Valuetainment - December 22, 2025


＂Bongino Peaked Behind The Curtain＂ - Bongino's FBI Exit FUELS HEATED Epstein Files & Trump Debate


Episode Stats

Length

16 minutes

Words per Minute

219.6205

Word Count

3,561

Sentence Count

304

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

8


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 So Dan Bongino, okay, who was the deputy director of the FBI, steps down with rumored replacement waiting in the wings.
00:00:12.620 Dan Bongino, a man who is loved by his audience, this is him saying it yesterday, I will be leaving my position with the FBI in January.
00:00:20.980 I want to thank President Trump, A.G. Bondi, Patel for the opportunity to serve with purpose.
00:00:25.180 Most importantly, I want to thank you, my fellow Americans, for the privilege to serve you, Godless America, and all of you, all of those who defend her, is Dan Bongino.
00:00:34.880 Tom, what do you think about this, him stepping down here?
00:00:37.460 Did you expect it?
00:00:38.440 Are you surprised?
00:00:39.300 Was it him or Patel?
00:00:40.900 Was it one of the two?
00:00:41.680 What are your thoughts?
00:00:42.520 Well, if you asked me a year ago, I would say right now I'm very surprised, but I sort of expected it as you saw the year unfold.
00:00:49.600 Dan Bongino is a man of deep, narrow principles.
00:00:53.260 And what I mean by that is he has his principles and they're not for sale, and he's very direct about that.
00:00:59.080 And when you come to the FBI, which is like this sausage-making machine with all of these interests and all of these people, and we've heard about Comey, we've heard about how the FBI works, you could see the frustration in Dan Bongino when he would have certain interviews.
00:01:14.220 You could absolutely see it coming out because it's hard to be a direct control.
00:01:19.460 You could be a DA in the city of Los Angeles and have direct control over your team.
00:01:24.960 The FBI is so far-reaching, so many things going on.
00:01:27.780 I think Bongino discovered what a broad and maybe a little corrupt here-and-here organization it was, and he really has deep-set principles, very narrow focus.
00:01:39.540 And I think that just kind of ground on him, Pat.
00:01:42.080 I think that's what happened.
00:01:43.300 And you saw over the course of the year maybe some of the light come out of his eyes, and you could see like a heaviness in him.
00:01:50.000 And I think that finally got to him.
00:01:51.680 And so a year ago I would have been surprised, but I kind of saw it coming over these months.
00:01:56.300 And I called it this way.
00:01:59.260 Maybe it wasn't very nice of me, but when I said that when he and Cash Patel were talking about some things regarding Epstein, I called it, wow, that almost looks like a hostage video.
00:02:08.940 They are treating me very nice, and I eat every day.
00:02:13.560 And I was like, that's kind of weird.
00:02:15.360 So that's how I feel.
00:02:16.760 Yeah, I think everybody remembers that clip of what happened.
00:02:20.880 That's the one right there, Rob, if you want to make it bigger.
00:02:23.720 And, yeah, go straight to it.
00:02:25.000 I'm glad you're doing that.
00:02:26.540 So this is all the way at the end.
00:02:28.720 Go ahead, Rob.
00:02:29.380 It's a big deal.
00:02:30.740 He killed himself.
00:02:32.560 Again, you want me to get – I've seen the whole film.
00:02:35.380 He killed himself.
00:02:36.220 Listen, so that's the part with him.
00:02:39.560 And the president had something to say about it with Dan Bongino.
00:02:42.620 11-second clip.
00:02:43.600 Go for it, Rob.
00:02:44.980 Why he's planning to leave the FBI.
00:02:48.260 Dan did a great job.
00:02:50.340 I think he wants to go back to his show.
00:02:52.860 I have a name to Cash Patel.
00:02:54.880 Yeah.
00:02:56.600 Vinny.
00:02:58.100 And, again, because we don't know everything, and I don't know the inside.
