Summary:
In this episode I uncover more troubling links between the Mueller team and the Clinton operation. I also address some positive economic developments and a Supreme Court ruling that will deeply impact the liberals' plans for the administrative state.
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This piece debunks the myth that Trump is being “investigated by Republicans.”
More disturbing conflicts in the Mueller probe.
Do NeverTrumpers actually have an opinion outside anti-Trump vitriol?
Is Comey lying about Mike Flynn?
This piece clears up the confusion about the recent Supreme Court ruling regarding deportation and Gorsuch’s rationale.
Is a political revolt brewing in California?
An older story about Mueller recruiting anti-Trumpers for his special counsel.
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Get ready to hear the truth about America with your host, Dan Bongino.
Hi, welcome to the Dan Bongino Show.
Producer Joe, how are you today?
Always glad to be here, Dano.
You know, so I wake up this morning and I'm like, man, I don't know what we're going to talk about today.
How do we match yesterday's show?
Biggest show ever, ever, ever.
In the history of the Dan Bongino Show, 24 hours, by using a 24-hour metric.
Most downloaded show in the history, and believe me, the numbers yesterday were.
If you were an advertiser on yesterday's show, you did quite well.
Put it that way.
We destroyed it yesterday, thanks to you.
So I appreciate it.
So I wake up this morning, Joe, I'm like, what are we going to talk about today?
And I thought, it's not going to be, how do we match yesterday's show?
And I just couldn't find anything.
And about an hour ago, I remembered a link I'd seen.
I'm like, boom, I've got it.
You will not in any way be disappointed if you loved yesterday's show.
First, quick shout out.
Shockingly, because you know I'm not a big fan at all of Mitch McConnell, Joe, but Mitch finally did something right.
This stupid, ridiculous, unconstitutional, anti-Trump, nonsensical bill that was going to stop him from firing the special counsel, which he's already said he's not going to do, but I think he should.
McConnell has said, no thanks, we're not going to vote on that on the Senate floor, but thanks for playing, fellas.
Finally, finally.
So, you know, it's only fair when they do the right thing to say good job.
For once.
Thanks.
Pick up your parting prizes at the door.
By the way, Trump was never going to sign that stupid bill anyway, and it would have been thrown out by the courts in a heartbeat.
But Tom Tillis from North Carolina, Republican senator, by the way, keep trying.
Keep trying.
I mean, this guy's unbelievable.
Is there a Republican senator who is more concerned with putting their handcuffs on Trump's actual constitutional powers than he is about improving the lives of American citizens at this point?
Stop wasting our time, Tillis.
And if you're in North Carolina, email, call his office.
Be cool about it, but let him know this is just straight-up dumb.
Maybe we should sign a bill preventing Tom Tillis from voting on anything in the Senate.
But why not, Joe?
If we're gonna waste our time with stupid unconstitutional stuff, let's do that too.
Good!
Good!
Yeah, Neanderthal Joe.
Caveman Joe.
Neanderthal idea.
Yeah, there we go.
It's been a while.
It is.
It's very stupid.
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I got some economic stories and some other stuff, but I uncovered something this morning on an article I'd been looking at a while ago that just blew my mind.
That was spurred on by a Victor Davis Hanson article at National Review, which will be in the show notes today, which is terrific.
It's at bongino.com.
Please check it out.
If you subscribe to my email list, I'll email it to you.
Sorry if I'm talking fast, I just want to get to it.
The core of the article is, the operating thesis, is that there is collusion in DC, and it is amongst the anti-Trump crowd trying to get him out of office.
But he mentions a few names at the end, which are going to blow your mind, because it made me think of something I had read a long time ago, and I hunted and I hunted and I hunted, and I finally found it.
It was at Wired.com.
It was a June 14th, 2017 article at Wired.com about the composition of the Mueller special counsel team looking into Trump.
For those of you out there, again, who amazingly still seem to believe Mueller's a good guy.
It's a small group of you.
Not a knock on you.
Do your thing.
I'll do my thing.
That's cool.
He is not a good guy.
This is a smokescreen.
I'm sorry to keep beating you to death with this, but if you don't understand this and this case, you don't understand how the republic is collapsing right now.
The real crimes were committed by the Obama and Hillary team.
Mueller knows people involved with the Hillary team and the Obama team.
He's bringing those same people in to target Trump, knowing they know about the Hillary crimes and they'll all go away.
I found two more and I want a big hat tip here to Victor Davis Hanson.
And I'm going to read something also from this Wired magazine because it's just incredible.
Who else is on Mueller's team investigating the president?
Do tell.
This is insane!
I'm not making this up.
This is from the piece, okay?
And this was at the old wired.com piece.
This is what made me think of it, right?
In the small world of Washington legal and political circles.
This is a quote from Victor Davis Hanson.
Mueller investigator Aaron Zebley was Mueller's chief of staff while Mueller was the FBI director.
And he was yet another partner at WilmerHale.
Who is this Aaron Zebley by the way?
He's on the special counsel team investigating Trump.
So Aaron Zebley, just so we're clear Joe, Worked with Mueller at the law firm he worked at, WilmerHale, and was also his chief of staff.
Okay, what's the problem?
So Mueller picked people to investigate Trump, who he knows.
Oh.
