The Dan Bongino Show - Even The NY Times Admits Spying Occurred # 972 (Ep 972)

Episode Date: May 3, 2019

In this episode I address the latest story from The NY Times which blows the lid off of the Obama administration’s use of spies to target the Trump team. I interview George Papadopoulos to get answers about this scandal. I also address the booming economic numbers. News Picks:Our latest two-part piece destroys any arguments in favor of “Medicare for All.”  Part 1 Part 2 The NY Times finally writes a story exposing the Obama administration’s spying scandal. Chuck Ross’s latest piece digs deep into the explosive Spygate revelations. The real collusion story is emerging, the one between the Democrats and Ukraine. George Papadopoulos’ Book “Deep State Target: How I Got Caught in the Crosshairs of the Plot to Bring Down President Trump”available here. 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 on vindication day number two are you okay i'm okay and you know what it's friday it is Friday. We need to fit that in. I have to. The New York Times, finally. Yeah! The skies have opened. It reminds me of Ghostbusters. Dogs and cats are friends. It's like the seven plagues of the apocalypse.

I don't know what's, because at the end of the world, the New York Times finally comes out yesterday, shockingly, and writes a story about what we've been talking about forever. Wow. That the Trump campaign was spied on. This is such an amazing day. They tell you don't say like and don't say um, but this is a like um. I can't believe what's going on because I'm flabbergasted.

I will get into this in detail today. Here it is in short. Here it is in short. New York Times yesterday, understanding fully that Bill Barr, the attorney general, is about to blow the lid off the Obama administration spying on the Trump team. There's your lead right there. The New York Times gets leaked a story to get out ahead of it to try to frame the story, as I discussed yesterday, the art of framing a story, to start to frame the story the FBI's way. Nobody now anymore is denying what I've been telling you for two years, that the government tried to entrap George Papadopoulos, who was a member of the Trump team, and spy on him. And Carter, Page, and others. Nobody. The New York Times is now fully

acknowledging it, and they're trying to frame it, Joe, as, quote, it only happened during a frantic period to determine the scope of Russia's attempt to disrupt the 2016 election. BS. It had nothing to do with frantic anything. Again, it had everything to do,

I have this written down here right in front of me, this was entrapment from the start. What did I tell you? I told you Papa D, Papa Dizzle, George, was the key to this whole thing. And I was right. They now admit Papadopoulos was spied on and that in September

he was lured overseas to London. You know what, Joe? Let's get the story from Papadopoulos. Let's call Papadopoulos right now. Let's see what he... Let's call him. I'm not a joke, folks. George Papadopoulos.

I'm not a mess. Let's call him. Hello? Hey, George. Sorry to bother you. I'm not messed. Let's call him. Hello? Hey, George, sorry to bother you. I know it's, what, 6 o'clock your time in Los Angeles. So on the air live for my show, and I figured I'm not making this up for my audience. I wanted to call and get the story from you direct. Now, I've had you on the show before.

You mind taking a second here? I know it's a speakerphone, and it's probably not going to sound great, but I had a couple of questions for you. You okay answering them? Absolutely, Ken. George, let me also, by the way, say folks, George has, is the author of a, if you haven't read his book, deep state target available on Amazon, I kid you not you there. Thank you for throwing that up on the screen and YouTube. If you haven't read his book, deep state target, you're missing the whole story. So please pick that up. I'll put it in the show notes today. So George,

we now know as you and I have said forever, that you were set up, you were entrapped, and you were spied on by the FBI. Now, this New York Times article yesterday, you predicted and said in your book a long time ago that the people that showed up at this meeting in London in September, Azra Turk and Halper, we know Halper was an intelligence asset,

but Azra Turk, who the New York Times now admits was working with our intelligence community, now admits she was an intelligence asset. Why were you suspicious of Azra Turk when she showed up at that meeting? Yeah, that's a great question, Dan. So I guess a lot of it was just having a good sixth sense and a little bit about working in the Middle East for a while when I used to work in the energy business over there. And you just get to meet a lot of these type of characters that you later find out were agents of some sort. And Azra Turk just fit this profile completely as a Turkish agent. So I don't think she was actually FBI like the New York Times characterizes her as.

So I don't think she was actually FBI like the New York Times characterizes her as. I think she was probably CIA and might have had links to Turkish intelligence because she was a Turkish national. She didn't speak English properly. Her role was there to basically seduce me and to basically probe me about two things. One, my professional background in the energy business in the Middle East, which Turkey was a competitor in, and the project I was working in. And the second thing, to basically try and slip me up and make me say something that, of course, I had no knowledge of, and that was the Russians and Donald Trump.

And, you know, she was using tradecraft and, you know, basically trying to hold my hand, tell me that if you just tell me what I want to know, you know, we could do something else, if you know what trying to hold my hand tell me that if you just tell me what i want to know you know we could do something else if you know what i mean yeah so so you think this was a traditional like honeypot type trap that she was trying to use uh so just to be clear you think she was doing two things to cultivate you but secondly to bait you in on this russia question this this is a question a couple of my uh listeners sent to me on twitter and on email how quickly into this conversation with azra turk you meet her, I guess Halper introduces her, hey, this is Azra, whatever it may be.

