The Dan Bongino Show - Ep. 763 The Democrats Are Panicking

Episode Date: July 16, 2018

Summary: In this episode I address the real purpose of the Mueller indictment of the Russian intelligence operatives. I also discuss the Russian summit and the corresponding liberal spin behind it.    News Picks: Does “socialism” work? Here’s Part 2   The information in the Mueller indictment sounds suspiciously familiar.    What happened to the other Russians Mueller indicted?    Despite the Trump tax cuts, income tax revenue continues to go up.   The Peter Strzok testimony did the FBI and the DOJ no favors.   Did the press help the Russians distribute propaganda?   Here’s a transcript of Barack Obama’s press conference where he downplays the significance of the Russia “hack.”   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 you all are the best the best the best audience in podcasting whatever you call this audio content i love you guys producer joe how are you today hey i'm doing pretty good i like the story you told me before we went on air. That's where we're going. That's, of course, me and Joe chatting before the air. Welcome to the Dan Bargino Show. Appreciate you tuning in. This weekend, I'm at a rally for a

really terrific gubernatorial candidate here in the great state of Florida. The swing state, the power player state for the entire political universe. And Ron asked me to come out with the great one, Mark Levin, who, by the way, I'm telling you, folks, could not be a nicer guy. I can't say that enough. Joe, right?

If I had told you this off the air, he is like the nicest guy you would ever meet in your life. So it's me, Mark, Congressman Matt Gaetz, and we're speaking at Ron DeSantis' event. And I come out. There's got to be 1,500 people there. It's down in Jupiter at Trump's uh golf club down there and I come out Joe and the place goes crazy and my wife is there and I got people were screaming where's Joey Bagadona's one guy in the back yeah I'm not kidding one guy in the back goes ma my wife done so i love you all to death one kid there super nice kid comes up to the front people want to take pictures and what does he have on an ass joey bag of donut

shirt so you guys are just awesome that's on my instagram at d bongino if you want to check out some of the photos so really cool all right i got a lot to get to today. Another bombshell interview by Devin Nunez on Maria Bartiromo. Maria Bartiromo is just absolutely destroying it on the weekend show. Maria. Yes. The most beautiful sound I ever heard for some of you who grew up in Queens and listened to dance music back then. But she has been knocking it out of the park.

Some will get that. Some won't. I know my wife will. She's been knocking it out of the park. Some will get that some moment. I know my wife will. She's been killing it. She keeps getting Nunez. And Nunez keeps coming on the show on the weekends and dropping major bombs. So here's a, I'm going to give you a quick summary of what happened in a minute. I got some sound from it.

But basically, it exposes again how this Mueller probe is a complete total fraud. All right? Total fraud. It's becoming more obvious. And you're only a sucker if you believe otherwise. I'm sorry. You're being fraud. All right? Total fraud. It's becoming more obvious, and you're only a sucker if you believe otherwise. I'm sorry. You're being played. All right.

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Mueller's purpose right now, it is clear as day to people who are read in on the program, as we used to say in the Secret Service. Yes, yes. Mueller's purpose, I'm not saying intent, I'm saying his purpose right now is to save the reputation of the DOJ and the FBI. Ladies and gentlemen, the Department of Justice and the FBI screwed up in megaton bomb fashion with the screw up in the Flynn case, the screw up in the Hillary Clinton case and the screw up and even initiating a Trump investigation based on no substantive information at all. OK, we all get that. We know there are screw ups. I've been suggesting to you for a while that the goal of the Mueller probe is to keep the attention on Trump in order to save the reputation of the DOJ and the FBI. Let me be a little more clear, because now it's even starting to become more clear to me the mechanics of how this is working. The whole reputation of the Department of Justice and the FBI, Joe, hinges on the fact that the most critical counterintelligence investigation in modern times, the investigation into Donald Trump, the reputation of the Department of Justice and the FBI hinges on the fact that this was a, fill in the blank

here, legitimate investigation. Ta-da! Joe, was it a legitimate investigation? No! No! So Mueller's team, the whole goal of the Mueller team, why they brought on all these Democrats, why they keep investigating people with loose ties to Trump, but heavy ties to Hillary Clinton, is to keep the attention on Donald Trump, to make it appear, at least in the public view, that Donald Trump, that the investigation

into him was based on at least some appearance of legitimate information at some point. Therefore, the Department of Justice and FBI acted out of no malice, and therefore their reputation should be salvaged, and we can all move on. That is, to me, it is clear as day now that is the purpose of this. Mueller is not dumb, Joe, however. Bob Mueller is not a stupid man. Bob Mueller knows that the investigation into Trump was garbage. Why? Because he likely has access to a bevy of classified documents he's able to view, and he understands based on the FISA applications to

spy on the Trump team and the EC, the electronic communication that was used to start the investigation, that paragraph one, in other words, the opening paragraph for the Trump team, is basically hogwash remember what i keep telling you about paragraph one paragraph one is the essence of any criminal investigation and it describes in the federal government it's just not a formal term i mean literally i not figuratively what paragraph one reads in a memorandum on an investigation should describe how it opened what i've been telling you is the Trump team opened for one reason. It was politics. And Mueller was brought in to salvage the DOJ and the FBI. In order to do that, he must maintain

the veneer here, this patina of credibility. He must insist that Trump was in fact a bad guy. And even though he may not have been criminal Trump, that there was so much bad stuff going on at the Department of Justice, did not act out of malice it may have been a mistake but it wasn't malice not true but that's what he's here for now i bring this up because this nunez interview this weekend highlights this and man this nunez i love this guy i love this guy if you don't re-elect this guy in california you're doing the nation a national disservice. So, Joe, cue up cut one. Nunes brings up a fascinating point here.

