The Dan Bongino Show - Caught in a Web of Lies Again # 1033 (Ep 1033)

Episode Date: July 30, 2019

In this episode I address the astonishing series of media lies directed at President Trump yesterday. I also address a series of important breaks in the scheme to take down the Trump team. News Picks:Hysterical MSNBC producer claims Trump was not at Ground Zero. He must have missed the video. Democrats have destroyed our inner cities. This key Spygate figure is about to pull off a bold move. We must get a hold of our national debt. President Trump wins big at the Supreme Court. Copyright Dan Bongino All Rights Reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

get ready to hear the truth about america on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host dan bongino all right welcome to the damn bongino show producing general are you today that was actually countdown number two let me just walk through what just happened on the air joe gives me a countdown and so does my wife like the three two one go hey so joe can we just redo this a second so joe give me a countdown like we're just say three two i'll show you what just happened 10 33 content in three two one oh oh we lost that's that's what just happened before that's what i was totally not paying attention at all and i think even paula was like what just happened before. That's what just happened. I was totally not paying attention at all. And I think even Paula was like, what just happened?

Did you just miss the countdown? 3, 2, 1 is typically, it's not hard to figure out. It's pretty much a standard measure of how someone initiates whether a road race, a TV show. 3, 2, 1. And I was like, totally blew that. Well, Joe, producer Joee how are you today you doing all right yeah i guess i'm yes i'm doing fine everything's how's little joe doing in uh in in uh boot camp i know he gave you send you a letter she's doing okay he did i was like uh i

was like a little girl with her first note when i saw it oh my son wrote to me oh boy yeah man producer joe's son is uh is in boot camp with the Marine Corps and I know I've been getting a lot of emails from the audience very supportive of little Joe so you got to keep us updated

right? Thank you all. Yeah I will. He really wants to be a Marine man. He really wants to be a Marine. Well he's a good kid and Marines want guys like him too. Hey another special note

of sincere gratitude to the audience. I asked you to tune in to The Five on Friday on Fox. Oh yeah. You guys and ladies are the absolute best. We were number one special note of uh sincere gratitude to the audience i asked you to tune into the five on friday on fox oh you are you guys and ladies are the absolute best we were number one in the demo which is huge and the audience was enormous for a friday on the five you guys and ladies are the best thank you so much all right let's get right to it today let me lay out where we're gonna go

because i've got a pretty stacked show i got a killer update on the popadopoulos case that i'm going to explain you're not going to want to go anywhere on this yeah george popadopoulos key figure in the spygate case i've got some unbelievably stupid fake news and i'm you know i don't just like to do something but this is so easy to debunk it's it's so bad when the fake news actually publishes a story that their own video contradicts. I'll get to that. I got a lot more, too, including some updates on a big Trump win in the Supreme Court. All right.

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way to rock and roll the press has not been fair they haven't been fair since the new york times reporting on the successes successes air quotes of the so Soviet Union decades ago. They're a joke. So here is a commentator on Twitter who does some commentary on the media and Trump and elsewhere. This guy's name is Aaron Ruppar. I want you to pay attention to this tweet because it's hilarious in this guy's ability to get a story completely wrong nearly every single time. Check this tweet out.

So this is at A-T-R-U-P-A-R, at Aaron Rupar, or at A-T-Rupar, whatever. He says that yesterday, while Trump was signing a bill in support of 9-11 first responders in the Rose Garden at the White House, he tweets, and I quote, Trump suggests he was a 9-11 first responder. Okay. And he actually tweets a video in his tweet. Again, this is to show you what we're dealing with, ladies and gentlemen, how liberals will lie, never retract their statements, make things up completely and do it knowing. And I took a note on this. The essence of fake news, Joe, is that people will never read past the headlines.

I shouldn't say never, but a lot of folks will just read that tweet and say, oh my gosh, shouldn't say never but a lot of folks will just read that tweet and say oh my gosh trump at a rose garden uh ceremony for the signing of this 9-11 responders support bill trump had the temerity joe to suggest he was a 9-11 first responder holy moses joe that's awful right oh that's terrible that's terrible terrible yes but he this is this is how stupid these people are in the tweet rupar tweets this video with the headline now keep in mind this brief 13 second video is supposed to suggest that trump suggested he was a 9-11 first responder let's play him saying that here we go many of those affected were firefighters, police officers and other first responders. And I was down there also, but I'm not considering

myself a first responder, but I was down there. I spent a lot of time down there with you. Did I? Did Joe now there's three of us here on the show. It's a small crew. Oh, jeez. Joe, now, there's three of us here on the show. It's a small crew. Yeah. Paul, is Amelia out there? Amelia, come on in a second.

I have a seven-year-old daughter, and I'm wondering if she could figure that out. Mimi, come on over. You want to be on the show a second? Okay. If I were to say to you, I hear him say hello. Okay.

There's my daughter, right? Let's, let's figure this out. Maybe you may, now you're hiding behind me. Come on in here. If I were to say to you, Mimi, that you can't have a toy, like you can't take it.

What do you think that would mean? You mean it's a negative, right? If you can't have a toy, right? I don't think it's a toy. Yeah, it would be. That. Yes. My, it would be that. Yes. My daughter has figured it out. Thank you, Amelia. Daddy loves you. She's figured out a negative. If I say you can't bring a toy, that means you can't bring the toys. You can't have them. OK, my my seven year old daughter has figured out that there's this element of negation when you use a word like you cannot do this. So President Trump uses it where it says, I'm not saying, I am not saying I was a 9-11 responder.

