The Dan Bongino Show - Trump's Historic Speech (Ep. 2290)

Episode Date: July 19, 2024

The 2024 RNC is officially wrapping up. In this action packed episode I joined by multiple surprise guests and review the failed Trump assassination attempt. Trump ‘tore up’ prewritten RNC speech, wrote his own ‘personal’ remarks for convention Blackburn slams Secret Service chief for ‘celebrating herself’ at RNC after Trump assassination attempt Senators confront Secret Service director on Republican convention floor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

get ready to hear the truth about america on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host dan bongino folks to describe this as just an overwhelming sense uh the senses the the sights the sounds the smells everything of this week has just been amazing the food in here in milwaukee by the way has been incredible the people of the rnc have been amazing we've been here all week waiting all night for president trump's uh banger of a speech we finally heard it folks it's like nothing we've heard before from him i am i'm optimistic about the coming election without being apathetic and i hope you stay that way to vote and take 10 people with you 10 not 9 you are allowed to take more you are not allowed to take less i'm sorry i don't mean to sound bossy but this has been such an incredible

week we had so much content to squeeze in so many great guests we don't know what to do let me get started today hey with coin get woke out of your wallet with a credit card that aligns with dollars for conservative values find them at coin.com c-o-i-g-n.com go to coin.com slash disclosure for terms i got another uh stellar show for you today we're going to focus today more we've been focusing most of the week on the secret service stuff on the speech tonight everything that happened uh because really that the energy in the republican party i hate this i hate talking about energy because it sounds so stupid and cliche but i'm telling you it's here it's real it's now uh everybody i mean even russell brand who we did

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All right, Guy and Mike, let's get this thing started. So if you missed yesterday's podcast, please, I'm begging you as a friend, please go back and watch it. A number of breaking stories about the Secret Service catastrophe, the apocalyptic breakdown, about the communications breakdown, the breakdown of coverage on that roof, and also the fact that this may have been some kind of assault on Trump supporters in advance. That plan as well as what resulted in an assault on Donald Trump.

Again, it's a theory that one in the end. I discussed it yesterday, but there's some evidence to back up all of these things. An absolute failure, folks. And I'm going to tell you again, I only say on this show what I can back up. When I have evidence for you, you have my absolute solemn word. You will be the first to hear it. I want to talk bigger picture first about what just happened uh folks donald trump's a different man uh post post attack he's a different guy something changed in him and and and i hope i never have to experience that kind of change myself but when you're millimeters from

death and you survive it and your first response to spite, there's a renewed vigor in him. But I, you know, I've always seen he was always been a warrior. But this is different. I want to play for you what I thought was one of the highlights of the night from the speech last night. It was just incredible. Please check this part out. Come back. We'll comment on it on the other side. I am running to be president for all of America, not half of America, because there is no victory in winning for half of America. So tonight, with faith and devotion, I proudly accept your nomination for President of the United States. Thank you. But Corey, unfortunately, we have to use the past tense.

He was incredible. He was a highly respected former fire chief, respected by everybody. He was accompanied by his wife, Helen, incredible woman I spoke to today, devastated, and two precious daughters. He lost his life selflessly, acting as a human shield to protect them from flying bullets. He went right over the top of them and was hit. What a fine man he was. Thank you. I said last night before, because obviously the speech happened last night, you're watching today, but we're here now, right now, when we're recording this, we are here, right post-speech. There's still so much energy, it's like palpable in the room right here,

because everybody's so excited to go out and vote. So forgive me, we're always candid with you on the thing. right post speech is still so much energy it's like palpable in the room right here because everybody's so excited to go out and vote so uh forgive me we're always candid with the other thing but uh on the show here of course folks i want to talk about the election picture here because after last night uh i i candidly speaking i'm no red wave talk cut the don't do it here we're never going to do it no landslide talk talk. No, none of that. Okay. But I don't want to ignore the obvious either. I actually believe in doing honest reporting. I don't see a path right now for Biden. There is a potential path for other candidates. They could come in. They could be re-energized. The cheating, they could double and triple down. I get all that. But after last night and that just barn burner and banger of a speech, do you really see a path

for Biden? Folks, I just want to play this clip I played again yesterday. Remember what I told you about politics? There's sound bites and snapshots and everything in politics in this binary system we have, Republicans and Democrats, is about contrast. A or B. When A really falters, B may look better even if B did nothing different at all. Do you get what I mean? B may be a five and A may be a one, but if A goes to zero,

B is now five units bigger than A, even though B did nothing. Donald Trump not only added to his political cachet last night, but Joe Biden's political cachet is now collapsing. The biggest problem with Joe Biden right now, outside of his dreadful policies, even for Democrats,

is the fact that he's a man in poor health. Not blaming a guy for getting COVID. I don't wish ill health on anyone. I hope he's fine at the end of the day. However, the man's in his 80s. He got COVID. Van Jones points out, who's a Democrat, something very simple. This is a system of contrast. How are you going to get around the fact that Trump is this vigorous guy who's roughly the same age but acts different and Biden's holed up by COVID. Check this out. A bullet couldn't stop Trump. A virus just stopped Biden. You've got the nominees of this party getting their butts kissed. Biden's getting his butt kicked by his own party. The Democrats are coming apart. The Republicans are coming together.

