The Dan Bongino Show - Ep. 919 The Coup and the Coverup

Episode Date: February 19, 2019

In this episode I address the coup attempt against Trump and the McCabe/Rosenstein plot to remove him from office. I also address the media’s complete facepalm on an immigration “fact-check.” News Picks: Finally: Rod Rosenstein to leave the DOJ next month.    This Jeff Carlson piece shows conclusive evidence that Andrew McCabe is a liar.   One of the finest pieces you’ll read about the coup attempt on the Trump administration.   Jussie Smollett may have chosen the wrong surveillance camera to capture the “attack.”   CBS reporter unloads on the biased mainstream media in an incredible interview.   Yes, the border wall in El Paso worked.    The NY Times goes big on the “Republicans Pounce” routine.    Insane liberal protestors deface the pictures of fallen Border Patrol agents.   The media is following the same script against the MAGA movement that it used on the Tea Party.   Copyright Dan Bongino All Rights Reserved.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

get ready to hear the truth about america on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host dan bongino all right welcome to the dan bongino show producer joe how are you today good morning mr bongino sir andy mccabe joe's doubling down on stupid yeah this guy he just keeps digging digging and digging um i just i don't get it. This is either one of the dumbest human beings to ever transcend the ranks of the FBI up until the top or or at this point, it's just some nihilistic endeavor to destroy any remnant of a reputation he had left. I don't get it. I don't get it. So I got a lot on that. Just some, also some immigration talking points.

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had to run a piece at the Washington Post. This was not a coup on the president. This was simply using constitutional means. Really, it was? Because the constitutional means of the 25th Amendment mean that the president is physically or mentally incapacitated to govern. If you have any evidence of that, Philip Bump, full-time propagandist, hack goon at the Washington Post, I'd love to see it.

But you don't because you're a hack and a loser. And I'm sorry to be so forward with this guy, but it's losers like Philip Bump and the Washington Post and others out there who are collectively leading to the downfall of our constitutional republic. Because whereas I defend the free press and always will, even when they're unfair and stupid,

it's their stupidity and propagandizing of the American people that is allowing police state tactics and bureaucratic coups to go largely unpunished at this point. This guy's a disgrace to humankind, a disgrace to the country, a disgrace to journalism, a disgrace to the Washington Post, which is hard to do because they disgrace themselves every day, and an embarrassment to the free press everywhere. The fact that they can't recognize that what happened there was an attempted bureaucratic coup on the president, despite the obvious evidence and the words of this lunatic,

Andy McCabe himself, is a complete, total disgrace. The media is dead and buried, ladies and gentlemen. Ignore them. Ignore them. You will get nothing from the Washington Post or New York Times that even approaches the realm of factual data you need to make an intelligent decision. Ignore these idiots. They are nothing but outright liberal Pravda-like propagandists. I'm bothered by the whole thing because we have an opportunity right now to self-correct as a country. thing because we have an opportunity right now to self-correct as a country, to put a roadblock in front of any future president, whether Democrat or Republican, a tax on them

by a police state bureaucracy to remove them from office and overturn an election despite zero evidence they have the information necessary to do so. We have an opportunity right now to do that. And the media is forfeiting that opportunity to carry water like the goons they are for the left. And it's a disgrace to watch. You can tell I'm probably a little upset. I had to have an MRI yesterday. I get back in my car having some surgery on my left elbow, one of my many medical maladies here. There's a medical malady out with Dan Bongino. And I get back in my car and someone sends me this article by bump. No, it was not a coup.

This guy's such a loser, so devoid of any reason or common sense that I can't believe they put this stuff down on paper. Now, getting back to real facts and real information. First, Jeff Carlson has a piece up at the Epoch Times that's a must read. It's in the show notes today. I had a few questions about the show notes. Ladies and gentlemen, if you go to the website, Bongino.com, and you click the drop down menu, it's very simple.

It's up in the corner. It'll say podcasts. The show notes are on the podcast. Just click on the podcast for the day and all the articles are linked right below it. I'm sorry if that was confusing. It used to be titled show notes. Now it's under podcast. But I have an article by Jeff Carlson.

Also, if you want to get it it you can subscribe to my email list click the subscribe button on my website in the menu and i'll email these articles right to your email box um there you go paula put up the link on a video but this is really really uh a must read piece because he addresses a lot of what's going on with andy mccabe and there's two central tenets i want to uh i want to talk about today with regards to the coup attempt. And do not backtrack on your language at all because of the propaganda this media left. They're the conspiracy theorists, not you. Still promoting this collusion hoax.

Number one, their line of attack here is going to be that Andy McCabe is saying that Trump obstructed their investigation into Russia. And it is that obstruction that is the grounds for the case itself. Now, Joe, as we discussed yesterday, I want to hammer again today. That makes no sense. Now, if Donald Trump believes he was being investigated for collusion on no evidence at all and then calls out the investigators for doing it, he can't possibly be obstructing justice where justice wasn't done. So I want to hit the obstruction and the fact that still no one has produced a predicate crime. Now, before we get to the soundbites from Andy McCabe this morning with Savannah Guthrie on one of the three letter morning shows, I want to talk about the Carlson piece because the Carlson piece is damning. peace is damning. So number one, Andy McCabe keeps talking about how the president's efforts after the investigation was open to talk down the investigation, that he's using that as his reason to keep the investigation into Russia going, despite the fact he had no reason. Joe, is this

making sense? He had no reason to open it up in the first place. Now, here's what's fascinating. Let's walk through a timeline. Again, from the Epoch Times piece. And Carlson has this all lined out. May 9, 2017. 5-9, 2017. James Comey, former FBI director, is fired by Donald Trump pursuant to a letter written by Rod Rosenstein documenting all of the malfeasance and misfeasance by Jim Comey when he was the FBI director.

