The Stone Zone dissects Jerome Powell’s stubborn rate-hike stance amid low inflation, Trump’s $17B+ Fannie Mae privatization plan, and tariffs generating $225B in revenue. Gordon Chang warns China’s rare earths breach will spark U.S. retaliation while exposing Xi Jinping’s crumbling grip on military loyalty. Epstein’s suspicious death—with wired retainer payments and hidden FBI documents—ties to the "Russian collusion hoax," implicating Obama, Biden, and intelligence officials in a power grab. Blumenthal’s credibility crumbles under scrutiny as new leaks reveal Nellie Orr’s congressional perjury, hinting at the "greatest abuse of U.S. history." Meanwhile, rural hospitals face funding cuts, framing healthcare access as another casualty of political chaos. [Automatically generated summary]
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell refuses to cut interest rates despite the fact that inflation is historically low.
He says he's waiting for new data.
We'll talk about that in a minute.
The president unfortunately does not have the authority to fire a Federal Reserve chairman.
He can appoint a new chairman, which he will do next year.
But he could, of course, support a move in Congress to repeal the Federal Reserve Act.
Perhaps it's time to shut this bank down because they are trying to slow down the coming Trump boom.
We've already seen the drop in energy prices, the drop in interest rates, the drop in food prices.
We've also seen the surge in revenues from Trump's new tariff policy, as much as $225 billion has poured into the country with far more expected.
In the meantime, President Trump has made a monumental announcement concerning the Federal National Mortgage Association, commonly known as Fannie Mae, and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, informally known as Freddie Mac.
This could not only bring the American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, but it could also help lower interest rates and make housing more affordable.
What we need in this country are homes, affordable homes, Trump homes, if you will.
On True Social, President Trump wrote, Our great mortgage agencies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, provide a vital service to our nation by helping hardworking Americans reach the American dream, home ownership.
I am working to make these amazing companies public.
I will stay strong in my position on seeing them as president.
These agencies are doing a very good job.
They're doing very well, and they will help us make America great again.
In another post, the president said, I'm giving very serious consideration to bringing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac public.
I'll be speaking to Treasury Secretary Scott Besson, among the president's very best appointees, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, and the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, William Pultey, among others, and we're making a decision in the very near future.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are doing very well, throwing off a lot of cash.
The time would seem to be right.
Now, it's very important to recognize that the president also said that he would, let me use his exact words, our great mortgage agencies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, provide a vital service to our nation by helping hardworking Americans reach the American dream of home ownership.
I'm working on taking these amazing companies public.
But, and this is the key, I want to make clear that the U.S. government will continue its complicit guarantees of all the mortgages, and I will stay strong on my position on seeing that that happens as president.
These agencies are doing very well, can help us make America great again.
What this guarantees is that the housing bond market will be unaffected by an effort to take them public.
President's ready to make these major reforms, it seems to me.
The breakaway establishment beltway politicians who have maintained federal conservatorship of the two companies are going out of their minds.
Trump is arguing that now would be the time for the U.S. to monetize the companies for taxpayers and take both companies public.
It is important to note his guarantee.
So it's interesting.
Jim Parrott, owner of the housing finance consultancy, Parrott Ryan Advisors, and a former economic advisor to President Barack Obama, said these comments represent a sea change in Republican thinking on Fannie and Freddie.
These comments put on the table for the first time in recent memory the possibility the government may retain control of Fannie and Freddie, maybe permanently, and use their revenues to pay for other policy needs.
Fannie Mae, by the way, earned $17 billion in net income in 2024, while Freddie Mac netted $11.9 billion in profits.
If the government simply funneled these funds to the Treasury, as it did from 2012, 2019, these revenues projected forward could yield $289 billion over the next 10 years.
This is money that could be applied to paying down our enormous deficit, which is, of course, unsustainable.
Here is Bill Pote talking about his prescription.
This Biden inflation that we had the last four years, which created this housing crisis, now President Trump is coming in and fixing it, and he's turning around Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
You know, Bill, I don't know if you know this and most Americans don't know this, but there's $7.8 trillion in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that we, as the American taxpayers, have many rights to.
$7.8 trillion.
And until President Trump showed up on the scene, nobody even really knew that they were making this much money and that we had these as huge assets.
So like one of my friends said recently, President Trump just finds money everywhere.
And he found money at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and we're going to use it for the benefit of the American people.
