The Dan Bongino Show - I Have A Big Announcement (Ep 1480)

Episode Date: March 18, 2021

I have a big announcement and I’m incredibly excited to share it with my audience first. In this episode, I also discuss the latest conspiracy theory being pumped by the left in order to assist them in unraveling the country, and the latest strong move by this growing force in the GOP.  News Picks: Ron DeSantis strikes again! Second Amendment Rights are under attack in Florida.  Democrats, without evidence, rush to blame the attacks in Atlanta on “white supremacy.”  How “woke” white liberals are turning Minorities into conservatives. No, the latest DNI report doesn’t say that the Hunter laptop story is Russian disinformation. Yes, the Biden tax hike will hit people making under 400k.  Copyright Bongino Inc 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 yeah big announcement today big huge enormous tremendous announcement is that enough adjectives there for the announcement on the announcement side of the space but it is it's a big announcement it's a really tremendous honor um Some of you probably know. Get to that in a second. Big, packed, loaded show today. Like a seven-layer sandwich you got to crunch to get in your mouth. I got that. Ron DeSantis strikes again. Strikes again. The fantastic governor of Florida. Got that story. And kind of a quiet attack on the Second Amendment in Florida. And the media never, ever letting a crisis go to waste. Today's show brought to you by ExpressVPN.

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Although I probably just gave away what the big announcement is. I will be taking over the 12 noon Eastern time to 3 PM Eastern time, time block on many of your radio stations around the country. But out of respect for a legend, the Godfather, Rush, not just, again, not the best player in the talk radio game for 30 years, not simply that. This is a man who invented the national conservative talk radio game for 30 years. Not simply that. This is a man who invented the national conservative talk radio game. Do you understand that?

He wasn't just the Willie Mays or the Ty Cobb of his era. He invented the baseball game, as I've said many times. No one replaces that. No one replaces an icon like that. I will be taking over in that spot for, again, many of the stations across the country. It is an enormous, I don't even know if enormous is enormous enough of a word to describe to you

what kind of an honor it is. Folks, I grew up on talk radio. I'm a conservative-leaning libertarian, libertarian-leaning conservative, however you want to phrase that, today because my thoughts and my ideas were largely formed by people like Rush, Sean on the radio, and the great one, Mark Levin, who's called the great one for a reason, who I'll note was offered the spot repeatedly again, because he's the great one. I just hope to be the good one one day. But I, you know, I am where I am because of them. Now, a couple notes on this. Again, folks, this is the honor of a lifetime. I grew up on talk radio. I'm not, it would be like growing up again watching Mickey Mantle

in center field and then one day they hand you a glove and they're like put me in coach remember that song Joe remember that one yeah and it who sang that was that John Fogerty because I always screw that stuff up John Fogerty okay totally guessing that I can't believe that's even right I'm probably wrong Joe's probably just being nice to me. But then they give Joe a baseball mitt and they're like, hey man, the Mick is out today. You want to play center? And you're like, sure, whatevs man, put me in. It's really, I hope I get the honor of a lifetime.

And there is just to be crystal clear again, there's no replacing Rush. I just hope to honor his legacy and produce a quality product. Sorry, man, I may think it's a little emotional because I can't believe this is even happening. You know, a quality product that you'll all enjoy. And I hope to build the same audience loyalty

we built here on the podcast on Terrestrial Radio. So a couple of questions I've received already from listeners who read about it yesterday. What's going to happen to the podcast? And the answer is absolutely nothing. The podcast is staying the same. Nothing changes where you get it doesn't change. When I say nothing changes, I mean nothing changes. The podcast you have now is going to be the exact same podcast when the show launches.

Okay. So I, I appreciate your loyalty again. It was this subject. Of course, it's always addressed. Are we going to continue to do the podcast or not? I'm not going anywhere on my podcast. You'll have this. And then you'll have me for three hours live every day on your local station.

But this is not changing. Joe and I will just be working a lot more, which is okay with me. I'm a capitalist. Joe, we're going to have to get him on like a fitness regimen to get ready for this, like a brain fitness regimen to keep him. I'm messing with you. Of course, I love Joe. I'm just kidding.

I just, we are, we have, Joey, I'm saying that because Joe and I have talked about this. It's going to be a long day. When does it start? Question number two, May 24th of this year, obviously May 24th. And then the third question,

where do I listen? The great Paula Bongino, my business manager, also my wife, you know, business manager with benefits. Is there a movie? I was friends with benefits, right? But you get it. Yeah. Love my wife you know business manager with benefits is there a movie i was friends with benefits right but you get it yeah love my wife she will put a station finder on bongino.com my website um as as we get closer to the date we will be on in most of your big city

areas and hopefully most of the stations and if not call your local station if you so desire and ask them. All right. That's my announcement. Floored. Shocked. Well. Honored. Nothing wrong with being the good one either, man. You know, the good one's cool. The good ones, they'll never be another great one.

But the good one, yeah. You're good with that. And I did get one more question from quite a few friends. I know Joe heard this too. A lot of friends of ours in the business have said, gosh, you don't want to be, what was it? Sammy Hagar. Sammy Hagar replaced David Lee Roth. Oh, yeah. Folks, that's a chance you take. Chance you take is that you believe in what you're doing. You believe the truth carries the day. You

believe the way you deliver it matters. You believe in a loyal audience doing. You believe the truth carries the day. You believe the way you deliver it matters. You believe in a loyal audience that's going to follow you. And I'm a risk taker. Always have been. There is a huge risk in following an iconic godfather talent like Rush Limbaugh. But I just hope to honor his legacy. I'm leaving it at that. I'm a risk taker.

