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It's only getting worse, ladies and gentlemen.
I told you this whole whistleblower saga was going to get worse.
We were going to pile evidence upon evidence upon evidence that this is really a cover-up for the prior administration's malfeasance, and the whole story is coming to fruition now.
So if you're tuned in here, you're weeks ahead of it, days ahead of it.
Months ahead of it in some cases.
Welcome to the Dan Bongino Show.
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Now, I want to give a hat tip to this at Seamus Bruner on Twitter with a just beautiful find.
What a gem on the whistleblower.
Now, if you've been listening for the last few days, you know I have my suspicions about who that whistleblower may be or may be connected to.
I find it awfully suspicious.
That the whistle was blown from the National Security Council that is supposed to be working for President Trump to provide him with national security information, Joe, to make key life or death decisions, like whether to go to war or not, whether to engage in a foreign intervention.
These are kind of important things.
Ah, yeah.
It seems strangely like the National Security Council is working overtime to actually work against the president, leak to the media, and leak to the Democrats up on Capitol Hill to have the president impeached for nothing.
One of them, as we know, Abigail Grace.
What are you looking at me for?
You alright?
Oh, sorry.
Paula was giving me a look.
One of them, Abigail Grace, actually went over to work from the National Security Council over to the opposition political party for Adam Schiff up on Capitol Hill.
Why is that?
Not illegal, but kind of suspicious, no?
There are also other former members of the National Security Council who show up in media reports as being, let's say, ideological opponents of President Trump.
Eric Chiamarella being one of them.
Well, why would you stay on the National Security Council to advise President Trump if you don't like him?
Well, this Chiamarella guy just keeps showing up everywhere.
I've got a fascinating little... We got a hook here.
Again, hat tip to this Seamus Bruner.
I want to show you something.
I want to make a connection here, walk you through something.
Remember, here's what we're talking about here.
Yeah.
The Ukraine, the alleged Ukraine promise on the phone call between Trump and the Ukrainian president, where Trump was asking for, again, debunked allegation, information on Hunter Biden in exchange for military aid.
A promise or quid pro quo, a deal that never happened.
It was made up.
That came from the National Security Council.
I have strong suspicions about who that was and what their motivations are.
I believe their motivations are to cover up for Hunter Biden and the Obama administration's collusion with key Ukrainians to gin up this Russian collusion hoax.
Everybody tracking?
Yeah, I'm with you on that.
They're just doing the basic I have hand George Costanza dipsy-doo fliparoo.
Obama colluded with the Ukrainians and his administration.
Biden had a shady deal there.
They're accusing Trump of it to cover up.
I know you get that.
So let's go to screenshot number one.
You may remember this name if you're a regular listener, viewer of the show, this guy, Victor Pinchuk.
Now I'm going to get to his connection to the Clintons in a moment.
So hang tight.
But Victor Pinchuk is a Ukrainian.
He does, he has a company called, he deals, He deals with a lot of foreign steel, foreign pipes, and things like that.
He has some significant ties to the Clintons Foundation and the Clintons.
Now, this guy Pinchuk, who's involved heavily in the Atlantic Council, also has been a key player.
He's in both of my books, Spygate and Exonerated.
Pinchuk seems to have this Interesting arrangement with everybody in this scandal, right?
So here's Pinchuk.
I want to show you first.
Pinchuk, on this disclosure form, funded A couple of meetings in the United States with this Ukrainian lawmaker.
Put up the screenshot from this.
This is just incredible.
So look at this.
This is from this Seamus Bruner, who's been doing some work on this.
So you can see at the top of this, when you're checking out the youtube.com, if not on the audio, this is Pinchuk's disclosure form where he's acknowledging that he paid some money to set up some meetings from this Ukrainian lawmaker with the last name Bilkova.
Excuse me if I say her name wrong.
And she paid for her to meet with a couple of people in the United States.
Now, Bilkova has some interesting relationships, too.
I'll get to that in a second.
But look who Bilkova is meeting with.
This is from his Twitter account.
Let's see Miss Bruner here.
Oh, look at that name!
Meeting with Eric Chiaverella.
Look who else Bilkova from Ukraine is meeting with.
Joe, this is really crazy.
At the bottom.
Bilkova is also meeting with David Kramer from the McCain Institute.
Conveniently, right around the time, this whole Russian collusion thing in the dossier is heating up.
This is just spectacular.
So we have a Ukrainian lawmaker, With some kind of arrangement with this guy Pinchuk, who has got substantial ties to the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation, right?
This Ukrainian lawmaker comes to the United States as the collusion hoax is heating up and sets up meetings.
One of them is with David Kramer from the McCain Institute, who we already know passed the dossier off to journalists.
He's an associate of John McCain.
Again, covered extensively in my two books.
So they're meeting with McCain.
The dossier all of a sudden starts making its rounds in the media.
