The Dan Bongino Show - Shocking Revelations At The Trump Assassination Attempt Hearing (Ep. 2317)

Episode Date: August 27, 2024

In this episode, I cover the shocking revelations about the Trump assassination attempt revealed during the Congressional hearing, the egregious arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, and AOC being accosted by lunatic pro-Palestine hecklers. What is Telegram and why was its CEO arrested in Paris? Harris and Trump squabble over muted mics at upcoming debate Former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard endorses Trump in the 2024 presidential race 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 so how about that yesterday listen guys i don't like to um there's no shit talking on this show okay i i say all the time talk is great it's nothing wrong with talking but if talking doesn't motivate action it's action that changes the world, right? Right? Talking, talk is a part of that. Inspirational speeches, you give an inspirational speech at halftime,

the team goes out and wins the game. Maybe the talk had something to do with it, but ultimately you have to go on the darn field and play the damn game, right? So I said to you, I was willing, more than willing to be a part of any effort to get to the bottom of what happened with the secret service and the failures because there's too much at stake

if the secret service is not fixed I'm glad many of you enjoyed the show yesterday we traveled up to DC thank you to Justin and Guy who came with me we're back we got back last night not that late and now we're ready to roll cover what happened yesterday and a lot more i mean just a nuclear facebook story again guys what's our record on conspiracy theories anybody know batting average is close to a thousand i'm gonna say because there may be there's still maybe one straggler what did we tell you facebook helped steal the election. Now Facebook is admitting we helped steal the election in 2020. Thank you. Beams Labor Day sale is here.

It's never been a better time to finally try Beams Dream Powder. Get some sleep. Find it at shopbeam.com slash Bongino. Welcome to the show today. I got some coverage of my opening statement, which some of you may have missed. You saw my hour and 40-minute Rumble show. However, the actual hearing was on C missed. You saw my hour and 40 minute Rumble show. However, the actual hearing was on C-SPAN and Rumble and elsewhere. We did not take that live because that was their feed and we didn't want to take it, but I'm going to show you a piece of it. Thank you to

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The bell is back. Guy told me yesterday during the hour and 40 minutes special with the congressman who did a great job that the intro uh intro just randomly ran in the middle i didn't hear that but it's good to get it back it's kind of weird to start the show without my like you know it's it's like accuse my brain we got a routine going folks did you notice by the way before i get to the hearing yesterday that uh are you any of you guys follow Marvel stuff? You know, the X-Men, you ever see that character mystique, Rebecca Romijn played her in the early X-Men movies. Mystique can become anything to anyone. Mystique is like goes or the goes Aryan from ghostbusters.

Like whatever mystique wants to be, she can, she wants to transform into like Justin or so she can look like Justin. That's Kamala Harris. Do you believe it? Kamala Harris wants to build the wall now. Kamala Harris is the most incredible, and I don't say that in a positive way, make no mistake, candidate I've ever seen. She's actually running against herself. It's the most amazing thing I've ever seen. Everything I did in San Francisco as a prosecutor in California, I'm running against it. Bidenomics, running against that too. Build the wall.

MAGA, baby, this is the most amazing thing I've ever seen. No tax on tips, steals it from Donald Trump. No tax on Social Security, steals it from Donald Trump. She's mystique. She's mystique. You know the blue character with the red hair? That's her. She transforms into anything, anytime. We'll get to that today and tomorrow.

I want to get to yesterday. Thank you all for watching. Sincerely, folks, we had 200,000, well, 199 to be precise, but what the hell, we'll round up. We had 200,000 people yesterday on the live stream watching my special. Thank you to the Heritage Foundation for giving us the space, Kevin Roberts and the crew.

We deeply appreciate it. The studio was amazing. And we had these excellent congressmen and Mark Morgan, former acting CBP commissioner and FBI agent himself, just blowing the cover off this stuff. There was a lot of stuff that came out yesterday. You can watch the whole show. So I'm obviously not going to recap the whole thing. But there was one particular thing I found out yesterday from Congressman Eli Crane, who was a Special Forces operator himself, that I found pretty stunning, that I had not heard.

Folks, I don't know everything. I'm not like one of these radio hosts, oh, I know everything. I don't. I hate that stuff. We're not doing that here. I know a lot. I've got good whistleblowers, but I don't know everything. I'm going to get to that in a second, but my opening statement in front of the congressional hearing at Heritage with the group yesterday went pretty viral. Thanks to you. I appreciate it. I wasn't trying to make anything viral. I was just trying to speak the truth.

Here's a portion of it. It's only about a minute 30 or so. But I called out three specific problems with the Secret Service if you want to fix this. Write these down, folks. This is important. They're technical problems. Their adage is yesterday's technology tomorrow. They cannot keep up with technology because they don't want to.

They just don't want to. That's why. And that's how they got outsmarted by a 20-year-old with a drone. Second, they have this more with less attitude. They don't do more with less. They do less with less. I described that here.

