Ep. 738 All of a Sudden, the Liberal Media Cares About Surveillance
Summary:
In this episode I address the indictment of a U.S. Senate staff member for leaks and the hypocritical response of the liberal media. I also address the ruthless attacks on Sean Hannity by liberal goons along with more liberal economic nonsense.
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All right, welcome to the Dan Bongino Show, producer Joseph Armacost.
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It's Friday!
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Man, what a day yesterday.
Levin, my show, Hannity.
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It was like, you know, six, seven hours of content and another four or five hours of content production.
So it was a busy day.
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Welcome.
Welcome.
A lot to talk about, as I've said to you in the past, and I know there's some significant disagreement on this, and that's OK.
Great.
About Jeff Sessions and the DOJ.
I get it.
I understand your objections.
My only request has been and will continue to be that regardless of your feelings about Sessions, which I understand, that there are things going on.
Are you like a crazy person?
Are you?
I don't know.
It depends.
But I've asked this over and over again.
Just don't discount the things that are going on behind the scenes.
Listen, I get it.
I get you're people very upset with Sessions and I understand.
But there are things happening.
Joe, have we not said this over and over again?
Yeah, lots, lots.
Yeah, well, yesterday you see one of those things that we had, would, I'm trying to be delicate here, said might happen, started happening.
There was a major indictment issued yesterday for a Senate staffer.
I was going to say that, yeah.
Yes, who was leaking information to a BuzzFeed Politico New York Times reporter Ali Watkins.
Now, the indictment was for lying, was not for for the leaks, but I'm going to get into that in a second and what it means.
And, you know, I'm a little torn on a lot of these things, too.
So we'll get to that.
But it's an important story.
All right.
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So yesterday, Senate staffer gets locked up, gets pinched.
In law enforcement terminology.
Yeah, get the pinch!
Get the pinch.
He's pinched.
This guy, James Wolfe, he runs a security component for the Senate Intel Committee, which is ironic, because he is being charged with lying to the FBI about his contacts with a reporter who apparently he was involved in some romantic relationship with.
Now, what's critical to this story, as I've said to you again over and over, there are things happening.
It may not be at the pace you want, which I appreciate and understand, and there are certain things that should be happening that aren't, but what's critical is what was leaked.
Apparently, what was leaked was the identity of one Carter Page!
Who the FBI and the IC community targeting President Trump found to be a convenient intro target to introduce themselves into the Trump campaign in a signals intelligence capacity.
That was a lot.
Remember the ongoing operating The theory I've been working with here based on my research for the book and for this show has been that they threw everything.
They threw the kitchen sink at Donald Trump, Joe.
Yeah, yeah.
They tried foreign intelligence.
They tried introducing spies into the campaign.
They tried some standard FBI investigative techniques.
Probably, you know, internet queries and things like that.
They found nothing.
Hillary tried oppo research.
They found no evidence they could use to prosecute or legally spy on the Trump team.
So what did they do?
They needed some kind of vehicle to get the emails and get the texts of someone on the Trump team, and using the two-hop rule, where you can get someone's communications and then hop to someone else and then hop to someone else within the campaign, they went to Signals Intelligence.
That Signals Intelligence vehicle was the FISA warrant on Carter Page.
What's interesting about this is that this character, James Wolfe, who's having this relationship with this reporter, right?
He then gives up the name of Carter Page to this reporter.
That's interesting to you because I'm quoting from the... I'm going to read a longer quote here in a second because it's important.
Remember, the reporter's name is Watkins, who gives up the name Carter Page.
Watkins' report has been widely cited as evidence of Page's close ties to Russia.
Folks, are you seeing now the circle of swamp rats, police state Democrats, and media goons that made this story happen?
You may not be picking it up yet.
It's okay.
It's going to require me to lay it down a little different.
I can see by Joe's hesitation too that it's not making a lot of sense yet.
Carter Page, who was working for the Trump team as a foreign policy advisor.
Carter Page had contacts with the FBI previously with regards to a spy case against a Russian named Yevgeny Buryakov.
The Russians had tried to recruit Page.
They called him an idiot, though, and Page eventually worked for the FBI during the case to go nail the Russian spy, Joe.
Does that make sense?
FBI asset, yeah.
Yeah, I'm not saying he's a good guy or bad guy, I'm saying he worked with the FBI to nail the Russian spy.
That's important.
Carter Page.
We got it.
Now, in those documents, the documents for the case where they nailed the Buryakov guy, the Russian spy, the FBI, Carter Page's name isn't mentioned.
He's referred to, I believe, as unidentified male or unidentified subject.
His name isn't mentioned.
So nobody knew Page's name.
You tracking?
10-4.
They just know that someone helped the FBI nail this FBI, this Russian spy.
Apparently this guy Wolf knows the name.
Knows that unidentified male in the FBI documents are Carter Page.
Why is that important in the media?
It's a police state, Democrat, swamp rat, Republican, you know, conspiracy to take down Trump.
Because in order to feed the dossier and the media narrative that Trump was working with the Russians, they needed someone on the Trump team to have Joe some legitimate, verifiable contacts with the Russians.
But they didn't have that!
They only had a report saying unidentified mail.
Got it.
So conveniently, this Senate staffer on the Intel Committee The allegations in the media report are that he is having some romantic relationship with this reporter.
He leaks the name.
She then writes this report about Page's, quote, close ties to Russia.
And all of a sudden, the media gets to run with this story.
