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June 22, 2020 - The Dan Bongino Show
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Deeply Disturbing Video Emerges of this Leftist Activist (Ep 1281)
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Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino.
As always, the misinformation and disinformation, not always the same thing.
Are everywhere.
We had a Trump rally last week, of course, rather than focusing on the fact that at a minimum, the Trump rally had 600 times more people than the Biden rally.
The media, of course, manages to always find the downside.
Incredible.
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Producer Joe, how are you on this fine Monday?
Well, I'm doing well, Dan.
Just keeping my eye on the commies, you know?
I know.
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Seriously, Joe's very concerned about what's going on out there.
And you should be too, folks.
The left has entered a new degree of targeting, speech suppression, tyranny, and they're not kidding around anymore.
I got a loaded show on that today.
And the inside baseball on the Trump rally.
Listen, don't buy the media hype.
Even Paula got upset about this weekend.
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Yeah, so the president had a big rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the misinformation is just everywhere.
You know, it's stunning.
Like I said, Paula likes politics, but not like me.
I'm like a tick in politics.
I'm like embedded in the skin of politics, and it's my life all the time.
It drives her crazy and practically, frankly speaking, most of the people around me most of the time.
But even she said this week, she said, you think that Trump Who turned out, on the low end, 6,000 people, on the high end, 12,000.
I'll get to that in a minute, why there's a disparity in the numbers, by the way.
You would think people would say, my gosh, in the middle of a media COVID scaremongering, say, oh my gosh, if you go to If you go to this thing, you're gonna die.
Go to the protest, by the way, the police protest, but if you go to this, you'll definitely die.
The virus knows the difference, according to leftist media types, Joe.
The virus will not infect you, according to the media, if you go to one of these protests.
I say laughingly, because that's their coverage, but if you go to a Trump rally, you are definitely gonna die.
No doubt about it.
So instead of focusing on the fact that, hey, listen, the turnout wasn't what they expected, but they got a pretty darn good crowd between 6,000 and 12,000 people.
What's the story?
Oh my gosh, it's over.
It's over.
It's...
Joe, time number 57,422.
This is it for Trump.
Do I have the number right, or is it 57,567?
Not sure.
Joe, listen, I know I give you a lot of, this is your new job to keep track of how many times the media, mark it today, 57,482 or whatever number I just said, and we'll count upwards sequentially from there.
It's now definitely over for Trump.
Well, what happened?
Well, let's get to the real story first.
And the real story is this.
There is absolutely no excitement about Joe Biden whatsoever.
Now, the media, including, you know, Chris Wallace as well, who went after Mercedes Schlapp on this, which I didn't think was particularly a well-done interview at all, just my opinion there.
Chris Wallace went after Mercedes Schlapp for comparing Trump's rallies to Biden's rallies.
Hold on a second here.
Uh, yeah?
Why is that an irrelevant talking point?
Joe, last time I checked, you have voted in presidential elections, correct?
Yes, I have, Dan.
Do you understand the whole voting thing?
Okay, thank you.
Voting in presidential elections, outside of like, Ross Perot and stuff, is largely a binary choice.
Yep.
Republican, Democrat.
Whatever, John Anderson, whatever.
We haven't had many serious third-party candidates.
So, outside of Ross Perot, elections are generally binary.
A or B. Why is it irrelevant for Mercedes slap to have brought up?
I mean, Chris Wallace at Fox got genuinely upset that Mercedes slap brought this up.
Like you're criticizing our crowd size and you're not bringing up the fact that our opponent has like 10 people at his rally and six are family members.
Like, isn't that important?
It's a binary choice.
So, as always, we bring the photo evidence, so if you'd like to watch youtube.com slash Bongino.
But don't worry, if you're not watching and you are an audio listener only, I will describe to you the Joe Biden rally.
If you will place up the picture, Ms.
Paula, please.
Here is the Joe Bi- Hold on, Joe, it's gonna take a while.
There's a photo on the screen.
Those watching, you can see it.
Keep this up for a minute.
Ms.
Paula, please.
For you audio listeners at home on the radio, there is a photo on our YouTube channel.
Joe Biden speaking at a... I don't know what to call this, Joe.
Is this a rally?
What is this?
Is this a listening session?
A coffee clutch?
What exactly are we looking at?
Coffee clutch, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, right?
I mean, we're looking at Biden at a podium.
I see a translator off to his left that looks like someone doing sign language.
That's great.
That's good.
You know, some people have problems with their hearing.
That's fair.
Two people?
Let's be generous, Joe.
Let's double it.
Let's say there's four people.
I'll tell you what.
Let's times it by 10.
There were 20 people at the Biden rally.
20.
I'm being generous, folks.
I heard there were really 10.
But let's say there were 40.
This guy's really packing them in, folks.
He's really packing money.
I see two.
I just want that noted.
But it is kind of an angled shot.
So there could be 10 times more and there could be 20 people there.
Now, I'm not a math expert anymore, but two times 10, I believe is 20.
Joe, can you fact check that for me?
Two times 10, in fact, 20.
Yeah, you're good.
20.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Okay, I needed just to be sure.
So let's just say there's 20 people at Joe's rally.
Now would it not, Joe Armacost, Joe Biden.
Joe Armacost, I swear, Armacost could get more people at a rally.
I'm not kidding.
Oh yeah, baby.
We should make a, let's have Joe, Joe Armacost, show up in Maryland to a spot and we'll announce Joe's there and Joe will take a picture.
I guarantee you Joe gets a bigger crowd than Joe Biden.
I will.
Folks, seriously, I didn't want to put you, I'm afraid that Antifa would show up and actually You know, assault Joe?
If I was really interested in doing this, I'm not actually kidding, I could get Armacost a bigger crowd than Joe Biden, and he's not running for president.
That is not a joke.
I am dead serious, Demi.
So, Biden and the 20 people, binary choice, okay, we've established it.
Here's a photo of Trump's rally.
The media is so, oh my gosh, nobody showed up.
The place was empty.
This is terrible.
