The Dan Bongino Show - The Left's Bloodthirst Grows To Dangerous Levels | Episode 18

Episode Date: April 9, 2025

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Why can't we do a little rigging? Let's get rid of these guys and let's get to number five. Thank you for joining us today. Hey, the left, speaking of the left, their blood thirst is out of control, just completely out of control, reaching record levels. We'll get into some of the numbers behind that. Really scary where everything is headed. We're also going to talk about Dan Bongino. He's the deputy director of the

FBI, as you well know. The threats to him, I think, are pretty real, as you might imagine. And as a result, he's got a security detail protecting him. NBC is trying to scandalize that this week because they're trying to hurt him. They're trying to smear him for being protected from the radical left. And if you're looking for evidence that they're trying to smear him, look no further than the fact that they include Frank Fugazi in the attack, which really tells you everything. Oh yeah, that guy's a neutral arbiter of all things, Dan Bungino. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. That'll come up soon. And then the president battling it out with China.

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you detected this at all that the left has become very okay with political violence? Perhaps you know, during the campaign, when there were multiple attempts on President Trump's life, or perhaps the nonstop left-wing attacks on American cities, the billions of dollars in damage, the murders at the hands of the left-wing rioters, the people who are menacing Tesla dealerships and pooping on Tesla vehicles and scratching them up and throwing Molotov cocktails.

Have you detected this phenomenon? Kind of all over the place. And it's the left leaders who have breathed a whole bunch of life into this. They rationalize this all the time. They're like, well, violence is bad, but you can see why people might do something like that. That's generally to the extent that they say anything

about it, they might say that. But they've been breathing life into this and they do it by advancing a whole bunch of lies. They say that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy, But they've been breathing life into this and they do it by advancing a whole bunch of lies. They say that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy, that our very democracy is going to be destroyed by this. And what they really mean, of course, is that their bureaucracy, their rigged system, their captured system is under threat because of our democratic principles fighting back against

them. Our constitutional republic has decided we don't want you in charge anymore. So the voters speak, and then they say that's a threat to democracy. You understand the system. And then they convince their base, they groom their base into believing that their goals, whatever they happen to be,

and fundamentally they're just power for the left, should be achieved by any means necessary. What does that mean? By any means necessary. It means up to and including murder, up to and including grotesque acts of violence. It's all justified because it serves some sort of greater moral good.

So therefore do this and you are justified in your attacks. You're allowed to take such heinous steps. That's the left. And that brings us to today where we have a brand new survey on the subject. How's the left feel about all of this? Assassination culture has exploded on the left. There's a new poll that shows about half of liberals

believe that killing President Trump and Elon Musk are justified. In fact, a majority of the respondents say that the left-wing respondents, the left of center people, left of center is a very generous interpretation. These are very left-wing people. They found the majority of them say that it's okay, it's justified to assassinate the president of the United States, Donald Trump. New survey finding assassination culture growing on the American left since the attempted killing

of President Trump in July of 2024. Data released this week, Monday, from the Network Contagion Research Institute found that 48% to 55% of left of center people, at least somewhat justifying murder for Elon Musk and President Trump respectively, respectively, which means 48% say it's okay for Elon, 55% say it's okay for President Trump. The findings come after a historically violent election season in 2024,

with two known assassination attempts on the president in July and September. I want to emphasize something I added, the known assassination attempts component. Those are just the ones we know about. Those are the most kind of the closest ones that we are aware of. As we saw the assassination attempt in Butler, where the president was shot through the ear by a would-be assassin, that Crooks character, Thomas Crooks. And then we also had the Ukrainian, the guy who wanted to kill Trump for Ukraine, who attempted to do that while hiding in the bushes with a weapon as the president of the United States was golfing. And luckily a Secret Service agent just a little bit ahead as the president of the United States was golfing.

And luckily a Secret Service agent just a little bit ahead of the president sees this guy, engages him, he takes off running, he gets captured. I've got more on his story in just a moment and his efforts to try and kill the president. But this survey finds that these attitudes are not fringe, unfortunately. It's not a small number of lefties who feel this way. It reflects an emergent assassination culture, they find grounded in far left authoritarianism and increasingly normalized digital

discourse. The group produced its study with the Rutgers University Social Perception Lab and surveyed just over a thousand American citizens about their attitudes towards political violence. 48.6% saying murdering Elon Musk is justified, 55% these are of left-wingers saying that murdering President Trump is justified. This is a deeply, deeply dangerous development in the United States, and it is the left's leaders who are doing it. In so far as anybody has a permission structure in their head for this, it's the Jasmine Crockett's

of the world, the Nancy Pelosi's of the world, the Chuck Schumers, the vile, demented language that they use to describe the choice of voters. Joe Biden did this throughout his presidency. He was describing people who vote for Trump as advancing, quote, threats to our democracy, which is another way of saying that our system is existentially dependent on preventing Trump from becoming president, that if he does, our country is going to die. And so when you keep saying that, it turns out not just crazy people, but even the people

who represent the majority of the American left, and you can broadly categorize them as crazy, but I just mean the full blown mentally ill are going to be susceptible to some of those signals. But when you have a majority of people who identify as left wing saying, yeah, it's justified, killing totally justified. We've reached something very dangerous, haven't we? And this is a trend. This is not a new development.

