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So did I not warn you about the visitors list distraction a few days ago?
That this whole thing about a visitors list at Biden's residence was going to be used?
As a total distraction to get you away from the fact that Joe Biden, for the umpteenth thousandth time, was a foreign agent.
It is so obvious.
Don't get distracted.
I'll talk about that.
I put a viral post up yesterday at OneNuclear on Facebook and elsewhere about this, and everybody picked up on it.
And also, a flipper tip.
Did somebody tip off people about the Biden documents?
Or did someone flip on the inside?
Got a good source on this one.
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It is Friday!
Yes, sir.
It has been for the eight years we've been doing this podcast.
We've had many of them.
Friday strangely reoccurs once a week.
It's bizarre how that happens.
So on the flip or tip thing.
So just a quick note, because for those of you who are hardcore P1 listeners, P1 listeners in the radio business, as Joe knows, because he knows way more about it than I do, I've only been in it a year and a half, Joe's been in it since the dinosaurs were roaming the earth.
P1s, as Joe can attest to, are listeners who listen no matter what.
True.
There's a snowstorm, they listen.
It's a holiday, they listen.
There's a nuclear war going on, they listen.
Those are your P1s.
So I've taken that term, because I think it's kind of funny, P1, I don't know why, maybe because the maturity level may not be there sometimes.
The podcast P1 listeners, No, we have a great source, former law enforcement guy.
We call him the 279er.
Joe is very familiar with him.
The 279er is an insider who gave us a lot of great information and helped us put together my books on Spygate and the Russia hoax.
279 reached out yesterday and he made a great point.
He's like, Dan, listen, I need to clear this up.
He's like, think about it, right?
The documents, the classified documents, right?
They weren't found by the Biden team.
Like golly, look, Joe, we just found some classified documents.
How did that happen?
That's exactly, that's the dopey narrative that the Biden team wants you to believe to act like they did the right thing.
So he remember, The Democrats in the media always want to tell you a story.
OK, not the story.
So a story is my gosh, golly, what happened?
We were just doing the right thing, moving in office and we stumbled upon this classified document.
And look, we did the right thing.
Unlike that dastardly Donald Trump, what a horrible guy.
I told you, and now I'm sure of it, my experience as an investigator, and we're always ahead of the news cycle here, I'm proud to say that, that there is no way that happened.
That what really happened is someone being investigated for this Hunter Biden tax evasion, foreign influence scandal, probably flipped.
And said, hey guys, listen, I know I'm looking at two years in prison, or five years, or whatever.
What if I told you there's a bunch of classified documents in the Biden Pen Center?
Oh!
So I said, listen, did someone flip or did someone just tip them off?
Say some janitor walked in a closet and found the classified documents.
And our buddy 279er had a great point.
Geech, you gotta listen.
This is important.
He's always doing the techno wizardry back there.
279er said, Dan, I've been doing this a long time.
He goes, someone flipped.
How do I know it?
Because did you notice that they found documents at multiple locations and all of a sudden they were offered up by the Biden team?
Of course they weren't offered up.
The person who flipped said, in other words, a janitor didn't mistakenly walk into Biden residence too.
You get the point?
Someone clearly told them there's documents in multiple locations.
Someone flipped.
Now, I warned you a few days ago that because someone flipped, this is probably a bigger deal.
I'm not telling you please.
I am begging you with every ounce and fiber of my broken soul, please.
I am not telling you anything significant is going to happen legally with the DOJ.
I'm not.
Pregnant, uncomfortable pause, because I don't want to hear anyone say, Dan, you said something.
No, no, that's not what I said.
That's not what I said.
I'm simply telling you that the DOJ, Department of Justice and the FBI right now may be boxed into a bit of a corner because someone on the inside is giving up information that they're either going to squirrel away or they're going to try to hide or they're going to, it's going to, the same thing is going to happen and happen with Hillary.
They'll lay out a whole case like Jim Comey did.
Remember the infamous July 5th press conference with Jim Comey?
Remember, Joe?
He lays out this whole case and you're like, holy!
They're gonna indict Hillary!
This is crazy!
It's happening on live TV!
And what happens at the end?
Comey's like, yeah, yeah, we're not gonna prosecute.
That's what's gonna happen here.
Or Hunter Biden's gonna get nailed on some BS tax charge with a $10 fine and get sent home with a demerit card from Merrick Garland.
I'm only telling you this because the information is out there.
You need to know about it.
And if it's not going to be legally a penalty for them and nothing legally is going to happen, then we damn well better make it politically damaging because these people should not be in office anywhere.
And I'm not going to let it go away and give them a pass.
And you shouldn't either.
But I warned you that the Democrats are very savvy about this stuff.
A few days ago, I said, listen, they're going to get you down rabbit holes here.
They do it all the time.
It's not just one.
They're going to get you down rabbit holes to catch you in a lie.
They do it all the time.
They're going to say, uh, they, they play, I believe they plant stories sometimes too.
Well, Hunter Biden paid rent payments in this exact amount, and then you get the amount wrong by a dollar, and what happens?
