The Dan Bongino Show - The Left Gets A Smackdown in Court (Ep. 2238)

Episode Date: April 26, 2024

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get ready to hear the truth about america on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host dan bongino okay it's one of those leo gets moments you know okay okay i gotta explain this a little better the iron law of contradiction i'm gonna get to that i promise once it kind of sinks in it's everything's gonna make a whole bunch of sense. But yesterday, the case got so ridiculous, the Donald Trump Twinkies case up in New York. The case has gotten so ridiculous, this NDA case. Nobody knew how to talk about it on cable news.

Did you see it? The National Enquirer guy was named David Pecker. And they were like, Pecker's standing up. I mean, on the stand. I mean, the Pecker's standing. David Pe up. I mean, on the stand. I mean, the Peckers stand. David Peck. I mean, I don't mean the Pecker. I mean, this is how stupid this has gotten. This is what happens when you let freaking lunatics run the country who decide it's a good idea to take a former president, stick him in a dingy courtroom during a campaign.

a dingy courtroom during a campaign. You can only hope these losers are distanced from power and then prosecuted themselves later for stealing away Donald Trump's civil rights. I got a lot to talk about today, including my iron law of contradiction. It's important. Today's show is sponsored by Blackout Coffee. Stop giving your money to woke companies who don't care about you. Go to

blackoutcoffee.com slash Bongino. Use coupon code Bongino for 20% off your first order. Folks, I need to explain it better. I will. The iron law of contradiction. What that basically means is whatever the left is taking a stand on, it's not on principle. They're only doing it because you took the opposite stand.

And the minute that flips, they will go right back and do the opposite thing again. I've got hardcore receipts as it relates to this Supreme Court case yesterday. The very important one about presidential immunity. Stay tuned. MyPatriotsApply.com. Most of these emergencies come without a warning. That's why they're emergencies. You have to be able to grab your go bag, your water, and your food and go.

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The Supreme court case was happening involving Donald Trump. One of the many criminal persecutions of Donald Trump that lefties I'm happy to say is blowing up right in your face in the polls. It's double barrel, maybe the triple, but we'll leave that for today. The poor wooden hand needs a break. But I got a bunch of emails yesterday.

Supreme Court, the Democrats on the, because they are, Sonia Sotomayor, Kagan, and Ketanji Brown-Jackson, I don't know what a woman is. The Democrats seemed confused yesterday about the limits of presidential power. I'm going to get to that in a second. One of the things that came up is the idea of fake electors. Let me just put this out there before we get to it. If you're using the term fake electors and not alternate electors,

you are playing right into the Democrat trap. There's no such thing as fake electors in this case. They were alternate electors. Donald Trump was concerned that the popular vote in some of these states was going to go in his direction if they looked into what was going on, so they had a slate of electors ready to go, which has been done many times. They will take the opposite position.

But before I get to that, I wanted to show you this, Jim. Hat tip Evita, by the way, who sent me this one. The New York Times, which portrays itself as the paragon of journalistic integrity, the old gray lady they, the old gray lady, they call the old gray lady. They used to be against things like, you know, civil rights violations and that kind of stuff. So Evita sent me this little gem. Here's the New York Times now. Surveillance law section 702. It keeps us safe, folks. So this happened. Now the New York Times is all in on government surveillance. Now, why would the New York Times is all in on government surveillance.

Now, why would the New York Times be all in on government surveillance? It's very simple when you think about it. David Horowitz explained this once. It'll explain everything I'm about to talk about in this section, about how the left will take a completely contradictory position, depending only on what the conservative position is. We'll call it the anti-anti-communist thing because that's what he calls it. You've heard it before? Good. If you haven't heard it before, get ready.

It's going to explain everything. Folks, we're the anti-communists, correct? We don't believe in collectivism. We believe in individual liberty. We are the anti-communists. The left are the anti-anti-communists. The left doesn't care about principles. They're full of shit.

They have no principles. The left's only principle is what? Power. Abusing power. Putting Donald Trump in prison. They don't care about principles or anything. Anything. Anything even resembling a principle.

