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Folks, we're gonna go into this today, the whole concession talk again.
There will be no concession.
Not today.
How many times do I have to say this?
Not tomorrow.
Paula, how's next week looking?
Is it looking okay?
No, Paula's shaking her head.
Joe, how do you feel?
Next week, is next week looking good maybe?
No.
Not so much.
Okay.
Me either.
Me either.
So that's two out of three.
And as Meatloaf said, two out of three ain't bad.
They're not going to be a concession until we're sure we have an actual free and fair result.
Okay?
Okay.
I got a video today, though, I'm going to show you at the beginning of the show, showing you how the media was obsessed with Al Gore not conceding in 2000, while they're obsessed with President Trump conceding despite significant disputes about what the results of this election are.
That video is great.
Hat tip, newsbusters.
We'll get to that also today on the agenda.
Please don't go anywhere.
It's a loaded show.
I haven't said that in a while.
I'm going to go through the anatomy of a hit today.
How the media colludes with lunatics on social media, does no fact-checking whatsoever, runs with totally fake stories.
I'm gonna walk you to a hint.
Someone tried to shake us down for some money.
And it didn't work out over at Parliament.
I'll walk you through exactly how they all coordinate.
You're going to love this story, I promise you.
And then at the end of the show today, I want to get to the Mike Flynn story back again.
There's talk of a potential pardon.
You're not going to want to miss that either, how the media keeps reporting on fake news about Flynn.
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Producer Joe, how are you today?
Fine, sir.
No, I'm doing pretty good, man.
Just looking for the concession stand, but I can't find one.
It's not gonna, it's...
I can't see it, it's just not gonna happen.
And like Joe said, and Paula, two out of three.
Well, three out of three, in this case, next week doesn't look good either.
Just putting that out there.
By the way, tomorrow, programming note, tomorrow we will be off, but there will be a Bon Gino brief on our feed.
If you want to go to get the Bon Gino brief, Amazon Alexa has it.
You can go to the settings and just hit add content and you can add it.
It's also on Apple podcast.
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So check it out tomorrow, the Bon Gino brief, please.
Have that.
All right, let's get to it.
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Ding, ding.
I'm really stoked about today's show.
I woke up today feeling very energetic.
Went back for a blood test yesterday.
The doctor was like, fantastic.
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Your blood's looking pretty good.
So that was two big thumbs up.
Yes, yes.
So like, yes, yeah.
I was like, I have like some Wolverine-like ability to repair when my red blood cell counts, which is great, which is just awesome.
I'm looking for Professor Exud.
So I said I'd get to this first.
Just quickly, there will be no concession until we can determine we had a free and fair election.
So again, everyone waiting on it, you can just keep waiting because there will be none.
But just a quick media montage here, hat tip our friends at News Busters.
What I'm going to play for you is video audio of the media during the Al Gore-Trump, excuse me, Al Gore-Bush fight in 2000, where remember that went on for 37 days.
And the media, of course, because Al Gore was a Democrat, And that election was disputed.
The media was encouraging Gore, don't you concede?
We found fraud here, what we think is fraud there, and then you're gonna hear, and you'll see.
The media now.
He must concede.
No evidence of fraud.
So this is a media montage of media when it was a Democrat Gore versus media on concession now that it's a Republican and Trump.
Check this out.
This is hilarious watching these frauds.
There is no question or very little question that Al Gore won the votes cast in the state of Florida.
The question is, will he win the votes counted?
And there's some stories in Florida still developing.
We don't know all the facts, but it really looks odd.
Some say, listen, Danny, is the quote, is the fix in Florida?
No evidence whatsoever of illegal votes or any kind of election fraud.
Voting irregularities are alleged in some counties.
Some irregularities in the vote count.
Voting irregularities.
Voting improprieties.
Just to be very clear, there is no evidence of, quote, clear and apparently credible allegations of irregularities.
Do you think in Florida that voter fraud has been perpetrated?
Problems with voter fraud.
There is no evidence of fraud.
Democrats say two Republican workers committed a felony.
Voting offices resembling crime scenes.
There is no evidence.
He has yet to put forth any evidence.
There's no evidence.
There is no evidence of malfeasance.
A poll worker shows up to the elections office this afternoon with a bag of ballots.
Why are they showing up now?
We're watching a conspiracy theory be woven in real time.
Baselessly crying fraud.
Making unhinged accusations.
Yesterday, early editions of the New York Post got it wrong.
Printed out.
Bush wins.
The Gore campaign today boldly predicted that when the final vote is in, they will prevail.
There it is!
You may be saying if you're listening on radio or audio, Dan, that's weird.
Because in one sentence, I'm hearing media people say, there's evidence of fraud in this Gore-Bush election.
Oh my gosh, we need to look into this.
Ballots are showing up.
This is crazy time.
And then in the next sentence, what am I hearing?
I'm hearing some of the same media enterprises say, there's no fraud.
President Trump has to concede.
Yeah, that's exactly what you're hearing.
When it involves a Democrat, don't concede.
When it involves a Republican, you must concede immediately.
Don't overthink it.
That's exactly what that was.
If you're watching on Rumble, you saw it.
It's obvious because the older video footage you can see is from 2000.
It's grainier.
They're just phonies.
So we'll continue to ignore them.
Thanks!
Keep waiting on that concession.
You can hang out over there.
We got a chair in the corner in our green room.
It's not actually a green room.
Our studio is an old apartment, but it's a bedroom next door.
You can hang out over there and we'll get back to you next week.
I'm closing the door for Thanksgiving.
So bring food and stuff.
There's a bathroom.
Don't worry.
You can brush your teeth.
Just don't use my toothbrush.
We have an extra quip in there.
I'll give you one.
Don't use mine.
Here's one more quick piece of video.
You know, it's the day before Thanksgiving.
Keep you in a good mood, despite everything going on.
President Trump's still swinging.
Gotta love this guy.
He did a little presser yesterday about the massive run-up in the stock market, which crossed 30,000 yesterday.
