Ep. 796 New Details About the Astonishing Effort to Cover Up This Scandal
Summary:
In this episode I address the stunning developments in the New Mexico compound case, along with the real reason the suspects were let out. I also discuss the explosive interview John Solomon gave last night about the Mueller witch hunt. Finally, I discuss the social media mob’s targeting of a Red Sox baseball player and key developments in the Clinton email case.
News Picks:
This Daily Caller piece addresses the FBI’s defensive statements about the Clinton email server hack.
This piece in the Hill addresses the FBI’s efforts to fight back against charges it mishandled the Clinton email case.
Why is George Papadopoulos taking Mueller’s plea deal?
John Solomon’s new piece covers the complete collapse of the Papadopoulos/Mifsud story.
Margot Cleveland’s piece addresses the April 2017 FISA renewal application and some key information that may have been missing.
Lee Smith’s latest piece addresses the real reasons that President Trump may be hesitant to declassify critical Spygate documents.
This Red Sox outfielder is under attack for a ridiculous reason.
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All right, welcome to the Dan Bongino Show.
Producer Joe, how are you today?
On with the show, brother.
On with the show.
Yeah, did you hear about what happened with the case in the New Mexico compound where the radical Islamists were preparing the kids, according to the allegations in the reports, for school shootings?
Yeah.
There was some roadmap to terrorism attacks and things like that.
Yeah.
Folks, if you missed the developments in this case, it's blowing the minds of not just conservatives, but even some rational people that are on the other side of the aisle who are like, what is going on over there?
I'll get into some of the details on that.
I also want to get to the story about the FBI is trying to fight back against this You know, the fact that China may have hacked Hillary Clinton's emails.
The FBI is now going, I don't understand, going to war with Louie Gohmert's office and others and even the president who are calling them out on this.
So I want to get to that too because there's an angle on that you may have missed.
There's also some developments in the case we've been discussing the whole time, the Spygate case, which is interesting.
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All right, first, just some quick background on what happened in this New Mexico case, right?
Most of you may be familiar with it.
There was a compound discovered in New Mexico where some Islamists were there, and according to the allegations in the criminal report filed, They were training kids to engage in school shootings and other kind of, you know, terrorist type attacks.
And the plans that they discovered in the compound were very sophisticated, Joe.
They mentioned things like choke points, which for me and my prior line of work as a Secret Service agent, that's one of the things you fear most.
They mentioned choke points and sniper positions.
Well, what are choke points?
You know, when you're in the Secret Service doing protection, anything from motorcade protection to a site advance, in other words, securing a location, a site, you always want to keep track of where the choke points are.
The choke points are where, using a motorcade example, because it's easier to understand, if I have a motorcade and I'm in the transportation section and I'm securing it, Joe, you want to allocate a lot of your security assets where the turns are in the motorcade, the hard rights, the hard lefts.
Well, why?
Because Joe, you have a motorcycle and a car.
Yeah.
If you're doing a straightaway at 55 miles an hour, is that the same speed you're going to take the right turn at?
Hell no.
No, because you'll drive right off the road.
So what happens at a turn?
People slow down.
When you slow down, that presents more surface area and more time of the vehicle to attack.
Because if you slow down, it's obviously easier to hit a limo, a presidential limo or another car, if it's going 20 than if it's going 50.
This is not complicated to understand, but in the realm of presidential protection and other executive protection, choke points are important things.
The fact that in these documents that were Uncovered at this New Mexico compound, they were discussing things like choke points and specific sniper positioning, Joe.
How, in fact, to get the best angle for the shot.
This shows that this was a relatively sophisticated operation.
Yeah.
Well, in a series of bizarre events that happened, first, the judge lets them out on a $20,000 bond, which is insane.
I have never heard of such a thing.
I covered the story on my NRA TV show.
It was, I couldn't believe it.
Joe, at the federal level, when I used to investigate financial crimes cases, not cases with a terrorism nexus like this case, right?
Yeah.
It wasn't uncommon for $500,000, $250,000 bonds.
You're going to give allegations of terrorism, credible allegations.
You're going to give them a bond of $20,000 where they didn't even have to front the cash.
It's insane.
In other words, you had a promise to pay if they don't show up.
Wait, what?
That makes sense.
It was ridiculous.
That was insane development number one.
Insaner development number two.
The prosecution fails to file the necessary paperwork for the PC hearing in the requisite timeline and three of the five people who are alleged to be involved in this were just let out.
What the heck?
What is going on?
Now, people on Twitter, Joe, are enraged over this, understandably so.
Yeah!
But I want to explain to you, so we have the facts, because we do facts here.
We're not CNN, right?
It's not CNN or Vox.
We actually do facts.
It is not the judge's fault.
Everybody's piling on the judge.
I'm telling you from now, listen, these are state charges.
These are not federal charges.
But at the state level, it works in a similar fashion to the federal system.
The judge is obligated to do certain things if the prosecution, the government lawyers, don't meet certain guidelines.
The judge had to let them out.
Why?
Well, I'll give you my experience in the federal system, just quick, and you'll understand what's going on here.
This is good.
When you were arrested, I know Joe loves this kind of stuff.
Joe's like a law and order guy.
He likes to know what goes on behind the scenes.
If I, God forbid, arrest Joe for felonious smokery and the umpteenth degree, right?
Yeah.
I have to bring Joe to a court, according to habeas corpus.
I have to bring him there for an initial appearance.
Habeas corpus meaning bring forth the body.
In other words, I can't arrest Joe, throw him in a prison cell, and leave him there until his court date.
I mean, like his trial.
We can't do that.
In the United States, we have habeas corpus.
Bring forth the body.
Show us the body!
I have to bring him there for an initial appearance in court.