Okay, so Bill, I heard that same comment on another network from you yesterday.
You said this is a business that could be worth trillions of dollars.
Trillions to whom?
Trillions to the American people, trillions to the shareholders one day.
I mean, you know, we got to clean up the capital structure, and that's potentially what the president is looking at.
He will still be in control.
It will still be a very, very prominent company for the government.
However, we are really focused on driving operational improvements and really making these great American icons once again.
And Bill, the American economy is very robust.
And under President Trump's leadership, these two companies, I stand behind it, they're going to make over $30 billion a year in earnings.
I think that number will eventually be over $50 billion.
These are huge assets, Bill, and it's about time we have a president who actually knows that they are there.
Really big.
Potty, the president's courageous director of the Federal Home Finance Agency, he's the same man who sent a criminal referral regarding the serial mortgage fraud by New York Attorney General Letitia James to the U.S. Justice Department, has also called on the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to lower interest rates.
Let's listen to Bill Pokey once again.
From where you sit, what is the most convincing argument for the Fed to cut rates at a time when the White House's tariffs threaten to reignite inflation?
Well, first and foremost, inflation is lower than it was the last time they cut.
President Trump has been very successful at reducing inflation, and so therefore it just only makes sense that if inflation was higher and they did cuts then, why can't they do cuts now?
But to your point, for the last four years, at least as it pertains to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, inflation has been totally out of control.
Mortgage rates skyrocketed.
And frankly, people are trapped in their homes with these low interest rates.
We need to get interest rates down, and President Trump, I believe, deserves that because he's crushed this Biden inflation.
President Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Besson have also called on Chairman Powell to lower rates.
The chairman is demuring, saying he doesn't have enough data.
A few thoughts on Jerome Powell.
First of all, he's not a lawyer.
He's a lawyer.
He's not a trained economist.
He always says that he's data dependent, but the data he's looking at is old and significantly lags what's actually going on in the marketplace.
This would be analogous to driving a car down the highway, but looking in the rearview mirror.
It's dangerous.
And that's why we have these boom and bust cycles.
The next Fed chair, the President Points, who I hope will be much better, will understand this.
It is actually Powell who is being political.
He, of course, says the president in demanding an interest rate cut because inflation is historically low, is the one being political.
The Fed has become like a bunch of lemmings.
If they disagree, they get ostracized.
This does not allow for open debate and true thinking.
Perhaps this is because the Fed has become a collection of neo-Keynesian economists with no opposing views.
Contrast this, for example, with the United Kingdom, whose central bank often has votes that are 5-4 instead of unanimous.
The Fed has a habit of cherry-picking economic reports.
For example, the gross domestic product showed a negative reading in Q1, but in the first quarter, but the Fed disregarded it because the import calculation was quite high, which distracts from the gross domestic product since it was front-running the tariffs, you see.
However, the Fed forgot the offset of inventories that were built from the increased imports, which adds to GDP.
So you see how they are manipulating the data.
The job numbers look good on the headline, but there is no significant, but there is significant underlying weaknesses.
The Fed either does not understand it or refuses to accept it as they continually ignore the current solid labor market.
The job gains are coming from overstatements in the birth-death ratio and have been consistently revised lower to the tune of 50% of the original reported headlines.
This was done to benefit Joe Biden's re-election.
They would announce enormous job gains and then get huge headlines.
And then weeks later, they would quietly restate their findings and they would move all those numbers down.
Job openings have actually been plummeting and unemployment duration periods have been rising significantly.
I'm concerned the labor market will continue to weaken and the unemployment rate could approach 5% if Jerome Powell does not cut rates.
Powell is obsessed with 2% as his inflation target.
After all, they did such a horrific job of allowing inflation to rise over 9% that now suddenly they've gotten religion on this topic.
But the reason inflation rose to 9% was because the Fed was, once again, looking through the rearview mirror.
They kept the quarters and zero interest rate policy for too long, which was like pouring gasoline on Biden's profligate spending because they had covered due to the inflation readings, which were still printing low numbers because, again, the lag in what is really happening in the marketplace.
The forward-looking data shows inflation was about to explode, yet the Fed refused to look ahead and made terrible decisions by relying on the faulty lagging data.
This is the mistake they made under Joe Biden.
It's not a mistake we want them to make under President Donald Trump.
The main culprit in this lag is the shelter component.
That's housing.
