How Did The Media Miss This Explosive Footnote in the IG Report? (Ep 1134)
In this episode, I address the explosive footnote hidden in the IG report which destroys the FBI’s entire cover story for the Spygate scandal. I also address the imploding impeachment fiasco. News Picks:An excellent article about the massive Spygate scandal, and the media’s role in it.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I've got another firework we found in the IG report, which is just full of gems and nuggets everywhere.
Hat tip to all my great sources on it.
We are going to blow up this whole story again.
Got that?
The impeachment vote that just passed 23-17 for the fake hoax impeachment, which is actually working as a fundraising mechanism for Donald Trump 2020 re-election.
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Hey, I'm doing well and it's Friday.
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I'm very excited about today's show.
Rarely the night before when I'm flying on a plane back from New York, which I did, and I made my Hannity hit in Florida, by the way.
Was up in New York, Fox & Friends in studio, charity event for the Excellent Police Athletic League up in New York.
Jumped on a plane, got back, made it to the studio just in time to get on the air for Hannity from my friend Kurt's studio in South Florida.
Went home, ate, went to sleep at like 1 in the morning, bang, back up again doing the show today.
I was wondering how you do that.
Good for you.
I know you.
Joe is like, Joe, you work.
He was very complimentary, but I appreciate it.
It's not easy.
It's a lot of coffee and some other stuff.
Legal, I promise.
Don't worry.
But you have to stay up and get busy.
I've got a killer show.
Why are you looking at me?
I've got a killer show for you today.
Let me just get the lead out right away.
Folks, the Horowitz report actually debunks the entire Horowitz report.
What?
Yes, the Horowitz report has said what?
What have the liberals have been telling you?
And their media hack, bootlicking, acolyte allies, what have they been telling you?
The predication for this is all legitimate.
The FBI story that they opened the spying operations to Donald Trump because of this tip from Australia about Papadopoulos's boozy liaison with Alexander Downer in London.
And he leaked that the Russians were trying to help the Trump campaign.
That's what started this.
Not the dossier, right?
So just to be clear, liberal hacks, media hacks, that's the story, the official story, and the media is supposedly sticking to it.
Horowitz said yes, they're right.
It was the Australians that tipped the FBI off that Papadopoulos may be working with the Russians.
It was not the dossier.
Why are they saying that?
Why is Horowitz covering for them?
I don't know why Horowitz is covering for them.
But Horowitz's own report debunks that story.
Let me be crystal clear before we start.
The FBI, media hacks, and the spygate conspirators are desperate to make you, America, believe that they did not start an investigation into Donald Trump because of a dossier Hillary Clinton paid for that was political information.
No, no, no.
This all started the spying because the Australians frightened us into believing Papadopoulos was working with the Russians.
Do you get this?
Please tell me you get this.
Okay, good.
If Joe gets it, you get it.
We all get it.
Now Horowitz's report, everybody said, listen, Michael Horowitz said, I have no reason to believe otherwise.
Yeah, the predication of the case was just fine and peachy.
In other words, saying that, yeah, that friendly foreign government tip from the Australians, that's what really did it.
It wasn't the dossier.
Oh, is that a fact?
Well, first, to show you how the media has played into this, because they're not serious journalists.
Journalism is absolutely dead.
Let's go back to the New York Times article where we first heard this leak.
This is from a while ago, that yes, the Australians started this by giving us a tip about Papadopoulos working with the Russians.
Look at this.
Back in December of 2017, we first heard about this from the media, the New York Times.
How the Russia inquiry began.
A campaign aide talking about Papadopoulos drinks and talks of political dirt.
Okay.
None of this is actually true.
How did the New York times get this in December of 2017?
They got it from their spy gate, deep state co-conspirators who desperately wanted this story out in December of 2017.
So you would be distracted and not know the real story that the reason the FBI spied on Trump is because Hillary told them to with the dossier.
It's no more difficult than that.
Pretty simple.
You don't believe me that's what the New York Times piece says?
Check out this nugget from the New York Times piece from the Deep State leakers who were desperate to go, hey look squirrel!
It wasn't the dossier, it was Papadopoulos.
Quote, New York Times.
The information that Mr. Papadopoulos gave to the Australians answers one of the lingering mysteries of the past year.
What so alarmed American officials to provoke the FBI to open a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign months before the presidential election?
Listen to this doozy, Joe.
It was not, as Mr. Trump and other politicians have alleged, a dossier compiled by a former British spy hired by a rival campaign.
Instead, it was first-hand information from one of America's closest intelligence allies.
Really?
Is that true?
Let me show you the little golden nugget.
Gem, hat tip 279er.
You guys are the best.
This little nugget we found in the report That actually debunks that entire theory.
Horowitz's own report debunks Horowitz's report that this is true.
Let me show you this footnote.
This is just devastating.
Let me read this to you.
Footnote 461.
The only express direction we found that McCabe gave regarding the use of a confidential human source, in other words, a spy, concerned a former spy, FBI CHS, who contacted an FBI agent, an FBI field office, in late July 2016 to, listen to this, to report information from a colleague who runs an investigative firm hired by two entities, the DNC, As well as another individual who was not named to explore Donald Trump's long-standing ties to Russian entities.
