The Dan Bongino Show - Ep. 669 This is All a Smokescreen

Episode Date: March 5, 2018

In this episode I address some explosive connections between the Obama team, the Clinton team, and the Russians that are yet to be touched by investigative charges.  These companies are pretending to be nonpartisan while funding partisan organizations.  More ties between Hillary and Russian actors.  This Russian bank has some interesting connections to Skolkovo. Gun laws only impact the good guys. The bad guys don’t care about gun laws. Why are the Democrats panicking about a citizenship question? The Democrats' war on the Electoral College continues.  Copyright CRTV. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Good to be together again there, Agent Bongino. Yeah, I had one of these, like, we struck gold in them darn air hills weekend, you know? I did. I found, I had, by the way, I got a lot of emails from listeners. Thank you for all your feedback on the Tariff Show. Like I said, I read them all and I appreciate all your opinions. You know, this is not a show where I expect you to agree with me on everything. If it was, if it was that kind of show, it'd be a phony show. And what's the point then?

Anybody can lie to you. I'm not going to do that. I appreciate that that but also the feedback on a couple of other things i got some stories that are going to blow your mind today i want to talk a little bit about some striking revelations i had um this weekend from some information that was sent my way on this uh russian fiasco that's interesting i promise you you're going to enjoy this um and also on the democrats war on the uh electoral college and the reason they're trying to uh you know they're trying to overthrow the constitutional republic through a popular vote mandate there's a couple of scams they're pulling all right before we get to that my patriot supply we love these

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toward preparedness don't wait emergencies won't wait for you 888-411-8926 or prepare with dan.com that's prepare with dan.com we love those guys okay uh let me just start quickly with the gun control thing i made a point i want to make up to you all, too, on Tucker's show. And I'll put a little twitchy.com piece up at the show notes today, Bongino.com, that has a clip of it if you want to check out my appearance on Friday night. It got picked up by a lot of different conservative outlets. I was trying to make the point about gun control laws. And I want you to ponder this, folks. I'm really interested in your feedback, especially if you're a liberal listener liberal listener too because i want you to challenge me on this i'm seriously even if you're a conservative

listener i want you to find the holes in this as well because i like being challenged what are the reasons i am so against additional quote gun control laws which is you know there's no such thing as gun control but that's the way the focus group on the left frames it. Because it sounds good. Of course, we all got to control guns, you know, but they don't, guns are not controlled. That's the irony of the situation. Joe, one of the questions I asked, and I'm serious, Joe, don't mess around here with this.

I know you wouldn't anyway, but if you see a hole in what I'm saying, point it out right away. All right. Okay. I made the point on Tucker's show that gun control laws are one of the few laws against the serious crime right robbery burglary rape homicide criminal possession of a weapon that gun control laws are one of the few laws that only affect the good guys but don't affect the bad guys nothing wrong with Okay, now think about what I'm saying here, because the liberals went nuts when I said this.

But it's true. If I mentioned this on the show before, forgive me, but it's worth repeating. Joe, do burglary laws affect you at all? Will they alter your behavior? Hell no. No, because Joe doesn't burglarize homes. Right.

Now, Joe, you know my wife, Paula. Do you think armed robbery laws affect Paula and her behavior at all? Absolutely not. Yes. She would not be a good mugger. I love my wife, but she doesn't have a particularly violent streak. She's also significantly shorter and smaller than me. I doubt she would do very well

in that profession. Folks, most of the laws on the book that are designed to curtail behavior are designed to curtail the bad guy's behavior, not the good guy's behavior. The difference with gun laws, as they're written now, is they do nothing to curtail the bad guys behavior in fact they make it more bad guyish yeah because the bad guys don't get their guns legally the drug dealers the rapists of the the muggers the bird the people involved in armed burglaries uh you know uh forced entries into homes they don't go to the gun store and buy their guns no no no no they don't they don't do that thank you for putting an accent on that they don't they get their guns off the black market so the behavior of the criminal is not affected at all matter of fact the criminal prefers gun

law they don't like burglary laws. Dig it. Dig it. You're right. Burglary laws screw them over because if they get caught, they go to jail. The difference with gun laws and the reason they like gun laws is because, yeah, they're taking on a little risk carrying a gun illegally, but they know they're probably not going to get caught.

They've been carrying it most of their lives, a lot of them. And secondly, they know you, you the good guy will follow the gun laws which in blue states are hyper restrictive which will keep you from carrying a gun so there's a force asymmetry where they get to prey on you the unarmed citizen now a couple people pointed out and fair enough they said well you know what about speeding laws? They affect the law. Yeah, sure. A lot of people do who are generally law abiding citizens would speed. I get it. But I'm not talking about I'm talking about serious stuff, your drug dealing, robbery. And so I'll point stipulated on that. So don't email me that one. I get but I wasn't really talking about speeding infractions.

I'm talking about serious things like burglary, robbery, rape, homicide, forced entry, you know, assault one, assault two, assault three. That's what I was referring to. Those laws don't impact you at all because you don't do that stuff. Yet gun laws in New York, in Maryland, and in California, legitimately legal, I'm speaking about legally i'm not saying constitutional i just mean that they i shouldn't use you can use the term legitimately is this illegitimate but they believe it is keep you factually from owning a firearm while they do nothing to impede the criminal at all challenge me on that and dude there is a market for drugs there's a market for prostitution and let me tell you something pal there is a market for drugs. There's a market for prostitution. And let me tell you something, pal. There is a market for illegal guns.