This is the largest weighting in both in terms of the PCE and CPI inflation reports.
In fact, it makes up over 44% of the core CPI.
The reason why shelter lags is because of the way it is calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
They divide the country into six parts and only look at the areas every six months, which clearly creates the lag I've been talking about.
Additionally, they're asking what the current rent payment, which could be reflective of a lease that was signed months earlier.
This creates approximately a one-year lag when you look at shelter, housing, the most influential component within the inflation reports.
The Fed is making the same mistake again.
What the housing market needs is consistency and predictability.
They need to know what interest rates are going to be.
Chairman Polti and Secretary of Treasury Besson are absolutely right, as is the president.
The time to cut rates is now.
If, however, the chairman refuses to cut rates, there is no way around this.
The president does not have the constitutional authority to fire the Fed chairman.
Perhaps Congressman Ron Paul was right all along.
Perhaps it's time for the Congress to repeal the Federal Reserve Act.
Remember when they told us they were going to look at our gold that is held by the Federal Reserve and by the Federal Reserve in New York and in Fort Knox?
Whatever happened to that?
How come nobody has seen the gold since 1974?
Where is the gold?
I ask.
We'll find out.
Elon's Tariff Authority Claim00:15:31
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Whatever you do, don't touch that dial because we'll be right back with the latest in American politics, the news, and, well, some surprises.
Gordon Chang is going to join us because the Chinese did exactly what he predicted they would do on this show only about a week ago.
They have double-crossed President Donald Trump.
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To me, Elon Musk is a hero.
See, the left loved Elon Musk and they loved electric cars until he bought Twitter and canceled their censorship policies and made it a free speech platform.
I had 980,000 followers when I was banned for life in 2017.
My crime, the rule I violated, supporting Donald Trump for president.
Suddenly, Elon Musk found himself the target of nine different federal investigations into his various businesses.
And I think he woke up to the fact that they would target anyone who stood up for free speech.
He now has done an incredible job at his DOES, the Department of Government Efficiency, uncovering not millions, not billions, but trillions of dollars in waste, fraud, and corruption.
Whether the Congress has the guts to follow through, Elon Musk is a hero, but he's right about one thing.
The president honored him in a ceremony in the Oval Office, and Musk took direct aim at the New York Times.
Let's listen to Elon Musk.
You know, some of the media organizations in this room were the slingers.
There is a New York Times report today that accuses you of blurring.
Oh, wait, wait, wait.
New York Times, is that the same publication that got a Pulitzer Prize for false reporting on the Russiagate?
Is it the same organization?
I got to check my colleague.
I think it is.
I don't know.
I think the judge just ruled against the New York Times for their lies about the Russiagate hoax and that they might have to give back that Pulitzer Prize.
That New York Times?
Let's move on.
Elon is exactly right.
I had the same exact experience with the New York Times when they covered the Soviet-style witch hunt that my family and I were subjected to.
This is one where we only learned after I was pardoned that the judge withheld exculpatory evidence that proved that I had no knowledge of Russian collusion, WikiLeaks collaboration, or any other crime.
Now, I was prosecuted because I refused to offer false testimony against President Donald Trump.
And when BuzzFeed sued the U.S. Justice Department to get Robert Mueller's full and complete final report unredacted and published, and a federal judge ordered it, we saw the graphic admission that Mueller had found no evidence of Russian collusion, WikiLeaks collaboration, or any other crime against me.
This information had been withheld from my defense lawyers.
Look it up in the New York Times, however.
It was on November 3rd, 2020 at midnight, that the Justice Department released this shocking admission that Roger Stone did nothing wrong, but the New York Times never reported it.
Don't go away.
We'll be back with old China hand Gordon Chang, who's going to tell us why he was accurate last week when he told us on this show that the Chinese would make a tariff deal with President Donald Trump that they almost immediately would violate.
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And we're back in the Stone Zone.
Joining me now is old China hand Gordon G. Chang.
Gordon Chang has lived and worked in Shanghai and Hong Kong for almost two decades.
He is a columnist, has written for Newsweek, The Hill, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, National Review, Barons, and elsewhere.
His most recent book, Plan Red: China's Project to Destroy America, now available on Amazon.
It's a must-reading.
I highly recommend you.
Gordon, welcome back into the Stone Zone.
It was right here on this show only days ago that you predicted that China would reach a tariff agreement with the United States, but you also predicted that they would violate that agreement.
