Ep. 703 Explosive New Developments that Destroy the Collusion Fairy Tale
Summary:
Explosive new developments contained in the Comey memos destroy the Russian collusion narrative and point fingers at the Democrats for the email leaks. I also address a scheme by the NY attorney general to take down the president.
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Today’s edition of liberal myth-busting: “Are guns rarely used in self-defense?”
An incredible article pointing out info in the Comey memos regarding the beginnings of the “collusion” narrative.
Andy McCabe is in a world of trouble.
Disturbing new revelations about the House IT scandal.
The same players in the House IT scandal had access to sensitive DNC passwords.
Rudy Giuliani is joining the Trump legal team.
Why is the NY attorney general scheming to take down Trump?
Suspicious timing for these lawsuits to be dropped.
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Producer Joe, how are you today?
It's Friday!
Yeah, anything happen yesterday?
We miss any news?
You know, I was going to do another special last night, but again, there was so much coming out.
I'm like, all right, I'm just going to wait till today.
I've got some explosive stuff.
I know I use that word.
No, I mean it.
Like, seriously explosive stuff.
The Comey memos on the Take It Ease front.
I've got some developments there.
And some other outstanding reporting by Molly Hemingway and Luke Rosiak at The Federalist and The Daily Caller, respectively.
Yeah, Molly just lightened it up and proving a point that we made on the show a long time ago.
Again, showing you you're not wasting your time, dedicating your time to our podcast.
I told you something that's now come to fruition.
All right, let's get right into it.
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On the Take It East front, for those of you who are regular listeners.
Again, I get it.
I get it.
There are various opinions on Sessions.
Fine.
I'm not going to relitigate the whole thing.
I've been telling you for now weeks and months that there are significant developments going on behind the scenes.
You may not agree with Sessions' approach to things.
I certainly don't on his recusal from the Russia case, which was now proving to be disastrous.
Don't get sucked into the vortex of, oh, nothing's happening.
Things are happening.
Yesterday, a major league bombshell, which almost got lost in the bombshells that came out last night with the Comey memos.
Andy McCabe, the number two at the FBI.
Intimately involved in the FISA spying scandal I've been discussing since episode 628.
He actually signed off on one of the warrants.
Intimately involved in the prosecution of Mike Flynn for lying to the FBI when the FBI acknowledged Mike Flynn was not being deceptive.
Huh?
What?
Yep, that happened.
Intimately involved in the fake investigation and non-prosecution of Hillary Clinton for a back-breaking email scandal that would have crushed anyone else in public service if they weren't connected.
Andy McCabe was the number two at the FBI for all of this.
What did we find out yesterday, Joe?
Again, on the take it easy front on Sessions, all of a sudden, air quotes, because it's not all of a sudden.
If you've been listening to the show, you know this has already been happening.
There was a criminal referral made.
From the IG's office, essentially the internal affairs investigator investigating all of this, Michael Horowitz, a criminal referral on McCabe that was made to the U.S.
Attorney's office.
A criminal referral, meaning...
This is very serious.
This is not a joke.
Now, having said that, that doesn't mean they're going to prosecute.
I want to be clear on this.
It doesn't mean McCabe is going to be criminally prosecuted.
However, it does mean that there is strong evidence based on an investigation.
Listen to me.
That has already been going on for months while everybody's talking about how Sessions isn't doing anything, right?
I get the other complaints, I understand.
If you want Sessions gone, fine.
That's your thing.
I'm not going to argue that anymore.
I'm just going to tell you, don't...
Deny the fact that there is an ongoing, substantive, credible, very, very troubling investigation for McCabe, that is, going on right now.
How else would a criminal referral have originated just seemingly randomly last night?
It didn't.
McCabe was referred for criminal charges He is in a world of trouble, folks.
Now, I took a couple notes because I've got, oh man, do I've got material for you guys today.
This is gonna be, this may be our most listened to show ever, by the time we're done with this.
McCabe, according to the criminal referral, misled FBI investigators.
In other words, lied to the FBI.
That's what Mike Flynn was charged with.
18 United States Code, 18 USC 1001.
He lied to the FBI about a leak.
Let me just put it in a nutshell for you.
McCabe had significant conflicts.
His wife is running as a Democrat, you know that, for state senate in Virginia.
This is Andy McCabe's wife.
McCabe's wife had accepted money, campaign donations, significant amounts, from a Clinton associate, Terry McAuliffe, the governor of Virginia.
There were allegations that McCabe was stonewalling the Clinton investigation, and other allegations that that might have been due to his wife running as a Democrat and accepting help from Democrats, including associates of Hillary Clinton.
Make sense?
The charges here are that McCabe then leaked information to make himself look better to a Wall Street Journal reporter, Joe, basically saying to the Wall Street Journal reporter, hey, I told DOJ off when they told me to get rid of this thing.
Now, I don't even know where to start, like the bombshells in all this stuff.
