a church when it comes to an active shooter scenario, an ongoing attack, is ladies and gentlemen, if you look at the picture, and again, if you choose to watch the video, that's up to you, you'll notice something. The guy walks in the back of the church yeah thank you putting that up again and almost nobody notices now this picture is taken after one of the rounds goes off so you

can see people holding their ears and starting to turn their attention but if you watch the video you'll notice he walks in and about four or five seconds happens before anybody notices anything why is that what makes churches a little different than anywhere else if, and sadly, targets for lunatics like this man? Ladies and gentlemen, where is everybody's attention? Right, up front. In a church. Right.

Yes. A synagogue, a mosque, whatever a house of worship you may go to, the pulpit, the altar is not in the back. It's in the front. People are engaged in prayer, deliberation, deep thought. That's what you go to church for. You engage your spiritual self with the Lord Almighty.

You're focused up front with a deep almost, and some people are almost in like a i mean a semi-altered state they're so deep in prayer i don't mean that as if i mean that as a compliment they're deep in prayer my quiet they're not paying attention it's not their fault right no one's goes to church thinking there's going to be a shooting but having said that the other takeaway training matters is you gotta have people in the back of the church with their eyes on the door. I have said this over and over. If you operate a house of worship, you're a priest, a rabbi, an imam, whatever it may be, whatever religion you practice, it is your responsibility to get trained people to keep their eyes on the back of that door because nobody else is doing

that. I do it. I go to church armed. I keep my eyes on the back door, but that's what I did for a living. It's a heightened antenna. All of us former law enforcement guys have, and a lot of concealed carry holders, but most people won't. Watch the video and you'll see. Yes, go ahead. When I came down to visit you last, I went to a church down there and they had a cop in the back and she was armed. And I asked her about it. Yeah, we have one. And they said it's a program where they get paid or something like that yeah it was cool yeah some of them volunteer i think some of them may get paid but the martin county sheriff down here island they they have a police

officer there too a sheriff uh deputy excuse me and yeah i mean it matters made me feel better and yeah i made a lot of people makes people feel better my church too yes six seconds six i'm sorry six seconds this was over six seconds thanks to this patriot now sadly of course these things are always politicized by the left but showing you how they are i'm not kidding these people on the left are actively putting you in danger folks i am not kidding by recommending things like don't arm yourselves in a church we don't need more guns in schools and armed teachers as if you're you know i i say this often and i and i mean it what i i i i i'm trying to get in your head so it's obvious now that these murderers and these homicidal maniacs whether it's a school

god forbid a church whatever it may be that enters these these locations if you don't have a firearm i'm unsure as a liberal what rationally in your head other option you think is better i i'm again i'm i'm stumbling over my words here, not because I'm trying to get in your head as to what else you think is going to work. This guy had a shotgun underneath his trench coat. You're suggesting to me with a straight face that you'd rather that church have been protected by people with,

are you going to inflict a paper cut? You're going to throw rocks? I don't understand what you think is a better option. You realize, to rational people, how dumb you sound like, we don't want to bring more guns to church. No, no, we want to bring what? You want to throw darts at them? I don't understand what you thought was going to happen,

what parallel universe you live in. Now, in case you think I'm making this up. Now, this is to be fair. This is a video of Joe Biden. This was not taken yesterday. This was taken a few months ago. But this is video of Joe Biden leading Democrat candidate for president. Attacking the Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott,

attacking the Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, for suggesting that it may be a good idea for people to defend themselves in a church using firearms. God forbid this is to happen. Listen to this video where Biden, who I'm telling you is putting you in danger with recommendations like this, tells you how you're irrational and Greg Abbott, Republican governor of Texas, is irrational

if you're even thinking about carrying a firearm in church, listen to this. It is irrational. With all due respect to the governor of Texas, irrational what they're doing. On the very day you see a mass shooting, I guess the numbers now, I was on a plane the last two and a half hours, they got up to five killed. And we're talking about loosening access to have guns, be able to take them into places of worship, store them in school. I mean, it's just absolutely irrational. It's totally irrational. Again, in the interest of honoring the victims, I am containing my commentary from losing my marbles here on the show.

Because, folks, we can disagree with democrats and democrats can disagree with us that's the beauty of a constitutional republic but i'm telling you on this issue with full candor and a pure soul and a pure heart if you follow that advice you are literally putting yourself in danger if you have the means and the ability and the willingness, that's important. Some people don't want to care, and that's fine. That's your choice. That's okay. But understand that we live in a...

It's a very safe country. There's no need to be hyperbolic or overestimate the threat. The chances of you being caught in this are exceedingly slim. But suggesting to people that it is irrational to want to defend themselves against people like this who do exist, and these incidents sadly do happen, is the absolute height of imbecility.

