The Dan Bongino Show - Ep. 786 John Brennan Should Be Very Concerned

Episode Date: August 16, 2018

Summary: In this episode I address the real reasons disgraced former CIA Director John Brennan is panicking about the revoking of his security clearance. I also discuss the liberal media’s disingenuous efforts to attack the Trump economic bump.   News Picks: This Daily Caller piece addresses the George Papadopoulos plea deal.   Why did this government employee lose his security clearance after reporting irregularities about one of the players in the Spygate scheme?    This November piece from the Hill covers the leak investigations going on within the DOJ.   Sara Carter has some interesting new reporting on newly revealed Bruce Ohr/Chris Steele texts.    This Investors Business Daily piece throughly debunks the “Obama handed Trump a strong economy” nonsense.   Denmark is not a socialist country.   The American public trusts Trump, more than the Democrats, on the economy.    Liberals are losing their minds because Jeff Sessions ate in this restaurant.    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 we're not gonna make america great again it was never that great yeah we don't do this isn't saturday night live like we don't do cold opens on this show but uh joe played that for me that was uh that's joe but that wasn't actually said the second part uh at that event but that was andrew cuomo liberal uh joker clown hack governor of New York yesterday inciting a firestorm. America's never great. And then Joe, of course, added that in. So, listen, I have nothing to add to this kind of stupidity.

Nothing. I just think Joe does a great job pulling movie quotes, making these people look silly all on their own. Producer Joe, how are you doing? Doing well, Daniel. Doing well. This is the new democrat party folks this is sadly who they are i'm not talking about all democrat voters let me be clear i mean that i'm talking about the democrat party it's being hijacked by a bunch of looney tunes

andrew cuomo the governor of new york actually said that oh man well thank you yesterday for our most downloaded show ever um sheesh the show is just growing so fast. It is. Every day we wake up with it. We're like, I think we'd be happy with X number of downloads. And then X number of downloads becomes old by the following week because it's growing so fast. Thanks to you. We really, really appreciate it.

You all make the show. It's all for you. So thanks a lot. I got a lot to talk about. Yes. I missed some stories yesterday because yesterday the Rachel maddow story took over the whole show but uh the media is trying to flip the script on the economy don't let them do it don't let them do it they're trying to now give obama credit but i'm going to do a thorough debunking

and eviscerate this nonsense today because it was the media themselves excusing the obama economy and blaming it on secular stagnation and other things you know excusing the obama economy and blaming it on secular stagnation and other things you know in other words obama's economy was terrible and blaming it on other things in the past and we're going to go back and we're going to make sure we do that but i have some updates to uh on yesterday's show which are pretty fascinating all right on today's show brought to you by buddies at the farmer's dog a dog food company's claim to use all natural ingredients but what kind of beef or carrots can sit on a shelf for years some of that stuff really stinks we can't i mean literally do we can't eat highly processed food every meal and be healthy

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Plus, you get free shipping. Just go to thefarmersdog.com to get 50% off your two-week trial. Farmersdog.com slash Dan. All right. So, interesting development yesterday. First, before we get to the economic stuff. So, George Papadopoulos is our buddy. Papa D, Papa Dizzle.

I told him, don't take this plea. Do not take this plea. This guy is clearly now the victim of an ongoing scam to set up the Trump team. This guy is going, history is going to judge this man far differently. So Papadopoulos' wife spoke to Chuck Ross at the Daily Caller. I will, I'll make sure I put the piece up in the show notes. Please read it. And thankfully, Joe, this is great news.

This is a fantastic development. Please read it. And thankfully, Joe, this is great news. This is a fantastic development. Papadopoulos' wife is saying that she hopes that George does not, in fact, take this plea deal for these charges. Now, you know George Papadopoulos. You know the allegations that he met with this Australian official and disclosed that there was maybe some dirt on Hillary. I'm telling you the guy was set up.

Do not accept this deal. Everybody needs to fight back right now. Everybody. Mike Flynn too. It is time to fight back. The Mueller probe is clearly at this point, a witch hunt. This was clearly a setup.

The Trump team was framed. It's now becoming obvious. And it is the obligation of people involved in this case right now. Please. I am begging you to not accept these deals. Please don't do it. This story is bigger than just the people involved. This story is about the weaponization of government to target a political campaign

and the appointment of a special counsel to later on and turn the heat back on the Trump campaign despite the fact that they were the ones victimized by this nonsense. Mike Flynn, Papadopoulos, they have to fight back. This is the time. This is the time now to turn the heat back on the government and make them come to the table with what they've got.

Thank you all for the emails, by the way, to the Rachel Maddow show yesterday, disclosing the fact that Mifsud, I strongly believe at this point, was a U.S. intelligence asset. I think here's what has to happen. Let me give you just a simple path forward here. Discovery motions need to be filed everywhere. Everywhere, Joe. If you are Mike Flynn, if you are George Papadopoulos right now, discovery motions have to be filed everywhere. I want to see everything you got.

