In this episode I address the real reasons behind the Trump revolution, and why media elites still can’t process what’s going on. I also address the troubling revelation this weekend by a prominent reporter about John Brennan’s role in the spying scandal. Finally, I address the failings of the Mueller Report. News Picks:
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Okay, there you go.
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So first, I was in an airport coming back from Fox, many of you saw.
Sorry about Friday, by the way.
I was supposed to host for Hannity, but Jason Chaffetz was in, and we didn't know if we'd get there in time, so I actually didn't host.
Chaffetz was there, so I got a lot of emails on.
It wasn't like some big conspiracy or anything like that.
So I flew home early Saturday morning, and I'm at the JetBlue terminal, and I'm talking to this guy who knows a family member of mine, a really nice guy.
And he's a laborer, he's an electrician.
And I was chatting with him and he said something to me that was really powerful, kind of shook me a bit.
About 10 minutes into the conversation, he was there with his wife, he was taking a vacation.
He said to me, you know, I'm an electrician and he said, I go back sometimes and I wish I would have done things differently.
He had some other aspirations and it was more of a creative field in the artistic sense.
So in other words, he's a very talented guy.
Electricians are very talented laborers.
They're hard workers.
You screw up, as I said to the guy, you screw up an electric job, you can burn down someone's house.
These guys have to be really smart.
Women out there do that as well.
But he got me thinking and I said to him, You know, why would you say that?
I said, why would you want anything to be different?
And ladies and gentlemen, listen, I'm not here to plant the lips on the backsides of anyone out there.
I'm not looking for, like, votes from laborers.
I'm not running for office again, ever.
That's not the purpose of this.
I just, I said to him, did you ever see the movie Seven Days in Entebbe?
It's a really good movie.
I liked it.
It's a movie about this hijacking by these revolutionary idiots who hijacked a plane, these terrorist jerkwads, and they took the plane to Entebbe in Africa.
And they held it there, and you know, you don't mess with the Israelis, and the Israelis landed their own counter-terror force in Entebbe, on the African airfield in Uganda, and wiped out a lot of these terrorists and saved almost all the hostages.
Well, there were some casualties, but very few.
And there's a line in the movie Seven Days in Entebbe where one of the pilots who's on the plane, who's obviously hijacked, they're stuck in this airfield in Uganda because these revolutionaries won't let him go.
They have a plumbing clog in the facility they're all being held in.
They were there for days.
And the bathrooms don't work.
So the pilot, the hijacked pilot, happens to be a plumber also.
So he goes upstairs with this revolutionary jerkwad terrorist.
And he unclogs this pipe.
And the, you know, the erudite revolutionary Joe citing all these manifestos and all this other stuff is looking at him.
Yeah.
And the pilot looks at him in disgust as he's unclogging this pipe because he knows how to be a plumber too.
And he says, I'll take 50 revolutionaries for every one plumber.
Gosh, I love that line.
To all you laborers out there, carpenters, electricians, steam fitters, rail workers, ten knockers, tradesmen, truckers, this world works because of you.
No, no, works, like literally works.
This world works, and things and buildings function, and water turns on, and air conditioning turns on, and cars roll down the streets, and products are brought to market because of you!
Not a bunch of journalistic...
Trying to keep this as family-friendly as possible.
Not a bunch of journalism zeros and losers and a bunch of Hollywood dips who play make-believe for a living.
The farmers out there toiling in their fields in 80-90 degree heat that produce the food people eat.
It's the HVAC guys who allow you to work in a comfortable environment in a building so you're not sweating to death.
The building exists because a bunch of laborers and electricians built the damn thing.
This was a nice guy.
Don't get me wrong.
I'm not using him as a bad example.
I'm just saying, you should be proud of what you do.
The Trump revolution.
The revolution happening all across the world right now.
We just saw an election in Ukraine where a guy got an office who was a total outsider.
He was a comedian.
Because they're tired of establishment elites, academics, Hollywood idiots, singers out there, and liberal lunatics and think tanks telling us how the world works because they wrote about it in a book!
You built it!
The world works because your hands built it!
The plumbers out there put the pipes in the building so you could use a bathroom and not get sick from crap sanitation they have in the third world.
No journalism guy built that.
He doesn't even know how a toilet bowl flushes.
No, I'm not kidding.
That's a real thing.
You know what the journalists go, plumbers, they deal with human waste all the time.
You are human waste, journalists, who lie to people all the time.
The liars.
There's some good journalists out there, too.
I don't want to be overly dramatic.
There's some people serving an important function of truth.
But these liars out there, and these hacks who destroyed our political process for two years, making up a myth, fairy tale about this collusion thing?
You're telling me these people are more valuable to society than you?
The society functions because of you, and your labor, and your knowledge.
The truckers out there at three and four in the morning barely stay awake driving their products all over the world.
Everything from TV remote controls to the food you eat.
It's because of you that the world works.
I'm sorry.
