The Dan Bongino Show - Ep. 790 What the Heck Happened Yesterday?

Episode Date: August 22, 2018

Summary:In this episode I address the Paul Manafort conviction and the Michael Cohen plea along with the disingenuous media coverage of these two breaking news events. I also address a stunning new detail in the Spygate setup. News Picks: The Michael Cohen plea deal is a shameful effort to take down Trump. This piece addresses a major flaw in the deal.    The Cohen plea deal is a scam. This piece addresses the campaign “contribution” angle.    Is the inspector general properly investigating this angle in the Spygate scheme?   This Chuck Ross piece details yet another suspicious interaction with George Papadopoulos.    This Byron York piece asks the question “Where’s the collusion?”   Police-stater Chuck Schumer has a warning for President Trump.    Copyright CRTV. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Listen to me, please. I'm begging you. You don't get to give up right now. Yesterday was unquestionably not a good day. It was not the catastrophe the media is trying to paint this out to be, but yesterday was not a good day, and neither you nor I should pretend otherwise. It was rough, okay?

What happened yesterday was an abomination of justice. This is not justice. This is clearly a weaponization of our government law enforcement assets to go after Trump. What happened? Well, obviously, Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen pled guilty to a number of tax evasion charges. Listen, unrelated to Trump, these are his personal tax problems. They have nothing to do with Donald Trump. But conveniently, because he has a former Clinton hack as a lawyer by the name of Lanny Davis, who's doing everything in his power right now to put the squeeze on Donald Trump.

Keep in mind, this is Cohen's lawyer. If you missed this, Donald Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, hired a Clinton hack. I'm not saying this wrong. Lanny Davis, one of the biggest Clinton hacks you've ever met to represent him. Now, I believe he did that to curry favor with the media

because Michael Cohen wants to turn around and become an anti-Trump advocate out there in the model of Michael Avenatti. So he hires a Clinton advocate. They're out there now, and they pled guilty. Well, not they. Lanny Davidson pled guilty. Michael Cohen pled guilty also, not only to a tax evasion charge,

but to a phantom campaign violation, which people with expertise in this matter cannot seem to figure out where the crime is. The logic here, and this is a plea, so keep in mind, there's no insinuation here legally that Donald Trump or his team is admitted to any crime. Because Michael Cohen said something happened and pled to it does not make it so.

The charge is this, that 130 000 payment to stormy uh daniels daniel stormy whatever her name is stormy daniels that donald trump knew about this payment and that this payment was somehow a violation of campaign law now explaining this very well last night on his show which was a an epic adventure last night if you listen to it it. It was the Mark Levin Show. Mark Levin, friend of mine, good man. Mark Levin, and I'm going to get into this a little more. This is not a campaign violation. Now, you may say to yourself,

why would Michael Cohen plead guilty to a campaign violation of about these $130,000 payments. In other words, the allegation, Joe, is that this was to help the Donald Trump campaign and it was using some kind of funds related to the campaign. That's not what happened. These were not campaign funds.

These were personal funds. Payments were untoward. Not something anyone should celebrate. But remember the new rules folks the new rules are we win you lose we are in this is a battle right now this is a battle we are in the field of ethics where now everything is gray there are no black and white answers anymore we have to start triaging what matters and what doesn't at this point and i'm telling you what doesn't matter is a payment to this lady it's ugly but we are in a battle for

the for the very for any kind of fidelity to the constitutional republic and the rule of law they have entirely weaponized the government i see intelligence community and law enforcement operation to go after trump and it's time we stopped complaining and fought back i'm going to tell you what to do in a minute but but I want to get into this first. This $130,000 payment that the allegations are were made by Cohen, who he says now was reimbursed by Trump. They're saying somehow this is a campaign violation. This is a nonsensical, ridiculous charge

that I'm telling you was only included in the plea deal, Joe, for one reason. That reason is what? That reason is to implicate Donald Trump. Because the other charges Michael Cohen pled to have nothing to do with Trump. They are related to his own personal business on the side and taxes he didn't pay. So in order for them, the Southern District of New York and the Justice Department right now, which seems almost entirely weaponized against the Trump team.

They've lost complete control. Sessions has lost control. Rosenstein is I don't know what Rosenstein's doing. Rosenstein needed to be fired last year. He should be fired right now. They've lost complete control. And in order to implicate Trump, they had Michael Cohen plea to a campaign violation. That's not a violation.

Play Mark Levin explaining this last night. The general counsel for the Clinton mob family, Lanny Davis, he had his client plead the two counts of criminality that don't exist. These campaign finance violations that all over TV they're saying implicates the president of the United States directly. First, let's back up. It is a guilty plea. It is a plea bargain between a prosecutor and a criminal, a criminal who doesn't want to spend the rest of his life in prison. That is not precedent. That applies only to that specific case. Nobody cites plea bargains for precedent. That's number one. Number two, just because a prosecutor says that somebody violated the campaign law doesn't make it so. He's not the judge. He's not the jury. We didn't adjudicate anything. It never went to court.

That's number two. A campaign expenditure under our federal campaign laws is an expenditure solely for campaign activity. A candidate who spends his own money or even corporate money for an event that occurred not as a result of the campaign. It is not a campaign expenditure. Folks. Please understand what I'm telling you. It's the essence to understanding this entire operation, what's going on. Guys, ladies, please, I'm begging you. We are under assault here. We are in a legitimate battle here. This is a very real fight.