And finally, why the Secret Service is still doing criminal investigations and not exclusively protection is a mystery to any rational actor out there, given the litany of failings they've had over the last few years. Here's me talking about the more with less stuff and the tech problems. It's about a minute and 30. This thing won nuclear. Thanks to you. Appreciate it.

Check it out. First, they have a technology problem. The joke in the Secret Service, which is sadly no longer funny when I was there, and it wasn't funny then either, is they rely on yesterday's technology tomorrow. Think about that. Yesterday's technology tomorrow. Think about that. Yesterday's technology, tomorrow. Everything from computer systems at waste agents' times, filling out time and attendance records they were doing, to Congressman Crane and I discussing the fact that they only implemented slings, a technology as old as the

wheel, about, I don't know, five or six years into my time in the Secret Service, which is embarrassing. The weaponry was old, everything was old. These are things I would have talked about sooner if they didn't create a security crisis, and I obviously didn't want to air them publicly. Now you're seeing what happens when you don't have a drone up at a site you could have bought for $39.99 on Amazon Second.

Another adage in the Secret Service you've heard even the new acting director discuss is the more with less approach. There is no more with less. There's less with less, okay? The Secret Service more with less approach only works if you produce more. That's how capitalism works. You produce a flat screen TV that was probably 20 years ago $10,000. It's $200 at Walmart now.

They produce a better TV with less. That's not what the Secret Service did. They produced less with more. They were given more better TV with less. That's not what the secret service did. They produced less with more. They were given more money and produce less. A 20 year old criminal outsmarted them on a $40 drone technology piece of device. You're telling me that's more with less. It's disgusting. If you want to watch the whole thing,

it's on my Instagram. I'm at D Bungino. It's also on my Twitter account. Also at D Bungino, try to keep it consistent. And I saw a couple of people in the chat. They said, what's up with Eric Prince next to you, the founder of Blackwater, a former Navy SEAL himself. They say he looks a little uptight. You know, he's not uptight. And that camera angle, you're not really seeing what was going on. I got a lot of this yesterday. Eric and I are friends. We've known each other a long time. I mean, we're not like coffee buddies, but we know there's no negative feelings between us at all. If you look at the

screen, there were only two microphones. There wasn't one for each of us. So the microphone for me and Eric was situated between us. So you can't really see. You'll see what I'm saying. There's only two microphones, but three of us. So I'm actually leaning towards Eric and you know, guy zones, you know? So Eric's, he's not uptight. He's just, you don't know. That's why I should have explained that yesterday. Cause a lot of people on Twitter commented on, oh, Eric looks so uptight, looks so uncomfortable with Dan saying, not at all. Not at all. Eric's a good guy. Nothing to do with it at all. So let me explain that. But what I said there matters, spread that around, folks.

The Secret Service did not produce more with less. They produced less with more. Their budget went up, and they kept failing. The grenade attack, they had the issue in Atlanta with Obama in the elevator. The failures keep adding up. They're not producing more with less. They're producing less with more money.

The technology problem, why they're doing criminal investigations is ridiculous. Again, thank you for making that go viral. This happened yesterday, however. This is a little tidbit I did not know. Congressman Eli Crane, former Special Forces, really good guy. He's on my show, and I encourage you to watch the whole thing yesterday it it got well over a million views on rumble yesterday before we were on the plane back home i'm looking at justin it was five o'clock the thing had a million one hundred thousand views already on rumble watch the whole thing there's some damning information about the water tower there's some information about a second shooter. There's some different theories

about that. And that's why we had the panel. But there was also this part where Eli Crane talks about the explosives. I had initially heard they were basic, nothing that advanced. That's not what he heard. This adds a whole nother layer on the who the hell was the shooter working with angle. Listen to this. One of the gentlemen who's coming in to working with angle listen to this one of the gentlemen who's coming in to talk with us today uh ben schaefer he was one of the counter uh counter sniper guys here um he was telling me that the uh the explosives um he was talking to some of the guys the local guys the eod guys that looked at the explosives did reports on the explosives to cory's point said that these explosives and the explosives, did reports on the explosives, to Corey's point,

said that these explosives and the pictures that I saw of these explosives, Dan, where they were built in ammo cans, but they were actually pretty advanced. From guys that have, you know, years and years of experience who come across explosives all the time, homemade explosives say, hey, we're actually really surprised at the complexity of these explosives, which leads, you know, a rational thinker to believe that this 20 year old kid with no military experience, you know, with no, you know, history online or history that's been scrubbed and wiped, you know, might have been getting help. Folks, who the hell was this guy working with? folks who the hell was this guy working with pacino can you get on the case just a quickie poll in the chat does anybody seriously believe in this point after this hold on let me just lay

out the case just don't don't respond don't respond yet until you even though you may have already a hard opinion on this let me make the case to you quickly. The body's already been cremated, which is bizarre considering the level of activity and then the gravity of the situation that this guy Crooks was involved in. Murdering someone, shooting three others, including President Trump. Body's cremated and the locals apparently don't even know about it. The social media history, nobody's seen anything. Now we're finding out there's an account, but the language under the social media history, nobody's seen anything. Now we're finding out there's an account, but the language under the social media account,

did you guys hear this, is apparently that of someone way above this guy's age when it was started, so they think he may have been sharing it with the father. The father now has this like super high-end attorney out of Pittsburgh, who's one of the nation's best criminal defense lawyers. Where the hell are they getting money for that?

