Tommy Vitor
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4,356 appearances
16 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 7 Jul
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Dan Bongino is definitely 100% one of those guys who would attack me, who would call me a van driver and say, therefore, I wasn't qualified.
Right.
We weren't qualified to be like a spokesman or a speechwriter in the administration because, I don't know, we hadn't worked in the government for 30 years. And now this guy is coming out of the podcast studio to be deputy director of the FBI. I'm going to read you a quote, Ben.
Someone with no background as an agent would never be able to command the respect necessary to run the day-to-day operations of the Bureau. That is from Bill Barr, Trump's attorney general at the end of his first term, talking about Kash Patel. Because remember, Trump tried to install Kash Patel as the deputy director of the FBI. And Bill Barr was like over my dead fucking body.
And now we've got Dan Bongino.
About anything.
How dare you?
Yeah. They can look the other way, and if they look hard enough at you, they're going to find something that they can prosecute you on. And look, this comes also, as we saw, a purge at the Pentagon last week that gets us into similar territory. So Trump fired C.Q. Brown, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
He also fired the head of the Navy, the number two of the Air Force, and the top lawyers of the Army, Navy, and Air Force. So- CQ Brown, the now former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, was only the second black chairman in history. He was fired because he is black. Let's just say what happened here.
Pete Hexeth made clear in his book that he questioned whether Brown had only been promoted in the first place because of his race. He later did a podcast interview where he accused he said anyone involved in, quote, DEI woke shit has to be fired. In the case of C.Q. Brown, the quote-unquote DEI woke shit was C.Q. Brown talking about being a black man in America after George Floyd was killed.
That was what happened. The now former chief of Navy operations, Lisa Franchetti, who was fired, she was the first woman to hold the job, so of course she got the ax. And then the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Ben, is going to be Lieutenant General Dan Cain. He is a now-retired Air Force pilot that Trump always talks about meeting in Iraq.
The apocryphal tale is that Raisin Cain said to him that he could defeat ISIS in a week when all his other advisors said he would take two years to defeat them, and Raisin Cain was right. But Cain doesn't actually meet the statutory requirements for the job because he's a three-star, not a four-star, but Trump can give him a waiver. So Ben, I don't know anything about
dan kane and i'm not trying to like denigrate us like maybe he's a brilliant military mind but what you're seeing a dod feels similar to the fbi insofar as you have a secretary of defense who is not remotely qualified for the job right he was a fox news weekend anchor he now owes all of his loyalty for his entire career is owed to trump you have a chairman who was retired in working in venture capital and now has been brought back
to be the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and he would not have gotten that job if not for some sort of conversation where there was a perceived loyalty to Trump. If you listen to Trump tell the story about meeting Raisin Cane in Iraq, he like put on a MAGA hat afterwards.
And it's just, it's all these people that owe, like they have no independent kind of resume or power structure or reason to be there except for Donald Trump. And that's just not always the case. Like Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, in the beginning of Obama's first term was a holdover from Bush.
Like often these are people that get held over through administrations because you want some continuity. Do you want to make the case that the military is apolitical? But that has just been obliterated. And now they're all just loyal to Trump.
Yeah, if you're black or you're a woman, you're out.
I know.
It's just going to happen on a Friday night.
He's like, that's not my name. He's like, I don't like that, actually.
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