And now, just as you predicted, that is exactly what has happened.
President Donald Trump on True Social said two weeks ago, China was in grave economic danger.
The very high tariffs I set made it virtually impossible for China to trade into the United States marketplace, which is by far number one in the world.
We went, in effect, cold turkey with China, and it was devastating for them.
Many factories closed, and there was, to put it mildly, civil unrest.
I saw what was happening.
I didn't like it for them, nor for us.
I made a fast deal with China in order to save them from what I thought was going to be a very bad situation, and I did not want to see that happen.
Because of this deal, everything quickly stabilized, and China got back to business as usual.
Everybody was happy.
That was the good news.
The bad news, however, is that China, perhaps surprising, not surprising to some, that would include Gordon Chang, has totally violated its agreement with us.
So much for being Mr. Nice Guy.
Well, Gordon Chang, I have to hand it to you.
You called all this just days ago.
Well, that was really easy, Roger.
So it didn't take very much in the way of powers of prediction.
What we saw, especially after the May 12th agreement was announced, was that China did not adhere to its main promise, which was to remove non-tariff barriers that it had put in place after April 2nd, Liberation Day.
This was a very easy thing for Beijing to do.
Specifically, this was the export ban on rare earths to the United States.
It's important to us.
I don't know why China didn't do it, but clearly we're now at a point which was easy to see, and that is Beijing is in violation of the agreement, and the United States needs to do something about it.
Yeah, I think you're right.
You would think that the Chinese would actually have some sense of relief that we are not launching a nuclear attack on Iran since they depend on their Iranian puppet states for so much of their oil.
What are the ways that China is violating the current agreement?
Yeah, the most important one is the failure to remove the export ban on rare earths.
This was specifically referred to when the May 12th agreement said all of the measures that China had put in place after April 2nd, and that certainly included the rare earth ban, which was actually discussed in Geneva between the American and the Chinese negotiators.
So it was something that China knew that we expected them to do right away.
You know, the thing about this May 12th agreement was, as President Trump intimated in that posting, this was a very favorable agreement for China.
So it's in China's interest to make sure that it goes forward and that we adhere to it.
And so it really is, you know, a very short-sighted decision on the part of the Chinese to try to test President Trump by not adhering and complying with the agreement.
Yeah, and those who have tested Donald Trump in the past have found out that he has ice water in his veins when it comes to negotiating, particularly when he's negotiating on behalf of the American public.
What do you think happens next in this Chinese-American tariff minuet?
President Trump is going to impose some cost, and I think he's going to do it pretty soon.
He's made a marker for himself with the posting a few hours ago, which means that it will happen.
I don't know what form it'll take.
Probably an increase in tariffs.
Could be something else.
We'll find out.
I guess he could also use sanctions if he wanted to.
He does.
Of course, some federal court has already attempted to tell him that he doesn't have the authority to do any of this.
This was one of the most incredible things I've seen in a 50-year career in American politics, where a federal judge in Florida says that Donald Trump has the authority set by Congress to negotiate tariffs for reasons beyond just revenue, the drugs pouring into our country, the trade imbalance, those are legitimate reasons.
Trump declared an economic emergency in order to give himself this executive power as required by the Constitution.
And then suddenly, out of nowhere, this incredibly obscure International Court of Trade, which is located in Manhattan, of all places, rules the president doesn't have this authority.
Trump's lawyers appealed within hours, and a federal appeals court stayed the international trade court's decision so the president could get back to negotiating better trade deals for the American people.
We haven't seen a final ruling on that, but we presume, much like the earlier federal court rulings that said that he didn't have the authority to deport violent, illegal immigrant criminals from the United States, it will end up before the U.S. Supreme Court, I imagine.
And my guess is that the International Trade Court, which throughout 100 years of precedent allowed every other president to set tariffs unencumbered, will be overturned.
In the meantime, I think I want to focus on the part of the president's statement, Gordon, when he spoke of civil unrest unfolding in China.
The Chinese have an extraordinarily brutal regime.
They rule with an iron fist.
What is the situation on the ground in China today?
Well, there have been protests of workers, and indeed workers have been burning down their factories.
A recent example was a worker who was not paid 800 Remmebi, basically a little bit more than 100 U.S. dollars.
He burned down his factory.
And that could happen in any country, Roger.
But 800 Brother, as he is now known, has become a folk hero throughout China.