The FBI's not really saying much. Where the hell are they getting money for that? The FBI is not really saying much. The Secret Service isn't saying much. And the story's disappeared into the phantom zone of the media. Now, Bacino, do you really believe this guy was acting alone? Yes, I do. No, I

don't. Y or an N? Folks, I'm sorry. It's not plausible. This guy built some rather sophisticated bombs with a remote detonator that we now know work. Now, Michael Walls, who's a congressman out of Florida, Green Beret, and really he's not known as like a flamethrower type guy. Walls himself, a Green Beret. I'm going to take his opinion on the construction of explosives over a doctor or a lawyer or an HVAC guy. Because this is what these guys do, Green Berets. They teach other militaries how to deal with this stuff.

Even he's saying the level of sophistication with the explosives device is way beyond the capacity of this kid. He must have had some help. Why are they trying to make this thing go away? Folks, somebody was incentivizing this guy to do this. Was it a foreign actor through a proxy? Folks, I don't know. But the oddities in this case are adding up. And I want you to remember this.

I said this yesterday, and I'm going to show you this. I'm going to show you a CNN story next. Now, why am I using CNN? You know my theory on this, folks. Lefties love to tell you everything's a conspiracy theory. So if you're going to say that, I'm going to bait your own people in. If this is all a big conspiracy theory, he was acting alone, and there was no malice on the Secret Service's behalf.

Then CNN's part of the conspiracy too, and you shouldn't believe them either. And put the article up. What the hell? CNN, forgotten radios and missed warnings. New details emerge about communication failures before the Trump rally shooting. Folks,

they didn't even pick up the local radios. The Secret Service didn't pick up the local radios the secret service didn't pick up the local radios that were left with them they didn't even pick them up to use them if they would have just picked up the radio i mean like actually physically picked it up and carried it they would have heard for an over an hour that they were tracking crooks and they would have done something about it someone asked me this yesterday i think it was congressman gates forgive me if i'm getting this wrong if it's one thing they know it was roy congressman roy he said to me dan do you attribute this to incompetence and he went through a litany of stuff. If it was one thing, like one guy forgot his radio

and it just happened to be an anomaly, this guy slips through this hole in the fence, he's got a ninja suit on on a black roof, you're like, gross incompetence, people should still be fired, but it was incompetence. Folks, I said this yesterday, I want you to remember this. Layered incompetence. Folks, I said this yesterday. I want you to remember this. Layered incompetence is intent. Wait, I'm not trying to be Robert Frost here with poetry. This matters. I'll give

you an example I gave yesterday in the hearing in case you missed it. Parents got a kid. It's a terrible parent. The parent's drunk, was drinking, drives to whatever, Target or whatever, leaves the car in the parking lot. It's 97 degrees. Parent's drunk, was drinking, drives to whatever, Target or whatever, leaves the car in the parking lot. It's 97 degrees. Parent's drunk, winds up making it, doesn't get into an accident, forgets the kid in the car at 97 degrees, locks him in. Realizes the kid's in the car,

an hour later runs out and the kid dies. Did they intend to kill the kid? No, they didn't. However, the layers of incompetence and malice, we didn't do this, and then she did this, and then the mom did this. In criminal court, that's basically layered into a package of criminal intent based on a series of malicious acts before that were so egregious. We're getting to the point here with this Secret Service case

that no CS teams, counter-sniper teams, no CSU teams, ignoring the locals' radio traffic for over an hour and a half, letting them climb on the roof, letting them climb on the roof and nobody notices them, shooting at them, not getting them off the stage in time, putting them in the X. I mean, the levels of crazy here are just, wow, 97%. That is a lot.

So most of you agree with me. At this point, this guy was probably not working alone. And then nobody catches this guy surveilling the site for multiple days, turning down the drone. We're at the point right now, I think many of you agree with me, we're at the point right now of potentially criminal negligence. I don't know any other rational way to see this. Folks, if I had done a site like this, which I would have never done,

I had a book. I would love to bring it. Maybe I will. I won't show you any because I don't want to give away any security secrets. But if I can, can you guys remind me of this tomorrow? I'm going to bring my book when I was an agent. You guys cool with this? I'm not going to show anything.

Don't worry. Secret service. But it has what I have in there called go buys. It's like this thick, right? It's a file folder and it's everything layered out. What you do for snipers, tactical stuff,

medical stuff. And it's a history of like my site stuff and what I did and things like that. This kind of stuff is, this is the stuff that you, that I used to go through at every site. Checking through boxes. And I would print them over and over again to make sure I did every single thing. Everything. It's like this thick. You don't do this.

