The Dan Bongino Show - Ep. 599 What are the Clintons Hiding?
Episode Date: November 27, 2017What are the Clintons hiding? http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/11/ex-secret-service-agent-worked-hillary-responds-clinton-mob-attack-know-theyre-hiding-video/ The mass exodus from high-tax, lib...eral, states continues at an alarming rate. https://nypost.com/2017/04/01/people-are-fleeing-new-york-at-an-alarming-rate/ If the tax reform bill passes New York, and other high-tax states, could be in serious trouble. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-27/in-greenwich-and-manhattan-tax-hike-fears-fuel-talk-of-exodus Nancy Pelosi just destroyed any remaining credibility the Democrats had on ethics and morals. https://t.co/yi3uO9EzNj The death tax is an economic nightmare for American families and this blue state is trying to make it worse. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/congress-may-shrink-the-estate-tax-should-maryland-follow-suit/2017/11/25/3e81cec8-ca54-11e7-b0cf-7689a9f2d84e_story.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino.
All right, welcome to the Dan Bongino Show.
Producer Joe, how are you today?
Hey, doing well, Dan.
Good to be back.
Everybody getting back home, done with the holidays.
Nice, nice.
I had a friend in the Secret Service.
Everything was nice, nice.
Ah, nice, nice.
Nice, nice.
Everything was nice, nice.
It's like chaos erupting around you. You'd be like, nice, nice. Don was nice, nice. It's like chaos erupting around
you. You'd be like, nice, nice. Don't worry about it. It's a good way to get everybody to calm down.
Another busy weekend, this Clinton story with me, the allegations about the Clintons that I
made in standby have blown up. I got a call from a friend who said it was a story over in Israel.
And for those of you
listening for the first time, they have heard me on Mark on Friday. The story goes like this. I
worked with the Clintons and worked with people who worked with the Clintons and the staff function
and other functions and law enforcement functions and federal law enforcement functions. And people
have given me information. I didn't ask for it. I didn't solicit it. People just give it to me because the Clintons are horrible people.
And in various forms of communication, Joe have told me things about the Clintons that
are highly and deeply disturbing.
Now, I know, Joe, you're aware of some of the stories.
And just to reiterate what I said last week, I'm getting a lot of emails from people and
I understand.
I sympathize with you completely.
And in some respects, you're right.
And the emails are this.
If you have information about the Clintons,
it's your obligation to put it out there.
I get it, folks.
I totally understand.
I said this last week and I'll say it again.
Here is the hang up, as I'll repeat
in even stronger terms than last week.
If people call you with information
and before they give you this information,
they say, listen, I need you to give me your word that this information will stay quiet until I give you permission to release it.
And you say, yes, I'm sorry, but what kind of a dog do you have to be to turn around and put that person's life, livelihood, their family's livelihood at risk?
Right.
I mean, I'm sorry, Joee but that's just grossly ridiculously irresponsible
um and kind of a crap thing to do agreed right i mean this is not complicated folks and listen
some of you may be saying oh you know whatever you're bluffing all right folks listen i don't
really i'm sorry i don't care i know what's there i my credibility matters to me if you're a regular
listen to listeners of this show you know that i back up all my information on the show with
sources we have show notes for that explicit purpose where we link to articles about things
we discuss um i wouldn't put it out there if i didn't mean it and the genesis of this is i was
asked to come on cable news and discuss a story about uh. Clinton blaming Barack Obama now for her political
loss. I feel like Hillary is doing everything in her power just to be crystal clear to discredit
this last election because she needs political power. And by political power, folks, I don't
necessarily mean the ability to get elected. She may run again. She may not. But some of you say,
oh, she doesn't need political power. She's not again wrong now why are you wrong now joe again that's a fair question why why are you wrong why are you wrong
about this why damn bongino why are you right why does mrs clinton need political power yeah
because she needs to hide her secrets folks the information that's out there some of it i'm aware
of and i'm sure there's more i'm not aware of, is pretty horrifying.
And again, I'm super sorry that I can't share the details of it.
I'm not trying to tease you, get you to listen to the show.
And folks, our listenership is great.
The show does, Joe, I mean, honest to God, how often do we cover the Clintons on this show?
Rarely.
I mean, we do economics.
You know, it's maybe 10% of the content.
You know, it's not, and even don't know I'm even that's an
overestimate I'm not this is not
listener bait I'm not teasing it I'm just telling you the
stuff out there most of it you've heard about
and can probably imagine you just haven't had it
confirmed you know it's not like oh
Mrs. Clinton's a space Martian
it's not that kind of stuff it's stuff
that's out there and hasn't been confirmed yet
and that's the reason I feel an obligation to tell stuff that's out there and hasn't been confirmed yet.