You're the anti-communist. You're in their way. Whatever you believe in, they will take the opposite position if they believe they can use it to get you out of their way. So the left, as Horowitz calls them, are the anti-anti-communist. Why is the New York Times now all in on government surveillance, running op-eds about it? Because, folks, the New York Times, their opinion writers and others, they see you as an obstacle and they realize a valuable tool to get rid of you, the anti-communist,

is what? Surveillance. The same government they used to lobby against, the ACLU and the left in the past, they used to say they hated that stuff. They hate nothing. They hate being kept from power. That is it. That's the only thing they see as an obstacle is you. We are the anti-communists. They are the anti-anti-communists. They don't care about why do they support the death to America Iranians

who throw gay people off buildings. They don't care about them being gay or anything like that. All they care about is using the Iranians to advance the political power of the United States, United States government they feel is working for them. Here's how it relates to yesterday's trial in the Supreme Court. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a big deal. This case is huge. A lot of cases in the Supreme Court are very important, but they're important for specific groups. I brought up the example yesterday on the radio show that a lot of times I'll argue cases in front of the Supreme Court that involve fisheries. They're important. You want to eat fish

and not starve to death. You don't want to put a bunch of fishermen out of business, but let's be candid. It affects a rather large portion of the economy, but a limited group of people in there. a rather large portion of the economy, but a limited group of people in there. This Supreme Court case here affects everyone. It is about the limits of presidential power. Now, I want you to see in this clip coming up right here, how Sonia Sotomayor, Democrat, obviously a far left. She's using an argument, but she's stating a premise in advance.

This is the like, when did you stop beating your wife question? She says to the Trump's team in front of the court, his legal team, well, you know, if the president could do what he was doing, I mean, and he just appoints fake electors to steal an election. The idea of a fake elector is a premise with no justification. They're alternate electors. It's been done many times. And Democrats have argued the exact opposite in the past, that alternate electors should be allowed. Matter of fact, not even far in the past did they argue this. But now the Democrats are taking the opposite position, that presidential electors, if you dare have a slate ready to go,

alternate electors, which has been done many times, that this could be a crime. And she says it as a premise to the question. Take a listen. Quiet to the allegations here. What is plausible about the president insisting in creating a fraudulent slate of electoral candidates? Assuming you accept the facts of the complaint on their face,

is that plausible that that would be within his right to do? Absolutely, Your Honor. We have the historical precedent we cite in the lower courts of President Grant sending federal troops to Louisiana and Mississippi in 1876 to make sure that the Republican electors got certified in those two cases, which delivered the election to Rutherford B. Hayes. The notion that it's completely implausible, I think, just can't be supported based on the face of this indictment. So you see the anti-communist and anti-anti-communist play going on here, the iron law of contradiction. The Democrats are full of shit. They don't stand for anything. The New York Times and the ACLU and others told you for years, government spying,

the CIA, this was all awful, terrible. They had out them all the time. Now they're all in. Why are they all in? Because they think they can use it to target you. They don, terrible. They'd out them all the time. Now they're all in. Why are they all in? Because they think they can use it to target you. They don't care. They don't care if they're flipping and doing a total 180. They don't care at all. So, Nisota Mayor there is actually implying that having a slate of alternate presidential electors

because you dispute the outcome of a state, which has been done many times, implies in her question that that's some kind of nefarious activity. Of course, she gets legally smacked around by Trump's lawyer because Sotomayor is not that bright, which was awesome. And I'll get back to the court case a little bit later. But this is about the contradiction law here. Look at his CNN piece. Van Jones and Lawrence Lessig, two devout lefties. Why Pennsylvania should take its time counting votes?

Here they argue the exact opposite case. And by the way, this is also tied to that Arizona thing where a bunch of folks in the Trump orbit were just indicted for being what they call fake electors. On that day, assuming the final count of the popular vote has not been certified, both slates of Pennsylvania presidential electors, on that day, assuming the final count of the popular vote has not been certified, both slates of Pennsylvania presidential electors, both slates. How can there be two slates? We've been told by Democrats that's a crime. This is Van Jones and Lawrence Lessing, two lefties on CNN.

Both slates should meet in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Both slates should cast their votes by ballot. And Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf should await the final resolution of the popular vote count before he certifies which slate should represent the state. Holy shit, that sounds like what Donald Trump did. Now it's a crime. People are indicted, though. Sonia Sotomayor is implying in the immunity case it was a crime too but they argued for it a few years ago

the iron law of contradiction whatever you believe in the anti-anti-communists will take the opposite position because you were an obstacle to them and they will try to crush you with it they don't give a damn how it looks, how it smells how it stinks, how it sounds. They don't care. This is what you're dealing with. Here's another gem.

One more, and I'm going to get to some other stuff, including the disastrous GDP numbers and hilariously how the left is trying to massage this thing. Oh, we got to nuance them now. Oh, yeah, nuance them, sure. Now we got to nuance them. Here's the young turds. This is like one of the really popular goofball liberal shows. They've been around forever.

