The Dan Bongino Show - Sacrifice # 988 (Ep 988)

Episode Date: May 27, 2019

In this episode I address the desperate attempts by the media to get in the way of Trump’s declassification order. I also address the explosive comments by a GOP congresswoman this weekend. Finally, I address a personal story relevant to Memorial Day. News Picks:Liz Cheney calls out the Spygate conspirators. Media lunatic tweets out a fake Trump quote and gets caught. Swamp rats are fuming at Trump’s declassification order. The FAA fights back against alleged religious discrimination against Chic Fil A at these two airports. Copyright Dan Bongino All Rights Reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino. All right, welcome to the Dan Bongino Show on this Memorial Day where we remember those lost and sacrificed to our country. There is absolutely, certainly no greater love than to give your body, your soul, every breath of oxygen you are going to take for freedom and liberty and the freedom and liberty of others. So a sincere heartfelt thank you. And we have a special end to the show today for you to all of those men and women who bravely gave their lives. And although I know it's not Veterans Day, but thank you to those who served today as well. Sadly, that could be you. And you know that, and you still serve. God bless you, and God rest the souls of those American patriots out there,

including my uncle Gregory Ambrose, who was killed in March of 1968 south of Thu Duc, Vietnam, shot while defending his buddies. You're the bravest man I never met. I was born in 1974, but it changed my family forever so um on this memorial day producer joe uh how are you today you doing all right i'm doing good dan glad to be here on memorial day and yeah wars will change families forever even i even for the ones that come home and i think especially for the ones that die, that pay the ultimate price. They will change a family. I was on Fox and Friends this morning at 645 Eastern.

And the last, there were three stories we covered, was just a remembrance and Memorial Day of those brave souls. And I was talking about my uncle and I just, I choked up on the air. It's only happened twice. Once talking about my mother-in-law, how great she was and her story, her immigration story to the United States. But I couldn't get through it. I just said, you know,

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All right, folks, let's get started with the show. So over the weekend, we had the media, John Brennan, Jim Clapper, former Obama administration, cabal of lunatics gathering the gathering storm to issue these bold warnings that the declassification we discussed on friday for those who missed the show um donald trump gave attorney general bill barr the authority to declassify a series of of documents 302s documents and other paperwork to get to the bottom of one thing how did the investigation into the trump team start we still don't have an answer. I have called it paragraph one. What is paragraph one of the long document, the document trail left behind by the Spygate co-conspirators who spied on Trump? What started the case?

What does paragraph one of the book, the story, the memorandum report actually say? We still don't know. The declassification authority now given to Attorney General Bill Barr to investigate this has the media, the police state media, Pravda, the hacks in the Pravda media, absolutely freaking out because the media is not really the media. The media are liberal activists disguised as journalists. Journalism is dead.

It has been dead for a long time. Ironically, the Washington Post motto is democracy dies in the darkness while they are the darkness. So we see this story, Joe, from the New York Times. This is just disturbing stuff. This is the New York slimes again doing their best to cover

up the biggest scandal of our generation. Potential clash over secrets looms between the justice department and the cia now there's a snippet from this piece that should frighten all of you instead yeah instead of the new york times actually trying to get to the bottom of the biggest political spying scandal of our time and finding out why it started why was the trump campaign and later trump presidency spied on the new york times isn't interested in that the new york times is taking leaks from and check this out explain who says i can almost guarantee you that their sources here are either brennan or a brennan lieutenant who is now leaking this to the new york times it says

the intelligence agency signaled on fr Friday they would not easily give up their secrets. Keep that up. OK, that's not your call. OK. Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, pledged to cooperate with the review, but also warned that the secrets of the intelligence community must be protected. Hey, Dan, Dan.

If you want to run for president, go right ahead. But Dan Coats was appointed by Donald Trump and works for Donald Trump. Dan Coats is the current director of national intelligence. Dan O, if you want to run for the presidency, go right ahead. He's a former senator.

You are not the president. You will obey orders. And if you do not, I strongly encourage the Trump team to fire him yesterday. It goes on. Yeah, that's right. I am confident the attorney general will work with the IC in accordance with long established standards to protect highly sensitive classified information that if publicly released would put our national security at risk. Mr. Coates said in a statement.

