The Dan Bongino Show - Follow the Money and You’ll Know the Truth (Ep 1172)

Episode Date: February 3, 2020

In this episode, I address the troubling money trail which exposed the depths of the Democrats’ scandalous activities in Ukraine. I also discuss the lowa caucuses and the worst case scenario for the Democrats. Finally, I address the latest revelation about Hillary Clinton’s plans for 2020. News Picks:GOP Senator warns that, if Joe Biden wins the presidency, he could be immediately impeached.    Is Hillary scheming to become the Vice President?   Does this Ukrainian have the goods on Joe Biden?   Why was this US Diplomat monitoring Trump allies?   An extremely suspicious car break in happened near the White House grounds.    This new poll is a disaster for Joe Biden.    President Trump calls out socialist Bernie Sanders ahead of the Iowa caucus.   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 ladies and gentlemen the joe biden campaign is freaking out what i'm going to cover today is going to expose the various reasons why and as always we're going to frame it in the form of kind of like almost like a jeopardy thing we're going to frame it in the form of kind of like almost like a Jeopardy thing. We're going to frame it in the form of let's call them questions, if you get what I mean. Some open questions right ahead of the Iowa caucus about what exactly the Biden crew was up to over in Ukraine. Do not miss this show today. I got that.

A couple of comments on yesterday's Super Bowl Sunday. Some details about Hillary Clinton, which may surprise you what she may be up to. So a loaded show, as always, on Monday. Producer Joe, how are you today? What is fine and groovy. Ready to go with another week's show. Taking the frame in the form of the questioning. I was at the Super Bowl area yesterday.

Fox had a set close to the Super Bowl. Not close, maybe about a mile or two or so away. But we were down near South Beach, went down there, met a lot of you. Thanks for coming down. Got to show off my decaying, crusty, as you can see in the video if you're watching youtube.com slash Bongino right arm.

I was a quarterback one time, so I can still throw a little bit, but I put it on Instagram and my Twitter. If you want to see the video of me throwing the football with a football team is down there on the Fox set. Thanks for having me. Thanks for everyone to say hello. And you can see my right elbow does not bend no matter what I do. So I got a few laughs out of that yesterday, especially on my Instagram account at the Bongino where people said, you're not kidding. Your right arm really doesn't bend. It doesn't, but I can still throw a mean spiral.

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And they're off. So, the Iowa Caucus today. I mean, I never thought we'd get here. It seems like yesterday, President Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in one of the biggest upsets in modern presidential election history. But we are here. We are now actively in the 2020 election cycle. The Iowa caucus is going to be today. We'll have the results for

you tomorrow. You're not going to want to miss the show. And Joe Biden is freaking out. Folks, it just happened before we got on the air. So I'm just going to sum up for you. I'm not going to play the video because it's long, but Joe Biden freaked out on Savannah Guthrie from one of the mainstream media outlets when she, he was asked about Hunter Biden and what's going on there. Because now the story, shockingly, here's what's going on. Again, I'm going to frame this in the form of questions

and I'm not going to leave you guessing at the end, I guess is the best way to say it. Mainstream media outlets are starting to figure out that there is a major league scoop with this Biden-Ukraine thing there is a major league scoop with this biden ukraine thing and the major league scoop is this when you follow the money trail a month i don't mean that like some loosey-goosey kind of shambolic way i mean it in a literal, follow the deposits, follow the withdrawals, follow the bank trail, follow the investigation into the bank trail, which I'm going to get into during this show

today. You will find out that there is absolutely no way the Biden family and Ukrainians did not engage in significant malfeasance in Ukraine. And the media is starting to realize they can only cover this up with Rudy Giuliani, Dan Bongino, and John Solomon are crazy for so long. Because, Joe, there are records, actual records of people taking dinero,

taking money, who have no legal, justifiably good, I should say legal, but no justifiable moral reason to have taken it's called proof dude yeah they were selling bs and somebody paid for it yeah now yeah why they're getting worried too here's an article in the washington examiner senator joni ernst republican from iowa obviously significant today because it's the iowa caucus even though there's no legitimate Republican primary candidate. I mean, Joe Walsh isn't doing anything.

It's still important. They know the area. Joni Ernst had said this this weekend, and it started a firestorm. Again, Republican Senator Joni Ernst warns, the Republicans could immediately push to impeach Biden if he won the presidency. Yes.

And as I said this weekend on Twitter, right, Joe? In big caps, as it should be. Because if, as the crazy lunatic Adam Schiff AOC caucus on the Democrat side continue to state, Joe, if the corrupt motive standard is the new standard to impeach the president, right? Yeah. That you can get in the president's head. Right. And determine that his actions, although legal, holding up aid to Ukraine, but not past the deadline because he was concerned about corruption.

Talking about President Trump. And asking for corruption investigations in Ukraine to clear that up. If you can get in the president's head, as the Democrats are suggesting, and determine it was all corrupt, Joe, he was only doing it for politics. They have no idea that that's true, even though he didn't break any laws if that's the case that corrupt motives because we're all somehow psychic now are a standard for impeachment then senator joni ernst is absolutely correct that if we can all discern someone's motives and get into their heads, then clearly Joe Biden will be subject to impeachment. God forbid he were to win the presidency.

