The Dan Bongino Show - Ep. 824 Was There a Soft Coup Attempt?

Episode Date: October 9, 2018

Summary: In this episode I address the troubling new revelations by John Solomon about a soft coup effort by senior law enforcement officials to remove President Trump from office. I also address a suspicious redacted footnote in a House report that is getting renewed attention in the FISA abuse investigation. Finally, I address the new liberal narrative being used to attack our republic.    News Picks: My new book, which exposes the players in the Spygate scandal, is available today. Pick up your copy here.   John Solomon’s explosive new piece addresses an alleged soft coup attempt against President Trump.   This suspicious redaction in a footnote in a House report on FISA abuses is getting renewed attention.     Mitch McConnell strikes again. Mitch is using the “new rules” to fight back.    Why is the Left abandoning due process? This piece gives some examples.    The Kavanaugh win is a big one for the GOP.    Copyright CRTV. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Dan Bongino Show. Get ready to hear the truth about America with your host, Dan Bongino. All right, welcome to the Dan Bongino Show. Producer Joe, how are you today? I'm hanging in there, Dan-o, hanging in. Ready to go, babe. Yeah, it was a big night last night. I was filling in for Mark Levin.

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joe it's not all about me joe does hard work on the show too so thank you you'll see he looks like elvis on his twitter account but uh yeah thanks to everyone who called in last night hey big day today my book drops thank you so much so much. We've already got reviews up there. And before I jump into the show, I have a humble request. And I do mean it humbly. You all have done just what you've done for me in my life. I can't articulate in words my gratitude. All I can say from the bottom of my heart is thank you. I love my audience to death. That's why I put my email out there. I try to get back to as many of you as I can. You all are absolutely wonderful. I have a favor to ask. Obviously, if you would like to, please pick up the book, Spygate, by me, Dan Bongino, Denise McAllister, and Matt Palumbo. We put a lot of work into it.

The first reviews are in. And I just want to ask that you please, if take the time, to review the book on Amazon if you buy it or on Barnes & Noble, because inevitably what happens with every book I drop is liberals come on there and they're like, the book sucks, man. The book sucks. And meanwhile, they didn't even buy the book or if they did, but they're like, this book, it's about tax cuts and it sucks. You're like, is that, you didn't even have the right book? They just do it. So it happens with every one of my books. Thankfully, we always have four and five star reviews overall

because people actually read the book, do commentary. And hey, listen, honest to God, if you read it and you don't like it, I'm not asking you for a bogus review. I just, I'm very confident you're going to enjoy it. I'm just saying the liberals who don't even read the book attack us. So please go in, review the book on Amazon, Barnes & Noble. I would deeply appreciate it. There's this first review by Judy S.

I'm not going to read the whole thing, but just to show you how, and I think she nailed this thing. She says, whether you follow politics closely or casually, this book pulls together a ton of factual information in a readable and well-organized fashion. It is well-sourced. It has literally hundreds of footnotes. We did that for a reason. We pointed out the left-leaning people who reported on Russian collusion before they found out it was fake. Generally with active links so you can review the quoted passages in their full

original context online. The writing flows well, almost like a spy novel. Thank you to Denise for that at times, except that it actually happened. The chapters work well together, but each can stand alone if you want to look at one particular topic. Yes, thank you, Judy, for that review. That is exactly how we worded it. You don't have to read the book in order.

You don't. The book is written almost like a police report. So you're interested in what happened with Manafort and who he's tied to. Go to the Manafort chapter. You're interested in the real story, what really happened, not the fake collusion. go to the Manafort chapter. You're interested in the real story, what really happened, not the fake collusion. Go to the end, read it in reverse. The book makes sense anyway. There's charts, there's diagrams, there's a timeline. It is the

authoritative Spygate book out there now. I can say that comfortably. That's why we waited. So please check it out on Amazon. Thank you enough with the plugs. I appreciate it. All right, folks. Last night I was on the Mark Levin show and I covered a couple of things. But one thing I want to cover today is some explosive new Spygate information that came out from John Solomon at the Hill. John knows a lot. John knows everything. And one of the things he released yesterday was two fascinating stories I have at the show notes at Bongino.com. The first one is, you know, again, I'm always hesitant with the adjectives because I don't

want to wear you out or appear hyperbolic. I want to try to stick to a Joe Friday, just the facts, ma'am approach. But there have been so many explosive revelations in this case, it's hard to categorize them. What's more explosive less explosive solomon's report last night a nutshell says joe that the 25th amendment conversation that's alleged to have been had by rod rosenstein and upper level managers of the fbi where they were going to in case you missed it there's an allegation out there now by people in the fbi upper level managers in the fbi who were talking and apparently cooperating

with the congressional investigators, that there was an effort underway to record, record President Donald Trump in a conversation, in an effort to show that he was somehow mentally unfit for office, to give to the cabinet, to use as a measure to implement the 25th Amendment to remove him from office. Folks, listen to me. Do you understand what we're talking about here? We're talking about a coup, an actual coup, not a conspiracy. Joe, this is not X-Files stuff.

We're not making this up. You are actually talking about an effort to remove a duly elected president from office for no legitimate— we're not talking about impeachment here. We're talking about the enactment of the 25th Amendment entirely inappropriately. Now, the reason this is important, folks, and I want to be clear on this, the reason this is important is Donald Trump is not obviously physically or mentally unfit for office. You may not like the man's style, fine, whatever.

I don't like a lot of people's style up on the Hill. What you're doing is clearly a usurpation of powers you don't have to remove an elected president. Now, the Solomon story is important, not because the story, the story is a few weeks old now. The story that leaked about Rosenstein and apparently his willingness,

according to the allegations, to discuss recording. Recording, in other words, using a listening device against the President of the United States in private conversations to give to the cabinet to show that he was somehow mentally unfit to be in office. The story had died down until Solomon had this explosive story yesterday that Baker, James Baker, one of the lead, the general counsel for the FBI, one of the big shot upper level lawyers, apparently has said that according to his, now he was not in on the meeting, but he knows the players who were, according to his telling of events, what he heard, folks, this was not a joke.

