The Dan Bongino Show - Exonerated: Part 1 # 943 (Ep 943)

Episode Date: March 25, 2019

In this episode I address the complete, total evisceration of the entire collusion hoax and the complete vindication of the President of the United States. This is part one of a two part show.    News Picks: The counterstrike must begin now!   Now that the collusion hoax has been completely, and totally discredited, we can get to the real scandal.   Ten anti-Trump bombshells that were really fake news.    Obama knew the whole time.    Team Trump now turns to 2020 and will make the fake news media pay for its lies.   We should ignore David Gergen and double down on calling out the Spygate schemers.    Zero percent of economists agree with AOC’s idea to fund the Green New Deal.   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. What was that? Well, that was Paula, my lovely wife outside, including some footage to open the show of CNN and MSNBC this morning. Oh, my buddy, producer Joe, how are you on this fine, glorious Monday? It's time for I Told You So. Yeah, baby, it's time for some I Told You So. Oh. Oh.

Oh. Is it ever. Is it ever? And for all of you out there, and I'll get to this in a few, including David Gergen and a lot of the fake conservatives out there who insist on us kind of letting this all go away and just taking it lying down. Oh, it's time to move on.

Not going to happen, brother David. Now we double down. New rules, ladies and gents. Not going to happen, Brother David. Now we double down. New rules, ladies and gents. We win. You lose. I think that you think that a certain something is not all that it could be. When in fact, it is all that it should be and more. You're on fire now.

Joe doesn't plan this with me at all. Before we get started started i just want to play the rnc or the republicans their new ad the trump campaign whatever was their new ad that they put out based on the now entirely completely discredited debunk collusion hoax play that video The evidence is pretty clear that there was collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians. I think there's plenty of evidence of collusion or conspiracy in plain sight. We saw strong evidence of collusion. Well, we know there was collusion with people in the

campaign i think a mountain of evidence of collusion between the campaign and the russians well we don't even need the buzzer for that one. All right, folks, I have got a stacked show. And just a note on the title of today's show. Book two is almost done. The sequel to Spygate. Of course, we were waiting for the Mueller report to be issued. Now that the report is issued and we have a four-page summary, we have now figured out the title for book two.

The title for book two, Exonerated two exonerated i love it i love it exonerated spy gates book one please pick it up exonerated book two that is also the title of today's show which will be a two-part episode because we have so so much to talk to all right today's show brought to you by buddies at wax rx ladies and gentlemen you know how much i love my sponsors i only endorse products i can use myself or use for my family and that you would value yourself. WaxRx, listen, it's not the sexiest product to talk about, but as I've told you, I had to deal with earwax buildup when I was a secret service agent. We had these little squiggly earpiece things in your ears. Earwax buildup, you can't hear anything. You got to get

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you may be missing because of inner earwax. Who knows? It might change your life. Visit gowaxrx.com, promo code DAN for free shipping. Don't miss it. It's a really great product. We love it. All right. Number one, first takeaway today, folks, let's not get sucked into the media vortex here. They want this all to go away now. Everybody's going to start to tell you, oh, the system worked. Mueller did a good job. This is how it's supposed to work. These were serious allegations. No, no. These were never serious allegations. This was a scam from the start, and Mueller deserves no credit. Deserves no credit. Dan, how can you say that? He completely exonerated Trump.

No, no, no. Mueller didn't exonerate Trump. Don't ever forget this. Trump exonerated Trump. You're damn right, Armacost. Yes, sir. I'm not. Trump exonerated Trump.

He did nothing wrong. Mueller didn't do any favors for anybody. This guy does not deserve a gratitude from anyone. And I'm going to explain to you why in a second here. One person exonerated Donald Trump, and that is President Donald J. Trump, because he never did this. He never committed any of these alleged crimes. These were complete, total fabrications. I usually ask you, producer Joe,

Paul, you see where I'm going with this? Yeah. I need like a... Mueller doesn't deserve any favors. Yeah. The media coverage, Joe, on the left and in these fake news mainstream outlets that Mueller somehow, because now they just want to move on. We are not moving on.

We are not moving on. We are going to hold everyone to account, including these media hacks. You know what, Paula? Play quickly, if you don't mind. Play the collusion. This is kind of a funny little montage. I want to make a little light of this at the beginning of the show because we'll go crazy if we listen to me. little montage. I want to make a little light of this at the beginning of the show because we'll go crazy if we listen to me.

This is a quickie media montage of all these media people on the record indicating there was collusion. Sort of collusion. Trump-Russian. Possible collusion. Trump-Russian metal collusion. Trump-Russian. Possible collusion. Trump-Russian. Potentially collusion. Trump-Russia. Possible collusion. Trump-Russian. Possible

collusion. Trump-Russian. Possible collusion. Trump-Russian. Possible collusion. Trump-Russian. Possible collusion. Trump-Russian. Possible collusion Trump Russian collusion Trump Russian possible collusion Trump Russian possible collusion Trump Russian possible collusion Trump Russian possible collusion Trump Russian possible collusion Trump Russian collusion

Collusion with the Russians Trump Russia possible collusion Trump Russia possible collusion Trump Russia possible collusion Trump Russia possible collusion Trump Russia possible collusion. Trump Russia, potential collusion. Putin and the Kremlin and be in collusion with Putin and the Kremlin and be in collusion with Putin and the Kremlin and be in collusion.