And this loser on Twitter tweets the exact opposite with no shame at all. Folks, the point of this whole thing is the media has never, ever treated this president fairly. They make this stuff up. My seven-year-old daughter, if you want to check her out by the way, youtube.com slash budgie. She's a cool cat. We love my daughter. I don't put her on the show often, but she's home from camps and school, obviously, in the summer this week. So she likes coming on.

Plus, she was a little upset at me because I didn't show her picture on the Friday on friday but she wasn't born yet it's not like i do she wasn't actually there the media does this all the time now i want to show you again how this narrative now again the media strategy joe so you're aware of this before 2020 tweet a fake headline. There's a refractory period afterwards, if you know what I mean, where the headline will spread before conservatives who are smarter than liberals pick up on the fact that it's a lie. There's always a brief refractory period, right? Right. Sorry, I want to move this a little bit. I just want to make sure because I don't want the sound to be bad. Okay, there we go.

I want to move this a little bit. I just want to make sure because I don't want the sound to be bad. Okay, there we go. Now, in the hours that followed Rupar's sensational lie that the president said he was the first responder, when he said the exact opposite in the video, here's what happened. Here's a tweet by Chris Silliza and Ben White. Silliza, who's just a known liar at CNN,

and Ben White at Politico, who's another clown. Saliza writes a piece suggesting that this is true. He says, reminder, this happened today. And again, he quotes Trump, and in his piece suggested Trump is lying about being down at ground zero. Okay. And then Ben White from Bull Itico,

he tweets trying to be a smart guy. Throw that back up. up narrator he wasn't and he didn't so politico and cnn are suggesting that president trump after the 9-11 attacks was not in fact down at ground zero and was lying hat tip eddie zipper on twitter um who did what every conservative does um research and journalism which journalists don't ever do uh again it's politico and cnn and saliza and so we don't actually expect facts from any of these people matter of fact here's another one here's a tweet from a producer at msdnc again tripling down on the fact that trump said he was a first responder but he wasn't even at ground zero none of which

happened here's kyle griffin at msnbc known clown on twitter who is another another collusion hoaxer by the way here's him tweeting trump claims without evidence to an audience that includes 9-11 first responders i was down there at ground zero also but i'm not considering myself a first responder but i was down there i spent a lot of time down there with you this is hysterical joe yeah this guy works for msdnc in other words he works for nbc he's a producer there here is video from i believe nbc of trump at ground zero now just a few moments ago donald trump passed through here so we had a minute to

talk with him let's roll that tape you can see what he had to say well i've never seen anything like it i've seen two huge 110 story buildings that are reduced to rubble uh thousands and thousands of lives i just got to see something that i've never seen before i have hundreds of men inside working right now and we're bringing down another 125 in a little while and they've never done work like this before and they're hard-working people but they've never seen anything like it and they've never they've never done work like this before it's terrible all righty then i mean do you understand ladies ladies and gentlemen, not all, I don't want to stereotype a broad swath of an industry, including media folks, because I know some good people out there who are genuinely

interested in the truth. My experience, however, with the media, and I would be lying to you if I said otherwise, I'm not going to do that. That includes my time in my prior line of work as well. When you're the press agent and you deal with these people, I'm not kidding, is that they are generally below average intelligence. The ones, many of them that I've met are below average intelligence, don't understand 99% of the topics they talk about and will lie at will only to negatively impact

Republicans, Libertarians and Conservatives. How does a producer at NBC tweet out that without evidence, Trump said he was at ground zero, when there's an interview with NBC in his own archive that a conservative, Eddie Zipper, who doesn't even work at NBC, found in a jiffy? How do you explain that? The answer is it's not explainable.

It's only explainable by the overwhelming negative emotions these people have towards Republicans and Trump in general, which clouds their basic journalistic judgment. They're not serious people. So let's walk through what happens. Tweet out a fake headline despite all contradictory evidence when the evidence comes back and kicks you right in the cojones right double down on it have chris saliza write an op-ed have kyle griffin from nbc tweet it and then when it's thoroughly completely debunked and refuted in overwhelming fashion right then days later tweet some kind of like which they

won't even do oh yeah maybe he was down there but like this guy ben white did from politico who was tweeting back to eddie oh well he was down there but it was just a pr thing this is what they do hey joe goalpost goalpost goalpost goalpost off the screen. So Ben White, political clown, joker, fake pseudo-journalist, right? Trump wasn't down there. He wasn't. Video, Trump down there. Okay, he was down there, but it was just PR. And then he says he's bringing down some workers to help out.

Okay, it was just PR and he was just helping because he had a project he wanted him to work on and he thought it'd be good for his business. What are you talking about? Jeez. Joe, it's Joe. It's pathetic. It's so pathetic. Nothing.

I get nothing. I get so much joy out of having been on the right side of all of this on Spygate on media malfeasance on, on the constant anti-Trump heresy from these people. They just make stuff up. They make up these anti-Trump certainesy from these people. They just make stuff up. They make up these anti-Trump stories. Now, listen, not everyone. Some of the stuff that they tweet out about Trump, listen, nobody's a saint, nobody's a sinner on this planet,

especially in politics. But the overwhelming majority of stories are fake. They are hoping for the refractory period there where they get a little downtime where the fake narrative will spread. It's really pathetic. All right, let's move on. Speaking of fake narratives, here is Democratic Representative, forgive me if I'm saying her name wrong, it's not intentional, Pramila Jayapal. Again, I'm not, if I'm saying that wrong, my apologies. Democratic Rep Pramila Jayapal. Here is her on MSNBC, shockingly, shockingly to an old narrative, Joe, that

the immigration crisis at the border is exploding. And I got an update on that, too. So stay tuned. Don't go anywhere. Trump had a big win in the Supreme Court. We missed it yesterday because we were so busy with Baltimore stories. Here's Rep Jayapal doubling down on the manufactured crisis line, another fake media narrative that is not a crisis. But secondly, I want you to pay special attention in this shortcut here.