To be fair to both sides, Rosenstein is saying that listen the conversation happened but it was a joke it was never meant to be serious I'm just telling you what both sides are you can judge the credibility of each side now motives matter Joe correct and Rosenstein clearly clearly has a motive to suggest that this conversation didn't happen Joe what do you think his motive would be to keep his job yeah save his butt save his butt save the caboose yeah Baker who apparently is now cooperating with congressional investigators James Baker again so we're, general counsel for the FBI. Big shot lawyer, upper level manager within the FBI.

Baker has motivation too, obviously. Baker probably doesn't want to go to jail. We don't know what his role in leaking information may or may not have been. So they both have an incentive to tell a story. But let's be clear on this, folks. Because when you're a criminal investigator, you always have to look a story. But let's be clear on this, folks. Because when you're a criminal investigator, you always have to look at motive. This is my beef with the FBI not telling the FISA court that the information they presented

was presented by Hillary Clinton, who had a motive to do what, Joe? Win the election. Yeah. Baker's motive to cooperate, ladies and gentlemen, to save his own butt, ladies and gentlemen, to save his own butt is not equal to a motive to generate false information. I'm not explaining this well.

Sometimes analogies work better. I can see you're learning. A little funky. Yeah, I get it. I know Joe's the ombudsman. I can see him roll his eyes a bit. He's like, what are you talking about? When you do what's called, when you're a federal agent right and you do let's say what we call we call it a proffer a proffer deal right i've got joe hook line and sinker let's say

on video conducting a bank rob i know it's joe he looks like elvis it's joe there's the video you're on you're busted right but joe's part of say a network of bank robbers so we nail joe we get him in there joe's lawyer knows he's busted now usually i'll be honest with you when you're a federal agent your worst enemy is the opponent's uh the guy you arrested his lawyer because he's gonna say we want this this and this my client's not gonna cooperate my experience as a federal agent when you've got a guy hook line and sinker and you got him nailed your best friend in the world is his lawyer because he doesn't want to go to jail for some bizarre reason the bad guy still thinks he's going to get away and the lawyer's looking him in the face going bro it's over it's

over joe they got you on video here's the still shots from the video man so you don't even need you don't even need you don't need you go right to the lawyer you go really you go joe you're like joe you know i'm gonna to enact your Miranda rights for you. Just shut up for now. I want to talk to your lawyer. You go to the lawyer. You go, hey, lawyer, bag of donuts. Your client's busted.

He's nailed. The lawyer then goes to the guy and goes, hey, Armacost, bro, it's over. You either talk now or you're going to jail for 30 years for bank robbing. You can give these guys up. So what happens next is typically a proffer deal. A proffer deal, we call it a king for a day deal, right? King for a day, meaning you come in, anything you said in that proffer session

against your other bank robbers that you give up will not be used against you under one condition. You cannot lie. You lie in there and you tell us a fairy tale. What happens? Everything you said then can be used against you and you are screwed. So the king for a day deal is this. You will get a free pass. We will not use anything you say, Joe, about your role in the bank robbery against you, okay? But in that proffer deal, if you fudge it and you lie one time, it is over. So who becomes your best friend in the proffer?

The lawyer. Because the lawyer understands that all of this stuff his client puts forth has to be true. And if it's not true, he's screwed because it's going to be used against him in a trial. I've done a number of proffer sessions. Folks, I have seen lawyers kick their client under the table, ask for a break. Hey, Dan, can we done a number of proffer sessions. Folks, I have seen lawyers kick their client under the table, ask for a break. Hey, Dan, can we get a break? Which, you know what that means to me, Joe? My client's BSing right now and I don't want this to happen. I mean, yeah. And of course, you know, you want them to tell the truth. Yeah, yeah. Let's take a break. You come back in

the guy, the story completely changes. Let me talk to this yutz for a minute. Yeah. the guy the story completely changes let me talk to this yutz for a minute yeah yeah let me talk to this dope for a second and he's that's clearly doesn't understand the rules of this thing and you come back in and you start over uh my client misremembered something here's how what i'm suggesting to you is this is a huge story that a soft coup was happening within the upper levels of the most powerful law enforcement agency in the world of the FBI. There are two conflicting stories of the events. There is Rod Rosenstein saying, I wasn't serious about recording the president and removing him from office in a soft coup. It was all a joke. We know Rosenstein's motive. He wants to keep his job. He doesn't want to be humiliated.

He doesn't want to be disbarred. He doesn't want to be a historical embarrassment and cautionary tale. That is a strong motive to do what, Joe? To lie. For Rosenstein, if that was a serious conversation, as Baker alleges, there is a very strong motive for rosenstein to lie and say no no no that was all a joke we weren't going to record the president we weren't going to try to remove him from office that proffer story i told you for a reason not to waste your

time or impress you with my problem i don't care about any of that proffer session skills it's so you understand the deeper context of this story. James Baker, although not a proper session, him going up on the hill, Joe, per se, fully understands that if his cooperation is laden with lies and BS, that he's going to be entirely discredited, not useful later on as a witness, and could potentially go to jail himself

if he had a role in illegal leaks. This guy's a lawyer, folks. Baker, he's not stupid. I put far more credibility. Now, granted, I'm not a sage. I don't know right now, conclusively, with 100% certainty, who is telling the truth. I can tell you based on the evidence, potential motives,

for people to tell that story in conflicting versions of events. If I was a betting man right now and had my entire life's income and I had to take a side, I am 100% putting all my chips on James Baker's version of events. That Rosenstein was dead serious about this. I'm giving you my experience here folks I think Rosenstein I think Baker's versions of events that Rosenstein was dead serious

and this conversation was serious is spot on now having said that I'm sorry but I'm very excited about today's show because Solomon is just I told you weeks ago Solomon knows the whole story and he's dripping it out in dribs and drabs. And these last few days have been just explosive.

