The Dan Bongino Show - Top Democrat Says the Quiet Part Out Loud | Episode 153

Episode Date: October 23, 2025

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Hey, everybody. Welcome to Vince on a Thursday. Great to have you with us, the best audience anywhere. We've got a big show for you. Democrats want you to suffer, and they're saying it out loud. Your suffering is our leverage. Multiple Democrats now saying that. Speaking of suffering, they've been targeting ICE agents. They really don't like immigration enforcement. And speaking of law enforcement, well, the FBI is asking for our help in tracking down the pipe bomber from January 6, technically January 5th of 2000. The latest on that story and what that video reveals, it's all ahead on this edition of Vince. It is great to have you with us, always. Hey, right now you can buy gold and you could get free silver. That's right, for every $5,000, purchased from Birchgold invested in gold this month in advance of Veterans Day. They're going to send you a free patriotic silver round that commemorates the Gadsden and American flags. Look, gold is up right now, over 40% since the beginning of the year. Birch Gold can help you own it by converting an existing IRA or 401k into a tax sheltered IRA in physical gold.

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Message and data rates apply. Yes, indeed. Highway Dog says they knew who the damn pipe bomber was on January. February 7th. Maybe they did, Highway Dog. Thank you for being here. But right now, Dan Bongino doesn't, or at least it doesn't appear he does. So they're trying to get to the bottom of that. I've got that story coming up. It's kind of fascinating. We're going to look at the video together. Some things stand out about it to me. And we'll see what stands out to you as well, chat, and give me some impressions. But let me start this morning with the fact that Democrats are bragging about how much they want you to suffer. And by you, well they mean members of the military right now they mean air traffic controllers they mean people who are on food assistance from the federal government they want human beings to suffer because they think that they will accrue power from that suffering in fact here is the democrat whip katherine clark now uh the whip in the house for for those you playing along at home the whip

Their job is to make sure everyone in their party votes for the same stuff inside of the Congress. Democrats, big fans of whips, here is Catherine Clark, cut nine, saying that the reason the government shutdown continues is because the suffering of the troops, that's our leverage. Shutdowns are terrible. And of course, there will be, you know, families that are going to suffer. We take that responsibility very seriously. but it is one of the few leverage times we have. That's our leverage. Why would we give that up? Your suffering helps us get more powerful, so we're going to keep doing that. Well, thanks for saying it out loud. We knew that was the

strategy. We didn't know you were just going to nakedly say it. She's like a movie villain, just monologuing, which, by the way, is the case. Every villain throughout history, every villain in all of fiction always uses, your suffering is my life. leverage as their basic modus operandi so thank you katherine clark for saying that meanwhile what that means is that you've got young enlisted guys with families who are going to have to figure out how to make ends meet in the weeks and months ahead if democrats continue to refuse to get this government back open so the cruelty is now the declared intent of all of this katherine clark not the only one to say something like this the democrat senator heinrich uh said

that, look, not paying the troops right now, that is leverage for us. Take a look. Cut 14, Senator Heinrich this week, emphasizing that the suffering, yeah, we're using that to our advantage. Watch. Some Republican Senator have pushed a bill that would pay government workers who have not been furloughed as part of the government shutdown. Those who have been furloughed would still be without pay. Is this something you would support?

I'm not going to pit some of my government employees against other governments. employees. I think that just gives the president more leverage to really make the situation worse and treat some government employees with incredible disdain. We've already seen a lot of government employees fired during the shutdown who didn't need to be fired. This is an administration that's very hostile to government employees. No, it's hostile to crappy wastes of American taxpayer money. And Senator Heinrich from New Mexico, by the way, in case you're wondering, Who the hell is that guy? Yeah, he's a Democrat senator from New Mexico.

The senior senator from New Mexico. He's declaring outright that, hey, look, if a bill comes before you to give the troops money, let's just go with the troops, would you do it? No, I won't. Why not? Because I don't want my leverage to disappear. So long as the troops aren't getting paid, we've got leverage. How cruel you are.

How disgusting these people are. but at least they're saying it out loud now at least they're just being very very plain spoken about what they intend to do speaking of the president and uh and his heart president trump is the reason the troops continue to be paid right now president trump is the reason that any of these people who are working for our country whether it's within the fbi or immigration enforcement or our troops the reason that they are able to be made whole at any point during this is because the president is figuring out ways to move money around the limited budget they have right now in the federal government to give it to the people who are doing the most important jobs but that those those sort

of triage efforts can only go so far it's not going to last forever at some point you need the money to be flowing in order to pay these guys we're talking over six billion dollars every pay period for the military alone it's a lot of money and right now democrats are refusing to let it happen it's pretty disgusting and why I just want to remind you why do they claim they're doing this well one obviously one reason was

that they want to give illegal aliens more of your tax dollars that's true but two they claim it's because of Obamacare that Obamacare needs to be subsidized and this is the dirty little secret about this whole fight in Washington

right now to the extent the Democrats are waging it in public Obamacare is ridiculously expensive. It is out of control expensive. The Affordable Care Act, a load of bullshit. It is not affordable at all. It is unaffordable. It's been unaffordable since the moment it passed, and it's only getting more unaffordable with each passing year. It is so prohibitively expensive now to buy health care insurance through the Obamacare exchanges that the only way that the government can continue the ruse

is if they artificially deflate the premiums through subsidies, through subsidies. In other words, what Democrats are arguing for right now and the reason that the troops are not getting paid is because Democrats are using their suffering as leverage to orchestrate a cover-up. That's right.

