The Dan Bongino Show
The Deep State Strikes Back! (Guest Host Shawn Farash) | Episode 176
25 Nov 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Welcome to The Vince Show, but it ain't Vince. It's your boy, Sean Farish. Hey, you know, it could be worse. It could be a lot worse than this. We're going to have a lot of fun today. I appreciate everybody being here. We're going to touch on the Comey and Letitia James deep state fighting back. I know it was disappointing news yesterday, but it's not the end. It's not the end.
Pam Bondi said she's going to appeal it.
Chapter 2: What recent legal developments involve Comey and Letitia James?
There's a candidate in my neck of the woods running for federal office. She's running for Congress. Special election December 2nd. Her name is Afton Bain. Complete and total lunatic. Plus news out of Chicago. These radical judges letting criminals walk freely in the streets. It's got to be handled. Something's got to be done about it. We got all that and more coming up here on The Vince Show.
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But being live in two places at one time, more on that in a little bit. But we appreciate everybody here. Thank you to the entire Silverlock crew for this opportunity and to the.
vince brigade i think i saw queen anita calling them the invincibles i love that i think that's great uh we call my crew the ungovernables over on lfa tv so the vince brigade the invincibles the bongino army i know there's a few mcgroins that are floating around in the chat we love you guys i've met some of you guys in public and some of these events from time to time
And I'm really super excited to be here with you on a Tuesday morning. You know, the deep state has fought back. And I saw a lot of people yesterday.
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Chapter 3: How does the dismissal of cases impact the deep state narrative?
And, you know, I will admit when I got the news that James Comey's case was dismissed and Letitia James' case, you know, I call her Sasquatch, right? Look at her. I call her Sasquatch. She has a disease. It's called atchafoya. You ever see that? One eye looking at you, one eye looking for you. It's a very interesting thing. But I watched the show Expedition Bigfoot. They can never find Bigfoot.
And I'm saying, you know, Attorney General in New York. She's not that hard to find. Really, not that hard to find. And none of the pictures of her are blurry. So I don't know, maybe Tim Burch. I made a joke about that in front of Tim Burch. He thought that was hilarious. But Letitia James, mortgage fraud. James Comey, lying to Congress.
And we all know he lied, but they dismissed the case on a technicality. And this is kind of what I was saying earlier in the year, you know, in Department of Justice, the FBI was like, where's the arrest? Why are nobody, why is nobody being arrested?
And I'm not saying that the Comey indictment was rushed because they had to get that in to avoid missing out on the statute of limitations, having the statute of limitations expire. But one of the things that I've been saying, one of the things that I think most people just don't want to hear because we're impatient, we're in the microwave steak generation of things, right? It's...
You know, we need it now. And if we don't get it now, it's a failure. And that's a huge problem. So one of the things I said with these indictments and the lack of arrests was that these cases need to be airtight. They have to be airtight in order for these cases to stick because you're not just going up against, let's say, a corrupt defense, right?
James Comey, Letitia James, which are also going up against the actual swamp. Look at these judges. Right. Not just the ones that are saying, well, alligator Alcatraz has to close or Donald Trump isn't allowed to deport people or they're suing him over tariffs. Right.
Not just that, but they're going to try to cover for the people who are going to be, you know, essentially prosecuted James Comey for the egregious conduct that they had when they occupied their positions. Right. So it's not just about it's not just about the.
Right.
The indictments being airtight for the sake of putting these these defendants, James Comey and these deep state actors away.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the Minnesota Democrats' fraud scheme?
It's not just that. It's it's really about not giving these activist judges and the swamp where whether it's in, you know, in Virginia, in D.C., in New York. It's it's it's more or less about making sure that there's no chinks in the armor, that there's no holes there. to exploit so that they can let these people off.
And that's unfortunately what happened in the Comey case and the Letitia James case. They say that Lindsay Halligan was improperly appointed, which if you remember, that's one of the ways that they got rid of Jack Smith's indictment in Florida. Judge Eileen Cannon did the same thing. And if you remember, It was the left who flipped out.
They absolutely flipped out over the fact that they dismissed that, what Donald Trump called it, the boxes hoax. They dismissed the indictment in that Florida district down where Donald Trump was indicted for having classified documents in the bathroom or Mar-a-Lago or wherever the heck he was keeping it. So, you know, they flipped out over the fact that they said that the...
prosecutor Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed and now they got the same ruling essentially in their favor regarding Lindsay Halligan but here's the cool thing right The case was dismissed without prejudice, according to Harmeet Dhillon and according to the ruling, which means it can be refiled.
