The Dan Bongino Show - Following The Money In This Growing Scandal (Ep. 2419)

Episode Date: February 10, 2025

A lot of people got rich on this racket. In this episode, I cover the latest breakthroughs in the USAID story, the escalating meltdown over DOGE and the Department of Education, and Trump's next moves. USAID Is a Rogue Agency Judge orders sweeping restriction on DOGE access to sensitive Treasury payment systems Trump stripping the security clearances of numerous antagonists — including NY AG Letitia James, DA Alvin Bragg 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. These guys are funny and make me laugh. This one's totally on me. We were just going through some mechanics before the show, logistical stuff, and they're like, well, you're muted and you know, you're here, all this other stuff. But by the way, when the music starts playing, you know, your mic is live. I'm like, really? He's like, it's only been like 10 years. Like you didn't know that? I'm like, no, I didn't, you know, you're here, all this other stuff. But by the way, when the music starts playing, you know your mic is live. I'm like, really?

He's like, it's only been like 10 years. Like you didn't know that? I'm like, no, I didn't. I'm glad I don't have anything to worry about where I'd say anything different when the mic is live. You probably heard me in the intro of the show go, oh, it is? That was me.

Yeah, I didn't even know that. But thank you guys for letting me know. I got a monster show for you today. As always, you come back on Monday. There's so much to talk about. Let me just tell you what we will not be talking about today. I got a monster show for you today. As always, you come back on Monday. There's so much to talk about. Let me just tell you what we will not be talking about today. I just want you to know, why would I tell you what we're not talking about? We just don't talk about it.

Because if you're here for Super Bowl coverage or Kendrick Lamar or the halftime show, there's a space and a time for that. That's not what I do. I legit don't care. I give you a weekend update on Monday. Today is short. It has nothing to do with the Super Bowl. So I'm just warning you to be a friendly, not to be a jerk.

I am not covering any of it. I just don't care. The only thing I care about is Auburn basketball and we dropped a big L to the Gators this weekend. It was hard to watch. So I'm not in the mood. Big show today. I will touch on briefly this Josh Shapiro thing.

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Happy to be back with you, by the way. Thank you again, making this number one, 10 working days in a row. The number one live streamer in the United States. We love you guys. Thank you, Bon Gino Army. You guys are the best. This show continues to grow as the Deep State Twitter accounts and other trying to take us down continue to writhe in pain

as we defeat them one by one. This show continues to expand its footprint, and I love you guys for it. You are the most powerful force in the MAGA space. Thank you very much. Okay, quick weekend update. Here it is. I didn't do anything, but I did go to a cool restaurant. There's a restaurant over in Stewart. I love it just opened up. It was amazing. My friend opens it. Opened it. Pes Vela. Really good. I just bring it up because ladies and gentlemen, I'm not a sushi roll kind of guy. I don't like sushi rolls. I just like plain old raw fish. I don't even like the rice on the damn thing.

I just like to wolf it down. I had a even like the rice on the damn thing. I just like to wolf it down. I had a sushi roll for like the first time, kind of like ever. And man, was it good in this place, Pes Vela. So shout out to my friend Lou, who just opened it. If you guys are sushi roll fans, apparently Michael says Evita, the great Evita Dovey is a huge sushi roll fan. I just figured out the glories of these things this weekend. If I have to turn in my man card, it's OK.

About Gino, take a vote in the chat. They were really good. They were really good. It had like some salmon and some avocado and stuff like that. And it was pretty darn good. So I liked it. But getting to the important stuff. I've seen the story about Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and allegations he may have been involved in the Butler assassination plot against President Trump.

If there was ever an opportunity to invoke the Bongino rule, ever, I am begging you to invoke it now. I'm, folks, this appears to me from having been a law enforcement officer myself to be just a standard criminal complaint anyone can make Meaning we don't know if it's true or not. All we're saying is somebody said something I'm just asking you to hold on this. They are some explosive allegations, but without

Hardcore evidence to back it up. Big allegations require big evidence. I'm always under the assumption that you're being played, we're being played, until people prove to me otherwise. That's why I invoked the Bongino rule. They want you to run with some of this stuff, just like these deep state accounts that promote these liberal talking points, because they want to use it later to discredit you. like, look at these suckers, they fell for that.

So nobody knows yet. Everybody hold my sources have no indication yet that that that's just when I get something from sources, I'll let you know. We'll just leave it there. Okay. You get what I'm saying? I've seen it. The Bongino rule always serves you well. Big, big charges and allegations require big evidence. All right, got me? Folks, we have a significant movement today. When I say significant, I mean significant. Look at the feedback from the chat.

92,000 already, yes! Love you guys. We have had movement in the dopey media talking head Olympics. This is a huge day. We haven't made a final decision yet, because I just brought this up to the guys. But you will, you will, you will be amazed at which the speed. You went to chat with karate man. I love you guys. You guys make me laugh. And ladies, I mean guys generically, you know?