They're trying to take your money to cover up the exorbitant cost of Obamacare by subsidizing premiums to make it appear like Obamacare is actually affordable. It isn't. It isn't. And let's be honest, were it not for John McCain giving the thumbs down to the repeal of Obamacare those years ago during the first Trump administration, we'd be in a much better situation today. Yet this is the mess that's been left behind.

And now Congress is once again trying to orchestrate a cover up of their own destruction of the health care system. you understand what happens here every time the government gets in gets itself involved in an industry in the united states it wraps its tentacles around an industry in the united states that industry becomes more expensive and less efficient and much more destructive look what happened to higher education from the moment the federal government got involved in higher education began giving out loans. They began controlling what colleges could teach, how they conduct their affairs. Has that improved higher education in the United States? Has it made it more affordable? Has it produced better outcomes? Are students leaving with more impressive educations? No. The answer that is all no.

It's become so completely terrible in the higher education system. And it's because the government interfered in it. And the government did the same thing in the health care system. And now we've got a complete disaster because of Obamacare. And Democrats want to cover it up. That's what this is about. So the government remains shut down. People continue to suffer. The troops don't get paid. Democrats brag about their suffering. And they're doing it to orchestrate a cover up of the Obamacare system that made everything more expensive. Did I miss anything? Am I missing anything about all this? No. so that's what we've got going on right now in case you're wondering and fellas put that back up justin put that up if you would um outside the the speaker of the house's office right now

they've got the katherine clark clip the one where she says that you're suffering is our leverage it's playing on repeat it's playing on repeat anybody who walks by the speaker's office right now gets to see that over and over and over again that's um that's good that's That's good thinking. And that's another sign that Donald Trump has changed the Republican Party for the better. Republicans all great? No. Is Speaker Johnson perfect? No. None of these guys are. But are they way better than they used to be? Hell yes. Way better. And so you're going to say something like that? You're going to say that humans need to suffer for Democrats to accrue power? Then we're going to rub your faces right in the stinking pile that you created. Good. Go ahead. Say stuff like that. We'll play it on repeat outside the Speaker's office. Good to see. very good to see um democrats remain out of control as you know that is a constant theme of our country in this program we have we have a lot to get to on that subject um they uh right now you've congressman robert garcia democrat he uh he promised this week in los angeles that they're launching something called a master ice tracker a master ice tracker in other words um they hate immigration

enforcement. They hate that we've got people who are doing the job that Congress asked them to do. I want to remind you, these are laws on the books from Congress. You don't like the laws propose new ones. Don't ignore them and then don't attack the people who are enforcing the law that you created in the Article I body of Congress. They created these laws. And now you got Members of Congress, Democrats, attacking law enforcement for enforcing them? What a colossal group of jackasses. Here is Robert Garcia in L.A. this week. Cut one. Take a look. Over the course of the next couple of weeks, the Oversight Committee will be launching on their website, a master ice tracker.

We're going to be essentially tracking every single instance that we can verify that the community will be able to send us information on. what a what a what a villain what a terrorist that guy is what's the point of an ice tracker what do you do with something like that well you track the whereabouts of law enforcement and are there any risks or perils that come with tracking the whereabouts of ice right now yeah there are there's over been over a 1,000% increase of assaults on on ice agents every week It seems like almost every day now. We get updates on vehicle ramming attacks against immigration enforcement officers in our country.

We've got people who are actively targeting ICE agents. In Dallas, just a few weeks ago, a man takes a position on a roof and begins trying to snipe down into an ice facility, shooting randomly throughout the walls and into vehicles, hoping that he strikes ICE officers. The crime scene and, of course, the ensuing investigation into his home

made it really clear that his target was to kill ice officers. In the end, he ended up only killing illegal aliens who were inside of the vehicle who did not deserve that fate. Did they deserve to be deported? Yes. They deserve to be killed? No. And that man in the pursuit of ICE agents slaughtered human beings. And what did he do in the lead up to that attack? Do you remember how he prepared for it? He downloaded the ICE tracking apps. He downloaded apps in order to figure out where ICE agents would be so quite obviously he could attack them. And now in the wake of that terror attack,

you would think, even if you thought before that maybe for whatever reason that this was a good idea, you would think in the wake of that attack, the Democrats would say, oh, crap, no, I can't support that. I don't want the ICE agents to be attacked. I disagree with the fact that they're deporting people, but I don't want them to be attacked.