The media's like, conspiracy theory!
Fact checker, he's lying!
You got the rent payment wrong by a dollar.
Don't get down the rabbit hole.
Stick to the plan.
The plan is exposing the obvious, that Joe Biden is a foreign agent who's paid off to his son.
That's it.
One of the other rabbit holes is this visitor's log.
So yesterday, Fox News put this story out there.
Biden classified document investigation.
Secret Service now says it's ready to provide Delaware visitors, the source says.
Now, what did I tell you?
We'll come back to this in a second.
So keep this frosty.
You can take it down, but I'm going to come back to it in a second.
What did I tell you the other day?
You are never wasting your time on my show here or my program as my grandmother used to go.
Remember that show?
Everything was a program back in the day.
Can we watch our favorite program?
Okay.
Um, you're not wasting your time here.
I told you the other day, I played a clip, but that is a waste of time.
Most of you already heard it, that the secret service doesn't keep visitor logs at a private residence.
You got me?
Now, they do have visitor logs, per se, at the White House.
What's the difference?
The White House is a government building.
It's not Biden's house.
Yes, he lives there, but it's not his house.
The Biden team has no ability whatsoever to tell the Secret Service to stop doing visitor logs at the White House because it's not theirs.
Biden's residence is his.
If Biden doesn't want visitor logs at his house, there's not going to be any visitor logs.
Now, You diggin'?
Biden has no ability to stop visitor logs at the White House than he does to stop them at the Treasury Building.
It's a government building.
The private residence is, in fact, his, obviously.
He has all of the ability in the world to tell them, hey, I don't want visitor logs here.
But he can't tell the Secret Service not to do name checks on certain people.
He can't.
So what happens here?
The press and the media are dying to show you a visitor log with names on it of, like, a couple plumbers to say what, Joe?
Hey, look!
We told you guys!
Look at you idiots!
Nothing to see here!
What a bunch of dopes!
Just a couple plumbers visited by.
Nobody saw these classified documents.
There wasn't any conspiracy.
Folks, the Secret Service is going to produce a name check log.
The Secret Service name-checks people who come in who aren't hard-pinned.
So if a plumber comes in to clean out a clog in Biden's shower because he lost his fake hair or whatever it is, he's going to get name-checked.
That's not a visitor's law.
However, other people who come in who are what we call hard-pinned, in other words, they have an S-staff pin or even soft pin, they're cleared staffers, they don't get name-checked.
Nor do some of the people they escort in who are known entities.
What I'm trying to tell you is, if someone was in Biden's residence doing a clean-up mop-up job, if you get what I mean, on the documents, you're never going to know about it by what they're painting as a visitor's log, because it's just going to be the plumber.
Guy, pull up the Fox piece again, please.
I'm not wasting your time, please.
The White House continues to insist, they note in the Foxpeat, that there exists no formal visitor log for the residence where two troves of classified documents were found.
It says also the Secret Service is prepared to offer names of individuals who visited the residence if requested by Congress.
The White House is not lying.
They're dying for you to go down this road.
Hard-pinned and soft-pinned staffers who could have been knee-deep in covering this scandal up They are the ones who will not appear on the list.
They are dying for this thing to get out, this name checklist, because they want to say nothing to see.
All right, moving on.
You get my point?
Don't get off the... We're way ahead of this story here.
Eyes on the prize.
Yes, please.
Guy, was that too long?
Guy says a little, but Guy hates when I...
I know, I know.
It's just important that you don't get scooped into these exit ramps.
Two things I need you to focus on.
Stay on the highway.
Eyes on the prize, as Joe just said.
Number one, Joe Biden at this point is clearly a foreign agent.
And again, by foreign agent, I use those terms very deliberately.
I'm not talking about Joe Biden being 007 or James Bond.
That's not what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about agent in the economic sense here.
He was being paid clearly through the vehicle of his son, according to their own business partners and multiple reports about Hunter Biden paying some of his living expenses, to act on behalf of a foreign agent.
Now, listen to me.
I want to be very careful about this.
It is not illegal to act on behalf of a foreign agent as a U.S.
citizen.
It isn't, Dan?
No.
People do it all the time.
Lobbyists come here and lobby for their cause.
They lobby for Tibet, they lobby for various aid packages.
That's not illegal.
What is illegal is to lobby on behalf of a foreign agent and not register or do it in violation of US law.
Oh, that sounds like we have a problem here, folks.
It's called FARA.
Foreign Agent Registration Act.
By the way, anyone tells you it's not a big deal, Farah, registering as a foreign agent?
Ask them about General Mike Flynn, who they tried to nail on yes, Farah charges.
Oh, that's weird.
So it's only real for Trump people like General Mike Flynn?
What I'm telling you is Joe Biden was a foreign agent.
Who I believe strongly was being paid by foreign governments through his son to lobby on behalf of foreign governments, clearly in violation of U.S.
law.
Farrah, because he wasn't registered.
He was the freaking vice president, the former vice president.
