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Aug. 20, 2022 - The Dan Bongino Show
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The Bongino Brief - August 20, 2022

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Dan Bongino.
Welcome to the Bongino Brief.
I'm Dan Bongino.
The deep state's panicking right now over what has turned out to be a debacle for them in the Mar-a-Lago raid.
Why is it a debacle, Dan?
They hate Trump.
They can't stand Trump.
They raided his home.
Folks, this thing has turned so fast on them because you've kept the heat on.
I've said that over the last few days since it happened.
You need to keep the heat on.
Keep calling your congressman, email them, keep posting on social media.
You have a voice.
If a hundred people follow you on Twitter and Facebook and Truth, it's a hundred people who are going to see what you posted about this debacle.
Keep the heat on.
How do we know they're in a panic?
There are poker tells everywhere.
You're a poker player?
Well, not really, but a friend of mine is a good, I know how to play, but a friend of mine's a very good one.
Not going to say who, but like a world-class poker player.
He's incredible.
We used to talk a lot.
He'd say, listen, they all, even the best poker players in the world, they'll slip.
They have a tell.
You can see when they're nervous, they'll do something.
And if you get really good at it, you'll see those micro expressions.
The deep state has a tell everywhere.
Here it is, NBC News.
Justice Department is now asking the judge to keep Trump's search warrant affidavit sealed.
Oh, citing the investigation.
Oh, that's convenient.
It's only one of the biggest overreaches of power and abuses of government power in United States history.
How do you know what's the easiest?
This is the easiest.
We'll get into the more detailed tells that require a little nuance in a minute.
But what's the biggest tell of all?
What's the biggest tell of all?
Who's?
Just ask yourself now, Libs.
Just ask yourself for a moment.
Who's calling for transparency here?
In other words, we got nothing to hide.
And who's calling to hide stuff?
The government wants to hide stuff, and Donald Trump is calling for transparency.
So if the information in the affidavit, in other words, what the agent swore in front of the judge to get the search warrant, right?
That's the affidavit.
The affiant is the person swearing to it.
It's the story they tell the judge to establish probable cause to get the warrant, right?
If that information is so... I'm just asking you a common sense question.
If that information is so damaging to Donald Trump, then why is Donald Trump openly on True Social and elsewhere calling to release the affidavit while the Department of Justice under Joe Biden and the FBI want to hide it?
Why?
Why is that?
Anybody?
Anybody have any theories on that?
Joe?
Guy?
Anyone?
Kind of strange, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, sounds a little weird, right?
One side says, hey, let's see the goods.
The other guy says, I don't know, we're just going to hide the goods.
Maybe because they're not the goods.
Yeah, they don't want us to see something.
Maybe they're the bads.
Maybe they're the bads.
Now, here's another tell.
Here's another tell that there's a problem.
Something's rotten in the state of Denmark here.
Ladies and gentlemen, whenever they trot out Fusion Kendallanian, you know the Deep State's in trouble.
Now, who is Kendallanian?
Kendallanian is a fake news specialist.
Kendallanian has been a mouthpiece for the Deep State forever.
I'll show you in a minute.
This is nothing new.
So the way it works is they have reporters and stuff in their back pocket, these deep staters in the intel community, the federal bureaucracy.
These reporters, again, they have very little dignity at all, and they don't take their jobs seriously.
They're activists, right?
They're not actual journalists.
So they know they can feed them a preset narrative, and with doing no investigative journalism whatsoever, These reporters, air quotes, will repeat what they say on the air.
You get it?
They're like megaphones.
They're echo chambers.
Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello.
Ken, Ken, Ken, Ken, Ken.
That's what they do.
Whenever you see Ken Delanian on NBC, Trying to cover up for them hiding the warrant.
You know that they are terrified about what's in that affidavit.
We'll get into that in a second.
Here's cut one of Ken Delaney in first, uh, yesterday at NBC explaining how, oh man, this thing is so dangerous to Trump.
It's so bad.
There's so much stuff.
Really?
Why does Trump want it released then?
So of course the deep state had to give him his talking points.
Watch this.
It's hilarious.
They actually addressed the question of, well, can't you just release it and make some redactions?
They have, you know, blacking out the names of confidential sources or particularly sensitive details.
And they essentially said in the first footnote of the document, if we did that, we would have so many areas blacked out that you wouldn't understand a word this thing was saying.
Now, I'll explain to you why that's just, again, that's just him repeating what they told him to say because they have no case.
I'll explain what that's about in a minute.
Oh, we'd have to black out the whole thing.
All right.
Well, black out the whole thing.
We want to see it.
Black out the whole thing.
We want to see what you blacked out.
We want to see how long it is.
They don't want to do that either.
Really strange, right?
Here's Ken Delaney, and again, just the other day.
Remember, this guy is a stenographer for the Deep State.
He does no investigative journalism.
He's not an investigative journalist.
He is an activist for the Deep State.