This is the United States of America, ladies and gentlemen, despite the ridiculous, outrageous comments of Andrew Cuomo. This is still the greatest country in the history of mankind. And damn it, it's worth defending. The principles of the Constitution it it's worth defending the principles

of the constitutional republic are worth defending file discovery motions file them over and over if they are going to prosecute you on a case where they're alleging you lied to them then make them produce the information make them produce the 302s the interview summaries by the fbi make them produce everything they have on missifsud. If the allegations against Papadopoulos are that he met with Mifsud, this Maltese professor in April, that again starts this whole thing by allegedly telling Papadopoulos about some Russian dirt on Hillary and the entire bedrock of the case is that this guy is some Russian asset, then darn it, make the FBI produce the information that led him to believe as such.

Because I'm telling you, Mifsud was not a Russian asset. Mifsud is linked deeply to Claire Smith of the UK Intelligence Services, the Joint Intelligence Committee, to the Link Campus, to the training of European Union law enforcement. This guy's deeply connected through,

you see a bunch of photographs, a bunch of prior contacts. This guy is deeply connected, Mifsud, to Western intelligence. Ladies and gentlemen, he's connected to friendlies. I'm telling you, this guy was set up. I know this is hard, but we're in a real fight right now. And it's very tough for me, Joe, understandably so,

not being in their predicament, whether it's Flynn or whether it's Papadopoulos. It's very tough for me to give them advice. I'm not going through what Flynn and Papadopoulos are going through. They're under federal charges. They've got the boot of Bob Mueller on their necks right now. They're probably being threatened with greater charges if they don't plea out.

I can't say to you, well, I understand what that's like because I don't. They're probably going to be bankrupted by legal fees. There's no easy way for me to say to you, oh, don't worry about it. I get it.

Me saying this is I can't put myself in your shoes here but your fight is a bigger fight right now I can only fight the way I know how you know I left my job in the secret service my pension luckily things worked out in the long run but as Joe well knows they didn't work out in the short run no

things got tough for me not as tough as they are for you right now. But you've got to fight back. Make them put their cards on the table. Make them show what they've got. The exposing of this scandal is a big deal. It is a huge deal. And now we're starting to see panics at it.

All right. Moving on. Because this is important. It's related. But just please, please fight back. It is representative of a much larger fight. People will rally

behind you. People are tired of the smaller probe. They are tired of the switch on. They are tired of the attacks on this president. They are tired of it. They will rally behind you and right now public opinion matters. You know, for as much as I can't stand what the Clintons did in office, remember Susan McDougal?

She spent, gosh, I don't know how many years, but a lot of time in jail defending Bill Clinton at the time. Listen, I don't agree with Bill Clinton, and I don't know what McDougal's involvement was at the time or how much she knew or didn't know. But the public will rally around you. Please fight back. Please do not take these pleas. Once you accept these pleas, that you plead guilty, that you lied when we know you didn't at least in the context

of of of the way the fbi has framed this our fight gets more difficult because then joe the fight when we start fighting for you what is the what do the liberals say well they pled guilty right yeah please please please fight back this muller probe is a disaster all right on that front john brennan is panicking john brennan yesterday had a security clearance um revoked by the white house yes yes yeah all the liberals are freaking out authoritarianism tyranny yeah whatevs yeah sorry trump he's a real authoritarian. Cutting taxes, cutting regulations, and cutting government power. Yeah, that's the exact opposite of an authoritarian. Folks, Brennan is panicking.

Why is Brennan panicking? I have an article, hat tip to Steve, great article he sent in. On the Hill, I want you to read in the show notes today. From November 14th of 2017. Why is Brennan panicking, Joe? Brennan is panicking because Jeff Sessions and the Justice Department have active criminal investigations into 27 classified leaks right now. Do you really believe John Brennan's fingerprints are not on at least some of those?

Brennan is freaking out for a reason. Brennan has to know he may be criminally on the hook for some of these leaks if the evidence presents itself that he knew authorized it or, even worse, did it himself. Brennan is in full panic mode, ladies and gentlemen. There is a reason he had his security clearance stripped. Trump is not the dope the liberal media wants you to believe he is. Trump likely has this information. There's probably a good, strong chance that Brennan at least has his fingerprints or his agency's fingerprints

while he was in charge on those one of those 27 if not more classified leaks to the media he is in a world of trouble read the Hill article again I don't want to get into the I know it's a flashpoint with everyone I'm just telling you on the Take It East front, there are things happening here. They may not be happening at your pace. I get it. But there are things happening. I believe that the investigation is about to come to an end on a lot of these classified leaks. And that's what you think.

Trump just made this up out of nowhere. Joe, this. Hey, we're going to pull uh secret clearances from comey from from uh hayden from from brennan he trump does not do these things uh impulsively like the media he may say some things impulsively but he does not do these things without deliberating on right there's a reason this came up the reason is is Brennan is probably going to be implicated at a minimum, at a secondary level, in potentially authorizing some of these leaks. That investigation is most likely coming to an end soon. But Brennan's freaking out because his fingerprints

are all over this. Don't forget this. Here's where Brennan's in a world of trouble, folks. As far back as 2015, The Guardian, a left-leaning UK-based paper, was reporting on Brennan's contacts. Brennan's contacts as far back as 2015. The story came out later, just to be precise on that. The Guardian was reporting on Brennan's contacts with the gchq head robert hannigan in the uk who is the gchq why does this matter how does this relate to what's going on right now

the gchq is the united kingdom's equivalent of our nsa they hoover up and vacuum up a lot of signals intelligence why was brennan meeting with them why was brennan exchanging information potentially as far back as 2015 with not only the gchq in the united kingdom but other countries as well and information that may have been about the trump team folks what happened to bob hannigan now just to be clear bob hannigan is the head of the gchq the again the uk equivalent of the nsa left-leaning papers themselves were reporting on him meeting flying in fly this is all out there on the record. You can look this up yourself. They reported themselves on the GCHQ head, Hannigan, flying into D.C. himself for director-to-director level meetings. What were they talking about?

