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Trump breaks records with livestreamed Bongino interview
October 22, 2024
Mike Huckabee
In case you didn’t see Dan Bongino’s livestreamed, in-person interview with President Trump Friday morning...The podcast was done from Trump Tower, and it got underway while Trump was still on his way there. So if you’re short on time, fast-forward to about 32:00, and you’ll see him walk in. (Don’t worry; they still had plenty of time for the interview. This wasn’t like Kamala’s deliberately abbreviated 15-minute interview with Bret Baier. Not Trump’s style.) By the time Trump arrived, there were close to 300,000 viewers --- a record for the biggest live stream --- waiting to watch him. While they were waiting, they had seen some solid commentary from Bongino as well as some powerful ads for Trump’s social media platform Truth Social.
“This guy gets it, man,” Bongino said. “He made the Republican Party edgy again. We’ve run a bunch of stiffs, and terrible candidates...[who] might have been right on the issues but have been terrible on the message. You’ve gotta get that right. I think one of his lasting gifts to the Republican Party is gonna be...his very unique ability to make this party the home for working class voters again. And I think the greatest irony of all is [that] a very wealthy real estate developer in New York who understands, you know, union workers and everyone else became the guy who transformed the Republican Party back to the party of the working man.”
Bongino had a caution, too: “If we lose, free speech is finished.” Social media platforms are going to be controlled or shut down. It’s a global phenomenon; Elon Musk’s platform X is being threatened with bankruptcy over his refusal to toe the line on censoring so-called “misinformation” and “disinformation,” which means information that fails to further the leftist narrative. The courts will not save us, he said.
Once President Trump was settled in his chair, the first question Bongino had for him was naturally about the Secret Service. They’d spoken about the Butler assassination attempt the next morning, and Bongino was amazed that “you spoke about it as if you weren’t even there.”
“...If we get you into office, Mr. President, we need you safe,” he told Trump, asking him if he would commit to having some kind of commission of outside experts to reform the Secret Service.
Trump praised the agents he knew as “amazing” and said “they had a really bad day in Butler.” (Never mind that he himself almost had a REALLY bad day.) “I don’t know whose fault that is; I guess you go top level.” (He confirmed that he hadn’t known the then-director, Kimberly Cheatle at all.) They’d shown incredible courage, he said, in shielding him as they did.
He also praised the Secret Service for their handling of the second attempt, on his golf course in West Palm Beach. “That guy should’ve been nowhere near you,” Bongino told him. But Trump praised the agent who saw the barrel of the gun and reacted.
However, he did agree with Bongino. “Gotta be safe, gotta be safe.”
Trump had not seen the report that came out over the weekend, which Bongino characterized as “devastating.” It “confirms a lot of things that I’ve said, being an agent for over a decade of my life,” Bongino said. It’s part of a larger government attitude that someone like Trump from the private sector --- someone who actually has to get things done --- might not comprehend.
“You have these failed [government] agencies that blew it,” Bongino said. When he was in the Secret Service, they would joke about “yesterday’s technology today.” He wanted to know if Trump would perhaps include Elon Musk to do some “systemic wide review” of the FBI, Secret Service and other entities and to say “We’re not doing it this way anymore.” Produce results or you’re done.
“It’s all about the people,” Trump said. You have to have the best. “I know very little about that, although I’ve learned a lot in the last few weeks.”
“There were 107,000 people at that second rally in Butler,” he said, “and the place now has become a sort of “memorial site.”
“...They’re coming from all over the country,” he mused, likening it to “that place in Nevada where they have all the aliens.” (Yes, he was talking about Area 51 – and probably facitiously!) “The streets are just loaded with cars. They ride up and down and they honk.”
“It’s cute. It’s beautiful, actually.”
Anyway, “something went wrong, and you can’t let it go wrong,” he said, so it will have to be looked into. He seemed to be taking Bongino up on his offer to spearhead something like that. “You’d be a good person to look into that...that was your business, right?”