You just don't. Did you not have a go-by? That's what we called them. It said, get aerial support at the site. Get a local drone. Disgusting. Before I take a break, this is really important too. Yesterday, given that we were doing the hearing,

I addressed this, but I did not have time to adequately put this out there. Cue up that Kamala clip for me. Ladies and gentlemen, yesterday was the anniversary of the 13 military heroes, Marines dying at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan. To the military men and women who watch this show,

I want you to know you have a special place on this show. I want you to understand that. My Bongino armies, we use the term army, just, you know, it's nothing. You guys are right up here and women out there who serve, we love you on this show. I know the McGroins, the army, we all, we can unanimously say in the chat, thank you for your service. And to these heroes who died, they deserve to be recognized. And I'm going to tell you something. This clip is disgusting.

This woman should be disqualified for running for president on this clip alone. After Biden, and by the way, I did not want a long-term presence in Afghanistan. I want to be clear on that for precision. However, pulling out of Bagram the way he did was the single dumbest military decision in modern American history, and I believe led Putin to invade China, excuse me, Ukraine and China to start aggravating their posture there on Taiwan, too. Here's Kamala Harris. She agreed with the decision. Matter of fact, she was the last one in the room. Don't listen to me. Listen to her. Check this out. Just made a really big decision.

Afghanistan. Yes. Were you the last person in the room? Yes. And you feel comfortable? I do. And I'm going to add to that. This is a president who has an extraordinary amount of courage.

Courage? He got 13 people killed despite the fact that they had pre-op intel on an attack at that gate because he cowardly, he cowardly, he cowardly made the decision to pull chocks in a backwards fashion, giving up a defendable military base in Bagram and allowing the city to fall. And 13 of our finest are dead. Dead, never to be seen again. Don't ever forget their memories. I wish I could have done more on that yesterday rather than just saying it. And I'm sorry, but we had this hearing and it was, but I was not going to forego the opportunity today. All right, I got a lot more ahead. I hope you didn't think

I forgot about the arrest. The arrest? What, you got arrested? No, I didn't get arrested. Not yet. If we lose this election, by the way, Justin, you're not graduating. They're going to lock you up too. Everyone's going to jail. Guy, Justin, Michael, Evita, Jim, Mike, Paula, Lucy,

Amelia, Isabel, we're all going to jail. Because do we get to go to the same spot? I don't think so. I do a jail show. The arrest of the Telegram CEO. This is a big deal. It's not just about a social media platform.

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very quickly, Telegram is basically a micro blog type app. It's like a Facebook, Twitter kind of app. You can post, you can post pictures. There's ways to post other products on there. I think video as well. I have a Telegram. I don't advertise it too much because people are scamming people with fake Telegrams, but I am on there. I use it. I like the app very much. And Telegram is one of those companies that is in the free expression space. They have not cooperated

with most attempts to censor people, okay? So Telegram has become an enemy of the state. Remember, if you don't censor for the state, Rumble, X, Telegram, you are an enemy of this state. We are now living in a socialist world dominated by socialist anti-free speech activists, period, full stopper. Folks, I'm really worried this war on democracy is heating up. Now that Donald Trump is starting to pull ahead in the polls and the fake Kamala AstroTurf phenomenon is worn off,

you, I promise you, wait for something big. Something big is going to happen. And by big, I mean bad. Listen to me, please. I don't know what it is, so I feel bad saying this, but I know most of you agree with me. They are not going to let Trump win this thing cleanly. We are going to have to swarm this thing. It's the only option.

We're going to have to take the Venezuela approach where people show up and swarm the damn thing so the evidence is overwhelming that we won. I wish I had a better answer for you. I wish with my heart and soul. I do not. These people are crazy. We are dealing with straight up lunatics. Kamala Harris

is worse than Joe Biden. She's an actual socialist. Biden's a fake socialist who fell pressure to the AOC wing of the party. We're going to have to swarm this thing. Merrick Garland is already, did you see this clip? I'm going to get to Pavel in a second, but did you see this clip from the Attorney General Merrick Garland? He is already sending out little flares. If you dare speak up about the election and you see anything, you're going to suffer the same fate of the January 6th insurrectionists. You see how important this insurrection narrative is to them? It justifies stuff like this, which should send a chill down everybody's

back. Check this out. Last January 6th, the coming January 6th, and every January 6th after that. I want to make clear to anybody who is thinking about interfering with that, they can see what we've done with respect to the January 6th prosecutions and the Justice Department will continue to protect our democracy. prosecutions and the Justice Department will continue to protect our democracy. You see how important the January 6th insurrection narrative is to them? All it is, it's not real, folks. Got out of hand, there were things that shouldn't have happened.

It was nothing close to an insurrection. It's a ridiculous hyperbole. But they won't give it up. They don't want to talk about President Trump getting shot in the head in a murder scene, but the insurrection narrative, I promise, will never die. It's for a tactical reason. I hope I'm explaining this right. The media wants to steal this election again. They need some justification. Why, Dan? Why would they care about justification?

Because they know that not everyone in America is crazy. So whatever we want to call them, the normies, or whatever, people don't really follow politics every day, but believe the first thing they see on TikTok or Snapchat. If Merrick Garland can go out there and go, watch, here's what's going to happen. He'll say something like, we're getting wind of another insurrection-type riot.