During that initial appearance, timelines are set, bail, things like that, okay, at the initial appearance.
After that initial appearance, a timer, think of it like a sand, one of those sand timers, a timer gets turned and there has to be a probable cause hearing within a certain amount of time.
What does that mean?
That means to protect against police just randomly arresting people and making stuff up, And putting fake stuff like a dossier, that won't get a nod, into a charge.
If you were arrested, Joe, for felonious smokery, you were entitled to a probable cause hearing.
Meaning within a certain amount of time, we have to, the prosecution, the government, and the federal agents have to go to court with you and show in that hearing that there was in fact probable cause that you were arrested for the right reasons.
In other words, the information we put in there provided probable cause that you committed the crime we said, Joe.
Makes sense?
Yeah.
Now, in the federal system, if you arrest someone on a complaint, using a complaint, just basically laying out what Joe did, I believe it's 30 days.
You have 30 days for that probable cause hearing to happen.
Now, I'm not, without getting too wonky, I've explained this before, this is how it relates to that, I mentioned this when talking about Papadopoulos and the probable cause arrest, how unusual it was, because typically you need a complaint or an indictment, right, to get that arrest warrant.
If I produce a complaint, I arrest Joe for felonious mokery, bring him to court for the initial appearance, I then have 30 days to have that hearing.
30 days.
Now, here's the catch.
At the state level and the federal level, the timeline is different.
Apparently in New Mexico it's 10 days.
Right.
It doesn't matter.
What I'm trying to get at here is that Joe and his defense attorney, they typically waive that.
Now, you say, well, why would they do that?
Yeah, I was gonna say that.
Well, in the federal system, they typically waive it, the initial probable cause hearing after the initial appearance, because no one in the federal system wants to get indicted.
Here's why, Joe.
If I arrest you for felonious mopery, this is cool stuff, so I'm letting you in on some inside baseball.
I arrest Joe for felonious mopery.
We have a good feeling Joe's gonna cooperate against his other people involved in the felonious mopilation scam, okay?
If I've got a good feel, I just made that up of course, but if I got a good feel that Joe is going to cooperate, dismissing the complaint, Joe.
Dismissing the complaint for lesser charges is relatively easy to do in the federal system.
So what happens is the defense attorney tells you, Joe, all right, listen, man, they got you hook, line, and sinker, babe.
This felonious moping doesn't look good.
They got you on tape feloniously moping.
Joe's like, damn, what do we do?
Well, we got to cooperate.
All right.
Well, if we cooperate, what's happened?
Well, they'll probably dismiss the complaint and charge us with something lighter.
Maybe we get some whatever community service or whatever it may be or a fine.
Okay.
Joe goes, okay, let's do that.
In order to do that, The defense attorney tells the prosecution, we're going to waive that PC hearing.
This is cool though.
I get excited about this because I remember doing it.
This is where, if you want to really understand how the justice system works, this is the cool stuff.
This is how it happens in the real world, not in the textbooks.
You may say, well, what's the point?
Why not just have the PC hearing and keep your fingers crossed if you're Joe, right?
That the judge goes, ah, there's no PC.
Joe, you go free.
Because what's going to happen?
No prosecution team for the government is going to go to that PC hearing if they don't have to.
What do they rather do?
They'd rather go and indict Joe instead than do a PC hearing.
Why?
Why would they rather do that?
Because when you go in front of a grand jury, the defense attorney and Joe are not allowed in.
The prosecution goes into the grand jury and only tells its story.
Oh.
You ever hear the line, you can indict a ham sandwich?
Yeah.
That's why.
Joe doesn't tell his side of the story, neither does Joe's attorney.
The prosecution goes into the grand jury and tells its story.
That's a quiet ham sandwich, yeah.
Everybody gets indicted.
Everyone.
There are so few people who don't get indicted.
That's where that old adage comes about, you can indict a ham sandwich.
All right.
So what I'm getting at is, The defense attorney's not dumb.
He knows if he asks for this probable cause hearing that the prosecution's going to turn around and do what, Joe?
Say, no, no, no thanks.
We're just going to indict you instead.
Why get into an adversarial probable cause hearing when you could just go into a grand jury and indict Joe?
Right.
And what's the problem?
A complaint is easy to dismiss.
An indictment isn't.
No, it's not impossible, but an indictment is a little added level of difficulty to dismiss.
So keep in mind, Joe's defense attorney knows this.
So he knows if Joe gets indicted, the chances of them dropping the charges are probably slim to none.
He also knows he's going to piss off the prosecution because he's asking for a hearing which is going to cost them an eight hour workday and they're going to bust their chops for nothing.
So typically what happens is they waive that probable cause hearing because they understand just are you tracking when these make sense now?
Joe understands and his defense attorney understands he's hook, line, and sinker on felonious smokery.
He understands he's going to cooperate.
If he's going to cooperate, he wants to get on the prosecution and the government's good side.
He waives the probable cause hearing because he doesn't want to force them to indict because they know if they indict that those charges aren't going anywhere and Joe's not going to get any credit for his cooperation.
Okay.
That's how it happens.
That's generally how it happens in the state system too.
What makes absolutely no sense in this case, in New Mexico, Is why would the prosecutor, who's aware of this 10-day timeline between initial appearance and probable cause hearing, why were they either not working a deal for cooperation, or if they weren't working a deal, why were they not preparing for the probable cause hearing?
Ladies and gentlemen, this thing stinks.
I don't know what that prosecutor, but just a couple of takeaways.
One, this was not the judge's fault.
Please, I'm asking you just to follow the facts on this.
Be angry at this all you want, and you're perfectly entitled to it.
But the judge, I believe in the Constitution, even when it doesn't work out well for us.
My fidelity to the rule of law matters, unlike Democrats.