Bob Mueller and his team have gone completely off the rails. Bob Mueller has taken the justice system. This is a stain on the, what's happening right now is a stain on the history of America. I am not saying that the people involved in this, Joe, on either side are saints. I've told you before what the new rules are. New rules are this.

We acknowledge that there was malfeasance and misfeasance in the past. We acknowledge that Trump and some of the team members were not pure as the driven snow. What we also acknowledge simultaneously is there was absolutely no collusion with the foreign government. You guys are making this up to overturn the results of an election. If we allow you to do this, the template for destroying democracy is there for every election in the future.

And you own it. future and you own it the democrats are going down this road because they are setting out a game plan a battle plan in the future for taking out and overthrowing the results of a united states election for making sure a lesson is taught to any outsider in the future like trump who dares run for office again you run for office this is what we will do. We will go after every single person you touch, you scratch, and you sniff. They went after the Republican congressman up in New York, Collins, Duncan Hunter yesterday. Listen, again, make no mistake. I'm not suggesting in any way, shape, or form that these people are saints. I'm not suggesting.

I don't know them. I'm not even suggesting they're good people. I don't know them. I've never know them. I'm not even suggesting they're good people. I don't know them. I've never met them. I'm telling you, anyone that has scratched and sniffed Donald Trump over the last two and a half years, Joe, is going to they are going to feel the wrath of the federal law enforcement community and the Bob Mueller team. This we are. Do you understand the fight we're in? This is real.

Do you understand the fight we're in? This is real. The Cohen thing is another example of the Mueller probe and the DOJ in this case. Because remember, this was referred out to Southern District. Southern District of New York. A liberal wing of the Justice Department in that geographic region, Joe. It was sent there. Those people are going after Trump and will take him down no matter what. So they had Michael Cohen. They made sure he pled to a charge that would somehow implicate

quoting the document, the charging document, the candidate. Well, who was the candidate, Joe? It obviously was Donald Trump. It was Michael Cohen's personal lawyer implicating the candidate in the payments to this porn lawyer folks as mark levin just explained this is not a campaign violation it's untoward it's not cute it ain't pretty it's not a crime now explain please read the show notes today i know i say that a lot go to my website read the show notes i have some great pieces here's one uh what's it law and crime while a candidate is prohibited from spending campaign funds on expenses merely related to the campaign expenses on items and services which exist solely for the campaign like bumper stickers and billboards must

be paid for with campaign funds let me make sense of that you are not allowed to spend campaign funds on things that exist that would have existed without the campaign i ran for office i'm familiar with this joe joe if you run for office for congress right explain man yeah thanks and you go and get a haircut right you could legitimately say you were getting a haircut because of the campaign because i want to look sharp right oh sure yeah but that's not a campaign expense and you should not be using campaign funds why does it get a haircut anyway because yes armacost you get a haircut anyway so you cannot use campaign funds but okay that's prong one understand the two prongs of this and how this scam this scam what happened in the southern district yesterday they made up a fake crime and stuck it in this plea deal to make sure the media

had a talking point that roped Trump in because Cohen's got nothing. Cohen's got nothing but a bunch of tax charges that, Joe, have what to do with Donald Trump? Nothing. Zero. So they said, you got to plead to this campaign charge. But it's not a campaign violation. That's okay. Plead to it anyway.

Lanny Davis said so. Clinton lawyer. Here's the first prong. Again, just because something happened on the campaign does not mean campaign funds are eligible for it. If Joe gets a haircut, yes, he could be getting a haircut because he wants to look sharp in a campaign. But as Joe adequately said, that haircut would have existed whether there was a campaign or not. Therefore should not should not be spending campaign funds now prong two if it is directly related to the campaign like they're alleging in the document

that these payments to stormy daniels were related to the campaign joe because they were if the story would have got out it would have been damaging to the campaign. That in and of itself is a logical stretch that's hard to overcome. But assume that's right. Assume for a second that that's right. That the Stormy Daniels payment was related to the campaign. Again, I don't agree with it.

I'm saying this is how tortured the logic is legally. When something is directly related to the campaign, Joe, campaign bumper stickers, campaign buttons, a campaign bus where you're driving around the state to campaign, expenses that would not have existed if you were not running for office, right? Joe would not buy an Armacost 2020 for Congress if he wasn't running for Congress. Joe, those payments

have to be made with campaign funds. Have to. Or else, you could get donors to just give you money above and beyond campaign contribution limits and say, hey, Joe, give me a loan for $20,000 and I'm going to go buy buttons. Isn't that a

campaign contribution? No, no, no. It's not related to the campaign. How is it not related to the campaign? It's an Armacost 2020 button. No, no. It's a personal loan. All right. Do you see it? Folks, listen.

This is the kind of stuff I'm going to give you here that I'm not, you know, I don't want to, I don't mean to sound pretentious. You're not going to get this anywhere else. I ran three times. I know how this works. You have to take that from campaign funds. And those campaign funds are subject to strict donor limits. If I buy Dan Bongino 2020 for Senate campaign shirts,

I cannot pay with someone else's personal funds. Got it. Now, I could pay with my personal funds for stuff, but I have to make it a campaign contribution to myself it has to come from legitimate campaign funds you get please tell me you get why because again i could just take a gift oh i got a gift from my rich friend um joey bag of donuts he lent me fifty thousand dollars and i bought campaign shirts wait wait wait wait wait wait He did what? Now, Joey Bag of Donuts can lend you $50,000 to do renovations on your house.

