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![Dan Bongino Nukes Joe Kent’s Story: “Completely Fabricated Bullsh*t” on Trump Assassination Plot [WATCH]](https://www.lifezette.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/2025.05.29-08.47-lifezette-6838c7d9df0dc.jpg "Dan Bongino Nukes Joe Kent’s Story: “Completely Fabricated Bullsh*t” on Trump Assassination Plot [WATCH]")
Dan Bongino Nukes Joe Kent’s Story: “Completely Fabricated Bullsh*t” on Trump Assassination Plot [WATCH]
Former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino sharply disputed claims made by Joe Kent regarding the investigation into Thomas Crooks and the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, accusing Kent of misrepresenting what investigators were told and what evidence was examined.
Bongino addressed Kent’s comments during a lengthy response in which he said he wanted to set the record straight regarding allegations that federal agencies failed to fully investigate potential foreign connections or withheld information from other officials.
“I just want this on the record, in case something happens. This is what happened yesterday,” Bongino said.
Bongino said he had known Kent professionally and had previously worked with him while Kent served in national security roles.
“This was Joe Kent, who was a friend of mine at one point. This is really sad to see the former NCTC National Counterterrorism Center director, I had worked with Joe Kent many times,” Bongino said.
According to Bongino, he personally offered Kent multiple opportunities to receive briefings regarding the investigation.
“I personally showed up at NCTC headquarters and told you I’d give you a full briefing, and your people do not lie,” Bongino said.
Kent, however, argued that questions remained unanswered about Crooks’ digital footprint and possible foreign connections.
“Tucker was talking about in that clip that he came across through an investigative journalist that was working for Tucker. He came across Thomas Crook’s online profile,” Kent said.
Kent said concerns arose because investigators had initially characterized Crooks as having a limited online presence.
“That’s significant, because for quite some time, almost a year, we were told that Crooks was kind of an enigma. He didn’t have much of an online persona,” Kent said.
Kent explained that after returning to government service, he sought access to Crooks’ electronic devices to determine whether any foreign connections existed.
“When I asked the FBI, in my official capacity, when we came back into the administration. I said, ‘Hey, can we get our hands on crooks’ phones, computers, et cetera, because we want to see if there was any foreign linkage,” Kent said.
Kent said he was initially told investigators could not access the devices.
“I was told at the time initially that we couldn’t get into Crooks’ devices,” Kent said.
According to Kent, investigators later reported that they had successfully accessed the devices but found nothing significant.
“And then the FBI came back and said, actually, we got into them, and there’s just nothing there,” Kent said.
Kent argued that intelligence officials should still have been allowed to independently review the material.
“I said, ‘Okay, well, if there’s nothing there, you should still let us see what’s inside them, so that we can determine if there is any foreign nexus here.’ We were, we didn’t get access to them,” Kent said.
Bongino forcefully rejected that account.
“Okay, everything he said there about what he was allowed into and what what he was not allowed into is just completely fabricated bullshit,” Bongino said.
Kent responded, “It’s a data point.”
Bongino said investigators had already reviewed the matters Kent raised and had offered to brief him.
“Of course, it’s a data point. We had already looked at that stuff. I was at NCTC headquarters with him in his conference room,” Bongino said.
“There were multiple witnesses to this, where I told you we’ll brief you on every single question you just brought up, the Norwegian, the devices, the alleged foreign connections,” Bongino added.
Kent also claimed the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General encountered obstacles while investigating the Butler incident.
“The DHS Inspector General started looking into a lot of the details of what took place on the ground, he himself was also blocked,” Kent said.
Bongino disputed that assertion as well.
“The DHS IG office was blocked. They were in my office, in the Deputy Director Conference Room, in the management floor, in JH J Edgar Hoover, the Hoover Building, they actually showed up for a briefing and said no such thing,” Bongino said.
Bongino maintained that all available devices were examined and that investigators found no foreign links connected to Crooks.
“This was all investigated, everything he’s saying, the digital files, all of it. There were no devices we did not look at. We did not find a foreign connection in the phone. We have all the phones in the digital devices,” Bongino said.
He concluded by calling the allegations baseless and accusing critics of advancing a false narrative.
“These allegations are total nonsense,” Bongino said.