The judge was obligated, after 10 days, if they had not produced the requisite documents for this PC hearing, by the Constitution of the State of New Mexico, and the Constitution of the United States, to let this guy go.
Let the three of them go.
It's the prosecutor.
We should all be asking right now, were you cutting a deal with them?
And if you weren't cutting a deal with them, why were you not prepared?
This is an enormously important case where if these allegations turn out to be correct, there's no question this operation was a danger to the community.
None.
If those allegations are in fact correct, why were you not prepared?
Are you serious?
Serious case, folks.
There have been way too many anomalies in this.
I think this case is a little more serious than they're even letting on.
And I don't know what that prosecutor was thinking, but someone should be asking them some serious questions right now.
All right.
Did that make sense?
Yeah, man, it was cool.
Yeah, thanks, man.
I found that stuff just fascinating.
I could never, and the only reason I bring it up is when I was a federal agent, I could never understand at the initial appearance when I had locked up bad guys, my first few two or three arrests.
These are the things they don't teach you in Secret Service school, right?
I could never understand why the defense attorney was always waiving the probable cause hearing.
I'm like, why are they doing that?
Just go do the hearing!
Maybe you'll get lucky, right?
And I had to have a government, AUSA, assistant United States attorney explain it to me.
No, no, this guy's not stupid.
This is a good defense attorney.
He knows we're just going to turn around and indict his client tomorrow, whatever it may be.
We're not doing a probable cause here.
I got lunches to go to or whatever it may be.
We're just going to indict this guy.
And they know that.
Once you get an indictment, a true bill comes down, once you're indicted, you're in a world of trouble.
It's very difficult to wiggle out of that.
And also you're going to really tick off the prosecution that's not going to want to cooperate anyway.
Okay.
So I just found that interesting.
Number two story, which is blowing my mind.
It's just, it's becoming so transparently obvious right now what Mueller's job is here.
Mueller's job here is to cover up for massive, massive DOJ, FBI malfeasance.
By keeping the attention on Donald Trump at all times.
And the level of DOJ and FBI malfeasance, not just related to Spygate, but related to the Clinton email investigation, Joe, is just astonishing.
As we covered yesterday, a report by Richard Pollack in the Daily Caller, I have an update in today's show notes.
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But yesterday I covered this Daily Caller expose where they have a source from the ICIG, the Intelligence Community Inspector General, basically the internal affairs for the United States intelligence community that looks at internal malfeasance and misfeasance, right?
A stunning, stunning report.
That the Chinese may have in fact hacked into Hillary's email system, Hillary's email system, and sent duplicates of her emails through a company located in Virginia associated with Chinese intelligence services to the Chinese intelligence services themselves.
Now, if you read the update today, the damage from this Joe, it could be staggering.
We're talking about potential sources that may have been exposed, if not directly Joe, like in other words like, hey John Smith is a CIA spy in China.
The information in those emails that the Chinese may have may be enough to narrow it, you get what I'm saying?
To narrow it down to a few people in China who could have transmitted that information.
This could cost lives if this information, if it's in fact true.
Now, the Daily Caller did their homework on this.
I absolutely trust their reporting on this.
Between Chuck Ross over there, Pollack, Peter Hassan and others over there, they've been doing tremendous work.
I trust this report.
It seems to be sourced quite well.
And it's sourced to intelligence community, the Inspector General that says, listen, her email was hacked.
The server was hacked and the Chinese have Mrs. Clinton's emails.
Devastating story.
Now, what happens?
Yesterday, big time Joe curveball.
Here comes the hook.
The FBI yesterday, again, this is why I'm so convinced Mueller's here.
Mueller's here to run interference for the Bureau and the DOJ.
The FBI fights back against this.
I have another story from the Hill in the show notes today, just to give you both sides of it.
The FBI saying, and they're very, very clever.
Very clever.
The FBI saying, no, no, no, there's no evidence here that we found this breach in Mrs. Clinton's email server.
There's no evidence of that.
Oh, did you catch it?
Oh boy, is this clever.
This goes to show you the colossal BS we're dealing with right now.
Louie Gohmert, Republican Congressman from Texas, who's the one who exposed this story in the Peter Stroke hearing.
Remember back then we talked about it, we just didn't know what country it was?
Yes, we did.
Well, now we know it's China.
Or as Donald Trump would say, China.
China.
We know it's China that hacked the emails.
Right.
Gohmert points out something in a tweet, and he's... I love Gohmert.
Gohmert said, the FBI is being very clever here.
They're technically correct, Joe.
Because CNN, of course, picked up the story and said, no, no, Donald Trump, because Donald Trump tweeted about this story, about the Chinese hacking Mrs. Clinton emails.
And CNN, of course, oh, no, no, no, no, no.
The FBI is refuting this.
No, they're not.
No, no, no.
The FBI is playing games like they've been playing for a very long time.
They worded it cleverly.
Yes, they're right, Joe.
The FBI did not find the breach.
Who found it?
The Intelligence Community Inspector General!
The story was never that the FBI located the breach by the Chinese into Mrs. Clinton's email server.
That is not the story.
If you listened to yesterday's show, you already know this.
I like to be on the news like a lickety split.
The story, folks, to be crystal clear, and this is why the FBI is playing silly, stupid word games again, the story is that an Inspector General working for the intelligence community uncovered the breach and briefed the FBI, notably Peter Stroke, who was the lead investigator in the Hillary Clinton case, and according to the reporting, the FBI did Zippo.
Zero.
You think, ladies and gentlemen, that may be an example of severe misfeasance in this case?
Borderline malfeasance?
You're darn right.
The FBI did nothing.
You know why the FBI did nothing?
Because they didn't want to do anything on the Hillary email case.
They were desperate to make the Hillary email case go away.
