The Dan Bongino Show - Ep. 699 The One Name You Haven’t Heard in This Scandal

Episode Date: April 16, 2018

Summary: In this episode I connect the dots on a potentially explosive angle in the Mueller probe. I also cover the most disturbing portions of the Jim Comey ABC interview and a recent survey that exposes the failures of blue states.    News Picks: This piece debunks the myth that Obama is responsible for the Trump economy.   Seven reasons Jim Comey is in deep trouble.    Did Jim Comey just throw Obama and Lynch under the bus?   Don’t forget this older piece about a sweetheart deal extended to a major player in the Hillary email investigation.    New study finds that red states are crushing blue states in economic opportunity.    The end of this piece has some quotes from me about the podcast.    A devastating piece about the Clintons, the Ukrainians, and the Bidens.    Joe Biden’s son gets a cushy job with a Ukrainian company.    Shortly after Joe Biden travels to Ukraine.   After that, the same council, funded in part by Pinchuk, a Ukrainian, signs a cooperation agreement with the same company Biden’s son is working with.   Copyright CRTV. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

get ready to hear the truth about america on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host dan bongino all right welcome to the damn bongino show joe how are you today i'm doing good what a busy news weekend yeah nothing to talk about folks slow news weekend uh thanks for tuning in to the damn bongino show my. We were going to do a special show this weekend, Joe and I. But candidly, folks, I didn't know what to talk about. There were so many stories. Syria, McCabe, Comey, so much stuff. I'm like, you know what?

Let's just save it for Monday because we'll wind up doing two or three special shows. But I'm going to talk to Joe later about doing a something outside project here with podcasting. You all might be interested. I haven't even mentioned. I was like, what are you talking about? I'll get to that in a little while. Yeah, it's interesting. A new idea I have.

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We love these guys. So I've got some, you know, I hate to overuse terms because it sounds hyperbolic, but some seriously explosive connections that I'm going to make for you today that you are not going to want to miss. Joe, I have not rehearsed these with you at all. Nope. But a hat tip to my co-author on my book, Denise McAllister, for uncovering a connection I have missed the entire time.

And it's going to blow your mind. But before we get to that, I'm not trying to keep you in suspense. I do have to get to Comey last night. Comey just completely discredited himself in the FBI last night. He came off like a petty child. Joe, one part I discussed this on Fox & Friends this morning I thought was particularly telling about the Comey interview. And Joe and I have to get up early, so, you know, it's tough.

You're kind of watching it with, like, one eye open. So, you know, we both get up early to do our day to get up at 5 for Fox & Friends. But one of the things he said, which was so petty, was that after the Trump— it's clear he dislikes Trump. That after his meetings with Trump, he would go home and he would memorialize them in these memos, which there's nothing inherently wrong about, I guess, except for the fact that he shared the memos that may have contained classified information with the media. He shared, he literally leaked them to the media. It's not, you know, he admitted to it under oath.

That's disturbing enough. What was particularly disturbing is he didn't seem to have replicated that same behavior with Barack Obama. Now, I get it that a lot of the liberals will say, well, Dan, you're making our point. You're making the point that Comey didn't trust Barack Obama. Excuse me, Comey didn't trust Trump and trusted Obama. Folks, what leads you? I don't understand. Clearly, the Obama administration was implicated in a unbelievably complex and disturbing scandal to spy on their political opponents. They had a history of corrupt activities, including the IRS scandal, Fast and Furious, the GAO scandal, the VA scandal.

So Jim Comey felt no need whatsoever to memorialize his meetings with Donald Trump there. Excuse me, Barack Obama, forgive me. But then with Donald Trump, every time they speak, he goes home like a little kid, Joe. Like I said this morning, like a kid who rats on his brother because he got gum in his hair, right? He got, look at this. Let me put this memo down.

Oh, by the way, let me leak it to my media friends. What a petty, small guy. For a guy who's 6'8 and portrays himself as some giant of integrity, some virtuous white knight. He strikes me, Joe, as one of those... You know what I want to say here. I saw these guys in the Secret Service. One guy specifically in the Secret Service

used to drive me crazy. I didn't know him personally, but I knew people who did. And he used to portray himself as the perfect agent. Like, I looked apart, I act I knew people who did. And he used to portray himself as like the perfect agent. Like, I looked apart. I act apart. I talked apart.

Get, you know, GT blank go. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Get lost, brother. Please, with the ego. This is what Comey strikes me as. One of these guys who looks at the mirror in himself every day and is like, look at me. Hey, look at that.

Now, there is the example of the ultimate male, like Thunderlip. Narcissism, man. Exactly. Narcissist himself, right? Staring at himself in the water, reflection. This is Jim Comey staring at himself in the mirror. Now, I got a couple of things I want to hit from it that are important. We have a cut from the interview, because this confirms,

not that I'm trying to pat myself on the back here, but confirms something I told you a long time ago on the show. I didn't go back and research the show. It doesn't matter. But a long time ago, I had said to you and Joe,