Oh, look, Trump team working with Russia.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Which is then used as further evidence in the public space and the political space to push for additional investigating into Trump's connections with Russia.
Mm-hmm.
Although Page, in the report, is working with the government to nail the Russians.
Mm-hmm.
Folks, let me read to you a little bit of this, because this is from a report in the Daily Caller by Chuck Ross, again, which will be in the show notes today, and I strongly encourage you to read, at Bongino.com.
They're talking about this reporter's article, the reporter who is having a relationship with this Senate staffer who is alleged to have leaked information and lied about it.
The article revealed that Page was interviewed by the FBI as a witness in a 2013 investigation of a Russian spy ring operating in New York.
Page's identity was masked.
Masked.
He was identified as male one in the court papers for the case.
The government claimed that Russian agents met with Page possibly as an attempt to cultivate him as a source.
This is important, Joe.
Alright.
Quoting again, Chuck Ross, Daily Caller.
Page was not accused of wrongdoing in that investigation and gave a voluntary interview with the FBI for the case.
Here is the quote.
But Watkins' report has been widely cited as evidence of Page's close ties to Russia.
How?
How to nail the Russian spy?
You people idiots!
Quoting again, Page is accused in the infamous Steele dossier of being the Trump campaign's conduit to the Kremlin for purposes of collusion.
He has vehemently denied the allegations.
Folks, do you see what's going on here?
Freaking bizarro land.
Joe, the media needs the narrative leaked from the Obama administration during the campaign and afterwards that Trump colluded with the Russians.
They don't have any evidence of that!
Right!
So a Senate staffer who's having a relationship with some liberal outlet reporter knows the name of the guy who worked with the FBI to nail a Russian guy, leaks it to the reporter who writes a report about their ties to the Russians, which is then used by politicians to further claim that Trump has ties to the Russians even though Page was an FBI asset to nail the Russian.
Oh my gosh.
Do you understand now why Mueller was brought in to cover all this stuff up?
Let me tie that part up because I got a ton of stories to get to, but a lot of stuff going on.
There are things happening behind the scenes.
I'm a little torn on this part of it, and I'll tell you why.
I am obviously a big believer in the Constitutional Republic and the Bill of Rights that has negative liberties for the government, but the government can't do to you.
They can't infringe on a free press, on the right to assemble, can't establish a state-sponsored religion.
So I'm always hesitant when it comes to a free press, which would surprise you because I frequently attack the press for disingenuousness.
And they are.
A lot of them are liars.
But I'm always, always universally hesitant about government remedies.
But in this case, The reporter's phone records, not the content, but the call logs from her phone were apparently subpoenaed by the government.
I'll be candid with you, it gives me a little bit of hesitancy to do that.
I am not for prosecuting reporters, unless it's gross violations of the law here, for leak cases.
Having said that, I absolutely support prosecuting leakers who leak damaging information to set up a false narrative used to set up a false, phony witch hunt investigation against the president.
Having said that and laid the groundwork, the reason I bring this up is to the liberal listeners out there, and I know you're there, I get a lot of your emails, and you're welcome anytime, but I'm going to tell you with as much passion as I can muster, you have forfeited your right to talk about this.
I'm sorry.
Not your constitutional right.
I'm talking about personally.
You have no credibility in this at all.
You have supported a police state investigation into Donald Trump.
Police state spying into Donald Trump.
You said almost nothing, not all, but most of you, when Barack Obama went after James Rosen from Fox News and the Associated Press.
You support continued spying on the President of the United States and when the President was a candidate.
You support it by covering it up.
You have forfeited your right.
I'm not suggesting you're government.
I'm saying your personal obligation to be principled and tell the truth is gone.
You're hypocrites.
You're frauds.
So this is a good conversation to have.
I'm hesitant about it.
I'm always hesitant about government involvement in even a free press.
Always.
And I'm actually glad the reporter wasn't prosecuted.
That may surprise some of you, but the leaker should be.
But you, on the other hand, are a big fraud and a big phony.
You're a fake.
Because whereas I can say now and stand by my principles, this gives me a pause here, Joe.
Intervention in our free press, just like it did under Obama.
You're a hack and you're a phony.
Because you supported the spying on Trump.
You're still covering it up.
You said almost nothing about the Obama spying.
Again, not all of you, but a good amount of you covered it up.
Didn't make it like it was a big deal.
Now all of a sudden you're concerned about big government surveillance?
Zip it.
You have no, you have zero principles.
Your voice is meaningless in this.
Alright, now moving on quick.
This is why, but this is the key.
This is why Mueller, Joe, is so important right now.
Okay, good, good, good.
Yeah.
I believe what's happening, and I've said this for weeks now, as evidenced by the targets of Mueller's investigations, is Mueller understands full well, because at some point he has to be talking to Rosenstein.
He has to be.
Mueller understands full well that a horse trade has to happen, Joe.
There are people in the Obama administration and people in the Senate, as we've seen.
We've now seen an indictment of this Senate staffer.
Again, so please don't tell me nothing's happening.
Argue the pace of it, argue about Sessions, fine, I get it.
But there are things happening.
We've now seen indictment on paper of this Senate staffer who leaked this devastating information about Page.
And we've now seen a criminal referral on Andy McCabe, the number two in the FBI, who there are serious allegations right now of him lying.
Lying about his leaks.
Things are happening, Joe.
They're not happening at the pace we'd like them, but they're happening, right?
Yeah, they are.
There are going to be more, folks.
There are going to be more.
I know this.