I don't mean to go on this long winded rant, but I, I, I, I've had the distinct pleasure and honor Of living on many sides of the socioeconomic spectrum.
Yeah.
My wife too, who's a, you know, I love to death, who was an immigrant to this country, who grew up poor, like actual poor.
I'm not talking about like our American definition of poor, which at times globally, relatively speaking, is not real poverty like people in the third world, who are eating out of dumpsters in Venezuela right now.
But my wife grew up legit poor.
I grew up, Poor by American standards at many times when we lived above a bar.
I don't want to be dramatic about my situation or anything like that.
But it's just really exhausting having seen that now being...
On the high end of the socioeconomic scale, just due to our income, which I never lie to people.
I don't apologize for having a successful show or having worked hard to put it together.
But I've experienced both sides.
You know, I worked in a cemetery cleaning mausoleums, in a supermarket, in key food, stocking shelves.
I know what that's like.
Delivering newspapers as a kid.
It's been Armacost's entire life.
So does my wife.
My wife tells me this story all the time.
We used to work in the U.S.
Open.
I did crowd control at a tennis tournament.
We'd have to throw people out who got rowdy, which usually wasn't a problem at the tennis tournament, you know.
It wasn't a hockey game.
Although that's where I broke my hand, ironically.
That's a whole other story for another day.
Joe knows how my hand broke.
That happened at the USO.
My wife was cutting onions all day.
She hated that job.
She liked it, but she hated it.
She was crying all day, and it wasn't because she was watching some TV melodrama.
We get it.
That's why when I see cops and military people, and I see this guy in the airport who was a total gentleman, and so was his wife, and they say things to me like, oh, I wish my career would have taken a different path.
I think, no!
No, why would you think that?
You know, I did manual labor, but I gotta tell you, I couldn't be an electrician.
You want to talk about a guy who burned my house?
Joe, remember when we built our original podcast studio in the basement of my Severna Park house?
You remember that?
Yeah, sure.
Please, tell the audience, and he's not kidding, I'm not doing this to be funny, how incompetent am I with a drill?
You started beating on nails with it, so... Yes, thank you!
Thank you!
I cannot... I admire you all, men and women out there, so much.
And I say that from the bottom of my heart.
This show is for you.
It's not for the academic elites.
And I'm not suggesting that we shouldn't do facts and data and engage in rigorous intellectual exercises when there's evidence to be proven or disproven on economics or healthcare.
No, we do that a lot here.
But this show is for you.
This show was never designed for think tank lunatics who write books about how toilet bowls work and don't even know how to fix a clog in one.
They don't even understand how the little buoy in the tank works.
What's that there for?
I don't know, dude.
You wrote about it in a book.
What's it there for?
Have you ever like gone out to a pool pump or an air conditioning unit or anything and said, hey, how does this work?
No, but I wrote about it in a book.
Nobody cares.
Can you actually fix the damn thing?
You mean there isn't really a Tidy Bowl, man?
Yeah, their stuff deserves to be flushed down the Tidy Bowl.
I'll take the Tidy Bowl man.
The Whirlpool guy.
Remember the old Whirlpool guy in the commercials?
Granted, he was an actor, but give me the termite inspector that comes to my house.
No, I'm serious.
Gary, he's a good dude.
He works hard.
Those are the people.
I don't think I've ever laid out on my show a more Clearer BHAG.
BHAG is a Big Hairy Audacious Goal.
It's a business school term.
It's one of the few things I took out that I really, really remembered.
But that has always been my audacious goal for this show.
It's for you!
I don't need to have some other people's million people audience and to water down my content.
We have a huge audience.
We're number two or three on any given day in conservative podcasts.
I am totally cool with impacting that group of people, the people who built this place, the truckers, the carpenters, the electricians, and the farmers.
I am more than content with this being the show for you than being accepted by a bunch of journalism idiots who wouldn't know their ass from their elbow if they saw it.
This show is for the dude in the airport who built this world.
It works because of you.
You should be proud of that, and your kids should be proud of you.
I'm dead serious.
You do not want to be one of these make-believe Hollywood actor lunatics who may die rich and wealthy but have had zero impact on this world other than keeping people entertained who were bored on a weekend and put on Netflix.
Netflix works because you built it.
Yeah, that's right.
What are you talking about?
I didn't build the software code.
No, no.
That electricity gets to a house because some electrician put it there.
Netflix doesn't work on battery power.
You did that.
You should be very proud of it.
And those people come with scars.
Oh, yeah.
Joe and I both have them, and so does my wife.
And so does that guy.
I mean, physical, mental scars, and you make mistakes along the way.
But I'm gonna leave it with that line from Entebbe.
One plumber's worth 50 revolutionaries.
And it's worth a thousand journalists.
Go see the movie.
You'll remember that line now.
It's a powerful, powerful line.
Okay.
Moving on.
I got a lot of content to get to.
So there was a... just another...
