The Dan Bongino Show - Ep. 773 How Deep Does This Scandal Go?

Episode Date: July 30, 2018

Summary: In this episode I address the explosive new Spygate information implicating some major political players. I also address the new liberal attack plan on the economy and why it will fail.    News Picks: This piece debunks the mythical Clinton surplus.    Another great interview with Devin Nunes this weekend that should really concern the Democrats.   This piece in The Markets Works reveals some tantalizing new information about the depths of the leaking in the Spygate scandal.    Pay special attention to the corrections in this Washington Post piece.    Can we really afford Medicare for all?   This Facebook post by a law enforcement officer is worth your time.    Socialism is awful. That’s a fact.    Copyright CRTV. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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All right. Got a lot to get to. Economic stories. Really touching story about a cop who got in a fight in West Virginia. Posted it on Facebook. And some other information about Cohen as well. Drops from Devin Nunez. But let's get to this one first because this James Wolfe case continues to get...

I mean, it is getting like Twilight Zone weird right now. Hat tip to the, again, conservative treehouse guys and Jeff Carlson. I'll post one of the links in the show notes. I want you to read it. Both of the articles are in there actually in that link but james wolf for those of you who forgot folks um james wolf is the staffer on the senate intelligence committee who is being currently prosecuted by the federal government for lying to federal investigators about leaks now this case is getting more interesting by the moment because it keeps taking new and interesting turns. So here's a fascinating little wrinkle on this thing.

So just to be clear, we got this guy, Wolf. There's some credible allegations, obviously, is there's a probable cause document and he's being prosecuted on it now that has a staffer for the senate uh intelligence committee he leaked info to a reporter and lied about it to the fbi but but but but but but but he is not being charged with leaking joe hey hey he is being charged with lying to federal investigators about the leaking. How about that? How about that? Yeah, how about that?

How about that? Catch me outside. You guys remember that? Yeah. Give us the other one. Here's another one for you. Give us Mel Allen. How about that?

How about that? How about that? So he's not being charged with leaking he's being charged with lying why why is that yeah you read the indictment of uh james wolf and it is damning and you're like well why is he not being charged with the more serious crime leaking classified information what is going on with this oh we got a story to tell here folks if you read the indictment it indicates that on march 17th march 17th of 2017 this guy wolf who's being charged with lying about uh about leaking information texted his uh girlfriend at the time a woman by the name of Allie Watkins, who wrote a story for BuzzFeed about Carter Page and the FISA warrant that targeted Carter Page.

And this is I promise this will make sense in a second. It's not it's it's it's not an irrelevant fact that they put in the indictment that they exchanged 82 texts on March 17th. Now, what happens on March 17th? This is important. March 17th is the day, what I believe to be now compromised Senate Committee on Intelligence, obviously by the leak. The leaks have been coming out of there through the staff.

On March 17th, that's the date the warrant to spy on the Trump team, the FISA application, the application for the, in front of the FISA court, a court used to spy on terrorists. That's the date. The document is March 17th,

2017 is brought over to the Senate committee on intelligence. Folks, follow me here. This is a, this is a unbelievable mind bender. Okay. Now, why is that important?

Again, if you listen to last week's show, you know why already. If not, forgive me, but I got to recap a second for the new listeners. That's good, that's good. The FISA application that was not leaked, but put out by now the Department of Justice

last Saturday night had only one date on it, one date we could see that was handwritten in. The date was March 17th 2017 wow why did they leave that unredacted while the other significant dates in the document were redacted maybe that was a clue maybe it was that document that was sent on march 17th to the intel committee maybe they left that date unredacted as a clue that this was the one given to this guy, Wolf. Remember, the Senate Committee in March says, listen, we want the Intelligence Committee. We want the FISA application. The FISA application

is delivered on March 17th. It's delivered to this staffer that's being prosecuted by the government. Now the FISA application becomes public last Saturday. It's delivered on March 17th. It's delivered to this staffer that's being prosecuted by the government. Now the FISA application becomes public last Saturday. It's delivered on March 17th. And conveniently, one of the only dates unredacted in the piece that we can see is March 17th. Maybe a hint, Joe, that this was the one given to this guy, Wolf? Yeah, it could be. Now, how long is the FISA application used to target Carter Page? I gave you a number before about texts.

It's 82 plus one. I say 82 plus one because it's 82 pages plus the signature page. Again, this is all in the piece, Markets Work, which I will put in the show notes. Please read it. It is excellent. And there's links to conservative treehouse pieces in there too that are really good too. Check them out. Joe, the document to spy on Carter Page is 82 pages.

