The Dan Bongino Show - The Bongino Brief - An Absolute Disaster For The Left

Episode Date: May 13, 2023

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of course, wanted to have Trump on because of the ratings. They thought they could, quote, control Donald Trump. I think we've learned for the last seven years now that no one's going to control Donald Trump. And listen, I say this with a lot of love. I think I've been very fair to all candidates in the race. Wouldn't you guys agree? Very fair. I genuinely like, as people, a lot of people in there. Which I don't really have a relationship with Nikki Haley at all.

Yeah. No, thank you. But I love Vivek. I mean, I'm an investor in one of his funds. I love Vivek. I think Tim Scott's a good guy. I don't know how conservative he is, but I think his story's amazing. And I'm in Florida, and I can tell you right now, we've never had a better governor.

And you're never going to get me to say otherwise. I really don't care who says what. But I'm a Trump guy. I can tell you right now, we've never had a better governor. And you're never going to get me to say otherwise. I really don't care who says what. But I'm a Trump guy. I've been a Trump guy. I've always been a Trump guy. I don't think that's a mystery. And I think last night it's over. I really do.

I really, I don't see any purpose. Last night, CNN thought was going to be the kill shot for Donald Trump. It turned out to be the kill shot for CNN. I mean, absolutely body bagged the CNN audience last night and absolutely hapless Caitlin Collins, just hapless. Now, what do I always say? You got to do the dipsy do flip a roof. You ever want to analyze what's going on with the left, always gauge the success or failure of what Trump did or didn't do. Based on the degree of hysteria from the left, if they ignore it, if you hear nothing from the left about Trump at all, it was probably a failure. I'll give you an example. I didn't think the

announcement he did for president, remember the announcement? I thought it was a little low energy. The speech was okay, but it was just a bad timing. It just seemed like it was done to kind of knock out other candidates. I didn't think it was a good idea when they did it back then. I still don't. But did you notice the announcement got almost no attention? This is what I mean. When the media starts freaking out about what Donald Trump is doing,

it means Donald Trump did something that is really destructive to the enemies of America. Always gauge the success or failure by that. Here's what I mean. New York Post, proving my point exactly. Ding, ding, ding, ding. Donald Trump, CNN, Town Hall, live updates. Liberal journalists and AOC blast the network over the event, quote, lost total control, including losers and zeros like AOC. Look at her on Twitter. CNN should be ashamed of themselves. The world's dumbest congresswoman. They've lost total control of the town hall, she says, to be manipulated. The audience is cheering them on and laughing at the host.

We were laughing at the host, too. That was great. And then Mehdi Hassan, who got wrecked by Matt Taibbi. Here's another crazed leftist. I thought the CNN town hall would be bad, but it's worse than I thought. The audience on his side, the mocking of a victim of sexual abuse, Donald Trump saying otherwise. He's allowed to defend himself. Mehdi, you've got some tapes out there too, I believe, right? I think we can all see those on Twitter. He's allowed lot to defend themselves, right?

You did. Those tapes were kind of interesting. You were talking about a whole bunch of stuff. Strange, huh? More in a minute, but first. Looking for a great Mother's or Father's Day gift idea? With Paint Your Life, you can get a professional hand-painted portrait created from any photo at a truly affordable price.

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And I'll tell you, he had a lot of substance in what he had to say. Now, I think CNN and Ben Shapiro agrees. Shapiro put this out on Twitter last night and he's 100% correct. CNN, whether they know it or not, did an enormous favor for Donald Trump last night. So much so that really I don't see, there's this thing in politics called the big mo momentum. I don't see the big mo changing at all. I don't. I see at this point, there's almost no chance anymore for anybody to catch Trump. He just obliterated them last night. How he's going to fare in the general, I don't know. I'm not making

the mistake I made in 2020 or 2022. I told you that yesterday. I'm not going to get out, oh, he's going to win by 10. I'm not doing that shit. You want to do it, you do it. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing that. I'm sorry. I am going to pretend Trump is going to lose by 20. That way we all get out and vote because I'm not getting stuck again. Having said that, the moderator last night was a total joke. I've got a bunch of clips, including one hilarious clip from a focus group they ran afterwards. But she doesn't appear to know here, Caitlin Collins. I'm going to lead with this one, even though it happened towards the end. Donald Trump is talking about Ukraine, Russia here.

