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Alright, welcome to the Dan Bongino Show.
Producer Joe, how are you today?
Oh, Dano, I'm in a good mood despite all the crap that's going on around us.
Doing well.
We had the best day ever yesterday, the most listened to day ever in the history of the Dan Bongino Show, so thank you very much.
I got a lot to get to, some news of the day, some updates as I told you, some predictions that came true, not that I'm patting myself on the back, I'm really not interested in doing that, and like I said, I don't take credit for these predictions, people have been telling me stuff, but it has materialized again, things I told you were going to happen.
For instance, the leak, Joe, very convenient.
Yes!
You know, Trump threatened to fire Bob Mueller.
Wow!
New York Times.
That was convenient how that one came out.
It's amazing how that happened.
Breaking news, Joe.
Trump threatened to fire Bob Mueller within the White House.
I'll call the thought police.
Dan Bongino breaking news.
What's that?
I'll call the thought police immediately.
Get the thought police.
That's right.
Get them out there, the jackbooted thugs.
And also breaking news, Bob Mueller is still the special counsel lead investigator.
Well, we're going to get to that.
Ladies and gentlemen, that is not by accident.
Something's happening here, and I want you to be clued in to what's going on.
I'm going to explain it to you.
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Okay.
Here's what's going on, folks.
Before we get to the Mueller thing, because it's going to tie into the story I'm giving you now, because remember, all of this stuff is interrelated into this web they're trying to weave.
The memo, the Devin Nunes memo, which I described yesterday on the show, which is going to lay out the scheme I described for you yesterday, where they used both foreign entities and accumulated data by the NSA, the Obama team, that is, to spy on the Trump team.
Keep that in mind.
Last night I'm sitting on the couch with my wife after a hit I did on the Hannity Show.
And my wife said, Dan, what I like about what you're doing here is keep it focused on the big picture because Joe, as you know, this is a very complicated case.
Yes.
And I walk you into the weeds because the understanding the weeds are necessary to understanding the larger story, but understanding the larger story is only buttress by being in the weeds.
You can still understand Obama spied on Trump.
Everything we're doing is trying to prove that point, okay?
So that's why I'm doing it the way I am.
Constantly remember Obama spied on Trump.
That's what this information I'm presenting to you on the show.
We're building that house, okay?
Now, the memo describes the scheme.
The scheme is this.
The scheme was Obama used the NSA and the FBI to tap into the database they have of emails and phone records.
They did not have probable cause, as I laid out yesterday, of a crime or of a violation worthy of the FISA courts, probable cause that they were acting on behalf of a foreign agent, any of these Trump team people.
So what did they do?
They did reverse targeting, where they targeted people on foreign soil, not having constitutional protections.
Knowing they were talking to Trump people.
In other words, they reverse targeted.
They really didn't target the foreign folks.
They were targeting the Trump people.
The Obama team then unmasked these people.
The Obama team used their powers to unmask, you know, quote, U.S.
persons, right?
Or U.S.
officials.
And put names to them so they can spread the information to the media and their congressional allies to go after Trump during the election and set up these nonsensical Logan Act violations.
Yesterday's show walks you through this in detail.
Okay, now that we're there.
The memo, the Nunes memo, describes this.
So the swamp is in a full panic.
And when I say the swamp, I'm not just talking about Democrats, folks.
There are Republicans who are freaking out about this too.
One specific United States Senator who is intimately involved in the dossier.
Senator John McCain and his staff, they don't want any of this out there either.
One of his staffers who has been requested his presence up on the hill to discuss his role in meeting with Christopher Steele, the British spy who is involved with the dossier, and I'll get to that in a little bit too.
Now they've developed, remember we're talking about Obama spying on Trump, A memo that's about to be released by Devin Nunes, the head of the House Intelligence Committee here, that describes what happened.
It is going to devastate the Democrats.
It is going to destroy the Democrats because they are now going to be the party of the police state, knowing that Obama used the police state to spy on Trump.
And the Democrats are now inventing various narratives to stop the release of the memo.
This is important.
We have seen in the last few days a series of disingenuous false narratives released to stop the release of the memo that are not working.
So as one flounders, they move on to the next.
This is going to tie into the Fire Mueller story in a minute.
Narrative number one, which we discussed in the show two days ago, was the Adam Schiff, who is the swampiest of slimiest swamp rats.
This guy is disgusting.
He is a filthy human being.
He is the ranking Democrat in House Intel.
He is a police state tyrant.
Make no mistake.
He is the lead scoundrel fighting the release of - scoundrel is that even a word anymore?
Scoundrel. You scoundrel! He's the lead scoundrel fighting the release of this memo because he's
protecting the police state and the image of Barack Obama as a good guy which is about to
be annihilated. So his first theory out there that he threw out there to try and distract everyone
which of course the media jumped on was to release the memo hashtag on Twitter Joe was all Russian
We're all Russians, but like the modern day McCarthyism, Joe, if you tweeted release the memo, you're a Russian bot.
Well, that was debunked almost immediately, even by left-wing outlets that showed that, of course, it's very easy to do Twitter and social media backend analytics.
Twitter and Facebook figured out, Joe, unsurprisingly to anyone, That it was actually Americans who were tweeting release the memo who want government transparency.
Oh my gosh shocking to Democrats that you know Republicans and rank-and-file working-class American citizens want some government transparency.