And now we see, again, according to this guy Bruner, that there also apparently was a meeting that Chia Morella was involved in as well.
Now, who's Chia Morella?
Chia Morella is a guy on the Obama National Security Council who's one of the point men for Ukrainian policy who is a holdover to the Trump administration who hates Trump and left the National Security Council alleging he was getting death threats.
He works at the CIA and fits strongly the profile the press has indicated the whistleblower fits.
CIA, apparently doesn't like Trump, didn't have first-hand knowledge.
It's a he, apparently.
The information leading to the potential of the Chia Marella and people from the National Security Council over on Adam Schiff's team who are involved in this is extensive.
So now, let me get this straight.
Pinchuk, who's working with this Ukrainian lawmaker, Bilkova, Bilkova's meeting with McCain's guy, and then meeting with an Obama national security guy, Chia Morella, who was a holdover later for Trump and doesn't like Trump?
Let's go a little further, again, hat tip to this guy Bruner here.
This is interesting.
From the Kiev Post, about Bilkova's connections.
Bilkova!
Oh, no way!
Olga Bilkova, Kiev Post, August 7, 2015.
Biden's candidacy would be good news for Ukraine.
Olga Bilkova.
Joe, this is all coming together here for you, right?
Pinchuk, key Ukrainian, involved in some international deals with some suspect countries involving steel and pipe and other stuff.
Pinchuk has some connections to Democratic lobbyists, right?
He also brings over a parliamentarian from Ukraine, Bilkova, who apparently loves Joe Biden.
Yeah!
Joe Biden would be great for the United States.
So Bilkova is the second connection.
Pinchuk, sponsor Bilkova, meets with McCain's people right around the time the dossier the McCain people passed on is out, and also is in a meeting where this guy Chia Morello was an Obama point man for Ukraine on the National Security Council, who CIA Brennan guy as well hangs out for the Trump administration.
Now, I mean, is it making sense why all these conversations Trump is having with national security folks and other foreign leaders?
Son of a biscuit!
Why these things keep leaking out?
Strange how that happens, isn't it?
Now, let's go back to this old Washington Examiner piece.
Check this out.
Washington Examiner piece about Pinchuk.
Again, Pinchuk's paying for this parliamentarian who loves Biden to come over right around the time the dossier is going on to meet with McCain's people and Chia Morella.
Washington Examiner, Sarah Westwood.
Emails show Clinton denied, then met with Ukrainian donor.
Gee, who was that Ukrainian donor?
Let's try to put two and two together.
This isn't that complicated, folks.
Let's go to the screenshot from the piece.
Oh, the Ukrainian donor.
Is Victor Pinchuk.
Victor again!
Quote from Sarah Westwood's piece.
Victor Pinchuk, who has given up to $25 million to the Clinton Foundation, appeared on the guest list that was sent between Dennis Chang, an executive at the foundation, and Huma Abedin, Clinton's deputy chief of staff at State.
Ahead of the June 2012 dinner, Abedin noted in a subsequent email that the gathering would be hosted in Clinton's home.
Hold that up there for a second.
So Pinchuk, who's sponsoring this Ukrainian lawmaker to come to the United States, deal with McCain's guy, and deal with this guy on the Obama National Security Council.
Wow, that's fascinating considering they have emails inviting Pinchuk to Clinton's house!
It's funny when they catch him amid scrutiny, this is a quote,
amid scrutiny of Clinton's ties to Pinchuk in 2014, the democratic nominee spokesman, Nick Merrill said,
Pinchuk had never met with Clinton during that time.
He told the New York times that from January 21st, 2019 to February of 2013,
the Ukrainian businessman was quote never on her schedule.
Wow.
That's fascinating considering they have emails inviting Pinchuk to Clinton's
house.
Clinton's actual house.
Yeah.
Stunner.
Hmm.
Guess who's coming to dinner?
One more time on this and then we're going to move on.
Yeah, I've got a lot more to get to.
You can look at more video from hapless Chuck Todd over at NBC and LeBron and we got a cover as well.
That's fascinating what happened with LeBron James for all the wrong reasons.
A Clinton mega donor, Pinchuk.
Involved in international business he could certainly use Hillary Clinton at the State Department's help on.
Apparently he's not a huge fan of Trump.
Sends a Ukrainian parliamentarian over to meet with McCain's people and the Obama national security guy in Ukraine right as the dossier is heating up.
The dossier we know McCain's guy, Kramer, gave to the media.
We know this guy, Chia Marella, had something to do with those meetings, and we also know Chia Marella was an Obama holdover into the Trump National Security Council right around the time all these conversations with Ukraine and others are leaking.
And now we have the emergence of a suspicious whistleblower who suspiciously fits the profile of this guy, Chia Marella, as people on the National Security Council are leaving the executive branch, the White House, to go to work for Congress for Adam Schiff.
Nothing to see here, folks.
Don't you worry at all.