Oh, wait.
Oh, there's another person he worked for?
I continue.
I know this guy, by the way.
The guy that I'm gonna get.
This is why this is such a big deal to me.
And I was like, boom!
How did I forget that?
Zebley had recently represented Justin Cooper.
Cooper, remember, testified that he had set up Hillary Clinton's private server and then used a hammer to destroy some of her mobile devices, leaving the FBI unable to acquire them during its investigation.
So let me get this straight.
Again, Mueller's a good guy, right?
For some of you out there who believe, or some of you don't believe, some of you just believe, oh, he's non-partisan, he's doing his thing.
Don't you worry.
Mueller's going to come out and be vindicated at the end.
He's really operating against the Clintons.
Really?
He's operating against the Clintons using an attorney on his special counsel who represented the guy who actually destroyed the server and the BlackBerrys.
Explain to me again how that's not a conflict.
Let me just walk you through what I just said again, folks.
Listen, I love that you listen.
I really do.
But for those, I can't understand.
It's a very small group.
The 99.9% of the emails I get from listeners are overwhelmingly positive.
I am not attacking anybody.
I love that you're here.
I love the diversity opinions.
I love the emails back and forth.
But you email me.
I can't email back personally.
So this is the way I debate.
I get a few emails still insisting Mueller's some kind of white knight in this.
Mueller's a white knight in this who's going to somehow find or refer, as he did with Cohen, the lawyer.
He referred that to the Southern District, meaning I can't look into this because it's not Russian related, but I'm going to refer it somewhere else.
You're suggesting to me he's going to find evidence of this Clinton thing and refer it elsewhere when one of his lead Special counsel investigators he's using was the lawyer who represented the guy who was involved in the destruction of the Hillary Clinton server.
That's what you're telling me with a straight face.
I know Justin Cooper, by the way, from my Secret Service days.
Well, he is as close to the Clintons as the Clintons are to each other.
Justin Cooper is as tight in the Clinton circle as you're going to get.
Justin Cooper is the guy who's been implicated in the entire email scandal, was represented by a guy Mueller's using now to go after Trump.
Oh, but don't worry, they're gonna find evidence on the Clintons someday, too.
Do you understand now, again, how Mueller's the only guy?
He's the only guy so deeply connected to the swamp and the swamp rats that he's the only guy who could have been appointed to the special counsel to keep the attention exclusively on Trump while hiring people who would never ever look into the Clintons.
I'm serious.
Email me back again how the lawyer who represented the guy implicated in an email scandal is investigating Trump but mysteriously Joe gonna find information on the Clintons when he probably already knows it.
When he already knows it.
Remember, Obama's lawyer in the White House is representing a guy cooperating against a guy, Eric Prince, who claims to have information from a source about Clinton's emails on Weiner's computer.
I discussed that yesterday and on my NRA TV show.
Thank you all for watching, by the way.
It's available at 5 30 p.m.
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Last night's show was a bombshell.
We got tremendous reviews on it.
It's a half an hour and we do stuff you're not gonna hear anywhere else.
But I covered this again last night using visuals.
Eric Prince.
Eric Prince, the former founder of Blackwater.
Well, he was the founder, but he doesn't own the company anymore.
Prince claimed to have information from a source in the NYPD about hugely destructive email chains found on Wiener's computer about the Democrats, the Clintons, the Epstein plane, money laundering, and that Prince was then targeted by the Mueller investigation and the lawyer representing the guy cooperating in it was Obama's former White House counsel.
But again, don't worry, Mueller's a good guy.
It's all fair, folks.
How do you bring a guy on your team, Aaron Zebley, who represented a guy involved in the Hillary email scandal?
How do you do that?
You think I'm done?
I'm not done yet, by the way.
Here's another one from the Victor Davis Hanson piece.
Please read it.
I think it's at the end of the show notes.
Hey, sorry, one quick note on the show notes from yesterday.
Some of you were confused, and that's my fault.
The article I put in there, About the Soros wedding from Reuters.
I didn't clarify it enough.
I put in the show notes, like, hey, look who was the judge at the Sean Hannity thing.
And then I just clicked on the... Some of you went, well, why does this have to do with the Soros wedding?
Because the judge who ruled on the Hannity issue with Cohen is the same judge who officiated the wedding.
But I should have been more clear on it.
Some people thought it was a bad link.
It was not a bad link.
It was just worded poorly by me, so it's my fault.
Okay.
From the Victor Davis Hanson piece, Joe.
This gets even better.
So now we know Mueller's special counsel team is led by Andy Weissman, a noted Democrat who hates Trump, who emailed Sally Yates applauding her for defying Trump on the travel ban when she was deputy attorney general.
He's a big Democratic donor.
He ruined the Enron investigation.
Andy Weissman, he's leading the team.
We know Zebley's on the team to investigate Trump.
So it's led by a Democrat.
Zebley's on the team who represented Justin Cooper, a Clinton insider involved in the email fiasco.
Here's another member of Mueller's special counsel team.
Jeannie Rhee, who also was at WilmerHale, which was Mueller's law firm.
So he picked her too, Joe.
Jeannie Rhee.
That's a new one on me.
This, I remember this one too.
I just, forgive me.
It's been so much information swirling around in this toilet bowl of events.
