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Dan Bongino.
Welcome to the Bongino Brief.
I'm Dan Bongino.
I said this last week.
I'm glad everybody's paying attention.
Every single day, prominent members of the Republican Party
and the conservative movement
better get their asses up to court
and be seen in the background with Donald Trump.
Why?
In the chat.
Campaigns are two things.
If we don't know the answer,
we can't be friends at this point.
What are they?
Yes, sir, snapshots and soundbites.
We know that.
These are the snapshots we need.
It's kind of caught mid-frame of Donald Trump.
You'll see over his right shoulder,
Speaker, look at these guys, zooming in and everything.
You'll see Speaker Mike Johnson, very good.
We may not agree on everything,
but when he does something right, good, okay?
When he does something wrong, not good.
You'll see Doug Burgum, Governor of North Dakota,
former presidential candidate.
You see Vivek Ramaswamy.
Of course, you see Eric Trump there.
I heard Byron Donalds was there.
Every single day, prominent Republicans
take your asses, ass, here it is.
You see this thing?
The ass, you take it, you get it out of the seat,
like this, you see?
This is the seat.
You remove the ass from the seat.
You can even bring the seat with you if you want.
You come up to New York,
you can put the seat right there, I don't really care.
And you put your ass right in front of Donald Trump.
Ass, courtroom, New York.
Because we gotta show these goons
that we're gonna be in charge soon, okay?
You guys wanna manipulate and screw with power?
Be careful what you ask for,
because that's syrup of ipecac.
Open up, kids, here comes the spoonful.
It ain't gonna taste good.
Good for you guys, I appreciate it.
Let's see who shows up tomorrow.
More, more, more.
Cycle them through every single day.
Every day, prominent Republicans with big followings.
Get your asses up there.
Wanna see everyone there.
I'd like to see Rubio there, get Ted Cruz there.
Get them all there.
I don't care if you like or dislike any of these guys.
It's time to back up our candidate at this point.
Speaking of that, I'm gonna get to an important topic.
This is something I've been dying to discuss.
I'm gonna be doing some segments over the next few days,
kind of independent of the news.
Here's one of them, it's gonna be quick, but it's important.
I'm not telling you we're wasting time
on who the VP's pick's gonna be,
because the vice president's important.
Trump is obviously gonna be a one-term president
at this point, he's already had his first term.
The vice president is probably gonna have a leg up
on the next presidential cycle.
But there's definitely gonna be a primary.
So the vice presidential pick is important,
there's no doubt about it.
But folks, there's been so much palace intrigue
about the vice presidential pick.
Have you heard almost any discussion whatsoever
of the most important pick of all?
What do you think in the chat that is?
Far more important than vice president.
Because number one, let me just make the case
on why it's more important.
I don't mean to tell you why,
but why it's more important than the vice presidency.
The vice president doesn't do anything.
They're a tie-breaking vote.
That's kind of important.
But really, they don't do anything
besides advise the president.
You see them around the White House,
and everybody kind of treats them
like another cabinet member, okay?
And if the vice president turns out to suck,
we can primary them in four years.
What's the position?
Yes, sir, chatsters way ahead of me.
Attorney General, you guys are so freaking smart.
Some of you probably watched my Locals video,
where I always do kind of a preview to the show.
I give my Locals crowd a little skinny before the show.
Attorney General, hell yeah.
1,000 times more points.
Does anybody in the room disagree?
No, they do not.
Evita, Evita agrees with me, I think.
Attorney General, folks,
the vice president doesn't really do much.
The Attorney General is going to have the power
to stop this weaponization bullshit,
fire all these people, and start over from scratch,
so we have a justice system where you can say,
hey, you know what?
I'm pro-life.
Am I gonna be arrested tomorrow for that?
We don't wanna say that anymore.
You can say to yourself, you know, Justin,
the Martin County School Board's having a meeting tonight,
and they're talking about this thing
about sexual books in school.
I'm gonna show up.
Justin's first thing he's gonna say to himself is,
I don't wanna be on an FBI watch list,
but he's gonna go anyway.
He won't be on an FBI watch list anymore,
because the Attorney General's gonna run
the Department of Justice, and we're gonna fire everyone.
Folks, the AG talk should be numero uno.
I'll leave it up to you guys on the palace intrigue
of who it should be, because whenever I mention a name,
somebody's got another name, and that's fine.
I'm just telling you it better damn well be a conservative,
and it better be someone with freaking balls
of absolute titanium.
Steel's not even good enough.
I don't even want steel.
I need titanium.
The balls have to be titanium at this point.
Steel is no good.