00:03:01.600 We had the conversation yesterday.
00:03:02.840 I don't know my – if I had to assume, I mean, him with the platform that he had
00:03:08.180 and all the stuff that he was talking about with Cash, it felt like –
00:03:11.220 remember the people like me that were like, yes, we're finally going to get something,
00:03:14.980 I think, when he came in and he saw what was going on, and he was like, oh, my goodness.
00:03:20.260 Like, and they told him basically, hey, listen, this is where this stops right here.
00:03:24.800 Your passion, your push, all the stuff that you talked about on the show, we're not –
00:03:27.840 you're going to be going after these bad guys, but these guys, you can't do that.
00:03:31.000 And that's proof that that video, for anybody that knows body language or the way speech,
00:03:36.720 that didn't look like it was him speaking, especially not the guy from the podcast.
00:03:40.640 That was not the Dan Bongino that we know.
00:03:43.520 And I just feel like it took a while.
00:03:45.940 Remember, it was a couple months ago when I said – it was, I want to say five, six months ago
00:03:49.720 when I said, if somebody comes in, and as a Christian, a proud Christian,
00:03:54.140 and you're not supposed to be afraid, obviously, faith over fear,
00:03:56.740 if you see something like that and people are abusing and you're told not to talk about it
00:04:01.880 because X, Y, and Z are powerful, and then guess what?
00:04:04.940 You should have walked away earlier.
00:04:06.360 I'm happy that it's happening if that's what it is, but he should have walked away.
00:04:09.580 I'm very curious to what the podcast is going to be like now because, A,
00:04:14.220 when you go on the FBI, Tom, you can't talk about your nondisclosure.
00:04:17.740 You can't say anything.
00:04:19.060 So is it going to be like a, well, I can't say nothing, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
00:04:23.140 and is it going to be one of those allure, Candace-type podcasts where it's like,
00:04:26.740 I can't say, but maybe this, and maybe that – I hope the best for him,
00:04:31.480 but it's not a good look.
00:04:32.960 More than you can't say anything, there was a leak that came out that he and Pam Bondi got into it.
00:04:37.280 I heard there was an argument.
00:04:38.100 He's like, wait, why are we holding these files?
00:04:40.980 Why are we doing this?
00:04:41.760 And she apparently drew a line and said, Dan, this is the way we're doing it.
00:04:44.860 Yep.
00:04:45.300 Adam.
00:04:45.540 Well, number one, Dan Bongino is a patriot and all the people out there that think he's been compromised
00:04:51.280 and, oh, my God, we can't trust him now.
00:04:54.040 Check yourself before you wreck yourself.
00:04:55.360 This guy has been for decades an American patriot,
00:04:58.440 and just because he comes into the FBI as the deputy director behind Kash Patel,
00:05:01.940 all of a sudden everything that he's ever done is compromised, to me that's BS.
00:05:06.860 Well, who said that?
00:05:07.520 And who said everything?
00:05:08.200 A lot of people said that, including –
00:05:09.600 No, I –
00:05:10.320 Including –
00:05:10.980 Wait, wait, wait.
00:05:11.680 No, no.
00:05:11.960 Including you.
00:05:12.400 Don't misspeak for me.
00:05:13.340 Don't say I said everything.
00:05:14.260 Listen, tough guy.
00:05:15.540 Do I start ranting and raving when you're ranting and raving?
00:05:18.520 Am I lying about you while you're talking?
00:05:22.320 I'm not even talking about you.
00:05:23.660 Why are you making this about yourself?
00:05:24.540 You're saying everything.
00:05:25.240 Faith over fear, buddy.
00:05:26.200 I have zero fear about you.
00:05:27.320 Okay, go ahead.
00:05:27.900 Go ahead.
00:05:28.380 Shut it.
00:05:28.920 I'll let you finish.
00:05:29.880 Go ahead.
00:05:30.180 Thank you.