That's not what Robert Garcia is doing. Robert Garcia said in the wake of the, that attack. We're now establishing an ice tracker so that more people can locate men and women of law enforcement. How is that not aiding and abetting terrorism? This is insurrection in the United States of America. And for what it's worth, yet another invitation for President Trump to finally invoke the Insurrection Act and go into cities like L.A. and Portland and Chicago. Enforce the law, protect immigration enforcement as it's happening, and make sure that these guys can get these cities under control and do it safely.

Because you've got people like Robert Garcia out there. I love how he says the Oversight Committee is going to do this. No, the Oversight Committee is not going to do this. James Comer is the chairman of the committee. You're doing it. The Democrats on the Oversight Committee are doing this. Christine Nome posted the following to DHS. To her ex account, she's the DHS secretary, as you know.

She said, in the wake of violent domestic terror attacks, bounties, and more than 1,000% increases in assaults against our ICE officers. Radical sanctuary politicians are now building a master ice tracker to solicit and share information on the movements of our ICE officers. Let's call this what it is, a pipeline that will funnel information on American law enforcement directly into the hands of anarchists, domestic terrorists, and cartel members. I am working with the Attorney General Pam Bondi, says Christy Noam,

to ensure that any individual, who doxes, threatens, or assaults our law enforcement officers will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Doxes. Doxes. Now, will that include posting the locations and information of these ICE officers? I hope so. People need to be prosecuted for this. And if that includes members of Congress, too, go after them. Give Robert Garcia, if you can find that he tripped any of these laws, then bust them for it. Do what you did to La Monica McIver. Remember her, the Democrat Congresswoman in New Jersey,

who assaulted ICE officers herself, who was shoving ICE officers? Yeah, she got slapped with charges for that. She's still dealing with those. And so we've got another one now, Robert Garcia. These guys, they are unrelenting in their assist that they're giving to the most violent people in our country.

right now. So now you have that danger. You have that danger. And the ice problem is immense. We've got a very dangerous situation going on with illegal immigrants in our country right now. We just had yet another illegal alien kill human beings this week in America, in California. There's a guy called Jashon-Preet-Sour. sing he is an indian illegal alien he was driving a commercial truck a big rig earlier this week

and he killed three people while driving under the influence on the 10 freeway in ontario california he's an indian illegal he was caught and released by the california border or excuse me rather at the california border by the biden administration back in march of 2022. And DHS has released a photo of him. Bill Malusian says that ICE has placed a detainer request on this, on this killer with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. He is in custody right now on manslaughter, vehicular manslaughter. He caused great bodily injury. DUI. He has not been formally charged yet, said Bill. This was as of last night. Police say Singh was speeding under the influence never hit his brakes at all he crashed into slow moving traffic on the freeway

causing a devastating and deadly chain reaction crash that killed three people the victims have not been identified yet robert garcia is protecting people like this how does this guy come into the country in 2022 he's from india what he claimed asylum parole from what in india he's here in the United States illegally, released into our country, and he's killing Americans on the roadways, and he's driving trucks? Why do we have CDL? What? Americans should be driving these trucks. Not illegal aliens. How many illegal aliens are driving trucks in the United States of America right now? Why am I seeing this story all the time? We just had a, we had a death like this in, in Florida recently.

And the footage of it, ladies and gentlemen, you know, I'm going to show you this footage. I'm going to pull it up on screen here. I'll leave it muted, but this is the dash cam footage as shared by local media. I'll just give you a warning here. You know, you can't see the inside of the cars for the carnage, but you do see this vehicle basically get vaporized by this truck. and the media, the people are, the local news has this clip up. It's the dash cam footage from the truck.

You have to understand when this vehicle gets vaporized, what that means is a human being is instantly killed in this. But watch it, for those of you can bear it, it's stomach churning for me to see it in the first place. For those of you can bear it if you're watching, rumble.com slash Vince, take a look at this footage. Fellas, if you put this up on screen, this is on my screen right now. This is the dash cam footage.

of the truck you ready here we go driving at full speed multiple vehicles vaporized by a big rig and then the truck veers off to the side of road he hits a lot of cars they say he was driving under the influence uh and um and that's it and the people's lives are gone this yeah it's enough i'm gonna i'll stop it there uh but uh i saw that that this morning and I thought, oh my gosh, these poor human beings, I pray for their souls. I pray for their families as they have to deal with the fallout of that. They're doing nothing but just sitting in traffic. And for those of you, you can't say this. If you're listening on the audio, understand the traffic was so slow moving. It was just, these cars were practically

parked on the freeway, or at least they were moving very slowly. And you get a truck moving at an unbelievable rate of speed. The weight of that vehicle, of course, so much great. than any of these small vehicles that they're running into. And they're gone. They're just gone. And this would not have happened if this person was out of our country. And he didn't merely sneak in. I mean, maybe he snuck in, I don't know.