What was Brennan doing visiting with a foreign intelligence entity while the left-wing media was reporting that they had information on the Trump team they wanted to pass? Now, you may say to yourself, why would the left-wing media out Brennan like that? Oh, no, no, no. You're reading this thing all wrong. no no no you're reading this thing all wrong you have to remember at that time late 2015 2016 and certainly through early 2017 don't forget this because i get this a lot they go dan i don't understand obviously what brennan was doing with foreign intelligence was illicit immoral and unethical why would the left-wing media out? You follow where I'm going with this show? I get this question a lot.

I'm with you so far, yep. You're making a mistake. You're making a present-time bias error. You're viewing it through the lens of what we know today, not what was known back then. In 2015 and 2016, the media is being fed these leaks, these classified leaks, the information that would later become the dossier. Trump is involved in organized crime in Russia, all BS.

They're being fed this. Ladies and gentlemen, the media hates Trump and they believe this. They start reporting on Brennan's contacts with foreign intelligence, grotesquely immoral contacts, unethical, and depending on the leaks, potentially illegal, on what he did with the information, the media was reporting on them to buttress their claims about how serious this Russian collusion and Trump's connections to shady figures were. Do you see my point?

The media's reporting is, look, the Brits and everyone else, they're reporting all this information about Trump. This is so serious. Trump is in so much trouble. Intelligence agencies all over the world are telling John Brennan, the media doesn't know at the time the information is junk, that it's a steaming pile of horse manure now what's the problem now that the information has been roundly discredited and debunked the source christopher steel's been debunked the information's been debunked and the information

has been roundly criticized as garbage and has been used to spy in a U.S. court despite being discredited information. Now the media cannot go back and unwrite those stories. The Guardian, CNN. Do I have to read this CNN headline again? You know what? It's always worth reading again because this is that good. CNN headline. Here we go. This from april 14th as far as april 14 2017 they were still

reporting this look this up yourself british intelligence passed trump associates communications with russians on to u.s counterparts by jim shudo pamelaela Brown, and Eric Bradner, CNN, April 14, 2017. CNN was reporting on this. CNN themselves thought they were buttressing the claims that this crisis was so severe that even foreign intelligence entities were spying on Trump. They never anticipated later on that this thing was going to turn out to be garbage and that John Brennan was leading them around on a leash. Does it make sense now?

The listeners can't get enough of that, by the way. They love that. Listen to what's going on now, and it explain why number one this is what i'm trying to get to number one why his security clearance brennan was revoked yesterday secondly why the media is losing their mind over it and and um and third why the media is actually going to be their own worst enemy here his security clearance was revoked because they know what's going on. Sessions Justice Department has been conducting these investigations since basically late last year. They've been conducting investigations into 27 classified leaks of information,

potential felonies. Read the article yourself. It's in the Hill. That's not a right-leaning outlet. No one's making it up. Those cases have likely come full circle, Joe. Because they've come full circle, they likely have a good case against John Brennan. Therefore, Brennan's case and his security clearance is probably wrapped up, the security clearance out the window. The media freaking out because brennan's team and maybe brennan himself were likely sources for them in the past and the media is implicated themselves in writing stories about the illicit passing of information between foreign intelligence and u.s intelligence on u.s citizens They thought they were supporting the claim that Trump was guilty as sin.

What they were really writing articles about was John Brennan's guilty as sin. Leading around foreign intelligence, getting them to pass them information on the Trump team, information that later turned out to be false. Brennan's been the puppet master the whole time. I told you this four or five months ago. Now they can't retract these stories.

What are they going to do? CNN going to pretend that story doesn't exist? The big scandal here, the information laundering operation, the spying scandal, and the framing of Donald Trump, the framing component and the information laundering operation, the spying scandal, and the framing of Donald Trump, the framing component and the information laundering scandal are interrelated. The framing heavily involves UK assets. Mifsud, the guy who starts this whole thing

with Papadopoulos, is connected to UK intelligence assets. United Kingdom intelligence assets. Ladies and gentlemen, let me just, because, you know, it's unfair to you to keep it going. I go into this in detail in my book, but I'm going to tell you this. I listen, I could, we're going to hold it and tease it, whatever. Let me just get this out there.