And President Trump wanted to take a bit of a celebratory lap, and I don't blame him.
So he's out at the press conference and he ended the press conference this way.
Check this out.
And I just want to congratulate all the people within the administration that work so hard.
And most importantly, I want to congratulate the people of our country because there are no people like you.
Thank you very much, everybody.
And I want to congratulate the people of this country, because they're nothing like you idiots.
Well, I threw idiots in, but that's, believe me, that's what he was thinking.
That is 100% what he was thinking.
Still swinging!
Not an ounce of fight drained from his body.
Good for him.
Because we got big fights ahead.
All right, let me get to my story today.
So I asked Paula, I was kind of tossing this around.
I'm like, what do we talk about first?
Cause I have a lot of good stuff and I don't want it to seem self-serving.
Obviously I have a financial interest in Parler.
And I didn't want to cover this first, but the story is fascinating because it involved a viral story with air quotes yesterday and Parler was the subject of it.
And if you don't know what happened behind the scenes, you think this story was real.
And some of you may be new to my show, may have some liberal leanings, believe still that the media tells you the truth.
This story and what happened to us yesterday in this viral hoax in Parler is such a damning story, not so much about Parler, although we were the focus of it, but about how easy it is to fish and hook in idiots in the media who at a moment's notice will propagate a false story as long as it meets their political needs.
And yet demand a fact check from a Republican about any story about Donald Trump.
Donald Trump says he likes ice cream.
Fact check it.
And yet when you ask them to fact check stories like this one about Parler, they do no fact.
They just run with the story.
Here's what I mean.
Let's get right to this.
First, let me just talk about the New York Times first.
Because what's going on here is part of a larger operation by people in the mainstream activist liberal media.
To engage in massive anti-civil liberties movements and speech suppression.
They want everyone wiped off Facebook with any influence at all.
Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere.
But make no mistake, the New York Times is now Pravda.
And these three are part of it.
Kevin Roos, Mike Isaac, and here she is!
Shira Frankel again!
Remember Shira Frankel?
Anti-free speech activist who wrote about us the other day?
Now, the New York Times, which promoted the pee-pee hoax, of course, and did no fact-checking on that at all, they wrote this article yesterday, Facebook struggles to balance civility and growth.
Blah, blah, blah.
What's this article really about?
Let me get to the screenshot there.
It's an effort by people in the media, like these folks here at the New York Times.
Who want, make no mistake, their only goal is to silence conservative speech.
That's it.
They've no, the facts and truth are not their goal.
Here's what they wrote and their piece in there.
They're talking about this new algorithm that Facebook alleged, Facebook denies this to be fair, you know, which they won't be to us, but I'll give you, but Facebook denies this happened.
But it says that Facebook wanted to emphasize the importance after the election.
This is from a source of what they call news ecosystem quality scores.
Oh my gosh, does this sound Orwellian?
Or Joe, N.E.Q.
scores.
So I guess we'll call them N.E.Q.
scores, which is a secret internal ranking Facebook assigns to news publishers based on signals about the quality of their journalism.
So the allegation here is that Facebook gave these high-neck scores to make sure authoritative news appeared more prominently.
This is hilarious.
What is this?
This is nothing more than a threat by the pee-pee hoaxers at the New York Times who've gotten almost nothing right about Trump for four years now, have humiliated themselves, journalism, everything.
New York Times, you know, Walter Duranty, New York Times, that was on the side of the Soviet Union versus America.
Remember that, New York Times?
Those guys, yeah, and ladies out there.
This piece is nothing more than an attempt to cover for Facebook to say, no, no, no, Facebook, they're just promoting this score because Joe, they're just trying to promote, that's a quote from the piece, authoritative news sites.
Yeah.
Joe, just to be clear, I'm just, this is a, we're just a question just to make sure you can, you know, the audience is picking up what I'm putting down here.
Bunt, bunt.
Do you think that authoritative news sources that Facebook is trying to promote and the New York Times are referring to are Bongino.com that nailed the Spygate hoax, Breitbart that's pretty much on top of stuff, The Daily Caller, Chuck Ross over there.
Do you think that's what they're talking about for authoritative news sources that Facebook wants to promote?
Yeah, man.
I do think that.
Don't even have to think about it.
Yeah.
That's it.
That's it?
Of course!
Folks, the authoritative news sources are the peepee hosts.
New York Times, the Washington Post, Joe's of course messing with you.
No, this is not at all, this is what they're doing.
They're trying to provide cover from Facebook.
Oh folks, don't worry, don't worry.
We're the New York Times.
Facebook's next score, which again, Facebook denies.
But I'm just telling you, this is out there and seems to comport with the reality of my page and what happened to our page's distribution after the election.
Since come back a bit, again, to be fair and give both sides, which Facebook won't do to us, with their fake fact checks, they are not promoting authoritative news sources.
We are engaged in a war for free speech.
That war's coming to your door soon.
I promise you.
And that war on free speech is going to be led by corporate America.
People in government are going to lag behind.
Oh, you don't want to take a vaccine?
That's your call.
It's a free country.
You're not going to be able to board a plane or something.
Look at Qantas.
I saw an article about Qantas.
You want to run your business and run your business's Facebook page, yet you have a Trump sign outside of your business?
Watch when your Facebook page gets fact-checked and starts getting reported for stuff you didn't do.
Man.
You put on Twitter some alternative therapy to some disease out there that you think could be legitimate?
Watch Twitter take you down.
The war's happening right in front of your face.
And the war against misinformation is not a war against conservative misinformation, it's a war against liberal misinformation.
Let me give you this anatomy of a takedown, because this is what happened to us yesterday.
Here's how it started.
A while ago, we got an email from this life loser and troll, this basement dwelling lunatic, piece of human filth and garbage.
Oh my gosh, Dan, that sounds brutal.
Look this guy up and you'll see what I'm talking about.
So here's this guy, William Legate, who's had trouble before, by the way.
He had to make a retraction after lying about Project Veritas.
So he's got a history of doing stuff like this.