They've been overshadowed a bit by the Kavanaugh thing. But now that's over. It's time to move on. Here is a deeper understanding of what happened during the time, though. Because right now, I'm telling you the version of events i believe is rosenstein did was in fact serious when uh when the suggestion came up to take the 25th amendment to get trump out of office in a coup and record him context matters here's the context and this is contained in solomon's piece joe we have to remember the window in which this happened the time window

that's important that is absolutely critical the time window this alleged this happened the time window that's important that is absolutely critical the time window this alleged meeting happened about recording the president was right around the time jim comey was fired now think folks think for a minute you all as you have you are the smartest audience i get emails from you i'm like like, damn, they're good. You are. I've had so many. You all know. Mitchell, Judy, I'm trying to think, Paul, Mike, the people who send me emails all the time. That guy, Phil. You guys are great.

And ladies. But think for a second. Just because Rosenstein, Joe, may have taken part in this meeting and may have been serious about it, it's critical to understand where the actual suggestion came from. I'm not absolving Rosenstein of responsibility here if he did play a role in a plot to record the president. But I'm telling you as an investigator here, I doubt Rosenstein was the one who popped this 25th Amendment suggestion.

Jim Comey's fired, Joe. Who's the number two at the FBI at the time? Do you remember? Andrew McCabe. McCabe. McCabe's the number two. McCabe's wife is a diehard Democrat. She has ran for the state Senate in the state of Virginia with the backing of a Hillary acolyte, Terry McAuliffe, the governor of Virginia.

She's a diehard Democrat. McCabe's family has ideological leanings towards the left. We already know McCabe refused to recuse himself from the Hillary investigation despite his family conflicts with the Democrat Party all the way up to the end. The firing of Jim Comey happens. Who's the number two McCabe? McCabe becomes, Joe, the de facto number one, the acting FBI director. The suggestion by Solomon, Joe, which is so simple. Yet so mind blowing. so mind-blowing.

Oh, my gosh. Nikki Haley just resigned as the UN ambassador. Say what? Sorry, folks. Don't mean to break up the show. But again, it's not a live show, but it's live to tape. And yeah, Nikki Haley just resigned as the UN ambassador. Wow.

That is stunning. All right. I'll get you some more on the show. Again, my apologies for breaking it up. But yeah, you know, my show, I want to get you the news and this is, wow, what a stunning stunning revelation. Where did that come from? Holy cow. I have no idea. But man,

that's going to break up the news cycle today. Oh boy. So McCabe is the number two with the FBI. He's now the de facto number one in the window that Jim Comey is fired this is critical this is a critical piece of information the stunning revelation I was talking about before that I just popped that new news story there is was and Solomon alludes to this I think he knows was this a revenge move by senior level managers at the fbi led by andrew mccabe folks

this is why my book is so important and they say it reads like a spy novel this is this stuff actually happened this actually happened what was the i know joe's got his head in his head are were these people so petty ladies gentlemen, in the most powerful law enforcement institution in the world, the FBI. Were these senior level managers, were they so angry and petty and small and politically motivated that when Comey was fired, they thought they would engage in a soft coup to remove the president. Ladies and gentlemen, listen to me right now. If Solomon alluding to that, because if you read his piece, it's pretty clear at the end, that's where he's going with this, that this was some kind of a vindictive retribution thing. Then ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry, but I love love the the the uh the the working men and

women of the bureau i did i worked with them they are great i will continue to say that but the upper level managers anybody who sniffed this who touched this who was in the room who was near it who knew about it who said nothing who failed to sound the alarm. You have absolutely have to, you must be removed from your position. Must. There is absolutely no turning back. Absolutely no turning back. Joe, do you agree? You cannot possibly retain your position

if you were part of a soft coup effort to remove the president of the United States. There is no way you should have a firearm. You should have the power to arrest people and the power to direct law enforcement operations that at this point look 100% political. Folks, the story is a must read. It's in my show notes at the hill. Bongino.com. I have two winners by John Solomon today. I'm telling

you again, he knows the whole story. As I said yesterday, the elegant part of Spygate is it's complicated. But it's complicated in simplistic ways. How each player interacted with someone to leverage their own advantage and save their own butts to try to take down Trump.

That's complicated. The big story is not. The FBI worked with Hillary and the Obama administration to take down Donald Trump and used every single weaponized weaponized. I see law enforcement. I said they could corrupt to do it. It is not a complicated story. The beauty of this whole thing is it doesn't get more complicated. It gets less complicated. If you're listening, if you missed yesterday's show because of the holiday, please listen

to it. We have a soundbite during yesterday's show from Devin Nunes on Maria Bartiromo. It's a minute long. He lays out the whole scandal. show from Devin Nunes on Maria Bartiromo. It's a minute long. He lays out the whole scandal. The FBI used information from the Democrats, brought it to a FISA

court, never verified it, spied on Trump, and then lied about it. We played that yesterday. Please go back and listen to it. It is a critical piece by Devin Nunes. Critical. That is the beauty of this case. Alright, you may forget the relationship between

Adam Waldman and Oleg Deripaska and the FBI. I get that. My book covers that. You can always reference it. Just go to the chapter titled Oleg Deripaska, right? But understand this. It was all part of a concerted effort by people influencing the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency led by John Brennan to take to politically take this president out. This is disgusting. This is one of the most horrifying stories I've ever heard. Just a quick reminder about the 25th Amendment to what it is, because some of you may not know. The 25th Amendment was designed for a physical or mental incapacitation by the president. God forbid he's wounded. He has a stroke.

physical or mental incapacitation by the president god forbid he's wounded he has a stroke and the way it works is if the vice president and majority of the cabinet submit a letter to the congress that the president is incapacitated the vice president takes over now obviously the the you know the people who did who uh wrote out the amendment amendment were brilliant and thought through the consequences of that. Well, that would give the majority of the cabinet, Joe, right, a de facto impeachment power if they just didn't like the president because they could submit a letter. President Joe Armacost, Joe is mentally incapacitated. Oh, no, folks, I'm fine. What are you talking about? So they designed an out clause for the president to fight back in case this was used that way. The out clause is the president submits back in case this was used that way.