That, ladies and gentlemen, disinformation in the indictment, which I've read, by the way, and I put in the show notes for you to read on Friday. The indictment against the new 12 Russians. By the way, I got to put a little arrow here. What happened to the old Russians, by the way, I got to put a little arrow here. What happened to the old Russians, by the way? I'll get to that in a second. Remember the old, the 13 Russians? What happened to those? They've been replaced by new Russians.

The indictment of these 12 Russian GRU intelligence operators that was released last week on Friday. This isn't new news, folks. This information appeared before. Ladies and gentlemen, the exact same information appeared before. Now, the names weren't there and the report was redacted. But listen to Nunez talking about where this Bob Mueller information may have appeared before. We knew about this a year and a half ago. Almost everything in the indictment we knew about.

In March 22nd we released our findings that you have in front of you right there. Those findings were available March 22nd. If you remember, the media mocked us. Yes, I do remember. They made fun of the Republicans. They said it was a whitewash. The Democrats said it was a whitewash. Nearly everything the Democrats said about our report was that it was a whitewash. The Democrats said it was a whitewash. Nearly everything the Democrats said about our report was that it was a whitewash. Then we had to fight with the intelligence agencies and the

Department of Justice so that they would not redact and they would declassify our report. That was finished in April. So this entire report that you have in front of you, including all you had to do was get to page four and you only had to read chapter two, and you would have had nearly everything that's in the indictment. That's pretty incredible. Look at all these redactions that you can actually see on the screen. And it's page after page of that. And actually, there's more in this report than what's in the indictment.

Listen, it's not funny. I just, I can't help it. i'm not this is not funny i just i can't help it that means this is ladies and gentlemen completely disregard anything the mainstream media tells you anymore fact check it six seven or eight times because there's such propaganda this is unbelievable this exact same information was in the house intelligence report the exact same information about the russians the methodology released in march and released to the public in april exact same information absent the actual names but when that was released and devin nunez did it joe uh the media look at this guy what a hack nunez what a scammer this guy is this This guy Nunez, the worst. What a piece of garbage. Then Mueller, Joe, it's the exact

same information. It's the same thing. Bah! It's the same information. It's the same. And now all of a sudden the media, we got the, look at this. Look at Mueller. This guy, this is, the Messiah

has arrived. The great white knight of this is, the Messiah has arrived. The great white knight of our time, Bob Mueller, has got the Russians. It's the same information. It's the, I'm freaking out right now. Ladies and gentlemen, do you understand that these media goons are the absolute worst? It's the same exact information. When Nunez released it months ago, they laughed at him. Mueller releases it conveniently, and I'm going to get to the timing of this in a minute

because that talks about some other stuff. We'll get into some other angles there. Mueller releases it and all of a sudden Bob Mueller is the second coming. This is disgraceful. These media people are a disgrace. Okay, so point number one. The indictment is old news. It's old news.

Or you can read the report yourself. It was released in April. The House Intelligence Committee report. By the way, I have an excellent, excellent piece by Byron York and the Washington Examiner at the show notes. It's short. It's sweet. It's about 600 words. It links to all of this stuff. Show it to your liberal friends and ask them why when Devin Nunes released the exact same information in April, they didn't care. But now they care that Bob Mueller released it. Because they're hacks. That's why.

Okay. Cue off cut number two, Joe. Now, not only was the indictment old news conveniently released recently. And we'll get to that. But there's something suspiciously missing from this indictment, folks. There's a key piece of information and the key piece of information missing from the indictment or pieces as i should say which is even more disturbing is missing those pieces for a very specific reason those pieces of

information are missing because bob muller's job is not to prosecute a crime that happened. It is to keep the attention on Trump's alleged malfeasance to save the reputation of the Department of Justice and FBI, who Bob Mueller knows damn well started an investigation into Donald Trump with nothing in paragraph one of any substance. This piece of information missing is key. Listen to Nunez talk about this here. It's great that they indicted Russians. Yes, they did bad things. I mean, they're always up to bad things.

We know that. They have very sophisticated intelligence capabilities in Russia. And they're constantly attacking the United States and our allies. However, in the indictment, they leave out some really important people that they also went after. So the indictment plays like they're only going after the Democrats when Bob Mueller and all his investigators and his lawyers know for a fact that they also targeted Republicans. Why is that not in the indictment? It makes the indictment look ridiculous. Oh, oh boy. Convenient.