But the Biden administration had him in custody. However, this guy got in, whether he turned himself in directly after he came across our border or he tried to evade and he was captured, regardless, the Biden administration had him in 2022. And they let him into our country. country. And now people are dead because of them. Dead because of them. Yet another person. It's like Lake and Riley or Jocelyn Nungeray or any number of the endless victims of illegal aliens, let nor a country by Democrats. Democrats are killing Americans. That's the

consequences of your actions. And then they lecture you that the moral thing to do is to let illegal aliens run wild. Let's not deploy ICE agents. Let's not do raids. Let's not do raids. let's not enforce immigration law that's so heartless it's like the nazis or something that's like you're a fascist you're hitler if you do that no you're a person who gives a damn about your country if you enforce the law unlike the democrats who keep selling us out thank you to the ice agents who are doing these jobs thank you to the men and women who keep doing it in the face of all this opposition whether it comes from street thugs and terrorists or Democrats in elective office right now.

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They refer to, you know, people like you and I as, and Trump as fascists for wanting immigration enforcement to want to stop Indian illegal aliens from killing people by driving trucks in our country into them. But not all Democrats right now are completely insane. In fact, the one that we've spent years kind of in some ways mocking, you know, for wearing his stupid hoodies into the United States Senate. it turns out John Federman is like the only guy in among the Democrats who's willing to say out loud maybe you should stop being crazy fellow Democrats look at John Federman cut to what he's saying now when the vice president Harris referred to President Trump as a fascist and I knew absolutely we lost the plot at that point you know if you if you call the president or someone like a fascist you're effectively calling the people that are going to vote for him and then they must be fascist too or they for it and then excuse me they support fascism and those things and that's just not true that's just not it i happen to know and i love a lot of people that voted for the president and they're not fascists they're not

nazis they're not trying to destroy the constitution all those things they just happen to have a different uh priorities and they love our country in the same ways that that democrats do as well So I refuse to do those kinds of a thing because that kind of extreme kinds of rhetoric makes it easier for those kinds of extreme kinds of actions, even like what happened to poor Charlie Kirk. There's Federman recovering his ability to speak coherently, and he sounds more coherent than ever and very rational in that assessment. And I get it. Look, I got it. I'm not under any illusion. The guy votes with the Democrats, 96, percent of the time they have a disastrous agenda that john fetterman's very much been a part of i'm not pretending like he's some you know great trump supporter he's got uh anywhere near the right ideas for getting our country back on track but uh i will take at least one democrat a high profile

democrat coming out and saying guys you're being insane republicans are not fascists just because you vote for trump doesn't make you a bad person trump is not a bad person stop with this insanity you've gone way too far with it. He's right about that. And I will, I will give you credit when you deserve credit. And John Federman deserves it for saying that. So what thanks is he getting from the left for taking positions like that? They're trying to primary him. Democrats are trying to find primary opponents for John Federman right now in the Pennsylvania Senate, in the United States Senate from Pennsylvania. They want to get rid of Senator Hoodie because Senator Hoodie dared to say one nice thing about Trump, one decent thing about Trump supporters, he's got to go. Because radicalism has

completely taken a hold of that party, 100% of the time. And if you stray at all from their radical talking points, you've got to go. So they want to get rid of that guy. He's with them 96% of the time. And now they want to find a primary candidate to get rid of them. That's the thanks you get on the left. That's the way they treat their own when they say things that are rational. Speaking of the irrationality of the left, it's another day, which means we have another round of morons going crazy over Donald Trump's ballroom build. The president of the United States is gifting a brand new and very glamorous wing to the White House. We've been covering the saga this week, this ballroom blitz. I've got more details ahead as the New York Times is undergoing yet another panic attack over President Trump helping our country.

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As his brain activity recovers, he's becoming more conservative. That might be the case. But either way, like, you know, I mean, it's awful that he had to suffer a stroke at all. And it must be just miserable to have the communication problems he's had as a result of it. But the reality is, like, John Fetterman is communicating something very meaningful right now. And Democrats, if they had any decency whatsoever, would do well to heed his words. Like, you don't have to agree with me. just don't don't demonize us for supporting Trump don't demonize Trump don't whip your violent base

into a frenzy settle down son settle down we've got a great country all right let me talk to you about what's going on right now with this white house thing because it's it's wild so yesterday the new york times released a very panicky piece about the east wing of the white house and actually i'm clicking into this now they've updated the post um but because the original headline on it i had it yesterday is trump is demolishing the entire east wing to make way for his white house ballroom so their their whole thing is like oh my god i trump didn't tell us he was taking the whole east wing down now he's taking the whole east wing down okay let's let's let's go through this because