We had to crack down. And conveniently, you see 100 Republican activists who had nothing to do with a riot or insurrection in handcuffs. People will believe it. Not you, but other people will. They have to keep this thing alive. So then when they arrest people like Pavel from Telegram, the CEO, which happened in France, not Russia, by the way, France.

This happened in France, a supposed democracy. Now they have their justification for it. I want you to look at this tweet by the great Mike Benz. He's talking about NATO. That the swarm army of NATO accounts are unanimously celebrating the arrest of the Telegram founder as a means to put total control of Telegram's backend

in NATO's hands. You're telling me you think NATO didn't backchannel his arrest with the French government? Benz is all over this. These NATO bot accounts, everyone's celebrating this. There cannot be any populist MAGA movement, anything like it, anywhere

around the world. The old boys club, the NATOs, the defense industrial complex, the establishment, they have got to win. If they don't win, they're going to put people in jail who are against them. Here is Ben's on Newsmax, Mike Ben's great account to follow again, explaining beautifully the role of telegram in populist movements like the MAGA movement around the world, not just here, and why groups like NATO and these old school old boys clubs

really hated Telegram and had it cracked down right before the election. Check this out. NATO countries have been trying to get their hands over control over Telegram for many years now. There's only two games in town when it comes to ubiquitous usage of end-to-end encrypted chat,

and those are WhatsApp and Telegram, which both are able to simulate the kind of size of a Facebook group to coordinate social movements and political action and even military action, but have the benefit of encrypted chat. But WhatsApp is attached to Facebook. So it's a large surface of attack. So the US government and NATO countries were able

to bring Facebook to its knees to effectively neuter much of the protections that WhatsApp used to offer. But Telegram has held out because it's on its own pirate ship with Pavel being in Dubai. And it is an instrument of U.S. statecraft. We use Telegram as a means to try to overthrow the government of Belarus in 2020 with the State Department funding the street riots and funding all the owners of the major Telegram channels. 26 U.S. NGOs actually lobbied in 2018 Russia to keep telegram open when Russia was thinking of banning telegram. They called it a human rights violation that Russia might censor telegram. But that was because the State Department and the CIA were backing dissident movements like

Alexei Navalny and coordinating street protests using Telegram. So they don't want to kill Telegram. They want to use this prosecution to bring Pavel to his knees so that he turns over the back end and then they get to use the spy craft. In addition to the content moderation, they get all the encrypted communications of everyone in Russia who's using it, which is most of Russia. Folks, they wanted two things out of this. Let's sum up what Ben's just said very eloquently. First, they needed to use Telegram to censor any kind of countervailing opinions and populist movements, including MAGA. In other words, to censor you. Very simply stated.

Oh, Telegram, you won't censor? You're the enemy. And second, they tried to incorporate Telegram into their state craft activities to keep the establishment money flow going. If Telegram wasn't going to play ball, then they're going to go make sure they take it over and it becomes some deputized government entity. You doubt me? I've got the CEO with Tucker coming up next, talking about how they tried to hire telegram engineers. Why do you think the government did this?

Why do you think they wanted them? The same reason they hired a bunch of people at Twitter pre-Elon and at Facebook, a bunch of former government intel people. If you can't beat them, join them. And why was Donald Trump such an enemy to NATO? Anyone in the chat know? Because he was the first president in decades who not suggested but pushed it

that if we are going to defend you as part of a NATO alliance country due to Article 5, the United States, we're going to go to war for you, then damn well you're going to fund your military too. And they hated it. Now they're trying to shut us down. Scary stuff.

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how did you hear about a section terms apply go to coin.com slash disclosure for full details thanks coin okay getting back to this. So again, governments around the world need to fight populist movements. Populist movements take back their governments from the swamp. That's why they're populist movements. They're based on popular causes like not being subjugated by the government. The MAGA movement, folks, is just one of them. It's a small sliver.

You've had Bolsonaro in Brazil. They don't like Orban. They hate a lot of these people around the world. I'm not vouching or not vouching for him. I'm just telling you there's the old school establishment boys clubs, and then there's people like the MAGA movement. Donald Trump goes, why are we paying for NATO? Why?

Why isn't everyone else paying too? Telegram didn't play ball. So they wanted to censor it. Or if you can't beat them, join them. Listen to the CEO, tell Tucker exactly that. Check this out. We get too much attention from the FBI, the security agencies, wherever we came to the US.

So to give you an example, last time I was in the US, I brought an engineer that is working for Telegram, and there was an attempt to secretly hire my engineer behind my back by cybersecurity officers or agents, whatever they are called. The US government should hire your engineer? That's my understanding. That's what he told me. To write code for them or to break into Telegram?

They were curious to learn which open source libraries are integrated to the Telegram's app on the client side. And they were trying to persuade him to use certain open source tools that he would then integrate into the Telegram's code that, in my understanding, would serve as backdoors. Would allow the US government to spy on people who use Telegram. The US government or maybe any other government, because a backdoor is a backdoor regardless of who is using it. That's right.