And that doesn't happen in countries.
What it says is that China's people are extremely unhappy.
And whenever they get the opportunity, they will take to the streets as they have been.
Also, we have had hints that there are depositor protests in the eastern part of the country, big cities like Shanghai and Beijing.
And that really is an indication that the banks are being squeezed.
Now, I'm sure that these are the smaller financial institutions because the big ones are flush with cash, but it shows that the problems in the economy are now radiating into the banking system.
And that's a really bad sign for Beijing.
The president, by his deft moods in the Middle East, is very clearly trying to isolate China.
He would like to get a solution to the Russian-Ukraine war.
That's proving more difficult than perhaps the president had thought.
Whenever he gets one side lined up, the other side falls apart on him.
I was kind of surprised that he was unaware of the attempted assassination of Vladimir Putin, where his helicopter was attacked by Ukrainian drones.
I bet those drones, by the way, came from the United States.
It would explain Vladimir Putin's reticence to come to the table.
I was hopeful that Putin would show up in Turkey, where our ambassador Tom Barrick, extraordinarily able individual who the president not only appointed as ambassador to Turkey, but also special envoy to Syria, where we are beginning the peacemaking process with the new Syrian leadership.
I was hoping that Putin would show up and that since the president was already in the Middle East, that he might drop in and broker the deal himself.
See, I've read the art of the deal.
Gordon, how stable is the government of Chairman Xi?
We Americans think that they don't have their own internal politics, but indeed they do.
They certainly do.
So, for instance, there is credible information to suggest that Xi Jinping has lost substantial influence or maybe even total control over the Chinese military.
Recently, his loyalists have disappeared from public view.
There are rumors that they were suicided.
I don't know if that's true or not, but we do know we haven't seen them.
And when we also can see other developments in the Chinese military that suggest that Xi Jinping did not, as many people believe, he did not actually get rid of his own people.
It's Xi Jinping's adversaries in the military got rid of them.
And that says that Xi Jinping's control and influence throughout the Chinese political system, military and civilian, has now been weakened.
Xi's Military Maneuvers00:04:28
There are all sorts of rumors that are flying around about the Chinese civilian leaders undermining Xi Jinping.
I don't know if those are true.
We have no way of confirming them and very little in the way of information that would lead us to one conclusion or another.
But these rumors are there, Roger.
And usually when you hear a lot of rumors of this type, it means that people are trying to undermine whoever is the target of the rumors, in this case, Xi Jinping.
So yeah, I think the Chinese political system is really unstable right now.
If you're just tuning in, we're talking to Gordon Chang.
You find him at Gordon G. Chang on X. Gordon G. Chang on X.
He has a very lively commentary there.
He's also the author of a terrific book, Plan Red, China's Project to Destroy America.
That's available on Amazon.
I've read his previous books, China's Going to War, The Great U.S.-China Tech War, Losing South Korea, Nuclear Showdown, and his analysis of the events in North Korea as well as China are always incisive and on the money.
I don't believe that Chairman Xi trusts his military.
I also don't believe that he's confident about the capabilities of his military.
The last time you joined us, I asked you about the probability of a move on Taiwan, something I thought was highly probable under the weak foreign policy of President Joe Biden.
I think Chairman Xi knew that if they grabbed nationalist China, Taiwan, the result would be a strong letter of protest from Anthony Blinken, the Secretary of State, because Joe was probably sleeping.
Do you still think it is unlikely that the Chinese attest President Donald Trump vis-a-vis Taiwan?
Yeah, what I think is unlikely is that Xi Jinping would initiate hostilities with an attempt to take the main island of Taiwan.
Because as you point out, I don't think Xi Jinping trusts his military.
You know, it's entirely possible.
Two other things, though, are entirely possible and maybe even probable.
Taiwan has a lot of little islands that are just off the Chinese mainland, some of them as close as three miles.
Xi Jinping, needing a quick victory, could take one of those little ones because that would be a fairly simple military exercise.
The other thing that could happen is Xi has been engaged in very provocative activity on his periphery against South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, Australia.
One of those confrontations could go wrong.
That could spiral down into a major conflict, and Taiwan could get involved that way.
This is, of course, fascinating.
Donald Trump prefers commerce over chaos, but you can see him moving aggressively to try to isolate the Chinese.
How successful do you think he can be at that?
He can be extremely successful because, as Trump mentioned in his posting, everybody needs the U.S. market.