Unimaginable attack on Christians in Sri Lanka this week.
Our Christian brothers and sisters, our human brothers and sisters, most importantly.
And how are the liberals, and led by, unbelievably, Barack Obama, how are they covering this attack on Christians in Sri Lanka?
Put up this tweet.
This is Barack Obama's tweet.
This is unreal.
The attack on Taurus and Easter worshippers in Sri Lanka are an attack on humanity.
On a day devoted to love, redemption, and renewal, we pray for the victims and stand with the people of Sri Lanka.
The attack on Taurus and Easter worshippers?
You mean Christians?
You know, ladies and gentlemen, when that Beyond disturbing, I mean, I can't think of the adjectives to describe that attack in New Zealand on Muslims, not Muslim holiday worshippers, Muslims, human beings, who were murdered on a GoPro camera.
Sorry, I shouldn't say GoPro.
Someone told me last time, and you're right.
I don't like it.
I'm not even sure it was a GoPro, on a camera, because I don't want to even associate them with this horrendous, and he was right.
On a video camera.
Murdered.
Murdered.
Helpless people on the ground murdered.
Me and Joe were obviously, as human beings, horrified with this attack.
Horrified.
These were Muslims who were killed.
Videotaped on the ground.
Helpless.
Being shot to death.
Ladies and gentlemen, these were Christians.
Who were attacked in Sri Lanka because they were Christians.
They were not Easter worshippers like they were there on some tourist operation.
These were worshippers of Jesus Christ on the most important, significant weekend day of the Christian calendar.
Yep.
The day we believe Jesus Christ rose from the dead.
They're not Easter worshippers, man.
Gosh, you were the former President of the United States!
Lead from the front on this!
I bring this up because it just goes back to this constant far-left messaging game about everything!
Even disgusting, horrifying, abhorrent attacks on human life!
They're not Easter worshippers!
They're Christians!
Followers of Jesus Christ!
Who were killed in cold blood!
In a horrifying, grotesque way!
Easter worshipers.
Man, like it's some kind of like circus they were in town for.
It's really unbelievable, Joe.
I'm telling you, I can't... I'm with you, brother.
I know.
I know, I know you and I are on the right side.
I know it.
Yeah.
You, me, Paula, and I know this audience, I know we were on the right side of this culture war going on.
I know it.
Because neither Joe nor I is any problem, after that New Zealand attack, any problem whatsoever calling out people who would attack innocent Muslims praying.
None!
Zero!
There is no conflict in my head at all.
Clearly, there's a conflict on the left when that attack happens to Christians.
Come on, guys.
I mean, come on.
Can we, can we... I mean, seriously, go on all day.
Alright.
I want to get to this Brendan stuff in a minute here because this is...
The tides are about to turn, ladies and gentlemen.
We are rapidly moving.
From the collusion hoax, which is now entirely, completely discredited.
It's now a 100% hoax, we know that.
We are now moving into a transition into phase two, which is turning the spotlights on the Democrats and highlighting their government malfeasance and their weaponization of the intelligence and law enforcement community under the Obama administration, and it's moving fast.
We now have even left-leaning journalists who've tried to kind of parlay their journalism status
as being mainstream when they're really left-leaning, like Bob Woodard.
Bob Woodard is even starting to turn on this a little bit.
And there was some interesting commentary this weekend by Woodard about an explosive revelation he has
that Rand Paul also brought up about John Brennan.
All right, I'm gonna get to that in a second.
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I appreciate that, Joe.
Joe just did something there.
I don't know if you caught that.
We regular listeners know.
Joe has a unique knack.
I did not tell him how I was gonna open this show.
And he has a unique knack for putting in those soundbites when we're not in a deeply emotional time.
I caught that.
I usually do that, but you waited there.
My man.
You're a savvy guy, Joe.
Yeah, you are.
See?
Joe didn't write about that in a book.
Joe's an actual producer who, by dealing with people, understands it.
All right, let's get to Brennan first.
So there's a piece up in the Washington Examiner about Bob Woodard, who, again, is a left-leaning journalist.
And he comes out this week in Washington Examiner, Daniel Chaydon.
Here's the headline of the piece.
Bob Woodard's steel dossier appeared in draft of U.S.
intel assessment on Russian meddling.
Wait, what?
How the heck is that?
How did that happen?
I thought John Brennan told us, I got this video of Brennan, I'm going to play it a second.
If John Brennan is saying that, let's set this up so you understand where we're going.
Bob Woodard is now saying that the fake dossier, right, The fake dossier appeared in an initial version of the January 2017 intelligence community assessment indicating that the Russians were trying to impact our election.
Remember that?
The 17 intel agencies all agree.
Remember that January 2017 assessment?
Brennan is now, or Woodard is saying that Brennan, head of the CIA, had that included in the original ICA intelligence community assessment.
17 agencies agree.
Wait, how's that?
