The Dan Bongino Show - Somehow, Night Two of the DNC Was Worse! (Ep 1326)

Episode Date: August 19, 2020

In this episode, I address the even more embarrassing night-two of the calamitous Democratic National Convention. I also discuss the hard facts about Joe Biden‘s plans for your firearms and your taxes.  News Picks: Bill Clinton smiles receiving a neck massage from one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims.  The second night of the DNC was somehow worse than the first.  No collusion is found. Again! Yes, the Democrats are coming for your guns.  Joe Biden is proposing the largest tax hikes ever. The media misinformation about the coronavirus has created a serious information vacuum.  This former CIA employee arrested for spying has a bizarre story.  This John McCain associate should answer questions about his relationship with Chris Steele. Copyright Bongino Inc All Rights Reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Dan Bongino. You know, shockingly, night two of the Democrat convention was worse than night one. I didn't think it could happen. I have the lowlights. There are no highlights. Including a moment where Joe Biden talks about his wife and says she's got a spine. She's got a spine like a like a ramrod that's not a joke i can't start the show like this i've got a video like a ramrod we got that we got the pp hoax is back again um yes it's shockingly made a returnrod. We got that. We got the pee-pee hoax is back again.

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Joe, I had to practice the bell a few times. All right, let me just get a little bit of D. I'm not going to waste a lot of time on the Democratic National Convention coverage. You're going to get it 24 hours on cable news. It was atrocious. It was cringeworthy. I even tweeted out

and put on my Parler account last night in capital letters with 10 exclamation points or so. Cringe. It was tough to watch. Let's go to cringeworthy moment number one. So they're doing a virtual convention. Joe Biden's there with his wife, Jill Biden. And they're in this library of a school, I guess Jill Biden teaches at, whatever it may be. And they run through this. They must have told Joe Biden this beforehand that, hey, you're going to accept the nomination tonight. And given that we're not in a big elaborate convention hall with the confetti, you've all seen conventions.

But confetti drops balloons from the ceiling. They run around raving. You know, there was Bill Clinton. Don't stop thinking about tomorrow. Right. His song Fleetwood Mac, whatever it was, they hit a few balloons. They wave. They point to a few people.

They pretend they know. They go. They have no idea who it is. They're like, that guy. You know what I'm saying? You've seen it before, right? Joe, you know what I'm talking about. They're on stage, right?

Bill Clinton. Hillary's famous. She'll point to someone in the stage. She'll go, yeah, yeah, go, yeah, babe. Hey, babe. And if someone said, what's his name? I have no freaking idea what his name is. But I'm pointing at him, and I'm clapping.

They didn't have that. So they tried to recreate this moment in a library. And they must've said to Joe and Jill Biden, listen, some people are going to come out from behind you and we're going to drop like confetti around you there. And Joe Biden and Jill, I think both forgot what was going to happen. And they both look surprised by this cringeworthy acceptance, the most cringeworthy I've ever seen. I'm not kidding.

It was painful to watch. Listen to even the MSNBC folks who love, you know, they're full-time activists for the Bidens right now. Listen to them. They're even like, you can hear the cringe in their voice. Check this out. Live look at Joe Biden reacting to the Zoom like crowd celebrating uh his nomination yeah the zoom call is stretching across the country we've now heard from 57 u.s states and territories that's

i guess our first glimpse of joe biden live direct and jill biden right there at the celebration this is what a virtual convention this is the balloon drop andrew Andrew Mitchell, normally you would be on the floor. Which? That was... Did you plan that? That was on there. Yeah, that was on there when I pulled it. Dude, this is the greatest unintentional Dan Bongino

show moment. Forgive me for speaking about myself in the third person ever. Can we cue that up again? Is there any way without screwing up the whole system to cue that up again? Watch. Yeah, cue the whole thing up. Watch the end of this, folks. Go to my YouTube. Watch it. Hillary's there with the astonished look I just

told you about. I didn't even know this was in the clip. Check this out. Play it again, Sam. Live look at Joe Biden reacting to the Zoom-like crowd celebrating his nomination. The Zoom calllike crowd celebrating his nomination. Yeah, the Zoom call is stretching across the country. We've now heard from 57 U.S. states and territories. That's, I guess, our first glimpse of Joe Biden live, direct, and Jill Biden right there at the celebration.

This is what a virtual convention, this is the balloon drop. Andrew Mitchell, normally you would be on the floor. Ah, there it is i did i swear to you on my life i did not know the hillary face was in there that's the face where she looked oh she looked so surprised like was joe biden by the way was hillary's faking surprise at the balloon drop joe biden i think forgot what was gonna happen i think they told them five minutes earlier there's gonna be people coming behind you don't get startled and they came by me huh and jill looks shocked too like oh there's people behind this freaking thing.

So bad, so bad. All right, listen, I got some substance or something, but I just want to move on quick. So Joe Biden comes out. There's a lot of confusion about this afterwards. And he tries to thank his wife. And there's a lot of people think he said, I'm Joe Biden joe biden's husband if you listen closely to this clip he clearly if you put it up to your ear he says i'm jill jill biden's husband that's not the funny part about this if you it sounds kind of like joe but he does say jill i think i put it up to my ear pretty close i listened to it about 15 times but this is where he tells everyone how his wife has a spine and she's a ramrod

ramrod aruski check this one out hey everyone i'm jill biden's husband as you heard tonight excuse me you can see why she's the love of my life and a rock of our family. She never gives herself much credit. But the truth is, she's the strongest person I know. She's a backbone like a ramrod. She loves fiercely, cares deeply. Can I just make a suggestion, Joe, for the future? I'm not here to give political advice to Democrats, but you may not want to describe your wife in those kind of terms like backbone ramrod. Just throwing that out there for the future and he does say jill put it up to your ear and listen a couple times he definitely right paul he says jill some people said oh my gosh joe biden introduced himself as joe biden's