Now, yes, are there some empty seats up top yet?
I count, I don't know how many I count because there's too many damn people in the picture.
You're not, damn people, I love you.
I'm just upset about this.
This is the photo on the screen.
Paula, can you count?
She's shaking her head, no, of course she can't, because there's too many people in the picture.
Paula says, and yes, we can confirm, there are more than 10 people in the picture.
Joe, can you double confirm that for us, please?
Yeah, I'll notarize that.
Yep, there's more than that there.
Thank you.
Joe is not an official notary, but he is the Dan Bongino Show notary.
Are you official?
No, you're not, correct?
No, I'm not.
Okay, just checking.
But you are the official notary of the damn Bongino.
So we can confirm that the Trump rally had likely somewhere between 600 times the turnout and 1,200 times the turnout of Joe Biden's 10 to 20 people at his rally.
But again, let's make the talking point because we're media lunatics about, oh my gosh, Trump was expecting a million people.
They weren't.
And only 6,000 to 12,000 people showed up.
Now, why is this nonsense?
I don't listen to me.
I'm not a journalist.
Don't insult me by ever calling me a journalist.
We do facts.
We do investigative reporting.
Journalism has become a slur, and I refuse to accept that, so please don't ever call me a journalist, but we do facts here.
What's bothering me about this is not that President Trump and the rally, it underperformed in terms of crowd size.
No question about it.
Fine, that's a fact.
But the question here as well is, put that in context to this election.
Again, you have one candidate here whose rally, or whatever it was, about 10 to 20 people showed up.
You had another who, at the lowest crowd estimate we have, 6,000.
The highest was 12,000.
There's the pay, thank you.
We got a split screen, I'll put both photos.
Had 6,000 people show up in the middle of an economic recession and media scare tactics telling them they're all gonna die.
Kind of.
The context matters, does it not?
Doesn't matter, the media.
Now, why does this story bother me more?
And here's the inside baseball.
Because the Secret Service, where I used to work, as many of you know, I'm sorry to keep saying, I don't mean to annoy you to death, but it's relevant to this.
We have this thing called a flow rate at magnetometers.
Flow rate.
The flow and the number of people who go through the magnetometers.
Why is that relevant?
Because in order to access a Trump rally, you have to pass through a magnetometer.
A metal detector.
So if anyone has an accurate count of the number of people in the event, around the event, and in the secure zone who showed up, it would be the Secret Service.
They don't lie.
They're not interested in lying about the crowd size or the numbers.
It's not what they do.
They would be embarrassed.
The Secret Service estimates the crowd at 12,000 people.
Maybe not inside, but maybe within the secure perimeter.
So just to be clear, if Joe Biden had 12 people at the rally, 1,000 times the number of people showed up for President Trump's rally than Joe Biden's whatever that was, his Starbucks coffee clutch.
And we're supposed to take from that, that Trump's a total failure, the election's over, and Joe, time number 52,487, I keep screwing it up, I don't even know what number it is, that Trump is definitely done this time.
That's the takeaway?
Again, a fair analysis of this, which we'll do, on a serious note.
Yes, the crowd wasn't what it was at prior rallies, which is probably understandable, given the fact that the left tried to sabotage it, which I'll get to in a minute.
We still have the coronavirus, and there's an economic recession going on, and Black Lives Matter and some Antifa people threaten to basically beat the crap out of people who showed up at the rally, given their past history, Antifa, with assaulting people at Trump rallies.
I think 12,000 people's a pretty damn healthy crowd.
Call me crazy, folks.
Call me nuts.
I think that's a pretty good crowd.
So, I'll take the secret service number of 12,000, number one.
Here's my second point on this, before we get to a dunce AOC.
She's a dunce.
She is a serious tier one, class A dunce.
We'll get to that in a minute, what that has to do with the rallying moment.
But on another end, given my past experience, I can't tell you when I was with President Obama, how many rallies I went to.
One of them where I was the lead advisor.
I was the senior agent on the trip, advising a guy who was doing his first lead advance.
That's why I was the lead advisor.
I had done tons of them.
So once you've done a lot of lead advances where you coordinate the whole trip, you advise the other guy who's doing his first.
I was a lead advisor multiple times.
One of the trips I was a lead advisor on was President Obama's trip to the Prudential Center, where he was there in support of John Corzine at the time.
In 2009, it was a Democrat running for re-election, and there was a Republican running against him.
You may have heard of him.
His name was Chris Christie.
Well, Christie won that election.
I will never forget being the lead advisor and the Obama staff at the, where the New Jersey Devils play at the Prudential Center, saying, we're going to pack this place to the rafters, Joe.
22,000 people.
Now, me having done a number of lead advances for Barack Obama and his presidency before, I was like, ah, you're probably not going to fill this thing to the rafters.
I had a pretty good gauge of crowd size.
I had only done or been an agent on probably close to 50 or 60 of these trips.
I said to the staffer, you ain't filling this place.
You don't know what you're talking about.
Obama, everybody loves Obama.
We'll fill this place to the brim.
2009, Obama.
Yeah.
22,000 plus.
We'll be sticking people in the rafters.
We'll be hanging chairs from the rafters, like swing chair.
They can watch from the rafters.
We'll have an overflow in the parking lot.
We'll have an overflow on an overflow.
How many people showed up to that event?
Probably about 6,000.
It was so bad that the top part of the stadium, which you saw in the Trump team, which, yeah, they didn't fill all the seats up there, but the top part of the stadium at the Obama event show, they had to tarp it off because it was empty.
Because there wasn't even anyone up there.
At least at the Trump rally, there were people up there.
It wasn't packed.
Fair.
But at the Obama rally for Corzine, there was nobody up there.
They tarped the thing off, so you couldn't see all the empty seats.
Oh, yes, really.
I remember that, yeah.
And I've told this story on the air before, so you've heard it before.
That's why it sounds familiar to Joe, who's been here for all, what, 12, 1,281 episodes.
We have one more episode, and Joe Biden's had people at his rally altogether.
I'm just telling you it's true.