00:05:30.540 Three days to Hanukkah.
00:05:31.400 Get the fighting over now.
00:05:33.020 As I was saying, Dan Bongino, American patriot.
00:05:35.780 Number two, this is what happens when an outsider comes in, peeks behind the curtain and goes,
00:05:40.140 Oh, gotcha.
00:05:42.640 Let me kind of fall in line on this one because what you don't know, it's like kind of like
00:05:46.780 the famous Cuomo phrase, you know, you campaign in poetry and then you govern in prose.
00:05:51.700 Once you see what's really going down behind the scenes, you kind of have to act accordingly.
00:05:56.100 What I'm most interested in is he's going to go back to his show.
00:05:59.000 I think he's a major partner in Rumble.
00:06:01.540 So what are the odds that he's going to have a show again?
00:06:03.800 Oh, ASAP.
00:06:04.740 Most likely.
00:06:05.340 Yeah.
00:06:05.760 So do you think he's a truth teller?
00:06:07.320 I do.
00:06:08.300 Is he going to tell the whole truth?
00:06:09.300 Nothing but the truth to help me God?
00:06:11.120 Most likely, what remains to be seen, to put him in the category of Candace of just asking
00:06:16.020 questions and making up conspiracies.
00:06:18.160 This is a real person with real credibility, with real knowledge.
00:06:22.280 I'm excited to see what he has to say.
00:06:23.960 He's not going to do bullshit speculating.
00:06:26.020 He's going to give you the real facts.
00:06:27.600 That's my opinion.
00:06:28.360 But you're, but you're, but saying everything that he's ever done, I don't think, who questioned
00:06:33.160 everything that he's ever said?
00:06:34.380 We're saying the stuff that the main thing that he was on his show constantly talking
00:06:38.520 about was the Epstein files.
00:06:40.160 And then once he gets in, you know what the main thing he did, Adam, was redact the Epstein
00:06:44.040 files.
00:06:44.320 And why do you think he did that?
00:06:45.200 Redacted all the names of all the people.
00:06:46.220 And why do you think he did that?
00:06:46.880 Why do you think?
00:06:47.520 Because he was told to.
00:06:48.580 It's not a conspiracy, Adam.
00:06:49.860 Well, let's see what the, let's see what he says on his show.
00:06:52.020 He can't say anything on the show.
00:06:53.380 That's the problem.
00:06:54.500 That's the problem.
00:06:55.160 Please don't act.
00:06:56.340 Why are you acting so definitively like you have the answers?
00:07:00.560 Go to VinnyHaveTheAnswers.com and find out the bullshit that you're spilling.
00:07:04.840 Anybody that's watching, the people in this room, didn't I say at the beginning, I don't
00:07:08.520 know.
00:07:09.420 Perfect.
00:07:09.940 You should just stop there.
00:07:10.940 No, no.
00:07:11.260 Adam, this is a show where you have opinions.
00:07:13.080 Yeah, I know.
00:07:13.420 I'm aware.
00:07:14.420 My opinion is the guy, the Christian guy that's talking about the Epstein, Epstein, Epstein
00:07:18.700 came in and it was, and it was this.
00:07:21.520 Like somebody had a gun.
00:07:22.320 He goes, he killed himself.
00:07:23.880 Give me a break, Adam.
00:07:24.720 Okay, so you find Dan Bongino to lack credibility.
00:07:28.440 And that's, and that story, and that's, yes, I do.
00:07:31.240 Well, there you go.
00:07:31.800 And that's fine.
00:07:32.340 And guess what?
00:07:32.640 So he'll answer that on his podcast.
00:07:33.900 You're going to watch his podcast and you're not going to get anything, Adam, because guess
00:07:36.440 what?
00:07:36.960 The most powerful people in the world are those people.
00:07:40.020 And that's my opinion.
00:07:41.120 Well, I happen to think he has a little more credibility than you're giving him.
00:07:43.640 He has credit.
00:07:44.200 He was a Secret Service member.
00:07:45.200 Okay, Adam.
00:07:45.860 There is, there is a lot of, one time we had James O'Keefe here and he said something.
00:07:50.820 Stud, by the way.