I know Adam Schiff wants to protect the police state and all but that now keep in mind Joe is it you have to understand this folks.
Remember, Obama spied on Trump.
The Democrats need to cover it up.
The memo is going to expose them for what they are.
Police state tyrants who spied on Trump.
Schiff is the lead protector right now of the police state.
He has to lie publicly to make this memo disappear.
So first was released the memo is a Russian bot thing.
He knows it's a lie, by the way, because Schiffer is the big of a scoundrel as he is.
He is not stupid.
Do not underestimate the man.
He is tactically trying to be very smart here.
He then moved on to, we are going to release a counter-memo that is going to show that this is a partisan document and in fact not true and is designed to mislead you.
Now, Andy McCarthy has a terrific piece, as he always does at National Review, and Andy's a straight shooter.
Andy does not... Yes.
You know, I'm a little more emotional than Andy is.
Andy's a lawyer.
He was a DOJ lawyer.
He's been involved in some significant terrorism cases.
He's a brilliant guy.
I know Andy personally.
He's a wonderful guy personally as well.
Andy has a great piece at National Review where he says, listen, facts aren't partisan.
If you release the memo, Joe, it's either true or not.
In other words, did this stuff in the memo happen or didn't it?
You know, a partisan opinion would be something like, You know, saying, well, this is a neoconservative approach to foreign policy, and here's why I feel the way I do.
And, you know, there may be another way to say that.
Well, here's a liberal approach to foreign policy, here's an isolationist approach, and you're all going to bring a certain series of facts to the table that'll butchers your argument.
The memo, that's not what this is, folks.
Yes, it will be released by Republicans.
Nobody's disputing that.
But the stuff either happened or it didn't.
Either we accessed the metadata and spied on Trump's emails and his team's phone conversations, or we didn't.
Do you really think Devin Nunes is going to put his professional reputation on the line by saying things happen that didn't happen?
Again, Obama spied on Trump.
The memo is going to show that.
The Democrats and their media buddies and some swamp rat Republicans are absolutely committed to making this memo go away.
Story number one, Russian bots that disappeared.
Story number two, oh this is nothing but a partisan document.
There are no such things as partisan facts.
There are only partisan people who want to say facts are partisan.
Either we spied on the guy using the database, by the way the document Just so you understand, folks, the reason the memo has the Democrats freaked out is because it actually names names as well.
Now, Joe, you and I are not litigators, we're not lawyers, but I think it's incredibly obvious that if the document names names, number one, and procedures and methods here, That, number one, Nunes is not going to risk his reputation by lying about what's easily provable as happening or not happening, but secondly, you think for a second this guy's going to name names knowing his butt could be sued if this stuff didn't happen?
I mean, come on, folks.
I mean, let's be realistic here.
I know there are a lot of liberal hacks out there who don't want to believe anything that would reflect poorly on Obama, but just accept the fact that your goose is cooked.
It's cooked, you're caught!
This is your Watergate.
Matter of fact, my humble opinion, I think it's a measure worse.
This is your war?
Folks, listen, libs, take the ipecac.
You know ipecac, right?
You know what that is, right Joe?
If you swallowed a poison, they'd give you ipecac syrup, which is gross and make you throw up.
Just take the ipecac!
Take the ipecac!
It's coming!
Folks, have no fear.
Everybody emails me and says, why are you not so worried about people coming out in handcuffs?
That's not what I'm saying.
They may very well be arrested.
I'm just telling you folks, justice is coming in some form.
There is no way to hide what happened.
There are records of it!
There are names!
There are texts!
There's an ongoing OIG investigation, Office of Inspector General Investigation, by Michael Horowitz.
That is going to be damning for the Democrats!
Take it!
Take the tussin!
Ever see that Chris Rock skit about Robitussin?
Remember Joe, when you were kids they gave you Robitussin for everything, right?
Chris Rock is a great skid on this.
You break your leg, take a little tussin.
Yeah.
You have an ear infection, a little tussin will help.
That's true, when I was a kid, robotussin for everything, right?
Take the tussin!
Take it!
It's over!
Folks, I'm telling you, justice is coming.
Our country has very significant problems.
Yeah.
But even the hacked police state media, their hacked police state Democrat allies on the Hill, and the hacked police state liberal activists who are trying to enforce a new era of rogue government surveillance are not going to be able to succeed.
You can't hide this stuff anymore.
Walter Cronkite, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, David Brinkley, that era's over when they controlled the narrative.
You now have Drudge Report, you now have Conservative Review, you have Breitbart, you have Fox News, you have areas out there where people who, some are partisan, some are, and I do a lot of work with Fox, I know they make a very concerted effort to get both sides of the story out there, but they are not gonna cover for you anymore!
I'm sorry to drone on about this, folks, I have a lot to get to, but it's important you understand this.
Justice is coming, I'm telling you!
Do not fret.
They will not be able to hide from this.
Okay, getting back to my point.
Obama spied on Trump.
The memo lays it out.
The Democrats are now spinning.
Russian bots didn't work.
Partisan document didn't work.
Here now is option three for them.
Option one and two.
The price is wrong, Bob!
It's like the Showcase Showdown.
I'll take behind what's door number three, right?
Here's door number three.
Great, great, great, great piece in the Wall Street Journal today by Kim Strassel, who's doing amazing work.