I want you to watch these two morons, okay? When the lab leak theory was thrown around that, hey, you know what? This Wuhan virus that originated in Wuhan, where there's a lab that studies viruses like the Wuhan virus, that studies back coronaviruses, where there was an outbreak near the Wuhan lab, that studies back coronaviruses, where there was an outbreak near the Wuhan lab, a lot of smart conservatives were like, that sounds kind of suspicious,

especially considering the State Department has records of biosafety lab issues with this lab, and it is the Chinese Communist Party. People were scratching their heads. They're like, that sounds like it could have leaked from the lab. What does that have to do with the iron law of contradiction? Because you said it and Trump said it. Hey, maybe this thing leaked from a lab. It's kind of sounds logical, right? The morons on the left had to take the opposite position. Why? Because they believed it. Why the iron law of contradiction? Because you're in their way and

they had to make you look stupid. Now, all of a sudden that that penalty is gone and Biden's in office and it's getting really, really hard to ignore the obvious that this thing was a lab leak. Now, when they feel it's comfortable to walk away from the obvious contradiction they had in the past to get you out of the way, now they all change their position. They think we don't know. Big hat to Mays Moore. I saw this video there. This is great. Check this out. Everyone who believes in the conspiracy is saying that he came out of a lab in Wuhan rather than through food at a market. And he continued to push a conspiracy theory that has already been debunked by our intelligence community. This whole notion that the coronavirus was developed in a Chinese lab that has been

debunked is that I don't know who to trust. Yeah. Right? I certainly don't trust reporters because reporters treated this initially as if it was nothing more than a crazy unhinged conspiracy theory. Yeah. So who do you trust, right? You can't trust the legacy media outlets because that was their narrative. It came out of the city that has a Wuhan Institute of Virology, a Chinese lab that worked on coronaviruses. Man, that is an awfully large coincidence. And that's what I've thought throughout that that was an awfully large coincidence. I know you get angry at this stuff. Don't. Don't get angry.

Or get angry but channel it into something productive like wiping these people off the electoral map. It was obvious to anyone with half a freaking brain that the thing obviously came from Wuhan. But what kills me is these people knew that. They all knew that. They're not dumb. But the iron law of contradiction, whatever you say, they are going to say the opposite. If Donald Trump would have come out and said, listen, I've got a solution for COVID. I'm dead serious.

I am. This is not intended to be humorous. If Donald Trump would have come out, you know it. And he would have said, folks, I have a solution for this coronavirus outbreak. The minute it started, everyone wear masks. I promise you, as my name is Dan Bongino, the young turds, everyone else on the left in the media would have mocked Donald Trump for even suggesting that this ridiculous face diaper would stop a microscopic virus because of the iron law of contradiction. You're in their way, and they've got to stop you all the time.

You know, I did a segment on the radio show yesterday how it's hard to reason with people not interested in reason, but the third party's always listening. These are about 20%, 25%, 30% of America right now. It's sad. The liberal movement and the virus has infected these crazies, okay? But there are persuadable people out there, and there's a third party listening.

I was talking yesterday about the power of the streets. You have to understand, ladies and gentlemen, the left has understood this for a long time. How do they keep people detached from reason? They do it by this mass psyop. They've done it forever. The psychological operation the left has engaged in for decades is street power. They want piles of people in the street blocking

traffic and doing it for a reason. It's meant to give you the false impression that despite the fact that your reason and logic is telling you you're not crazy, the ling ling from a lab, when these people are out in the street and they're on TV, regardless of the issue, kill the Jews crowd, Israel, the Middle East, the Wuhan lab, the economy, it doesn't matter. They want to give the impression that there's a mass movement out there and you may be the crazy one if you start using reason to figure it out. This is why they use the streets.

This is why these riots are going on right now. This is why you're seeing these takeovers of the college campuses. Believe me, the Middle East is a secondary issue to them. The first issue is power and making sure, making absolutely sure you feel, you feel like the crazy. There's a way to beat them.

And it's to spread the word that they're the nutbags, not us. She'd tell him a little fired up this morning. Why? I slept good last night. You tossing and turning at night, unable to catch those elusive Zs. Trust me, I've been there. I am the worst sleeper ever. It's not just about feeling tired the next day. It's about the toll poor sleep can take on you. It's not just your reasoning. It's your physical function, your exercise habits. Everything's worse the next day if you don't sleep well. I've got the solution for you. Beam's Dream Powder.

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for a long time. Even when objective numbers are released, ladies and gentlemen, the economy sucks, okay? The economy is in bad shape. Most of the growth from the economy, and I'm using the dreaded air quotes, is coming from government spending, which is sucking money out of the economy before it puts it back in and giving the government a cut itself as they pay everyone. The GDP numbers came out yesterday. This is the most important number in economics. The number means are we growing or not. It's basically a measure of the national wealth.