Convenient how that little chunk of information was left out. But why? But why? Why was the Russian GRU and the Russian information IT intrusion efforts, why was their efforts to target Republicans, Republican Party folks, and other members associated with the GOP? Why were their efforts,

why were they left out of the indictment? The answer is clear as day when you understand Bob Mueller's intent right now. Remember, Mueller's intent is to save the narrative. The narrative is what? Donald Trump's a bad guy the Department of Justice and FBI although the case was not great against Trump did not act maliciously I'm here to save the reputation of the Department of Justice and the FBI that is Bob Mueller's goal in order for Bob Mueller to meet that goal bob muller has to save the narrative about trump

being a bad guy what now that begs the question here what's the narrative right what have we been told from day one that needs saving donald trump's a bad actor he colluded with the russians the russians hacked into the d DNC and looked to get that information to Trump so Trump could use it to hurt the Democrats that is do you understand that is the whole basis the collusion house was built on you get that right I've only said it

a thousand times on the show but if you don't understand that's the narrative that they need to save nothing else makes sense with Mueller so the narrative is that the Russians targeted the Democrats in an effort to work with Trump that they need to save. Nothing else makes sense with Mueller. So the narrative is that the Russians targeted the Democrats in an effort to work with Trump to win the election for Trump. That's the narrative. But ladies and gentlemen, what if that narrative isn't true? What if, number one, we don't know the Russians hacked the DNC? Because remember, even in the indictment, although very detailed and

substantive, and if true, remember, you're innocent till proven guilty in our court system even if you are Russian this is the benefit of living in a constitutional republic and not a tyranny but if the allegations are in fact true they're very disturbing but they don't talk about hacking they talk about spear phishing read the indictment yourself. And credential stealing, basically stealing online credentials of people to use. It's not a hack. It's a spear phishing attempt. But again, the DNC has never turned over the computers. But he needs Bob Mueller.

I don't mean to get sidetracked. He needs to save the narrative that the intent was to hit the Democrats. was to hit the Democrats. Now, does it make sense, Joe, why Mueller would leave out online intrusion attempts for the Republican Party too? Because if it's written into the indictment that the Russian GRU folks attempted to attack both political parties,

what's the narrative then? The narrative then, ladies and gentlemen, is the truth. And they don't want you to know the truth. And the truth is, number one, the Russians are not our friends. Everybody agrees on a bipartisan basis. They are not our buddies.

OK, right. We get that. But the truth is, ladies and gentlemen, the Russians goal was to sow chaos. If that chaos meant electing Hillary or electing Trump, whatever caused maximum chaos, that was the Russians' goal. The Russians' goal was to get online credentials and to break into the information ecosystem of both parties. But Mueller suspiciously leaves that out of the indictment, which again, I don't want to get into this back and forth because I know it causes some tension with some people out there and I'm sorry. I'm not attacking anyone. I promise you. I know various people who are very smart have different theories on Mueller and I respect that. I'm just telling you mine. Mueller is not a good guy. I am absolutely 100% crystal clear on this based on, read the book when it comes out,

it'll be absolutely crystal clear. Mueller is not acting with good intent. He is not. Why would you leave that critical piece of information out? Please explain that away. Why? How can you leave out that he tried to attack Republican Party, the GRU, the Russians tried to attack them too? Why? The only reason, the only reason, if you're a reasonable person, which many liberals aren't, is that you're trying to cover up the fact that this was a widespread attempt at an information warfare attack, broadly indiscriminately used against political people in the United States in an effort to sow political chaos. And that totally defeats your narrative that this was a sole effort to attempt to help Donald Trump. Joe, am I making sense of this?

Am I following? Yeah, it's making sense. So point, good, thank you. Easy. Point number one, the indictment is old news. This information's been out there since March. Number two, why no mention of the GOP attacks? Answer, they have to save the Department of Justice by saving the narrative.

The narrative is Trump worked with the Russians. The Russians tried to steal information. The DOJ and FBI ran with that and started an investigation into Trump. The problem is it is not true. Mueller has to save them. That's why he was brought in. That's why they brought in an insider too, a swamp guy they knew they could trust. Okay, cue up soundbite number three here.

Now, this is important too. Here's Nunes again in another great interview. If you want to be read in on what's going on, you just have to watch part of her show. Listen, I don't own stock in her show or anything. I'm just telling you, every weekend I sit there with the remote like this before we go to church and I'm like, I'm like Ren and Stimpy in that Ren and Stimpy episode. They tell Stimpy not to touch the red button and he's sweating because he's got to touch it. That's like me with the remote. Cause I can't wait to see what Nunes is going to say.

Try to get them on my NRA TV show. If you're listening, Nunes, get on my show. We need you. We need you. We need you, man.

I'm pleading. Gosh, I love that guy. Okay. Third point here. The timing of this. Now, I hit on this a little bit on Friday. I don't want to repeat myself.

But the timing of the release of information right before the meeting with Russia, which is happening right now. I'm watching the press conference right now. And I have some thoughts on that in a second too so don't go anywhere but the timing is not only suspicious the timing is absolutely abhorrent it's it's disturbing to the point where i think bob muller's trying to basically throw a monkey right i see you shaking your head there the the timing is so bad it's like muller doesn't even care that people know he's trying to throw a monkey wrench into u.s foreign policy all right play cut number three and this will all make sense the timing of this i mean they they released this right after the peter strzok hearing and your point is we

knew all of this a year ago why is now the time to make these arrests and not a year ago when you actually had the information well i have to call into question you knew about this a year ago when you actually had the information. Well, I have to call into question. You knew about this a year and a half ago. You for sure knew it because you got our report. So you for sure knew it by March and April of this year. And then it looks like all you did, all the Mueller team did was validate our report, indict some Russians and leave out, I think, some very pertinent relative of evidence that the American public should see, which is why we continue to have to fight. This report has been mocked by the media, has been mocked by the Democrats,

and still is mostly redacted by the Department of Justice and the intelligence. And all of these redactions really underline a common theme, and that has been obstruction on the left. Folks, why now? You hear Nunes? Whyness why now why now there was a ladies and gentlemen if there was an impending terror attack and some national warning had to go out yes joe of course that's not political at all you throw that stuff out the window you make a big announcement folks we're going to you know code red there's a information out here about six or seven Al-Qaeda ISIS members. This is not the case, ladies and gentlemen. These are Russian

intelligence officers who have Joe, look at me here. Zero chance of being extradited from Russia. Zero! Zero! Less than zero. They have no chance of being extradited from Russia. This activity happened a year ago.