the New York Times is lying to you again about the available evidence for what's actually going on here. So to remind you if for whatever reason, if you just woke up from a coma or something, President Trump is building a 90,000 square foot ballroom at the White House, which is in desperate need of entertaining space. And every president who's ever lived there has desired this. President Trump, the builder, is actually gifting this to the American people at his own expense and the expensive donors. So there's that. And the New York Times has a piece up right now. They say Trump is wasting no time in tearing down the East Wing. And here's how they presented. The writer on this piece is a guy called Luke Broadwater. As roaring machinery tore down one side of

the White House, President Trump acknowledged on Wednesday that he was having the entire East Wing demolished to make way for his 90,000 square foot ballroom. Got that his 90,000. square for ballroom as if it will belong to him it's going to belong to the american people he's gifting the ballroom to us a striking expansion of a project that is remaking the profile of one of the nation's most iconic buildings they said mr trump was unsentimental as news of the demolition spread um they said this was previously unannounced that he would demolish the east wing and it was at odds with Mr. Trump's previous statements about the project. Is it at odds?

They go down and they say the following. When Mr. Trump first announced his plans for the ballroom, he pledged that the White House would not be touched by the construction. Quote, it won't interfere with the current building. It'll be near it, but not touching it, he said in July, and pays total respect to the existing building, which I'm the biggest fan of. Okay. the new york times there's a game they're playing here they're saying trump said this wouldn't touch the

white house and now they're knocking down a whole portion of the white house this is one of those really stupid fake scandals and all of these fake scandals have the same construction president trump will say something the media will pretend that he said something different and then they will attack the different version that they made up. President Trump has been saying consistently that the historic White House, the building that you think of, when you think of the White House, that central building where the president lives, the residents, that building will not be touched by the construction. That was true when he said it. It's true now and it will be true during the construction.

That building's not going to be touched. But the New York Times is reinventing what President Trump said. They're creating a distorted version of events. Go back in time. Here's what the quote that they're referencing. Here's what he plays. Cut three. This is the quote that they just referenced where he says,

we're not going to touch the current building. He says, I love this building. What building is he talking about? He's talking about the White House where he lives. Watch this. It won't interfere with the current building. I won't be. It'll be near it but not touching it and pays total respect to the existing building,

which I'm the biggest fan of. It's my favorite place. I love it. I'm the biggest fan of it. It's my favorite place. I love it. We're not going to touch it. What the heck do you think he's talking about?

You think he's talking about the adjoining office buildings off, like off to the sides that are connected? They have these breezeways, these hallways that connect to office buildings. One of the office buildings is known as the West Wing. The West Wing is not in the historic White House. It's off to the side, just away from the White House. The East Wing is not in the White House. It's off to the side. It's connected by a hallway.

There's a hallway that brings you to that building. The President said, I'm protecting the White House. He means the historic White House. The New York Times is pretending like he changed this. Like, oh, he said he wasn't going to do this. He wasn't going to do this. Yeah, if you're watching, rumble.com slash Vince, look at the image that the fellas just put up on screen.

There's the historic White House right in the middle. I would venture to guess that a lot of the idiots who are attacking Trump right now had no idea that the East Wing and the West Wing aren't actually part of the historic White House. They're branched off to the sides. And so they're going to have to replace the building known as the East Wing. Now, what is the East Wing? The East Wing is an orange. is an office building.

The East Wing is a building that holds the offices of the First Lady of the United States. The First Ladies get an office there. And then underneath is kind of an entrance that people would often take in order to get into the White House for things like Christmas Tours and stuff like that. Now, you'll still be able to go to the White House for Christmas Tours. They're building a new East Wing. That's the thing here. They're literally building a new East Wing.

That East Wing will include an epic ballroom. so here's the president yesterday he was asked about this what's going on with the east wing you're going to remove the whole thing and he admits he just look at one point we thought we'd may be able to do some alterations to it but it is structurally unsound this thing is just over a century old the east wing it wasn't it was built in the early 1900s it was heavily modified in the 1940s and it's been so kind of jacked up that it doesn't have the right kind of load bearing capabilities that we need in order for this ballroom to be successful so we have to remove that office building. Here's the president explaining it yesterday, cut four. We determined that after really a tremendous amount of study with some of the best architects in the world, we determined that really knocking it down, trying to use a little section.