What she says about how to mitigate illegal drugs crossing our southern border. You may catch it, but it's so dumb that it just play it. I'll cover it after. This is funny. We have to stop the ability of the president to transfer authority between these departments, which has long existed in order to help presidents if they do have to respond to urgent crises that are legitimate. But in this case, that is not what it is. So we're going to have to go back and use the appropriations process to stop this transfer authority and then to start cutting if the president and the administration continues to go outside of their bounds and deny the authority of Congress. At the end of the day, what disappoints me about this is the president manufactured this crisis along the border. But

if you listen to his rhetoric, it is supposedly about the surge of immigrants coming across the border. It is not about, you know, drug smuggling and all these other violent crimes that are happening. They try to make it about that, but that's not the reality. If that was really what they were worried about, they should be investing in more dogs to sniff out drugs, more technology that actually identifies where drugs are hidden. Most of the drugs that come over the border there, they're hidden in different places. Some of the Border Patrol stations have that technology. Others do not. There's lots of effective things to do to fight drug drug smuggling on the southern border.

She even know where to start I know this is one of those okay where do we start on that one number one it's almost comical that they're going back to the manufactured crisis line this is like not so again

let's go back to the fake narrative wait for refractory period maybe apologize a bit and then double down later when everybody forgets again you made up the original narrative. I mean, this is outstanding. This is outstanding in the gall it takes to go back to a narrative so repeatedly debunked by sane people everywhere. There is obviously a crisis at the border. Immigration, illegal immigration is up dramatically. Asylum claims are up dramatically. People, children showing up at the border with people claiming to be their

parents up to a third of them are not their parents. They're being trafficked. We have detention facilities overflowing. They are now back again to us. Crazy conservatives are making this all up now. Why? What happened? I want to get to the dogs thing in a minute, too, because it shows you the absolute cluelessness of the broken political class in D.C. that seriously need to go out and do ride alongs with law enforcement because what they say is so dumb. It strains credulity that they would even say it on a national television show. But going back, why is this all happening? Right. The Wall Street Journal published a piece yesterday about Trump's big victory in the Supreme Court. The bottom line is this. Trump had reallocated some Pentagon money, defense money, to the southern border. It was about $2.5 billion.

Title of the piece is The Judicial Injunction Dysfunction. There are two takeaways from this piece. Of course, there was a lawsuit filed on behalf of a group. The group filed the lawsuit, said, listen, you can't spend this money. It wasn't allocated for this. The Supreme Court stopped the stay, meaning the construction can go forward. Simple as that. Trump wins. Portions of the wall, 100 miles plus will be built. More will be refurbished with that $2.5 billion. Ladies and gentlemen, the victory is as simple as that. What's important and an important takeaway with the Democrats and Rep. Jayapal, what they're freaking out about is Clarence Thomas, in the

opinion, has been just very effective in attacking these national injunctions. What does that mean? And why are the Democrats worried? So first, they're worried, obviously, because more walls are going to be built with Trump's money and he's going to be able to fulfill a campaign promise. They're terrified about that. Right. But secondly, Joe, liberals have loved national injunctions for eons. What are national injunctions? Why do liberals love them?

A national injunction is when a local district court federal judge who's responsible for one district, one area of the country,aryland eastern district in new york whatever it may be southern district in new york he is responsible for a local case issues an injunction nationally meaning nothing can happen anywhere even outside his district they have used national injunctions i took a note on this forgive me folks because it's in yesterday's notes in the famous dan bongino or infamous book here where is the national injunction part oh here we go always weird to me yeah yeah so this is actually from the wall street journal piece they have issued 39 national injunctions these these judges posing as judges who are really politicians federal judges 39 national injunctions

against the trump administration now you may say, that number I needed in context, right? Okay, fair enough. How many national injunctions were issued against the Obama administration in the first two years? Two. Two. The deuce. Now, from the Wall Street Journal piece, here's Clarence Thomas. Clarence Thomas has spoken out strongly against this.

He said the supreme court said friday the trump administration can proceed to reallocate some 2.5 billion this is from the peace had earmarked for the pentagon to build a wall we disagree with the policy but the good news is that the high court is finally sending a message about the proliferation of national injunctions by lower court judges thomas filleted them basically saying this has to stop you have a decision joe in the eastern district of new York, and you're a district judge. That's where it applies. It is not a national decision to stop the president of the United States.

Joe, that effectively gives district court judges power to rule over the entire country. Right. Remember the travel ban? All of this? These were all national injunctions. Yeah. It has to stop. The Democrats are panicking now because if national injunctions yeah it has to stop the democrats are panicking now

because if national injunctions are stopped they won't be able to stop national policy and only apply in that federal district and they're terrified that's why they're freaking out that's why you see representative jaya pal going back to the debunked discredited talking point that there's not a crisis on the southern border but the second point she makes is equally ridiculous well we just need to invest in more dogs okay great a checkpoint sensor that's fine that's it's a great that's a great idea but does she realize that illegal drugs are not only being trafficked at ports of entry joe does she understand that people who traffic in children and illegal immigrants across the border also traffic in drugs and

counterfeit money between ports of entry what are you gonna do have the dogs patrolling the southern border between ports of entry sniffing people you don't know about if they're in the country illegally that means they entered illegally port of entry a port of entry b illegal entry right down the middle illegal entry holding 10 yards folks they're entering between ports of entry how are you going to have dogs sniffing people who you don't know are here and enter the country illegally i mean do they think this stuff through see the trump administration trying to make this about illegal drugs. It is about illegal drugs. That's the exact point the Trump administration has been making.