That is a big time. The minute he gets it off because, hey, hey, daddy, oh, new rules, man. Yep. As I said, new rules. And some of my friends on, you know, I work at Fox. I, as you heard Friday night, if some of you watch Hannity, I resigned with Fox for two more years. So I, it was on Hannity.

So Friday night was not a secret anymore. We had discussed that, but we'll be there two more years. Happy to be there. Love the network. Love working there. Some, I'm going to disagree with some of my fellow coworkers here at Fox.

And some of them were on this morning on Fox and Friends and said, well, you know, listen, I don't think we should pursue this impeachment route if Biden, God forbid, is elected president, because we'd be doubling down on a bad thing. We're not doubling. The Democrats aren't saying it's a bad thing, Joe.

The Democrats are saying, for the sake of the country and for the republic, for the sake of the corrupt motive standard, this is the new standard we need to get to the motives and if we think they were corrupt we should impeach the president fine we think the biden's were corrupt and the biden's then should be impeached by the exact same standard right joe yeah the president's been said dude yeah the pret the precedent has been said as i told you months ago, new rules.

We win, you lose. When you all want to go back to the old rules of civility, decorum, treating parties like human beings, not animals, you know, stop calling people racist, misogynist, and you want to debate actual ideas. I'm game. So is everybody else. But until that point and until you show some evidence you're willing to apply that same decorum and treatment to Republicans, I'm game. So is everybody else. But until that point, and until you show some evidence, you're willing to apply that same decorum and treatment to Republicans. I'm not interested. If you're saying the rules are corrupt motives, that you can discern corrupt motives, then fine. Yes, Biden will be impeached immediately, too. Now, let's get to it.

And I hit this a little bit on Friday. But this is important, ladies and gentlemen, in light of everything that's going on. We have a huge news week. Please don't miss any shows this week. I'm going to have some really good information. We got the Iowa caucus. We had the Super Bowl yesterday.

We've got the State of the Union coming up. We've got the impeachment Senate trial, which is going to go down in flames. All of this in one week. Now, this is a story. This story here relates to all of that. Biden is running in the Iowa caucus. Trump is concerned about Ukrainian corruption, which led to the false impeachment charges of a fake quid pro quo. And I'm hoping he addresses some of this in the State of the Union. and I'm hoping he addresses some of this in the State of the Union.

Let's get to this first. I covered this a bit on Friday, but I'm readdressing it here because it's important. There's a Forbes article, which is in the show notes for Friday's show. Again, if you want us to deliver you the show notes to your email inbox every morning, Bongino.com slash newsletter. We will send you these articles every day. They're important to read. And we go find old stuff that matters again. Here's an older article that matters again today.

In Forbes. Again, not a right-leaning outlet. This is from 2019 by Michaela Tindera. Forbes. Here's how much 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden is worth. So the article is about, isn't it worth how much 2020 presidential candidate joe biden is worth so the article is about isn't it worth how much money he made but down buried in there is an interesting little nugget that is applicable again today because it describes exactly why joe biden is panicking on the iowa

caucus day as the impeachment trial is coming about because ladies and gentlemen this is totally boomerang trump is going to be acquitted and exonerated again. And the focus on Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, I promise you is not going to go away because remember what I said when I opened the show, there is a paper trail. There's a money trail. What a hammer.

Checks have been cashed. Signatures have been signed. Foreign governments have started investigations asking where this money went now buried in the forbes piece is this little nugget about joe biden how in 2014 remember that date biden was worried and said hey listen i'm one of the poorest men in congress and he uh way where he was wearing what he referred to as a mildly expensive suit whereby this is biden in 2014 where he plainly stated quote don't hold it against me that i don't own a single stock or bond he's basically crying poverty here i have no savings account but i got a great pension i got a good salary

ladies and gentlemen joe biden in not in normal people language you know because for us broke means broke you don't have any money i'm talking about dc swamp language or if you're not a billionaire you're broke you get what i'm saying yeah man it's meant to be a slight on biden not not a slight on you people actually work for a living and make this country run right right but in biden's speak he was effectively broke using the swamp dictionary not by our dictionary again the people that make the country actually work. Why was he broke Joe? Cause he wasn't a millionaire,

right? So Biden's crying poverty in 2014, by the way, it's not directed at Joe. Someone said, why do you always do that to Joe? Like, I'm not telling John that's like,

it means I'm getting to something else. I do a lot of, it's an Italian thing. I'm sorry. I'm talking about it. It's cool. It's crying poverty in 2014.'m sorry it's true right around the time in 2014 again ladies and gentlemen if you're a media person that has zero interest in facts you can

ignore all this but if you're a sane person the people who listen to my show thankfully and spread the word you may find this quite odd that 2014 is the same time Biden's poverty that his son Hunter gets this lucrative $80,000 plus job a month in Ukraine where Biden has recently been appointed the point man. You may say, Dan, you covered this on the Friday show. Of course I did, but I've got to set up where we are because again, on the eve of the caucus, this guy melted down right before we got on the air this morning with Savannah Guthrie when asked this question, because he's in a panic that what I'm about to tell you is going to come out. 2014, Biden poverty, all of a sudden Hunter Biden gets this really unbelievably lucrative job, right? As Biden's

appointed the point man, crazy. Now let's start with the questions here. Biden's appointed the point man crazy now let's start with the questions here the guy who was running Burisma in Ukraine Zlochevsky's his last name the company Burisma that hires Hunter Biden as his father Joe Biden is claiming they're you know hey man we're running of dough, who hires him for this lucrative gig. One of the big questions I've been getting from people who really know this case, and let me give you a wink and a nod because the sources here are pretty darn good. Paul is looking at me like she's interested in what I'm going to say. One of the guys who's been feeding me information has been telling me that