First, one, the DOJ, Department of Justice, called the number two at the FBI to make the Hillary investigation go away.
You realize that's what he's insinuating, McCabe, right?
Now, you have to follow this.
It gets a little confusing, but until you get it, none of this will make sense.
McCabe is saying that the DOJ called him to kind of make the Hillary investigation go away or minimize its impact.
Bad.
To defend himself against those allegations that he was assisting in it, he leaked to a Wall Street Journal reporter that, no, no, no, man, I fought back against that.
You got that, Joe?
Bad.
Real Sir Lancelot.
Yeah, go ahead.
Yes!
I love about Joe, right?
I'm getting a lot of compliments on you lately, by the way.
Thanks to everybody.
I don't send them all to you because I'm just getting so many emails lately.
It's impossible.
I get some nice compliments on you as well.
Yeah, they're good.
They're good.
I'm getting a lot of followers on Twitter, too.
I saw that.
He's at Joe Haas No.
1, by the way.
H-O-Z.
We'll explain where Haas came from another time.
Everybody keeps saying, but I don't have time today.
So McCabe is saying, no, no, I fought back against the DOJ's pressure to make the Clinton email investigation go away.
Therefore, I wasn't compromised.
But he leaked that!
Confirming what, Joe?
The entire time.
Confirming that there was an investigation against the Clintons, which the FBI is not supposed to do.
Bam!
He wasn't supposed to do that!
When asked about the leaks, he lied about it.
Not once, not twice, but three times.
Andy McCabe is in a lot of trouble.
Again, I get the emails.
I totally understand the frustration with the slow pace of things.
I said to you, what did I tell you six months ago?
March, April, pay attention when the IG report comes out.
There is now a criminal referral.
I have to be honest with you, I don't want to mislead you.
I'm not sure, because remember, referral means they put it in front of a lawyer for the United States.
If they have to decide, the IG, the Inspector General, is just an investigator.
He is not an attorney for the government.
Charges are drawn up by a United States attorney.
That United States attorney, based on the referral, now has it.
Now, it's a female United States attorney in D.C.
We'll see what happens.
But I'm telling you that the Sessions part of it is now over.
On McCabe.
There are now criminal charges.
There's a good chance he's going to be charged, and he should.
But now you understand what happened.
It's important you understand this, because here's part two of this to take away of this.
Because we could talk about this all day, but I've got other stuff, too.
The bombshells were incredible last night.
Call me!
I'm sorry, folks.
One thing.
Please, please read the show notes today.
The stories are, whether it's the Molly Hemingway piece, the piece I put in the Washington Examiner about this, about McCabe and the leaks, there's a little nugget in this Washington Examiner piece.
The six or seven stories I have today are all just mind-blowing.
They're must-reads.
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In this little nugget, the Washington Examiner piece, Joe, McCabe is swearing up and down that Comey told him the leaks were okay.
That they were authorized.
Comey is saying, I didn't tell you to leak it.
So Comey's out there on all these interviews going, hey, you know, Andy McCabe's a good guy, but good people lie.
Those are his words, by the way.
Listen to me, folks.
Both stories cannot be true.
What's the nugget in the examiner piece?
Comey now says, Joe, in the Thursday interview yesterday, Comey said he could, quote, potentially testify against McCabe.
Now, you want to talk about, like, kaboom level stuff here.
Can you imagine a criminal trial?
against Andy McCabe for lying about a leak about the existence of a Clinton Foundation investigation where they have to where Comey is testifying against McCabe and McCabe's lawyer is cross-examining Comey.
Can you imagine what's gonna come out in that doozy?
Dude, you can't make this stuff up.
This is the greatest spy novel ever told except the fact it's not a novel, it actually happened.
This is in the non-fiction section of your local Barnes & Noble, folks.
Can you imagine the FISAgate stuff, the Flingate stuff, the Hillarygate stuff that's gonna come out when Comey and McCabe are in court battling each other over who told who to leak?
Now, I do not trust- Comey, I think, is a dog, and I'll get to that in a minute.
But I have to tell you, in this scenario, I'm leaning towards the fact that Comey's right.
Not a good person, I believe Comey's, and believe me, I'll get to that in a second, but I don't believe Comey authorized this leak to McCabe.
I think McCabe knew his wife running for office and taking that money and him not recusing himself up until like a week before the election was devastating.
Folks, it's common sense.
His wife ran as a Democrat, took hundreds of thousands of dollars from associates of Hillary Clinton while the FBI was investigating both Terry McAuliffe The guy responsible for steering a lot of the donations to his wife and Hillary Clinton, and he doesn't recuse himself?
I mean, this doesn't pass the basic smell test, folks.
It's common sense.
It's a rule of thumb.
He knows this looks bad.
The leak was time to fight back.
Oh no, look, I'm fighting back against these DOJ people.
But think about the bombshell in there that got passed over.
That the Department of Justice called McCabe and told him to make the thing, you know, go away or minimize the impact of it.
