The Dan Bongino Show - Loser Democrats Hilariously Faceplant in Hearing (Ep 2051)

Episode Date: July 20, 2023

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get ready to hear the truth about america on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host dan bongino yeah that was me in the chat that's me i think it's what is it dan bongino i'm going to type something in there now for you in the chat it's going to say hello let's see what it is hello yeah dan bongino show that's me right under rod Streif there so um yeah man I just figured I'd join the chat too what the hell I mean I get up here early these guys are like Bogart in my chat between 10 and 11 eastern time Guy and Justin so I'm like what the hell is that I'm gonna comment myself so yeah good morning there Ginger good to see you all big big show today something happened right before I came on the air I I read a Bullshitico piece about

Biden and these stairs. It's not what you, well, it is not what you think, but they're hiding something. I'm going to cover that by the end of today's show. But yesterday, I always wait with these hearings. I give it a day because so much happens. I'm not doing you justice if I rush through it. Absolutely epic hearing yesterday on Capitol Hill. You know a lot of these things flame out. They're hyped up and they become just a waste of time. I get it. Not yesterday.

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Bongino for 20% off your first order. Thanks, Blackout Coffee. All right, Joe, so let's go. I said, get that funk out my face. Listen, Joe, this guy's good, folks. Joe has not missed a day of work.

I mean, for illness. Of course, this last week, it was something involving work. Joe has not missed a day of work. I mean, for illness, you know, of course, this last week it was something involving work. Joe has not missed a day of work here in eight years, which is unbelievable. Cause I, even I missed a couple of days with the whole cancer thing, not Joe. So Joe's not feeling that great this morning, but I said to him, just like he do to show in a bar. And he's like, no, I like doing this. Like I enjoy it. So Joe, from me and the audience, give him a shout out in the chat. This guy's a freaking trooper. He could stay. I told him he don't have I enjoy it. So, Joe, from me and the audience, give him a shout-out in the chat. This guy's a freaking trooper.

Thanks, brother. He can stay. I told him, he don't have to show up. I mean, he can, really, he can do it. But, nope, he wants to be here. So, he keeps his Cal Ripken-like streak with the Dan Bongino show going. So, good to see you.

But if you don't talk too much today, I think the audience will understand. Cool, dude. Shout-out to Bruce. Yeah, you got it, brother. Thanks for showing up. All right, let's get to the show. Listen, a lot of these hearings up on Capitol Hill flame out.

Oh, I got to take a note on this so I don't forget to bring it up on the radio show. You know, one of my favorite books, what is called Revolt Against the Masses, it's a really amazing book by Siegel, who passed recently, I believe. And the book is about how liberals pretend to be about the middle class and the working guy, but they're really about giving you the double-barreled middle finger. An amazing book. Andrew Wilkow loves it too. And one of the premises of the book is the Democrats have mastered marketing, narratives, fake news, basically, by using this triad, the media, congressional committees, and activist groups.

The long and short of it, to sum it up quickly, is this guy's like the way the liberals screw up in the middle class is through messaging. And the way they master messaging is they'll hold a congressional hearing, they'll let the media know in advance what the narrative is, and a group of activist groups will then go out and spend a bunch of liberal Soros type money basically to go and promote the agenda. IE, the world is going to end in 12 years. Polar bears are dying and there's no polar ice caps anymore. People on the left believe this stuff. It's not true, but people believe it because of liberal activists in the media, liberal activist groups, and congressional committees. He calls it the triad, Siegel. Now, why are congressional committees so important?

Well, they're important because Republicans are now getting the message, and we're using our own triad, conservative media, conservative activist groups, and congressional committees like we saw yesterday. Some Republicans, the good ones, are finally getting the hint that these committees and what we saw yesterday with the whistleblower hearing are powerful. Why are they powerful? Because folks, cable news, at least Fox and Newsmax, not the other goofballs, cable news will take these things, what they call wall to wall. You'll see the whole thing. So if a witness screws something up, you'll see it. If a witness is gangbusters like these IRS whistleblowers, basically the entire cable news ecosystem is forced to cover it now.

Finally, the Republicans are getting this down. I'm not going to tell you every hearing has been gangbusters for them. The Benghazi hearings turned out to be a disaster. They let Hillary Clinton steamroll them. What difference does it make? What they should have responded back to what difference does it make? Four people died. It makes a shit ton of difference. But no, they got steamrolled. Not yesterday. The Democrats got wrecked. And let me tell you something. It was glorious. I know shouting fraud's not a great thing, celebrating people's failures, but it is in this case. I know shouting fraud is not a great thing, celebrating people's failures, but it is in this case. I enjoyed every single second.