The out clause is the president submits a letter saying he's not incapacitated. The Congress reconvenes and it takes two thirds of the Congress to vote on that. That, yes, the president is, in fact, incapacitated. Say, you know, say some whatever the president really is injured and he and he just some and he can't do it. And someone submits a letter on his behalf and there's a dispute, two-thirds of the Congress can vote. But this was never, ever, ever meant to be an impeachment mechanism, folks. It was meant for physical or mental incapacitation. Clearly, 100,000% not the case right now. This was coup effort which solomon sarah carter greg jarrett you know others i'd like to think we played a small role in this as well have exposed

over time and the case becomes simpler this was a coup a coup a coup and the democrats oh man you're talking conspiracy theory stuff no no you're talking imbecilic nonsense stuff you're just avoiding the facts at this point. There is, Joe, let's be clear about one thing. There is no dispute, folks. No dispute that this conversation happened. No dispute. None.

The only dispute is that Rosenstein says he was kidding. James Baker says they were not kidding. I just laid out for you, given my experience, my knowledge, skills, abilities, what I've done in my experience, how, why I believe that conversation was in fact serious. I believe Rosenstein wasn't joking. And I also believe that the conversation was led by Andrew McCabe. And I told you why, because I believe McCabe was angry at the firing of Comey and had political motivations to lead that conversation. I mean, I know that you've worked with Rosenstein. Can you see him doing something like this? You know, I didn't know Rod personally, but I worked with him when, you're right,

when he was the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland when I was a Secret Service agent in the Baltimore office. We worked a rather big case. And I can just tell you one experience I found a little bit disturbing. And I don't want to overdramatize it, but I worked a really big case for this guy who was, he was doing a really bit disturbing. And I don't want to overdramatize it, but I worked a really big case for this guy who was,

he was doing a really disgusting thing. He was selling used cars and apartments. And what's disgusting about that? Well, what's disgusting is he didn't have the used cars or apartments. He was just taking people's money. But it happened. It was an unbelievable fraud.

I mean, there were thousands and thousands of victims. It was a complicated case. We wound up getting a guy convicted. He wound up threatening me on a recorded phone call. It was, they called me the Bon Jovi guy or something. Yeah, him and his brother. It was a really disturbing case. But Rosenstein was the AUSA. And the case got a lot of... I actually still have... It was on the front page of... Was it the Baltimore Sun? It was on one

of the sections. The front page is like City News. And Rosenstein, when we were going to do a press conference, they wanted me to go on I went on WBAL Joe's competitor actually to talk about it and they wanted me to do more media matter of fact they sent uh Josie Sturman who used to work for uh ABC over and Rosenstein shut that down and someone told me later again I don't want to over dramatize Rosenstein but someone told me later no no he wants to do the media he doesn't want anyone else on the media talking about it I was like all right whatever you know so but yeah it's a good question I did work with him and can I see him doing this based on some of the people who knew him a lot better than I did yeah absolutely I didn't mean to put you on the spot bro but I mean

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which came out the other day, folks, something's making a whole lot of sense near here. A lot of us have been kind of tracking this and we were wondering what the deal was with this. There was a redacted footnote in the House Intelligence Committee report. Remember, Devin Nunes has been investigating this for a long time. Remember a few months ago when, was it three, four months ago,

when Devin Nunes put out that explosive House Intelligence Committee report about the FISA abuse and the Democrats went nuts and Schiff, they Oh, shift day. We haven't said that in a while. Shifty released his own nonsense report afterwards. That story seems like eons ago, given the news cycle in the Trump era. Right.

But it wasn't that long ago. It was only a few months ago that that house intelligence committee report came out, but there's been a puzzling piece of information. There was a redacted footnote in the piece. And that redacted footnote had some people confused at the time the footnote was from page this is from solomon's piece in the hill please read it this is two pieces in there this is the second one footnote 43 on page 57 of chapter 3 in the house intelligence committee's report earlier this year on russian interference in the election

has some significant redactions, right? Solomon writes, until this past week, the footnote really had garnered no public intrigue. It's true. A lot of us in the inside wondered what it was about, but no one was really talking about it in the media, Joe, in part because the U.S. intelligence community blacked out the vast majority of the footnotes verbiage in the name of national security before the report was made public. So a lot of us were under the impression, Joe, that that footnote was some secret source, some national security critical piece of information that couldn't be revealed. You know, what could it be, Joe? But nobody, again, it wasn't the subject of a lot of media reports. Now it's all coming out, folks.

a lot of media reports. Now it's all coming out, folks. Again, more evidence of the big 100,000 feet in the air narrative that's finally starting to come out that's easy to understand. This was a political hit on the president, folks, and his campaign. This was not a national security operation to interrupt Russian collusion or Russian interference in our election. That is a made up, false, fabricated nonsense, nonsense narrative. What does that have to do with this footnote? Keep in mind, I just explained to you, number one, the coup attempt. Now I'm going to explain to you how the investigation was entirely political. We have been led to believe by the FBI, some members of the FBI, in conjunction with the

media, that there was some effort to interrupt Russian collusion. This was a political hit, pure and simple. What was redacted in that footnote? Well, now we know. The footnote indicated that FBI officials had been taking information from a specific source, but who the source was, was redacted. And again, that led people in the media off the hooks. Oh, that source, Joe, must be a national security source. Oh, no, ladies and gentlemen, that source appears to be Michael Sussman, who was a lawyer working for the Democrat National Committee during the election. Now, explain to me, please, in a coherent, rational sentence, you liberal clowns,

explain to me now how it is a national security necessity to black out the name of a Democrat lawyer who is mainlining, pipelining information into the upper levels of the FBI that's generated as political opposition. Please explain to me how that's a national security set. Wait, I'll give you a second. Oh, you can't? Figures. Folks, think about what we're talking about here.