Oh, is there ever? Big, big time. They're not hard to find, Dano. And they love it because it's what enforces their criminal enterprise. Remember, criminal enterprises are not enforced via contract law. You know, Joe and I have a deal with Conservative Review and Westwood One, and I have a deal with NRA TV. By the way, my show launches tonight, 5.30 Eastern time. So check that out at NRATV.com. But these deals, shameless plug, right? I didn't even mean to do that.

That's all right. But those deals are enforced via contract because Joe and I are law-abiding folks. I mean, you know, if I have a contract with Joe and we have a contract with Westwood, we honor the contract because that's what law-abiding people do. Criminals involved in the drug enterprise and child sex trafficking and internet pornography and robbery rings and car theft rings,

they enforce their laws by violence. Hey, you're going to go steal that car and bring it to me. If you don't, I'm going to shoot you. They don't go, hey, we got a contract, Joe. You're going to steal me five cars and if you break that contract, you're going to go steal that car and bring it to me. If you don't, I'm going to shoot you. They don't go, hey, we got a contract, Joe. You're going to steal me five cars and if you break that contract, I'm going to take you to court. Wait, what? So the entire

premise of a gun law reinforces the black market, reinforces the black market for weapons, and allows criminals to prey freely on you while it doesn't affect them one bit. Folks, it doesn't affect them one bit. Folks, it doesn't affect them one bit. I'm telling you. Watch the clip.

It's up at twitchy.com. I'll have it on the show notes today. And Tucker, I think, got a good laugh out of it because I think he knew what I was saying was true. Folks, it's pathetic. All right, y'all, let me just say, we got a few sponsors today, so I appreciate their support in keeping the

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Let me just preface this by saying, when I say we're the Russians buying off the Clintons, I want to be clear here because I want to be fair on this, folks, too. I've said to you from the start that the Russians play the mutually assured destruction intelligence game. The Russians play the VIG, if you were a bookie. They were playing both sides. They were attempting to influence everybody in the election, the Clinton team, Clinton consiglieres. They were attempting to get involved in everything. The Trump the red this is what they do so anyone who tells you oh that you know the russians were trying to influence the outcome of the election for trump to win i don't believe it the russians were trying to get negative

information on everybody in the election because that's what the russians do right it is mutually assured intelligence destruction no matter who wins here's what i think is going on here though the russian operation to buy off the clintons was so damaging in contrast to russian efforts to donate money to political causes that were in political groups that would support trump joe so just to be clear the russians are buying off both sides with money. The reason the Russian collusion narrative and the Mueller team is necessary is to hide the fact that the Russian influence operation against the Clintons was personally benefiting the Clintons in conjunction for potential decision making she may have made at the State Department while working for the Obama administration. You get what I'm saying, Joe? Yeah. So Trump was not in any kind of political power. We can all agree, folks. Agreed. Trump was a private citizen and a businessman. And however untoward the Russians attempt to donate to political groups that supported Trump to start Facebook ads to support Trump,

even though they supported Facebook ads to support Hillary too. Remember that. If you look at item 53 on the revised indictment against the 13 Russians, the information against the 13 Russians that came out a few weeks ago from Mueller and the special counsel. Remember that, Joe? Yeah. If you look at item 53 in there,

blueberry stuck in my tooth here item 53 is clear as day that the russians supported groups that supported hillary as well they started anti-trump rallies they started pro-trump rallies they started a group called support hillary save american muslims they do it because the russians sow chaos what i'm trying to tell you let's be crystal clear before I move on, because I'm going to give you some complicated but mind-blowing information here. They influence both sides with money and lobbying influence. The problem is the Hillary team and the Obama team needed to cover it up because unlike the Trump team, they had political power and there were questionable decisions made to benefit people who had relayed cash to the Clinton Foundation. Are we clear on that?

Yeah, we're good. We're good. They absolutely had to cover this up because they were the ones in power. And whereas the Trump team, you know, and political groups that may have benefited, maybe in the future we should become more savvy as to where this is coming from, the money. But again, how you do it without quelling free speech is going to be difficult but the clinton team was in trouble and deep trouble because if trump got elected

it was the decisions they made that benefited money people in russia that were going to cause them problems here's what i mean so i've been working all, which is driving my wife crazy because I work all the time. It's driving her nuts. I feel bad. She listens to the show too, so I'm sorry, Paula. I have. I was at it all weekend. Joe knows my wife.

She's great. She's like a blessing to us all here on this show. But she was a little upset because this weekend I was working a lot. And I've been uncovering some shady relationships, and I want to lay them out for you. And I will sum it up. So don't, just remember the names as I always say. There is a bank in Russia. Matter of fact, it's one of their largest banks

called Sberbank, S-B-E-R bank, Sberbank. Not, I was, I'm surprised, Joe. I'm waiting for you. Where am I going? It's too easy. I'm sorry. I know, I know. I just set you up.

I totally, that's why I spelled it that's a S-B-E-R bank there's no M in there and there's no P I know where Joe I see his I know this guy I don't even I've been with this guy so long I knew exactly where he was going with that and I did set myself up it was so shame on damn bungeo spur bank okay there's i can't even i'm done show's over thanks folks i'm in the mood for a filet of fish oh that's gross you're disgusting yes you're a beast okay spur bank so here's the thing with this russian bank it's one of the largest banks spur bank they had a They had $170,000 lobbying contract with the Podesta Group. Now, what was the Podesta Group? The Podesta Group is a lobbying firm, obviously, run by Tony Podesta, who is the brother to John Podesta, who is Hillary Clinton's

right-hand man forever. So just to be clear, one of Russia's largest banks, Spurbank, has this $170,000 contract where they're paying the brother of Clinton's right-hand man, John Podesta, the brother Tony Podesta, they're paying him to lobby on their behalf for their interests. Spurbank is involved in a deal between these two Russian oligarchs. Remember the names? You've heard them before. Intimately involved, Spurbank, in this deal between Oleg Deripaska and Viktor Vekselberg. Now, both of these oligarchs are billionaires and enormous players in Russian politics, intimately connected to the Putin machine over there.

