How Many Times Have They Tried This? # 952 (Ep 952)
In this episode I address stunning new information about the repeated efforts by the Obama administration to target their political opponents using weaponized intelligence assets.
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Alright, welcome to the Dan Bongino Show.
Producer Joe, how are you today?
It's Friday!
Yeah!
Yes, it sure is.
Yeah, you may have missed the Twitter hijinks yesterday.
Some dude who hosts a radio station or something up in New York.
Yeah, he goes by like Kid Meepo or Meeto or some weirdo or something like that.
He went after Tucker Carlson on his Twitter account, like, you know, in all caps, like challenged him to a fight.
So, you know, listen, I was like, you fake tough guy, you know, the one of these fake tough guys.
I've run into them my whole life.
And I had some back and forth.
You got to check it out on Twitter.
It's really fun.
I think his name is Meeto or Meero or Meepo or something like that.
So he responds back.
It was funny.
No, it's funny, folks.
I usually don't refer you to my Twitter account.
I hate to bore you with my Twitter fights, but this one is definitely worth your time.
You got to see this guy flipping out.
He tells me to...
It's not a joke.
This really happened.
The guy who challenges Tucker Carlson to a fight, by the way, so I was like, you know, listen, I'm not going to, whatever, man, you're going to challenge, I think you're a fake tough guy, you know?
Yeah.
He tells me to, this is, you know, when you were a kid, Joe, if a dude wanted to fight you, did he ever tell you, meet me around the corner, meet me outside in the parking lot, meet me outside of school, right?
Has anyone ever told you to meet them in the men's department at Neiman Marcus?
Guys like, dude, I'm famous in New York.
He goes, I'm on billboards in New York.
And so I kept responding back.
It's actually Miro, but I kept responding back to driving him crazy.
Dear Meepo.
Dear Meeto.
Listen, folks, I'm telling you, it's worth your time.
It's really funny.
Yeah, dear Meatball, it was driving him out.
You Meatball, I'm famous.
I'm on a billboard, man.
He's like, I was in a Super Bowl commercial, man.
We're all so impressed.
He's like, good luck with your cheapo podcast, man.
Good luck.
Jeez, Louise!
Fake tough guys, I know.
They're a dime a dozen.
Meet me in the men's department at Neiman Marcus.
Oh, I was crying reading it.
Like, yeah, people are responding back to this guy.
Hey, Meepo, you're picking the wrong fight here, buddy.
Just FYI.
All right.
Listen, I got a lot of great stuff for you today, including a great analysis of this current situation by Andy McCarthy, which exposes these hack liberals and media folks for what they are.
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I was watching Andy McCarthy this morning on with Bill Hemmer on Fox, and he's always a source of really terrific analysis, and he said, you know, it's fascinating, piling on to yesterday's show where he covered this liberal nonsense that they're jumping on with the media now.
The Barr report!
Barr's compromised!
The DOJ's compromised because Barr was hand-picked By Donald Trump.
First off, ladies and gentlemen, I thought this was common sense, but again, arguing for common sense in today's era with liberals is largely a waste of your time.
Every Attorney General is handpicked by the President.
Are you unfamiliar with how appointees in the executive branch work?
Selected by the President, confirmed by the Senate.
Stunning!
Stunning!
There it is, the denouement!
Oh my gosh!
Handpicked by the president!
Every attorney general is handpicked by the president.
Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch were handpicked by Obama.
So that line's really dumb, but McCarthy brings up a great point.
Because what the Democrats are now trying to say is Bill Barr is clearly, this is the piece by the way in National Review where he covers it, the folly of the Mueller investigation by Andy McCarthy.
It'll be in the show notes today.
Please read it, it's very good.
He addresses this conundrum the liberals find themselves in.
So you're saying now the Department of Justice is corrupted if you're a liberal because it's run by an attorney general picked by the president.
Which again, every attorney general is picked by the president.
But what's fascinating, Joe, is McCarthy brings up a great point here.
It's the Southern District is in DOJ.
The same Southern District that's prosecuting Michael Cohen and is now celebrating the fact, the liberals are celebrating the fact that the Southern District of New York, a division of the Department of Justice run by Bill Barr, is the same division investigating Trump.
So we love the Southern District.
It's really awesome because they're hammering Donald Trump.
We hate the Department of Justice that runs the Southern District because Donald Trump picked an attorney general that runs it.
Ladies and gentlemen...
I'm telling you, I wake up every morning thinking to myself, what liberal idiocy can we debunk today?
Nothing they stand for makes any sense at all.
Being a liberal requires you to suspend disbelief.
It requires you to go into a movie knowing it's fake and pretend it's real.
Suspension of disbelief, right?
You suspend your disbelief that the movie is fake because you want to enjoy it.
This is being a liberal.
You go into the movie, you watch a movie knowing it's fake, but you suspend your disbelief because you enjoy being stupid.
Is the Southern District that's investigating Trump the bad guys or the good guys?
Because they work for Bill Barr.
I know you don't understand how government works.
President selects an Attorney General nominee, Senate confirms him.
That's only the way it's been happening forever, okay?
The Southern District of New York is a district within the Department of Justice.
The Department of Justice is broken down into Southern District, Eastern District.
Some states only have one district.
It was Maryland when I worked in the Baltimore field office of the Secret Service.
What is it?
But there are some other points McCarthy's brought up.
The Southern District one, I'm sorry, that may be my addition to it, may not be in there.
But another one of McCarthy's points.
They love the Mueller probe.