Irrational to want to defend yourself against being killed by a murderer in a church who has a weapon that you can't counteract except if you have one yourself or someone else around you is trained ladies and gentlemen do not take this man's advice this is the same guy remember Joe go get the

shotgun fire a double barrel shotgun fire off two rounds double barrel Joe who can't do math double barrel two barrels fire off two rounds one two meaning you have exactly zero oh no we just made the zero sign oh my gosh here we go again liberals media matters we made the zero sign that's that's it you can't

do that you can't do this over again should we do it over yeah let's edit that out i'm kidding this idiots that's funny you don't have to because you're not on. Joe only does the audio, so you don't have to worry. You're good. Joe, have that. Crazy lunatics. Now, thankfully, people are fighting back against this anti-gun lunacy. Yes. In a parallel story, but relevant given the news this weekend,

Joe, I know it's sensitive to you because Joe's in Maryland, which, you know, Maryland, Virginia is one media market. Yeah, man. I don't know if you all know that, but just like New York and New Jersey, there's crossover media markets there. Same thing happens in Maryland, where the D.C. news is watched in both states. So I saw the story at the Washington Examiner by Paul Bedard. You'll be up in the show notes again. Check it out at our website. They accompany the show.

Virginians had about enough of this. Paul Bedard has a story. Virginia gun sanctuary leaders urge resistance to gun laws compared to American Revolution. Listen, folks, the long and short of it is the liberal blackface wearing

or Ku Klux Klan cap. We don't know which. We haven't figured that out yet. Governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, he hasn't admitted to which one he was wearing in that dreadful photo. Ralph Northam has committed with the liberals in Virginia who have now taken over what was once a conservative state, if not conservative Democrat state, have now taken over and are claiming that they're going to basically one of them wants to use the National Guard to enact draconian firearm laws, which will take away your right to protect yourself. Well, Virginians have had enough of it. This piece by Bedard covers it pretty good. How the attorney general has basically said that the counties in Virginia.

I'm sorry, I didn't get that. Should be more clear. Counties in Virginia. What are we up to? I think it's like 85 counties in Virginia have now said, no, we're not going to do that. We're not confiscating weapons from our citizens. We're not violating the second amendment of the constitution, the bill of rights.

What we are going to do is we are going to declare our county sanctuaries for the constitution. Good for you. Now there was a map hat tip to this gentleman on Twitter who put it up the map of the counties. Look at this. This is at a, what is that? VCDL underscore org. Phil Van Cleve from the VCDL. Latest sanctuary map with Fauquier County

and Charles City counties. The green are the sanctuary counties. Now, if you're looking at this map, most of Virginia is in fact green. There are isolated counties in Black Dead are now not. It's now up to 87 counties, 10 cities and 17 towns that have said,

no, we're not going to enact these anti-constitutional, anti-Second Amendment, throwing the Bill of Rights in the garbage can, draconian gun laws. No thanks. Have a nice day. And I wrote down a little note because I got a lot to get to, and I really spent a lot of time on this. Sorry, given my background, I feel it's important to give you some solutions on this kind of stuff. You got to keep your eyes on that back door of the church. But I took a note regarding these sanctuary Second Amendment counties and the Democrats'

threats that the Attorney General Herring has said they have no legal effect, these sanctuary things. It's a serious question. I'm not messing around. Don't take this as some kind of unnecessarily aggressive approach. I'm just asking an honest question to the Democrats in Virginia. What are you going to do? I'm not kidding. I said last week, I gave the Bane analogy from that Batman movie where he confronts that business guy and the business guy comes in you know Bane analogy from that Batman movie where he confronts that uh business guy and the business guy comes in yelling at Bane and he says and I wish I had Dana last she does a better Bane voice maybe do you feel like you're in charge you really feel like you're in charge you know in case you hadn't heard, Joe, they may have missed this,

but that whole consent to the governed thing kind of matters a little bit. Yeah. You've got, I don't know how many people live in Virginia based on their congressional delegation. I don't know, eight, maybe nine, 10 million. I could be wrong. Could be off by a little bit. That whole consent to the government

thing kind of matters and the governed the people have said no you don't really have our consent we have this thing called the constitution and here is my because it's family friendly double barrel middle finger with no middle fingers because there may be kids watching the show right now um what are you gonna do come on what are you gonna do again i'm not kidding i'm not kidding. I'm not challenging you to a fight. This isn't a schoolyard job. Let's go outside and duke it out.

I'm not. I'm asking an honest question. What are you going to do? And the answer is you're going to do nothing. Because you don't have the consent of the governor. And all of those green counties you just saw, 87, basically the whole state, again, for our audio listeners, is green. Sanctuary counties, firearms, you're saying, no thanks.

Have a nice day. Remember, that whole consent of the governed, for the people, by the people thing. You may have forgotten about that. You think it's all about you? I get it when you live in that elitist DC corridor bubble in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, DC. You're sitting in the Virginia state house somewhere. That's a little bit outside the bubble, but you know what you're doing.