The information has been out in the public domain, absent the specific names, but the information since April. Why now? Oh, the Peter Stroke hearing too. Did we forget? Did you see Nunes? By the way, don't.

Nunes never says anything. This guy is one of the more disciplined. Remember, he is not an emotional guy. I don't mean not emotional in a bad way. I mean, he's not an overly hyper guy on camera. Gee, I don't know. Who does that? Present company excluded.

He's a very sober guy. His analysis is always sober. And he doesn't say anything without deliberating on it. You think him mentioning in that clip to peter stroke hearing in addition to the me mentioning the russian thing you think the timing of this is suspect what came out in the peter stroke hearing that was devastating the fact that the information superhighway between the fbi was through multiple off-ramps we had davidorn who passed information,

Fusion GPS who had passed information. Now we find out Bruce Ohr was a department, oh, oh, oh, oh, Department of Justice, senior manager in the Department of Justice, whose wife worked for Hillary Clinton's Oppo Research Company that he was passing materials to. That was confirmed in the stroke hearing. Mueller's goal is to save the DOJ.

Do you understand? That's it. He has to get the Hillary Clinton information behind him. He has to save stroke. He has to save the FBI paragraph one investigation and make it seem like Trump's a bad guy, even though he's not. Stroke comes out,

admits there was an information superhighway, basically an illicit information laundering scheme to get information from Hillary Clinton's political people to the FBI and into the courts that there may have been a high level DOJ people. Bruce or Stroke admits to it in the hearing, admits to it open in the hearing. Kind of freaks out a little bit when he's asked about it. And then all of a sudden, the next day to distract, we got Russians! It's like Red Dawn. The original Red Dawn. Not the horrible second one with the North Koreans. The original Wolverines! Wolverines!

We got them! The Russians show! The Russians! Yo, Ruski! Ruski! It's like Chuck Norris with the two Uzis in Invasion USA when he basically takes

on the whole Russian. I used to love Chuck Norris. I still love Chuck Norris. Folks, Mueller's whole operation here is to point to the Russians. Like Joe said, Joe was actually doing a physical point there. I can see him on this thing. Look, the Russians! There they are! This is his only purpose. the hearing for stroke was devastating

combine that with this russian uh with this russian meeting where god forbid trump makes headway and i say god forbid from the liberal and the media perspective if trump makes any kind of headway on terrorism nuclear non-proliferation, listen, I'm not expecting some massive treaty to come out of this thing. Let's not be ridiculous. But even a communique that comes out of it that reflects positively on Trump, the story is devastating for the media. Why?

Because the media wants you to believe Trump's an idiot. And the fact that we've had no nuclear testing in North Korea, that we may have some small but not insignificant breakthrough with the Russians drives the media nuts. So who comes to the rescue? Bob Mueller. What better timing? Release this non-critical information. It's not non-critical. It's been sitting out there for months. Now, the incident's critical. Let me be clear the what happens not a joke right the russians are not our friends don't mistake what i'm saying but the release of the information was not an acute emergency at all what better way than to distract from

the information laundering operation that that stroke basically revealed in his hearing and from trump's efforts to salvage u.S.-Russia, at least somewhat, relationship. By the way, not that that's critical or anything, Joe. It's only 90% of the world's nuclear weapons held in Russia and the United States. I mean, why would we want to talk to them, right? It's not like there's a global interest in that. Can't imagine. Of course, we're being sarcastic for the idiots at Media Matters who I know listen.

By the way, thanks for listening, Media Matters. But when you promote my show, will you please put the links in it? What's wrong with you guys? Have some respect. Seriously. Media Eye, too. Media Eye writes about me all the time.

I live subsidized in the Media Eye heads. They write about me all the time. And, you know, sometimes it's a little irritating, but the more I think about it, I'm not kidding when I say I kind of appreciate it. I just wish you guys would put links in there. You know,

it really, every time that we go up, Joe, how much are we growing lately on the show? Oh, loads and loads. It's almost hard for us

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you wind up getting it at a cost that months later, you're like, wow, that's pretty good. So the show is exploding. Thank you to everybody out there in the liberal media who keeps writing about us. I do appreciate it, even though it does tend to get under my skin once in a while. It is great. You guys are helping us out. All right. I have some more on this. The question

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He can say tomorrow the Department of Justice, who work under him, in Article 2 of the Constitution, they fall, you know, their creations, they're under the executive branch, the Department of Justice and the FBI. Donald Trump could say to them, declassify everything. Declassify the FISA. Get rid of the redactions. Let the American people see what happened. Let the American people see the attacks on the Republican show. Let them see the information.

Let's get this behind us. Now, it's a fair question. It's not an irrelevant question. Now, it's beginning to make sense though what the trump strategy is let me explain to you first the liberal version of what they think the trump strategy is because they're nuts and with them being nuts they typically will lie to you which they do often and they're lying to you by saying well joe trump isn't declassifying the information in the FISA warrants because it shows he's guilty and he doesn't want the information out there. Ladies and gentlemen, that's complete utter garbage.