Another thing I want you to focus on, and we'll get to this in another show another day, but who signed out the documents, these classified documents?
That's serious stuff.
Now, I had John Solomon, amazing reporter, on my radio show yesterday, in what I believe to be one of his best interviews.
It will be on the podcast Sunday special this week.
Please don't miss it, where we rebroadcast our best radio interviews.
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You'll see the whole interview.
John Solomon brought up something to me yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, that kicked me in the nuts so hard.
How I forgot this?
Listen, when we're ahead of something, I'll tell you.
When we're not, I also tell you.
I am not the be-all end-all in conservative content.
There are other people out there who break great stuff too.
I think we do a good job.
But Solomon's amazing.
Solomon, when I brought up the idea that Biden is a foreign agent, I've largely been focusing on Ukraine and Hunter Biden in Ukraine and what Biden did to lobby for Ukrainian weapons while his son was getting paid by Ukraine.
John Solomon brought up an even bigger deal.
He said, Dan, you remember Hunter Biden's shady multimillion dollar deals with Chinese energy companies now for the lefties out there who were saying, Is it a conspiracy theory?
Because the Washington Post reported on that.
It's right there.
It's right there.
March 2022.
Inside Hunter Biden's multi-million dollar deals with the Chinese energy company.
It's right there.
So Hunter Biden multimillion dollar deals with the Chinese Communist Party connected companies.
And, you know, gosh, this is really weird.
Just a few months earlier, we learned that the Department of Justice under Biden shut down China focused anti-spying espionage programs.
Gosh.
Joe.
So freaking weird.
The coincidence is Joe Biden's son's being paid by Ukraine.
Joe Biden's lobbying for weapons and money to Ukraine while Obama doesn't want to do it.
So freaking strange.
Hunter Biden is connected to these Chinese Communist Party entities, according to the Washington Post themselves.
Then all of a sudden the Biden DOJ shuts down spying programs against China.
Wow.
I don't know.
I don't know what's happening.
I mean, I hate to make leaps of faith here.
I just don't know what's happening.
I mean, it's obvious what's happening, isn't it?
I mean, can you sense the thick, deep, 22-foot thick skin of sarcasm wrapping around my skull right now?
Biden is a foreign agent!
That's the scam!
Don't get off the highway like he said I did because I spent 10 minutes on the visitor's log.
I don't know.
I love that topic.
Maybe because it's my past line of work.
He and I disagree about the show all the time.
I'm always right though.
I just want, I just want that on the record.
I am.
What are you laughing about?
I'm always right.
Am I not?
Okay, more often than not, thank you.
Yeah, right, not always.
I'm exaggerating, you love Keith.
He's my likey, he's a true teller.
So is Joe.
Joe would tell me the same thing.
He'd be like, dude, that segment sucked, cut that out.
Now Biden, of course, is desperate to cut this conversation out like a malignant cancer, because why?
Folks, if you have a legitimate answer to a scandal or a charge, you give it, right?
Why is Biden so eager to shut this down?
Now he's going with the hilarious line, Joe, this one's a classic.
Now he's going with the hilarious defense that the American people really don't care about this stuff.
Oh, they don't?
No, no.
That's really funny.
So the president of the United States is a foreign agent and yes, nobody cares here.
Take a look.
You know, the only, I will answer the question, but here's the deal.
You know, what quite frankly bugs me is that we have a serious problem here.
We're talking about, we're talking about what's going on.
The American people don't quite understand why you don't ask me questions about that.
But having said that, what's your question?
Yeah, nobody cares.
Nobody cares that the President of the United States is a foreign agent.
Folks, the Democrats sense a wounded duck here.
They want this.
Tucker did a whole segment on this last night, the deep state trying to get rid of Biden.
It was an enjoyable segment.
He went into some history of Nixon.
I'll bet most people don't know.
We've actually covered some of that on the show.
Not in nearly nearly as much detail as he did.
He did a good job.
But yeah.
They're done with Biden.
And it's not because they care about doing journalism to the media.
I said this yesterday.
It's because they've known about Biden being a hack for a long time and a liar.
I'll play that in a second.
It's not the reason.
The reason they're done is they know he'll lose if he runs.
The scandal is going to bring him down.
Folks, the scandal got deeper yesterday.
I'm really shocked this wasn't front page news and it's got almost no play.
This Wendell Hughesbo at Breitbart has been knocking it out of the park.
January 19th, yesterday.
How did this story not make its way around the media ecosystem?
It's a huge bombshell.
He's citing a Washington Post report that, again, I found almost nowhere.
According to the Washington Post, early on, Biden's attorneys and DOJ investigators both thought they had a, quote, shared understanding about keeping the documents matter quiet.
What?
Is this a joke?
So Biden colluded with the DOJ to squash the story I'm telling you, to keep it, quote, quiet and it was a shared understanding?
Here's the collusion scandal right in front of your face.
Why is the Washington Post reporting that and Wendell Hughesbo covering them at the Washington Post?
He's done great work at Breitbart, excuse me.
Because they're done with Biden.
They're not trying to do journalism.