You can say, okay, look, this NCRI group that pulled this data together with Rutgers University, Rutgers, not some hotbed of right-wingism or anything, but say you wanna question them. That's fine. The Network Contagion Research Institute. But the reality is this has been a trend. This has been a trend.

Let me take you back in time. This is a survey from late 2024. This is September of 2024. That was performed by Scott Rasmussen at RMG Research. Take a look at this. 17% say America would be better off if Trump had been killed. This was in September of last year. This is before the election. And this is after the attempts on the president's life. The desensitization of Americans following the second assassination attempt of former President Trump is alarming.

17% of voters believe America would have been better off if the president had been killed in last week's attempted assassination. That was the second one by the Ukrainian Act. That figure includes 28% of Democrats who say that America would have been better off. Another 24% say they're not sure. Fewer than half of Democrats in the poll could bring themselves to say

that America would not be better off if Trump had been assassinated. So the trend line is continuing here. This is the left's growing blood lust. And that's again, not the only one. There was a Southern poverty law setter poll that was done back in 2022. I'm going to show you this one now. Take a look at this now.

SPLC, not right wing at all. This is a left wing, radical, disgraceful organization that took a once good name and absolutely destroyed it in the service of the most radical left-wing causes. The SPLC poll found that nearly half of young male Democrats approve of assassinating a politician who is harming our country or democracy. That was a left-wing group that conducted the survey back in 2022 and found that. So again, the numbers are only growing. And that brings me to a core point that I want to make here that I don't feel like we have clear

answers on. How many incoming assassination attempts or threats have President Trump and Elon Musk in particular received. Now, I'm a little torn on whether or not we want to know the answer to that. Tell me, do you want to know the answer? Do you want the administration to be transparent with us to tell us about how many incoming assassination attempts or threats there have been? Do you want an answer to that question? Because right now, the administration is not being forthcoming. They're not telling us that. That might be because they don't want to scare anybody or make anybody nervous about how unstable things are. But at the same time, I do feel like it's important that the American people know just how crazy the

left has made things. Yeah, so there's a mixed response going on right now in the chat, and I can see why there's a lot of yeses coming in. I do think that this look, it's not going to change the fact that the president is protected at all. The president is protected by the Secret Service. And hopefully, it's a lot better protection he was really receiving on July of last year. Elon Musk, of course, needs protection. He's under constant threat. You know this. And I think that they should share the story. I think they

should talk about the volume of this. I'm inclined to think. Because I want the rest of the American people to know just how insane the left has become and just how pervasive this grooming has become. They've been grooming their base into, that's right. Somebody says a communist hate machine. Yeah, they've been grooming their base into this. So it might be worthwhile. At least it's worth the White House considering this and making a considered judgment about releasing that.

But I, you and I both know the incoming has to be immense. If you've got over half of all people who identify as center left saying, yeah, I could see that, take them out. We're in a very dangerous territory. In fact, in a moment, I wanna share with you what's going on with Dan Bongino. And the NBC is attacking Dan for having protection.

There are FBI agents who've been assigned to protect Dan, to keep him safe and alive in order to do his job. You and I know there's a reason for that. There's a reason for that. And NBC is attacking him. They're making him seem like some sort of out of touch elitist for having protection, which my guess is he didn't even ask for.

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this is meant to be an insult. He was just a podcaster. Why is this guy the deputy director of the FBI? Listen to this sanctimonious, horrific segment from NBC, and then I'll explain what's going on on the other side. Here's cut 12, NBC's ridiculous report on Dan. NBC News has exclusive new reporting about a first for the FBI. The agency is creating a multi-agent bodyguard team to protect the Bureau's number two, Dan

Bongino. NBC's Ken Delaney has the reporting. Ken, this has never happened before. I think, why now? Good afternoon, Chris. Yes, it's never happened before because every think. Why now? Good afternoon, Chris. Yes, it's never happened before because every previous deputy director of the FBI was a career agent with a badge and a gun. And so none of them ever felt the need for a full security detail.