And what he's referring to in this statement is Europe's budget for NATO, their defense budget. Just so we're clear, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, right? The alliance there, they are obligated as being part of NATO to spend a specific percentage of their GDP towards their national defense. Donald Trump has been complaining for years that even though NATO largely benefits countries in Europe, we're in North America. Who are our enemies, Joe? Canada and Mexico? I mean, they're not going to invade us. So Trump's like, why the hell are we spending all this money on NATO if you're not? Caitlin Collins doesn't seem to get that she keeps going back to no no no we're talking about ukraine yeah yeah no kidding he's talking about ukraine too where nato countries

are bordering the skirmish here in the fight what an idiot i got with nato when i sat down i got them to put up hundreds of billions of dollars that they weren't paying under obama and bush and all of these other presidents. That's why they're able to help them fight the war because of the money I got. But I want Europe to put up more money because they're laughing at us. They think we're a bunch of jerks. We're spending one hundred and seventy billion dollars for faraway land. And they're right next door to that land.

And they're in for 20. I don't think so. She doesn't even appear to know. This is supposed to be a journalist that he's talking about NATO bordering the fight going on in Ukraine with Ukraine and Russia. She doesn't even seem to know that.

That was surprising that she should be so stupid. Joe, she was the entertainment reporter at the Daily Caller before she wound up on CNN. Not that there's anything wrong with that. She had a job. Fine. You were. But I mean, listen, I was a police officer in an age. I had nothing to do with politics either.

But either did she. She was an entertainment reporter over there. The thing is, she doesn't know anything. I consider it my obligation that when I don't know something, I tell you, if we screw something up, we'll say it. But my gosh, you don't even know what he's talking about. NATO, that was the least of it. Here, in order to redeem herself, well, this thing just went bad within seconds, within seconds. You know, how many times do I got to tell liberals? Listen to me. Listen, put down what you're doing. Take your pen, put it down

your coffee mug here and take a sip. Put it down on the table. Get the cotton out of your ears and stick it in your mouth for a second. Listen to what I'm telling you. Trump is the lion King. I've said it a thousand times. He's the apex predator on the stage. If you're not prepared to deal with him, then don't get on the stage because he's going to destroy you. This is why I think it's a mistake for him to skip these debates. Everyone will look small next to him. They just will. It's a huge mistake.

They don't listen to me, so it doesn't really matter. But here she tries the tough guy approach with Donald Trump. And you got to remember with Trump, Hillary tried this too. He always gets the last word. Always. It just makes better sense to kind of kill him with kindness and the honey, not vinegar,

because you're not going to out vinegar Donald Trump. He's the freaking apex predator. Here, take a listen. Joe Biden didn't ignore a subpoena to get those documents back like you did. Joe Biden took 1,850 boxes. But that's the question that investigators have, I think, is why you held onto those documents back like you did. And so that's the question. You probably took 1,850 boxes. But that's the question that investigators have, I think, is why you held onto those documents

when you knew the federal government was seeking them and then had given you a subpoena to return them. Are you ready? Are you ready? Can I talk? Yeah, what's the answer? Can I do you mind? I would like for you to answer the question.

Okay, it's very simple to answer. That's why I asked it. It's very simple to, you're a nasty person, I'll tell you. I mean, you're going to out wise ass Donald Trump. Really? You just look silly. You're just giving them talking. I'm not giving these people tips.

I'm just telling you how totally incompetent after seven years of Donald Trump that they can't figure him out. Always gauge the damage Donald Trump has done to the left. Always by the reaction of the left. If they ignore it, it's usually a nothing burger or damaging to Trump and they just let him do his own thing. If it is super destructive to the left, like last night's town hall was, where CNN and Caitlin Collins looked just pathetic and Trump looked sharp on the ball and nowhere close to his chronological age,

unlike Biden, who looks 10 years older than 80. Always go to the left. Here's a perfect example. Here's the Lennon Project's Dick Wilson, sometimes called Rick Wilson mistakenly. Rick Wilson over there at the Lennon Project, sometimes known as the Lincoln Project. Rick Wilson is a sellout, a life loser, a guy who there's a lot of information floating out there about, and I'm actually surprised. I don't want to be the one to put it out there because it's kind of gross, but there's a lot of stuff out there people know about Rick Wilson.

Yeah. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Folks in the chat room, you got to start getting on keys, getting a little too quick with the trigger finger. Slow down there. You're a little too feisty. I mentioned Dick Wilson. He got all excited over there.