Now, there's been the debate, you know, the statute of limitations, where are they going to go with all of this? Are they going to be able to bring the case against Comey if the statute of limitations is up? There's a case that you may not be able to do it.
but uh refiling under 18 u.s code section 3288 which is the saving statute there is a federal law that allows a new indictment after a previous one is dismissed even if the statute of limitations period has expired if done within certain time windows so after a dismissal post limitations a new indictment must be returned within six months so they've got six months now to get a prosecutor lawfully appointed and this is why
We have been making a big stink with John Thune and the Senate. People screaming, what? The cabinet's already appointed. You already got an attorney general. You already have a secretary of state, a transportation secretary. Sean Duffy doing a tremendous job, by the way. You already have an EPA administrator. You already have Tulsi Gabbard in her position and RFK in his position, John Ratcliffe.
What do you need? There's no more confirmations. Well, that's not true. These U.S. attorneys like Lindsey Halligan need to be confirmed by the Senate. Again, same rationale that allowed the Jack Smith indictment down in Florida to get tossed. He was not confirmed by the Senate as a prosecutor to go after Donald Trump. He was listed as a special prosecutor, brought in that way.
Eileen Cannon said unlawfully appointed. He's out. So you need to get these people confirmed. We ran into this problem when Ed Martin was running. He's now the pardon attorney. He's doing a phenomenal job in his position, by the way.
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Chapter 5: Who is Afton Bain and why is she a controversial candidate?
But when he was running or was nominated, he wasn't running. It's not an election. But he was nominated to be the U.S. attorney out of Washington, D.C. And it was Tom Tillis, I believe. He came out and started warming up to sing, right? Me, me, me, me, me. I don't like the way he talked about January 6th. I don't like the way he referred to people on January. I don't like this. I don't like that.
I said, okay, well, it's not about you. Did you ask your constituents in North Carolina? Did you ask your constituents in any of the congressional districts across the state what they felt? I don't think he did. It was all about Tom Tillis. So they canned the appointment of... Oh, the nomination of Ed Martin. Right. And he was replaced by Judge Jeanine Pirro, who's also doing very well.
And she was confirmed. The point is, when we when we look at the process. Right. And it's very important to be dialed into to what you know, the inner workings of the swamp and how this process works is very important to understand these U.S. attorneys, just like we had with judges at the end of the Biden administration. And these confirmations are so crucial.
to the smooth operation of this administration or you wouldn't have had this case dismissed. This Comey case would never have been dismissed had Lindsay Halligan already been confirmed by the Senate. So now they have a chance. They've got six months to actually get her confirmed. If I was John Thune, I'm on the phone with president Trump this morning saying, Hey, she's getting confirmed tomorrow.
Let's see what happens after that. Right. Um, But that's where we stand with this Comey and Letitia James case. And nobody wants justice for these bad actors more than I do, right? And there's going to be people flipping out. No, I want justice more than you want justice. You're the one saying be patient. Well, the reason I say be patient is, again, you need these cases to be airtight.
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Chapter 6: What are the criticisms of Afton Bain's views on Nashville?
If they're not airtight, if there are holes, you don't think the swamp is going to exploit them? I'm a huge sports fan, right? So, like, I love baseball. Baseball is one of my favorite sports. And you see there used to be the over shift, right? So they could take the entire infield essentially, like third base and put him at second. You leave a gaping hole right where third base and shortstop is.
So if you're a right-handed hitter off to your left, there's a wide open, sorry, a left-handed hitter off to your left. If you're a left-handed hitter, there's a wide open hole in the infield. And I know a lot of people say, well, they're playing them the pull. You know, this is a pull hitter. Well, why not drop a bunt down the third baseline and make it over to first exploit the holes?
That's what the swamp is going to do. I'm unfortunately a New York Jets fan. It's a very tough life. As a matter of fact, one of the worst things about being a New York Jets fan is when I tell that to people, I have to already have in the back of my head to respond with whatever they're going to say because they're going to feel bad for me. I promise it's not that bad. It's only football.
It's okay. But as a New York Jets fan, having to deal with Bill Belichick for so long in our division, he was one of these guys in the New England Patriots, one of these teams where if you left anything any opening for them to exploit, they were going to exploit it, right?
And so that's the point with these cases, with the Comey case, with the Letitia James case, and with any of these cases that we want to see, any of these high-profile prosecutions that we want to see. These cases have to have every T crossed, every I dotted, or else you're going to see it's not even going to get to trial. And that's what we want. We want these cases to go to trial.
Look, I can't guarantee that you're going to get a conviction. If it was up to me, we would already convict them, right? I would say, get out of here with your motions to dismiss. You lied to Congress. Leticia James, you said you lived in two places at once. You can't do that, by the way, in New York. In New York, according to the state constitution, if you hold state office...