We can fortify ports of entry. Fine. We all agree. But suggesting that the Trump administration is lying and trying to make this about illegal drugs. And if we just had more dogs, we'd find them all. You're missing the point completely. We don't find them all, the drugs, because we can't find the people. And're missing the point completely. We don't find them all, the drugs, because we can't find the people and either can the dogs. These dogs are not Karnak from the

Johnny Carson show. Putting a piece of paper to the, there's a reason we can't find these people because they're between ports of entry. Oh my gosh, is this hard to figure out? These are juvenile conversations I regret even having to have on the show. In other words, they're unknown unknowns. We don't know about the drugs because we don't know about the people. That's how they got here illegally. Go sniff those people. What people?

The people that aren't there anymore. It's not in the country. Okay. Well, we just need dogs we don't know about, you know? Phantom dogs. We need phantom dogs, right? To coach the real dogs to catching the people we didn't know about either. Good point.

Well said. Excellent. This is so crazy. That's going to solve it. More dogs. Roving packs of Belgian Malinois and shepherds across the southern border, sniffing people we don't know about. Well done, Representative Jayapal. Excellent point there. You really nailed it. All right. Moving on. Our second sponsor today, our friends at Policy Genius.

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But it's just sad that this is constantly, it's just so easy to discredit these people and the nonsense they spew all the time. You know, sometimes you got to laugh while doing it. And, you know, forgive me for some of you don't like me, but it's doing that. The funniest, but I just can't help it. What are you going to do? Let's have the dog sniff him. Sniff who? The people we didn't catch? Yes, those people. Yeah, but we's doing that. But I just can't help it. What are you going to do? Let's have the dog sniff him. Sniff who?

The people we didn't catch? Yes, those people. Yeah, but we didn't catch them. That's right. Oh, yeah, well, we're roving packs of shepherds. We used to call them cattle when I was a precinct in the 75 because these dogs in the 75 precinct in Eastern New York,

you ever see this show like you've probably seen it while driving through baltimore too there were a lot of stray dogs on the street oh yeah and they wind up roaming in packs yeah so we used to call them the cattle be like there's a pack of cattle right there there'd be like 20 dogs and there's always like a guy a dog in the front with a little swagger like the whole bunch of them yeah let don't let those dogs just patrol everywhere for people we can't find so stupid okay all right let me move on so uh Geraldo who I debate a lot on Fox uh co-worker of mine you know we have a good time in our debates get a heated back we tweeted something this morning I really have a hard time with I want

to put out there uh maybe we'll hopefully maybe tonight on Hannity I do my appearance on Tuesday night maybe we get to debate Geraldo and i over this tweet but i strongly object to this tweet so heraldo tweeted out this morning and i tweeted back to him because i'm very offended by this he said and he's at heraldo rivera blue check mark account if you want to check it out we would all be better off if in discussing race relations donald trump emphasized the positives like his support for economic opportunity zones and criminal justice reform to battle mass incarceration.

Okay, fine. But then he goes on to say, this is strange, it's just weird to squabble with so many people of color at the same time. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry, I don't get this.

I've seen this repeatedly surface, whether it's Geraldo or others, suggesting somehow that the melanin content of your skin, when you're a political leader responsible for sensible solutions and a path forward to people's problems, that's what they elect you to do. And those solutions don't have to be government bills. They can be getting rid of bad government bills. Yeah. But you're elected to solve problems. That's what you're elected to do so i don't get what heraldo's point is if you're hispanic or black or asian or

whatever it is that somehow i took the show that you're immune from criticism i mean i listen i'm not accusing heraldo of being uh racist obviously but isn't that kind of condescending? What are you suggesting? I don't understand. And I hope I get the opportunity tonight to address this. You're suggesting somehow that if a lawmaker is black or Hispanic, that what, they're incapable of handling criticism despite disastrous results? Look at this Washington Times piece.

This is up in the show notes today. Please check out the show notes, Bongino.com. You subscribe to my email list. I'll send these articles right to you. It's very good. The Washington Times, Trump's quotes here, racist tweets are a reminder, and that's in quotes. They don't really mean that. A reminder, most troubled U.S. cities are run by the Democrats, by Valerie Richardson, Washington Times, July 29, 2019. This is in the show notes. I encourage you to check it out. Ladies and gentlemen, most of America's failing inner cities that happen to have large minority black and Hispanic populations are run by Democrats and have been for decades. That's a fact, a fact, F-A-C-T, a fact. Spell it out for the liberals.

Whether that bothers you or not is of no concern to me. Whether the leaders of those cities are black or white, you had Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, who was black. You had Martin O'Malley in Baltimore, who was white, is entirely irrelevant. The fact that they have failed the citizens of these inner cities by imposing an increasingly liberal agenda there is what concerns me.

These politicians and political class are not immune from criticism. Elijah Cummings, you know, I heard somebody say yesterday he was a nice guy. Great. You know, my dad's a nice guy, too. You know, I love my dad. He's a great guy. It doesn't mean, you know, I'd vote for him. I may, I may not.