How quickly before she hits you with the Russia question? Oh, it was really fast. And, you know, it's something that shocked me because, you know, she's the one who invites me to this bar right when I get to London. I'm not even with Halper initially. I'm with her. And, you know, she's just, you know, you could tell she's just very suggestive and flirty, which never made sense to me because, you know, I'm supposedly there to do a paper for Cambridge University. And that's a really serious university, obviously.

So the last thing you're going to have are these type of assistants flirting with you and not really understanding what the project you're working on is. And she asked me within like 20 minutes about this Russia stuff. That of course is absurd. And by that point, obviously by September 2016, considering I had been living in London and for a long time in the British were obviously spying on the campaign as the president himself suggested. They knew who my contacts were and they knew i had nothing to do with russia by september of 2016 so whatever she was trying to

extract from me clearly in my opinion was uh was maybe having me slip up say something just to impress her and then hurt the campaign but i don't think they had any they they had any uh reason to believe i was connected to the russians by september of 2016 oh i i i have no doubt about that all right because the audio is going to be a little weird i just had to call you on my cell phone here i want to get to the bottom of this this is going to be the strangest interview ever you were the only two-time guest on my show you're the only guest ever as a matter of fact well thank you but well you know we joe's laughing in the back we always said papa d is the key. One more quick thing for you. I think you and I both know this is just one piece.

You've been set up. You have been the key to this from the start. I don't even think George Azra Turk is the biggest story here. I think the biggest story coming is the initial meeting with you and Joseph Mifsud, who the Democrats and the liberal media hacks have continued to insist was working with Russian intelligence to give you information on Hillary or whatever. And you and I, from the start, based on heavy research and you having been there personally, have been pretty insistent that Mifsud's connections are to friendlies who were likely trying to set you up.

Do you or do you not think Joseph Mifsud was a Russian asset? I think that Joseph Mifsud was clearly Western intelligence, and I'm zeroing in on probably who he was working for directly, and I'll give you some inside information that people here in America aren't covering, but in Italy they are covering. And luckily my wife's Italian, and she's reading the newspapers over there. But the new story about Mifsud is that when I met him at Link Campus in Rome, when I was brought over to Link Campus, this FBI CIA school, by the old company I used to work for, who this FBI intermediary suggested I go to Rome to meet with, this guy, Vincenzo Scotti, who was the former Italian foreign minister, and he was also the director at the spy school.

Uh, Mifsud's lawyer came out in an Italian newspaper last week and stated that this guy was forcing Mifsud to introduce me or to set me up with fake Russians for, to create some sort of bizarre, uh, conspiracy with Trump and the Russians. So Mifsud's lawyer is going out with new information about how people were prodding Mifsud to set me up. And this is a huge bombshell. Oh, is it ever? I think you just broke news, buddy. Yeah, I think you absolutely did, because this isn't being covered anywhere in America.

So this is definitely a bombshell. I'm letting you know now. And the only way I know about it is because my wife's Italian and she's from there. But what's happened is this university, Ling Campus, is now currently under investigation. And when President Trump called the Italian prime minister last week, it wasn't a coincidence, by the way, because there are new investigations now being launched by the Italian parliament into Mifsud and into the spy school, Ling Campus, to see if Italian intelligence was coordinating with the friendlies

or even the FBI itself when Mifsud was interacting with me. So a lot of big news is coming out of Italy. It was in this newspaper called Il Foglio, F-O-L-G-I-O. If anybody could simply do a Google translate, I'm sure you could see these articles have been coming out the last week. But it's a bombshell, and I think there's a reason it's not being covered here in America. But I'm just dropping you a huge

piece of information. Alright, listen, George, it's early out in LA, so get some sleep. Thanks for answering the phone. I appreciate it. And make sure to plug your book again. You're the man, buddy. Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot. I appreciate it. Alright, folks, please pick up George's book. I know know he answers the phone at six o'clock in the morning la time uh george poppinopoulos author of deep state target please pick that book up it is um

incredible to say the least so uh that's there we go folks we have been vindicated again i don't listen this is not some celebratory pat on the back i really don't care i just love my country in the constitutional republic and i'd like to think we don't spy. This is not some celebratory pat on the back. I really don't care. I just love my country and the constitutional Republic. And I'd like to think we don't spy on American citizens like George Papadopoulos, whether you love him or hate him. I like George. He's a friend, but whether you're a liberal, a media figure, a media hack, or someone who dislikes Papadopoulos incredibly, or is he not an American citizen entitled to freedom from being spied on by his government for doing absolutely nothing wrong? There's the article in the New York Times yesterday. Adam Goldman, Michael Schmidt and Mark Mazzetti. FBI sent.

I know I love this show. Investigator posing as assistant to meet with Trump in 2016. Here's what the headline should have read. The FBI said a spy to spy on George Papadopoulos. All right. I'm going to get into more of this now in a minute i have some snippets from the new york times piece i want to hat tip uh sean davis uh and and all of the people but sean davis took these uh screenshots these are not mine i took them off his twitter account so uh sean davis of the federalist um i also want to hat tip kim strassel who has an amazing piece in the wall street journal today

about what what people have to fear about the bill barr investigation but here are a couple of key takeaways from this new york times story so we now know conclusively leeds popitopolis trump team member was spied on period full stop all in caps okay um screenshot number one here from the piece is critical uh it shows that the america it says the american government's affiliation with the woman talking about azra turk who said her name was azra turk that's not a real name um is one previously unreported detail of an operation that's become a political flashpoint the face of accusations by president trump and his allies that american law enforcement intelligence officials spied in his campaign to undermine his electoral chances last year he called it Spygate.