I said, folks, listen, make no mistake. Comey's decisions in this entire operation were his decisions on the email investigation, his decisions on the email investigation, his decisions on the Trump team. Because a lot of people said,

no, he was trying to hurt Hillary. I'm not setting this up right. A lot of folks who are trying to defend Comey, Joe, will say, oh, look, he was such a bipartisan actor. He didn't care that he was hurting Hillary by giving that July 5th press conference. And even though he exonerated her, which he wasn't authorized to do was hurting hillary by giving that july 5th press conference and even though he exonerated her which he wasn't authorized to do he's not a prosecutor he laid out all this negative information therefore he was a bipartisan actor joe and he was looking to hurt hillary

you see what i'm saying liberals are trying to give him credibility now because he's attacking trump by saying oh no it's a fair attack because he attacked Hillary, too. Look, he gave that July 5th press conference. And even though he said that they wouldn't prosecute, which was not his job to do that, or wouldn't recommend prosecution, that he laid out damning information that hurt Hillary. Point number two the liberals make, that, oh, Comey's a fair actor. He hurt Hillary, too. And we should listen that, oh, Comey's a fair actor. He hurt Hillary too, and we should listen to him on Trump, was his reopening of the Hillary email investigation 10 days before the election. Now, I had said to you in a prior episode, and don't ever forget

this. This is a critical takeaway. Jim Comey has entirely discredited himself. Remember this, Joe? Giving me the thumbs up. Yeah, that came right to mind when I heard this. Yeah, when I told you to get that cut. The reason Comey did all of that, laid out all that negative information on Hillary, and reopened the investigation 10 days before, is because he entirely understood that Hillary was going to win the election. He was a Hillary fan.

He wanted to either continue on, become the Attorney General. So what he was doing was he was laying out the information before the election. Folks already assuming Hillary was going to win in an effort to legitimize what would otherwise become an illegitimate presidency if he didn't clear the deck beforehand. Does that make sense to you? Please digest what I'm telling you. Because it's critical to understanding Comey's motivations. I'll play the cut in a minute

and I'll confirm what I told you six months ago. He understands, because he's the FBI director, that there is a basically binder full of information on Hillary that is devastating on the email case and on other things. He gives these press conferences before the election not to hurt Hillary. Don't believe the liberal myth. Oh, he's a bipartisan actor. Look, he hurt Hillary too. He's doing it to clear the deck for her later on. So when she becomes president, they can say, oh, we already talked about that stuff. The voters took it into account and it didn't matter. Does that make sense? the deck for her later on. So when she becomes president, they can say, oh, we already talked

about that stuff. The voters took it into account and it didn't matter. Does that make sense? Yeah. Now, yeah. In case you didn't believe me six months ago, wasn't the decision to reveal influenced by your assumption that Hillary Clinton was going to win and you're concerned that she wins. This comes out several weeks later and then that's taken by her opponents to sign that she's an illegitimate president. It must have been. I don't remember consciously thinking about that, but it must have been because I was operating in a world where Hillary Clinton was going to beat Donald Trump. And so I'm sure that it that it was a factor. Like I said, I don't remember spelling

it out, but it had to have been that that she's going to be elected president and if i hide this from the american people she'll be illegitimate the moment she's elected the moment this comes out okay there it is uh from the horse's mouth i i told you jim comey was not trying to hurt hillary clinton stop telling people that jim Comey was exclusively trying to legitimize what he felt would be ABC News. Yeah, that was ABC News. That was the George Stephanopoulos interview from last night, of course.

Joe sent me. That was good, Joe. Joe's like pointing his phone. That's right. So hat tip to ABC News there for the interview last night. But he is not trying to hurt Hillary. He's trying to help her now he goes oh well you know maybe not consciously get lost Jim come on and by the way on the FBI case uh the reopening of the case 10 days before the election liberals will go look he's we need

to trust Comey who bashes Donald Trump because he was going after and he reopened the case 10 days out guys ladies I already told you what happened there. I'll tell you again for you new listeners. The NYPD and the FBI New York office, there was already some bad blood there between the New York office and the FBI and the D.C. headquarters based FBI. Just read the Andy McCabe stinging IG report this weekend where Andy McCabe, by the way, blamed the FBI manager in charge of the New York field office,

the assistant director. He blamed him for a leak. Andy McCabe did. Folks, think about what I just told you, right? The number two at the FBI, Andy McCabe, the leaker, the one who was fired a few days before he could collect his pension early. Andy McCabe in this IG report, this internal affairs report, they nailed him to the wall. He leaked information about the Clinton Foundation

investigation to the media to save his reputation, his own reputation. And then he calls the assistant director in charge of the New York field office and blames him for it there's already a bunch of bad blood there what I'm getting from folks is that when the Wiener computer I know you can't

there's no other way to do it the Wiener computer I know we want like kids yeah exactly the anthony wiener computers discovered where he's uh engaging in inappropriate contacts with a minor which you all know it's a family friendly show right they discover clinton emails on the computer the mypd and FBI New York office knows this. I'm getting from people that they had said in some way, hey, that the FBI headquarters was afraid. I shouldn't say they said. The FBI headquarters, Comey and his other folks, the swamp, were afraid that the New

York field office was going to somehow leak that to the media that new Clinton emails had been discovered. That's why Comey comes out and reopens the case with the letter to Congress 10 days out. Not because he was trying to hurt Hillary. You just heard him say it. He thought Hillary was going to be the president. Why did it make her legitimate? It's him saying it, not me. Although I did say it six months ago because someone told me that. Folks, this is not hard to figure out. Comey was not a nonpartisan or bipartisan actor. He was trying to make Hillary legitimate. So he comes out 10 days before the election.

I'm going to leave this off here, but I want you to understand what I'm saying. He writes the letter to Congress reopening the investigation 10 days out into Hillary, which I'm sure hurt her. I'm not disputing in any way that it helped her. But Joe, there's a way to stop that. You know the way to stop that? Don't set up a private email server and email people illegally.

I'm just saying. And what, your mad people found out Hillary? No, I personally don't care. Thank you. So the leak was designed to prevent a leak they couldn't control from the New York field office or the NYPD, which would have been even worse. So Comey's coming out.