17 agencies. 17 of our intelligence agencies have confirmed. Our intelligence agencies. 17 of our intelligence agencies have confirmed. 17 of them. Folks, if you're not watching our video show, youtube.com slash Bongino, right, Joe? That audio is funny, don't get me wrong. But Joe's seen the video, so has Paula.

If you're watching, there's a dance montage in the beginning. You got to watch our video. That is priceless even if you listen to the audio go back and watch youtube.com slash punch you know watch the video of the show the dance montage it's really i'm not making this up is priceless it is one of the greatest videos ever we are not letting any of this go if i may it's time to dance it's time to dance. It's time to dance. Oh, baby. You know what I'm saying, baby. Oh, man, is it ever time to dance. So on the Mueller front, here's going to be point number one that you're not hearing in a lot of other places outside of Fox.

Mueller deserves no credit for anything. But why, folks? What is the problem right now with a Mueller probe that exonerated Trump? Point number one I just made, Mueller didn't exonerate Trump. Trump exonerated Trump because he did nothing wrong. But secondly, Joe, let me ask you a question. I think you're going to see where I'm going with this quite rapidly.

What exactly did Bob Mueller find out? The collusion was a hoax. Joe, this investigation was 675 days long. There were tens of thousands of subpoenas issued, hundreds of search warrants, hundreds of witnesses, foreign trips,

foreign governments interviewed, pen registers, thousands of pages of documents turned over with full cooperation of the White House. When exactly did Bob Mueller conclude, Joe, what you and I, and I want to thank you and my audience for hanging. I mean it. Because, Joe, you could have quit this show a long time ago if you thought I was some lunatic. Oh, Bongino's a conspiracy theorist.

His Spygate book is crazy. Every single bit of it's been vindicated today. Mm-hmm. You could have bailed a long time ago. But my point on this is weed a long time ago. Ah. But my point on this is we knew this two years ago. Yes. Bob Mueller with a trained crew of, what, 15, 14 FBI agents,

19 lawyers, and the full power of the U.S. government, $35 million budget. When did he find out collusion was a hoax, folks? I'm going to get to why this matters in a second. Some of you may see where I'm going with this. Some of you may not. But let me tell you, it is a critical question. Folks, I just wanted on the record here, not to pat myself on the back, but just to establish

quick bonafides for new listeners. I worked federal cases for eight of my 12 years in the Secret Service, big federal cases. And with one one thousandth of the budget, probably less, I'm being generous, and a fraction of the assets Bob Mueller had, meaning like I had one U.S. attorney and one investigator, that one investigator was me. I've worked extremely complicated international terrorism cases, financial fraud cases. Joe, we figured the case out in a couple months. Yes, sir.

You're telling me that what I did in two and three months by myself with one lawyer and what, a $10,000 office budget? Bob Mueller with 35 million, 19 lawyers, and what, close to 15 to 20 FBI agents? Couldn't figure out in two years? When did Bob Mueller know? Well, I'm going to answer that question for you, ladies and gentlemen. I can guarantee you Bob Mueller knew immediately this case was a hoax it was a total hoax now why does any of this matter because bob muller's initial scope memo written by rod rosenstein when he's hired is to do what it's to investigate russian collusion my informed opinion on this is that Bob Mueller likely concluded within the first couple months,

if not the first couple of weeks, that that premise was a hoax. The collusion story that Trump colluded with the Russians was based on one thing and one thing only. The dossier. That is it. That is their only piece of evidence. They had nothing else. This is critical. I mentioned this on Fox and Friends this morning and on my Saturday appearance and on Jesse Waters' show that appeared on Saturday night. You must understand this. The entire collusion narrative that we now know is entirely, completely debunked and discredited and is false is based on one piece of information. The dossier paid for by Hillary Clinton.

to two problems on the Mueller front we're discussing now. If Mueller figured that out early, which I guarantee you he did, then ladies and gentlemen, what the hell was Bob Mueller doing for 675 days? The answer is he was engaging in a political campaign to destroy the presidency of Donald Trump. You can take that check to the bank and cash it. Bob Mueller was waging a two-year war on the president. That, by the way, hat tip to my wife, Paula, who brought this up at dinner last night. We were sitting there eating Chipotle at my kitchen table.

She's like, you know, it's awfully convenient that, you know, Jeff Sessions gets out of the Justice Department. Whitaker and then Bill Barr now take over. And all of a sudden, Joe, lickety split. Bob Mueller, once he gets reined in a bit, figures out, wow, I probably have to stick to my mandate and actually do an investigation, not gauge in a political war against the president. Oh, yeah. Case is over now. And let me be clear on what I'm saying. I'm not suggesting to you

that the Department of Justice or the Attorney General, whether it was the acting in Whitaker or Barr, did anything to impede Mueller. We know that. The four-page document laid out by the Justice Department, which Mueller clearly agreed to, says, Joe, categorically,

that Mueller's investigation was not impeded in any way. That is not what I'm telling you. Let me be absolutely clear. What I'm telling you is the now disgraced Bob Mueller engaged in a two-year political campaign investigating a hoax he knew was a hoax early. And the only reason he wrapped it up is because the job he was assigned to do, investigate collusion, he was probably being kept to by an

attorney general interested in the rule of law, not waging false political attacks against the United States government in the form of Donald J. Trump, the chief executive. the chief executive. Now, what's my evidence for this? Folks, just weeks after the scope memo, the initial scope memo where Rod Rosenstein hires Mueller, just weeks after that happens, there's a revised scope memo issued.