husband or that he says joe all right one more quick thing on the convention last night was such a disaster it's more confusion not only about the joe jill biden thing but so last night. It was such a disaster. It was more confusion, not only about the Joe, Jill Biden thing. But so last night, AOC was given 90 seconds. I'm not going to subject you to the whole disastrous 90 second communist manifesto she laid out, but she's given all of 90 seconds to speak, which shows how little at this point, I think the Democrats have a little respect for her, not necessarily the far left base, but for her. I think they think she's a joker. I do. I think they do. I mean, they're going to give her some prominent position to appease the far left base, but nobody really takes her seriously. If they would, they would have given her more time. But at the end of this, she nominates someone for

president and a lot of confusion ensued afterwards. You'd be like nominated, nominated Biden, right? Listen to the end of her 90 second speech. And there was confusion. What ran amok after this? Check this out. of mass evictions, unemployment, and lack of health care, en el espíritu del pueblo, and out of a love for all people, I hereby second the nomination of Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont for President of the United States of America. Oh my gosh, did chaos ensue afterwards. NBC, Twitter, she just dissed Biden and nominated Bernie Sanders, Bernard Sanders. No, no, folks, just to clear this up. Listen, she is a dunce. There's no doubt about it, but that's what she was supposed to do. If you've watched these conventions in the past, if you earn enough delegates, your name has to be put into nomination,

whether you win the nomination or not, whether it's Ron Paul or Bernie Sanders or Mike Huckabee or anyone else who ran. If you earn the delegates, your name has to be put in. It doesn't mean you won the nomination. She was, that was pre-taped. That was taped a while ago. There's no way the Biden campaign is going to let them slap her, slap them in the face on a tape.

They would have just told us to scrap it and record it again. She was supposed to do that. His name, Bernie Sanders' name had to be put into nomination. I just don't want you to get lost down rabbit holes because it was trending last night on Twitter. Did AOC just say that? Like, oh my gosh, she nominated Bernie Sanders. She didn't nominate Bernie Sanders for the presidency.

She put his name into nomination, even though Biden won. It's not, you know, sometimes we got to cover these dopey stories because even NBC got it wrong. NBC was like, oh my gosh, what happened? Nothing happened. Bernie Sanders' name had to be put in, and AOC was given the job of doing it. All right, that's it.

We're not covering any more of this abomination last night because there's nothing else to cover. Basically, the whole thing was Trump is terrible. We would have handled Corona differently despite being on tape saying we wouldn't have, we would have done it differently and worse. We wouldn't have done the travel ban. Trump's crazy.

Come down to Chinatown like Nancy Pelosi was saying. I mean, remember all that stuff? Playing down the virus, the major newspapers, don't get crazy. This is like the flu. Remember all that? So it's all nonsense. It's nothing else. And I'm not going to subject you to the nonsense and waste your time. All right. Let me get to a more important story. Folks, the pee-pee hoax is back again, incredibly. This is just stunning how many times these media lunatics will go to the well on this thoroughly discredited, debunked nonsense story. So what happened yesterday?

The Senate Intelligence Committee, led by now Chairman Marco Rubio, since Burr stepped aside, they put out the last volume of their report. Now, I want you to keep in mind, the Senate Intel Committee had no information that Bob Mueller didn't. Matter of fact, Bob Mueller, who concluded no collusion, in case you missed it, had more information and more investigative assets. You could be Marco Rubio. You could be Richard Burr. You could be anyone else on the Senate Intel Committee. You do not have law enforcement powers. Everybody understand that? You cannot arrest anyone.

You don't have the threat of arrest. Bob Mueller's team did, had charging powers, the power to indict. The Senate Intel Committee had less, not more information, and many times just parroted what was in the Mueller report. So what came out yesterday? Well, what came out conclusively was there was no collusion, which I'll get to in a moment, which was covered honestly by the Washington Times. Of course, despite the report being crystal clear and Rubio going on TV and saying there

was for the 15,000th time, there was no collusion between Trump and the Russians. The media managed to pull another nonsense soundbite, photo op, soundbite, talking point that's already been discredited and run with it again. You don't believe me? Here's USA Today covering this thing. The disastrous USA, a joke of a newspaper. I mean, only known for being used as a birdcage lining when you walk out of a hotel and you find it on your door. Yep. Paul Manafort was a grave counterintelligence threat.

Republican led Senate panel finds. This is how they choose to cover this thing. The report that laid out clear as day again for the 20th, 30th, 1000th, I don't even know time. There was no clue. This is how they choose to cover it. What was their talking point here? Buried in the report. I want, listen, you got to get your arms around this because you're going to hear this now throughout the campaign. Buried in the report again, was another debunked talking point that Paul Manafort was dealing with a Russian intel officer, Konstantin Kalimnik, and was giving him polling data. Now, Manafort was dealing with Kalimnik. I'm not defending Manafort. Manafort

had a lot of issues, owed a lot of money, and not everything Manafort did was on the up and up. And us as honest reporters of what happened during the Spygate and Collusion hoax, the Spygate, genuine Spygate scandal, and the Collusion fake scandal, we need to report honestly. Manafort did have dealings with Kalimnick that were kind of shady. Granted, the information he was given was nonsense. It was polling data. It was stuff you could have gotten out of the Washington Post, and it was all wrong anyway. So it didn't really matter. I'm not saying it was good. I'm not saying it was on the up and up. I'm not defending Manafort. I'm simply suggesting that the Democrats' new talk point is going to be, look, Manafort was a campaign manager. He was dealing with Kalimnik and Kalimnik was a Russian intel guy. Was he? Was Kalimnik really a russian intel source and if he was and his dealings with

manafort were shady then why wasn't the obama administration's dealing with kalimnik the same kalimnik when they were using him as a source of information why weren't those shady too? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, Dan, that can't possibly be. Come on, here we go again. You're suggesting to me that, again, the Clinton administration and all the Democrats, massive ties with Russians, using Russians for information in the Steele dossier, touting that, that that was no big deal. But when the Trump campaign met with anybody who was Russian, that's evidence of a crime. That's what's called a double standard, right? So you're also suggesting to me that Manafort's communications with Kalimnik mean Manafort was definitely a Russian colluder, yet the Obama administration's on-the-record dealings with Kalimnik mean the opposite, that they were on the up-and-up?

