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Alright, um, not a good night for Bernie Sanders last night.
Pretty much got smoked.
In the three primaries we had last night, Arizona, Illinois, and Florida.
I got that.
Got an update on the Mueller story I was talking about yesterday.
Got a fake news update.
And I also have an update about the media useful idiots in this country desperately pumping Chinese propaganda.
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Fine, sir.
Hey man, I'm doing pretty good being a good citizen and watching the world go by from indoors.
Yeah.
I think we're going to get, I know, it is getting a little cabin fever.
Ready to start seeing those two red rum girls from The Shining.
You know, red rum.
I mean, I'm about five minutes from that.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Having said that, the show prep has never gone easier because I have all this time to prepare my shows.
All right.
A lot of material to get out there today.
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And away we go!
Away we go.
Is right.
Is right.
So, as we can see last night, an awful night for Bernie Sanders.
Listen, I'm really, I'm trying my hardest.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
I am in the political prognostication and punditry game, obviously, of being a host on a political show and being a contributor on a cable news channel that deals often with politics.
I thought Bernie Sanders Was gonna be a mathematical certainty if Bloomberg stayed out of the race.
Bloomberg got out, now the tides have turned.
I don't know what's ahead for Bernie, but Bernie's in a lot of trouble.
He lost last night in Arizona, Illinois, and Florida.
Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know what Bernie was thinking, but Florida, where I live, in South Florida specifically, which has a heavy population of Venezuelan and Cuban residents, Who have unfortunately lived the ravages of socialism in their lives before many of them came here or their parents and who know directly the impact and horrors and the evils of socialism.
Why?
Praising Fidel Castro's literacy programs.
How Bernie thought that was going to be a tactical success says one of two things.
One, either Bernie is so ideologically aligned with communism and socialism that he can't in his heart break from his love affair with it and therefore is at least not authentic but is a believer, so to say.
He's not authentic because he's a millionaire, he's a fake, he's a fraud, but he's a believer.
You know, socialism always makes the government and the powerful rich and the working class poor anyway.
Or number two, he is quite simply the dumbest politician in American history.
That in the country's biggest swing state, Florida, where people have been victims of socialism and Castro, he thought praising Castro's fake literacy programs was going to be a political winner.
It's only one of those two.
Either he's such an ideologue he can't divorce himself from it, or he's so stupid he couldn't figure it out.
There is no option three.
He got crushed in Florida last night.
Crushed.
Annihilated.
Now, who won?
Sleepy Joe, who, I know, I know, you've already seen the video.
Joe's laughing because Joe gets to preview the videos I pick before the show.
Right?
So we know the same, there's nothing new after last night.
We know, number one, Bernie's still a communist.
And number two, Joe Biden still doesn't know where he is.
You doubt me?
This is Joe Biden giving a victory speech remotely.
It was covered on ABC News, C-SPAN, and elsewhere.
For those of you listening on the audio only and on KABC radio, you can listen too.
I'll paint some of the visuals for you at the end.
He ends the speech and in these dead spots, it's Biden at the podium.
I don't know what he's waiting for.
There's no crowd.
It's a remote speech because he doesn't want crowds around.
Is he confused where he is?
What is he, is he waiting for a round of applause?
And his wife Jill Biden comes and rescues him.
So listen to this, and these uncomfortable silences here are not Joe edits.
There's no cricket edits.
We put little crickets in there to be funny.
This really is Joe waiting for some round of applause from a crowd that isn't there.
Play this cut.
Thank you all.
Thank you all for listening.
Oh.
Thanks. Thanks. Thanks.
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Okay.
Okay, okay. Oh, I'm sorry. I- I know it's a serious time.
I can't do it.
I cannot do 24-hour Corona.
I can't do it.
I'm not doing it.
It's driving everybody crazy.
There are other things going on we're going to talk about.
I'm not doing 24-hour Corona.
I'm not.
I'll get to that later.
I'm not doing it.
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What was that?
Folks, listen, I get it.
We will always be an audio show first.
Always.
Spoken word was how we started.
It's how we will finish.
But please, if you've ever had the impetus to go to our YouTube, youtube.com slash Bongino, just watch that.
Because I know the audio, you're like, what's going on?
Exactly.
He doesn't know what's going on.
He's at the podium.
He's looking like... Then he doesn't leave.
His wife comes and gets him, and he still doesn't leave.
Like, he's not sure what he should do.
Like, he's waiting for the showtime at the Apollo guy.
You know, the guy that takes you off the stage?
He doesn't know what to do.
I mean, you would think, Joe.
You would end the speech and say, thank you, have a good night.
I mean, this isn't hard.
I've ran for office.
Joe didn't.
Joe's a very smart guy.
Joe would be like, if we were giving a press conference about the growth of the Dan Bongino Show, Joe would say, thank you very much for your loyalty to this show.
We appreciate it.
We'll see you all next week.
You know what?
I got it.
Paula, remind me.
Joe, you too.
At the end of the show today.
Yes.
Stay tuned to the end, folks.
We are going to do an uncomfortable ending, just like Joe Biden.
Don't let me forget this!
Uncomfortable ending!
We are going to do a Joe Biden uncomfortable ending.
Let me preview it.
It's going to go like this.
Thank you for tuning in.
Dan?
It's the end.
It's the end of the show.
Joe's going to come and rescue me!