There's nothing illegal about that. No. But it is absolutely against FEC rules for Joey Bag of Donuts to, Joe, lend me $50,000, which I then use to buy campaign ads. Yeah. When you spend money on a campaign associated item that would not exist without a campaign buttons, tour buses, salaries for campaign works, it has to come from campaign funds. This is the key hole in this nonsensical, ridiculous charge that Levin just summed up beautifully.

His show was epic last night. How? Because Donald Trump did not pay Stormy Daniels or anyone else with campaign funds. The allegations, the allegations are that those payments from Cohen were reimbursed by Trump Corporation's funds or whatever it may be, not campaign funds. Do you understand they have no case? They have nothing.

They have no nexus to the case at all. In other words, Joe, on prong number one, prong number one is would the expense have existed without the existence of the campaign? What's the answer for the Stormy Daniels case? Yes. So you can't spend campaign funds on it. It's not campaign related.

Just because Joe gets a haircut during the campaign doesn't make it a campaign haircut. Folks, I get it. This is a slimy business i am not sitting here trying to say everybody here is is without without sin it's clear that this that this we are dealing right now in an ethical fight for our lives for this constitutional republic and this is these are very gray areas right now folks i have no doubt but the payment would have existed if it was because of reputational harm which is what the left is alleging by the way that if the story got out it would have harmed his reputation but remember new rules we don't care i don't care

not even a little bit that payment would have existed for reputational harm regardless. They lose prong one and they lose prong two because you can't say it's campaign related. He didn't pay with campaign funds. He paid with his own funds. They lose on both prongs. They have no case. They have no case. They will lose this.

How do I know that? Because there was a very similar case joe with john edwards remember the prel guy oh yeah remember the five thousand dollar haircut guy whatever it was four hundred dollar haircut guy john edwards ran for vice president with john carey there was a similar case where some donors there was some allegations that donors gave john edwards money money to work around the story about him and the child that he had. Yeah, yeah, Breckboy, yeah.

Scamming, yeah, yeah, that's right, scamming on his wife, remember that routine? There were some donors who were alleged to have given him money to make that story go away. They were not in fact criminally charged or prosecuted on that successfully.

Folks, this case is a loser. Let me give you one more line from this guy Bradley in this piece on law and crime, which will be in the show notes. If paying hush money is a campaign expense, a candidate would be required to make that payment with campaign funds like i just said how ironic given that using campaign funds as hush money was one of the articles of impeachment in the watergate scandal which gave rise to modern campaign finance law in other words in the watergate scandal joe one of the uh of the the investigative items was the fact that they actually did use campaign funds to pay hush money which is what led to modern campaign law saying you can't do that. He didn't do it.

That's not what he did. He did not use campaign funds. You have no case. Folks, this was thrown in the indictment only to get a fishhook to bait Donald Trump in. One more line from this piece because it's terrific cohen's payment to the woman who claims to have had an affair with trump would have to be paid with campaign funds if it is to be viewed as a campaign contribution uh really we i mean the fact that we even need this explained is ridiculous but paying someone to keep silent about an alleged extramarital affair

is not an expense solely related to the campaign Bradley explained. Folks, yesterday was a bad day. There is no doubt about that. It was not the catastrophe the media is making it out to be. This is not the time to go wobbly, as Margaret Thatcher said. Listen to me. You don't get to give up. There are real fights out there.

There are people in Venezuela right now facing down the tyranny and despotism of socialism who are being forced to flee their country, leave their homes and eat pigeons to stay alive. I'm not lecturing anybody.

I'm not in a position to do that and I wouldn't dare. A lot of you are morally upstanding individuals and better men and women than I am. But I got a lot of emails yesterday.

I'm done. You don't get to be done. Do you understand your whole purpose for being here is to take on a fight that gives you meaning? You know, some of you know my favorite, I hate quotes and stuff. People try to simplify life down to a couple quotes, but sometimes I read something that really matters.

And in the book, The Natural, there's a line. The line in the book says, you know, we all live two lives. The life we learn from and the life we live after that. The path to real happiness is through suffering. And when you read Hugh Ross's books, The Astrophysicist, who talks about the existence of God, the scientific evidence for the existence of God, one of the common themes, folks, is suffering. Suffering, I don't mean inflicting intentional harm on yourself. I mean taking on on fights that give your life meaning the real path to happiness. The true path to happiness is taking on a fight that matters. Folks, this matters.

We're not starving to death right now. We're not dying. As of yet, we haven't faced the full wrath of government. This is your fight. This is an epic fight that's going to be, that is going to define you and our movement for a generation. I cannot explain to you in strong enough terms why this Spygate scandal and the subsequent Mueller witch hunt scares me so much. There aren't strong enough terms for me to explain the passion that drives me to constantly bring forward the facts of this case to you every day. I was a federal agent, ladies and gentlemen. I remember going into houses on early morning raids with actual guilty people, people who'd committed actual crimes. And you see their kids as you put the handcuffs on at six o'clock in the morning and you shuffle them out of bed in their boxer shorts and you see the kids crying and the wife devastated and you see the bad guy who's totally stunned at what's going

on and I'm telling you even though these were real bad guys I would be lying to you if I said but my soul didn't hurt for them it did it did these were bad guys but you saw that look in their eyes where everything had just changed they had finally been caught it's like when you watch that movie blow with johnny depp right and you hear the story of that guy george and even though you know he's a mutt you still almost feel bad when they got caught because you have a sense of empathy as human beings folks it watching someone's freedom and everything they have being taken away, even when they earned it because they really screwed up, is really painful to watch.