Are we growing or not? If your wealth is growing by three to 4% a year, you're doing damn good. In 20 years, you're going to double your wealth. If it's growing by less than that, you're not going to double your wealth as quickly. Okay. What's a good GDP number? A good GDP number is like two and a half, 3% right now. A great number would be four. Anything below two sucks. It's an objective number. OK, the suck factor is real. Here's David Asman on Fox yesterday about these horrendous GDP numbers. But I want you to see again. How the media, they're experts in reframing to make sure that their liberal allies are

protected, even an objectively shit number. Check this out. These GDP numbers were shocking. We were expecting a 2.4 percent growth. The actual came in at 1.6. Correct. Huge loss. And with rising inflation, even the Fed is admitting that inflation is not only sticky, but it seems to be going in the wrong direction. That adds up to stagflation. I know. And I was preparing myself for your using that word because that's something we haven't seen since the 1970s. I know most of you know it, so forgive me. I'm not trying to talk down to anybody. But do you remember what stagflation is? Stagflation was the basically disintegration of the Phillips curve.

This idea that there was a tradeoff between unemployment and inflation. As unemployment went down, inflation would go up. The whole idea is as the economy got hot, that inflation would go up. More people would start trying to buy stuff and drive up the prices of things. That was dismantled in the Jimmy Carter era, where for one of the first times in modern U.S. history, we saw a disconnect there. We saw unemployment high and inflation high at the same time.

And a bunch of liberal economists were like, man, that doesn't make any sense. The Phillips curve, like a Phillips screwdriver. It's really important you understand this because a lot of dopey leftists still believe this. For one of the first times in modern American history under Carter, we saw inflation and unemployment go up at the same time. And they were confused. They were like, wait, if unemployment's high and people aren't making a lot of money, then how is inflation hot? Because people aren't going out and buying stuff. What they didn't understand is there's a total disconnect between these two things. Inflation is related to the money supply and unemployment has a multitude of factors. Okay. Right now,

although the unemployment numbers are relatively low, labor force participation is not great. And most of these jobs are going to people who are illegally in the country. The economy sucks. So we're starting to kind of tilt back into these stagflation days where we have a stagnant economy and inflation is going up at the same time. That's what he's talking about there. But, of course, here's left-wing Axios to the rescue. But of course, here's left-wing Axios to the rescue. Now, if there was a 1.6% GDP number that came out under the Trump years,

I can guarantee you this headline would have been, I mean, total apocalypto, man. You ever see that movie? They would have been like cutting people's hearts out. They've been screaming, the cataclysm is here. It's over. Everyone go out and prepare today. Get your potassium iodine pills. The drama, it's true.

Tony said, the drama would have been so dramatic, right? Am I kidding? It would have been insane. But because it's Biden, the liberal media is very good at what I call reframing stuff. So we talked about the iron law of contradiction in the beginning. They'll do the opposite of what you do

and then switch it around later if they don't really care. Reframing is critical. They've got to, anytime it's a, watch this, watch this now. You'll see it. Any time it's a Democrat or a liberal president, and an economic number is bad, it's always, they need it in context, or there's nuance to it.

We need to look deeper, or a deeper dive. If it's a Republican, they don't give a shit. 1.6% GDP, you suck. The economy's collapsing. Here's what I mean. Axios. The good and the bad inside the worse than expected GDP report. Oh, there's a good in that?

They know the economy's slowing down. Really? Thank you. It's amazing. But the outlook is not as bleak as the GDP headline figure suggests. Really? It isn't? Instead, the report, folks, tells a nuanced

story of where things stand. It's nuanced. Always nuanced. You know why it matters? The 1.6% annualized growth rate confirms the economy is not re-accelerating to start 2024. Then they go into this big, long explanation about why it isn't such a bad

thing. You know, I was putting together this show, and I sent this to Tony. Did I not, Tony? I said, scrap this. It's not even worth it, folks. I was going to put up for you five or six screenshots of GDP numbers that were better than 1.6%

under Republicans to 2.1, were better than this. And this headline's basically like why the economy sucks. Why this president's, you know, grabbing moose nuts. Why this guy is a piece of shit. I could have,

I'm like, you know what? Forget you get the point. The economy is garbage. Everybody knows it. Union workers know it. People out there know truck drivers know it. HVAC guys know it.

Plumbers know what rail workers know what cops know. Everybody knows it. Rich workers know it. People out there know it. Truck drivers know it. HVAC guys know it. Plumbers know it. Rail workers know it. Cops know it. Everybody knows it. Rich guys, poor guys, middle class guys, everybody knows it. The only people who don't know it, and they're desperately trying to tell you that you're crazy, that you're crazy, this is the power of the streets,

is the media. David Sachs put this out on Twitter. David Sachs, very wealthy guy, but he's a pretty smart guy. He's talking about not only, one, the economy's awful right now. The media can reframe it all they want. But remember, meat on the bone, folks. If Biden is reelected, your taxes are going up, and they are discussing a 25% wealth tax, that the only thing they'll save you is the courts in addition to a 44% capital gains tax.