No one's even talking about that.
They're talking about McCabe lying about it.
Do you understand how much is coming out?
This is what frustrates the heck out of me.
When people say, oh, you know, nothing's going on.
Folks, how do you think all of this is coming out?
Stuff is going on.
If we fire Sessions now, all of this stuff is going to go away.
Again, I'm just asking you as a friend.
Why would I turn off my own listeners?
I am desperate for these people to be prosecuted.
We screwed up the Benghazi thing, the IRS thing, the Fast and Furious thing.
Nobody, there was zero accountability.
We finally have an actual criminal referral on a guy intimately involved, Andy McCabe, and all of these scandals.
That did not come from nowhere.
The Tooth Fairy didn't make this up.
Stuff is finally happening.
It's good news.
Really good news.
Okay.
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The Comey memos.
Again, things are getting lost.
Bombshells on top of bombshells.
Now, I read them.
I am here to summarize for you what you need.
But there is a mega bombshell.
Huge hat tip to Molly Hemingway.
She has an article at the Federalist that is a must-read, be it the show notes today.
Please read it.
Now, we had said to you a while ago that The whole Russian collusion thing is a scam.
It was built on this house.
The house the Russian collusion fairy tale and the special counsel investigation was built on were allegations.
Follow me here because this is going to be really important when I get to Luke Rosiak's Daily Caller story about the Pakistanis.
Here we go.
The whole Russian fairy tale is built on the idea that the Russians hacked the DNC and worked with Donald Trump to get that information out to embarrass the Democrats before the election.
Do you understand that?
Again, I'm not talking down to anyone.
Please forgive me.
If you don't understand this, none of what I'm about to tell you is going to make sense.
The whole fairy tale, based on the Russians hacked the DNC, Trump helped get the information out later to win the election.
Here's the problem.
One, we don't know is true.
The second is absolutely not true.
We still don't know that the Russians hacked the DNC because as I've said to you for eons now, the FBI, no federal law enforcement agency at all for that matter, has looked at the DNC computers because the DNC won't allow it.
Why would, if the Democrats, Joe, how is this not a bombshell story?
If the Democrats were convinced that the Russians hacked the DNC, the Democrat National Committee computers, why wouldn't they invite the FBI in and just put all questions to rest?
Why wouldn't they do that?
Does that make sense to you, Joe?
Smell test only.
Not at all.
No, it stinks.
You're not a federal investigator, correct?
It stinks.
But this does not sound right.
No.
They never let the FBI in.
Matter of fact, they still won't let the FBI in.
Doubling down on this, which should be... Folks, if you're not asking, wait, wait, what?
The whole narrative is based on the Russians hacking the DNC.
BuzzFeed has now is defending itself in a lawsuit, again if you're a regular listener you've heard this, but it's important in context to what I'm going to talk about today.
I'm going to tie two stories together.
BuzzFeed is being sued for publishing the dossier BuzzFeed, in order to defend itself, is demanding access to the DNC computers to show that they were in fact hacked.
So they can say, hey look, this is why we did it, this is part of the story.
The DNC is still saying no.
Folks, the smell test here.
What are they hiding?
Who hacked the DNC?
You do understand, right, that if it is not the Russians, which I have serious doubts about, the Russians are not our friends, but if it is not the Russians, that this whole story falls apart, the whole special counsel, the whole collusion fairy tale, the whole attack on Trump.
Why are the Democrats hiding their computers, hiding their servers?
Fascinating development from Luke Rosiak at the Daily Caller.
This guy has been just knocking it out of the park.
Another article must read today at the show notes.
I'll get to the Hemingway.
I haven't forgot about that yet, but I got to get to this first to tie this whole thing together.
He has some unbelievable reporting in the Daily Caller today about the Awan brothers.
Oh, remember them?
Oh, yes.
Yeah.
Breaking today!
Apparently he went over to Pakistan to do some homework on this.
Remember who the Awan brothers were?
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was running the DNC at the time, that it was hacked, Joe, air quotes there, dreaded air quotes, by the Russians, had some Pakistani IT specialists, these two brothers, the Awan brothers.
One of them was Imran.
Imran Awan is under a federal indictment right now.
These guys are being investigated by the federal government for unauthorized, for bank fraud and things like that.
They're being investigated for all kinds of money-based crimes and for accessing this network.
Now, what's fascinating about this is Luke did some homework on this, and let me just read to you from his article today.
This is from the Daily Caller piece.
The father of Imran Awan, an IT aide to Rep.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who investigators conclude made unauthorized access to house servers.
This is unbelievable.
transferred a usb drive to pakistanis to a pakistani senator and former head of a pakistani intelligence agency the father's ex-business part uh partner rashid minhas this oh wait this is where it gets i'm not making this up folks this is in the piece okay minhas told the daily caller news foundation that imran awan's father Haji Awan was giving data to Pakistani official Rehman Malik and that Imran bragged he had the power to change the US president.
