In this episode, I address the latest liberal media “bombshell” designed to scare the Trump team from uncovering the truth. I also address a Trump team insider who appears to be sabotaging the presidency. Finally, I address the stunning hypocrisy by this leading Democrat candidate in 2020. News Picks:The latest NY Times “bombshell” is another dud.
Who is the IC Inspector General, and what was his involvement in Spygate?
The Democrats are panicking as their deep-state operation against Trump unravels.
The Democrats will use this model again if we don’t get to the bottom of what happened.
Another NY Times story debunked.
New York City is criminalizing the term “illegal alien.”
Here’s a photo of Joe Biden with Hunter's business partner who he said he didn’t deal with?
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Yeah, they...
These media people, Joe, these media people, the set on them, I almost have to admire the Washington Post and New York Times.
Don't you go anywhere.
They are in... Don't even... I haven't introduced you yet.
Joe's not here yet.
No laughing in the background.
They are in full Stalin-like Pravda mode and it is hysterical watching these lunatics meltdown.
Alright, welcome to the Dan Bongino Show.
Producer Joe, I didn't even know you were there.
How are you today?
How you doing, buddy?
I'm doing good.
Now, yes, you can go now.
How you doing?
Everybody knows.
I just mess with you.
I know.
Oh, man.
It's just watching the media, folks.
I've got a absolutely, positively stacked with a capital S show for you today.
The media is freaking out and it's now becoming transparently obvious.
They are in full cahoots with the Democrats waiting for this inspector general report to come out in a full panic.
It's all going to make sense.
I got that.
Got a great video by Congress from Nat Gates of Adam Schiff.
You're not going to want to miss.
Got an Elizabeth Warren video that's going to make you laugh at the end.
Stack lineup.
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So, Folks, as we walked through yesterday and what was our most listened to Monday show ever in the history of the Dan Bongino Show, we walked you through the Democrats are in a panic.
They are trying to cover up their foreign collusion.
In the Spygate scandal, the foreign collusion with the Obama administration, with the UK, with the Australians, with the Ukrainians, with the Russians, it's all about to come out in the Inspector General's report and the subsequent John Durham investigation, and the Democrats desperately need to discredit everybody involved, and they need to do what I described yesterday as the dipsey-do-flipperoo.
So what we're going to get in the Inspector General's report is the Obama administration, Democrats Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden colluded with foreign actors to spy on Donald Trump.
Got it?
Get it?
Got it?
Good.
Yep.
Now of course the Democrats, these lying fool hacks and their media sycophantic bootlicking buddies can't have a story that says Democrats spy on political opponents.
So what do the Democrats and their media buddies do?
They just reverse it.
Trump!
Colluded with foreigners!
Okay.
To get his political opponent.
Yeah!
I'm with you!
Now, of course, you know, the New York Times is probably in on a lot of these meetings of the Washington Post with their focus groups, right?
So they're trying to figure out a way to discredit the truth, which is Obama spied.
And, uh, what was that thing called?
Bush lied, people died.
Yeah, Obama spied, the Trump campaign didn't die.
That should probably be the new narrative going forward.
That's a shot.
So let's start with the New York Times.
You like that?
New York Times first.
I got two of these.
I'm going to elaborate because this is just, it's so transparent what they're doing.
Here's the slimes of the sleazy conspiracy theory rag by Mark Mazzetti and Katie Benner.
Trump pressed Australian leader to help Barr investigate Mueller inquiry's origins.
The discussion was another instance of the president using American diplomacy for potential personal gain.
What?
This is the New York Times.
Guys, I genuinely feel bad for you if you are getting your news dreaded air quotes from the New York Times.
It's a sleazy two-bit conspiracy theory rag that runs interference for the Democrats.
What is really going on here?
What is the origin genesis of that headline?
And why did the New York Times choose to write this story?
Okay, the New York Times, number one, Got burned for promoting the biggest hoax in human history, the collusion with the Russians hoax by Trump.
They were at the forefront of this whole thing.
They look like fools.
Sorry folks, I had to cut the line out.
I got a little crazy with the New York Times.
It was a little gross.
I just really dislike the New York Times.
Folks, the New York Times is a rag.
It's not even good.
It's good for lining your birdcage.
It's not even good for that.
It does the bird disservice.
Thank you.
Rephrase?
Sorry, if you heard that.
You don't even have to make that edit cute, by the way, Joe.
You either.
Paula, you either.
Just like chop it totally.
And it'll be like... and jump around.
It'll be appreciated by the listeners.
Right, right.
You heard what I said.
I just, I can't, I'm trying to be somewhat diplomatic about this.
What is going on?
The Times understands their role in the collusion hoax and they know that the real scandal is Obama and the Obama administration and the Democrats and intel officials working with Obama who were getting information from foreign partners.
And the fact that Bill Barr, the Attorney General, is looking into the biggest scandal of their time.
Bothers them.
Now, Joe, as the audience on Budsman, tell me what I'm explaining makes sense.
It's very simple.