So I took it all in. I watched probably 90% of it, not the breaks and some of the other speeches and stuff. But I got through the whole thing, and I think I have the best presentation for you here. So let's start it up. The Democrats got absolutely destroyed yesterday. Now, I want you to do me a favor because you are the warriors in this new guerrilla army for advancing our ideology and free speech. You're the warriors out there in the skirmishes for free speech. I want you to triage the messages that matter from yesterday. A lot of stuff's going out. This one said this, this one said that. This one, this is the single most damaging moment. This is the one you should be

promoting the most on your social media and elsewhere, because you're the soldiers in this fight for free speech and this fight against the left, okay? This takeaway was by far the most damaging. I got to tell you, man, this guy may soon overtake AOC as the dumbest member of Congress. Dan Goldman is one of the dumbest human beings ever elected to Congress. This guy can't get out of his own way. Every time he moves, he steps on a rake and he just continues to showboat

as if he's not the moron. He thinks that everyone knows he is. Here's Dan Goldman, liberal congressman from New York. He's talking to the whistleblower, IRS agent, was it Gary Strapley, USA, right? Who's a total professional here. And he's trying to make the point that even though Hunter Biden met with his dad, Joe Biden, about business dealings that Joe

Biden claimed never to have discussed with his son, he's trying to make the point that somehow that wasn't real business. What he winds up doing inadvertently is getting a sworn statement on the record from a government whistleblower special agent that Biden did in fact talk to his son about business. I'm like, what is this guy? What could he possibly have been thinking? And watch when he gets caught, how he tries to rescue himself, Goldman. This is the takeaway. Listen to this. You describe a lunch, what we talked about earlier, where Joe Biden came to say hello at the Four Seasons Hotel to a lunch that he was having with CEFC executives, right?

That's correct. But what you didn't talk about is what Rob Walker said the origination of that lunch was. And you testified that he said to that Hunter told his dad, according to Rob Walker, quote, I may be trying to start a company or try to do something with these guys. eyes. Now, let me ask you something. That doesn't sound much like Joe Biden was involved in whatever Hunter Biden was doing with the CEFC if Hunter Biden is telling him that he's trying to do business with them, does it? No, but it does show that he said he told his father he was trying to do business and he was talking. Well, that is true. Hunter Biden does try to do business. That's correct. Bro, the greatest. Come on.

What was he thinking? Number one, does he not know Joe Biden has repeatedly denied ever discussing business deals with his son? So Dan Goldman brings up a business deal with his son he spoke about and suggests that's not evidence of him knowing about his son's business deals with his son. So Dan Goldman brings up a business deal with his son he spoke about and suggests that's not evidence of him knowing about his son's business deals. If you're trying to figure this out, does anyone in the chat have an explanation? We got a lot of Muttleys in the chat.

Joe, this may be time. Wait, wait. Oh, no. You can't get ahead of me. You got an outro to Muttley. Wait, come on. All right. ahead of it. You got an outthrow to Motley. Wait, come on. All right. He even got ahead of you there.

We see Motley's all over the chat. Motley even can't take it. Motley's even fallen down. I'm sorry, Joe Sick. I shouldn't be demanding Motley's. That is at least a double Motley. What was he? I don't understand.

Just to be clear, Joe Biden has repeatedly said, I've never discussed these suspicious business dealings with my son. So Dan Goldman brings up a business deal with his son that his son emailed him about as evidence of what? And then he gets totally wrecked and just like, oh my God, yeah, Hunter Biden did this. He doesn't know what to do. Folks, this is the clip that should be everywhere.

Democrats exposing Biden lying about speaking about business with his son. Did you not just hear it? Give this geek. Put this on the clips channel. Democrat proves the case. Biden discussed business with his son. A Democrat did it. You just heard him. You just heard him acknowledge it. I don't remember Biden saying that he never

spoke to his son about business. Okay, I'm here to help. Let's show you three clips of Biden saying exactly that. Here is Joe Biden, number one, saying, quote, I have never spoken to my son about business. Dan Goldman says otherwise. Check this out. What about Hunter, Mr. Vice President? There's been questions about conflicts of interest with him as well as your brother. Can you describe what sort of mechanisms you're going to put in place to avoid conflicts of interest, whether you knew your brother who's been accused of, let's say, trying to use your campaign to further his business interests? Do you know anything about that? to further his business interests.

Do you know anything about that? First of all, I have never discussed with my son or my brother or anyone else anything having to do with their businesses, period. And what I will do is the same thing we did in our administration. There will be an absolute wall between personal and private and the government. There wasn't any hint of scandal at all when we were there, and I'll impose the same kind of strict, strict rules. That's why I never talk with my son or my brother or anyone else, even distant family, about their business interests.

Again, why would a Democrat ask a question under oath to an unimpeachable, decorated special agent about Biden discussing business with his son and acknowledge it's true? Because here's the answer. Because Dan Goldman is a freaking idiot. That's why. Here's another one. Here's Peter Doocy. In case you think it was just a slip of the tongue. Here's Peter Doocy from Fox asking Biden the same question. Watch Biden pivot to

Ukraine right away. And the impeachment thing, because why? Biden knew at the time they had to impeach Trump or someone was going to discover he was taking money from Ukraine. In business deals, he claims he never spoke to his son about, but Dan Goldman knows he did. Here it is again. Mr. Vice President, how many times have you ever spoken to your son about his overseas business dealings? I've never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.

And so how do you know? Here's what I know. I know Trump deserves to be investigated. He is violating every basic norm of a president. You should be asking him the question, why is he on the phone with a foreign leader, trying to intimidate a foreign leader, if that's what happened. That appears what happened. You should be looking at Trump.

Trump's doing this because he knows I'll beat him like a drum. Trump's doing this because he knows I'll beat him like a drum. And he's using the abuse of power and every element of the presidency to try to do something to smear me. Everybody looked at this and everybody's looked at it and said there's nothing there. Ask the right question. Mr. Biden, you've never spoken to your son. Will you be impeached for this? Depending on what the House finds, you could be impeached. But I'm not making that judgment now.

