The Bongino Brief - The World Is Laughing at America

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Welcome to the Bongino Brief.

I'm Dan Bongino.

Folks, the world is a really dangerous place.

It has been for, since we've been homo sapien, sapient.

People engage in violence.

War is perpetual.

People want to kill each other.

I wish they didn't.

If men were angels, but we're not.

People want to kill us.

There are nuclear-powered enemies of the United States

that would do absolutely anything to make us go away.

And folks, perception is reality.

People overseas have to perceive us

as being the biggest, baddest military in the world.

You may say, oh, but we are.

It doesn't matter that we are.

What matters is that people see that.

You can be this big, jacked-up,

huge bodybuilder-looking type in a bar,

and I got news for you.

Some of those guys are the worst fighters out there.

They gas out in about 10 seconds.

You give them one punch in the nose

and they fall on their faces.

But you get one of these guys

that's like the smashing machine, Mark Kerr,

back in the day, who was big and badass,

or like a Brock Lesnar.

You're not gonna mess with them.

Why?

Because the perception is reality.

I've objectively seen those guys fight,

and I don't want to tussle with them

because I'm gonna lose badly and I may get dead.

The world's laughing at us right now.

That this case is happening in New York,

and they put the former president,

probably the next president,

in some dingy courtroom with some porn star,

talking about allegations of this

and just salacious sexual details,

completely irrelevant to this trial at all,

is absolutely ridiculous.

And the fact that this judge,

and disgrace to humankind,

a guy who has no business being on the bench.

I'm gonna say to Judge Murchon,

I want you to listen to me right now,

You're a disgrace and you disgust me.

I know as a conservative in front of your courtroom

that you have been entrusted with a sacred duty,

my freedom, if I committed some crime in New York.

I have zero doubt that even if I was

objectively 100% innocent of said crime,

zero doubt you would slant the trial

to make sure I went to prison.

That's what I think of you.

And I say that because you disgrace the humankind,

because you may be thinking,

oh, Dan, you'd do the same thing

if Joe Biden is in front of you.

You can go yourself, okay?

Double barrel, middle finger.

I put my ass on the line

for Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.

They were Democrat presidents,

I politically couldn't stand.

And I went out and did my job

because I took an oath to protect and defend

the Constitution of the United States,

and that oath mattered.

So you can take that, roll it up in a ball

and shove it up your ass.

You don't know what you're talking about.

Judge Merchant doesn't live by the code we live by,

or I live by, because he's a loser.

Judge Merchant is a hard core

Democrat communist activist

who will do anything to hurt Donald Trump.

And he saw an opportunity

to put this porn star on the stand

and make Donald Trump look stupid

in front of the whole country.

And what happened?

He made himself look stupid

as she melted down on cross-examination.

It was so bad, as a matter of fact,

that the judge, after she embarrassed herself,

wondered why the Trump team didn't object.

You let this woman go on the stand,

totally irrelevant to the trial because you hate Trump.

She then embarrasses you,

and then you criticize the Trump team for not objecting.

Miranda Devine summed this up beautifully in a tweet.

She says, how are you gonna argue

with this like crazy judge logic?

Merchant refuses to strike out

the Stormy Daniels details before she testified

as Trump's lawyers requested,

because he wants to basically hurt Trump.

Dan Merchant criticizes Trump lawyers

for not objecting enough when she testifies.

You're probably thinking to yourself, this can't be real.

It is.

Merchant is slightly allowed in material

whose only purpose is to embarrass Trump,

and then after the fact, pretends for the jury

that, oh, look, I don't approve of this.

The guy is full of shit.

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The transcript of this is embarrassing.

They note that the defense team moved to strike

much of the Stormy Daniels testimony,

and Murchon let it in.

The judge bristles at this statement.

She says, this is Trump's lawyer,

that they were under the impression

the prosecutors were doing what Murchon allowed

during questioning, Murchon disagrees.

Murchon adds, I was surprised

that there were no more objections.

Admonishing the defense team, Trump's lawyers.

The defense has to take some responsibility for that,

the judge says.

Do you believe this shit?