It's true.
I don't remember ever reading a story, and send it to me if I'm wrong, in the mainstream media, not local stuff, but the mainstream media, about how disappointing the attendance was at the Obama rallies.
I don't remember that story.
So again, to be fair, the event underperformed expectations.
But to also be fair, this is your sole takeaway from the event?
Your sole takeaway.
You're frauds.
You're just fakes and phonies, and it's really gross.
And you're under-reporting the number of people who were in there.
It was probably—the Secret Service number of 12,000 was probably accurate.
Factor out staff and everyone else, you probably had close to 8,000 to 10,000 people.
Paula said to me this morning, she goes, why are they reporting 6,000?
Because 6,000 sounds worse for Trump!
This has nothing to do with the truth!
If they could report and get away with it that seven people showed up despite the picture, they would do it.
They're liars.
Oh my gosh, is it frustrating dealing with these morons.
Now, showing you what else they were dealing with, here is this total dunce AOC.
I mean, just a tier one level congressional loser.
She's proud of this.
When She's responding to Brad Parscale, who is President Trump's campaign manager, who's talking about why the turnout was a little weak.
Radical protesters, a week of apocalyptic media coverage.
AOC, the dunce, says, actually, you just got ROCKED, in all caps, because she thinks like a child, by teens on TikTok who flooded the Trump campaign with fake ticket reservations and tricked you into believing a million people wanted your white supremacist open mic enough to pack an arena during COVID.
Shout out to Zoomers.
You all make me so proud.
Emoji guy.
Winky people.
This is an actual member of Congress.
Winky AOC.
The woman's a dunce.
Okay, can we just be honest?
She is a total dunce.
Seriously, with a double-digit IQ.
It's just embarrassing.
So just to be clear what she's doing on Twitter won't censor any of this, by the way, the Twitter tyrants who are a total joke.
I'm so glad to be involved with an alternative.
I am just so sick of it.
I really at this point stay on there just to crush the libs because they are so awful on Twitter.
So just be clear what AOC is doing on Twitter.
TikTok, which has, there's been a number of reports about suspicious Chinese ties to TikTok and the Communist Party apparatchiks.
Can't confirm, but those reports are out there.
So just to be clear, you have a suspicious app that multiple reports have put out, some suspicious ties to the Chinese government.
Reports are everywhere on that.
You can read them yourself.
You're proud that you used said app to engage in election fraud and get a bunch of people to give a campaign for the presidency a bunch of fake and false and fraudulent information and you're advertising it.
Why?
Because you're a dunce.
You're AOC.
And she's like, this was a huge win for me.
Sure it was.
You keep telling yourself that.
Opening Pandora's box.
Imagine bragging about using an app with suspicious ties to the Chinese government.
Through multiple reports.
Bragging that you're trying to engage in fraudulent activity and advocate for it before one of the most important elections of our lifetime.
Imagine!
No, no, but let's talk about Russian collusion.
Trump colluded with the Russians, right?
Let's talk about that.
You can investigate AOC for colluding with TikTok and potentially the Chinese government?
Of course not, because, you know, she's a dunce and she doesn't even know any better.
That this woman got elected to Congress is really embarrassing.
I mean, I mean that.
I'm not, listen, we've got enough bad Republicans, I get it, really one of the dumbest people I've ever seen get elected to Congress, actually advertising trying to use fraud to impact an election.
Let's set up a bunch of fraudulent accounts and send them to the Trump campaign.
Yes!
And then let's tweet it.
Oh my gosh, what an idiot.
Incredible.
Alright, I got more on this.
The left has just lost their minds.
And I'm hoping, I'm really hoping to get to this Spygate stuff.
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Okay, moving on.
So, the left has totally lost its mind.
They're taking advantage of the Rahm Emanuel, never let a crisis go to waste theory.
And now we've seen the left morph from what They said once was a slippery slope.
You remember that folks?
Remember the slippery slope when they started tearing down Confederate statues?
We said to them, it's only a matter of time before they start tearing down statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson too.
I didn't even think it would take that long and it didn't.
They're doing that now.
They're like burning them, ripping them down.
They're just insane.
Well now, it's not just Washington and Jefferson and basically anyone associated with the history of America, because leftists hate you, and they hate this country, and they hate everything you stand for.
Never forget the axiomatic truth of politics as we see it now.
You think liberals are people with bad ideas.
You better wake up to the fact that liberals think you're bad people with ideas, because there's a very big difference between those two things.
And the sooner you wake up to that fact, the more informed you'll be.
Here's a story from WCBS, a New York CBS affiliate.
Teddy Roosevelt statue to be removed from the Museum of Natural History.
Teddy, Teddy Roosevelt, TR.
Teddy Roosevelt.
Was he a Confederate soldier, too?
Just checking.
Joe, I'm not a history major, but I'm reasonably confident Teddy Roosevelt was not a Confederate general.
I'm just checking.
For those of you history majors out there, you may want to send us a fact check on that.
Reasonably confident TR.
Right, Joe?
I knew you were a history buff.
You're good.
I'm reasonably confident TR was not a Confederate general.
We are.
Thank you.
Joe's confirming as the audience on BuzzMedia.
But it doesn't matter.
We got to get, and if he's, if the statute, by the way, it's being taken down by the city of New York.
If it's not taken down, I'm sure the leftist tyrants will show up with their Soviet style, you know, Bolshevik tactics and rip the thing down, burn it.
And maybe like defecate on it too, just to send an extra message home.
Cause they love that kind of stuff.
They're really sick people.
Ladies and gentlemen, what's going on right now.
Listen to me.
This never had anything to do with Confederate statues folks.
Okay.
Never.
That's not what this was about.
I mean, is it not obvious to you at this point?
When they ran out of Confederate statues to rip down and burn and injure people, yeah, they actually dropped a statue on some dude's head.
Poor guy.
Not even kidding.
That's not even a joke.
When they ran out of Confederate statues, they started pulling down statues of just about everyone.
George Washington, Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote, What are you laughing at?
I'm not making a mess.