They don't want justice.
The New York Times is not seeking the truth.
They are trying to cover up the Democrats' role in Spygate.
Right.
So what they're going to do is, as Paula asked me this morning, she goes, well, why is this significant?
The New York Times story, because you are going to see, and I got another one by the Washington Post coming in a minute, don't go anywhere, you are going to see a series of stories, they're not really stories, they're focus group tested liberal efforts, designed in the coming days to scare Bill Barr.
Barr's checking with the Australians, and this could benefit Trump.
No, it could benefit the truth.
The stories are written in conjunction with the Ukrainian whistleblower gate leak.
To give you the impression that it was Trump colluding with foreign officials when all Trump is trying to do with Bill Barr and the Justice Department is get to the bottom of the biggest political scandal of our time.
I'm trying to think of a quick analogy to explain this.
It's like if Joe robbed a bank, the accuser saw him rob a bank, and then Joe, in order to get out of robbing the bank, accuses the accuser of robbing the bank, and then the media writes stories about the accuser robbing the bank.
That is exactly what's going on.
You hear it so much, it must be true, it must be true.
It must be true.
It's got something to do with it, gotcha.
Now, this story is a complete joke that Trump and Bill Barr are pressuring the Australians and that this is some kind of a secret effort.
Hat tip Benny Johnson on Twitter.
Joe, what month are we in?
This is October right now.
September.
Are we in October?
Yeah, dude.
It is!
It's October 1st, man, that I asked that question on the wrong day.
Seriously, I'm like losing my mind.
I asked Joe if it's a trick question, I get it wrong.
I've done it before.
We're in October.
This is a couple times.
We've had to cut a few of those out.
Me too.
This is Trump in May.
Supposedly, Joe, remember this is real cryptic what's going on trying to get to the truth about the Australians.
Remember Alexander Downer, the Australian diplomat who fed the FBI some of this dirt about Papadopoulos, right?
This is Trump back in May, which I believe is before September.
Correct me if I'm right.
I know I'm right about that one.
This is Trump back in May talking to the media about this Australian effort.
Apparently he was trying to keep secret, but yet he told the media back in May, check this out.
Including his efforts to get to the origins of the Russia probe and those he believes are responsible for it.
It was an attempted coup or an attempted takedown of the President of the United States.
It should never, ever happen to anybody else.
In describing his decision to allow Attorney General William Barr to use, as he sees fit, declassified material related to the Russia investigation, President Trump, who left for Japan this afternoon, made his intentions clear.
I hope he looks at the UK, and I hope he looks at Australia, and I hope he looks at Ukraine.
I hope he looks at everything.
Barr, who has publicly stated his belief that spying on the 2016 Trump campaign did occur, is now tasked with sifting through years of material and deciding what can be viewed by the public in order to unravel a pressing political mystery.
Exactly what were the intentions and the origins of the Russia investigation?
The President's declassified all-decision was both revered and reviled along political fault lines at the Capitol.
With Republican Mark Meadows tweeting, Americans are going to learn the truth about what occurred at their Justice Department.
While Democrats, like Adam Schiff, call the President's choice an abuse of power meant to advance his deep state narrative and target his political rivals.
A narrative spelled out in a tweet the president posted late this afternoon, a cartoon of so-called deep state operatives blaming each other for the Russia probe.
I mean, the New York Times, this is a real, this is a story?
The New York Times did that, by the way, it was Kevin Cork had to Fox News too as well, obviously it was Eric Kot.
So this is the New York Times, the alleged paper of record.
Bombshell, Joe, bombshell story.
Trump seeking to get to the bottom of the Australian's role in this massive spying scandal and abuse of power in our government.
That's your story.
Did you miss that news report?
Did you miss the tweets?
Like what part of journalism-ing did you miss?
And now, as Benny Johnson Put in his tweet, he said, it took me all of, what'd he say, about 10 seconds on a Google search to find Trump talking about an investigation the New York Times is revealing as some kind of a bombshell?
So let's be clear, Joe.
We know Ukraine.
We know Ukrainians, key Ukrainians, fed information to Democrat operatives about Trump.
We know that.
It's been reported by left-wing Politico.
Not me.
Left-wing, well, it's in my books as well, but been reported by Politico.
We know CNN has already reported the United Kingdom passing intelligence about Trump to the Obama administration.
We know the Democrats paid source Christopher Steele that they used in the middle of their election.
We already know Steele is admitted to using Russian sources.
We already know, number four, that an Australian diplomat fed information to U.S.
Embassy and then turned to the FBI that they allege initiated the Trump probe.
We know all about this.
The New York Times is not interested in getting to the bottom of that at all.
The New York Times is worried that Trump may somehow politically benefit from the truth.
Folks, This is the sleaziest, most disgusting thing I've ever seen.
The media, I have said to you from the start, I will repeat it, I said it on Life, Liberty & Levin.
I will always support a free media.
Always.
Without conditions.
I mean, outside of criminality, obviously.