Again, as the case goes on, it gets easier and easier to understand. They've FBI had told us forever. We have to protect what, Joe? Sources and methods for national security. What is the national security interest in protecting a Democrat Party lawyer who pipelined you information? There is none.

Can I have another five seconds? You need it, right, Saul? You can't figure it out because there is... You know what Saul's trying to figure out in that five seconds? He's trying to figure out how to save his caboose he there is no answer to this there's none folks this was a political hit it is clear as day remember occam's razor keep it simple this was a political hit on the it had nothing to nothing to do with Russians or collusion. Forget the collusion narrative. The collusion narrative applies to one party and one party only.

The collusion narrative applies to the Hillary Clinton team. It doesn't apply to the Trump team. Now, folks, one more really terrific point. Solomon, man, I tell you, I can't hot tip this guy. He did a great job in making, in the second piece I have in the show notes, the one I just quoted from. Joe, if the redacted footnote in that House Intelligence Report about Joe, the source that had to be redacted for national security reasons.

Yes. If that had to be redacted, then why is it that when Baker went up to the House to give his testimony, the lawyer, the same lawyer I just told you about with the 25th Amendment stuff with Rosenstein, why is it that it was done in an unclassified setting when that information was revealed? Ladies and gentlemen, I'm telling you why. Because the DOJ is starting to realize right now that it's screwed. What it's hoping to do is it's hoping that you may say, well, how is it if it released the information with Baker in an unclassified setting, but redacted it, how is it admitting

it's screwed? No, no, no. You're thinking about this all wrong. Joe, if I miss anybody, stop me, right? Yeah, you're good. You're good. What they're doing here is the DOJ understands it's going to have to take a bath. That this was a political hit and a soft coup is now transparently obvious.

Now, remember, the DOJ's known this the whole time. How, Joe? Because they were involved in it. Because they were there. Joe and I know how the Dan Bongino show started. You know why? I'm Dan Bongino, and Joe was there on day one. No, you all don't know.

Nothing personal, but we were there. We know. The DOJ knows what happened. The DOJ is playing small ball they're releasing things out in drips and drabs during news cycles Kavanaugh Nikki Haley's resignation today whatever it may be they're hoping during the news cycle that they can release in drips and drabs the information so the public gets tired of it and never sees the hundred thousand foot in the sky narrative that the soft coup effort to remove the president by a politically motivated attack using our weaponized intelligence community was in play for the last two years. That's why they let Baker go up there in an unclassified setting and reveal this information, despite the fact that they redacted the exact same information in a House intelligence investigation report.

Because they're dripping and drabbing it out. They're waiting for the election. Another, like how many times am I going to have to tell you this? Please, please vote. Please, please. I'm praying you vote. They are hoping the House gets taken over by the Democrats. The committee chairmanships change,

and as they change, people like Devin Nunes and all these investigators, Joe, are sidelined. Goodbye. And all of this goes away. That way they can drip and drab it out in the redactions at their own pace under no pressure from Nunes and others.

They'll drip out all of it over a period of two years and you have completely lost interest now some of you may be saying no we won't lose interest folks listen i people do think about benghazi we still don't even have an answer about the where the president was then when he went to sleep the night of benghazi while we had nobody knows all right matter of fact you even talk about it now i left all conspiracy there is guys that nobody gives us i always say to people okay i will stop talking about benghazi just answer three questions where was the president before what did he do during and

why was that why was a stand down order according to multiple people at the scene given just explain that and we'll make it all we'll get the answers and we can move on. But you understand this is the exact same strategy? Drip it out. Slow, slow, slow. And eventually the news cycle will bury the story and the DOJ, the information will come out slowly. There'll be no punch to it. You'll have lost interest.

Dude, this show is one of those shows that really has me stressed out about the Republic. But it's also, it's got me pissed off. It should Joe. And I know what it is. I can read the emails. It has a lot of people pissed off a lot. And I,

and, and some people email me and go, Oh, I want, I want to wrap. I get it. I know you want investigations. I,

I, I, I, I, I, I, I, folks all like my job for you.

How, how I envision myself in this and Joe's roles to give you the information to give you the information to pressure your lawmakers. I, I'm, this is not a monarchy. And if there was a monarchy, I wouldn't be interested in being the monarch anyway. All I can do is get you the information. I'm telling you it's devastating. Now, I have a ton of other stuff to get to here, but I want to just wrap it up with this quote from John Solomon from the second piece, again, in my show notes today. And you need to read it, please. It's really good, right? this sums up this whole thing quote there is now a concrete storyline backed by irrefutable evidence here it is the fbi allowed itself to take political oppo research created by one party to defeat another in election

treated it like actionable intelligence presented it to the court as substantiated and then used it to justify spying on an advisor for the campaign of that party's duly chosen nominee for president in the final days of a presidential election yes yes john solomon they're in that there's spy gate in one chapter i mean in one paragraph yeah one more one more short paragraph he goes on and when nine months later none of this the fbi cannot prove the allegation of collusion between Trump and Russia. They couldn't prove any of this.

Unverified evidence was then leaked to the media to try to sustain public support for a continued investigation. Yes, John Solomon. Bingo, brother. That is exactly what happened. Nailed it. Hmm.

All right. I got a couple other things. Very important stuff to get to. I may go a little long today, but today's show, oh, thanks, Joe. I like when Joe likes the show. Makes me happy.