You want to hear one of those five and six-year-old kids, Daddy, where you go? Why are these men here? I used to get in the car and say, holy gosh, what did we just do? And they earned it. The Trump team did nothing, nothing on the scale of what's happening to them. This is what I mean by this is ethics. I get it. The Trump team has made mistakes. Manafort's not a saint. This Cohen guy's not a saint. Papa D could have done stuff differently. Trump has had his indiscretions in the past. There's no question. Point stipulated. I'm telling you in the ethical matters here where everything is gray and there are no black and whites and you're going to have to make big boy and big girl decisions. You have to say to yourself, is an alleged extramarital

affair. Is it worth the destruction of the entire Constitutional Republic to rip this whole system down of presumed innocents, to attack innocent people, and weaponize the power to put those Smith and Wesson handcuffed bracelets, those handcuffs on people who did nothing wrong because you don't like that a guy won an election

and you use where he put his wiener in the past to take down him and a bunch of people who did nothing worthy of the weaponization of the government turns against them these are the hard questions we have to ask right now and no there is no giving up and stop sending me emails about giving up. Because you're getting in my head. I'd love you to death, but no. No, no, no. Life's a tough thing. Sorry, I've got to keep this family friendly.

This is tough. This is real. We live in the richest country on earth with flat screen tvs and computers and the biggest problem here with food isn't starvation it's we got a bunch of fat people this is our fight you have been now blessed with the opportunity to take on the suffering you need to take on to find true happiness in the end this is our Yes, it's going to be miserable. We've got six years more to clean this swamp mosquito infested disaster in DC out. This is going to get worse before it gets better. They are not done. He's not done. Manafort's got another trial. And if it doesn't

work out in DC, the Farrah trial for them, and they don't get them on that too, they are not done. They will find somebody else. Don Trump Jr. is their next target. Take that to the bank. This is not over. Our fight starts today. This is not an opportunity to bail out and jump ship. It's an opportunity to get out of the water and jump on the ship.

You have been blessed with an opportunity to get out of the water and jump on the ship. You have been blessed with an opportunity to suffer. You should thank God for this. You have been blessed with an opportunity to take a side in this very gray area, but a side I'm sure right now is the right one. The new rules show was not a joke. I get the man's indiscretions. I get the people in his orbit were not to be beatified. I understand that. But do you understand that what the Democrats want to do is not to point out the sexual indiscretions of a president.

What they are trying to do right now is set a template to completely dismantle the constitutional republic. They are setting a template in the future to take out a sitting president when they lose. Make up a fake charge. There's no collusion. Get a special counsel appointed. Get the media bootlicking hacks on their side

to keep the story alive. Use that story to take down everyone surrounding that president for every kind of indiscretion known to mankind including jaywalking use those people to turn on the president keep that story in the media use the charges to call for impeachment get the president out send a message to anyone in the future you're never to do that again that's the fight are you naive to that that's the real fight this is not done so what do we do

folks i said what to do i just wish someone would take my advice I said what to do. I just wish someone would take my advice. Joe, what did I say now six, seven months ago about Mueller? Fire this guy. Yeah, bad guy. He has turned into a police state tyrant. I don't know how, I haven't even gotten to the Papadopoulos to wheel thing yet.

This guy has gone completely off the deep end, charging people with crimes. The FBI. You listen with all due respect to Bob Mueller's past service to the country. And I mean it. That does not absolve you forever of grotesque acts of malfeasance. How else do you describe a special counsel lead investigator who charges a decorated United States military officer in Mike Flynn with crimes he knows damn well he didn't commit? How else do you describe that other than police statism? Folks, here's the plan. And this is the only deal.

only deal you ever see that a miami vice movie that people hated but i love that uh colin farrell jamie foxx movie when i used to still go to the movies i saw i loved them people hated it there's a point in that movie where they steal the guy's drugs and he comes in he tries to make a deal no no no this is the only this is the only deal right now the only deal fire bob muller pardon everyone remember that gary oldman scene what is it the specialist go get everyone everyone pardon everyone pardon flynn pardon cohen pardon every papa d Papa Dizzle. Pardon everyone. Fire Bob Mueller. Fire Rod Rosenstein and clean out this swamp rat crew of 17 angry Democrats, as Trump accurately calls them. Fire them all.

Oh, man, the political response will be over. Are you kidding me? Are you smoking opiates? Are you mainlining psychedelic drugs? Depress, are you kidding? Have you watched this circus over the last few days? Do you really believe this is going to get better? Ladies and gentlemen, wait till after the midterms and fire all of these

people. They have shown no evidence whatsoever of acting in a legally, morally, or ethically upstanding manner. Zero. Making up fake election crimes in the Southern District of New York. It's not even a real campaign charge. Charging a decorated U.S. general with lying to the FBI after the FBI themselves acknowledges he wasn't deceptive. And we're supposed to sit back and take it? And then you got this goon, Chuck Schumer, the Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer from New York. This goon, I have a piece in Breitbart at the show notes today. This police state hack saying, and I'm quoting,

he better not be talking about pardon. You don't get to say that, Chuck. That's why you're a senator and not the president couldn't win an election outside of New York. You don't get to say that because you don't have pardon power,

but we still have a president. You wait till after the midterms, you pardon everyone and you fire these guys now you let a new special counsel team come in you let them wrap this thing up they will find no collusion because there is none and we move on i am tired by playing by their rules oh but the press reaction what are you? The press reaction. Are you paying attention to what's going on right now? He's going to be impeached. Ladies and gentlemen, newsflash. He's going to be impeached anyway.