U.S. consumers account for something like 38, 39% of global consumer spending.
That's an enormous percentage.
And all of these countries need the United States.
So President Trump can use that leverage.
He's got to negotiate with some skill.
It's been a little bit chaotic up to now, but I'm sure that President Trump will be able to use the power of our market to accomplish what's good for Americans.
Again, if you're just tuning in, we're talking to Gordon Chang.
Gordon, I want to thank you for joining us in the Stone Zone today.
You can follow Gordon at Gordon G. Chang in X.
He also is the author of a terrific new book, Plan Red China's Project to Destroy America, which you can find in Amazon.
If you want to know what's going to happen in China and in Chinese-American relations, follow Gordon Chang on X. His analysis is excellent, and we're always glad to have him here in the Stone Zone.
Gordon, thank you, and God bless you.
Thank you so much, Roger.
Dan Bongino's Room of Documents00:04:57
Coming up, Dan Bongino, the deputy FBI director, says he's found an entire room of documents, most of them pertaining, or many of them pertaining to the so-called Russian collusion hoax, and they're going to be releasing those documents.
We'll be talking about it here in the Stone Zone when we come back.
So whatever you do, stick with us if you want to hear the latest on the Russian collusion hoax and whether those who perpetrated it on America will ever face justice right here in the Stone Zone.
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Yesterday, Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino dropped a bombshell.
You will recall that both Bongino and FBI Director Kash Patel both said in an interview that they had been persuaded based on the evidence that sex trafficker convicted in Florida and facing federal charges, Jeffrey Epstein, had indeed killed himself.
This flies in the face of an examination of Epstein's body by Michael Badden, the former New York medical examiner who is widely respected as one of the most prominent pathologists in the country.
Badden said that Epstein's neck was broken in three places, that he's never in the hundreds of cases regarding strangulation that he had done autopsy.
He had never seen that.
He said that that indicates that Epstein was choked to death.
His hyoid bone was broken, which Badden said was widely uncommon in these cases.
Now, add to that the fact that the security cameras happened to be malfunctioning.
The two guards who were supposed to be monitoring Epstein fell asleep.
And we know that Epstein retained a new criminal defense attorney, David Schoen, only days before he allegedly killed himself.
He had wired Shoan a down payment on his very large retainer, and they scheduled a conference for the following week of all Epstein's lawyers to plot a legal strategy.
Now, Bongino tells us that one of the cameras was functioning, and it proves that Epstein was alone in his cell at the time that he died.
I would welcome that because it would show some clarity to the situation.
I have the highest possible regard for FBI Director Kash Patel and a high regard for Dan Bongino, who I don't know as well, but he's a former New York City police officer, a former Secret Service agent.
He's highly qualified for his job.
I had to chuckle when Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal criticized Bongino, saying that Bongino was unqualified.
This is the same U.S. Senator who lied about seeing action actually being in combat in Vietnam when he'd never actually been to Vietnam at all.
I would say that that disqualifies Richard Blumenthal from holding office rather than Dan Bongino.
The other interesting thing is Bongino announced that they had found an entire room under the control of the FBI where documents had been hidden from the public.
We have to presume these documents were also hidden from special counsel John Durham, whose report proved that the Russian collusion hoax was exactly that, a hoax cooked up by Joe Biden and Barack Obama, Susan Rice, the National Security Advisor, James Coleman, the FBI director, John Brennan, the CIA director, Andrew McCabe, the deputy FBI director.
I want to know what's in that room.
I think we got a hint yesterday when they released a previously hidden document that proved that Nellie Orr, who was married to Bruce Orr, one of the orchestrators at the FBI of the collusion hoax, had lied before Congress about her knowledge of the affair.
So hope springs eternal that we will get justice in the Russian collusion hoax, the greatest single abuse of power and dirty trick in the history of American politics.
History, Politics, and More00:01:46
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No matter where you live, hospital care doesn't clock out.
They're there 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
Each year, America's over 5,000 hospitals care for millions of patients, providing 24-7 emergency care, delivering babies, cancer treatments, and other life-saving care that patients rely on.
Behind every one of those patients are doctors, nurses, and caregivers working tirelessly to keep people healthy and safe.
Hospitals are our community's lifelines.
They employ our neighbors and keep our families healthy.
But now, some in Congress are threatening access to care.
Tell Congress, protect patient care to keep America strong.