Wink it or not.
I'm telling you, there are going to be more.
You had an October leak about the existence of the Trump investigation, October of 2016, to the New York Times.
You had a January leak to David Ignatius of the Washington Post about the Mike Flynn-Kislyak call.
A call, an unmasked call, classified at the highest levels.
This is serious stuff.
People have sworn to warrants they may not have known were true.
They may have known were false, I should say.
Folks, there is some serious stuff coming down the pipeline.
A horse trade is happening.
This is why Rosenstein's appointment of Mueller was key.
Mueller's role right now is to preserve the reputation of the DOJ and the FBI, Joe.
Period.
Full stop.
Bingo.
How he's going to do that is there's going to be some horse trade here.
There's going to be a couple of prosecutions for things like this.
I'm not telling you I approve of this.
Please.
I'm telling you what's happening.
If you're interested in the news, And what's going on?
This is what's going on.
My opinion of it is it sucks.
I'm just telling you what I think is happening.
Based on a voluminous amount of research here.
Mueller was the guy brought in to do this tit-for-tat.
We'll prosecute this guy Wolf.
We'll prosecute Andy McCabe.
What are you gonna do?
Well, you're gonna nail whatever.
Papadopoulos and Flynn and these other guys.
The horse trade is already going on.
Mueller's the perfect guy.
Why?
Mueller's deeply connected to all the people that need to be protected, Joe.
There was a paper trail.
The biggest scandal of this entire operation, as far as I'm concerned, is not just the push and pull.
The push of information into the Trump team and the pull by the spy to try to rip it out to frame the Trump team.
That's bad.
But I think another one of the significant component of this, a major scandal, Is the FISA court abuse was the use of false information in a court designed to prosecute terrorists, Joe, of Carter Page.
That's why this leak prosecution was important.
They got a warrant against Carter Page in a court used to prosecute the worst criminals and terrorists amongst us.
Carter Page has done, as far as we know, has committed no crimes.
Why isn't he under arrest?
Do you understand what I'm saying, folks?
Scandal number one, they spied on the Trump team, and my research here, I believe, strongly set the Trump team up.
They put information in about emails, they stuck it into the Trump team with the sole purpose of pulling it out to make the Trump team look guilty about the Hillary DNC emails thing.
Scandal number two, they put fake information, the dossier, Into the court without the information being properly vetted.
The vetting process and the failure of it is the scandal.
Mueller needs to protect the Department of Justice and FBI that allowed this fake information to be used in the court.
Are you tracking?
This is super important.
Mueller knows the players.
Mueller needs to protect the players.
He will protect the players and the Department of Justice, because this James Wolfe was a Department of Justice case, not a Mueller thing.
I want to be clear on that.
But this horse trade is going to happen, where I believe tangential and secondary players are going to be arrested, like this guy Wolfe, and the major players in the Obama team, Joe.
Again, I'm not trying to make you happy about this.
I'm trying to get you a little pissed off, because it should piss you off.
Major players in the Obama team, I think at this point, a lot of them are going to get a pass.
I don't think all of them.
I don't think all of them.
I think Brennan may be in a lot of trouble.
I also think Clapper may be in some trouble as well.
But Mueller knows the big players.
Here's the relationships.
The procedure for vetting information in the Department of Justice, where if it failed, the fake dossier made it into the courts, it's called the Woods Procedure.
It's a procedure where the information goes in through the DOJ and the FBI and multiple people have to vet the authenticity of this information before it makes it in front of a judge in a FISA court.
This is important.
Mueller was a key figure in the establishment of these procedures and the reviewing of these rules and how it was going to work when he was the FBI director.
Okay, that's light.
I get it.
But not unimportant.
More importantly, One of the end figures in the Department of Justice to say, hey, Joe, this information we're going to use in front of a judge to spy on Carter Page is A-OK.
One of the key figures is the head of the DOJ National Security Division.
He's one of the last men or women to review that before it makes it to the court.
Remember, Mueller is here to protect the crown, OK?
All right.
Steal a chest term.
That guy who was in the DOJ National Security Division, who was one of the final figures to give the AOK the fake information, was John Carlin, who was Bob Mueller's old Chief of Staff.
Mueller's connected to these people, to major players in this.
Mueller was the FBI director during the Uranium One 10X investigation.
Who was the United States Attorney prosecuting it?
Rod Rosenstein, who's now the Deputy Attorney General he's reporting to.
The Uranium One scandal, the Russians and their acquisition of our uranium.
Mueller was the FBI director.
Protect the crown no matter what.
Protect it.
Protect it!
Here's another one.
The woman who took John Brennan's position in the White House is Barack Obama's key Homeland Security advisor.
The position was held by John Brennan before he left to take over the CIA position, Joe.
The woman who takes his place is Lisa Monaco.
Lisa Monaco is in the White House while this operation against Trump is going on.
As one of her... My name frequently left out of this, by the way.
Lisa Monaco was one of Bob Mueller's Deputies.
I believe she was his chief of staff and held the position John Carlin had at DOJ before Carlin.
She's intimately familiar with all of this.
The procedure to vet this information.
You see how Mueller's the perfect guy to protect all these people?
You think he's going to prosecute his buddies?
Or investigate his buddies?
Or put in some recommendation at least that they failed in their job?
You think he's going to do that?
Of course not!
The list goes on.
Mueller picks two appointees for his team, the special counsel team, going after Trump.
Two of his appointees, Aaron Zebley and Jeannie Rhee, actually represented, as lawyers, people in the Clinton sphere.