But they have the right, with that freedom, to be stupid.
To be disingenuous.
To be dishonest.
And to be lying frauds.
And unfortunately, they've taken us up on that, right?
Folks, it's really gross.
You know, I said to you yesterday, I mean it.
Again, I'm getting goosebumps talking about it here.
The Republic can't survive like this.
It can't.
I mean, is there any integrity?
Do any of you have any integrity at all?
Let me get this straight.
That's the story?
We now know that the Obama administration spied on the Trump team.
None of this is in dispute.
There are serious, credible questions about the intelligence used to initiate the spying on the Trump team.
We now know, as reported by you left-wing media lunatics, that this intel was provided, much of it, by foreign governments.
And your concern in a headline is that we're asking about it?
That's your concern.
You're a disgrace.
You're a disgrace to yourselves, your profession, your families, your neighbors, your neighborhoods, and everyone around you.
Hang your heads in shame for the embarrassing conduct you're engaged in to cover up the biggest political scandal of our time.
It's an absolute embarrassment.
Now, further debunking this myth that we're pressuring the Australians for information, here's a piece by the Daily Wire.
Did a decent job.
The show notes, by the way, please read them at Bongino.com.
It's important.
Daily Wire is a piece of debunking this.
Breaking!
Letter from Australian official emerges that casts doubt on report from the New York Times by Ryan Saavedra.
Shocker!
From Saavedra's piece.
Remember, Joe, the New York Times were pressuring the Australians.
Shortly after the Times report was published, a source at the DOJ pushed back on it, telling Fox News, the countries have been helpful.
There was no pressing required.
Folks, you are being lied to.
They are desperately covering up.
They are full-time liberal activists covering up the biggest political scandal of our time.
It's not just the New York Times.
I'm going to get to more of this in a second.
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It's not just the slimes.
Obviously the compost, the Washington compost, which again is offensive to birds to insist that you can lie in a birdcage.
Even birds don't want to do their business on the Washington Post.
Here's a tweet from the Washington Post.
Desperate again to run interference here.
Shane Harris.
Look at that.
New!
Attorney General William Barr has held private meetings overseas with foreign intelligence officials, including in the UK and Italy, seeking their help in investigation of the Russia investigation.
Oh my gosh!
Yeah, shocker!
By the way, he says, by Shane Harris, Devlin Barrett, me and Matt Zapp.
Devlin Barrett, where have we heard that name before?
Oh, you mean the guy who got the leaks from Andy McCabe at the Deputy Director of the FBI?
Yeah, that guy.
Uh, don't worry Joe, they're not conflicted at all.
Folks, I just, I'm not making this up as I'm prepping the show this morning in my notebook here.
Which has taken a really long time lately because there's so much coming out I have to prioritize what I want to talk about.
I'm putting this together.
I see the New York Times story from yesterday and I even have a note here on my notebook that says, expect a series of leaks on every country involved in Spygate.
They're going to filter these out one by one.
The series of leaks will read like this.
Nefarious meetings, you know, implied nefarious meetings with Bill Barr and Australia.
Nefarious meetings with Bill Barr, Attorney General, and Ukraine!
Nefarious meetings with Bill Barr and Italy and UK!
Folks, not 10 seconds later am I scrolling down Twitter and I see this Shane Harris tweet.
I'm not kidding!
This is not drama for effect.
I'm sitting here scrolling.
Here's the Washington Post piece by this clown show.
All of these people, by the way, deeply involved in promoting the collusion hoax.
The Washington Post.
Democracy dies in the darkness.
That's hysterical.
They are in the darkness.
Here's the headline.
Barr personally asked foreign officials to aid inquiry into CIA-FBI activities in 2016.
Gee, you think?
Why would that be unusual?
If you missed yesterday's show, we showed you the left-wing headlines from CNN, from Politico, and from other outlets of foreign governments intervening in the 2016 election on behalf of the Obama administration against Trump.
Why would it be unusual that an investigation into those activities would involve the Justice Department asking those countries for answers?
I'm asking you a serious question.
What is unusual about that?
The answer is nothing!
It's unusual to the Washington Post because they don't want the truth!
Democracy dies in the darkness has to be the most... Up there with Brian Stelter on CNN's show being called Reliable Sources, that is the most ironic headline I've ever seen, or tagline I've ever seen!
They are the darkness!
The Washington Post is the darkness!
Folks, you are gonna see a series of leaks now.
From Deep State Justice Department lunatic hack fringe leftists pretending to be non-partisan justice officials who are going to leak to the garbage New York Times and the even bigger garbage heaping pile of steaming manure at the Washington Post over the next coming days that are meant to do one thing.
Tell you a story.
Not the story.
The story is clear.
Obama spied, foreign governments help.
The Washington Post isn't interested in that.
They want to scare Bill Barr.
So they're going to imply Barr trying to get to the truth is the real collusion story with foreign governments.
Now, what is the Washington Post really worried about?
Oh, ladies and gentlemen, this one is an absolute doozy.
Let's go to the body of the piece.