It's nonsense. There's nothing in that. Matter of fact, I'm just telling you because you're liberal friends. I want you to be prepared for the debate. Right. Well, why does Trump declassify? I'm telling you why. Because that information is going to make him look really bad, Trump.

That's not why he's not doing it. Here's what's going on. And by the way, you can take this check to the bank and cash that sucker. Because this is, now I'm sure of it. They got nothing. Joe, they've got nothing. The Mueller team has nothing. They got nothing.

They got nothing, man nothing they got nothing man they've got Zippo so the Trump team is like Chaz Palminteri one of my favorite scenes in the Bronx Tale with the bikers now yous can't leave now he's saying to Mueller I'm not going to declassify this stuff

now you guys can't get out of this now you're going to run with this investigation ladies and gentlemen take it to the bank trump does not want to get in the middle of the investigation he is now telling muller now i'm locking the bar door and this investigation is yours you're gonna own it why because muller's gonna wind up with egg on his face there's no there there and muller ironically is going to be the great vindicator of one donald j trump you don't believe you now you're probably like oh i don't know man i don't know no no k-n-o-w in joe biden language k-n-o-w-w first n-o and then no're wrong. And no, what I'm telling you is true.

The Trump team now... Guys, ladies, do you think Trump hasn't seen this information? Joe, do you think the President of the United States hasn't seen all this stuff? He knows this investigation is junk. I'm going to prove the point to you in a second with another great article from American Thinker in the show notes today by this guy, Andrew Thomas wrote a really interesting piece. He's right. The Trump team has seen all of it. Now they're like, here's the calculus going on. And Joe, if I get lost here, you are the audience on Budgeman. You have to call a timeout to the red flag. Got it.

Let me give you what's going on in the Oval Office office right now trump's legal team is in there now going hey listen did you do anything wrong the trump trump of course who was involved in this thing knows he did nothing where he's listen guys i got nothing to do with this i'm sure of it there are probably people within the trump doj uh within trump's doj and everyone who's seen the documents are probably telling them too there's nothing there so his legal and political people are probably saying mr trump mr president nothing there so he's legal and political people are probably saying mr trump mr president here's how this is going to go down if you declassify the documents show what do you think the response of the democrats is going to be let me tell you guilty yeah they're going to say look he's guilty he's declassifying it to obstruct the investigation

he's trying to stop bob muller he's a monkey wrench in this. He's allowing all these bad guys time to escape. Oh, my gosh. Trump, obstruction. Obstruction of justice. Again, this is all they have. This is all they don't have anything because there's no there there. So that that's what they're telling him. They're saying the Democrats are sitting there salivating with blood coming from their fangs,

waiting for you to declassify just one document. And the minute you do, they're going to run with obstruction. The other side of the argument from the political team is they say, Mr. Trump, or you could stay hands off this thing completely. Let Congress, let them do their own thing. Let them figure it out with the DOJ. They can issue a contempt charge and continue to issue subpoenas. That's their role under the Constitution. You stay out of this thing. Let them do their own thing.

And ladies and gentlemen, for however much we want to see the information declassified, the bottom line is this. There's no there there. So Mr. Trump, here's what's going to happen. Eventually, Bob Mueller is going to have to close the investigation and issue a finding. And the finding is going to say what? That you did nothing wrong. And you're going to come out of this thing smelling like roses. You didn't fire Mueller. They witch hunted you for two years and found absolutely nothing. The Democrats are going

to be left entirely deflated. Why give them ammo for another obstruction of justice charge? Folks, it's brilliant. You know, we sell this guy short sometimes. You heard my explanation of him being from Queens. There's no need to go over it again. But the bravado, how we get lost in the shtick. The shtick is not the substance. This guy is not stupid.

This has been the bane of the democrats existence is they can't get past the fact that they absolutely believe this guy's an idiot so they treat him like an idiot which allows trump to treat them like the idiots they are for treating him like an idiot does that make sense you know it give them enough rope yeah yeah and then lying themselves exactly yeah he's giving them all the ammunition here to make themselves look like You know, give them enough rope. Yeah. Yeah, and hang themselves. Exactly. He's giving them all the ammunition here to make themselves look like complete, utter fools. Absolutely. And them selling him short, not realizing he's feeding them the material to make themselves look foolish. They don't realize they're getting played.

Which reminds me, I have another great piece from One Crime at the show notes today about how the media did get played. Just read the indictment by the Russians. They're getting played. The media is trying to bait him into declassifying it. Folks, nobody wants to see the FISA documents more than I do. No one. Because I have very, very specific inquiries and questions. I've been writing a book on this.

It's my entire life for almost six months now. But I'm telling you, I have to agree with the Trump team. I think they are making the right call. There is no there there. Let Mueller lock the door. Now you can't leave. Now they can't leave the investigation. They declassify the documents. The Mueller team will be like. We're starting a new investigation. Obstructions thing will go on forever. Mueller has nothing. Why stir the pot?

Now, great piece in the American thinker again, right along these lines. I promise I am going to get to the Russian thing in a second. It's going on right now. This is really super important. Tagging along on the Friday show. The American thinker piece.

Ladies and gentlemen, what happened to the 13 Russian trolls? Oh, you forgot about that already? Remember that trial was supposed to start July 9th? Joe, I'm really bad with dates. Are we past July 9th yet? Yeah, we are. We are. Okay, I'm just checking.