You get what I'm saying? I'm not like a liberal. We don't need to make the distinction. Margaret Brennan from CBS is moving at such a rapid pace in the dopey media talking head Olympics. I've never seen this kind of thing in my life. It kind of reminds me of Rocky IV. Like Rocky was retired.

He wasn't even doing anything. Drago kills Apollo Creed and he just goes to Russia and in two weeks he's ready to fight this wrecking ball Drago. This is Margaret Brennan on the mountain. Drago! Remember to see Drago! This is Margaret. Mags is moving at light speed. I have never seen anything like this. Geek you up the clip if you would. Here is Margaret Brennan for like the third weekend in a row, making an utter ass out of herself in front of a national television audience with Senator Bill Haggerty claiming,

we're not funding sex changes and gender identity stuff in Guatemala. She could have just looked it up, but Mags is just too dumb because she's training her. Trigger! Play the cut. I've asked them to be very clear about, for example, their role funding Hamas in Gaza. They would not comply. They will not tell us what they do.

Now that we start to find out some of the programs that AID has been funding, you think the U.S. Government does not fund sex change operations or fund Hamas. You know that though. But you sit on... That is not true, Margaret. I couldn't get the Secretary of State, I asked him three times to tell me that we were not funding Hamas through AID. He couldn't do it. And frankly, what we found is that the U.S. I couldn't get the Secretary of State I asked him three times to tell me that we were not funding a mosque through a ID He couldn't do it and frankly what we found is that we have any evidence that the United States government is terror is funding a terrorist group Certainly the funds that have gone to unra you saw the unremembered an attack on UNRRA is part of the United Nations. Supporting terrorist groups.

And if you look at what UNRRA has done, it's been so counter to our national interest. It's unbelievable that we would fund it. Oh my God. Have you ever seen a journalist so bad at her job than this utter buffoon. Guy and Producer Jim are putting together a whole package for Margaret.

Again, Producer Jim, get the trophy ready, the bronze medal please, have it inscribed. Margaret, we will just provide us a delivery spot. It can be a PO box, but you are now, you have easily displaced Jonathan Karl, that you are so stupid that you just could have looked this up on usaspending.gov. Cooperative agreement, USAID, activity to strengthen trans-led organizations to deliver gender affirming health care and advocate for improved quality and access to services and economic empowerment opportunities.

Oh, look, where's that? Guys, where is that? The country? I can't really read that. My eyes are really bad. This is Guatemala. Oh, Guatemala. He said... It said... Guatemala? Guatemala?

Michael's like, I think it's Guatemala. I'm not sure. I'm terrible with geography. Oh look, these guys... How do you guys got these fancy little features I didn't even know about? That's why I hired these guys. Look at Guatemala! Guatemala. Otherwise there's Guatemala. Shit man, it was like... It's like mags just could have looked it up and Unra you know unra that they've never ever had a problem with terrorists infiltrated in ranks Of course, she could have just looked that up too. But because mags is so freaking stupid. She can barely do her job What are you looking at? Yeah, he's he's wondering he's looking he just comes around

here right he's looking at the prompter and he doesn't know I have really good eyes which is crazy I can't hear for shit my muscles don't work my joints are broken but you want to look too? No, just here just taking a little shot of it for everyone here say hello Justin to the audience everybody knows you're here not your hand you gotta put your face I want to see what you look like have you ever seen Justin? He's like 75 feet tall. Hey, look, he's a producer. Take a picture, put it on the show.

Yes, I have good eyes. That's it, that's all I have. Guatemala mags, it's right there! It's right there! Folks, follow the money. The reason last week shows one freaking bananas is because I wrote a book called follow the mother money, although we didn't have the money I've been covering this forever How your tax dollars have been flushed into deep state world globalist accounts that are using it to

F you over man All that all mags had to do mar Margaret Brennan, is look it up! Follow the money. Democrats are dying on this USAID hill, folks, because it's the deep state's bank account. That's why this isn't hard. Man, if there was ever a time to put one of the many Bonjino rules of the show Tattooed on your cerebral cortex. It is this one always measure the impact of something You're doing by the degree of the enemy the political enemies and believe me. These are enemies of the United States response

the political enemies of the United States are at a level 10 freakout over USAID, which means it's a level 10 effectiveness in shutting the deep state down. None of this is hard. They are freaking out. I wrote it here. They are dying on this hill because their entire financial lives being funded by USAID and taxpayers to censor us and engage in anti-American activities is about to dry up. Let me ask you a question in the chat, Boncino. Boncino on the case here. Folks, do you really believe that the communists and socialists and enemies of liberty and

freedom around the world are in this for the ideology? I'm serious. Take a second and think about that. Do you actually believe people like Bernie Sanders and others would continue doing what they're doing if they weren't getting rich doing it? I'm dead serious. Okay. No, no, no, thank you. Pacino is shutting down.

You guys are shutting the chat down. Folks, there's money in communism. Dan, that's backwards. No, I'm telling you the truth. Communism is very lucrative for the commies because they get to control the means of production. That's the definition of communism man government control of the means of production Factories farm output money. Where do you think the money goes?