Oh, and by the way, Pinchuk was being looked at by Mueller's team, too, for weak, ridiculous ties to Donald Trump, maybe to get Pinchuk to shut his mouth.
Oh, I've got more, folks.
We're not going anywhere.
I haven't even touched Chuck Todd yet and Joe Biden.
And now you'll see why this whole thing may be covered up.
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All right, Chuck Todd.
Joe makes another appearance on the Dan Bongino Show.
It always bothers me to have to do anything with Chuck Todd because usually anything emanating from his soup cooler is a complete, utter, pure stupidity.
But Chuck Todd made an appearance again.
He had an interview this weekend with Rand Paul.
We couldn't get to yesterday because we had such a stacked show.
Yeah, cool.
But this is Chuck Todd who seems deeply offended that Rand Paul brings up the obvious point that we know Ukrainians were colluding with Democrats.
We know it.
It was articles in Politico, left-leaning outlets all the time.
We know Ukrainians meddled in the 2016 election.
I've already told you that.
I just showed you the information that Pinchuk and a Ukrainian lawmaker may have come over here and done all of these meetings and may be central figures in the production of this whole Russian collusion hoax.
These people may have had a significant role in this.
The timing is too coincidental.
Right.
This is at the same time Hunter Biden has this business deal going on with this Ukrainian gas company.
All of this.
So we have two separate scandals.
Ukrainian collusion in the election in 2016 and Joe Biden's kid getting a sweetheart deal from the Ukrainians at the same time.
So Chuck Todd interviews Rand Paul, and he seems deeply offended that Rand Paul brings this up.
And it just goes to show you how this guy doesn't have any principles at all.
He's only in this to defend the Democrats.
Check this out.
I think what's interesting about this is both sides seem to be doing the same thing.
If anything is consistent here, it's that both parties have tried to involve themselves in Ukraine.
So, for example, four senators, Democrats, wrote a letter to the Ukrainian government and said, if you don't keep investigating Trump, We may reconsider our bipartisan support for your aid.
Both parties seem to be doing this, and that's why I think ultimately the American people are going to say, they're going to throw up their hands and say, well, Biden threatened the aid, you know, Menendez threatened the aid, Murphy threatened the aid.
I understand that they could get gas lit and think that it's all equal and both sides of it.
I mean, is this guy, is Chuck Todd for real?
Joe Biden is on, I'm not going to play this video again because it's getting to the point now where it's nauseating.
Chuck, listen, I get it.
You're a total liberal activist hack with not a sliver of journalistic integrity at all.
Everybody gets that.
Listen, I know it sounds personal.
I don't like Chuck Todd.
It is a professional assessment of a guy who is not a journalist.
He claims to be a journalist and now he's making a ridiculous assertion to Rand Paul that we're gaslighting.
In other words, we're lying.
And lying to tell, you know, the gaslighting, you know, lie, lie often, lie confidently and isolate people from the truth.
That's what gaslighting is.
He's making that claim on Republicans.
Biden is on tape demanding the prosecutor investigating his son, Hunter, be fired.
Did he miss the tape?
The fact that Hunter Biden has this gig in Burisma with Ukrainians, key Ukrainians, while Biden's appointment in the region, none of this is in dispute.
Biden, I'm as tired of it as you are.
And I don't have an easy solution.
Obviously, none of us watch this garbage anyway.
But folks, I don't... Candidly, I said this last week, I don't want to drone on on this.
I don't know how the Republic continues if we cannot agree on basic facts.
You may object, You may think the Biden deal is no big deal.
Fine.
I can't get in your head.
I don't have any magical carnac like Johnny Carson powers to predict what's in your head, alter it, you know, tailor your neurons and dendrites.
But arguing that we're gaslighting you because it did happen.
Now, the story gets even worse.
And again, these next few clips, because Chuck Todd is not interested in even basic journalism, this total liberal activist.
These are clips of Biden and his son confirming that this scandal, the basic facts of it are true.
The motivations and whether there's criminality is still an open question.
Fair enough.
I believe there is.
Some don't.
But this is Biden, Joe Biden, In his own words, listen to this guy, setting up the parameters of the scandal.
So if you get to Washington as president and vice president, given the promises that Senator Obama has made, would you look at situations like you just went through, which has raised some questions, where sons work for big banks that have interests in states My son has never spoken to me.
I voted for every campaign reform that's existed with regard to lobbyists.
I voted for every single solitary proposal to make it tougher.
And if you ask around here, ask, try to find how many lobbyists have actually, I probably have spoken to lobbyists, but I don't, it's not a practice I have.
If they want to see me, the CEO has to come and see me from the company.
But specifically, what would this administration do?
Again, Chuck, that's your own network.
I don't expect you to do journalism.
You failed that.
But basic facts.
Joe, you heard what I heard.
Yes, I did.
Biden said I don't talk to my son.