Zlochevsky was in a lot of trouble. So keep in mind, follow me here because I want to make this real simple. Zlochevsky runs Burisma. Burisma is in Ukraine, a natural gas company. They hired Joe Biden's kid while Biden's saying, hey, we're running out of money. Big problems. Crying poverty. Right.

Zlochevsky, ladies and gentlemen, was the ecology minister, a government official under a prior president in Ukraine. It is alleged, alleged, that while he was in that government position, he was using that government position, shocker Joe, to finagle money given to Ukraine into his company to leverage his company. It was that he was leveraging rights contracts to certain areas to make money for his company. Very simple.

Using his government, swampy stuff. The amounts are staggering. That's why Zlocheski, for those of you in the left-wing media who keep saying, oh, Burisma wasn't under investigation when Joe Biden's kid got hired there, that is categorically false. Zlochevsky and Burisma

were absolutely under investigation in Ukraine for, again, allegedly making money disappear into Burisma and using government positions to leverage those transactions so to say okay we're good yeah what i'm getting from sources and have been getting by the way for gosh what joe a year and a half now where we this is not this is in my book by the way which i wrote yeah a year and a half now? This is in my book, by the way, Exonerated, which I wrote a year ago.

Yeah, none of this is new. But this is what's coming out now because even the press is starting to realize they're going to be in big trouble. And this is why they're panicking over Joni Ernst's comment that, gosh, Biden could be impeached too right away. Oh, you're damn right. The difference is there's actual evidence against Biden. There's actual evidence against Biden. What I'm getting is that the payments to Biden's son may have been a protection racket. To protect Zlicevsky from losing the money that he allegedly funneled into Burisma.

And transactions he used to make Burisma and make himself very wealthy that he may have done or influenced using his government contacts. Zlochevsky needed that money. When the loyalists in the Ukrainian government, Zlochevsky was loyal to were voted out of office zlochevsky and others the question is what happened to that money now this gets better all right this is not hard to figure out so far but you need to understand this because ladies and gentlemen this paper trail is not going to go away. Okay. Was the money, so Lucheski allegedly got access to, let's say, by ill-gotten means. Was the money he received, were portions of that money, or money in general in Burisma, was it then sent to Hunter Biden, but not sent in a kind of traditional

board member payment way? In other words, Joe, if I hire you for the board of Bongino Inc., I somehow have to pay you through Bongino Inc. That's correct. How we do it is pretty straightforward, but a check is written or an ABA transaction or a direct deposit is made to Joe Armacost

or Joe Armacost company through Bongino Inc. Ladies and gentlemen, it's not complicated. Mason, well, why are you addressing it? Because ladies and gentlemen, again, it's alleged that some of those payments to Hunter Biden were not made that way. Was some of this money routed through foreign companies, through other companies, excuse me, through foreign countries and through other companies well why would someone do that this hunter's a bag man man maybe to hide where that money came from i'm just gonna throw that out there again yeah baby so question number one as i said before were were these payments to Hunter Biden a protection racket that executives in Burisma, including Zloshevsky, were paying to influence the vice president of the United States, who was the point man for the Obama administration on Ukraine, to say, hey, basically, listen, man, this money, don't look into where this came from. I want to

keep my money. Tell you what, we'll hire your kid. Question number two, how exactly were these payments routed? If they were routed through foreign governments and foreign banks and they were made opaque, not transparent, why? Why did you do that? If this was all above board, why were you trying to hide, or it why were you trying to hide, or it appears you were trying to hide, where these payments came from? Now, this is where this gets really good. By the way, you got that PJ Media piece? I'm going to get that in a second. But before I get that, I want to, this is not the Hillary thing I was teasing in the beginning.

I got more on that later. This is another the Hillary thing I was teasing in the beginning. I got more on that later. This is another Hillary thing. I'm hearing rumors again from the rumor mill, but I've heard them so often I'd be remiss now if I didn't put this out there. From credible people that in the 2016 election, a veiled threat from people associated with Hillary Clinton was made to Joe Biden. What do you think that threat would be?