Zebley represented Justin Cooper, who was a key figure in the email case, in the BlackBerry destruction case for Hillary.
Zebley is now on the Trump Special Counsel investigating Trump.
He represented that guy.
Jeannie Rhee was a Clinton Foundation lawyer.
Even worse.
They're on Mueller's team!
Mueller's number two, Andy Weissman.
He ran the Enron case when Mueller was the FBI director.
You know who one of the people on his team was?
Andy Weissman's team in the Enron case?
Katherine Rumler.
Who's Catherine Rumler?
Remember the names?
Catherine Rumler was Obama's fixer!
Right.
The fixer!
The fixer returns!
She was Obama's White House counsel!
She took the place of two guys who left, two lawyers, one who went to work for Perkins Coie, who's the law firm that hired Fusion GPS to gin up the fake information on Trump.
He has since conveniently resigned.
Bob Bauer.
Who took the place of Greg Craig, who went to go work with Skadden Arps, who's another firm intimately involved in the Mueller investigation.
Greg Craig conveniently left his position too.
No prosecution yet.
Why don't you just resign, you guys?
Do you see what's going on?
Rumler was Obama's White House counsel.
She worked with Andy Weissman on the Enron case while Mueller was the FBI director.
Rumler is now representing a key source Mueller's using in the case to go after the Trump team.
This stuff, you can't make it up.
She's representing George Nader, who was there at some of these meetings that the Mueller team is investigating for so-called collusion.
The source is being represented by Obama's former lawyer, who knows Andy Weissman and Mueller very well.
You see what's going on?
Mueller's the perfect guy.
He's the perfect guy to prosecute and go after, attempt to go after the Trump team, to keep the attention on the Trump team, and to marshal the horse trading plan.
You protect these people, these key figures, we'll give you a couple scraps off Longshank's table for you Braveheart fans.
We'll give you a couple scraps, but you make sure we don't touch Greg Craig, we don't touch Rumler, we don't touch Monaco, we don't touch Carlin.
We don't touch any of these people.
Brennan, Clapper, we gotta protect all of them.
It is clear as day what's going on right now.
You know, some guy called in Levinla said, but there's been 19 indictments on that case.
Zero for Russian collusion.
That's amazing.
Zero.
Yeah.
All right.
I got a lot more to get to.
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All right, the horse trade.
Let's move on, because I got a lot more to talk about today.
Just quickly on the NFL thing, the Eagles controversy.
I mentioned it last night.
I don't want to beat this thing to death, but it is important.
This is an example, again, of a gift, regardless of how you feel about Trump.
A gift the man clearly has for taking a story that the media thinks is a winner for them.
Oh, Donald Trump kicked the Eagles out of the way.
Look, these Eagles, they just wanted to show up and Donald Trump, no, no, it was a scam.
You get it, I've covered it.
It was a scam the whole time.
The Eagles were setting him up to make him look like a fool to show up with, the clown
show.
And I got an email, by the way, I just want to put this out there
from a guy who knows one of the Eagles players, who I'm not going to mention by name.
And he said, listen, some of the Eagles really do like the president and are real patriots and wanted to show up.
I get that.
I totally agree.
I'm not, I don't know them personally, but this guy seemed really sincere.
I'm not knocking all of them.
I'm just saying collectively, the Eagles organization could have taken a stand, Joe, and said, listen, you guys work for us.
We've been invited to the White House.
We strongly recommend you show up for this.
If you have some political gripe, air it afterwards.
But this is what we do.
That's not what they did.
The Eagles tried to show up with a clown show.
A clown.
I'm not talking about the people that won.
They weren't clowns.
I mean a clown show.
They're going to show up with a few people and a mascot and make the president look like an idiot.
That's my point.
So I'm not knocking the individual players that wanted to.
I bet there were a lot of good people on the Eagles team.
I'm pissed off about the NFL and the organization not just doing the right thing here.
Just show up.
Take the picture.
Do your thing.
Wave.
Thanks.
Have a nice day.
Right?
But again, the media thinks they have Trump in a corner.
They do this over and over again.
They think they have him in a corner with the Russian collusion thing, despite the fact that public sentiment against Mueller is turning dramatically now.
Because people are starting to see exactly this.
That Trump is becoming, in fact, a martyr in this.
And the media is horrified, Joe!
They thought they had Trump painted as a Russian colluder.
Look at this guy, Putin's pawn.
And all of a sudden, Trump turns the case around, makes himself look like a martyr in this, in this witch hunt, which it is, by the way.
And the media's sitting there going, what do we have to do to get rid of this guy?
Politically speaking, you're losing.
Trump's gift is to take a story that looks like a net negative, Russian collusion, he got dissed at the White House, and to make it a Trump story.
And he's done it again.
What does he do today?
What's the new breaking news?
I'm watching Fox this morning and I thought, this guy, this is genius.
He's getting ready to go to the G7 and he gives one of his impromptu pressers.
He does this all the time, you know, where he comes out and there's a gaggle outside.
He's getting ready to get on Marine One and the South Grounds.
I don't know how he does it, by the way.
I've been on the South Grounds, Marine One.
It is so loud, you can't hear anything.
I have to turn your radio up in your Secret Service earpiece to maximum just to hear what they're saying.
So I don't know how he does this.
But someone asks him about the Eagles and he brings up another brilliant point.
He says, You know, I'm offering this opportunity now to the NFL.