He's right. By the way, it's a great time to have a book out called Spygate. But seriously, pick up George's book. George, he put in a lot of work into it. The decision to use Ezra Turk in the operation aimed at a presidential campaign official shows the level of alarm, listen, inside the FBI during a frantic period i this is what

they're doing folks now some of you may be wondering why would the new york times basically co-conspirators in the narrative crime that's been committed on america i'm using the crime of course but they've been gaslighting us forever. That Trump's a maniac. He's a lunatic. All you people saying he was spied on were crazy. The New York Times were big advocates of the collusion hoax. Why would the New York Times come out now and say conclusively that Papadopoulos and therefore the Trump team had been spied on?

Ladies and gentlemen, they're doing this for one reason and one reason only. There's a new sheriff in town, folks. He came walking in like Wyatt Earp came walking in the tombstone. Oh no. That's right. And his name is William Barr. And Bill Barr is now, unlike some feckless prior department of justice officials who refuse to do anything about it is now looking into the spying scandal

and as Kim Strassel says in her piece in the Wall Street Journal today there are a lot of people with a lot to lose from this scandal the New York Times is trying to get out in front of it by, remember what we talked about yesterday, framing the narrative. The narrative going forward now. Remember the old hotness, the old narrative? There was no spying. You're all nuts.

You're all conspiracy theorists. You had Chris Wallace personally attack George Papadopoulos for saying he was spied on. By the way, Chris Wallace from MSDNC, we'll wait for your apology to George, you knucklehead, personally attacked George Papadopoulos for saying he was spied on. By the way, Chris Wallace from MSDNC, we'll wait for your apology to George, you knucklehead, you embarrassing hack. You better apologize, you goof.

Personally attacked Papadopoulos for telling the truth about being spied on. Personally attacked him. You have this George Papadopoulos out there spouting off about being spied on. You mean because he was actually spied on? So the old hotness was, on the liberal side and the media side was all you guys and ladies talking about spying you're all lunatics and conspiracy theorists now that this is confirmed because Barb is going to put it out anyway the New York Times has to get in front of it and the new hotness is going to be it only happened Joe the spying so yes spying happened because it was a quote frantic period

to discern determine the scope of russia's attempt to disrupt the 2016 election no no no do not accept this not for a second yeah not for a second ladies and gentlemen franticness during an election is not an excuse to crap on the constitution and throw the rights of George Papadopoulos

and others out the window that is no excuse are you suggesting to me the New York Times with a straight face and the FBI and DOJ hacks at the top, not the workers. I'm talking about the hacks at the top who did this, who leaked this story. Are you suggesting to me that the Constitution doesn't matter when things get frantic? That's the only time it's supposed to matter. That's the only time it's supposed to matter.

Your big R God-given rights only matter when everything's peace and calm and tranquil. Are you kidding me? I had to cut myself off there. Good catch. Are you kidding me? Our constitutional rights to assemble, to practice our religion, to speak, and to be free from illegal search and seizure, to be spied on by our religion, to speak, and to be free from illegal search and seizure, to be spied on by our government, to collect our thoughts, our papers, our documents, that that only matters as long as things aren't frantic?

Where are you media people? Why didn't you challenge this? So we thought the Russians were interfering in our election. Fine. The extent of which is open for dispute, i have no doubt the russians are a foe of ours and that they try to impact our election and cause chaos none i wrote a book about it we talked about mutually assured intelligence destruction the russians want to gather intelligence all the time on us to harm us so you're suggesting the russians ongoing attempts to harm us joe this

is what they're saying that this goes on all the time so that in every election we should do what start spying on political people to determine the disruption attempts in the election are you kidding this is a disgrace the New York Times gets nothing from me they get no pat on the back they get nothing these are late to the party hacks who are only trying to get out in front of the story because they know the real story's coming out no matter what. I don't care how you feel about George. I've made my feelings clear from the start.

I think George is a decent guy who got caught up with the fully weaponized power of the government trying to entrap him because he signed on to a political campaign. But even if you can't stand George Papadopoulos, are you telling me his rights doesn't matter? His rights don't matter because things got frantic? Put your big boy pants on in the FBI and the DOJ

and figure out how to work around your franticness. Don't be the bed hitter, as we talked about the other day, and put an S in front of it. Things got franticness. Don't be the bed hitter as we talked about the other day and put an S in front of it. Things got frantic when I was in the Secret Service all the time. We didn't throw people's civil liberties out the window and start cracking skulls like a bunch of jackbooted thugs. You have to operate within the law. This is a constitutional republic. This isn't Venezuela. Republic. This isn't Venezuela. We're not the Maduro regime. Put your big boy pants on, Peter Stroke and Jim Comey and McCabe. What, you guys couldn't keep your colon contained because you were frantic about the Russian interference and what, $30,000 in Facebook ads

in a $2 billion campaign? That's what makes you frantic? Do me a favor. Turn in your badge, turn in your commission book, and please turn in your firearm. Because if that makes you frantic, the people out there who work for a living and have to get frantic every week when they can't pay their damn bills