If it came out in January of 2017, how would they have vetted that dossier in time if Brennan said this to Trey Gowdy up on Capitol Hill?
Here's a clip.
Do you know who commissioned the Steele dossier?
I don't.
Did the CIA rely on it?
No.
Why not?
Because we didn't.
It wasn't part of the corpus of intelligence information that we had.
It was not in any way used as a basis for the intelligence community assessment that was done.
Ooh, busted liar!
I love, I had a bunch of versions of that, but the Tucker one's always the best.
I gotta love Tucker.
Uh, Joe, am I, as the audience on budget, am I reading this wrong?
Okay.
So Bob Woodard of Watergate fame has a source telling him now that Brennan's CIA used the dossier in the intelligence community assessment.
And some intelligence professionals later on had it taken out.
But you just watched the same cut I did, Joe.
Brennan just clearly said that it played no role whatsoever, right?
Did I miss that?
He did.
He said that.
Not whatsoever.
Thank you.
So those stories cannot possibly be true.
Now, making it even worse, I go on with Brennan cuts all day, but I played them so often on the show, I want to make sure I got a good amount of commentary.
And Brennan also said Many times, on the record, that he only saw the dossier in December of 2016.
Now the date on that footage there is May of 2017.
So in May of 2017, Brennan is now lying again saying the January 2017 intelligence community assessment that 17 agencies think the Russians tried to help Donald Trump and win the election Brennan can't, his stories can't possibly be true.
On one hand he's saying the dossier had nothing to do with it.
Woodard's sources and Rand Paul's sources, by the way, Rand Paul, we played that cut about two or three weeks ago, Rand Paul's sources are telling him the same thing, that Brennan wanted the dossier included.
So somebody's lying here.
Making matters even worse, let's say it's Brennan that's lying and I'm willing to bet dollars to donuts that it is Brennan who is categorically lying because Brennan started this whole thing, right?
I'm sure of it.
He's the puppet master in this.
Making it even worse, if Brennan's second version of the story is true, that he only saw the dossier in December of 2017, then how did Brennan have this thing vetted in time, how could he have possibly had this vetted in time, to include it in the January of 2017 ICA?
In other words, even if his story is true, which it's not, that he first sees the dossier in December of 2016, And he wants it included in an assessment that's ongoing and is released in January of 2017.
How does Brennan get it, see it for the first time, and within days or just weeks have the thing entirely vetted to include in a January, just a month later, a report put out to the public so they can read it?
Ladies and gentlemen, this guy is so full of crap.
He has lied under oath.
He is in a world of trouble.
I'm telling you the tables are slowly turning and these people will be held accountable.
They are documented liars.
Brennan's story can't possibly be true.
You either did, the dossier either played no role whatsoever, or it was, you pushed it into the ICA, the Intelligence Community Assessment.
Now, from the Washington Examiner piece, I just cited by Dan Chaydon, there's some interesting lines in there.
Senator Rand Paul said he was told former CIA Director John Brennan, quote, insisted the dossier be included in the report.
Hold on a second here, leave that up.
That's not what he told us!
Brennan just said it played no role whatsoever!
This is from Rand Paul, breaking.
High-level source tells me it was Brennan who insisted that the unverified and fake Steele dossier be included in the intelligence report.
Brennan should be asked to testify under oath in Congress ASAP, Paul tweeted.
Now, going on.
Bob Woodard also wrote that Brennan's endorsement of the dossier in his book Fear, quote, The sources that Steele used for his dossier had not been polygraphed, which made their information uncorroborated and potentially suspect, Woodard wrote in the book last year.
But Brennan said the information, this is key, was in line with their own sources in which he had great confidence.
What sources, Joe?
What sources did Brennan have to confirm the dossier he said he didn't use, although he used in the ICA?
Are you getting confused with the lies?
Brennan, we didn't use the dossier.
Sources, Brennan used the dossier.
Brennan, I never saw the dossier.
Also Brennan, I saw the dossier and we confirmed it with our own sources.
What story's true?
The answer is the story that's not Brennan's.
Brennan had the dossier the whole time, of course.
And claims he corroborated with other sources, Joe, that have never, ever surfaced.
We have never seen these other sources.
Now, we do have an idea about who those other sources are.
Remember that story I put out a long time ago where Bob Hannigan, who is the British NSA director, it's called the GCHQ, but it's the equivalent of our NSA.
Bob Hannigan flies over in the summer of 2016.
The summer, not December, Joe.
Remember Brennan?
I saw the dossier in December for the first time and we never used it for anything!
Anything!
You're a liar.
You are a liar, dude.
Bob Hannigan, the British Intel guy, GCHQ head, flies over to meet with Brennan personally in the summer of 2016.
Now does it make sense, folks?
Hannigan, Christopher Steele, former British intel guy, these people all know each other.
This was an ongoing operation.
Listen to me.
It's documented, well-documented, my second book I'm putting together right now, Exonerated, which again, I deeply appreciate you all supporting the book.