You're used to listening to Northern Virginia and all the liberals that have occupied Northern Virginia. And you really think you've got the consent of the governor you're gonna the national guard get him to go to door yeah yeah okay sure yeah all right whatevs man what are you gonna do nothing you will do nothing because there's nothing you can do all right moving on i got a lot to get to today all right brother oh oh joe yeah you know how much listen i there wasn't a lot of stuff going on this week on spy gate and um excuse me this weekend not a whole bunch of stuff but i saw this one story and many of you who are regular listeners know how much i have this love hate relationship with the media on

this love hate because i love the independent journalists out there uh and the people who work for like the daily caller chuck ross and others jeff carlson again great at the epic times who have just nailed the story sarah carter solomon the list goes on and on hannity of course over at fox who've nailed the spy gate thing but the love hate part the part i really have disdain for are the media people on the inside who despite the fact that the whole spy gate thing is falling apart on them in live time yes there were spies yes they were spying the ig report proves it all of a sudden they're still clinging to the collusion hoax one of the worst out there who has become a frequent target of my ire not because i dislike her personally don't know her

never met her i don't care she's probably very nice doesn't matter to me at all is natasha bertrand from politico who is always on the wrong side of this no matter what i don't know if she's just easily pliable when it comes to like moving her in a narrative direction and at the deep state you know what i'm saying joe they feel like they can they can get her to do what she wants i don't know why she keeps publishing ridiculous stories at politico despite again being one of these people on the inside of the media was a known gaslighter you you know, with the collusion hoax and there were no spies. She's always on the wrong side. So she wrote this piece in political.

And I just wanted to briefly cover this because remember this Bertrand Devlin Barrett, David Ignatius, whenever you see stories from them about spying, remember the axiomatic golden rule of the dan bongino show they're not trying to tell you the story they're trying to tell you a story not the facts they're not trying to give you the fact they're trying to tell you and you always have to parse out what the story is so i saw this gem this weekend uh from natasha bertrand at politico intel probe put cia's gina haspel she's the cia director in a bind subtitle the review led by u.s attorney john dorham is making life uncomfortable for america's cautious spy chief now listen to me what's really going on with this story but again what story is she trying to tell you joseph please on behalf of the deep staters who are getting very worried now that the ig

report is out shows there was spying contrary to the liberal narrative and a lot of it by the way on the trump campaign and now that the dorham investigation is at its tail end that is likely to come out in the spring of 2020 which is looking into the whole spy gay thing and is now a criminal probe so she goes i'm going to put a screenshot up from this in a bit but before i get to it's about miss simon before i get to that the whole three or four initial paragraphs so without reading through the whole thing so i don't want to spend too much time on this, is this. Well, you know, this attorney,

excuse me, this U.S. attorney, Durham, working on behalf of the attorney general has turned this into a criminal probe, Joe. Right, right. He's looking into this CIA stuff, and, you know, the CIA, they were just doing their job here and all. Come on.

I mean, are we really going to start questioning it? Because, Joe, if we do, national security might be at risk because these CIA folks, right? Here we go. They might be hesitant in the future, Joe, to do their job. So this is really bad for the country. I'm reading this like, okay, what? Again, what's the story she's trying to tell you?

Because it's not the actual story. The story and narrative she wants out there is that if Durham keeps looking into this, Joe, we could damage national security because their intelligence people will be afraid of doing their job. In other words, Joe, what? You better back off. In other words, what else? The media, we're watching you dorham and if you go after the cia people who got everything wrong we're gonna make personal attacks on you suggesting it's you that are damaging national security you're scaring me dan

oh every time every time. And you know Durham's probably laughing at that. Like, you really? Sure. I don't call the guy Bull Durham for nothing. Which even in my

Trump interview we did with the president, he called him Bull Durham. That's his nickname. Trust me when I tell you, this guy is not going to be Saul from the Jerky Boys. He does not care.

He is not going to be frightened one bit by anything. But Bertrand is doing her best to send a warning flare up in the air that we are going to attack you personally and accuse you of damaging national security if you continue to investigate. That's her sole purpose for this story. Now, if you're a rational person, which again excludes most of the liberals who listen to the show but who knows maybe we'll crack through their adamantium you know vibranium coated skulls one day and actually get in there with the facts that matter you should be asking yourself we now know

that john brennan had a role in the propagation of the dossier, steal information. We know it. We know he briefed Harry Reid on it. Bottom line is John Brennan knew about the fake charges in the dossier. Right. So you're telling me the nation's lead spy master, John Brennan, who was running the CIA, was intimately involved in decision-making with the White House,

which we know happened. Remember the text, the White House is running this, talking about the Spygate operation. It's clear that's what they were talking about. You're telling me that the intelligence infrastructure was making decisions in conjunction with the White House based on totally false, discredited information without one ounce of veracity to it?

Spying and circumvention of U.S. laws on American citizens happened. And Natasha Bertrand's narrative is, time out, stop folks. Don't you dare look at that. You all endanger national security. Joe, what do you think a bigger threat to national security is?