You guys say you have a problem with social inequities, with racial injustice, you know, misapplications of justice in society, systemic oppression.
No, no.
I'm looking at you and telling you.
I know.
In the Trumpian, dipsy-doo, flipperoo of the day, which he always does, he goes, so now I'm going to throw this offer out.
NFL players who know about cases of judicial inequities, people who've been put in jail for excessive sentences, people they think are innocent, could use a pardon, I'm basically inviting you to a conversation where you bring these cases to me, I'd love to hear about them, and I'll look at pardoning these people.
Again!
Trumpian genius!
You don't have to like the guy, I get it.
But I'm telling you, this is another dipsy-do-flipperoo moment.
My favorite expression of all time.
The Fliperuski, where he takes a story where the media, these numbskulls, swear they have him in the corner, and he turns around and makes them look like idiots.
Now what are they going to do?
They've got to report on this story.
Because, listen, anything the president says is news.
They can't ignore it, no matter what.
They need eyeballs like everyone else.
If the president says it and you don't put it on the news, they're going to flip to another news channel.
For what?
To hear what the president said.
Trump knows he can say this.
He knows it'll be news.
Now the story becomes Trump makes offer to NFL players.
You see systemic oppression.
Let me hear about it.
What do they say now?
What are these dopes in the NFL going to do now?
No, no.
We don't want to take them up on an offer.
Wait, wait.
Time out.
Red flag.
Under the hood for review.
You've been telling us for three years now, two years, whatever, that your protests against the flag, which they are, kneeling is a sign of disrespect, end of story, thank you.
You've been telling us that, no, no, no, this isn't about disrespect.
This is about systemic oppression and judicial inequities and the treatment of minorities, and okay, in the judicial system, fine.
He's given you now the opportunity to address some of this.
Now what do they do?
Now what do they do, Joe?
This is going to prove, once and for all, that this whole thing is a scam.
This is a PR scam by people who haven't done their homework.
They're catering to a liberal base just like the NFL, trying to kiss the butt of the liberal base of America.
0.2% of America that subscribes to far-left radical liberalism when they find out what it is.
This is the NFL and their stupid PR plan to try to cater those people that is now going to blow up in historic fashion in their faces because why, Joe?
They are not going to take him up on the offer.
And Trump is going to come back again in Trumpian fashion and say what?
Hey, you fellas keep griping and moaning.
I was going to say something different with a B. You keep griping and moaning.
I've offered you the opportunity.
Kim Kardashian showed up.
We righted a wrong in the judicial system and you guys just keep griping, whining, kneeling, complaining about the country, systemic oppression.
Come talk about it.
Again, the genius of Donald Trump, taking a story the media and the liberal goons are absolutely convinced is a net negative.
They run with it everywhere.
Trump!
Trump attacks!
Trump!
The Eagles humiliate Trump!
And taking the story and not only slamming them over the head with it, but making them look like idiots and putting them in the corner they thought they had Trump in.
What do they do?
I'm asking a serious question to our liberal listeners.
What do they do now?
What do you say?
Oh, no, no, we're not going to meet with Trump.
He's a racist.
He's offering you an opportunity to correct racial inequities in the justice system.
You don't want it?
Because you're saying he's a racist.
Does that make any sense?
He exposed this for the political scheme and scam it was.
He flipped the script in an ultimate dipsy-do, gold medal winning flipper-ooski.
And now they're on their heels again!
And it's driving them crazy!
Why?
I'm talking about the media here.
Because the media are liberal goofs!
They're not journalists!
Stop thinking that!
Please!
Stop assuming these people are interested in the facts!
They are not!
The Times, the Washington Post, the New York Daily News, CNN, MSNBC.
These are Democrat activists.
No, no.
Time out.
Rewind.
They are liberal activists.
These are liberal propaganda activists.
Stop.
Stop with the nonsense.
These are not journalists.
They are trying to crush the president.
The facts of the situation are irrelevant.
The genius of Trump is that it's not working.
His poll numbers are going up, not down.
The Mueller investigation.
The public knows it's a farce.
Trump has been using his Twitter account and the White House pulpit to hammer them endlessly and they don't know what to do.
And as they lose battle after battle... Oh, we gotta paint this tax cuts as crumbs with Nancy Pelosi.
All of a sudden, a poll by Frank Luntz in the Wall Street Journal today, Joe.
Wow!
A large majority of people think these tax cuts are helping.
It's not working!
Again on Trump, we gotta paint him as a Russian colluder.
He turns around and paints himself as a martyr in a witch hunt.
And he's right!
The media's like, darn it!
We were supposed to nail him on the tax cuts, then the collusion story, now we definitely got him on the NFL, we're gonna paint him as a racist.
So what does he do?
He offers a summit to the NFL players to come out and address racial grievances in the justice system.
What does the media do?
They're like, oh!
Oh my god.
What do we do now?
They're in complete, utter panic mode.
What's next?
They don't know what to do.
They're losing their minds because they're propaganda artists and their agitprop is not working.
Not only is it not working, the media... Folks, how do you explain this?
The media's reputation is going down dramatically.
Almost nobody outside of the far left trusts the media anymore.
No one.
Because they're liars.
Yet Trump's approval is going up!
This is why I tell people, don't get depressed!
Fight back!
Do what he's doing!
Don't get depressed!
Get up!
Do the dance!
Fight back!
Use your Twitter, your social media, your political donations, your volunteer time to fight back!
It's working!
These people are losing!
They're losing.
The economy's humming along.