Hey, Joe. We know something happened in Ukraine with your kid. You may want to sit this one out for hills. You may want to booty seat you may want to keep it there we're just saying joe god forbid it leaked out that your kid ukraine money foreign government shady transactions lucrative contracts your kid's got no experience you're the point man the prosecutor shokin looking into it gets if i get to that in a pj media article in a second prosecutor you're on tape saying you wanted him fired god forbid joe that kind of you may say by the way wink and a nod yes no democrats don't do that to each other really listen ladies and

gentlemen um the cl Clinton campaign would kick a puppy out of the way in a minute to get Hillary Clinton into power. They don't care if it's a Democrat or a Republican puppy. Okay? Let's be crystal clear. Now, does the reason Obama never really spoke out for Biden

in 2016? Apparently they told Biden, and this has been reported widely in the media. Oh yeah. Hey Joe, this, you may want to sit this one out.

I was thinking that. But now does the 2020 iteration of the story where Obama has not spoken out for Biden at all, his own vice president. Now, does it make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, did Hills, did Hillary push Biden out? This story makes all the sense in the world, folks. I've got more on this.

I've got another angle on this. I want to get to the PJ Media piece as well, because this is where I'm telling, remember my takeaways. Biden's panicking and they're panicking because the media is going to have to accept relatively shortly that there is a paper trail. You can't keep claiming that the whole Biden-Burisma-Ukraine scandal

is a conspiracy theory when there were signed checks and a paper trail. This is all going to come out. But there's a second takeaway and that one of the guys who was involved, the prosecutor who Biden's on tape claiming he wants to be fired, he wants this guy fired,

is now speaking out and claims to have a paper trail too about an investigation into this protection racket allegedly paid to Biden to keep the attention away from Zlochevsky, from Burisma. Big trouble ahead. And we'll get to that in a second.

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don't put it past her at all folks this pj media piece is damning okay i have it up in the show notes today but as we said before the three questions did barisma was the money paid to hunter biden uh a protection racket to keep his dad off the trail of where the money went was this money laundered was it laundered basically or effectively de facto laundered to hunter biden to hide it and third did hillary know and that she pushed by now but the problems, so those are the three questions. The two problems, problem number one they're going to have is there is a money trail. Problem number two is the prosecutor who was looking into all of this in Ukraine, Victor Shokin, is talking, folks. And this is big trouble for the Democrats.

PJ Media, Matt Margolis, quote, fired Ukrainian prosecutor files federal complaint against Joe Biden charging he abused his power. Folks, it's not going to go away. Victor Shokin is the prosecutor. Joe Biden is on tape. We played the cut numerous times. You don't need to play it again. Biden is on tape demanding that Victor Shokin,

the prosecutor looking into all of this, be fired. Can I just, again, point of personal privilege for the show? It's not a digression, but it's important here. Folks, I'm trying to be delicate because I don't want my rage at what's going on to cloud the point. Let's use a nicer word. How ignorant is Joe Biden? I'm not kidding. It's not a nicer word how ignorant is joe biden i'm not kidding it's not a joke and i was going to say something else but i don't want to you know how stupid because then it takes away from it i don't want to i'm asking a serious question even to the liberals and the you know quote

moderate democrats that support joe biden and who loved obama i'm not kidding. How ignorant is this guy? To absolutely know your son got a basically no-show job for a million dollars or more in a country you're the point man for the Obama administration on, with a company that's under investigation, and you're on tape at a Council of Foreign Relations event? Literally, not figuratively.atively right you know how much i hate the overuse of the word literally he is literally on tape demanding talking about his demand to leverage us aid a quid pro quo but first you have to fire the prosecutor looking into my son's company well son of a that was bragging very good for you those of you watch the tape you know he says that on the tape

well son of a man he got fired and he's proud of himself he's proud of himself yes sir he loves it he thinks he's like this flex it that was not good my man that should not have really it was not gratuitous for the fourth time as long as you watch it on YouTube you'll get the joke well Joe's right

he's not well son of a B he got far he's like proud of it how how ignorant is this guy you were unaware that in the Twitter

YouTube Facebook social media email era you saw the cameras did you not know this was going to come out later joe you would think he'd be on tape yeah avoiding the question saying oh you know listen i tried to pull myself out of that but you know aid what that's not what he said. He's proud of it. Little son of a B, we got the prosecutor fired. Yeah.

Well, the prosecutor's now speaking out and saying, hey, listen, there's no evidence I was corrupt, like Joe Biden's saying. Matter of fact, there's evidence of the significant corruption I was looking into, and Biden's the guy who got me fired. Folks, his story's not going to go away. Shokin has a paper trail.

The prosecutor who was fired by Biden's pressure has a paper trail of an active investigation into the company that hired Biden's kid. This is not going to go away if Biden stays in the race. It is only going to get worse. One final point on this before I move on, because we do got a lot to get to. How much money?

Oh, this is good. So U.S. money clearly was sent over to Ukraine. We know it. Biden, everybody, no one hides that fact, right? U.S. money was sent over to Ukraine. You may say to yourself, well, if U.S. money was sent over to ukraine we know it by everybody no one hides that fact right u.s money was sent over to ukraine you may say to yourself well if u.s money was sent over to ukraine taxpayer dollars clearly went to the ukrainian government and not so sure where did that money go ladies and gentlemen did some of that money go to non-governmental organizations non-governmental meaning not government for liberals listening non-governmental organizations, non-governmental, meaning not government for liberals listening.