Joe's going to give me verbal cues the show's over, and Paula's going to come and rescue me.
Stay tuned to the end.
Don't let me forget the uncomfortable ending.
That's how we're going to wrap this.
I just thought of that.
Drew, cut that up for its own separate uncomfortable ending.
YouTube, we have a YouTube clips channel too for our show.
This is going to be great.
All right.
We got some serious stuff to get through too.
I'm sorry.
I'm not doing 24 hour crime.
I'm just not doing it.
I can't say it enough.
I'm not doing it.
I'm Corona'd out.
It's serious.
I get it.
There is nothing 24-hour.
We're all doing what we need to do.
We're social distanced.
We're all getting cabin fever.
The red rum girls are appearing everywhere.
Good.
Trump's doing what he can.
I'm not going to make you miserable all day.
There is other news, too.
I'll get to, again, the corona stuff in a minute.
But PJ Media has a great recap of the Bob Mueller fiasco that happened yesterday that, again, has been entirely lost in the tidal wave of coronavirus stories.
Victoria Taft at the great PJ Media.
Story will be in the show notes.
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Headline.
First, no collusion.
Now, no actual Russians in Mueller's disastrous Russian collusion illusion.
Folks, as you know, I covered yesterday.
Golly!
That's right.
People love it.
We did a lot of those yesterday because the law enforcement haplessness in this and the corresponding poor investigative work done by the legal team by Mueller is unbelievably bad.
I mean, historically bad.
I covered a little bit yesterday.
I don't want to repeat the whole thing, but there's some highlights in here and some updates in the PJ Media story you need to know.
What happened in a nutshell?
Headline, Mueller's team prosecuted this Russian troll farm that was being run by this company called Concord Management.
The only reason Mueller prosecuted this Russian troll farm in conjunction with the hapless Rod Rosenstein, I got video of him in a moment too, was to make it appear And keep the Russian collusion storyline alive despite the fact that there is no allegation anywhere in this indictment anywhere, because it didn't happen, that this Russian troll farm that was sending Facebook memes had anything to do with the Trump team.
Forgive me if I'm over explaining this a little bit, but we have some of our audience is a little older, some are younger, some are more hip and savvy.
I just want you to understand what this Russian troll farm was doing.
They're not our friends.
These are not our buddies.
I'm not celebrating anything they did.
I'm not happy for them.
They really did try to mess with us.
They put out Facebook memes, memes like, um, images with text on it meant to say something funny or something stupid or a political message.
And they were clearly doing it to mess with us.
I just want to be sure because I watched some emails, people were confused about what they were doing.
Sending out fake Facebook memes or memes with messaging that they thought would mess with people.
These guys, they're not heroes, okay?
That's not the question.
A lot of people aren't heroes.
The question is, was it in the interest of the U.S.
government to try and fabricate a crime they committed when it's clear now the U.S.
government knew they committed no crime?
Now the question becomes about the prosecution led by the Mueller team against this troll farm that was doing social media.
Why would they prosecute a case they knew from the beginning was a dog?
A dog.
Remember that Batman movie with Christian Bale when he comes up with the mobster?
And he begged.
Like a dog.
Like a dog.
Remember that?
Yeah.
This case was a dog.
So why'd they do it?
Well, we described some of it yesterday, but again, well done on this piece.
Check this out.
Let's go to takeaway number one from this PJ Media piece by Ms.
Taft there.
The charges against the three Russian bot farms and 13 individuals in Mueller's so-called Russian collusion case were dropped, this is important, with prejudice on Monday.
But the conclusion of the case was never in doubt.
Thank you to the gentleman who emailed me, by the way.
And I failed to bring up the legal distinction.
The case was dropped with prejudice.
That doesn't mean that the judge was a racist.
It doesn't mean the prosecution was engaging in identity politics.
It's a legal term.
Meaning it's gone.
In the simplest legal terms possible.
For good.
They will not be bringing it back.
Without prejudice, maybe without prejudice and forgive me, I'm not a lawyer, but my experience haven't worked on the investigative side.
You get a witness who dies, you know, you may have to drop the case without prejudice, may bring it up later.
This was dropped because they had nothing with prejudice, meaning Joe, it's gone.
Good night.
See you later.
They had nothing ever, ever.
These were not our friends.
These are not our buddies.
These are not some free speech heroes, this Russian troll farm.
That's not the question.
The question is, they commit a crime.
And even the government right now, under the Mueller team, has had to acknowledge, eh, probably not.
You know why they prosecute.
I'll get to it at the end.
When I play the Rosenstein clip, you'll understand.
Your fingers bouncing everywhere.
You'll understand.
It's an Italian thing.
You'll see exactly why.
They prosecuted a case and dumped it with prejudice.
Meaning, goodbye, have a good day, we won't be prosecuting this again.
Of course you won't, you had nothing.
Let's go to takeaway number two.
Well, why did they prosecute it if, as Andy McCarthy, a former prosecutor, who we've had some disagreements over the last few days on Twitter, but he's still a friend and a very astute legal mind.
Andy McCarthy wrote in a National Review piece not that long ago, you never ever indict a case, you're not willing to take the trial.
So if I just told you they never had anything, the case was dropped with prejudice, meaning they're not going to get anything and they don't anticipate any evidence in the future.
They have nothing.