Now, Van Jones got beaten up online by a piss crier, Keith Olbermann, and others for stating the obvious. Folks, this is a good thing, though. How is that a good thing? It's not even a good thing that Van Jones said that because I don't want the Democrats to recognize their problem.

Michael, I want to win, right? I don't really give a shit if the Democrats recognize their problem. I'd rather them not, right. Michael, I want to win, right? I don't really give a shit if the Democrats recognize their problem. I'd rather them not, right? I'd rather go ninja style, right? We don't want to go samurai style. We want to go ninja style. We want to be like quiet assassins here.

Van Jones is our problem right now because he's telling the Democrats you've got an issue. It's the Keith Olbermanns of the world who are our best allies. Crazy lunatic, former ESPN guy. Olbermann's out there again telling people oh yeah gosh they said van jones should shut his mouth van jones doesn't know what he's talking about well clearly he does van jones is not our friend even though he's stating the obvious we want to sneak up on him this is how bad it is right now and i want you to keep in mind this clip as you guys can attest to is from a couple days ago prior to donald Trump's speech and J.D. Vance's speech the night

before. We just heard it. The whole place going nuts. You can hear the energy in here, right? This place going crazy. Everybody's supposed to go home. Nobody's going home, okay? Here is CNN a couple days ago, prior to the speech. And remember, Joe Biden's only going to get worse, his cognitive condition, talking about how the path to

suit 270 for Joe Biden is almost non-existent at this point. No red wave talk. Get out and vote like we're 10 points behind because polling sucks. But this just harbors real trouble for Joe Biden. Check this out. This is our current CNN projection of where we are now. And look at this.

If Donald Trump won what we have here, dark red states, solid Republican, light red states, leaning Republican. If he won just those right there, he would already have the path to 270. He would have 272 electoral votes. Look what is different. We have Wisconsin as a toss-up. We have Pennsylvania as a toss-up. Two critical states for Joe Biden.

Michigan right now, another critical state for Biden, leaning Republican. Georgia, a state Biden flipped, leaning Republican. Arizona, a toss-up state. That was a state Biden flipped, leaning Republican. Arizona, a toss-up state. That was a state Biden flipped. Nevada, a state he won, leaning Republican. This is the dire straight for Joe Biden right now on the first night of the Republican convention. Tomorrow is 16 weeks to election day. 16 weeks from tomorrow, we count the votes. It is tough to change a map like this. Folks, this is prior. This is prior.

Guy, is it not prior? Did I not send you this cut three days ago? This is prior to the speech and JD's speech. You think this is going to get any better? The guy's melting away by the minute. His neurons don't freaking work. I got more for you. Things got even worse.

I just want to say this one thing. Guy comes up to me before, right? And he's like, hey, man, I got this for you. Someone got even worse. I just want to say this one thing. Guy comes up to me before, right? And he's like, hey, man, I got this for you. Someone put this up to the window in the studio. There's a window right to my right, right here. It says, this is Dan Bongino's Audio Implements earpiece. You're probably like, what the hell does that mean? You want to hear about a bananas moment?

Audio Implements, this company, when you've joined the Secret Service back in my day, they take a mold of your ear and build a custom earpiece. Someone must have had a mold of my ear and brought me a new earpiece from 1999. Thank you, Audio Implements. He's like, you're never going to believe this just happened. So there you go. Has my ear changed? This is really it.

I should try it on. Do you want to do it on the air? How do we open this sucker? All right. I don't know because this sucker is like really. I'm going to have to cut this baby open. Here, open that for me. And if that thing fits, I'm going to be stunned.

I mean, my ears got all droopy. I'm an old man now. But getting back to the thing. My good friend Jordan Schachtel on X, a great account to follow you got it open all right let me see is this uh so this must be okay this is a left folks we're doing this on the air live holy it still fits damn Bongino's Secret Service earpiece from 1990. Look at that. Nice and snug. Audio implements.

You'd still do a great job. It's amazing this sucker still. Look at it. Nice. It doesn't even come out. I never, personally, though, I don't like the molds. Don't lose it. Can you put this back in the thing?

I don't want to lose this, man. This is a classic. I don't like it. And I can't hear anything out of my left ear anymore anyway, because that's where I wore my earpiece, and I'm deaf in that ear. Here's my buddy Jordan Schachtel on X. This is how bad it's getting for biden folks it is not going to get any better i'm candidly worried he's going to drop out because i want to run

run against this goofball he was on some leaked zoom call uh the other day did you hear this report just basically trashing a bunch of people saying nobody's been a better president than me name one name me one now i never steer you wrong ever ever ever what have i told you over and over joe biden is not dropping out why guys you remember why is he not dropping out because he's a freaking narcissist that's why he's a nurse look at the the now now these guys are ringers you ever hear the n in Elk Boys? These guys, hey, can you come on one second? I just wanted the audience to hear you. The Zin, you brought, what's up, brother?

How are you, man? I haven't seen you since the UFC, man. You guys are rocking it. Hey, man, so that Zin, you brought Tucker Carlson that time. That one's not connected, this one. So this was kind of an impromptu, but you guys got a hugely popular podcast. People love you guys. You're here at the RNC,romptu, but you guys got a hugely popular podcast. People love you guys.