And that's the reason.
I feel an obligation to tell you that.
And I'm very sorry, but I can't.
People trusted me with this stuff.
I'm not making it up.
I'm not trying.
And I love the other ones.
Like, oh, he's trying to get in the news.
Really?
Are you sure about that?
Folks, I promise you, Joe and I are livelihoods with this podcast.
We're fine.
We don't need to be in the news i'm not paid
for that stuff um no one pays you hey can you come on the show and i'll pay you to say this
not the way it works like it's just knowing your schedule too like i do the last thing you need to
do is to try to be in the news right i mean there are days i call joe we're talking i'm like whining
about it before the show like gosh i'm getting all these requests I got about 20 requests for media interviews today all of which are a no by
the way and and you're telling me like I want to be that's I mean how does that fit with your stupid
narrative and one more thing folks on this if what I know about the Clintons and Epstein and
email gate and Blackberry gate if what I know is all nonsense right and i'll leave it with this
it's all garbage i'm some loose cannon i'm some conspiracy theory wacko
then why is the clinton cartel coming after me why is nick morel john davidson why are other
people these clinton insiders why are they like having a coordinated attack against me along with all these uh these Clintonistas on Twitter who had like a massive
assault on me this weekend why it's about listen I'm not playing a victim I'm telling you I was
born for this I really am I'm not I don't run from a fight at all but if the information's garbage
why why bother folks let's be honest I a small, small fish in a big pond,
right? In an enormous pond. I have a platform, but it's certainly not the Clinton's platform.
It's not even close. Why come after me and try to discredit me if the information I have is garbage?
Folks, I'm telling you why. Because the information I have is real. And they know it's real.
You know why?
Because they were there.
If Joe robbed a bank and I knew about it,
and I said, Joe, you robbed a bank,
Joe can tell me all he wants.
Hey, Dan, that's not true.
Joe was there with me.
Okay?
He knows it's true.
That's why he's afraid.
Joe didn't rob a bank, by the way.
You get my point.
The Clintons know what happened.
That's why they're trying to discredit me.
Folks, this stuff is very real, and it's super damaging information.
And I'm only hoping and praying that the people who've given it to me, who can attest to it from detailed knowledge of it, give me permission at some point to go forward with it.
Okay.
Lumber of really terrific stories outside of that but i had to clear that up by
the way to talk about uh here's number one it's an article about blue in bloomberg this tax cut
bill uh that is uh really should scare the snot out of you if you live in a blue state and folks
i'm i'm sorry to have to give you this information i know i had a woman from new jersey who sent me a
really um angry email that you know hey you're talking about this state and local
tax deduction we're going to lose as if we don't exist.
You know, there are conservatives in New Jersey that can't move.
We can't leave.
And and, you know, this is really going to damage us, ma'am.
100 percent correct.
Point stipulated.
I totally agree with you.
You are right.
This is going to damage this tax cut bill.
you. You are right. This is going to damage this tax cut bill, millionaire earners and more in blue states who claim an income and don't have LLC type income or things like that and can't shield it
through a corporation with the lower rates. Now, I totally get it, but I'm not here to lie to you.
I'm not celebrating the fact that people are going to be hurt. I'm just telling you that you're hurt
not because of the federal tax code. You're being hurt because you live in a blue state
that's being run by Democrats. I get it that you don't agree with it, their policies,
but that doesn't take away the fact that you're not being hurt because of federal tax policy.
You're being hurt because of local and state tax policy. Now, why am I bringing this up?
A piece in Bloomberg I'll put in the show notes today,
always available up on gino.com. And if you join my email list, I will put it in there as well.
That is damning, folks. And if you live in a blue state, you should, I mean, I'm not trying
to scare you, but you should be a little concerned, let's say. Goldman's estimating,
Goldman Sachs is estimating that in the New York City area alone, if this tax bill passes, which just to be clear, will eliminate large swaths of the deduction you get for state and local taxes you pay.
So if you're paying a high state and local income tax, which you don't in the state of Florida, because there isn't one.
There's no state tax in Florida, state income tax.
If you're in New York where there's a heavy one
and in California where it's double digits,
you used to be able to take that off your federal tax bill.
If the tax reform bill passes,
large swaths of people will no longer be able to do that.