“It’s dangerous,” Trump said lightly. “I’ll tell you what, being President is a dangerous profession, and you can’t let it go wrong.” He meant dangerous for anyone who has ever been President, not just himself. Obviously, he’s been thinking about how many Presidents get shot compared to the small number there have been through our history.
“I never thought of that when I ran,” he said. “You think everything’s peachy-dory. But it’s a nasty business.” He noted the irony that in a way, he got “saved by illegal immigration,” referring to the chart that he turned his head towards at just the right moment.
Trump does wonder why the FBI hasn’t opened the three foreign apps on a phone possessed by the Butler shooter. He also asks why the second shooter would have six cell phones. They haven’t opened those, either, Trump said.
“I guarantee they opened them for January 6.”
“They [the shooters] look innocent, like nice country boys, but they may not be, so I’d like to see them open that up and fast.”
Not surprisingly, Bongino said, “I just don’t trust the FBI.” At this point, we all know the FBI spied on Trump’s campaign. “I have the names of the spies,” Bongino said.
“They actually spied on my campaign,” Trump said ruefully, “and then went after the people that went after the spies.”
“...And if you look, it was Biden and Obama and their group of people. And the Deep State, they wanted that forgotten as soon as possible.” The media wouldn’t cover it, either, and never apologized.
As for the media, Trump cited 60 MINUTES for editing their interview with Kamala Harris to substitute another answer (from “two pages later”) for the one she had given, saying it was “the worst scandal I’ve ever seen in broadcast history.” The original answer “showed she was crazy.” He wants 60 MINUTES to release the full video, and that might take a lawsuit. “I think I’m gonna sue them,” he said.
“It’s so bad, they should lose their license,” he said, “and they should take 60 MINUTES off the air.” He likened this to the old-style scandal over the show THE $64,000 QUESTION, with the answers given by the producers to a contestant in advance.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110932/
They had a laugh over the ridiculous David Muir, one of ABC’s debate hosts, for questioning everything while letting Kamala prattle on about various debunked hoaxes.
“I don’t know if a country can come back if they have a fake press,” Trump said. “They’re like policemen; they keep people honest. Democrats don’t have to be honest, because they’ll never be accused of anything.”
But someone like Eric Adams, who goes against the party on an issue like immigration? When he did that, Trump predicted he’d be indicted in six months. And sure enough.
“I know these people.”
They also talked about Jack Smith, “a sick puppy,” and his plans to release another so-called manifesto of unproven allegations before the election, which is blatant election interference. “I don’t even know what it is,” Trump said. “It has nothing to do with me.”
“And the judge [Tanya Chutkan] is allowing him to do it,” Trump said. He called her “an evil person.”
“They all said, ‘Well, make sure you don’t get Chutkan,’” he said. “And who did I get? I got Chutkan.”
They also discussed the “Select” Committee supposedly investigating the January 6 riot, the uncorroborated hearsay testimony that eyewitnesses swear never happened, and the committee’s wholesale destruction of records at the time they disbanded. “You’re supposed to go to jail if you destroy evidence,” Trump said. “Even in a civil case you go to jail.”
As for the business of Kamala being at DNC headquarters during the “discovery” of the pipe bomb, Trump said, “It’s a rigged deal. The whole thing is rigged.” And regarding the political prisoners still being held, “Nobody’s ever been treated like this. Maybe the Japanese during [the] Second World War, frankly…”
Bongino also mentioned that all messages from that day were wiped from Secret Service phones, hoping that could be investigated, too.
At about 56:00, you’ll just have to see the conversation, as Trump and Bongino banter about lighter stuff: What it’s like to be from Queens, the accomplishments of their wives, the jokes at the Al Smith dinner, the great mayorship of Rudy Giuliani, and other good-natured human things. And worse things, too, like the humiliating airlift out of Afghanistan.
https://bongino.com/ep-2353-live-with-president-donald-trump
Nice note: at the end of the interview, President Trump signed a baseball on-camera to be auctioned off --- 100 percent of the money going to OUR favorite charity, Samaritan’s Purse.