You're here at the RNC. And, you know, how do you feel like pop culture wise? You think like the libertarian kind of Republican conservative movement is finally getting back some of the mojo with the young? Yeah, we were just talking about that. Like when we started, you know, doing content with President Trump in 2020 and it was it was way different. Like, I think at that time you got patronized for doing it and it was more of a risk, but I think people have seen over the last four years

just what a fucking disaster Biden's been. Yeah. And people are fed up. And I think, you know, I think maybe they wanted to speak up before and they were maybe a little bit scared, but I think now people are just fed up and everybody's coming out of the woodwork.

I got mad respect for you guys because you're right. You guys were interviewing Tucker and Trump when it wasn't like the cool thing to do. We got other influencers out there. The Paul brothers and stuff. But back then it was like, you know, these Republicans all the media bullshit. I think they were shitting on them back then. They were. But you know what?

It's a good thing that people are flipping. We don't want to call them like copycats but I think, you know I think if people are supporting them and they're supporting this movement, then that's just a W. Bro, you guys, very few pods and shows out there have the influence with that Gen Z crowd. You guys do.

You're doing a banger of a job. Saw you at the UFC, man. You love the fights like I do. Man, thanks for spending a minute with us, man. Yeah, I appreciate you, bro. Big fan as well. Thanks, bro. I appreciate it.

Man, you got the Nel Boys just popping into the Dan Bongino show. Like collabs are just happening left and right. What is that? Dogs and cats. Remember that from Ghostbusters? This is just like, this has been key. How great has this experience been? I sat on a radio show yesterday. I wasn't bullshitting you. I listen ma'am you know and monday the beginning of the week i kind of felt like ah you know i'm not sure this was the right thing to come out here single best decision of our life to come out here folks but get back to what i was talking about before biden is a freaking narcissist the man is never gonna leave he really believes what you saw on that tweet he believes he is the most popular influential president in modern american history

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When Jason Crow, the Democrat. Hey, Kat, Jason Crow is from Colorado, right? Democrat. Yeah, Colorado. Kat Kamek, who's wonderful. Hey, you want to sit down during the show, too? Am I sorry? We'll get you. So, folks, he blew up on Jason Crow. Absolutely blew up. And here's what it's about. He run this clip. Check this out. Reporting into CNN this hour showing just how tense things have gotten between a defiant Joe Biden and key members of his party.

Sources tell me that the president lashed out at Congressman Jason Crow in a Saturday call with House Democrats. That happened after the Colorado moderate relayed voters' concerns about the president's vigor and strength, especially when it comes to the world stage. Biden, I'm told, got so upset with Crowe's blunt assessment that at one point he said, quote, cut that crap out. Folks, I got a subject matter expert here. Again, the collabs happening everywhere. This was not planned, right, Michael? Poor Michael's like, this guy's done so many air squats, getting up and down to reconnect the thing.

Congresswoman Kat Kamik, one of my favorites. God bless the work you're doing up there. So you're up on Capitol Hill, and unfortunately around a lot of these Democrats all the time. Bless their hearts, as we say. Bless their hearts, you know, as they say down south. We know exactly what that means. Are you sensing with them that it's it's now gone from panic to just full-blown hysteria and and the second part of the question i don't think they're worried

anymore because it's biden i think they're worried because the down ballot effects are going to be bad yes so it's crazy that we're talking about this like in this context right now. I got a text message from a prominent Democrat who said, Kat, we're screwed. Use a different word, said, but we're screwed. It's a lose-lose for us. Because what's going to happen is we have got four years of all of us on record saying that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy and we're going to disenfranchise 14 million Democratic voters who penciled in Joe Biden's name, but they know that they cannot win with Joe Biden. So what they're now talking about is we have to tell him to move aside, but we can't jump Kamala. We have to put her in at the top of the ticket because if we don't, a billion dollars

with a B go to the down ballot races and then they will have nothing at the top of the ticket. Because if we don't, a billion dollars with a B go to the down ballot races, and then they will have nothing at the top of the ticket. So they're in the middle of this dynamic where half of their caucus wants to go all in on the down ballots, which would be bad for us, or they go all in on Kamala and she still loses. That is good inside info.

Yes. Let me hit you with this kamala harris question because you just kind of nailed it this is the dilemma they created for themselves not a thousand percent thousand percent i i have i did not say kamala harris is a dei candidate joe biden did i didn't say that cat he did he not he said i'm going to pick based on artificial criteria yes it was whatever box she checked that That's it. She was... He said it. Exactly.

Not us. Minority and a woman. Kamala Harris is a DEI vice president, is not Dan Bongino or Kat Kamik's words. Exactly. We're just repeating what Biden said. The dilemma they've created for themselves, which you just kind of harped on a little bit,

is you can't say, I'm bringing in a black woman, whoever it may be, because of her valuable life experience, but I don't know who she is. And then you get said black woman, and then the minute the opportunity to take power happens, you go, I was only really kidding about the black woman, whoever it may be, because of her valuable life experience, but I don't know who she is. And then you get said black woman. And in a minute, the opportunity to take power happens. You go, I was only really kidding about the black woman. Exactly. And this pisses me off as a woman, because this is the bullshit that the left has peddled for years. When I went and campaigned

for office, I never said vote for me because I'm the young one in the race. Vote for me because I'm the woman in the race. And I had a 12 way primary. I said, vote for me because I'm the best damn person for the job. And that's the way we need to approach it. But here we are. We've got a Supreme Court justice who doesn't even know what a woman is. It's nuts. And this Secret Service nonsense, this is just another example of the DEI bullshit

that has absolutely put our nation and our nominee, our president, in danger. Do you mind if I share a conversation before I got to ask? Oh, yeah, no, no, no. So Kat came over before we were doing the radio show. I wanted to have you, but we were just stacked up. And you are passionate about this DEI cancer. And you said to me, Dan, given your experience, you know, you were like, how bad is it? I'm getting it's really bad.

