Judge Found Border Patrol Commander’s Testimony Not Credible (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: President Trump has dispatched Border Czar Tom Homan to Minnesota today to get a hold of the crisis there. And it is a crisis in so many ways. One of the ways being it's a credibility crisis for the administration because senior officials keep saying things that we can see with our own eyes are not true, making claims about people that they provide no evidence to back up. And one of the people I'm talking about here is Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino, a judge in November 2025 found to have been lying. To have been lying. And I posted something on social media about that. Quote, Bovino admitted in his deposition that he lied multiple times, wrote the judge. And Bovino, interestingly, wrote back to me on social media saying, then identify the lie, Jake. No one can seem to find this mysterious lie. And you all know that I am nothing if not helpful. And frankly, it's not all that mysterious. The judge wrote a 233 page opinion in which she wrote many lies that she thought Bovino had told. Some of them include, quote, Bovino admitted in his deposition that he lied multiple times about the events that occurred in Little Village that prompted him to throw tear gas at protesters. Bovino had represented that a rock hit him in the helmet before he threw tear gas. On the first day of his deposition, he admitted that he was not hit with a rock until after he had sent the tear gas. He then said that the rock had almost hit him in a different instance. And then, quote, despite being presented with video evidence that did not show a rock thrown at him before he launched the first tear gas canister, Bovino nonetheless maintained his testimony. But on November 4th, the final session of his deposition, Bovino admitted that he was again mistaken and no rock was thrown at him before he deployed the first tear gas canister. There's another instance that she writes about in her opinion having to do with a protester named Scott Blackburn. And Bovino was upset with something that Mr. Blackburn had said. And Bovino said, quote, what did you say, you want me to come over there? To which Blackburn shook his head and said no, but Bovino stepped over the guardrail, grabbed Blackburn by his right arm, tore his shirt, and then with another agent took Blackburn down. The agents zip-tied Blackburn and searched him. When asked about the incidents involving Blackburn in his deposition, Bovino stated, quote, no reportable uses of force occurred, and that instead, quote, the use of force was against him. I mean, the judge said, quote, the court specifically finds his testimony not credible, and said that his responses ranged from providing cute responses or outright lying. That's just a judge's opinion, November of 2025, in which she clearly stated the instances. It's not a mystery. I hope that helps, Mr. Bovino.