The Dan Bongino Show - The Bongino Brief - Safety Concerns At The Trump Inauguration

Episode Date: January 18, 2025

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After yesterday's briefing, my answer is probably not. And it pains me to say that. Now it's one of those things I'm speculating. The inauguration, ladies and gentlemen, hasn't happened yet. I'm just afraid that the people in charge at the top of the Secret Service, and certainly at the FBI, do not know what they're doing

And in case you're asking by the way about bona fides in this situation You know what? I'd ask you guys to take that picture off the wall But I don't know how heavy it is There is a picture on the wall right over there in the studio behind me of the daily news It is me at Barack Obama's inauguration where I, is that too heavy? Look at Michael. Michael's like a big hockey dude.

He's like seven feet tall. I wasn't sure if it, here, thank you, Michael. Here, okay. So here it is. You can see me in the corner right there in the, is that me right there? No, the other side, sorry, everything's backwards. Okay, that's me on my, with my right hand. So thank you, No, the other side. Sorry. Everything's backwards.

Okay. That's me on my with my right hand. So thank you, Michael. I appreciate it. So there's the bone of fetus. That was a cover of the New York Daily News. My shoulders hurt now. That thing weighs five pounds.

It looked like it weighed 50. Of course, Michael manhandles it. I'm like, ah, proving my point that these are all show muscles that don't even work anymore. It's all for show. You want to kick my ass? You probably could. But I was responsible for the section of the presidential inaugural route

for Barack Obama's first inauguration. And I was specifically responsible for the most important section. Again, you're free to foyer the Secret Service and ask about this stuff. The section, as you can see in the picture, which is very straight, very straight. It's like this, the thing is like this,

then they're like, is this straight? We'll put it up later, very esky, totally straight right there. I was responsible for the section where Barack Obama was to get out of the car. So let me just say this. I think if President Trump at this point, given the people in charge of the Secret Service

at the top and their known incompetence, I think if President Trump were to stay in the car and forego the walk, I would be comfortable. I have not been briefed in on the security plan. I wish I was. I would like to review it myself because I've done it before and I want to see what they're looking at. I know exactly what it's supposed to look like. Now here's the bad news first, okay?

I said I'd get to it. The FBI, who I don't trust as far as I could throw, the FBI, this is very short, this is a manager at the FBI, obviously responsible for a portion of the inaugural security. Here he is saying that they're not tracking any threats. Do you really believe that there are no threats

to the inauguration? Are you insane? Whatever the FBI says these days, I tend to believe the opposite. Check this out. We are not currently tracking any specific or credible threats to the inaugural ceremony or to the Capitol complex. We will continue to work closely with our partners to share information and identify and disrupt any threats that may emerge. Okay, that's the bad news. Why is that the bad news? Because again, I don't trust the FBI

and I tend to believe given their credibility on prior issues, which is zero, I tend to believe the opposite of what they're saying. I would almost rather the FBI come out and say, we're tracking very serious threats because then I would believe they were doing something about it. The problem is there probably are very serious threats.

Again, I have not been briefed in on the matter. Of course, he could be telling the truth, and I hope he is. I just don't trust them. Why do I not trust the FBI? Because there's no reason to trust the FBI when it comes to anything involving Donald Trump, because they've been on the opposite side of the truth of nearly every major scandal involving the FBI. It's going to take a long time to rebuild trust once Cash Patel hopefully gets confirmed. More in a minute, but first. Folks, I've been using the Bone Charge infrared sauna blanket.

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well. I promise you, I knew Ron Rowe well, the director too, and Ron screwed up bad, the acting director now, and he needs to go. It's not personal. Ron was very nice to me when I was on the detail. Ron is not qualified to be the Secret Service Director. I'm sorry, based on what happened in Butler and what happened in Palm Beach. He's just not.