They really pulled down the Cervantes, who happened to be a slave, by the way, at one point.
They don't know.
Leftists don't know history.
They're morons.
So they're pulling down a statue.
What's this really about?
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a straight-up power play.
That's all this is.
Leftists are nihilists.
They want to destroy everything we have right now.
They don't believe in capitalism.
They don't believe in big R God-given rights.
They don't believe in the structure of our society as we see it.
They think the United States is a sinful, hate-filled country.
They think it's a country full of white supremacists.
They think the original sin of the country, slavery, will forever stain the country, that it's non-recoverable, and that the country needs to be destroyed.
This is a nihilist ideology.
You pretending it's some reformist ideology that, listen, we're only looking at getting rid of Confederate statues that fought for the Confederacy.
I'm telling you, you have misread this situation.
It's going to be catastrophic, the consequences, if you don't wake up fast.
That is not what this is about.
This is about erasing our history altogether.
And whoever will enable them to do a strict power play, Whoever will follow me, this point's gonna be a little nuanced.
Joe, audience ombudsman hat on, please.
The audience referee, Paula, you too.
This is an important point, I don't want you to forget.
I don't wanna get too wonky, but it matters.
When you're engaged in a strict power play, like the radical left is, in other words, they just wanna take power, it's no more complicated than that, to subjugate you.
Conservatives and everyone silence you, bankrupt you, fire you, potentially imprison you, shut you up by taking power over you.
They need a vehicle to take that power.
Whether it's through surrogates that will act on their behalf, elected officials that'll let them do what they want.
In other words, we're in charge.
We just elected this idiot and he's going to stay out of it.
Kind of like the mayor of Seattle.
You get it?
Like she's not doing anything while a bunch of terrorists took over a portion of Seattle.
Right.
So she's basically their useful idiot.
So we'll either elect those people who will be useful idiots and pawns for us, or we will take office ourselves.
So in their attacks on the statues, our culture, everything else trying to erase our history, they will not touch a statue or a politician who they think will advance their cause.
Because you may be saying to yourself right now, why aren't they ripping down statues of FDR, who literally imprisoned Japanese in internment camps in World War II?
Why aren't they destroying and ripping apart the history of LBJ, who it's known, use the N-word, around the White House.
Known.
It's been reported everywhere.
What about all these college campuses, as Jesse Kelly, a radio host and a friend, by the way, does a great show himself, Jesse Kelly Show, who's been pushing all weekend, satirically but true, like, why aren't they changing the name of Yale University?
You know, the guy who Yale's named after was a slaveholder.
Why aren't they?
What's going on with that?
Because leftists don't care about this.
They don't care about if Yale owned slaves, if FDR imprisoned the Japanese, if LBJ dropped the N-word.
They don't care about any of that.
They know that Democrats are weak and they're useful idiots and they will enable them to advance their power agenda to subjugate you.
So they leave them alone.
This has nothing to do with anything other than attacking any component of history that will get in their way of taking over power.
Period.
Full stop.
Thank you.
Have a nice day.
You don't believe me?
Let's listen to a useful idiot here.
Joe's very familiar with me too.
This guy is one of the kings of the useful idiots.
If there was like a monarch court of morons full of useful idiots, Chris Van Hollen.
Yes.
Yes.
You've heard this.
This is an exclusive.
From the great Kerry Pickett, one of the few good journalists actually left out there.
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Kerry Pickett is a great reporter.
She's given us an exclusive on this audio.
She catches up with a disastrous senator from Joe's beloved state of Maryland, Democrat Chris Van Hollen.
Again, one of the kings of the useful idiot crap.
And she basically says to him, like, hey, listen, this whole statue tearing down thing, does this thing have an endpoint?
And his answer's kind of telling, because it shows this guy has no principles whatsoever.
The left knows he has no principles, and that's why they'll never actually go after Chris Van Hollen, because he's the useful idiot they need to obtain power.
Listen to this audio.
Check this out.
Senator, can I talk to you about the statues that are being ripped down, particularly just by vigilantes?
Your thoughts on that?
Well, my view is that monuments that celebrate Those who fought to protect the institution of slavery really have no place in the public square.
But should they be ripped down by people who are not public officials?
They need to be taken down.
And I understand the sentiment to pull them down, and we need to be working with people to pull them down.
Should government be standing by why vigilantes are ripping them down, though?
These are monuments to people who fought hard to protect the institution of slavery.
They're ripping down abolitionists.
They need to come down.
They're ripping down abolitionists, they're ripping down Gandhi, they're ripping down other monuments other than Confederate generals.
Look, I'm talking about those that celebrate those who fought to protect slavery in our country.
Okay?
Do you believe this clown?
Again, if there was a definition of useful idiot, right?
It'd be Chris Van Hollen.
Chris Van Hollen, Senator, Maryland, Democrat.
Kerry Pickett says, okay, so this was about Confederate statues, and you're angry, and the left is angry at people who protected the institution of slavery.
He says, well, what about the abolitionists?
Chris Van Hollen, who either doesn't know what an abolitionist did, of course he does, he's not stupid, or is just pretending, he's like, look, look, look, look, look, look, this is about people who protected slavery.
Ugh.
The gavel drops.
The stupid hammer, we're gonna call this.
Abolitionists?
You're pulling down statues of abolitionists?
Joe, the root word of abolitionists would be to abolish, right?
Abolish, yes.
What were abolitionists trying to abolish?
I'm gonna guess.
Crazy time.
I'm thinking they were trying to abolish slavery.
Again, I'm no PhD in history, folks.
Just checking.
Hold on.
Yeah.
Abolitionists.
Search.
Yes!
Yes, abolitionists.
Just checking.
We're trying to abolish slavery.
So let's rip their statues down to, of course, Van Hollen, who if he had an ounce of principle and even a scintilla of dignity, which he doesn't, of course, he's a useful idiot.
Useful idiots don't have either of those things.
He would say, yeah, you know what, I don't support that.
That's pretty awful.
And candidly, these statues, although we may disagree, they should be voted on.