You can pre-order it now.
But this is all gonna be laid out.
How the British and our friendly intelligence partners circumvented U.S.
law by working with U.S.
partners like Brennan to gather information on American citizens.
Which in order to money launder it, in this case information launder it, they had to send back to friendlies to wash back into the United States in the form of a dossier.
Yep.
Ladies and gentlemen, Brennan knew about this the whole time.
He's a liar.
And everybody knows he's a liar.
He's a documented liar.
He's a fraud.
Alright, speaking of frauds, I got more here.
Adam Schiff, who just cannot seem to get out of his own way.
I was on Fox & Friends this morning.
And what Schiff's doing is he's marshalling the new Democrat strategy, and the strategy is to work with their fellow Democrat operative, Bob Mueller.
I'm serious.
Ladies and gentlemen, with all due respect to the man's service to the country and the military, I appreciate that, that does not absolve you the responsibility to do the right thing in your professional life later.
Bob Mueller has done an enormous disservice to this country with this, to quote Mark Levin, The Mueller Report, which is basically, Joe, a New York Times 400-page op-ed screed against Donald Trump, which says nothing about criminal activity at all.
There you go.
It's basically an op-ed about suspicious contacts that are in no way suspicious.
But Schiff is gonna parrot the company line now.
Schiff has been insisting for months, for months, Adam Schiff, sleazy Democrat congressman from California, that he has direct evidence of a conspiratorial arrangement to collude to impact the election between the Trump team and the Russians.
He has been suggesting that for months, Joe, he has evidence of what the Bob Mueller report would call an agreement An agreement between the Trump team and the Russians to impact the election in a negative fashion in an effort to subvert the will of the people.
No evidence of that has ever, ever emerged.
Ever.
Yet Schiff will not let it go.
Here's Schiff on Fox News Sunday request Chris Wallace being held to the fire on this.
Where's your evidence, dude?
And watch the spin by this slimy dirtbag Schiff.
Chairman, you've been leading the charge for more than a year that President Trump and his campaign colluded with the Russians to interfere in the 2016 election.
Here are just a few examples.
This is about as clear evidence you could find of intent by the campaign to collude with the Russians, to get useful information from the Russians.
I think there's plenty of evidence of collusion or conspiracy in plain sight.
I did say that there is ample evidence, and indeed there is, of collusion of people in the Trump campaign with the Russians.
But sir, let's look at what the Mueller report found, and I want to put it up on the screen.
Volume 1, pages 1, 2, and 5.
We understood coordination to require an agreement, tacit or express, between the Trump campaign and the Russian government on election interference.
The investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.
Mr. Chairman, the Special Counsel did not find the kind of coordination that you said was there.
Chris, as you know, and I wish you had played the rest of some of those clips, I went on to say that whether that collusion, that evidence of collusion, rises to prove beyond reasonable doubt of the crime of conspiracy was a different question.
And indeed, that distinction is made in the opening pages of the Mueller Report.
So when the president and his allies repeat this mantra of no collusion, they clearly haven't read or ignoring the plain language of the report, where Bob Mueller says two things.
He says, we're not going to look into the question of whether it's collusion.
That's a common lay term that can be criminal or non-criminal conduct.
We're going to look at the crime of conspiracy.
And on that issue, Bob Mueller says something else that I've been saying frequently, which is the fact that you may not be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt a criminal conspiracy doesn't mean that there's an absence of evidence of crime.
Dude, there is no evidence of a crime.
None.
What the Mueller report does, and what this lunatic is run with, is a series of innocuous, innocent, sometimes, you know, not so advisable contacts with Russians.
But in no way criminal, or even remotely criminal, and Bob Mueller spins it into this Russian spy novel yarn, this absurd, outrageous fairy tale, in an effort, now that I'm done with this thing, the Mueller report, I found a bunch of nuggets in there, he's basically writing an op-ed for the New York Times about how he doesn't like Donald Trump, and how contacts with Russians are a bad thing, despite the fact that there's no evidence anything happened was criminal, At all!
So now Schiff, instead of saying, I have evidence of the crime, he's now saying, oh, there's evidence of collusion, but collusion's a lay term.
Ladies and gentlemen, the real collusion is with the Clinton campaign that actually colluded with Russians who produced disinformation in a dossier the Clinton team bought and had hijacked into our DOJ system, into a FISA court, which the Obama team used to spy on Trump.
That is the real collusion scandal to anyone with their eyes open.
Now, what the Mueller team does in the report is devastating.
It's devastating to our justice system and it will be forever a stain on the reputation of Bob Mueller.
Kim Strossel has an interesting piece up in the Wall Street Journal.
Kim is one of the more sober minds on this.
Yeah, Kim.
Kim and Andy McCarthy, they've been open to both sides.
Yeah, she's done, she really deserves a Pulitzer for this.
She has a piece up in Potomac Watch in the Wall Street Journal today.