People still do stuff in communism have to stay alive But the old joke was they pretend to work, the government pretends to pay you. Follow the money. Trump and Elon are doing, I said this last week, the clip on viral hat tip Mario Nafal and others who put it out there, thank you. Elon Musk's contribution to liberty and freedom. Tesla's great, great company. He's a capitalist.

Fine. SpaceX, this guy's a genius. Starlink, great, all great products. X, can't thank him enough for freeing up X. I'm telling you, what he's doing right now, shutting down the deep state bank account, is gonna be 10X more important than any of that other stuff. It's all great.

It's unbelievable. The guy's a capitalist. The Carnegie of our time or whatever. I'm just telling you what he's doing to shut the deep state bank accounts down now. The piggy bank, the money laundering, the spying, the regime change around the world and here that's happening with your money

is 10x more important. Folks, there is big money in this. Do you understand the budget was in the tens of billions of dollars? For the dumbasses out there on the left going the government spends six trillion, 40 billion, 10 billion, 40 billion. That's not a lot of money. Really? Kamala's entire presidential campaign was $1.5 billion. You're telling me $40 billion a year? You can't change global politics? Give me a break, bro. You guys remember this from Maria Bartiromo's show? Here's a clip, a real journalist, Maria Bartiromo,

unlike this dipshit Margaret Brennan, right? Maria Bartiromo had James Comer on. I want you to listen to the amount of payments Comer found going to the Biden family. And why are we talking about the Biden family? Because it's not about the Biden family. The Biden family is a small piece of corrupt politicians making bank and getting rich off your tax dollars and places like USAID that launder it.

That's why the amounts here are stunning of global payment flows flowing to all of these people. I'm not telling you these payments are from USAID. These are from China and other places. I'm simply telling you that the Biden family, if again, you read chapter one of my book, Insane in Ukraine, in my book, Follow the Money, you will see Ukraine was a significant beneficiary

of some of these payment systems too, and some of the same money was flushed back to the Biden crew. There's big money in this. Watch this. Back in March, Comer sent this letter to Biden. Quote, the committee has accounted for over $24 million that has flowed from foreign sources to you, your family and their business associates. The committee has identified no legitimate services to merit such lucrative payments.

You have repeatedly denied playing any role in your family's business activities, but the committee has amassed evidence, including bank records and witness testimony, that wholly contradicts your position on these matters. The committee has identified and successfully traced money from foreign transactions, including from China, straight to your bank accounts. Certain checks have been described as loan repayments. However, the person who provided you free bookkeeping during your time as vice president did not

remember any evidence of a loan from your accounts. Folks do you see the amount of money flowing around the globe to pay off corrupt politicians, deep state bureaucrats and other general scumbags getting rich off your money. $40 billion is a ton of money, okay? This is huge. Now does the leftist response make sense? This money trail is real.

I'm going to show you something coming up. I'm going to play this clip Hold on a bit for the break. I'm going to show you something though after the break Involving Samantha Power and other deep state swamp rats and you're going to see how all of this is tied together money censorship Spygate collusion hoax regime change here at home. That's what collusion and the Spygate saga were about.

I'll show you, the evidence is right in front of your face. You just gotta look at it. I've been writing about this for years. It's a passion project. First I wanna play this. Here, these two absolute life losers, Kara Swisher, and by the way, Kara, stop asking me, I'm not coming on your show.

You're absolutely crazy, and someone passed information to me about you. That was really disturbing. I am never coming on your show now. Okay, I was gonna, I was considering it. Someone told me something about you, about your character. So that's why it's not about like, but just how awful of a person you are.

And it's someone I really trust who's not really a political, that I am never coming on your show. So stop asking. Here is this lunatic Kara Swisher and this guy Scott Galloway, whatever his name is Because Doge is uncovering massive amounts of corruption You would think these leftists who believe in big government would be interested in Funding actual good projects to make government look good. They don't seem to care at all. They want people arrested. This actually happened. Check this out. I want to know who their names are and I want to see Democratic governors saying

I'm gonna do everything I can in my power to use the full faith and to the letter of the law to put you folks in prison. I think what you're doing is trespassing. I think this is a coup and be clear just because the new insurrectionist who was elected, you know, I don't believe this is legal and I'm going to hold the people accountable who are trespassing and part of a coup accountable. To just sit back and say this is on this is horrible and this is unlawful, we need to go gangster here. Gangster here.

Gangster? Gangsters terrorize and murder people. You understand how on the left, this kind of sociopathic, nutbag response from two lunatics, the other dipshit laughing, this is totally acceptable? Republicans, seriously, MAGA people do not try this at home. I mean it. If you were to go on a show and suggest we go gangster on anyone, you would probably have had a Biden-led FBI team at your door tomorrow or a Secret Service operation because these are left-wing absolute life-loser dipshits. I'm not coming on your shit show stop asking

Don't make me put the emails out there. I Called her a fungus because she won't go away. I Don't go on shows with freaking sociopaths People arrested who are uncovering massive fraud are you crazy? People arrested who are uncovering massive fraud. Are you crazy? Got a little bit more in this coming up. Don't go anywhere. Quick break right back to the show.

