Chapter 1: What led to Pam Bondi's firing as Attorney General?
All America, all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for The Dan Bongino Show. Man, didn't hear anything there. I was getting a little nervous. Thought like the technology broke down or something like that. Ladies and gentlemen, it is Good Friday for the Christians around the world, me being one of them.
It's a good day before we start the show to just stand back, take a really deep breath, clear your mind, and thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, for the unimaginable sacrifice you made for all of us. I think it's really important that on a day like today, we all reflect a little bit on how much we think all of our lives are so traumatic and stressful. Sometimes nothing compared to that.
You haven't been crucified, whipped, had a crown of thorns on you, spit on, all of that. By people you could snap your fingers and just wipe out in a second and just choose not to. By the way, do you ever read, if you've ever, you want to take a moment Go to whatever AI generator you use or internet platform. It doesn't really matter. Have you guys ever done this?
This is everybody's job for today. Jasmine, you too. This is the part of the crucifixion story that I think a lot of people don't tell you. Folks, do you have any idea how painful crucifixion was?
Chapter 2: How did the DOJ's shakeup impact ongoing investigations?
Now, the Romans knew this. You may say, yeah, of course it's painful. I mean, forget the nailing to the cross, even if you were tied to it. The nailing's bad enough. But if you were tied to it, if you ever looked this up, how you die from crucifixion, I want you guys to do, and ladies, if you can, do a little test for me.
If you work out and, you know, whatever, you don't have any medical limitations, go do like a dead hang from a bar and just like tilt your feet backwards, your feet backwards, like your legs, like you arc yourself in a direction towards your back. That's what crucifixion does. It pulls you out forward so that you can't properly breathe.
So what you would have to do is after your shoulders dislocate, which is unbelievably painful. You ever dislocate a shoulder? I did. Look at it. I'll show you. That's the zipper. You see the line? That's from when I dislocated my shoulder. I had to have open surgery to put that sucker back in the right way. You ever dislocate a shoulder? It's horrifying. Imagine both of them being dislocated.
Chapter 3: What details emerged from the FBI raids in California?
You're arched forward. You can't breathe. Your entire... Chest is constricted. So you're suffocating slowly while your bones are dislocating from the joints. And it happens over a prolonged period of time. It's where the word excruciating comes from. It is probably the most painful form of death, not just because the acute pain, but the chronic pain that it doesn't happen quickly.
And Jesus picked that way. No, he didn't pick it. He was omnipotent and omniscient. He knew exactly what was going to happen. Just think about that for a moment when you're taking into account the suffering in your life, how it pales in comparison to what he chose. Even if you don't believe he was God, he existed. There's almost zero doubt about that amongst people who are historians and others.
I have zero doubt and people of faith don't, but the historical record I think is pretty clear. Crucifixion is an absolutely brutal way to die. I tell you to do that test for a second because I have really bad shoulders, so I'll do these dead hangs.
And a couple of times I put my feet behind me and I kind of like hold my toe on the ground if I can touch the ground to make sure I'm arched in the wrong direction. In like five seconds, you panic because you can't breathe.
Chapter 4: Why are Democrats facing backlash from their own voters?
Imagine that for hours at a time. Good Friday. Just little things to think about. I didn't really intend. That's your homework today. I didn't intend on starting the show. Jasmine, you too, because it'll remind you of the great sacrifices of Jesus Christ. Look up crucifixion. Put in a chat thing what happens when you're crucified. We got a big show for you today.
Listen, obviously, big shakeup at DOJ last night. Folks, we're going to cover it fairly. I'm not going to get into all the emotions of this and all the personalities and people who are screaming on one side and the other side.
I think if I'm a spreadsheets guy and we're going to judge what happened during the last year of former Attorney General Pam Bonney's tenure, then you've got to take all this information into account. Correct? I'm a spreadsheets guy. I'm not changing for anyone. Is this a net present value the last year positive for her and her office or is it not? Pretty simple stuff.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of the crime rates discussed?
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I want to address a couple of points here. A couple of points I want to address. I want to start with one, the spreadsheets approach to life that I highly recommend for you. What I recommend you do when analyzing anything in politics is don't do what the left does and fall in love with personalities. I can't say this enough.
By the way, me included, I did not expect to be judged on anything other than results. I gave you the results. I'm not going to give them again. I gave them on the first show. You can back and listen. I think the biggest mistake people in politics make is they over-explain themselves all the time.