The House should investigate it. This is, again, another hard example of the Democrats always accusing you of what they're doing. Hillary Clinton accuses Trump of Russian collusion. Yet it was Hillary Clinton taking information from a Russian to collude to steal an election. None of this is in dispute. Accusing Trump of a quid pro quo with Ukraine when it was Biden taking money from Ukraine in a quid pro quo. This is what they do.

And these suck-ass moron media with their lips attached to the ass of the left never asks basic questions. Ever. They never follow up. That's why this stuff continues. Jonathan Turley in a tweet, Dan Goldman prompted a sworn statement from the investigator that Biden did indeed discuss his son's business deals. In doing so, Goldman may have delivered one of the most damaging moments in the hearing for the Bidens. Jonathan Turley is not even a freaking conservative, but he is a lawyer. He just prompted a sworn under oath statement on the congressional record that Biden is lying and did discuss the business deals with my son. What would his son? God forbid he was my son.

What kind of freaking dipshit is this guy? The answer is a stupid one. I don't want to announce to it. All right, moving on. This is the second dumbest moment from yesterday's, and that's saying a lot, but I need you to triage this, because messaging-wise, what the Democrats get done

better than anyone is they get a message, they put it at the tip of the spear, and they drive it through the armor, and they use the media to do it. Stick with that Goldman one. Once the Goldman one's worn out, then hit this one up. Here's Congressman, another Democrat zero, Raja Krishnamoorthi.

He's a close second for the biggest face plant. Yesterday's here. One of the dumbest things I've ever seen. Where the charge against Biden and the DOJ is that the swamp DOJ, it doesn't matter it was the Trump administration. That's the point. They were trying to take Trump out, even from the inside. The Trump FBI, air quotes, and DOJ were still trying to take out Trump. This is the point that they were trying to get Biden elected.

This must, wait, does this make sense, Joe? Are you getting this? Biden elected. This must wait. Does this make sense? Joe is, are you getting this? Like Krishnamoorthy doesn't seem to understand that the narrative that that's the truth is that Trump was a victim of swampies on the inside, trying to get rid of Trump. He actually makes the case here and doesn't even realize it. He's like, Hey, all of this stuff, trying to cover up for Biden's business deals. He wasn't even the president. He was only a Democrat candidate for president. No shit, Sherlock. That's the point that they would. He doesn't even realize he made that just like Goldman doesn't realize he got this guy on the record. Biden lying here. Watch this. This is great, sir. Finally, Mr. Shapley,

finally, Mr. Shapley, you said that warrants were ready as soon as April 2020 to begin searching for records, but actions weren't taken with regard to those warrants. Again, Joe Biden was not the president in April 2020, was he? So I'm confused by your line of questioning. We're talking about an election to which now President Biden was a part of. So he didn't have to be the president to have election meddling. No, but the question is this. Was he the president at that time in April 2020? It's been asked and answered. It doesn't matter. This guy just made the point that these swamps, swamp rats on the inside of the DOJ and the FBI considered

Trump such a threat that they tried to get him out by supporting the candidate Biden. This idiot doesn't even realize he made the point. All right. Quick break from that for another story. Then I want to get to my sponsor and then I'll get back to this in a second. I'll do it when Leo gets me. Okay. Okay. Okay. We'll get back to it in a second. There's a couple more, but I got a lot to give. This is one quick story I just want to get to before the break. Very important one, by the way. The garbage in the White House, how this guy is

screwing us over, potentially permanently, Biden. I have a story in the newsletter today. Newsletter's great today. Bongino.com slash newsletter. A lot of important articles. This one, there's one on China coming up again. Another huge sign we are headed for World War III in this unheard article. But read this.

You know the Strategic Petroleum Oil Reserve? You've heard of it, you guys, right? Where we keep all the petroleum, the extra petroleum. Sure. It was done after the oil crisis in the 80s. So I didn't know this, but they're built out of salt caverns. So Biden decided it would be a good idea to drain a good portion of the oil reserves to try to keep gas

prices down so he could get reelected, even though it's there for an emergency. So this PJ article says, well, Biden screwed us forever on another damn thing. Apparently, as noted in this piece, these oil reserves are made of, they're carved out of salt caverns and they're made of, well, salt. And according to a former project manager who spoke to Bloomberg, they note, they were built in the seventies with the idea they'd last 25 years. They were also designed to be withdrawn and refilled just five times or else the salt caverns simply dissolve. As one former official put it, the caverns were not intended for daily ATM type operations. We may not be able to fill these things up anymore. Meaning what? Meaning we may not have a strategic petroleum oil reserve

because of who? What, Dark Brandon? No, rotting oatmeal brain. That's who. All right, I'll get back to the hearing image. You see what Marjorie Taylor Greene did yesterday? All right, I'll get back to the hearing image. You see what Marjorie Taylor Greene did yesterday? Did you guys catch that? That's great. I was like, you know what I mean? If you know, you know.

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Do what the left does. Remember the triad. Congressional committees, the media, and activist groups. Use it. You're the activists out there. Goldman everywhere. The narrative is, because it's true, Goldman proves Biden lied. Send it everywhere. Raja Krishnamoorthi, forgive me, I'm not saying her name wrong intentionally,

proves they interfered in the election to get Trump out. Both Democrats. This is more just for fun. Did you see this yesterday? Marjorie Taylor Greene is interviewing these special agents from the IRS. Did you see this yesterday? Marjorie Taylor Greene is interviewing these special agents from the IRS. And it turns out Hunter Biden had some very suspect, I'll call them suspect, fellas, suspect business expenses, let's say, for some club memberships, if you know what I mean. Leave it up to MTG here to humiliate this guy. This is perfect.

