Oct 23, 2026 · 1h 29m
Bongino links political conflict to America’s longer history
Do Not Fall For It (Ep. 2623)
The episode pairs arguments about institutional standards and election-year law with a history interview about how the United States survived earlier crises.
- 1Bongino argues that media standards, legal guidance, and institutional rules are applied unevenly in contemporary politics.
- 2The episode presents negotiations with foreign powers and resistance to Supreme Court expansion as tests of institutional judgment.
- 3Brian Kilmeade uses Washington, Jackson, and John Quincy Adams to place present-day division against America’s turbulent past.
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Brian Kilmeade connects Washington’s wartime reversals, Jackson’s victory at New Orleans, and Adams’s antislavery fight to the country’s present divisions.
The brief
Bongino opens by arguing that media and political institutions apply different standards to conservatives, then turns to Supreme Court expansion as a cycle of partisan retaliation.
The program examines alleged Medicaid fraud, a search involving Ilhan Omar, and election-year guidance that Bongino says is advisory rather than binding law.
A discussion of an American hostage’s release leads to a defense of communication among leaders of nuclear-armed nations, even amid conflict and distrust.
Brian Kilmeade joins to discuss Uniting the States, recounting Washington’s retreats, the victories at Trenton and Princeton, and the fragile path to Yorktown.
Kilmeade’s account of Andrew Jackson at New Orleans and John Quincy Adams’s antislavery work reframes current division as part of a longer national struggle.
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