Always have been. All right. Get into the news because there is a lot going on. Never, ever let a crisis go to waste. The Democrats, you know, the thread on the sweater where you unravel the whole spread. That's a Democrat. They're like this.

They're not even pulling the thread. They're like this at this point, you know, like a tug of war. They do that on Fox every, the Marines versus like the Navy and the tug of war. They're just unraveling this sweater completely. The Democrats.

I'm not kidding because they can't just have the country melting down. It has to melt down for them at rapid speed. It's like the rate of change of the meltdown. They have to speed that up a little bit. So they never, ever let a crisis go to waste. So what's the latest crisis the Democrats have had to take advantage of? Well, they have to create a race crisis out of everything. Fox News story I'll have up in my newsletter, Bongino.com slash newsletter. Please subscribe to that. It's free. Fox News. Democrats rushed to blame, quote, white supremacy for the Atlanta shootings. But police point to sex addiction.

shootings, but police point to sex addiction. Robert Aaron Long, the 21-year-old suspect, was reportedly motivated by a sex addiction. Now, I appeared on Sean Hannity's show last night and I discussed this. I want to tell you, because it's important, why they're doing this. The why matters. Why do the Democrats, there's no evidence right now whatsoever that this uh this suspect's activities were in any way related to white supremacy at all no no none if there's no evidence there may be there isn't now okay so why would democrats rush in front of the cameras to claim that guy who did that really awful thing over there that guy is definitely motivated by white supremacy. Because as I, again, as I said last night,

and I'll tell you again, because it matters, the why always matters. We haven't said that in a while, Joe. The why matters. Liberal radical Democrats, in their efforts to destroy freedom and the constitutional republic, the Marxists, their initial way of doing it decades ago,

when the Soviet Union was still in existence, or their initial way to try to do it was to create class warfare. Yes. They still do it now. But it was to say those evil rich people, they're eating you guys alive in the proletariat. You working class losers. You're getting destroyed by these greedy, greedy, wealthy folks. They are the worst. by these greedy, greedy, wealthy folks.

They are the worst. It was their way to create societal strife, take down freedom and liberty in the society we knew, have this revolution, this communist Marxist revolution, where of course they'd be in charge. Well, what happened? Well, the long and short of it is that never really worked here. Don't get me wrong.

The Democrats still try it. Class warfare is one of their staple items, right? One of the pillars of their war on America house, right? But ask yourself why. The why always matters. Why did the class warfare struggle not really have the success they thought it would after decades of trying. Because folks, it's hard to make that argument in the United States because there are examples everywhere, your kids, your friends, your neighbors, your friends, friends of people who just worked really hard and are living a decent life. So when liberals over decades and decades and decades who were Marxists tried to tell

you, oh, these evil rich people are destroying your life, they're taking everything from you. But you're looking around and you see tons of examples of your kids, your neighbors, whatever, your friends getting ahead just by doing this simple formula. Go to school, educate yourself, do well in school, work pretty hard and live a decent life. Do you understand how that argument kind of collapsed? Why does that matter now? Because the why always matters. You're never going to be able to beat the Democrats strategically if you don't understand why they do it. That that didn't work made them switch strategies. Okay, guys, I'm not suggesting there was like an anti-justice league cabal of people who do it. They just know this is their ideology. It's what motivates them. They probably

sat around at their collective tables and said, hey, this class warfare struggle thing isn't working. Let's try something else. I've got an idea. Let's try this race struggle thing and let's make everything about white versus black, black versus Asian, Asian versus Hispanic. That's the way to do it. And let me tell you something, pulling on that thread. So here was the class warfare struggle. They're pulling, they're pulling, the thread's fighting back a little bit, the sweater's still together. So they're like, all right, this is too tough.

How do we dismantle this sweater faster? Race, let's sick everybody against each other. There you go. The sweater's falling apart. It's happening right now. That is absolutely why the Democrats will always jump to a conclusion about something being white supremacy

or racially motivated, despite having no evidence at all. And despite the fact that it may stoke racial flames in the country, and you would think that would be a bad thing. Here's a screenshot from the Fox News piece of prominent Democrats with real profiles, again, trying to pin this really sick, grotesque attack on white supremacy, despite

having no evidence that's actually true. Here's the dreadful Debbie Wasserman Schultz. I'm embarrassed to say she's from Florida. She says, last night's gruesome shootings were the latest in a series of horrifying and escalating attacks on the AAPI community. We must continue to stand against white supremacy and work to stop Asian hate. Our words and actions matter and xenophobia cannot be ignored any longer. White supremacy, she knows something. We haven't heard that yet. The police have. Here's Cori Bush, newly elected congresswoman. She says at the end, we mourn those killed last night in Atlanta with you.

We will dismantle white supremacy alongside you. Fascinating. Again, she must have access to some investigative detective work we don't have. Jamal Brown, newly elected congressman from New York. Too many police in our country are more concerned with protecting white supremacy than serving the communities that pay their salaries uh there's a bit of a problem here the problem is no one who has any access to the investigation of this tragic shooting has said it was motivated by white supremacy at all. Like nobody, actual investigators who were there. That's kind of

a problem for your white supremacy motive when nobody's actually said that. Matter of fact, I'll continue with the Fox News piece. Here's a quote. Robert Aaron Long, the 21 year old who authorities said took responsibility for the string of shootings Tuesday that left eight people dead, said took responsibility for the string of shootings Tuesday that left eight people dead, reportedly confessed that he has a, quote, sex addiction and that he viewed the massage parlors that they were attacked as an outlet for him where he could be tempted. Quote, this is from the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office, Captain Jay Baker, quote, he apparently has an issue when he considers a sex addiction and sees these locations as a temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate. Um,

where are the fact checkers on this? Just checking. Can we have a moment of national unity once? I know that's a lot to ask, but a moment of national unity once we're like, gosh, this sounds really horrific. What happened? Maybe we should all unite, get to, gosh, this sounds really horrific what happened.

