The Dan Bongino Show - Ep. 579 Why Does Justice Rarely Apply to Democrats?

Episode Date: October 30, 2017

In this episode -   If Trump’s former campaign manager, who was fired by the campaign, committed alleged crimes years ago, then why did he only become a target after Trump was elected President? ht...tp://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-responds-to-paul-manafort-indictment-sorry-but-this-is-years-ago-before-campaign/article/2638961   An outline of the charges against Paul Manafort. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41804740   This article exposes the outrageous Democrat hypocrisy on tax rate cuts. http://dailysignal.com/2017/10/27/democrats-have-done-a-180-on-corporate-taxes-heres-what-they-said-last-year/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell%22&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWW1VM05XWmpORGd4WkdFMCIsInQiOiIybXlKS2FaeWd6VjFFV2xzdExDU1VyWU5pTk1rNGE4WGkrbXNmMmI2VFFQVmtQVHMraDVrWnhQWDFtaE9wT2hkRlRsUk10Z2Q1d0hwbEhlcEwrNFMzMStzWEU2UUtFdWkyM1BzMWFVNDBmMGhTSldadzFTTEw4a25wWUJxTWtnSiJ9   Here’s some more excellent news about the economy. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/economic-growth-is-halfway-there-livin-on-a-prayer/article/2638882   This explosive technological development could change the world, and our economy, forever. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-computer-that-could-rule-the-world-1509143922   Sponsor links: www.iTargetPro.com Promo Code “Dan” www.BrickhouseNutrition.com/Dan  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Dan Bongino Aiming to stop free speech so the speaker can no longer speak is exclusively a far-left phenomena. The Dan Bongino Show I'm talking to moderates in the Democratic Party who are actually interested in what's going on, not blind lemmings walking off a cliff
Starting point is 00:00:21 into an abyss of stupidity. Get ready to hear the truth about America. The rich did it. Yeah, the rich did it. They lent money to people who bought homes, and the people never paid the money back. Oh, wow, that sounds like a great business plan. On a show that's not immune to the facts, with your host, Dan Bongino.
Starting point is 00:00:42 Oh, Lee Moses, did we miss a weekend of news here. Gosh, welcome to the Renegade Republican on Monday. Man, I might have to start doing not even a seven-day-a-week show. I might have to start doing like the Beatles, eight days a week. I mean, the breaking news is coming fast and furious. So welcome back. Thanks to all our new listeners also for joining us, maybe for the first time. I know filling in for hannity on friday on the radio we got a lot of new people so welcome good to have you here all right let's get right in no more messing around here because
Starting point is 00:01:13 the uh the news cycle you know i said to a producer at at fox when i was up there you can't turn off the news for five minutes if you're in the content production business now you can't now because the news cycle will pass you by i know joe knows i can see there's two of these a day all right where do we start with manafort uh the grand jury indictments uh paul manafort trump's former campaign manager uh turned himself in this morning at the fbi office in washington dc i think it was wfo the washington field office there um Let's break this down and give you what you need to know and stop with all the shenanigans, because the Democrats, of course, are loving every second of this. Now, why are they loving every second of this?
Starting point is 00:01:54 And first, let's start with number one, the takeaway number one. The leak on Friday that someone was going to be arrested. Of course, we found out today was Manafort. We didn't know on Friday who it was going to be. Manafort, again, was Trump's campaign manager. The leak by the special counsel investigation by Bob Mueller that someone was going to be indicted, charges were going to be issued on Monday,
Starting point is 00:02:19 or charges were issued, someone's going to turn themselves in on Monday. In my opinion, and I think strongly based on the facts of the circumstances that happened here, was strongly based on the fact that the Democrats are losing the narrative. Now, I've said to you repeatedly, if you're a regular listener to the show,
Starting point is 00:02:33 you already know this. Democrats are obsessed with the narrative. The narrative, man. The narrative. They always have to control the storyline. The storyline is always going to be a focus group tested talking point bullet. Whatever it is, folks. If it's tax cuts, it always going to be a focus group tested talking point bullet whatever it is folks if it's tax cuts it's going to be about uh you know fair share the rich the rich
Starting point is 00:02:52 are going to be it's never about the facts it's about a talking point the democrats want to isolate everything down to a what i call wheaties box messaging something they can fit on a wheaties box that benefits them the truth and facts and the data don't matter at all. It's the narrative, as evidenced by this entire Trump-Russia investigation, which it turns out, even after today, has almost nothing to do with either Trump or the Russians. I don't understand how a money laundering indictment has anything to do with Russians trying to overthrow the election. Now, this happened on Friday, the leak.
Starting point is 00:03:23 I am absolutely convinced because the Democrats are, the leak. I am absolutely convinced because the Democrats are losing the narrative. The narrative, Joe, was quickly turning towards them. Yeah. The revelations, the bombshell revelations that the dossier, the Russian dossier of fake intelligence provided by Russian officials that it was paid for by the Democrats
Starting point is 00:03:43 and what broke over the weekend. Like I said, folks, I'll be honest with you, sometimes I don't even know where to the Democrats and what broke over the weekend. Like I said, I don't, folks, I'll be honest with you. Sometimes I don't even know where to start. And the breaking news over the weekend that Barack Obama's campaign organization, the offshoot OFA was Obama for America. Then it turned into organizing for America. That Obama's campaign team, OFA, was paying Fusion GPS, who paid the Russians for this bad intel
Starting point is 00:04:05 through this Christopher Steele. That broke over the weekend, too. The Democrats needed to change the story. So somebody leaked that Paul Manafort was going to be indicted and was going to turn himself in, or that someone was going to be indicted to change the story back from, oh my gosh, you're telling me the Democrats paid the Russians for bad intelligence while claiming Trump was colluding with the Russians?