00:07:51.580 He said, if you, he says, sometimes he says, I try to not get too close and become too friendly
00:07:57.240 with all these guys.
00:07:58.920 And I said, tell me why.
00:08:00.280 He says, because once you do, you can't call them out.
00:08:03.580 Like when he called Pam Bondi and he's like, hey, you said this, we have the recording.
00:08:07.300 Yeah.
00:08:07.500 I have to release it.
00:08:08.920 And then she got ahead of it and she went and said, we have tens of thousands of hours
00:08:12.480 of all this other stuff.
00:08:13.360 Right?
00:08:14.100 So, you know, I think if you're in media, if you choose to go in, it's almost impossible
00:08:22.320 or hard to get back into politics.
00:08:26.220 However, a lot have done it.
00:08:27.940 A lot of people have done it.
00:08:29.620 This is not, I don't know how many people have gotten this high of a job and then go back
00:08:35.700 into media, where was this public of a thing that you were against with vocal?
00:08:40.720 Yeah.
00:08:40.960 So that's the part.
00:08:41.980 Let's see how he's going to handle it.
00:08:44.320 You know, yesterday we had a guy that came over there telling me about, you know, they
00:08:47.620 want to be able to give away Bibles to people that are being deported.
00:08:51.240 I said, how are you going to frame that?
00:08:53.640 The guy's like, what do you mean?
00:08:54.660 It's a Christian organization.
00:08:56.360 We gave, you know, some money to this year.
00:08:58.320 I'm not going to mention them because it was a private conversation.
00:09:00.880 It says, the people that are being deported, we want to give them a Bible on the way
00:09:04.520 that, and we're working with the government right now to give them a Bible.
00:09:07.140 I said, okay, let's role play the script.
00:09:10.800 ICE came and arrested me.
00:09:12.660 I got handcuffs behind my back.
00:09:14.700 Give me the Bible.
00:09:15.980 How are you going to hand it to me?
00:09:17.480 Do you understand what just happened right there?
00:09:19.000 I don't know if you understand what I'm saying.
00:09:19.920 You're going to tuck it in his pants?
00:09:20.740 You're going to be like, look, man, you know, I think it's going to be fine.
00:09:24.200 On your way out here, let me put this under your arms.
00:09:25.920 Yeah, let me tuck the Bible under you.
00:09:26.720 God loves you.
00:09:27.280 Yeah.
00:09:27.920 But he loves you in Mexico.
00:09:29.060 Yeah.
00:09:29.940 Okay.
00:09:30.520 Not here.
00:09:31.040 Of pueda.
00:09:31.400 But by the way, there's a part of it that's being funny, but there's a part of it that's
00:09:36.960 real, right?
00:09:38.280 Banjin has to come back, and in his mind, all he's thinking about is, for months, I bet,
00:09:44.140 how am I going to frame the one question everybody's thinking about?
00:09:47.960 Of course.
00:09:48.420 He's thinking all about framing right now, how he's going to present it.
00:09:51.480 Sir, let me ask you a question.
00:09:52.840 And I don't trust anybody 100%, just like Trump said about, I don't remember who he said.
00:09:58.060 He's like, do you trust him 100%?
00:09:59.000 I don't trust anybody 100%.
00:10:00.060 Level of trust and credibility you think Bongino has.
00:10:03.280 Are you at 80%, you at 90%, you at 50%, you at 50%, overall with Bongino?
00:10:07.400 No, I think Bongino's a very fair player.
00:10:10.800 I think he's a straight-up player.
00:10:12.220 I think he's all-around very capable.
00:10:14.620 I think this is a very, very technical, complicated topic that the average person cannot deal with,
00:10:23.460 especially somebody that is a very, very strong Christian.
00:10:27.780 This is a very difficult thing to do, to have this type of a, access to this type of information.
00:10:34.880 It isn't for everybody.
00:10:36.080 I think Cash can do it, because I think Cash has got a cold side to him, where it's a, what do you call it?