One of the Goldman estimates, Joe,
is that if you're a millionaire claiming an income tax,
you know, claiming income and not revenue from capital gains
and other things,
that you could lose up to $21,000 additional dollars a year.
Ew.
That's a big, big, big hit.
Yeah.
To take $21,000 a year.
I'm not denying that.
I'm not celebrating the fact that you're going to be hurt.
I'm only telling you,
you're not being hurt because of the federal government, though.
You're being hurt because now you're being forced
to actually pay the taxes your state has imposed upon you.
Because in the past, you weren't paying the full load.
You were paying that state tax,
but then you were getting a portion of it back
off your federal tax bill.
That's the state's fault.
That's not the federal government's fault.
I mean, I'm not sure if I'm being clear on that.
People in Florida and other states that don't have a state income tax or tax their citizens on their income at the state level relatively lightly aren't suffering from this at all.
It's these deep blue states
that have these confiscatory rates at the state level
that are taking money from their citizens
and they were getting what in effect
is a built-in break at the federal level
that no one else was getting.
That's not the federal government's fault.
That's the state's fault.
Does that make sense, Joe?
Yeah.
But Goldman is estimating that they could lose as much as, this is crazy, 4% of their top earners
could leave the state if this bill becomes a law. They're talking about the New York City area.
Folks, that's a huge hit. Now you say, oh, 4%. So what? If 100 big earners, high earners,
millionaires, billionaires, and the like, if only four out of those hundred leave?
Well, that's not such a big deal.
Well, really read lower down in the article in Bloomberg where they talk about the Connecticut state budget.
Folks, the Connecticut state budget, nearly 10 percent of the entire state budget is funded by these hedge fund types and people who I'm not knocking them, but people who live in Connecticut. Do you know how much money that is if they leave?
You're talking about 10% of the state budget. Granted, even if it's only a percentage of that
and it's one or 2% of the state budget and people leave, Joe, you're still talking about an enormous
hit. You're talking about entire county budgets being wiped
out this is a really really big deal but i just want to be clear to the again to the woman who
emailed me i appreciate your email but it is not the federal government's fault that the state
taxes you at an unbelievably ridiculous level it's not the state lawmakers and eventually the citizens of that
state are gonna have to vote for something different because it's not i live in florida
i used to live in maryland i've lived in blue states i get it i've been in both scenarios
it is not fair for a resident of florida to not have the same equal rights in the tax code that
a resident of new york has you see what I'm saying, Joe?
Yeah.
Because we have no state income tax.
So it's a deduction you can take
to pay less money in New York and New Jersey
and California and Illinois, Joe,
that I can't take here in Florida.
That's not fair.
The tax code should be fair to everyone.
We should have a flatter, broader-based tax code
where everybody gets the same benefits.
Does that make sense?
Yeah, it's not the federal,
I mean, believe me,
far from being for me to take blame away
from the federal government,
but it's not their fault that your state
that you live in taxes the hell out of you.
Someone eventually is going to have to change that there.
Now, I'll put the Bloomberg article.
There's also an article in the New York Post,
which is really fascinating,
about the mass exit is happening right now
out of the New York City area.
Now, Joe, right now.
Forget about if the tax bill passes,
which I just told you Goldman's estimating
4% of its top earners are going to flake.
If, that's an if.
Now I'm talking about what's already happening now.
Forget the if.
New York Post piece this week.
Joe, more than 1 million people have moved out of the New York area since 2010.
An exodus rate of 4.4%, the highest net negative migration rate among the nations among
the nation's large population centers folks people are fleeing in droves now i want to make a couple
points on this because it's important in light of the tax debate argument going on now number one
if taxes are a public good,
I said this on the VIN show on Friday
when I was filling in.
I want to be crystal clear on this.
I'm just trying to get into the head
of the liberals listening to this
because I know we have liberal listeners.
If taxes and the paying of taxes
are a benevolent force for society
and they're a public good,
that's the liberal premise.
Joseph, is it not?
Yes, it is we
have argued with a thousand liberals i've been in north joe on the morning show there in cbm where
we take callers we may go to that in the future here take a couple callers or something i'm not
sure we're i'm still trying to work through long term what we're going to do uh with the format
exists we jimmy and joe like to switch stuff up once in a while yeah but we've argued with liberals
their premise is that we should pay higher taxes.
Everybody should pay a fair share.
Everybody should pay more.
Under the guise, you're assuming that this is a public good.
Why else would you argue for higher taxes?
In other words, would a liberal argument ever be paying higher taxes is a bad thing?
Never.
No, because then you'd be called a conservative.
Okay.