Maybe we should all unite, get to the bottom of this, figure out what happened again to try to prevent these things from happening again. Democrats are like, let's not do any of that. Let's jump to racial hatred immediately. Stoke the flames of the fire despite having any evidence whatsoever. Again, I see nothing from the fact checkers. You know the fact checkers that stalk my site like lunatics all day on fake book to fact check everything out of my mouth? Where are the fact checkers on this one?

Just asking. The answer is nowhere to be found. Also, where are the journalists who... Joe, you remember every time Trump opened his mouth, journalists would cite that without evidence. Remember this? Trump says without evidence.

Yeah. Every time. It didn't matter what Trump said. If Donald Trump said his name was Donald Trump, they'd say Donald Trump without evidence claims his name is Donald Trump. Yeah. Where's the where is the without evidence here? Where is the without evidence here? Where is the Cori Bush, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Jamal Brown, without evidence, imply shooter was motivated by, quote, white supremacy?

Where is that? Guy was kind enough to pull this off the Internet. This was a search engine where I just put literally Trump without evidence. Here's just a couple of them. Trump repeats voting fraud claims without evidence. Here's just a couple of them. Trump repeats voting fraud claims without evidence. Trump without evidence says if you count legal votes. Here's another one. Trump claims without evidence that millions voted illegally for Clinton.

Where is that now? Where is it? Where is that now? Where is that now? The answer is it's nowhere. Because the Democrats, again, thread, sweater, speed it up. No, no, no sweater left. It's not just the media.

It's also commentators. Again, folks, points stipulated because we're saying that this is a an unimaginable tragedy people died they were murdered people were killed can we just unite around like what happened to maybe again prevent something like this in the future can we just do that for a minute without taking the story somewhere it doesn't need to be? And by the way, if it does go there, they do some homework on this guy. The Cherokee County Sheriff's Office outside of Atlanta, Georgia comes to the conclusion he was motivated by white supremacy. We will hit it on this show stat because facts matter. will hit it on this show stat because facts matter but that's we don't have any of that now here's a quick video of a cnn appearance this is lisa ling and again this is a tragedy i she has every right to be upset about it of course everyone should be but again notice the implication here

that this is motivated by some widespread anti-Asian bias and the implication again about Trump and others. Can how many people have to die for this to really be taken seriously, for there to be more than lip service? I mean, there is real fear among Asian people about going outside of their own homes right now. Asian people are being scapegoated like they have for a century in this country. And this has to stop. This has to stop. We cannot be continued to be scapegoated. And this is, frankly, a pattern of scapegoating that happens in this country. Yesterday, it was Muslim and Southeast Asian people after 9-11. When there's an economic downturn, it's the Latin population. It's always the Black community being scapegoated for so many things. During the Cold War, it was gay people. This scapegoating of entire populations has to stop in this country.

I don't even know what to say about that. Scapegoating blacks, Muslims, gay people. We don't have any evidence that's actually what happened. We have evidence of an, again, unimaginable tragedy. Families lost, loved ones are gone forever. Not another breath of oxygen. But what does that have to do with this? Why are we always doing this? Why are we always eager to, again, partition the country up into our racial corners and

pit everyone against one another when you have no evidence that was a motivation behind this crime? Here's another one. was a motivation behind this crime here's another one here's jen saki at the white house press briefing yesterday again implying that donald trump citing that the coronavirus which came from china that's just a fact wuhan china implying here that this is what was behind this whole thing. Because again, they can't just stick to facts and say, let's get together with our Republican brothers and sisters

and find out what happened in this case. And let's clean this mess up and make sure it doesn't happen again. No, there's none of that. Instantly make it a political argument. Why? Circling back, circling back to the beginning because their class warfare arguments just don't work that well in the united states

so they figure the quickest way to unravel the sweater is through race warfare arguments here's jen saki implying that this was trump who did this? Check this out. You know, I think there's no question that some of the damaging rhetoric that we saw during the prior administration blaming, you know, calling covid, you know, the Wuhan virus or other things led to, you know, perceptions of the Asian-American community that are inaccurate, unfair, have raised, you know, threatening, has elevated threats against Asian Americans. And we're seeing that around the country. That's why even before the events of horrific events of last night, he felt it was important to raise this issue, elevate it during his first primetime address, important to raise this issue, elevate it during his first primetime address, why he signed the executive order earlier in his presidency. And he will continue to look for ways to elevate and talk

about this issue. What does the coronavirus from Wuhan, China have to do with any of this? With any of this? The answer is nothing. She just made that up. She just made that up. Randomly made it up. You know, it's interesting how we have the South African variant of coronavirus that's called the South African variant. And yet when something happens in the United States

to someone from South Africa, nobody goes, oh my gosh, President Trump called it the South African variant. Like, Dan, that's dumb. It's no dumber than what she just said. You have no evidence whatsoever that these two things are related. The pandemic and this this crime, this series of crimes. None. She just made it up.