or fix their kids' teeth or get a surgery they need or put food on the table, they're laughing at you idiots right now we were frantic you're chumps cowards you're not worthy of the badge and you're a disgrace to every fantastic dedicated patriotic intelligence official and law enforcement official out there who goes and does their job the right way every day despite being frantic in their own house to feed their kids

and keep their heads above water for crap salaries. How do you think this cop in Missouri feels getting paid $30,000 a year? Some of them probably eligible for government benefits that get paid crap to go out there every day

and basically put a target on their chest to keep their community safe and you're crapping the bed because the Russians are trying to interfere in our election which they've been doing forever and the New York slimes is sitting here covering for you things are frantic

you I want to say this word so bad but i desperately want to keep this show family friendly oh i think you know the word yeah kittens yeah disgusting the constitutional republic only matters when things are frantic, what, your right to speak out only matters when speaking is non-controversial, your right to petition the government only matters when the government agrees with you, your right to practice religion, what, only matters when the left agrees with your religion, and what's the point point what's the point of

any of this you gotta call a guy on a cell phone at six o'clock in the morning to get an answer to why he was spied on by our government because they were frantic what a bunch of chumps cowardly chumps and i know because i talked to fbi, and I have no problem telling you that. They are absolutely disgusted, disgusted. I'm telling you, I don't care how many emails I get. Some people say, stop the, I won't, because I know these people,

and they are very good people. Some of them screwed up. Every agency has a few idiots, but they are disgusted by what happened in their name. It's a total disgrace and tell me again how john brennan didn't know what was going on from the cia how did the upper echelons of the cia let this happen cohen brennan how did they let this happen? Ladies and gentlemen, let me let you in on a little secret here.

There is no way an overseas intelligence operation. We just spoke to Papadopoulos. We now know, according to the New York Times, this meeting was in London. London. in London. London. Folks, there is simply no way the United Kingdom was not involved in this intelligence operation. There is no way.

It is time for them to come clean. I have no beef with the British. It's a wonderful country. But it is time for them, Joe, to come clean here. There is no way a United States intelligence operation directed at a U.S. citizen happened in one of your cities, London, and you knew nothing about it. There is no way.

And a friend of mine who texted me yesterday, he knows who he is. I'm not going to give his story. It's his story to run with. But it's indicated to me that our inkling that the UK involvement in this was heavy is probably, quote, worse than we know. Oh.

Yeah, I got the text yesterday. I'll let him cover. I don't break other people's news. And he's been very good on that. He knows who he is. Secondly, Joe, there is no way, according an fbi source of mine that a domestic u.s citizen and a domestic law enforcement agency at the fbi is running an intelligence op directed at papadopoulos overseas in London without the full knowledge of the

central intelligence agency, the CIA and John Brennan. There is no way, ladies and gentlemen, it is entirely implausible. Now do you get why Kim Strassel's piece in the Wall Street Journal today is so important? Do you know how many people are going to go down with this when Barr opens up the books? No way, folks. There's no way they didn't know. All right. I got more on this.

Maybe you have to pay for the show. So, again, I want to thank George Papadopoulos for answering the show. One last time, please pick up his book, Deep State Target. He was kind enough. He lives in L.A., so he's three hours behind me on Eastern Time. And we recorded the show early today, about an hour earlier. So thanks for doing that. Pick up his book, Deep State Target, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, please. All right, folks, today's show is brought to you by buddies at iTarget. Listen, if you're going to own a firearm, the only way to do it is to own it safely and to be proficient with it. It's the only way.

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You know, I hope the audio, folks, I get it, Joe. And let me just say, in defense of my good friend, Joe Armacost, if the audio's a little low, that was a legit, it was not a gimmick, okay? That was legitimately my cell phone up to the mic. It is not Joe's fault if the audio sounds a little low that was a legit it's not a gimmick okay that was legitimately my cell phone up to the mic it is not joe's fault if the audio is it sounds a little phony because it

was a phone i don't mean phony fake i mean like phony like telephone so that wasn't legit and i tried to restate what he was saying understanding it's going to be a little low but i wanted to make sure i got it from the horses thanks bro one final thought on this which george and yeah i want to because i you know joe people email me all the time. Joe's great. Audio is great. And I don't want him to email me complaints. Not his fault.

It's mine for doing it that way. Um, and maybe we'll try to get George on the air next week, a little more officially. We'll see if we can work that out. Um, he ended with one very important point. Ladies and gentlemen, the next shoe to drop on this is going to be critical. We now know not just that the Trump campaign was spied on. Matter of fact, a guy I work with, I'm not going to say where, give up who it is. He listens to the show sometimes, texted me last night. He said, it was a joke. He texted me, Dan, breaking,

the Trump campaign was spied on. My wife and I laughed our butts off because it's only breaking to idiots, of course. He was, you know, he was being funny about it. It's not just that the Trump campaign was spied on, ladies and gentlemen. It's now that the Trump campaign was spied on repeatedly. They were using national security letters, the Obama administration, to demand documents about the Trump campaign. They issued multiple FISA warrants to spy on Carter Page, a Trump campaign foreign policy advisor, and then likely used the two-hop rule to jump from page to others to others to monitor their communications as well. We know a human intelligence asset, otherwise known as a spy named Stefan Halper, with deep intelligence connections in the United States. Excuse me, was working to recruit Carter Page, interviewed, met with Sam Clovis, a Trump campaign official in Iowa,