Takeaway number one from the Garbage Washington Post piece.
Quote, one area that has been of sustained interest to Bill Barr and John Durham, investigating this, of course, and DOJ, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive issue, is a murky figure named Joseph Mifsud.
Oh yeah.
Oh boy.
Oh yeah.
Oh.
Oh really?
So now, instead of the Washington Post, I'm gonna get to the second part of this in a second.
Again, the Washington Post telling a story, not the story, because they are the darkness.
Please remember, regular listeners, I'm sorry if this comes off as slightly redundant, but for those of you who tune in once in a while or tune in on big news days, understand this.
The Joseph Mifsud story and who he really is, please get this into your melons, is the key to unraveling this whole story.
If the Democrats' version of who Joseph Mifsud is is true, then their Russian collusion story, Trump colluded with the Russians, or someone on the Trump team did, has some meat on the bone.
If it's not true, like I know it's not, who they say Joseph Mifsud is, And the Trump team was set up.
Again, Paula asked me this morning why this was so significant.
Please, this is not a small thing.
If Joseph Mifsud, who meets Papadopoulos and allegedly tells him about some emails the Russians have on Hillary, if he is a Russian agent, Then the Democrats and their media hacks who promoted the hoax can at least say, well, the Russians tried to do something with the Trump team, Papadopoulos.
Joe, does that make sense?
Yes, it does.
Yep.
That's their story.
That would be devastating.
At least, again, it doesn't implicate Trump, but it would at least suggest that the Russians had tried to reach out through Mifsud to Papadopoulos and they would say, okay, we screwed up.
It wasn't real collusion, but at least the Russians tried.
Yes.
If Mifsud is not a Russian agent and was not working for the Russians when he reached out for the Trump team, but was working with Western, friendly intelligence agents to the United States, ladies and gentlemen, it was a setup.
There is no gray area.
There is no option C. There is no option D. There is no gray area.
Either the Democrats have some semblance of truth to their initial story, or the Democrats were involved in the biggest political setup in American history.
Do you now understand why who Joseph Massoud was is key, and why the Washington Post I'll get to this in the next quote from the piece in a second.
Alright.
Is desperate to paint anyone trying to figure out who Mifsud is as a conspiracy theorist.
If you wouldn't mind, put up quote number two from the Washington Compost.
Quote.
Since then, the professor, Mifsud, has disappeared from public life, leading to a host of theories about him and his whereabouts.
While court papers filed in Mueller's investigation suggest Mifsud operated in Russia's interests.
Oh, the day word that so delicately.
Conservatives and conspiracy theorists have suggested he was instead aligned with Western intelligence agencies.
Wait, we've done that?
You notice how they leave out that Mifsud's own lawyer, Stephen Rowe, has said he was a Western intelligence friendly.
We didn't say that.
They said it.
Yeah.
I'm so sick of the filth operating in the media today.
I am so sick of them disparaging honest reporting, honest investigations.
I am so sick of you disgusting humanoids.
Disparaging the character of good people while you sit on your democracy dies in the darkness perch.
You people make me sick!
You make me physically ill!
You are such pathetic liars!
The guy's lawyer!
His lawyer has already said he's a Western intelligence asset.
He's in pictures with high-ranking Western intelligence assets.
What part of that did you miss, you fools?
Are you not curious why Joseph Massoud's lawyer is telling the entire world that your story about him being a Russian asset isn't true?
And Mueller's report does not say he's a Russian asset.
Notice how they cleverly word that.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
What does it say, Joe?
It says Mifsud has Russian connections.
What the hell does that mean?
I went to Russia with the Secret Service.
Do I have Russian connections?
Joe's been to Russia.
Does he have Russian connections?
Mueller's report, what the left claims to be an exhaustive analysis, makes no claim whatsoever that what the Washington Post here is implying is true.
These people are grotesque.
And listen, I will say again, I will always, because I believe in our Constitution, support the free press.
But you are free to be gross, disgusting people.
And you have taken us up on the offer.
You dare impugn our character?
Me, Jeff Carlson, Chuck Ross, Molly Hemingway, Sarah Carter, John Solomon, who have gotten to the truth while you lunatics and your democracy dies in the darkness, bullsh- You impugn our character?
When you have lied to us for two years, you disgraceful fools?
Conspiracy theorists?
We're the ones saying it?
Notice how the filthy Washington Post leaves every relevant detail out there.
Ms.
Sood's in pictures with Western intelligence friendlies.
Ms.
Sood disappeared after the FBI interviewed him.
I thought he was a Russian asset.
Why didn't they arrest him?
Ms.
Sood was in the Capitol.
The U.S.
Capitol.
In January of 2017.
Why wasn't he arrested?
He's disappeared from public life.
You're not curious why?
His lawyer has said he's a Western intelligence friendly.
You're not curious?
You really do disgust me.
It's really gross.
And I'm... Listen, I... It's a joke.
It's a total... It's a total joke.
Washington Post cannot go out of business fast enough.