Non-governmental organizations, otherwise known by the acronym NGOs in Ukraine. And who exactly were those NGOs? Were some of them groups associated with mega left-wing donor George Soros, whose Open Societies Foundation was funding some of these NGOs in an effort to target people, in one case, who may have been George Soros' business rivals in Ukraine? Now, what did I say? I'm just asking, ladies and gentlemen, because we know that's where a lot of the money went.

To NGOs. And we know a lot of them went to NGOs associated with groups that were unquestionably aligned with the American left. The same money, Joe Biden's on tape, by the way, a lot of that same money where he talks on tape about leveraging to get the guy looking into his son's company fire. I thought quid pro quos is something for something we're bad. Now they're only bad when they're made up and fabricated charges against Donald Trump. Now who's been all over this from the start? John Solomon. John Solomon has been crushing it from the start in this case. Solomon, who now has John Solomon Reports. He has his own website coming out. That's a kind of a news website where he's doing actual news.

Well, John Solomon was on Laura Ingraham's show just last week. And he brought up an interesting fact that came up on my show, I believe the morning before he went on the show. Not that he didn't know that, I'm not taking credit for it. I'm just telling you, if you listen to my show, you were ahead of the curve here.

That's why I try to get the show out no later than noon or so Eastern time, at least on the audio side. We had discussed this not so subtle point here Solomon's about to bring up. That the same same some of these Ukrainian donors here I'll get to this in a second too

and Ukrainians remember Ukraine scandal supposed to be about Trump right Joe yeah yeah Trump pressure in the Ukrainians for of course the Democrats always accuse you of what they're doing themselves crazy how some of these Ukrainian folks keep creeping up moneyed folks people with influence and one of these Ukrainian folks keep creeping up, moneyed folks, people with influence.

And what are these same guys follow the money? Because I want to be clear that some of these same guys have been interested in a generational, decades-long influence campaign to influence the swamp people. And they're not just Democrats. Here's Solomon on Ingram laying out what I discussed last week. We'll talk about it when we come back check this out a few months before he joined president trump as a national security advisor he received 115 000 payment for two speeches to victor pinchik's uh organization victor pinchik is a very powerful oligarch in ukraine and the man who is the single largest donor to the clinton foundation so uh he's one of the many people that had their finger

in that little money jar that's called Ukraine. A lot of politicians dip their fingers in that. Who is he talking about? Yeah, Johnny B, not Johnny Bag of Donuts, John Bolton. John Bolton, who has really submarine the president by claiming he's got information about a quid pro quo with that. Quid pro, which one? What quid pro quo? that quid pro, which one? What quid pro quo?

What was the something for something? Was this a something? The money you got Bolton from Victor Pinchuk, prominent Ukrainian donor who I'll get to in a minute too. Folks, what I'm trying to tell you is as I opened up the show with, when you follow the money, you will find that swamp creatures of both parties who seem to all conveniently now, conveniently,

have it in for Donald Trump, we're all making bank, man. All making bank. Going overseas, acting as consultants in Ukraine. Yeah. Political advisors in Ukraine. This wasn't just happening in Ukraine it's happening all over the world

and now all of a sudden Trump asks for on a call the new Ukrainian president to look into corruption that I believe involved the Bidens and the left is freaking out and so is the establishment swamp and some people on the right too don't look into that

they were all getting rich folks freaking out, and so is the establishment swamp, and some people on the right, too. Don't look into that. They were all getting rich, folks. We're all suckers working for a living, getting dirt under our fingernails, actually making the country run. What do they do, Joe? They go over there, Ukraine, offer their political consulting services and their influence campaigns.

All of a sudden, they're making millions of dollars. Oh, crazy us working for a living. Now, why did I play that? Because it gets better. So now we know another prominent Ukrainian by the name of Viktor Pinchuk paid Bolton a very lucrative speaking fee. Bolton now conveniently seems to be against President Trump coming out and attacking. Hey, I got information. I need to talk to me. Nothing you have is going to change anything, John. Who's Pinchuk? And how is he related possibly to Biden

and the Democrats? Well, I say possibly Biden, but he's definitely related to Democrats. How is he related to Democrats? Check this one out. This was sent to me last week. Hat tip 279 for all your great work on this. One of my better sources for those of you just listening to us for the first time. So ladies and gentlemen, this Alliance of Democracies website has this commission called the unintentional joke, folks.

The Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity. Again, another non-governmental organization, the Alliance of Democracies. They have a commission on election integrity, Joe. Election integrity. The Democrats sit on this. It's hilarious. Now, to be fair, Republicans do too. But this is hilarious.

I know. Please stop laughing for a minute. I know it's hard to. But so the Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity has these board members. Who is on the board? There you go, folks. Joe Biden is on the board, Vice President of the United States.

And who else is on the board if you look at the bottom of this photo? Victor Pinchuk. Yes, the same guy John Solomon's referring to in that video who paid a massive speaking fee to John Bolton. So everybody seems to be getting rich off this Victor Pinchuk,

who, Joe, I'm sure it's just by chance, is a Ukrainian oligarch. Very deeply connected in the Ukrainian business world. I'm sure it's just by chance, of course. And they're involved in this election. I know, right? Integrity. Air quotes, election integrity measure. That is seriously hilarious.

