Podcast · bongino.com
The Dan Bongino Show
Cumulus Podcast Network | Dan Bongino
The Dan Bongino Show delivers no-nonsense analysis of the day’s most important political and cultural stories. Hosted by the former Deputy Director of the FBI, former Secret Service agent, NYPD officer, and bestselling author Dan Bongino, the show cuts through media spin with facts, accountability, and unapologetic conviction. Whether it’s exposing government overreach, defending constitutional freedoms, or connecting the dots the mainstream media ignores, The Dan Bongino Show provides in-depth analysis of the issues shaping America today. Each episode features sharp commentary, deep dives into breaking news, and behind-the-scenes insight you won’t hear anywhere else. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dan-bongino-show/id965293227?mt=2 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4sftHO603JaFqpuQBEZReL?si=PBlx46DyS5KxCuCXMOrQvw Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/bongino?e9s=src_v1_sa%2Csrc_v4_sa_o
190 claims
Mixed55% confidence6 sourcesOct 16, 2026California has the highest poverty rate in the country, tied with Louisiana.Said by 4BThe claim's ranking depends on the poverty measure. Under the official measure, Louisiana (18.1% in 2025) is the highest state and California (about 10.7%, the national rate) is not near the top. Under the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), California was tied with Louisiana in the prior release (17.7%, per CalMatters), but the 2025 SPM data shows Louisiana ahead at 19.0% versus California at 17.8%, making California second. As of the post date (2026-08-10), the prior-release tie partly supports the claim on the SPM measure, but the claim is contradicted on the official measure and by the latest data.Mixed60% confidence8 sourcesOct 16, 2026California has the second largest oil reserves in the world.Said by 4BThe claim drops the post's qualifier "by some measures." On total proved oil reserves, EIA data show California holds only about 1.3 to 1.5 billion barrels, roughly 3% of the U.S. total and fifth among states, which contradicts a world-second ranking. The second-largest ranking is supported only for heavy oil, where sources say California is second only to Venezuela. As of 2026-10-16, the record supports the heavy-oil reading and contradicts the general reading.Mixed65% confidence9 sourcesOct 16, 2026California imports nearly 80% of the oil it uses.Said by 4BSources support that California imports a large majority of its oil, but the 'nearly 80%' figure is higher than the official CEC share of about 61% foreign crude for 2025. Other sources put the share at roughly 60% to 75% depending on the measure (crude intake versus oil consumed), so 80% falls outside the range the record supports. The claim is also drawn from political statements, and the post's 'nearly 80%' was in the claimant's own words, which cannot corroborate it.Mixed60% confidence6 sourcesOct 16, 2026Iraq is the top provider of oil to California.Said by 4BThe claim that Iraq is California's top oil provider is only partly supported. Iraq was the largest foreign source in 2024 and reportedly ranked highly in early 2026, but the official California Energy Commission 2025 annual data, the most recent full year, puts Brazil first and Iraq second, so the 'right now' framing is contradicted by the primary record as of 2026-10-16. The extraction is faithful to the post, which said 'our top provider right now is Iraq'.Mixed55% confidence6 sourcesOct 16, 2026Rudy Giuliani won his re-election as mayor of New York by 18 points.Said by AThe sources disagree on the margin of Giuliani's 1997 re-election: the Baylor piece gives 18 points, the 1997 New York Times gives 16 points, and a Manhattan Institute article gives 13 points. The claimed 18-point figure matches only one of these, so the record partly supports and partly disputes it, and the claim departs from the passage only in dropping no qualifier.Mixed60% confidence7 sourcesOct 16, 2026Dan Bongino lost his congressional race in Maryland by one point on Election Day.Said by AThe record supports the intended reading: Bongino lost the 2014 Maryland 6th District race by roughly one to two points (about 1.5 points, or 2,269 votes at the canvass), and the lead flipped to Delaney only after absentee counts. The literal reading, that he lost on Election Day, is not supported, since AP and Daily Record reporting say Delaney led after Tuesday's vote and the claim that Bongino won on Election Day comes only from Bongino's own statements and promotional copy.Mixed68% confidence7 sourcesOct 16, 2026California has been closing state prisons under the administration of Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom.Said by 4BThe Newsom part holds: sources report he closed several prisons from 2021 on, with five closed under him by late 2026. The Brown part is contradicted: a 2021 source says state prison closures came 'for the first time in nearly two decades,' and another calls the 2021 Newsom closure the first of several, while Brown only tried and failed to close Norco and oversaw population declines rather than closures.Mixed55% confidence5 sourcesOct 16, 2026Tens of thousands of dangerous, violent criminals have been released in California in the last few years due to decarceration policies.Said by 4BThe sources support that tens of thousands of people were released under California decarceration policies (roughly 30,000 in the first pandemic year per Scientific American, and about 19,000 under CDCR policies per the CA Policy Lab memo), but they contradict the 'dangerous, violent criminals' characterization: the CA Policy Lab and second-look reports describe releases as mostly for non-violent offenses, with very low re-offense rates. The verdict is about 2026-10-16, and the claim's 'last few years' timeframe is loosely matched because many releases date to 2011-2021.Mixed60% confidence7 sourcesOct 16, 2026The California State Auditor published a report showing that $24 billion of spending on homelessness could not be tracked.Said by 4BThe California State Auditor's April 2024 report found the state spent about $24 billion on homelessness over five years without consistently tracking spending or outcomes, so the core report and figure are supported. However, 'could not be tracked at all' overstates the findings, since the audit describes incomplete and inconsistent tracking rather than no tracking of the money.Mixed65% confidence5 sourcesOct 16, 2026A CEO of a non-profit in Los Angeles receives a 1.6 million dollar annual salary and lives in Hawaii.Said by 4BThe sources support that the CEO of a Los Angeles-based nonprofit (1736 Family Crisis Center, Carol Adelkoff) lived in Hawaii, but the $1.6 million figure is her total compensation over two years (2023-2024), not an annual salary. Her annual totals were about $908,000 (2023) and $742,000 (2024), and her base salary was about $405,000, so the claimed annual salary is roughly double the annual total and about four times base pay. The claim was made on 2026-10-16, and the sources from August to October 2026 describe the same arrangement as of that date.Mixed60% confidence5 sourcesSep 16, 2026Dan Bongino has been out of the government for close to six months.Said by AThe claim is right that Bongino had left government by 2026-09-16, but the sources date his departure to early January 2026 (AP lists January 9; Wikipedia lists his term ending January 3, 2026), which makes him out roughly eight to nine months, not 'close to six months.' The post itself says 'close to six months,' so the claim is faithful to the passage and the duration is the part the record contradicts.Mixed50% confidence7 sourcesSep 16, 2026By age 60, many people are producing half of the collagen they produced at a younger age.Said by ASources give competing estimates of collagen loss by age 60: one says producing as little as 60% (Costhetics), another says about 50-60% by age 70 (antiagingcare), and another says about 80% lost by 60 (Yahoo/Kenkare), which would mean roughly 20% remains. The 'half' figure falls inside this range, but the Cleveland Clinic source gives no number, and the only source explicitly saying 'half by 60' is the sponsor's product ad (Native Path), which is not independent.