Tom Brokaw, that's, the audio by the way is Tom Brokaw, forgive me for you audio listeners, that's Tom Brokaw on NBC asking Biden about this bevy of corruption we have, how, you know, politicians' sons and famous people get these deals that other people don't get, and what does he say?
Oh, I never talked to my son about these deals.
Okay?
Again, that's Biden, that's not me, it's his own words!
His own words!
Now let's play the cut of Hunter Biden, Joe's son, Joe Armacost.
This is his kid.
Yes, Daniel.
He just said, Joe Biden, that he doesn't talk to his kid about this stuff.
Here's Hunter Biden saying the exact opposite.
We're doing Chuck Todd's homework for him.
Check this out.
Did you and your father ever discuss Ukraine?
No.
As I said, the only time was after a news account.
It wasn't a discussion in any way.
There's no but to this.
No, we never did.
Your dad said, I hope you know what you're doing.
I hope you know what you're doing.
I do.
And I said, I do.
And that was literally the end of our discussion.
Why?
Because my dad was vice president of the United States.
There's literally nothing as a young man or as a full-grown adult that my father in some way hasn't had
influence over, because it does not serve either one of us.
When he said, I hope you know what you're doing, what did he think you were doing?
Well, he read the press reports that I joined the board of Burisma, which was a Ukrainian
natural gas company.
And there's been a lot of misinformation about me, not about my dad.
Nobody buys that.
But it buys this idea that I was unqualified to be on the board.
You notice how he starts that off, he contradicts himself, Joe, in the first three or four sentences,
He says, hey, Hunter, did you talk to your dad?
No, and there were no buts.
But I did talk to him after the... You just said there were no buts!
No buts!
Yep.
There were no buts!
Don't cut that one.
You can cut that one.
It'd be fun, but just blink back to the show.
I'm talking to liberals.
There were no buts!
But I did talk to him after the press reports came out.
So you did!
Yeah, you got that, right?
Hunter Budd.
I did not talk to my dad about my business with Ukraine and Burisma.
No buts.
Lady says, well, what about the press?
But after the press reports, I talked to my dad about it.
Folks, again, I know NBC and Chuck Todd don't do real depth.
By the way, that was ABC hat tip ABC for that interview.
I got another cut from this to showing you again how journalism is completely dead and what people are really hiding.
On the Democrat side who are pushing for this impeachment for Trump over Ukraine.
It is a simple dipsy-do flipperoo.
That's all this is.
Trump did not collude with Ukraine.
Biden, Obama and their administration in interference in the election did.
They're just replacing their names with Trump and they think you're dumb enough to believe it.
You may say to me, Dan, it can't be that simple.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is.
It's the exact same template for the collusion hoax.
The Obama administration and Hillary Clinton took information from Russians to hurt Trump.
They simply replaced the name with Trump took information from Russians to hurt Hillary.
That's it.
It's the same thing now.
If Biden's deal, Hunter Biden, that's Joe Biden's son, Joe, Was not a big deal, right?
Mm-hmm.
Then why not just be honest about it?
Folks, there are no business deals I've been engaged in that I'm ashamed of or wouldn't share on the show.
If he's proud of it, then why not talk to his dad about it?
Why lie then about talking to your dad about it?
Again, Chuck Todd.
This is their words.
Journalism.
Journalism-ing.
Second clip from Hat Tip ABC here.
Here's Hunter pretty much acknowledging That he has no qualifications whatsoever for this lucrative gig he got with this Ukrainian gas company as Ukrainians are meddling in the 2016 election against Trump and may have been involved in the creation, fabrication, and passing on of the dossier to both Republicans while working with McCain and Democrats, right?
So here's Hunter Biden acknowledging he has almost no qualifications whatsoever outside of his last name.
Again, Chuck Todd, his words, not mine.
Check this out.
Look, I'm a private citizen.
One thing that I don't have to do is sit here and open my kimono as it relates to how much money
I make or make or did or didn't, but it's all been reported.
If your last name wasn't Biden, do you think you would have been asked
to be on the board of Burisma?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Probably not.
I don't think that there's a lot of things that would have happened in my life
that if my last name wasn't Biden.
You heard that, Dan, right?
I heard it.
I...
So just to be crystal clear, Biden's kid Hunter, who got this lucrative gig
while his dad was the point man in Ukraine and while Ukraine was interfering in the 2016 election,
just acknowledged on tape that if his last name wasn't Biden
he quote, "Probably not."
But when asked if he would have got the job, he says, "Probably not."
I can say definitely not.
And again, folks, if it was such an On the up and up, above the waterline deal, when there was nothing to worry about, nothing shady, then why were they hiring him without qualifications?
What value added did Hunter Biden bring to the company other than having political connections Ukrainians could use to influence policy?
He can't answer the question.
Again, don't expect Chuck Todd to ask any of this because he's a hapless liberal hack.
There he is on tape admitting, in essence, that this Ukrainian gas company was paying for his last name and was buying pay-to-play access to get to his dad.