We have been told this over and over. Over and over. Now, over and over again, that if we were to declassify any of this information that Nunes and others investigating paragraph one, how the cases that Trump started, Joe, we have been told that national security is at risk. And none of those threats have come to fruition

because national security would not be at risk and none of those threats have come to fruition because national security would not be at risk the new york times goes on later in the piece astonishingly and i'll get to this in a second with a washington examiner piece to claim that there is a source close to putin and if we give this information up that source may be added having said that let's go to this washington examiner piece by Byron York. Now, just to tie up portion one of this segment, if you cannot comply and you are an

intelligence community member, quit immediately or to the Trump team, fire these people tomorrow. You are the President of the United States. They work for you. Why? Byron York piece, which will be in the show notes. They work for you. Why? Byron York piece, which will be in the show notes today.

Please read them. Always available at Bongino.com. You subscribe to our email list. We'll send them right to you. Byron York, as bar malls declassification, a familiar tune from critics. The familiar tune, of course, is what Joe and I were just joking about. Yeah. These dire warnings from the intelligence community. If we expose how the case started, sources and methods, national security will be at risk.

National security for what? Shut up! Apparently your sources suck. They are horrible. Your sources are awful. Your sources gave you information, none of which was actually true. Joe, maybe it was disinformation? Yeah, maybe.

Has that occurred to anybody who can think about this rationally? From the Byron York piece. This is just hysterical. These guys, and I mean hysterical in a tragic way. They're talking about the New York Times, by the way. Attributing its story to former officials guaranteed it's Brennan or one of his lieutenants.

The Times said the source was someone close to Putin who gave the CIA information about Putin's involvement in U.S. election interference and specifically turned over evidence to support the conclusion that Putin himself was behind the Russia hack.

The source has been long nurtured by the CIA and was highly valued by Brennan when he was the director. All of that work might be at risk from Barr's work, the New York Times suggested. So again, instead of the New York Times being on the side of openness and transparency and getting to the bottom of the biggest political spying scandal of our generation, the New York Times has run an interference for John Brennan and his lieutenants who now have to admit that they had a source close to Putin, by the way, that was conveniently outed, Joe, by the New York Times in their own story. How about that?

How about that? Now, what I find fascinating is actual media people claiming to be journalists at the New York Times have not even thought through the basics of this case if the CIA and John Brennan has a source close to Putin how come this investigation was started

without any official intelligence what am I talking about have you been paying attention to what's going on not to my listeners I'm talking to the libs liberals know exactly what I I talking about? Have you been paying attention to what's going on? Not to my listeners. I'm talking to the libs. Liberals know exactly what I'm talking about. Devin Nunes, who's been investigating this, has repeatedly stated in media interviews that there was no official intelligence, meaning the intelligence they used to start

the investigation of the Trump was being run through a back end channel, a non-official channel. Why? Because they're hiding it. That's why. So you're telling me you have a source close to Vladimir Putin. The New York Times is telling you. And they say this with no air of incredulousness or no ability to question it at all. They say this with no, like, wait, what? So there's a source close to Vladimir Putin that allegedly has been feeding John Brennan himself back channel information that all turned out to be wrong.

The whole FISA warrant has been debunked despite the fact that Carter Page took a trip to Russia, which is not illegal all of your unofficial information from your golden fire source all turned out to be false and yet you still want to protect the source close to putin by outing a source close to putin in the new york times if none of this makes sense, it shouldn't. It can't make sense. The New York Times, let's protect the source close to Putin. The same New York Times, let's out the source close to Putin because the CIA guys close to Brennan who told us

they had a sensitive source close to Putin have now outed the source close to Putin to the New York Times. That's ridiculous. That's ridiculous. I need a frontal lobe lobotomy to understand these people. Follow that for a second. Brennan, we've got a source

close to Putin. His information's been wrong every time, but he's like Putin's right-hand dude. Is it Surkov? Is it Trebnikov? Steel sources? The two Russian disinformation specialists who are close to Putin? Is it the same guys? Because let me tell you something, God forbid, those sources that are feeding back-channel information to Brennan

through non-official channels to hide it, that's the only reason. to Brennan through non-official channels to hide it. That's the only reason. Is there another explanation why the director of the CIA would abandon his protocols at the CIA to act as a collector of intelligence himself in a back channel? Maybe because your intelligence is wrong. It is Russian disinformation. Remember Chubnikov and Surkov? Yeah. The two sources Christopher Steele said to Kathleen Kavalec at the State Department were

his sources. These are people close to Putin, also close to friends of Steele, dear love, and also close to Halper, who they teach a class with, who was the spy. So you're telling me a Russian disinformation channel abused the CIA director willingly because Brennan didn't run it through official channels. And now that he successfully manipulated the entire American FISA court and legal system, law enforcement system, and the intelligence community,

this Russian source, he's to be outed in the New York Times while simultaneously the New York Times is complaining that he's being outed. This is unbelievable. This is unbelievable. Yes. Yes.

