They're STILL Going With This Story

"They're STILL Going With This Story" — The Dan Bongino Show

Dan Bongino opens with genuine disbelief: the media is still running with a story that doesn't work for them even on their own terms. The narrative involves President Trump's trip to Turkey, an alleged assassination threat, and the press's reaction to being in a potential hot zone. Bongino sees the coverage as a self-inflicted wound that reveals the media's deeper dysfunction — and he spends the episode connecting that single story to a broader pattern of dishonesty, ignorance, and ideological insulation on the left.

The Secret Service story that backfired

The central incident is straightforward. During a presidential trip to Turkey, the press corps was reportedly upset about security arrangements and the handling of a potential threat. Bongino argues the story collapses under its own weight for two reasons. First, the same media figures who spent years dismissing Iran as a paper tiger — calling any confrontation "a war of choice" — are now implicitly acknowledging that Iranian assassination plots against American political figures are real. You cannot simultaneously claim Iran is harmless and then complain that the Secret Service took a threat seriously. Second, Bongino points out that the press already had security. Any agent assigned to the president's detail who works near the press is there partly to p