and also met with George Papadopoulos, as we now know, where he brings Ezra Turk, who we now know is a U.S. intelligence asset. But folks, I just indicated to you four instances where the Trump team was spied on. I'm telling you this isn't even the big one. The big dog, which is going to drop soon, the real big dog that bites,

is going to be who the heck was Joseph Mifsud. This is how the whole thing starts. When George Papadopoulos, in April of of 2016 remember the meaning he's talking about in the new york times with azra turk the intelligence asset now confirmed is in september april's before september for the liberals listening mifsud meets with papadopoulos in april the fbi the media and the democrats and the anti-Trump Republicans whole entire collusion story is that Mifsud was a Russian trying to give Papadopoulos information, was working with the Russians to be precise.

Ladies and gentlemen, I cannot say to you enough. You heard it here first a long time ago. Mifsud was not working with the Russians on this task. Mifsud was a Western intelligence asset. A friendly. In other words, Papadopoulos was being set

up again. There's number five. That's the next shoe to drop. And watch how the New York Times frames that one when it comes out. Wait till that doo it comes out. Wait till that doozy comes out. Alright, I've got a couple more stories. Do we have that abortion video?

I want to get to this before we move on to the other stuff. Yeah, do we have, Apollo, do we have that? Okay, sorry folks. I have this show where, I don't mean to sound so scattershot today, but the Colin Papadopoulos extemporaneously on the air kind of threw off the flow of the show. It was cool, though.

Yeah, well, I'm glad we got some answers from him. Moving on, though, I wanted to cover this yesterday. Ladies and gentlemen, the pro-abortion movement is just sick. They've gotten deranged. I saw a video today on Facebook of Planned Parenthood supporters at a fetal graveyard, a pro-life dedication to getting rid of the abortion movement where they put headstones for the babies whose lives were terminated in the womb. And Planned Parenthood's in there singing a pro-abortion song. One woman asked if they can pee on the headstone. I'm not kidding. The pro-abortion movement is a grotesque movement. They've gone from the Bill Clinton era of let's make abortion

safe, legal, and rare, which I don't agree with at all. Life begins at conception. But they've moved on now to like celebrating abortion like it's some kind of a sacrament for them. I saw yesterday one of the most disturbing videos I've ever seen. This is Democrat legislator from Alabama, John Rogers. Listen to these absolutely horrifying comments Mr. Rogers has about abortion. All I'm saying to you, it ought to be a woman's choice. I'm not about to be as a male, tell a woman what to do with her body. She has a right to make that decision herself. Directly instead.

Some kids are unwanted. So you kill them now, I kill them later. You bring them into the world unwanted, unloved. You send them to the electric chair. So you kill them now, I kill them later you you're bragging me in the world i'm one unloved you send him to the lecture chair so you kill him now i'll kill him later but the bottom line is that i think we should be making this this is i i don't even some of you may wonder why i look up but that's where the monitor is i was watching i don't even know what to say to that. We either kill him now or we kill him later, but we're going to kill him. You son of a...

I don't even know. I don't even know how to... I seriously don't even... That is the sickest thing I have ever heard. And I saw a tweet by Lila Rose, who's a dedicated pro-life activist, has been for many years now, this morning,

and she really summed it up well. So, John Rogers from Alabama, who says we're either going to kill them in the womb or we're going to kill them later because they're unwanted. Well, Lila Rose sums it up and says, in a society where adults don't want children,

maybe it's a problem, Joe, with the adults and not the children. Amen, sister. Amen. We're going to kill them now or we're going to kill them later. Now, there's a follow-up video where John Rogers amazingly doubles down on stupid. It's not even stupid. It's horrific.

I mean, stupid is an understatement. There are a lot of stupid things in politics. This is utterly horrific. There's a follow-up video where Rogers responding to, thankfully, Don Trump Jr. using his platform to come out and attack this disgraceful, disgraceful episode. Rogers responds to Don Trump Jr. And amazingly, he says this.

Condemned your comments. Do you have a response to this, son? Hey, that's an honor. Don Trump Jr. did that. Thank God. Right on. That's definitely all right. Because I don't know that he's be right on since he'd been here

That proved right to make a decision about abortion. Him being born that's proved right That's a very good decision I have for abortion right to him Look at him say why don't you want to should have aborted him when he was born? Why the hell you would have made that stupid statement, right? So it's very made decision for him That's a decision he made for him. So, that's the first proof I got that Mother Roe had the right to have abortion. They made a decision to have him. They could have aborted him, but they made a decision to keep him.

So, he's really retarded, crazy. Donald Trump said, I know there's something wrong with that boy. I look at him and tell him something's wrong with him. He said, hey, that's the best defense I got from my boss. He's right there looking at him. Yeah. This is, again, me speechless. How do you

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She was tired. It'd been a long day, but I was sitting there and I'm reading some Twitter stuff. And I always go to select leftist accounts to see what they're thinking. And Dan Pfeiffer is one of them, former Obama administration official, who I'll tell you, I ran into and I remember in the White House. I was never rude or anything. It's not a personal thing. Guys, politics are just awful. I actually ran into him in a hotel once and he gave me like a nod. But listen, you're on the opposite side of this fight.