You forget stuff.
More from the piece about Jeannie Rhee from Victor Davis Hanson.
She was another significant donor of the Clinton campaign effort.
And she was another Mueller attorney who had represented someone deeply involved in a recent Clinton scandal.
Oh, oh, what scandal is that?
What scandal is that?
Jeannie Rhee, again a member of Mueller's special counsel, had recently represented not only the Clinton Foundation, also represented by Kathy Rumler, White House lawyer for Barack Obama, who also worked with Andy Weissman on the Enron case.
Rumler.
Weissman.
Rumler.
Weissman.
Weissman-Rhee.
Weissman-Zebley.
Weissman-Democrat donor.
So the Clinton Foundation is now represented by two lawyers.
Follow me.
The Clinton Foundation is represented by two lawyers.
Both are connected to Mueller and his investigation.
The Clinton Foundation is represented by Jeannie Rhee, who is now on the special counsel investigating Trump.
Yes, but don't worry, Joe.
Again, Mueller's a good guy.
He's snake eyes to the storm shadow for you G.I.
Joe fans.
Mueller's a good guy.
Seriously, are you nuts?
Jeanne Rhee represented the Clinton Foundation.
Who else represented the Clinton Foundation?
Catherine Rumler, Obama's lawyer.
Catherine Rumler worked with Andy Weissman and Bob Mueller on the Enron case.
Yes, I said that right.
Obama's lawyer worked with Andy Weissman, the guy leading the special counsel, and Bob Mueller on the Enron case.
Nothing to see here, folks.
Don't you worry.
Mueller's gonna clean this right up.
He has no conflicts at all.
We like to keep it all in the family, Danny.
I was wondering what you were doing there.
We don't need you to be spreading this gobbledygook around.
Should I be worried?
Don Joey Bag of Donuts?
Get closer to your enemies.
We have a new character.
Don Joey.
Don Joey B. I was wondering what you were doing.
I see him like inching up to the mic and I'm like, what is he doing here?
That's a new character.
I like that.
Caveman Joe.
Now we have Don Joe.
I am.
I'm a little worried.
Maybe I should move into like a double gated community.
That might be a good idea.
So Jeannie Rhee, another member of the Special Counsel, represented the Clinton Foundation along with Kathy Rumler, Obama's lawyer, too.
But who else did Jeannie Rhee, who's on the Special Counsel investigating Trump, who else did Jeannie Rhee represent?
Oh, Ben Rhodes!
Obama's National Security Advisor.
She represented him during the investigation of the 2012 Benghazi terror attack, and in Clinton's role in creating the conditions for the attack, and then covering it up.
Holy cow.
Joe, just read the piece, folks.
Read the piece.
Just read the piece.
Again, Mueller's a non-partisan.
Forget the good guy.
I think we've pretty much made the case.
If you still believe that, I'm sorry, I can't help you.
But for even those who believe on the liberal side, oh no, Mueller's entirely non-conflicted.
He's got a history of service to the country.
He's going to act in a non-partisan manner.
Are you sure about that?
His special counsel team is stacked with Democrats and people who know the intimate details of the Clinton scandal.
But yes, he's going to use lawyers who represented people in the Clinton scandal to go after the Clintons.
That makes a world of sense, folks.
By the way, he also has personal relationships with them.
Does that make any sense to you?
Now, Matt Palumbo has an unbelievable piece at my website today under the debunk this section at Pongino.com.
I will put in the show notes about the myth, the myth and this Facebook meme, which is making its way around Facebook, Joe, that, oh, Mueller, Trump is being investigated by Republicans.
Oh, Rosenstein, Mueller, Comey.
Read the piece by Matt.
I have a quick screenshot from it.
I'll read off to you.
Matt did some good work on this.
It's a short piece, but it's great.
Be at the show notes today.
Not a single one, this is from Matt's piece, of the 17 publicly confirmed attorneys on Mueller's team is a registered Republican.
Yes, but he's being investigated by all Republicans, except for the fact that none of them actually are.
9 of the 17 are registered Democrats, Joe.
And at least 10 of the 17 members of the team, confirmed members of the special counsel investigating Trump, at least 10 of the 17 have made political donations to Democrats, including Hillary Clinton.
But yeah, keep telling everybody with this stupid meme on the internet that yes, yes, Trump is being investigated only by Republicans.
I'm sure that makes a lot of sense to you.
Now, if you've been listening to the show closely, so now you understand just to back out a second what we're talking about because I want to take this to another direction and why I still haven't closed the loop on why that Wired.com article was interesting to me that I read a while ago and why it creeped back in my head this morning.
Got it.
I'm going to get to that in a second, but let me close the loop on the other part.
So again, the assertion I'm trying to make to you is this investigation into Trump is nothing more than a smoke grenade to cover up the Clinton crimes.
They are going to investigate this thing to death.
They will find crimes on everyone.
Jaywalking, mattress tag ripping, felonious mopery, piracy on the open seas.
They will keep this going perpetually if they have to.
To keep the attention on Trump so that DOJ and Trump never investigate the Hillary crimes.
Mueller brought in people specifically who understand the Hillary crimes.
That way they can make these things, nothing else makes sense, that way they can make him go away and investigate Trump.
It makes no sense in the world.