They thought Mueller was great when he was harassing Donald Trump.
But Mueller's chief bulldog, Joe, Andrew Weissman, Andrew Weissman came from where?
The Department of Justice!
So let's just be clear.
You hate the Department of Justice run by Bill Barr, who is a Trump appointee, because you think they're conflicted.
Yet the same conflicted Department of Justice you celebrate when they're investigating Trump vis-a-vis the Southern District.
And when Andrew Weissman, who was picked from the same Department of Justice to investigate Trump, starts investigating Trump, you love him while you simultaneously hate the Department of Justice.
Why?
Folks, none of this makes any sense to anyone who's capable of even basic rational thought.
Alright, I just want to throw that out there because I just, I can't take it anymore.
I watch these people on the nightly news, these liberal talking heads, and it's just one BS line after the next.
Jerry Nadler, this lunatic who's rapidly competing with Adam Schiff and Swalwell for being the silliest, most discredited, debunked, hacked member of Congress.
It's obstruction.
Bill Barr is hiding obstruction.
He's hiding obstruction.
What is wrong with you?
Do you have any evidence that what you said is just true?
No, I have no evidence.
Of course you don't!
Alright.
I want to prepare you for this, okay?
We're about eight, nine minutes in.
I wanted to get that out of the way.
But I want to prepare you for what's ahead.
And I want to kind of... Maybe... I don't know.
This may help, this may hurt.
I'm going to explain to you some really astonishing information that came out yesterday.
It's in terms of what's gone on with this operation to take down the Trump team.
I cover it in my second book, but I'm going to be honest with you folks, it's very confusing.
And I know you're never supposed to tell your, Joe's like, Joe's been on radio a long time.
You never want to tell your audiences.
But folks, it's important.
It's critical stuff that I'm going to talk through with you now, and I hope it makes sense, and I'm relying on your email feedback and Joe to tell me if it doesn't.
Let's put the lead out there first, because some astonishing new information came out yesterday via Chuck Ross at The Daily Caller, who put a piece out.
It's been covered by Fox, it was all over yesterday.
The piece is titled, Cambridge Academic Reflects on Interactions with Spygate Figure.
Here's the lead, because that headline may be confusing.
I'm going to get to Chuck's piece, which is in the show notes, and it's a must read.
It's really good.
It's in the show notes today.
The lead is this.
From the start, I've been very curious as to why the FBI's timeline on why they spied on the Trump team and attacked them on behalf of the Obama administration.
I've been very curious as to why the timeline in the story changes all the time.
Yeah.
It started with Trump was a traitor, then it went to know Carter Page and the dossier, then it flipped back to know Papadopoulos did it, then it flipped to Papadopoulos and Downer did it.
The timeline kept changing and I was talking with a friend of mine, a good source, he's a great analyst on this case yesterday on the phone, he knows who he is, and I think it finally makes sense Why the Bureau is so desperate, the FBI, to get everybody in the media to advance this story that George Papadopoulos and this Downer meeting started this entire investigation.
And the reason I believe this is because the FBI was a key player in an off-the-shelf classic entrapment scheme.
I've said this from the start, I haven't brought it up in a long time, but the information that came out yesterday leads me to believe that my analysis of this situation from the start, that Joseph Mifsud, this Maltese professor who meets with Papadopoulos in April of 2016, That this is a classic push-pull.
In other words, they pushed information into the Trump team through Papadopoulos with the goal of pulling it out later to make Papadopoulos look like some kind of a spy or an intermediary for Russian information.
Why do I believe this?
Okay.
Again, keep the lead in mind here.
That this is a classic entrapment operation and that this was off the shelf.
They had used this before.
First, we already know that in 2008 this John McCain colluded with the Russians thing.
It had already been tried.
So in other words, people in the Democrat Party...
Hillary, Obama, others out there must have been aware of the fact that this attaching people to the Russians narrative is damaging.
Everybody tracking me?
Yeah.
Because it had been tried as we've, I don't want to repeat the show, back as far as 2008 on John McCain.
This is a central feature in book, which lays out a timeline that's going to blow your mind.
The book is called Exonerated, by the way, the failed takedown of Donald Trump.
I appreciate everyone who's pre-ordered it on Amazon.
It means a lot to me.
I hate to keep bringing it up, but we're putting a lot of work into it.
This off-the-shelf narrative fails against McCain, although, you know, fails against McCain, but Obama wins, and it largely dies and falls apart.
Now, the old way of thinking of things is that the Trump team presented a unique opportunity to spy.
The new way I'm going to tell you to think of things, this wasn't new at all, that this guy colluded with the Russians, fill-in-the-blank guy, had been tried before, and Trump was just a Republican nominee, so they decided to hammer him with it.
That's why I believe this is such a bigger scandal than anyone wants you to believe.
It was not specifically about Trump.
It was about the Obama administration weaponizing intelligence and making up lies about people, accusing them essentially of being traitors to the country in order to gain political advantage.
It was tried against McCain.
It was tried against Flynn.
It was tried against Trump.
It was tried against Page.
It was tried against Papadopoulos.
This off-the-shelf, take-the-model-off-the-shelf, Russian colluder, fill-in-blank name, had been tried repeatedly.
Why is this new article by Chuck Ross so fascinating?
Because it describes as far back as 2014 now, an effort to take the, he's a Russian colluder, and pin it to Lieutenant General Mike Flynn.
Now, why is that 2014 date and this new piece by Chuck Ross so fascinating?