They're trying to save liberalism.
And Biden is a wounded duck.
That's why.
Wait, one more.
Let me just show you CNN before I get to this.
CNN.
Oliver Darcy.
The Reliable Sources blog at CNN.
Even they're realizing that Biden, Kareem Jean-Pierre.
I said realizing like a son.
Realizing.
Even they're realizing.
It's over.
They're not going to escape from this thing.
It's too ugly.
Here's Oliver Darcy again.
This is CNN.
Karine Jean-Pierre is arguably the least effective White House press secretary of the television era.
One veteran White House reporter told me on Wednesday, adding that the comparison excluded the Trump White House.
Of course, they got to throw a Trump shot.
Guys, again, we're not wasting your time here.
I took a vote on this show a long time ago, Joe Ghi and I, that this was the worst, i.e.
least effective White House press secretary in modern times.
And we were, again, ahead of the news cycle and Darcy by weeks.
She's terrible.
It was evident He said it was evident from the first moment when she had to look to the binder to answer her first name.
Can you introduce yourself?
Hold on.
She has no idea how to extemporaneously think at her feet.
She's awful at this.
You just figured this out now?
Just like the media just figured out Biden's a wounded duck.
They've known forever.
I've got a two-parter coming up, Biden gaffes.
It's amazing.
Don't go anywhere.
Hat tip, Tom Elliott at Grabien.
It's fantastic.
This guy's amazing history of lies.
And we had to cut it short.
This thing goes on for like 10 minutes.
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Okay.
So yes, they obviously have known about this scandal forever.
They've known Hunter Biden was a vehicle to provide foreign agent Joe Biden assets in exchange for services.
They've known that.
They've reported on it.
They've known Karine Jean-Pierre is grotesquely incompetent, totally Incapable of answering a basic question.
And they've known that Joe Biden is a total liar, is a fraudster, that Joe Biden doesn't have an ounce of integrity, has been corrupt his entire life.
Tom Elliott put this super cut together.
I broke it into two pieces because it's so hilarious.
Here's part one, about a minute and 30 of Joe Biden's just litany of lies about who he is, where he's been, what he's done.
The guy is a sociopathic liar.
Take a listen.
I was sort of raised in the Puerto Rican community at home.
I was in the foothills of the Himalayas with Xi Jinping, traveling with him.
I've written extensively when I was a law professor.
I went to law school on a full academic scholarship, the only one in my class to have a full academic scholarship.
I was appointed to the academy In 1965.
I didn't come to the academy because I wanted to be a football star.
And you had a guy named Staubach and Bellino here.
So I went to Delaware.
I got started out on HBCU.
Delaware State.
I don't want to hear anything vague about Delaware State here, okay?
I went back to law school and in fact ended up in the top half of my class.
I won the international moot court competition.
I was the outstanding student in the political science department at the end of my year.
I graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school and 165 credits, only needed 123 credits,
and I'd be delighted to sit down and compare my IQ to yours if you'd like.
I am a hard coal miner.
Anthracite coal.
Scranton, Pennsylvania.
My dad was not a, was, he was a salesperson.
He wasn't a coal miner.
My great-grandpa was.
My first job offer, where I wanted, my wife, deceased wife and I, wanted to move to Idaho.
Because we think, not a joke, it's such a beautiful, beautiful state.
And I interviewed for a job with Boise Cascade.
I got a commercial license because my dad used to run an automobile agency.
I used to drive a tractor trailer.
Oh, awesome.
And so I know a little bit about driving big trucks.
Lord of the idiots.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Perfect timing.
You understand none of that's true.
Again, the point being, we can laugh about it, and we do.
Because it's so obviously dishonest and evidence of a sociopathic liar with a self-confidence problem.
The puffers, right?
They used to call them these people who puff themselves up all the time.
They do it because they have a self-confidence issue.
We don't have to go around and tell people how, uh, we're number one, we're the best, look at this show, we're the greatest, everyone else sucks.
You notice we don't do that?
We always thank you first for your support of our show because you make it pop, because we don't have a self-confidence issue here.
He does.
The guy's the President of the United States.
Why does he always have to make... Think about it.
He's the President of the United States.
He's one of the most powerful human beings to ever walk on this rock called Earth, if not the most powerful, given technology now.
And he's bragging about driving a tractor trailer, never did it.
Having three college degrees, he didn't.
All of this stuff is made up.
The media knew this, folks.
It's related to this story.
This isn't us pulling something out of our rumps on a Friday.
There's a lot to talk about.
Because if you understood this, you'd treat him like you treat George Santos, and you'd question everything.
Like, wait.
Scratching my head a lot today.
It's not itchy.
He said to us he's never dealt with his son's business partners anywhere.
Maybe we should question that.
I mean, he hasn't exactly told the truth about anything else.
If George Santos, the Republican congressman who lied on his resume, if George Santos was involved in a pay-for-play deal and said, I had nothing to do with it through a conduit, I assure you the media wouldn't let it go, would never let it go.
It is strange.