Divide people in the corner. Get them to fight one another. It's all Democrats have. All right, let me get to my second sponsorSantis to the rescue story. Again, or Ron Desnatus as they, it's out of respect. Someone mistyped his name one day and Guy and I get a kick out of it every morning. Matter of fact, Guy and I say it so much, I'm afraid if Ron DeSantis ever comes on the show, I'm mistakenly going to call him Ron Desnatus.

I would not do that. You know, we did try to get him on the show. Ron, if you're listening, I texted him. I don't know if he changed his phone number or he's just ignoring me like everyone else does, but we didn't hear anything back. I want you on the show. You're the man.

We are the man right now. All right, today's show. You like that pitch? Poor G's trying to get him on the blower too. We need him on. I'd like to start reinstituting the interview segment of the show. And who better to start than Ronuting the interview segment of the show.

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Go to preparewithdan.com today. Don't wait. Super important. All right. So again, where are they learning all this crap? Racial strife, teaching racial strife, teaching people to hate each other because of their skin color, teaching other people that their skin's color is this positive and their outcomes in life. Well, they're learning this in school. Please listen to yesterday's show where we discussed the story out of Loudoun County,

Virginia, which was deeply disturbing. He didn't like the story so much during the show, but I did. Parents are revolting in Virginia. I discussed it yesterday because their kids are being pumped full of this thing called critical race theory. Let me sum up critical race theory for you, what it is and how dangerous it is. First, I'll give you the fancy pants, bow tie wearing, you know, love a high, highy, high class, elitist definition, what they want you to think it means. Critical race theory is this radical leftist idea that knowledge is a construct of power. patriarchy and the institutions they create, create knowledge, do their power, and therefore everything should be questioned, including even math, like two plus two equals four.

I'm not kidding. That's not a joke. Put in critical race theory, math, critical race theory, two plus two equals four, if you think I'm kidding. The easier way to say that is that don't trust old white guys is that it joe is that kind of summing up critical race theory pretty much rather than the whole thank you i'm just we're trying to like make this simple um for the liberals who listen who don't even understand critical race theory themselves and the gist of it is don't trust people because of the color of

their skin which i thought was racist I'm pretty sure it still is. But liberals seem to have changed that whole thing as they divide people up. Parents are fighting back, including, as I discussed yesterday, in Virginia. But so were some governors. Ron DeSantis to the rescue again. Here he is. Love this guy. Just a news story.

It'll be in my newsletter again for you to read read the whole thing by alex knitsberg florida governor ron desantis says state civics curriculum will not include critical race theory yes yes let me be clear he said there's no room in our classrooms for things like critical race theory teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other is not worth one red cent of taxpayer money. DeSantis said, I love this guy. I love this guy.

Can we get a little run to Santa's doll? Can someone send me a geez clapping? Joe's clapping. We're all good. Can someone out there send a little run to Santa's? We got all our, we got our, again,

my man cat turd. We got my cat turd bug here. We got all kinds of stuff. People send, I my man, Cat Turd. We got my Cat Turd mug here. We got all kinds of stuff people send. I got a Vincero watch. I got everything. Fox sent me a mug. Look at that. I got that one too.

Can we get a Ron DeSantis? Maybe a Ron DeSantis mug. I'm kidding. Don't send, because now I'll get, you know how people send stuff, right? We'll get, yes. We will get a hundred Ron DeSantis mugs. I love Ron. We need people with cojones. He is in a basically 50-50

leaning red state and he's incredibly popular because he takes common sense stands. We're not going to shut down our economy before a pandemic because people will starve. And I'm not going to teach my kids or allow other people's kids to be taught with taxpayer money, critical race theory that teaches them to hate themselves because of the color of their skin. Good job, buddy. Where are the other Ron DeSantis? What's the plural of Ron DeSantis? Ron DeSanti? Where are the other Ron DeSanti around the country?

What's Larry Hogan doing in Maryland? Probably nothing. He's a big rhino. What are these other Republican governors around the country. What's Larry Hogan doing in Maryland? Probably nothing. He's a big rhino. What are these other Republican governors around the country doing? I know Joe stuck with him up in Maryland. Sorry about that. Thankfully, it's his last term.

What are they doing? Why aren't they going after this stuff? I thought you were Republicans. Why is it only DeSantis out there? I take that back. It's not only DeSantis. Big, huge error. Kristi Noem's doing a great job. I've seen some movement from Abbott, although there are others. I want to be very precise

with my words. Christy Noem's been doing great too. But right now, DeSantis is my guy. Ron, again, you got to come on the show. You got to come on. Text me. You got my number. Come on. You do. I know he knows my number somewhere. Maybe when you, I don't know how it works. When you become governor, they throw your old cell phone. I don't know how that works. Maybe he's just, or if he didn't, if that's not his number, Joe, some rando got a text from me the other day asking to appear on the Dan Bongino show.

It's a real clear pitch, dude. You know, there you go. Can you imagine that? Yeah, I know. I know. I can't get any clearer than that. I want the guy on my show. He's great. All right, and the audience feedback,

I think would be spectacular. It'd be a great way to reintroduce the interview segment. All right, moving on. Next block of the show here. The Bongino rule applies again. What is the Bongino rule? For my new listeners, we're going to have to describe this vocabulary

to my new terrestrial radio audience who is not familiar with the podcast. So it'll be a little bit of a break-in period. The Bongino rule is this. Always wait 72 hours before an anti-Trump story is published because you're almost guaranteed that that story is, in fact, fake news. And if you don't want to humiliate yourself and publish it right away because you will be forced to retract it, just wait to prescribe Dan Bongino's 72-hour window, and at the end, if the story still has some meat and bones to it, you may be safe.