Again, Katherine Harrods did some great work last night on this, too, interviewing the woman involved in this, by the way, on Fox News.
Because, ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump was not running for president in 2014.
And Mike Flynn, remember this date, doesn't join the Trump campaign team until February of 2016.
Okay.
This is where this is going to get really interesting, okay?
So we have some screenshots from Chuck Ross' piece.
Remember...
Donald Trump's not running for president until 2015, and Flynn doesn't join a team until February of 2016.
So this reminds me of that movie Frankenstein, Robert De Niro, that was awful.
Remember when he's walking through the street?
Here's the cholera!
The cholera!
Because they think he's got a disease.
He's the colluder!
It's everywhere!
It's McCain, and now in 2014 it's Flynn.
Now why would it be Flynn?
Why would the Obama administration want to take down someone with a colluder label?
The cholera.
You're the cholera!
Why?
Because Flynn is an outspoken critic of the Iran deal, which is the signature foreign policy piece of the Obama administration.
Flynn hates it because he understands exactly what it is.
An effort to appease the Death to America crowd, which will only result in a proliferation cascade of nuclear weapons in the Middle East with people who want to kill us.
Good job by Flynn!
That's the long and short of the Iran deal.
Flynn hates it.
Obama considers him an enemy.
The Obama administration has to take Flynn down, but they can't take Flynn down.
Why, Joe?
Because like with Papadopoulos and like with Carter Page, used later on, and with Donald Trump, there's no evidence to take them down that they've done anything criminal or even a listen.
What do they do?
They go to the local Toys R Us, they go, let's, aisle 6, Russian Colluder aisle, they go halfway down on the left, they take the Russian Colluder toy, in the Russian Colluder toy they put the Flynn battery.
Oh!
This is a mix and match, plug and play narrative they've tried over and over.
It's the timeline in Chuck Ross' piece that tells me that what I've been telling you for the entire time is true.
This happened in 2014.
Now what happened in 2014?
Let me lay it out.
We're going to put up on the screen some screenshots from the Chuck Russ piece starting with screenshot number one.
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This is a photo courtesy of Svetlana Lakova.
Of a dinner.
Look at the date here, folks.
It's important.
I'll describe it for you.
It is a dinner at Cambridge University in London.
London, which appears again on February 28, 2014.
It's in the Daily Caller piece, too, if you want to look at it yourself.
If you don't want to watch the video, that's fine.
It is a photo of Sir Richard Dearlove.
A prominent intelligence official for the United Kingdom, a guy by the name of Christopher Andrew, an associate, by the way, of a guy who knows Stefan Halper, and Mike Flynn.
This is a fascinating picture because it's taken by Svetlana Lukhova.
Well, who is Svetlana Lukhova?
Svetlana Lakova is a woman that is accused of some illicit dealings with the Russians and suspicious dealings with Mike Flynn at that dinner in 2014.
Oh!
Oh!
Wow!
Rude.
Conveniently, Lakova It's alleged, according to multiple pieces by mainstream media outlets, the accusation that this Lakova is some kind of a Russian carve-out who had suspicious dealings with Flynn at this 2014 dinner, according to multiple media reports, that allegation comes from who?
Stefan Halper.
Noted CIA asset and Richard Dearlove, UK intelligence James Bondo.
He's not James Bond, he's James Bondo.
Or he's Bondo James.
That allegation comes from them.
Mike Flynn is targeted with the Toys R Us aisle 5 Russian colluder label as early as 2014.
Flynn hasn't joined the Trump campaign yet.
Trump's not even running for president, folks.
Now, Ross, who's done some tremendous work, I strongly encourage you to read the piece.
It'll be in the show notes with that Andy McCarthy piece.
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You will be so far ahead of the game.
I had a source on some of this, by the way, a little while ago.
Not this specific, but kind of pointed me in this direction.
And as I told my buddy yesterday on the phone, I'm very hesitant to report it until we can nail this down.
If Stefan Halper, a Central Intelligence Agency asset, he's a U.S.
citizen, working with the CIA, the Z-I-A, And a UK intelligence official are mingling in our nonsense and making false charges that Flynn had inappropriate interactions with this Russian woman in 2014.
By the way, which this Russian with Lakova firmly denies.
She was on with Katherine Harridge last night in an exclusive interview on Fox.
She absolutely 100% categorically denies any connection to Russian intel at all.
Right.
She's furious, but that picture's courtesy of her!
She took the photo with Flynn!
Ask yourself a simple question.
If Halper's analysis of the situation, that Mike Flynn in 2014 had some inappropriate dealings, but this is nonsense by the way, with this woman Svetlana Lakova at this thing.
Flynn denies it.
The guy there with Flynn who is from the DIA as well denies it.
It's never been confirmed.
Lakova denies it.
It was a dinner at Cambridge.
Then why is Lakova Who Halperin and them are insinuating is some kind of a Russian carve-out.
Why is she getting an invite in February of 2016 to a dinner for who?
Stefan Halperin's wife!
Esposa!
Digest those cookies for a minute.
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So Central Intelligence Agency asset Feed some BS information to the Obama administration that hates Mike Flynn about he could be a Russian colluder.
He was talking to this Russian lady at the event.
Yeah, she's such a great Russian spy, she took a picture of the thing and put it in the Daily Caller.
Janet Bondo.
Bondo Janet.
Halper reports back that this woman's very suspicious.
She then gets an invite in February of 2016.
I told you to remember a date before.
What else happened in February of 2016?