Remember, the initial mandate for Mueller, his charge going going forward joe everybody needs to be clear on this his charge going forward was to investigate russian collusion in this election cycle i'm telling you that's only based the collusion not russian interference that's different we know the r Russians interfere. They've been interfering in our elections forever. Collusion with the Trump campaign. Mueller likely figures out within weeks this is a hoax. Instead of wrapping up his investigation, he goes back and asks for a revised scope memo from Rod Rosenstein. That revised memo is largely still classified. Now, what is in that revised memo?

Well, I've got on pretty good authority that it's one of two things. It's likely a mandate from Mueller, I mean, from Rosenstein, pursuant to Mueller's request, follow me, Joe, to investigate obstruction of justice or secondarily, as I mentioned before, maybe some charges within the dossier itself. Think about what I just told you. Mueller figures out immediately. That's why this guy gets no pats on the back from any sane person. He knows immediately his entire mandate to exist is based on a hoax.

Investigate a bank robbery Joe Armacost did not commit. A bank robbery that didn't, even worse, that didn't even happen. And instead of doing that, a prosecutor who hates Joe, who figures out Joe is innocent. Mueller does not exonerate Trump. Trump exonerates Trump. Instead of doing the right thing, Joe, and going back and saying Joe did not rob this bank, he's being falsely

accused, a prosecutor goes back to his boss and says, I think we should investigate Joe for obstructing justice because Joe, I don't like the way he tweeted during our investigation of this fake bank robbery. Oh, daddy-o.

Analogies always work better, folks. Yeah, man. People think in stories. People don't think in data points. The brain is set up to think in chronological narrative terms. To link disparate objects together. To spontaneously recombine discriminated operants, as we call creativity in operant conditioning classes in college. We were learning behavioral learning. The brain thinks in stories. Don't forget that story. Joe was being investigated

for a bank robbery that never happened. And the prosecutor who hates Joe went back to his boss to investigate Joe, basically about some tweets and media appearances Joe did because he was mad he was being investigated for a bank robbery that never happened. Bob Mueller went back to Rosenstein, got a revised scope memo to conduct a different investigation than the investigation he was charged with doing because the crime he was charged with investigating Mueller, that is, never, ever happened. It was politically a hit job. And instead of Mueller doing the right thing, clearing the air, he succumbed to his own personal animus for Donald Trump and the hatred of the media.

And to be loved by the media, he went back for a revised operating set of orders, a new scope memo, which is still classified, which I am almost positive has a mandate for him to pursue obstruction of justice charges for a crime that never happened. Ladies and gentlemen, it's the biggest scandal of our lifetime. The book lays it out. And if you think for a moment that I'm letting this go, or that Chuck Ross, Molly Hemingway, Margo Cleveland, Jeff Carlson.

I mean, the list is endless. Kim Strassel, Byron York. Chuck Ross should get a Pulitzer Prize for breaking the Halper story. Kim Strassel's been on this from day one. If you think for a second, I can't speak for them, and I don't know any of them personally. Maybe some tweets and some emails, but nothing personal. I don't know them.

But knowing what they've done and the work, if you think for a second we're letting this go, you're in the wrong rodeo, pal. This ain't over. New rules. We are going to lay waste now to every single person who propagated this myth. No quarter for anyone. Speaking of which, Paul, you got that David Gergen quote.

I'm sorry, I'm going a little out of order. My poor wife, she's working so hard to try to keep up with my tendency to go off script constantly. But there's an interesting piece in the Washington Examiner that David Gergen, who is a CNN analyst, is now suggesting that we should all somehow move on, that we should let this go. Ladies and gentlemen, we're not going to let this go. I'm not letting it go. So here's the quote from David Gergen from the Washington Examiner piece, quote, it's totally understandable, as everyone is saying, that day the Trump people are celebrating. I understand that. But when the president calls it an illegal takedown, an illegal takedown, that's a vindictive view, Gergen said. He'd be well advised to remember Churchill, who said, in victory, magnanimity.

Yet Churchill said something else, too. Gergen, you chump. Can't stand that guy. Argued with him on CNN a couple times. We will fight them on the beaches. We will fight them in the cities. Churchill never gave up. And I know for a fact this president is not giving up on this.

This guy's a warrior, and now we go to the mats. You think we're letting this go? The president called it an illegal takedown because it was, you knucklehead. Where have you been hiding? Get your ostrich head out of the dirt. We're not letting it go. Lord of the idiots. Joe's out of control tonight no idea what he's doing back what is he doing back there what is he all right i gotta pay for the show

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up on my screen you know so all right let's move on uh quickly here to now the new liberal talking point which um joe and i predicted laughingly what six months ago right about what did we say about a year ago? Yeah, someone tweeted me this weekend and said, you know, hat tip Dan Bongino, who said that the media, once the collusion narrative

was entirely and completely debunked, would move immediately to obstruction. Joe, how many times have we said that? Oh, the pivot, the pivot. The pivot, the pivot. Here we go. The DC pivot. The DC shuffle.

Here's a piece of the Washington Examiner in the show notes today by Eddie Scarry. Please read it. It's really wonderful. My show notes today are must read, available at Bongino.com. If you click on the menu and you go to podcasts, the show notes are attached to it.