They just figured this out with Biden now that he's got a history of dishonesty.
Here's another about a minute and, I don't know, 15, 20 seconds, because this is too good.
This goes on forever.
You can always check out Grabian.
They have the whole clip there.
There's even more of it.
Here's part two of this.
Biden, just again, making stuff up, and nobody seemed to care.
Check this out.
I've worked in the East Side.
I deliberately went and worked for three years to make sure I was the only guy, only white guy that worked in the East Side, because, you know, I wanted to understand.
I was involved in the civil rights movement, but I wanted- What did you want to understand?
What I want to understand, I didn't realize, for example, I was the only lifeguard in the project.
Corn Pop was a bad dude.
And he ran a bunch of bad boys.
And so he was up on the board, wouldn't listen to me.
I said, hey, Esther, you, off the board, or I'll come up and drag you off.
He said, I'll be waiting for you.
He was waiting for three guys in straight razors.
Not a joke!
I used to be a lifeguard for years, and when I ran for the United States Senate, they said, well, why do you want a 29-year-old guy who's only been a lifeguard?
Well, the truth was, I was a practicing lawyer, I'd been a public defender, and I had my own small law firm.
The first frost, you knew what was happening.
You had to put on your windshield wipers to get literally the oil slick off the window.
That's why I and so damn many other people I grew up with have cancer.
You know how much it costs to make that insulin drug for diabetes?
Cost.
It was invented by a man who did not patent it because he wanted it available for everyone.
I spoke to him, okay?
You better have helicopters ready to take those 3,000 civilians inside the green zone where I've been seven times and shot at.
He's like, dude, there's so much, like we're almost doing you a disservice cutting it off, but in the interest of time.
No, he was not shot at.
Okay, he was not arrested going to see Mandela.
He was not a civil rights activist.
He didn't grow up in the Puerto Rican community.
He did not go to black churches growing up.
Think George Santos is bad?
This guy's a thousand times worse than Santos.
And believe me, I'm not justifying anything Santos did.
I've been clear on that from the start.
You want him to resign?
Fine, fair enough.
For dishonesty?
Then just show us some principles and call for this buffoon to resign too.
But as Lauren Boebert, I think, a congresswoman said, and she's absolutely right, Joe.
She goes, Biden has an insurance plan.
Kamala Harris.
Everybody's like, no, no, no, don't resign.
Boebert's not wrong.
She's not wrong.
People are like, again, yeah, I don't know.
I'm not sure that's a good idea.
I totally get it.
Boebert's not crazy.
All right.
I just want you to remember too, before I move on to my next sponsor, and then the Facebook files broke yesterday.
I thought you mean the Twitter file.
No, no.
Apparently it's Facebook files too.
I want to get that.
Hockey player.
Questions for Dan.
This hockey player stood up for something and something happened.
It's a great story.
Let me get to this and I'll wrap up that whole story for you, but I want you to just remember that political story.
It tells everything.
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I just want you to remember as I sum up this story and move on to a couple of other things here that are really important.
This Politico article I put in the newsletter yesterday, Bongino.com slash newsletter, is one of the most important pieces you will ever read.
It is in right before Donald Trump is about to take office in 2017, January.
Politico, left-wing Politico, reported extensively on Ukraine's efforts to take out Trump.
The headline is Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire.
I told you this whole story about Biden being a foreign agent, the visitor's logs, him lying, his history of dishonesty, the media giving up on him now.
Because they've known about this, folks.
Politico knew in 2017.
They knew what?
That someone really important knew Biden was a foreign agent.
Trump.
That's why the Ukrainians wanted him gone too.
It's right there.
All right, moving on.
And now we get the Facebook files.
Facebook files, what the hell?
Robbie Suave, who is a writer and a journalist on the libertarian side, I believe, he put out a long thread about the Facebook files, showing you, as we said before, again, that the bigger scandal here is not just the censorship that happened via the government and government deputizing Twitter to censor people.
We said the bigger scandal, because there are bigger platforms, were Google and Facebook.
Yeah, the Twitter is important because of the media.
But Facebook and Google absolutely dwarfed Twitter in importance.
And what did we tell you a few months ago?
I said the next shoe to drop is going to be government coordination with Fakebook and Google.
And bang, here it is.
Suave got a hold of some Facebook files, some of their emails.
He notes in May of 2021, the CDC, which I believe last time I checked, guys, was a government entity, the Centers for Disease Control.
Can we get a confirmation on that?
Yes, it is.
Wow, he's fast.
Back checking immediately.
Yeah, man.
CDC officials began routinely vetting claims about COVID-19 vaccines that appeared on Facebook.
The platform left it up to the federal government to determine which assertions were accurate.
Oh, they did.
Here is the Facebook people reaching out to the CDC basically saying, hey, uh, can you please deputize us, uh, to take over, you know, take over the platform here and sanctions.
By the way, the CDC should have immediately, immediately just directed them somewhere else and said, we are entities of the government.
You have scientific experts who can comment on this, but it would be inappropriate.
No, of course not.