Deripaska and Vekselberg. Now, for those of you who are regular listeners, these names sound familiar. Yeah. So, again, big bank in Russia paying the brother of a Clinton consigliere, Podesta, to lobby for them. The same bank is involved with these two Russian oligarchs in a deal for uh basically you know a merger deal involving a metals company now why am i bringing any of this up because deripaska is intimately involved in this entire russia trump hillary narrative how a number of different ways but here's the important takeaway.

And these are, again, a series of suspicious connections that keep creeping up in this Russia thing that the whole weekend I've been working on this, I've been scratching my head. Deripaska had hired a lobbyist, the guy with the last name of Waldman. This guy, Waldman's lobbying for Deripaska, a guy who is, again, working with this Russian bank, lobbying, paying a lobbyist whose brother is connected to the Clintons. Deripaska is paying this lobbyist. waldman reaches out to a democrat senator waldman and he says hey listen i can basically connect you to christopher steel christopher steel is the british spy who uh produced the fake russian information all right now what are the chances that a lobbyist who's working for a Russian oligarch, connected to a bank, paying a Clinton associate's brother,

what are the chances that happened randomly? Do you understand why I keep telling you I'm absolutely convinced this entire time this Trump thing was a setup? That this was planned out? That none of this was by mistake? So Deripaska pays this uh pays this lobbyist wallman again reaches out to a democrat senator this democrat senator who's connected to mark warner from virginia

this senator he reaches out to mrs hey i can connect you to christopher steel um and can set up this meeting steel of course is getting information he says from russian sources about donald trump did deripaska have anything to do with that now interestingly enough deripaska is involved in this car deal as well and a company that's affronting the car deal magnana, donated between $500,000 to $1 million to who? Oh, the Clinton Foundation. Wow. Yeah.

Okay. That's just another one of those crazy coincidences. Jeez. There's a guy who emailed me. He hates when I do that. He's like, why do you always got to be sarcastic? Sorry. It's just weird how all this stuff always happens. Okay. Right? Isn't it? I mean, he did. He's like, you're not too sarcastic. It's hard to not be sarcastic and sorry it's just it's just weird how all this stuff always happens okay so right

isn't it i mean it's he does he's like you're not sarcastic man it is it is it's hard the point i'm trying to make here is there are connections there are connections between i'm not even done with the road so we're talking about two oligarchs here there are pasca and vexelberg there are pasca from company associated with donate money to the Clinton Foundation. Deripaska is connected to a lobbyist. The lobbyist magically has contact with Christopher Steele, who produces negative information on Trump, and they want to connect him to a Democrat senator. They're also connected to a Russian bank. Russian bank has connections to the brother of John Podesta who is clinton's right-hand man

victor vexelberg who also uh has i mean everybody's connected to this uh russian bank to russia it's it's an enormous bank but these are interesting connections to say the least vexelberg has this group of renova group It donated between 50K and 100K to the Clinton Foundation. Vexelberg, as I pointed out last week, by the way, a project falling under his purview, according to Clinton Foundation emails that were released, was the Skolkovo Project. The Skolkovo Project was the Russian Silicon Valley Project, which the army and our intel of communities acknowledged was just an attempt at espionage to steal trade secrets and i i put a piece in the show notes last week by diana west showing that the skolkovo project at vexelberg fell under his purview according to clinton email

foundation emails may have been responsible for the development of these deadly uh continent killer missiles that putin was just bragging about bragging about in an election speech last week. Now, interestingly enough, 17 of the 28 companies that were going to be involved in this Russian Silicon Valley project called Skolkovo, don't forget that name, also made significant donations to the Clinton Foundation. There's this constant theme of money going from Russia to the Clintons. Yes, and people connected to Russia approaching the Trump team. So Vekselberg also is responsible through at least his companies for getting money over to the Clinton Foundation.

What is the point I'm trying to make here? The point I'm trying to make is whereas Russian money unquestionably made it into the United States on both sides, the money that made it to the Democrat side influenced the Democrats because they were in power or at a minimum could have influenced the Democrats. Vekselberg's involved with Skolkovo. Skolkovo needs Hillary Clinton to advocate for as secretary of state and the obama administration 17 to 28 companies involved in skolkovo which it already joe we acknowledge right skolkovo's the army and intel reports already acknowledge that this is likely attempted espionage only yep in other words hey companies bring all your technology to russia by

the way we're going to steal it it may have been responsible for the development of these missiles Putin's bragging about. I think the Obama team, I don't think, I know. I think the Obama administration and the Hillary team knew the entire time that if they lost, that this was going to be disastrous. I also think Russians knew that as well and did not want this information out. think Russians knew that as well and did not want this information out. Now, the Mueller team, I find it awfully interesting right now that the Bob Mueller special counsel team is focusing at least up to this point. And if I'm proven wrong, I will come out on this show and say it, Joe. But this is why i'm absolutely convinced the bob muller team bob muller who was the fbi director when the iranian one sale went down by the way

is covering up everything that happened for them using the special counsel investigation in other words they are going to focus on the influence and the monetary influence uh the excuse me monetary influence on the trump team they're going to leave all together out of it all of the money that exchanged hands and went over to the clinton foundation and that was used to influence the clintons through lobbying through waldman and through the pedestrian group why because up to this point joe where's the investigation into the Podesta Group? In other words, the Podesta Group had a partner in this. I don't know if you know who it is. The Podesta Group's partner was Paul Manafort in a lot of this lobby, who was Trump's campaign manager.