Maybe. Even that's a stretch. But I'm giving you the minimum, 72 hours. So what did we get? What am I talking about now? Well, I told you a while ago that I had heard from a source, serious source. This is someone with a well-respected media CV, bona fides, unchallengeable and unimpeachable,

that I had heard from someone. I don't have the details. I'm sorry, by the way. I'm not holding out on you. Again, I'm just telling you what they told me and gave me permission to share. Are we clear? I don't have it. I'm not hiding anything. This person told me that the Hunter Biden laptop and what was on it, of course, son of President Biden now, that what was on it was really, really gross. And I mean beyond the implication there, so I have to be careful what I say for legal reasons,

because I haven't seen it, but the implication there was by gross. They meant like the stuff we've already seen, the photos of the drug use and the, you know, the material downstairs, his material, you know what I'm saying?

That that's nothing compared to what's on this laptop. The implication again, being that it's really deeply disturbing that when you see it, you can't unsee it. I'm being very serious. I have to be careful on how much I say, because I don't want to jump ahead of the story and be dramatic. When that's going to come out, I don't know. I don't have it. If I had the photos, I would obviously release them. I don't have them. I'm just telling you what I know because people, but damn, when are you going to break that story when I get it? Why do I bring that up now? Well, I'm not just teasing it to tease it.

I'm bringing it up now because it's really weird how the DNI director of national intelligence under the Biden administration now has just released this report. And yesterday they were all over the fact that, Hey, the Hunter Biden laptop story, Joe, maybe Russian disinformation.

I'll show you that in a second. All right. Why would they do that? Think this through. Everybody think he, Joe, maybe Russian disinformation. I'll show you that in a second. All right. Why would they do that? Think this through. Everybody think. Joe, come on. Let's get our collective thinking caps on. Put them on, as my fifth grade teacher used to say, Miss Gilfeather.

Hey, put your thinking caps on, kids. Why would this DNI under Joe Biden release this thing now? Maybe because they know what's on that Hunter Biden laptop, and they're trying to get out ahead of the story. Story. Try to get out ahead of the story. Story. Try to get ahead of it. And they're going to say now anyone pushing this stuff out there is doing Russia's bidding. You are definitely an agent of Vladimir Putin. If you push it.

Well, what's the problem with that? As you'll see from this story by Beckett Adams in the Washington Examiner. No. beckett adams in the washington examiner no a newly declassified dni report doesn't prove the hunter biden laptop laptop story was russian disinformation i'm trying to give you the bottom line up front because i'm going to show you in a few examples evidence how when the report came out yesterday yes the media was all over if you push this hunter Biden laptop story, it is Russian disinfo. No, it wasn't. There's no evidence of that at all. I have this segment entitled, why do I always underline? It's me. I'm underlining it for me. Let me do it just because it's like habit at this point.

That's why I titled this segment in my head, how disinformation campaigns start. segment in my head how disinformation campaigns start. This is how the left, because fact checkers don't fact check the left and media people don't say things like without evidence, this is how the left promotes disinformation by claiming what conservatives are doing are disinformation. Does that make sense? The left is going to promote a story if you show the hunter biden pictures when they come out that you are doing russia's bidding they're going to claim you're promoting russian disinformation right that story is actually disinformation right i'm very sorry to be confusing i know you get it but that's actual disinformation the left always accuses you of what they're doing themselves here was a story from yesterday about this same topic by Dan Shaitlan, the Washington Examiner.

Headline. This is from the DNI report. Russia, quote, heavily amplified Hunter Biden stories during the 2020 election. U.S. intelligence report. You read the headline. You're like, oh, my gosh. We talk about Hunter Biden. That's Russian disinformation.

Yeah, but you dig into the story and Chaitlin clears it up. He says, quote, controversies surrounding the son of President Biden became fodder for Republicans and conservative media in the run-up to the November contest. A report released on Tuesday by the National Intelligence Council does not say any report about Hunter Biden was fabricated by the Kremlin. Did he just say does not say?

Yeah, he just said that. But rather, they were spread with the help of a Russian government effort aimed at denigrating Hunter Biden and the Democratic Party in favor of Donald Trump. So it doesn't say anything about the laptop. That's really weird. That's really weird. So there's two takeaways from this I need you to grasp and run with. Number one,

they are trying to get out ahead of this. This Hunter Biden laptop, which I've heard again from a source, is devastating. They're trying to get out ahead of it. So when you put it out there, they will say, you're promoting Russian disinformation,

Russian stooge. Secondly, they're trying to tie this DNI report without evidence, literally without evidence. They're trying to tie it to the Hunter Biden laptop, despite the fact the laptop is never mentioned. Here's the actual DNI report from the National Intelligence Council. Russian state media, trolls, and online proxies, including those directed by Russian intelligence, published disparaging content about President Biden, his family and the Democrat Party and heavily amplified related content circulating in U.S. media, including stories centered on his son. You see laptop, the Hunter Biden laptop anywhere in there?

No, of course you don't. They're just making that story up. That's not in the DNI report, folks. It's not there. They just made it up. And the reason they're putting this story out there is to get ahead of what's coming, and it's going to be bad. By the way, before I get to the tweets that tried to pump this whole talk about the laptop and you're a Russian stooge narrative, it's convenient how this didn't get much attention, Joe. I actually wrote this one down. Here's a piece of the DNI report. Cyber assesses that China did take some steps to try to undermine President Trump's reelection effort. Huh?