So this troll Legate emailed our CEO at Parler.
And he wanted money.
Hey dude, hurry up and have a drink so you're going to Vegas.
And, uh, curious if you still have the bounty program for liberal influencers to join.
Here's the thing.
Uh, we put out this $20,000 or something reward for liberals to join Parler a while ago.
So this guy's interesting.
He admits he trolls on Twitter.
He says, I have on Parler.
He says, I have a Parler account, but I've just used it to troll, but happy to use it under my real name and promote it under my Twitter if properly incentivized.
You get it?
So he's winking and nodding at us that we should somehow pay him off under this bounty program, this lunatic, to promote parlor.
Well, we promptly told him to pound sand.
Well, because he's a troll with a history of making retractions for lies, he decided, well, if I can't get money out of Parler, then I might as well attack Parler and make stuff up.
So, but you can't just do it by yourself because this guy doesn't have, nobody takes this guy seriously.
So he needed a media enterprise to take him seriously, to run with his fairy tale about Parler in this ridiculous attempt to shake us down for money.
So next thing you know, after the money never came, This is what appeared on Parler, under his Parler account.
He says, That sounds bad, folks.
Parler, we were censoring your hashtag?
RightInTrumpForGeorgia?
Man, we're really terrible.
That's awful.
what happened to the First Amendment, conveniently from the same guy, William LeGate.
That sounds bad, folks. Parler, we were censoring your hashtag? #WriteInTrumpForGeorgia? Man,
we're really terrible. That's awful. What's the problem with that story?
Nobody was ever censoring your hashtag at all.
Oh, Dan, you made a mistake.
No, no, no, no, no.
The story's totally made up.
The guy didn't get his money.
Now the guy's mad.
So the guy decides to try to attack Parler with a fake story about us censoring some pro-Trump hashtag in Georgia.
You understand the story's totally made up.
You could have put the hashtag in yourself and whatever's on parlor will come up.
But it requires you to actually put the hashtag in correctly.
So some people typed it in wrong.
Oh my gosh, nothing appeared.
So of course this story went viral.
Well, why?
People, I thought you said nobody believes this loser.
Um, they don't.
But when somehow the story gets pitched to mainstream media people who hate Parler, you think, Joe, right?
I mean, you have been the contrarian devil's advocate in today's show.
Yes.
You would think if you were a media person writing about Parler censoring a hashtag that you would actually go into Parler and put in the hashtag and see if it's censored?
Would you do that if you were a journalist?
It's worth a look, Dan.
It's just, you know, check it out.
Worth a look-see.
Confirmed by producer Joe.
Worth a look-see, folks.
Paula, would you agree?
Maybe a good idea to put the hashtag in?
Paula agrees, so there you go.
Two out of three ain't bad.
But, no, no, no, none of that actually happened.
So some dipwad at Newsweek named James Crowley decided, hey, I'll just write about this story.
Free speech, air quotes.
Social network parlor allegedly censoring Right in Trump for Georgia by James Crowley.
The story's totally made up.
This is the anatomy of a hit.
Ask for money, don't get money.
Create a viral fake news story, pitch it to idiots in the media who will then run with it.
The story's totally fake.
The allegation is totally false!
All this idiot Crowley had to do was put the hashtag in himself!
Now, when I debunked it because I came out and said, guys, ladies, again, Parler's under attack because liberals, New York Times, and elsewhere hate free speech, and Parler actually promotes free speech.
We're under attack.
This is just another in the one of what, Paula, 50 stories I've had debunked?
George Soros owns Parler.
We censor Trump supporters.
We steal your social security number.
What else?
We're working with Thanos and the Infinity Stones to destroy the Earth.
You understand these are all fake stories, only meant to discredit the company because we support free speech.
So when none of that worked, and the Newsweek guy, I discredited him, then NBC had to jump in.
So you can always rely on this dipwad, Ben Collins from NBC, to always promote it.
Here he is, Ben Collins, at one underscore on Twitter.
He says, talking about Parler, quotes the Newsweek story in his tweet.
This is hilarious.
Again, it's a very loose definition of free speech, talking about Parler, where he cites the fake Newsweek story.
Here's the funny thing.
Look at Ben Collins' ID, what he puts up on Twitter next to his avatar.
This is hilarious.
He's a, quote, reporter, folks, for NBC News.
Reporter.
Journalist.
Another guy, Joe, just checking, probably a good idea to check the story first, maybe put the hashtag in.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, man.
We're just putting that out there.
We're just putting that out there.
So, step one, again.
Demand money.
Step two, don't get money.
Make a fake story.
Try to go viral.
Use idiots in the media who always call for fact checks everywhere else, who don't even fact check the story themselves.
Let Newsweek and this moron at NBC, Ben Collins, run with the story.
But listen, it's not enough to have two morons.
James Crowley from Newsweek and Ben Collins from NBC.
You need the biggest moron of all, who's got still a big microphone.
The morons at Drudge Report, Sludge Report, which has totally sold out America and the conservative movement.
They'll run with it too.
Here's the story on Drudge today.
Free speech parlor allegedly censoring posts.
Judge the human waste repository.
The guy who would... The website, seriously, that would sell out their dogs for money to make a buck.
Promoting a totally fake story.
That story's fake.
But again, because Parler is a conservative, free speech leaning, conservative being that I'm there, and liberal, you can go over there too, but a free speech app.
Drudge has to attack it.
Folks, it didn't end.
It didn't end.
When that fake story didn't work, that Parler was censoring Trump supporters, which was fake, Legate comes back again!
You know, the guy, whatever.
Here he is again on Twitter!
Turns out Parler left its database credentials unencrypted on a public API.
I've redacted their server passwords.
But this is very, very bad for Parler.
Here he is again!
Loser.
Dipwad.
Has this guy's parents disavowed him yet?
I would.
On Twitter, again making up another story now that we've been hacked.
Totally fake, made up, fabricated fairy tale story.
No truth to it at all.