Going back to something we've covered before, here's a great article I can't refer to enough. I tweeted this to Susan Rice this weekend, discredited former Obama National Security Advisor, who said, well, Victor Pinchuk paid Trump $150,000 speaking fee too. Yeah, I'm sure that really influenced Donald Trump. Apparently, he pays a lot of people, which that's not inaccurate. There was a speaking fee for a video.

But I find it kind of odd that Susan Rice finds that $150,000 payment to a billionaire who could care less, by the way. Interesting. But she finds none of this stuff interesting in this Washington Examiner piece we refer to often by Sarah Westwood. Susan Rice doesn't find this interesting at all. Email show Clinton denied then met with a Ukrainian donor who was that Ukrainian donor oh Victor Pinchuk the same guy by the way who paid John Bolton who

is not the billionaire Donald Trump was a very generous speaking thing they all seem to owe Pinchuk something here's the Washington Examiner piece again when Hillary Clinton's team was confronted about her relationship with Pinchuk, who by the way, let me just

quote this from the piece show, who has given up to $25 million to the Clinton Foundation. Funny how Susan Rice left that out. Crazy how that happens. Again, they denied knowing the guy even though they have emails showing that Victor Pinchuk was

invited personally to Mrs. Clinton's house when she was Secretary of State. Now, this gets even crazier. So one of the Clinton Foundation's biggest donors, Pinchuk, also pays a massive speaking fee to John Bolton. Pinchuk is deeply connected in Ukraine, where Biden's the point man. He gets his son a lucrative gig on a company board that's under investigation while Biden's on tape demanding the Ukrainian prosecutor looking into it gets fired. Pinchuk sits on the board of this transatlantic commission on election integrity. By the way, none of this is conspiracy theories. This is fact. You can look it up yourself. They're advertising this on their own website By the way, none of this is conspiracy theories. This is fact. You can look it up yourself.

They're advertising this on their own website, the Alliance of Democracies. Pinchuk sits on the board with Joe Biden, and this is crazy. Hat tip 279 on this. This is one of those no way moments. No way. Sarcastically, of course.

Put up the other screenshot of the Transatlantic Commission on election integrity. Where do they host their conference show? Kiev. In Ukraine. In Kiev. This is great. In Kiev. This is one of those no way moments.

So aboard Joe Biden and Victor Pinchuk, major Clinton Foundation donor and John Bolton, payer of massive speaking fees. They hold their, put that up again, it gets better. They hold their first conference in Ukraine, this transatlantic board on election integrity. And what are they doing? Keep this up a second. This gets really good. They're engaging journalists?

Oh, you mean like the journalists who were involved in spreading the spy gang conspiracy theory? Maybe Michael Lissakoff and others who were deeply involved with alexander chalupa from the democrat national committee who had left and spread a bunch of ukraine conspiracy theories about paul manafort and fed them to isikoff is that the kind of journalist engagement we're talking about oh it gets better joe who else are they engaging while they're in ukraine this board victor pincha clinton donor and joe biden else are they engaging while they're in Ukraine? This board, Victor Pinchot, Clinton donor, and Joe Biden, former vice president, sit on. They're engaging NGOs too, non-governmental organizations. Oh my gosh, no way, dude.

Maybe some of those NGOs, was it one of those NGOs associated with Soros? Mega liberal donor? And it gets better. It gets better. What else are they doing so they're engaging ngos where there's an investigation currently going on in ukraine about how u.s taxpayer money may have disappeared into some of these ngos and not government but it gets even better at the end they're also involved in monitoring and in real-time social media joe it says it right there it does they monitor social media to flag election and if you do

wow no way transatlantic commission on election integrity joe biden and major clinton donors sit on there also paid bolton some money they're engaging ngos and the media we're also involved in monitoring social media and are in ukraine doing it who else was charged with monitoring social media? Let's go to Judicial Watch. Tom Fitton, good friend, who was on my interview show, our last interview show.

This can't possibly be related, Joe. Only in bizarro Superman land could this be related. So we go to this Judicial Watch release, judicialwatch.org, and we find out that crazy time, our former ambassador, Obama loyalist, Marie Yovanovitch, who was our ambassador to Ukraine, used Soros linked media tracking tools, social media tracking tools, to monitor journalists and Trump allies. No way.

any other tracking tools to monitor journalists and Trump allies. No way. How do I know this? Because of course I got the heads up early because I was one of the people they were monitoring. Now to be clear, because unlike the left, I don't do conspiracy theories. Monitoring my Twitter posts,

which I put out into the social media ecosystem is not illegal. Of course, monitoring my Twitter posts, which I put out into the social media ecosystem, is not illegal. Of course. Social media for a reason. It's not a private email. But having said that, don't you find,

and I want to be clear on this. I'm not suing Marie Yovanovitch or anything for listening in on my social media. It's social media. I put it out there so people can see it. So you may say, so Dan, what's the problem? Folks, do you find it a little odd, media people, that the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine engaged a Soros-linked social media tool called CrowdTangle to monitor my tweets while leftist lunatics all over the world continue to claim that all we're doing here is promoting conspiracy theories? Why are you

worried then? Folks, I don't follow daily, weekly, or even monthly, once in a blue moon I see because people send it to me, the rantings of lunatics like malcolm nance and seth abramson or others i see it only on social media because people send to me go this is crazy i actually have a video later but i don't monitor them and use crowd tangled tools to say let me see what crazy malcolm nance on msnbc is saying if it creeps up on my timeline, I'll use it for comic relief. You see my point here? You can't have it both ways, leftists. Bongino, Giuliani, Solomon, Sarah Carter, Chuck Roth, they're all crazy conspiracies. Nothing happened in Ukraine.