In the indictment of Wolf, who now receives that document, the FISA application. Yeah. The document leaks to the media. Yeah. He sends 82 texts maybe joe what am i doing screenshotting each individual page and texting the document to his girlfriend who then writes a piece about it in buzzfeed why is this important you like that yeah how about that how about that because roughly 70 of the document is redacted it's blacked out entire pages folks why would wolf if he was screenshotting the 82 pages

of the document and texting them to his girlfriend to write about in buzzfeed why would he send her an un a redacted completely blacked out page what i'm suggesting to you is the text he sent were the unredacted documents meaning deep six defcon 6472 level information was sent over an open medium to a reporter for buzzfeed while simultaneously the government's claiming no no you can't see it this is totally un this has got to be redacted. You can't see any of this. Hey, Mom! The meatloaf! How about that? That's a meatloaf moment. That's a meatloaf moment if I ever saw one. Folks, these media people may already have the unredacted document

with all of the deep six information in it. By the way, I get the DEFCON scale. I know how it works. If you don't say high numbers, people get confused sometimes. So please don't email me. I get thousands of emails about stuff like that. I appreciate them, but folks, the media

may already have it. Why would he text and screenshot a completely blacked out page and waste the text on it? You just text the information they can see. He probably had the unredacted document now does it make sense why i think what's happening here joe is the justice department people within the justice department who are there are good folks over there folks let's be honest not everybody in the justice department's corrupt i'm not suggesting to you

that everything's been handled by the book i've already told you the sessions recusal was a complete disaster i get it but i'm trying to suggest to you there everything's been handled by the book. I've already told you the Sessions recusal was a complete disaster. I get it. But I'm trying to suggest to you that maybe there are a few good people left in there. I know there are. But the few good people that are left are kind of leaving breadcrumbs for us entrepreneurial folks out there to pick up on and pass on. The date being left exposed in the FISA application. Hey, March 17th.

Why would you leave that out there? being left exposed in the FISA application. Hey, March 17th. Why would you leave that out there? Oh, because that's the same day we gave it to this guy on the Senate Intelligence Committee? Oh, by the way, the same day it's alleged he leaked it to his girlfriend? By the way, he texted her 82 times.

Oh, how long was the document? Oh, 82 plus one pages. Oh, isn't that convenient? Yeah, but 70% or so of the pages were redacted. Not for him. Not for him. Not for him. Whoa, boy. Oh, boy.

I'd like to see if Allie Watkins has that unredacted document on her phone somewhere. Wouldn't you love to see what that has to say? Now, I got more on this, but I want to tie in multiple stories here because that's what I do for you. I go out, I read all weekend, I read some of the best stuff out there, I put it in the show notes, and I try to tie these stories together. Devin Nunes, by the way, I mean Joe, Maria Bartiromo, can we hat tip her enough?

She has been knocking it out. If you're missing her show on Fox News on Sunday, you're missing out on all the good stuff. Really, she has Devin Nunes on seemingly every week, and the guy drops megaton bombs all the time. So now, let's be clear, just before I play this clip, this is Nunes this weekend on Maria Bartiromo's show, speaking specifically about media narratives about this. Let me just set it up. Did you notice that the media narrative, that, oh,

the left-wing media narrative now, now that they're dead to rights, the warrant to spy on the Trump team has been released, ladies and gentlemen, and it's clear as day the dossier, the fake information hillary paid for is a big time component of a judicial document used to spy on an opposition political candidate this is devastating information the media is running out of places to hide like the cockroaches that some of them have become the lights come on and they don't know what to do. They're hiding everywhere. What do we do?

What do we do? Okay, first we said the dossier didn't matter. Now we say the dossier does matter. Now we say the dossier was used to spy, but it was only a little piece to spy. So the media narrative has been, Joe, for the longest time, no, the FISA application you just saw Saturday night that came out,

which clearly, clear as day, indicates Hillary Clinton's paid for information was used to spy on the Trump team. That's not it, Joe. There's more information in the redactions that's blacked out that you just don't know about. And that's really what was used to spy. Now, I just suggested to you by setting this up that the media may already have the unredacted document. Do you notice the media's quieted down a whole lot on that narrative? That narrative is almost dead and buried now.

You don't even hear liberal talking heads on the media talking. In other words, that whole, oh, no, no, the real good stuff is in the redactions. Do you notice how that's died down? I'm going to play two cuts from Devin Nunes, who has, by the way, seen this information. And I want you to just see how he's playing a little bit of poker here. Okay, play cut one with Bartiromo. If you look at what they were saying, they said, oh, but the really juicy stuff, it's actually the really stuff that proves collusion and how bad Carter Page really was

and how they were colluding with the Russians. That's what's redacted. Well, that was kind of the news for 48 hours. But once the left and the media found out that the House Republicans on the Intelligence Committee had asked back in June for the president to declassify up to 20 pages, you hear crickets. You hear nothing. You don't hear them. They don't want that unredacted. They don't want transparency for the American people. So the president has the letter from us i think his lawyers are looking at this to see if they can

declassify it sooner rather than later but the sooner this comes out the better off we all are because what i've said is what's left that's redacted the american people really need to know what Senator Deacon is. Oh, boy. How about that? So Devin Nunes, who's actually seen this stuff, by the way, and I'm sure of it, by the way, a lot of media folks out there as well who have probably seen at least a good portion of this blacked out information as well. It's supposed to be damning about the Trump team. Nunes has seen it.

Keep in mind, he's a Republican from California who's been all over this case. He's like, no, let's put it out there. Let's put it out there. Now, folks, you're going to play chicken. You better be damn straight that you're willing to go. You know what chicken? You ever see Footloose? You're willing to play chicken.

