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The Bongino Brief - January 23, 2023

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Dan Bongino.
Welcome to the Bongino Brief.
I'm Dan Bongino.
Obviously, the Biden having classified documents in his house and his UPenn affiliated think tank is turned into an explosive scandal that the White House is now panicked about.
But why?
Folks, I told you yesterday, the radio show, the podcast, elsewhere, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
You know, you get the point.
That it's not about the classified documents.
That is a small sliver of a much larger scandal about to explode.
And you're going to get a preview for it because we're always a few months ahead of the news cycle right here.
This is why Karine Jean-Pierre, when asked about why she keeps lying by a reporter in the press room about the documents, when they were found, why they were found, if the search is over, why does she keep lying?
This is why her answer was, We'll see you tomorrow.
Check this out.
I'll see you guys tomorrow.
I'll see you tomorrow.
Five times that turned out to be false.
Are you sorry about that?
I'll see you tomorrow.
Come talk to me.
I'll see you tomorrow.
Yeah, we did come and talk to you.
Unfortunately, the answers are process.
Search is complete.
See the DOJ.
Ask the DOJ.
I have nothing more to add.
Why does she have nothing more to add?
Because if she would add any more, the depth of this scandal would hit you right in the nads.
And what's the depth of the scandal?
I already told you in the beginning of the show.
Don't bury the lead.
Ukraine was a piggy bank for lobbyists and elites, and Biden and his son wanted a piece of it.
That's why the classified documents are about Ukraine.
All going to come full circle.
Folks, I'm just going to encourage you again to please don't get distracted by red herrings.
This happens all the time, especially on the right where people are eager.
I'm not saying this in a negative kind of a pretentious a-hole way, but a lot of Congress people and other folks who investigate investigators, they want to get on TV.
So they latch onto the current thing.
Here you go.
Here's the mug.
They latch on to the current thing.
So the current thing of these visitor logs, Secret Service visitor logs, don't get latched on to that.
The Secret Service, you still go on for years about the visitor logs.
There's a huge scandal here.
I already explained to you yesterday about the visitor logs, why it's a red herring, having done that job.
There'll be name check forms, but no visitor logs.
It's a way to distract you and eat up time.
Forget it for a minute.
There are other things to focus on.
And don't get distracted by the rent payments either.
Oh, Hunter Biden was giving his dad rent payments for $50,000.
It doesn't matter.
What matters is he was giving his dad money.
We don't care if they were rent payments, hooker payments, transportation payment.
It doesn't matter.
The fact is he was giving his dad money.
It'll make sense why in a minute.
Not what it was for.
You understand the left loves to bog you down in details.
I swear some of this is being done intentionally.
This is what they want.
Remember the KISS principle.
Keep it simple, stupid.
Occam's razor.
Here's the question.
Was Joe Biden funneled money via his son?
By Ukrainians to get money and weapons to Ukraine.
Your taxpayer-funded stuff.
If that's the case, and he was de facto bribed to do it, it's only the biggest scandal in modern presidential history.
Maybe in presidential history.
Going back to Teapot Dome.
Why?
I can't show you this Washington Post headline enough.
You should print this out and put it on your wall.
The headline tells you the whole story from March of 2022.
Again, it's the Washington Post, a lefty outlet.
They point out that Joe Biden was Obama's point man in Ukraine when Obama was president, and he wanted to ship more lethal weapons to Ukraine, but was overruled by Obama.
Okay, why did Biden and almost nobody else there want to ship weapons to Ukraine, why Obama didn't?
Was this due to money making its way to Biden from Hunter?
That's kind of a huge story.
So how does this relate to the Ukrainian piggy bank, George Soros, the Russia hoax, and the impeachment hoax?
You ready for the ride?
Let's go.
Here's a fact.
Again, bottom line up front.
Ukraine was a piggy bank for elites and lobbyists.
If you read my book, Follow the Money, in the first chapter, Insane in Ukraine, I lay out the whole process.
Why Ukraine was a piggy bank.
There are a number of reasons.
Lobbyists and elites were in Ukraine taking money for years.
It wasn't just Hunter Biden.
There were Republicans and Democrats.
I want to be clear who were doing this.
There are a number of reasons.
Some of the bigger reasons are Ukraine's obviously uniquely placed on the Russian border and kind of a gateway to Europe as well.
It was subjugated by the Soviet Empire for a while, got its independence, had one of the largest stashes of nuclear weapons, gave up the nuclear weapons.
It's a breadbasket of the world.
But the most important fight, if we had a triage on why lobbyists are so interested in taking Ukrainian money, is because there's a pro-European side of Ukraine that wants Ukraine to be more aligned with Europe, and then there's a pro-Russia side that wants it to be more aligned with Russia.
These fights within Ukraine have been going on For a generation.
Forever.
Forever.
This is nothing new.
I'm not breaking news on the show.
Lobbyists, of course, whenever there's a global conflict, have money to be made.
Why?
Because you get to go to DC and lobby on behalf of one side of the conflict.