Pravda-like Russian stooges, every single one of you, and you dare impugn our integrity.
All right, I got a lot more to get to.
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Folks, we all make mistakes, and although I think it was done in really decent, good intentions, and I mean that, I think the Trump team made a catastrophic error, which is coming back to haunt them right now.
When the Trump presidency started, There was an effort there by some to bring in kind of a team of rivals.
The Lincoln-like approach, the Obama approach, where he hired, who was his rival?
Hillary Clinton.
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And this is why I want to be, I'm not, please don't mistake this, and this isn't like Virtue Singler trying to take, put lipstick on a pig or anything.
I'm just being candid.
This is not an approach that was original to the Trump administration.
they will typically bring in political opponents because they're thinking about building coalitions
for the next election.
I mean, Obama wants Hillary voters, right, if he was going to be reelected.
So Lincoln did it as far--
there was a book out there, I think, called "Team Arrivals."
I'm pretty sure that's the title.
I read it a while ago--
where he brought in some of his political opponents as well.
It serves two purposes.
Number one, it gives you an opposition political view.
Obviously, if they're political opponents, some of the things they felt about were different.
So it's good to get differing opinions.
Pretty clear, right?
I mean, it's done in business all the time.
All the time.
You know, you bring in the minority report, you know, like the Tom Cruise movie, right?
Secondly, again, it builds coalitions for re-election.
You want those voters.
Everybody does this.
The Bush administration, Obama, again, going all the way back to Lincoln, it's not uncommon.
The Trump team did it too.
I'm not knocking them.
I'm simply suggesting to you that this mistake, looking back on it, was clearly a mistake now, and I think the reason it was different under Trump is because the people that were brought in were never there to do either one of those things.
They were not there to give an honest political back and forth about potentially different opinions on a political matter, number one.
And they were certainly not there to help him build a coalition to re-election.
They were there to do one thing, Joe.
Destroy the president.
Now, I'm going to bring this up in terms of A specific appointment that was made, and I heard it last night.
Chris Hahn, who I typically debate, was on Martha McCallum's show last night debating Geraldo, which is interesting.
I debate both of them, and they were debating each other.
It was like, remember Seinfeld?
Worlds are colliding!
Worlds are colliding!
I couldn't handle it.
I had to turn the show off.
I'm not kidding.
I'm messing with you.
Han was on there, Han said at one point, talking about the Inspector General, who is now investigating this alleged whistleblower complaint that's really a deep stater trying to destroy Trump, right?
And Han brought up this talking point I hear all the time.
Well, Trump appointed the guy!
Okay!
That doesn't mean everything he did was right!
Now, I want to show you the WhiteHouse.gov appointment, and this is what I mean by trying to bring in potential political arrivals and insiders in an effort to kind of get those... This was a mistake.
It was November 2nd, 2017, talking about key administrative posts.
I want you to pay specific attention to this appointment because this is the ICIG, the Inspector General, who is the one who deemed this whistleblower hoax an urgent concern.
Michael K. Atkinson of Maryland to be named Inspector General of Intelligence under the ODNI.
Listen to this.
Mr. Atkinson has served as acting deputy assistant attorney general
and senior counsel to the assistant attorney general of national security division of the DOJ
since 2016.
A lot of you watching going, "uh okay."
So I'm waiting.
I know you are daddy.
Oh, folks.
Who was he?
Senior counsel to in the national security division, Atkinson, again, the guy who deemed this whistleblower hoax and urgent concern.
Well, the person he was senior counsel to was running the National Security Division at that time was no other than John Carlin.
Oh, this is one of those remember the names moments.
What do I always tell you on the show?
Remember the names, because when the names creep up, one of the best investigative tips I ever got is memorize the names in your criminal case when I was a federal agent, because the names will creep up later in conversation.
And if you don't have the relationships on the tip of your tongue, in the front of your cerebral cortex, it's going to bypass you, how this person was involved.
Some of you may be ringing a bell right now who John Carlin was.
John Carlin ran the National Security Division in the end years of the Obama administration, of the Department of Justice.
Why is Carlin an important figure in Spygate?
The Inspector General, keep in mind, who made sure, Joe, that this urgent concern whistleblower hoax case about the Ukraine phone call with Trump made it to Adam Schiff, the same guy who, by the way, is appointed by Trump.
That's not in question.
Han was not wrong.
But what I'm trying to suggest to you is, although Christopher Hahn wasn't wrong by pointing it out, whoever recommended this guy be appointed made an abominable mistake.
This guy was the lawyer to Carlin, who was running the National Security Division, who had one of the final sign-offs on the Woods procedure verifying that the FISA warrant on Trump was in fact true.
Let me walk you through that slowly, because details matter here.
I mean, I got another wrinkle on this in a moment.
The current Inspector General, who fast-tracked this urgent concern whistleblower hoax, there's nothing wrong with that phone call with Trump to the Ukraine, nothing.
Fast-tracked it to Adam Schiff.