We're going to come back to this, but come back to me here for a moment.
There are so many nuggets in there, you have no idea.
Let's distill out what's in that and why this completely annihilates Horowitz's own conclusion, and yet somehow Horowitz, who I'm really starting to have questions about, Seems hesitant to tell you the dossier started this whole thing, covering up for these deep staters.
What is going on here?
First, a former spy, confidential human source, in late July approached him with information from a colleague who runs an investigative firm hired by the DNC.
Joe, wasn't Steele the investigative firm?
Orbis, his company, was the one hired by the DNC?
He was, right?
Yeah, Orbis, yeah.
So can we all agree that this sounds suspiciously like someone, another spy, amazingly, approaching the FBI about information that it appears likely they're getting from Steele in late July?
Joe, that's not possible.
Because the FBI's official story, Joe, is no, no, no.
We didn't get the information from Steele until September 19th.
Late July, September 19th.
Late July, September 19th.
July, I'm, Joe, again, it's the audience ombudsman.
July is before September.
Think this through before you answer.
It's a tough one.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah, sure.
Okay.
Double jeopardy.
Yeah.
Very good.
That's, that's really detailed.
Well-developed analysis.
I appreciate Joe always coming through in the clutch like this.
So now we know the FBI, it's highly likely in Horowitz's own report, footnote 461, which nobody's picked up on, but this show, because we have the best source network in the business, Nobody seems to have picked up on the fact that Horowitz's own report indicates that another spy approached the FBI with the information that appears Steele's that the FBI says they didn't get till September 19th.
Now, Joe, why would the FBI lie about when they potentially got hold of Christopher Steele's information and the dossier information?
Why would they lie about that?
Do tell.
Do tell.
Let's do a little timeline here.
Let's knock my computer off the desk there.
We still got audio?
Yes, we got audio.
Excellent.
Why would the FBI lie about that?
Well, Joe, when did Crossfire Hurricane, the spying operation into Donald Trump, allegedly start?
At least when is the formal on paper start date?
It's July 31st of 2016.
So Joe, that would be an awfully convenient alibi for the FBI, wouldn't it?
Awfully convenient alibi for the FBI.
That we couldn't have opened the investigation because of the dossier in steel, Joe, because we didn't get the information until September 19th.
But that's awfully strange.
Can you put up that footnote again, footnote 461?
Because this seems to sound awfully like another spy who, quote, contacted an FBI agent in a field office in late July to report information from a colleague who runs an investigative firm hired by two entities, the DNC and the other entity is probably the Clinton campaign.
Wait, there's another?
So let me get this straight, there's only two explanations to this Armacost, right?
Tell me if I'm wrong, is the audience on buzzman.
Go ahead.
Either the DNC and Hillary Clinton hired Christopher Steele, who went to the FBI through another colleague, In July of 2016, or another spy gave word about Christopher Steele's information in 2016, in July, and the FBI knew about it, or there's actually another firm out there, in addition to Steele, digging up more bogus information.
Do you understand?
One or two, one or two, either one of those stories is a total show.
And completely destroyed.
Let me read more while this is up.
The former CHS, which is again, code for spy, also gave the FBI agent a list of quote, individuals and entities who have surfaced in the investigative firm.
Again, is that Steele's firm?
In their examination, the former CHS describes as mostly public source material, which matches Joe, by the way, exactly what Steele's firm produced.
All right.
Now, this is where this gets, folks, this, I promise you, this is only gonna get better.
And by better, I mean worse for the Democrats.
Listen to this one.
Some of you will put this together as I start to read.
Remember the dates.
Investigation starts July 31st on paper with the FBI.
The FBI swears up and down they did not get Steele's information until September 19th.
Listen to this quote from this footnote 461.
In mid-September 2016.
Wow, that kind of sounds like September 19th, Joe.
In mid-September 2016, Andrew McCabe tells an FBI agent to instruct the FBI agent from the field office who was dealing with the spy, giving him the information that appears to be from Steel Joe, not to have any further contact with the former spy and, and, listen to this one!
And not to accept any information regarding the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
What the heck is going on here?
Jeez, man.
Okay.
Let me just tell you what I think is going on.
Yeah, please.
Wait, wait, put that footnote up one more time.
I want to just go to the beginning.
I want to read the beginning of the footnote now because this will make sense once I read the beginning.
I want to read the beginning first though.
All right.
The only express direction the IG found Andrew McCabe gave regarding the use of spies, CHS's, in this investigation concerned this guy who contacts the FBI in July with what appears to be Steele's information the FBI swears it didn't get till September.
So the only direction the IG found Andrew McCabe The deputy director gave the agents about spies on the Trump campaign is not to deal with this guy anymore as of September 2019.
Paul, I need you to put the ombudsman hat on here too.
Ladies and gentlemen, let's walk through what likely happened here.
The FBI in September starts to figure out they have nothing on Carter Page, they have nothing on Flynn, and they have nothing on Papadopoulos.