May 9, 2017. May 11, 2017. This is important, Joe. Andrew McCabe appears on Capitol Hill under oath in front of a committee up on the Hill. in front of a committee up on the Hill. Now, keep in mind, McCabe's premise the entire time now to sell his book, this loony tune, lunatic, is that the obstruction efforts by Trump to stop this illicit investigation are grounds in and of itself to keep the investigation going.

So, Joe, for obstruction efforts to be real, you would think there would be some tangible effort to obstruct the investigation by Trump, right? Yeah. In other words, McCabe's saying Trump tried to obstruct the investigation. Yeah. Is he really? From the Carlson piece, Marco Rubio asked McCabe while he's under oath, says, Mr. McCabe,

can you, without going into the specifics of any individual investigation, you know, I think the American people just want to know, has the dismissal of Mr. Comey in any way impeded, interrupted, stopped, or negatively impacted any of the work, any investigation, or any ongoing projects at the Federal Bureau of Investigation? In other words, Senator Marco Rubio asks Andy McCabe under oath two days after Jim Comey's been fired. That's why we're walking through the timeline, Joe.

Yes, yes. Because McCabe is suggesting in all these recent interviews that the firing of Comey and Trump's negative comments about the investigation led to an obstruction of his investigation. Two days later, he's under oath. Now, Rubio puts him on the spot on May 11th of 2017 and says, tell me, were there any efforts to obstruct your investigation? So clearly McCabe must have said yes, Joe, right? Because that's what he's saying now. No, you would think wrong. Yes. Here's McCabe's answer. As you know, Senator, the work of the men and women of the FBI continues despite any changes in circumstance or any decisions. So there has been no effort to impede our investigation today.

All right. Quite simply, you cannot stop the men and women of the FBI from doing the right thing, protecting the American people and upholding the Constitution. So let me read that middle part again joe andy mccabe's answer to rubio about if donald trump has obstructed the investigation or any investigation yes mccabe so there has been no effort to impede our investigation today why is nobody talking about this no effort to impede our investigation today none i know what that means i understand that there we go you did joe let's let's go back to neanderthal caveman joe joe yes or no daniel if you were to answer a question about an obstruction of an investigation you said there was no effort to obstruct

does that mean that the investigation was obstructed or it wasn't obstructed? No obstruction. No. No obstruction. There you go. Even caveman Joe can figure it out. No obstruction. Even Joe. He doesn't. Joe, what did, I mean, what did Neanderthals have of an IQ?

I'm not sure. 65, 70. I never got to measure one. But even Joe can figure this out. No obstruction. This isccabe on the record saying there's no obstruction now five days later on the 16th of may 2017 him and rod rosenstein meet and talk about removing trump from office because of obstruction that he just acknowledged didn't happen. Now, in case you think I'm making this up, that McCabe is a complete hack, discredited liar, a fraud, a phony and a fake. Cue up this first video audio clip here. This is McCabe this morning. I had a poll. Producer Joe and Paula worked hard so i i sent them this at like 9 40

right before we start uh recording the show i said in caps i need this well it wasn't a cash but it was like an exclamation point at the end i need this cut here is mccabe this morning on with savannah guthrie again doubling down on the ridiculous allegation that trump obstructed his investigation therefore that's the reason they started the investigation they shouldn't have started. Play that cut. Was it your suspicion and the reason that you opened this investigation that you thought the president might actually be working on behalf of Russia? We had a number of very concerning things that we were considering at the time. One of them was the fact that the president, in our view, had gone to extreme measures to potentially impact, negatively impact, possibly turn off our investigation of Russian meddling into the election and Russian coordination with his campaign.

So that goes to his potential motive. But when you're opening this particular kind of investigation, counterintelligence, did you suspect the president might actually be working for Russia? We thought that might be possible. Yes, we thought it might be possible. Now, remember, Savannah, we're at the beginning of an investigation. We don't draw conclusions. We simply look at the facts and the information we have and begin investigations that we think are appropriate. But as you point out in your book, the FBI does not start any investigation willy-nilly. What were the predicate facts?

Lay them out here. What were the facts that suggested the president may be a national security threat and may, in fact, be working on behalf of a foreign adversary, Russia? Okay, so, Sabeni, we have to go back to the investigation of potential collusion between the campaign and Russia, right? So, through the fall, these are topics we've been looking at. During that time, the president has been publicly undermining the investigative efforts. He's talking about it as a witch hunt. He's talking about it as a hoax.