Starting point is 00:04:26 They needed to change the story. So point number one and takeaway number one, let's distill this down to what we need to know. This was obviously a distraction, Joe. The Democrats can never lose the narrative. Now, who advances the narrative, Joe? The media. The three musketeers of stupid every time the media, Hollywood and academia. In this case, the media always controls the narrative in America. The mainstream media
Starting point is 00:04:49 needed a story to stop talking about the devastating bombshell that the Obama administration and the Clinton's paid Russian intelligence to provide bad intel on an opposition political campaign. That story was not allowed to stand. So they leaked this about Manafort and they needed an arrest. Now, there have been a lot of questions out there about the leak. Now, me, I feel this is my area of expertise. Having been a former federal agent,
Starting point is 00:05:14 I've sat in front of a number of federal grand juries. I'm intimately familiar with how they work. There's a lot of questions out there. I've seen a lot of coverage on cable news. The leak on Friday, was that in fact a crime? The answer is maybe. Leaking grand jury information can be a crime. There is a rule that specifically prohibits that.
Starting point is 00:05:35 Now, why, Joe? Here's how a federal grand jury works, folks. This isn't a legal show, but it's important you understand what's going on right now. So you understand how we are venturing quickly into banana republic territory. I'm not kidding. We are quickly venturing into third world republic territory right now.
Starting point is 00:05:50 That the Clintons are not in handcuffs and Paul Manafort is as of today to me is incredible. I don't know what Manafort did or didn't do. I'm not, I don't know any specifics of the money laundering case
Starting point is 00:06:02 other than what I've seen in the press. I'm just telling you that the facts I know are public about the Clintons. How they're not in handcuffs, too, is amazing to me. But getting back to the grand jury. You have a group of people. They're in panel, the grand jury. And the old expression about a grand jury from the law enforcement perspective is, sadly, I wish it weren't so, but it is, that you could indict a ham sandwich.
Starting point is 00:06:23 All right. Now, there are two ways to get, well, there's actually three, but for the purposes of this, because the third one's kind of the same as the second one. Joe, there are three ways for me to get a federal arrest warrant for you, okay? Okay. I can issue a complaint, which basically says Joe Armacost did A, B, C, D, and E. Okay. If a judge reads that, that complaint,
Starting point is 00:06:47 and that complaint indicates that there is probable cause, Joe, there's a probable cause, a strong likelihood that is a standard, an evidentiary standard. Yeah. There's probable cause in that document,
Starting point is 00:06:58 that complaint document that I write up as a federal agent that you then committed that crime, the judge will issue an arrest warrant okay now there's a third way called an information which is kind of similar so we're going to scrap that for now because it's not a legal show but this is why i wanted to bring this up one of the other ways to do it is to issue is to have to sit in front of a grand jury so now it's not a judge
Starting point is 00:07:20 doing it the grand jury will hear the case, will hear the information the agent presents, or other people, as a matter of fact. And if they believe, Joe, there is the same standard, probable cause, the standard's no different. But if the people, Joe's civilians sitting in the grand jury, they're not judges, if they believe that, in fact, there's probable cause that a crime was committed, they will issue a true bail, which is an indictment. Now, an indictment's very serious at the federal level, folks, because to cancel an indictment,
Starting point is 00:07:49 it takes like an act of God. To cancel a complaint, to cancel out a complaint and basically say, Joe, we arrested you on this, but you've been cooperative. We're going to let this go, is really not a big deal. It happens all the time. We clear on that? So if I arrest Joe at the federal level, I'm not talking about NYPD, state and local. I'm talking about the federal level, FBI, DEA, Secret Service.
Starting point is 00:08:08 If I arrest Joe on a complaint, I'm usually doing it, for me in my case, half the time to get Joe to cooperate to get the big fish and then they'll dismiss the complaint later and plea it down to a lesser charge. To dismiss an indictment is possible or to plea it down, but it's a bigger deal. It was a very big deal when I was in the Secret Service. Therefore, Joe, not many people were indicted. Most people were arrested by complaint because it's more flexible. You see where I'm going with this?
Starting point is 00:08:34 Yes, sure. Why am I bringing any of this up? The fact that Manafort was indicted says to me that they have something. Because I'm trying to give you fair coverage, unlike the absolute hacks in the mainstream media. Now, some will respond back and say, well, in federal law enforcement, we had a line, you could indict a ham sandwich, which is true. Why could you indict a ham sandwich?
Starting point is 00:08:56 Because, Joe, here's the kicker with the grand jury. The defense has no say in the grand jury at all. None. So when I go in as a federal agent, I present my side of the story, the prosecutorial side, the investigative side, right? Right.
Starting point is 00:09:12 But you have no representation at all. I can say what, I mean, seriously, of course you're not going to perjure yourself, but I can say whatever I want. I mean, I can say, you know, Joe doesn't like the color blue and Joe's not there to go, I object.