You want to win. Winning's really losing. The media is playing. It is. What are you going to do? Get in a car accident? Remember Footloose? Let's drive the cars at each other at high speeds.

Yeah, that's a genius idea. Like, what kind of idiot thought of that game? This is what the media is doing. The problem is Devin Nunes is in an armored car, and they're in a Pinto. They have nowhere to go because Nunes and a lot of media people have already seen, likely, the unredacted information Nunes has,

and he knows it's even worse than the stuff you've already seen. Cue up cut two, Joe, where he goes into this even more. How now, all of a sudden, that narrative's dying down, too, because now the media's like, hey, guys, BS narrative number 672 about how the really bad stuff is in the blacked out stuff. It's really not. We've seen it. It's even worse. It looks terrible for the Obama administration. administration maybe joe wink and a nod maybe it talks about the use of informants spies they hit the trump team maybe nunez has seen it he's like no let's see that if people

think using the clinton dirt to get a fisa is bad what she what else that's in that application is even worse and you identify a specific number of pages in the letter you sent to President Trump that need to be redacted. Can you tell us anything about what could possibly be even worse than using an unverified piece of nonsense to actually get a warrant to spy on an American citizen? Well, and therein lies the problem, right? So the mainstream media and the left, they can run out and say, well, what's really bad in there is the stuff that the public can't see.

It's redacted. But the reality is that's not the case. Those of us who have been providing oversight over this issue, we've had several of our members who have been painstakingly going through it piece by piece, and we are quite confident that once the American people see these 20 pages, at least for those that will get real reporting on this issue, they will be shocked by what's in that FISA. Wow.

Wow. Isn't that special? Nunes, who's actually seen it. Listen, I'm being serious here. Libs and media dudes and ladies out there. You sure you want to keep playing ball with this guy? You are getting smoked at every single turn. He put out his memorandum.

Remember the House Permanent Select Committee turn he put out his his memorandum remember the house uh permanent select committee on intelligence put out their report on the dossier the fives application oh it's all lies so the fives application comes out okay it's not lies but there's more information the redactions juniors come out okay let's see those uh let's see what those redactions unredacted have to say let's see all of a sudden everybody's super quiet you don't hear anything about that narrative ladies and gentlemen this case is worse it's even worse it maybe uh talk about potential unmasking maybe talk about things like informants being run against a political campaign you know third world uh third world country type tactics

is it possible just possible for a second which i already know the answer tactics? Is it possible, just possible for a second, which I already know the answer to this, is it possible that the dossier, Joe, the stuff they left unredacted for us to see in the document is the best part of it? Notice how quiet everybody's gotten all of a sudden about this. notice how quiet everybody's gotten all of a sudden about this.

Now, so that was the first part of it. The 82 texts, I don't believe that was in there by accident. Now, listen, it could just be precision in charging documents to get the information. I think it was more than that. This is a signal about what exactly happened here. 82 texts, the document, the core of it is 82 pages long it is possible that the leaker that this guy wolf's alleged to be in these documents that this guy texted potentially screenshots of every single page which based on just common sense would be unredacted meaning the media has probably already seen this

stuff and so has everyone else at this point you know how they of course they have no sense of what their loyalty is to cliques and and and liberal idea right damn right now second i'm going to include in today's show notes as well a washington post piece. You know, I hate to do that, but forget the piece. Just read the correction. The corrections are damning. Folks, it is starting to become obvious. I've hit on this now a couple times, but it is now becoming obvious that this was a trap,

that the Justice Department, people in the Justice Department, have been working on people leaking sensitive, highly classified government information for a long time now. Now, this is all in the markets work piece again, which will be on the show notes today. Go to Bongino.com. Please subscribe to my email list. I'll send them right to you. Let me give you some significant dates. Remember the Miami Vice thing I always tell you about?

You know, you leak the wrong date to people and they publish the wrong date and only you know it's the wrong date. Then you know who the leakers are. Why? Because you gave the right date to everyone else and you gave the wrong date to just one person. There have been a number of these traps set up, these information traps that have repeatedly snagged media people. I believe Wolf and a lot of other people working on this case believe this too, was caught up in this type of operation by the government to out these leakers. Some significant dates, this is from the market's work piece. December 1st, 2017, Brian Ross from ABC gets a fake news leak about Mike Flynn,

later retracted and Brian Ross suspended. Remember how these leaks work. The core of the story is correct or else it won't be believable and the media won't report on it. You can't give them a story like the Martians landed on the moon. They're not going to report. Well, with the media, you never know. But realistically, even if you're semi-responsible, you're only going to report credible stories. So what they do, how the trap's been working, joe is they report credible information with one wrong fact about it that can out who the leaker is the brian ross story at abc in december was that mike flynn had been asked to

contact uh the russians to contact them as when when trump was a candidate that was not factual information that was not correct it was as a uh he was not asked to contact him as a candidate he was asked to contact him as a national security advisor which would be what we would call his job okay second piece of information december 3rd 2017 the fake news leak about Paul Manafort broadcast by ABC, which was later retracted. December 4th, a fake news leak about Deutsche Bank, the subpoena for Trump's bank records reported by Bloomberg, later retracted. That was the one, their subpoena in Trump's bank records. It wasn't Trump's bank records. That story was false, too.