Right?
Exactly.
Yeah.
So if you're suggesting somehow that the paying of higher taxes is a force for public good,
what I don't understand is why you are arguing because liberals are fighting this tax reform,
Joe.
But why?
Why are you fighting the state and local for the state and local deduction?
In other words, the ability to pay less money to the federal government by being able to deduct your mammoth state and local tax bill,
why are you fighting for that
if you think taxes are a force for public good?
Folks, I'm being genuine here.
And I'm talking about regular Democrats.
I know why the liberal activists, radical left,
wants higher taxes,
because they crave economic control.
They don't care about the money.
They care about who has the money,
even if it's less money.
I'm asking regular rank-and-file Democrats
who support higher taxes almost ad nauseum,
like we're all ready to throw up
and die from paying all our money to the government,
not being able to feed ourselves anymore.
Regular Democrats who consistently support higher taxes.
I'm genuinely asking you that question
if you're listening now. I'm not asking you that question. If you're listening now,
I'm not being a jerk about it.
Email me.
Yeah.
My email is danielatbongino.com.
If you can be,
please don't send me hate mail about it too.
I just delete that stuff.
If you can send me a reasonable response,
I'll read it and I'll even try to respond.
Why do you support higher taxes as a public good?
And yet now you're fighting to maintain a state and local tax
deduction that would basically stop you from paying more money to the federal government.
I don't get it.
I don't get it.
You're saying taxes are a good thing, but you don't want to pay more of them, and you're
also fighting for a bill, by the way, fighting, excuse me, against the tax bill that would
most likely force your state to lower taxes in the end.
You may not have got that second point. Let me be a little clearer about that.
I got it.
You did. OK.
The state and local tax deduction at the federal level shields people in blue states from the effects of higher taxes.
Right.
higher taxes. People like Tom Sweeney, the Senate president, New Jersey, the Democrat,
have already acknowledged that if this bill passes, they're probably going to have to look at the really high taxes in their state because now people are going to be forced to bear the
full load because they won't get to deduct it from their federal tax bill anymore. So I don't
understand. I genuinely don't understand. If your first point is taxes are wonderful,
so why are you fighting to pay less to the federal government?
And secondly, why are you fighting this bill
if this bill will eventually, as many Democrats have acknowledged,
will force your state to lower your tax rate?
I thought higher tax rates were good.
You know, I know I say it every show.
You're probably getting tired of hearing it right now.
But I wake up every morning wondering
what kind of liberal nonsense
I'm going to have to combat today.
Because I don't understand what I'm arguing against.
I mean this, folks.
I'm not talking about the radical left.
I know why they want higher taxes.
Again, economic control.
That is it.
They don't care about the money.
They care who has the money.
Because they get to dictate public policy then.
Even if there's only a dollar left,
they'll control that dollar.
I understand that.
But I don't understand how as a conservative
I'm expected to argue with liberalism
if liberalism doesn't know what liberalism is.
How am I supposed to argue with you
or debate with you
that lower taxes on net and more money
in the private economy, in the free economy, I should say, I hate that term, in the free economy,
because that's what it is, it's not private. More money in the free economy is going to benefit us
all through economic growth, a higher standard of living and prosperity. How can I argue that with you? If you're arguing against the bill that against the bill that would meet your
standards for higher taxes.
In other words,
I'm saying lower taxes work because money stays in the free economy.
You're saying higher taxes work because the government can spend it better.
Clear.
But now you're arguing against the bill that would,
would essentially raise taxes.
So I don't understand.
Like, what am I?
I'm saying low taxes.
You're saying higher taxes.
But then when the Trump administration and GOP puts out a bill that will effectively give people in blue states the ability to pay more taxes, you say, no, we don't want that.
I thought you said you wanted to raise taxes.
No, no, just not on us ah oh oh all right i mean what do we say i mean i just don't get it i don't even know where i got that from that's a stupid thing
probably from a cartoon somewhere um i just don't understand like i really genuinely can you explain
that to me?
Please explain to me how you're arguing against the bill that would raise your taxes in a state,
would raise your taxes,
and would give more money to the federal government.
That's the entire premise of liberalism.
All right.
Oh, second point, by the way.
So that's the first point that, principally speaking,
I don't know where you are anymore.
I genuinely don't. The second point on that New York Post piece about people moving out of New York and people potentially moving out of New York in the
Bloomberg piece, if this goes through and the state and local deductions removed.
Folks, I'm not being silly when I say I understand your arguments. I've heard liberals,
they've called into radio shows.