Starting point is 00:09:29 There's nothing. So the joke about grand juries was you can indict a ham sandwich. Folks, almost nobody goes in front of a grand jury as the subject of it and doesn't get indicted. Now that's critical. It's critical. You understand those two things and say, well, you're kind of saying two different things here, Dan. you're saying they don't usually indict at the federal level unless they have something. But then you're saying, secondly, that you could basically indict anyone you want. Yes, both are true.
Starting point is 00:09:51 Both are true. You can indict anyone you want because you can present a set of facts that could be, candidly, folks could be completely innocent if a defense attorney was there.
Starting point is 00:10:01 But he doesn't get the chance to do that. Now, I'm bringing you both of those scenarios because i'm telling you they don't typically indict ham sandwiches even though they can they usually use complaints because you can get rid of them the fact that there's an indictment says to me that there's something there now you may say what are you saying that trump with or you thought you said the trump russia thing is bs folks I will bet my life on it the Trump Russia thing is total BS the collusion narrative amongst Trump Russia is total nonsense the collusion narrative is fact with the Democrats though and Hillary that's
Starting point is 00:10:35 already been admitted to that the Democrats paid for the dossier which was taken from Russian Russian officials who fed false information to the Democrats and Clinton. So the collusion narrative is true for the Democrats and Hillary. The collusion Trump narrative is false. Now, the metaphor thing, folks, why I'm saying, you may say, oh man, now we're all over. We're saying, you know, you're saying they have something on them, but you're saying Trump rushes fake, but then you're saying we're venturing into third world republic status. Yes, that is all true, and here's why.
Starting point is 00:11:08 Let me tie this together for you. Folks, I have something on all of you, okay? The fact that they have something on Manafort does not mean it's not real. It may very well be. The point is we don't target people in this country. We target crimes. And don't you find it awfully convenient and awfully disturbing that Paul Manafort, regardless of his crimes, Joe, he may or may not have committed.
Starting point is 00:11:38 Was never the target of an investigation until Trump became the president. Does that bother you a little bit? Yeah. Again, I'm not arguing. I want to be crystal clear on this. I'm not this guy's lawyer. I've never met him. I don't know him. I am not a lobbyist. I have no idea what they did or didn't do other than what's been reported in the press. I'm telling you, they probably have something. Number one, takeaway number one. Number two, it was probably a distraction. And number three, what they had, air quotes here, only became an issue after Trump became the president, which says to me this was a political target.
Starting point is 00:12:11 This was not a criminal target. Did I tie that up, Joe? Yeah, you did. Okay. Very good. Yeah, we're good. Now, I will say one more thing on this because this is important. Okay.
Starting point is 00:12:22 Number one, distraction. Oh, by the way, a couple other takeaways on this. There are some, there's some talk out there, the leak, was it criminal? I'm sorry I didn't get to that. Yes, leak in grand jury information can be criminal if it's leaked from the grand jury, meaning one of the grand jury people who are in panel
Starting point is 00:12:38 to sit in the grand jury. Now, folks, you may say, well, how else would they get the information? Ladies, guys, in my experience, I just want to give you both sides of this. Again, this is a fact show. It's not a BS show. You want that? Listen to these liberal jerkwads who all day sit on TV like idiots.
Starting point is 00:12:58 A bunch of, you know, dancing antelopes. They're so stupid. It's infuriating. dancing antelopes. They're so stupid. It's infuriating. The information probably leaked from one of the attorneys involved in the case. I don't know that. I'm just saying, in my experience, remember that this was... All right. I don't want to get ahead of myself here. There's so much stuff to get out. Gosh, I got like 20 stories. So I love doing this show. There's so much stuff to get out. Gosh, I got like 20 stories.
Starting point is 00:13:24 So I love doing this show. I'd love to be able to tell you what's important here. Here's the kicker. And here's what was the signal to me about the indictment in the league. The arrest this morning. You see a video now of Manafort walking in at basically 9 somethingsomething o'clock on a Monday morning. This was not a flight risk arrest. In other words, Joe, a flight risk arrest. So let's say I get my indictment, right, against Joe Armacost.
Starting point is 00:13:55 I want to arrest Joe, but we think Joe's going to flee. Joe's got a million in assets in the Cayman Islands, whatever it is. It's a serious crime. I got Joe hook, line, and sinker, right? Joe has no idea that an arrest warrant's been issued because it's sealed many of them on uh on a friday joe has no idea what do we do we go get him on a saturday morning when he's sleeping you know secret service everybody die you know you've seen in the movies a lot not all i'll be honest with you the
Starting point is 00:14:22 overwhelming majority of arrests at the federal level, folks, this may surprise you, do not happen that way. Now, I know Joe's like, oh, what? How do they happen? We used to call it arrest by appointment. Now, you may laugh, but folks, the federal government's a nine to five job like anything else. This is some inside baseball. I probably shouldn't share with you, but I will anyway, because I think it's important you understand this, especially in light of what's going on. The federal government's a nine to five job, largely. Neither the US Marshals who process these people, the judges, the clerks in the courthouse, or the Secret Service or FBI agents work 24 hours a day.