So it's clear to us that he's not happy with what we're doing. Also, during that time, the president approaches the director of the FBI and asks him to stop investigating Michael Flynn, a part of our investigation into Russian interference. He asks him to turn off that investigation. Why isn't that just the normal obstruction of justice criminal inquiry, which is substantial enough on its own, but what takes it to this next level where there's a suspicion that he's working for a foreign government? I mean, this is extraordinary. Because you have to ask yourself, Savannah, if you believe that the president might have obstructed justice for the

purpose of ending our investigation into Russia, you have to ask yourself why. Why would any president of the United States not want the FBI to get to the bottom of Russian interference in our election? Ladies and gentlemen, Joe, you just heard what I heard, right? Yeah, I did. Is this guy the biggest fake, lying, phony fraud disgrace to humankind we've ever seen. Yeah, pretty doggone close, Dano. On the record, I just read this to you, Joe. On the record, telling under oath Marco Rubio, there has been no effort to impede our investigation today.

He's asked by Savannah Guthrie, who actually does some decent journalism here, Joe. Maybe, you know, I'm not kidding, but maybe someone listened to our show yesterday where I keep bringing up the key word here, predicate. Yeah, I noticed. What was paragraph one? What was the predicate reason for investigating Trump? Andy McCabe, if you listen to that entire, we don't usually run cuts that long, but it's important. Listen to what this fool does again. Instead of addressing Savannah Guthrie's very good question,

what was the reason you were investigating Trump for potential collusion? What does he do again, Joe? He goes back to after they opened the case, Donald Trump objecting to the case being opened. And then he claims again, quote, he tried to turn off the investigation. Let me read to you now for the fourth time McCabe's words to Rubio under oath. So there has been

no effort to impede our investigation today. No effort. Do you understand the investigation's still going on? What he, so he's acknowledging under oath that there's been no effort to impede it. The Mueller investigation still going on.

He then doubles down and says, well, president Trump wasn't happy with the investigation. So that's the reason you, you started the investigation at the trump under false pretenses and pretense pretenses the dossier the fake dossier political information we now know that mccabe won't admit it he avoids using the word dossier but then as a reason to initiate the investigation mccabe has the cojones right here joe to say one of the reasons they started

the investigation was quote because trump was not happy with it. Ah, does this even logically makes it look, folks, did you ever take a logic class in college? Remember that modus tollens and modus ponens and if this, then that. I actually enjoyed that. I don't know how useful it was, but I enjoyed that. Does this even logically make sense? Savannah Guthrie, let me let me let's stop the euphemisms and just rephrase their questions.

Savannah Guthrie to McCabe. Why were you investigating Trump? Do you have any evidence? McCabe, we were investigating him because we didn't have any evidence. But after we started the investigation without evidence, he wasn't happy with the investigation. So that's why we were investigating him uh does that even logically make sense on a timeline this is joe this guy was the deputy director of the fbi either he is one of the biggest idiots we've ever seen in our lives or he is just desperately lying to sell enough books to keep himself out of jail to pay his legal fees. That's the only explanation. She asks him what the predicate was, not Trump's reaction to it.

And he keeps going back to the reaction Trump had to being falsely investigated. Joe, what is he hiding? It's clear as day. Joe, what is he hiding? It's clear as day. He's hiding the fact that the doss I don't want to give him an ethical path. It's clear to me now, based on his political inclinations and his comments about Trump later on, that he was willingly snookered. In other words, they took the dossier and highly suspicious that any of it was credible as a predicate to investigate Trump because they hated Trump. And now he knows that he said that on the record remember mccabe has unique liability in this case joe right because mccabe is one of the few guys who's already admitted that the warrant to spy on the

trump team wouldn't have existed without the dirty dossier from hillary so mccabe has unique culpability in this that's why whenever he's asked why did you start investigating Trump? He always goes to stuff that happened after the investigation was started, which logically makes no sense. You investigated Trump and you started it because of the reaction Trump had after you started the investigation. And then he goes back again, as you just heard in that cut to the Flynn thing. again, as you just heard in that cut, to the Flynn thing. Again, ladies and gentlemen, the Flynn thing. Donald Trump did not ask Jim Comey to stop investigating me. He said, I hope you can make this go away. He gave him no such order. How do we know that? Because Flynn was prosecuted still, disingenuously and unethically, I believe, based on the FBI's own comments.

But how can you suggest that Trump told him to stop investigating Flynn when he didn't? It just didn't happen. But don't rely on people like Philip Bump of The Washington Post to actually put this kind of stuff out there. Because they're not bright enough to figure it out. He's a propagandist. That's what they do. You were investigating Trump because he was not happy with your investigation? Oh, my gosh.

This doesn't make any sense. None of this. And the media is just sucking this up. All right. I want to get to a second sound cut from that. I got a lot more on this because it never, ever stops. If the media would just do some basic homework on this, you have, as Victor Davis Hanson points out, a piece I have in the show notes today, which is one of the best pieces I have ever read about the coup attempt. This is the biggest political scandal in American history. And the media is part of it,

Joe, because when all is said and done, as VDH of it, Joe, because when all is said and done, as VDH acknowledges in the piece, when all is said and done and the dust clears, I think you'd agree, Joe, the media's cover-up of this scandal is going to be as big of a scandal as the Spygate and FBI investigation scandal Absolutely. I have no doubt. Darn right, brother. All right, today's show also brought to you by our buddies at Brickhouse Nutrition. They make the finest nutrition supplements on the market. It's one of my favorite companies.