00:10:41.660 A, you have to be a part of vicious, ice cold, like cutthroat.
00:10:48.140 I think Cash got some side of that.
00:10:50.500 I don't think that's Bond.
00:10:51.500 What's the term you used to describe Trump?
00:10:54.620 I don't know.
00:10:55.120 No, you basically were saying, like, you have to be ice cold.
00:10:58.680 Yeah, you have to be.
00:10:59.440 Maybe that was the word.
00:11:00.360 I think Cash has got the ice cold side.
00:11:01.960 I don't think Bongino does.
00:11:03.280 This is not a this.
00:11:05.300 This is, some people can actually take this as a compliment.
00:11:08.260 Yeah.
00:11:08.700 I don't know if you understand what I'm saying to you.
00:11:09.980 Like, it's a form of a compliment.
00:11:12.140 And to Bongino or to Cash?
00:11:13.460 It's actually a form of a compliment to both.
00:11:15.780 You either have it or you don't have it.
00:11:17.520 It's not an easy thing to fake.
00:11:19.780 Bongino's an emotional guy.
00:11:20.900 He's cried on camera multiple times.
00:11:22.880 But he's a man's man.
00:11:23.700 How much of this, and I have to go back to faith, Cash isn't a Christian.
00:11:27.360 He doesn't answer to Jesus.
00:11:28.800 Trump is not a Christian.
00:11:29.940 He doesn't answer to Jesus.
00:11:31.300 Do you think a person in these positions, Pat, it's almost impossible to be a Christian and be able to do this type of stuff?
00:11:36.540 And don't take the job.
00:11:37.700 That's what I'm saying.
00:11:38.540 And don't take the job.
00:11:39.460 That's what I'm saying.
00:11:39.900 If somebody comes knocking on your door and they say, Vinny, you know, I got a job for you to be the deputy director of the FBI.
00:11:46.380 I wouldn't be able to do it if it's that type of stuff.
00:11:48.060 There is no way you could do the job.
00:11:49.560 No way.
00:11:49.800 You're right.
00:11:50.220 Yeah.
00:11:50.500 That job is not for you.
00:11:51.960 I agree.
00:11:52.500 It's not.
00:11:53.000 Yeah.
00:11:53.360 So that's the part to realize and say, like, for instance, there's being a founder of a business.
00:12:00.600 There's being a CEO of an existing established company.
00:12:04.620 There's executive team.
00:12:05.880 There's director, VP, support, compliance.
00:12:08.100 A lot of people want that founder next to their names.
00:12:12.120 It's not for everybody.
00:12:13.700 A lot of people want to be content creators.
00:12:16.620 And then they get one bad comment.
00:12:18.480 Oh, my God.
00:12:19.440 They don't like me.
00:12:20.340 I'm not talented.
00:12:21.120 They stopped creating content.
00:12:22.160 It's not for everybody.
00:12:23.160 Vinny's got a special announcement that I want Vinny to share with you guys.
00:12:27.560 Go ahead, Vinny.
00:12:28.440 So, guys, as you guys know, the Faith Over Fear line, we had the Faith Over Fear shirt.
00:12:32.940 We just came out.
00:12:33.760 It's just come out.
00:12:34.580 It's live right now.
00:12:35.680 Pat Ward is just a Faith Over Fear hat.
00:12:37.740 I'm trying to figure out.
00:12:38.680 We have the symbol here.
00:12:39.840 We have the cross here.
00:12:40.720 Hebrews 11, one on the back.
00:12:43.320 Rob, can you click on the hat and show the pictures?
00:12:45.120 Yeah, let everybody see this.
00:12:46.200 Guys, it's embroidered.
00:12:47.080 By the way, I only wear Yankee hats.
00:12:49.620 Oh, yeah, so I only wear Yankee hats.
00:12:51.460 But, guys, you can see the future looks bright on the bottom.
00:12:53.840 This is stitched.
00:12:54.940 Hebrews 11, 11, 11, one, that, and then the cross on the side.
00:12:58.780 Like I said, I only wear Yankee hats.
00:13:00.160 It's 3D embroidery.
00:13:01.320 No, no, it's ridiculous.
00:13:02.240 And I just want, like, this is, like, every time something like this happens, like, the hats finally come in,
00:13:07.540 we're at a pivotal place where right now with everything that's happening with Christians in Nigeria,