Does that make any sense to you? Dad, Kalimnik was dealing with the Obama administration too? Let's just go to the New York Times. Yeah, the slimes, you know, worse than USA today. Not even worthy of the birdcage lining. This is worthy of spare toilet paper in case we go through toilet paper Armageddon number two. New York Times, Russian spy or hustling political operative, the enigmatic figure at the heart of Mueller's inquiry by disgraced Kenneth Vogel and Andrew Kramer, two known collusion hoaxers. They're talking about Kalimnik. Kalimnik, again, the guy we were told yesterday by USA Today, evidence, Joe, the collusion hoax is real. Manafort was dealing with Kalimnik. He was a Russian spy.

So was the Obama team. Let's go to the New York Times and read up a little bit about what they reported about Kalimnik, the guy who was working with the State Department under the Obama administration. New York Times. In Kiev, Mr. Kalimnik became a valued source for the political staff of the U.S. Embassy.

No way. That can't be. I thought this guy was a Russian spy. Because Kalimnik did not try to sugarcoat the financial motivations of the oligarchs who funded the political parties for which he worked, said David Merkel, who handled Ukraine issues as a deputy assistant secretary of state for President George W. Bush. So George W. Bush worked with him. George W. Bush was a colluder along with Obama's State Department. This is crazy time, isn't it?

Yeah. Again, I'm not defending Manafort. I don't need to do that. I'm interested in Spygate, the scandal, and what happened. The facts. There were Republicans involved in this too. The McCain Institute, which I hope to get to later. If not, I'll get to it tomorrow. Explains a whole lot about why the McCain legacy isn't what you think it is. There were Republicans involved in this,

but this was a Democrat run scandal. And the media right now, instead of doing some honest work, is just lying to you again. We know this guy Kalimnik's a Russian operative. If he was, then why were you dealing with him throughout the Bush and Obama administration? Is it a fair question or not? So this guy's a Russian spy that the Obama administration, the New York Times called him a valued source?

Is he a valued source or is he a Russian spy that the Obama administration, the New York Times called him a valued source. Is he a valued source or is he a Russian spy? New York Times number two. To American diplomats in Washington and Kiev, he's been a well-known character for nearly a decade, developing a reputation as a broker of valuable information like the alliances of Ukraine's oligarchs and the country's handling of foreign investment and sensitive criminal cases. He traveled freely to the United States. This is the New York Times. Am I getting this right? He traveled freely to the United States. How is that? How did he travel freely to the United States? Oh, get a load of this. And on a trip in May of 2016, who was the president in May of 2016? Definitely Donald Trump. Wrong.

It was Barack Obama. So on a trip in May of 2016, he met with senior State Department officials. You mean Barack Obama's guys? For drinks at an off-the-record bar in the basement of the Hay-Adams Hotel across from the White House? Later that year, that's 2016, just checking, Obama was the president, right? Yes, he was. Later that year, he visited with the new

United States ambassador to Ukraine in Kiev. Wow. That's really crazy. So you read the headline of USA Today, Manafort dealing with Russian intel guy. Notice how they leave out, same Russian intel guy having drinks with

State Department officials in the Obama administration. You notice how they leave that out? Same guy, right? Yeah. So are they being investigated too? Because Manafort's in jail. So are those Obama State Department people being invested? What about the U.S. ambassador met with him?

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all right so just closing out this story because i really sometimes get frustrated dealing with the media and their constant pp hoaxes um it's really outrageously stupid here's the washington times with some honest coverage i'll put in the show notes today uh bongino.com and if you want to subscribe to the show notes bongino.com slash newsletter here's the Washington Times with some honest coverage. I'll put in the show notes today, bongino.com. And if you want to subscribe to the show notes, bongino.com slash newsletter. Here's the headline, which tells the actual story. Washington Times, Jeff Mordock, no collusion in 2016 between Trump campaign and Russia Senate Intelligence Committee reports. Ladies and gentlemen, that's what honest reporting looks like. You want to report on the subtext later on.

You want to report on the bullet points later on. You want to report on the bullet points later on that Manafort had dealings with Kalimnick, that Kalimnick may have been shady, if that's your opinion or not. That's fine. Report on that. But be honest about who Kalimnick was. Manafort dealt with a guy who was a known State Department source and had regular communications with the Obama State Department. Just admit it and be honest. You can't because you want to make it out like Manafort did something unusual communicating with the Jason Bourne of Russia and that therefore you can imply, create a subtext there again, that Trump was colluding with the Russians when you know that's not what the report concluded. So there's the Washington Times. Now let's go to the ridiculous discredited left-wing blog. Notice the New York

Times where the, you know, the Charlie Savages, the Adam Goldmans, the Ken Vogels, the Maggie Haberman, they discredited. How they still have jobs is really interesting. They've been entirely embarrassed by their coverage and promotion of the PP hoax and the collusion hoax, which is now the international laughingstock of the planet. How they still have jobs is amazing, but here they go again. Here's the New York Times coverage of the same report. GOP-led Senate panel details ties between 2016 Trump campaign and Russia. Here we go. By Mark Mazzelli jumping in on the pee-pee hoax again.

Burying the lead down in the report that the report concluded again for the 20th, 50th, 1000th time. I don't even know that there was no evidence whatsoever at all anywhere that any Trump campaign official or any American citizen colluded with Russia to impact the election. Doesn't matter, folks. Liberal dunces will fall for it anyway, because that's just what they do. All right, here's what I got coming up here. I got the Clinton story. Clinton story? You mean about his speech? No, no, no, no, no. Bill Clinton, not Hillary either. This one's kind of gross. Bill Clinton story. I also want to get to this Biden stop lying about his taxes. It's ridiculous. I got that in the firearm story. All right, Bill Clinton first. Let's hit on this one because this is a story I've warned you about.

I have an unimpeachable source on this that the Bill Clinton shenanigans when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein are going to get worse. Folks, I don't mess around my sources. I never burn them. I'm not, again, keeping information from you, but the source who has given me this information is an honest broker, knows exactly what he's talking about. So this surfaced yesterday,

right before Bill Clinton's really awful speech last night at the virtual Democratic convention. Daily Mail exclusive. It'll be up in the show notes. Check it out again, bongino.com slash newsletter. The Daily Mail with the longest headlines ever, by the way, which Paula always notes. Daily Mail exclusive. Would you mind giving it a crack?