The people he brought in have every incentive in the world through their connections to Obama and the Clintons to make the Obamas go away, the Clintons go away, and to investigate Trump to death.
That's all, that's their only interest in this thing.
I think we've made that point firm.
Now I want to show you another, one more piece of information from an old piece.
about Mueller and who he was looking to put on the team.
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Now, I go back to this wired.com piece, which I will put in the show notes again today.
It's an older piece.
It's from June.
Of 2017.
And this is interesting because it's before any of the text messages had broken from the two lovebirds, Paige and Stroke.
I want to read to you something, a piece, and this should really cook those eggs over easy or sunny side up pretty darn good.
Also, while Special Counsel's Office, talking about Mueller obviously, has yet to make any formal announcements about Mueller's team, it appears he has recruited an experienced Justice Department trial attorney, Lisa Page, a little-known figure outside the halls of Maine Justice.
Folks, is that crazy?
Bob Mueller, according to this, this is not me saying it.
This is a Wired.com piece.
I'll have it in the show notes at the end.
Read it yourself.
Bob Mueller was actively recruiting Lisa Page.
They acknowledged who was little known.
Why would Bob Mueller go for Lisa Page?
Now, Lisa Page, by the way, the paramour of Peter Stroke, the two lovebirds that were texting each other back and forth about how much they hated Donald Trump, about an insurance policy against Donald Trump, About how the president wanted to know everything.
That's their text, Lisa Page.
You may say, fairly enough, if you're a liberal listener, you may say, well, Dan, to be fair, Comey got rid of Lisa Page and Peter Stroke off the team.
He did recruit them for the team.
Yes, only after the text became public.
What I'm suggesting to you is, are you seriously telling me, given Mueller's history of recruiting Clinton insiders, Zebley, Rhee, working at least with Rumler on this prosecution using Nader?
Lisa Monaco, who was a big proponent of this, having worked for Mueller in the past.
She wasn't on the special counsel, but having worked for Mueller in the past.
Are you suggesting to me that he wasn't aware that Lisa Page couldn't stand Donald Trump?
How do we know that?
We've seen her texts.
Mueller was actively recruiting Lisa Page.
They acknowledged she was little known, so why bother?
Folks, this is more evidence that Mueller was actively seeking anti-Trumpers out.
The only reason he let Page go was because the texts became public.
That's it!
I'm telling you, I think he already knew Lisa Page couldn't stand Donald Trump.
That's why he recruited her.
Let me read that to you again.
Sorry, I actually took it off my own screen.
He has recruited an experienced Justice Department trial attorney, Lisa Page, a little known figure outside the halls of main justice.
So she's little known, what's she going to offer to the investigation?
The answer is she's going to offer anti-Trump animosity, which is what they needed.
Lisa Page was also involved with the Clinton email scandal as well.
Folks, this is a smoke screen.
How much more evidence do you need?
It's building by the day!
Now, I want to give you a little good news on this, because I am getting a lot of emails from people like, I can't, it's overwhelming when nothing's going to happen.
Folks, something is going to happen.
Because here's the two scenarios I see here.
If Trump gets wiped out in the midterms, I mean, obviously he's not on the ballot, but the congressional seats are in a third of the Senate.
If the Democrats take over, it is going to be open season on both sides.
Let me be clear about what's gonna- because I don't want you to leave with any kind of vagueness about what I'm saying.
If the Republicans lose the House and the Senate, there is no question in my mind impeachment will be one of the first things on the board of Democrats.
None.
Trump is a warrior.
This guy's a fighter.
You may not like him.
I do.
I support the president when, you know, when he needs it.
And I hope I could provide some advice through my show when I think they're steering down the wrong path.
But I think this president is doing the right thing, generally speaking, here for us.
And I think he's done a darn good job.
But this guy, do not mistake for a minute, this guy's got a queen's heart in him.
I know Queens.
That's where I grew up.
And as I've always told you about Queens, the problem with people from Queens, me included, is we never had the wealth or prestige of the Manhattan kids.
By the way, don't sell any of this short.
If you think I'm making this up or making overgeneralizations, just go to Queens.
All the kids are like this.
We never had the wealth or prestige of the Manhattan kids.
And we were never considered as tough as the Brooklyn kids.
A lot of these Queens kids, me included, always had something to prove.
Always.
It made you tougher than the Brooklyn kids in some respect.
And it made you hungrier than the Manhattan kids, a lot of them who were born with money.
That was Trump.
This guy is not going to go down without a fight.
I say this because if he loses, I am telling you right now, it's going to be a full-bore effort to expose all of this stuff that actually happened.
And it's not going to be retribution, it's going to be honesty for once.
Don't mistake what I'm saying.
This stuff happened.
Clinton email scandal, ObamaGate spying.
He knows this, Trump.
I'm telling you he knows this.
I'm telling you behind the scenes, things are happening at DOJ.
Not as quickly as I'd like.
As I said to you before, Rosenstein's a disaster.
Mueller's a disaster.
They both have to go.
But for all the anger against Sessions, I know things are happening behind the scenes.
You got to trust me on that.
The ship's going to hit the lam.
It has to.
It has to.
This is not going to be... It can't go on forever.
Sooner or later, the American people will grow unbelievably frustrated.