This is, folks, I want you to understand,

this case has nothing to do with any sex acts,

salacious sex stories, any of that stuff.

It has to do with an allegation

of a falsified business record,

which no one has yet to prove, or even remotely prove,

that the business record was a payment

that ended up in this woman's pocket,

is not relevant to the crime at all.

I could give you 1,000 different stories,

here, I'll give you a story.

When I was working counterfeit cases

with the Secret Service,

an element of the crime passing counterfeit

is not that you knew it was counterfeit,

because then everybody's just gonna say in court,

oh, I didn't know, and then you'd get off.

That's not an element.

So them talking in court endlessly

about what you would do in the day before,

and that you were in court, say,

you were in your house designing whatever art thing,

oh, look, he's good at art, he could have counterfeited,

it's not relevant.

They're just making this whole thing up.

This case is total bullshit.

How bad was it?

And in case you think,

I'm just subjectively, here, biased towards Donald Trump,

which I am, I am a supporter of Donald Trump,

but I'm telling you, someone who was involved

in the criminal justice system,

you have to bring, when you were in court testifying,

it has to be relevant to the charge at hand.

I can't bring your kindergarten teacher in to say,

oh, look, Johnny was a really bad kid in kindergarten,

we gave him detention.

It has nothing to do with the crime at hand.

This would go on all day, these trials.

This is how bad it was.

When you lose CNN, CNN,

they're worse than MSNBC.

There's a guy who works over there who was on camera,

like doing his, you know what I mean, on camera?

Remember the shake weight?

Tony, remember the shake weight?

You guys get where I'm going with this?

They have a guy over there who works out with the shake weight

if you know what I mean.

He's shaking, just not the weight.

This is CNN.

They only have this guy on there because he hates Trump.

CNN had to acknowledge yesterday,

this thing was a total debacle

for the prosecution team in Twinkies.

as this has gone on is that there have been a couple times

where she seems to be cracking a joke,

trying to get a reaction from the jury,

and our reporters in the room have noted

that the jury hasn't seemed to respond to that.

especially if you go in with lines,

like it looks like Stormy.

If something happens spontaneously,

if an easel falls over, people will laugh, they're human,

but it's never gonna work.

If you go in there like, I'm going to amuse the jury,

I'm going to sort of say this clever thing.

on mistrial yesterday.

Listen, man, I don't wanna sound like

I'm trying to be a know-it-all,

but I've been through quite a few trials and trial preps,

both in cases for business and in law enforcement.

I'm not a lawyer, I don't pretend to be.

I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night,

I'm not a poser, but I promise you,

I've been through this quite a bit.

You have to be really, really careful in a trial

that everything you say and do is relevant,

because here's the deal, you've got a jury, right?

The jury's sitting there.

If you're bringing up stuff constantly,

completely unrelated to the case,

like what happened with Stormy Daniels,

and the judge is smashing you down,

objection, not relevant, sustain,

objection, not relevant, sustain,

objection, not relevant, sustain,

you look in the eyes of the jury

like an absolute tool who's just reaching for something.

You gotta remember, perception is reality.

I was talking about it before

in terms of our national strength in our military,

an unintended segue, but in court it's the same way.

If you are a defense attorney or a prosecutor,

and you are constantly getting smacked down by the judge,

you look like a moron.

Yesterday, this is what happened with this Stormy Daniels.

It just got off on a tangent where I gotta believe

even the most biased juror is sitting there going,

I don't understand what the point to all this is.

Is this like a 1-800-XXX soft porn session

where we're talking about a sex story?

Can you imagine what the rest of the world

is thinking right now?

If you're Xi Jinping and Putin right now,

you gotta be sitting there, guys, am I crazy?

You gotta be sitting there like this,

like with a stogie, just smoking, like, bro, this is great.

The collapse of an empire right before our eyes

and we didn't have to do shit.

Of course, the motion for a mistrial was denied

because the judge is a crazy person.

The guy is crazy.

I have zero respect for this guy, zero,

because of what I did in the past.

