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The Dan Bongino Show
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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
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False85% confidence6 sourcesOct 19, 2026Elissa Slotkin stated that she wants to put people in jail for supporting the MAGA agenda.Said by ASlotkin's actual remarks at the University of Chicago concerned pursuing corruption cases against officials who enabled Trump and deterring young people from joining the administration; no source reports her saying she wants to jail people for supporting the MAGA agenda. The post's claim is a distortion of her words, and the extraction faithfully reflects the post's wording.False50% confidence7 sourcesOct 19, 2026The federal task force in Memphis, Tennessee, has made more arrests for murders than the number of actual murders that have occurred.The sources give 144 task-force homicide arrests through Oct. 15, 2026, but report 184 to 235 Memphis murders in 2025 alone, which suggests murders outnumbered arrests over the period. No source states the total murders during the task force's run, and AG Blanche's interview says the opposite, so this rests on inference and the verdict is held at moderate confidence.False85% confidence9 sourcesOct 16, 2026The tax legislation enacted during the Trump administration was the largest tax cut in U.S. history.Said by 2BMultiple tier-1 fact-checks (PolitiFact rating 'Mostly False', Tax Foundation, FactCheck.org, AP, BBC) and the CBO-based analyses find the One Big Beautiful Bill is not the largest U.S. tax cut in history; it ranks sixth as a share of GDP on new cuts, or third when combined with the extended 2017 cuts. The claim is a checkable historical superlative that the authoritative record contradicts, so it is false, though the post's wider context refers to the 2025 law which the claim correctly identifies.False70% confidence6 sourcesOct 16, 2026Approximately 15% of users quit weight loss injections because of the cost.Said by AThe claim's 15% figure does not match the cost data: primary and tier-1 studies find cost or insurance was the leading reason for stopping, at about 48% of discontinuers, which works out to roughly a quarter of all users. The 15% figure in the sources is the side-effect share, not the cost share. The claim departs from the post only in the sense that the post says the same thing, so it is graded as the post's own statement.False60% confidence6 sourcesOct 16, 2026Republicans lead in mail-in ballot return rates in Florida.Said by AFlorida's Division of Elections data reported in late October 2026 show Democrats leading in mail-in ballot returns, not Republicans, and no source reports a Republican mail-return lead. No source covers the exact 2026-10-16 date, so this rests on the earliest reported figures (Oct. 23) and the consistent trend after.False50% confidence4 sourcesOct 16, 2026The Trump administration enacted the largest spending cut of inefficient, wasteful government spending in history.Said by 2BThe claim that the Trump administration enacted the largest spending cut of inefficient, wasteful government spending in history is not corroborated by any independent source. The only related support is a House member's claim of the largest cut in mandatory spending, which is a different measure, and the FactCheck.org archive dismisses similar 'biggest budget cut in history' superlatives as unsupportable. The claim also departs from the passage only in dropping the 'We also did' framing, which is a faithful paraphrase.False55% confidence8 sourcesOct 16, 2026The Democratic Party campaigns on taking away guns, suppressors, and short-barreled rifles.Said by AThe sources show Democrats campaigning on gun restrictions such as universal background checks, red flag laws, and an assault weapons ban, but none show them campaigning on taking away suppressors or short-barreled rifles. The claim's specific framing of confiscating guns, suppressors, and SBRs is not supported and the platform coverage does not reflect it. The post's 'they openly campaign on it' is a sweeping characterization of the party's platform, not a verified record of a campaign to confiscate these items as of 2026-10-16.False70% confidence6 sourcesOct 16, 2026The violent crime rate is the lowest it has been in modern American history.Said by AThe claim that the violent crime rate is the lowest in modern American history is contradicted by the BBC's analysis of FBI data, which says the 2024 rate was the lowest since 1969 and that the 2025 rate is predicted to be the lowest since roughly 1968, implying earlier rates were at least as low. The sources support a real and record one-year drop in 2025 but not the all-time superlative. The post's date is 2026-10-16, and the claim is graded on the sources' data through its posting.False55% confidence5 sourcesOct 16, 2026A trillion dollars of wealth has left California because of the threat of a billionaire tax.No source says a trillion dollars of wealth has left California. The only departure tally in the sources is Telegraph's figure of about $540bn for seven billionaires believed to have left, roughly half the claimed amount, and that is an opinion piece. The claim also departs slightly from the post, which hedged with 'by some estimate', and the sources show departures but not a total dollar figure above $540bn.False80% confidence4 sourcesSep 16, 2026There has been a border invasion of upwards of 20 million people.Said by AThe claim that there was a border invasion of upwards of 20 million people is contradicted by fact-checkers, who found the figure highly inflated. Official CBP data show about 10.8 million Biden-era encounters, or roughly 12-13 million with estimated gotaways, and the sources note that arrests are not the same as individual people. The extraction's wording tracks the post's Biden-era reference faithfully, so the grading is on the figure itself.False60% confidence4 sourcesSep 16, 2026Dan Bongino's grandparents changed their last name from Bonjorno to Bongino after arriving at Ellis Island.Said by AThe claim that the grandparents changed their name from Bonjorno to Bongino after arriving at Ellis Island conflicts with the National Park Service, which states it is a myth that names were changed at Ellis Island because inspectors worked from shipping-company manifests. Bongino's later show transcript attributes the change to a misspelling by Ellis Island paperwork about his great-grandparents, not a deliberate change by his grandparents, and the claim departs from the passage only in describing the name as an Ellis Island change for the grandparents, which the post does say.False82% confidence5 sourcesSep 16, 2026The United States shut down 67 nuclear reactors.Said by 3BThe sources show the US has permanently closed about 12 commercial reactors since 2012-2013, with a few more retirements announced, not 67. The only 67 in the sources is a count of canceled construction projects from 1979 to 1988, which is a different thing.