Manafort is now unquestionably under investigation, has been indicted. But Manafort's partner in a lot of these financial dealings was the Podesta group now if there's an investigation going on there to these connections okay fine that's that's great there should that should happen if we're really looking to investigate Russian influence in U.S. politics why isn't the Podesta group being investigated too this is why I'm becoming more convinced Joe by the day that this muller thing is just a smoke screen to say hey let's focus on the money that made it over to the trump side but let's not pay attention to any of the heavy duty dollars that traded hands on the um on the democrat side as

well now i've got some i'd do another thing that broke this weekend that ties into last week's show. I'm going to get to that in a second because I want to... I saw an interesting tweet this weekend. Someone sent it over to me and I appreciate it. The gist of the tweet was this. Don't you find it odd

that the very same law firm, Perkins Coie, that hired CrowdStrike to blame the Russians for hacking the DNC. The very same law firm also hired Fusion GPS to find evidence of collusion between Trump and Russia. Folks, this was a setup. The entire time, the Clinton and Obama team knew money had changed hands between the Clinton Foundation, the Podesta Group, money, car deals, aluminum deals, Skolkovo, Spurbank.

All of this money is slushing around in the Democrat power centers, the Clinton Foundation. Hillary Clinton's the Secretary of State. The Obama administration's in power. Uranium One's approved. Skolkovo, there's influence operations to get us to transfer our technology to Skolkovo. Hypersonic missiles are developed afterwards. The Army Intelligence Office,

excuse me, outfit itself, says, listen, this is a bad deal, Skolkovo. It's an espionage effort. But the companies involved in Skolkovo donate to the Clinton Foundation. They ought to hide this. They need a special counsel. But the only way to get a special counsel, Joe,

if I lose you, stop me. The only way to get a special counsel is to set the narrative. So the Democrats launder their money through Perkins Coie, a law firm they don't pay for any of this directly perkins cooey also gets money from the obama for organizing for america operation which is obama is the remnant of his campaign are seven hundred thousand dollars goes to them the clinton team pays them significant sums of money per Perkins Coie. This very same law firm needs to blame the Russians.

So they hire a, they don't let the FBI come in and analyze the so-called DNC hack. And I say so-called because there's no evidence so far convincing me or anyone else in law or law enforcement or former law enforcement that DNC was in fact hacked. We know Podesta was caught up in a phishing scheme and no one has produced evidence that the dnc was hacked why because the fbi has never looked at the computers they won't let them in the dnc won't even let buzzfeed in now in response to a lawsuit buzzfeed wants to see the evidence too to protect itself uh because they're being sued for publicizing the dossier. Why won't the DNC let them in?

They needed a special counsel. Please follow me, folks. To get a special counsel, they needed a story. To get a story, they had to invent one. So they invented the story that the DNC was hacked by the Russians, but they couldn't let the FBI come in because they couldn't recreate a hack

by the Russians that didn't happen. The FBI is not going to play that game. Listen, the FBI has a lot of problems, okay? They were not going to play that game. So what do they do? Perkins Coie, the law firm that's intimately involved with organizing for America, the Obama former campaign arm, the DNC and Hillary Clinton, hires CrowdStrike. What's CrowdStrike?

CrowdStrike's founder, this guy Alperovitch, sits on the Atlantic Council. The Atlantic Council, who else sits on the Atlantic Council? Evelyn Farkas. The same assistant, though, is a deputy secretary of defense who won on MSNBC. We played the audio a thousand times after the election and basically said, hey, the Trump team didn't know

how we had all this information about them in Russia. But, you know, we had to let people on the Hill know. Yeah. Crowd Strike's founder sits on this Atlantic Council board with her. And who founded

CrowdStrike, by the way? A guy named Victor Pinchuk who's donated substantial sums of money to who? The Clinton Foundation. They needed a story. They needed a special council

because they knew money had exchanged hands on both sides. They knew they could dirty up the Trump team with a special counsel as long as they had a story. They knew the money on the Democrat side was going to be ugly. They knew they had to hide it.

The way to hide it is to get a special counsel and get a lead special counsel investigator who, by the way is not clean on this in other words not clean and that he doesn't have some involvement he was not he should have been a a non-partisan lawyer from outside of the dc swamp who could have evaluated this case without any interest involved but muller was the fbi director when uranium one went down there was no way muller could be impartial they needed someone to sweep this under the rug and by sweeping it under the rug i mean focus exclusively on russian collusion it didn't happen therefore people don't pay attention to the collusion that did happen

between the democrats and the russians so they hire crowd strike to come in and say hey fellas wink wink nod nod um you know we're gonna need a story here we're gonna need a story i mean can we say the russians hacked it the russians hacked the dnc well did they they may have nobody knows the fbi never looked at it. But it's just awfully interesting that CrowdStrike's owned by a guy that sits on this Atlantic Council with the same woman from the Obama administration that went on MSNBC basically talking about how they had all this information on the Russians and Trump and spread it around at Capitol Hill, potentially violating the law by leaking it. Pretty amazing how that happens.

And now the founder of CrowdStrike is a big Clinton Foundation donor. So the same law firm, Joe, that sets it up and says, hey, CrowdStrike, come in here, you're going to analyze the computers. CrowdStrike conveniently comes out and goes, oh, the Russians did it.