Like, we are past July 9th. No, seven days. Seven days. Thank you, Joe. There you go. Joe's there as the audience fact checker, too. Sadly, only half of me was kidding there. I'm legitimately that bad with dates

because I got so much going on. But I remember, and I'm thinking in my head as I'm doing that, I'm like, July 4th did happen, right? Yes, it did. Okay, so we're way past July 9th. Okay, it's not July 9th anymore. It's after that.

The trial has not started of the original 13 Russian trolls indicted in the Troll Farm case. What happened with that? What happened with that is the case fell apart. I've been covering this for a long time. The Russian troll farm case entirely fell apart because the Russian troll farm companies decided they were going to say, use the innocent till proven guilty tenet of the U.S. Constitutional Republic justice system. And they said, you know what? We're going to go to trial because we don't think we did anything wrong. I don't know if they did or didn't.

They are innocent till proven guilty. If they're guilty, hammer them. All I'm telling you is in the U.S. system of justice, which I avidly believe in, it doesn't matter if you're Russian, Martian, or a U.S. citizen. Once you're put in our system, you're innocent till proven guilty the russian troll farm that was alleged to have used facebook to attack our election system there they sent a high howard lawyer over to say

now we're gonna go to trial on this we think it's bs which ladies and gentlemen is perfectly within their purview to do and the the Mueller team's panicking. They keep delaying the trial. They keep delaying the trial. My guess, being intimately familiar with the federal justice system, having spent 12 years dealing with it as a federal agent, is they've got nothing there too.

You may say, well, why would they indict then? Ladies and gentlemen, I believe they indicted. They brought down the indictment using a grand jury indictment because they thought these Russians would never show up. The fact that they sent a lawyer over, the Mueller team, Joe, must have been like, oh boy, what do we do now? What do we do?

You know what trial prep is like in the federal system? There's a reason, I could do a whole show on this. There's a reason federal prosecutors love to plea out cases now local and state folks too ladies and gentlemen federal trials are a disaster they are long they're laborious the work involved evidence presentation is everything for i had a case once i can't say the names for obvious reasons, but out of the Baltimore field office. It was a fraud case. We had an entire evidence vault in the Baltimore field office.

And this was not a small vault, folks. We're talking about almost 700, 800 square feet, stacked with paperwork from this case. Even the logistics about how to get that information over to the court for some of them to use was a nightmare every day. They hate it. Remember, there's some manual labor involved in that too. They ain't digging ditches for a living

but it is a nightmare. They want to plea it out, Joe. Nobody wants to go to trial. Mueller never expected them to have their lawyers show up and say, no, no, we not only want a trial, we want it now. Mueller never saw that coming. The lawyers showed up and said, we want to see the evidence. Mueller turns over, by the way, untranslated Russian nonsense to them, which again, as

a guy makes a great point in the American thinker piece, how that was used to overturn an American election, nobody could figure out yet. But I'm, you heard it here first, ladies and gentlemen, either I think these charges are going to be dismissed or the special counsel team is going to take an absolute bath in court on this Russian troll farm case. Those were the 13 Russians. Now, the 13 Russians, now that that muller's like this joe we didn't think they were going to show up

i smell a problem now they're going to show up muller needs a replacement for the 13 russians why why why why why because he's gotta keep attention on trump russia collusion that the russians did this bad thing with the DNC, hacking the election, trying to help Hillary, even though the evidence for that is weak. Is weak. So now he sees he may lose with the 13 Russians, so he's got to replace them with new Russians. So the new Russians are, Joe, think about it, right? You're sitting in Mueller's office, right?

You're like, okay, what's the mistake we made with the original 13 Russians? This is like, here's a Russian, there's a Russian, there's a Russian, too. They need Russians everywhere, right? We need a Joe Armacost theme song about the Russians. Where's a Russian? There's a Russian. Here's a Russian. He says, these 13 Russians, we have a problem. They're going to show up, and we're going to lose.

If we lose the case against the Russians, now all of a sudden I was brought in to do what? Special counsel team. Mr. Mueller, you were brought in to save the DOJ and the FBI. Well, guys, how's it going to look if I lose this case to the Russians? The DOJ and the FBI are going to look pretty darn stupid, Mr. Mueller. Oh boy, what do we do? We need new Russians. New Russians. Get the Russians. So what does he do? The Dirty Dozeninsky.

So he brings in the Dirty Dozeninsky, the new Russians. Now, Joe, he doesn't want to make the mistake with the old Russians he swapped out for the new Russians. The mistake he made with the old Russians is he didn't think they were going to show up, but they did. So what does he do with the new Russians? By the way, information about the new Russians has been around since March. He picks the people that are absolutely guaranteed under no circumstances to ever show up in the U.S. justice system ever. He picks 13 Russian intelligence officers deeply connected to the Russian military

that Vladimir Putin would rather die than send back to the United States. So he's looking around, Joey. Now, folks, we have no ditto cam yet. He's got his finger, his thumb, and his index finger on his eyebrow. Head on the desk, elbow on the desk. He's rubbing his eyebrows thinking. Mueller's like, how do we find new Russians? That will definitely not show up to this trial, so we're not made to look stupid again. Let's go get Russian military people connected to the Russian military

knowing a couple things. Number one, there's zero extradition treaty between the United States and Russia. None. There is not even a path for extradition. And number two, the Russians' own constitution prohibits extradition of Russians to the United States. Mueller's like, yeah, of Russians to the United States. Mueller's like, yeah, those Russians definitely won't show up. Nice job, Bob. There you go. We swapped 13 Russians for 12 new Russians that we will definitely never see in court.