It's dangerous to pull these things down.
We've already had someone hurt.
They can take them.
Listen, you live in a place and you have a city council, a town council.
You don't like the statues.
You disagree with what you think they stood for, what they did stand for.
I'm a big R God-given rights conservative.
Have at it.
Vote on it.
Take it down.
Do it safely.
Do your thing.
I don't want to tell you how to vote.
We have a bridge here in Martin County named after veterans.
If people don't want to acknowledge veterans of Martin County, which would never happen here, vote on it.
You would lose 99 to 1, but that's okay.
Vote on it.
Van Halen though, who again, doesn't have any dignity or courage at all, can't say that.
Because he's afraid.
And when you're engaged in a strict power play, the coin of the realm is what?
Intimidation.
A strict power play.
Not a democracy play, not a constitutional republic.
A strict takeover, mob rule power play.
The coin of the realm is intimidation.
And Chris Van Hollen, loser, intimidates rather easily.
Thank you for the exclusive audio on that.
We'll look forward to more of Kerry Pickett's work, and we'll be featuring it here on the show in the future.
Because that's the question actual journalists, you know, real journalists, not talking about you guys at CBS and MSDNC and all that other stuff, actually ask.
If you're here to combat slavery, well, you're pulling down statues of Gandhi and abolitionists.
I'm just checking, kind of like abolitionists.
(sighs)
My gosh, morons.
Now, in case you believed also, show will be demonetized.
What do you think, Paul?
Will it be demonetized in about 10 seconds today?
You think we'll get through 10 seconds of the show before we're demonetized?
I don't care.
You're right.
Right, Joe?
Okay, okay, do whatevs!
Believe me, I'm working.
I never stop working.
I've got alternatives to everything.
Twitter picked the fight with the wrong cat when they banned my ads.
Who did you ever?
You demonetize whatever you like.
Here's some other video you may not like to see if you're a leftist.
So, you know, of course, Joe, Black Lives Matter.
If you believe the hype, Black Lives Matter cares about black lives, which is interesting because they're not talking about school choice or actually funding the police, which would save black lives in high crime areas, some of which happen to be minority communities.
You would think they'd be advocating for those things.
No, they're advocating for the exact opposite.
School choice?
What, are you crazy?
We give young black children a shot at education?
We don't want that!
But your slogan is Black Lives Matter.
Come on, dude!
That's just a slogan!
Defund the police.
But people will die in minority communities.
You know that.
We've tried de-policing neighborhoods in the past.
We had the Ferguson effect.
And body bags piled up in minority communities.
Listen, dude.
Just because our slogan is Black Lives Matter doesn't actually mean we care about black lives.
Well, we do on this show and have for a very long time.
Yes, here.
Yes, here on this show.
And any of our long-time listeners know that.
That's why we had Keira Davis and Scott Turner on this weekend.
To talk about these issues from a different perspective and a respectful back and forth.
Thank you, by the way, for blowing that interview show up this weekend with Keira Davis and Scott Turner.
I'll be honest with you, folks, because I didn't think that interview was going to do that well.
We had a long weekend.
It's the summer.
The interview did fantastic.
They both blew it up.
Talking candidly about race issues in the United States.
Not like leftist talk.
Black lives matter!
Not to you, they don't!
You don't believe me?
Here is a video.
I want to hat tip the great one, Mark Levin.
There is no better.
The great Mark Levin, who's also on Parler, by the way.
Thank you for joining.
Mark played this on his show.
This is one of the founders, Patrisse Cullors of Black Lives Matter.
She's asked a question by an activist who is a self-proclaimed Marxist, I believe.
And he's like, listen, in the interest of time, I cut out the question part because Joe told me that's probably bad radio wants to play both of them when we can summarize it ourselves.
But the activists like, hey listen, I'm not so sure you Black Lives Matters, you know, you're really Marxist in the old school.
You guys are losing a little street cred, basically.
Can you explain that?
Here's the founder of Black Lives Matter saying how, don't worry, we are definitely Marxist.
Check this out.
I think that the criticism is helpful.
I also think that it might I think of a lot of things.
The first thing I think is that we actually do have an ideological frame.
Myself and Alicia in particular are trained organizers.
We are trained Marxists.
We are super versed on sort of ideological theories.
I thought black lives mattered.
Let me just tell you a little story, if you don't mind.
I'm taking a point of personal privilege.
Some of you like my stories, some of you don't.
I'm gonna tell one.
So I spent a little time in Russia, a lot of time.
Uh-oh, Joe, get Adam Schiff on the case.
Definitely collusion here.
Okie dokes.
You calling him?
Get the bat phone right now.
You got it, babe.
Okay, now that we're done with Schiff and we got that out of the way, this is clearly evidence of collusion, according to Schiff.
I actually did spend some time in Russia, twice as a matter of fact.
And I'll never forget going over there in my prior line of work on an advance.
And I forget which trip it was.
I think it was the one I was there with President Clinton.
I was a young agent with the Secret Service back then.
I was over as a poststander.
And I think it was that trip.
And we had a, this is not a joke.
This is not inflammatory.
It's not, it's a fact.
A former Soviet country.
And we had a black male agent with us.
And I forget where we were staying, the Metropole or the Marriott, whatever it was that time.
And in the hotel, the black agent's room found a little gift in the toilet bowl.
You can figure out, some of you may be eating, what it was.
I promise you it wasn't a bouquet of flowers.
Found a little gift in his room.
Didn't really think anything of it, but someone on one of the locals who was familiar with the area, let's say, said, yeah, that's not uncommon.
You know, they really, they don't like black men here.
I'm not joking, folks.
I'm not indicting everyone in Russia.
I'm not indicting people of Russian heritage.
I don't stereotype people.
I'm saying what happened right there and what that guy told us.
You think collectivists and Soviets and communists treated black men and women and minorities well?
Do you have any, even a basic, cursory understanding of history?
I don't mean, like, a PhD in history.
I mean, like, have you ever cracked a history book ever in your life, like, including back in the third grade?