Bongino, of course, is a former podcaster with lots of experience criticizing the FBI, but no experience working there. Now, the FBI declined to answer our questions, so we don't know why it was decided that Bongino needed a full security detail. We do know that a notice went out inside the bureau looking for field agents who would be willing to leave their jobs temporarily and work for 30 days at headquarters protecting Bongino. Current and former officials tell me this is going to be expensive because 24-7 protection

will require as many as 20 agents who will have to be put up in temporary housing. And many people I talk to question the need for it, given that Bongino is a former Secret Service agent and New York police officer who could easily qualify to carry an FBI service weapon. They also point out that it runs contrary to FBI Director Cash Patel's desire to get FBI agents out of headquarters and into the field. This is absurd. Patel says they can do more to fight crime.

What's happening here is obviously the opposite. Dan Bongino is recruiting crime fighters to come back to headquarters and protect him at taxpayer expense. Bongino hasn't said anything about this, but in a recent post on X, he said he realized when he took this job that he was, quote, never going to be able to fully explain some decisions we make due to legal and ethical constraints. And he added, that's a pill I agreed to swallow. Chris.

Kandalinian, thank you. I mean, first of all, just I could work backwards on that. I could work forwards on that. I could work sideways on that. So much of what you heard was a massive distortion and a lie and not at all surprising coming from Fusion Kandelanian, the guy who is collaborating with the people who've been subverting our elections. Kandelanian, who Dan Bongino has spent countless hours going after that guy, and rightfully so. And so, of course, this idea that

he's going to be some dispassionate reporter on the subject of Dan Bongino is absurd on his face. But there he is on NBC saying that, Oh, Dan is, uh, is, uh, really, he's trying to hire personal security from the FBI so he can live a fancy lifestyle. That's the implication here that, uh, that you need, you get personal security so you can feel like top dog and you've got people following you around. This is insane. This is totally insane. One, the idea that Dan is craving a security detail is mentally ill. Dan, it came from a world of the United States Secret Service. He served on protective details. The allure of having one and the constant attention that is required to the point of

dramatic inconvenience for the guy that's being protected and the guys who have to do the protecting is nothing glamorous about that. Dan knows that. The last thing Dan Bongino would be doing is taking guys off of critical roles in order to protect him for no reason other than to give him a glow up. That's the most ridiculous thing I've heard. Well, I've heard a lot of ridiculous things. It's one of the most ridiculous things I've heard this week from NBC. That's one.

Another here, why do you think Dan needs protection? Why do you think Dan needs protection? Let me, I'll just give you a thought experiment. How many deputy directors of the FBI are you capable of naming? How many of them can you even name? Deputy directors, now directors of the FBI, typically people can name them.

Or some can. Deputy directors, almost nobody can name a deputy director. Almost nobody, very few. Yeah, Andrew McCabe popping up in the chat. That's the one, right? Andrew McCabe popping up in the chat. That's the one, right? Andrew McCabe was fired for lying to the American people, lying to the FBI. And now, of course, he's got plump gigs on cable news, being an expert on everything. He's a liar, so of course he becomes a burning bush in the world of the legacy media.

But you can't. Dan's the exception. Dan is a guy with a massive, massive profile. I don't need to tell this audience, you know, Dan Bongino is. Everywhere Dan goes, people stop him, they talk to him, they shake his hand, they recognize him. He's recognizable. So he's got a recognizable name, a recognizable face and a very public presence. And he's been tasked to take on the FBI in a world that doesn't like him for one or at least probably doesn't in by big margins because he's been that critical

of the agency and the left definitely doesn't like him. Their view is that Dan is synonymous with Trump. And what do the numbers show us about Trump? What do the numbers show us? Oh, that's right. Assassination culture is in play for the left. Polls show that half of liberals believe killing the highest profile conservatives is justified.

That's the data. So you think Dan is pulling people off of these assignments in the FBI for his own protection? No, that's crazy. In some ways, I don't know if it's the case right now, but at any given point, Dan had a bigger profile than Cash Patel. Cash Patel, the director of the FBI. So what you and I can infer from all of this, this is not predicated on insider knowledge or anything like that.

I'm just gonna stipulate that. I'm just telling you, you can instantly infer from this that the threat environment is so consequential right now to guys like Dan that they need the protection to take care of them. Also, the NBC report acts as if this security just started, like, oh, they just started protecting him. It was not a secret.