Michael brings up a good point. He still't matched donald trump with the fake charges lovely he needs like a hundred more to even like be on trump's level i mean this is how insane this is it's it's really crazy that conservative activists and MAGA folks like you and i and populist leaders around the world have to worry about being shot or jailed. It's like we're living in Neanderthal times or something resembling that. This is crazy, but it's happening. You know, the CEO of Rumble is a friend of mine. I'm an investor in the company, Chris.

And these guys are genuinely concerned, folks. The easy thing to do, just so you know, I'm not saying it's obviously not the right thing. i wouldn't be investing in a parallel economy if i thought otherwise the easy thing to do is just go along to get along be like oh we're going to censor this and censor that he refused to do it the rumble ceo elon pavel and you become the target of entire countries and state actors it is unbelievable the trillions of dollars being spent to censor MAGA people and populists from speaking out. Now, I want to address the elephant in the room here, okay?

This morning, a huge story came out. Did you guys catch it about Facebook and their CEO, Mark Zuckerberg? It's 2024. Everybody knows Facebook was deeply involved in a massive effort to censor COVID information and interfere in the 2020 election by censoring the Hunter Biden story. We were all called conspiracy theorists when we pointed this out, me as well. So all of a sudden, this letter appears this morning where Zuckerberg, folks, I thought this was fake. I waited until I saw it on Newsmax,

Fox, and 10 or 12 other credible ex-accounts, ex-Twitter, because I was, I'm like, there's no way this is real. It is. Here's a letter from Mark Zuckeruckerberg at meta facebook you can see right here admitting that in 2021 the biden administration pressured facebook to censor covet 19 content now i don't listen i'm i'm open in the chat to your opinion on this you guys chat away that's why the chat's there that's why i love show. Yeah, keep that second part up a second. However, I don't know about you. I'm pissed off. People were celebrating.

Oh, look, Mark Zuckerberg. Why didn't you say this years ago when the Supreme Court case about censorship was going on? Now? I mean, I'd rather have this statement than not obviously but it's a little late I'm sorry I'm not into golf claps at this point you know how many of my posts about COVID were censored how we've been basically mini deplatformed by Facebook how Facebook dismantled crowd tangle a tool measuring Facebook reach, when we were at the top because they didn't want anyone to know people liked our content?

Look it up. Put in New York Times, Washington Post, Dan Bongino, CrowdTangle. Look it up yourself. Facebook went to war with us. Now you're admitting you were pressured. Look at page two. Page two of the form, they admit that they were also pressured to remove Hunter biden content

about the laptop even though the story about the laptop being authentic was authentic the 51 intelligence officials were full of crap now you're telling us you basically were involved in stealing the election you know i'm sorry guys guys, but you may be. One of the things I like about this show is I don't want to waste your time, and I prefer to give you an angle on a story you're not going to hear anywhere else. If you do, fine, but I don't want you to waste your time here. You want to know what I think's going on?

Zuckerberg sees the writing on the wall. Populist movements around the globe are fighting back in a rebellion against censorship, and we're starting to win. The explosive growth of Rumble. Elon becoming an ex, becoming a number one form for news distribution. The Telegram guy gets arrested. There's a global of people around the world fighting back against it he sees donald trump tied or ahead of kamala harris in polls that unquestionably downgrade trump's support

he's got to see the writing on the wall he's on the wrong side of this i warned him about this he's got an older audience at facebook too and they're leaving facebook because older voters largely tend to vote Republican or conservative or moderate Democrat. They don't want to be censored by the guy they're giving free content to. I'd rather have this letter than not. But again, I'm sorry, man.

It's too late. You guys helped steal the election. You screwed me. I was one of your best customers. I was on that platform. I'm still there now because. I was on that platform. I'm still there now because people vote and read that stuff. But I don't post nearly or dedicate the time nearly as much as I used to on Facebook. I have a manager who does it, but that's it.

I used to post there myself. Now I blog on X. You want to hear what I have to write? You got to go to X or watch the show on Rumble. Unbelievable. What a scam. Folks, there's a crackdown coming, and I hope this arrest of the CEO of Telegram wakes up a lot of people. I know you don't need it. The Bongino Army is well aware of what's going on, but I don't know what they call them. Again, normies. And I don't know, I hate these terms, but people who are out there who aren't woken up yet to what's really going on, this arrest of Pavel, the CEO of Telegram, or him

being detained, whatever you want to call it in France, make no mistake is a warning. As Donald Trump starts creeping up more and more in the polls, this is going to get hairier and hairier. And Merrick Garland's not kidding around. He is a tyrant, full bore. And what's DHS involved with all this is going on? Robbie Starbucks been doing an amazing job, an amazing job exposing these ridiculous, racist DEI agendas where they dump merit and they discriminate against people on skin color.

He points out that DHS just put out a strategic plan for IT. Guess what their number one goal is? You think it would be to stop censorship and protect free speech and like the Constitution and stuff? No. Their number one stated goal?