Iron, definitely no good.
Titanium.
Before I move on to another conspiracy theory defeated,
a couple more positions,
and these aren't in any specific order,
but these are the ones I think are really important.
Attorney General, number one, definitely.
Vice President, obviously important.
DHS Secretary.
Can't screw it up, folks.
CISA, that agency that was censoring conservative talk,
that Center for Internet Security, that was under DHS.
You better get a DHS Secretary in there
willing to clean house.
I've got a few names there we could consider too.
Secretary of Defense.
If you're not gonna unscrew this military disaster
where we're teaching a bunch of Navy SEALs
about ji, zhao, zho pronouns,
then do me a favor, don't apply.
We need a ball buster in there.
SecDef.
SecDef, ball buster too.
Titanium.
No steel, no iron.
SecDef.
Treasury.
We're gonna have to unscrew this economic disaster.
We're gonna need someone at Treasury
who understands the peril we're in economically.
Again, I'm not telling you the other ones aren't important.
These are the ones I see as the most important.
Energy.
Gotta do something about oil and gas prices.
Gotta do something about the natural gas export ban.
HHS.
We gotta fix the price fixing in medicine.
Commerce.
We're gonna have to unscrew the Inflation Production Act
and the CHIPS Act and all this stuff being run by commerce
because it's screwing up the whole economy.
And the VA.
We gotta take care of our vets
who are getting screwed over by these hospitals right now.
That's my take.
That's my story.
I'm sticking to it.
Attorney General number one.
We have to refocus the conversation around that position.
Vice President you can get rid of in a few years.
It's plus sides the fact if it's a tiebreaker,
they're always gonna vote Republican anyway.
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Unbelievable.
Yesterday, yet another conspiracy theory,
conspiracy theory, air quotes,
goes down in flames as it's shown to be a conspiracy,
but yet not theoretical.
Guy, what's our record on conspiracy theories?
Is there an update?
He wants to say we are undefeated.
We are at 100% telling you something is true
and the left telling you it's bullshit.
Here is Snopes.
I mean, Snopes.
They're like to the left of PolitiFact.
You're not going to get any more left than Snopes.
Snopes makes like Mother Jones
look like National Review, okay?
Here's Snopes.
They had an update there, fact check,
on the famous or infamous, I should say,
Ashley Biden, who, as you know,
is the daughter of Joe Biden,
the infamous I took showers with dad diary,
which is pretty freaking disgusting.
Pretty gross, if you ask me.
Pretty disgusting.
I don't even like talking about it.
They had to update it with a little note.
On April 29th, 2024,
Snopes changed the rating of this fact check
from unproven to true,
based on testimony provided by Ashley Biden,
that it is, in fact, is her personal journal and diary.
Showering with dad.
Kind of disgusting, folks.
I'm just wondering here.
Probably wonder it too, wouldn't he?
You guys think there's a breaking point ever?
Is there a breaking point where Democrats are,
I mean, think about it, right?
With the conspiracy theories that have come true.
Masks, vaccines, Spygate, Hunter Biden laptop,
lab leak, the Nikki Haley drape story,
Mike Flynn called the Russian ambassador story,
the CIA Carter Page story.
Is there ever a point, the Ashley Biden diary story,
chat, chat guys, chat women,
any point at all where Democrats are like,
holy shit, man, this is really crazy.
Like they haven't told us the truth about anything.
And if I was listening to the Dan Bongino show,
I wouldn't look like a moron right now.
Is there a breaking point?
Truth be told, folks, I don't think so.
I'm gonna tell you, I think Democrats love being lied to.
I think they do.
I think they absolutely love being lied to
as long as the lie feeds into their delusions
about Donald Trump.
I do.
I don't think there's a breaking point.
I'd love to hear your take on it,
but I don't think there is.
I think they actually enjoy being lied to
and they don't care at all.
The fact that they look like morons,
it doesn't bother them one bit.
If it feeds their fix,
they're almost like meth addicts.
They know it's bad for them, but they do it anyway
because it just makes them feel good.
I really believe that's it,
that there's like a childlike need to be bullshitted to.
I mean, look at what's happening
in this absolute mess in court.
You know, I've been through federal trials
and I've been through local trials.
I have never seen a case like this in my life.
Trump's lawyer gets on the stand yesterday in this case.
And I've never seen a case in my life
where not only does their main witness,
Michael Cohen, Trump's lawyer,
not only does he fail to prove the elements of a crime,
ladies and gentlemen, he still,
they have not yet even alleged the crime.
This is so star chambery and like medieval in its appearance.