Just look at any global conflict about big tech, the Israel-Palestinian relationship, and you will find lobbyists and influence peddlers on either side.
Ukraine was a cash cow.
If you had connections in DC, there was big denaro to be made in the Ukrainian piggy bank.
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You know the Biden administration, they feel vindicated now.
They're going to spend more money.
You need to secure your savings.
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I buy gold for over 5,000 years.
Gold has withstood inflation, geopolitical turmoil, and stock market crashes.
And here's the great news.
You can still get it.
In fact, you can own gold and silver in a tax-sheltered retirement account.
Birch Gold makes it easy to convert an IRA or 401k into an IRA in precious metals.
Here's what you need to do.
Text Dan, my first name, to 989898 to claim your free information kit on gold, and then talk to one of their precious metal specialists.
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Thanks, Birch Gold.
Okay.
Now, you got that?
Biden wants a chunk of this.
He wants in on the action.
Now, Biden's acting like, through all his speeches, that the Ukrainian portfolio given to him by Obama just fell in his lap.
That, I don't believe at all.
Biden wanted Ukraine in his lap because he knew that's where the money was.
Remember the old line, why'd you rob banks?
Because that's where the money is.
Biden wanted Ukraine.
Now, let's walk through this slowly here.
I want you to pay very close attention to this article in The World.
Ukraine anti-corruption activist says that U.S.
lobbyists are eager to take dirty money from Ukraine.
Who is that anti-corruption activist who's saying, gosh, these U.S.
lobbyists, they're all over here eager to take dirty money?
Oh, interesting.
It's a woman by the name of Daria Kalaniuk.
Now, whoa, whoa, T.O., baby.
You have to be a hardcore, Joe's laughing, because you have to be a hardcore P1 listener to have your bells and whistles go off right now.
But if you are hardcore and you read my books, that name's ringing a bell right away.
You're like, Dan, you always told us to remember the names.
I remember the name Daria Kalaniuk.
Daria Kalaniuk is telling you what I'm telling you now.
Ukraine was a piggy bank for politically connected people to make money.
She's like, it's all dirty money.
Kalaniuk is the person in this video, right here, yelling at Boris Johnson, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
This isn't that long ago.
Demanding, basically, the military support for Ukraine.
Oh!
And a no-fly zone, which would potentially cause World War III over there.
This is the same woman in this video.
Take a look.
So we are talking about the stoicism of Ukrainian people.
But Ukrainian women and Ukrainian children are in deep fear because of ...bombs and missiles which are going from the sky.
And Ukrainian people are desperately asking for the West to protect our sky.
We are asking for the no-fly zone.
We are saying respond legitimately to World War III.
But what is the alternative, Mr. Prime Minister?
To observe how our children are, instead of planes, are protecting NATO from the missiles and bombs?
Okay, so Daria Kalaniuk is very connected in Ukraine, and let's just establish some very simple principles.
Daria Kalaniuk says, hey, a lot of dirty money in Ukraine.
Daria Kalaniuk wants weapons and military aid for Ukraine, and so does Joe Biden, who wants military and weapons aid for Ukraine, as I just showed you in the Washington Post headline, in case you think it's a conspiracy theory.
I'm out of conspiracy theories.
They all came true.
So there's big money in Ukraine.
And again, I'll say for the 14th or 15th time in the last couple days, maybe 20th, Biden knew there was big money in Ukraine.
Biden knew about the conflict before Russia invaded.
Him and his family wanted a piece of the money.
Now let's start to tie this together for you in a kind of wow moment.
There's a piece in the Hill, listen, this is from 2019, but it's in the newsletter today.
It says an older piece.
It's at the top of my newsletter.
I encourage you to please read it.
It's by John Solomon when he was writing at the Hill.
It's bongino.com slash newsletter.
Please read this piece.
I've used it in my book.
I've used it repeatedly.
It lays out for you in detail.
It's not that long.
Exactly how the Ukrainian Soros and everyone, the FBI, the DOJ, the U.S.
Embassy are tied together in this massive scam to funnel money from Ukraine to influential U.S.
politically connected people to advance agendas in Ukraine.
Keep Kalaniuk in mind.
Remember, Kalaniuk wants weapons and military support.
She says there's dirty money there.
Here's his piece in the hell.
They're talking about a meeting here.
A meeting that went on between a George Soros affiliated group called AntAC.
A-N-T-A-C.
It's a, air quotes here, by the way, folks, anti-corruption group, which is kind of hilarious.
It's like the Inflation Reduction Act, right?
So there was a meeting with these groups, this George Soros affiliated group, and Solomon in his piece notes that one of the people who attended was Karen Greenaway.
Oh, she was an FBI supervisor in charge of international fraud cases?
And one of the lead agents investigating Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign manager in Ukraine?
Wow!
What a weird thing!
So she attended a meeting with this Soros-affiliated group?
Solomon notes that this FBI agent attended multiple events and won glowing praise in a social media post from Ante C's executive director.
Who's the Ante C's executive director praising the FBI agent as she's investigating Trump for the Russia hoax in Ukraine?
Oh Daria Kalani!
What are the chances?