He's going to be impeached if he fires. What are you talking about? He's going to be impeached if he fires Mueller. What are you talking about? He's going to be impeached anyway. They will not win a trial in the Senate. Bill Clinton was impeached. Candidly, Joe, it was the best thing that ever happened to him. He left office with 60% approval. Listen to me. Trump will be impeached anyway. The Democrats have lost their minds.

The House will draw up articles of impeachment. And if they win back the House, they will likely pass. They have lost their minds. Trump will not be removed from office. Being impeached does not mean you're removed from office, Joe. An impeachment is similar to an indictment. Because you're indicted does not mean you'll be convicted. There is a trial in the Senate.

Trump will win overwhelmingly. He will not be removed from office. Yes, it's going to hurt. It's not a good thing to be impeached. But ladies and gentlemen, it is baked into the cake. There will be an evisceral Republican swamp rat reaction afterwards. Oh my gosh, I can't believe this happened. Something's got to be done.

Look what happened after he fired Comey. Ladies ladies and gentlemen do you understand we are in a different place right now we are in a different place this muller thing will never stop they are not investigating crimes they're investigating donald j trump it will never ever ever stop they are setting up a template to overturn an election in the future. Look at what happened with Manafort. The media was celebrating yesterday. Do you realize on 18 counts, there was a mistrial on 10, and the 8th that Manafort was convicted of yesterday

have nothing to do with Donald Trump and the media. The media, which is supposed to, Joe, supposed to relay the facts, was celebrating yesterday. So millions of dollars. Unlimited government assets. Democrat lawyers on Mueller's special counsel witch hunter team. Going after Manafort endlessly. Solitary confinement. Endless government assets thrown at this guy.

And the best you could do was on 18 counts, 10 declare a mistrial, hung jury on, and 8 that have nothing to do with the president? So just to sum up what happened yesterday, in case you're even a little confused. What did Joe Pesci say? Let me unconfuse you. what did Joe Pesci say? Let me unconfuse you. Their prime candidate in the case, Paul Manafort, after endless government assets are thrown at him,

gets a hung jury on 10 counts and is convicted on eight that have zero to do with the president. Media celebrates. On Cohen, he pleads guilty to tax charges that have absolutely nothing at all to do with Donald Trump and pleads guilty to a campaign violation

that doesn't, that's not even a campaign violation. And everybody's celebrating. And we're worried about the political ramifications and the press ramifications of firing Mueller. Fire him. Pardon everyone right now. Take that back. Wait till after the midterms.

Fire all of these guys and women. Jeannie Rhee included. Fire them all. Chuck Schumer. You see how these people play for keeps? They start a fake investigation they use the fake investigation to make up crimes against trump they arrest people and throw them in solitary confinement and chuck schumer has the cojones to go out yes i go better not be talking about pardons you know what double-barreled middle finger to this guy right after the election.

Well, screw you, you jerk! Everybody! Everyone. This is not going to get any better, folks. I'm going to leave this with this one because I got a couple other things. You don't get to give up right now. I love you guys and women to death out there in my show. I do.

That's why I put the email out there. This show is for you. It's not for me. But gosh, do not give up. This is the time for you to jump back on the ship and thank God for the suffering you've been granted with. Our lives need meaning. Our meaning we find in all kinds of things.

Our kids, mostly in our kids. Some of us find it in our jobs. But I'm telling you right now, you have the opportunity to be involved in a generational fight that's going to define going forward what this constitutional republic is about. As with every real fight, there are no saints and sinners. There are only degrees of sinners. And in that gray area we know as ethics, you have to find out what side is for you. I am crystal clear that I am on the right side of this. Crystal.

The never Trump crowd, the confused Trump crowd, the swamp rat Republicans, the dangerous Democrats, and the radical far leftists and the Mueller witch hunt, I am absolutely convinced are on the wrong side of this. They are virtue signaling to the world, not understanding that the real virtue is the preservation of the Republic, which is in danger right now. They are setting a model for the future to make sure your vote means absolutely nothing. Don't give in. Do not give up. Today is the day to rally the troops.

Today is the day to go for, use what happened yesterday as fuel in the gas tank. The gas tank in that car you need to drive forward, drive forward at lightning speed. Drive into the fight, not away from it. Please. Because negative energy is contagious too. I'm not a feng shui guy, but don't do it.

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not just misfeasance. Things that happened within the government during the investigation of Trump and the investigation of Clinton that, if they got out, would shake the core of America's confidence in what we believe to be the justice system and intelligence community. There is no doubt in my mind. So yesterday I was up in New York, I was doing The Five, and I was talking to a few people and they said, what do you think the next shoe to drop is? And I

said, oh boy, it's this Charles to wheelcase. Now, Chuck Ross, I have a piece, it's been in the show notes, but I'm going to put it up again today in the show notes. Please, please, please read it. It's at the Daily Caller. It is a fantastic piece. You'll be doing yourself a disservice if you don't read it because it feeds right into everything we've been telling you the whole time and the story I discussed the other day about the PC arrest of George Papadopoulos. This is not going to be confusing like yesterday's show. I get it.