Bill Clinton leans back and smiles when receiving a neck massage from one of the Epstein's victims. 22 and never before seen photos during trip on the pedophile's plane in Africa to Africa in 2002. Folks, the pictures are out there. out there. Now, again, to do actual honest reporting on this, the woman involved in the back-cracking massage picture of Bill Clinton, whatever you want to do, hasn't said that he was in any way inappropriate with her. Again, we do reporting here, unlike the New York Times. Having said that, I'm here to tell you, and some of my regular listeners have already been told this, but I'll tell you again, that more is going to come out on this. And when I mean this, I mean Bill Clinton's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and the people in his orbit.

There is an eyewitness out there when he wants to talk, I'm ready to hear him again, but it's his information information that at a minimum, Bill Clinton was on Jeffrey Epstein's plane in areas of the plane would, would appear to be underage girls. What was happening back there? The eyewitness doesn't know because he wasn't back there, but definitely saw him go back to what would you be doing back there? Going back there for a bag of Cheetos.

I mean, seriously, why would you be going in the back of back there for a bag of Cheetos? I mean, seriously, why would you be going in the back of a plane with a Jeffrey Epstein? I mean, a really sick guy with what appears to be underage women. What would you be doing back there and coming out a little later? Moore's going to come out on Clinton. He's not going to get a pass on this. When? I don't know. Again, it's not my information. Be irresponsible to share information that's not mine that I don't have the details on.

I didn't witness. I'm just passing on to you what other sources have told me. More is going to come out. The irony, however, showing you again how the modern Democrat party, the institutional one up on the hill and the establishmentarians have no dignity whatsoever. Trotting Bill Clinton out on the day these pictures surface in the Me Too era shows you that they don't really believe in the whole Me Too era. This woman is undoubtedly a victim, maybe not a victim as she claims of Bill Clinton per se, but was a victim of Epstein, is in these photos with her. And you think this guy, Bill Clinton, would be embarrassed and slither away, wouldn't you? Be like, oh my gosh, this is really horrifying. I didn't even know these pictures were out there. To save face and to

save the face of the Democrat Party, I'm going to walk away from my speech. No, no, he gave the speech last night, no problem at all. Not only bring the speech, here's a New York Post coverage of speech. In a moment of just grotesque, I mean, tragic irony, Bill Clinton to rip Trump for bringing chaos to the Oval Office in the DNC speech? Oh, oh. Joe, Bill Clinton brought some stuff into the Oval Office too. Yeah. A lot. Matter of fact, Bill Clinton not only brought some stuff in the Oval Office too. Yeah. Matter of fact, Bill Clinton not only brought some stuff in the Oval Office, Bill Clinton brought some people as well into the Oval Office.

And some stuff left the Oval Office. It's a family-friendly show, but I believe after he brought said people into the Oval Office, after he brought some stuff into the Oval Office, after he brought some stuff into the Oval Office, the stuff left the Oval Office and was later the subject of a DNA evaluation.

So maybe you should stay away from the what Trump brought into the Oval Office line. I'm just going to throw that out there, Bill. Piece of advice. From an old not friend. They still let him speak. Big dog, they call him. The big dog's coming out.

The big dog. Oh, big dog. All right the big dogs coming out the big dog oh yeah big dog all right all right listen i got an election coming up and i'm really getting as you can see from the beginning of the show with the peepee stuff making its return again the collusion hoax i'm getting very frustrated with the media not providing honest coverage here. They allow these people to lie, to be entirely opaque about what they're going to do. Folks, I said last night on Hannity, and I'll use the analogy now, the problem with Joe Biden is not whether you believe Joe Biden is a moderate, a leftist, or a radical leftist. It's not. The problem with Joe Biden is Joe Biden is not cognitively there to even know who Joe Biden is. And Joe Biden is so weak that he has become an

empty slate. The analogy I used last night is if you buy a painting, when you buy a painting, you buy the piece of finished art, don't you? You want to see what the art looks like. You don't buy a blank canvas and then say to the artist, hey, come to my house and paint a painting. You don't know what it's going to be. You buy a finished product. They are asking you right now, the Democrats, to buy an entirely unfinished painting in Joe Biden. He's a blank slate. He doesn't have any principles. He's too weak and he's not mentally there upstairs to stop what's going to happen. You take this guy home as a blank canvas and who's doing the painting? Bernie Sanders, AOC, and the people they're afraid of on the left that they're going to give power to Sanders and others

to write these policies. Your taxes, your guns, and everything are at risk here. Everything. This is not a joke and you need to have a good idea. I'm going to play actual video right now of Joe Biden saying what he's going to do to your taxes. Listen, let me get to my third sponsor first because I want to roll through this and I want to get into the firearms.

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Enough with the lying with Biden and the taxes. I keep hearing Democrats on TV. I heard it. This is why this came up. So I'm watching Fox this morning, and a Democrat consultant is on, and he's debating with Stephen Moore. And again, he's trying to make this point that Biden's not going to hike your taxes. He's already said it. Does this guy, is he just a liar or does he miss Joe Biden's actual video clips? All right, here's the first one. I have three of them, three of them,

just to be sure. I kept them relatively short. Biden's at some kind of town hall thing and he's answering questions about social justice. I want you to pay attention to the end where he specifically says he's going to repeal the tax cuts, the Trump tax cuts. Those were tax cuts for the middle class. I will show you that too in case you're a liberal and you don't believe me. Middle class didn't get a tax cut under Trump.

Did you even look it up or are you a dunce all the time? Here's video clip number one showing you Biden is going to hike your taxes even if you're in the middle class. Check this out. Number one, we have the greatest income inequity in the history of the United States of America since 1902. And the fact of the matter is there is plenty, plenty of money to go around. The first thing I would do as president was eliminate the president's tax cut oh again to the democrat consultants on tv the talking heads why are you lying why are you lying all the time i'm serious all right what explanation could you have for misconstruing joe biden's own position he has already said this multiple times. He is going to hike your middle-class taxes.