So just to be clear, this guy or woman, whatever, we don't know, the Inspector General walks in to the FBI, briefs Peter Stroke, says, hey, we've got a problem.
Hillary Clinton's email system may have been hacked by the Chinese.
They briefed Peter Stroke, this anti-Trump, rabid anti-Trump agent who investigated both Hillary Clinton's email and Trump, and they do nothing.
They sit on their hands.
Instead of the FBI taking a bath on this, Joe, which they should have, what do they do?
They come out with a slickly worded scam statement again.
Because they just... Here's what they're doing, folks.
Well, let me get to the statement.
Oh, we didn't find a breach in the system.
CNN.
The FBI says it's a lie.
We didn't find a breach.
No, no.
You didn't say it was a lie.
Because no one's saying you found it.
We're saying you were briefed on it by someone else who found it.
The IG.
Cut the crap.
What are they doing?
It is obvious, Joe.
They've got their hands on Bob Mueller's shoulder.
Bob Mueller's the puppet master.
They are keeping the attention on Trump and they are riding out the midterms.
They are praying, they have their fingers crossed, they are on bended knee genuflecting every day before the golden calf of Bob Mueller, that the Democrats in November will take back the House of Representatives, put the kibosh on all these investigations, and the FBI and DOJ can ride off into the proverbial sunset out there and pretend none of this ever happened.
Deny, deny, deny, use Mueller to counter-accuse.
This has been the Democrats for what, 60, 70 years?
Deny the corruption, counter-accuse the others.
The counter-accused people of doing the same thing you're charged with.
This is what Mueller's doing now, except Mueller's the counter-accuser.
The FBI, come out and with a slickly worded statement denying it, allow the hack, Propagandists in the media, CNN and others, the Washington Post to pick up on it.
Oh, the FBI is denying this.
No, they're not.
They're playing word games.
And then have Mueller go out and double down on the investigation.
Unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
I didn't catch that, by the way, when you did it.
I'm glad, yeah, I didn't catch it.
But this, the statement, the slickly worded statement?
Yeah, I didn't catch it.
You caught in it, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, and there's, I have an update.
Read the show notes.
Right over my head.
A lot of people.
But Joe, what bothers me about it is CNN and the Washington Post, they know very well that that's not what was said in the report.
They know very well that the report isn't that the FBI found it.
Matter of fact, it's even worse that the FBI didn't find it because they were the ones investigating the email case, that it had to be found by the IG's office that has far less assets, is pretty Pretty embarrassing.
Cool, man.
All right.
All right.
I got a lot more cool stuff.
I'm pretty stoked about today's show.
It's going to be a busy show, so buckle up.
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Okay, what else?
No, it was funny.
I liked it anyway.
Hey, another quick story before I get to some updates on the other stuff.
No more apologies, folks.
I'm glad to see, on a serious note here, that finally we have some people with a public profile, a professional athlete in this case, growing some cojones and saying, you know what?
I'm not going to apologize.
I am really, really, you know what?
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I try.
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That was just so dumb, I couldn't help myself.
But when people really...
screw up and I know it's killing him personally I try to stay I'll give you just a quick example I'm not trying to like virtue signal to you here but I just think we all need to be very careful a guy I I don't I don't really hate anyone but there's a strong level of dislike for one specific reporter who illegally taped me in a conversation you know the story if you're listening it just it it bothers me not because of what I said the guy the guy deserved everything he got the fact that he was such a snake about it afterwards But this guy, this reporter, constantly steps in it.
He gets himself in trouble all the time.
He got himself in trouble not that long ago with a thing, and it was tempting online.
Now, I mentioned it on the show, but it was tempting online to pile on, but I didn't because, you know what?
For as much as I disliked this guy, honestly, I knew it was eating him up inside, and I'm like, you know what?
I don't want to contribute to this guy.
I just don't, and I just got out of it.
I mentioned it on the show, and I even kind of regretted it afterwards, right?
My point here is, again, not to virtue signal anyone, no one cares, is that these social media moms are dangerous and they're getting worse.
And they're forcing people to apologize for things they did nothing wrong.
Perfect example is what happened to the Republican gubernatorial candidate down here, Ron DeSantis.
Who was talking about not monkeying around with the economy.
By the way, a terminology used by Barack Obama, by Democrat politicians forever, and all of a sudden the Democrats, because the Democrat nominee happens to be black, are like, oh that was a racist comment.
What are you talking about?
Joe, serious question.
Is it not racist itself for Democrats anytime there's some reference to a monkey that the Democrats always have to bring in?
What are you talking about?
You did that, not us.
What are you saying?
That's a disgusting comment in and of itself.
We all know what the guy was saying.
Stop being a bunch of frauds.
And I'm glad to see people are finally waking up to the fact that if that's not in your heart, and listen, if you screwed up, then by all means, stand down and apologize.
It's the right thing to do.
But if you did not screw up, and I know Ron DeSantis, if you think Ron DeSantis meant some kind of racial inference from that, you are a total imbecile.
Seek help immediately.
I'm sorry.
You are.
You may not like Ron, you may not like his politics, but insisting that the guy was making a racist comment is so dumb, I'm not even going to explain.
Because you need help.
You need to seek professional help immediately.
Well, what happened?
I have a story in the show notes today I'd like you to read.
Right fielder for the Red Sox.
You know, I grew up in New York, so the Red Sox were always mortal enemies growing up.
I mean, Bucky Dent was my hero.
But I gotta tell you, I've grown to love and respect the Red Sox and the Boston work ethic over the years, especially Veritech, because I wasn't a big fan of A-Rod.
I was a Yankees fan.
Yeah, I was.
I like Veritech.
I was like, all right, good for him.
But the right fielder for the Red Sox, good for him!