So David Sachs has this interesting hypothetical here. He says, let's say you build a business from scratch and you qualify for Biden's new 25% wealth tax. So you'd have to sell 25% of your business to pay the tax, correct? Because you're probably not liquid. So if you owe a 25% tax on your $100,000 business, you'd have to pay $25,000, correct? That's what the tax is, folks. It's not a tax on income, it's a tax on wealth. But then he notes, but then on top of the $25,000 capital gain you just sold because you had to sell 25% of your business to sell the wealth tax, you'd have to pay a 44% capital gains tax,

plus in California another 13% on top of that. So you actually have to sell 37% of your business. Is this right? Listen, folks, I showed you yesterday how Biden is openly now proclaiming that he is going to hike your taxes and repeal the Trump tax cuts. He's saying it. You don't have to listen to me. Just listen to him. All of your taxes are going up. I didn't I was just talking about the income taxes. I didn't even mention this yesterday. This is Sacks is not crazy. He's made a lot of money over over the doing a lot of big high-end business deals.

He's doing some very relatively simple math. You will be bankrupted if this kid-sniffing woman-groper gets back in the White House. You will. You will be bankrupted. Remember I said this. Folks, the economy sucks and everyone knows it. I want you it. Their know-how built it. No one knows this better than union workers. Fox did an interview yesterday after Donald Trump left this union rally with the head of one of these union shops. I never heard this about a Republican before. I should have because we've always been the party of the working man.

But I'll be straight with you. I haven't. I haven't heard this before. Hopefully we'll hear more of it. Check this out. It was great to see the president come in engaging with the blue collar worker of New York City. We basically built New York. The union movement has made the middle class. And we are very patriotic union

and we are pro-America. So my members right now, I put out a poll in my union. President Trump is leading Joe Biden three to one on my presidential poll out of my 9000 members right now. We are very tired of the situation with groceries, inflation, gas prices, illegal immigration, crime. We're living it every day in New York City. Folks, you know, don't take a leak on my leg and tell me, look, it's a thunderstorm. You think these guys are stupid? They're paying, you know, $22 for a freaking egg sandwich in a local deli in a Yoo-Hoo?

You think they're dumb? They were paying what? $12? $12. It's New York City. You're probably lucky to get away with $12. These guys are getting screwed. They were parking their cars in the city for probably $40 a day.

It's probably $140 now. You think they're dumb? These contractors are dealing with, hey, I got to go pour some concrete. Yeah, yeah, that's going to be $47,000. For a little thing of concrete, it was 40 last week. Yeah, prices. You think they're stupid? These people know exactly what's going on. And what do I always tell you about campaigns, folks? Snapshots and soundbites. Snapshots and soundbites. Quick soundbites and snapshots

and pictures are going to change the entire course of this campaign. Here is a devastating soundbite. You know, a lot of people laughed at this yesterday. This was a bigger deal than you think. They're doing an interview with another union guy who walks out. They say, you have a message for Joe Biden. He had an interesting message. Close the kid's ears, though.

You don't want to hear this. Check this out. What's it like seeing so many Republicans in Manhattan, so many Trump supporters in Manhattan? Does that surprise you? No, not at all. It's turning now. Trump's turn again. What's your message to Joe Biden?

Fuck you. A lot of anger out there these are the people who work for a living they have free speech too you know and say whatever they want joe biden was very upset about that by the way he doesn't like that all right i'm gonna take a quick break i'm gonna give one big sign we're a bit of, actually a lot of bit of trouble with the economy. We told you about the bond vigilantes. Also, did you see what happened to the San Jose mayor? Folks, is it, Chester, is it bad enough yet? Bocino, get on the case. Again, is it getting there? Yes. Is it bad enough yet? I don't think so. But after you watch this video, you're going to be convinced it's getting pretty bad. If you haven't seen this video, what happened to San Jose mayor?

