Dan bongino Dan thanks so much for
joining us yeah happy to do it so good
to meet you in person you do such great
work so I've been very impressed so well
we wanted to ask you particularly
because this is so topical you were in
the secret service for 12 years right
yeah what do you think about this White
House cocaine situation yeah I got a lot
of questions about this so here's a deal
there's no way that this should have
went down the way it did let me just say
as a again as a personal plea to my
former colleagues in the Secret Service
who I adore and love don't do it to that
agency what the FBI did to itself okay
if you're not familiar with how Secret
Service security works at the White
House without getting into details but
enough where you'll understand what
happened when you go in the West Wing
right it's totally different than the
Eastway The West Wing is a limited
access area the East Wing is large they
do tours thousands of people go through
there okay ushers staff whatever The
West Wing is limited access even more
limited access on the weekend and not
that many people can get tours it's
really hard people used to come to me
for tours of The West Wing all the time
and I was like I can't do anything for
you they're limited access
so there's probably less than 200 people
who could have left this Cocaine by the
way in a bag which is plastic which is
non-porous meaning it's probably not
that hard to pull a latent print they
gotta know who did it the question is
who's pressuring them to find out uh to
not find out who did it and it's got to
be coming from this White House this is
terrible just don't destroy this agency
like you did the fbis it's it's it's
really Unbecoming and one more thing
a lot of my uh former colleagues in the
Secret Service who retired they are
absolutely Furious about this really oh
yeah yeah I'm I tell you I got 50 emails
Communications texts from people this is
embarrassing humiliating these are good
guys man guys who've worked for Obama
and Bush but you know the nonpartisan
guys most of them aren't even political
it's embarrassing they know exactly who
it was wow so do these people want it to
come out that it was probably 100 Biden
yeah well you know is it the question is
is it hunter or one of his friends but
like here's the thing man so I'm into
Secret Service 12 years you know a good
amount of time
we never had this problem so nobody by
Occam's razor right the process of
deduction keep things simple keep it
simple stupid Occam's razor you got this
guy we never found Coke in there before
you got a dude who's doing coke on tape
who's got a reputation being a cokehead
he's living in a White House he's there
on Friday that the cokes found on Sunday
and everybody's like gosh who could it
be I mean this is like it reminds me of
that Jon Stewart bit with the covid lab
with Stephen Colbert like I don't know
what could have done it your card says
the Wuhan coronavirus slab like who
could have done it this is one of those
crazy stories where you just again
you're begging them like please don't do
this it's so you're going to destroy
faith in this Elite agency remember
the Secret Service motto is worthy of
trust and confidence that's literally
their motto don't do this they know who
did this it is probably him or someone
in a small circle of people they know
who it was get the job done do the right
thing and just move on I know it's going
to be tough politically but you got to
have some guts here
yeah speaking of you know you brought up
the FBI and how the department has been
really corrupted do you have concerns
that if Donald Trump
is the nominee he's going to be
president again that he will face any
more attacks from the intelligence
communities yeah I mean again just
basing it on a process of simple
deduction they hit us in 2016. they hit
us in 2018 they hit us in 2020
2016-2018 we had Spygate no Muller probe
2020 we had the magic disappearance of
the hunter laptop even in the midterms
in 2022 we still had various leaks and
indictments and attacks on Trump there's
no reason a same person would believe
that there are not going to be
additional attacks so it genuinely
worries me the good news if there is
kind of a bright side which they're genu
you know there really shouldn't be to
this deep State swamp we're living in is
that Americans now get it I could make
the case to you now listen I love Ron
DeSantis best governor in the country
I'm not here to Batman I'm endorsing
Trump I think Donald Trump's the best
candidate but I think this inner party
stuff is getting a little ridiculous
yeah the sand this is great but if I had
a point to one moment where candidly I
think his campaign changed I think it
was the response to the Mar-A-Lago raid
and the indictments afterwards I think
the American people they you know they
were a little upset I mean I'm not here
to give him political again he's a great
Governor I think he's got a bright
political future I'm for Trump but that
doesn't mean I'm anti-desantis in any
way but I use that example not to bash
him at all but just to say that the
American people get it now and I think
they understand in the greatest backfire
in American history that these constant
never-ending attacks on Donald Trump are
really just fueling Donald Trump's rise
back in look at the polls they changed
after the indictments did they not I
mean there were some polls showing him
neck and neck and now all of a sudden
he's 30 points ahead in some of these
early swing States uh they get it so if
there is one bright side to it uh it's
that now I think it's really interesting
some of these media attacks on DeSantis
that I've seen lately coming from the
left they remind me of the attacks that
I saw on Donald Trump a while ago and
I've heard a lot of people saying well
you should be paying attention to how
badly the media hates Ron DeSantis do
you think there's any you should put any
stock in that yeah I think they see
DeSantis as a natural young
fresh-faced continuation of this Maga
movement that started listen the
Republican party is starting to reorient
itself
um instead of taking a back seat and
getting our our butts kicked in the
culture wars you're now seeing
Republicans actively move in and address
the culture wars ourselves and Ron
DeSantis did that in Florida I believe
the great benefit of the country and
showed other Governors a model I mean
come on think about it like no one wins
an election in Florida by more than one
point it is like these one point's a
landslide for he won by 20. and because
people are upset about this stuff and
they're kids so I think they fear
DeSantis because they know Trump is a
threat but he's a limited threat he
can't run for re-election he's out I
think the media is saying hey we don't
want this guy and we hate him a lot but
all right we'd only have to deal with
them four more years when you look at
this younger generation I'll make
another case here and forget to send
this for a moment you know he's great I
think he is the future but what about
Vivek of a vague is a don't sleep on
Vivek ramaswamy either I mean you want
to talk about a guy that I mean if you
watch him on the campaign you know she
never gets caught ever there's no
question it seems he hasn't thought
through and I I tell you I have a ton of
respect for this guy I think he could be
up for a high level cabinet position and
I think he could surprise some people
with a two or three finish and you might
see this guy in the short spot for even
VP and definitely a political future
really oh yeah oh yeah absolutely and
not to santis and no no just Santa I
think the Santa's Future's bright I
don't think his time is now but I think
his future is is absolutely huge but we
got this great bench Ted Cruz you got uh
DeSantis you got Mike Lee out there you
know I don't think they're going to run
for president but you got Vivek I mean
you got all these wonderful awesome
people what do the Democrats have you
have AOC like that's your beauty and
Bernie Sanders that's your future Bernie
moaning about Millionaires and
billionaires I mean Elizabeth Warren I
mean she doesn't even Elizabeth Warren
doesn't even Elizabeth Warren she wants
other people to know I mean it's crazy
so I think we're our future is really
bright there's this they're telling me I
got a cut but I want to ask you about
your book really quick tell me what what
is this new book so it's available for
pre-order now it's called The Gift of
failure and long and short of it is you
know everybody writes books about how
successful and great they are oh look at
me uh worth millions of dollars blah
blah blah I said to my wife forget that
I want to write a book about everything
I screwed up every like every it's the
book's candid it's Frank sometimes
embarrassing but I think it's important
that I write about this stuff so you
understand like getting this big radio
show and this podcast and money and all
that stuff it didn't come from nowhere
it came from failure not successes it
was the successes after the failure that
mattered so the books coming out it's
available for now for pre-orderical the
gift of failure I appreciate that That's
so exciting and it's such an important
message thank you Dan so much we are
honored to have you here
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