Advancing DEI. Michael feels safer right now. They're the Department of Homeland Security. Look at it. There's their memo right there. Thank you, Robbie, for your work. Stay on top of this stuff. You've been doing amazing work.

You look at all these companies out there with these BS DEI agendas, being racist against people and judging them by their skin color. He's been exposing them. Folks, we got a campaign going on right now too. We got what, 70 days left. You realize North Carolina starts voting. I saw this the other day. I think it was September 6th. starts voting. I saw this the other day. I think it was September 6th. September 6th. That's like right around the corner. This is insane. The campaign is effectively almost over. The election starts in just under a month where multiple states are going to start early voting. Get your vote in early. Lock it in. And what do we do now? Folks in the chat, what's the word? What do we do now? We execute. Everybody is to go and get 10 people and make sure they vote. You got to drive them, drive them. Every day, you vote, you vote, you vote. Bug them until they're

tired of being annoyed. Get them to vote and vote early. This campaign is getting ridiculous. We are running against mystique from the X-Men. Kamala Harris morphs into anything or anyone at any time and changes her mind on any issue, and almost no one in the media wants to hold her to account. Here's the first thing. Look at this Axios story. Just two weeks ago,

screw that, just a couple days ago, Kamala Harris was saying, Donald Trump should debate me. He agreed to a debate with Biden under these rules. So Donald Trump's like, okay, whatever, we'll debate. Now that she realizes she's struggling, her campaign's getting smoked, Kamala Harris wants to change the rules again from the rules she just said Trump agreed to. Kamala Harris doesn't want debate mics muted. Now they're fighting over this. Apparently now she wants the microphone open. You know why? She wants to be able to do her thing.

I'm speaking now. I'm speaking. I'm speaking. I'm speaking. We know you're speaking. The only time you're speaking ever is when you're speaking nonsense about yellow buses. You still have not debated. You're not speaking to anyone. That's what Trump should say in return.

Oh, now you're speaking. That's fascinating. You've been asking you to speak for three freaking months and you've yet to open your mouth and now you're speaking. That should be his response. She's Mystique from the X-Men. That's who she is. Mystique. She becomes anything at any time.

And she does this thing which is really starting to piss me off. She does this thing where she has these radical positions confiscatory communist style taxation massive huge tax hikes a government takeover of the health care system you know abortion up until the ninth month she has these insane radical positions, open borders, shutting down immigration detention centers. And she never refutes them. Some anonymous staffer, nobody knows, anonymously goes to the press and goes, no, we heard that Kamala Harris is in fact not going to open the border. And the media reports on it. Kamala Harris is moderating.

I'm going to tell the border. And the media reports on it. Kamala Harris is moderating. I'm going to tell you something. Our Olympic talking head dopes. Where's the chart? Do we have that? Jonathan Carl is rapidly we may have to put this guy in third place. It's a lot to displace Joy Reid at the top. I get that.

But Jonathan Carl is such a hack and he's so whiny and pathetic and so obviously a left-wing lunatic. Some of them hide it better. This guy's getting up there with Joy Reed type status. He is always engaged in some stupidity defending the left. I want you to watch this clip with Tom Cotton. Great job, Senator Cotton, just sticking it to this idiot saying, Kamala Harris hasn't said nothing of the sort.

Anonymous staffers are leaking this out and you idiots are reporting it. This is how you handle goons in the media like Carl. Check this out. And President Trump is going to draw a sharp contrast with Kamala Harris, who has supported things like decriminalizing illegal immigration or giving taxpayer-funded health insurance to illegal aliens

or taking away health insurance on the job for 170 million Americans, banning gas cars, confiscating firearms. What do you mean taking away health insurance? What are you talking about? She said when she ran for president that she wants to eliminate private health insurance on the job for 170 million Americans, John. Yeah, I mean, that is not her position now. How do you know that's not her position?

How do you know that's not her position? I mean, she says she no longer supports Medicare for All. She has not said that. Maybe anonymous aides on a Friday night have said that, but the last thing that she said on most of these topics... But this was not a rally. This is how you handle guys like Jonathan Karl. He's not a journalist, folks.

He's an activist. Don't ever call me a journalist. It's an insult. But caveat. Caveat of buyer beware, okay? If you're associating the word journalist with speaker of facts, then I will take that mantle as a speaker of facts. I have been right on all these stories.

Jonathan Karl has been on the wrong side of just about every single significant story of the last few years. Why would you believe this guy? Oh, Kamala Harris has said, no, she has not said that. You're a liar. Tom Cotton is 100% correct. And to any Republican, listen to me, start taking notes, Republican activists out there, any Republican going on TV, if this happens to you, you immediately stop the interview and do what he did. Oh, no, Kamala Harris hasn't said anything about that.

Really? Play the tape. Where is she said? Where is she fully renounced that position? No, no, her. No, I want to hear her say it. You said she said it. When did she say it?

Because I can show you when she said we're going to dump private insurance. She said, oh, well'll just get rid of it. Just get rid of the whole thing. I can tell you when she wanted to scrap ICE and build it up from the ground up a different organization. She said it. Stop getting baited. Good job by Senator Cotton.