When I showed up in Florida, when Dan and I were doing the handoff in Florida for this time slot for this program, Dan didn't keep it a secret. It wasn't a secret. There were FBI personnel who were already there in Florida, already protecting him. And when I say personnel, I'm not talking one. There were multiple people there to protecting him. And when I say personnel, I'm not talking one, there were multiple people there to protect him. This is because it was already publicly announced that he was the FBI deputy director incoming before he even took the job. Why would that happen? Why would that happen? The answer to that question seems really clear to me and should seem clear to

you. The left is this intense and violent and out of its mind that the FBI by that point that cash Patel by that point had assessed we got to protect this guy. He's not even in the job yet. We have to have protection for him. So NBC tripping over itself here in this report saying, oh, this is a new thing. There's nothing new about it. This is like, everything about this is a distortion. Also, thank you, fellas, putting this up. You think fusion kandelanian is a, is not a tell that this is a smear job? Look at this. Former senior former senior FBI official Frank Fugazi, an NBC news analyst, an NBC news contributor, criticized Bongino's decision to not simply carry a weapon as past deputy directors have done.

This is Frank Fugazi. Frank Fugazi, Mr. 8-8, who literally just makes up conspiracy theories on the air, who hates Dan Bongino, who has it out to get Dan Bongino, he's called upon as an expert for this story. And Fugazi says, well, of course he could carry. This is ridiculous. The question is, what is the actual risk and threat here?

Or does he just want a detail? Oh yeah, that's what Dan wants. Dan wants the inconvenience of people just hanging around him all the time and watching his every move like a hawk. That's, again, psychotic. This is taxpayer money, says Frank Fugazi we're talking about. This is taxpayer money. You know, part of this is, I don't know about you, but I don't think conservatives really long for security details. I don't know a single conservative who's like, you know what I really wish I had in my life? A bunch of armed guards following me all over the place.

No, conservatives typically move to defend themselves. Typically. It's an inconvenience to have to have a bunch of people around you to be a part of something like that. It's the left and the people like Frank Fugazi, who are scared of guns, but desperately want armed guards around them to protect them from everybody else. That typically thinks in this way, like who? Like who looks at all of this and goes, go, that's, that's the high life. I need armed guards.

Hell no. I don't want that at all. The left thinks that way. The left is very used to that. Democrat members of Congress who are trying to disarm you, take your guns away. They've got armed guards. Cory Booker, United States Senator from New Jersey, his private armed guard just got busted carrying a gun into the United States Capitol.

This past week, that was just ahead of his ridiculous filibuster, his talkathon that he did. The guy gets arrested going into the Capitol building. So that's the left's attitude. We've got our armed guards. Americans need to be disarmed. We want armed guards. That proves that we're important.

It's an expression of that. It's the same reason that the Biden administration didn't give RFK Jr. Secret Service protection. Biden didn't want to convey to the American people that RFK was important and worthy of protection, so they didn't give him a Secret Service detail. They didn't want to legitimize his presidential campaign because in their view a security detail creates the impression that you are important, therefore we'd be helping him politically. What a bunch of psychos. And RFK, of course, had to hire his own private security to defend himself from the many incoming attacks,

which makes sense given that the Kennedys are the most assassinated family in political history in the United States. So these are the left's attitudes about all of this. One other thing about this NBC piece that I want to bring your attention to. They claim that this is unprecedented that an FBI deputy director would have armed protection. They claim, you heard it just a moment ago. Look at this line from the NBC piece on the subject. A single agent was assigned part-time to accompany the previous deputy director, Paul Abbate,

to certain events, current and former officials said. And then they point out that Abbate also carried his own service weapon, they added. And he had a full detail when he traveled overseas. Oh, okay. So it's not without precedent actually. FBI deputy directors do receive protection. And again, by inference, the threat environment that we live in now, that Dan lives in now suggests that he needs a lot more.

His profile's higher, the left hates him big time, and a majority of lefties say assassinating high profile conservatives, totally okay, totally justified. So there's NBC, NBC, which what is the end result of that measure them by the effect of a story like this? What do they want to see happen? They want to see Dan move unprotected. They want his protection to go away. No more for you. We hate you. The last thing we want is for you to be protected from the kind of people that we speak to on a daily basis on MSNBC.

Really crazy. Anyway, I wanted to give you that update. I, I, I, I knew we could tear these guys limb from limb and I'm glad we did. I'm glad we did. Um, yeah, no, in the chat, uh, very much on board here. This is crazy. What's happening with NBC. Uh, and, uh, Frank is fugazi says knows truth. Uh, amazing. in the chat very much on board here. This is crazy what's happening with NBC. And Frank

is fugazi, says no's truth. Amazing. So yeah, these guys, these guys are really disgusting and they use like these news packages, they dress them up in news packages to pretend like they're telling you news. They're not, they're not. They're trying to smear the guy and trying to make him less safe. Really, really grotesque. All right, coming up, I want to tell you about what's going on with the trade war with China as China's trying to up the ante this morning. And President Trump's saying, yeah, I'm not playing around,

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NMLSconsumeraccess.org. Yeah. So, Dan Bongino getting attacked here today, which what does that mean when the media is attacking you? I think it means you're over the target. I think that they're really annoyed by what they believe to be a very effective time for, for Dan as, as the deputy director of the FBI. In fact, I do have one message from Dan this morning. He posted an update for you. Here you go. I'm going to put this up on the big screen here for you.