I don't know. He hasn't discussed running. He's a nice guy. It doesn't mean you know i you know i i'd vote for i may i may not i don't know he hasn't you know he hasn't discussed running it's a nice guy it doesn't it doesn't really matter ladies and gentlemen it is entirely unfair to not focus on these problems now yesterday by the way thank you for your support yesterday's show is uh joe and i were discussing before we went on the air was just did bonkers numbers. You guys are sending us into the stratosphere and it's up to you. But yesterday's show,

I went on for about 15, 20 minutes about the failures in Baltimore and how intimately familiar I am with it because I ran there. I remember, you know, I lived right outside of Baltimore. It's not that I'm unfamiliar with the area. Joe's worked there for literally for decades

in the county, but right outside. Joe, nobody knows Baltimore like Joe, trust me. He's been listening to calls on talk radio there for 20 plus years. Yeah, man. About the problems in Baltimore. Joe,

has any of it changed by the way? I've probably gotten worse, Dan. Yeah. Folks, he lives, he's in Arnold now. He's like 10 miles out of Baltimore.

I'm telling you that Joe worked there forever. He's not joking. It has probably gotten worse. He's like 10 miles out of Baltimore. I'm telling you, Joe worked there forever. He's not joking. It has probably gotten worse. He's right. Just drive down any street, Biddle. Make any turn off Pratt out of the Inner Harbor. Make any left turn off Pratt Street and go north. Any. It doesn't matter.

You get two blocks away and you're like, what happened here? And what, because Elijah Cummings happens to be black? We're not supposed to criticize him or Trump. No, no, I'm sorry. I don't accept that. And I never will. And you call me whatever you want. I'm interested in fixing it. You can get involved in all the racial identity stuff all you want. I'm not interested. No dice. No, thanks. Showing you how bad it is, by the way i'm forgive me but i'm gonna need joe to narrate this a little bit because our audio audience always comes first this is an actual cut by the way of fox 45 in baltimore the local news station they're running a a piece on trump's comments

about baltimore and there's some like b-roll or whatever, live video, whatever it is now. It wasn't B-roll. It's live video running in the background. Now, I'm going to play the cut. The audio is you can hear, but the audio listeners, you'll be able to hear what the what the what the news person is saying. The anchor is saying, but you're not going to be able to see the visual, but it's OK because Joe is going to narrate it. So let's play the video. And Joe, help us out when you get a little bit about what's going on. Paula,

play that cut. Waiting for the next ratter to come up to the plate. There he is. Ratter's behind the plate. He's taken off for first, Dan. He's stalled. There he goes. There he goes, Dan. He's making a turn to second. Oh! Second base, third, and he's home, Dan. Look at that.

Rodent run, baby! Okay. You ever see, you ever hear that song by Meat Loaf? Was it Paradise by the Dashboard Lights? That was Joe. Folks, it doesn't matter what the lady was saying. It's a piece about Trump's tweets. The

anchor's talking and there's a rat in the background. YouTube.com slash Bongito if you want to see there's joe narrating it like but it ain't around first base headed towards second that rat's coming he's speeding up towards third he's going for the play he is headed up i'm at a slide and he's and the rat like turns the corner at the end you see the rat do the u-turn the rat comes out this is on a report about trump's tweets there is literally not figuratively a paula said to me before the show did you see how big that thing was it looks like it looks like a

mutant cat from the x-men series like a cyclops cat that can beam lasers out of its eyes that's how big this rat is and it's like folks it's a look at look at that sucker that is a it's the size of a whole brick look at it in context of the brick. It looks like Baby and Linda, the two dogs we've adopted from my mother-in-law. And Baby and Linda are Morkies. They're like this big. It's a Ruthian rat. The rat's teeth are, oh my God.

They're like upside down tombstones, this rat's teeth. Oh, dude. This is in a live report about Trump tweeting about Baltimore's rat problem and elsewhere. Yeah. A rat runs across the scene. And he's around the second person. And then the rat, like, I think the rat realized he's going to become part of a political story. He ducks behind a corner real quick.

Like, hey, listen, I don't want to get involved in this Trump stuff. I'm out of here, too. Folks, this is really happening. This is really happening in the real world all right i now it's only fair for me and i'm going to cover this quickly but i did break down the problems in baltimore yesterday but i always like to present to you solutions and i said to you that i have been a beneficiary of some of these very solutions myself. And it's the only reason I'm here. Kind of a de facto school choice.

It wasn't a school choice program in New York at the time. But I was able to get out and go to a Catholic school and get away from awful public schools in New York. Ladies and gentlemen, we could fix Baltimore. And if I may, humbly ask that the president and his staff, some who may listen, please consider this. Consider a threefold agenda where you go out and give a presser in Baltimore, let people yell and scream all they want, these politicians. Go give a presser in Baltimore and make it, it'll make the local news, no question about it, it'll make national news, but it'll make the local news and force them to talk about things that make them uncomfortable. Propose a three-part solution. Number one, a citywide school choice initiative. You want to be bold? You want to be bold? Go there with some cajones and propose a citywide

school choice initiative. Any Baltimore city parent will be able to pick any city in Baltimore which will be subsidized with the taxpayer dollars the taxpayers pay. They're paying their money for the schools. They can go to any school they want. You will get a freedom voucher to go wherever you'd like to go. Be bold. The teachers' unions, of course, will melt down. Liberal politicians who have been bribed by these teachers' unions forever,

they'll go crazy. Go into Baltimore and give that speech. Your kids in a failing school in Baltimore, entirely unacceptable. I am here as the president of the United States. Although I'm not a monarch, there's nothing I can do to change the city politics. I'm a federal representative. I am suggesting a plan right now for a citywide school choice initiative and in every city across the country.