They argue with me at debates and they'll say, well, taxes aren't the only reason people move.
A hundred percent.
You are point stipulated.
You don't need to say it again.
You are right.
Meaning no need to repeat it again to be more right.
You're right.
Nobody's saying that either on the libertarian or conservative side, that taxes are the only reason people move, Joe,
for literally innumerable reasons.
You can't even count them.
Because I don't even know every reason.
You know, their mom passed away
and they want to be closer to their in-laws' family.
They got a job.
They like the movie theaters better in Florida.
Who the hell knows?
If a thousand people move,
and Joe, let's even be generous.
Say only 50 of them move because of the taxes.
And believe me, that's being generous.
Out of a thousand people, I promise you probably closer to 500 move because of the high cost of living in a state.
Because economics is obviously a big reason.
Let's be generous.
Say it's 10 people out of a thousand.
generous. Say it's 10 people out of 1,000. You still lost a huge swath of income of your highest earning, most successful people who are financing your state budgets, and you lost a solid amount
of that money, 10 people, precisely because you have a really awful policy. Does that policy not
require a reevaluation then? Just because it's not the primary reason which by
the way folks i would strongly debate it is but even if liberals are right it's not the primary
reason people move and it's the secondary or tertiary reason it's still a main reason people
are leaving your state new york folks again, again, from the New York Post feed, the highest net negative migration rate.
Doesn't that matter to you?
Wouldn't you be concerned if you're a public policymaker?
Like, hey, guys, ladies, we got a problem.
We're in New York here trying to get people to move to our state
with their money, their businesses, their income, and their prosperity.
And not only are they not moving here, they're leaving.
We have the highest net negative migration rate.
Is something wrong here?
You're not concerned at all.
You're so-called the party of science,
but you're not even remotely interested in a deeper analytical dive
as to why people are leaving.
Come on. Come on.
You got to do better than that.
Give me a break.
All right, folks.
Thanks for hanging with me through this.
Those are really obviously emotional topics for me.
Number one, this battle with the Clinton staff.
And secondly, this tax thing.
Because I seriously don't know who we're arguing with anymore.
Liberals.
We want to pay higher taxes.
Okay, this bill will let you pay higher taxes, both at the federal and state level.
No, no, no.
We're just kidding about that.
We really didn't mean that.
Okay.
Yeah, I mean, it's just like, ah, I can't.
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Interesting story broke this weekend with Nancy Pelosi.
Whenever I say that name, it's like, ah, Nancy Pelosi.
You know, the pox is on you from Nancy Pelosi.
Anytime she opens her mouth, she like curses the Democrat Party.
But she was on, was it Meet the Press this weekend?
It was a national, yeah, it was Meet the Press.
Did you talk about this this morning at CBM?
Yeah, we hit a few cuts, yeah.
Yeah, this is just an unbelievable active hypocrisy by the Democrats.
Again, I told you, I wake up every morning thinking, you know,
what the heck, what kind of liberal silliness am I going to have to fight today? Hold on one second. I just want to
pull something up here. So she made this appearance on Meet the Press this weekend, Nancy Pelosi,
and the question came up about John Conyers, who is a Democrat congressman who has been accused.
These are allegations, just to be fair to everyone here, these are obviously allegations,
but has been accused of some inappropriate sexual behavior.
Now, John Conyers is in his late 80s.
He's been in office for a very long time,
was involved heavily in the civil rights movement,
but the allegations are serious.
And she was asked about it this weekend, Nancy Pelosi,
about, well, what should she do about Conyers?
Obviously, because Conyers is a Democrat. Now, what I found awfully ironic about this, folks, because again,
it speaks to how there's not double standards. There are no standards for Democrats. There are
only standards for Republicans with the media and other folks. When asked about what should
happen to Conyers, she cited due process, Joe. She said, well, you know, he's entitled to due
process. These are allegations and due
process strengthens the system and i thought oh oh that's nice well that's an interesting
development joe yes yes it is yes it is can you do like a watson like intellectual kind of
sherlockian holmes voice like not? Yes, it is.
This guy's got so many voices, man.
Did I ever tell you about when I first met Joe?
I had no idea.
He was the morning voice guy on WCBM.
He's got so many voices that are so deceptive that when I met him, I had no idea he was the character on the show.
It took me like weeks to figure that out.
I'm like, that's you, does that?
So, yeah. I heard me. weeks to figure that out. I'm like, that's you, does that? So, I heard me.
I see, I see, yes.
The Colonel, that was his famous one, The Colonel.
I had no idea.