Starting point is 00:14:58 Now, they're on call 24 hours a day. There's a difference, Joe. But they don't work 24 hours a day. They're human beings, okay? There's no midnight shift in the Secret Service, alright? Except if you're on protection. You may get called. What am I saying here? The fact that he turned himself in
Starting point is 00:15:13 on Monday morning says to me that the lawyers were likely notified on Friday. The lawyers for Manafort and his alleged co-conspirator here, right, Joe? That they were notified on Friday because there's zero flight risk here, right, Joe? Mm-hmm. That they were notified on Friday because there's zero flight risk here, let's be honest.
Starting point is 00:15:27 Paul Manafort, everybody knows who he is. He's not going to leave the country. It's just stupid. They probably said, listen, here's the deal, because the federal government opens at 9 o'clock on Monday morning. The fact that he walked in at 9 o'clock on Monday morning says to me
Starting point is 00:15:40 that this was, in fact, a planned arrest. Now, you're like, well, what the hell does that have to do with leaking? Well, it also says to me, if it was a planned arrest, we'll see you on Monday morning at 9, and someone knew on Friday before 5 o'clock. Yeah, there you go. So if someone knew on Friday before 5 o'clock in the Manafort camp, don't jump to the conclusion that was a grand jury leak.
Starting point is 00:16:01 Again, I'm not saying it wasn't. It may have been, and it certainly should be investigated who leaked this information to CNN that there was going to be an arrest on Monday morning. That's a good point, Dan. Yeah, that is a good point. Yeah, the way the time works out. I just don't want our audience to make fools of themselves
Starting point is 00:16:16 like the liberals do literally every second now on television as they jumped here and there and jumped to conclusions. Joe's got some audio of Hillary we'll play in a minute. This is what liberals do. They play dumb all the time. And they're not dumb. They play dumb. And what's insulting about it is they think you're dumb like them.
Starting point is 00:16:35 We're going to talk about the facts here. I'm telling you it may not have been a leak from a grand jury. So don't get caught up in that red herring for now. It may have in fact been one of the lawyers that knew on Friday. I'm just saying, because there's all kinds of commentary on TV and it's like, do you know that for sure? Are you just guessing?
Starting point is 00:16:51 And I don't have any, I speculate on TV a lot as well, but I think, Joe, it's only fair if you do that to give the alternate side as well. You know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, it's certainly possible there's a crime committed, but maybe not.
Starting point is 00:17:03 Okay. Gosh, that was, I think I summed that up. I'm really kind of upset about the whole story, folks. I really, let me just wrap it up in a bow for you here. I think, you know, sadly, we're headed into third world Republic status. I mean, it's just really unbelievably sad that if Paul Manafort was such a threat to the Republic and was such a diehard, you know, hardened financial criminal involved in all of these very serious allegations he's been charged with. I mean, the only question you should be asking now is, OK, well, why wasn't he a criminal target before the guy he worked for, Donald Trump, won the presidency? Is that not a fair question? Folks, I absolutely believe, but gosh, I love this country. I love it so much because this is the one place on earth where the little guy can really win in the end,
Starting point is 00:17:56 where the story, the novel ends, not all the time, but often the novel ends with the little guy winning. That novel never ends that way, almost anywhere else but here. And the fact that a system of checks and balances, of blind justice, has led us to the fact that the little guy has the same legal protections as the President of the United States, the fact that that's collapsing in front of us, and we're throwing this all out because you may or may not have Paul Manafort on a federal crime, but that he worked for Trump. Folks, to me, isn't worth it. I absolutely believe in the expression, I'd rather a thousand guilty
Starting point is 00:18:37 men go free than one innocent man be put in jail. I absolutely a thousand percent believe in that. And I think what we did is we now flipped the script. We targeted Paul Manafort, not because of the crimes he may or may not have committed, but we targeted Paul Manafort as a country
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Starting point is 00:21:09 Okay. One more thing. I'm sorry to keep going back to this story, but this is important because it speaks to the fidelity of the republic. The Democrats now are still in a little bit of a panic. I know today we're going to have to deal with the shouting fraud and them celebrating Manafort being arrested. By the way, Joe, no charges I've seen allege any kind of collusion to overturn an election. But, you know, that's for another day, of course.
Starting point is 00:21:34 They're panicking a little bit, though, about Mueller being fired. Bob Mueller, who is the special counsel, who is running the special counsel. They're panicking because the ties between Mueller and Uranium One, the uranium or the sale of our nuclear fuel to the Russians while Barack Obama was in the White House and Hillary Clinton was in the State Department. Mueller is knee deep in this. Mueller oversaw the investigation in a couple different facets into the Uranium One FBI investigation
Starting point is 00:22:07 about bribery and scandal. And almost nothing was done except a plea four years later in conjunction with Rod Rosenstein, who is now the deputy AG and was the was the USA, the assistant United States attorney for Merritt, the district that covers Maryland. I know because I worked for him in the Baltimore field office. Mueller is conflicted till kingdom come. He is conflicted six different ways from Sunday. Again, the Democrats can't lose the narrative. It's the narrative, man. It's all about the narrative.
Starting point is 00:22:37 The Democrats now are in a panic because they can't deny the fact that Mueller is knee deep in the investigation, Joe. He's running. Yeah. Excuse me. That would be the equivalent, Joe. He's running. Yeah. Excuse me. That would be the equivalent of Joe Armacost running an investigation as a federally appointed special counsel in the Department of Justice into a Joe Armacost case. We can't have that.