Take a look. You referred to one of the assistants as West Coast assistant. I believe this is the West Coast assistant. Could you agree with that? So I can tell you that there were deductions for what we believe to be escorts. And then that $10,000 golf club membership. Yes, that was not a golf club membership. That was for a sex club payment. That was for a sex club payment that was for a sex club

payment what is now i don't know about you guys but uh i don't i'm not an accountant i have very i took an accounting class in my mba course instead look at you you went to school i don't care i took an accounting class wasn't my favorite class tea tables and stuff not my bag of donuts but joe call me crazy I'm reasonably confident that sex clubs are not a viable business expense you could take a deduction on. I'm willing to take a flyer on that. Yeah. Yeah. Joe's not even feeling it. Joe's like, you know what? My brain may not be right all there. I'm not at rotting oatmeal brain status, but I'm functioning okay. And I'm reasonably confident that is not going to do. Here's the second one. By the way, Marjorie Taylor Greene, in case you're listening on audio only

and you're not watching this on the live stream, which you should, we'd love to have you here. Rumble.com slash Bongino every day at 11 a.m. We love you here. Live stream is my favorite thing to do. Marjorie Taylor Greene is showing pictures of, if you know what I mean, like Hunter doing that. Now, you know, sometimes you drop a curse here and there,

and some of you don't like it. It's just, you know, trying, whatever. That I'm not going to mention what he's doing, but the pictures are quite interesting of what Hunter's up to with the assistant. Let's just say it's not dictation and they're not doing tea tables. But here comes Marjorie Taylor Greene, top robes from the top robes, Randy Macho Man style. You ever see Macho Man from the top robes? Here's MTG from the top robes. Watch the chaos break out when she whips out a picture, pun intended, of Hunter Biden's whipped

out, doing the with women. Check this out. Of Hunter Biden making sex. Excuse me, this is my time. Making pornography. Should we be displaying this, Mr. Chairman? Get a lady's time has expired and went two and a half minutes over. If Mr. Mifune wants two and a half minutes, he can have it if he wants to yield some to Mr. Ocasio-Cortez. Chucky O in the chat, Joe, says maybe that was dictation. Good call, Chucky. Good call. That was sharp. Chucky, you get a

you know what we need to do? What do you guys think of this? I think what we need to do is like a chat, a live chatter of the day. Maybe we give away a signed book. What do you think of that? I think we should do something like that. I'm going to try to institute something like that because some of your chat comments are absolutely fantastic. We even got we even got Motley's here.

We can't do, we gotta, we gotta be careful with the Motley's. We gotta look, but you can put the Motley's in the chat all you want. That's why we have a gift for you. Top ropes, baby. Top ropes. That was fantastic. All right. I got a lot more here. So that those are, I listened to the whole hearing, my humble opinion. So I don't deluge you with information like drinking from a fire hose. Those are the two big takeaways, Goldman, Chris and Amorthy, and just for fun, MTG from the top ropes at the end. The rest of it, honestly, you can watch it, but a lot of it was kind of repetitive. But those moments are the moments that are going to change this debate. Each day, you remember, you're chipping away. For those of you out there who think, oh,

this stuff's a waste of time, it is not. It is not. Excuse me, I forget who said it yesterday. It was either on Newsmax or Fox. I was flipping back and forth. But somebody said, and it was a lawmaker, that we are going to make sure going into this next election, unlike 2020, that every single voter in America knows who Joe Biden is. If they still vote for him, then we're just picking a horrible, awful, corrupt people. But they're going to know, not like last time. And I agree 100%. Chip away, chip away. By the way, Jamie Raskin, clown Democrat after the display by Marjorie Taylor Greene, hilariously said, and I quote, that that was an assault on the dignity of the committee.

Dignity of the committee. But my kid was in kindergarten. They had more dignity on that committee. The committee decided they should get rid of red crayons that these idiots do on Capitol Hill, the assault of the dignity of the committee. You can take that right up the caboose. Okay.

Because when I, there's no dignity in those committees. You want to play cutesy time that ended years ago when you decided to spy on President Trump. All right, switching gears a bit. This is some of the most fantastic video you're going to see. I pulled this off the Bongino Report Rumble feed. We do clips, Dan Bongino show clips channel. We have stuff all over the place. It's all on Rumble. Just subscribe to all the Bongino channels. Does Bongino Report have a separate channel? It does. Bongino Report, we have my channel, you're on here.

And then we have the Dan Bongino clips channel, which Guy manages. Check those all out. Follow them all. Because there's some really good stuff. And I don't, I'm not the editor on Bongino Report. Matt Palumbo is. Sometimes I go there and I find stuff I haven't seen before.