Yes, you're probably asking about the legal... Yes, we are working on legal options.
We're not stupid.
That's for another day.
We're not dumb.
Legate courts restricted access to his account after that.
I think he knows he's in significant trouble now.
So Dipwad Legate now posts Parler is hacked.
But again, this guy's not smart enough to make a story go viral on his own because people know he's a fraud.
So he needs other people to play in.
Who plays in, of course, our best friends, and I mean worst enemies at Twitter, who are only more than apt to use dunce liberals to make the story trend.
Look, trending in the United States on Twitter.
Number one, SSNs.
What does that have to do with anything?
SSNs.
Keep this up, Paul.
Well, that was trending because liberals who are dumb as mutated toads, imbecile liberals, never fact check anything.
And Twitter, who claims to be a fact checker, let SSNs for social security numbers go viral because the allegation was, and why SSNs was trending, Is that Parler was demanding your social security number and was hacked and your social security number's out there.
Okay.
Both of those are false.
Parler does not ask for a social security number.
You could have just checked that.
That's not true.
And Parler wasn't hacked.
Number two.
And look at the bottom.
It's also trending.
Parler hacked.
This is what we deal with all day.
But then again, tell me folks how Newsweek, the New York Times, Ben Collins from NBC and Twitter are the sources of real news.
They're the legitimate fact checkers.
Jack Dorsey needs to put labels on stuff.
And yet when a totally fake story gets debunked, they let that trend.
And then when that story gets debunked, they let another fake story about parlor trend because they're not interested in the facts.
They're interested in political attacks.
Sorry to wear you out with that story, but the story, although it's about parlor, it's not really about parlor.
Do you understand the umbrella takeaways here?
The people claiming to be these harbingers of truth and justice, Twitter, Facebook, Newsweek, the New York Times, Ben Collins at NBC, they are openly lying to you, Drudge, Twitter.
They're making fake stories go viral.
Promoting disinformation and misinformation.
Everything from Parler was hacked to the PP hoax.
To Parler asked for your social security number.
Really?
Just go to Parler.
Maybe you'd sign up and you'll notice there's no line for social security number.
That's kind of weird how we're asking you for it, yet it's not there.
These are the disinformation, misinformation specialists.
And yet they flipped the script and made you believe that we're the ones doing it.
Watch this, kid.
Better get a good lawyer.
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All right, we got a change in show plans today.
You know, we always take a break after that second thing.
Go straight through.
You don't see any break at all.
But Paula said to me during this 30 second break we take, she's like, I think you should talk about the Mike Flynn story next.
And I agree with her because she's smart.
That's why I married her.
And a beauty too.
She says, it kind of goes with your theme of fake news.
But this story is important because again, this stuff gets into the public psyche.
Folks, there are still people out there, people portraying themselves as credible news outlets, who refuse to tell the truth about General Mike Flynn.
They continue to propagate the myth, which I'm sorry if you've heard it on the show now four or five times, that Mike Flynn lied about discussing sanctions with the Russian ambassador.
Ladies and gentlemen, the story is absolutely false.
The evidence is right in front of your eyes.
Why am I talking about this now?
Well, let's get to the story first, and then the sanctions part, because there's two pieces to the story.
First, current news of the day.
There's some talk out there about President Trump finally pardoning General Mike Flynn.
The story's up in Axios.
Scoop, Axios, Jonathan Swan.
Trump tells Confidants that he plans to pardon Michael Flynn.
Let's get to that first, before we get to the screenshot from the piece.
Ladies and gentlemen, great.
Listen, I read your emails.
I understand.
I respect and value my audience.
The reason my email, Paula's email, the show email is out there, because we really like to read your feedback.
I read a lot of your tweets, your parlays, your Facebook posts in return, because the show is for you.
Let me just put this out there to give you my audience's view, full spectrum.
About 50% of you basing emails do not want Flynn pardoned.
It's not because they don't like and respect the general.
It's that they think he should see this legal process to the end and have the judge, Judge Sullivan, who's not acting like a judge at all, be forced to throw the case out.
Joe, make sense?
Can you speak for this?
Does that make sense?
Like half the audience is saying, no, Dan, a pardon would be kind of a semi-admission of guilt.
And we should run this through to the legal end and make sure a court of law says Mike Flynn did not do this.
I get it.
I understand you.
I disagree.
With respect.
The other 50% are on my side of this, and Paula's and Joe's too, which is like, hey, ladies and gentlemen, this isn't justice what's happening.
If you're seeking justice with air quotes in a justice system that is not acting according to the principles of justice, how do you ever expect to get justice?
Can I give you an analogy quick?
Permission, Paula, to make an analogy.
Sometimes on Fox, you always say, permission for an analogy, because you never know where that analogy is going to go, right?
Seriously, you ever hear Jesse say that on Fox?
Permission to make an analogy.
It's a joke, but you never know.
This is a good one.
If Joe Armacost, my good friend, was accused of robbing a bank, and I know Joe was down here in Florida with me when the bank in Maryland was robbed.
I know Joe didn't rob the bank.
Just like I know Mike Flynn did nothing wrong.
I know it.
I can prove it.
It's easy.
Why would I allow Joe to go to trial for a charge where the judge hates Joe?
He's a liberal.
He knows Joe works with the Dan Bongino Show.
And the judge keeps sticking it to Joe to make his life miserable over a course of years with the hope one day Joe will win.
Why would we allow that to happen when there is a corrective mechanism?
Say I was the governor of Maryland.
And I had the power to pardon Joe.
That is justice.
The pardon power to the governor or the president of the United States is written in the Constitution as a mechanism to correct for when justice isn't done.
Justice is not being done.
You're relying on a judge, Judge Sullivan, who is a political hack.
He's a discredited, fake judge.
He's not acting as a judge.
And you're hoping to get justice for him?
I disagree.
With respect, I see your point.
You're not crazy.
Your points are reasoned and logical.
But I just think they're drawing on a false conclusion.
Which is that justice is going to be served by a judge not interested in justice.