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The federal government steals your money in the form of excessive tax payments. They're using these tax payments to fund this organization that has done everything in its power to fund anti-American censorship activities and regime change around the world, and they don't want you to see it. That's why they're freaking out, and these two lunatics want people arrested for figuring out. Here's Politico.

They had to get involved too. Activist judges are making up law now. Judge orders sweeping restrictions on doge access to sensitive treasury payment systems. This isn't even real. This judge, air quotes, just made this up. Did you read the ruling? They don't even really cite any kind of law or anything. He makes up some connection to the administrative procedures that this is just a fairy tale

This is how desperate they are to stop this thing To stop you from seeing the money trail and where your money went by the way Big interview today with the great mike ben's deep state specialist who's going to make an appearance later in this show Who's been uncovering this for a long time on my radio show today. So you can check that out here on Rumble, the last hour is available on Locals if you wanna sub. Okay, or you can just listen on your local radio station.

Folks, your government has been using your money to censor and engage in regime change around the world. It is not a conspiracy theory. It's not a bad Will Smith movie. This is actually happening. I'm going to show it to you right now in just one small case, how this works. I want you to listen to this first. Here is a USAID funded operation. It's called internews. It's Internews, air quotes. It's everything you think it is.

USAID, there's been some funds here that have been cross pollinated with Internews. Here is the head of Internews, Jeanne Bergald, whatever, I'm sorry for saying her name, or it's unintentional, I don't really care. Notice how she talks about disinformation and exclusion lists. Your

taxpayer dollars are funding a lot of this. Disinformation is code word for censorship and conservative ideas. Exclusion list means any conservative website, podcast, or whatever, we're gonna make sure no advertiser puts their stuff on there because we just don't like your politics. Listen to this. Disinformation makes money and it and that's one of them. We need to follow that money and we need to work with the, and particularly the global advertising industry that a lot of those dollars go to pretty bad content.

And so you can work really hard on exclusion lists or inclusion lists to really try to focus ad dollars and challenge the global advertising industry all around the world to focus their ad dollars towards the good news and information the good the accurate and relevant news and information. So if you follow the money multiple chapters worth of it you will see your money has been used to fund these exclusion lists and censorship regimes disguised as disinformation for years if not decades now.

You ever wonder if you have a conservative website how programmatic ad CPMs are really low, yet you go to a liberal website that promotes ridiculous conspiracy theories like the collusion hoax and they seem to be doing fine. Did you ever wonder how that happened? Your tax dollars funded it, bro. That's how it happened. People got rich off this, censoring you. These organizations got millions in your money to censor you

It's hilarious by the way how this lady says we need to follow the money that's exactly what Elon's doing don't follow the money to us I want you to listen to this here. This is really important. This is Samantha power Samantha power is a huge deep state Swamp Rat of the highest order. She is an Obama Clintonista acolyte. She has been knee-deep in Tremendous political scandals and I don't mean that in a qualitatively good way Here is Samantha Power when she was USAID administrator on quote, I want you to listen to this, on influencing quote, strategically important elections. Notice how I laid this out. I played for you the internews lady talking about exclusion lists, who has a tie to this

state of a tie to this money flow. So we're talking about censorship and regime change, which your tax dollars funded. Here's the regime change component. USAID basically admitting it under Samantha Power. Listen to this. Authoritarians have grown increasingly clever in manipulating elections, something that we see them do in their own countries, but often also abroad, as we know too well. In the 2020s, that's where we are right now, most elections are not stolen by flagrantly

stuffing ballot boxes or throwing opponents in jail. They are subtly undermined, discredited, or tilted in an incumbents' favor, often years before election day. Contemporary tactics like cyber hacks, false information on social media, and questionable regulations have undermined elections all over the world. USAID and other development agencies have supported elections for decades, but we have not always kept up with these pernicious methods, it's fair to say. That's why since the summit for democracy, we have gathered the world's leading organizations that support electoral integrity, some of whom are here today, both governmental and non-governmental, to form a coalition for securing election integrity.

A coalition for securing election integrity for strategically important elections. That's code word for how do we steal elections. They did the same thing here. Your money is funding, keep the two points in mind. Light it up in the chat. Your money is funding two things and this is why they're freaking out. Censorship of you, which they need to to do they can't have you speaking out and Regime change because they don't want fair elections because then what do you get you get a Donald Trump?

Where does where am I going with this Samantha Power thing folks Samantha Power is knee-deep in the Obama-Biden Decades plus long corruption scheme, okay? Do you remember this scandal about Samantha Power? Keep in mind, she was knee deep in USAID and all this money and influencing elections, regime change, right? The Hill, look at the date on this. Remember The Hill and John Solomon parted ways because John Solomon was exposing a bunch of stuff and then he left and departed the Hill issued

Some where sorry for his work or whatever kind of crap This is why Solomon and then probably didn't go move forward Unmasker in chief Samantha Power and that's the same woman we just saw. Yes, it is in chief Samantha Power, and that's the same woman we just saw, yes it is, spewed anti-Trump bias in government emails. The date's 2019. Quote, it turns out Samantha Power, the diplomat whose authority inexplicably was used to unmask hundreds of Americans' names in secret intelligence reports during the 2016 election, engaged in similar Trump bashing on her official email. Unmasking.