It's his own words, folks.
Don't take my word for it.
It's Hunter Biden in his own words.
All right.
I've got more on this and I've got LeBron.
I got an AOC article I'm hoping to get to.
And some of you have asked me about the connection with the Giuliani, um, the whole, the rest around Giuliani.
I never put stuff out until I have reasonably good.
I'm, I'm very suspicious about the circumstances.
Stand by on that.
I'm working on it.
I promise.
I got a few emails.
I didn't forget.
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So, as I said, I'm going to get to LeBron in a second, but I just want you to wrap your arms around something that's going on right now to show you how deep and involved this Ukrainian debacle is.
So, from the Wall Street Journal, We have this Gordon Sondland, who, to be clear on who he was, he was our ambassador to the European Union.
Obviously, he had a relationship with Trump.
He was appointed to the position.
He is scheduled to testify this week.
He's a key player in this, and I want to explain to you why.
Here's a piece from the Wall Street Journal.
Gordon Sondland to testify.
He took Trump's denial of the Ukrainian quid pro quo at his word.
Folks, why is this critical?
I'm not going to spend a ton of time on this, but Gordon Sondland is the guy in the text With this guy, Bill Taylor, who was the charge, the number two with the Ukrainian embassy underneath our ambassador.
He was our number two with the Ukrainian embassy.
He clearly has a relationship with our ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, who I'll get to in a second, who clearly can't stand conservatives.
She was watching us.
We were on the list.
Trump recalls her, pulls her back, because she did a horrible job.
And her number two, Taylor, is clearly upset.
He starts texting this guy, Gordon Sondland, about this Ukrainian phone call with the alleged promise, which is false.
You know, Trump was asking for information on Hunter Biden.
In exchange for military aid.
That false debunk.
We have the transcript.
We've seen it.
It's not there.
Taylor's texting Sondland and Sondland says, there is no quid pro quo.
That is the impeachment charge at this deal.
Information for Biden for military aid.
Something for something.
Quid pro quo.
It never happened.
Sondland's in a text saying, listen, there is no quid pro quo.
The liberals keep saying, oh my gosh, but there's a five hour delay.
I want you to be ready for their talking points.
There's a five-hour delay between Bill Taylor, the number two at the Ukrainian embassy, who's upset about Yovanovitch.
I think they're trying to set Trump up.
He texts Sondland, hey, this deal for military aid for political purposes seems kind of shady.
Five hours later, Sondland gets back.
The president's been crystal clear.
There's no quid pro quo.
Liberals jumped on this, Joe.
They're like, hey, listen, why did it take them five hours to respond?
Because he talked to the president, you can see in the Wall Street Journal headline.
What, how does that make your, do you understand?
Like, how does that make your point?
That makes our point.
Exactly.
So now we have it directly from the president.
It took some time to have the conversation that Gordon Sondland, the guy who's going to testify this week, our ambassador to the EU, that Sondland heard directly from the president himself.
There was no quid pro quo.
You may be scratching your head right now going, I don't get it.
The liberals are using it.
Yes, they're using it.
They're like, well, he took five hours to respond, which says he wasn't sure.
So what did he do?
He called the president who told him that's not true.
There's no deal.
Again, if you're scratching your head, I don't know any other way to sum this up to you.
It's just liberals lying to you again.
There was a quid pro quo.
He took five hours to respond.
Well, why did he take five hours to respond?
Because he called the president.
And the president said what?
There was no quid pro quo.
That makes our case, not yours.
Just wanted that out there because I'm monitoring Legally, unlike Marie Yovanovitch trying to monitor us on Twitter, left this hacked Twitter.
I'm not going to say what accounts, because again, they'll block me.
But that was the line of attack the other day.
Oh, if he was so sure there was not a quid pro quo, he would have texted Taylor back right away.
He called the president, you knuckleheads.
Did you miss that?
There's the journal headline.
Now, another interesting piece from the Epoch Times would be in the show notes at Bongino.com.
Please check them out.
Today, there's a lot of really good articles.
Republican lawmaker from Florida District 1 up in the panhandle, Matt Gaetz, tried to attend one of these impeachment, with air quotes, because this isn't a real impeachment.
No vote's been taken.
It's a fake impeachment.
He was trying to attend an impeachment inquiry yesterday, and Representative Matt Gaetz was thrown out.
Epoch Times, Zach Steiger, October 14, 2019.
Rep Matt Gaetz thrown out of impeachment inquiry hearing.
Now, why do I bring this up in conjunction with the Gordon Sondland information?
Because I am here to help you debunk liberal nonsense, which is legion.
It is everywhere.
Point number one, well, Sondland took five hours.
Yes, that's because he was calling the president knuckleheads.
Liberal talking point number two I've heard is Joe, this impeachment, fake impeachment inquiry, we don't have to let in Republican lawmakers or take a vote because this is essentially a grand jury proceeding like in the criminal system and the grand jury is secret.