I don't know her, never met her, but her pieces are just incredible.
I will link to it today in the show notes at Bongino.com.
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The email list, by the way, Joe, I didn't even tell you, is absolutely exploding.
Oh yeah.
And I think it's because we're providing really relevant material.
I will provide the latest Potomac Watch article by Kim Strassel at the Wall Street Journal, which describes option number three.
And option number three, Joe, is going to be interference by Trump here.
[GASP]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Shaggy?
Here's option number three.
So here's what they're doing now, and Strassel lays this out brilliantly.
A lot of you have emailed me and said, why is the Department of Justice, led by Jeff Sessions, a Trump appointee and a good man, why is the Department of Justice now sending a memo to Nunez and the committee saying do not release the memo until we see it.
Have you seen this story, Joe?
No, I haven't.
The DOJ, a guy named Boyd at DOJ, sent a memo a few days ago, and there's a story in the show notes about this, the Strassel story, read it.
And the memo says, guys, ladies on House Intel, whatever, do not release this memo.
We need to see it first.
Now, a lot of people have emailed me and said, Dan, I don't get it.
If the DOJ is led by Sessions, what is going on here?
Why is the Department of Justice telling Nunes not to release a memo which you're telling us is going to clearly lay out this entire Obama spied on Trump scandal and the corruption that went on?
Folks, you have to remember a couple things here.
Jeff Sessions, the Attorney General, the head of the Department of Justice, is formally recused from this.
He's not recused from Uranium One, in contrast to what a Republican congressman disingenuously put out there a while ago, but he's recused from this.
Sessions is not involved with the special investigation.
Rod Rosenstein is.
Rod Rosenstein is knee-deep in all of this.
Rod Rosenstein has fought from the beginning to make this all go away.
Why do you think they appointed their buddy Bob Mueller?
I told you if you listened to the show last week or the week before has been so many of them about Rosenstein's role in Uranium One and making that go away.
A lot of the stuff that went on in the Obama era and you know to be fair some of it in the Bush era especially with regard to spying.
A lot of this stuff the swamp rats do not want exposed Rosenstein being one of them.
Rosenstein doesn't want this information out there.
There's nothing Sessions can do to stop it.
So don't associate the DOJ letter with Sessions.
He's recused.
That was a mistake, the recusal, but it exists now nonetheless, Joe, and there's nothing he can do about it.
All right?
Does that make sense?
Did I clear that part up?
You're cool.
Now, getting back to option three for them.
Man, Russian bots didn't work.
It's a partisan document, the memo, that didn't work either.
That's gaining no traction.
Now, with Strassel, now I'm going to walk you through this slow because this is a very, very devious little plot, but it's critical you get it.
Good pick up by Strassel.
She says, the DOJ is not really writing this memo to Nunez.
They could just call Nunez up and ask, Joe.
Okay.
This memo was written for the press.
Now, why would it be written for the press?
Because remember what I told you during yesterday's show?
The whole purpose to the unmasking of U.S.
persons, air quotes, that were being spied on, using reverse targeting by the Trump team?
Because Joe, a legitimate question, as I said during yesterday's show, is who cares if they were reverse targeting?
In other words, targeting foreign officials, but really only targeting them so they could listen in on the U.S.
people they were talking to?
Why need the names?
You already know the reverse targeting.
If I know Joe's talking to a Russian and I listen in on Russian knowing he's talking to Joe because I'm really interested in Joe not the Russian, who cares if I have the name?
I know it's Joe.
Yeah.
And I said to you during yesterday's show the whole purpose of the unmasking was to attach a name for the purpose of a narrative in the media.
The media needs the names, not the people list.
You get what I'm saying, Joe?
In other words, all of what happened, the Obama spying scandal, Obamagate, was all done to feed information to the media to drive a narrative that Trump was corrupt and colluded with the Russians.
They used the Logan Act and the collusion narrative to drive this narrative in the event Trump was elected so that they could impeach him.
Because I've told you, impeachment is not... Folks, listen, I know what the Constitution says, but make no mistake, impeachment is a political, not a criminal process.
Everybody's committed a crime at some point.
Impeachment is a political process to drive down political capital, to wound a president so much, That they can have him impeached based on his lack of political capital to fight back.
The effort to drive the collusion Logan Act narrative through the media by attaching names to it was an effort to drive down Trump's political capital and approval so low that in the incredibly unlikely event that he got elected, which he did, it would be quick removal no matter what.
And Pence would be in fear of doing anything.
I like the way you explain that.
Yes.
Does it make sense?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, good.
Because Joe, you are the formal audience on BuzzFeed.
Yeah, that was good.
Now, this memo, that's getting back to the memo here, the DOJ memo.
The reason the DOJ memo was written, and they didn't just pay a visitor a call, well they maybe have to be some formal, but the reason it was, the press got a hold of this thing right away, is they're trying to send a, hey Joe I'm gonna give you a, you see the wink and a nod I'm giving you?
Oh yeah dad!
Hey Joe!
I'm giving Joe a goofy wink and a nod.
It was a goofy wink and a nod to the media that here is our third line of attack to stop the memo.
The third line of attack is we're going to release this memo saying to, you know, to Nunez, hey, there's some stuff in here that could be damaging to national security and wink, wink, nod, nod.
The president's reading this too.