The New York Times, always on the side of dishonesty. Why you would trust anything from these complete knucklehead liberal activists mouthpieces on the left is so bizarre. Now, it doesn't end. We had this other clown at CNN tweeting out this weekend, still in their desperate New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, desperate effort to cover up paragraph one. Here's Marshall Cohen. You're watching it. If you're watching the YouTube, you'll get it.

Okie dokie. Let me not go there. No matter what. Marshall. Marshall. let me not let me not go there no matter what let me marshall this is not marshall mathers m&m this is marshall uh this guy oh really it's not this is the dumbest tweet i have ever seen it makes me laugh it's hysterical no matter what trump bar anyone says about the origins of the russian investigation remember this there is no question about how the investigation began in july of 2016 here's what the muller report said and this is the same conclusion by newness and shift again cnn doing its best doing its best to cover up the

fact that as you can see by this g GCHQ piece here we saw on the coverage of the GCHQ, it's unclear whether they highlighted the British role, which has been closely held in the briefing, but is a critical part of the timeline because it suggests that some of the first tip-offs in fall of 2015 came from voice intercepts, computer traffic, or human sources outside the United States as emails and other data from the DNC flowed out of the country. What am I getting at? I'm not trying to confuse you. And big hat tip to our buddy at John W. Huber, the account on Twitter.

It's not an official John Huber, the AUSA account, but it is whoever's behind it does extraordinary work. Hat tip to him for this. That's his red lines on there. Now I'll connect the two. So again, just to go back to the New York Times is not remotely curious about how this case began. Barr is getting to the bottom of it. The New York Times is issuing fake warnings about a source that gave us fake information. They out the source while simultaneously claiming they're trying to protect the source against Barr

incredible it then goes on to say he's a source close to Putin as if there's no possibility at all that if this is true Putin's laughing at us right now that you use this guy we told him to say that you idiots

everybody's laughing even the studio audience is laughing at him CNN guy is not remotely curious about any of this Marshall's there Marshall not remotely curious about any of this. Marshall's there. Marshall's not curious about any of the origins of this. There's no questions to be asked, despite the fact that we have that piece that in the fall of 2015, British NSA types, the GCHQ, that's their entity. It does what the NSA does here, was giving information to the United States about the Trump team.

Wait, Marshall, I thought that couldn't happen. So the investigation allegedly, according to Marshall Cohen, who has no ability to get out of his CNN idiot bubble, right? Marshall Cohen in the idiot bubble, he's fully contained by a Kevlar-laden idiot bubble. He's like, no, no, no, there's no question. The case began July 31st of 2016 with the investigation of the Crossfire Hurricane case. Wow, that's insane. Because as Huber points out, then that means this, Joe,

that the British were passing information about the Trump team in this alleged Russian collusion conspiracy is far back in fall of 2015 and the Obama administration magically did nothing about it. Now, there's only two possible ways to make that equalize. Now, Marshall, I know you can tune out now. This is where the part

where intellectuals get involved. See you, Marshall. That doesn't include you. Take it easy, man. Yeah, but thanks for tuning in. We appreciate it. Someone, I'm sure, is going to tell him that we spoke about him on the show.

Our audience is big enough, even on the holidays. But you can tune out now. This is for serious people, again, not including you. There's only two explanations there. Either the Brits were given these dire warnings about the Russians colluding with the Trump team,

and the Obama team believed those warnings and did nothing about it until, as Marshall says, the case opened a year later in the summer of 2016. Right? Explanation one. And by the way, the Obama administration didn't warn the Trump campaign at all. Why? Because they wanted the Russians to do this? Why? There was no defensive briefing specifically about this threat?