I thought that was, who's the traffic guy?
Chuck.
Chuck.
I thought that was Chuck Whitaker that does.
He does this thing called The Colonel,
which is really, really funny.
So, I just think that's fascinating, though, that Nancy Pelosi is now citing the need for due process.
Why?
Because, folks, as you know, listen to the show and are watching the news, if you're not in a cave right now, there's a Senate race going on in Alabama where the Republican Senate candidate who has won the primary, he is now on the ballot.
The race is December 12th?
12th.
I think it's the 12th.
Yeah, 12th to the 5th.
One of those days.
But it's coming up.
There's no stipulation
to get him off the ballot at this point.
It's too late.
Ballots have been printed.
I'm sure absentees are going out right now.
Roy Moore, who's the Republican candidate,
has been accused of some very serious
sexual stuff as well, which is some of it pretty grotesque.
Again, we're not saying anything inappropriate or improper here.
These are allegations.
Right.
They may be true.
They may not.
Nobody has conclusively proven them yet.
A lot of them are very credible.
But same thing for Conyers. What I find fascinating, Joe, is Pelosi's argument about how Democrat John Conyers should be given due process and how the country is strengthened by due process.
In other words, shouldn't we hear these people out, figure out the weight, weight, the evidence and see what happens?
That's the exact same argument, regardless of where you stand on Roy Moore,
that people who support Roy Moore used.
And Pelosi was like, no, no, no, no, no. That's no good.
This guy's got to step aside, Roy Moore.
Folks, listen.
Guy Benson sent out a tweet this weekend,
and he's right.
I read it, and I thought he's absolutely right.
He's like, listen, he's not a Roy Moore supporter.
He says that in a tweet.
He's like, I'm far from it.
He said, but I got to be honest with you.
And he just nailed it. And I kind of posted some similar thoughts on my facebook inspired by
a guy to give him a hat tip do you understand now democrats listening why conservatives republicans
and libertarians don't trust you you you you you have no credibility on this stuff because you only attack when it's your guy.
I mean, excuse me, when it's our guy.
When it's your guy, you go into a full-blown,
you know, blood on the fangs defense of your people
no matter how serious the allegations are.
Now, Joe, it's the same argument.
Conservatives said, well more as more not entitled to some due process the voters of alabama there's never been an allegation of uh at the time at least
while the statute of limitations was in effect it was never an allegation of a crime right again
i'm not saying pro or con more that's's not the point. I'm talking about logic here. Logic and standards.
The standard for the Dems is due process.
The standard for Republicans is no due process, leave immediately.
What the heck is that about?
By the way, doubling down on Conyers, folks.
Conyers, who's the Democrat, making this situation even worse,
is whether these allegations are true or not,
it is not in question that Conyers office used taxpayer funds to pay people off to leave.
Now, he's disputing what they were paid for. Fair enough. Either way, taxpayer payouts,
while under the, at a minimum, Joe, under a cloud of allegations of sexual
impropriety?
No, no, no, no, no.
Time out.
T.O.
Under the hood for review.
No way.
Now, nobody is accusing Moore of using taxpayer funds.
Why?
Because Moore has not even been elected yet.
So you have a guy in office, just to be clear, a Nancy Pelosi's logic, Joe.
He's in office now.
He's been elected seemingly forever,
John Conyers.
Serious allegations of sexual impropriety.
Taxpayer money used to pay people off
at a minimum involved with these cases, right?
And the standard is,
ah, let's give it some time.
Let's hear it out now you have another
guy more no taxpayer funds use again serious allegations nonetheless and the standard is
exit the ballot immediately get out of here right now we don't even want to do an investigation
you deserve to go and again you wonder why working class middle class americans are just tired of
the democrat party you defended bill clinton despite what i opened up the show with and
these very serious allegations for decades you defended bill clinton during the monica
lewinsky disaster you have i mean i'll ask you a question about Bill Clinton for those of you just to kind of double down on the opening of the show. This is a serious question too.
By the way, can I give a quick hat tip to that dude on Reddit who keeps like defending me?
There's this guy, it's a Reddit thread called The Donald. And for, I do, I know I was poking fun.
It was a clapper or Brennan for their Google alert
because they were politicians.
I just thought it was funny.
I will be candid.
I have my name on Google alert
because I'm in the content production field
and I like to see when my podcast and stuff
goes live and things.
And also you want to see if there's anything out there
you need to address.
So I probably shouldn't have made fun of it
for Google alert.
I just thought it was funny because he was a politician.