Starting point is 00:22:56 We can't. What are you going to do? What are you going to do? People love that one, too. I get that. Who is Jay Zabacus? What are you going to do? I love it.
Starting point is 00:23:03 You guys are great in the audience. Ladies, I love you to death. The fact that you tweet me this stuff puts a smile on my face every day. The Democrats are panicking about firing Mueller. They're trying to change the narrative right now because Mueller, the firing of Mueller, I think at this point is completely legitimate. And even some mainstream Republicans are saying, OK, this is getting a little shady now. Why are they panicking?
Starting point is 00:23:22 Because, again, they have to keep the narrative focus. So what are they doing now? I want to play a quick clip here. Joe brought me this morning. This is getting a little shady now. Why are they panicking? Because again, they have to keep the narrative focused. So what are they doing now? I want to play a quick clip here Joe brought me this morning. This is Hillary. I'm going to talk about Hillary and Adam Schiff, how they're desperate again to switch from one failing narrative to the next, but how none of these narratives actively incorporate the truth in their story. Play that clip of Hillary.
Starting point is 00:23:41 It does strike me that in the last few days, at least Fox News seems to think that's where I live in the White House. Because they spend a disproportionate amount of their time talking about impeaching me. So, look, if they want to make a trade, I'd be more than willing. Okay. This is beautiful. Joe sent me this morning this clip and he said, you want to make a trade i'd be more than willing okay this is beautiful joe sent me this morning uh this clip and he said you want to use it i said you know every day he sends me stuff some yes some no i said yes because this speaks to what the democrats do all the time let's walk through what happened in this investigation and how the democrats have stepped on their own
Starting point is 00:24:21 narrative repeatedly and nobody calls them out in the media at all. The media, Hollywood, or academia. And I bring this up because Alyssa Milano, who I used to watch growing up in Who's the Boss? Yeah, I used to like Alyssa Milano. I had a crush on her when I was a kid, right? She's a huge steaming lib now. She tweeted out this weekend, which I laughed at,
Starting point is 00:24:42 we're going to take to the streets if they fire Mueller. So there's the Hollywood portion trying to change the narrative to making this about firing Mueller rather than, because you may say, well, what does that have to do with the narrative? Rather than Mueller's conflicts, which everybody now knows about. You see the trick, Joe? Yeah. So Hollywood switches the narrative. It's not now, this is not, this is intentional.
Starting point is 00:25:03 It's Mueller's conflicted. Everybody knows it. Now let's switch it to what's about intentional. It's Mueller's conflicted. Everybody knows it. Now let's switch it to what's about firing Mueller to get everybody's attention away. Hillary. Hillary sees now that the funding of the dossier is coming back on her, boomeranging in her face, and makes her look like potentially a co-conspirator here in the shuttling of Russian intel into into the white house for a presidential daily brief which happened the president was briefed on this bogus russian intel she paid for in her campaign so what does hillary do fox news it's all about fox news fox news ah fox and stupid democrat
Starting point is 00:25:38 lemmings go hill i'm with her this is I mean, these are dopey lemmings. These people are sad. These are sad, pathetic people. Nobody cares at all that Hillary Clinton's campaign paid the Russians for bad intel that was used to brief the president, potentially unmask and wiretap a presidential opponent. All they care about is Fox News. Bad! Hillary!
Starting point is 00:26:04 I'm with her! So stupid. Such lemmings. Such dopes. It's just, it's telling that there's a schism on the Republican side of the aisle between this never Trump camp and a Trump camp. Listen, I support the president when needed, which is often, and sometimes not. But I find it funny that on the Republican side, we have people who, whether they think
Starting point is 00:26:24 it's principle or not, they don't believe in the president. They just, they'd rather stick with other set of ideas. All right, whatever. The Democrats are lemmings. They're just lemmings right off the cliff,
Starting point is 00:26:35 Joe, right off the cliff. Every single time. Uh, Fox, Fox news paid for the dossier. Oh, I think so.
Starting point is 00:26:44 Like where, where did you get that? Oh, wait, we just made it up because we had nothing else to do. I mean, this is like, how stupid are you people? Okay, so we got Milano, we got Hillary. Now we got Adam Schiff this weekend. Adam Schiff, who is, I mean, do you want to talk about, you know, Captain Clown up in Congress, this guy and Ted Lieu.
Starting point is 00:27:02 I mean, Brad Sherman, Maxine Waters. It's, what's, Frederica Wilson. I mean, it's embarrassing. The goofballs on the left. It is, what a motley crew they have over there. Adam Schiff comes out this weekend because he realizes now
Starting point is 00:27:17 that the Dems were caught switching the story. What was the story and how did it switch? Again, at Milano, we had to switch it. We got to switch it for Mueller's conflict statement. We can't fire Mueller. So that's what we're going to do. We're going to make it about firing Mueller, right?
Starting point is 00:27:32 Okay. Hillary, it's not about me and the dossier. It's about Fox News. Okay. The narrative. The narrative. The narrative. Adam Schiff realized that the Oppo research line is now not working anymore, Joe. Now, what happened happened let's walk through this quick because this goes to show you the pure stupidity of lemming democrats who
Starting point is 00:27:50 for walking right off the cliff with it not all but the good majority of them this is one of those times where i don't like bernie sanders but i actually have a little bit of respect for people who support him who are calling out hillary on this you know what i don't agree with your socialist redistributionist crazy kooky economic ideas, which are hypocritical, I might add. But at least they're like, you know what? Hillary's full of crap.