It was other people. It was other people involved in the Trump orbit. It was not Trump. Again, the core of the story is correct. Oh, Deutsche Bank, but it wasn't in fact Trump. December 8th, CNN's Manu Raju gets fake news leak about WikiLeaks and Don Trump Jr.'s email. The date on the email was wrong. The date was critical.

Right. Because they backdated it, the fake date, and the date was before the information already become public. In other words, they were saying, oh, look, he's got a back channel. How do you get a back channel when information is already out on the Internet? Now, when you understand that and how the information trap was being set up, this is a beautiful thing now. Because now the rest of it starts to make sense. I have a Washington Post piece in there that describes the FISA warrant.

Describes the FISA warrant that the application that now we were relatively confident was leaked. And I'm pretty confident was leaked in unredacted form. Remember the date, the March 17th date. We can also be relatively confident, Joe, that the copy that was leaked was the copy given to this guy who is now being prosecuted for false statements about leaking. If you look at the correction in the Washington Post piece, the April 11th piece, where that's the first time we hear about the FISA application.

That's the first time we hear, Carter, now, April 3rd is the first time we hear about Carter Page from Allie Watkins, who's the girlfriend of the guy who's alleged to be the leaker, Wolf. You got it? But the first time we hear about the FISA warrant is about a week later on April 11th in the Washington Post. And the correction at the bottom of the piece, scroll all the way down, it's in the show notes, is massive. It says, hey, by the way,

the original date of the FISA we reported as being in the summer of 2016, it's actually October. Huh. Why would the summer, why would you leak a story about the FISA, but the date on it be backdated to the summer? Maybe because that's when Carter Page was still with the Trump team and they wanted the story to be believable enough that these media idiots would fall for it. In other words, Joe, Trump, Carter Page had already leaving. Leave him.

Speak English, Bongino. Carter Page had already leaving. Leave him. Speak English, Bongino. Carter Page had already left the Trump team by October. Somebody backdated a date and fed that information to the Washington Post that the FISA warrant was in the summer. Somebody, I think, misled them again to get them to... These media people are being played like fiddles the corrections in these reports are the story the media is so desperate to get negative information on Trump that I believe they're giving up their journalistic standards of double

and triple vetting the information they're taking the first thing that comes down the pipeline, not really realizing that the information coming down the pipeline is a trap for them. They're being set up. Read the corrections in the piece. Also, one more is pointed out by Carlson in the piece about the October 19th date. You see multiple pieces of reporting in the Washington Post, Philip Bump and others, Joe, reporting that the FISA warrant was issued on October 19th.

It was not. It was issued on the 21st. I'm telling you that this has been part of an ongoing operation to out these guys, and they keep getting sucked up in the trap. And it's highly likely that this guy, Wolf, who there are some credible allegations against him now, the government's going full bore against him. It's highly likely that this guy, Wolf, was a part of it.

Now, here's where it gets interesting. I'm going to wrap this up because I got a lot of stuff to get to today. This stuff is going to just blow your mind. Wolf, Joe, wolf's attorney on july 27th sent out some kind of a request saying that he may be calling who to testify on his behalf now remember what he's being charged with? The leaker, the alleged leaker, according to the government documents of this FISA application to this reporter, according to the documents allegations, right?

He is being charged with false statements to the FBI, not with the leaking. Who is he calling in his defense? Again, we're talking about the guy who's alleged to have leaked. Pregnant pause. The United States Senators on the Senate

Intelligence Committee. Ew. How about that? Ew. Why do you think he'd be doing that? Maybe he's not lying. He's being charged with false statements. Why would he call a bunch of United States senators

on the Intel Committee to his defense in a case where he's being charged with lying to the FBI about leaking? Why would he do that? Oh, boy. Maybe because there's some U.S. senators who may have told him, hey, why don't you go leak that? Why don't you go leak that piece of info there? You got some connections in the press? I don't want my fingerprints on this, so how about you go do that? Wow, you may want to look at that list of people on that Senate Intel Committee.

Now, does it make sense? You may start to see some really inconvenient names on there, people who've been like, Republicans too, by the way. Yeah, I think everything was too by the way yeah i think everything was done by the book here let's stop paying attention to this democrats like mark warner oh we gotta go after this trump we gotta take him down quick ah yeah we probably do we probably do so you guys can all get away with it guys can all get away with it joe do you realize this i mean every week on this show we we bust out a new neutron bomb for you and i want to applaud by the way i am i really all of the people doing

incredible journalistic work in lieu of a of a lost bunch of hacks in the real media who refuse to do any Watergate-like work on this. I want to applaud what I'll call the real media out there, these entrepreneurial types who've been digging through FISA applications, my co-writers, my researchers, Carlson, the Treehouse guys, Andy McCarthy, everyone out there who is Molly Hemingway, who has been knocking it out of the park in this case

ladies and gentlemen this is scandal on top of scandal on top of scandal on top of cover-up on top of cover-up on top of cover-up now does it make sense why the most outspoken people about russia collusion with the trump team are some of the senators on the Intel Committee? Just look at the list. The names may sound familiar. He's calling, the leaker's calling the senators in his defense. Oh boy, we're going to have a constitutional crisis soon. Senators are going to say, well, we're not obligated to testify on that. This is Senate deliberation. Really?