Our intelligence spy chiefs making very severe, deeply impactful decisions based on totally false intel they swore by? Yeah. Or looking into why people made these dreadfully awful decisions. I think it's option one. Yeah, I do too. I think that's a little more dangerous. Call me crazy.

I took another note here because I didn't want you to forget. Remember my Devin Nunes interview with Congressman Nunes on my channel here, which I't want you to remember my newness interview devin newness interview with congressman newness on my uh channel here which i strongly encourage you to listen to it's gonna maybe i must listen to whoever by the tape by the time the next week is done youtube.com slash bongino if you want to check it out what did congressman newness say on our interview during the end of the interview he was crystal clear that there was no official intelligence used to open up this case against Donald Trump. Folks, why is Natasha Bertrand, alleged journalist, media co-conspirator here? Why is she not even remotely interested in asking those questions?

Wait, wait, wait. Natasha, very simple. If you write a piece on this, I will promote it for you. I promise. Try doing journalism just for once. Are you not even remotely curious why an investigation we now know was bedrocked in the dossier? The IG report is clear. The dossier was the principal focus of the warrant to spy on Trump. That we know with it.

No serious person disputes. John Brennan knew about now was used to spy on a presidential campaign and a president about president, by the way, afterwards there, their operation that this continued into the, into the team and the team surrounding Trump into the Trump presidency. And it was all started with no official intelligence.

And yet you're defending the people at the upper echelons and the CIA involved in this with your piece. None of those things even remotely concerned you as a journalist. Now, if that was spying on Barack Obama, you'd be concerned because you're a hack. Of course, you're a liberal hack. You don't really do in journalism. And I don't expect you to honestly ask those questions because you're not a real journalist. You're a fake. You've always been a fake. You're just a fraud. I'm sorry. And it's not personal. It's just a professional evaluation

of your atrocious, dreadful work. And I don't know how Politico, I don't even know how your work gets past editors. How do editors not ask those questions? Devin Nunes has said, clearly, no official intelligence was used to start this case, and you're not concerned about

that at all you're concerned about protecting the people who initiated the investigation in the intel community yeah good call here from the piece though here's another warning sign here again she's not even remotely curious about mifsud quote from her piece natasha bertrand gina haspel's plight though may depend on how deeply Durham investigates an uncorroborated theory pushed by Trump allies that a key player in the Russia probe, a Russia-linked professor named Joseph Misud, was actually a Western intelligence asset

sent to discredit the Trump campaign and that the CIA under Brennan was somehow involved. Notice again how Bertrand changes the narrative. It's a total 180, folks. The entire bedrock of the Bertrand Democrat liberal media complex Russian collusion hoax, Joe, was what? That this Maltese professor, Joseph Mifsud, she references in that quote, was a Russian agent who met with George Papadopoulos from the Trump campaign. That is their case. Right.

who met with George Papadopoulos from the Trump campaign. That is their case. Right. Now, rather than being curious as to why that was said, that he was a Russian agent, despite no evidence that's actually true, Mifsud, that was the Russian collusion hoax. Bertrand now has flipped the script to saying, well, you're all crazy on the Trump team because we're reasonably sure that Mifsud wasn't an FBI source and may not

have worked directly for the CIA. Wait, what? You're not even remotely curious how you got the story wrong that this guy was not a Russian agent, therefore your whole story was a hoax? And the fact that Mifsud has known ties to Western intelligence, none of that concerns you. Of course not. Because you're not interested in real journalism. Please tell me what the takeaway you got it there, folks. Audience, I'm Budgeman Joe. Their whole story is this Russian agent tried to give information to the Trump campaign.

Mifsud tried to give information to Papadopoulos. That story is totally falling apart now. It is, yes. They have not even reconciled the fact that they promoted that hoax forever. Now their story is this. Well, we were right because we're not sure Mifsud was directly working for the CIA. Okay. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Don't even acknowledge you were a total hoaxer the whole time. Just walk by it like nothing happened.

They're worried about Mifsud. Believe me, that's why that's out there too. All right, moving on again. A lot to get through today. Loaded show. Twitchy actually picked this out. I love Twitchy. If you haven't seen twitchy.com, it's a great website. They highlight some of the best conservative tweets out there. And generally, they poke fun at dopey liberal media people, which always makes me happy. They picked up one of my tweets this weekend, which was about Chuck Todd. I've got some video of Chuck Todd.

As you know, maybe we should do a show on this. Listen, it may be a little obnoxious of a show, but I'm seriously thinking, Joe, we should do this soon. We frequently cite the dumbest people in media and I have a scale. Philip Bump from the Washington Post is number eight. Brian Stelter is always number one. Chuck Todd, though, is rapidly closing in on the gold medal of stupid

in the Dopey Media Olympics. Chuck Todd has had a solid grasp on the number two silver medal in the Dopey Olympics in the media for a long time. But I got to tell you, you know what? Stelter keeps upping his game like the dopey game. But Todd is upping it just not enough. So Chuck Todd again this weekend from NBC. Again, the second dumbest guy in media. I sent this out in a tweet.