He says, listen, if we just get out ahead of this, we can, you know, we could probably handle it real quick, make it go away and exonerate it right before the election. We have 10 days to do it. It's obvious. A couple more things about Comey, just show you how how what a bad act this guy is a couple snippets from his book I picked up on he gives he nails Petraeus to the wall Joe in his book he's like Petraeus leaked information to his David Petraeus the decorated general he goes Petraeus and Hillary's cases were different because Petraeus had a mistress he knew the

mistress was taking classified information. He was aware of it. And Hillary, it was basically careless kind of stuff. No, no, folks. It wasn't. There are, this is absurd. So let me, just to be clear, let's distill this down to a quick bullet point. So you all get what Comey's saying.

He says David Petraeus was guilty for leaking information because he gave it to his girlfriend. It was classified and he must have therefore known. But Hillary was just reckless and careless. Ladies and gentlemen, there are emails with Hillary and her surrogates, her subordinates, excuse me, and in some cases surrogates. People would stand in for it, right? people would stand in for it, right? Demanding that people strip classified markings off of a document and then send it on over an unsecured server. What? I don't get it. What's the difference? That is a distinction with no difference at all. Oh, Petraeus knew, but Hillary knew, but didn't know when she knew. What are you talking about? She told people to strip classified

markings off of sensitive information and send it over an unsecured server. What's the difference? By the way, one other thing. Listen, I'm not buying this crap book. Luckily, I've gotten some snippets of it from folks. I don't recommend you do either. This guy is an embarrassment to the FBI, Comey. But another point another point oh so Petraeus is guilty because he knew but Hillary knew but didn't know and knew and was therefore careless why the hell are the 33,000 emails then where are they they deleted 33,000 emails that I'm telling you are not deleted. Wink, wink, nod, nod. But they still, Joe, air quotes, can't find those emails. How is that not speak to intent? Hey, we demand you turn over the emails. No, we deleted them. Oh, it was a mistake. Was it a mistake? Because that's

fascinating. Because I have an article in the show notes today, by the way, the show notes, please read them today. Bongino, to bongino.com click on the show notes tab or join my email list we'll send them right to you an older article from andy mccarthy who's done incredible work on this case but it's older but it's worth reading about the deletion of the email so just to be clear let me keep this at 30 000 feet we're trying to discredit comey here who's discrediting himself rather well comey's saying oh the difference with the hill case and the Petraeus case is Petraeus knew what he was doing and Hillary didn't, despite what I just told you, that she ordered people to strip the markings off emails.

Secondly, emails are missing and have been deleted. The third point I'm trying to make is this piece by Andy McCarthy about what they did with the guy who actually deleted the emails. Andy McCarthy about what they did with the guy who actually deleted the emails. Google the name Paul Combetta, like comb with a hair comb, E-T-T-A. I have the article. You can just read it at my site, like I said, if I want to. But look at what he did. Look at specifically what he did with BleachBid. He's the BleachBidder. He's the guy who put them in a black hole, Hillary's emails. Now, I'm going to get to it in a minute. This is going to blow your mind. What I think those emails could possibly say, in addition to communications with Obama,

there's a bit of speculation that's fair, if you want to knock me on, but that's fine. I think I have enough evidence that something may have happened here, based on what I'm going to set up in a minute, an angle I missed. and said something may have happened here based on what I'm going to set up in a minute, an angle I missed. But why would they go through such an extended effort that was going to leave an internet footprint? The deletion of these emails was going to leave a footprint

no matter what. Why? Because you know we sent emails and they're just not there. Why would you do it if those emails weren't absolutely catastrophic and devastating? February 18, 2016, Combetta speaks to the FBI. This is the guy. Keep in mind that I'm speaking to Hillary's intent here, Joe.

Let's take it out to 30,000 feet. The guy who bleach bits Hillary's emails, Paul Combetta, February 8, 2016, lies to the FBI about his recall of deleting the emails. He had been on a conference call with Cheryl Mills and other Hillary consiglieres about this very incident. So February 18th of 2016, Joe, he lies about it. Oh, I can't recall. I don't know. All of a sudden he realized he's in a world of trouble, Joe.

Yeah. That the FBI is onto him. They've got all kinds of information on Combata that he did in fact bleach bit these and he knew what he was doing. So what does he do, Joe? He gets to air quotes again, Joe, revise his story on May 3rd, 2016. He says he had it. And this is his words, not mine.

He says, oh, you get it. Yeah, that's his words, not mine. He says he had an old moment. That's his words, not mine. He says he had an oh moment. And during that oh blank moment, he suddenly recalled that he was told that after 60 days, he was supposed to delete a lot of these emails. Now, why would he revise this story? Fascinating, by the way, Joe, that Mike Flynn, what's his face? Papadopoulos and others were never allowed to revise their stories. They were charged with lying to the

FBI right away. False statements 1001. The United States Code. They were charged right away. But this guy who deletes the emails, by the way, has never... Oh, this is infuriating how we have two systems of justice. Joe, he lies

to the FBI about deleting them. Later recants his lie. And instead of being charged with false statements, Joe, he lies to the FBI about deleting them, later recants his lie, and instead of being charged with false statements, Joe, what does he get? In a big double-barreled diss, you see what I'm doing, to the entire justice system, he gets an immunity deal from

Comey. An immunity deal. In other words, he'll never be prosecuted on this. You have immunity. He gets an immunity deal. In other words, he'll never be prosecuted on this. You have immunity. He gets an immunity deal, Joe, without ever producing the emails. Without ever cooperating. Without ever... And folks, tell me again, please, how Comey and Mueller are good guys.

I can't take it anymore. I'm sorry. I got an email from a lady. Very nice, by the way, but she thought I was talking about her. I'm not, there are a lot of people out there who believe this, that somehow Mueller and Comey were good. They were not good guys. They were strictly political partisan actors. Mueller still is covering the tracks of the Hillary and the Obama administration in an effort to distract you by taking down Donald Trump. There is zero question in my mind.