Way to stick it to this guy. This guy's pathetic. You saw him with J.D. Vance last week too. He's an activist. You'll never see him go after Kamala Harris like that because, one, she doesn't do interviews, and he's going to kiss her ass. You ever see this one?

This is Kamala Harris, mystique. That's all she is, folks. She's running on nothing. This is the Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld show candidacy. The joke was, but that show was actually funny. It was a show about nothing. This campaign is about nothing. When she says something people don't like,

an anonymous staffer comes out on Friday night and goes, oh, no, no, she didn't say that. That was other kids. Here she is. You ever see this clip? It's hilarious. She's the joy candidate now. Joy.

She finds joy, I guess, in inflation, open borders, street crime, a struggling economy, crap jobs, a fentanyl crisis,

child sex trafficking. That's her joy. This is Kamala Harris. You want to vote for this? Watch this. Never let anyone take your joy from you. I call myself a joyful warrior.

Right? Never let anyone take your joy from you. Folks, this is Kamala Harris. That's exactly who she is. She chin up, hops it out. Hey, I'm the judge. And you're supposed to vote for this. Every single thing she has done with Joe Biden, the last person in the room, has gotten people killed or has destroyed your livelihood.

The reason you can't afford bacon and eggs, paper towels, to fill your tank up, 13 people died, the borders open, kids are dying from fentanyl, there's a public safety crisis in the country, there's a war in the Middle East, and there's a war going on in Ukraine, is precisely because of decisions made by the last person in the room

and her cognitively impaired boss who she hid his cognitive condition. That's it. That's why she take your journey for me. That's all she's got. Do not let her escape her past. We've got 70 days to make this case. If I flip one voter today,

this is worth it. Here's JD VD. Vance, who again, the more you like, the more you see him, the more you like him. I told you guys. This guy knows how to do it. He'll do an interview with anyone,

anywhere, anytime. Not Kamala Harris. Not Tampon Tim Walz. None of that. Here's J.D. Vance on the weekend shows again, sticking this border issue right to Kamala as another hack journalist.

Was it Kristen Welker? Tries to give Kamala Harris an escape path out of being the border czar. She was the border czar. Biden said it. We've already played the videos for you. Check this out. Whatever the number is. That number for the record.

They say it's closer to eight to ten million. But I think there are reasons to think that DHS is underest underestimating whatever the real number is it's way too high right it's millions upon millions of illegal immigrants that have come in just since kamala harris became the border czar a few years ago she was put in charge of the root causes of migration well the root causes of migration i would say kristin is that kamala harris refuses to do her job as borders are somebody should dial 9-1-1 he just bodied kristen welker right there i love how he does it too and he never has to raise his voice at all it's like yeah the root causes of illegal migration kamala harris being the borders are not doing her job that's how it's

done that's how it's done oh it's exactly how it's done. You pin that border czar to her from now till election day. Everybody understand? I don't give orders. I'm not a general in this army. I'm just a foot soldier like you. However, we, we collectively, we must pin this to her because she owns it. must pin this to her because she owns it. Do not let her escape. And let me add this too. I didn't get to talk to you about the RFK Jr. endorsement last week because obviously the weekend happened and then the Monday show was up in D.C. yesterday.

Folks, there is an easy, simple takeaway from all this. This is the only way you should be looking at the RFK thing. RFK Jr. is liberal on a lot of issues. He, however, does have some crossover issues we agree with. He is a big anti-censorship guy. And this is how you should view it. I should have discussed that right away. There is no addition by subtraction in politics.

There isn't. There's subtraction by subtraction, but there's no addition by subtraction in politics. There isn't. There's subtraction by subtraction, but there's no addition by subtraction. If RFK Jr. and Tulsi, even though I don't agree with them on a lot of stuff, especially abortion, but if they want to go out and endorse Donald Trump and say, well, I agree on this, and those guys are

communists, then we're going to take it. If RFK wants to go out and campaign with Trump across the country, have at it, brother. You're welcome to do it. If RFK wants to go out and campaign with Trump across the country, have at it, brother. We welcome you. You're welcome to do it. Here he is on The Weekend Show saying exactly that. Check this out. Campaigning actively. I think President Trump is going to make a series of announcements about other Democrats who are joining his campaign. And, you know, I want to I want to make America healthy again.

And so does President Trump. Folks, if we have if we agree with him on 20 or 30 percent of the stuff and he goes across the country and he speaks about these things in front of impressionable voters who may only agree with Trump on 10 or 15 percent of stuff and we get their vote that's how the acquisition of power in the political process works there is no addition by subtraction it isn't a thing it is not a thing we will take support wherever we can get it at this point this is important tomorrow I have some more secret service stuff folks um We will take support wherever we can get it at this point. This is important. Tomorrow I have some more Secret Service stuff, folks.

You know, I'm going to leave it out tomorrow. Just, let me just say this. Just watch tomorrow's show. I don't want to say too much yet. Just make sure you watch tomorrow's show, okay? I've got some more stuff. You can tell them. Stay tuned.

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