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Yeah, I had a weird noise on my end. I got it. Joe's hitting buttons left and right. You know, last night on the Levin Show, I made a point. I'm going to make it simple. I don't want to go on and on in a long rant for this, but it is a critical one. I want you to understand. I drew an analogy between the NFL protests, and I don't want to re-dig that one up, but

it's relevant right now to what happened with Kavanaugh and the protests with Kavanaugh this weekend. And I want to make this simple point because it's a critical one. Where the Democrats lose here, ladies and gentlemen, is what I called last night and I want to call again today. They lost, I want to name this the this ain't us moments. Mason, what are you talking about? I made the case with the NFL, I'm going to draw a parallel here a little while ago on this show that the damage done to the nfl by the protests is chronic it's not the acute damage i have no doubt the nfl will likely recover

some if not all of its ratings over time um somehow they probably will um in the short term when i say over time i mean in the short term. The argument I've made with the NFL is these kneeling protests offended deeply so many people that in order for the NFL to grow its brand at the rate necessary to continue to earn the returns it gets on its product, the NFL has to make sure it generates legions of new customers. And that's why the 18 to the 18 to you know whatever 50 plus demo is so important in tv long story short is you have no idea the damage they did to their brand by mothers and fathers who watched this happen in the nfl i know you did it joe i know i did it who looked over at little joe i looked over at my isabel and amelia and said

that ain't us that ain't us my i inherited my love for the nfl and football from my mom i grew up with a single mom a single parent you know i love my father they got divorced and i I'm not trying to crap on my dad on the show here. He's a great guy. He just didn't work out. But I grew up with a single mom. My mother loved football, loved it. She'd watch it every Sunday. It was a ritual in our house. That love of football was passed down to me. I loved it. My daughter came in one night. I'm not even kidding. I was waiting. I watched 60 Minutes, even though it's a left-leaning show. I like to see the perspective, at least, of what's going on a little bit.

I'm like liberals who, you know. So I was getting ready one night for 60 Minutes, and I must have had it to auto-tune or a reminder to the channel. And you know what happens with 60 Minutes on football nights. It starts late if the football game goes late. So the way my living room's set up, you can see the TV, but the remote wasn't near me, so it must have auto-tuned to an NFL game that was still on.

My daughter came in and said, Dad, shut that off. The NFL's on. I was proud of her. I said, you know what, Isabel? Thank you. I forgot. I really wasn't even paying attention.

We were cooking something. She will never in her entire life watch an NFL game again, either with my daughter Amelia. Because I told her one time, and I meant it, that is not us. We do not kneel. And when I say that, I'm talking about the actions. I know how media matters. Goofballs are.

That's what they do. I'm specifically talking about the actions here. You do not disrespect our national anthem. It's one thing we share in common. We will fight for that common cause and it's the survival of our republic even though we have significant political and ideological differences.

If you can't agree on that one thing the country will fail to exist. You do not disrespect that anthem. Why am I telling you that story? Because folks, what the Democrats don't understand right now is these hysterical histrionics, these grotesque, sometimes violent, aggressive, confrontational, screaming protests. You have no idea the generational damage you are doing to your party. Again, you may recover in the short term like the NFL. In the long run, you have alienated millions of customers, millions, because I'm telling you,

there are parents all over America watching that woman trying to claw open the doors of the Supreme Court with their bare hands while pounding on them, who I'm telling you, as my name is Dan Bongino, are looking over at their sons and daughters and saying, Tom, Mary, that ain't us. That ain't us. You are decimating and destroying your brand. You are. Hence my own the libs. You cannot let these people rest for a moment this is what they want they want chaos and chaos is not a brand folks chaos is not a brand that sells this is not us and the democrats are going to learn that the hard way all right i got a couple quick ones i'm going to get because this is news of the week. Finally, again, I appreciate your patience, but the ad reads are a little

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got it from but bottom line is this the way the internet works these days, Twitter's kind of funny. And the McConnell supporters, my wife's having a hard time understanding this. She's got on Twitter and she's figuring it out. If you're not on Twitter, it's tough to understand. It was meant as an insult. A guy running for Senate in West Virginia, not against McConnell, was running against the establishment types. Obviously, McConnell being one of them at the time, being associated, he's regained a lot of his reputation from the Supreme Court appointments.

But you get my point. Everybody used to attack who? Paul Ryan, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell. It was the way it went, Joe. I mean, you and I lived through the Tea Party movement. Oh, yeah. So Blankenship, in an effort to win the Senate seat, said, I'm going to go to D.C., I'm going to fight the establishment,

and we're going to take down Cocaine Mitch too. And it was, I mean, it was meant to be an insult. Well, Blankenship lost. Listen, I don't know Blankenship. I'm not knocking a guy. I don't know anything about him. I never met him. I'm just telling you what's happened.

The Mitch McConnell team has actually taken a nickname and kind of like quietly made it like a meme. I'm not, listen, no one's celebrating drug use. We shouldn't have to even put that. I'm not, listen, no one's celebrating drug use. We shouldn't have to even put that. I'm just telling you what's happening, okay, folks? It's been used as like a rebel, like a rebel without a cause nickname, you know? If you go to Twitter and put in Cocaine Mitch, you'll see a thousand memes.