They never had anything.
Why did they bring this case in the first place?
Well, obviously it was because they needed a Russian.
Like I said yesterday, they had to arrest the Russian to keep the collusion hoax alive.
But why this case if they knew they were going to lose?
Well, when we see takeaway number two from the PJ Media piece, it all begins to make sense.
When Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein announced the Mueller team's much-ballyhooed charges in February of 2018, and more on that in a minute, he knew they'd never have to prove the charges because the bot farm operators, one of whom was Vladimir Putin's acquaintance, by the way, would never show up in court.
Nor could they be compelled to be, thus giving Mueller a paper Russian prosecution.
You get it?
Yeah.
You dig?
Yeah, baby.
Again, there's other news going on right now.
Mueller knew, or thought he knew, along with his hapless legal team of hacks, Andy Weissman, Jeannie Rhee, and others, they said, ah, they're over in Russia.
They're not going to show up for this trial.
This is great, Joe.
We get to prosecute them, indict them, put out some warrants.
We don't have to worry about anything.
We get a big presser.
Oh, oh, oh!
Big presser.
Do a big press event.
I got that video.
Still teasing it.
Rosenstein.
We get a big presser about how we got them Russians.
And it all just goes away.
Don't worry, they'll never show up.
Well, that's not what happened.
The Russians, again, not our friends.
Not our friends.
But they hired a high-priced lawyer.
Everybody's entitled to legal protection.
We are still the United States.
Even Russians in the United States are entitled, if you're going to charge them in our legal system, to legal protection.
Shocking to many on the left who love the police state.
The Russians did what anyone would do charged with a crime.
They hired a pretty decent lawyer.
Who said, nah, we're going to fight this thing.
And all of a sudden Mueller was like, what, what, what, what?
Mueller looked like Joe Biden in that speech right there.
He didn't know what to do.
They never had a case.
Now you're going to fight it in court and I got to prove I don't have a case?
How's that going to work?
You ever wonder what I'm looking at, by the way?
I have a TV over there and I have a screen over here with a timer.
If you ever wonder in the show, we like to break the floor.
That's what I'm doing.
I'm sorry.
It's not like I have a, you know, some eye connecting problems where I can't connect with the audience.
I'm always just checking stuff out.
I got to kind of stay active all the time.
Just FYI, in case you wanted to know that.
Showing you again how awful this case was from the start.
Let's look at this tweet from Robert Barnes, who is a lawyer.
This is embedded in the PJ Media piece as well.
He says, this is incredible, the only quote, the only case Mueller brought to prove Russian interference, talking about this case, with any defense is now being dismissed by DOJ because prosecutors knew they couldn't win a trial.
He says, repeat.
The DOJ could not find a single case they could successfully prosecute to prove any act of quote, Russian interference.
Ladies and gents, this case was a dog from the beginning.
So what was it all about?
Well, let me play this video from 2018 of Rod Rosenstein.
Remember this breaking news, all the cable news channels broke in?
This was the only purpose back in 2018 of trying this case.
They knew they had nothing on.
Check this out.
Good afternoon.
A grand jury in the District of Columbia today returned an indictment presented by the special counsel's office.
The indictment charges 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies for committing federal crimes while seeking to interfere That was it!
Yep.
That was the only purpose of that indictment.
The purpose of the indictment was not justice, was not to bring to justice Vladimir Putin's troll farm operators.
Ladies and gentlemen, they spent $100,000 on Facebook.
They screw with us, no doubt.
This is what we're wasting millions of dollars of our law enforcement assets on?
Michael Bloomberg just spent a half a billion dollars and got crushed.
Won one delegate in American Samoa.
He could be the governor of American Samoa right now for a half a billion dollars.
You're telling me $100,000 in Facebook ads by a bunch of Russian miscreants trying to create some chaos.
Was worth, what, three years of collusion narratives with the hack mainstream media?
Millions of dollars in taxpayer money?
A humiliating court case where we just got wrecked by the Russians?
You know, I took a little note here.
I want to make sure I got this out before I go on to my next story.
And I'm sorry to have to say this.
And we should be covering this the right way.
Again, these people who did this are not our friends.
It was really messed up.
I mean, I don't know any other way to say it.
Why foreign, you know, we listen, I'm sure we do it too, but I'm not, there's no moral relativism here.
These are totalitarian states.
Paying money, $100,000, not a lot of money, but money in any way just to screw with us during elections.
It's not, it's not, there's nothing funny about it.
Nobody should be celebrating these Russians.
I see a lot of commentary out there where, you know, people think, oh, look, they really nailed it.
No, no, that's not what any of this is about.
I say that because Putin's laughing at us right now.
And you know who gave him the opportunity?
You know who gave him the stage?
Mueller.
Played right into his hands, ladies and gentlemen.
And I'm really deeply sorry to have to tell you that.
Bob Mueller and his team got played for morons.
Why?
As I said, they thought they were gonna have this presser embarrass the Russians.
Look, we got you guys for your troll farm.
Collusion!
Wink, wink, nod, nod.
Even though it doesn't allege any collusion, they knew they'd keep the Russia hoax alive.
What did Putin do?
Putin said, wait, you're dumb enough to indict this company with my guy here, one of my guys running it?
Knowing I can take advantage of your legal system to engage in discovery where I can get a hold of the evidence myself?