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So let's go on to the second soundbite. You know what? I'm sorry, Joe. I don't mean, I'm just really, I'm sorry to sound scatterbrained today, folks. I promise you, it's not that I do to any lack of sleep of anything. I'm just, you know, I'm always candid.

I'm just very passionate about this. And it gets me upset, Joe. You probably hear a different tone in the show today. I just astounded. I can't believe that in this country, I love know joe loves i know my wife does and i know a lot of democrats do too i mean not everyone's a radical far leftist republicans and conservatives always been passionate about this country but do you understand like we're watching right now the dissolution of our republic as we know it in conjunction with a media operation purposely obfuscating your view into the really sordid, horrid truth. It's sad, folks.

There's no political victories here. There's no like we won. Oh, look, we won the debate. We showed that they conspired. No, no. These are our people. It's no like, we won. Oh, look, we won the debate. We showed that they conspired. No, no. These are our people. It's just us. This is the United States of America. We're watching the whole thing dissolve like an Alka-Seltzer tablet in front of us into some pseudo police state where a coup attempt against the president of the United States is accepted by the media simply because they want a political victory. There is no going forward unless we can all collectively agree what happened here is an

abomination to the principles of liberty, freedom, justice, and our republic. Folks, I'm ashamed of the left. Ashamed. I look at them in disgust. I do. I look at them in absolute disgust. And I take no pride in telling you that. I look at them in absolute disgust, and I take no pride in telling you that. I look at them in disgust what they've done, and nobody's calling them out on it.

Let me get to this one more snippet from Jeff Carlson's excellent piece in the Epic Times. Again, in the show notes today. Please check it out. So, in case you're under the impression here that there really is predicate information so let me be clear what i'm saying i've played to you now sound yesterday and today of deputy director andrew mccabe the fbi at one point acting director refusing to answer a simple question about why they were investigating trump the reason's clear it's because they were doing it based on a political tip from the hillary campaign they were they had been fully weapon's clear. It's because they were doing it based on a political tip from the Hillary campaign. They had been fully weaponized,

the FBI, to act as a political hit squad for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. So he can't answer the question. So that's why McCabe keeps going back and pointing to ex post facto stuff. Well, Trump said he wasn't happy with the investigation.

That doesn't answer why you started it. But in case you're under the mistaken belief and you're a liberal listening to the show, that there is some body of information hidden out there that for some reason the liberals, slimy Adam Schiff, sleazy Eric Swalwell, Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Mark Warner, Peter Stroke, and McCabe and the FBI and Comey are holding on to, and they just haven't, and Mueller, and they haven't released his bombshell yet. Let me read to you another piece from Carlson's excellent piece here.

At the same time that Andrew McCabe was attempting to open an obstruction investigation, Peter Stroke, he's the lead investigator on the case, folks. Peter Stroke at the FBI and Page, Lisa Page, were texting about the lack of evidence of collusion. In a text Stroke sent to Page, Stroke noted, keep in mind, this guy's the lead investigator on the case. This is his text. You and I both know the odds are nothing. If I thought it was likely I'd be there, no question. I hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern that there's no big there there. Here's Page, stroke the lead investigator's girlfriend at the time. Page, who's an FBI lawyer at the highest levels of the FBI bureaucracy.

Here's Page answering a question posed by Representative John Ratcliffe, a good guy, about that specific text. In other words, Andy McCabe is claiming there's an obstruction of justice thing going on. They should open up an investigation. Peter Stroke is lead investigator at the same time saying there's nothing here. There's nothing to investigate. Ratcliffe asked Page about that text. Here's how she responds.

She initially answered, quote, so I think this represents that even as far as May of 2017, we still couldn't answer the question. After a brief consultation with our legal counsel, Page continued, I think it's a reflection of us still not knowing. I guess that's as good as i can answer i can't believe we're having this conversation joe i really can't i i've been at this with you for a very long time yeah a long time man we have done shows

joe and i you know i don't i don't i don't say this in a in a overly pretentious way but i don't a long time, man, we have done shows. Joe and I, you know, I don't, I don't, I don't say this in a, in a, in a overly pretentious way, but I don't think we've ever done a bad show.

Cause we prepare, you know, some shows are better than others. Some shows, you know, we're like, all right, it was satisfactory.

We've never ever, we, I can tell you with all my heart, I have never dialed it in. Not one day for a show. I get up early. I put this thing together and it means the world to me, but I got to tell you, this is one of the most

heart-wrenching shows I've ever, I mean it. I don't know any other word to say it. I'm like, I'm devastated by this. Because I cannot believe that the media is still running interference for this obvious coup attempt against the President of the United States, despite the evidence being right in front of him.

Think about what I just read to you. coup attempt against the president of the United States, despite the evidence being right in front of him. Think about what I just read to you. So not only can McCabe not articulate a reason they opened the case door in the campaign, Donald Trump's campaign, Joe, in 2016, he can't. He knows the reason, again, for the umpteenth time, it's political information from Hillary. But he can't say that that so now he's going back in televised interviews because he's an idiot he's like indicting himself on national television he keeps going back to stuff that happened in 2017 where he believes donald trump tried to obstruct

an illicit investigation into donald trump not only is that debunked by McCabe's own words we read before, but you have McCabe's, essentially the FBI lawyer working directly with McCabe, Lisa Page, and the lead investigator, Peter Stroke, working directly and answering to McCabe himself, acknowledging in text that there's nothing there, there's no evidence, and you have Page acknowledging as far as May of 2017. Now you understand the timeline, the beginning, why I read it that way. The same time McCabe is alleging that Rosenstein and him were having this 25th Amendment conversation. They needed to wire up Trump, wire up Rosenstein to get Trump on tape because it was so much obstruction going on. It was so dangerous.