And some of them are hysterical. One of them is, my name is Mitch McConnell. I traffic cocaine and get supreme court justices approved and i'm all out of cocaine it's all over the internet and it's meant to rehabilitate in some ways through edgy unquestionably edging questionable marketing the reputation mcconnell you get it joe oh yeah yeah i say that because cocaine mitch strikes again i have a piece up in the show notes he was asked apparently about 2020 2020 is what a presidential year election presidential election year right everybody knows donald trump's up for re-election in 2020 someone said to him hey you know mitch now that ruth bader ginsburg is Ginsburg is 85, if a seat came open in 2020 during the election year,

would you guys seek to confirm a Supreme Court justice if Trump were to nominate one? McConnell's like, yeah, yeah, we would. And I'm like, here we go. New rules. Now, if you're a regular listener to the show, you see exactly where I'm going with this. Some of you may not. McConnell, during the last year of the Obama administration, during a presidential

election year, when Merrick Garland was nominated, said, we're not doing it. We control the Senate. We are not going to meet with Garland. I'm sorry. The seat will not be filled. We will not vote on it. And McConnell, give him credit where credit is due, with cojones of

steel, stuck to it and got Neil Gorsuch in that spot after Trump was elected. Now, new rules. Listen, folks, these new rules may make you a little uncomfortable. Not me. I don't care. Not one bit. Now, McConnell's saying, well, if it was an election year, yeah, we'll stick someone in there. Cocaineitch strikes again

new rules we win you lose now to be fair mcconnell does caveat it and he's correct in saying that hey what i was talking about is when an opposition party controls the senate which should have been obvious now you may say dan don't be a hypocrite if we meant that during an election year no Supreme Court justice should be confirmed until the next president comes in then we should mean it no matter what well sorry folks those are the old rules I'm not interested when liberals start stealing stop stealing MAGA hats and dumping waters on our head and attacking us I'm more than willing to go back to the old rules till then we win you lose sorry cocaine mitt strikes again but you see the nuance here he's introducing a nuance that wasn't there before and reporters are all over and i have

a great story from the washington examiner today today joe excuse me um in the show notes about this exact topic just to be clear mcconnell's saying hey we were using the biden rule during the last year of the Obama presidency. Joe Biden gave that famous speech in 92 when the Democrats controlled the Senate and George H.W. Bush was in office saying we should not. He repeated we should not. He said it twice. Seek to confirm a Supreme Court justice in a presidential election year. McConnell took the Biden rule when the Republicans were in control of the Senate in the last year of Obama's presidency and said, we will not seat Merrick Garland. Now, when asked about it again, McConnell's like, well, I only meant because the Republicans controlled the Senate and it was a Democrat president.

Now that it's a Republican president and Republicans control the Senate, we're going to plow right through that sucker. Yeah. You know, Dan, I've been thinking that this is a good time for us to um do what the hell we want don't you think yes i didn't see where you were going yes yes it is to do what the hell we want i'm sorry folks i told you when you want to return to civility standard operating principles the rules of the senate you want to stop calling supreme court justices gang rapists and other things like that i'm fine okay i'm game i'm down totally until that time the new rules however uncomfortable they may make you and listen feel free to email me criticize me then we should

stick by that principle about the senate no matter who's in control fine i get it i'm open to hear i'm telling you i am on the entirely opposite side of this. We win, you lose is the new credo. When the left wants to stop attacking us, then we can go back to some standard set of operating principles. Until then, it is all about winning. Hat tip, Cocaine Mitch.

I'm not kidding. that in twitter there's got to be 10 000 memes of mitch mcconnell with that stuff um i want to explain something away to moving on to a different story and you know because sometimes you see something on twitter and you know you get nailed on something and you feel like you have to explain it and um I want to explain it. It's not bad or anything. Don't worry. I just, I went on Fox. No, yeah, I did. I went on Fox a while.

I'm confusing Charlie Kirk and me, but Charlie went on Fox yesterday and talked about Kanye West and Taylor Swift. But I went on Fox a while ago and was talking about the importance of Kanye West's statement about opening your eyes and thinking for yourself. And I said to you, remember the show, Joe?

I said it on here on the podcast too. Please don't dismiss that. And I was very clear, Joe, you can attest to this. If not, call me out. I'm not going to hold it against you. Did I not say Kanye is not a conservative? He's not. I said, no, I'm not looking to him for political advice.

I'm not looking to him for political advice. I'm not looking to him for, you know, tax reform, marginal tax rate analysis, community rating. I'm not. I'm simply suggesting to you as a cultural moment, it's important that people with cultural capital was the term I use. They have capital with young and minority voters come out and say, hey, these Republicans aren't crazy. I was not suggesting, and maybe it was unclear, it's my fault, and that's why I'm addressing

it, because the guy on Twitter, and I'll tell you what he said in a minute, is not wrong, but I just want to clear up what I said, because I think he's misinterpreting what I meant by this. I did not mean that you should look to Kanye for political endorsements or even policy endorsements. Like, look to Kanye for political endorsements or even policy endorsements. I'm simply suggesting that the way to return to a proper discourse at the cultural level where Republicans aren't bad guys and Democrats aren't bad guys and let's talk about policy is when one side acknowledges that the other side, okay, you guys are acting in goodwill.

The Democrats refuse to do that. Every time we open our mouth, you're a rapist, you're a racist, you hate women. The Democrats refuse to do that. Every time we open our mouth, you're a rapist, you're a racist, you hate women. The Kanye moment's important because minority voters, some, and younger voters believe that stuff because they use the media. That's why Kanye should not be dismissed. Now, on Twitter the other night, I went after Taylor Swift and I said what I say all the time. I don't look to my doctor.

He's a very smart guy. I love him to death. I don't look to my doctor. He's a very smart guy. I love him to death. I don't look to my doctor for political advice. I have no idea what his party affiliation. I've never asked him. I know this. He fixes elbows and he fixes shoulders and he's damn good at it. Folks.

If the guy told me tomorrow, he was an Obama supporter. I couldn't give a rat's caboose. Don't care. He's good. I don't. Taylor Swift is an unquestionably beautifully talented singer. Her voice is amazing.

I have tons of her stuff on iTunes. Unquestionably. Full stop. I made the point maybe a little, and I could have dialed it, but I said I don't really, I used the term, the S word. I don't give a,

about what she thinks about politics. Maybe I could have dialed that back a bit. Granted, right? But my point was that she's probably a talented singer, but I don't ask my doctor for political advice. And I certainly don't care that Taylor Swift, for those of you who missed the story, endorsed the Democrat Senate candidate in Tennessee.