They work back and forth to make sure this information went away.
Here, it is not safe for women on their period to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
Being around people who are vaccinated with COVID-19 causes side effects.
Listen, these are claims Facebook could have easily reached out to scientific folks out there and done, but no, they didn't do that.
Of course, they were working with the government, which is against the First Amendment and is illegal.
It's right there, folks.
It's right there.
I told you this scandal was going to blow everything out of the water.
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Speaking of sports, an unintended segue, but worked out perfectly.
I don't usually get into a lot of culture stuff sometimes because there's a lot of other stuff happening, but the culture's important.
Super important.
Why?
Because politics is downstream of culture.
Hat tip, Andrew Breitbart, who said that a long time ago, and he's absolutely correct.
So we don't ignore it.
When we see something important, we move on it.
Sometimes we get criticized for it.
Play that.
Sometimes I'll play Bill Maher or Matt Damon clips or something like that.
Listen, these guys are lefties, but this particular thing is important because lefties hear them representing other ideas.
And then people yell at me.
Oh, don't put any faith in these people.
I don't ever.
I've said that repeatedly.
Athletes either.
But this guy, you know, seems to have done the right thing.
He's a hockey player.
Ivan Provorov.
I don't watch hockey much.
I'm sorry, but I had never heard of the guy before.
So he plays for the Philadelphia Flyers.
And there was a gay pride-themed jersey night, and Ivan Prokhorov said, well, you know, I'm not wearing that.
I've never discriminated.
There's no evidence he's ever discriminated against anyone, ever, or said anything bad.
He just said, I'm not wearing that.
I'm a religious man, and it's against my religion.
So here were his comments that, of course, generated a firestorm with the, you will comply, left.
Check this out.
I respect everybody's choices.
My choice is to stay true to myself and my religion.
That's all I'm going to say.
That's all I'm going to comment on that.
If you have any hockey questions, I would answer those.
I'm confused here.
I'm confused here, what did he say there?
What did he say?
Oh, I hate gay people.
I can't stand... No, that's not what he said.
That's not even what he implied.
He said, I respect everybody's choices and this is my choice.
I just don't want to wear that jersey.
So, of course, the tolerance left, you know, they're all about tolerance, guys.
Remember, you ever see the bumper sticker, tolerance coexist?
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, you've seen that, right?
They mean it, Joe, coexist.
Yeah, sure.
You know, coexist.
Just not coexist with anyone you disagree with, as evidenced by this idiot.
So some guy at the NHL network, thankfully I've never heard of him, never played him, who I hear is a monster liberal, by the way.
He lost his mind.
So because Ivan Provorov, who said nothing negative, there is zero evidence he's discriminated against anyone.
There's zero evidence he even harbors any ill will towards anyone.
He just made a decision on what he chooses to wear and not wear.
By the way, it was voluntary.
No one in the NHL was forcing him to do it.
This NHL commentator wants him out of the country fighting in the war in Ukraine.
Don't- I'm not kidding!
Here, listen for yourself.
Either program can get on a plane any day he wants and go back to a place where he feels more comfortable, take less money, and get on with his life that way if it's that problematic for him.
And he's been in North America for a long time.
He played in the Western Hockey League.
He's now been in Philadelphia for many years.
If this is that much of a problem for him to maybe assimilate into his group of teammates and in the community and here in this country, That's okay, listen.
You can feel any way you want.
But the beauty is, if it bothers you that much, there's always a chance to leave.
Go back where you feel more comfortable.
I understand there's a conflict of sorts going on over there.
Maybe get involved.
So... So just to... Well, first off, Guy's correct, Joe.
It's... This guy's definitely... Hat tip, sir.
You are a current thinger.
He is an NPC, so hat tip to you.
Cheers.
There's nothing here to drink, so I can't take a sip.
There's only a coffee.
There's only a golf ball in there.
Don't ask me why.
People send me stuff all the time.
So just to be clear, if you don't wear a jersey, say nothing negative, say you respect everyone, you just choose not to wear it, you have no evidence of discrimination whatsoever this guy's engaged in, he said nothing negative, you have no evidence he even has any negative feelings towards anyone, you should be shipped off to war in Ukraine.
And that's tolerance.
Well, you know what I love?
We are winning the culture war.
Andrew Breitbart was right.
This is why I'm optimistic about the political future, because politics is downstream of culture.
And folks, whether it was the revolt against the Justice Department when parents were attacked for protecting their kids at school boards, the revolt against CRT teaching kids to be racist, this is all the revolt against Drag Queen Story Hour, shaking your junk in front of a bunch of kids.
I really believe things are changing.
Look at this OutKick story.
Ivan Provorov jersey sells out after the media crucifies him for not wearing a Pride-themed jersey.
I tried to buy it.
You can't buy his jersey.
It's totally sold out.
Good job, folks.
On a very serious note, man, we're winning.
We've had enough of this.
We've had enough of this.
Just leave us alone.
We leave you alone.
You do your thing.
We do our thing.
Just leave us alone, man.
I want to get to this article next, uh, evidence of the fliparoo.