There is justice in the Constitution.
The President's ability to go into the system and pardon people without condition.
To correct for when justice isn't done.
That is justice.
That's real justice.
Now, what about the misinformation piece?
Ah, let's get to that next.
So down in the piece, again, I don't know Jonathan Swan.
It's not a personal beef.
I saw him in a green room once at this Politicon event.
Sounds like a nice guy.
It's not personal.
But whoever wrote this, John, or I don't know if he's on the byline, I assume he did it, put in his piece a piece of false information.
Why isn't this fact-checked by Facebook or Twitter?
I thought they were the bastions of honesty and truth and goodwill.
This is a knowingly false statement.
From the Axios piece, quote, Flynn then lied about not discussing sanctions to Vice President Mike Pence, who repeated that denial to the media.
Oh my gosh.
Now, you regular listeners to my show are probably clawing at your faces, pulling your hair out right now, going, again, with the sanctions thing?
Where did Swan get this, that Flynn lied about sanctions?
Where did he get it?
Wikipedia?
Joke-a-poke-sa-pedia?
If Flynn was asked about sanctions in an FBI interview, and then lied about discussing sanctions, With the Russian ambassador, as Swan's asserting in the piece, then Joe, wouldn't you think the FBI documentation of the interview where they allegedly asked about sanctions would contain the word sanctions and a question about sanctions?
Joe, you're an integral part of the show today, Joe.
I'm just throwing that out there.
Confuse me, but yeah, I think that would be part of it.
Yeah.
I know you could.
Was it my cousin Vinny?
Let me unconfuse you.
Let me unconfuse you for a minute.
Here, in fact, because Joe's very confused.
This is very perplexing to poor Joe.
You know, poor guy just robbed a bank and got framed for it.
He's very confused right now.
So in the middle of his stress, I'm going to help you through this.
So here is the FBI 302, which Jonathan Swan could have checked out himself.
Of, in other words, the documentation of their interview.
with Michael Flynn, so let's go with, let's help Jonathan Swan out here.
Let's go to page one of the FBI interview.
Joe, do you see the word sanctions?
We've done this now four or five times, so you get to cheat a little bit.
Do you see the word sanctions on page one anywhere?
I see expulsion.
You see that?
I highlighted that.
Expulsion of Russian diplomats.
I'm not seeing it.
I don't see it.
Paula, Paula, do you see it?
Okay, Paula's shaking her head no.
Joe, do you see it?
The answer is, No for Joe, no for Paul.
Okay, it's clearly on page two.
We missed it.
Swan said he lied about sanctions, so if the FBI... Sure, of course.
If he asked about sanctions, it's in their documentation, page two.
Reading through the interview... Speed reading here with the expulsion... I see expulsions again.
Not sanctions, not really.
PNG, persona non media...
I don't see it, Joe.
Do you see it?
Quick survey again, Joe.
It's crazy time.
Crazy bills everywhere.
Paula, did you see sanctions in there?
Paula's giving us a no.
That's a no-ski.
So that's true.
Swan put it in his report, so it's definitely on page three of the FBI's own notes, where the FBI asked him about sanctions because they said, as Swan said, he lied about sanctions.
So it's definitely on page three.
So let's check out the critical page three arrowhead.
Page three of the document.
Expulsions, every season there's expulsions again.
I see expulsions the second time.
I don't see it.
I just don't see it anywhere.
Gosh, that's really weird.
The FBI must have forgot.
It's crazy.
Joe's under stress right now.
Joe's being framed for a bank robbery, just like Flynn's being framed for talking about sanctions that were never discussed in the interview.
That the FBI never mentioned in their own report of the interview about sanctions that never happened.
Swan could look that up.
Again, it isn't personal.
He's a reporter.
Maybe do some reporting?
Or maybe issue a correction on your story?
Fact check?
You know, like they do to us?
Fake fact checks?
Maybe a real fact check of your own enterprise, Axios.
Where you say, fact check, note, there is no evidence sanctions were ever discussed in the FBI interview.
And if you could produce it, I'd like to see it.
This gets worse, believe it or not.
You're saying the FBI didn't discuss sanctions?
No, no, they didn't.
Let me get to my third sponsor, because I want to explain this.
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Not only did the FBI not discuss sanctions, ever, so Flynn's story is completely wrong.
That they framed him on it is transparently clear when you read their own notes.
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All right, folks, getting back to this story.
So now we know Swan didn't fact-check his own story because Flynn, there's no evidence anywhere that Flynn was actually asked about sanctions.
He allegedly, kind of hard to lie about sanctions you weren't asked about, no?
If Woody would have went straight to the police, some of you will get that.
So surely the FBI has some notes on this interview too, like handwritten notes outside of their typed up notes.
Yeah, yeah, we have some of those too.
And I want to show you something interesting.
It'll come up again in a second.
This will be wrong.
This is their actual handwritten notes of the interview.
And there's a key part of this I want you to take a look at.
They're notes of what Flynn was telling them in the interview, where again, he allegedly lied about sanctions he was never asked about.
Check this out.
This little handwritten FBI note is just fascinating.
It says at the end, boxed us in.
You can see that right there.
If you're watching us on Rumble, you can look at it.
It's even circled for you.
Boxed us in.
Hold that in your head for a minute.
So someone in the FBI interviewing Flynn during the interviews, taking handwritten notes and wrote down, boxed us in.
Why would they write that?
Don't you worry.
It'll make sense in just a jiffy.
Let's go to Jim Comey, former disgraced director of the FBI.
Actually, current disgraced former director.
That's kind of a better way to say it, right?
He's not formerly disgraced, he's currently disgraced former director.
Much better.
Gotta word that correctly.
So here's Comey's own notes about the Flynn interview, where clearly they say how much he lied and he was indicating deception and lied about sanctions.
Of course they don't say that!
He says, and the agents, this is his testimony about the Flynn interview, and the reason I mentioned their experience is because I talked to them about this.
These are the agents who interviewed Flynn.
They discerned no physical indications of deception.