Give that speech in Baltimore, right in the heart of the city. Go right down there. Second, propose a massive deregulatory set of deregulations. Get rid of the Baltimore City red tape and propose a series of tax cuts that would benefit the city of Baltimore. Frame it as letting the people spending their own money, spending their own, because that's what it is.

You will now have more in-pocket take-home money in your own pay because of what we're doing here in Baltimore. We're going to propose Baltimore City match these Opportunity Zone type tax cuts. And listen, I'm not a huge fan. I got to be honest with you, of Opportunity Zones for a number of reasons. But put them on the spot. Say, we'll try to match in some federal tax initiative, cut for cut, whatever Baltimore City can do.

And we will try to get our federal regulations out of the way if you'll match them as well. They'll freak out, folks. They'll freak out. Yeah. Finally, number three, pose a public safety initiative. Here's where the president can get involved. There's a Secret Service office in Baltimore on Pratt Street. How do I know that?

I work there. There's an FBI office right there, too. There's a federal courthouse in Baltimore on Pratt Street. There's DEA. Tell the president the president should give that speech. Number three, I'm proposing a public safety initiative. We're going to flood the zone with some federal agents. I'm going to ask Baltimore City to match that with the task force representative from Baltimore City Police. I'm even going to ask Baltimore County to get involved too. Surrounding areas. We're going to do a gun task force, a drug task force. We're going to bump up the numbers and I want to see an initiative

right now to clean up this city. Watch them all freak out. Oh my gosh. The president's proposing actual solutions. Mr. President, listen, you're going to go there. You are going to get some hecklers. You are going to get some screamers in the media you are going to get some screamer politicians trying to get their two minutes on TV forget it for a second the optics of it it is sound bites and snapshots

but in the end you will be able to walk away and say I did what I could do on the other end all they did was scream, those politicians and the residents of Baltimore who deserve better by the way, will notice that you were there I did what I could do. On the other end, all they did was scream, those politicians. And the residents of Baltimore, who deserve better, by the way, will notice that you were there. Give it a shot.

It's worth it. Let me give you one last statistic before I move on. I've got this Papadopoulos story, which is very, very, very important. It's ironic that people like Ilhan Omar and other liberal Democrat congressmen and women have been complaining about the president's third party asylum, third party asylum decision. The president wants asylum seekers, Joe, to seek asylum in the first country they enter from their home. So if you're leaving Guatemala, you enter Mexico to get to the United States. Third party agreements mean you'll have to declare for asylum in Mexico, not the United States. That's where you got first. Asylum meaning

you fear some kind of prosecution for your political beliefs, torture or death, then you should be able to escape your country, but that doesn't mean you get to go to the United States. It's the first country you landed. Ilhan Omar tweeted out forcing people from Guatemala to declare for asylum in Guatemala

or people from Honduras or others to declare in Guatemala. Just be precise about it. That's unfair. Guatemala is a dangerous place. Joe, what's the homicide rate in Guatemala? 22 per 100,000 people. What's the homicide rate in Baltimore?

56 per 100 000 people kind of lost that argument a long time ago but again don't expect ilhan omar and him to deal with facts because that's not exactly what they do they deal in narratives all right moving on this is an important story about papadopoulos me get to this first. Our last sponsor of the day. And the Rhinos are coming out, folks, against Ratcliffe, who's going to be, hopefully, our next director of national intelligence. The Rhinos are already barking. I want to get to that, too.

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We love Bravo. So, ladies and gentlemen, Papadopoulos, George Papadopoulos, has been tweeting a lot. George is a friend. so ladies and gentlemen papadopoulos george papadopoulos has been tweeting a lot george's friend uh he's been a central figure in both of my books spy gate and my uh follow-up to it exonerated papadopoulos you can see this article at bungino.com george is now saying he's headed to greece to receive to retrieve quote the entrapment money ladies and gentlemen what's going on here why is it important what is why does it matter to you as you can tell from my george poppinopoulos interview if you listen to which we did uh seven eight months ago a year ago i'm always terrible with time of course uh but we

interviewed george on the show it's one of the few interviews you've ever done uh it was illuminating to say the least it was about an hour-long interview and george poppinopoulos who was a trump team member for those of you forgotten, was a member of the Trump team. As he admits, he was a low level advisor. He was not like the campaign manager, but that's okay. George was a member of the Trump team, a Maltese academic approached him by the name of Joseph Massoud, claimed to have Russian dirt on Hillary.

That story's been changed a few times. And the FBI alleges Papadopoulos told this to another diplomat. Therefore, George is some kind of intermediary in an exchange of information between the Russians and the Trump team and nonsense story. Ladies and gentlemen, I believe and have always believed George Papadopoulos was entrapped by Western intelligence assets working in conjunction with Democrats and the Obama administration to set up the Trump team to advance the collusion narrative. But one of the mysteries of this case, and I'm going to give you multiple scenarios.