You are going to see You're going to see people really at the voting booth get extremely upset, and if none of this changes, you're going to see increasing calls for states to just start ignoring what's happening.
I've said it, I wrote it in my second book.
I want to be careful here because liberals are wackos and they'll suggest, like, because this is what they do and they make stuff up.
I'm not suggesting there's going to be some kind of civil war here.
As a matter of fact, if you ever listen to me on the radio, you know my commitment to nonviolent, you know, extreme nonviolent resistance in some cases is what makes a difference.
It matters to me.
It does.
It's easy for me to get on the radio and be the tough guy.
Listen, that's not what I do here, okay?
But as I wrote in my book, there are going to be heavily aligned Republican states who have voters that speak out who are just not going to take it anymore, Joe.
And you're going to see a disaggregation effect.
You're going to see basically a collapse of the Republic.
You're going to see states that are going to engage in soft secession efforts, where they're just going to say, we're just not going to listen anymore.
California, by the way, is already doing it on the liberal front.
Some states have already done it with drug laws.
But as this continues, the prosecution, the potential impeachment of Trump, the targeting of Republicans, the boycotting of Republicans, liberals, what they're not ready for, folks, I'm sorry, I don't mean to drone on on this, but this is important because I know some of you, you feel depressed and you shouldn't.
The fight is what matters.
But liberals have no heart.
You need to understand this.
You, the listeners of this show, the conservatives and the libertarian patriots out there, you're the ones with heart.
This matters to you.
Liberals are not ready for this fight.
Do you understand?
They are not ready for ideological, liberal dopes, ideological trench warfare.
They are not ready for it.
Joe, you and I have been in this game, you a lot longer than me, but having been on the political side, I've seen it.
Yeah, me too.
These liberals, Joe, they grow up pampered.
Even if they don't grow up pampered, they go to academia where if their feelings are hurt, they go to a safe space and they color, paint by numbers, color forms.
They get a snow cone.
You know, they're not exposed to conservatives.
When they are, they go, hate speech, hate speech, and they run away.
They're not ready.
We are hardened, ideologically hardened.
We've been attacked as istophobic, phobophobic, racist, misogynistic, transphobic, none of it true.
Homophobic, Islamophobic, as I tell you, istophobic, phobophobic, phobophobes.
I'm gonna put that on a shirt once we get the store rocket.
We have been attacked forever.
We've been attacked on basic facts where we've been forced to go back and read and read and read and our brains and our emotions, our souls, our spirits are battle-hardened for this.
They're not ready!
They're not ready for what's going to happen when they impeach the president.
When they come after Republicans.
Again, Hannity, Limbaugh, Beck, Levin, whatever.
When they come after everybody, they boycott.
They don't understand we're ready.
Boycott me?
I got my savings.
I'm okay.
I'm ready for it.
I'm not getting off the air no matter what.
You kick me off the air, we'll go somewhere else.
And I don't say this out of any sense of arrogance or conceit or pretension.
I know my audience will follow.
I am good.
I am ready.
I conditioned my mind, my body, everything for this fight.
That's why it says on my Twitter feed, born for this fight.
This is my mission.
I am here for this.
This fight defines me.
I would be nothing without this fight.
It literally defines me.
Outside of my role as a son of Christ, a parent, And a spouse to my beautiful wife.
This fight defines my entire life.
I would be nothing without it.
I relish it.
I relish the pain of waking up every morning, finding a new element of corruption to fight back, and you should too.
This is what hardens you.
This is what makes that steel in the fire, boom, boom, hitting that hammer.
Liberals are not ready.
They're not ready for what's going to happen when they continue destroying people culturally, economically, and politically, when one day, Joe, they wake up and go, ah, pardon me, but a big F, mm, mm, mm-hmm.
They're not ready.
They sit there in their pajamas drinking hot cocoa in their safe spaces.
They're not ready for this fight.
All of these negative emails I get from people, I'm tired, I'm upset.
Do you understand each drop of emotional outrage is hardening your soul for the fight ahead?
Sooner or later these states are just going to say, we're done.
We're not doing it.
I'm sorry.
Thanks, but no thanks.
We're going to enforce immigration policy.
Oh, the Justice Department is going to sue us.
Sue us?
Fine.
We're not going to pay.
We're not going to give you funds.
Don't give us funds.
We don't care.
By the way, we're going to kick the FBI office out of Texas or whatever it is.
Folks, I'm just telling you, again, I am an enormous proponent of ideological fights.
The left embraces violence, not us.
But sooner or later, they are not ready for this fight!
I hope you understand what I'm saying here.
Relish it.
It's hardening your soul.
The left is soft.
They're soft.
They're pathetic.
They are pathetic, folks.
They have nothing.
Even the violent leftists, those Antifa goons, did you ever see those videos when the crowd actually fights back?
They run.
You ever see that video with the guy with the flag chasing the Antifa?
He wanted to beat on a helpless old man.
The problem was he wasn't helpless.
He turned around and fought back.
What do I do?
They're not hard.
They're not hard.
They're soft.
They're gooey.
They're mushy.
They're pathetic little souls.
When they don't have a safe space to run to, they'll panic.
And then it'll all collapse for them.
Because they don't have a backup plan.
Their plan is to use the media, interest groups, political power, economic boycotts, and cultural pressure To vanquish you into submission.