When you read the book, it'll become crystal clear that there were two primary motivations based on their own public statements, stuff we know about in the past. United Kingdom intelligence assets had two probable primary motivations for taking down Donald Trump. Number one was the policy on torture, or what they call torture, what we would call enhanced interrogation. These are viable disagreements to have, but this would have caused a real problem with our relationship if what they thought Trump's policy was going to be actually came to fruition. I know that's a little confusing, but the British had an actual reason people who were deeply involved and connected to their intelligence community to get invited would have hurt our information sharing relationship because our posture on enhanced interrogation and their

posture on torture had to marry up a bit to keep this information exchange going. Does that make sense? Secondly, former higher ups in British Intel, and this is where our book has information you're not going to find anywhere else. Former higher ups in British Intel did not like Donald Trump's approach to the travel ban they saw it as anti-Muslim when it wasn't some of these people their own public statements indicate strongly that they had an incentive to make sure Donald Trump was taken out the real collusion scandal ladies and gentlemen is between intelligence representatives and connected people

in the United Kingdom and John Brennan which in turn were used by the FBI and our own law enforcement. That's the scandal. Now, making this thing even worse, doubling down on stupid. Another incredible piece by Rowan Scarborough, who's been doing some just phenomenal investigative reporting at The Washington Times. It'll be in the show notes today upon Gino dot com. Again, please subscribe to my email list. It really helps us get the information out there. The spy that was used, who was deeply connected again to UK intelligence sources and the United States, Stefan Halperjo.

and the United States, Stefan Halper, Joe. So there's a guy, Adam Lovinger, who notices some very shady-looking contracts between representatives of the United States government, very specific offices, and Stefan Halper, who Chuck Ross indicates to his reporting, is the spy we used to spy on the Trump team. This guy's connected to the CIA, to family relationships and a past history of working

with them, and to British intelligence. He goes and he talks at conferences with his British intelligence friends. He's deeply connected to people over there in the United Kingdom Intelligence Service, Halper that is. So Joe, this is crazy. A whistleblower, Adam Lovinger, So, Joe, this is crazy. A whistleblower, Adam Lovinger, notices that Halper was paid $411,000 from September 26, 2016 through March until last March. Wow. What was he paid for? You know what's really incredible? That's roughly the same amount of time that the FBI is using the information

from British intelligence, Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence guy, and contacts in the United Kingdom when they're also shuttling information on Trump. Was Halpern the conduit? Now, when the contract's exposed, the whistleblower, Joe, has his security clearance stripped. Instead of them actually looking into this grotesque amount of money paid to this guy, they has his security clearance stripped. Instead of them actually looking into this grotesque amount of

money paid to this guy, they strip his security clearance. What the heck are these people hiding? How deeply, how deep does this intelligence sharing operation between the United Kingdom and the United States go?

Folks, it's time to take a bath on this and come clean. It is time for Papadopoulos to drop this plea, for Flynn to drop this plea, and make them all fess up with discovery motions on what they've got. Put your cards on the table. This Mueller probe is going to be over soon. Public opinion has turned on this thing dramatically. Bob Mueller and his team cannot continue this witch hunt forever. This tyrannical witch hunt, violating all the rules of judicial legislative decency at this point, doing their own thing whenever they want. This cannot continue forever. Discovery motions, make them bring the information to the table. Expose what Halper was doing.

Expose who Mifsud was working for. Expose how deeply the channels between the United Kingdom and the United States were. Expose Brennan's leaks. Expose this whole thing. All right. Sorry, I spent a little longer on that than I wanted to. But it's an important story, ladies and gentlemen. And it deserves sunlight. That is, and gentlemen, and it deserves sunlight.

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All right. So moving on to the economy here for a moment. These are important stories I wanted to get to yesterday. So the new, new, new narrative on the economy is the Democrats are get to yesterday. So the new, new, new narrative on the economy is the Democrats are in a real bind

on the economy, Joe, and the bind is this. Their messaging is off, and it's off because they really don't have an easy out. You think? Yeah, because what they, here's the,

put yourself in the Democrat Party's shoes right now on the messaging front. If they talk the economy up, whether for better or for worse, I'm not saying this is right, even though it's a Republican president, but the president, the executive usually gets credit for the economy. Again, I'm not suggesting that's even true. The president can do things to get out of the way of the economy like Trump's been doing and let the American entrepreneur take off. And it could do things to slow it down like Obama did. But really, it's the American entrepreneur that grows the economy.

Having said that, the president gets credit. It's just the way it works. You don't have to agree with it. It just is. The Democrats' option one is to be optimistic and talk up the economy, but they can't do that because Trump is in the White House and they can't stand Donald Trump. They hate Donald Trump. Oh, you know what? Folks, I'm sorry.

I missed something. This is important. I just want to close. I'll redo this in a second. But Hannigan, I forgot to add this before hannigan the gchq the british nsa guy that was talking to brennan at the director to director level sorry i missed this before right after trump's elected by the way he suspiciously resigns he says oh for personal reasons.

Guy's the head of the NSA. Out the door like that. How about that? How about that? What happened? Google it. Hannigan resigns. You can read the stories yourself.

They were stunned. Again, I'm just telling you that's the real scandal, the exchange of information between the United Kingdom and the United States. Sorry to throw that in there like that haphazardly, but I didn't want to leave that point hanging. That resignation is highly suspicious and should open up. That alone you should be very suspicious about. He was the guy dealing with Brennan.