Zero. So tell me again, Jim Comey, how this was just, oh, Hillary did nothing wrong, nothing. She didn't know. She didn't know. Then why did you give immunity to the guy who deleted the emails for absolutely nothing in return? Nothing.

No evidence of what the emails were. No electronic records. No testimony against Hillary. Nothing. They just immunized him after he lies to the FBI and they let him go back and unlie to the FBI. A courtesy, by the way, never extended to Mike Flynn, Joe, General Flynn, despite the fact that the FBI acknowledged Flynn wasn't misleading them in the interview. Folks, again, please explain to me how justice is blind and fair. You Democrats make me sick on this. It is so obvious, so transparently obvious that the justice system has been weaponized.

And it's so pathetic. You guys, you fake phonies out there, you Democrats, taking the tyrannical turn towards government jackbooted tyranny because you hate Trump. It's so disgusting to watch you claim to be in it for the little guy. You're all about fairness. B.S. You're about nothing more than weaponizing the government you love to empower through our tax dollars. This is all you care about to take down your political enemies. Just stop the garbage. Stop the front.

Stop the facade. The patina of impartiality. Just admit it. Just admit it so we know what we're fighting. You're a bunch of jackbooted government tyrants who will weaponize any mechanism in the government you can, any operation or entity, to attack brutally your political enemies. Cut the crap with this nonsense, and Comey's your best friend.

Immunize the guy. They get zero out of it. Nothing. Oh, my gosh. It's really pathetic. I had a piece from, but you can read the McCarthy piece. I was going to read a quote, but it's, there's a lot I want to get through.

So in the interest of time, just read the Andy McCarthy piece. It's so good. And you'll understand how this was a, this was a total complete scam from the start. The FBI, we don't think Flynn misled us. Well, let's, let's, Joe, let's prosecute him for lying to the FBI.

Guys, we just said he didn't lie. Let's prosecute him anyway. Hey, but we have on record this guy, Combetta, who did lie to us about deleting emails because he acknowledges lying in a revised statement. You know what? Let's give him immunity. Yep. Nice job, fellas. Nice job.

And we're also supposed to, by the way, questioning the FBI, Joe, by the way, is now, according to liberals, unpatriotic. The same liberals, by the way, the pigs in a blanket, fry them like bacon. What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them now, crowd? Yeah. We're all of a sudden not on the side of law enforcement. Please.

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Our greatest Friday ever. Thank you very much. We appreciate it. And the core of Friday's show was Mueller is not a good guy. I'm sorry. I don't care what anybody's telling you. He is not. He is deeply, deeply conflicted in this case.

Kathy Rumler, the fixer, worked with Andy Weissman, his bulldog. That was the core of Friday's show. Kathy Rumler was the fixer for all of Obama's nonsense. Kathy Rumler is representing people in this case right now that Mueller's investigating. Rumler was involved in everything. Lisa Monaco, who was one of the founders, the original people promoting this Trump-Russian collusion theory, is good pals with Andy Weissman. Your little chart that you put up on Twitter was really helpful.

Oh, cool. You like that? Yeah, I liked it a lot. Yeah. Yeah, good. Yeah, I hope so. It helps to kind of pin somebody's name. We got some of this coming up in the book, too, so don't worry.

When the book comes out, it's going to explain it all. But just to be clear on what I said on Friday, because it's going to establish this next storyline, Joe, and I know you love this. Get ready, Armacost. Friday's show, the premise was Mueller is conflicted because people involved in

the Obama White House, Obama's personal lawyer, who was deeply involved in all of these Obama scandals, is representing people in the case now that Mueller's looking into while they go after Trump people, people who are potentially testifying against the Trump team. Do you understand what I'm saying? That these relationships, they all, Rumler and Lisa Monaco, who was Obama's counterterrorism advisor, by the way, he's friends with John Brennan. She took his position in the White House, matter of fact.

Obama's counterterrorism advisor, by the way, he's friends with John Brennan. She took his position in the White House, matter of fact. Monaco was one of the original initiators of the Russian collusion conspiracy theory. Monaco and Rumler, Obama's lawyer, worked intimately closely with Andy Weissman on the Enron case. They were picked by Mueller to work this case with Weissman, who's now Trump's lead guy. I mean, is now Mueller's, Weissman's Trump's lead guy. There were some people who were confused about Friday's show.

Just let me leave it at this, because Mueller has personal relationships with people who were deep embeds in the Obama White House that started the Russian collusion fairy tale and others who covered up some of Obama's misdeeds. That was the whole takeaway of the show.

Now, I lay it out in detail. By the time you listen to it twice, we only get credit for it once, by the way, but by the time you listen to it two and three times, I promise you it'll make sense. Mueller is deeply, deeply conflicted. He has personal relationships. It would be the equivalent of me investigating

Joe Amrakos for felonious mopry. Now, folks, I know, it's devastating. Poor Joe. He's been arrested for that so many times in this podcast. I'm not suggesting that it is impossible that I could be unbiased in it. I'm just saying it would be inappropriate.

It would be my personal duty. Joe, can we both agree to come out to the person appointing me and say, guys, listen, I know Joe personally. He's my friend. He's a coworker with me. We've known each other a very long time.