What the heck?
So a guy, now I included two Luke Rosiak pieces in the show notes today.
This piece from today that apparently the IT aid Who is accused of unauthorized access into Democrat emails, House Democrats and Democrat servers.
That he was also shuttling information off to Pakistani intelligence people.
This guy is also under federal investigation, under federal indictment.
And by the way, this guy had access to Debbie Wasserman Schultz passwords for the DNC system.
Folks, what are the Democrats hiding?
Is it just possible?
That what the Democrats are really hiding in the Trump investigation, in addition to the litany of Spygate scandals.
Remember, I can't tie this up for you in a neat little bow.
Because there are so many overlapping scandals between the sale of our uranium, between the Obamagate spying scandal, between the foreign entities helping Obama spy on Trump, between our work with the British GCHQ to spy on Trump, between the House IT infiltration by the Iwan brothers.
But is it possible that one of the biggest scandals they're trying to cover up by the Trump investigation and the allegations that the Russians hacked the DNC is the fact that a Democrat representative who was running the DNC, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, had paid one of these brothers to work in an IT network they infiltrated and passed the information off to a foreign government?
Do you know how explosive that is?
Keep in mind what may have happened here now.
Not only is the Trump-Russia collusion narrative made up, the Russian hack may in fact be a diversionary story to block the media from paying attention to the fact that the real hack was done by someone the Democrats paid themselves, who broke into the network.
As if that story wasn't explosive enough.
I mean, Joe, think about what I'm telling you.
I'm telling you that the Democrats not only fabricated a story to investigate a sitting president and a president-elect, that they fabricated the story to potentially cover up a massive scandal on their side of the fence.
Keep in mind, these Awan brothers were hired by multiple people in the House of Representatives.
They had access to multiple accounts.
Now there's allegations they were passing USB drives to Pakistani intelligence.
What was on those USB drives?
Was it the DNC emails that the Russians allegedly hacked?
Now do you understand when people ask, why Dan?
Why are they doing this?
Why go through all the effort to set up the Trump team?
They can't have any of this come out.
None of this.
This is devastating stuff.
Now it explains why The effort to set up Trump early and from the start.
I believe they had information earlier that this was going on, that they knew about this potential infiltration and they had the need to set up Trump for multiple reasons.
Now here's where it gets good with the Molly Hemingway piece.
So what we learned from the Comey memos, there's a portion of one of the Comey memos where he says something that It's just, let me read to you from the memo, because I took a screenshot of it.
Yeah, yeah.
Because this is going to just blow your mind.
Where is it here?
Oh, here we go.
My eyes are bad.
This is from one of the Comey memos.
At the conclusion of our session, the COS, he's talking about the Chief of Staff, so Priebus at the time.
Asked whether there's anything we haven't mentioned that they should know or that might come out.
This is Comey talking in his memo.
I said there was something that Clapper wanted me to speak to the President-Elect about alone or in a very small group.
Chief of Staff asked me whether the group of Chief of Staff, Vice President-Elect, and President-Elect was okay or whether I wanted to be alone.
I told him it was up to the President-Elect who quickly said that he and I would meet alone.
What is this about?
Folks, they needed to set up the president.
They needed the Russia scandal to take off.
I'm becoming a firm believer more and more by the day that they were covering a lot of this House IT scandal and a lot of other things as well.
They needed to set up the president-elect early with the Russia scandal, but they needed the media to do that and to get the media to report on the dossier.
Follow me here.
Because the dossier was salacious and unverified using Comey's own words.
Comey acknowledges in the memos that the media can't report on the dossier as is.
Because of its questionable status.
This will make sense.
Bear with me here.
I think Comey was set up.
I don't think he was a good guy.
Don't get me wrong.
I got other things here too.
But I think Comey was set up also by the Obama team.
What is the information, I just read to you, that he says Clapper, Jim Clapper, Obama's DNI, Director of National Intelligence, asked him to brief POTUS on that was sensitive.
Well, if you read the memos, what's fascinating is Clapper told Comey to brief the President-elect about the, quote, you know, the sex stuff, according to some tweets I read.
It was the golden shower stuff.
Not about the Manafort stuff, the Page stuff, the Flynn stuff, only about the sex stuff.
This is important.
Clapper tells him to do that.
What then happens in the days following that briefing?
Keep in mind, CNN and others want desperately, desperately to report on this, okay?
They want to report on the dossier, Joe, because they need to start the Russian collusion narrative as soon as possible.
They can't report on the dossier, CNN and others.
Why, Joe?
Because it's not credible.
They'll be sued.
So they need a story.
What's the story?
The story is going to be, oh, the FBI briefed the president about a dossier.
Hey, folks, but you judge the dossier for yourself.
The story's not about the dossier, but Joe, wink and a nod, it's about the dossier.
Yeah.
You get it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I do get it.
Comey's briefing of Trump is the story to introduce people to the dossier that is going to be used to take down Trump and the collusion narrative.