You know, the East Wing was not much. It was not much left from the original. It was over the course of 100 years, it was changed, the columns were removed, and it was a much different building. Then a story was added on in 1948, 19489 there was a story added on which was not particularly nice and the building was very very much changed from what it was originally uh it was never thought of as being much it was a very

small building and rather than allowing that to hurt a very expensive beautiful building that frankly they've been after for years so again there's no scandal here the east wing is not like some storied location like nobody's i mean yes it's got first lady offices but like no nobody even really ever thinks about it it's a it is and on by the way it's not the east room i don't i can't tell you how many idiots i've seen uh posting he's getting rid of the east room the east room which is a which is a room that's literally in the white house he's destroying the white he's not doing any such thing you colossal morons you are so stupid and every time i see one of these tweets i saw one yesterday from the former virginia congresswoman republican barbara comstock he's

destroying the white house and i tweeted at her said you cannot be this stupid is it is it possible are these people really this moronic it's a typical trump scandal by the way they just make crap up they just make it up here's the president further explaining that uh you know that you're gonna have a beautiful building here and that that that now being demolished east wing uh is is is uh is going to be structurally problematic, so they're replacing it, which is a gift to the American people watch. The spirit on the building of it is amazing. We are using little sections of footings and various other things, but that's sort of irrelevant. In order to do it properly, we had to take down the existing structure. The way it was shown, it looked like we were touching the White House.

We don't touch the White House. That's a bridge at last bridge, going from the White House to the ballroom. Then you get into the lobby of the ballroom, and then you go into the magnificent, the main room and it's something that has gotten incredible reviews yeah okay i i mean it is it's unreal it's just unreal the the stupidity of these people uh and how it continues some of them know better like you know Hillary clinton lived at the white house so she would know better uh and she's of just a big freaking liar she's attacking trump for this you know it's not his house oh dear he's destroying it oh shut up they're just literally making things up and um and one more thing for you it is not news that the white house intended to basically overhaul and replace the entirety of

the existing east wing structure here's my our buddy alex fifer great guy sharing the original rendering fellas put this on screen look at the rendering the whole east wing as we knew it before is gone. It's replaced with this beautiful new east wing entrance to the White House and an epic ballroom. It's this will be phenomenal and it will be at zero dollars of taxpayer expense. The president as well as a bunch of benefactors are going to be donating the money here. Now, I mentioned, of course, yesterday in the podcast that there may be a Justice Department settlement with President Trump for all the violations of his rights and he may get a pretty big back pay for the garbage that they subjected him to, that remains to be seen.

And we'll see what he does with that money if it goes into the ballroom or anywhere else. He said that he may donate it directly to charity. In other words, he doesn't want to take any of the money into his own bank account. Whatever settlement he might be entitled to, he wants to donate right to the American people, either in the form of a White House project or some other charity or perhaps to pay the troops during the shutdown. We'll see. But in the meantime, the reality here is that this is being built as a matter of donation to the American people, a lasting gift. And I've been sitting there thinking about it of all the things that President Trump, in terms of leaving his mark and his legacy

in our country, he's already done it in so many ways. He really, he's one of the most historic presidents that you and I will ever encounter that our country's ever going to encounter for sure and you and i should fight as hard as we can to make sure that history uh is is is um well told is regards his presence as president of the united states well but um he's a builder at his core he's a construction guy he builds epic projects and he's even said yesterday that he loves the sound of machinery he loves being at the white house and hearing the construction as it's underway that that's the life that he's accustomed to he said his music to his ears and he said normally when I hear that construction I see dollar

signs because I know that that project is going to be something that's profitable he said this is the one project that I'm working on when I know it's it's not going to be profitable it's just all money that I'm spending I'm just donating it but he loves it because he loves the country and he wants to leave behind something impressive it's really cruel and disgusting how the left frames this as some sort of personal thing for Trump no it's it's not it's an act of generosity that he's doing this that he should be proud of and that i'm grateful for thank you to the uh the president for that let me move on to the pipe bomb story if i can with you because um i want to i want to concentrate on this now the fbi the fbi is asking for your help for our help

in trying to find what might be the final missing puzzle piece in getting to the bottom of the January 6 pipe bomber story. Just as by way of quick reminder, remember January 5th of 2021, someone wearing a hoodie and a mask and gloves and Nikes was laying down devices that we are told are pipe bombs outside of the Republican National Committee and the Democrat National Committee. After that took place, there was a massive amount. of suspicious disinterest on the part of the American news media, on the part of Democrats in Congress,

about getting to the bottom of that very theatrical event, which led to a lot of us believing that this was a rigged, was a setup, was a rigged job, that they knew who set the bombs and that this person was an insider and that they had no interest in actually catching them. It was just a part of the theater of the day, and they didn't want to hold anybody accountable for this. At least that's very much the impression

that so many of us have had about this. And before he went into the FBI, Dan Bongino, the great Dan Bongino spent a lot of time focused on this story. He was very concerned about it. And sure enough, eventually, he gets to be the deputy director of the FBI, starting in March of this year. And he made it his commitment that he would seek to get to the bottom of this story. Just like his interest on the outside, now he's got the interest on the inside.