Mueller's report speaks volumes.
What's in the special counsel findings is almost as revealing of what's left out.
I was talking about this last week.
I'm not taking credit for her work or anything, but people who study this case obviously are along the same lines of thinking.
Inside the piece, she has a couple of interesting Little snippets in there that are fascinating.
Here's one of them.
She says, note as well what isn't in the Mueller report.
It makes only passing bland references to the genesis of so many of the accusations Mr. Mueller probed.
The infamous dossier produced by Fusion GPS and paid for by Hillary.
How do you exonerate Mr. Page without delving into the scandalous Moscow deeds of which he was falsely accused?
How do you narrate an entire section on the July 2016 Trump Tower meeting without noting that Ms.
Veselnitskaya was working alongside Fusion?
How do you detail every aspect of the Papadopoulos accusations while avoiding any detail of the curious and suspect ways that those accusations came back to the FBI via Australia's Alexander Downer?
Yes!
Strassel nails it here.
Ladies and gentlemen, what Mueller does to be crystal clear in this report Is he writes about a bunch of non-criminal interactions with people, Russian and otherwise.
He writes about them and he leaves out any damning information that connects to the Democrats, making it seem that the accumulation of a bunch of innocent accusations.
I heard this called, what did Greg Gutfeld call it, the laundry list fallacy on The Five this week, and it's a great, he's right.
How Joe, if you can't produce evidence that there was any actual crime by the Trump team, just produce a bunch of innocent accusations in a laundry list that makes it seem so overwhelming that there must have been a crime.
In other words, there was a bank robbed in Joe's community.
Joe lives in that community.
Joe went to that bank a week before.
Joe has an account in that bank.
Joe just, a thousand dollars just appeared in his account.
None of this is evidence that Joe robbed a bank, but it's a laundry list of reasons, if you wanted to impugn Joe's character, that he, Joe, may have robbed a bank.
Well, did he rob it?
No, no, he didn't rob it.
Well, why are you telling me all this stuff?
Because it's evidence that he may have robbed it.
But did he rob it?
No, no, other guys robbed it.
So why are you telling me this again?
This is non-evidence.
This is anti-evidence.
But Adam Schiff keeps saying, this is all evidence of a conspiracy to attempt to collude.
Jesse Waters said it best when I was on Waters World with him this Friday.
He said, Bob Mueller and his report invents a new standard of justice, Joe.
This was a great line.
Not guilty of attempted obstruction.
After break, I go, that's a great lie.
I may have to steal that.
He's not not guilty, Trump, of attempted obstruction.
What is that?
Either there's evidence that Trump's team committed this crime or not.
And Mueller's report is clear.
There's no evidence.
They couldn't fabricate it.
They couldn't find it.
So what does he do instead of Mueller doing the right thing?
And this is where I object to some of the criticisms of my commentary.
There was this guy, this goofball at Talking Points memo who's always like taking potshots at me.
I'm not even going to say his name.
He's not worthy of a spot on my show.
I'm sorry.
I don't mean to sound pretentious, but he's not.
We've put hard work into this show.
But he writes in the piece, how's Dan Bongino going to reconcile the fact that he accepts Mueller's conclusions but thinks the report is garbage?
Is that not obvious?
Mueller's conclusions were based on Mueller's failure to find any evidence of a crime.
Guys, ladies, for however much I object to Mueller's ridiculous report and his absurd investigation that should have been wrapped up on day one, Mueller's not dumb, Joe.
He's not going to fabricate evidence.
He's not.
He would have been outed in a heartbeat, telling people, make a false statement and I'll give you $1,000.
He's not stupid.
Mueller's report vindicated Trump because Trump vindicated and exonerated himself.
Because none of the stuff Mueller was investigating, Joe, happened.
Mueller can't go back to the future or back to the past, you know, using the Michael J. Fox DeLorean and fabricate a case that didn't happen.
Mueller did not exonerate Trump.
Trump did.
Therefore, I accept Mueller's conclusions because Mueller didn't exonerate Trump.
Trump did.
I also accept the fact that the report is worded horribly to ignore Hillary Clinton's significant, potentially criminal interactions with the people who impacted the Trump team, stealing them on the Russian side.
When I say criminal, I mean potential leaks and everything from the bureau and elsewhere.
The trafficking and information handed to them by Russians, not counted as a campaign donation.
Ignoring all of that, in favor of repeatedly telling a story about Papadopoulos, Trump Tower, Michael Cohen, and their contacts with Russians, which were not evidence of a crime!
Alright, I'm gonna show you, because there's one more angle on this I caught this week and watched the Examiner picked up on it, too.
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Folks, what's going on here, again, is there an attempt in the Mueller report to tell this spy novel in op-ed form about Russian contacts with the Trump team while leaving out the Democratic contacts.
Here's a couple examples, because I'm going to pile on one more I uncovered this weekend.