One of the great mysteries of this case, which very few people have been able to pin down, ladies and gentlemen, is an incident that happens in Israel between George Papadopoulos and a guy named Charles Tawil, T-A-W-I-L, which I cover in the Bongino.com piece there. What happened in Israel is telling. covering the bongino.com piece there what happened in israel is telling george to will according to papadopoulos's story and you can listen to our interview back then you'll he tells it in pretty pretty good detail is a businessman who approaches papadopoulos this is again papadopoulos's version of events to will disputes this to be fair to to will to will says papadopoulos approached him but i'm giving you george's version because that's the interview I conducted.

All right. To Will, Papadopoulos says to Will approached him with this $10,000 for a business deal, some kind of consulting contract. That this $10,000 was given to him. Papadopoulos suggests he was a little scared of this deal. They were in a hotel room. He was a pressure tactic. Papadopoulos senses something's up with his $10,000, flies to Greece, leaves the money in Greece, the $10,000, and then flies back to the

United States, flies back to the United States, and is promptly arrested by Bob Mueller's team and the FBI. There are multiple theories, ladies and gentlemen, about what this to-wheel interaction was. Let me give you mine first, what I believe may have happened. To-wheel passes this $10,000 to Papadopoulos. Ladies and gentlemen, $10,000 conveniently is the guideline for the amount of money you'd have to declare on a CTR in a bank.

You'd also have to declare that amount,R in a bank, you'd also have to declare that amount, obviously, upon reentering the United States. CTR is a currency transaction report. Joe, if you go to the bank and deposit $9,000, the bank doesn't have to fill that out. If you deposit $10,001, the bank has to fill out a CTR. In the Secret Service, we used to get these CTRs because it can, especially if people keep depositing $9,999, that can indicate what? Structuring. It can indicate somebody's selling drugs, they don't want reports filed. So they're conveniently, Joe, depositing in the bank just under the amount where the bank has to report it. You get it? Does that make sense?

Sure does. Then you get another report called a SAR, a suspicious activity report, which the bank can fill out regardless of a CTR saying, hey, there's something going on. This guy's depositing $9,000 repeatedly instead of just say $81,000 once. He's depositing $9,000 nine times. We would get a SAR and they would say,

it would be a box check and say structuring. And we would go and check it out in the Secret Service. That's what I did when I was on a financial crimes task force. Conveniently, Papadopoulos is given just the amount to trigger a reporting guideline on his trip back into the United States. Papadopoulos thinks the FBI, when they arrest him at Dulles, when he enters the United States back from this Israel-Greece trip, he thinks they were looking for the money. Ladies and gentlemen, I do too. Israel-Greece trip. He thinks they were looking for the money. Ladies and gentlemen,

I do too. Awfully convenient, they arrest them at the airport on a probable cause arrest, which rarely happens. A probable cause arrest is an arrest without a warrant. Now, that happens in the federal government with Border Patrol, Uniformed Services, but very rarely with 1811

federal agents. They're called GS-1811s, the guys who wear the suits. Very rarely. That PC arrest at the airport probably happened because they probably had pre-prepared a warrant thinking Papadopoulos was going to come back into the country with the $10,000.

Papadopoulos doesn't have it. Then they're like, oh! Now they got to arrest him on something else because they can't arrest him on this $10,000 charge, failing to declare whatever it may be. Because why, Joe? He didn't have it. So they arrest him at the airport on a PC warrant for lying to the FBI, which has always, always been strange to me.

I think the federal agents that listen to the show, you can agree that is very, very unusual to make a warrantless arrest as a GSAT 1811 federal agent. Very rare. I believe they panicked. The ongoing question, again, I'll give you my theory, forgive me, but I want to explain this because this is important, is was Papadopoulos set up? I believe Tawil, giving him this $10,000 may have been an unwitting, meaning to wheel may have been involved in this, but may not have known his own involvement.

In other words, I believe this was part of an entrapment scheme. You track him that this $10,000 was given to catch Papadopoulos at the airport as either a way to charge him with some lobbying, Farah-related charges, was it 951? And some of these lobbying for foreign governments charges, he's given this money in a foreign country by someone else, and I believe it was a way to nail him. But just to be clear on this, I think Tawil may have been unwitting, meaning someone, Joe, I think Tawil may have been unwitting,

meaning someone, Joe, may have pushed Tawil into this business deal, but Tawil didn't know it was an Intel op. Do you get what I'm saying? If I say to you, Joe, Joe, give this guy $10,000. Well, what's it for, Dan? Oh, Joe, it's for a business deal.

And I don't give him the wink and a nod. Tawil may have been part of the operation and may not have known himself. It's a possibility. But to be fair to Tawil, there are alternate explanations here that a lot of people involved in this case have put forth, and I want to give them to you. So the first is that this was a Western intel setup that Tawil was a part of. In other words, some friendly intel agency, when I say friendly, I mean friendly to the

Obama administration, approaches Tawil and says, hey, wink it or not, give Papadopoulos his $10,000, tell him it's for a business deal, and if he doesn't declare it back in the United States, we're going to arrest him. approaches to wheel and says hey wink at a nut give poppet hopless his ten thousand dollars tell him it's for a business deal and if he doesn't declare it back in the united states we're going to arrest him you get what i'm saying yeah western intel shop intel up to wheels a part of it that's one theory i'm not sure about that again to wheel disputes that to be fair to to wheel and give his but he's he says poppet hopless approached him about the money. The second, was this some form of foreign government blackmailing Papadopoulos? This is, let me get this one right. And Joe, again, I'm Budsman.