I'll take that.
Remember Robocop?
I'll take that for a dollar.
I'll take that.
To which the Mueller team panicked.
Wait, wait, we can't give Putin evidence of this case.
You didn't anticipate that?
You were the director of the FBI.
You didn't anticipate that Putin was going to checkmate you?
He played us for fools.
The Russians played us for suckers.
And Mueller played right into the game by allowing this ridiculous indictment to move forward.
It's really astounding that all these great legal minds with their quotes, Andy Weissman, Jeannie Rhee, and Bob Mueller did not anticipate even one step ahead of what was going to happen.
Embarrassing.
Embarrassing.
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All right, so getting back to some corona coverage.
Again, we're not doing 24-7 corona.
You want that, you can go anywhere else.
But there are some important stories out there, because as I've said to you repeatedly over the last few days, and I'll say to you again now, the coronavirus story is not just a story about a virus.
The ramifications on our liberty, on our economy, On everything from the Second Amendment down are dramatic.
Yeah, daddy.
Second Amendment, what do you mean?
Look at this.
I saw this on Twitter from the Philadelphia Police Department.
Folks, this is really scary stuff.
This was a, I guess a memo that went out somewhere from Philly's PD.
It's hard to read, but the gist of it is this, that effective on Tuesday, March 17th, 2020, That they're not going to be basically incarcerated.
They're going to be given the equivalent of, like, desk appearance tickets to people engaged in some of these crimes here.
Auto theft, burglary, vandalism, stolen auto, because they don't want people, I guess, in close quarters in these jails, which is a serious problem.
I mean, just because you've been arrested doesn't mean if there's a corona outbreak, you should be sentenced to, you know, infection as well.
Having said that, ladies and gentlemen, there has to be a better way than this.
Now, without dwelling too much on this specific story about the Philly PD, because I'm seeing this in a number of different places now as well, now do you understand why we mock and laugh at liberals who constantly mock and laugh at us when we want to exercise our big R God-given right to self-protection of ourself and our families?
Folks, if you can't rely on the cops, by no fault of the police officers themselves, I'm not indicting the individual.
This is clearly a leadership management decision here.
If you can't rely on them, what, are you going to wish the bad guys away?
You know, if I may, for the point of personal privilege, where am I trying not to take too many of these, but...
During an interview I did at WBAL, what used to be Joe's competitor station with a host over there, C4, was a good guy, Clarence Mitchell IV, a good man, still on the air now, Joe knows him.
He's a pretty popular guy over in the Baltimore area, a very reasonable Democrat.
We had a debate on the air about firearms, and it was after one of these attacks, these mass shooting events.
And of course, it was a draconian response to it by the left.
We need to get everybody's guns, even the good guys.
And I brought up a very simple point to him, because I had had my house burglarized not long before that.
And I said to him, if I were to come down, it was burglarized when I was home, but I didn't see anything.
They left before I got up.
But I was a Secret Service agent at the time, or if not, no, I wasn't.
But I still had my gun.
I still had my firearms, obviously.
Yeah, I had left the Secret Service.
I'm sorry.
Precision matters.
But I had my firearms, obviously.
And I remember saying to the host, if I were to come down the stairs and confront them and they had the weapon, what do you—serious question—what do you do?
You think you're going to talk them out of violence, or you're going to negotiate with them?
Negotiate from what?
You're at no point of strength.
Firearms are the great equalizer for law-abiding, patriotic Americans who aren't—don't have Captain America, Incredible Hulk-like superpowers.
That only exists in Marvel comics.
And I believe, at least, based on the debate and what we talked about off the air, that that changed his mind a little bit.
Not that he's a Second Amendment advocate to this day, but I remember him clearly saying to me, that's an interesting point.
Like, we make this about larger, air quotes, collective issues.
But when you bring it down to the individual, the granularity of it, when you, and you make it about individual decisions, what are you going to do if confronted in a situation in a big city in America where they tell the cops, listen, we're not incarcerating these people anymore.
Basically criminals are roaming free.
What are you going to do?
It's a serious question.
Oh, I'm going to rely on the cops.
No, no, we've just eliminated that possibility.
Now what do you do?
Well, I'm a liberal.
They're not going to attack me.
I'll talk them out of it.
I'll do some, you know, verbal massaging of the situation.
Good luck with that.
I won't be.
It's one of the reasons I own firearms.
I safely and proficiently own firearms and I practice with them.
It's also the reason ammunition and firearms are flying off shells right now and I'll bet
some of them are being bought by liberals who publicly advocate for you not to be able to
Because they're hypocrites and they're frauds.
No doubt.
I just want to make one more point on this, because I was a police officer and a federal agent at one point.
I've seen it from the federal and the local side.
Ladies and gentlemen, liberals are under the misperception often that the police department is your personal security force.
Oh, they're there to protect us.
They are not there to protect you.
That is a myth.
Please stop perpetrating that myth.
Police departments everywhere, sheriff's departments from localities to municipalities, to big cities, to state police departments are not your personal protection force.
They are there to enforce laws.
You may say that doesn't sound right.
I can prove it to you.
If you were to walk into the police department stupidly tomorrow and say, I demand the police officer be kept outside my house for personal protection.
They're my protection force.
They would look at you and be like, huh?
What are you talking about?
Why?
I thought you said they're your personal protection force.