You have to listen to yesterday's show a couple of times to follow the white rabbit. Today will be simple. We're going to make two points today. A couple points we're going to make are that Papadopoulos is clearly the target of the operation to set up Donald Trump now. Now it's clear as day. All the people that keep approaching Papadopoulos, hey, little boy, you want some candy? They all have a connection to either fusion gps or the u.s

government it's amazing everywhere and they keep coming up left and right front and back top and down right secondly the operation to set up papadopoulos may have been more sophisticated than we even knew read the chuck ross piece and you'll learn about a new approach that happens in July. Yes, July of 2017. This is after, keep in mind, after Papadopoulos is interviewed by the FBI in January. July of 2017, a guy by the name of Charles Tuhill is alleged to have offered Papadopoulos $10,000 over in Greece and gives him the $10,000 for some kind of a consulting deal. Now, what's the problem, Joe?

So what? I mean, it's not illegal to take $10,000. As of January, I'll be paying Joe for consulting. I didn't know that was illegal. If I was foreign, it's not illegal either. As long as Joe declares it as income, there's nothing wrong. People take consulting contracts all the time. So what's the big deal?

We clear on this? It's very simple. July of 2017, after the FBI interviews Papadopoulos, I'm telling you the government's trying to set Papadopoulos up as a fall guy. After the FBI interviews Papadopoulos, I'm telling you the government's trying to set Papadopoulos up as a fall guy. Some rando shows up in Greece and offers Papadopoulos $10,000 in cash for a consulting contract. Why is that in Mueller's sentencing memo? Let me read it.

By the way, hat tip to the conservative treehouse guys, who are covering this as well this is from the sentencing memo the defendant provided information defendants papadopoulos show the defendant provided information about ten thousand dollars in cash he received from a foreign national who he believed was likely an intelligence officer of a foreign country other than russia the defendant has stated Why is that in there? He believed he was a foreign intelligence officer. The guy who gave him the money to will, was he? Folks, this makes a world of sense now. Joe, what else happened on July 27th?

July 27th, right before Papadopoulos is given this $10,000 by this guy to will, right before Papadopoulos is arrested at Dulles Airport, right after this. This makes all the sense in the world now. The other day, I brought up on the show the probable cause arrest. There are two ways to arrest people in the federal government, okay? You can make a probable cause arrest, which means no arrest warrant.

It's kind of like what a cop does in the street. You show up, they see you beating someone up. That's a PC arrest. There's no arrest warrant, right? No one shows up and goes, I have a warrant for you beating this guy up. No, it's called a probable cause arrest. Those in the federal government, you got to listen to Monday's show. I can't redo it here, but just take my word

for it if you don't want to listen to Monday's show. That rarely happens in the federal government outside of the uniformed entities. You know, border patrol and people who are on patrol may PC arrest because they see stuff and they don't have time to get a warrant. You see someone crossing the border illegally, you arrest them. You don't get a warrant for it. You go later on, you bring them to an initial appearance and then he's charged in a charging document. The way the federal system works when

you're an investigator is people get clues about cases. They build up a case, they bring it to the United States attorney and arrest warrants issued and you show up with a warrant. Why was Papadopoulos in one of the most critical counterintelligence criminal investigations in modern U.S. history? Why was Papadopoulos? Why was there no warrant? Oh, this $10,000 makes a world of sense now. Thank you to my buddy who cued me in on this. Joe, we have this thing in the federal government called the CTR,

Currency Transaction Report. They also have suspicious activity reports for financial institutions. If you deposit more than a certain amount of money, notably about $10,000, but let's not, sheesh, that's crazy, right? If you deposit that in a bank, you have to fill out a CTR, a currency transaction report. You also, if you come into the country, into the United States with more than $10,000 and you don't declare it at customs,

oh boy, you in a world of legal trouble there. Gee, isn't that awfully convenient that some rando shows up in a hotel room right before Papadopoulos is to fly back to the United States, gives him $10,000 in cash, but Papa Dizzle doesn't fall for the trap. Papa D comes back into the country, Joe, in Dulles.

I will bet you the FBI, the agents who are ready to interview him, are either there, waiting for that $10,000, knowing they've got him lock, stock, and two smoking barrels. But what does Papa D do with the money? Papa Dizzle leaves it in Greece with a lawyer. They show up.

They nab him before he gets to customs at Dulles. And Joe, have you traveled overseas before? When you come back, you know the little blue form? You got to fill out, you have to declare the money. I'll bet they grab that from him. They see on the card that he's not declaring any money. They're like, what do we do now? Shaggy.

Right? What do we do now? We were supposed to have the $10,000. Our guy gave him 10K. Now, I want to be clear. i'm speculating a bit i am not sure that to wheel is working with the guy i'm not i'm not sure about that he may not have been matter of fact he may have this may have been a legitimate business interaction i am, suggesting to you that that $10,000, if it were a government deal, those bills, they would have tracked those bills and they would have been waiting for them. If I

were doing it, that's the way I would do it. I'd say, hey, go give this guy $10,000 in cash. We're going to wait for him at the airport. If he comes in and he doesn't declare it, boom, we got him. All of a sudden, he comes back to the airport, Joe. He's got nothing. He's got nothing. He's got, what, $20 in his wallet for a Skittles, a bacon, egg, and cheese, and a Yahoo, and a Yoo-Hoo at the airport, right? Bacon, egg, and cheese. That's what I used to, when I was a kid in New York, that was my breakfast every day, bacon, egg, and cheese, and a Yoo-Hoo, right? He comes back. You remember Yoo-Hoo? I used to think that was chocolate milk, right? So, chocolate drink. So, Papa D comes back. He remember Yoo-hoo? I used to think that was chocolate milk, right? Chocolate drink.