He's like, oh, he loved playing clips of this guy. I got to give you a little background on Dick Wilson. So Dick Wilson is a sellout. Dick Wilson used to grift off Republicans pretending to be a Republican consultant. When he kept losing and Republicans laughed him out of the Republican Party. He got involved with another loser, Reed Galen, and they started becoming anti-Trump losers because they wanted to grift off lefties who amazingly still keep giving this life loser money. I ran into this guy in an airport up in New York. He nearly dropped a load in his pants.

He was so scared when I saw him. He turned white and I walked up to him and I told the story before the dude stunk like, like, like he hadn't taken a shower in six months. He had that oily, oily sulfur, like stench emanating from him. And he had dandruff flakes, the size of like Buffalo snow. I've never seen anything like it and i you know so i sent the guy i said to him hey man whatever like good to see you and you know i was trying to be a nice guy take the high road and he was like oh yeah he couldn't get out of there quick enough he had to go to the bathroom and change his diaper although he probably smelled better after he crapped himself the guy stunk i'm not telling you this it's not

a joke i'm not I'm telling you, I couldn't believe the guy, the stench. I mean, it was like pig pen from the peanuts. And I walked away and I was like, holy Moses, this good dude shower. This is this guy, the Lennon Project guy. If liberals are giving him money, buy a bar of freaking soap. Here he is last night, Dick Wilson, absolutely melting down. Here's how you know Trump did serious damage. Okay, you can hit it now. We're in a break now from the presidential town hall with CNN, Caitlin Collins. And whatever the they thought they were going to get out of this, they instead have set a match to democracy once again.

You are letting an insane person stand there and make people giggle and laugh when he jokes about rape. You make people giggle and laugh when he jokes about abortion, when he calls an African-American police officer a thug. This insanity should be pulled off the air. Chris Lick, you should be ashamed of yourself. This is astoundingly bad for the brand of CNN. It's astoundingly bad for the brand of CNN. It's astoundingly bad for the country. And it's astoundingly bad, honestly, folks, for every other Republican

candidate in the primaries. Wrap that up. It's done. You saw this tonight. You know you can't beat him on the stage. Everybody else oars up. Time to go to work because he's going to be the nominee. This is unbelievable. I've never seen anything like it.

It is a disaster of the highest degree. Oh, dude, you want the Motley? I mean, we got it. I mean, don't disrespect Motley. All right. I mean, Dick Wilson, man. Everyone, please do me a favor. Go to his Twitter account and send him like a Walmart dot com link to degree or dove underarm deodorant or whatever one he uses, speed stick. I don't know what the hell, right guard, maybe the spray. If you'd send them that link, he'll know where it came from. I promise. Send it to him on Twitter. He'll know exactly where it came from. There he is totally melting down. What did I tell you? Listen to the theme of today's show. I will never mess with you. When the left freaks out, that means they are terrified right now that Trump is

back. They're terrified. Here's Playbook, Politico Playbook, which is the Bible of the left. It's an email that comes out every morning. Playbook is just astonished how badly CNN just cell phoned themselves last night with this pathetic debate, throwing Caitlin Collins up against the Lion King in what was the most hapless mismatch we've seen since Mike Tyson, Michael Spinks. It just wasn't going to happen. Remember that one? Spinks was in the locker room, supposedly afraid to come out. He heard Tyson punch a wall or something like that. Playbook, how Trump dominated CNN. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. That's exactly what happened here. Look at this all caps show instant regrets, colon CNN faced heavy criticism for lending Trump its platform. Critics suggesting the network was prioritizing ratings

rather than its commitment to truth. Here, CNN people, here they are. Here's John Ralston, the CEO of the Nevada Independent. He posted a Twitter thread. Just minutes in, he said, this is a farce. I'm so sad. Of course, it gets better. These guys just continue to melt down, calling it a complete disaster. Go to the next screen. Even CNN's own employees melting down saying this thing was a disaster, a disgrace. MSNBC host calling it an hour of misinformation. Matt Fuller from the Daily Yeast saying it was journalism malpractice. Oh, salty liberal tears. Just delicious, aren't they? Listen, I'm playing for keeps.

I'm not here dicking around, right? Dicking around time's over. These people are the enemies of America. They hate everything we stand for. Liberty, constitutional rights, prosperity, educational rights, healthcare rights, economic rights, big R, God-given rights, the right to assemble, petition, not jam untested substances into your body. They're against all that. These people need to be politically destroyed.

Politically destroyed. Politically destroyed. I'll say it for the third time. And that's it. Politically destroyed. Play cute. Play cute. These people will steamroll you.