Please read the articles. Headline from Washington Examiner, Eddie Scarry, March 24th, 2019. Trump was cleared of obstruction of justice just as he was cleared of collusion with Russia. Folks, now we know it. We know they were going to pivot, we know they were going to make the move to obstruction because collusion was a hoax and a hoax from the start, here's the problem

I want to help you here this is not what happened anyone who tells you when I say it's not what happened, the media's new narrative CNN and MSNBC, which are not serious news networks anymore, it's over it's over. It's over. It's over.

CNN is now making the pivot to, well, the four-page memo that was issued this weekend, and the four-page memo, for those that missed it, is a Department of Justice memorandum summarizing what Bob Mueller found. He found two things. He found that collusion is finished. There was no evidence. There was not only evidence that the Trump campaign didn't collude with Russia. No American person they could find colluded with Russia. Right, right, right. You think Mike Flynn should get that, should get a pardon now? I think so.

No American person. But the second finding was that the Mueller report made no judgments on the obstruction charge and didn't exonerate Trump, but handed the information over to the Department of Justice, Rod Rosenstein and Bill Barr. Here is a quote from a Washington Examiner piece about what Bill Barr and Rod Rosenstein concluded on obstruction of justice, because here's our headline. The media is now pivoted, as Joe just accurately said, because they know collusion's dead, to Trump may have obstructed justice, and that's what they say. Well, that's what the report said. That is not what the report said. Let me read some quotes from it.

The Washington Examiner today, the Attorney General, William Barr, took it from there. He wrote in his summary that in consultation with his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, he determined that the evidence presented by the special counsel, listen to this quote, was not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction of justice offense. He has been completely 100 percent exonerated and vindicated. Let me read that quote again. Not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction of justice offense, period. The media is making this up.

Bob Mueller handed his investigation, his grotesque investigation that should have wrapped up 674 days ago. He turned it into an obstruction investigation to do a political hit on the president. Turn that over to the attorney general. The attorney general and his deputy concluded that there was no, that they could not commit. There was no evidence to establish the president committed an obstruction of justice offense. Exonerated. Now the takeaways here, these are important. So headline, media pivots to obstruction.

Claiming Mueller didn't exonerate the president. The Department of Justice did on obstruction. Are we clear on that? There's two subplots here you need to be aware of. Showing to you again that Mueller is not a good guy. Mueller is a political creature who is engaged in a political hit on the president. Thank you for your service to the country, Mr. Mueller. That does not absolve you of what you did here.

Joe, why do you think Mueller, despite no probable cause to charge the president with obstruction, right? He doesn't have it. If he had the evidence that the president obstructed justice, he would have charged him. So he says he doesn't have the evidence, but he doesn't exonerate him which is a cop-out that's like saying i don't

have evidence paula robbed the bank but i don't have evidence she didn't rob a bank either what are you are you a serious what's that poisoning the well yeah sure bingo brother yeah poison that's exactly what muller did yes it was just nailed it now why do you think muller then leaves this wishy-washy conclusion well we don't know he obstructed justice but we don't know he didn't obstruct justice so we turned it over to the attorney general don't worry i'm not going to i've been thinking about this all week and be unfair to put you on the spot i'm going to give you the answer to this but folks i throw this out to the audience. My wife, Paula, you too. You may know, I may have told you this last night

while we were headed to sleep. She gets to cheat. She gets a preview of the show at night. She's laughing. Some other shows too. Gotta love this show, right? Why do you think Mueller does that? Because Mueller understands fully that he had the collusion thing is a hoax.

He has no evidence here. Trump exonerates himself. He also understands the case for obstruction is dead. The case for obstruction is dead for a few reasons. Andy McCabe has already testified under oath after the firing of Jim Comey, Joe, that there was no effort to obstruct the investigation. Mueller would get decimated in a post-presidency indictment of Donald Trump for. You can't indict the president while he's sitting in office. We clear. Right.

The Office of Legal Counsel's already determined that you can indict the president after he's impeached. Mueller would be destroyed in court on an on an obstruction charge for three reasons. Again, McCabe, the deputy director at the time, acting director of the FBI, after Comey is fired, already testified to Senator Marco Rubio there's been no effort to obstruct his investigation. Secondly, Jim Comey himself writes in his memos, I can't say this enough, that Trump asked him to look at his, quote, satellites. In other words, Trump asked him to review the conduct of his satellite people around him, saying it would be good to know if they did anything wrong. Folks, have a brain if you're a liberal.

I'm not trying to insult my conservative audience, but the liberals who listen. I know I don't want to insult you. Thank you for listening, but I mean it. Think about this rationally. How could Trump have obstructed an investigation the FBI said wasn't obstructed while simultaneously asking the FBI to engage in the investigation?

Those were Comey's own notes. Does this make any sense? Finally, Jim Baker, FBI lawyer, headquarters guy, Comey's right-hand guy, they're like this, has already said under oath that Donald Trump wasn't only told that the investigation wasn't involved. He was told it wasn't. He was told they weren't investigating him. How can Donald Trump obstruct an investigation into an investigation he was told wasn't even about him? Folks, this case is dead in the water.

There was no case. Now, I had to set that up. I didn't forget where I was. Delete. Media pivots to obstruction. There was no case. Now I had to set that up. I didn't forget where I was. Delete. Media pivots to obstruction. There is no obstruction. Mueller knows it. Why didn't Mueller just say it? He hands it off to Barr for a reason, to give the media a narrative, Joe, because Barr and Rosenstein have now absolved Donald Trump of obstruction too, as I just read to you the quote. They couldn't provide any evidence that Donald Trump of obstruction too, as I just read to you the quote. They couldn't provide any evidence that Donald Trump committed obstruction of justice.