Leaking classified information? I wasn't aware of that joe are you picking up what i'm laying down here i'm picking it up pretty good dan yeah this is a monumental scandal now we're not just talking about the fake dossier use the spy on the trump team using political information the lying about the dossier the redactions in the FISA application that are probably even worse, informants being run at the Trump team. Now we're talking about authorized leaks

of classified information, potentially from United States senators to damage the president of the United States. How about that? Oh, man. Oh, man. That's right. Really? how about that oh man oh man that's right really it only gets better folks

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this i'm looking through these articles and what really a lot of things shocked me about that i thought a great pickup by the guys we mentioned in the piece was the 82 was the uh the 82 texts that were exchanged i thought that was a really really terrific pickup there um yeah because it's 82 pages but i thought secondly the pickup about how he's actually going to request subpoenas for testifying from senators you're like man are they and now you know why they're all in a panic it's just just incredible. Okay. So Michael Cohen, I wanted to read to you something by Michael Cohen, because this is another interesting piece.

Michael Cohen, who was Donald Trump's former attorney. Cohen is now being celebrated by liberals with Trump derangement syndrome. Look, we got him now, Joe. Again, this is time number 1,678.

We got him. We got him. Trump's going down now. Michael Cohen, Michael Cohen, Michael Cohen. I him. Trump's going down now. Michael Cohen, Michael Cohen, Michael Cohen. I read to you a text last week from Michael Cohen where he called the dossier, the entire basis for the Trump collusion narrative,

quote, a lie filled document. Oh yeah. It sounds like a great case for collusion. So your collusion case is based on a dossier, which your star witness has called a lie-filled document. Sounds great, Joe. This case sounds like, if you're a liberal, that case sounds like a real

winner. Here's where it gets even better. Hat tip Molly Hemingway, by the way, for pointing this out on her Twitter feed. She has a screenshot from Joe. CNN politics. Those far-right people at CNN. This is real. I'm not making this up.

This is Cohen's own words, by the way. There's some quotes in here from him. Given my own proximity to the President of the United States as a candidate, let me also say, this is the left star witness, Joe. I never saw anything, not a hint of anything, that demonstrated his involvement in Russian interference in our election or any form of collusion. I emphatically state that I had nothing to do with any Russian involvement in

our electoral process. Oh, oh, isn't that great? So your star witness is on his own Twitter feed talking about how the entire bedrock of your collusion case, the dossier, is, quote, a lie-filled document. And he's on the record having said, I haven't seen anything about collusion, even a hint of collusion. Matter of fact, he says, I emphatically state it. Reminds me of that scene in A Few Good Men. I object. I strenuously object.

He's emphatically, emphatically, he emphatically denies this. This is your star witness. Nice work there. Again, hat tip Molly Hemingway for finding that gem. I take screenshots of everything these days because this is what I do. I spend, I'm not kidding. I spend my entire weekend going through the entire interweb out there to find information for you and that was just a great one this is their star witness this is and this thing's going to collapse on them so fast it's going to be incredible okay um on a different note a little uh more somber note there was a fox news piece which i'll have in the show notes again for you to read please read it i strongly strongly encourage you to read it um also wait before i get that in the show notes again for you to read please read it i strongly strongly encourage you to read it um also wait before i get that in the show notes today um for some reason the clinton surplus has

come up again you know it's a topic sensitive to my heart because there was no clinton surplus yeah so i asked um our resident debunker in chief and researcher matt palumbo to put out again at bongino.com an easy debunking of the clinton surplus which he did it'll be in the show notes today it's the first article. Check it out because I still hear people talking about this ridiculous, you know, Clinton surplus. It didn't exist.

Having said that, there's a piece at Fox news.com about a Brooke County, West Virginia police officer by the name of Kristen Richmond. She responds to a call. Joe, have you heard this story to some 21 21-year-old guy who's throwing stuff around in a room, she responds to the call. The call turns into just a complete free-for-all. It turns into a five-minute melee. And as she says in her, she writes a Facebook

post about it. And as she's clear about, it's not me, she gets tuned up pretty good in the piece. But the Facebook post is worth your time. And it's worth your time because a topic that's very sensitive to me, and a lot of you regular listeners have heard me bring up often, is my, I can't say in strong enough terms how horrible it would be if this country starts to envision violence as some kind of a political solution. I say that because I've been genuinely bothered and kind of freaked out lately about how the left is starting to now just openly. I'm not even talking about fringe elements of the left. I'm talking about some point mainstream players on the left who at a minimum, Joe, are not condemning violence and allowing it to happen as a solution. When you read this for them, which is absurd. When you read this Facebook post by this woman, this police officer, about what happened to her in this five minute free for all with this guy.

