The Dan Bongino Show

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The Most Dangerous Man In America? (Ep. 2540)

Explore episode Jun 23, 2026

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Ro Khanna: 'The Most Dangerous Man in America'

At 28:00 · chapter starts 27:00

This is the episode's main event. Bongino plays a clip of Khanna explicitly promising subpoenas and investigations of Musk, the Oversight Committee, the Judiciary Committee — the whole apparatus weaponized against a private citizen for the crime of running DOGE. Bongino then pulls up Khanna's old Twitter post calling for Amazon to shut down Parler, exposing the 'free speech' framing as a lie. Then the gut punch: Khanna, the anti-wealth crusader, has a median estimated net worth of $232.7 million. The segment closes with Bongino's framework — Democrats don't run on ideas, they run on eliminating obstacles — and Khanna as its purest current example. He contrasts Khanna's treatment of Musk (investigation, subpoenas) with his treatment of a Maine Democratic Senate candidate with a Nazi tattoo (grace, redemption).

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