Here's Dan today. And he said, Hey update for you. Here you go. I'm gonna put this up on the big screen here for you Here's Dan today and He said hey, thank you again. He's giving these updates which are good. I love these updates Signs of progress and a sign of respect for the American people by giving these to us He says many of you have asked about our recent high-profile arrests of violent criminals here illegally He emphasizes border security is national security. The FBI will continue to provide its investigative expertise to track down violent criminals who are in the country illegally.

Yeah, the FBI has had a lot of good public reports on this. Cash Patel keeps coming out talking about all of the MS-13 Trendy Aragwa guys that they're rounding up and getting off the streets of our country. And thank God for that. That is obviously one of the top reasons that President Trump got elected, getting control of that border.

Also, Dan says that Director Cash Patel and I have already begun the process of reforming how we would evaluate the three tiers of employees. Okay, this is about within the FBI itself. The leaders, the managers, the agents and the professional class and the new employees and the trainees. Let me pause on that last one, the new employees and the trainees. They have record recruitment going on right now at the FBI. That is a direct result of the change of leadership in our government,

the change of leadership at that agency, record numbers of applications coming into the FBI. So they've got this is a good problem to have, because that means that you can choose the cream of the crop from the people who are applying. So Dan expressing that that's one of the core things that they're dealing with right now. That makes a lot of sense. He says some of these changes have already been implemented to how they evaluate everybody at the FBI. Other changes are gonna take more time. And then he reemphasizes once again,

that he realizes that asking you to trust me, he says, is an insult. This isn't a trust me business. It's a get stuff done business. So you will see results. This is another way of saying, what you have been asking for what I've been asking for.

Look, we've gotten a lot of talk over all these many years. We've seen a lot of congressional hearings. We've seen a lot of testimony. We hear a lot about criminality going on. We know about the whole Hunter Biden laptop. We know all the money that's flowing in. We know the Jeffrey Epstein saga. We know they have blackmail tapes of all of these guys. We know all of

these details. The discovery phase for the American people, by and large, is over. We're looking for the action phase. We are looking for the prosecution phase. We are looking for the FO phase from the FAFO component. That's what we're looking for. And so this is a not subtle way of Dan saying in all capital letters, you will see results. Good, good. I take that as a clear indication that we're gonna get some of that very soon, I hope.

What the director and I are doing is not an accident, says Dan, reform and results are our only priorities. We have no other agenda. We didn't come here to let America down. Watch what happens, continue to demand results, be cautious when you're told a story and not the story, which is of course, tried and true advice from Dan, and let time put the puzzle pieces together.

What we're doing will make sense. We see you and we hear you and your feedback. Thanks again for your time, Dan. All right, so that's the update from Dan Bongino. That's excellent. Love that. Love that update. And just so you know, don't get NBC's version of events.

Take my version. It's a lot better. It's the truth. All right. The president has hiked tariffs on China. And the reason for that is because China has imposed trade barriers on us. And China is notorious. We've talked about this a lot.

I think about all the ways that China takes advantage of us and has for many decades now. China steals all the intellectual property from the United States. If you want to do business in China, if you want to manufacture in China, a precondition for that that the entire business community knows is China is going to steal your stuff, create crappy carbon copies of it, and then export it all over the planet. That's insane. China has been doing it for a very long time. China manipulates its currency.

China subsidizes industries to try and destroy American industries. China is a bad actor when it comes to global trade. And for far too long, presidents have just let it happen. In fact, in many ways, Washington enabled it to happen with every step of the way from the World Trade Organization to the way that they treat China as a quote, developing nation in order to give it all sorts of strategic advantages. It is we're being sold out. We have been sold out by our nation's leaders. Trump is the first guy in a very long time to come along going to say no more, no more.

We're not doing that anymore. And so that brings us to the president's announcement yesterday. Watch, this is cut one. The White House announcing these tariffs are now going up to 104%. Look. I'm curious though, under what conditions at this point would President Trump talk to President Xi about tariffs? Look, I just spoke to the president about this and he believes that China wants to make

a deal with the United States. He believes China has to make a deal with the United States. He believes China has to make a deal with the United States. It was a mistake for China to retaliate. The President, when America is punched, he punches back harder. That's why there will be 104 percent tariffs going into effect on China tonight at midnight. But the President believes that she and China want to make a deal.