What's the fliparoo?
Uh, it's really important.
You understand what the fliparoo is, by the way, I had to build a March for lifers out there today.
I'll get to that in a minute too.
Can't fight for life.
Then the whole movement's meaningless.
You all are great out there, out there in the cold every year that we show up, but I want to get to the fliparoo in a minute, how you're being totally scammed on this national sales tax thing.
Again, you're being totally scammed.
No, not by Republicans, by media people.
It happens all, it happened to Andy Harris, Joe.
You know him, the Congressman.
Oh, yeah.
From, I remember this from years ago.
I'll never forget.
Andy Harris supports a national sales, like they're totally scamming.
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Folks, the flip-a-roo.
The flip-a-roo is this.
The flip-a-roo is when the Democrats accuse Republicans of doing things that they are doing themselves.
It works out perfect.
You're being accused of Russian collusion as a Democrat, accuse the Republicans of it because you know the media, like lapdogs, will kiss your ass and run with the story and forget about your scandal.
John Solomon said as much in the interview, again we'll put on the Sunday show, that's how the Russia hoax started, you know that?
Hillary Clinton did some focus group polling.
They thought her email was going to be a devastating scandal.
Well, the focus group said it wasn't.
You know what they thought was a devastating scandal, Joe?
Some of Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation's dealings with Russia.
Oh, let's just accuse Trump of colluding with Russia.
That's how it happened.
John Solomon lays out the whole thing in that interview.
Well, they love to do the fliparoo on economic issues, too.
We're in it for the little guy.
You know, we're in for economic growth, tolerance, coexistence.
And whatever they're accusing the Republicans of doing, they're doing themselves.
So their latest accusation is Republicans want to hike taxes, do a national sales tax.
You'll see the article in Semaphore.
It's in the newsletter today.
Bongino.com slash newsletter if you want to check it out.
Folks, I am a big supporter of the fair tax and have for a long time.
I want to explain what this is briefly because I got a lot to get to, including the questions.
It is a 30% national sales tax.
Oh my gosh, I don't want to pay that.
Folks, as you can see from the piece, it's being portrayed as in addition to other taxes.
That's not what it is.
It swaps out the sales tax for income, payroll, estate, and corporate taxes.
You wouldn't have any other tax bill.
But what about the poor?
Well, it sends a prebate check to soften the blow on lower income families.
That abolishes the IRS.
Why is a consumption tax better?
Because why are we taxing something?
When you tax something, what do you get, Joe?
More or less of it.
You get less.
Right.
You don't get more of it.
If I tax your work at 90% instead of 20%, you're going to work less because you get less money.
Why are we taxing work?
Consumption, however, I don't mean this in a bad way, is a destruction of wealth.
I buy a hot dog and I eat it.
I consumed it.
I destroyed it.
So you want to disincentivize excessive consumption if you have to disincentivize something instead of work.
A sales tax, a national sales tax in lieu of all of these other taxes works.
Now, seniors have legitimate concerns.
The seniors say, well, I paid these income taxes my whole life.
Now I got to pay to buy stuff.
Totally fair.
You're going to have to phase it in over time.
And I can be able to just do this overnight.
Oh, look at the Democrats.
Republicans want a tax hike.
They're doing the fliparoo.
It's because they want to hike taxes.
They want to distract you, so they're getting you lost in this fair tax thing.
You want to see another one?
Yeah, they love to tell you they're warriors for the middle class and the poor.
Really?
They love spending more money.
They're arguing for more.
Matter of fact, the debt ceiling's coming up, and they're arguing to spend even more money, which is leading to inflation.
Axios.
Who's inflation hitting?
Quote, the details of who bear the brunt of higher prices shapes the political and economic dynamics of inflation.
The data suggests that it's shifting from an annoyance for the middle class to a more severe burden on poor families that can least afford higher prices.
As always, they're in it.
They're real middle class warriors.
They're screwing over the middle class, man.
Jason Reilly summed this up beautifully in a piece in the Wall Street Journal.
They love the minimum wage, right?
Well, that price is poor minorities desperate for employment out of jobs.
What about bail reform?
Well, it makes bad neighborhoods even worse.
The left loves affirmative action.
Well, that boosts dropout rates by mismatching black students with schools in the name of diversity.
They love open space zoning laws, environmental zealots.
Well, that limits construction of affordable housing and decimates the black population.
Everything they do, the left is designed to screw over the middle class and lie to you.
Here's another one.
They're warriors for wages.
You know that show.
They love wages.
We're for middle class wages.
Really?
They know John Solomon's piece here.
While wages have increased in the Biden presidency, inflation has eroded and surpassed any gains for workers since Biden took office.
That's just so weird.
And they want to spend even more money.
As Playbook notes, they're arguing to increase the debt ceiling sooner than they had to.
Why?
Because the student loan program they told you was paid for, don't you worry, this is all paid for, actually isn't paid for, is resulting in a ton of debt, more inflation, and that's why the debt ceiling is approaching.
As Playbook notes right here, quicker than they thought.