Like the briefing you gave Dianne Feinstein, Democrat senator from California, when we found out her Senate office was infiltrated by a Chinese spy? Oh. You mean that kind of briefing?

So scenario one, you believe the information was true, Trump was colluding with the Russians, or the Russians were trying to collude with Trump, in the fall of 2015 and the Obama administration magically did nothing because as Marshall

says, nothing to see here. The case didn't open until the summer of 2016. There's no question. Marshall says there's no question. Or scenario two, this is an illicit spying operation between the Brits and people in the United States in the intel community who are trying to circumvent our official intelligence infrastructure and our laws against spying on American citizens without the proper predicate. So they use the Brits to do it. They know the information is bogus and they only open the case in July of 2016 when

they can finally coax the FBI that their bogus information is true. People fall for this stuff. It is phenomenal how stupid you have to be to fall for this. It really is. It's a disgrace to media. Democracy dies in the darkness. That's hysterical.

Now I'm going to get to Liz Cheney in a second. Liz Cheney has been laying the smack down. She was on one of those horrible Sunday shows with a biased left-wing liberal think tank anchor activist who tried to pin her down on something. Liz Cheney fired right back. I'm going to get to that in a second. Today's show also brought to you by our buddies at DoorDash. We are big users of DoorDash in the Bongino household. Listen, you got a long day at work, tough day at school. Yes and yes. My wife and I love DoorDash.

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Yeah. They're so left-wing and pathetic. So, I'm sorry, but these anchors, they all, you know. Yeah. They're so left wing. We hear you. So I had to cut this short. You know, I get upset even talking about it because they're so biased. They're so not even remotely curious about what happened here. So Cheney drops the smackdown on this left wing anchor from ABC. This is just great. Check this out.

I think what is really crucially important to remember here is that you had Strzok and Page who were in charge of launching this investigation and they were saying things like we must stop this president. We need an insurance policy against this president. That in my view when you have people that are in the highest echelons of the law enforcement of the nation saying things like that, that sounds an awful lot like a coup and it could well be treason. And I think that we need to know more. We need to know what was Jim Comey's role in all of this.

These people reported to him. Andy McCabe reported to him. What was Comey's role in that? And that is what the attorney general is going to be. Yes. Thank you, Liz Cheney. It was a coup and it could very well be treason

and God bless you for saying it on this ABC show with this left wing anchor who seems entirely flummoxed by the fact that that she just said that I could have played the longer cup but I just wanted to hit that

because there's a number of things here and again I did my regular Monday morning Fox and Friends appearance. I encourage you all to watch. And I discussed this this morning. I have a little bit more of an opportunity, obviously, given the longer show here to discuss it in a little more detail. Let's not forget what happened. There's no need to relitigate the entire Spygate case. You've been here a long time. But very simply, there was a spying operation on the Trump team that began as far back

as the fall of 2015, as we just saw from our own media pieces, hat tip John W. Huber. Foreign intel people were spying on the Trump team. That information gets fed to the FBI.

It's clearly Russian disinformation from a source paid by Hillary getting information as he claims from two Russians close to Putin we now know according to the New York Slimes that Brennan's getting information from a source close to Putin too the information is wrong it is obviously disinformation at this point an effort to manipulate these intel folks who got caught up in this web of deceit. What happens then? After the operation is exposed, Donald Trump wins the presidency, the cover-up begins.

The cover-up does not do a good job. They try to get Trump impeached. It doesn't work. What happens then? Jim Comey, who was the FBI director who ran this investigation on the law enforcement side into Trump, Comey, who was the FBI director who ran this investigation on the law enforcement side into Trump. Comey is fired. We uncovered tweets finding out that the motivation of some of the higher ups who ran this case struck and page that their motivations were to, quote, stop him.

The president were to get an insurance policy. Comey was their boss. He was the FBI director. Comey's can. was their boss. He was the FBI director. Comey's can. After Comey's can, Comey, Comey's subordinate, Andrew McCabe, okays a probe to investigate the president for firing the FBI director who illicitly and potentially illegally investigated the president. To assist the probe, Jim Comey, in violation of FBI rules, then leaks a series of memos to his media buddies.