They just don't know how to get that started. And the President also wanted me to tell all of you that if China reaches out to make a deal, they just don't know how to get that started. And the president also wanted me to tell all of you that if China reaches out to make a deal, he'll be incredibly gracious, but he's going to do what's best for the American people. Yeah, yeah, go ahead, reach out. Let's see what we can do. But I'm doing whatever I can for the American people here. So the update on that story, and I've got more audio from the president and from the

White House on all of this and from Democrats who flipped all over the place on this subject. The update this morning is that China has now announced that they're increasing their tariffs to 84%. Now, once again, we have the lion's share of the leverage here. Most of the product is flowing one way and our money is flowing out. That's principally what's going on here.

We have a massive trade deficit with China. So they can go ahead and slap all they want. They can slap every tariff they possibly want on us. But in the end, it's going to be China that suffers the most. And China's economy is not in some super strong position that they can just give up on one of the most important export markets they have, the United States of America. So President Trump is engaging them in a game of chicken right now, where they're a lot closer to the cliff than we are. And everyone's hurtling in that direction. So that's a good sign. In other words, we've got the leverage. That's the update today. So I'll see, we'll see how the president responds to all of this. He may, he may just keep jacking this thing up. He may keep doing that. Now,

as far as China is concerned, the president has said this, that he wants to stand with the workers of the United States. Last night, he spoke to the National Republican Congressional Committee. to the National Republican Congressional Committee. And it was a black tie event that he was at. And he said, first and foremost, countries are calling him right now. All these countries all across the planet, they're calling him and kissing his ass. Take a look, cut six.

Here's President Trump with that update. In the history of our country, and don't let some of these politicians go around saying, you know, because I'm telling you, these countries are calling us up, kissing my ass. They are. They are dying to make a deal. Please, please, make a deal. I'll do anything. I'll do anything, sir. And then I'll see some rebel Republican, you know, some guy that wants to grandstand, say, I think that Congress should take over negotiations. Let me tell you, you don't negotiate

like I negotiate. Yeah, but out of it, a couple messages in there for a whole bunch of different people. At the end, of course, you heard the president giving a message to Congress, stay out of this. Stay out of this. Stop trying to seize control of this terrified for me. You don't know what you're doing. I know what I'm doing. This is what I ran on. This is what the American people voted for. What are you gonna rob the American people of their desire here to fix this imbalance, to fix this system? And then the message that he's got there

is like all these countries are calling and they're kissing my ass now. They're sucking up to me. The reason for that is one, they have tariffs imposed on them right now and they'd like for those to go away. Two, we've got a situation where China now has 104% tariffs imposed on them by the president of the United States.

104%, what do you think the message is in that for every other country on the planet? Oh, you wanna play the retaliation game with me? You wanna go tit for tat? You wanna escalate? Watch what happens to one of our biggest adversaries. Watch what happens to one of the biggest economies we deal with on the planet, China. What's the message to the rest of those countries, to those smaller countries right now? Oh, Trump's not playing.

He's not, he's not picking off the weak gazelle. He's going after the strongest antelope he can get. You know, he's going after these guys as hard as he possibly can. The message to the rest of the world is don't screw with Trump. Don't look what's happening with China right now. And as he goes after China, many of these countries, places like India and Vietnam and Singapore, they have to be thinking to themselves, oh crap, whatever's bad for China might be good for me. Maybe I could benefit out of all of this.

China's locking horns with the United States, this is a perfect opportunity for me to figure out a way to get a lot of business in my country. So they would do well to heed what the president is indicating here. Cut seven here, President Trump indicates that the people were complaining about all of this. The ones who are shrieking the loudest

are the people who've been selling you out. Look at this But the shrill voices that you're hearing this week about tariffs are the same scoundrels and frauds who never thought Twice about when the United States lost 90,000 factories and plants think of that 90,000 yeah How do you do 90 if you had a map a big map the size of that wall and you had a pin for each factory, you wouldn't have enough room. You think of it, 90,000 factories since NAFTA.

Yeah. So there's a guy in a black tie talking about the well-being of the blue collars and saying that these are people who've been savaged, totally savaged, 90,000 factories shut down. How has this worked out for us? Remember, remember when we were sold on China? That if we just opened up our markets, we had all sorts of quote free trade with them. And of course, it's been rigged ever since.

They've been rigging the process. That would make them more democratic. That the country would become more like us. We'd be able to instill our Western values in them. Did any of that happen? No, actually. The Chinese Communist Party has a stranglehold on that system.