Oh yes, Mike Flynn joins the Donald Trump campaign.
Wow!
All of a sudden, this woman Lakova, Svetlana Lakova says, hey, read the Daily Caller piece, you can read her take on it.
She says, out of the blue, I get an invite to a dinner in honor of Stefan Halper's wife, who she has very little personal contact with.
She says she doesn't even like the guy.
She goes, and it comes seemingly out of nowhere.
Why the heck would you invite a Russian asset back to your house if you're convinced she's trying to destroy the United States in conjunction with former DIA director Mike Flynn?
Yeah.
Well, the answer's obvious.
Yeah.
You invite her back to your house in February of 2016 to potentially probe her for information, again, you could use to feed the false narrative that Michael Flynn, aisle 5, Russian colluder label, that Mike Flynn is in fact a Russian colluder.
Keep in mind the lead of this story, because I don't want to lose you in the details.
The lead of the story is this.
The timeline keeps changing with the FBI because they're trying to hide the fact that they were played for fools in the Aisle 5 Russian Colluder Tar Your Political Opponents scandal.
They tried it on McCain, number one.
They then tried it on Flynn in 2014.
It didn't work.
Flynn joins the Trump team.
They panic.
And the woman suspiciously gets an invite back.
Who is the key figure in all of this stuff?
Stefan Halper!
An intelligence asset!
That's right.
Is this the Obama administration's bag man?
What is he doing?
Why is this guy so quiet?
Why has nobody gotten an interview with this guy?
Paul, if you wouldn't mind putting up that piece from the first snippet of the piece.
This is interesting.
From Chuck Ross's piece.
The Post reported on June 5th of 2018 that Stefan Halper and Dearlove were disconcerted by Flynn and Lakova's interactions in 2014.
Those concerns were provided to American and British intelligence, so it's unclear if Halper and Dearlove were direct sources for the government agencies.
Dearlove met prior to the 2016 U.S.
election with Christopher Steele.
The former MI6 officer authored the infamous anti-Trump dossier.
Dossier?
Alleging a well-developed conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
Okay, so now we have another connection.
So we know Dearlove, who is alleged to have been a source, either direct or indirect, for this allegation that Flynn, aisle 5, Russian colluder, That Flynn's a Russian colluder from the Toys R Us aisle.
We know Dear Love also knows Christopher Steele, who, wow, magically produced a dossier alleging what?
Alleging that Carter Page was a Russian asset, too!
In a well-developed conspiracy with the Kremlin.
Ladies and gentlemen, you're getting played for idiots by these fools.
But before I get to Page, I want to put up the second snippet from the Daily Caller piece by Chuck Ross.
Because it brings up another fascinating angle that was exposed yesterday.
Stefan Halper.
The bag man.
The guy involved in all of this.
Flynn, Page, Papadopoulos.
Clovis, another Trump official.
Halper reaches out to Papadopoulos in September of 2016 and offered the young Trump aide $3,000 and a trip to London.
London magically keeps coming up with this.
Oh, dear love, he works for the United Kingdom.
How suspicious, isn't it?
To write a policy paper on energy issues.
Two months after the Daily Caller report, the Times and the Post identified Halper as a longtime FBI and CIA informant sent to gather intelligence on the Trump campaign.
The newspapers also reported Halper was one of those at Cambridge who had expressed concerns about Lakova's interaction with Flynn.
The Times reported May 18, 2018 that Halper was alarmed by the General's apparent closeness with a Russian woman who was also in attendance.
Apparently Halper wasn't alarmed enough to not invite them back in February of 2016 back to his home to celebrate his wife's birthday or whatevs.
The Papadopoulos story.
Now it's all becoming clear.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's obvious to people who have been doing a lot of homework on this case, people I communicate with, that the reason the FBI's timeline constantly changes is they're trying to hide their role in a massive entrapment scheme designed to entrap U.S.
people who are political enemies of the Democrats and the Obama administration with an aisle five Russian colluder, tar and feather label.
Now, you may be failing to make the connection here.
Well, I don't understand, Dan.
Why would the Papadopoulos-Downer meeting and the June-July 30th opening of Crestfire Hurricane, why would changing that timeline diminish that?
Because the FBI's hiding something.
And I believe what they're hiding is after the Flynn collusion aisle five colluder label completely collapsed, Flynn's never been charged once with any kind of a conspiracy charge with relationship to Russians.
Not one time.
There is no allegation of it in the Mueller indictments.
There's no allegation of it anywhere except in the mind of bag man, Stefan Halper.
Stefan Helper magically reappears in September of 2016 and has to lure Papadopoulos back to London.
Why?
Crossfire Hurricane's already open.
Why would they need to lure him back if they've got such a great case that Papadopoulos is relaying dirt on Hillary through Russians?
Because, ladies and gentlemen, that dirt line that Papadopoulos is alleged to have told Downer in the meeting that the FBI swears opened up this case?
That dirt line doesn't appear anywhere.
That dirt line only appears in one place.
In an April of 2016 meeting between George Papadopoulos and a mysterious Maltese professor by the name of Joseph Mifsud.
That is the only time anywhere where the word dirt on Hillary in the form of quote thousands of emails ever appears.
Follow me.
Okay, we're with you.
So if the FBI's whole case, starting in July of 2016, Is based on a Downer, Papadopoulos, Alexander Downer, an Australian diplomat in London with Papadopoulos, where there's no mention of dirt at all.
Downer acknowledges Papadopoulos never said anything about dirt on Hillary.