Used to start a probe into Donald Trump for calling attention to an illegal investigation into him. So now investigating him for the decisions he made to make things right. Ladies and gentlemen, I posted this little piece about Comey being a witness a long time ago. This is important. This is from the special counsel's own documents. The FBI and the special counsel's office have determined that the disclosure of the Comey memos or any portions of them could be reasonably expected to adversely affect the pending Russia investigation. Former FBI Director James B. Comey is a witness in the pending investigation.

How is this not an attempted coup? This could very well be treason. treason. Jim Comey is a witness in a case he started by illicitly leaking memos of his private conversations with the president to the media to get an investigation going into the president for firing Jim Comey for starting an illicit investigation. Follow what I just said. Hit the 15 second back button and listen to that again. Jim Comey's buddy, Bob Mueller, was investigating Donald Trump for a case Comey's a witness in for getting fired

for starting an illicit investigation into the President of the United States who fired him. Folks, this is stunning. This is stunning this is stunning I have another screen grab about the date roughly in May and I want to hat tip again

John W. Huber give appropriate credit his Twitter account or her I don't know who it is it's incredible but this is from the special counsel's lawyer Mueller's team has a lawyer too the special counsel's lawyer the special muller's team has a lawyer too the special counsel's lawyer this is key before the appointment on the special counsel of may 17th on may 17th the fbi had opened an investigation into obstruction of justice wait ladies and gentlemen let me get this straight the f, before the appointment of the special counsel, Bob Mueller on May 17th.

Remember, Comey, keep these dates in mind, Joe. Comey is fired on May 9th. It's not Mueller's team that initially opens up the obstruction case. It's Comey's buddy, Andy McCabe. When exactly did they open up this obstruction case? Ladies and gentlemen, FBI lore, which is wrong 99% of the time with this case, it's usually a lie, sadly. FBI lore, their story, their fairy tale, is that the case opened after the Trump's interview with Lester Holt from NBC

on May 11th. Keep the dates in mind. Comey's fired on May 9th, Joe. May 11th, he interviews with NBC's Lester Holt. He says he was fired, that they go into Comey, and then he says at the end, you know, in this Russia thing, he doesn't say he was fired because of the Russia probe. The FBI's fairytale here, Joe, is,, is, well, after that, we opened up an obstruction probe. So May 9th, Comey's fired. The Lester Holt interview's on May 11th. So technically, this case should have opened according to the FBI's fairy tale on May 12th. I'm not so sure that's the case, Joe.

If this case was opened on May 10th before the Holt interview, one, we can debunk another lie. It started because of the Lester Holt interview. And second, we can be assured that Comey's buddy opened up a case surely as a revenge measure. Comey's buddy McCabe, after his buddy Comey's buddy opened up a case, surely as a revenge measure. Comey's buddy McCabe, after his buddy Comey had been fired.

You want to talk about a catastrophic, colossal abuse of power? So you're the boss, you would surgically attach your lips to the rear of Jim Comey, who promoted you despite you being a briefer your whole life, McCabe. He gets fired for all of his malfeasance, his poor handling of the Hillary probe, his awful decision-making, his peacocking in front of the networks and trying to be the guy all the time. He gets fired by Rosenstein and you respond by abusing your power to open up an investigation into a duly elected president who made

the decision? Folks, God forbid this case was opened May 10th. That would be another FBI fairy tale thrown and flushed right down the toilet. Yep. Alright, I've got a lot more to get to.

I want to do a quick thanks, though, to Rite Aid. Listen, you know, it's fashionable on the left, not on this show, of course, to bash corporate America, you know, corporations as if people don't work for businesses that actually earn money and produce products we need. That's just leftist dribble, right? Yeah. But very rarely do people get to celebrate the actions of corporations that do the right thing. Corporations are made of people.

That's only tough for leftists to understand. They're not space aliens. These are human beings that form boards and management staff and employees of corporations and businesses that hire people and produce products we need. I was watching Fox & Friends this morning right before I came on. I was watching Fox and Friends this morning right before I came on, and Rite Aid, the drug chain, donated an astounding $6 million to Folds of Honor, which is a Dan Rooney-run terrific, terrific charity, Folds of Honor. They do scholarships for the children of the fallen and soldiers. I mean, it's an amazing charity, Folds of Honor. They're on Fox and Friends a lot.