The Campaign for President Heats Up
October 21, 2024
Mike Huckabee
In dueling campaign events over the weekend, Donald Trump attended a Steelers-Jets football game in Pittsburgh, where the crowd erupted in cheers and chanted, “USA! USA!” when he appeared.
Trump also tweaked Harris’ unsubstantiated claim about once working at McDonald’s (apparently her only private sector job) by making fries and burgers and working the drive-through window at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s. Trump told one customer, “I’ve now worked for 15 minutes more than Kamala.”
The event was hailed as a huge success, yielding funny and relatable photos, videos and viral memes. There was also a moving moment when a female customer at the drive-through window implored Trump not to let America become like her native Brazil.
https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2024/10/20/trump-brazil-customer-woman-mcdonalds-drive-thru-n2402489
You can tell how successful it was by how Democrats are melting down over it…
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/10/20/reactions-to-trump-at-mcdonalds-n2180834
Probably the worst response came when a pro-Harris X account unaffiliated with the campaign sniped that the McDonald’s had a health code violation last spring. They were ripped for attacking a small business over an extremely minor, months-old violation, just because they hate Trump. But hey, what else have they got?
Well, they have this…
Kamala Harris continued her well-known trajectory: The more people see and hear from her, the more they're reminded of why she should never be President. At a rally in Detroit, she appeared with hip-hop star Lizzo, who is so proud of her hometown that she declared, “They say if Kamala wins, then the whole country will be like Detroit. Proud like Detroit, resilient like Detroit. The same Detroit that innovated the auto industry and the music industry. Put some respect on Detroit's name.”
FYI: It’s Trump who’s promising to bring Detroit back to its former glory. What’s likely to be remembered from that rally is Lizzo saying, “If Kamala wins, then the whole country will be like Detroit.” I know that’s not what she meant, but it makes a lot more sense and will resonate with a lot of voters.
On Sunday, Kamala appeared at a black church in Stonecrest, Georgia, at an event ironically dubbed “Souls to the Polls.” She told the congregation, “Our country is at a crossroads, and where we go from here is up to us as Americans and we people of faith.”
As a person of faith, for once, I actually agree completely with Kamala Harris. However, I disagree completely about the direction she wants to take America from that crossroad.
As if it weren’t clear enough already, she’d made it crystal clear just one day before at a rally in Wisconsin. Two LaCrosse University students in the crowd shouted, “Jesus is Lord!” She gave them a nasty look and snarked, "Oh, you guys are at the wrong rally. No, I think you meant to go to the smaller one down the street." Her crowd roared its approval at her public rejection of Christianity. This after she’d just become the first Democrat since Mondale to skip the Al Smith Dinner for Catholic children’s charities.
To make it even worse, earlier that day in Wisconsin, a pro-Palestinian protester demanded of her, “What about the genocide?” and she replied that what he had to say was “real” and she “respects his voice.”
Studies have found that over 40 million Evangelical Christians don’t vote, even in presidential elections. I’ve tried hard this year to convince Christians to vote, and I hope that elevated early voting for Republicans is an indicator that they are. But these shocking statements by Kamala Harris show why it needs to be even higher. If all Christians voted their principles, they could determine every election in America and end the left’s weaponization of government against religious freedom for good.
Here's a monologue I did about that on “Huckabee” on TBN. If you’re seen it before, I hope you’ll share it with any fellow Christians who aren’t planning to vote.
And you should send this along, too. Tyler O’Neill of The Daily Signal is an Evangelical Christian, as well, and he offers three citations from the Bible about why it’s important for Christians to vote.
The Biggest Liar
October 21, 2024
Mike Huckabee
It’s horrible to contemplate, but California voters might be on the brink of sending Adam Schiff, Congress’s biggest liar (an astonishing accomplishment), to the Senate. But maybe America will be spared from that fate by having him sent to prison instead.