That's what repealing tax cuts means. It means your tax cuts go away and your taxes go up. Why are you lying? Or are you so stupid? I'm asking you that you don't even know what Joe Biden's position is. And you're going on TV and humiliating yourself. I listen, I do TV for a living, honestly, candidly. I can't imagine going on TV and knowingly saying something that isn't true,

that anyone could pick up their phone or computer and do an internet search in five seconds and find out I'm lying to you. Does your credibility matter? You may say, oh man, he just misspoke. He did? Because here's an interview with CBS. Yeah, CBS, where even they call him out on it and say, hey, there were middle-class tax cuts, and he still doesn't give an answer. Remember, the Democrats, he's not going to hike your middle-class taxes. He's already said it. Watch him obfuscate and squirm on this one when he's challenged on it. Check this out. You've said you would repeal all of Trump's tax cuts. But do you mean just for the wealthy or for the middle class too? Because Trump did give the middle class a tax cut. Well, Trump gave a middle class tax cut that was negligible. The fact is that what we should be doing is making sure that the wealthy pay

their fair share. You see him dance again? It was not negligible, the tax cut. The standard deduction was up dramatically and middle-class tax rates, which I'll show you in a minute, went from 28% to 24%, 25% to I think 22% and 15% to 12%. Now, for Democrats out there who can't do math, that's three percentage points of your income. Three percentage points. Meaning if you make $50,000 a year, you're talking about $1,500 a year in a tax hike. That's without the standard deduction

and payroll taxes and everything else. Do you understand you're being lied to? Joe Biden, middle class, the Scranton kid. Scranton, you got to give like the Notre Dame fighting Irish guy. The Scranton kid, scrappy Joe, lunch bucket. He's a liar. He's a liar.

He's an empty canvas you brought home who Bernie Sanders is going to paint the painting on. Your taxes are going up 100%. Not 100% your tax cut, 100% your taxes are going up. I want to be precise. Unlike liberals who just don't care. And hat tip to the reporter there who actually does some honest reporting for once. Trump did cut middle class taxes. Did you miss that? Now, again, here's the Washington Post parroting Joe Biden's nonsense that he's not going to hike your taxes. It's a lie. Look, Washington Post, you think I'm messing with you? Washington Post headline. Joe Biden says your taxes won't go up if you make under $400,000. Here's the exact headline. Joe Biden says he won't raise taxes on anyone making under $400,000. He didn't say that. He didn't say that.

Heather Long, the author of this Washington Post piece, can you just acknowledge he didn't say that? He may have said that, but that's not what he said when he's on the record about taxes. that, but that's not what he said when he's on the record about taxes. $400,000 is not middle class. Do you not know that? He's already said he's going to cut the Trump tax cuts out, wipe them out, which will hike taxes on the middle class who got the tax cuts. My gosh, this is frustrating. You need more evidence that he's going to take your taxes? Here's the thing, folks, I could do this all day.

In the interest of time, because there's so much material to cover, especially with the cataclysmic Democratic convention going on. Here's the third cut. I could do 20 of these, of Joe Biden again, saying he's going to repeal your middle-class tax cuts,

which means you're going to get a tax hike. Check this out. And the way we pay for it is by rolling back unproductive tax cuts. Some of the $2 trillion tax cut the president put through. Don't listen to me. Listen to Scranton, kid. Lunchbucket Joe.

Thinks his wife's got a spine like a ramrod. That guy. Ramrod guy. Now, because again, we do evidence here. Evidence, facts, data, you know, that kind of stuff. By the way, there's like a thunderstorm brewing outside here. Right? You hear that?

Is that coming over the mic? My gosh, it poured last night, which is good. I got some new sod put down. It's perfect timing. Again, if you're a liberal watching, it's Dan Bongino. He's a conservative. He's clearly lying. Trump didn't cut middle-class taxes. Yes, Mr. Liberal, how do you know that? Because I was told by a talking head on Fox or CNN or elsewhere who said middle-class taxes. Yes, Mr. Liberal, how do you know that? Because I was told by a talking head on Fox or CNN or elsewhere who said middle-class didn't get a tax cut under Trump. Okay, I'm sorry you're a moron. So I just went to a simple search engine, put in Trump tax cuts, and what comes up? Investopedia. And here it is right here, Investopedia. The top tax rate under the Trump tax cuts fell from 39 to 37. The 33% bracket dropped to 32. So that's upper middle class.

They got a 1% cut and almost 3% cut. Here's the middle class brackets, Joe. Just in case, again, you're a Democrat who can't do simple math. So the upper middle class, you had a 28% bracket before Trump came into office. He cut your taxes to 24. Just checking, Joe, that's four percentage points, right? 28, 24. Yes.

Thank you for double checking that for me. The 25% bracket. That's the middle, middle class, so to say. That was cut to 22, which means a three percentage point cut last time I checked. Yeah. And people who are in lower income categories, you have a 15% bracket. That was cut to 12.

Just checking again, Joe, I believe that adds up to a three percentage point tax cut. Yes, it does, Dan. For people who are lower income. Oh, I just had to check that out there. Didn't want to mislead my audience. No problem. So again, if you're a liberal, sadly, you're probably not that bright. You probably believe that there were no Trump tax cuts for the middle class, which is wrong.