And who told Comey to brief Trump on the dossier?
Jim Clapper.
Obama's Director of National Intelligence.
He says it in his own memos!
Now... Wait, I'm not... Here's the opening.
This is from Molly Hemingway's piece.
The CNN story breaks January 10, 2017.
Now, here's a finding from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Finding number 44.
Again, from Molly Hemingway's piece, good job here picking this out.
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, now a CNN National Security Analyst, provided inconsistent testimony to this committee about his contacts with the media, including CNN.
Now, what did Comey tell Trump at the meeting?
I promise I'll make this make sense for you.
Comey tells Trump at the meeting that CNN, quote, was looking for a news hook to publish dossier allegations.
He said this in the briefing of Trump that almost immediately leaked to CNN, which provided them with the very news hook they sought and needed.
This is what began the Russia collusion hysteria.
Here's what happened.
The dossier is garbage.
They know it's garbage, despite the fact that it's already been used to spy on Trump.
The allegations are falling apart.
They can't confirm any of it.
They are now desperate to distract from scandals, whether it be Uranium One, SpyGate, this House IT scandal that is now exploding.
They have no evidence whatsoever that the DNC was hacked.
Matter of fact, if you watched my NRATV show last night, which is 5.30 live at NRATV.com, 5.30 Eastern Time, I put together a flowchart showing you how the hack of the DNC story originated.
People loved the show last night.
Thank you for everyone.
Yeah, did you see?
It was pretty good, right?
How Dmitri Alperovitch, who works with the Atlantic Council, who is funded by a Clinton donor, is they're the ones who started the Russian hack narrative.
Clapper tells Comey, go in and brief Trump only on the sex stuff in the dossier.
Don't brief him on the Manafort, the Gates, Carter Page stuff, Rick Gates and the other stuff.
Why, Joe?
Why does he keep Manafort, Page and the other stuff out of it?
Because he doesn't want President-elect Trump to understand the extent of the counterintelligence operation against him.
Why?
Because then Trump's going to start asking questions.
But Clapper needs Comey to brief him on something related to the dossier.
So he goes into the office and he briefs him only on the sordid stuff.
Not the actual spying operation going on on the Trump team.
This is important.
This is not a small detail.
It speaks to the whole scandal.
We told you this Six months ago, based on a good lead, that the Comey briefing was key to this because it opened the door for CNN to report on it, which the House is already admitting in their interview with Comey, excuse me, Clapper, that Clapper wasn't honest about his contacts with CNN.
Here's what it seems appears happened here.
Clapper says to Comey, you go in and brief him, but don't mention the spying operation because we don't want him to start looking around, okay?
You following, Joe?
I am.
Jim Comey.
Clapper, who is a political animal of the highest order.
Unquestionably, I think at this point, Obama has some information about this.
Remember the text, POTUS wants to know everything by Lisa Page and Stroke.
POTUS, President of the United States.
Clapper says, Jim, we really, really need... or he dupes him.
There's two options here.
Either Comey knows this or he dupes him.
I'm not sure which.
I'm leaning towards Comey may have been duped.
And the only reason I say that is because why write it in a memo then?
You're setting yourself up.
You know what I'm saying, folks?
It doesn't make sense.
Why write it in a memo?
You have to know one day it's going to become public.
You know you're going to get nailed.
Clapper says, hey, listen, we got a problem here.
We got this information, the dossier.
I know you know about it, but I think it's a good idea that you go brief Trump.
But, you know, make sure you mention the sex stuff, but leave the other stuff out.
Comey walks in.
Comey says to Trump, Hey, listen, you know, CNN sniffing around this dossier.
We just want to let you know what's out there.
Days later, CNN publishes a story about the brief about the briefing, which gives them an in to mention the dossier, which lays out a fake case against collusion against Trump.
The dossier is fake.
Conveniently, the House Committee on Intelligence interviews Clapper about it.
They determined that Clapper provided inconsistent testimony about his contacts with the media, including CNN, where Clapper now works!
Is it possible Clapper told CNN, hey, the meeting happened with Comey and he mentioned the dossier?
Run with the story!
And by the way, days after that, BuzzFeed publishes the dossier in its entirety.
Now, are you tracking me?
I'm good.
Is this making sense?
They had to set up Trump.
The collusion story had to take hold.
Comey's own memo lays out how it happened.
Comey's memo says, Clapper told me to go in and brief the president-elect on this.
After he briefs the president-elect, Clapper, now working for CNN, who, according to House testimony, misled them about his contacts with CNN.
Mysteriously, a story appears in CNN about the briefing about the dossier, which gives the media permission to run with the dossier.
Oh, we're not reporting on the dossier.
We're just saying the FBI director briefed the president about, oh, this dossier here, which you may want to read.
Wink it or not.
Here's where it gets super freaky deaky.
What have I been telling you about Mueller?
It's a smokescreen.