It's also the same law firm that hires fusion gps who then mysteriously air quotes finds information on right on trump colluding with the russians through christopher steel and the dossier steel by the way who's connected to a lobbyist who's connected to a russian oligarch who also at one point tried to influence the political process through donations to the Clinton Foundation? Let me ask you the question I started off with again. Were the Russians buying off the Clintons? Did Obama know about it?

And did they cover it up? Now, hot tip to my buddy Caleb and other people who sent this to me. I don't know how I missed this, but when I do, I got gotta you know i i sometimes i need a mulligan from you folks i had actually covered this article before and missed it i wasn't brain dead on friday i was actually quite frosty uh i just uh with so much going on i don't know how i missed it on friday i had asked the question this is going to tie into the second part of this. Did Obama know about the Russians buying off the Clintons? And did they cover it up? The answer to did they cover

it up, I believe is going to be the Mueller Special Investigation Special Counsel is the effort to cover this up. Oh, look at Trump. Don't look at what's going on over here. And they knew Mueller would do that. I've got more evidence for that in a second. But covering part two of this, did Obama know about it? I had said to you on Friday while covering the new revelations about the Loretta Lynch emails

and how she was using a fake name as the attorney general Elizabeth Carlyle she was using a DOJ account but a fake name and how the Obama administration has been caught by this multiple times. The EPA administrator, Lisa Jackson, had the Richard Windsor account at EPA. They were using fake names. They were using fake names to avoid FOIA requests, Freedom of Information Act requests. Because if I get a Freedom of Information Act request for Joe Armacost's emails, and he works at the Secret Service, and Joe's using a fake name, you know, Tony Bag of Donuts, I'm not going to find emails about Joe Armacost because he's email you know Tony Bag of Donuts I'm not going to find emails about Joe Armacost because he's emailing his Tony Bag of Donuts and I had said to you on Friday

as I've been repeatedly saying the key to this whole thing is going to be discovering what Obama's involvement via electronic mail, email you know messaging through non traditional mailitional mail, obviously. It's going to be that footprint, that data footprint, that is going to implicate potentially the Obama team and Obama himself in all of this.

Obama has claimed a presidential communications privilege to avoid those emails being exposed. We haven't seen them yet, but we know others have. I'm going to put a piece from Politico in the show to say, please read it about Obama's fake email account. Again, how I missed it, I'm not sure, but shame on me. Read the piece of Politico. It's an older piece. I have other right-leaning sources. I'd rather you read this one.

Why, Joe? It entirely refutes the left-leaning argument that, oh, you guys are conspiracy theorists. Really? It's Politico? Politico, a left-leaning... I'm just going to include the Politico piece to knock out any BS from jokers on the left

who think I'm making this up. Challenge Politico to rescind their piece then. The Politico piece is about Obama using a fake name on emails to communicate with Hillary Clinton. And apparently during an FBI interview, Huma Abedin, another Clinton consigliere, is shown one of these emails

and informed that it is in fact Barack Obama. I don't know what the pseudonym was. Joe Smith, who knows? But Huma Abedin feigned surprise. Joe, oh my gosh, this is Obama. This should be classified. I'm not so sure Huma didn't know who that was. Why am I telling you any of this?

Because now that we can establish there were a series, series meaning more than one, right? A series of fake names being used under the Obama administration to communicate amongst private email accounts in the case of Hillary and government email accounts under fake names, Lisa Jackson, Loretta Lynch, now Barack Obama. I strongly believe that those emails from Hillary to Obama may have some mention of the involvement of Perkins Coie, the law firm, the very same law firm, by the way, that received money from Organizing for America, the Obama campaign arm, or what was left of it from the dnc from hillary and the same law firm that hired crowd strike to magically think up this russian uh russian hack information on the dnc and who also hired fusion gps to find evidence of collusion until we see the obama emails matter of fact you know what i'll just read to you just quickly from this Politico piece. This is cool. In an April 5th, 2016 interview with the FBI, Huma Abedin was shown an email exchange between Clinton and Obama, but the longtime Clinton aide did not recognize the name of the sender. Are we sure about that? Once informed that the sender's name is believed to

be a pseudonym used by the president, Abedin exclaimed, how is this not classified? The report says. Abedin then expressed her amazement at the president's use of a pseudonym used by the president, Abedin exclaimed, how is this not classified? The report says. Abedin then expressed her amazement at the president's use of a pseudonym and asked if she can have a copy of the email. The State Department has refused to make public that and other emails Clinton exchanged with Obama. Lawyers have cited the presidential communications privilege, a variation of executive privilege, in order to withhold the messages under the Freedom of Information Act. Now, why the heck would they do that because if they claim executive privilege folks they have to acknowledge that the information was in fact classified that barack obama was

exchanging classified information with hillary clinton over a private email server and he must have knew about it because the email he was sending the information to was not a state.gov one. Ew. Folks, this thing is so ugly. And again, my sincere apologies because I have a lot of respect for the audience and I listen to your feedback. I take it all into account.

I appreciate the thoughtful emails. And by the way, I really appreciate the people who disagree with me and do it. Some people disagree and just get nasty and there's no reason for that. I way, I really appreciate the people who disagree with me and do it. Some people disagree and just get nasty and there's no reason for that. I mean, I really mean it. I really appreciate your emails.

I like to be challenged. Matter of fact, there were a lot of good people who challenged me on the tariffs on Friday. Some had some good points, but some were just like, you're a jerk. You don't know what you're talking about.

All right, all right, whatever. I'm sorry. I mean, I appreciate you being here. And you know what? That's the price of admission. You can call me a jerk. The right, all right, whatever. I'm sorry. I mean, I appreciate you being here. And you know what? That's the price of admission. You can call me a jerk. The show is free, whatever. But I appreciate that.