Then you're believing because you don't believe there was a middle class tax cut. Because then you don't believe there was a middle class tax cut. Because then you don't believe that. I don't know what she was doing over there. Surfing the internet by this is my sign like come i'm waiting scranton kid if you're a liberal you probably believe two things you believe two things that are false and this is where i really feel bad for liberals because they live in a fantasy land that doesn't exist you believe there were no trump tax cuts for the middle class which is factually inaccurate but if you believe

that joe then it makes sense why you would believe that biden repealing the trump's trump tax cuts won't affect your middle class taxes because you didn't have them in the first place Both of those points are wrong as a matter of fact. F-A-C-T-T-T-L-Y if you're Joe Biden. Fact. Do your homework. Numb skulls. And listen to me on a serious note. On a serious note, you make me laugh.

on a serious note you make me laugh if you want to pay higher taxes and you're a middle class worker in america busting your butt yes joe biden's your guy i'm not going to tell you if that's what you like he's your guy if you want your tax bill as it is now or potentially cut lower trump's your guy it's's very simple. I'm not going to lie to you. I've tried to convince you high taxes are a terrible thing for the country and the economy. If you don't believe it, Joe Biden's your guy. Your taxes will go up. Just stop lying to people. I'm going to get to the guns thing too. We haven't really dug into this that much, the whole issue about firearms and the Second Amendment. I'm hearing this from some Democrats out there too. I haven't

heard it lately because they're trying to sideline the issue completely because they don't want to scare people in congressional districts that are swingy, like the Conor Lamb, Sean Parnell race. Sean Parnell, great candidate. By the way, big congrats to Byron Donalds last night, who I thought was an excellent candidate. I tweeted about him quite a bit. He won his primary in the district I ran in, Congressional District 19 in Florida. Congrats to him. A lot of good candidates to watch.

So big primaries last night. But they're lying about your firearms, too. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, they are coming for your guns. Let me get to my final sponsor. I want to get to this. And I want to get to this and I want to get to the another video of the oh this member of Congress what a toolbox

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A little background on why the Democrats are in some districts avoiding the firearms issue. Ladies and gentlemen, there are very few categories of one issue voters. What do I mean by that? This is an important takeaway. You've got to understand. Most people who are swinging, independent, they're not necessarily, I mean, I vote Republican pretty much no matter what. A lot of diehard Democrats do the same thing.

They're not going to cross over. They're just not. I don't think I've ever voted for a Democrat in my life. There are, however, about, I don't know, 15 or 20% of Americans who are independent in any given cycle and will kind of swing either way. They're the ones that gave Pennsylvania to Trump and others. Very few of those swayable independent voters vote on just one issue. They vote on a number of things. How someone is on maybe unions and taxes and then abortion and guns. There are very few one issue. They vote on one issue. But one group of voters, which has always been powerful and it's given power to the NRA and other gun groups out there throughout the years. One group of voters, a lot of them who vote on

one issue are firearm owners for an obvious reason. They don't want to die. They want to be able to protect themselves and their families. They will vote on that one issue. I don't want to oversimplify it, but if you had to triage your needs, that's number one for them. So where you stand on it is almost dispositive on how they're going to vote. You want to take away their guns?

You're out. They don't care if you're a Republican, Democrat, a communist. They don't care if you're from Mars. If you lived under the surface of the moon, they don't care. You want to take their guns. They're not voting for you, period. It doesn't matter what label you put in front of yourself. So when swingy districts, congressional districts, Democrats stay away from this. Here's what's coming for you for your guns. Great, great piece. Legal insurrection. So good.

It's in the show notes and up at BonginoReport.com, our conservative alternative to the lefty lunatics of the Drudge Report. It's by a guy I don't know, but Cody Wisniewski, a legal insurrection. They're coming for your guns, analyzing the Democrats party gun control platform. We've got an election coming up. Don't you want to know what's going to happen to your firearms? Kind of important, right? Well, let's get right to it. Let's go to takeaway number one from this piece, which I encourage you to read. It's in the show notes today, Bongino.com and at Bongino report. Check it out. Here's what the Democrats are actually saying about your firearms.

Number one, Democrats will enact universal background checks. Folks, this is a scam. As he says here, they will do nothing to stop criminals from purchasing firearms. However, they will stop you from turning over your shotgun to your daughter or whoever it may be. If you're approaching the end of your life, you're moving, whatever it may be, you will then have to go to a federal firearms dealer and basically ask for permission to do it. But what's the real reason? What's the real reason the Democrats want universal background checks? Remember, ladies and gentlemen, the Democrats never tell you what they really want. There's always a dipsy-do flip-a-roo. There's always some kind of side reason going on. It's never what they say, ever. They don't want universal background checks because they worry about Farmer Joe giving his shotgun to his daughter.

They don't care about that. It's two things. The first thing is they just want to create obstacles so that you get rid of your firearms and turn them in rather than transfer them. If you have to go to an FFL and then do the transfer through them and you don't want anybody knowing your business, then sometimes you're just not going to do it. Turn it in, break it up, whatever it may be. But the second one's a little more pernicious. This is what I love about this show. I got a lot of insiders on these issues and they tell me, they always give me the little quiet causes the Democrats have. They really

want a federal list. The Democrats love lists. Lists are their thing. There's nothing more they like than to put you on a list. A quarantine list, a firearm owner list, and right now, what is the T. Hart Amendment? They're not allowed to keep federal

lists of gun owners. They're not. But if they had a background check, every person, including Farmer Joe who turns over his shotgun to his daughter, every universal background, sounds so great, right? They'd have the magic list of every firearm and who owns it

everywhere. Well, why would they want that? Why would they want that? I don't know. Well, if you know the Democrats, you know exactly why they'd want that. Because when they repeal the Second Amendment or try to de facto repeal it through a bunch of regulations, they know exactly where to go to get the firearms. That sounds like a conspiracy theory. Does it?

Because most of them have said they're coming from your firearms, including Beto O'Rourke, who Joe Biden has appointed as his like gun czar guy if he's elected. Keep ignoring it, firearm owners. Some of you don't believe me. There are some Democrat firearm owners who don't believe me. Again, if your thing is to show up on a government list as a firearm owner for when they want to come for you and your firearms, then yes, vote Joe Biden. He's definitely your guy. Just stop telling me it's not happening because we're already talking about it. Let's go to takeaway number two from this excellent legal insurrection piece.

Worth your time. What do Democrats say? Quote, Democrats will end online sales of firearms and ammunition, guns and ammunition. End online sales. This is a scam, folks. There are no online sales

in the sense the Democrats want you to believe. They want you to believe like you go, hold on, Joe, let me go to my phone. AK-47 for sale deliver tomorrow check that out wow pretty cool that's not the way this works folks

you can buy a firearm online you still have to pick it up from a registered ffl and go through the same checks the democrats again they don't want any of that because they want everybody on a list showing up. They want to know who has the firearms and where. Why they want to block online sales. Well, Dan, you said they still have to go pick it up and get the background check and everything. Yes, that's right.