Clearly obsessed with this. From the very beginning, Ed Martin, who is the head of the weaponization committee at the Department of Justice, the Weaponization Group, has been working hand in glove. He told us on this program with Dan to get to the bottom of this story. This year, we finally got to see some new footage that the Biden administration refused to release to us of the suspect, video footage from all around the area as the suspect was laying down the bombs. and then yesterday we got an update from Dan and from the FBI and the update is simple they're asking for anybody who's got information to help them stitch together the final pieces on this they would like to provide a half million dollar reward to whoever helps us land the suspect here the number is 1-800 call FBI now a couple a couple quick things about this one

if they had nothing, if they had nothing, I imagine, I just can't imagine that being the case because, first of all, I think Dan would be embarrassed about that, like, we've got nothing. Oh, we've got nothing. We've achieved nothing. The investigation's gone nowhere. So can anybody give us information?

We don't know where to start. I don't think that's where we are. If you listen to this video that the FBI put out, it's about eight and a half minutes long, it's actually kind of worth it. if you listen to it it makes it very clear that they feel like they've got a lot of the pieces in place to capture this person they do need some sort of witness there's some missing piece that they're asking for the public's help with here so that's why they've released this video the footage that

you're going to see and you and you can see if you're watching rumble.com slash vince is the highest quality footage i think really in compilation we've seen yet and it is an excellent explainer of the evening of January 5th and how this person laid these bombs down, these pipe bombs is what the FBI is calling them, outside of the RNC and the DNC. And a couple of things stand out to me about this, and I'll just raise them with you

and chat, let me know in the chat or let me know on social media what your other thoughts are on this subject. But as you watch this person walking around, again, hoodie on, baggy pants, and a mask on, gloves on nike's on carrying this backpack um as you watch this person they don't look like a pro they don't look like they're a professional and the reason i say that is because everything about

this person strikes me as amateurish about the delivery of this bomb they they're walking around they keep making circles around the buildings they're they're wandering through the streets of dc all around the building and they keep doubling back over their tracks like almost like they're unsure of whether right now is the proper moment to do it or they're nervous about what they're about to do there's something super amateurish about this because like think about the professionalism that you might expect if somebody was uh trying to to do this get in get out right to lay to lay the bombs down and be undetected because clearly they've masked up they're trying to conceal their identity in some capacity if you were a pro you'd get in and you'd get out you would do it with

as few cameras seeing you as possible you conceal your very body's presence as long as possible you'd pick some structurally relevant location to put the bomb down and yet everything about this seems super amateurish and poorly thought out this person is meandering past the site over and over and over again and then they push the bomb kind of suspiciously under a bench which doesn't exactly seem like a like a high quality target to put a pipe bomb at there's something something very odd about it very odd somebody in the chat says well maybe they wanted to be on every doorbell camera that's possible yes that that seems very possible but what's with the doubling back and walking past the same location over and over and over again

for such a long period of time kind of interesting so that that stands out to me and these are all things hopefully in the future that we can look back on and go okay now that makes sense but i wanted to call your attention to that particular thing one more thing that stands out to me have you noticed that the FBI has never said that this person is a man or a woman have you noticed that even in the video that they released yesterday, and I think it was like some sort of artificial intelligence voice. They keep referring to the suspect and then saying they. And for those of you watching on rumble.com slash vince,

I want you to focus on the video footage we have on screen right now. This was the moment where I looked at this and I go, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a second. As the suspect moves from left to right on camera and begins getting to the very right side of this ring doorbell, do you see the gate of this person? show that again would you all right the guys have this up this looks like a woman's walk look at the way those hips are moving this kind of looks like a chick honestly this looks like a chick who's very covered up in in jeans and a sweatshirt but hard to hide that walk if that's a dude

that that's a dude with a very feminine walk yeah you needa mcgrine agrees with me female looks like a woman it's a woman birthing hips yeah no there's there's something going on here yeah some people are saying it's a leftist soy boy too it could be yeah it could be a soy boy i don't know kind of looks like a woman yeah they got the height uh the height is five foot seven on the suspect you look at that walk too yeah show that walk again that walk you just push past that from from right to left yeah you're on it right there that doesn't look like a dude It looks like a woman's gate. Anyway, yeah, five foot seven is the height.

That's not a crazy height for a woman. It's a little taller than usual for a woman. A woman's average height in the United States is five foot four inches. But kind of interesting. Anyway, fascinating to look at, and again, the FBI has not once told us the gender that they believe the suspect to be. That's kind of suggestive that they're leaving open that this is a woman. The walk kind of does look like a chick.

And we'll see. And we'll see. And the person very amateurish about the way that they deliver these bombs. So whatever it comes of this, you can have no doubt that Dan Bongino is on the case. I love the idiots who are like, oh, Dan's trying to cover up the pipe bomber. Whatever happened to the pipe bomber? What did Dan give up on it? You're a moron.