They haven't even opened a FISA yet.
They start to panic.
They realize they're going to have to open up a FISA.
They go back to their insurance policy, which is going to be opening up a FISA on Page, insisting he's been dealing with Russians.
Remember, the FISA doesn't start until October.
They can't say Page has been dealing with Russians, Joe.
Why?
Because Page's dealings with Russians have been at the behest of the US government, whilst Page is working with the CIA.
The FBI manipulates in doctors and email the insurance policy to go get a FISA warrant on Page saying that his contacts with the Russians were not due to the CIA sourcing.
When they were, they manipulate the evidence in a criminal act to spy on Carter Page.
They know now that their original dossier story is falling apart because they're looking into this dossier, which I'm telling you they now have in July.
They said they didn't get till September.
They know it's bunk.
They're probably checking with their CIA counterparts and figuring out everything they base their information on is garbage.
So you may say, well, why go up on a wire then in October?
Because folks, they are insistent that once they get up on a wire, they really believe this collusion hoax, that they're going to find evidence.
Remember, they're manufacturing a crime.
They don't have one, that they're going to find evidence of Trump colluding with the Russians because they still believe this happened.
They still believe this, these idiots.
So they manufacture this case.
McCabe realizes now, Remember, it's September.
Follow me.
He realizes in mid-September that he's going to need an excuse to start this investigation.
So he says, hey, let's go back and use that tip we got back in May.
Because remember, I'm sure they have the Alexander Downer cable.
The cable Alexander Downer that the Australians sent to the Australian embassy is on May 11th, right after the meeting with Papadopoulos.
The FBI insists they didn't get wind of that cable or the Downer Papadopoulos meeting until July.
Folks, that is total BS.
I said to you in the show, was it yesterday or the day before, that the text messages on May 11th between Stroke and Page clearly indicate that something happened that day on May 11th with the State Department and the FBI.
I'm telling you what happened.
They got wind of the cable to the Australian Embassy about the Downer Papadopoulos meeting.
They know about it.
They don't think anything of it right away because it's a BS meeting.
As the dossier falls apart in September and October, somebody comes up with the bright idea, hey, let's go back and say we opened this investigation because of the tip from Australia.
We intercepted in May, but we said we got in July.
Why would you have to say you got it in July?
Because we opened the investigation July 31st.
What convenient timing that would be, right?
We can say we opened it because of this friendly foreign government tip we really got in May.
We'll just say we got it in July.
Someone says, Andy, we got a problem.
If we're going to insist we open the case because of this tip from Australia, not the dossier, Then we're gonna have to pretend we didn't get the Steele dossier till September.
Okay, let's just tell him we got it September 19th.
Andy!
There's another problem!
Andy!
Andy, come on!
Remember that spy who approached us?
All the way back?
All the way back in July?
And gave us information?
That sounds an awful lot like Steele's information.
Remember that?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
We're not gonna have any more dealing with him.
Matter of fact, you're gonna cut him off.
Why would you cut him off?
Because they're covering their tracks.
You're gonna have no more contact with that spy?
Why?
He's providing valuable information about the dossier you used to spy on Page because they're trying to tell you that's not why they're spying on Page.
They're trying to tell you they're doing it because of a downer tip they received in July that started the case in July when they really received it in May.
That was the insurance policy, this whole scheme.
The only time, the only direction Andy McCabe ever gives His agents regarding the use of spies in the campaign is to not talk to a spy they were talking to in late July?
Right around the time, September 19th, when they say they first get Steele's information?
Joe, by your silence, I can sense you're a little confused.
Information overload, dude.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
That's why I need you here.
Paula, what do you think?
A little confusing?
Okay.
Let me walk you through the timeline.
It's a gem.
Remember what we're talking about.
Keep this all in perspective.
This footnote clearly indicates that Horowitz's conclusion that the FBI opened the case because of the downer tip about Papadopoulos.
This footnote destroys that story.
The FBI is interviewed by Horowitz and they clearly indicate That they were investigating in late July information that appears to be steals that they got from a spy.
Maybe a colleague of Steele, whoever it may be.
We don't know who it is yet.
I have my suspicions.
But that's not possible, Joe.
Because Horowitz is telling us that they didn't get the information from Steele until September.
So how the hell are they talking to a spy about what appears to be Steele in July?
Okay.
Does that part make sense?
That makes sense.
Now, it's clear as day they're lying about why they opened this case.
I threw in some extra information, but none of that changed.
The footnote clearly lays out that the FBI was dealing with a source who was likely dealing with Steele that fits all the descriptors in July.
But that's not what they said.
The FBI keeps telling us that they dealt with Steele in September, September 19th.
So September 19th, when they finally make contact, or they say they make contact with Steele, remember what they're trying to do, Joe.
The FBI is trying to develop a cover story about why they started this case because they can't let the public know they started the case because Hillary paid them to.
They need any other reason.
So somebody in mid-September makes contact with Steele about information it appears they've already had the whole time.
This spy, Andy McCabe, says immediately stop talking to this guy.
Why?
Because they've made the decision earlier that they're going to lie to the public and say they didn't get the information until September.