Starting point is 00:28:09 But that's a small portion of the Democrat Party. So the Oppo research line started out about this. Opposition research is campaigns paying for research about their opponents, which is typically not good. You're not going to publicize good information. You're going to publicize bad stuff. We saw Dan Bongino once steal a Bazooka Joe piece of gum
Starting point is 00:28:27 from Tommy's Deli when he was seven years old. Oh, my gosh. I've had oppo research done on me. We've done it on others. There's nothing. I can't say this enough. I've said this from the start. I will say it now.
Starting point is 00:28:38 We've been completely consistent on this from the start. No one will find anything on my podcast saying otherwise. There is nothing wrong with opposition research. I'm not talking about the morals or ethics. I'm talking about legally. It happens all the time, everywhere. We clear on this? Just so we're clear, because I don't want any liberals calling me. I had a Twitter back and forth with that fool Ted Lieu, that congressman who wants to impeach Trump because he just made up charges this weekend about this. The Democrats, though, Adam Schiff and others and Ted Lieu, were the ones who made a big deal about the Donald Trump Jr., Joe,
Starting point is 00:29:11 meeting with the Russian lawyer because the Russian lawyer at some point told someone who told Trump Jr. they had some information about Hillary of interest. The Democrats then made a big deal. You remember this, Joe? I sure do. Oh, my gosh. Opposition research from a Russian lawyer, and Trump Jr. took the meeting.
Starting point is 00:29:32 Oh, my gosh. Keep in mind, nobody has shown an inkling of evidence that actual opposition research changed hands. As a matter of fact, Donald Trump Jr. could not have been clearer on this. He released all the emails. They weren't flattering, but he released them. By the way, where are Hillary's 30,000 missing emails? Oh, I don't know. But again, Democrats, the shiny red ball. Let's not, you know, standards here. Let's not actually, you know, instill a set of standards that we all have to apply by. Let's just change the standards for each party. emails but don trump jr releases all the emails on it there's no evidence at all any opposition research actually changes hands and democrats made us think about it saying oh my gosh opposition
Starting point is 00:30:11 research with the russians saying they had this is horrifying well then what happened well what happened joe is it was uncovered that of course the Hillary campaign, the DNC, and now breaking this weekend, unbelievably, by the way, Barack Obama's campaign organization paid Fusion GPS, hundreds of thousands in Hillary's case, millions of dollars to go and pay for opposition research that wound up in the hands of actual, well, wound up in the hands of Christopher Steele, who then went to actual Russians and solicited fake information. He got fake information from the Russians. Then all of a sudden, Joe, what happened? It was no longer about opposition research. I have a tweet.
Starting point is 00:30:58 Look on my Twitter feed if you think I'm making this up from this wacko Ted Lieu, this congressman. He tweeted me this weekend, what part of opposition research don't you understand? I don't understand the part you made a big deal about a month ago when it was Don Trump Jr. Boom!
Starting point is 00:31:12 Or a couple months ago. That's the part I don't understand. There you go. I've been consistent on this, you dope. I have said from the start, this is not about opposition research. What is it about? It's about opposition research the democrats paid for making it onto the president of the united states desk which was used to then make decisions about
Starting point is 00:31:32 wiretapping his political enemies and donald trump no that doesn't matter to you wow it's not about opposition research so So now, it's about what happened to it. It made it into a presidential daily brief, liberal knuckleheads. What part of that don't you understand? That was then used to make decisions. So now, what happened this week?
Starting point is 00:31:59 And folks, I know this is a lot of info, but it's my job in 45 minutes to distill all of this, this endless black hole of liberal garbage in the media down to some easily digestible bits. You can go argue with your liberal friends on. That's the sole purpose of this show for you to take the fight to the public. Now they're realizing, Joe, that the opposition research line is not working either. Because they changed their story.o bad when donald trump had
Starting point is 00:32:27 it donald trump jr excuse me but he didn't have it that's the catch oppo is now no problem because hillary paid for it so now they're like gosh what do we do now how do we switch to narrative narrative adam shift this weekend and again a stroke stroke of Democrat strategic genius, and by genius, I mean manipulation, lying, and deceit. He says this weekend, it's not about the dossier and the oppo. It's that some things in the oppo may have been true. So now it's not about oppo, Joe. Now it's about oppo research that portions of it may have been true.
Starting point is 00:33:03 Now, why did he say that? Because folks, again, they're losing the narrative. The narrative that opposition research is bad had to turn into a narrative about opposition research being good. Now they're getting caught in that. So now they're trying to refocus it not on the term opposition research because that that argument's lost you follow me joe that's gone they lost it they've taken two separate positions now they're trying to refocus back on the dossier which folks i want to take the back of my head with the little hair i shave my head pretty close the little hair i have left and bash it through my desk because i'm like wait
Starting point is 00:33:41 now we're at the beginning again, trying to say that the dossier, portions of portions of it are true, despite the fact that this thing has been debunked 55 different ways from Sunday. You understand how desperate, how lying, how manipulative the snakes, the disgusting snakes, these people are like shift. This guy absolutely is a filth bag he is pure filth filth he's now back to insisting that this discredited multiple times debunked fake crap dossier about trump's sexual proclivities overseas which has been debunked by democrats republicans independents martians jupiterians although i know they're not called jupiterians based on an email a guy sent me it has been debunked everywhere now they are desperate to because they have not you understand
Starting point is 00:34:36 they have nothing else they're now back to relying on the same lie they started with the dossier look how bad trump is. Now, these people are slime balls. The dossier, folks, here's what they'll do now. They'll refocus on the dossier to get people to read about Trump's bizarre sexual habits overseas, which is fake. This is false. Nobody thinks this is true. But Adam Schiff and their kooky band of Democrats.