Joe, who picked William Barr to be the Attorney General? Not a trick question. Donald Trump. Donald, thank you. I wasn't trying to set you up. So now, by the way, according to this little thing we have called the Constitution where the president picks principal officers,

he was confirmed by the Senate, right, Joe? It's not a trick president picks principal officers, he was confirmed by the Senate, right? Joe, it's not a trick question, right? Bill Barr was confirmed by the Senate. We're good. Okay.

Thank you. I just need Joe to confirm this for the liberals out there who've taken the vaccination, right? Vaccinated against facts, hat tip our buddy Cole, right? Now the new media narrative,

Joe, is that the handpicked attorney general, by the way, every attorney general is handpicked by the president, but let's not get that out of control, right? Let's not let facts general by the way every attorney general is hand picked by the president but let's not get that out of control right let's not let facts get in the way Joe the hand picked attorney general has chosen to not prosecute the obstruction of justice charge

that Mueller do you understand where I'm going Joe Mueller handed the media a a gold plated narrative to run with that is again entirely false Bill listen to me media narrative trump's hand-picked attorney general chooses not to prosecute trump on obstruction no no bill bart is not exonerate trump of obstruction again donald trump exonerated

donald trump of obstruction because he didn't obstruct the investigation. I just gave you the three top line takeaways. Comey said he asked him to investigate. McCabe said there was no obstruction. And Baker said they told Trump he wasn't even under investigation. Let me give you a fourth. Joe, was Mike Flynn was Mike Flynn was prosecuted by the united states government correct and yes he was damn yes thank you joe i need joe to do this for liberals today

mike flynn was prosecuted he should be pardoned by the way papadopoulos was prosecuted cohen was prosecuted trump did nothing to obstruct this investigation at all. This case, the obstruction charge, like the collusion charge, was a hoax from day one. It's a hoax now. Trump exonerated Trump. Barr just put out a statement of fact saying there is no evidence because Donald Trump gave them no evidence of obstruction. That's the first takeaway. I said there were two. The second one is just a maestro like performance by President Trump. You know, folks, we've nailed this case from the start here.

No need for an excessive victory lap. But I have to tell you, there are some decisions, some calls I made where I have to rethink them. And I think the president's handling of Rosenstein was just epic. Think about this, Joe, how it relates to both Rosenstein and Barr signing I guess is a better way to say it. Appears in two critical documents in this case. Two. Now I understand completely why President Trump kept Rosenstein on board. I see you.

The fourth FISA. To spy on the trump campaign the fourth yeah the original and the third renewal the last one while trump is still president despite the fact that the fisa is based exclusively on now a hoax dossier entirely completely discredited ironically by bob mull himself, who has shown there's no collusion. The fourth FISA, the one where they had months, Joe, months to determine this thing was a hoax, they already knew, was signed by Rod Rosenstein. by Rod Rosenstein. Rod Rosenstein's signature went on a document used to spy on the team

of the President of the United States based on a hoax that Rod Rosenstein's own appointee and Bob Mueller has now just entirely, completely destroyed. The greatest irony of all I got gotta tell you something

I don't mean stop the video something just hit me I had a phone call this morning that was Joe knows what I'm talking about so does my wife I'm just not at liberty to disclose who it was but I think you can figure a lot of it out folks this guy So does my wife. I'm just not at liberty to disclose who it was, but I think you can figure a lot of it out, folks.

This guy, this president, is so, so much smarter, obviously, than the media gives him credit for, but folks, I think even some people who are supporters give him credit for. I don't mean you. I mean people who lend their tacit support on Capitol Hill but behind the scenes think the president is some kind of a dunce

or something. Show friends. This is why I love you, Joey. There's no one better. You always say what I'm thinking. Yeah, you're right. Show friends. That's a damn good way to say it. The DC show friends. The peanut gallery. They sit there in the audience on an applause line on Seinfeld.

Golf clap. The president understood this entire time because he studied the history of what happened and the failures of this broken presidencies we've had in the past that have not cooperated with these investigations

no matter how false they are. The president understood fully that getting Rosenstein to sign off on a document saying he didn't obstruct justice and did not collude, while simultaneously having Rosenstein being the guy who put his John Hancock on a warrant where someone swore in front of a judge that the president's campaign did collude was a stroke of political tactical genius and not firing him that I think me and everyone else who questioned Rosenstein's ability to stay on board need to go back and re-evaluate that and understand that the president even one-upped us. This was a tactical, political move of strategic genius.

Joe, I'm just getting, because I think you know, based on the conversation, what I'm talking about here, that these people were played for idiots the whole time while they thought they were playing the president. These people were played for idiots the whole time while they thought they were playing the president. Rosenstein signed his own basically career death warrant, the FISA, and getting Rosenstein at the Department of Justice to put his name in a letter, to put his name in a letter, to have to acknowledge publicly and in humiliating fashion that the warrant he signed to end the political career of the president was based on a hoax that he participated in, was a stroke of political genius we haven't seen in a long time. Do not doubt me on this one. Genius. Genius.

