Dan Bongino Gets DESTROYED By Dave Smith & Ducks Debate!
The Jimmy Dore Show
Jimmy Dore
4.6 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Dan Bongino has returned to independent media after leaving his post as FBI Deputy Director, and is now back to being a bombastic "Twitter tough guy" after failing to deliver accountability when he actually held power. Guest host Keaton Weiss highlights Bongino's attacks on critics like Dave Smith while contrasting them with his record of defending official narratives around Jeffrey Epstein's death and other high-profile scandals.
Keaton cites Jimmy replying on Twitter, arguing that Bongino damaged his credibility by shielding institutions and elites, then lashing out at independent commentators who demand transparency. The episode frames Bongino's online rage as a collapse driven by hypocrisy, ego, and the inability to answer for his own past claims.
Plus segments on JD Vance's bonkers, gaslighting defense of the Minneapolis ICE shooting, Tucker Carlson decrying the lack of humanity demonstrated by many Americans' response to the ICE shooting and the Trump administration's latest dodge to avoid releasing all of the Epstein files.
Also featuring Jenin Younes, Chris Keene and Kurt Metzger!
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| 0:00.0 | Come see me on tour February 20th in Lansing, Michigan, February 21st in Milwaukee. |
| 0:09.1 | Go to jimmie door.com for a link for tickets. |
| 0:15.0 | Establishment media sucks. |
| 0:17.6 | All gas light and so good luck. |
| 0:19.6 | Bullshit we can't afford. He's fom the Jimmy Door show, everybody, |
| 0:36.1 | Keating in front of Jimmy while he is on the road. |
| 0:41.5 | So let's do a segment. |
| 0:43.2 | I got a shout out Malcolm for titling this segment, |
| 0:47.2 | the Bongino Dialogues. |
| 0:48.8 | I thought that was really good. |
| 0:50.3 | Got to give a shout out to the production team here. |
| 0:53.2 | Let's start the Bongino dialogues because Dan Bongino, former FBI deputy FBI director, is back doing what he loves, which is talking like he's really going to do something if and when he's given the opportunity to do it. |
| 1:10.0 | If only this guy, we're in some sort of position of influence at some point. |
| 1:16.4 | Maybe there would have been some force behind these words, |
| 1:19.6 | but instead we are left with just the words once again. |
| 1:23.9 | So here he comes January 5th, out of the job, back to social media world. Good to see you all. I missed |
| 1:31.8 | you. Thanks for everything while we worked on cleaning up. Working in the administration was the |
| 1:39.7 | experience of a lifetime. I'll have some announcements coming up, but I'm taking a couple days to spend |
| 1:45.3 | with the family. A couple of things. Thank you for your interest in the show and its return date. |
| 1:51.2 | So he's going back to the podcast. We will have something for you soon. The Trump team is not kidding |
| 1:56.4 | around. It's an otherworldly experience from the other side. He's determined and focused, and having been around quite a few presidents, this one broke the mold. All right, so far, it's a nice, hey, good to be back. But it doesn't take long for him to go negative on the crowd here. If we blocked you, it's because we care so little about your bullshit that we deem it not worthy |
| 2:18.8 | of even seeing. If you're bitching and whining about it, that means you can't exist without |
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