Yeah. I'm telling you it's worse than you think. there's one thing you said do you have any kind of ideas where i should go with this here's one thing i would harp on the size and weight of the protectees does not change donald trump's a big guy man he's actually six something he's you know he's a big guy yeah if the size and weight of the protectee doesn't change then why the hell do the pt standards change it's the same job. Is that not a simple question for the director? Can, can anyone explain that if you both got to lift the same body, why are the PT standards different? Exactly. And I don't, I don't care if you are a man or a woman as an agent, if you can meet the qualifications, then good on you. But the

question, and we were talking about the weaponization of government, how is it not a prime example of the weaponization of the federal government that the administration in charge has decided that they are not going to provide a detail to one of their political opponents in their entirety? But then you have a high-value target who they had intelligence that showed that there was a foreign nation that had a target on donald trump it's not like they have a history of killing people iran or anything no they've been really nice players on the world yes bless their hearts my gosh um we literally are watching in real time how dei and the weaponization of government is not just a cancer but it is stage four and it is killing people my husband is a swap medic a firefighter and he has done dignitary protection at the local level he's got to be talking like i can't believe this happened we were in the united states capital when the news broke and the video came out of donald trump getting shot what was it like in

the capital when i went down was everybody like shit, it finally happened? We all knew it was coming. It was Saturday. It was empty. And I was there working over the weekend, getting ready to come here to the convention. And we're literally in the Capitol and the news starts breaking. And I said, oh my God. And I hand my phone to my husband. This is a guy who's 18 years with the department. He has done, I can't tell you how many SWAT call-outs. And he looks at this and we start seeing the video. He has done, I can't tell you how many SWAT call-outs. And he looks at this, and we start seeing the video of the snipers, them engaging, how this is all going. And he said, I bet you any amount of money,

they did not have a pre-authorization to neutralize the threat. It looks like they were all on different bands. He immediately started analyzing the situation, and then he started to tear up and he said this is a total failure and i feel so bad for the guys on the ground who it's not their fault it's the political appointees who care more about protecting their own ass than actually doing the job that they're hired to do he he took this very personal listen you are a flamethrower up on capitol hill you're going to stay on this for us right and we got, my gosh. And we got to talk because I got some questions.

You're the best, Dan. Oh, you're the best. Thanks a lot for coming on. We appreciate it. Folks, like I said, collabs all over the place. Listen, I want to get to this, too. Biden is giving himself an out. You know, first, I got to put up that Bill Mellugian tweet on the Trump response.

It's just for kind of comic relief in the show. My friend Bill Mellugian ran into him at the RNC the other day from Fox. Great reporter on the border. Put this tweet up. Did you see Trump's response, by the way, on the VP debate? Can you throw that up on the screen? This is absolutely vintage Donald Trump. Trump responds to the VP debate.

We don't know who the Democrat nominee is going to be, so we can't lock in a date before the convention. To do so would be unfair to Gavin Newsom, J.B. Pritzker, Gretchen Whitmer, or whoever Kamala Harris picks as a running mate. Holy shit, that is a bomb dropped on the head. Nuclear messaging for marketing of the dopey ass left. Great job, Donald Trump. Coming up, I'm going to take a quick break. I want to play this video for you. Biden's giving himself an out. He got COVID right around the time this interview was done. I am not suggesting he doesn't have COVID. I don't know what he has.

I'm not his freaking doctor. If he has it or doesn't have it, it ain't my business. I wish the man okay. I want the guy to be the nominee because I think he sucks and is the worst candidate out there, but I don't wish ill health on him.

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covering it so no one could find it. They're like, what freaking clip is he talking about? Well, it's this one here. I want you to listen to the answer Biden gives. This is the first time we've seen an opening where Joe Biden is leaving an opening because he's a narcissistic, crazy person to get out of the race. And he says this. And then all of a sudden this was before the covid thing. Check this out. Earlier, the president sat down with journalist Ed Gordon for an interview with BET News. Gordon asked the president if there is anything, including family members, that would make him reevaluate staying in the race. If there is some medical condition that emerged,

if somebody, if doctors came to me and said, you got this problem, that problem. Sorry, folks, a lot of people reaching out. So got to get some work done, too. You'd be stunned at all the information still coming in on everything. Folks, it's interesting he decided to go on black entertainment television,

say if a doctor tells him to get out, that he'll get out of the race. Why don't you sit down here? That he'll get out of the race. It's interesting he said that because his, in fact, black secretary of defense who, Jim, how many times is Biden going to mispronounce or forget Lloyd Austin's name? Is this like the 10th clip we played of this? It's interesting. The one person he can never seem to remember his name is his black secretary of defense, Lloyd Austin's name. Is this like the 10th clip we played of this? It's interesting. The one person he can never seem to remember his name is his black secretary of defense, Lloyd Austin. Here he is. Lloyd Austin is now known, I guess, amongst Democrats. Did

you hear Michael as the black man? He has a name, folks. He has a name. This is your hero here. Democrats check this out. It's all about. It's all about treating people with dignity. And it's about making sure that look at me for example look at the heat i'm getting because i i named a uh the secretary of defense the black man i named katanji brown i mean because of the people i've named jim can you and mich Michael work on this? Guys, I need a favor. This is really important, okay?