So there was this guest and he goes on this with this liberal host, right? And he wants to debate this trans ideology stuff for kids. The debate on this specific appearance is about men in women's sports, which is obviously unfair. You know, men in women's playing women's sports. sports, which is obviously unfair. You know, men and women's playing women's sports. So this guy came totally prepared and the liberal host was just absolutely not ready at all. So the guest walks into the interview and this is, I'm going to cut it into two pieces. It's not that long, about two minutes. This is how the interview starts. This is great stuff. Check this out. And we are joined by Scott Nugent. Scott, I just want to jump right in. You have been speaking out

against medical transitioning for minors. You are somebody who has experienced that yourself. However, one thing that we haven't been able to figure out is why you are opposed to banning trans women in sports. Why do you not want trans women to compete in sports? Well, in 1973, we had the law passed that basically, you know, women could compete against other women. And we did that so that, you know, self-esteem of women could be lifted. And we kind of excluded males from that category. Now, trans women are biological males who create an illusion of a woman. They are not women. So they shouldn't be in sports. So you're saying that trans women don't exist, that they are not, trans women should not have any rights. Is that what you're saying?

What I'm saying is that biological women should be able to compete with other biological women in a competition that makes it fair. Trans women are men. That's what I'm saying. Trans women are biological men. Do you have a penis? The host doesn't know what to do. Totally unprepared. Now the host. Watch know what to do. Totally unprepared. Now the host, watch the talking point here. The talking point for the left,

which is a perfect example of the Thomas Sowell axiomatic truth that the left always starts the story in the middle. The host goes to the left's talking point that, well, if you don't let these kids, the boys become girls, girls become boys, they're going to kill themselves. Which, number one, is pseudoscience. It's made up, as this guest is about to point out. But second, notice how they start the story in the middle.

There's an assumption here that every trans person who thinks they're a trans person is suicidal. No one starts at chapter one, Joe, and goes, why, why is that? You notice how the story started. That's assuming the talking points even true, which it's not, this does not end well for the host who gets out of this interview. As soon as she realizes, Oh snap, I don't have my hands around the data like this guest did check this out. Well, what about a boy who believes that he was born in the wrong body? Do you want him to commit suicide? Would you rather have a son commit suicide or have a daughter that lives?

Why are you opposed to this type of medical medication and medical practice that can help stave off suicide for so many young people? Well, that was a big mouthful, wasn't it? Well, let's start here. No child is born in the wrong body, first of all. And better an alive daughter than a dead son is actually wrong. There's only one long-term study that has ever held up the test of time. Seven that said it was beneficial for kids. All of those studies have been either retracted or modified with oops,

doesn't help anything, or not enough time, not enough participants. The one long-term study that has lasted the test of time from 1973 to 2003 done in Sweden followed 326 transgender adults found that these kids are going to be more suicidal after. So my question is, why are you okay with taking kids that are suicidal? So you're okay, Scott. I'm not done kids that are not done? No, what I'm saying is that I'm not okay with these kids committing suicide, but these kids will be more suicidal after they medically transition because you are spreading things that are not true. And that's it. The interview is because the woman quickly realizes, I don't know what to do because I just made this up.

Someone told me to say it in a focus group. Would you rather have a dead son or a live girl, whatever? That's their talking point. There is no data to back that up. She started the story in the middle, and the guest was absolutely prepared to fight back. You see what happens every time you confront the left with facts and data. They run away like the little kids they are every single time. That's why we

support free speech and they don't because free speech looks great for us every time and looks horrible for them. Like you just saw right there, wrecked, got absolutely smoked right there. And it was freaking glorious. By the way, I'm going to get to RFK and what happened today in the hearing today, but like I said, I want to watch the whole thing. Having said that, RFK is up in front of the House right now. His opening statement earlier today at about 9.30 on censorship was a banger. Now, RFK is a liberal. He's not with us on guns, not with us on abortion and other stuff.

I want to be clear. But his opening statement today was a banger. We'll have all of that tomorrow. Don't miss tomorrow's show. Here's what I got coming up next. Be prepared on the China story. I'm going to show you more hard evidence that we are like five minutes away on the doom clock from World War III. You ain't hearing this stuff anywhere else. Just hang with us. We've got a couple sponsors here for you. Really appreciate it. MyPillow.

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PatriotMobile.com slash DAN or call 878-PATRIOT. Thanks, Patriot Mobile. Why are you looking at the light? Something wrong with it? These lights are bright, though. Folks, you think they're too bright? Let me know your opinion. Seriously, in the chat. Yeah, why? If yes and if no. I think you look good. You think the lighting're too bright? Let me know your opinion. Seriously, in the chat.

Yeah. Why? If yes, and if no, I think you look, do you think the lighting's too bright? Cause you don't have any grease. You don't have any grease flare or anything.

You look good. But I was on Newsmax. I'm glad you think so. But I was on Newsmax the other day. Maybe they had it turned up, but my gosh, I was so like washed out. No,

no. All right. Good. See the chat. He's got you covered, bro. Joe says no. The chat says no.

You predicted it, Joe. All right. This is See the chat. He's got you covered, bro. Joe says no to chat says no. You predicted it. Joe. All right. This is, I wrote this down. Be prepared. Update number 4,572. I don't care.

I don't care if you guys and ladies are like, we're getting tired of hearing about it from you, Dan, be prepared. We get it. Then I know I'm doing my job because I'm so worried about you, the audience. I am. I'm prepared. I got my stuff. Like I'm ready to doing my job because I'm so worried about you, the audience. I am. I'm prepared. I got my stuff. I'm ready to rock and roll. I'm worried about you. I'm dead serious.