They do amazing work. They donated $6 million, right, Aiden? Wow. Do you have any idea the lives that is going to change? So, you know, on this Memorial Day, listen, they're not a paid sponsor on my show or anything like this is strictly a thank you. No one at Fox asked me to say this. This is just me saying a Rite Aid. I really wish there was a Rite Aid near me, because if there was, I would transfer my business to you. would transfer my business to you stat that is a phenomenal gesture of goodwill and as a gesture of goodwill my my wife and i are going to donate a thousand dollars today um to folds of honor as

well all right dan so yeah we paula will do that later today um we're going to make that donation as well and i encourage you if you know whatever your financial situation is, if you can, I know with everyone, it's not possible. Thanks to your listenership on my show. It is for us. And we donate other money to scholarships as well. We're not patting ourselves on the back. I wish we had $6 million to do it, but we do what we can and it matters to us. So God bless you, right, Ed? That was solid. And America and our patriots out there appreciate that. Okay. Now, sadly, to get back to some bad news. So whenever we're covering the media on this show, I just wish we could have an honest story. And when I say the media, I'm typically

referring to the left-wing media. Chuck Ross, Molly Hemingway, Sarah Carter, John Solomon, Byron York have all done, these are actual investigative journalists who have done spectacular work uncovering the Spygate scandal, the biggest scandal of our time. They will be remembered by history as the good guys and the good women out there. But of course you have the left-wing media, which pretty much always gets it wrong, amazingly. This one, this story is hard to believe because of the, I hate to keep, you know, I don't like to repeat the same words, but I can only think of the word temerity here to describe what happened. So you have this guy, Ian Bremmer,

here's a story at the Daily Caller who shockingly appears on MSNBC and CNN. He should never CNN and stuff. He should never be allowed on again after this. I don't think, I think he writes for time, but the daily caller is a piece about a fake quote. Here's the piece. Peter Hassan, good guy at the daily quarter actually,

actually does journalism time magazines, columnist time magazines, columnist Trump quote one viral. Okay. What's the story? Well, part two, then he admitted he made it up.

You're a loser. This guy, Ian Bremmer, from the piece. This is amazing. You are a loser. He totally makes up this quote. Ian Bremmer, at Ian Bremmer, blue check mark, media liberal activist. President Trump in Tokyo. Kim Jong-un is smarter and would make a better president than sleepy Joe Biden.

Wow. That's a crazy tweet. Man, unfortunately, it's made up. It never happened. And what's insane, what's crazy, Joe, just to double down on left-wing media lunacy. This is crazy. It's absolutely nuts. Instead of the media, they do This is crazy. It's absolutely nuts. Instead of the media,

they do facts, Joe. They're reporters. Dreaded air quotes. Journalism. Quadruple dreaded air quotes. This is the mainstream media. Instead of going after this guy and being like, dude, Ian,

listen, this is not what we do. You don't have to like Trump. You don't have to appreciate what he's done. You don't have to do any of it. But you can't just make stuff up. They're defending this guy. They're defending this guy while at the same time...

Here we go. This is it. This is it. People out there. This is it. What's his name? Kasim Rashid. Sorry, Esquire. I'm sorry if I'm saying your name wrong. I'm actually going after this guy. It's a fake quote.

Why is the GOP silent on this? Because it's made up. Because he never said it. Oh, my gosh. Why is the GOP silent on this fake quote? Because it's not real? Never said it? You think that may have something to do with it?

Why are we silent? Now, Joe, showing you the disparity, it's so easy with these media lunatics, right? So again, we like to distill things down to simply explainable, digestible bullets. What we're talking about here right now supposedly are principles right so the left wing media supposedly doesn't object to doctored quotes right doctor in this case completely

fabricated they they don't have a problem with it they they defended him they said it captured the spirit of what he said okay yeah so let's try to rationally think this through the mainstream media's new new new new new position on journalism is making quotes up is okay as long as it captures the spirit of what donald trump said and although ian bremer lied and made it up doctoring stuff doesn't matter joe. No. This is what they said, right? Joe, are you getting this? In order for me to move on, this has to make sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know you know where I'm going because you saw

the rundown here. Disgusting. But this is fascinating. Yeah. Because the media seem to object strongly. Here are some more tweets of left-wingers, by the way, defending this stuff, defending this made-up quote. What's amazing is Nancy Pelosi stammered through a speech on Friday.