Chapter 6: How does the discussion of AI relate to economic productivity?
You either believe the results mattered and they were good or you don't. It's not much I'm going to convince you otherwise. The DOJ, the FBI is a component of the DOJ. However, the DOJ has, as you know, many other components as well. ATF, DEA, BOP, others. So they're managing a big operation, including the FBI. We have to look at this in terms of spreadsheets when it comes to politicians.
The left just falls in love. They fall in love with Barack Obama, with Bill Clinton. I mean, at one point, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. And look what happened. It all fell apart. They fell in love with Mamdami in New York. It's always falling apart because they fall in love with personalities. We should never do that.
We should just look at a series of results, numbers, data, inputs, and produce an output. I saw a lot of commentary. I obviously worked with Pam for the last year, Attorney General Bondi, for the last year. Folks, listen, it's not a secret. We didn't see eye to eye on every single thing.
Chapter 7: What is the significance of the upcoming midterms?
That's not a big deal. That's not a big deal. People disagree about stuff in Washington, D.C. all the time. About everything. What do you want? You want a cadre of robots in your administration? Yeah, man, they all just agree approvingly to everything you say. It's not a big deal. We had some disagreements on some stuff. It turned into something big news story over a weekend in July.
But I'm going to tell you something. When you look at the results of this Department of Justice over the last year, just the pure numbers. I just wrote a couple of notes down. And by the way, this is not the complete full list. These are just some highlights of some of the things that actually happened. I'm not telling you what opinion to have or not on Attorney General Bondi.
I'm just telling you the numbers. You pour it into your spreadsheet and then produce your own output. I'm not here to tell you how to think.
Chapter 8: What are the potential replacements for Pam Bondi?
The crime rate, the lowest in U.S. history. If you're running the Department of Justice and the crime rate is the lowest in U.S. history, then I think that tautologically sounds like you did the justice thing. The murder rate, lowest ever in U.S. history. Sounds kind of just to see to me. The first Antifa prosecutions for their terrorist acts on U.S. soil we've ever seen.
Again, this stuff just happened. I mean, it's not disputable. You can dispute the relevance you give to it. I'm not telling you how to think. But these things happen. The violent crimes against children arrests, what we call VCAC in the FBI. We ran two huge operations where we rounded up hundreds and thousands of child predators. You can look them up, by the way. Please don't take my word for it.
I'm not ever going to ask you that. Fact check everything. That's how comfortable I am in telling you. These things happen. The operations were called Restoring Justice and Enduring Justice. I personally, personally worked with her and the DAG, Todd Blanch, who's now the acting AG on those. Hundreds of child predators locked up. Hundreds of children saved. These things happen.
Do you rather have them released? I don't know. I'm just giving you like the justice-y stuff that happened. All right, I'm being a bit of a smartass about justice-y, but you get the point. The counterintelligence arrests against Chinese spies were through the roof. They were up by double digits.
A lot of these people had been in the country with suspicious Chinese Communist Party connections, bringing in agricultural poisons, things that could potentially be used as bioweapons. A lot of them were just sitting there in universities. The Biden administration was basically sitting around watching porn all day, doing nothing. Those arrests were up double digits. The terror disruptions.
That bombing plot in Los Angeles, that cell that got taken down. The operation in Detroit, that cell that got taken down. The Comey arrest. The Comey indictment. Well, the judge is part of a separate branch of government, not in the executive. The Bolton arrest. The Letitia James indictment. Here's some others you may have forgot about. The governor of New York, her staffer, that arrest.
The Gavin Newsom chief of staff prosecution going on. The New Orleans mayor. The McCormick, the congresswoman from Florida. These were all public corruption cases that happened in just the last year. What value you put on those cases is your call. I'm not here to tell you how to think. I'm just here to give you information free of a lot of the bullshit out there.
Again, folks, there's no secret that, you know, we had some disagreements on stuff. I'm just a small piece of that puzzle. It's not, this is not a catastrophe in Washington, D.C. Now, that's just a small sliver of what happened. My personal opinion I mean, if my personal feelings are that the biggest thing we did was summer heat.
The violent crime initiative where we refocus the FBI, we worked with her and Todd on that to get the FBI more focused on violent criminals and to get them into local police departments, clearing warrants that had never been done before. That happened, too, in the last year under her DOJ. Folks, I'm going to tell you this too. And there's things I obviously can't talk about. And that's fine.
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