Starting point is 00:35:07 Knowing that there's probably one portion of it's true. Now you may say, well, that's bad. Folks, here's the catch. We don't know what portion of it's true. What if it says in the dossier which you can read,
Starting point is 00:35:20 you know, Donald Trump's confirmation name was Mark or something. Oh, okay. And then after that, it goes, by the way, he traveled to Mars when he was six. He really has seven fingers on his left hand. His hair is really not real.
Starting point is 00:35:34 It's a wig. So let me get this straight. We're now supposed to, again, take the dossier seriously, according to Adam Schiff, because it started off with his correct confirmation name. I don't even know what his confirmation name is. I don't even know if he's been confirmed. I don't think he's Catholic. Folks, do you see where I'm
Starting point is 00:35:47 going with this? Imagine if the shoes were reversed. The Republican Party paid the Russians for bogus information on Barack Obama that was used to wiretap Barack Obama's associates before he got in office. Imagine
Starting point is 00:36:03 if that happened. The information's been completely discredited. It's totally fake. And now all of a sudden, they turn around and they go, well, portions of it are true. Well, what portion? The beginning. His middle name is Hussein. Other than that, it's all false.
Starting point is 00:36:21 Barack Obama was born on Mars. You know, Barack Obama has a unique gene code with alien DNA in it, you'd be like, wait, wait, are we serious? The media would be openly mocking and laughing at the Republican Party. Joe, am I crazy here? No, you're not, Dan. If the Republican Party released a dossier about Barack Obama's sexual habits, that was discredited by every single credible analyst in the community. And yet one single sliver of it was true. They would be the laughingstock of politics. But because they're Democrats, it's a protected class. The media doesn't care at all.
Starting point is 00:36:54 And they ate up this Adam Schiff narrative this weekend. Well, now it's not about Apple Research anymore because we already lost that narrative. Now it's about portions of the dossier true, which are going to make people, Joe, go read it again and go, oh my gosh, this is what's alleged Trump. It's not alleged. It's fake. Gosh, how stupid do you have to be to buy this? These people are unbelievable. Unbelievable. Shameless sleaze filth. Filth. Human filth. Disgusting what they've done to people.
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Starting point is 00:39:46 It's terrific. It took a big dose before the show. That's why I'm so geeked up today. All right. I had like 25 stories to talk about today. I'm clearly not going to get to all of them, but let me give you some good news, okay? Let me do that because there's actually four here I wanted to get to, but one's really important because I know on the show a lot me being
Starting point is 00:40:05 a conservative, that sometimes we tend to be very skeptical of what happens in government how government's ruining the economy, which they are ruining healthcare, we get all that, right? But there's some good news on the horizon and I read an article this weekend I'm going to tie it in it was an article about qubits
Starting point is 00:40:21 not cubert, like the old video game, qubits which are basically quantum bits it's the it's the use of of quantum theory um to expand the horizons of computing let me put so put that on the shelf for a minute which would make computing incorrect put that on the shelf okay and i want to start with this on a different note here, because it's important. We just had two consecutive quarters of 3% GDP growth, folks, which is good. Not excellent, but very good. The Democrats just got done telling us after eight years of Obama, Joe knows this, because we talk about it on the show. We put articles in the show notes. And I will put this article about Qubits, by the way, and the economic growth in the show notes
Starting point is 00:41:02 today at Bongino.com. Please subscribe to my email list, and I'll send them right to you. And you don't have to worry about going to the website if you don't want to. Send them right to your box, your email box. Two consecutive quarters of 3% growth. The Democrats just got done telling us that that was not possible. That the new normal, that secular stagnation that set in, that the new normal was going to be 2% or less growth forever. Trump gets into office, and we have had six months now of 3% growth. Folks, I'm not making any of this up. Just Google, please, if you don't believe me, secular stagnation. You will see a bunch of Democrats and Democrat-leading economists
Starting point is 00:41:36 telling you that 3% growth is not possible and that we are stagnating. Secular meaning the reasons are kind of difficult to understand, all the things that have been invented, have been invented. It's an overly flowery economic term for this is just the way it is now. I've
Starting point is 00:41:56 told you on the show for two years that that's garbage, that the idea of secular stagnation is a Democrat fairy tale, and I can prove it to you. Now we've now had two consecutive quarters of 3% growth. I don't want to get ahead of myself. I don't want to attribute all of it to Trump. I think he's deregulatory. He's cut $560 million in regulations. I think that's helped. I think the talk of tax cuts is going to help significantly, but it's these
Starting point is 00:42:21 corporate tax cuts that are going to make a big difference. These corporate tax cuts. This is where I want to just point out quickly some Democrat hypocrisy right here. Trump is talking about lowering the business tax from 35% to 20%. We've covered this on the show multiple times. But I took some screenshots this morning from an article in the Daily Signal by Emily Miller, which is very, very good. I'll put it in the show notes again. And I'll email it to you if you're on my list.