Folks, I couldn't stand Obama,

but I promise you with every single fiber

and ounce of my being, I did my job the best I could.

The best I could.

I never reared, I never said anything about politics.

I kept my political personal life separate from that

and I did my job.

I was one of the few guys on that detail

who was a lead advance because I did my job

and I never aired my political feelings.

Some of you may object to that, that's fine, I don't.

I swore an oath to do something and my word matters.

This judge is totally, completely incapable

of doing his job and he has as important a job as I had.

My job was keep this guy alive behind you, this president.

I don't care what his politics are,

you keep this guy alive.

This guy's job is you see this guy behind you,

Donald Trump, or sitting in front of you in this case,

his freedom is in your hands.

Your job is to act like a public servant

and a dignified human being.

What this guy is doing is absolutely disgusting.

And for those yesterday who doubted,

to throw this guy in jail.

I checked this story out by Emma Colton at Fox.

New York versus Trump.

Mayor Eric Adams says Rikers Island's prepared

if Trump is sentenced to jail.

I don't know what's gonna happen, folks.

I'm not the Stygian Witches, give me the eye.

I'm not, I can't predict, I'm just telling you right now.

You better get ready.

Get ready and if I were the Trump team,

I would make sure to get a picture of him behind bars

in that prison jumpsuit.

It'll be the most iconic photograph of all time.

This election will be over.

You better get ready for it because Trump's ready for it.

The judge gives exactly zero shits.

The judge is a straight up tyrant

and this thing is gonna get ugly real fast.

And I expect as this case gets worse for the defense,

because after yesterday, you realize the whole case now

revolves around Michael Cohen.

It's completely, it completely fell apart yesterday.

This Stormy Daniels said two

completely contradictory things.

She said she wasn't in any of this for the money.

I want you to think about this.

She says, I'm not in it for the money.

I just wanted to tell the public my story

about Donald Trump.

The next question was, then why did you sign

a nondisclosure to not disclose it for money?

Tony, does that make sense?

No, thank you, Justin.

Let me say, if Justin comes in one day

and I'm like stealing something from the studio,

it's kind of mine, but pretend it isn't.

I'm stealing the, I support the current income.

And I go, Justin, don't tell Dan.

Like he's, don't tell Dan, we're gonna sign an NDA.

And then Justin goes, hey, I just wanted

to get the story out.

Well, why did you take the money to not get the story out?

You can't, those stories can't be true.

She totally screwed this case up.

She was a disaster.

So much so, like I said, CNN is starting to notice it.

This was a debacle.

The entire case now revolves around Michael Cohen.

It already, a guy who cannot seem to get

his story straight ever.

I love Donald Trump, I hate Donald Trump.

Donald Trump's a generous guy.

Donald Trump's not a generous guy.

The guy's story changes every 10 seconds.

The first question out of their mouth

to Michael Cohen's gonna be, were you lying then

or are you lying now?

This case is a dog, an absolute dog.

I got one more cut from CNN, again,

showing you how bad this thing got yesterday.

Here's what it came down to at the end of her testimony.

Basically, I know you are, but what am I?

Tony, you remember when we were kids?

I know you are, but what am I?

I know you are, but this is what it was yesterday.

You think I'm joking?

Wait till I play this CNN clip next.

This is what it came down to yesterday.

This is how bad this case is.

They're laughing at us.

They are laughing at us.

Putin's probably sitting there

with the nuclear thing right now,

like he's in an X-wing fighter,

just getting ready for this thing to get any worse.

Morons.

You guys should be proud.

We've been warning them for these liberal, absolute goons.

And one more thing, sorry, but I don't mean to,

I'm just really pissed today, as you can tell,

but kind of in a good way,

because I know this is just falling apart for them.

Get the hell out of liberal states as soon as you can.

No more excuses.

I love you.

I get a thousand excuses.

I'm gonna stay and fight.

There's nothing to fight.

It's over.

Go to a swing state or a red state.

It is over.

There are times in battle when you tactically retreat.

Those states are done.

You have nothing.

You don't have judges.

You don't have politicians.

No one will protect you.

Get out as soon as you can.

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