So Papa D comes back. He's got 20 bucks. He wants his bacon, egg, and cheese in a Yoo-hoo. And they're like, wait, dude, where's the $10,000? They're probably feverishly calling the United States attorney going, we don't have anything. What do you mean you don't have anything? He doesn't have the money. Where's the money?

It's back in Greece. Well, what do we do now? We can't get him for trying to bring $10,000 back into the United States without declaring it. If he doesn't bring the $10,000 back. Do you understand now why the PC arrest was probably necessary? Listen, after confusing some folks yesterday, some got it, some didn't. But yesterday's an important show. Folks, I got to tell you you the first time i was disappointed in

our listener numbers maybe it's because of all the breaking news we had a little bit of a dip we never have a dip i think it was all the breaking news i was like what is this we were we were off like five percent yesterday the show always goes up i was devastated i came i really was i'm so proud of the shows we put forward for you and when they don't grow every day i get a little upset but i think i I confused people. This is not confusing. I'm telling you there are two possible scenarios here. DeWill is just a business guy who does a deal for the $10,000. The FBI somehow gets wind of it, meets him at the airport, hoping he shows up with the $10,000 and doesn't declare it.

Therefore, they've got him. They call the United States attorney. Hey, he's here at Dulles. He walked through customs with the 10K and said nothing about it right you got me joe they get him on failing to file or to will was he working with the government and this what are these marked bills did the fbi know about this the whole time how long was he working for the government if he was? Now, does that Margo Cleveland footnote from the earlier in the year FISA maybe make a little more sense? Remember, now this is before the July 27th arrest of Papadopoulos, let's be clear. But remember the FISA I told you about

Margo Cleveland earlier in the year. In the FISA warrant, there is a footnote about a FOIA exemption. In other words, the FBI in one of the warrants to spy on the Trump team has a footnote in there declaring that they need an exemption from FISA to protect sources. I had said to you in that episode that is that source Mifsud, the original person who contacts Papadopoulos? Is that source someone else? Were they working with this guy? Were they working with Millian?

Who else was the FBI working with? Ladies and gentlemen, this is the essence of the scam. What's paragraph one? Who the heck else was the FBI working with to set up Papa D? How many sources are there? We have an idea about Halper. Who are these other guys? So understand what I'm telling you. Coming into the country and not declaring $10,000 in cash, you are going to find yourself in significant legal trouble. Did the Bureau get wind of that $10,000?

Were they involved in the $10,000? Papa D does not bring the money back in. He leaves it in Greece. The FBI has an oh moment. What do we do? We got nothing to hold them. We better interview them right now. Because remember, they want to hold Papa D because they need to shut Papa

D up because the day they arrest him, what else breaks? The Stroke page text. The Inspector General goes over to the Special Counsel and says, hey, Bob. Bob Mueller, we got a problem. Your lead investigator on this case, Peter Stroke, look at these texts. Oh, my gosh.

Mueller's like, we better shut Papa D up now because these texts may expose our sources and FBI sources setting Papa D up. Follow it, folks. The Bureau's setting up Papadopoulos. We already know this through the Halpern connection. The question now is how many other people were they using to set him up? Was DeWille involved? Was Millian involved with the Bureau? How many other people were involved with the Bureau? Peter Strokes texts to Lisa Page. In context, Mueller probably understood fully just how deep this scandal and the setup of Donald Trump was. The special counsel walks over, the IG walks over to the special counsel on July 27th and says, look at these texts.

Mueller's probably reading them going, oh, my gosh, the whole operation's exposed. What do we do now? Shut Papa Dizzle up. Where's Papa Dizzle? He's over there and over in Greece with the other guy. Well, what's he doing? Well, he's going to come back with the $10,000. I got it.

Let's nail him on failing the file. He shows up at the airport. He doesn't have the 10K. They've got no charge. What do they say? Oh, man. What do we do? What do we do?

What do we do? Let's do the Flynn thing. Let's do the Flynn thing with lying to a federal agent. Guys, he has no lawyer. That's all right. Did you hear that in the background i'm getting so excited i just you don't have to cut that i just knocked the coffee cup off my i'm so excited it didn't break which is amazing too so he shows up to the airport he doesn't have the ten thousand dollars papa d they call up the united states attorney joe they, hey, United States attorney,

Joey Bag of Donuts, we got a problem. That failing to file charge, he doesn't have the money. What do we do now? Mueller's calling him going, you better shut this guy up. Or someone on the special counsel, they already know they got to shut Papa D down because Papa D is the key to this whole operation that Trump was set up. They got to shut him up quick, but they don't have a charge. Interview him now. Interview him. Interview him and get him on anything. They interview him. They go, false statements, false statements, which Papadopoulos right now said, I didn't make any false statements. I just didn't remember when Mifsud. Remember the false statement. The FBI's allegations are that Papadopoulos said Mifsud reached out to him before he joined the Trump campaign.

That's not true. Mifsud reached out to him after. Papadopoulos is saying now, I don't know, I don't know Papadopoulos. Never spoken to him. Papadopoulos is claiming now, Joe, listen, I just didn't remember the thing right. The FBI goes, we got him.