I really am because I don't want to see people struggle. I'm telling you we're five minutes away on the doomsday clock from World War III. Signs are everywhere that China is preparing to start World War III, maybe within months. I would say almost assuredly before rotting oatmeal brain leaves office. They don't want to deal with Trump. Here's this article. This is in a newsletter. Go to the newsletter right now, bongino.com slash newsletter. Subscribe, follow up. It's free. Click on this article. Unheard, Edward Luttwak. The clue, China's preparing for war. Xi is laying the groundwork while the West looks away. Not you, not us, but he's right.

Everyone else is like whistling past the graveyard, talking about, you know, the latest scandal about whatever, who killed JR in Dallas or whatever. This guy Luttwak, he writes this piece about how China is pushing everyone to start planting cereals and grains on the land so they can feed themselves. Well, why? China can import all that stuff. Exactly. Because if it goes to war, it's not going to be able to import it.

Here's the piece. Screenshot one. At present, China relies on colossal imports of soybeans, corn, wheat, and other cereals To feed its pigs, cattle, chickens, and ducks More than 120 million metric tons a year These are supplied, listen to this By the daily arrival of bulk carriers into Chinese ports From Argentina, Brazil, Canada, and the United States

If war were to break out, these imports would quickly dry up This is why China and Xi are telling the farmers, you better start producing more cereals. Why? Because they want a bowl of Lucky Charms? No, dude, because they're getting ready to go to war. Sign number 4572. Here, here's the second screenshot from the piece. Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader, he gave this rice bowl group of speeches on June 21st when he claimed, quote, it was imperative to prepare.

I'm sorry. It was imperative to prepare for, quote, extreme circumstances. Joe, how many? I don't know, man. Really? What's that mean? How many more warnings are we going to have to get? I don't know, man.

Really? What's that mean? How many more warnings are we going to have to get? Having previously warned, by the way, on May 6th, that China must be prepared for, quote, worst case and extreme scenarios to survive high winds, choppy waters, and even dangerous storms. He's not talking about hurricanes in China. Oh, no.

These are all transparent code words, the author writes, for the danger of war. Xi returned to the topic again on July 6th on a visit to Eastern Theater Command, whose jurisdiction includes the Strait of Taiwan, where he's about to start World War III,

where he called for increased, quote, training under real combat conditions to raise the capability to fight and win. Even Guy, who I'm like, I'm like ready to kill right now. Even Guy isn't right. Guy's like, listen, some people would call this a clue. Some people would call this a clue that prepare for extreme circumstances, get ready for war, prepare for real combat conditions, get ready for war prepare for real combat conditions okay get ready for high winds choppy waters and even dangerous storms that like he has it right in some limited circles we call this a clue

but don't worry folks biden's all over it right yeah it's not like biden's taking millions of dollars from china and china probably has a blackmail file, you know, five, six feet deep on Biden. Right. Oh, wait, they do. Back to the hearing yesterday. Here was Byron Donald's excellent congressman from Florida's West Coast near Naples. Here he is questioning one of the one of the whistleblower guests yesterday up on the hill about how many millions of dollars China's paid off to Biden. Now, keep in mind, this isn't the threat you think it is. You're probably saying, I don't mean in a good way for Biden. I mean, in a bad way. I'll tell you what I mean here. A lot of you may say, even in the chat, you may say, all right, so Biden took millions from China,

but of course, it's not going to prevent him from making a decision to defend the United States. It's not the millions, folks. It's the fact that with those millions, China knows all the details of these payments. And if the Chinese Communist Party were to go public with the information they have, or it would be devastating to Biden. I'm suggesting to you that the President of the United States, and listen, I choose my words very carefully. Listen to what I'm about to you that the president of the United States, and listen, I choose my words very carefully. Listen to what I'm about to tell you. There may be a blackmail file on the president of the United States right now.

It is impossible to know, given his dealings with China, if what he's doing, he's doing because it's best for the United States or because it's best for Biden. Listen to this. Through your investigation, how much money did you uncover was coming from ukraine romania and china uh 17.3 million approximately okay so 17.3 million through your investigation and you are you and mr shapley you are the guys that investigate criminal tax evasion on an international scale is that correct that is Okay. A question for the chairman, Mr. Chairman, through the investigation of the oversight committee about how much money have we seen come from Ukraine, Romania, and China? Over 10 million. Okay. So we have two separate

investigations, one done by the investigative branch of the IRS that is charged with doing these types of investigations. These are the people you want doing them and an independent investigation by the oversight committee and we're coming up with the same amount of money give or take a couple million going through the same person in hunter biden and his investigation is slow walks and we're supposed to sit here and think that joe biden knows nothing if this action is allowed to occur and investigations are slow walk with this level of detail, this ain't Donald Trump, y'all. These are facts. I yield back. Yeah.

Understand what I'm telling you. It's not just that Biden and his family are alleged to have taken maybe tens of millions of dollars from the Communist Party. Do you understand it's that the Communist Party knows? That's the problem. That's the problem. Is someone bribing Biden right now? If you're not asking these questions in the media, you're not a journalist. You're an activist. I'm sorry. That's the question. The money's bad enough, but forget that a second. the question. The money's bad enough, but forget that a second. The Chinese Communist Party knows about the money. They paid it. So does Biden. And Biden wants nothing more than to get reelected. Nothing more. Don't be surprised if this guy's not the nominee and he steps aside, not even a little bit. All right, I got a quick election 2024 update. And this story I saw this

morning right before I came on the air. Guys, don't let me forget this. All right, I got a quick election 2024 update. And this story I saw this morning right before I came on the air. Guys, don't let me forget this. All right, this political story about Biden and the stairs. I'm going to give you some analysis. You're not going to hear it. Something big going on with this Air Force One. Biden's in real trouble. No, I mean upstairs, like the oatmeal brain.