Trump had to be removed at the exact same time. Lisa page answers under oath that I think it's a reflection of us still not knowing. In other words, they had nothing. There was a coup attempt on the president to disingenuously illicitly use the 25th amendment in no way designed

to take a president you politically disagree with out of office there was a discussion of weaponizing the FBI and using investigative assets like recording devices on people who work for the president to go into the White House because McCabe's telling you they had all of this devastating evidence of obstruction

that McCabe himself said doesn't exist under oath. His lead lawyer said didn't exist. And his lead investigator said didn't exist. And yet you have complete zero lunatics like Philip Bump at the Washington Post still insisting that this was all legit on the up and up and this was not a coup. Really, it rips the heart out of any American who just. It's I mean, this is incredible. This is absolutely incredible

And hard to believe what's happening right now McCabe's a liar, folks He's a liar He is a documented liar He lied three times Three times When asked about leaks to Devlin Barrett Of the Wall Street Journal

About leaks, critical leaks in the Hillary Clinton investigation. He was the source. He lied to the FBI's own investigators about being the source. Lisa Page had the texts showing McCabe was the source. He is a liar. And he is a fraud. And this man is a disgrace to the country. The media, right?

Oh, we should celebrate his history. Bull, celebrate nothing. This guy's a traitor. Simple as that. It's a Benedict Arnold of our generation. This guy is a traitor. All right, cue up that second cut this is

I mean you want to talk about the rip your heart out again now what does he do now to run cover McCabe is trying to bring down everybody else with him and good I don't care let the rats rat themselves there is no one with clean hands in this Joe

almost no one ironically outside hands in this, Joe. Almost no one. Ironically, outside of Trump and his inner circle, they're the only ones with clean hands in this. Mueller doesn't have clean hands, Rosenstein, nobody. But McCabe, understand what he's doing in this next cut, because he knows he's in deep trouble and he's a liar and a fraud. What does he do? He's now trying to rope in everybody. Rosenstein was talking about the 25th amendment and I'm starting to believe that may be true now. I've had a little bit of change of heart on this, but now listen to him, Joe, try to rope in Congress too, as being part of this, which again, I have no issue with, but what he does here is

slightly disingenuous. If you're a regular listener to the show, you'll hear right away the problem with this. Play the cut. We'll talk about it afterwards. You and other members of your team briefed the so-called gang of eight. These are the leaders of Congress in the days after Comey was fired about the Russia investigation. So it would have been the majority leader of the Senate, Mitch McConnell, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Democratic counterparts. Did you tell them that you had opened a counterintelligence investigation into President Trump? The purpose of the briefing was to let our congressional leadership know exactly what we'd been doing. Opening a case of this nature, not something that an FBI director, not something that an acting FBI director do by yourself,

right? This was a recommendation that came to me from my team. I reviewed it with our lawyers. I discussed it at length. Did you tell Congress? And I told Congress what we had done. Did anyone object? That's the important part here, Savannah. No one objected, not on legal grounds, not on constitutional grounds, and not based on the fact. Notice a couple things there, folks. He never answers the question directly. You caught it, right, Joe? Listen, I knock the media a lot because a lot of them are complete lunatics and acts. But Guthrie actually does a decent job. Did you tell

Congress you were investigating Trump? Not the team, not Carter Page, not Papadopoulos, not the campaign. You notice he never answers the question? But secondly, Andy McCabe, in an effort to rope everybody in, says, oh, we briefed them and nobody objected. Really, Joe?

You briefed them in May, right? Now, regular listeners already see where I'm going with this. So does Joe. The case crossfire hurricane into the Trump team. with this so does joe the case crossfire hurricane into the trump team the spy gate disgusting illicit case investigating the trump team was started in late in fall of 2016 they are required by practice to brief congressional committees every three months on the existence the fbi that is of sensitive investigations joe we just have to keep this cut on q i we use it so much um i don't have it today but yeah i know what is comey do you know what i'm talking about in may of 2017 eight months eight months

after they start the case, not three months, for liberals having a tough time with math, that would be quarterly. He waits eight months to notify Congress. He tells Congressional Representative Elise Stefanik, when asked why he refused to notify Congress quarterly about the existence of this case into Trump, he looks her in the face and says,

because I was advised not to. And he indicates it was Bill Price step, based on what he says using the title of the person who told him not to do it. And he says, because the case was sensitive. Ladies and gentlemen, that's the precise exact reason Congress is required by this. It's not legal. It's not a legal doctrinal thing. But the practice practices every three months

to keep Congress in the loop so we don't have a renegade FBI conducting all kinds of sensitive political investigations without any kind of oversight. Right. He didn't do that, Joe. Comey refused. And the only reason he notified Congress

was because it was probably pretty obvious at this point. They had nothing. Trump's the president. It's May of 2017. And Jim Comey realizes he is in a world of trouble, his FBI. He gets dismissed. All of this stuff is coming to a head. McCabe is not telling the truth.