I'm probably not the best guy. Is that not, liberals listening to my show because I get your emails. Richard, who emails me all the time. I love his email. He gets angry sometimes. But Richard, serious,

he's my liberal, right? He's that guy I used to call Tom Marr, Melvin or whatever, driving me crazy. Melvin, right? Richard's my Melvin. He emails me all the time. I'm just asking a simple question. Is it not fair to ask the question

that if Mueller had deeply personal relationships, professional and personal, with people who he pan-picked and knew from prior investigations, from prior working relationships, who also had deep, impactful relationships with Barack Obama, professionally and personally, were involved in Obama's scandals and involved in the genesis of the Russian conspiracy theory? Isn't it fair for Mueller to say, hey, I can't take this. This isn't right. You needuller to say hey i can't take this this isn't right you need someone outside of the beltway who doesn't know the people involved i'm just asking a simple question is that

not fair now again hat tip denise mcallister she sent me this this weekend she absolutely like scrambled my eggs because i was on to something but not this i've been fascinated by another angle of this folks who else is muller protecting it's obvious to me he's protecting obama obama through spy gate and the fact that trump and you know while they bogged down investigating trump, Trump is not, in fact, looking into the IRS scandal, you know, or ordering it through his attorney general. It was also obvious to me that he's protecting Hillary Clinton from what I've seen so far. If I'm proven wrong later, I will be the first one to admit it. But who else is he protecting?

Let me walk you through a series of events. protecting. Let me walk you through a series of events. In February of 2014, there's a change in power in Ukraine. Oh, Ukraine, if you listen to the show, bells and whistles should be going off already. There's a change in power. We install Yatsenyuk over in Ukraine. If I'm saying his name wrong, sorry, I'm always awful with names, but forgive me. I don't know might i just want to get the information out there so we install our guy under the obama administration as the prime minister of ukraine february 2014 april 18 2014 something fascinating happens folks joe biden's son hunter is appointed to the board of directors for one of the largest natural gas companies in Ukraine, a company called Burisma, B-U-R-I-S-M-A. I got a hat tip, a market watch piece, by the way. It is in the show notes. Read it today. Please read it. Please read it. It is,

Please read it. Please read it. It is, take your time. It is mind-blowing. A little older, but good. All right, February, we install our guy in Ukraine. April 2014, April 18th, Hunter Biden. Nice job, board of directors, big natural gas company in Ukraine.

Four days later, who visits Ukraine? Joey B! And I'm not talking about bag of donuts. I'm talking about Joe Biden. Magically appears in Ukraine. Crazy. Crazy how that happens. April 18th, his son's appointed to the board.

April 22nd, he shows up in Ukraine. Now, it may have been a pre-planned trip, but I'm sure it was a pre-planned operation to get his son on the to the board. April 22nd, he shows up in Ukraine. Now, it may have been a preplanned trip, but I'm sure it was a preplanned operation to get his son on the board, too. So that goes out the window, that defense. Now, January 19th, 2017. Joe, fascinating. Who signs a cooperation agreement with the Atlantic Council? I'm going going to tie this together for you so don't worry yet the atlantic council the same council largely funded by the same ukrainian pinchuk who muller's investigating now for a donation to the trump team that appears entirely legal. Burisma signs a deal with the Atlantic Council in January of 2017, a cooperation agreement.

The same council funded by the guy, the Ukrainian, the Mueller team is investigating now for a donation to Donald Trump that appears entirely legal. What have I told you from the start? Investigate Trump. Keep all the invest. Don't worry. I know right now you're confused. And Joe, you should be too. I'm going to tie this together for you. I just if I don't lay this out by a timeline and then go back and

make the connection, it'll be very it'll be even worse. Mueller's protecting Biden, too. okay muller's protecting biden too is it possible possible joe that in some of those 33 000 emails that are missing there is some agreement to get hunter biden onto this board at barisma in ukraine, it's possible. Yes. Is there some possibility later on that maybe Joe Biden didn't run for president because he understood that Hillary was quite aware of his son's appointment to this

board in Ukraine? At this point, I'm speculating, to be fair. But I'm speculating because if Hillaryary would just disclose the darn emails we would we'd know the answer it's not my fault i'm not trying to be a jerk about it but is it possible that hillary's appointment i mean hillary knew or somehow promoted the appointment of hunter biden this Burisma board through Pinchuk, who's under investigation by Mueller?

Is it possible she knew that and Biden knew that too? And it's one of the reasons Biden had to back away, knowing that this appointment was going to cause him some trouble later on? Now, if this is confusing, I've got to hold on. I've got to get to some more because I'm not even done yet. Let me just sum it up for you like this. Mueller is

investigating people who are involved in multiple spheres. Guys, ladies, Trump was an international businessman and a billionaire. He has connections all over the world. This is not in dispute. I hope you see where I'm going with this, Joe. If you investigate Trump and every single business transaction he's ever been involved,

I am assuring you, I don't mean this as a moral judgment on Trump or anyone on his team. I am just telling you that of the thousands upon thousands of federal rules, regulations, and laws, you will find a crime somewhere at some point. I'm not suggesting Trump is a criminal. I'm suggesting that the United States is larded up with federal rules, laws, and regulations that make it impossible for you not to be a criminal. Mueller was appointed precisely because he knows all of the players in this operation. Mueller's appointment and Mueller's relentless focus on, because one of the things people are saying in a defense of Mueller, and I've heard this multiple times,

is, oh no, look, he's looking at people who are connected to Hillary too, so therefore maybe he's a good guy. Why? Because Pinchuk, who Mueller's investigating for a donation to Trump, donated $25 million to the Clinton Foundation. I'm telling you that's not, you're looking at this wrong. He's investigating people who have connections to the Clintons, too, knowing that if he holds something over their head on the Trump side, he could be like, hey, shut up about that Clinton stuff. You understand?

Do you see where I'm going with this, Joe? Yeah, yeah, yeah. If I'm investigating you for felonious mopery, right, and a guy I don't know, and you guys are connected to a third party, So Joe and then Joe's friend Frank and then some guy Bobby gave money to both of them. If I want to shield Joe from prosecution because I'm the prosecutor and I know Joe, what do I do?

I go to Bobby who gave them both money. I threaten Bobby. I get one of my friends to represent Bobby as lawyer. And I say, listen, if he cooperates against Frank listen if he cooperates against Frank or you know if he cooperates against Frank we'll leave Joe alone because Joe's my friend you see where I'm going with this folks he picked people to hit Mueller that had relationships with both the Clintons and the Trumps Paul Manafort thing starting to make sense now?