Do you guys know what unmasking is? Do you remember? Again, I wrote about this in multiple books here. What the government was doing is it was using the foreign intelligence database the FBI and others had access to that was supposedly designed this is why I hate FISA law so much in 702 and can't stand it when it's abused they were using the database to design to spy on foreign terrorists fine okay whatever I want terrorist attack in the United States

they have no constitutional rights to They're foreigners overseas. But if you were talking to an American, they have to unmask your identity. What the hell was Samantha Powers name being used to unmask a bunch of people? You know what reverse targeting is, folks? It's when, say, Michael's talking to someone overseas and you don't really care about the person overseas, you care about Michael. So you pretend you're targeting the person overseas and then you unmask Michael and go, oh look what happened, look what we found out. You understand the Obama team was using unmasking to spy on Americans using this FISA loophole of unmasking to uncover their political enemies

and other people like this. That's what the whole collusion hoax was about. Trump knows about all of this. They're protecting Obama with this USAID money. They are unmasking US citizens using aid money and everything these are the same people these scandals are all related folks all of them a the same players power that was involved in unmasking collusion spy gate all of this stuff are the exact same people involved in the USAID money scandal Trump and Elon uncovered

It's the same group of people This is why liberals chose this hill to die on If they can't do regime chains and censorship, there's not going to be a liberal movement. I Got more coming up including Mike Benz, Senator Joni Ernst found something out, you know, plus one minus, you know how that works. A lot more ahead. Don't go anywhere. Got a big show left. Have you ever seen the news? Have you seen the news lately? Some economists forecasting a depression, not a recession by 2030. We could be in a perfect storm if Social Security entitlements Medicare hit a breaking point with the largest generation hitting retirement.

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We appreciate it. Folks, they are gonna die on this hill because of censorship and regime change. I want you to watch how MSNBC, they're gonna try this, no one believes it anymore. It honestly makes no difference at all, but they're gonna try it. When the left has nothing else, right?

They've tried everything else. People are going to die. You're throwing grandma off a cliff. You're stopping cancer research. All of their tricks, what do they go to? Anybody in the chat know? Where do they go when they've run out of all available political weapons? Anyone get it? I need you guys in the chat because I love you guys. I want to see who gets it first. I need you guys in the chat because I love you guys. I want to see who gets it first Yes, yes Scott the American 1776 yes, sir. He says you call them a racist. That is how you know target. Oh You are over the target. Here is MSNBC. Of course a clown network for goofballs and losers

Here's MSNBC try in a race card hoping that this last minute get the righty out of the bullpen Hope it well the lefty in their case get the lefty Remember who's a lefty John Franco get the lefty out of the bullpen They are hoping and praying to stop the rock from being uncovered USAID stuff check this out We talk about where this war on USAID even came from. It's it's crazy. So they didn't talk about this during the campaign.

You didn't hear a word one about not one as a ID. In read about this just a couple of days ago. In December, Joe Rogan has a guest on who's like a crazy right winger, allegedly crazy, I guess I have

to say in this day and age, who is like a white nationalist, self-proclaimed white nationalist influencer. And he goes on and talks all about how the Foreign Service and USAID in particular, it's a hive of criminality and he's a conspiracy theorist. And who's listening to Rogan in that episode? It's Elon Musk. This is the first time that Elon has heard of USAID. Notice how this all white panel, by the way, um,

it sits there and is talking about, they're talking about Mike Benz will be on my radio show later today. So please don't miss that. They're talking about Mike Benz. So because Mike Benz has been uncovering and doing unbelievable work on the deep state, these assholes on this network are not remotely interested in the information Benz has. Did you notice that? They're interested in ad hominem fake phony racist attacks, which by the way, no one believes.

So as a big double barreled middle finger to the MSNBC assholes who thought it was a good idea, we are going to give Mike Benz another platform today to stick it to you losers just because you tried to shut him up. Okay, what are they trying to shut him up about? Here's Mike Benz on Twitter. I want you to listen to me very closely, he says. When the CEO of USAID's internews, that lady you saw before, pressured advertisers to create exclusion lists to only fund approved news sources. She was carrying out USAID's formal policy goal to have USAID partners do advertiser outreach to quote, redirect funding.