00:13:12.180 as you're seeing what's happening in Europe, you're seeing what's happening in Australia,
00:13:15.700 the enemy wants us to be afraid.
00:13:17.620 I don't know if you guys saw this.
00:13:18.480 Australia, France, Germany, they just canceled all their Christmas celebrations,
00:13:22.400 all their freaking New Year stuff, because they're afraid.
00:13:25.900 I'm telling you guys right now, I've said this before.
00:13:27.760 In the Bible, 365 times it says, do not fear, okay?
00:13:33.740 Just have faith.
00:13:34.780 And when it comes to having faith in Christ, there's one story that I want to say,
00:13:38.200 and you know this.
00:13:39.420 In Matthew 20, I think, verse 9, or 9, verse 20 to 22,
00:13:44.780 Jesus is walking through Galilee, and everybody, he's healing people.
00:13:48.880 People are touching him and grabbing him, and he's just trying to get through the crowd.
00:13:52.000 And there was a woman that had an issue of bleeding for 12 years.
00:13:54.960 They believe it was, like, a menstrual situation.
00:13:57.600 She says to herself, and this is in Scripture,
00:14:00.180 all I have to do is touch the hem of his robe, and I'll be healed, okay?
00:14:05.060 So she crawls through this crowd, and she just reaches and touches a string
00:14:09.580 that's hanging off Jesus' robe, and he stops in the crowd, and he goes,
00:14:13.600 who touched me, all right?
00:14:15.100 And Peter and everybody's like, Jesus, everybody's touching.
00:14:18.320 He goes, no, no, no, who touched me?
00:14:21.000 He said he felt the power leave his body, and he looks,
00:14:24.620 and the woman is on the floor instantly healed, and she's crying, Pat.
00:14:28.300 And she stands up, and she goes, Jesus, you healed me.
00:14:31.080 And he looks at her and goes, I didn't heal you.
00:14:32.700 It was your faith that healed you.
00:14:35.020 Think about that.
00:14:36.180 Think about that.
00:14:36.740 That's powerful.
00:14:37.140 Just touching his clothes, and she was healed, and that's belief.
00:14:40.920 And I want to say one last thing.
00:14:42.480 When Jesus was in Nazareth, he was powerless.
00:14:45.380 He couldn't do any miracles, and you know why?
00:14:47.800 He said because it was their disbelief, because they didn't believe.
00:14:51.580 So your faith is what creates the miracles in your life,
00:14:55.000 and I think this hat is that message, and this is letting everybody know.
00:14:57.920 I'm not afraid.
00:14:59.380 We're not afraid.
00:15:00.200 I'm a Christian.
00:15:00.780 I wear it proud, and I want people to know that.
00:15:02.900 And, yeah, that's it, and it's live right now.
00:15:05.180 I love it.
00:15:05.720 And, you know, you can go to vtmerge.com, place the order, get the hat,
00:15:08.900 get the shirt, get the shoe.
00:15:10.280 All of those we'll put over there for you.
00:15:11.880 Yesterday I had these pastors that flew in from Australia,
00:15:13.940 and he said the most powerful line.
00:15:15.700 Two pastors, the guy's from Egypt.
00:15:17.700 His name is Martin Sidro and his wife Millicent.
00:15:20.860 And he says, when I was a kid, and my dad and I were talking about becoming a pastor one day.
00:15:25.920 He says, my father told us one thing.
00:15:28.020 If you want to be a pastor, you can't fear.
00:15:30.940 If you fear, don't be a pastor.
00:15:33.500 One doesn't go without the other.
00:15:34.840 You have to be very strong about your faith that you have.
00:15:37.160 So for those of you that are comfortable this Christmas season, New Year season,
00:15:41.880 going into 2026 with faith, put that on, walk around.
00:15:45.120 You'd be amazed how many people stop by and say, hey, man, I'm with you.
00:15:48.100 Hey, man, I'm with you.
00:15:48.980 I love the stories of just winks with people that are, you know, fans of the show
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