I had Sister Ellen in third grade, and we knew this.
How do you think minorities, black men, asian men, muslims, minority communities, have been treated by collectivists and soviets and marxists like the head of black lives matter claims to be?
I thought black lives mattered to her.
Let me just answer that question for you.
Not well.
Little things like death, torture, concentration camps, if you google it you can actually figure that out.
Even the clowns at wikipedia probably get this one right.
China has concentration camps right now for Muslim minorities.
Just Google Uyghur concentration camps, China.
But the Black Lives Matter head, Patrisse Cullors, who claims Black Lives Matter, says she's a devout Marxist.
You know, Marxist.
Where they kill, exterminate, imprison, and put minorities in concentration camps, and they leave little gifts in the toilet bowl.
I promise you, they weren't flowers.
There it is.
There's your hero, folks.
I wonder when people in the alleged media, because I know, like I said, Kerry Pickett will ask real questions, but I wonder when people who claim to be journalists will start asking people who represent Black Lives Matter, hey, guys, ladies, I'm just checking.
You are the what-do-we-want-dead-cops-when-do-we-want-them-now crowd, right?
And all those companies out there donating to Black Lives Matter.
When are they going to be asked this question?
You were the pigs-in-a-blanket-fry-them-like-bacon crowd.
They're not talking about pigs.
They're talking about cops.
Your founder, Miss Patrisse Cullors, claims to be a Marxist.
You know Marxism?
Concentration camps, death, treatment of minorities, extermination, that kind of thing.
Hundreds of millions of dead bodies.
Is this really what you want to advocate for?
You sure?
Black lives don't matter to these people, folks.
And I'm very sorry if you've been suckered into believing, and you're being bullied into believing otherwise.
I'm not.
I'm telling you, I am.
You're in the military, you know FIGMO?
FIGMO, babe.
I am totally FIGMO.
F it.
Got my orders.
My orders are to go and fight for the cause.
I don't care.
You do whatever you want.
This show is not stopping.
Plowing straight ahead.
We don't care.
I have said this repeatedly.
I have insulated myself from all your stupidity with off-ramps everywhere.
There is nothing you can do to me to intimidate me anymore.
A man with nothing to lose is the most dangerous one out there.
And I don't mean dangerous.
I mean dangerous to these violent leftists.
I have nothing to lose.
There is nothing you can do to me.
You can come here for the truth every single day.
And what I can't fix by the show, I'll fix with my money.
And I'll fix with my business experience.
Because I do, just like you.
It's not just about the talk.
So yeah, I'm just checking.
I'm assuming, hoping many of you will email those companies that have supported Black Lives Matter groups out there.
Some of them we had a scrap.
Oh, I wasn't supposed to say that.
Sorry, don't care.
I assume you'll email them too and ask them why they're supporting groups who are Marxists, you know, murderers, Marxists calling for dead cops.
Get on that.
We did.
Okay, don't delete that.
I can already see it.
All right, let me get to this.
What do we got next?
I'm all fired up today, as you can tell.
I woke up this morning for Fox & Friends.
I've been gassed ever since.
I really am.
I'm really upset about what's going on in this country.
All right, let me get to this story before I get to my next.
Wait, hold up.
She's getting ready more.
Before we get to my next one, I just want to get this next story quick because I got a lot more material.
Showing again how people who don't know anything about anything should probably not say anything about things they don't know anything about.
Here's Brett Favre, who I used to respect.
Now I'm just kind of done with this dope.
So Brett Favre was a great quarterback for the Green Bay Packers.
Brett Favre, according to TMZ Sports, says that Colin Kaepernick, you know the Depicting pigs as socks-wearing guy?
Kaepernick is similar to Pat Tillman.
What?
I assume hero status will be stamped on Kaepernick.
Really?
Oh, that's fascinating.
Here's a from the piece.
Here's the actual quote by Brett Favre, in case you think I'm misquoting him.
Listen, you're a fan of this guy?
Great.
You do you.
This guy?
I don't know.
If I had an autographed Brett Favre jersey right now, I would throw it right in the garbage.
I'd be embarrassed to show it at my house.
Here's Brett Favre this week, and who doesn't know anything about anything?
Obviously, Pat Tillman.
He's a friend of Pat Tillman.
A man who gave up his salary and job in the NFL with the Arizona Cardinals.
Do you have that piece?
Oh, okay, sorry.
Who actually gave up his job, I think it's safety, with the Arizona Cardinals to go fight overseas.
Pat Tillman.
And who died over there.
Brett Favre comparing Kaepernick.
You have the photo of the socks, right?
This is Colin Kaepernick.
That's Colin Kaepernick's ankle.
What is he wearing?
He's wearing socks with police officers depicted as pigs.
So Brett Favre is comparing this guy, sock, cops-as-pigs wearer, with Pat Tillman, a patriot who left his million-dollar job in the NFL to go fight overseas and died.
Brett Favre.
Brett Favre.
Or as they call him in Something About Mary, Brett Favre.
Well, Brett Favre and Brett Favre, you're on my do-not-ever-send-a-dollar-to-anything-you-support-ever-again campaign.
I'll expect an apology today.
If you all would like to peacefully, of course, as we're not leftists like the BLM Marxists.
But if you'd like to tweet, parlay, or email, or whatever, Brett Favre, it'd be nice if you asked him for an apology.
Because we all deserve it.
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I wish I was wrong.
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I got that.
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I've been pushing this forever.
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Getting back to the show.
So, as I predicted, and I wished and hoped and prayed, I'm not kidding, that I was wrong.
The gutless NYPD police commissioner, Dermot Shea, who I've repeatedly called to resign on Twitter.
Dermot Shea, again, if you're working in New York, you live in New York, you should probably email your public officials there and request he resign as well.
Dermot Shea is the gutless police commissioner of New York City who decided it would be a good idea to disband the plainclothes anti-crime units.
Well, I went into last week why that was a bad idea, because most self-observed crimes by police officers, when a police officer observes a crime, Happens with plainclothes units.