Manafort was a business partner with Tony Podesta. Tony Podesta, the brother of Clinton's consigliere, John Podesta. Why isn't he being investigated thoroughly? Why isn't he being subjected to false statements, charges, and things like that? I don't know if he made them or didn't, but I'm suggesting in comparison to everyone else in this investigation, why is the investigation against Podesta seemingly so different from the investigation against Manafort, even though Manafort was partners with Podesta? Because Mueller's picking people who had ties to both worlds, knowing if he hammers them

on the Trump side, he has a cudgel, a tool to use against them to keep quiet about the Clinton stuff. Nothing else makes sense at this point. If you doubt this, show me a Clinton person who suffered any significant legal prosecutorial ramifications to this point. Show me. If I'm wrong later and Podesta goes down and all these other people go down legally, I will correct this. I'm telling you

based on the information there is no evidence to support this thing that Mueller's a good guy. Let's walk back to stuff we just talked about now because I know it was complicated.

Mueller's investigating people who are tied to Trump and Clinton but he's only hammering them for their relationships to trump shut up about that clinton stuff they pick a guy pinchuk a ukrainian pinchuk the ukrainian has donated 25 million dollars to the clinton foundation yet he's under investigation and they raided Trump's lawyer's office for $150,000 speaking fee to Trump? What the hell is that? I've taken speaking fees. Folks, it's not illegal to take an honorarium to speak somewhere.

I don't know why you would think it is. But according to multiple leaks in the case, he's investigating Trump because Pinchuk donated $150,000 for a speaking fee. He gave $25 million to the Clinton Foundation. Why isn't that under investigation? Pinchuk, the guy they're investigating, are we making sense, folks? Mueller's investigating Pinchuk, a Ukrainian. Ukrainian has ties to Clinton and Trump. He's only hitting him on the Trump stuff.

Pinchuk's donated $25 million to the Clinton Foundation. Pinchuk is also a major donor to the Atlantic Council. The Atlantic Council is key to this. The Atlantic Council is key to this. Joe Biden's son gets an appointment to a natural gas group in Ukraine, where Pinchuk's from. Joe Biden travels to Ukraine four days after this appointment or the announcement of it. Three years later, the Atlantic Council, funded by the Ukrainian, Mueller's investigating for his ties to Trump, signs a cooperation agreement with the natural gas company that Hunter Biden was appointed to three years earlier.

Oh, by the way, the DNC operative, Alexandra Chalupa, who was hired to investigate Manafort and then left, has significant ties to Ukraine. Remember Evelyn Farkas? Yeah. You got that audio ready, Joe? Folks, the Ukrainians, elements within the Ukrainian government, it is clear as day right now. We're working with people to influence the operation against Donald Trump. Mueller is covering for that. He's targeting these Ukrainians conversations that envelope the Trump team, but ignoring their entire operation, as we know so far, against all

this foreign cooperation to target the Trump team during the investigation. foreign cooperation to target the Trump team during the investigation. Now, Evelyn Farkas was a former Deputy Secretary of Defense under the Obama administration. On a live mic on MSNBC, on a live show, she gives one of the most damaging statements, self-incriminating statements I've ever heard on live television. Seemingly unaware what she's saying. She gives this interview on MSNBC. I want you to listen to this interview.

Let me set up who she is. Deputy Secretary of Defense, Joe. What regions of the world do you think she covers, Joe? If I said Ukraine, would you be surprised? Joe's laughing. Deputy Secretary of Defense who covers Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia. So Farkas is clearly connected to Ukraine. Operators in Ukraine are working with people in the DNC to nail the Trump team.

Joe Biden's kid is on the board of a major national gas company in Ukraine. Biden visits Ukraine. Ukrainians are working with Chalupa to get information out about Trump that's negative. The same operation that Hunter Biden's kid is on joins up with the Atlantic Council, funded by the Ukrainian. Mueller's investigating for his connections to Trump. Now, one more thing about Farkas before I play this audio. Where is Farkas, a non-resident scholar or non-resident fellow? Oh, the Atlantic Council. The same council funded by Pinchuk, who's a major donor to the Clinton Foundation,

who they're investigating for a BS donation to Trump. Oh, and by the way, one more thing. Clinton's team, when they were confronted about her relationship with Pinchuk, the Ukrainian, and an email about a dinner, a private dinner at her house Pinchuk was supposed to be at, the Clinton team denied any knowledge of it. Why? Why are they doing that? Why are they denying knowledge of a relationship with Pinchuk while Mueller at the same time is investigating Pinchuk for a relationship to Trump?

Why? Why are they denying knowledge of their relationship there? Play that Farkas audio. I was urging my former colleagues and, frankly speaking, the people on the Hill. It was more actually aimed at telling the Hill people, get as much information as you can, get as much intelligence as you can before President Obama leaves the administration, because I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior people who left.

So it would be hidden away in the bureaucracy, that the Trump folks, if they found out how we knew what we knew about the staff, the Trump staff dealing with Russians, that they would try to compromise those sources and methods, meaning we would no longer have access to that intelligence. So I became very worried because not enough was coming out into the open and I knew that there was more. We have very good intelligence on Russia. So then I had talked to some of my former, and I knew that there was more. We have very good intelligence on Russia. So then I had talked to some of my former colleagues, and I knew that they were trying to also help get information to the Hill.