Oh, what?
This is a grand jury?
One, it's not.
It's an impeachment.
It's not a criminal trial.
It's just not.
It's like saying an apple is an orange because they're both fruits.
No, one's an apple, one's an orange.
An impeachment inquiry is not a grand jury.
Joe, I don't have the audience on buzz, but I haven't unloaded all the props yet in the new studio.
Yes.
Take the phantom audience on BuzzManHat and put it on for a second, because I need you to closely monitor what I'm about to say and tell me if this makes sense.
All right.
Here's the liberal logic they're trying to use.
In the federal criminal system, you can be indicted first.
When you're indicted, a prosecutor goes into a grand jury, speaks to between 18 and 20 or so, And they can issue a true bill.
Now, the only person allowed in the room with the grand jurist in the criminal system, the grand jury members, is the prosecutor.
You may say there's no defense.
No defense.
No.
And it is secret.
Yep.
It is illegal to leak the proceedings of a grand jury hearing.
If they issue a true bill, you are in fact indicted.
If I want to indict Joe for a bank robbery, I'm a lawyer for the government.
I walk in, I say, here's why I think Joe robbed the bank.
Very rarely are people not indicted.
Why?
Because Joe has no chance to defend himself.
Right.
Joe can't go in there and say, well, I didn't rob the bank.
I was here.
None of that's allowed.
That's why everybody gets indicted.
That's in the criminal system.
And then there's a trial later on, obviously, where Joe's allowed to have his attorney and cross-examine witnesses, et cetera, et cetera.
The Democrats, in an effort to paint Trump as a criminal in their fake impeachment, are saying, well, the impeachment part, Joe, because the trial happens in the Senate, not in the Congress, where the impeachment happens in the House of Representatives, precision matters.
They're saying, well, it's similar to the indictment process, so we don't need to let Trump's people in the room and everything can happen in secret, just like the system.
That, just like it is in the criminal system.
That's not how this works.
That's not how this works.
Thank you.
The precedent before, during Nixon, who wasn't impeached, he resigned, but the process was ongoing.
Under Nixon, Andrew Johnson, And Bill Clinton for impeachment.
The historical precedent has been for the House of Representatives to take a public vote.
So they don't have precedent on their side.
And secondly, now's where the gates be.
You may say, how does this relate to the Matt Gaetz piece?
Why are you bringing this up?
Because liberal talking point number two today, again, that, oh, this is just like a grand jury.
Joe, have you ever heard about, I know, forgive me, I'm not trying to be a jerk, but Joe knows cops, but he was not a, but you, Joe reads the newspaper.
He's been involved in the news media for a long time.
Have you ever heard of a case in the media where grand jury members were expelled from the grand jury because of their political leanings?
Have you ever heard of that?
Hmm.
Yeah.
No, no.
I'm going to guess no.
Am I right?
For their political leanings?
No.
Never.
Now, you can be ejected from a grand jury for all kinds of malfeasance and corruption or whatever.
So, the liberal talking point that the House of Representatives is similar to an indictment, and it's supposed to be secret, and Trump's lawyers aren't allowed in, well, if it's an indictment, the grand jury members voting on it, Joe, would be who?
The members of the House of Representatives.
Yes, they would.
Now you're ejecting them from hearings because they're Republicans?
I thought this was like a grand jury.
Republicans are ejected from grand juries.
Folks, you may say, well, that's kind of a nuanced point.
No, no, no, it's not.
Nothing they're saying is true.
This is not actually an indictment.
It's an impeachment.
It's not a criminal process.
It's a political one.
And you don't get to eject the grand jurors if you think this is similar to a grand jury and an indictment.
I thought it was a grand jury!
We're ejecting them now?
Republicans aren't allowed to sit on grand juries?
Folks, nothing they're telling you.
Nothing they're telling you is true.
This is all BS.
I have a cough button now, Joe.
A mute button on this mixer.
Oh, cool.
Cool.
I can actually mute myself now.
This is bull— That's my personal mute button.
Trying to keep it family-friendly.
This whole thing is a sham.
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Yeah.
All right, folks.
I wanted to get to this LeBron James fiasco.
Many of you obviously are aware who LeBron James is.
He's one of the finest basketball players in the history of humankind.
Plays now for the Lakers, played for the Miami Heat, Cleveland Cavaliers as well.
Very talented guy, no doubt about that.
And LeBron James has spoken up frequently in the past about what he perceives to be Social justice inequities, basically liberal causes.
He's obviously no fan of President Trump.
Had that big controversy with him.
Laura Ingram at Fox a while back, where Ingram suggested, you know, they stick to basketball.
LeBron James fired back.
So James has no problem, Joe.
Again, dreaded air quotes here.
He doesn't seem to have an issue speaking out when he has something politically to say and he feels is on the side of liberty, freedom and all the other stuff.
That's right.