We got him on a 1001 felonious mope recharge now we lock him up on that we arraign him and we work out a deal right away that shuts this guy down folks the PC arrest makes a world of sense now

that Margo Cleveland foot arrest makes a world of sense now. That Margo Cleveland footnote makes a world of sense. How many sources was the FBI working with? Don't you find it odd? Every single time the DOJ is put on the spot by Devin Nunes and people in Congress, every time something happens with the Mueller team, every time they get close, the DOJ, here's what happens. every time Devin Nunes gets close to exposing the framing of Donald Trump and the Papadopoulos. Two things happen, Joe.

First, the DOJ claims sources and methods, sources and methods. Really? Who were those sources? How many sources were there? We want names and we want them now. How many sources were there? We want names and we want them now. The second thing that happens, Joe,

Bob Mueller always pulls a rabbit out of his caboose. Michael Cohen under arrest. Michael Cohen plea deal. Paul Manafort plea deal. Mike Flynn sentencing delay. Every single time Devin Nunes and his team closes in on the absolute malfeasance and misfeasance in this case, DOJ always says, no, we can't talk sources and methods. Who are the sources and methods?

And Bob Mueller pulls a rabbit out of his caboose. Every time. All right, I got to get in one more and I want to wrap this up and tie this together for you to make this make sense. Because I apologize for confusing some of you on yesterday's show, but it's an important show. Yesterday walks through the whole point of yesterday's show was the connections. Million connected to Deripaska, all feeding information to the FBI and Fusion GPS. That was the point of that. That whole email chain, how Mueller's charging document conveniently makes things go away that in any way tie back to Russians.

Why? I thought this was a Russia case because the Russian connections are Hillary's connections. Do you understand? That was the point of yesterday's show. The Russian connections are Hillary's. That's why Mueller's not. There's nothing to do with any of these cases with Russian collusion. The Manafort trial, Cohen in the Southern District, none of it. All right. Today's show also brought to you by our buddies at Brickhouse Nutrition. Hey, thanks, everyone who supports this company.

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The Cohen-Maniford thing is a scam. The Cohen plea deal, pleading to a campaign violation charge that did not exist, is only a way to rope in Trump to give the media a narrative that's in on the scam. Secondly, the Manafort thing was a disaster for the prosecution.

The media is painting out like it's an apocalypse for Trump. The entire power of the government was thrown at him. Out of 18 charges, they hung on 10. Eight of them were convictions that have nothing at all to do with

Donald Trump. Third, battle plan. Mueller, fire him. Pardon everyone. Fire the whole team. They have nothing left. There is no reason to keep these people around anymore. They have shown no evidence of collusion at all. This is clearly a witch hunt. He's going to be impeached anyway. It is time to take the gloves off, just like Chuckie Schumer did. You better not talk about a pardon. No, you better start talking about a pardon right now. Wait till these midterms and let's get the gloves on. You want to tango?

Let's tango. Finally, the Papadopoulos story. How many people were the FBI working with that contacted Papadopoulos? Do they know this guy, Tawil? By the way, the conservative treehouse guys, one final thought, Joe, have a really interesting angle on this. They have an update in one of their pieces today. Since initially posting the setup for the July 27th sting FBI operation against Papadopoulos, a few more important research details have surfaced. Now, I can't confirm this.

I'm just reading you their reporting because I'm not, even though the name is rather unique, we're still not sure it's the same guy. Charles DeWill, the guy who reached out to Papadopoulos. Everybody's always reaching out to Papadopoulos. Guy's the most popular guy in the world. Everybody loves Papa. Everybody loves Papa Dizzle. And who ultimately gave Papadopoulos $10,000 in cash. Was a previous intelligence asset of the CIA and FBI.

Wow. They have a link to a WikiLeaks cable from 2006 indicating that To Will may have been passing information. Now, again, I'm not prepared at the moment, even though it's a unique name, to say it's the exact same guy. I'm just saying that that's an interesting little side note. Papa Dizzle seems to have been the target of an elaborate scheme of people working with the FBI that the FBI, ironically, the scheme and all the people they have approaching Papadopoulos

is the reason they're giving for not disclosing what they did. We got to protect sources and methods. That's the point, Joe. Who is the sources you use to reach out to Papa Dizzle? And it also explains the PC arrest. Shows up at the airport, doesn't have the money. Uh-oh. What do we do now?

We thought we had, you know, you can call back. You may say, well, if they didn't show up, if they didn't know he was going to have the $10,000, how did they draft the warrant up? I'll bet what happened. didn't know he was going to have the $10,000. How did they draft the warrant up? I'll bet what happened. What you can do in the federal system, folks, finally, is you can have a draft warrant ready to go. Assuming, let's say he comes back in. You're not going to swear to it because obviously you'd be lying. It hasn't happened yet. But let's say I think Joe's going to come back with $10,000 to the airport and not declare it. You draft it. You have it ready to go with the

AUSA. And if he in fact does it, you go, okay, process it and we'll come back and swear to it, you have it ready to go with the AUSA and if he in fact does it, you go, okay, process it and we'll come back and swear to it, right? I can almost guarantee you that would happen. That's what happened. Papa D shows up without the 10K. They're like, oh my gosh, what do we do now? We're going to have to make a probable cause arrest. On what? We don't have anything. Let's interview him. All of a sudden he makes a misstep on when he met Ms. Sood.

PC arrest! Lying to the FBI! What a scam. Fight back, folks. PC arrest lying to the FBI what a scam fight back folks you have been granted a golden opportunity outside of our families and our jobs and our communities to give our lives a higher meaning when it comes to this political fight

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