During a 2022 segment on Fox News Channel’s “The Five,” Dan Bongino sharply rebuked co-host Jessica Tarlov’s criticism of Donald Trump, who argued that the former president’s rhetoric has “exploded in his face.” At the time, Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents was a major topic in the news, where Tarlov disputed his “talking points” on the subject.
Tarlov began, “All of Trump’s talking points have exploded in his face, whether it’s on stuff that he has released on his true social account himself or the people that he has dispersed all over television to proliferate his lies, including his own children, saying that he didn’t get a copy of the warrant. Christina Bob, his attorney, confirmed that on our network and other networks, they did have the warrant there.”
Criticizing a claim that Obama also violated classified documents protocols, Tarlov continued, “He said, President Obama … I love, when he tattle tales on himself, President Obama did this too. He took the nuke materials out, you know, in his back pocket. Not true. The National Records Office released a statement that President Obama fulfilled protocols. 30 million documents. Went through them to Chicago, following protocol, respect for the law and the way that things are done.”
“It is too mind-blowingly arrogant, I think, to sit here and say I know exactly what’s going on and to call the attorney general United States of America a loser,” Tarlov added. “I think that’s the word that you use,” she added, pointing to Bongino, who fired back, “Oh he’s a loser…he’s a real loser…a genuine loser…an actual loser.”
As the co-hosts began shouting, Tarlov said, “I know losers in my life, and Merrick Garland is certainly not one.” Bongino hit back, “He is burning down the Constitution targeting this guy, and you don’t know what’s in there either.” The incoming head of the Secret Service continued, “He is burning down the Constitution targeting [Trump], and you don’t know what’s in there either.”
Bongino then pivoted to discussing matters that the justice system has seemingly turned a blind eye toward. “I can tell you what was on the Hunter Biden laptop, actual pictures of him with hookers smoking, cracking about how Barack Obama was a standard and paragon of justice on the Democrat side, Hillary Clinton literally paid a foreign spy, paid a foreign hoax about this, and you’re citing the Democrat Party as a Paragon,” he said.
As the squabbling subsided, Tarlov continued her tirade against Trump. “Okay, the point here is that the former president has no respect for the rule of law, and he’s shown this over and over again. He called Brad Raffensperger up and he said, find me 11,853 votes when he didn’t like what was happening in Georgia. He wanted to stop the count in Arizona and continue it in Pennsylvania. We saw what happened on January 6, where he wanted Mike Pence to decertify an American election make all of the all of you at home, he wanted your votes not to count. That’s how little respect he has for and now he is refusing to comply with rules that every President has had to comply with. And why now? Because they subpoenaed him in June and he did not comply,” she said.
However, Bongino interjected once more arguing, “Now you’re making that up.” Tarlov exclaimed, “No I’m not!” Bongino retorted, “Yeah you are he actually met with them on June 3, according to multiple sources.” Watch the heated exchange between the co-hosts below:
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