I wonder what he knows. All right, forgive me again. Getting back to the economy. So the Democrats, option one, talk up the economy, be optimistic. They can't do it because Trump will get credit. Well, what's option two? Well, it's obvious. Well, we could talk down the economy.

We could crap all over the economy, say how awful things are and blame it on Trump, run against Trump, drive up his negatives. And there you go. We win. Isn't this all great? Well, what's the problem with that the problem is obvious nobody wants a negative message nobody wants a negative the economy stinks message by the way when it's getting uh pretty obvious to people across middle america that the economy's

doing quite well how do they know that because they're living it they're seeing themselves get raises they're seeing themselves get bonuses they're seeing in some places home values go up. They're seeing their availability of disposable income in their households go up. People are starting to feel what the economy, a powerful economy, feels like, and it doesn't feel like it did under Obama. Believe me, the Democrats know this. Public sentiment, consumer confidence, right direction, wrong direction polls for the country are all turning in the Republicans' direction, and they know Trump is going to get credit. The Democrats do not want to be seen like Debbie Downers, so they don't know what to do, so they lash out.

The lashing out takes the form of identity politics. This is why you're seeing, by the way, this doubling down on Trump's a racist, Trump trump's a xenophobe he's a misogynist this is all they have the democrats don't have a coherent message because they don't really stand for anything but but concentrated government power the only thing they have the best way to sum this up is the democrats at this point can't get you to vote for them they can only get you to vote against the other guy. And they think it's working because when you look at generic ballot polls, Joe, like, you know, generic Republican, generic Democrat in the midterms, you'll see that the Democrats are still ahead by 43, 43 to 32 percent, and they're up 11 points, but they're still not at even close to 50% approval in these generic

ballots. It's 43, 32. Now they're trying to figure out a new track, track three. And here it is. I'm always here to break the news to you. We're about two weeks ahead of the cycle. So I brought this up a little while ago. This is going to be the new line of attack. You're seeing it. You're hearing it now. It's starting to appear. We brought this up in a show, what, about a month ago? That this is where they were going to go with this. The new line of attack is, well, the economy may be doing well,

but Obama did it, and the media's jumping right on board. But the media has to answer, Joe, just like they will for having reported on the UK intelligence, United States, John Brennan connection. Remember they reported on that, and they can't unre reported on the UK intelligence United States John Brennan connection. Remember they reported on that and they can't unreport on it. The media reported on the crappy economy under Obama and they tried to excuse it away.

Investors business daily piece will be in the show notes today. This is terrific. And I quote the New York Times again, which is now alluding to along with the left-wing media. Remember the new narrative. Narrative one, the economy's great. The Democrats can't use it. Narrative two, the economy's bad. The Democrats can't use it because they don't want to be Debbie Downer. Narrative three, the economy's good, but Obama did it. Okay. Investor's Business Daily quote. In fact, the New York Times itself described Obama's economy this way in August of 2016. For three quarters in a row, the growth rate of the economy has hovered around a mere 1%.

In the last quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016, the economy expanded at feeble annual rates of 0.9 and 0.8 respectively. The initial reading for the second quarter of this year released on Friday was a disappointing 1.2%. So let's just go some of the adjectives here. Feeble, hovered, mere, disappointing. This is the New York Times themselves. hovered, mere, disappointing. This is the New York Times themselves. The same New York Times whose editorial folks right now

are trying to turn a corner and claim that the Obama economy was rocking and rolling. But it wasn't rocking and rolling in August of 2016 when the New York Times was trying to excuse away the Obama economy.

I got more. But the reason I talked about this today in light of the UK United States intelligence channel, that is going to be the major, major scandal when this all comes out. Hannigan, Brennan, all this, why Brennan's panicking, why Brennan's security clearance is revoked is because the media themselves reported on it. And when you ask questions, understand, I like that. I love your emails. But when you ask questions, well like that i love your emails but when you ask questions well why would the media make themselves look foolish why would they report on this intelligence channel because they thought it was reaffirming their claims about how serious of a criminal donald trump was do you understand that the same narrative applies here the same narrative

applies with their reporting on the economy what's that don't view it through today's lens go back to august of 2016 the obama economy is unquestionably stagnant the media needs to defend obama the media writes these stories in order to set up a bigger narrative the bigger narrative which i'm going to get to in a second with some other quotes, is that, well, you know what? This may just be the new normal. Are you tracking, Joe? Yes, sir. Just like the Intel story was written to buttress the claims about how serious foreign intelligence reporting on Trump. It was fake. The stories being written about the economy at the end of the Obama administration were stories trying to get Hillary elected. Like, ah, don't worry.

It's not Obama's fault. It's not his policies, Joe. This is just a new normal. But now they can't unwrite these stories. Oh, you think I'm making this up? Here's more. Wait, there's more. Here's more.

Wait, there's more. On January 27, 2017, after the government reported that GDP growth for all of 2016 was a mere 1.6%, the weakest in five years. Keep in mind, this is right as Obama left office. So all your lefty friends, oh, Obama handed him a flaming football of an economy. It was awesome. We were driving the ball down the field. It was 1.6%, the weakest in five years when he handed the economy off to Trump. Please stop the nonsense and stop humiliating yourself.