But the spy knows he's been telling them the information since July.
So McCabe's like, don't talk to him anymore.
Or her.
Don't talk to him anymore.
Because we're going to tell the public we started this because of the downer tip.
Okay.
Which we're gonna say we got in July, although it's clear from the text messages, pretty clear, that they probably know about the Downer meeting with Papadopoulos right after it happened.
Right after it happened.
It happens on May 10th.
On May 11th, a cable is sent.
I'm sure the government knows about this because of the way they're texting, the U.S.
government.
That's better.
Yeah.
This was all a hoax.
This whole thing is BS.
The only instruction McCabe gives about the use of spies in the most important counterintelligence scandal in U.S.
history, the only direction is to not use one in September because they don't want this guy's information out there.
They don't want the public to know that they had Steele's stuff probably at the latest in July.
Because they're telling you they got it in September.
And they're telling you they got it in September because they opened the case July 31st.
And therefore, if they opened the case July 31st and they only made contact with Steele in September, it couldn't have been Hillary's information that opened it.
Yes, it had to be the friendly foreign government tip we got from the Australians, which we got in July, which they really got in May.
This footnote.
Is probably, of all the fireworks in this report, this footnote is the most explosive.
This is the M80 blockbuster in here.
Because it debunks Horowitz's own theory that the FBI's telling the truth about why they opened the case.
We opened it because of the government tip.
We didn't have steel stuff till September.
Um, this footnote says you had it clearly.
Right.
Or something that certainly looks like it in July.
Right, right, right.
Okay.
Put up the footnote again one last time before we move on.
Thank you, Dano.
Yeah.
What other company is, if they're not talking about Steele and an FBI agent dealing with a spy talking about Steele's information, then who is a colleague of the spy who runs, this is a quote, who runs an investigative firm?
Hired by two entities, the DNC, as well as another individual who is not named to explore Donald Trump's ties to Russian entities.
Folks, who is that other than Steele or Orbis?
Are you telling me there's another company out there the DNC hired other than Steele that was doing the exact same thing?
Again, that story would be even worse.
There's two companies?
There's not two companies.
This is clearly Steele's company.
It's not possible.
We didn't contact Steele until September.
We didn't open the case because of Steele.
We didn't contact him until after we opened the case.
Yeah.
I'm much more comfortable now, dude.
I gotta take a breather.
Yeah, thank you.
I know, it's complicated.
And I get it how the May 11 thing, if you didn't listen to the show about the downer tip and the May 11 text messages, it may be a little distracting.
Don't get distracted by that.
The simple point is very easy to understand.
The story that the dossier was not the initiator of the case, that it was this tip from the friendly foreign government of Australia, because they don't want you to know Hillary's information that she paid for, started the biggest spying scandal in US history, is total garbage.
And Horowitz's own report, buried in the footnotes, debunks Horowitz's own report and the FBI story.
Paula, how does that sound to you?
You get it?
You sure?
Good.
All right.
All right, let me move on.
Our second spot, I got a lot to get to.
There's more here.
Some devastating stuff.
Got that.
This AOC video is priceless, too.
I want to leave you on a Friday with a smile.
This one's just so pathetic.
It's bad.
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I could be wrong.
There's a lot of great Twitter investigators who may be on it, but footnote 461 absolutely destroys, debunks, and discredits every single thing you've been told by the media.
We didn't have the Steele dossier until September.
Really?
That sounds awfully suspicious.
You were talking to a guy who sounds awfully like a guy who knows Steele in July.
That's crazy, isn't it?
Again, you won't get any of that anywhere else.
I'm actually stunned.
I'm serious.
I'm not kidding.
Because I'd rather not be first.
I'd rather come in and put together and collate the information and give you kind of executive summaries of what's going on because I have an hour.
Amazing.
Amazing footnote.
Okay, moving on.
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The title of the article by Glenn Greenwald is the Inspector General's Report on 2016 FBI Spying, reveals a scandal of historic magnitude, not only for the FBI, but also for the U.S.
media.
Candidly, folks, there are so many gems in here, I can't go through the whole thing, and in the interest of time, because there's a lot more to get to, I want to get to just one.
That I mentioned on Hannity last night or in my appearance, it was a brief one.
But that Greenwald, the way he writes about this specific, scandalous, disgusting piece of information is worth repeating.
Let me get to this quote from the piece.
This is worth your time, folks.
Quote, Glenn Greenwald, in 2017, the FBI decided to seek reauthorization of the FISA warrant To continue to spy on Page and sought and obtained it three times in January, April, and June.
Not only, according to the IG report, did the FBI repeat all of the seven significant inaccuracies and omissions.
So folks, just to be clear on this, The FBI in the original October FISA, they're saying they started because of the Australia tip.
We now know it was because of the dossier.
There were seven major omissions and basically lies.
The GIG calls them, quote, inaccuracies.
Get a load of this, though.
Greenwald.
But the FBI, Joe, added 10 additional major inaccuracies in the additional three renewals.
Wow.
I guess seven lies weren't good enough.
They had to layer 10 more.