You just requested your right to a personal protection force.
Of course they're not.
They're going to laugh at you.
They are not there for that.
They are general enforcers of the law and the penal code.
And some civil violations.
They are not your personal protection force.
You know who is?
You.
Don't forget that.
Don't get confused.
Because if this gets worse, you're gonna see more of this.
Refusing to, you know, incarcerate and take off the streets criminals, even for more serious crimes, potentially.
Not good, ladies and gentlemen.
Not good.
All right, here's your daily, sadly, but you need it.
We all need it.
It's the syrup of Ipecac.
We all need to be taken right now.
Here's your daily fake news update in the midst of a national emergency.
Sad we have to do this, but again, if you're not watching this show, you're getting tidal waves of garbage information from the media that even during a national emergency does not take a break from fake news.
So, what do we got today?
Our latest entrant?
Great piece by the great Margot Cleveland at The Federalist debunking another persistent myth we've been hearing in the media, who doesn't bother to fact-check anything anymore.
Be in the show notes, worth your time.
Headline Federalist, Joe Biden lies about coronavirus testing to make Trump look bad.
At Sunday night's debate, Biden blatantly lied to the American public about the Trump administration's handling of coronavirus testing.
What happened, ladies and gentlemen?
Joe Biden at the debate repeated a false, patently false assertion, again totally made up, fake news, that Donald Trump was offered at his administration, they were offered the testing kits they had available, and they were going to give them to us now, Biden proclaimed.
The WHO, Joe.
The WHO had them.
And we refused it, Biden said.
We didn't want to buy those WHO kits, the Democrat frontrunner claimed.
So again, just putting out there, Biden, the now nominee who doesn't know when to leave the stage unless he's rescued by someone, apparently, at the end of a speech.
Joe Biden... Sorry, I can't get over it.
That video is just ridiculous.
Biden has claimed, falsely, a claim, again, repeated by many in the media, that the World Health Organization offered the Trump administration testing kits early.
And we turned them down.
What a scandal.
You saw the quote right there.
Yeah.
It's in the Federalist piece.
That's right.
Well, let's go to reality, which of course is never what the media tells you.
So the misunderstanding was corrected, noting that it was not the WHO that did this, but actually a company in Germany that developed a COVID-19 test.
Red, this individual, further explained that the CDC was developing the test at the same time, and it had already been approved by the FDA, while the German test would need to go through the FDA approval process.
Biden, however, ignored this reality and instead peddled another hoax to the public.
But don't expect the mainstream media to point that out.
Amen, Margot Cleveland, you are absolutely right.
They will never point out this stuff.
You're watching this show, you're getting it every day, and you are way ahead of the BS news.
There was no WHO, World Health Organization test.
That is false.
There was a German test that was not approved by the FDA, that I'm hearing through multiple channels, had a very high false positive rate.
Meaning what?
That the test was not entirely accurate and would tell you you had corona if you didn't.
Too often to make it a useful test for our CDC.
There was no WHO test.
That is a myth, totally made up, perpetrated by Democrats and their hacks in the media.
You say, what hacks in the media?
Well, look at CNN, who, again, can never get out of its own way.
CNN.
Here are two headlines from CNN.
Biden claimed the U.S.
chose not to take coronavirus tests from the WHO.
Wow.
Interesting headline.
You may want to fact check that before you put that up.
Down in the piece now, in the middle of this same piece, where they're reasserting Biden's hoax about the WHO test.
This is hilarious, Joe.
In the middle of the piece, they have a facts first section.
In other words, they're fact checking it.
So you'd think they'd say, well, this isn't true.
Biden misspoke.
That's not what it says!
In the middle of the piece it says, facts first.
Biden is correct.
Wait, what?
The US, along with other countries, chose not to take test kits from the WHO and instead decided to make their own.
That is false.
There was no WHO test.
That is a false story.
Of course, CNN cannot resist Trump fake news.
They just can't.
They love it.
Now, that was CNN a few days ago.
Here's CNN now after getting checked by actual fact checkers and shows like us and people like Margot Cleveland who actually do their homework.
CNN health headline.
WHO and CDC never discussed providing international test kits to the U.S.
Global Health Agency says.
Oh.
Oh.
It's tiring.
It's exhausting.
It is.
Every morning I gotta get up with this.
Why am I mumbling like mumbles from Dick Tracy here?
Because I can't, I just can't take it.
I just, it's, you have these media idiots out there blatantly advancing Chinese propaganda.
Don't you dare call the Chinese Wuhan coronavirus the Chinese Wuhan coronavirus because it's racist.
It's racist?
I said last night on Fox, Calling a virus from China a virus from China is racist.
By the way, I didn't know China was racist.
China's a country.
Yeah.
China's a country, right?
I'm a little confused about how calling a virus from China a China virus is racist.
Geographist.
Would probably be a more appropriate term if you were running a good call with the identity politics.
The media matters, people were confused about that, of course.
They don't understand that.
Now, Breitbart has a great PSUB.
You know, before I get to Breitbart, let me do, I just want to, I have one last sponsor thing.
Let me get through that, because I want to go through this list.
I'm going to go through it quick.
Breitbart, John Nolte, has a great compilation, because we've been covering them over the past few days, of the most damning fake news headlines.