And if the president doesn't, doesn't fail, you know, refuses to stop this, Joe.
In other words, if the president signs off on releasing this memo, Joe, what's, what's going to be, what are they going to move right on to?
Obstruction of justice.
The president's interfering in the Trump-Russia investigation by letting this information get out.
Thousands of Americans will die.
And thousands of Americans will die as always.
Play that again.
Give us an encore.
Thousands of Americans will die.
*laughter* Oh man, I love that one.
You see where I'm going with this, folks?
I said to you on a show, gosh, six months ago, maybe, I've been following this case for a very, very long time.
As I said to you about Derek for Real yesterday and Blow, one of these days, I'll give you, it'll all make sense.
One of these days when they allow me, I'll give up my source, it'll all make sense.
Who's your source?
Derek for Real!
All right?
I've been following this for a long time.
When the collusion narrative fell apart, which it really started to fall apart six months ago, you know why Joe?
Because there's no collusion!
You can't make two plus two equal ten!
Once the political capital of Trump started to rebound, it's now up to about 45% in his approval ratings due to the tax cuts, the Democrats needed a new story.
So the new story is going to be, well it's not new, it's old, I told you this six months ago, but the backup story was always going to be Trump obstructed justice by firing Comey.
Keep in mind, Comey's been corrupted the entire time.
Nothing Trump did is in any way a violation of any of his responsibilities.
Trump is perfectly within his purview to fire whoever he wants in the executive branch.
But I told you in the show six months ago, for you regular listeners, but for those of you just joining, you can go back and listen to the library.
I'm not making this up.
That once Collusion failed, they were going to move to obstruction of justice.
This memo, DOJ memo to Nunez, which Sessions can't stop.
Keep that in mind.
Is the DOJ laying the groundwork through the press, through the wink and a nod I'm giving Joe right now, that if Trump lets this memo out, that this could be interference, which would further buttress an obstruction of justice case that doesn't exist.
Whoa!
Folks, the swamp never, ever, ever stops.
And believe me, when this fails, which it's going to because public pressure to release this memo is unbelievably high right now.
And be patient with me.
It's coming out too.
I'm not lecturing anybody.
I'm not trying to be like, you know, some kind of preacher here.
But seriously, I'm just telling you based on what I'm hearing from very good people who are on our side, believe me.
Just be patient with Sessions and this memo.
It's coming.
There is a procedure here.
But they are in a panic!
Russian bots did it!
It's a partisan document!
Trump's gonna interfere!
Obstruction of justice!
Now!
I love how we weave this in.
I do.
I know that you should.
Self praise things.
I get it.
But I, Joe and I put a lot of work into this folks.
I'm really, I'm up like all day and night with this story, even with my travel schedule and the book and everything.
I love this story because it's so exposes how liberals are complete frauds.
They're worshiping Antifa violence.
They love the police state.
This is what they do.
And this story is going to expose them for all they are and all they've ever been.
Police state tyrants.
The leak is tied into the story I just told you.
So I have it labeled out.
Story number one, Joe.
Was memo obstruction.
The Democrats cannot release the memo because it's going to expose that Obama spied on Trump.
Keep it simple.
Kiss, right?
Keep it simple, stupid.
Occam's razor.
10-4.
Given all explanations except the one that's the most parsimonious and requires the least amount of explanation.
This is by far the simplest.
Obama spied on Trump.
The Democrats are trying to hide it.
They moved on to their third narrative now through a DOJ memo that if Trump signs off on the release of this, this is going to be interference.
Obstruction of justice.
Get him!
Release the hounds!
Now, that third narrative ties directly into the leak, which again, we predicted on what, Monday's show?
That you will now see a series of Bob Mueller special counsel leaks to distract from the memo.
Because this is what Bob Mueller's team does.
Now all of a sudden.
Keep in mind we're talking about something that allegedly happened seven months ago that inside White House sources say never happened and Trump adamantly denies.
Now all of a sudden you have a leak from Maggie Haberman at the New York Times who is a known partisan hack.
I would not trust Maggie Haberman if she told me you know the sky's blue.
I would double check it.
The New York Times, just to be clear, the same New York Times, which reported that Trump was being wiretapped in Trump Tower, and then when Trump tweeted he was being wiretapped, wrote pieces about how Trump was crazy.
Folks, this actually happened.
The same New York Times that reported to their credible source that Carter Page's visit to Moscow started the Trump investigation by the FBI.
And then reported just a few months ago that all that was garbage, that it was George Papadopoulos' meeting with Alexander Downer in a London bar.
Both stories can't be true.
But the New York Times sees no irony at all that their sources are telling him two different stories and they're reporting on it.
Are you like a crazy person?
Yes, you are like a crazy person.
This is the same New York Times that is now telling us the story yesterday.
Joe Bombshell, seven months ago, Trump threatened to fire Bob Mueller.
Elizabeth, I'm coming for you.
This is it.
The breaking news is that, by the way, Trump threatened to fire Mueller?
Anonymous sources have said this.
Joe, breaking news here, Mueller's not fired!
Yeah!
So the story here is, is what?
That Trump, in his internal deliberation, by the way, Trump's denying all of this and so are inside White House sources that any of this conversation even happened.
But even if it did happen, what's the problem?
Mueller is involved in a special counsel investigation into Trump for a crime that never happened.