Quote, as the IG report puts it, this is a direct quote.
In addition to repeating the seven significant errors contained in the first FISA and outlined above, we identified ten additional significant errors in the three renewals based upon information known to the FBI after the first application and before one or more of the renewals.
What?
You know, there's that Taylor Swift song, is it 16?
Cause when you're 16, we need to change that.
We need a new version.
Cause when you're lying 17 times in a Pfizer test.
That was?
She doesn't like my singing?
Alright, my singing's not that great.
I just repeated it just to annoy her.
I love my wife, but sometimes I like to poke her a little bit.
Well, that probably came out wrong.
I'm talking about humor, you dirty minds out there!
Seven lies, seven lies.
Joe Biden, Matt, seven lies.
And then you add 10 more in.
Because when you're, you need 17 in there.
Joe, the original seven weren't good enough.
The original seven, no good.
We need folks, 10 more, 10 more lies just to make sure we've absolutely firmed up this house of lies.
We need to add in 10 more.
It's like buttressing a roof in Florida so it doesn't come off in a cat five hurricane.
It's not good for a couple cross braces.
Let's get 10 more in there.
Seven aren't good.
Folks, you only need two.
Like my house.
They built this attic.
This house could survive, like, a Category 72 hurricane.
You can't even get in my attic.
There's so many crossbars.
This is it.
So you're buttressing the roof of your FISA lie with seven lies.
Get ten more in there, folks.
We need ten more.
Put that piece up again, because there's another paragraph.
This gets even better.
What did I tell you about the January meeting?
We broke that here, what, six, seven months ago?
They meet with Steele's spy in January, his source, and the source tells him this is all garbage.
All of it.
And they renew it anyway and add ten more lies.
Listen, quote Greenwald, among the most significant new acts of deceit was that the FBI omitted the fact that Steele's primary subsource, this is about the meeting in January I told you about, Who the FBI found credible had made statements in January of 2017, listen to this folks, raising significant questions about the reliability of the allegations included in the FISA applications, including for example, that he did not recall any discussion with person one concerning Wikileaks, Wikileaks bunk.
There was, quote, nothing bad about the communications with the Kremlin and the Trump team.
Wow, that's a doozy.
And that he did not report to Steele in July of 2016 that Page had met with Session.
That's about the bribe, the Rosneft bribe.
The only crime alleged in the dossier.
So Steele's primary source The FBI interviews him in January, says basically the whole dossier is garbage, the whole thing, and they renew it three more times to spy on an innocent American, and they add ten more lies in just in case.
That's right, Dan.
We're gonna lie about it.
We're just gonna lie about it and not worry about a damn thing there, Dan.
I guess so, Cletus.
I guess so, because I don't know what they were thinking.
But, Joe, listen.
Cletus, take a breather here, because Horowitz told us there's no political bias.
So, Cletus, calm down.
Calm down with your Bush League analysis.
There's no political bias here, folks.
None.
No bias, Joe.
Well, we lied about that too, Dan.
I guess so.
Are you suggesting to me if it wasn't bias, it was what?
I mean, Horowitz, listen, man.
Again, I'm not trying to pile on you.
I don't know the guy.
Right.
Can you remove your head from your rectum for two minutes?
What is your suggestion as to why this would happen?
It wasn't bias.
Well, what the hell was it?
An intelligence quotient of 42?
Listen, ladies and gentlemen, I applied to the FBI.
It's difficult to get in there.
These people who were doing this were not dumb.
It may give you some pleasure to say, oh, these people are idiots.
They were not.
But do you understand that story is even worse?
Because if their excuses, well, we're just, well, golly, we're just really stupid.
And Cletus isn't working out either.
No.
Then what's the other explanation?
That they knowingly, willfully, committed potential federal crimes to spy on innocent Americans.
Which, ladies and gentlemen, looks to clearly be the story du jour.
And where's the media on this besides Glenn Greenwald?
Nowhere.
Folks, I'm telling you, this piece is full of gems.
It's not that long, maybe a thousand words.
It is worth your time.
You know, be up in the show notes again.
You can follow us on Twitter at DB show notes.
Um, it's also highlighted at the Bongino report, the conservative alternative to the drudge report at Bongino report.com.
And in the show notes, I really, again, please read it because it is not from a conservative.
In other words, Joe, There is legitimately no political bias in Greenwald's article because he's politically, whatever, biased in the other direction.
He's not a conservative.
Right.
And he's dismantling the Spygate co-conspirators and the media lunatics who supported them.
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Stunningly, I mean, even I'm kind of stunned by this one, Joe.
They are trying the collusion hoax again.
Now, Joe, we didn't talk about this before the show, right?
Someone sent me an email.
This wasn't you, right?
So you don't know what's coming, right?
No, I don't know what's coming at all.
I want to get your genuine reaction because this is just, I mean, the information in this is amazing.
Let me just give you a little background first.
If you haven't picked up my book yet, Exonerated, I would appreciate it if you don't mind.
We put a lot of work into it.
It's called Exonerated, The Failed Takedown of Donald J. Trump by the Swamp.
It's on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, bookstores everywhere.