Is anything they tell you true?
No, it's not.
Again, big hat tip to the March for Lifers today.
Just a quick note, they couldn't find the Supreme Court leaker.
They couldn't find him, Joe.
The pool was limited to 82 people who had access.
What, you couldn't polygraph him?
Maybe you'll find the Vegas shooter motive or the January 6 pipe bomber too.
I don't know, maybe that's in the file of cases we shouldn't look at.
Alright, let's get to questions for Dan.
He was a little slow on the questions for Dan.
Yeah, sorry about that.
I know I had one more story, but I'll have to get to it later on the radio show.
Yeah, but it's just funny because that's one of the questions today.
Hey Dan, at MainGreg1, why is it important for us to financially support so many other countries?
If we kept the money here, we could better support all of our own with different programs, you know?
Uh, it's a great question.
I've thought about often.
I believe it is important in some limited cases to provide limited, very limited cases to provide financial support.
Not when it comes to cash, but things like military assets.
It does help for us to have military assets stations in some places overseas.
Not necessarily to start or advance a bunch of foreign imperialistic wars or anything like that, but it just builds some trust with that company and they have skin in the game.
Having said that, foreign aid, by the way, is a really small portion of the federal budget.
It is.
You can just look up the numbers.
However, I do agree.
We dish out taxpayer dollars for seemingly no viable return whatsoever.
Hey Dan, at Flaux, how many days a week do you do cardio?
Three!
Three 20-minute mid-range heart sessions.
I'm worried about my heart ever since the COVID vax.
So three, I don't go crazy with cardio anymore.
I don't do any more high-intensity interval training.
I used to, but it beats me up too much and I can't recover and do the show and keep my head straight.
Hey Dan, Andy Prizbiz, he's had a question here before.
What was Obama's role in the Ukraine scandal?
He was president.
You think he was directly involved or just negligent by not knowing what's really happening?
No, no, no.
I think Biden was knee deep in this whole thing.
I think Biden knew that, I think, excuse me, Obama knew that Biden was knee-deep in the Ukraine scandal, and Obama knew Trump knew, therefore Biden winked and nodded at the DOJ, Biden, and the Hillary team when they went after Trump.
Oh, he definitely knew.
Hey Dan, at Blackie Blackerson, I'm just reading.
Have you been following the Crowder saga?
As conservatives, shouldn't we not be eating our own?
What's your take?
Listen, I know pretty much all parties involved here, and I'll say this.
Listen, I got involved with Rumble for a reason.
You should own your own content.
You should choose.
You should have the choice to own your own content.
Why do I say choice?
Um, I say choice because sometimes forfeiting ownership in terms of a licensing deal to other people is done in exchange for advertising they spend money on.
So I'll say both sides, uh, and I'm not trying to be a both side or have legitimate points here.
You can argue about the presentation style all day, but there's a good, you know, Steve makes a good point, you know, owning your own content and having control of your own content is key.
That that's, that's why, you know, I got involved with Rumble.
Rumble, you can just go and place your stuff there.
And then Rumble, in exchange for being on a platform, you know, no different than other video platforms, they'll air, put ads in there for you.
And you guys, whatever split you get, you get.
Own your own content, especially if you're going to get into this space.
It's super important.
Hey Dan, at Battle of Jericho, how many topics are you forced to skip from your podcast during a juicy news week for stories?
A lot!
Like today, a ton, because I love the show and I love talking about stuff.
And then I, I just, it's hard to calculate out, but I'll tell you the golden rule of the business.
I just told you, uh, the number one golden rule on your own content, but the second is always over prepare always.
Never ever get into, you ever hear me at the end of a show, like just, uh, let's see, uh, by the way, how's your watch?
I don't do that.
Why?
Because I never am searching for stuff to talk about because we're always short, always over-prepared, never under-prepared.
All right.
Hey Dan, I love that you advertise and sell patriotic t-shirts you wear on your podcast.
As a fundraiser, would you think of selling auctioning game worn t-shirts, autographed of course, that you wear on camera?
I call dibs on the Navy, Boulders of Honor shirt, this one, at Dr. Bond's.
I have about 10 of these, so it's never the same shirt.
One had a rip in it, I just threw out.
If I would've known you wanted it, I would've sent it to you.
I would've washed it first.
But no, I haven't thought about that.
I don't know, I wear these shirts when I work out, so I don't think, after this I go on deadlift and stuff, so I'm not sure you want those shirts.
But thank you for offering, it's really nice of you.
At Impact Video, hey Dan, do you find yourself competing for space in bed at night with your dog Lucy, or does she make other arrangements?
No, Lucy sleeps with Amelia, not with me.
I have a vicious dog allergy.
So, by the way, so does Amelia, and it doesn't seem to bother her at all, so maybe I'm exaggerating my dog allergy.
But no, Lucy sleeps with me.
She will not leave Amelia's side.
So, she does not sleep with me.
That never happens.
All right, next question.
That's it!
That's it for... Oh man, there's some good ones this week.
I really liked them.
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