I'm going to motor through seven or eight of them quick, real fast, because I don't want you to forget how much misinformation the media people that told us Spygate was a hoax, it was real, told us Collusion was real, it was a hoax.
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The media's been on the wrong side of every major story from the beginning.
The Ukraine hoax, the whistleblower hoax, the impeachment hoax, all of this stuff.
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So yeah, sometimes it's easy to just do lists.
I mean, I'm not a big fan in the industry.
They call these listicles, like lists of, lists of things that are popular.
Like what do you used to call my kickers and stuff, right, Joe, in your business?
Like, you know, you're right.
It's a slow news day.
They get these kickers, like the kickstart a conversation and listicles are one of them.
You put lists of stuff.
Top 10 vacation spots.
But this is important.
Top 10 BS stories from the fake news.
Here's the story of Breitbart.
It's in the show notes.
I encourage you to read it.
Keep it on hand because it matters.
We need to know how we've been misled again by John Nolte.
Fake news story number one, of course, was the ventilator story we talked about yesterday.
President Trump told the states, go pound sand, find the ventilators yourself.
Fake, false story.
That's not what he said.
He told them, if you can get them yourselves at the point of sale, it would probably be more efficient.
If you read the whole quote, you knew that.
If you were in the New York Times, you were married, gay, and others, you of course cut the quote off to make it seem like he said, go pound sand, which he didn't.
Second, President Trump's looking for a monopoly on a vaccine.
Uh, false.
We put out the tweets yesterday from the company that was contacted.
They said that story is completely made up.
Not true.
Three, there's going to be a national quarantine.
Uh, interesting.
Haven't heard anything about that yet.
So if there's going to be a national quarantine, the only way to make that work would to be, would be to, excuse me, announce an actual national quarantine.
Yeah.
Again, more fake news.
May happen.
Hasn't happened yet.
Trump team's like, No, not us.
Number four, the Google website.
Trump was lying about it.
That was until Google came out saying, yeah, we're building a website.
Number five, almost done here.
Trump disbanded the National Security Council Pandemic Task Force.
Totally false.
Tim Morrison, who was there, wrote a piece in the Washington Post we covered yesterday.
It was just, basically, all of them were put together in a biodefense task force.
It was not disbanded.
Again, completely fake, made-up news.
Number six, Trump said coronavirus is a hoax.
He never said that.
That's been debunked by everyone with an IQ above 42.
Trump said the coverage of his response to the coronavirus was a hoax.
Again, the media can't read and has poor reading comprehension skills when they do.
Number seven, which I'll get to in a minute because it's important.
This is the new Chinese propaganda effort.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm warning you right now, I'm going down with this ship.
Don't abandon my show.
I am not going to fall prey to this Chinese propaganda here.
Number seven, calling it the Wuhan virus is racist.
Interesting.
Nobody ever said that about Ebola, Zika, West Nile, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Lyme disease from Lyme, Connecticut.
No one said any of that.
But when Chinese money and propaganda is involved, the media is like, shh, don't call it the Wuhan virus.
It's the Juan virus.
Number eight, the WHO.
kits we just talked about.
They offered the W.H.O.
to sell us kits.
No, they didn't.
Made that up, sorry.
Nine, Trump blocked testing because he didn't want the numbers to go up.
I can tell you from personal conversations that is patently false.
The Trump administration has pushed for widespread testing from the start.
You know why?
They know when everybody gets tested that needs to be tested that the death rate and fatality rate is going to go down dramatically.
That is a made-up story again.
Finally, Dr. Anthony Fauci was muzzled.
This one's actually the funniest one.
Dr. Anthony Fauci was muzzled.
You're saying Joe, right?
Being an immediate?
Really?
Because I've seen Dr. Fauci on the air probably from 6.30 in the morning to midnight every single day for the past two weeks.
He's getting hoarse.
If they're muzzling him, they're doing a really bad job.
Yeah.
Now, I also have to include a quick Never Trump TDS Infection Level 22 update for the dumbest tweets of the day.
Here is an MSNBC legal analyst.
Yes, this guy actually appears on cable news.
I don't know if this guy claims to be a lawyer or whatever he is.
I don't know who this guy is.
I've never heard of him in my life.
In his tweet, his Twitter feed, I think he's a lawyer.
What's his name?
Glenn Kirshner.
He tweeted, this is an actual tweet, folks.
This is unbelievable.
We really are living in peak stupid.
Hey all, can we talk about one of the few topics I may actually know something about?
Homicide?
Wait, what?
Specifically whether Donald Trump may have criminal exposure for some level of negligent homicide or voluntary involuntary manslaughter for the way he's mishandled the coronavirus crisis.
Okay.
I have nothing to add to that.
That, I mean, that's not, you know, what's the top level of TDS?
Dude.
Six, of course, right?
That is, that, I mean, that's peak six right there.
Get the tinfoil.
Big time.
Yeah.
Get the radar dish for that one.
For the alien signals coming from space.
I mean, you are crazy, dude.
That is just the dumbest tweet I've seen all week.
All right, moving on quick because I want to get through this.
PJ Media, as I told you, writing another great story here.
Folks, do not fall prey to this Chinese propaganda.
They are having some success altering the narrative on COVID-19 by Rick Moran.
Folks, this virus originated in China.
They are hiding something.