Exonerated by me, Dan Bongino.
And in the book, we have a bombshell in there that I'm not sure a lot of you are aware of.
Hat tip to Sarah Carter and other journalists who'd covered it in the past, John Solomon and others.
Ladies and gentlemen, the whole So-and-so colluded with the Russians.
You may say to yourself, oh yeah, that started with Donald Trump, right?
The liberals said, oh, Trump colluded with the Russians.
No, that did not start with Donald Trump.
Folks, they tried this before.
They tried it on John McCain.
My book lays out stunning information about how this McCain colluded with the Russians.
It's all been tried before.
Now it got shut down because George W. Bush was the president while John McCain was running against Barack Obama, and Bush didn't allow the CIA to be weaponized to advance this hoax.
Right.
Remember covering this.
In detail.
Yeah.
They're actually trying this thing again after they just got nailed to the wall by the IG report.
Lies, omissions, bogus subsources, fake information, 17 lies over four applications to spy on innocent Americans.
So last night there was a huge, huge upset in the United Kingdom.
I don't want to say upset in that Boris Johnson won and the conservatives over there.
But Boris Johnson won and won.
They won seats in parliament far past what anybody expected.
They're not really like hard conservatives, but they're supposed to be conservatives.
You get the point.
You're never going to believe this article that appears.
Look at this in The Guardian.
Again, I hate to put this in the show notes, but you're never going to believe this.
This is an actual, this is not The Onion.
Look at these two dipshits.
Glenn Simpson and Peter Frisch wrote this article.
Who are those two?
The guys, the Fusion GPS guys, the fake Hoax.ca guys.
This is a real article.
If you're watching on YouTube, youtube.com slash Bongino, you can read ahead.
The Guardian.
Britain needs its own Mueller report on Russian interference.
Glenn Simpson and Peter Frisch!
This is real!
This is a real piece!
Paula, put up the screenshot, but this is not a joke.
These two numbskulls who just got nailed to the wall with Fusion GPS for a bogus dossier that created the biggest political spying scandal in American history on a fake, blank colluded with the Russians, in this case Trump, that they tried before on McCain and others, are the day after the UK election are trying it again.
Look at this from the piece.
This is unbelievable.
This is unreal.
I cannot believe we are living in bizarro Superman world right now.
Quote, Glenn Simpson, Peter Frisch.
The British political system has become thoroughly compromised by Russian influence.
Get this off the screen.
I'm not even reading anymore.
I'm not even reading anymore.
The Guardian actually published these two numbnuts.
Who have just been nailed to the wall for major league fabrications of the highest order?
The Guardian publishes the same collusion hoax again?
I swear on my life, this is not fake.
That is a real article.
How is the entire globe in unison not laughing at the same time at The Guardian for publishing these two zero credibility numbskulls on the same collusion hoax again for the third time?
Read my book for the first time and the second time.
Now you can add this.
Number three.
Maybe I'll have to do a third book on this Spygate thing.
I can't believe it.
I really... Read the article!
It's hysterical.
It's the same stuff again.
Conflating Russian efforts to interfere in foreign countries' elections.
Folks, which for the... Joe, 50th, 60th time on the show?
Happens every election.
Point stipulated.
Russians don't like us.
They interfere every time.
They are not our friends.
P-E-R-I-O-D.
F-U-L-L-S-T-O-P.
Period.
Nobody is questioning that.
But now you're going back again to inferring that conservatives, in this case Boris Johnson, not Trump, Is that one you already got humiliated on?
You're going back to the well for the third time?
Oh my gosh.
And the media will suck this up again.
Folks, they are legitimately that stupid.
All right.
A lot more to get to.
Stack show.
Loaded.
Call me the Snake strikes again.
Again, Comey, this guy, I mean, as if it can't get any worse.
Check out the story at the Washington Examiner.
Again, in the show notes today, please read it.
Look at this absolute snake.
Jerry Dunleavy does great work at the Washington Examiner.
Bill Barr.
Comey's refusal to reinstate his security clearance is creating a problem in the FISA investigation.
Of course, because Jim Comey's whole tenure at the FBI was a problem.
And his whole, really, Jim Comey's dedicated his life now to creating problems for the U.S.
government.
What is this about?
The Attorney General clearly wants to question Jim Comey regarding his activities in this major scandal.
Why did the FBI lie seven times, layer ten more lies on to spy on an innocent American when they knew the case was bunk because the FBI in January interviewed steel sources who said the case was bunk?
Well, what's the problem?
Well, they want to interview Comey, Joe.
Well, in order to interview Comey, they have to show him classified information.
Right.
In order to show him classified information, they have to reinstate a security clearance.
Snake Jim Comey, Sleazy Jim, has said, because he knows how to weasel his way out of everything, Jim Comey, because he's clever.
He's malicious, he's engaged in malfeasance, but he's clever.
Jim said, no, no, I don't want my security clearance.
No, no, Jim, we need you because we have to show you this information.
Because if we show you the information, then we can question you about what your decisions were.
No, I'm not interested.
Snake.
But Joe, again, Joe, this guy's the pinnacle of ethics and honesty.