Mueller was the one guy, based on all of his swamp contacts, that could make all this go away.
Now, there's a theory out there that the appointment yesterday of Rudy Giuliani to Trump's legal team is a kind of, you know, rapprochement here, that we're working on the endgame, and that Mueller realizes he doesn't have anything, and that there's a theory out there that Giuliani and Mueller are going to somehow negotiate who's going to go down and what.
I'm not really sure about that, so I'm going to refrain.
I'm mentioning it just because it is out there.
And Giuliani was appointed to the legal team.
But I'm going to tell you a development I'm reasonably confident about, Yesterday, Michael Cohen, Trump's lawyer, and this will be in the show notes too, dropped his lawsuits against BuzzFeed and Fusion GPS.
Wait, what?
So Bob Mueller, Captain Smokescreen, Running an investigation to keep the investigation away from all of this other stuff.
The Pakistani stuff.
You may say, oh, he's only appointed for the special counsel.
Yeah, it's amazing in that special counsel's investigation, all the referrals are Trump team people.
No referrals.
Hey, we've covered something here, too.
You guys want to look at that, too.
None of that's actually happened.
That's only happening on the Sessions side.
Mueller investigates Cohen, Trump's lawyer.
Cohen has a lawsuit against BuzzFeed.
He drops the lawsuit against BuzzFeed and Fusion GPS.
What was BuzzFeed requesting again?
Oh, access to the DNC computers!
The DNC computers, they won't let anybody look at that contain, by the way, supposedly, you would think, electronic evidence of the Russian hack they keep talking about.
Is it possible Cohen?
And his lawsuit was going to file some kind of discovery, Joe, to the DNC saying, hey, listen, I want to see those computers and evidence of this Russian hack.
So Mueller goes in there, puts the screws to Cohen.
All of a sudden, Cohen drops that lawsuit against BuzzFeed that was asking for access to the DNC computers that were supposedly hacked by the Russians.
Lawsuit goes away.
Wow.
Fascinating.
So interesting!
Another coincidence.
He also drops a lawsuit, Cohen, after Mueller goes after him against Fusion GPS.
Well, what would Fusion GPS probably uncover in a lawsuit and a discovery motion there?
Maybe some bank records?
Fusion GPS, the company hired by the Clintons to pay off Russians and British foreign agents for dirty information on the Trump team?
Maybe an extensive bank record audit trail would have put out in open court.
Now, some of those bank records have been released.
But maybe Fusion GPS in court would have been humiliated.
Maybe reporters who were being paid off would have been humiliated.
Mueller investigates Cohen.
All of a sudden, all this stuff goes away.
Mueller ain't a good guy.
Alright, I've got more on these Comey memos and I still haven't actually tied it all up for you because I know this is confusing and I'm probably going to do some of it tonight on the NRA TV show with visuals if you want to tune in.
I told you a long time ago that that Comey meeting at the White House with Donald Trump was a smokescreen.
Comey only did it and briefed Trump on the sex stuff knowing that that was the predicate for the media to report on it because they could not report on the dossier.
It was false.
It was false.
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Okay, more from the Comey memos here.
So, at one point in the memo, he brings up that Trump keeps bringing up this quote, golden showers thing, and that he's pretty passionately PO'd about it.
He also keeps bringing up that he denied mocking this reporter and he denied misconduct.
The media is somehow spinning this, I said this to my wife this morning, as an indictment against Trump.
Folks, how does this make sense to you?
The media is spinning his obsession with this quote, golden showers thing, as an obsession meaning like, oh, he must have done it because he was obsessed with it.
Guys, please, knuckleheads in the media, please listen to me.
That actually happened.
Yeah.
This is ridiculous.
He asked Comey, Comey acknowledges in the memo, if he could potentially look into it.
Guys, can you think this through like normal people if you're a liberal?
Please.
If you, this golden showers thing, this sexual sordid tale that was in the dossier actually happened, do you ask the FBI director to look into it?
Does that make, does that make any sense to you at all?
Only if you're a media hack desperate to cover up your own tracks in this whole Russian collusion scandal.
Does that make sense to you?
And then Comey points out, you know, that he thought the wife, you know, the wife may be suspicious.
Well, Joe, I mean, listen.
Yeah.
If a dossier comes out that has this in there, I'd love my wife to death.
I'd want that investigated too.
Yeah, man.
Tell my wife this didn't happen.
Go investigate it.
I'm now, I've never been more convinced this dossier is entirely a bunch of hooey.
It's garbage.
But Comey and the media are spinning this like, oh, Trump was obsessed with the Golden Shower thing.
You would be too if someone put that in a document used to spy on you.
Another takeaway.
He was concerned.
The president, that is.
That McCabe, about Andy McCabe's feelings.
If you read the memos, it's pretty clear.
He says a couple times in the memo, Comey that is, that Trump said, hey listen, I was a little rough on him.
I think this, and somehow this is being painted again as some obstruction thing.
Folks, just read the memo.