You're embarrassing yourself, okay? The New York Times show announced after that that, quote, President Trump's target for economic growth just got a little more distant. In other words, the Obama economy was stagnant. The Times had to acknowledge it. But what they were trying to insinuate by writing about Trump is,

well, it's not Obama's fault. This is the new normal. There's not much Trump's going to be able to do. Go back and view it through the lens at the time. The New York Times actually believed this stuff that it wasn't obama's fault the economy was in a new normal of slowness it wasn't going to recover and that was the end of it the only thing that obama did to help the economy was leave office leave office you're right that was the best movie yes thank god for term limits right

i'm still upset at myself for missing your joke the other oh that's okay i'm still getting emails on that i guess people are a few days behind now in case again you think we're making any of this up august 2016 the new york times declared that quote the underlying reality reality of low growth will haunt whoever wins the White House. Yeah, baby, this is it. So now the articles in the show notes today, please, I'm asking you to keep it up on your phone. Take some screenshots like I do. If you don't want to keep the article up on the phone, take some screenshots of it, right? Get those screenshots and show them to your friends when they argue that Obama handed him a wonderful economy. Take screenshot number one. Where the New York Times talks about the feeble, mere, disappointing growth rate. Screenshot number two, that the 2016 growth rate was the worst in five years right before he handed off the economy.

Them also saying there was nothing Trump was going to be able to do about it basically and this one the underlying reality of low growth will haunt whoever wins the white house but it didn't but low growth didn't haunt whoever won the white house the growth rate turned around almost immediately wait wait one more this is in the same article you may say oh is it, is it just the New York Times? Oh, no. Oh, no. No, no, no. By the way, I got to get Matt Palumbo to do a debunk on this. This would be great.

The next month, Joe, CBS News reported that, quote, with U.S. economic growth stuck in low gear for several years, it's leading many economists to worry that the country has entered a prolonged period where any expansion will be weaker than it has been in the past. Wrong. Not what happened. All of a sudden, Trump gets into office, as Joe said, Obama did us a favor by not passing the torch to Hillary Clinton. Right. And look what happened. The economy almost immediately turns around. Growth rates pick up. They almost double. And now the Democrats are left with they're sitting there uh it's like they just got out of a rainstorm they're sitting out of the door and they can't figure out how to dry off quick enough so they're sitting in the door because they don't want to get the the foyer of their house wet what do we do what do we do what do we do you guys just stay

out there in the rain and the miserable weather you said was happening all right you guys just stay out there don't get the rest of the house wet you guys can stay outside don't let them get away with this i think one of the things we can offer you in this show not to toot our own horns or anything but having run for office and joe having been involved in terrestrial radio for 20 years having heard every bs line from every politician known to man in the maryland region walking through the studio cbm we've been there i've seen it i've met with a lot of these folks and people who try to sway you either way when you run for office i see the bs i see how they write about you i've been interviewed by the washington post and the new york times and all these folks politico they. They're BSers. They're there for one purpose and one person only.

To protect the image of the Democrat Party. That's it. These aren't real journalists, these people. They will now try to flip the script. They can't deal with option one because they can't talk up Trump's economy. They can't deal with option two because they don't want to talk down the economy. They'll look like idiots. So option three is going to be Obama did it despite the fact that the

media themselves reported that Obama didn't do it. I love my job. It's just frustrating. I covered this last night at my NRA TV show too. It is just frustrating dealing with these people every day, but they're so easy. All you have to do is know basic facts and you'll be fine.

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we've seen going on with with uh with the censorship on the internet uh you're seeing kind of a revival of this hey the government has to get involved the government has to get involved i did the show last week i'm not going to repeat it but i'm telling you this is a huge mistake. Just look at Democrat Senator Mark Warner's 23-page report on proposed regulation, Democrat Senator Warner, proposed regulations for the internet to show you that the Democrats are suckering you. I'm telling you they're trying to bait you in to both net neutrality and hate speech and Communications Decency act proposals online so when the democrats take over the senate take over the house or take over the presidency or god forbid take over them all there are going to be a massive volume of new quote hate speech stuff which is

going to be directed nearly exclusively at conservative online content and these laws are going to be used as vehicles to kick you off the internet. Folks, there's a reason a Democrat senator put this together. The reason is not because any of this aligns with conservative values or a free and open internet. There's a reason the overwhelming majority of people that support net neutrality are Democrats and liberals. They are hoping and praying for the government to get involved as a primary regulator of

internet content as a way to suppress conservative thought. Now, one of the scams they used in selling you the net neutrality argument, and net neutrality, just for those of you who are unfamiliar with what it is in a nutshell, is net neutrality, they wanted to use Title II to regulate the internet like a public utility. In other words, their line is a bit is a bit is a bit. In other words, a bit of information. That's actually not what it was.