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Bond vigilantes are people who go out there in the bond market and basically buy U.S. government bonds, okay? When they buy these bonds, they obviously expect to have their money paid back or they wouldn't be investing in the bond. So there's always a risk premium for a bond, right? The United States government is getting money from a bunch of people lending it money, and they're getting it relatively cheap right now. The interest rate is the price of what it would cost to lend them money, right? Folks, here we go. CNBC, 10-year treasury yield leaps to the highest level in more than five months after this new GDP report. It is only a matter of time before the bond

vigilantes out there stop lending us money. When they stop lending us money, we're going to have to offer them a whole lot more money to lend us money through a higher interest rate. Where's that money going to come from? You, baby, and out of your wallet. Once those interest rates go up, they're going to start to ripple through the entire economy. Mortgage rates are going to go up. Car loan rates are going to go up. All of this stuff is going to go up, and the United States will be bankrupt. We have way too much debt. We are way too interest rate sensitive right now. Just keep your eye on that. I don't want to beat that up. I talk about it a lot, but the bond vigilantes will shut this

economy down so fast if we don't get a hold of this thing. Now, I asked you about, Gino, you're on the case there. How many people out there think it's bad enough that there's going to be a mass shift in voting patterns in the United States, i.e. Ronald Reagan, 1984? All right. Not that many, obviously. You know the deal. We're not there yet, but we're getting there. Every day you saw the union workers before, you see a lot of black voters moving over to our side, Hispanic voters.

There are more and more and larger chunks of voter demographics who are breaking down and starting to realize that the Republican Party is their only path. I'm not telling you the solution to all your problems are Republican. I know you guys know that. All I'm telling you is that the cause of your problems

are unquestionably the Democrats. Can we all agree on that? I want you to watch this. Is it bad enough yet? This happened. I haven't played one of these. The San Jose mayor apparently is giving some interview at a local news station.

Some dude just comes over, hijacks the interview, and gets into like a Tyson Holyfield, like fight with this guy, where they're like standing and staring off each other, staring each other down. They're like throwing jabs. Hooks looks like an MMA match. Check this out. We're doing an interview, sir. Oh, you're doing an interview? Yeah, yeah.

Oh, yeah, I'm moving on. I work right there. I was just, I'm talking on the phone. You got a problem? Yeah, we're just trying to do it. Okay, cool. Cool, cool. I appreciate you minding your business. Yeah, you should mind your business. You should mind your business, yeah? Yeah, I'm going to go do what the fuck you're'm gonna do right before you walk up. You know what I'm saying?

You're the way it goes. First of all, hold up. What the? No, bro. Hold up. Hold up. No, no. Let go.

Hold on a second. Let go. I'll smack you right now, bitch. I will smack you. You want to get smacked? Hey! Can you call the police? Yeah, yeah.

I don't even know what to say. Tony knows he cut the scene. That thing goes on for like another two minutes. The guy's trying to do like a judo flip on him. There's like Muay Thai kicks in there. He's like jabbing. This goes on for, is it bad enough yet? It's getting there.

Is it bad enough yet? No, you all know what I'm saying. But we're getting there. More and more, Tony just says, so California. This is the kind of thing you see in New York and California. Down here, just put your ass right in jail. 20 guys lock you up. You'll be right in a clink.

All right, back to the important stuff. This is why I wanted to kind of wrap up the show today with this really critical item. Folks, the case in the Supreme Court I addressed in the beginning right now over presidential immunity is one of the most important Supreme Court cases of our lifetime. It really is. It defines the very basics of the government that we live under. What are the checks and balances? Where are the red lines? Now, while I agree with the position of most sane lawyers out there, I'm not talking about the liberal nutbag. That obviously presidential immunity is not absolute. If Donald Trump were to, say, walk out of the White House one day, you know, dump his Secret Service detail,

take out a 1940s switchblade, and go all like sharks in the jets and shank a few dudes, I think we could all agree there would probably be an issue. That is not in any way in his official duty. Say he lost his mind or did something like that. There would be some serious criminal liability. However, the definition of what official acts are has got to be pretty broad. It has to be pretty broad because, and if I don't explain this well, Tony, make sure you cut me off.

Because it doesn't matter what the president's motivations are. If you're going to be a freaking mind reader, I could say, well, Joe Biden is engaging in this diplomatic talk in a one-on-one with China because he's only motivated to keep the Chinese happy so they don't rat out his son in the business. You could apply that anywhere when it comes to motivation. The definition of an official act obviously has to be broad or the president is going to be arrested by the opposing political party either while in or the second he leaves the White House and they're not going to want to do anything. It has to be a broad definition. I know that doesn't sound cute. I know a lot of people are understandably upset because it seems like there's two justice systems,

but there isn't. The president is a unitary executive. The power is vested in him. What he specifically does has direct impact on the branch of government. That's not the case in the two other branches to that degree. A Supreme Court justice can do something.