The Democrats have spent two years harping on a fake collusion story.
The story's blowing up in their faces as people on the inside of the swamp are now being indicted and prosecuted.
There is still no, zero evidence of Russian collusion.
The whole thing's blowing up in their faces.
Mueller's credibility's in the can.
Every story they put out about this guy blows up in their face.
everything it's it's a beautiful thing to watch
It is, yeah.
It is, Joe.
It's a beautiful thing to watch because the media has beaten us down for so long and cowardly, spineless Republicans have been terrified.
Terrified to do the right thing because they know the agitprop liberal media machine we're going to attack them.
Trump doesn't care.
He takes the attacks, turns them around and corners them.
Good for him.
Alright, one final read here and then I have to move on.
I want to address a couple of stories.
One about Sean Hannity too, which is deeply disturbing what happened to him yesterday.
Just goes to show you again what a bunch of goons the media are.
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Now, this is interesting because the story's changing now, Joe, because the liberals are... There's a problem.
Houston, we've got a problem.
I'm talking about in the liberal space, not in the Republican space.
Here's the problem, Joe.
The liberals know that the economy is humming right now.
It's obvious.
And they know that it's going to be harder and harder to talk the economy down, especially given the fact that no liberals, no Democrats, voted for the tax cut package.
None.
So they're not, politically speaking, it's going to be impossible for any of them to take credit for.
Think about it.
Put yourself in the place of a Democrat congressman.
You're running in a swingy district.
Where homeowners, employees, government workers, private sector workers, they're all getting raises.
Not all, but a good swath of them are getting raises.
The economy's humming along.
They're getting job offers.
They're buying new homes.
They're finally getting a new car after years of a stagnant recovery under Barack Obama.
You are now running for re-election.
You voted no on a tax cut package that now the majority of Americans believe is assisting the economy.
No one's going to let you get a, no opponent's going to give you a free pass on that.
That's going to become the subject of mailers.
It's going to become the subject of TV ads.
Joe probably hears them at CBN all morning.
By the way, Nino Mangione's running for delegate.
Oh yeah, Nino's running.
Good for him.
I love Nino if you're in Maryland.
Also, I got another good buddy running, Brian Chisholm, for delegate in Maryland.
Really great.
They're good conservatives running in Blue State.
I know Nino well.
But you're probably hearing the political ads all morning, Joe.
Oh yeah.
Tell Nino we gave him a shout out.
So you're hearing these political ads.
Nobody's going to give the Democrats a free pass on this.
So what do you say?
Put yourself in this little conundrum they're in.
You're a Democrat.
You can't tell your constituents you're trying to get re-elected or get elected in a swingy district if you're not the one in office.
Hey, the economy sucks!
It doesn't!
They're going to be like, what are you talking about?
Like my wife just got a raise.
I got a raise.
She's got a new job offer.
No one wants to be, you can't run.
I guess this is a better way to say it.
I'm sorry, because this is really important.
I want to get this out.
I want to make sure you understand me having run for office, the tactics of what's going on here.
We almost pulled off a huge upset in the Swingy district.
And we were very tactical.
We were smart about it.
We actually won on election day.
We lost four days later in the absentee count in a district we had no business even being competitive in.
You can't run on a negative message.
You can't.
It doesn't work.
In other words, running on a message like, the economy sucks, look, we told you so, is not an aspirational message.
No one goes out to vote for that.
Democrat Joey Bagadonatz, and the economy sucks, and we told you so.
You're like, wait, what?
Vote Bagadonatz, the economy sucks.
You get my point.
I'm being a little sarcastic, but Joe, this makes sense, right?
But what's the alternative, Joe?
You want to run on an aspirational message that inspires people to go out and vote for you, to take a volitional act, to go out and vote, to do something.
They can't run on, hey, the economy's great.
Why, Joe?
Because they didn't vote for it!
The opponent's gonna say, yeah, it is great, and you voted no!
You see the conundrum?
Does this make sense?
I don't mean to repeat this unnecessarily here.
I just want you to understand the tactical position candidates for office, political candidates, are in right now on the Democrat side.
They can't run on the economy sucks to bash Trump because it doesn't, and they'll look like idiots, and nobody's gonna vote on an economy sucks message.
But they can't vote on, hey, the economy's great either, because they all voted against it!
So Laffer and Moore open up by talking about this conundrum they're in.
So what is the third way?
The third way, Joe, is they're going to say the economy's good, but it's all Barack Obama that did it.
Now, this is a laughable message, but again, being candid, there are some liberals and moderate Democrats and even some moderate Republicans who actually believe this utter complete steaming pile of garbage.
It is nonsense, folks.
Now, a couple of tidbits in the piece.
Number one, if Obama was responsible for this dramatic economic recovery, Then you would think it would be a continuation of the Obama policies you're claiming are responsible for the recovery.
Joe, this isn't hard to figure out.
If you're saying Obama's policies, Obamacare, his tax hikes, his regulatory overreach, waters of the United States rule, Paris Climate Accords, the Iran deal, all of this stuff was terrific for America and therefore have led to prosperity.
Then common sense would dictate, and I'm not saying liberals have this because they don't, that those policies were continued, therefore Trump, and you would be correct, should credit Obama.
But that's not what happened!
Trump got into office and immediately reversed all this stuff.
So your point is what?
Obama's policies led to economic prosperity even though Trump discontinued Obama's policies?
Guys, ladies, does that make any sense?
Ask this simple question to your friends.