That's why I mentioned Twitchy. They picked it up. Here is Chuck Todd on video who waits until the christmas season one of the holiest times of the year for christians and the hanukkah season for our jewish brothers and sisters he waits for the holiest time of the year the second dumbest guy in media the silver metal wearing chuck todd to put out this gem on his show listen Listen to this. This is Chuck Todd attacking people of faith, basically saying you believe in a bunch of myths because you don't believe what Chuck Todd believes.

I don't even know what he believes. I'm not really even sure Chuck Todd is a bright guy anymore. This is him waiting for this Christmas, Hanukkah season to attack you, that you're all crazy because you don't believe what he believes. Check this out. I want to read you guys a letter to the editor that we found in the Lexington Herald-Leader.

It was a fascinating attempt at trying to explain why some people support President Trump. Here's what he says. Why do good people support Trump? It's because people have been trained from childhood to believe in fairy tales. This set their minds up to accept things that make them feel good. The more fairy tales and lies he tells, the better they feel. Show me a person who believes in Noah's Ark and I will show you a Trump voter. Look, this gets at something, Dean, that my executive producer likes to say is, hey, voters want to be lied to sometimes. They don't always love being told hard truths. Chuck, you're right. I mean, why else would anybody watch your show? Yeah.

Joe, you got a Muttley. You deserve a Muttley for that. Come on. I got one somewhere. Give us a Muttley. That was good. There it is. Thank you.

That's at least a Muttley. You got me crying. That's funny. In my eyeballs. That's funny. Right. Chuck's right. He's right.

But Joe, are we both clear? He's right for the wrong reasons exactly you're right sometimes people like being lied to that's exactly why Chuck Todd has the listen people watch that show it's not the greatest viewership ever but it's not horrendous he Chuck you are thank you producer Joe for that brilliant moment of insight people watch Chuck Todd because they like to be lied to Now he's got the argument all wrong. Do you understand what kind of a, I mean, serious. Listen, Joe's a man of faith.

We're both sinners, Joe and I, my wife and I, all of us. We get it, but we do. I'm a very spiritual person. I don't need to pat myself on the back. I say that because I don't speak with forked tongue here. My faith matters to me. I'm a very imperfect person, but my faith matters. and I practice it. You know, the people who go to my church, no, they see us there every week. We rarely miss. I always try to get my kids there. It matters to me. For you to wait for the Christmas Hanukkah season to do a segment like that,

suggesting that Trump voters are stupid because they believe in religious quote fairy tales too and they want to be lied to ladies and gentlemen that is one of the most repulsive disgusting segments I've ever seen but honestly folks it's you probably watched it and heard it on the show here and you're so used to the stupid sweating from the pores of this imbecile Chuck Todd every week that candidly you're probably not even as impacted by it as you should have been. You understand what he just said? You're voting for Trump because you're a religious Neanderthal dope who believes in religious fairy tales. And therefore, you like to be lied to.

And therefore, you vote for Trump because he's lying to you. That's what he said. That's exactly what he meant. And as Joe just beautifully pointed out, this is from this hack lying buffoon, this joker fraud who has told you for years, complete total lies. Spygate was a hoax. Collusion was real. He got the two biggest stories,

the two biggest stories of our time, absolutely backwards. Amen, bro. And he's telling you you're an idiot because you're a person of faith. Remember this. This has been an evergreen topic of the show since Joe and I were doing it in my basement

in Saverna Park five years ago. Liberals like Chuck Todd, media activist, right? His sole purpose in life right now is to institute big government central planning. Big government central planning requires what? Getting certain things out of the way first. out of the way first. For you to put your faith in government and allow them to make subjective decisions,

you have to wipe away everything objective in your life. In other words, if you believe in God-given big R rights, the right to defend yourself, the right to speak freely is a right granted by God, which I believe Joe believes, Paula believes, and I'd venture to say the overwhelming majority of my

audience believes too. If you believe that and understand that, because I know it to be true. Ladies and gentlemen, government's only role is to ensure that. It doesn't grant it. That's not what Chuck Todd believes in. He's a statist. He believes that right is given to you by government, just like the Virginia attorney general and the blackface wearing governor of Virginia believe your right to defend yourself is granted by them. When the rest of the state say, no, no, thanks. What are you going to do? Nothing. You're going to do nothing because Virginians know that right is granted them by God to defend themselves, to speak freely, to practice their religion, not by government. We don't require your imprimatur. We're not looking for it. Ladies and gentlemen,

on the left, listening to my show, get this through your thick skulls when it comes to our constitutional big R God-given rights. We are not asking. I don't know why you think we're asking. We are not asking for your permission. We don't care what you say. We're ignoring you. We will practice our religion with or without your sanction. We will protect ourselves with or without your sanction. We are not asking.