There's only so many failures where you're, and by the way, January 6th too, where he was also in the management chain. He's not qualified. The guy in charge of what we call WFO, the Washington field office, who was basically running on the ground inaugural security from a management perspective is this guy. His name is Matt McCool. His name is public. I'm not giving anything up. They briefed yesterday,

so it's not like I'm giving up his name. He gave a public briefing yesterday. I know Matt very well. I've got a very, very long work history with him, a lot longer than I had with Ron Rowe. Matt is a very competent guy. Matt is a very smart guy. Matt knows protection. Matt very importantly knows tactical work as well,

has a lot of experience on the tactical side. He's overseeing this. Here he is during the briefing yesterday saying that they're looking at out of the box thinking on this one. I hope he's correct. But check this out. I would say what's different is we are in a high high higher threat environment. What is the difference in comparison to the last inauguration or previous inauguration?

Last inauguration? Yeah. I would say we got we have a slightly more robust security plan. We've been planning for this event for 12 months, along with our partners. It's an ever-changing threat environment. And so we stay flexible if we see that, hey, we need to shore this particular checkpoint up, we do that. So what's different?

We've learned. This is our fifth N S s e. Uh, this year in the Washington Field Office, we've done 83 N S s E s. Each one we take a look at. And if there's areas where we need to improve, we do it. But what I can tell you is that we are 100% confident in the plan that we have put in place for this inauguration that the public and our protectees will be safe Well, ladies and gentlemen that puts me at ease a little bit because again I know Matt to be a very competent guy just to clear up some of the jargon not a knock on him But you know professionals talking jargon a lot

He's refers to NSSEs how they've done a lot of those NSSEs are national special security events Why is that significant if something is designated a NSSEs, how they've done a lot of those. NSSEs are National Special Security Events. Why is that significant? If something is designated, a NSSE, a National Special Security Event, the Secret Service is in charge of the security plan. I have said in my reform proposals for the United States Secret Service, as much as I adore my prior colleagues

in the Secret Service, the ones that didn't screw up in Butler and the ones that didn't screw up the management chain in Palm Beach and everything else and on January 6th, the Secret Service should no longer be in charge of NSSEs. They shouldn't. They should be a part of it, but they should not be in charge. You have other federal entities that should be more of a complete task force model. The Secret Service does not have the bureaucratic pull to do the things they need to do

to make people do the things they need to do. I'm not sure that makes sense, but there are other entities that can take this away from the Secret Service. They should not be in charge of NSSEs. They should be in charge of presidential and vice presidential security and their families, that's it. All the other stuff needs to go away.

If President Trump and the team decide they ever wanna talk about this, it's something. All the other stuff needs to go away. If President Trump and the team decide they ever want to talk about this, it's something I plan on bringing up. I've been talking to members of Congress about it extensively. You want to keep the president and his family alive, there's only one way to do it. It's to dump everything else the Secret Service does and focus on keeping them alive. It's not complicated. Here's Matt McCool again addressing something that I am deeply concerned about. It is the air picture.

Folks, I can't tell you this enough. Explaining the damage drones can do and why they are a critical threat is very easy. Human beings can't fly. I can't say this enough. If you see a drone overhead and there is not a vigorous plan to take it down countermeasures

Electronic interference whatever you plan on doing netting a hard job basically making it a harder target. I Don't know what their plan is. I'm just telling you I'm hearing from sources It's not nearly as strong as they're claiming. Let's hope I'm wrong and that these sources, that there's updated information. Here's McCool again from the Washington Field Office talking about a drone plan saying, hey, don't be alarmed, we're going to have drones in the sky too. Okay, I hope he's right and I hope they've got a good plan. Watch this. Secret Services comprehensive security plan will continue to use drones as part of our protective posture. Do not be alarmed if you see these assets during

the inauguration or in training in the days ahead. By the way, dude looks like he's a friend, he was a friend of mine. I don't talk to him, I say was, not that he's not. Now we don't really talk much anymore. He looks like he's cut out of Central Casserole and with a name like McCool Perfect right for this guy. He's as competent as he looks so let's hope that drone plan if they can knock out the drone plan I am convinced on the big six. They're all set Tactical medical chem bio airborne I fire, kind of geological disturbance stuff. I think on the other big six threats, they're good to go. It's this freaking air picture that really scares the shit out of me.

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