It's a guy named J.D.
Martinez, and apparently because the far-left social media mob has nothing better to do, Joe, than to scour through Twitter and social media feeds for everybody in the professional entertainment and sports arena for the last five million years, found a tweet from like 1472 or whatever it was from decades ago, that was from a few years ago, I'm being a little dramatic obviously, where J.D.
Martinez posted this meme picture Of a quote attributed, wrongly by the way, to Hitler, saying, to conquer a nation you must first disarm its citizens.
It was basically a pro-second amendment meme.
Now, the quote is not in fact an accurate attribution to Hitler, but...
What the guy was saying was clear as day, that you don't, to disarm a nation, you could take away its rights.
Ladies and gentlemen, taking a pro-Second Amendment stance, there's nothing controversial about that.
Why this was even controversial, I'm baffled.
I'm bedazzled by the stupidity.
So, of course, the social media mob goes after Martinez, Joe.
Demanding apologies and all this other stuff.
And you know what, JD?
I don't know you.
I've never met you in my life.
And I am not a Red Sox fan, to be crystal clear.
Mad respect.
You've got incredible talent.
But I want to give you a Major League hat tip and beg you and implore you not to apologize like that guy on the Steelers did for coming out of the tunnel during the National Anthem.
I'm the dude.
You are.
You are.
Don't stand down and become the non-dude.
Please.
You're not apologizing.
You have nothing to apologize for.
You didn't do anything wrong.
Stand up.
I'm glad you're standing up and you got a lot of our respect for doing it.
This is a social media mob.
It is a bunch of Media Matters, Mommy's Basement Dwelling, S'mores Eating, Colorform Playing, Magic Market Coloring losers sitting in Mommy's Basement, paid $10,000 a year to go back and backtrack and put people on the social media boiler to make them look stupid.
Do not apologize to these losers.
Media-ite and media matters.
This is all they do.
Nobody cares.
They don't matter.
Matter of fact, every hit piece they do on prominent conservatives, our audience grows.
So it's like you almost want to thank them for their support.
Forget these losers.
The best part of me being in this movement and gaining any kind of a profile was understanding.
I'm not kidding here, folks.
And if you do this too, you'll understand, you'll figure it out.
At first, it hurts.
Right, Joe, when we first started?
The first few articles that are hit pieces on you, you're like, oh my gosh.
And then you realize these people don't matter.
I know, I mean, they literally don't matter.
Nobody's reading their stuff.
Go to their Twitter feeds and check it out.
Their articles get like two retweets.
Nobody reads their stuff.
It's only you that does it.
But what winds up happening is you know they're on their radar.
And that's how you know you made it.
Ignore these people, JD.
You don't owe them anything.
These people are complete, total hypocrites.
They're hypocrites!
They don't live by their own... Think about it.
The Second Amendment thing.
These rich Hollywood people and sports folks out there.
Some of them that are attacking you.
A lot of them have armed staff surrounding them.
If they don't have armed staff, they work in buildings that have armed staff surrounding them.
These people are phonies!
They're hypocrites!
These people on taxes.
Oh, we want to cut taxes.
Do you take tax deductions?
Yeah, I take them.
Why?
You want everybody else to pay higher taxes, but you don't yourself.
You're a big fraud!
You heard my rant on taxes yesterday.
And I meant it.
By the way, the guy who posted on my Facebook, you know, saying that I should reconsider it?
No, no, no.
Wrong show.
You know who you are.
Whether you listen or not, great.
You're always welcome here.
If you think for a second I regret one word of that, man, you got the wrong guy, Daddy-O.
Yeah, that ain't happening.
No, no, no.
No, no.
Wrong show.
Sorry.
You may want to go listen to Tom Hartman or something.
They're hypocrites!
School choice!
Well, we don't want school choice.
But you send your kids to private school.
Yeah, I want school choice for me!
These people are frauds, JD.
They're total frauds.
And the left's outclaws on this whole thing is, oh, you know, but listen, we're special.
Al Gore, even though Al Gore talks about climate change and CO2 emissions, the fact that he flies around in a private jet is understandable, Joe, because we're different and we're special.
What are you talking about?
The whole essence of socialism, Marxism, totalitarianism, totalitarian leftism and liberalism is the essence that we're all the same, Joe, is it not?
Income equality, all this other stuff.
So in one hand you're arguing it's okay for Al Gore and others to be hypocrites.
Michael Moore with his armed bodyguards and whatever.
Alyssa Milano with her armed bodyguard at the NRA convention.
On one hand you're arguing that yes we should all be the same and we should all be equal.
It is the essence of communism, socialism and totalitarian liberalism.
But on the other hand you're arguing but we shouldn't be the same because I'm different.
I'm different and I'm special.
Oh, but I need an armed bodyguard.
Oh, but I need to take tax deductions like John Kerry for his yacht that he kept in Rhode Island.
Like Al Sharpton and others.
I need you to pay taxes because I'm different.
So let me get this straight.
The great unwashed, we're all the same.
We should all be treated like your minions, but you, you elitist snobs, you should be treated differently.
JD, that's who you're dealing with here.
Oh, you doubt me, by the way?
Another story that came out the other day.
Ocasio-Cortez.
New liberal darling of the left here.
Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, who's won this nomination for Congress over Joe Crowley in a huge upset.
Big socialist.
Big Bernie Sanders supporter.
Comes out, Joe.
Here's a quote from her.
Talking about New York yellow cab, taxi cab drivers who have medallions.
Quote, yellow cab drivers are in financial ruin due to unregulated expansion of Uber.
Okay.
Alexandria.
No, Alexandria.
You don't like Uber, right?
That's your principle?
Oh!
Oh, what do we find?