The reason's fairly obvious.
If you're a criminal looking to commit a crime, and you see a uniformed police officer, you probably don't commit said crime, and you wait for the police officer to leave to then commit the crime.
You gonna rob a store?
You don't go, hey, let's wait for the cops to show up and rob the store.
That's not how it works.
So you don't have a lot of self-observed crime in New York with uniformed police officers.
It's usually a report from someone else.
Hey, that guy beat me up, and they go get him.
Well, they dumped anti-crime in the New York Post has a story on it, which will be in the show notes today.
Shooting surge in New York City, as I said, amid the disbanding of NYPD's plainclothes anti-crime unit.
Listen, folks, I wish I was wrong about this.
This was one of those.
Joe, you weren't a uniformed police officer at any point, correct?
Some of you may be new listeners.
Joe is, of course, our producer.
For those of you just finding us for the first time this weekend, for those old-timers, you know Joe better than Joe knows himself.
So Joe was not a uniformed law enforcement officer.
But Joe, wouldn't you agree That plainclothes units are probably a little more discreet than a man or a woman, a police uniform with a shield, a hat on, a firearm, and a baton.
A little more discreet, correct?
Plainclothes?
Yeah, the uniform is a giveaway.
Every time!
Every time, Joe!
Brilliant analysis by Armacost, who we've had running for president in this, robbing banks, and now he's a police official.
Brilliant analysis by Armacost.
Let me quote that.
Yeah.
For the show, quote, the uniform is a dead giveaway.
There it is.
Brilliant!
Thank you, sir.
Joe figured out what Dermot Shea, the commissioner of the New York City Police Department cannot.
Armacost, no law enforcement experience, great producer, zero experience in law enforcement.
Yes, Dan, the uniform, dead giveaway.
Dermot Shea, Police Commissioner of New York.
700 years in law enforcement.
Who the hell knows?
I heard he was a decent guy once as the CEO of a precinct in the Bronx.
Whatever decency has left this guy now.
Dermot Shea, Police Commissioner of New York.
We don't need those anti-crime units.
No worries at all.
Can we just name Joe the police commissioner of New York?
The uniform.
Yes, probably a dead giveaway.
So of course now people who are going to shoot other people who wouldn't do so with a uniform presence, but may if they were going to engage in some activity.
Maybe stopped by a plainclothes officer who they may not recognize right away because he's not in a uniform, which to quote Joe is a dead giveaway.
These are not the dreaded air quotes.
These are the celebrated air quotes because it was brilliant.
They may actually catch the guy and stop him as he goes like this.
Can we even do that on YouTube anymore?
Is that like going to freak people out?
It's a finger thing.
It's not real.
Go like that, the anti-crime guy probably sees it.
Police don't move.
That kind of thing.
But of course, none of that's happening, because they don't want any uniformed officers on the street.
They want to defund them.
And the anti-crime cops who would have stopped it are now not there either, because they're in uniform.
Probably in the precinct.
They probably have them doing flower deliveries and sweeping off people's front porches now.
Screenshot from the New York Post piece.
I'm always throwing Paul off the screen.
Just read it.
This is amazing.
Read this piece in the show notes.
Bongino.com slash newsletter.
Read it, please.
And if I don't get to the Spygate stuff, read ahead to the Margo Cleveland article too, because it's great.
I'll get to some of it.
Shootings are surging this week in New York City with 28 incidents and 38 victims reported since Monday.
38 people have been shot in New York City since Monday?
Oh, are we in like a middle of a war zone?
That's the day, by the way, the New York City Police Department disbanded its plainclothes anti-crime unit, the Post learned on Friday.
By the way, folks, I knew this was going to happen.
I didn't think it was going to happen this quickly, being candid with you.
By comparison, the same week last year, there were only 12 shootings for the entire week.
In the most recent reported shooting at 4 p.m.
Friday in East New York, Brooklyn.
Why does that sound familiar, folks?
Because that's where I was a cop in the 7-5 precinct.
A 27-year-old man died of multiple gunshots and wounds to his torso, face, and leg in front of 640 Stanley Avenue, a location I know well.
A 17-year-old boy was also shot.
There was in stable condition, police said.
Quote, this is what the politicians wanted.
No bail, nobody in Rikers, cops not arresting one.
One angry law enforcement source said Friday, all those things equal people walking around on the street with guns, shooting each other.
It's not a joke, folks.
It's not that this is funny.
This is like, this is not some celebratory moment.
Look, I was right.
Gosh, I wanted to be wrong.
There's nothing I would have liked more than for Dermot Shea, after his 30 years or whatever in law enforcement, to have some brilliant insight that anti-crime wasn't needed anymore, and that he disbands anti-crime and crime goes down.
I would love to be wrong.
Come in and say, hey, Dermot Shea, you were right.
Taking plainclothes officers off the street and putting them in uniforms, you were absolutely right.
Great idea.
Unfortunately, my experience has taught me otherwise.
I told you this was going to happen.
I just didn't think it was going to happen this weekend.
And now 38 people have gunshots in them in their bodies.
Real people with real lives whose blood is red just like you and me have actual bullets in them this weekend because we thought pulling anti-crime cops off the street was a good idea.
And by we, I mean Dermot Shea.
Listen, Dermot Shea is not a dope.
I've got a lot of emails, and I know you're watching this, Dermot Shea, because our audience is so big now, no one can avoid what we say on the show, thanks to you.
You're the power, not me.
I'm not a BLM collectivist.
You are the power, the individual listening to this show.
But this show is way too powerful to ignore anymore.
And I know Dermot Shea, based on the audience of cops we have, which is substantial, I know you'll see this.
You're a disgrace.
You took a once-decorated career.
Guys liked you.
I got a lot of emails.
Said you were a decent commanding officer when you were in the Bronx.
And you sold your soul.
You sold your soul to clown communist mayor de Blasio.
And because you sold your soul, people will die.
And 38 people, good portion of them probably have bullets in them this weekend because you can't enforce the law in America's biggest city.
Just resign.