Now, just to be clear, because I could be a sarcastic wise guy and I was having a lot of fun with that. It's not a joke. Okay, that part. The Russians did, the indictment, if if you read it's only 29 pages but it's worth to read is substantive and i have no doubt the russians i can't say this enough are not our friends they are not i have no doubt the russians tried to interfere in our election i have no doubt we should counter-strike to them i'm not talking about a military strike on it but i'm saying maybe we should mess with their stuff too then. Little tit for tat, kind of like we've been known to do with the North Koreans

when they mess with our stuff. But what I'm telling you is this specific indictment with disinformation absolutely reeks of politics, reeks of politics, with a far second place in the triage of needs actually accomplishing anything. These Russians, I have it underlined here, Joe, will definitely not show up for court. And those are the kind of Russians they're looking for. Give me some Russians. I need Russians. But they cannot show up. How do we get those Russians to never show up? The next thing they'll indict Putin. Mr. Putin, are you going to show up for your... He'll be next.

Nyet. Nyet is right. Give me a glass of Piva. Nyet. They will never show up. I spent a little time... I only know a couple things in Russian. Piva, Nyet, and Yanni Gavru Peruski.

And I think that's how you say, I don't speak Russian. And the only reason is if you said, when I went over to Russia, I've been there a couple of times and when my last line of work and the mistake I used to make with the Russians all the time is I'd say, or was it Yanni Pani Mayu, or which is like, I don't understand. And then they would say it again in Russian. Like, no, no, dude, I don't understand means I don't understand Russian, not I don't understand what you just said. So I had to learn to say that.

Yanni Gavru Peruski. I don't speak Russian. I'm really sorry. I swear I'd say that all the time. Yanni Parima. And they'd say the exact same thing in Russian. Dude, this isn't working. So I remember going back to the lady,

this lady Elena who worked with us. And I was like, hey, how come every time I say that to the Russians, they keep repeating, she goes, no, no, no, you have to tell them you don't speak Russian. If you say you don't understand, they just think you don't understand that thing in Russian. So that was my Russia story for the day. But this is what's going on. They swapped the old Russians for the new Russians, guaranteeing they won't show up. Read that American thinker piece. It describes a lot of this in detail, how that Russian troll farm case,

they're in a world of trouble with that. They're in a world of trouble. And as I said, ladies and gentlemen, if they show up for trial and they find evidence beyond reasonable doubt that they're guilty and they mess with us, good. Send them to jail and throw away the key. I'm just telling you these things reek,

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I'm not. I really wish the United States would start to pull back a lot of our overseas commitments and fortify the bunker in the United States before we start fortifying other places. That's my stance. I don't want to get into that because i get a lot of arguments from people online about a big 30 000 foot foreign policy viewpoints i understand i respect your point of view i'm just trying to tell you what the liberals are saying about trump right now is not accurate and the liberal point of view about trump is he's some kind of russian stooge that's nonsense let me

just tell you some of the things that trump has done against russia whether you agree with him or not is another point of view. There was an incident on a Syrian battlefield not that long ago. You may or may not have heard about. Now, I brought it up this morning on Fox & Friends, but I'm telling you this was not insignificant. There were a bunch of Russian, what do they call them, like little green men, mercenaries. They were Russian mercs. They were basically official, non-official operators.

They're operating in Syria under the unofficial watchful eye of the Russians. So basically when they do stuff, they do bad stuff, the Russians can say, hey, we don't know who they were. And when they need their goals accomplished, they can tell these Russian mercs to go do it. So the U.S. gets in a little bit of a skirmish. They tell them not to cross this line. These Russian mercs cross the U.S. gets in a little bit of a skirmish. They tell them not to cross this line. These Russian mercs cross the line. The United States basically in a deconfliction exercise gives a notification to the Russians. Hey, are these your boys down there? The Russians, I guess, assuming it's the Obama era and we weren't going to do anything. Again, I'm not justifying it or

not. I'm just telling you what happened. Assumed what, Joe? That we weren't going to do squat. Right. So in the deconfliction call the american military officials are like hey are these your boys or not because they're about uh 10 seconds from becoming fertilizer the russians again are probably like yeah what happens dude no no yeah they're not our guys the russians are probably sitting there they're like the americans tell the drink they're probably taking shots of vodka laughing like they're not going to do anything right what happens again agree with it or not the american our i think we're a tens but we engage in samaritan ground we will basically wipe out 200 russian mercs and it becomes uh they become fertilizer on the syrian battlefield quickly krebsky krebsky is right does not end well

for the russians at all You're free to disagree with it. I'm just telling you, this was not an insignificant incident. Matter of fact, it riled the Russians so badly, they were like, what do we do now? The Russians have kind of still yet to take credit for those mercs, even though they're like, what the hell just happened? Our entire mercenary operation was completely wiped out. So I'm just trying to, I'm not justifying or not justifying a lot of our interventions. I wish we'd pull back a lot of our interventions. I wish we'd pull back a lot of our commitments overseas, personally. I'm just telling you, the arguments

that there are Russian stooge is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. Number two, I could go on all day with things Trump's done to rein in the Russians, but I'm just going to give you two big ones. Second, this Nord Stream 2 pipeline thing is not insignificant. Here's why. There's a pipeline that runs from St. Petersburg to basically northeast Germany. If you're familiar with geography, it runs under the Baltic Sea. It runs under the Baltic Sea for a reason. That's because it doesn't have to run under land. If it ran under land in Ukraine or other areas over there west of Russia, the Russians would pay transit fees and they'd pay them to the Ukrainians.