Just ask him.
If he did, as he insists, sleazy Jim Comey, that he's done nothing wrong, as Sean Hannity calls him, the super patriot.
And he's Captain Ethics, Joe.
Then why not just reinstate your security clearance and look at your decision-making and justify it?
Why not?
Ladies and gentlemen, you all know the answer because Comey's a sleaze and he knows what he did was wrong.
And he's doing what he always does.
Ducks and runs for cover because he's a total coward.
A coward.
A coward.
Yes, I called you that, Jim.
He's blocked me on Twitter, so he won't see that.
He did.
I'm not kidding.
He blocked me.
Really, Jim and I don't get along.
No.
Now, showing you how bad, yes, shocker.
This is all God.
John Solomon is a piece of, again, show notes today, really worth your time.
Shockingly, folks, well, probably not to you, there's been no discipline for the people involved in this at all.
John Solomon, Scott Free, FBI declares it has no records of discipline against lawyers in the Russia FISA case.
Oh, jeez.
You wonder why I lose faith in this sometimes?
I am, all I can tell you is I am praying.
No, I'm not kidding.
For the sake of the Constitutional Republic, that Bill Barr and Durham are really going to bring justice to these people because what's happened so far is an utter disgrace.
There's been no discipline for the lawyers?
Who signed off on FISA warrants containing 17 lies, omissions, and based on a dossier they knew was false that they said didn't start the investigation but they're clearly lying about because it did?
Because they knew about it in July when they said they heard about it in September?
No, we started it because of Downer!
You did?
Really?
Then why'd you get the information in July about the dossier and say you got it in September?
I don't know, golly!
Well, again, big election in the UK last night.
Just briefly, I know it's an important story, but there's so much going on here.
Boris Johnson won.
Just a quick note on that.
It's a story up in the Washington Times.
It'll be in the show notes today as well.
They won a ton of seats in Parliament.
Ladies and gentlemen, I think a clear data point takeaway from the election victory last night is, listen, this has been a total rejection of globalism.
The global bureaucracy, ladies and gentlemen, has failed.
That I think is indicated and pointed to the election of Donald Trump.
It has also led to the election of Boris Johnson.
People are fed up.
They're entirely fed up with the global bureaucracy.
These bureaucrats are complete idiots and this entire FBI spygate story I think just reaffirms what's happening all over the globe where people are tiring of this.
Why do I say the Johnson election?
And I'm not trying to get too deep into UK politics.
Was about that because what did Johnson run on, Joe?
He ran on Brexit.
Getting the hell away from the European Union.
People are fed up with the European Union and global bureaucracies.
It's as simple as that.
Make America great again was Trump's logo.
Was it make the European Union great again?
And Boris Johnson ran on the same general tenor.
And that's how we won.
Alright.
A lot more to get to.
Impeachment.
Big news.
Just passed it out of committee before.
2317 vote.
The fake hoax impeachment.
Folks, this is blowing up in their face.
Look at this piece by Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner.
52% of Americans say don't impeach Trump after the hearings.
So they present their case one-sided because the Democrats run the House.
You would think they'd move the numbers on impeachment.
Yeah, we got to get rid of this guy.
We heard Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler's best case.
Yeah, they moved the numbers in the wrong direction.
A pretty strong majority of Americans now say don't impeach.
This is working out well.
And why are they not interested in impeaching President Trump?
Probably because the economy's doing great and he's doing a great job.
But other than that, the committee's being led by complete buffoons.
One of them who thought the island of Guam was going to sink under pressure.
Remember him, Representative Hank Johnson?
Well, if we put the ships on, is the island going to sink?
That was a real YouTube video.
You can look at it yourself.
I don't have time for it today.
But here's a video of Hank Johnson.
Guam is going to sink Hank Johnson, Democrat, who is really upset that President Trump, in his meeting with the Ukrainian President Zelensky, that President Trump is too tall and had a bigger chair.
Folks, I'm not messing with you.
Hank Johnson brought this up in an impeachment.
He's really upset that President Trump's chair was bigger.
Watch this complete idiocy.
Check this out.
My colleague from Georgia talks about how Democrats are trying to make President Zelensky look weak.
Well, I tell you, that brings to mind the picture of President Trump and President Zelensky meeting in New York in September at the UN.
And a big chair for President Trump.
Little chair for President Zelensky.
Big, 6'4", President Trump.
5'11", Mr. Zelensky, President Zelensky.
Don, too tall, Trump.
Folks, this is really happening.
This is not a joke.
Again, like the Guardian story about new collusion.
None of this is a joke.
No.
This is really happening.
Hank Johnson, concerned about Guam sinking, is also apparently concerned about Zelensky sinking in his chair in a meeting with Donald Trump because Trump is too tall for him.
This is real.
This really happened.
Now you wonder why, as the Daily Mail points out in another piece you'll see in the show notes, the Democrats are now concerned about mass defections on their side and the impeachment vote.
Remember, it just was voted out of committee today.
Still got to go to the full House floor where they need a simple majority.
Daily Mail.