There is, you may say, and this would be just to try and get both sides for a moment trying to understand, not the liberals and media people acting in bad faith, which are the majority of them, but there are some people out there who in good faith are saying, well, why is it necessary to call it the China coronavirus?
Because, ladies and gentlemen, that is an accurate term.
It's a coronavirus, COVID-19, that originated from China.
There is no evidence.
It's prima facie.
There is no alternate evidence that it originated anywhere else other than China.
None.
That is a factual statement.
Now, some of you may say, well, why is that necessary?
It's going to put our Chinese friends in danger.
You really think that little of Americans?
Are people in danger near the Ebola River?
Where the Ebola virus was named after?
You're like, that's dumb.
It's just equally as dumb as the not calling it the Chinese coronavirus when it's a coronavirus from China!
The Chinese are doing this for a reason.
They are pumping out, not the people, their tyrannical government, their PR machine, and their bot machine, and their bot army attacking people like me and elsewhere because they're hiding something.
This is not a joke.
That's the reason none of us should fall prey.
Once you're silenced now, people like me and others who are not falling prey to this, I will call it what it is.
Once we're silenced, it's over.
But we are being silenced for a reason, and that reason matters, ladies and gentlemen.
Let me just go to this Newsweek tweet first to show you how useful idiot media organizations like Newsweek are helping the Chinese silence and suppress what they're hiding.
I'll get to what they're hiding in a minute, but look, here we go.
Newsweek, one of the dumbest publications in America.
China's state media says Trump is pandering to racist and pandemic response, and it's sloppy and belated.
Why are you even repeating Chinese propaganda, Newsweek?
Why?
Now, before we get to what the Chinese are hiding, thank the Lord, and I am not using his name in vain, thank the Lord President Trump is having none of this.
Watch this video of President Trump shutting this nonsense right down at his briefing yesterday.
China and others have criticized you for using the phrase Chinese virus.
How do you feel about that?
Are you going to continue using that phrase?
Well, China was putting out information which was false, that our military gave this to them.
That was false.
And rather than having an argument, I said, I have to call it where it came from.
It did come from China.
So I think it's a very accurate term.
But no, I didn't appreciate the fact that China was saying that our military gave it to them.
Our military did not give it to anybody.
Critics say using that phrase creates a stigma.
No, I don't think so.
No, I think saying that our military gave it to them creates a stigma.
Notice what that media guy did.
If you have to rewind, rewind.
Play the end of that and you'll see that media guy He says critics are saying that it creates a stigma.
No, they're not.
No, no, they're not.
The Chinese PR propaganda machine is saying that, and you're repeating it because you're a moron.
Yeah, here you go.
And Trump just shut you down.
Critics aren't saying that.
The Chinese are saying that.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have diseases and bugs named for places in the United States.
Lyme disease.
You didn't know that?
Why isn't it racist to call it- Well, that's dumb.
Lyme disease is racist.
Yeah, it's just equally dumb as telling us not to call a Chinese coronavirus a Chinese coronavirus.
But when you're a useful moron in the media, you say, critics are saying.
No, no, critics aren't saying that.
The Chinese are saying it, and you're dumb enough to repeat it.
I got more in another Moron in a Minute from Mediaite.
But before I get to that, I want to show you what they're actually hiding.
Oh, you've been waiting for this.
Yes, we have.
Here's an article in Hong Kong's newspaper over there.
Why do the Chinese want this to desperately go away, their connection to the coronavirus?
It's racist to call it the Chinese coronavirus.
Headline!
China could have prevented 95, may have prevented, excuse me, 95% of virus cases if it enacted measures after it silenced a whistleblower's warning.
Oh, you forgot this story?
Chinese doctor came out around that early infection period, November, December, was trying to warn the world about what was coming.
And we're now seeing the fallout from it, this plague unleashed on us.
What happened to that doctor?
Oh, they shut him up.
He's not around anymore.
Died of the virus.
They shut him right down.
Maybe if we would have known how dangerous this was, we could have acted sooner.
Oh, there's more.
Here's another piece from the Times UK.
Chinese scientists destroyed proof of the virus back in December.
Oh.
Oh, they did.
Oh, you didn't see this one?
I'm sure that media guy in the press room Actively promoting Chinese propaganda, like Never Trump or Rick Wilson this morning.
Desperate to try to silence the smelly guy.
I'm sorry, I kept thinking he really smells awful.
I ran into him at an airport.
I can't, I know it's not, I'm not making it up.
It's not a pot shot.
He really did smell terrible.
I just can't get that out of my head.
That kind of odor doesn't, it's like when I worked in a cemetery.
You ever smell a dead body?
You know how bad it stinks?
You never forget that.
That was Rick.
It was closed.
So Rick is trying to keep people quiet too, because he's either a useful idiot or he's promoting Chinese propaganda for another reason.
They don't want anybody to talk about that.
The Chinese destroyed evidence of the virus in December.
They lied about human to human transmission of the virus as early as November.
And we're supposed to disconnect the coronavirus from China because our Chinese overlords are telling us to?
I can't say everything now.
I'm not hiding anything from you, I promise.
Don't get nervous, Paul.
But I'm telling you right now, I'm going down with this ship.
I'm not shutting up.
Not a chance.
No chance.
I don't care what we have to do.
I am not shutting up about this.
I don't think you have any idea the pressure by the billions, hundreds of billions of Chinese dollars, money and influence and their PR and their tyrannical PR machine.