And all of a sudden, the New York Times bombshell is that seven months ago, someone said, hey, you know what?
We may need to fire this guy.
You know, I got to tell you, I believe the Trump team because of the sourcing on his Maggie Haberman, which says to me it didn't happen.
But even if it did, I'm being serious.
What's the?
I don't get it.
What's the problem?
Me and you have said on this show that Mueller should have been fired.
Yeah.
The Trump team would be insane!
Insane to not discuss the expanding Mueller investigation into things entirely unrelated to his assignment.
I would be disappointed in the Trump team if they didn't discuss getting rid of Mueller.
Sure.
I don't get it.
That's your bombshell?
Now.
Keep in mind, I'm gonna tie this together here.
I told you these leaks were coming.
The first leak was at the interviewed sessions, which is a non-story, okay?
I don't even know why that was a story.
Neither.
The second leak, this is gonna be the fire Mueller leak.
He was gonna fire Mueller.
This is a leak strategically timed to rescue the third release the memo obstruction story, which is gonna be Trump interference through the DOJ memo.
The DOJ memo is a warning to Trump that if you sign off on this, we're going to move with obstruction of justice, buttressed by the leak, Joe, that he was going to fire Mueller.
Look, now it's definitely obstruction of justice.
He released the memo and he was going to fire Mueller seven months ago.
We got him.
Folks, these are devious, devious people.
These media hacks like Haberman, all of these Ignatius, all these insiders are being, you know, I, let me against my better judgment here, I'm going to try to do what they will never do.
These media hacks is I'm going to try to be fair for a second, because there's two possible explanations.
The first is that Haberman, Ignatius, and all these people that have been working with deep state bureaucrats to undermine Trump and advance false narratives.
First, collusion.
When that didn't work, now they're going to advance the obstruction of justice narrative at all costs.
The first is that they're really, really stupid and they are being played by deep state operatives here, swamp rats, swamp rodents, that desperately need to cover their butts and are using journalists to do it.
In other words, the obstruction of the memo.
They're using journalists to obstruct the memo by having them parrot talking points in this DOJ memo, right?
The second narrative is disturbing.
Very disturbing.
The second, I should say, theory on this is that these media people, and I've got a pretty reliable source on this that has been sending me stuff, This person believes that the media, they're not dumb, Joe, that they are actively involved in a swamp rat media collaboration to decimate Trump, lie about Trump, and really enforce the powers of the liberal police state.
Now that's, I mean, that's unbelievably disturbing.
In other words, we have a modern day Pravda, Russian propaganda media outlet.
That's disturbing stuff.
Folks, let me just tie up what I told you because I want to move on to something else here, but this is important.
Obama spied on Trump.
The memo will lay some of this out.
The memo will be deeply disturbing.
It is going to destroy the reputation of Barack Obama as some benevolent father figure.
It is going to show him to be the vengeful, narcissistic person he was, or at a minimum, his administration where he was in charge.
The memo does not reflect well on the deep state, okay?
Which I think we can all agree absolutely exists right now.
The swamp is very real.
The Democrats have invented now multiple false narratives to stop this because they have to.
Russian bots fell apart.
Partisan document, that fell apart.
They're now moving on to a DOJ memo saying, well, here's a hint to Trump.
Winking a nod.
This will be interference.
Interference could lead to obstruction of justice.
Oh, and by the way, what a conveniently timed link.
Trump threatened to fire Bob Mueller.
That could be obstruction of justice too.
Oh!
Convenient how that happens.
Is Maggie Haberman getting played?
Eh, I don't think so.
I think she's playing us.
They're all playing us.
Now, another prediction I made yesterday before I move on, on yesterday's show or the day before, was that... I'm just trying to show you, like, the sources are good, okay?
They're quality.
If they lead me astray and we say something that doesn't come true, I will absolutely tell you... I need a drink here.
My mouth's a little dry.
I told you you were going to see a stream, river, tsunami of civil lawsuits coming based on Melissa's prosecution of the Trump team and their associates.
That's starting.
I'll put an article today in the show notes by Kerry Pickett at the Daily Caller.
It does great work.
Read the article.
It's about a bunch of lawsuits that are coming out by Trump team people who feel like they were targeted by these swamp rat folks looking to take them out because they were associated with Trump, who are now having trouble with legal fees and things like that, who are now suing for damage to their reputations.
I told you.
You remember the show, Joe.
I told you what happened.
Read the piece.
It's a really good one.
You're going to start to see a lot of that.
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Another point on this I wanted to bring up, breaking yesterday, the release of these new Peter Stroke, Lisa Page text messages.
Stroke is the number two in counterintel under Bill Pricestep at the FBI.
Peter Stroke is intimately involved in the critical investigation of Hillary's email.
He is also involved in the interview of Mike Flynn.
Matter of fact, Peter Stroke is there for the interview of General Flynn.
Third, he's also involved in the Bob Mueller Special Counsel.
This is a big-time inside baseball player with the FBI on the Trump spying scandal.
He knows exactly what's going on.
He's having an affair with a lawyer named Lisa Page, works within the FBI, who is also involved in this.
And these two buffoons sent text messages on open phones back and forth over the period of a year which have been uncovered, and I told you they'd be uncovered, and now the text messages are leaking out in droves pursuant to the OIG, Office of Inspector General, investigation of what happened.
The messages are damning.