I'm actually stunned that even the anti-Trump lunatic judge
with his daughter making money off this thing
isn't like, I've gotta salvage my legal reputation
at this point and cut the losses.
So just again, just reassert what they're trying to claim.
They're claiming Donald Trump falsified a business record,
this NDA ledger payment in furtherance of another crime.
Forget the stormy bullshit, all this other stuff.
I just wanna get back to brass tacks, nuts and bolts here.
The allegation is this falsification of a business record
is a felony because they advanced another crime.
Here's the kick in the nuts, folks.
They have yet to allege another crime.
If you're asking what crime, the answer is, I don't know.
They're claiming it was an election violation
yet nobody said anything about an election violation.
Here's a segment from Fox yesterday.
Imagine this, imagine you're in court and you're a juror.
Assume they're Democrats, but let's assume at least
one of them is not totally in the tank for Biden
and is gonna do their actual jury duty, just one.
Let's hope and pray we have just one.
You're a juror in the courtroom listening
to Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen,
someone you're supposed to trust, someone, by the way,
you have specific privacy rights with,
delineated in our legal founding fathers
and the way you're entitled to legal protection
and due process.
Your conversations with your lawyer
are supposed to be yours.
They're not allowed to get them on Discovery.
They are privileged, attorney, client, privileged.
Liberals in the chat, you can look it up.
Imagine you're on the stand as a lawyer.
You're a convicted perjurer.
And then you watch this Fox segment.
Then they out in court thinking it works for them
that the lawyers secretly been taping the client,
Donald Trump.
And you think this makes this loser look good.
Watch this, check this out.
He was recording him.
We have that recording.
Let's listen together.
Correct.
So I'm all over that.
And I spoke to Alan about it.
When it comes time for the financing, which will be.
Listen, we'll have to pay you.
So no, no, no, no, no, no.
I got.
Andrew, that little bit that we just heard,
we don't have everything that was said in court,
but as we get.
Folks, can you imagine this?
Put yourself in the position for a moment.
I know we're all like knee deep in this.
And it's funny, you see all this
because cable news has to run 24 hours a day.
They have to fill time.
So you'll get a hundred different legal analysts
and very smart lawyers.
I'm not knocking them.
But the thing about lawyers I found,
I'm not knocking the lawyers.
This is their job is that they over lawyer thing.
They tend to overthink things.
And why is that an issue?
Because you got to remember folks,
the people in the jury outside of,
I think one person are not lawyers.
That's why no one wants lawyers in a jury.
People over lawyer thing.
You see all these legal analysts on TV
and a lot of them are really smart.
We use some of their stuff,
but they're not thinking about this things.
Like I thought about it in my experience as a non-lawyer,
but an investigator in these trials,
which is, this just sounds bad.
The people in the jury, if they're sane,
and we got to assume some of them are,
we got to hope, I don't know assume, but hope,
are listening to this going, wait,
this is the guy who's the bedrock of your case,
who we now know has lied multiple times
and secretly records his clients.
And I'm supposed to take this guy's word for it?
This case has been a disaster.
How do you think this plays
to the average American out there?
I'm gonna be following this thing the whole week,
but folks, I suspect between the sound bites
and the snapshots,
Donald Trump's double opportunity every day
to talk to the entire nation.
He talks in the morning outside the courtroom
and he talks in the afternoon.
One, before people go to work or in work
and second, during kind of drive time
where everyone's in front of the radio.
This is devastating.
This case has been an absolute disaster.
It's been a trifecta of horribles.
The snapshots are bad as the Republican Party
is now turning up in droves to support this guy.
The two-a-day press conferences
while Biden, you know, snots drip out of his nose
and he's peeing himself all day are freaking terrible.
And finally, your star witness
has completely melted your case down
and he's the most unlikable guy in the courtroom.
And wait, one last thing, I'm sorry,
but I got friends who were in the parole business,
probation and parole.
They will tell you this,
if you're making a parole pitch, right?
A pitch for parole or probation, whatever it may be,
and you're in prison and you want to get out
and go on parole, whatever it may be,
you better not be the last case of the day.
Why?
Because everybody's tired, they're hungry,
they just want to go home and most of them are pissed off.
Just look it up.
There's actual studies on this stuff.
If you're one of the first few cases of the day,
you stand a damn well better chance
of getting whatever you want in probation or parole,
whatever it may be.
Why?
Because the facts are different?
No, because people are just in a different mood.
When people are in a pissy mood
and they think you're a jerk like this guy came off,
it doesn't matter what you say.
It goes right out the window.
Look that up, you think I'm messing with you.
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