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“you would not be using your leverage correctly. Iran can't use the straight of hormuz as leverage.”
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19 things Benny Johnson said, verbatim, from March 28, 2026 to October 18, 2026, each linked to where it ran. Grouped by the story each one belongs to.
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Benny Johnson on The Middle East3
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“It looks like escalation is imminent as Trump and Netanyahu cut short. Zero hour is approaching.”
on Trump and Netanyahu cutting a meeting short amid Iran tensions
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“Any student of history will tell you that small skirmishes have the capacity to grow into monster regional or global wars if they're not contained and kept under control”
on the Iran war risking escalation into a wider regional or global conflict
Benny Johnson on Foreign policy & the world2
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“This is a total and complete lightning strike against the communists in South America, the entire continent swinging to the nationalist and populist wing, and most importantly, becoming American allies.”
on the right-wing win in Brazil's presidential runoff
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“These forever wars mean like do not benefit regular Americans. They benefit the people who sell munitions to our military.”
on who benefits from long wars, after the last US soldier left Iraq
Benny Johnson on Government spending & shutdowns1
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“Probably be more outraged if I hadn't been forced to watch eight million taxpayer funded ads over the past decade Biden used my tax dollars to let millions of illegals pour through the southern border so I'm okay with commercial”
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Benny Johnson on Immigration & the border2
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“France was the peak of Christendom, of European culture. It had survived civil wars and world wars and foreign invasions, but it can't survive a single generation of mass migration from the third world.”
As printed
“Here’s why this is wrong: when you look at the deportation numbers that go back to the Obama administration, they would count somebody who showed up at the border and they turned away as a deportation. Now, we have almost no one showing up at the border because the border is secure.”
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Benny Johnson on Guns, crime & policing1
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“If a mysterious dark and deadly thing happens two times, it's a coincidence. If it happens three times, it's a pattern. If it happens four times, then it's definitely a crime.”
Benny Johnson on Campaigns & elections2
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“Absolutely incredible to watch Abdul realize in real time that all the social media tricks amount to nothing in a real world policy debate.”
on El-Sayed's performance in his Michigan Senate debate
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“Look at theater kid commie Mamdani running another fake accent and appropriating African culture. Communists are all frauds. EVERY single one. Don't ever trust a communist, or else you'll get Galloway'd and stranded in a gulag,”
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Benny Johnson on Corruption & scandal1
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“a lot of the worst fraudsters in the Somali community”
Benny Johnson on Courts & the law1
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“But if he keeps his commentary tight and says something like, it's up to the DOJ, I have nothing to do with it. That means something real is happening.”
Benny Johnson on Religion & faith3
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“Yes, this is what the Bible the Bible explicitly calls for capital punishment dozens of times. God orders it.”
on the Bible and capital punishment, amid the livestreamed execution
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“Imagine you had a time machine you could travel back to September 11th, 25 years ago, and you could meet with the grieving families who lost loved ones in this the worst Muslim terrorist attack in modern history.”
on describing 9/11 as an attack by Muslim terrorists
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“in the Trump era, you never know what you're going to get, but I've never seen a Muslim candidate for Senate in Michigan talk about circumcision live on Fox News and then demand to see if the Fox host is circumcised”
Benny Johnson on Sports & culture2
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“But everybody's sick and tired of politic being in everything, that everything has become a divisive political issue.”
on backlash to Macklemore being pulled from Ed Sheeran's tour
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“as far as I know, and I've been to many sporting events, it's totally legal to heckle at a sporting event.”
on heckling being legal at sporting events after Enes Kanter's WNBA ejection
Benny Johnson on Other topics1
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“Milo is not ‘Far-Right.’ Milo was working for the Left to divide, slander and lie about Trump’s coalition to break it apart”
on MAGA figures recasting Yiannopoulos's arrest as proof he was a leftist plant
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