Dan Bongino’s disgust was on full display.
The former Secret Service agent and conservative commentator is known for his outspoken ways — not holding back on hot-button topics such as the Black Lives Matter movement or the corrupt FBI investigation of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
But when it came to the appalling attack by liberal social media users over the weekend on the daughter of a McAllen, Texas, police officer who was murdered in an ambush Saturday, even Bonginoâs words seem to fail him in sheer revulsion at the topic.
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âItâs an embarrassment,â Bongino said Monday on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends.”
âThe population of imbeciles right now is so ridiculous.â
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Itâs beyond embarrassing — or ridiculous. Itâs a sign of how far into depravity liberals in this country have actually gone.
Bongino was reacting to the case of the daughter of Ismael Chavez, 39, the police officer who was shot to death Saturday with his partner, Officer Edelmiro Garza, 45.
Their killer, identified as Audon Ignacio Camarillo, 23, shot himself at the scene.
Chavezâs 18-year-old daughter, Savannah, posted a moving tribute to her father on Twitter.
â[W]ords cannot describe the pain Iâm in, but Iâm glad my dad is at peace,â she wrote. âyou were an amazing man and anyone who came across you knew that. Iâm going to miss you so much. you died doing what you love most, you died a hero. i love you, daddy, see you soon.
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And she added the hashtag #bluelivesmatter with a blue heart.
Considering they were the words of a grief-stricken young woman who was expressing her emotions on the same day her father died in the line of duty, it would be nice to think even the most anti-police progressives might treat her with some respect.
But this is 2020 — the year of Black Lives Matter and anarchy and murderous rage against police officers across the country.
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Many on the left reacted with vicious, ugly responses to the 18-year-old’s tweet — which eventually led her to delete it.
“Sorry for ur loss. BUT BLUE LIVES DONT EXIST,” one person tweeted, following up by saying, “actually im not sorry. ACAB” — which stands for “All Cops Are Bastards.”
actually im not sorryđš ACAB.
â des. ACAB. BLM. (@Destinyskata) July 12, 2020
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Hereâs one of the more polite responses Heavy.com captured in a screen shot:
That kind of callousness is what Bongino was talking about — people who think being âwokeâ means they donât owe an iota of respect to a grieving teen because it doesnât suit the political moment.
âThe population of imbeciles right now is so ridiculous,â Bongino told “Fox & Friends.”
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âThink about this. ⌠I get a text on my phone right here, I’m not kidding, a couple times a year with the NYPD from a friend of mine that says someone I knew or someone who I knew knew someone else [who] was either dead or shot,â he said.
âNow everyone listening, imagine that’s your job, just for a second, please to all the imbeciles who thought it would be a great idea to attack this woman. …
âYou can’t imagine that, thank God you don’t have to imagine that,â he said. âThat’s what cops do, not you. So think about that when you attack this woman.â
Give Bongino credit for civility in a moment when righteous rage would have been fully justified. Itâs difficult to imagine the level of malicious hatred a human soul would have to sink to in order to have the audacity to mock a grieving young woman or lecture her about the political correctness of her hashtags on literally the day sheâs mourning her fatherâs death.
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Savannah posted another tweet without the âoffensiveâ hashtag and got plenty of support:
Ignore all these people that pretend to be woke and tough behind their phone. Mourn your father and honor him in how you live.
â Blackjack Film Services (@Blackjack_SC) July 12, 2020
Your dad is watching over you from heaven, without a doubt. This wicked world has failed you. Our Lord will not. I canât imagine your pain. Your family is in my prayers.
â Sav (@savannah_moriah) July 12, 2020
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This one described the attackers perfectly.
If you want to see how depraved & wicked some people can be look at some of the replies to this girls posts who just lost her father who was a police officer. I thank ur dad for his service & am so incredibly sorry for ur loss. I canât imagine. He was a hero. Praying for yâall.
â Chase (@chase_b_c) July 12, 2020
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âDepravedâ and “wicked” might sound old-fashioned, but it’s tough to find better words for some leftists’ behavior here.
This wasnât an enemy of the United States who died â like the Iranian terror Gen. Qassem Soleimani. This was an American police officer who was lured into his death because he and his partner were answering a call for help.
Even the most radical leftists should be able to put politics aside for a moment and let the manâs daughter grieve in peace.
Their failure to do so wasnât just âdumbâ or the work of âimbeciles.â Itâs a sign of the active malice that motivates the left today — a poison just as deadly as the virulent racism of the past that liberals claim to be fighting again.
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Itâs toxic to the nationâs increasingly toxic political life, but liberals are apparently as indifferent to that as they are to a young womanâs feelings upon learning of the death of her father.
And itâs a warning about exactly what kind of forces are at work in the country today — and trying to win back the presidency in November.
âPopulation of imbeciles,â Bongino called it.
For a change, a man whoâs normally over the top didnât go nearly far enough.
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