At the request of Just The News, retired FBI supervisory special agent Jeff Danik investigated allegations that for the past 20 or so years, Schiff has claimed on both election and mortgage documents that his two homes in California and Maryland are BOTH his “primary residence,” depending on which was convenient at the time. Danik dug up election and real estate documents from 2009, 2011 and 2013 that suggest Schiff was doing this, so he could run for office in California while getting better mortgage terms in Maryland. Legally, Americans are allowed to declare only one home as their primary residence.
There are growing calls for investigations, and if these allegations are confirmed, Schiff could be facing major ethics violations and even criminal prosecution. It would be divinely ironic if the man who’s made so many false charges against Donald Trump was brought down by his own contempt for electoral rules and genuine real estate fraud. Of course, that would require Congress to investigate him and the DOJ to prosecute him, so…maybe after January.
I hope it would also mean that we’d never again see another self-righteous movie from Hollywood (Shiff’s home district) about how terrible it is for a Congress member to wave around a blank piece of paper and claim it’s evidence of Russian agents in the White House.
For once, I agree with Kamala
October 18, 2024
Mike Huckabee
Here’s an update on Kamala Harris’ disastrous interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier. One moment that has been overlooked in the blazing heat of the dumpster fire, but deserves more recognition, is Harris’ claim that Trump is unfit for office because he allegedly threatened to turn the military on his political opponents.
Baier has since admitted that the wrong clip of Trump was run, and it was supposed to be a clip of him talking about “the enemy within” (Trump says he was talking about Marxists and fascists). To that, Harris responded, “He has repeated it many times, and you and I both know that. And you and I both know that he has talked about turning the American military on the American people. He has talked about going after people who are engaged in peaceful protests. He’s talked about locking people up because they disagree with him. This is a democracy. And in a democracy, the president of the United States, in the United States of America, should be willing to be able to handle criticism without saying that he would lock people up for doing it. And this is what is at stake.”
I’m glad she’s suddenly opposed to Presidents threatening their political opponents or talking about locking their critics up or turning the military against them, but she might want to pass that view on to the current President, Joe Biden. We’ve all seen the lawfare aimed at imprisoning Trump (Biden was just fantasizing this week about watching Trump be sentenced to prison)…
And let’s not forget Biden's comments about using F15 fighter jets against gun owners who might try to resist the government. Or that unhinged speech he gave in front of the blood red wall, accusing “MAGA Republicans” of not respecting the Constitution, the rule of law or the will of the public. He ranted that “MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards. Backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love. They are a threat to our personal rights and to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country.”
Doesn’t sound very respectful of fellow Americans with differing views, does it? Maybe that would explain why his DOJ is working so hard to send pro-life Christians to federal prisons for peacefully protesting abortion.
Apparently, Biden’s violent and unhinged rhetoric about half of his fellow Americans has inspired one of his followers to send anonymous letters to Trump supporters in Pennsylvania, threatening their property, families and even pets.
And here’s yet another example of a Democrat who’s been fired up to commit harassment and violence by mindless Trump hatred, and who thinks it’s perfectly justified…
So for once, I agree with Kamala Harris. Nobody should be locked up or threatened for criticizing the government. The people who should be locked up are those who commit actual crimes, like threatening others with violence for not voting the way they prefer. Maybe she should give her boss and her own supporters that message.
Voting
October 18, 2024
Mike Huckabee
Here is an interview I gave to Wendy Griffith at CBN.com about the importance of voting and the dire consequences to the nation when 40 million Christians don’t even bother to vote.
https://cbn.com/news/us/its-shocking-former-governor-mike-huckabee-calling-christians-vote
Our judges are doing their part to ensure that Americans believe that the election is trustworthy. Only kidding: they’re siding with Democrats to undo virtually every voting integrity measure.
In Nebraska, the State Supreme Court ruled that convicted felons can vote in the November election.
The Harris campaign celebrated a Georgia judge blocking a rule that election officials must hand-count ballots after they’re machine-counted.
The next day, a (guess where?) Fulton County, Georgia, judge declared an entire slate of new election rules to be “illegal, unconstitutional and void,” including the hand-counting rule above.
These stories can be added to the pile, along with California’s ban on asking voters to show ID.