If Obama's to credit for the economy, how come the economy took off when Trump reversed
Obama's policies you just said were to credit for the economy?
That...
Does that make any sense?
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He reversed Obama's policies on government regulations.
He's been cutting regulations dramatically.
Obama increased them.
He reversed Obama's policies on welfare and some entitlements.
He reversed Obama's policies on fossil fuels.
The Paris Climate Accords.
Reversed his policies on taxes.
Obama hiked taxes.
Trump cut them.
He reversed Obamacare, individual mandate policies.
All of this stuff went in the other direction.
Your assertions are groundless.
Obama was responsible.
How?
The economy took off when they stopped Obama's stuff.
You're just making that up.
Laffer and Moore bring up another great point.
That the same libs, Joe, liberals, economists, and Obama butt kissers, who are now insisting that growth was inevitable because of Obama's policies, Are the same liberals who warned us that Trump, if he was elected, was going to lead to a catastrophic crash in the economy.
Paul Krugman, Larry Summers, all of these Obama bootlickers.
If we elect Trump, it's over.
It's over.
The economy's going to crash.
Paul Krugman, the stock market may never recover.
We're going to go into a recession.
So wait, wait, let me get this straight.
The Obama people crediting Obama, who were insisting that this Trump growth was inevitable because of Obama's policies, are now the same people who insisted that if Trump was elected everything was going to collapse.
They can't be right on both accounts, okay?
If they were right about, oh no no, this is all inevitable due to Obama.
They were saying before Trump was elected, if Trump was elected, that no matter what happened with Obama, everything was going to collapse.
Joe, do you see how those two stories can't be true?
They cannot be true, both of them, no.
But again, let's not introduce logic into the liberal brain.
Something may melt down and the computer may need to be rebooted.
No logic, no.
None!
Point number three.
If Obama handed Trump a motoring economy, and Trump was just, this is all inevitable as a result of Obama's economic ledger domain here, his greatness, his ability to move things around and work economic magic and, you know, do the shell game, then how come Obama's growth rate in his final year of office for the economy was 1.6%?
Trump's approaching three, almost double!
So Obama... Yeah, yes, Saul!
I don't get this!
I can't handle the logic!
Of course you can't, because you're a liberal!
John, go to the safe space and get your color form!
The growth rate was 1.6 percent!
The numbers don't add up!
Obama didn't hand Trump a motoring economy!
He handed him a tricycle, which he promptly doubled the speed of by putting a jet engine on the back of it.
By reversing all of Obama's crap policies.
Folks, I'm sorry, but this doesn't make sense.
I think I, on my show, listen, I'm a hot-headed guy.
Let's not dispute that.
But I think I've been more than fair in my analysis of Democrat and Republican presidents and the policies they've supported.
I've said clearly on this show many times, regardless of your personal feelings towards Bill Clinton, and I have no doubt he was a leftist in many respects, none, that the spending levels under Bill Clinton and the Republican Congress and Newt Gingrich were far better than they are now.
It was about 19% of GDP.
We're up close to 22-23% now.
The fact that a Democrat was occupying the office of the presidency when government spending was constrained, I think, again, largely thanks to a Republican Congress, but Clinton signed the budget, folks.
I'm not going to sit here and be a partisan goon.
He doesn't deserve any credit.
He does.
He signed the budget.
End of story.
We have to stick to our principles that government spending matters.
If you get a Democrat in office next, God forbid, but they want to cut spending, no, no, let's not do it because he's a Democrat.
It's just stupid.
But this is why I have no respect for radical far-left liberals.
None!
Because when it comes to doing the same thing and looking at a logical set of facts and deducing a conclusion from this...
They just ignore the facts and they just make stuff up.
Oh, Obama's responsible.
Dude, we just stopped Obama's policies.
Obama did not hand him a motoring economy.
And these exact same people you're claiming, oh now growth was inevitable because of Obama, the same people said the economy was going to crash.
They can't be right.
One of those theories they had was wrong.
Here's another one.
One takeaway here.
I don't want to get this Hannity thing.
In June of 2016, Close to the end of the Obama administration, Joe.
Public polling on how many people thought the economy was good or excellent.
Only 32% of people thought that.
The wisdom of crowds, folks.
The American people are not stupid, okay?
When you ask them if the economy's good or excellent, you know how they gauge that?
They gauge that by how their family's doing and how they're doing.
This is real.
This is the figure that should matter the most to you.
So Obama all of a sudden handled Trump a motoring economy that only 32% of people thought was good?
Does that make sense?
Okay, you say, Dan, well, what's the figure now?
62.
Almost double.
Today, 62% of people think the economy is good or excellent.
I'll trust the American people any day.
The Obama economy did it.
Your third way is complete BS, and you know it.
This is the problem they have now.
They can't acknowledge the economy's good because it'll benefit Trump.
They can't acknowledge the economy's bad because they can't run on a negative message.
So they're trying this ridiculous third path that, oh, Obama did it, which is factually ridiculous.
Absurd.
Okay.
Pretty disgusting, filthy attack on Sean Hannity yesterday.
Did you hear this story?
No, no.
Tell me what happened.
Hannity's show on, was it Wednesday night?
Fox's Fox television program.
By the way, I'll be on Hannity radio today if you all want to listen.
I'm not filling in, I'm just a guest, but check it out.
This is disturbing because I'm seeing more and more of this.
It happened to me.
Media Matters and these leftist goons that are liars, frauds, fakes, they have The darkest souls you've ever seen.