He asks Comey multiple times how McCabe is doing.
Now, he takes some shots at him for his connections, but after all McCabe did, I believe sabotage Trump's presidency and help Hillary Clinton.
He asks him a couple times, how's he doing?
I was kind of rough on him.
And yet this is being painted as a negative for Trump?
Did they even read the memos?
Another takeaway.
Comey clearly says to him in the memo, When Trump says, hey, listen, Jim, he tells them there are a lot of people looking at your job.
They wanted about 20 people.
Comey says he wishes to stay, but this is important.
Comey memorializes this.
He says, well, I told him, Mr. President, you could fire me anytime you want.
As Trey Gowdy said, and he's right.
These memos would be exhibit number one for Trump in an obstruction of justice trial.
The guy just acknowledged the FBI director himself.
Trump can fire him anytime he wants.
Now, we don't need the FBI's acknowledgement.
That is, of course, the president's constitutional role.
He is in charge of the Department of Justice.
It falls under the executive branch.
Of course he can fire the FBI director anytime he wants, but it's fascinating that media hacks are still pushing this narrative despite the fact that Comey, in his own memo, which they're celebrating, acknowledges that the president can fire him anytime he wants.
One other takeaway from it?
Comey apparently was very curious about the Hillary email.
Excuse me, Trump was very curious about how the Hillary email case went away exactly.
Which he should be.
Now, again, the media is painting this as, I'm assuming, as some kind of involvement in the Justice Department investigation, but at no point does Comey say that Trump interfered with the investigation.
Just he was curious about how the investigation went and why it seemingly went away.
Sure.
Now, finally, I just want to hit this one last time, and then I'm going to go on to another story, which is just going to blow your mind.
Talk about how Mueller thinks it's a total scam here.
The Clapper portion of it is stunning.
Because this is stuff we hadn't heard before.
Sorry, I'm just looking for something here.
Dude, I'm running out of eggs to scramble here.
I know, I know.
It's incredible.
The clapper thing is mind-blowing.
Because now, the question to Jim Comey, and I'll wrap it up on this one, the question to Comey has to be, if you're paying attention, What exactly did you know from Jim Clapper at this time?
Was he involved in this or not?
In other words, did you know that Jim Clapper planned to leak to CNN?
Now, this is important.
I mentioned this before, but I don't think so.
The reason is he mentions to Trump that CNN is looking at the story.
Now, put yourself in the shoes of the FBI director for a minute, okay?
You're the FBI director.
You've just been told by the Director of National Intelligence, Jim Comey.
Excuse me, Jim Clapper.
Gosh, the Jim's are confusing.
You're Comey.
You've just been told by Jim Clapper, a political animal, but the Director of National Intelligence, to brief the President-elect about, hey, there's a dossier out there with some sexual stuff that doesn't look good.
You also mention in the briefing that CNN is poking around about that story.
Would you be the same guy to leak to CNN a few days later?
Now, you could play that psychological game, well, I'll tell them CNN's looking into it, that way when I leak later, Joe, I can say, well, why would I leak?
I was the one that told you CNN did it.
I think that's highly unlikely.
I think Comey's not that bright, but I don't think he's that stupid.
I think it was Clapper, and I think based on this finding, finding number 44, as Hemingway points out in her piece, by the House Select Committee on Intelligence, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, that Clapper was inconsistent in his testimony about his contacts with CNN.
I think it is patently obvious what happened here.
Clapper probably told CNN, hey, I just sent Comey in to do this briefing, called him up after and said, hey, the briefing happened, run with that story on the dossier, boom, the Trump hysteria happens right there.
This is scary stuff.
That this all, I mean, you've heard our videos, our audio of Clapper, maybe we'll do some more on Monday, but this is scary stuff, folks.
They set him up the whole time.
And now we see that these DNC emails may have come in fact from Pakistanis, Pakistanis hired by the DNC themselves, while they invented a hack narrative.
Now, in relationship to this, I have this is the title of the Mueller scam, more evidence of the Mueller scam.
So, now we have Cohen, who mysteriously drops his lawsuit against BuzzFeed, who needs answers on the DNC hack, by the way, for their own lawsuit, and against Fusion GPS, whose bank records and financial payments may be pretty disturbing if they find out the media was on that pay list, too.
Here's another interesting angle to this.
The New York Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, who hates Trump, there's a CNBC piece which should scare the hell out of you.
They want Trump so badly that what I think Mueller's going to do here is he's going to, at some point, they don't have much on the Trump team.
Everything's been process crime so far, outside of Manafort, which is a separate entity altogether because of his dealings with Ukraine.
But I think Mueller on the federal side understands there's not much he can do.
Now, here's what they're afraid of.
They're afraid of Trump pardoning people.
The Mueller team has to lock up some Trump people.
They've already got a few.
But they want more.
These are not good guys.
They need some scalps.
But they're afraid of the pardon.
Oh, voila!
Look what appears!