There were two specific messages that jumped out to me yesterday, Joe, that absolutely have to be addressed because of the troubling nature of what was in them.
At one point, February 25th of 2016, Stroke and Page are texting back and forth.
And in those texts, Stroke and Page are worried that they're talking about Hillary's email investigation and how they're going to have to interview Hillary.
And they're talking about how dangerous it would be to go in, quote, loaded for bear.
In other words, if we go in there really hard on Hillary Clinton, what are the consequences going to be?
Now what's interesting is at the end of one of these series of tweets, they worry if she's going to know it's more DOJ than FBI.
Now, this has been interpreted two different ways and I absolutely believe in the Trey Gowdy interpretation I heard last night on Fox and others are saying this too.
The first interpretation of that, is she going to think it's more DOJ than FBI, Joe?
Is if we go in there hard on Hillary in this interview about her emails is she gonna think the DOJ was asking us to do it?
Or the FBI and therefore if she gets elected president is she gonna punish us?
Right.
Do you see what I'm saying?
You see where I'm going with this?
More DOJ than FBI could be a punishment thing.
I don't buy that.
Gowdy who's seen this and is an experienced federal prosecutor Gowdy put out last night on Fox and I agree with him, Joe.
Theory number two.
The deuce.
Just like ate my mic there as Joe saw.
Which is pretty gross, by the way.
Theory number two on the more DOJ than FBI.
Is it Stroke, who is now the number two in counterintel, who's unquestionably a climber, in other words, aggressively looking to promote himself and his career, that this may have been the exact opposite?
That, in other words, if we don't go in there, quote, loaded for bear, right, Joe?
And we go easy on her, who's gonna get the credit?
Me, FBI, or DOJ?
In other words, I want her to know I did this!
Yeah, I see what, yeah.
Folks, why do I believe that?
One, Gowdy is not stupid.
I've had some beefs with Gowdy on stuff, but he's not dumb.
He understands the prosecution of legal cases and the accumulation of evidence in the furtherance of a criminal case.
I've worked these cases too for over a decade of my life.
Very complicated federal cases as a special agent.
I've also worked within the government bureaucracy.
Folks, this may be one of the most important things I ever relay to you.
It may not be a surprise, but to some of you I need you to understand, having been an insider, how critical what I'm about to tell you is.
99% of the federal bureaucracy, I can't speak for the state, I can only tell you where I worked, 99% of What happens in the federal bureaucracy is for advancement of individual careers, advancement of a political connection, or helping someone remain in office and retain some position of power.
About 1% is the United States government doing work for the American citizen.
You may say, Dan, come on, that's ridiculous.
That isn't, um, No, it's not.
I'm giving them the one percent to be generous.
It may actually be zero, zero, one percent.
My experience in the federal government is, and I'm not saying there's not a component of, in other words, in the Secret Service, of course, people want to keep the president alive and there are a lot of good people there.
But a lot of what people do is done to advance their own careers.
Not because they really care about anything that's going on with the American citizen.
Now, I say 1% because there are a lot of good rank-and-file FBI agents and Secret Service agents and Border Patrol officers and I believe a lot of these people find public service because they genuinely want to, you know, as a kid they grew up with a good sense of right and wrong and they want to be on the right side of it.
But they are the minority in the federal government.
You understand what I'm saying about this, Joe?
I sure do.
They are vastly outnumbered by bureaucrats and administrative hacks and climbers, even within the ranks of law enforcement like the FBI, who may do good things, Joe, but they're not doing them because they're good.
They're doing them because they're good for their careers.
Does that make sense?
Oh yeah.
Folks, I lived it.
I saw it every single day of my life.
I mean, I don't even want, let me just leave it at that because I don't want to, but I've, I've seen it.
People leverage their connections for them.
I bring that up because I, I am absolutely convinced that that more DOJ than FBI line, you know, who's going to get the credit that They're doing it because they are trying to, they went into that Hillary Clinton interview, these bureau agents, they went in there not to get information on Hillary and the crimes she may have committed, Joe.
Yeah.
But to make the connection in case she was president so that these guys would be in consideration for the next FBI director or some political promotion.
Take it to the bank!
I'm with door number two, yeah.
Darn right you are.
Because I've told you about a lot of how this works behind the scenes.
Secondly, hat tip to Nick Short here on Twitter, who put this one out this morning.
Let me read this, actually.
Let me pull it up on my phone.
I get the face ID now, so it's great.
I can just look at my phone.
There's another text, September 10th, 2016, by Peter Stroke, which, folks, I just saw this this morning, literally 10 minutes before we started recording, and I was like, I can't, I can't believe this is, I can't believe this was actually put in a text by a guy whose expertise is supposed to be in spy tradecraft.
My wife said yesterday, these are the two dumbest spy catchers we've ever seen in American history.
Stroke on September 10, 2016.
Before I read the text, when he references 302s, Joe, 302s are FBI memos written about interviews.
So if I interview you about a bank robbery, I'd write a 302 about what you said, okay?
So you have to understand what 302s are, you got it?
This is from Stroke, September 10, 2016.
There are very inflammatory things in the 302s we didn't turn over to Congress because they weren't relevant to understanding the focus of the investigation.
They're gonna come out in FOIA and absolutely inflame Congress.
I'm sure Jim and Tricia and Dave and Mike are all considering how things like that play out as they talk amongst themselves.