I don't care and you shouldn't either. So some guy screenshotted my stuff from Fox about the importance of Kanye and then screenshotted my tweet about Taylor and said,'re being a hypocrite. I'm not, folks. I'm not some kind of defensive thing. I'm just trying to I'm not looking to them for endorsements on policy or candidates. racists and rapists and misogynists. The only way that's going to get corrected in the culture amongst people who actually believe it because of the media is when people with cultural capital come out and say, folks, I don't care who you vote for, but that's not true. The Republicans are not those guys. That's all I was trying to say. But fair enough criticism on Twitter. Maybe I should have worded it differently. And I'm not immune to screwing stuff up. And I

read it. It wasn't like I didn't get a lot of retweets and people said, why are you even highlighting it? Because listen, I'm human like anyone else. And when you say something the wrong way or it's not clear to people, then you have a responsibility. And that's what I, what I meant by that is we should not be taking Kanye's political endorsements, but his voice is an important one and we shouldn't disregard it. And that principle applies to Taylor Swift too. She's talented. She's a wonderful businesswoman. She's brought in billions of dollars of revenue in the entertainment industry. Folks, I simply don't care what she thinks about a political candidate in the United States Senate race. I don't care. And frankly

speaking, I know we're going to get, I got a lot of negative feedback from Swifty fans. So what do they call them? The Swifties or whatever? Taylorites? I don't know what they are. Fine, bring it. But I don't know why you should care either.

I don't understand what deep analysis she has on political issues. Listen, she wants to give advice. And by the way, I'm not suggesting she shouldn't have a voice she's got 21 million twitter followers she's a free to say whatever she wants i'll always support that i'm just telling you think can i just sum it up this way folks please just think for yourself there you go just think for yourself that's all i'm saying there you go and i'll move on um. All right, this one's important.

So there's a growing kind of, you know, the Democrats are big on outrage campaigns and narratives. You know, first it was the travel ban. Actually, first it was the Electoral College. Then it was the Trump presidency in general. Then it was the travel ban. Then it was the kids in cages that was actually under the Obama administration. We had all this stuff that happened, the outrage campaign. So there's a new outrage campaign building, and I want you to be aware of it, folks. You heard it here first, and be ready to respond because it's getting momentum. Matter of fact, I took a screenshot

of this. This Ken Delanian, who is an alleged journalist, he's not a journalist, he's an activist, but he works for NBC. Believe me, this guy's an activist. Don't for a second think this guy's a journalist. Read his Twitter feed. He's 100% a Democrat activist. But this is an article by Jason Willick in today's Wall Street Journal. Here is the new outrage campaign by Democrats it's building. You heard it here first, all right? In the wake of Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation, some of his opponents have taken Joe to denouncing the united states senate as undemocratic this is gonna be the new line of attack get ready here is the tweet by ken delaney an alleged reporter at nbc it may not happen in our lifetimes ken delaney and tweeted but the idea

that north dakota and new york get the same representation in the Senate has to change. So, ladies and gentlemen, federalism and all of the associated constitutional protections for small states. The NBC reporter, alleged reporter, Ken Delaney, wants him thrown out of the window. Folks, this is building on the left. They're saying the combined population of all of these Midwestern states doesn't even meet the population of New York City and Los Angeles. There's no way these people should get to vote with equal representation in the Senate. Folks, listen, I don't need to explain to you the constitutional protections, the checks and balances laid out horizontally and vertically. You get that.

But the founders and the beauty of the founders system of a system of equal representation in the House of Representatives, which is based on population, was balanced because there are regional interests in a collective United States unit that they wanted to make sure were balanced out in the Congress and the legislative branch. Think about why that is. It's obvious. Folks, there are people who live in cities and industrial centers whose interests may be different than people who live in primarily agricultural areas. The United States, when we drew up the Constitution with these protections, wanted to be ensured that they had population representation in the House of Representatives, but that regional parts of the United States were not left out by a tyranny of the majority. Agricultural interests may not be the same as interest. People in cities may love some tariff that helps their tech industry that destroys farm interests in the Midwest. They wanted to make sure these interests were balanced. We are not a direct democracy.

That is why there are regional interests in the United States that have to be protected. You can't have New York running what happens in Michigan or Wisconsin or North Dakota. Although New York does have outsized influence. Why? They have 20-plus members of the House of Representatives, and North Dakota doesn't. The Senate is meant to balance that. One final point on how ridiculous, just to be clear, the new narrative that's building is this.

The U.S. Senate is undemocratic. Look what happened in the Supreme Court. Don't play this down. Do it at your own peril. Ironically, folks, if that was true, and the Democrats are saying, well, the population, where the people actually live, should get to dictate everything for the country. Joe, let me ask you this. It's not a trick question.

Yes, sir. Where is there a larger majority in the Congress for the Republicans, in the house of representatives or in the senate in the house of representatives i'll explain later yes yes thank you thank you joe in the house of representatives you're welcome dan you're the best i love this guy when this is video this is gonna be great this is gonna be great folks in the house of representatives some of you regular listeners will figure that

right out the house of representatives the irony of this whole thing is if Delanian from NBC the alleged reporter's point was true Brett Kavanaugh would have been appointed to the Supreme Court by bigger numbers not not smaller numbers. Do you get it? This is how stupid they lose on both arguments. Where the people live should vote. Yeah, they do. It's called the House of Representatives.

There's huge Republican majority there right now. Did you miss that? What a dope. Oh gosh, this is funny stuff. Oh, all right, folks folks and so just be prepared for the u.s senate's undemocratic that's going to be the new meme he's uh he's an activist at heart all right we're running a little late but uh just quickly on nikki haley she is resigning as a u.n ambassador um saying she needs to take a break a quote is it's been the honor of a lifetime um so we'll see what happens in the coming days this is unquestionably breaking news. And again, folks, please, if you don't mind, please pick up my book today. I would deeply appreciate it. It's a launch day. It's available on audio version. If you'd like to listen to the book, the Kindle version's on Amazon. It's

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