Guy, what are the chances?
Guy says, Dan, you're exaggerating.
It's a total coincidence.
Oh, it goes on.
In one event, the FBI agent Greenway and our ambassador, Marie Yovanovitch, remember Yovanovitch who was targeting me on social media?
Sure do.
Well, I know you do.
You were probably part of it, too.
Yeah.
And Ambassador Yovanovitch participated in this meeting.
They were alongside Ant AC's Executive Director, Daria Kalaniuk.
And Lutsenko was present.
The message was clear.
The U.S.
Embassy supported Ant AC, the Soros-affiliated group led by Daria Kalaniuk, who praises the FBI agent who's investigating Manafort, who's Trump's campaign manager, who's being investigated for his work in Ukraine.
Now, let's get back to Daria Kalaniuk, who I've been sounding the alarm about for a very long time and a lot of people just don't seem to listen.
There was money to be made in Ukraine.
Everybody knew it.
The Biden team knew it.
Daria Kalaniuk sounded the alarm about it.
And it's strange that Daria Kalaniuk and Joe Biden's interests about arming Ukraine seem to align.
So weird.
Let's look at this Guardian piece about Daria Kalaniuk, who, again, his interests seem perfectly aligned with Joe Biden.
Oh, she was at the White House, by the way, December 9th of 2015, but that's a whole different story.
We'll get to that a little later.
The Guardian.
This is very strange.
Ukraine's view of the Trump whistleblower complaint.
So they're giving you here, the Guardian, a Ukrainian view of the Trump impeachment hoax.
And notice who comments on it.
Oh, Daria Kalani!
Wow!
The executive director of Ant AC!
Uncanny.
I know, dude.
So bananas.
This whistleblower complaint, she says, confirms all the worries we had.
Oh, it does!
She says, it's so strange to have this pressure from a longtime ally of Ukraine, a request to interfere in an investigation from a country which was a role model for us for a long time.
She repeats the impeachment hoax premise almost verbatim that Trump pressured Ukraine.
Almost verbatim, so strange how she's the one the left-wing media goes right to.
Remember, she has the same interests as Joe Biden.
She notes it's coming at the exact moment when we finally have a chance to reform Ukrainian law enforcement agencies and make them free from political influence.
Wow, so Daria Kalaniuk immersed herself, strangely, into the impeachment hoax to get rid of Trump and repeats the talking points exactly that Trump was looking for some political pressure campaign when we know now, because we have the transcript, that the reason they impeached Donald Trump, because we saw the call between him and the Ukrainian president, we know now that they freaked out because he was asking the Ukrainian president to clean up the Biden mess where he was selling influence over in Ukraine.
Kind of strange, too, again, that Daria Kalaniuk was at the White House on December 9th of 2015.
And who was she meeting with at the White House?
Oh, the alleged whistleblower in the Ukrainian impeachment case who has connections to Joe Biden's team, by the way.
Worked with Joe Biden's team on what?
On Ukraine.
Coincidence, right, fellas?
All of it?
Let's go back to that Hill piece, because it just gets even more interesting from here.
Oh look, the Soros group that Daria Kalaniak is the executive director of apparently had some kind of a do-not-prosecute list they were working that they got from the United States Embassy.
You know, the United States Embassy under the Obama-Biden administration?
Fascinating.
So the prosecutor Lutsenko told John Solomon he was stunned when our U.S.
ambassador gave him a list of people they should not prosecute.
The list included a founder of the anti-C group and two members of parliament who supported the group's anti-corruption reform agenda, according to a source directly familiar with the meeting.
Turns out that the group, the Ukrainian law enforcement, was probing that they didn't want to prosecute.
Was co-founded by the Obama administration and George Soros!
Oh my gosh!
This is real!
I'm telling you!
Just the probability of this is just... This seems to be all just crazy coincidences!
Blowing probability equations out the window!
So the Obama U.S.
Embassy says don't prosecute this group affiliated with Soros?
And the Obama administration?
And it notes...
It notes that it was collaborating the embassy with the FBI agents investigating the then-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort's business practices with pro-Russian figures in Ukraine.
Pro-Russia?
Pro-Europe?
Lobbyists?
Everybody was making money in Ukraine.
But it's strange.
The pro-Russia side of the Ukrainian dirty money, Kalaniuk's words, Strange that the pro-Russia side that fit in with the Russia hoax that involved Republican lobbyists who shouldn't have been there, by the way.
Strange that they were the ones being prosecuted when everybody on the other side of it was on a do-not-prosecute list, despite the fact that they may have been up the shenanigans, too.
Remember, Biden's son works there.
Who is in charge of Ukraine for the Obama administration?
Joe Biden.
Oh, the paperwork that they found?
The classified documents?
They were about Ukraine?
And they were found that the UPenn Biden think tank being run by a guy or being associated with a guy who was on stage when Biden called for the Ukrainian prosecutor to be fired for investigating his son?
Whoa!
This is gonna get really crazy!
Ukraine was a piggy bank for elites and lobbyists.
Joe Biden wanted a piece of that money.
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