Can we get together a face name thing, like a chart for Biden, so he remembers the black man and Javier Baccaria? Right? Javier Baccaria. He doesn't... This guy doesn't know anybody's name. They're his freaking cabinet. Imagine me going, hey, Anna, my name's Evita.

Oh, shit, like we just lost, I forgot your name. Hey, producer Joe, Dan, it's Jim. We actually wrote a book together. Hey, Mark, it's Mike, dude. The guy doesn't know anybody's name on the team. He's not the black man, his name is lloyd austin holy shit brother get your freaking shit together man a couple more things how bad this is getting for team biden nancy pelosi ladies and gentlemen is known she has a reputation love her or hate her um it's true nancy pelosi has a reputation for keeping

democrat problems in-house and in-house only yashir ali's a pretty wired in guy like you say you don't have to agree with the guy and stuff i'm just saying he seems to get a lot of decent scoops and some stuff he says there are a few things pelosi hates more than these problems spilling out in the public she works behind the scenes the leaks happening tonight about she's talking about a couple days ago the 17th obviously him that these are really extraordinary and she tell people a lot folks the words gone out obama schumer axelrod the pod bros they are all out the knives are out the proverbial knives are out using the old uh roman analogy for biden and um listen he's in a lot of trouble man he is in a world of trouble my humble opinion neither him nor the secret service

director politically survive over the next weeks and months there's just no way now he gets covid biden i wish the man well you know we're never gonna do democrat shit like that like help he dies like that's crazy liberal bullshit no i hope he faces the voters is what i hope and i hope he gets better okay you know covid can be really rough on older folks new york post he's now openly receptive about leaving folks i'm not sure he's receptive in as much as they're looking for a path out where narcissistic joe biden can preserve his reputation but he's like i'm just talking about democrats i mean obviously with us it's like a total clown show evita can you join me for a second here before we go to the clips

i just um so folks obviously you know uh evita launched a new show, Early Edition with Evita. I want to personally thank you, as I know she does as well. She's already a top 100, 200 live streamer in the world with Early Edition with Evita. I said to her, did I not tell you this? I said, Evita, you know, your show is amazing, but the craziest thing is the worst show you ever did is yesterday because you're only going to get better. I think you share the same gratitude towards this amazing audience we have. I do. I was blown away by it when I first saw the numbers. It was shocking. But I mean, that's the Bongino Army, you know, that is so the. That's what it is that it is the Bongino Army. And just you're you know, you've been with us in this room.

You know, we heard all the speeches. We've seen the RNC. You know, the energy here has been absolutely crazy. The rumble room's been nuts. Your general take on the RNC. We had Nelk over here before. I mean, you're a Gen Z-er. Yeah, like, you know, the Nelk boys. Do you feel like for young voters that this may be a different election than other elections you've seen prior? prior? It's going to 100% be a different election. There are so many things animating young people. I think the biggest thing is the Make America Great Again slogan really, I think, connects with us because we don't live in a great America at this point. I mean, there's young people have suicide, depression, anxiety off the charts. They don't have the same future that our parents did, not able to afford a home. I mean, there's a lot of things that make us look at our future and go, wow, it's really bleak. And you look ate biden you're like that's not that's not the future that's not going to help us and trump is actually offering a solution to the the issues plaguing our generation and he speaks plainly he does young people they see through bullshit you know yeah

they really do like they they see it a lot of them are kids are from the street and stuff they see through the bullshit and he speaks plainly. We're going to launch a guy, the show tomorrow. We're going to run on my feed, right? Okay. A Vita's home for the podcast is rumble.com slash Bongino report. But tomorrow, because I want my rumble audience to all go and follow that rumble.com slash Bongino report.

It's a different channel than the one you're watching on rumble.com slash Bongino. We are going to launch Evita's spectacular show. Well, not launch. It's been out there, but on mine tomorrow. Just to get it out there, I'm asking you a personal favor. Give her a follow on that channel. Follow her show. Spread the word. Bongino Army, McGroin

Families, do the right thing. Thanks, Evita. Great show. We really appreciate it. So, because we were at the RNC here, and the content was really overwhelming i mean i mean that in a good way we did not expect it we were up on the second floor so the first couple days you know guests didn't know we were up here when the rumor got out at the rnc that rumble was upstairs everybody was up here if you saw my podcast before with uh with russell brand you see what I mean.

People were just rocking and rolling. And everyone from Marco Rubio to Nigel Farage, we had the whole crew. We got so much content that we did a couple additional interviews for you. I really hope you're going to watch. These just happened a few hours ago, right before the Trump speech. I know you're going to love them. You're going to love these guests. I don't want to tell you who they are.