Didn't hear anything about that. No, no, no. Of course you didn't. Because that would reflect poorly on Joe Biden. So it's kind of weird how that's in the report, too. And that's not getting a lot of media coverage, how China apparently tried to help Joe Biden and undermine President Trump.

Yeah, that's in the report too, but you're not going to really see that anywhere. What you are going to see is things like this, the pumping of disinformation. Here's the strategy, how leftist disinformation campaigns work. First, they accuse you of disinformation. They pump the disinformation

and then they correct it later when no one's paying attention. Don't believe me? Here's a tweet. I believe this tweet has now been deleted by a Patrick Tucker. He is at Deftechpad. That's an interesting handle for Twitter. He says, citing this report, in case you're still wondering if the Hunter Biden laptop story came from the Kremlin, the DNI's newly unclassified report says yes. No, it doesn't say that literally anywhere. And what's hilarious is he takes a screenshot of it and it still doesn't say that he's just making this up. This guy. And it doesn't matter because liberals, you know, sometimes aren't that bright, which is by sometimes, I mean, a lot of times, almost all the time.

And they spread that around and retweeted on Twitter. No one fact checks it. Twitter doesn't delete it. The media doesn't say without evidence. And then a couple of days later, they delete the tweet and go, my bad. Sorry. Here was Chris Hayes, who again spread this around too from MSDNC. You know, Chris Hayes, the host at night, Chris Hayes, he had to delete his tweet too. It doesn't matter. It already made its way around. He said, deleted the above tweet because the DNI report doesn't mention the laptop. Oh, thanks, Chris. Thanks. Maybe read the report before you tweet it out. Just throwing that out there. For all you media folks on the left,

maybe you should read the report and then comment. The verdict is in. That's correct. Read report first. Comment on report later. Not comment on report. Read report afterwards. But again, this is how disinformation works.

Leftist disinformation. Accuse Republicans of disinformation. Put out a fake news story. Pump it into the wazoos of all of America. When the wazoos are full, delete the tweet a few days later and pretend nothing happened. Don't worry. No fact checker will ban you.

Twitter won't ban you. Nobody. They'll leave you alone. You want another example of this? Here's the dreadful Aaron Ruppar at Vox. Vox with a V, not Fox. I always have to say that because people get confused.

Look at his headline. Again, on the pumping disinformation and then wait a few days. And here's, this is a real headline at Vox. Republicans revive one of Trump's most notorious immigration lies.

This isn't Republicans pounce, Joe. This is Republicans revive. Republicans revive one of Trump's most notorious immigration lies. They're attacking Biden with fact-free claims about terrorists crossing the southern border. Aaron Ruppar, who's always had a difficult time with things like the facts and all,

writes that article. Liberals believe it. Republicans pounce on the border. You'll never unsee Republicans pounce when you learn to see these headlines. Republicans revive hit tactic on Biden. There are no terrorists crossing the border. Really? Here's an Axios story just hours later.

Scoop, four people matching terror watch list arrested at the border. Man. That's the Kenny. What happened to Kenny Bell? Is that not ringing? You know what? It's hitting up against the. bell is that not ringing right you know what it's hitting up against that's a little better you know what it is i got a i got a little thing from a listener that's really cool it's like a rock stone carve out thing and the kenny bell was brushed up against it that's kind of weird how vox and is saying something that axios refutes

just hours later by the way axios um no bastion of right-wing values. Just throwing that out there. Turn the page before I realize who our next sponsor was. All right. Patriot Mobile, our good friends. That's how fake news works, folks. Spread the fake news like manure on your lawn. Wait a few days for it to stink.

Then delete the manure if you can digitally and pretend like nothing happened. Why do you all the time? It's pathetic. All right. And the other side is break. I've got two important stories we are going to get to. One quick story about what's happened in Florida, another attack on the second amendment. And the lesson is not just the second amendment's important. We know that. It's never, ever, ever elect Democrats to any position ever because they will always do messed up stuff. I got to be careful.

We're on terrestrial radio. And then I got this tax story quick and we will end today with a just awesome video from the legendary Thomas Salt. All right, let's get to it. Today's show brought to you by our friends also at, who is that? Oh yeah, Patriot Mobile. Sorry. I got to start writing more notes on page two. Just like I'm taking on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, Patriot Mobile is taking on the mobile provider swamp and they have some spectacular news to share with you this is a great great partner they donated a lot of money to charity with me falls of honor they did they're great

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it all the time, but I'm not giving up. I'm sorry. Remember Aeneas' famous quote, an enemy is not vanquished until he considers himself so. If you consider yourself vanquished, that's up to you. I don't. I just refuse. Additional evidence why elections matter, all of them, and why it is not good enough. This is a really big problem on the Republican side to go and vote on election day and only vote for the top of the ticket. It happens all the time. The phenomenon even has a name. It's called roll-off. Roll-off, not roll-on like a deodorant. People go in, they vote for the president, and they don't do anything down ballot. And it rolls off. 100% of people who vote, vote for the president, roughly. Maybe 99. 90 vote for the Senate race. 80 for the congressional

race below that. 65 for the state senator. 60 for the state delegate. By the time you get down to the city council, maybe 20% of the people who showed up to vote, vote in that race. No good. We have to stop this. You have to vote the entire ballot all the time. And again, Republicans may not be the solution to all your problems. I'm no big fan of the Republican establishment either, but the Democrats are definitely the cause. How does that relate to this attack on the second amendment? Read this article bongino.com slash newsletter. It's in my newsletter today. Republicans want to keep concealed carry permits open