It was a nonsensical garbage thing meant to reduce pricing incentives in the market for basically internet and broadband content. So what happened? It would be like telling airlines that they couldn't change prices based on seats, based on buying behavior, based on timing. You need a seat last minute. It's typically more expensive. The airlines do that. Why? Why would an airline do

that? An airline would do that because they need to plan. They need to know which routes are filling up, which aren't. If everybody buys a ticket at the last minute all the time, the airlines are going to have no idea how many people want that flight or don't up until the last minute. They're not going to know how to plan. They like to sell the seats early. It's the same reason hotel rooms, you know, hotel rooms, they want, you know, these hotel rooms want to plan out. They want to plan out their occupancy. The internet is priced no differently. You use a lot of internet. They're going to have to somehow price that out to make the big users and big demanders of the service somehow compensate them for what they're providing. Now, one of the scare tactics used with net neutrality, Joe, was what?

Was, oh my gosh, if we don't do this, internet speeds are going to be slowed down for everyone. They're going to throttle us. These internet companies are going to slow us. We're not going to be able to watch our Netflix. Daily Caller article, yesterday's show notes, internet speeds are up since net neutrality was dropped. So just to be clear, the liberal argument was, gosh, if we don't keep this net neutrality, they're going to throttle us. Our internet speeds are going to be slowed down. Internet speeds, Joe, we went from 12th in the world to 6th in the world in internet speeds since net neutrality has been dropped.

Guys, are we even interested in facts anymore? If net neutrality was designed to prevent them from, in other words, if we pass this, this is going to guarantee fast internet speeds. And if we don't pass, they're going to throttle us and slow us down. We didn't pass it. Internet speeds are up. It entirely debunks and discredits your argument. The reason these companies, that internet speeds would have slowed down if they passed net neutrality, Joe, is they weren't going to expand broadband. And investment in broadband was even slowing down because these companies couldn't make their money back for the investment if the government was going to regulate them to death. is not a complicated argument please don't

get suckered into this net neutrality debate to thinking the government's going to solve your problems it is not okay another story i missed yesterday kind of incredible again the hypocrisy of the libs on this today is a media left-wing media coordination day i don't know if you missed the story george you see this one so media outlets across the country today are coordinating their op-ed sections their opinion sections their editorial sections to write nasty op-eds about Donald Trump. I don't care. They're private entities. They can do what they want.

But I find it awfully hypocritical when Sinclair Broadcasting, which owns a bunch of stations around the country, they had a coordinate... Now, Joe, you're in broadcasting. You know what must-read stuff is, right? When you get a thing from... Now, you're a privately-owned station,

but ladies and gentlemen, what'll happen is, you know, public service announcements and things like that, right, Joe? Stations, must-reads are nothing new. Am I right on this? Nothing new. Must-read content is as old

as television itself. News stations get it all the time, with PSAs, whatever it may be. So Sinclair Broadcasting, Television itself. News stations get it all the time. PSAs, whatever it may be. So Sinclair Broadcasting, which owns a bunch of television stations around the country, a while back, you may remember this story, but it points out again,

disgusting, disturbing liberal hypocrisy, right? Sinclair got a must-read message, which they read in their stations across the country during the show, which was basically about their commitment to real news over fake news. I didn't even think what the what was said was controversial joe the media the left-wing hacks lost their mind oh my gosh this is coordination coordination look at these guys the sinclair why because sinclair is a considered at least

a conservative leaning company so it was a huge controversy then. Today, we actually have editorial columns at major newspapers all across the country openly colluding and agreeing to write nasty Donald Trump op-eds. This is not a secret. They've openly colluded to do this. And where's the media on this

crickets yep these people are complete frauds they're frauds these are not genuine actors they are frauds. They don't care about, the whole point of their argument was on Sinclair. This is collusion. This is a conspiracy to put out a coordinated message on must-read stuff, which is, by the way, has happened, as I just said, over and over. And yet when they, when liberal media outlets actively collude

and don't even hide it, they call for this. Nobody cares. These people are complete phonies folks all right it's another story in the wall street journal yesterday which was important jason riley put it together about the continued war this is important folks this is this topic very sensitive to me i have said over and over over that I think the greatest untapped resource in the United States are some of our failing cities. When you drive through cities, and I've lived in a lot of them, that's why, and you just

see the despair and the poverty and the deprivation and the crime, you think to yourself, my gosh, what happened here? One of the reasons it's always been sensitive to me is I worked in them as police officers in one of the worst precincts in New York City. And I always remember driving through Baltimore when I lived in Maryland thinking, what happened to this place? Back in the 1950s, Baltimore's median income was above the national average. Baltimore's median income now is 22% below the national average Joe you've driven through Baltimore it's tough

it's a tough place folks you get out of the inner harbor and start going through Baltimore and driving through you see poverty and despair all over the place it's sad to watch it really is folks the Democrats have done this it is their liberal far-left policies that have absolutely destroyed any chance that people in the minority communities in some of these inner cities will

ever have at the america you and i have you know that that uh john edwards who was uh in an unethical horrible actor uh in the political, the vice presidential candidate under John Kerry, right? John Edwards did say one thing, though, that made sense, although it didn't make sense like he thought it would make sense. He said there are two Americas. You know what? He was right. There are two Americas, but John Edwards helped create it. Sadly, minority communities in Black and Hispanic America and some of these struggling cities will have no chance at the economy you have, will have no chance at the education system a lot of us have, will have no chance at the quality healthcare system a lot of us have.