Conveniently kept it from the Republican-led Senate committee first.
Sent it to Adam Schiff and his House-led committee.
Atkinson, who yes, unfortunately was appointed by Trump, used to be the lawyer for the guy who basically signed off on the warrant to spy on Trump and said the false dossier stuff was verified.
Folks, this was a catastrophic error.
Again, I'm not blaming the President.
This has been done before.
There's nothing unusual.
And I'm reasonably confident that the President trusted people who told him, well, listen, we need people with experience in government.
This guy may be the guy.
I'm simply suggesting to you, we don't do golden calves here.
This was a horrendous mistake.
The ICIG, who fast-tracked this, Worked for Carlin, who made sure that the information used to spy on Trump was deemed verified when it wasn't.
And who also was John Carlin?
He used to be Bob Mueller's chief of staff.
The same Bob Mueller who ran a 600 plus day witch hunt against Donald Trump.
Investigating a hoax he knew was a hoax in July of 2017 as I clearly lay out my new book Exonerated.
There is no way he doesn't know two months into his appointment, Bob Mueller, that this whole collusion thing is a hoax.
So ladies and gentlemen, just to tie this up for you.
The guy appointed as the ICIG to investigate these things, yes, by the Trump administration, in a terrible personnel decision, was actually the lawyer for the guy who signed off on the information to spy on Trump, his division, and used to be the chief of staff for Bob Mueller, who engaged in the two-year witch hunt.
If you're scratching your head right now, ladies and gentlemen, so am I.
Now there's a lesson to be learned here, folks.
People make mistakes.
I'm not piling on them.
But if we don't recognize these mistakes that people, personnel division mistakes that were made, it's going to be a catastrophe for hopefully the next five years of the Trump administration if he gets re-elected.
We have got to clean this mess up.
If Trump is re-elected, It is time for mass firings, folks.
Oh, but the media's gonna lose their minds!
Folks, who gives a damn anymore?
Pardon my language.
Who cares?
I just demonstrated to you how the media is a Pravda-like propaganda machine in full cover-up mode.
I don't care, and neither should you, about what the lunatics in the left-wing media think.
It doesn't matter!
If we are ever gonna right this ship, And authentically drain this fetid, stinking, methane-butane-infused swamp of deep state swamp rats.
Anyone with ties to this prior administration and the hackery that went on, I'm sorry, but you need to go.
Stat.
Gotta move on, but I just want to sum this up for you again, because it's very important.
the inspector general, it's supposed to be non-partisan, who fast-tracked a hoax complaint
to leftist liar Adam Schiff on the House committee while not sending it to the Republican-led Senate
committee, who claims to be a non-partisan actor, was the lawyer for the guy that approved the
spying on the Trump team who was also Bob Mueller's chief of staff. That actually happened.
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He did a great job.
Again, you know, the last few days we've been covering this because it's only the most important story of our time right now because they're using it to foster impeachment.
The narrative that we know the Democrats colluded with foreigners, the media is trying to switch it to Trump colluded with foreigners.
So Matt Gaetz put this up on his Twitter feed.
Here's Matt Gaetz uncovering evidence of Adam Schiff actually on a phone call with Ukrainians trying to get information from Trump.
This is absolutely priceless.
Check out this clip.
Hat tip, Matt Gaetz.
What we have seen in that call record is a president of the United States use the full
weight of his office to manufacture dirt on his opponent and interfere in our election.
So you have recordings of both Sovchak and Busova where they're discussing the compromising material on Mr.
Trump?
Absolutely.
Well, obviously we would welcome a chance to get copies of those recordings.
It is illegal, improper, a violation of oath, a violation of his duty to defend our elections, our constitution, for the president to merely ask for foreign interference.
I mean...
And so that was the Schiff sandwich.
The Gates clip, he opens it up with Schiff on one of the Sunday shows saying how horrible it is to ask Ukrainians for information on your political opponents.
He ends it by saying the mere ask is devastating.
The mere ask.
And in the middle of that is him on a call with two Russian pranksters pretending to be Ukrainians talking about Olga Buzova.
And he goes, it would be really great to get that information.
These people are total frauds.
The media, Schiff, these Democrat hacks, they are complete, utter liars.
They don't have an ounce of integrity.
I'm telling you, I'm not making this up, I feel bad for you.
If you are being suckered by the sleazy techniques used by these people to impugn the character of others, they don't have an ounce of integrity in them.
Not one.
This is a joke.
And the joke is on you.
It gets worse!
So Biden over the past few days, Joe Biden, former vice president, current failing candidate for president 2020.
His son's suspicious business dealings in Ukraine have been a story in the news on this show for the last few days.
His son's appointment to a Ukrainian natural gas company while Biden was over in Ukraine talking about natural gas.
Nothing to see there, folks.
But Biden's defense, Joe, is pretty clear.
Yeah.
Joey B's defense is, hey man, I didn't talk to my kid at all about any of his Ukrainian business deals.
Yeah, sure.
Sure.
Okay.
Okie dokes.