after Nikki Freed closed them by Renzo Downey, Florida politics. Let me tie it all together for you now. Nikki Freed is a Democrat and a liberal one at that, elected statewide in Florida, which is unbelievable how she got elected. So we have a Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, who you obviously know, we talked about him before. Can we tie this all together? Circle and back, circle and back, tied together, do it. We have this Republican governor who's spectacular and stuck in his cabinet there is a Democrat who's a total disaster. Why? Because people

showed up in the governor's race and voted for the governor, and some of them in the Republicans skipped the agriculture race, Department of Agriculture, and Nikki Freed wound up winning in a sliver. I covered this race at length at the time because I told you, what was this, three years ago when it happened that she got elected? Remember the show, Joe, where we talked about this and we were like- I do. She's going to come after your guns. She's a huge lib. That's what she's doing now. Well, what happened? Well, she runs the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, statewide elected office, incredibly. And they're using the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to

basically shut down your ability to get a concealed carry permit. And they're using all kinds of fancy stuff like, well, you can't get fingerprints, so there's going to be delays up concealed carry permits again. Do not elect Democrats. Do not roll off ever in any spot anywhere. You got to vote down ballot because you get people like Nikki Freed in statewide offices like she has in Florida now who are trying to stomp on the DeSantis agenda and get in the way of you and your ability to defend yourself. No good. I'm not having it. I'm not having it and neither should you. Read this story. No more roll-off. Can we make that like a mantra of the show? Can we make that, Joe? You're keeping track of the rules, right?

Dan Bongino. Is there a guide? Dan Bongino rule number four. No, but it should be four, right? I know it's four. For the other three, I always forget. But number four, no more roll-off. It is our responsibility mine he joe paula everyone to show up on election day with a sample ballot or whatever ready to rock and roll and get everyone down the ticket because then you get nicky freed in office screwing up Florida or trying.

Not having it, not here. All right, good. We get a little bit of time for this. All right, last block of the day, but an important one nonetheless. I told you my tax show on, was that Tuesday, Guy? It was Tuesday, right?

Not a big hit with the audience. I was a little surprised. I love economics. I'll continue to talk about it in the future. It's just my passion because it describes so much. It's not just about taxes or marginal benefits to work or marginal tax rates or the Laffer curve or Hauser's law or anything. It's not just about that. Economics is fascinating because it describes so much more about who we are and what we value. it describes so much more about who we are and what we value. How?

Dan, you don't need to get philosophical. I'm not. It describes who we are and what we value because economics describes what we're willing to pay for things we value. And all the talking points in the world and all the emotion in the world are not going to get around the fact that people work hard to

obtain money and use that money to purchase things that they value. Not that you value, that they value. So I love economics. And after I said on yesterday's show, the Tuesday show wasn't a big hit because it was really wonky on taxes and stuff, a whole bunch of people emailed me, good friends of mine. They said, Dan, I love that show. I think you should do more of that once in a while. So just giving you the back and forth. It's your show. I always kind of break down the fourth wall and tell you how the feedback is going. When we hit it, we hit it. Sometimes we don't. I'd like you to listen to it anyway. It's an important show. Why? Because of this. Again, in the newsletter today, Democrats will pass a huge tax increase

on a party line vote. Republicans are warning. Susan Ferricchio in the Washington Examiner. What are they going to do? Well, the Democrats are going to try to use reconciliation. You say reconciliation? That's a budget measure.

How are they going to do that to pass through a massive tax increase? You know, the Senate's split 50-50 right now, but Kamala Harris would be the tiebreaker, the vice president. If they can do reconciliation and use that process, yes, they will hike your taxes, ladies and gentlemen, as the saying goes, be afraid, be very afraid.

This is not a joke. They'd have to get Manchin and Sinema too, but I think they'll get them. I don't trust either one of them. They pretend to be moderate Democrats. I don't buy that routine at all. Your estate taxes are going to go up. Your corporate taxes are going to go up. Your income taxes are going to go up. Now, I got an email from a regular emailer to the show. Since we don't have a caller segment, we will with the new Dan Bogino show, circle back, Terrestrial Radio, 12 to 3, coming May 24th. We will, you'll be able to call.

But as a substitute for calls on the podcast, I like to read audience emails. And a guy who emails me often, very smart guy, Ben, Ben S we'll call him. When I discussed the tax hikes coming on Tuesday's show, emailed me and I was quite surprised. He was like, hey, Dan, you know what? I don't care anymore. Basically, the gist of it was, let these rich people pay more taxes. I get it. I understand your frustration.

He's like, I'm done with it. You want to vote in big government people, then we should all pay for it. It's hard to argue with that logic. And I'll tell you now, having grown up, not poor, it's not a sob story, but not well off. I think that's pretty fair to say. My wife, having grown up very poor, having been middle-class by an economic measure for a long time, and now we do pretty well thanks to you. Yeah, I can absolutely afford a tax hike. I promise you it won't affect my lifestyle at all.

Dan, you can't say that. You're a limited government, libertarian conservative. Yeah, I am. But I believe in facts. I'm just telling you, it's not going to change my life much. Oh, they'll take a lot of my money away. I obviously don't support it. If you listen to Tuesday show, it's a disaster. But because I can afford it

and people who are a lot wealthier than me can afford it, that doesn't answer the key question. And the key question is this. But is a tax hike good for the country? All the other stuff is just emotion. Rich people can afford... I can afford a lot of things.