Get it through your cinder block skulls. This is not Sudan. It's not North Korea. We are free American citizens with an entrepreneurial patriotic blood that people who have come here have always sought freedom. That freedom gene is in their gene code. Everyone who's come here has done that. From my mother-in-law on, we are not asking. Chuck doesn't get that. Chuck doesn't get that.

He thinks rights are granted by government. Therefore, he attacks religion. Because religion has to go the way of the woolly mammoth if status like silver medal wearing Chuck Todd is to get his way. So diminish and make them look like fools. Oh, they believe in fairy tales. Noah's Ark, fairy tales. Fairy tales.

Jesus, wine from water, loaves at the wedding. None of that really happened. You sure, Chuck? I can tell you what really didn't happen. Your collusion hoax you've been promoting. That really didn't happen. That was definitely a fairy tale. Touché.

That was your finest hour, by the way, Joe. That was a great comment. You were absolutely right. A guy was mad at me, by the way, this weekend because I call you Producer Joe. He sent me an email. He thinks it's demeaning. Joe's always been produced. That's not the, he's the producer of the show.

Yeah. That's what he told me to tell you. Always call that bad. It wasn't, it's not, it's just the actual title. Joe's a professional. He produces the show. Don't worry. Yeah, he got mad at me.

A guy emailed me this weekend. He was genuinely upset. And I was like, yeah, I know when Joe's upset. He has never been upset about me calling him producer Joe. Ah, man. Hey, just a note about this weekend. I will have my interview. I have the interview show starts again this week.

Rudy Giuliani is coming on this week. Former mayor of New York City. Personal attorney to President Trump. Super excited. We will be recording Friday night as usual. Get it out Saturday morning. Please check that out. And also, please check out the Bongino Report, your new

conservative alternative to the Drudge Report. Bonginoreport.com. Please make it your homepage, folks. We really appreciate it. Traffic's been through the roof. It is where we put the conservative news, meaning the real news. We don't link to any liberal garbage, especially anything by Chuck Todd. As I said to a reporter, though, unless

it's to make fun of him, which we have to do. All right. All right. A couple more stories to get to, but it's important. Again, just disgusting politicians politicizing every single moment, including moments of human tragedy where American citizens are lost in attack. There was a horrible attack in New York. A machete wielding lunatic walks into a rabbi's home, hits a guy in the head with a machete. I mean, this is the kind of thing in horror movies that happens, sadly,

in the real world. Obviously, it was an anti-Semitic attack. Obviously. Again, I don't know. I don't understand people having a difficult time with this. Now, Governor Andrew Cuomo tried to parse it, make it about other things and about our diversity and all this stuff. And by the way, hat tip to Pete Hegseth from Vox and Friends for calling out Cuomo on this repeatedly this weekend.

Ladies and gentlemen, this was not about diversity. This was an anti-Semitic attack directed at our Jewish brothers and sisters. That's it. Period. Full stop. When people attack people who are black, it's racist. And it's clearly a racist attack. And it should be called out. People attack an immigrant

because of their immigrant status. That is clearly a xenophobic motivated attack. When people attack people who are Jewish, it's an anti-Semitic attack. You don't have to make it about other big things and diminish the gravity of the moment. What are the other bigger things they wanted to make it about? Well, Cuomo and the hapless, disgusting mayor of New York, failed lunatic, communist jerk, Bill de Blasio, had to make this attack because they have to politicize everything about Trump,

of course, despite the fact that Donald Trump, as Mark Levin noted, is probably our first Jewish president. He was joking, of course. But Donald Trump, who moved the embassy to Israel, has vocally spoken out about Judeo-Christian freedom of religion and the practicing of that religion both here and overseas. He's fought against the BDS movement. And I'm going to show you a couple of tweets in a few minutes of the Washington Post getting this all wrong.

But who has been actively fighting anti-Semitism since his first day he swore in an office, Donald Trump. Listen to this lunatic. Failed mayor, failed human being, I might add, Bill de Blasio, on with Ed Henry of Fox, friend of mine. And Ed Henry kind of pins him down where de Blasio unbelievably blames this anti-Semitic attack on President Trump.

Listen to this sicko. An atmosphere of hate has been developing in this country over the last few years. A lot of it is emanating from Washington and it's having an effect on all of us. So you're saying you're blaming the president by saying it's coming from Washington. I'm saying, but we have to be clear, we need a different tone starting in Washington, which we had, by the way, with Democrats and Republicans, both in the White House, that encouraged this country to actually find some unity and some common ground. We haven't had that for the last few years. Ladies and gentlemen, these are the sickest people I've

ever seen. They're so disgusting. This is human filth. I'm sorry. It is. This is human filth. I don't know any other way to say it. You had innocent people attacked with a freaking machete. A machete. Think about what that looked like, what that must have felt like to these people. Put yourself there for a moment, however disturbing it may be.