Well, Fox News has a piece up at foxnews.com.
Hat tip to Tucker Carlson's show as well, which uncovered this last night.
Joe and Hunter Biden seen golfing with Ukraine gas executive back in 2014 photo show.
That's just crazy.
How did that happen?
I told you, but enough to Joe.
Listen, man, Joe, stop jumping the gun.
I know you're Joe.
I know you right now.
You're saying, Dan, it's no big deal.
It's just kid.
It's 2014.
It's the same Ukrainian gas company board member, Devin Archer.
It's innocent, right?
I know that's what you're saying.
Of course, I'm messing with you.
Folks!
*sigh* *laughter*
I mean, for those regulars here, you're probably sensing my frustration.
I'm not like I know what Paul is thinking, too.
You're probably thinking you've been like skipping and stumbling over.
It's not.
I promise you I'm crystal clear in my head.
I'm being candid with you though.
I'm so frustrated today with this show, not the content, that it's getting hard for me to contain my rage because I don't want to scream at you for an hour.
It's annoying.
But I'm just being honest with you.
I'm having a tough time containing this.
So let me get this straight.
Just to kind of spin back to the beginning of the show.
The Democracy Dies in the Darkness Washington Post, an alleged newspaper, is not even remotely curious about the central key figure in the Russian collusion hoax, Joseph Mifsud's lawyer, saying that he worked for friendly governments and this could be a setup, right?
They're not curious about that at all.
But they're willing to take on its face Joe Biden's claim that he never talked to his kid about the million dollar gas deal to sit on the board of Burisma he got.
And the fact that they're in a photo in 2014 with the partner, Devin Archer, involved in the deal right around the time the deal's happening, golfing on a golf course, none of this is even remotely, you're just gonna take at face value that that's true?
Now, In case you doubt me, hat tip Fox News Peter Doocy.
Here's Peter Doocy at Fox News asking Joe Biden if he's ever discussed this Ukrainian gas deal done with Hunter Biden and Devin Archer in the picture with Joe Biden in 2014.
By the way, that article will be at Bongino.com if you want to read it.
Here's Joe Biden categorically denying any conversations with his son about the gas deal with the guy they're in the picture with in 2014.
Check this out.
How many times have you ever spoken to your son about his overseas business dealings?
I've never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.
Hunter says he and his dad only spoke once about Ukraine.
Dad said, I hope you know what you're doing.
And I said, I do.
What are you going to do?
I don't know, Donnie.
I don't know.
We need Lefty in here.
I'm known all over.
You ask anyone, Lefty.
You go out to Brooklyn, you ask Lefty.
I'm known all over.
This is like a Rico thing.
Not Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite.
Like racketeer-induced corrupt organization.
So, Biden, I don't talk to my son about the business deal he had in Ukraine that happened after I was in Ukraine with a natural gas company that employed my son even though I was in Ukraine talking about natural gas.
I didn't say anything.
We didn't know.
We were just crossing paths, Joe.
No one discussed it ever, me or my kid, ever.
Two ships.
Yet, Hunter Biden told the New Yorker, as you see in that cut there, Told the New Yorker he did talk to his dad, but Biden said he didn't.
And now we see them in a picture with Devin Archer.
Who's Devin Archer?
Joe, do you remember Devin Archer?
Devin Archer!
Remember the names!
Devin Archer also gets a board seat on Burisma, the Ukrainian natural gas company, with Joe Biden's kid in 2014, who happens to be in the picture golfing with Lunch Bucket Joe B.
Devon Archer is a friend and business associate of who?
Gosh, I'm trying to remember.
Who was it?
Oh, John Kerry!
Yes, John Kerry, former Secretary of State and Democrat nominee for the presidency.
Democracy dies in the darkness, folks.
Remember that.
The Washington Post said so.
What a joke.
Now you see what these lunatics at the Post and the Times are desperate to cover up?
So disgusting.
All right, two more stories outside.
There is a lot going on, and that's why I said today's show is really loaded, stacked.
There's a quick one that just, you know, move out of New York City if you haven't yet.
I'm really sorry.
I grew up in New York.
There are great people there.
A lot of great conservatives showed up in Huntington, Long Island, which is outside of New York City for my book signing.
By the way, another book signing.
Paul O'Kimmel, if I don't say it, my last one, Friday, October 4th.
The Barnes & Noble in The Villages in Florida.
What time is it, Paula?
Four o'clock?
There you go, thank you.
See, she's always on the ball.
And if you want an autographed copy of my book, they're selling out, folks.
That's not like some infomercial pitch.
I'm just telling you we have limited stock available.
If you want a signed copy of my book, it's not a book plate.
It's an actual book.
Go to Premier Collectibles.
PremierCollectibles.com slash Exonerated.
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They had a ton of sales yesterday.
They're running out.
They're not gonna be around for long, so check those out.
But there are good people in New York, obviously, but I can't suggest to you with a straight face that you stay there.
You are under relentless attack.
Here's the story.