She had a broken nose. There's blood all over. You can see this guy. She had a broken nose. There's blood all over her. You can see the pictures. She had some really serious injuries. The guy went for her gun. You will see the horror of violence. And it reminded me of the episode we did where I talked about one of the reasons. I want to bring this up again because it's important in light of this.

The people, Joe, who are the most uncomfortable and terrified of violence are people who've actually been engaged in it and a victim of it. Yeah, victims, people in the military, people in law enforcement, people who are actual fighters. These are the people, interestingly enough, who are the ones who advocate the strongest people, you know, like me. Listen, I go to Brazilian Jian jiu-jitsu almost every saturday i practice literal violence and i'm the one on this show saying it's the worst

thing ever this is not a solution to any political problem ever it is a means of self-defense only and if you think otherwise like some leftists are a lot of them actually you are you are you are grotesquely misinformed immorally disinformed now the reason i think this is and i've explained this before but it's worth repeating i mean you read the article you'll understand why the reason the radical left is going down this violent path this constant death wish on Trump attacking people at rallies, it's because they live in this cocoon of safe spaces and they don't know any different. That safe space is not available to conservatives. Guys, ladies out there, understand this and take solace in this.

You all are hard. You are hard people. You have calloused hands. You have thick skin. You have been attacked forever, being called the worst of names. You have been spit on. You've had your MAGA hat stolen. You've had drinks dumped on you.

In many cases, you've been attacked. You've been verbally attacked, physically attacked. You have been there. Your skin is thick. You are ready for the fight. And when I say the fight, I mean the ideological one. But the problem with the left is that they don't have that same thing. They live in these protected cocoon safe space environments where they live in insulated violence. They know they can show up at rallies as Antifa and attack people knowing what the cops will protect them. them they know that in their college campuses if they get up in your face and they scream that you're a racist or whatever it is or some horrible term at you that they know their college professors

will side with them in the administration as well if you're a conservative they know they have their safe spaces to go to if they feel uncomfortable remember that what is it trigly puff uh girl i think it was trigly puff they call i forget her name or something but the one screaming at the rally they know they can have childlike tantrums at these rallies for conservatives where conservative speakers are there and they know nothing will happen to them. They live in an insulated environment where the consequences of political violence and verbal altercations are not real for them because there are no consequences. They're celebrated as heroes. Throw someone out of your restaurant like an idiot

for that lady in the red hen with Sarah Sanders, like a jerk, like a degenerate, and you're celebrated by the left for your incivility. Folks, let me be absolutely crystal clear. If I own a restaurant, you could be the most kooky far leftist in the world. You want to come into my restaurant and act civil and eat like a normal person, you are more welcome i am a free market capitalist i am not at all a believer

in this in and there was an interesting piece this weekend in the wall street journal about it uh i think orin hatch wrote it about joe a Geneva convention for political debate. And I thought it was fascinating. And he brings up a great point that communal spaces where we all gather used to be strictly off limits for this type of stuff. Not strictly off limits for political debate. Let me be clear. But strictly off limits for violent, harassing type behavior, communal spaces, restaurants, parks. You want to have a civil

discussion fine you don't go to a park to attack your friends who live in the neighborhood because they're trump fans while they're there with their kids this is the kind of stuff that happens with uncivilized savages so hatch's point is hey can we have like a geneva convention here you know the rules of war for this political debate that communal spaces will be civil is this do we really have to say this but you read this piece about the about violence and the people who've actually suffered the consequences of violence this officer who's clearly freaked out by this and i don't i i i compliment her bravery for putting this out there she makes no attempt to cover how frightening this was and you see why real people who've been in the real world with real violence with real consequences who are hard

to it are the first ones to say dude this is not the path to go down liberals have never ever been there they don't understand they live in a shielded safe space environment the world is a safe space for them and it reminds me of a problem i brought up before and i want to wrap because i want to get this economic story too but this is important folks it's called the superman problem what's the superman problem you know i watched the man of steel movie the the the one before batman versus superman with uh the new guy i forget his name he's in the Mission Impossible movies. Henry something. Henry Cavill.

That's it. And I came out of the movie and I was like, nah. And I couldn't figure out what about the movie bothered me. And I read a review of it and I was like, bingo, that's it. The Superman problem. And I've actually discussed this on the show before. But this is for if you have to be a regular listener remember this one what bothered me about the movie and superman versus batman is conservatives are batman we're human we can get hurt we've been hurt we understand what it's like for bane to break our

back and have to recover from it all right batman's a fictional character it's like for Bane to break our back and have to recover from it. All right, Batman's a fictional character. It's an analogy. Roll with it. You understand. You've been there. Batman bleeds. He bleeds. He hurts.

Legs break. Wrists break. His back breaks in one of them. Batman can get hurt. I never really liked Superman growing up, and I didn't like the movie because everybody, oh, Superman's so brave is he

superman can't be hurt he almost feels no pain he's the man of steel he's never hurt he obviously can't feel a lot of pain he's not human like batman liberals think they're superman because there's no consequences for their behavior superman unless it's kryptonite he's the man of steel nothing hurts him bullets. Bullets bounce off. Joe, I mean, is it really brave facing down a firearm if the bullet, they can't do anything to him?