And I'm sorry for going, keep constantly going back. But this case is so dirty that the more information creeps up on it, the more I'm absolutely 100,000% convinced that the special counsel is a smoke screen to avoid all of this coming out that's why they don't want to give this up despite the fact joe that i saw polling this weekend that showed that the trump russian collusion fake story fake news story on voter concerns was like i don't even know what it was 19 out of 20 yeah it was pretty low i saw

it too so you have to say to yourself democrat folks they are smart politically don't even know what it was. 19 out of 20? Yeah, it was pretty low. I saw it too. So you have to say to yourself, Democrats, folks, they are smart politically. Believe me. You may be wrong politically, which they are. But don't for a second think they're stupid. They are not. The Democrats know exactly what they're doing, okay? The Democrats, you have to ask yourself,

why the hell are the Democrats still painfully sticking to this Trump-Russia story despite the fact that they know voters don't care anymore? Because, folks, the Mueller thing is a smokescreen. And the minute the smoke dissipates and the Clinton-Obama-Russia connections I told you about, Spurbank, Skolkovo, Deripaska, Vexelberg, all of the money that exchanged hands to influence them in exchange for decisions that's important or else why hire a lobbyist joe right yeah by the way the same lobbyist who has a connection to christopher steel who generated negative information on trump once that smoke clears and that comes up

they are going to be they're finished they're not going to be able to run they need the smoke screen now here's the reason i'm talking about this again something else happened this weekend and i answered one of my own questions which i always love oh here we go getting texts all this happens during the show people text me all the time can you do this can you do that no i can't do my show you know that uh before i get to that though something happened this weekend and i really want you to understand how deep this goes. It involves a meeting, and a meeting I asked the audience a question on with the United Arab Emirates and the Trump team. Now things are starting to make sense. Something broke this weekend. All right. Today's show also brought to you by our buddies at Filter By. We love Filter

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head of the nsa he goes up to trump tower about 10 days after the election and he briefs trump i'm convinced in briefing, he gives Trump a warning in some fashion about the spying operation that's been going on on him the entire time and his team. And I believe he thinks there's some improprieties in it. Why? Because right after that meeting, the Obama team re-ups their calls for Rogers to step down, which is bizarre. Obama's leaving office in a couple months. Why the hell does he care if Rogers steps down or not? It's just bizarre that he makes a point to go after Rogers, and so do other people in the DC swamp who are affiliated at a high level with the Obama team.

So if Rogers did in fact tell Trump that there was a spying operation going on, it's interesting that the next day, Trump evacuates Trump Tower and goes up to Bedminster to hold his meetings up there. Now, I want to be clear on this. Having been involved in government surveillance, officially, not like the Obama team,

which did it under the guise of it being official, there were not physical bugs, I don't believe, in Trump Tower, nor were there alligator clips on the lines going into Trump Tower. The surveillance, it doesn't work that way anymore, folks. These surveillance works on transatlantic cables. Basically, if the government wants to find your communications, they don't need to go to your house and put an alligator clip on your phone line. Okay, just to be crystal clear. They don't need to do any of that.

They basically just need to go to a FISA court and get a warrant, or in some cases, just go to a criminal court and get a warrant. It's not hard. But it is interesting that they left Trump Tower, and I've speculated often, sometimes on the show,

sometimes not in various forms, because I've been thinking this through, as to why they would decamp Trump Tower. Because it's clear. Like I said, Joe, that there weren't bugs in the walls and there weren't specific phone lines in that place that were tapped. Everything's tapped.

It's the way it works. The communications coming in and out of the country and all over can be tapped by the NSA. I don't have an easy answer for you, but one of the answers I I've been kicking around is maybe it was just the idea that they could better control who was coming in and out, who was watching them, and potentially some other form of signal interception. If they were in Bedminster, New Jersey, in a country club rather than in downtown Manhattan, where seriously, I mean, hundreds of thousands of people using non-sophisticated equipment could probably listen in so they probably said listen let's not take the chance let's get the hell out of dodge here and let's go up to bedminster where we can better control it makes sense joe we can better control who's

around we can better control who's on the facility i mean seriously in trump tower you probably could have stood across the street in an office building with some sensitive equipment and maybe intercepted some stuff okay so trump said probably said listen let's get out of here but what puzzled me a little bit is it was a meeting in january obviously after november the following january not you know in january after the november meeting where i believe trump has warned about this the spying there's a meeting in trump tower between mike Flynn, Bannon, a couple more folks, and the United Arab Emirates. And I'd said to you, and I've been trying to crowdsource this, why would they do it there? It doesn't make sense if they still thought that it would be relatively

easy to do that. I don't have an easy answer for you there. I don't know. Maybe they figured the SCIF was up. The SCIF is a sensitive compartmentalized information facility, which it probably was. The White House Communications Agency, which works in conjunction with the Secret Service, they fall into the military, they're military folks. They put up SCIFs for the president, basically everywhere he goes, so he can talk in private, not have to worry about being intercepted by everything from basic listening devices to complicated ones, okay? So the SCIF may have been up and they may have gone back there,

but it was that meeting with the UAE in January that piqued my interest. Something came up today. I was watching Fox this morning after researching this UAE thing all weekend. And I was like, ah, Eureka. There it is. So the Mueller team, which broke this morning, the Mueller team is now investigating the transfer of money from the United Arab Emirates, excuse me, to the Trump team

because they're looking at a potential influence operation from another foreign government. Wow. Are we back at the Logan Act again? Folks, remember what I told you in last week's show. It's that meeting. The reason that January meeting with the UAE is important, folks, is because that's the meeting