Now let's check out LeBron James.
This video of LeBron James, when talking out, speaking out, he's asked about the China situation and the tweet by this guy, Daryl Morley, who's a Houston Rockets.
He's the, I believe the GM of the Houston Rockets or the general manager.
He tweeted out support for the Liberty protesters in Hong Kong protesting against Chinese tyranny.
This Houston Rockets GM.
So of course, Joe, LeBron James, who's all about social justice and liberty and freedom for all, right?
Of course LeBron James would speak out in defense of Morley, Daryl Morley, the Houston Rockets GM.
Of course.
Did he?
I don't know.
Check out this video, LeBron.
I think when we all sit back and learn from the situation that happened, understand that what you could tweet or could say, and we all talk about this freedom of speech.
Yes, we all do have freedom of speech, but at times there are ramifications for the negative that can happen.
When you're not thinking about others, and you're only thinking about yourself.
So, I don't believe, I don't want to get into a word or sentence feud with Daryl, with Daryl Morey, but I believe he wasn't educated on the situation at hand, and he spoke.
And so many people could have been harmed.
Not only financially, but physically, emotionally, spiritually.
So, just be careful what we tweet and we say and what we do.
Even though, yes, we do have freedom of speech, but there can be a lot of negative that comes with that too.
Paul, do you have that tweet of LeBron where he's like a big social justice warrior and he's all about... Here, here, at King James on Twitter.
This is LeBron James.
Injustice anywhere, Joe, anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Thank you, Martin Luther King.
LeBron James, social justice warrior.
Did you hear that abomination?
Ladies and gentlemen, listen, I get it.
LeBron James has a lot of fans.
The man's basketball skills are In modern times, now unparalleled.
I think Jordan is better personally, but that's a whole other topic.
Probably get a ton of emails on that too.
Nah, you're done.
Big time.
What a colossal, level 10 out of 10, total fraud and hypocrite.
Big injustice warrior, hates President Trump, can't stand him, social justice guy.
He attacks this Houston GM and he makes some ridiculous, outrageous points in the process that aren't even points at all.
They're negative points.
He says, well, the Houston Rockets GM who tweeted support for the Hong Kong Liberty protesters, he was only thinking about himself.
Joe.
Yes.
He's asking so formally.
Was Daryl Morley's tweet about himself or about the Hong Kong protesters?
Um, Dan, it was about the Hong Kong protesters.
Not himself.
The verdict is in.
LeBron James is an idiot.
The tweet was not about himself.
The tweet was about Hong Kong protesters, which have professionally cost this guy, Maury, or, forgive me, I don't know his name, have cost this guy probably a fortune.
But he needs to think about more than just himself.
What, like you?
Who then, LeBron, goes on to say he needs to educate him.
Because LeBron, Joe, this is the guy.
My favorite part.
I mean, if you ever needed a full history of China, Joe, who do you go to?
LeBron.
You go to LeBron James.
I would, yeah.
Now listen.
LeBron probably knows a ton about his profession.
He probably knows a lot.
And listen, LeBron has been a successful businessman, too.
Don't downplay that.
I'm going to put up a tweet in a second by this guy John Civarelli about how much money LeBron has made.
It's not easy to make that kind of money.
I'll bet LeBron knows a whole lot about the apparel and sneaker industry, too.
I can guarantee you in a debate on China, LeBron would get smoked by anyone from a left, right, or center leading think tank that actually has done their homework on China.
He needs to think more about himself.
He needs to educate himself.
And then LeBron goes on at the end of that to give a statement completely about himself.
He needs to educate himself.
Some people are going to be hurt financially.
Oh, who?
Who?
Wait, I thought...
Clearly it's not himself, because LeBron says we shouldn't tweet about ourselves.
We should be thinking about injustice everywhere, like Maury was doing, or Morley was doing, when LeBron criticized him for doing what he did.
Here's a tweet by this guy, John Cervalli.
LeBron, his 2019-2020 salary is $37,000?
No, $37,430,000!
Ron, his 2019-2020 salary is $37,000?
Wow!
No, $37,430,000.
Wow.
Wow, how did I make that mistake?
His night contract is estimated to be worth as much as--
$1,000?
No, $1,000,000,000!
$1,000,000,000!
If China detains forcefully... If China detainees forcefully get their organs harvested... Wow, what a difficult week for LeBron and the NBA.
Hashtag Hong Kong protests.
So this guy Cervelli... LeBron said, oh, we've had a difficult week with this.
Yeah, people in China having their organs ripped out, that's kind of difficult, too.
It's a little painful.
The Uyghurs, Falun Gong members, others who've been persecuted by China.
But LeBron doesn't want anybody commenting on that because people could be hurt financially.
What, like LeBron?
And Nike's significant business footprint in China?
Significant.
The same Nike that has a up to a billion dollar deal with LeBron?
That guy?
You know, I said this to Joe before the show.