Now, Batman, on the other hand, who's looking at potential death who confronts these criminals, that's bravery. You all, you conservatives out there fighting a good fight on college campuses that have to worry about

being verbally attacked, having your professors take grade points away from you, some cases physically attacked by people people out there in the public space putting on your MAGA hats fighting the fight worried that any given moment someone's going to pour a drink at you attack you accost you that's brave you're the batman of the movement you're not the supermen the liberals are the supermen. The liberals are the supermen. And I don't mean that qualitatively because they can't be heard. The media protects them. Safe spaces protect them. Academia protects them. You know, civil society protects them. These are the reasonable people, the liberals. Meanwhile, they're the most irrational people out there. They're not brave

folks. They're cowards. They they are complete total cowards you are the ones who have taken the cuts and the broken legs you are the ones who've taken all the verbal assaults and had your stuff stolen and drinks poured on you you are the ones don't ever forget that smile a little bit knowing that you left the earth one day involved in a fight where there were actual consequences. Not the left, but whatever they say, calling people horrible names, attacking them, there's always someone always jumps to their defense.

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I can't put it in the show notes, but I'll sum it up for you because it's subscriber only. I don't want to drive you all nuts. But it talks about how the Trump economy has debunked basically a good chunk of liberal myths about how economics actually works. So the piece is by Mike Solon, S-O-L-O-N, at the Wall Street Journal, if you want to Google it yourself, but I believe it's subscriber only, but it's an excellent piece. And it talks about three things liberals told us would happen if Trump was elected and Trump enacted tax cuts and how Trumponomics would fail. happened if Trump was elected and Trump enacted tax cuts and how Trumponomics would fail.

They said, well, you know, the government's going to, of course, the tax cuts show are going to cost the government money. Oh, am I tired, tired, tired, tired of hearing this about the government? If you don't rob someone on the street, you haven't cost them any money. It's your money. Number one, that talking point is just ideologically stupid. If the government doesn't take your money, it doesn't cost the government anything government anything again if a dude doesn't rob you on the street it didn't cost the dude anything but what they're really trying to say is if we institute tax rate cuts that revenue to the government would decrease that is the precise way to say it that liberals won't because the focus group tested talking point is to cost the government money and people freak out because they think the government's free like it's funded by the money fairy. Okay, that is not true.

That is a matter of fact, incorrect. Now, here we go from the Wall Street Journal piece by Mike Salon. The CBO, Joe, now projects that additional revenue from this economic surge will offset 88.2% of the estimated 10-year cost of the tax cut. That contrasts sharply with the CBO's assessment that President Obama's economic slump lost $3.2 trillion in projected 10-year revenue during his last three years, almost five times more revenue lost than was gained by his 2013 tax hike. Oh, oh, really? Think about what he just beautifully summed up there. So right now, Joe, we're not even firing on all cylinders yet.

The 4.1% GDP growth number that they reported last week for the quarter was really nice. But it's not even close to what Reagan did annually at 6%. I believe in 85 or 86. What I'm trying to tell you is the ceiling on economic growth, we haven't reached it yet.

I think Trump is going to push us towards five and six annual. That 4.1% Joe was for a quarter, three months. Right. We're not even there yet. And we're already now due to the economic surge at 88% of the so-called cost of the 10 year tax cut. Meaning it costs, quote, cost the government almost nothing already. And we haven't even reached peak growth yet.

Contrast that, as Salon says in the piece, Mike Salon, not Salon, the Wall Street Journal, as he says in the piece, that Obama's tax hike lost $3.2 trillion. Five times more revenue was lost than was gained by his tax hike due to the lack of economic growth. Again, liberals, don't let these facts get in the way of a good time for you.

And a good time for you is rhetorical violence, screaming at us, yelling at us and attacking us for basic facts and data. We get that. But Trump's tax cut nearly two months in is already projected to have paid for itself we haven't even hit peak growth meanwhile wait i gotta because this is hard for liberals liberals tax cut trump nearly pays for itself tax hike hike Obama lost five times more money than it was projected to take in. Tax hike loses money. So I bring this up in simple liberal terms and liberal language, Joe,

to show them, to express to them in words, that even if your goal is to not cost the government money, in other words, to have the government steal more money from people, right? Even if that's your goal, Obama failed to meet your goal by a long shot while Trump's tax cut is already on

pace to pay for itself and not lose a dime. How about that? How about that, Mel? Again, don't let any of this get in the way of your silly stupid arguments. You know, I debated Chris Hahn on Judge Jeanine again on Saturday night.

Okay? I've been hearing about it. Which I enjoy. And I like Chris off the air. It's not personal. Chris and I email each other. But I'm telling you, this is why it's so easy to debate liberals, Joe. They just, guys, if you don't have the the facts it is impossible in a debate with someone who knows the facts to win a debate because people are just going to go and google it I said to him

on the air at one point on a debate three four weeks ago he said to me you know that's not true that Obama handed Trump a 1.9% growth rate he said it so convincingly joe yeah that i got off the air and i thought am i wrong like i know i do my homework and i go and i google it no of course i was right he handed him a 1.9 percent growth rate in the last quarter so i corrected him on here nothing crickets this happens all the time with libs the tax cut's gonna cost the government money actually the projections are it's gonna level out now we haven't even hit it may actually make the government money. Actually, the projections are it's going to level out now. We haven't even hit growth. It may actually make the government money like the Reagan tax cuts did where they doubled government revenue. No, Obama.