But I have my name on Google Alert
and it comes up all the time.
There's this guy on this Reddit thread, Joe,
who's like always defended me and my podcast.
And he was the one who actually brought up too.
Maybe I'll put a link to it.
I don't know if you can read it
if you're not a member,
but yeah, you can.
I'm not in there.
But he says,
hey, Bongino was pretty clear
about why he can't say this stuff.
There were people who would legitimately
be hurt by this
who entrusted him with the information beforehand.
So I appreciate you backing me up on this.
But one of the questions,
and I'd really like maybe someone on Reddit
and other places to pursue is,
has anybody asked the Epstein-Clinton operation there
when he flew on those flights with him,
has anybody asked
for a full accounting
of
all the passengers
on the plane?
And their ages?
Anyone?
Let me just throw this out there
to any investigative reporter
who heard me on Levin
or knows about this
conflict with me
and the Clintons now.
Any investigative reporter
worth your salt,
if you can get a legitimate manifest,
legitimate manifest,
of the ages and names of the people on those planes,
hmm,
what is it?
Was that out of the Arsenio Hall show, Joe?
Things that make you go, hmm.
We'd get right back to due process, wouldn't we?
Oh, producer Joe, bring it in again.
This cat's unbelievable.
Yes.
But remember, Joe, no, no, that's due process.
He's a Democrat.
There is no due.
It's all nonsense.
But you're right.
According to Nancy Pelosi, due process, there are credible allegations out there about the
Clintons, or I should say
Bill Clinton and these flights so clear it up due process right Joe as you said a due process
yeah just say just say let's get a full manifest of who was really on the plane in their ages
and then we'll clear up the story no problem at all if Dan Bongino's a nut and he's crazy
and I'm a conspiracy theorist from Jupiter. Actually, it never applies because I actually live near Jupiter in Florida.
I'm in Palm City, but whatever.
From Saturn.
I'm pretty sure there's no Saturn close to me, okay?
If I'm a conspiracy theorist, just put it out there.
As Joe said, to neatly tap on.
That was great.
We did not plan that.
Due process.
Due process, folks.
Just due process.
But again, they're total hypocrites.
They don't care.
They don't want to get to the bottom of anything.
They just want to hide all their improprieties while tagging GOP officials with these labels.
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All right, Joe, a story from your lovely state of Maryland
where I used to live.
And to be fair, Maryland is full of lovely people.
I do love it.
I went up there to help out some friends of mine.
It's just run by imbeciles right now.
The governor's okay, he's a Republican,
but the state house and the delegates are, I'm sorry, folks.
They're crazy.
They're nuts.
So I saw a story and the Washington post, this is just like, uh, really guys.
So this federal tax reform package that the GOP has put out there that we've been talking
about the whole show, there's another, um, uh another tenet of it that's going to, I think,
benefit the economy strongly, Joe.
And it is a raising of the death tax,
estate tax deduction,
from 5.4 million to 11 million in assets.
So in essence, if you die,
keep in mind, by the way,
you've already paid taxes on this stuff
through income, capital gains,
transaction taxes, local taxes, property taxes.
Let's say Joe has a farm in Maryland worth $5.4 million.
They're going to up that to, you won't be taxed on it until that farm now is worth $11
million and the assets are transferred to the next generation.
Why?
Because you're dead.
That's why.
Because what are you going to do with it?
You won't be taxed on it now at the federal level unless it's $11 million or more, which is good because it shields people $11 million and below.
Whereas in the past, it was $5.4 million and below.
Make sense?
Yep.
Now, Joe, one of the dumbest and what's fascinating is Joy Reid has this argument with, is it Romina Boccia, I think her name is, from the Heritage Foundation.
Joy Reid, one of the real intellectual lightweights
in cable news right now.
Seriously, she knows very little about anything.
And she has Austin Goolsbee, who is very, very smart,
is a liberal, and I disagree with him.
But I've actually debated Austin Goolsbee.
He's brilliant.
I disagree with him, to be clear, but he's very smart.
At one point in the segment, the Heritage woman, Romina,
is schooling Joy Reid completely on the tax bill.
And this death tax thing came up.
And she's like, Austin, Austin, can you help me?
Because she just doesn't know.
I'm dead serious.
She just doesn't know anything, right?
So it's kind of funny to watch.
You've got to check that out.
If you see Joy Reid, Austin Goolsby, it'll probably pop right up.
Forgive me for not having the clip.
I do got a clip, though, with Joe.
I want to keep that one handy.
You have that, right?