They do everything they can to prevent Western ideologies from making it in. And instead, actually, they've been exporting their communist ideologies to the United States of America by way of places like Hollywood and TikTok and everything that they get their hands on. They've been buying up American real estate. China has been moving into the United States, not the other way around. So the president's saying, yeah,

the people who are screeching the loudest are the ones who created that arrangement. And I'm fighting back against that now. Again, what we voted for. President Trump saying that he is proud to be the president of the American worker, which is a big change in Washington. Take a look at this cut eight. Here's the president.

I'm proud to be the president for the workers, not the outsources. The president who stands up for Main Street, not Wall Street, who protects the middle class, not the political class, and who defends America, not trade cheaters all over the globe. They're trade cheaters. They cheated on us. Yeah. cheaters all over the globe. They're trade cheaters. They cheated on us. They cheated with tariffs on us. They stole our money. They stole our jobs. He's the president of the working class, not the political class, he says, which is a very welcome change. This is why so many people are with him. There are surveys being done right now of Trump supporters. Are you with Trump still? Do you like this? Are you okay with this? And in majorities, Trump supporters are saying, yeah, I'm with him. I actually voted for this. This is a correction we desperately need, because it's for the long-term well-being of our country. So Trump supporters standing shoulder

to shoulder with the president right now. Not hard to see why. Not when he says things like that. Not when he makes his intentions so well-known. Also, I see some people in the chat asking about pharmaceuticals. Great question. Smart question asking about pharmaceuticals. Right now, 90% of generic pharmaceuticals come from India and China. China is so many of the ingredients come from China. You remember during COVID, far too dependent on medicine and personal protective equipment coming from China. You remember during COVID, far too dependent on medicine and personal protective equipment coming from China. That can't happen again. This is a national security imperative here.

We've got to bring back pharmaceutical manufacturing to the United States. And first and foremost, we have to have a healthier country. That's the most important thing. That's what RFK is working on. So we don't need to take medicine at all if you're in a healthy state. But insofar as you have to take medicine for anything, we shouldn't be getting all of our amoxicillin from China, which is what's happening right now.

That can't happen. You have to have it here in the United States. So the president announced last night to that congressional crowd, those tariffs, they're coming. We're bringing pharmaceuticals back. Look at this. And the drug companies, listen to them. But we're going to do something that we have to do. We're going to tariff our pharmaceuticals, and once we do that, they're going to come rushing back into our country because we're the big market. The advantage we have over everybody is that we're the big market. So we're going to be announcing very shortly a major tariff on pharmaceuticals. And when you — and when they hear that, they will leave China, they will leave other

places because they have to sell — most of their product is sold here. And they're going to be opening up their plants all over the place in our country. We're going to be announcing that. So that's breaking news. Ladies and gentlemen, we have breaking news. That's what's going to happen. What other presidents allow China to get away with is absolutely criminal, but I'm not like the other presidents and it's not going to happen under President Trump. It's just not going to happen after all. I'm not like the other presidents. I'm not like the other presidents, he says. Um, let

me see here. I got Biden. Biden did tell a, what does that, what does that say? It's part of that's covered for me. Is that say Detroit auto worker, Detroit? Okay. He told the Detroit auto worker, I'm not working for you during the, during a gun rights argument. Yeah. That really is the opposite, isn't it? So President Trump says, I'm the guy, I'm the worker. I'm the guy who represents the workers. President Biden's attitude was, I'm not working for you. That's the attitude that he took. Really amazing. Check this out. Let me see if I can play this for you. This is a sample of. Fellas, we're going to try something. I haven't tried this before. Here's Joe Biden saying that.

Yes, it is is by the way. From the very beginning I had a shot coming, I had a 220 game, 212 game, my son's hunt, guess what? You're not allowed to own any weapons. I'm not taking your gun away, at all. You need 100 rounds to do it? No. I did not say that. That's not true. I did not say that. It's a viral video. It's a viral video like the other ones are putting out there. They're saying what they like.

Hold on, hold on, hold on. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I think the AR14s are working. AR14s? What a psycho. Hold on, hold on. Hey, let's get a little bit of a hold on. There's a lot of guys, a lot of guys wanting this. I'm not working.

Thanks so much. Come here, Greg. Don't be such a crazy guy. Hey, there's a lot of guys, a lot of guys. I'm not working. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Don't worry about me. Hey, there's a lot of people. He said, you're there. He said, you're working for me. He says, I'm not working for you. I don't work for you.