I don't think you all understand how deep this goes. Genius. Because remember, it's not Rosenstein who exonerated Trump. It's not Barr and it's not muller donald j trump exonerated donald trump because he did nothing wrong this show is epic level stuff today yeah dude yeah oh man i'm figuring like where do we go now all right let's go i know where to go next okay but let me just get this to knock this final out of these companies pay to be here again. They, uh, we got to give them their due respect. They pay for the show and they keep it free. Uh, folks, here's the reality. Emergencies usually strike without warning. They do. You have to prepare now while there's not an emergency going on. We're surprised when the power goes out, it goes out. Hurricanes like Michael hit

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takeaway number one from the show, I have them numbered here. When did they find out there was no collusion? My guess, informed, I should say informed opinion, I'm not guessing based on the facts, is based on the request for revised scope memo. Mueller knew early on this entire collusion case was BS, had to keep the political hit on Donald Trump going, asks for a revised scope memo to expand this investigation into obstruction. That didn't happen either.

Takeaway number two. We are not giving up. I don't care what David Gergen or anyone says. We should just let this go and be magnanimous. Magnanimous in what? The destruction of the Constitutional Republic by a weaponized intel agency and an out-of-control president and candidate for the Democrat nomination for president, Hillary Clinton. Are you crazy?

We're not letting this go. Takeaway number three, the media pivot to obstruction is BS. The Department of Justice's memo is clear. There is no evidence of obstruction and they didn't exonerate Trump. Trump did because Justice's memo is clear. There is no evidence of obstruction, and they didn't exonerate Trump. Trump did, because there's absolutely no evidence. Number four, Brett Stevens. Paula, can you throw up that tweet if you don't mind? Brett Stevens, the fake conservative, works at the New York Times, who was attacked by friend Mark Levin repeatedly, despite not having the ability to wipe Mark Levin's nose.

Here's Brett Stevens's tweet. Main takeaway for the day. The system worked. Serious allegations were made. A serious investigation was held. Credible conclusions were reached. The president may be a scoundrel, which he spells wrong. He spells scoundrel.

I don't know what a scoundrel is. He isn't a traitor. Leave 2016 behind. Political debates should be about the future not the past um no thanks brett the system didn't work the system failed ladies and gentlemen we live in a society where you're innocent until proven guilty not guilty until proven innocent how did the system break down, I can't repeat this to you enough. Again, this is going to be a two-part show. I'm sorry to do this to you, but there's a lot to get in.

People say, well, why don't you make it two hours? Because folks, there's so much breaking today, and there's so much I have to get done that I want to make sure this is a responsibly done show where you have all the ammunition you need to get to your friends. This is an important takeaway. Takeaway number four. The system did not work. Bob Mueller has now come to a conclusive finding. A political enemy of the United States who waged an out-of-control investigation with his angry Democrats. With tens of millions of dollars and hundreds of

thousands of man hours concluded Joe that there is no evidence that Trump his campaign or any American citizen colluded with Russia ladies and gentlemen the FBI's entire case is the dossier that alleges what, Joe? That Paul Manafort and Carter Page and Michael Cohen colluded with Russia. Those charges were political opposition research paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign for president. Are you telling me, Bret Steph Stevens, fake New York Times conservative. Are you telling me now that political opposition research funneled into the FBI intravenously in the Department of Justice through back channels. Not vetted and proved conclusively false by Bob Mueller himself, who can't stand this president, that that should be the basis for an investigation into political figures we simply don't like? That's the system working?

Open your eyes, brother. them working? Open your eyes, brother. You know, history tends to be more sober, whereas the past tends to speak with drunken overtones. When history looks back on this, folks, I want you to take some solace in this. Make absolutely no mistake. This will be a horrifying scar on the history of the United States. People who refuse to call this grotesque weaponization of the United States government by Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, John Brennan, Jim Clapper, and all of these figures in the government, people who refuse to call this out will be humiliated by the history books. Once your drunken glasses are taken off today, a sober view of this will be gross.

The system broke down completely. Folks, that information that was shuttled through David Kramer at the John McCain Institute, Bruce Ohr, from a lawyer at Perkins Coie into James Baker at the FBI, this information intravenous line into the Bureau, the DOJ, Jonathan Weiner at the State Department, Victoria Newland at the State Department.

It all originated with a fake dossier that, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going on the record and telling you about, Barack Obama knew about. Take it to the bank. Joe, please tell me you get where I'm going with this. The collusion hoax started the FBI's investigation. The collusion hoax is based exclusively on the dossier. The dossier lays out the only charges. The story is the dossier. The dossier lays out the only charges. The story is the dossier.

That story is debunked by Mueller himself, which says to you conclusively that the FBI's entire investigation into Donald Trump was based on a Loch Ness monster-like hoax. The system failed. Ladies and gentlemen, the system has a component called the Woods Procedure, which I've only mentioned on this show 25,000 times.

Hyperbolic, maybe a bit. But probably close to 500. The Woods procedure is supposed to authenticate and verify information. This is in my second book. You're not going to want to miss that. FBI agents bring into a FISA court, raise their right hand and swear to. The system failed. This information was not verified. The information was the dossier, which is now conclusively 100% discredited and debunked.