A lot going on today. Yeah. That's why you have the leaking. This is a big one. I'm dying. Oh, my gosh. Did she just say that? The Depsec of Defense, responsible for Ukraine and that region of the world,

just admits that they have very special sources and they want information leaked to the Hill about how they have information about Donald Trump. While Biden's kid is appointed to a board in Ukraine, while a Ukrainian donor, who's a major donor to the Clintons who the Clintons disavow funds a council she works on. The same council which signs a cooperation agreement with the natural gas company Joe Biden's kid was appointed to earlier. Folks, is Biden involved in this too? Have you noticed we haven't heard anything about biden is muller covering for a 2020 biden run was that another purpose of the special council

investigation to run interference on pinch shook to make sure biden's relationship with ukraine and biden's, their relationship with Ukraine never came out while the Ukrainians remember folks, I spoke about this on an early show because you may be missing this. There was a DNC operator, Alexandra Chalupa, whose sole purpose was running a, a, a opposition research organization within the DNC. and later she left the DNC to continue her work Joe on the outside she was working with people from Ukraine to get negative information on Trump because they had worked the Ukrainians with Manafort before that's why I keep

telling you why was Manafort but who whose idea was it to stick Manafort into the Trump team? I've heard it's Roger Stone. I'm not really even sure that the Democrats didn't somehow have a hand in this. Manafort, they had files on him already because he'd worked in Ukraine against the Democrats' interests. All of a sudden, this person appears at the DNnc chalupa has this file on manafort before

he's even hired joe the ukrainians are helping her they then work with this uh reporter and they get information out there about manafort and other things they They're working with Ukrainians. While Joe Biden is unquestionably conflicted on this. He's going to say, oh, it's my son. He does his own things. Come on, folks. Come on. How many conflicts do we have to point out?

Is Mueller covering this too? Is he looking into this? I thought about this last night. I'm like, the Atlantic Council. Here we go again with this Atlantic Council. Funded by the same donor who funded the Clinton campaign. Or excuse me, the Clinton Foundation. And the Atlantic Council. Dmitry Alperovitch sits on the same Atlantic Council and Dmitry Alperovitch owns the company that started the whole Russians hacked the DNC thing, CrowdStrike.

Look up. This is all in the book. Again, hat tip to Denise for making this Biden connection. I somehow missed this. And in the show notes today, if you go towards the bottom, you'll see a piece that puts this together nicely. Then underneath it are pieces, again, from left-leaning sources to show you what I'm telling you is not fabricated. Underneath it, you'll see an article about Joe Biden's son joining the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian company involved in natural gas. You'll then see Biden's trip, a Mashable article that covers Biden's trip to Ukraine just days later. Look, you'll see I have them lined out. Read them. You can't miss the fact that again, do I have a smoking gun email with Joe Biden saying, hey, Hillary, you need to influence Pinchuk to get my son on the board of this gas holding or Biden reaching out directly? I don't have that. I'm just telling you there's deep, deep, deep conflicts that are indisputable.

The conflicts are indisputable. Why aren't they under investigation and then Farkas who admits to the whole thing hey we had all this information we wanted to leak it out to the hill but we just didn't want anyone to know what was coming from maybe the Ukrainians you were dealing with you were only the deputy secretary of defense covering Ukraine and she admits it on MSNBC stunning oh by the way she's a non-resident fellow at the atlantic council funded by a clinton donor the same council that is the guy who runs crowd strike who analyzed the dnc computers the same council he sits on too

stinks stinks man all right does that joe did that make sense it did i was aware of the uh the biden article but i hadn't connected it i either had i thanks to denise i missed it biden ukraine kid special job ukrainian donor, Clintons, Ukrainian donor, council, council, all the people that sit on this council, people who sit on are deeply involved with the Russian collusion nonsense. at the show notes from Matt Palumbo. For those of you out there, the liberals, again, who email the show and they're telling me how Obama's responsible for the Trump economy. Matt has a great debunk this piece on the website today. It's under the debunk this section.

It's also in the show notes today as well. Showing to you how the CBO estimates of the Obama economy were far lower and how Trump far surpassed them. So how exactly Obama is responsible for the Trump economy is beyond me. The CBO is estimating 2% growth. Trump's going to hit likely well over three or at the three mark. So Obama, the Obama, the left-leaning CBO, which uses left-leaning economic metrics, predicted a lower standard of growth post-Obama. Trump surpasses it and they

want to credit Obama. Give me a break. So Matt has a really good article. Check that. Yeah, it's just typical leftist nonsense. All right, I got one more. How are we doing on time? Because I really want to get to that. All right, we're good. About 10 minutes.

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Okay. I wanted to point out again a couple of things. I think we've been pretty fair with the Trump team. When we think we need to speak up we speak up and we think he needs some applause we give him that applause i think he did he did something uh his strategy i'm not a big fan of overseas intervention in the middle east let me just be clear on that but i i'm talking strictly today about his communication strategy afterwards one of the the things, Joe, liberals have far surpassed us in tactical political strategery here is they do this, they move the window strategically.

So what they'll do is they'll take a exaggerated response to a policy issue and accept a less exaggerated conclusion that was their conclusion from the start. So what they'll do is they'll say on immigration, they'll put out in some left-leaning state like Maryland, some real wackadoodle, kooky liberal on the far left will put out, let's legalize everyone on the planet

to come to America and give them a million dollars in tax dollars to set up a business here. Regardless of background, right? All right, that's a little extra hyperbolic, but I'm trying to make a point. They move, they go so far,

and it'll usually be a guy or a woman from a extremely radical congressional district somewhere in far left like San Francisco or something like that that will never ever be subjected to like a serious primary fight so there's no penalty for saying so they move the window all the way to love they go give everybody citizenship let's sit let non-citizens vote in our election let 12 year olds vote what happens then is it resets the window for the argument show so it makes people who are

still radical far leftists seem more reasonable the people who then come back well well this is all strategy by the way by the left this is not by mistake they act like they're calling out their radical radical far left brothers but they're not this is all the strategy the only radical ones not the radical radical ones go joe we can't legalize everybody on the planet and give them a million dollars. But let me be the voice of reason here. My suggestion here is let's just legalize all of South America and give them $100 in transportation fees. okay that sounds great and even moderate republicans are like well it's either that joe or we radicalize or we uh or we excuse me we subject ourselves to the radical radical left and we have to give everybody in the entire planet a million dollars to come here right right because rhinos are really stupid they fall for this trick all the time you see where i'm going with this show reset the bar for sane arguments so far to the left that even kooky far leftism looks sane because it's not kooky, kooky, far, far, far leftism.