They didn't see any change in posture, tone, inflection, or eye contact.
They saw nothing indicating to them that he knew Flynn was lying to them.
Wow, that sounds kind of strange, doesn't it?
And they interviewed him completely, went through it all, did not show him the transcript or transcripts, and then came back and drafted a 302, the one I just showed you!
Maybe Swan should throw that in his story with a little fact check.
There is no evidence Flynn was asked about sanctions.
There's also no evidence he deceived the FBI, as per Jim Comey's own notes.
I'm just saying, John.
Fact check and all.
Maybe you want to throw that in there?
Joe, you think I make a little asterisk footnote?
Probably a good one?
Note, this didn't happen, what I just wrote?
Yeah.
Or maybe just don't write it.
Here's an idea.
Probably the better approach, Joe?
Yeah.
Fun.
But you want to be taken seriously as a credible media outlet.
We're the hoaxers, Joe, me and you.
We got the ones who nailed this story from the show.
We're all idiots.
I just produced to you evidence, hard evidence, your story's fake.
Oh, we didn't say you didn't talk about it.
We said you didn't tell Flynn about it.
Yeah, even you didn't tell the VP about it.
Even Vice President Pence has taken that back and now believes Flynn was telling him the truth.
Maybe you want to include that in there?
A full disclaimer about the whole story?
You're not going to leave us hanging with a box that said, of course not.
Why is that FBI note relevant?
Keep in mind the assertion here.
Paul, if I don't explain this well, I've been beating up Joe with the ombudsman.
You got to shut me down.
Here it is in a nutshell.
The FBI alleged Mike Flynn lied to them about discussing sanctions with the Russian ambassador.
There's no evidence sanctions were ever brought up.
How could he lie about a question he was never asked?
How do we know that?
Because we have the FBI's own notes where they never mentioned the question about sanctions at all.
We have Comey's sworn testimony where he says Flynn wasn't deceiving them.
Flynn was being honest in the interview.
And then we have an FBI handwritten note about clearly a Flynn's response to a question where Flynn mentioned the term boxed us in because we have their handwritten notes, the FBI.
Let's look at the actual transcript the FBI had of the call between Flynn and the Russian ambassador.
And let's look at something, this line at the top.
This is the transcript, the FBI summary of the transcript.
This is what the FBI had.
Flynn wants to convey the following to Moscow.
Do not allow this administration to box us in right now.
Kislyak says they have conveyed it very clearly.
So if you're a media person like John Swan and you're looking for an out to your story with this fake assertion in it, you may say, well, Flynn was discussing the expulsions of the Russian ambassadors, not the sanctions, but sanctions, expulsions, smulsions, expansions, it's the same thing.
Really?
Because that's funny.
When the FBI asked Flynn about the expulsions, Flynn told the FBI exactly what he told the Russian ambassador.
Don't box us in.
And they wrote it down.
In their own handwriting.
Weird how he lied about it.
Lied about it.
Air quotes.
And yet he told you about it?
He told you the truth about what you had in the transcript?
But keep up with this fake news story, please, that Mike Flynn lied about sanctions that were never discussed.
No, no, we mean expulsions.
Okay, they're not even the same thing.
They're not even remotely related.
But you can keep that myth up, too, because when he was asked about the expulsions, he told the FBI exactly what was in the damn transcript.
You numbnuts!
But keep it up.
Because if it's out of order, I have to go back in the book.
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The producer, Paula, says she's right.
Her instincts are always great on the show.
Folks, seriously, on a very serious note, this story is very disappointing.
Because I don't know, John Smolnik, it's not personal.
I mean, I'll probably take it that way.
No one wants their name on a show this popular.
But I get talked about all the time.
Just put my name in any search engine.
Bongino.
There's always some leftist lunatic.
It happens.
It's, you know, I don't have a thick skin.
I have a thin skin.
It bothers me.
It'll probably bother him.
I don't mean to hurt the guy's feelings.
But I'm in the truth business.
And I'm sorry you're not.
You have no evidence anything you put in there is actually true.
None.
And if you could produce it, send it over to the show and we'll put it on the air.
But you can't.
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Jordan Peterson's back.
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No, no, I mean crying like tears, like liquid coming out of the eyeballs.
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This story is just a classic.
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All right.
Getting back to these stories.
So let's quickly burn through a couple of these.
This is just, again, I'm sorry to keep bringing this up, but facts do matter.
And before the holidays, you know, I'm not, everybody should take it easy during the holidays.
Just enjoy the holiday.
We live in the greatest country on earth still, despite our failed political class.
Just enjoy the holidays.
But inevitably, You know, you're going to run into a lot of people, and some liberal, you know, will come out with a set of, you know, what they believe are facts that are totally false.
So one of them, here's this weird flex by CNN, check out this tweet they put up there, trying to knock my home state of Florida on their coronavirus response, which is pretty bizarre.
CNN, since Governor DeSantis reopened Florida in late September, the number of reported COVID-19 cases per week in the state has tripled.
Now, of course, CNN isn't an actual news outlet.
They're a propaganda agitprop outlet for the left.
So CNN, of course, targets Florida.
So you'd believe that, gosh, a tripling in Florida of these infections, right?
That sounds really horrible.
And it is.
But of course, when you put it in context, They target Florida because Florida has a Republican governor that refuses to lock down the state.
But when you look at actual facts, something CNN never does.
You know, they have a fact checker, that guy Dan Dale, who's a total joke at CNN.
He's their fact checker.
So we went to the CDC's website to see how horrible Florida was doing relative to everyone else, because that's the implication, is it not?
By the CNN.
Florida, oh my gosh, what a uniquely horrible situation with those terrible Republicans down there in Florida.
And Trump won the state too, even worse.
So we went to the CDC site and I pulled up the charts to see clearly Florida is at the top.
So again, Joe, let's go through this again.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
So, no, no, they're not at the top.
We have North Dakota, Wyoming, New Mexico, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Montana.
We had to go to page two to find Florida because CNN says this is a uniquely terrible situation.