Reason.com will be in the show, and I'll say, this is not a joke, by the way.
This is not the Babylon Bee or the Onion.
New York City declares using the term illegal alien Joe can result in a $250,000 fine.
$250,000 fine.
Robbie Suave, Reason.com.
Now to be clear, because we don't do fake news like the Washington Post, it doesn't
apply to conversations on the street.
If you were to say to someone, Joe, are you an illegal alien?
Not that that makes it any better, but again, I don't do hyperbole for effect like the Washington Post.
It applies in the workplace, in tenant-landlord relationships, and in public accommodations.
Doesn't make it any better.
I'm just suggesting to you that it's still bad, but I don't want anyone getting ahead of themselves on this story.
But this serves two purposes.
This draconian, anti-free speech, socialist, communist-like rule.
Where the speech police are back.
The Orwellian speech police.
Yeah.
Again, it benefits them in the culture war.
Because if you say the term illegal alien, which is just a term of fact.
If you're here, an alien to the country, illegally, you are an illegal alien.
There's something... It's not a pejorative.
It's a statement of fact.
In the culture war, they win, because as we've discussed with the language wars, when they declare terms off-limits, the left, unilaterally, if you say that term, you're automatically an istophobic phobophobe.
Racist, misogynist, xenophobe, you know the list.
So it benefits them in the culture war, because they get to go, oh, look at that guy!
Racist!
There you go.
Secondly, making this illegal now has an obvious benefit.
You get to legally silence anyone else in a political, not an emotional, debate.
Seriously, what if you're debating someone and you're in a public accommodation somewhere?
You're debating someone and you start talking about illegal aliens?
Are they going to come and lock you up?
You may say, oh, that's silly.
Is it?
Are you sure?
Did you read the article?
Again, I don't do hyperbole.
I'm asking a serious question.
What if you ask that person, well, you know, are you an illegal alien?
And you're trying to, in other words, you're trying to get to the motives of why they're saying what they're saying.
It's a dead serious question.
Can you be arrested?
It's against the law now.
No, no, that's not going to happen.
Really?
Because we thought criminalizing speech wasn't going to happen, too.
Clearly, you missed that boat.
Dangerous times, folks.
Dangerous times.
Now, my final story of the day.
This is kind of unintentionally hilarious, but I want to leave you in a little bit better mood here.
And just want to wrap up kind of the initial story in the beginning so I don't leave you really down and in the emotional dumps.
I don't believe Bill Barr is going to be intimidated, the Attorney General, intimidated by any of this crap by the Times.
So I don't want you to fret too much.
I simply pointed out the Times and the slimy Washington Post stories in the beginning to show you how activists in the media who pretend to be journalists are trying to intimidate Barr.
I think Barr gives exactly zero.
You get the hint about any of this stuff.
He's going to get to the bottom.
So don't worry too much.
I just want to point it out to show you how frightened they are of the truth.
Democracy dies in the darkness.
Sure.
Elizabeth Warren, current frontrunner for the Democrat nomination for the presidency.
This is an unintentionally hilarious clip of her giving a go at comedy.
Listen to her take a shot at this specific group of people and their success.
Yet she leaves something out at the end, which I'll point out with this Forbes article coming up in a second.
Check this cut out.
This is great.
You know, the way I see it is I get it.
There are going to be rich people and there are going to be not rich people, also known as poor people, right?
And middle class people and hardworking people.
And I get it, that rich people may have more shoes than you have, they may have more cars than you have, shoot, they may have more houses than you have, but they should not have a bigger share of this democracy than you have.
Okay. Any thoughts on that, Joe?
(laughing)
[laughing]
No, that's good.
Get that.
Do me a favor, cut that grunt.
I want that grunt for future use.
We can use it.
Yes.
That's perfect.
Paula, can you put up that Forbes article, please?
If you don't mind.
Now, for those of you watching on the YouTube, you get to read ahead.
youtube.com/bongito Sometimes I just enjoy listening to Joe in the background
I don't know what he's doing.
What is he doing back there?
It's like, Joe, the meatloaf!
Because sometimes I can't see him on the screen, so I don't actually know what he's doing back there, just like Will Ferrell doesn't know what his mom's doing with the meatloaf.
Forbes, title.
How Elizabeth Warren built a 12 million dollar fortune by Mikaela Tindera.
Again folks, vote for whoever you want for in the election.
I'm not here to lecture you, okay?
I'm here to put out facts, data, stories that matter, things that are happening in real time.
Just know this.
The entire left is populated by hypocritical frauds who will openly lie to you about anything and everything, conveniently leaving out that the class of people Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and others are condemning, millionaires and billionaires, the class of people they're condemning, are them.
How that doesn't bother you is genuinely perplexing to me.
Because the things I believe in, I believe in for everyone.
Not just select groups of people.
These people are total frauds.
Rich people think differently and have more shoes.
You're the rich person!
You're a 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1 percenter.
0 0 0 0 1 percenter.
Total phony.
Oh, bit of infuriating show.
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