I can afford a Corvette. I don't have one. I have a Raptor. You know, I can afford a Lincoln Navigator, but I don't. I have a Raptor. What is me being able to afford this tax hike have anything to do with the real question, which should be what? Is a tax hike good for the country? Is it going to grow the economy and make people more prosperous? I thought that was the question. What people can afford or not is totally irrelevant to the real

question, which they're lying about. Here's Joe Biden in an interview with George Stephanopoulos, quick video of him reiterating the lie, saying again that people who make over $400,000 a year who can afford it, they're the only people who are going to be affected by this tax hike. That's just a lie, which I'm going to prove in a second, and then I'll get to Thomas Sowell.

And again, keep in mind, it doesn't matter if they can afford it. What matters is, will it work? Here's Joe Biden. Anybody making more than $400,000 will see a small to a significant tax increase. If you make less than $400,000, you won't see one single penny in additional federal tax. All right, there's Biden again repeating the lie that only people who make $400,000 will have their taxes raised.

But here's Jen Psaki being asked at the White House press conference yesterday to clarify that. And Jen Psaki is now admitting that it's not only people who make $400,000. If you make $200,000, this will in fact hit you too if you're in a family that makes $400,000.

But that's not what Biden said. They can't even keep their story straight. Check this out. It depends on how much money you make. Are you a billionaire? Then you may pay more in taxes than someone making, you know, family making $425,000. You know, there's going to be a range in any tax proposal. He talked about this on the campaign trail.

And he talked about it during this interview last night, in part because it's on his mind about how to ensure people are paying their fair share and that we are looking for revenue funds to continue to build back better. But I don't have a timeline for you on when you'll hear more. It's just something that he has long had a commitment to. And I expect in the coming months or sooner than that, you'll hear more about his next stages of his agenda. But this is certainly part of what's on his mind and what he would like to work with Congress on. Notice how she doesn't answer the question. The question was asked specifically about, well, Biden specifically said, if you make four400,000 or less, your taxes will not go up.

But that's not true. If you make $200,000 and your wife makes $200,000 or your husband, then yes, your taxes will go up. Now, I get it. I get it. You're going to email me, oh, so what? A family makes $400,000. They're really wealthy. They can afford to pay it. You're going to email me. Oh, so what? A family makes $400,000. They're really wealthy. They can afford to pay it. That's not the point. The point is, does it work? Now, what you'll see is you'll see Biden shortly, guaranteed, mark it, mark the time and the date. You will see Joe Biden say, ladies and gentlemen, trickle-down economics has never worked.

They always go back to this talking point when they want to hike taxes on wealthy people, again, with no consideration if it actually works or not to produce prosperity. They don't care. They just want to punish rich people because that's what they do. And they'll say, trickle-down economics has never worked. Biden will do it, just like Obama did it when he pushed through his tax hike.

What's the problem with trickle-down economics? Joe knows. So Joe, don't say anything. Guy, you're new to the show. What's the problem? What's the problem with trickle-down economics? He doesn't know. I'm putting him on the spot.

They did that on purpose. The problem with trickle-down economics, ladies and gentlemen, is it's fake. There's no such thing. A point Thomas Sowell, legendary economist, has made repeatedly. Obama and Biden will cite trickle-down economics. In other words, give the rich tax cuts. That's crazy. We got to hike their taxes. Because when you give them tax cuts and you say it's going to trickle down, that doesn't work. There is no such theory of economics called trickle-down economics. None. Do you understand

that? Thomas Sowell has had this ongoing bet with America. What did he say? He was like, he has challenged any economist to produce the theory of trickle-down economics, and no one can do it. Watch this segment. This is absolutely terrific. Here's Thomas Sowell being interviewed about Obama's tax hikes when Obama said what Biden's going to say, trickle down economics doesn't work. Check this out. President Obama in December of last year, the market will take care of everything they tell us. Jobs and prosperity will eventually trickle down to everyone else. In April of this year, during the Bush years, the wealthy got

wealthier, but prosperity sure didn't trickle down. In July, this past summer, Barack Obama, we've tried it their way. It didn't work. We were told that prosperity would start at the top and then trickle down, close quote. Where does this phrase trickle down come from? Oh, I don't know. It was as far back as the Roosevelt administration. It is an incredible thing. There is a non-existent theory that is constantly being attacked. Some years ago in my newspaper column, I challenged anybody to cite any economist outside of an

insane asylum who had ever made that argument. Nobody ever came up with a single person. So when Barack Obama says in this past July, quote, we were told that prosperity would – Ask him who told him. Nobody told him. Nobody told him. No economist has ever held that? No politician has ever said it?

I don't know of anybody who's ever said it. In fact, when I put this out, and I went out nationally in the Cated column, various people wrote me and said, well, so-and-so said this, so-and-so said it. Find me the person who said it. I don't want to hear how A said it, B said it. Find me B and show me where he said it. And that was years ago. Not one example has been offered. I'm here to help, folks.

When Joe Biden and his Democrat liberal lieutenants start pushing this tax hike and they start saying what Obama did, that trickle-down economics doesn't work. What's your first question? Again, I'm here to help by giving you the great Thomas Sowell. Your first question would be, can you show me the economic theory of trickle-down economics? Cite me the economic literature. I'll wait.

Just watch them. Watch them crash and burn. There's no such theory. It's made up. It's fake. There's no such theory of trickle-down economics. All right, folks. Thanks again for tuning in.

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