These are unethical, immoral.
I'm sorry folks if we're going on and on, but these are really awful people.
And when you deal with them like I do, and you deal with their nonsense every day, you'll see what I'm talking about.
They are liars.
They are disgusting, filthy frauds.
Hannity goes on his show Wednesday night, and He's responding to a story about Bob Mueller demanding the personal cell phones of some people involved in his witch hunt, Joe.
Okay.
So Hannity sarcastically says, he says, well, you know, what if they started doing what Hillary did and bleach bit and started smashing the devices and deleting emails and hiding stuff?
And he ends, this is important, he ends, he's obviously being sarcastic.
I watched it live.
He ends Joe by saying, I don't think that would work out well if you did what Hillary did.
In other words, Joe, if you have common sense, which dopey, silly liberals don't, you'd understand he's recommending you don't do that.
Right.
I don't think it would work out well if you did what Hillary did.
He then even goes on later in the show to say clearly he's not recommending that, that this is what Hillary's team got away with.
Joe, let me be clear on this.
If you watched it and you have an IQ above 14, it was crystal clear that he was using a sarcastic analogy as a foil.
Hillary got to destroy all this stuff.
Now Mueller's asking for emails.
If they did the same thing, what would happen to them?
He was not recommending they do that.
These lying frauds at Media Matters I'm not even going to mention the guy's name because he deserves no publicity because he's a joke.
I blocked him.
He's a complete idiot.
Puts out this piece suggesting that Hannity's recommending people break the law and destroy evidence in the Mueller case.
Now, we expect nothing from Media Matters.
These people are total, complete, disgraceful losers.
They sit in mommy's basement with the s'mores and the video games and the tentacle porn or whatever they do.
I met an Eichenwalde guy, he didn't even work for Media Matters, but these crazy looney tunes leftists.
They have no lives and they sit in their basement and they look for ways to attack conservatives.
It's not just that these goofballs did it.
It's that the story was picked up later by people at The Hill, Business Insider, Rolling Stone.
Picked up this story that Sean Hannity was recommending people commit some kind of a federal crime.
Folks based entirely, completely, 100% on a lie.
On a scam.
This happens all the time.
This happened to me.
On my NRA TV show, where I was making a chess analogy about political strategy and sacrifice, and I used the term protect the crown, which I immediately put a caveat on and said, I'm not talking about a monarchy here with the Trump.
You can watch the clip yourself.
Just Google it.
And what happened?
The same exact bunch of goons wrote up stories.
What is this?
NRA TV guy talking about a Trump monarchy?
Watch the clip yourself to see how horrifyingly stupid Their commentary was, if you actually listen to the clip.
This happens all the time, folks.
These people are complete losers.
I'm just encouraging you out there.
Block them.
Block their Twitter accounts.
Pay no attention to these people at all.
They are liars.
They're complete frauds.
And it's just more evidence of why media doesn't matter and the media matters.
And why people who claim to be mainstream journalists are mattering less and less every day.
They're not about the facts anymore.
It's about propaganda.
Hey, I've got a personal favor for you to ask before we wrap up the show.
I just got one more thing I want to mention too.
Mark Levin's a good friend of mine.
He's a good man.
I'm not name-dropping, nobody cares, but Mark's a really good guy behind the scenes.
Really, really good guy.
He's done a lot for me and a lot of other people you know in this business.
He's given a lot of people their head start.
He's given a lot of people a start start.
He's nominated for the National Radio Hall of Fame.
I would deeply appreciate it if you would take five seconds.
He probably doesn't even take that.
To text 500, that's 5-0-0, to the number 9-6-0-0-0.
That's how you vote for the National Radio Hall of Fame by text.
It takes two seconds.
They send back an acknowledgement.
Thanks for your vote!
Text 500 to 9-6-0-0-0.
I'd be honored if you'd do it.
Help Mark out.
I did it last night.
I'm telling you, it takes all of two, three seconds.
But that's how Mark's going to get in.
He deserves it.
I'd really appreciate it if you would do that.
It would mean a lot to me, and I know it would mean a lot to Mark, too.
So thanks.
That means a lot.
I'd really like more.
One more thing.
There's a great article in the show notes today by Victor Davis Hanson that I think is worthy of your attention about 10 paradoxes in our modern society.
I didn't have time to cover it fully today on the show, so I may leave it for Monday.
But read the piece.
I'll just cue you in on one of them, which is really, really fascinating.
Paradoxes on how The traditional viewpoint, folks, was that as countries gain more degrees of economic freedom, like China, for example, that moved away from hard socialism to a softer form of socialism and government.
I'm not suggesting they're not socialist.
I'm just telling you they're moving away from that model into, yeah, there's been some turns backwards.
But you get the point.
That the thought was in the past that as countries, you know, implemented more market freedoms and individual economic freedom, That those countries would yearn for more freedom, there would be less conflict and less need for that government to engender conflict.
Why?
You don't want to endanger trade relationships, you don't want to endanger economic prosperity, and war does that.
And Davis points to all these paradoxes.
Strangely enough, that's not the case.
China's becoming more belligerent, not less.
The Spratlys, the South China Sea.
And he talks about these other 10 paradoxes.
I'm going to get to some of them probably on Monday.
But it's really, really a wonderful piece.
And if you read it before Monday, I have some unique insights into it.
I hope I can get to it.
Check it out.
It's really good.
It's at the show notes today at Bongino.com.
All right, folks, thanks again for tuning in.
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