Put on your I'm Budsman cap. This is important. Yeah, go ahead. Theory number two out there, which has been floated, is that someone was looking to blackmail Papadopoulos, not as a setup for the Obama team, Hillary, or anyone else,

but was looking to blackmail him potentially later on because he was a member of the Trump team to be able to use that later to flip him into an intel source. You get it? Yeah. In other words,

hey, Joe, give Papadopoulos his $10,000. I'm a representative of foreign government. You do it. All of a sudden, the foreign government approaches George. George, we got you on tape taking this money. You're going to work for us now

and report on the Trump team. You dig? Yeah, man. I don't buy that one. There have been various theories floated out there that this is how I don't buy it at all. But again,

some people have done a lot of homework on this case. Believe it. So first it was a Western Intel setup. Second, a foreign government was looking at blackmail, Papadopoulos to develop a mezzasaurus. The third possible scenario, which to wheel supports again,

he's, he is, he disputes all this is that to wheels completely innocent. And this was a legitimate or toawil thought it was a legitimate business deal. Could be. Could be. Fair. I mean, listen, I'm not going to conclusively everybody's innocent until proven guilty.

I'm not going to nail anybody to the wall until there's conclusive evidence. I find it unlikely given the circumstances, but it's certainly a possibility. Tawil is entirely innocent and he thought this was a legitimate business deal. And so did Papadopoulos. Fair enough.

The next one I already explained, which is a theory I've been clinging to for a while, that Tawil may have been an unwitting participant in a Western Intel friendly op to set up Papadopoulos. Seems likely to me. And four, of course, the next theory is this is all about Farah and the reporting guidelines that they thought he wouldn't report the money. They were going to have some kind of money laundering charge and some charge against him for lobbying for a government. Ladies and gentlemen, why is this story important? What's the update? Well, Papadopoulos is going back now, as he says, to Greece to get the money.

He believes the bills are marked. Now, I explain this in another show, but I'm going to explain it again because this is important because this is making the rounds around Twitter and it's been an important story. We don't really mark bills anymore. I'm marking with like specific marks

or anything like that. What they'll do with a bill if you want to trace the transaction. So if I'm running, say, an undercover counterfeit op and I'm giving you, Joe, the counterfeit or real US currency for fake counterfeit, before I go and exchange that $10, $100, those $10, $100 bills, I will put on an inventory list the serial numbers of those bills, which are unique. Why?

Why would I do that? So when we arrest Joe later for selling us counterfeit, we can conclusively prove that Joe sold us the counterfeit because Joe has in his possession those 10 unique $100 bills. That serial number's not repeated anywhere. It's like a fingerprint. There's not really specific markings. And forgive me, I'm not trying to talk down to you or anything, I mean that.

It's just liberals will pick out any little thing to discredit someone marked what puppets what an idiot they don't actually mark the bills that's not what he's saying you dopes what he's saying is the bills the serial numbers have been taken down that he believes that in other words jo, if this was a Western Intel op and our government or a foreign government had some role in it, they probably, if they gave the money to Tawil to set him up, probably marked down the serial numbers on the bills. And it would probably be a good idea, hat tip to George, to go get the bills to find out what those serial numbers are. Right, right. It may turn out to be nothing, but it's a good move for Papadopoulos.

It's got a lot of liberals freaking out right now. Because if those bills were marked and are down on some inventory sheet somewhere, God forbid those serial numbers, Joe, show up at the Central Intelligence Agency or elsewhere. That would be kind of a big deal. Or a BFD, as Joe Biden said. Very convenient. Gosh, look at that, on an inventory list,

the same bills. Oh, shucks. Speaking of which, last story of the day, and we can rock and roll here, but John Ratcliffe, Congressman John Ratcliffe, great guy, appears to be nominated by Trump

to be the Director of National Intelligence. This guy's been all over Spygate. He's done a great job. He's a solid conservative. Ladies and gentlemen, the rhinos are freaking out. Here's a story from Time Magazine, time.com.

Top GOP Senator warned the White House about Trump's choice for DNI by John Walcott at time. Who is the senator? Of course, the worst rhino now in the Senate ever since we lost Corker and these other ones, Richard Burr on the Senate Intel Committee. Ladies and gentlemen, what's going on here? Burr apparently warned Trump.

Burr is allegedly a Republican. He's not. He's a senator from North Carolina. Ladies and gentlemen, of course, we always do these things the right way. Unlike liberals, we're not Antifa. But I respectfully request if you're in North Carolina, you email, call the office and let him know that you strongly object to his objections over Radcliffe. You know what's going on with Burr? What's the behind the scenes? Burr is on the Senate Intel Committee. Burr is a rhino. Burr has done everything he can to destroy

any progress in this investigation for a long time now. Richard Burr is on the committee, Joe, that has been leaking information, the Senate Intel Committee, for eons. There was even an arrest of a staffer over there for leaking stuff. I'm not so sure what Burr's role in those leaks are. Others aren't either. But it's Burr's committee that he is the chairman of that has been leaking like a sieve. I think he's panicking because maybe Johnny Ratcliffe knows a little something about that. Maybe, coulda, shoulda, woulda, kinda. Rhinos.

The rhinos are coming out, folks. Ratcliffe needs to be confirmed. Do not accept no for an answer. You're in charge. These senators work for you. Make sure Ratcliffe gets that nod at DNI, or we will never get to the bottom of this. I covered this on yesterday's show, too.

You can always measure the danger to the left of a nominee by the ferocity of their response. They are losing their minds over Ratcliffe. Stay on it, folks. All right. Thanks again for tuning in today. I really appreciate it. Please subscribe to my YouTube channel, youtube.com slash Bongino.

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