You're just as stupid as the person who thinks that Donald Trump is tearing down the White House right now. You're an idiot, if that's your position. It's like it's like really crazy So anyway, good luck to the FBI As they pursue this And I'm looking forward to the day That Dan can step up to a microphone Although you know what'll happen

You know what I'll end up probably happening It's the same thing every time There's like Operation Summer Heat too Dan doesn't step up to a microphone As capable as he is of being on microphone They don't even put Dan out in front of the microphone Dan doesn't insist that he's in front of a microphone It always ends up being Cash Patel

Because Dan's not full of himself Dan's like well yeah you're the FBI director Why don't you announce this So it'll probably be cash Patel. But still, I think I think Cash should drag Dan up there. Get up here, Dan, talk about this because he's on this. Anyway, fascinating stuff. For those of you who haven't seen the video yet, go check it out. It's on the FBI's Washington field office site. Or check out Dan Bongino's FBI Twitter account right now. He's got all of these details up. Yeah, the dude does look like

a lady skirt on bear. I agree with you. And you would know skirt on bear, I would think. I would think. What a name. Dude looks like a lady. All right. Let me see. Okay. One more thing on criminal accountability. John Brennan is now speaking out about the fact that we just got a criminal referral to the FBI by the United States House Judiciary Committee. I covered it in some detail yesterday. John Brennan is the former CIA director. He stands credibly accused of lying to Congress about his awareness and his involvement in pushing the steel dossier hoax into the of the intelligence community assessment in early 2017. Early 2017. Here's John Brennan going on television yesterday. Speaking of women, this guy, I don't know if you've ever noticed this. Have you noticed that John Brennan is becoming more effeminate as he gets older?

Here he is wearing a purple tie yesterday and bitching on national television over the fact that he's now being scrutinized. Watch. Well, when these things happen, I certainly get mad. get angry. I also get sad that this is the state of our country, in the state of our politics these days. The fact that individuals like a Jim Jordan are going to go after somebody, I served nearly three and a half decades in public service, a lot involved in counterterrorism in the aftermath of 9-11. They don't care about doing things like this to destroy individuals, to go after me,

to hurt me and my family and others. And so, you know, I'm saddened by what I'm saddened by what I'm happened sometimes i'm dispirited and disheartened and when they look at what's happened against the white house it's so such a vivid depiction it's symbolic of what's going on to this country but the abuse of power the desecration of the rule of law the fact that don't trump continues to do these things why they continue to allow it oh man he's playing the hits he's playing the hits he lies to this very day brennan who's been of course a paid contributor on nbc there he is sitting with that resting Democrat face woman, Nicole Wallace, the two of them commiserating over the fact that John Brennan's receiving any attention for the lies that he's been telling for years,

now the criminal attention that he so well deserves. And he says they're going, oh, they're just targeting people, just individuals, they're targeting their political opponents. Of course, everything he's saying is a brazen act of projection. John Brennan was a part of an effort to target the left's political opponents. John Brennan was the guy trying to tie up the incoming Trump administration. John Brennan was the guy who was lying about using Hillary Clinton's opposition research to try and destroy the credibility and the capability of the incoming president of the United States, Donald J. Trump.

That was John Brennan. And then the cherry on top of that very, you know, ridiculous sort of effeminate presentation from John Brennan is the fact that he referenced the White House is like, and they're destroying the White House. It's just a symbol of what they're doing to the rest of the country. You know what? He's right in a way about it being a symbol about what President Trump is doing to the rest of the country, but not in the way he intends. The left keeps saying this. Oh, it's a symbol of what's happening to the country. He's destroying the country. No, no, no. It's a symbol of the fact that President Trump is improving our country. What they're doing at the White House right now

is a symbol of the generosity of a man who didn't have to do this job. And he certainly didn't have to give a fortune in terms of his money and time into making our country better. So yes, when I see a construction project at the White House where things are being improved, where people are being employed, where Americans are being given something that they can be proud of, where other countries are going to arrive and be impressed by this beautiful new ballroom, yeah, it is a symbol of our country. It's not what you intended to say. You're lying to us, just like the New York Times is doing today.

You're lying to us, John Brennan. But that's part for the course. That's what you've done your entire career. And now those lies are catching up with you. And I hope they catch you with handcuffs. You deserve it. Great to have you with us today. I've got a big national radio show coming up today.

The Vince Show. You can check out your local listings. Thevinshow.com. You can watch us, rumble.com slash Vince. We've got other big stories to get to today. Did you see that the Democrats' Senate candidate in Maine has Nazi tattoos? The guys, they're running a Nazi guy in Maine

with Nazi tattoos. I love they gave Pete Higgseth a world of shit for having just Christian tattoos on his body. They're just treating him like garbage. The guy's just a Christian. You're attacking him for having Christian tattoos? Meanwhile, yeah, the Maine Senate candidate, Graham Platner, has a Nazi tattoo on his chest.

And now his new excuses, he had no idea, is a Nazi tattoo. He goes, I've had this for 18 years. I had no idea. Okay, so here are the options. Either you're a Nazi or you're a complete moron. Those are the only two options. Both of them mean you should not be in the United States Senate. I'll cover that and so much more all ahead today on the Vince show and I'll be back with you tomorrow on Vince, the podcast. Great to have you with us.