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Jerry Jones on the Cowboys’ defensive changes to more of a 3-4

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Palm Sunday in Jerusalem in 1940

𝗗𝗔𝗡 𝗕𝗢𝗡𝗚𝗜𝗡𝗢 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗘𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗦𝗬𝗢𝗣 𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗞 𝗖𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗖𝗘 𝗢𝗪𝗘𝗡𝗦, 𝗝𝗢𝗘 𝗞𝗘𝗡𝗧, 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗨𝗦𝗘 𝗢𝗡 𝗬𝗢𝗨 Dan Bongino broke down one of the oldest manipulation tricks in media — and named names. Here's the playbook, exactly as he described it. Step one: claim you have hidden knowledge. Something the gatekeepers don't want you to know. Something Trump himself is being kept from. You never actually say what it is. You never name names. You never make a falsifiable claim. You just gesture at a dark space and let the audience lean in. Step two: the Lego trick. You put one piece of information on the table. Then you put a completely unrelated piece of information on the table. You keep talking. You never connect them. But your audience's brain does it for you — because that's what human brains do. We find patterns. We complete puzzles. And here's the critical insight Bongino delivers: 𝘈𝘯𝘺 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵. That's the whole trick. Make you think the conclusion was your idea. The manipulator never said it. You did. So when someone challenges the claim, you defend it like your own thought — because you believe it is. His example is precise: a local news anchor says a woman is missing, and that neighbors saw her arguing with her boyfriend. Then: 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘴. Your brain already k!lled the boyfriend. The anchor never said that. But you know what you know. Bongino applies it directly: Joe Kent insinuating Israel was behind Butler, Pennsylvania without ever saying it. Candace Owens gesturing at "hidden knowledge" about Charlie Kirk's death — knowledge she never actually shares, never names a suspect, never makes a claim that can be tested or refuted. Just two Legos on a table and a long pause. His closing point is the sharpest: if Candace actually cared about Charlie Kirk and his family, she would stop trying to destroy the trial that is currently proceeding — a trial with due process, evidence, and constitutional protections. Instead she is running a psyop that benefits no one except her own engagement numbers. This is not a conspiracy theory Bongino is describing. It is the mechanics of how conspiracy theories are manufactured and implanted. Learn to recognize it and you become immune to it. 𝗧𝘄𝗼 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗼𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗽𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗶𝗱.

PHILLY FACEOFF: Philadelphia's Soros-backed DA Larry Krasner sends a warning shot to ICE agents working to ensure smooth operations at the city's airport. "I will put you in handcuffs and I will put you in a courtroom and if necessary, I will put you in a jail cell if you decide to make the terrazzo floor of this airport anything like what you did in the streets of Minneapolis."