Seriously.
Just walk away in shame now before it gets worse.
You disgraced yourself on the badge.
And I'm really sorry we have to call you out.
Man, don't pick fights with these people.
Don't care.
At all.
Yeah, yeah, Dermot Chan, what have you done, Dan?
Have you ever walked away from your job?
Ah, yeah, moron, I did.
I left my job to go run for office.
We didn't win, but at least we stood for something, unlike you, coward.
What does this guy know?
What, did he actually leave his job to run for office?
Oh, yes, uh, uh.
Different guy, sorry.
Dunce.
All right, I'm gonna get to some of this Spygate stuff when we get it tomorrow.
There have been a lot of incredible developments.
And finally, finally, people are picking up on what the big story is.
What have I told the audience is the biggest angle of the Spygate story that very few people are reporting on from the beginning.
The biggest angle is this.
Not only was the Trump team spied on, we know that.
Again, that's old news at this point.
Great.
We wrote two, now three books about it, my October book coming up.
It's not that they were spied on.
Yeah, that's scandalous enough.
It's that you paid for it.
No.
We?
Taxpayers?
Yes, you.
No, Dan, Hillary paid for it.
Hillary.
She did?
You sure?
Hillary paid for the dossier.
You're right.
Hillary did pay for it.
But who paid the people who put the information in the anti-Trump peepee dossier?
You did.
No!
I've been warning you about this from the start.
Now, Catherine Herridge, who's brilliant, she's over at CBS right now, used to be at Fox, a colleague over there.
Catherine and I are not, I've never actually met her in person, despite the fact that we worked at the same company for a while, but she is brilliant.
And she has out in a tweet, this is a week old, this is when we've been dying to put this up all week, but she says, hey, there's a key timeline here.
August 10th, the dossier specifically mentions Mike Flynn.
August 11th, Horowitz found that the FBI team met with Confidential Source 2.
That's Halper, by the way.
And then five days later, they opened a crossfire razor on Mike Flynn.
Why does this matter?
Because Katherine Harrods is starting to figure out that, gosh, this guy Halper, Confidential Human Source 2, seems to show up at every single critical junction in this case.
And some of the information he has, Joe, keeps appearing in the dossier Hillary paid for.
But who was paying Halper?
The FBI government spy.
Well, if you'd like to read ahead to tomorrow's show, I strongly encourage you to read this piece by the great Margot Cleveland at The Federalist.
That is absolutely stunning.
What's inside Graslie's letter demanding more about the deep state role in Spygate?
Let me rephrase the Margot Cleveland headline.
Holy crap, you paid for Stephen Alpert to spy on the Trump team.
That's the real title of this.
This is an unbelievable piece.
And I encourage you to read ahead in the show notes, bongito.com slash newsletter, because I'm going to be going into detail about this tomorrow.
I'll do a little teaser here about what this is.
Again, Harrods is starting to figure it out.
Her tweet, well, it's not starting.
She's very smart.
It sounded condescending and I did not intend it that way at all.
My, forgive me, Catherine Harrods, brilliant.
She's known this for a long time.
But now she's tweeting publicly about what she knows.
That this guy Halper, who was being paid by the Pentagon, you know, the Pentagon for the liberals out there, our Pentagon, taxpayer thing, Department of Defense, you know, Pentagon thing.
Halper, who's spying on the Trump team, was being paid by an office within the Pentagon called the Office of Net Assessment.
Information only Halper had seems to be appearing in the dossier Hillary paid for.
But I thought the dossier was the work of Christopher Steele.
A lot of people thought that.
Hence the name the Steele dossier.
But what if the Steele dossier is really the Steele-Halper-Glenn-Simpson dossier, and taxpayer money was used to pay Halper, which in turn got information into the dossier used to spy on the presidency?
That has been the scandal from day one.
That's been it.
It's not just that Hillary, we know she's corrupt, paid to spy on the Trump team.
It's that you did.
Let's go to screenshot number one from this Federalist piece.
Again, read ahead because this is going to get very, very good.
Screenshot number one from Margot Cleveland's terrific piece in the Federalist.
Halper, who spied on the Trump team, he's a spy, folks.
It's as simple as that.
He was spying on Carter Page, spying on George Papadopoulos.
Halper wasn't only working for the FBI.
He was also receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from ONA, the Office of Net Assessments in the Pentagon.
Including, oh, as I told you, as I told you, including two contracts that span the same time period as the crossfire hurricane investigation of the Trump campaign.
Whoa!
Isn't that a stunner?
Grassley sought more information about these contracts from ONA, but the Iowa Republican Senator received little help from Jim Baker from ONA.
Why would they be looking to hide these contracts?
Because that's Svetlana Lakova, who has a great book out right now, by the way, who was a victim of Halper and the SpyGate scandal.
She has a book out now, The Inside Story of SpyGate.
It's on, uh, where bookstores are sold out there, Barnes & Noble, in other words.
Pick it up at your bookstore.
As she has pointed out to me often in conversations she's given me permission to share, those contracts are suspicious.
So Halper is being paid by the Pentagon with your tax dollars to produce information that seems to creep up on a corresponding timeline of exactly when Steele produces his dossier memos.
Ladies and gentlemen, think about the impact of that.
And I'm going to go into what happened afterwards and how bad I'll go into it in tomorrow's show.
It's not just that Hillary paid the spy on Trump.
You did.
Contracts from the United States government paid to a spy spying on the Trump team marry up almost perfectly with the timeline of the crossfire hurricane FBI investigation into the Trump team.
Oh, don't worry.
That's just a big coincidence according to Adam Schiff and the other clowns, Jerry Nadler and that crew.
Just a big coincidence, I'm sure.
I'll go into more tomorrow.
I've got a number of other screenshots from this piece, but that is the big takeaway.
Not only was he paid by the Pentagon helper, who was spying on the Trump team, but the contracts overlap with the FBI's crossfire hurricane investigation?
Don't worry, just a big winky dink, I'm sure.
Not so much.
Wow, that was a lot of material for today.
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