{"id":45764,"date":"2016-08-10T20:57:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T00:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=45764"},"modified":"2016-08-10T20:57:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T00:57:16","slug":"now-cut-off-my-mic-bongino-refuses-to-be-bullied-by-don-lemon-over-trump-2nd-amendment-heated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=45764","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Now cut off my mic!\u2019 Bongino refuses to be bullied by Don Lemon over Trump, 2nd Amendment \u2013 HEATED!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->BPR<\/p>\n<p>Things got real personal Tuesday night between\u00a0<strong>CNN\u2019s Don Lemon<\/strong> and former Secret Service agent <strong>Dan Bongino<\/strong> while discussing<strong> Donald Trump\u2019s much maligned comment<\/strong> on Second Amendment supporters possibly stopping rival Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Lemon took exception to Bongino summarizing the hyperventilating on the left as being \u201cin the comical realm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Either way, Bongino correctly labeled the charge that Trump was somehow calling for the assassination of Clinton as \u201cabsurd\u201d while explaining his point of view.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wpdev-youtube-container\">\n<div class=\"wpdev-rollover wpdev-facebook\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IvgH-Zs_GDc?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Throwing any pretense of neutrality out the window, Lemon\u00a0clearly did not agree with that point of view.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat you\u2019re saying right now makes no sense!\u201d the CNN host charged. \u201cI\u2019m sitting at home, I\u2019m watching Donald Trump. I have two ears and I have two eyes and I can see the reactions\u2026 We\u2019re not stupid!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou should be ashamed of yourself!\u201d Lemon added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m ashamed that you\u2019re talking to me as if I\u2019m a child!\u201d his guest fired back, as the two began going at one another.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t know crap about this, Don! You\u2019re a TV guy!\u201d Bongino said. \u201cI was a Secret Service Agent! Now cut off my mic! Do what you wanna do!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lemon countered by telling Bongino he was \u201clying to the American people,\u201d prompting Bongino to again correctly label the left\u2019s reaction as \u201cnonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nonsense being a generous assessment\u2026<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizpacreview.com\/2016\/08\/09\/now-cut-off-mic-bongino-refuses-bullied-don-lemon-trump-2nd-amendment-heated-376846#ixzz4GysIJFAf\">http:\/\/www.bizpacreview.com\/2016\/08\/09\/now-cut-off-mic-bongino-refuses-bullied-don-lemon-trump-2nd-amendment-heated-376846#ixzz4GysIJFAf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}