Notice how this asshole on the MSNBC channel, who by the way, may have some serious legal concerns, calling Mike Benz implying the guy's some kind of a racist. I don't know, but I'd encourage him to pursue all legal options. It's the only way you got to create real material losses for these losers or they don't understand. They don't understand. Notice how he doesn't address anything that Benz actually says in his tweet. The internews lady is on video I just played for you talking about in essence censoring conservative political material what's happened because of exclusion lists. There it is right there. You can see it on the screen.

on the screen. Folks how bad was USAID and what they've been up to? It gets even worse. Senator Joni Ernst who thankfully voted for Pete Hegseth and you know we're always plus one minus one. I don't get emotional about this stuff and they shouldn't either. Apparently Senator Joni Ernst has been looking into USAID for a long time. So good, we give you a plus one. Like I said, I don't get emotional about anything. Here's an op-ed she wrote in the Wall Street Journal this weekend,

and you should pay very close attention to it. USAID is a rogue agency. I want you to listen to this part. In case you think Elon's not onto something because you're delusional or on magic mushrooms or whatever, I faced the same stonewalling from USAID, Ernst noticed, when I asked about tax dollars being diverted from project missions to largely unrelated costs. The costs she describes, and they describe as the negotiated indirect cost rate. I want you to remember that term. USAID claimed it wasn't possible

to track this. Ernst says we debunked that, we provided their staff with a link to a public database. The agency fired back, basically threatening Senator Ernst's staff saying divulging this information about negotiated indirect cost rates would violate federal law. What is the negotiated indirect cost rate? You wanna get really pissed off? Sorry, I was like I said, I was like monitoring the chat to see how you guys feel about this. It's the grift rate. Apparently, USAID put up the next screenshot

so I can read ahead a little bit. Apparently, USAID is funding so many regime change, censorship, bullshit operations around the world, LGBTQIA identity politics, anti-American activities, that the people involved, there's a grift factor. She notes audits uncovered that more than a million dollars from the government were paid for a dangerous research, the bulk of the money provided by USAID, not Dr. Fauci. USAID evaded the obligation to report this transaction by using pass-through organizations, including EcoHealth Alliance, now barred from receiving U.S. government grants. Put this all together, what she's telling you.

She's telling you with this negotiated, indirect cost rate that the people who are the middlemen getting the money, they want a cut of this too. So our government pays in like a grift premium where the middleman gets paid off to do things like give money to anti-American causes like the freaking Wuhan lab. She's not implying that that, do grift rate apply to that case, but that that's the carve out the middle man, eco health alliance to get to China. And then other people are getting paid off

to distribute the funds. Folks, that's why you're seeing things like this, this weekend. Did you see the insurrection as the Democrats I'm not going to let you down. I'm not going to let you down. I'm not going to let you down. I'm not going to let you down. I'm not going to let you down. I'm not going to let you down. I'm not going to let you down. I'm not going to let you down. I'm not going to let you down.

I'm not going to let you down. I'm not going to let you down. I'm not going to let you down. I'm not going to let you down. I'm not going to let you down. who are saying now as they try to storm this building, oh, we're here looking out for parents and the kids in school. You had the FBI try to arrest parents for looking out for kids in school. What kind of bullshit story is this? Check this out.

For young women who have been victims of sexual assault in our classrooms, on our school grounds, members of OCR are fighting for your children. We are not allowed in the building to talk to them We are not allowed to advocate on behalf of America's children America. We have a problem People these people are full of shit full of it These are the same liberal commies commies Who wanted you parents arrested for showing up at your kids' school board

to question what was going on at your kids' school. Now all of a sudden we uncover the Deep State piggy bank and the left is freaked out. We're looking out for parents and schools. You're not looking out for squats. Sit down and shut up. By the way, on a lighter note, this guy's a hero. Who is this guy?

Can someone give this guy a medal an award a trophy some do you see this guy at the same building? Stopping these absolute commie lunatics from going to look at this guy Whatever that we love you Go to that desk like we were able to do last year. Look at these losers, a bunch of commies. Look at them. I love this guy. Whoever this guy is who stood at the building door and stopped the commie horde from their insurrection on the building.

We absolutely love this guy. That guy needs to be a meme from this point going forward. It'll be a great one. The most unbothered man in DC. The most, right? Justin Sennett, the most unbothered. You know, you had that guy, the Doseckis guy, the most interesting man in America.

This is the most unbothered guy in DC. He's like, you're not coming in. Why? Because you can't. Look at all the, you got Maxine Waters salivating, spinning all the, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, the guy's like, yeah, we're good. Stop look at all the people. You got Maxine Waters salivating, spinning all the time. Guys, again, we're good. Stop spinning on me, please.

It's kind of gross. Now Maxine Waters all of a sudden, she wants to see someone's ID. You can vote without ID. Maxine Waters loves that. This guy, she's demanding ID. I want to see ID. I want to see ID.

You know what he did? He's a professional. He should have said that be like sure I'll show you ID when you guys prove ID to vote and engage in regime change around the world I'm perfectly good showing. Oh now your fans of ID amazing. That was a good one. I didn't even catch that connection there Folks they are terrified of this. They are terrified of all of this They are pulling out the race car and they are freaking out. I didn't get to it on Friday because I had a lot to talk about and the Bon Gino rule was in effect. But we did not get to celebrate of course. Anyone in the chat know where I'm going with this by the way? Anyway, how good of a feel do you guys

have for me in the show? Like we're all like a big family here. The Bon Gino army, the McGroin crew. You guys I think really have kind of a good taste for what's going on in my cerebral cortex. What did I not talk about? Anybody know? What did I miss? Where am I going with this? I'm reading the chat. Come on someone you guys, you guys, you guys are better at this than I am.