But as I've quoted now repeatedly, the Roman poet, an enemy is not vanquished until he considers himself so.
You will never ever consider yourself vanquished.
The left's not ready for that.
Don't you worry.
Okay.
Sorry, I spent a lot of time on that.
I didn't really mean to, but it is important.
Alright.
Also related to this, Holman Jenkins, in the Wall Street Journal piece, who, forgive me, it's in the op-ed column today, but I can't put it in the show notes, it's subscription only, but I will read to you a portion of the piece which is mind-blowing.
Holman Jenkins is on to something in the Wall Street Journal opinion column today that I think I have held, I don't like when I say this, because it seems I'm not trying to take credit for his piece, or else I would have wrote it.
But I've been on to this for a while.
The Brennan, for those of you regular listeners to the show, the John Brennan being the puppet master here.
John Brennan, former CIA director under Obama.
He's the genesis bomb from Star Trek Wrath of Khan.
He's the one who started this whole effort.
He didn't start the Russian collusion narrative.
That started with the Obama administration and the Clintons.
But he's the one who started and initiated the big government deep state effort to use the mechanics of government to take down Trump.
I'm convinced about it.
Now, something Holman Jenkins hints at in his piece today, but doesn't hit directly, is a fascinating angle on this story, which I haven't brought up in a while.
Jim Comey keeps going out on his book tour, Joe, and he keeps saying on the book tour that there's this piece of information about Loretta Lynch.
Some of you may have heard it in interviews, some of you may have missed it, but he keeps insinuating, to boil us down to a bullet point, that there's a piece of information about Loretta Lynch.
You've heard it, right, Joe?
It's going to be groundbreaking, and this is going to blow this whole thing open, but I can't say what it is.
Well, Jenkins kind of mocks that and goes, well, we already know what it is.
It's already been leaked.
So I think, one, I think Comey's just doing it to sell books because he's a fraud.
Jim Comey has completely outed himself as a fraud.
He's a clown prince of, you know, of felonious smokery on the open seas.
Here's the piece of information Comey's referring to.
There was an intercepted Russian document.
Follow this, it's important.
The intelligence community in the U.S.
intercepts this Russian document before the election.
In the document, they cited, this is according to Jenkins' piece, a Democrat Party email that in turn referred to a private conversation in which Attorney General Lynch assured a Clinton aide that Mrs. Lynch would sit on the email investigation.
Let me explain it because it's a little confusing.
Our intelligence community, likely the CIA, maybe someone else, maybe the NSA, we're not sure, intercepted a Russian Joe communication.
Gotcha.
In the Russian communication, the Russians are talking about an email between Loretta Lynch, Joe, and the Democrat operative, where Loretta Lynch says, hey, don't worry, we're gonna sit this Clinton email investigation out.
Now, imagine you're an intelligence operator in the United States, you're on the Intel desk intercepting Russian comms, and you're listening to this or reading this email live.
Vladimir, this is Oleg.
I have an email here from Loretta Lynch saying they're going to sit on the Clinton investigation.
That's a goldmine!
Is it not?
Here's the problem, folks.
The email was likely fake.
Not fake, that it was from the Russians, who are not our friend.
Don't make no mistake what I'm saying in any of these shows.
But the email was fake.
The Russians knew we were listening, and in kind of a triple-quadruple-reverse-psychology move, the Russians sent it, knowing it was fake, to get us to respond to mess with the election, because that's what the Russians do.
I should say there's a strong, strong likelihood it was fake.
I'm not suggesting to you, by the way, that Lynch did not conspire with people to make the Clinton investigation go away.
I'm simply suggesting to you that the Russian communique was not, in fact, an accurate portrayal of an email from Lynch.
You get what I'm saying, Joe?
Does that make sense?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Now, I considered this a while ago, but Jenkins nails it.
He kind of alludes to it.
He says, listen, We're gonna need some answers before we have an honest account of the 2016 election.
He goes on.
Which US agency provided that intelligence to the FBI?
Who gave that to the FBI?
The fake Russian intercept.
No, I mean the real Russian intercept on the fake information.
Was it the CIA?
Was it the NSA?
This is where it gets good.
Was Mr. Comey advised it might be fake?
Or did the FBI, whose province is domestic investigation, only discover it was likely fake after questioning the U.S.
citizens named in the intercept?
Folks, I don't know if you see where I'm going with this, but this should blow your mind.
I'm glad you said that.
John Brennan hated Donald Trump.
Hated Donald Trump.
John Brennan, despite his assertions otherwise, was well aware of the information in the dossier about the pee tape and the other stuff.
John Brennan goes up to Capitol Hill to meet with Harry Reid in August, pushes Harry Reid and others to push the FBI to investigate Donald Trump.
Why would John Brennan do that?
Folks, as I've said to you here repeatedly, John Brennan had no law enforcement powers whatsoever.
John Brennan was the CIA director.
They only gather intelligence.
I've worked with these people over and over on multiple foreign advances during my time in the Secret Service.
They do not have any law enforcement powers at all.
They are simply... I don't mean simply to diminish their job.
It's very dangerous.
They are not law enforcement.
They cannot arrest you, the CIA.
That only happens in really bad movies.
They have no law enforcement charter.