So I'm sorry. side of this fight so i'm sorry uh but dan pfeiffer tweeted something out uh and the tweet was unbelievable because it shows you how the left is frightened about this ukraine story and joe biden uh the biden story is this um and this is from this is how i can tell you this has gone mainstream here's a quote uh a tweet excuse me from ken vogel at ken vogel this is a new york times guy a blue check mark new york times guy he tweets out yesterday and this is what pfeiffer was responding to. Pfeiffer is an old Obama administration official. I'm sorry if I didn't make that clear. Ken Vogel, new. The Bidens are entangled in a Ukrainian corruption scandal. What, really? Oh my gosh, Joe, we've only been talking about this for a year now. Joe Biden pushed Ukraine to fire a prosecutor seen as corrupt. But the prosecutor had opened the case

into a company that was paying Hunter Biden. The Bidens say they never discussed it. Now, again, this story, I'm not going to relitigate this one. We've talked about it on the show endlessly. He sums it up very nicely. Joe Biden's kid Hunter gets a job at Burisma, a Ukrainian natural gas company,

conveniently right after Biden leaves Ukraine. Joe Biden. Wow, timing is amazing. The payments Ukrainian natural gas company, conveniently right after Biden leaves Ukraine, Joe Biden. Wow. Timing is amazing. Yeah. The payments to that gas company are being investigated by Ukrainians for potential corruption. The prosecutor investigating them, Joe Biden, in a public speech admits he pushed to have fired.

Sounds legit to me, Joe. Only if you think corruption is legit. So we've been covering this story forever. Now it's gone mainstream and the New York Times is picking it up. But what's interesting is Pfeiffer's response. Again, an Obama administration. He was responding to that tweet. Pfeiffer's response is that, oh, look at this.

Rudy Giuliani, who's, by the way, obviously a Trump supporter, one of Trump's personal attorneys, was looking into information on this Ukraine thing. Now they're investigating. So? So what? So a supporter of Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, by the way, me too,

is looking to have investigated a potential case worth investigating. What's the problem? I don't get it fight in other words you get my point yeah pfeiffer's trying to make it out like this is some kind of a scandal that a donald trump supporter and a and a a surrogate for him in many respects i mean one of his lawyers is looking to have investigated an instance of potential corruption that involves Joe Biden. What, Joe Biden's free from what?

Joe Biden shouldn't be covered? He's a presidential candidate. So let me get this straight. And this is why I bring this up. All right. Tying it back to Papadopoulos. We should violate the civil liberties of Trump campaign officials and crap all over them because you think the Russians are really bad.

Spy on them. Send human spies, get FISA warrants, send national security letters, try to have FBI intel assets, seduce them overseas or CIA assets. We're still not sure. We should do all of that based on no evidence at all that Papadopoulos did anything wrong. He did nothing wrong. He did not collude with the Russians.

No one has ever charged him with that at all. But we should violate his civil liberties. But in a case where the Ukrainians, Ukrainian sources have already admitted to John Solomon, excellent reporter at The Hill, that they were pressured to drop a case against the former vice president and current candidate for the president of the United States, Joe Biden. They were pressured to drop a case against the former vice president and current candidate for the president united states

joe biden they were pressured to drop a case against this kid for potentially significant criminal activity we'll see where these allegations go everybody's entitled to the presumption of innocence unlike the left but we should let that go because dan pfeiffer says so i don't get it joe Spy on the other guys with no evidence, but although there's reams of evidence against your guy, let's make that case go away because Rudy Giuliani thinks it's interesting. Why wouldn't he think

it was interesting? They're very weird. Of course it's interesting. Rudy Giuliani's a free citizen. He's a free man. He's entitled to find whatever he wants interesting. But unlike the Obama administration, Rudy Giuliani isn't running foreign spies

against Ukrainians overseas or Hunter Biden. The irony here is so thick. By the way, it's another John Solomon piece out in the hill. We can now confirm, is this is just a minute you know it's again the democrats and the liberals always accuse you of what they're guilty of themselves every single time what did we tell you from the start the real collusion scandal was between ukrainians and the democrats and russians and the democrats now john solomon yesterday the hill i'll have the story in the show notes.

Please read it. Bongino.com. Check it out. The show notes are attached to the podcast, by the way, in the menu. You can see him right there. Ukrainian embassy confirms DNC contractors solicited Trump dirt in 2016. Folks, this is, you know, a hat tip to DC and Matt from, you know, for helping me out with the first book, Spygate. We cover this at length.

Solomon's piece is damning. There was a woman working with the DNC, the Democrat National Committee, by the name of Alexandra Chalupa, who now Ukrainian officials are confirming was attempting to collude with Ukrainian officials and the Ukrainian president and Ukrainian political representatives to get them to push out to the press stories about Donald Trump team members and their criminal activities. Basically, Paul Manafort. Follow what I'm telling you here.

Forgive me. I know because it's in my first book, so I write about this at length. what chalupa according to hill the john solomon story the hill was trying to do again she's at the dnc she's working for the democrats nobody disputes this she then leaves the dnc joe to work on a project ukrainian officials are saying she was trying to get Poroshenko, the Ukrainian political leader, to take a question at a presser on Paul Manafort. Because Chalupa, former DNC official, wanted pushed into the American media environment the allegation that Manafort and by proxy Trump were colluding with the Russians. You get it? They were pushing Ukrainian officials to answer or take a question from a press person.