Whenever you see this guy on NBC talking, just assume you're talking to a Deep State or listening, I should say, to a Deep State.
Here he is the other day.
Again, another poker tell.
Check this out.
Ken, what do we know about the documents seized at Mar-a-Lago?
Good morning, Andrew.
Well, the warrant tells us the FBI sees five sets of documents marked top secret.
And that means information that, if disclosed, would pose exceptionally grave danger to U.S.
national security.
But among that was one set marked top secret sensitive compartmented information.
And as you know, Andrew, from covering the intelligence community for a long time, that means information that's so secret only a small group of people inside the U.S.
government can see it.
Those who have a need to know.
We're talking about things like C.I.A.
names of C.I.A.
sources in Moscow or images from the most advanced spy satellites.
This information was so sensitive that the F.B.I.
agents who took it out of Mar-a-Lago would have had to take it to a special facility.
We're talking about the most protected secrets in the U.S.
government.
I can't get over this guy.
Notice what they told me to say.
Boy, the location is a spy satellite where what they're looking at nuclear codes and everybody.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
And everybody just said NBC is like, takes it to face value.
You wonder if Ken Delaney did any investigative work.
Is that what was actually there?
Well, maybe not, but that's what it could have been.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, it could have been, uh, could have been a lot of things.
It could have been, uh, uh, who's buried in Grant's tomb too.
Liberals are like, huh?
They're still confused.
It could have been a lot of things.
Now, because something was labeled TSSCI does not mean it still is.
You may say, yeah, Dan, we've already heard that point, that President Trump can declassify.
No, no, I'm not even talking about that!
Notice how Delanian jumps to the most extreme example!
Sucking information.
Oh my gosh.
And the alleged journalists on the set, they're all just sucking it in as if it's true.
Let me give you a quick example of why they told Delaney to say that.
Because folks, because something was TSSCI, doesn't mean it still is.
That's top secret sensitive compartmentalized information.
Quick example.
We were at the Secret Service, right?
We did motorcade routes.
The President's motorcade route... This is an example you need to use with your friends.
They'll understand.
The President's motorcade route, before the trip, is out.
A lot of it is top secret.
Especially overseas in terror hot zones.
Sometimes we would feed the media fake motorcade routes.
Why?
Obviously, you don't want the terrorists setting up on a motorcade route to kill you!
We're gonna be here at this time, guys!
So it was top secret.
Get it?
Mark Top Secret.
Then, all of a sudden, a trip happens.
The motorcade route, we drive it, we drive it back, and he's gone.
Now, let me ask you a question.
Is the motorcade route Top Secret?
Was Mark Top Secret?
Guy, why would it not be Top Secret after the trip?
Just let me throw that out there.
Can you figure this out?
You're a smart guy.
Because he's no longer there!
He already rode on the motorcade route!
Everybody knows it!
They saw him and waved!
You see what Delaney is doing here for the Deep State people?
Just because a box marked TSSCI or labeled, as it says in the return, labeled at A26 or whatever, doesn't mean it was.
They're panicking.
You get the nuance, right?
They're like, Ken, listen.
We served the search warrant.
We found nothing of any criminal significance at all.
We need a big favor, buddy.
Go out there and say it was spy satellites at a nuclear... Yeah, man!
Okay!
And everybody just sucks it up!
Here's who Ken Delaney it is.
I don't usually put older pieces in the newsletter, but this is in the newsletter today.
Bongino.com slash newsletter.
Please read it.
It's from my birthday, December 4th, back in 2017.
It's by the great Lee Smith.
He talks about the media's role in the Fusion GPS PP tape scandal.
It's a Federalist piece called Fusion GPS Scandal Implicates Media Impossible Pay to Publish Scheme.
Pay to Publish Scheme.
Look who he mentions in the piece.
Mentions, of course, Ken Delanian.
He says a reporter, Bill Browder, believes to be a regular and reliable purveyor of Fusion GPS manufactured talking points.
Lee Smith's opinion.
Remember Delanian?
Lee alleges in his piece that an insider, Browder, believes he was a purveyor of talking points there for Fusion GPS, the company hired by Hillary Clinton, the PP hoaxers.
Ken Delanian's not new at this, folks.
There's a tell here.
Now, it's been about 10 minutes, so let me kind of sum up.
I mean, I should have just dropped the lead up front.
The tell about what?
Why Delanian?
Why others?
Why are they hiding the affidavit?
Why is Donald Trump calling for transparency where the FBI and DOJ are panicking, desperately trying to hide the affidavit?
Because, folks, as I said to you yesterday, The warrant.
The warrant was BS the whole time.
It was just an excuse to search Donald Trump's residence at Mar-a-Lago for January 6th stuff and for Russiagate documents.
I am now completely convinced.
And what happened?
They found nothing!