I don't think you have any idea what's going on behind the scenes.
The effort to shut people like us up.
I'm begging you, Mr. President, humbly, and I know you'll stick through this.
I know people watch this show.
Do not stop.
This is not a reflection on the residents of China, on our Chinese American citizens.
Everybody knows that.
This is a reflection on an awful, tyrannical Chinese regime which unleashes plague on the world and is desperately trying to hide it using the one weakness they know America has.
Our stupid media, And their ability to actively engage identity politics at a moment's notice.
Further evidence...
Here's this basement dwelling blogger at Media who I had the unfortunate experience of running into at CPAC.
Here's a tweet this morning.
Again, another dope, obviously too young to figure out what he's doing, actively promoting speech suppression.
He cuts, he edited this video of me and he says, "Over the past week, Fox News contributor Dan Bongino
has gotten on the network multiple times to become enraged and demand the novel coronavirus be called the Wuhan virus."
Once they all want us quiet.
[BLANK_AUDIO]
His name is Zack Delirious or something.
They all want us quiet.
Media Eye.
Interesting.
A company that's supposed to represent media stories wants everybody quiet about the Wuhan virus.
That kid, in his defense, he's young and he's probably just too stupid to figure it out.
But Rick Wilson and others are not.
There is some motive to what they're doing.
A lot of money going around, folks.
A lot of money.
All right, I want to leave you with a little bit of good news today, because not everybody in the media, thankfully, has been awful on this.
Most of them have, and some politicians, I think, are starting to understand the gravity of the situation we're in.
And when I say gravity, again, I'm not talking about the severity, the fatality, or the contagiousness of the virus.
I'm going to leave that up to the science and the data when we get a better grasp on where it is, because we don't know right now.
We know it's contagious.
We know it can be fatal.
The question isn't, is it contagious or fatal?
As I've said from the beginning, it's how contagious and how fatal.
On the margins, what's the risk?
We don't have a conclusive answer on that yet.
But I'm talking about the satellite ramifications, our economy, our rights.
People talking about mandatory curfews in places.
Here's some common sense, shockingly, out of CNN, but listen, credit where credit is due at times.
I'm sure they'll never repay the favor to us, but that's okay.
Here's Dana Bash on CNN yesterday, shocking the entire set, the entire world, and probably all of CNN.
I'm surprised if she has a job today.
Acknowledging that President Trump has stepped up and is doing what he can right now in a national emergency to basically get this problem solved.
Check this out.
I mean, look, this is just coming back to where this conversation started after the
press conference.
I hear what Sanjay is saying about Tony Fauci giving, you know, a little bit more wiggle
room than than others.
But if you look at the big picture, this was remarkable from the president of the United
This is a non-partisan.
This is an important thing to note and to applaud from an American standpoint, from a human standpoint.
He is being the kind of leader that people need, at least in tone today and yesterday, in tone that people need and want and yearn for in times of crisis and uncertainty.
Whoa.
Elizabeth!
I'm coming for you.
I know.
I'm coming for you.
Seriously.
My bad elbows, I can't even reach my heart.
You get the point.
I was as stunned as anyone.
Yeah.
Like I said, credit where credit is due.
I don't expect, again, any favors from them back to us.
Also, Andrew Cuomo, who I'm sorry has just been a dreadful governor in New York, and none of that changes, but we can get back to partisan sniping about politics and its policies afterwards.
But New York's been hit hard.
My family's in New York.
I was born in New York, grew up in New York.
My wife lived there for a very long time.
You know, New York was always going to have a place in my heart, despite how bad it gets up there with the politics.
Andrew Cuomo actually had some nice words to say about the president yesterday, too, which, again, were shocking.
And I'm not putting this out there to, like, pump sunshine up the president's butt or anyone else.
I'm not interested in doing that either.
I'm only doing it to suggest to you that, hey folks, listen, this is serious, obviously.
We're in a real emergency here.
We're in an economic emergency, a financial emergency, and clearly a health emergency.
There clearly is an issue going on here.
Again, you can debate all of the scientific issues about mortality and contagiousness and all of that, I understand.
But we can do, as someone said in the media, which was genius, we can do report cards later.
There's an election coming up.
You want to give the president a D, an F, an A, a B?
That's up to you.
There's an election coming up, and that's what they do.
That's not the time for this now.
There are Republicans who live in Washington, in California, in New York, in every state of the union.
States run by far-left liberal governments.
It's not the time to abandon them.
You all know that, of course.
Not by any means any kind of a lecture.
You all get that already.
But good for Cuomo putting the politics aside for a minute and saying this.
To date, we've done about 3,000 tests, so that is a very, very big difference.
And testing is probably the single most important thing that we can be doing now.
And as I said, that will double.
We'll be able to do about, in one day, all the tests that we have done to date.
Believe it or not.
So, uh, again, uh, I, I want to thank the vice president and especially the president, uh, who facilitated this and moved quickly.
Whoa.
Good for him though.
We can all do report cards later.
It's not the time now.
Let's get through this first.
All right, folks, thanks again for tuning in and in a special ode to our friend Joe Biden.
Are you done?
My spot.
Why is my wife in it?
Why are you on the set?
Oh, I'm supposed to go!
I'm supposed to go!
I'm sorry.
Thank you all.
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