The system failed. system failed. Ladies and gentlemen, I want to get to next. I'm sorry. I got to draw arrows because I've got so much to get to you again. That's why this is going

to be a two-parter. Paula, we're going to go to New York Times next just so you know. Again, my poor wife, I'm always like jumping all over the place,

but I actually stayed reasonably in order today. Right, Paula? Not too bad. I'm usually like all over. I, my poor wife, I'm always like jumping all over the place. But I actually stayed reasonably in order today, right, Paula? Not too bad. I'm usually like all over. I'm like, Paula, we're going to run this story fifth. It becomes like story number one. I'm going to get to in a second after this how there's two pivots here by the mainstream media hacks and

the liberal police state goons, okay? Pivot number one is going to be now to obstruction charges that they insist are laid out in the four-page memo that just came out this weekend summarizing the mullet part which says there's no evidence of obstruction again how you can't those two things can't be true there is no evidence of obstruction but the media won't give up because they're lost they're clueless so they're going to pivot to obstruction. Trump obstructed justice and Barr exonerated him. Trump exonerated himself. The second pivot, which we hinted at a couple of weeks ago, Joe, the show you and I did with Saliza, Chris Saliza, the now discredited loser at CNN, who tweeted out, say it with me. The case began with George Papadopoulos in a bar with the Australian embassy, Australian ambassador.

Excuse me, saying that there was dirt on Hillary at the Russian side. That's how the case started. Don't go anywhere because I want to explain to you now why that second pivot, in other words, it wasn't the dossier, it was Papadopoulos, is so critical right now. False. It's a bogus pivot. But the DC two-step, but it's critical why they're doing that.

But before I get to that, the New York Times, ladies and gentlemen, knew this was a fake bogus case the whole time. They knew it. Paula, can we put up those two screenshots to the left? If you're watching on YouTube, youtube.com

slash Bongino, you can see this if you listen on audio don't worry i'll read them for you no big deal doesn't change the content the new york times had to take a bath this morning they had to take a bath because they've been knee deep in this thing from the beginning here's my point the lead here i'm telling you is the new york times knew the whole time this collusion thing was a hoax on the left and if you're watching on youtube this morning's headline monday march 25th 2019 muller finds no trump russia conspiracy gosh joe how much it must have pained the new york times to put that headline up on the right january 19th 2017 just days into the trump presidency here is a quote from the New York Times. The FBI is leading the investigations aided by the National Security Agency, the CIA and the Treasury Department Financial Crimes Unit.

The investigators have accelerated their efforts in recent weeks, but have found no conclusive evidence of wrongdoing, the officials said. wrongdoing the officials said one official said intelligence reports have been based on some of the wiretap communications have been that had been provided to the white house please ladies and gentlemen if you're watching the youtube this will be crystal clear to you right now but if you're listening in your car daddy please tell me you understand where I'm going with this. In January of 2017, the president is just, President Trump just days into his presidency, the New York Times, Paula, can you throw that up again? I'm sorry, just one more time. I just want the audience at home to see because it's really important. The New York Times themselves on January 19th of 2017, 19th of 2017, the investigators have found no conclusive evidence of wrongdoing.

You may say, well, Dan, I don't get it. Where are you going? If the New York Times reported in January of 2017 that there was no evidence of wrongdoing, aren't you making the case that the New York Times reported, right? No, the New York Times continued to report for two years or a year and a half that this case had some meat on its bones, that this collusion case was real. They should have called the colluders on the carpet that day. The stories from that point on, Joe, should have crystal clear been what? Why is the FBI still investigating Trump?

There's no evidence. But they didn't. They didn't do that. Instead of taking that January story where they acknowledge Trump's been wiretapped, their words, not mine, you can see it yourself. Watch it on the YouTube channel.

They acknowledge he's been wiretapped and they acknowledge there's no evidence in january of 2017 these hacks at the times know this whole thing is a hoax and yet they continue to report for a year and a half uncritically about a collusion investigation, ladies and gentlemen, they have already, maybe even unwittingly, acknowledged is a complete, total hoax. That screenshot,

side by side, is the most powerful thing you're going to see today. The media is finished. Rest in peace. It is over. Your credibility has been buried. It is finished. Rest in peace. It is over. Your credibility has been buried. It is dead. You have invested 100% of your energy into propagandizing and gaslighting the American

people about a collusion story that is complete 100% BS. It is a hoax. Your credibility is done. Now, I want to finish with what I just said I was going to get to. Wild pivot number two is important, but I just want to tease what tomorrow's show is going to be about. I'll be on Tucker Carlson tonight. Please watch. I'll be talking about this further. Tomorrow's show, we're going to be about. I'll be on Tucker Carlson tonight. Please watch. I'll be talking about this further.

Tomorrow's show, we're going to hit the dossier again because the dossier was the collusion story, Mueller debunked. And I'm going to hit to you four or five takeaways from the dossier that were all now hoax, nonsense allegations. Also tomorrow, Joe, please hold that cut i know i sent it to you today what did obama know and when did obama know it we are gonna nail jim clapper and obama to the wall tomorrow he has nowhere to go for those of you don't know Jim Clapper, I know most of you

do. Forgive me, I'm not insulting your intelligence. This was Obama's director of national intelligence while this entire weaponization of the intelligence community to target Donald Trump was going on. Jim Clapper slipped in an interview with Anderson Cooper. I'm going to get to that tomorrow. Don't go anywhere. But I want to finish today's show, part one, up on this. And book two, by the way, is going to slay this stuff. Pivot number one by the media is to obstruction. Obstruction that doesn't exist. We now know, according to the memo, despite their protestations, that it doesn't say that, which it does. Their second pivot is going to be this case did not start with the dossier.