But the online sales just make it easier. Again, they're all about obstacles first. What I mentioned in point number one. They want to put obstacles in front of you, obstacles so you can't transfer your firearm to your kids, obstacles so it's not easy to shop online for one. It's all about making it de facto difficult to practice your own Second Amendment,

big R, God-given rights. Any obstacle they can create, they will. Let's go to takeaway number three. Here we go again with the assault weapons. Dreaded air quotes. Democrats will ban the manufacture and sale of assault weapons at high-capacity magazines. Let me translate that for you in English because Democrats rarely speak in proper English. They don't know what an assault weapon is. So what they really should say is Democrats want to ban scary looking guns and standard capacity magazines. They call it high capacity because it sounds scary.

High capacity. Oh my gosh. Are you talking about like a belt from a rainbow movie? Is that what you're talking about? Democrats don't know anything about guns. Whenever they open their mouths about guns, it's a source of tragic hilarity because they sound so stupid. I will never forget, true story, up in Maryland, I don't know, eight years ago, running for office. I was doing a show called Square Off with Richard Scher. Joe knows Richard. Richard has this local show. It's like a

crossfire type of show. I'm there with Brian Frosch, who later became the far left radical attorney general for Maryland. I'm debating him. I think he was running for the position then. And I asked him on the show. I'm not kidding. The clip is still out there. Viewers send to me. What an assault weapon was.

He's like, he has no idea. The guy was going to be the attorney general of Maryland. And it looks scary. You got to watch the clip sometime. It's hysterical. They don't even know what an assault weapon is. So what's point number three? The Democrats want to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines.

Again, dreaded air quotes. The Democrats want to take all your magazines and take away all your weapons because everything will be reclassified as an assault weapon. Anything. You put a flashlight on a Glock 19. That's definitely an assault weapon. Anything. You put a flashlight on a Glock 19, that's definitely an assault weapon. If it's a distinct category, if you're going to call something something, it has to have a perimeter, right?

Right? I mean, we call a phone a phone based on characteristics. Right. We call a car not a truck. We call a car a car and a truck a truck based on certain characteristics, right?

That's right. Those characteristics have limits. Do you have a car with 18 wheels? You may if it's low enough, but it meets certain characteristics. The crazy thing about the Democrats definition of assault weapons is it has no perimeter and no defining characteristics at all. They're black, the guns. That's definitely racist, by the way.

You can, it has a pistol grip. You mean like a pistol? Is that an assault weapon? They just make it up. The car becomes a truck. The truck becomes the car. They don't care because they want to ban all of it. So yes, Beto, soon to be Biden's gun czar,

will be coming for your guns because they'll categorize them all as assault weapons. Your standard capacity magazines will magically be high capacity. Here's the last one, one I hadn't heard. Federal coercion. What do we mean by that? Well, let's go back to legal insurrection.

Here's what they say. Quote, the Democrats will incentivize states to enact licensing requirements for owning firearms. And red flag was, ah, what does that mean? Basically means they're going to try to pull the same stunt they did with Obamacare. We're going to hold up federal funds to the states. Not only to build low income housing in the suburbs you live in, if you don't build it, they're going to hold up those federal funds. But if you don't enact a list and a license requirement for firearms and red flag laws, they're going to hold up that money too.

Why is that trouble? Because you have states that respect the Second Amendment and have low crime rates, like where I live in Florida, where, you know, we have crime. Everyone has crime. But it's far lower than the crime rates in New York City because you don't want to break into a home down here in Florida. It might not end well for you,

if you know what I mean. But what happens if Florida gets hijacked by the federal government who says, you know what, all those federal funds we give to Florida, yeah, you're not getting any of it unless you start enacting stricter licensing laws and red flag laws too. Again, if this is what you want, gun confiscation, taking away your magazines, putting obstacles to you purchasing a firearm, new federal control over state laws.

If that's what you want, just like if you want higher middle class taxes, Joe Biden's your guy. I can't talk you out of it. But if you're under the mistaken belief because you're a moderate Democrat, yeah, I like my firearms and I like low taxes, that Joe Biden's your guy. I'm really sorry, but you've been lied to or you're lying to yourself. The evidence is right in front of your face i just gave it to you in their own words quotes video evidence you know evidence like

what doesn't exist in the pp hoax all right this video is great on On a lighter note, I'm going to try to get two more things, right? This and the, because I said I'd talk about the broken windows police story. You know, running for office is a weird thing. It is. It can be embarrassing at times. I did it three times.

And you have to do a lot of things you don't want to do. You just do. You have to go to a bunch of barbecues and things. And I am not a social butterfly. My wife can attest to this. So can Joe. I'm not. I am totally uncomfortable around groups of people. I don't like being the center of attention. I know that sounds weird. Like, really? You? No. Believe me, I hate it. You have to do really uncomfortable things. Sometimes they're super embarrassing when you do them. But I promise you, in my three runs for office,

I never did anything as dumb as this. So this is a Democrat representative, a total numbnuts, who fell for the PP hoax number two, the post office hoax. That's the PO hoax. So he fell for the, you know, the post office hoax. Donald Trump is stealing mailboxes and storing them in the basement of the White House because he doesn't want the mail delivered before the election. It's dumber than the office hoax. Donald Trump is stealing mailboxes and storing them in the basement of the White House because he doesn't want the mail

delivered before the election. He's dumber than the PPO. The PPO hoax. This idiot ran with it. This guy's Pete DeFazio. I'm embarrassed for this guy, and I'm embarrassed that this guy's your representative. Here's a quick 10-second video. He thought that the hilarious

thing about this, he thinks this looks cool. Here's Representative Pete DeFazio, Toolbox DeFazio, chaining himself to a mailbox. And he really thinks this is like a real rock star ad. Check this out. They're not getting this one. Can you play that again?