He may say he briefed the oversight committee. They were required to do it five months prior. And listen, I have no faith in McConnell or Ryan, either any of these people. They're never going to get to the bottom of this. So I am not defending them. But understand what McCabe's doing. He's now trying to reverse engineer the chronology and the timeline of events to make it appear that the whole time everybody knew about this illicit investigation when that is not the

case. Comey and his FBI withheld notification from Congress. They were supposed to do quarterly. They didn't do it for eight months, and it's because they knew they were going to get caught. McCabe is a liar. He is trying to bring everybody down with him. Now, on Rosenstein,

I threw out kind of a comment. I didn't mean to make it flippantly. This is important. Rosenstein, now, if you again read the show notes, have a piece about Bongino.com. Rosenstein saying he's going to leave the DOJ next month. Ohstein's standing. He's going to leave the DOJ next month. Oh, my gosh. You know, really?

This is like two years too late. Good riddance, Rod Rosenstein. Now, I've been skeptical of McCabe's version of events where he indicates on May 16th of 2017. Remember, in May, all this stuff is happening. Comey's fired May 9th. May 11th, McCabe goes in front of Congress, says there was no effort to obstruct the case. In the 16th, Rosenstein meets to discuss this 25th Amendment thing with McCabe. This is when Comey goes back up on the Hill and indicates that they were investigating Trump.

All this stuff is happening in May. But I'm starting to become skeptical of Rosenstein's version of events, too. It's now pretty clear based on his statements that this conversation about using the 25th Amendment, which would get the majority of the cabinet and the vice president to basically remove the president of office for a physical or mental incapacitation, which doesn't exist. They were making it up. We would make the whole thing up. This conversation happened.

I don't think there's any question. I've been leaning on the side of McCabe talking about it hyperbolically. I'm now starting to wonder. It's clear now Rosenstein's announcement yesterday or the leaks that he's going to leave next month. Rosenstein knows he's in trouble. Now, this says to me a couple of things. We've had this conversation before in prior shows. When you're a federal agent like I was, or you're an officer in the federal government,

there are administrative rules and constitutional protections, okay? This is important. Please pay attention here. This is really critical. Those are not the same thing. When you're a Secret Service agent or an FBI agent, you have administrative rules where you can be forced to testify about things under oath, under the administrative rules. the penalty is not jail because that would violate your constitutional protections but the penalty is you will lose your job in other words joe joe always has fifth amendment protections against self-incrimination but if joe's an fbi agent and i suspect joe of a crime as the fbi director i can tell joe you are going to talk to our administrative people about this

if you don't you're fired that is an administrative cudgel they have over Rosenstein that they had over McCabe while he was employed as the FBI too. Obviously, if Joe quits or if Joe's fired, there's no administrative cudgel. The cudgel is Joe talk or we're going to fire you from the FBI. If he leaves or he's fired, that weapon isn't there anymore. Pretty simple to understand, right? Now that Rosenstein's been accused of having this conversation about a coup attempt using the 25th Amendment and recording devices on the president for an obstruction case that shouldn't have existed, according to McCabe's own words, right? McCabe knows he's in trouble. Why is he in trouble? I mean, Rosenstein, excuse me,

because now Lindsey Graham and others up on the Hill are calling for McCabe and Rosenstein, excuse me, because now Lindsey Graham and others up on the Hill are calling for McCabe and Rosenstein, Joe, to be brought under oath up on the Hill to testify about this. McCabe knows he cannot lie under oath here or he will be looking at a very serious charge and potential jail time. Rosenstein, too. Rosenstein's now panicking. Rosenstein's now panicking. Rosenstein administratively, as the deputy attorney general, the DOJ, under administrative rules, could likely be forced, Joe, to now by Bill Barr. Follow me now that Bill Barr has been confirmed as the attorney general. Rosenstein can be forced to go up to the Hill to answer those questions. And the answers to those questions will be devastating. Did you engage in conversations about removing the president for office using the 25th Amendment and put out there that you were willing to wire yourself up in conversations with the president on an obstruction charge that they admitted didn't even exist? The only answer appears at this point, Joe. Yes, I did.

It would be some of the most devastating congressional testimony we've seen since Watergate. Rosenstein can't do it, Joe. He can't do it. So he has to wipe clean the administrative cudgel. I believe that's what's behind him leaving next month. He knows Bill Barr, the newly confirmed attorney general, will make him do it with that administrative weapon. That administrative weapon fails to exist if Rosenstein leaves.

That's why you heard him depart so quickly yesterday or the leaks came out. Oh, he's going to leave in the middle of next month. I'm sure of it. Because now, Joe, what can he do? He can go up to the hill as Joe Civilian, Rod Rosenstein, no, he's not, he doesn't remember the DOJ anymore. He can say what?