You can't declare your primary residence out of state. That's the problem. She was saying she lived in Virginia and yet was serving as the Attorney General in New York. The other thing that I found weird about Letitia James, too, was this whole thing about the spouse. How do you... You know... Mortgage fraud, right?
So the term fraud would imply that you intentionally deceived the person on the other side of that application, right?
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Chapter 7: How does Afton Bain's stance reflect on her political ambitions?
And so people say, well, there's a difference between fraud and a mistake, right?
how does one make the mistake i'm just just asking questions right that's my favorite you get you can't get in trouble for just asking apparently you can ask any question in the world and you can't get in trouble as long as you ask the question if your statement ends with a question mark you can't get in trouble those aren't not my rules those are rules that some other people are playing with by the way you're just playing the game that's not true so don't do that
But in this case, I am just asking a question. How does one, quote unquote, make an honest mistake by listing their father as their spouse? I don't, I don't know how that's an honest.
Because sometimes they're both called daddy. And so maybe she's not.
that's my wife and she gets me in trouble all the time and you know because the responses like that that's good that's funny stuff now how does what here's the problem with the with the Letitia James mortgage fraud application where where her father is listed as her husband Letitia James is not married I think we can all kind of tell why you know just gonna say very ugly person right
Inside and out, she's a nasty person. Think about it. She's a very nasty person, Sasquatch, but not married at all. So there shouldn't be anybody listed in the spouse area of the mortgage application, yet her father was, right? And of course, we find out that doing that, not necessarily listing your father, but putting that... gets her a chance at a better rate.
It's ironic, too, that these were the same cases that she brought are the same kind of thing. Donald Trump lied on loan applications to get a better interest rate. And meanwhile, this is what it appears that she was doing. These cases were not tossed on the merits or lack thereof of the cases, too.
Very important to realize that they were tossed on us on a and by the way, I believe temporarily tossed. They were tossed on on a technicality. Right. That Lindsay Halligan was was not a an appropriately or legally appointed prosecutor. That's how that's how this case was tossed. So I. I believe we're going to see more developments in this case in the positive.
As a matter of fact, Attorney General Pam Bondi yesterday, who I will say I'm not the biggest fan of, but there are, you know, I have other people in my ear. They say, you know, give her some time, a little bit of time. Yeah, she, I think, fumbled a lot on the Epstein case. Maybe it's not a popular thing to say. Maybe it is. I think we could do better.
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Chapter 8: What strategies are suggested for voter turnout in Tennessee's 7th District?
I'm not, you know, I'm not, I'm not worried about someone who has been charged with a very serious crime. His alleged actions were a betrayal of public trust.
So that was Attorney General Pam Bondi saying they are going to appeal. And of course, they have the option to appeal that ruling. They have the option to refile the case, which is obviously, I think, something that they not only should, but obviously, especially after hearing those comments, will pursue. You got to go after these people. And I hate to I hate to do this. Right.
I hate to do this, but what was one of the things that they said about the weaponization of the Department of Justice against Donald Trump? Some of Donald Trump's political allies, some of Donald Trump's followers, whether it was the Jay Sixers, whether it was parents who are classified as terrorists because they went to a school board meeting, the horror. The absolute horror.
You know, when I lived on Long Island, we brought parents hundreds across the island to school board meetings to essentially speak up about some of the really, I mean, perverted education. There's some of these nasty dealing with pornographic images and stories in books in the library, school library.
Very strange items added to the curriculum, including back in April of 2021, a statewide de facto mandate to include diversity, equity, and inclusion. You guys all know that that turned into one of the worst mandates.
um policy or introductions of policy across not just the country but the whole world everybody you know deciding that skin color mattered more than merit and that's why when you have a problem with any of your subscriptions or services or anything and you call customer service you wind up with some deadbeat on the other end of the phone who has no idea what on earth they're doing and that's why your package wound up at a former address of yours you know that happened to me with a debit card they said we found fraud on your debit card i said okay cool send me a new debit card
I give them a new address. It goes to my old address. I called them back. I said, now, do you think it was a good idea after canceling my first debit card for fraud that you sent my debit card to a place that I no longer live? Who knows who's got it? Who knows who's using it? Right. Well, it doesn't look like anything's on the account. Not the point. The point is, do your damn job.
That's the point. But this item, this one line, it was on pages one and two of this document in New York, the diversity, equity, and inclusion de facto mandate from the state's Department of Education, or it was called the Board of Regents in New York. This one line or two lines on page two of this document is actually line 19 and 20.
said that they were going to start teaching the children across all public schools in the state of New York about the brutal and senseless, this is a direct quote, the brutal and senseless killing of black and brown men and women at the hands of law enforcement, right?
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