Does that make sense, Joe?
Yeah, CIA, NSA, you're talking about.
NSA, too.
They do not have a law enforcement charter.
If you're John Brennan, and you hate Donald Trump, and you need to spy on Donald Trump using law enforcement courts, FISA court, the regular court, you can't do it!
John Brennan cannot swear out a warrant in court, no matter what.
He can't be an affiant.
It doesn't matter.
How connected he is to Barack Obama.
He needs someone in law enforcement to initiate this investigation.
What if people in the FBI were reluctant?
Or what if people in the FBI weren't so much reluctant, but said, hey, John, you know what?
We don't really like Trump, which I think McCabe and Comey didn't.
But we're going to need something a little harder here than just your opinion that you don't like Donald Trump.
Oh, what magically appears, Joe?
A Russian intercept that's fake.
Hey, look what we've got, Jim.
Look at this, Jim, a Russian intercept.
I'm saying that Loretta Lynch may be conspiring with, uh, oh man, now we really got to get this thing going.
We got to get an investigation going here.
We got to crack this thing wide open.
All right.
I see where you're going.
You may say, well, you know, fairly enough, Dan, but that seems to have a lot more to do, um, with the, with the Clinton, with the Clinton investigation.
No, no, not the way, listen, the FBI could have spun this six different ways from Sunday.
Oh, look, did the Trump team conspire to put this email out to get us to investigate Clinton to open up the... Oh, this is getting crazy.
No, listen to me.
I want to know the deliberations on this email.
Did somebody say, okay, this is fake.
We know it's fake.
We're going to tell the FBI it's fake, but we're going to tell them we think it's fake because we think the Trump team conspired with the Russians to get them to send that email to get us to investigate Loretta Lynch to hurt Hillary Clinton.
Is it complicated?
Are you sure?
Comey is insisting that there's this bombshell.
This bombshell may in fact be this Loretta Lynch email, and the fact that they knew or did know it was fake, and that the reasoning behind it was used to further buttress a Trump collusion conspiracy theory.
Let me be clear, because I know I confused you there.
Jenkins isn't saying this, by the way.
I'm saying it, just to be clear on what the article is alluding to.
The Russian intercept was likely fake.
Did Comey know it was fake?
Did Brennan tell him it was fake?
If they knew it was fake, was that intercept used to further a law enforcement investigation into Trump, alleging that the fake Russian email was an effort between the Russians and the Trump team to conspire to pump fake information into our justice system to start an investigation into the Clintons?
Does that make a little bit of sense there?
Yeah, and it's not hard to believe.
I mean, after all, the dossier was fake.
The dossier was fake?
That was used?
Yeah.
The dossier, the information, was this used as a, oh, look, they're trying to put fake information about Loretta Lynch.
She must have been involved with the Trump team when they did this.
Yeah.
It's an important question.
I didn't intend to spend that much time on that, but it is important we consider that.
And I think Jenkins may know something that he may have a source on that because it's fascinating.
Okay, one final read here, and then I got some other stuff I wanna get to.
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Some good news on the economy.
Real good news.
Another piece in the journal today.
Again, it's subscriber only, but I'll get to you the takeaways.
Number one, investments up, folks.
Investment's a big deal.
If companies invest in their businesses and they produce new capital, it makes workers more productive.
When workers are more productive and producing more stuff, they become more valuable to the company, which means what?
They'll typically get a raise.
That's why productivity and investment usually leads to wages.
Investments up.
It's up 6.3%.
Non-residential fixed investment in the first quarter.
Very big deal.
Equipment investments up 8.9%.
Huge.
Quickly, productivity.
Capital added 0.3 points to productivity in 2017 so far.
That's a good number.
Productivity installed under Obama.
Productivity meaning how much output or stuff we're generating from the same amount of input or less.
Good stuff.
Raises!
The three-month period from January to March.
The average increase year over year.
The highest we've seen in a long time.
Wages are going up.
So I just wanted to put that out there.
There's a lot of good news on the economic front.
A lot of bad news with the debt, but good news on the economic front.
Productivity matters.
Don't ever forget the term productivity.
It is everything in economics, folks.
It is a measure of output, what we produce.
It is a measure of output that's based on, obviously, inputs.
Productivity grows when you generate more workers in your economy, when the same amount of workers produce bigger and better stuff.
The only way they can do that is by investing in those workers, education, equipment.
This is happening.
I think we could be on the verge of something special here, if we could just get our darn debt under control.
Secondly, another story.
On Comey again, this hilarious attempt right now to cover up his misdeeds on the Flynn case.
Remember I told you with Mike Flynn, when they interviewed Lieutenant General Flynn, that the FBI agreed he wasn't trying to be deceptive, you'd charge him with false statements anyway?
Another reason I believe they're covering for Clinton misdeeds.
Flynn was obviously no fan of Clinton, right?
They probably knew some stuff, so he's covering for the Clinton misdeeds.
Comey's now saying on his book tour that he doesn't remember saying that.
Well, I have an article from Byron York in the show notes today, Joe.
This is great.
Oh, there are transcripts of the hearing.
Hey, Jim, you may not want to change your story when there's an actual transcript, a view at a congressional committee suggesting that Mike Flynn was not being deceptive.
By the way, word-for-word transcripts, not summaries.