Starting point is 00:42:44 Talking about the president proposing corporate tax cuts. Now, here is the president. I said that very cryptically there. Maybe you'll get the joke in a minute. Talking about a corporate tax cut. Putting the United States in line with major competitor countries and encouraging great investment here at home. Talking about the corporate tax cut. What president was that?
Starting point is 00:43:07 Barack Obama. So Barack Obama talking about the effectiveness of a corporate tax cut, saying it would put the United States in line with major competitor countries and encourage greater investment here at home. Barack Obama said that. It's in the piece.
Starting point is 00:43:20 Show it to your liberal friends. You tried to trick us. You, John, you tricky trickster, Dan Bargino. Now, it's so, Joe,
Starting point is 00:43:30 it's just so easy. This is not hard. These people go on the record and contradict themselves. I'm not done. Chuck Schumer on corporate tax cuts. The cut in the corporate rate would hardly help the everyday American worker. This is trickle down. Our Republican colleagues don't really talk about trickle down because they know most
Starting point is 00:43:46 of America doesn't believe in it. Okay, so he's attacking the corporate tax cut, right? It's trickle down. It would hardly help the American worker. Okay, Emily Miller. Just last year, Schumer on corporate taxes. Man, I'm game to do it because I think it's really important to American competitiveness. Okay, Chuck, you got it. What do we believe?
Starting point is 00:44:14 Chuck last year or Chuck now? Who is it? Either it sucks or it's great. By the way, as I always say about Clinton for you regular listeners, same guy, same guy. Bill Clinton on a golf course when a guy hit a bad shot and a good shot, he'd go, same guy, same guy. Meaning, come on, you can do it. Same guy. It's the same guy. I'm not done. Another quote. Please read the piece yourself. You think I'm making any of this up. Nancy Pelosi on the corporate tax cut. Deceptively, the Republicans are deceptive, misleading us, saying to the American people
Starting point is 00:44:36 that cutting the taxes of corporate America is going to produce such growth, that it will eliminate the increase in the debt. Ha, ha, ha. Okay. Here's Nancy Pelosi in a press release in 2016. This is like the clown hour. It is long past time for tax reform that would lower the corporate rate.
Starting point is 00:44:54 Folks, this is the- What the hell? Same guy, same gal, same gal. These are the same people. Please read this piece, print it, and highlight it for all your liberal friends which way which one which one about the Trump corporate tax cut is true Pelosi last year Schumer last year Barack
Starting point is 00:45:12 Obama last year or the Democrats I'm asking you which one is true no no the one now is true that's what they'll tell you why why and what does this have to do with QBITS folks we are on the verge if this corporate tax rate is cut and this is the good news, of explosive growth in the economy. I am not kidding when I tell you over the course of
Starting point is 00:45:31 a couple decades, we are talking about trillions of dollars pouring back into our economy. Non-residential investment. I'm going to cover this more tomorrow in more detail. It's exploding. I mean, we're not talking about housing here. We're talking about business investment, AI, quantum computing, self-diagnosing medical devices on your iPhone. We are on the verge of an
Starting point is 00:45:55 unbelievably prosperous tomorrow. And this article I read, which I'll put in the show notes in the Wall Street Journal. I don't know if it's subscriber. I'm sorry, but it's a really unbelievable piece about Qubits. Shows shows you joe that secular stagnation that we can't grow everything's been invented is a steaming pile of horse crap we are on the verge now we're in you know big competition with china of a quantum-based computer joe that will blow the door open on just about every facet of your life. Modern encryption, gene repair.
Starting point is 00:46:29 These are my notes. This isn't in the piece. These are just the things I think quantum computing are going to just explode. Gene repair, medical diagnosis, gene coding, language translation, vector analysis for rockets to be able to process information instantaneously the computers can't now navigation gps if you could do this because remember quantum computing and i'll explain more tomorrow this is going to be a really really good segment tomorrow quantum computing is thousands geometrically faster than even the fastest computers today. Imagine having the power to do that
Starting point is 00:47:06 in every household in America in 20 or 30 years. Folks, you are talking about the ability to do things human beings have never, ever imagined before. We are on the verge of something very special. And I think the stupid Democrat theories about, oh, everything's been invented, corporate tax cuts so bad. I'm telling you right now, if this corporate tax cuts goes through, this is where I'm going to tie this up for you. We are going to see explosions in artificial intelligence, quantum computing. And the reason the Democrats are running scared right now over
Starting point is 00:47:39 this tax code and openly, openly refuting their own prior statements on the corporate tax cut is because they know the economy is going to absolutely blow up in a good way. And Donald Trump is going to get the credit. And they are looking at another potentially of 8 to 10 to 20 years out of any significant power base. I'm telling you, mark my words. All right. Thanks for tuning in, folks.
Starting point is 00:48:03 I appreciate it. Please go to Bongino.com. Subscribe to my email list there. And I will email you these articles. That Emily Miller one for tuning in, folks. I appreciate it. Please go to Bongino.com, subscribe to my email list there, and I will email you these articles. That Emily Miller one is priceless, by the way. Make sure you go check that out at the Daily Signal. I'll put it in the show notes today. I'll see you all tomorrow.
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