We find in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's FEC filings, Joe, that as she's attacking Uber in the free market and is suggesting that they be regulated, her campaign spent $4,000 on Uber and another $2,500 on Juno, a ride-sharing service.
Listen.
Yes.
Frauds!
Frauds!
These people are frauds.
They're frauds on taxes.
They're frauds on guns.
They're frauds on Uber.
They're frauds on school choice.
They're frauds on regulation.
They are frauds on everything, J.D.
These people are total frauds.
Ignore them.
They live in mommy's basement.
They eat s'mores.
They eat their honey nut Cheerios.
I love honey nut Cheerios.
They're good.
No knock on them.
They are pretty good.
They sit there, they play with color forms, they color stuff in, and they tweet all day.
Ignore these imbeciles.
They are complete losers.
Now, as I've said about Cortez, good for you.
You worked hard.
I lost my race for office.
I'm not ashamed of it.
I'm glad I did it.
You worked hard.
But it is your obligation now to at least stand on principle and know stuff.
You've shown us a couple things.
You've shown us through your interviews that you don't know very much about foreign policy or economics.
You've also shown us you're a hypocrite.
Uber.
We gotta get after Uber.
Unregulated Uber.
You're spending $6,000 on ridesharing.
Total, complete phonies, these people.
Phonies!
Phonies!
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Some really incredible news last night on Hannity.
Sean's show has just been incredible.
I can't miss television at nine o'clock.
He has unique access to John Solomon and Sarah Carter and Greg Jarrett, who have really, really good sources on this case.
I'm sure of that.
You can take that to the bank.
John Solomon last night, and if you're a regular listener to the show, John Solomon writes to The Hill.
I have his latest article, and these are must-reads, Joe.
I have his latest article in the show notes today.
I strongly encourage you to read it.
It's just explosive.
I am convinced, Joe, that John Solomon knows a lot of what you and I have been hinting at, and he has the whole story down.
I think what he's doing, and it's smart, is he's pacing the stories out so that each new explosive revelation has time to kind of...
You know, let the dough rise a little bit, you know what I'm saying?
Because it's so much and the case is so complicated that he's doing it in a very smart way.
But what he said last night on Hannity, I actually had to go, I rarely do this, where I come back and I have to actually rewind it on the DVR.
I had to rewind it and listen to it again because it came off very innocuous, but what he said was just incredible.
He has gotten hold of the documents, or some documents, That described the interaction between the FBI and Joseph Mifsud, the interviews, in February of 2017.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Rosetta Stone to the whole case.
If you're a regular listener to the show, you know the story.
It is Mifsud, this Maltese professor, that meets with George Papadopoulos from the Trump team, and according to the Democrat Bob Mueller fairy tale, tells Papadopoulos about some dirt in emails on Hillary.
And Papadopoulos then passes the information to Downer, Alexander Downer, the Australian ambassador, later on.
And that's the FBI story about how this started.
That is a junk story.
Take that story, crumple it up, throw it in the garbage, and burn it.
It is a nonsense, ridiculous story.
We now know the FBI was likely investigating the Trump team way before they had any hard evidence.
But Solomon said something last night amazing.
So he gets his mitts on the interview the FBI does in February with Mifsud and astonishingly, read the piece, it's in intricate detail Joe, he says that Mifsud told the FBI, what are you talking about?
There were no discussions about cyber security at all!
So wait!
Folks, do you understand what... Again, here's the problem with this case.
This is what frustrates me talking to people.
It's so complicated and so layered and detailed that I think people fail to understand... Like last night when this was said, I'm thinking, how is this not the biggest story in the media today?
The FBI, Bob Mueller, the Liberal Democrats, the media goons, and the swamp rats have been telling us forever that this suspected Russian agent, Mitsud, according to the narrative, passed this information about Hillary's emails to Papadopoulos, set up this whole big conspiracy scam.
Oh my gosh, a Trump team member, George Papadopoulos, knew that Hillary's emails were hacked and was working with the Trump team to get them out there.
They interviewed the guy!
They interviewed him in February of 2017!
Almost a year later!
Solomon's got his hands on it and in there, Mifsud denies the whole thing!
Folks, he denies the whole thing now!
If you have Hannity's show on DVR, watch it today.
Watch the interview.
Because Solomon puts this out there like it's nothing.
And the reason I think he does that is because he's so smart and has such good sources and has known the story for so long, Joe, that as he releases these bombshells, they're not Bombshelly because he's known him for so long.
You know what I'm saying?
Like if I knew you were a space alien for six years and we released it on the show, it wouldn't be surprising to me, although it may be to the audience.
Solomon said it, I had to rewind it.
Did he just say that the genesis of the whole case, the idea that this guy Mifsud told a Trump team member about Hillary's emails and that started the whole conspiracy, The very idea that he mentioned the emails and cyber security threats and all that stuff to the Hillary campaign, the idea that he never said it at all, and that he is actually on the record denying it?
What is going on?
The whole case just went out the window!
Just take it, throw it right out the window, the whole case is over!
Now, if you follow my Twitter, at DBongino from last night, you'll notice right after the interview, About, I don't know, 945 Eastern Time.
I go on this Twitter tirade about Bob Mueller.
Now you know why.
Now you're inside Dan Bongino's head to talk about myself in a third person.
Do what Bob Dole says.
Folks, I looked at my wife.
We watched TV.
It was bedtime.
We're sitting in bed.
We're watching the television there.
I looked at her and I go, do you understand what just happened?
John Solomon just basically debunked this entire collusion narrative.
Debunked the fact that George and why George Papadopoulos, by the way, if you read the latest news report, is taking this plea deal.
I don't get it.
I understand he's in a difficult position.
I get it, but I don't understand why he's playing.
I just don't understand.
Bob Mueller, it is now clear as day.