susan rice obama's national security advisor that's the meeting she uses as an excuse to unmask all of these trump people they've been surveilling ah she says hey joe i shouldn't tell joe this but if she was in the room here here's what she told people. She said, well, the United Arab Emirates came to the country, didn't tell Obama they were coming here. He was still president. Trump was only president-elect, even though he was going to be president in days. Yeah. And we felt that that was awfully suspicious, so we spied on everyone. You think Mueller's trying to cover something else up now do you think potentially that

unmasking operation around this meeting with the uae which by the way could have been completely entirely legitimate that the obama team is sweating their cojones off right now because they know they had no legal justification to unmask the people involved in that meeting. That they did it. And now they're like, hey, hint, Bob. The UAE may have donated money to some Republican PAC somewhere that went to Trump. Let's go into that, too. Smoke screen. Smoke screen.

Pop the smoke, folks. The green smoke. There you go. Don't look behind the smoke. Now, I'm not saying. I'm just saying. As my buddy in New York used to smoke now i'm not saying i'm just saying as my buddy in new york you say i'm not saying i'm just in a yogi bearism for the decades i'm not saying i'm just saying if muller is going to use again the logan act here as a premise for opening this part of the investigation into this meeting. Ladies and

gentlemen, we got a serious problem. We have a special counsel that is entirely rogue and out of control. Now, why would I say that? Because remember, the Logan Act was the entire operating principle the Obama administration used to target Mike Flynn. The

Logan Act, which says private citizens can't intervene with foreign governments in official matters, basically. The Logan Act is not serious. It's only serious when the Democrats need to target Republicans. Nobody in the history of the United States has ever been prosecuted using the Logan Act. It is questionably constitutional at best. Folks, it has never been taken seriously ever. It is the jaywalking of federal crimes, but people have actually been convicted of jaywalking, I'm sure. So it's even worse because nobody has ever been convicted of the Logan Act. I can't say this enough.

If the Logan Act was real, Jimmy Carter would be in jail. Dennis Rodman would be in jail for going to North Korea. The list goes on and on. Jesse Jackson would be in jail. Dennis Rodman would be in jail for going to North Korea. The list goes on and on. Jesse Jackson would be in jail. Jane Fonda would be in jail for going to Vietnam. The Logan Act is not serious. It's a farcical law. But they needed an excuse to target Flynn and the Trump team. So when Flynn had the call with the Russian ambassador and couldn't accurately remember the conversation for reasons I've already described in prior shows, there was nothing wrong with that. But in order to interview Flynn and to set him up for a false statements

charge, they needed a reason to interview him. And the reason was going to be the Logan act. I'm suggesting to you now that Logan act was a smokescreen because they wanted to hammer Mike Flynn because they needed a scalp to collect on the Trump team. I'm suggesting to you now that on this UAE thing that this is going to come up again now and that the entire premise behind Mueller looking into the United Arab Emirates and their money into the United States is not going to be to operate on the premise that they influenced the Trump team or didn't influence the Trump team.

It is going to be another Logan acting. Look, they met with Flynn. What did they talk about at that meeting? That's why that's why the Rice and Obama team unmasked and basically spied on the Trump team. Folks, everything here is a smokescreen the whole time. So just to be clear, to wrap this up, because I want one more quick thing I want to get to here.

Mueller's smokescreen number one. Money has changed hands significant amounts between Russian oligarchs, the Clinton Foundation, front companies these Russian oligarchs were involved in. On multiple deals, Uranium One, the Opal Car deal, the Skolkovo project. Uranium One involved the transfer of our uranium to a known sworn enemy. Control of it at a minimum. The German car deal. The Opel deal. Again, a Russian oligarch involved.

The Skolkovo project. Our own intelligence communities acknowledge it was a Russian espionage effort. The Clintons were involved in all of this and the players gave them money. They need a smoke screen. The smoke screen is if we get a special investigation into Trump, they can look into Trump and it'll distract everybody from what we did. How would the Clintons know about a special investigation and a special counsel? How would they know that would work? Because they were the subject of a special investigation to the independent counsel as well. They know exactly how damaging it can be, exactly how it can get off track, and exactly how it can take up the entire national attention span. Remember Monica Lewinsky and Kenneth Starr. take up the entire national attention span.

Remember Monica Lewinsky and Kenneth Starr. That was not an investigation into Monica Lewinsky. That was an investigation into the Whitewater land deal that morphed into five or six different things. The Clintons have firsthand experience of how a special investigation can be a smokescreen for Trump, for them using the Trump investigation, in other words. Because they know it'll go all over the place because they were victims of it too.

I shouldn't say victims of it. They were involved in whitewater. I'm just saying they were on the receiving end of an independent council, which is different than a special council, but similar kind of effects now. So what do they do? In order to hide all this Russian money

going to the Clinton Foundation, they have to hire a law firm, the law firm to shuttle money, to hide their money. Law firm hires a company, a company connected to a number of Democrats in the Obama administration through donors and board members. They invent this Russian hacking narrative. They then hire a Fusion GPS to hire aish spy to then confirm the russian collusion russian hacking narrative and blame it on trump secondly the unmasking scandal so first the money changing they have to hide the money changing which is interesting because the gospel this weekend was about the money changers you heard that yes one of my favorite ones yeah mine too

i love it that jesus got got a little salty with them. Turn it over those money tables. Let those doves go. I love that. It was great. It's one of my favorites too. See, me and you think alike. But the first is to hide the money changing.