Papadopoulos disavows it.
It doesn't appear in any of the charging documents that that was said to Downer.
Then how is the FBI investigating a case based on Russians trying to transmit, quote, dirt on Hillary in the form of thousands of emails to Papadopoulos?
You may say, well, Dan, it's obvious.
It's obvious that they must have had some prior knowledge of the April 2016 meeting between Papadopoulos and Ms.
Sood.
Oh, yes!
Exactly!
Why are they hiding that, though?
Ladies and gentlemen, they're hiding it because it's becoming clearer by the day that Mifsud or somebody at that meeting was working with our intelligence agencies to transmit that information to the FBI.
Bingo!
How else would they get it?
I want to give a heavy-duty hat tip to John W. Huber.
It's a Twitter account.
It's an undercover Huber.
It's his nom de plume.
I was going to say nom de guerre, but nom de plume.
Totally different.
This guy does great work.
I don't know who it is.
It could be a woman.
I have no idea.
Probably better off that way.
But picked out a fascinating little tidbit.
I'm gonna put up a screenshot from Adam Schiff's memo he wrote after the Nunes memo.
This is a fascinating tidbit here that no one has picked out.
Adam Schiff writes this memo after Devin Nunes exposes this whole spying scandal on the Trump team.
Here's how it reads, there's a line in there.
It says, weeks before the world learned that Russian actors hacked into the DNC and the Clinton campaign, the Russians, through intermediaries, he's talking about Mifsud here.
So he's already setting you up for the fact that Adam Schiff knows Mifsud is a Russian spy.
Please track me here.
This is Schiff's memo.
So he's basically saying that the Russians, through Mifsud, informed one of the candidate's foreign policy advisors, George Papadopoulos, in April of 2016 that the Russian government had dirt on Hillary in the form of thousands of emails.
In evidence before the FISA court, the DOJ also revealed that the Russians previewed the release of this information to Mr. Papadopoulos at the time.
Evidence before the FISA court?
Yeah.
Joe, how would the word DIRT and thousands of emails appear in a FISA court application that was approved in October of 2016 if the FBI didn't find out about the DIRT on Hillary line and the Mifsud meeting Until January of 2017 when they interview Papadopoulos.
Remember, the FBI story is, oh no no, we got this whole thing from this guy Alexander Downer who met with Papadopoulos in May and in July he told us that he met with Papadopoulos and it was really shady.
And the New York Times 2017 story reports that it was Downer who told them about the dirt on Hillary.
No!
No it wasn't!
Downer has insisted he did not say that!
Never has a word in human history, in the history of spying, been so controversial.
Where did the term dirt come from?
The dirt on Hillary?
It came from an April 2016 meeting.
Why won't the FBI just say that?
You see my point?
It did not come from Downer.
Why won't the FBI just admit that they got this term, the Russians have dirt on Hillary, from Papadopoulos, but they had it to put in a FISA warrant because Mifsud or someone at that meeting where dirt was mentioned in April was working with the FBI.
The reason they won't say it is because they don't want to admit their role in a serious entrapment scandal.
They got played for idiots because they wanted to get played.
Alright, I'm going to continue this in a second because this gets worse.
I want to let you digest that for a minute.
Remember the takeaway.
Alexander Downer never ever mentions to the FBI the word dirt or thousands of emails.
Never.
That is only in the Mifsud meeting.
So why doesn't the FBI just say that?
Because Mifsud or someone there was working with them to target an innocent guy.
Papadopoulos.
And they don't want you to know that.
That's why.
So they want you to believe a tip that came in from an Australian diplomat started the whole thing.
That's why the media, the Chris Silliza types, you know, the uninformed of the world, keep telling you this because they don't want you to look back to April 2016.
When I get back, I'm going to, from this, I'm going to, was there an investigation open back then?
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Okay, getting back to this.
If the formal investigation, according to the FBI, started July 30th of 2016, and the only time this dirt line on Hillary is ever mentioned is April 2016, we got a big old problem, Armacost, don't we?
Yeah, I'd say so.
What the hell's the FBI doing in April 2016 investigating a case they've already told everyone didn't open until July?
What's the explanation?
Well, there's only two.
Explanation number one, which I find highly unlikely, is that Joseph Mifsud, who meets with George Papadopoulos in April of 2016, and allegedly tells him that the Russians have dirt on Hillary in the form of thousands of emails, that Mifsud, according to Adam Schiff... Can you put up Adam Schiff's... that line from Adam Schiff again?
Is that Adam Schiff's story is correct.
Adam Schiff puts up, and as you can see here, in his memo, that he believes the Russians, through an intermediary, who he's referring to Ms.
Sood, informed Papadopoulos about the dirt on Hillary.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, that would be a big problem, would it not?
If Ms.
Sood was working for the Russians and was trying to collude with the Trump team in the form of Papadopoulos to pass on Hillary's emails, Joe, that'd be a big problem, wouldn't it?
And it would give a viable explanation to how the FBI in a FISA warrant, which again, I'm not so, I'm going to be clear, Schiff may be lying about this, but those are his, I'm just using his words.
If that is in fact in a FISA document, it would make perfect sense.
You may say, all right, Dan, story over.
Mifsud was a Russian asset.
Was he?
Because if Mifsud was a Russian asset, why is he never charged?
Mueller was happy to charge all those GRU Russian intel people.
Remember that one, Joe?
Yeah.
And the Russian server farms and all those other people.
Mueller charged all them.
Yeah.