Clear.
I don't want to hear another word about Bob Mueller being a decent guy.
Thank the man for his service.
He is not a good man.
He has now tarnished his entire reputation, the reputation of the Justice Department.
I went on a Bob Mueller tirade last night, the likes of which you've never seen.
It is now crystal clear, Joe, he understands that Papadopoulos cannot talk.
Because if Papadopoulos comes out and confirms this Maltese professor Mifsud story in the FBI reports, Joe, the story that we never talked about this stuff, I just remembered it wrong.
Maybe I was following media.
I'm talking about speaking from Papadopoulos' perspective here.
Maybe Papadopoulos says, listen, I don't know.
They were reporting about Hillary's emails in the media.
Maybe I remembered the conversation wrong.
I didn't think much about it.
But you know what?
Ms.
Sood's right.
We didn't have any conversations at all about Hillary's emails.
Ladies and gentlemen, you understand the whole case is gone?
Now does it make sense why Mueller has to shut this kid up?
He is ruining this kid's life.
Threatening to put him in jail for six months.
Mueller is not a good guy.
He has disgraced himself.
He has disgraced the Justice Department.
He has disgraced the country.
His team is an international embarrassment.
Mueller is a disgrace!
What he is doing to this kid, taking this kid's life away, destroying this kid's life for the sole purpose of shutting him up.
So the true story that according to the FBI's own interview, there was no talk of the hacking of Hillary's emails, that this was just the standard conversation about international politics.
This whole case goes out the window.
Even worse.
Joe, is this making sense to you?
Yeah.
Please tell me this makes sense, folks.
Yeah, it's making sense to me, yeah.
Because I get it.
You know, you listen to the show every day and you're like, all right, another... I'm running out of adjectives.
Explosive, you know, bombshells.
I don't know what else to say.
These are, in fact, explosive revelations.
Yeah.
The fact that the media decides not to cover them doesn't make them less explosive if you understand the case.
Like I said, I watched it last night.
I put my fingers to my eyebrows and was like, did he just say that?
Read the Solomon Report.
You will see a thorough debunking of the Mifsud Russians and they had emails and they told Papadopoulos about the emails.
It's not there.
Now, I have another older piece from Margot Cleveland from a few weeks ago, but it's important.
It's important in the context of this Solomon piece.
Because here's what Mueller's covering by again ruining the life of George Papadopoulos.
Destroying this guy's life.
Destroying it!
He's destroying the life of Papadopoulos so the story never gets out.
But what he's really covering for, remember what I keep telling you about Mueller, his sole purpose there is to sweep all the DOJ, FBI garbage under the rug and make it go away.
There was no better person to do it.
Bob Mueller's deeply connected to all the major DOJ players, Rosenstein, these others.
He was the director of the FBI.
If anyone knows how to put skeletons in the closet and lock the door, it's Bobby M.
The FISA from April.
Margot Cleveland's piece contains this at the end.
If you want to sweep down to the end, you'll see it.
It's at the Federalist in the show notes.
The April 2017 FISA renewal, Joe.
The warrant to spy on the Trump team.
The entire warrant, the entire FBI investigation, remember, is based on the fact that Papadopoulos is the Trump Guy who knew about Hillary's emails and therefore the collusion to get Hillary's emails out there was work through Papadopoulos and the Trump team.
The April 2017 renewal to continue to spy on the Trump team.
You're going to see why in a second why Devin Nunes wants this April 2017 renewal out there.
Joe, do you think it would be a material fact that the Pfizer judge would be interested in?
That in April 2017 Pfizer renewal, that in February of 2017 the FBI interviewed Mifsud and he denied the whole thing?
Yes I do!
You think that may be critical?
Oh you think!
Judge Joe!
Now just to be clear, you have no legal training and are not a federal judge.
I'm not a federal judge.
But you don't need it to make a common sense decision that it may in fact be a materially important fact that your main suspect in the case, Joseph Mifsud, has absolutely categorically denied the whole thing.
You think that would be important?
No, folks.
Apparently it wasn't important enough to put in the April 2017 FISA.
Now do you understand why Devin Nunes is begging the Trump team to release and declassify the documents?
Release the Kraken!
Now do you understand why Nunes wants that April 2017 specifically unredacted?
Because if that information isn't in there, that's like getting a warrant to arrest Joe for robbing a bank and the owner of the bank says the bank wasn't robbed and you omitting that from the judge.
Now do you see what Mueller's covering?
He needs to shut this kid up no matter what.
I have here, this rhymes, I didn't even know it.
I wrote this down as a note.
Papa D will take the plea.
Don't take the plea, dude!
What are you doing?
Now, Solomon launches another bomb yesterday.
He has a theory on this.
Now, you gotta watch Solomon on Hannity at Nights.
Because I'm telling you, it's not a theory.
Listen to me.
I know John knows stuff.
When he says he has a theory, Joe, what he's really telling you is, here's how it went down.
Watch the appearance again at the end.
Again, I'm looking at my wife going, this is the most incredible three minutes of television I've ever seen.
Solomon goes, you know, I've got a little theory about what happened here.
And I'm like, oh, he does?
I perk up because I'm thinking if this matches up what I've heard, I'm going to be pretty happy.
If not, I would have been devastated.
Solomon says, think about the timeline here.
In July.
Right around the June-July area.
Of 2016, they open up the crossfire hurricane case, the FBI, to spy on the Trump team and attack the Trump team.
Now we know the targeting of the Trump team had started earlier.
We know that because Halper, the spy the FBI was using, had emailed members of the Trump team before July.
So that we know.
So forget that.
But let's say the formal start is right around June-July of 2016, of the investigation.
We know that, despite the fact that it starts around the July time, that they don't interview Papadopoulos, who's supposed to be the founder of the Feast, Joe, right?