Why? Because these cities have been run into the ground by liberals. So Jason Riley wrote an interesting piece yesterday about another battle against minority America in America's cities. New York has gone to war with Uber. Listen, I'm not a fan or not a fan of Uber or Lyft or any of them. They've made some decisions I disagree with too, especially getting involved in some of the political stuff.

I'm just telling you that New York is at war again. They've been at war against school choice for minority children against job opportunities for minority children by taxing the hell out of their citizens but Uber here's the core of the article Riley says this Joe Riley again who happens to be black and doesn't matter to us but matters

to the left of course because that's all they care about is identity politics and the melanin content of your skin black New Yorkers have had a hard time for years getting a cab they care about is identity politics and the melanin content of your skin. Black New Yorkers have had a hard time for years getting a cab in New York. That's true. That's a fact. I know I'm not going to give you these testimonials.

I can just tell you I've heard the stories. They have, and we should not deny that. They've had a tough time. Getting around New York outside the buses and trains has been difficult historically for a lot of black New Yorkers. Riley writes this in the piece. He's been a victim of it himself. We can't pretend it didn't happen.

It did. It does happen. I'm not claiming every taxi driver is a racist. That's not what I'm saying at all. I'm just saying there are real stories of real people who've had problems getting cabs in New York who happen to be black.

Uber has largely eliminated that problem for working class minority black and Hispanic folks inside New York. You queue up the app, get in a car,

you go back home. It has solved a huge transportation problem for black New Yorkers. So what does the New York City mayor do? Oh, he puts a cap on the number of new Uber and Lyft vehicles he'll allow in New York. Why? Because he was given a bunch of money by the Taxi Commission

who lobbied him to get this thing to go away. Listen, I get it. I understand. The business world is tough. Creative destruction happens all the time. I get it. I'm just telling you that the war against minority Americans in America's big cities will never stop by the Democrat Party.

Almost everything they do, rent control, which drives up rent, doesn't drive rent down, drives up rent because it decreases the supply of available rental and living units in a community. Why? Why does it do that? The same reason net neutrality drives down the availability of broadband. Because net companies, internet companies, broadband companies can't make any kind of a revenue stream because the government's regulating them into oblivion by controlling their income. The same thing happens with rent control.

People don't want to build new housing units because rent control prevents them from making any revenue from the housing units. What do you think they're going to do? Build it out of their own goodwill? Are you crazy? Rent control drives up rents, doesn't drive down rents. Uber, now you drive people who are getting rides are now going to have to wait extraordinarily long amounts of time in new york to get back to some of the communities they live in because de blasio decided to put a cap on it the war on cops the war on cops which disproportionately affects minority communities where crime is running rampant you've got cops hesitant to get involved

in discretionary situations because the mayor, a lot of these police commissioners and police folks who have become sadly, a lot of them at the political level, not the rank and file level, who refuse to back up their cops when it matters. Leaving these people in these communities prey.

Prey to the wolves in their communities. The education system where they don't back up any more school choice and and allow uh families of young black uh boys and girls who want just an opportunity at the education system you and i had a chance at they're not allowed because liberal politicians get in the way hold out their hand and say stop not here not in our community you're going to go to this crap public school because we told you, not because you wanted to. This is a shame. This is a sin. This is a stain on our country.

If we could just rescue our big cities, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, portions of New York, portions of California. If we could just rescue Cleveland, our big cities, which have heavy minority populations. Ladies and gentlemen, the economic battery, the education battery would be fully recharged. We are draining down the battery of large portions of our population who live in these places that have absolutely no opportunities like you have it is grotesquely unfair i listen i'm not suggesting to you republicans have all the answers or that everybody needs to go out tomorrow and vote in mass for the republican party in these cities why am i not saying it because it's not realistic i'm just telling you the people you

have in there now are clearly not the answer but are absolutely clearly the problem uber this is it this is what de blasio this is his new war almost everything these liberal politicians do is a boot on the neck of minority communities who deserve better. You are American citizens too. This is not news. You deserve the exact same opportunities we have too. The fight extends to you too. Fight back. Do not accept this second class city status. Let's be honest. If this was happening anywhere else in middle class communities in America, they would be storming city council sessions in the state houses. But because it's Democrats running these large cities,

it almost becomes, Oh, you know what? This is just the way it is. It's not the way it is. You deserve better too. All right, folks. Sorry haven't really ranted a while I just get a little upset

you deserve better I remember walking the streets as a cop in the 75 precinct in East New York Brooklyn down Sutter and Pennsylvania Avenue and thinking gosh it doesn't have to be this way these kids deserve better they deserve a shot this is our job as conservatives.

We believe in big R rights granted to all. We don't judge people by the melanin component of their skin, their creed, religion, race, none of that stuff. That's a liberal thing. These families deserve a shot. We somehow, somehow have to get into these communities. I hope Donald Trump's the vehicle to do that. His black approval is up.

His black voter approval is up? I think it's up to close to 30% now. Please just take a look at the other side, some other ideas, because the ideas in there now are not working. All right, thanks again, folks, for tuning in. I really appreciate it. Please subscribe to the podcast.

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