They talk about Papadopoulos and his contacts with Mifsud and Mifsud's detailed relationship with the Russians, leaving out completely Mifsud's connections to Western intelligence agencies and the potential that Papadopoulos was set up.
Nowhere in the report does Mueller include that.
They talk about the Trump Tower meeting, as Strassel put up in her piece there.
The Trump Tower meeting with Veselnitskaya and Don Jr., the Russian lawyer.
Not mentioning that the Russian lawyer works for Fusion GPS, the company hired by Hillary.
I think that's an important detail, Bob.
How'd you miss that?
You talk about the Cohen stuff and the real estate deal.
And Michael Cohen, they were trying to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, Joe.
And Michael Cohen emailed the Kremlin.
Yeah, from an email they found online that was never returned.
So let me get this straight, Joe.
Donald Trump and Michael Cohen are colluding with Vladimir Putin, and they're emailing like info at Kremlin.org or whatever, and it's getting thrown in the email recycling bin?
Well, they do sign in.
Wow, those are really deep.
Yeah, exactly, Joe.
Those are real deep connections they had.
He leaves all of that out because Mueller wants you to believe a fake story is true.
Found an interesting one this weekend.
Washington Examiner has a piece up about Eric Prince.
Oh, where have we heard that before?
Gosh, I feel so vindicated.
I'm not patting myself on the back, but if you've been listening to the show, you heard this probably a year ago.
Six months ago, if you're in on the inside joke.
Here's a piece by Russ Reed, Washington Examiner, in the show notes.
Please read the show notes, they're really good.
Mueller Report.
Erik Prince's secret meeting with Russia fell apart after its aircraft carrier, the Russians that is, went to Libya.
Folks, I have documented this meeting six different ways from Sunday.
If you read the section of the Mueller Report about Erik Prince, why is Erik Prince significant?
What does this have to do with, again, our top-line thesis here?
Mueller writes about Trump people's connections with Russians, yet leaves out the very same people being connected to Hillary and the Clinton team.
You get it?
Oh yeah.
He leaves all of that out.
He talks about this Eric Prince meeting.
Eric Prince, why is he significant?
His sister, Betsy DeVos, is the education secretary in the Trump cabinet.
Eric Prince is the old founder of Blackwater.
Eric Prince goes to the Seychelles and meets with this guy in that Washington Examiner report, Kirill Dmitriev.
It's about a business deal.
It's nothing to do with Russian collusion.
Kirill Dmitriev is the head of this thing called the Russian Direct Investment Fund.
Follow me here.
Mueller goes into deep detail about Kirill Dmitriev, his connection to the Russians, his meeting, excuse me, with Eric Prince.
Eric Prince.
You know, insinuating his connection to the Trump team through DeVos and all that?
That's all laid out on the liberal left, right?
But what they don't tell you is Kirill Dmitriev, the very same Russian head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, has some pretty significant connections to the Clinton world, too.
Here's a snippet from this piece at Salon.com that was done a while ago about the Panama Papers.
This is just peachy, but again, you'll find it absolutely nowhere in the Mueller report at all.
In the salon piece, they talk about Kirill Dmitriev's connections to Clinton lobbyist bundlers.
Clinton lobbyist bundlers.
You can see it in the piece.
Right there.
That's not there.
But you can see it.
It's a joke.
My wife gets it.
It's up there on the screen.
There it is!
Thank you.
All right.
My dear.
Listen to this.
In his report on the Clinton machine's ties to Saudi Arabia, Michael Isikoff also notes that two of the Clinton lobbyist bundlers, Richard Sullivan and David Jones, are principals in a firm that, until late last year, represented Joe, er, er, er, the Russia Direct Investment Fund, a sovereign wealth fund co-founded by Vladimir Putin when he was Prime Minister.
That's run by the same guy That they're talking about Eric Prince's meeting with, but they leave all out of the Mueller report that this guy's connected to the Clinton world.
None of it's in there, folks.
None of it.
All right, I'm gonna end a little, uh, a little bit early today on this note.
Joe DiGenova, who's a friend of mine and is an abs- what?
Did you just yell something in there?
Oh, sorry.
I thought I heard my wife inside yelling at me about something.
She was not yelling, for the record.
I'm glad you all loved my show last week where Paul and I were brawling on the... Listen, this is our show, man.
This show is different precisely because we show everything.
It's the new form of entertainment.
You get the insight into the... Warts and all.
You go to see the sausage making behind the scenes.
My wife's the best though.
Just a great show.
Joe DiGenova is a real bulldog.
You know, let me just wrap that prior thought up.
Just to kind of finish up with the lead again.
The Mueller report is a farce, folks.
Everything they're talking about, about Trump connections to the Russian team that are not evidence of a crime, it's just a laundry list of innocent, non-criminal interactions with people from Russia?
Those same people connected to Papadopoulos, Trump Tower, all of that stuff.
Have deep connections to either friendly Western intelligence assets or the Clinton team, and Mueller leaves all of that out.