No, Obama's tax hike actually cost the government money. Okay, how about that? Have a nice day. These guys never, ever comprehend the facts. these guys never ever come prepared the facts aren't on the sooner or later your argument has to be buttressed by actual data or your argument is irrelevant you're just talking you're just spewing nonsense okay another popular myth undone by the trump tax cuts. I'm quoting the Wall Street Journal piece here. Is that the growth renaissance, excuse me,

the next popular myth undone by the growth renaissance is that corporate tax cuts benefit only rich shareholders. That's as far as I'm rich. The rich. Idiots. So stupid. I'm so tired of you guys. Seriously.

Liberal. I'm so tired of it. You have nothing new to bring to the table. All right, I go on. That wasn't in the piece. It'd be interesting if it was. Since the tax cut, Joe, the Labor Department reports that worker bonuses have hit the highest level ever recorded. Oh, really?

The Commerce Department, that evil government entity,e the commerce department reports that wages and salaries are growing almost 25 faster under president trump than mr obama the recent title wave of customer rebates also from utilities and cable companies also exposes the massive burden that high corporate taxes have been exposing on consumers oh Oh, okay. So it benefits the rich. The rich. Okay. So the Commerce Department is reporting that wages and salaries are growing 25% faster. Notice it didn't say for the rich.

That means for you. We have record worker bonuses at their jobs. Notice it doesn't say for the rich. It says for you. at their jobs notice it doesn't say for the rich it says for you but again libs don't let this get in the way of another stupid argument guys ladies i'm not messing with you here okay you need to be prepared i i do this show for you the original concept of this show for me and joe was to put a show out for during your commute where you would have facts and hard data you could debate your liberal friends with. You need to play the show twice or write this stuff down and memorize this stuff because it entirely debunks the nonsense your liberal friends say and they have nowhere to go. Nowhere.

I love statistics. Okay, the Commerce Department, that doesn't work for you? They are wrong. They're either really dumb or they're really liars. There is no option C. They don't have anything. It costs the government money. Actually, it's not.

We're already 88% of the way there on current projections. By the way, income tax revenue is the highest it's ever been. It benefits the rich. Actually, the Commerce Department says otherwise, that we've seen explosive growth in wages. So what are you talking? Are you just making this up? Finally, talking point number three, easily debunked again, Joe. Well, the stock market boom. Oh, that clearly benefits the rich only.

Oh, now this is where conservatives who and some of them we don't know the numbers start to back off stocks stocks stocks only rich people own stocks really you sure about that because that's not what the numbers say i quote again from the piece the stock market boom spurred by tax reform helps the middle class too oh wow a 2016 study in tax notes found that about 50 of all domestically owned corporate shares are in individual retirement accounts and pension plans the nest egg of working americans 50 for liberals that means half that's half of 100 which is whole half whole 50 are owned by people who have new stocks and IRAs and pension plans. If I'm not rich.

Oh, you may say, well, clearly the other 50% is for the rich. Oh, you'd be wrong there too. The piece goes on. Another 17.6% of shares are held by nonprofits and life insurance companies. Nonprofits, those bastions of the rich and life insurance companies. Wait, you're middle class, you don't have a life insurance companies. Nonprofits, those bastions of the rich, and life insurance companies. Wait, you're middle class, you don't have a life insurance policy? Record dividends and buybacks

could see total shareholder returns this year exceed one trillion, with the majority flowing to retirees or charities like the United Way. Libs, again, don't let any of these facts get in the way of your continued focus group tested to stupidity. I know the stupidity works for you, but I want you just for a second to turn.

Take the ideological blindness. You know, when I drive up my road here coming out of my community, there's a horse farm on the left. Now, I'm not really familiar with horses, but I don't know if it's a breeding thing or if it's they put. Do you know anything about horses? They put these blinders on the horses. Yeah, I know. But the blinders and they have hooves. Yeah, that's about it.

I don't know anything about it. But they put these blinders on these horses. I don't know if it's mating season or what. I have no idea. All I know is every time I drive by the horse with the blinder mask on, I think those are my liberal friends. They go through life eating the grass on the ground with the blinders on. As long as they're fed and they can't see anything around them, they're happy.

The horse is happy. He's got the blinders on. The guy's got like a bathtub full of water. I love watching the horses. I love animals. They go. They drink the water out of it. I'm not kidding.

There's an actual bathtub there full of water. And they eat the grass, but they don't see anything. And life is good. They're fat, dumb, and happy. This is the modern liberal. Blind to the world. Blind to facts, data, and reality. Because they're happy.

Because they're happy. Because they don't think any of this stuff is eventually going to infect them. It's all BS. Wake up. My gosh, wake up. We're running out of time to fight the stupid. It's spreading all right folks

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