What the hell?
Are you serious?
You have a guy on a text who is supposed to be one of the lead spy catchers in the United States on an open text on an open network discussing suppressing information in formal FBI written documents that are a, by the way, folks, he has it in caps and bold that are very inflammatory.
Guys, ladies, It is clear as day this guy's stroke is an anti-Trump maniac who is leveraging his privileged position as an investigator into both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump to butter and kiss the boot, butter up to and kiss the boot of Hillary Clinton to get a position when she's elected president and to destroy Donald Trump at the same time.
It could not be more obvious at this point.
And you blinding yourself to that is really a testament to your low IQ.
Amazing.
All right, one more point here.
I'm going to include a great, great, great article in the show notes.
Please read it, folks.
I'm just asking you to take 10 minutes.
It will not take you more than 10 minutes to read the pieces I put in the show notes.
Maybe 20.
But there's a great piece in the New York Post by Paul Sperry.
Which is leading me down an interesting path here.
The gist of the piece is that the Fusion GPS dossier may not have, in fact, been controlled by Fusion GPS.
This is important, and it's pretty mind-blowing.
The piece was sent to me by someone, let's say, who said, take a look at this!
This is interesting.
Here's what's in it.
Christopher Simpson, excuse me, Glenn Simpson.
Glenn Simpson, who is running Fusion GPS, who is working for Hillary and the DNC, this is not a dispute, to produce negative opposition research on Trump, has this dossier.
The story the entire time, Joe, which you and I are familiar with at this point, is that the dossier Was put together by an ex-British spy who had Joe contacts in Russia.
Now what would that do if you're a media person?
Remember this isn't... Go back to the story number one.
All of this is being driven through leaks to the media to drive anti-Trump narratives, to drive his political capital down, to get him out of office, right?
The media needs to put an air of credibility on this dossier, Joe.
They can't just say, oh, Hillary paid for fake information on Trump and then report on it as journalists.
They'd be laughed at.
But the journalists want to take out Trump.
You see where I'm going with this?
So they need an air of respectability to all this fake information about Trump in the dossier.
Now, what a lot of folks have been playing with, the running theory has been, well, okay, it was accumulated through this Christopher Steele, who got it from Russian Intel, but Christopher Steele was an MI6 agent who had contacts in Russia.
Oh, wait, wait, wait, timeout, TO, red flag, under the hood for review.
Sperry has an amazing piece in the New York Post where he says, you sure about that?
Because he shows that it wasn't in fact Christopher Steele Who was paying those Russian contacts for the information.
And remember, keep, don't forget this, Joseph.
The media needs that to be true because it lends an air of respectability to the information, right?
Oh, a British agent.
Oh my gosh.
Sperry's piece is pretty incredible because Sperry says it wasn't him.
It was Simpson directly who was being paid by Hillary.
To contact this guy named Ed Baumgartner, who was the source of a lot of this Russian intelligence that turned out to be fake.
Ladies and gentlemen, why does that matter?
Because again, if the dossier is used and sworn to in court by FBI agents as a means to spy on Trump and a FISA warrant, to cover their tracks in a spying scandal, And now the information that was once attributed to a connected British agent has now been added to the dossier by nothing more than Glenn Simpson himself who's working for Hillary.
You have a complete hijacking of the FBI and the entire DOJ.
Let me read you a quick line from this piece but read the whole thing it's damning.
Turns out at one point Simpson in his testimony, Simpson who's working for Hillary using GPS, talks about how There were primary subcontractors used to get the information, Joe.
Now it was always assumed that those subcontractors were working for Steele, the British agent.
That's important.
Right.
They need credibility.
But here's a line from the Sperry piece.
But it turns out the primary subcontractor worked not for Steele, but for Simpson at Washington-based Fusion GPS, and he contributed key material for the investigation of Trump underwritten by the Clinton campaign.
His name is Edward Baumgartner, a British national who speaks fluent Russian and runs a PR shop out of London and who spent 2016 tweeting his forceful opposition to Trump candidacy.
Oh!
Oh, that stings.
Float like a butterfly, sting like a darn bee.
That one hurts.
So now you've got a dossier.
The media needed Steele to be real, man.
Because there you- Oh, a British agent, man.
MI6 guy was like James Bond.
Look at him.
Now he's more like Inspector Gadget.
Because now the money trail's being traced to a PR rep out of London who hated Trump the entire time, whose information may have been used to spy on the Trump team and sworn to.
Holy crikeys.
What the hell is going on here, folks?
Again, just to tie it all together back to number one.
Obama spied on Trump.
The memo is going to expose it.
The swamp is in a panic.
They used the media the entire time to drive down Trump's approval ratings through phony, made-up, disingenuous charges on Flynn, through phony narratives about collusion.
They are now going to desperately try obstruction.
But the real obstructionists and the real colluders were the Democrats the entire time.
It's devastating stuff.
All right, one last thing, because I know this Trump story has been so encompassing the show, and I know you're interested in it, but I do want to cover some things going on just quickly here in the news.
Hey, there's been a big push.
lately to move towards a weaker dollar by people within the Trump cabinet.
A weak dollar folks, which it's a mercantilist approach to the approach to the economy that's not going to work.
What does it mean?
I just want to get real simple for you and because I again I really like what the president's doing but I do and I am a supporter.