Why not charge Joseph Mifsud with being a Russian intel asset trying to intersect with the Trump campaign?
You would have proved some at least attempted collusion.
Why didn't he do it?
The answer is because Mifsud's not a Russian asset.
Mifsud is a Western intelligence asset, as Mifsud's own lawyer has already told us.
Folks, Mifsud is interviewed in January, excuse me, in February, right after they interview Papadopoulos.
And they find out about the dirt.
They let him go!
He comes back into the country for this FBI interview.
But he doesn't come back for the interview.
He's cleared to come back into the country to speak at an event co-sponsored by the State Department.
The FBI interviews him and lets him go.
Mifsud has been in the wind ever since.
Joe, we've only been talking about Mifsud and the Maltese professor for well, well over a year now.
Yeah, well over a year.
Because, ladies and gentlemen, he's the key to the whole story.
If Mifsud is not a Russian asset, like Adam Schiff alleges in his memo, and is not a carve-out, and that that dirt on Hillary that the Russians were trying to pass to us did not come from the Russians, but came from a guy working for our intelligence, then these two stories cannot coexist!
The story that the Russians were pushing information to the Trump campaign becomes a story of what, Joe?
US intel working with friendlies trying to push information into the Trump campaign.
Now do you get the lead of the story?
This is why the FBI is, again, changing their timeline and story how this case started all the time.
Because if the Mifsud story is ever told, he is ever interviewed, and ever comes out and admits he was working with Western Intel to entrap George Papadopoulos, we absolutely know then that our government was engaged in a potentially criminal scheme to violate our espionage laws and everything else to target a U.S.
citizen in the form of both Mike Flynn and George Papadopoulos.
Now, getting back to Halper and Papadopoulos.
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Halper, who appears to be the bag man in all of this, contacts Papadopoulos to get him to come back to London after the case is open in September of 2016, offers him $3,000.
That's fascinating.
Also, an alleged source in the dossier, Sergey Millian, also offers Papadopoulos money.
Papadopoulos says it's upwards of $30,000.
Why are all these people offering Papadopoulos money to continue to give up the cookies and come back to London?
Because they desperately are trying to get this information back.
They planted into the campaign friendly intelligence assets, not the Russians, about this dirt on Hillary, and Papadopoulos won't give it up.
Why, Joe, in September 2016 does Halper meet with him?
It's crystal clear if you're paying attention.
Halper is an intelligence asset working with friendlies who needs Papadopoulos to tell him, hey man, I heard from some Maltese guy that the Russians have dirt on Hillary.
You want to work on that with me?
Yeah.
Except Papadopoulos doesn't say it.
Matter of fact, Papadopoulos, there's no allegation anywhere that Papadopoulos messages the Trump campaign and suggests that they should work with the Russians to get these emails.
None!
That allegation appears nowhere.
Neither Papadopoulos nor Mifsud have been charged with anything related to that April 2016 meeting.
George is listening by the way.
He's got a new book out, which is really terrific, by the way.
I want to thank him.
He acknowledged me for keeping his story alive, which was very nice of him.
His story matters.
Yeah, which I was kind of surprised about.
Someone sent me a screenshot of it.
A lot of things make sense now, too.
Papadopoulos alleges that the FBI was in a panic in January of 2017.
They interview him in January and February of 2017.
Ladies and gentlemen, they have nothing.
Just like they had nothing on Flynn.
You can't tar someone with the Russian colluder label without eventually producing evidence of some kind of a crime, which they never could.
They tried it on Flynn, didn't work.
They try it on Papadopoulos.
They come back to Papadopoulos in January and they want Papadopoulos to put on a wire To go meet with Ms.
Sood again!
You may say, well Dan, that doesn't make sense.
If Ms.
Sood's working with them, why would they want to do that?
Folks, I believe the story makes a lot of sense now.
I believe they're trying to throw Papadopoulos off the trail.
I believe they've been monitoring Papadopoulos for a long time, either through the two-hop rule on Carter Page, the FISA on Carter Page, or through a FISA warrant potentially on Papadopoulos himself, I believe they're monitoring him, and I believe the FBI in January, after Trump is elected, they panic.
He's about to take office, and they realize at some point that Papadopoulos has probably figured out that he's been the victim of an entrapment scheme.
Papadopoulos has also probably figured out that Mifsud and, what is it, Arvinder Senbeh, these people who set up the meeting with Mifsud, are part of this entrapment scheme.
You see where I'm going with this, Joe?
They know Papadopoulos is on to them.
In order to get Papadopoulos off the trail, what do you do?
You ask him to wear a wire against Mifsud.
Surely the FBI wouldn't ask me to wear a wire against a guy they were working with.
It also makes sense why Mifsud, after that Papadopoulos meeting, is in the wind, never to be seen again.
It's like the Ren and Stimpy episode, The Land of the Left Socks.
Where they go, nobody knows.
Mifsud is the Ren and Stimpy Left Sock.
Where he goes, nobody knows.
Get him out of here quick.
Get Papadopoulos off the trail.
In other words, Joe, if you're working with the FBI, right, to target me, and what you guys are doing, you and the FBI, is totally immoral.
It is.
And I get wind of it and start emailing my friends, and now the FBI's reading it.
Bongino's onto it.
He knows we're targeting for a crime he didn't commit.
Joe, what do we do?
I got an idea.
Let's tell Bongino to wear a wire against Joe and make Bongino believe we've been targeting Joe, not him.
Brilliant!
Yes, sir!