And we'll repeat it here because it was good.
People in the United States will forgive.
And listen folks, I'm not naïve to the fact that international economics is complicated, and the ethics and morals of it are tough.
They are.
There are companies that do business in China that can't control everything that goes on there, and there is some unethical business behavior, and the answer is not, well, those companies should pull out.
Some can't, ladies and gentlemen.
If they do, these multinationals go under, costing people here, you know, millions of dollars in revenue.
I'm not naive to that.
I'm not pretending this is a simple, moral, black or white situation.
And I'm not suggesting to you that financially it's that either.
But unlike LeBron, There is absolutely no question that what China is doing to suppress the people of Hong Kong and attacking liberty in this country is an international disgrace.
And you can simultaneously have two positions and say to yourself, listen, everyone, we should respect freedom all over the world, even if you're a business person, and say, as our business partner, we will always push for those things.
That's not what he said.
He attacked the guy who's supporting the Hong Kong protesters and then claimed that the guy was making decisions out of selfishness when LeBron's the one who has the selfish business deals.
What a fraud.
What a total phony.
And folks, I don't speak with forked tongue.
As Joe and Paula both know, you know, we don't take every deal here either.
No, we don't.
Believe me.
Had to turn a few down.
Had to, you know, I don't know.
I'm not, I'm not, I honestly, I'm not trying to make this about us.
At all.
And forgive me, I didn't mean it like you turned there.
I'm just trying to suggest to you, there are some principled people out there.
You know, not every single company ever, we do business with, I can't do a background check on every employee, and neither should multinationals.
They can't be expected to police every single action worldwide.
They don't have the assets.
But we know what's going on with Hong Kong right now.
We know why they're protesting.
For their freedom under an international arrangement the Chinese had with the United Kingdom that's not being respected.
Stop being a phony, LeBron.
Like, someone told me, don't comment on that.
You're going to get emails from LeBron fans.
Why would you think I care about that?
I already told you, you know, mad respect for the guy's basketball skills and his business acumen.
The guy's got a billion dollar contract.
I don't have that.
God bless you, man.
Yeah.
But don't be a fraud about it, alright?
Attacking the other guy, are you kidding me?
Alright, um... You know what?
Let's get to this tomorrow.
Folks, please don't miss tomorrow's show.
I know I tease stuff, but it's really been a stacked show today, and I want to kind of sum it up for you quickly.
But tomorrow, I want to get to this AOC tweet, because it's important.
Matt Palumbo, my resident fact checker, who, by the way, I haven't mentioned in a while, if you like Matt's work on our website, he has a section on our website called Debunk This, where he debunks liberal nonsense all the time.
His book is out.
It's been out.
You guys and ladies drove it to a bestseller, the bestseller list on Amazon.
It's called Debunk This, this book, and it handles all this stuff.
Go check it out.
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It's a really great book, Debunk This.
I'm gonna cover a piece tomorrow where he just eviscerates this ridiculous AOC tweet about millennials, their income, college debt.
It's very, very good.
I'm gonna get to that tomorrow.
But I just wanted to sum this up by putting this last story out there.
Folks, we've been monitored.
Judicial Watch, Tom Fitton's group, has uncovered some potentially devastating information.
The story I'm telling you about Ukraine, Joe Biden and his son, Joe Biden being the point man on Ukraine while his son's getting money from Ukraine, Ukrainians flying over to the United States at the behest of Clinton mega donors to exchange information with people involved with the Obama national security infrastructure, people attacking Donald Trump during the election.
If this is all a hoax, and as Chuck Todd, you see how this whole show weaves in together, it's gaslighting according to Chuck Todd, and everything I've been telling you is some big joke, and we're a bunch of conspiracy theorists, right?
Then why, according to Judicial Watch, why is Marie Yovanovitch and others over in the, our employees over in Ukraine, our diplomats and ambassadors, why were they monitoring me?
Judicial Watch, be up in the show notes today.
Judicial Watch investigates if ousted Ukrainian ambassador ordered State Department to monitor journalists and Trump allies.
Town Hall has a nice write-up on this Judicial Watch piece, and I want you to see the names of the people who are being monitored.
Why were we being monitored if everything we've been putting out there is all false?
Here's a piece, be up in the show notes.
Judicial Watch believes the State Department has spied on conservative journalists and Trump allies.
Here's the list.
Jack Posobiec, Donald Trump Jr., Laura Ingram, Sean Hannity, Mike McFall, Dan Bongino,
Ryan Saavedra, Rudy Giuliani, Sebastian Gorka, John Solomon, Lou Dobbs, Pamela Geller, and Sarah Carter.
Folks, if everything I'm telling you, Chia Morella, Ukraine, David Kramer, the McCain Institute, Pinshuk,
All these connections I've been painting for you for the last two years and in my books.
If it's all crazy, then why were they watching us?
Don't miss tomorrow's show.
I got more on that.
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