It doesn't necessarily mean a case is going to go their way. A member of Congress is only one out of 435. Not the president. There has to be some broad definition of what his executive powers are and what that immunity and official acts means. Can Tonji Brown Jackson, who doesn't even know what a woman is, seem confused about this whole thing and what country she lives in? In the court yesterday, she's like, she describes this hypothetical and the guy's like, you're talking about the same country we've lived in for the

last 200 plus years. Listen to this. Because OLC has said that presidents might be prosecuted. Presidents from the beginning of time have understood that that's a possibility. That might be what has kept this office from turning into the kind of crime center that I'm envisioning. But once we say, no criminal liability, Mr. President, you can do whatever you want, I'm worried that we would have a worse problem than the problem of the president feeling constrained to follow the law while he's in office. I respectfully disagree with that because the regime you've described is the regime we've operated under for 234 years. There has not been an expectation based on 234 years of unbroken political.

All right, let me ask you another question. You see, she gets wrecked on the legal point? These are supposed to be, by the way, the brightest legal minds of our time. They're on the freaking Supreme Court, the most powerful court in the land. She gets wrecked on the point, just moves on. She's basically trying to say, you know, listen, man, what's to stop a president from losing their mind in office and doing all this stuff? They don't perceive to be some kind of criminal liability at the end.

And the lawyer's like, what are you talking about? Like, we've already lived under this system for 200 years, and no one's suggesting there's no criminal liability, and we haven't had the incident you're talking about. So what are you even discussing? And she just immediately moves on. Folks, it's really important we all understand this. For both Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, any president, Green Party, whoever

it may be, if the definition of official acts in the presidency is in broad with some significant latitude, the opposing party is going to turn us into a third world North Korea where everything is going to be described as a crime when they get out of jail. And by the way, we already have a remedy for this. The remedy is called impeachment. The reason impeachment is a political process, not a criminal one, although it models the criminal system, is it creates a high bar to remove a president from office, who then can be prosecuted for anything because they're not the president. But it mandates that political decisions be made about what the perimeter of that behavior was. And it creates a high bar, a trial in the Senate with the chief justice watching over the trial

to make sure that a president, if he has committed some crime in office that is outside of the bounds of their official act, that at least we have some way to check that first before it gets in the hand of a local trial judge in some liberal area of New York City. I'm sorry, but I'm passionate about this because it seems like such a common sense argument. This should be a nine nothing ruling that, yes, the presidential immunity that applies to criminal cases is expansive and In civil cases, even more expansive. It does touch on the outer perimeter of official acts, even if you disagree with them. The motivation doesn't matter because you don't understand the motivation.

You're not in their head anyway, and you can retroactively reply that to anything. And there's already a process to get rid of the president. It's called impeachment. The Democrats tried it twice. Here's the voice of common sense on the Supreme Court for decades now, Clarence Thomas, basically asking really simple questions here. Like, hey, you know Operation Mongoose? The whole, you know cuba operation

united states government has engaged in activity for decades that could be considered actual crimes why haven't we arrested anyone yet for the same reason i just told you we would effectively shut down the presidency and we would shut down any function of our government. Check this out. In not so distant past, the presidents or certain presidents have engaged in various activity, coups or operations like Operation Mongoose when I was a teenager. like Operation Mongoose when I was a teenager, and yet there were no prosecutions. Why? If what you're saying is right, it would seem that that would have been right for criminal prosecution of someone. So, Justice Thomas, I think this is a central question. The reason why there have not been prior criminal prosecutions is that there were not crimes.

Holy shit, folks. You see the crazy lunatic lefties, how they're flipping the script again, doing the dipsy do flip room. There's no guiding principle here at all. So just to be clear, this hinges on two things. And the left wants discretion. The crazy lefties, the kill the Jews crowd. They want discretion in both of them. First and the left wants discretion. The crazy lefties that kill the Jews crowd, they want discretion in both of them. First, the left wants discretion to prosecute Republican presidents. They want to be able to use their discretion to determine what an official act is or isn't. Tony, where could that possibly go wrong? Nothing will be an official act. Why? Because the left said so. And then after they determine what are official and unofficial acts, which would destroy the presidency as you know it,

destroy it. Then after that, they want to be able to determine if the act they decided was unofficial because they want to prosecute you as a crime or not. You understand the 75 different ways from Sunday? This could absolutely decimate the United States as we know it. Imagine, you know, the same, the left, that loves military action now, by the way, under Joe Biden. 95 billion in foreign aid. They love it now. The same left it with a Cindy Sheehan, whatever,

Code Pinkers, who hated George W. Bush for the Iraq war, which, for the record, I thought was a bad idea and still do. But I actually have some principles, unlike these other losers. Right. Can you imagine if we get Donald Trump, say, back in office and there is a attack that goes wrong in, say, Syria and some innocents get killed? in, say, Syria and some innocents get killed. I can only imagine the explanations that are going to come out of the left. Lawrence Lessig and Van Jones and others, whatever, the same ones arguing before the opposite case about electors. I can only imagine them trying to argue, nah, that wasn't really an official act.