So now, in a panic, they'll refuse to release this thing, citing national security reasons, and law enforcement sensitive information, they'll refuse to release this stuff, and they'll do it in order to prevent you from seeing the fact that this whole thing was a pretext.
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This is one of those stories where my experience is invaluable here.
I wasn't a doctor, so it's hard to comment on what it's like to do an open heart surgery.
I was a federal agent.
I've served a ton of search warrants, been involved in the White House and the protection side.
I want to go through some takeaways here from this point here, some of the open and unanswered questions, because this thing is getting uglier by the minute.
Ken Delaney, and again, assume someone in the deep state is talking when Delaney is opening, he's like a parrot for them, right?
If he says, listen, the affidavit, we'd have to black out a lot of stuff because there's classified info in there.
You would wonder to yourself, if you were a smart federal agent, why?
Let me explain.
And guys, if this is complicated, stop me as the audience ombudsman there on my costume.
When I'm a federal agent and I want to get a search warrant, number one, I typically get an arrest warrant with a search warrant, but I'll explain that in a minute.
If I'm getting a search warrant for Joe's house for robbing a bank, right, one of the things I want to do in the search warrant, because I realize if I find stuff I need to arrest Joe if I don't have an arrest warrant at the same time, the search warrant is going to become available to his lawyer at some point after I arrest him.
I don't want them to know right away, before I secure a plea from Joe, what I got.
Do you get what I'm saying?
In order to hold over Joe's head the, hey, you might want to cooperate, in other words, wink at a nod, there's more stuff out there.
I'm not putting all my cards out in the affidavit for the search warrant.
I'm putting the minimum amount of stuff I need to establish to a judge probable cause that I believe evidence is in Mar-a-Lago.
I'm not loading it up with classified information!
So why is Kendallanian saying there's a bunch of classified information in there?
I don't know the answer!
Oh, maybe they did that on purpose.
Knowing if they didn't find anything, that Donald Trump would call for the affidavit to be released, and they would load it up with classified stuff and say, Time out!
Time out!
Can't release that classified info in there.
Devious.
Genius, but devious.
We are dealing with a very, very sophisticated group of political opponents here.
Very sophisticated.
I now have little doubt that that's exactly what happened.
They loaded it up with unnecessary information that was classified so that they could go back later and say, what an ass, we can't, it's on our call to not release it, there's classified info in there.
That's point number one.
Okay, I got to put, I'm sorry, I got so much I want to get to, I don't want to miss anything.
I'm taking like notes during the show.
Obviously you see I'm excited about this story.
Excited because it's breaking so bad against him.
Another question.
If the information in the affidavit in front of the judge that they can't release, even though Trump is demanding it, was so sensitive and so dangerous, what they claim they have probable cause to believe they're looking for, not a guess, Joe, they are probable cause to believe that this is, that's a high standard.
If the information was so classified, spy satellites, nuclear codes, nuclear weapons, it's all going to end.
So dangerous.
Then how come when they showed up in early June, the FBI and the DOJ, they left without the documents?
They asked Adam Schiff for this the other day.
They asked him on a show, hey, why did they wait so long after Trump left office if this information was so dangerous?
If there was that sensitive level of information being held, why did Justice Department officials wait 18 months after the end of the Trump presidency?
What changed that made this immediate?
I don't know.
But if the Trump people represented that they provided all the classified or national security information and didn't, that's a serious problem.
And I can tell you anyone in the intelligence community that had documents like that marked top secret SCI in their residence after authorities went to them, you know, they would be under serious investigation.
That was Jeff.
He has no answer as to why they waited so long if, according to the affidavit, this is the most dangerous national security situation we've seen in so much so we have to black out everything, Joe.
It's a big black dot.
I got a cover tattoo once on a tattoo I didn't like and the tattoo was so big the guy said to me, you have two choices, this black eagle or a big black dot to cover it.
Big black dot.
Big black dot.
That's a true story, by the way.
The danger was so acute, they had a blackout with a big black dot, everything in the affidavit, yet they left the documents there.
Again, strange.
Also, I heard on cable news the other morning, someone say, well, Donald Trump only requested that they release the document, the affidavit for the search warrant, because he knows they can't release it.
Oh, he does?
That's kind of the dumbest talking point I've ever heard.
Why is that?
Because Joe, they're going through a procedure right now that the FBI and DOJ objected to, to release the documents.
Am I confused?
So I was a federal agent again, I'm a little confused.
So there is a process to release the affidavit.
They're going through it right now.
Well, how do we know that's true?
One, because I'm telling you it's true.
But secondly, because I just showed you a headline saying in the process, this news personality said doesn't exist.
The DOJ objected to releasing it in the process he claims isn't going on right now.
Okay.
Yeah, you're confused.
Me too.
Yes.
So just to be clear, TV guy says Trump knows that they can't release it.
So he's going through the process where they can release it, which the DOJ is objecting to.
So how is there isn't a process?
They're not up if they're going through the process now.
Got it.
You just, you just don't like the process.
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