And this lunatic, jerkwad mayor is blaming President Trump? Folks, the Democrats are sick. This is a sick party. I mean a, I don't, I don't mean, I mean like pathological sick. Do you have any idea the moral vacuum you have to live in, in a moment of tragedy like this, to attack a president who has been vocally speaking out about this worldwide trend of growing

anti-Semitism, do you understand how deranged of a lunatic you have to be? Just to show you how low and disgusting the Democrats will go on this front. I want to, by the way, hat tip, Representative Paul Gosar, who put this out. I got this from his Twitter. I want to show you two tweets from the Washington Post, just 14 days separate. They're 14 days apart. Put up tweet one from the Washington Post to show you how crazy the Democrats have become. Total lunatics.

Here's that tweet number one. This is from December 15, 2019. Washington Post. Quote, perspective. This is a real tweet. Why President Trump's executive order to fight anti-Semitism is dangerous for Jews. That's a real tweet. President Trump had an executive order he put out.

Meant to fight anti-Semitism on college campuses and elsewhere. The Washington Post is attacking him for it. 14 days later, they put up this little gem. Look at these lunatics. Quote, Washington Post, 12-29-2019. Some Democrats urge Trump

to more strongly condemn anti-Semitism in wake of Muncie attack. Jeez Louise. Oh my gosh. This is, ladies and gentlemen, we are living in like bizarro Superman land.

Democrats, I will vote for these people. I'm not kidding. And I don't, I, you know, I always try to stay away from offending rank and file Democrats in the country, but I'm losing that perspective fast because I'm asking you an honest question. How do you vote for these morons?

Listen, I get it. I get nobody gets it better than me. Republicans have generally not been the answer to your problems. They're spending us into an abyss too. I get it. But I am telling you with certainty, I have never been more certain of anything in my life. Republicans may not have all the answers to your problems, but the cause of your problems is certainly Democrats. President Trump put an executive order out to combat anti-Semitism that is growing wide and rampant on college campuses. The Democrats condemn him for it. And then 14 days later, the Washington Post put out a tweet wondering why the president isn't doing more to fight the anti-Semitism he was fighting with the executive order they condemned. While the crazy Democrats would not even condemn, remember that proclamation in Congress,

they voted down the anti-Semitic, they're fighting anti-Semitism. They wouldn't vote for it. Remember that? After the Ilhan Omar Rashida Tlaib incident? Yes, I do. They wouldn't vote for that. Folks, I can't take it. I cannot take the stupid anymore. I'm sorry, but again, rank and file Democrats out there, do you not see this? Do you not see what is going on, that your party is just littered with morons? Morons. Again, on the moron thread here's joe biden and the wall street great piece in the wall street

journals it never ends joe joe biden so remember they just impeached the president the house of representatives led by kooky shift pelosi and that dope jerry nather there's a story in the wall street journal today by the editorial board excuse me b Biden's subpoena standard. Joe Biden says calling him to testify at impeachment trial would be illegal. Wait, wait, time out. T.O., baby, T.O. So let me get this straight. One of the articles of impeachment the lunatic Democrats just voted on, Joe, one of the articles was an obstruction charge they're throwing out there saying that President Trump is

obstructing their impeachment because he's ignoring subpoenas. There's a screenshot from that, right? So you're clear here. The Democrats are trying to impeach Trump because he's claiming executive privilege and ignoring subpoenas. But their lead candidate for president, Joe Biden, basically said, yeah, I'm not going to comply with a subpoena either. It's illegal.

Now, here's him trying to CYA, cover his, he says, Joe Biden, because he got called out for being a hypocrite. He tried to explain away by saying, well, what are you guys going to cover? He's talking to the press here. You guys are going to cover for three weeks anything I said, and Trump's going to get away with it. You guys are buying into it all the time. Not a joke. That's what it's all about. It's all about what he does all the time his entire career take the focus off this guy violated the constitution he said in the driveway of his house he acknowledged he asked for help talk about he's on videotape asking for help not even to ask you demanding that a prosecutor be fired by a foreign country he's the point man in by firing a prosecutor looking into the company his son works for

oh my gosh ladies and gentlemen you ever you ever step on a rake you ever see joe biden has stepped on more rakes remember the tom and j Jerry episode? There's one rake and then they turn around and you step on the other rake and then the other rake. This guy cannot get out of his own way. Democrats, make the case now with a straight face. You can't because I'm serious.