He has done a huge disservice to this country.
Alright, moving on.
So, Joe DiGenova was on this show on The Hill TV with Crystal Ball.
That's her name.
It's not a joke.
Crystal Ball.
I'm not making fun of her name.
It's her real name.
People sometimes think I messed it up.
Crystal Ball and my good friend Buck Sexton.
DeGeneva is a beast, and I mean that in a good way.
He does not take any flack from anyone.
So DeGeneva goes on the show, and Crystal Ball is a huge lib, and rarely, if ever, has her facts straight.
I mean, she's becoming famous on that show for getting destroyed by conservatives.
Candace Owens ate her lunch on the show so bad, it was embarrassing, when Crystal Ball was asking her questions about, like, black people, because Candace Owens is black, like she's supposed to answer for the entire black community.
And she's like, why are you asking me that?
And Crystal Ball's like, I don't know what to say.
So, Crystal Ball, who knows not one one millionth of what Bill Barr knows about the law or the Mueller report.
Bill Barr, now I'm confident, excellent Attorney General.
Crystal Ball tries to impugn the credibility of Bill Barr and his interpretation of the Mueller report.
And DeGeneva just absolutely slays here.
This is so good.
They lay out here the considerations that guided our obstruction of justice investigation.
Number one, first, a traditional prosecution or declination decision entails a binary determination to initiate or decline a prosecution.
We determined not to make that and the very first thing they cite is that guideline From the OLC that a sitting president cannot be indicted.
You had to listen to Bill Barr.
He said he asked Mueller three times.
But that's not what's in the report.
Well, because Andrew Weisman wrote the report.
Bill Barr said he asked Mueller three separate times, did you base your decision on the fact that a sitting president cannot be indicted?
And Mueller said, I did not.
Three separate times.
I don't know what's in that report.
I taught English before I went to law school.
I'd like to kind of take that sentence and parse it because it didn't make sense to me.
But I can just tell you this, the decision was not based on that.
It literally says, here are the considerations that guided our obstruction of justice investigation.
Is Mueller a liar?
I'm asking if Barr is a liar is really the question here because it says very clearly here that one of the considerations was that I had a sitting president.
Mueller then should have said, I would have brought charges because there's evidence, but I can't bring charges.
That's exactly what he should have done.
Let me just say something right now about what you just said.
Don't you dare suggest that Bill Barr is a liar.
I've known him for 30 years.
He's one of the finest lawyers this country has ever produced.
He came back out of retirement to serve this country.
There's not one shred of evidence that anything he said either the other day or now or today was a lie.
Don't ever say that in front of me about Bill Barr.
You have no evidence that he lied.
And you know it.
But I'm telling you... You said he may have lied.
What I'm telling you is that what he said today in the press conference is inconsistent with what's in the report.
That's not a lie.
Okay, fine.
It's not fine.
You're on national television calling the Attorney General a liar.
I didn't say that.
You suggested it very strongly.
Alright, I think we're done here.
I think we are.
Good.
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My man!
Woo!
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Oh, man.
Joe D. Joey D. Slaying on the set there.
There you go, big dog.
That was just awesome.
That's the difference between a guy who's actually practiced law and Crystal Ball who just does commentary on the law.
Crystal, you're getting a little bit over your head on that one.
That was one of those, I watched it, and oh man, reminds me of Candace Owens up on Capitol Hill two weeks ago with Jerry Nadler.
Just again, guys, ladies out there, just to go back to where we were in the beginning of the show, you know, we're the fighters, man.
We're the ones out there building this world, making it work, preaching economic capitalism, entrepreneurship, you know, getting dirty, not just talking about it.
We need more of this, man.
We need more people willing to get their fingernails dirty, step up there on TV, and call these people for the constant stream of BS and verbal diarrhea emanating from their mouths.
Call them on their BS every time.
I'll be on Ingram tonight doing the same thing, debating Han, Chris Han, who's equally clueless about this case.
Don't forget it.
Hey, one last note before we go.
There's an excellent piece in the show notes today by John Solomon.
I neglected to mention it before because we had a lot to get in today.
But it's at the hill and he talks about, thank you Paula, my lovely wife.
Always, gosh, you're good.
It's called, and the winner of the Bob Mueller sweepstakes is Vladimir Putin.
In the piece he lays out again what I was talking about in the middle portion of the show, what Strassel and I and Solomon and I have been talking about the whole time.
Bob Mueller's laundry list guilt by association strategy.
Mention Trump with Russians, don't mention Hillary with Russians.
And how this was an effort by Vladimir Putin from the start and a Russian disinformation campaign to throw a monkey wrench in our entire campaign and it worked.
Read the piece, it's very good.
Maybe I'll address it a little more tomorrow.
And again, a final thank you to all of you out there.
You laborers and men and women out there built this place, man.
God bless you.
This country runs because of you.
Don't ever aspire to be anything else than you are now.
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