You're actually good at my show. Let's see, you got anyone get it? All right, no one yet. No, not Dick Durbin. Okay, all right. at my show. Let's see, you got anyone get it? All right, no one yet. No, not Dick Durbin, Drake Dan. Okay, all right. Big balls! How do we not talk

about big balls? So, most of you have heard the story by now about big balls. Apparently, one of the Doge engineers, one of these whiz kids, had some tweet in the past. Of course, you know, the Democrats who were the biggest racists ever, they want to discriminate

based on skin color. That's what identity politics is, are horrified. That's some tweet, which was a bad tweet in the past by some guy who went by the thing big balls. So of course, the Democrats virtue signal, oh, my gosh, we can't have all of this stuff. The Democrats were the biggest racist ever, of course, went

after and made big. This is. Wait, you can't have three balls. There's only two. What are you throwing me three for? So in honor of big balls, we not. Paula's going to go.

She actually hates this, by the way, Paul, but it's OK, because this if there was ever a time, I think she understand in honor of big balls, we not Paula is going to go. She actually hates this, by the way, Paul, but it's OK, because if there was ever a time, I think she understand in honor of big balls, we are whipping out. Yes, pun intended. The the watermelon sized balls and the grapefruit sized balls. Although we have. We have two grapefruits, but honestly, I think the watermelon can just pretend there to are bigger. So big balls, of course, too or bigger. So big balls

Of course, they lost their mind over big balls Nobody really gives a shit anymore about this cancel culture stuff kids do stupid stuff all the time It's okay to say that was stupid. I apologize. I do stupid stuff every single day forget about when I was a kid Thankfully the best vice presidential pick we've had in years in decades maybe in the last 50 years. Dan it's only been three weeks I don't care is JD Vance. This guy has big balls too. JD Vance goes after this fake phony fraud Ro Khanna who by the way was like a central figure in deplatforming parlor who pretends he's a free speech guy. Ro Khanna is a phony.

He wants to know from JD Vance, are you gonna tell big balls to apologize for saying normalize Indian hate before this rehire, just asking for the sake of both of us and our kids? Shouldn't say shit like that. Big mistake, kid apologized, you move on. Here's JD. I Love this guy. Did I not? I'm resisting the urge

Here's JD Hey Ro for the sake of both of our kids grow up Racist trolls on the internet while offensive don't threaten my kids You know what does? A culture that denies grace to people who make mistakes. A culture that encourages congressmen to act like whiny children. He goes on, which is even better. JD Vance, I cannot overstate how much I loathe, he says, this emotional blackmail pretending

to be concerned. My kids, God willing, will be risk takers. They won't think constantly about whether a flippant comment or a wrong viewpoint will follow them for the rest of their lives. They will tell stupid jokes. They will develop views they later think are wrong or even gross. I made mistakes as a kid, and thank God I grew up in a culture that encouraged me to grow and lean and learn and feel remorse when I screwed up and offer grace when others did.

Justin just said it. If he would have said that in an address on inauguration day or someone the world would have heard it, it would have been the new Emancipation proclamation from cancel culture. Folks, we need more of this, man. This cancel culture shit is out of hand. And for the left to make a scene about big balls is just the denouement of this story of cancel culture. It's ending right now. Listen to me. I mean it, let me just be,

I know we're screwing around a lot of shit today, but stuff's not funny though. I've done a lot of stupid shit in my life. A lot. Listen to me. I'm serious. I'm not messing with you. I mean like really stupid shit. I'm not even gonna tell you on the show because I don't want to waste your time. Some stuff that you know looking back I can't believe how dumb it was. that you know looking back I can't believe how dumb it was a lot of you have done the same thing you've done really stupid stuff if we are really going to engage in this fake virtue signaling bullshit for the rest of our

lives we're a bunch of five to sixteen year olds have to worry about every utterance they've ever made in an internet that's going to scrape all of it Ladies and gentlemen, you might as well burn society to the ground The only way to stop this is to stop it I have a call to action to all of you because it's it's easy for me to give speeches to but JD means it and so do I I Because it's it's easy for me to give speeches too, but JD means it and so do I I Would never treat my staff this way and I'm asking you small business owners big business owners medium-sized business owners government employers supervisors managers

If you got a good employee, that's a good human being and you find out 10 years ago, they made a mistake. And you firing, get rid of him. I got news for you. You're part of the problem. Bad people, bad people, get rid of him. He said dumb shit and he's still a dumb ass, fire him. That's what meritocracies are about. But if you partake in this, you are the problem too.

Don't do it. Sorry, but this is a very sensitive issue because this cancel culture stuff is exactly what the left wants. They want a society like North Korea where everybody's ratting on each other because the only one that never gets ratted on is the government. That's why they're going after Elon because he put this tweet up this weekend. Some of the stuff jointly agreed to by Dojin. Oh, look at that. Look at the stuff he's been looking weekend. Some of the stuff jointly agreed to by Doge and him. Oh, look at that, look at the stuff he's been looking at.