I'm going to take the fifth. Or, you know know administratively he's not subjected to the same strictures he would have been before he can fudge it a little bit

up on the hill now that's why he's leaving this guy's a snake too this is a battle of the snakes remember Battle

of the Network Stars this is a battle of the network snakes Rod Rosenstein versus Andy McCabe two sleazeballs battling to see who can you know who can break through the sleaze floor quicker gross gross what's happening all right i got more

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I encourage you to read the piece. Folks, I would debate to you strongly, in no uncertain terms, that the spying scandal on the Trump team, the weaponized investigation into the Trump team, the fake obstruction investigation into the Trump team, the fake obstruction investigation into the Trump team, by McCabe's own words, the then coup attempt using both the 25th Amendment and the obstruction investigation,

which Philip Bump leaves out the obstruction part, by the way, the fake obstruction investigation, that those scandals are going to be as big or equal to the media scandal to cover this up and make it all go away. It is absolutely shameful what's going on. Read the piece. It is a damning indictment layer by layer of everything that was done to take out the Trump administration and how history will not be kind to the lunatics who

tried to pull this thing off. Folks, I just want to put a little smile on your face because these are dire times. You can probably tell by the dour tone in the show today. History is always forced to reckon with the facts. It is. Eventually, some entrepreneurial person, when the political penalty for outing the Democrats and the liberals and the rhinos that pulled this off on Trump, when the political penalty is gone, someone's going to want to make money on clicks and someone's going to want to write a book. And it'll be from left-wing sources who will crack the floodgates. This happens. And the example I used to give off that I haven't given in a while is I always use the David Dinkins, Rudy Giuliani example. When David Dinkins was running for re-election for mayor of New York City, when New York, I live there, and it's the only reason I remember this is because it was

really my first foray into deep diving into politics, where I really found fascinating what was going on. New York City hadn't had a Republican mayor in a long time. We had Ed Koch, David Dinkins, and the city was in complete chaos, Joe. Crime was out of control. The bond market left. I mean, the economy was struggling. It was really, you had the Crown Heights riots. New York City was struggling. It was a rough time. But the media, the left-wing New York City media defended Dinkins to the death. They defended him as if it wasn't his fault it was just these republicans pouncing and all that other stuff and they'd go after giuliani giuliani comes in runs on this

reformist record law and order let's get the taxes down the economy back and he routes david dinkins and dinkins doesn't get re-elected and what at the time was probably a bit of an upset i only bring up that story because it took a lot of time. And it took the renaissance of New York City, Giuliani's combating the crime in Times Square, the crime around the city, and getting the economy going again, where he really focused on dumping a lot of regulations, where the media was finally forced to acknowledge, Joe, years after the facts, that the Dinkins administration was a complete disaster. They had to because of two things.

One, people wanted to make money on the clicks. And secondly, Joe, they tried to maintain some semblance of credibility, but only after the political penalty of bashing Dinkins during a campaign was over. I tell you that. I hope that makes some kind of sense. Because when Donald Trump is out of office and years have passed, just like you see the rewriting of history now about the Reagan administration, George H.W. Bush, and even some liberals who now, oh, we miss George Bush, George W. Bush. Eventually, they'll try to get their credibility back, but they won't do it when there's a political penalty of hurting the Democrats because they're liberal activists first.

When this is all written, ladies and gentlemen, the story really comes out. It is going to be absolutely devastating, the stain on our country brought about by the Obama administration, the FBI, the CIA, Brennan, and other people who were involved in this massive spying operation, weaponization operation against the Trump team. It's a disgrace and the media role in it will become clear. Okay. A couple of things. I haven't really hit on this Smollett story because folks, listen, I don't want to waste your time. I have an hour. Joe and I respect your time.

And I haven't hit on it because the Jussie Smollett, the Empire actor who now it appears was involved in an elaborate hoax to impugn the reputation of Donald Trump and his supporters. He claims he was attacked in the middle of the night by two people who screamed, this is MAGA country. You put a noose around his neck. All the indications now by the reports is this was a hoax. I haven't touched on it because I don't really feel like I have anything to add. I mean, these hoaxes are so common now. I've told you what the Bongino rule is. Wait 24 hours. I've now revised the Bongino rule, Joe. Now wait 72 hours before you discuss on social media any negative Trump story brought about by the media because they're probably lying. I mean, do we have to go through the litany of hoaxes?

The Deutsche Bank story. Oh, they got Deutsche Bank. They're looking at Trump's records. False. You know, the Wikipedia story. They were communicating with Donald Trump Jr. But false. Michael, Mike Flynn was ordered as when Trump was a candidate to contact the Russians.

False. Michael Cohen has information that Trump told him to lie. False. Listen, folks, I Trump told him to lie. False. Listen, folks, I can't say, the media's not credible. They're not even tabloid. At least the National Enquirer gets stories right sometimes. The media's a joke. It's a farce.

They jumped and pounced all over, pun intended, they pounced all over this Jussie Smollett story because it looked bad on Trump. And I can't tell you enough, the Bongino rule. Wait 72 hours. The story will likely be debunked as a hoax. But there is one angle to this story that I think you may not have heard that I do find interesting.

I have an article from Breitbart up at the show notes today. That's fascinating. So Smollett, apparently, according to this report, Joe, he was looking to get this attack on tape do tell sir so apparently there was some kind of rehearsal done for this uh what appears to be hoax attack right now and he had kind of mapped out in his head where the surveillance cameras were and a Breitbart piece covers this so if I lose lose you any details, you can read it. It'll make a lot of sense. So it appears, and he alludes to this in his interview with Robin Roberts as well. It appears he thought the surveillance camera at the scene was pointed in the direction he was at, but given the cover of the surveillance camera, he couldn't see the

camera angle and the angle was in fact in the wrong direction it was north so according to the Breitbart report I guess the hope was he would get this attack I'm using the air quote show on tape of him being brutalized by these Trump supporters who he's alleged now to have paid to attack him these two Nigerian brothers and he was hoping this viral video would go around the world of him being beaten up by these two MAGA supporters. But the camera was pointed in the wrong direction. Roro. Yeah, Roro.