So check this out and we'll come right back. These are some short clips. Take a look. Again, promise you the best interviews. I have been just itching to interview this gentleman. I've known him for a long time. Listen, I never faked a funk on this show at all. I ran for Congress in his district.

I got my ass kicked. I knew Byron. He came up to me. He was so friendly. Him and his beautiful wife, who, by the way, in her own right, she is just a ringer for school choice. I mean, just look her up. Erica has her own separate thing going. Byron was always kind to me. He was the state rep over there. Everybody told me, pay attention to this guy. He's an up-and-comer. He's now the congressman in that seat and byron donald's my first question to you you know you and i are both you know we're street

kids man we're not no silver spoon babies you know none of us grew up rich all of a sudden you find yourself plunged into the national conversation as a candidate for vice president united states and from what i heard was very credible conversations this wasn't bullshit you and your wife must be sitting there like, damn, this is the greatest freaking country on earth, man. So it's funny. Monday night, President obviously made the pick for J.D.

J.D.'s going to do a great job for us. He's going to do a great job on the ticket. He's already off to a fast start. You're a classy guy. He's the best. I'm sitting in the box and the President's about to come out and I'm looking out over the arena floor and I say to myself, like, damn, how the hell did I get here? This is nuts, man.

My wife and I say it all the time. I'm sitting here. You ever say like, I don't deserve this? You know, we say it all the time. Because when I'm on Capitol Hill, you talk about, you know, growing up in the street, when I'm on Capitol Hill, you know, you see the guys that work for the janitorial team, architect of the Capitol staff. I'd see those guys every single day, talk to them all the time.

Real folks. One of the other members came up to me and they said, listen, the staff, these guys all like you. And they're like, you just are really cool with them. And I told them, because I'm them. I'm two decisions in my life away from working in the capital as opposed to not working on capital hill yeah and those two different things three decisions away from either still being a political activist but now being in that box with president trump so this whole journey is has been surreal

and so i really want to appreciate the process and not just go through the, you know, how we go through a day in, day in, day out, but really appreciate that process. But, man, I got to tell you, this thing is wild. It's crazy, but it's humbling. And I'm really appreciative because life's a funny thing and things are working out well. But it's a lot of work. It's a lot of grind behind the scenes that people don't know. You know, one thing about you I've always admired, and we go back a couple of years, you know,

when the congressional seat first opened up, Francis Rooney in 19 decides not to run the guy. I lost you in the primary. You know, it's interesting. You and I had a conversation and you're not one of these guys who's like rushing to the front of the line for stuff. I hate that. Like, you know, you get these guys out there.

It's all about them. Like with JD was different. Like JD is a Yale lawyer get these guys out there. It's all about them. Like with J.D., it was different. Like J.D.'s a Yale lawyer. He's a Marine. He's a best-selling author. You know, he won this seat fair and square. But you weren't like, you know what?

I'm going to run for president tomorrow. Like, I'm just kidding. You really thought about running for Congress. You were a state rep. Your wife is a huge advocate for school choice. You guys were so well-respected out there. And listen, like any race like any race you could have lost but i remember chatting and i begged you to run i was like i know that district man i knocked on thousands of doors in the cape you know fort myers everywhere and i said man brother you gotta run these people love you and i'm i was so glad like you took a

second to just take it all in before you kind of jumped in the mix and now again we're talking about you for potential vice president you know this is just it's come full circle well look the crazy part is when you called me about about the race yeah my wife will tell you i didn't want to run i know you didn't i was ready to leave politics i could say house was successful we did a lot of stuff a lot of the school choice policies that now around the country everybody says oh look what florida's doing i was a part of that when i was in the state legislature yeah so i was ready to go home and talking to you talking to a couple a handful of people it wasn't many it was probably about six seven people who were like you really need to think about this you really need to look at this and and don't say no don't tell people you're not running. Just think about it. And I took probably about a good long month to really process, did I want to really engage in

this? But I've never been afraid to fail. Yeah, it's important. You can't worry about failure. Failure is going to come on the journey. The only thing I said to myself is, look, I'm going to run hard. If I lose, I lose lose i'm just gonna go home and and be with my family make money and enjoy life but if you win then that just means there's another step god has in front of you let's just let's just go chase that train and see what happens but you know the thing i don't like and i'll tell this i'll tell you this all the time you've been in events where you get people always try to like posture themselves to be in position every time man i hate that i just i just hate it i don't like you and i you and i being like street kids have a different kind of sense for this stuff like the bullshit detector thing thing thing goes up

right away right yeah and some people don't have that like we have i think pretty decent good social iqs we're like that dude's full of shit and you can attest there's a lot of full of shit people out there in this game yes. In this game, yes. And I think that, look, we were talking this morning in the hotel room about Rick Scott and about how Rick Scott was, I guess, the pioneer of the outsider businessman way back in 2010 when Rick Scott basically bucked the political establishment and said, I don't care about any of these guys. I'm running. And he was, and listen, from the stories I was told, he was laughed at in the donor class. They were like, who, you can't do it. It's not your turn. He bucked that trend. Donald Trump definitely has bucked that trend. Now you have JD Vance at 39

on being the vice presidential nominee, very, very likely to be the next vice president of the United States. What that has done in our politics is that now it's about merit and capabilities and abilities as opposed to I stood in line to do the glad handing and now it's my turn and I've supported the guy in front of me and I've been a team player and blah, blah, blah. I think that's really led to political rot in the parties. And so this movement that Donald Trump has really exploded has brought a movement of merit into politics, where if you can do the job, people reward you. And if you can't, thank you for your service, but it's not about you. It's about the people that we serve. Byron, I want to say, and I say to your lovely wife, Erica, and my wife, Paula, we married up, both of us. We don't even deserve this, but they tolerate us here.