They were going to ask this question. Maybe an analogy works better. If I want to, you know, accuse Joe of bank robbery, he didn't rob a bank. And I go and bribe someone to ask the local police sheriff about a, you know, hey, ask someone, a media guy, ask the police, the local sheriff if you know about Joe Armacost robbing

a bank, even though he didn't rob a bank. What's going to happen? The press is going to report on the story. Hey, why did the local sheriff bring up this guy's name with regards to robbing a bank? That's what they wanted. Chalupa is working with the media to ask Ukrainians a question about Manafort and Trump and Russians

because they want the Russian Manafort story out there in the media. The Ukrainians are now admitting they were being pressured to do this. Wait, I thought foreign collusion was a big deal. Apparently not, Joe. Apparently foreign collusion is only a big deal. It's only a big deal.

Exactly. It's only a big deal when it's allegations against the Trump campaign, which have been refuted and widely disputed. One quick note on this before I get to our last story on the economy, because I want to leave you with some good news for the weekend. Quick note on the Mueller probe.

So we now know the Mueller probe probe is wrapping up. It's wrapped up. Excuse me. This guy was, this is text from, from George. That kid me for calling him. So that was what that thing was in the back.

Right. Mueller probes wrapped up. We've seen the report. I'm hearing also from, from some people out there. Again, they didn't give me permission to use their names, so I'm not going to bring it up. That Mueller is upset right now at Nancy Pelosi. I don't know about this.

I'm a little bit skeptical of this story. But what I'm hearing, and you're my audience, and I love to pass you stuff, and I'd be remiss if I didn't pass this on. Pelosi has now accused publicly Bill Barr of lying to Congress. She's accused him of a crime in lying to Congress about his interactions with Mueller. Just to give you a quick background on this. All right. Mueller had stated previously to Charlie Crist in a congressional hearing

under oath that he was unaware of any of Mueller's concerns about his summary of Mueller's report. Does that make sense, Joe? Yeah.

Barr issues a summary of Mueller's report. Charlie Crist asked him, what was Mueller concerned at all about your summary?

Barr said, basically, no, he's not. Well, a letter then comes out which you know about we addressed it from the muller's team saying hey we have some concerns about the report so pelosi now saying look bar was lying bar's point is i'm not lying i talked directly to muller and muller didn't say that i'm hearing now that muller is now upset with Pelosi for saying that Barr was lying. Now, again, I'm skeptical because I don't believe Mueller at this point. I believe he's entirely, completely neck deep in this thing and is totally committed to taking down Trump.

I'd be astonished. The only reason I bring this up is because if the source I had on this is right, and he may be, then Mueller should come out and make some kind of a public statement. Right, Joe? Trying to clear the air? Yeah, please. Hey, I did not.

Bill Barr did not lie. This is what I told Bill Barr. Bill Barr was honest in front of Congress. You get what I'm saying? So we'll know in the next few days if that story is in fact true. I will be astonished. I hope it happens, believe me. But I would be lying to you if I wouldn't say,

I would be surprised and stunned if Mueller in fact comes out and makes any statement defending Bill Barr. I'd be shocked. Because I just believe Mueller's too knee deep in this trying to destroy Donald Trump thing. All right, but I want to make sure I got that out there. All right, last story of the day.

So CNBC had a great article out yesterday about some just incredible economic numbers. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you a bit of the downside first. Again, their debt situation is perilous. If we don't get a hold of our government spending, we're going to be bankrupt. So these economic numbers are great. I love them, but we're going to have to grow a whole lot faster to get out of this abyss we're in if we don't control spending. But having said that, bad news first, good news last, the economy right now is on fire, completely on fire. CNBC, and I use CNBC for a reason, not because they're in any way unbiased,

but I love using left-leaning sources because it just goes to show you how even the left right now cannot stop the economic freight train coming down the path after the trump administration got into office u.s first quarter productivity rises at the fastest pace since 2014 labor costs fall i want to explain to you what's going on here productivity is through the roof right now we saw productivity grow in the first quarter at a 3.6 percent annualized rate now numbers are great but they're faceless, right? From the CNBC piece, the Labor Department said on Thursday, non-farm productivity, which

measures hourly output per worker, increased at 3.6% annualized rate in the last quarter. This was the strongest pace since the third quarter of 2014. What is productivity? Why does an enhancement, 3.6% enhancement productivity matter? Productivity is very simply this. The ability in your factory or your service industry, whatever, maybe it's factories

because sometimes when you can visualize products, it's easier. Services are kind of tougher to visualize. It's the ability in your factory to get more output from the same or lesser inputs. In other words, productivity is the ability to, Joe, produce more. Okay.

It's the ability to, Joe. What do you mean it's the ability to, Joe? Joe isn't, Joe isn't. For the news listener, Joe is obviously the producer here. It's the ability to, in a factory of, let's say, let's use a product everybody understands, cars. If your factory, your GM or Ford factory, whatever it may be, produces 100 cars a day.

I don't know the number. I never worked in a car factory. Sounds good. But due to a new training program, computer enhancement, quicker assembly line procedure, now your factory produces 110 cars a day. Your factory is more productive. That's what productivity is.