You're really losing your minds if you vote for these morons. With a straight face, please make the case to me that the President of the United States, who legitimately has executive privilege, legitimately. Now you can litigate in court what he has executive privilege over. Fair enough. Fair enough. But no one, even the most ardent leftist,

would claim that the president of the United States does not have executive privilege over anything ever. That's just ridiculous. It's not true. It doesn't, we have three separate branches of government. Obama and every president before, Democrat and Republican, have claimed executive privilege over something. We can litigate in court

what you believe the perimeter of that power is. Fine, I understand that. But suggesting that the president of the United States, President Trump, should be impeached because he invoked executive privilege before getting a court decision on what the limits of that are while simultaneously claiming that joe biden who's doing the same thing ignoring a subpoena says he's going to ignore it who has no privilege at all at this point none None. He is a citizen. He is a citizen. That is it. He is not the

vice president anymore. Please tell me with a straight face. I'll wait. Do we have a Japanese thing? I will wait for you to answer to me how that makes sense in your dopey liberal world. Anything? You want a double Jeopardy? Triple double? I haven't watched it in a long time. A double jeopardy? Triple double? I haven't watched it in a long time. A double triple double? The quintilla?

The trifecta? The trifecta. Anyone? Anybody? Please explain again how that makes sense. Of course you can't. Because you're a liberal. You never make sense. And again, whereas on this show,

we will give you facts. Granted, executive privilege has limits. President can't, you know, rob somebody in the White House and beat him up and then claim I have executive privilege over everything. I can't ever be looked at for. That's not the way any of this works. I acknowledge there are limits to it that should be litigated in a third branch of government, our courts.

There's nothing wrong with that. The Democrats didn't want to litigate it. They decided to jump to an impeachment. But then suggesting ridiculously that when Joe Biden does the same thing, ignore subpoenas, with no executive provisional, that that's A-OK.

Again, you just look like a moron, and I'm sorry to have to break the news to you. Mirror, mirror on the wall, what do I look like today? A moron, sir, I'm sorry. It's like the reverse mirror on the wall. i look like today a moron sir i'm sorry it's like the reverse mirror on the wall probably wondering why you're calling them a fish more i didn't get that more a eel what more a eel yeah i didn't get that either okay more on more a they're mistaken okay i'm gonna get a thousand emails today don't cut that out because i'm gonna get emails and sometimes when i get busted on something i get busted joe

often makes these references i joe is like the dennis miller of producers you ever listen to dennis miller radio show he'd make the dennis miller is one of the smartest guys ever he'd make these references a lot of them flew right over everybody's head me too yeah i missed that one okay we're gonna have to oh oh oh oh we're running towards the end of the show this is important i'm gonna start a candidates to watch in this cycle ladies and gentlemen because it's important 2020 elections are on the corner. Yes. And one of the things that always gets in our way here in these elections, people forget there are down ballot elections. Yes. Re-electing president Trump is important, obviously, but folks, there are down ballot elections, U.S. Senate, Congress, state legislative seats,

city council seats. They're all important. important all of them and there's drop off people vote for the president they walk out no no good down ballot republican like i told you not the answers to all your problems but democrats are definitely there's no reason to vote democrat ever i'm sorry but i do want to kind of start to give some shout outs to what i think i don't formally endorse it doesn't matter anyway. I just think these are generally good people. Some of them I know personally. Some of them I don't necessarily know personally, but I know professionally. So I know what they're about. But the first candidate of the cycle I want you to take a look at is the guy many of you are

familiar with. I'll put up his Twitter feed and listen, full disclosure here. I know the guy very well. He's a good man. Dr. Ronnie Jackson. This is his Twitter feed. I promoted him a little bit on Twitter this weekend at Ronnie Jackson for the number four TX for Texas. Ronnie is running in the 13th congressional district of Texas as a Republican. Many of you are saying, Ronnie Jackson, where do I know him from? Of course he was president Trump's personal physician. He was nominated to be the VA secretary and was maliciously, disgustingly, disturbingly attacked by leftist lunatics, including a senator from a Midwest state who didn't have the guts to do the right thing and attacked just relentlessly. And now Ronnie will likely get the last laugh here by running for

Congress as a Republican and a strong conservative. I know Ronnie personally, again, disclosure there. I worked with him when he was the White House physician for Barack Obama and I was a Secret Service agent. Ronnie is a good man. And I encourage you to give him a look. Can you put that up again? Because he's got his website. His Twitter is again at ronnie jackson number four tx abbreviation for texas and his website is ronnie jackson for texas 13 ronnie jackson for texas 13.com please check him out good man we'll be doing a lot more it's not just this one we got sean parnell and others coming up but check him out ronnie jackson all right folks thanks again for tuning in that was an interesting show today i will wait for your thousands of emails emails about Joe's reference. I don't get them all. I'm sorry. What?

Paula said she didn't get it either, so we missed it. Don't tell me. Don't tell me. I want to get the emails, Joe. Don't tell me what it is. Don't even tell me after the show because I actually enjoy this sometimes. And I'm always honest. When I don't get it, I tell you. All right. Thanks again for tuning in. Please subscribe to our YouTube channel, youtube.com slash Bongino, youtube.com slash Bongino. I really appreciate it. Those subscribers are trying to get the 400,000.

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