I don’t print these stories to discourage you from voting. I relay them to show you which party is working 24/7 to make elections less secure (which I don’t believe they’re doing for purely altruistic reasons) and to make you so furious that you will not let anything keep you from voting, and taking as many like-minded people with you as possible. Make sure that the vote to stop this kind of thing is so overwhelming that it dwarfs any ballot chicanery that might be attempted.
Speaking of voting, here’s Kurt Schlichter on that very subject, and he has a message I want every Republican to hear:
President Trump attends the Al Smith Dinner in NYC
October 18, 2024
Mike Huckabee
Last night, President Trump was the keynote speaker at the Al Smith Dinner in New York City, a fundraiser for Catholic charities that brings people of different political views together for a good cause. In presidential election years, both candidates traditionally appear to make speeches taking humorous jabs at each other.
It’s a sign of how panicky the Harris campaign must be that she became the first major party candidate in decades not to appear in person (other than at the 2020 COVID virtual event), snubbing the dinner to campaign in a battleground state. Instead, she sent a video message featuring her and former “SNL” star Molly Shannon as Catholic school girl Mary Katherine Gallagher. Critics noted that it allowed someone else to do most of the talking and handie the jokes. It didn’t go over well in the room. Trump joked that the last candidate to skip the dinner was Walter Mondale, and it didn’t work out so good for him.
Trump, on the other hand, showed up in person, despite the room being packed with his political enemies, including Chuck Schumer, Bill DeBlasio, Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York Attorney General Letitia James, who’s abusing the powers of her office to try to bankrupt and imprison him.
Despite that, he gave a well-received speech that was sometimes funny (“Tradition holds that I'm supposed to tell a few self-deprecating jokes this evening. So here it goes. Nope. I've got nothing”… “I’m not worried at all about (White Dudes for Harris) because their wives and their wives’ lovers are all voting for me”) and sometimes serious. He reached out to Democrats and offered to work together to make New York and America great again. You know, like fascists do. Some complained that he was too political or went on too long, to which I would say, “It’s Donald Trump. What’s your point?”
(Full Trump speech here: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6363410527112)
I thought the most interesting thing about the event was the reaction to Trump, which was surprisingly warm, considering, as he pointed out, 75% of the people in the room probably hated him. The host, comic Jim Gaffigan, has been a harsh anti-Trumper on social media, but he seemed quite welcoming to Trump and even laughed at his jokes. Maybe he was just being a good host, but it seemed genuine. Some of Trump’s most strident political opponents, like Chuck Schumer, also laughed and shook Trump’s hand.
It showed that they can actually act like civilized adults if they force themselves to, or maybe that all their “Trump is a Nazi Hitler threat to democracy!!!” hysteria is just what Pat Moynahan used to call “boob bait for the Bubbas,” with the Bubbas in this case being the gullible nose-ringed undergrads and Chardonnay ladies that comprise the current Democrat constituency.
Or maybe it shows they’re growing resigned to the idea that Trump is going to be the next President so they’d better get over their hysterics and learn to work with him. That would be the healthiest thing for America, and a big relief to those who worry that a Trump win will result in a giant national temper tantrum of rioting.
RELATED: Poor Jim Gaffigan may have harmed his career in ultra-liberal show business by actually making jokes about Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Of course, the mostly liberal crowd didn’t laugh: they have so little sense of humor, they think Stephen Colbert is a comedy genius. But you might appreciate some of his lines:
This isn’t part of that article, but I liked this comment from Gaffigan as well:
"I'm sorry. Why is Vice President Harris not here? I mean, consider this. This is a room full of Catholics and Jews in New York City. This is a layup for the Democratic nominee. I mean, in her defense, I mean, she did find time to appear on ‘The View,’ Howard Stern, Colbert and the longtime staple of campaigning, the ‘Call Her Daddy’ podcast. You know what I think it is? I think she doesn't like me."
Maybe he’s finally seeing the light. He should go on “Gutfeld,” where comics can actually say what they think, be funny without fear of humorous leftist scolds, and be seen by a much larger audience.