It started with Papadopoulos. Joe, why would they say that? Well, I think you know the answer. I'm not trying to set you up here again, because the dossier now, according to Bob Mueller himself, is a hoax. We know it. The dossier tells a story of Russian collusion.

Bob Mueller, as you said in his report, does not exist. Now the media has to go back and tell a different story about why not the fbi targeted trump oh they did but ladies and gentlemen let me ask you a question do you really think the law enforcement the the media the left-wing media candidly is not a big fan of law enforcement. And I'm being generous by saying it that way. Yeah. Do you really believe that the media, CNN, MSNBC, and the other hacks like Saliza who are going to promote this story, oh, it wasn't a dossier.

That's not why the FBI did this. It was Papadopoulos. You really believe they're protecting the FBI? That was me unplugging my phone. The answer is, hell no. They are protecting Barack Obama and the legacy of the Democrat Party. The Democrats have supposedly been the party of civil liberties,

supposedly, because we know it's not true, forever. You've been disingenuously told that they were the only side on the fight of the civil rights movement that's nonsense the civil rights movement was led largely by republicans especially on the political side against southern democrats you're being told now that the liberals are in it for the little guy defenders of civil liberties they're against police state spying. No, no, they are the police state. The media is defending Obama because when it comes out that Obama knew about the dossier and the dossier was the FBI investigation and that Papadopoulos was incidental to the entire thing, to the entire thing.

This is going to be a nuclear bomb level, tier one level explosion that will forever destroy the reputation of Barack Obama's administration and the Clinton corrupt criminal cabal. Here's your evidence, and we'll wrap on this. And when I say evidence, I mean evidence of the fact that this case could not have been

started due to the tip about Papadopoulos saying that to Downer, allegedly about the Hillary dirt. Point number one, there's an FBI agent by the name of Gaeta, last name Gaeta, who knows Christopher Steele. They worked on the soccer corruption FIFA case together. He meets with Steele in London to exchange information. The dossier? Two weeks before the case is even open, folks.

How could that possibly happen if the case was open because of Papadopoulos? What exactly was Gaeta meeting with Steele about in London? Steele's name has been attached to the dossier. It's not in it, but he's allegedly the author. He's not. Not of all of it. of course that started the investigation. Point number two, if two weeks after the FBI is meeting overseas with the alleged author of the dossier,

the now discredited hoax dossier that started the FBI investigation, despite what the media is telling you, but if that meeting wasn't the cause of this and Papadopoulos was the cause of this, how come Papadopoulos wasn't interviewed until the following year? Ladies and gentlemen, this case is opened in July of 2016.

George Papadopoulos isn't interviewed until early 2017. How is that? Folks, I was a criminal investigator, but you don't have to be one to figure this out. I was a criminal investigator, but you don't have to be one to figure this out. If George Papadopoulos was the key figure in a Russian collusion scandal that was being investigated, how come no one interviewed him until 2017, six months after the case started? How is that? Ladies and gentlemen, in addition, now that we know Bob Mueller has concluded no American citizen colluded with Russia, where's the pardon for Papadopoulos?

Papadopoulos, Joe, understand, is alleged to have met, well, not alleged, he did meet with this guy Joseph Mifsud, where it's alleged that he told Mifsud again about this Russian dirt on Hillary. And in the charging documents, they intimate in the statement of offense that George Papadopoulos signed show that Mifsud was some kind of a Russian cutout. That's been alleged directly by members of Congress on the Democrat side. So if Bob Mueller is saying in his report that no American citizen, Papadopoulos is an American citizen, needing Papadopoulos either, colluded with any Russian entity to impact the election, then who exactly was Joseph Mifsud if he wasn't a Russian cutout? Who was he working for? A lot of blinks today. Who exactly was Joseph Misford working for if he wasn't working for the Russians? And we now know that. Does John Brennan know anything about that?

What about Jim Clapper? What about the FBI? So if the case was started due to Papadopoulos, how come no one interviewed him? How come Joseph Massoud's not in jail? How come he's not being prosecuted? How come Papadopoulos? How come Manafort? How come Cohen was never once charged with a conspiracy to collude with Russians to impact an election?

Not once. Because Donald Trump exonerated himself. That's why. Third, and my final point on this, the Papadopoulos-Downer meeting, key components of it have now been recanted by Downer himself, who now claims that Trump was never mentioned,

that there was no mention ever of Trump knowing about any of this. And he claims that Papadopoulos now didn't say dirt on Hillary. Downer himself has since retracted a lot of this information. Folks, don't believe the media spin. Obstruction is dead, number one. And point number two, this case was 100% based on a dossier produced by Team Hillary that the Obama team knew about that has now been debunked as a hoax, which was the only thing the FBI based their case on. And now they don't have egg on their face. They have a baker's dozen of eggs all over their body. a day of a baker's dozen of eggs all over their body.

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who's a great, uh, great, uh, you know, uh, life partner, number one,

but just great on the show. She said this this morning, she says, Dan, we cannot end this show on anything other than this. This is President Trump. I just want to tell you that America is the greatest place on earth. The greatest place on earth.

Thank you very much. You're darn right, Mr. President. America is the greatest place on earth. And I'll just leave the show with putting his tweet up there. And you can see it on the YouTube channel. Don't miss part two tomorrow, folks. Now the counterattack begins. You just heard the Dan Bongino Show.

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