The second, Joe, the second is to hide the unmasking. And when I say the second, I mean the second reason for the Mueller Special Counsel. Hide the unmasking no matter what. We can't have the American people know the Obama team is spying. Where did we start unmasking? Or were we heavily involved in unmasking, publicly known now? That UAE meeting in January. Oh, Bob Mueller, conveniently, now he's investigating the United Arab Emirates

and their money sent into the United States to allegedly influence the Trump team. Bizarre how that happens. Folks, I'm telling you, this whole thing is a damn smokescreen. And I guarantee you, they're going to use a Logan Act premise again. They're going to say, oh, the UAE, were they bargaining

before Trump was president with Mike Flynn? It's not done. It's not done. Okay, I just want to get to this too because I have a really good story from the Daily Signal. Mike Flynn. It's not done. It's not done. Okay. I just want to get to this too, because I have a good, really good story from the daily signal at bungino.com and at the show notes today.

So please check them out. Bungino.com. Please subscribe to my email list as well. And by the way, one more quick thing, please don't forget to tune in tonight. I'm sorry to hammer you with it, but I really appreciate if you would to NRA tv.com five 30.

So it's going to be a casual show, kind of like this different topics, some, some some crossover but i have my buddy grant stinchfield on it'll be a lot of fun so check it out tonight how long does the show run dan uh it's about 25 30 minutes the nice part about is i'm flexible with it so once once uh we make some other announcements about some other shows it's going to be a hard 30 minutes but right now i like to kind of play around a little bit so you know me cool um so this is more on uh representative democracy going on right now first story i have up at the show notes today is the department of justice is trying to reinstate the census question are you a citizen the democrats are losing their minds why would they be losing their minds because the democrats

don't want citizens only counted in the census. Why? Because large portions of non-citizens, people here illegally, they want them counted as well, because where do they happen to live, Joe? Blue states, like Maryland and New York, Illinois, Chicago, especially sanctuary cities. So if they can get the population counts up, they can get what? They can get more members of Congress representing blue states to vote for blue state causes. So that's the war on the representative democracy, number one. War number two, the war on the electoral college. The electoral college, of course, is a system where

you get electors, presidential electors. You have to get 270 of them to win the presidency, 270. In order to get 270, a number of states have different systems on how they choose electors. There are two states that dedicate them proportionally. I think it's Nebraska and Maine. The other 48, it's winner take all. So Florida, you have 27 House of Representatives members and two members of the Senate, of course, which is standard for every state. So you have 29 presidential electors from Florida. You need 270 to win. The Democrats, Joe, are engaged in a lawsuit now. This is unbelievable. They want all the states to dump their winner-take-all electorals. In other words, Florida, if you win the popular vote in Florida, in other words, if you get the popular vote in florida in other

words if you get one more vote in florida than you needed to get the presidential candidate gets all of those 29 electoral votes okay the democrats want this broken up proportionally so in other words if he got the votes in the jacksonville area and that congressional district that one presidential elector goes to hillary why do they want that? Because who controls the population centers, Joe? The big cities. Right. Democrats. Democrats.

So they don't want a winner-take-all system. They don't want a state to be represented. They want the cities to be represented. Yes. Secondly, so they're trying to dump the electoral college winner-take-all system. Secondly, they're trying to dump the electoral college to an end around the Constitution by creating a state compact. I've told you about this before. This is really dangerous. This is what they want. They don't want states represented in their interest. They want the city population

centers, California, New York, to run the whole country. Their second prong of attack on the Electoral College is a state compact for 270, meaning once they can get states that would lean blue, because only blue states would subscribe to this show, to agree that the winner of the national, not the state, popular vote. Remember, Florida has 29 electoral votes. Determined by who won Florida,

not who won the national popular vote. Remember, Al Gore won the national popular vote. George Bush got Florida because he won florida by the way it's not in dispute liberals i can do a whole show on that but don't be silly please okay you get what i'm saying joe there are now the democrats are pushing for blue states that equal 270 electoral votes to make joe a wink and a nod agreement, a state compact,

that all of those states will vote for the win, all of their electors, winner take all, which is the opposite of what they want the other way. Uh-huh. If they can't get,

remember, if the Democrats can't get one way to destroy the Constitutional Republic, they'll take another one. Yeah. They want these states to agree, do a handshake agreement, that those states will vote for the winner of the national popular vote.

Well, what would that do, Joe? It would throw the electoral college out the window. Because whoever won the national popular vote would win those 270 states. It wouldn't matter who won the electoral college. It would only be a popular vote election. The Democrats hate a constitutional republic. They want a direct democracy because they want the rule of the minority. I'm not talking about racial categories. I mean, the minority of people that support their causes, they want that to

overrule the majority. And that's how they do it. They do may say, well, how's that? You're asking for a national popular vote. Folks, there are different states. There are different states. There are different localities with different interests throughout the country. Some of those interests may in fact be majority interests despite being the minority of the people. You may have agricultural interests, but as a matter of fact, and think about the simple reason this is, cities are dense population centers. So if you move to a city, does that mean, you know, that the national government should finance the subway system in New York and should do absolutely nothing to finance a road between, you know, Texas and Louisiana? They're talking about interest. It's a way for minority interest to overrule the majority. Big trouble. All right, folks, thanks again for tuning in. I really

appreciate it. Hope you like the show. Go to Bongino.com. Check out the articles today. I got another interesting article, by the way, about Spur Bank in there, which makes Joe laugh, and their connection to Skolkovo as well, how they wanted the big, big interest in there and had a data processing center, the same bank where Tony Podesta was paid at the Podesta Group as a lobbyist. Go check it out. I'll see you all later. You just heard the Dan Bongino Show. the group as a lobbyist. Go check it out. I'll see you all later.