He got, there was no tape. There was no nothing because he wasn't bright enough, apparently, to figure out that because there's a ball camera doesn't mean the lens is pointed in your direction right you know what i'm saying it's not a fish eye like a 360 or a tarantula eye with like 6 000 lenses or whatever it's a camera it was pointed in the wrong direction yeah one other part of this yeah one other piece of this, that I hadn't heard before. Again, multiple reports out now that one of the reasons he's involved in this hoax now that appears to be all the facts are coming out is, again, according to reports, because we do things deliberately here and slow for a reason.

I don't need to be first, and I don't apologize to anyone. We need to be right. I'm not Philip Bump of the Washington Post. We actually do facts here. But the reports are starting to seep out now, Joe, that he may have sent himself a death threat on the set of Empire.

I guess to gain some sort of victim status. This is Smollett. And apparently he was offended that the letter did not generate fiery media rage towards trump supporters and and give him the victim status he so wanted so again according to reports apparently this attack hoax uh was a way to double down on that get this on video and garner some attention uh for victim status that he apparently wanted because victim status is craved on the left that's what they want

uh they want to be a member of an aggrieved group that's that's what being a liberal that's the very essence of what being a liberal is um so those were just two ways that's the only reason i haven't talked because i don't really feel like i have anything to add on it. And I had heard a little while ago, like many others, that this was probably a hoax. But folks, again, on my show, I'm not in any way eager to jump the gun on any story. And if that bothers you, I understand. I know it bothers some, but I want to be right here.

I don't want you to ever refer to my podcast when talking to a liberal friend and then days later have to recant. I don't want to have to recant. I don't want to have to do that. I'm sorry. We've made a couple of mistakes on the show and it's always bothered me. And that's why I've withheld comment until I feel we have a good repository of facts to give you a solid picture of what I think happened. It appears now that obviously this was an elaborate hoax. Okay. One other story. I have a great piece in the show notes at Bongito.com from Matt Palumbo. I discussed it. Actually, I take that back. I didn't get to it yesterday,

but it is in yesterday's show notes about another talking point being bandied about by the liberals about the El Paso, the city of El Paso and the crime drop after border security measures. Folks, I never bring up stuff just haphazardly you watch the cable news networks and you will see the liberals new talking point because trump brought up that el paso was now safe because of border security so let's be clear let's get the lead out first trump has said hey el paso is safe because they engaged in border security mechanisms and this is what worked the liberal media pounced on it of course and said and said, that's not true, and wrote a bunch of stories how El Paso, the crime rate in El Paso was decreasing long before they built

this border wall structure or completed it in 2009. Now, my resident fact checker, Matt Palumbo, who's got a really exciting book coming up, by the way, which I'll be teasing on this show. You're all going to want to go pick this up. You heard it here first. If you like debunking this and fact checks, you're going to love this book. Matt wrote a piece showing how the Democrats conveniently leave out of the narrative, Joe, that in 1993, what was instituted?

Operation Hold the Line. A massive increase at that section of the border in El Paso of agents and a fence-fixing operation where they upgraded the fence in El Paso. And when you look at the media's own chart, Joe, that Matt has in a piece, here's what you see. 1993, border security mechanisms, the fence enhanced. What do you see happen in El Paso, Joe? Crime goes down.

This is their own chart. They're using it to bunk Trump. Here's Trump. Border security measures on the wall implemented in El Paso. Crime goes down. The media shows a chart where border security measures are implemented in 93. Crime going down and uses the chart as evidence that Trump is wrong.

You may be saying that doesn't make any sense. Of course it doesn't. The chart shows it. Matt has a little line. A little arrow. Operation Hold the Line implemented 1993. Crime Joe. Down. For those watching the video.

Even caveman Joe gets it. For those watching the video, even Caveman Joe gets in. 1993, border security. Crime in a border town in Texas, down. You get good. Good. Right. This is, and Caveman Joe, the Washington Post puts this in as they're trying to debunk Trump. Now, even worse. Now, even worse.

Yes, even worse. Border apprehensions after Operation Hold the Lime was initiated in 93 were down 66,000 to 54,000. Most of that was attributed to the very section in El Paso, a drop in 10,000 apprehensions. In this section, they implemented the border security and fence upgrades now one more tripling down on media stupidity if you look at their own chart even though after the fence was enhanced and border agents were hired in el paso to stop the crime and crime went down in 2009 2009, when the border wall section in El Paso was finished, you see another dip in crime.

In other words, tripling down on the fact that Trump was right the whole time. The media does a fact check on Trump, tries to debunk Trump, and in fact debunks themselves in their own debunking. Pass the old El Paso. It's just, read the piece. Read the, Matt has little charts and you can't miss them. There's arrows pointing. There's dates. You can't screw it up. But if you're the Washington Post, you can. All right, folks. That was a stacked show today. Thanks again for tuning in. I really appreciate it. As I always respectfully request, please subscribe to our show.

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