But you don't want me communicating with Joe.
So Joe, you interview him, and Joe conveniently disappears in the wind.
Poof.
Kaiser Sosay.
Gone.
This whole thing makes sense now.
This whole thing.
This is why they're hiding this April 2016 meeting.
And this is also why Margot Cleveland's brilliant piece, which we discussed a long time ago on the Federalist, where she indicates this very suspicious footnote in one of the Pfizer renewals, where the FBI is desperate to avoid a FOIA on one of their sources.
Cleveland appears to intimate in the piece that that source is likely Ms.
Sood.
That the Bureau was working with a source whose sole purpose was to feed information to the Trump team, to pull it out later, to entrap them in a collusion scheme.
Folks, Mifsud is the key to this whole thing.
If he is not a Russian asset, like Schiff is alleged, he's not.
He was never arrested for it.
His lawyer has no reason to lie.
His photos on the internet, Mifsud, are with Western, UK intelligence officials.
If he was not a Russian asset, this whole case is garbage.
The collusion was with friendlies.
This new piece by Ross makes me believe that... hammers it home.
Why?
Why?
Now, how does the Ross piece tie into this?
The Ross piece ties into it because it indicates that Halper has been a key player in this Russian colluder aisle 5 label as far back as 2014.
He was the guy!
He's the aisle 5 Russian colluder manager in Toys R Us.
We need to tar someone with Russian collusion.
Get our buddy Stefan!
They had already tried it as far back as 2014 with Flynn.
Now they're trying it with Papadopoulos.
They push it into Massoud, they get Halper to try to pull it out desperately in September of 2016.
By the way, I believe they've been investigating Papadopoulos for a whole lot longer than they want to let on.
And that Operation Dragon or whatever it was, I want to know if there was a FISA on Papadopoulos too.
All right, now I wanna tie it up with page because the page thing is gonna make this whole thing stink to the heavens like you've never seen.
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All right.
Let's put up that last piece from Chuck Ross's wonderful Daily Caller piece today, again, in the show notes.
Because I want to make a final connection here.
Halper.
They're talking about Halper, the bag man here.
You need, this is the Aisle 5 Russian Colluder Toys R Us Aisle 5 Manager.
You need a Russian Colluder Tar and Feather job, this is your guy.
Stephen Halper, whose late father-in-law was legendary CIA official Ray Klein, made contact with Carter Page at a political forum hosted at Cambridge, London again on July 11, 2016.
Wait, wait, leave that up there.
Hold on.
July 11th, I thought Crossfire Hurricane opened July 30th, 2016.
Gosh, isn't that crazy?
July 11th, July 30th.
July 11th, July 30th.
July 11th is before July 30th, right, Joe?
Yes, it is.
Just double-checking our information.
Yes, it is.
Okay, thank you, buddy.
Appreciate that.
Nearly three weeks before the FBI opened its investigation of the Trump campaign, Page attended the event after receiving an invitation in June of 2016, even worse, from a PhD student who studied under Stefan Halper.
I owe five bag men from Toys R Us.
So, let's go down the list.
So, Halper makes an allegation in 2014 that Flynn's colluding with this Russian lady.
Russian lady says you guys are lunatics, no one else can confirm this.
The same Halper Invites her to a dinner for his wife in 2016 despite the fact that she's supposedly an alleged Russian colluder, which she avidly and convincingly denies.
Okay?
Alright.
Halper also reconnects with George Papadopoulos, who meets with an alleged Russian, Mifsud shifts alleging he's a Russian guy, who nobody ever is charged with being a Russian, who the FBI interviews and the guy magically disappears.
Halper then meets with Papadopoulos and asks Papadopoulos, too, hey George, what about those emails?
Papadopoulos is like, what the heck are you talking about with these emails?
Aisle 5 bag man back to the rescue again.
I got an idea.
Let's invite Carter Page over to London in Cambridge, where maybe we can rope him in.
Remember, Carter Page is a...
Splendid idea!
Crumpets for all!
He invites me.
You ever had a crumpet?
I don't even know what a crumpet is.
I'm embarrassed to think.
You have?
I don't even know what it is.
It's really good with tea, you know?
Of all your sticks, your English bit is terrific.
I'm glad you appreciate that, Daniel.
I'm really awful at accents.
So Bondo James, Stefan Halper, decides he's going to invite Page over to London to Cambridge.
Wow, isn't that convenient?
So he starts greasing up Carter Page, too.
Folks, the timeline now makes a world of sense.
This is the coup de gras of the show.
And I'm putting it out there because I may be proven wrong later and that's okay.
Because I'm doing a lot of homework for my new book and I'm pretty convinced now that the order we've been told, the timeline, not only is the timeline false because they're trying to hide the fact that Mifsud, who started this case, Wasn't a Russian, but was a friendly working with us, Joe.
Not only trying to hide that, but we've been told that the case started with this Papadopoulos-Downer meeting.
Right.
Therefore, it couldn't have possibly started with Carter Page, even though Carter Page is the subject of the FISA.
In other words, the order we've been told Is Paige is the subject of the FISA in October?
Papadopoulos, though, starts the case in June 30th of 2016 because of this tip they get from Downer that he was talking about emails.
No one has ever publicly confirmed the fact that the FISA order may be out of order.
Let me get to what I'm telling you.
I think there was a FISA on George Papadopoulos first.
And I'm willing to bet a bucket of nails on they found Carter Page.
Not found him, but found an in into Carter Page.
Remember Halper?