Hey, monitor every single thing they're saying on their social media and get that crowd tangled. You can't have it both ways. And you don't find it odd that this transatlantic commission on election integrity that Biden and a major Clinton donor sits on were also involved in real-time monitoring of social media? Who the hell were they monitoring?

Again, I'm not suggesting it's illegal that the black helicopter is going to come in and some you know minority report tom cruise guy is going to come barging into my office right now i'm simply suggesting to you if it's all a crazy conspiracy theory there are no facts to back it up and me and john solomon and we're nuts, then why are you worried about it? I'm going to circle back to the beginning and tell you why. Because again, ladies and gentlemen, there is a massive paper trail of money leading to the Biden's non-governmental organizations linked to George Soros. Fact.

The paper trail is shady. The way the money was routed is shady. It was not Ukrainian aid. It was meant to be political aid for political allies of the Obama administration. And secondly, the people who know about it, the paper trail I referenced in point one, it, the paper trail I referenced in point one, Shokin, the Ukrainian fired prosecutor, and others

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So we covered that, the money trail and the paper trail of investigations that the Democrats are trying to hide and why Biden and basically the Democrats are worried too. I want to move on though because the Iowa caucus is today

and President Trump gave an interview to my good friend, Sean Hannity. He did a great job. Asked him a lot of good questions. And in the interview, Paul and I were kind of laughing about this before the show. No one does this better.

Seriously, President Trump may be one of the most underrated politicians in the history of this country. I'm not kidding. You know, disagree with his personal style, rough edges, fine. Again, I don't care.

I'm a Queens guy like he is. It doesn't bother me one bit. The guy's knack for distilling down to a simple talking point, things that will resonate with heartland working Americans is unparalleled. But he also has an effective way of doing this when it comes to describing his opponents. He did it in the Republican primary in 2016, and he's doing it now with the Democrats. Sean Hannity asks him about the Iowa caucus again today. We'll have results for you tomorrow. Don't miss that show. We'll give you

full analysis of where this is going to go. But here is him. He's asked about Bernie, President Trump. He's asked about Elizabeth Warren and about Michael Bloomberg. And here is, I can't even, only Trump can do this. Check this out. Bernie Sanders. Well, I think he's a communist. I mean, you know, look, I think of communism when I think of Bernie. Now you could say socialist, but did they get married in Moscow? And that's wonderful. Moscow is wonderful. I've been the honeymoon. You don't think necessarily. Well, whatever. But you don't necessarily think in terms of marriage, Moscow. And it's wonderful. I'm not knocking it, but I think of Bernie sort of as

a socialist, but far beyond a socialist. At least he's true to what he believes. That's one thing. Because you mentioned now Elizabeth Warren. She's not true to it. I call a fairy tale because everything's a fairy tale. That's how Pocahontas got started. Everything's a fairy tale. This woman can't tell the truth. Bloomberg very little I just think of little oh boy he just has this way of encompassing

a for those of you who went to business not to keep referencing business school here but I actually learned a lot I did most of the time you go to college, you learn nothing. You only learn how to be a social justice warrior. But one of the things we did, which is really effective and I'll still use it to this day, I don't necessarily draw the grids or anything, but you know what SWOT analysis is? Not SWOT like a, you know, a SWOT team, SWOT like strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats with a note. And what they do is they put together these grids and they say, well, how do I, you know, leverage my strengths by taking advantage of an opportunity?

How do I, you know, mitigate a weakness by mitigating a threat? It's very helpful to finding opportunities in politics, business, anywhere. Trump does this by instinct. He's not actively doing a SWOT analysis in his head. His political instincts are to instantly, instantly see a candidate's weakness and to leverage an opportunity right away. And that is a knack in business and in politics that I got to tell you, not a lot of people have by pure instinct. They can be coached to do it. Just like business schools coach people in SWOT analysis. Trump doesn't need the coaching. He's a natural at it. He's not a natural at everything, but he's a natural at that. So on Bernie,

he zones right in on what he thinks will decimate Bernie's campaign. And he's right. The guy's a socialist. But notice what he does. Did you catch it? This is where he's smart. And people don't give him credit for it. And it's really irritating. It's a good thing because they underestimate him chronically. Oh, yeah.

Notice what he says about Bernie. He goes, but at least he's authentic. Yeah. And it comes off like a compliment, which disarms people into believing that, well, if he's complimenting him, then what he said about him just now must be true. Please, I hope I'm not using too much nuance in this. It's brilliant.