It was a personal motivation for Donald Trump. He's looking to build a hotel in Syria. We've got a pee-pee tape that shows he was being bribed by the Syrian government. So it's all okay. Can you imagine where this could go? The left loves nothing more than you leaving the perimeters of power up to their discretion. Nothing

more. You're seeing it in Arizona now. This Arizona case is another legal abomination, like the Twinkies case, like Fannie Willis. The Arizona attorney general is a nut, is a nut, who a lot of people believe stole her office as well. All of a sudden, this Arizona abortion controversy happens.

The Arizona polls show Donald Trump up five points. And the Arizona attorney general's like, wow, look, I just indicted Donald Trump's entire inner circle over fake electors, the same fake electors that are called alternate electors that Van Jones and Lawrence Lessing and other liberals argued for back in 2016 and 2020. You mean those, quote, fake electors? You see how they love leaving all this up to liberal discretion? Discretion is the greatest weapon of the commie, because they'll always use it against you and use the same discretion to protect their own. Here's the Arizona Attorney General just a few months back.

I want you to notice here how she makes a real point about how this supposedly blind the plier of justice in the state of Arizona. She makes a real strong point here about how they must get Joe Biden reelected. But I'm sure she's just going to use her discretion to enforce the law. Check this out. Well, you know, as my colleague from Massachusetts just mentioned, we absolutely have to get President Biden reelected. Because one of my fears is, despite the fact that Republicans said they wanted to send this back to states for states to decide, I think there's a real movement in the sort of extreme elements. You want this person to have the discretion? Wide latitude and discretion in these people's hands.

Now, prosecutorial discretion is a very real thing, folks. It is. Having a degree of prosecutorial discretion is necessary in a constitutional republic. I'll give you just a quick, easy example to understand, okay? Say thin latitude rather than thick latitude, prosecutorial discretion. Say you're a police officer, right? Not a prosecutor, but the example's easy to understand. You can very well say, if you're, say, doing highway patrol and someone's speeding, and you find out there's a woman who's pregnant in the car, you're under no obligation to give that individual person a ticket. Call that a form of prosecutorial discretion. I get it. I understand you're an investigator,

not a prosecutor, but you get the point. Prosecutors don't have to prosecute everybody. They don't. And a lot of times there's blanket declinations and declinations of cases. The problem is what the left wants is such an expansive definition of what they call discretion that they can constantly move the border. So what they want to do is they want to issue a blanket declination on political grounds. So when I was a federal agent, if you didn't have a financial fraud over $300,000, they would say it's blanket decline. It doesn't matter who it is. They're not going to bring it in. Okay. 300 grand. But they can't say we're not going to prosecute Democrats over Republicans. You get what I'm saying? What Democrats want now is they want

the discretion to be able to use the law and say, I'm not going to go out on patrol and give anyone a highway ticket for speeding who's a Democrat, but I'm going to ticket a bunch of Republicans. That's why they're trying to expand the definition and discretion of what they can declare official acts and crimes, because they want to use it as a weapon against every single Republican president moving forward. And ladies and gentlemen, if they succeed, it is going to be an absolute death sentence for the Republican Party moving forward. I hope you understand that. So big takeaways today, folks, the iron law of contradiction.

Once you learn to recognize it, you'll see it everywhere. Reframing, watch what the media is doing. When your friends tell you 1.6% GDP is absolutely fantastic, say, really? How did you feel when Donald Trump hit 3% GDP? Because a lot of people wrote about the struggling economy, yet it was twice as much as Joe Biden. Why'd you think that? You learn to see these little tricks.

We'll see right through it. We got a big election coming up. Thanks for all the feedback, by the way, on yesterday's show. I deeply appreciate it. Folks, laser focus. We've got an election to win. No more pissing in each other's Cheerios.

Enough. We've got a country to save. After the election, once we win, you do whatever you want. It's noting each other's Cheerios. Enough. We've got a country to save. After the election, once we win, you do whatever you want. It's not my business, but not now. We got an election to win and a country to save. And I so deeply appreciate you taking this journey with me. Please download the Rumble app. If you want to watch the show for free every single day, 11 a.m. Eastern time, or you can watch on desktop, rumble.com slash Bongino. And if you wouldn't mind, give us a follow on Apple and Spotify.

I'm not going to be able to do the radio show later. Sorry, I've got to bounce after this. I've got a family event. But I do want to do my podcast because I've got to get on the air every day, folks, especially after this important Supreme Court case. I will see you back here on Monday. You just heard the Dan Bongino Show.