What an imbecile. He chains himself to a mailbox. Can you do that again? What an imbecile. He chains himself to a mailbox. Can you do that for me again? They're not getting this one. You know, Joe, as I saw that, what an idiot. This guy, what is the date today? Today? August 19th.

I'm declaring this guy officially, even though we have more than a week and and a half left in the month I'm declaring this guy toolbox of the month Pete DeFazio you know what I wonder if he really changed himself can you imagine if like they lost the key and like you come back in three four days and there's like a skeleton of Pete DeFazio later and he's all dehydrated like beef jerky and he forgot to unchain himself Matt no imagine they're like they're like, they're doing post-production in like a van for the video while he's chained out there and they forget and drive off. And even worse, it's one of the mailboxes

that had been removed over the past two administrations, Obama included, because nobody actually delivers mail in it. So nobody sees DeFazio for like four or five days and he's there, beef jerky like skeleton, poured DeFazio for like four or five days. And he's there. Beef jerky like skeleton. Poured DeFazio. He's like, water, water. And so, oh, we forgot DeFazio.

He's still chained to the mailbox. They go back. They give him like the pee, water pee, vitamins, liquid IV, something, hydrate. Give him an IV. Give him an actual IV. They come back. He's like a piece of beef jerky. He's like, water, water. Hydrate me. Give him an IV. Give him an actual IV. They come back weeks later. He's like a piece of beef jerky. He's like, what?

What? You forgot me. Chained to the mailbox. Pete, we thought it was okay because we forgot you, but we thought it was one of those mailboxes people use. But actually, it was one of those mailboxes the Obama administration was going to remove because nobody actually goes there. We're really sorry, Pete.

Nobody's seen you in five days because nobody uses the mailboxes the post office wants to remove because nobody actually goes there. We're really sorry, Pete. Nobody's seen you in five days because nobody uses the mailboxes the post office wants to remove because nobody uses them. Water. Water. And he thinks this thing looks good. He thinks this is a real winner.

What is with names that rhyme with de Blasio and being a moron? I was thinking that too. what is with names that rhyme with de blasio and being a moron i was thinking that too what is with that right just change out a few letters yeah change out a few letters you go from de blasio to defazio moron of the month and it's not even over yet all right last story of the day listen new york post is a good. It's in yesterday's show notes. Speaking of morons like de Blasio rhymes with de Fasio, why is New York City descending into absolute chaos? Well, there's a great article, Michael Goodman. I encourage you to look it up.

It's in yesterday's show notes, how New York City championed broken windows policing and threw it away. Folks, I warned you, as a cop, as a police officer myself, I had an interesting experience. I got on the NYPD as a cop i i i didn't as a police officer myself i had an interesting experience i got on the nypd as a young man while they were transitioning away from an older era where the running ethos of the time was don't arrest people on the street for little stuff smoking weed jumping a turnstile drunk in public you know, that kind of stuff, nuisance crimes,

discon, disorderly conduct. Because the idea, which was, by the way, was pervasive for decades. It was never written down, but trust me when I tell you, this was fed to you on patrol. Don't bring that stuff in here. Matter of fact, I got yelled at by a desk sergeant once for bringing in a kid who ran. He was doing drugs in the street. I was working up in Harlem in an FTU,

a field training unit. And they were like, what are you bringing that crap in here for? You should be out there in the street arresting people for serious stuff. Trust me. It was the way people thought back then. The problem was that nuisance stuff later turned into serious stuff because the same kid who ran from you from doing drugs in the street when you caught him was the same kid who robbed someone later. Believe it or not, it took a long time for people to figure that out. The people who did figure it out were the creators of broken windows policing. shot one. I'm not going to use the other one, Paul, just this first one, but it's important. He says, listen, there was no magic, Goodman says this, to New York crime going down. It was just as Thomas Edison described genius, that 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Broken windows policing involved an exhaustive, exhaustive attention to detail. Rudy Giuliani and Bill Bratton, who was a police commissioner at the time, talked about taking back the city block by block.

And they were aided by developing technology. They put NYPD precinct bosses on the spot by showing them what crimes have been committed, when and where. Folks, I was there. I saw it. If you were that desk sergeant that yelled at me for locking that guy up for the foot pursuit over drugs, all of a sudden that death sergeant and his commanding officer were brought in to one police plaza and the police commissioner and Jack Murphy and Jack Maple, excuse me, who was the first deputy commissioner, they were there and they were like, hey, there was a foot pursuit over a drug crime. What happened? And the commanding officers, the police were like, what do you mean?

We told them to let him go. We're only there for serious stuff. No, no, not anymore. Giuliani went block by block with his police commissioner, analyzed every single crime. It's called CompStat. It was short for computer statistics. And NYPD police commanders used to go to these meetings sweating because for years, no one asked them any questions about anything.

They go there, they get a pat on the back, have a few beers. Now they're going there, they're supposed to answer for a foot pursuit about a joint at two o'clock in the afternoon in Harlem? Yeah. Giuliani did that. It was an exhaustive attention to detail. And as those COs started locking up people for being drunk in public, harassing people on the subway, those were the same people committing the armed robberies and the home invasions. They couldn't do it after that.

Why? Because they were already in jail for the low-level stuff that had been ignored for years. Don't forget that. That's the attention we need nationwide to detail. All right, folks. Thanks again for tuning in today. We covered a lot of territory. I'm sorry, but the collusion thing, I keep bringing it up.

It's just infuriating how little homework the media actually does. The guy was a source for the Obama administration. All of a sudden, we're supposed to believe he's the Jason Bourne of Russia. Kalimnik, bunch of dopes. Question, question everything. Thanks for tuning in. Folks, one more note. Attila's gym needs help.

The GoFundMe is on the Monday show notes. They are under attack. They have been fined again. They're in the six-figure range for fines. The guys at Attila's need help. Please. They texted me yesterday. They're under full frontal assault by the bureaucrats in New Jersey.

Please help them out. Attila's Gym. Check them out. The GoFundMe is in that Monday account. We'd really appreciate it. Thanks again, folks. Attila's Gym. Check him out. The GoFundMe's in that Monday account. We'd really appreciate it. Thanks again, folks. See you all tomorrow. You just heard Dan Bongino.