This is basic stuff. He's like, hey, listen, can we have these payments the government's making? Have some kind of categorization code? They leave it blank. No one knows what the payments are for. Can we include a rationale for payments so we know what the government's paying people for?

He wants to know if we can put a do not pay list. So this is crazy, folks. Elon, he's out of control on this. You believe this? Guys, he doesn't want to pay dead people or terrorists or exis- What the hell? The balls on Elon!

Dude, you didn't even see that comment, did you? I just hit Justin right on the arm, right on the left arm. He doesn't want to pay freaking dead people or terrorists? Elon, shame on you. Game of Thrones style, shame, shame. Folks they don't care, man. They don't care the left. Every government payment matters to them.

To a terrorist, a dead person, why? Because it's matched by their ability to take your money. And I'll cover this tomorrow. Government payments are taxes, either through the form of inflation, that's why they'll never stop them. The government needs to suck money out of the private economy.

If it goes to terrorists or dead people, they don't give a shit. They're trying to create, and I wanna really applaud the president here by the way. President Trump did an interview during the Super Bowl got a great reception during the Super Bowl he snapped to attention looking very presidential. Taylor Swift got booed. That was funny. Sorry I know I said I went over the Super Bowl because I really don't care. But President Trump did an interview with Brett Baer from Fox was pretty good interview. I'm going to air I think the rest of it tonight.

Please listen, the Trump team doesn't need lectures from me. Okay, they don't they won an election. Fine. Please do not take this bait. The media is trying to create a schism right now between Elon and Trump because these two, Donald Trump's in charge, there's no doubt about it, but Elon has been an incredible asset

in uncovering the deep state piggy bank. Here's Donald Trump answering this question, just one of his best answers I've heard. It's just amazing how he senses they're trying. I'm not saying Brett's doing this. He's talking about other coverage, but it's a good question. And watch how Trump just knocks this out of the ballpark.

Check this out. The people, look, I ran on this and the people want me to find it. And I've had a great help with Elon Musk, who's been terrific. Bottom line, you say you trust him. Trust Elon? Oh, he's not gaining anything. In fact, you say you trust him. Trust Elon? Oh, he's not gaining anything.

In fact, I wonder how he can devote the time to it. He's so into it. But I told him do that. Then I'm gonna tell him very soon, like maybe in 24 hours, to go check the Department of Education. He's gonna find the same thing. Then I'm gonna go to the military.

Let's check the military. We're gonna find billions, hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and abuse. And you know, the people elected me on that. Folks listen, man, I love Donald Trump's first term. That's why I was jumped out to endorse him the minute he ran this time. There's no mystery there. I'm a MAGA guy. Again, we don't agree on every single thing, but most of the agenda,

I'm going to tell you as objectively as possible, which is hard. I understand that. This second term, he 100% gets it. He knows exactly what they're doing here. They figure if they can run a commercial, this is, you guys know what they're doing, they're going to try to run commercials in the Palm Beach DC market so Donald Trump sees him because they know he watches Fox saying Donald Trump, how do you feel about Elon taking your job? It's all bullshit. He's not falling for it. You're wasting your money. Elon is going to go from one agency to another, Treasury, the Pentagon, labor, education and they're going to go from one agency to another, Treasury, the Pentagon, labor, education, and they're going to go through each and every payment.

It doesn't matter. You can go to the courts. You're going to lose in the long run. You are going to lose. This is going to get cleaned up. And the FOing, the finding out has not stopped. I don't know if you caught this this weekend in the flurry of good news. Donald Trump pulled a bunch of security clearances on true social from Joe Biden and others. If Joe Biden has a poor memory and we know

was involved in international corrupt activities, we know why would we let this guy access sensitive information? And this is beautiful too. Pulled the security clearances of Twinkies up in New York, Alvin Bragg and Tish James. Ladies and gentlemen, it's not a small thing. These two corruptocrats, these two life-loser zeros, can now not access federal buildings. They don't belong in there. They don't belong in there.

They don't belong in there. You wanna go into the FBI headquarters? Sorry, can't do it in New York. You don't belong in there. I told you this was gonna be the FA, FO presidency. The FAing already happened. The FOing's happening now. I had a whole bunch more on this too I wanted to get to. There's a lot of FOing.

I'm gonna have to get to it and to tomorrow's show. Folks, big announcement today. One more final thing that's important. All you Bongino Army folks out there, I wanna thank President Trump for one more really important thing today. They are now starting as of today. You may have seen it.

You're going to find out the details over today. Rumble, the White House is starting an official Rumble account, the Trump White House. Thank you. I really appreciate that. I know Chris, the CEO of Rumble and all the shareholders and all the Rumble folks out there and the freedom of speech advocates, deeply appreciate it too. Thank you, the White House, for standing up for free speech and opening a Rumble folks out there and the freedom of speech advocates, deeply appreciate it too. Thank you to White House for standing up for free speech and opening a Rumble account and talking

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