In other words, instead of piling on Bernie, which makes an insult like calling him a socialist, look like it's petty and it's just Trump being angry at him, he follows it up with a compliment, which gives the socialist aura Bernie Sanders had, which will decimate him. We're not a socialist country in the campaign, which gives it some meat on the bone to reuse the line I used earlier.

It's a brilliant. I don't even think sometimes he knows, he just does it by instinct. He knows Bernie Sanders' socialist bona fides are a death stroke in a general election. So he says at the end in a veiled compliment, well, at least he's being authentic about it. In other words, he's not kidding. He's really a socialist double wink and nod eyes closed would elizabeth warren again he senses the weakness right before the caucus and he goes in for the kill what does he say oh the truth the

truth elizabeth warren the truth we call her with the truth. We call her fairytale. He doesn't call her fairytale. That just happened right there. But he understands this stuff will stick. Elizabeth Warren, fairytales, problems with the truth. Nobody likes inauthentic candidates. Nobody. That's why Trump resonates. Because you may not like him, but he's authentic.

That's who Trump is. Believe me. That is exactly who President Trump is. It's not inauthentic. That is not a word you associate with Donald Trump. He understands one about Bernie. Obviously, the weakness is the socialism thing, and he puts a gloss on it to make it seem even more legit. He understands with Warren, her inauthenticity is a weak spot and the words automatically come to mind to him.

It's brilliant political instinct, fairy tales, problems with the truth. Finally, with Bloomberg, he calls them little. Now, this is a little, again, I'm sorry to layer nuance upon nuance, but one of the things in a leader, a leader, whether it's a coach for a football team, use a Super Bowl analogy, or a president of the United States, one of the things a general in our military, people want to see is they want the perception of strength. And I say the perception of strength. Yeah. Because, folks, everybody knows that everyone else is a human being obviously we know everybody has weaknesses we know you know people behind closed doors you know they sometimes shed a tear when they're in pain people have weak moments we know that but we want the perception of strength we like our leaders to be bold to have proud chest stand out and to look the part and

act the part trump has used this dig repeatedly in the republican primary in 2016 and now this little l-i-d-d l a little little yeah he's used this dig repeatedly because he knows it goes to the heart of the leadership strength debate people have in their own heads when picking a candidate. And he, again, by instinct knows whether, listen, whether it's a knock on his stature, Bloomberg, I'm not, I don't know. But he knows that's a devastating dig. And again, by instinct, I don't even think he has to think about it. It comes right out. Folks, I'm telling you right now, this guy has been underestimated President Trump forever. His political instincts are to go for the kill and he does it better than anyone else.

And the Democrats are severely, again, underestimating this guy. All right, here's my last story. I've been teasing this one for a while, but what is Hillary Clinton up to outside of the whole did she know about Biden and the malfeasance in Ukraine nonsense? This is an interesting article up at the Hill. Put up the headline. Is Hillary Clinton angling to become the vice president? The article is by Doug McKinnon, an opinion contributor. I'll put it up in the show notes today. Again, Bongino.com slash newsletter. I encourage you to check it out. I think it's fairly obvious at this point.

Folks, I mean, I got to tell you, I would be stunned at this point if Hillary Clinton jumped in this race. One, the filing deadlines for a lot of states are gone. It's just entirely impractical at this point. You got to remember, she'd have to hire consultants. A lot of them are scooped up. She's already, it's just a mess for her right now to do. I don't see any scenario where she enters the race. But a viable question is, why is she out there attacking Bernie Sanders? She's out there again doing it. Oh, in her movie, she's got this movie coming out. I think it's on

Hulu or whatever it may be. She said, liked bernie everybody here why would you do that i mean think about it right like michael dukakis george mcgovern walter mondale when they lost in in and got crushed or got lost in upsets these are former democrat nominees for president as many of you know they usually just slink away and leave it all alone right say hey you know what didn't work out my bad what's hills up to hills cannot get out of the spotlight and there's a strong chance she may be angling if maybe warren or who knows bloomberg comes out she may be angling for that vp spot can you imagine that having to deal with hillary clinton as vice president after all the nonsense she pulled as Secretary of State? It's a good piece. It's worth your time.

But it explains a lot about why she's out there now. Again, not just kind of doing the thing and leaving the scene, exit stage right, none of that. Why she's out there actively attacking Bernie Sanders. And let me just say with Bernie Sanders, one last note.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Bernie bros are not going to take it. Some of you, some of you are going to notice what I'm doing here. Some of you may not. Joe, you may catch this. The Bernie bros are going to be very, very upset if the establishment Democrats keep attacking Bernie Sanders. There was this thing about an Iowa poll supposed to be released at the last minute. The rumor was that in this Iowa-Des Moines Register poll, Bernie Sanders may have been in the lead in that poll.

All of a sudden, the poll mysteriously gets scrapped. There's maybe some changing of the rules going on behind the scenes again to go after Bernie. The Bernie bros are going to be really upset if that happens. If Bernie loses the general, you expect those Bernie bros to show up? Some of you see what I just did there. Love to hear your emails on that.

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