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![‘They Laughed at Obama and Said He’s a Stupid Son of a B*tch’: Trump [WATCH]](https://www.lifezette.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2026.06.17-15.51-lifezette-6a32c28564958.jpg "‘They Laughed at Obama and Said He’s a Stupid Son of a B*tch’: Trump [WATCH]")
‘They Laughed at Obama and Said He’s a Stupid Son of a B*tch’: Trump [WATCH]
President Donald Trump lit up Barack Obama and his infamous Iran nuclear deal during a meeting with Egypt’s president on the sidelines of the G7 Summit in France.
Trump did what he does best and said out loud what millions of Americans have thought for years, labeling Obama a “stupid son of a b*tch” for sending pallets of cash to Tehran and calling it diplomacy.
Trump reminded the press that Obama shipped an eye watering 1.7 billion dollars to the Iranian regime, all in green cash, loaded on a Boeing 757, and flown straight into Tehran.
“Nobody could have made this deal. I mean, the JCPOA, done by Obama, he handed them 1.7 billion in cash from banks into a Boeing 757 and flew it into Iran, and they stood at the plane,” Trump said.
The imagery speaks for itself, and Trump made sure the room felt the absurdity of what happened under the previous administration.
“I have pictures of it, like, ‘oh my, look at this money he’s giving us,’” Trump added.
“He tried to bribe his way out. They didn’t do that. Nobody mentions that. 1.7 billion and hundreds of millions of dollars, they tried to bribe their way out of it.”
Few presidents have reminded America of the price tag on weakness as vividly as Trump did in that moment.
Then he delivered the punchline that ricocheted around the world.
“And you know what the Iranians did? They laughed at Obama, and they said he’s a stupid son of a bitch,” Trump quipped as the room erupted.
For anyone still pretending the Iran nuclear deal was a wise move, the laughter of America’s adversaries says it all.
Trump’s fiery remarks came as reports surfaced of a new memorandum of understanding with Iran, signed this week, ahead of a Friday ceremony in Switzerland.
Unlike Obama’s secret cash flights, Trump’s approach has been blunt, yes, but also centered on getting results, pushing for a temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and restarting trade channels without appeasement.
According to the president, the new agreement is expected to lock in a 60 day ceasefire that will allow negotiators to keep talking without fresh bloodshed.
“I think they’re going to want to get it done. Iran wants to get it done; they have to get back to business, and the relationship is now normalized, so I think it’s going to go pretty quickly,” Trump said.
His confidence, once again, stood in sharp contrast to the endless caution and double talk of the former administration.
Trump also confirmed that the Strait of Hormuz will be open “toll free” during and after the ceasefire period, ensuring vital shipping routes stay open.
“The Strait is going to be open toll free, and it’s toll free beyond the 60 days,” he stated.
Trade stability without paying off foreign tyrants sounds like the type of leadership Americans remember fondly from Trump’s first term.
Trump told reporters he will release the full memorandum to the public and personally walk through it “word by word” so that the media cannot twist or distort it.
That level of transparency would have been unthinkable under Obama’s shadowy negotiations that handed Iran a pile of cash and a path to nuclear capability.
To this day, the mainstream media politely avoids showing the infamous photos of stacks of cash flown overseas under Obama’s Iran deal.
They prefer painting Trump as the problem even while he delivers results.
The latest developments show that Trump is doing what he did before, breaking through layers of diplomatic nonsense and forcing America’s enemies to face strength rather than appeasement.
Conservatives have long criticized Obama’s Iran policy as the epitome of weakness on the world stage.
Even many Democrats eventually admitted the deal was flawed. Trump’s slap down of Obama was both personal and policy driven.
It reminded allies and enemies alike that America’s days of cash giveaways for false promises ended in 2017 and will not return if Trump is back in charge.
What makes Trump’s comments sting even more for the left is that he was proven right about the Iran deal years ago.
Tehran violated the spirit and the letter of the JCPOA repeatedly, continued enriching uranium, and ramped up its aggression across the Middle East.
Obama’s payoff only emboldened Iran, and American taxpayers footed the bill.
Beyond the theatrics, Trump’s remarks remind voters how foreign policy really works when strength replaces surrender.
When America’s enemies respect the commander in chief, peace has a chance.
When they laugh, well, you get the Obama years. Trump may have used colorful language, but his point landed exactly where it needed to.
As details of the new agreement unfold, one fact is clear.
The president has no interest in apologizing for speaking the truth or calling out what was a scandal hiding in plain sight.
After years of disastrous globalist games, Trump is saying what many Americans feel: enough is enough.
When foreign leaders laugh at us, real leadership calls them out, not sends them more cash.