New Heights of Hysterical Insanity
October 17, 2024
Mike Huckabee
On the subject of the left’s increasingly desperate attacks on Trump, it appears that Harris’ cratering in the polls now that voters are finally hearing from her is driving leftists to new heights of hysterical insanity, and it’s downright hilarious.“Galileo Harris” and Trump
October 17, 2024
Mike Huckabee
Kamala Harris appeared on black radio host Charlamagne Tha God’s show Tuesday. Here are some of the most notable moments from that:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/4-key-takeaways-from-harris-interview-charlamagne-tha-god
A couple of points worth underlining: When asked about slavery reparations, a controversial and divisive idea estimated to cost up to $12 trillion, she replied, “So my agenda, well, first of all, on the point of reparations, it has to be studied. There's no question about that. And I've been very clear about that position in terms of my immediate plan." Does that mean she’s in favor? Who can tell?
Also, when asked if she and Biden don’t have to take some responsibility for the massive surge of illegal aliens, she said this:
"No, Charlamagne. Within hours of being inaugurated, the first bill we passed before we did the Inflation Reduction Act, before we did the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, before we did the Safer Communities Act to deal with gun violence. The first thing we dropped was a bill to fix the broken immigration system, which, by the way, Trump did not fix when he was president."
That’s a lot of words that mean, “No, I refuse to take responsibility.” That bill not only wouldn’t have fixed the border problems, it was unnecessary. The border was open because Biden immediately undid all of Trump’s security measures with executive orders, and after years of blaming the results on Congress and claiming he couldn’t act unless they passed a border bill, he got close enough to the election that he finally imposed some security back by executive order.
(Speaking of Biden & Harris’ superb border security efforts, we just learned that 30% of the security cameras on the border are broken.)
Kamala Harris also appeared on Roland Martin’s Black Star Network show and was asked about Trump’s alleged fixation on violent crime in Democrat-run cities. She served up this world salad that quickly earned her the nickname “Galileo Harris.”
“I talked with somebody once who said, ‘You know, if you just look at, where the stars are in the sky. Don’t look [at] ’em as just random things, if you just look at ’em as points. Look at the constellation — what does it show you?’ So you just outlined it, Roland, what does it show you? That the cities that he picks on in terms of black population or black mayor or both. C’mon.”
Personally, I’d say when it comes to crime in Democrat-run cities, the fault lies not in our stars but in themselves, by which I mean the Democrats running them, regardless of race. In a related story, Walgreen’s just announced that it’s closing 1200 stores, or about a seventh of its locations.
They didn’t say which locations yet, but they’re already fleeing Democrat-run cities like San Francisco due to heavy financial losses from shoplifting and customers getting tired of having to wait for bulletproof cabinets to be unlocked to get a tube of toothpaste. I hope the Big Dipper won’t call me a racist for pointing that out.
Trump also made an appearance Tuesday before the Economic Club of Chicago. Despite hostile questions from the Bloomberg interviewer, he parried them masterfully, earning multiple rounds of applause from the audience. Afterward, the Harris campaign tweeted that he was “rambling” and “angry.” Okay, let’s see her answer tough questions on the economy live for a couple of hours and show him how it’s done.
Yeah, I didn’t think so…
Here are five major takeaways from the event…
Least Surprising Bombshell News of the Day:
October 17, 2024
Mike Huckabee
Despite being “fact-checked” by debate moderators who insisted he was wrong about violent crime being up, it turns out Donald Trump was right. The FBI claimed the violent crime rate was down by 2.1% from September 2022 to September 2023, but it was actually up by 4.5%.
The Biden Justice Department did everything possible to keep the revision quiet, making a stealth edit on their website to correct incomplete data. Researcher John R. Lott said the revision wasn’t apparent unless you downloaded the latest numbers and compared them to the previous numbers that had already been deleted from the website.
Now, maybe the media can turn its attention to disproving the equally laughable claim that more illegal aliens were coming in under Trump than under Biden.
Here’s more enlightening and entertaining reaction to the news…