Paula, did I not say this guy was the easiest bet in the world? You're like, oh, I didn't know if I was going to win. If I was an unethical gambling man, I would have put a million cold cash that you were winning that damn primary. So you're a very humble guy. I knew you were going to win. Listen, last question. I don't want to keep you that long, but you know, you did something I really appreciated during your first

congressional race too. You know, Byron, we all got a background. It makes us who we are. And, you know, a couple people decided, oh, we're going to go after Byron Donalds, you know, because when he was a kid, he had this troubling moment or whatever. And, you know, we talked I remember, when he was a kid, he had this troubling moment or whatever. And, you know, we talked, I remember.

And you said, you know what? I'm going to roll right into this. I'm going to get on TV and I'm going to say, yeah, you're damn right, man. When I was a kid, I was rough and tumble kid. And why do you think I am right now? Where is these other guys? They give these bullshit flowery speeches. I so respected that because you know what?

Every single voter out there is like you know what that's me too we've all done dumb shit like this guy's you just embraced it and ran with it instead of pretending like these other guys like it was like some flowery bullshit or something and just glossed over it why hide i am who i am my past is my is my past if you want to support me support me if you don't okay if i lose a political race that's life yeah i'm not concerned about the losing i'm much more concerned with not giving it my best effort and i feel like to try to hide things from the public especially in today's world that's stupid you're not gonna get away with that anyway i would rather you see the entirety of my life,

the mistakes, the warts, the successes. I wrote a whole book about it. My failures. And everything all in between because you know what happens? It's phony otherwise. Your failures actually help you become the person you need to be.

100%, brother. 100%. Not just successes. Your successes are just like the outgrowth of the work. You don't learn anything from successes. It could have been luck. You know what I'm saying? The failures, you go, I'm not doing that again and you that's i so respected you that took

such balls to do i know i said exit question but one more you know i don't expect an answer this year and nor do i want to answer but there's a there's so much talk about you in a spot in the next administration um you know you governorship of florida you know i don't want to get answered i know you're committed to congress right now in your job but you are a rising star in the party whether you like it or not and you mean a lot to a lot of people because the republican party's really done terrible with black voters for a long time and the message that barbershop appearance you did was just dude that was gold brother that was gold i sat there i was like this is what we need like real people you and wesley and i was just talking to people like normal people you know it

if called president calls you know do you serve or you feel better fit in congress other things in mind you're right i'm not gonna answer that's all i needed to hear my brother man, man. Love you, baby. Love you. Thanks a lot, man. Love you too. Thanks. Byron Donalds, folks. One of the best. Thanks so much. Appreciate it. Another guest I happen to corral. There's collabs going on everywhere right now. My good friend, Mike Lindell. Mike, welcome to the show. Oh, damn. Thanks for having me on. First, listen, I just want your comment on the whole parallel economy and cancel culture. No one, no one has taken more slings and arrows than you in the cancel culture front. And I want to thank you and the company for always

backing up conservative content. You know, it's that old dopey expression, put your money where your mouth is. But in your case, it's true. There are conservative shows out there that would go under and not exist if MyPillow, this extremely successful company, wasn't willing to invest in them in this kind of symbiotic relationship. So I want to thank you because a lot of people out there don't know how much you invest in conservative content. And it's really appreciated by a lot of people. Thanks, Sam. But that works both ways.

My pillow with all being canceled, we wouldn't be here without the audiences of great shows like yours. So it works both ways. They're loyal. The Bongino Army is loyal. They are loyal. They are amazing. And God bless them that they uh you won't be upset at me if i tell you my favorite product right

because i'm gonna no no what is it with slippers man yeah aren't they awesome they're like i know they're not you know why they're not awesome because you don't want to take them off right and you can't like if you got a funeral or a wedding you got to take the darn slippers off you know and you know every product i develop or invent we reverse engineer inside those slippers the my pillow patent and foam and impact gel which is made out of soybeans actually this guy came and he goes look at this he's demoing this impact gel for use for other stuff and i go wow he said it disperses the weight and support i go those would be great in slippers so we did it yeah now you don't want to take them off so the cancel culture folks have come after you um listen i've seen it i've seen it and um you've managed somehow to not only keep

the company alive but but generally thriving are you sensing a change though mike microsoft which is unquestionably a left-leaning company microsoft is starting now to draw money out of its dei department um you saw what happened with john deer i'm sure tractor supply you know totally rejecting this woke dei stuff you know you were doing it when it wasn't cool that's now it's cool but are you sensing as a guy who's been a victim of it an actual sea change not a talking point sea change where the tide's starting to turn yeah i i do and uh by the grace of god by the way we got through everything and we're getting through you know we've been d bank d platform backstores gone i think it's i put my

company as the most attacked company in history i mean it's just you know attack but that it is changed they still attack my company because i'm speaking out about securing our elections and supporting the president they hate that yeah they hate that's all right. But I think it's changed. I think it is changing, and everything's changing. Everything is. We're breaking on through to the other side, and it's going to be amazing, everybody. You know, one of the things people don't realize, too,

that affects all the small business, you know, when he got in the first day and shut down the pipeline, opened up the borders, it's not just what you're paying at the pump for gas. It's the shipping costs. You know, I mean, shipping costs two and a half times what I now charge for my pillow when I get charged. Right.