An article in CNN!
Let me read for me from the piece.
Last summer it was reported that Schneiderman, the New York Attorney General, was working with prosecutors from special counsel Robert Mueller on their federal investigation of Trump's former campaign chief Paul Manafort.
So, these guys are connected now.
Schneiderman, Manafort, apparently they've got a steady working relationship.
What comes out yesterday in the CNBC piece?
Schneiderman is looking to rewrite a New York City law That prohibits New York State law, that prohibits the state from charging people for crimes they've already been charged with federally.
What we would call double jeopardy.
You can't charge people twice for the same crime.
Double jeopardy.
You get off, you can't charge them again.
Here's where it gets interesting.
There's a loophole in this though.
So what would happen technically, because the state is a different entity than the federal government, they're working together.
I believe Schneiderman is looking to charge Trump and his team, because he's in a far-left state.
He is looking to charge them.
He is going to find something on them.
This is the New York Attorney General.
If Trump pardons people on the federal crimes for this stuff, And he does it at the right time after they've either pled guilty or a jury's been sat.
New York state law prohibits them from charging them again.
Does that make sense, Joe?
Yeah.
Because it would be double jeopardy.
Yeah.
Federal crime is charged if someone pleads guilty.
So Joe, you plead guilty to federal felonious mopery?
Yep.
Trump can then pardon you and New York state cannot charge you for New York state felonious mopery if it's the same incident.
Schneiderman doesn't like that.
Schneiderman's pretty pissed about that.
Schneiderman wants New York state law changed so he can actually do that and make an exception for presidential pardons where he can charge them.
He's already working with Mueller on Manafort.
I'm telling you, Mueller's a bad guy.
This is what's going to happen next.
They will probably pass that law, meaning presidential pardons wouldn't be part of that, and they will then charge them at the state level.
This is what's going on, folks.
This is how far they are going to go to make sure they keep the attention exclusively on the Trump team the entire time.
And the nice part for Mueller, Mueller's hands off.
Mueller can go, hey, that Cohen thing, I referred that to the Southern District of New York.
That raid, I didn't have anything to do with that.
Hey, the Schneiderman stuff, I got nothing to do with New York State.
You're already working with them on the Manafort case.
This Mueller thing is a scam.
I think obviously Trump knows this.
He knows what's going on.
And now does the Giuliani appointment make more sense?
Where'd Giuliani work, Joe?
New York, right?
New York!
He worked up in New York.
Giuliani was the mayor of New York.
Giuliani was a federal prosecutor in New York.
Giuliani is intimately familiar with the machinations that go on behind the scenes there.
Trump understands that they're after him now at the state level too.
They want him no matter what, and I believe that's why he has Giuliani on the team, understanding that this is next.
Because there was a theory out there, and it could be right, that Giuliani And Mueller will be talking about stuff and who's going to be targeted and who's not.
I don't think in a collusionary type of way, but it's informationally that Mueller's going to tell them who's going down and who's not.
I'm not sure, but I can tell you this.
I have no doubt Giuliani was appointed to the Trump team to unquestionably look into this very, very serious double jeopardy violation if Schneiderman rewrites the law in New York, specifically to arrest and go after Trump and his team if he pardons him.
This is an unbelievable constitutional violation of double jeopardy if he does this.
Very serious stuff.
But the big takeaway from today's show, major, major breaking news on the Pakistani IT scandal, passing information off to the intel people, and major breaking news On leaks to CNN that started this entire Trump collusion hysteria.
Leaks that likely came from Jim Clapper, who told Jim Comey, according to his own memos, to brief Trump about the sex stuff, but leave the spying stuff out.
We don't want him looking at that.
But if you brief him on the sex stuff, CNN can run a story about the dossier.
And who else is at CNN, by the way?
Lisa Monaco, who was Obama's Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor, who worked with Bob Mueller and the FBI directly for him.
She's at CNN now, too.
Now does it make sense why CNN is so single-handedly focused on this collusion thing?
If their role in this collusion thing, oh, don't make any mistakes here, and think this is kind of secondary, tertiary stuff.
If CNN's role, when their role comes out, their role in this scandal, that leaks to them are what started this about that Comey meeting, that people connected to Mueller, people connected to the Obama White House are over there now who likely have information on this, it's going to be very, very embarrassing for CNN.
All right, folks, thanks again for tuning in.
That was a lot of information.
It's laid out beautifully today in the show notes, but some great reporting by some other folks.
I also have some Matt Palumbo pieces in there on Debunk This, so check that out.
And don't miss my NRA TV show tonight, where I will be debating leftist constitutional professor Miranda Yaver.
Whether she shows up or not!
She challenged me to a debate on Twitter about firearms, so we're gonna debate her tonight whether she's there or not.
How am I gonna do that?
It's alright, we'll just take her Twitter avatar, we'll slap it on a chair that's empty, and we'll debate her anyway.
Challenge me to a debate.
Don't run away.
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