And of course that's the implication of their article.
Down in Nevada, Arkansas, Tennessee, Connecticut, West Virginia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Delaware, Guam, New Jersey, Alabama, Mississippi, Maryland, Texas, Florida!
There it is, Florida at the bottom!
Oh my gosh, oh, weird, weird.
Yeah, crazy how that happens.
Nice job, CNN, of course.
You know what they'll say?
This is what they do.
Again, showing you how these people are clowns.
Clowns.
Bozos.
Bozos.
Krustys.
Remember Krusty?
They'll say to you, our tweet is accurate, the coronavirus infections have tripled.
Yeah, but why are you focusing on them, not other states that have had far greater outbreaks?
The answer is because you don't like the Republican governor of Florida because he won't lock down.
That's it.
As I said, weird flex, no?
Another quick one.
What did I tell you about the vaccine story?
That the goons in the media and on the left would never, ever, Give credit to President Trump for Operation Warp Speed, and one of the greatest accomplishments in the healthcare space in modern human history, the development of a vaccine to this deadly virus in record time.
They would never give him credit.
What did I say to you last week?
That they would have to make the story not about the development of the vaccine, because you can't dispute that.
Even hack media outlets can't say it didn't happen under Trump, because it did.
You can't make 2 plus 2 equal 7.
You can try.
They did with the pee-pee hoax.
But that's even a bridge too far for them.
So, in the Benicio del Toro usual suspect, well, flip you, flip you for real.
They're gonna have to flip the story and make the story about the delivery process of the vaccine.
The Biden administration is going to point out from now until President Trump, if he doesn't win a second term, leaves office, they will point out every single flaw in the vaccine delivery process to say, look, they might've happened under Trump, but they totally screwed up the delivery.
It's not about, it's not about, listen, listen, it's not about the vaccine, Joe, because they can't win that argument.
It's about the delivery.
Did I not say that?
Did I not say that?
You should never pat yourself on the back, but I'm doing it.
Sorry.
Washington Examiner.
Check out this piece.
It was in the show notes this week.
Bongino.com slash newsletter.
If you want to access the show notes.
Biden and his team are lowering expectations for their management of the pandemic.
Ooh, this gets interesting by Eddie Scarry.
When you go down in the piece and the examiners, there's this interesting line.
Biden insiders.
Here's one of their quotes from Ron Klain, who is, uh, was announced as Biden.
If he wins his chief of staff, Klain said with a straight face and I quote, vaccines don't save lives.
Vaccinations save lives.
Oh, oh, as predicted.
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
Kenny bell time.
I told ya.
Got to stop the Kenny bells.
It goes on forever.
I told you so.
It's not about the vaccine now.
It's about vaccinations and the delivery.
Which, of course, they will now take credit for if, in fact, Joe Biden wins this election.
And they will point out every single little flaw in this massive healthcare achievement and the delivery of that said vaccine.
And then the media will cover for them and make Joe Biden look like the hero.
Did I not tell you?
You're gonna see, it's not about the vaccine now, it's about vaccinations.
It's not about the development, which is under President Trump, it's about the process.
Sometimes I wish I was wrong.
Are we not always two weeks ahead of this?
Are we not?
I know, my Aunt Jane, God rest her soul, says self-praised things, and it does, but I'm proud to let you know you're not wasting your time here.
I told you that was gonna happen.
Because the media are hacks and goons.
They can't just come out and say, this is one of the greatest healthcare achievements that happened under President Trump in modern history.
They won't say it.
Not about vaccines, it's about vaccinations now.
Which is weird, Joe, because last time I checked, vaccinations can't happen without vaccines, right?
I'm just checking, have you ever gone like to a CVS or a Walmart and said, I want the vaccine for the hantavirus.
And they come out and say, here you go, sir.
No, because I'm not sure if there is a vaccine for the hantavirus or not.
And I'm pretty sure CVS doesn't have it.
So the vaccination for the hantavirus can't happen if they don't actually have the vaccine for the hantavirus.
Just putting that out there.
Funny how that works.
Crazy.
Order, procedure, reason, logic.
I know it's weird.
Joe's having a tough time today.
It's a lot to digest.
We put a lot on Joe today.
Sometimes Joe's heavily involved.
Sometimes I go on and Joe just lets me do my thing.
Joe is overwhelmed today with information.
He's totally confused.
All right.
This is my favorite story of the day.
And by favorite, I mean worst.
I don't mean we're—hold on, I'm laughing at myself again.
And I'm crying.
I'm not kidding.
I shouldn't do that.
Never laugh at your own joke.
This is terrible.
So I saw this story, and I'm not joking.
I thought it was a joke when I first read it.
So I had to look it up, and I went to one of my go-tos.
You know, I go to the Washington Examiner a lot.
And the story's actually true.
Remember Jordan Peterson, noted lecturer, author, prominent personality, does speeches, just a very popular, famous guy, wrote a mega bestselling book.
It was like 12 Rules for Life, one of Paula's favorites.
It's really, really good.
Forgive me, I don't remember the exact, it's like 12 Rules for Life, but you can look it up.
Jordan Peterson, P-E-T-E-R-S-O-N.
The book did bonkers numbers.
It was on the New York Times bestseller list forever.
So he's got a sequel to it coming out.
So here's this, this is a real headline.
It's not a joke.
Spencer Neal, Washington Examiner.
So Penguin Random House is a publishing house, publishing the book.
Their Canadian staff reportedly cried, reportedly cried after news of Jordan Peterson book.
I'm crying, laughing at these idiots.
Because Jordan Peterson has spoken out for free speech, something I strongly believe in, and civil liberties, and Jordan Peterson has refused to use pronouns that being forced onto him, zee, zow, and other things like that.
Jordan Peterson says, no, I will refer to you by your biological sex.
Jordan Peterson has become a target of the totalitarian tyrants who want to shut down anyone with an opposing viewpoint on anything.
So they showed up, the employees, these wussbags in this company, crying, liquid, eyeballs.