Halper contacts Page in June before this whole tip comes in.
Right?
The tip comes in from Downer in July.
But Halper, the bagman, R5 bagman, contacts Page in June to invite him to London, where they're working with UK officials.
How is that?
If the case started with the tip on Papadopoulos, how is Page getting an invite from an intelligence asset working with friendlies in the United States in June?
Because folks, the case did start with Papadopoulos.
Just not in July.
It started way back earlier with Mifsud and them in April.
What am I telling you?
Folks, I believe there was a FISA on George Papadopoulos first.
And that FISA on George Papadopoulos, due to that April meeting with Mifsud, who I believe is working with us, he's not a Russian asset.
It makes no sense.
That FISA on him, which would force them to admit they were working with Mifsud, Is probably how they came across Carter Page as well.
How?
Because we know it was limited, but we know Papadopoulos had some contact with Page.
Now, follow me.
The Bureau knows Page is working with the Trump team as a foreign policy advisor.
He tells the newspaper editorial board, Donald Trump, that Papadopoulos and Page are working with him.
So it's not a mystery.
But folks, they don't have anything on page.
Now they have something, they think, on Papadopoulos.
Why, Joe?
Because they're working a CI case with Mifsud, who's feeding them the dirt stuff, right?
Right.
Follow me.
They have nothing.
Zero.
A big fat egg on Carter Page.
And in order to get a FISA warrant on page, which they did, you have to show not only is he acting on behalf of a foreign government, That's not illegal.
Foreign governments lobby in the United States all the time.
But you're doing it in violation of U.S.
law, i.e.
spying.
They don't have that on page.
Matter of fact, Joe, they have exculpatory information on Carter Page.
Why?
Because Carter Page has worked with the FBI before to lock up Russian spies in the Buryakov case.
Carter Page has never in his life been charged with any intelligence espionage related crime, any crime for that matter.
He's a Naval Academy grad.
There is no evidence Carter Page was working on behalf of the Russians at all.
Zero.
So how did they get Carter Page then?
I told you why I think they had Papadopoulos, because of the Massoud meeting.
I can almost guarantee you that there was a FISA, open on Papadopoulos, where through the two hop rule, they get his email to Page.
Someone at the FBI, who has worked with Page in the past, hey, look what we got!
Oh!
Lookie here!
Look what we got!
We got this guy Papadopoulos we've been trying to set up, emailing this guy Carter Page.
Someone at the FBI's like, hey!
Hey, do you remember we worked with him on that Russian spy case?
Russians!
Get our buddy Halper in here!
Get the bag man!
Aisle 5 bag man, please!
Remember the intercoms?
Paging Aisle 5 bag man!
Bag man, we need a Russian colluder!
Halper, can you go contact Carter Page?
Halper comes back, feeds them what they need to hear.
All of a sudden, boom!
Carter Page appears magically in another FISA.
That's approved in October.
Then it would make perfect sense if there was a FISA on Papadopoulos, which is how they make the leap to Page, which is how they get Halper in there to go contact Page.
Then it would make a world of sense, by the way, how the FBI came up with the specifics about the dirt thing.
Because even if Mifsud was working with Intel but not necessarily directly contacted to the FBI, maybe he was working with the CIA or other foreign friendlies, Joe, if they were up on a wire on a FISA with Papadopoulos, maybe Papadopoulos emailed someone somewhere about, hey, this wacko I dealt with said something about the Russians or something.
It's all coming together.
This whole thing is so much bigger than just the Trump campaign.
Alright, folks, I'm really sorry if today's show was confusing.
I didn't intend it to be that way, and I know many of you enjoy Spygate, some of you like our other stuff, but this is really important.
That Chuck Ross piece, now taking the date of this as far back as 2014, I'm taking it back to 2008 with McCain, just to be clear.
But that Halper constantly appears as the aisle five bag man for an off-the-shelf Russian colluder Tar and Feather job, before Trump is even running for office, should tell you the Obama administration had this thing planned the whole time.
None of what I told you is open for dispute.
The analysis at the end you can challenge and you know what?
I enjoy when you email me back.
Matter of fact, one of my good sources, we kind of have a little bit of a friction on that.
That's fine.
But the fact that Halper has been a key figure in meetings with Trump officials and enemies of the Obama administration and has associated almost all of them with the Russian colluder aisle five off-the-shelf label should say to you that the Obama administration had this thing planned the whole time.
You know they say with food when in doubt throw it out?
Well the Obama administration went in doubt go to aisle five bag man and don't worry we'll produce a Russian colluder label for you.
It's now transparently obvious.
And I'll leave you with that last thought that I'm highly suspicious now that the FBI is in a panic to avoid telling you that this case did not start July of 2016, that it started in April of 2016 with the targeting of Papadopoulos by a guy everyone believed on the hack side was a Russian, I mean the liberal and media hack side, who may now turn out to be a US intelligence asset which will blow this thing wide open.
All right, folks, thanks again for tuning in again.
Was that okay?
Yeah, it was a lot of info, though, bro.
Lot of info there.
It is a lot, I know.
Read the show notes today.
It'll make a lot more sense.
Folks, we appreciate it.
And please go pick up my book, Exonerated, The Failed Takedown of Donald Trump by the Swamp.
We describe all of this.
This book is going to be phenomenal.
I spent another hour on the phone yesterday working out the details.
It's really good.
It's available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble.
I really appreciate it.
Folks, you've all been great.
This was a great week.
So thanks a lot, and I will see you all on Monday.
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