You know, that affects all the groceries. Everything goes up because of that. But having companies stand up and stand up and speak out and say, hey, well, you know, we need them right here in the USA. And it is changing. I think people are getting, courage is contagious. I hope I've led, at least maybe through God, leading the charge on that.

Because I tell that to our great real president all the time. I said, sir, courage is contagious. And I look at his courage and he inspires me. That picture's iconic. You know, last question. And yourself, by the way, too. I want to tell you that right now. I'm humbled. I mean, you know, last question yourself by the way i want to tell you that right now i'm humble i mean you know listen you and i've been friends for a long time

uh last question for you you know you and i've been around politics for a while we were at the rnc in 2020 it was largely virtual some of it was at the white house we were all excited about president trump but i think we both agree the atmosphere was kind of down you had antifa outside blm was outside the white house covid was going on there was just a funk in the nation and everybody that is definitely not the case i see you walking around folks i mean really outside of president trump i don't think anyone's taking more selfies than mike i don't know how you do it like you have taken so many you have yet i always say you know i remember the days when the only one that wanted my picture were the cops well you actually

can yes and that's in your book, this story. But, you know, if this AI starts doing facial recognition stuff and becomes self-aware, you're never going to be able to hide anywhere because you're in probably a million selfies. But are you sensing the energy disparity here this year? People are stoked. You know, I was here in 16 and 24 here. And it's totally different. It's like, you know, I was here in 16 and 24 here. And it's totally different. It's like, you know, I walked out into the Antifa.

Yeah, me too. I walked right through them. It was crazy. And here, I've been out at the premise. I've been outside. I'm walking. I've got to walk a mile here by myself or my wife. And people just coming up.

There's no resistance. The nicest people, right? The nicest people. Between the Uber drivers and the hotel cruise the hotel everybody's excited i'm going and you know the same just here i expected that because you know why i was in chicago a month ago and i did an event and all i did was by by democrats that were now going to be voting for donald trump and there was about 450 of them and we had this event and i was interviewing them all why are you going to vote

for donald trump and you voted for biden that what came out of their mouths it was just so inspiring and encouraging one of the biggest thing that came out was the hispanics and the blacks saying you know what since they're pouring into chicago that the illegals and their employers rotten employers are paying them cash and then plus all all the resources. You know, I was heavy into addiction with crack cocaine. It's an amazing story. And all the addiction places, the treatment places and stuff. All the illegals, they're funding all this stuff. And they're taking their, these guys don't have,

and they're here legally. And they're getting shoved out of their, out of their resource. They are taxpayer funded. Yeah, they're taxpayer funded resources. And it's very sad, but they're there. I was encouraging them all. I go, you guys, that's going to change. And they're tax-free funded resources and it's it's very sad but they're there i was encouraging them all i go you guys that's going to change and they're finally going now we believe that a different you need a different input to get a different output mike well i know as well said last question but one quick follow-up on that um you know you and i

love jesus christ you know you came you had a troubled background you know like i did and we've both been through some things in our life. But the only way out is Jesus, man. Jesus saves you. Absolutely. You have to ask, though, right? That's right. You have to ask.

I have my lingo. And you have to listen for the answer, though, too. Because sometimes the answer's no. Yeah, that's right. You know? Do you know? Everyone wonders, you know, I always wore my cross on TV. I didn't do a full surrender to Jesus Christ. Are you ready for this?

February 18th, 2017. And you know why? Dan, I always look at God. I use mathematics saying that God exists. I go, a one in a million, a one in a billion. This seems like a one in a million. This is like a one in a billion. This could never happen. And you add them all together, when do you consider it a miracle? And everybody should look at their own lives. I told our real president, I said, you know, I said, there's two buckets going on right now, sir. I said, this is your bucket, this mega bucket, and people are pouring in from both sides, and you never give them a reason to leave that bucket.

All the bad things going on, they just keep jumping in this bucket. Every time they're attacking you, I said, I told him, pretty soon you'll have more votes than voters like Pennsylvania. And then I said, then there's another bucket, and that's the bucket of Jesus Christ. People do not look to Jesus when things are going great, like December of 2019. Your physical lives had all gotten better here because of our great president's decisions, but no one was giving thanks to the Lord. They were giving thanks to God. And people come up to me all the time. They go, Mike, this doesn't feel like grace. I go, oh, but it is.

People are pouring into this bucket of Jesus Christ and being saved. And that's what it's all about, eternity. God bless you, Mike. MyPillow.com, folks. You know the company. They've been great to our show, other shows. Thanks a lot, Mike. Appreciate it.

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