And you're not embarrassed about this?
This is an actual story?
Folks, this goes back and reminds me of an episode I did a long time ago about these basement-dwelling total losers.
These pathetic, weak, pitiful, Feeble-minded, weak snowflakes who actually showed up to work and cried because of a book written by a guy that they don't like.
I think back to a story I told often, but I have a lot of new listeners.
In my prior line of work, I was out once doing a site when I was a young agent.
I was like, I don't know, 24.
It was one of my first sites as a post-standard, as a Secret Service guy.
They just throw you out there and say, hey, watch this wall or whatever.
I mean, that's what the new guys get, the crappiest assignments.
You don't get any responsibility, because you're new and you can screw something up.
So I go out there.
It was a SUNY college.
I don't know what it was, New Pulse or whatever, in New York.
And Bill Clinton was doing a site there, an appearance there.
So I'm a poststander, and you know, you're never given any responsibility.
But I guess I was just in the right spot at the right time.
Bill Clinton decides it's a good idea to walk from the basketball court he was giving the speech at into the stanchions.
You know, those pull-out, wooden, like, bleacher-type things?
We're like, oh, what do we do?
I'm new.
I've been on the job, like, 10 minutes.
I don't know.
I just got out of the academy.
And the boss at the time, this guy Al, who was like the big shot on the Clinton detail, he's like, hey, you!
I'm not, whatever, he didn't even care.
He just said, hey, you or something.
Grabs me and says, get up and, you know this, I'm talking about they roll out, they're like, they have very little back to them, you can fall off them.
That day, I go up there, Clinton's shaking hands, people go, ah, Bill!
Grabbing him, trying to pet him or whatever.
Clinton, who knows?
You know, ah, Bill, we love you!
It's chaos.
So, this guy, I must not be reacting fast, if this guy Al, like grabs me and almost throws me off the bleacher, like 20 feet down, he's like, you!
Get down there!
And whatever, stop those maniacs from petting our guy!
Folks, I could have, like, cracked my skull open.
Did I cry?
Was I whining?
Am I even mad at Al today?
No.
Because I've got cojones.
And these people don't.
Because it's a freaking job.
Go to work, you total dipwads and losers.
No crying in freaking baseball.
And there's no crying in your job.
Go to work, publish the book, take your soup cooler, sew it shut, and shut the up.
I'm not even mad at Al.
We had to protect the guy.
I don't even like Bill Clinton.
Who knows who was petting who?
I don't even care.
My job was to protect Bill Clinton.
The guy almost killed me.
And you know what?
I did it.
Did I go in the holding room and start crying?
Al almost threw me down the stairs.
No, because I'm not a wussy.
Let me tell you something.
The most valuable experiences in my life I'm not messing with you.
I mentioned this on the show a long time ago.
Some of you remember.
We're mopping floors and cleaning mausoleums.
That sounds very reductionist.
No, it's not.
I'm not talking about the most intellectual experiences of my life.
Experiences that developed achievement and aptitude capabilities.
I'm talking about character building exercises.
You know, character, which is at the top of the totem pole.
Wisdom and knowledge come after character.
You don't have character, wisdom and knowledge can be very dangerous.
Just check the history books.
The most informative and learned in character experiences in my life were mopping floors and cleaning mausoleums.
What does this have to do with this Jordan Peterson story?
I can guarantee you, these tier one level gold medal winning wussbags, these wusses who broke down in tears about a book, about a book, have never had a real job mopping the floor cleaning a mausoleum in their life.
Clean mausoleums?
Oh, I did.
That was a wonderful experience, especially the ones that didn't pay.
Why?
Because then we'd have to go in, you know, they have to pay for the maintenance.
So some of them, you know what a mausoleum is?
It's a big concrete like structure where they store bodies.
I cleaned those pretty much every summer in the cemetery.
It was a wonderful experience.
When they didn't pay for five, 10 years, you'd go in the mausoleum and the stench would be overwhelming.
I mean, obviously it's their dead bodies.
Sometimes they weren't sealed right.
And there'd be spiders and millipedes and centipedes or whatever.
And they, as you open the door, they'd fall down your shirt.
I'd have to wear a hat.
They'd be like this big.
You'd have cobwebs everywhere.
It was a great experience.
And by great, I mean atrocious.
But I got out the spic and span.
Remember spic and span?
Remember that?
We had the spic and span, and then we had the little polisher and stuff.
And I'd sit there for hours cleaning that damn mausoleum.
Clean that thing till it was.
You could eat off them floors.
I'm not kidding.
Marble was shining when I left.
Because it was my job.
And that's what I did.
And that job mattered to me.
I learned the value of work.
Seeing something through to completion.
A task.
Starts one way.
You work.
That task ends another way, with value added.
A clean mausoleum.
You learn to find efficiencies.
Find quicker ways to get things done.
Better ways.
You learn the value of sweat.
Spiders down your shirt.
Centipedes crawling down your unit when they fall down your drawers.
That's always great!
Actually happened!
Wonderful, right?
What's that?
It's a millipede.
Is that a millipede in your pocket?
You're just happy to see me.
No, it's a millipede.
Yeah.
That's what I said.
You learned how to orient yourself to a task.
You learn how to take instructions from people who knew better.
But again, I'll say this again, you learn most importantly, the value of work and sweat.
I can guarantee you, guarantee you, These snowflake, phony, fraud, wussbags sitting there crying.
Crying.
In an office about a book.
Have never cleaned a mausoleum or mopped the floor in their lives.
You're pathetic.
Sad, pathetic, whiny, pitiful human beings.
And I legitimately, I am not kidding.
I pity you.
I pity your families and anybody associated with you.
Crying.
Over a book.
Pathetic.
All right, folks, I hope you enjoyed the show today.
Have a very happy Thanksgiving tomorrow.
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It's not going to be, it's going to be a Bongino Brief.
We put together a nice brief of some of our highlights.
It will be there tomorrow.
We will, we will be back on Friday, on Friday with original content.
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