Democrats admit they expect more defections from vulnerable House Democrats who will vote against impeaching Donald Trump.
Folks, this will be the first impeachment in American history.
It's bipartisan.
Bipartisan?
It is?
Yes.
Against the impeachment.
They will get no Republicans.
Zero.
And as I predicted on Fox & Friends in my studio hit yesterday on the show, I'm trying to get away from political predictions, but I'm reasonably comfortable telling you they had two defections on the initial motion to proceed with impeachment.
Two Democrats who said no.
No Republicans agreed to do it.
Bipartisan against moving on impeachment.
The actual impeachment floor vote?
I'm predicting between five, maybe ten, possibly more defections on the Democrat side, but no Republicans.
Ladies and gentlemen, this will be a tragic faceplant for the Democrats in the face of history.
This will be a colossal embarrassment.
That's why 52 percent is the good news.
This impeachment is like a fundraising effort for the Donald Trump 2020 re-election campaign.
All right, my final story of the day is just funny.
Yeah, it's really good.
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Again, just when you think you've seen the dumbest AOC video, here's AOC talking about a parental leave policy where she compares, this is not a joke, again, this is not The Onion.
The title of today's show should be Not The Onion, The Guardian, Hank Johnson, and this clip.
This is AOC comparing the family leave policies for human beings with her suggested family leave policies for dogs.
Canines!
You're like, come on, dude, this is stupid.
No, no, no, this is not doctored.
Hat Tip Heritage Foundation for this video, by the way, Romina Boccia.
AOC concerned about family leave policies for dogs that just had puppies.
Check this out.
Okay, do you believe employers should offer health care to every employee that they have?
I think that as part of a benefits package, they should determine what is the best way and what do the workers want.
Okay, so no, you don't believe it should be uniformly offered?
I think it should be what workers want and what employers prefer.
Okay, so the answer is no.
So, and similarly, your view on parental leave is to let the market decide.
Do we know how long Puppies are allowed to stay with their mothers after a dog has given birth?
I don't.
Eight weeks.
Wow.
So the market has decided that women and people who give birth deserve less time with their children than a dog.
And I think that that, at its core, has shown that the market has failed to treat people with dignity and with basic respect.
And so when that happens, I think it's our job as the public to redefine the rules of society and to treat
people who give birth with the dignity that they deserve. Thank you very much.
What?
What what just happened did I do?
Folks, listen to me.
That was not... Joe, you did not mess with that, right?
That's real?
Just to be clear, because you know the Washington Post, Joe.
Democracy dies in the darkness.
You did not doctor that, right?
That's a full thought?
Oh, well, folks, AOC is, that's a real, she's concerned about, one, I didn't know there was an eight week puppy mama dog family leave.
I'd never heard of that policy.
I'm sure.
Is that, is that official policy?
Like, is that a, is that a, is that a global eight week Doggy leave policy?
I mean, do they get a check?
Is it a direct deposit?
Like an ACH kind of thing?
I mean, how does the dog spend the money?
Is it a credit card?
Like a SNAP benefits card?
How does he get the family there?
Does she get the family leave mama doggy?
I mean, what's the penalty?
If the puppy's taken away in violation of the eight-week family leave doggy policy, AOC seems to be well informed about.
What happens?
Is there jail time for the doggy police?
Do you go to doggy jail?
Does the ASPCA come lock you up?
I mean, what happens?
Is there a fine for the doggy mama, the doggy dad?
Because, you know, I know people, a lot of people who took puppies after two or three weeks.
Is the FBI opening a Spygate investigation now?
Is Fusion GPS coming in alleging doggy Russian collusion?
I mean, what happens?
Who's going to get involved here?
Is it the DEA or another federal agency?
Who has oversight over the doggy leave AOC policy exactly?
Because I've never heard this policy.
The eight-week doggy family leave policy.
I mean, is it a contract that they put their paw down?
Like, Stan, put your paw here.
Do they like, do you snip their claws so they can put a little thing between their bed and they go, Sign an ex-doggy?
Do they sign their dog name?
Is it the dog last name?
Like, if you have a dog like we have, like Baby, is it Baby Bongino?
I mean, what the hell just happened?
That's a real thing!
This is your new scion of the Democrat Party.
This is your savior.
Captain 8 Weeks of Doggy Leave.
The same one who took a victory lap for booting 25,000 jobs out of New York City and then took a victory lap when 1,000 came in.
1,000?
25,000?
Nice job.
You Democrats really pick winners there.
Well done.
Oh my gosh.
All right, folks.
I appreciate you tuning in.
Please subscribe to our YouTube channel, youtube.com slash Bongino, and pick up my new book, Exonerated, for the holidays.
Find out about this collusion hoax being tried before.
It's going to give you a lot of ammunition to argue against your friends that these swamp people have tried this before.
This is nothing new.
It's all a hoax, folks.
Thanks again.
I'll see you all on Monday.
And by the way, Special interview coming later today.
We have Candace Owens scheduled.
We're hoping to launch it this weekend.
So keep your eye out for an interview with Candace Owens.
You're going to love it.
And I've got a monster special guest to announce next week.