They are geniuses doing this. Trump has entirely turned that around. He is the first Republican with a pair who does the same thing to them. I've said this to you over and over again, where he takes this radically conservative position. I shouldn't say that, Brad. I don't mean radically. Some of them are actually common sense. I'm actually falling prey to it myself.

He takes an actual conservative position that rhinos are afraid to take. But he resets the argument from the far left back towards the middle. You know, we're going to build a wall and we're going to kick everybody out who doesn't belong here. That's actually a pretty rational sane thing.

Okay, you don't belong here? Well, you should go back. We're going to build a wall to secure the borders? Okay. But no Republican wants to say that because they're afraid of the media and they're big wusses. Trump isn't.

So what happens then? He may get 50% of a wall, 75% of a wall, and we may get more aggressive immigration enforcement. But you only got it because even building a little bit of a wall and deporting anyone, Joe, was considered insane before. But because Trump reset the bar for normal conversation, he has effectively trolled the left. This guy's a master troll. Why am I bringing this up? he has effectively trolled the left this guy's a master troll why am i bringing this up because regardless of your feelings about the serious strike he did two things this weekend that were just uh that were that were genius first he sends a tweet in a tweet about the strike he tweets show

a perfectly executed strike last night thank you to france and the uk for their wisdom and the power of their fine military. Couldn't have had a better result. Mission accomplished. You know where I'm going with this. You don't think Trump knew that that was when Bush wrote mission accomplished. You don't think for a second Trump didn't know that liberals, oh, mission accomplished. Bush said that. Trump's crazy.

Mission accomplished. Listen, mission was accomplished. It was a limited strike to take out their chemical weapons factories. They that down. Trump's crazy. Mission accomplished. Listen, mission was accomplished. It was a limited strike to take out their chemical weapons factories. They did it. They're gone. Goodbye. See ya. And Trump knows, Joe, ah, double barrel, middle finger to the left.

I'm going to stick it right in your face. He's trolling them. He's basically ignoring every, he's setting, he's moving the window farther and farther to this. I don't care what the media says argument making it safe this is my point for other republicans to go to the media joe ah double-barreled middle finger from me too nobody else had the cojones to do this in the past one more thing he said something in the press conference uh Mattis and Dunford, that I don't want you to miss.

This is very important. Instead of being a big wuss with the Russians, yeah, there was some conciliatory stuff. Listen, I don't want to start World War III either, especially over Syria. But he said something that I don't want you to miss that was the biggest like Nelson Muntz to the Republicans you've ever seen remember him from the Simpsons this was a Nelson Muntz moment to the Russians like I've never seen you may have missed it he said it was Dunford Mattis both into that they go yeah and we hit these targets and by the way the targets we hit were in heavily guarded airspace why did he say that because who's guarding the Syrian airspace for them did he say that? Because who's guarding

the Syrian airspace for them? Oh, the Russians and their ground to air missile system? Their ground to air missile system is crap! And believe me, Dunford let them know that. Oh yeah, by the way, Russians, you guys had those, was it S-400s and those

ground to air missile systems that were going to take our bombers out if we hit you in Syria? here's what happened no thanks you missed every single time you goons don't don't think for a second that wasn't a you know the the backhand is like if you're a guy another guy backhands you is there any other there's no bigger insult on the planet the slap is bad enough the backhand is even worse. That was a backhand to the Russians like I've never seen. And again, he knew the media wouldn't like it. He knew the media because that's what's out of the media are.

They want Trump to be this cool, passive. He doesn't care, Joe. He basically goes to the media. I hope that Assad gets my message in a bomber. Oh, in a bomber. They got it. Believe me. Yeah, and it wasn't a bomber. Oh, in a bomber. They got it. Believe me. Yeah, and it wasn't a bottle. It wasn't a bomber.

Like you said, they got them. Trust me when I tell you, Putin was watching that. Oh, yeah. I'm not a war hawk at all. I'm just telling you. I'm trying to make the point that he has stolen the Democrat strategy of making bold, pronounced statements, which creates a safe space to steal the liberal term for moderate Republicans who are like big wusses and are always afraid of the media. Mission accomplished.

You think he didn't know that was going to bring back memories of the Bush thing? Of course, he'd said it anyway. And then he comes out and goes, oh, yeah, by the way, that airspace, you Russians were protected. Yeah, nice job. We just flew right through it. No problem whatsoever. Thanks. Have a nice day.

But I said, I always reminds me that the Simpsons episode, you know, Nelson, but we were part falls out of the tree and breaks his arm after he says that Nelson's Ophelia's paintings. But I said, that's Trump. All right, folks, I hope today's episode makes sense. I know it was a little complicated. I promise you, if you read the show notes and if you listen a couple of times, it will all come together. Biden has deep, deep problems with this Ukrainian relationship.

Now that the Ukrainian relationship to the Democrats in passing information on Trump has come out, the Bidens are terrified. They have to be. The Bidens need Mueller to make this all go away. Fascinating connection. All right, folks, thanks for tuning in. See you all tomorrow. You just heard the Dan Bongino Show. Get more of Dan online anytime at conservativereview.com.

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