Yeah, you do. That's the arrangement. Boy, oh boy. What a difference a president makes, huh? President Trump says, yeah, I'm the president and he's here for the workers. The last guy, he's straight upset. I don't work for you. To an American voter in Detroit, amazing, just amazing. Thank God for this change. All right, let me get back to some of the stuff that Democrats are saying now about in the face of all of this. Now, Democrats for years,

and to Caroline Levitt's great credit, she's pointing out that for years they acted like they paid lip service to this issue, but as President Trump is finally doing something about it. Listen to the White House press secretary cut to calling out Nancy Pelosi and company here. Everybody in Washington, whether they want to admit it or not, knows that this president is right when it comes to tariffs and when it comes to trade. In fact, Democrats have long said that the United States of America has been ripped off by the countries around the world.

They just don't want to admit it now because it's President Trump who is saying that. In June of 1996, Nancy Pelosi spoke on the House floor. She urged her colleagues at the time to fight against the status quo trade policies that had contributed to America's trade deficit with China. In fact, Nancy Pelosi said, how far does China have to go? How much more repression?

How big a trade deficit? How many jobs have to be lost for the American workers? How much dangerous proliferation has to exist before members of this House of Representatives will say, I will not endorse the status quo? Okay, that's a good spot to stop. Let's, I will not endorse the status quo. Okay, that's good spot to stop. I want to play. I want to play Nancy Pelosi actually saying that now. Here's a little bit of Nancy Pelosi 1996 saying this this arrangement with China is killing

American workers, she said. Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi has become filthy rich in a market where that's been happening. Take a listen to what she said all those many years ago. Do something about this US-China trade relationship that is a job loser for the United States. And this brings us to the point that others have said, well, we can't isolate China. Do you think for one minute that with 10 million jobs at least and35 billion and be over $40 billion this year in a trade surplus, all those billions of dollars in surplus that the Chinese are going to walk away, where are they going to take 35% to 40% of their exports? Who's going to buy them?

This is what sustains the regime. The funding and the jobs, they can't have those people out of work. They have to be at work exporting to the United States. Did you hear this? She knew. She knew back then. She was willing to say it. That's before she got filthy rich off of all of this.

She benefited like crazy from this system, which is why she doesn't talk out about it now. And it's not just that Trump is doing it. It's that she's trying to protect her nest egg, the one that she built on your backs. What a cruel woman. What a cruel woman. So in 1996, admitting it, what's happening with China. And these Democrats, there's a whole bunch of them that are losing their minds about all this. Scott Jennings over on CNN, who seems like a pretty good American, actually, Scott Jennings was calling all of this out this week saying, it's amazing these Democrats

who used to be for tariffs and now they claim that they're free traders. It's preposterous. Look at Scott. This is only part of the deal. The other part of the deal is making the tax cuts permanent. And maybe even if I were them, cut the capital gains tax and offer to slash the corporate tax rate and see if you can get any Democrats to join because I'm amused by the Democrats who are all of a sudden free traders and for lower taxes.

Well, if you've got Democrats who'd like to reduce the taxation on corporate activity, well, let's see how serious they are. Cut capital gains, slash the corporate income tax rate. I find it amusing that everybody talks about the 08 crash and the Coke. No one ever mentions that in 2022, you know, the S&P was down 20, the NASDAQ was down 33. And I don't remember any of these Democrats being in hysterics when the market fully crashed in 2022. So, yeah, they, in fact, to that final point, they changed the definition of a recession

in order to avoid admitting that we were in one, right? Because the customary understanding of a recession, anybody who's even aware of basic economics knows that if you have two shrinking quarters in a row, which we did under Joe Biden, you're in a recession. Two quarters in a row, GDP going down, you're in a recession. That's it. Everyone understood that. And when that started happening

with each successive quarter in the Biden administration, they changed the definition. Janet Yellen came out and said, well, that's not technically the definition. There's a very sophisticated definition that you're too stupid to understand. But just trust me, we're not in a recession. Of course we were. Of course we were. And these Democrats didn't want to admit it. So Scott Jennings pointing out, yeah, look, these Democrats are absurd. They just are going to root against Trump for sure. And the basic thing is they're always rooting against the American people. So the second somebody comes in with a corrective, who's trying to fix this

system up, they root against it. They root against it. And back when they put this system in place, when Joe Biden was the United States Senator, Bernie Sanders, all these guys, when they put this stuff in place when Joe Biden was the United States Senator, Bernie Sanders, all these guys, when they put this stuff in place, they put it in place and they knew it was going to hurt us. And it did over the course of decades. And they sold it to us like it was going to change China into some sort of like, you know, Asian version of the United States. Didn't happen. As you well know, the president taking on that big issue today in a big way.

All the updates as we get them, I'll bring you here on Vince. Thank you as always for your attention to this program. Really appreciate that. We have just the best audience, the best damn audience in all of media. Coming up next here on Rumble, Crowder, we'll send you there.

In the meantime, God bless you. I'll talk to you tomorrow.