In their own words
“you would not be using your leverage correctly. Iran can't use the straight of hormuz as leverage.”
On the record · Updated October 1, 2026
Benny Johnson quotes
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13 things Benny Johnson said, verbatim, from March 28, 2026 to October 1, 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
In their own words
“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
In their own words
“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 world1
In their own words
“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 Immigration & the border1
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 & elections1
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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
As printed
“a lot of the worst fraudsters in the Somali community”
Benny Johnson on Religion & faith2
In their own words
“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
In their own words
“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
In their own words
“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
In their own words
“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
As printed
“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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