The speech was not doctored, but it was edited. Edited. There's a difference. Yes. Meaning it wasn't doctored at all. Sometimes we just quote, according to the media, doctored that Liz Cheney quote. Did we? No, of course we didn't.

Joe edited it for time. Joe took out the question and the remainder of it because we were, it was not doctored at all. That is exactly what Liz Cheney said in the context she said it. Verbatim. So a video aired that Trump retweeted of Nancy Pelosi stammering through the

speech it was not doctored it was edited and there were snippets of it put together and the media lost their minds they went crazy this is doctored it wasn't doctored at all do you understand the frauds you see where i'm going with this? On one hand, an edited video of Pelosi, not doctored at all, not made up, but edited for time and for effect, to be candid. That is a major no-no. But completely fabricated, forget about doctored, beyond doctored, completely fabricated quotes about Trump are no big deal because it gets the spirit of what's going on. Ladies and gentlemen, I am really I feel bad for you.

I really do. I genuinely and sincerely feel bad for you. If you believe the media, the mainstream media in the United States are the real deal. They are a complete, utter joke. They are a laughingstock. Nobody believes them. They've embarrassed themselves. I will defend them till

the day I take my last breath. Their right to be free. We need a free press, but the right to be free also includes the right to be stupid. And that is the right they have taken. They have fully embraced and they love it. The media embraces and loves the idea that they can do and say stupid things all the time. Unprincipled, nonsensical things. It's embarrassing. Embarrassing. All right. A couple more stories I want to get to today.

And we have a special tribute by our buddy, Joe. But I just wanted to briefly address to Preet Bharara, who was kissing Trump's butt for a job. He's now a liberal activist, claims to be a lawyer. He was. He is actually a lawyer, but he should turn in his law degree. He took a shot at me this weekend on Twitter. I don't like to cover Twitter fights, but it's just indicative because they're boring and they're stupid and you don't need to, but it just goes to show you. Preet Bharara was the US attorney for the Southern District of New York. He's one of the most powerful men in America. He went up to Trump Tower during the transition and begged Trump for a job. Trump told him no. So he immediately

turned on Trump and started his own show, his podcast, where he's attacked Trump. He attacked Liz Cheney this weekend. That's how I got into this little fight with him. But what's fascinating, man, what's kind of funny is Barrera kind of like took a shot at me. He's like, good luck with your podcast, like being snarky, which was kind of funny because our podcast was ranked 11 spots higher than his. So I responded back. Actually, I don't need luck. You need the luck. Hope you'll catch up sometime this week, Preet. So nice job. I kind of brought that up on Fox this morning too. Nice job. Maybe you'll get it. Listen, it's stupid. I get it. But it's just kind of funny how far these left-wing activists go. All right. A couple more things, but today's show, finally, brought to you by our buddies at Clutter.

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Don't forget, check them out. Clutter.com slash Bongino. Enter promo code Bongino at checkout. Okay. One interesting story story it's quick to summarize but you know i like debunking liberal miss please save this screenshot if you wouldn't mind folks if you can uh if you're watching on youtube.com if not if you're listening at home um it was a washington post tweet you can check it out but here it is here the washington post

joe 5 24 19 at 7 19 in the Racial prejudice has declined as a reaction to Trump's presidency, a new study suggests. Yeah. Can you put that up again? Because I, did I, Paula, did I read that wrong? Joe, Joe, was this doctored? Paula, did you doctor this or edit this? That's a no from Paula.

She did not doctor edit this. Racial prejudice has declined as a reaction to Trump's presidency, a new study suggests. Take that screenshot, ladies and gentlemen, from the Washington Post Twitter feed. Keep it on your phone. And the next time these identity politics obsessed liberals again open their mouths about how racial relations have deteriorated you may want to point out that they got worse under barack obama and apparently are now getting better under president trump just a suggestion facts and data should matter i know you're liberals that's really hard to digest

and you're so obsessed you know that your brains are like infected with prions that lead to this severe tier one level TDS, Trump derangement syndrome. I get it. But once in a while, a fact may penetrate. That one may be useful, although I doubt it. As I say, argue with your liberal friends, but not to break through to them because the chances of them being saved are remote. It's typically the third person listening you can convince. There's always three or four people listening to your debates. Those are the people who may matter in the end. Finally, one last story. Be very careful about this.