So the Russians, in an effort to bypass unnecessary Ukrainian and other influence over their energy policy, just ran a pipeline straight to Germany, who's one of their biggest consumers. Why does this matter? It matters because we're competing with the Russians for natural gas sales, too to number one. But number two, the Russians did this for a reason. They are not our friends. They are not Europe's friends. They are not the European Union's friends. The Russians basically want to turn the screws on areas west of them, part of the former Soviet Empire. They want to be able to turn off gas at will. They want to be able to turn off gas at will. But if they turn off the gas at will and basically shut off and starve them of energy, Ukraine and others, Joe, they'd have to starve the Germans, too, if the pipeline went underground through those countries to Germany. You get what I'm saying?

By bypassing them together, running under the Baltic Sea and going to Germany, they can screw the Ukrainians and still sell a whole boatload of gas to the Germans. You tracking? This is important. Now, they want to build this has been such a lucrative business between the Russians and the Germans that they want to build a second pipeline basically right next to it called Nord Stream 2. Called Nord

Stream 2 because it's Nord Stream 1. Crazy how that happens, right? They want to build another one to up the gas sales. Trump, again, is not helping the Russians at all by going to NATO, asking for more money for NATO, which is what he did, which the Russians hate, by the way. They can't stand NATO. He is not helping the Russians also by saying, hey, by the way, Germans, what's the deal with this pipeline? Why are you screwing over the rest of the countries east of you but west of Russia?

Why are you screwing them over? That was a big deal, folks. But of course, liberals who know nothing about foreign policy at all will sit there and say, oh, it's a Russian stooge. Really? You know how much money the Russians will lose if this Nord Stream 2 pipeline doesn't go through? Dopes. You don't know what you're talking about. Again, or agree that's fine i get it there are various viewpoints on foreign policy

i respect i understand that i'm not trying to be captain no at all nor am i claiming to have all the answers i'm just telling you claims that he's some kind of a russian stooge are absurd it's like you've done no analysis at all of what's actually happening and yet you're spouting off of the mouth claiming to be some kind of expert. It's ridiculous. Okay. One last thing. I'm going to get into tomorrow. Don't miss the show.

Matt Palumbo, my researcher at Bongino.com has another just terrific, awesome piece. I can't say enough about it. Debunking this whole Denmark, Norway, Scandinavian socialism nonsense you keep hearing about how wonderful socialism is overseas. You know about part one. I'm going to get into part two, which he just put together tomorrow.

But the article, if you want to prepare for it, it's short, it's sweet, but it's really good, is in the show notes. And it digs into Joe, quote, free college over there, the welfare state, and how this has completely failed in the Scandinavian model of so-called socialism, which isn't really socialism. I'm going to get into it tomorrow, but read the piece. But I wanted to leave you with this one last thought. Ladies and gentlemen, remember the narrative Bob Mueller's saving. The narrative he's saving, again, is that the Democrats were hacked by the Russians in some elaborate, sophisticated scheme.

And in that scheme, they wanted to get that information to the Trump team to damage the Democrats. That's the scheme, right? Well, I want to read to you a quote here for a second. And Joe, you can probably figure out quickly who this quote's from but i'm going to keep the audience in suspense for a moment here's a quote from an individual talking about this scheme to hack the democrats and help the trump team win the election what it what it is about our political system that made us vulnerable these kinds of potential manipulations which as i've said publicly before, were not particularly sophisticated. This was not some elaborate, complicated espionage scheme.

Who said that? Like it's Jeopardy here. Who is Barack Obama? Yeah! Yes, that is a quote from Barack Obama in a December press conference from the Brady Press Room. Google it yourself. You want me to put the link? You know what?

I'll put the link. Eh, put the link. I'll do you this favor. I will put the link to the Obama's White House archives in that press conference. And I quote, this was not some elaborate, complicated espionage scheme. I thought you'd been telling us for months that this was some elaborate, complicated espionage scheme to overturn the results of the U.S. election. That is Barack Obama himself in December after his team lost the election talking about how this Russian thing was a bunch of goofs who basically screwed up trying to hack into the

U.S. election. His words, not mine. I'll put the link up. It's about, I don't know, 10, 15 paragraphs down, but it's in the Q&A because it's a long press conference. Ignore the monologue in the beginning from Obama where he goes on forever. Go to the first question and then you'll see like six or seven paragraphs down. Show this to your liberal friends when they tell you how the Russians were engaged in some elaborate scheme to overthrow the election. Be like, hey guys, can I just take

a screenshot of it? Here's Barack Obama. This was not some elaborate, complicated espionage scheme. Was he lying? Or did he know something you don't? I'd just like to know. That's Barack Obama himself. All right, I'll put the link in the show notes today. Go check it out at Bongino.com. Please subscribe to my email list on the website. Helps us get the information out there. I'll send you the show notes every day. And please, please, I implore you, subscribe to the show if you don't mind.

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