So read the Byron York piece.
You'll see how Jim Comey, again, for those of you who believe this guy, oh man, he's a real virtuoso, this guy.
He is not.
He's not a skilled liar.
He's an awful liar.
Oh, I don't remember saying that.
Well, someone else did because they transcribed it.
it. All right. Oh, don't get tripped up by the Gorsuch ruling yesterday. There was a
ruling yesterday in the Supreme Court and some folks who I don't think
particularly understand newly appointed by Trump Supreme Court
Justice Neil Gorsuch who's a great guy.
I don't think people understand what happened.
Just a quick synopsis of what happened yesterday so you're not misled by liberals or sadly some Republicans who I don't think really understand what happened and are just trying to take pot shots at Gorsuch because, oh, he ruled against Trump.
He didn't rule against Trump.
There was a case, Sessions v. DiMea.
The DiMea case, he was a green card holder.
He was not here illegally, just to be clear.
He was a lawful permanent resident.
He was a green card holder.
He was not an illegal immigrant.
But he committed a crime, I believe it was burglary, and under this stipulation of crimes of violence, you can be deported even if you're a green card holder.
So he fought that, suggesting a couple of things, that the punishment was harsh and that the rule was vague.
Like, what does crimes of violence mean, Joe?
Gorsuch was the deciding vote against the Sessions Justice Department that wanted to deport him.
You may say, well, how is this in any way pro-Trump?
I get it on its face it seems anti-Sessions, anti-Trump, anti-Justice Department.
But it's the way Gorsuch worded his always elegant opinions that should matter to you.
Don't be penny wise and pound foolish here.
Yes, I almost said it myself, a green card holder who committed a crime would have been deported and wasn't.
That is probably not good.
I think we can all agree.
We'd rather have him not in the country than in if he committed a crime, okay?
But Gorsuch's ruling is terrific for the future because what does he say?
He talks about the law about crimes of violence shall be invaded.
What does that mean?
Crimes of violence.
I'm trying to make this really simple.
There's a lot to do with him.
I have an article by Cato.
Shapiro, not Ben Shapiro, Isla Shapiro, from Cato.
It explains it really well.
If you're interested, it'll be in the show notes today.
But he talks about how the liberal justices went along the lines of, oh, that's too severe to deport him.
Gorsuch said nothing about that.
It's not the severity of it.
He said, listen, you just wrote the thing too vaguely, crimes of violence.
You may say, well, how does that benefit Trump in the future?
Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait.
This is important.
What have I told you for the last three years on this show about what the Democrats worship more than anything?
Discretionary government.
Liberals love discretionary government.
What do I mean by that?
I mean the bureaucratic state...
And I mean judges that can use their own discretion to legislate.
Liberals hate sharply edged laws that define what's legal and what's not.
Why?
Because then if you don't violate the law, they can't go after you.
If you word it without a sharp edge, and you make a law, Joe, make sure I get this right, because if the audience doesn't understand, I'll be doing you a huge disservice.
Liberals want vague laws.
Why?
Because then they can go after Joe for felonious mopery.
What does it mean, felonious mopery?
I don't know, we just made it up!
We'll figure it out.
We'll figure it out later after we arrest Joe.
Exactly.
That's what they do.
They don't like laws that say we can only arrest Joe if Joe produces a firearm and steals money from a bank.
They hate that.
That's too strict.
That's way too strict.
They want to be able to arrest Joe for anything.
Sound kind of like what they're doing with Trump now.
Oh, it's a campaign finance law with his lawyer.
Is it?
Are you sure?
We think so.
So we're going to raid his office.
Gorsuch has been a strong, vocal, powerful advocate in his time as a judge against the discretionary state.
And he basically said in his ruling here that, hey, it's not my job to interpret what the legislative branch meant.
You want to produce a stupid, vague law?
Then I'm not doing it.
You go fix the damn law.
Good for you, Gorsuch, because you know what's going to happen next?
All of these cases about the EPA, all the Chevron deference stuff, all these bureaucracies, folks, that were given wide latitude under vague laws to sue the living hell out of you for a pond in your backyard, for micropollutants on your farm, all of these dopey vague laws the EPA wrote, Or interpreted widely because they were vague, that were being used to slaughter the economic opportunity of small business owners across America.
When these laws get in front of the Supreme Court, now we know we can count on Gorsuch to go, no, law's no good, go back and write it strict.
Well, you interpreted it wrong.
This is a good thing, it's not a bad thing.
Read the Isla Shapiro piece in the show notes today if you have any doubt what I'm telling you is true.
Don't be misled by the liberals who are celebrating, oh Gorsuch, he's with us.
No, no, he's not with you.
Trust me.
Or some Republicans, I'm not being a jerk, but I just don't think they understand what Gorsuch was saying.
Yeah, we may have lost a little battle here against one guy who committed a crime, but having Gorsuch say for the umpteenth time where he stands on vague discretionary government, you should be up giving this guy a round of applause, standing round of applause.
Read the piece, you'll understand.
He was not agreeing with the liberals on the court.
He was agreeing that we can't write a bunch of vague discretionary laws, which are very, very dangerous.
All right, folks, I appreciate you tuning in today.
It's been another great week.
Thank you for yesterday's show.
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