He's the guy who's getting these emails from Mifsud and he's talking about it to Downer.
They don't interview him till January.
Why?
They don't interview Mifsud till February.
Why not?
Matter of fact, not only did they not interview Mifsud until February, the State Department actually sponsors a conference Mifsud speaks at to come into the United States!
Why?
I thought he was a Russian spy!
Now we're working with Russian spies?
Solomon throws this out there and I was like, ding ding ding ding ding ding ding!
That the FBI, when they found out that the Dossier Joe was complete, utter, total BS, and that doesn't stand for Bill Sharkey, when they found out it was total BS right around the December, probably, maybe, maybe even earlier November-December period, Trump now wins the election, the FBI says, holy... Guys, they're sitting around a room, McCabe, Comey, I can only imagine what this looked like.
Hey fellas, We just went in front of the FISA court and swore that all this dossier stuff based on Russian collusion was true.
It's kind of looking like BS.
The guy was talking to Orr and now we're starting to figure out that Bruce Orr was working with him and his wife was over at Fusion at the same time.
We got a problem.
We got a problem.
My buddy used to talk real slow.
This guy Jeff, I used to know.
We got a problem here, fellas!
What are we gonna do?
Let's go get that Papadopoulos kid!
There you go!
Here's our other narrative.
So narrative number one.
Trump was colluding with the Russians.
The dossier said so.
Uh-oh, that fell apart.
Let's sit around the table.
Guys, we need a backup narrative because we just weaponized the federal government to attack the now president of the United States.
We've got nothing but a discredited dossier.
We better arrest someone real quick for collusion.
Hey, let's get that Papadopoulos kid.
They interview him in January.
They've got nothing.
Nothing!
They arrest him, remember, in November on a PC warrant.
That's why I said right around November they probably started to figure out this dossier was crap.
They arrest him in November at Dulles Airport.
Conveniently, the same day, Mueller learns that Peter Strokes' texts, the investigator in the case, are going to become public, which discredits Strokes.
He's like, uh-oh, we got to run interference on this.
Let's go arrest Papadopoulos.
They interview him in January.
They interview him again, I believe in February.
They interview him as soon in February.
They are struggling desperately to come up with a narrative, Joe, but it's all they had.
All they had was Papa D who took the plea.
That's all they had.
They made this whole thing up.
Bob Mueller's team made this whole thing up.
They are covering for the FBI and DOJ.
They made this whole thing up.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the biggest scam in American history.
This whole thing is made up.
They are putting this kid, Papadopoulos, in jail for nothing!
Now, one final note on this.
I gotta remember to do this.
Lee Smith, who I've had on my NRA TV show, has another terrific piece at Real Clear Investigations.
Because you may be asking yourself a question right now.
I know Joe is.
You may be saying, okay, Dan, you just gave the answer.
Why not just declassify and un-redact the whole thing if you're President Trump?
Why not?
That's what I was thinking.
Just release the Kraken.
Let us see the information in the fourth FISA.
If it doesn't mention the Mifsud interview that debunks the whole story, then clearly we've got evidence that they lied to the FISA court and someone should be investigated and possibly prosecuted.
Smith's piece covers it.
It's a brilliant piece.
Lee Smith apparently has some good sources as to why Donald Trump is not declassifying it, and you know what?
It's brilliant.
Now, again, I'm not trying to take any pleas, but if you're a listener to the show, this may not sound new, because we kind of heard the same thing, but Trump is probably keeping his powder dry, Joe, to see what happens in the midterms.
Why?
Read Smith's piece.
It's not that long, but it's very good.
One of his sources has indicated that they're afraid they may lose.
Now, keep in mind, ladies and gentlemen, Trump knows everything I'm telling you.
He is not dumb.
Trump knows this investigation is a steaming, smelly pile of horse waste, okay?
He understands that.
Trump has nothing to worry about on collusion.
Now, on his business charges and all this witch-hunting stuff, yes, I'm not saying he's guilty of anything.
I'm just saying that they're gonna go after him no matter what if they have to get him for a parking ticket, right?
On collusion, please understand Trump has no fear.
There is nothing there.
He knows there's no there there.
He is not worried one scintilla about collusion coming back to haunt him.
He's not.
That's why he let his lawyer spend 30 hours with Mueller despite Mueller being a discredited disgraced investigator.
Given that he knows he will come out of this smelling like roses, what's the last bullet he has in his gun to fire?
The last one is the declassification and the unredacting of the documents, which is going to expose the entire scheme.
So Smith's sources are saying that if they lose in the midterms, What's going to happen, Joe?
The Democrats are, of course, going to try to make this investigation go away.
To which Trump could respond after the midterms and say, okay, you want to make it go away?
Release the hounds.
And then the American public will get the real look at the real crossfire hurricane operation, and the effort to target Trump, and the effort by Mueller's team to make this whole thing up later, and it will be absolutely devastating.
It is a genius, genius idea.
It's bad, folks.
You know, I don't talk about this every day because...
Gives me any joy in doing it.
You know, having been a federal agent and having had that power of the federal government to take freedom away, I've told you many times, it's scary.
When you lock people up in those early morning raids and you see their kids crying and their wives, even though they're really bad people, a lot of them have done some horrible things.
You know, if you have just an ounce of empathy in your bones, you're like, gosh, I feel really bad for this dude.
That may bother you that I say that, but it's the truth.
I'm not going to lie to you.
It got under my skin a lot.
You know, you feel like, can I just fix this guy?
You know, can I just hear, talk to him?
And it's not going to work.
People have to pay for their crimes.
But the fact that this power was used against Trump for doing absolutely nothing wrong is just horrifying and disgusting.
Just pathetic.
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