The oatmeal brain is, I mean, it's decaying at a rapid rate now. This is like the half-life's gone up. But a quick election 2024 update. Listen, it's getting brutal, this primary between DeSantis and Trump. I'm just going to say this again for probably the 10th time. And you guys take it for, and ladies take it for what it's worth. Oh, by the way, speaking of ladies, before I get to that, we were the 14th most popular podcast in the country with women. This Edison Research just came out. So ladies, thank you.

Thank you very much. We love you, ladies. You're always welcome here. I was actually kind of flattered. I put the picture up on my Twitter account and my true social account. So I'm kind of flattered. So ladies in the chat, let's go. Thank you, ladies.

You're the best. Love having you in the chat to join us every day at 10 o'clock. Ladies, I said that to my wife. She's like, well, Ben Shapiro is a spot ahead of you. I said, ah, no, maybe she gave him a call. I don't know. She didn't like that one. Didn't go over well. Getting back to my election 2024 update. I can't. Listen, the attacks on Trump and DeSantis supporters, the back and forth, is getting just beyond ridiculous. I'm not here to lecture anyone, okay? I'm just a guy. I was a passionate believer, but I ran myself.

Folks, primaries are good things. I've said it a thousand times. They keep candidates frosty. Every single quality candidate we've gotten elected at the local level has probably been through a brutal primary that tightened them up. But the attacks back and forth are getting really personal. You know, Jenna Ellis, who fought pretty hard for Donald Trump, she got just getting attacked just brutally. Someone dropped the C word on her and stuff. It's just this is a lot like everybody just dial it down.

I've got a lot of friends in this movement. She's done a lot for me. So have a lot of other people on both sides of this. And it's not just that. It's that they're all going to fight passionately for who they believe in. But I need you to remember some, battle tactics-wise. And I mean this, because I've run. You're going to need these people after the election.

We can't win without 95-plus percent Republican support. Us going after each other is just silly. I'm not lecturing anyone. You know, guys, I'm not. It's not my job. I just want to win. And this is not the way to do it. It's just it's not going to help. Speaking of which, the Democrats are panicking about this no labels group, this no labels group, which could run in a third party. There's a lot of panic on the Republican side too. I'm telling you as a matter of pure math, this no labels group is going to hurt the Democrats far more. There's zero doubt in my mind. About 30% of Democrats identify themselves as moderate, but here's the kicker. Only about 22% of Republicans do. Why does that

matter? Because moderates are more likely to align with a third party than people who declare themselves really aligned with the movement. Strong conservatives aren't going to vote third party. The Democrats have more of those. So this no labels group running as a third party would do far more damage to Democrats. I've been getting a lot of that. And also this Wall Street Journal article. Mission number one, whoever wins in 2024, the FBI loses the Democrats. I've been getting a lot of that. And also this Wall Street Journal article, mission number one, whoever wins in 2024, the FBI loses the public. If we win in 2024, I don't care who it is. Trump, DeSantis. I mean, I care who it is, but you get the point. Like

whoever it is has to support this. You have got to reestablish our faith in institutions. Folks, I've traveled a lot in my life, a lot. I've been to 36 plus countries, probably 50 plus cities, multiple cities in these countries. The way we have it in the United States, there's a natural assumption that's the way it is around the world. It is not. Private property, things like contract law, things like you're safe walking down the street, relatively speaking. That is not how it rolls in other countries. It isn't. It isn't. It's not unique to us, but this place is special. The FBI, as Dan Henninger points out, people are losing faith in institutions everywhere. The left wants the police defunded. People on the right are now fairly skeptical, the FBI too. If we do not reestablish faith in institutions, ladies and gentlemen, it is absolutely over.

There's going to be nothing left. All right, we're going to have to hold the rest of these stories for tomorrow. But I do want to get to this political piece. Skip to that one at the end. This popped right before I came on the air this morning. This is important because this is another one of those stories where the media is writing it to cover for Biden. But folks, I have never seen anything like this. I think Biden, and I've got done good authority here.

I think Biden is in even worse mental, physical condition than we've been let on. You're probably thinking, I didn't think it could get any worse. After reading this story, I'm convinced this guy's in real cognitive trouble. Let me just describe something to you, okay? When you're in the Secret Service doing an advance, there's an airport at every site,

every site you go to outside of DC because the president flies everywhere, right? I mean, not hard to figure out. The president's not going to walk to Pennsylvania. He's not going to take a helicopter to Pennsylvania. He flies. So every flight we go to, every stop we go to, there's an airport. The new guy usually does the airport because the airport's easy. The hardest part about airports securing them, because they're usually pretty easy to be done a thousand times, the hardest part is counter sniper. Why? Because

the president at every site gets off the front of Air Force One. You've seen the scene a thousand times. He gets off, he waves. You know what? I should have put this picture in the show. It's stupid. I got a picture of me actually doing it. You'll see George Bush waving at the top of the stair truck. It's a high stair truck. It's about 25 plus steps, right? That's a truck. It's called the stair truck because that's what it is. It's a truck with stairs on the back. Every airport has them and they drive it up to Air Force One. Now, the reason the president gets off the front of the plane is simple. Number one, the picture is majestic. Height is might with pictures, right?