Now, why is this important? Because ladies and gentlemen, any society's wealth, collective wealth, is based on what they produce. It's not hard to figure out. It's hard for liberals, but for the same people listening to my show, your wealth is based on what they produce it's not hard to figure out it's hard for liberals but for the same people listening to my show your wealth is based on what you own i'm listen i'm not getting into like the the moral and and deeply philosophical well it's also based on your happy great listen i love being happy and i'd exchange more wealth for more happiness anything

i'm talking about economics here i'm not talking about metaphysical stuff, okay? Your wealth is based on what you own, economically and financially. You own a home. If it's a more expensive home with more amenities, you are generally wealthier. You own a car that's $70,000 versus a car that's $20,000. It generally has more things in it, more amenities, and therefore you are wealthier.

But in order to own those items, they have to be produced. You know, Say's Law, production creates its own demand, right? You have to produce stuff. So to produce stuff and more stuff every year for a growing society that requires more products and services, you need productivity or production to grow. Productivity is the hallmark, the heartbeat of any wealthy society. There isn't a wealthy society out there, Joe, that doesn't produce stuff. I'm sorry.

Again, liberals, I'm sorry we have to get so basic, but liberals, some of them will listen to the show, have a really tough time with this stuff. So the Trump administration is now firing on all cylinders. The Obama administration had sporadic bouts of productivity, but we've now seen non-farm productivity. In other words, we're not talking about the food industry here. We're talking about tangible, durable goods and services. We've now seen a sustained bump in productivity in the Trump administration, meaning there are products out there now this is twofold and its benefit to society number one we produce more stuff more food in the farm case which is not in that number but more services more medicines more entertainment better cars so the first one's obvious the benefit

to society by this trump administration boom in productivity is we get more stuff it's better quality it's higher quality but productivity has two positive benefits a lot but the two big ones are not only does it make us richer because we have better stuff joe but it makes us richer remember say's law production creates its own demand. Look up Say's Law, folks, before you tune into the next show or pause now and read it. It explains everything. Thomas Sowell has a great college dissertation about it I read, which is fantastic.

It also makes the employees producing the stuff wealthier. Now, if you could put up that snippet from the piece again, or just, you know what, I'm sorry, put up the headline of the piece, you'll notice at the end of the headline it said, labor unit costs fell as well. Labor costs fall. There it is right there. Well, how's that?

And how does that relate to why it makes you as an employee of a company producing more stuff wealthier? Well, Joe, I'll ask you a simple question. If you're on an assembly line and you're one assembly line, you're producing a hundred cars a day. Joe works on the assembly line and on a second assembly line, say you have two jobs, you produce 110 cars a day, all other factors being equal. Are you more valuable producing 110 cars a day or producing 100? Dan, I'll go with, what is it, 110, 104, whatever, the more. Yes.

The more, the merrier. Thank you. I'm not messing with you. Joe's more valuable to the company producing more cars, which they can sell, which makes Joe, as an employee, more valuable. It makes Joe as an employee more valuable. It makes his labor unit costs go down. If Joe was being paid $50 an hour to produce 100 cars, when you factor in his labor costs per car,

it's a lesser labor cost when scattered over more cars. It's not hard to figure out. Again, liberals have a tough time with basic math conservatives don't if joe's getting paid 50 an hour producing more cars his labor is worth more and the company is paying less per car for his labor because he's producing more cars joe can cut his labor unit cost in half by producing twice as many cars which makes him more valuable which makes him which gives him to be more precise leverage in salary negotiations well you know what joe was worth this to us before at 110 cars but he's worth a lot more now that he's producing 150 cars

we're gonna have to give him a raise That's why wages under the Trump administration, unlike the Obama administration, are going up. So not only now is there more stuff out there for you to buy and better quality stuff, but you now have more money because your labor's more valuable and you're going

to be paid more to buy and purchase said stuff. I can stop robbing banks yes please the show you've robbed like 50 banks during the show my gosh i even had a guy got someone you and i both know in the industry call me they get a kick out of how i always indict joe for all these crimes he's the only one out there i'm sorry folks joe can stop robbing banks he's making more money he's more valuable i mean think about it right joey just in the case of of you and i yeah you were more valuable to me when you were we were now that we're doing this many listens and downloads than you were a few years ago and again

i don't mean that our friendship joe's my friend it doesn't matter joe's been with me forever i'm not talking about that i'm talking about pure numbers here. He becomes more valuable. He can sell his services, Joe, elsewhere to people. You do a podcast while I work at the Dan Bongino Show. That didn't matter five years ago when we were doing 100 downloads a show. Right. Now when we're doing a lot, like hundreds of thousands of times more sometimes, Joe

can say, hey, I know that one. He's more valuable. It's say, hey, but I know that one. He's more valuable. It's as simple as that. All right, folks, I just want to leave you on a good note. The economy is booming. Thanks to Donald Trump keeping the country, the horse blinders on straight ahead when it comes to the economy.

Straight ahead. Cut the red tape, cut the taxes. No more BS. Hey, thanks again for tuning in this week. Again, I really want to thank George Papadopoulos. Please pick up his book, Deep State Target. We'll put the link in the show notes. Thanks again for answering the phone.

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