This deplatforming trend is continuing and it's transferring into banking, transferring into banking as we can see from this story at the New York Post here, which is making a very serious allegation that JPMorgan Chase has been debanking some conservatives out there, allegedly because of their political beliefs. And if you read the answer they gave, which is very wishy-washy, again, I don't have a lot to add to this story. I want to get it out there, though, as a warning, more than anything. We've already seen deplatforming. People like Alex Jones and others, whether you agree with them or not,

taking off platforms, significant platforms out there. We've already seen this movement. Can you imagine, Joe, if this transforms itself into a full-blown definitional platforming effort and anyone who's a conservative out there with any level of prominence can't even get a bank account oh dude dangerous new horizons ahead folks dangerous new horizons ahead be very cautious about this stuff okay um finally today i uh i try to get through this because i always get a little uh and i don't you know it's just for me, but we opened up the show. It is Memorial Day. And as I said, my uncle, Greg Ambrose,

we lost in Vietnam in March of 1968. I wasn't born until 74. So obviously I wasn't there to experience it. But my family had a connection with a, he was a liberal guy up in New York. Used to write op-eds. A lot of you know who he is. If you're from New York, Jimmy Breslin,lin he was very famous it was actually an hbo special

done on you remember breslin he's probably the most popular columnist of his time him and pete hamill used to work for the new york newspapers and their their columns were read um by by millions of people um breslin wasn't liberal there's no doubt about it but breslin was very close with people from my family and when we lost my uncle breslin wrote a piece, there's no doubt about it, but Breslin was very close with people from my family. And when we lost my uncle, Breslin wrote a piece about it. And it was a touching piece. My mother had sent it to me and I have it. And, you know, I, of course, got choked up reading it. But it talks about the moment my family found out that my mother's brother, my uncle Greg, obviously my grandmother's son, the moment

they found out that they lost him. St. Pancras, which is now since closed, the grammar school I went to is where we all went to school. My whole family went to school there. It's in Glendale, Queens. It's since closed. The church is open, but the school is sadly closed. But they were coming from, was it St. Patrick's Day dance? And they were coming from his uh was this saint patrick's day dance and they were walking down the street and these two soldiers that had come to deliver the bad news my uncle was supposed to be home was supposed to be coming home they had the signs welcome home greg in a bar my family used to own called gibby's bar at 64th Place and Myrtle Avenue in Glendale, Queens. Now, my grandfather, my grandmother had remarried.

Her first husband died. My grandfather was not Greg's father. He was his stepfather. But my grandfather was a big man. Big man. I mean big in spirit, but I mean a big man physically. He was about 6'5", about 500 pounds. He was a big man.

He'd mess around. So my grandmother, they're walking back from this St. Patrick's Day dance event with my mother and my three aunts at the time, Greg's sisters, who we lost. And my grandfather spotted these two soldiers first, and he knew right away. I got to get through this. It's important. Because I want people to understand what this does to families.

And what it did to mine. So my grandfather stopped them and basically said to them, and he didn't mean this disrespectfully, but said, you're not telling her anything. Talking about my grandmother. About her son's death. because she'll die on the sidewalk like right here she'll she won't have he said i'm gonna tell her and given my grandfather's size i bet they probably listened but at some point of course they had to relay the official

message and they did and breslin's piece is you know again I don't agree with Breslin's politics when he was alive but it's pretty it's a pretty extraordinary telling of how they just collapsed on the sidewalk I loved my grandmother she since passed I can never get through this story.

She was never the same from that moment on. She died with a fully broken heart. And I think on this Memorial Day, it's important we recognize that however broken, And it's important we recognize that however broken, damaged, angry we can be at our everything they had, everything they were going to have, and the peace of mind of their families for generations by leaving their bodies, their blood, their limbs, and everything else in combat zones so that we can sit here and watch shows like this on flat screen TVs and phones in the peace and security of knowing we live in the greatest country on earth. My grandmother was never, ever the same. She died with the most broken of broken hearts. And she died decades after we lost greg so in honor of the great families and men and women who have given so much our buddy joe i don't know if you know about Joe.

Joe doesn't celebrate himself a lot. He's a pretty talented musician. Joe wanted to send this out this way, Joe. You take it away.... um You just heard the Dan Bongino Show. You can also get Dan's podcasts on iTunes or SoundCloud and follow Dan on Twitter 24 seven at D Bon Gino.