Yeah, I want to empty
because I'm going to show you
how the range the Democrats can be.
But what's fascinating about this is
she starts talking about the death tax at one point,
Joy Reid that is.
And of course they want to defend it.
And she mentions at one point
that it only affects this
unbelievably small swath of taxpayers.
And I'm like scratching my head thinking,
okay, so why are you defending it then? In other words, if this thing is such an insignificant portion of the federal tax bill, because nobody pays it, why does nobody pay it? Because George
Soros and a lot of wealthy people do what, Joe, as we talked about last week's show,
they start foundations and they don't pay the tax they just
pay into a foundation that then pays their family members that would have gotten the money anyway
big-time salaries the taxes be damned nobody pays it but joy reed doesn't even understand because
she's such a lightweight joe she doesn't even get that she's making an argument to get rid of it
not to keep it she's like well why are you fighting to keep this death tax uh conservative
woman from the heritage foundation i think her name is romina because only a couple of people
pay this thing or whatever okay that's the point the really rich people get out of it it's only the
poor farmer who's got a 5.5 million dollar estate who gets screwed? Am I making sense, Joe?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Now, what does it have to do with Maryland?
Well, Maryland, of course.
Maryland can never leave well enough alone.
Poor, poor.
I really feel bad for my friends up there.
Maryland's like, yeah, yeah.
You're going to double the exemption for the death tax?
Well, don't die in Maryland because we're going to make it,
we're going to lower it to $4 million.
So we're going to get your money.
You want to up it from $5.4 million
to an $11 million deduction?
Well, we got you.
We're going to lower it to $4 million.
Good job, Maryland.
That is a strong, strong move, Maryland.
You guys and ladies in the Maryland state legislature, you far-left radicals, you are wonderful.
That is a great idea.
Joe, what do you think that's going to do?
Let me just set up the question a little better.
Joe lives in the state of Maryland.
Joe, let's say the Dan Bongino show, I mean, really blows up and you and I become fabulously wealthy which we are not now can
we both agree we know you believe me you did we do very well we're not complaining but
if we were to get say 10 20 million downloads of our show a month that's a absurd amount of money
I'm serious folks it's like 50,000 an episode or something gosh it would be ridiculous
now we're not there yet although we're growing pretty good.
I'm confident we'll get there one day.
But Joe and I became fabulously wealthy.
I live in Florida.
Joe lives in Maryland.
Joe now accumulates in a state.
Let's say he buys a ranch in Maryland.
You're like, ranch in Maryland?
Just play the game for a minute.
A year.
Yeah.
This is a perfect time for the Colonel.
So Joe, he becomes super wealthy,
puts his Colonel outfit on.
What is it, the Kentucky Colonels? Is that what the Kentucky
Friends should be? Anything you
like, Dan.
Joe has this massive,
massive estate in Maryland. He
accumulates being producer Joe,
doing his wonderful characters on the show,
and the estate is worth $6 million.
Now, Colonel, you find out that federally now,
it's $11 million, so you're under it.
You're not going to be taxed at all.
But because you live in Maryland,
you will get hammered when you die,
and you can't leave your Colonel estate over to little Joe.
Now, one more stipulation.
Your accountant tells you if you move to Florida, you can give Joe everything.
You're not going to have to pay a confiscatory tax bill.
Colonel, I'm going to give you a second to think about this.
Do you, one, stay in Maryland?
Give you a second to think about that one.
Or, two, do you move to Florida?
I'm getting my ass out of Dodge, Danny.
And Dodge is Maryland.
Yeah, yes. Thank you.
For all the liberals who may have been confused
by Joe's get out of Dodge reference,
he is, of course, talking about Maryland.
We have to talk down sometimes
to people who really don't get it.
Of course, you're going to move to Florida.
But again, Maryland, Joe, thinks this is a genius move, by the way. We're going to get those evil
rich people. No, no, you're not. You're not going to get them. They already dodged federal tax bills.
They are going to leave your state in droves, just like they're leaving New York and everywhere else
and move to a state where they're not going to pay your ridiculous tax bill. Don't be an idiot.
I'm serious. Marilyn, wake up. Come on. Don't be an idiot. I'm serious.
Maryland, wake up.
Come on, don't be stupid.
I really have a lot of emotional ties to the state.
They're going in a pretty decent direction right now with Larry Hogan in charge.
Don't be jerks.
Don't penalize these people.
They're going to get out of there.
All right, folks.
Thanks a lot for tuning in today.
I really appreciate it.
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I'll do it because we'll give them a link.
It's worth reading regardless.
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