You don't take a picture below people. You take a picture above them. It looks better. It gives you status, correct? Everybody knows that, right, Joe? You're a photographer. You don't, you don't. Oh, what? You got one?

Oh, good. See, Guy. Guy, you're back. The audience is very upset. I was like, man, I'm not really mad at Guy. I love Guy. We're messing with him. He's fine. The guy does a great job. I'm not, folks. I'm just kidding. I love Guy. It's a joke. These guys are

great. That's my team. This stuff happens. It's no big deal. Thank you. Redeemed yourself for it. So there you see the picture. So he always gets off the front of the plane because the picture's better. And number two, because his quarters are at the front of the plane. His door is right there. He's not going to walk to the back of the plane by the press to get off the back steps.

So I read this story this morning in Politico. It's in the newsletter about Biden using the back steps. So I read this story this morning in Politico, it's in the newsletter, about Biden using the back steps, which are short. And you don't need a stair truck. They drop down. It's part of the plane. They're tiny. There are only 14 of them. Folks, I was in the Secret Service a long time. I spent almost five years on the president's detail. I have never seen the president use the back steps unless there was a security problem. And now when we went to Afghanistan with Obama and I did the advance, we used the back steps. Why? Because getting off the front, height is might, makes a great picture. But height, like I said before, is really good for a sniper. Makes a great target. Sniper wants to, yeah, it makes a great picture but height like i said before is really good for a sniper makes a great target sniper wants to yeah it's a great you're damn right it's a great target

because there's no obstructions on the ground you want to shoot a guy behind a car or you want to shoot a guy at height where there's nothing else around sadly they're going to want to kill the guy because it's an easier target so you don't want the president up high. So in a security situation, if we can't control it, we'll use the back steps. It is rarely done. Apparently, a couple of press people picked up on the fact that Biden's using the retractable steps a whole lot now on the back, even though his quarters are in the front. And that almost never happens. Why? Because they're afraid he's going to fall.

because they're afraid he's going to fall. Biden, they know, boarded the shorter step, he's on the short steps now, Joe, of retractable stairs that fold into the belly of the plane. The routine, they know, began a few months ago, with the president increasingly avoiding the grander, more traditional doorway near the front of the aircraft on the main passenger level, higher above the tarmac. Here's a screenshot number two.

Here's Karine Jean-Pierre trying to hide what's going on. It's very prudent because he's going to fall. He says, Karine Jean-Pierre, she, excuse me, says, I don't have any decision process to walk through. I'm sure there's a protocol that's used for Air Force One. I just don't have one. There is a protocol. I just told you what it is.

The stair truck drives up. The president comes out of his quarters right there, waves and walks down the damn stairs. Listen to me. I'm going to end this here. This guy is in serious cognitive trouble. There isn't a chance in hell they are giving up the grand picture and all of this stuff and decades of protocol on how we walk the president off a plane. There's not a chance they're doing it unless they are deathly afraid that this guy's deteriorating by the second and probably, probably can't even make it up 14 steps without falling. You know, Justin wants to know how long till a cherry picker comes out.

This is, and then, you know what it is? And they roll them out on a gurney. And anyway, how long? I don't know. Probably soon.

We're laughing. Now it's probably only going to be a few minutes. So that happens. This guy is clearly messed up. You know, wait, wait, just before we go,

I know I said this before. Number one, questions for tomorrow if you want to submit a question. Oh, we're not doing questions tomorrow, right? Yeah, we're going to skip a week, folks. We're going to, some people didn't like,

we'll go back to it next week. So we're not going to do questions for tomorrow. It will be back, I promise you, but it does take away from the show a little bit sometimes. I want to play the last video, Trump with Caviezel and Tim Ballard. You got that one?

Just before we go, Trump did a special screening of the unbelievable, incredible movie, Sound of Freedom, that has now crossed an astonishing $100 million. Folks, we are winning

these culture wars. You should be so proud of yourself. This movie is amazing. Buy a ticket for everyone. Buy a ticket for yourself. Buy a ticket for your family members. They had a screening. Donald Trump was there last night

and a bystander took this video and it's really cool him congratulating the star Jim Caviezel and the real star, Tim Ballard, the agent who rescued a lot of these kids. Take a look. Thank you all very much. That was incredible.

Jim, that was unbelievable. What a job. A president of possibility. You made this the hottest movie anywhere in the world. So I think maybe becoming the president of Mexico by comparison, right? So I just wanted to thank you all. That was unbelievable acting. And Tim, what a job you did. Folks, look at this headline, Washington Examiner, sound of freedom breaks a hundred million dollars in box office sales.

You should be damn proud of yourself today. I'm so glad president Trump did that. Thank you to Tim Ballard. Most important of all the hero rescued, rescued those kids. To Jim Caviezel, had the courage to play, take this role on. He's a great guy. You all are amazing. Go see the movie. Buy a ticket for a friend. This is the front in the culture wars, ladies and gentlemen. We are winning.

And it's time to Bud Light CMT to the Country Music Channel. After what they did to Jason Aldean. Let's Bud Light him. Show him who's really in charge. It's all changing, folks. Be proud of yourself, man. Remember the wise words of Aeneas. A victor is not victorious.

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