I think we're moving 99% in the right direction but once in a while we get a setback and I think this is a big mistake.
The idea behind a weak dollar is, let me just explain it to you in analogy, uh, that people would buy more American stuff.
And on its face, if you don't think past the first order effects, it would make sense.
So Joe, if $1 and 1 euro is the exchange rate, then I could go to Europe and exchange my $1 and get a euro and buy something in Europe for a euro.
Let's say it's a bobblehead doll.
And let's say that the bobblehead doll is a dollar and the bobblehead doll is a euro.
Whether you buy it in the United States or Europe, Joe, doesn't matter.
All right.
Because the dollar is worth one euro.
So whether I buy the bobblehead in America for a dollar, or I buy the bobblehead in Europe for a euro, it doesn't matter because the dollar is worth a euro.
It doesn't make a difference.
You see what I'm saying?
Yep.
Very simply stated, weak dollarists, this is a huge mistake by the way because it usually means a weak economy, their theory here is well if we weaken the dollar Joe, Which by proxy makes, let's say, the euro stronger, right?
Right.
So if you weaken the dollar and cut its value by half, then what do you get for a euro?
Two dollars.
Right.
Because you just cut the value of the dollar in half.
So when a euro was worth a dollar the day before, now the euro strengthens because the dollar weakens.
Now the euro buys two dollars.
So the theory here by mercantilists and bad economists is that, well, that's great!
You could buy two bobblehead dolls in America and look, bobblehead producers would be going crazy, hiring people.
And now, if you're listening and you stop at phase one here, which is what liberals do, and some bad economists, you'd say, well, what's the problem, Joe?
So what?
We just get a lot more jobs for bobblehead producers?
We sell more bobbleheads?
Folks, the problem here is twofold.
Number one, the bobblehead is not produced, as a matter of fact, almost nothing in the United States is produced exclusively with American-made products.
So if the bobblehead doll producer has to get his plastic for the bobblehead from Europe, he now has to pay twice as much to get a euro!
Because he now has to give up two dollars to get one euro to buy plastic for the bobbleheads!
So what does he do?
He raises the price of the bobbleheads to account for his new cost to import the plastic because the dollar's weak, which now raises the cost of the bobblehead to $2.
Meaning you now have no gain at all.
Before the weak dollar, $1 bought you one bobblehead.
After the weak dollar, you're now paying two dollars for one bobblehead.
Because the global supply chain, folks, is broken up.
We're not living in the world we were living in 200 years ago when you produced tobacco in your yard and sold it to your neighbor.
The global supply chain is entirely integrated now.
Weakening the dollar will do nothing to make people buy more bobbleheads.
They will only make bobbleheads more expensive.
Secondly, why this is a horrible idea.
Other countries are not going to take this lying down.
Mario Draghi overseas in Europe is already talking about, well now we need to weaken the euro too.
So we weaken the dollar Joe.
People in, remember you cut the dollar's value in half.
Yep.
That means it strengthens the euro.
The euro now buys, say, two dollars instead of one.
But what do the Europeans say?
Well, we want to make our products more competitive, too.
So we're going to weaken the euro and make two dollars worth two euros.
Now all of a sudden, people who even were thinking about buying bobbleheads in the United States because the dollar was weak are now going to say, well, the Europeans just weakened their euro, too.
Let's just go right back to Europe.
And then what do you do?
Then you say, well we gotta weaken the dollar further!
And then the Europeans say, well we gotta weaken the euro further!
We gotta weaken the dollar further!
And what do you get?
How do you weaken the dollar and weaken the euro?
By inflation.
You print more money.
You print more and more and more, which makes the money you have now worth less and less and less.
And all of a sudden you have rampant inflation, prices going out of control around the world, and a basically race to the bottom in the global economy.
Folks, this is a huge mistake.
When you correlate success of the United States economy over time, it is correlated almost exactly with a strong, not a weak US dollar.
This is a big mistake by Mnuchin, I'm sorry.
A huge mistake.
We need a strong, not a weak US dollar, and we should not pursue policies which do this.
And when I say mercantilist, I mean focusing exclusively on trade deficits is a mistake.
The money has to come back to the United States.
When we send the dollar overseas to buy foreign products, the dollar can't be spent overseas.
It's converted to the local currency, it's in a foreign bank, and the dollar can't be spent there.
It has to come back to the United States.
Whether it buys U.S.
products, buys U.S.
debt, we're getting lost in this trade deficit and this weak dollar approach is an effort for us to produce more to sell to other people when other people are producing it cheaper.
Does that make sense, Joe?
Yeah.
You think so?
I can see you're... I was just thinking about the weak Eurostream.
Yeah, yeah, it's important.
Dude, you know, if I didn't see you, I wouldn't have gotten that.
Of course.
Joe's always got one of these doozies.
He flies out there.
Always at the end of the show, too, when I'm not paying attention.
No, it's important because this is going to be a big push.
And it's a big, big, big mistake, folks.
The weak dollar will lead, just to sum up here, will lead to two things.
The broken global value, the value chain's global now.
Everybody, it's not going to increase exports because we have to import stuff to export stuff.
And secondly, it's going to cause international global competitors to just weaken their own currency.
You're going to have a race to the bottom and you're going to look at inflation.
Your money is going to be worth less.
It's as simple as that.
All right, folks, thank you for another great week of shows.
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